#lucy rants

[firefistacesfreckles]

i'd read several people saying that this chapter sucked and that the end was bullshit so i was a little scared at what had happened but...

i literally don't understand how someone could be upset by this...?? i feel like this outcome has been heavily implied throughout the entire arc. like, just a few chapters ago, bonney used a technique very similar to one of luffy's. are we reading the same manga? lol

and from a storytelling standpoint, it's just so poetic. both of bonney's parents suffered and ultimately died (we still need confirmation on kuma, tho) at the hands of the WG. she, herself, fell terminally ill because of saturn's human experimentation. she carried a lot of unresolved trauma, and now that she's met luffy, she's starting to overcome it all. kuma told her that nika would free her, and it's happening!! how could anyone complain about this?

and to say that this undermines luffy's journey and efforts to awaken his df... please. we still don't know if she's gonna have a quarter of luffy's power if anything at all. stop assuming things just off of one panel. time will tell. for now, i very much like this concept, and i'm excited to see what oda will do with this in the future. he's never disappointed me, so far, when it comes to the story. i don't see why he would now.

[lucysweatslove]

So regarding my “what counts as a vegetable” question, I decided to read what parameters researchers were using.

This one study asking rural populations how much fruit and veg they eat specifically and intentionally said “not counting” not just potatoes but also carrots?!?

Like man I know carrots are a little higher in carb than other veggies, but dude they are 100000% a vegetable. Why call out CARROTS of all things, especially when most people will think of like, peas and carrots as quintessential vegetables, easily found frozen and canned?

I do not like this methodology. I can see the argument for potato (even tho as I already said, potatoes have tons of vitamins and minerals in them), but I can’t see the argument for carrot unless they just wanted to show that wow rural people don’t eat vegetables! Like it’s an artificial way to raise the % of people who report eating fewer than 5 serv fruit + veg.

[darkmagicianknight]

hey if you upload other people's works as your own. just know i hate you. and if you then start uploading stolen works from other sites as a work around, you are in fact, a scum bag

[charmspoint]

So calling selfishness when someone says they don't want to have kids always bothered me and like the more I think about it the stupider it gets like. If I say 'Idk I don't want to have kids because I want to prioritize my own goals and ambitions and a child doesn't fit into those' and someone responds with 'well that's a very selfish way of thinking' like...AGAINST WHO?

If we say selfish we mean someone is only focused on themselves and disregarding others but in this case...who are the others? The child? The child who doesn't exist? The child who isn't even being planned for, who is strictly in the 'don't want' zone? Why should a nonexistent child have ANY precedence over my own (existing right now in this moment) wishes and my own life? A possible partner? Idk about you but I'd like to think me and my partner (assuming a wild reality where I want a partner) would be equals, so wishes of one wouldn't be more important than wishes of other. And if we disagreed on something so big and crucial as having children then I'd like to think we would be mature enough to end that relationship. So it can't be that.

Or is it just society, just social expectations of child bearing and raising being a must do on the check list of life? Is this who my selfishness would be hurting, this who I'm up against? Well I honestly see no wrong being committed there.

[feminist-mina-harker]

Hey y’all what do you do when your two best friends start dating each other and decide to tell you on Christmas morning when you’ve already been feeling incredibly isolated for months and you have to pretend to be super happy for them and not utterly crushed thinking they’re going to definitely forget you now more than they already have been

[queen-lucy-the-valiant]

"Edmund, I've got a bad feeling" is such a funny line if you take it in context with the "the last time I didn't believe Lucy, I ended up looking pretty stupid" line from PC. Because Caspian and co are probably like... yeah bad feeling, it's Eustace, what good feelings could you have? but then Edmund's probably thinking something like... dear god, please don't let this be as dramatic as the last few times, we don't have enough men to fight another war rn.

[vampireharpy]

Imagine just getting a taste and being so desperate for more you arch a whaler 🙄🙄🙄

[archibald-2017]

Something something being the awkward sister that feels like a complete failure and inadequate in comparison to her much more confident sister.

[yorya1-0]

23 years ago today only this happened. Nothing more.

[rewrite-canon]

im going crazy with how people are starting to agree with snow that sejanus was really stupid and deserved what was coming to him. reading the books first should be a pre requisite to the movie idcccc if that takes away the wider audience, the wider audience all have smooth brains anyway.

“why was he colluding with rebels when he could’ve just thought about it pragmatically 🙄” i’m in your fucking walls. sejanus was never dumb, snow just kept pushing that perception of him through the book to deflect the fact that sejanus was an actual good person. snow thought himself the personification of good and benevolence, which was why everything he did had to have some half-assed excuse as to why he was justified in doing it. it was why he was actually tweaking in the woods when lucy gray left him, because he wanted to rid himself of her but he didn’t have an actual reason so he convinced himself of the most random scenario ever to justify trying to shoot at her. so we can establish that snow was an evil broke boy who clearly wasn’t good— then sejanus was a direct confrontation of snow’s own shortcomings towards that (i don’t think i have to detail how sejanus was genuine, it was obvious). coriolanus and sejanus are like the direct opposite characters of each other, and snow knew and took pride in this to an extent. which is why snow couldn’t admit that sejanus was good to himself, thus sejanus was deemed ‘stupid’ to protect his own deluded self actualisation (but this also includes other aspects like how the war made the plinths rich and the snows poor, leading to resentment and jealousy from snow).

“but that still didn’t mean he wasn’t doing dumb things throughout the book” was it really that dumb? a rebellion will always include some level of risk but i don’t hear anyone calling heavensbee stupid because it actually worked out for him. plus sejanus is district, so if we use our common sense of who he is as a character and emotional intelligence of his situation, it’s pretty easy to see why he would get in touch with rebels. he’s literally always yearned for the districts, he never once cared about his money or safety, which isn’t stupid, it’s sad. this was his way of dealing with the guilt of profiting from his people’s suffering— again, not stupid. you could argue he was reckless, especially when he went into the arena, but most people who simply cast him as a ‘dumb character’ ignore how troubled he is and fall into the very filtered lens of snow who was just concentrating on his stupidity.

sejanus’ growing radical actions had nothing to do with stupidity and everything to do with feeling helpless and like nothing was changing. he tried minor/low-risk things such as attempting to change the perception of the districts in the capitol, advocating against the hunger games etc etc. of course it didn’t work, so his options grew limited to more radical courses of action. its a natural line of thought— activists literally do it in real life when they feel as if their cause isn’t getting enough attention (eg. setting themselves on fire). sejanus is a desperate character who is so selfless in light of snow’s constant self-preservation. snow will always put himself first and be paranoid that he will be betrayed like he’s betrayed others, so he never understands sejanus’ disposition to help and trust people, so he labels him dumb. omg. like. sejanus is so not-stupid i’m actually gonna start freaking out!! this is defamatory leave my boo alone!! plz go read a book and work on media literacy i am begging!!!

[firefistacesfreckles]

Also like, Luffy isn’t the type to go “hey I worked my ass to achieve this and you do the same for free? That’s bullshit” like if someone had a similar devil fruit and copied his techniques he’d find it hilarious. He didn’t even really get that mad at the people impersonating his crew. Luffy too confident to give a shit about that kinda thing but some fans clearly aren’t

this!! it's so funny bc luffy truly doesn't give a fck about things like this at all. in fact, he was the one encouraging bonney to transform! like 😭💀 not once has he been shown to be insecure about someone else's power (except during post‐marineford arc. but that was a trauma response), and yet powerscalers are always crying about these things. they don't understand his character. it pisses me off.

and genuinely, i don't understand how someone can read a manga like one piece and worry more about who is more powerful than who, instead of paying attention to the story. like, i'm sorry, but if fights and action sequences are all you care about, perhaps this manga is not for you!!

[lucysweatslove]

OKAY ITS TIME TO RANT AGAIN.

Saw a med student complaining about how kids are over-medicated (psychiatric meds) and how we just aren’t being tough enough on them to get over their issues.

A. MF. Med. Student.

Look, I’m not going to argue that some kids *are* overprescribed. And jumping directly to medication management for mild to moderate depression or anxiety after one brief meeting when they haven’t considered therapy? Not ideal, no.

But this dude had the biggest “I turned out fine” kind of energy that is not only totally unhelpful but incredibly callous.

He based his whole thing on seeing a pair of siblings once where one mentioned that school gave her depression and anxiety. And just kind of judged that her depression and anxiety didn’t really exist in a meaningful way, she should just deal with it because that’s how we toughen kids up, no meds, no management.

No, dude, that’s how kids *take their own life,* you asshat.

I’m not going to say whether or not her meds are appropriate because 1) I’m not a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, and 2) we don’t know nearly enough to assess her illnesses. BUT THAT IS EXACTLY MY POINT. The med student isn’t CAPS and also doesn’t have all the information needed to assess her fully even if he was.

Instead of just saying “lol it’s normal to hate school, toughen up you pussy” (literally the undertone), idk, actually show an interest in her and in her experiences and feelings? Talk to her about what school is like? How her anxiety feels in her body? How productive she feels? How well she feels she is doing compared to how well she thinks she could be doing? How her friendships are? If she feels safe? And then you can ask how she feels on these meds? Do they help? Do they numb? Is she able to do more things she wants to do? Is she doing anything else to help manage her feels?

Kids can and do develop psychiatric disorders including depression and anxiety, and those kids deserve to have those disorders treated, hard stop.

Some days I wonder why tf ADCOMs (multiple) deemed me good enough to become a whole ass doctor in charge of literally keeping people alive, and then I see med students like this and go, oh. Dude probably is book-smart and maybe good at lying but his EQ is reading real low rn.

[darkmagicianknight]

soco releasing a new song after like 20 years was not in my 2024 bingo card but i am heRE FOR IT

[charmspoint]

if anything, its much more selfish to *have* children. if youre childless for whatever reason you understand that you would not do well with a hypothetical child and therefore you are making the mature and informed decision to *not* have one. if you have a child and ignore the many reasons that you likely shouldn't, you are bringing a child into the world who didnt ask for you as a parent, who didnt ask to be born in the first place. you technically have no right as a parent to have a child who didnt ask to be there in the first place

The way I see it for me, having a child needs to be a 100% decision. I'm all in or I'm not at all. I think there are some people in the world who make good parents and some who don't and I simply belong to the second group. If I did, for some reason, have a child I'd like to think I'd take good care of it because the last thing I would want to do is hurt an innocent child, but I know I wouldn't love it or find raising it fulfilling. And I don't think any child should be put through a parent who doesn't 100% love them and want them to be there.

But I don't think labeling having children as 'selfish' when you obviously shouldn't is completely right either, because it just sorta does the same thing as selfishness being used against people who don't want to have children aka reduces a very important and delicate decision and thought process into one easy to throw around insult.

The thing is, in our society, having children is pretty much seen as a MUST. You are supposed to date, get married, have children, those are life check points established as mandatory through societal expectations. And it's easy to throw them away when you are already out of the box. It's easy for me, I'm aroace, I don't want any of it. But it's not easy for everybody. Most people have been brought up from birth with expectation that one days they WILL have children and that these children WILL bring them happiness and that they WILL be their greatest life's work. This, like all things, is true for some people and false for others, but it's very hard to come to therms with it being wrong for YOU when that's how you've been raised.

There are def, 100% people who have children when they shouldn't for selfish reasons. There are also 100% people who have children when they shouldn't because that's what they feel they should be doing. Because they were raised knowing that is simply what you do. Children are seen as life completing, as the GOAL of one's whole EXISTENCE. That is a pressure that is very hard to fight against and it should be acknowledged fairly as so. These people aren't selfish but are suffering from the same expectation of parentage as people who don't want children, just from a different angle and with a child in tow which makes everything so much harder to consider.

This is a very interesting conversation to have but I don't think it's right to utilize any blame tactics in either general direction. I would like it if in the future those societal expectations were lesser and gone, and it was easier for people to realize that having children is just not right for them. Attacking people who didn't have that support and feeling of being able to make that decision helps no one and honestly just turns people more against each other. This of course doesn't include actually abusive and/or neglectful parents.

[livelaughlovesubs]

Wait. Wait wait wait. I thought Gabriel or lucifers waist was very slutty already but- WHAT IS THIS????

Oh lord Jesus Christ wtf…. He’s beating the ‘sluttierst waist’ competition by an arm length what??? Holy mother Maria what.

I’m hooked, nahhhhh I need him and that waist omggg I found his eyes a little weird but that waist is to die for

Need my hands on him <3

[patentedsun]

You guys I'm actually crying over chapter 204.5 (which is technically an ad for a certain company we're all boycotting btw) but ignoring the actual ad THE STORYLINE WAS SO??? GOOD???? the Natsu characterization in this was INCREDIBLE (be prepared for intense 100yq hatred) and it portrayed exactly why I fell in love with nalu in the first place....

Summary and analysis below (doesn't incl all the pages btw!!)

We start off with Lucy finding Natsu and Happy at her place, as always.

this is followed by him being like "do you think we'll peek or something" which... 100yq natsu would have... that IMPOSTER...

Anyways while she's taking a bath, Natsu and Happy are browsing around Lucy's room and find a book that stands out. (Btw right next to this book is her diary, 100yq natsu would've gone straight for that). However they end up accidentally destroying it and start panicking. They ask Lucy if they can "borrow it" and Lucy panics at first, saying it's precious and not to touch it, but relents when they say they found it "interesting".

fast forward, we see them worn out after trying and failing to find a replacement copy. ONCE AGAIN, they're doing this because it's something precious to LUCY. Not because they care about reading, or because the book has any value to them, but because they understand it's important to HER. Natsu (and Happy) going the extra mile for things that are important to Lucy is SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART of their entire dynamic.

continuing, Lucy walks into the guild and asks how they're finding the book, they say it's interesting. Lucy gets SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THIS and starts talking non stop ab the book. Happy asks her why this book is so important to her and...

Y I K E S.

So yeah, they ultimately decide that lying isn't it and they should apologize upfront.

this is so beautiful to me, idk like the imagery of them bowing so sincerely is so.... and like wow MASHIMA seems like natsu IS capable of acknowledging his own wrongdoings and offering genuine apologies. I'm not even talking ab the whole post tartaros situation no, I'm talking about fucking 100yq, where natsu actually physically hurts Lucy and doesn't apologize for it (AND IN FACT ITS PLAYED FOR A GAG)(IMPOSTER!!! NOT MY NATSU!!!)

Soooo Lucy doesn't take it well and runs away.

the fact that they didn't stop their search here. the fact that they EXPANDED it to other towns to try and find her the book THIS IS JUST <3333

Anyways, Lucy returns and reveals dozens of copies of the book...

My heart actually broke for her here because as someone who ig creates stuff as well, it really can be painful to have no audience interaction. And to have a book you wrote bomb like that...ouch... and of course she would've been excited, her best friends told her they found it interesting!!! my HEART. OUCH. and the sheer guilt on Natsu and Happy's faces here 😭 Once again, 100yq would've played this off for a gag...

And they all start bawling (and the ad comes in so I will stop there) but YEAH. THIS WAS SO BEAUTIFUL??? The way she's regretful too, the way they're still trying to apologize and make her feel better I'm :(. This is what makes nalu work and it feels like mashima is forgetting that ab his own work... they're both genuinely good and kind to each other... like not to get sidetracked but there has always been goofy fanservice moments but there were also so many wonderful, emotional, complex scenes with them with depth and maturity and I just feel like that's lacking now. So reading this was like getting punched in the face srsly because wow... THIS is the natsu I know and love ugh .....