#chapter 1053

[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.

[harudnae]

Oda + Toei = top tier foreshadowing ?

Wano & Egghead spoilers under the cut (chapters 1053 to 1059)

Okay so these are the eyecatchers from episode 966 (aired on 2021.03.21) :

Back then and until recently I thought "the Roger Pirates are gonna be in Mock Town next so that's why they show us Teach and Luffy's first encounter..."

But more than a year later, chapter 1053 (2022.06.20) reveal the new Yonkou lineup, and here's the cover of chapter 1054 (2022.06.25) :

(Not only the combo is correct it's also displayed in the same order)

Just- How much insight about the next storylines or plot twists does Oda give to the people at Toei ?

I mean I know there's a time gap between the manga and anime and okay, they spoil us things in the openings often but- THIS EPISODE GOT OUT MORE THAN A YEAR BEFORE THINGS ACTUALLY HAPPENED 👀

Mock Town meetings ? Or foreshadowing ? They're going to kill me someday 😭

Or maybe Oda has a thing with patterns ? OF COURSE HE DOES, this is the cover of Volume 25... released in 2002 👀

...Either way One Piece will always blow my mind, I guess 😂

On a related note, I thought back of this panel in chapter 1059 :

I'm going to ignore the grief and the anger that Rayleigh must still feel 2 years after the war

I really think that "I really don't like you" sounds like "I don't acknowledge you (while I personally trained the other three Yonkou so I know what they're worth)" 😂

[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

[robotrebelranch]

buggy sweep

[chenziee]

Being a pirate entering the Grand Line must be so terrifying right now. Imagine you're so excited to finally be entering the legendary sea, so fucking relieved to not have crashed into the Red Line ship first.... only for the first thing to see there to be a giant fucking whale with a yonko's giant fucking jolly roger painted on his nose....

[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

[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

[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!

[philzokman]

hey guys did u know that in order to become a pirate there are actually a set of 100 rules u have to follow and shanks broke rule 34 in chapter 1053 !! search it up if u dont believe me

[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.

[a-good-bagel]

Drawing a Delta Rune every day until Chapter 3 comes out. Day 1053.

@fwugradiation I'd make a post about what to write here, but I already did that so here's me talking about talking about writing to you. Double meta. What's your favorite color?

[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????

[textsfromthefifthbasement]

Happy Pride!

Here's a compilation of all queer fics I've written over the years!

And All the Things You Thought That I Should Be

Erik receives a phone call letting him know that his mother is dead. To plan her funeral, he returns back to his hometown. T, 1180 words, E/C.

Fine As We Are but We Want More

When Christine comes to New York, Meg wishes to tell her that she loves her, but is afraid to do so and believes it's too late when she sees Christine kiss Erik. G, 1053 words, E/M/C.

I Don't Care if You're Lying

At night, Erik and Nadir spend time together in Nadir's bedroom in Persia. E, 503 words, Pharoga.

Can't Let Go

After Erik lets Raoul and Christine go, Raoul can't get him out of his mind. G, 100 words, Rerik.

New Ballet Shoes

Meg's feet are sore after getting new en point shoes. Christine tries to help. G, 100 words, Megstine.

Setting Fire to Our Insides for Fun

Several weeks after Erik lets Christine go, Nadir gets worried and goes to check on Erik. T, 592 words, Pharoga.

The Truth You Can't Hide

A heat wave is rolling through Paris. Meg and Christine go buy ice cream to keep cool. G, 615 words, Megstine.

Old Friends

After ten years, Nadir reunites with Erik in the midst of the chaos of the semaine sanglante. G, 808 words, Pharoga.

Quiet Hours

Christine and Meg snuggle in bed. G, 145 words, Megstine.

A New Life

The final lair takes an unexpected turn. G, 453 words, E/C/R.

Fear Can Turn to Love

After the final lair, Raoul returns to settle things. E, 746 words, Rerik.

Loneliness

Nadir cares for Erik after he is injured in Persia. G, 211 words, Pharoga.

Healing

Christine and Erik have a short conversation at night. G, 379 words, E/C.

When Will the Blood Begin to Race

Carlotta has had enough of Christine Daae trying to take her place as prima donna. She follows her up to the rooftop. T, 806 words, Carlotta/Christine.

Best Laid Plans

Erik and Nadir's escape from Persia goes horribly wrong. T, 741 words, Pharoga.

Offer Up Your Daughters

When Christine arrived at Silas University, she was prepared to be focused on getting her degree in vocal performance. However, she is soon thrown into a world of mystery while dealing with possibly the world's worst roommate. T, 45k words, E/C.

Merry Crimes

While waiting on a flight back home for Christmas, Christine joins Sorelli, Meg, and Erika in town. But then, an unfortunate incident with the mayor leads them to take shelter in a mysterious bakery. Takes place between the final chapter and the epilogue of Offer Up Your Daughters. T, 1951 words, E/C.

No Spell for You to Right This

After saving Silas University from the dean and her cult of vampires, Christine and Erika want nothing more than to take time to explore their new relationship with each other. But then, when murders begin to happen and new threats appear, they have to deal with enemies both within and without. M, 35k words, E/C.

And for fandoms outside POTO:

The Third Option

Obi-Wan's confrontation of Vader in the season finale goes a bit differently. G, 384 words, Obikin.

Night Terror

Bucky wakes up after having a nightmare about his time as the Winter Soldier. G, 253 words, Sam/Bucky.

[ao3feed-narlie]

Relapse

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/OIZd4xi by iheartelmax A bit of a longer version of the before and after of Nick and Charlie's fight from s3e6---"Body." Words: 1053, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Heartstopper (TV), Heartstopper (Webcomic) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper), Nicholas "Nick" Nelson, Victoria "Tori" Spring Relationships: Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring, Charles "Charlie" Spring & Victoria "Tori" Spring, Nicholas "Nick" Nelson & Victoria "Tori" Spring Additional Tags: Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper) Needs a Hug, Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper) has an Eating Disorder, Established Nicholas "Nick" Nelson/Charles "Charlie" Spring, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Good Sibling Victoria "Tori" Spring, Protective Victoria "Tori" Spring, Self-Harm, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Eating Disorders, Charles "Charlie" Spring (Heartstopper) has OCD read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/OIZd4xi