LILY IGLEHART For Ola !

🪐 — LILY IGLEHART​  for  ola !

 ❝  ──────  feel like i hold back…and i don’t know why i can’t seem to say just what i mean.  ❞

   ❝  I NEVER WANT  you to feel like you need to hold back.  not with me, at least. ❞  ola has never met anyone like lily before.  the way she sees the world is entirely unique.  &  for someone like ola, who has spent years trying to come to terms with reality, there is something magnetic about the idea of escaping into her girlfriend’s fantastical world, even for a little while.  but it’s not a place she can go without being invited,  &  she can tell that @mysfated​ isn’t used to inviting people in to such a private place.  so ola does her best to be patient, head cocked to the side as she considers. ❝ maybe it would help to draw some of it out, like you do your glenoxi stories ?  it might be easier for you than trying to say it all out loud. ❞

🪐 — @shadowcovcn​​​  ( baron )  sent   a meme   for  carlisle   :

37  —  cassandra  by  florence + the machine   ▶︎

    ❝ NOW WHEN I GO OUT  there’s no one about  —  they’ve put crosses on their doors just to try to keep me out. ❞

🪐 — EDWARD TEACH  for  stede !

if only he weren’t so ridiculously spellbound,   then yes,  he would manage to free himself rather quick.  a well placed kick,  or maybe just a knee,  and stede would probably go down  —  but this is hardly him sparring,  is it?  the real thing has never been this meek.  edward teach doesn’t just give up without fighting until the end,  and yet he is rendered harmless without even a blade against his throat.  stede is not helping matters,  on his part,  keeping up that talk.  he clearly doesn’t know what mess he is making of edward’s brain.  and it’s bloody unfair of him.  absolutely maddening.   ‘  yeah,  that’s right  —  you won,  stede.  why don’t you just kiss me and be done with it?  ’   damn his tongue,  too loose and disconnected from his brain to function as it should.  he will claim to have taken a nonexistent blow to the head,  if this goes south.  because surely that’s going to work. 

   IT MUST BE A TRAP.  that’s the first thing he thinks  — that this will be just like back in his boarding school days, when nigel had tricked him into french-kissing one of the stable horses in front of everyone.   &  the long-ago quieted laughter of his classmates echoes in his ears as stede recoils back a step, forcing some distance between them as his face flushes hot with embarrassment.  ❝ what ?  but i wasn’t  —  i didn’t mean — ❞  his blade drops at his side, the duel entirely forgotten,  &  stede’s eyes follows it to the finely lacquered deck, suddenly unable to look ed in the face.  in the past, denial has always suited him best, but his sudden nerves make the words overflow disconnectedly from his lips.  ❝ i’ve never  —  well, it’s not that i’ve  never.  but mary  &  i,  we didn’t often  —  she didn’t seem to  —  ❞  &  even stede can tell he’s babbling now, cutting himself off mid-sentence with a dry laugh.  ❝ that is to say, i didn’t expect that  kissing  would be part of our captaining lessons.  i thought that pirates were usually so busy raiding  &  dueling each other that they had little time left over for such... activities ? ❞

🪐 — @trickstercaptain  sent   a meme   for  sarah   :

50  —  i'm fine  by  daði freyr   ▶︎

     ❝ I KEEP MAKING PLANS, but i guess keeping them really isn't my style. ❞

Stede Bonnet + smiling

🪐 — ADAM GROFF​  for  ola !

      “ Just have to keep on trying, don’t I? And… get better every day, I s’pose. ”

    THE LOOK OLA GIVES HIM  is bright with approval, an encouraging smile  &  a nod given as she places her hand on her friend’s forearm.  ❝ that’s right.  that’s all any of us can do, really. ❞  she hasn’t known adam that long, but already she’s seen a drastic change in him.  the truth is, he had already become almost unrecognizable from the sullen boy she’d met back when he first started working with her at brown’s.  ❝ everyone makes mistakes  —  what matters is that you try to learn from them.  &  i’m really proud of you, adam.  you’ve learned a lot lately.  you should be proud of yourself, too. ❞