i love this guy

NIMONA 2023, dir. Nick Bruno & Troy Quane

Title: blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold Author: suchgreatheights Artists: summerraayn and Schnublet Beta readers: jackuntiljune, scarrletmoon, sovngarde, and TragicSeas Characters: Stede Bonnet, Edward Teach, Lucius Spriggs, Crew of the Revenge, Mary Allamby Bonnet, Alma Bonnet, Louis Bonnet, Israel Hands Relationship(s): Stede/Edward; implied Fang/Lucius/Pete; implied Doug/Mary Rating:  Explicit Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Professor AU, mutual pining, slow burn, fluff, angst with a happy ending, hurt/comfort, gratuitous smut Warnings: none Summary:

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blue as cut sapphires and shining like gold by suchgreatheights

hi everyone, i’m alive and well and living in the ofmd fandom now and i wrote this

modernpolymath:

I’m both of them???

dai au where everything is the same but the mcelroy brothers are the three advisors

Pleased to see that linguistics is considered low-risk for both supervillain world domination and breaking free from the lab, in this comic from xkcd.

OTOH, a would-be dictator who could Northern vowel shift his way through the Midwest could do a lot of damage.

@bonequeer @hermoines

Colin ABC - Um

And not forgetting…

bbc merlin fest: day 13

Redrew a Fenris from 2 years ago

source

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Happy 34th Birthday Bradley James!

I think we’re kind of starting to get away from this but have y’all noticed how in the vast majority of popular media, sex scenes don’t actually tend to involve a lot of talking/fumbling/awkwardness unless it’s for humor or to indicate that the people having sex are a.) probably Wrong for each other somehow or b.) inexperienced, possibly having sex for the first time?

but “good” sex, between people who are experienced and In Love etc, is almost always effortlessly athletic and steamy and they somehow telepathically know exactly what to do. I’m not talking about knowing what their lover enjoys, that’s entirely feasible, but they never even have to coordinate what they’re doing. there’s no “do you want me on top?” or “do you want to do [x]?” or accidentally getting in each other’s way.

the overwhelming message that I’ve always gotten from pop culture is that Good Sex happens without communication and, more dangerously, that needing to communicate is a sign that you’re somehow bad at sex, when in reality that’s almost definitely a sign that you’re, you know, a considerate partner who actually gives a shit about people being comfortable when they have sex with you.  

why doesn’t this have more notes

because I posted it less than 12 hours ago; give it time, friend

Not only that but like, overwhelmingly sex in media is portrayed as this steamy, well-oiled, SERIOUS machine. Like… where’s the fun? Pop culture seems to be so obsessed with this communication-less pantomime of actual intimacy rather than the reality of intimacy going hand in hand with not only consideration but humour and mutual vulnerability.

Sex is by nature so awkward and odd and it NEVER works the way you see in films or on tv. It’s never seamless and perfect and that is not a BAD THING. 

You’re not “doing it wrong” if you’re having problems getting a good rhythm and keep messin’ each other up by trying to help.

You’re not doing it wrong if you’re laughing and talking and not taking it seriously.

And additionally, and now this is a complete tangent from the original point here, but you’re not doing it wrong if you don’t manage to get off or get your partner off.

Sometimes sex is just the action and not the climax and that’s COMPLETELY FINE. My partner and I struggled a LOT with this when we first started having sex because we both had terrible guilt when we couldn’t reach climax or couldn’t get the other off because we felt like that was what the whole point of sex was.

Media puts a lot of PRESSURE on sex and what it looks like that shouldn’t be there and it’s AWFUL.

The focus is just so … wrong. 

hey @thepixiepaige no big but this is the best commentary anyone has ever added to one of my posts

#im gabe  #andy is my followers

this post reminds me of how tom hopper as percival was the only knight on merlin to wear SLEEVELESS CHAINMAIL all the time

percival getting warm in front of the fire alongside his sleeved (and probably warmer) brethren

top tip percy: freezing cold winters are usually best handled with sleeves

and finally here’s a pic of him looking like the cover of a 99c bodice ripper from your local oxfam

My favourite is that his mail looks like it’s two sets of mail fastened together. Like Arthur brought him back to Camelot and the poor armourer was like ‘fuck we don’t make mail in actual adonis size’ and this is the best he could come up with.