That Feeling When You’ve Been Reading All Those Gentle Soft Happy Fanfics Where Everyone Is Gay And

that feeling when you’ve been reading all those gentle soft happy fanfics where everyone is gay and in love and it’s not a big deal and their friends all support them.

and your favourite superhero couples and detectives and kings and warlocks are just domestic and happy.

and then you emerge into the real world and it’s just not like that.

you walk into your job in the morning and know that if anyone knew, you’d be out the door. kids use the word ‘gay’ as a slur and it might be silly but it makes something hurt inside your chest. you look at your mother and think of the words she’d use to cut you with if you told her. the disgust on her face. you have your family around you and you know it could all be shattered in a minute and it would be you who’d done it.

everyone assumes your straightness. people look at you strangely when you use ‘they/them’ pronouns when asking what their fiancé’s name is, bcs you don’t want to make the same mistake that others make with you. you file forms with spaces for the mother’s name and father’s name and wonder how you’d fill them out if you had a partner and a child. you work with children and wonder what they have to hide about themselves.

and then, sometimes, you go home and read some more fanfic. maybe you write some, or draw fanart if that’s your thing. that’s the best thing, that we’re dreaming about a better world. maybe we’re not famous or published or earning money for what we do. but writing and reading fanworks like this helps a heck of a lot of people, including me, feel happy and comforted and like it’s possible that they might belong one day. that it gets better.

thank you, everyone who creates fanworks where being gay is simply treated as normal. your work is healing and wholesome and full of heart and goodness. and much as i may love the canon, it’s not the canon - it’s the fanworks that are a safe haven to retreat to and recover and heal.

Lawlu Family Headcanon

This is totally random, but I know exactly what Law and Luffy's kid's story would be like. Her name would be Cora, (after Corazon of course), and she would have Law's black hair and golden/green eyes and dark skin, but she would have Luffy's smile and casual disregard for the laws of reality. She would be best friend's with Ace and Marco's kid, and she would be the co-captain of the Dragon Pirates. She would have no fear of injury or death, but would dissolve into a panicked wreck anytime her makama gets so much as a paper cut. Law would try to teach her how to be a doctor, but she'd go green at the sight of organs and he would instead teach her swordplay and anatomy, because she's fascinated with bones. If he had been there, Luffy would have taught her how to play, and how to be selfish and kind at the same time, and Law would show her how not to drown in your own darkness. She would set out at 17, and fight her adopted brother, for the title of Pirate King. In the end, she's either the Pirate King, and he's the Pirate Queen, or they do a timeshare, or she beats him up until he agrees to let her have it. She has a long complicated relationship with Robin's daughter, before she finally marries her in front of the World Government. They're outraged of course, except for Sengoku, who blinks back tears as he thinks of how happy Rocinante would have been. She would have grown up on stories about her extended, not quite related family, and learned how to love with all that she is, but only those she deems worthy. Don't use this without permission.

3 notes View Post

whitelightningoverasunset

1 year ago

i hate that this was cut from the final production of the game :/

4K notes View Post

whitelightningoverasunset

5 years ago

Do you guys ever have a time when your thoughts mindlessly wander to one of your OTPs and you’re heart just clenches and you smile a little and you feel instantly happy because you just love that ship so fucking much.

3K notes View Post

whitelightningoverasunset

5 years ago