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this is like my all time favorite thing about the robins ever (i have this video liked, fav'd, and saved from tiktok oml)

I LOVE STALKER TIM

Had this idea a month ago, it was supposed to be fully animated at some point but… 😬 didn’t work out lol

Had to pull out after effects for this one pls appreciate my death wish

PLSSS give me fic recs for clark/bruce RN that one specific flavor of them meeting as civvies with so much flirting not enough kissing and RGHHHHH

i literally just finished listening to this ep. i am utterly, undeniably, irrefutably devastated. :( rip tim i love ur hawaiian shirt u were funny

i don't forgive you. but thank you for this

This episode confirmed something for me about Mr. Bonzo that I've theorized about since Nigel Dickerson said, "He doesn't like it when people stare," and that's that Bonzo hates what he is. He went from a silly TV character made to make people laugh to a horrific symbol of fear best known for a mass murder and he's pissed about it.

friendly reminder

zoro conveniently wearing an all black iteration of his traditional outfit for the battle luffy would later activate gear 5, an all white iteration of his traditional outfit. zoro conveniently activating “king of hell” with the backdrop of the moon during the same battle luffy activated “sun god: nika.”

i really believe these were intentional decisions to make zoro and luffy, captain and first mate, inseparable. all these parallels were done with the foresight and purpose to make zoro and luffy two halves of a whole. light and dark, sun and moon, life and death, angel and demon, liberation and punishment, beginning and end, heaven and hell. intertwined on such a fundamental level that they complete each other, they can’t exist without one another, and wherever one is, the other will follow as if it’s as vital as ground beneath their feet or air in their lungs.

i'm trying to decide which greek god fits each strawhat, these are my thoughts!

luffy – apollo/poseidon/helios

zoro – hypnos/dionysus/ares/hades

nami – tyche/poseidon/zeus/aphrodite

usopp – hephaestus/hermes

sanji – aphrodite/demeter

chopper – asclepius/athena

robin – hecate/athena

franky – hephaestus

brook – hebe/thanatos/apollo/hecate

jinbe - poseidon/eirene

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One Piece - Portgas D. Ace

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ACEEE

Chewing and gnawing on the irony One Piece continually shows with the main characters where they're doing objectively kind and helpful things and that's what gets them in trouble with the law. It's the selective application of criminal justice. The bias and room for corruption built into the system itself. It's delicious. It's horribly relevant. I'm obsessed.

"I'm sure he's got nothing to do with me!" says Luffy and I was waiting for him to say it. For him to hear all of this Nika lore and declare that, nope, I don't care, I'm not Nika, I'm not a liberator. It's just such a Luffy thing to do. But I know many fans actually will be shocked with Luffy's answer here or will just dismiss it. I have seen many opinions before that Luffy was always a liberator by choice, so becoming Nika is just natural course of events for him and he will have no problem embracing his role in the bigger scheme of things. Some even complained they hate that Luffy is Nika because they don't want Luffy to be the "fated hero" but instead a "from nobody to the king of the world" trope. But nope! Luffy just noped all of this himself.

Luffy is not a liberator and he's not an altruistic hero, he doesn't go from island to island aiming to save people, and if you think he wanted to, then please remember Fishmen Island and how unhappy he was with the idea of being a hero:

And now if you think Luffy changed since then because Dressrosa happened, then please remember what he asked of Momonosuke in Wano:

Yep, that's right. Luffy still *doesn't have any interest* in becoming a hero. If you think he's alright with that and changed his mind, then you're just not paying attention to him, sorry to say that. Luffy has been pretty consistent about this too and now he declared it yet again in Elbaf. It's the third time already.

You just think it's not a big deal because he so easily changed his mind in Fishmen Island, but it happened only because he had an actual reason to do that. Jimbei promised Luffy all the meat he wants. He gave him a *personal reason* to act like a hero, which is why Luffy agreed. And he did the same in Dressrosa. He wouldn't liberate that country if he didn't get attached first to Law and Rebecca (yes, in this order), and his crew to tontattas. They always do it for someone particular, for their friends. It's the same in Wano too, Luffy's constant motivation is Tama, Momo and Kinemon. He wants them to be happy, most of all, and he even says as much when he defeats Kaido: "I want a world where all of my friends can eat as much as they like".

There, he doesn't do it altruistically because he hates oppresion and villains who thrive on pain of common people and he can't stand seeing it. Yes, he probably thinks it's unfair, but he also grew up in Goa Kingdom, the very definition of unfair regime. He saves oppressed people only when they are his friends or has some other personal interest involved. He defeats the Marine base in Shells Town for Koby (and Zoro, later). He defeats Don Krieg so he can repay his food debt to Baratie. He defeats Arlong for Nami. He fights Wapol for Chopper (who saved Nami) and who he already considers his friend because of that. He fights for the Giants (Little Garden) and Vivi (Alabasta), Conis (Skypiea), Robin (Water 7 and Enies Lobby), Brook (Thriller Bark), Hachi (Sabaody) etc. Though, he does make friends rather easily, so usually it's not that big of a deal. But he isn't going out of his way to places he reads about in the newspapers that need to be liberated, he instead cares more for his own dream. He doesn't enter a certain island with the idea in mind that goes like "if I see some injustice here, I'm gonna bring this shit down". It's the other way around. He makes friends and realizes they're unhappy.

He wants them to be happy again and to live without regrets, and that's why he brings the shit down, whatever it is that makes people he cares about feel so unhappy. Because he thinks this is at least something he can do for his friends. Luffy doesn't think he can do a lot of things, he can't do much at all, but he can do one thing: beat up a guy when needed.

He knows how regret feels like ever since he believed Sabo died, he's not gonna sit there and do nothing next time something like this happens. That's why it's so important for him, to make sure his friends are happy. And that's why he beats up people and liberates countries. It's not for justice, he simply wants his friends to be happy.

But wait a moment, Luffy also wants freedom. Yes, he does. He wants to be the King of the Pirates, because for him it means to be free. And that's how he actually speaks about Nika as well:

He wants the freedom for himself. Isn't it funny that he thinks he already achieved it though?

And before you're disgusted by how selfish Luffy actually is, hear me out: Luffy is simply not a martyr. He won't die or sacrfice himself for the world to liberate it. He will instead die for the world if he thinks that will make his friends happy. Preferably though, he would want to survive and eat that meat with them, and be happy together.

Still, if you want him to be a liberator of a whole world it is actually possible, you just need to make it personal for Luffy, like I suggested. For example, put a person or multpile people who want to save/destroy the world (whichever option you fancy) on Luffy's crew. Luffy always cares for dreams of his crewmates and will always support them (because fullfilling their dreams will make them happy), so he would become a liberator if that helps them. But he would do it for them, not for the world.

Luffy is not a hero because he has a golden heart and a strong sense of justice. He's a hero when his friends are in danger instead, because instead of a golden heart, he simply has a big heart and makes friends wherever he goes. A martyr-like hero who sacrfices himself for people without caring for his own wellbeing is noble, but it's also not a healthy mentality, believe it or not. For starters, if you never care enough for yourself and are ready to throw your life away for a concept, what will happen with people who love you and care for you? Is it fair towards them to throw your life away without caring who you're leaving behind and how they will feel about it? Do you even care then for their feelings if your pursuit of greater good is more important to you? You can save the world and make people you love sad and unhappy, and like they don't even care anymore to live, because you were the one who made them happy and now you're gone. Did you save the world for them or destroyed it for them instead, as the result?

Luffy has his own interest in saving his friends too: so he's not alone again. Humans aren't selfless beings, but it doesn't automatically make us bad people either. And sometimes, while pursuing selfish things, we do something that appear to be extremely selfless. But at the bottom of it: we also do it for themselves, even if it kills us.

Tokyo Babylon taught me that every act is selfish, even if it appears like we do it for someone else: we simply want to feel better about ourselves then. There's nothing wrong with that, as long as we don't lose the sight of other people's feelings on our way. We can always share, after all, and that sharing is the bridge between the lone islands that people are.

Luffy, if he dies, will also say, just like Seishiro: "I didn't do it for you. I did everything by my own choice". For myself. Despite the fact it is also true he does it to make his friends happy. Being selfish and being selfless is like two sides of the same coin and both choices can end up actually hurting people. In the first case, because you care too much about yourself and too little about feelings of others, and in second case because you care too little about yourself and still too little about feelings of people that love and care for you. Can you spot the thing in common here?

i'm rereading circe by madeline miller for my literary analysis essay in english using a feminist approach/lens

it's due in two weeks and we have midterms NEXT WEEK and multiple REHEARSALS TO PERFORMED INT WO WEEKS AS WELL WHAT IS THSI SCHEDULE SOMEONE GIVE ME TIPS???

YOOO MEET ME INSIDE WITH ACE AND WB

Ace: Charles Lee, Thomas Conway, these men take your name and they rake it through the mud

Whitebeard: My name's been through a lot, I can take it

Ace: Well, I don't have your name. I don't have your titles. I don't have your land. But, if you- If you gave me command of a battalion, a group of men to lead. I could fly above my station after the war

Whitebeard: Or you could die and we need you alive

Ace: I'm more than willing to die

Whitebeard: Your wife brother needs you alive, son, I need you alive

recently js listened to the whole epic the musical and then started warriors concept album. i'll find a way to related them to one piece somehow (ive gone back to my hamilton phase too so expect that as well)

Luffy may have fought his way out of a horrible prison and through a deadly war just to have Ace die anyway, but god damn it, Luffy's effort to save his brother was not a waste. Ace was treated like a monster by society from the day he was born, to the point that he hated every part of himself too and didn't see a reason for living, but his last words to Luffy were "Thank you for loving me."

Thank you for loving me.

Thank you for loving me.

Luffy's love was never, ever in vain. Portgas D. Ace died knowing that he was loved, his body held securely in the arms of someone who'd spent ten years trying to convince Ace that he was worthy of it.

Love is never wasted.

ACE WEEK

DAY 2: WANO (yukata)

He walked. He walked the barren lands and dried seas. He walked everywhere and nowhere. He walked with nothing but Priscilla's head clutched to his chest, her body descrated from the destruction he himself caused. All that he left in his wake was his footsteps — and soon, his sanity.

So he talked.

He talked and talked. He talked through lifeless banks and ashen cities. He talked of everything and nothing — the war, the world, the origins. He talked and no one listened. But his words would be engraved on the world he would soon leave, quite literally hanging in the air waiting to be heard.

It's a punishment, he thinks to himself as he buries his everything.

It's only as he is entering his prison when the smallest speck of life grows from the skull that used to be. And it's only a million or a billion or infinite years later, where life is lush on the lands again.

A boy is born screaming — the voice in his head is deafening.

Ŧħɇ Nɇŧwøɍꝁ ɨs̷ n̷øŧ ħa̷ᵽᵽɏ.

You can't convince me that Garp didn't force his grandson to learn the marine code and rules. And wouldn't it be funny if when they were pirates and revolutionaries all the marine codes were used to their advantage, Just imagine the face of a regular marine who suddenly sees a pirate who knows all their areas of operation and codes.

And Sengoku wouldn't know what to do with this, all he knew was that Garp had at least tried to make them marines. But still, all of that was ultimately used to create problems for him.

#sometimes i just need to be a college student getting high starting a cult doing a ritual with my weird greek speaking latin thinking friends that is just as insane as me

“it’s starting to smell like pumpkin spice!”

“it’s starting to smell like scary movies!”

no.

it’s starting to smell like, the snow in the mountains was melting and bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to realize the gravity of our situation.

They pissed him off in Udon Prison

"Where I come from, there's this belief — a saying — that telling narratives to wherever you are brings about a good journey. It goes like:

Stories to Scheherazade, shanties for Nautilus. Lullabies to Arden, poems for the Dawn.

I forgot the rest of it, but that's basically just the main point. I've been sailing for three years now. Singing different shanties every night on a boat in the middle of the ocean has you running out of things to sing over the years.

Sing one for me, would you?"

associating songs with characters is my whole personality

GOOD LORD

i NEED that frame of the vine in upper yard (in SKYPIEA) falling to the golden belfry recreated as a renaissance painting (if no one has done it yet)

romance dawn trio is so soldier, poet, king 😔

zoro = "there will come a soldier/who carries a mighty sword/he will tear your city down/oh-lei-oh-lai, oh lord"

nami = "there will come a poet/whose weapon is his words/he will slay you with his tongue/oh-lei-oh-lai, oh lord"

luffy = "there will come a ruler/whose brow is laid in thorn/smeared in oil like david's boy/oh-lei-oh-lai, oh lord"

in which david is roger and his boy, of course, is ace

they both carry something from roger, ace — his blood, and luffy — his legacy (of being pirate king)

someone give me an edit of this right now 😔

SOMEONE EDIT ALABASTA TO RED DESERT BY 5SOS OH MY GOD??

i NEED that frame of the vine in upper yard (in SKYPIEA) falling to the golden belfry recreated as a renaissance painting (if no one has done it yet)

i had a thing while washing the dishes. i applied the line "i've always entertained the thought of a higher reality" to one of my characters, except they were telling it to me (which was unexpected of my brain, really).

and isn't that a terrifying thought.

because??? would this character, one of the first i created and loved, condemn me for literally causing her demise? which made me think of something else: i do not know.

i have a vague idea, yes but really, not accurately. i don't know how she'd react to this??? this character developed on their own and i have not an inkling of thought of the gears inside that mind of hers.

i think i understand my mother quite a bit now.

so insane that percy canonically gets chased by something wants to kill him and he passes by others who look at him like "you need help?" and he just shouts "I'M FINE! I'M GOOD!" while running for his life like this is actual canon event not just some comedic headcanon i love him so much

ngl clarisse's scream from pjo ep2 HAUNTS me. like yeah she's a bully, yeah she doesn't treat percy right, if she were to attack him again with that murderous intent i would be content to see percy destroy that weapon a million times over to protect himself. but also it just gets me how that electric spear is the ONLY thing she likely has of her father, the ONLY token of recognition she has of her worth, the only symbol of pride. dior had exactly 10 minutes of screentime to communicate the absolute depth of clarisse developed over 5 fucking books and she literally changed lives. what a fucking icon

Watching Percy talk to his mother and the first thing he tells her is that he made real friends…Luke Castellan im in your walls.