#crocodile effect

[canisalbus]

If you ask me, the best thing about characters with long snouts is that once they actually open their mouths properly, their entire head just sort of splits in two. Grotesquely.

[matttheratkingart]

They are so Addamscore. To Me.

[empressofmankind]

I am down with the direct consequences of my actions, sir.

[impishglee]

i’ve seen some people express that they didn’t like binghe when they read svsss and either had to come around on him or just continued disliking him and feeling like sqq deserved better. and like SURE. they have points i GUESS. binghe does Some Stuff. but it was so completely alien to my svsss reading experience which was

“death penalty for anyone who hurts binghe’s feelings”

[moongothic]

Seen people share their headcanons of what would Luffy call Crocodile if Crocodad was Real, and it did get me wondering

Like on one hand, Luffy has a perfect track-record with respecting trans people and not misgendering anyone, so if Crocodad Real, Luffy wouldn't misgender him

But also, Luffy has two braincells, and having two people to call "dad" would probably be confusing for him. And Luffy doesn't seem like the type of guy who'd either of his parents "Father" either. Canonically Luffy tends to use more affectionate terms for his family, including Dragon despite never having ever met him ("tou-chan", "ji-chan" for Garp, "nii-chan" for Ace. Note the lack of the polite "o" at the begining, and the use of "chan" instead of "san". The take-away here is that he's basically being a bit familiar and kind of affectionate)

And let us not forget, how Luffy loves giving nicknames to people

So it would be perfectly on-brand for Luffy to come up with a new nickname for Crocodile, if only to help differentiate The Dads

(Like yes, Luffy does technically have a nickname for Crocodile already ("wani", lit. "crocodile"), but it's not really an affectionate nickname (or a particularly disrespectful one either, kind of neutral (though calling someone you're not friends with by a nickname is kind of rude)). And while Luffy can and does drop the funny nicknames for people if he decides he likes them enough (see Hammock turning into Hancock, or Luffy learning Bonney's name and using it because he felt bad for her), if Luffy did learn about Crocodile being his other dad and wanted to treat him as such (which he also might not, to be fair)... yeah he could come up with a new nickname)

Now the question just is... what kind of a nickname would Luffy then come up with?

And because I'm a fucking loser with a passion for translation and localization, I'm almost specifically interested in what kind of a nickname Luffy would come up with in Japanese. And partially because, depending on the nickname, it could just be the exact same nickname in English too. Like Luffy's "Yama-o" got localized as "Yamabro" because the "o" (written as 男, lit. "man") needed to be translated and localized for the nickname to hit the same in English. Same for shit like "split head" for Foxy or "giant shallot" for Moria, or "wani" getting localized as "gator" because Luffy calling Crocodile a "crocodile" as a nickname would not make any sense in English lmao

So... a cute nickname that makes it easy for Luffy to call Crocodile his "dad" without it getting confusing with calling Dragon "dad". Maybe something that ties to his name already and preferably rolls off the tongue easily in Japanese... Like we have our Crocodads and Dadodiles but these nicknames are based in English, so they don't roll off the tongue nicely -> Can't imagine Luffy saying either. But... I think the fans are onto something there... There must be a variation of this nickname that would work well in Japanese...

Papadile.

I could see Luffy coming up with a nickname like that. It would roll off the tongue pretty easily. The only counter argument against it I can think of would be that Luffy does not seem like the kind of guy who would call anyone "papa". Like that word does not fit in his mouth.

...Anything else?

Well. I guess there is the third, forbidden option of Luffy calling him "oyaji" ("pops"), much like Whitebeard's crew called their captain too.

But that just leads us to an interesting thought; what the fuck would Crocodile prefer Luffy call him?

I mean this is Sir "Call me what you will" Crocodile, who generally does not seem to care that much about what people call him. Like we could take that and just assume Crocodile would not give a fuck about what Luffy called him, but it's also possible this could be like The One Exception to The Rule. And there's many potential reasons why too

Like there's the practical side of things where it could be a pain in Crocodile's ass if the world found out the two were related, because it'd mean anything bad happening to either one could be used against the other. Someone targetting Luffy could be then used intentionally to target Crocodile and viceversa. As Dragon said, a child is a parent's weak spot after all. So it could still be in Crocodile's self-interest to keep their blood relation a secret. But also; Crocodile had to leave his child behind. Much like how Olvia felt like she had no right to call herself Robin's mom, it'd make sense to me if Crocodile felt kind of the same. That regardless of their blood connection, he had no right to call himself Luffy's father, let alone deserve to be called that after what he'd done to Luffy.

So maybe Crocodile would prefer to be just called by his name. Maybe he'd be satisfied with that. Perhaps being called "pops" would lowkey annoy the shit out of him because it would just remind him of That Asshole Who Took His Hand and beat his ass. Which, y'know, fair. Perhaps "Papadile" would be just a bit too ridiculous and cutesy for him tolerate. And perhaps Luffy calling him "dad" (or "father", or any variation of it) would be a lot more emotionally compromising to Crocodile than he'd like to admit, especially if he believed he would never be called that

But knowing Luffy, if he knows being called "dad" made Crocodile happy (even if he didn't want to admit it), and if Luffy did decide he liked Crocodile/accepted him as his other dad... He'd probably keep on calling Crocodile some variation of "dad", even if he insisted that "Crocodile was fine"

Also worth noting that according to this SBS, if Croc did raise a child that child would use 父上 ("chichiue"), which is quite a formal way to call someone Father

So that would be Crocodile's canon preferred term but god knows there'd be no way in hell he'd be able to convince Luffy to call him that, shit's way too formal for Luffy

[theborzoiarebackintown]

The comfiest girl watching tv with me

[spoohie]

Jade most definitely has a favorite handkerchief just to (fake) cry into. Floyd got it for him and there’s a little eel embroidered on the corner. It’s stuffed into the inside pocket of his suit jacket for easy access in theatrics. It’s effective.

[draken-rotzi]

Miquella POV

(She wants to say hi 🐊)

[cryingpariah]

With this fact about flamingoes in mind, this is going to be Buggy when little Monty (S-Flamingo) comes over for playdates.

Buggy burning his detached hands off trying to accommodate little Monty 😭😭

I’m just imagining him standing with the cup, hands puffy and red and a little bit on fire as he passes it off to the little seraphim.

Monty takes a small sip before smiling wide and exclaiming that it’s perfect! Buggy gives a weak wobbly smile and is about to leave to treat the newly forming blisters when he spies it out the corner of his little eye: Monty putting a handful of ice into the lava tea cup.

“Wh…Why?”

“I don’t know, I just like it this way!”

From now on, Monty drink duty is passed off to Crocodile whose method of drinking warming includes holding the cup in his hook whilst sand swirls around it with such incredible speed and precision. Monty loves it! It’s likes dinner and a show!

[foremyth]

love when devil fruits affect the user's daily life a normal amount

[hottiesbooted]

Bielorussian Model: Anastasiya Azaronak (@anastasiya_azaryonak)

[jhsharman]

egg yegg

Contradictory assessments. First recorded in 1925–30, Americanism; of obscure origin; the proposals that the word is from German Jäger “hunter” or that it is the surname of a well-known safecracker are both very dubious. Or how about a fictitious safecracker? Popularized by the Pinkerton agency detectives. The 1900 "Proceedings of the 26th annual convention of the American Bankers' Association," whose members were protected by the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, reported a letter dated Nov. 23 or 24, 1899, returning $540, taken earlier that year, to the Scandinavian-American Bank of St. Paul, Minn., noting that the thieves had been so hounded by detectives that they gave up the gains and advised the bank to advertise that it was a member of the American Bankers Association, because "the American Bankers Association is too tough for poor 'grafters.'" The letter supposedly was signed "John Yegg," but this was said to be a pseudonym and the report identified the man arrested later in the case as William Barrett. Though / AND Its earliest known use in print is from a 1901 New York Times article. This same article also includes the first known print use of the variant yeggmen. Goo Goo g'joob.

A jolt on Archie's head.

I think the revising editors are just screwing around with this one.

[lotro-tooltips-daily]

[dividedsingularity]

Two of these were drawn by my Dad <3

[hungryhungrygremlins]

Much like goldfish, your drakes and dragons require properly sized enclosures!

[sanguith]

Some followers may know I sing now and then although I haven't really kept up the practice since my voice dropped on T. But I've recently been so fascinated with vocal harmonics and have been wanting to join a choir again, or simply learn to sing properly again with this new voice (it's been two years i should really get back to it) so I've been messing around in Audacity and Reaper with instrumental background choral-vocals to various songs. The harmonics in Triage of Dawn / Path of the Borealis from Half-Life 2 are so beautiful. This is just a first draft.