(slowly coming out of hibernation mode)

Shanks and Elizabeth by Joudoodles (Art Trade)

Shanks and Eliza enjoying their first Yule together. 🥺

Art trade given to me by skylerfox26 on instagram.

holiday preparations in the goth clown bird household | @muselexum

<3

there’s fire in my blood

burn.

get you a man who despite his literal decades of practice repressing and hiding his emotions to survive physically cannot hide how smitten he is with you

I love you = I will commit unspeakable acts of violence for you.

Enemies to "I accidentally came across you while you were vulnerable and scared and I'm not a total asshole so I tried to help you" to "accidental mutual uncovering of softer sides and vulnerabilities" to "I can't be mean to you anymore, not out of pity but because it would feel weird betraying that brief truce we had" to "Fine I'll make an effort to be nice to you now I guess" to "actually now that we're not actively hating each other you're not so bad I guess" to "i think we're friends but I'm not going to say that because I'm afraid you're not gonna feel the same way" to "oh you also think we're friends? Great" to lovers

Akane made with this picrew ❤️️

Merry Christmas!

blaming twitter for this one

28 .   a  kiss  over  a  scar . //vibrates over lunami from @muselexum / luffy kiss prompts || accepting!

It is the first thing Nami notes upon setting sail the next morning after resting for the night. Onto the next island like nothing has changed. The oncoming dawn is still in its early stages of purples and orange, though blue is peeking out in between.

She has always been drawn to Luffy, much like a pirate to the sea, he is like sweet honey to her. But this time, her emotions are more ambivalent. His back is to her as she approaches, having woken up earlier to take over watch until everyone else wakes and to make sure they are still on course. Her eyes are already drawn to the deep x that still lingers on his chest, and she leans down to gently presses a hand on top of the glossy, waxen wound. One that Chopper hadn't been able to remove. A reminder of everything.

It only seemed to extend, little cuts accompanying it since his long fight with Kaido. It had been a few weeks, and still. She knows he is strong, but she worries.

Nami remains silent, making eye contact with him after a lingering moment. She sighs, pulling her hair back behind her ear to keep it from falling into her face and leaning her face down to press her lips against one of the newer scars that is forming. Calloused skin is what she is met with, but she doesn't mind. She pulls back after a moment, still quiet.

It was something she had begun to do, a way Bell-mére would 'treat' her and Nokijo's wounds when they came home needing a band-aid. It was a comfort she could offer to her captain, and she keeps her eyes trained as she smooths her thumb over where her kiss had been.

❝ You didn't tell me about this one, ❞ is all Nami says, finally looking up. ❝ That better? ❞

Very Low Activity / AFK

Hey all, I anticipate my activity will have a significant drop until some point in mid-January. I've been pretty absent the past couple months or so anyway, but regardless I just wanted to give a heads up if I go fully MIA.

While I tend to have my ups and downs, these few holiday weeks kind of just make me shut down mentally. Tasks, even fun ones I enjoy like writing or chatting, feel exhausting. I may pop in to write a bit if I'm feeling up to it on a particular day, and other than that I may check discord every couple days or so for ooc communication.

Another thing. I have also been considering downsizing my rp account, as in, limiting my amount of threads. I have a problem letting interactions go so I self-sabotage by giving myself a mountain of drafts I then get overwhelmed in approaching. I feel terrible doing it but with the New Year I may consider a fresh start and clean the majority of my drafts unless the thread was plotted/our muses relationship is plotted/it is a starter someone made for me. Then moving forward I will be a lot more careful taking on rp interactions. I feel like I let rp partners down when I drop stuff so I want to avoid that situation in the future by being more selective with the threads I start. I may move towards being plot only, whether it be a plotted thread or a plotted relationship for our muses.

Thank you all for your patience and I hope your holidays are positive and fun. ❤️️

"Such embarrassing displays."

A Reunion

@xamassed // from here.

His breathing and the strain in his voice concerned her. It seemed like something beyond a mental reaction, leaning more into the territory of being from physical damage. It was then that she wondered what kind of injuries Thatch had sustained from Teach. He had been out for a long time hadn't he? With how fast her mind had been running after finding out Thatch was alive, she hadn't paused to consider if he had any lasting injuries from his survival. She could ask about it later, when they got to the home he was staying at.

Her arms relaxed at her sides when Thatch held up most of his own weight again. She stayed close by him as they began to walk, her shoulder available if Thatch needed to lean an elbow or hand for support as he led the way to his safehouse. She offered a chuckle, "You should be. The others wouldn't have gone so easy on you" She was trying to joke, to keep things lighthearted, but she couldn't stop the way her throat had tightened once more. Her lips warbled before falling into a softer smile, "I'm glad too."

Tears pricked at her eyes and the feeling of her nose tingling caused her to sniff as she glanced to the side, Akane clearing her throat to will away the need to cry once more. It tried to claw its way up to the surface.

"This family... you trust them?" She asked, shifting the topic to one that wouldn't threaten her emotional control. She had to admit, she didn't like the idea of civilians being involved. It would be far too easy for them to tip off the marines if the money was good enough. Thatch had stayed with them for this long already though... She'd keep her own eye out just in case. Thatch was just becoming privy to how bad of a state the Whitebeard Pirates were in- how compromised and in danger all of them were. Akane did not have the capacity to trust any unproven comrades right now.

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