#i watch them through your eyes

[willowser]

bodyguard au + bathtime fic for kiri ?

oooooh, this is fun !!! i'm thinking of like, some situation in which you are the child of someone who is big and wealthy, maybe owns a few different multi-million dollar corporations and perhaps doesn't do it all legally 👀

kirishima has always been in the service of protecting your father !! you know him because he is a forever shadow in your home, quiet and large, peeking out windows and making sure doors are locked. he only speaks if you speak to him first, but his answers are always cut short when your father is around.

— so on a night when he has to go out of town, you're a little delighted to see kirishima sitting at the kitchen table when you get home from work.

"hi," he tells you, rising to stand leagues above you. his face is sweet, despite his wide stature. shy. "your dad asked me to stay with you until he comes back, i hope you don't mind."

oh, you don't mind at all.

it's probably really fun !!! and you make the two of you dinner and he relaxes a bit after eating, even takes off the dark jacket he's always in. his forehead shines a little, like he's sweaty, and he hikes the sleeves of his white button-up to his elbows underneath the fluorescence.

he's still is a bit hard to talk to, but he listens as you prattle on about your day, scooting around the kitchen as you clean up. he offers to finish for you, but you shoo at him to sit back down and after a little bit of insistence from you, he finally agrees to have a beer. or two.

that loosens him up enough that the conversation flows a bit easier; you learn his first name, and his cheeks go red when you repeat it with a grin. he tells you a little about his mom, that he's an only child, that he never went to college: very basic stuff that paints a vague picture of him.

you know your father does some shady things, deals with shady people. why else would he need a giant for a bodyguard, that could probably snap a man's neck without even trying ?? kirishima tells you little things, but he doesn't go too deep. doesn't reveal what twists and turns he made in his past to put him here.

eventually you leave to get ready for bed, and the soft look on his face ALMOST has you sitting down for more with him. he shifts his eyes to the table, then, like he knows he's been caught staring too long and you wonder — when the last time was that he did anything for himself ?? not for your father, or even for you, but. for eijirou.

regardless, you slip on up the stairs and take your time making a nice bubble bath, putting on some light music. there's a bar on the second floor and you steal a bottle of wine from it and two glasses before nestling in the warm water, spreading your legs out to test how much room you have in the gigantic tub.

and then you call for him. a little more urgently that necessary, but it brings him to you quicker, suddenly appearing in the open doorway of your bathroom with wide eyes, flushing down his neck when he sees you.

you lean against the edge of the tub, smiling as you prop your chin in your hand. "i was wondering if you could help me wash my back."

the question seems to buffer in his mind for a long time before he's finally blinking, adam's apple bobbing. and then he's bringing the bathroom door behind him as he begins to unbutton his shirt.

✨️ trope game ! ✨️

#WAAAHHH big huge bodyguard kiri how seet #*sweet #i'm really screwing myself with this game bc now i want to write all these akfbdjakal #but if i treat all these like drabbles then i will NEVER FINISH #i've had to scrap two of them and start over ALREADY TODAY bc they just. get too long akfbdjsjakal #so this is short and quick but !!!! here you go !!!! #akdhsjakam i want bodyguard kiri 🥺🥺😭 #he's been in your father's employment for a little while now 🥺 has watched you through the years 🥺🥺🥺🥺 #always tried to keep his eyes down 🥺🥺🥺 #WHEW HE'S SO CUTE BYE #✿ ask willow #✿ thoughts: kirishima #✿ ask game

[found--family]

am i the only one who sensed some jilted lover vibes from jensen? 

#burcon #cockles #thoughts #at the start of the panel and through a few particular interactions he seemed very standoffish #he was giving a little bitter and hurt and perhaps even resentful - maybe he only learned of misha's gf #at this con too! maybe it was news to him. on top of not seeing misha for months i can understand #if he was feeling a bit neglected and out of the loop. there's also the matter of misha's gf not being #in a poly thing with jensen and dee like vicki was ie. what she has with misha is seperate so i'm sure #that's another difficult thing to deal with knowing their time together is strictly separate #i've no doubt he wants misha to have a partner and be happy but there's an adjustment period #letting new people into your life and whoever misha's partner is now or in the future is going to #affect jensen on a personal level and moreover his relationship with misha. it's all very intriguing #and while i like what little i've seen and heard about this woman for misha i just think no matter who #she is it's going to take a toll on jensen's relationship w misha. i thought it was plain to see on jensen's face #during their panel: numerous moments where he was giving a poker face that wasn't covering a laugh #but instead like he was trying to smooth out his bitterness. or so my eyes and brain and heart tell me. #just various moments where things looked uncomfortable and jensen making off-colour jokes that didn't land #and which furthermore were barbed and snarky - not in their usual banter way but like he was lashing out #and using the excuse of chaotic panel convo to explain away his comedic pitfalls. but again maybe i'm #looking to much into it? idk. there are some lovely moments! fun and caring moments - but they #mainly came from misha's direction ngl. it seemed like misha was trying hard to keep the peace #while jensen was just running his mouth on comments and jokes that kept not landing - for me #everyone on my dash is loving their dynamic this panel - and i want to feel that love! it is possible that #learning misha has a gf has skewed my perception a little like i'm putting context onto moments #i otherwise wouldn't. but i also think i would've laughed and generally felt better watching their panel #if that was the case. idk. whatever the reason i do think something was OFF between them on stage #and it was coming from jensen from the start. misha picked up on it partway though but things felt #a little strained throughout. like jensen wasn't looking at misha as much as usual or reaching out for him #misha tried to salvage and not react to things. but both their answers to the last Q were passive aggressive af #and when they left the stage together they weren't close or touching or chatting like they usually are...

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

made a little video bc i miss making little videos

cw flashing images

#one day i will learn how to mix audio well but today is not that day #nonetheless happy with this one #got some new ideas into this one i think #like i often come back again and again to the same ideas represented with the same clips #but here i had some new ones #like the schoolbell -> 13 in prison i thought that was good #reverberates through the entire rest of the video #theta sigma stuck bored in school a planet like a prison #teachers guards family high council it's all the same #also really liked the clip with the master where i made it look like a spotlight going over him #found that kinda by accident but i think it slaps #especially bc the spotlight is like glitchy #and just like all the comparisons between different places the doctor's been trapped #a barn a planet a lighthouse a prison it's all the same #everybodys always watching them everybodys always keeping an eye on them #the troublemaker that Will always run but can never escape #bc the rat flees the maze and falls off the table and is still in the room you know what i mean #little labrat #two thousand years removed from a life you dont even remember and youre STILL in the cage #also i think one of the strenghts of collage art is when you can recontextualise the original and make it..like...More #or pull out more new meaning from known things. i think thats like. good. i think thats the point of collage #one of them #and i do think of what i do as collage #and i did a couple of good recontextualisation in this i think #tecteuns line 'what would you give to know' it's like i heard that for the first time. that is EVIL holy shit #also 13s line 'doesnt even matter now' sounds so different without the visual. sounds so flat and resigned

[kirbyddd]

#thief the dark project #thief 2 the metal age #yes the origins of the mechanists and city watch are fully explained #as well as the origins of the trickster and the nature of the eye #and the world's predisposition to forming citystates rather than nations and the fall of the precursors #also sorry Deadly Shadows the Keepers are not jedi and are a young Order compared to the Hammerites #go find a different series to inject your starwars fanfiction into #(I love Deadly Shadows by the way but it goes far beyond butchering the Thief story it's outright not even the same setting) #read the botany book by Constantine's bed and then play The Cathedral by the way #the nobility and barony and spiritual realm still arent fully explained though. Thief 2 Gold i miss you so much you wouldve given us it all #(T2G wouldve let us explore a noble university and the tower of the banished Hand Brotherhood acolyte) #(and also wouldve given us the actual version of Karras' story instead of the sudden ending) #Thief 3 wouldve been insane. Can you imagine the fall of the Barony and the City changing hands as the digital era approaches #oh yeah Thief is a post-electrical revolution modern setting with analogue electronics and advanced medicine didnt you know that? #you just don't see firearms often because there was little demand for them in the City compared to more versatile bows. but theyre there #theyre just used more for field and naval battle. the City is too cramped and winding for them to be effective #and there hasnt been the demand to lead to the development of advanced loading mechanisms #due to the fortification-centric nature of infrastructure (due to REDACTED) premodern structures arent torn down just reinforced with steel #yes you learn all of this if you actually play the games all the way through. the opening levels of T1 are bait and switch #portraying the world as primitive and backwards as seen through garrett's eyes #dont get me started on garrett's full character. play Ambush! and really look through his apartment

[gen-is-gone]

I can't go five minutes in DW fandom without people being just atrociously mean about things that I love with the blissful unawareness of majority mainstream opinion holders that the people they're being mean about are like. In the space with them. And this in a space full of ardent fans of arguably some of the most esoteric obscure side stuff that everyone else disdains or doesn't even know. And I'm having fun for the most part but also like. It's just exhausting, constantly goddamn exhausting.

#this is about moffat and eleven #in case that wasn't clear #megan whines into the empty abyss of cyberspace #i'm not gonna say that Lawrence Miles in particular doesn't have every reason to hate Moffat #or that as an EDA fan first and foremost I don't also side eye the fuck out of a lot of his early arc plots #but Moffat wrote *characters* in a way that no one before or since does #everyone droning on about rtd found family has nothing on 11 and 12 era character relationships #also yeah it is genuinely annoying and upsetting that people are STILL going on and on and on and on about ~bad vibes~ ~misogyny~ whatever #like that's just your opinion man #and I think certain fans would genuinely be shocked to actually acknowledge that some people just straight up disagree with them #and straight up have a different experience with that era of the show #and don't share the opinions that got so saturated with so little pushback that the arguments are by now parodies of themselves #like do you hate eleven's era because you formed that opinion yourself or do you hate eleven's run because hbomb made a video? #do you feel the way you feel because you came to that opinion or because others in fandom 'warned' you about moffat before you started? #also like ngl it just straight up hurts my feelings #it's mean! it's just really mean and I'm tired of getting my feelings hurt in situations that are meant to be fun! #I lived through this ten years ago when I'd watch Dr Who and then get on the internet to talk about it #and every post would be just endless bad faith nitpicking and tearing the episode apart #anyway gonna watch power of the daleks now and remind myself not to engage w nuwho fandom

[sysig]

High demAndmiral (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #DAX #ZEX #The Captain #I was doodling their human forms again recently and apparently didn't get it all the way out of my system despite filling a page lol #It's probably 'cause I mostly reread A Sudden Discovery! after finishing them off - I still thought I'd gotten my thoughts down! #Apparently not lol ♪ ZEX's hair with grey streaks got me hagh lol #DAX admiring his Admiral is very good hehe ♥ Can't deny how handsome he is down to his core! He shines through his skin! #The rest were just sillies lol #ZEX is in su~uch a predicament lol #Tiny ''Oh my'' lol #A human no matter which way he looks! It's a win-win! #DAX playing dirty - what if he just used ZEX as a battering ram against the Captain lol #As long as he doesn't injure either of them it's fiiiiiine #Similar pose to the one of ZEX lifting the Captain from ages ago huh :0 It's a fun pose set! #I dunno exactly what ZEX is showing off in the last one other than giving the Captain bedroom eyes while being held by DAX haha #''I'll catch you later~'' but literally pfft #He's insatiable I'm sure he will #Watch your hand there DAX

[thebewilderer]

Watching Wednesday for the first time and,, is every line she says the entire season always this cringe inducing???

#also one of the people im watching it with is just. SO dumb. #ih #wednesday #he making up these theories about whats happening and treating them like canon and im ??? girl no #edit also this is an actual question #like i want to watch this show but #idk if i can if its always this... ''teenager who thinks theyre the specialest thing on earth because they hate people'' thing... #like girl we know youre super special can do anything hate people etc etc etc we all went through the same phase lmfao #my eyes hurt from rolling i cannot keep this up #i simply do not have the mental fortitude required to watch a show that has me rolling my eyes every time a character opens their mouth #and disclaimer i liked the addams family like the actual show #this is playing too deadass and im :-/ #but yeah fr is this going to continue the whole time or does she stop being QUITE so annoying once she gets a friend???

[chryzure]

castor being engaged to chrysi, but his best friend and also court jester is the only one who properly knows how to flirt w chrysi. and castor has to watch jacks go, “no, you can’t romance her that way. here, observe my example.” & then he promptly basically makes out w chrysi but with words that are perfectly primed for chrysi to tear into him

#jacks is like the ONLY way to romance her is to let her kill you in front of the court 😊 hope this helps! (through clenched teeth) #& castor;s like. are you sure i shouldn’t give you two a room? #memorie.txt #s.chrysijacks #au.jester #chrysijacks as princess and jester is good because jacks actually gets to take part in the banter #previously it was jst him being torn to shreds while he was like PLEASE STOP I NEED TO BREATHE #but now he’s like. ah chrysi! has time dulled your acerbic wit? 😌 #and she’s like look at you! you’ve opened up a dictionary to the first page and learned a word in the meantime! #and castor has to watch them stare at each other w the most insane bedroom eyes. jacks please. that’s his fiancée. please. please? #lots of thinly veiled flirting via jester antics……

[taikk0]

OHOHOHO NOOOHOHOHO IVE BEEN REPOSTING MY ART ON TWITTER SCHEDULING THEM TO BE POSTED EVERY 3 HOURS AND I JUST REALIZED THAT BC I DONT HAVE MUCH OF A BACKGROUND OVER THERE AND PEOPLE ARE SEEING THEM FOR THE FIRST TIME THEYRE GONNA HAVE TO BEAR WITNESS TO MY KRANG SHENANIGANS WITH NO WARNING AND NO IDEA ABOUT HOW I FELT ABOUT HIM UNTIL THAT POINT PLEASE IM GONNA LOSE FOLLOWERS OVER THERE SO QUICKLY LAMSOJSAHFAHFSJSH

#ITS LITERALLY SO IRONIC CAUSE LIKE..OK UH #LISTEN IVE NEVER ACTUALLY FESSED UP BEFORE BUT ABOUT TIME I DO IT NOW IN THE TAGS BUT UM I HAVE A CRUSH ON LEO 💀💀 #AND UNTIL NOW IM SUPER HESITANT TO ADMIT IT #AND NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT IM LIKE... 'OH NO WHAT WILL I DO IF I ADMIT IT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO MY REPUTATION!! ILL BE CRINGE!!' and like. #dude you have a crush on the krang your reputation was sullied a LONG TIME AGO WHAT DIGNITY IS LEFT TO BE PRESERVED 😭 #just the way that i always thought 'man having a crush on the krang is marginally less embarrassing than admitting i really like leonardo' #LIKE DUDE NO IT ISNT??????????? #they are both embarrassing but in different ways #LEOS THE TYPA LOSER THAT ID RATHER DIE THAN BE SEEN IN PUBLIC WITH #AND THE KRANG IS JUST WIDELY HATED WITH ASPECTS THAT ONLY I SEE AND IM JUST MAKING A FOOL OUT OF MYSELF💀 #the mental acrobatics i go through is actually just so.. #I NEVER WORRIED ABOUT BEING JUDGED FOR HAVING A CRUSH ON THE KRANG BUT IM WORRIED ABOUT HAVING A CRUSH ON A TURTLE THAT EVERYONE- #-UNDERSTANDS THE APPEAL OF?????? LIKE HUH #sorry yall eyes have been opening these past few days 💀💀💀💀 #my own bf described leo as my 'turtle boyfriend' once LIKE I DIDNT EVEN LIKE LEO THAT MUCH BUT HE KNEW SOMETHING I DIDNT 😭 #MY BF DOESNT EVEN WATCH ROTTMNT #THAT IS NOT A DEFINING CHARACTER TRAIT #HE USUALLY CALLS THEM BY THEIR MAIN ATTRIBUTES OR THEIR BANDANA COLOR (EX. THE SMART ONE. THE ANGRY ONE. THE ORANGE ONE) #WHY DID HE CALL HIM MY TURTLE BOYFRIEND I DONT UNDERSTAND #I CRIED ABOUT IT (/LH) AND HIS RESPONSE WAS 'what? ✨polyamory!✨' LIKE DUDE PLEAESEEE 😭😭😭😭 #IM GLAD THAT I KNOW YOURE OPEN #BUT WHAT #good to know that my bf flat out said that he was okay with me being with leo apparently 💀 #idk whats wrong with him /aff #my bf not the turtle i know whats wrong with him #anyways um. #YEAH LETS NEVER SPEAK ABOUT ANYTHING I ADDED IN THE TAGS AGAIN #its classified info between the two of us you the reader and me the mikyomix CAPICHE?? #also no this does not affect sona lore whatsoever they r just friends #translation: i am a wuss 👍

[ectoplasmer]

y’all ever think about kissing your f/o. literally screaming into a pillow

#it’s not FUNNY i want to kiss a fictional man so bad right now it makes me look DUMB #hold on i need to be embarrassing for a sec #i’m thinking like… specifically those seconds in between kissing them where their eyes are drooped closed and they’re already leaning- #-towards you again and maybe their hair is a bit messed up because of you grabbing it and agdkfhfk #or like…. the kind of kisses where they’re laughing or giggling to themselves in between breaths and their eyes are squeezed shut and- #-they’re just smiling st you the whole time. literally not once dropping it even while kissing you. #SOBBING MAN…. I’M SO DESPERATE TO KISS ANY OF THEM :((( #doesn’t even have to be traditional kisses like #forehead kisses drive me literally insane #doing something kinda dumb and being met with them like snickering while they shake their head #having them push back your hair to kiss the top of your head while teasing you about it #when you’re cupping their face and they’re looking at you so adoringly and they’re cradling your palm to their face #them turning slightly to press a kiss to your palm while nuzzling into it further…… sobs #i am so soft right now i would literally die at just a peck on the cheek. send help #being busy doing something and they come up to watch you work on whatever it is #maybe it’s something you’re already used to and they can just watch you go through the motions like second nature #and for some reason watching you do something so naturally makes them remember just how much they love every bit of you #so they turn their head to kiss your cheek and when you look st them they just flash you a small smile before going back to whatever #OR OR getting kissed awake by them…. having them press little pecks all over your face when you’re already half awake…… aahdjfbfknc #literally kicking my legs in bed right now i am so not normal over any of these guys #ANYWAY hi tumblr. normal 11pm rainy activities i swear #i’m supposed to be packing…. oops #i’ll go do that right now BUT DO KNOW physically i am doing that mentally i am thinking of kissing fictional boys from a card game show #rainy.file #quartzshipping

[gynecologistmsfrizzle]

sick and fucking tired of abled people wanting me to hold their hand and reassure them we can still be friends if they don’t wear masks. fuck you. don’t you dare ask me “is it okay if i keep my mask off?” you KNOW the answer is no. you already know i don’t want your fucking covid because you have EYES and I’M WEARING A GODDAMN N95.

people only ever ask that question because they KNOW your response is going to be “oh, um, i don’t care...” bc responding any other way makes you look unhinged and demanding. nobody is ever gonna tell you to put a mask on. do you understand that? nobody is EVER gonna ask you to put a mask on, no matter how high fucking risk they are. “you can’t tell me what to do with my body” NONE OF US EVER WILL.

when you say “stop trying to force me to wear a mask,” what you are actually saying is “stop reminding me that my choice not to wear a mask is selfish and ableist, because that makes me feel bad about myself.”

the first point would be a fair request-- much as i think you should be masked, i sure don’t think anyone should hold you down and force it on you. but nobody is doing that.

the second point is not a fair request. kill us if you want. fine. i can’t stop you. but you will look us in the fucking eye when you pull the trigger.

#my classmate tried to have a conversation with me about why i seemed frostier than usual towards her #and i was like listen. you already know the answer to that question. #(she did know the answer. she brought it up immediately.) #you don't want me to explain how hurtful it is to see you preach anti-oppressive practice with your unmasked mouth. #you already know. #the reason you're bringing this up is because you want me to reassure you that you're the exception. and you're not. #when i talk about how much it hurts to see abled people throwing us by the wayside bc they don't feel like inconveniencing themselves #even slightly #to save our lives? #that's about you too! in fact that's fucking ESPECIALLY about you! #i watched you go out to parties maskless all through covid! i watched you show up to class in flimsy single layer cloth masks #and take them off at the slightest opportunity #and drop them the second the mandate ended! #and now i'm watching you talk about harm reduction and disability rights ?? do you think i have my eyes closed ?? #i am not forcing you to wear a mask. in fact i have told you EXPLICITLY that i will never pressure you to wear a mask. #but i also refuse to lie and tell you it's fine and that your convenience outweighs people's lives. it doesn't. #no matter how hard you try and bait me into saying it. #this is not just about this one person. i'm thinking of her specifically but this is about every so called leftist who threw out their masks #either your progressive politics are a steaming pile of crap or you just don't think disabled people should be part of your visionary future #it's one or the other. PICK. #rhi talks

[ebonyforged]

relationship tag dump dont mind me <3 still have a few left to do

#putting them all together #r; How does it feel to breathe while you’re dead? {Alucard} #r; Now you crossed that line; I’m up all night. I’m gonna sleep with one eye open. {Saturn} #r; Cast all your spells onto me; touch me with your wand till the light shines through me. {John Constatine} #r; If you kiss me will it be just like I dreamed it — will it patch your broken wings? {Lucas North} #r; It's not unknown if I'm exploring it - I'm not crazy I'm just curious! {Lance Preston} #r; He's got a great big smile and cheekbones cut like knives but I know he's real ugly inside. {Azathoth} #tag dump #r; One day you will see; that I'll be back I guarantee; and that Hell's coming with me. {Slayer} #r; On the leather couch; exorcising Demons — no keeping secrets. {Kage Skirata} #r; Fool the illusion tearing through the seams — sliding under your skin; the strangest waking dream. {Morpheus/Dream} #r; You pollute the room with a filthy tongue; watch me choke it down so I can throw it up. {Slisaeqiothske/Sliske} #r; Two heathens ruled by demons that sneak through the trenches in our hearts. {Dmitri Antonov}

[nullcanary]

"Now all my other gods are dead. Hallelujah, to the apocalypse in my head!"

#just finished my first playthrough #what a wild journey this has been #this game has given so much enrichment to my life #this game pulled me out of the deepest depression ive ever been in #and then momentarily put me back in one after the malenia fight because reptile brain was like youve been running from a tiger for 4 hours #my stress response was so on edge for a week yall #but thats a different story lets not digress #I'm making art again... i literally thought i lost that spark #im WRITING again?!?? a FEW things too?!? yall whats in this elden juice?! #i finally have an oc of my own to cherish #ive connected with talented inspiring and clever creators of various forms of fanworks #truly the game just turned a light on inside me again that said 'youre allowed to feel again' #it just happened to be the correct combination of so many nuances that mattered to me already and them dialed them up to 10 #the astel fight was my absolute favorite #when i watched the trailer it was what captured my eye the most #when going through armor sets i saw the Preceptor's set and thought 'holy sh!t thats my aesthetic' #and now i have an irl version of it that i made with my own hands #ive never had the opportunity to be obsessed with a single character before and thats so weird to only realise after succumbing to varrérot #truly either reigniting interest in old joys or discovering completely new experiences #oh yeah and lastly im so flippin into IAMX now hes almost all ive listened to since the year began and thats also because of varrérot #tag rant over #elden ring #i have very normal feelings about frenzied flame #lord of frenzied flame ending ie third impact lmao #iamx stalker lyrics in header

[secattention]

#Arcane Pathways #on BitChute #awareness #endless propaganda & fake news for 24hours a day 7 days a week for 2 years on ALL Forms of Media #Thousands of Business closed forever #Hundreds of Thousands of People out of Work #Thousands of Suicides --- that were NEVER Talked about #The ONLY thing that the parasitic government could have possibly done to DISRUPT People's Lives more would be to put an 'official employee' #to watch every person closely to make sure that each individual is following the ''NEW IMPORTANT TEMPORARY LAWS'' for their own safety... #perhaps cameras in everyone's home to keep an eye on them #perhaps track them everywhere they go... #OH WAIT.....That's Right!......the governments ADMITTED they SPIED on it's Citizens through their Cell Phones...which have cameras & mic's #I think it is time to be MORE STRINGENT with the pretend dr. do-little fauci......perhaps we could go shopping together for some fine rope #I got your ''more stringent lockdown restrictions'' right here...

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

#shut up e #long post #Saturday thoughts #this has been in my drafts for a week haha #also this is the heart of why AI art feels so wrong #forget the discussion of copyright and theft etc - even if models were only trained on public domain they would still feel very wrong #because they’re not art. art is the labor of creation #even commercial art and art commissioned by the popes and kings of history: there is humanity in the labor of it #unrelated: I did not know living in the Bronx was now something to brag about. How the fuck do y’all New Yorkers afford this city???

[osaemu]

GOJO SATORU: ❛❛ YES, I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND, AND YES, SHE'S REAL! ❜❜

.ೃ࿐ streamer!au: what happens when your gamer boyfriend brings you on-screen for the first time?

contents: fem!reader. use of she/her pronouns + reader is referred to as gojo's girlfriend. toji slander bcs he deserves it.

author's note: everyone welcome streamer!gojo to the world! he'll be here for a while...

"oh, please," satoru laughs, leaning back and grinning at the screen in front of him. he tosses his hair, but it falls back into his eyes just seconds later. "no way you guys all thought i would lose that one. c'mon, have some faith in me!"

you watch satoru reply to the hundreds of comments lighting up the side of his monitor, smiling endearingly at the way he laughs at some and practically chortles at others.

it was only after the two of you started dating that satoru disclosed his streaming hobby, and to your surprise, he was pretty popular. thousands of people tuned in to watch him play some game or another every night, and well, it paid better than you'd expect.

satoru whistles, hands resting comfortably behind his head as a particular question catches his attention. "ah, do i have a girlfriend?" he muses, grinning as he shoots a quick side-glance at you. "yeah," he continues, snorting when what looks like a flurry of no fucking way's flood the chat.

he clicks his tongue disappointedly, shaking his head in mock disbelief. "what, did all eight thousand of you think i couldn't pull? thanks a lot," satoru deadpans, waving his hand and sighing dramatically. "i don't know what any of you mean. i'm a catch!"

you snicker at that, and your laughter only increases when satoru turns and gapes at you. he juts his bottom lip out, face sinking into an adorable pout at he crosses his arms. "even my own girlfriend's laughing at me," he mumbles petulantly. "hmph!"

satoru sticks his tongue out at you childishly, and you blow a kiss back. he pretends to faint before turning back to his monitor, quickly skimming the comments before he gasps. "what do you mean, she probably doesn't exist?!" he sputters, clutching his heart exaggeratedly.

the look on his face is priceless — imagine getting told by thousands of people that one, they think you can't pull, and two, that they don't even believe your significant other exists. naturally, satoru reacts as dramatically as ever. he pretends to ignore everyone in the comments before calling them out individually.

"oh, i see you, toji... fishy-guru," satoru gripes, wagging his finger at his screen. "my girlfriend exists and she's mine! don't even think about it." he pauses, squinting at the chat before correcting himself with an eyeroll. "fushiguro. whatever. either way, she's real and she's all mine."

satoru swivels his chair to face you, making an incredulous face as he gestures to the screen. "can you believe this?" he grumbles, ocean-blue eyes focused on you. "these guys don't think you're real."

you shrug, toying with the corner of his sheets as you smile back at satoru. he's so childish, but that's just one of the many things you adore about him. sure, he's an annoying brat, but at least he's a total sweetheart too.

your boyfriend extends his hand, beckoning you to come over to him. "c'mon, darling," he cooes, scrunching up his nose at you. "wanna help me prove these losers wrong?" satoru mouths please, and the puppy eyes he gives you are cute enough to convince you.

so you hop off his bed, running a hand through your hair as you stroll over to where he sits in front of his monitor. beaming like a kid on his birthday, satoru takes your hand and twines his fingers with yours.

smiling smugly, satoru pulls you on screen and into his lap, wrapping his arms around your waist and resting his chin on your shoulder. you watch the chat erupt with she's real's and how did he pull a girl like her's and smile, flicking satoru's forehead affectionately.

he ignores the thousands of dumbstruck users in his comments and holds you close to his chest, adjusting his grip on your waist to make his lap as comfortable as possible for you. satoru's adoring eyes are fixed on you, only you, even as his chat explodes.

suguru-geto: haha i already knew

toji-fushiguro: how the fuck did a loser like him pull her?

yuuji-itadori: gojo has a girlfriend??? what did i miss??

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