#our embraces

[masilvi]

I caved

#miraculous ladybug #ml fanart #marinette dupain cheng #ml spoilers #ml special #ml paris special #my art #It's ok girl we all had our own cringe teenage phase 😌 #she's such a stereotypical angsty teen I love her #fully embrace it

[backonrepeat]

Given how Sceleritas Fel prompts Durge to kill their lover in the game, most posts and fics I've read feature him being against Durge getting involved with Gortash, romantic or otherwise, because they need to focus on their mission. Totally makes sense, probably what happened given what we see in game.

But. What about wingman Sceleritas Fel? Just for the hilarity of it all. Maybe he deems the Chosen of Bane worthy enough of his master's attention, maybe he just views the whole thing as a chance to further enhance Bhaal's power. In any case he's determined to help his master bang Gortash, cue murderous socially stunted Durge taking romantic advice from their psycho, even more socially maladjusted butler in order to seduce Gortash.

"You should shower in some blood before meeting with Lord Gortash, dear master, it does wonders for your skin and brings out your eyes"

"Why, yes, I do think Bane's chosen will appreciate your thoughtful gift, my dark master. Nothing quite says romance like a dozen bloody hearts in a box"

"I'm sure Lord Gortash enjoyed your date together, oh vile master, who doesn't love a bit of ritualistic slaughter? Why, the way you disemboweled your last victim was simply sublime! If that didn't prompt him to make a move it may just be he's a bit of a prude..."

#meanwhile poor gortash has no one and is left with ketheric for advice #gortash: “should I unbutton the shirt further? or is that too slutty?” #ketheric (wishing for the sweet embrace of death): “...can we please go back to our evil plans for world domination?” #baldur's gate 3 #dark urge #enver gortash #sceleritas fel

[lookinglass-fic]

Them 🥹🥹🥹

#i just love and miss them so much #do you ever cry #gentlebeard art #ofmd #our flag means death #gentlebeard #blackbonnet #edward teach #blackbeard #ofmd art #ofmd fanart #the embrace #my art

[ryllen]

Look what came through the mail today! The letters & ( •̀ω•́ )σ 3 little gremlins from letterstoear.

Just wanna say i adore the flower stickers on the letters too much, they are that much worth mentioning.

#letterstoear #nui #twst #twisted wonderland #sebek zigvolt #malleus draconia #twst grim #mod posting #okay but i love squishing the bears with my thumb; they just have the right thickness to be pressed on #i really like the flower stickers; they look like romantically artistic wax seal #the letters are pleasantly nice #i love the part where cheka personally request for an audience with yuu thru sebek 🥺🥺🥹🥹 too cute hnggh ....... #sebek becoming our little mailman for our little invitation aw 🥹 for those who wanna know the context of the letter; #i requested a letter from sebek that he sent home while he was away accompanying malleus on other country duty #my other favorite part is just him simply opening the letter with 'My love' #i'm sealed 🥹 the first paragraph is written so sweetly #i enjoy reading the letter slowly outside in peaceful afternoon today; i ran it through together with sebek nui #this will be my treasured keepsake from now on 🥹; it seriously made me miss letters and wish i have someone to send this kind of letter to #it was a bit funny how the envelope sebek's letter came from is sticked with the guys from free! sticker fhsdsh 🤣😂 #and me with the white haired guy like WHo are u?? fsjdsdjsd (´つヮ⊂); but it's a really nice service #the thank you letter came with such a cute and yummy folding paper; thank you for the stickers too #i feel like there's a bit whoopsie on grim's winky eye fshfh like i think the sharpie just blurs the separating space '<' supposed to have #and just combine it all together into one angry eye; and sebek bear's eyes are just a little bigger than i expected it to be #but the more i look at them i think they are just having a little individuality & still cute #i embraced it all together while knowing the fact none of handmade thing would always be the same one with the other; hehe sebek nui has fr #i kinda forget that there's this kind of clip earring fshd; because i always get the ones that work like screw from aliexpress #i know that the literal clip one would just be literal meaning of pain fsh; just like the magnet one my father once got me when i was a kid #it was painful but pretty; tho i lost it quickly bcs magnet easily get loosed once one part of it moves around when u touch ur hair or face #anyhow i had a pleasant day because of this; thank you very much ! sebek nui said 'thank you' too! ‧₊˚❀༉‧₊˚. ❀ ✿ 𖤣…

[merricatblckwood]

I'm thinking about the fact that so many BBC Sherlock traumatised veterans ended up being huge fans of ofmd or good omens and I feel like. Nature is healing or something. Queerbaiting aside, Moffat and Gatiss were taking themselves sooo seriously like oh look at this very heterosexual dark genius and the fans were like "oh he's gay and autistic and in love with his best friend and he's smoll and cute" and that would piss them off so bad.

With ofmd and good omens it's so unapologetically silly and unserious and any interpretation could end up canon and everyone is cute and emotionally stupid and creators and fans are on the same vibe

Nature is truly healing

#i guess i could've mentioned supernatural but i wasn't in the fandom for long and it was such a long time ago #so i don't know enough about it to talk about #idk if there's a point to this post it was just a thought that made me happy #and also a kind of petty revenge like “look mofftiss if you embraced the sillyness and queerness of the fandom you could've have it all” #you could've have it all bitch #anyway bye #ofmd #our flag means death #bbc sherlock #good omens

[animentality]

I know everyone wants stories with happy endings, and they all hate when the main characters die, and insist well what's the point of the story then, it didn't matter at all! they died!

but.

I don't know. do the stories of those who die at the end not matter at all?

because if that's the case, I have news about the stories told by everyone who has ever lived in this world.

we all die at the end. we are all doomed by the narrative.

but our stories still matter.

#writing #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #listen it can be done well it can be done poorly #but i dont get this hatred of characters dying at the end and everyone not getting their happy ending #its not about realism #its about what the author is trying to say #some characters die because they need to die #because it fulfills their character arc it enhances it #it makes a difference #and there is catharsis in understanding that sometimes people die for a good cause for a glorious purpose #we all die #isnt there relief in seeing a story where our special friends die but it mattered in the end and death was something meaningful #if it was embraced with dignity #am i making any sense #i just know my own death wont matter #i like following stories where the mc dies but #it meant something the way mine will not #and the vast majority of people do not die for a good cause or with purpose #and those who do are heroes in our reality #but why are they so reviled in fiction #let your characters deaths mean something

[jodegg]

Stede wearing red this season because he's finally wearing his heart on his sleeve 🥹❤️

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #I'm biased bc red is my favourite colour but my god he looks so GOOD #Ed doesn't stand a chance #he's fully embracing who he is and how he feels #making me so emotional my little guy is finally confident in himself

[residentialhomeowner]

a lot of people are using nex as a queer talking point without even mentioning they were choctaw and 2S. without even mentioning that this - harassment, assault, murder, disappearances, lies/indifference/denial about the circumstances of our death - is typical of the violence we face. not once have i seen non-native people address that we, as natives, face this same treatment within queer communities. that queer institutions use our land while declining to offer native-inclusive and -sensitive care. we suffer at the hands of white lgbt+ people just as much as we do at the hands of people outside the community.

nex is not your NB pariah. nex was a 2S, NB, choctaw child. thousands of native people go missing and are killed and no one cares. many are two-spirit. many are LGBTQIA+. many are "queer" in ways only defined and recognised by our closed cultures, that you may never hear of and may never understand.

if you are going to flock to nex, you are not going to take them from us post-mortem. they were choctaw. they were native. their tribal affiliation has already been falsely reported on. if you are talking about nex, you will talk about how unwelcoming and dangerous your communities are for us, too. you will talk about how natives face this violence constantly, everywhere. you will not remove nex from the context of them being choctaw, ever - or you won't say their name at all.

even when we die, you don't care about us. i am telling you to care about us if you want us to stop dying.

#howling #nex benedict #yeah no i'm tired of seeing edit: and they were 2s!!1!! #no. first and foremost they were a native child. can you people stop fucking stealing our children. #some other notes if you see my tags: allegedly nex preferred he/him. i will prioritise using he/him. sources seem credible. #secondarily: if you aren't Black do not say ''rest in power'' for non-Black people. i do not know choctaw mourning traditions and language #(i'm algonquain and aleut) and won't tell you what To say. but please do not use ''rest in power'' when inappropriate. #thirdly: if you don't know how to talk about us Don't Talk About Us. QUOTE us. share OUR words. #may your spirit walk freely nex. may you be at peace. may flowers grow in your footprints and birds fly on the wind of your breath. #may your ancestors open their arms to you and embrace you in love. we will never forget you. i'm sorry we failed you. #we will do better next time.

[feralsteddie]

where that one post about Steve accidentally inventing pastel punk because he wanted to be edgier for a Corroded Coffin gig, but wasn’t willing to part with his soft colors

#steve harrington #steddie #imagining Steve putting little spikes on the shoulders of a jean vest he bleached and dyed either pastel pink or that soft yellow ie sweater #he likes soft acid wash jeans and had Eddie help him tear them up #he has a Corroded Coffin shirt (a white one with just the band name in that scratchy font) #and Robin helps him dye it a soft color #they add slashes they put safety pins through #and he buys a pair of steal toes he adds charms through the eyelets of #sorry thinking of our local prep get edgy in his own way and accidentally create a subculture #which- honestly Eddie would have mixed feels bc metalheads and punks are two distinct alt cultures already #so he’d be like ‘Harrington how could you go PUNK on me????’ but also he’d be so proud bc Steve is finding what he enjoys and embracing it #OOH Steve commissions Vickie to make CC patches for each of the party members and it’s the first patch he puts on his own vest #pyreposting

[letmeinnnnn]

The kickstarter to get a billboard in protest of the Shadow and Bone/Six of Crows cancellations is up now!

We are first focusing on the spinoff since the script is already written.

If everyone who signed the petition donated just one dollar, we would far exceed our goal.

Never stop fighting!

http://kck.st/3R6w5XV

#for the phenomenal cast and all fans of the duology #shadow and bone #six of crows #leigh bardugo #kaz brekker #kanej #wesper #wylan van eck #jesper fahey #nina zenik #inej ghafa #matthias helvar #helnik #grishaverse #we never stop fighting-six of crows #we cannot let them waste this cast in our lifetime #netflix shadow and bone #netflix #embrace the unhinged. become kaz brekker.

[archerdork]

spoilers for ofmd s2e8 - a discussion of the decision to do That to You Know Who

i guess my biggest issue is that you should have seen the end coming because it makes sense narratively, so in a way you did see it coming, but the show has spent two seasons subverting expectations and chucking logic out the window, so in the context of the universe they've created it fucking doesn't make sense.

I know it narratively makes sense to tie Izzy's arc off like this, but this show has gone to great fucking lenghts to show it doesn't give a toss about sense or how you're supposed to tell a story. The plot armour has been so thick for two seasons it's genuinely ridiculous, but that's the show and now this is the audience it's amassed. You think I've spent all this time watching these idiots strut around an ocean the size of a bathtub powered by nothing but spite and a gaydar because I value logic above all else? You think I like the show despite it's narrative insanities, not because of it?

Spending a season on Izzy's emotional and mental journey only to kill him off in the end does makes a certain literary sense. Him dying surrounded by the family he finally accepted and who accepted him in turn makes literary sense. His death allowing Ed to let go of the last of Blackbeard makes literary sense.

In the real world.

But we've spent two seasons in Pirate Muppet Land, with it's bathtub size ocean where everyone can find anyone, where wounds heal the moment they're patched up, where crocs and paparazzis paperazzis exists in 18th century. I'm not here for realism, I'm here for the insanity. I'm here for the workplace romcom where this community of queer idiots can laugh and cry and have their drama and, yes, a boatload (ha) of angst but it's fine because it is about them, the plot only there to further their personal journeys no matter how unrealistic that plot turns out to be. They created Something, something new and different and hopeful, and then made a single decision that went against everything they'd built so far because? Logic? I genuinely don't know.

Ultimately I'm happy with this season. I had so much goddamn fun. I enjoyed the ending, though for the personal journeys it concluded rather than story it actually told. This season was way too rushed, for which I assume we should largly blame HBO. The cast and crew did what they could with what they had.

Still though.

I said at some point during this season that I "genuinely can’t see a scenario where they kill off any of the crew, it’s just not that kind of show". Turns out it decided to be that kind of show, with the worst decision they could make. Killing off Izzy does make literary sense. Which, in context of the show so far, makes it goddamn unrealistic.

It's not a good plot twist to pull the rug from out under the audience if the rug is actually a carpet floor you've spent the whole season nailing down.

#ofmd #ofmd s2 spoilers #izzy hands #spoilers #our flag means death #our flag means death spoilers #not taking any fucking chances i'd hate if this was spoiled for me #all this is not even mentioning the fact they killed a queer disabled man #who was just starting to embrace himself and his identity for the first time in his #a subject I feel other people have articulated far better than I ever could #so I'll leave this particular subject to them #in conclusion #im happy pissed off a little sad and grateful for what they're trying to do even if they dropped the ball a little #IN MY OPINION feel free to give fuck all about all this im just rambling #shut up jonna

[seance]

WHO AM I TO YOU? I AM THE ANTICHRIST TO YOU.

#ofmdedit #ourflagmeansdeathedit #ofmd spoilers #ofmd #our flag means death #edits #useravia #userbecca #usernoobie #userelio #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #still so lost on the ship name i'm a fake fan fr #rs: you make me happy #if anyone doesn't want to be tagged feel free to let me know of course ♥ #and if could all just collectively pretend this mess of a typography work is not an eyesore #my fragile mental health would be grateful #def in an awkward stage of transition towards another style and i just have to accept it. embrace the mess #anyway. i've been wanting to use this song for someone for ages so let's go babes #we're all both the monster and the lover in someone else's story am i right #flashing gif /

[respectthepetty]

So if you ask how I'm doing after episode 10 of Our Dining Table, well . . .

Why is Koji the best dad? EVER? He did everything right this episode. EVERYTHING!

He gave Minoru and Yutaka time to have a date without Tane, then Yutaka got in his head and moved away from Minoru's touch.

But Koji noticed his son's behavior when he got home from the date, and jumped into fix-it mode. He knows Minoru is too kind to push anything with Yutaka, and even though Minoru seems annoyed at his father's antics, Koji's heart is always in the right place. He understands these two boys love each other, but on their own, they will let the distance grow.

So he gives them a way to be with each other. He tells Yutaka he has to stay the night. He leaves them alone. He allows them to be close.

He consoles Yutaka!

Which allows the boys to be there for each other.

Because Koji cares for all his boys. ALL. OF. THEM.

So Tane easily understands that Yutaka is family.

I could (and probably will) write thousands of words on this statement alone, but while Yutaka worries about his place in their life, and overthinks how to define himself in their lives, and Minoru doesn't want to overwhelm Yutaka, Tane gets exactly what his dad has taught him.

Because Koji teaches all of his boys how to love openly and without fear. He teaches them to be proud of that love and not coward away from it. He teaches them that when you love someone, you don't hide it. He teaches that you love your family, even when they aren't there.

And Tane understands that Yutaka is family.

Koji made sure of that.

#our dining table #bokura no shokutaku #ueda koji #koji is the best dad EVER! #episode 10 #If there is a BL Bracket for best parent understand I'm taking it personal if he doesn't win #Ain't nobody been as consistent as him #Many parents are great #But Koji is the BEST #Minoru never had to come out #Koji understood and embraced his son's boyfriend #He is only happy when his kids are happy #And he worked HARD to make sure his kids stay happy #I'm crying in the club

[grelleswife]

*grasping my fellow like-minded Kuro fans by the shoulders* Listen to me, comrades…we are NOT going to tolerate attempts to make The Cursed Ship popular and widely-accepted on this platform again, or misgendering of our lady Grelle Sutcliff, or sliding backwards into the mire of fandom toxicity, in the wake of this new anime announcement. We 🔥 are 🔥 not. 🔥

#kuroshitsuji #kuroshitsuji 2024 #i’ve heard horror stories about what the fandom used to be like when the original adaptation was in its heyday #and i’m legitimately scared that we’re going to backslide and lose all the progress we made (at least in the tumblr kuro fandom) #hopefully we can accentuate the positive #just because we’re getting a new anime doesn’t mean we need to embrace those rancid early 2000’s vibes #those should stay in the past gathering dust #sorry for ranting i just feel very protective over our little corner of hell 🙈

[thisfuckingdork]

Haunted

#was hit by a sudden bolt of inspiration late last night lol #had to draw our favourite haunted boyo #my art #poster #echo vn #echo spoilers #Carl Hendricks #socketman #socket man #the embrace #John Begay #James Hendricks #tw spider #tw spider eyes #my best friend has a strong phobia for spider eyes so I had to censor them every time I showed him updates lol #I've gotta do more pieces like this one #had a lot of fun playing with shapes and shading with this one

[onwhatcaptain]

Some days it just makes me unbearably sad that we will never really get spirk because Paramount thinks queerness is acceptable only in non-legacy or "unimportant" side characters because it wouldn't really damage their reputation. Which isn't really queerness at all if the leads can't have it.

#Just makes me really sad that they do so little to recognize the canon queerness they HAVE #And will invent new ways to introduce characters as queer or queercoded without having to put in real work to normalise it #Like making jokes about Chapel dating a girl or giving Ortegas a haircut does not make them queer in my mind #I need to see queerness performed. Queerness embraced. Queerness woven into the narrative #That's what makes spirk so special. #star trek #spirk #space husbands #k/s #kirk x spock #spock #s'chn t'gai spock #james t kirk #captain kirk #I just don't buy that a 23rd century utopian socialist world is straighter than ours today #they're probably so queer they're past the need for labels. #let Spock be queer. #It's not a win that Chapel had a comment about being bi. It means Paramount thinks she's so unimportant that she can't be a threat. #Let my girl BE bi!!!!! #erica ortegas #christine chapel