#and the whole rest of the crew

[gracemyheart]

Sailor Moon Musicals ~ Sera Myu [Dracul Arc] 2000-2001

[bizarrelittlemew]

calling it right now that season 3 starts like this

[befuddled-calico-whump]

thinking about a whumpee on a forced march through rough terrain

hands tied in front of them, on foot while their captors are mounted, sleeping out in the open, forced to beg for adequate food and water

maybe they're barefoot, a captured royal in silken robes

maybe they're in a torn suit or soldier's uniform

maybe they were stripped at the start, increasing the exposure to the elements, the humiliation

are they a terrified mess from the beginning, or do they try to endure with dignity? how long before they're stumbling, barely putting one foot in front of the other? how long before they fall?

[quitlebee]

It's been a long 2 years, huh? Combines my two interests at throws it at you like a frisbee.

*clasps hands* PMD AU Sanuso, if anyone wishes to hear me out! It's in the read more + extra doodles

General

Sanji is the insomniac hero while Usopp is the partner! I believe partner from Mystery Dungeon have many similarities to Usopp so that's why, they're both learning to grow from being timid and having a fiesty attitude.

they do not have a team name because I'm a bit stumped honestly!

Sanji (Torchic) got washed ashore Krabby beach with no memories and got taken in by Spinda to be his apprentice. Works as Spinda's cafe, he knows a lot about apples, gummis, and their properties to raise ones skill and has definitely scared off ill meaning explorers

Usopp (Sandshrew) a young adventurer from a nerby village, aimed to join Wigglytuff's guild to become a great explorer likes his father, but always tends to fall back before he could enter the guild.

He's fun because PMD has a lot of gimmicks, he's too scared to use moves and relies on gadgets such as orbs, wands, seeds, gravelrocks, and sticks, etc. I believe he'd be sharp at noticing dungeon traps!

How they met

This is loosely based off of PMD : EoS, but I adjusted it. So!! After Usopp runs off to the beach and get his special rock stolen, he dashes to Spinda's Cafe for help, but ends up bumping into one of the waiters (Sanji).

This triggers Sanji's dimensional scream (It's a power where the hero sees the vision of the future when they touch someone/something). He saw himself facing against two pokemon who stole Usopp's rock. The sandshrew already has a reputation of lying, so hearing the Torchic stand up to chase down the criminals was odd!

They manage to recieve the Sandshrew's rock back and, he offers Sanji to join his team. They bicker for awhile, mostly the Torchic berating how reckless the Sandshrew was before reluctantly accepting it. He wants to know what that vision was, he wants his memories to return once more.

If it means he has to bear wirness to a loud mouth sandhsrew to get it, then so be it. Off to wigglytuff's guild!

Thank you for listening here's some extra doodles I promised

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

King the silly guys, Lupin III!

(for @dying-suffering-french-stalkers)

[australet789]

Funny reading all the comments about Monster and how Odysseus "stops being kind" when... that's not it?

Like even in Different Beast, Odysseus refuses to kill the sirens completly. He is still the same he was in Remember Them, he still lets them live. Sure, cutting their tail may drown the sirens but it's like saying blinding Polyphemus, who only has ONE eye, is assuring his death.

Ody becomes a MONSTER when he sacrifices his 6 men without telling them about Scylla. He becomes a MONSTER when he plans to kill Eurylochus at that cave because he is filled with EMOTIONS and BETRAYAL. When he realizes that it's HIS MEN he cant trust, not the literal mythological monsters. He becomes the BOSS FIGHT, like Scylla is.

He becomes the MONSTER when the humans no longer are the ones he wants to protect.

[sporesgalaxy]

in my dream last night they released a bill cipher themed soda called Decipher and I tried to go get some but insane wacky nonsense kept interrupting me before I could. I mean the nonsense had to do with the plot of the rest of the dream but it just kept showing up at the exact moment that I was about to get my soda. Ive just remembered the plot of the rest of the dream was that all of the straw hat piratds were there at tbis theme park we were in and some other group of pirates were trying to bully nico robin. the other pirate group was goth btw. their captain almost died from getting splashed with acid (by nico robin) (it was justified). But I didnt see that happen bc really I was mostly focused on getting my dumb soda.

[sera8273]

“The lair of Scylla..” Odysseus whispered to himself. The ship was slowly creeping into the lair itself as he looked out to the water. Faintly, he could see a black outline, a blur even, of something. His head rested against his shoulder as the black blur swam underneath. “This is our only way home…”

“Deep down…” His eyes peaked in interest at the humming of a song. She was waiting. Waiting for what he would do.

“Your quiet today.” Someone said from behind him. Their voice tired and filled with warmth that hid their concern and guilt. Eurylochus.

“Deep down…” She repeated. Odysseus response was a slight shrug. “Not much to say.”

“Deep down!” Her voice was mixed with voices of the men beneath him. “You hide a reason for shame…” she stated. The sound made Eurylochus flinch before saying, “I’ve got a secret I can no longer keep.”

“Deep down! you know that we are the same…” The line rang in his ear, like she was whispering in his ear as of now. “I opened the windbag while you were asleep!” Eurylochus cried out in guilt and shame.

Odysseus eyes only widened slightly before looking down at the water. It wasnt that he was suprised. It was the fact that his second in command finally confessed. He guessed that it was him for a while. And knowing his fleet, he reckoned that everyone but him knew who opened it.

His heart shattered by the betrayal, but his mind reshaped it with chains and a lock.

He couldn’t afford to lose control, not now. Not when they were so close.

“Leaving them feeling betrayed…” She taunted. He couldn’t tell if he was talking about him or Eurylochus however. “Breaking the bonds that you’ve made…”

“I’m so sorry!”

“There is no price we won’t pay…” He knows that. For every action they had took, a punishment awaited them. And he would do anything to see her again, no matter the cost. No matter the price.

“Forgive me!”

“We both know what it takes to survive…” He knew. He knew all too well. That’s why he didn’t dare tell them what had to happen. It would hurt, yes, but it was necessary.

“Full speed ahead!” “Full speed!” “Full speed ahead!” The callings from His crew snapped him out of the haze he was in. Noticing the hand on his shoulder. “Full speed ahead!”

“Deep down! We only care for ourselves…”

He sent a soft smile to his friend before replying. “Eurhlochus, light up six torches.” Seeing his brother smile with relief and happiness shattered his chained heart but he couldn’t afford to hear its cries.

“Deep down…” her voice sounded closer, to close “We’re lonely demons from hell..”

“Captain,” Eurylochus called out. “Something approaches.” As he shined his tourch outwards. He saw it.

He saw her.

“Ħęłļø”

The crew bodies terrified with shock and their faces full of fear. But Odysseus simply stared tiredly at her. He knew what she was. A six headed sea monster who only fleshed on the living. She didn’t eat monsters like her, thinking of them like siblings.

It’s why he didn’t leave any of the sirens alive, he’s certain that she would leave them alive.

It’s why he’s so certain. Why he knows that she wouldn’t attack him.

With a deep inhale, he let his fear overcome him, he needed to make it convincing, and yelled out with all his heart could offer:

“Row for your ŁĮVËŞ!”

[goingbuggy]

Sacrifice as an Act of Love in One Piece

Been thinking recently about how Oda uses character sacrifices in One Piece so often. Ace’s death is probably the most obvious example, but you can argue the same for so many others: Zoro taking Luffy's pain, Shanks losing his arm, Bon Clay staying behind at Impel Down... Corazon, Bellmere, Whitebeard, Tom, Pell, Pedro, Zeff, Rouge … it just goes on and on. But why do we see characters make sacrifices for the sake of others? Why are these moments so significant?

In the world of One Piece, sacrifice is a means of protecting someone else's freedom.

It has been established time and time again that freedom is the driving force of life itself. People cannot dream without the freedom to do so. And without dreams, of course, no one has the willpower to achieve anything at all. As a result of this ripple effect, the world's collective future would implode. After all, who creates destiny — the series of events which dictate the world's future — if not people with the willpower to achieve their dreams, interconnecting?

Fate and the willpower One Piece characters have to achieve their dreams is a bit of a chicken-and-egg relationship. (e.g. Did fate lead Luffy to his dream, or did Luffy's dream create his fate?) But regardless, Oda clearly shows us that these three aspects of a meaningful life are all dependent on freedom.

This is why I think Roger's quote is so pivotal to the series at large:

“Inherited will, the destiny of the age, and the dreams of the people. As long as people continue to pursue the meaning of freedom, these things will never cease to be!"

As long as you have freedom, you can dream and do just about anything; the world is your oyster. So, when Ace sacrifices his own life, he protects Luffy in a physical sense, sure. But he also protects Luffy's freedom to live — and by extension, Luffy's dream (whatever it may be).

In One Piece, sacrifice is not the act of valuing someone else's freedom more than your own. It is the act of treasuring someone's freedom so deeply that it becomes equal to yours. Characters like Corazon and Bellemere put their lives on the line without regrets, without expecting anything in return, because of love. Simple as that.

Nothing highlights this idea more than the conversation between Sengoku and Law at the end of Dressrosa. Law believes Corazon saved his life because of his ties to the Will of D., but Sengoku denies this and delivers one of the most beautiful quotes in any piece of media:

"Don't try to find a reason for somebody's love."

True sacrifice is an act of love in its highest form: unconditional, selfless, and entirely free.

[maeamian]

Becoming deeply radicalized against the idea of crewed Mars missions, y'know how the Rovers keep sending back better and better data what if instead of that we made an even bigger one and devoted nearly 90% of its capacity to holding a guy in a bubble on top of it instead of sending back useful data, but wait! They'll eliminate like a half hour of latency and also almost certainly contaminate the landing site and possibly the entire planet, so it's not all downside.

[regallibellbright]

I think it’d be really, really funny if the Civilians of Twilight Town keep trying to guess what Roxas, Xion, Lea, and Isa’s deal is, trying to fit them into SOME sort of even remotely traditional family structure and end up with, like, six different competing rumors even before the polite blonde girl who divides her time between “the old abandoned mansion, which they guess she owns?” and “nowhere in the area.”

And then the visiting scientist.

And the other visiting scientist.

And the scientists’ apparent son (other son?), who spends his entire trip talking with Pence about something they’ve clearly been collaborating on for at least a year despite the fact that no one’s ever seen him before.

Xion introduces a boy who looks nothing like her, currently lives with his family (not, she specifies, her family,) and has no relationship with Roxas or Lea whatsoever. Apparently they’re both the children (okay, he says creations, but Even’s an odd one) of one of the scientists. Technically, they say. They look nothing alike. They’re pretty sure he doesn’t live with the scientist, either. He does know Namine (presumed to be the scientists’ mutual daughter) but they say they’re not siblings point blank. Someone crosses Xion and Namine being sisters off a whiteboard, then considers and puts a question mark there.

Roxas’s incredibly obvious identical twin shows up and they claim to be half-brothers. Roxas will skateboard away from all followup questions. On another trip, he’ll bring a third boy who introduces himself as “the other half of (Ven’s) heart” and then immediately refers to Roxas, Xion, and Ven (but not Lea or the other boy, who nonetheless knows him) as his siblings. He claims to have been born at the dawn of time and just after the worlds shattered and also sixteen years ago. (Vanitas knows exactly what he is doing and is THRIVING off the chaos.)

Based off similar hair colors, her apparent dislike of Lea, and sheer desperation, half the town is convinced that Aqua and Isa are siblings and she sided with him during the breakup. There’s no consensus about how Terra fits into this. (Isa’s not correcting them. About any of this. It’s not worth it.)

Seifer gets back from a journey of self-discovery and asks who the newbies are and gets shown eight different, mutually-contradictory conspiracy boards in the form of family tree/relationship charts. Lauriam and Elrena have been the source of multiple schisms among the gossip mill.

By the time Sora shows up again even Hayner, Pence and Olette are having trouble keeping everything straight, and they actually know the whole story.

[purplecatghostposts]

There’s also several points in Season One of MH where Jay points out either before or after a video with no audio that it’s possible that rather than being corrupted, Alex took the audio out himself.

Which is an interesting thought paired with the fact that Alex was going to burn the tapes and never actually planned on giving them to anyone until Jay asked. Did he do that for his own benefit for whenever he rewatched the tapes? Was there something he really didn’t like in the audio? Did Alex ever think about giving someone the tapes to prove he was haunted and wasn’t just having stress hallucinations, and Jay’s request just happened to make him finally give in?

Might be nothing but usually when Jay points something out, it’s deliberate.

[memendoemori]

My Phantomerch from the Kickstarter came in... finally... I have them all

[mymarifae]

DUDE COME ON

[as-i-watch]

This has always strucks me about Brook. He is constantly diminishing his attacks and fighing habilities.

'i owed it to Luffy-san' he said as he stole the poneglyph

'my poor habilities' he said as he took down half a fleet

Dude literally was a legendary swordman in life and in death has done nothing but get stronger and yet...he still sees himself as just a musician who can help in a fight

[vanishingmoments]

I like The Expanse a lot so far but I hate how one of the main characters has this idiotic way of thinking where he prioritizes the safety of literally anyone but people he supposedly cares about