#spotlight || dash commentary ||

[tobias-the-legend]

Everyday I log onto Rotomblr, I see something and am immediately confused.

[xkuja]

In clear view of a couple of dour skeptics, Kuja revels, unapologetically basking in the glory of another year conquered. It's a time for jubilation, for the popping of corks and the flow of champagne bubbles. Yes! More champagne!

[thebananwithaplan]

Maybe he can finally have some sort of break once the new project is out.

[deathfavor]

Oh no, Ran's been sent to the shadowrealm.

[johtoxdarkxelite]

"I heard something about a wedding.~ Is it time to go dress shopping?"

[vixtionary]

club was wild last night fr fr

[hcttrick]

"Again, why is Childe always looking for a fight? Seriously, that's it! If anything, fight me! I dare anyone!"

[glacialswordsman]

ᴛᴀɢ ᴅᴜᴍᴘ 𝟏 / ?

☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ behind the scenes. ⊰ ooc ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ on stage. ⊰ ic ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ beneath the mask. ⊰ headcanons ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ fanmail. ⊰ answered asks ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ pass the script. ⊰ ask prompt ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ shine the spotlight. ⊰ promo ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ intermission. ⊰ queue ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ character study. ⊰ musings ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ afterpiece. ⊰ dash games ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ between engagements. ⊰ dash commentary ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ break character. ⊰ crack ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ center of interest. ⊰ self-promo ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ cinematography. ⊰ video ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ artistic director. ⊰ my art ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ expository scene. ⊰ closed starter ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ curtain time. ⊰ thread ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ curtain call. ⊰ thread end ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ death at the box office. ⊰ dni ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ dramaturgy. ⊰ aesthetic ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ encore. ⊰ music ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ aesthetic distance. ⊰ wip ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ mise-en-scène. ⊰ art ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ improvisation. ⊰ open starter ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ melpomene. ⊰ introspection ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ dressing room. ⊰ visage ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ soliloquy. ⊰ one-shot ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ public address system. ⊰ psa ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ theater program. ⊰ pinned ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ slapstick. ⊰ meme ⊱ ☾⋆⁺₊⋆ ⸺ callbacks. ⊰ saved ⊱

[supercreig]

"I'm happy to be yaoi, but I will not be called a yaoi twerp. Now who do I need to kick in the balls?"

[warriorslantern]

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[xkuja]

"Now now, all it says is that you have to work very, very hard on it." It says both but Kuja is ignoring that because he is not used to effort.

💕 How fated are we~~~ the moon and the darkness~~~

Send 💕 and my muse will use The Love Calculator to see how compatible they are.

"Apparently not fated at all. Perhaps fate hates us."

[xkuja]

Quack really has a type huh

[thebananwithaplan]

Honestly it's just funny watching one of the Noises get a taste of his own medicine.

[novaae]

Could you write a fic about Bumi just finding Tarrlok pretty, please? I just want more content of these two.

hiiiiiii!!!!!!!! here you go, and this is on ao3 too. i have a small commentary on some bits of the fic, so do tell me if you want me to post that!

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“Who's the pretty boy?” Yumei nudges Bumi in the side with a particularly sharp elbow, prompting him back into the real world.

“Huh, who?” Bumi asks dumbly, brain still catching up to whatever she said. he glances at the glass of whiskey in his hand, grateful that it hasn’t spilled from the jolt he’s just been subjected to. Would be a bitch of a thing to happen.

“Pretty boy.” Yumei repeats, a smirk blossoming on her face. “You’ve been staring at him for a while now. and sneaking glances at him the whole night.”

“Who?” Bumi raises an eyebrow, and he can see Yumei supress the sigh that is most probably, most definitely bubbling in her throat. 

She looks right in front of them, head tipping a little in an attempt to hint at the guy Bumi was staring at. Bumi dutifully follows her gaze, and his eyes fall on Tarrlok. He’s surrounded by a bunch of people, all of them looking absolutely enamoured with him. Call him crazy, but Bumi can swear that there’s a fucking spotlight on that guy. Not metaphorical or in a romantic way, but spirits- everything seems to frame Tarrlok as the center of attention.

Bumi feels his cheek flush and he takes a quick sip of the whiskey in his glass. Fuck. That burns his throat more than he thought it would, but it also makes the world look amazing, so he guesses it’s a fair pay-off. What it does not do is distract Bumi from the fact that Yumei’s still looking at him intently; and even though he was there when she was declared blind in one eye, and he helped her pick the eyepatch for tonight, the intensity of her gaze makes him feel like she’s got both eyes trained on him.

“You still haven’t told me who he is.” She says matter-of-factly. “Unless you’ve got the hots for a stranger, spill up.”

“Uhm-” Bumi isn’t sure how to start describing him, mostly because he doesn’t know Tarrlok all that well. All and any information he’s got about the man is second-handed, filtered and colored by Tenzin’s perspective. And Bumi has never quite seen eye to eye with his brother in the first place.

“Just some guy who works with Tenzin.” He says after a visible pause, and Yumei nods sagely, as if the words he’s saying actually mean anything to her. “And I don’t have the hots for him.”

“So… is he a politician or a bureaucrat?” She asks, completely ignoring his last sentence; and Bumi glances at Tarrlok again, this time his profile visible to him.

“A politician. He’s the representative from the Northern Water Tribe” He answers, not taking his eyes off Tarrlok.

It’s been a while since Bumi’s drawn anything but landscapes and maps, but he can’t help but think that if he ever wanted to get into making portraits, Tarrlok would be a good muse. He’s got a good side profile; a strong and chiseled jaw, a delicate hook on the nose, sharp cobalt eyes, and slick, combed-back hair. Bumi isn’t sure which spirit Tarrlok prays to in exchange for his hair not looking greasy all the time. It instead looks like a waterfall of melted chocolate.

And fuck, he’s always so confident too. Cunning and slimy, if he choses to believe his brother’s words, but there’s no way of telling Tenzin that he can’t go to a retirement home and then complain about finding old people there.

“That’s a shame.” Yumei murmurs, and Bumi idly finds himself agreeing with her. 

Of course, he understands that Tarrlok would make a terrible, no-good politician if he wasn’t full of sly and charm and armed with a stunningly dashing smile and perfect posture, but it doesnt mean that-

“You’re hmming and nodding with me- you do think he’s pretty.” Yumei points out with a shocking amount of glee, and Bumi downs the rest of his whiskey, and looks at her accusingly.

“I just told you, I don’t find him pretty!” He whisper shouts, lest everyone in the room suddenly start to doubt why they’ve allowed sailors to be in the same room as a bunch of socialities. He’s already seen Kuang give everyone in UF uniforms a few barely disguised dirty looks, and Tenzin’s been at a distance from him the night. 

“Then tell me, why exactly is it a shame that he’s a politician?” She replies curtly. “Nothing we do is controlled by them, and you’re not close enough with Tenzin to start hating a guy just because he does.”

Bumi glares at her in mock anger, and pats her on the back maybe a little harsher than he should have. His second in command just shrugs it off and stomps on his foot. Hard. Really fucking hard.

Bumi just barely manages to stop himself from yelping and cursing loudly, but apparently it’s enough commotion for Tarrlok to take notice of him, even if they were lucky enough to not come under the notice of anyone else.

Their eyes meet for a split second, and the crystal clear look in Tarrlok’s eyes makes Bumi reel back. It’s almost as if he can hear Tarrlok’s silvery voice right inside his head. The only thing’s that missing is a sneer on his pretty little mouth.

Who allowed this embarrassment to be in the radius of my visibility?

Bumi shoves his whiskey glass into Yumei’s unoccupied hand. “I’m gonna find someone to fuck.”

Yumei wrinkles her nose. “You could use less crude words, but at-least you’re asking out pretty boy, and I won’t have to see wanting to eye-fuck him, so I’ll let this slide.”

Bumi glances at her with confusion printed on his features. Didn’t she just see the way he looked at him? At them? Like they were fucking idiots. And he’s not fucking pretty.

He shakes off her words, and steps into the unfamiliar territory of rich brats, leaving their secluded little corner near the bar.

Some thirty minutes later, Bumi’s exiting the party with his arm wrapped around a pretty lady’s waist, and he happens to meet Tarrlok’s eyes again.

Tarrlok looks at Bumi once, and then the woman next to him, and his polite smile slips for a moment before constructing itself again. He looked… disappointed. His eyes had gotten bigger for a second, softer, and the smile lines had disappeared, and his eyebrows furrowed, and he looked almost betrayed, and Bumi has the insane urge to kiss the woman, just to see what Tarrlok would look like then.

It’s in that moment that Bumi realises, that he really doesn't find Tarrlok pretty. He finds Tarrlok gorgeous. 

[truly-quirkless-a]

"...yes....it's one of the effects of the limelight young Kaminari, if you get famous enough." The male shook his head. "--some villains even argued they were my type... as if that would somehow help them in fights..." All of them were beaten, rather soundly, of course...but it was still an awkward period, when everyone had gone wild over his proposed sexualities. "The rumors have at least died down, as of late."

@truly-quirkless

"E-Even with you, sir??"

[prideprejudce]

although nothing new harry potter is good cause…..ya know…..where the money goes……the evil lady…… but with that being said - im like AT LEAST make 2010s tumblr happy and make it like marauders or something? or Next gen? ANYTHING other than the fucking OG 7 book series. It hasn’t been long enough (like you said) to warrant an original reboot. like jfc

i remember way back in like 2010s tumblr when harry potter was at like the absolute peak of its power (literally like every other post on your dash would be something hp related) and even way back then people couldn’t fathom there being an entire series reboot so quickly and tbh the only time i remember that actually being a discussion is people just saying that it would be nice if they did a reboot like 30+ years down the line and the OG cast would come back to play hogwarts professors or something (people particularly wanted daniel to come back to play dumbledore) ofc that’s obviously not going happen with this reboot series being only ten years out

but honestly i think one of the biggest reasons that the reboot is even happening in the first place is because hp in general really has gone down in popularity and is no where near the way it was even five years ago. the prequels (fantastic beasts) and the sequel play with voldemorts daughter (lmao) pretty much tanked at keeping the harry potter hype up because they were both a giant mess and didn’t keep fan’s interest. that plus joan’s ignorant political commentary on trans rights has also continued to really dampen the harry potter craze in the past few years. although i guess games like hogwarts legacy still did well at selling just based on nostalgia alone. so i see this as basically a way joan and the other powers to be to get hp back into the spotlight which in turn = more $$$$$