#THE EDGY PIECES OF CRAP

[mangocatastrophe]

OP, pray tell, would you be ok with other peeps redrawing your design

law the hedgehog ? trafalgar d. water shadow ? shadow the surgeon of deat h ?

[weedle-testaburger]

i think i have a completely different definition of 'cringe' to everyone else bc i don't think there's anything wrong at all with like grown adults loving kid's stuff, but i cringe hard when they're into shit with tonnes of rape and other abuse in it or simp for serial killers

[jinxsmascara]

"Why do you like Silco from arcane SOOOOO much ?"

Well... number one: father figure of a character i KIN

Number two: his back story is the perfect exemple of ascending into...pure rage and unforgiveness like:

WARNING ARCANE S2 SPOILER !:

He was just a guy who worked with his brother in the mines and both were friends with Vi and Powder/Jinx mother (Felicia) ... yes he was a revolutionary , yes he was like "im too punk and edgy and cool for caring about the future ! Lets make Zaun !" Which was understandable i mean you live in a poor shitty undercity and you are looked down by the Pilities who never have to worry while you are in the slums worried if you will even have a tomorrow (lack of food n water / contaminated food n water , live in the streets for the most unlucky ones etc etc) and the Topside wont hear you , if course you go "FUCK IT LETS RIOT !" ... as we all know Silco fought on the bridge with Vander and Felicia (well maybe she didnt wanna fight because she had Vi and Powder/Jinx so maybe she was with them because she had to run from enforcers ?) ... and Felicia died (we dont know if Silco accidentally killed her wanting to punch an enforcer but in his "high" of "OH MY GOD IM PUNCHING EVERYONE !" or she was already dead (i think its the second option because we can see his face drop as he sees Felicia lifeless like "...no no no hey no this isnt supposed to happen !") ..) , Vander saw Silco at the wrong moment wrong time , and decided to just attack him...

Now just imagine that: you are fighting for your life and your people's lives , and you see your bestfriend dead , and you try to process that shit all while you have raging enforcers running at you wanting to arrest/kill you , and on top of that you have no time to explain or you simply cant explain to your brother why and how y'all best friend died ... and this brother of yours decides to attack you and kill you in the worse ways (drowning + gauging your left eye out) ... all you can think about is "i lost everyone... he hates me ! They all hate me! i hate them all ! Betrayers !" , you dont have time to think "its a misunderstanding ... its gonna be okay" ...

Of course i aint condoneing everything , im just stating the facts like...of course he would turn out this way after that crap ! The opposite woulda surprised me !

Also despite his "im a fucking menace" act... you can see when Vander attacks him again in S1 A3 , his first reaction is to FREEZE and have flashbacks of him being drowned again... THAT GUY STILL GETS MF PTSD LIKE DUDE GO TO THERAPY AND CALM YOUR TITS ! (He has to shake himself off like "WAKE UP HE IS GONNA KILL YOU !" to react)

(No i wont mention how...lame the excuse letter was , i mean , I know vander is shit at this (thats what he says in the letter too bwaha) but...he could have maybe asked for Benzo or someone else to help him write the letter for Silco ? Like instead of just "yeah uhm im sorry uhm...find me at the bar eh ?" (Which would have infuriated Silco even more imo , like imagine you get disfigurated and almost killed and the person who did that gives you a poor piece of paper ? He would have gone like "OH YEAH IM COMING TO THE MF LAST DROP AND IM GONNA KICK HIS DAMN ASS !" instead of "...mehhh fine okay") like an actual "lets have a talk...like two adults" one-)

Thankyou for assisting an episode of: Jinx takes a globally insignificant thing too much at heart !

- Jinx out

[cassiebones]

What headcanons would you have for Alice or Jen in Agatha All Along? :)

Alice was a mama's girl despite their difficult relationship. Her mother was much better at showing her love for Alice than Evanora was at showing hers (if there ever was any love for Agatha) but she focused so much on breaking a curse that Alice was certain was never actually real. Alice still craved her attention, always proud to show her something she made or playing her a new song that she learned.

Alice is not a morning person. She was the one who signed up for graveyard shifts as a cop. She thrived on late nights, the moon giving her more energy. She was always happy to take somebody's late night shifts for them. She sometimes had to work mornings, which made her long for the sweet release of Death.

Despite her moody, edgy style, she needs a crap ton of sugar in her coffee. She cannot drink it black like her co-workers always did. They teased her for this, but she was fine with her Cinnamon Dolce lattes, thank you very much.

That tattoo was not her mother's idea, originally. Alice saw her mother stressing out over the curse and looked up ways that she could protect herself in a more permanent way than wearing a necklace she may lose or something else like that. So she looked up the symbol and showed her mother, who didn't even hesitate to book her with a friend. Lorna held her hand the entire time, and Alice forced herself not to cry from the pain, trying to be brave for her mother.

Alice visited her mother's grave (which wasn't a real grave bc she didn't have enough of her mother to bury) on every major holiday, leaving flowers and crystals (because her mother believed in their power) and talking to her about how her life is going.

She had a cat, named Cheeto, who was the most orange cat you ever met. She loved him, though. She found him while working, when he was still a kitten. She fell in love with him immediately and brought him home with her after her shift ended. She told Jen about him before she died. Jen goes to her apartment after getting off The Road, and takes Cheeto home with her, honoring Alice in the only way she can.

Jen is almost the opposite of Alice.

She is a morning person. She likes to wake with the sun and do yoga and all that healthy shit. She has a brand to uphold, after all.

She does GRWM videos all the time, showing people what she puts in her organic smoothies (cutting out the part where she puts in protein powder that nobody can know she uses) and egg-white omelettes. She's a vegetarian onscreen only.

Again, it's her brand. Her last name is literally a vegetable (she makes cannibalism jokes when she adds kale to her smoothies).

She's always been openly bisexual and has several pieces of art that reflect that in her home. She laments about her dating life a lot online and has gotten several offers from her fans to be taken on dates. She almost always declines, but she's touched obviously by the interest.

She and Agatha had a situationship. Jen started to catch feelings, but Agatha was closed off emotionally because she was still hung up on Rio and the pain she'd caused. When Jen tried to get closer, Agatha pushed her away and was not nice about it. She figured it'd be easier if Jen hated her. Jen was definitely bitter, which is why she believed every bad thing that anybody had to say about Agatha, including that she traded away her own son for the Darkhold.

She bound herself, I think. I think Agatha was lying about having bound her in the 1920's. Not that I don't think she would have done that for money (she'd probably do it for shits and giggles tbh) but I don't think Agatha actually did it to Jen. I think Jen was so traumatized by the men who tried to bind her that she actually end up binding herself. She just convinced herself that it was them that bound her because it was the easier solution.

Jen genuinely loves hiking. It's the best way to unplug and just be herself for a little bit. She'll go to the nearest mountain and just walk for miles until she gets tired. She loves watching sunsets on these hikes. She also secretly loves camping because it reminds her of the years she had to spend living off the land as a younger witch.

She also really loves spas. She has a standing bi-weekly appointment at her local spa. She's a complicated person.

If Alice had lived, there's no doubt in my mind that she and Jen would have become a thing. Opposites attract and all that. They both have trauma, even if it's different kinds of trauma. I think they'd make a good pair.

Agatha would tease them and claim to be the reason they got together. She wouldn't exactly be wrong.

[savemeafruitjuice]

Tickletober Day 5- Boo!

Lee: Raphael

Ler: Master Splinter

TW!: SOME SWEARING!

October was a month that seemed to awaken something in the Splinterson family. Some more than others.

Mikey and Leo both loved decorating the lair and watching movies, Donnie loved listening to halloween music, Master Splinter loved doing festive activities with his sons..

And Raph loved scaring the crap out of his brothers.

Every year, he made it a point to hide in every corner, nook, and cranny, and then practically jump whoever was nearest to his spot. Sure, it annoyed everyone, but it's part of Halloween! Even if it was literally twenty-six days away..

Anyways, that's what he was doing, perched on a pipe above his pops, who was comfortably lounging in the living room, watching his soaps. Was it a bit risky trying to scare him? Yeah.. probably. But was it worth it?

..Maybe?

Raphael timed his jump carefully. He would have to land close enough to his father to startle him, but not close enough to be posed as a threat and get his ass whooped. 'One.. two.. three!'

The sai-user hopped down from his spot, just about to yell his little phrase for when he'd scare his family, but was interrupted mid-jump as Splinter seemed to have already known where he was, and flip him so that he was sprawled across his father's lap, laying on his stomach.

"BOO- Woaah!"

"Good try, my son, but you lack one important piece of knowledge... I have good reflexes." The rat mutant went to scribble over his sides, and Raph's eyes immediately went wide, biting his lip to keep from laughing. His arms went to grab his father's hands, but was immediate stopped by a squeeze to the back of his neck. It was now that he realized how vulnerable of a spot he was put into.

With sharp nails scratching at his side, and his neck, Raph had no chance of holding in the giggles that were bubbling up. "Ahah! Wait juhust'aha secohond!"

Splinter smiled. It was good to see his edgy-son laughing, even if he did need to force it juuust a little. He moved from his side to his shell, thinking about how such bright laughter would usually result from that spot. Almost as if on cue, the red-themed turtle reached to cover his face, though his laughter slipped through his fingers, warming his father's heart to hear the happy sound.

Fingers traced at the scutes of the turtle's shell, and he snorted between his laughter. "Pohops.. Lehehemmehe- SNRT! goho!"

When his son's face was flushed pink, shoulders scrunched and legs kicking out behind him, Splinter decided to give him a break, instead going to wrap his arms around him. Raph snorted again at the embrace, half expecting more tickles, but eventually calmed down, hugging his dad back.

It would've been a strange sight to anyone who didn't know the context of the situation, seeing a huge hot-headed teen cradled in the lap of his elderly father, but neither cared in the slightest. Their lives were strange, why not embrace it?

[vsa-pieldepapel]

Very interesting insight on the whole purity culture replicating religious behaviors. As someone without a religious background, for me it was always about avoiding looking "like a bitch" or making sure I looked like "a kind woman"... The words are forward thinking, but the mentality is completely traditional... haha..

Trust me, even if your entire life isn't saturated by religion, religion is so ubiquitous even in the modern era that that shit sticks with you and is simply terraformed. I say "oh my god" and "jesus" and "holy virgin mary" as exclamations despite being an edgy atheist.

The empathy is how they get you. "just be kind" and "it costs $0 to be a good person" and calling you a bitch is simply an evolution of the fundamentally religious belief that female people are secondary and come from the rib male people, that they're meant to be demure, serviceable, loyal companions, not too outspoken, and always willing to sacrifice for someone else, a belief so ubiquitous that it doesn't matter if you weren't specifically under religion because people just See It That Way. You are being fed the same rhetoric under two different envelopes, because all of this progressive bs shares all of the core tenets of religion but with tweaked language, and you shouldn't struggle to see it in the wild, see the reaction to female public figures being "problematic" versus male and YES i am emphasizing biological sex here because, as a baby, you are raised in accordance to the sex you were born with that other people observe and identity develops later on or with time, and you can't undo, or erase, how you were raised, the same way you can't undo childhood trauma or the consequences of being bullied in school, and that also informs how people perceive you and react-- that is just reality. I know this from personal experience.

Nobody wants to be an asshole. If some cunt walked up to you on the street and said "holy crap you're a racist piece of shit" you'd go "wait, what the fuck, no I'm not." Because ultimately most humans crave connections, affection, and attention, and being helpful to those around them. The problem is that this is extremely easily exploitable by narcissists and opportunists. Read about vulnerable narcissism and you will see how you find that both religion and wokism operates exactly that way as a community, with the sense of victimhood but entitlement to service and emotional coddling and calling you an aggressor if you don't cater to their every need. People who want you to believe the sky is green for whatever reason will use this and say "if you say the sky is blue you're basically a nazi" and if an entire group does this you will shut up about the sky being blue, because who wants to be a nazi??? But you know your beliefs. You know that nazism is about the superiority of the aryan race and elimination of the "undesirables" and it has fuck all to do with the sky being blue, and if you're principled in that manner, you will be able to accept the sky-is-green people are connecting wildly unrelated dots and guilt tripping you.

They even appropriate other politically relevant language like "dogwhistles" to imply that no no no, you don't mean what you say, you're actually thinking the forbidden thoughts and trying to communicate them very subtly, you see. They know your thoughts better than you. But no one can know your thoughts better than you! This is the same bullshit as religion and the temptation to go astray and stop believing! Honestly as a woman there's a big chance people will call you a bitch anyway. There's nothing to lose. You don't have to do religion or religion (glitter edition). Be yourself and don't be afraid to question things, read the opposing side of everything and form your own views. Logic that doesn't add up can't sway you. I've read incels and trad women and rightoids and it hasn't changed my opinions because I can discern how their arguments don't track.

Think of it this way: Who is winning what by silencing you? What is the true purpose of insisting that you just "be kind"? I'm glad you got something valuable out of my rants. Wish you the best.

[elisartstuff]

this is. this is cringe asf dear god

Yes hes supposed to be missing a glove for magic purposes(tm) dont question the eye the less questions the better tbh,,/sipky

Basically uh. I was tryna sleep and my brain kept being edgy like "hey make this mwahhahahah" and uh yeah. this guy again cause i cant dtop being obsessed also cause I wanted to draw smth for my AU that involves he. spooky dream shit yk. also I need to practice making more pieces with human characters

It's like 3 am (scheduling it to post later so ppl can see this more) uh. yeah. goodnight. I'm gonna be asleep when this posts (9 am mst)

I'll work on the requests when I wake up, my brain was just lik. rlly active rn?? abyways goodnight guyz3im timtdek

Update I'm putting in the tags and the word black hole doesnt even look real anymore it looks like gibberish uaghhhhhgg I'm going insane holy crap

Update 2: I have a speedpaint up on my TikTok!!

[thurio-edau]

can you tell me about your blorbo guy? Your poor little meow meow? I don’t know crap about one piece and would like to know who he is

ohmygodohmygodohmygod

spencie you have no idea how happy this ask just made me 😭😭 i love it when people ask me about my hyperfixations and blorbos

i will yap a bit much so i'm placing a read more @sketchingwithlyn feel free to add more ehhdkdkfjdjdkddj

so.

as you already know from following me and my 482637 posts of him -i am very sorry about that.-, his name is trafalgar law. full name trafalgar d. water law :3

he grew up in an island where a poisonous material was found and took over the entire island. he was the only one who survived the extermination done by other countries to kill the disease because they thought it was contagious, but it wasnt. the poison causes light colour patches to appear on the bearer's skin, and when law was first introduced his skin colour was tan more than white, so most artists like to draw him with a vitiligo pattern. (fun fact, it's canon that if the characters were assigned countries, he'd be german. i headcanon him as half german half black so i have an excuse to make his skin darker and make the vitiligo pattern more apparent hehe)

he was traumatized from the event and went to this doflamingo guy as a kid. he's an edgy and emo ten year old who literally ties bombs around himself. he's going to die in three years -his bio father is a renowned doctor and he wanted to be like him- according to his calculations so he wants to kill as many as possible because other countries killed his whole island, family, and everyone and everything he's ever known. corazon, doflamingo's good brother who is actually an undercover navy soldier, saves him, betraying doflamingo. the only way to fix this deadly disease is to make him operate on himself using the devil fruit -fruits that give you inhumane abilities but make you unable to swim and weak to bodies of water- called the ope ope no mi, a medical druit. corazon dies, shot and killed by his own brother while trying to save him and law promises to end doflamingo.

in dressrosa -the arc that i finished- he succeeds, getting doflamingo caught with luffy's help. corazon's father figure, the old leader of marines gives him fire advice here and tells him that corazon would have wanted law to live his life free from the burden, now law has his own reasons to live that isn't avenging corazon.

but. fun fact. this guy is both batshit insane and the cutest dude ever at the same time.

he takes out 100 pirates' beating hearts and gives them to the government to achieve a warlord reputation. asserting dominance. but he would die for dogs. his best friend is a talking polar bear. he dies for cute things. he has so many soft spots. he actually doesn't want people to die. he'd do anything to save someone's health, as a professional surgeon.

he's also funny as fuck completely unintentionally. every time he witnessed luffy and luffy's crew do something insane -casual for luffy's crew- he looks at the screen like

he's really picky about food. hates bread, oranges, tangerines, pickles, other fruits... my man lives on rice and fish.

also he wears eyeliner. and he's an otaku. he's a complete comic nerd. he collects coins. he likes art. his body is tattoed, but almost all of them are hearts. his jolly roger -pirate flag symbol- represents corazon's smile. everything he has is heart themed.

he's my poor little meow meow.

[enigmaoftheduchess]

Huh, Jin is enigmatic? There's literally nothing difficult to interpret or mysterious about Jin. He's the typical angsty emo edgy 90's mama's boi who's obsessed with revenge and we know everything about his backstory and why he hates the Mishima bloodline (like Cloud Strife from FFVII or Spawn from the Image Comics. Edgelords were a big thing in the 90's). If anything his mother Jun is the definition of enigmatic, she's literally Tekken's most mysterious character. Kazuya is also more mysterious than Jin too, and way more complex too. Heihachi also can be considered enigmatic too, we ponder why he threw Kaz off the cliff that day in Tekken 7. Not to mention he isn't exactly a good tragic anti-hero either. His "trauma" isn't good enough. His mother Jun of course comes back from the dead. He has supportive friends like Hwoarang and Xiaoyu. There's his devil gene, except turns out the Devil Gene was his protector all along. I'm not the biggest fan of Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto unlike that one crazy anon who wanted to ship him with Ling Xiaoyu, but at least even I can admit Sasuke's trauma is legit and understandable. Sasuke is a child abuse victim (just like Kazuya, Sasuke was also brutally abused by his brother Itachi who tortured him), survived the homicide/genocide of his own bloodline/people, watched his parents die a million times, he had to learn to cook and clean for himself where his parents died, his brother abuses him again and puts him through a genjutsu again after he finally gets stability in his life while his rival Naruto just watches him getting jumped by his brother, his parents NEVER come back to life, and he also ends up being a child soldier for Konoha a ninja village which quite frankly doesn't give a crap about kids dying in war that adults started. Jin's "trauma" is losing his precious mommy who was alive the whole time and a devil gene which turned out to actually be his protector. There's almost nothing appealing about Jin personality-wise or story-wise. Jin is such a badly written protagonist, honestly be real with yourself and admit you only like him because of his gameplay and his design which you want to look up r34 of.

Normally I'm not a fan of reboots, but Tekken is one of the few franchises that desperately needs one at this point with all the plot holes and inconsistencies. Hell, Soul Calibur rebooted after the fifth game almost killed the series so why not Tekken? Sadly, I don't think that's gonna happen. Bandai Namco would rather continue to milk their esports cash cow golden goose that is Tekken. Tekken is gonna end up being the fighting game genre equivalent of One Piece or The Simpsons - it's never gonna end. They'll just keep constantly introducing new Mishimas like they have in each new game since Tekken 6. Honestly, I won't be surprised if even One Piece actually comes to an end before the Mishima storyline finally comes to an end (which should've ended in the fourth game or fifth game imo).

Why is emo always used derogatorily? And I find his bond with his mother a beautiful thing, mainly because Jun is a mother who is actually good unlike many in fiction and in real life.

But answering your first question, Jin is enigmatic because he, while not as quiet as Raven or Sergei, doesn't talk much about his thoughts or feelings and it's proven sometimes that he expresses facially the opposite of what he feels, like looking like people are annoying him but then later remembering every single moment as special in his fight with Kazuya and before.

Something that applies to your criticisms is that you focus too much on comparisons. Heihachi, Kazuya and Jun being enigmatic in different ways doesn't mean that Jin isn't, and it gets worse at the "not good enough" trauma, and in quotations.

First, his mother, with whom he always had a loving relationship, was attacked by the Ogre and seemingly died, later (maybe) he had the luck of finding she was alive (it's not 100% confirmed, though it's likely), but it doesn't erase the tragedy and his suffering. Later, his grandfather, who he trusted and liked, revealed to be a monster and shot him in the head, while failing to kill him, he activated within him a strange creature with harmful tendencies which don't necessarily apply just to the evil. Surviving, he was forced to leave, cut ties with friends, live in Australia presumably isolated for two years, hating his family, his blood and even himself for this phenomenon he did not understand, struggling not to commit evil, forced by his demon later to hurt and almost kill Hwoarang who is one of the few people he is close to, and deceived by an ancient monster into destroying the world. However terrible his actions were, he was always willing to pay for that and had the plan of dying after. Isn't this all bad enough?

Just because certain characters had it worse (hard to compare at times) it doesn't make his suffering and struggles less real.

I have all these reasons to like him, and I understand not all share. You evidently don't like him (and you don't even like much of Tekken for that matter) but besides what I said, it doesn't make him poorly written. A character doesn't need to have one very specific kind of storyline to be valid.

Tekken might be very Mishima-focused, but that's what the story revolves around since the days of Tekken 1.

[judes-fantastical-kaleidoscope]

sorry to my followers or any people that see this on their feed </3 this is a directed post

I just wanna say to all my ex friends that may be lurking on alt accounts, (you know who you are) I do not have any interest in being around you people again. I have zero interest in being around a bunch of people who have done gross things on the internet and act like they're so cool and edgy for being into TCC and lolis. That shit is honestly really disgusting and you people dont even attempt to hide it. I also do not need you people spamming my strawpage with you, your groomer boyfriend, and all your strange little minions. Its been almost 6 months since the drama and you people need to leave me be. To address the whole Ranfren thing, I am aware that its pretty problematic but the difference here is that I DONT SUPPORT THAT CRAP. You can like a piece of media and heavily disagree with gross things the creator does and sometimes includes in the media. You people as old friends of mine should know that I will do anything to show that you can enjoy a piece of media while addressing that the problematic bits are wrong. To make a long story short and because I shouldnt need to explain myself any further, I do not wany anything to do with you nor your friends anymore. This post is my last straw with you people.

[s10127470]

What If One Piece had an LA-based Dub? (Part 1)

So recently, I’ve been talking with some friends on Discord about One Piece, specifically about its’ English dubs.

And essentially, we feel like that One Piece hasn't really gotten the best treatment when it comes to English dubs.

Like, we already know the travesty that was 4Kids.

But this also applies to their long-standing and current dubbers, Funimation.

This is probably a controversial opinion, but I don't think they were the best choice to dub One Piece.

Like, yes, they are of much higher quality when compared to 4Kids.

But even then….

For starters, I feel like there's a lot of miscasting here. Even among the main cast.

Probably the most obvious being in the case of Christopher Sabat as Zoro.

He just makes him sound way too old. He's suppose to be a young man.

I can't be the only one who thinks that it sounds too much like Piccolo.

And finally, I feel like Funimation's dubbing is a bit too…..straightforward (if that makes sense).

After rewatching the 4Kids dub, I've grown a sense of appreciation for it.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still not that good.

But I feel like there’s some elements that they do better than Funimation.

In contrast to the Funimation dub, a lot of the performances have a little more life and energy to them.

Even if they're not all that good…..

One thing I really like is that many of the characters have accents, which just feels right given how the whole premise of the series is about traveling the world..

This is made even better when you get remember the Netflix adaptation, which gave a lot of characters accents, including the main ones!

Plus, 4Kids is just much better at handling the frequent comedic and silly moments.

Hell, why do you think this scene blew up in popularity?

Plus, they did a slightly better job at translating some scenes to English and not having them come off as a direct, one-to-one translation.

It's a little hard to explain, but essentially they keep what was said in the original Japanese version and kinda give their own flair to it.

But with this discussion, being the idea man that I am, it gave me the idea of an alternate timeline.

One where One Piece wasn’t picked up by 4Kids or Funimation.

But instead, it was picked up by Viz Media, who would commission an English dub out of the voice acting capital of the world: Los Angeles, California!

I feel like this alternate timeline would not only give us a much better dub than the other two, especially 4Kids.

But also do the franchise a LOT of favors....

If you know One Piece, you'd known that the series had a hard time catching up in popularity in the West.

It was 2000s. The decade was all about making everything cool, hip and edgy.

And anime was one of the prime contributors to this trend.

Plus during that time, a lot of anime fans had this stigma against Western animation, seeing it as nothing but kiddy shit.

These people are the one of the reasons why we have crap like this.....

And since One Piece is famous for having an incredibly cartoonish art-style and world, it did not do it any favors.

Made even worse with the 4Kids dub, which infamously kidified the anime to absolute HELL.

However, I feel this dub would counteract that.

The dub itself would premiere on June 2nd, 2003 on Cartoon Network as part of Toonami.

And although the would probably have some censorship, it would be NOWHERE near the level of 4Kids.

Plus, from what I've seen, anime that aired on Toonami was able to get away with a lot more explicit content due to it's clear aiming at older audiences.

For the East Blue Saga, the dub would air new episodes every week, Monday through Friday.

That's what we're gonna be covering for this part.

As we go through each arc, I'll be sharing my voice choices for the major characters in each of them.

So without further ado, let's set sail!

Romance Dawn (June 2nd-June 4th, 2003):

Starting off this showcase we have our main star the future king of the pirates himself, Monkey D. Luffy!

When thinking of a voice for Luffy, I wanted him to still be voiced by a female.

And one of the major female VAs, I've come to a tie on who would be good voice for Luffy.

And that tie is between Colleen O'Shaughnessy and Kari Wahlgren.

Between the two of them, I think their voices both perfectly fit the type of voice Luffy would have.

Pretty goofy and silly while still being able to do the more serious and emotional moments well.

And while you can still tell they're a woman, they're still able to convincingly sound like a boy.

I think the coolest thing about this choice would be that in the case of Kari, this would be one of her earliest voice acting roles, as she entered the realm of voicework in the prior year of 2002.

And about a year into her career, she would find herself becoming the official English voice of one of the most famous and revered protagonists in anime/manga history!

Next we come to Koby, who would be voiced by Pamela Adlon.

Oh yeah, let’s talk about that real quick.

In contrast to other anime dubs, this one would primarily feature voice actors typically found in Western animation.

I feel like this would make One Piece stand among the crowd, and it kinda fits since the main character himself does draw heavy influence from the Golden Age of Western Animation.

As for why I choose Pamela, especially since Koby pre-Marines was shown to have a whiny sounding voice, was because I was coming at this with the knowledge of his post-Marines look.

I’m not a fan of how the Funimation Dub gave him a new voice after we were reintroduced to him, whereas the original Japanese version kept his voice actress.

So I wanted to do the same thing they did.

I feel that Pamela was the best option.

She’s known for having a noticeably deeper and hoarse voice when compared to most female VAs.

Hence she’s famous for voicing a lot of male characters, particularly boys.

As for her performance as pre-Marine Koby, it would be pretty similar to her performance as Otto Osworth from Time Squad….which is funnily enough, a Cartoon Network show.

Now we come to Alvida, who would be voiced by Wendee Lee.

And yes, she would voice both forms of her.

Her original fat form, and current slim form.

Now we've come to the second member of the Straw Hats, Roronoa Zoro!

He would be (at least for now) voiced by Ben Diskin.

His performance would be sound like a slightly more serious version of, and I can't believe I'm actually referencing this guy, Ban from The Seven Deadly Sins.

One cool thing about Ben voicing Zoro would be that he would bring a lot of authenticity to the role, since he would've been around Zoro's age at the time of dub's release (20-21 years old).

Also, this would really funny to think about since around this time, Ben was voicing Numbuh 1 and 2 on Codename: Kids Next Door, another Cartoon Network show.

Rika would be voiced by Kath Soucie, essentially sounding like a slightly older Lil Deville from Rugrats.

Helmeppo would be voiced by Jeff Bennett, who would definitely sound like the recent gay shipping icon as of late, Bradley Uppercrust III.

Like, you can't tell me that his voice wouldn't fit Helmeppo like a glove.

And in just you don't believe me, here are some clips to prove my point.

Next we come to his father, Axe Hand Morgan, who would be voiced by Jim Cummings.

And for his role, Jim would definitely use his serious voice that he uses with characters such as Mister Moloch in Project G.e.e.K.e.R. and Hern��n Cortés in The Road to El Dorado.

Now to come to Red-Haired Shanks, who would be voiced by Steve Blum doing a Cockney accent.

Yeah, he's basically gonna sound like a swashbuckling Spike Spiegel.

Which actually sounds pretty cool....

As for the rest of the main Red-Haired Pirates.

Benn Beckman would be voiced by Wally Wingert.

Lucky Roux would be voiced by Bill Fagerbakke.

And Yasopp would be voiced by James Arnold Taylor.

And finally, we have Higuma, who would be voiced by Rob Paulsen.

Orange Town (June 5th-June 10th, 2003):

First start off come to the third member of the Straw Hats, Nami.

Nami would be voiced by Kate Higgins.

Who weirdly enough, when it comes to LA voice fan-casting for One Piece, she's always the one to get picked for Nami.

And I can totally see why.

She would definitely fit the character.

Next we come to the big bad of the arc himself, Buggy the Clown.

Originally, I was gonna have Mark Hamill voice him.

But I figured that would've been too easy and too obvious.

So instead, I decided to choose Steve Blum as the voice of the character.

His performance would be pretty reminiscent to that of The Green Goblin in The Spectacular Spider-Man, but a little more silly sounding.

Even his laugh would be pretty similar to Gobby's.

Plus, Buggy's casting choice is pretty funny to think about since as I mentioned earlier, Steve would also be voicing Shanks.

Which would make Buggy's pure adulterated hatred for him even funnier.

As for his main crew members.

Mohji would be voiced by Liam O'Brien, essentially using the same voice he used for Zazz in Sonic Lost World.

Cabaji would be voiced by Yuri Lowenthal, using an Eastern European accent.

And Ritchie would have his vocals provided by Frank Walker.

As for the one notable characters of this arc.

Chouchou would have his vocals provided by Dee Bradley Baker.

And Boodle would be voiced by Tom Kane.

Who was also voicing Professor Utonium on The Powerpuff Girls around this time.

Syrup Village (June 11th-June 24th, 2003):

First we have the fourth member of the Straw Hats, Usopp.

Just like with Luffy, I have two VAs in mind that could voice the God himself.

James Arnold Taylor and Jason Marsden.

Both of them would strike that perfect balance of being able to sound silly while knowing when to take it seriously.

Also, if JAT was voicing Usopp, he would essentially sound like a younger version of his own dad.

Kaya would be voiced by Tara Strong.

The Usopp Pirates would be voiced by Grey Griffin (Ninjin), Colleen O'Shaughnessy (Pilman), and Nancy Cartwright (Tamanegi) respectively.

Jeff Bennett would also be voicing Merry.

Dee Bradley Baker would also be voicing the big bad of the arc, Kuro.

Jango would be voiced by Phil LaMarr, who would doing a what could be best described as a knock-off Michael Jackson impression.

Which, let's be real, would fit the character perfectly.

Phil would also be pulling double duty as Siam, with the other half of the Nyaban Brothers, Butchie, being voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

And finally, we have Gaimon, who would be voiced by Charlie Adler.

Baratie (June 25th-July 10th, 2003):

Starting this off we have Kuina, who would be voiced by Grey Griffin.

Shimotsuki Koushirou would be voiced by Phil LaMarr, essentially using the same voice he uses for Samurai Jack.

Now we come to Johnny and Yosaku.

Johnny would be voiced by Nolan North, while Yosaku would be voiced by Mikey Kelley.

So essentially we have Raphael and Michaelangelo tagging along with the Straw Hats.

Finally, we've come to the fifth member of the Straw Hats (and the last one as of right now), Sanji.

Sanji would be voiced by Josh Keaton.

And just like with Ben as Zoro, Josh would bring a lot of authenticity to his performance (given that he would've been 23-24 at the time)

Also, we all know how Zoro and Sanji are rivals.

This would be funny to think about since this wouldn't be last time Ben and Josh would voice a duo of rivals.

Zeff would be voiced by Clancy Brown, essentially sounding like a slightly more serious Brooklyn version of Mr. Krabs.

We would also have John DiMaggio playing double duty as both Don Krieg and Fullbody.

Ghin would be voiced by Crispin Freeman.

Patty and Carne would be voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson and Tom Kenny respectively.

Pearl would be voiced by Jess Harnell.

And Hawk-Eye Mihawk would be voiced Lex Lang, doing a French accent.

Arlong Park (July 11th-July 31st, 2003):

Starting this off, we have Arlong himself, who would be voiced by Fred Tatasciore, which will be really funny to think about once we get to you-know-who.

As for the rest of main crew.

Kuroobi would be voiced by Doug Erholtz.

Hatchan would be voiced by Bill Fagerbakke.

And Chew would be voiced by Jeff Bennett

Nojiko would be voiced by Michelle Ruff.

Genzo would be voiced by Cam Clarke.

Bellemere would be voiced by Vanessa Marshall.

Which would be really weird to think about since she was on Cartoon Network's latest original series at the time, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, voicing this guy....

Well I'm pretty sure I just ruined Bellemere's death for most of you now since it's hard not her with the voice of Irwin now......

Anyway, Nezmui would be voiced by Tony Oliver, essentially sounding like an evil version of Lupin III.

Or how he was in the original manga....

And Moomo would have his vocals provided by Frank Welker.

Buggy's Adventure (August 1st-4th, 2003):

I don't really have anything to say for this one except that it will be part of the dub.

Roguetown (August 5th-12th, 2003):

Starting this off we have Smoker, who would be voiced by James Arnold Taylor, essentially sounding pretty similar to Walker from Danny Phantom, but without the Southern accent.

Next we have Tashigi, who would voiced by Karen Strassman.

Daddy the Father would be voiced by Jeff Bennett.

Five-Alarm Carmen would be voiced by Candi Milo.

And finally, we have Dragon, who would be voiced by Dave Wittenberg.

Well, that's all I have for now.

It's not the most detailed post I've made, but I thought it was fun to do.

Plus, I always like to showcase by knowledge of voice actors.

Which speaking of, I'm not sure how this post will do since I'm not sure how knowledgeable of voice actors any of the potential viewers are.

But hey, I'll just have to wait and find out.

Anyway, let me know what you think about this alternate timeline I created.

And for the two choices I had for Luffy and Usopp, who do you think would be the best choice for them?

And finally, I really hope @mysticalchildsuit actually likes this post since the last time I made a post about One Piece....they were.....

[weedle-testaburger]

something kinda funny happened to me on the train today. this attractive guy sat opposite me and i was like 'ooh he's kinda cute'. then he pulled out a copy of tess of the d'urbervilles and any attraction i had to him disintegrated

[srosa8628]

Blog Post 8: ENGL 350

I went to Camden Market expecting to find a street filled with punk rock clothing and people. What I actually saw was a market overrun by mass-produced tourist crap. Needless to say, I was disappointed.

Before travelling to Camden Market, I was told that it was the home of the punk rock scene. Dina said that this was the place you would go to if you wanted an edgy, futuristic, and/or goth piece of clothing. There were a couple stores you could find these types of clothing at, such as Cyberdog, Psylo, or Burleska. But these shops are truly hidden gems amongst the highly repetitive booths filled with London paraphernalia and mass-produced items. Stepping out into the street from the Tube station, these booths are the only thing you can see. It takes a good five-ten minute walk (if you aren’t searching through the booths hoping to find what you really came there for) to even get to the heart of Camden Market.

^ Cyberdog: One of the only shops worth going to in Camden Market.

When I say “mass-produced tourist crap”, I’m talking about the London souvenir shops that infiltrate every street corner in the city. Every single one of them sells the same items, and what’s worse is that sometimes they sell certain items for a higher price than their sister stores. If they’re not selling London merchandise, then they’re selling a suspiciously large assortment of rings and other jewelry. Some of which I have seen before on Amazon or AliExpress, which leads me to believe I paid seven pounds for a ring that probably costed them five cents. Even more infuriating than this is the number of counterfeit items I have come across. I wanted to buy a soccer jersey while I was there, but did a double take and realized that many of these booths were selling fake Adidas jerseys. One shop sold fake Marc Jacobs, Gucci, and other designer handbags. Another shop (the most offensive one of all in my opinion) appeared to be a vintage shop, but upon entrance it was obvious that all of the clothing and accessories they were selling were hideous, confusing wastes of fabric. One shirt in that shop had the Harry Potter symbol on it, but the image and quote also on that shirt had nothing to do with Harry Potter. And this shop was full of things of that nature, with piles of clothes on the floor and shirts covering every inch of the walls.

^ Left: One shop selling fake Diesel, Marc Jacobs, and Gucci handbags. Right: Souvenir shops in pretty much every other building you pass by.

I became so tired rummaging through the garbage in Camden Market that I couldn’t even enjoy the actual punk stores. I made it to a few, but ended up cutting my shopping trip short because it didn’t feel worth it. Overall, Camden Market might have been the worst market I’ve shopped at in London during my trip.

[zairas-realm-gateway]

I keep seeing trailer pieces for the new Devil May Cry series and it just makes me feel weird.

Not for anything bad but because Dante's a character I've liked (a LOT) since like High School yet I've never played a single DMC game or watched a let's play. My sister's ex-boyfriend showed me the fuckin' pizza scene because he knew I have an affinity for goofy guys and pizza (liking pizza may just be a personality trait of mine). So he just had to show me a badass goofy character that loves pizza.

After that, he periodically showed me other funny scenes from throughout the games. and with each one, I became enamored with Dante (because I'm a sucker for guys in big red coats) and yet my Christian upbringing wriggled in my mind not to play the games (*looks around all the very-not-christian-spooky-crap currently in my room*). I even went through the zillion stages of anger/disgust when the edgy reboot Dante came out (But I think people don't talk about that game...).

I know basic stuff about Dante, some spoilers about the series, a few characters here and there. But I've never spoiled myself on the actual story of the series JUST in case I finally got around to playing the games. And the more I see stuff about the anime, the more it makes me want to finally give in and watch it + play the games

But my brain's all like: "You can't do that!! Everyone's gonna think you're playing the games because you were introduced to the series by the anime and you liked Dante before that!!!"

And I ask you, "so what if they think that? Why does it matter? Why does it matter to my silly brain that people are going to think I started playing because of the anime?"

Anyway, my brain's still resisting.

So, please, someone jab me so that I finally break off this stupid resistance and just play the fucking games finally.

[sheepibum]

edit: finally finished The Thing I Was Busy With and updates are currently ongoing!!

hello!

sorry about the lack of updates, i'm working on a irl project that i need to finish before my poor laptop crumbles to dust, so right now everything i've written lately is, you know, handwritten crumbs of drafts that i'm going to cry about when it's finally time to clean them up

but! i am almost, almost, done with said project, and since i failed horribly my new year's resolution of uploading one (1) thing per month (ambitious, i know), i decided i would simply upload/update 12 whichever-things before the year's end

this of course means that most of it is going to be bad, as in quality, and also quantity of words bc i need to tap my vast reserves of wips and that's a lot of minifics and orphan scribbles with no plot or a proper ending, sorry o(￣┰￣*)ゞ

still, twelve things! at least that's the plan; and since i've abandoned you for pretty much this whole year, below are some snippets

first, let's start with some stuff i do actually care about so there will be some effort here:

1) a constellation of blood drops IT'S HERE!

Gaelio has already played the zealot before Rustal Elion, it should hardly be a difficult thing to play such role again. If the object of his zealotry has shifted just enough to align with Elion's own interest, no doubt twisted by the very real flaws of the organization he was, oh, so willing to worship before, and how it had only proven to fall short of his expectations after his, oh, so harrowing experiences while undercover—well, people are always willing to see what they want to see. Gaelio won't be even lying, really.

it makes me happy whenever i see someone like or reblog this thing bc it's just one of my favorite self-indulgent whims

2) Start, From Minus ON AO3!

Emilia took it upon herself to arrange their little detour to Margrave Mathers’ Mansion; but really, she needn’t have bothered. Cecilius had little to no problem waltzing right past the security of any place regardless of invitation, and the only thing currently preventing him from doing that was Subaru. Exhibit A: if Subaru hadn’t crash-landed into his life, there was a very good chance that at some point he would have crossed the border between the Empire and the Kingdom to demand a rematch from Reinhard, and he probably would have succeeded out of sheer stubbornness, the crazy bastard.

yes, finally! (๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

3) with all the pieces of the broken-hearted ON AO3!

The whole situation is absolute crap because Subaru is not, and has not been for quite some time, some dissatisfied, edgy teen craving fame and attention and maybe a harem in some other world more interesting than regular, boring Planet Earth. He’s very much been there, done that, gotten over it, so this whole thing is at least ten years too late and happening at the very worst moment possible. Maybe second-worst, but only just.

i don't like the sloth if for many reasons, but it gave me the canon hilarity of subaru having dilf potential and i am choosing to make this everyone's problem

4) just a little bit of blood in your hands ON AO3!

His door has seven bolts, huge and heavy and all on the outside. The only safety his room offers is that no one would dare to cross the one who owns the keys to those locks. Subaru is a treasured possession, but a possession nonetheless.

new re:zero thing!

things that are going to be rushed or just make me go 'whatever, i just don't want to look at this wip anymore':

5) these brilliant-hued hibiscus ON AO3!

Atsushi mows through everything the festival has to offer in terms of food. Tanizaki feeds him hot takoyaki, dripping with sauce, a chocobanana with sprinkles, sweet-bean taiyakis for good luck, sticks of yakitori, sticky and pastel pink cotton candy, shaved ice and even candy apples, shining under the festival lights. Between him and Ranpo, he’s sure they’ll make all the food-stalls generate at least some profit.

this is another super indulgent minific collection to the surprise of no one

8) (we’ve gone) to the dogs

His life ends with a bullet between his eyes, no hope for Yosano to do anything at all. Just a bang and then darkness; a shimmering instant of relief before he opens his eyes again in a place and time that hadn’t been his for years. And that’s where it all begins (again).

i am cheating a little bit here, bc i posted a snippet here back in the day that i decided could be part of yet another minific-oneshot collection, which is my jam

7) A Superscription ON AO3!

Ren’s mouth twists to the side, a facsimile of a smile so empty it’s like being back in the interrogation room all over again.

I have a bunch of P5 minifics written, but I'm happy with none of them, so I'll probably wait until november or something so I have an excuse to chuck them in bulk at you and this is one

some indeterminate stuff I will have to scramble to put together:

8) remember me (but forget my fate) ON AO3!

Something for Lout of the Count's family to celebrate the official translation! It's probably going to be either crack or a fairy tale retelling, I'm afraid

Ok, so it's not crack (exactly), and it's definitely not a fairy tale either (although now I do have WIPs for both of those things), but at least it's something and it's UP!!

9) The Souls of Starfishes

They’ve gotten better at not flinching whenever they hear the name, but they’ve never quite managed to stomp out the hope that inevitably rises in them whenever they do. ‘Hajime’, it echoes with the beat of their hearts, discordant as they may be.

Normal Me and Abnormal Friends is one of my favorite android visual novels ever, and I really, really want to finally upload something for it

and lastly, things that are mostly finished, but never got around seeing the light of day bc i forgot or lost interest or cringe whenever i think about them (sorry):

10) To Have and To Hoard ON AO3!

What Subaru knew: Subaru had died around the same time in the last five or six loops. What had happened: The time when Subaru was supposed to die had come and gone and Subaru was, against all odds, still alive. Conclusion: Subaru had screwed something up, pun somewhat intended.

the very first reinhard/subaru plot i came up with and the worst one, too. i just don't want to have its ghost haunting me anymore :/

11) brittle branches ON AO3!!

What could Victor hope to do faced with the depth of such love? A love that Yuuri had chosen to hold on to, to fight for, to cherish and protect and all things Victor wished to do for him, before either of them were even aware of the other’s existence. Sometimes life is just not fair. Victor never even had a chance.

also cheating a little bit with this one, bc it's done and i posted here in tumblr a lifetime ago, but i guess i'll finally post it on ao3 with the little added coda i never got around writing before the movie got canned o(TヘTo)

12) our wishes are the right lure ON AO3!!

You wake up in a subway car. This isn’t super strange. Except you don’t remember getting on a subway, or falling asleep. And this interior, for all you have rode on the subway before, is very unfamiliar. It is for starters, absurdly clean. Suspicious.

ugh. alright. look, a couple of years ago, when i was in my all time PLA high playing pokemon masters ex, i said 'if i get this character in the gacha i will write a reader-insert', and i did get the character, and i did write the reader-inser, but it's just so silly. i am going to have to write another reader-insert at some point just so this is not the one associated with me, probably ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

so yeah, so far this is the plan. i'm also working on second chances (derogatory), but i've mostly finished the latter chapters, bc those were fun, and i decided to put it on hold until i get my hands on P3 Reload, sorry. there's also a minific AU collection but i don't have a lot yet, just concepts, AND my attempt at a New Game+ fic that's also on hold until i play Reload, sorry.

[rainbow-pop-arts]

EHERM ahem…herm, anyways, this is last part of my Trigun Maximum vol 11 thoughts for @trigunbookclub!

Some thoughts on TriMax chap 69-70 under the cut! 

YO, PEOPLE IN SHIPS! Maybe they can help deal with the Ark

I see, no wonder Knives’s hair isn’t turning more black despite using lots of his powers

Wait, is that lady also an independent plant too?

Anyways, back to that random dude that came and gave the last piece of coin (the last panels here are so random wth)

Emo edgy dramatic ass

Damn, Legato is so extra and dramatic

Reeeeeem, Vash said the B-word!

He said it! He said trans-woman!!! (☉□☉)

Wolfwood would be proud (๑´• .̫ •ू`๑)

Oh yeah, the plants are unsure if they wanna help Knives or not. They wanna help Knives because he’s a plant too but helping Knives would destroy humanity so what should they do?（◎ー◎；）

*Jojo music starts playing*

OH, she did NOT just talked crap about Wolfwood ( ･`⌓´･)

I thought this was the end of Livio but then I remember he was biologically modified to heal fast

Naaaah, the kids got so scared they peed they’re pants 😭

So this is how Livio gets his new drip

Oooooh, that’s the girl that Livio saved after falling and she even grew up to be a caretaker! (｡•́‿•̀｡) (She looks like Mito from Hunter x Hunter but with darker hair)

That’s all for TriMax vol 11! ((ε(*⌒▽⌒)†*ﾟ¨ﾟﾟ･*

Bonus thoughts: Okay so, there are some people in ships and I have a feeling that Chronica lady is an independent plant or I could be wrong. Vash is gonna face Legato and his emo dramatic ass, so can’t wait to see the difference between that and the ’98 anime. Anyways, back to Livio! This volume is literally his redemption arc. His interactions with the kids made me go AAAAAAGH!!! (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄) He got a new reason to fight for. I just hope that Elendira doesn’t end him… (; ·`д·´)