#ch 1071

[shysheeperz]

[extemporary-username]

i love the guy so fucking much, wanna chew him like bubblegum

bonus closeup and screencap

[kookoofufu]

He picked up a lot from mihawk huh

[larkreadsop]

...This reminds me that I never did see Film Red but everyone’s outfits are very cute here

[findpandaman]

Find Pandaman!

Solution under the cut:

[ninhaoma-ya]

Chapter 1071 — A hero’s offensive

And we leap straight into the action.

a) Kuma is one big man. Look at ‘em tiny humans gawking!

b) Panels like these really show how sloppy Oda’s linework has become, which is a shame. It makes it hard to distinguish Kuma’s prostrate body from the ground in the middle panel and the people on both sides.

If we contrast with this panel of the crowd attending princess Vivi’s coming-of-age-speech:

The individual people are still visible (and individual), the lines are clean and neat and there is a weight behind the people as we see them disappear into the background.

Back to the story.

Welp, aren’t you a contrary little kittenpaw, Mr. Lucci?

The change from Enies Lobby is quite interesting. There he did whatever Spandam wanted, since he recognised the power Spandam wielded as designated chief of CP9. I wonder what makes him reject the government’s designation now? “Emperor” is still just a title given to people that can upset the balance of the seas and if they see Luffy as important enough, why is he rejecting their analysis?

Off on many tangents this chapter, aren’t I?

Vegapunk really is shameless.

And Kaku suddenly saw his life flash in front of his eyes. Again.

So Killer is their navigator? Iiiiiiinteresting…

And Garp is going to Fullalead to rescue Koby. Does this mean Luffy will keep as far away as possible or go there as fast as possible? Or will they go to Elbaf and fulfil Usopp’s dream?

Interesting question, that: will the crewmember’s dreams get fulfilled before or after Luffy’s?

The prevailing theory about All Blue is that Red Line will break and all the seas form one new sea, the All Blue, so Sanji will see his dream realised after that, which probably is the final fight. Brooks will also see Laboon once he can swim between seas. Zoro is the strongest swordsman once he defeats Mihawk (or Shiryu defeats Mihawk and Zoro defeats Shiryu) until someone else defeats him so his dream is on-going, in a way. Chopper’s is on-going as well, since new illnesses pop up all the time and they haven’t visited all the islands yet. Nami’s dream will take approximately seventy years and Franky’s dream is fulfilled when hers is, since both involve sailing the seas in the Sunny. Robin’s dream… is nebulous, but might get fulfilled once they reach Laugh Tale? And what even is Jinbe’s dream?

Nice little chapter, I give it a call for help and an answered prayer.

[chenziee]

Law gulped heavily, watching as the tiny, oh-so-tiny piece of paper moved weakly across his palm, getting smaller with every second as the edges burned more and more. There was barely anything left. Barely enough to hang onto any hope. “What are you doing?” Law growled, but he could barely hear himself. There was a hum in his ears, a white noise that didn’t mean anything, didn’t serve any purpose but to drive him even more mad. He refused to believe this. The paper had to be lying. There was simply no way, no way that Luffy lost. No way that his life was about to disappear, leaving behind nothing but a few specks of ash.

I (once again) commissioned the incredible @kagamiciel for this gorgeous piece to go with my fic Ash (from the Ashes of Life series) and I couldn't be happier with the result!! I mean, look at it, it's so so so beautiful 😭🤍

[beaulesbian]

One Piece ep. 1103 || "Oh, somebody was guarding the ship."

vs. manga chapter 1071

[lalalalamisfit]

he's so hot

[sunshineting]

y'all i. i love one piece so much. I love luffy so so much. ep 1071 and ch 1044 spoilers ahead

gear 5 luffy brings so much joy and delight to me and I get so happy thinking about him. like he really is joyboy. when I was reading it in the manga I was so pumped to see how it would turn out and its even better than I could have imagined. he's happy, he's free, he's silly, he's everything to me. I love love love that he's silly. sooooo many ppl were confused and even upset that he's not serious enough. dude. have y'all even watched one piece? luffy as a main character is so unserious. he's a fuckiing goofball. and I adore that about him.

he's free. he's free. he's FREE!!! Freedom is so beautiful. in a world that's so oppressive and serious and is controlled by an incredibly overpowering government, my sweet sweet boy is free to be silly. he can be as unserious and goofy as he wants to be. I can only hope to feel like that one day.

all the shonen bros are like 'this ep was way overhyped it was too goofy what was that looney toons ass ep' likeeee ugghhhhh booooo yall suck! have some fun! im throwing tomatoes at you bitches!

I have so many thoughts and this post is already long enough but whatever sorry for the rant I just love him

[wifeofkatakuri]

Over analyzing time! Ch 1044 and ep 1071 spoilers

Luffy’s gears are all Zoan transformations!

It’s obvious that both 4th gear forms are his hybrid and beast forms but what about 2nd and 3rd gear?

I think they’re Luffy forcing his fruit to prematurely transform. Kinda like how Chopper uses the rumble balls.

We know 2nd gear is him pumping his blood faster which makes sense, but it’s hard not to compare it with snakeman. The smoke could be evidence of this. 4th and 5th gear have those smoke rings and if 2nd gear is really a devolved version of snake man it would make sense that the smoke ring is less organized.

3rd gear and bounceman have super obvious similarities. They both make Luffy bigger! So then where’s the smoke? Well I think there’s no smoke because it doesn’t take as much out of Luffy. Sure it made him small but from what we see it never had any effect on his energy.

So what does this mean? Idk, the biggest takeaway I can think of is that Luffy’s awakening has been silently built up since enies lobby!

Another possibility is that 4th gear isn’t his hybrid and beast forms but Luffy pushing his body further towards awakening (even if he doesn’t realize it). But I think it’s a little bit of both. Luffy made the human human fruit model Nika way more complicated than it had to be. Probably because he’s an idiot and thought it was a paramecia. He probably could’ve gone into 4th gear from the beginning but he just never tried. So what I’m saying is Luffy puts way too much haki into 4th gear!

[enigmasong]

Okay, so to put One Piece's pacing issues in perspective:

The start of the Wano arc, ep 892, was adapting around ch 911. The current ep, 1071 is adapting around ch 1044.

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Go back to the start of Whole Cake, the anime started that arc around the 780s while the manga had it starting in the 820 chapter range.

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Like, I get that Toei wanted to give Wano better animation overall and to stretch the budget for that meant stretching the pacing out, but having your number gap go from around forty episodes behind to a good twenty episodes ahead is a bit unseemly.

[nekomacheercaptain]

one piece ch. 1071 spoilers

Literally just need to share those specific things about the new chapter

Grumpy Zoro being woken up by Kaku trying to slice the ship???? LOOK AT HIM OH MY GOD

ELBAF??????? OUR FIRST VIEW OF KID AND KILLER AFTER WE LEFT WANO????? FUCK cannot get enough content of them, I need more 🧎‍♀️

Hoping we get to see their journey on Elbaf, or what they are assuming is Elbaf

ALSO SHE IS BACK !!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL, DOLL IS BACK AND SHE HAS ME IN A CHOKEHOLD AGAIN JUST LIKE THE FIRST TIME

What is that on her arms?? Don’t know, but can’t wait to find out, also Garp’s transponder snail looks so goofy hahah

[larkreadsop]

This has such ‘get in losers, we’re going shopping!’ energy and I’m here for it.

[arwenlalaith]

Between the Blues and the Pinks (Ch. 14)

Ship: Alex Blake/Emily Prentiss

Summary: The Baby Blues: The temporary feelings of sadness following having a baby. Also known as Postpartum Depression. The Baby Pinks: The mild mania experienced following having a baby. Also known as Postpartum Euphoria.

Warnings: Mental health issues, postpartum mood disorders.

Word Count: 1071

At 2:30 in the morning, Emily called Tara...

At just before one in the morning, she'd awoken to find Alex's side of the bed empty and cold – clearly, she'd been up for awhile and Emily had a feeling that didn't bode well. She'd been awoken by Lindy screaming bloody murder, which was rather unusual behaviour for the infant who was normally quite even-tempered, in spite of her young age.

Immediately fearing the worst, Emily was up and out of bed, racing to the nursery to find it empty. Her heart was pounding with anxiety and she could feel the adrenaline racing through her veins as she prepared for the worst case scenario, even though she had no idea what said scenario could possibly be...

"Alex!" she called out, moving from room to room in search of her missing wife and daughter. "Alex, what have you..." She stopped just short of outright accusing Alex of doing something horrible and she hated the fact that her mind had even gone there in the first place. She took a deep breath, attempting to calm the panic trying to claw its way out of her chest, then tried again, "Alex, where are you?"

Still, she didn't answer and that did nothing to help Emily's emotional state.

When she eventually did locate her, it was to find Alex tearing the kitchen apart in an obvious search for something. She had Lindy balanced in one arm while she slammed cupboard after cupboard in her search, the sound obviously disturbing Lindy who was already agitated.

"Alex, what are you doing?" Emily asked, attempting to keep her voice level and calm.

Alex whipped around at the sound of her voice, obviously surprised by Emily's presence. "What did you do with them!?" she demanded, voice just a shade off irate.

Holding her hands up in self-defence, Emily said, "I don't know what you're talking about..." Attempting to change the subject, she added, "I think Lindy's hungry, why don't you pass her to me and..." She took a cautious step forward, extending her hands to reach for the baby.

Alex immediately turned to shield Lindy from Emily's reaching hands. "Don't!" she shouted, "She needs me."

Seeing how agitated she was getting, Emily backed up slowly. "Alex, just calm down," she urged. "Can you tell me what's wrong?"

"You won't believe me," Alex accused. "You never believe me anymore!"

"I want to help you, Alex," Emily insisted, "But I can't do that if you don't tell me what's going on, okay?"

Rather than directly answer that question, though, Alex instead demanded, "Where are all the knives!?"

"The knives?" Emily repeated, feeling fear climb up her throat as all the worst case scenarios rushed to the forefront of her mind.

"You hid them, didn't you?" Alex said scathingly, "You don't trust me, so you hid them like I'm a child!" She pointed an accusing finger at her, took several steps towards her, then seemed to think better of it and once again backed up, shielding Lindy from her.

Emily sighed wearily, doing her best not to show how utterly frustrated and exhausted and absolutely terrified she was just then. "Yes, I hid the knives," she admitted, "But only because I'm worried..." She'd locked up all the knives and the medications and anything else Alex could possibly have used to hurt herself or Lindy in the safe – which she'd had to change the code to as well, just in case Alex thought to look there.

"Fuck you, Emily!" she snapped. "If you really cared about Lindy at all, you'd help me, instead of acting like I'm crazy!"

"No one thinks you're crazy, Alex," Emily insisted for the umpteenth time. "We're just..."

Alex cut her off with an abrupt, "I don't care what your excuse is! This is an emergency, so get me a knife or I'll find one myself!"

Lindy was still screaming bloody murder and Emily could tell that her cries were only spurring Alex on in her frenzied state. "Please, let me soothe her," she pleaded, "Then we can talk about what's going on with you..."

"I'm trying to help her!" Alex maintained, "That's why I need a knife!"

"Why?" Emily pressed. "Give me a valid reason and I'll go get one..."

"Because of the spiders!" she shouted. She was nearly in tears now, though it wasn't quite clear whether they were tears of anger or sadness or something else entirely.

Emily raised a brow, confused but also intrigued. "What spiders?" she asked. This was the first she was hearing of spiders being involved.

Alex quite literally growled. "The spiders in the formula – the ones they're poisoning her with! They're hatching in her stomach and that's why she's crying! Can't you see she's in pain? That's why I need the knife – I have to get them out!"

Emily blinked in stunned silence for a few moments as she struggled to process a lot of information given to her in the span of a few short seconds. "Alex..." she said gently, paused a moment to decide on her next words, her tongue flicking out over her lip. "Spiders can't survive inside the human body. It's just not possible."

Tears welled in Alex's eyes, then, and she stomped her foot, rather like a petulant child. "I'm not crazy!" she insisted, breath coming in choked gasps.

"No one said that," Emily murmured. She took a chance and stepped closer and, to her surprise, Alex didn't shy away. "Why don't you pass Lindy to me and I'll go get the knife?" she said; it was a lie, of course, but it was in everyone's best interest.

Alex stuttered for a moment as she seemed to debate whether or not she could believe Emily. Ultimately, though, she relented and passed the squalling infant to her wife. "Hurry, though..."

Emily smiled (or, rather, grimaced) and nodded. "I'll be right back," she said. As soon as she was out of earshot, she'd pulled her phone from the pocket of her robe and began dialing.

At 2:30 in the morning, Emily called Tara...

[tokiro07]

My final, definitive statement on ch. 1071

I rescind my statement that the person being called might be Kuma, or Dragon, or a new character

I am declaring now, for all to see and hear, that that person is Monet

If I can’t hold the faith when the greatest opportunity I’ve ever had is upon me, how can I say I was always a believer?

If I look away now, when the culmination of everything I’ve dreamed of and worked for is staring me in the face, how can I look anyone in the eye and say I knew what was coming?

2022 has been a year of bad luck for me, and this last week really ramped it up. I’ve had terrible customers at work that frustrated me so much that I accidentally broke one of our phones; my boss got Covid, forcing me to work a bad shift I didn’t want; that day was so frustrating that I yelled hard enough to lose my voice; I got kicked in the nuts by a dog; I literally lost $500. My luck has been so bad this week, the same week that I found hope that Monet might be coming back: this has to be a sign

My bad luck for this year is leaving my body and making room for good luck. 2022 was preparing me for the influx of good luck that this one moment would bring

Right here, right now, I claim 2023 as My Year of Monet

If this is my Makorra Moment, so be it. If this is my “the Raid will Fail,” so be it. I will not be remembered as a coward who hedged his bets so he’d be let down easy. I will be remembered as a man of conviction, who stuck to his guns to the bitter end

If this is to be the hill I die on, I will die with pride, with no coward’s wounds on my back, and with a smile on my face