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east blue memories

#❤❤❤ #one piece #monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #cat burglar nami #god usopp #black leg sanji #while i'm gone queue me the world

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fandom tumblr was another casualty of streaming services. we used to be on here posting about the episodes that were coming out weekly and posting gifs and writing insane shit about the tv shows we liked. now a new season of a show will drop and we’ll talk about it for a week. two weeks tops. and then that show will leave collectively conscious for 1+ year till the next season drops. there’s a reason succession sundays was a blast on here

we used to have real television

#i think i've mentioned this already at some point but watching yellowjackets s2 on a weekly basis was such a breath of fresh air #you spend an entire week coming up various theories on what's gonna happen next #and then the next episode comes out and 2/3 of these theories are not applicable anymore so you have to brainstorm new ones #it's fun #fandom things

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Gareth grieves, written for my writing class last semester but I just found it again.

Gareth was so out of it he didn’t even hear Kay’s approach until the senechal was beside him.

“Sir Gareth,” the formality in Kay’s tone wavered with an undercurrent of concern Gareth had long since trained himself to pick up on.

“I’ll be there in a moment.”

Kay sighed. Gareth waited for him to leave. He didn’t.

“I understand it will be hard for you to go in there, after everything.”

“I have a duty.”

Gareth didn’t mention his other duty, as a brother, to stay here with Aggravain until the funeral pyre was lit. To avenge his brother’s death. To honor someone he loved but couldn’t support, couldn’t believe in, couldn’t praise. He’d be expected to say nice things at the funeral, and the more he thought the less he could come up with and the guiltier he felt about it.

The warm weight of a cloak was draped over his shoulders. Gareth didn’t have the heart to look up and see more of that carefully concealed concern.

“If it would be better for you, you would be welcome at our table tonight,” Kay offered carefully. Gareth nodded his acknowledgement. He couldn’t accept of course. Why would he even want to?

The food would be cold. It wouldn’t be artfully arranged, just a mix of whatever they had left. The ale (never wine) would be weak and nothing would be fit for a Prince. It wouldn’t be a place for him. (It was the only place he felt real.)

Gareth stayed in the church a long while after. He felt he should hold Aggravain’s hand, should offer his older brother some comfort in all of this. The hand was cold and stiff, and it wasn’t Aggravain, not anymore, and that made Gareth cry again.

Nearing midnight he heard the feast breaking up. Even after such a solemn occasion many were drunk, and many of the drunk were loud. One voice in particular rose above the others as it approached the chapel.

Gareth let go of Aggravain- of the corpse's hand and stood, drawing Kay’s cloak around him. He listened carefully, and was able to make out quiet responses at the pauses in between his eldest brother’s ranting.

Just Gawain and Gaheris then. Probably for the better, Gareth didn’t think he could face Mordred right now. The door slammed open and Gareth flinched before drawing himself to his full height and forcing his face to go blank.

He didn’t meet his brothers’ eyes as they stumbled in, or when they froze at the sight of him. The silence drew on to the point of discomfort, though no weapons were drawn yet.

“Your Majesties,” Gareth dipped his head in quick greeting. If he could stick to they’re titles he could ignore the chasm that widened between him and his brothers, “I was just leaving.”

Gareth almost made it out the door. Almost. But then Gawian caught his arm in a surprisingly vice-like grip. Gareth knew better than to struggle. Even at night, drunk and swaying, Gawain was stronger than him.

“Gareth,” Gawain whispered. More a strangled prayer than any kind of enraged hiss. Gareth risked a glance at his brother- his king’s- face. Gawain isn’t angry, he’s grieving. There was a spark of hope in his eyes that had Gareth folding right into a hug. Gawain clutched him close, like something precious. Gareth hugs back.

He catches Gaheris watching from the threshold. He doesn’t say anything, with his voice or his face, but Gareth knows his brother is breaking. So Gareth holds out a hand and puts on a small smile, and waits.

Soon all three of them are tangled together in an odd mess of limbs. Gareth closed his eyes and tried to pretend it could all be okay, that they would ever be whole again.

That he would ever be whole again.

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By the time Gareth stumbles down to the kitchens, red-eyed and numb, the servants have finished dining. The few who are still there cleaning up watch him with sorry eyes. Several come forward to give their condolences. There’s enough food and ale left for him, and Lucan sits with him while he eats, keeping the conversation light. The food is cold and the ale is worse than Gawain’s breath, but it tastes like home.

Gareth finds Kay scrubbing out the huge pots they use for stew, and tries to give the cloak back. Kay waves him off and tells him to keep it.

A week later Gareth is buried in it.

#!!!!!!!!!!! #that last line. god. #arthurian legends #gareth #kay #gawain

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The Midwestern Princess

#chappell roan #woah

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Thought experiment: the villains of The Beetle and Dracula swap. The Beetle is up against the Harkers and co. Dracula is up against…whoever the heroes in The Beetle are. What happens?

#beautiful. #dracula #bram stoker #jonathan harker #mina harker #the beetle #richard marsh

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back on my sexy old man grind

#sir...... #dracule mihawk #one piece

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I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things that serve no other purpose than making you happy.

#yes

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Silly wee Jonathan Harker warmup sketch idk if I’ll ever finish

#the movement. the emotion. the amazing devil reference. excellent #jonathan harker #dracula #bram stoker

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EMILY RUDD as NAMI ONE PIECE (2023—) (insp)

#my love #cat burglar nami #one piece

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if you're cringing at the genre conventions of the genre you are writing in then why the hell are you writing in it. either have something substantial to say about those conventions or shut the hell up! i will not cringe alongside you at superhero powers and spaceship battles and big eldritch worms and bone magic. i came to this story to SEE that shit and I don't appreciate it when an author tries to pretend they're above the very things they're selling themselves on

#on writing

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dont forget to do your daily clicks at arab.org, please!!

link for clicks

#world #palestine

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Assorted Wrong Question Dogs (Moxie, Ellington, Kellar, Dashiell, Ornette)

#LOVE this #all the wrong questions #snicketverse #moxie mallahan #ellington feint #kellar haines #dashiell qwerty #ornette lost

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Baudelaire Pups! 🐾

#so cute! #a series of unfortunate events #snicketverse #sunny baudelaire #klaus baudelaire #violet baudelaire

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one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off

#yeah

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which is definitely not an omen

#world #tagging the untaggable

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Huh. So I randomly remembered Croc is pretty much Italian.

#asfcdgngsfjhd #one piece #dracule mihawk #sir crocodile #buggy the clown #cross guild

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cringe below

#hehehe #i do like the idea of koby having a dirty mind but because he's such a polite young man w/ such a ^_^ face no one ever suspects that #(i guess helmeppo is going to find out. hopefully) #one piece #koby #helmeppo