#you asked for a yeehaw

[xxplastic-cubexx]

I love that is not even an exaggeration that they're sitting on each other's lap

i HAVE to be so 1000% right now i thought erik was sitting like This behind the table in the first panel and i couldnt register anything else

[wackarat]

I got bored, you suffer the consequences.

whachow, gay men kissing

[erinwantstowrite]

Speaking of your new and improved canon: what is the story behind Tony being somewhat chill with Bucky? Is he actually?

started writing LoF when i was being nostalgic for 2012 where the Avengers Tower fics were at its height of writing so in my world there is no divorce arc. I have no idea how to elaborate on that other than Tony having Peter around changed shit up because having a kid changes your world perspective a lot

[hedwig221b]

i need you to look up bronco riders and kody lamb videos and tell me you didn’t immediately think of derek hale bull riding and princess stiles heir to the stilinski farm who is more interested in the agricultural/sustainable side of the business and is always pristine and derek is a filthy cowboy who is new to the area and loves to ruffles stiles feathers/get a little dirt on him and they meet at the fair and and and!!!!

I did immediately think about it... I've thought about it for a long time, actually lmao. @hotgirlstiles and I talked about it in the dms about this au of cowboy Derek and pretty farm boy Stiles...

LIKE????????????

Those who get it, get it, I'm afraid.

Derek and Stiles who can't help but look at each other, even from far away. Stiles inventing tasks to do where he knows Derek will be working as well. Stiles offering Derek cold drinks on a hot day, shy at first, then teasing and laughing at his dry jokes. Derek slowly becoming playful and smudging dirt on Stiles cheek, them chasing each other... having sex in some quiet, closed, dark corner when the air is hot and stuffy and smells of hay... Stiles moaning prettily in Derek’s shoulder...

The horses and the bulls just listen to Derek (bc he's a wolf awoooo) and slowly Papa Stilinski starts to like him. Or, Derek having an injury one day and Stiles fluttering around him, annoying everyone but Derek who just smiles at him and tells him everything will be alright kitten... come sit next to me and then Stiles does and strokes his hair with his shaking fingers cause he thought Derek would die or smn... Derek just resting his feverish hand on Stiles' thigh... Sheriff sitting alone with Derek one night quietly admitting that he could rest easily now knowing Stiles has someone like Derek...

[arttsuka]

Cowboy Octavius is just the singer Red Leather right down to the daddy issues thank you and goodnight!

You are so right

[imaginespazzi]

mind you ashlynn has scored more than azzi ever has in an ncaa tournament game. nobody ignores flaws in their games but azzi has had few standout performances in the essentially the same amount of games as the freshmen. as someone who actually watches basketball, i do think ashlynn’s ceiling is higher. she’s shown to put up very similar numbers to azzi despite having a lesser role in the offense. ashlynn and azzi have more or less the same flaws in their game except ashlynn actually believes in herself at all times and isn’t easily spooked. geno can talk all he wants but the body work is the same and so are the numbers. wish azzi could stay healthy and let her game talk but so far it’s just been talking for 3 years. at some point we’re gonna need consistency from that 2 spot and ash is looking like that girl.

First of all, the snarky "as someone who actually watches basketball" is very much unappreciated and was quite frankly unnecessary.

Comparison is difficult with Azzi because of injuries. Her averages, which you are correct, are similar to Ash's, do not define her because they are inconsistent in terms of health. When healthy, Azzi is absolute the player with the higher potential and the higher ceiling and the numbers do back that up when you look only at games that Azzi was fully healthy in.

But nonetheless let's do a more accurate comparison that is more fair that comparing averages, where I'm just gonna give you both of their last-10-game stretch points (the efficiencies were similar) at the end of their freshman year (where they were both in good health), leading up to the big east so we can compare both their scoring ability and their consistency:

This is Ash:

And this is Azzi:

As you can see, they both had bad games during that stretch, but one of them clearly had better games. If you wanna play the rebounds and assists game, then yes Ash is absolutely the better rebounds but Azzi has better court vision.

And the thing you didn't touch upon, where Azzi clears Ash by an absolute mile is defense. Geno has praised her defense over and over again and we've seen it in games where she's healthy.

I'm not trying to hate on Ash and I absolutely agree that her mentality is much better and I love seeing her be free on the court. And I actually do agree with your point about Azzi letting her game talk, but at the end of the day, if Azzi Fudd is healthy and at her best, in my opnion, she is the 2nd best player on that team.

[constantvariations]

I don't think anything will ever be funnier than Banesaw's first of his only two sentences being, "Finally, I get to kill a Schnee," knocking Weiss unconscious in a single hit, then just chucking her into the next room so Blake can save her

[scapegods]

every time you post your art in the tag, it's like you dropped a bomb cuz we all explode at the beauty!

also sorry to make you choose, but which one in a death match?

yeehaw byler vs bloody byler?

oof... that's such a rude questions. But I gotta stay with bloody byler my beloved

[localcryptic]

tagged for WIP wednesdaythursday by @westealtoys and @autumnfangirler ! and technically @b33tlejules so i’m using that as an excuse to post 3 things lol 😋

it’s sidesteps all the way down. enjoy some tal and ortega chargestep kisses, ripley and hollow ground, and allen egg% speedrun with his puppet that maybe one day i’ll finish <3

i do not know who to tag. if you are reading this 🫵 post your WIPs and tag me

[nekrosmos]

Character Asks for Graves!!

4, 12, 23

And 27 freebie: WHAT DOES OWLIE DRAW HIM WEARING NEXT.

4. If you could put this character in any other media, be it a book, a movie, anything, what would you put them in?

You know what, I think he'd be interesting as a paid killer in the John Wick universe. Fancy suit? Fancy hotels? Fancy equipment? Yes.

12. What's a headcanon you have for this character?

My friend and I have the very random headcanon that the dude loves Martinis and can be found sipping one any time he has a little break.

Also, Graves hates the idea of aging and probably has a very expensive and extensive skin care routine, for sure.

23. Favorite picture of this character?

Have a fine selection of some of my favorites of him ✨

He's my beautiful wife

27: Owlie I would offer you my entire soul for more cowboy Graves ............................ Slutty cowboy Graves .......................

Send me a character and questions from this ask ! (I got Nik, Gaz, Soap, Rudy and Graves so far ! )

[basilsnotemo]

Yeehaw sneak peek for you

[gomzdrawfr]

There has to be a connection because I dreamt of PriceRaven angst (odd I know, they just live rent free in my head) and the first thing I wake up to is your angst

must be the new crystal I got

[perelka-l]

sometimes like this. But also like that.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

OG Charles-Cat anon: Reason for my naming is because;

A. Hysterical that the cat is basically named after Charles BUUUUT she TECHICALLY isn't- *flutters his psychic eyelashes*

And B. Erik is so fucked for names. Can't use Charlie, can't use Charles. Nope. Has to look at this oversized naked molerat and use-

Charlotte Erika Xavier Lehnsherr~

speaking in cursive gotta be DIABOLICAL 😭😭

[canine-teethed-sheets]

gentle reminder

terfs get the fuck off my blog i'm gonna shoot yall with the block shotgun i swear to god

[moongothic]

i would love trans crocodile but im very cynical that oda would write him in a respectful manner. thats not even thinking of how horrible that one portion of the one piece fandom would treat him

Yeah the fandom sucks and I'm going to strangle everyone (including the cishets who claim to be trans allies and then use "Crocomom")

But with Oda it's weird because like. The more I think about it, the more I'm like... 50/50 about Oda being able to actually deliver good, respectful trans masc rep.

Like I've posted about this before but One Piece does have this on-going theme of having characters "stuck in wrong bodies" or "having one's body changed" (sometimes reversably, sometimes irreversably; sometimes against their will, sometimes consentually). Which, in theory, in my mind, does kind of signal that on some level Oda understands the idea of being "the wrong sex" (whether or not that's a good way to explain The Trans Experience™ is a whole different subject but it's an old fashioned explanation that Oda would probably be/is familiar with) But at the same time, while the concept pops up again and again in One Piece, Oda doesn't really dwell too deep into the idea of what that's like. Like, emotionally. How it feels like to like, get turned into a toy or be a child who gets aged 20 years or to get turned into a cyborg or a giant child or have parts of your body permanently turned into animal parts (sometimes with a will of their own) etc

And like. Part of me understands why, Oda does tend to want to focus on writing a story he thinks teenaged boys would be interested in reading, and he has often stated he wants to have fun with his story too (like that's partially why Luffy's a Rubber Man, because Oda thought giving Luffy a ridiculous ability would make him more fun to write and draw long-term, which is valid as hell) This is why for example Oda has avoided doing any romances in OP, and while there are dark themes in the story, often he has done his best to avoid making them too blatant, as some things would be too mature for his youngest readers (like, for example until Kuma's backstory, it was never explicitly stated what would happen to the slave wives of the Tenryuubito, even saying it was "implied" would be pushing how that subject had been treated until now)

So like. Because of that, I understand why Oda hasn't dwelled into The Feelings™ part much/at all despite the "stuck in the wrong body" narrative appearing time and time again

Either Oda thinks it'd be too boring either for himself or his readers, or he hasn't dwelled into it because he doesn't really understand gender dysphoria and can't relate to the experience (despite how often it shows its face in OP). Or it could be both, even

The thing is though, as OP has gone on, while I wouldn't say Oda has "broken his writing rules", Kuma's backstory alone has pushed them to a new limit with the love-that-never-was story and the all-but-explicitly-stated storytelling.

So a part of me wonders, if Crocodile is trans, could Oda actually like... take a slightly deeper look into his feelings and explore his queer experience? ('Cause god knows, if Crocodad Real, then there really would be a literal coming out-story built into his backstory that would be extremely unavoidable, and as I've mentioned before, the fact that we haven't gotten to learn almost anything about his backstory yet is Kinda Fucking Sus)

Also I do want to mention how... like Oda gets a lot of bad rap when it comes to queer rep in One Piece, but the more I think about it, I think it's more an issue with the terminology and how translators have gone about either localizing it, or more often than not, leaving it unlocalized 'Cause like. Yes the "okama" would be horrible trans rep but... really... they're not trans representation. They're representation for draq queens. Piss poor draq rep, but still, they're draq queens. And just like our very real life drag performers; some of them are cishets. Some of them are gender non-conforming gay men. Some of them are nonbinary*. Some of them are trans women. Obviously lumping all of these people into one group is kinda offensive (which is why "okama" is (as far as I understand it) such an unpopular term even amongst queer people in Japan), and the way Oda often chooses to draw these characters looks no different to how gender criticals choose to present trans women in their propaganda.

*Like Bon-chan, who explicitly states they are both male and female. And Iva-chan, who switches between boy-mode and girl-mode from time to time, could arguably be called genderfluid (though any specific terminology is up to debate). Both are nonbinary draq queens.

And yet, despite all that. It can not be understated how if you put aside the nameless background gag-characters, Oda does treat the actual, proper queer characters with respect. Everyone would agree that Bon-chan is an absolute hero, we would all die for them. Iva-chan (and Inazuma too) is explicitly presented in a heroic light, seen as someone who helps people and fights for justice (with the Revs)

And then there's the first binary trans characters we've actually gotten, Okiku and Yamato. And I'm pretty sure we would all agree Okiku is 10/10 perfect trans fem representation (I am not entirely serious, I'm not trans fem so I can't speak for trans women here, it's just that I can't see anything Horrendously Wrong with how Okiku is presented within the story- not actually perfect but all things considdered, damn good). She is stunning, people around her (INCLUDING SANJI!!) don't just view her as a woman but would go out of their way to date her (as in, she is seen as "desirable", and not as some kind of a disgusting freak to avoid), she is heroic and sweet and kind and just. IDK I love her And while I'm sure many trans mascs would agree Yamato may not be how they want to be seen by the world (though having Yamato ID as a man while having the biggest moobs is surely validating for a lot of people, including anybody who might not want or be able to get top surgery and/or HRT), again, he is only presented as heroic within the narrative and respected by the characters around him, Luffy especially, which is by far the most important part; the protagonist going out of his way to be respectful of trans characters does represent the values of the story.

And like.

Think about how Oda has treated Crocodile so far.

Like, although we're all having a bit of a laugh over the whole Cross Guild thing, Oda is still treating him as a cool character whom he presents seriously and treats with respect. Like Oda wants the readers to see Crocodile as at least a little bit cool. So I can't imagine him pulling a full 180 with how Croc would be treated in the story if he was revealed to be trans, especially when the potential foreshadowing for that was laid out in the story years ago already.

All this to say; Oda is not perfect at all, but considdering the things he has gotten right so far, I think there is hope he could pull it off. Because Oda is for Queer Liberation.

Really, my only concerns would be whether or not there's a risk Crocodile could get somehow detrans'd during the story (I'm praying the Haki theory isn't an option, really Doc Q might be the only true risk here), if he's stealth and that got presented as "a wrong thing to do" (which I'd hope not, like our previous queer characters have been okay with being openly queer but that may have been more for the readers than anything else. At least, I hope, god knows if Crocodile is and wants to be stealth trans then that's his right and he shouldn't have to out if he doesn't want to, and yeah, I don't want him to be demonized within the narrative for being stealth (if he's stealth, for all we know he could be out)) and like, most importantly, what'd end up being Crocodile's "motivation" for transitioning in the first place

Like. God. I just. I don't want there to be a twist where Crocodile transitioned because "being a woman was weak" or because he "wanted to be acknowledged by Whitebeard" ('cause WB doesn't take women into his crew) or "the scar in his face made him so ugly he decided he should be a man instead" (seen unironic Redditors suggest that. Almost lost my mind) or something

Like I hope someone's at least tried to explain gender dysphoria to Oda. Like the man does have actual queer friends in real life (some of whom inspired characters in OP), so I'm hoping at least someone's tried to explain the feelings that come with The Trans Experience™ to him so that, if Crocodile's trans, then Oda can actually try to base his reasoning to transition on those feelings instead of any stupid "reasons" that no actual queer person would relate to

But it all just boils down to... Is Oda willing to actually dwell into those feelings and explore them in the story.

It... it really could go either way with Oda

So yeah. Anon, I'm with you, I'd be lying if I didn't admit I was at least A Little Worried. But also... I want to be hopeful. Because I do believe there is reason to be hopeful.

Only time will tell how it'll go