#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.

[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?

[justlous-art]

I kept laughing while drawing it

[panrao]

Spoilers, it's dysphoria

[sisididis]

Harry Potter au (not sure you like it). In which houses do you think Francis, Antonio and Roderich would be in?

Hi! I sure do! I grew up reading the series, so the books are very dear to me. Hm, let’s see. To me, all three of them share similar traits, but choose to use them differently.

Toni is textbook Gryffindor. Daring, strong willed, a bit too credulous for his own good, loyal and the heart of any social gathering. Like with most things, there are extremes to these traits. The way I see Toni, he’s someone who has a hard time practicing moderation in his day to day life. So more often than not, people will call him stubborn as opposed to strong willed or reckless instead of daring (and they’d be right in doing so).

Francis would probably be Slytherin. While Toni’s social confidence has no ulterior purpose, I see Francis as the type to use his charisma for his own benefit. He knows the effect he has on people, and he’s willing to use any means to achieve his goals. He’s very picky about what he chooses to disclose about himself and is very conscious of his image. He’s ambitious (but in a way that is easy to overlook), cunning, (mostly) self-serving and a bit vain. (Agh, this sounds so bad! I promise I like Francis! He’s just a lot to handle.)

As for Roderich, I admit that I’m not very familiar with him, but I’ve always enjoyed seeing him get sorted into Ravenclaw in others’ AUs. I think Ravenclaw would suit him best, because he exhibits traits that are associated with the house. He’s clever, creative and musically gifted. (If I remember correctly, Professor Flitwick, the Head of Ravenclaw, was the school’s choir conductor, right? It’s been a while since I last read the books.)

That’s all I have for now. What about you, where would you sort these three? : )

[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

[lena-thinks-too-much]

It is so, so important to me that people understand that Tim didn't figure out the bats because Dick was a "Show off". Like yes, Dick Grayson is the most flamboyant, dramatic ass man you will ever meet.

But the quadruple somersault? There's no way that was because dick was just showing off. Because you're telling me Bruce Wayne, who's so committed to hiding his identity that he literally acts like a completely different person out of the mask in public just to ward suspicion, would miss the fact that Robin regularly uses the flying Grayson's trademark move? There's literally no way.

In the comics we see Tim explain his deductive process to Dick and Alfred and they're both surprised impressed whatever. We don't see him explain it to Bruce. I think Bruce would be surprised and shocked that a 9 year old was able to put the pieces together but I don't think he'd be surprised that the quadruple somersault gave it away.

So if Bruce was possibly aware of such an obvious give away, why let it continue?

I'll tell you why.

It really comes down to the physics

So Dick was 9 when he started out right? That means the most he'd have likely weighed was 43kgs or roughly 95lbs in freedom units.

But Dick and both of his parents are gymnasts who tend to be smaller. So he was likely less than that.

In physics, rotating objects build up angular momentum (this is how bikes stay up right for example). The more rotation, the more momentum. And objects with less mass build up that momentum much faster than those that are heavier.

Robin constantly has to fight people who are nearly 3 times his size. I teach 8 year olds, they're tiny. A quadruple somersault for a small boy that weighs less than a hundred pounds is a brutal weapon. Especially if you add in the acceleration from gravity as he drops in from above.

And I can guarantee you this logic tracks because Dick literally utilizes this idea, without the somersault, in the 2009 teen titans cartoon.

Yeah, that's right. We're talking about the infamous knee drop.

Like it is borderline savage. Add in a quadruple somersault and the resulting force is nearly fatal. It's likely the main reason Batman would ever allow him to do it with the cape on.

Also, Dick landing feet first on the penguin in the first image probably gave the guy severe back issues

[olympain]

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

[cryingpariah]

Every time some [INSERT FILLER INSULT HERE] bastard says Vivi can’t be the final Strawhat because she’s not strong or implies Luffy picks his crewmates based on how useful they are I want to legally change my name to Kyle so I can go around punching holes in drywall without consequences.

Powerscalers have their heads so shoved up Akainu's ass I’m seriously questioning if they really watch the show at all. Luffy has not and will not EVER pick a crewmate based solely on usefulness to him when this exact line of thinking pissed him off so bad during Arlong Park and his fight with Arlong.

Luffy picked Nami without ever seeing her actually navigate, he wanted Sanji without trying his cooking, he chose Chopper simply for being a fellow monster, he wasnt even aware little dude was even a doctor. He didn’t know what a Poneglyph was when he accepted Robin as one of their own. The same Luffy who considers one of the most important aspects of pirate life to be music and consistently saying how badly they need a musician??

I just know we aren’t talking about the guy that wanted to recruit a tree in Thriller Bark like this. “Oh but that was just a gag.” Maybe to us but not to Luffy, he really wanted that tree.

Luffy picked the people on his crew because he likes them, he’s an insanely good judge of character with a high level for emotional intelligence and people willfully choosing to ignore that undermines his character a lot.

The character you’re looking for? The one that picks his crew based solely on power and what they can do for him is Blackbeard. You know, THE ANTI-LUFFY.

DPMO and hop off my goat please and thank you.

[macksartblock]

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

[hhhhunty]

Seastone negates devil fruit abilities.