I've been listening to the prophecy & it's kinda giving me sizzy vibes. thoughts? 👀
the song in question
*sits down. stands up. sits down again* fuck you're so right... i was so focused on the percy jackson of it all that i didn't even notice the sizzy angst..
it's izzy. it's izzy after simon sacrifices his immortality and izzy after he returns and breaks up with her. cursed like eve got bitten. and is it punishment for letting her heart fall into someone else's hands? she can't lose hope even if she wanted to but she can't deny the pain and desperation of having him close but so far. she doesn't care who he his so long as he's simon. and could she ever move on? she sealed her fate up in that bottle she thought held him. what a fabled fool's move. and now something has to change. make her fall out of love or make him fall back in. she's too unstable to let it go on like this.
Does Duke have any other known s.o. canadites besides Isabella Ortiz?
Canonically, no. Izzy is Duke’s only canon-confirmed girlfriend/love interest so far.
He gets into a fight at the opening of We Are Robin for flirting with another girl. And there’s an argument to be made that there may be subtext that Riko was jealous of Duke/Izzy, but that’s a meta for another time. I’m sure there’s at least SOMEONE out there who ships Duke with his other fellow Midtown Robins for one reason or another!
I BELIEVE that early in my Official™️ dc fandom days on tumblr (so circa 2018/19), I saw a few Claire Clover/Duke shippers (due to them sharing scenes in the opening arc of Batman Rebirth era??? I think??? It’s been a hot sec since I read that arc & esp since I would’ve seen those shipping posts). Altho ships have been built on much less tbh, for example-
Signal/Static seems to be gaining some traction, though I’m not sure if we’ve settled on a ship name for them that everyone agrees on.
Cant think of others off the top of my head that ppl ship, but usually as long as it isn’t batcest or smthn that would generally squick, I’ll usually rb it here 👍 Duke archive after all lol
I am eternally amazed at how sensitive the portuguese are at the subject of colonialism. The idea that we practised some sort of soft colonialism is so ingrained in our minds people will be fighting for their lives to defend this idea (which, btw, is still a remnant of Salazar's propaganda). Brazil's colonialism is such a hyper sensitive topic you can see the vein popping on the neck of the average Zé when someone even lightly mentions accountability. I dead ass remember my 7th grade teacher telling our class that Brazil's colonialism consisted of "jesuit priests playing music, which enticed the natives" and that was it (flutes too, to be precise, for some fucking reason) and everyone has just blindly believed this and refused to accept the actual horrible history we're a part of. Portuguese people will be fighting for their lives on technicalities. Say "The portuguese invented the slave trade" and Salvador over there will jump from under the table to explain that akshually african people were the ones to sell their own people as slaves!!! And askhually, slavery goes back for centuries!! You know what they mean, you know what needs to be discussed here, but my boy Salvador is on a mission. He doesn't even care that he's regurgitating fascist propaganda that was entirely built on ahistorical facts that specifically sought to promote colonialism and imperialism as a progressive idea, no, none of that matters. It matters that we are miserable people who will perpetually long for the past, look back on something utterly atrocious and willingly ignore the brutality of it, because we cannot come to terms with the fact that today we live in a country that's ripe with corruption, unlivable wages and high cost of living; we cannot come to terms with the fact that we did all this colonialism just to be a poor fucking country that's being exploited by digital nomads; in fact, we just cannot tolerate the idea that we're just a summer resort for americans and brits and have absolutely no economical relevance in the world, not even cultural, but hey, cultural meaning can be invented. So we look back, we wail and cry and look back at these centuries when we pillaged, enslaved and destroyed because at least we meant something, because we once divided the world in two with Spain, that's how big our balls were once, and because once people knew who we were, they our name beyond the one football player. We purposefully disregard the horrid shit. We coast through life without ever, ever acknowledging it ever existed. We're taught in school colonialism was soft core at best, tell some bullshit about some priests with flutes and be done with it, and then when someone finally confronts us for our history, on god, we'll be fighting with everything we have to prove to you that our colonialism was just fine, and we, white men of the 16th century, showed these countries the meaning of civilisation! Orgulhosamente sós, am i right bitches
Glad they ended up changing it to what it became because shit does this scene hit with the visuals set to Àlainn’s dulcet yet heartbreaking mournful vocals.
Hi! Love the Sunflowers and Blasters fic! Would love to hear any and all headcanon or fun facts or histories you have about Isabella?
AHHHH I love to hear that! Thank you, Anon!
Isabella Ramot has 3 canonical nicknames, two of which you'll already know:
Izzy - Friends call her Izzy
Bells - This is exclusively Crosshair's nickname for Isabella.
Bella - This is what Isabella's parents and brother used to call her, so she will not accept this nickname anymore. If you call her this, she shuts it down quick and is one of the few times you'll see her get aggressively firm.
Isabella worked as a part of an Emergency Civilian Response Unit after the Clone Wars began. She wanted to do her part to help others. Fun fact: Her dissertation, a requirement to finish her schooling as a licensed Medic, was on the theoretical manipulation of genes to reduce the effects, or eliminate entirely, select cross-species diseases.
This is also (Spoiler alert) what the Empire was trying to recruit her for. If she had accepted, she would have worked in the same department as Doctor Hemlock, though not directly with him.
Her brother, Daneel, actually attempted to convince Isabella to agree and join the Empire, they used him as bait to try to trap her, but she escaped.
Isabella has had 3 previous long-term relationships - one was as a teen, and it was little more than a shallow teen romance. The next was at the beginning of her Medical training and they were... seeing multiple people without any of their knowledge. She was hurt, but realized they didn't add much of anything to her life. The third was during her first residency, he was slightly older than her and used that to manipulate her. He was aggressive and forceful, but would shower her with gifts and affection, trying to prove to her that he loved her. He got into a fist fight with her brother, which helped to break her out of his manipulation and that ended her interest, for the time being, in romantic pursuits.
I hope this was a good answer to your question! I am always willing to talk about my OCs so feel free to ask more any time! <3
Oohh I’m also really excited for the celebration party after Arlong and his crew is defeated. I’m just gonna be gushing over Doc and Zoro no matter what they do. They could literally be standing next to each and I’d be like 😍
But please remember to take your time and lots of breaks as you write the final few chapters, hope you have a good rest of your day/night.
Oh my goodness you are so sweet!! 🥲🥰
I feel like you will both love/hate me for this next chapter, but I’m hoping to make up for it with chapter 10 and the Zoro tiddies 🤣🤣🤣
✨Currently how I look trying to figure out how I want this chapter to play out foreshadowing wise for Doc to further future chapters in the series, but also how much angst to do before people start yelling at me ✨
if you could pick one modern monarch to spend the day with who would it be and why?-🇪🇸
Ooh this is a hard one! Can it be royal heirs too or just monarchs?
For a monarch I would probably want to choose King Carl XVI Gustaf because he is funny af and will honestly keep me occupied by his silliness the entire day lmao
For royal heirs I would choose either CP Victoria because she is funny af and I know I would have a blast with her, Princess Isabella of Denmark (technically she’s not an heir but idfc) bc I honestly want to get to know her and be her friend bc she’s so interesting and funny and kind.