#they're both miserable

[alenseress]

"You love me," he jokes.

"I do," Mihawk doesn't joke in general.

Shanks gags around the accidental mouthful of jerky, desperately trying to push it down. Or up. Mihawk doesn't look up, in fact, doesn't budge at all, eyes stuck to the same word in the line.

"The—" Shanks wheezes. Shanks chokes and coughs and wiggles like a dying roach before spitting the sorry chunk out and rasping "the fuck you do" with teary eyes.

It sounds offended. A little bit hurt, metaphorically and literally. Mihawk pulls his knees up to his chest, shuts the book closed between them and clutches freezing fingers into tight fists. Then, folds his arms too for a good measure, as Shanks slides across the crow's nest in one hurried effort. It's a mere few seconds of wailing, creaking and yelping in a small space between the railings before the book he was reading tumbles down, down, down, and Shanks pulls himself up, up, up, squeezing in between Mihawk's thighs. It looks fucking scary. It feels fucking scary, with everything swaying and moaning around them from the sudden commotion and Mihawk hears a splash as he desperately clings to Shanks' collar, body pushed into awkward angles beneath the weight of another.

"What is wrong with you?!"

Shanks has that face on, one of mad childlike stubbornness, with pouting frown and searching eyes, and the wind is oh so harsh against Mihawk's back. He doesn't know what to do, every muscle very much frozen in something akin to animalistic panic. Shanks pushes for both of them, forehead pressing into his with skull-cracking force.

"Say it again."

"No."

"Captain's order."

"Don't be ridiculous."

"You're on my ship."

"That's not—"

Hands let go of the railing and touch his chin. No, cup. Hold between two palms, fingers brushing loose hair away, shaking, begging. "Mihawk, please."

Mihawk pulls the collar and bites into the sodden mouth. Hard enough to make the dry lip pop with blood, not hard enough for the bastard to let go. He keens instead, scooting in closer, so much that his knees slide almost entirely under Mihawk's behind and tip him over. There's a moment of cold fear and hearts dropping as Mihawk's head and hat fall between the spindles and someone shrieks "what the hell is going on up there" from the deck.

"Got it! Nothing!" Shanks wheezes, yanking Mihawk on top of himself, slapping a cheek to the bare chest. A few heartbeats later, a sheepish confirmation comes. "Got it?"

Mihawk squeezes his thighs and nods with a gulp, fingers stupidly not letting go of the hat's brim.

God, help them all.

The wind blows and blows, the breaths get slower, the tense muscles grow tired, and Mihawk feels himself slouch. Shanks rubs his ear slowly, almost as surprised at the loss of contact, and blinks up — all blood and snot and dried tears Mihawk rolls his eyes at.

"You're a pig of a man," he sighs, not sounding half as annoyed as he intended, not half as disgusted as he should be, wiping the scrunched face with a sleeve.

"Let me try," the captain whispers, and Mihawk waits for him to push his arm away, confused, but lips meet lips in a gentle press again and, oh, oh Shanks definitely tries.

Mihawk laughs into his face, into his neck, elbows finding rest on his shoulders, legs wrapping around his waist in surrender. He cradles the heavy red head as the man, the boy, runs the last of his quiet tears into his shirt.

"I'm so fucking tired of you."

"You're too young to be tired of anything, Red."

Shanks pulls away and slumps back, running palms along Mihawk's lost in the air forearms, holding his wrists gently. Not slim enough for the ring of fingers to connect around them, not firm enough to be meant for holding.

"I can't promise you anything," he tries once more, staring empty at the thumbs caressing him.

Shanks looks up with the same pout. "You just did."

"That wasn't a promise."

"Then let me try again," the grip grows tighter. "Until I get it right."

He won't, Mihawk knows.

They try again.

#shanks spends first half of his twenties trying to get mihawk to become his first mate #mihawk spends the late half of his twenties running from his own happiness #they're both miserable #mishanks #opla #Spotify

[lindyloosims]

Jarvis and Brodie should just get back together already! In the story it’s been a couple of weeks and Jarvie is literally tearing his hair out in frustration, how many voicemails and texts can a guy send before a restraining order is required? Boy has it bad! If Brodie isn’t careful someone might snap that beautiful man up while he’s sulking!

#ts4 #sims 4 #the sims 4 #Jarvis & Brodie #Brovis #they're both miserable #get back together like yesterday

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

snf sob... his favorite regular... wailing in the club rn

#ive never drawn a sheet before. much less a sheet covered caterpillar! it shows! #MANNNN THESE TWO AUGH #thank you halloween record for the crumbs. im sated <3 #the fact that he Barged past sally gave me the image of him lightly tackling barnaby #bro had to pick up some Speed his legs were Goin #at some point i may clean up the og base sketch and make a non-halloween-costume version #because! your honor! i love them! #scribble garnish #laughingstock #barnaby x howdy #howdy x barnaby #welcome home #i was gonna try to make it more ~ambiguous~ and non shippy and then my hand slipped and they're both blushing now oops #i tell myself 'be normal about them' and i Fail Miserably

[fortunefavorsthebrave-dude]

“the only thing that matters right now is my marriage and my children” sure didn’t matter when you were sticking your dick in your employee huh

#try guys #ned fulmer #i am sooooooo tired of this shit happening #anyway. hope they both end up working a miserable minimum wage job #yes both. alex is a grown woman with a fiance #she knows better #and i know ned is her boss but so are the other guys and she didn't fuck them so #truly do hope they're having the worst days of their lives rn #and god almighty i hope ariel and the kids are okay #and to be so brazen about it too in fucking public like. come ON. #will never understand ruining a whole career for sex #insanely fucking stupid shit

[wormboyfriendcentralstation]

heathcliff: i killed cathy...... im a horrible person in every timeline. my revenge killed her. my remorse literally broke through timelines.

catherine who got back at heathcliff by stealing a house to remodel into the Magic Cocaine Labyrinth after draining the financial assets of england's least tragically ill victorian man, making carmen contact her copyright lawyers by sealing her ambiguously dead body into a glass tank while her brain powers a building, and potentially hiring the Mueseumafia of Modern Art because if she pays them with cash she doesnt have to report her Green-Energy-Human-Tank Powered Hydrogen Bomb Basement Factory's earnings to the IRS or whatever the city uses: 'tis what you get for trying to boyfail without your girlboss, methinks 😇😇😇😇😇

#limbus company #limbus company spoilers #posted to the wrong blog lololol #anyways she's a science fiction villain who everyone treats like jesus. #''catherine is MISERABLE ALWAYS'' she was certainly going through it! #she was also literally coping through making terrors and horrors in her basement lab like dexter #and is this a result of heathcliff's self worth being like. bulldozed from every direction as he grew up? #yes. #they're both very fascinating characters but someone get that man away from that woman's blast radius #him: i'll get a good job. i'll internalize all of my abuse. i'll be Good Enough For Her #her: gonna grow some psychic damage nukes in my lab like rutabagas to harvest for the growing season. then i'll turn into a house!

[jordblod]

!! crucial !! piece of hilson lore confirmed - they're fucking LOSERS honestly? so affirming to me. this isn't news i know but to get this explicit piece of interaction about being a lonely child and now being weird adults who don't know how to make friends or have "normal" conversations or connections like this is the shit i eat for breakfast, especially accompanied with the complete and utter sense of surrender to this fact that wilson displays. there's absolutely no reason whatsoever for him to defend himself or act as if what house is saying isn't true bc it is and they both know it and knows the other knows it even if they've never actually talked about this once which is very likely but they know cause they're the same and they only have each other and and and

#they're so lame #hilson #hatecrimes md #to be clear i do think they had pretty different childhoods in many ways #but very early on feeling alone and different and/or misunderstood is the common thread running through both of their experiences #they almost definitely handled it very differently but just ended up on the same miserable bastard boat in the end #and no one can save them except each other. but they're actually unsaveable. and the only way for that to be okay is through each other #blahdi blahdi blah they're doomed either way but they need each other to cope blahdiblah fucked up losers solidarity #they're the worst<333 they would've bullied each other if they knew each other as kids. in fact the bully each other now aghjdfkdsfs #also honestly. wilsons response to house reading him to shreds being to play along and make a dry joke?? very cunty. love him to bits #house md #james wilson #gregory house #hmd #mypost

[sophiethewitch1]

www!reader WILL call batman a pussy for not killing on her private twitter. she does it like every other day. its cathartic

#sophie speaks #series:www #all of the batfam: i have a very complicated relationship with the idea of killing as i follow a code that i know has caused thousands of- #lost lives and hurt people. but i still follow it because i know its the right thing to do #reader and jason: what like a baby??? #i actually wrote www!reader to reflect all of the guys like... worst traits #shes obsessive like tim ignores her problems like dick is completely consumed by vengeance like jason and just generally petty like damian #hand in unlovable hand #and you havent seen readers more petty side yet but believe me you WILL #her and damians interactions always crack me up because they're just so. #genuinely miserable around each other but both too stubborn to concede any ground #damian: i think ur here to cause trouble and steal things #reader: i am literally working at a soup kitchen. ur only allowed to bitch if u help #which of course he does hes a good boy but the soup kitchen definitely has a weird vibe when the two of them are around #u dont have to worry about ur own problems look at these two obviously emotionally incompetent people bickering with eachother #anyways what was i saying

[iwouldlovetoeatyourtoast]

the evolution of valjean's toulon look is kind of fascinating to me

#les mis #les miserables #jean valjean #javert #valvert #i mean #they're both there at least

[sunsestart]

I FINALLY MADE MY RISE!USAGI DESIGN!! But it's actually two Usagi designs because I thought it would be funny to have both Miyamoto and Yuichi in rottmnt

Imagine it pls

#PLSSS I NEED THEM BOTH IN RISE #LIKE #MY IDEA IS BASICALLY #MIYAMOTO HAS ACTUALLY BEEN TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT TMNT UNIVERSES AND NOW HE'S MAKING HIS RISE APPEARANCE #And there's this little guy who is apparently his descendant #and then we have Yuichi who has NEVER met the turtles or traveled to a different universe this way #AND HIS ANCESTOR IS HERE TOO #(but he's not actually HIS ancestor because this is a different version of Miyamoto than his own) #soooo #their interactions would be sooo funny lmao #also Leo and Yuichi are going to hate each other at first #but they'll get along aventually #I can imagine everyone thinking Miyamoto is like SOOOO COOL and awesome and stuff #especially Leo who would probably try to impress him and fail miserably #Yuichi would make fun of him and then try to impress Miyamoto himself andddd you know the rest of the story- fail miserably as well #they're both losers #anywaysss #enough rambling #here are the tags #rottmnt usagi #usagi miyamoto #usagi yuichi #yuichi usagi #miyamoto usagi #usagi yojimbo #usagi chronicles #samurai rabbit #usagi

[tennessoui]

the best new years day was finding that there was a new a more perfect union chapter!!!! 🥹 I’m here for anakin appalled at the idea of obi-wan getting another padawan like absolutely not you have me, and catty obi-wan being I don’t know DO I????? I can physically feel the headache that’s building up for padme and again I’m sorry for her but I’m here for it 😅

I have a thing for angsty stories that make your heart clench so I’m imagining both obi-wan and anakin replaying the conversation and missing ALL the signs and just being miserable in their corners. sigh boys boys silly boys.

awww i'm glad you liked the last update of a more perfect union!! anakin is definitely not in the best headspace rn to hear the news that obi-wan is maybe looking to take on another padawan...especially in front of his wife AND especially because VOS knew before HE knew and that's DOUBLY unacceptable

padmé's definitely walking a super duper fine line between homicidal rage and grief/mourning (of what she knows is the end of her marriage)

i'm sure obi-wan's mortified when he gets home but he's also still very angry and also grieving/mourning losing anakin

and i'm sure he's also very eager to go on a mission that may last months. to get out of this whole situation. for a very long time.

he probably won't try to leave that very night tho. he's not that fucked up over his former padawan that he'll go run after a deadly sith with a grudge against him a day before he's supposed to be deployed

right?

right?

#asks #a more perfect union #obikin #they're both VERY miserable #dw #they're so miserable #obi-wan especially #anakin has a few layers of denial he's working through first #with a team comprising the guy he hates and his wife

[dailykeiji]

i have exactly one jokey crossover ship involving keiji and it's him x kazui from milgram. they're just way too similar to each other i think they should kiss about it

#they're both miserable (ex?) policemen. #they both accidentally got someone close to them killed and are both filled with extreme guilt and regret over it. #they're both massive liars. #they're both convinced that they are terrible people. #they both got kidnapped by some shady organization and are both way too calm about it. #they're both SO silly. #they're both implied to be attracted to men (more so in kazui's case) #do you understand my vision......... #i just think they'd get along. they should go fishing together #daiji original

[winepresswrath]

trying to plot out a xichen/huaisang emma au solely for the purposes of slotting jin guangyao and nie mingjue into the already married siblings role. in theory this leaves us with no one to play emma's dad but no they're both emma's dad for maximum impact. and obviously jin guangyao is also the nanny. and it ends with huaisang vowing to be worse, actually.

#they still get married tho no one is escaping the toxicity #i think everyone lives? maybe? #an improvement on my original jin guangyao is harriet idea #wwx is now harriet and nhs is insanely smug about wangxian #thus his vow to be worse actually #i think jc and wq are frank and jane #sorry to jc! and also frank actually they're a terrible mashup except i cannot resist them having a secret engagement on account of wq's #controversial connexions and related poverty #however since this is jc he obviously does not succeed in his plan to flirt with nhs for cover #making nhs obviously even more smug. and again #worse #originally i was also going to have jgy kill nmj after huaisang hooks them up but it's just too sad even if it's the right choice i shan't #it IS the right choice though like it should be a murder mystery-emma mashup from xichen's pov #where he's soooo concerned about huaisang and jgy after mingjue dies #and huaisang is like. using his matchmaking as deep cover to send jgy to the gallows #but that version of the story is so miserable #and i think unfair to both mingjue and jgs neither of whom are likely to get to that place in their relationship under the conditions #of this au. they're busy being married and fighting about whether mingjue should be more politically active or w/e #jgY now that was unfair to jgy #emma but no one learns anything. emma but one of the brontes was there giving notes #not anne sorry anne i love u anne

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

bc its hot out im thinking about Laughingstock (two fluffy boys) being too warm to sleep in the same bed. so they start arguing over who gets the bed - trying to give it to each other of course - and Howdy. Howdy starts making a sales pitch about how great the bed is, wouldnt Barnaby like to try it? its right up his alley! perfectly suited to him! so Barns is like "oh hm well sure ill give it a go". he lays down. blinks. "heyyyyy wait a minute" but Howdy is already camped on the living room couch, smug as a bug

#and thus begins several months of them moving each others stuff around #to try and switch who's taking the couch #howdy is sprinting home after work to try to move back onto the couch before barnaby can beat him to it #one day poppy says 'why dont you just buy two beds? #they look at her for a long moment before continuing the Fighting Over The Couch bit as if no suggestion was made #bro if they hug or just touch during summer #i bet it sounds like velcro when they try to separate #cue them gazing sadly and longingly at each other from arm's length bc They Cant Have Contact During These Hellish Months #they're both too fuzzy!!! its unbearable #absolutely unprompted #laughingstock #no yeah and okay the Set doesn't experience real seasons but rn im living in an imaginary world where theirs is real #and during summer poppy/howdy/barnaby must be miserable #especially poppy #like they must be in lethargic 'lay in front of a fan and die slowly' mode #no wait howdy's store probably has Killer ac... catch the whole neighborhood hanging out in there #popsicle party lets gooooo

[veggiecorner]

I keep constantly thinking about how in the Twilight Princess manga Zelda has OoT Zelda's memories and regrets...and the emotions she was feeling seeing the hero shade

Thinking about how TP Zelda saw TP Link and thought of the hero of time, and how her ancestor passed on without knowing what happened to him. TP Zelda isn't her ancestor but she has her memories and TP Link isn't the hero of time yet whenever she sees him she's reminded? Do you think after the quest she calls him to a meeting to discuss the memories? To ask if he sees his ancestors memories as well? How would she even feel if he said he doesn't...

#Oot Zelda clinging onto TP Zelda's shoulders: i want you to feel my pinning for this fairy boy #tp zelda: but i'm a lesbian... #anyways i constantly think of oot zelda's regrets #crazy how they're both miserable #tp zelda: hey do you like...hear voices in ur head from ur great great grandparent #tp link: no??? #tp zelda: great! i'll take my meds now i guess #twilight princess #ocarina of time #oot zelink you will forever be famous #akira himekawa when i get you.........tRUST you will be dealt with

[sysig]

YELLO C2 DAX, YELLOW B3 ZEX their human forms also good lol

Time and place, ZEX (From here, meme still open ♥)

#My art #SCII #Helix #DAX #ZEX #ZEX looks like he's trying to hit on him and DAX is just miserable about it lol <3 #Also this is somehow the first time I've drawn Max!ZEX digitally??? How #His grey and green streaks >>> #He's so cute agh <3 #Balancing Max's youth and ZEX's mental age is so?? His hair is the perfect balance wagh #New detail to fall in love with lol #Oh yeah and DAX also lol <3 #Misery is a good look on him unfortunately ♥ #Surely nothing would happen to him that would make him make such a face! :D #They're both fiiiiine they'll be fiiiiiine #These were fun :D Kinda tempted to see if I could somehow translate it to their VUX forms as well hmm #The eyebrow expressions especially ah! DAX's were a bit outside my usual so that was a fun little stretch :3 #They were very friendly warm ups ah ♪ Short and sweet! :D

[macbethisms]

the third prince is so interesting to me bc he's made of the themes. he subconsciously attempts to replicate his parents' power dynamic with his first (and only) real relationship except it's not even a real relationship bc his evil mistress is manipulating him the whole time. he looks like the physical ideal of warrior masculinity (you know. the one who died in the last book) except that he sucks and is useless and can't fulfill his singular purpose and literally everyone knows it. he's a hollow shell with nothing inside but also he's intelligent and perceptive and a whole person underneath it all but also it doesn't even matter who he is bc he's being slowly suffocated by other people's expectations and agendas but also he has no choice but to be nothing bc he can't be great. "what if you were willing to do anything to get what you wanted" well what if you didn't even know what you wanted. what if what you wanted was so completely opposed to who you are and what you were made for that you could never actually believe that you could have it. what then. he's happy about two people being tortured to death bc his mom didn't like them. he's the living embodiment of a crumbling heirless dynasty. he's a blushing maiden being seduced by an older man with ill intentions and he's a powerful royal whose lover is wholly reliant upon him for survival. he and baoxiang are both punishing each other for the things they hate about themselves. his death causes the end of the book. and he's been dead since the day he was born.

#the radiant emperor #he who drowned the world #anyway. filicide is so fun. love dynasties cannibalizing themselves #third prince and ma xiuying parallels. is that anything #they're both gay 19 year olds who wang baoxiang projects all his emotional issues onto before falling in love with them #also seeing through your lover's bullshit facade but not enough to know what they're truly capable of before it's too late #also being miserable in your set role but not seeing any alternative before other possibilities are shown to you by the power of gay sex #well. by the power of being seen and understood in a way no one ever has before. but mostly gay sex #also ouyang kills both of their dads but that's not proof of anything ouyang kills everyone's dad #i'm making the third prince/wbx dynamic more weird and freudian actually i think it's fascinating that wbx and lady ki are kind of the same #is this a coherent post? probably not