#🫎shorties stick together.plat

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I ordered a Going Merry shaker charm by the way 🥹 It’s so cute I will cherish this forever

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What if I was up thinking SO hard about my fictional pirate crew. God being autistic adhd is so strange like what do you mean this fictional pirate anime that i've known for less than a year feels like it genuinely resparked my passion and emotions. Like I look at the Strawhats and I genuinely get welled up with emotion. I have. Such fondness and love and respect and care in my heart for them all. They've in such a short amount of time become a second home for me and they all mean so so much to me. It's like they've always been there somehow and that finally getting into it was like being welcomed back by family. I look at Luffy and Robin and Nami and Usopp and Sanji especially and I just see... home. People who understand me and wouldn't judge me even a little bit. What I would give to be given a Luffy hug. Or to talk with Robin and find some understanding as two of the people who least expected to get into this situation but wouldn't change it for the world. To have Chopper dote on me that I should take better care of myself. To hang out on deck with Franky. To gossip and work on projects with Nami and Usopp. To listen to Brook play and sing. It's all just so... comforting. I've been sleeping to a One Piece sea sounds and character chatter ambiance video for a while now and god it just makes me ache for a place I've never been. I mean it when I say these guys are my absolute WORLD at the moment. I love them all so much and I find it hard to see that ever changing. Especially with how emotionally invested I've become in all of them. All I know is how much vibrant color and life it feels like they've reinvigorated in me. I want to hug them all so tightly.

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Assigning the Strawhats "Sleeping At Last" songs from the Atlas: 1 and Altas: 2 albums cause. I love me some songs to make me cry for the character that make me cry <3 Luffy - Light (Runnerup was absolutely 'Heirloom' though), Seven Zoro - Mercury, Joy Nami - Pluto (But also runnerup in Jupiter), Eight Usopp - The Projectionist, Son Sanji - Bad Blood (with Mars as a Runnerup lots of WCI vibes), Taste Chopper - Saturn, Sorrow Robin - Neptune, Daughter (This could have also gone to Nami but I felt Eight was more appropriate for her) Franky - I'll Keep You Safe, Five Brook - North, Smell (But also runnerup in Nine) Jimbe - Sun, Touch

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Also wanna archive some filler episode screenshots cause sometimes they just make him look too sweet for me to ignore wahaha

Absolute goober of a lover-cook <3

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I am once again thinking about Ray during Whole Cake Island… I feel like they would go to and confide in Luffy and Usopp a whole lot. Breaking into sobs and falling into Usopp’s arms, laying lonely in the big bed in the cooks quarters that they had just gotten use to a second body being in, being one of the few people to see their captain almost in tears over the whole situation, etc.

Going to go on a ramble below the cut to keep a long post from clogging anyones dash wahaha but before I go into it have this hilarious, to me, screenshot of the draft I left myself in the middle of the night in my half-asleep state because I got this idea.

But as I was saying. Sure Robin, Nami, Chopper, and maybe even Zoro get why the situation is upsetting but no one as much as Usopp and Luffy. Those two, along with Ray, really understood Sanji. They saw him as a person and understood exactly where his head was at even if they didn’t completely comprehend the situation. Usopp of all people knows how much of a self-sacrificing bastard this cook is and Luffy knows how much Sanji personally has at stake and is willing to give up. His dream, his passions, his family (both the crew and those at the Baratie), all of it. And they aren’t buying this act that he doesn’t care about them for a damn second.

But Ray is a different story. Ray is distraught laying in bed for days and having to be coaxed to eat and drink anything by Chopper and Usopp. They had just gotten use to having Sanji back in the picture. They’d even started sleeping in the cook’s quarters along with him. And then he just up and leaves claiming he doesn’t need the Strawhats and that they don’t mean anything to him. And that hits Ray hard.

This leads to people like Luffy, Usopp, Chopper, and Franky or maybe even Brook trying to get them to come out for some fresh air. No one tries to get them to talk about it though, they know how hard this hurts for them. Everyone except Luffy. One night Ray gets up to go to the kitchen and Luffy’s sitting there. Without hesitation Luffy questions how Ray feels about Sanji leaving. Ray can’t answer, cause they can’t outside of knowing how much it upsets them. How they feel like everything Sanji said about missing them and being so happy to be with the crew again was just lies. Luffy echos the sentiment and makes some comment on how he’s ‘good at reading people’ and how he knows ‘in his gut’ that Sanji isn’t being truthful about wanting what his family is offering.

And then Luffy falters a bit. Something similar to the take OPLA had on Luffy feeling guilty about Zoro getting hurt. He feels like be should have been able to keep Sanji from getting in this situation in the first place. That his place as captain and one of Sanji’s closest friends means he of all people should have been able to keep him safe and get him to make the right decision. We have some visual symbolism with him holding the hat alluding to some doubt about Shanks picking the wrong person etc etc.

And this all leads up to the big moment where the only difference really is just that Ray is there and is a big element of the scene and their’s probably at least one scene where Ray sneaks off the Sunny and Romeo style throws rocks and Sanji’s window and the two have a scene where Ray’s pleading for him to come back to ship with them and they can get out of here and forget this mess ever happened. But that doesn’t work. At least not until the whole rescue team shows up to get their stupid wet puppy of a cook back wahaha.

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Closed off 2023 by finishing watching the Skypia Saga by the way! I enjoyed it and especially Enel as an antagonist! Though admittedly I wasn’t that invested until the fight over the bell. Trust Monkey D. “i’ll do anything to make someones dreams a reality” Luffy to get me emotional over a bell ringing lmao. I’m also interested to see where the Gol D. Rodger thing goes cause I know it’s connected to Luffy maybe being related to him?

Have some screenshots that I cannot get over

I LOVED everyones outfits this saga by the way

And some manga panels

Nami and Usopp continue to be the only sensible ones the entire situation and this why they’re my best friends lmao

Now to watch the filler ‘G-8’ arc and move on to the Water 7 Saga! Very excited cause I know people like this one a lot

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Hello. Rewatched Film: Red.

And I am pretty sure it’s my favorite Sanji design so far hands down.

Their’s so much to like about it that it’s hard to pinpoint what makes it different. Like the sunglasses are so cute. And while the colors are questionable at first i love the shirt, jacket, and undershirt combo on him. But. I think it’s the hair. Something about it being slightly curled is just. Oughh. He’s such a fucking cutie I cannot fathom it.

But also I need to talk about his SMILE FOR A MOMENT because oh my god is my favorite thing about Sanji his smile. I would stare at and kiss that stubbly smile FOREVER.

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Thinking so Hard about my therian inspired aus.... so I'm gonna talk about the newest one :} So I have an au for Ray, my One Piece self insert, where they end up ending a Zoan type Devil Fruit ! Specifically a Inu Inu No Mi : Shepard Model or a Mutt Mutt Fruit Model Shepherds Breed ! Basically a Zoan fruit that's a combination of a bunch of Shepherds dog breeds but taking visually from Australian Shepherds ! Basically everything is the same except when Ray left the Marines it was due to them eating a Devil Fruit and their super strict superior kicked them out and they found their way to the Baratie. They end up keeping being a Devil Fruit eater a secret until about Water 7 when Jabara calls them out for being "like him" and Ray freaks out, particularly because this happens in front of Sanji and Zoro two people who's opinion Ray holds very high, and that isn't really resolved until the Post Water 7 arc. Theirs a really sweet scene particularly between Luffy, Chopper, Robin, and Ray with the three of them welcoming Ray as another Devil Fruit eater in their group. They're very warm and inviting and especially Chopper is ecstatic to have someone who also ate a Zoan Devil Fruit type like he did and someone to bond over being part human part animal. The two are animal buddies! And after that Ray kind explains some more the Crew and apologizes to Zoro and Sanji in particular for that situation happening in the first place as it 'wouldn't have happened if I had just told you all'. But nothing went wrong and ultimately what's important is everyone came out of it safe.

After that point one of the new things is that Ray does is spend a bit of time in Human-Beast and Beast form. Often when the crew needs a quick scouting of an area and they don't want to draw any attention Ray is sent out in Beast form to look around. For a while the Marines think the Strawhats have gotten a pet dog with their pet "raccoon dog" kslknglksdn And the idea of like. Sanji, Luffy, and Usopp being super fascinated with Ray's Beast form makes me giggle a bit just like grabbing their tail and ears being like "Woahhhh". Eventually they get comfortable being in all three forms pretty casually even to the point of napping in Beast Form or going out in public in Human-Beast form. Can you tell this is a bit wish-fulfillment for me ksdlknndg It makes me sooo soft. I've also ben thinking about Yamato even though I'm no where CLOSE to Wano but wehheh I've kind of got a crush and the idea of a Big Celestial Dog and Little Dog puppylove romance makes me whehbkasbjsehehbefheh <3333 But that's for later me !

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Been slowly chipping through the Alabasta Saga! I think once I finish it I’m going to watch a couple of the movies :} the funniest thing about One Piece becoming a hyperfixation and splitting off into Sanji becoming a fixation is the two fueling each other lmao

I’m flip flopping between reading the manga and just watching the anime so have some Sanji panels that had me gushing nswnbssb

My current favorite gag is his battle talk being about. Cooking any enemy that isn’t human 😭 Fishmen? Filleted and cooked. Dinosaurs? Cut up and grilled. Giant yeti bunnies? Rabbit stew.

The only thing that’s close is Zoro having. Zero information at most times despite being In The Action.