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Had some Luffy feels after watching the new video by @melonteee that resulted in this incoherent word vomit in my tweet circle

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post-fight sanji

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Got a binder for my cards and didn’t click for me that these two go together until I sat them side by side. 😭

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one piece lupin the 3rd style

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🐟fish

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Making educated wishes on the colors/details here but Usopp's current fit in the manga is so 😩👌✨🔥🔥🔥

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I think people who make art and content for more obscure / unpopular / minor / side One Piece characters are the bedrock of this fandom, honestly. I love you people who make content for like, forgotten Strawhat Grand Fleet members, or Worst Generation characters who aren't Law/Kid/Bonney, or people who obsess over weird villains nobody else likes. You are carrying the One Piece sky on your shoulders and you should never stop.

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Bringing this post back now that we live in a post-Queen's-Updated-Vivre-card-world and the Franky connection has been made even remotely possible lmao. This is very funny in retrospect.

Anyway, you can this was the post that prompted my initial proto-thoughts that eventually developed further into that Sanji & Usopp foils meta!

Once again thinking about the interesting usage of the word "cyborg" by Queen when referring to Sanji in Wano. I've seen a lot of people confused by that, but from the way I see it, Queen was using it to essentially mean "any human augmented by science". So to him there's "organic cyborgs" like the Vinsmoke kids that don't have any robotics or machinery in them (that we know of), and "mechanical cyborgs" like himself and Franky. But he groups both of those under the same umbrella.

That being said, this is making me wish there was more exploration of the potential bond between Sanji and Franky! Franky who was forced to turn himself into something augmented and non-human in order to survive, but who took that chance to build his ideal self and ended up finding pride and joy in it. I think Sanji realizing that this crew is full of so called "monsters" is going to be vital for his relationship with his mutation, especially fellow "cyborg" Franky, who is also a slightly older paternal figure, something which Sanji is known to have a complicated history and array of, lol. I need them to bond more! He's not alone!

Even Chopper, the only one who saw the mutation in action (and potentially the only person who knows it has happened?) is someone that has a known history with being labeled "monster" and "not human" AND as a doctor, he is consistently shown enraged at those who toy and experiment with the biology and health of others. And then there's Usopp, who feels inadequate BECAUSE he is "just a human" surrounded by "monsters" he wishes he could be more like and, what's that? Someone who feels like a weak burden to their strong peers that they could never catch up to? Sounds familiar! A guy whose tendency toward Fear is what makes him so human, fear being one of the first emotions removed from the Vinsmoke kids? Sanji probably wakes up every day relieved to still be able to feel fear, to be someone like Usopp instead of his brothers.

TLDR He has so many strawhats to turn to. He took the first step with asking help from Robin in Wano, but I want to see him keep taking those, before his emotional constipation gets him in trouble again.

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Do you ever think about how in water 7 Usopp basically went on a suicide mission to save the Merry, against people way stronger than him, outnumber him and almost killed him? Do you ever think about how painful he knew that fighting Luffy would be not only emotionally but with all his injuries? Or how he forgot all of it the moment he heard one of his crewmates had given up on her life for them, he forgot all of it, his pride and his fears to go and stop her from going through with her borderline suicidal plan? Do you ever think about how he values the things and people around him more than himself but prides himself to try to hide it?

Because I do...

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i love one piece bc a story will start like "poor little reindeer was bullied for having a blue little nose :( " and it will end in "we have resorted to terrorism bc the corrupt government monopolised health care"

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trans male franky is an absolute peak headcanon because of how much it makes sense and also how fucking hilarious it is. franky literally MADE his own body. he’s a proud pervert. he gave himself top and bottom surgery and he lets everyone know. he refuses to wear anything but a tiny bikini and a bad hawaiian print shirt. he regularly breaks out into dance. he made sure to give himself cyborg balls. he’s invincible but only on his front half. he can turn into a centaur-thing. he formed a club of other weirdos, freaks and outcasts and went around basically tormenting water 7 with them. he tried to fight a train. again, he’s a proud, self-made pervert freak. absolute t-king realness. no one else is doing it like franky.

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familiar faces

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My masc Reiju design is getting many notes all of a sudden (based) but it's my first post about it with the super rushed and messy/unpolished art (cringe) 😭

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this is canon i know it in my heart

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I'm still thinking about this costume design choice

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ONE PIECE 1126

Finally found the time to talk about this one. I already talked a bit about a certain character in an earlier post, but here we go into the full thing.

OK, starting off with where we left with Yamato in the cover stories -yep, it seems people in Wano are getting kidnapped and/or going missing. Last chapter we saw Minamoto the carpenter has disappeared as well. Honestly, as for who is doing the kidnappings, there's actually plenty of candidates. I think most of, if not all of the Beast Pirates were dealt with, so we might be dealing with somebody else. IIRC, the Big Mom pirates seem to have returned to Tottoland without their mother (we see Smoothie back with her siblings watching Vegapunk's message in Egghead, and she was leading the ship). It could be Perospero if he's alive somehow, but I think it'd be an interesting twist if it turned out to be something like the wild giant boar that Oden slayed back in the day, thus giving Yamato the chance to fulfill his role as a parallel to him or something. Who knows! We still don't know Kaidou and Linlin's fates, so Wano is a location to keep an eye out on for sure.

Anyway, getting in the chapter, it's so nice to see more of the classic Strawhat party celebration! Seeing them all together chilling like this is always one of the best parts. My circle has already plastered my timeline with Usopp and Sanji being inseparable again, of course. My foils meta keeps being fulfilled, let's see if Usopp ends up returning his favor and his words to him if this arc ends up mirroring Enies Lobby.

Hey what if I cried. I'm not going to sugarcoat it: I teared up like a child at this. They finally got to see the sky and the sun together, they got to sail together!!!!!!! Nobody talk to me, I think I will never recover after this page. God, if Kuma dies I'm going to be devastated. The theories around the number-named devil fruits going to the strawhats have destroyed me, and the Nikyu-Nikyu fruit being the last possible combination of numbers and the right shape for the tangerines is.... worrying me.

Bartooooo!!!! He is the GOAT of this chapter. He was already one of my absolute favorite One Piece characters, but this man's willingness to die on the spot for Luffy just cemented him even higher on the list. Thank god it was a fake-out! Everything's gonna be fine, right? Haha? Right?

Aaand there it is. Wow. OK. I cannot lie this caught me so off guard I am still reeling from it. This, is the part I made an earlier post about. Yasopp, of his own accord, after Shanks decided to spare the Barto Club and even seemed to be charmed by them, chose to shot them down. Shanks clearly didn't give the order, and it seems Yasopp might have been going for the kill, too. Perhaps he was just trying to destroy the ship, but seeing that explosion... Not to mention the narrator says after this "it is unknown if there were any survivors". This is such a merciless act from him. And for me, the reading I have of it is that it's setup by Oda for us to start feeling (even more) conflicted about his character, and this is going to be relevant going forward in Elbaf as an Usopp arc. This is a reminder of how different he is from him, he brutally shot down the Barto Club knowing well they are his son's allies and friends, with no remorse. Usopp has shown mercy and compassion most of any strawhat, I think he would be mortified by this. I wonder if this begins the setup of Usopp realizing he has put his father on a pedestal, and the idealized image of him in his head doesn't reflect reality. A lot of people didn't like Yasopp already, but this is going to put him on a looooot of fans' shitlist. Anyway, if Barto is dead I am going to jump into the ocean. Fingers crossed harder than his when he puts up his barriers.

Going back to the Blackbeard pirates; Garp's alive!!!! It seems that Kuzan couldn't take his life after all. He says "he survived", but in my eyes, he definitely chose to spare him, perhaps even unconsciously.

PUDDING CAMEO!!!!!!! MY SPECIALEST GIRLIE IN THE WORLD!!! Oh my god I'm glad she's still OK. Pudding get him. Bite him. Scratch him, do something, get his ass. Stay away from her get a joooooob. Jokes aside, I am curious about what the Big Mom pirates are planing; between their mother being Put In the Soup in Wano (status unknown), their eldest brother being well... status unknown, and Pudding getting kidnapped, they have too much going on on their plate, and I do wonder which thing they are trying to deal with first. I am not jealous of the mess poor Katakuri has to deal with right now, assuming he has been put in charge at the moment. I like to imagine he is definitely planning for ways to get Pudding back; his siblings are the most important thing in the world to him, after all.

Sigh. Caribou is still here too. For some reason. Like some sort of cockroach that just won't croak. The information he has on not one, but two ancient weapons is very concerning, and the fact he is about to deliver it to Teach of all people is definitely gonna be a big, terrifying development.

This isn't plot or anything but please look at this image of tiny Bonney holding on to Jinbe's robes. Her collection of big dads grows ever steady. That is all.

And here is our conclusion! The group of strawhats that was on the Sunny has disappeared together with it, while the rest of the crew and the giants where knocked out from the booze. They wake up looking for them and the Sunny all baffled. It seems Jinbe, Robin and Franky are the only strawhats left with the giants, although I saw some people say Brook might be with them as well. Nami, who was with those missing, wakes up in Elbaf-style garb already, inside some sort of toy-lego-house... I wonder if this means our missing strawhats have been kidnapped by another group of giants!? A toy-like dollhouse is where you'd put a tiny person in, isn't it? Dorry and Broggy and their crew said that Elbaf is still days away, even with their ship's speed, so could someone from there have somehow hijacked them in the middle of the journey? Could it be Loki himself? I guess we have to wait to find out!

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I’ve been so busy but sanuso post ts redesign doodle-y thing

it’s not exactly final there’s some things I would change or add but I’m lazy and I give up and I’m working on my 20 other art projects

everyday is a struggle between usopp angst and sanuso FUCK my friend told me to just combine them so guess what I’m doing!!!!!