#so I'm sorry if it's a bit wonky

[reminiscentrainclouds]

They infect my art history notes once more.

[egginfroggin]

Unsettling possession art was inevitable, let's be honest, I'm surprised it took me this long to post any

Shiny ink woooooooooo

Delightful artist @modmad's old inktober art is what implanted the idea of shimmery gold-eyed Bipper in my head, and I encourage you to go look at their stuff! It's incredible, and very, very shaped!!

[imagine-your-nonhuman-fo]

Stealing nonhuman f/o's hoodies and them being a mix of amused, exasperated, and confused

Amused for obvious "look at my partner" reasons

But exasperated and confused because their hoodies are made for extra arms or wings, or any extra appendages they have, meaning the hoodie doesn't even fit you in any decent way, an extra pair of sleeves dangle under your arms or holes are cut out in the back causing cold air to still drift in making the hoodie useless

[monthly-doodles]

Hello I think it's been a year since I posted so here

[angelic37]

TENTOO DAY GIFT EXCHANGE ► general happy stuff for @angryrabbit42

[dumvixerum]

This is literally Duke

(basically the first line of the chorus translates to "I want to die on the stage" 💀 but honestly look up the whole translation bc some part are beautiful 😔)

[noodyl-blasstal]

Cool, Calm, and Collegiate - Chapter 4

Day 4 of @blupjeansweek is the prompt "Duet." I went with a classic.

Read below or on Ao3. Catch up with yesterday's here if you missed it.

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“Are you going to go tonight?” Lucretia asks. “I know how much you love to socialise.” She smiles so he knows she’s only joking with him.

He laughs along with her softly, but doesn’t answer.

“Barry?”

“Uh…” He looks into the crowd and finds Lup. She smiles brightly enough that he forgets a bit of the panic he’s feeling.

“I’m in.” He hears Lup say from across the room.

“Yeah. Er, yeah, I think I will.” Barry turns back and nods at Lucretia, who has the grace to wipe the shock off her face quickly.

“Big fan of…” Lucretia pauses and glances at Lup. “... singing, are you?”

“I’m not a singer, but people are always telling me I should be more social.” Barry shrugs and tries not to look too defensive.

“Okay… well, you should know that I double checked the policies and it’s not against any of the guidance.” Lucretia says, as if Barry’s supposed to know what she’s talking about.

“Singing?” Barry asks. If there’s an anti-karaoke policy then he absolutely needs to know so that he can read it and find out the story behind it.

Lucretia gives him a long, searching look. “You don’t think there’s anything else there might be a policy about which I think is relevant?”

Barry thinks… and thinks… and thinks. “Nothing that comes to mind.”

“Okay Barry, good luck. Sing something fun for me.” Lucretia pats him on the arm and pushes him towards the summer staff. Davenport is already there.

“I think it’s good to show the staff you’re not some terrifying tenured monster with a fancy office and no more compassion.” Davenport says by way of greeting.

“They think I’m a terrifying tenured monster with a fancy office and no more compassion?” Barry asks, he’s alarmed at the concept. How could anyone think he didn’t care, Barry exuded caring, well, okay, maybe he can be slightly gruff, but he carries tissues in case he sees students crying (a worryingly common occurrence on campus around examination period)! He cares so deeply.

Davenport cocks his head. “Not you personally, you know, just the machine of it all. We’re big scary cogs now. Not the little ones doing laps and laps to help us turn.”

Barry doesn’t even begin to know how to reply.

“Oh, here we are.” Davenport disappears into the crowd as the sound of a very enthusiastic version of YMCA slams into them.

Barry’s soon absorbed into another group though, one he wishes he wasn’t part of.

“It’s so nice that you feel comfortable enough to come out with the other staff.” Lydia says at his elbow.

“Honestly, it’s so brave.” Edward says from the other side.

“Thanks.” Barry replies gruffly. He tries hard not to let the exhaustion seep into his voice, but he’s 48, there’s nothing these two can do to him that bullies didn’t do at school 40 years ago and 30 years ago, and if he’s honest, 20 years ago. Barry’s frankly tired of their behaviour.

“So how long have you and Lup been together?” Lydia asks.

Barry is fairly sure he mishears. “We’ve known each other for nine years.”

“Oh, fascinating, long term. Is that why she was allowed to teach on the programme?”

Barry turns sharply and Lydia’s smile is perfectly in place, and perfectly poisonous.

“I don’t make recruitment decisions, but Dr Tacco’s CV is very impressive and I believe she was one of the first hires this year.” Barry uses his most measured tone in the hope it doesn’t betray exactly how angry he is. How dare they imply that Lup doesn’t deserve her place here. She’s smashing all of her teaching, he knows that for a fact (he’s seen the feedback and observed some of her sessions). She’s creative, passionate, and knowledgeable. The perfect person to be teaching the topics they’re looking at. The twins however, they’re certainly wow-ing some of the students, but they seem to kick up negative energy everywhere they go. Their classes have higher instances of bullying, bigger disparities in learning, and less support for students with accessibility needs than any of the others. They could only wish they were more like Lup.

“Maybe a diversity quota. They do have some people here with… interesting backgrounds.” Edward muses loudly.

Barry resists the obvious trap, although it’s difficult. “I’m sorry you think that way, Edward. It must be difficult being so concerned with backgrounds and unable to look past that. Anyway, I’m going to get a drink.”

He leaves as fast as he can and hopes the bar isn’t in the opposite direction. He finds it just as Davenport takes the stage to croon out the beginning of Sail On by The Commodores. Barry would stop to listen, but he’s scared the twins will get him again.

By the time he’s armed with a gigantic novelty cocktail in a hollow pineapple (he asked for what was good assuming it’d be a house beer or something), Sloane and Hurley are singing a particularly avant-garde version of Telephone. “I’ll have one of whatever that is.” Lup says to the bar tender, pointing enthusiastically at Barry’s pineapple.

“You can have this one if you want it?”

“Nah, it’s more fun if you have to drink it.”

“It tastes like sugar.”

“Exactly. Delicious!”

He shakes his head, takes a long sip of his drink, and relaxes. Lup’s good for him.

Once the drink’s in her hand she’s tugging him towards the stage. “Let’s find the book!”

“Okay?” Barry lets himself be dragged along. He’s not entirely sure what kind of book she needs right now, but he’s not one to argue with the impulse to read.

“There!” Lup points at a table to the side of the stage and drags him faster.

Once they arrive she’s immediately flicking through the pages. “Could you pass me a slip please?” She asks, reaching out her hand without looking away from the book.

Barry spies a stack of small papers further down the table. “These?”

“Perfect, thanks.” She scribbles on it while he waits. “Now you go!” Lup nudges the book towards him.

He flips the pages gingerly. They’re lists of songs, which, in hindsight makes sense, because he obviously agreed to come here, to the place where karaoke happens, which generally does involve singing.

Barry looks up. “Lup, I don't know what I'm doing…” Barry knows he sounds irrational, but how is he supposed to do this? It'd be mortifying to embarrass himself in front of the other teaching staff, even more so in front of Lup. He wants her to think positively about him. It's important.

“No one does.” Lup says and smiles like it's that simple.

“No, I really really don't know… which song…? How do I…?” His questions keep cutting themselves off before he can even really ask them.

“Hey, woah! Cha’girl’s got ya. This isn't about knowing what you're doing or being good or any of that. It's all attitude, my dude. Gotta just sell it.’

“What if I haven't got anything to sell?” Barry asks, because honestly, he's got no idea what his karaoke wares would even be.

Lup considers him for a moment, scrutinising him like he’s a particularly tricky puzzle. “Do you want to sit this out?”

“No.” He says quickly. He’d say it surprises him, but he doesn’t know that it does. He’s been feeling more adventurous, more sure of himself, more confident. He can try this, it’s fine if he doesn’t like it, but he’s a scientist, he’s gotta try.

“Are you sure, because I’ll never force you to do something you’re not comfortable with and I know this is outside your usual wheelhouse.” There’s so much concern in her face, it’s nice to feel so cared about.

“I’m trying new things.” Barry raises his pineapple to emphasise the point.

“Can’t argue with pineapples.” Lup says. “Okay, how about we sing something together?”

“Together?”

“You and I. Can’t fall off the karaoke tightrope if I’m holding you up.” Lup raises herself onto her tiptoes and demonstrates her imaginary tightrope prowess.

“What if I pull you down when I fall?” Barry’s still not entirely convinced.

“It’s karaoke, people love it when you fuck up.” Lup replies, unphased.

“Oh.” Well if it’s that simple.

“Honestly, the worst you can be is mediocre, which is also fine.” Lup shrugs.

“Okay.” Barry says. “I’ll do it.”

“Okay you’ll sing with me?” Lup sounds delighted. It’s nice to know he brought her that joy.

“Yeah. Yeah, what shall we sing?” Barry glances down at the page he’s on. “There’s the Monster Mash… that’s about science?”

“So it has to be about science for you to sing it with me?” Lup pretends to look horrified. Well, he hopes she’s pretending.

“No, I just…”

“I cannot believe our friendship is nothing but grave robbing and reanimating corpses to you.” Lup wipes an imaginary tear from her eye.

“How about…” Barry flips some more pages.” …She Blinded Me With Science?”

“I’m your hot Japanese lab assistant?”

“Good point, nevermind.” Barry flips past that, keeps flipping, finishes the book and starts again.

“C’mon, you’ve got this.”

“Erm… okay, hear me out… Short Skirt, Long Jacket?”

“I do like to cut through red tape.” Lup looks pleased.

“So we’ll do that one? Together?”

“That’s the idea.”

“Okay. That’s good. We can just do that.” Barry starts writing the song title on the scrap of paper. “Er… how do we know who does which bit?”

“There’s not really rules. We can just sing all of it or split it up in advance if you want?”

“Next on up we have Lup and Barry Bluejeans. Give it up everybody!” There’s a smattering of polite applause.

“Oh… Sorry… I didn’t…” he had thought using the silly name would make her smile, but he’s definitely inadvertently made it sound like they were married instead. Thankfully Lup’s laughing too hard to look upset about it.

“C’mon.” She marches towards the stage.

“Are you the Bluejeanses?” The man who looks like space Elvis asks.

“Yep.” Lup says without missing a beat. Barry’s stomach clenches, probably nerves.

“Here you go then.” He hands them the microphones.

“It’ll come up on the screen there.” Lup points as she passes him a microphone. “Don’t worry about perfect, they can smell weakness, just make it fun, you got dance moves? Crack ‘em out.”

Barry has dance moves, he does, but he’s not entirely sure what’s okay and what isn’t. He’ll just stay relatively still, maybe some gentle rocking. It’ll be fine.

–

“NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH, NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH!” Lup yells into the mic as Barry gets a bit of breath back from the leaping. He’s gotta be ready for the next chorus. He finally figured out the back bend.

“I like a girl with a short skirt, and an looooooooooooooooooooooooooooong…” Lup sings as Barry bends back to lay a hand partially on the floor.

“Jacket!” He shouts happy and inverted.

–

“That was incredible.” Barry laughs as they leave the stage.

“Those dance moves Barry! Sildar’s been holding out on me.” Lup sounds positively delighted, it's nice that she's laughing with him. There's no sense of her mocking him.

“Well… They’re hard to explain without music… uh… you know.” Barry gestures flippantly.

“Hey, if you don’t wanna talk about it then fine. But we’re doing the Monster Mash next. I’ve already got the slip.”

“Who am I to argue with the perfect plan?” Barry grins his most Frankenstein-esque grin. This being social stuff had caught on in a flash.

–

Heeeellllllllllooooooo ‘Ko!

Thought I’d stopped? Think again! That’s right, there’s nothing but postcards, baby. I’ve got a bunch of stamps and I’m not afraid to use them. I know I already sent you the video, but singing with Barry was hilarious. He’s nearly as good a duet buddy as you, though obviously not as good, that goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway or you’ll be mad.)

The ridiculous drinks are perfect and I’ll have to take you if you do come visit. Bring Kravitz if you’re worried about missing him while you’re gone (I know, I know, you don’t even care, it’s definitely not about that… now tell me how many nights you’ve spent alone in the last month?) But seriously, I’m glad you’re happy. You deserve it!

Love you!

Lup xxxxxxx

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I hope you enjoyed reading! Want the next installment? Find it here.

[askfairyromano]

yes! babe, i feel like youre not really considering the possibilities here. i do mean ripped, and yes, with big, strong hands and nice, toned arms. and good choice in having a thing for hands, by the way ;) good to know youre into stronger guys with big hands. its nothing to feel bashful about! hands are sexy! this is a safe space, you can tell me and i will be nothing but supportive. im a great wingman, not that you need one with how pretty you are, but you deserve a ripped hot guy to dote on you and fuck you right! help relieve some of that stress, ya know? and not to be too serious, but darling, are those really your only two options? a gold cage and old shackles? there has to be something other than oppressive restriction for you in the world, even as a royal and heir. im not saying throw everything away, i mean unless you want to, but thats a big commitment. i just mean that you deserve a life that also belongs to you, not just some role you live to fulfill. you deserve to be your own person outside of all the responsibility. also, if you tell me more about that hand kink you have going on, ill absolutely leave your staff alone 😇

(those washboard abs you drew had me dying, i love your art so much ghjkjh but youre not boring at all! i mean i keep coming back, i think interacting with you is fun! even if im also very shy and terrified of coming off anon lmao also it does need to be said that that one pic you posted of the 3 itabros from your younger years is SO not crusty??? like hello they are cuties and your art was so good, even back then! tbh props to you for sticking around the fandom for so long. but they look great, esp seborgas big :D grin he had. theyre the cutest!)

[vocaloid-song-showdown]

the poll for how to arrange the brackets just finished with proceeding as originally planned winning!

so, without further ado, here are the lineups ^^

note :: songs with a * next to them may require a content warning. i'll provide specific warnings as soon as i have the time, but as of now please proceed with caution

main matchup bracket ::

alice of human sacrifice* by yugami p / fear garden* by chaa

magnet by minato p / romeo and cinderella by doriko

world is mine by ryo / world's end dancehall by wowaka

triple baka by lamaze p / the disappearance of hatsune miku by cosmo p

meltdown by iroha(sasaki) / luka luka★night fever by samfree

fire◎flower by halyosy / trick and treat by oster project

daughter of evil by mothy / dancing★samurai by kanimiso p

rolling girl by wowaka / matryoshka by hachi

madness of duke venomania* by mothy / alluring secret ~black vow~ by hitoshizuku x yama

senbonzakura by kurousa / outer science by jin

doubleganger by kulfiq / mikusabbath by utsu p

jinsei reset button by kemu / common world domination by pinnochio p

the fox's wedding* by masa works design / tokio funka by takamatt

heat haze days by jin / patchwork staccato by toa

six trillion years and an overnight story by kemu / lost one's weeping by neru

aishite aishite aishite by kikuo / echo by crusher p

setsuna drive by taki yoshimitsu / yoake to hotatu by n buna

a fake fake psychotropic by kairiki bear / therefore you and me by tadanoco

my r* by kurage p / i'm glad youre evil too by pinnochio p

chururira chururira dadada by kurage p / mkdr by deco*27

blessed messiah and the tower of ai by hitoshizuku x yama / 86 by dasu

law evading rock by neru / nakakapagpabagabag by dasu

sand planet by hachi / ghost rule by deco*27

monster by kira / hated by life itself by iori kanzaki

cause i'm a liar by mcki robyns p / honey i'm home by ghost

hole dwelling by kikuo / bring it on by giga

meteor by divela / seraphim on the ring by mitchie m

the court jester by thquib / casino by azari

king by kanaria / villain by teniwoha

lower by lanndo / phony by tsumiki

higanbana milk tea by vane / scapegoat by ghost

queen by kanaria / bug by kairiki bear

honorable mention bracket ::

electric angel by yasuo p (original), giga (giga arrange) / freely tomorrow by mitchie m

po pi po by lamaze p / go google it by wintermint p

black★rock shooter by ryo / bacterial contamination by kanimiso p

i like you, i love you by gevanni p / first love academy • school of true love by nem

(also a quick general note ! i don't have everything ready for a formal polished reveal at the time of posting this. i plan on updating this post with links to the songs and also a visual bracket when i have the time. they'll definitely be up soon, so make sure to check back in a bit for them ^^

i'll also make sure that reblogs are turned on for the final version!)

[ferromagnetiic]

Headcanons on Kid's accent quirks.

Alright, so this has been bothering the hell out of me recently, and I need to get all of this out in the open and clarify a bunch of things. I'm going to write a condensed version on his carrd eventually, but I wanted to have a full version written here so I can elaborate as much as I want without feeling restricted.

We all know that I remind everyone every twenty seconds that Kid is very Scottish; or, rather, the One Piece equivalent of Scottish. For the sake of explaining what I'm talking about, just bear with me temporarily and pretend his birth island is an exact replica of Scotland for a moment.

When I first started writing him more seriously, I decided to give him the quirk of intentionally hiding his accent, because when he doesn't, his accent is actually VERY heavy, often to the point where people not very familiar with the accent might not fully understand what he's saying, and he loathes having to repeat himself. Additionally, sometimes people might try to tease him or mock him for it, and while he himself doesn't care about that himself, some of his nakama are also from his birth island, and by insulting his accent, they're also being ridiculed, so he's like "fuck you, you don't deserve to hear it if you're gonna be a little shit about it". Anyway, he masks his accent to different levels, and it comes in several different degrees:

1) Entirely masked, so you probably wouldn't notice it at all unless you were familiar with it or actively listening out for it.

2) Mostly masked, so he might have a little more oomph in his R sounds and he has more depth in his O sounds, but it's still speaking fairly neutrally. There's a natural growl in his words and his vowels are affected.

3) Somewhat masked; he's actively speaking with a distinct Scottish accent, but only uses occasional Scottish slang, phrases, or idioms, so it's unlikely you wouldn't be able to understand him.

4) Not masking at all, full blown accent out, using slang and terminology exclusive to his birth island, phrases people might not know, specific idioms, etc etc.

5) Literally speaking Scots Gaelic which isn't the same thing but I like when he does that so I'm mentioning it here.

Usually I have him at a 1 when he's meeting someone new and/or is being serious and intense, annunciating, actively and consciously masking. Most of the time, he's around a 2 as a neutral default. He starts slipping into a 3 when he's losing his composure a bit and not really thinking about masking, so when he starts getting very pissed off, when he's a little to moderately intoxicated, if he's feeling unwell or in pain, tired, or if he's just relaxing around his nakama. He's only at a 4 when he's exclusively around the select members of his crew from his birth island, so Killer, Heat, Wire, and a couple of the other guys who've known him since before they became pirates. Alternatively, he'll do it publicly or if he's extremely, EXTREMELY drunk. It also doesn't help that he's slurring his words really heavily when he's drunk enough to do this, so sometimes even Killer is just like. "I don't think that was even a real sentence..." He only speaks Gaelic with Killer, and then later with Shou (@snowdrcp) because she starts learning the language.

Anyway, finally on to why I'm actually making this post this long and detailed.

Normally I only mention an increase in the degree of Kid's accent in the monologue, and I don't normally write it phonetically in his dialogue because I would have to add a translator's note every single time, and to be honest, I'm just not familiar enough with Scottish to make it sound all that natural. However, when Kid is speaking casually, I do like to change some specific words, such as "you" becoming "ya", and "your/you're" becoming "yer", as well as removing the G from words ending in -ing. This isn't so much meant to be an indicator of his accent or its intensity but instead because Kid just talks naturally colloquially in my head, and he often has a bit of a husky drawl. I don't always include this; sometimes it makes the sentence structure sound weird, or sometimes if he's really focused or alert, he's annunciating more and therefore doesn't speak so informally. However, he sounds really stiff in my head if I don't include this in his regular dialogue, and I intended for it to be a subtle reminder of the fact that he's speaking lazily even when he's not exposing his accent very much.

My problem is that when I make him sound more Scottish, like a 3 and up, every time he says the words "you" or "your/you're" it would not sound like "yer" at all; due to the way Scottish accents sound when pronouncing those syllables, it would be pronounced more like "yooh", and "yoohr". So sometimes, I have the issue of Kid getting angry at someone he's yelling at, and I'm writing his dialogue, but for the sake of being consistent I'm keeping him using "ya" and "yer", even though it isn't congruent with how he would actually be speaking if it was audible and not written dialogue. My concern is that if I suddenly switch over mid conversation, it's going to look ugly from a writing perspective, and kind of sloppy on my part if I keep changing how I'm writing the same words.

I guess I basically just wanted to explain how I intend for his voice to sound, and ask if it would be an issue for anyone if I started throwing in some "yoohs" and "yoohrs" to flavor his dialogue when I feel it's appropriate to do so, without people thinking it's a typo/mistake, or inconsistent.

I'd love to have opinions on whether doing this would look too unnatural or peculiar, and I'd be really grateful for any kind of feedback on the issue.

Thanks so much if you read all of that and made it to the end!

[myfacescrunched]

GREGORY...

[doctor-bus]

Playing Code Realize and while I'm sure I will come to love it ;w; I miss the Bustafellows characters and their amazing found family dynamic

[chocolaminity]

PINNED INTRO POST MOMEN....

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[languidlovers]

ummm teal perhasp if you’ve got it .. if not then green or smth ^_^ the jellyfish are very cute

here you go!! ^_^

[a-simple-spiders-oc-dump]

the sillies

[mrfoox]

Don't get attached so easily I say, as I'm already attached...