#middle one is probably my favorite

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still deep in the episode 7 brainrot. because OH BOY AM I

(also one more extremely, obnoxiously self-referential thing, I'm -- I'm so sorry)

[kacievvbbbb]

You do get the sense that the fallout of Roger's death and the Roger pirates disbanding not so much traumatized Buggy and Shanks indifferent ways but instead generated such drastically different reactions to the trauma.

While the trauma of everything seemed to push Shanks into the future, always constantly waiting for something, putting plans on hold and then later in place, for this great moment, this great coming that he sees on the Horizon. For Buggy it rooted him firmly in the past keeping him trapped in this grief masquerading as anger.

While Roger's death forced Shanks to grow up fast, it kind of arrested Buggy's development keeping him stuck in those same feelings, rooted int that same place.

You get the sense that Buggy's whole east blue schtick is just one long overdue rebellious phase one big fuck you to Roger and his ideals. He's rebelling against Roger's principles. One of their rules was don't steal from innocent people and Buggy was keeping a whole town in poverty. If Roger and Luffy's pirating styles are diametrically opposed to someone like Blackbeard, who might be the most literal pirate in the entire series, then buggy is the parody of that Blackbeard piratism. He is playing up cruelty, being the most piratey pirate possible, hell he's literally a clown on a stage. It's all a show! It's his own special way of trying to "get back at Roger" of trying to discard everything Roger taught him for this overacted, over exaggerated clownish cruelty. Mentally he never left that execution square. He is still 15, alone and scared.

Hell he literally never left either, while I'm pretty sure Shanks' booked it out of the east blue as fast as he could, Buggy never lef, might have never left, if not for Luffy. It's part of why Luffy bothers him so much, he's just like Roger everything that Buggy is trying hard to forget and here comes this kid, whose never even met the Captain but is wearing his hat, shoving it right back in his face.

It makes sense that he never leaves the east blue till Luffy literally forces him out of it (fucking with Luffy gets him captured and imprisoned) and it makes sense that it's Luffy that literally breaks him out of prison, literally sets him free, and on the path to greatness that maybe he was always meant to achieve (even if he trips his way into it). This boy that is tragically so much like his old captain but so beautifully unabashedly himself, is what Buggy needs to start letting go off the past, to start trying to move forward.

Maybe that's why Buggy, at what could arguably be described as his lowest moment, gets the strength to free himself from his own self imprisonment, realizing that even back then he was locking himself away and pinning his own dreams on Shanks. And, maybe for the first time ever, Buggy really own his dream. He declares to his tormentors and his crew and the entire world that; actually He wants to find the one piece, him, as captain of his own crew, this crew, not just a part of someone else's. That's his dream and he's willing to turn the world upside down to do it.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[front-facing-pokemon]

[positivelyapunovexponent-good]

Once I come up with a killer band name all I'll need to do is actually learn how to sing or play an instrument!

(Honestly this thought exercise is actually a really fun coping mechanism for rejection of any sort I highly recommend it)

[airasora]

Netflix: suggests Ronja the Robber's Daughter show based on the old Swedish Novel by Astrid Lindgren

Me: "Oh, my God! That is so cool that a little bit of Scandinavian literature has come to Netflix!"

Netflix show: one of the cast members is black

Me: "Okay, slightly unrealistic since this takes place in the early middle ages in Sweden, but it doesn't really affect the story so whatever*

Netflix show: Ronja has blonde hair

Me: "... ok, now you're just trying to make me mad."

[etapereine]

schrödinger’s gc favorite

[puppyeared]

28 for the ask game !!!!! ^_^

28: do you collect anything?

send me a number!! 💌

[shima-draws]

Have you been playing Red Rescue Team on the switch? :))

Hell YES I have, I started playing it the day it was released lol

Just got to Frosty Forest :) I’m impatient to get to post game so I can A. Evolve my starter and B. Try to aim for 100% Friend Area completion……it’s really hard to do that in R/B Rescue Team bc of the recruit mechanics but I really wanna tryyyyy

[expectiations]

RULES: make a poll with 5 of your all-time favorite characters and then tag 5 people to do the same. See which character is everyone's favorite! (tagged by @florida3exclamationpoints)

Tagging (no pressure from me but you can pressure yourself. for fun): @lotus-ignis @seaweedstarshine @capybaraonabicycle @twosomeofcuteness @croxxbunx

[venusiancarbondioxide]

tagged by @angelofthemornings

name ten favorite characters from ten different fandoms, then tag ten people.

in no real order...

peko pekoyama (dangan ronpa)

shou suzuki (mp100)

svin glascheit (case files of lord el-melloi ii AND fate/strange fake AND who knows what else in the future, i'm holding out for my fenrir pseudo theory so hard)

sticky (pathologic)

klavier gavin (ace attorney)

gina lestrade (the great ace attorney--it's different enough from the mainline games that it gets its own bullet point)

azula (avatar: the last airbender)

camilla hect (the locked tomb)

sakura nanamini (tbhk)

will graham (specifically the hannibal tv show)

and on account of being too indecisive to tag ten whole people, if you're seeing this, congratulations!!! you've been tagged.

[starlightcleric]

I am probably overthinking "would Brevoy and the River Kingdoms have coffee and tea" when in Kingmaker you can pick up potatoes and chocolate as ingredients.

[fungi-maestro]

Lars Tunbjörk – Alien at the Office (2004)

[icewindandboringhorror]

reminders of the passage of time moodeboard

[milfygerard]

living in the inbetween hell where I dont hate or love ttpd enough to agree with anyone on the dash so im just sort of flinching whenever I see a post about it from any side

[pisshandkerchief]

the problem with letting your friends choose your name is that sometimes you end up with something like lexington murphy (insert last name here I'm not telling you what it is but it's VERY Italian)