#the surly one

[derangedrhythms]

Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind; from ‘The Surly One’

#theodore roethke #words for the wind #the surly one #poetry #excerpts #self

[beatcroc]

there's no way the bathroom at peppino's pizza is actually that big but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . hey ummm anyway.... i care them...... anyway there's a lil ramble on my take on fake pep's like psyche or whatever in tags on the og post if ur into that kinda thing :y

hey! it's a series! fake peppino world tour: [noise] [noisette] [peppino]<- u are here [gustavo] [gerome] [noisette again]

#ramble after realtags yeag. shoutout to serrangelic btw suggesting the silhouettes thing bc i would have Died otherwise #pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #fake peppino #gustavo and brick #arting #pizzaposting #so anyway i think fake peppino has like. a general awareness that he is supposed to Be Peppino and that he was Made to do that #and likewise he does generally try to...do that. the thing he does NOT realize is hes like really goddamn bad at it #not to be mean but like...c'mon. they are pretty distinctly different kinds of guys even beyond the physiology yknow. #he's neither on-brand nor fooling anyone dsjdsjjkgfsd. BUT! #since the rest of the cast generally likes him [at least as I play it] he thinks hes doing just fine #he's like 'oh they r happy with me so i must be getting a good grade in being peppino :)' #so getting told that 'yeah you actually really suck at that but that was never the reason people liked you' #and told that by og model peppino no less--yknow THE guy he's supposed to be living up to #who's already a bit intimidating for that and who ALSO totally wrecked him TWICE in the tower #making him acutely familiar with just how formidable the guy is and how much there IS to live up to.... #it's a Moment for sure. not really a sad or hurt one though. just... contemplative. #thinking abt people liking him for being the guy he's already naturally been being even though that guy is Not Peppino #i don't think he's gonna be super broken up about realizing he has a bad grade in peppino given everything else hes got now #nor do i really think he cares enough to go like reinvent himself or whatever after the fact #he seems to b pretty clearly having fun with it already so i think he just keeps doing that #and in some cases he still has the pre-installed peppino traits/instincts like to cooka da pizza. and that's fine #is this projection. yes. but if youve been following me awhile you know most of my character writing is ghdhfdgf #gonna kinda expand on all this in the gerome one which is...one after next. itll be a bit but man. #anyway peppino will never admit to anyone and especially not himself that he's gotten a little attached to the guy. hee hoo #pep tends to be kinda surly but he certainly has his ways of showing he cares. all of which are on display here #''that thing is not my son'' says man currently watching thing's antics with the 'bemused dad' arms crossed pose. yeah ok buddy. #gus is totally onto him already but hes not gonna say anything. #if u read all this ur prize is not having to go decode fp's rot13. his lines are ''meant to be you...?'' and ''wrong question.''

[see-arcane]

Dracula 99% of the time: What’s up, mortals, I’m here to drink and terrorize you

Everyone: D:>

Dracula going to the zoo: Hello, Mr. Zookeeper, I like your wolves :)

Thomas ‘Gives -10 Shits About Rancid Vampire Vibes’ Bilder: Fuck off

#NOTE: We're going to see in a much later chapter that Dracula is weirdly flummoxed by one thing beyond garlic blossoms and crosses #and that thing is surly workers whose flight or fight response to fear was replaced by the 'Fuck Off' response #I wonder if it honestly just baffles him out of doing violence #he's so used to humans being scared or playing valiant hero against him #he has no idea how to deal with wholly average crass folks telling him off #kind of love it #dracula #thomas bilder #dracula daily

[prosebushpatch]

the slippers are made of glass because its awesome where's your whimsy, where's your basic human decency if you don't like it kindly enjoy another genre that isn't FILLED WITH impossible dresses made of moonlight or silver. I'm sorry, you need someone to explain how a glass slipper wouldn't be impossible to dance in? a glass slipper that came from a FAIRY Godmother? Are you going to nitpick spinning straw into gold, too? You sound like the people who complain about musicals having music. It's about the beauty in imagination. It's about emotion manifesting impossible things. You don't have to like it. You don't have to engage with it. but that is the Point of this genre. the slippers are made of glass because it's awesome.

sometimes that's all it needs to be.

#okay this is mainly because i haven't been able to stop thinking about a post i saw earlier in the week #where it was a defense of Disney's animated Cinderella #and i agreed with the points until the last one was like 'you got me on the glass slipper that's weird' #AND #all love to the person making that post i get it #like it's ending on a silly teasing note and trying to relate to the people the post is for #who nitpick all aspects of the fairy tale #BUT I JUST #ARG #ITS A FAIRY TALE #A FAIRY TALE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DEFEND ITSELF BEING A FAIRY TALE #STOP IT WITH THE IRONY #STOP IT RN #okay sorry i got very heated and ive been feeling surly lately

[spookyprime]

I should actually post what Cassie and Bart look like for this au huh...

#doodles #reverse robins au #cassie is the daughter of ares #bart is actually still the same hes just a little more surly #hes based off that one artist who gave him the most 80s but emo hair ive seen he looked so good

[witch-and-her-witcher]

Went to a rural bar while visiting friends out of town. Met the only open trans guy in the area and his dad, who bounces Saturday nights so his son can have fun and he knows he's safe.

It sucks thats a needed thing in the first place, but fuck if that isn't the ride or die support every trans kid deserves from their parents.

#make rural bars safe one surly ass parent at a time #no one will be surprised i got very teary eyed over this all

[nanatsuyu]

GRUBHUG BLOODBAG ANDREW???????????? oh my goddddddd (@stabbyfoxandrew)

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Andrew works for a company called bloodline that runs like a niche vampire grubhub service. He mocks Kevin (affectionate) who grew up "vegetarian" and has a weak stomach for blood additives. Neil is Kevin's recluse roommate that Andrew did not know was living there for several months and refuses to feed off anything that isn't Kevin.

#theres more to it like how kevin cant smell and he was also the one who turned neil who then had to flee #and was raised a bit feral and is now horrified to drink human blood (kevin owes him tho but even that took some coaxing) #andrew used to just make deliveries to kevins place but eventually made friends because hes a bit of a surly loner and andrew is weak to it #eventual kandreil but neil tells andrew his blood smells bad (it doesnt but neils a snot and is finnicky about humans so he hides) #also tells him its a good thing kevin cant smell or he would have cottoned on to andrews crush on him #chaos ensues the day neil agrees to try human blood again after a century #fanfic fanfare #my writing #grubhub au

[glooumnastas]

Based on real life

#one piece #KidLaw somehow #child Law #trafalgar d. water law #trafalgar law #donquixote doflamingo #kid is also mentioned #law is hella proud of himself #kid surly upset by him #kidlaw

[larrylimericks]

22Mar23

Congrats, Lou, on opening night! Thanks for sharing your fears, faith and fight. You deserve your success And that maximum bless — And that hug left us high as a kite!

#larry #louis #louis tomlinson #aotv #all of those voices #harry #harry styles #larry hug #larry hug 2.0 #i'm about to post my aotv review #accompanied by a surly limerick #which i kept feeling guilty about #so i wrote a celebratory one #choose your own adventure #aotv spoilers #limerick-lt #march 22 #2023 #i loved matt's line: #minimim stress maximum bless

[eppysboys]

Peter Bourne (works as Bette Bourne) and Brian Epstein

Peter was twenty-three, homosexual and a rising actor. Brian admired his Pierre Cardin suits and ties and his articulacy. Immediately Brian ‘quietly and shyly’ confessed that more than anything he wanted to be an actor. He told Peter that he had left R.A.D.A unsuccessfully. ‘I said, “Well, be an actor! Look, you’ve got all this money, you can make a choice. Change your name and go into rep!”

...

Brian went several nights to the theatre to develop his friendship with Peter Bourne. They visited restaurants after the show, and Brian introduced him to his friends in the pop scene: Cilla Black and Peter Noone. ‘It was wonderful to be met at the theatre by a Bentley, impressing all these actors,’ says Bourne.

Epstein was, says Bourne, ‘very afraid of being gay. I hadn’t come out yet, and in the seventies I got involved with the Gay Liberation thing. But in those days, it was very discreet and quiet. There were plenty of bars and all the gays were having a good time; I was quite happy about it. I loved the gay world. But Brian was very frightened. He was very sort of discreet about it. At that point everybody was made to feel there was something wrong with being gay.’

Brian sometimes visisted Peter’s home in Gloucester Terrace, but he also trusted him sufficiently to give him a key to his Knightsbridge flat. There, a surly John Lennon suspected Bourne’s role as a new boyfriend of Brian when he already had one. ‘I think John approved of the other boy and I was somebody strange and new.’ Brian, says Bourne, ‘absolutely worshipped John Lennon.’

‘I used to put on a really posh accent in those days to get into the theatre. John didn’t like that at all. Ringo was always very socialable. I think I was very much the pretty boy of the moment, probably one of several people. Brian had a very beautiful American boyfriend and they’d been having a row. I think I was unconsciously being used as the usurper, in a way.’

Brian and Peter’s conversations often swung round to the theatre. ‘I felt sorry for him because he was so frustrated in acting. He thought it was silly I should try to persuade him to continue in the theatre. I told him Laurence Olivier got chucked out of Central School of Drama and Rex Harrison too.’

...

Talking of their relationship, he says: ‘The sexual thing was practically nil. I liked him very much and tried to discuss some things with him. He wouldn’t. He was afraid. I don’t think he knew himself. He’d gone up a road that in a way he regretted. In spite of all his money and all his power, the Beatles got the adulation. He got the fame, he got the money, the extras, the frills, but he never really got what he wanted.’ That, says Bourne, was ‘to be there, on the stage, in the limelight.’

...

‘The pressure of of being gay in those years was enormous. Particularly for him. As well as delighting him, the situation he was in alarmed him. He couldn’t afford, for instance, to have a feminine image of any kind, any indiscretion like that. Because the rock world image was so heavily butch and male in those years. Even in the theatre, if there was any indication from the stage that I was gay, I wouldn’t have got the job, wouldn’t be in work. Brian knew all this, instictively, as far as his role was concerned.’

‘Being gay obviously made him very lonely because he couldn’t discuss it with his closest friends. They all knew. They were okay about it: “Well, Brian is gay and that’s it.” But they didn’t want to know anything about that, really. I got the impression he didn’t talk to people intimately very much. Lennon was probably the only one.’

After two months of keen friendship, exchanging Christmas gifts, going to the theatre, dinner dates and parties together, Brian and Peter agreed to split. ‘It was probably clear to him that I wanted more intimacy, wanted to be more intense and more real, perhaps. I wasn’t his type. That was really the truth. I was a bit upset: he asked me for the keys back so I suppose he ended it.’ The self-effacing Bourne looks back on himself during that period as ‘an incredibly superficial, vain young man who liked all the perks in life.’ He does not regard himself as having been important in Epstein’s life, but he enjoyed being taken to restaurants like the White Elephant in Curzon Street, Mayfair, where Brian was able to nod at Peter O’Toole and Sian Phillips on the next table...

‘He wanted to know about my world, things to do with Shakespeare, Shaw, Chekhov, which he thought was real theatre. I was in the real theatre, appearing with classical actors. He wanted a piece of that. It could be that I was as close as he was likely to get. Now I’m older I can see exactly what his trip was. It certainly wasn’t me. I know what he was into. I didn’t want to look at it then. It wasn’t what I was coming up on. He liked me but when it was time to go I had to give the key back. And that was that. And we both knew.

‘I think he had a lot of self-hatred. I think it was connected with being Jewish. A lot of Jewish gays I’ve met since then have told me the conflict is incredible, trying to be Jewish and trying to be gay and trying to make things work. But Brian didn’t have the advantage of latter-day Jews who were able to talk about it and adjust. He was totally locked in his cell. Nobody was talking about the social problems, as we did during the seventies. This was the early 1960s, and it must have been incredibly stifling.’ 

(Brian Epstein: The Man Who Made The Beatles by Ray Coleman)

Bonus: 

Bette Bourne talking about Polari Bette Bourne ‘on older queens in the 1950s’ Bette Bourne: It Goes With The Shoes Trailer

#Peter Bourne #Bette Bourne #Brian Epstein #Ray Coleman #John Lennon #Eppy and John #Brian #quotes #Brian things #'there a surly John Lennon suspected Bourne’s role as a new boyfriend of Brian when he already had one' okay #'I got the impression he didn’t talk to people intimately very much. Lennon was probably the only one.’ okay #John #Ringo #1960s #I do wish he could have had even one run on the stage #devastating he was always so close but never near enough

[derangedrhythms]

Ghost cries out to ghost— 

Theodore Roethke, Words for the Wind; from ‘The Surly One’

#theodore roethke #words for the wind #the surly one #poetry #excerpts #ghost

[fjb-blurbs]

Kakashi: ….What the heck are you doing?

Kushina: We're building a pillow fort.

Kakashi: Isn't that a little childish?

Minato: Does that mean you don't want to join us?

Kakashi: …..

Kakashi: …..Move over.

#source: incorrect quotes generator #naruto incorrect quotes #kushina and minato got kakashi to enjoy being an actual child for one (1) full hour #they are very proud of themselves #yall kushina is already plotting more schemes to get her boyfriend's surly student to act his age #shippy #minakushi #uzumaki kushina #namikaze minato #hatake kakashi #team minato edition #naruto blurb

[welcometogrouchland]

Getting back into comics is fun. Minus the Getting Back Into Comics part of it all

#ramblings of a lunatic #fascinating opinions from everyone. truly every death threat over characterization is in proportion and within reason #sorry just. I've seen things #i think dc tumblr might be one of the only fandoms I've seen where it's equally as toxic as it's twitter counterpart #but on the other hand. funny and pretty drawings <3 #I'm generally taking a ''its not that deep unless i feel like it'' approach to comics #not everything needs to be high art and i can excuse work where i maybe don't agree with certain aspects or portrayals #as long as i can find some kind of value in it #which i think you genuinely can in most comics #i think maybe we should all just drink some water. y'know? #anyway i read stargirl: the lost children (was very good! i didn't get most of the golden age refs- #-and also i. didn't know i had to read the sprinbreak special but! besides that! i enjoyed it!- #-todd naucks art is great (i have yj98 stockholm syndrome for it <3) and i like courtney and emiko being friends!- #-also SECRET MENTION WOOOOO GRETA HAYES STANS STAY WINNING(???do we???) #uhhh what else #ooh i read truth & justice no.6 which was a fun story w/ Damian and the batfam! #characterization was off but in a ''we're playing things fast and loose for comedy's sake'' plus they did great work w/ damian #i definitely get why some ppl are sad he's losing some of his surly and more formal edge in his character voice #but i think I'm cool with it tho I'd like if it was maybe casually addressed in story as part of his character development #he's let his guard down. he talks like a shitty teen and not an 18th century warlord now. he's picked up some nightwingisms #he's not crushingly insecure and by consequence violent and vicious anymore #but like again I'd like it acknowledged slightly but that's just me. i at least appreciate all the affection his current writer- #-Joshua Williamson has for damian. like i read adam glass' teen titans run (bad. btw <3) you don't know how comforting this is to me #he called Damian his little babyman on a podcast and i nearly jumped out of my seat thinking ''HES JUST LIKE ME FOR REAL!!!'' #he clearly bases most of his work with damian off of tomasi's work with the character which is comforting i think #where was i going with this #anyway yeah. comics tumblr is WILD there is no way you guys are ever getting me to go there full time ever again #once I figure out how to draw dc characters (again... it's been so long) then it's OVER for you bitches

[surlifen]

#surli oc bracket #round one

[lavenderprose]

Joke’s on me because I have a plot doc with like ten different Gentlebeard plots and all my brain can do is try to formulate ways to jam Izzy in there. I’ve turned into a real Doctor Frankenstein over here.

#OFMD #Steddyhands #One of the plots is a Hollywood Actors AU the basic premise of which has been haunting me for YEARS #It’s followed me through like four fandoms now #and i want to write it so bad but i have no idea how to make it functional with a. throuple dynamic #Best I’ve come up with is Izzy and Ed are in the midst of a high-profile divorce #and Stede is cast alongside Edward in this Oscar bait film about a queer icon from the 80s who passed during the AIDS epidemic #with Ed playing the lead and Stede in a supporting role as the icon’s presumed lover #and Stede falls in love with Ed during those little moments behind and between scenes #Ed sort of falls in love with acting again because he sees it through Stede’s eyes and he’s reminded that it’s more than just a job #and Izzy is this…surly and cautious presence in Ed’s beautiful Calabasas home when Stede visits for the first time #and at first Stede thinks that Izzy is just as mean and undeserving of Ed’s attention as the tabloids say #but then he finds out that Izzy never signed up to be a celebrity’s husband #And these things take their toll over the years #and Stede is just. so fucking compelled by them both. #anyway yeah idk it’s like. there are some huge holes in it and I don’t really know if it even works #but I have been wanting to write this fic #(the two people version) #for like. No joke eight years.

[fiendishartist2]

guys what if i want to make my own apollo justice game.

#i need to write a prequel to aa4 pls pls pls pls pls #okay get this: so phoenix isnt disbarred yet and he doesnt have trucy. hes still taking and winning cases #one day he gets a call from edgeworth and hes all like ''wright i need your assistance'' and hes like what for and edgeworth goes #''ive been given the most ridiculous case and i think youre the only man in law who can take care of it'' #so phoenix bikes his ass to the detention center and boom. child behind bars #and phoenix is like ??? hey kid what are doing here. and this kid is the most surly mfer on the planet like you couldnt get- #-a word out of him if you tried. hes kinda giving phoenix the stink eye too but hes just the littlest guy on earth #and phoenix feels bad for him so he tries to get a rundown of the case (maybe edgeworth gave him an autopsy report or smth beforehand) #but get this. the kid still wont speak. he hasnt even moved a muscle. and after some prodding you find out this little dude- #-doesnt speak english (i dont love aa6 but i think apollos tragic backstory can be interesting so we're going w that but taking it seriousl #anyways so maya is like omg this kid is speaking khurainese but hers is kinda broken bc shes not from the mainland and only knows it- #-from like prayers #so you only get bits and pieces of the kids testimony. plus he still doesnt wanna talk bc ''dhurk told me not to talk to you'' #so you start following the new lead but you ask too many questions and apollos like oh shit i said too much and wont talk to you anymore #but now you have two leads: khur'ain and a man named ''dhurk'' plus the fact that this is kid might be new to america since- #-he cant speak english but is smack dab in the middle of california. its all v curious and phoenix wants to get to the bottom of it #for the rest of the case i feel like it would go in the direction of ''we dont know exactly whats up w this dhurk guy or where this kid- #-came from but we do get him acquitted and phoenix is able to save him from the dark path he was heading towards'' thus steering apollo- #-in the direction of law and giving him a wayyyy better reason than aa6 gave him <3 #i kind of like the interlinked nature of ace attorney's storytelling. like everything leads into smth else and everyone is impacted- #-by another person before they even become properly entangled w each other's lives #like how mia faced dahlia years before she met phoenix but dahlia was the one to connect them #or how trucy gave phoenix the diary paper but she's also the one who ropes apollo into the waa. even before they know they're siblings #or how lamoire left apollo and trucy as children and when they reunite as adults they cant recognise each other but they all find each- #-other anyways #i could go on but i think this could be cool yknow esp bc i think the most interesting thing about apollo's aa6 backstory is his life- #-post dhurk. like where did he stay? was he a foster kid? was he put into the system? how did that affect him? what kind of ppl took him in #i just wanna know how that whole thing would have effected him bc like when yiu think about it how did he even get to america?? his dad's #-considered a terrorist. idk man i think its interesting and apollo and dhurks interactions are one of the only good parts of aa6