#about toni

[sisididis]

I was going through my notes the other day and came across a phrase that I hadn’t paid much attention to at first, but now, after rereading it, I find it so representative of Toni and Port’s relationship, in particular of Port’s (conflicting) feelings for him. 

When you look at all the other personifications, Toni and Port’s romance isn’t extraordinary by any means. Their distance is an objective reality that is shared with everyone else. To love as a nation means to love from afar. 

And while I do believe that distance makes the heart grow fonder, there’s something to be said about loving someone who becomes almost synonymous with home while you’re on your self-imposed exile in the name of spice trade.

An “exile’s idealization of home” is exactly how I see Port think about Toni, especially during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. 

Everything that comes with that idealization - “the nostalgia for past pleasures, the sense of time passing to little purpose (because you’re anywhere but home), the longing” - is pure, undiluted SpaPort. 

As for the last part, I feel like comparing a nation loving another nation to having a death wish is already an established truth in the fandom. Port sees his fear of death in Toni, because loving him means putting his own survival on the line. There are many examples of personifications sacrificing themselves to “make way” for their loved ones. 

And yet, Port can’t help but love and long for Toni like an exiled person loves and longs for home. 

[midydoof]

This was my request fill for the One Piece Fanwork Exchange back in April that I posted on AO3. The zosan prompt was "two pining idiots"

I've been debating for months whether to post it on tumblr since long vertical comics often don't look good in the thumbnails, still not sure I'm too happy with that bit.

[raconteur-wanpi]

See it's funny because he's bulletproof now.

[irinou]

i say your name all the time when you're not around just to put more of you in the world !!!

on love and names

ocean vuong on earth we’re briefly gorgeous (via @kaleesa35​) \ c.t. salazar headless john the baptist hitchhiking \ fredrick backman anxious people

kofi

[dirt-and-scrivles]

Zosan fics be like

letting my friends join the Aggie

[tinystepsforward]

idk how many of you remember this but a few years ago tumblr ran a universally panned ad campaign for (us american) pride month that went "the gayest place on the internet".

well someone planning that campaign dropped in to ask the queer automatticians for advice on that and universally me and the other trans people involved were like "don't do it. i am so serious. don't do it. people on tumblr won't understand that it wasn't automattic who instituted the porn ban, or they will, but they'll recognize that automattic hasn't done anything, hands tied or not, to reverse it. nobody will like this. it will be a disaster." and they thanked us for our thoughts and went ahead with it anyway and then had to do retrospectives about how badly it went and were like "we just didn't know" and [gestures] yeah [edit: i think the person who rbed saying it was queerest place on the internet was right, my brain is fried, sorry! and that's... even worse lmao]

[sualne]

he's fiiiiine.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

He's a used car salesman. He has a heart of gold. He can't parallel park. He has two gay witch italian dads. He chops the wood. He has a magical talking cat mom. He's an assassin. He isn't an assassin. He's actually the cat from earlier. He's trans (female cat to male human). He's been shot through the heart. He was in Dewar. He was not in the war. He was in Dewar. He's on his last of nine lives. He just had a marble shoved down his throat. He's even bisexual. I didn't say his name, but he popped into your head, didn't he?

[bumbleboa]

first mate and doctor nap time

[sisididis]

There’s this new trending audio on TikTok that goes:

“I got the tiddies, she got the ass. Together? Whah! Bad bitches.” 

And every time I hear it, I imagine Port going “I got the tiddies” then gesticulating at Toni and saying “he got the ass”.

At “whah!”, Toni “bum bumps” Port’s chest. 

Bad bitches indeed. 

[panrao]

Spoilers, it's dysphoria

[olympain]

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical — Jonathan Groff

[ivvyela]

listen idk what to think of rdj as doctor doom but i DO know the irondad & spider-son ao3 tag is about to get crazy

[justlous-art]

I kept laughing while drawing it

[macksartblock]

idk why i did this instead of sleeping last night but ayo s3 pcs

[hhhhunty]

Seastone negates devil fruit abilities.