#fleeting existence

[a-typical]

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

[drdemonprince]

people who are obsessed with passing are gonna be the death of our community i swear

[devilat-thedoor]

don’t ask me what i’m thinking. it’s nsfw…

[silly-rainbow-worm]

they are both the pinnacle of my queer joy and inspiration for being myself forever and never letting anyone or anything tear me down no matter how hard things get 🥺🫶🏳️‍🌈✨💝

[canisalbus]

Since there was an eclipse recently I can't help but imagine modern au vachete viewing it and Vasco being in awe while machete is having some existential crisis about the horrors of the cosmos or something

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[better-call-mau1]

Tell me I’m not onto something here…

[jemkha]

Tfw you are a small, ephemeral being who finds a purpose in living through your deep love for someone you wish to protect, but you are forced to watch your beloved get tormented and die violently via stabbing because you are a weak, useless creature that cannot protect anything…

Or is this too specific of a trope???

[And then later u get a human form and you meet back up with your beloved (who didn’t actually “die”), but they don’t recognize you at all until near the end of the story.]

[buccellato]

Fucks me up to think about how Legato's legacy in-universe after his death in Trimax (and presumably Tristamp) is probably gonna be how much he sucked and nothing else....

Like, nobody will like Knives but Vash will be long-lived enough to be able to eventually talk about his good qualities from when he was a child and his quasi-redemption in his last days. But who remembers Legato? Livio and Vash are the only living people with any extended memory of him and neither of them would have anything nice to say (and rightfully so). Neither of them probably knew he was a slave, either—as far as Vash can tell this dude showed up one day and hated his guts, for all he knows he's just another survivor from July! Outside of Knives, Elendira, Legato, and maybe Conrad, I don't think any other character knows his actual life story.

And to add on to that, there's no way of looking up that past either—he had no name or personhood before he was effectively rescued, so who could investigators or reporters or archivists track down for information? The human being that was Legato only existed for as long as he knew Knives, before that he was something to be kept and abused as an object. There's presumably no surviving family they can reliably contact, nobody to really say "yes I knew him, here's what his life was like, here's how we can prevent something like this from happening again".

His entire existence will be reduced down to "a human weapon that was freakishly loyal to public enemy #1" without any reflection on the mechanisms that made him the way he was because there's just no actual knowledge of his life.

[myrfjola]

comfort watch. Turns ten this year, I think?

[stardustthread]

SEE WHAT THEY KEPT FROM US???

[heycerulean]

that feeling when you consume one (1) piece of media and suddenly now you're Character Doing Thing for the rest of the day

[devilat-thedoor]

you guys wanna see what i’m currently hyper fixating on????

it’s fine, really. like, it’s not even a big deal. i’m so chill rn.

[zeico]

Honestly I desire Rogue Trader to have more of a lens into 40k lore.

My army is nids for the reason of 'I dont gotta give a shit about why I'm here. Hangry.' Bc trying to figure out like... how play is 2big brain power

But looking at all into it is just hilarious at how edgy and over the top ALL of it is and I love it for that.

[bonesdontmelt]

Grudge Dolph - Hawkins Pirates

Going for a creepy scarecrow-type pose for our creepy voodoo pirates.

Moccasin-type shoes with miniature figureheads protruding from the front. Brown striped canvas skirt with tan patches sewn in, and a thick brown belt with little voodoo-heads hanging from it. Plain black button up shirt with the roger on the back (not pictured). Long blond hair and a nail-through-the-head gag like the roger, a single red candle earring, and black face paint around the mouth and eyes and in two lines down the face to resemble the roger.

[the-obnoxious-sibling]

Do you think it means anything that Bartolomeo burned shanks flag? Like that choice, means something? Is it foreshadowing for shanks death?

i think it's an indicator of how shallow barto's knowledge of luffy is. just about anyone who's managed to have a real conversation with luffy knows how important shanks is to him, but barto's at such a remove he can only see shanks as a rival, or an enemy. he admires luffy, but he doesn't understand him.

(something something idolization and dehumanization are two sides of the same coin, something something putting someone on a pedestal just puts them farther away from you, something something downsides of godhood, you get it.)

i don't think it tells us anything new about shanks, we've already seen his death flags.

[cuteniaarts]

2 hour rough drawing of Ehuang, my precious Green Opal child who I don’t draw nearly enough <3