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So the Monkey D Familu going being on Elbaf is really cute and a super fun idea but I got reminded of this other thing they mentioned happens in Elbaf. The traditional 12 days of fasting (with the exception of drinking water) until the very literal GIANT feast for the Winter Solstice Festival.

Urpi having lived there for decades is very used to and completely fine with such a tradition, she completes it with ease every year. And she’s just so happy to have her family with her to celebrate but..she’d be lying if she said she wasn’t worried about how they’d fare doing such an undertaking.

And yeah, it goes about as well as you’d imagine.

Garp and Luffy only manage it because they’re competing with each other.

Due to the impact the damage to his throat has made on Dragon’s day to day life, he can’t observe the tradition. He already struggles to stay at a healthy weight, and twelve days of nothing but water would be more than enough to lay him up in a sickbed. The Giants understand this, and praise his understanding of and respect for his body and its limitations. These things make for a wise warrior who will live long and well.

Urpi breaks her fast with Dragon so that he doesn’t feel the need to take his injuries as a personal failing. She’s elderly and he’s wounded, these are perfectly sound reasons to not observe the custom. The Giants celebrate this act of solidarity as well.

The Giants also cheer Garp and Luffy on in their competition. Brogy and Dorry have been doing the same thing for years, so it’s far from unfamiliar.

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Please don’t skip

I am Karim from Gaza, I am 22 years old, a student in the College of Nursing.

I have two brothers, Aboud, who is 10 years old, and Hala, who is almost 12 years old.

My parents are elderly. We are living a tragedy in the October War.

My little brother suffers from malnutrition. My mother lost my brother a few years ago due to the 2014 war.

His name is Aboud as well. She gave birth again and named him Aboud after my brother who died due to the wars on Gaza.

We do not want to lose my second brother. You are our hope. We need your help in order to escape death and live in safety and peace.

We do not want more than to feel safe. I am working to raise money for my family.

I need money to save them from death. We are here in certain death every minute.

Please help us. Hope will be spent on food and the largest part will be spent on passing through the crossing to exit Gaza and part on providing temporary housing.

I need you. My family and I need you.

Every donation saves a family.

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Itchy snoot. 

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{Jackie's first Christmas at the WEJ!}

Big News Morgans: Coo coo~ All our special holiday editions have sold out! Now that’s what I call a Joy to the World!

Jackie: What does this ‘Top Ten ways to Deck His Halls!’ mean?

Big News Morgans: *rips magazine out of her hands* Don’t worry about it. Ahh I have really outdone myself this year! Old Saint Nick would be rolling in his grave right about now if he could!

Jackie: Why can’t he?

Big News Morgans: Because he’s not real! Come on kid get the lead out! He’s a stroke of commercial genius all the same-!

-p a u s e-

Big News Morgans: *slowly turns around to look at Jackie*

Jackie: 👁️👁️ He's not real you say

Big News Morgans:

Big News Morgans: Wa-Wa-What I meant to say is he’s uh… he’s not real-ly a threat! Yes, he’s not a threat to my business model! That’s all I was saying kiddo!

Jackie: *dismissively waving* Morgans I already know Santa's not real.

Big News Morgans: *sigh of relief* Oh thank the seas- wait what do you mean you already know?! Who told you?!

[Flashback to a previous Christmas morning]

Jackie at 6 years old: Mother, Father, I wanna write a thank you note to Santa!

Jackie's parents: Jacqueline, sweet pea, Santa's not real.

Jackie: :O! That..makes sense!

Jackie's parents: Don’t tell the other kids okay? It’s a grown up secret we're trusting you with. Can you do it?

Jackie: Yes I can totally do that!

[End of Flashbacks]

Big News Morgans: And I thought I was harsh realist

Jackie: It’s not mean, they said they didn’t want me putting my belief in things that aren’t real! Like the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny or The Queen of England!

Big News Morgans: Still, what kind of monster tells kids Santa isn’t real?

Jackie: But didn’t you-

Big News Morgans: Nope doesn’t count.

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Dragodile is just the grinch and Martha may

Crocodile in that slutty robe thirsting over dragon being a freak

Crocodile watching Dragon being a sassy grump with a side of I know he fucks nasty like “Doffy, take your damn ring back, I didn’t want it anyway.”

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Last-minute Cross Guild baking. Gryphon's the one diligently decorating while everything falls apart in the background.

Gryphon casually side steps a shrieking Crocodile who’s trying to find Nemo's diaper while the little clown just giggles uncontrollably, Buggy is hugging the walls like a cartoon cat trying to avoid his fate of stepping on the missing feces, and Mihawk and Gabriel are at the store because they ran out of star sprinkles for the cookies. Alvida is recording all this for future blackmail memories of the boys first Christmas! (still better than her christmases back home).

Later when all is calm (or as calm as it can get around there) the decorated cookie swordsmans, cookie pirates, cookie clowns and cookiewanis are a delightful distraction from the chaos of..2 hours ago.

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The thought just occurred to me that Belle-mere is 100% abandoned veteran representation. She was an active combat soldier for two years, nearly giving her life to serve the marines. She had an officer rank, and was a good, reliable fighter. Then she came back wounded, decided to retire and start a family, and got zero support. No pension, no nothing. She and the girls were poor to the point of starvation risk and Nami turned to stealing just to get one thing she liked. Arlong's price to let her and her daughters live was 200,000 beri, which sounds like a lot, but beri is closer to yen, basically worth less than a cent. Belle-mere had to give up her kids or her life over the lack of about $1,000, if that. And when she did die for it, she was buried in a pauper's grave and no one from the marines was even in contact enough to hear about it. Then when the marines do come? They accept Arlong's money. They never honor Belle-Mere's death or do anything to help her daughters. They dig up her tangerines and steal Nami's fortune when she's moments away from buying her freedom. Who knows if they ever even crossed her name out in their records? No freaking wonder Nami had no love for the marines despite her mom being one. They chewed Belle-mere up and spit her out.

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I forgot his earrings

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BREAKING NEWS: Aliens, spirits, and stolen balls!?

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The Seraphim making Snow Angels except they don't have to do anything but fall backwards into the snow. 🤣

Nemo doesn't quite understand what's going on so he's just wiggling around on the ground like a worm on a string until he looks like a powdered jelly donut.

Buggy comes out to check on them (and also tell them that there’s hot coco waiting and ready!) just to be grabbed on by a little living ball of snow with big old eyes. He screamed a little until he felt the familiar cold sensation of a honking nose being pressed against his leg.

“Wha- Nemo?! What are you doing out here in the cold?” He scooped up the little clown while his older sons came barreling towards him.

“Daddy! Daddy! Come look at what we did!”

“It’s easily the coolest AND flashiest snow angel!”

“Coolest and flashiest huh? Well now I’ve gotta see it! You’ve been following Daddy's snow rules I hope?”

They both nod. “Don’t throw snowballs with ice, stone or sticks in them, don’t jump on any frozen lakes or rivers, don’t eat any yellow snow!”

“Well done! Now where is this..snow…angel?!”

It laid there undisturbed and perfect, the scene made extra cute with Gryphon and Gabe's smiles and jazz hands of introduction. There in the snow lay what the star clown could only describe as a biblically accurate snow angel. Arms at the hips, torso and head. Legs impossibly and inhumanly long. Three sets of wings stretched out for maximum horror factor. It’s not to say he didn’t like what he saw per se, it’s just that he’s sure he’d continue to see king after today.

“ What do you think? Papa said it was a haunting experience unlike anything he’s ever seen! We're gonna take a picture to show Baba later too!”

“It’s…an undeniably flashy collaborative piece! I’m so (terrified) proud of you boys!”

The boys cheer in triumph and immediately begin flying around their Magnum Opus to best capture its brilliance to film.

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So... about that "Insurgent Serpent" epithet...

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BOKU A DOKUTA TONY TONY BIRTHDAY OR WHATEVER. THIS IS HIM IF YOU EVEN CARE

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Hello everyone 👋

I appeal to you to leave Gaza 🛩 as soon as possible when the Rafah crossing opens to perform a cochlear implant operation 👂 because I may lose my hearing and we do not have enough money to leave with my family in safety and escape the danger of war 🔥, hunger and siege, so I ask you to donate even a little. Thank you all ❤ This is our donation link 👇

https://www.gofundme.com/f/hani-al-sharif-and-family

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Please, please, look at my donation campaign and help me. I have newborn children and my son Ahmed needs treatment. He is a heart patient and suffers from two holes in the heart. He needs help and treatment. We do not have money and we are stuck in Egypt because of the Gaza war. My wife and I lost my jobs and there is no source of income. I would like you to help. To care for my children and provide the necessary treatment for my child Ahmed, please donate even a little thing to save my child’s life

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You have no idea how much I yearn for Mihawk backstory. How did he become (declared) the greatest? What's his full history with Shanks? Was he called "Marine Hunter" simply because he happened to kill so many or was there a personal grudge? Were his parents killed by marines maybe? Someone he loved? Was he the son of marines and turned against them? What was his childhood like? Who trained him? He reeks of trust issues and loneliness and he's ruthless but honorable with this slight hidden caring side he viciously guards and he has weird eyes and no crew and he literally just floats around the entire ocean in a COFFIN and he's so fricken COOL I want mORE STORY WITH HIM!!!