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fangirl-dot-com · 5 months

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Chapter 6 - Ok It’s Happening! Everyone Stay Calm!

This chapter is going to span Tuesday night into Wednesday night. Nothing really happens in between the initial post and family dinner, so I tried to add some things to fluff it up. You finally get to read a bit of reader-lore. The next chapter, “Family Dinner,” will be posted Wednesday night. Enjoy and don’t forget to comment to be added to the tag list :D

Arthur had to leave early Monday morning. You were sad, but were thankful that he was able to come spend a few nights with you. You almost forgot why you were in London in the first place.

Oh yeah, to become one of the best freaking F1 drivers there ever were. You could see the TikTok edits now. You hoped there would be at least one with an Olivia Rodrigo song in the background. Or maybe Taylor Swift? The possibilities were endless.

You were able to drive the car a few more times in the span of Monday and today. You really felt like you were becoming more familiar with it. One of the last times, they put you into the RB-19, just to get a feel for it for Vegas.

Speaking of Vegas, something popped up on your Instagram that you just had to share with Vito.

“Hey Vito, can you find me someone to marry while I’m in Vegas?” you nonchalantly asked while the two of you were having breakfast. He nearly spit out his orange juice.

“Excuse me?” he responded while wiping his mouth with the nice cloth napkin. The brunch place was very high end. You ended up getting pancakes though, while Vito got something you didn’t even want to try to pronounce.

“Well, there’s this Formula 1 wedding chapel, and I thought, how cool would it be to get married there while it’s up? So, I thought I’d ask to see if you could find me someone.”

Vito took a deep breath before massaging his brow. He was “this close” to quitting. But he would never do that to you. Instead, he said, “Kid. You cannot get married in Vegas.”

He thought you would have put up more of a fight, but you just shrugged and stuffed your mouth full of another bite of pancake. He shook his head as he tried to take another sip of his drink. The breakfast went well after that. You didn’t try to bring it up, but somehow, you would find your way to this chapel. Even if you weren’t going to get married.

As the two of you walked out of the building, you angled your body to Vito. “So, what do I have to do?”

He looked at his phone, “So you have to approve your helmet. And then we have to take some pictures for your post tonight. Tomorrow we have a flight to catch that will take us to Vegas. After, you will get settled at the hotel and then eat dinner with the team.”

“Geez, that seems like a lot doesn’t it?” You opened the driver door to your vehicle. Vito had said that it was your time to drive. You wanted to argue that every other waking moment was spent behind the wheel, but you knee that he wanted to be the passenger princess for once. He said that was not the case as he couldn’t handle you picking Country Girl by Luke Bryan one more time.

He said he even heard the song in his dreams.

You thought that was total madness. How could someone get tired of Luke Bryan. Maybe Daniel would listen to it with you at some point, if the two of you got close enough. Vito had walked around the car, got in, and started to buckle.

Using the button to start the car, the engine came to life. You carefully backed out of the parking space and pulled onto the road. Per the request of the Vito and Mitch, you were to return to RB to go over some last-minute paperwork and things of that nature.

Since the drive was so familiar by now, the time seemed to fly by even faster. You knew what you were doing. It was crazy to think that just last week, you were winning your F2 championship with no future plans. And now you were pulling up to headquarters like it was just another Tuesday.

Time was weird like that.

At the building, you almost cried when you saw your helmet. You wanted to make a joke, but decided against it. You could do that later over the radio in free practice one. It was everything that your little F1-loving heart ever wanted. The white and silver had a great contrast. But your favorite part was the glitter. You tried it on and had a couple of pictures taken. You let them know which ones were your favorites.

You later found yourself in a conference room going over last-minute legal things. Vito made sure that you knew what you were getting into with a multi-year contract and how much it would damage you if you were to break it. You were still 100 percent with it all. You also discussed what picture you wanted to use for their official statement. You picked one that had been taken after your first F2 win of the 2023 season. You sheepishly smiled when they pointed out the Mercedes logo, but you told them that it was there since you had won a sponsorship to help pay for everything. You had no loyalties to the other British team.

“All right, I think that wraps things up. Any questions, comments, or concerns?” one of the lawyers asked as he packed his things up.

With multiple shakings of heads, he bid farewell and left the room.

Now that it was just you, Mitch, and Vito, you spun your chair to face the two of them. You felt like a villain out of a movie as you put your hands together.

“Mitch, did you bring the special thing that I asked for?” you said in a darker tone, wanting to feel mysterious.

She rolled her eyes as she got up and walked to a clothing bag that was laying on the end of the table. She brought it back over and laid it over your lap.

You unzipped the bag and stared at the item. It was a vintage Red Bull bomber jacket. Just the sight wanted to make you cry.

You stood up and carefully put the jacket on. You turned towards Mitch and Vito.

“How do I look?” you asked. Now you were getting shy. You might be loud with people you were comfortable with, but you always put people’s opinion of you over anything else. They both had comforting smiles.

“I think you were born to wear that jacket kid,” Vito said, with almost tears in his eyes.

“Same here Y/n. You truly belong with us,” Mitch said as she gave you a hug. You let a few tears fall when doing so. It had been long since you really felt accepted somewhere.

With your parents, you constantly wanted their approval, but never got it. That drove you to be the best at everything. People always told you to quit in F4, but you slowly rose above them as you entered F3. There, people told you that you, a girl, did not belong in F3. You were only 15 at the time.

You proved them wrong as you became the first female to join the ranks of F2 two years later. You spent 3 years fighting for your hard earned right to be there. It got easier with the help of friends, but you always wanted more. One more chance to prove yourself. And you got that with the F1 seat.

“Could we take a few pictures for me to post later?” Mitch and Vito agreed. You three found a nice spot on a hidden balcony. It basically looked like you were on the sidewalk, but you wouldn’t take that risk. It was too close and you had people right where you wanted them.

You had grabbed an iconic can of Red Bull on your way out and cracked it open to pose with it. It took a good 30 minutes for you to get the pose correctly.

While going through those photos, you spoke up.

“Did you know that my first kart had the Red Bull logo on it. I loved that thing, even if I crashed it multiple times.” You chuckled at the memories.

“What goes around comes around,” Vito muttered as he went through the photos.

“Reminds me of that Taylor Swift sound on Tik Tok. It’s been a long time coming.”

Mitch gave a playful scoff, “You should use that as your caption.” You hadn’t thought of that! Mitch definitely thought that you wouldn’t, but the look on your face showed her that you really wanted to do it. She, once again, rolled her eyes at your antics. But, she herself was comforted by your easy-going personality. She had only known you for a couple of days, but you were becoming very dear to her.

You were becoming very dear to everyone. Every worker was amazed at your talent. A few even compared you to Sebastian Vettel and their very own champion Max Verstappen. But Mitch wouldn’t tell you that in fear of scaring you off. It was a big thing to be compared to the two legends, but you didn’t need that pressure on you. You already had been through so much. Vito had let Mitch know before of what has happened with past race strategists. She never wanted to be like what you’ve had to deal with.

You now were beginning to explain the entirety of why Taylor Swift was re-recording her albums in the first place. Your hands were pointing at invisible objects in the air while Vito just stood and listened. Mitch thought it would be hilarious to see you and Max discuss race tactics.

There was the Maxsplaining and the Leclerifying. Now you would be Y/n-strating (illustrating but with your name in front).

“And that is why we don’t like Scooter. We’re gonna come for his ankles before he can come for ours. Mother never told us to be nice to him,” you gestured as you finished your rant. Vito looked bored to death while Mitch was just smirking at the two of you. You wondered what she was thinking about.

Oh well. She could read your mind but you couldn’t read hers.

When it got dark, you and Vito headed back to hotel to pack before you were supposed to be at the hotel. Riggs, Lacy, Mitch, and other personnel would be flying out with you. There would be no commercial flight, instead there would be a private plane for everyone. You couldn’t wait, since this would be the first time to fly privately.

There was really nothing different to it until you actually got on the plane. Security was the same and the private lounge area wasn’t much different than the ones you had already been to. There were fewer seats on the plane, but everyone fit comfortable.

You were excited that you didn’t have to pay for WIFI on the plane to watch your TV shows. There were a couple of Brooklyn 99 episodes that you hadn’t seen yet. Once those were finished, you told yourself that you’d take a quick nap and wake up way before you landed.

That was a lie.

You practically slept the entire way there, and was only awoken by the plane landing. You were excited to be back in the states. You hadn’t been in years. Texas would always be your favorite state though, since you lived there for 5 years when you were in your teens. You had begged Arthur and Ollie to go with you once, but they declined and you ended up not going. You couldn’t wait to drive at COTA.

The nap really helped as you weren’t exhausted when you got to the hotel. Vito told you though that you had time to sleep before you needed to wake up the next morning. But the nerves were getting to you.

At 9 a.m. Red Bull would be posting the statement. Which reminded you to do the same. You inhaled sharply as you picked the pictures on your Instagram. You were able to find a picture of your old kart, and you definitely used Mitch’s suggestion for the caption. You tagged Red Bull before posting and turning off your phone. You could deal with everything tomorrow morning when you had gotten a good night’s sleep.

Well, that good night’s sleep was way too short for your liking. Your alarm sounded way too loud and interrupted the nice dream that you were having. It was something about marrying some dude at the F1 chapel. You just couldn’t get it out of your mind.

You took a shower to at least feel better. The staleness of the plane air clung to you throughout the night. Should you have showered after sending the world into a panic? Yes. But did you? No. Your phone might as well have combusted last night. Turning on the front screen, there were thousands upon thousands of notifications. You simply swiped left and deleted them all.

Opening your Instagram, it was worse. Your face was everywhere. Happily, enough, almost everything was a positive outlook. Only a few bad ones stood out, but you knew better than to look. While scrolling, you were interrupted by a face time request from Ollie. You quickly picked up and were met with the sight of his face. With jaw dropped, he just stared at you.

“Hello to you to?”

You pulled the phone away from your face as he started screeching. You just listened as he ranted for another 10 minutes before he went silent.

“You done?” you deadpanned.

“Uh, yeah. I think so.”

“Ok good.” You went on to tell him about everything that happened in the past week. He definitely whined when you told him that Arthur knew before he did. He demanded that you tell him next time. And you told him that you hoped that there wouldn’t be a next time. You were determined to stay with Red Bull for as long as possible.

After the phone call, you kind of just chilled around the room all day. Dinner wasn’t until later and you had time to get ready.

After watching episodes upon episodes, you saw that you needed to get ready. With your trusty playlist, cans of hair spray, your makeup, and your curling iron – you were ready for the battle that was looking perfect for dinner.

Each curl had to be calculated, each face product must be weighed to the exact suggested amount. Did you do either? No.

You just did it how you normally did, and somehow you got it done. You took a quick picture and posted it on your story. The dress you picked was black. A long slit showed just enough leg, while there was only one sleeve. You paired it with some gold heals. You only hoped it wasn’t too much, but you wanted to make a good impression. Vito had gotten the go ahead from Christian beforehand. The restaurant was supposed to be of the upmost hoity-toity-ness and you hoped you wouldn’t make a fool of yourself.

With a knock on your door, you knew it was time to meet the family.

(Your story)

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iamadequate1 · 11 days

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I have some longer thoughts on it being exhausting to try to have discussions with people who care only about Izzy, but I want to do an addendum on this post by. I have a different bizarre take I'm going to write about for funsies (stressing: funsies, I'm writing a lot but this is just me chilling out on a Sunday afternoon with my cats and watching TV), but this became a side tangent that got too big. I was going to do it as a RB to put it next to my first logic thing, but I was having too much fun, and this got way too big.

I have a bit of a ramble before calling BS on "Izzy taught Stede how to be a pirate and/or captain!1!11" I put an ALL CAPS STATEMENT in big bold red font on its own where I actually start talking about this ridiculousness specifically. 😁

Since pictures cause posts to be noticed better, look how beautiful Stede is in 2x5!

OK, now onto the long ramble.

I put the basic background here, but the logic conclusion is marked with bold blue if you just want to scroll! The Izzy thing is directly after.

With a statement in the form "(cause) implies (effect)", there are several ways to prove or disprove it. In disproving it, a common method is proof by contradiction. That is, assume the (cause)/triggering event (is true)/happens (i.e., the antecedent/hypothesis statement is satisfied) and find a situation where the (effect)/consequence (is false)/doesn't happen or show that the (effect)/consequence (is always false)/never happens (i.e., consequent/conclusion statement is NOT satisfied).

For example: "I go to work if it's Monday" in a general sense rather than being THIS Monday specifically. The antecedent statement is "It's Monday", and the consequent statement is "I go to work." This implication can break with contradictions if you start having to consider things like "What if it's a holiday?", "What if you have PTO or other leave?", "What if you don't have a fixed schedule?", etc., and extra conditions may have to be thrown into the antecedent/hypothesis statement or given situation statements should be clarified. Saying something like "I have a fixed schedule, I get major holidays off, and I have a reasonable leave policy unlike most Americans (burn). I usually go to work on Mondays." (you know, imagine if this were organically phrased like a human instead of a STEMy robot)

Another way to PROVE statements is proof by contrapositive, which is awesome. This is logically equivalent to proving a statement directly (i.e., cause=true means effect=true) by doing a reverse negation: that is, assume that the conclusion DID NOT happen, and show that the hypothesis DID NOT HAPPEN (i.e., effect=false means cause=false). Above, the contrapositive of "I go to work if it's Monday" is "It's not Monday if I did not go to work." It's often easier to DISPROVE a statement by DISPROVING the contrapositive: that is, assume the conclusion DID NOT happen, and find a situation where (or show that in all situations) the hypothesis DID happen. In the example, we get a contradiction in the contrapositive by starting with the hypothesis "I did not go to work" and find a situation where this is true but "It's Monday."

I'm going somewhere with this, I promise. In logical statements, we can add conjunctions "and" and "or.": "P and Q" is true if both P and Q are true, and "P and Q" is false if at least one of P and Q is false. "P or Q" is true if at least one of P and Q is true, and "P or Q" is false if both P and Q are false. (In Venn diagrams, "P and Q" is where you shade in the P and Q circles' intersection, and "P or Q" is where you shade in the entirety of both the P and Q circles, i.e., the union... the negation is where you shade in the opposite, i.e., the complement.)

In a logic statement, a contradiction of "P and Q implies R" means we have a situation where both P and Q are true, but R is false. For example, "I go to work (R) if it's Monday (P) and not a holiday (Q)" fails if it is Monday and not a holiday, but you don't go to work (ex, a situation where you were never scheduled on Mondays anyway!).

The contrapositive of "P and Q implies R" is "(not R) implies (not P) or (not Q)." The contrapositive of "I go to work if it's Monday and not a holiday" is "It's not Monday (not P) or it's a holiday (not Q) if I don't go to work (not R)." If you want to disprove this with contradiction, assume that you didn't go to work, but show that this is true in at least one situation where it's Monday but not a holiday.

In cleaning up logical arguments, you want to reduce the amount of "and"s and "or"s you toss in to the hypothesis statement. If a statement in the hypothesis statement doesn't actually add anything to whether the implication is true or false, toss it out. For example, "I go to work if it's Monday, the capital of Canada is Ottawa, it's not a holiday, I live in a blue house, I have a fixed schedule that includes Mondays, my cat's breath smells like cat food, and I'm not using un/paid leave."... some of that has no effect! Tossing out all the superfluous statements that don't affect the statement's logic is necessary to make a clean statement.

The logic conclusion

In cleaning up arguments, ask yourself if the condition is excluded from the hypothesis or conclusion statement, does a contradiction appear in the logic connection as a result? That is, when removing the condition, does a true antecedent statement always guarantee a true consequent statement (direct implication), and does a false consequent statement mean the antecedent statement is false (contrapositive implication)? If removing a condition doesn't break the argument, the condition should be removed.

Stressing again: I'm writing this for funsies. Writing about that logic stuff is fun to me! 🤣

BS ON IZZY CONCLUSION STARTS HERE

In 2x5, we have a scene where Izzy has Stede do some stuff that leads to some bizarre takes along the lines of "Izzy taught Stede how to be a pirate and/or captain!" Lol, what?

So, let's break this down!!!

Antecedent S2 actions of the end of 2x5:

Stede is still called captain in 2x1 even though they have no ship. His crew remains together with him through working odd jobs and living under a bridge even though they could easily have joined other crews (and, no, Izzy's "bottom of the barrel" comment does not contradict this)

Stede puts his grief aside and prioritizes rescuing his crew from execution and reclaiming his ship at the end of 2x3

Stede listens to the crew and abides by their decision that he disagrees with at the beginning of 2x4 (and giving Izzy a separate scene with a deciding vote is such BS, but I digress...)

Stede listens to the crew (including Pete's adorable kitty collar idea to give Lucius warning, lupete my otp! 💜) on keeping Ed aboard at the beginning of 2x5 (and, no, Stede shushing Jim isn't a point against this... they all obviously have already had a discussion that led to a majority decision with a plan of action, and interrupting people giving a short speech is rude! also, Stede is still learning)

Stede tells Ed that he has to keep up the probation until the crew is comfortable

Stede tells Ed that he hasn't felt like a captain since they returned to The Revenge

Ed tells Stede to confidently/properly say he is captain and own the role (partially to help Stede and partially as a treat for himself)

Stede tells Ed to fit in, be helpful, fix something, and stop p---ing people off

Ed tells Stede to work on his mean voice. Stede's very next scene is going to Izzy

Point here: it does not matter if Izzy says Stede is a s----y captain, knows nothing, has a total lack of skills, etc. In stories, show matters significantly more than tell. In talking about this, you need to ask "How is he measuring that, and are those metrics effective?" or "Is Izzy actually right?" or "Why does Izzy think he's right?" and use those answers to look at how the pieces fit into the story and overall themes. Again, back to the first bullet point: Stede kept his crew together without a ship for three months, and Izzy got mutinied on in like, idk, a day. Izzy is lacking captain skills and knowledge that Stede has whether he's realized it at this point or not

"You taught him everything he knows, made him the captain he is today" Ed is very pointedly not a captain on that day, emphasized with his scene with Stede a few minutes prior. As we already know, Izzy did not teach Ed his pirating and captaining skills (1x4: "...I was honored to work for the legendary Blackbeard, the most brilliant sailor I had ever met"). By what we already have been shown in the story, we know Stede is aggrandizing with this statement and "one of the greats" in order to flatter Izzy. Since this comes directly after Stede being told to work on his mean voice and he's in a friendly but passive aggressive mood (see, the "good candles" remark), ask yourself about Stede's motivations and how literal he's being. He told Ed (his safe person) that he doesn't feel like a captain, not that he doesn't know how to be a captain

We get a montage: Izzy sucker punching Stede, Izzy pushing Stede for one go at a rope swing, and Izzy having Stede take one shot at some bottles that he misses. What we are very specifically not shown in this montage or even later in the episode is Stede showing improvement in or even using these activities that Izzy is having him do (and I am veering far away from the word "teach" with respect to that montage) Compare this to Mulan's "I'll Make a Man Out of You", which starts with showing everyone sucking, showing the instructor having base competence in the skills (even prior to The Leg, we never saw Izzy punch in battle, rope swing, or shoot targets well), and showing marked improvement in the skills in the montage, though not at expert level; furthermore, the skills in the montage are used later in the movie as a bigger payoff of the montage

Izzy then makes fun of Stede some. Stede says "I think being out in the field is my thing. It's like I black out, my body just takes over. I beat you in a duel (...) I have no memory of it." This starts introducing the idea that Stede has strong instincts. It also ends with a hilarious power move brush off

They find the ship of the dead (that is never explained, lol... I love this show). Jim says the dead priest says everything is cursed, and Stede takes the suit anyway. (Note: this is not a failing on Stede for not immediately doing what Jim wants! Curses aren't real, and that suit was gorgeous)

Stede punches a guy who pops out of the closet (I am not counting this as a point of Izzy "teaching" this to Stede in the montage since we're only shown Izzy punching Stede in the abdomen. We have already seen Stede doing the quick "my body just takes over" spin-and-attack move with "Unhand me or bleed", so this is just a feature of Stede, not something Izzy "taught" him)

They celebrate the raid. Most people say the suit is awesome, and Jim plants the seed with the crew that it's cursed

Izzy tells Stede that he has to "burn" the suit because the crew believes in the curse (stressing here: Izzy says to burn it, but that's not what they do)

Jim, Oluwande, and Archie wear garlic and put up a salt line to protect themselves. Stede walks in and leaves right away

Stede calls Frenchie and Roach "men of science" sees some of their beliefs with the yeast-and-faeries talk

Hilariously here, Roach picks up a correlation "Frenchie starts itching right as Stede leaves" means "the suit caused the itching, so it must be cursed!" which is a logic fail (ilu, Roach, but it's on theme here)

Stede talks with the crew, and they all say they think it's cursed and try to take it from him. He runs off to protect his suit. Izzy repeats his earlier statement, and Stede tells him to f-off

Then we get the consequent actions, where the "Izzy taught Stede how to be captain and/or a pirate!" kicks in, I think?! Because I absolutely cannot imagine what story beats in 2x6, 2x7, or 2x8 are claimed to be the payoffs of the tiny montage and this statement always stands alone like that as A Fact (and any detraction is Your Opinion)

Stede removes the outer suit part and has a meeting with the crew

Stede allows the crew to believe the curse is real

They came up with the plan to give the curse to someone else (on Oluwande's suggestion)

There is a cut to them carrying out this plan and Stede complimenting Izzy's swordplay (payoff to Izzy's candle practice) and saying he fought back to back with Oluwande, then Oluwande saying Archie swung in on a rope (Archie, not Stede! Archie was already a "proper pirate", and there is no evidence Izzy taught her anything), then Stede does another spin-and-attack by shooting into the air (not at a target) and using a captain voice on the would-be-attacker

Stede downplays his day when talking to Ed at the end

The beginning logic ramble and conclusion has me asking this: what would have changed at the end of 2x5 if Stede did not have that short montage with Izzy? Would something have broken in the narrative of getting Stede to that point if Izzy were absent?

We have a lot of interactions feeding into what Stede does at the end of the episode, but without Izzy there, would Stede NOT have had the crew meeting (he already was shown to have them at the beginning of 2x4 and 2x5), would he NOT have eventually gotten rid of the suit (he let the crew vote out the love of his life at the beginning of 2x4 so the suit is an easy casualty), would he NOT have worked harder to own the captain role (like Ed instructed him to after he expressed his fears), would he NOT have chosen a style where he leaned toward kindness and compliments (killing with kindness and being a polite menace and talking it through is the brand he's building from day one)? Really, what goes wrong if Izzy is not there?

And, going with my contrapositive points, if Stede had had a massive failure of captaincy at the end of 2x5, would a longer Izzy montage have prevented it? Would further antecedent actions from Izzy changed anything?

My beginning statement comes into play: it is extremely frustrating to talk to people who only pay attention to Izzy scenes. If you remove every bullet point in the antecedent action list that isn't about Izzy's actions, you can fill in a story that Izzy was the one to teach Stede everything! Ludicrous, and it's a disservice to Stede, Ed, and all the other characters and how they're developing. In particular, Stede and Ed are the main characters, and Izzy is a supporting character to their story. It does not make sense for the narrative to remove accomplishments of a lead (e.g., Stede evolving as a captain by interacting with multiple people and developing his own captaincy brand) and hand it to a side character.

We cannot even draw a conclusion that Izzy taught Stede anything because Stede isn't shown using anything Izzy taught him. When Jim and Oluwande taught Stede the stun move, we saw Stede later using the stun move (not in the way he intended!). When Ed taught Stede about being run through, we saw Stede later using that knowledge (in a rather unconventional way!). When Izzy does some activities with Stede, we aren't shown Stede using that information later. This is a story being told, and these characters do not exist. If the story is showing us these activities and there is no follow up of Stede using these lessons at all, we cannot infer that Stede actually learned anything nor, specifically, can we infer that the point of the scene was Izzy teaching Stede something. This montage is a subversion of most other times we see this trope used, and its subversion is that the story payoff is not that Stede was taught anything but something else entirely that wasn't expected from the usual set up. The frustrating part of these Izzy-only arguments and that it doesn't seem to matter the effect that it actually has on Stede's character, only that Izzy had the appropriate beginning story beats, and the rest can be filled in with imagination.

The Izzy montage and allowing Izzy a few thumbs up doesn't change Stede's captain story, though it does bolster it as it is part of how Stede interacts with his crew. This is a season that was given a truncated run time, and it became more critical that all scenes mean something. Since it doesn't actually have an effect on Stede's story, the montage wasn't about teaching Stede captaincy at all.

Changing the conclusion, though, what if it was more about Stede's effect on Izzy than Izzy on Stede, what is it saying about the existing pirate culture and its efficacy, and looking at how Stede is developing his own captaincy style in reaching out to all crew members is a much more interesting and developed read. (Example)

In post conclusion, I had fun writing this, and now I'm going to get some pizza and watch more junk TV! 💜

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kermiekermie · 1 year

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btw heres some tumblr etiquette for the new twitter folks (feel free to rb):

yes, your likes can be public, but things you like wont come up on your followers' dash. ALWAYS RB ART AND CONTENT YOU LIKE!!

tags are just for rambling, usually. you can add tags to help people find your stuff (ex: #____ fanart, #character, #fandom, etc.) but you dont need to do that on rbs and just random shitposts. YOU CAN ADD SPACES TO TAGS! also, click enter before adding another tag orherwise youll get one big long tag

YOU DONT NEED TO TAG THINGS AS tw//___ LIKE ON TWITTER! add it in the tags as #tw ___ or #____ tw, then people can just filter that tag! (some people may also have ____ dont look tags that they filter for their personal triggers, use those if theyre your mutual as it makes things very easy imo)

for long posts (like in-depth explanations and arguments, analyzing content, etc.) use a read more divider. this makes scrolling a lot better bc you arent constsntly scrolling past massive walls of text. (on mobile, simply do :readmore: and press enter, and on desktop, click the 3 dots and add it!)

oh my god please fucking tag x reader fics if youre gonna write them i want to strangle the people who dont tag x readers

if u think ppl on twitter block a lot get ready for this! if you have a blank blog, blocked, youre a bot. if you post anything someone doesnt like, blocked. curate your experience! people (me included) arent very lenient with blocking and tend to check blogs much more here bc its easy to do, so just be careful if u dont wanna be blocked.

please respect dnis. its not that hard like actually

you can send asks and submissions anonymously! for asks, click the "send anonymously" button (not everyone has this feature turned on though!) and for submissions, log out and send your submission, and your url will not be attached!

arguing and discourse here is much more civil and in-depth than on twitter, because we dont have the character limit. yes, some ppl will still send you d34th threats instead of articulating themselves, but thats not nearly as common!!!!

don't tag mcyt posts with #minecraft or #mineblr. those r for pretty builds and minecraft updates and stuff. if u do this u are committing a cardinal sin and mineblr WILL deal w you......

genuinely, just be yourself! yes, "tumblr humor" is a thing that exists, but people will follow you for you and your content specifically, so dont feel pressured to talk and respond a certain way. i did that at first and tbh i didnt like it!!!! youre you!!!! express that!!!

i may add onto this post as things come to mind, but thats just what i can think of that i struggled with and others ive seen have struggled with, hope this helps!!

tumblr can be hard to use, and theres not really "big accounts". everyone is just roaming and doing their own thing. there can be a learning curve, and thats ok! its hard to discover new blogs here, but after a while you can get a hang on it and its a lot less toxic than other social medias imo!!!! its very easy to curate what you want to see.

#mcyt #ranboo #tommyinnit #tubbo #aimsey #billzo #tagging this w random shit so ppl see it bc i wanna help out #idk man .#dream smp #dsmp #uhh #allium duo #bee duo #glow duo #bones duo #giggle duo #clingy duo #ignore these tags its a lot ik

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penguin--person · 2 months

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silly question but: does wolf alík look any different from a regular wolf? when she's fully transformed, is there anything that sets her apart, or does she just look like an average, straight up wolf?

ty for asking this actually!!! i think about this a bunch, like, what human traits alík keeps, if she can bark/howl, if a pack of wolves would accept her, etc !!! ill talk about this under cut bc its like . idk? im not sure if this is body horror ? like its not just her being a wolf , its her being a messed up wolf .. uncanny wolf up ahead!! + some blood but not that much.. also warning ur getting a much longer answer than you were probs asking for lol

so i made a little image getting into details about her mutation just now, But i do first want to show off this art that my friend blazy (@/mothssmeat - go check his art out its super swag!!!) made of her for artfight last year !! He Gets Her he gets her wolfness he gets it

check out the speedpaint !! blazy's sooo niceys for drawing such an awesome alík art ... its So good . do you see how her nose is turning into one of a wolf? but so painfully ?? so slowly that its just !! how shes tearing up, blood around her ?? god . like God. oh my goddd . and her fur !! how its growing in patches around her body, starting like wild from her head, her eyebrows combined, just like !! its growing around like mold and i find that really cool .. hehe sorry just had to fangirl about this art ofher . i dont get the chance oftne . anyway. in a more professional manner: god sorry i cant yet . oh my fucking goddd . oh my GOD !!!! just look at that . what is that thing!!! dear god!!! ok. im normal now (lying ).

look at her hands and feet. human joints should not be like that, and wolf paws do not look like that. her claws.. god just look at them. blazys art explains alíks messed up wolf situation far better than i ever could. her ears, too, are just... god, look at them!! i have to move on from this art or ill just keep saying "look at it!!" but, well. Look at it.

some of my own alík wolf art:) the first one is when shes fully transformed, but also the first ever art i did of her like that, so take it with a grain of salt, but still take it. the second is her like... in her metamorphisis era - my internet connection is kinda MEAN and EVIL right now so i can't add them rn .. ill either rb with them later or edit them into the post. for now i just put links to the images :( sorry! plus the mentioned image from before. now Onto serious business

something that alík always has, no matter form, is her human eyes - but they're not really human! their colouration is one of a wolf's, and her eyesight is also almost as good as that of one. this is messed up when she's in full wolf mode, because its really.. just, weird. can you imagine looking at a dog with human eyes? a cat? a cow? no!! because its weird!!!! shes a FREAK!! (affectionate)

another weirdo thing about her face is her teeth. hes got canine teeth, no doubt about it, but i do think she has a bit more teeth than she should have.. maybe three more... ? two more? i think the amount of teeth is not equivalent with neither the amount humans should have nor the amount wolves should have.. like 38 or smth. this doesn't change in her transformation, but her jaw and gums do! it hurts! Ouchies! it also shifts her teeth around.. tbh i wouldnt be surprised if she lost a tooth or two transforming sometime.

as you may have noticed, alík has most of her fur on her head! this is because of hair! she has a big ol' tuft of fur on her head when she's in wolf mode and it makes her look silly. depending on how far along in transition they are, their fur is like... its in blotches over their body. a tuft here, a tuft there, no fur at all someplace else... her spine gets covered in fur first. bc its like !! hair to tail:)

her limbs are weird, too. her arms are more humanoid than her legs - my friend mikey @/monstertsunami shows this wonderfully in his art of alík and their gf idk who she is i heard shes some kind of loser? ermmm what the freak🔥

oh wow it let me add an image that time Awesome!!! anyway, you can see how her feet are pretty pawsome, huh?? shes got pawpads - is that what its called for wolves? i cant find info :( - and her joints are more.. like, look at how she's standing! her ankles! everybody say thank you mikey... !!! this stays in her wolf form, in a way

in the 'mentioned image' from before, you can see - ifyou can read my handwriting lol - that there's text around her feet/paws (peets...) that says 'human hands - fucked up paws'. in the linked image 'first one' , you can see her fucked up wolf hands more clearly! thats something that ive kept. i think she could grab you, even as a wolf. she keeps her thumbs. even if they dont work as well. this makes running as a wolf difficult for her, because her fingers are very much in the way !! herr back feet are more wolf-like in her wolf mode, even twisting her hips to work better !! opposite goes for her hands, though - her arms, like.. theyre not good for wolves ! her elbow is forced into a shitty position, her shoulders are.. bad...

and, as mentioned, her nose is fucked up. the smell of blood is an intimate friend of hers 💥it like.. god, her face goes through So Much. her skull gets absolutely , like ... goddd shes definetely broken bones transforming before... her nose is like, stretched out ? idk how to explain it .. its like if you used the 'free transform' tool on it

in short, id say theres a few main things that set alík apart from a regular wolf:

human eyes

human hands (sometimes covered in fur)

teeth

body isn't always fully covered in fur (its not easy for his body to bust out ten thousand fur strands all over his body, ya know? needs resources for that to happen)

movement (can't run as well, vocal cords arent probs in the best state after her neck fucking... look at it)

smell. she smells weird. oyou dont care about that but wolves would i think

then there's like, little basic anatomy stuff, like she will Never have the proper body of a wolf . maybe if she was like, for a year as a wolf, or two, or maybe even fine her body would be like Ok were wolf now . and her bones would settle ... but this is a question of years and time she does not have. her lifespan is also all kinds of fucked up. if she wasnt being experimented on evey day of her life ever, she'd probs live until her 40s? maybe late 40s if she had a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE filled with JOY and WHIMSY!!!! but i think now she'll die like, in her pafl au, i dont think she'll make it to 35.. sad! ouppy gone

also im working on an alík thing .. + the other two .. but also alík

CANINE GIRL coming to YOUR THEATRES in SOON!!!! hehe... im not making a song thats like too much for me. i can only make music that soundgs good to me idk how to make music that others would find tolerable .. my blessing .. teehee .. ill make alík like, a page, like the tptm girls have .. nina and nastya too:) nastyas mockup page is done.. but im not showing!!! you get a sneakpeak of the text tho . ty for the ask ❤️im surprised its letting me add images now . wifis been weird all day .. u also get to see a wip of her display sona

idk what her name would be . superlative girl ? unrivalled ? irrelevant ? victorious ? precious ? vote in the comments down below!!!Ninas will be some shit like. unknown girl. apathy girl. etc ... i havent gotten to alíks display sona yet but you KNOW shes ouppy!!!!

okieee‼️‼️‼️thats it . hope ur ok with me sharing the tptm stuff .... ❤️❤️💥💥💥ty again for the ask !!!

#ask #nonymous #alikcore #not gonna tag as nastyacore bc shes just at the end there . i dont awanna see this when scrolling through her tag #also go check out blazys and mikeys art i Mean it

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ok nic i see your rw&rb kiss scene and raise u the gay tension kitchen scene:

Steve is on the phone with Robin, reading glasses perched on the end of his nose and back aching from hunching over the counter he's seated on, when he hears rustling down the hall. He freezes, mind instantly jumping to worst-case: Will and El live across the palace from here, and Jonathan had very pointedly not spoken to him more than strictly necessary after their cursory public appearances earlier, so it can't be any of them. Maybe it's the PPOs or his own security, but, more likely, an intruder who is coming to stab him to death for, like, contaminating precious royal soil with his American blood or some shit.

Steve likes to keep things positive, clearly.

(It would still be better than having to deal with Jonathan again, the snide section of his brain snarks in response, louder than usual after being multiplied by his exhaustion and overall barely contained rage at this whole situation. That is, the situation he caused, by dragging the heir of a country down onto a table holding the world's most expensive cake and nearly starting another World War, but- whatever! He's not thinking about it.

As long as he doesn't have to deal with said heir more than strictly necessary.)

Unfortunately, the universe is a cold and merciless place, and the person who comes padding into the kitchen is not a vigilante come to put him out of his misery, but is, in fact, His Royal Fucking Highness himself.

"Hold on," he hisses to Robin, who had been mid-tirade and splutters something indignant at him that he ignores entirely, opting instead to hang up on her and make a mental note to apologize over text later. Ask for forgiveness, not permission, or whatever. His life motto, at this point.

Jonathan is different, now, out of his fancy royal clothes and cold exterior. He's half-awake, shoulders slumping as he yawns, wearing a yellow sweater and pajama bottoms. He has earbuds in, and his feet are bare, and his hair is very clearly lacking in whatever usually makes it stay perfectly gelled on his head.

He looks, alarmingly, human.

His eyes land on Steve, and he freezes, eyes going wide in mild horror. Steve stares back blankly from his perch on the counter, phone slack in his hand even as it lights up immediately with three inevitably irritated texts from Robin at having been hung up on.

Jonathan tugs an earbud out, shoulders going tense again, back to their usual infuriatingly rigid posture, but his eyes stay crinkled around the corners, mouth pink and slack. Not that- not that Steve is looking at it.

"Hello," Jonathan says hoarsely, and if Steve didn't know better he'd think Jonathan was embarrassed. He coughs. "Sorry, I was just, uh. Cornettos." He gestures vaguely to the refrigerator.

Steve blinks. "What?"

A muscle in Jonathan's jaw twitches, either in annoyance or amusement, and he opens the freezer, rooting through it until he locates a box of ice cream cones labeled Cornettos across the front. "I ran out."

Any upsetting feelings Steve might have been having - something approaching fondness, maybe, at Jonathan's sweet and sleep-rumpled appearance - dissipate immediately. "Do you raid the kitchens of all your guests?" he demands.

"Only when I can't sleep," Jonathan says, which does not make it better. "Which is always," he adds, which still does not make it better, but does make Steve feel slightly worse for thinking so. "Didn't think you'd be awake."

This is a fair assumption, and it should annoy Steve that he'd assume anything about him in the first place, but he's tired and jet-lagged and out of it, so he only sort of manages a weird little nod. Jonathan eyes him warily, slowly sliding a Cornetto out of the box like he's waiting for Steve to tell him not to. When he doesn't, Jonathan unwraps it cautiously and holds it there, still looking at him with that inscrutable expression.

Steve expects him to put the remaining Cornettos back and leave. Jonathan does no such thing.

"Have you rehearsed what you're going to say tomorrow? In front of the press?"

Ah. There's the annoyance again. Just when Steve was starting to miss it. "Yes. Obviously. I'm not a complete idiot."

Jonathan's face twitches like he begs to differ. "I didn't mean it like that," he sighs, weary. "I just meant- do you think we should rehearse or something?"

Steve frowns. "Do you... need to?"

"I don't know. Thought it might help." Jonathan shifts his weight from foot to foot, looking oddly anxious.

God, he's insufferable. Steve has never in his life met someone wound so goddamn tight. And that's saying something, coming from someone who encounters Nancy Wheeler on a regular basis.

He hops off the counter, pleased that he's regained the upper hand. He'd been afraid of losing it, for a second there, when he'd been having those weird cartwheel-y feelings in his stomach at the sight of Jonathan's tousled hair and stupid fucking sweater. "Watch this," he commands, and relishes the way Jonathan bristles at it as he lines up a shot with his phone camera. The box of Cornettos on the counter, Jonathan's hand sitting next to it idly like he's not sure if he should withdraw it, the corner of his pajama pants just visible. Steve thinks it's important that people know that His Royal Douchiness wears blue and white checkers to bed.

"'Nothing cures jet lag,'" he reads off in a monotone as he types out a caption, watching Jonathan's expression shift from curiosity to irritation and back again, "'like midnight ice cream with @/PrinceJonathan.'" He pauses, glances up with a smirk. "Prince Jonathan kind of sounds clunky, if you ask me. I would have gone with Jon or Johnny or- fucking- Byers, or something. Title-wise."

Jonathan's lips twitch. "Do I look like a fucking Johnny to you?"

"Fair point." Steve goes back to his phone. "Okay, geotag the palace, crop, filter, and posted." He holds the phone up for Jonathan to see as likes and comments flood in. "There are lots of things worth overthinking, believe me. But this isn't one of them."

Jonathan frowns at him over his ice cream, which he's just begun to dig into. "I suppose," he says, doubtful. "Or maybe you just underthink."

"Fuck you," Steve says, but with significantly less punch than the last fifty times he'd said it. "Are you done?" he adds, because said lack of punch makes the weird fluttery thing in his stomach return in full force and he does not care for it at all. "I was on a call."

Jonathan's expression, which had been contemplative a second ago, shutters, then closes off entirely, and Steve feels something like regret.

Horrifying. He hates emotions.

"Of course," Jonathan says stiffly, all royal politeness, which does serve to make the fluttery feeling lessen but also, somehow, makes Steve feel slightly sick. "I won't keep you."

Steve's traitorous eyes trail after him as he leaves the kitchen, catch every stilted detail when Jonathan pauses in the doorframe, considering. "I didn't know you wore glasses," he says after a moment of contemplation, in an entirely unreadable tone.

He leaves Steve standing there alone in the kitchen, Robin lighting his phone up with furious texts and the box of Cornettos sweating on the counter.

PARKER YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY INSANE FOR THIS. ITS THEM. ITS SO THEM. DAMN YOU FOR PUTTING THIS THOUGHT IN MY MIND. i’ll be attacking back soon enough when you least expect it.

#CANT GET OVER HOW STONATHAN WORKS SO GOOD FOR THIS AU IM OBSESSED #PARKER YOU FREAK #stonathan

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