#otp: from afar we love.

[icyg4l]

PAC: Energy Check-In

Hello beautiful people! I have been so inconsistent with posting. Thank you all for your patience. But anyway, tonight's reading will consist of an energy check-in. We all need one, even me! Also, the Five Dollar Friday Sale will still happen! It will take place from 12 AM-11PM. Thank you guys so much for your support! Don't forget to check out the guidelines before booking with me. Dm me privately if you have any questions. Without further ado, please select your pile!

Left-to-Right: (1-3)

Pile One: I feel like you are currently trying to figure out what to do with yourself. I heard "I got so much energy!" in my head. Your sacral chakra is booming. I feel like you could be super horny or feeling like you need to create something. But you are trying to figure out a way to do this in an appropriate manner. The solution will come quick. There could be a partnership coming your way that will allow you to be more free flowing. It is essential at this time that you find ways to express yourself. Do not feed into self-limiting beliefs. You are prone to making impulsive decisions like dying your hair late at night or buying clothes that you won't even put on a year from now. Focus on what will fulfill you in the long run and stop trying to scratch an unscratchable itch. It will make you see things much easier.

Cards Used: 8 of Swords, 5 of Swords, The Hierophant, Ace of Wands, 8 of Wands, Queen of Wands.

Pile Two: Someone has you feeling real good. Princess treatment will do that to you. When you have the right people around you, you feel unstoppable. I heard "Who you feeling like?" in my head. Right now, you could be receiving lots of compliments, which boost your morale as a result. I am seeing a young girl toss her hair from side to side with her fingertips. In the back of your mind, you may worry about how long this version of you will last. You need to not allow the past comments of hate get to you at this time. Do not self-sabotage yourself because people could not see the light in you. Let the haters do the hating for you. You could have Saturn in the 12th house which relates to the subconscious. You need to have conversations with your inner child to heal. Move forward from the angst and the hurt people have caused you. Start anew. And most importantly, forgive yourself.

Cards Used: Ace of Wands, 2 of Cups, 10 of Cups, King of Discs, 4 of Cups, The Devil, 6 of Cups.

Pile Three: You are in this lover girl energy. It almost feels familiar --- the scenario that you have found yourself to be in. You need to look closer with this person. Everyone will pass your test if you don't do any further investigation. You have the tendency to get "stuck on" crushes for a long time. You could be prone to limerence. You are going to get the answer that you are looking for, a reality check. But it will be in your best interest, don't worry. You are trying to investigate from afar but this won't really benefit you. You need to pay close attention and start being less lenient. You're a cute girl and you know that, don't you? But what is cute if it means you lose your mind every time you find someone attractive? Part of your lesson in this life is to be more comfortable with accepting your beauty as is. You are not incomplete if you are not in an "OTP", love.

Cards Used: The Moon, The Empress, 4 of Discs, 4 of Wands, 10 of Cups, 5 of Wands, Justice, 2 of Discs

[jade-green-butterfly]

Today...is a very special and important day for me, folks~💝😊Three years ago, a certain special troll became the highlight of my 2020 during rough times and immediately won my heart from the moment I knew he would have his own destiny and journey to find others like him...and his family. Since the first Trolls movie, I have always admired dearly him from afar and the moment I saw him during the Trolls World Tour trailer, my heart literally poured out him and I have truly loved him for just being his wonderful, lovable self ever since~💘🥹 And that certain special troll, is none other than...Cooper~💗🌈✨

I have always been a big fan of him and he’s always been my favourite troll to begin with but every time I see him and hear him, my heart always beats so much for him, making it aflutter and words cannot describe how special he is to me...how he means the whole world to me~💞🌈💗🌈💞I mean...can you blame me? >//w//`< How could I resist and say no to such an adorable face to go with such a darling like him??💖😍💖😍💖 Cooper is more than just the goofball that we all know and love...he’s my goofball and so much more...~🥹The most amazing troll with such talent, a unique voice and a dazzling yet loving royal family to go with him...~🌟Cooper is also the prince of my heart, who deserves all the love and happiness in the world...and I feel so blessed to be the one to give it all to him, along with my heart~🥰💝💝🥰 April 24th 2020 was the day I drew Cooper for the very first time, and when I started shipping myself with him. And together, him and I have remained strong and inseparable ever since!🫶🏻😌💕We’ve had such happy memories together - becoming part of his world and family, sharing one another’s lives and music, even officially marrying and creating our own dear little life together~✨💜💗💚✨And I wish to keep on loving Cooper forevermore~💓😊

Which is why I dedicate this very special piece above (with a textless version too) to us, inspired by one of my favourite scenes in TWT - where King Quincy and Queen Essence were happily together with their twin eggs (before our dear Cooper was cruelly snatched away from them😭) and I wished to capture that tender moment between Cooper and I, with our darling Toby's egg nestled warmly within my hair~🥰 EEEEEEE~!!😍🤩😍I am so, sooooo happy and truly over the moon of how all of this turned out~!💖🥹💖Just how I imagined it, especially Cooper snuggling against me with his neck wrapped around me as we lovingly embrace one another, feeling like the proud parents we are~💜💗💚😚I am also chuffed with the cherry blossoms I drew to make the bed cover look more prettier~🌸 I would like to deeply and gratefully thank many wonderful peeps out there for helping bring my beloved OTP to life, such as my lovely @x-elyssa-x, KaitlinEXE, @gloryraiin, @jaguardorado16, @vampireflowerarts, @zoey-nillesen, @king-trollex-fangirl, @glitchy-witchy1994, @blooeyedtroll, @kittyball23, @angoraram, @yeenstrollart, @asa-de-ouro, @whiteflame-selfship and many more, for all the beautiful commissions, gift art and loving support you have given me over the past four years, and for putting all your fantastic work and effort, and heart and soul into every single one which I absolutely love to this very day~💞🌟💙💜💛💚🌟💞 I can’t thank you all and the rest of the Trolls Fandom enough for how amazing and welcoming you’ve all been to me when I first jumped onto the bandwagon, and I am so happy I did too!💖🤗Thank-you all so much for everything, including all the dear friends I’ve made and all the loving supporters I have gained - bless you all and don’t stop being awesome~!✌🏻🤩✨💕 And finally, thank-you ever so much for everything, Cooper...my cupcake king and sweet jellybean~🩷♛🧁🫂For always being there for me, making me feel such love and happiness I never could imagine~💝🥰🌈I am truly blessed and the luckiest lass alive to such a wonderful darling like you in my life and by my side~💗😇🪽U///w///U

🎊💜♓💗♎💚🎉~Happy 4th Anniversary, Cooper...my beloved prince, my one & only...~ I love you so much with all my heart, more than life itself...and I will keep on loving you so, forevermore and beyond~🎉💜♓💗♎💚🎊

*~Reblogs are also deeply appreciated as well, so please do reblog as well as like! Thank-you kindly!~*

Cooper (c) DreamWorks Trolls/DreamWorks Animation

Trollsona Jussy/Justina Butterfly & Toby/Toby's Egg (c) @jade-green-butterfly​ (Me~!)

[iyliss]

Edo for the ask meme!

and also Cecil ;u;

WAIT i only notice now it's "yu-gi-oh characters" i am a fool i am clown but oh well i'll make it work.

So for Edo:

Why I like them/why I don’t: I mean like you know kind of a blorbo by proxy. I think he has this very fun balance of deeply normal AND kind of unhinged. Of very secretive and distant and in deep need of helping and talking to people. Need to control and be guided. But also that's what being a teenager with parental issues does to a guy I can't blame him.

What I like about their appearance: so i kind of love how his hair fits on his haid it's something I really try to replicate like it's this feeling of... technically it IS short but also it's just a bit long. It just falls a bit all over him. Yeah idk how to explain but I love attempting to draw it.

Do I prefer their dub names or original names? so yeah never watched the dub beside specific eps and clips so I'm a chronical sub names user BUT Aster is so cute and fits him so well imo. Actually I probably should use Ed because it's likely what his names is supposed to be but idk i'm used to a spelling and pronunciation and it's really hard for me to switch.

OTP: yeah so like destinyshipping yeah yeah. Made a thousand art and fics and AUs and stories what am I supposed to say. They hit the perfect balance of terminally sad and messy AND very cute and hopeful. Also i do like heroshipping and whatever edo/manjoume is called but i admit i have a hard time being strongly invested in something of GX that is not saiou.

NOTP: Never really saw a ship that I disliked heavily so I'm not going to make myself think of one.

OT3: I have been so sooo many thoughts about edo/saiou/judai combination situationship lately. Listen. Edo having his silly childhood crush and his silly teenage crush on two people (he's actually painfully in love but shh). One clearly has no interest in romantic relationship or is overall very distant with it and the other spends half the time disappearing from public circulation to go deal with supernatural creature. Then eventually he realize that they 1/ spend a lot of time together 2/ are much MUCH closer than he thought 3/ may or may not have something going on between them. But also the entire point is that. Yeah. Neither Saiou nor Judai really are into anything like a "romantic relationship" and function fairly well together because of that but also if Edo just TALKS TO THEM ABOUT IT maybe he can not feel left out all the time. Things like that. I hope someday I can write them but it'll be long and messy.

Favourite card they use: D-time because at some point we tried recreating it with my friend on some tea biscuits with sugar and all and it was fun.

Favourite moment they were in: IMAGINE HOLDING SAIOU'S HAND WOW I WISH THAT WERE ME THAT SO UNFAIR COME OOON no also the whole scene is one of my fav ygo moment ever.

Least favourite moment: uuh i guess i was not quite impressed by the amon mini-arc with echo and everything? But also beside a dozen ep season 3 didn't amaze me the most so it's not on him.

And for apparently the new exclusive yugioh character Cecil Harvey (actually he'd make for a really fun ygo protag. I have that AU somewhere)

Why I like them/why I don’t: Cecil feel like a very classic jrpg protagonist from afar like yeah he's very kind and devoted but has to prove himself after having been driven to do bad things... But also... I think he's very unique in how that kindness and devotion is portrayed. In the average story it'd be about how sad it is for him that he keeps sacrificing himself for others and carry such a burden and so and so... But not in FFIV. In this game his kindness is a burden for others. His devotion, his sense of sacrifice, make other people have to take care of him. His sensibility means his emotions are always the most important thing, and it's so rare for stories to take that angle instead of making the protagonist's emotion well... the most important thing. It makes him a very subtle character, both deeply positive and good but also almost destructive to people around him under the wrong circumpstances.

What I like about their appearance: he is SO pretty, squenix just don't make beautiful men like this anymore. His hair looks so soft and airy, the little jewels and decoration and make up is so cute, and i love how he looks like he glows in the dark. I will say I especially love the fact that Amano's artwork, the pixel art, the remake, dissidia, and all the different re-design he has means Cecil's look is less a defined set of rules and more a direction, certain choices, specific artistic takes. It's less about accurate reproduction and more capturing his essence. It's very liberating to draw.

OTP : ot3 is below but know i'm a baron trio truther and it's above anything else. Cecil/rosa is cute on it's own but I think it lacks a little drama and spice. Cecil/Kain feels a little bit more fun to play with on its own but it's never really just that sole ship to me. Also actually let me call this "favorite relationship" or something and say Cecil and Golbez are the reason I got into FF and their dynamic is the most beautiful thing, so full of pain and love and everything.

NOTP : He doens't have many popular ship so like. None I can think of.

OT3 : BARON TRIO BARON TRIO BARON TRIO these 3 idiots love each other so much in such different way and their relationship becomes sooo interesting and also so gentle when they're all together. And I love how it's frankly very supported by canon? In the DS version whenever 2 are reunited they will think of where is the other and want them here. In DFFOO all Cecil want is to have BOTH of them with him. In WoFF they repeat a scene from ffiv but Kain is sick, Cecil is looking for a cure and Rosa is watching over him. They're just fated to always need all of each other.

Favourite moment they were in: Uuuh practically every scene with Golbez? Calling him "brother" for the first time when they're about to die, and again when they're about to be separated. When he's lost to darkness in TAY but hears his brother calling him so he doesn't disappear. When he tells him he's guiding light in Dissidia. They're so full of love.

Least favourite moment : I guess like most iv fan, when he tells Rosa and Rydia to stay out of the final battle. They kind fo justify it because the 3 guys have very personnal reason to want revenge/answers so Cecil doesn't just think women shouldn't fight but. it does show how this game still can't give female characters as much emotional intensity as the male characters.

Would I fuck, marry or kill them: chosing the fourth secret option where i marry his brother because i so SO want Cecil and Rosa as in-laws.

[allylikethecat]

January OTP Prompts

Maybe I was wrong, maybe it's not easier to write these in the morning. Maybe I'm just getting burnt out on them? Who knows, BUT we got today done and we are almost done with the month and I am going to be so ridiculously proud of myself for sticking with it when it's through! Thank you so much again to everyone who has been reading and so supportive. I truly didn't think anyone was going to give these any thought except for myself so thank you so much again!!

18. Wind

Matty was like a flower, leaning back with his head tilted towards the sun, letting it beat down on his face, warming his body, a content smile curling across his lips, his curls billowing around him, framing his features in the wind. The bridge of his nose was starting to look a little pink, as were his shoulders and George knew he should get up, should make his way across the boat they had chartered for their day off, and remind him to reapply sunscreen. But for the moment, George stayed seated, admiring him from afar. 

Matty’s hair was getting longer these days, long enough that he complained he was too old for this and needed to get it cut, the curls streaked with gray. The complaints always stalled, at least for a few days, when George dug his fingers into the tangle and pulled. Now, he looked like a woman in a shampoo commercial, his curls wild and windblown. George smiled to himself, knowing that Matty’s eyes were bright behind his sunglasses. 

“What are you staring at, weirdo,” Matty called over the roar of the wind as their charter captain guided the boat over the water. A cheeky grin now playing across features, George shrugged, not caring that he had been caught staring. 

“You,” George called back sweetly and Matty blushed, his cheeks darkening to match the pink blooming across his nose. 

Ross, who was sitting next to him, sipping from a beer, pretended to gag. George just rolled his eyes. Even after ten years together, they had never truly left the honeymoon stage. If you asked George, why should they have moved past it? He loved Matty, always had, and alway would. Just because they had been together for years, doesn’t mean that his presence wasn’t going to make his insides melt. 

George got up, and carefully made his way across the boat to where Matty was sitting, holding onto the seats lining the perimeter of the boat for support. 

“Hey,” he said, plopping down next to him, the wind instantly blowing Matty’s curls into George’s face, causing him to laugh even as he got a mouth full of hair. Matty shifted his weight, angling his body so the wind was now blowing his hair off his face and away from George. 

“Hey,” Matty said, looking up at George over the tops of his sunglasses, what George knew was supposed to come across as seductively, but had Matty bursting into giggles a moment later, ruining the effect. 

“You’re getting burnt,” said George, reaching under the seat to retrieve the backpack he had stashed at the start of the trip, to pull out a bottle of sunscreen and holding it up.

Matty frowned, disliking the sticky lotion, but hating being burnt more. 

“Thanks,” he said, louder than he normally would have spoken to be heard over the wind. 

“Of course,” said George, and Matty twisted, allowing George to rub the thick lotion into his already tender skin. George winced, they should have reapplied sooner. 

Matty shifted again, looking back up at George thoughtfully. George couldn’t resist; he reached out, and dabbed a dollop of sunscreen onto Matty’s nose, causing him to gasp in surprise. George laughed and pulled Matty, sticky and windblown, into his side, while Matty rubbed at his nose, trying desperately to work the thick, cold lotion into his face. 

“I love you,” said George.

Matty chuckled, his nose wrinkled from the sunscreen but he pressed himself against George anyway. “I love you too.” 

Day: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

[markcampbells]

I posted 373 times in 2022

26 posts created (7%)

347 posts reblogged (93%)

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I tagged 372 of my posts in 2022

#about me - 50 posts

#&lt;3 - 42 posts

#series: star trek - 33 posts

#the magnus archives - 26 posts

#leonard mccoy - 24 posts

#queer art - 21 posts

#series: star wars - 21 posts

#jim kirk - 20 posts

#mckirk - 19 posts

#legends of tomorrow - 18 posts

Longest Tag: 120 characters

#(also i'm always weirdly happy when people associate me with my flag? it's that late in life queer moment i guess lmfao)

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

WHAT KIND OF LOSER ALMOST MISSES HER OWN MCKIRKAVERSARY (this one I am that loser)

It has been one entire year since I posted absolution, my first official McKirk fic. I dreamed this baby up on a weekend morning and started writing, after years of admiring the folks in the fandom from afar. I am so, so grateful I did.

to @afterthenovels and @malionnes -- Anna gave me the prompt that became the fic, and Cait asked me the OTP meme questions that sparked me thinking about my own vision. Thank you both for getting me started.

To the USS McKirk folks: thank you for taking me into the fold. You are all so special to me. To mention just a handful of you:

@aishahiwatari and @demerite; best mods ever!

@aroacebones, for being the best partner in angst and never minding a 5 AM DM or fifty.

@lokilenchen and @excavatinglizard, both of whom surprised me with art for my later fic, both of whose talents amaze me every single day.

@better-late-than-nevah for understanding my desperate love for comments 😂

@spockats, my partner in word games, provider of medical knowledge!

@trek-tracks for the humor that keeps me going, and the sweetest words of praise a girl could want.

@sagesiren for loving Jewish Jim as much as I do!

@jenjiy for having the other half of the brain cell 😂

And to @fireinmywoods, thank you so much for giving us SIEL, a light in a dark year and the best communal experience I could have asked for so soon after officially joining the fandom!

I've said it before and I'll say it again: McKirk people best people. I'm so glad I fell in with you all. Let's keep it going a bunch more years. 💛💙

13 notes - Posted February 1, 2022

#4

"I'm Jim. … Which friend is this a favor for? I've been coming here for months."

“Christine. These shifts interfere with her nightlife, you see, and as she saw fit to remind me, I have none, so better I be the one to molder away in an underground transfusion center.”

“I liked Christine. But if she sees fit to abandon me to the whims of a grouchy Southerner, I might displace her in my estimation.”

A vampire and a necromancer have a chat at a blood transfusion center.

(Trektober 2022, Day Two: Vampire AU)

content warnings: Jim was turned into a vampire against his will by an intimate partner; there is a brief description.

14 notes - Posted October 2, 2022

#3

"I saw a girl this morning who looked like my mother. It's strange--I haven't thought about my mother in decades, but after I wrote about her, she appeared before me. Part of me wanted to speak to her, this girl who seemed like my mother, but I didn't know what I would say. That I turned out to be so much more than she expected of me? And so much less? That I'm sorry I spent the better part of sixty years barely acknowledging her existence? That I don't remember exactly when she died? "Of course, it doesn't matter at all what I would say to my mother if I saw her again, because I didn't. It was just a girl with the same copper hair."

You Feel It Just Below the Ribs, Jeffrey Cranor and Janina Matthewson.

16 notes - Posted June 3, 2022

#2

How little we know of ourselves at any moment; how distinctly human that is. There is such little grace given to the perfect messiness of desire. Even queers feel pressure to homogenize the experience into catchy slogans. The 'born this way' narrative, while politically expedient, has done untold damage to narratives of the queer experience, implying any number of horrible ideas: that you cannot move toward desire without some genetic component urging you to do so, that experimentation is inherently problematic, that you have to know your truest and deepest self to act on something. There were times in my adolescence where people asked me if I was gay and I said no, not out of a sense of self-preservation but because I truly believed it to be so. You can be a stranger to yourself; you almost certainly will be, at some point or another. It is inevitable, as inevitable as the moment of rupture that sends you hurtling toward the self you were always going to be.

from "Both Ways" by Carmen Maria Machado, her essay on Jennifer's Body in It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (ed. Joe Vallese).

25 notes - Posted October 4, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

desire to learn how to draw, if not well: losing

years of memories of art teachers telling me how bad at art i was: winning

30 notes - Posted January 6, 2022

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[konohamaru-sensei]

OP, I'm so very delighted to have stumbled over this and I agree with my whole heart with everything you said. I do not come to argue (because I'm very argument shy), I just want to add my five own thoughts.

I started FT in January because JJK made me so miserable (and this is not to say jjk sucks or whatever, I love that story) and it had this reputation of "nobody dies" and I really wanted "nobody dies" so I thought, why not? I had seen a few ep back in 2009, a long time ago and remembered nothing so I went in with a fresh mind. Let me tell you, I did not expect to cry as often and as hard as I did watching this.

It has the reputation to be "good at the beginning" but then to "fall off" like so many shonen do, but I watched it from beginning to end in a few months and I can't say I noticed a big decline. The opposite really, I noticed how things were set up arcs in advance that got a pay off later, something one piece fans praise oda (rightfully) for. LIke sure, here and there one or two things I would have liked differently but when is a narrative ever perfect?

I don't have a problem with people that want a more gruesome story, a little less friendship saves the day and hey, there are enough manga /anime out there to find with exactly that, but to me Fairy Tail is about love in all forms, family in all forms and bonds in all forms. And how all those different types of bonds and love help you overcome the darkest times. Mashima loves his happy endings yes, so what? I love them too.

What I also noticed is that though all of its fanservice (which, I can blend out well, but I also don't need it), the female charactes are treated with much more respect than in other shonen series. It sounds goofy, but not only is LUcy a clear leading lady (not sidelined for a male character or whatever, she definitely has the center of attention), Erza (and Mira) is also mentioned over and over and over again as being stronger as the main character, even when Natsu punches bad guy. Heck, in the tartaros arc FT would have lost if not for Lucy. Erza gets to take down a big bad in the final arc and there is no guy to help the damsell in distress.

(Inicdentially thats what I love about erza and jellal so much. I mean I love when he jumps in to help her, Im a stupid romantic and thats my otp, but often than not they just nod at each other from afar and go "no, he/ she can handle himself / herself"....ahh)

Sigh, there is so much there! So much pain and misery and love and belonging. But if I would go too much into detail it would just be a rehash of what you, op, already said, so I will refrain. I will just say how much it guts me that all three of Ur's children, that she sacrificed her life for, not only carried that death with them their whole lives but also in turn became self-sacrificial too. Ultear of course gets her own redemption but Lyon doesn't get absolve until the very end and well Gray just loads more guilt onto himself (also not to derail but that scene when gray tells lyon that he needs to move forward is my favourite thing oh my god help me im going to cry)

These characters have so much trauma. They have so much baggage. Friendship wins, yes, but what is the cost? The people who stayed behind SEVEN YEARS and waited for their friends to come back, they suffered, and its not like we don't get to see that. Gajeel still regrets what he did to levy after years have passed, Juvia still apologises when it rains, even though she didn't do anything...

Ok I'm trying to wrap this up, because I'm forgetting things I wanted to say, but, I see you didn't mention Gray and Juvia, which is fine of course maybe you don't like their dynamic - but I do :D (sorry) And i know, I KNOW mashima didn't write juvia that way, I KNOW she is supposed to be a joke character to laugh at, but the dynamic of a boy who just hates everything about himself, looks down on how he is, thinks he is weak and the girl who just like loves him, loud and aggressive and unwavering - its so lovely.

It's a good series. I have been advertising it to friends heavily since I've seen it. It's not the best narrative ive ever read or my favourite anime, but it gets a reputation it does not deserve and I will fight for it.

Probably no one cares but I need to rant about Fairy Tail now that I finally finished it. Because I feel like it gets a lot more hate than it deserves considering that almost everything it set out to do it did right. Starting from characterization and relationship dynamics. Those were fucking great. They're so fucking fleshed out, I love them.

And I've seen people complaining about Natsu and Lucy's relationship being dragged out but I feel they're missing on the fact that, first and foremost, they're partners, and no amount of romance or lack thereof can change that. Not long after meeting him Lucy jumps out of a window with no hesitation and no back up plan because she heard Natsu's voice and that meant she would be safe. That is not just a high level of trust, that is insane. And that's the entirety of their relationship. Making them romantic wouldn't change anything. It would just mean slapping a different label on it, because their relationship simply cannot be more deep and meaningful than it already is. (And this might be my aroace ass speaking, but I cannot imagine Natsu being stereotypically romantic. Even if they decided that they were, in fact, dating, I feel nothing would change in the ways they act around each other)

Also about Erza and Jellal, really. They're clearly meant to be together, they love each other. But they can't share any amount of time on the same room without it becoming awkward or dramatic because the amount of shared trauma between them is fucking astronomical. They need twenty years of therapy before they can do any significantly romantic thing and that's great. It's awesome! Just because you're in love with someone doesn't mean that being together will be easy! But that doesn't make their relationship any less meaningful or tender.

And the platonic relationships! The family ones! Makarov will risk himself and use the fairy law and Mavis tries to stop him. Tells him she has a plan that will lead to victory. Only for Makarov to say "I know this. But I need it now because the children are suffering and I won't wait a second longer" before obliterating an entire army.

Gildarts might be a womanizer but he's good with kids and he's so fucking delighted at having a child. He's so proud, and so embarrassing. I love him.

The raijinshuu are friends, and it shows, and I kinda love that the one to have a raging crush on Laxus is not Ever, the only woman among them. And the Strauss siblings have such a good relationship too. And thankfully don't fall into any of the worst sibling cliches. Levi and Gajeel spend the whole time they know eachother developing a relationship on the background, and by the time you pay atention they're sleeping together. That's hilarious. It's fantastic.

And speaking of Laxus, he goes from being a crazy fuck to incredibly cool and dependable without it feeling like he got a complete personality transplant. Partly because it soon becomes clear that most dragon slayers are, at any given time, one wrong turn away from completely losing the plot regardless of their best intentions. But also because his core values remain the same. Guild pride is the thing that drives him. When we first see him he's obsessed with making Fairy Tail strong so that it can stand proud on the face of anything. After taking a forceful journey of self discovery he learns that the guild is the sum of every individual person on it, instead of an abstract ideal of power, but the fact remains that the guild is the important thing to him. That's why he gets Natsu to defeat Hades instead of doing it himself. Because at that point he's not a part of the guild, so if he's the one to win it'd mean that Fairy Tail didn't, and that simply cannot stand.

All in all, it does such a good job of depicting good and complicated relationships with care and nuance, and makes a place for the ones that are bad. Lucy's dad has to work to get accepted back into her life, and that's amaizing. Where else have you seen a parent that doesn't get instant forgiveness after saying sorry? It's certainly not as often as I would like.

But I mostly feel like talking about the "darker" things, because it sometimes gets labeled as childish because no one dies (which is a big fucking lie. And I did not sign up for that. At all. I was fucking counting on it, and it was a LIE. And sure, Silver was technically already dead, but still) and like. I get it. Most main characters who "die" get miraculously saved. But that doesn't mean trauma in-world is any lighter.

On the seven year timeskip most people don't care about the characters that stayed behind, because they're secondary, and weaker, and not very cool. But we're told the reason the guild fell behing wasn't because it lost it's stronger members, but because they spent years upon years neglecting jobs for the sake of searching for the missing ones. And that's very fucking big.

But, again. The darker shit. They're not happy go lucky. They're not naive. They declare war no less than three times and every single one they make it clear that it is not about justice, it's about vengeance. About retribution. About "you don't fucking fuck with us". (And, lets remember, declaring war was fucking illegal).

They repeatedly say that they don't do good things because they're the good guys. They do the shit they wanted to do and it might just be that it could be considered good (and if not, they can convince people in high places to overlook it, pretty please. Because they have the friends to manage that).

Natsu has a whole argument with an outright assassin, and it never comes up that "murder is bad". It's framed more as a professional disagreement, rather than a moral argument. Natsu's main problem is that, while taking killing jobs, they call themselves a guild, the thing he asociates with family. The thing he considers sacred above all else. And since killing jobs are dirty (not unethical) they should, therefore, never touch a guild.

Before the final batle he outright says that killing kinda sucks but he will do it if he has to. And then kills around 900 people in a single second. Lucy is ready to kill. She's alone with Brandish in the bath and she's ready to shiv her in the neck. She might feel cornered, like this is the only option she has left. But in that moment she's ready and willing to see it through.

Invel is facing Gray and tells him "yes! Sucumb to the darkness so you may understand and join our purpose". Only for Gray to go "you dumb ass bitch. Do you think I care about going dark? Do you seriously believe I'm playing hero? All I care about is taking you down and if I have to be evil for that then that's how we roll".

All of that. I love that. They don't give a single fuck. Family comes first not because that's good, but because that's the way they are. They don't much care about what place their guild occupies relative to the rest of the world, or where any one member falls on a scale from good to bad. When all is said and done, all that mathers to them is the line between them and us, and they don't care to sugarcoat it.

And so many shows do that wrong. You get good guys who commit untold atrocities that go unaknowledged because they're the good guys! They can do no wrong! And I feel Fairy Tail should get more credit than it does on those grounds alone, but it does help that the character dynamics are good.

And I could write an entire (incoherent) essay on how Zeref is truly the most sympathetic villain I've ever seen. Everything about how he ended up makes perfect sense with his fucked up situation beyond a simple "I suffered so now I'm a self righteous asshole". You can see all the ways his mind had to twist itself into pretzels for him to maintain any semblance of functionality. If you're an hyperempathetic young man who suddenly and involuntarily kills anything he cares about then you really need to convince your brain that you don't care about anything, actually. Problem with that is that you're now convinced that it's true, because it doesn't work unless it's true. But the thing is that you also want to die, and you can't do it while actively wanting to die, so you need to die while thinking you don't want to. What's the best way to do that? You need someone else's help. And the best way to get someone to kill you is probably if they really really hate you. And the best way to do that is to become a supervillain, probably. Which also comes in handy for the whole "convince myself I'm truly an asshole" thing. And you end up becoming a calamity and fucking over the lives of anyone who could have loved you. But at least you can finally die.

And Mavis! The sweet looking, undeniably good person who turned out to be a ruthless strategist, quite detached from the world around her, who has a hard time weighing the value of individual human lives when there's a bigger picture to look at. But she's not an unfeeling stereotype either. She does love people, she wants them to have good things. But that doesn't change the fact that she doesn't relate to people the way others do, even if she could've lived her life without ever realizing (and I love that they tell us the wars the mages participated in were merchant wars. Just a random little tidbit, but yes. Wars do tend to be about money)

And this was a very long post and I said a whole bunch of nothing because I can't keep a train of thought to save my life. I just wordvomited a bunch of things that I liked. Long story short: characteryzation in Fairy Tail is top tier and I won't be taking criticism about it. You can try to critisize me though, I do enjoy arguing when I have enough braincells to put words together in the right order

[ship-mista]

Hey Howdy Mista-Lovers! It's finally time! I present to you...

🔫🔫🔫

MISTA HAREM WEEK!

Running from November 27th until our best boy's birthday on December 3rd!

This post will cover info, rules, prompts... and more? Check it out!

Also find me on Twitter:

https://www.twitter.com/ship_mista

Question One: What is Mista Harem Week?

Short answer: A week dedicated to any and all relationships featuring Mista!

Long answer: A seven-day creation spree featuring everyone's favorite gunslinger in all types of relationships!

We welcome:

➼ All pairings (But rarepairs are encouraged!)

➼ All types of love (Platonic, romantic, chaotic -- you name it!)

➼ And all types of fanworks!

Question Two: Well, are there any rules?

Short answer: There are!

Long answer:

Rule 1. The Prompts and Schedule are Optional!

Prompts are for inspiration, not restriction! Feel free to use the prompts, mix-and-match, post out of order, or throw everything out altogether. The world is your oyster!

Rule 2. Tag your ships!

People want to find their OTPs and avoid their NOTPs. Tagging ships is essential.

Rule 3. Use warnings for NSFW content!

I will only reblog sensitive/explicit material if it is censored or cropped. But that doesn't mean "don't make it"! It just means I am limited by platform restrictions.

Rule 5. The Most Important Rule!

Be kind to one another!

Please follow the three laws of fandom:

➼ Don't Like; Don't Read

➼ Your Kink is Not My Kink (And that's okay!)

➼ Ship and Let Ship

(And use tags!)

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Now, here's what you've all been waiting for. (Or maybe that's just me!)

The Prompt List!

November 27

❤️ "Meet & Greet"

How did Mista meet the object of his affection? How did he woo his current flame? (Or was he wooed instead?) Who made the first move?

Meet & Greet is about first meetings, first dates, first kisses. What is the start of something beautiful?

⭐ Mista x Allies

We all know Mista likes his friends. But does he LIKE-like his friends?

What if something canon-compliant where Mista dates his team. Or an AU where Mista's part of a different squad. Maybe an AU where a canon ally is now an enemy?

So many options!

November 28

❤️ "Run & Gun"

How do Mista and his partner run missions? How do they run for groceries?

Run & Gun could be about day-to-day life. Does Mista like to jog? How would he teach someone to shoot?

(Or maybe it's about fighting and shooting each other! Up to you!)

⭐ Mista x Enemies

We all might love Mista... but not everyone does (a shock! I know).

Would Mista befriend his enemies in true JoJo's fashion? Would Mista fall into a star-crossed romance, doomed for tragedy from the start? Would he forgive someone who betrayed him?

November 29

❤️ "Streets & Sheets"

Mista in the streets, still Mista in the sheets.

Streets & Sheets is about the difference between public life and private life.

Does Mista like public displays of affection? Could he keep a relationship a secret?

⭐ Mista x Anyone in Golden Wind

Anyone in Golden Wind canon is fair game, here. Anime, manga, novels, you name it.

(Also, listen... I think Mista could land Giorno's mom. And Giorno's dad. And also Giorno's mysterious gangster hero.)

November 30

❤️ "Wake up & Make-up"

Morning routines! Coffee, cuddling, curtain-fic. Who's the morning person? Who would rather DIE than wake up before noon?

Wake up & Make-up is about domesticity. Or maybe it's about Mista in drag! You know he'd rock a winged eyeliner.

⭐ Mista x Anyone in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

Could you imagine if Mista, Hol Horse, and Foo Fighters met? What a wild adventure those three gun-toting hotties would have.

What if Mista were in a different Part? What if he met Joseph in his prime? Chaos.

December 1

❤️ "Short Skirts & T-Shirts"

Pining from afar, jealousy, falling in love with your neighbor... Could Mista keep his love to himself or does he wear his heart on his sleeve?

Or maybe this is the fashion episode. (Does he have a whole zoo of animal-print pants?)

⭐ Mista x Anyone outside of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure

I'm thinking... Sherlock Holmes... SpongeBob Squarepants... Lassie. Literally anyone or anything is fair game here. Go wild!!!

December 2

❤️ "Showers & Flowers"

After it rains, life grows.

Showers & Flowers could be about recovering from adversity and trauma. We know Mista's had his fair share of both.

Or maybe it's about who hogs the shower, who brings flowers in apology, who likes the rain?

⭐ Mista x Your OC

This is your chance to ship Mista with your OC. Any OC. I mean it!

A JoJo's OC? Absolutely. Another anime OC? Yes PLEASE! Your D&D character? Live your best life! Your cringy middle-school cat boy OC? I would LITERALLY die for him.

December 3

❤️ "Happy Birthday"

A free day!

I'd honestly love it if everyone shared their favorite piece of someone else's work. Spread the love! Give the gift of Mista to the masses.

⭐ Mista x Your favorite character

Literally any character from anything, as long as they're your favorite. Gush about your favorite character, gush about Mista. Gush about Gushers. Gimme all those gooey feelings.

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And that's it! That's all the info I have. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions, any comments, any concerns. Above all, I want this account and this ship week to just express all the love in the world for one Guido Mista.

Have fun! Be positive!

How do you @ship-mista?

[jade-green-butterfly]

Today...is a very special and important day for me, folks~💝😊Three years ago, a certain special troll became the highlight of my 2020 during rough times and immediately won my heart from the moment I knew he would have his own destiny and journey to find others like him...and his family. Since the first Trolls movie, I have always admired dearly him from afar and the moment I saw him during the Trolls World Tour trailer, my heart literally poured out him and I have truly loved him for just being his wonderful, lovable self ever since~💘🥹 And that certain special troll, is none other than Cooper~💗🌈✨

I have always been a big fan of him and he’s always been my favourite troll to begin with but every time I see him and hear him, my heart always beats so much for him, making it aflutter and words cannot describe how special he is to me...how he means the whole world to me~💞🌈💗🌈💞I mean...can you blame me? >//w//`< How could I resist and say no to such an adorable face to go with such a darling like him??💖😍💖😍💖Cooper is more than just the goofball that we all know and love...he’s my goofball and so much more...the most amazing troll with such talent, a unique voice and a dazzling yet loving royal family to go with him...Cooper is also the prince of my heart, who deserves all the love and happiness in the world...and I feel so blessed to be the one to give it all to him, along with my heart~🥰💝💝🥰 April 24th 2020 was the day I drew Cooper for the very first time, and when I started shipping myself with him. And together, him and I have remained strong and inseparable ever since!🫶💕We’ve had such happy memories together - becoming part of his world and family, sharing one another’s lives and music, even officially marrying and creating our own dear little life together~✨💜💗💚 And I wish to keep on loving Cooper forevermore~💓😊 Which is why I dedicate this very special piece above (with a textless version too) to us, inspired by a cute Trolls book called ‘Sweet Dance Party’, a lovely heartfelt scene from the movie, Sing 2 and their version of our newest song addition to Coossy’s OTP song list (and one of my classic faves) - ‘I Say A Little Prayer For You’. And I also took part with my piece in my dear @x-elyssa-x’s colour challenge, who I deeply and gratefully thank for helping bring my beloved OTP to life, along with KaitlinEXE, @gloryraiin, @dagdasgoddess, @groovinyeen, @asa-de-ouro, @queenabstract, @zoey-nillesen​, @angoraram and many more for all the beautiful commissions, gift art and loving support you have given me over the past three years, and for putting all your fantastic work and effort, and heart and soul into every single one which I absolutely love to this very day~💞🌟💙💜💚 I can’t thank you all and the rest of the Trolls Fandom enough for how amazing and welcoming you’ve all been to me when I first jumped onto the bandwagon, and I am so happy I did too! 💖🤗Thank-you all so much for everything, including all the dear friends I’ve made and all the loving supporters I have gained - bless you all and don’t stop being awesome~!✌✨💕 And finally, thank-you ever so much for everything, Cooper...my cupcake king and sweet jellybean~💘👑🫂For always being there for me, making me feel such love and happiness I never could imagine~💝🥰🌈 I am truly blessed and the luckiest lass alive to such a wonderful darling like you in my life and by my side~💗😇 U///w///U

🎊💜♓💗♎💚🎉~Happy 3rd Anniversary, Cooper...my beloved prince, my one & only...I love you so much with all my heart, more than life itself...and I will keep on loving you so, forevermore and beyond~🎉💜♓💗♎💚🎊

*~Reblogs are also deeply appreciated as well, so please do reblog as well as like! Thank-you kindly!~*

Cooper (c) DreamWorks Trolls/DreamWorks Animation

Trollsona Jussy/Justina Butterfly (c) @jade-green-butterfly​ (Me~!)

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Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤️

Better late than never, right? Here we go, fave five fics that I've written, with many thanks to my sister from another mister for allowing me to pimp my shit:

Game of Thrones Fics (Jon/Dany-centric, naturally)

Beautiful Creatures - Ghost. Dragonstone. It's science, it's scientific fact that the presence of one direwolf in GOT Season 7 solves so many problems. Sure, the show might've turned itself into a literal dumpster fire but if you want to go back to a simpler time in the Jonerys time frame and rewrite history with me, I highly recommend! (Goes AU in early-season 7 but does incorporate canon-adherent elements after that)

Fixer-Upper - Really hitting so many tropes here, so if you are a whore for fake dating, friends to friends with benefits to lovers, pining idiots in love, and several fairly smut-heavy chapters I present this fic as some of my finest work in those department. Jon and Dany get fixed up, and chaos ensues. (Modern AU, for those of us who enjoy such delightful sluttery)

The Art of Deduction - Doctor Dany, Detective Jon, love from afar. It's a little different from my normal style, maybe not quite as fluffy, but I love it - (Yes, it is another Modern AU, what about it?)

A Thin Line - Asshole Jon and Asshole Dany being assholes to each other in very exciting ways. If you like snark and angry sex and enemies to lovers then this is the fic, pal. This is the one. (Modern AU because that's a shock, right?)

Smallvile Fic (Clark/Lois because that's real OTP hours, always)

5. The Space Between - Canon-compliant, Post-Isis (10x5), in which talks are had, revelations are made, and Clark accidentally refers to himself as Space Jesus and immediately regrets it. Just idiots in love being idiots in love so much that you want to squish their faces.

Now I get to figure out how to send this to five people, which is really the test for my old ass. Also, side note - I've been back at the office full time since Feb so fic writing is slow-going for me but it's going, so hopefully my WIPs won't remain WIPs forever!

[destinyisall-tlk]

For the character ask: Stiorra

favorite thing about them

her drive. her ambition to lead her own life and hold her independence. she knows what she wants out of her life and not many people do. i also love how she isn’t afraid to speak her mind. she feels strongly and voices those feelings - good and bad - no matter who she is talking to (i.e. when she stood up to edward in 5x07). stiorra encompasses a lot characteristics i wish i had. her strong will, fierce protectiveness of her loved ones, her ability to be open and honest, show great examples of how a woman can be more than just “beautiful”. that she has more to offer in terms of mind, and that a strong woman isn’t just how well she can fight.

least favorite thing about them

while it’s understandable she was grieving after sigtryggr’s death, i thought it was a bit unfair how she snapped at uhtred and blamed him. there is nothing wrong with leading with emotions, but a few scenes in season 5 showed that stiorra has a tendency to cause hurt with her words. again, i can’t fault her to much as she did just lose sigtryggr. but that’s the only thing i can think of that i didn’t exactly agree with - placing all the blame on uhtred and his destiny. while yes, you can argue they played a part in sigtryggr’s death and stiorra losing the man she loved, they were other factors at fault too.

favorite line

“i will not crumble just to be protected”.

i think it sums up stiorra quite well. she has always stood her ground, held onto her beliefs even if others did not agree. the easy option would have been for her to accept edward’s offer and stay in efoweric. but the fact stiorra did not take it because in her heart she knew it wasn’t right for her, i admired that.

brOTP

stiorra x finan. the last few episodes of season 4 showed glimpses of them and i honestly think they would have a great, banter-filled friendship.

OTP

sigtryggr x stiorra, i mean it would be pretty concerning if i didn’t pick them as my blog is filled with them. even though we had 8 episodes to see their relationship flourish, they still managed to convey their bond. it showed they had respect, loyalty, healthy communication, love and adoration for each other. what i loved the most, is how much sigtryggr values stiorra. not just in a romantic, partner sense. but in a queen, warrior sense. you could see how he always turned to get her opinion or approval, showcasing how he valued her mind and thoughts.

you could also see in those 8 episodes just how much love they had for each other. at times it was subtle, and other times it was loud and caught your attention. they balanced each other.

nOTP

none that i can think of.

random headcanon

when stiorra first arrived in efoweric, to be the best queen to the people she would talk with the staff and residents. collecting information and ideas on how to improve the land and quality of living. sigtryggr would watch from afar, smiling at her ambition to see their land prosper. together they would work to ensure the people were happy and content. then a few months later once stiorra had settled and sigtryggr could see she was happy, they would wed.

unpopular opinion

stiorra would have been a great mum. and maybe in the future she would of changed her mind and had kids with sigtryggr.

also, given that it was in the viking age and protection was either non-existent or not well used, it also isn’t unreasonable to think that stiorra could have become pregnant without them actually trying. the only way would be if sigtryggr and stiorra were never intimate in that way, but given they were young and madly in love, i do think from time to time they would have been (it was the viking age after all). so technically, there is a 50-50 chance that at some point stiorra could have gotten pregnant.

song i associate with them

power by little mix

favorite picture (gif) of them

[themadauthorshatter]

Not only have I not posted on this for a while, but it's also time I continued that OTP swap.

RED QUEEN TIME: OTP SWAP EDITION!!!

We begin this version of Red Queen with Cal as he works in a lumber yard. He's a fit young man at the pleasnt age of 19, he's handsome for a kid who's starting in a poor village, and, oh yeah, HE'S RED.

Where everyone else struggles with their work, evident by the groans and screams they make as they literally destory themselves to break apart wood, Cal's doing a pretty good job of seperating logs and using an axe repeatedly like it weighs nothing. An alarm sounds, like an air horn, and the boss yells at them to get to the arena and come back when the yard.

Cal leaves with the other workers, tired and sweaty, and makes his way to the arena. If this was a real book, we would not hear a word of dialogue from him. We only see what he's thinking, and he is not a fan of the event that is about to take place: First Friday, where Silvers show off and show Reds where their proper place is.

Cal bustles among the crowd, avoiding as many people as he can because it's all too close for his liking. Never fear because his friend Iris is here.

She works on the river and about to finish her apprenticeship and brags of her success to Cal, who broke apart a whole tree and is sure to ve sore tomorrow.

The two make it to the arena and pretend to make pretend bets as to what will happen and who will will. Cal's betting on there being a Strongarm, because they do the best, but Iris bets there will be a Silk, even betting that there will be one fighting the Strongarm.

Cal finds the prediction intriguing and the feats begin, and its Samson against the Strongarm just like before, though this time Samson looks up and meets Cal's disgusted face, whispering in his mind if he's impressed.

Cal and Iris leave and return to their jobs- well, Cal does because his boss is an ass- and Iris stays behind at the arena to watch the rest of the carnage, because she's morbidly curious.

Cal calls her a creep and returns to the lumberyard, where he works until it's night time and he's told to go home. He's paid for his work, less than usual due to the fact it's First Friday, and Cal calls his boss out on cutting his pay for the third time this week. His boss isn't interested in hearing a Red complain about wages when he's getting paid in the first place.

Cal points out that his boss is ALSO Red, but his boss threatens to cut his pay further, if he doesn't take what he's gotten and go.

Cal relents and goes home, discouraged but he's still working and passes by a set of guards that size him up, sort of like how people who race horses check out said horses from afar. He mentally tells them to screw off because he's employed.

He makes it home and we meet his lovely family: Tibe, who's drinking a lot because of the war, Elara, who isn't really happy to be here for reasons you'll see soon, and Maven, who's still Cal's half brother, only he's crippled because there's no healers or whispers to screw with his head and he's the one who's genuinely glad to see his brother home; Tibe's glad too, he's just distracted.

Maven greets Cal very warmly from his place in the upper part of the house where everyone sleeps and asks how the Friday Feats went, trying to gwt down on his own because he's a big boy. Cal rushes over to help him, because he doesn't want Maven falling down, but Maven isn't worried; he's 17 not 7 and he can't feel his legs, so he can fall on them and they'll be a bony cushion for him. Cal, while he grabs a crutch Maven uses, doesn't disagree, but states Maven WILL feel the fall if it's on his neck rather than his legs.

The comment gets a laugh out of Maven, because then the legions won't even bother with him; if he can't move, he can't fight. If that fauls, he'll pretend to be a corpse and they'll take him somewhere nice, find out he's alive, get him a healer, and happily ever after, adding cheekily that Cal's not allowed to come with him because he'll blame him for being crippled and paralyzed.

The two laugh and do some light fighting before Elara snaps at them both to cut it out, Cal for rough housing and trying to kill his brother and Maven for leaving his bed when he can't move. Cal was not trying to kill his brother or rough housing and Maven's leg are messed up, not his arms, but Tibe vouches for them both as no harm was really done, and Maven needs to move around a little so he doesn't wither away.

Elara glares at him and asks Cal how work went, as he's the only one who has a decent paying job. Cal reveals that his boss cut his pay again, but still got something, which is better than nothing. Elara impolitely disagrees, as his pay will get cut until he actually gets nothing. Cal admits it's unfair, but they’re all Red. The only reason they exist is so they can serve Silvers and can avoid their wrath and their war by working or dying. Or getting blackbout wasted, as Elara puts it.

Tibe laughs at that and reveals he actually got the mail, a letter from Tiora on the front.

Side mention here: Tiora and Iris are close to Cal and his family, much in the same way Kilorn was close to the Barrows, though this time Tiora's on the front lines doing the fighting and writes to them whenever she can.

They gather around the table and pass around the letter before Cal gets it and reads it out loud, because he wants to, sue him.

Tiora's completely fine, though she did get grazed, but she got some cleaner and some stitches and they sent her to the infirmary to rest. Where they are, it's good for seeing sunsets and sun rises, but it's also quiet and away from the fighting. Addressing each family member, she tells Elara to not be so uptight,Tibe to not drink as much as he does, Maven to not do anything to hurt himself, because he already has his legs messed up, and Cal to not push himself too far because, despite his age(19, I'm not going to agree him down), he's still a kid and she'll help him find a girl as long as she can be the ring bearer in his wedding.

The comment makes Cal blush and Maven and Tibe laugh a little before Cal sets the letter down and takes a breath to get rid of an ache in his chest.

It's been a while since Tiora left, he and Iris have jobs, but Maven is going to be 18 in a couple months and has no job, which shouldn't be a problem because HE'S CRIPPLED, but the Silvers don't see that and nor do they care. They can always heal his legs and send him out.

Tibe isn't worried and states that Cal will keep their family safe, as he's strong as hell and has one of the better paying jobs in the Stilts.

Maven tries not to be hurt by that, but Cal jumps to his side, telling him that he's good at spying, having overheard very juicy and useful bits of gossip that became true.

Maven lightens up, but isn't fully made better because of it.

The family have dinner, talk dome more, and go to bed, though Cal stays up because he's nervous and because Maven keeps having bad dreams that make him toss and turn. He calms down though when Cal puts a blanket on him and rubs his back, unknowingly sending small waves of heat through his body and stilling him long enough to fall sound asleep.

Before he himself goes to bed, there's a thunking sound at his door, like someone threw a rock at it and Cal sees that it's Iris, who bears a teary face and bad news bears:

Her boss/master/person she's the apprentice to fell and died, so now she's going to be conscripted.

Neither know how long she has, but the news gets worse when Silver guards pull up to the lumber yard and make an announcement to Cal:

He's leaving for the Choke and his brother is going with him, but he'sleaving when Maven comes of age.

Cal is terrified and absolutely pissed because he already had a job and Maven is crippled, he can't even stand on his own.

The officers admits to knowing about Maven's handicap, but speculate that he can just be a sniper or something, considering how he has good upper body strength from carrying himself. He'd make a good messenger, too, because he can crawl on the ground and play dead when someone runs by and they'll be tricked because he already can't feel his legs.

Cal is appalled by this, stating, once more, that he has a job and Maven is crippled, so neither should be on the list for conscription. The officers agree, Cal and Maven should be excused, but there's the issue of the fact that Cal is a strong, capable guy and they need more people like him. And he won't be alone. The river girl and his brother are coming with him.

Cal is speechless and they leave. He doesn't follow them, but he does go somewhere he's had to before for food and necessities.

Cut to him jogging up to a caravan and banging on the door, asking for one Will Whistle.

RQ fans rejoice, because Shade answers the door instead, alive, healthy, and a little mad because Cal, who he nicknames Woodpecker, interrupted a meeting he's in the middle of.

Cal apologizes and states that this can't wait and he needs to talk to Will immediately.

He's allowed in and cuts to the chase: He's leaving, but they're going to take Iris and Maven too. Iris's boss died and Maven is almost of age. Iris has less time than they do, but he needs to get the three of them out NOW.

Shade and his partner(😏) Farley tell Cal that this is a TRADING caravan nit a SMUGGLING caravan, and they don't deal in people. Cal hears none of it, as Will's helped him before and he's screwed either way. With some reluctance, he asks if Will can just get Iris and Maven out. He can survive just fine in the Choke, but he doesn't want them there, too.

The group agrees, but it's going to cost Cal A LOT of money. Like, feed his family for a year, a lot.

Is he a theif? No. Does he make it in his job? No. Is he desperate enough to do something crazy? Yes, and he shares this idea with Maven later in the night:

Since Maven visited Sunmerton a few times to help with sorting, something to keep his hands busy and something that paid well because the Silvers weren't paying attention, he plans for the two of them to go to Summerton so Maven can do one of these 'assistant' jobs and for Cal to try and get something of value as well, MAYBE by stealing it, if he really has to, something that irks both boys, and they'll put that together and hopefully be allowed to go back if they need more.

Problem: Cal only has two days to do it.

Maven solves that by stating he can wake up early and the two can set out at dawn, WHICH THEY DO.

They get in easy enough, Cal carrying Maven on his back and a wheelchair in his hand, which he sets up and puts Maven in, and they part ways, Maven off to assisst and Cal to do... something.

He tries to keep his mind clear, but seeing all the Silvers and all their 'not worrying' freaks him out and he almost misses when someone calls him over, seeing the Red band on his wrist, and asks if he's good at fixing things. A transport broke down and they don't know how or why.

Cal leaps for the opportunity and shows his prowess as a builder, admitting he used to do it as a hobby when he had spare time. He gets a crowd of peiple surrounding him as he fixes the engine, checks the tires, and all that good jazz, until he finishes and gives the Silver the 'okay' to start the engine.

It works, sounding clean as a whistle and running like a dream.

He's paid handsomely and people ask for favors, which he doesn't mind taking, and all goes well until, while fixing a radio in a bar, a broadcast reveals the Scarlet Guard, mainly Shade and Farely, who are sick of being oppressed and show it by taking a down a dock that wasn't being used.

With a 'We will ruse red as the dawn,' and a return to the regularly scheduled programming, the crowd goes WILD, turning on any Red they see.

Cal avoids as many Silvers as he can, not forgetting his pay, of couse, and is almost drowned, almost because a burst of flames knocks back the Nymph.

He fonds Maven, who ditched the wheelchair and started crawling and they try to hightail ot out of there, but Maven, in a moment of fear and impulse, tries to steal a bracelt off of someone's wrist, in case what they have isn't enough.

The only thing he gets is the butt of a rifle to his hand, the one he uses for walking with a crutch.

[peakyxtommy]

“I’m gonna marry you one day”/“I’m gonna have kids with you one day”

Summary:  ​“I’m gonna marry you one day”/ “I’m gonna have kids with you one day”

Prompt List: @otp-promptly

Characters: Tommy,  Michael,  Isaiah, & Bonnie

Gif Credit To All Owners. - @bonniebirddoesgifs​

Tommy: (Sorry Tommy’s so long, I just am in love with him, this was the scenario stuck in my head at work last week) 

He would make it out the office on time, ready to come home to you. To relax and enjoy the evening in whatever way you wanted to. He missed your presence today only being able to give you a peck goodbye in bed this morning before having to rush off early for a meeting. 

When he enters the house, he slips his coat off to hang on the rack. Going to his office to lock up his gun and set down his briefcase, before going search for you. Sometimes he curses himself for having a big house because the search could take a while, if he didn’t pass one of his housekeepers or you weren’t out in the open. 

He hears pots clinking around in the kitchen, deciding to check there first. When he does he finds you, talking on the phone and at the stove stirring egg noodles. You’re oblivious to his presence as your back is toward him as he stays in the doorway. He can see your shoulders are tense as you stir the food and the words that come out your mouth next make him tense as well.  

“Yes mother, I know. I just haven’t gotten around to talking to him about kids yet. We’ve just gotten married. Things are busy with the business right now and I’m busy with my job. When the time comes you will be the first to know, I promise.” You release an exasperated sigh, fed up with the conversation as it was one you had plenty of times with your mother before. He knew you loved you mother but sometimes she would rub you the wrong way which would get you irritated. 

The thought of children has passed through his mind. He wanted many when he was younger but after the war it wasn’t something he ever really thought about, at least until he met you. Once he fell in love and he wanted you as his wife, his forever. The thought passed through his mind ever once in a while, even though he wasn’t one to bring it up. Watching you with his nieces and nephews and how you looked after your own family is what solidified it for him. He knew you would make a great mother and you both valued family which was important to him as well. 

As he watches you turn to get the lid for the pot, your wide eyes come in contact with his calm ones. He gives you a small smile, as you begin to rush your mother off the phone, promising to call her over the weekend. He takes a seat on the counter, as you place your phone down. 

You come to stand between his legs, as he grabs your hands into his to rest on his lap. Before you could even get a word in, he steals them from you by saying, “I’m gonna have kids with you one day. If that is something you’d be interested in, not just your mum.” He speaks in a serious tone before he smirks at you. In those moments all your worries are pushed to the side and your stomach is filled with excitement.

 “If she had it her way, we’d probably have a little one running around here by now.” You both release a small chuckle, as you continue on, “Thank you Tommy. We can talk about it over dinner.” You stand on your tiptoes to give him a sweet kiss that lasts a while until your timer goes off. 

Michael:

“I’m gonna have kids with you one day” You speak to him, late at night in bed, catching him off guard. He definitely doesn’t think of himself as parental in nature, as he was still young, you both were. You were both cuddling and talking about the future. It was one of his favorite ways to spend the night with you. Talking and telling various stories. Most of the time it was light small talk, but times like now it would switch to a serious topic. He would get nervous at your response or what you would ask next as he sometimes wasn’t the best with words or always opening up so freely as you were an open book. He should have seen this topic coming as you both talked about marriage lightly last week. He loved you and couldn’t see himself spending life with anyone else, but kids were something he wasn’t ready for yet. 

“What do you think, hun?” You speak a little louder, to catch his attention.

“Honestly, I’m not ready for kids yet. Maybe, one day I will be.” He responds looking into your eyes, watching as your facial expression takes in his words thinking of them before breaking into a small grin. 

“That’s alright Michael, I promise. We can revisit the topic another time in the future. I’m happy with us right now as are.” You squeeze his warm hand tightly before pressing a kiss to his lips.

Isaiah:

“I’m gonna marry you one day” You are both walking home from the restaurant when the words that leave his mouth after his third date with you. He liked you from a long time from afar. Your parents were friends and you grew up with him living in your neighborhood. You two would hang out from time to time but never exclusively. 

When he asked you out last month, you were surprised, but agreed to the date. You both agreed to take it slow because it was your first serious relationship and he was so smitten by you, that he didn’t want to mess this up. When the words leave his mouth, you were shocked to say the least. 

“When that day comes, I hope I’ll be ready.” You reply with a small grin, as his hands hold yours as he continues to take you home. 

Bonnie: 

“I’m gonna marry you one day” Those are the words that leave his mouth as you both lay on the plaid blanket out of breath from chasing one another around and laughing in the lilac field. It was your one year anniversary. Bonnie decided to take you out for an afternoon in the woods for a picnic. He packed little sandwiches, chips, and juice boxes. 

“I love you Bonnie Gold. When that day comes, I’ll be ready.” You reply, head resting on his soft chest, arms wrapped around your waist, as you stare at the clouds above, thinking about that day.  

[createandconstruct]

Zidane Tribal I'm basic forgive me

OH BABE. I'M BASIC. I WAS PRAYING I'D GET ZIDANIEL.

favorite thing about them: PROTECT GIRLS and SACRIFICE. All you need to know about Zidane’s character is right there in his abilities. You take damage in place of a girl AND THEN (people don’t talk about sacrifice enough????) Zidane KO’s himself, WILLINGLY, to give FULL HP and MP to ALL your party members. ALL OF THEM. I love him so much. Also you wanna know my favorite thing about Zidane? It’s every second of his existence. Replay the whole game there you go. I need a separate post to rant about him.

least favorite thing about them: I don’t dislike anything about Zidane or more so I wouldn’t change anything about his character. I would slap him over the head for a few things (coping a feel in Dali...) but in a motherly-Baku kind of way.

favorite line: This is gonna be lines cause I’ve got a few. 

“Hey, I’m not the idiot with the loud voice, and the dirty, rusty armor.” 

“It’s gonna be hard... but I’ve got my friends. It isn’t so bad.” 

“No one’s useless...” 

“So even if we are born to die, I’m not afraid. I’m gonna live!”  

“Alright then, Your Highness! I shall hereby do my best to kidnap you!"

“I beseech thee, wondrous moonlight, grant me my only wish! Bring my beloved Dagger to me!

This is my ultimate fav probably: "I couldn't say anything! I had a whole speech ready for her. But it would've been a lie! How could I lie to her!? Good luck, Dagger! I'll be watching you from afar. Come find me if you need someone to talk to.’ It's a big fat lie! That's not how I feel at all! That's not how I feel...at all."

brOTP: STEINER & ZIDANE. FOREVER. NO QUESTION. Zidane & his little brother Vivi. Also Cid & Zidane. They’re an underrated dynamic. They have this weird friendship/father and son-in-law relationship that I love. Cid always bashes Zidane’s manners but also cares about him because he did his utmost to protect and escort Garnet. I love that little scene in the Desert Palace when Cid tells Zidane “And you <ribbit>! You come back safe!” Garnet is like a daughter to Cid but Zidane quickly becomes like a son to Cid too. Also Zidane & Amarant for obvious reason. Zidane & everyone in Tantalus, Zidane & Beatrix (great untapped potential). Zidane & everyone if we’re being honest.

OTP: Zidane and Garnet but of COURSE.

nOTP: Probably just Kuja or Mikoto with Zidane. 

random headcanon: I got a few but this one hurts me: Even though he was four when Baku found him Zidane couldn’t/or wouldn’t talk. There wasn’t really anyone to speak to in Terra and it’s possible he was in that incubator tube thing up until Kuja took him and dropped him on Gaia so he had a slow start as a child. Even with a soul he needed to learn how to bond with others. Baku had his work cut out for him. 

unpopular opinion: Zidane ain’t popular with all the ladies in Lindblum. Is this unpopular? I’m not sure. I’ve seen some interpretations of Zidane as being a legit lady killer and that he’s pretty experienced relationship wise. But I’m here to preach the truth. Zidane ain’t that good with the ladies. Ladies in Lindblum? They kick him to the street. You see that with his failed attempts with Lowell’s fangirls. Lilian in the bar quickly moves on from his little airship suggestion (she’s also into the airships not him. rip Zidane). Zidane’s character is clearly the classic girl obsessed boy troupe in Japanese media. Characters in this troupe throw their affections around but don’t usually get much back (e.g. ataru moroboshi). Though Zidane is written so he doesn’t have the “pervert” aspect of the troupe either. Besides accidently touching Garnet on the ladder all but I argue he did it on accident.  All of Zidane’s flirting is just empty air, he doesn’t expect any returned affection. Disc 1 he makes little flirts with Garnet but nothing serious and he gives attention to other girls too. He flirts with and teases Garnet much harder, to almost annoying degrees, on Disc 2 because he’s legitimately fallen for her but hasn’t admitted it to himself or even realized it. (And I think he’s also trying to mess with her to distract her from everything that’s happened with Brahne). The fact that he’s so oblivious to his own serious feelings about Garnet really shows that, as Blank said, “he’s never had a serious relationship before.” He’s 16, never been in love, and never opened up before. Maybe he’s had a few successes in getting a girl on a date but with his deeper vulnerabilities, insecurities, and loneliness still so closed up at the start of the game it seemed to me like he’s obviously only had surface level relationships with any girls before Garnet. She forces him to open up and reevaluate himself. As Zidane falls harder for Garnet he stops his teasing and outside flirting (Lani is the last girl he flirts with) and by Disc 3 he’s “honest with himself” as he says, that he loves her, and will do whatever he can to help her and be with her. TL;DR: Zidane’s a virgin *drops mic*

song i associate with them: YORUWA HONOKA by Eve (about his inner insecurities); Ballad of the Windfish Cover by Michelle Heafy and Josiah Everhart  (been thinking of Zidane/Garnet for this one);  Blue Sky by  Tsutomu Narita  (This ONE is SO Zidane. I always use it when writing him). And Misekake No Love Song by indigo la End

favorite picture of them: Zidenny. My beloved.

I hate this image it haunts me. Now you have to look at it too.

Okay but actually this art by you @anubis-005 is my favorite for real. Like WOW I gotta lie down. I think of this picture everyday of my life

THANK YOU FOR THIS ASK.

[lunatriense]

Schneekos 29 and 30

One headcanon about this OTP that breaks your heart

Oh, that's a tough one but I think this should work. Note that this is following the show timeline (fix it, IQ!!! 🙏🙏🙏) rather than one of my preferred timelines.

Because of her upbringing (thanks Jacques) Weiss made a horrible first impression and Pyrrha believed she was only interested in using her for her own benefit. By the time Weiss had managed to befriend Pyrrha anyway, it was obvious to her that Pyrrha was pining for Jaune hard. Weiss assumed she had no chance, that Pyrrha must not even like girls (after all, if she did why would she pick Jaune of all people?) and so she just tried to bury her heartache with the first not-Jaune person that seemed interested — Neptune, which of course ended poorly.

Now all that is well and good, sad but not heartbreaking… but then we come to the fall of Beacon. Weiss gets a call from Jaune — Pyrrha's in trouble. She and Ruby rush to assist, and even though she wants so badly to be up there to help, she knows Ruby is faster and speed is what matters. Every second counts. She places her glyphs, Ruby dashes up the tower, and all Weiss can do is wait and hope with all her heart for the best. But Ruby's great, right? Even if she and Pyrrha together can't win the fight, she can at least get Pyrrha out of there.

And then she hears Ruby scream and sees a blinding flash and the wyvern turns to stone. And for hours, she doesn't know what's happened. That sounded really bad, but petrifying the wyvern is good, right? Ruby's not answering, Pyrrha's not answering; are they okay? Nothing's happening up there now.

Someone finally shows up — probably Qrow — and goes to look. He comes back down with a comatose Ruby, but no Pyrrha. Weiss starts to panic and rushes over to ask, and all she receives in reply is a pained look and a shake of the head. She's gone.

Weiss never told Pyrrha how she felt. Never told her how important she was to her. She watched from afar as Pyrrha pined after the densest boy on Remnant — who repeatedly snubbed her to woo Weiss herself after very explicit rejections, no less. Now she'll never get the chance. What if she had? Would things have gone differently? Would Pyrrha be there beside her still? She'll never know, but she'll always be haunted by the thought.

One headcanon about this OTP that mends it

Although neither of them said so at the time for fear of scaring the other, both Pyrrha and Weiss knew from the first night they spent together dancing and laughing, then huddled close under the stars until sunrise sharing secrets and hopes and old wounds with each other that they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together. They had other friends who they loved dearly, yes, but no one else — no one — understood either of them like the other, like only a kindred spirit can, and they could feel it immediately. It didn't matter where, it didn't matter how, only that they had each other.

[thedamageofherdays]

content creator appreciation!! list five favourite sets/art/fic you've made and send this ask to five other content creators! 💕

(Spreading some love and self appreciation to amazing content creators! If 5 overwhelms you, choose one, or three! Whatever suits you)

And congrats on 200 followers!!!! i'm showering you with confetti from afar!

Thank you so so so much Bri!!!! 💗💗 And thank you to @otp-holic and @marvelousescapism for sending this one too!!!) I had a hard time picking my own favourites but this is what I came up with:

1. Carry My Heart a Stucky fic I wrote that has a special place in my heart. It's not for everyone with Steve being a woman in this one but it's a fic I just really like.

2. Hotel Bar Daddy another Stucky fic. It's incredibly self-indulgent and I had so much fun writing it!

3. the dreamer who built the first trapeze also a Stucky fic. I really enjoyed exploring Wanda and Steve’s friendship in this and this one also has a special place in my heart. I am still planning to write a companion piece from Bucky’s POV for this fic.

4. i believe we were meant to be which is a Stucky moodboard I made. One day I will write a fic to go along with it but for now I just really love the moodboard :)

5. Mended Hearts, the first fic I shared on this account. It focuses on Nat and Steve’s friendship and Steve’s grief and it, again, has a special place in my heart.

I do really love my other moodboards and fics too and choosing between them was SO hard. Aside from a few I am very fond of most things I have created. They might not all be masterpieces but they mean something to me and I think that's important too! Making this list made me realise how much I miss creating!!

[warriorsbutnotreally]

*digs around in my pockets* hold on please- *pulls out thrustpelt* how about him?

Thrushpelt

favorite thing about them

dude was literally the sweetest cat alive and I adore him for that <3

he was a great friend, a good father-figure, and honestly he took a lot of things in stride [or the most part]

least favorite thing about them

we don't see enough of him

I demand more Thrushpelt

this is a threat to the Erins

favorite line

"You know how I feel about you, Bluefur. I'd do my best to make you happy, I promise. And I'll love your kits as though they were my own."

from Bluestar's Prophecy

brOTP

Rosetail and Thrushpelt

I know, canonly, they're half-sibling but they also just have a fun dynamic as both friends and siblings

I also like the friendship between him and Bluefur/star

OTP

I actually don't have an OTP I completely lean towards if I'm being honest-

he's a great guy but I can't imagine a lot of ships that I feel strongly about off the top of my head

I do enjoy Oakheart x Thrushpelt a small bit but as like "we're dads to the same kits and we both care for the kits' mother, too"

nOTP

not huge on Thrushpelt x Rosetail

one because they are related

but also I just think that they're better as friends

random headcanon

the moment Thrushpelt saw the RiverClan apprentices Mistypaw and Stonepaw, he realized what had happened, but never confronted anyone

he just watched them from afar, cheering them on slightly as if he was still their father

unpopular opinion

I don't think BlueThrush would've worked as it's clear she never liked him as more than a friend

song i associate with them

She Wants Me To Be Loved by The Happy Fits

favorite picture of them

does an entire AMV count???