#it's in the subtext

[an-au-blog]

I came up with a bad idea...

cw: kidnapping, abuse, suicidal ideations

After Rodger gets killed people find out that Shanks and Buggy were on the crew and decide: since they're kids, they'll be easy catch. They couldn't catch Shanks because... well... he's Shanks but they somehow manage to capture Buggy. It wasn't easy and it involved sea stones but they managed. The problem was this happened after the crew fell apart and after they had their fight with Shanks. So no one was going to look for him.

For years they try to get information on the one piece from him. And for years he's endured torture and abuse. He keeps telling them he got sick and couldn't go, but I started sounding like a stupid excuse even to Buggy, so he stopped talking all together.

He had spent his entire adult life in a small (what he supposed is an) underground cell with no food and running water and with the sea stone cuffs on him at all times.

One day the door busts down. His captors have never been so aggressive. He balled up in the corner, trying to be as quiet as possible but the clanking of his cuffs from how much he was shivering wasn't helping. There was a heavy atmosphere that lifted as he heard the boots that walked in.

These weren't the boots of his captors.

"Buggy?"

That wasn't the voice of his captor either.

Someone else from the back shouted happily "He's here!"

Just as Buggy though he was taken by another greedy bunch, the man behind him scooped him up enthusiastically into a hug.

Buggy did his best not to show his pain from the sudden movements or the brushing across his wounds. But then he felt something wet land on his shoulder where the man's head was nuzzled.

"I've been looking for you. Oh, I'm so happy I found you, Buggy!"

He pulled away to look at his face, the red hair looked so familiar but he didn't recognize him. He learned to block out anything from his past as a trauma response. But there was water streaming down this smiling man's face. Buggy had been left without water for three days as a punishment for his silence. So it was almost on instinct that he tried to collect or drink it.

Seeing Buggy like this broke Shanks. But after he was fed and watered, Buggy seemed a bit better. He was malnourished and the place where his cuffs were left a huge dent in his skin. It made him wonder how he didn't lose his hands from lack of circulation. Every piece of food was devoured and treated like it would have been taken away at any moment. It hurt. It hurt seeing this. It hurt thinking Buggy was avoiding him and finding out from some drunk a month ago that he wasn't and that he was kept all these years. How horrible could he be that it didn't cross his mind that this could happen. That he had to search for his friend.

After being fed and taken to the ship, Buggy kept staring at the ocean with awe.

Shanks wanted to leave him be. He couldn't blame him after all what is a sailor without the sea. But just as he turned around he heard a splash. He had fallen in. Shanks jumped to save him. After coughing up the water, Buggy stood up and jumped into the sea again. Shanks fished him out once more.

"Stop that! What is wrong with you, you'll die!"

But Buggy just laid there on the deck with a slight smile and teary eyes.

In the next few months, whenever Buggy wasn't sleeping there had to be at least one person watching him. Just in case.

#why is it always imprisonment with me? #that or misunderstandings #fanfic prompt #can't I make angst eith other tropes??? #i... damn ok I'll try #i like angst #might post more later #more angst #not more of this story #... anyway here's the tags #shanks #buggy #just a little bit of #shuggy #just a teantsy bit #shanks x buggy #just a smudge #it's in the subtext #op #fanfic ideas up for adoption #pls tag if you write this or dm me I'm too lazy to write it myself #one piece au #kidnapped shuggy au #kidnapped au

[marvanne111]

moments I love in "Tempting Fête"

"I can only read what I've got written down, Mr. Funt." "Councilor Funt! -Funn, Councilor Funn."

the fact that it's been 11 years of this Funn/ Funt debate (alternatively, that both the reverend and the mayor have addressed him properly the last three episodes and seemed to have no problem with it)

"Yes, well, I'll see what I'm doing that day" -leading the funeral, one would hope?

underrated bit of the series in general: cell service only being available in the reverend's bathroom

"I think he's quite dishy" (this scratches such an itch in my brain; I quote it once a week)

the mayor and reverend (who will be dating by the end of the episode) agreeing emphatically with the above statement

the reverend wearing eye shadow! (incredible, show stopping, spectacular, never been seen before)

"It was one mouse! and, and I don't know anything about it"

"All opposed?" "... I mean, I'd say opposed is a strong word-" "Done! Carried unanimously!"; "All opposed? "I, uh-" "Overruled! Motion carried!"

"We already have an identity: it's miserable and it works." (i want this on a t-shirt)

"There hasn't been a fête for eleven years." "Astonishing. Who's in charge of local events?" "Rudyard." "Ah."

"Look, it's easy to throw money around and get excited about rustic dancing, but we've got-" "I'LL SAY IT IS!"

"His world had once again become an increasingly scary place. There was only one thing left to do..." "Georgie?" "Yeah?" "We're emigrating."; "It was time for swift and decisive action, and there was only one place to head for: Reverend Wavering's bathroom"; at the funeral I was able to witness Rudyard, bereft of Reverend and with few attendees, deliver a stirring and entirely improvised speech about the circuities of fate, the struggles of discord, and an intractable acceptance of the way the cookie crumbles, a sermon that moved the late Basil Corbett’s niece to say, quite simply:" "We want our money back" (some really fantastic narration moments in this one that make me giggle every time)

Rudyard including Madeleine in the emigration plans is said so sweetly and it honestly makes me a little soft

"One word: Chapman." "I should return his calls-" "Chapman?" "- probably won't, though"

"Rudyard, other people do those things for you!" "Conscription?" "Volunteering!"

"I, I, I do like spreadsheets!"

(No Madeleine, I hate raffles!") (these posts are always so Rudyard-centric lol and it's helped me come to the conclusion that he really is the funniest)

"Do you know how many gallons of fluid I'll have to drain from a man that size? Possibly thousands!" "What a ridiculous lie!" (this is another one that I quote often lol)

"I wish I were Mrs. Carnegie!" "You will be, Mrs, Turner. You will be." (WHAT IS THIS RESPONSE?!)

"Fancy a funeral?" "That a threat?"; "Don't forget your funeral." "Was that a threat?"

"Socializing? That'd take up ten minutes and then what would they do? No. Perpetual scheduled activity, that's the way."

"Put some clothes on!" "IT'S MY HOUSE!"

"Antigone?" "What?!" "Helicopters!" "Go back to your side of the table."

"Now get over there and sabotage something!" "*sigh* Fine." "Do you really think that's going to help?" "Oh maybe not, but it'll cheer me up."

"Called up the family, made up a story about... well, re-organizing a fête, that sort of thing." "How did they react?" "Well, they weren't very happy..." "But?" "No, that's it, they weren't very happy."

"You know, I can actually see your future." "Oh yes?" "Mmm hmm. And it involves this crystal ball getting shoved STRAIGHT up your-"

"Alright sir! Mission accomplissshhhhed." "Hello, Georgie." "Hello..." "Get out, Georgie." "Goodbye..."

The Mayor trying to rustic dance for a couple of hours before giving up

Lady Templar's glass eye. (That's it. That's the post.)

"He'd be spinning in the grave you haven't put him in yet!" (best line of the episode honestly)

"What a dreadful little man!" "Yes... mind you, he looks good in a suit"

"Even in a crowd, they all look lonely" (🤌🤌🤌)

"Can't win 'em all" 'Winning anything at all would be a nice change." (also want this on a t-shirt)

"You like to be the hero, don't ya?" (Georgie's the GOAT)

"Rudyard. Do you know what this chap did?" "Yes, he told me" (my man is already so tired of Eric lol)

#wooden overcoats #chapgone #it's in the subtext #i'm back on my bullshit #these get longer every time #and i'm not even sorry about it #this series is the single thread holding me together right now #still the best #Rudyard Funn #Antigone Funn #Georgie Crusoe #Eric Chapman #Mayor Desmond Desmond #Reverend Wavering #Lady Templar #Madeleine

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

excuse me i have to say something obscene (which is the point) the master definitely masturbated in the matrix chamber. the heart of gallifrey (”but hes the president. kill him and gallifrey could be yours”), the room he found out about the timeless child in, panopticon right over there, watched but unwatched, witnessed by the dead, the bodies he desecrated, torture room in the cellar, turning his own body, which has been used as a tool so many times by the timelords, back into a base physical thing whichs only purpose is his own pleasure, an agressive retraction of his plea to rassilon in end of time to take him with them in their journey to become beings of consciousness, while turning those same powerful timelords he once begged for acceptance into a perversion of that same ideal, and doing it by doing something that Time Lords Do Not Do; sex. something timelords do not do because of their robbing the timeless child of her regeneration.

a kind of self-love that is 100% spiteful and ironic and painfully self-aware on his part but at the same time a genuine expression of his anger (in a way that 13 is unable to access) and in that somehow looping back to a kind of, if not self-love really, a renewed self-loyalty (contrasted with 13‘s continual self-abandonment), a negation of missys self-betrayal in the doctor falls, the pyrrhic victory that created (not to say birthed) him.

#every time i look at it for longer than 5 seconds the masters anger always reveals itself to be love and #the doctors anger always reveals itself to be fear #if the doctor and him were on speaking terms through all this theyd have sex in the matrix chamber #which......... #actually #if i think about it for a little bit im pretty sure i can make that video #wouldnt be much harder than the thasmissy video i made i think #anyway #master meta #making this post was opening pandoras box rip dfhkghgkj #all the things im now thinking he wouldve done in the matrix chamber while making those cybertimelords #ANYWAYY #unrelated but how do you say like the possessive of which #it always trips me up #i know it's not just which and it's definitely not whichs #but that does sound intuitive to me and im signposting my mistake there but #idk i dont know how to phrase that in english i feel like im missing something but im not sure what it is #frankenstein #i think it deserves the tag it's adjacent #it's in the subtext #rowan come back i want your take on this

[almostbeabeauty]

People go crazy talking about how not everything has to be about incest.

HBO: promote Daemyra from all the cracks, announces a series about Aegon the Conqueror, where the brother is married to two sisters. And?...

Exactly. If anyone is making everything about incest, it is definitely HBO. They seem to have an incest kink themselves. Take it up with them.

#we didn't pull Helaemond out of no where #it's in the subtext #take it up with the writers #ask #anonymous

[novlr]

The symbolism of flowers

Flowers have a long history of symbolism that you can incorporate into your writing to give subtext.

Symbolism varies between cultures and customs, and these particular examples come from Victorian Era Britain. You'll find examples of this symbolism in many well-known novels of the era!

Amaryllis: Pride

Black-eyed Susan: Justice

Bluebell: Humility

Calla Lily: Beauty

Pink Camellia: Longing

Carnations: Female love

Yellow Carnation: Rejection

Clematis: Mental beauty

Columbine: Foolishness

Cyclamen: Resignation

Daffodil: Unrivalled love

Daisy: Innocence, loyalty

Forget-me-not: True love

Gardenia: Secret love

Geranium: Folly, stupidity

Gladiolus: Integrity, strength

Hibiscus: Delicate beauty

Honeysuckle: Bonds of love

Blue Hyacinth: Constancy

Hydrangea: Frigid, heartless

Iris: Faith, trust, wisdom

White Jasmine: Amiability

Lavender: Distrust

Lilac: Joy of youth

White Lily: Purity

Orange Lily: Hatred

Tiger Lily: Wealth, pride

Lily-of-the-valley: Sweetness, humility

Lotus: Enlightenment, rebirth

Magnolia: Nobility

Marigold: Grief, jealousy

Morning Glory: Affection

Nasturtium: Patriotism, conquest

Pansy: Thoughtfulness

Peony: Bashfulness, shame

Poppy: Consolation

Red Rose: Love

Yellow Rose: Jealously, infidelity

Snapdragon: Deception, grace

Sunflower: Adoration

Sweet Willian: Gallantry

Red Tulip: Passion

Violet: Watchfulness, modesty

Yarrow: Everlasting love

Zinnia: Absent, affection

#writers #creative writing #writing community #writing #writers of tumblr #writing inspiration #creative writers #writeblr #writerblr #writing tips #flower symbolism #writing subtext #writblr #writers corner #how to write subtext #symbolism in writing #writing advice #creative writing tips #writing resources #writing help #writer tips #writing tips and tricks #helping writers #help for writers #references for writers #writing reference #writers block #beat writers block #novel writing

[kingworm]

when you eat, will you set a plate for me?

#dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #falin touden #marcille donato #farcille #well - the subtext - shes implied #my art

[stil-lindigo]

the calamity.

a comic about being seen.

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#cw: blood + eye scarring #oh the inherent intimacy of seeing and being seen #just a comic about how the desire to be seen and shown love and compassion unites us all #also big scary monster lady pretty #girl power! the personification of disaster and strife uses she/her pronouns! #i also feel somewhat obligated to mention here that i dont have anything against christianity as a whole #i just think the concept of God is interesting #i went to a christian school for 12 years im allowed to make this comic #comic art #sapphic #yes. interpret the subtext #stillindigo art #heartearters #thats the name of the anthology this will belong to. whenever i finish it #stillindigo comics

[huachengsromcom]

People call Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF a slow burn but Hua Cheng is literally courting Xie Lian like they are DATING. Slow burn who??? They’re sleeping next to each other on straw mats and Xie Lian’s offering to cook him dinner and they’re bantering across THE HOME THEY SHARE like a bunch of desperate hussys

San Lang LEAVES XL WITH A KEEPSAKE OF THEIR TIME TOGETHER SLOW BURN WHOMST

They have A DATE in HC’s armoury where they HOLD HANDS and XL pets San Lang’s quivering sword I-

Hua Cheng basically throws himself at this man he’s like you want a sword?? All of them ?? You want ALL THE SWORDS?? Fuck it take the whole room THE WHOLE ROOM JUST COME VISIT I WILL CLEAN THEM FOR YOU

Like he isn’t the king of a whole realm with shit to do

And this is just the first half of the first book—again I ask the world SLOW BURN WHOMST

#this is half in jest #but #I know some people don’t count it as “real until they kiss but THIS is honestly so gay of them #it’s in the subtext it’s in everything THAT ISNT a kiss #it’s so queer #Hua Cheng is ALL IN XL is just too innocent to Grasp It #XL is saying “come round to my tiny shack whenever sleep on my mat with me BEST FRIEND I will be your home” and HC is SUFFERING #the armoury scene is favourite of the entire thing #I was like my brother in Christ HAVE YOU NO SHAME #and knew immediately I would love him forever #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #mxtx tgcf #hua cheng #xie lian #hualian #she’s being unhinged again

[rexalogy]

Every Taylor Swift song

#I truly truly cannot empathize with anyone in limerence with her in fact it feels betraying. #all of the interesting beautiful art in the world and the only thing you can blow up is another implicitly conservative value white woman? #having to write narratives about her hypothetical dykeishness to feel comfortable with that dissonance? as if that would even absolve her #it’s not that I hate Taylor I just hate this unwillingness to engage with where her worldview has serious limitations and it seeps #throughout her discography. I think loving art comes with being able to recognize where it fails #what politics are present in it. it’s not deep it’s not subtext it’s all just right there

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i vote that next year instead of reading Dracula we do a Jeeves & Wooster Book Club. those two never got the rabid tumblr shipping fandom they deserved (disqualified for the sheer technicality of being published a century too soon). we must correct this injustice

#jeeves and wooster #i want to watch tumblr go rabid i want to watch ao3 overflow with jeeves/wooster fanfiction #yes obviously the fandom EXISTS but it's a cozy little neighborhood #a handful of talented artists and writers doing their best to keep their charming little village going #but i'm tired of cozy i want this fandom TRENDING #I WANT TO SEE THIS ON MY DASHBOARD PEOPLE #i swear to you if they made a shiny new tv series tumblr would absolutely obsess over these characters. good omens levels of obsession #it's just such a great dynamic! the good-natured overly-trusting bumbling idiot in constant need of rescuing! #the stoic all-knowing genius who quietly masterminds mayhem in order to protect this one moron he's devoted himself to for some reason #jeeves as a morosexual is just such a beautiful interpretation of the original text #wooster as a happy-go-lucky himbo who stumbles his way into a relationship with a protective caring and supremely competent mastermind #the angst and social complexities of a same-sex cross-class relationship in turn-of-the century london! #oh AND half the stories are about jeeves helping wooster get out of engagements/desperately avoid marriage #two men who live together constantly scheming to maintain their bachelorhood. this is quite literally the main plot point #the gay subtext is there! the gay subtext is there and very ripe for picking!!! #this thing is LOCKED AND LOADED we can pounce literally any time

[marvanne111]

moments I love in “The Little Death”

the fact that Madeleine says “enjoy themselves” at the beginning of the episode wrt Antigone

“A quiet marriage. Just being near her was enough.” “CAN I GO IN NOW?”; “I wish I were more like him. Then maybe my wife wouldn’t have flinched at the merest touch.” “GOOD NIGHT, HERBERT!”; “Naturally, my kids were adopted.” I MIGHT GO IN NOW!” (great reoccuring bit)

Antigone tearing her own ticket at the start (PLEASE I LOVE HER)

“Ssssssome people... leave the house more than once a week?” “I’m sorry, you’re just not making any sense.”

“Sugar?” “No Georgie, this isn’t a brothel.” (i want this mug so bad)

the way Tom Crowley says “yes okay” after Antigone talks about the twinkle in his eye and his exposed forearms

“SHUT UP, MADELEINE”

“I was hoping we might be able to talk in private.” “That doesn’t appear to have worked out for you, does it?”

“pAy HeR aBoVe MiNiMuM wAgE”

“your whole ‘sTaYiNg In ThE CeLLaR’ thing” (for an episode that feels Chapgone tilted, Felix Trench is the best part of this one for me)

Antigone putting Mr. Allerton’s face back together to look like Chapman (an underrated and incomprehensible moment)

the way that Rudyard obviously finds the proffering of cannolis to be a significant relationship step

“the reverend began the auction for Mr. Allerton’s 20 pounds” (nobody on Piffling understands currency lol)

“PLEASE don’t think about me in the bath”

“Well. I hope I cheered her up.” (honestly, pretty much any line of Miss Scruple’s- she is probably my favourite side character)

THE FACT THAT A TYPICAL NIGHT FOR ERIC CHAPMAN AT THIS POINT IS WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY ON FIGS??? (I’m sorry, WHAT?! Do I just not understand adulthood yet or is Eric Chapman a loser for real?)

“Tuvalu is an entirely different country”

The way Rudyard is so proud of himself for his rubbish pun to Hettie

Felix Trench’s bad accent while snooping on Georgie and Chapman

“My God Jerry, is that a mouse?” “Well, I’ll just look at the floor and- OH MY GOD!!” (rent was due and Max Tyler was ready damn)

Madeleine having a half ticket

“Don’t tell me you’ve caused chaos again.” “OKAY, I won’t tell you.”

“... you have to bring your DRAMA and your PARANOIA and your BUGGING DEVICES”

“Do you like all these old French films then?” “Yeah, I’m quite the fan.” (👀👀 IT TOOK YEARS FOR THIS MOMENT TO PAY OFF BUT IT WAS SO WORTH IT)

“What sort of benefits do you think he offers? Discounts? Private healthcare?” “MAYBE he doesn’t ruin every waking moments of his employee’s lives!” “Puh! Hippy.”

“Okay... what’s happened so far?” “Uh... nothing?” “... well, his story checks out.” “No. It doesn’t.”

“Madeleine, what a shock! How could you?”

“Well, who the bloody hell can I speak to and how would you like me to do it?!” *chaos on screen* “WHAT HAPPENED??” “Two unicycles collided. It’s getting good, this.”

“Herbert, my brother is trying to pirate this film.” “What?!” “See, he’s recording it with his robotic mouse.” “No uh... I’ve been framed!”

#wooden overcoats #chapgone #it's in the subtext #i'm back on my bullshit #this one is so long but this episode is so good so... #how is Rudyard the best part of this episode though #Rudyard Funn #Antigone Funn #Georgie Crusoe #Eric Chapman #Herbert Cough #Miss Scruple

[mobfrog]

by god...Naruto and Sasuke, they're...no, I shan't say....

#guy who views his own life as a shonen anime shocked and dismayed to learn of gay subtext #terumob #technically. #teruki hanazawa #reigen arataka #mp100 #this is so dumb dont take this seriously #also ive never watched naruto

[anthonysperkins]

Marlon Brando as Johnny Strabler The Wild One (1953) dir. László Benedek

#The Wild One #Marlon Brando #László Benedek #guys #movies #costume design #gay leather #motorcycle #gay subtext #* #** #filmedit #marlonbrandoedit #winterswake #userpedro #holesrus #noirvember

[bluegiragi]

holding back (part 1)

early access + nsfw on patreon

#ghost wears just his balaclava working out since its less clunky #also please interpret the subtext PLEASE #(they have fucked <3) #poly 141 #monster 141 au #simon ghost riley #captain john price #giragi art

[oliveoomph]

Carol Danvers & Valkyrie

The Marvels (2023), dir. Nia DaCosta

#the marvels #brie larson #tessa thompson #carol danvers #mcuedit #king valkyrie #valkyrie #captain marvel #brunhilde #nia dacosta #movie 2023 #whole lotta subtext #mcu #gifs by olive

[acarillustrated]

thinking about mizu from blue eye samurai. thinking. thinking so much. thinking about how mizu operates outside of gender. like we joke about her gender being revenge but straight up? it literally is. like she grew up as a boy and is most comfortable being a man, but behind that is the feeling of betraying himself because he isn't being honest about who he is and he lives in fear of being discovered. and when he lived as a woman, she found joy there as well. she fell in love, and though she wasn't good at it, she liked being a wife and enjoying a simple life. but in that life too, she isn't being honest about who she is. and when she reveals her true self, it's not a woman, she's a demon, a weapon. she's to masculine to be a woman, and too feminine to be a man. ultimately, mizu is most comfortable when they are being a murder machine. that's when they feel they are being the most true to themself. like a sword, they are neither man nor woman, but a blend of both, which makes them stronger.

#also there's a point to be made about how their identity as a mixed person plays a role in their gender #but i can't really speak on that #it's obvious tho #like that's what the show is about #like the reason mizu is perceived as masculine is because she's half white #honestly the racial thing is more important #which is why it's explicitly stated in the show #but im seeing a lot of discourse about mizu's gender #honestly a lot of mizu's relationship w gender is subtext #like good news tho! #mizu is a woman! but also a man! #it's both at the same time #anyway #ill shut up now #i just love her so much #not art #blue eye samurai #mizu #blue eye samurai mizu #bes mizu