#brotp; thick as thieves

[neroushalvaus]

I'm obsessed with that one s3 deleted scene, O'Brien is like "how is the earl" and Thomas is like "well his daughter just died suddenly so I guess he's sad or something idk" and O'Brien is like "wow that sucks, anyway do you think Jimmy is gay, or..?"

#they are HORRIBLE i love them #brotp; thick as thieves #sarah o'brien #thomas barrow #downton abbey

[danpuff-ao3]

Starbucks Synastry: Bro, I Love You (HP Astro #14)

James Potter and Sirius Black: BrOTP for life. Unless Sirius can confess to his infatuation and convince James they're actually soulmates. "Me, not Lily, Prongs."

Read Also: Astrology Introduction, James Potter, Sirius Black.

Right out the gate, we have two fiery boys. Leo Rising (James) and Aries Rising (Sirius.) The King (James) and the Warrior (Sirius.) Our ascendants (or rising sign) show how others perceive us; what their first impressions of us will be. In each other, Sirius and James find kindred spirits. Warmth, boldness, color, and fun. Fire is of the spirit, and they are quite spirited on their own, and all the more so together.

James' Leo Rising points to his Sun as his chart ruler, and his sun is in Aries. Arien energy at his core; Arien energy on Sirius' surface. Like meets like.

Their moons, their emotions, are also of similar energy: Aries for James, Sagittarius for Sirius. Both fire signs. Fierce and bold at heart, the both of them.

The odd man out is Sirius' Scorpio sun, and this one is a doozy. For all of their shared energies, the only aspect among their Big Three is James' Leo ascendant squaring Sirius' Scorpio Sun. Square means tension, and the tension is between James' outward self (his appearance, his interactions) and Sirius' core self (his ego.) Expressive Leo versus reserved Scorpio. Skeptical Scorpio versus genuine Leo. Leo is the sun in the sky, Scorpio the depths of the sea.

There is a sense of conflict. James' sense of self thrown into question by his connection to Sirius. Conflict in opposing views, or purpose; likely stemming from differing backgrounds. Remember, both are privileged wizards from wealthy, pureblood families. But the Black family is ancient and proud, and harsh, compared to the Potters' friendliness and generosity. James was the long awaited child of an older couple. Spoiled not just materially, but emotionally.

There is also a sense of competition. Friendly competition, I'd wager. Both Leo and Scorpio are of the fixed modality, meaning stubbornness. James is self-assured, playful, and charming (Leo.) Sirius is curious, witty, and seductive (Scorpio.)

Squares are tension, and opportunity for growth; and of all the squares I've seen in all the charts I've pulled, this is the most promising of them all.

Aries likes a challenge. It thrives on competition. Both have Aries in their Big Three (Sun and moon for James, rising for Sirius.) Both have other fire placements (James' Leo Rising, Sirius' Sagittarius moon, Mercury, and Jupiter.) Fire is a sense of fun and adventure. Fire is lively, and fierce.

Both have water, too, with adds another layer to it. James with Mercury and Venus in Pisces, Sirius with sun and Mars in Scorpio. There is a sense of magic in water signs. Curiosity and mystery. Whimsy an idealism in Pisces; power and cunning in Scorpio. A connection to higher purpose and deeper meaning in water signs.

The heights of passion (fire) and the depths of intensity (water) in them both. The competitiveness is a game to their fiery natures, with a hidden agenda of growth and respect from water's spiritual drive. There is nothing cruel or antagonistic in their clashing. These are men who work with the tension between them. And their friendship (or even romance) is all the stronger, and all the more dedicated, because of it.

They are fascinated by each other. They have fun together. And they make each other better. Of course they're thick as thieves!

(Am I suddenly shipping Starbucks?? We're only getting started!!)

Now, there are plenty of squares between them. Eleven, in fact. Some of the most notable being that Ascendant square sun, but also ascendant square Sirius' Mars. A clash of ego. Differences in how to handle problems. Arguments.

The biggest "problem area" for a romantic relationship will be James' Pisces Venus squaring Sirius' Sagittarius moon. James' sense of romance at odds with Sirius' emotions. This implies emotional baggage from the past; likely Sirius haunted by familial trauma, and how he's been shaped by his background. Both are relatively easy-going signs on the surface, but James' obsessive, addictive romanticism (Pisces Venus) triggers Sirius' fight or flight mode (Sagittarius moon.) Sagittarius needs freedom, and it balks at restraints; and it might feel smothered by Pisces' very heavy energy.

Pisces energy can sort of trap one. Water, remember? Pisces is the ocean on a warm spring day. Calm, and inviting. Beautiful on the surface. Bright blue, reeling you in. You dive in. The water embraces you. It's cool, refreshing. You go under. You swim deeper, and deeper. But there's no end in sight. And you realize too late how far under you are. Pisces is spellbinding, and there's a lot more to it than they're given credit for.

So you can imagine how overwhelmed, how panicked Sirius might get. And in that mode, he rails against James' compassion and optimism (Pisces.) And James' heart is tender, and easily wounded. This causes James to struggle with his self-worth, in ways I believe only Lily and Sirius are capable of.

But as I stated above, I fully believe James and Sirius thrive on every last one of their squares. However far Sirius runs, James follows. He doesn't quit. And James is too alluring (it's that Leo rising, damn it) for Sirius to stay away long.

More than that, for all of their challenges, James and Sirius have far more harmony between them than anything.

I mentioned eleven squares, right? They also have a single opposition (between James' Mars and Sirius' Uranus.) But also...of the easier aspects...two sextiles. Four conjunctions (not just similar energy, but same energy; the most intense aspect of them all.) And fifteen trines. A total of twelve "difficult" aspects, and twenty-one "easier" aspects.

However far Sirius runs, he's in too deep with James. He'll never find anyone more on his level, or more at home, than James. And James won't give up on him, because he sees it, too. Sirius is the most important person in his life (even if he chases after Lily Evans.) They're two peas in a pod, truly.

James' Mars sextile Sirius' ascendant. Mars is action, ascendant is appearance; in sextile, this means common interests and cooperation.

James' Venus, which causes so much trouble with Sirius' moon, trines both his sun and his Mars. James' ability to love in harmony with Sirius' core self, but also his drive. Sociability (Venus) meets ego (sun.) Romance (Venus) meets sexuality (Mars.) Contentment and joy between them.

James' Sun trining Sirius' Mercury (information); shared interests and ideas. James' Sun trining Sirius' Jupiter (expansion); the couple who travels together stays together, or something like that. Mutual respect and trust. James' moon trining Sirius' Mercury; direct, open communication. Full sincerity and honesty between them.

They come from similar backgrounds of status and wealth. There is a commonality of not only interests, but their understanding of (and how they were colored by) pureblood culture. They have similar values and morals, but for James they came from bedtime stories, and for Sirius they were learned through trial and error. James was taught his moral code; Sirius earned his in a fit of rebellion. And while James was coddled at home, Sirius withstood harsh rebuke and the weight of expectation.

Similar enough to bond over; different enough to keep things interesting.

Another point to make is this:

While I hope I've taught everyone that "difficult" placements aren't so scary or limiting, I now must show you how "easy" aspects can be flawed. Easy aspects can lead to stagnation. And while many trines can be called "boring", between James and Sirius I think they're worse than boring: I think their trines bring out the worst in each other.

James and Sirius are heroes, in ways, but they were troublemakers and rulebreakers. They went to great lengths to support Remus, but in doing so broke Wizarding law by becoming unregistered Animgaus. And were they not so skilled or so clever, imagine how bad, if not dangerous, that might have been had their transformations failed. That's advanced magic. Not to mention the risk they took in hanging out with a werewolf. Could they really have known for sure the werewolf would be safe in their Animgaus forms?

They explored the grounds (invisibly!) and made a map. Very impressive! Not only their sneaking abilities, but inventing a magical map! The ways they combine forces and encourage each other to greater heights.

But greater heights can be deadly.

And for all that James and Sirius can be heroes...they were villains in other people's stories. They were bullies. Due to ego and self-righteousness, and the ignorance of their privilege, they targeted Severus Snape and made his life hell. They fully contributed to Snape's overload of trauma. Two handsome, charming, popular, rich boys tormented a boy who was poorer than them, less charming than them, less handsome than them, less popular than them. They bullied an abused child. And why? Because he was different? Because he was best friends with the girl James wanted? Because he was a Slytherin? Because he "knew" Dark magic? Did they feel threatened by how smart Snape was, and how skilled he was?

There is no excuse for bullying.

Snape was a child. So were James and Sirius, to be fair. With all the ignorance and arrogance of their youth, they demonized Snape in their minds, and amongst themselves. Their shared hate fed on each other, and grew out of control. Their shared beliefs made those beliefs all the more real and excusable in their minds. Worse still, James and Sirius loved each other, and wanted to impress each other.

And Sirius nearly got Snape killed.

There is no excuse for that. None. Zero.

They sexually assaulted Snape.

They exposed his body quite publicly. This is not a prank. It is not a joke. It is sexual assault. And it is not okay. There is no reason for it.

Whatever Snape went on to do and become, does not excuse the cruelty towards a peer. They could not see into the future. And honestly, I think they are partly to blame for Snape joining the Death Eaters. Not fully to blame, mind you. But they played a role.

James and Sirius did not see each other as villains. They were not rubbing their hands together, cackling evilly, plotting evil deeds. They saw themselves as heroes. They were Gryffindors! They valued bravery, and rightness. They had firm ideas of right and wrong. And those ideas were skewed by their youth, inexperience, and their privilege.

People fear what they do not understand. And people hate to be afraid. Fear can turn to anger. We make monsters of those who are different. James and Sirius truly thought Snape was a "bad guy" and saw themselves as "good guys", and saw themselves as performing good deeds by putting down what was "wrong."

But they were wrong.

They were not, however, evil themselves. No one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. Only their misdeeds happened to be worse than the average person's. They both grew. They became better. They went on to do truly good deeds. They dedicated their time, energy, skill, and knowledge to a war effort. And they did this while so young. They were firm in their convictions. And that's respectable, in a way.

For all the ways in which James and Sirius were good, there was also bad in them. All people are a mix of the two. And for all the ways they made one another better, there were ways in which they made each other worse. Encouraged each other's worse habits, worse traits, worse desires.

And at the end of the day, they were in it together. Until the very end.

#hp astro #starbucks #astrology #synastry

[vacantgodling]

character headcanons ask game: hanzo if someone else hasn't already asked about him, or lucio if someone has. or both :D

i did hanzoooo (but i’m always down to do more pff) but i’ll do lucio cuz tbh i had to think about this a bit. what ARE my headcanons for my favorite frog boy 🤔

Sexuality Headcanon: this is a good question—i think for him it’s about the vibes—is he vibing with someone. tbh lucio strikes me as someone who falls in love with a lot of people in a lot of different ways; he’s always in love with someone or something. but at the same time i don’t know if the concept of being with someone is something that he’s truly thought out. he’s always on the move, always on the go, always living life to the fullest extent and in a manner of ways i think he just needs someone (or potentially plural) that matches his energy. might be poly-pan perhaps, i think that would work for him.

Gender Headcanon: nb masculine would be a fun headcanon for him tbh. i don’t know if i’m that pressed i just know he’s a dude lol

A ship I have with said character: i’m actually a pretty big bunnyribbit fan and when i’m not losing my mind over hana and daehyun (the real otp) then these two are always thick as thieves to me. just as i was talking about in the sexuality headcanon, i think hana just matches his energy. HONESTLY BIG BRAIN THOUGHT of hana, lucio, daehyun ot3 oh my god—

A BROTP I have with said character: in the same frame, the hana lucio friendship is chefs kiss but i think most people pair them as friends together. that aside, i think he and tracer are such cute friends!!

A NOTP I have with said character: hmm. him and junkrat ig? but i just think all the junkers are useless to the story and i dislike all of them fr. so its less to do with the ship itself and more like general disdain for all 4 (yes i include the fucking hamster) of those characters and that sector of the ovw universe. shoulda never been made imo.

A random headcanon: i think his love of jazz music came from his father 💛💛

General Opinion over said character: i love him 🥺🥺 definitely the first character after hanzo and cass that i got attached to because he’s black and fun and sweet and has such good energy and also frogs 🥺 but i think the fandom does have a tendency to… dumb him down a bit. like he doesn’t get as much agency and thought as other characters do, which is ridiculous because he literally led an entire revolution for his people??? but people sleep on it??? he is very good natured tho but i think its silly to think he never gets angry or wouldn’t kick someone’s ass cuz he can and did. AND DID.

#ff: cage #about renjamin

[mongrelmutt]

Tagged by @morepopcornplease

Three ships: In the "Brotp" sense -- CamPal, Frodo and Sam, Luz and Hunter

First ever ship: Again, in the brotp sense, Robin Hood and Little John

Last song: "Ship in a Bottle" by Fin Argus

Last movie: "Glass Onion"

Currently reading: "Thick as Thieves" by Megan Whalen Turner, "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, and "Trial by Fire" by Ashley Barner and Jen Sanders

Currently watching: "The Owl House" and "Lost Treasures of Egypt." Also slowly rewatching my childhood favorite, "Gargoyles."

Currently Consuming: Water, because I let myself get slightly dehydrated again and am a sad, tired ball of ouch

Currently Craving: Coffee

Tagging: @morallydiseased @delphinidin4 @anneofbluetardis

#memes #personal #fibromyalgia

[jaskierswolf]

Would my beloved fancy writing some Fringilla on this fine day?

I'm sorry this took so long nonny! I hope you like it! It's Fringilla x Francesca with a hint of Fringilla & Cahir brotp!

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Fringilla had spent so many years alone in her life. She’d been an outcast after Aretuza, a laughing stock, and then her work in Nilfgaard had left her hated by all her peers and family. Even her uncle had cut her off, and it wasn’t as if the Nilfgaardian army favoured friendships. It was all about loyalty to the White Flame and the cause.

Still, over the years, she’d watched Cahir grow from a young boy to a fine and brilliant soldier. What’s more is that he had become her best friend in the living hell that was the Continent. They’d been thick as thieves during their time in the army, and despite the fact that Cahir technically outranked her, there was no denying who held the real power out of the two, especially after Fringilla shrugged off Tissaia’s teachings. Forbidden magic was as addictive as it was powerful, and soon Fringilla felt as if she could take on the world, and so she did, gladly, under the White Flames’ guidance and her best friend at her side.

Until Sodden.

And everything had fallen apart because of Yennefer… it was always fucking Yennefer. Whenever, Fringilla’s well thought out plans fell apart, Yennefer was there.

It was bloody infuriating! The young girl that she’d once thought of as her friend and been chosen as her greatest rival by Destiny or some other shit.

So Fringilla had learned to fend for herself, and the last people she should trust were other mages. It was all politics and personal gain, which was fine, because she knew the game and she played it well. One didn’t become the lead sorceress to the most prevalent nation on the Continent without knowing how to play at the stupid political warfare that every mage seemed to be obsessed with, which is why her alliance with Francesca scared her.

It had been politics at first. They needed each other to appease the Deathless Mother, and that should have been it, but Xintrea was lonely and often it was just Fringilla and Francesca and their walks around the grounds. Their partnership had… grown. Without either of them even realising it, allies had become friends, and as butterflies fluttered around the flowers that Francesca left in her wake, Fringilla couldn’t help being reminded of the butterflies in her stomach.

Partners. That was what they had agreed on, and Fringilla had been sure that had meant like… work partners, or friends or whatever, but not…

Not love.

And yet, looking at her friend, Fringilla was starting to think that she’d grossly misjudged the situation. With little bursts of magic, Francesca had turned the pillaged garden into a paradise for her kin, and the flowers bloomed in more colours than Fringilla had ever seen. It was beautiful, but more importantly, she was beautiful. Some of the flowers had drifted off their bushes, levitating through the air beside them as they walked, weaving together until they’d formed a crown of sweet smelling petals. When it was complete, it had landed gently on Francesca’s head and they carried on with their stroll as if nothing had changed.

Except everything had.

There was a storm brewing inside of Fringilla that she couldn’t control, and she knew that she was falling in love with the Queen of the Elves.

“Fuck!” she hissed, stumbling back and away from her friend.

As gracefully as ever, Francesca turned around, her hands resting on her swollen stomach. “Fringilla?”

She looked ethereal, radiant… perfect. Everything about her seemed to draw Fringilla in, and it wasn’t fair. It wasn’t part of the plan, and with Yennefer out of the way, Fringilla hadn’t expected anything to disrupt her life this time. Panicking, Fringilla tried to throw up her mental walls, but it was too late, Francesca had seen everything.

“Oh, I see,” she said with a dazzling smile, reaching out to Fringilla with long elegant fingers. “It’s not just you.”

Hope.

It had been a long time since Fringilla had felt hope, but that was what Francesca embodied - Hope for her, for the elves… for Nilfgaard. Francesca had been their rebirth, the start of a new fight, but she had given Fringilla something far better than that.

She’d given her a friend.

A lover.

“It’s not just me,” Fringilla repeated Francesca’s words as she laced their fingers together. “Partners?”

“Partners,” Francesca agreed.

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#the witcher #the witcher season 2 #fringilla x francesca #fringilla vigo #francesca findabair #wolfie's witcher writing

[charaznablescanontoyota]

for the ask meme - derrick?

favorite thing about them: I LOVE A SAD MAN WHO NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD OF. uh same answer as tiana really i think there's a lot of space wrt derrick to explore the idea of legacy and who gets remembered in blaseball and who becomes a martyr and how you live being the wildly mediocre regular guy who replaced the star pitcher nobody knew was gonna die

least favorite thing about them: never got necromancied. smh

favorite line: that time he haunted ken and hit a home run that landed in a big bucket. again i say king shit

brOTP: derrick and shaq baybeeeee. they are best friends they are weird exes they are everything to me. derrick and bennett and tiana also though like all 4 of them being thick as thieves is so very meaningful. that's a whole found family right there! also sosa elftower and derrick being adopted siblings is so important derrick loves his trench fam so much

OTP: sebderrick...............but also s2-s3 mikederrick. i hold them both so tenderly in my heart

NOTP: look shaqderrick is fun to think about in theory but i think that always ends really badly for both of them. they are better as weirdly homoerotic friends ykwim

random headcanon: can't smile intentionally for photos, always looks like he's being held at gunpoint unless you catch a candid of him genuinely smiling/laughing without knowing he's on camera. which is easier said than done on account of he also has resting bitch face

unpopular opinion: i don't think dude liked a lot of the garages when he played with them. i think when other og garages like luis and ally started showing up in the trench derrick was a little bit [hissing like a territorial cat] but like as much as someone with no real voice could do that

song i associate with them: i have multiple derrick playlists lmao. classic j dies and goes to hell pt 1 and mr. invisible are like theeeee derrick songs to me tho

favorite picture of them: uhhhh prob this one i drew

#derrick krueger #blaseball

[baba-fett]

Hmm, for the character ask, Hardcase 😏?

P.S. love ya bestie!! Has anyone told you that you are looking beautiful today? 💕

Thanks for the ask!! I absolutely LOVE Hardcase.

and also thank you you are so sweet, hope you're having a lovely day 💗

favorite thing about them

He just is so chaotic; his energy is immaculate and I love how ready he is to jump into action.

least favorite thing about them

That we got so little of him:( I barely even registered him in his first appearance in season 2, then they developed his personality in season 4 just to kill him off.

favorite line

"Live to fight another day boys, live to fight another day."

brOTP

Him and Fives handsdown. I like how Fives meets him on Umbara and they just become thick as thieves.

OTP

Since he doesn't have and romantic pairs in the show, I like the idea of him and some nurse who works with the 501st. She probably had to help him heal after an injury, and he developed a crush so he would show up frequently with different "injuries" just to see her.

nOTP

I feel like he wouldn't work out with a Jedi romance.

random headcanon

He LOVES junk food. Especially after drinking at 79s. THe man will stop at every food stall on the way back to base.

unpopular opinion

Not really an opinion, and I kinda mentioned it earlier when I brought up how he and Fives met on Umbara, but I kinda like how the canon shows clones that have been in the same company/battalion introducing to each other. Because it's really realistic; they wouldn't know each brother.

song i associate with them

hmm this is tough, but the first thing I could imagine is that he would be OBSESSED with Low by Flo Rida. Like he would blast it all the time in the base.

favorite picture of them

I can't link It right now, but literally anything from him flying the Umbaran starfighters. His face is golden in that scene.

[is-it-mungojerry-or-rumpelteazer]

If Mungojerry and Rumpleteazer are your BrOTP...

Will you say they are thick as thieves?

#cats #text posts #Mungojerrie #Rumpleteazer <3 #the chaos twins #Platonic Friendships #i'm sorry

[army-of-mai-lovers]

Are there any popular fandom OTPs you only BroTP?

Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…

Popular character you hate?

oooooohhhhhh these are all good ones ok ok

Idk how popular Makorra is anymore but that is an OTP that I hella BroTP. I live for Mako & Korra friendship content. I just think after they break up they would be thick as thieves and it would be so great and I am so angry at lok for not giving us, the audience, more Mako & Korra BroTP content. just in general I would have wanted more platonic bonding within the krew. I know they had really short seasons and couldn’t do a lot of the character stuff that ATLA was able to do but it just made their whole presence in the show so shallow and I was longing for more developed friendships between these people who all claim that they would die for one another. but I guess that’s what my ao3 acc is for. 

I have *multiple* posts about things I would write differently, especially in lok (peep my Amon post) but one of the hcs that I’m most proud of is that instead of Zaheer getting Airbending from Harmonic Convergence, Aang gave it to him before he died. Now, this does bring up questions like “how did Aang and Zaheer even know each other?” (they met when Zaheer was still part of the White Lotus, Aang is a super friendly person generally and Zaheer really wanted to know about Air Nomad culture from someone who had experienced it before the genocide.) and “why would Aang give Airbending to Zaheer but not any of the Air Acolytes?” (Aang didn’t trust the Air Acolytes with Airbending, and initially didn’t want to give Zaheer Airbending, but Zaheer kept asking and convinced Aang that he could trust him.) I just think that there wasn’t enough reckoning with the Air Nomad genocide and the Fire Nation’s role in it in lok (or in the ATLA universe in general. Having it so that Zaheer’s anti-government anti-White Lotus stances are based in a deep relationship with his mentor, the last Air Avatar and survivor of the genocide, would have provided a much more interesting conflict with the Red Lotus. Additionally, I love the idea of Zaheer learning Airbending in secret, waiting for the right moment to pull out his trump card and escape, biding his time. That’s just so much more compelling to me than him getting Airbending one day and being amazing at it instantly (and yes, many many people have told me that he would be good at Airbending instantly because he was an incredible martial artist in tune with Airbending culture and it’s not bad writing actually, agree to disagree fam.) Also, everybody should check out Sruthi’s combustion bender posts because in all honesty, writing and representation wise, the combustion benders are a major weak point of the show and her headcanons would have made both shows infinitely better. ok so that was three answers to that question but I have a lot of gripes!!!!!!!!

I’ve definitely talked about this before but I cannot stand Kuvira. I really can’t. I’ve seen people compare her to Azula and honestly if Azula’s character weren’t written so well I would probably hate her too. Kuvira as a character just lacked nuance to me. I feel like I could appreciate her as a villain if there weren’t so many people in this fandom who loved her. Idk, maybe it’s hypocritical to love Azula while hating Kuvira, but for me, Azula was written with a lot more depth in the text of the show (I really don’t feel like reading the comics I’m sorry I’ve heard too much about the homophobia and the bad writing and like. I can’t do it) and seeing and understanding her makes all the difference for me. Personally, a lot of the love for Kuvira (not all, but a lot of what I’ve seen) is partially due to the fact that she’s light-skinned and conventionally attractive and that bothers me a lot. 

salty fandom ask game!

#ask games #anarchy tag #fjdjfsldjfk this is so long #controversy! #replies

[neroushalvaus]

"Kill them with kindness" wrong. Pretend to kill them with kindness. Act like everything is fine between you two and wait. Wait until a new footman is hired and they start very obviously crushing on that footman. Then tell them that the footman obviously has a crush on them as well, while telling the footman that he must not reject any flirting he may receive. Keep this up until the inevitable happens and they make a move on the footman. Oh, and they are both men and this is the post-Edwardian era, keep up. Best case scenario they kiss him, he is not happy about it and someone else witnesses it. Even better if that someone else is you nephew. Now convince your nephew to report the whole sordid affair to the butler. Now they're getting fired, but your mission is not done. Tell the footman everyone will think he is gay unless he blackmails the butler into giving them a bad reference. Now they are getting kicked out, desperate and alone and no one can help them. Ohhh. Doesn't it just warm your cockles?

#sarah o'brien #thomas barrow #downton abbey #brotp; thick as thieves

[chromatic-lamina]

law and robin brotp fanfic excerpt

Again, from a longer darker multi-chaptered piece, though the excerpt isn’t dark. The below is a T-rating at the most. The fic isn’t though, so I won’t link. This is a post-canon world where Luffy is the pirate king. Law is recovering at Robin’s from Doflamingo menace. Benn is a lawyer in this post-canon world. The content fairly light. The Franky joke is an ongoing thing throughout this story. This scene is set before the (platonic) lawbin I posted previously. Enjoy (but excuse the shitty graphics. Sorry).

It was just as well she knew him so well. He smelled of grass, sun and the aftertaste of fear; the sting of anger, and the warmth of protection as the neighbour's two year old dog snuggled into the crook of his arm and rested his snout on his chest. 

The dog lifted his head and sneezed twice, spraying Robin with canine snot, before lowering his jaw flat onto Law again.

Robin was pushed up against Law's shoulder on the grass. He'd shambled her there as she'd stepped out to hang clothes on the line, deciding to do it herself rather than using her fruit. Now her fruit was busy though, sorting through the pegs, and colour-coding them to the garments. She should've just engaged it in the first place. The work ethic was overrated.

"He's sorry," Law said, scritching the pup's hard head.

Robin looked across at the dog, so at ease on the surgeon's chest, so unaware that there was anything wrong with sneezing all over her.

"No he's not."

Law smiled into the sun.

"And neither are you," she added.

Law loosened his jaw. He couldn't get too warm on this day. As much sun as he soaked up, he needed more.

"Comfortable there, Nico-ya?" He freed his arm from between them, the other loosely on the pup, and folded it around her shoulders. "You find my company distasteful?"

"What would Franky say?" she asked. Law's shirt had the faint scent of cigarettes. He smoked when he was stressed, otherwise he preferred rollies packed with leaf. A mild buzz. On occasion.

"Robo-ya and I are in an open relationship," Law murmured. "I don't think he'd mind."

Relief prickled through her like the lawn pushing against her blouse. He still had it. Could still joke, step beyond everything that the media, Doflamingo, his own psyche, damned him by.

"You gonna survive this one, Flevance?"

Law looked up at the sky. A clear beautiful blue, not a cloud in sight. He could be hopeful on days like this. Doflamingo was all about entrance and show. No clouds to lasso eased air flow. "Yeah." The dog let out a small growl as Law changed position. He patted its fur absently.

.

Robin's fruit hands finished hanging the clothes. She set them to work picking up fallen leaves. Dumped them in the garden bag against the fence. 

 She lifted her fingers to his warm hand draping her shoulder. Inked fingers slinked through her own. "He almost killed you, Law. Being poorly judged by the town when he's ensured you're a pariah seems light punishment."

He ran his thumb over the mound of her wrist. Didn't answer. Doflamingo had almost killed him.  He loosened his grip and sat up, looking down at his friend, her dark hair spread over the grass, a spare hand shielding her eyes from the sun.

"What're you doing lounging down there? Didn't you have work to do?"

"Heh."

Since Law was up the dog was too. He wandered with a far too enthusiastic swing of his tail to Robin and licked her cheek. She sprouted a few hands and held the pup's wriggly hips, the appendage shading her forehead dispersing.

"Don't break his ribs."

As if.

"Whaddya call that hold?"

"Soothing the savage beast." She calmed the dog and Law's lap looked as good as any bed to lie in. It clumsily tripped over and lay down again.

"Sleepy, little fella?" The surgeon flicked the ears, velvet like a tanned animal hide, between his fingers. The dog shook his head in a twitchy muddle.

Robin had seen him tease Bepo the same way.

"Guess I'll run," he said.

She sighed.

"Fight?" He didn't know why he was playing for Robin's approval. He glanced her way a second.

"You shouldn't have to."

"Kill?"

"You have to ask?"

Law leaned backwards, his arms behind him. "I'm a doctor. Really hate taking life."

"Seems you're the only one who remembers that."

Law glanced disinterestedly at his upper arms. "Think it's the tatts that do it? Scream serial killer to you?"

"Murderous thug. Sewer rat. Something like that. Yeah."

"Thieving magpie?"

"You're giving magpies a bad name."

"True, they're beautiful birds." He straightened, ran his thumbnail across a bottom incisor. Liked to reassure himself of the thickness, the tactility of being. "Think I should change careers, assassin?"

"You want to be one or you insulting me?"

"Praising, Nico-ya. I only hang out with the best."

"We'll help, you know. Everyone will help."

"And then when Luffy lets them off with a pardon?"

"Don't talk with your mouthful."

Law removed his thumb, repeated himself. Wiped his hand on his jeans leg.

Ah yeah, maybe not everyone could be redeemed, she thought.

"Legal process?" Law asked.

"Benn?"

"There's few better."

Clutched. Law only imagined that word when he removed hearts and when he'd seen Robin use the technique to break necks. Twinge. Was twinge a better word? Something below the sternum twinged. Benn's cigarette shroud, swaggering flintlock, and easy confidence. His skyrocket intellect. His confidence in Law. He'd been skirting the idea of contacting him.

"Shanks and Benn helped out before." Not that he wanted to drag himself through the cesspit of memory he'd fled to find protection.

Robin knew.  "Law."

"Mmm?" His back was sore. He tipped to his side, head on his elbow, spilling the dog onto the lawn again. It scratched at the ground and ambled next door, back home, tail lazily wagging. Law patted at the dust kicked onto his thigh.

"Remember at Punk Hazard, Caesar squeezing your heart and..."

"Hurt like a motherfucker."

"But you survived it. Pretty easily."

"Hah. You shoulda seen the after-party with Vergo. If Smoker hadn't returned it dunno how things would've gone."

"But you tackled all that, you did all that, your art installation, screwing with Smoker's crew, screwing with our crew, taking on Vergo, without a freaking heart. You sliced up those yeti monsters, got us out of that cage. And it was hollow in here." She tapped her own chest.

"You getting metaphorical on me?"

"You and Zoro are the gold medalists of ennui, we get that. But neither of you are lacking here." She thumped her chest again.

"Neither Zoro nor I are anywhere near as well-endowed." Law rolled onto his back again.

"Fool. You been hanging out with Sanji and Brook?"

"Those nosebleeds of his are fascinating." He placed his hand on his body and felt the steady ba-da-boom behind his bazoomless chest. "There are limits to my powers, but yeah, they're pretty awesome."

"Fight them. Whichever way. Nowadays it doesn't have to be blood and guts. Don't let them get away with it. 

"Call Benn."

#one piece #platonic lawbin #lawbin #trafalgar law #nico robin #one piece fanfiction #opfanfic #op fanfic #my writing #my stuff #hope it makes some sense #chromalami

[hurlumerlu]

"keep them coming" ok so on the characters easy to have a crush on list: Zevran ?

It’s Dreamboats night, I see.

do I like him : reader, I’d marry him.

5 good qualities : ressourceful, very brave, actually principled when given the chance, will show you a great time and *jessica rabbit voice* he makes me laugh.

3 bad qualities : not super emotionally available, uh ? and dear god the amount of denial. Staggering. And I always forget that he protects my Warden by default so he keeps dying because he’s a waifish rogue and has no business playing bodyguards.

otp : Zevran/Warden obviously ! ideally Zevran/male Warden (mage or dalish or castless or noble) or Zevran/female dwarf. Also don’t look at me but I think Zevran/Alistair is actually very good.

brotp : Zevran & my city elf Zoe, they were thick as thieves. Zevran & Leliana, wlw/mlm solidarity. Also I want Zev and Sera to be friends.

ot3 : if I say Zevran/me/ @the-lady-knight will I be sent to horny jail ? More seriously the Rina/Taliesin/Zevran relationship is. obviously awful but also... it was strong enough that the crows felt threatened by it ? (at least that’s how i see it) which makes me sad but also makes me love it. There’s a universe where those three crazy kids are happy and safe.

notp : ok it’s nowhere near notp level but i’ve seen so many fanarts and fics of Zevran with a female elven warden that I’m just... not interested and sometimes even vaguely annoyed. Same with Zevran/male Tabris (solely because of a very old fic I read a long time ago). Which is entirely unfair of me ! and I don’t want to ruin anyone’s fun. But that’s how I feel, can’t help it.

best quote : “Magic can kill. Knives can Kill. Even little children, launched at great speed, can kill.” because a) he’s in a very precarious position, the warden could decide to kill him at any moment, and he still sticks his neck out for the circle mages and b) it’s the funniest way to have that argument tbh. I love him so much.

head canon : so I’ve already shared the “Zevran is faking his accent” headcanon, here’s my “Zevran can just decide to fall asleep” headcanon. He’s like “okay I will take a ten minutes nap” and he just leans on a wall, close his eyes and wakes up ten minutes later, refreshed. It annoys everyone else in the party.

#thank youuuu #dragon age #in their blood the maker's will is written #ask game

[celestialvexation]

michael afton for the ask meme?

Sexuality Headcanon: i pretty much label him as pansexual, with a perference for men!

Gender Headcanon: pretty much male thru and thru -- i don’t envision him as anything else lmao

A ship I have with said character: aftoncest, obviously. and with henry. and perhaps with the animatronics ( usually when they are humanized -- there’s a certain set of designs of them from an artist long ago that’s pmuch canon for me aldkal )

A BROTP I have with said character: definitely with charlie! those two are thick as thieves 

A NOTP I have with said character: don’t rlly have one

A random headcanon: i can see him as a furry. yeah alsdkal

General Opinion over said character: i just fucking love my son. i love michael and everything about him ; A ; 

#fnaf #five nights at freddy's #michael afton #i just woke up from a lil nap so i apologize for any ._. answers #Anonymous

[dcjelliclequeen33]

remi, sekhmet and ares!

Sure thing my dear!! Here we go!:

(Hestia belongs to @uppastthejelliclemoon , Jubilee belongs to @queencurlycrown and of course Maritza belongs to you @terpsichorian )

Remi💎

Sexuality Headcanon: Chaotic Leabian!!

Gender Headcanon: Tomboyish but definitely female.

A ship I have with said character: she and Maritza have a fun little flirting game they like to put on for the patrons of the Ivory Lantern and over time it turned into them becoming an actual couple but no one customer wise knows it.

A BROTP I have with said character: she used to be fairly chummy with Mungojerrie

A NOTP I have with said character: basically anyone! Remi isn’t the loving type so the fact that Maritza got a hold of her heart really means that Remi only wants her.

A random headcanon:Remi can drink a grown tom three times her size under the table but she is useless at smoking nip, she gags every time.

General Opinion over said character: Remi is my rough around the edges unique little werewolf cat and I have grown to love her more now thanks to @terpsichorian !!

Sek💜

Sexuality Headcanon: Pansexual!

Gender Headcanon: Female!

A ship I have with said character: Rumpleteazer!

A BROTP I have with said character: Ares, Hestia, Jubilee, Mungojerrie, Pounce and Tumble!

A NOTP I have with said character: Anyone but Teazer, she is far to skittish and uneasy with new cats and Teazer understands all of it

A random headcanon: Sek’s scars from Macavity do sometimes limit her movement, because they are on her shoulder the high movement agitates them and can make her range of movement smaller.

General Opinion over said character: She is my adorable little magic brat that can be a real trouble maker when she wants to be but, I love her!

Ares😈

Sexuality Headcanon: Gay Asexual!

Gender Headcanon: Androginus but more often male

A ship I have with said character: Pounce! But he will flirt with just about anyone or anything

A BROTP I have with said character: He and Pounce are thick as thieves, Tumble, Hestia, Sek, and Jubilee!

A NOTP I have with said character: Literally anyone (I’m sorry my cats are very mate exclusive it’s just how I see them!) but Pounce because Pounce understands and loves that Ares cares more about the emotional side of their relationship and not the physical side. He is perfectly okay and supportive of not having that in their relationship because he loves Ares and their relationship as it is!

A random headcanon: He stinks at hunting. He doesn’t have the patience to wait for the right time to attack so he always misses.

General Opinion over said character: HE IS A CHAOTIC LITTLE TURD AND I LOVE HIM VERY MUCH!!!

[bi-baudelaires]

character headcanons for klaus?

1: sexuality headcanon

Gotta stick to my brand here and say... that boy be bi

2: otp

I‘d say I like Dunclaus the most for my boy! They’re very soft and I think Duncan could be a really calming presence for Klaus. It just... fits

3: brotp

VIOLET no doubt. Sunny too (thick as thieves!!!). also he and Isadora are mlm/wlw solidarity

4: notp

I mean, the obvious I guess? No incest, stuff like that. I can’t really think of any bad ships people have with Klaus

5: first headcanon that pops into my head

Klaus has many varied interests and likes reading and finding out new things about all of them, and because of this he has a fun fact for every occasion. He’s the kind of person who has a plethora of obscure information about a lot of different things that makes his friends go “why do you even know that”. He makes an effort to do more reading on topics he knows his friends are interested in though to try and connect with them better (like poetry for Isadora, fungi for Fiona) like the considerate boy he is

6. one way in which I relate to this character

I mean, besides the bisexuality and the autism? We both like reading and we both love our siblings. Maybe if I had the ability to perform deeper analysis I could find something less surface-level to say sorry

7: thing that gives me second hand embarassment about this character

“FIENDS, ALL OF YOU” oh louis hynes you poor sweetheart you were not directed correctly

8: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?

CINNAMON ROLL, DEFINITELY.

look at this marshmallow I love him so much

#sharkboys-lamborghini #klaus baudelaire #asoue #a series of unfortunate events #rant

[saedii-gilwraeth-simp]

Three Dark Christmas’ ~ Day 3

Today we have kiddy queens and their best friends! 

Day 3 - (BrOTP) Arsinoe x Pietyr, (BrOTP) Katharine x Jules

Universe: Poisoner!Arsinoe + Naturalist!Katharine

Setting: Indrid Down + Wolf Spring, Fennbirn

Requested by: Anonymous

At nine years old, Queen Arsinoe of Fennbirn had already decided that Christmas was her favourite holiday for two reasons. The first was that she didn’t have to have her usual daily poison training because it was a holiday. The second was that all the Arrons gathered in Greavesdrake, which meant she got to see her best friend, Pietyr.

He was a year older than her and blonde and he walked into a lot of things, but he was her favourite person in the world. When his carriage rolled up to the gates of Greavesdrake, he was out of the carriage and running towards her before the wheels had fully stopped, hugging her so hard they both ended up in the dirt, thoroughly ruining the absolutely gaudy black dress Natalia had forced her into that morning. Arsinoe giggled at that. She picked them up and started pulling him toward the house.

“I’m gonna teach you the coolest word ever. SO cool, Natalia says I can’t say it but Genevieve taught it to me…” she rambled as they went in to the house, Natalia almost tempted to yell out that Arsinoe was not allowed to teach Pietyr how to say ‘fuck.’

They had both gotten new poison sets as presents and were now lying on the library floor on their stomachs, elbow to elbow as they mixed their ingredients together. Pietyr was in charge of writing down what happened and they had created some interesting poison, all under the watchful eyes of the Arron’s sharing poison tea from the chaises, out of earshot.

“Do you think that one day they may be paramours? We all know suitors are a depressing lot these days,” Christophe had said quietly to Natalia, only to be met with a rather undignified snort.

“Suitors may be a depressing lot, but I would imagine these two see each other in a much more familial light. To suggest otherwise is ridiculous Christophe. Look at them,” true enough, they were now darting between shelves playing tag, although an admittedly tougher version that involved the closest thing they were allowed to get to tackling each other. “Those two will be thick as thieves but paramours… please.”

When they said goodbye the next day, it was with a super secret friendship handshake that took nearly two minutes and was so complex even Natalia couldn’t figure out what they were doing, but she wasn’t surprised. They had been best friends for three years and that was unlikely to change.

“You have to write me, dummy. Or I’ll be cross,” Arsinoe had laughed at Pietyr’s demand and poked him in the arm.

“I’m a queen, you can’t give me orders. You have to write me, dummy,” both laughed and waved each other goodbye as the Renard carriage rolled away.

Meanwhile in Wolf Spring, the two girls sharing a room in the Milone house were granted a blessed sleep-in because it had been too cold for any of the usual chores to be done. And Cait, Ellis, and Caragh all had heard them up late the night before, whispering and giggling about what gifts they might be getting for Christmas.

When Cait finally decided to wake them up, they found Katharine, Jules, and Camden all squished into Kat’s bed. It was lucky all three of them were small. Cait smiled before waking them up with a kiss on each of their foreheads.

Once they were awake, it took all of three seconds for them to realise it was Christmas and to race out of bed and down the stairs, sliding on the stone in their socks in their excitement, Camden rolling more than climbing down the stairs to the drawing room, where the massive pine was done up in decorations. It was rather garish, the tree, but the girls had done it so Cait wasn’t going to complain. This Christmas was the first that Kat had actually wanted to participate in so no one would say anything about how dishevelled the tree looked.

Both girls squealed in excitement over everything they received, Camden an uncontrollable ball of energy the whole morning in all the chaos.

But the morning really got turned up to 11 when Jules suggested a snowball fight in the front yard and the girls were up again, changing into their winter clothes at a speed Cait had never seen them achieve in the three years they had lived together.

The snowball fight lasted well into the afternoon when the snow began to melt. Cait was pretty sure that both girls would have colds the next week but neither seemed to mind. They had a toasty Christmas dinner which was filled with animated discussion about who really won the snowball fight and when they would go to the Sandrin house to compare presents.

Not to say there wasn’t much mischief had. When Matthew Sandrin came over to give Caragh a present, the girls conspired and managed to grow some mistletoe over them in the doorway before running off at Caragh’s scolding look.

Both giggled when she came into their room to say goodnight and she was blushing like crazy. Mission accomplished.

They fell asleep in Jules’ bed that night - under a blanket and pillow fort that had been foiled by Camden - long after any one else in the house was still awake.

#three dark christmas' #three dark crowns #one dark throne #two dark reigns #five dark fates #kendare blake #queen arsinoe #queen katharine #pietyr renard #jules milone #natalia arron #genevieve arron #christophe arron #ellis milone #cait milone #caragh milone #matthew sandrin #camden