#// Valentine's Day is approaching.

[shokujin-art]

I LOVE HOW YOUNDRAW IVORY WRAITH THEIR SO PRETTY???? DO YOU HABE MORE 💙💙💙💙

Thank you for loving the way I draw Ivory wraith sdfdlkgj Don't have more in stock so I drew a lil something ~

#dol #degrees of lewdity #dol ivory wraith #ivory wraith #ask #myart #make them all heart with their tentacule because valentine's day approaching #:3c

[disasterdemi]

Excellent work team, good hustle

#aromantic #aro #trending #aros win at valentine's day yet again #next stop number 1? 👀 #eta: if you're coming across this post in the aro tag please know i have indeed reblogged this several times with increasing levels of #excitement as we approached (and reached) number 1! 😌

[beanghostprincess]

Valentine's day on Karai Bari more like Benn Beckman and Co show up with a giant treasure chest and a flower bouquet the size of Crocodile for Buggy, who is on the coast sputtering like a drenched cat. Benn would want to do anything but this and Buggy's cult trying to monopolise his interest and dkstract him from Shanks' ridiculous declarations of love isn't helping his migraine.

Buggy thinks Shanks is fucking with him and rejects it. Shanks spends the rest of the day crying like a baby in Yasopp's arms.

This has been happening for YEARS and I just know Shanks always does this anyway in case someday Buggy wants to forgive him and take his Valentine's Day gift. But by doing so, Buggy would be, like, accepting his apology and love and it would make him look weak.

Besides, he sees this as a declaration of power over him more than as a declaration of love (because he's stupid). If Shanks truly wants Buggy to forgive him and be with him for Valentine's Day he needs to actually go there himself and apologize because for once in his life Buggy doesn't want something flashy and he just wants Shanks.

Like-- I don't think we talk enough about this, but I would absolutely love Buggy rejecting every Valentine's Day gift because they don't mean shit and he just wants Shanks to be a man. But Shanks is, for once in his life too, extremely scared. So it's okay to cry and have a breakdown if Buggy rejects his meaningless presents, but if Buggy rejects him face to face? He doesn't think he can handle that. I think Buggy keeps stuff Shanks gave to him when they were together for Valentine's Day long ago (and by long ago I mean when they were kids/teenagers, so these are really old and cheap and dumb presents) so it's not like he doesn't want the gifts. He does want them. He just wishes things in general were different.

Meanwhile, do you know who is with him? Crocodile and Mihawk. And they might be cruel to him most of the time but they actually care enough to give him presents face to face for this day, surprisingly enough. If Shanks doesn't change his approach next time he's gonna lose the love of his life, just saying....

#thinking shuggy thoughts about them celebrating valentine's day i am crying #okay no but really buggy just wants another type of approach i swear elkfnejfnwlken #one piece #shuggy #buggy the clown #red haired shanks

[tomiokasensei]

BREATH OF LOVE

FINAL FORM: valentine's day!

#kny #knysource #kimetsu no yaiba #kanroji mitsuri #demon slayer #kny fanart #useradrienne #useraki #usergojoana #dailyanime #anisource #m*fanart #m*art #breakingsasuke #meant for valentine's day but posted this in march lol #and the new season is approaching very fast!!! #excited to see how ufotable will animate her love breathing techniques

[ozzgin]

um!! I need a mean bully!reader with a yandere!loser, where reader basically just uses him like a pet and has him do whatever she wants ><

🫧 anon

I actually have a very descriptive ask for a Mean Girl Reader and Submissive Yandere Nerd dynamic which I might work on soon, and I think it fits your suggestion rather well. So it shall be done in the near future. (Never wrote losers before but then again I can just look in the mirror)

Presently I'm in the stage of gazing at the 20+ drafts and trying to summon the inspiration to continue them.

#Valentine's Day is approaching too #Why can't I hold all these limes

[majorbaby]

probably the best life hack ive ever discovered is if youre absolutely sick over someone youre forced to see constantly and they dont love you back, find their celebrity look alike and project any illegal feelings you may have onto that guy instead.

for this to work you need to commit with the tenacity and grit of a teenage girl or a kpop stan. if after a few weeks people haven't started associating you with your proxy crush, you're not doing enough. time and space is better but if The Person is your coworker, try this.

#im not into BTS but i convinced myself i was very into jin BTS for a solid four years and i still feel some affection for that man #this isn't topical to my life rn but according to my dash some of you need this advice esp as valentines day approaches #good luck 💕 someone will love u properly i promise 🫂

[ask-shane]

Sooooooooo

Valentine’s Day is coming up

•v•

You uh,

You got any plans?

only plans i have are between me and a beer.

valentine’s day isn’t a big thing here in the valley like it is in other places, but folks still know it. i almost forgot what all the fuss is about... what’s it— chocolates, teddy bears, flowers, and cards?

#ask-shane 🐓 #ahh valentines day #i almost forgot it was approaching lol

[plushiehamuko]

the week leading up to valentine’s day is actually kaede’s favorite time of year bc her favorite activity is to harass all of her friends until as many of them have valentine’s day plans as possible. it is the best time of year for her to play cupid and she will not hesitate to do so

#squishy talks too much #and when does she find time in this to make plans for herself? #great question! she just doesn’t #UNTIL EVENTUALLY she gets approached by. #a certain girl. who asks her if she wants to like. #spend valentine’s day together #and the girl is tenko #pretend i wrote this all as a fic and it was a really good fic and you’re impressed #about kaedes <3

[yepthatsacowalright]

Since Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday are one and the same this year, I made this card for some fellow Midnight Mass friends. <3

#as a lapsed catholic i feel it is way too early and slightly illegal for lent to start today but oh well time isn't real #ashes to ashes #dust to dust #please be my valentine #before i spontaneously combust <3 #midnight mass #mike flanagan #crock pot luck #valentine's day #ash wednesday #The Weekend of the Annual Rewatch approaches...

[gayrobos]

i would fucking love to read your author's-commentary on the stunticon friends comics! maybe not like in the individual update posts but i know spoilers don't really stop me from enjoying anything and it'd be cool to hear about the stuff that can't quite be shown yet :D

WELL OKAY IF YOU INSIST hehe. it's mostly thoughts about people's relationships. and a lot of it is thoughts about people's relationships with motormaster. a nice relaxing 1.5k of authors notes which doesn't contain spoilers for future plot per se.

I kind of think of this comic as being about... what is decepticon culture, and how does it impact people who've been in it and also their adopted human teen. I've joked that the reason the stunticons are here on earth is because they joined the "kick around people who are weaker than you" faction and they were shocked, SHOCKED when someone stronger than them started kicking them around. so they went to a place where nobody's stronger than them ::)

mikki, meanwhile, is in a super weird place about this because they're. not actually strong at all. EXCEPT when they're with the stunticons. so they have this mindset that they're top dog and they can do anything they want but that's not going to be true if they actually leave and they do know this. they know that if they want to maintain the power they have they need to stay with these people who seemed so normal to them and who they are realizing are seriously not normal. who are frightening. who have never been what they seemed to mikki. it makes a teen ask some questions! or stubbornly refuse to ask themself any questions!

the stunticons of course also refuse to do any amount of self-examination. they came out here to do nothing more and nothing less than have a good time at other people's expense. but they're each deeply neurotic in their own special ways, largely but not exclusively because of their time under motormaster's command.

wildrider has always been Like that. as in, needs a lot of stimulation or she will rip up the furniture and chew through someone's face. putting her under the command of a huge control freak like motormaster was kind of a dumb idea, because they were constantly butting heads. except motormaster is four times wildrider's size and can squish her like a toyota corolla. thankfully wildrider has never ever learned a lesson in her life and just kept on antagonizing motormaster forever until she got sick of being beat up for ignoring orders and wandering off to shred things and. you know. impaled her. basically wildrider's injuries were purely physical because she wasn't that afraid of the consequences of defying motormaster or more broadly decepticon command. nobody else got off that easy. (EDIT: I completely forgot to mention how ashamed wildrider is of every time she made a compromise for the sake of her safety. which wasn't all the time, but she sees it as cowardice, not self-preservation. she HAS been altered by motormaster; it showed her a side of herself she hates and now she's got to be even more recklessly aggressive to prove she's not a coward.)

dead end has spent a long time making herself into a tool to be wielded. if you never expect anything good to happen you can't be disappointed! and this doesn't extend just to motormaster, you know? the entire decepticon army runs on "shut up, do what you're told, perform viciousness." wildrider is in some ways the perfect decepticon. dead end sucks at it, but she CAN shut up and do what she's told. she's very good at killing people but she doesn't much like it. I think motormaster has probably told her a lot of times that she's only good for one thing and she's not that good at it. she really really longs to connect with people but she's also terrified of it (for good reason, since she's gotten burned a lot) and in the present she's still pretty withdrawn even from the other stunticons. mikki felt like a safer option because they're just a little alien and if we feed them and tame them they won't be able to leave! and then: uh-oh. dead end caught feelings. she should know better by now.

breakdown, we haven't seen that much of her being neurotic because she's been in a really safe place for four years. the humans can't touch her. she doesn't have to leave her ship. she doesn't even have to talk to the other stunticons if she doesn't want to, mostly. historically she has been a LOT weirder. and we'll see some of that soon ::) to motormaster she was suuuuch an easy target for isolation. you can tell her to always stay in the comms room and she'll just do it! you can tell the rest of your crew to play pranks on her and gaslight her and they will because it's funny and you're decepticons! you can tell her in private that it was their idea! to breakdown, motormaster is THE number one trustworthy person. which isn't to say that breakdown doesn't fear her, it's just that motormaster can't "betray" you. what would that mean. it's meaningless. this is part of why I'm so insane about wildbreak. breakdown is like, yeah, wildrider is violent and kind of unpredictable and she thinks it's funny to torment me, AND she keeps trying to get me to break the rules. the only way to deal with this is to play along enough to get her to keep it a secret. and also she's hot and I desperately want to hurt someone because I feel so angry and helpless all the time. like! the only person breakdown trusts is also the implicit threat whenever she's with wildrider??? the only connection she'll allow herself to have is with someone she truly dislikes and who has never treated her well! neither of them can ever admit they care about each other as more than fight club buddies because their affection is all twisted up in hatred and their clashing personalities and the way they've been intentionally set against each other!!! AUGH

post-motormaster they just hit each other and have sex like regular people. but watch out!

okay and finally we come to drag strip. who as I'm sure you've noticed needs desperately to be liked by everyone and for nobody to be mad at her specifically and also each other. this is a terrible coping mechanism for dealing with motormaster, but it's the one she developed! and it kind of fucked her over because at the crucial moment she didn't join in on killing motormaster. her loyalties were very much divided between the one person who was most important to make happy and the people she intellectually knew were on her side. and now she's always going to be the one who didn't want motormaster dead. and she's always going to be thinking about how everyone else is thinking that. but everything's fine as long as they still laugh at her jokes.

it's been SO fun to plot out the stunticons falling the fuck apart because the foundation of their trust in each other has always been rotten. house of robot usher over here. there's a lot of decepticons out here who feel genuine camaraderie despite (because of!) the way that their military culture encourages them to turn on anyone who isn't performing decepticonness well enough, but, um, that's not the stunticons. living and fighting together for thousands of years just gave them a LOT of beef to pretend they don't have with each other. despite themselves they do all genuinely care for mikki, but their model for caring about someone is "war buddy" which kinda comes down to "do fun shit with them and save their life." and none of them have the capacity to admit (even to themselves) that they have real feelings for someone!! that would be seriously uncool and not macho et c. so you get situations like mikki passive-aggressively going WOW NOBODY HERE CARES ABOUT ME OR EVEN THINKS I'M A PERSON! and getting crickets in response.

whew.

okay, what about motormaster? what's her deal?

funnily enough I've not done that much development on her since she's barely gotten any screentime. so some of what I'm saying here is solidifying for the first time. (I don't really write a lot of notes, just scripts.) like I said, she's a control freak. and an egotist. she needs to claim credit for the victories of everyone under her command, and she's a pretty fucking bad leader which is why she only has four subordinates. but she's unbelievably effective on the battlefield, and that ability transfers well to menasor. a win for the decepticons. truly, what is there to say about her? in this story she's defined by what she does to other people. I won't get into the metaphors that we'll see in stunticomix endgame (teehee), but from a narrative point of view she's literally nothing without them. she's more the spectre of decepticon culture than she is a person, yk?

so the stakes of this story are: can the stunticons overcome millennia of indoctrination, abuse, and generally sucking in order to have a genuine relationship with like 1 person who doesn't have that baggage? can they allow themselves to care about ANYTHING? originally the script I wrote (with arcee's help <3 hi arcee) calls for the answer to be yes, they can pledge themselves to a cause they decided for themselves and yes they can build a community. but you know what? reading all this shit it's really hard to believe that they can do any of that. VOTE IN THE REPLIES will y'all be mad at me if this turns out to be a tragedy. lmao.

#stunticon friends #red I like ur characterizations so much. especially your dead end. I really cherish him. #every day I'm thinking about dead end in your valentine fanfiction #this has nothing to do with the post uhhh I just think your fic is neat #and it stands in contrast to my approach which has to serve The Themes Of The Work (and my regrettable tendency toward understatement) #OKAY PEACE THIS HAS TAKEN ME A RIDICULOUS AMOUNT OF TIME TO TYPE UP AND I'M SICK OF AGONIZING OVER IT

[thebirdandhersong]

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#warning y'all ahead of time #miserable posts may be coming your way as we approach valentine's day #i am endeavouring to be cheery but it's darn hard #when you live in the same dorm with two couples and have so many friends #who are married or engaged #im starting to think that i should just straight up avoid instagram for all of february #for my own sanity #anyhow #please know. i am trying :')

[turtle-tries]

jude bellingham 🖤 like or reblog if you use

#my edits #jude bellingham #in time for valentines day which is fast approaching 🥰 #jude is our collective valentine it's fine 🫶 #like or reblog if you use #bvb #borussia dortmund #this is one of my favourite photos of him its beautiful #england nt

[captainseamech]

             Maybe if he stays at the bottom of the ocean during the upcoming month, no one will notice him...

#📘 | captain's data log / ic status #[ context: ... Valentine's day approaching ] #[ at least for the States HDNDKLD ]

[todoslosdiasdemivida]

"We'll make it together, or we won't make it at all."

… Somehow, he thinks they both knew he wasn't just talking about that specific hell of a situation.

He made a promise, one he would make again in different words at a different time, one that he's kept to this day, as unwaveringly as the one he made then.

#|| out of chaos || { ooc } #// to cover my bases: #// please do not reblog #|| that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger || { about gabriel / reaper } #|| afraid she'd kill you? / be surprised if she didn't || { about ramona } #|| he set fire to the world around him but never let a flame touch her || { about gabriel & ramona } #// Ah yes. #// Valentine's Day is approaching. #// Time to draw stuff for my couples. #// Seems like a good time for this. #// 🔥🚁🔥 #// 🔥🥲🔥 #tw; blood #tw; fire #// This is—as always—unrefined and unfinished but #// I like it well enough for the moment. #// So have the Infamous (first) Heli Crash. #// One day (maybe) I will type this story out in earnest. #// It is such a Big Thing. #// Until then #// this is what I have. #// 😂😂😂

[goldensunset]

i love when i search up a keyword on my blog while looking for a specific post and while i’m scrolling through i come across some other ancient post i had forgotten about that happens to also include that keyword

#just looked up ‘misinformation’ and came across ye olde 226k note post i made almost four years ago lol #valentine’s day is fast approaching again i hope it doesn’t have a resurgence #i love shipping discourse sooooo much 😍 oops #shouldn’t have opened my mouth #peach rambles

[vulpinesaint]

it's me and messages from people who i have constructed extremely complicated relationships with in my head sitting in my inbox

#like you don't know that i feel hurt by you. and there's not much reason for me to feel that way either #however putting so much effort into trying to stay connected while you drifted away left me a little heartbroken #and now that you're finally ready to reconnect i don't know how to approach it... #but also like. i don't know how you feel about it at all. #i have to stop developing such intense relationships with such mentally unwell people 😭 i need friends who will message me back #i love you i'm so obsessed with you i wish i liked ppl so we could date!! and also you didn't answer my messages for Months 😭 #anywayyyyy i will answer that text. at some point. #it's been sitting there for like two days... #i just need to figure out how i feel now. #valentine notes #also to the separate person who occasionally messages me and whose messages i leave sitting there #cause i don't even really want to look at them. much less answer them. #idk. do you ever become a different person since the last time you talked to someone