#they care about each other so much :)

[bamimilyt6]

neil gaiman: good omens is a love story!

the fandom: omg a love story 🥰

neil gaiman: *writes a plot line about miscommunication and how that leads to the main pair temporarily "breaking up", which is very much linked to the romance genre*

the fandom:

[the-bi-space-ace]

I can’t stop thinking about how much Wolffe and Rex must love and trust each other. I talk a lot about how much Cody and Rex love and care for each other and how much Fives and Echo mean to him but I have to include Wolffe too.

There is so much respect and care between them.

[totaled-drama]

SO. THAT SCENE TODAY. STARTS WEEPING /POS

[erme-maererme]

thinking about post-canon potentialities for miscommunication for durgestarion like a normal person and basically

durge would definitely struggle with expressing their feelings of anger and annoyance because as far as they know they might kill someone if they don’t reign in their emotions, it would be a very hard to lose habit even after denying bhaal. so i think whenever there is a conflict or something bothers them, they just become very silent and avoidant.

as for astarion, he doesn’t seem to particularly hold back on his anger, he complains about the smallest of things, and it’s quite cathartic for him to be able to do so. vulnerability is harder for him though, and he tends to get defensive/argumentative when something hits too close home.

he would worry a lot after a fight, what if he became “too much”, and with durge avoiding conversations until they are sure they won’t lose their head, it would be one of the points in their relationship they would have to work on but also a likely source of angst.

like durge doesn’t share for the fear of getting too emotional and hurting astarion, and astarion for the fear of a punishment (literal in the past and in the form of the partner leaving/some negative reaction in the canon and post-canon timeline) for being too weak or too annoying.

[money-and-dandellions]

Lester didn't understand that Meg launched herself onto the Tarquin in order to save him (because this is Meg why would she— he doesn't really deserve it does he he is such a terrible friend and he is fine with himself dying) until he was told about it by Meg.

Meg who feels guilty that Lester is dying and she doesn't want to lose someone else who is important dear to her.

oh yeah and they hugged

and Meg cried

and Lester tried to reassure her that he is going to live despite not knowing if he will .

[pseudopigeons]

I came up with maybe not a theory but more of just an observation that the east blue 5 seem to parallel the 5 love languages and it's kinda reframed all of their actions and behaviours towards each other so much for me on my watchthrough. Got brainworms from that one oda interview where he said zoro doesn't like verbally expressing gratitude and prefers to show appreciation through actions and it got me thinking

The 5 languages:

Physical touch - Luffy

Acts of service - Zoro

Quality time - Usopp

Receiving / giving gifts - Nami

Words of affirmation - Sanji

Funnily enough in OPLA we definitely see a lot of physical touch Luffy. He's always playfully punching or hugging crewmates, despite having known the crew for such a short time he's just instantly clingy and physically present around them in east blue.

Zoro is very much an actions person. He's a little emotionally constipated and doesn't verbalise his feelings very much, in fact that seems like the last thing he wants to do, but he will always be looking out for any member of the crew silently, and is almost always the first to spring into action when it's called for. He shows he cares through acts of service and being there for his captain and crew.

Usopps language being quality time is shown pretty well in syrup village with his relationship with Kaya. Kaya is a girl who has everything she could wish for financially, but ussop provides her with a much needed friend, someone to support her and just physically be present and talk to her. He risks so much just to make her smile because being there for his friends is such a crucial and important thing for him.

Nami's love language being giving/recieving gifts means so much to me because it is so often seen as the most shallow of the love languages and I have seen so many poor analysis and digs at Nami's character, reducing her to just being greedy and money hungry. Did they watch Arlong park with their eyes closed??? For Nami, gold or money is a means for her to provide for the people she cares about, to ensure their financial stability and freedom and to keep her crewmates fed and afloat. She spent so long scorned and alone and (believed she was) hated because she created this money hungry persona to save her village and to best Arlong. Every piece of gold she bled to get was meant for that end goal. Nami deserves the financial freedom and gold that being a strawhat pirate could give because for years and years every bit she earned was tucked away for the well-being of others and was then stolen from under her nose. (This paragraph got very long but I'm not sorry I am the captain of the Nami defense squad.)

And finally Sanji reflects words of praise as a love language. I think it's the most clear to see with how Sanji is so quick to praise any female character he comes into contact with, especially Nami, but I think it also reflects his strained relationship with zef while working at the baratie. Zeff is always verbally critical of Sanji as a way to rile him up and to encourage him to leave the restaurant. Zef weaponises what makes Sanji tick to antagonise him and tries to get him to leave that way, but Sanji is far too stubborn and feels too great a debt to leave.

I think east blue definitely shows the 5 dynamics in a pretty clear way and kinda helped me understand what makes the characters tick. Also why some of the characters end up butting heads or getting into arguments. They all show and recieve love in different way, sometimes there are misunderstandings or clashes but at the end of the day they all trust each other with their lives and it's such a strong bond.

Anyways I'll eventually draw some more OP but I'd love to hear any thoughts or other people's ideas if they have any on the matter. Sometimes I get analysis brainworms, and I first shared the idea on discord, but figured why not post it to Tumblr too

ALSO please if anyone has examples from the series that fit the love languages PLEASE share it, makes my heart oougggghhghg.

[thedreamerstoryteller]

Husbands in Gucci fur coat.

[musketeermaiden]

Me when the Aramis/Porthos dynamic

[sancastarcs]

namivivi is so fucking real you guys????

[theyoungprinceling]

[The way Ed's so worried about Ling and wants him to be okay after Greed takes over his body. I love it.]

[walmart-miku]

HE CARES SO MUCH IT MAKES ME PHYSICALLY ILL

LOOK AT HIM LOOK

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[loopspoop]

Last night I watched that episode where Lady Black had Lupin and Jigen in the pyramid…and just…Lupin trying to keep Jigen awake as they were being poisoned..and then how he just called for Goemon and Goemon showed up????? 🥺 I love them so much

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Voltron dotu gifs from episode 12 and 13

[000marie198]

*Hiccup finding some notes on Night Fury planted in Bork's journal and geeking out about an Isle of Night existing and perhaps finding more night furies for his bud*

Toothless: "Put away those pages, man, I'm sleepy. Let's just go to sleep please."

[bunny-heels]

Saga's and Alex's character cards from the Alan Wake Twitter

[lilac-gold]

don't mind me struggling to make a massive timeline for my asoue-omori au before i've even planned out the reptile room <3