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welcome to my blog!!!

i'm star (they/he, 22) !!! i'm new to the one piece fandom so be patient with me please ...

i will be sharing my thoughts here, i especially love analyzing characters and talking about my favorite ships!!! all my rambles will be tagged as #star yaps

please do not interact if you're a proshipper or if you ship lawlu

Please more thoughts about Penguin x Shachi 🤩😋

of course anon!!!

penguin x shachi!

god i just cannot be normal about them. they make me insane. paradoxically, the more i'm fixated on a ship the harder it seems to find the words to talk about them. seeing them or even thinking about them at all just makes my mind shut down lol. but i'll try my best to write something that isn't a nonsensical ramble about how they make my brain short circuit <3

something i love about them is how insanely close they seem to be. actually, that's the main reason i ship them. every moment one of them is on screen, the other is there too, right beside him. it's something so comforting but also so concerning, not in a bad way of course, but in a "what the fuck is wrong with them /affectionate" way. and the thing is, nothing's wrong with them, they're just like that! they've spent their whole life together, never a moment apart, so of course they're going to keep spending every waking moment attached to each other's hip. and the whole crew has just accepted it. no one ever questions it, it's just a given that they'll always be carrying out their missions together.

actually, we saw someone questioning it once, in the first chapter of law novel's second installment. i've been meaning to talk about this in a (long overdue) separate post, so i won't go into detail on it, but this is the gist of it. when something kept the two of them apart for the first time, it was an actual disaster. both of them almost cried in front of the rest of the crew because they were made to sleep in separate rooms, and they weren't used to it; penguin was the more mature one about it, but when shachi started to complain about the decision, penguin almost cried. law, bepo and hakugan laughed at shachi, because the whole thing was so stupid to them: i mean, a 17 year old crying about not being able to sleep in the same room as his buddy? but penguin didn't laugh. he made fun of shachi a bit, but then there he was, trying his hardest to keep his composure and not end up getting ridiculed like shachi did. yeah. i can't believe this moment is canon either.

what i'm trying to say is, they've both proved, in different ways, that their bond is very, very important to them. it's essential to their wellbeing, i'd say. they just work better together, and no one is allowed to come between them. that's exactly what i love about them.

god i miss law so much i might go insane if he doesn't appear in the manga soon

i received a lot of asks in the past few days! i'm very thankful obviously, i love interacting with other one piece fans. however, i feel the need to clarify something.

i might end up not answering every ask i get; there's a lot of them, and i'm often not inspired enough to write and post an actual answer. sometimes i'm just not interested in a theory enough to write something about it, and sometimes i get questions i just... don't feel like answering, for multiple reasons. just wanted to clarify that it's nothing personal if i end up not answering your question.

SHACHI SAYS TRANS RIGHTS!!!!!!! 🏳️‍⚧️

@transfem-sanuso hi

Your shuggy meta broke my heart, stitched it up together and broke it again. It’s so beautiful, I hope it is actually that deep in canon, but there’s no way it isn’t. This could not be an accident.

omg thank you so So much for this, i didn't think i would be able to make anyone feel like this with my writing but this is such a pleasant surprise!!! thank you anon <3

and yes, i always question myself when writing this type of posts; i'm always like "is this actually meant to be that deep?", sometimes i even get stuck while writing analyses because i'm afraid of looking like a moron that twists the most frivolous aspects of canon in a desperate attempt to make everything about their ship. but then i regain consciousness and realize subtext is a thing that actually Exists, and authors deliberately use techniques like that all the time to highlight aspects of a character's nature without having to make explicit statements.

so while i surely am afraid to end up looking like a fool if oda chooses not to do anything meaningful with shanks and buggy and just leaves their relationship stranded, i will never stop bringing up all the little things that keep them connected, in spite of everything, after all these years. there's no way those are written into the narrative without a sliver of purpose.

What are your top 10 characters and why is Law so high?

law is so high because he's amazingly written and a really captivating character! i've been a law fan since i first got into one piece, i've always been interested in him and the more i learned about him the more i loved him. i obviously don't think he's underrated, but i do think he's a greatly misunderstood character. more people should give him a chance instead of stopping at "he's not the strongest so whatever". i love how he evolved with the story and he holds his place in the narrative really well. 10/10 character. then of course there are other, more personal reasons that justify his place in my list of all-time favorite characters, like his closed-off nature and naturally distrusting demeanor, which are traits i always tend to seek out in fictional characters <3

in no particular order, my absolute favorite one piece characters are law, buggy, zoro and ace. then there are, of course, penguin and shachi. other favorites are baby 5, perona, sabo and uta! so i would say this is my top 10. there are a lot more characters i routinely obsess over, but if i started naming them this would just end up being a boring and almost endless list, so i'll refrain from doing so. you can always ask again if you're really interested, maybe i'll post a tier list, who knows.

I think your @ is brilliant. Did you came up with this on your own?

thank you so much!!! i don't think it's this brilliant, when i chose it i thought it was mediocre at best, but i liked how it sounded so i stuck with it. i love the word flashy (thank you buggy) so i knew i had to use it, but i also wanted something that reminded me of shuggy, so that's how flashyfools was born :]

i'm still gonna call shamrock "stabs" instead

LMAOOOO that's honestly a cooler name, surely gets stuck in your head more easily than shamrock

i don't know why, but in my mind i've always subconsciously associated shanks with four-leaf clovers. i think it's because of shuggy and a particular song that makes me think of them which mentions four-leaf clovers ???

so when i realized what shamrock's name referred to, i was pleasantly surprised. it might make more sense narratively once we know more about their past, but for now, i'm choosing to believe shamrock is the three-leaf clover because he wasn't actually meant to be the "chosen one", but shanks was.