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grayeet · 2 years

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Creeper and Bee 🌿🌼🌻🐝

#minecraft #mineblr #creeper #minecraft creeper #minecraft bee #minecraft aesthetic #I am on a roll with art recently let's gooo #Once again spreading leaf creeper propaganda #Just look at him. A wholesome lad :D

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anotherhumaninthisworld · 10 months

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Can you please tell me some wholesome facts about the revolutionaries? 😊

In his notes on Robespierre (written somewhere right after thermidor) Fréron claims that, at least while at college, ”one cannot remember to have seen him laugh once.” But then later he writes that ”the witty naiveties of Camille Desmoulins made Robespierre laugh until he cried.”

On January 23 1793, Lucile Desmoulins writes in her diary about witnessing the funeral procession of Louis-Michel le Peletier, a deputy murdered on the 20th after having voted for death during the king’s trial. She was very touched by what she saw and couldn’t stop her tears for a while. After all her guests have left that evening she can’t stand to be alone with her thoughts, so ”I ran to D(anton’s). He was moved to see me still pale and defeated. We drank tea, I supped there.”

In his memoirs, Barras reports the following about Augustin Robespierre:

[Napoleon] informed me that a woman of the lower classes, who had been assisted by Robespierre the Younger, had been arraigned before the Revolutionary Tribunal and sentenced to death during his absence from Paris, and that on his return he had expressed disapproval of the sentence, sent for the twelve-year-old son of that woman, clothed him, and admitted him to his table; the boy feeling sad, Ricord commanded him to drink to the health of the Republic, but the lad refused; thereupon Robespierre the Younger, addressing Ricord, said to him: ”Respect such a character. You would not do as much under similar circumstances."

On October 20 Couthon wrote a very clingy letter to Saint-Just while away on a mission to Lyon — ”You haven't written me a line, my friend, since we parted; I blame you for it, because you promised me that in any case of absence, you would give me your news. […] You know, my dear friend, that I need, to console myself for the evils that overwhelm me, testimonies of interest from those I esteem; tell me then that you exist, that you are well, that you have not forgotten me, and I will be happy.”

Le Bas also wrote quite warmly about SJ in a letter to his wife dated November 28 1793:

We went this morning, Saint-Just and I, to visit one of the highest mountains at the top of which is an old fort in ruins, placed on an immense rock. We both felt, looking around, a delicious feeling. This is the first day that we have had a break. […] Saint-Just is almost as eager as I to see Paris again. I promised him dinner from your hand. I’m glad you don’t hold it against him; he is an excellent man; I love and esteem him more and more by every passing day. The Republic has no more ardent, more intelligent defender. The most perfect agreement, the most constant harmony reigned among us. What makes him even dearer to me is that he often talks to me about you and consoles me as much as he can. He sets a high value, it seems to me, on our friendship, and he says things to me from time to time with a very good heart.

Élisabeth Le Bas confirms her husband’s feelings for Saint-Just in her memoirs, when describing the relationship between the three while on a mission together:

Saint-Just had the most delicate attentions for me en route and the considerations of a tender brother. At each relay station, he descended from the coach to see if anything was missing, for fear of an accident. He saw me suffering so much that he feared for me. He was, at last, so good and so attentive to my sister-in-law and me that the trip did not seem long to us. My beloved was very sensitive to all his kindnesses and gave him all his recognition. To pass the time, these messieurs would read us Molière plays or some passages from Rabelais, and sang Italian airs; they made every effort to distract us and make me forget my suffering.

When Camille on December 11 1790 was finally given permission by Lucile’s parents to marry their daughter, he described his reaction the following way: ”When her mother told me a moment ago, she brought me to her room; I threw myself on Lucile’s lap; surprised at hearing her laugh I open my eyes, hers were in no better state than mine, she was all in tears, she was even crying profusely and yet she was still laughing. I have never seen such a delightful spectacle, and I would not have imagined that nature and sensibility could unite these two contrasts to such an extent.”

In February 1793 Camille and Lucile went on a short trip to Essonne, where they lived alone in an old castle and amused themselves with going for walks, riding donkeys, fishing and boating. In a letter to her mother Lucile reports: ”You would laugh if you saw C(amille) as a boatman, rowing as hard as he can and at any moment flanking the boat against the first point of land that it meets. What a pity that it isn’t summer! […] Write to me as soon as possible to let is know the day you have chosen for us to pick you up at Essonne in a cabriolet and me on my donkey.”

On August 9 1793, Madame Roland was joined in prison by Pétion’s wife Anne Madeleine Françoise and ten year old son Louis Étienne Jérôme. Judging by what she wrote in her memoirs and letters (1, 2, 3), it would appear like she took them both under her wing:

I suffered for my poor companion beyond words. It was I who undertook the sad task of preparing her for the blow she hardly expected, and of announcing it to her (Most likely a reference to the death of Anne’s mother, executed in Paris on September 24 1793). I was sure to bring to it the alleviations that another would perhaps have found with difficulty, because it is only my position that could make me share her pain so well. This circumstance caused her to be sent to me; we eat together, and she likes to spend most of the days near me; I work much less, but I am useful, and this feeling makes me taste a kind of charm that the tyrants do not know. […] I receive Lady B's letters with gratitude. I do not know them, I intend to make them useful for two people, I will have little P(étion) read them; I had only Thompson which he could not yet understand.

Éléonore Duplay also appears to have been a huge support to her little sister Élisabeth and two month old nephew Philippe while the three sat in prison together after thermidor. In her memoirs, Élisabeth writes — ”Oh! I will not in a lifetime forget you! For without you I would have succumbed; but, with your courage, you revived my strength and made me see that I had a great task to fulfill, that I had a son, that I needed to live for him. […] No, good dear sister Éléonore, I will not forget your devotion to me and your poor little nephew in a lifetime; my recognition will be eternal!”

Lucile Desmoulins and Hébert’s wife Marie Marguerite Françoise they too seem to have been rather inseparable both while in prison together and on their way to the scaffold.

After the death of Phillippeaux and Desmoulins, the former’s wife Marguerite became friends with the latter’s mother-in-law Annette. The two processed their grief together and also let their children, Auguste Phillippeaux (1787) and Horace Desmoulins (1792) get to know and play with each other. Five letters from Marguerite to Annette have been published, and they really are quite wholesome.

Other posts I’ve already made that contain wholesome stuff:

Cute animals compilation

Horace Desmoulins

Robespierre with children

#ok most of these are perhaps more bittersweet than wholesome #but that’s how it goes in the french revolution #if anyone has more feel free to add!#maximilien robespierre #augustin robespierre #camille desmoulins #lucile desmoulins #philippe lebas #élisabeth lebas #louis antoine saint just #manon roland

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cryptidofthekeys · 1 year

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welp

my brain gave me what i wanted last night

had a dream with Feppino!

...now I know what y’all are gonna be thinking, oh god its going to be fucking horrifying isn’t it?

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((Uh-Oh a keep reading bc its a long explanation))

...well ok yeah it was at FIRST bc i was in uh the bruno pizza place, with only a lil bit of lighting and Feppino was stalkin and lurking- I remember not being able to move but I was standing, like, some sort of weird fucking paralysis idk

but I couldn’t move but I heard something skittering, something b i g- I couldn’t even turn around to face who I kinda knew it’d be-

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I just listened to the skittering and then I heard something right above me and the stereotypical horror fashion, I was granted movement this time but only my head, so I look up and wowza,, there he is, hovering right over me, w i d e grin

...okay I won’t deny, when you see him that close to you, he is... Unsettling but,, literally,, as horrifying as the first half was, he just kinda... dripped onto the floor, like just fuckin melted from the ceiling onto the floor and then reformed

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a tall way too long man him is ...here’s where it gets unbelievably less horrifying, I feel like he could see I was getting a lil bit anxious and scared bc I remember his face lighting up and he frowned for a moment before suddenly advancing toward me

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and then he kinda just,, he just helped me sit down and then he wrapped himself around me, noodly long arms and even his body in general, he just curled around me and snuggled me (it sounds longer than it should be anytime I describe a dream, y’all this lasted for maybe like 2 minutes tops)

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but it was honestly kinda cute and wholesome, I couldn’t understand him when he spoke, bc it was just,, it was either gibberish or backwards speak- but either way, he very much had no intentions to harm me, I was also finally granted full movement and I just cuddled him back

....also for a funny bit, I remember seeing like,, one of the enemies waltz in- I can’t remember which one it was but needless to say Feppino was NOT having it, he first covered my ears and then I could hear him muffled-ly screeching and that lil bitch r a n

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so the moral of this dream is NEVER EVER fucking interrupt Feppino’s sleepy cuddle times, it was scary at first but honestly great throughout the second half, we just cuddled and fell asleep together

....although i do find it kinda funny how my first dream with Peppino was scarier than this, literally- its just that meme of nice cat of the week

Nice lad of the week: Feppino (Cuddled Nicely :D)

Bad lad of the week: Peppino (fucking bit my ass >:/)

#pizza tower #peppino spaghetti #fake peppino #Peppino fucking attacked me while Feppino cuddled nicely #i do feel bad for that one enemy tho but it tried to interrupt cuddle time and...#Feppino took that personally- he s c r e e c h #hes p intimidating to see up close but overall very nice #10/10 would recommend hanging out with Feppino in y'alls dreams #....0/10 for Peppino- hes aggressive

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atombonniebaby · 9 months

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wholesome brothers tormenting each other Deacon and MacCready is great, it should be its own genre

Woo! My first ask! Thank you! 😁

I've been working on beefing up my fic and came up with a little idea I was working on when this ask appeared...and it just happens to involve some Deacon humor!

I'm also excited about the whole Mac and Deacon backstory I'm penning! It's hella cute!

Anyhoo, have some wholesome brotherly banter!

Mac becomes the Mayor of Sanctuary. The Boss entrusted Deeks to write the contract.

Here's a wee excerpt from the chapter.

Nate withdraws a folded envelope from his breast pocket and slides it toward him. MacCready eyes the letter skeptically, reaching for it slowly. A tinge of unease creeps into his chest as he breaks the seal, unfolds, and lets his eyes scan the paper. He looks up at Nate, mouth half-agape.

“Wanted to make it official, lad, you sign that, and it’s a done deal.”

“200 caps a fortnight? Boss, that’s a lot of caps.”

“Ach, caps aren’t an issue when you’re the General, lad. The Settlements are doing braw, got some good trade contacts set up in Bunker Hill.”

His eyes return to the paper in his hands, reading through the rest. Deacon's rules get a smirk tugging at his mouth. He’d know that tone anywhere. His gaze falls on the two signatures at the bottom, Sturges and Jake? He doesn’t know whether to be flattered or surprised they signed off on this.

“This is ridiculous.”

“A contract is a contract,” Nate smirks.

“12 caps Railroad fee, huh?” MacCready glares at Nate, eyes narrowed. Nate shrugs innocently, the hint of a smirk playing on his lips. “Deacon knows I’m looking for a reason to shoot him, right?”

“Aye, I did mention that, but he insisted his penmanship was worth the fee.”

This is she 🤣🤣🤣

THE DEAL

This is a deal made on the 12th day of January 2288 between:

Nathanial Alasdair Watt (the Big Boss of the Commonwealth Minutemen),

And

Robert Joseph MacCready (that's you.)

THE JOB

1.1 Boss Watts is making you Lieutenant General of the Minutemen and Mayor of Sanctuary Hills.

1.2 Here's what you gotta do:

Run the show in Sanctuary Hills.

Be the Minutemen's guy in Sanctuary Hills.

Make sure everyone in Sanctuary Hills is safe and good.

Work with other Minutemen teams.

Make Sanctuary Hills a better place to live.

PAYDAY

2 You'll get 200 caps every two weeks, paid on the first and fifteenth day of the month.

ENDING THE DEAL

3. Either of you can end this deal. All you need to do is give a four weeks heads up. (Or one of you gets eaten by a Deathclaw)

RULES

4. This deal follows the rules of the Commonwealth.

No wearing sunglasses indoors (It's just uncool, man.)

Bad hair days are not a valid excuse to dodge duty.

"It's not my job" will be frowned upon.

Remember, taking showers isn't just for the residents.

Keep Dogmeat out of the Brahmin pen (that Brahmin didn't ask for this).

No more than one bottle of whiskey a day. You're Mayor, not a distillery.

- And for Atom's sake, no singing after you've hit that one-bottle limit. We've heard enough off-key renditions of "Butcher Pete."

So, it's all written down here. Sign if you agree.

N Watt. R.J MacCready ______________________________________________________________

Nathanial Alasdair Watt Robert Joseph MacCready

Reviewed by:

B. Sturges J. Evans

Beauregard Sturges, Dec 28, 2287 Jacob Evans, Dec 28, 2287

This contract was drafted by:

Deacon of the Railroad, Dec 22, 2287

D.

FEE

By signing this, you also agree to pay the Railroad a fee of 12 caps for using their resources to draft this contract. This fee will be deducted from your first payday.

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snack-o-ween · 1 year

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Browsing past Salt & Pepper Fest prompts.

(Keep in mind: Some users have submitted the same prompt across more than one year, and these are not necessarily the only prompts that are interesting. Most here have ‘Any’ for the suggested pairing, but other - equally intriguing - prompts for the fest would involve alterations if I didn’t want to stick to the suggested characters or pairings.)

From 2021 - gracerene

Prompt: You're never too old to start a new career. Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any Theme/Tone: hopeful, determined Additional Info: Character realising that their career/profession isn't what they actually want to do and deciding to start over with something their passionate about. Maybe going back to school, becoming a trainee/apprentice as an older person, and what that experience is like.

From 2021 - pauraque

Prompt: They've always been kinky in the bedroom, and now that the kids have left home, they're finally able to pursue a 24/7 D/s relationship. Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any (doesn't have to be characters who canonically have kids) Theme/Tone: Fun & loving, lots of focus on the characters' emotional satisfaction in their dominant or submissive roles, and how it strengthens their relationship. Additional Info: Whatever flavor of D/s you like would be fine here, but if you want suggestions... Service submission? Daddy/Mummy kink? Petplay?

From 2021 - pauraque

Prompt: People always assumed he/she would eventually settle down with someone, but as he/she gets older, he/she only grows more confident in the choice to stay single. And it's awesome. Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any would work. Luna? Minerva? Draco? Theme/Tone: Learning to feel okay about being yourself, reaching the age where you no longer care about other people's judgements. Additional Info: Could be an asexual character, but equally well could be someone who just prefers not to be in a relationship!

From 2021 - kelly_chambliss

Prompt: Retired. Now what? Suggested Characters/Pairings: Pomona Sprout, Filius Flitwick, Minerva McGonagall, Rolanda Hooch. . .any Hogwarts teacher. Theme/Tone: Could be bittersweet, humorous, dramatic. Anything but crack.

From 2020 - ayebydan

Prompt: Sirius is fifty now and has seen Harry through the war, into marriage, and kids. The lad has been to a therapist, got his head sorted and now happily holds down a day job. Sirius has done his duties to James and Lily and Harry and happily allows snot nosed kids to call him grandpa, but now it is time for him. Suggested Characters/Pairings: Sirius/Narcissa, Sirius/Severus, Sirius/Andy, Sirius/any Theme/Tone: A look at how the war really beat them all down and getting over it was not an easy thing. Additional Info: Jaded but still hopeful Sirius. Unhelpful grandchildren lols are a bonus

From 2020 - kiertorata

Prompt: virgin character in their 50s starring in a wholesome love story Suggested Characters/Pairings: any Theme/Tone: healing, wholesome, fun Additional Info: [Not filled in.]

From 2020 - sdk

Prompt: “I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” - Madeline Miller Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any slash pairing Theme/Tone: Whatever the quote inspires!

From 2020 - pauraque

Prompt: Someone comes out as trans or nonbinary later in life. Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any Theme/Tone: Realistic struggles, but with a happy or hopeful ending. Additional Info: You could do some worldbuilding with this around how magic could be used for transition (maybe it used to be forbidden and now attitudes are changing?) but physical transition doesn't have to be the focus or included at all.

From 2019 - writcraft

Prompt: After years of feeling uncomfortable in their own skin, in a changing world they can finally live as their true selves. Suggested Characters/Pairings: Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank, Millicent Bulstrode, Teddy Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks. If you have another idea though, please go for it. Open to any pairings but also happy with non-ship fic. Theme/Tone: Exploration of coming out as trans later in life. Additional Info: Nope!

From 2019 - gingertodgers

Prompt: childless by choice Suggested Characters/Pairings: any Theme/Tone: slice of life Additional Info: A couple talks about their decision not to have children. Do they regret it, or are they happy with how things worked out? If it's a couple who had kids in canon, I'd love to see how that might have changed things for them.

From 2017 - writcraft

Prompt: “You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us” (Sappho) - Character A finds letters revealing a same-sex love affair between people in their past. It makes them view Character B in a whole new light. Suggested Characters/Pairings: Any slash or femmeslash. Theme/Tone: Poignant but hopeful, Romantic, Exploring sexuality later in life Additional Info: None

From 2017 - Technically, lightofdaye’s prompt is for the Golden Trio, but I wanted to keep track of University of the Third Age (U3A).

From 2015 - blithelybonny

Prompt: A & B have been partners for decades when gay marriage is legalized in wizarding Britain. Now they have to decide whether or not they want that piece of paper. Suggested Characters/Pairings: I'd love to see a femslash and/or rare pairing, but really any. Theme/Tone: Lived-in, if that makes any sense. Additional Info: Not a fan of scat/vomit-play or character bashing.

#prompts

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yb-cringe · 2 years

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Oooo ahhh LL!Jimmy hcs?

yes :D

Realistic: The whole Captain America suit is less of a suit and more of a sweater with a lot of designs on it. He found out he just really likes that color palette and also i mean his nickname was Solidarity so it was perfect for a sort of Hero vibe. but no this man is dressed in a collared shirt and sweater bc he’s a total fuckin nerd.

Hilarious: Jimmy’s not a fish hybrid in this world but he might as well be with how many times he just THROWS himself into water. Like wheres jimmy? probably in the nearest pond getting like a million water born diseases. He’s just a lad who likes to swim. Its probably saved him more than anyone would like to admit tho bc it’s hard to kill a guy who’s doing butterfly kicks in a fucking river

Heart Breaking: He did Not expect Mumbo to follow him so quickly into the afterlife. Like, yes, he knew he would but not… Immediately. and not by Grian. He doesn’t think its his fault necessarily, but it does hurt to know that if he hadn’t done anything maybe they both would’ve lived longer. Luckily, and he doesn’t know who did it, but someone buried them side by side. It’s better that way, he thinks, that way neither of them have to be alone in any world.

Unrealistic: I havent stopped thinking about Canary in a Coal Mine, Harbinger of Death Jimmy since it was mentioned. A very sweet wholesome sunshine golden retriever guy who, when he dies, is the sign that EVERYTHING is about to go to shit. And to accentuate that; when he turns red- he doesn’t look Scary. he looks Sad. Sick. Broken. Because he knows when he’s gone, suffering will follow and theres no convincing that could ever stop that.

#asks

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moomoorare · 3 years

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Dream SMP Art🎭

Lots of stuff:

something about the deities of the dsmp taking form of the first human they see

an Ⓐⓛⓘⓔⓝ🛸 and a 𝔽𝕒𝕚𝕣𝕪🌹

C!purpled

demon c!Eryn & demon c!Tommy

Them demon kids

Michael and his chicken <33

Fashion Stars ☆✧✯✷

a group of cool miners ⛏️💎

Primeboys

i watch the exile vods a normal amount ☺️

hey tommy.

Bee Duo

✧ Posin' ✿

They're having a wonderful time on holidays and they're all more or less alive yeppp ^_^

Bee Duo & Michael <3, to heal the soul

^_^ Benson! & <3 locket

Bench Trio

They're watching.

SBI

Wholesome SBI!!! 3/4 cus philza is like out dealing crack or something idk.

The boiss

4/4 SBI POGGERS!!!

c!Tommy LGBTQ 1 / 2 🏳️‍🌈

TommyInnit

on the grass, tears

Some Exile arc art, nothing special

Sad Boy, pogtopia outfit i guess

demon c!tommy is my jam >:3

Pogtopia times

White Braid Hair

Blah blah

Rat

cTommy advertises my art

Just a littol boi, a smol long scrunkie⭐

Just practicing art, he talks!

*Hands u this* Rascal Bastard <3

He looks like he's about to go to the gym lmao

I've been on a drawing spree, he keeps coming up so you can have him <3✨

Chilling in the front yard, in the morning when there's silence

Frowne :\

Happy Boy :D !!⭐✨☀️

Drawing this Bitch again<3

[ he ] visited, [ he ] left a gift, a nod to past times and a promise for the future. smile :)

winter is coming..

In a chest somewhere, taken out again to see the light, appreciated in silence. ◝✺◜

This asshole >:V <333

Chatting up to thin air

Littol doodol of yellow moobloom c!Tommy💛

Zombieinnit for Halloween, even if a bit late

Star eyes⭐, sunset hair🌇, autumn clothes🍂.

Demon Boy finds a stuffed cow in a field

We love pain, let's give him more

>:v

Hair changes, eyes like gemstones

I think he looks swell

Inspired outfit from this post

Quick sketch

Tubbo

lot of floof, a little ring and a peculiar bandana <3

I think c!Tubbo deserves a big ass bandana as well to snuggle up and hide his snoot ^_^

New Horns !!

Gratuitous doodle of c!Tubbo :3

Ring <3

Bandana!! Kiss my ass if you think it clashes ;)

Scrncikle Primclke<3 Turbo from the side ☆❀☢

Sad Bee Boee :(

New super improved Bee Boy design

Ranboo

Kity dead, i repeat deadest cat ever, he died 😔

Ok have my new cranboo design, punch him too if you'd like ^_^

[he AMGY]

Practicing his design, i really like it :3

The Boobster >:]

Eryn

Just a lad

Dream

Creepy Smileys . .. .

He really said (๑•‿O๑)

i want to kick him in the face so bad, just a swing 🤪😘☺️

new c!dream design just dropped

Captain Puffy

she has. Dimples 😳 and!!! Shorter hair 🥰

she's pissed off, looks comfy tho

I'm the gayest motherfucker on this earth, cPuffy brainrot!!!! 🥰🥰🌈🌠

I fucking love her dude🥰

She thinks you can do it! <3 ^_^

c!Captain Puffy, but the design is tweaked :)

Her <3333

For every day that c!puffy exists i get gayer and gayer 🌈

Captain Puffy !!! (◕ᴗ◕✿)

🥰🌈💝 (she↑☺️🥺😳)

New Puffy Design <3

Practicing c!Puffy

Close up :3 of the Puff Puff ✯

Puff Puff! It's the Captain! Her <33

Caption Puffer <3

Red Banquet Puffy ❤️

Technoblade

Very self-indulgent doodle of c!Techno with short hair, me love <33

another c!Techno doodle

cTechno doodle

c!techno pose practice

Hannaxxrose

tbh just an excuse to draw her :3

Practicing my c!Hannah design

Fairy Power, Roses and Thorns, a Flower.

Eret fanart

Thy liege 👑

TinaKitten fanart

Welcome to the smp Tina Kitten! ^_^

#moomoorare #rare's things

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thestylesindependent · 3 years

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The following is an excerpt from A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends: Meme-Worthy Celebrity Crushes From A to Z (Running Press) by Esther Zuckerman, senior entertainment writer at Thrillist. Opinions expressed are those of the author.

It’s virtually impossible to dig into the history of celebrity crushes without discussing boy bands. Stemming back to the days of the Beatles, boy bands have been crush incubators, known as much for their music as for their ability to pose on posters that hang on teenage bedroom walls. While the modern idea of boy bands existed before the ’90s, the decade turned boy bands into an industry with the likes of Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC eliciting mobs of screaming fans. For the first decade of the 2000s—after the leftovers from the ’90s faded from relevance—it seemed like the era of the boy band was over. And then a couple of lads from England—and one from Ireland—came along.

One Direction was not born organically. Each member of the fivesome auditioned for The X Factor as a solo act. Then Simon Cowell had a genius idea: Individually, they would probably generate some amount of buzz. Together, they would be unstoppable. Cowell was right. One Direction mania jumped across the pond and initiated a new era of boy band worship. This group was different from its ’90s predecessors. They were shaggy and didn’t really dance. But their fans were also different. These were kids raised by the internet, and they expressed their love for Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, and Niall Horan as such. Stanning for One Direction involved slash fiction and Tumblr.

But when the time came, One Direction faced an age-old boy band question: What happens when they break up? Who becomes famous? For years, the pinnacle of post–boy band success had always been Justin Timberlake, crying a river all over the radio. (He also found controversy along the way. No, we will never forgive him for throwing Janet Jackson under the bus at the Super Bowl.) But who becomes the Joey Fatone? One thing was always certain: Harry Styles was a goddamn star. Styles had always been the likeliest candidate for post-One D fame. He was the most rambunctious of the group, as at home palling around on talk shows as he was crooning on the stage.

Still, no one could have predicted what he was about to unleash. Styles, on his own, somehow surpassed the prom¬ise of his early career. The individual that emerged was like the love child of David Bowie and Stevie Nicks, all flowing blouses, wide-legged pants, and funky vibes. He occupies a space in between the masculine and the feminine and is an ally without being obnoxious about it.

When he left the womb of One Direction, his goal was to write his own material. The sound that emerged was not Timberlake’s white boy soul or the radio-ready pop of his bandmate Zayn Malik. Instead, it was a throwback hybrid of folk rock and pop—not a complete copy of an era that was not his own, but more indebted to his predecessors than his contemporaries.

The narrative around Harry Styles is that he is a Very Good Boy. It starts with his devotion to his mother, with whom he is reportedly very close. More proof of his sweet¬heart status can be found in the story about how he ended up being a polite houseguest to his friend The Late Late Show with James Corden producer Ben Winston for twenty months. As his star was rising in One Direction, he was crashing with an Orthodox Jewish family. “That period of time, he was living with us in the most mundane suburban situation,” Winston once explained. “No one ever found out, really. Even when we went out for a meal, it’s such a sweet family neighborhood, no one dreamed it was actually him. But he made our house a home. And when he moved out, we were gutted.”

It’s anecdotes like this—revealed in the singer’s first Rolling Stone cover story, written by none other than Almost Famous director Cameron Crowe—that frame Styles as a superstar who is relatively down to earth, a nice person who cares about being good to those around him. I mean, one of the songs on his recent album Fine Line is titled “Treat People with Kindness.” Styles once said: “There are others. People who are successful, and still nice. It’s when you meet the people who are successful and aren’t nice, you think: What’s yer excuse? Cos I’ve met the other sort.”

Styles gives off the impression that if you were to hang out with him you’d probably have a pretty pleasant and slightly wild time. Profiles of Styles tend to include stories about parties on beaches where nudity or clothes swapping is involved. He’s spoken about how doing mushrooms influenced his latest record, Fine Line, and once led him to bite off the tip of his tongue. But even though that detail sounds like it might belong in an outtake from a seedier history of rock ’n’ roll—think: Mötley Crüe—it’s bizarrely wholesome coming from Styles, who has gone out of his way to promote a message of inclusion.

Though he’s publicly only been linked to women, he’s never exactly declared himself straight, either, and has alluded to bisexuality in his lyrics. One time, he declared, “We’re all a little bit gay, aren’t we?” Regardless of how he himself identifies, he’s made it a mission to promote a safe-for-all environment at his shows. On one tour stop, he took note of a girl in the crowd’s sign which declared she was going to come out to her parents because of him. He asked her mom’s name, quieted the room, and shouted, “Tina, she’s gay,” triumphantly. It’s an especially welcome development for someone whose early celebrity was defined by slash fiction with which some of his bandmates were openly uncomfortable.

His style started to evolve with his own fluidity as well. He took to wearing ruffles and low-cut shirts with wide-legged trousers. The effect was circus ringmaster mixed with ’70s Laurel Canyon chic. There’s a cheekiness to the look, evidenced by photo shoots in which he affects like he just told a dirty joke. He has said he dresses this way not because he’s trying to allude to anything, just because he thinks it looks cool. And, the thing is, it does.

Harry Styles may have been made in the confines of the boy band universe, but when he struck out on his own, his message became freedom. He makes the music he wants, wears the clothes he wants, and encourages everyone around him to love who they want—even if that’s just Harry Styles.

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frutavel · 3 years

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Today I'm thinking about my boys.

Tari is a loner by nature, he likes seeing his friends every now and then but his social battery drains fast, so he usually hangs out in his own or with one or two friends that he can just sit down and chill with (i.e Zai or Krii)

The others tho? Rhavi and Manso and Chilli and Gheist and Kainalu and Dazari? Shared braincell. Wanting for fun times. Very social creatures, all of them, even Gheist who's a shy bean and Manso who's a menace.

In between the six of them there's like 5 years difference (Chilli being 24 and Gheist being 29 with the other four in between). Not much at all, and they are similar personalities as well.

Chilli and Rhavi are the loudest, they're party boys. So is Dazari, but both him and Kaina have a party flavor that's a little bit quieter. Manso enjoys chaos in all shapes and forms, and controlled friendship chaos is one of his favorites. Gheist would seem like he'd stand out in the group, but he likes partying if it's with people he likes - and he very much likes his friends :D

But their hangouts are so wholesome. Spend a weekend away in Zuldazar. Have a party at the beach, roll around in the sand, use your shaman powers to splash your friends with water, have a snack and sit down to chat while the sun sets.

Then they go back to Dazari's place, because he's the only one who actually lives in Zuldazar and the beach is just a 10 minute walk away, wash the sand and salt off eachother and pass out. Dazari shares his bed with Manso and Rhavi, Chilli shares a bedroll with Kaina, Gheist gets to sleep by himself in a hammock because he has night terrors and sometimes he kicks, but Kaina reaches over to hold his hand while they sleep and it really does wonders ^^

They all sleep thru the whole night and then some. The next day whoever wakes up first is in charge of breakfast, and usually that entails going to the nearest pastry shop and getting as many sugary treats as you can carry because you just woke up and you don't have the brain power to cook for six people just yet and you can't go wrong with sugar.

After everyone's awake and fed its time to continue the hangout. Maybe the lads go back to the beach, but maybe it's raining and Gheist suggests a lazy day. So they stay in, they talk, maybe they play cards and everyone knows Manso is blatantly cheating but they don't care because they're having fun! And it starts to get darker and the rain stops pouring, and Chilli wants to go out into town because the night life in Zuldazar is something you can't miss, so they get ready! Rhavi puts Gheist's hair in a braid and Manso steals one or two or five of Chilli's bracelets and Kainalu's the one to fasten them up, and then Dazari takes them to a bar he likes going to with outside seating and they have a grand ole time.

By the time they go back to Dazari's house it's pretty damn late but they still stay up for hours talking and laughing and when they lay down to sleep the sun is rising. They sleep until late in the afternoon and then they go about getting their stuff and saying good bye, because they all have things to do the following week, but they make plans for next time and they laugh and they all look forwards to it.

Just. Boys being boys. Guys being dudes. Wholesome friendships between lads. I am weak

#blabbles #lorebits #just.... love my boys so much #azuri lives in stranglethorn and he's on friendly terms with most of the lads but he's not actually friends w any of them #he has his own little friend circle to get into shenanigand with #rex likes the lads alright but they're 20 years younger than himself it's not the same vibe #he has been invited to their hangouts on occasion and he had a lot of fun but it's not exactly his scene #kalua is always busy shadowhunting. plus he's also older than them #not as much as rex but enough for him to get and want a different vibe #but the BOYS #i love my boys............. love them too

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kingstylesdaily · 3 years

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'A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends': Read the Harry Styles Excerpt