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i dont have a better method for sharing these wall-of-text musings, sorry, also i am in migraine recovery, but here's the wolfwood wednesday director's cut if anyone is interested 🥹
Something I love so much about this scene (wolfwood after seeing the communications array) is how the visual pov shifts from a general 3rd person pov to being with a specific character, and then how it shifts again between wolfwood and vash while the narrative pov stays with wolfwood. We go from a general 3rd pov being with wolfwood viewing the array to, suddenly, vash’s close pov of wolfwood while the narrative voice remains with wolfwood. It’s vash who is walking up to the girls and seeing them up close, it’s vash who is looking back and seeing wolfwood further away. We get a quick switch back to wolfwood pov seeing vash and the girls and then the camera stays with vash, watching wolfwood approach head-on as wolfwood thinks about what all of this means. It’s vash seeing wolfwood in profile, implying wolfwood is now with the group, standing next to vash, vash listening to wolfwood say “grant us hope to reach tomorrow”—all while the narrative voice is wolfwood’s. I really love how the camera moves, the way it passes between them, while the narrative voice stays tied to wolfwood. it’s a pivotal moment for wolfwood’s character and I like how rather than creating a division, the effect is a subtle, gentle meshing of wolfwood further into camaraderie and companionship with vash—and notably not through a fight (though I love when that happens) but through wolfwood wanting to hope for a tomorrow, in his civilian clothes, well-fed, healed up, on the deck of vash’s Home. I’m also always struck by the tender privacy vash’s visual pov often affords wolfwood. wolfwood is really going through it right now and vash is probably the only person to really understand the impact of this on him. the cut-off profile of wolfwood praying OUT LOUD for hope to reach tomorrow feels both very intimate and like vash is sheltering him from the viewer. Which, of course, only makes it feel more intimate to me. This moment for me is the spark that leads to off-screen conversations about “wanting to spend tomorrows together” which, also of course, is terribly, lovingly bound to the grief-stricken tender privacy vash affords wolfwood from the viewer when burying him. This ended on a sad note, apologies, so overall I’ll actually end on that I love the way vash and wolfwood toss the camera between them, I love seeing them from each other’s pov and what they get to witness for the other, and I love the sponginess of the visual+narrative pov that lets me wiggle my way in. It’s clear the impact this is having on wolfwood, and I love that the conduit for that clarity is through vash’s eyes. full page of several panels following wolfwood after seeing the communications array. top panel is meryl and milly, windblown, with the next panel of wolfwood equally windblown. middle panel is of vash, meryl, and milly with wolfwood's voiceover "this piss-poor planet...our population is waning. basically, we've reach the limit of life it can support. it can grow no more." bottom right panel is wolfwood looking both tired and determined. he's thinking "i'm trying to protect the children, but...if the local plant were to 'die' tomorrow, they'd all be dried up by the sun." continuing in the next panel "i don't ask for rescue...just..." and the final left panel, of wolfwood in a cut-off profile saying out loud, "grant us hope to reach tomorrow..."
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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i know im dramatically deep in the despair pit rn and i feel rly embarrassed about it but i have ppl's vw spit in mouth to catch up on and the rest of alex's woowoos and also here is this kitten i saw recently with extra front toes that make it look like its wearing mittens 😭😭😭😭
top down view of a white and grey striped kitten who has extra front toes that make it look like its front paws have mittens
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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im sorry this is all out of order, i had such a good time, ty for your hard work putting them in this situation 🙏
HES MAKING VASH WORK SO HARD. VASH IS MENACING HIM SO BAD, AS HE SHOULD. oh god this is so delightful, so lovely and fun, i love your pacing and paneling SO MUCH. i love vash giving wolfwood a chance to seduce him, wolfwood nervous sweating and fumbling, and vash swooping in and plowing forward like no we WILL breathe into each others mouths tonight 😤😤😤 i also love "thats not supposed to happen" AND WW *BELIEVING* THAT ITS VASH'S FIRST TIME SMOKING. BABY HES 150. wolfwoods wibbly nervous mouth drives me crazy! the way vash grips his arm and tugs him and leans!! both of them so flushed!!! and ww standing there sweaty with mouth agape before coughing is just 🤌🤌🤌💘💘💘💘 "you dont gotta wait for me spikey" wolfwood he is hunting you 💞💞💞 (also "i dont mind" and then seeing vash pspsps wolfwood, so cute and romantic 😩🤧♥️)
November 22, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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ME RN
screencap of spock on the verge of vulcan heat in amok time saying "my heart is flame"
November 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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i dont know why they thought putting all the leaves in the dumpster this year would stop me
gloved renhand flipping off the trash dumpster full of beautiful important fall leaves. fear not, ren is about to rescue them all
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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i felt stupid for implying that i approach things un-contextually willynilly, and i felt like you deserved a better response than 'surface level associative yaoi'. i also wrote a micro essay on this poem's use in one of my fics and how it was almost a title but that seemed sideways and Too Much lol
vash kissing with eyes open--agree agree agree of course that its intensely consumingly blaringly bc of who wolfwood is and what wolfwood means to him BECAUSE of knowing him, leading to this bloom of desire for him on every level of companionship (vashwood demi kings ♥️)--he's hungry for wolfwood Specifically, rather than "craving the dream of" someone generally. (and tho i agree the poem is centered on idea/fantasy, to me i find it to be more from self as conduit rather than disconnected desire.) the way the poem begins with conversations being whats loved, slides into a desperate intense physicality, then spins into an aching (fuzzier, vaguer, harder to grasp than the explicit specifics of sweat and come and moans) romantic domestic future by the end verses has phrasings and movement around longing that i love to play with for vw across the board. when i think about vash kissing with his eyes open i think about it as a bottomless hunger hellbent on grasping those fuzzier longings that are still tethered to physical intimacy--he wants to behold wolfwood moment to moment to moment ("hour and hour in my life") and i like when this spawns a feedback loop: beholding ww makes him want him, wanting him makes him desire beholding him. his day-long gaze and barriers down voluntarily (if sneakily haha) in the name of taking wolfwood in, his eyes-open kissing is covetous while simultaneously in the midst of having (a dichotomy that to me mirrors the aforementioned structure of the fantasy in the poem). so i guess thats why i thought of it for eyes open kissing 😂
November 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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pikachu carrying sauce bottle pikachu happily licking sauce from bottle
November 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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PUZZLE CLUB
pic of completed puzzle of dracula's castle, featuring scenes from the book spread throughout. there are many MANY candles and candelabras
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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blergh myu im so sorry you got roped into whatever is going on over there and they harshed your whimsy 😭 if it gives you a boost at all ive been messing around with vash truth potion a little bit ♥️ (this is very very in progress and draft so pls forgive its clumsy state lkamsdf)
"vash!" wolfwood calls as he picks his way through the collapsed building. vash turns to look at him with big, scared eyes. "What's wrong?" wolfwood asks, dusting off the shoulders of vash's coat. Most of the time he knows the difference between vash's real-scared and play-scared and if he had to bet on it, he'd say this was real. vash's brow furrows and he wraps an arm across his chest, gripping his shoulder like it hurts. "you get hit or something?" wolfwood frowns, mirroring vash's expression. He licks his thumb to scrub hard at the dirt on vash's cheek. no scrape but it might bruise. vash lets him, dazed, which starts to make wolfwood feel a little panicky. "hey, let me—" wolfwood tries to tug vash's arm away to check but vash shakes his head, arm clamped tighter, eyes darting frantically between wolfwood's face and hand, off to the side, back to wolfwood. "I—I—" Vash stutters, and wolfwood can't tell if he's pushing something down or trying to drag it up.
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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wolfwood undercover
elvira wearing a fake glasses-eyebrows-nose/mustach disguise on her face and bosom
November 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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upper part of saturn devouring his son
October 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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my wife and his long term old man yaoi parasite situationship <3
screencap of left hand hovering above the sand. something about how high D's cuff is is really cute, the way it covers the back of his hand
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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WIFE NIGHT WIFE NIGHT WIFE NIGHT WITH MY AND CHUCHI'S DHAMPIR WIFE
screencap of D in profile look stunning, perfect, gonjus, vampire wife of all time
October 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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baby rectangle who tried to lick inside my coat pocket
pic of a gorgeous baby cow who is reddish-brown with a white patch on their forehead and a white and red-brown speckled body. they are looking beseechingly through a wooden fence with their big cow eyes and sweet damp nose, hoping to further investigate the photographer's coat pockets
October 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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final shishito harvest, and maybe final mini bell pepps? theres still green ones on the plant, we'll see, idk their cold tolerance, im going to leave them on a little longer but if they start to look cold damaged i'll harvest. and then the final (small and chilly) cukes (!) and eggplants 💜
bamboo tray of green and red shishito, plus a couple orange mini bell peppers handful of three cucumbers and four small purple eggplants
October 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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it is actually finally too cold for melon plant so i harvested from her withered vines. 2 out of the 8 were wrinkled & softened by the cold nights so i left those to deal w later when i more formally tidy up and put the trough to bed for the winter. im still giving away tomatoes like crazy tho lol
bag of six melons of various sizes
October 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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kuru toga: i'll sharpen you in an interesting and peculiar way

me, really scared: okay
pic of kuru toga mechanical pencil with text "rotating engine sharpens lead" and "exclusive diamond-infused lead"
October 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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sticks my head underwater and screams
infamous trigun panels of wolfwood saying "i didn't think you could smile that wide." vash: "huh!? what!?" wolfwood: "don't worry. your smile's a pretty nice compliment by itself"
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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the crab leg bouquet, which im pretty sure counts as a proposal @felixvonfleek.bsky.social "watching vash eat seafood like a freak (in the predator sense but also the fact that there’s no graceful way to eat crab legs) makes him feel INSANE" is one of the best vashwood takes out there
felix: Omg ww complimenting his smile like 👉👈HEHEHEHNSSJWAEAEGJJJ ww doesn’t buy him flowers, he just fills the shopping basket with unsalted clams and sardines and is soooooooooo excited ren: UGH THAT IS SO CUTE!!!! this seafood bouquet is honestly kind of scary but i think they would both be into it [image of a bouquet made of crab legs and crawdads and shrimp] felix: YES YES!! Also WW has aggressively good table manners so watching vash eat seafood like a freak (in the predator sense but also the fact that there’s no graceful way to eat crab legs) makes him feel INSANE
October 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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thinking a lot about sea serpent vash personals ad today, aka my questing beast/pellinore vashwood au
news article titled "sea serpent chases vessel in kindly style | this monster is real amiable sort of freak, just keeping pace. | has very wide smile."
October 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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an eighth melon appeared out of nowhere 😭 its the second biggest 😭
pic of baby melon with a spontaneous large eighth melon
October 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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been thinking about him since you posted....hes perfect
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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remember when vash proposed in the giant wam that was crazy
ren-made meme of a screencap of stamp wolfwood when theyre in the big wam right after vash said "his eyes are beautiful" ("hes a good guy i can see it in his eyes")--he's the math lady meme with hearts and rainbows and eggplants and various other suggestive emoji
October 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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minds connecting meme labeled "tenshi" and "ren" with "nicholas d 'where was he keeping them 🤨' wolfwood" in between
October 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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my hardworking melon fertility talismans. battered by the elements for two years now they stay strong
pic of small signs of vash and wolfwoods boobies amongst the melon plant. vash's says "you can do it"
October 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM