Sky Full of Song (2)

series summary: Despite the bitter resentment of the crew, you found a home on Captain Barnes’ ship. But when course is plotted for a legendary island, the secret that has kept you alive for years is threatened to be revealed. Pirate/Siren AU

pairings: pirate!bucky x pirate/siren!reader

chapter word count: 5.5k

warnings: men are pigs, the carnal longing returns,

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Council was Bucky’s attempt at a more diplomatic course of action. While he always carried the final decision, he preferred to hear the opinions of his crew before making a call on where the ship would journey next. His crew should have a say in the path that may take their lives, he’d reasoned; as if such a way of thinking were common amongst pirates. Bucky’s inclination towards something as dangerous as empathy seemed to be the least pirate-like thing about him.  

Pointed stares burned against your skin as you followed Bucky to the deck where the rest of the crew were waiting – their gazes scolding into the bloodstains upon your palms, lingering over the line of curves along your hips. Always teetering the line between desire and resentment. Some murmured under their breath to see you emerge from the captain’s quarters, whispering taunts and snickers they did not attempt to hide. Reducing you to an image of the captain’s whore in frail efforts to shelter their own fragile egos.  

They did not draw the same conclusion upon the fact that Lawrence had just left the captain’s private room himself not one minute earlier. You didn’t hear any demeaning rumors of his bedroom explorations.  

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the problem with ancient roman propaganda about powerful women the romans didn't like was that maybe it worked on a roman audience, but when i read about cleopatra being a cunning seductress aiming for rome's downfall i just think it makes her sexier

like ok. milf

i was just thinking about this after reading sallust's description of a woman named sempronia

like she sounds fucking awesome

When I mentioned taking a day off to move house, my manager asked who I went with for my mortgage

When I told him I was renting he asked "why don't you just borrow ten grand or so off your parents for a mortgage deposit?"

Sir, we lead very different lives

Have you considered being born into wealth? You should try it some time. It's not hard. I was born into wealth all by myself!

everyone in gotham always wants to know who batman is but they never want to know how he is :/

He’s a grown man dressed as a bat. They know.

theae were ghostwritten by bruce and alfred in that order

DAREDEVIL 1.13 | ’DAREDEVIL’

Andrew Garfield about throwing up in front of Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz.

Guide to Figuring out the Age of an Undated World Map.

No but take the time to actually read it because I lost like 15 minutes.

I have a friend who is really good at this type of thing.  He once found an old globe at a garage sale and he was able to pin the date of it’s making down to like a 6 month window, because it only would’ve been correct during a specific point in WWII.  

I was mad impressed, because I have no mind for geography.  I can barely remember my own state’s capitol.

THIS IS GOLD 😂😂😂

This is amazing. Take the time to actually read it.

Holy shit the super specific things towards the end

I didn’t know anything about the giant lake in California being created by accident?!

I love how it differentiates the maps of Narnia based on which book you’re looking at

Honestly when I read the part of the map of Canada “missing a piece,” I couldn’t help but think of the canadian maps that leave out PEI altogether (it happens more often than you would think.)

colorado in 2-14 months:

(number of yemens)+(number of germanys)=?

IRON MAN (2008) — dir. Jon Favreau

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)

“Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves” by David Wong

letters from Medea, salma deera

four dean caps per episode 2.01 in my time of dying

Jensen Ackles | Image Campaign 2007

CALAHAN SKOGMAN as MATTHIAS HELVAR

“Real-time collisions”

omg the guy who uploaded the original video posted this comment

if you have to dumpster dive for kindness, that’s okay and it doesn’t make you a bad person. while obviously we’d all prefer to not have to sort through garbage in the middle of the night to find something edible, food is food

okay i know i said i was going to bed but instead of falling asleep i was just laying awake thinking of this so 

this:

plus the whole “my mom’s boyfriend hit me but he was also nice” is straight up enabling psychological abuse.

do you not see how fucking insensitive that is?

is in response to me saying this: 

my mother’s boyfriend used to hit me on top of just being an asshole

he taught me how to know the perfect time to flip a pancake and after the first snow of the year when i was seven he built a snowman with me that was just as tall as i was.

i don’t really talk about about my mom’s boyfriend abusing me because … why the fuck would i? honestly i don’t think i’ve ever mentioned it on tumblr before, but in that post it was really important to me that people understand that, hey - i get it. sometimes life is shit, but you can find goodness despite that, even when your circumstances are terrible

clearly that fucking failed because of shit like this

it is absolutely wild to me that anyone thought that it was acceptable to tell me that talking about things i’d found to bring me happiness as a literal child while i was being physically abused meant i was enabling psychological abuse (who’s, exactly? my own?) and that it was insensitive of me to talk about that

let me be clear: i hated that guy

when my mother died i didn’t have to keep it a secret anymore and i was like. hey. this guy’s been hitting me and i don’t want him coming to the funeral. i don’t care that my mom loved him. she’s dead and i’m not and i won’t be in the same room as him again. he went to the wake because i wasn’t there, because i didn’t really want to see my mother’s corpse again because i was, you know

nine years old at the time 

did the fact that he taught me when to flip a pancake or how to roast a marshmallow make up for all my bloody noses? did him rolling out of bed in the middle of the night and building a snowman with me cancel out the time he came after me with a metal baseball bat? 

of course it fucking didn’t. even when i was happy around him, i still hated him. it’s just that people are complicated 

i still think of him every time i flip a pancake, make a marshmallow, or build a snowman. and it’s not a terrible memory. sometimes bad people do nice things. i needed nice things as a child. so what am i supposed to do with them? throw them out because they’re dirty? because they’re bad and don’t belong in my nice clean life?

why? 

holding onto good things in bad circumstances is how you make it through the bad circumstances 

sometimes you have to take kindness how you can get it. sometimes the good things in your life are not easy, or fair, or the type of things other people would ever categorize as good at all. sometimes your good things are terrible

but they still save your life

if you are in a terrible situation and the only kindness you can find to hold onto is hard and prickly and difficult, that’s okay. if the only kindness you can find is what you’re giving to other people, that’s still more kindness in the world than it would have had otherwise, and i think it’s still worthwhile 

if you have to sort through garbage to find two day old bagels to feed yourself, that doesn’t make you a bad person 

if you have a make the best of a bad situation, because your only other option is making the worst of a bad situation, you are not somehow responsible or enabling your terrible circumstances 

you are surviving, in whatever way you can, until you’re in a place where you don’t need to do that anymore

dumpster diving for kindness isn’t pretty but it will feed you when nothing else will

If you’ll allow me to quote something wonderful I read on this very subject:

“He takes a risk and closes his eyes. He thinks of Sirius and Remus, of his friends, of Draco. He thinks of the feel of Tamil on his tongue, of seeing his mother’s eyes in the mirror, of Draco’s hand in his and Ron’s arms around him and Pansy painting his nails and Hermione’s hair on his face and Blaise’s warm smile. That may not be enough, and it has to be enough, so he reaches deeper. He thinks of the smell of Aunt Petunia’s garden, the way the Dursleys all knew he was the best cook, and his triumph over outrunning Dudley as a kid.

He has enough happiness. Not all of it is easy, or nice, or fair. But it’s his.

Maybe his life should have been easier, been fuller, but this is the life he has. He’s not going to let it fade, and he’s not going to the life fade from the people down there either. He’s going to squeeze every drop of happiness and laughter and hope from his hard, unfair life, and he’s going to use it to save everyone.

He points his wand to the ground, takes a deep breath, and shouts, “EXPECTO PATRONUM!”” -Shanastoryteller, Survival Is A Talent

Sometimes you scrape your happiness, your kindness from the caked on grease at the bottom of an old soup pot but you found it, you dredged it from the muck, its yours to hold close and tight in your fist until you can make your own. Take it, hold it, and use it to build something new and better when you can.

😂😂🥰🥰 at least I’m consistent y'all

Honestly, that passage in SIAT changed me. I had never thought about happiness like that before 💡

i love one (1) disaster wizard

It’s a good metaphor tho, because the situation is never going to get better if you don’t eventually pull the door. And afterwards, no matter what the damage was, you’ll have a working cabinet, whatever plates you could salvage, and a place to start putting new plates.

Reblogging for that comment ^

Hats off for negative jokes turned to wholesome posts

So this was me for a long time. Afraid to open the door, certain that all that I was would crash and break. That I could never be repaired.

But I opened the door.

And what fell out and crashed to the ground was not me. They weren’t my dishes.

They were other people’s dishes.

Put inside we without my permission, when I was too young to know that I could not hold them all.

I opened the door, and I’m still here.

It turns out, I’m not that fragile.

Oh damn it got better

THANK YOU TWO FOR MAKING OUR LIVES A LITTLE BETTER

no i am never going to get over this

no but-

KLAUS & HOPE THE ORIGINALS (2013-2018) S02E14―I Love You, Goodbye