#i don't like talking about the V guy

[kanrix]

They really are comparing the sexual abuser to alastor, huh.

#yes. they are in a similar position #(husk and angel) #with their whole soul thingy belonging to someone else yadda yadda #but are you for real? #mumbles #infuriating #might delete later #use your brain. for once #tw sa mention #<- i guess. #god. these people #i don't like talking about the V guy #or even just mentioning him

[djarin]

one of the main reasons i love ofmd is the unapologetic queer joy they show us. there's not a single moment where the drama revolves around a character's "coming out" moment. there's no need to accept or reject anyone for what they identify as. like, for fuck's sake, there have been so many moments in the show where they explicitly tell us, "hey, this is us, take it or leave it." no explanations, no justifications—just pure, unfiltered representation. it truly drives in the point that at the end of the day, queer people are also just simply people.

as much as i appreciate the abundance of queer representation we're getting now, i cannot emphasize how much a show like ofmd means to me. i am begging more companies to do what ofmd is doing and just show queer people living as boring old fucking people instead of as victims. take us beyond existing as an educational tool or a plot device. show queer people being people, and we'll stop being victims.

"kill me. kill us all. our spirit will last throughout your entire fսckin' empire because... we're good." you know what this show teaches us? that queer people are resilient as fuck, and that whatever we may have been told, shown, and made to believe about our queerness is wrong. we're good. we continue to be good despite the hardships we face. despite all the shit our elders and trailblazers have gone through from the beginning. despite the political landscapes of today that continue to try to strip us of our dignity and rights. we still exist and we will continue to exist—as people first, and victims last.

#elio talks #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd s2 #ofmd season 2 #lgbt #queer #izzy hands #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #ofmd meta #like.... guys i just cant stop thinking about this. sob #that quote has literally been burnt into my mind the moment i heard it #like. they really did that to us. FOR us #looked us straight in the eye and said 'you're good you know. don't believe the shit you've heard.' #'your queerness does not defile you.' #anyway. feeling v passionate about this #prob bc im also doing extensive research about queer and trans youth in the 'at-risk' narrative w my prof sdjgjsgs

[kyouka-supremacy]

BEAST's time line not adding up is one of the major factors to why in my head currently beast sskk are in their twenties and adopted 5 cats in a quiet little cottage on the outskirts of Yokohama

Yeah this is the only valid take tbh

#Beast sskk mean so much to me. You don't get it guys. I'm literally always thinking about them and their happily married couple life #Beast sskk is like sugar in coffee. Also like the best thing ever #sskk #shin soukoku #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd beast #people asks me stuff #Beast sskk are married and living together!! No you don't get it I know them personally #Tbh. I should really post that one post on how post Beast canon sskk works out for me #The five cats thing is so cute tho #Nnnghhh please talk to me more about Beast sskk. Look to me I'm starving #Back to the matter at hand tho like... Beast Akutagawa is v v immature but so is canon Akutagawa. #That's why I can perfectly see Beast Akutagawa being as old or even older. #On the other hand Beast Atsushi feels so much more mature compared to canon Atsushi in a way I struggle to believe he's any younger than 20 #I'd say the Beast dilemma keeps me awake at night but that's not true I sleep soundly at night and dream of Beast sskk kissing #Sending kisses to you Anon (ㅅ´ ˘ )♡

[soulrph]

i’m seeing an awful lot of people reblogging memes here and in the tags, going “i know i have some memes in my inbox” or “i promise i’ll answer the last couple of memes in a minute”, and i think we all know there’s very little i can do or say to soften the situation, so allow me to tell you the exact number of memes i have on my own rp blog, which contains precisely one muse!

i have 298 memes in my inbox.

nobody hates me for it. nobody is organizing a little mob of mutuals with pitchforks and torches to tear down my house and drag me for a shame walk through town!

they also didn’t hate me at my highest number of memes, which was 724. 

we need to re-evaluate how we talk about ourselves on this site, bc frankly nobody is entitled to hate you or dislike you for a silly number in your inbox, okay? you’re a fantastic bunch of people. you’re wonderful, talented, kind and creative. you don’t go around hating others for their inbox count! nobody does! don’t allow anyone to think it’s okay for them to have a problem with your inbox, and for the love of god, stop thinking your mutuals are a pack of wolves who’ll rip you to shreds for having more than zero memes in your inbox at a time!

you are all amazing, and wonderful, and talented, but 2023 is the year we start developing a little more self-confidence! doesn’t matter if you have five or fifty or five million memes in your inbox! you’re not a bad person for having them there, because you’re not a good person for having none there at all! the things that make you good are the things that were always there, regardless of that inbox. okay? now go reblog some memes. nobody in the world with an ounce of decency and good sense will say a thing against you for it, that’s a promise! and if anyone does say a thing against you for it, that just means they’re dummies.

#OOC. #PSA. #( it makes me v sad to see you guys talking like you're at work ) #( this is a hobby ) #( you are here to be happy and chilled ) #( idk when we became so anxious about stuff here ) #( but i can guarantee you ) #( the good friends won't give two craps if you have a bazillion memes or not ) #( we're just people having fun ) #( let's try and remember that from now on! ) #( i will fight ur insecurities and ur enemies in the car park of a tesco express ) #( except u don't have enemies ) #( except ur insecurities ) #( okay i'm cold now peace out besties be good drink water unclench ur jaw )

[deeisace]

..

#sorry sorry I just woke up and im having yesterday-was-weird thought again #and they are going here so i don't have to talk to the person that they're um about yet #basically im glad that im in a good enough space now that um #someone ive ive had text-based sex with and uhhh sent an ill-advised video to in like oct when i was Feeling Bad™ and doing. hm. too much. #like 6 months post text-based sex/ill adised video now aha and we've not spoke at all since like january and that was 'how was hols' #they asked to meet up 'not for sex just as friends' or i forget exact wording but basically that #no-pressure museum not-a-date #and i said I'd think about it. because i am as everyone knows a fucking idiot. #basically im glad that im in a better place now than the last time someone like expressed an interest in me as a person #because while this did give me a day long wobble i didn't have a full weekend long actual panic about it #tho they are two v different situs #an ace poly friend asking to go out with me vs someone i uh virtually fucked aha um asking to meet up for (mostly) being-friends purposes #same several-hours-later 'oh god no what have i done bad bad bad no thank you actually no sorry i cant sorry' but less intense this time #but at least i only said ill think about it? #and not actually immediately said yes because it's nice to feel wanted #and then gone Maximum Regret™ because actually all of this is way too much i don't like it i don't want it thank you but im sorry no #weird. i guess i don't have such a high baseline stress level any more? since i'm not at uni n stuff #and someone over messages going no pressure you want to be irl friends (maybe fwb no pressure)? is um #is different. to someone irl going you want to go out acely? yeah? awesome lets hold hands here is the discord with a whole buncha people #i guess #but i am being equally aro-not-super-ace Autism™ about it aha #and i am. eventually. going to be like. thought about it and no sorry. eventually. #if they ask again #i am kinda hoping they'll leave it there and forget they asked so i don't have to navigate social stuff #im much better at navigating canals everybody leave me alone please thank you #(everybody over there leave me alone. y'know. you guys are fine.)

[taegularities]

...

#i feel so insecure here sometimes.. like i know you guys see that too #like ill post smth or ask smth and then feel discouraged when i don't get a response #and then i feel so stupid.. but ive been realising how so many here have been feeling that way #bc tumblr changed so much and so many ppl left and every author and creator is suddenly feeling insecure about themselves #and thinking it's their fault or that their content isn't good anymore #anyways thank you to everyone who's still here and supporting my stuff.. whenever i feel down you guys show me that my work's still #worth consuming #and that im appreciated here as a person too #@ mutuals.. i think to bring back a bit of what tumblr used to be we need to support each other too #bc :( i love my mutuals but i also noticed that only a v small number of ppl signal boosts each other's stuff or supports one another #like only a few of my moots read my stuff or talk to me at all and sometimes it gets so lonely #but im one of those who should actively make an effort to support moots too!! #some blogs support all their moots and im like ugh that's so nice #or maybe it's me and you guys just don't like me LOL no but seriously #we don't even have to read each other's stuff i think.. even boosting fics goes a long way tbh #it'd be so nice if we could do this for each other.. yk? gotta bring back the 2021 community feel fr i miss it #ugh so many ppl left lol we're all we've got y'all!! #tdl maybe

[skrunksthatwunk]

i just finished saw v and i don't have high hopes for the rest of the franchise (based on what ive heard) but im in too deep to stop now

#no i haven't enjoyed the last two no i don't expect to get much out of the next five or so movies. but i need to know. #i guess saw v mightve suffered bc i watched it basically immediately after iv #something i didnt do with any of the others #but i was told v was one of the good ones so i was looking forward to it. i dont think it was burnout yknow #but uh. i didn't like it. i think i liked iv more honestly. strahm and hoffman do absolutely nothing for me #i liked the traps. that was it though #it felt so pointless and empty. it was the first one where i genuinely wondered why they made it. why did they decide to keep going with #this. i think ii and iv both function more/better as setup for their following films but like. at least iii was pretty good yknow #like both amanda and hoffman's accomplicing feels kinda retconned in but at least amanda's an interesting character #what does hoffman have. what does strahm have. nothing. and no i don't think they have much in the way of homoeroticism either. #i don't tend to be so negative and im sorry if someone goes in the saw tags and feels bad about me talking shit about something they like #because i know that doesn't feel good. honestly i'd love to hear why people like v. maybe it'll change my opinion of it if i look at it a #different way yknow? but for now im just annoyed by it. iv was engaging in the moment but very forgettable #i liked riggs well enough but we barely learned a thing about him. he wasn't a deep character at all and i think that's a shame #but v was just a paperwork-based cat and mouse chase. 90 minutes and it still felt like they were wasting my time #why did strahm go to the old trap locations? i don't think he found anything out there. likr it was just a framing device for the flashback #but he didn't actually have a reason to go there. waste of my time #not an original critique im sure but saw ii on seems to be more focused on scale and layers of shit (i.e. having two games going at once) #than using the traps to examine the characters. i mean you go from two guys in a bathroom for a couple hours #learning about who they are gradually at a slow pace vs like 8 people in a house plus cop stuff plus 90 second traps of dubious fairness #hoffman has no real relationship with kramer (unlike amanda) and basically everyone who'd been following jigsaw is dead and so are jigsaw #and (presumably) amanda. what am i supposed to be here for? the vague outline of a saw trap? the type of torture happening? #im not even opposed to that per se but frankly the more they focus on the cops surrounding this shit the less fun it is #why are you making all the traps like 15 seconds long and tied to characters who aren't the primary focus. it's saw #ughh i miss adam. i miss amanda. hell i miss kramer and he was pretty present in this one (flashbackwise) #whateverrr. anyway that poll comparing chainshippng shotgunnshippng and coffinshippng where shotgun was last? lesbophobic. #im only half joking about that. im sure ppl have their reasons for coffin but i also think it's the tendency fandom bias for “two white guy #ships. but hey maybe vi and onwards will add more context to that that'll make me reconsider. i mean i wouldn't have liked the amanda #accomplice thing That much if i'd only seen ii. i think iii really makes it mesh better and it leads to fun character stuff #(though i still think i would've liked it more bc like. amanda was always grateful to jigsaw right? again hoffman comes outta nowhere)

[insecateur]

I know it's not canon at all - we're even told it's not the case in Masters - but I like to think Sycamore and Lysandre were childhood friends, along with Siebold, Malva, the Santalune sisters... 😍

i rly don't like that at all personally tbh, good on you if you do (like really!! if anything i'm glad there can be variety in how people want them to be/see them) but childhood friends are kind of boring to me i'd rather have them meet as adults 💔 even having them meet like e.g. in school later on in their late teens/twenties i don't rly like either honestly . i know it's a thing people commonly like tho!! it's just not my thing

i do headcanon lysandre n malva as being related tho so there is that

#la réponse d #i'm honestly glad it's not canon bc it's just rly not a flavor i would want for them sksksksk but i get it #my take is always that they met when lysandre started his café in lumiose it's what makes the most sense with what we know imo #also it explains why they don't know each other in the anime since lysandre doesn't even have a café there <- my conspiracy theory #i have drawn 1 comic where they meet once as children and don't even talk to each other it's just this weird happenstance #i do think that would be funny for them. like lysandre realizing years later #but yeah in general childhood friends r not rly my thing unless under v specific circumstances #which i'm not interested in making up myself so meeting as adults good #them being friends with siebold is a good concept tho i've been neglecting my little guy i need to think about him more

[unproduciblesmackdown]

don’t forget the reason for the season (would you kiss your clone? yes. and you’re mr. maccabee)

#he's the sexiest person in the room after all #GOD lmfao i'm so head in hands that there's no footage of Will Roland Mr. Maccabee. but there Are all these pictures so thank god for that #or also steph b/c she took a lot (or all re: this source) of them lol. godspeed #the reason for the season is also idk whatever wroles there've been in these things. many #obviously cyril von miserthorpe; the last christmas extravaganza antagonist. Merely Assumed ragamuffin role uhh i think it was something v #much like melvin cooterstein lol. uncle peenie. mr. chestnut. that folger's opening guy they keep saying they'll have to Tell The Story Of #and i don't know that anyone actually has yet lmfao. is that a sequence / bit not found in later iterations such as that there's a tale.... #or was there something especially zany abt that particular one lol. i hardly know All The Lore abt All Sequences and things change / evolve #for example. are there always two mister maccabees and then they kiss??? #god. imagine having to cope with that and you're that guy whose heterosexuality was so threatened by mr. maccabee's sexy number that he like #suddenly became extremely preoccupied with looking at Anything Else right up until the next step in the proceedings lol #and isn't there always? usually? a number with mary's sexy men backup dancers. f for that guy again #i would be looking directly at it and getting rowdy if the above image was unfolding before me #joe iconis christmas extravaganza #will roland #shoutout to his talking about mr. maccabee in that recent interview as well; connected to jimmy armstrong. a surprising reference lol #also shoutout to will roland's mother attending these events and in twenty nineteen (the year of cyril von miserthorpe) that was indirectly #the only way we knew will as winston would be in billions season 5 at all. your boy is coy #a delightful little moment when she cameos in the uncle peenie (will roland) and aunt loretta (danielle gimbal) performance lol =) #also naturally some further chaos in that i think often ppl would not necessarily play the same roles every night of an xmas xtrav streak... #just to add to the mystery and presumed wealth of [this person as whomever]s out there. argggh the magic of will roland mr maccabee.... #don't cry b/c there's no audio motion visuals....smile b/c it happened and pictures were taken and posted findably.... #also learned while offline like what tf. i would've thought i'd've saved the mr. chestnut video already lol. it escaped me...f for Me

[reachexceedinggrasp]

#Double Crossbones #Donald O'Connor #I don't know how to make gifs so making these was v. time consuming but I persevered bc I have to talk about this #a) this movie is amazing and has the most movie of movie pirates ever committed to celluloid #(except that they don't have West Country accents- that's the only lack- they throw in some old timey lingo but it's real weaksauce) #anyway it is a action adventure musical comedy with slapstick tapdancing and swordfighting #the plot is ludicrous and everything is very silly except the corrupt official bad guy who is kinda legit threatening #our hapless unlikely golden hearted-hero accidentally becomes a pirate lord through a series of shenanigans #eventually he enjoys it but he's gotta rescue his girlfriend from the evil governor #he fucks it up and she ends up rescuing him instead and then there's a happy ending and even more shenanigans #the jokes are cheeseball the costumes are over the top and all the pirates are hamming it up #the swordfights involve the most EGREGIOUS flynning and dance-fighting #there is straight up cartoon logic involved #so in conclusion: FLAWLESS. NO NOTES. #b) this disguise is one of the few main character disguises in cinema history that is actually convincing- he is unrecognisable #if I hadn't been spoiled by someone's blog post b4 watching this I would no joke not have known it was him until he gives it away #I fully buy even his girlfriend wouldn't clock him on sight #making it all the more funny that he gets caught almost immediately #anyway he's being hilariously ott posh and dandyish #my point was: maybe I'm seeing what I want to see but I feel like he based this on Leslie Howard in the Scarlet Pimpernel #he sounds so much like him! he does some of the same business! I want this to be true so bad #I chose to believe this is a reference/tribute

[anondudeao3]

Me, reading over broken!verse #55: *throwing chairs and flipping tables* WHY! CAN'T! I! SHARE! IT! YET! I HAVE SO MANY THINGS TO SAY!!!

Oh gods please how am I still stuck on number twenty fucking SIX I'm never going to make it to posting this fucking arc 😣😩😩

#I seriously need to stop looking at future b!v fics because it is driving me actually INSANE #there are so many things I so desperately want to share and I can't even BEGIN to talk about them #because you guys are like 5 arcs behind me and there is SO MUCH that happened #and the actual series is like over twice as long as what's currently posted but you guys don't KNOW THAT #you can't see the inside of my head or my google drive. you don't know and all I can do is suffer and try to keep fucking writing #and hopefully fill in the gaps faster. Preferably the stuff closer to the beginning sooner so I can post #but I have so much less control of that than most people would have you believe. I am not at the wheel #Nor is the foot on the accelerator mine #AD updates #please though I have so much commentary and I desperately already want people's reactions and comments on the things coming up #why did I have to make a series this is the worst thing in the world. There is absolutely a reason I've not done this before

[fionnaskyborn]

current mood:

#it's about people who have gone through events that are uncannily similar but have dealt it both the events and the aftermath in #drastically different ways. one of them was surrounded by people who didn't look and sometimes didn't act the part but ultimately meant #only well and the other only had one person who cared about him near him and not even that person was in a good enough place to give him #that sort of empowerment‚ the strength to try and fight against impossible odds and an inescapable situation #and i've seen takes (don't remember where) that state that rai is ultimately so much stronger than v because he managed to free himself #from the shackles of his assigned fate whereas v 'failed' to do so but like... i believe that v is equally as strong for just... existing. #and maybe the world would've been better off if he had died as soon as he learned the truth but he lived because he wanted to see a better #world and believed that him being stripped of his identity was a small price to pay for a better world but what makes him even stronger in #my eyes is the fact that he KEPT LIVING even when he realized that there was no way to make things better from his position as much as he #wanted to and when he saw that everything was going to hell and that he was doomed to just... stay there and be trapped and be forced to #work for ideas that directly oppose his own #and DESPITE ALL OF IT‚ HE KEPT HIMSELF ALIVE (until nato called and said ''hey bibo if you don't respond to the allegations we will nuke #your house'' (referring to V's OH) and bibo just. did not answer. and threw v under the bus and let him die like he was nothing #like i need you to understand this man has the mental resolve of joy herself but you aren't ready for that talk #look point is i think that if they were to ever meet rai would initially not like v at all and couldn't exactly pinpoint why he doesn't #like him - he's polite‚ relatively kind‚ a bit sassy at times‚ and really quiet‚ which in a way mirrors his own mannerisms - so he has no #clue as to why he /doesn't like him at all/ (and of course rai being rai would be polite in turn but he'd never be earnestly amiable) #UNTIL one of them tries to start a conversation about more mundane topics like music or movies and as they exchange opinions rai realizes #that he really doesn't have to bother with the whole thing about resolve and determination to pursue your own goals and differences in #ideologies and that he can just talk to this guy as if he were one of his friends from nyc from back when life was relatively normal #(aka before big shell and when the memories of his past were artificially surpressed HMM PARALLELS YES) #in conclusion v is less anti-raiden and more the second coming of joy and also the two of them would (eventually) be friends and talk about #film and music. rai would absolutely DIG some of the 80's stuff v listens to. thank you for joining me on yet another episode of 'insanity #with fionna' #zeta gear tag #i wrote a lot here and i've made some good points so in the tag it goes

[dbphantom]

Are you a well adjusted individual or is ur fave character dynamic between two brothers one where the first is deathly serious all the time and the second is just some Dude who is trying his best

#Cruddy rambles #Which of my fave pieces of media am I talking about? #.... Yes. #Which. They're all very different character dynamics between each of them (ranging from I'm going to kill you to I'd kill god for you) #But you know. A Very fun platonic relationship dynamic to play around with #So I get why it's so popular #My favorite moments are when the dynamic is flipped around #And the serious one loses their shit #Or the usually flippant one has to take on the role of serious guy #Preferably at the same time #I don't care how cliche it is. It's my favorite #Something something showcasing the influence of the other something something #Also just the tiny moments. Like jackpot. #Yeah im mainly thinking of d/m/c but theres tons of other media I like with this dynamic too. Like f/f/x/v or even tri/gun

[dopemonkshit]

truly wanna know how shia lebeouf NOT ONLY got megan fox’s lil decepticon turned autobot buddy in the divorce but ALSO her fucking dog?!

#don't mind me i'm just watching all the transformers movies to COPE #third movie really starts like 'yeah shia and megan broke up off screen he has a new girlfriend now don't worry about it' #which like fine cool i actually like carly more and the chemistry with her works better for me #but the fact that shia has megan's dog from the second movie with no explanation? #it was cracking me up me dude my guy #like sure him having the comedy relieve bot around makes sense cause he is the autobot ambassador or whatever #but the DOG?! wack #ANYWAY i think i lost brain cells watching the first three movies but like in a fun way #really did love the set piece of the falling building in the third movie v cool sequence #ALSO carly manipulating megatron into killing sentinel prime thus saving optimus? queen shit #nancy talks

[quatregats]

Having a field day with Ellis's (1889) Existing Phonology of English Dialects discussion of Cockney, I have absolutely no experience with historical English dialectology and therefore I cannot judge the accuracy of his data, but the comments that he's collected are fascinating nonetheless:

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§ 2. Walker (1792-1807) and Smart (1836) on London Speech.

These two well-known authors of Pronouncing Dictionaries have each given a section on Cockney Pronunciation. I quote Walker from the stereotype edition of 1814. He enumerates four faults only. 1) postes, fistes, mistes, etc., for posts, fists, mists [mentioned in § 3 under P, p. 228]; 2) interchange of v, w as weal, winegar, vine, vind, for veal, vinegar, wine, wind, the two latter are spoken of as common; 3) not sounding h after w to distinguish while wile, whet wet, where were [now firmly rooted even in educated speech]; 4) interchange of h as art, harm, for heart, arm. There is no hint at pronouncing ā, ō as ī, ow.

Smart in his Hints to Cockney Speakers finds it almost unnecessary to remark on the interchange of v, w. But notes wōōld cōōld shōōld, would could should, [now never heard]; chick'n, Lat'n, nov'l, parc'l, but swivel, heaven, evil, devil, [the last of which is scarcely heard now but in the pulpit]. Other errors he notes as arethmatic, charecter, writin', readin', spīle sīle, for spoil soil, toosday, dooty, perput-rate, affinut-y, providunce, edecation; boa'rd fo'm co'd for board form cord, lawr, sawr, 'and, 'eart, honour, honest. There is no hint of sounding ā, ō as ī, ow. But he says that the ā of "a well-educated Londoner...finishes more slenderly than it begins, tapering, so to speak, towards the sound of e" (ii); and that ō "in a Londoner's mouth is not quite simple...finishing almost as oo in too." These are the ee'j, oo'w of rec. sp. which are quite different from the ī, ow sounds.

/End Transcription]

Also, and I'll just link the page scan (hopefully it works if you don't have a university library login? it's in public domain) of notes from Lackington's 1817 list of London mispronunciations but there's the glorious note on "leeftenant pronounced levtenant [leftenant, now usual]", which really makes you think. Anyways, I just find the historical evolution of Cockney really interesting, because it's an accent that has a very clear stereotyped version for lots of English speakers today, but a lot of those features came about in the mid-to-late 19th century, and it's fascinating to think that what was a defining feature of the dialect (like the interchange of w/v) has just completely disappeared off the map, while the distinct vowels were just not a thing at all. Really goes to show how fast spoken language evolves, especially outside of the standard, and we love to see it <3

#i should be in class and not going down another rabbit hole but by jove you can't stop me #'i have no background in this' i say in the voice of a guy who has a linguistics degree #and also literally talked about some of these very guys in one of my classes because my advisor did a thing with them #i mostly just mean that i'm not extremely well versed in the historical context and as such can't evaluate the source #i'm just continuously fascinated by patrick o'brian's ability to capture speech patterns which i've never heard #and i'm trying to figure out if they're historical or just english/british or some combination of both #you will note that killick has the w/v switch ('wittles is up') #i would just really like to pick mr. pob's brain about where he got his speech patterns from but since he's not around i'll do it myself #i suspect it was from reading a lot of period sources but alas i don't have time for that :( #anyways now anytime you read a book set in the age of sail you have to imagine them saying it leeftenant! have fun :D #adventures in historical sociolinguistics #perce rambles #also funnily enough i had a student last year who would say /tɛstɨz/ for 'tests' #but i suspect that it was not because they were reviving late-18th c. cockney speech #i do wonder where they got it from though. like i guess it makes sense linguistically it's just no one else was doing it

[code01746]

@akagamiko said: “ there are times where i can’t see things that i should. ” // [ 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐀 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏) ]

❝ out of willful ignorance, or because you realized it too late? ❞

　even if rosinante repeated his life another thousand times, not doomed to repeat his mistakes but instead free to change things as he wished, he still never would have expected this day to transpire the way that it has. he was just fishing one moment, alone on the furthest corner of a secluded spit of beach, and suddenly he was approached, out of the blue, by one of the most terrifying pirates alive, redhaired shanks.

or, that's what he thought; although it had been several years since rosinante had submitted his 'indefinite leave of absence' to the marines (long enough ago to, at this point, be understood as a resignation in everything but name) he still remembered the things that were repeatedly drilled into his head. specifically, a list of pirates not to engage with, under any circumstances, if they happened to cross paths. not without proper authorization. not without a full squadron, preferably with several devil fruit users and an admiral or two. never alone. you will die, they told him. you are unprepared.

it was a lot of scary talk for a guy who, now that the two were sitting beside one another, ultimately just seemed like... a guy. he was surprised at first, of course he was; he expected to be completely alone, and even enveloped himself with his silence technique for added concentration while fishing. he got too concentrated, it seems, being so surprised when shanks shook his shoulder (presumably after several failed attempts to shout through his soundproof wall) and he jumped out of his skinーoff the dock into the water. thank the seas this man seemed to realize intuitively that he was a devil fruit eater, and therefore would drown without his help. rosinante couldn't help but wonder if he had rescued poor souls like that before.

and now they were just... sitting there, having a conversation together, rosinante looking like a wet dog and too self-conscious to shed his clothing despite how weak the seawater-soaked clothes clinging to his skin made him feel. he hadn't noticed that shanks and his crew had set themselves up on the beach. so it was true; shanks, despite his fearsome reputation, really did just... drink & party a lot, huh?

　　　　　　❝ you don't seem like either type. ❞

#akagamiko #❛ as long as i wake up i'm already stronger than dead. ❜ (v. recovery) #rosinante vc idk what the marines were talking about he's just a silly lil guy #silly lil guy 2 silly lil guy communication #also: obligatory 'don't feel pressured to match lengths. sometimes my brain just get a vision and i spam out 400 words like i'm possessed' #❛ alright. see you in the next town. ❜ (queue)