#THE THESIS IS GONE

[dirt-nerd]

[team-118]

that's the thing. he's the one you forget to count on. he's perfect but it's a front. he's happy but it's a lie. he cut the damn line and he's still alive down here. he's 9, he's 19, 21, 27, with the weight of the world on his seemingly bulletproof shoulders. he's braver than anyone should have to be. he takes responsibility to a fault. he's cursed but the universe doesn't scream. he's a wonderful partner as long as he doesn't look it in the eye. he's falling backwards into a pool of his own blood and he's dancing in his underwear in his living room. he's gonna be better. for christopher? no, for himself. he's golden and glowing at sunset on the court, he's singing karaoke and djing with drag queens, he's falling to fucking pieces and then he's putting himself back together. who the hell is that? eddie diaz, new recruit. we don't bet against him.

[blamemma]

daniel ricciardo and max verstappen, 2024 vs. 2016

[omegalomania]

we are such a fucking tragedy, you and i

[moongothic]

If being weak is a "sin" in Crocodile's mind, then isn't a painful defeat and maybe even death rightful punishment for it? A punishment you deserve for your crime of "being weak"? That's an intriguing mindset from him because it makes me wonder how Crocodile might view his own past and the things he has gone through? I might not go as far as to say Crocodile "blames himself" for the things he's gone through, as he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who dwells on the past like that. But I do feel like Crocodile has accepted in his mind that things like losing his hand happened because he was weak, and it was his own fault. That he can not blame anyone else for what has happened to him. He fucked around and he found out.

It's just interesting because to some degree, One Piece thematically does agree with this sentiment, this is a world where the strong eat the weak. (One example at the top of my head; Luffy refusing Katakuri's apology when his sister intervened with their battle, saying he should've dodged the attack properly if he didn't want to get hit.) Chaka falling in this scene and being unable to stop Crocodile may lead to the deaths of so many more, including his loved ones, and if that comes to pass, it's is Chaka's own fault. For being too weak. But also Crocodile has twisted that idea; Crocodile is using his worldview here to justify himself and essentially saying he can do this (take over Alabasta and kill a million innocents doing so) and get away with it because he's powerful. When in reality "weakness is a sin" isn't about the survival of the fittest, but how this is a world where the strong are meant to protect the weak. (See: Luffy) (Also how Pell told Baby Vivi in that flashback about how he trains so he can protect the Royal Family; again, he he craves power not to oppress the weak but to protect them)

But, just to get back to Crocodile again, I feel like this worldview might also give us more insight as to how he acts in certain situations post-Alabasta. Like when we see Crocodile towards the end of Miss Goldenweek's cover story, both when he declines to escape from jail and in his Impel Down mugshot, Crocodile has a smile on his face. That really is the face of a man who has accepted his fate, is it not?

"Welp, this is what I get for losing to a child in flipflops"

Or when we see him come collect his debt from Buggy; Crocodile seemed quite relaxed and fully admitted he had assumed Buggy would've ran away before he even got there to collect his money. Of course, considdering his trust issues Crocodile would've been mentally prepared for Buggy skedaddling anyways, but the fact that he loaned the clown money to begin with while assuming he'd probably never get that money back-- like Crocodile knew that was going to happen and he just accepted it. And just rolled with it.

Of course, when things take an Unpleasant, Unexpected Turn, he will blow a fuse. Multiple, even.

Him angy

IDK man this is all just interesting to me

[can-of-slorgs]

caw 🦅

[why-the-heck-not]

got a new laptop, feeling like a kid on christmas eve & I’m learning to use notion bc idk it fits the agenda of today (which is to transfer my life onto this one now)

[bornforastorm]

impressive how much night court s06e07 The Law Club reads as Dan Fielding, gay, trying to flirt his way into a men's club

being disappointed when the guy is more interested in christine

thrilled that he got into a club full of eligible men anyway

feeling bad when he learns he set his nice friend up with a scumbag

doing a bunch of gay friend shenanigans to save her

managing it

and finally comforting her with solidarity

and kindness

and a gag

[moonshynecybin]

“as we all know marc has and does connect his injury and his breakup with vale into one fucked up little play in his head” need your thesis on this kinda

i don’t need to write a thesis marc marquez: all in episode three wrote it FOR MEEE

[steamclouds]

Two weeks ago, while I was still reading Promise of the Witch-King, I had a dream that Jarlaxle tried to park my car in the garage and failed spectacularly. Meanwhile Artemis was laughing at him the entire time

[dapper-nahrwhale]

I neeeeeeeed to talk about gone forever more it's like the Most thing ever, it's got time loops and fairies and creatures and prophecies and magic and never being able to go home again and not able to recognize what youve become and how devotion can corrupt you and how those in power will lie to you to get what they want and how through everything you can be kind and no one ever knows what I'm talking about because it only exists to me and like one other person it's so sad. I should figure out how to make comics and do that.

[witchofanguish]

it's so amazing being able to meet with your group members physically it's insane

[butteronabun]

it’s gonna be a loooooong week again y’all – i’ll be preparing for my finals, and hopefully i’ll get this all finished ( and hopefully, i’ll be able to survive this semester ) so i can finally gush abt diluc without a heavy heart ( because it’s loaded with so much academic guilt and bitterness!! i still have requirements to finish 🥲 AAAA )

have a great week everyone! if y’alls are busy like me, i’m holding your hands rn. we will get through this!!! THIS STORM WILL PASS ANYWAYYY AAAAA ✨✨✨✨✨

[drrksaturday]

At the lab straight up "dyeing it" and by 'it' haha lets justr say. My Samples.

[inheritance-cycles]

Eragon should’ve had more classic 15 year old boy moments

Not the horny creeper-vibe scenes with Arya

But more pure, silly, “boys-will-be-boys” moments where he disappears for a bit and they find him, like trying to stretch a pair of pants around a tree or some shit idk

[berenshand]

shakespeare snobs still aren't ready for this conversation but revenge of the sith is the closest western media has to a modern equivalent of a shakespearean tragedy

- entertainment created for mass appeal

- effectively utilizes comic relief despite overall serious tone and/or subject matter

- the audience knows it's a tragedy going in

- utilizes, as shakespeare did, the elements of the greek tragedies which came before him, ie:

- the tragic hero is virtuous but for a fatal flaw

- the audience fears for and roots for the hero despite said flaw and their knowledge that the story is a tragedy

- in his attempts to escape his destiny, the hero unknowingly runs toward it, even brings it about himself

- it's entertainment for the masses even though the masses know it's a tragedy before it even starts