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dislike and discomfort are normal and healthy parts of the human experience actually

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Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, uaing the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now

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You fucking wish the author was dead. The author is on twitter

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Gee, maybe filling social media with far-right neo-Nazi content with Elon and the GOP's open white supremacy, and filling it with far-left neo-Nazi content with celebrations over Jews being slaughtered, promoting blood libel and conspiracy theories, and presenting antisemitism as social justice, have rotted young people's brains.

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anon hate

Witty response

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“First season of LEVERAGE - so he's 21 years old - he shows me his watch designs. I'm expecting, y' know, celebrity strap branding or faces. No, it's engineering schematics of GEARS and shit. Pages of them. Even then, there were none so cool.” - John Rogers

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the fact that every time shanks runs into an old crewmate he immediately tells them all about luffy is sooooo cute 😭

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the start of a comic i was making in 2023 about a mosquitos point of view

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I originally made this manga for Kuma’s birthday in 2024! I really wanted to post it in time for his birthday this year, but I couldn’t finish the translation in time… 🥹

Kuma’s life has been nothing but a series of painful and difficult choices. But even in such a harsh life, I truly believe that meeting Ginny and Bonney was something warm and precious for him—something that brought him happiness. Maybe even enough to blow away all the suffering he endured! ✨️At least, that’s what I sincerely hope for with all my heart😭

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nacho varga really is all *sultrily leaning against the nearest wall, arms crossed on full display* uh

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Here are the Uta illustrations I’ve drawn so far!🎤✨ There might be more if I dig around, but… anyway, I just love her character design—it’s so cute! 🥰

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Crème brûlée cupcakes

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i enjoyed the OPLA but one of the things that i really really disliked it about it was how much agency it took away from the NPCs of the world (so to speak) which the manga always took time for. boodle and shushu, patty and carne, genzo and nojiko, the usopp pirates, they weren't passively waiting for a hero, they were active participants in the fights for their freedom and i get that eight episodes isn't enough to give them the depth that they originally had, but it's still a big loss for the series imo, that one of its greatest strengths wasn't translated to the live action.

cause that depth was about building a living, breathing world where quite literally every character is the protagonist in their own story, and it gave them the interiority that the OPLA lacked. nojiko, genzo and the villagers all knowing about nami's sacrifice was so integral to the story and made them so much more sympathetic and emphasized how many moving parts exist in the world, but taking that knowledge from them, their compassion and consideration for nami, made them static setpieces instead of characters who have an effect on the world

the other thing i disliked was how quickly zoro declared his Undying Loyalty for luffy and how luffy shouted it back, because that's a dynamic that took HUNDREDS of chapters to build. well into the 300s, zoro's stance is still 'if luffy does not behave in a manner that's befitting of my captain, i will leave this crew'. it's not because of a lack of loyalty to the crew, but a strict loyalty to his own values, and he's right! they aren't kids playing pirates anymore! they can't be if they want to survive

obviously luffy is ride or die for his crew. but i think the opla decided to handhold the viewers through that when one of luffy's defining features is how much goes unspoken with him, yet demonstrated through action. it captured a lot of the spirit but couldn't reflect the depth and complexity of the world... although i do think it did what it was made to do, which was get people interested in the manga.

still maintain that OPLA made shuggy and mishanks explode and that caused irreparable harm to the ecosystem though

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Experience: Learning the right way to connect the dots.