#but the arrangement is pretty me thinks

[seaglassdinosaur]

I know we collectively agree that Hiccup isn’t romantically inclined, and his getting married and having kids didn’t make sense in the epilogue, but consider: Hiccup getting married for political reasons.

It’s a marriage of alliance, which is recognized both by him and his partner, and they enter it without expectations of romantic involvement. Since they’re now married, they live in the same castle, spend time together, and Hiccup finds he really likes his spouse. They’re funny, get along with his friends, and has the same interests and values. They both probably speak multiple languages. She understands why Hiccup is so dedicated to making the Wilderwest better, and holds similar views. She’s a good politician (her job after all, was to be an ambassador). Hiccup likes spending time with them, and the feeling is mutual. They’re not in love, they have their own lives, but they’re dedicated to each other and eventually decide to raise children. They teach their kids how to train hawks and hunt with dragons, riding, history, the Languages, and all the necessary skills of their world. They’re not in love and they’re happy together.

#pushing the aromantic hiccup agenda and also the queerplatonic agenda #as much as the idea of hiccup getting married was always a little off to me it was more the romantic angle #which I why I like the idea of a marriage of alliance and a partner who understands that #and then of course the montage of them being a good team and getting along #and going ‘yeah I like this person. I think this is the person I want to spend my life with.’ #also a) a lot of arranged political marriages did have the foreign spouse function as an ambassador #b) polyglot hiccup is canon and I think it would be neat if his spouse was as well. it is a marriage alliance after all. #she isn’t from the small area of berm #(actually give all the Vikings regional accents. I think it’s neat) #c) she/they because I didn’t feel firmly about the partner’s gender and the nords were pretty gender diverse #anyway I think the partner would probably be fond of the library and admire hiccup got it open way back when #get along with Fishlegs and camicazi well enough #and enjoy dramatic stories of their adventures. maybe have some of her own #also: normalize people having their own lives outside their partners. hiccup and they are happy together but also have their own friends #oh and you know hiccup would be a great dad. he loves Stoick but he would so much be the dad he wished he had growing up #are the kids bio related? are they adopted (cast off and No Names)? who knows! #I could build in my head what hiccup’s spouse is like but I’ll leave it here #they exist as we construct them #httyd #httyd books #my post #book!hiccup #hiccup the third #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #book hiccup

[meownotgood]

kissing knight aki for the first time, the both of you leaning in like gravity is drawing you towards each other; you let your eyes flutter shut, your lips hover inches away from his and aki, normally so patient, finds himself unable to hold back any longer, suddenly closing the distance.

he kisses you so softly, he holds your cheek in his palm, hand a little shaky, you thread your fingers through his hair. it seems like everything else stops for a moment, and you know you shouldn't do this, you can't even imagine what the king would say if he found out — a princess, this close with a lowly knight. shouldn't you be saving your first kiss for your suitor?

but you've both wanted this for longer than you'd like to admit, so even when aki's pulling back to catch his breath, hesitantly whispering against your lips, Should we stop? you're answering him with your arms wrapping around his shoulders and by dragging him in for another one.

#sorry that ask has given me so much brainrot #pretty knight aki #when you're forced by the king to get an arranged marriage and your suitor thinks this is your first kiss #but in reality...... aki was.... #explodes into smithereens #aki <3

[statementlou]

sometimes I fantasize about Louis covering this soft beautiful song about (IMO) the struggles of fame and the images they want to sell but how the love of and for the fans and performing for them makes it all worth it (lyrics under the cut)

You always were the one that knew They sold us for the likes of you I always wanted new surroundings A room to rent while the lizards lay crying in the heat Trying to remember who to meet I would take a foxy kind of stand While tens of thousands found me in demand When you rock and roll with me No one else I'd rather be Nobody here can do it for me I'm in tears again When you rock and roll with me Gentle hearts are counted down The queue is out of sight and out of sounds Me, I'm out of breath, but not quite doubting I've found a door which lets me out! When you rock and roll with me No one else I'd rather be Nobody down here can do it for me I'm in tears again When you rock and roll with me Oh, when you rock and roll with me There's no one else I'd rather be Nobody down here can do it for me When you rock and roll with me When you rock and roll, when you rock and roll with me No one else I'd rather, I'd rather be Nobody here can do it for me I'm in tears, I'm in tears When you rock and roll with me

#and remember that bowie was ofc (sort of) closeted and fighting it like hell at this time #something I think is very present in this song #like he kept saying he was queer and it kept being brushed aside and he kept being sold as something else #anyway I just think it's such a pretty song really imagine Louis doing it?? it would be A LOT #it would really showcase his ability to emote with his vocals #(I would cry we would all be in tears) #vocally it would be... well he'd just do it his own way. covers don't have to be exactly the same! i thnk it would sound beautiful #in his tone and register and slightly different style and arrangement I suppose #get steve on it #rock and roll with me

[skarloeyspa]

floral train!!!!

#“capy they just put a bouquet on a train it's not that serious” IT IS TO ME #douglas was so cute in that video she's just a little train with many flowers shes so pretty :(((( #i love flowers i think they are so nice especially flower language #there's no special meaning to the flowers here i just copied pictures of actual floral train arrangements from the Talyllyn #ttte duncan #ttte #talyllyn railway #douglas #capy's graffiti #capy posting #just a quick one now that i'm finally feeling better #i was sick...my throat felt like it was being stabbed #i'm good enough now tho i can finally go to class tmrw #also first attempt at an actual real life train wowie (shes a mess im sorry)

[skitskatdacat63]

super obsessed with your art, seb looks soooooooooooo stunning!!! I am now very curious however, only if you feel like going into it, as to which other historical figures you align with which drivers?👀👀

AAAAAA tysm Grace!!!! Though I am so so so sorry for how rambly and long this post is gonna be, but you just asked me abt one of my brainrots!! I will answer your question but also talk about my history alignments and AUs in general LOL

But if I'm making comparisons of F1 drivers and historical figures, my brain kinda forces me to make it an AU because I'm like "this needs to make absolute sense historically and contextually.)

So, tbh of the four historical AUs that float around my brain, only two of them are really specifically about certain historical figures. The four are: Nandopoleon(About how Fernando reminds me of Napoleon), War of Spanish Succession(mostly about that era, but Seb and Nando are supposed to be paralleling Charles VI and Philip V), Napoleonic Hussars(which is about how , in general, Hussars = F1 drivers), and Rennaissance Muse(this just happens to take place in a different era.)

Explaining my AUs and the historical contexts(proceed with caution, its a lot)

Nandopoleon:

Okay so I'm really really am so deranged about Napoleon = Fernando, but I’ve not posted about it too much because I wanna make a well thought out post about it. But basically I think they’re similar people with similar characteristics and motivations. There was this period of time over the summer where I was only brain rotting about how well any of Napoleon’s quotes fit Fernando(with my fellow nandopoleon confidant @/sweatyflytrap haha.) Here’s some quotes as example: 

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

“It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until no one cares.”(Piasco era lol)

“Victory is not always winning the battle…but rising every time you fall.”

“From triumph to failure is only one step.”

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."(trophies y'know)

"Always carry champagne! In victory you deserve it, and in defeat you need it!"

Tell me Fernando wouldn't use these as instagram captions! TELL ME!!! But the other thing that was driving me crazy is how well excerpts from the personality/image section of Napoleone's wiki line up with testimonials from Fernando's doc. Examples:

"He cheated at cards, but repaid the losses; he had to win at everything he attempted."(Napoleon) "Whatever activity I take part in, I have this compulsion to find the compeititon in it."(Fernando)

"He could rapidly dictate a series of complex commands to his subordinates, keeping in mind where major units were expected to be at each future point, and like a chess master, 'seeing' the best plays moves ahead"(Napoleon) "When you talk to him, his mental capacity is so strong. He's talking to you, but his brain is thinking ahead"(Fernando)

Like c'mon tell me they aren't at least a bit similar??? There's a lot else I find similar about them but I cannot list my whole manifesto here skdjlsd

Anyways this AU would be Fernando as Napoleon and would be Webbonso -> Strollonso. Basically, Napoleon had two wives: his first wife, who was older than him and who he was super in love with, but had to divorce because they couldn't have kids, but he still loved her deeply. And then his second wife , who was much younger thanhim and from the Austrian royal family, and this was a politically motivated marriage but they still got on pretty well!!(also it's funny, before she married him she didn't want to be with him because the public perception of him made him out to be not the best guy, but then she wrote to her father about how loving and kind he was. very Strollonso, no?)

War of Spanish Succession:

Mostly explained it here and here. I'm not too interested in either Philip V nor Charles VI themselevs as individuals, but rather the roles they fufill in the "story." Though I will say, I got hit with a brick while reading Charles VI's wiki when finding out that he apparently had several male lovers! So I guess my AU having an arranged m/m marriage isn't even that far off the mark hahaha. Why did they have a 13 year war, they should have just arranged a marriage between the two canidates sigh sigh. But yeah, mostly Austria vs. Spain, I think it fits well with the Vettonso rivalry!! They would end up being: Fernando I King of Spain and Sebastian I Holy Roman Emperor hehe. Also I sketched some more:

Napoleonic Hussars:

Explained here as well as with art, and more art here. I'm really still proud of the points I made, I just feel very ardently about it!!! Not about any specific figure, but rather a historical group that I think lines up extremely well with F1 drivers. But this one is fun cause I can kinda insert any driver into it and they'll work pretty well. It's fun to figure out what kingdom what driver would be, either based off their nationality or the nationality of their team. I remember vividly staring at a map from this era trying to figure out where Maranello would be....But like Renault = Kingdom of France and RBR = Kingdom of Austria, and stuff like that

Rennaisance Muse:

Mostly just this post, I've not thought about this one incredibly deeply. Mostly just brainrot about how I think Seb looks like The David with his curly hair

#catie answer an ask without making it a soliloquy challenge: failed #hope this is at least sort of interesting to people other than me! #basically: I like reading about F1. I like reading about history. why not mix them :DDD #also sorry Grace that this ended up being more about my AUs rather than which historical figures align with who #if im gonna compare a driver to a figure then my brain is like 'this needs to make absolute sense historically' so it becomes its own AU #though i think fernando is a much easier driver than any others to make historical comparisons about #and thats really only bcs hes very specific with how he portrays himself and how the public eye is supposed to view him #hes much more of a 'character' and is easier to compare bcs historical figures also end up becoming chararictured bcs of the passage of tim #having a lot of fun with this most recent one!!! the idea of arranged marriage vettonso(with boy king seb) is brainrotting me #all of these have ships as well that theyre kinda focused around #hussars is the most general but Ive already drawn martian for it sooooo #and the rennaisance is also martian #nandopoleon I already said what it would be(god the irl age gaps align so well to each other) #and then obv spanish succession is vettonso arranged marriage #anyways aaaahhhhh fun side projects which I like to research and draw!!! #and ik ive said it a lot but thank you guys for showing interest!! its pretty niche i think.... #catie.asks. #catie.rambling.txt #boy king au #hussar au #nandopoleon alonsoparte

[legoflowers]

#me after a full day of 'your daughter is so pretty she makes me wish i had sons' and 'your daughter is gorgeous i wish my sons were older' #you know whats kind of embarrassing tho #not the last wedding but two weddings ago there was this woman who thought i was nudge nudge wink wink really cute #and she was talking to my mom about me and stuff #well that day i was wearing a black dress and my mom was wearing a teal gharara #and for this wedding we were like its a little soon to repeat outfits but the crowd at this wedding is gna be completely different bc #the families of the bride and groom are from a different village back home #and we were right the crowd was completely different EXCEPT for miss wannabe potential mother in law #so this woman we never see otherwise sees me and my mom wearing the exact same thing as when she saw us last #i wouldve been more embarrassed but my mom said she was wearing the same thing too #anyway they were talking for like an hour #the woman has 3 sons and the one she want me for is the second oldest #i think he's in law school or he wants to go to law school or something #i couldnt eavesdrop too well the music was too loud #but he sounds a little older #anyway my matchmaker mother is not gna skip out on the chance to become besties w that woman bc even if i end up saying no to the rishta #(which is not a rishta yet btw just chatting atm) #a woman with 3 unmarried educated adult sons is like a gold mine in my moms eyes #her eyes were glazed over w the excitement of potential matches #hashtag arranged marriage tings

[ardenrosegarden]

#amnesia the bunker #for me is Boisrond provides a really interesting perspective to view the 18th July and the following few days #>Farber gets killed shortly after shooting the Stalker to protect him > Followed immediately after by Tremblay #>Augustin as far as the rest of them know goes missing at this point so the logical assumption is the Stalker got him too #(which...is kind of true in a way) #if you count Henri who is in critical condition that's 4 people he sees pretty much every day (as per bunking arrangement) gone in a week #the former 3 gone within hours or even minutes of each other #and lucky him gets to see that yawning emptiness grow larger and larger until he's one of the last ones left by the time Henri wakes up 👍 #I think there's a lot to do with him wrt loneliness‚ trauma‚ and survivor's guilt that makes a fun parallel to both Farber and Henri :) #when the horror is tragedy and the tragedy is horror 🤌💯🥳🎉 #shakespeareomnibus #amnesia #blood tw #gore/

[gideonisms]

Sometimes I wish I would like put on an outfit or be in a scenario or hear a pronoun and think to myself oh yeah THAT'S the right one like it seems like other people are feeling this sense of self I just don't have. I kind of just feel out of place no matter where I am or what I wear or how I present myself, not really in a bad way, just like, I'm a tourist here (everywhere)

#do i feel more like me with this hair? idk? i feel like i don't have to braid it out of my way now #friends irl will tell me i'm different than they thought i would be but i don't know if that means i should look different #to more accurately display what i'm like and then people wouldn't get it wrong so much? #idk i like pastels i like pretty colors and pretty rings i just put them on me so i can look at them more often #i just like to look put together and arrange my outfits carefully around whatever theme i've chosen that day #then people think i am put together. no my life is a hot mess i just have a favorite color #like my car and outfit and apartment are tidy. my notes are pretty. i have my files organized. i go grocery shopping every wednesday #i have a favorite perfume #the chaos is really related to everything else #my shoes are in a row by the door and it's taken me 8 years to get through a degree #u know? #anyway there's no real way to relate that through a series of outfit choices so. #if other people are confused what i'm like dw i am there with u. i just learned how to interpret what it feels like to want to do something

[azatas]

thinking about tasi pulling an uno reverse on astarion twice as a catalyst for him actually confronting his feelings for her

first when she turns him down the second time like "sorry but i was in a dark place and i used you to try and feel something and that's not fair to you" as he stands there like 😨 because one, "yeah we're using each other but i thought we weren't acknowledging that??" and two this is the start of her ruining his plan because he's actually a little disappointed and it's horrifying

and then uno reverse again when she starts offering to let him drink her blood in act 2. his "you deserve a reward let's have sex" becomes her "i tried to kill you in your sleep do you want to feed on me?" and miraculously astarion is the one that's finally like "okay we should probably talk about this"

#dee plays bg3 #bg3 spoilers #oc: tasi #astarion x durge #<- for filtering bc apparently other durge players are being insufferable #anyway she definitely knows he's also using her when they sleep together even if she doesn't know why #but she's trying to be a better person now so she apologizes anyway lol . also she genuinely likes him as a person atp so she feels bad #i talk a lot about tasi at her worst but she's generally a pretty upbeat person! not very broody! her bad days just happen to be Very bad #and i'm trying to work out the beats of her and astarion's relationship in my head #i think i like the version of his confession better if it's before meeting araj but i also like araj being a Moment for him #where he's like “wtf this mutually beneficial arrangement has become beneficial only to me and i'm actually not happy about that” #so i think it goes “i don't think we should sleep together again” -> araj -> durge scene and tasi offering her blood out of guilt #-> astarion's confession #just “oh fuck she respects me as a person i can't DO this” lmfao

[non0zec-art]

prelude to tragedy (this one is very much inspired by that scene in one 18, just in a different perspective :D)

#art #artists on tumblr #hfjone #airy hfjone #and my commenting on the drawing process: #(does this technically count one of those scene redraws..? im not quite sure but i guess the answer might be yes?) #another thing from paint! #this time i tried using the line tools- which i think worked quite well! #i also used reference #which i dont usually do but should probably start using more often because reference does wonders to helping do art-- #after i finished up doing the whole thing in paint i took it to firealpaca to give it some subtle gradients #theyre very subtle gradients- but i think despite that it helps make the image look a little nicer #also put my sig in firealpace while doing the gradients because i didnt want to open up paint again-- #overall: im pretty satisfied with this! #also made me realize (again-) that i should use ref more and maybe try doing more scene redraws maybe? #anyways the next thing im going to post here is the part of this scene where his head shatters <3 #(<- joking. though i might actually try drawing him shattering- i want to see how to arrange the shards for it)

[wtfuckevenknows]

Whenever I feel down I treat myself to some strawberries and flowers 💗

#bought strawberries yesterday #god bless the Netherlands and their strawberries #tried out the new flower shop in my part of town #I think they made me a very pretty arrangement 😍

[monstersqueen]

anyway

fucking love dazai's crazy eyes and how little we're allowed to see of ango's expression

#myposts #some sadness and a whole lot of lack of surprise #but also wondering. that's a very impulsive move of dazai here #that's what i take from the eyes #also very much not productive because. he can't shoot. #not if he wants the government's help for the agency #he shoots and the government turns against him and eitehr the agency rejects him or th agency loses the special division's support #it's a very bad move ! he's the one who called ango ! he could have resquested that the division sent someone else ! #so. p sure this is a spur of the moment decision #which. ango expected. let me scream. #meanwhile the car accident. is a luch more premediated attempt #i'm pretty sure dazai didn't intend to be in the car for it. #i expect his plan was to have a talk #disable the airbag #arrange for a car to hit ango's car the next day #reminder that dazai wants his death to be painless. i do'nt think he would want to be in the car for it #unless that's how much he wanted to be there for it #but im pretty sure the car was a warning from the guild that interacted with dazai's own murder attempt #anyway #bsd march 2023 not lb #i really want dazai's thoughts process through this scene really #what did he plan and what did he not

[peachsayshi]

I have sugar daddy! nanami brain rot on my mind again and it’s making me 🫠🫠🫠

#I just want this version of nanami to {redacted} me #thinking about him realizing that he might be catching feelings for you #but knows that this was just an arrangement #his first sugar baby used him for his money but he ended it out of boredom #the second one found love in the arms of another and ended their arrangement #but you’re his pretty girl that he can’t get enough of #and he finds himself cooking you dinner on occasion and asking you to spend the night

[blackwaxidol]

Is ur destiny username a reference to mazohyst of decadence? :o

it is, yes.

#i remember this ask after so long. i am sorry for my inertia. #answered #it has been my username for so long that it doesn't even occur to me that i am effectively waving a sign going ''hi i like Dir En Grey''. #i still do. #mazohyst of decadence wasn't my first choice of username reference actually. #my favourite Dir En Grey song is ''Vinushka''. but it was not available as a username and modifying it was tacky. #i think ''mazohyst'' is more versatile anyway. and it is still pretty when misspelled with an s. #versatile as in i have had English-speakers notice that it is ''masochist''. and it just looks good. #pleasing arrangement of letters. #the song itself i like the instrumentals. especially whatever is happening with the guitar. #i already said i couldn't name musical happenings if you put a gun to my head. guitar go VRRRR. #Dir En Grey was my first introduction to Visual Kei bands. and J-Rock in general. #this was maybe in 2014 or 2015. i discovered other bands including BUCK-TICK because of this. #i suppose i would not mind discussing it.

[poptartmochi]

however.. it's not just blorbo thoughts that haunt me with that song... it's teacher thoughts too! 🤯

#for the past few months I've been going back and forth about whether i want to teach middle or high school #and this is nowhere near a deciding factor #BUT... consider the following with me.. performing one version as a mass piece at the beginning of the year with the full choir and then. #🤌🏻 #at the end of the year doing the other with just the seniors because they have become the old man who will never again pass this way 😭 #i feel like dickau's would be better as a mass piece because of it's more relaxed rhythms. the chords sound fuller than macdonald's which #would probably sound nicer with all hands on deck! and then macdonald's more rhythmically challenging arrangement would be cool for the #seniors 😁 but this is to my untrained and pretty rusty ear so 🕴️ we'll see how i feel when i go back to school #another idea I've entertained is giving each class a like. Challenge Song their freshman year and recording it‚ then reprising it their #senior year and letting them compare their performances to reflect their growth as musicians.. i think that would be really cool :] #i dont think i could conduct the bridge builder with that in mind though.. id start crying lol! but i think it is fundamental as a choir #student to watch your director cry in the middle of a song+ continue on as if nothing was happening #but anyhow idk man.. the idea of working with high schoolers to really build up their musicality and prepare them for the world is very #appealing to me but you can't be a musician without the foundations which i could establish in middle school #and foundations are very fun to teach as well!! but foundations can be taught in a beginning choir course or during summer camp #so 😩 #the music i want to direct is all satb which suits high school better. but is it selfish to choose which way to go based on what music you #like? 🕴️🕴️ the contemplations man.... anyhow i have a lot more growing and learning and Studying to do before this will even matter #can't prepare kids for the world when I've scarcely explored it myself! #sriracha.txt

[thedogslegart]

21.6.23

#really pissed it wont let me rearranged (im gonna try and arrange on laptop tho on seg) kinda a repost ano #but umm finished the page. and then on the right painted those horses and that silver moon pain looks kice on flash! #thats over a layer of black ink. also testing with these letter stickers my mom got me <3 and how they block out paint #it seems as thought it had to be pretty dry. sponce application would be cleaner i think #me op #traditional #painting #doodles #not tagging the fandom stuff again already did that lol