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[demonzoro]

gramophone fic 👁️ 👄 👁️ share with the class?

GRAMOPHONE FIC MY BELOVED. this is a very old old wip that i was tinkering with last week because i remembered how much i loved the idea.

the premise is that sanji gets a gramophone in a rare pique of self-indulgence, but with how out of practice he is with indulging himself (more used to the rationing and starvation of little joys) he only bought the one record for himself, which he's been playing on loop. zoro notices this and starts procuring records for him in different ways.

i really wanted to use this fic as a way to write out my music/dance headcanons for sanji. i really liked the idea the the baratie also did shows sometimes - it's hard to believe there weren't a few geezers in the legion of fighting cooks that were also musicians/performers. sanji would've grown up with at least one weird old person who was self-taught on an instrument and passed it onto him. i also LOVED the idea that the baratie hosted formal events sometimes and sanji would enviously watch on as their guests danced - then later practiced the steps he saw in an empty kitchen/in their walk-in pantry.

zoro, in this fic, did not grow up with music/dance as an interest. which i think would make it very endearing if it's something he wasn't personally interested in, and therefore spoke volumes when he went to increasingly great lengths to procure these records for sanji. if it fit, i would love for sanji to teach zoro how to dance ... i've also seen fanart (and one of your fics, steph!) where zoro has a secret talent for singing, which i also adore.

there is something extremely earnest about music and dance and song! if i ever have the muse and time, i'd love to come back to this WIP :') sneak peek under the cut if you're interested ❤

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“You’ve been playing this song a lot, over and over,” he observed out loud.

The chopping over at the counter faltered for a moment, before resuming its rhythm. “If you don’t like it, you can leave,” Sanji said pointedly.

“I didn’t say that.”

Sanji stopped then, momentarily lost for a rebuttal when Zoro didn’t rise to their usual bickering.

“Well, I’ve only got the one record,” Sanji admitted, at loss at what to say except for the truth. “It’s got a few tracks on it, so it seemed alright to just buy the one at the time. I probably should have gotten more.”

Something in his tone made Zoro turn on his side and regard the cook, whose shoulder had lifted and fell in a small shrug. There was barely any frustration or sadness in Sanji’s words. Only the ghost of dissatisfaction lingered in the tiny downwards tug of his mouth, disappearing like cigarette smoke with a quiet huff.

Sanji took up his knife again, and added almost like an afterthought, “I’d rather spend my money on other things anyways.”

Zoro frowned at that, feeling a discontent he could not name. ‘Other things,’ which he knew were mostly for the crew’s sake. Like replacing the suits that became slashed and ripped in battles, or buying extra ingredients the budget didn’t cover. Practical things, Sanji had all but said with his dismissive tone, which was ridiculous considering Sanji was one of the most infuriatingly impractical people Zoro had ever met.

[antidotefortheawkward]

If you want…would you expand on your oc ceoi'gun?? Your tags left me so intrigued to know more

omg Ceoi'gun my guy Ceoi'gun <3 I don't have much on them because they were a guy for a DnD campaign that never came to be BUT basically their story was basically A Bunch of Chinese Romance Drama Cliches cuz I thought they were gonna get their actual character development during the campaign FDHJSKSDKS

He's a Chinese opera 旦 performer and he's been with basically the same opera troupe since he was left to it as a kid. It's not known to the general public but basically the entire opera troupe consists of yao who specialize in transformation magic and only present in human form, and that's part of why his parents chose to leave him with that group specifically. But turns out his magical abilities are kinda stunted so he's unable to fully transform into a human form and it takes a lot more energy for him to transition between human and kingfisher bird form, so he usually just stays in this in-between form. Their very visible yao-ness could've posed a risk to exposing the opera troupe as a whole, but the troupe members really do care about them so the troupe kept them around and framed the whole thing as "ohhh look at us, we're so charitable and nice to have taken in this yaojing orphan" and Ceoi'gun's career ended up doing very well because they played into the kingfisher yao aesthetic (<- heehoo you know I can never leave the concept of yao unpolitical so i wanted to do Something with the idea of making your identity consumable in a very artificial way but i dont think i developed it enough)

Anyways, years down the line when he's famous and whatever, this one duke of the city takes an interest in the troupe and becomes the troupe's patron. He and Ceoi'gun end up hitting it off and after a while, they start dating and even get engaged but OOPS something happened and the duke is murdered and Ceoi'gun ends up framed so he has to skip town </3 He's a wandering bard for now

Also here's the duke. I suggested a concept that he might not actually be dead and that there was some other plot at play bc the DM asked all of us for Stuff to Bite Us In The Ass, but other than that vague idea I don't have much for him gfdhsjkskd

Anyways yeah that's my funky bard guy <3 Thank u for asking about him :>

[pokeharvest]

For the ms paint drawing ask 👁 sugimoto please

HE HE HEY!!!

send me a ✍ and a character and I’ll draw the character horribly on ms paint!

[suchacomet]

Merlin for the character bingo 👁

FINALLY a character who kind of sucks <3

og poor little meow meow man. sopping wet big-eared motherfucker who had SOOOOOO much potential until the writers backed him into a stupid plot bc they weren’t creative enough to generate tension in their show outside of the magic reveal. and the worst part is even when he’s badly written and in a shitty plot he is still so full of hope and light 😭❤️ fuck the bbc. anyway the version of this show that i have in my head that basically changes the entire plot from the end of s2 on is so good i wish y’all could watch it

[feluka]

For the character bingo ummmm perhaps Natalia from abyss 👁 👄 👁

i hear natalia and i start levitating

character bingo

[laquilasse]

I just want to say I love your Kay and edgeworth drawings!!! I love that dad and unexpected daughter duo also I love your style it’s so fluid and you convey motion super well

OH THANK YOU!!! I’m so happy people like them, they’re my favourite father daughter duo 🥺

[ilan]

Hi how are you Ilan!!!

HI STEPH i’m good :] how are YOU

[onepiecehcs]

For the weird asks thing (and these are a lot so feel to not do all of them): 1, 12, 20, 56, 72, 78, 98, and 61?

1. coffee mugs, teacups, wine glasses, water bottles, or soda cans?

I seldom care what I’m drinking out of. I know that there is a picture of me somewhere on this blog of me drinking milk out of a wine glass on new years eve.

12. name of your favorite playlist?

It changes all the time bc I constantly make new ones, but currently it’s this

20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?

I don’t write very often, but when I do I prefer to do it on paper, at least at first! Then if I decide to make something more out of it I of course do it on my laptop.

(This got long!)

56. favorite tradition?

Midsommar! No connection to the movie I promise. I have a pretty big family up in Dalarna (north sweden) bc my mom has a ton of cousins and most of them have more than three kids, and every year we get together and celebrate with them! Maypole dancing and all! And my mom and her brothers have shared ownership of a small house called “fäbod” (google translate says chalet), and sometimes we stay a night there, and go and watch the maypole being raised. And one very fun thing, is that in Dalarna, folk dress is still popular, so pretty much everyone wears them on festive occasions!

61. favorite line you heard from a book/movie/tv show/etc.?

The entire “why were you trespassing on my lands” conversation between Thorin and Thranduil in the Hobbit book.

72. worst subject?

Physics.

78. coffee from a gas station or sushi from a grocery store?

Definitely coffee from a gas station.

98. favorite historical era?

I might be biased as a swede, but probably viking era Scandinavia!