#the old pretender

[acrossthewavesoftime]

Comic Sans Valentines: Stuart Edition

Imagine you have travelled back through time, and find yourself in the middle of some splendid court festivities... The gentlemen wear their finest embroidered suits, the ladies their most choice jewels and you marvel at the spectacle you are allowed to partake in. As you retire to a balcony to take some fresh air with your glass of syllabub, you feel a hand brushing your shoulder. As you turn, a calm, albeit laboured voice breathes into your ear: "My cannon hasn't seen action since the Siege of Derry." *wink* You recoil and screaming-- and wake up sitting upright in your bed.

Upon suggestion from @vankeppel, have some terrible pick-up lines from terrible dead people!

There are two options for Bonnie Prince Charlie; a fairly obvious one alluding to Mo Ghile Mear, and a second one for fans of the 1925 musical Dearest Enemy (...are there any?) who'll know there was more than one 18th century "Betsy Burke" who had a few (tender) brushes with gentlemen in red coats.

#comic sans valentines #stuarts #house of stuart #in order: #charles i #charles ii #james ii #james scott duke of monmouth #mary ii #william iii #anne #queen anne #james francis edward stuart #the old pretender #charles edward stuart #bonnie prince charlie #history #history humour #history memes #17th century #18th century #dearest enemy #utter nonsense #mo ghile mear #british history

[eriochromatic]

cross guild poster redraw but with colors inspired by the new ep! 😤😤😤

#one piece #cross guild #dracule mihawk #buggy the clown #sir crocodile #erio art #erio stuff #this is the one we deserved fr #i pretend i do not see the old one.... #god i loved the little animation flair they added

[inkskinned]

the problem is that being single is seen as the consolidation prize, and not the natural neutral state of being-a-person. at the end of the movie or the book or the poetry, there is a person waiting for you at the altar, and they love you. if the play is a comedy, everyone gets married. the metaphor is about how you are not-whole. the metaphor is about how everyone is going to be happily-ever-after. the metaphor is that romantic love is the most important resource on the planet, not just all-love. all-love is not a thing, that is a disappointment. the treasure is not the friends we made along the way. the treasure is the girl you landed.

the metaphor is that you cannot be alone, that means you are broken. are you getting over someone? that is acceptable, you can be getting over someone, but not for long. you must be single because you would rather not be single. you must be single and looking to not-be-single. you must want to date, eventually.

friendship and community are never seen as being equal-to or even-better than romantic connection. that person is your one! you need to find them. you need to hunt through the sand particles until you can shift out some kind of gem. this is regardless to your own experience of the beach and the sun. you need to be somewhere with someone.

if you are taking this time alone to heal, that is so sad. everyone gives you this little pitying look. the understanding is that you are not actually happier than you were before you were single. it is seen as a sort of pity - oh, you are choosing yourself, making yourself the priority? - that isn't quite right. you must mean that you are making yourself ready for the right person. you are just laying the bed better this time. open up your heart. you'll find them, we promise!

what do you mean you're really-truly genuinely-very happy? you are probably misremembering what it was like to be in a relationship. and besides, once you meet your person, that time will look grey and bland and wasted. your person is the only way for you to see in color. so what if you have taken this time - for the first time in your entire life - to actually-for-real do the fucking work. you can be proud of yourself, sure. but the way we need to know that you got better is that you get a partner. you're healed enough for the next bad part!

people don't choose to be single, they just say they're choosing to be single - they actually mean "nobody wants to date me." it doesn't matter how many people you have gently rejected or how many times you've talked it over carefully in therapy. what matters is that you are single, and by all accounts - that means you are something worth our pity. your successes and life all seem pale in the sunlight. sure, you have done amazing things and finally found your way in life. what matters is that there wasn't a person in the room with you while you did it.

you want to tell them - that's the whole thing. i didn't know how to be alone in the room. i didn't know how to handle the silence. every moment was so sharp, and i kept choosing the wrong way to close the door. i have spent my entire life in the empty well, living in the ricochet of someone else's cruelty. for once i have built myself a ladder. for once everything i taste is all mine, every bite of sunshine and laughter. i have learned how to sleep out in the open with my memories. recently, they have started to purr.

your father rolls his eyes. listen. this isn't about you. i just want a grandchild in my future.

#writeblr #i actually didn't want a girlfriend before nat #and my dad recently said to me - raquel. i don't approve of the promiscuity #1. i am 30. #2. i had casually dated about 4 people over 18 months. #3. i do believe he was just mad that i get more girls than he ever did #i had to look this 60 yr old deacon in the eye and say. okay so i have a girlfriend first of all im just not tellin yall about her #and secondly. #OKAY???? OLD MAN I DONT EVEN LIVE HERE WHAT ARE U GONNA DO ABOUT IT #briefly considered asking nat if i could pretend we were a one night stand kind of a thing

[nostalgicish]

Happy birthday Shiro :)

#he’s finally 8 years old ! #voltron #vld #vld shiro #takashi shirogane #my art i guess #no backgrounds bc i . simply can not #pretend i know how to shade

[octosimpin]

SEASON TWO LETSGOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 🥟🐊🥳

#dorohedoro #dorohedoro art #drhdr #drhdr art #kaiman #ドロヘドロ #old art I forgot to post before let's pretend I saved it for the perfect timing 😎

[taxinealkaloids]

girls will literally turn their parents’ corpses into meat puppets to prevent the House of their birthright from being annexed by other powers 

#my art #tlt #the locked tomb #harrowhark nonegesimus #the corpse puppets were actually the reason I instantly became obsessed with her #also i'm nearly certain people on the ninth realized p&p weren't right. as ortus said harrow isnt the only one who can add 2 and 2 and #get four!! like those guys were dead. they were for sure dead. and everyone just kinda agreed they'd pretend not to notice. #picturing some nuns sitting around like ....ok so we all know they're dead right? we know they're dead? #and the other ones are like yeah but shhhh #yes the 10 yr old is doing the budgeting now. just ignore it. #also tumblr decided to absolutely chow down on the quality of the first pic so uh it just looks like that now. crispy.

[saprozoicworm]

experimenting w/ my art

#south park #wendy testaburger #stan marsh #im lukewarm about them but #pretend this is old stendy when things weren't so bad #i think this was subconsciously inspired by persona 3 in a way #ive been playing the remaster that just came out

[yeritos]

⠀⠀⠀⠀( _ _ ).｡⠀o○⠀⠀passionfruit⠀♡

#ㅤ ㅤ ✿ ㅤㅤ ( file ㅤ 119 ) #quick pretend you got heartbroken! #taeil my king #divider by fairytopea #kpop moodboard #vintage moodboard #alternative moodboard #clean moodboard #pretty moodboard #random moodboard #aesthetic moodboard #cute moodboard #old moodboard #simple moodboard #sullyoon #sullyoon moodboard #nmixx #nmixx moodboard #spring moodboard #moodboard #flower moodboard

[mjulmjul]

some old pre-s2 ‘concept art’ about surviving a storm..

#ofmd #our flag means death #artists on tumblr #stede afraid ed went overboard or smth #im cleaning out my wips #you know when you have OLD art but feels bad to just let it waste away? #i wish i had more to offer lol #btw remember the deep fandom lore of that one tumblr convincingly pretending to be djenkins. iirc this was based on one of their posts lol

[loversofthegrave]

pre-series baby sammy n dean. those little spuds grew up in each others pockets

#i love finding old photos #pretend they are sam n dean not jared n jensen #supernatural #spn #sam/dean #sam winchester #dean winchester #pre-series dean #sammy #pre-series sam

[s-aint-elmo]

digging out my eah content part 3: the monster/fairytale culture shock we deserved

ID: a set of sketchy digital comics of c.a. cupid using monster high slang in ever after. set one features cupid popping up behind cerise hood.

cupid: hey, beastie! cerise: what. cupid: what? cupid and cerise hold an awkward silence. cerise, snapping her fingers: ohhhh, is that slang? cerise: ahaha okay don’t mind me (louder:) haha cedar wait up

set two features ashlynn ella showing an excited cupid her sketchbook.

ashlynn: what do you think of my new designs? cupid: oh, total freak chic, ashlynn! ashlynn: ashlynn, tearing up: you could have just said you didn’t like them...

the final image is blondie lockes thoughtfully tapping away at her mirrorpad as cupid, off-screen, exclaims “fangtastic!” “clawsome!” “furricious!”

#ever after high #c.a. cupid #cerise hood #ashlynn ella #blondie lockes #doodles #mine #quality once again down bc these are the remnants of the great collapse (of my old laptop) #i simply think cupid should not have made such a seamless adjustment <3 i simply think it should have been addressed in the first place <3 #imagine how funny cupid would have been actively pretending to not be a monster #up there w cerise with the juiciest reveals we never never got to see

[heich0e]

every year on your wedding anniversary osamu convinces you to take your ring off and go wedding cake tasting at local bakeries while pretending that the two of you are still engaged

#giggling between bites while osamu squeezes your hand under the table #kissing him in the car on the way home and tasting the buttercream on his lips #after enough years have passed you've hit every bakery in your town so you start having to go on trips to pull off your little ruse #and when the two of you get old enough and can't travel as far from home as you used to be able to when you were young and spritely #the staff at your local bakery pretends they don't know what you two are up to because seeing how you treat each other #and love each other makes them feel just as special as watching any young couple try their cakes #hq hcs #hq writing #writing #osamu x reader

[star01007]

#i used to love these soaps #i would pretend i was a fish swimming inside of them #2000s #aesthetic #y2k #cybercore #frutiger aero #vaporwave #retro futurism #webcore #y2k aesthetic #old web #y2kcore #dreamcore #weirdcore #nostalgiacore #frutiger #dream #liminal #2000s web #early 2000s #liminal spaces #cyber y2k

[smokbeast]

They're silly! They dance!

#sun likes to pretend he hated the old model but it was nostalgic to him. moon liked that it scared kids JEDKKF #theyre silly like that #art #my art #fnaf #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #sun x moon #five nights at freddy's #dca fandom #fnaf security breach #sunrise #moondrop #fanart #fnaf fanart

[yea-baiyi]

reading xie lian’s POV is actually hilarious once you realise xie lian isn’t oblivious at all, he basically guesses most things immediately, he’s just taken the veteran autism tactic of “it’s too much effort to figure out when it’s appropriate to mention that i know something, so i’ll just pretend i don’t know until someone says it aloud”. sometimes it turns into a bit. the truth might be embarrassingly obvious, but social cues are hard, and xie lian has infinite time to wait for the other person to blink first.

#tgcf #autistic xie lian #xianxia jesus #meta stuff #like. he knows. for a great many things he knows instantly #and acts like he knows #but he’s not going to be the first to acknowledge it #because as an Autistic he has no sense of scale whether he has like. reasonable ground to say things. #like he’s old enough that i’m sure he could figure it out if he tried #but he’s tired he prefers to wait #like he knew who hua cheng was from the second he got on the ox cart #that’s why he baited hua cheng into the conversation #and hua cheng also knew this that’s why he let himself be drawn in #like. they’re 800 year old gods they know this #but also xie lian is like. is it rude to call him out. i have no idea. #so he kind of pokes around for evidence that would give him an excuse to admit he knows it’s hua cheng #but then when fengqing show up it’s funnier to pretend he doesn’t know #like. never say that xie lian isn’t committed to the bit in his old age

[arcane-gold]

gonna start using tumblr less like a “i’m a serious artist and i need to make sure my profile is streamlined and minimal” way and more like i did when i was 18. im gonna start reblogging gifsets and ask games and you’re gonna just have to live w it y’all im sorry

#im still posting art and it’ll be under #my art #but im tired of pretending like im not just a 19 year old tumblrina on the inside