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bear with me I am incredibly feverish right now

but trinity santos actively choosing not to go home when she knows she may relapse. trinity santos going out of her way to decompress in a healthy way, to make a new friend, when it would have been so, so easy to go home to that empty apartment and do something she'd regret.

to trinity (and to langdon, and to mckay), and to staying clean even when its fucking hard

she's so important to me

inadvertently-biblical

The Night Shift <3 And sleepy Trinity

baggnshield

the actual show is so full of nuance with stede being a selfish idiot who doesn't think about anyone except himself sometimes, and ed causes so much harm to the people who love him that he almost dies by their hand, and zheng gets duped by stede because of her love for a softer future, and jim is driven by their circumstances of revenge for a greater portion of their arc, and all these characters are undeniably human and flawed and just so fucking hopeful in the face of shitty fucking odds. i love you hit television show our flag means death, thank you for coming into my life.

cyberrat

…sweetest Dom and brattiest sub. The sub constantly trying to get into trouble with their dom and the dom being so zen and never taking the bait.

It‘s a punishment all in its own when they make their bratty sub sit and get cuddled instead of getting the spanking they were so desperately angling for.

(Traumatized sub that constantly tries to retrigger their past trauma because at this point it‘s a weird form of comfort and gentle dom that lets them rage and keeps an eye on them so they don‘t hurt themselves.)

#sprizzy send tweet

captain-athos

I think 50 shades of grey did so much damage to BDSM writing in fic and like not because I think fic writers were taking inspiration from it, but we did get a lot of detailed explanatory posts about all the different ways in which those guys were Doing It Wrong, which is not in and of itself a bad thing but since then everybody got so hung up on making sure everybody in their fics was nothing like 50 shades of grey and actually demonstrates that yes I do understand the principles of safe sane and consensual and the traffic light system and safewording and aftercare and checking in that now everybody fucks like a 101 handbook and I think we've only just recently started to recover from it. love me a dynamic where it's two repressed freak idiots who accidentally invent BDSM all on their own and have to come up with the strangest most deeply harmful ways of navigating that situation

ourfag

oh heres a poll thats been on my mind a while

why do we think pete keeps tearing the sleeves off his shirts

it's macho and badass which is what he is also

king of autism

lucius has a pit fetish and hes honoring that

if he cant show off his little fuckass arm strap he'll die

Voting ended onJun 29, 2025

honestlyvan

Another thing fandom needs to start doing more of is projecting on tops.

There are delicious amounts of psychological distress you can inflict on that guy once you get into his head. The brainworms of forcing agency and initiative on someone who genuinely is Not Fucking Ready For It are exquisite.

honestlyvan

To quote myself: Domtops in fics are always written to have such uncomplicated and healthy relationships to their sexualities and for my mental health I need us to collectively start giving them complexes about being some kind of monstrous predatory freak of nature instead.

Make that guy have a panic attack b/c someone in his daydream told him to stop and he kept going anyway.

honestlyvan

New and improved! Sad Wet Dog of a top is thinking about how he wants to hurt you but doesn't want to hurt you and the contradiction is slowly and steadily making him Lose His Whole Fucking Mind.

theotherpacman

not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping

valtsv

[trying to insult a person's dog-like devotion to someone but not wanting to make them sound too cool about it] keep your fucking dog in a purse

#there's a universe where Izzy says this about stede

haflacky

Love and comfort

Commission for @vexbatch thank you so much!

lobotomy-jpeg

Come on, little man. Give me all you got

[ID: digital illustration of Roach and Izzy, solving some sort of argument with physical fighting- they've ended up on the floor, Roach laid down entirely while Izzy straddles him, hands at both sides of his torso. Izzy's expression is stormy and focus, hair and spit flying away from his face. Roach has a grin on his face like the cat that got the cream, having Izzy exactly where he wants him. /End ID]

theres-rue-for-you

my brother works on a boat so when he rants about his job I can’t take it seriously because he keeps angrily referring to his boss as “captain”. like sorry ur having 19th century sailor problems my guy

ofmdcraftfair

Con O'Neill donated a voice message to the #OFMDCraftFair and the wonderful anonymous donor who won it decided to share it with the entire fandom. Please enjoy (and spread widely so everyone can hear).

baggnshield

Transcript by roximonoxide on bsky :

What a beautiful thing you've all done.

Hundreds of you gave your time and work or promised hope to strangers with your donations.

So many more of you spread the word making sure as many people as possible could take part in all this. And in the end more than 70% of what was raised was from crafted goods or commissioned artwork, from this community and by this community.

You all saw a need for a light in the darkness and without hesitation you chose to shine brilliantly.

It's not the first time you've done it. This time the light looked like needlework and jewelry, and maybe a half a pyramid here or there.

But sometimes it looks like a drag show, a live stream or a zine for charity. Sometimes it looks like a bit of artwork in exchange for proof of donation, or just a call to action. Sometimes it's a signal boost or giving someone else in our fandom a helping hand.

There's a lot of darkness around us. Sometimes it can feel overwhelming, but you all know how to make your own light. And what's more, you're always willing to share it with others.

So, to the moderators, to everyone who made things shared links or donated, and to everyone who's ever been a part of this sort of thing in the past, please know, you all make the world a little brighter. Better. More loving.

Thank you so much. I fooking love this crew.

ilynpilled

i love characters who do the “i worship the myth i make of you” and in turn dehumanize and get wrong the object of their devotion and love. yes project a thing that does not exist onto a pedestal and kneel at it like it is your altar. this will surely not blow up in both of your faces eventually