#this one is bittersweet btw

[beanghostprincess]

Sparkling nights

For @sanusoweek || Day 3: Firsts (pretend this was posted on time) (yes. I am again late)

Relationship: Sanji/Usopp

Rating: General Audiences

Tags: First kiss / Not Actually Unrequited love / Denial of Feelings / Internalized Homophobia / Mutual Pining / Unresolved Romantic Tension ("but there is a kiss!!" you'll see what I mean dw) / Romantic Angst / Post-Alabasta / Bittersweet

Words: 8,972

Summary:

“You want to kiss somebody.” He speaks calmly. Rationally. And it is not like he doesn’t care. He cares. He does. Sanji can see it in his eyes when he turns his head around, too, ignoring the ashes falling on the deck beside him. Usopp looks at him with so much care it almost makes him want to stay here forever. “If you can’t kiss a girl because it needs to mean something and yet you feel like you are missing out, just kiss me.” Usopp doesn’t even know.

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[theinsomniacindian]

I will never get tired of the "If they're going to die, it's going to be by my hand" dynamic

[humbuns]

brothers

[1pcii]

my fave alabasta shipping dynamics is pre-established zolu playing matchmaker (how successful they are? eehhhh) for pining namivivi

[nnnn99999]

The ending of peaceful property, much like the entirety of the show, was bittersweet. I really tried to hold in my tears, but ended up crying anyway.

The ridiculous part is that it wasn't the sad backstory or Home's goodbye with his grandpa that made me cry. No, it was Home's silly little song and dance wearing that bright orange outfit that broke me. To me, it was the most impactful scene in the whole series. For me, this was the climax of the story. Because to me, this scene represents everything I feel this show was about. It was the perfect culmination of contradictory emotions.

Yes, this show has its flaws. Yes, it is nowhere near perfect. But I loved it anyway. There was so much love and effort poured into this series and it shows. Everyone involved in this project tried their best to present something meaningful and wholesome, and I appreciate that genuine love and passion.

Finding comfort in your own home with the people you truly love amidst the cruelties and unfairness of life-to me, this is what this whole show was about. To be able to laugh amidst the difficulties of life, to feel deep sorrow even in the happiest of times, to survive the harshest struggles without a moment of weakness yet fall apart because of a simple sentence, to love the person you hate and hate the person you love, and so much more that makes us human-this is what this show gave us.

It started as a silly little ghost show, and ended up becoming an exploration of family and home. While watching this show, I laughed, I cried, I became angry, I felt frustrated, I felt helpless, I became excited, I felt disheartened and so much more. To me, a show that managed to make me feel so much is a good show. I had a wonderful time watching it.

Was the ending of this show happy or sad? You could say it was neither, or you could say it was both. And that is why I think it was the best ending for this show. I am glad that my ragtag family of weirdos can stay together and start a new journey together. Suradech is alive and well, and so are the other four, and that's all I wanted from the ending. Because as long as you live, the possibilities are endless.

Peaceful property will always have a place in my heart.

Side note 1: I really appreciate the fact that Suradech remained the mvp till the very end. He really saved the day. Suradech is the ultimate best boy. Making a shades wearing bodyguard without any dialogue so endearing to the point I was willing to get into a fight for him is the real achievement of this show in my opinion.

Side note 2: I have a lot of things to say about family and familial love in this series. This is something that has been brewing in my mind since the first episode so my thoughts re all jumbled. But I will write an essay once I manage to organize my thoughts.

Side note 3: I was not scared by the horror part of this show. I don't know if it was because I am genuinely that unbothered by horror or because I was too busy appreciating the ghost makeup. Whatever the reason may be, the primary emotion I associated with the ghosts was sadness, not fear. The team truly did a great job with the ghosts.

[fourteenfifteen]

thinking about the public domain is more than a little devastating to me like they’ve literally taken so much from us. the corporatization of art and culture has locked away american cultural heritage for longer and longer periods of time! the original term for public domain was 56 years think about that. almost 40 more years. i hope we all live 40 more years but who knows. and how much of that art will degrade and disappear in the meantime! things are lost every day! truly and genuinely it’s such a loss for the independent artist i want people to be able to adapt things from the ‘60s into shitty plays that they put on at their local rec centers and to make money off of that but we can’t because of corporate greed

[stockholmgf]

this too shall pass 😄

but this too shall pass 😢

[aweirdbugcreature]

Blue flag basically

[redgearsmovin]

why am i only able to write bittersweet fics lol

[dungeons-and-dragon-age]

finished the malcom's will quest! feeling normal!! (lying)

[saint-felix]

You’ll never guess what ideas me and the son came up with.

[always-a-joyful-note]

Do you ever think about MEZZO'' and their character development and go insane? Do you ever think about how these two guys who grew up in opposite ways economically both came into the industry with broken families? Do you ever think about how they were so sure they would never get along beyond friendly coworkers but also both wanted to try so hard to get along well with the other? You ever think about how Sogo was so afraid to mess up that he constantly held himself back? Do you think about how Tamaki wanted to learn but had to push past his entire life of putting himself first? Do you think about how they supported each other during the other's reconnecting with their families and, when those families abandoned them, promised to stay with the other?

Just....MEZZO slowly becoming this thing between a real friendship and a family. Not best friends, like they said once, but maybe unbreakable friends

[zebratimw]

people who write essays or are having a meltdown in reaction to my art, I hope you know you are living so rent free in my brain

[theflyingfeeling]

hiiiiiii, yesterday I was thinking of Allu choosing to stay at a hotel instead of at Olli's place because he doesn't want to see Olli being all lovey-dovey with his partner, doesn't want to have dinner with them even if it's just take-out, doesn't want to be there at all knowing that Olli will most likely spend some time at night with him, sitting on the couch and chatting about anything that crosses their minds, but then he'll go to bed with someone else to maybe spend the night in ways that Allu could only dream of

in his fantasies it's just Allu and Olli, he would be the one cooking because Olli's terrible at that, they would have a nice dinner by candlelight, then a glass of wine while sitting on the couch and maybe he would confess his feelings for Olli, who maybe feels the same way, maybe they kiss (slowly, like time doesn't exist while they're together), maybe they end the night sharing Olli's bed for something else than just sleep, and maybe he wakes up with Olli spooning him, their bodies naked and so close that leaving the bed is not an option anymore

but he knows that is never gonna happen, so staying at a hotel and maybe crying himself to sleep because he can't have Olli in the way he wants to is the best choice here 😭

(what if this also happened the week he went to Oulu after the tour was done? my heartttt 😭😭😭)

sorry for the angst, have a lovely weekend 💗💘��💖💕

why are you doing this to me 😭😭😭😭

just to make it extra painful, can we throw in some mixed signals and general confusion, because there are times Aleksi could swear they're "having a moment" (maybe they shared several of those the last time he was in Oulu and has been losing his mind over them ever since, staying in his studio until stupid o'clock replaying those moments over and over again) or that Olli is low-key flirting with him (especially when Olli's a little tipsy) and he gets his hopes up even though he knows he shouldn't because Olli is with someone else and whatever Aleksi thinks they might have between them is nothing else but Olli just being his charming self and those "moments" they shared were most likely just Olli zoning out randomly while staring at Aleksi's lips for some reason and it means NOTHING that he caught Olli staring at his ass when he was trying on the BC sweatpants (Olli being Olli he didn't realise Aleksi could see him via the mirror)

and yeah, that's why he looked so blue and lonely in that mirror selfie 🥺 thanks for this I shall cry myself to sleep just like Aleksi in this horrible headcanon of yours I hate you (said with so much love it'll drown you <3)

[zevrans-remade]

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[roscgarden]

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