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mahalshairyballs · 2 years
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What would it take for Steven to fall in love??? How would he express that?
Ahah are you the same person who asked that for Jake ?
That one is pretty easy to answer: someone who's pretty, nice, kickass and pays attention to him.
Edit. Okay, this ended up being an essay on Steven and love *sigh* of course, so here it is :
Steven Grant and love/intimate relationships
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We saw how easily he falls for someone. I think he's had lots of crushes and people he fell in love with throughout the years.
I do think Layla is special though, even to Steven. She's his perfect woman, he wouldn't want anyone else.
I think he's very open with his love, both by letting himself feel and show those emotions and by being attentive to his SO.
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You know the five love languages? Marc and Jake have their specific ones they're more comfortable with, Steven's love language is...all of them.
He gives compliments, tells his SO how much he cares about them, buys them gifts, he is helpful and supportive, he gives nice little attentions, wants to be close physically to them, cuddles, hand holding etc, writes French and coptic poetry for them.
If it weren't for his crippling relationship anxiety and neediness he'd be the perfect romantic boyfriend.
You could never say that Steven doesn't care about you or doesn't treat you well sometimes too well, ask Layla
Steven is the unbridled need for love and affection of the system.
The other two boys have the same need but they pretend they don't/burry it deep.
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It's all good to subvert expectations and stereotypes but sometimes what the material gives you just works y'know ? No need to make it different to what we've been shown.
My way to 'subvert' Steven is just to make him the Straight BoyTM of the system. But even then he's not that straight, just more than Jake & Marc are.
Steven is definitely biromantic, because he just can't help but fall for everyone who's nice to him (okay he needs a bit more than that but you get the idea). He's only attracted to women however*, and he's comfortable being intimate with very few of those. He needs to know someone really well to be comfortable sleeping with them.
Steven still being a virgin at 34 (that's their age in the show if I'm not mistaken?) isn't just because he's neuroatypical/socially awkward/shy. It's also because, well, he didn't front for 34 years straight, so he was 'present' for less time than that. So to begin with he had less opportunities for it than your average singlet does. And thirdly, it's also because he needs that deep emotional connection before he can be intimate with someone (and with point 1 & 2 we know why he hasn't had that connection before Layla).
Steven is also the kind of person to call sex 'making love' (Jake & Marc roll their eyes every time, Layla giggles).
He's also the kind to say 'I love you' way too quickly (he has to compensate for the other two somewhere doesn't he?)
Marc has said 'I love you' to Layla before, but very rarely and way less often that he wished he had. So Steven will help Marc there at one point.
After saying 'I love you' to Layla after they made love
Layla came back from the bathroom to cuddle with Steven in bed.
Steven : 'Marc says he loves you too'
*Layla looked at Steven a little surprised*
Steven : 'since it's easier for me to say it, I thought I could relay the message.'
Layla : 'He said that in your...mind?' She still didn't know what to call the times where they could speak privately.
Steven : 'yeah, when you were gone.'
Layla smiled : 'tell him I love him too.'
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Weirdly enough, Steven is more comfortable with bisexuality than Marc is. Steven doesn't mind talking about it, or thinking about the possibility, or Jake telling him things about his relationship with Jean-Paul. He just shrugs off the possibility of being physical with a man, he's just not interested.
Marc on the other hand is UncomfortableTM about it. Because he wants to prevent himself from thinking about it, because he knows deep down...his sexuality is a big can of worms he doesn't want to open.
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* I found a way to fit Marc/Steven into my fic that makes sense to me. So there's that.
Marc is Steven's exception. Because it is a pretty exceptional situation and the way they got there is too. They will get physical, but it's in their innerspace, which is again a pretty specific and unusual situation (and they do not look like identical twins in their innerspace).
But Marc isn't that much of an exception for Steven. Steven is still biromantic straight, so he had to fall madly in love with Marc to be able to get physical with him, even in their innerspace. And they won't be doing 'everything', both Steven and Marc have their limitations, things they aren't comfortable with.
They'll try things outside their mind later, whatever they can do, with Layla involved too.
Following everything I said though, Steven once in love with Marc will treat Marc like he treats Layla, like he treats everyone he's fallen for.
*one day*
Marc sees a package on their drawer. There's a card, it just reads 'To my love, Steven ❤'
Marc : 'Layla? I think Steven left something for you in the bedroom'
Layla takes the package in her hand.
Layla : 'oh I don't think this one is for me'
Marc : 'whose is it?'
Layla, raising an eyebrow: 'who do you think? You, dummy' she says affectionately.
Marc : 'he bought something for me?'
Layla : 'Yes, he wanted to give you something special'
Marc looks the package over, but doesn't open it. Why is he feeling his face getting red? Steven bought something for me. He repeats in his head over and over again. What.
Layla : 'welcome to the exclusive club of 'being pampered by Steven'', she says teasingly.
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yuviur · 7 months
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Shot by Carol, on one fateful Saturday morning
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catocappuccino · 6 months
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U zee being cool and allat... like she always is
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+ two random doodles
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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 9 months
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i love your hua cheng design so dearly
YES! YES! TRUE TO SIZE!!!
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inkskinned · 2 years
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will it ever be enough? when someone loves you, you feel something curl inside of you, sour and whiplike, angry at being unheard. they don't really love you, they love this facsimile you have ensconced in your rabbit body. they will chop up the bits of you looking for luck and never find the good soul you promise - their love slides off. you're viscera; you have spent a lifetime promising the blood is art.
oh but when someone hates you - well, they're right to. and you'd trip over your little grassknot legs for them. begging them to reconsider. you feel it all knifeedge, spinepoint straight through you. they're the ones who see the real you, after all; and if they can love you, you might finally feel worth something.
but if they do love you in the end, after all of that, after your heart like a fawn opens to gutter under them - you've fooled them, and it isn't worth anything anymore. they've just gone and fallen for it. the love slides right off.
once, you heard a line in a musical about being abandoned. you laughed at the time, unnerved. your voice a keen; too shaky to be candid.
will it ever be enough. will the love ever diffuse through your skin and sink into your marrow. are you even capable of feeling that - of feeling cared for - or are you still waiting, even right now, for the hunter to draw the bow and arrow. if you trust that love, even once, and are wrong, you know exactly what will happen.
and somehow you know - you'll never be able to fix that, once it's been broken.
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general-cyno · 7 months
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wano has become a favorite arc of mine for different reasons and it also gave me a lot of zolu brainworms to mull over, so here I go (again). spoilers for some of the big reveals in the arc so beware
despite getting separated shortly after reuniting, yasuie's execution once again highlighted how similarly minded zoro and luffy are - like zoro, luffy gets pissed at the sight of ppl laughing at yasuie after he's killed, though they both learn it's due to the effects of the smile fruits. and despite the fact that doing so could put their plan in jeopardy (hence why sanji yells at zoro to cool his head), luffy actively cheers zoro on (from the distance) when he goes after orochi in retaliation
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a nice tiny moment is also back when they're together. luffy was worried since big mom appeared in wano yet jimbei (who had stayed in whole cake island to fend her off along his former crew so the straw hats could escape) hadn't arrived. albeit zoro wasn't even part of the WCI arc events, he's quick to reassure luffy:
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although I'm not certain whether law was referring to them specifically or not, there's a part during the discussion of the raid where he says there's two idiots who, no matter how much planning goes into it, are likely to charge straight in regardless. then, of course, this happens:
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(so yeah. I think they're probably the idiots)
and funnily enough, zoro doesn't get lost for once. not only does he find luffy, any intention zoro had of (ironically, considering he was causing a ruckus himself) chastising luffy for messing up the infiltration goes out the window when he tells zoro about the spilled oshiruko
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this is a direct callback to their interactions with tama when they first reunited in wano. it's cute how attached they got to her and yeah, they're both stupidly reckless at times but this is one occasion in which it isn't just for the sake of chaotic shenanigans - it's them getting angry at how these ppl are disrespecting what tama and the oshiruko stand for. to those present, it seems foolish/weird since they don't understand the context behind it, but it's the kind of understanding that goes on between luffy and zoro precisely bc of the moments they share together.
there's some good panels of both worrying about each other after getting hurt and zoro carrying an injured luffy to safety. they're soooo.
this was pretty good too:
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their plan to jump to the roof to face kaido ultimately fails here but it's still cute that zoro's so willing now to just cling to and let luffy carry him around like this (arlong park zoro has come a long way lol). it also says a lot abt luffy's trust in both the crew and zoro that he was fine letting them in charge below while he and zoro went to face kaido together.
the x drake ordeal was kind of funny but it served to show exactly why zoro complements luffy so well. luffy tends to be very trusting toward others, even those who might've started out as enemies which usually works out fine but still. zoro's quick to remind luffy that the guy's a traitor and unreliable, and (along with some of the other straw hats) refuses to blindly accept the impromptu alliance. it's interesting though, that zoro doesn't entirely disregard luffy's opinion nor x drake's help per se - he's just understandably wary of drake's true intentions (pointing out that he's still hiding where he stands in the whole conflict) and eventually agrees to team up. love the balance of it ngl.
that said, the actual fight on the roof has to be one of my favorite parts! it's probably one of the most obvious occasions in which zoro's role as luffy's first mate/right hand man and how much luffy relies on him too shines through. there's zoro slashing big mom and kaido's fire attacks so they wouldn't hurt luffy, taking the lead in attempting to stave off kaido and big mom's joint attack (and succeeding for a bit) despite the fact that he's got three powerful captains beside him, and several panels of him protecting luffy. this one was particularly crazy
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this is pretty much zoro's equivalent to "if you wanna kill him you'll have to kill ME first". insane. I love them so much. zoro may be the one to have more instances in which he gets to demonstrate his loyalty and protectiveness towards luffy rather than the opposite - but knowing luffy's the one who usually risks himself for others in grandiose ways, I find it very compelling that zoro gets to be the one to protect him in these important moments, that luffy trusts him to do it and even thanks him for it here in this arc. to me, there's a reason why, out of the whole crew, zoro was the only one to take part in this particular confrontation. mutual trust/understanding/respect etc are at the core of their relationship. it's a two way thing.
fast forward to zoro vs king and OF COURSE this mf thought of luffy when facing the guy.
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I posted about this the other day, but something similar happened during zoro's duel against mihawk. when the latter asks what drives zoro to fight despite being so weak, it's this exact part of his meeting with luffy at the marine base that he recalls. zoro has certainly driven himself to get stronger for the crew's sake and for his dream, but it's clear that luffy (and his own promise to kuina) is one of zoro's biggest motivators. he's also the one person zoro has cast aside that very dream of his for so... (thriller bark zoro you live in my heart always).
when zoro wins against king, too, it's his promise to never lose that he recalls. the promise he made to luffy. regardless of how you interpret their relationship, it's obvious luffy means a lot to zoro and moments like these don't let the readers forget it.
that said, this was perhaps the most insane part to me:
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just when you think zolu can't get more trope-y than it already is, the manga says: wait a fucking second. canon sun/moon, heaven/hell, god/demon zolu.
I was already spoiled about these bits, though they were exciting to read through anyway. I think it's very curious that both zoro's ancestry and his conqueror's haki reveal happened during the arc where the true nature of luffy's devil fruit comes to light and his awakening into joyboy/nika takes place. can't say for sure what oda's planning for them in the future, but wano is probably the biggest glimpse so far as to the kind of figures luffy and zoro are bound to become (or are already becoming) in one piece's universe.
joyboy luffy being considered a hero to wano only rivaled by shimotsuki ryuma is also so... oof, knowing that ryuma (also called god of the blade) is zoro's ancestor, whose zombie he faced back in thriller bark and whose sword shusui he wielded for a while after that, and that he resembles physically too (both being one-eyed samurai/swordsmen). there's a lot more parallels to be drawn between them, and zoro's conqueror's haki adds a whole new layer to their relationship, but a detail that's fascinating to me is that both zoro's presence and joyboy's awakening in wano are hailed as the work of fate at different points, by kawamatsu and zunesha respectively.
overall there seems to be a thread of "fate" that's tying the story together from the void century to roger's era to the present but choice is also an important aspect imo. zoro and luffy are an example, bc in spite of how their stories have turned out to be somewhat intertwined... it was luffy's choice to seek out the demon pirate hunter and rope him into his crew. it was zoro's choice to join him, to make a promise that'd tie his own dream to luffy's. there's a potential that neither of them could've reached if they hadn't come together to sail in that dinghy and formed an entire crew (a family!) that have all of them journeying towards their dreams, always relying on and striving to become better for one another. all of these little choices for luffy and zoro led them up to this point and onwards, which tbh is just really fucking good.
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🎶 best friends forever 🎶
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gregoftom · 1 year
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greg not only being tom’s attack dog, but his therapy dog, sheepdog, guide dog, watchdog, service dog
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fisheito · 3 months
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i told myself that yakuei only had one position then i proved myself (sorta) wrong
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my fave face here:
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#technically... if they were boinking in outer space... a lot of these would be the same position#makes a rotate-y gesture with my fingers#what is yakumo's kabedon if not a vertical missionary#so i've half proven myself right AND wrong! i'm net neutral in outer space broskis!!!!!#zizz-asdf if ur reading these tags i'll have u know that u inspired me to Do the Research1#like. 5 garu riding eiden? no. it can't be. does yaku do one specific thing with eiden 5 times? *tries to write it down*#i can't quite... what's the word for that position...uhhhh#ah forget it i'll just draw it out#<- that was the process of creating this. collage? 😆#THE MATRIX OF YAKUEI BOINKINg POSITIONS (under construction)#when u about to be semi-normal and make a spreadsheet but ur sexcabulary is stunted so you resort to visuals instead#legit opening up every intimacy room and skipping thru sections to get as complete a picture as possible#wondering... where are yaku's feet planted in this one. (skips to 8minute mark)#ah! there they are. theyre not supporting his weight in this one *draws it*#while drawing crimson phantom room 2 my brow was furrowed and i was mentally narrating#[and this one i affectionately call.. rectal exam - professional misconduct Grounds for Termination)]#surprised they str8 up havent done classicdoggstyle yet. is it because he's a snake? garu should teach him#also surprised that there's been no Light SSR for yaku yet. come on!! Light mode on the double!#uhhh i think the only repeated positions were freestanding (choco liqueur r2 and dark nova r2)#and standing AGAINST! THE! WALL! (choco liqueur r5 {interior} and shadow lineage r5 {cave})#wait. *throws papers around* i swear they did missionary more than once. was it only ocean breeze???#i know with the intimacy rooms they gotta modify the positions into certain angles to make it...look...better#but seriously? only one missionary out of the lot of them? despite the aesthetic tweaks??? how can that ........#*tosses more papers around with increasing befuddlement* WHERE IS MY PURE 100% VANILLA BEAN ICE CREAM#sighs as all the papers lie scattered on the ground#dude... i don't know anymore..... this is beyond my scope#now that i see how evenly spread out the positions are...#i BET the devs have SOME SORTA CHART tracking yaku's positions. now THAT'S a funky office corkboard!#yakuei#nu carnival eiden
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sandraharissa · 4 months
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I totally agree with the observation many ppl made that it's clear that in the song Alastor is just lying and manipulating for some reason and says what he says more bcos of Lucifer than Charlie but I also kinda anticipate that in some regard he's gonna be humanized/redeemed so I do think he'll form somewhat of a genuine bond at minimum with Charlie at some point in the future (maybe s2 or s3).
Cos Charlie believed everything Alastor was saying and already in this episode we met Mimzy with the whole "wow I didn't know Alastor had friends" and "he's a kitten", in the next we'll meet Rosie and it looks like Alastor takes Charlie to her to show her that ppl support her and will help her defend the hotel, so it's kinda funny how before the song Alastor doesn't do any real bonding with Charlie so to the audience it's clear it's all bs but he might do it in the very next ep that comes out.
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It's also possible Vaggie is not anymore in the picture (big maybe), which could make Charlie more reliant on Alastor for the first time for real emotional support. And this is all happening very soon after he claimed they have this special bond and she's like his daughter so why wouldn't she turn to him.
Now don't get me wrong I totally expect Alastor to do some truly fucked up shit first but if the hotel ever is to prove that truly anyone can be redeemed then what better example is there than Alastor bettering himself (probs not becoming an angel tho cos we know it's not his style).
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front-facing-pokemon · 7 months
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I thought that these inner sections of a pomelo peel thing kind of looked like flower petals with their coloring, so I left them out to dry for a few days, and then glued some of them together to make little "flowers" to hang in my window.
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lunar-years · 1 year
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Also also. the magic is that Roy thinks he’s going to be the one helping Jamie to be a better athlete and be greater than Zava and solidify his place on the team etc. and on the surface level, sure he is. BUT on a deeper second level it will be Jamie helping Roy (who has been sooo off these first few episodes. Btw.) on his journey to recognizing his pattern of leaving behind really good things before he can be hurt by them. This is how their best-friendism will lend itself to the realization of how similar they are in both being deeply repressed and unable to accept the care and love they deserve. Over the course of the season they will become the best versions of themselves TOGETHER in no small part because of the other. In this essay—
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uhbasicallyjustmilex · 8 months
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four walls: alex moodboard
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(miles’s version)
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ilmhist · 9 months
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some fiadhs, because much like the tadpole he now lives in my brain rent free
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musubiki · 3 months
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i think it would be very funny if lime kept stealing all of mochis side quests because he thinks theyre fun even though he doesnt need any of the rewards and everyone is pissed because they could actually use the things she gives in exchange but lime keeps fucking taking all the side quest resources before anyone has a chance to report back
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