#black box: plays

[inoreuct]

I've been lurking in the Zosan tag and I'm super in love with the snippets you've been posting! For a prompt, I really enjoy them being soft and taking care of each other after fights? Also love outsider POV if that seems fun to you.

wahshdhdhhs THANK YOU 😭 i’m having so much fun writing them and i had fun writing THIS :)) made it short and sweet and mostly from nami’s pov; soft but also they bicker because. when do they not. enjoy!

Nami huffed as she made her way to the galley, peckish after the battle. Sanji was probably there, but loathe as she was to admit it she’d feel a little bad to ask him to make something; that fight had taken a lot out of all of them, and she’d gotten off easy— The last she’d seen him he’d been wrapping his forearms with his shirt and trying to staunch the bleeding from several wicked slashes.

The door was cracked open when she got there. Strange. Sanji was meticulous about keeping it shut to keep Luffy out, but she supposed if he was to be lax at any time, it would be when he was injured. 

That was, until she heard the voices.

“Stop moving, shithead!”

“I’m not moving! The fuck are you—”

She peeked through into the kitchen and almost stopped breathing, hunger forgotten, fatigue banished, grin growing by the second.

“If you don’t stop fucking fidgeting it’s gonna leave a scar,” Zoro warned, tugging Sanji’s hand forward again and rolling his eyes at the cook’s dramatic sigh.

Sanji was perched on the dining table, one arm outstretched as Zoro shoved a needle threaded with fishing line through his skin. He tried to hide his wince at a particularly tender spot, shoulders jumping before they settled at Zoro’s soft sound of apology. Nami took a note at the back of her mind to get Luffy to befriend more doctors.

Still, looking at the arm that Zoro had already finished, the stitches were neater than Zoro would have done on himself; she’d seen the scars that he’d gotten from sewing himself up. They didn’t look like they’d had half this much care put into them.

“You’re lucky they aren’t that deep. The hell’d you go and do this for, shitty cook? You need your hands,” the swordsman mumbled, brows furrowing and actually sounding a little confused, and Nami simultaneously felt sorry for him and like she wanted to clobber the big idiot upside the head. 

“Ah, you know me,” Sanji sighed, slouching to the side dramatically but keeping his arm still. “Always the martyr—” Zoro levelled him with an unimpressed stare, cutting a stitch with a dry snip, and he faltered. “Well, I— I don’t know, marimo.” He shrugged, swallowing. His eyes were staring at something on the table. “I saw you there and just moved.”

Nami gathered her context clues and had to stop herself from pumping her fists. It was finally happening. The two idiots had been dancing around each other for ages; She and Usopp had a running bet on who would get their shit together first, but hell, at this point she didn’t even care who won.

Zoro sighed heavily, short and sharp, pushing Sanji’s skin together to finish off the last stitch. “Just— Don’t do it again.”

“The hell do you mean don’t do it again, you ingrate?!” Sanji squawked, outraged and hissing through his teeth when the fishing line was tightened. “I saved your life!”

“I would’ve been fine!”

“You would’ve been hurt—”

Zoro tossed the scissors and needle aside, brandishing a roll of gauze in Sanji’s face. “And what if you couldn’t cook anymore?!” 

“Well maybe, just maybe—” The cook snatched the gauze, gripping it in his fist with his eyes ablaze, “Really think about this, now— I care more about you than that, you moss-brained oaf.” He took a measured inhale, jaw working as he looked away. Nami was about to do a victory lap around the deck. “Good God, how long is it gonna take to get it through your thick skull…” 

“Curly-brow.” 

Sanji remained resolute, face turned to the side even as Zoro stepped closer.

“Oi, cook.”

He wound the gauze between his fingers, looking down.

“Sanji,” Zoro murmured. “Baby. Come here.”

Nami clapped a hand over her mouth, eyes wide as coins. This was a thing. They were already a thing. Oh, Usopp was absolutely going to lose his shit. 

Sanji swallowed, unable to escape when Zoro had callused hands on his knees and was dipping down to nose at his cheek. “First you want me to stop moving, now you want me to—” He cut off when Zoro kissed him, simple and sweet, thumb rubbing circles over his kneecap. “…Mm. Right, yes, I suppose that’s… a valid reason.”

“Thank you.” Zoro set his jaw, looking up at Sanji earnestly. “I mean it, curls. I know how much cooking means to you. And you said...”

Nami watched as Sanji’s face softened, his hand coming up to cup the side of Zoro’s face. “Of course, mon chou.”

The swordsman chuckled low in his chest. “Did you just call me a cabbage?”

“Wh— No.”

“Yes, you did.”

“How the hell do you know?”

“Our navigator doesn’t just have maps. Found a French dictionary lying around.” 

Shit, she’d been wondering where that had gone. Green-haired bastard.

“Said navigator’s been here since five minutes ago.”

Double shit. 

Sanji whipped around with a scandalised noise as she gave up the act and stood in the doorway properly. “Nami!”

“I didn’t see anything!” she cackled, just barely sheepish, hands up in a gesture of peace as she turned and hightailed it out of there. The smart thing to do would be to blackmail the shit out of Zoro—

But she thought of how gently they’d treated each other, the looks in their eyes, and sighed. She’d let them have this.

(But getting her to admit that they were good for each other or that she was happy for them would be harder than pulling teeth, she’d make sure of that.) *

“Go get me a wet cloth, darling, there’s blood in your hair.”

“You think she’ll snitch?” Zoro asked, running the tap over a clean dishcloth and wringing it out before walking back.

Sanji hummed, non-committal and slightly amused. “Would you mind if she did?” he asked lightly, seemingly unbothered as he wiped at the red drying tacky in Zoro’s hairline from where he’d been whacked over the head.

The swordsman laughed under his breath. He could feel the tension in Sanji from the way he was sitting, spine too straight as he wrapped his arms around the cook’s waist, hipbones pressed into the table’s edge between his thighs. “…Not really, no.”

“Nothing to worry about, then,” Sanji said, cool and composed, but this time he didn’t bother hiding the relief in his smile. “Now.” He pursed his lips, scrubbing the rest of the blood out of Zoro’s eyebrow. “To the showers with you, and then bed.”

Zoro held up the gauze. “Still gotta wrap your stitches.”

Sanji rolled his eyes again, the corners crinkling as he smiled. “Fine. Wrap, shower, bed.”

“Mm,” Zoro hummed, pulling him close and leaning up for one last kiss. “Perfect.” 

fin.

#zosan #zosan fanfic #one piece zosan #zoro x sanji #THEY’RE RIDICULOUSLY IN LOVE #chopper and the others aren’t here yet so. zoro’s playing doctor #they drive me inSANE #roronoa zoro #one piece zoro #vinsmoke sanji #one piece sanji #black leg sanji #one piece #op zosan #ask box #ino’s ask box

[decembermoonskz]

anyone who doesn’t get that wriothesley is chris coded it’s okay. it’s okay if you don’t see the vision but just know this is basically my dream come true

#genshin.txt #i DESPERATELY want chris to pull him IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE #black and red clothes. wolf constellation. his fighting style is boxing/hand to hand #JUST LISTEN TO ME jakahshsh #I’ve wanted him to play genshin for so long and it is RIGHT WHEN **HIS** CHARACTER COMES OUT #EVERYBODY SAY THANK YOU TO FELIX

[hzdtrees]

First Impressions

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw photomode #sometimes i go looking for black boxes #and sometimes i go looking for them on the isle of spires #which leads dangerously close to a familiar spot #which then ends up with me retracing aloy's steps from the state of play preview #that was what #may 2021? #so it's approaching three years since then #time flies #at least erend's eyebrows found back to him between then and release

[videogames420]

SLIDE ATTACK

#cat #pets #my cat #cute #rasputin #tuxedo cat #black cat #diego #funny #funny cats #cats playing #playing cats #cat in a box #play fighting #silly little guy

[atopvisenyashill]

This Is How I Can Still Win: How The Penroses Are Related to House Targaryen

SO. In case you don’t remember - you probably don’t, it’s a throwaway line and likely just George retconning and not doing it on purpose - Jeor Mormont misremembers Aelinor Penrose as being Aerys I’s sister instead of her cousin. Here’s the quote, from Jon I in A Clash of Kings:

"No, this was Aerys the First. The one Robert deposed was the second of that name.” “How long ago was this?” “Eighty years or close enough,” the Old Bear said, “and no, I still hadn’t been born, though Aemon had forged half a dozen links of his maester’s chain by then. Aerys wed his own sister, as the Targaryens were wont to do, and reigned for ten or twelve years."

Potentially, this means that Aelinor has ~the Valyrian look~ and that’s why Jeor got them mixed up. But when you look at the information surrounding the Penroses that existed in this era, it looks a little wonky because of this line from The Mystery Knight:

"At the crossing of the Mandel, he cut down the sons of Lady Penrose one by one. They say he spared the life of the youngest one as a kindness to his mother."

So how can Elaena marry Ronnel, Lord of the Parchments, only have one son, yet Quentyn Ball slew all of “Lady Penrose’s” sons? How is Aelinor related to the Penroses and the Targaryens? What woman of Targaryen blood would marry into this random ass house in the middle of Stormlands? Why was it so important to retcon Aelinor from a sister into a cousin? Well - let’s have a think about what other houses have recent Valyrian blood…we have some female lines after all…perhaps even Targaryen women that married into politically active houses, who would love to marry back into the main branch again…I wonder who that could be…..Oh what’s that? Is that-

DRAGON TWINS TIME.

Allow me to spin two family trees for you, one where Rhaena’s daughter marries into the Penroses, and one where Baela’s daughter marries into the Penroses:

(pls applaud me for the amount of math i did for this very unserious post!) green is a romantic/marriage line, black is a parental relationship.

I am noting that this would mean Alyssa (I made her name up btw, mostly because I thought it would piss Daemon off to have a Hightower named after his beloved mother) gives birth at around 34, which is a perfectly reasonable age to have a child at, and Laena gives birth at like 40, which is definitely a lil risky! BUT there’s plenty of time for Laena to have other children, and for a second born son to have had a child at that same age, so if you think it’s a stretch for Laena to have a kid at 40 (perfectly fair) just pretend there’s a son there named “Roland” or something as Aelinor’s dad and Laena’s second born.

Now, FIRST OF ALL, this makes the cousin thing make sense, but also it makes it deeply funny - Aelinor is Aerys’ great aunt’s granddaughter. That’s a close enough relationship that you would consider them a cousin but it’s also the exact relationship Robert has to Rhaegar (because Rhaegar is Robert’s great uncle’s grandson). Both Aerys and Robert avoiding incest/kinslaying on a technicality lol.

But SECOND OF ALL. Do you know what makes me absolutely fucjing feral about this. Alyn Velaryon is messing around with a woman so much younger than him. That she marries his GRANDSON. because SHE IS THE SAME AGE AS HIS GRANDSON. i feel like george is weird enough to do the Baela scenario too.

And LASTLY OF ALL. Notice there’s plenty of time for Alyssa/Laena aka Lady Penrose after she’s married, to have several sons for Quentyn Ball to slay on the Redgrass Field, including Elaena’s husband, Ronnel himself, and for Elaena’s son, Robin Penrose, to inherit the seat afterwards. It also means, since it’s mentioned that Elaena married Michael Manwoody soon after her second husband died, that the two of them got a long time together. Why is this important? Because Michael Manwoody was her marriage for love and I want Elaena to have been with him for a long time.

This scenario gives her like 9 years with Ronnel (kinda sad, their kids don’t get to know their dad very long) and a minimum of 15 years with Michael Manwoody, who is apparently not the step dad but the dad that stepped up.

#me giving myself ronnel/elaena feelings for no goddamn reason making this akskkd. also used show casting but its book canon. #valyrianscrolls #elaena targaryen #aelinor penrose #michael manwoody #rhaena of pentos #baela targaryen #rhaena targaryen #aerys i targaryen #ronnel penrose #house penrose #getting on my soap box #rani attempts meta #i realize this is basically a secret targaryen theory. but the targaryens they're descended from are THE DRAGON TWINS so its fine #also don’t talk to me about the aerys fancast. yes it’s wwe superstar sami zayn. what about it. #i wanted to fancast someone with some sort of swana heritage that could pass for white. had a bitch of a time not repeating anyone from my #dornish graphic. gave up and threw in my man sami bc he’s a white passing syrian icon. #i'm otherwise very proud of these fancasts. if we ever get the blackfyre rebellion and elaena isn't played by kylie bunbury #i'm gonna be disappointed now lol. also if you are wondering yes the aelinor and ronnel in the rhaena graphic have one (1) black grandparen #alfred molina is probably too sexy to play aegon iv but mark addy is already robert so. #also the longwaters sigil is from the asoiaf rp wiki bc i didn't want to give them a velaryon one #bc fuck alyn that's why #echoes of sansa and arya

[kafus]

CLONEDUDE HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY CLONED!! two of her. gnc icon

here's some pics of the process since it's not like new pictures of these menus are much of a thing anymore LMAO very few and far between

also something that WASN'T a thing back during the original GTS' lifespan: the pkmnclassic GTS viewer LMAO i had to take a pic of my mom's PC screen instead of a normal screencap, i was sitting in her office because the router was being stupid and the signal for the guest wifi i use to connect to the gen 4 DNS exploit wasn't reaching my bedroom. truly the mid 2000s experience, i had to sit in my mom's office to connect to wifi Often SDFKFSD

#kiki was here #kiki.txt #kiki plays games #pt playthrough #the black boxes on the pics r just blocking out my legal name i dont identify with btw sorry #my childhood pearl uses it lol

[obsob]

im like tamftgebka (thinking about maia from ‘the goblin emperor’ by katherine addison)

#mine #original #the goblin emperor #maia i would die for u i would kill for u #u would not BELIEVE this problems this drawing gave me. outstanding #i actually did a whole other drawing. maia and th little people are taken from that drawing i had to frankenstein them #the like. idea is the same kinda but the other comp was bad. like if i draw and i dont have a colour palette in mind i just draw for that #comp to work in black and white. and then if i try to put colour on top it like always looks awful. why do i do that. #anyway. here he is. im pretty happy w it th colours arent exactly what i wanted but thats fine svbkdbgvd #my mum is away this week im playing house and having a good time #i got!!!! more isopods!!! ik i said i would post pics n of my magic potions and didnt but thats bc theyre very small and shy rn skjlf bless #i got more armadillium vulgare but a gem mix theyre so pretty!!! n one of them is like absolutely huge. enormous. #however th seller was very stupid th packaging for their postage was rlly bad n th ventilation holes were too big n they didnt pack th #tupperware tight enough so loads of babies fell out n died :(((((((((( i sent her a message like. maybe dont do this n she was like oh sorry #n was like this has never happened before but im like. ur stupid. why did u use such a big box all u had 2 do was put more moss in. #they were rlly dry as well theyve spent all day hanging out in th damp moss. poor babies. theyre absolutely destroying some cuttlefish rn #so i think theyre fine <3

[goldiipond]

came back to stardew valley at the start of my art funk and after getting perfection for the first time n getting bored i started thinking about a harvest moon game i played a ton as a kid so i got 100% in that today and now im seeing stuff about a new stardew update so basically what im saying is i think i have unwittingly given up my life to become a digital farmer

#skye's ramblings #100%ing tale of two towns is a fucking trip btw. i bought a cardboard box on wheels from a girl for 30 million dollars. dont do this #also im convinced this game is impossible without constant access to the wiki this game does not care about anyone. figure it out fuckhead #the characters are absolutely wonderful though i love them soo much. makes my character design autism spin around so fast #the dialogue gets a bit repetitive but i also played to year 13 which no human being should ever do. i think 10 year-old skye should kill me #but man its good having games like these to just sort of fuck around in during burnout periods. i feel like i can start drawing again. soon #but enough of all that sdv is adding black cats. i fucking win

[mus1g4]

Hey mugs,

It is hot that you have been beaten chain gang style and have also been a guard. As a guard have you seen guys sweat and slow down from the heat and Sun? What did you do to them. Have you give a con piss to drink? Did he have to drink from a bottle fermenting in the Sun or right from some one's dick? Was it another con or a guard? These are fantasies I have about chain gangs. These situations and disciplines are seldom mentioned or talked about.

Thank you for your chain gang question and for sharing your fantasy.

Of course I have seen convicts sentenced to hard labor slow down and sweat! I have also seen men who were fucking lazy or just pieces of shit. Convicts like this do not drink piss. Convicts who fail to fulfill my orders go to the sweat box.

For those of you who don't know, a sweat box is a wooden or metal box into which a convict is locked. There is minimal air flow. The box is placed in direct sun. If you survive, you know better than to be lazy again!

If you want this experience, come to Hampton Jail and sign up for the chain gang. Ask for Officer Pitbull as your Guard Captain. Then, PLEASE be lazy or by a smart ass.

#chain gang #role play #black and white stripes #hampton jail #sweat box

[feral-teeth]

Im just thinking about that American psycho musical and how much it affected me as a person and changed who i was

Also that face he makes in the movie - i always do it like the ‘ooh’ face (it also feels like a very Canadian Jim Carrey face to make too idk it might just be my connection to it)

#feral-teeth thoughts #american psycho #i watched a bootleg of it online #and holy shit #holy fucking shit #it was so fucking good actually #it inspired me to like #get back into theatre #also currently reading the lines to audition for something called whale riding weather #and it has genuinely changed my life #like #it has reached into my soul and tore out apart of me #and my queerness #and like my butchness but also the masculine parts of being a gay man that i connect to so deeply #but didnt know i was allowed to connect with #being born female #but being so fucking nonbinary #and one part one character kissing his belly #the character i was reading as #and in my mind it like #healed the parts of myself that hated myself #and my size and my belly #i really am craving to be in this role with my whole life and body #and i think i would actually lose it if i dont get to play in this role #so please #pray for me and send good vibes for me to get this role #or maybe that night was enough #me reading the play and acting it out in my head in the dark of my bedroom #playing pretend in the black box theatre in my mind #im scared that my autism and my awkwardness is going to keep me from performing at my best

[sickmachete]

found the mushroom song 🍄 ty shazam beloved ♥️

#it's temple by black box #very funky vibes very much like #txt #thank god for shazam #<- website for finding song titles by playing clips of audio #also. is bed time #is 2:30 am #maybe i can be normal and go to bed before 3 #lotta work to do tomorrow #wd be smart

[syrinq]

i haven't felt that "people of x fandom are interpreting character y wrong or reducing them to such a surface level" to a strong degree until like

well

now with baldur's gate 3

#sy.txt #scooping up all the companions and side characters and telling thirsty girlies to fuck off #and then proceeding to jump in the chionthea or whatever the fuck the name is #in this house it's 'putting astarion in a blanket and giving him a nuzzle' instead of sexualising him further into boy toy goblin chow #IN THIS HOUSE IT'S LOVING LAE'ZEL HOURS #IN THIS HOUSE IT'S CHARACTERS THAT BREAK YOUR EXPECTATIONS DESPITE THEIR MORALITY AND HISTORY👍 #i stand by my point shadowheart is like the samsung girl of this fandom. poor thang #also yes people are sleeping on wyllis my man #this is also an emperor defender post YES WHILE BEING AWARE OF THE TEXTBOOK BEHAVIOUR CRAP. IT'S MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT. NOW SHOO BITCH #oh i love it so much when your blorbos NEED to be put in black or white opposite boxes with no in-between or nuance whatsoever! #something something prejudice and borderline questionnable things becoming meta because it's about fantasy races and societies and worlds.. #or are you allowed to think that because it's 'established in forgotten realms lore' like that? #yeah no i'm feeling things about this beyond the theatre play. similar to the meta crap related to myhouse.wad #shit that goes way beyond the 'happiness line' because frankly that line didn't even fucking faze me #thank you and good night (dissolves into the floor)

[saireye]

oops! Victor ascended!

oh you!

#Victor seaweed #art #oc #black boxes #animatic series #The song that’s playing in this art piece is another love if you even care #Digital art

[journal-three]

I haven't actually watched Gravity Falls in so long, I'm terrified of what might happen if I actually open my box set

#seriously im going to start watching the commentary and then do nothing else for 18 months. #im going to play sock opera and bill's gonna fuck in through my window. #ill watch not what he seems and my monitor will become a black hole that sucks me in and spits me out in some random multiverse dimension #a tale of two stans will come on and I'll move to new Jersey #who knows #gravity falls #my shit #i have the box set AND the vinyl BOTH of which ive YET TO PLAY!!!!!!!!! #and the collector's journal 3. but I'm just bringing it up to flex dw I've read it

[stardestroyer81]

⭐ Y'all, it's real. ⭐

Thanks to the amazing RetroAmericanRepros over on Etsy, I was able to have my Super Star Sisters artwork made into a label and put on an actual NES cartridge shell— in my favorite color no less!! Getting to have my artwork on an NES cartridge is something that I've always wanted, and I felt that Super Star Sisters would make for a perfect fit! ✨

#Star's Art #Photography #Super Star Sisters #Super Star Sis. #Super Mario Bros #SMB #NES #NES Games #R.O.B. #Coolness #To think that only ten or so days ago I had completed the initial Super Star Sisters black box art... #... and here we are now with said art ON A LEGIT NES CARTRIDGE!!! #I had a lot of fun making an additional label for the back of the cartridge as I'm sure you can tell XD #I was about to go with the default grey color most NES cartridges come in but then #T H E N #I saw they came in blue and was like 'Yeah that's the one' #Naturally there's no ROM chip inside but I do have the tools necessary to put one in #I was thinking about grabbing another copy of SMB1 and putting its ROM chip into the Super Star Sisters cart #So not only would it look legitimate... but it'd actually play something too! #I've also been looking at tools to dip into ROM hacking as well to potentially mod myself and Stephanie into SMB1 #So we can at last have the t r u e Super Star Sisters experience! #If you're interested in putting your own art (Or anything in general) on an NES cartridge shell... #P L E A S E go give RetroAmericanRepros a looksie. I very much intend on seeing what all else I can put on an NES cartridge art-wise!! #Also consider this an excuse to show off my smol NES collection featuring the universe's best boy... R.O.B.! #I HAD to include him in this post somewhere because he is my fren ^w^

[etherealabyrinth]

Black Box LSS: The Shining Immortal is such a good game. Even with the few translation issues it has, the story and characters are so good and unique. And the character design…OH GOODNESS THE CHARACTER DESIGN!!! It’s so yummy. The colors, the clothes, the accessories!? Lovely all the way.

If you’re willing to look past a few grammar mistakes, I highly recommend it!

#Played this game two times it’s invaded my mind #also there is some yandere elements and blood #if ya don’t like that then ya don’t have to play it #me personally it’s very good #3456 and Ronnie my beloved #Black Box LSS: The Shining Immortal #{gnawingmystraightjacket}