saltedpin

you can find me on AO3 at saltedpin.

[virgoos]

sub this dom that. what if they are both completely chained to their devotion to each other. they’re rendered powerless by it. nobody is driving the bus.

[saltedpin]

no one asked for my thoughts on hanazawa koujirou but EYE like the idea he's spent his entire life crushing himself into the shape of what society requires him to be (and noda explicitly gave him a second son's name!!! so he wasn't even supposed to inherit but i suppose his older brother got killed in the boshin war or something), all HIS hopes and dreams got crushed and HE shed all semblance of humanity as required AND he probably had an extremely harsh childhood given he grew up in (hazing in dojos so severe kids regularly died, still practicing pedagogical pederasty) satsuma. so he can credibly think he's actually a very lenient cool dad to yuusaku, who he brought up by modern, cosmopolitan standards with an excellent education, and who he's only asking to be a good example at dying for goodness' sake.

and the idea that he didn't give tome up because he didn't love her but rather because he did - but as the new heir to the household he's not going to be allowed to marry some random geisha he knocked up, who brings him nothing and has no value in terms of a political alliance, which he needs, and if she'd already started her decline then she would not have been able to cope with the demands of the role anyway. So better and kinder to cut her loose and send her on her way, a child is not necessarily a handicap for her career. and as for ogata, why would he want a walking reminder of his moral failures and the woman he abandoned and left heartbroken cluttering up the house? how's he going to shed the last lingering traces of his human self and become what he's supposed to and expected to be if he has to constantly be looking at the result of a time when love was still something that might have been something he could feel? sometimes the only way you can make the life you've created for yourself bearable is by leaning into it and pretending this was what you wanted all along, this is what you've always been

[saltedpin]

you know, all of this is complete conjecture OF COURSE but i think it’s kind of obvious that koujirou has raised yuusaku to live up to certain standards that he has not exactly been encouraged or allowed to question and that hiro and koujirou don’t exactly like each other very much and have quite different ideas about what is the appropriate way to direct yuusaku’s life. the idea that they love each other or that yuusaku was doted on is something that comes solely from ogata who has absolutely no knowledge of the situation and every piece of info canon gives us, scant tho it may be, says the exact opposite.

yuusaku being raised not to question the authority of his father or the role he’s supposed to play in life is not exactly something you have reach very far into the text to get out of it, but it IS interesting to me that koujirou has this one massive, glaring transgression that ogata is the very obvious result of, and to MEEE anyway it’s pretty obvious that to yuusaku, ogata represents an ‘allowed’ transgression out of the bounds of propriety (because really, 'ani-sama’, come ON) and a potential escape from the strictures of the life he has been stuffed into from day one; it’s a lovely paradox because ogata is both a safe transgression (he’s family!!!) and one that is waaaay out of the bounds of what he’s allowed because he’s an unrecognised illegitimate child who his father has clearly decided to reject, and not anyone yuusaku should be deferring to.

[allegedly-human]

nothing is more tumblr than having a tumblr sexyman wiki and then warn you to not find some of those men sexy because it's problematic

[toastsogwich]

[hazardousyuri-deactivated202510]

me when i get one (1) note on tumblr dot com from my beloved mutuals: they lovme❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏😭😭❤️❤️😁😁😁😁😁✨️✨️☝️☝️☝️☝️😁😁👅👅👅👅👅👅👅💜💜💜💗❤️‍🩹❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🫂🫂🫂🫂i love them 😁😁😁❤️❤️❤️❤️💜💜💜 f ried n

[platypusesforarms]

Greater Flamingos 🦩 Earth Odyssey S7E14 "Birds of a Feather"

Standing at up to 5 feet tall, Greater Flamingos are the tallest of all flamingo species.

[kira-kui-n]

"get him pregnant" well thats not my thing but to each their own

"get her pregnant" *takes up my sword and shield* i wont let you do that to her. ......................

[roseillest]

刀馬旦 // PEKING OPERA BLUES (1986) dir. TSUI HARK

[marwyn]

I honestly wonder if the reason they keep cutting Daemon’s bi scenes is because they’re afraid of being criticized for bad bi rep

[marwyn]

[marwyn]

Scripts for cut scenes here, here and here

[oyuuogothiczine]

Hoc Est Corpus Meum: An OYuuO Gothic Fanzine is finally live!

You can download the free, digital version of the fanzine from this link!:

[lavender-ages]

I'm sitting down to read it and I'm mesmerized by the level of care and love put in this project by all its artists and writers and editors. It's a little, beautiful gem of haunted visions, blood, love and ghosts ❤️

Everyday I can never say enough words about how lucky we are in the oyuuo fandom!

[itscolossal]

International Aerial Photographer of the Year Contest Highlights the World from Above

[captaincrusher]

Me filtering out kinks I don’t like on AO3. 

[valtsv]

the reason sex scenes exist in fiction is because sometimes people have sex but also to find out what the characters are lying to everyone including themselves about by wrapping that agonising vulnerability in a treat like giving medicine to a dog

[dailyrothko]

Mark Rothko Vernal Memory / No.12 1948 oil on canvas 55 3/4 x 32 1/8 in. Collection of Kate Rothko Prizel © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko/Artists Rights Society (ARS)

[mamath]

A unicorn painted for the new postcard in June <3 I keep meaning to draw a lot more unicorns for #Junicorn but I just...can't find the time each year. ;_; Maybe I can make it up later in the year.

ANYWAY. This is the current free postcard in my shop! I'm already starting to run low though so I guess the new postcard will come in sooner than later and then I'll have this art for sale as A5 prints instead. :)

[beadyeyes]

Welcome to I want u Cafe. You'll be having an iced vanilla latte.

[dogpuppy]