#Bon Clay redesign

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Odette

[sunnixsunshine]

More redesigns/just some fun with stuff!!

I actually love Buggy’s and Bon Clay’s og designs to death so tbh I think I’d more so consider theirs as alternative outfits. Im pretty attached to their OGs(especially Bon Clay) but still wanted to have fun. Also goes for Koby!

Shanks is hard as fuck for me to get right so I got rid of his ugly pants and didnt feel like drawing his cape-coat-thing. Ace and Sabo are mostly the same ig, just drawn in my style and a little more simplified.

[kiyomisacreates]

I took it upon myself to redesign some of my least favorite outfits for some of my favorite characters.

[otaku-chai]

My Bon Clay redesign cause I hate how he's used as a stereotype 🩷💚💙

[fawnnbinary]

who else up redesigning an outfit for the best character ever made my friend Bon Clay

[onepiece-fight]

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Coby joins the strawhats (bc he sees the marines are evil)

Zoro liberates shells town instead of being tied up

they take buggy’s head with them on their adventure to tell them about the Grand line instead of the map

Luffy adopts Chou Chou and or Richie

Nami has a DF power

Buggy has a different DF power

the ppl of Syrup think Usopp is a prophet instead of a liar

Kuro is not evil, but the marines come to arrest him or his crew comes to get him so the conflict still happens

Usopp was born on the red force so ppl believe his stories more

this arc is just actually a romance where they get kaya and Usopp together

grand line gin

the navy comes to baratie and also causes problems at the same time as Don Krieg

Sanji has to beat Zeff before he can leave

zeff died on the rock and sanji runs the Baratie bc it was Zeff’s dream

mihawk forcefully adopts (kidnaps) zoro

Arlong Park is actually a sinister theme park

nojiko joins the crew with or instead of Nami

redesign arlong to have good fashion

Jinbe shows up in Arlong Park

Design a different tattoo for Nami

Nami and nojiko are fishmen

kitetsu cuts off zoro’s arm in Loguetown

kitetsu makes zoro unable to navigate

Dragon actually introduces himself and asks Luffy to join the RA in Loguetown

tashigi is actually kuina

laboon is small or laboon is bigger

laboon has a DF

laboon can sing

Crocus thinking about how Luffy is like roger

Caroo is a different animal

Dori and brogy leave the island now and are the first members of the SH fleet

Somebody else gets bitten by the bug (Drum arc)

Walpol didn’t kill all the doctors and isn’t evil but he is annoying

They have to go find something to cure the disease

Robson comes with them or a lapin does

Hiluluk didn’t die and he’s still in this part

Bon Clay joins the crew in Alabasta

The bomb goes off and a bunch of people die

Crocodile being a casino owner

Bananawani: the care and feeding of

Crocodile is not evil and helps them defeat a secret third antagonist of your choice

Croco has a different DF

Smoker leaves the marines after they lie about Crocodile

Vivi comes with them bc the monarchy is dissolved

Cobra dies here and Vivi is queen

Koza’s revolution succeeds

Luffy also likes the pie on Jaya

Bellamy is just making his little flags instead of being an asshole

Bellamy becomes a member of the SH fleet

The skypeians are more monstrous/visibly different from humans

Nora comes with

Norland and Calgara were reunited and they are in love

Enel has a different motivation that more directly relates to the central conflict

Everyone is fighting a war against enel

they win more crew members or they permanently lose someone to foxy

Change the DBF to have different rules and be more highstakes

cultural exploration of W7

Talent show with the shipyard bosses

Someone defects from CP9

Iceburg is not mad at franky and they work together

Iceburg get ready with me

Franky what’s in my bag (body compartment)?

Franky family owns a gay club

They already built the ancient weapon and they use it to keep the WG out

Venetian carnivale but in W7

Sanji learns W7 recipes

Strawhats gongoozling (watching the canal boats/yagara)

Someone from CP9 joins the crew

Kaku and Kalifa swap DFs or get different ones

Redesign the sunny

Iceburg decides to protect Robin instead of being scared of her

Draw tyrannosaurus enjoying his life

Write iceburgs daily schedule with kalifa’s notes and amendments

Spandam fucking dies in Enies Lobby

kumadori is from Wano

Zoro fights Jabra, Sanji fights Kaku

Zoro sees the Wanze fight and thinks it’s hot that sanji can do that with knives

Franky also has a DF

An admiral shows up at Enies Lobby

Spandam gets cancelled on Twitter

CP9 keeps plotting to get Spandam killed but it just don’t work

Zoro gets funkfried to replace yubashiri

Merry POV of W7, EL until she dies

Strawhat thoughts about Garp in Water 7

Strawhat perspectives on Usopp returning to the crew

Ace beats BB

Brook is fighting a war against moria already when the SHs arrive

Lola and Nami have a beautiful romance

Thriller Bark has a different theme of your choice

Brook already has ice powers and ppl think he’s like a king

Persona and zoro meet early

Kuma warns them about the WG

Sanji takes all the injury instead of zoro h/c and angst ensues

More combo attacks! (Triller Bark)

Invent more things for Moria to do with his DF

Thriller bark the island is actually alive

the strawhats get to go to the theme park!!

The SHs get to know brook

Island swap for the strawhats (Sabaody separation)

Redesign Luffy’s Amazon Lily outfit

Swap Boa’s DF to be a snake like her sisters or literally Medusa

Luffy doesn’t find out about aces execution in time and hears about it from the news after ace is dead

Impel Down

pick some more old villains to be in impel down

Luffy arrives while they are moving ace chaos ensues

Pick a rocky horror picture show scene for Ivankov and Co to reenact in 5.5

Perspective of normal guy working at impel down during Luffy’s escape

Ace lives (Marineford AU)

sabo shows up bc he remembered early

Ivankov and WB have a relationship

Moria raises Little Oars Jr as a zombie on the battlefield

Bb acquires someone else’s DF (fruit of your choice)

Dragon or Garp intervenes (garp murders akainu)

Design different tattoos for Ace

All the WB captains immediately adopt Luffy

Law also saves Ace but he gives ace weird animal parts

Ace lives but he has to retire bc injuries

Kaido makes it to Marineford (VERY bad)

Big Mom shows up at Marineford

Raleigh shows up at marineford

Bring another supernova to marineford

Doffy didn’t kill Moria on purpose. Explain why

Sabo’s friends comforting him about Ace’s death

Ivankov’s return to the Rev army and reunion with dragon

Redesign Sanji post-time skip

Make Usopp more plant themed

Zoro is goth now

Soul King Stan Twitter reacts to him being a pirate

Shirahoshi redesign

Vander decken is not real so shirahoshi gets to come out of there

Explore the fishman fashion industry

Draw strawhats modeling for Pappagu’s fashion line

Otohime lives and is a fun old lady and also Mjosgard is here

Fishman island is actively at war with the WG over slavery

The break fixed sanji and he’s normal about women now

Strawhats as fishmen designs

More different body swaps on Punk Hazard

Law thinks that chopper is just so cute… his little hooves…

Draw smiley getting a little snack

Funny creatures that evolved to live on Punk Hazard

Draw punk hazard before it was destroyed

Draw some other fun vegapunk experiments

Vacuum caeser up

Smoker thinks about how he kinda likes Luffy

The plot stops so that Nami and Tashigi can have sex

Tashigi defeats Monet

Doffy’s Royal nail technician

Law actually dies as originally planned

Cora lives AU and they defect from the navy

Dressrosa fashion trends

Write the tontatta out of this arc

Write the perspectives of the DQ pirates throughout the arc

Lao G retires from piracy

Giolla art exhibition

Dressrosa dance contest

Gimlet lives, senor pink has his original design

Post the defeat of doflamingo the ruling family does not return to the throne

Redesign Rebecca

Let Rebecca help kill diamanté

Give Rebecca a DF

Viola has conflicting feelings about betraying the DQ pirates

Barto’s weekly strawhat newsletter

Elephant crimes???? (Zou)

Caesar gets reformed and makes friends on Zou

Neko and Inu used to date; tell us about their prior relationship

king of the day/king of the night grants extra powers to inu and neko

Art class with kanjuro

Different Jack haircuts

One of the BM kids joins the SH crew but it’s not katakuri

Cooking show on WCI

Pick an additional vinsmoke sibling to be good

Sanji beats all of his siblings (except reiju) and they question their superiority complex

Zeff is on WCI

Write the founding of Tottoland

BM’s parents didn’t abandon her and she’s just cool now

Everything in big mom’s collection gets out

Pedro lives

Bege has a chill day with his family

Bege opens a baby photo studio that he also uses to launder money

Bege remodels the inside of him

Draw WCI designs for the other strawhats

Sanji teaches the Wano chefs to make different foods

Hiyori wields enma

Kaido is small like Momo

Sanji and Zoro fighting about how to take care of O Tama

Kaido aggressively respects Yamato’s gender

Queen live show!

One piece dinosaur facts and abilities

Kanjuro’s perspective

Kozuki Sukiyaki participates in the raid

Oden and Toki fall in love

Samurai boiled food related trauma

The chaos of Tobi roppo meetings

Someone tries to teach Luffy to use a sword

Killer angst about kidd being in jail

Ace liberates Wano instead

Hawkins becomes a guy who makes scarecrows for ppl after Wano

Brook becomes a spooky urban legend

Design more gifters

Dadan tries to give ASL The Talk, it does not work (she fails badly enough for this to be SFW)

AU where Sabo doesn’t leave the island

Shanks takes Luffy with him

Luffy and Uta become popstars together (thanks autotune)

Dragon visits ASL on Goa regularly

Dragon raises Luffy in the Rev Army

Garp raises Luffy at the marine base

mealtimes at the Dadan household

Dadan and Makino raise ASL together because they are lesbians

Luffy and Ace break Sabo out of his parent’s house

Zoro’s literally a demon

Kuina doesn’t die, and he has an ongoing rivalry with her

the only place that zoro can successfully navigate to is Raftel

Everyone corrals Zoro into taking his weekly bath

Zoro wants another sword so he tries to figure out how he can successfully utilize it

Long hair zoro

Zoro goes on Queer Eye

Zoro attempts to plan a date with the partner of your choice

Zoro has a demon form he goes into when angry and he can’t come out of it so SHs have to stop him somehow

Brook and Nami play dress up with zoro like he’s their fashion doll

Zoro takes Chopper out to do things on his birthday

Zoro has to DD for everyone and he is NOT happy about it

zoro tries to cook for sanji’s birthday

Sanji hears about when zoro ate food off the ground in shells town and falls in love instantly

Zoro and Robin go on an archeology adventure to find a cool sword

Zoro and Sanji try to teach Usopp to fight in close quarters but it’s a disaster and they just fight each other

Franky makes Zoro a sword robot to fight against

Zoro gets jinbe to make larger and larger waves to see how much water he can cut through

Zoro asks Luffy to bring him heavy objects to lift so Luffy tries to find the heaviest object on every island they visit and bring it back

Vivi takes Zoro to princess school for the day

Nami is already the leader of the fishmen pirates when they meet her bc she already killed arlong

Nami knows fishman karate

Nami is a scientist and invented her weapon herself

Big News Morgan’s tries to recruit Nami as an economist

Nami becomes involved with the fishmen equality movement via Arlong or Jinbe

The strawhats need money quickly so Nami cons everyone in Gold Tesoro’s casino

Nami has a romance with Viola on Dressrosa

Nami and Vivi’s wedding on Alabasta and Nami’s coronation

Jinbe shows Nami all of his favorite places on Fishman island

Franky takes Nami to all the best gay bars on W7

Nami and Robin have a girls night where they kill like 80 guys and then go to the spa

Robin and Nami trade extortion tips

Brook and Nami make a fashion line together and it’s amazing

Chopper gives Nami another Tattoo, after practicing on her mikans

Nami pays a series of doctors to try and fix Zoro’s directional insanity but it doesn’t work

Sanji apologizes to Nami after the break for being so annoying all the time before and shows her how to do good kicks

Nami infiltrates a marine base to have a romantic encounter with either Tashigi or Kalifa

Vivi plans how to propose to Nami with Shirahoshi and Rebecca

5+1 times Nami fixes Luffy’s hat

Nami and the romantic partner of your choice infiltrate an island by pretending to be a couple and they mess it up bc they are actually in love (But it’s fine)

Usopp’s letters to Kaya throughout his journey

Kaya’s reaction to the God Usopp posters

Usopp is raised by the giants

Usopp is actually a rival pirate captain of his own crew

Usopp botany illustrations of his plants

Usopp sketchbook of the crew

Usopp is actually from sniper island, where he lives with his dad who did not just leave

Unpack Usopp’s relationship with Yasopp

Marines argue about Sogeking’s real identity

Yelp reviews of Usopp’s toad oil

5+1 of Usopp’s lies getting the strawhats out of trouble, and one time they didn’t work but the strawhats backed him up

Usopp accidentally blows up the ship but Franky’s not mad bc they r family <3

Usopp and Robin discuss the value of being alive (referencing Usopp in Wano, Robin in W7)

Usopp consults with Bellamy about flag making

Usopp designs a Strawhat mural

Franky respects Usopp’s dedication to sizing the Merry and gives him shipbuilding tips

Usopp helping the crew out with his sniping abilities

Usopp uses Zoro to shoot someone

Usopp and Nami plan pranks on the other crew members

Usopp talks to Sanji about what happened on WCI while they bake together

Luffy and Usopp meet as kids bc Yasopp does not leave him on that island

Usopp and chopper test Usopp’s plants for medicinal applications

Usopp tries to teach Vivi to lie/tell stories more convincingly

Brook composes a song about Captain Usopp’s adventures

Usopp draws some of Jinbe’s adventures with fisher tiger

The first time Luffy and Usopp hang out again after what happened on W7

Illustrate grandline fish being made into sushi

Some of Sanji’s recipes he made for the crew with annotations

One meal from every grand line island (eating them or making them)

Sanji teaches a cooking class on Wano

Sanji introduces pastries to Wano

Sanji hosts Hell’s Kitchen

Kitchen Nightmares at the Baratie (but he only critiques the service bc the food is perfect)

Zeff teaching baby sanji to make his favorite meal

Father’s Day after WCI, Sanji and Zeff

Elaborate traps to prevent Luffy from stealing food

Zoro and Sanji have to work together to get through a labyrinth

Sanji helps Nami take care of her Mikan trees

the crewmemebers in Wano think about how much they miss sanji’s food

AU where Usopp comes to WCI and gets Sanji out via lying

Vivi sees the Vinsmokes at a WG meeting and asks sanji about it

Sanji asks about the dietary needs of reindeer are

draw sanji and chopper making a cotton candy statue

Chopper is banned from the kitchen while he’s shedding his winter coat

Robin does a bunch of research on the All Blue and tells sanji about it

Franky makes a series of increasingly specific cooking related gadgets for Sanji

Brook likes a bunch of weird old recipes that everyone else hates, but Sanji makes them anyway

Jinbe gets sanji special fish from the bottom of the sea for his cooking

Chopper is bunnicula

The Strawhats attend a Soul King concert

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ASL shenanigans back on Dawn

Anything with the East Blue crew!

Shanks gives in and takes Luffy with him

Just the Straw Hat crew hanging out and having fun on a down day

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Lucci and Kaku reflect on their time in Water 7/the events of Enies Lobby as members of CP0

Luffy has a nightmare about Marineford

Instead of getting caught by Vergo, Rocinante takes Law to Marine HQ and trains him as a marine after acquiring the OpOp fruit

The rest of the OG Warlords join Cross Guild

Zoro takes the offer to join Baroque Works

Blackbeard's relationship with the rest of the WB pirates before his betrayal, particularly Thatch

Draw Luffy dressed like one or several of the villains that he's defeated in the past

Kid x Killer postWano with the latter being selfconscious about his permanent smile and laugh

Devil fruits irl

Sanji gets transported to a universe where him and Zoro are dating (replacing the Sanji there)

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SanUsoKaya Usopp realizes he may have a type. Sanji and Kaya are incredibly amused and very endeared by his flailing.

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A villain overhears/ is asked about a version of their interaction with the Straw Hats that has been heavily altered over time

The people of an island the Straw Hats visit are taking Usopp's "god" moniker literally

Creative use of seastone

A marine arrives somewhere to find that their Cross Guild wanted posted has preceded them

Shirahoshi goes on a date

Revolutionary Army meeting after any of the major pretimeskip events

Water 7 from Iceberg's POV

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Luffy develops amnesia

Luffy wakes up one day as a child

Sabo is visited by Ace’s ghost

Zoro keeps buying Sanji little gifts, trying “court” him without explaining. Sanji doesn’t understand

Protective Ace and Sabo seeing all the Valentine’s Luffy gets

Luffy working at McDonald’s (or any other fast food joint)

Law really wants to cuddle with a mini Gear 5 Luffy

While fishing, a fish catches Luffy by surprise and drags him into the water. He's caught in the line

LawLu where Law learns that Luffy loves being read to

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Early Heart Pirates shenanigans while they're still learning to sail a submarine around the North Blue

The Heart Pirates and half the Straw Hats bond during the trip from Zou to Wano on the Polar Tang

Firefly Pirates SFW thread

@opfandombase @op-events @opfandomnews

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A Mr. 2 Bon Kurei redesign!

She deserves good makeup <3

Og under the cut

[eyelesskull]

Hey everybody~! It's been a while. ;}

I'm sorry for not posting a lot. I'm REALLY busy lately and could'nt spend much time on personal work...

So anyway, Here's my version of Bon Clay A.K.A. Mr. 2 of One Piece! Do you like? Should I do more like this one? Just let me know~! ;}

[therandombanjo]

Songs From 2019 (one per artist)

Another mixed bag of stuff i either enjoyed a lot, thought was excellent or interesting (regardless of taste… sort of), emerging artists to maybe look out for, and generally music that for whatever reason connected with me in some way, including the odd earworm i just couldn’t shake. Some artists are left off just to vary a little more from some other popular lists. Hope you enjoy some of this too and find something new to be taken by. Please do buy their music if you can and hopefully from a local independent record store if possible to support their work. There’s a spotify playlist (below) for easier listening but I’ve also posted a few links to extra things on some of them if you want to check them out.  Spotify:

(As ever…. as i don’t tumblr or blog or anything (besides this list), this won’t be seen by many (if any?) people so if you like it or think it’s of any worth in any way, please do share this along)

In Alphabetical order:

A.A. Bondy - Killers 3 Abdallah Oumbadougou - Thingalene Alasdair Roberts - Common Clay Alex Rex - Latest Regret Andy Shauf - Try Again Angel Bat Dawid - We Are Starzz Angel Olsen - All Mirrors        bonus. her collab with Mark Ronson “True Blue” Anne Müller - Solo? Repeat! Antoinette Konan - Kokoloko Tani Arthur Russell - Words Of Love Asmâa Hamzaoui and Bnat Timbouktou - Sandia Baby Rose - All To Myself BCI - Grateful Bedouine - When You’re Gone Benny The Butcher - Crowns For Kings      ft. Black Thought Ben Walker - Afon Better Oblivion Community Center - Chesapeake Beverly Glenn-Copeland - A Little Talk     (from a reissue of her 2004 record Primal Prayer) Bibio - Curls The Big Moon - It’s Easy Then Big Thief - a. Not    b. Cattails    (from 2 excellent albums released in the same year: “U.F.O.F” and “Two Hands”) Bill Callahan - a. What Comes After Certainty    b. The Ballad Of The Hulk Bill Fay - Filled With Wonder Once Again Bill Orcutt - Odds Against Tomorrow billy woods - a. Spongebob w/ Kenny Segal     b. Western Education Is Forbidden    ft. Fielded        (From 2 excellent records this year: “Hiding Places” with Kenny Segal, and “Terror Management”) Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses Blu & Oh No - The Lost Angels Anthem    ft. Kezia Bon Iver - Hey, Ma Bonnie “Prince” Billy - Beast For Thee Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman      (”supergroup” of the great Anaïs Mitchell, Eric D Johnson & Josh Kaufman) Brent Cobb & Jade Bird - Feet Off The Ground Brighde Chaimbeul -  O Chiadain an Lo Brigyn - Oer Brittany Howard - Stay High    (the video for this, with Terry Crews, is a delight) Bruce Hornsby - Voyager One    ft. yMusic Burd Ellen - Sweet Lemany Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett - Kestrel Caribou - You and I Caroline Polachek - Door Cate Le Bon - Daylight Matters Caterina Barbieri - Arrows Of Time Clairo - Bags Cochemea - Mitote comfort - Not Passing The Cool Greenhouse - Cardboard Man    (a pretty hilarious song about David Cameron) CRAC - You Can’t Turn Your Back On Me    (Unreleased old track from ‘76) Cross Record - PYSOL My Castle CZ Wang and Neo Image - Just Off Wave Damon Locks / Black Monument Ensemble - a. Rebuild a Nation   b. Power Daniel Norgren - The Flow Danny Brown - Dirty Laundry Daphni - Sizzling    ft. Paradise Daughter Of Swords - Fellows      (Mountain Man member Alexandra Sauser-Monnig’s 1st solo record) Dave - Psycho David Kilgour - Smoke You Right Out Of Here David Thomas Broughton - Ambiguity     (from the 15th anniversary reissue of his remarkable debut album, The Complete Guide To Insufficiency) Denzel Curry - RICKY Destroyer - Crimson Tide Dry Cleaning - Dog Proposal Dubi Dolczek - Do The Gloop Durand Jones & The Indications - Long Way Home Ela Orleans - The Season      (From 2012 but on a career retrospective, Movies For Ears, put out this year) Elkhorn - Song Of The Son Emile Mosseri - a. The Last Black Man In San Francisco b. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)    ft. Mike Marshall         (both from the wonderful score for the wonderful film The Last Black Man In San Francisco, the latter a cover of an old song sung here by the guy who sang “I Got 5 On It”!!) Erland Cooper - Haar Ernest Hood - Saturday Morning Doze        (from a re-issue of his “self-released proto-ambient masterpiece” in ‘75) Fat White Family - Feet Faye Webster - Room Temperature Fennesz - In My Room Fernando Falcão -  As 7 Filhas Da Rainha Sumaia     (reissue from ‘87) FKA twigs - cellophane Florist - Shadow Bloom Flowdan - Welcome To London Fontaines D.C. - Roy’s Tune Four Tet / KH - Only Human French Vanilla - All The Time Gang Starr - Family and Loyalty   ft. J. Cole Georgia - About Work The Dancefloor Girl Band - Shoulderblades The Good Ones - Will You Be My Protector?   (of Rwanda) Grand Veymont - Les Rapides Bleus       (of France) Gyedu-Blay Ambolley - Sunkwa     (of Ghana) Hailaker - Not Much HAIM - Summer GIrl Hana Vu - Actress Hand Habits - placeholder Hannah Cohen - Get In Line The Harlem Gospel Travellers - If You Can’t Make It Through A Storm Hayden Thorpe - Diviner     (Former Wild Beasts frontman’s debut solo record) Helado Negro - Running The Highwomen - Redesigning Women Hiss Golden Messenger - I Need A Teacher Holly Herndon - Frontier Homeboy Sandman - Far Out Hoops - They Say Hotel Neon & Blurstem - Language Of Loss House and Land - Rainbow ‘Mid Life’s Willows Ibibio Sound Machine - Wanna Come Down IDER - Saddest Generation The Innocence Mission - On Your Side International Teachers Of Pop - I Stole Yer Plimsoles    ft. Jason Williamson (of Sleaford Mods) Jacken Elswyth - The Banks Of Green Williow Jaimie Branch - nuevo roquero estéreo Jake Xerxes Fussell - The River St. Johns Jamila Woods - ZORA Jayda G - Leave Room 2 Breathe Jenny Hval - Ashes To Ashes       Jenny Lewis - Red Bull and Hennessy Jesca Hoop - Outside of Eden     ft. Kate Stables (of This Is The Kit) and Jesca’s 12 year-old nephew Justis. This live performance is so sweet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUPmE_hU7Ss Jessica Pratt - As The World Turns Joanna Sternberg - This Is Not Who I Want To Be Joan Shelley - Cycle John Blek - North Star Lady Jordan Rakei - Say Something        bonus. under his DJ pseudonym: Dan Kye - Focus Jo Schornikow - Incomplete Joseph Shabason - West of Heaven Julianna Barwick - evening Junius Paul - Baker’s Dozen Kali Malone - Spectacle Of Ritual Kate Teague - Sweetheart Kate Tempest - a. Firesmoke    b. People’s Faces Kelly Moran - Halogen (Una Corda)       (from a record full of all the bare piano parts she played for her prior record before all the editing and processing) Kim Gordon - Air BnB Kindness - Hard To Believe     ft. Jazmine Sullivan KOKOKO! - Buka Dansa     (Congolese collective upcycling discarded materials to make their instruments) Konradsen - Baby Hallelujah     (of Norway) Lambchop - Everything For You Laura Cannell - a. Sing As The Crow Flies     b. Flaxen Fields Laura Stevenson - Lay Back, Arms Out Le Groupe Obscur -  Planète Ténèbres Leonard Cohen - Happens To The Heart Leo Svirsky - River Without Banks Little Simz - 101 FM Lizzo - Tempo   ft. Missy Elliot Loren Conors & Daniel Carter - Departing Lou Roy - Bite Low Chord - Walkk Lower Dens - Galapagos Mahalia - What You Did    ft. Ella Mai Majja - Black James Dean Maria Somerville - This Way Maria Usbeck - Amor Anciano Mary Halvorson & John Dieterich - Vega’s Array      (Mary the recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Grant this year, because she is) Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan - IV Matana Roberts - As Far As The Eye Can See Meitei - Ike Melanie Charles - Trill Suite, No. 1 (Daydreaming/Skylark) The Menzingers - Anna Messiahs Of Glory - No Other Love      (from a collection of rare black gospel from the Midwest between ‘65-’78 put out on Tompkins Square) Mica Levi - a. Hosting     b. Lobo y Lady (from the excellent Colombian film Monos) Michael Abels - a. I Got 5 On It (Tethered Mix)    b. Pas De Deux (both from the terrific score to the excellent Jordan Peele film, Us) Michael Kiwanuka - Living In Denial Michael Nau - Poor Condition Mike Adams At His Honest Weight - Wonderful To Love Minor Pieces - Rothko      (duo of Ian William Craig & newcomer Missy Donaldson) Modern Nature - Footsteps Molly Sarlé - Twisted      (Mountain Man member’s 1st solo record) Moodymann - I’ll Provide Moon Duo - Stars Are The Light Moor Mother - After Images Moses Boyd - Stranger Than Fiction Moses Sumney - Polly Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron - Love Without Possession MSYLMA - Inqirad (Rihab-U Dhakir)     (Saudi Arabia) The Murder Capital - Don’t Cling To Life Nardeydey - Freefalling The National - Rylan   ft. Kate Stables (of This Is The Kit) The New Pornographers - Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - a. Waiting For You   b. Bright Horses   c. Night Raid Nivhek - After Its Own Death: Side A    (Liz Harris of Grouper) Noname - Song 32 Octo Octa - Move Your Body ODD OKODDO - Auma      (Kenyan/German duo) Øyvind Torvund - Starry Night      (Norwegian composer) Pet Shop Boys - Burning The Heather Petter Eldh - Fanfarum for Komarum II Porridge Radio - Give/Take PREGOBLIN - Combustion Purple Mountains - a. Snow Is Falling In Manhattan    b. All My Happiness Is Gone   c. That’s Just The Way That I Feel Quelle Chris - Obamacare Quinie - Whas At The Windy Rapsody - Ibtihaj   ft. D’Angelo & GZA Reb Fountain - Faster Rian Treanor - ATAXIA_A1 Richard Dawson - Two Halves Robert Stillman - All Are Welcome Róisín Murphy - Incapable Rosalía - Milionària Rosenau & Sanborn - Saturday Rozi Plain - Symmetrical Ruth Garbus - Strash Sam Lee - The Moon Shines Bright   ft. Elizabeth Fraser (of Cocteau Twins) Sam Wilkes - Run Sandro Perri - Soft Landing SAULT - Smile and Go Seabuckthorn - To Which The Rest Were Dreamt serpentwithfeet - Receipts    ft. Ty Dolla $ign Sessa - Flor do Real         (of Brazil) Sheer Mag - Hardly To Blame Shit and Shine - No No No No Sinead O Brien - A Thing You Call Joy Siobhan Wilson - Plastic Grave Six Organs Of Admittance - Two Forms Moving Sleaford Mods - Kebab Spider Slow Meadow - Artificial Algorithm Snowy - EFFED    ft. Jason Williamson (of Sleaford Mods) SOAK - Knock Me Off My Feet Solange - Binz Sophie Crawford - A Miner’s Life Squid - Houseplants         bonus. Their cover of Robert Wyatt’s  “PIgs..... In There at End of the Road Festival) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DktZtQbo-YU Stella Donnelly - Old Man SUSS - Ursa Major Swamp Dogg - Sleeping Without You Is A Dragg   ft. Justin Vernon & Jenny Lewis Tami T - Birthday  Tenesha The Wordsmith - Why White Folks Can’t Call Me Nigga Theon Cross - Activate     ft. Moses Boyd & Nubya Garcia Thom Yorke - Dawn Chorus Tierra Whack - Wasteland Tim Hecker - That World Tiny Leaves - Respair Toya Delazy - Funani         (of South Africa) Twain - Death (Or S.F.?) Twin Peaks - Dance Through It Tyler Childers - All Your’n Vagabon - Water Me Down Vampire Weekend - This Life Vanishing Twin - Magicians Success Velvet Negroni - Confetti Vendredi Sur Mer - Chewing-Gum      (of France) Victoria Monét - Ass Like That Vieo Abiungo - Cobble Together Visible Cloaks - Stratum      ft. Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano Warmduscher - Midnight Dipper Weyes Blood - Andromeda Wilco - Love Is Everywhere (Beware) William Tyler - Our Lady Of The Desert Willie Scott & The Birmingham Spirituals - Keep Your Faith To The Sky     (from a collection of obscure 70′s era gospel on Luaka Bop, “The Time For Peace Is Now - Gospel Music About Us”) Xylouris White - Tree Song Ye Vagabonds - The Foggy Dew Zsela - Noise

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If you answered “no,” that’s all right, you’re definitely not alone. Etta was one of DC’s earliest sidekicks, and one of the first female supporting characters in super hero comics who wasn’t a love interest or a villain—but she’s also got some truly weird and wild history, which can make her just a little challenging to understand at first glance.

If you’re planning on seeing Wonder Woman this weekend, you’ll get a good introduction to her as charmingly played by Lucy Davis. However, the movie only hints at the close friendship Diana and Etta have maintained over 75 years of comic book history.

How close? Well, grab yourself a seat, gather up some of your favorite sweets, and get ready. It’s time for to shine a spotlight on the wonderful history of Wonder Woman’s right hand lady.

GOLDEN YEARS

Etta was introduced in SENSATION COMICS #2 way back in 1942. That’s less than a year after Jimmy Olsen was given a name, for those of you playing along at home.

Like most classic comic characters, Etta wasn’t given an origin story until after she showed up in Sensation Comics, and the story that she did get was full of Golden Age whimsy. It was explained that Etta was a sickly, weak, malnourished girl that Diana found languishing away at a local hospital. Inspired by witnessing Diana’s strength and prowess during her brief visit, Etta found herself with a new lease on life. The next time Diana finds her, she’s a healthy, exuberant bon vivant who credits her miraculous turnaround to…um, eating a lot of sweets.

Yeah, it may sound a little ridiculous, but remember that this was in a comic featuring a hero who was sculpted out of clay. Ridiculous is kind of par for the course.

Anyhow, from that point on, Etta would show up to help Wonder Woman with cunning and moxie—and sometimes the help of her Holiday College sorority sisters, the “Holiday Girls.” Together, they would come up against whole encampments of enemies and save Steve Trevor from peril. Etta even got a handful of catchphrases throughout their adventures, like her trademark “Woo! Woo!” Something that was inspired by popular comedians of the time like Curly Howard of The Three Stooges.

Eventually, Etta was even given a whole supporting cast of her own in addition to the Holiday Girls: The entire Candy family. There were her father and mother, Hard and Sugar Candy, her army veteran brother Mint Candy… (Sensing a bit of a naming convention there?) Her car had a name too, but it was unfortunately the totally un-sugar-themed “Esmeralda.”

Even the other Amazons back on Themyscira accepted her as one of their own. Etta was allowed to travel freely on the island and participate in sporting events and games, despite the fact she had no superhuman strength or abilities to speak of.

BRONZE YEARS

As you’ve probably guessed, Etta’s wacky original status quo couldn’t last. The changing face of comics as the ’40s and ’50s gave way to the darker, more realistic and grounded ’60s and ’70s, which called for some updating of Wonder Woman’s corner of the DC Universe, and Etta was no exception.

She spent the majority of the ’60s and ’70s as a footnote, barely showing up in stories at all, and being nearly unrecognizable to her old fans when she did. In this version of the story, she was an insecure and shy girl who never acted as the leader of the Holiday Girls and most certainly never chased down an enemy with a gleeful “Woo! Woo!”

It wasn’t until 1980 that Etta was pulled back into the spotlight with a brand new rework. In WONDER WOMAN #272, it was revealed that Etta had graduated from Holiday College in the years since she’d been dropped from storylines and gone on to become a Lieutenant in the military.

This new version of Etta was slightly more reminiscent of the original 1940s version, but toned down to fit the more serious tone. There were no more catch phrases or sugar-themed family members, but Etta did adopt a quirk of occasionally swearing to Betty Crocker when she was frustrated as a nod to her sweet-loving origin story.

POST-CRISIS AND BEYOND

When the 1986 continuity-altering event CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS took place, Etta found herself updated for the times yet again. In the new timeline, Etta remained an Air Force Lieutenant, but began working closely with Steve Trevor as his aide.

This eventually spiraled into a love story between Steve and Etta that lasted a not totally insignificant amount of time.

Pretty crazy, right? Especially considering how most of us now would consider Steve to be synonymous with Diana’s love life.

Steve and Etta eventually married and remained close friends with Diana—though the nature of their romance, and the happiness in their marriage largely fluctuated from creative team to creative team.

This pattern of creative flux would continue even through The New 52, where Etta was reimagined yet again. She was given a top to bottom redesign and her romantic ties with Steve Trevor were removed, but they remained close friends and confidants. Etta kept her Air Force connections, and though her camp flare was long gone by this point, she lost a considerable amount of her insecurity and became a character known for being incredibly ambitious, perhaps as a middle ground between her Golden Age and ’60s identities.

More recently still, Rebirth saw Etta established by the creative team of Greg Rucka, Nicola Scott and Liam Sharp as a Commander in the Air Force rather than a lieutenant. Her close relationship with Steve and Diana remained a constant, though Etta’s position of power gave her a bit more of an edge than she’d ever had before.

“Commander Candy” certainly does have a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? You can meet Etta for yourself in the pages of WONDER WOMAN VOL. 1: THE LIES and VOL. 2: YEAR ONE, or on the big screen in Wonder Woman. Also, don’t forget to pick up your free WONDER WOMAN DAY #1 comic book on Saturday, which also features Etta!