#chapter 1053

[everypageofnicorobin]

Where there is a Poneglyph, there is Robin.

[brave-symphonia]

I'm sorry, I know I should be very happy about Luffy being one of the Yonko, but I completely forgot about Buggy.

This is...amazing. How did he become an Emperor? I love him continuously failing upward, but I need to know how he did it.

[algumaideia]

3 billion for each???????

Oden father????

Not the marines :(

Wow Luffy wow

He is like the worst person to be a yonkousi he can't manage shit

[megashadowdragon]

yeah he is far worse then akainu ( who at least genuinely believes that what he is doing is justice and hates cd , and wouldnt just go attack people to feel superior)

I mean lets look at the 3 things he is hated on for

( the destroyingoharas ship for the chance scholars may be on it when he could have just checked or should have decided that the civilian casualty is too great ( justified hate )

or bringing up attacking koby for daring to suggest they stop is justified

but killing ace and the deserters ( is when you can argue because killing deserters in a war is standard in the times of golden age of piracy ( and ned stark would do kill a deserter)

and killing ace ( lets be real here ace was a pirate slated for execution had everything gone to plan ace would have died to a grunt)

and if ace doesnt die the marines effort would have gone to waste ( akainus pov)

not to mention akainu focusing on ace and luffy due to their fathers ( their bloodlines and showings would mean they have a great potential for power so in akainus eyes it would be him stopping them from reaching their potential and becoming serious threats ( they were already pirates )

Ryokugyu aka Greenbull is Piece of Rubbish and a Bootlicker! [spoilers from ch-1053/54/55]

Now that we have context after chapter 1054 and 1055, he came to Wano because he got beat up by Sabo and couldn’t face Sakazuki without showing some results!

He thinks he is mighty and all important! He cares about his image as big shot in Navy! Because he wants to be seen as someone influential and respectable, after his defeat he has lost his face, by extension credibility. To earn a pat on the back from his boss, he wants to attack a defenceless and vulnerable country with full man power!

Well, guess what you are still rubbish.

This father*fuc*ker will lick the roads of people who are higher in the food chain! To him the Celestial Dragons are gods, not because they did something divine or helped humanity because they are symbol of absolute power. He would bend over for World Nobles and over his arse to them to let those ras*cals fuck him over and over again if it means he could rise up the ladder or earn some favour.

And he would do the same to anyone beneath him in the hierarchy of social order! He will exploit and abuse people beneath him and fuck them over at every opportunity if it means he can prove his worth.

People of Wano have no human rights in his eyes is because they are not affiliated to WG, so for him it is a lawless ground where he can take out his own frustrations and anger and execute his own fantasies!

That is exactly what is expected of a celestial dragon and this what a celestial dragon does when they visit any nation (affiliated or not). They trample on people beneath them because that fuels their superiority complex. And to experience that same superiority complex Greenbull has come to Wano, to trample on people of Wano, Capture Luffy and get praise out of Sakazuki!

I would’ve still overlooked his behaviour because he is on the antagonist side and we are meant to dislike him. But that overlooking would’ve happened had he been an ignorant participant of the propaganda and just doing what he was told. Or someone raised to believe in the system as absolute guiding path.

But this filth is an informed and active participant of reinforcing hegemonic ideas! He cannot be excused!

We understand it better now, when Shanks arrives on the seas of Wano and stops him from rampaging! Greenbull didn’t stop because he is weak or too afraid of Shanks. He stopped because he knows Shanks is higher on the priority list of World Government and Sakazuki had asked him not fuck up it further. But he came, because he wanted to avenge his humiliation at hands of Sabo.

My dislike for filth grows every passing second!

Greenbull aka Ryokugyu is a Filth!

[beaulesbian]

i'm caught up with end of wano, so here's some parallels from one piece that could be or don't have to be connected, but are still pretty cool.

long post ahead & wano spoilers

protecting new era:

rayleigh protecting zoro at sabaody from an attack by kizaru, ch 511

luffy protecting law from an attack by doflamingo, with same move as rayleigh above, dressrosa ch 782

at the end of wano, ch 1055, shanks telling ryokugyu a similar thing as rayleigh above ("don't pick the buds before they sprout. their era is only just the beginning"),

shanks "when the new shoots that just changed pirating history are exhausted, (..) are you that afraid of the new era?!"

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zoro king of hell

same page as luffy protecting law - with haki clashing against doflamingo, the panels after that talking about supreme king haki - qualities of a king,. in this context for doflamingo, ch 782

at amazon lily ppl reacting to luffy using supreme king haki, while he doesn't know he just did, ch. 519. "that's the haki of the chosen ones' only one in millions has that spirit!"

vs, zoro unknowingly unleashing haki of supreme king for (possibly) the first time, ch 997

and later during his rooftop fight against kaido, (and still denies/ doesn't know what they're talking about, which is very interesting). ch 1010

then during his fight with King, unleashing haki, which makes others around fall unconscious (as mentioned above to doflamingo is a sign of supreme king haki), ch 1033

and some more chapters later, claiming the title of King of Hell (funny in this context it was told to doflamingo he was chosen by the heavens, and for zoro he became the king of hell. smth smth about the character work there).,

and as always - connected to luffy and his dreams!. ch 1036

then there's the asura figure surrounding zoro's powers,

and i find it so interesting that on wikipedia about asura (which zoro's sword and fighting styles are also based on with hindu and buddhist religions) is mentioned they're "considered enemy of the gods"

i like how it's the same phrase as we also heard in the manga before form law's flashbacks about corazon, ch 764

this is in the context of the people with the D. name, and then mostly used for law himself, and luffy and how far he's come to truly wreck the world government, as well as them being a threat to the celestial dragons.

luffy and nika:

from point above, i like how the "enemy of gods" being applied to people with the name D. is also interesting in the context of luffy awakening his devil fruit powers, which are named sun god nika. (i know that in the phrase "enemy of gods" mean gods as the celestial dragons, but it's still interesting)

which doesn't take away from luffy's character as i was a bit worried at first.

he's testing the new skills and powers, and he sees how he can reach the new limits he couldn't before. it might have been the devil fruit that chose who would eat it, but it's luffy and his dream that make the decisons., ch 1045

and ch 1049

luffy in ch 507 & 1053, his core ideals are still the same

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not fighting someone

shanks not fighting the mountain bandits, and luffy not understanding it, ch 1

jaya arc, luffy and zoro not fighting against bellamy, and nami not understanding at first, ch 225

and ch 1054, momonosuke telling yamato not to fight the navy guy because he wants to be able to protect wano, and let yamato go to the seas as he wants to - it's just that similar energy that luffy has when he tells someone not to fight (or when to fight), without almost any explanations.

also loved this usopp moment!, - could be paralelled to his whole character arc. ch 1036.

he's so real for saying this to kin and kiku (and samurai in general). he's always scared and sometimes can be acting like a coward, but he always, always, stands up for his crew and fights to live through whatever hell luffy puts in front of them.

-- wano was so good and there are so many thoughts about one piece in my head now, about each of the characters and their development/meanings/themes! OTL

[onepiececoloredits]

Chapter 1053 Color Spread

[ao3feed-skystar]

Hypocrite Smiles

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/dy8Zw9T by West_Way Starscream was recaptured once again. But while in his cell he hears terrible news. The universe must enjoy playing with him. Words: 1053, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, Transformers: Earthspark (Cartoon) Rating: Mature Warnings: Rape/Non-Con Categories: M/M Characters: Megatron (Transformers), Starscream (Transformers), Optimus Prime Relationships: Megatron/Starscream (Transformers), Megatron/Optimus Prime, Jetfire | Skyfire/Starscream (Transformers) Additional Tags: Mech Preg (Transformers), Bottom Megatron (Transformers), Angst, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Trauma, Sad Ending, Megatron Being An Asshole (Transformers), Past Megatron/Starscream (Transformers), Starscream Needs A Hug (Transformers), Earthspark Season One is the only season that exist read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/dy8Zw9T

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

A Rueful Laugh

by Saeva All Jason Todd wants is proof that his father loves him. All Jason Todd gets is a Batarang to the throat. Words: 1053, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Febuwhump2025 Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), Red Hood: Lost Days, DCU (Comics) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Categories: Gen Characters: Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne, Joker (DCU) Relationships: Jason Todd & Bruce Wayne, Joker (DCU) & Bruce Wayne, Joker (DCU) & Jason Todd, Talia al Ghul & Jason Todd Additional Tags: Poor Life Choices, Psychological Drama, Near Death Experiences, Bad Parent Bruce Wayne, Jason Todd Whump, Jason Todd Needs A Hug, The Batarang Incident (Batman: Under the Hood), Jason Todd is Not Red Hood, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Not Beta Read, Febuwhump 2025, Catholic Jason Todd, (sort of) via https://ift.tt/XozSNbm

[fostersffff]

If you're someone who's interested in collecting physical media, especially DVDs and blu-rays, I cannot overstate how good an investment a blu-ray drive for your computer is.

There are copious free resources that will allow you to digitize your collection for additional preservation and convenience... and I've placed them beneath this break!

MakeMKV: https://www.makemkv.com/

MakeMKV is the program I use for backing up blu-rays and DVD. It’s “free while in beta”, and as far as I can tell it’s going to continue to be in beta forever. You just need to register the program with the beta code, which can be found here: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1053. If your registration ever expires, you can just go to that post and they’ll have it updated with a new one.

“MKV” is “Matroska Video”, which is a container format (named after the Russian nesting doll) that collects the video track, audio track(s), and subtitle track(s) all into one file, which is super convenient for anime, because that means you don’t need to worry about making separate files for different combinations of dubs and subs. My understanding is that this is, essentially, a lossless video copy, and I’ve done comparisons comparing screenshots taken from video playing off the disc and from the .mkv, and I haven’t been able to notice a difference. As for playing .mkv files…

VLC Media Player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

The Combined Community Codec Pack (CCCP): https://download.cnet.com/Combined-Community-Codec-Pack/3000-2139_4-10966585.html

VLC is my media player of choice for watching back the stuff I back up. I’m not 100% sure if you need to download the CCCP for this- my backups play fine on my tablet just using the VLC app, and I recently found out they even work off a USB stick plugged into a Samsung Smart TV- but it doesn’t hurt to have.

MakeMKV can also be directly integrated with VLC Media Player to play blu-rays right from the drive, which is tremendously valuable if you're not interest in/don't have the hard drive space for digitization. I think I’ve encountered maybe one thing that couldn’t be played off the disc with this solution, and that was fixed in a subsequent update to MakeMKV. The full breakdown of how to do that can be found here: https://stolafcarleton.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/1893/StOlaf/KB/ArticleDet?ID=128854.

MKVToolNix: https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html

Different companies author discs differently, and I like to keep my stuff organized the same way, which is where this tool comes in. I won’t go into too much detail on this here, but if you ever need to split one large file into smaller files (for example, a disc has 9 episodes of a show to a single title/file, and you want to split them into individual episodes), edit or remove chapter information, or rename audio/subtitle tracks, this is the tool to do it. There's a lot to this, so I would suggest reading the official documentation, but I could also whip up a guide if people are interested.

HandBrake: https://handbrake.fr/

The video encoder for shrinking those backups down to size- my favorite example was getting all 49 episodes of G Gundam down from almost 300gb off-the-discs to just under 50gb. This is also going to be heavily dependent on how powerful your computer is, because encoding takes up a lot of resources. On my computer, which is by no means top-of-the-line, I’d say on average it takes about 50 minutes to encode a 24 minute episode of anime, and that increases exponentially the longer the source material is.

I got the settings I use in HandBrake from this incredibly detailed breakdown of how video encoding works: https://kokomins.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/anime-encoding-guide-for-x265-and-why-to-never-use-flac/#tldr-summary-for-x265-encode-settings. There's a lot of information there, too, but it also provides generic settings to plug in to HandBrake if you don't care to manually adjust the settings for each project you're doing.

And that’s everything I use for my process! A lot of this was trial and error with other programs that cost money, performed worse, and were generally aggravating to use. It's a bit of elbow grease, but the reward is that once something is digitized, you have it forever, exactly the way you want it.

[dhr-ao3]

The Lies Between Us

The Lies Between Us https://ift.tt/uCFcBot by caplanbuckybarnes Draco keeps lying to Hermione and hiding things from her. Words: 1053, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M Characters: Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy Additional Tags: Angst, Break Up, Trust Issues via AO3 works tagged 'Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy' https://ift.tt/Iv8GkxB October 19, 2024 at 06:17PM

[ao3feed-kathony]

Every Single Day

read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/62765503 by wonderstruck19 Anthony has a crush on Kate, but he doesn't know her name and has never talked to her. Benedict finally initiates their contact, and the rest is history. Words: 1053, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M Characters: Anthony Bridgerton, Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma, Benedict Bridgerton Relationships: Anthony Bridgerton/Kate Sheffield | Kate Sharma Additional Tags: One Shot, Alternate Universe - College/University, No beta we die like Edmund read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/62765503

[everypageofnicorobin]

It's honestly insane that Robin knew this since Alabasta. I get why she didn't tell anybody; I'm sure she wouldn't want to use this weapon on anybody, not even Kaido.

[brave-symphonia]

Question, do you think you can take on Luffy after everything's calmed down like this?

Luffy beat Kaido one-on-one, and if you want to discount that by various factors, you'd also be facing all the other straw hats, the samurai of Wano, Yamato, a few other factors.

I don't think you have a chance of actually beating Luffy when you're up against all that.

[algumaideia]

She is still flirting with Zoro kkkkkk

Yamato is taking a shower with the boys!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy pride month Yamato

I want to know the bounties

Another mysterious guy????

[roseaesynstylae]

The last we've seen of King, in Chapter 1053.

Oh, I hope he returns soon. Oda, don't just introduce someone this hot and cool and then not bring him back!

[robindrake93]

Loyalty (1053 words) by robindrake93 Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Luke Castellan/Percy Jackson Characters: Luke Castellan, Percy Jackson, Chiron (Percy Jackson), Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Grover Underwood Additional Tags: POV Third Person, One Shot, Book 2: The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson), First Kiss, Jealous Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Enemies, Kissing Your Enemy Is A Battle Tactic, Blood and Injury Summary: Percy can only think of one way to buy more time before Luke and the Titan Army kills him and his friends.