#clone high fandom come thru

[therealslimsanji]

I really want more people to know this:

When people say One Piece is anti-genocide, Sanji the character doesn't support genocide & Taz doesn't deserve to play him simply because somehow he "supports genocide by being neutral" ...

As a One Piece fan I immediately recall Sanji consciously asking Luffy to help him RESCUE his family (which Luffy willingly agrees with & they succeeded in) -

whose father + brothers not only abused him in his youth, made + maintained humanoid clone armies that lack free will (ie genetically engineering & reproducing slaves), ARE MERCENARIES UNDER WORLD GOVERNMENT'S ENDORSEMENT IE THE GENOCIDAL OPPRESSORS only until they tried to ally with someone the World Government hates atp (Big Mom) just for more territorial power, then the WG dropped them.

Reiju, Sanji's sister, the only one with empathy left there, says they are machines of war & told Sanji to just leave them to get killed by Big Mom (who now turned against them) because Reiju also wants to be punished by dying for her involvement/aiding in genocides in North Blue... but Sanji (& by extension all the Straw hats) REFUSES & LEFT THEM ALIVE TILL NOW

Luffy & the Straw Hats do liberate oppressive regimes, but they often times also let evil people go (eg SANJI'S ABUSIVE WARMONGERING DAD- who's now freely, actively co-oping with A SCIENTIST WHO EXPERIMENTED ON, DRUGGED & SHORTENED KIDS' LIFESPANS!) without much repercussions, just leaving them to be caught by the World Govt's Marines!

To sum up One Piece's protagonists, especially Luffy & Sanji, let genocidal warlords go, & thus are morally grey. Some people are only whitewashing One Piece & Sanji's morals to make themselves feel like they as One Piece & Sanji fans have an absolute moral high ground over just an actor's public "neutrality" (when they don't- their fave in the animanga LET MULTIPLE GENOCIDAL, INHUMAN/ABUSIVE WARLORDS GO FREE)

I love it when the Real Ones in the OP Fandom come thru with the receipts. Cause I certainly don't know enough about it to be able to argue back with those types of posts.

The thing is, every war in the history of ever has had its neutral parties that have aided in rescuing civilian lives or even saving the lives of the opposing force. My husband's grandfather watches MASH all the time and the number of times they've ended up operating on and saving the lives of Korean soldiers and civilians is numerous. Because neutrality doesn't mean you root for the oppressor. Neutrality doesn't automatically mean indifference. There will always be people who look at war and see innocent lives being destroyed on both sides. Because that's the reality of war. And to be perfectly honest, I don't even like to call people like Taz neutral. I would much rather call them humanitarians.

But all these people bitching about what he did for the BRC. I wonder how many of them have gone out and actively raised funds for a pro-palestine only organization?

[wulfums]

Bro this is comin from someone who doesn't even know you personally, but I really enjoy your art and do not understand the hate. I only wish I could have the confidence to post about the things I like as much as you do! And also you seem really nice so I have NO IDEA what the hell everyone's goin on about, keep doing yr thing I think it's awesome.

honestly i barely have any idea what's going on either.

BUT thank you anon !!! confidence is the Best and i want to Spread It to Everypony...the world would be so good if we all lived genuinely and without irony.

The anons, may, be related to an abolutely bizarre situation I'm going thru where I found out an ex friend was using me for Clone High Fandom Clout. They have been harassing me with alts and others who have come out abt their abuse too but like. This person talks like the joker? So I can't even be upset im just baffled. Esp bcuz they posted shit like "ERM WE DIDNT WANT YOUR MONEY WE JUST SAID THAT TO RILE YOU UP" as...a defense of themself ??

I got a thread going on on my Twit but its...bizarre

[marbleheads]

im thirsting for new clone high content so intensely that im refreshing the tag over and over again, is this an issue

[c-bulletaftermidnight]

Your art really has buoyed finnrey fandom, thanks so much! What are you hoping for storywise for Finn, Rey, and Finnrey in Episode IX?

Ok, just an head-up: I am a sucker for well-written angsty scenarios, for the good guys and bad guys. And I want for LF to acknowledge that Kylo isn’t the only “traumatized” character in this trilogy and gives us an emotionnal arcs where the members of the same factions are involved and that war can have a huge tolls on the heroes, like the way it was depicted in TCW tv show with characters like Anakin, Barriss Offee, Pong Krell, the clones, Boba Fett etc…

I think a character in a story can be OP as long there is something to counterbalance their powers such as personnalities problems, the powers having a huge toll on them etc…. 

Since RJ used the force-download excuse for powering Rey without writing a proper arc for her because he was lazy, I’m kinda hoping the Force-Download & Force-Bond might have bad consequences on her mental state. Remember when the Dark side was considered like a self-destructive path? Well, what if due to her lack of training, traumas, being branched by a dark sider like Kylo and suddendly involved in a war, her mental state ended up deteriorating? What if she started to become prone even more easily to anger, violence and fear? Would the war make her apathic & reckless? (I’m really hoping she will get some scars or something because I hate how male characters are allowed to have huge scars but female one have to remain dainty, full makeup & super attractive.)

Traumas never fully goes away but her story would become about how she would be able to cope with all these things and still be able to triumph, how she managed to pull thru without going to the dark side. It would parallels Anakin’s journey to become Vader in a way except instead we would have Rey refusing to become a monster and battling to not become one.

Still want her to murder Kylo tho, making the audience accept the fact it is sometime necessary to cut the head of someone who is too far gone after all the chances he has been given and that Kylo is not exempt of it bcos he’s a Sky and that Rey and Finn, despite not having the Skywalker’s name, can still the carries the value of that family.

Anyway let Leïa become Rey’s adoptive mother and give her the Organa’s name. 

For Finn, I want as well for his traumas to be depicted onscreen. It’s like LF forgot one of the main trigger of his arc is seeing first a stormtrooper comrade getting killed in front of his eyes and then refusing to commit war crimes but then he goes “ yahoo!” when killing other stormtroopers (same for Rey btw) which lead further to the other stormtroopers being deshumanized by the narrative, which make him lose all the credibility of a stormtrooper revolution or something (and the deleted scene doesn’t make sense btw. Finn is literally saying to stormtroopers than Phasma betrayed them and???? Cool, they have two traitors to the FO to catch now. It shouldn’t be something that would make them defect. At the contrary, they prob could smell that nice promotion after capturing the two of them) + he has one of the reasons why so many of their comrades are dead now. 

One of my hopes tho is that w/ Supremacy’s destruction, some stormtroopers ended up evacuating in urgence and since the FO decided to head to Crait instead of providing rescue for their soldiers, some ended up lost on planets and felt abandonned when they saw rescue won’t come for them. It would be nice to see Finn look for them and try to convince them to join the Resistance. The FO abandonned them but the Resistance will save them, despite their old allegiance stuff like that. I could create some tensions between the Resistance members, with some not accepting the stormtroopers easily while making their numbers grow. 

I want him to become an high-ranked officer of the Resistance who will have to deal with the war but also the internal politics of the organization, I suppose. I also want him to confront Hux, who should be one of his main foils along with Kylo. I also want him to have a rematch with Kylo and who knows, also battle the KOR, showing that even a non-force sensitives can triumph against force-sensitives as long he has the mind of a good tactician.

I also want him to grow as a strong, tactical and caring leader of the Resistance. He hate the war but he knows it is the right thing to do, even if it is hard for him while also refusing to become apathic to the suffering of others. People are counting on him to lead them and he is treated seriously by the narrative, fuck that “hurh durr stormtrooper janitor” bs. I thought it was established that he was good leader and tactician in the Before Awakening novel?

(An interesting note tho, a few days ago, i was going around his TFA concept arts and i have noted that Finn’s character and traumas was treated more seriously when he was supposed to be a yt character. Like he has two whole full of art treating about the horrors he witnessed and his trauma)

Maybe Finn & Rey would feels isolated during the war but they become each other pillars, source of re-assurance and affection during an hard time, dreaming of their life post-war in an almost selfish way bcos they also want to put an end to it so they can live together in peace. Maybe have Finn finally put his military past behind him and help Rey to form a New New Jedi Order or become a politician who will try to make the galaxy thrives again after all that destruction.