The Captain and his Swan.Charcoal and white pastel. I thought it right to put both drawings in the same post, after all they were designed to match. : )
Kissing is too much for Tumblr too, apparently, they are going to flag ALL CS GIFs at this point then ¬¬
How do you guys find what stuff Tumblr has blocked from your blog? I seem to be missing a LOT of my GIFs (which were not even close to being porn btw) but I don’t know where to confirm this :((
Tumblr really out here, just willingly murdering itself.
@staff, complete censorship is not the answer. It is NOT the answer.
This is not going to help your platform, it is only going to hurt it. You are making a mistake. You are dealing a significant blow to the already shaky ground you’re standing on. You are kicking your user base in the teeth.
Tumblr was never made specifically for minors: why do this now? There are so many more steps you could take to get a handle on the porn bots and child pornography – why is THIS the “solution” (because it is NOT one) you came up with? Becoming a site-wide purity police should NOT be the fix any professional came to. I do not buy that you don’t foresee the ramifications of this.
I can deal with the rampant technical errors: I can deal with the app crashing 50 times a day, with posts not actually posting for minutes on end instead of instantly, like they’re supposed to, with your in-blog search feature working only at certain hours, when the winds and the tides are just right, and the pagen gods deem it time.Â
What I cannot deal with? Censorship. Especially censorship due to what I can only guess is pure laziness, lack of interest/effort, or incompetence on the part of those tasked with addressing the problem of inappropriate content on this site. You can’t bother to put filters in place for the specific troubling content, so you punish your entire user base instead?
Adult content is not automatically inappropriate content. Banning all adult content is NOT an answer.Â
I come to Tumblr for fandom. Fandom will DIE on Tumblr under these new rules. So many factions of online community will wither on your site under these changs. You are doing nothing but ensuring an exodus of loyal, long-time users from your platform. That’s a mistake you should really reconsider.
Not to mention that there seems to be a MAJOR problem with whatever algorithm you’ve got going, as content that 100% does not fall under your ridiculous new guidelines is already being flagged.
I understand being yanked from the app store must have been jarring and worrisome, but THIS is not the answer to your problem. This is creating a much bigger one. Â
Meet Killian Jones. Attractive. Wealthy. Arrogant. He has it all… until he becomes aggressively unattractive outside as he is on the inside. Cursed to find someone that can see him better than he can see himself, he hides away, because who could ever learn to love a beast?
I can’t believe this is it. Where has the time gone?! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for the love and support you’ve shown this story, you never cease to blow me away!
This story wouldn’t be what it is without the help from @initiala and @idristardis . You ladies helped me so much, thank you.
To @cocohook38, your art brought this story to life, thank you!Â
To every single person involved in @captainswanbigbang, it’s been an amazing journey and I’m honored to have made it with you!! ❤
Chapter Ten – All You Need Is Love
April – 2018
Killian checks around his room one final time to make sure
he hasn’t forgotten anything before he zips up his bag and walks over to his
closet. Opening the door, he moves to grab one of his jackets when the sight of
black leather catches his eye. With a deep breath, he runs his hand down the
leather until he feels the hole and reaches into the pocket to pull out the
pocket watch.
This chapter was SO AMAZING, and thank you so much for not only giving us the hint to their wedding BUT A BABY AND EMMA SAYING SHE WANTED THE BABY TO BE IN IT SKJHDFJLDFSASa, also Jewel Hunter’s wedding was too cute, and gah CAPTAIN CHARMING YAS “give us a kiss” ugh it was so perfect.
Thank you so much for this story!! I loved it and I am so going to reread it again and again.
Summary: Emma thought she was living her happily ever after until she wasn’t. Now Neal is living his with someone else and Emma has a plus one option to the wedding from hell but no one to fill the space. Enter Killian Jones, devastatingly handsome male escort and the answer to Emma’s problems. She hires him for the wedding because he’s the safe choice. The temporary choice. Falling in love wasn’t on the invoice.
A/N: So this is a day late, I’m sure you’ve noticed, and I am so super sorry for that. These last couple of days have gotten away from me and my attention was on a billion other things. Hopefully this chapter makes up for it cuz it’s (fake) date night part one! Woo! Super huge thanks to @superchocovian for being an awesome beta for this story (her help was seriously invaluable) and also to @artistic-writer who makes the AMAZING art specific to each chapter for this fic. And she took time out to be my third set of eyes on this fic as well! Basically, she’s the best. And thanks to y’all for reading this! Your comments really make my day and I’m so glad you’re liking it so far. Thanks so much!
Chapter 4
Emma had taken the rest of the week off from the office, working from her laptop at home when necessary and forwarding her calls to her cell, but things were thankfully quiet. Perks of being your own boss. She’d barely been able to get her kid at the table with a bowl of cereal and a cup of reheated coffee into herself, looking forward to a relaxing morning before she dropped Henry off with Elsa that afternoon so she could go meet Killian, when there was a knock at her door. Groggily, she dragged herself to the door to answer it, regretting it immediately once the door swung open.
“Good morning, sunshine!” Ruby singsonged, grinning from ear to ear. Emma shook her head, not sure if she was actually seeing Ruby, or if she was hallucinating.
“Ruby, it is nine in the morning. How are you even functional?” Emma asked and Ruby scoffed, pushing her way into the apartment.
“I was supposed to work the breakfast shift this morning. Granny scheduled Ashley too and we were a little slow so she told me to go. So I thought I’d do brunch with my favorite Swans,” she said, making her way into the kitchen and ruffling Henry’s hair.
“We’re your only Swans, Aunt Ruby,” Henry said rather than a greeting, mouth full of Cocoa Puffs. Emma gave her son a warning look for talking with his mouth full and he ducked his head with a small smile.
“That doesn’t make you any less my favorite,” she replied, fixing herself a cup of coffee.
“I can’t, I’m supposed to meet-” she stopped short and glanced at her son, realizing she almost mentioned Killian in front of the curious boy before changing course and continuing, “uh, someone for coffee at two.” Ruby’s answering smile could have powered Times Square.
“Oh my god! What are you going to wear?” she squealed.
“I don’t know, just whatever, I guess. It’s just coffee,” Emma said dismissively, definitely not wanting to discuss her potential fake date clothes with the Queen of Fashion Ruby Lucas. She really didn’t want to discuss this at all in front of Henry.
“Just coffee?” She wrinkled her nose in disapproval. “Is it too late to turn this into a dinner date? Ooh, we could go shopping!”
“You’re going on a date, Mom?” Henry asked as he placed his bowl into the kitchen sink. If Emma’s eyes got any wider, they would have fallen out of her head. She looked, terrified, between Ruby, whose face was coloring rapidly, and her son, whose eyes were looking back up at his mother expectantly.
“I mean, it’s not really a date, per se,” she said evasively. Her son quirked an eyebrow, a behavior she knew he got from her, that said he did not believe her in the slightest.
“Just tell him, Emma,” Ruby said softly. Emma glared at her friend who looked apologetic but encouraging all at once.
“Tell me what…?” Henry asked slowly. Emma let out a large sigh, gripping her son lightly by the shoulders.
“Yes, I’m going on a date, Henry,” she said softly. Henry’s face fell slightly.
“Oh.”
This wasn’t the reaction she imagined. She thought there would be a reaction, at least.
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