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GRAMOPHONE FIC MY BELOVED. this is a very old old wip that i was tinkering with last week because i remembered how much i loved the idea.

the premise is that sanji gets a gramophone in a rare pique of self-indulgence, but with how out of practice he is with indulging himself (more used to the rationing and starvation of little joys) he only bought the one record for himself, which he's been playing on loop. zoro notices this and starts procuring records for him in different ways.

i really wanted to use this fic as a way to write out my music/dance headcanons for sanji. i really liked the idea the the baratie also did shows sometimes - it's hard to believe there weren't a few geezers in the legion of fighting cooks that were also musicians/performers. sanji would've grown up with at least one weird old person who was self-taught on an instrument and passed it onto him. i also LOVED the idea that the baratie hosted formal events sometimes and sanji would enviously watch on as their guests danced - then later practiced the steps he saw in an empty kitchen/in their walk-in pantry.

zoro, in this fic, did not grow up with music/dance as an interest. which i think would make it very endearing if it's something he wasn't personally interested in, and therefore spoke volumes when he went to increasingly great lengths to procure these records for sanji. if it fit, i would love for sanji to teach zoro how to dance ... i've also seen fanart (and one of your fics, steph!) where zoro has a secret talent for singing, which i also adore.

there is something extremely earnest about music and dance and song! if i ever have the muse and time, i'd love to come back to this WIP :') sneak peek under the cut if you're interested ❤

omg Ceoi'gun my guy Ceoi'gun <3 I don't have much on them because they were a guy for a DnD campaign that never came to be BUT basically their story was basically A Bunch of Chinese Romance Drama Cliches cuz I thought they were gonna get their actual character development during the campaign FDHJSKSDKS

He's a Chinese opera 旦 performer and he's been with basically the same opera troupe since he was left to it as a kid. It's not known to the general public but basically the entire opera troupe consists of yao who specialize in transformation magic and only present in human form, and that's part of why his parents chose to leave him with that group specifically. But turns out his magical abilities are kinda stunted so he's unable to fully transform into a human form and it takes a lot more energy for him to transition between human and kingfisher bird form, so he usually just stays in this in-between form. Their very visible yao-ness could've posed a risk to exposing the opera troupe as a whole, but the troupe members really do care about them so the troupe kept them around and framed the whole thing as "ohhh look at us, we're so charitable and nice to have taken in this yaojing orphan" and Ceoi'gun's career ended up doing very well because they played into the kingfisher yao aesthetic (<- heehoo you know I can never leave the concept of yao unpolitical so i wanted to do Something with the idea of making your identity consumable in a very artificial way but i dont think i developed it enough)

Anyways, years down the line when he's famous and whatever, this one duke of the city takes an interest in the troupe and becomes the troupe's patron. He and Ceoi'gun end up hitting it off and after a while, they start dating and even get engaged but OOPS something happened and the duke is murdered and Ceoi'gun ends up framed so he has to skip town </3 He's a wandering bard for now

Also here's the duke. I suggested a concept that he might not actually be dead and that there was some other plot at play bc the DM asked all of us for Stuff to Bite Us In The Ass, but other than that vague idea I don't have much for him gfdhsjkskd

HE HE HEY!!!

FINALLY a character who kind of sucks <3

i hear natalia and i start levitating

1. coffee mugs, teacups, wine glasses, water bottles, or soda cans?

I seldom care what I’m drinking out of. I know that there is a picture of me somewhere on this blog of me drinking milk out of a wine glass on new years eve.

12. name of your favorite playlist?

It changes all the time bc I constantly make new ones, but currently it’s this

20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?

I don’t write very often, but when I do I prefer to do it on paper, at least at first! Then if I decide to make something more out of it I of course do it on my laptop.

(This got long!)