#black is the new queue

[ay0nha]

This world needs sanji ANGST...i haven't seen anything like that that isn't immediatley fluff so plz plz plz do angst OR maybe enemies to lovers but reeealll enemies ther'es gotta be beeeffff

tension. jealousy. protectivness. what the hell. where is it.

thank u :3

Pairing: opla!Sanji x f!reader

Word Count: 1.3K

Warnings: canon-typical things, smoking, cursing, the Baratie, mentions of annoying/handsy costumers, RUSHED ending (sorry), etc.

A/N: Hello anon! Thank you so much for the request. I started a little sm sm based of this request and a couple similar ones. It's just a start, so let me know if I should turn this into something more/longer...I have ideas...COMMENTS ENCOURAGED. Enjoy.

PART II

You always preferred sailing on quiet nights.

Fewer lights from the ship scared the stars into submission. It was the only time your shoulders settled and your breaths became leveled. The air’s humidity wrapped you in warmth and the patterned waves lulled your racing thoughts. 

Yet, the lights of the Baratie reminded you that those idyllic nights remained only in memory, few and far between. The chatter radiated an aura, which functioned as a reminder of the never ending responsibilities of hospitality. 

Your dwindling cigarette marked the time left of your break, but you savored every second. You slouched into your shoulder, head resting softly to the side to acknowledge the footsteps approaching you. 

“Sanji.” Even with your back to your newly found company, you knew who had found you. He always had. “If Zeff sent you…” You drew in a deep and finalizing breath, the crackle satisfying in contrast. “Turn around and fuck off.” 

The breath of his laughter exposed his delight at your demise. “Your funeral—

“—Our.” You corrected him. Finally offering a glance, you saw he’d replaced his apron for a tie. Always trouble, you thought.

“Nah, you’ll be alright…” He tutted with humor. “Regardless, who can I count on to spit on my grave?”

You hummed to hide a semblance of a smile. Sanji’s charm was worthless to you, never working in his favor. It had taken years of coaxing past vindication to even occupy the same space. So as always, you’d removed yourself to create a more familiar distance. 

“Funny.” You only ever entertained him with sarcasm.  Flicking your butt into the darkness, you began to walk away. “Just don’t get in the way.” 

The night was busy—every night was busy. You hadn’t minded the adrenaline or the late hours. It was what kept you going, kept you from realizing that slowing down would never be an option. 

But then the constantly spinning world stopped. Your wrist was caught in the hand of a guest, the very one whose crude remarks failed to cause a reaction. However, your plastered smile only encouraged him. You became a challenge he hadn’t realized would eventually retaliate. 

It caused a scene, glass to be broken, and scolding from Zeff that echoed throughout the kitchen. Your pent up venom led you to an ultimatum; cool off or leave. Now, your headache dulled in comparison to the nausea you felt walking back in. 

Hearing your name you turned to see Sanji’s face illuminated with his lighter. His eyes were fixed on his task, but you knew he was speaking directly to you. “You’re alright, though? Right?”

It was happening more frequently than you’d like to admit; your sarcastic insult caught in your throat and your breath pinned to the roof of your mouth. Your words were lost. Sanji was responsible for the confusion of feelings and it only furthered your resentment. 

Yet, your voice was never found and so you nodded with promise. 

Instead, your wrist throbbed and you were sure by the end of the service the bruising would surface. But you rolled it as if the action could wash away the pain. You straightened your posture, pulled a practiced smile, and held a soft air as you began again greeting guests table by table. 

The people dining waited their turn just as those rubbing elbows with them. From the decor, the crystal, story of the menu, even you were a part of the experience.  Performance was key and you were nothing but stellar at pretending to be someone else. 

“Good evening—” You greeted.  Your voice could have been mistaken for sultry. Some nights you struggled to recognize yourself. “—I’ve noticed you’re back and your wine is getting low.”

“Always attentive, you.” The Baratie regular reveled in the banter. It was formulaic at this point, but the atmosphere captivated you both. 

“I can’t help but play favorites.” You countered, granting a heavy pour of wine into his glass. Your dress cut low, ever dip intentional to distract from the mountain of Berries owed for the aged wine provided. 

His eyes took in your figure, falling into the trap. “Apparently, I’ve got competition.”

You wanted to feel good, as you normally did. The fabric complimented your physique and kissed your skin with such sensuality. The feeling of hungry eyes on you never grew old. The assurance was always refreshing. However, there was a weight tonight that wasn’t the fault of the fabric.  

“Pirates can never resist treasure.” You pushed past the crack in your demeanor. You smiled wider, but your eyes cast down at your wrist hoping it didn’t reveal too much too soon.  

The bark of laughter almost made you flinch. “Not the filthy pirate! Your friend there—” The man continued, complaining about nonsense while raising his already dwindling glass to Sanji. “100 Berries he’s spit in my food.”

That swirl in your chest had just settled, but it returned as your eyes met Sanji’s.  His glare wasn’t shy, burning through you. Judgment about your pairing of wine, most likely. Regardless, you noted the fluidity in his movements pulled him closer to you. 

The man laughed at the slight staring contest. You internally cursed at breaking first. 

“He’s harmless.” You muttered, pouring another serving of wine. Moving your body kept you distracted from the unspoken. 

“Harmless?” The man scoffed, inebriation heavy in his inflection.“The scum of a pirate walked—well, crawled really—out of here with nothing but a bloody promise of a slow death.” 

You remained light and playful as you finished the conversation, distracting your regular enough to slip away. You made your rounds just as Sanji had, but you were clever to dance around him, avoid him. 

It worked at first, but it only aggravated Sanji. He spoke loudly and boldly about the well-known service, slipping in insults and intentionally sabotaging everything you’d just smoothed out. It may not have been intentional. It rarely was if you thought about it, his disappointment reserved for Zeff. 

It was as though Sanji had tunnel vision. His upset became yours conscious or not, as every complaint and move he made contradicted yours. It made you trip and stumble. It began to make the night agonizingly slow as he became the barrier between you and the end of the service.  

You’d boiled over, pulling harshly on his arm until you both crammed into a blindspot of the rest of the restaurant. 

Sanji’s eyes blew wide, but his smirk only widened. Even in his state of mild shock, his mind wandered. “What are you—  

You straightened his tie harshly, a threat. “Fix your attitude.” 

“Mine?” He countered with disbelief. “If Zeff understood—

“I don’t care about Zeff. I don’t care about you.” You hissed, pushing a finger deep into his chest. Slowly your composure was unraveling, but you regained it quickly, speaking pointedly, “What I care about is this night being over.”

Sanji took the beat of silence to look between your eyes. You were frazzled, your collectedness hanging on by a thread. He could guess why, but you’d never admit he was correct. 

“Are you even listening?” You prompted again, ready to move back with utter impatience. 

However, Sanji touched the wrist that was within distance causing your body to freeze.  “You need ice.”

His hold was gentle, but he felt the heat come from the swelling. The pain was catching up to you. 

“Enough.” You spat, wobbling with your steps backward. “Enough of—” Tonight, you wanted to say. The kindness threw you off, made you feel seen in a way you wouldn’t accept. “Just—

“We’ll finish the night smoothly.” Sanji spoke evenly, decidedly for the both of you. “Then, I’ll find ice for you.” 

Your chin raised for your childness to surface. “I can take care of myself.” 

“I have no doubt.” Sanji felt his emotions settle on his face, the smirk was hard to call on, but the air had become too tense not to with such unfamiliar territory. “But yet, If I don’t help you, you’ll milk it for weeks and I’ll never hear the end of it.”

#QUEUE #I'm nervous writing for someone new #sanji vinsmoke #vinsmoke sanji #sanji #black leg sanji #one piece #one piece sanji #opla!sanji x reader #opla #opla sanji #opla!sanji x f!reader #opla!sanji fluff #opla!sanji angst #sanji angst #sanji fluff #sanji x reader #sanji x you

[fallout-fallen-knight]

Sure is interesting how Ulysses can be reviled for something as mild as “talks too much” when the Think Tank insta-locking you into a 45 minute dialogue tree is praised as great writing 🤔

#also saying that a black man talks too much when almost all his dialogue is either philosophical musings on imperialism #or confronting you on your role in the destruction of his home sure is 🤔🤔🤔 #makes you think! #queue #fallout new vegas #Ulysses #think tank more like stink tank

[bebemoon]

look for the name: ALINA

@anorsel

ella roberts hooded corset in color charcoal

plein sud black leather laced trousers, c. 199o's

saint laurent paris dark brown leather vincennes mombasa hobo bag w/ metal horn-shaped handle

min new york "coda" eau de parfum

cruda "carmen" upcycled black leather lace-up wood heel boots

#alina #name #request #outfit #looks #anorsel #hope you like ! #black #dark #ella roberts #plein sud #saint laurent #bag #90s #min new york #edp #perfume #cruda #footwear #queue

[hashileio]

figuring this out a little more

also here’s ya man @lady-of-disdain :3c

#hashiart #not having to color OR clean up my lines saves me so much time omg #like this is game changing kjfdhsjfsg #sorry for the wait all my posts are basically queued so it goes to the end of the line skjfhskf #i draw too much in too little time and this is how i end up burning out for 3 years HAHA #but im having too much fun to stop now #so fuck it we ball #undertale au #killer sans #killer!sans #i guess also #mafia!killer sans #now thats a fucking tag lmaoo #two versions cause while black on brown is hard to see black on white also hurts my eyes so now you get to choose which one to look at : ) #in other news my work recently got the same kind of chair hes sitting on and they are SO comfy #yall are in for a treat cuz nightmare is next again in the queue :)

[brotherconstant]

Is it love? Absolutely [...].

#foundationedit #edit: forgot to change the caption after queueing this. this is the correct one #bhagavad-gîtå's pdf in the link if anyone's interested in reading it #now i'm gonna think about constant and glawen meeting each other on new terminus and blow myself up. feel free to join #foundation #brother constant #hober mallow #isabella laughland #dimitri leonidas #constant x hober #foundation apple tv #foundation spoilers #beegifs #sometimes a gif needs to have 122 frames. ironically it's the least heavy one due to all the black #tvedit #scifiedit

[donnatroyyyy]

If there’s ever actually a good Live Action Teen Titans show about the OG team, I NEED a New Girl-like scene where Garth finds out he’s colorblind. Like you know how there’s that whole scene of Winston thinking money is brown and stuff and Schmidt being like ‘if that’s brown what color do you think you are’? Yeah I need it in teen titans format.

#Like I want them to be talking about superhero costumes and stuff and the topic of the GL costume comes up and Garth says something like #“yeah it’s nice I guess but I don’t really like the fact that it’s so monotone” #queue the record scratch screen glitch and pause because the team are just as confused as we are. #Then one of them has to very gently break the news “it’s not monotone Garth it’s black and green”. #Then Garth just stops working for a few seconds before saying “haha very funny”. #Then after a very long and very heated argument about this Wally (the logical one) West has the bright idea to ask #“Garth what colors do you think your costume is monotone?” #And of course Garth replies “wdym of course it is.” #dc comics #comics #robin #aqualad #wonder girl #speedy #teen titans #og teen titans #also it would be one million percent funnier if he’s known for a long time that he was colorblind and just forgot to tell them #so he uses this opportunity to mess with them because of course he’ll take this opportunity to mess with them #garth of shayeris #garth of atlantis #Garth #Wally west #Roy Harper #Donna Troy #dick Grayson

[sanchoyoscribbles]

a redraw meme! I'm a little mad at myself for not doing this for a few years (I've done a few other redraws in the meantime, but...it wouldve been cool to have a bunch of years in a row! TwT)

2007 was the earliest made on gimp, a touchpad and NO pressure (obvious with the THICK CHUNKY LINES. im 90% sure I did lineart, colored over them, then lined over them again all on 1 layer...) plus the pattern fills gimp had (the stripes and rainbows, plus the repeating space background that needed a desperate scale-up...)

2015 might be the most obviously tmm inspired style wise ( and I think...this character WAS a tmm oc, actually, so this tracks. her name was star hoshiko (yes. star star.) and she was infused with star power instead of an animal. whatever that means. in my defense I was Ten 👍) and was when I was still using sai!!

2016&17 were me trying to sort of push into semi-realism, the smaller eyes, the more realistic skirt in the '16 version and more realistic hair in the '17 version, and also the first ones done in clip studio which is still my mvp program.

2018 was the furthest from the original, me REALLY pushing orangey yellows for some reason (the darker oranges let the yellow glowy parts stand out more was probably my logic at the time?) it's also funny to see that I went back to a more cartoony/anime style between 2017! the eyes got bigger again, the hair more stylized (esp with the shading/highlighting!) yet the clothes got more detailed....

2024- this time around I wanted to try and capture elements of the original design, since it seemed I was drifting further and further away from it... those very bright lemony yellows that scare me to work with sometimes, the original stripes, that BAD dark yellow for the base of the dress... I know a lot of people will prefer the semi-realism of the earlier years but I feel like the very anime style is more FUN. and I feel a lot more confident in my posing, expressions, and I just. focus more on having fun than making her pretty. that being said I did try to add little details from the previous years designs :3 doing redraws is always so nice to reflect on style and improvement!! I totally recommend doing one if you want to, a blank version is here!

also for funsies, heres how gross the flats look. man i HATE that weird base dress shade T_T u can tell I did shift it to be SLIGHTLY warmer, just a bit....the cool-toned shading pushes it back to the lemony again tho, lol

#redraw meme #improvement meme #magical girls #original #hmmm wait a star themed mew with green eyes. ....oh. a beta cara LMAO #i mean this character is not a mew anymore bc i wanted to push her star theming BUT. CMON. thats funny #also huge shoutout to past me for deciding to interprete that chunky lineart around the lips into black lipstick? thats awesome #also no dots on my shading like i do a lot lately aaaa bc the canvas was SO small it looked weird :") next year.... #or ill do another redraw. not of this but i have a few other i could do :thinking: #no new stuff only remakes im just like hollywood fr. sorry 😔 #also yes art just a day apart insead of queueing it like a smart person might. no patience found

[ambassadorarlert]

MASTERLIST 2024

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+ Heat Waves — summary: the special operations squad finally make it out to the world beyond the walls. after partying too hard at the refugee camp in Marley, a drunken one night stand with armin turns from mutual pining to a budding romance during uncertain times.

but wait... there's more!

© 2024. all rights reserved. do not translate or repost any works by ambassadorarlert on any other platforms. violators will be prosecuted in accordance within the law.

#happy new year #queue #my writing #armin arlert #aot #attack on Titan #shingeki no kyojin #armin x reader #armin x y/n #armin x you #armin x black reader #armin x fem reader #armin x black y/n #armin x male reader #armin x gn reader #armin x gender neutral reader #armin one shot #armin imagine #armin fic #armin fluff #armin smut

[jaw-bones]

casual gravity bending —ft. nepenthe

#fae #fae!project #the hive* #-nepenthe #precious black hole fae #able to muck up reality however he wants! #also a BABE #-queued #in other news finally caught up on my queue yeaahhh baybeeeeee

[cinnamoncascadian]

"marvel mermay: nat" by em on INPRNT

#art #print #illustration #artist #em #mermaid #marvel #black widow #natasha romanoff #mermay #mcu #inprnt #mer!nat #new to me #fanartist appreciation queue #em-disbujsb #source: imprint #mermay queue 2024 #mervengers series #2018 #mervengers

[yours-stevie]

Charles Melton photographed by Cole Sprouse 📸

#charles melton #netflix #queue #digital cover #new #photoshoot #2024 #cole sprouse #photography #handsome #man #style #black hair #dogs #riverdale #actor

[victorluvsalice]

Mini VITD Sims Lookbook (Largely Alice Focused Edition)

Hi all -- I ended up downloading and playing with some more Victorian and Victorian-esque CC for Sims 4 last Saturday, looking for some new looks for my Valicer In The Dark versions of Victor, Alice, and Smiler (mainly Alice, as per the title). And, as I'm still getting the next Chill Valicer Save update ready, I figured I'd share the results, in case any of you were interested/wanted some more CC to download! Here we go:

First up, we actually have something that I downloaded from someone’s lookbook post for their Alice Sim a little while ago (I'm afraid I don't remember whose at this point ^^;) – a conversion of Alice’s London dress from Alice: Madness Returns! As in, one Mimoto-Sims ripped this dress straight from the files of that game (along with a bunch of others) and turned it into an outfit in Sims 4! :D I’ve been looking for this for a while, and I’m quite pleased with it, though it is a little weirdly shiny – and if you think Alice suddenly looks a LOT thinner than usual in this dress, she is. Apparently I didn’t make my Sim Alice underweight enough! I think I prefer my Sims 4 version having a waist that doesn’t look like it could snap in half at any moment, though. XD

Okay, onto the CC I actually downloaded on Saturday, with Alice modeling the Ever Elegant Blouse v2 and the Rather Ravishing Skirt v2 from Gilded Ghost’s New Woman set! I ended up pairing these two together because, with the apron, I thought this made another good “maid” Alice outfit – though she looks like she’s working somewhere fancier than Houndsditch in this set, that’s for sure. (Now I’m tempted for her to somehow get her hands on a maid’s outfit from the Van Dort estate when her and Smiler’s attempt to return Victor to his parents ends up in them robbing them for being shitheads who don’t care about their son...) But it’s a nice look for her, and I am THRILLED that this and the other tops from that set worked with her necklace! :D Seriously, so many outfits hide that necklace, and given that it’s suppose to be her wearing Lizzie’s room key, I’d like it to be visible more often than not!

Case in point, the necklace is also visible in this outfit, which is Alice wearing the Jacket Jubilee top with the Perfectly Plain skirt from the New Woman set. This set I just thought looked nice on her, and made a nice – semi-formal? This feels fancier than casual, but not fancy enough to be formal. Like, maybe this is something she’d wear if the gang were heading to the Golden Plum for a nice dinner, or to a park for a trio date. That sort of thing. Not “fancy neighborhood” wear, but a step above hanging around the house.

By contrast, Alice is definitely not leaving the house in this outfit. XD This is dzifasims’s Bespoke Corset, paired with a plain Get Famous skirt that I thought looked like a shift or underskirt (I thought the corset CAME with one, but apparently I was mistaken). It’s nice to have a plainer corset that doesn’t look like it was bought for sex purposes, unlike the base game one. Though I do like the “bought for sex purposes” one too. XD Alice probably prefers this one, though – it’s more her style, and I think it makes good underwear for her.

Onto the masc stuff, with Smiler showing off pandorasimbox’s Azariah’s Sacksuit. I have mixed feelings on this – the basic shape of the suit is okay, and I liked pairing it with the bowler, but as per usual this suit did not have any of the right swatches I needed for Smiler. The problem is, people do a lot of muted colors for Victorian-style clothes, and even the ones that include brighter swatches tend not to do a lot of yellow. Meaning I often end up with poor Smiler wearing beige because that’s as close as I can get. *sigh* I mean, I do rather like the look on them – they kind of look like they’re auditioning for a Charlie Chaplin movie – but it’s gotta be BRIGHTER, you know? *sigh* I gotta learn how to recolor clothes... (Also, amusingly, the boots are actually from Moschino – they actually look Victorian enough when you cover up the tops with a long pant.)

Fortunately, while [LonelyBoy]’s TS4 Solardius Outfit doesn’t have a yellow swatch, it DOES have a black swatch with gold decorative details, and that I can work with – especially when paired with the High School Years shoes I love so much for Smiler in the “black with yellow stitching” swatch. :) Not sure how much I like the high collar on Smiler, but this is certainly not a bad look for them!

And it CERTAINLY isn’t a bad look for Victor, who suits that high collar much better. XD As you can see, Victor got the nice dark blue swatch with the red tie, which is kind of the inverse of his tie/vest color scheme in the movie. XD But it suits him, and again, this seems like a nice, semi-formal outfit he might wear for an outing with his partners where he wanted to look a little more put together. :)

And there you have it – me playing with my favorite trio like dolls again. XD What can I say, it’s fun to dress them up in new outfits! And these particular sessions help inform me of what I’d like my trio to wear in the Valicer In The Dark universe. Since, you know, I’m pretty well obsessed with that these days. XD So don’t @ me, downloading CC is writing research, okay? Okay. :p

#sims 4 #cas looks #fashion #victor van dort #alice liddell #smiler alton #valicer in the dark au #well appropriate that I had this in the queue after getting that ask about Valicer multichapter fics #and me talking about the first fic in the VITD series that I'm working on XD #but yes more fun with CC clothes #I really do like Alice's outfits #that's an excellent conversion of her canonical dress #I have taken a turn toward preferring Maxis Match stuff but I will make an exception there #and her new dresses and corset fit her very well #and Smiler and Victor are rocking the Solardius suit #particularly Victor who looks very nice in that shade of blue #aw but the sack suit #I really DO need to learn how to do clothing recolors #there's so much stuff that would suit Smiler so well if it came in the right swatches! #who do I have to pay to add bright yellow and yellow-and-black stripes to everything #no more of this beige nonsense Smiler needs to be LOUD AND PROUD #...also someone explain to me how jewelry works in this game and why some tops hide necklaces and others don't #I genuinely don't understand :( #Sims 4 you are confusing #queued

[every-sanji]

#one piece #sanji #black leg sanji #everysanji #thriller bark #ch461 #every time they get hit with the negative hollows all i can think of is midori takamine ensembled stars #and the stupid clip from the dub where he goes 'my name's midori it means green' #dub midori is so pathetic. even more pathetic than normal midori #also stream his new solo it dropped yesterday (as of queueing this anyway on march 6th... this should be posting towards the end of the #month so uhm. still stream it hopefully there are lyric vids by the time this posts. stream green to the sky) #(also since i'm talking about the ryuseitai trip album tetsu's solo is so cute???? hello??? who gave him the right)

[not-poignant]

I've just realized that Gary's attraction to Ef is essentially a constant validation of his identity🥺 Like Gary is exclusively attracted to alphas, ergo no matter what alpha-atypical behaviors Ef shows, as long as Gary is attracted to him, it's proof that Gary considers him alpha🥺 (Ofc it wouldn't be great if Ef's validation came solely from this, but it still made me a lil soft to think about ahhh)

Hi hi anon,

Yeah Gary's attraction is very validating in its own way, even though Efnisien still struggles with it. But I really liked that the more Efnisien was alpha-like towards Gary, the more Gary became attracted to him. And this honestly started quite early - when Efnisien bit down 'not like an alpha' and Gary found it exhilarating, for example. Or when Efnisien fought with him and Gary took pleasure in pinning him down, but only when Efnisien fought back.

All the way along, the things that have drawn Gary in have been Efnisien's alpha qualities - and Efnisien's personality in general. Efnisien just *is* alpha-like. Whether Efnisien eventually decides he's the secondary gender equivalent of nonbinary / fourth gender / genderqueer or genderfluid is his call, but he's never going to 'become an omega' again. Alpha might not be his final designation, but it will always be a massive part of him.

And yeah, I am looking forward to Efnisien learning how to validate himself. But tbh, most trans folks go a long way re: gender euphoria on external validation as well, and while Efnisien's not strictly trans in the regular gender sense, he's definitely on a journey where external validation role models internal validation to him :D

#asks and answers #underline the black #efnisien ap wledig #dr gary konowalous #underline the rainbow #efnisien's journey can be an analogy for a lot of things #the fact is we don't often accept new things about ourselves sometimes #until someone else does first #or until someone else walks alongside us and supports us #and that's the same with almost anything #if we've had a rough childhood #administrator gwyn wants this in the queue

[prismstonearchives]

たなばたクール - Tanabata Cool Coord

#pripara #puri para #pri para #prism paradise #holic trick #cool #super rare #tanabata cool #tanabata #dream theater 2016 divine volume 2 #coords #coord #purple #black #rainbow #holiday #new year #queue

[therestofwinter]

#winter #snow #quiet queue #black and white #monochrome #winter photography #winter bridge #winter in new york city