Here He Be! Should I Go Into Lore? Probably. Am I Gonna? Maybe. Enjoy The Doodles Though.

Art and spoilers for Season 5 of Lego Monkie kid below!

Y’all ever start an art project and then realize that it’s WAYYYYYY out of your ability? That’s me with this piece lmao 😭 all I have to offer is this unfinished art, idk what else to do with it

Anyways, imagine if Mk’s sacrifice had worked like he intended to (as in the cycle isn’t reset).

That. Would just. I don’t even know what to say.

His family and friends living in the aftermath of it… in a universe that you know only exists because of the sacrifice of someone close to you would be so awful. And it’s not even like he sacrificed himself and just died, like someone jumping in front of a bomb. Mk was created as a PIECE of the pillar. A item. Literally the foundation of reality would have rested on his flesh and bones and everyone being forced to live with that???? Awful, horrifying, tragic, 10/10 writing (imo). And Wukong had a few agonizing minutes where he thought that was the reality, no wonder he was so distraught

Anyways what are you alls thoughts on it?

wow.... i cant believe they were abandoned and Luffy collected them like treasures.....

the rest of the strawhats/friends that were gonna be in this post but i decided against it

Not all of them were abandoned by individual people like family members and their community, but the government. Specifically Franky and Law.

Vivi was gonna be in there too but i couldnt,,,, really,,,,, fit her in there.

Happy birthday to one of my favorite artists of all time, @where-does-the-heart-lie ,thx for existing, it’s much appreciated. 🫶

Here are some past pieces I did for ya, here’s too more in the future 🫶✨

Genuinely, I admire your breakdowns and thought process for creating your pieces. You put so much thought and care into these guys and it doesn’t go unnoticed. You’re a very big inspiration to me and many others,, I appreciate your existence 🎁🎈🎉

a guy! In the works! I’ve not stopped thinking about this hotel since it came out,, so figured I’d post it here 🖖

A goofy hydrozoan.

Megapolis's hero

So what’s with the soup in OFMD?

I’ve seen a few takes on what the soup symbolizes in OFMD S2 because it does come up a weird amount of times. I’ve seen takes that the soup is a lie and shouldn’t be trusted. Takes that the soup represents love and all that is good. I’ve seen takes that the soup isn’t anything at all, it’s just soup.

I don’t agree with those takes. But I do believe that the soup is more than just soup.

In my opinion, the soup represents community.

Community doesn’t necessarily mean love. A community can be arrayed against you as much as it can be with you. You can choose not to have a community, to break bread, with someone. But a community is something most of us desire and as Izzy notes in the trailer, being a pirate is about being part of something.

- Zheng Yi Sao makes damn good soup. Symbolically, I believe this is a reflection of how she runs a tight ship. How effective she is as pirate queen and in general as a leader of her community. People in her community are well treated. Her leadership style, like the broth of the soup, is balanced. Had Olu remained with her, he would have been well treated. She wasn’t being duplicitous with Stede and his crew. Her soup is great, her community is great, and they would have been well fed there had they stayed.

The soup isn’t a value judgement on anything beyond the quality of the community offered. Should they stay? What happens now that they didn’t? Not relevant to the soup metaphor. We’ll find out what happens when you reject Zheng’s amazing soup. At the very least, you just don’t get any more of it.

- Hornigold offers soup to Ed. Ed rejects it. He finds Hornigold’s community poisonous. He doesn’t trust it and he doesn’t want to join it.

It’s simple as that. The soup wasn’t necessarily literally poisoned. The more relevant metaphor is breaking bread with someone as a sign of trust. Ed wants nothing to do with Hornigold’s community.

Most likely where this is leading is a continued used of soup as a metaphor for Ed and Stede and the crew figuring out what kind of community they want to build together. Is the broth balanced? Is it poisoned? Is it too salty, too sweet? Who do we share it with? Who do we refuse to accept soup from? It’s all about community.

Anyone else from the North Blue remember watching this weird old Sora cartoon on their transponder screens growing up???

I can't find much about it other than this shot, it's all stuff about the comic book instead. I think it might be lost media at this point. 🤷