#blacknovelist

[blacknovelist]

(one piece wano arc spoilers)

So like @guardianlioness and I were talking about one piece and thematic stuff and generally losing our minds and we were talking especially about like

How Zoro and Sanji and Luffy are a Trio but also how Zoro and Sanji are explicitly also painted to be a duo to Luffy, right, like. They're the "Wings of the Pirate King". Together, they protect and look after the crew, but also their captain. They are, effectively, equals in what they do, "official" roles IN the crew itself aside. Zoro, with his high physical power as their physical defense and Sanji, with his high empathy and compassion as an emotional bulwark

And

Like

Okay. Here's the thing. Here's the proverbial problem. Cause right now, as it stands, Oda's introduced an unbalance to the duo. We were specifically talking about how frustrating it kind of is that the imbalance exists.

Because Oda gave Zoro conqueror's haki. He and Luffy share this— but it leaves Sanji as an odd one out. Thematically, it makes no sense to end with this like... off kilter seesaw. Why would you build these two up to BE on even standing only to take that away from them? Don't get me wrong, Zoro having conqueror's haki is a delicious character choice that I think adds fascinating complexity to Zoro and his position in the crew. He's a powerhouse, he's exerting his will over reality, and he follows his Captain the future Pirate King without question. Haki. Love it. Brilliant. But it makes no sense in the overarching thematic line between him and Sanji in regards to Luffy.

Giving Sanji conqueror's naturally wouldn't fix the issue, because frankly that defeats the entire purpose OF the char building that's been established in whole cake island. Sanji rejected the line of noble, of royalty, of power. It makes no SENSE for sanji to have it, he's not someone looking TO conquer or overcome the way Zoro is, it doesn't FIT him. And saying the stuff with his raid suit and the Germa augmentation rearing its head is the balance point is nonsensical for the same reason. Sanji already rejected all of that power and what it means and reclaimed it in a new way. Explicitly, directly, he denounced these things, directly ASSOCIATES them with a loss of humanity and his very self, wants nothing more to DO with it. Not only does it not make sense, but going back on it would be a slap in the face to all the development Sanji's gone through up until now, even laying aside the fact that it doesn't parallel Luffy at all so the unbalance isn't really addressed in that case.

But you know. Conqueror's Haki isn't the only thing Luffy has to proverbially offer. Conqueror's Haki is the overt, the direct, the loud and forceful. There's a lot we don't understand, between the stuff we do. It bears down and exerts over reality, makes demands of it. It tells you to listen.

What do we know about The Voice Of All Things? Not a lot. We know it seems to enable one to hear not the words, but the intention, the truth of other living things and even in objects, especially those with will like the Poneglyphs. We know Roger had it, Zunesha has it, the Kozuki line seemed generally to have it. The Three Eyed tribe may be capable of awakening it in themselves. We don't know if it's purely something you're born with or not. We don't know what it means, if anything, except for this: to hear the voice is to listen to the world around you and understand its heart.

When Luffy enters Gear 5, the only one who can tell at first is Zunesha. Zunesha can hear his heartbeat, and conveys this through the Voice to Momonosuke.

The anime conveys it more clearly, but it's in the manga text, too. Immediately after Zunesha realizes this... Onigashima is shaking. No one quite knows yet what's going on, other than Kaido is here and the world around them is trembling. Those on the battlefield, they've got front row seats to witnessing the transformation, what comes next.

Zoro and Sanji have finished their fights. They're conked the fuck out post battle, like usual... or they should be. But here's the thing. Right after Zunesha calls for Joyboy, from a room distant to the fighting, offset from the war waging outside...

Sanji's part in the major battles is over by this point. If they wanted to emphasize a "the crew knows their captain" moment, why not showcase the other strawhats too? The ones not on ground zero? But it doesn't show anyone else. It focuses. on. him.

Sanji, who's a deeply compassionate and kind man. Sanji, who stopped and paid attention even to the biological relatives he couldn't stand when he could've walked free without a care. Sanji, with his skills in Observation, in already listening to and feeling out others' intentions...

Zoro having conqueror's haki doesn't make sense on its own. It unbalances the duality of the Wings of the Pirate King. But give Sanji the power to hear the Voice Of All Things or something damn well close... that's a pretty good parallel to each other and their roles to Luffy, don't you think?

[noodledoodlesfr]

Gift for Blacknovelist on FR

[izfaish]

commission i did for @guardianlioness as a gift for @blacknovelist!

featuring their ffxiv ocs avan (left) and feri (right) respectively. thank you for comming me and sharing your blorbos' lore ✨

art comms open @ artistree.

[guardianlioness]

WIP GAME

Pilfering the intro and explanation from @izfaish and @zrllosyn bc this one is a new game to me 👀

rules: in a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet and tell us about it!

CONFESSION I don’t have a traditional WIPs folder because I use Scrivener, so most of my projects are pretty generically named. Still might find some of them fun though?

Kaiju no. 8

Comic Script Practice

TBB Comic

Gavan Backstory

Mugiwola

Roleswap TBB

Ordered Intercession

Lucky Ones Final Mix

Raziel Clan

MMO: Road Trip

MMO: The Dev Team

Café Car Times

No pressure to play, but tagging—

@azalea-korita @painthorseblues @littlestartopaz @shadowstalker732 and @blacknovelist (who I know has already been tagged but—)

[guardianlioness]

Tough to draft up 10 entire fandoms, but here’s my list so you can judge me! 🤣

1. Alphinaud Leveilleur (Final Fantasy XIV)

2. Kafka Hibino (Kaiju No. 8)

3. BD-1 (Star Wars, specifically the Jedi games.)

4. Izuku Midoriya (My Hero Academia)

5. Khaji Da/ The Scarab (DC Comics/Blue Beetle)

6. Raleigh Becket (Pacific Rim)

7. Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd (Fire Emblem)

8. Trafalgar Law (One Piece)

9. Victor Frankenstein (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

10. Riku (Kingdom Hearts)

Tagging a few folks, but no pressure!

@blacknovelist @izfaish @timelybees @strixlyspeaking @painthorseblues

If I didn’t tag you directly, feel free to reblog if you want to play! I would love to see your lists

I got tagged by @hnnny to do this (thank you for the tag!). With no further ado, I give you -

10 Characters, 10 Fandoms, 10 Tags!

In no particular order:

1. Abe (Oddworld)

2. Bao-Dur (Kotor 2)

3. Kim Kitsuragi (Disco Elysium)

4. Eivor Varinsdottir (Assassin's Creed: Valhalla)

5. Lexcanium (Wasteland 2)

6. Fall-From-Grace (Planescape: Torment)

7. Xan (Baldur's Gate)

8. Nick Valentine (Fallout 4)

9. Death (Discworld)

10. The Goon (The Goon)

(I suddenly want to draw all these guys in one room together, but that might be the devil talking)

I tag @keigan-of-sweden @pzycho391 @phospadparadscha @tardisinapokeball @amirrorcalledthemoon @gloomytk @majortomiscominghome @forever-carlyle @lexcanium @fulokis and anyone else who wants to! :)

[tmos-time]

BIRTH??? is Cooper's BIRTHDAY??? Happy Birth, dude!!!! And also, happy Friday :P I hope u have a sincerely rad one, in spite of any weird-ass nonsense going on with life and the scene, bc u deserve it and are awesome (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*.✧🎉🎂🎂🎈🎊🎊

AAAA thank you so much novel!!!!! ✨😊✨

[calosanzaa]

OH OH lay on 6, 14 and 42 on me for that song thing pls? (人 •ᴗ•)

OKAY so

6. Simmer - Hayley Williams the rage and the ANGER she possesses in this song. she has the range. “and if my child needed protection / from a fucker like that man / i’d sooner gut him / ‘cause nothing cuts like a mother” is one of my favourite lines i’ve ever heard in a song. we stan.

14. Adore You - Harry Styles i just love this song. it’s so nice and harry is a wonderful man

42. Nobody Compares - One Direction my sister and i blasted this song every time we would go cruising and honestly??? it’s so fun to scream-sing. highly recommend. instant burst of serotonin 

[sandadopts-archive]

Liriel for Blacknovelist

[bonuscatart]

How Intreeguing by Datawyrms (Verl)

When Undergrowth attempts to take over the city, things go poorly for their hybrid defender. He can't reach the portal in time. The results are unpleasant for Amity Park.

Me, Myself and I by Pokeshadow55 (Blacknovelist)

She would know that red hair, the specific shade of teal in her eyes, the familiar black shirts and lithe frame. It's impossible to really forget who you used to be after all, isn't it?

Daydreams by Marsalias (also on FFN)

Nocturne has discovered Danny's Obsession with space. It would be remiss of him not to use that to his advantage.

"All Ghosts Are Evil" by BedheadAries (also on FFN)

All ghosts are evil, and it isn't a flawed bias. Danny realizes what the absences, the missing hours of the day and nights, the scars and wounds meant for him.

if it looks like you and snarls like you by faedemon (also on FFN)

There is a ghost living in Danny's mirror, and it is not him, no matter how it wears his face, or bears the same crawling scars.

Someone send me some Danny Phantom angst

Art or fanfics, I don’t care. I wanna be in pain

[krownjester]

🍎🐶🎤u give off indescribably powerful but still usually chill vibes. Like you're holding a weapon but use it to do mundane shit like open doors or slide plates across the table or do art. At this point u merely exist and it's rad as heck!! (Also someday when I have time I'm gonna watch that rise of the tmnt show and it's gonna be ur fault and I can't even be mad cause that TMNT shit was my childhood and it looks fab)

honestly that last one is 10000% right, and yknow i am more of a feminine androgynous but it aint on purpose LMAO

[sevi007]

CAME FOR THE BNHA, STAYED FOR THE genuinely lovely person behind the blog, whomst I am blessed to know in any capacity, and the good content she brings onto my dash whether I understand it or not!!

Novelist!Oh lord, it’s really been a long time since we met each other, hasn’t it… I’mso happy I got to meet you, and that you stuck around! =D Thank you so much forthat!

[blacknovelist]

If I wasn't already subscribed to SGG newsletters and part of the discords I'd still know when new SGG or hades news drops bc every time it does those old posts I made about games being on sale start to circulate again

[star-going-supernova]

(1)Hi!! I just wanted to say that - your demon au was one of the first BATIM things I ever consumed (before the game itself even, lmao) and it's still one of my faves, I love it so much!! I read through the art of being alive not long after that and tbh I still go back and reread it (and like, everything you've written) all the time. It's such a wonderful heartfelt story and I love it a lot, and at this point I think my brain accepts it as more canon than anything, haha.

Hello friend! Wow, thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoy my stories! Ahh, hearing that people reread my stuff still boggles my mind. 

Thank you (and everyone else!) for your lovely words regarding my thesis defense! I’ve got less than a week before I’m done with college, and I desperately want to be stress-free enough to write fics again. 

I’m honestly not sure if I answered that before, so here we go! To be perfectly honest, the idea came out of nowhere one night (back in October of 2017! That’s so long ago!) while I was thinking about the pentagrams in-game and demon deals, stuff like that. I basically had the thought of “but what if Henry was the demon, that’d be pretty funny” and jotted a quick note down in case I wanted to go back to it later. 

I’m very glad I decided to, in any case! 

[izfaish]

WIP GAME

(i'm just copypasting your intro @zrllosyn idk how this works oops. THANKS FOR THE TAG)

rules: in a new post, post the names of all the files in your wip folder regardless of how non descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet and tell us about it!

have my art and writing wips:

jakdf-pride

ogata-sketchies*

Phos-Reach

Hinawa

Kno8 fic idea dump

Dusk - writing

Courier Valentine

Terror and Temptation

hunt for honey soy (apocalypse)

knights anonymous

Vigilante

MAD THORN • forum

*do sketch wips count? trying to fill up a page..

most of these are original works, some of which i repressed LMAO. i look back at them fondly...

tagging a couple ppl (no pressure to do this ofc) @guardianlioness @blacknovelist @mosshroomish @natarillus @can0fwworms @jelliefeesh @eizaamkc @rrandomtthings @aivicart @pantacotta

[shieldsurf]

:0! what's this abt team drawing asks ? and can I.... get in on it, if u r in the mood?

YES OF COURSE!! sorry this took a while,, anyways here's your team doodle! i think you'd specialize in grass because like. the Aesthetic. anyways, your team is:

torterra (grass/ground) (i think it would be a crime to NOT give you a torterra. it's been your icon for at LEAST three years)

cherrim (grass)

shaymin (grass)

leavanny (grass/bug)

snover (ice/grass)

pumpkaboo (grass/ghost)

[almost30soon-blog]

"What happens when a colored man cries?

-Raheem White

"Tears Of A Colored Man" 2017 Novel