I was today years old when I learned that when you type “otp: true” in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship
They cut off our internet access to try and stop us from gathering and protesting and to silence us, it is currently 1 am when i am writing this when the internet conection is stable and to those outside of Iran, i beg of you to be our voice when ours isn't being heard. Children are being shot here by the police in the protests people are dying here whose names we will never know things can not go on like this any longer and we need the rest of the world to hear our cries.
Tumblr is just a nice little place where you can take off your ‘real person’ face and roll around in piles of garbage tailored to your unhinged hyperfocus five minutes before you stand up and go back to your zoom meeting
I AM SO EMOTIONAL ABOUT THE FLOWER BOYS DONT LOOK AT ME
[ID: It’s a digital drawing of Dorian Storm and Orym of the Air Ashari kissing. Dorian is a blue skinned lean man with painted ears and his hair in a half up, half down style. The hair fades from black to grey. Orym is a tan halfling man with short brown hair and less pointed ears. They hold eachother in a gentle embrace, each has a hand on the others cheek or jaw and are smiling into the kiss. Dorian has a blue flower tucked behind his ear and Orym has a cluster of small white flowers tucked behind his.They have three small hearts above them and the background is a gentle beige or yellow. End ID]
Thinking about how so much of season one is just a happy accident. Stede wants to become a pirate and he ends up with this crew just by happenstance. He doesn't understand what piracy really entails. He kills Badminton on accident, twice. He goes into everything fumbling and naive. Ed finds him and falls in love with him by accident. There's nothing deliberate about any of it. He wasn't expecting to find this bizarre little man in the middle of the ocean with his fireplace surrounded by books on a wooden vessel and he wasn't expecting to fall in love with it. He wasn't expecting to hear "you wear fine things well" and Stede wasn't expecting it to mean so much. They keep stumbling into each other and pressing on parts of themselves they were never sure were okay to lean into.
and I think, I hope, that the second season has the reverse of that. we already see it at the end: with Stede being deliberate about his choice, finally. He deliberately gives up his wealth and goes into piracy knowing what it means. He deliberately chooses his crew. He is going to have to be deliberate about loving Ed, choosing Ed. He's going to have to look at his life and choose all of it for any of it to work: the violence and the poverty and the family and the love.
And I'm sure that Ed, who has already chosen, already been deliberate about loving Stede in those final episodes, is going to have a steel-lock on his emotions. So Stede is going to have to woo him on purpose. Break down those walls he cracked already on accident but this time again with intent. Once more with feeling. Once more with purpose. After all love is so often falling in love with the accidental and sticking around for the intentional.
Because at the end of the day choice is the important thing, no matter what lucky stars led you to it in the first place.
Saw The Kiss and immediately knew I had to paint this (don't question how I did this so quickly I have no idea) so I could ignore the finale. Which never happened. Right?
This show made me more gay. Somehow.
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Edit: It was pointed out by a friend that the red and blue contrast lines on Stede and Ed make purple,,,,,,,,the color of queerness in the show,,,,,
the cr cast has ruined me I can't hear "it's been a while" or any fucking variation of "making my way" without their voices chorusing in my head anymore