#youre welcome ed

[arsenicflame]

It's a time-honoured tradition- every time Sam comes across Izzy (and Ed) in their travels, he asks Izzy to marry him. And every time, Izzy turns him down.

At this point, Sam is asking more for the sake of it than any belief Izzy will ever say yes, a remnant of childhood dedication touched with 30 years of heartbreak and regret- though even now, a small part of him still holds out hope. Sam's promises have only got more extravagant over the years, from a job as his first mate, to a captaincy, a fleet at his command, a whole fucking island if that's what Izzy wants- but he knows it isn't though, not really. If Izzy was ever going to agree to marry him, to leave his life and go with Sam, it wouldn't be for anything Sam could offer him. Izzy never did care for flashy shows of wealth, for a ship or to be captain. The only thing that ever mattered to him was loyalty given, and loyalty shown in return. 

It all comes to a head after Stede left and came back, after Izzy lost a toe, lost his leg. Sam hasn't seen him since before things with Ed started to really slide off the rails, before stress permanently set into the lines of Izzy’s face. So, when he sees a dishevelled man with a hoof for a leg in a no-name port, he doesn't even consider the idea that he might know him. It's only when he turns towards him, and Sam catches a glance at those oh too familiar tattoos, he realises this is Izzy, his Izzy, that stands before him.

Knowing Izzy's discomfort with pity, he doesn't treat him any differently than he would in years gone by, positioning himself in Izzy's line of sight before approaching and sweeping him up into a bone crushing hug. 

“Israel-goddamn-Hands!” he exclaims, as Izzy grumbles back a begrudging “Samuel-fucking-Bellamy”, a tradition almost as old as their friendship itself. Izzy might not hug him back, but he can’t keep the corner of his mouth from twitching, just for a second.

(If Sam holds Izzy a little tighter and a little longer than usual, well. That's his business)

By the time Sam lets go, most of the crew has appeared in the town square, drawn in by the commotion. They may have given Izzy his leg and welcomed him as one of them, but still there’s an underlying tension, with nobody quite ready to set aside everything that happened before the Kraken. Seeing him cosying up to an unknown man sets everyone on edge, unsure whether to come to their first mate’s aid, or to assume that they've been betrayed once again.

When Ed sees that the yelling was Sam, his hand goes tense where it's held in Stede's. He knows the routine, has seen it more times than he can count, but as he watches them part he realises that this is the first time in a long time he's unsure of what Izzy's response will be.

Knowing that something’s different, knowing that Izzy's feeling vulnerable already, Sam doesn't go for the same flashy proposal he’s been giving for years. He doesn't promise Izzy the world, he doesn't cause a scene (or, any more of a scene than he already has, anyway). He looks at the fractured man in front of him, takes his face in his hands, and says the exact same thing to him he said when they were little more than boys. “Israel, I have to ask you. I know what you'll say, but I have to try. Come with me. Marry me and sail away with me. I'll keep you safe”

And Izzy… hesitates. He glances over at Ed, at Stede, and says to Sam “...We’re staying in port for a week. Ask me again then”

That's the moment Sam knows there is something deeply, horribly, wrong. He's not just looking at an Izzy who got seriously injured in a fight and is struggling to cope, this is something so much bigger than that- and that Ed has something to do with it. Izzy wouldn't even be considering leaving if he didn't. Whether it was negligence or something more sinister, Sam doesn't yet know, but he intends to find out.

[yourtpup]

every time my ask inbox is left empty a beautiful angel from heaven loses its wings 😔

[thegreatyin]

12 for your fallen london ocs

The Scoundrel says they would never dare to keep overdue library books. They're a bat of the people! A beloved and respected patron of the arts! They would never in a million years dare to do something as despicable as stealing from a library!!

Which is of course, to say. Well.

Let's just say they've hoarded more than a few very particular books in their time, and a certain bookish coworker of theirs hates them for a reason. They do finish all of them though... admittedly whilst adding them to their own collection without permission. But they do finish them!!

As for how many they have? Let's just guesstimate and say at least five and a half. The half is all that remains of a poetry book after they accidentally breathed correspondence on it and they're really embarrassed and still trying to cover their crime up to this day. It's been months. The library knows their sins. They're literally a book criminal.

The Scientist on the other hand is a model library citizen. Like. He's the kind of guy librarians dream of. He visits pretty much every week, checks out a dozen books at a time, returns them all long before their due date, etc. He's a huge book nerd. He loves those things more than life itself. Admittedly he values his life at approximately 0.000000000001 cents maximum so pretty much everything has more life value by comparison-

Clears throat. Ahem. I mean.

Caeru has books. A lot of books. He loves books. If he's not committing murder or trying to throw himself off a cliff, he's usually tucked away in a corner reading some 1,000 page novel about the most boring subject you can think of. He is the archetypical nerd. He would get shoved in lockers if he could. He's such a loser and I love him dearly. He has million library books, all day, every day, and the only reason he doesn't have more is because he physically can't carry them all with his stupid skinny little nerd arms.

The Songbird is... actually just a normal guy. He goes to the library when he feels like it, and doesn't when he doesn't. He has no particular preference for or against it, it's just something he does sometimes. He doesn't tend to finish a lot of books on account of having "other things" (crimes) to "occupy his time" (more crimes) but like. All-around, he's just sorta vibing with it.

And also he has one (1) overdue library book that he stole from a little humble shop on the surface two years ago and to this day he lays awake at night fearing that the Library Police™ will come and wring him by the neck for his crimes. They won't, but he has anxiety about it anyway.

[secrettastemakerland]

colin and edmund bridgerton..... tyler the creators' like him........

[honeyteacakez]

@nonspecificgayteen :3 enjoy :3 i love these two they make me so sad … best brother bffs in the world man

[fussystreetlight]

https://youtu.be/D_aRzXXCv4s

I'm referring to the comments on this video because they give me a headache. No one thinks more about sex, and kids, and "kids in sexual situations" than pro-censorship people do. I don't know why they think book banning is "making sure the Kama Sutra isn't in elementary schools" but...it's not. It's really not. (I also don't like how most of the commenters are acting like the other side is just blowing things out of proportion and making a big deal out of nothing so they can hurt kids because that's what they were told. The first part of that rhetoric can easily be used by certain people to commit or sweep atrocities under the rug. And the second part, that's just the typical anti-lgbtq+ rhetoric...)

Anyway, that's not really the majority of the stuff that gets banned.

I only know about book bans in America so I can't speak about other places. And this is the site I normally use: https://pen.org/

Some of the top banned books were:

Nineteen Minutes by Jodie Picoult:

"Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be."

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood:

"In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile women. Offred is one of these, a Handmaid bound to produce children for one of Gilead’s commanders. Deprived of her husband, her child, her freedom, and even her own name, Offred clings to her memories and her will to survive. At once a scathing satire, an ominous warning, and a tour de force of narrative suspense, The Handmaid’s Tale is a modern classic."

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison:

"In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment."

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie:

"Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot."

Yes there are some of Sarah J. Maas' books on the list, but they're trying to ban that from high schools (teens and toddlers are different age groups people, please stop infantizing teens).

Censorship isn't really about protecting kids from "books that predators will use to groom them" or "child molesters", it's not about not giving kids access to sexual content when they're too young for it, it's really not about protecting kids at all, and it's not about getting rid of "icky sex books" in general.

It's mostly about control and having power, especially over LGBTQ+ people and minorities. It's about the people in charge getting rid of any narrative that they personally don't like or silencing any voice that doesn't resemble theirs (anyone who's not a straight white rich man really).

And it's not about the fact that "well you can still get these books so banned books are a myth!" It's the fact that people are trying to make it harder for students to access these books. Books that can help them. Maybe they're going through a difficult time, maybe they're struggling with mental health issues, maybe their home life isn't great, maybe there aren't many other people in school like them. And these books have characters just like them, going through the same things. And it makes them feel less alone or helps them realize things about their situation and come to terms with it. But these helpful stories are the ones targeted the most. And it gets harder for anyone who's even slightly different to feel like they belong or that it's okay for them to exist and be themselves. Books being challenged and removed from libraries is about making people conform to what the people in power want them to be, and again, what they want them to be is what they can tolerate and use.

PS: some schools in Florida also had to take away and review dictionaries for "sexual conduct" because of a relatively recent bill (that seems to also be against teaching students important sex ed, "along with requiring schools to teach that "reproductive roles are binary, stable and unchangeable"). But also the Bible is apparently still allowed, despite having all that stuff people claim to dislike.

[edlucavalden]

The aftermath of being in a toxic ?idk) relationship is certainly... something!

I guess it just sucks. not only do i have to deal with the feeling of betrayal over someone i cared about hurting me really badly but i also i have with cope the damage the relationship did to me in the first place.

I was bed bound at some point. I didn't eat or take care of myself. I guess im just shell shocked... abused to the point relapsing really hard to self harm and eating disorders, like genuinely suicidal haha. I was literally just dead at that point.... it was. Bad

Like omg lmfao its crazy how even now i still doubt that it was that bad...Irs hard to think rationally and logically when youve been hurt to the point where youre constantly in fight or flight mode. You dont realize it when uour in it... until its too late

.. im only functional now because i have a routine to follow, and even then, im barely doing so haha. Living on only a routine is barely living at all... not to mention that i have trouble maintaining it, i dont really have the desire to soo its a little harder. Then again Its better than literally being catatonic for weeks straight..

It'll... hopefully be ok. After all i ended things a month ago so. (Its crazy how recent it is haha) itll be hard but i know i can do this. Even if its just alone.

(Have kbms bc why tf not

In hindsight i dont think i should be talking about super personal information like this in my public accs but. I really dont care anymore. Its my blog i can do what i want.

[whatthefoucault]

Flightless Birds of Parc national du Mont-Tremblant

An Antwan and Nigel Adventure by whatthefoucault

Sometimes, when all seems lost, and mistakes were made, and it feels as though life has descended into a pit of endless frowny face blue screens of death, what is needed is a hard restart.

That was how Antwan Hovachelik found himself in a distressingly rustic little chalet on a picturesque lake in northern Québec, plotting his redemption arc.

Here’s the first of 22 chapters of these two, featuring feelings, nature, shenanigans, some spicy times, you know the usual. Except, of course, there’s nothing usual about it at all. You don’t even have to be super familiar with the source media to read it because I planned for this and there’s enough exposition to get you up to speed.

[evilsalizard]

maybe i am simply blinded by sadness and character hyperfixation emotions but i genuinely am incredibly disappointed by the way izzys arc ended. he got to be happy for what? all of a week? maybe less than that? after years of suffering and hardship and anger and then theres NOTHING for him at the end of it all long term? i just- ugh. i dunno. im upset and angry and this isnt really what i expected or wanted from this show.

[sysmedsaresexist]

People really out here thinking that turning off reblogs protects you from criticism when you say something really shitty and stupid on this great site, tumblr.com

[cozmicclown]

I suppose it’s good to know Julie’s ear ringing pitch is intentional. Doesn’t mean it hurts less tho.

Personally not a fan of the idea of a narrator, but that’s beside the point, it works pretty well. What I really enjoy is that they’re giving Eddie an intelligent side of him, as I was getting big lovable idiot vibes, which is well and good, but I like some brain and brawn.

[barnstormin-a]

alright lets try this again ! tags 2: electric boogaloo

[dissociativepickle]

“can u smell the circus georgie”

“um, u just made this weird”

[herawell]

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[megahorous]

Today it rained and we re-watched GOODBURGER! The cover says it's "a very funny movie" and I would have to agree !

-- This would make a good game...I guess I say that about everything. It's got car chases, breakouts, breakins, a pair of guys, an evil corporation trying to take over the world! I mean, take over Burgers!

-- Ed is working whilst Dexter is in school; this would suggest that Ed is Dexter's ELDER. That would explain why he's better at parkour [despite Dexter's name]

-- Lots of these people are other people. Huge Scary Man was once on Martial Law, as I'm sure you know. And Heather played Wendy Corduroy and Velma

-- Otis gets gagged; that's pretty hot<3

-- I don't think it passed the Bechdel Test but there's a part where Monique and Deedee look at each other !

-- I wonder who pays for teacher's car at the end

-- They should make GoodBurger 2 someday. But, how could you top this one

[riflesparked]

Height meme: 22ft for Ironhide annnd 15ft for Sideswipe? (also hello!)

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤTHE HEIGHT MEME !

ㅤㅤYes! Not the smallest.