#aka pirate

[wp100]

i watched catdog this morning on tv. zero ads which kinda surprised me. but it was on one of those weird channels... not the 'main' channels, like 1-6 lmfao

they don't play as many cartoons as they did when i was a kid. it's sad to see ngl. i remember watching cartoons back-to-back every saturday morning. i miss that so much

and when they do play cartoons it's the baby-ish ones. and have very cheap animation. sometimes i can get past that but when every. single. cartoon is like that it gets stale. and they have a very similar style each time. they all look the same. man i was lucky to be born in 2000. i grew up with a variety of cartoons

but i guess you could say kids now have even more access to these cartoons, including the ones we grew up with. we just watched what we could watch on tv back then. didnt have much of a choice. but they Actually played Good cartoons most of the time. you have to dig to find the good stuff nowadays. i could be wrong though but idk a lot of the modern cartoons dont interest me, maybe it's just because i've grown up. I still watch cartoons though but it's not my whole personality like I used to make it...haha

[fluffyartbl0g]

I know this probably sounds crazy,,, but i used to wear a hat almost exactly like that one!!!

WUH?! THAS INSANE!!!!

[gratefulcheeses]

Happy pride month everyone

[alfheimr]

some hearts☺

[engagemythrusters]

sometimes. sometimes insanity occurs when making up your guys. including a captain rex fan B1. because captain rex is an honourary B1.

[stuartpitfall]

We yar har warriors here, sir.

Yes it is great that you are critical of warrior cats writing but are you still financially supporting Erin hunter?

Let’s not gloss over how this book series is deeply ableist, sexist, problematic and I would go so far to say have actively harmed kids by book like Spottedleaf heart.

And no amount of “well that isn’t canon to me” are gonna stop that. it’s okay to enjoy warriors, I do but please can we collectively stop buying the books and merch and stop financially support Erin hunter.

There plenty of sites you can read them for free or buy the books second hand and buy merch made from the fans. At the end I can’t tell you what to do but I believe it is something to keep in mind.

I don't support warriors as a franchise and I sure do hope others stop too, it's part of the reason why I made a complaint abt wc fans being hypocrites on my personal blog (which you will never get to see because I am afraid of some of you).

However I would like to note that there's a lot of derivative content which very distinctly is against the book's frameworks, and this is what I mean by the fandom having the potential as a positive force. I refuse to call these rewrites fanworks because that implies that they actually enjoy the books, people using fan work to describe all derivative media is kind of a problem because it ignores the complex feelings an artist can have towards a piece of media.

I will still say fandom because there isn't a better way I can describe this circuit of people, I wouldn't call it a community considering how unempathetic people can be to each other. This brand of individualism is strange to me as someone who was raised outside of the united states.

Sorry to ramble like this, your addition is quite good on its own i'm just in an analytical mood. - Cloudnettle =(^. .^)= | \ u u ===>

P.S. everyone should try to support independent artists who already have good representation in their stories

[sullibeaar]

[dglvr1760]

More? Maybe

Possibly more from @otaku553 's au bc new chapter dropped.....

Silly little guys

[moongothic]

So I rewatched the entirety of the Baroque Works saga for the first time in quite a few years, and before that I did also finaly watch MelonTeee's video essay about the East Blue Saga. And naturally I am now plagued with some Thoughts™

So in her essay (which you should go and watch if you haven't already, let's be real) MelonTeee discussed how one of East Blue's key themes was people's treasures, be it items, dreams and most importantly other people, and the way people are willing to sacrifice their lives or their own dreams to protect those who are dear to them. Rewatching Baroque Works Saga, the key, long running themes I picked up on were that of

Trust and betrayal (Laboon at the time being under the impression that his friends had betrayed him and left him to rot at Reverse Mountain; Whiskey Peak is all about backstabbing people; Little Garden was about Dorry and Broggy's friendship being too strong for either party to believe the other had betrayed them; Croc's trust issues in Alabasta being his ultimate downfall)

Friendship and unbreakable bonds (Laboon's new bonds with Luffy and co; Dorry and Broggy again; the comparison between Chopper trying to say goodbye to Luffy and co only to be denied vs Vivi's farewell)

What makes a country, a good ruler and if/when is overthrowing a ruler justified (Drum and Alabasta explore these together)

And perhaps most importantly, protecting that what is important to you. And that one in particular I feel like is the Alabasta arc's main theme on its own, as it comes up over and over again.

The Rebel Army wants to protect their country from their "corrupt king" by overthrowing him; the King wants to protect his people from needless bloodshed and tries to avoid combat; Vivi wants to protect her people but also her friends and can't find the strenght to beg them for help lest they get hurt on her behalf; Luffy wants to protect his friends and Vivi so they don't get killed by the likes of Crocodile. Protecting those you love is an important theme in this arc, it is the arc's very heart as the conflict is was born out of that love. And that's why it's so interesting to me how Crocodile's motif seems to be being a protector, a guardian. And I'm not just talking about the "Croc is based on Sobek the Egyptian crocodile headed protector god" and "Guardian of Alabasta"- if that was all then I'm not sure I'd even go as far as to call it a "motif" for him, but it comes back to haunt us again in Marineford with the ever legendary

And that is just... curious. Because Crocodile as we know him is just Some Asshole with no weaknesses and nothing he cares about except for his own ambition. So being a protector being his motif, of all fucking people, is really interesting. Like, One Piece doesn't really do shallow villians, there's always a reason to why a character has become the way they have and why they're doing what they're doing.

Kaidou was raised in an environment where one justified the reason for their existence through strenght and combat alone.

Doflamingo hates the world and wants it to just fucking burn because he never let go of the entitlement of being a World Noble.

Lucci was brainwashed into becoming a warrior for absolute justice since he was a small child.

Arlong watched his people suffer from the oppression of humans first hand and that hatred consumed his heart.

Wapol was a spoiled nepobaby manchild who thought he should be allowed to do whatever the fuck he wanted because he's King.

Why the fuck is Crocodile the way he is. Why does he want to create a utopia, a military nation powerful enough to rival the WG itself. What has driven him to to strive for that goal. Why is being a protector his motif.

East Blue explored the things you are willing to do and the lenghts you're willing to go for your "treasure", the ones you love and care about. And Alabasta is about protecting them; even if not called that explicitly, Alabasta is about protecting your treasure. On one hand, having the man with no treasure, nothing and no one he wants to protect, as the primary antagonist of the arc that about protecting your loved ones is a great juxtaposition. Like there is an argument to be made that the reason Crocodile lost is because he had nothing to lose, while everyone else in the arc had everything to lose in this conflict and thus couldn't afford it, as they'd be left with nothing. And, looking at Alabasta on its own, as a standalone arc, that does work. But when you look at One Piece as a whole, when you look at everything that came before and after, I can't help but to feel that can't be the case, can it? Surely Crocodile has something he did want to protect after all?

[verysmallcyborg]

"Somethin' ye need, captain?" "I'm simply... appreciative, sea puppy.

ryssrael is @oneiroy's

[majestick-posts-op]

The Strawhats are all very smart once you think about it that its almost scary.

You got the obvious ones like Robin being a schoolar with tons of knowledge covering many topics as well as being a critical thinker, as well as Nami not only being a god tier navigator since the age of 8, but also having elevated street smarts.

Then you have Usopp, who is a jack of all traits who mastered multiple mediums such as art, snipery, botanics, engeniring and mechanics and was SELF TAUGHT until the timeskip. And Franky, who was tutored by a (fish)man who was given the title of best shipwrught in the world and managed to rebuild hinself after an usually fatala incident.

Sanji is sonething of a critical thinker too when he isn't h#rny, remember: he saved everybody back at Alabasta and Water 7 through wits alone. Jimbei is a mature and natural leader with an above average skillset too, both in general knowledge and helmanship.

Chopper is only 17 yet he is already at the level of fully trained doctors like Marco and Law, he can foud a cure for a terminal virus made by a former MADS member in less than a hour! And Brook isn't only a great musician (which takes both skill and smarts) but he also found ways to use his devil fruit in innovative new ways.

Even Luffy, despite everything, has great emotional intelligence as well as being a genius when it comes to his fight IQ, he developed all of his gears and trasformations by himself with minimal help with gear 4 only. And the "help" was only giving him more resources. He truly deserves more credit than he gets for his accomplisments and intelligence.

And even if you include Vivi in the mix she has great skills as a diplomat and politician and sports an unbelievable level or maturity for her age.

So yeah, everybody really is seriously smart on the Sunny.

Except Zoro he's a dumbass.

[l0st-g1rl-r0tt1ng]

Do you ever just wanna be pretty and dead, and thin, and pale, and pure, and manic, and dead-

[pixylpaws]

look! its 99% of the dressrosa arc in one picture! (luffy grabbing an immobile and severely injured trafalgar law before running straight through anything in his path iiiiin order to violently dethrone the nation's king!!)

one piece is the ever

[hamletthedane]

Hamlet randomly being kidnapped by pirates halfway through the play - an event that happens entirely offstage and is only revealed by Horatio reading a letter out loud - has the exact same energy as “Somehow, Palpatine has returned.”

[kacievvbbbb]

Shanks, because he is infinitely more politically minded than Mihawk (a man actually in the government) will ever have the patience to be, is more than likely aware that the marines will be extremely rattled and that the blow back would be intense if a Warlord of the sea was seen around an Emperor.

And sinces he’s not trying to cause a WG incident everytime he tried to go on a date with his pretty bird and also because he’s just a troll at heart. Shanks has collection of increasingly ridiculous giant sunglasses that he insists (read pouts) that Mihawk wear to hide his gorgeous eyes, before they go anywhere they could be seen.

What started out as a “necessity” had quickly grown into Shanks’ pet project of finding out just how absurd a pair of sunglasses could be and how much would he have to beg before Mihawk put them on?

[lovergirlforjesus]

i need to be held like this