#(has been losing it for two weeks)

[thelilylav]

Idk man Faybelle and Bunny are such a compelling dynamic. Like what do you mean girl whose destiny is to not be invited to anything is rooming with girl who starts the plot of her story by leading the main character to the scene. What do you mean girl whose destiny is constantly trying to avoid being late meets girl infamous for the party she will crash halfway through. Also the fact that Bunny canonically takes care of Faybelle’s pomeranian, who is the only person/creature she will willingly admit to liking apart from her mom???

There’s just so much surface level animosity between them that’s undercut by a surprising amount of trust and care, how could you not like them?

[salt-bun]

Soukoku as tiny forest creatures?

I hope this counts!!

[hellofromthehallowoods]

Girl if only you knew the Bigolas Dickolas Time War trend was inadvertently set in motion by a horror writer who loved that queer genre-bending book so much they made a whole shamelessly queer genre-bending podcast

[icewindandboringhorror]

Some (late) holiday photos of the boye~!

[march-of-the-moths]

Be me. Set alarm to wake up earlier. Get period cramps debilitating enough to be sent back to bed after like 3 hours

[moongothic]

In reference to this post; I was gonna reply in the comments but once again, it got too long, and I figured I might as well make a brief post about this because shit's interesting but the OG post was getting so long I didn't want to extend it any further. So. New post.

But I'm also going to make this a lowkey follow-up to this post, where I briefly talked about whether or not Crocodile is worthy of a redemption. Because I did have multiple people reply to it, mentioning they don't think Crocodile needs a redemption, which isn't wrong. Villian redemptions come down to personal preference (some people like them more than others generally speaking), and the specific circumstances of a character and the story they go through. (Personally, I am a fucking sucker for a good redemption story, and One Piece? Has how many redeemed villians? Kuma, Hatchan and Bon-chan? Perona too? Buggy and Mr 3 if we're generous??? I'm sure I'm forgetting someone, but the ratio is quite low is my point) The reason I want to bring that up again, is that depending on what Crocodile's trauma really boils down to (**since we don't know for sure what it is**), it could go against the very core messages of One Piece if he just dies without that trauma being resolved. And at the same time, if his trauma is what I think it is, then he can not heal from it without being redeemed. And the opposite is true as well, if his trauma isn't what I think it is, then he doesn't need to heal from it, and he doesn't need to be redeemed. I do have a whole separate post slow cooking in my drafts right now so I don't want to go too deep into that subject here and now. But the point is. If we want Crocodile to open up and be vunerable and heal from his shit, it means he's either getting a redemption arc or redemption in death. The latter is way fucking sadder, but again, a whole separate post.

BTW quick apology but I figured since there's a bunch of shit in this post that I've written about separately before, I might as well link to those posts for like context, so people can get where I'm coming from with my nonsense while keeping this post brief-ish

BUT ONTO THE ACTUAL SUBJECT As I have kind of mentioned before, I do think Crocodile probably has multiple layers of trauma going for him

We know losing to Whitebeard Did Things to his psyche for certain

I think it's very plausible he might've been betrayed by his former crew if he ever had one

I think it's likely Dragon didn't take too well to him transitioning

And between that and Crocodile already having tried to kill Luffy multiple times, he probably believes his son would never accept him as his other dad, especially since he already hates him.

(And I do think it's likely he might have some additional early childhood trauma based on how Oda writes these things normally but whatever that could be is an absolute mystery)

And if I'm right and those are (some of) the different layers of his trauma, then for Crocodile to open up and heal from it you'd need to do it step-by-step, layer by layer

I think Luffy accepting Crocodile would be the most important thing, above all else. Because if Crocodile loving and caring about his son is the only shred of humanity left in him, if Luffy is the only thing Crocodile cares about anymore while believing no one else will ever do so for him, then having that feeling returned is the key to getting Crocodile to just start to heal. If his son can't accept and forgive him then what would it matter what anyone else thinks? In my mind, Luffy is The Sledgehammer that can break Crocodile's walls.

But that's the first layer, the first step to getting Crocodile to become vunerable

If he does have that betrayal-based trauma, then I think finding people who would actually follow him and be loyal to him would help him heal on that front. And... This probably sounds strange, but I think Mihawk is the best candidate for it. Not just because he could be to Croc what Zoro is to Luffy (in many ways), and not just because of the Romancing SaGa 2 comparisons, but because Crocodile does already seem to respect Mihawk on some level. Like he specifically invited Mihawk to start Cross Guild with. IDK if they have like shared history before or if it's just because they're Fellow Former Warlords or simply because he knows Mihawk is strong and in a vunerable position (after losing his Shichibukai Rights) or what, but despite Crocodile saying he doesn't trust people, he seems to trust Mihawk enough to invite him. And he seems to respect Mihawk's opinions on things, like he might view themselves as equals. So if Mihawk, The Greatest Swordsman In The World of all people, genuinely expressed faith and loyalty to Crocodile... Yeah, I think that would do a lot for Croc. Especially if Mihawk found out about Crocodile's baggage and chose to follow him despite/because of it.

But if we want Crocodile to Heal ALL THE WAY. He and Dragon need to have a talk.

Which will not be easy, considdering like.

Look at that fucking expression on the panel on the right. Dragon is more than likely beyond furious with Crocodile over what he did in Alabasta. And for good reason. And frankly, I can't tell if they can ever come back from that.

(Sidenote, but this page these panels are from (from Chapter 1058) follows immidiately after the page where Buggy introduces Crocodile and Mihawk to Cross Guild, Dragon's placement on the bottom right of this page matching perfectly where Crocodile was placed in the previous page. So considdering what Dragon says and the expression he makes... Man, if there ever was a way for Oda to tell us what Dragon thinks of Crocodile without explicitly having him say it, yeah, this would be it)

And I'm sure that even if Crocodile got over whatever heartbreak might've happened between him and Dragon and just moved on... The fact that Dragon never called Crocodile and warned him about their son being a pirate, with a bounty, who might be on his way to the Grand Line, where he could stumble his way to Alabasta, where Crocodile was famous for his Pirate Crushing Heroics mind you... Yeah. Crocodile would have a perfectly understandable reason to be furious at Dragon too. He almost killed their son without knowing because Dragon never warned him, never told their son's name to him, never told his OWN full name to Crocodile.

So needless to say.

They have a lot of differences to overcome. Things they've done that they'd both need to look past, forgive and forget. Somehow. And I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'd find it damn near impossible to happen.

But can you imagine, if despite everything, Dragon still loved him? And was sorry about whatever the fuck happened 19 years ago? And didn't want to lose him again?

I think that would be the thing that would help Crocodile heal all the way in the end.

If Luffy is the first step, then Dragon is the last.

[wildbasil]

Sometimes my brain gets the words "children" and "chickens" mixed up, so it ends up like:

Children (singular), childrens (plural)

Chick (singular), chicken (plural)

Then I have to sit for a moment and think about it and remind myself it's... not that hahah

[amtrak12]

I'm what the Rugrats called a 'paper-pusher' at an office job with no life and death stakes. I should not be this stressed out about going to work 😭

[pochapal]

the nhs loves to gradually publish every single one of your blood test results over the span of a weekend except for your egfr. this is because they are evil tormentors <3

[lokh]

at this point i have to assume the ongoing chest pain is from living in this fucking house

[getoo]

tooth pain will make u want to kys

[willowcrowned]

paper due in 27 hrs no figures made outline yet unfinished and dopamine levels are at ZERO i may lie back and sink down into the burning center of the earth as my skeleton is crushed by pressure unimaginable

[moominmanoneandonly]

Tommorow I'm going back to school

Which means...

I'm finally buying myself some nachos!!!!

[dandyshucks]

[crawling out of the pits of hell]: happy birfday Gu.zma.... ouaauughh [collapses and disintegrates]

[dogbunni]

Irrelevant picture but, anyone who is here from AO3, I am going on hiatus for a while. 2025 has not been kind to my family and it's taking a toll. There has already been one death this year, and I now have two family members with terminal cancer. There's more going on and it's just all piled up. I need time to focus on my family and grieve the losses I've already felt this year.

I will be back and I will finish You're (Not) My Neighbour. I love that fic so much and I want to be in the right place emotionally to write the funny, dramatic, lovingly stupid ending I have for it in my head. I'll see you all at the ending, when I'm ready to get there. In the meantime though, I'll probably still be shitposting through my grief here. Lol

[potatoattorney]

finally got a real laptop!! I can type on documents now without everything stopping