#lulu-the-bugaboo

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

Since Sabo actually has dark hair in this au, is there any chance we can see how he looks like with his natural hair?

Yeah sure!

The timeline in this au for sabo gettting his scar/living with luffy and ace would be the same as the one from wittb! This would be a little before The Accident.

when he starts living with his brothers, his hair will never be fully black again.

(Sabo goes to a different school than luf and ace at this time)

Thanks for the ask!

[nicorobinphd]

omg your response was so sweet, thank you so much!! i tend to worry about being overly chatty lol but posts like these make the risk worthwhile.

anyway, i do plan to post the meta at some point after re-reading a few things & grabbing some panels to cite my sources lol, but the short & skinny of my view on ace's pride is that like you said it is complicated. like i 100% agree with you that it isn't an either-or thing. while i do not think ace had any prototypical sense of personal pride or conceit due to the self-worth issues, I do think he has a very sanji-esc sense of pride in his abilities as like a means of proving his right to exist & as a means of offering a contribution to the world almost, as well as like an unhealthy amount of pride for the people in his life just by virtue of their ability to love somebody as "good for nothing" as he is- he almost makes saints of the people around him through it.

anyhow, with his abilities, they're a tool he can use to justify his presence & he feels enough confidence in his ability to do so that it does lead to an almost optimistic sort of arrogance. like that in particular is very heavily highlighted in the wano flashback to his argument with whitebeard on the moby. it's also worth noting, at least imho lol, that of the major ways ace is shown to interact with pride as a concept, the type he presents here is the only sort we're able to see reasoned with. like, he's still optimistic & overconfident, and we're shown this when he states he thinks he, marco, & izo could succeed as a trio, but whitebeard is also able to actually make ace stop & think. it fits very well with ace being more reflective as a character than he is more broadly contemplative (+ how that plays into him being a character who is heavily concerned with the past) & the ways he's repeatedly shown to take (due or undue) responsibility for his position during the summit war saga. but, like, tldr of the main ways i at least think ace shows pride, i'd say the way it relates to his ability more contextualizes his actions than informs them if that makes any sense???

though, i can't lie lol, i do think the real nitty-gritty with ace & pride is the veneration of people he loves first & foremost. & similarly to his abilities, he does tend to view it at least partially from the lens of like what it means regarding his place in the world. like, due to the ways he's felt denied of/forced to fight to prove such, when somebody offers him care or belonging he almost deifies them for it. he does not necessarily believe he's been proven worthy, but he can at least intellectually understand that somebody views him as such. & this is something we see repeatedly with the way he physically takes on elements of the people he loves, along with the way (& the reason why) he wants to make whitebeard king, and also in just how stringently & recklessly loyal he can be. it is also the most in-line with the explicit reasoning we're given for his temper after the grey terminal fire ("luffy was behind me."), which is framed as the most major contribution to ace's anger issues outside anything explicitly related to the legacy of his father. because he feels that to love him is something unthinkable, any hint of it creates a sense of indebtedness, and he takes an intense & quite frankly almost scary amount of pride in the personhood of each & every individual who cares for him because of it. & like that isn't to say the value he places on it is entirely due to what it means for him, so much as to him it's like watching somebody place the sun in the sky & they pride a person would take in witnessing/being party to such a feat- honestly i'd say any understanding of the people in his life's ability to care for him is the closest he got to conceit, even moreso than anything to do with his abilities (though that's not to say they're mutually exclusive, either). &, like, i do think that type of pride was the closest to being at the root of him, yk? like even just examining the ways that akainu taunted him, it was about whitebeard's legacy, of the crew's bravery & how that relates to what sort of man pops is, about the validity of their family (in direct parallel to what he did manipulating squard, no less), rather than anything about ace himself. even ace's mental response maintains that focal point with the thought of "don't slander the man who saved me!!" i'd go so far as to say that the pride he took in the people who loved him, in part for being people who could love him, is what got him killed at the end of the day. or, more accurately, a combination of the above with that at the forefront, along with a good-sized pinch of unhealthy preoccupation with his own person due to the whole "my value is something to be proven" thing. & it is an interesting sort of pride to see examined considering how it is both deeply self-oriented & yet near-entirely externally placed. like, as a character ace does really feel like he sort of rests on a paradox between deep negative self-obsession & deep regard for those he cares about.

idk, i hope this is coherent lol. now i'm sad thinking about how even after the fatal blow, he took responsibility for his own death- like he knew that he'd been had almost. god he's so fucked up.

Having Ace as a fav is weird because the takes I see on him are either the type I've always wanted on my favs, digging into his character despite the low screentime and sharing fascinating views or the most brain dead, disappointing, shallow takes known to man

There is no in-between

[starlightbelle]

Ooooh I love this one! Idk why the tag didn’t come thru so it’s lucky I saw yours @whileyoureinschoolidothisallday! Thanks for the tag!

Tagging @bektheimaginative @balsee @sailing-ever-west @lulu-the-bugaboo @shaanks and I know I'm forgetting people so anyone else who feels so inclined! (Some of you may have already posted this and I missed it and/or forgot so don't feel pressured to partake 😅)

[engekihaikyuu]

hello. excuse me when I go to the spotify account for the osts I can't access them. Are they only available in japan?

Yes they are region-locked to be available in Japan only, but a VPN usually does the trick. 

There are also links in the FAQ with links where you can purchase the physical soundtracks: https://engekihaikyuu.tumblr.com/FAQ

Note: They also stopped making physical soundtracks after The Tokyo Battle; the Fly High OST contains only 5 tracks and is only available as a digital purchase. 

[allforson]

who would win in an arm wrestling contest...?

This is a tough one because there are a number of factors that would influence it.

If All Might is in his muscle form he'd definitely win. How easily would depend on who's watching ;D

If they're both going quirkless it'd probably be AFO because he's in a good shape and All Might is a skeleton

Izuku would beat both of them because they'd both pretend to not be strong enough

[lunisoular]

THANKYU FOR THE TAG !!! using this blog cuz im so not ised to using souverite……

been going insane over them for a while now

@immortal-raine @cocokoby @lulu-the-bugaboo

cute thing im coming up with

this picrew of yourself and your current hyperfixation !!

no pressure tags @pearlzier @julesssyy @reidsfavoritegirl @whitney23317 @willowsblanket @flowercrownsandtrauma @rottenletter

[lollitree]

thanks for blessing us with quality dad for one content

It’s what the world needs

[koutawoo]

WOO CHAN COME BACK TO US PLEASE _cognizant no more anon I guess (account reveal? jskadjkasl will this make you come more often like in "the past". Come on we miss u jdksadj answer this privately or publicly (?) however you like jkljdda)

LMFAOSJSJSJAKSJS SORRY i was dying over uni & i haven’t been watching much anime (hq!! is over, but i’m afraid to finish it up uhhh)

i’m here 😩‼️

[ask-kriscrossapplesauce]

Kris literally ripped it out with their bare hand. Like LITERALLY literally. Like one hand ripped it outta their own chest like something outta Indiana Jones!

[ You kind of try not to think about it too much. ]

[where-does-the-heart-lie]

How do you think a serious Sabo/Garp interaction would go?

(Congrats on the milestone!)

I never want them to seriously meet.

I want them forever to be two ships passing in the night.

i want it to be this.

thanks for the ask!

[10th-no-name-person]

Ah dude give me a hug we all feel like that some times *hugs*

-hugs you tight-

I usually ignore it, but... it’s been gnawing at me for months now. Just getting worse and stuff. But like I said, I’ll be fine eventually.

We all will

[septic-dr-schneep]

*hugs* WE LUV UUUUUUUUUUUUU

I love all of you too

[starlightbelle]

Tagged by @bektheimaginative 😊

Last song I listened to: Dreamcatcher by Starset

Favourite place: probably anywhere near the beach, or anywhere I'm near my friends

Favourite book: I adore The Lunar Chronicles series. Or Shatter Me although I haven't read it in a while 😅

Currently reading: Well I'm caught up on One Piece, but I am reading it week-to-week so that still counts. 👍🏼 Also trying to make my way through the Dinotopia books

Favourite movie: I honestly have so many! The Man From UNCLE, Penelope, The Proposal, Cinderella 2015, and Beauty and the Beast (1991) to name a few

Favourite TV show: Right now either One Piece or My Hero Academia

Favourite food: rn I'll say Pad Thai

Favourite colour: purple 💜

Currently watching: One Piece (made it to Water 7!)

Currently craving: strawberry ice cream!

Coffee or tea: probably tea! 🧋

Tagging: @iwanttorundirectlyintothesun @reineyday @sailing-ever-west @treasuredplanet @lulu-the-bugaboo @lucianalight or anyone who wants to!! 🫶🏼

@thisbibliomaniac did one of these and I'm bored so I'm doing it 😚

Last song I listened to: Begin Forever by Switchfoot

Favourite place: my church on a weekday (I mean, I love it on Sunday morning too, but it's just so peaceful there during the week).

Favourite book: I'll be basic and say Pride and Prejudice. I really do love it tho.

Currently reading: I just finished a selection of the Arabian Nights. Thinking of starting Eragon now...

Favourite movie: Besides the rote answer (the LotR trilogy), A Knight's Tale.

Favourite TV show: hmmmm that's a really hard one. AtLA or Lost.

Favourite food: Curry. Any kind.

Favourite colour: yellow 💛

Currently watching: Oh boy... Stargate: SG1 with sister #3, Merlin with brother #2, The Flash with brother #2 and sister #2, Young Justice with brothers #1 and #2 and sister #2, Friends with brother #1 and sister #2, SpyxFamily with sister #2, Parks and Rec with my mom, Titans and Psych just by myself, and the Chosen with the fam. I think that's all. I swear I don't spend all day watching TV. I probably watch one episode of each show less than once a week.

Currently craving: Nothing?

Coffee or tea: Tea

Tagging: @wiitzend @verygardenstarlight @orthopoogle @codenameantarctica @bektheimaginative @monjustmon

[d-structive]

*shakes you* YOU SILLY FISH WE LOVE THIS EXPRESSION ARTS LIKE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SO BADASS AND CEWWWWWWWWWWWWWL

That metallic sound you hear while you shake me, is the sound of my shrinked black heart who finally detached from all the rest.

...Either that, or the brain I thought I lost years ago.

[thefloatingstone]

Well I hope this year treats you much better ^-^sending some love your way❤❤❤

Thanks Lulu

[rogue-of-broken-time]

Awww Rouge :,) want a hug?

*accepts the hug and sends one back to you*