#BUT TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK

[opbackgrounds]

More than any other story I've experienced, One Piece lets character traits simply be traits without pigeonholing them as being positive or negative. You see it most with Usopp and Sanji, but much like Sanji's chivalry, Usopp's negativity is presented as part of who he is. It's not something that must be overcome in order to become a better, more complete person. While it gets him into trouble during Water 7, without it the Straw Hats would have lost here at Thriller Bark.

It feels very much like a role reversal from when Sanji saved Usopp from Jabra back on Enies Lobby. Usopp's particular brand of negativity is something only he can do, and for once the rest of the crew has to depend on him to save the day. While there is character development for Usopp during this fight, the core of who he is as a person doesn't change, and that's a really interesting way to handle character development.

And just like the others can depend on Usopp to beat Perona because of his specific ability, Usopp has to depend on the others to defeat the "weaker" zombies surrounding the room, because he's not strong enough to fight them on his own. Even when Usopp gets his hero moment, he has to rely on others to cover his weaknesses.

[ipleadbritney]

PLEASE THIS LEGO VIDEO HAD MORE LANDOSCAR INTERACTION THAN WE'VE HAD IN WEEKS???

[jjoneechan]

Happy National Best Friend Day!

To the trio that sticks together through it all!

💚🧡💙📚🍏🍊🫐🟩🟧🟦

[sidsinning]

Gojo: jujutsu is an individual spo-

BZZZTTT WRONG ANSWER JUMPJUTSU JUMPSEN

[zifey]

“it’s called life, dib”

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umm this was supposed to be posted on halloween PRETEND ITS HALLOWEEN!!!!! HAPPY HALLOWEEEEEEN TUMBLR DISTRICT OF ZIFE NATION!!!!!!

[existennialmemes]

The Ides of March is not just about stabbing. It's also a celebration of successful community organizing that results in collaborative steps to address a shared problem in meaningful ways.

[beargyufairy]

The Original Team Natsu

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

KOBOLDS

VS CENTAUR

Kobolds! 3 ft (1 m) clever dragon people of passion and teamwork, switching wildly between complete cowardice and pure bravery! They tend to mate frequently and without jealously, it's just what you do to keep numbers up and prosper. So chances are they'll be very experienced! Magic ones learn things like mage hand and charm person, and as you can see some are especially great with traps and cages and ropes. The thing about kobolds is that they fill wherever needed. They ALL mess with traps, the "dragon shield" is as much title as training, and while the scale sorcerer is special...like, they know 5 spells. They'll still happily grab a pickaxe or mess with traps if needed.

Now for centaur, the player species here are FEY centaur. That's why they're person sized, they're elf/pony instead of human/horse. They're strong and perceptive survivalist fey! I refuse to believe I need to explain what a centaur is, or the appeal. They even have enough supernatural strength that they count as if they were a full sized horse for carrying capacity and such. So riding them is still on the table, it's just easier to reach the humanoid half.

[maculategiraffe]

oh! and we fixed the washer! extremely valuable learning experience all around. now we know how to remove and clean the coin trap and manually drain the washer from the front and also that we love each other no matter what. and not to put rugs in the washer. we both know that now. not just the one of us who knew that before

[spopbang]

And that, my friends, is a wrap on the 4th Anniversary SPOP Big Bang! 

We had just under forty brand new fanfics and fanart go up over the last week (with a few latecomers still to come), so many beautiful works of art and amazing stories!

In many cases, people went above and beyond with multiple works of art and multi-chapter fanfics much higher than the word count minimum and we can't thank our wonderful participating artists and writers enough for not just being wonderful to work with, but also sharing your beautiful creations and love of SPOP with everyone!

A big thank you also to the mods of the SPOP Creative Flex discord for letting us use their space to run this event and helping with the influx of new people who joined for the event. And of course a big thanks to everyone who has shared and interacted with the stuff made for the Big Bang to encourage our fandom creators! 

If you missed anything posted this week, you can find everything in the Big Bang Collection on AO3 as linked below.

Many of the stories are still on going so make sure you subscribe and enjoy the new content as it trickles out.

Happy finale-versary everyone!  

<3 your Big Bang mod, @tippenfunkaport

[drama-glob]

I love how if you listen during this scene, you can hear Sir Pentious say "Teamwork makes the dream work," only to then add "Yes, I've heard that one!" XD XD XD It so adorable and endearing that he's doing what he can to inspire everyone as well as that he's using a saying that is typically seen as overused, cliché or mainly taught just to children. ^_^<3<3<3<3 (It could be sad in a way too if him using that phrase is indicating stuff like that is all he's got in his book of inspirational words and he hasn't been exposed to really any other encouraging words growing up or even as an adult). :( Still kudos to him for his active involvement in seeing that everyone becomes a finely-tuned team together. ^_^<3<3<3

*Sidenote: Vaggie admittedly seems wary about the cannibal having a knife that close to her, which is understandable. ;)

[opbackgrounds]

I honestly don't think that the Straw Hats react this well to Luffy's decision if not for the turmoil they go through on Water 7/Enies Lobby. It's important that Luffy acknowledges and takes responsibility for what he's done, and for the other Straw Hats to accept it and follow him wholeheartedly regardless of the trouble that they're in.

In ordinary circumstances, their camaraderie would win the day.

It's just a shame that these aren't ordinary circumstances.

[melziss]

cassie: I think we're missing something.

julia: Teamwork?

anya: Cohesion?

mattie: A general sense of what we’re doing?

[taehyungfirst]

The cult was praying that today’s ep was the last one in Jeju just for the next one to be in Jeju too… more Taehyung content for us! Thank you to the second fandom for manifesting with us 💋

[where-the-water-flows]

something I keep coming back to, because other than 'ok but what about this canon divergence --' what I apparently really dig into is stupid world building details, is like.

how does the list of 10,000 actually uh. handle di feisheng coming back and being around again.

like he was the second ranked guy, right, Li xiangyi was top ranked, both of them "died", congratulations number 3 you're now top of the jianghu, everyone automatically moves up two ranks! ranking fights continue as normal, the three saints duel/kill their way up to the top eventually, all is gucci in the world.

except uh, a decade on, di feisheng is... actually not dead, was never dead, and also, he clearly beat Li xiangyi (because Li xiangyi is dead and di feisheng is uh, not), who was the last guy in the line of combat succession top ranked guys, making di feisheng presumably Top Ranked in terms of 'beat the guy who beat the guy [etc] who was top ranked'! no one has beaten di feisheng, therefore he is still, presumably, the top ranked guy because he hasn't uhhh actually lost a fight about that.

but it's been a decade? everyone else has spent ten years fighting the line of combat succession that forked from the guy who was number 3 a decade ago, and who does not fall into the line of direct combat succession for top rank at all, on account of the two idiots apparently taking each other out/mass rank promotion incident in the east sea.

basically: are there a lot of arguments in the jianghu about who's Actually top ranked, because like. on the one hand, fuck you, you can't walk away for a decade and waltz back in at number 1, snooze you lose, and on the other hand, fuck you, he's never actually lost! therefore he is undefeated in rank, therefore he's the top ranked guy!

(everyone gets another headache when it turns out Li Xiangyi is also still alive, because like, ok, now there are three people who have all been thought to be top ranked, who the fuck do you have to beat to be Actually For Real The Best)

[emporium]

the best time to delete this blog was 4 months ago. the second best time is now

You might be asking yourself what's the point of all these posts? Why is he respond to his "fan" mail like this? Is he trying to gain sympathy?Is he just looking for an excuse to make some dumb memes?

No, I'm not. You actually don't need an excuse to meme on tumblr. It's a right guaranteed in the tumblr bill of rights (now that I think of it this would be fun product to crowdsource the ideas for and then make into a poster). I read every ask, reply, message and reblog. But I usually only answer the positive ones publicly. I felt that it was giving off the impression that I ignore critical feedback and I don't, I really don't. There are so many amazing ideas that were given to me by users, I would be stupid to not listen to you all.