#HEY BESTIES HEY ARE WE OKAY

[camels-pen]

the difference between zosopp and sanuso (romantic OR platonic) is that Usopp is Zoro's specialest little guy and Zoro is someone Usopp hangs out with and looks up to and hides behind when things get scary, but Sanji and Usopp are best friends. They horse around, they beat each other up, they confide their worst fears trying to one up each other. Usopp hides behind Sanji sometimes, sure, but idk, Sanji's weaknesses are more obvious (bugs, fighting women, etc) so there are times when Usopp has to stand in front of Sanji too, yknow?

Like, how do I say this, all the crewmates are equal- Usopp and Zoro are equals- but with Sanji it feels like more... comradery? Zoro's a rock in a terrible storm- even rocks tend to get weathered and chipped and worn down, but they overall stay strong and steady. He has trouble being vulnerable and there are times when the burden he's placed on himself to keep the crew safe is crushing his chest. Usopp would help with that and be very understanding, but the point I'm trying to get with that is that those moments are few and far between. So I feel like Usopp, especially after Water 7, would take Zoro's lead on something like that, and keep most of his worries to himself or only talk about them sparingly unless they're really bad and/or he can't hide them.

Sanji is like a tree in a storm; he can be strong, yes, but it feels like he bends and sways with the storm, and has more obvious breaking points. He can relate more to Usopp's struggles rather than resorting to blunt honesty that might border on callous like Zoro. And while, with Zosopp, I tend to think of scenarios with Zoro being blunt like that as a good thing- because sometimes when you're spiraling, it's nice to have someone say exactly what's great about you and shoot down all your worries with straight facts that you can't argue with- I can also see this as being a bad thing. Anxiety can really twist up your brain sometimes, you know? And despite the words, the tone could still mess someone up if they're already feeling like a burden on others in some way.

With Sanuso it's a lot more understanding and thoughtful words. It's distractions and comfort food and patience- the kind reserved for Usopp- until Usopp talks about whatever's troubling him. Compared to Zosopp, it doesn't take as long for Usopp to open up, since he's done the same thing to Sanji at times and it's more familiar to him to talk and commiserate with Sanji about his worries and doubts and such. However, there are times stuff like this has absolutely no effect and Sanji will end up at a loss, no idea what to do or how to help over the course of several days with Usopp being quiet and keeping his distance, and he'll end up working himself up about it which will only serve to make Usopp feel worse and. yeah. bit of a vicious cycle with them.

So it's like. Usopp can be weak with both of them, but since I see Sanji as the type of guy who'd be more open with his worries (at least compared to Zoro), there's less of a need to 'perform' and be his best self around him. He's comfortable around Zoro, yes, but he is constantly wanting to show that he won't be a problem to him. On the other hand, while he's more open with Sanji, and Sanji with him, they tend to relate a bit too much with each other and they both have issues with causing trouble for others and being 'deserving of love' so failed attempts at consoling one hurts the other and creates an unpleasant cycle of misery and avoidance before some other crewmate (Zoro) tells them to quit being stupid and just fucking talk to each other.

#one piece #sanuso #zosopp #long post #nemotime #does this make sense or is this the ramblings of a person who's only got 3 hrs sleep #bc thats me. 3 hrs sleep. ugh #listen okay its like. zosopp has their own growing pains to get through yknow? zoro will eventually get the whole #'oh usopp isnt as open with me bc he wants to seem tough and is also kind of doing the same thing i do. thats bad for him' #and it'll be a whole thing about making a promise between the two of them to try and be more honest with their fears and seeking help #when they need it #the sanuso thing is like. i hope i didnt mean to make it seem like sanuso is 'better' or w/e bc its just a different thing #sanuso got their own problems to sort out. 1. Sanji's everything 2. boundaries on special treatment- #i'm not gonna go seriously into this but both relationships start out not the best and get better over time yknow #also i know usopp's afraid and freaking out a lot but for this post i meant his deeper fears and insecurities #not 'i've got can't-go-on-this-island disease' lmao #the tl;dr of this post is: Usopp is more closed off with Zosopp. Usopp and Sanji have similar issues that cause problems with Sanuso. #also the way i see these ships will probably change at some point. who knows #there was a post i saw recently that was like 'hey sanuso bc romance trio were already chill with each other so sanuso became chill with #each other in an 'alone together' type of way and also they have the same issues' and i thought 'wow so true bestie' and here we are #also. man. usopp taking on / copying the behaviours of his loved ones regardless of his age is just. my jam. in a positive or negative way #maybe i'll make a post about that explaining it more. maybe

[archersartcorner]

A sketch from a few days ago, thought of cleaning it up and adding color but tbh I like the sketchy look of it? Anyway, Skippey n Zortchey, of the Runaway Alien Royalty Coalition lmao

#my art #described #dimension 20 #a starstruck odyssey #skip takamori #princeps zortch #god they have so much in common I wish we’d seen em interact more hwvdjsbssj #LITERALLY aliens 🤝 royalty 🤝 huge royal burden 🤝 DONT WANT IT 🤝 naive lil dudes 🤝 just wanna do their own stuff #when I think of like. norm & Skip post-canon stuff zortch & Skip are besties. out of Norman’s body Skip is either with norm or zortch #esp with zortch being psychic and able to communicate more easily with Skip due to that. but also because That’s His Frend #lil slug skip give zortch a Smoochey #zortch will sometimes just hide skip in their hat. norm comes in like ‘hey zortch have you seen skip?’ ‘…….. nooooooo :3’ and like. #norm knows LMAO but he can see they’re both havin fun so he just. ‘well okay if you see him let me know?’ ‘okaaaay I will hehe’ #meanwhile internally ‘SKIP WE FUCKIN GOT HIM’ ‘HE HAS NO IDEA HES GONNA BE SO SHOCKED LMAO’ #ANYWAY they r friends. maybe more even porhaps 🤔

[songofstrawhats]

Hi yes hello I cannot stop thinking about Kaya going off to medical school (I think realistically she'd be in more of a private internship situation but GO WITH ME HERE) so she's at med school and her classmates are like ooh girl have you got a special someone we can hook u up if not

And shes like hahaha there is sort of someone he's so sweet and such a fun storyteller he was really there for her after her parents died and they both left home to follow their dreams but they write and she hopes they can make something together someday

And her classmates are alternately like aww how sweet or like babe if you don't wanna go on a blind date you can just say so you don't have to make up a canadian boyfriend

And Kaya is mostly very good at medical school and very helpful when her classmates are figuring out how to study and sometimes she doesn't know basic things about how the world works but they all help each other out and then sometimes she'll do something concerning like stare out into the ocean and say 'oh I hope Usopp is having fun out on the Grand Line'

And they're like ........right okay he's a storyteller isn't he lmao the Grand Line is a metaphor hahahahaha for a moment there I really thought your not!boyfriend was out on the Grand Line for real or something hahahaha

And Kaya's like no i was seriously he actually is, last month he sent me a letter about [insert relevant plot point here idk I'm only at Alabasta]

And her friends are like ...........as a Marine? Kaya please say that your not!boyfriend who has run away to follow his dreams and ended up on the Grand Line joined the Marines. Or that he's lying to you. Kaya please say psych right now

And then they conveniently walk past a wall of wanted posters and Kaya is like OH LOOK THERE HE IS RIGHT THERE!!!! Awwww his bounty has gone up I'm so proud of him ^v^

And her classmates are there just like ......... and reassessing everything they know about her lmao

#does this count as fic????????? idk!!!!! #lori chat #one piece #kaya #usopp #the hilarious thing where kaya is telling gods honest truth and due to usopps sphere of influence people still lowkey think shes lying lmao #god forbid she mention the whole thing with the black cat pirates xD xD xD #at least one of her classmates is like hey if youre gonna be dating a porate at least youre dating one of the top crews #and kaya is like well were still not officially dating and everyone is like THIS IS THE LEAST OF THE ISSUES HERE #at least one other of her classmates has somehow had a run in with the strawhats (or a relative has) and understands immediately #they become besties #usopp shows up on kayas doorstep and finds her hanging out with someone they rescued like 1200 chapters ago and is like ????? #and kaya is just like hey babe want some tea also we should get married ive already reserved a venue i hope thats okay #ANYWAYS #GOOD NIGHT

[casmick-consequences]

But yeah bottomline to me is that I actually LOVED what they did with the Maddox and Ashlyn storyline, I just hate that Big Red's entire character had to suffer for it. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

#hsmtmts #they didnt need to make him a cheater. #they couldve just stuck to the 'we grew apart and thats okay' part of the storyline #but oh well. likeable secondary characters had to suffer for the front men for years now so #upset but not surprised. #same goes for seb btw this shit was unbelievable and just insanely ooc #but hey big red/antoine is canon at least #which i like solely bc larry and andrew are besties irl #high school musical the musical the series #hsmtmts spoilers

[bisexuallsokka]

Zuko exchanges a look with his uncle, whose smile is so bright, Zuko swears it heats the shop up by five degrees. Zuko has a feeling that Iroh is trying to overload the optimism before Zuko has the chance to say anything and ruin it, but he is already too tired to attempt to complain about the heat.

or: the air conditioning stops working at the Jasmine Dragon, and it's miserable until a cute stranger makes it a bit more bearable

#zukka #atla fanfiction #my writing #featuring the besties #azula #and #toph #im glad yall voted for this one i wanted to write the other wip but i actually had so much fun w this #i also didnt have toph being that much of a menace w the original 2k words so once people were like MENACE TOPH i was like shit gotta #make her a menace now. and then azula was like hey what about me #okay this was fun its 130am now byeeee #shoutout to my sis for her love of lotr/the prequels/anakin skywalker/her trans flag pin and tree of gondor pin. xoxo #wait damn it i didnt tag #zuko #sokka #okay there we go #bye for real

[torchickentacos]

I feel like some more realistic positive affirmations would be "Actually, everyone doesn't hate you" and "The entirety of the walmart is not hyperfocused on your awkward encounter right now" and "You are not an evil capitalist for buying something for yourself" and "You can talk about your interests without apologizing for it, actually". Where's my aesthetic pinterest homescreens with those. Do I have to make them myself?

#ok to rb #half joking but my anxiety is not being NICE TO ME RIGHT NOW #so i am socially quarantining until my brain can behave! we don't do that bestie. pull it together #the weirdest therapy tip i've gotten that works for me is like #viewing my anxiety as a separate entity that i need to calm down sometimes #like shhhhh hey it is okay. we don't need to be doing all of that right now. shhhh

[mazojo]

If I had a nickel for every time a father figure in an adult cartoon whose named started with Rand completely sucked ass and caused their child to be traumatized beyond repair, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it is strange that it happened twice

#Hey uh it’s a good time to remember Rand sucks ass and randy marsh too it’s like they were made parallel to each other!!! #we all collectively agree rand is a horrible father right? he manipulated regan and erased her memories against her will #he sucks right? I hope this is like. a concensus #I don’t have to explain why Randy sucks too right? okay good #I think stan and Reagan should have a conversation. trauma bond if you wish they could be besties #inside job is consuming me I’ve binged this in like two days #Reagan #inside job #rand #Randy #Stan #south park

[trans-xianxian]

my moms memorial w family members I haven't seen in years, and my brother, and my brothers ex girlfriend/baby mama and their son who he hasn't spoken to or seen in almost a decade allegedly in part due to my mother herself, and a bunch of my moms friends I don't know is tomorrow. and we're cooking a bunch of food for it in the morning. it's going to be a long fucking day

#I should have asked my bestie to come 😭😭😭 #I need someone her with meeeeee #my sisters great and we have our little sibling language and its nice to be together. but also she's an extrovert #and her boyfriend is also here #I'm going to be expected. to interact with so many people for so long tomorrow #and be painfully aware of how Deeply uncharming I am the whole time #oh yeah. and my moms dead #my mom who I had a very complicated and largely negative relationship with #but was nonetheless my mother #and I'll be surrounded by close friends of hers #god. this is going to be a nightmare #but hey! I'm at the coast. so thats nice. #okay goodnight I have to wake up early to cook tomorrow lmao #sigh. #ghost posts #text

[thotsfortherapy]

I love academia I love homework I love doing readings I love writing scientific papers I love literature reviews I love research <- lying btw

#cy says stuff #my semester starts on monsay #but im bussing back to my uni and the person beside me whipped out their ipad and started doing work #like bestie we still have a few days caj you please chill #it is stressing me out LMAO #it's okay. i will ignore it. #hey my gpa wasn't bad this semester! and i got an A+ for the first time in my uni career #just goes to show i was built to argue not to write scientific essays... alas #god i am not your strongest soldier but i will persevere 🙏 #i am going to try to see more ppl too. maybe a one on one hangout every few weeks too #cause i miss doing that kind of stuff and going back home really reminded me of how much i just like talking to ppl! #so hopefully more coffee dates in my future!

[fangedtracks]

24 days!

#em #chatter #im thinking about em again. i mean when am i not they're always on my mind #god they make me so fucking happy #ive been having such a shitty past few weeks but talking to them has helped #it feels. incredibly magical to have a love as strong as ours #they called me a good boyfriend today and they just. get me yknow? #in ways no one has ever. in ways i didnt even expect! in ways that feel full of love #i love how we've become entangled in one another. it really feels like there's no true me without them and vice versa yknow? #like yeah yeah yeah im my own person. kickass grad student whos queer as fuck and hot and theyre their own person. #fucking amazing scientist beautifully radiant individual whos so kind and gentle and fuckn CUTE ((they sent me a selfie this morning #and i was like HEY GIVE A GUY A WARNING OKAY!!! I NEED MY BRAIN FOR SCHOOL! CANT BE TAKING MY BREATH AWAY LIKE THAT #AND RENDERING ME SPEECHLESS!! theyre sooooo cute. i see them and im like ohmygod youre so fucking... youre so pretty youre so cute youre so #hot youre literally every word that is escaping my mind right now and i have never seen something as breathtaking as them)) #ANYWAY!!! it still feels like half of me is missing when they're not with me yknow? and its true #half of me IS missing... they are !! they're my other half they're my beloved they're my lavender they're my fucking bestie #it really sucks being this far from them and not having them in my life in person but soon! soon. #theyll be in the same city as me again and we'll go for drives and we'll go grocery shopping together #and get weird looks because we just. get so GOOFY together #godddd i love when we would try to forage for fucking food in [redacted] at like 10 pm but eVERYTHING CLOSES SO EARLY #like that time we went to taco bell and they only took cash so we had to pivot #god i just miss that shit!!!! i miss that with them !!! i miss laughing and being happy and having no worries and feeling. GOOD #i love that i can just look at them and they KNOW what i'm thinking like i dont even have to SAY anything and they KNOW #and how genuine they know me? god. they send me reeses and hi-chews in care packages and its the ONLY time i have them bc i dont usually #buy shit for myself like that PLUS it feels like an extra special treat when i get them from them. #also the way they have helped me love myself? like fuck. #if they're capable of loving me so deeply and truly. maybe i can too yknow? #ill do things that i wouldnt have done before knowing them (like admitting i DO know things and celebrating my 48% on an exam and eating #ice cream because its going to make me happy even though theres still remnants telling me to not) #like.... they really have changed my life for the better

[unproduciblesmackdown]

obligatorially thinking through [uhh "i don't dance" from hsm2 crossover with summer stock joke] instead i'm posting that umm "like me" from meta dcom musical "teen beach movie" crossover put it in summer stock ('50 movie) where the main problem is jane as mack (green) isn't telling gloria as lela (pink) to be more feminist as much as a dcom character a decade ago could do so (girlboss through personal choices, which eventually (sequel ending) lela does so hard she becomes a god in the teen beach cinematic multiverse which includes the "real world." win) but rather jane is hardworking enough to never Need to be ordered with increasing browbeating into doing things correctly, while gloria is so sillily insistent on thinking of herself as a person, oversensitive as she is, that she ends up with orville who is silly enough to be focused on his fiancee being a person with feelings, instead of romantically bossing her around, and doesn't mind that gloria has Too Much Moxie, while himself interestingly indeed having an arc about behaving more "correctly" that still only hinges on telling the other guy who's being pushy & demanding & mean to back off (his father) (gloria getting to do the same to joe When. while jane is like "oh whew i thought you were going to yell at me. wow i can hardly believe you aren't" to joe while their romantic future is assured to us) like gloria and orville as sympathetic & uncondemned & deserving of a happy ending too but also still like haha smh oh those two. surprise, the [husband ready to declare his demands and his wife who is hopefully so dutiful he doesn't even need to give them] dynamic isn't Timeless somehow. anyways every teen beach movie number rules also. and jordan fisher is there

#'50 voice ''haha we all know those wayward couples who are so compatibly [way to be a pussy] that it manages to work'' #the man who won't run over the woman's feelings and the woman who won't stop insisting on having & even acting on those feelings #again i'm so sure that summer stock '23 is like ''okay so from the start actually joe's Not an asshole'' lol #Like Me! x6 #''i don't dance'' also requiring the shakeup of [okay so corbin bleu's role is jane's. or orville's. vs ryan being joe. or idk. phil?] #truly when learning jordan fisher was cast as evan hansen like omg i know him.....Seacat #teen beach musical not only riffing on but building on hsm like thee choreography. composing & arranging. editing. thee Fun. my god.... #Youtube #also nothing could be like I Don't Dance is re: sexuality metaphors but teen beach movie is impressively gay #in that like hsm it's like time to be more confident following our hearts & then unlike hsm this happens through friendship #and the friendship that gets the most focus & weight is that of the would be gay pairings. but also everyone in the main quartet #dates every other member of it basically so it's like well really all the more reason to be like okay sewww.... #while you tell your bestie to not even worry abt Attracting The Opposite Sex(tm)(tm)(tm) #but hey chill & have fun & don't be afraid to be vulnerable & follow your heart do what you wanna do :) nothing gay possible therein #and if it improves your would be straight(tm) relationships? well that's Just Like Real Life :) (for real lol. nonsarcastic '':)'')

[marsixm]

yesterday was the first time since i started this job that i wanted to cry strictly because of how hard the job was because it was so insanely busy and chaotic and horrible and its not lost on me that it was due to it being labor day weekend lmao

#it was sooooo bad it was so bad #the only saving grace was closing w the manager i like #at the end of the day we were like holy shit we actually made it we lived lmao #he was like 'hey are you okay you look worried and youre really fidgety' #i was like bestie i always look like this. i was just tired after all that shit

[astral-catastrophe]

that one guy’s sister is coming to camp with us and I completely forgot about that. how am I supposed to even look her in the eye after learning this shit-

#I mean #I don’t do eye contact anyways #But it’ll feel awkward #Just #“hey your brother and I used to be besties and now he and I have both gone through our own versions of hell and I’m sorry everything #happened the way that it did because I feel guilty for what happened even tho I had nothing to do with it🙃” #It’s okay though #She knows we were close #And she knows I had nothing to do with this. #Why do I feel guilty over something that I literally couldn’t have stopped? I wasn’t even involved and I feel guilty-