#so that eventually I’ll stop

[itskaitsart]

please,, they’ve rotted my brain

#my need for soft icemav was immense but i cba to finish it so #have it like this #maybe i’ll clean it up eventually #they’re so in love i can’t #top gun #tom iceman kazansky #pete maverick mitchell #icemav #been nearly four months since i first watched and i haven’t stopped thinking about them

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

“Being a pirate is all about going your own way.” // “Come with me, Buggy!!”

is this post totally redundant after the similar post i made last week? idk. i guess the main difference is that this time i’m looking at the same topic in an unambiguously romantic light? the shipper goggles, as they say, are on, and i want to talk about these scenes in that context. so, if you’ll forgive me for repeating myself a bit, let’s talk about this again:

as much as i enjoy the heartbreak of “they always thought they’d be together but miscommunication tore them apart” takes on shanks/buggy, the very first flashback we get about them—the first things we learn about them at all, really—tells us this isn’t true.

and i think what we get is more romantic.

Chapter 19, Pages 12-13. i know last time i said they’re at most 12 here, but looking at these lanky-ass teenaged designs that’s nuts. i fully believe oda hadn’t thought through their ages/the timeline at this point, and they were originally supposed to be about luffy’s age when buggy got his devil fruit. which is not relevant to this post in any way, but it’s my post so i get to go off-topic if i want.

Shanks and Buggy have their own goals as pirates, and at this time they understand them to be mutually incompatible. Buggy thinks Shanks’ travel-and-adventure-oriented take on piracy is soft and foolish; Shanks doesn’t care for Buggy’s exclusively treasure-focused take. They’re sometimes friendly, sometimes not, they’ve fought side by side, but they know this time as allies and crewmates is temporary. (Buggy plans on taking his treasure map and the Devil Fruit and leaving the crew immediately.) Maybe they’ll become friendly rivals, ‘fighting to the finish’ when they run into each other like Roger and Whitebeard do, or maybe the next time they see each other they’ll literally fight to the finish. Who knows?

“That’s also what being a pirate is all about.” It’s very sensible behavior. Smart planning for the future.

Which means the contradictory ways they act later—Buggy secretly deciding to follow Shanks, Shanks bluntly asking Buggy to come with him—are not about these characters thoughtlessly clinging to the status quo. They are not in a “we were always together and I never thought that would change” situation. Deciding to stick together is a considered, emotional decision: “I know we don’t make sense together but I don’t care, I want us together anyway.”

Chapter 1082, Pages 8-9. i was cursed the moment i saw these pages with Unable To Stop Thinking About It disease; only time will tell if seeing it animated makes it worse or cures me.

This argument is a codependent breaking point. Buggy’s pinned all his dreams on Shanks, hoisted that poor boy up on a pedestal, and it all falls apart when Shanks reveals thoughts and plans that don’t match Buggy’s perception of him. He can’t bear to be around him now that the false image has been revealed. (Shanks, poor thing, seems to have had no idea any of this was happening.)

But if Shanks hadn’t said no to Laugh Tale in this moment—or maybe if he’d offered a soft no of, idk, “okay, sure, once we’ve got a strong enough crew”—Buggy would have gone with him, still projecting wildly onto Shanks. He’d convinced himself that being a member of the Pirate King’s crew was enough for him, that he didn’t need to be Pirate King himself if Shanks got the title and he was with Shanks.

…but would he have actually liked being a member of that crew?

Like, looking at the things the Red-Haired Pirates do, would Buggy have enjoyed being one of them? Wandering East Blue, hanging out in friendly port towns, collecting treasure here and there but spending a lot of time getting drunk and making friends with the locals? Eventually becoming famous for having a large, weak fleet of subordinate pirate crews Shanks has to sometimes physically step in and protect?

God, no, he’d’ve been miserable. Just seething with thwarted ambition, furious at the perceived disrespect. A real power hungry first officer stereotype, the kind of character that makes you think, Why’s he working for this guy if he hates him so much?

And Buggy must have suspected it would go something like that. But if Shanks hadn’t rejected Laugh Tale, he would’ve gone with him anyway.

(Better to be miserable with you than a loser on my own.)

Or say Buggy agreed to come with Shanks. Obviously his presence wouldn’t change the crew makeup significantly enough to skew the Red-Haired Pirates towards his way of thinking, but for the sake of argument: if he had convinced Shanks to do things his way, would Shanks have enjoyed the kind of piracy Buggy engages in? Taking over and destroying East Blue port towns, ordering your crew killed on a furious whim, single-mindedly hunting down treasure maps and single-mindedly hunting down treasure chests and paying no attention to anything along the journey? Eventually becoming the boss and administrator for a bunch of bounty hunters and mercenaries?

No way; most of that behavior is totally repellant to Shanks. If he let Buggy do that kind of thing under his banner, you’d be left wondering What happened to his morals? Why does he let this guy walk all over him?

And Shanks knew the kind of pirate Buggy was and wanted to be. But he asked Buggy to come with him anyway.

(Better to be miserable with you than have fun apart.)

It’s hard to see a way to make these very different styles of pirating work together. It’s probably doable… with a lot of compromise and honest conversation. The younger Shanks and Buggy had a point, when they said each going their own way was the obvious choice! It was certainly the easier one. Was it the happier one? Who can say.

#i also keep thinking of that year after the roger pirates disbanded. did everybody REALLY go their own way? #or did the two youngest maybe stick together. for safety in numbers! not bc they’re afraid to be alone or apart or anything!! #they’re just. SO codependent after roger’s execution… #i really don’t think that was the first time they’d seen each other in a year. #shuggy #one piece #i’m sorry i can’t stop thinking & writing about them #eventually i’ll be able to have thoughtful opinions about other things again #maybe even about non-one piece things!! anything’s possible! #shanks #buggy #my meta #*the shuggy roguetown breakup #*shuggy miscommunication #.19 (devil fruit flashback) #.1082 (roguetown flashback) #*shuggy ironies #*buggy’s bad choices

[girafficparka]

Gorgeous and actually buff Shepard - check

Flight suit Garrus showing a little sumthin’ sumthin’ extra - check

Talons and claws! - check

Best friends with benefits who are too caught up in their own heads to realize it might be love - also check

Milkywayes (go check out their tumblr- shakarian perfection) is an amazing artist and did this comish for my ao3 fanfic Comparative Anatomy. Thank you love!

Welcome into my brain people - I can’t get these two idiots out of it.

#they love each other so much it’s stupid #femshep x garrus #garrus x shepard #garrus my beloved #shakarian #garrus x femshep #shepard x garrus #garrusvakarian #female shepard #milkywayes #I swear I’ll stop posting this and finish the sequel eventually #mass effect fic

[applecherry108]

What’s cuter than turtle tots? Turtles tots in JAMMIES. ;w;

#pov it’s bedtime but ur dad keeps eating ur Halloween candy 😂 #overlaying screenshots is soooo much fun I cannot be stopped. 😭 #I’ll probably free hand these design eventually but I really like what I’m doing now so.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #my art #tmnt art #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #save rise of the tmnt #unpause rottmnt #human tmnt #rise mikey #rise raph #rise donnie #rise leo #turtle tots

[xactodreams]

#nb #transmasc #ftm #my journey so far #maybe i’ll stop hating this dumb face eventually

[snzluv3r]

welp. i had to stop the antibiotic for my sinus infection because i Am indeed allergic to it and it keeps giving me anaphylaxis so yeah executive decision was made that i shouldn’t risk it :( i’m so frustrated and i’m really starting to feel sick to a point that i could collapse at any moment

#literally had a guy from work i see everyday stop in his tracks and ask me if i’m okay #and i purposefully put on mascara today to mask how horrible i feel #sometimes my sinus pain/pressure and migraines get so severe that i think i would rather just. keep taking the antibiotic #because even though that horrible indescribable dread during anaphylaxis #it’s such a scary horrible sickening feeling like it’s so distinct idk but idk…it eventually goes away #the pain doesn’t unless i finish the whole course of antibiotics #this is so fucking frustrating and i’m so tired i don’t have time #i’m scared i’m going to get pneumonia again #i won’t even be able to go to #the appointment they’re scheduling for me tomorrow until at least tomorrow night and that’s if they even have that #otherwise i’ll have to wait til saturday #god by then i’ll be miserable #i’m so drained and it felt like friday all day for some reason but it’s not ugh #random probably delete later just so annoyed

[jaxie101]

say what u want ab perry he was the only one that wasn’t profiting off of others work. that man gave the bare minimum and did as little work as possible, but he still… worked for it…

idk freddie was just shadowing his father his entire life and riding his wave of reputations. tammy specifically chose her husband bc she knew she couldn’t make it on her own, so she used him as publicity. it wasn’t vics heart mesh, it wasn’t even her surgery or handy work it was just the money she gave to her girlfriend. leo (pookiebear) wasn’t making video games, he was paying people to make them. and camille (arguably the most hardworking of them) had her assistants do most of the work… perry at least TRIED to put some energy into his work…

i also don’t think he was as stupid as people think. he was a moron sure, he cut corners and if he’d tested the tanks or listened in that meeting… he’d have died better. BUT arguably ?? what he did wasn’t stupid ?? “it was sooo expensive” who’s the idiot? the one charging it? or the one buying it? he made the money, and tbh cunty ass move using it as blackmail but also smart as hell…

#perry was a moron but he wasn’t an idiot #he was just a stupid clever guy yk #i swear i’ll stop talking ab him eventually #i just find him so interesting i can’t help it #leo camille and perry 🔛🔝 #the fall of the house of usher #tfothou #i wonder how many people are fed up of me rambling in the tags #LMAO #prospero usher #frederick usher #tamerlane usher #victorine usher #napoleon usher #camille l'espanaye

[crazymecjc]

manga redraw bc I’m in a silly goofy mood

panel and version without text below the cut!

#trigun #trigun maximum #oof my art i guess #vash the stampede #nicolas d wolfwood #vashwood #spinning them around in my brain at the speed of sound #something about the two of them just Hits Different #maybe it’s the religious imagery #maybe it’s the fact that they both Know each other so so well #who knows #whatever it is in their dynamic I am biting it #I just think they’re Neat #I promise I’ll chill the fuck out with art of the two of them Eventually however I do also have like three more ideas off the top of my head #so uhhh I will be going wild on main for a bit longer sorry #anyways I’m very happy with the colors in this one they sure are color #gonna stop rambling now I need to get out of the tags if you read all this for some reason ily

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

first draft making progress (but it still feels very scattered, as first drafts are wont to do)

#and i know i should be doing sources as i go at least for the sake of being able to write up my bibliography or whatever #but ngl when i’m mid-writing and getting on a roll i don’t want to stop to go grab sources #that i know are for the most part tagged on my blog. either one. #i have a single tag for everything here and more detailed tags on the other blog #so like… i can find stuff fairly easily #ANYWAY #progress!! i realize i sound batcrap insane but again: first draft #i’m gonna clean this up if not do a total rewrite eventually #(likely i’ll just tweak it/ ‘’fix it in post’’/whatever bc i hate rewriting it feels like it messes up my whole flow #but EITHER WAY it will be a bit clearer by the time i’m done skjhgskjghfs) #mmkay #Lu rambles #lftos essay #tw suicide #fob

[sleepysketchess]

just a girl and her milotic :)

inspired by @sasharcyreal ‘s kotlc pokémon au art

#linh needs to get a vaporeon at one point for character developement #the hairpins and bracelet are gifts from marella btw :))) #pushing the marellinh agenda #kotlc #linh song #pokémon au #i have ideas for pokémon au tam too i’ll get there eventually #and irrelevant but umber would have a zoroark or something you can’t stop me #i originally had this posted as a reblog but i switched to original post bc the vibes were off #so if u saw that shhhh no u didn’t

[undyinglantern]

the amount of surprised pika “wait people actually shave their arms?” comments on posts about body hair are so funny like I unironically am so happy for you that you weren’t laughed at by a classmate for having hairy arms “like a man” in like 4th grade this is why I wish body hair conversations would stop centering around armpit hair

#okay that’s the tldr but the way I actually remember it is that the classmate (a boy) pointed out my arm hair and ask why so hairy #and I genuinely was so confused I was just like idk??? and then later at home that day I asked my mom about it and she was like #It’s bc your dads side of the family is hairy so then I later talked to that guy again like ‘I take after my dad’ or whatever #And /then/ is when he laughed and was like ‘but you’re a girl’ about it #Granted I’m non-binary but like I didn’t know that in elementary #Plus I didn’t stop shaving until around mid 2010s and was still self conscious about it for years #Like I remember feeling embarrassed during college (2018ish) if I had to use the rest room and someone else was in there when I would roll #My sleeves up to wash my hands #Anyways I eventually stopped caring about it sometime within the last year or 2 but see how long that took? It really shouldnt #Like some of us just genetically have more darker thicker visible body hair than others and we shouldn’t be shamed for it #One thing at a time though because even I’m still working through leg hair shame #I don’t shave them anymore but I also haven’t worn shorts outside of my bedroom in years #I’ll literally switch into shorts if it’s too hot right before bed and switch back into pants before stepping out of my room in the morning #I’ve been feeling cute the past few days and it’s starting to warm up again plus also had a convo w mom recently so #I might change that soon but only within the house still bc baby steps <3 #Anyways I’m just rambling now so I should stop. Good night !!

[weebeewoo]

Bug cat show doodles i did at 3 am

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous marinette #miraculous spoilers #season 5 #bug noire #my beloved #alya cesaire #scarabella #or something #i forgot #lady noire #i love her #shes so beautiful #i love tagging #someone stop me #i need to fix my sleep schedule #I’ll draw marcanne again eventually hang with me #im too autistic for this

[aurosoul]

these are just screenshots I grabbed from my friend’s insta but I recently got to show my XR art to a couple of dancers from Switzerland who own a motion-capture studio and it was FASCINATING watching they way they moved as they interacted with my stuff!!

I created a magical forest with floating jellyfish and crystal orbs, and they moved through it with such grace and delicate hand motions that I felt like I could sense what they were seeing even though I was just looking on from outside

#incessant meowing #i always fail to record video of things like this kshsgsh #i get caught up in the moment and don’t want to be pulling out my phone yknow!! #anyways it was wonderful meeting them and we had more in common than i thought #for example they are also hoping to start a residency program at their company #for dancers who want to experiment with mocap for virtual performances! #there’s so much love and passion for art in tech right now #picture journal #also this happened at ar house! #i’ve been trying to stop by more often to help out with stuff there #cohorts aren’t happening anymore so it’s just a third space for the local xr community #events will be starting up again eventually though #and i’ll be hosting some workshops myself!!

[socvinc]

This is a warmup page filled in over roughlyy the last week or so. Theme was teeth.

#Tw dental gore #Cw teeth #i suppose #art #artists on tumblr #original art #warmup #sketches #doodles even #Tw body horror #Promise i’ve got hannibal pieces in the backlogs. Eventually i’ll stop feeling Like Shit and finish all of them #Tragically that day is not today. So teeth! Nom.

[owtenen]

When a Ranch Becomes a Home (pt 1???)

Tango, despite his best effort, dies. Unfortunately, he has a lot more than just death to deal with after.

read my stuff of AO3!

CW: Depictions of anxiety, minor panic attacks, and tango gets blown up.

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Tango was just thankful this game happened during the summer.

His body was still cold, and when the wind picked up, he felt the fire on his head fight for its life to stay alive. But all in all, it was better than last time. The cold winter air and stormy rainy nights made it almost impossible for the blaze born to function properly, but this time it was different.

He felt good. He had armor, he had food, he joked with his friends and made some new ones. But behind all of the it, there was a little nagging thing in the back of his mind.

It took Tango a while to realize it was anxiety.

He didn't really get anxiety, which is probably why he didn't realize it at first. He was a man on practicality, a man of smarts. He knew he could talk himself out of any anxiety he found himself clouded in, so he had never really felt the hollowness in his stomach like he did now, or the way his heart jumped when he thought about it.

It was faint though, like it wasn't really there at all. That is, of course, when Tango realized it actually wasn't there. That is was his soulmates. Whoever his soulmate was was really stressing out, and only when Tango realized it did it start to actually effect him. Like when he was talking to Bdubs and Impulse, he had to stop for a moment to breath, his soulmate had fallen off something and it hurt his ankles, but the pain in his stomach from the anxiety his soulmate felt was somehow worse. He needed to find them, whoever they were.

It got worse as he was going deeper in the cave, it started creeping into his own thoughts as well. Maybe his soulmate had a reason for being this anxious, maybe they were in trouble. Maybe he was in trouble.

An arrow shot right through his arm, and it took a minute for Tango to register the pain. He turned around quick, but there were too many monsters coming after him to process what was happening. He swung his sword with one hand, making sure to step back with each swing. He was getting through them one by one, if he just brought them to a choke point-

That's when the creeper dropped, and thats when everything went black.

~

"Common..." Jimmy found that muttering under his breath as he scaled the mountain to actually be quite helpful. His arms and legs hurt like hell though, and he was having a difficult time breathing.

He felt a shattering pain rip through his left arm, but he just shook it out and continued to climb, "Don't. Even. Think about it." Finally, he got to the top, and he looked out over the sky as he tried to catch his breath.

He felt another jab in his side, and then he felt a sharp snap in his ankle. He winced and clutched his stomach, the random bursts of pain were not helping his anxiety.

He would not be a burden to his soulmate. He would not damn them the way he had already damned himself.

He felt a few more jabs in various places around his body, and as he was thinking what on earth his soulmate was doing, he felt a searing pain ripple up his back, and he fell to the ground to die.

He wakes up sweating, he didn't think he was sweating before, but he certainly was now. Sitting up from the grass, he pressed the palms of his hands into his eyes, his breath coming in short, uneven huffs that made him feel like he wanted to throw up. The place on his back that hurt the most was pulsing, and he felt paralyzed.

Suddenly, he heard a tree branch crack, and a voice coming from above. Was it God? Was it Them? No. Jimmy shook his head to clear the fog that clouded his brain, looking up to see what was happening.

He saw a man in the trees. Well, calling him a man was maybe a stretch. He had seen him around. Tango if he remembered correctly. He was the blaze born that hung out with Impulse and Etho. Redstoner maybe? Wasn't this the guy with cows in the first game? Jimmy's head started throbbing along with his back, he tried to ignore it.

"Oh no...." He heard the man mutter under his breath. The flames in his hair were big and wild, and yet they didn't set the tree on fire when they jumped up to meet the bark.

"What happened, Tango?" His voice was tough, and he fliched at his tone. When he looked up, he noticed that Tango did too.

"I'm- I'm so sorry." Tango leaned over and put his head between his knees, his legs dangling off the branch. "I'm so sorry."

Jimmy took a deep breath, and then another, "What happened?" His voice was softer then, and he was satified.

Tango sniffed, and ran a hand through his flaming hair, "I was caving, and there were about 500 mobs coming at me from one side and while I was worrying about them-" He looked up, and the two soulmates made eye contact for the first time. Jimmy smiled, maybe it would ease Tango's mind. It must have, because the man in the tree paused to give Jimmy a small smile of his own, "You know, the old creeper-from-behind trick."

Jimmy nodded, looking around spawn where just a few hours ago, was filled with everyone. He realized with a jolt that he was yellow, the first yellow. He quickly took out his communicator and read the chat, every joke and taunt making the hole in his stomach grow bigger and bigger.

~

Jimmy's anxiety was just getting worse. Tango watched in silence as he watched his soulmate read the comms messages about their death. He wasn't completely oblivious, he knew the jokes that were said about him.

Cursed. Stupid. Careless. Jimmy's friends would always say they were taunting him in good fun, but Tango never felt comfortable enough to go along with it.

"Jimmy, right?" Tango hopped down a couple branches before landing on the ground, his back was still stinging, and he didn't need broken ankles on top of that.

He watched Jimmy come out of a trance in real time, his eyes going from little glossy things to wide alert oceans. “What?”

Tango shook his head and held out his hand, “I’m Tango….” after a pause, he awkwardly added, “of the Tek variety.”

Jimmy, despite it all, chuckled softly. “I’m Jimmy.” He thought for a moment, and Tango could see the gears turning behind his eyes, “of the…. Solidarity variety?” He shook his head in disapproval. “Doesn’t have the same ring to it.”

“Good enough for me.”

Jimmy smiled, and Tango felt the anxiety lift just a bit. Until it came crashing down again, and Jimmy ripped his hand away from Tango to run it over his hair. “I have no idea where I was.” He looked back at Tango, and his wide eyes were filled with worry, “All my stuff is gone.”

Tango sighed, “Yeah. I have no idea where my stuff is either.” He thought for a moment, watching Jimmy as he began to pace around the top of the hill. He wanted to shake him, tell him to breathe and calm down.

Instead, he started picking up sticks, “Let’s make a chest here, then we can go find out stuff and meet back up.”

Jimmy turned and watched Tango, his arms were crossed and one of his hands was up near his face, and Tango raised an eyebrow while he watched Jimmy bite on his fingernail.

Tango sighed, “I’m really sorry for killing us. It’s one thing for me to explodificate myself but I didn’t want to take you down with me.”

Tango saw Jimmy smile behind his hand, and the tightening of his chest had nothing to do with the anxiety, “Explodificate?”

Tango smiled and threw some materials at Jimmy. He didn’t catch it. “Common, let’s go hide our bits in a tree.”

This time Jimmy’s head tilted back in laughter, and Tango wanted to bottle up the sound.

The anxiety didn’t come back as strong after that, and Tango was happy for it to stay that way.

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i should be working on Problem of Etho and my other 24lsmp fics and yet here i am writing about a dead ship from a 10 month old smp …. oops?

#my writing #life series #double life #rancher duo #jimmy solidarity #tangotek #tango #solidaritygaming #traffic shipping #yeah they will eventually kiss your honor #is it bad to start a whole new fic while procrastinating on the final chapter of my other one? probably #i cant help it #also yea i know double life is long gone but tbh limited life is #in MY OPINION #not as inspiring as double life #like idk i can’t seem to write anything about limited life but maybe that’s just because i only really write ship fics #and limited life is giving off more family dynamics than is really necessary #also it’s not finished #i’m sure after the end i’ll find something to write about #i’ve written this so fast and i’ve been working on 3 desperate 24lsmp fics to stop myself from getting writers block #and yet there’s no writers block for RANCHERS #maybe they just are everything to me

[mistyfoxxy]

My sister passed away today.. I’m thinking about drawing maybe. I’ve been into hazbin hotel recently.. maybe I’ll draw something from there…

#it was crazy really #she was pregnant with twins #the hospital really messed up with her labor #somehow she went 9 min with oxygen to her brain #she’s been in the icu for weeks #our mom gave up on her and had them stop feeding her #and she eventually starved to death… #yeah her brain had been almost completely damaged #but she was improving #and then mom stopped feeding her #stopped letting people see her #kept speaking death #I just.. #I regret not spending more time with you #I’ll miss you so much #I love you