#my favorite crew

[cluttered-echo]

rare moment where the whole nighteye agency is getting along

[ppeuppeuppeu]

THEYRE THE COOL KIDS YOU CANT SIT WITH THEM

[wesleysniperking]

I think their bond is the most special. East Blue 5 are tight.

EAST BLUE CREW 🌊

[ruporas]

captain's warm hugs! (id in alt)

[diamondsheep]

East Blue Crew ✨ !!!

[aseon50]

Q!fit when the silly little gay scientist he considers family goes missing and comes back Wrong

THREE TIMES

[stcrmhund]

@obrechenniye

TAMAR KIR-BATAAR, NIKOLAI LANTSOV and TOLYA YUL-BATAAR in SHADOW AND BONE Season 2

[gunsatthaphan]

not me 🤝🏻 only friends

[sunnibits]

“the kids chose protective mom izzy in the divorce” is literally my new favorite joke to come out of s2 so far I’m utterly obsessed

[crazymecjc]

half baked thought bc I’m actually chewing drywall abt this trailer rn but I’m really interested to see if and how bachelor route leans into film as the vessel for performance rather than theatre- I think it’s a fascinating narrative shift that really articulates the difference between the haruspex and bachelor routes. “any choice is right as long as it’s willed” really reflects the ever changing and in-the-moment presence of live theatre whereas with “there is only one truth,” the film has been made. the events have already come to pass. they are preserved in time ad infinitum. which also adds to the tragedy of daniil dankovsky i think :)) idk i just think its Neat and i am so so incredibly excited about this game cannot wait to see the sillies again :))

[cindersassasin]

i love this post so much. makes me miss the books and them and jist might go reread now.

do you think maybe sometimes because he grew up rich Kai has trouble understanding what it’s like for not-rich people? Like one of the crew explaining two things they are trying to decide which to get and he’s like “why don’t you just get both?🤨” and then they have to awkwardly explain that they don’t have enough money for both. And other things like that.

Yes, although he doesn't mean to sound condescending. Kai is fully aware of his privilege and never flaunts it or looks down on others. And as emperor he is constantly reminded of the reality of life for poorer people when he is doing charity work and passing economic bills. So when he does make a rich kid™ comment, it's completely out of ignorance and with no ill-intent.

When he makes such comments and his friends explain that they cannot financially accommodate such things, his instinctive response is "oh, then I'll buy it for you." They mostly reject him because that's not the right solution; you can't have everything in life and you will have to sacrifice some things for others. Believing otherwise only nurtures bad habits.

This occurs less once he marries Cinder. Although she's now rich, she still has the mindset on money that she had when she was living under Adri and with limited access to her own earned wages. Kai will suggest that they go out for dates once a week and each time he books an expensive restaurant, the absolute best seats at the theatre or a concert, and then rents out an entire art gallery so they can browse without paparazzi. Cinder is fine with these things--sometimes. When he starts to do this every time, she pulls him by the collar, says, "whoa whoa whoa, who do you think we are? Royalty or something?" "Cinder, we are royalty." "Doesn't mean we should use up the whole city's resources in one evening!"

She teaches him that a stroll through the gardens or ice creams by the beach are just as enjoyable as expensive activities. He only did all this because he wanted to treat her, but it's abundantly clear that Cinder does not need fancy things to be impressed.

Other times when he makes slightly tone deaf comments, Cinder or Jacin or Thorne or even the others will something to the effect of: "hey rich kid, welcome to the real world." (Thorne actually says something like this in canon, "hey mister-born-into-royalty, what do you know about it?")

But it's not only Kai; Winter sometimes makes ignorant comments, Wolf sometimes lacks awareness of what's socially acceptable because he grew up in an abnormal environment. Cress often puts her foot in her mouth because she doesn't understand the average Earthen lifestyle. Cinder's sarcasm and Scarlet's anger always get them in trouble. Jacin has to become more polite so as to not offend his patients. Thorne's flippant flirting lands him in the bad books when people take it seriously and then he has to awkwardly explain that he's not actually interested in them. They're all imperfect, and rather than hinder each other, they choose to overlook those flaws and build each other up instead. Iko is an android and therefore perfect 😜 (but maybe because she was programmed to love Kai and is very clearly attracted to him, Cinder might ask her at some point to tone it down, because he IS her husband).

[neunhofferart]

Gordon warm-ups and storyboard panels from Jurassic World Chaos Theory Season 2.

As I mentioned before, he was originally in a much longer scene with Brooklynn that introduced the idea of her working through a lingering PTSD around dinosaurs following her accident, while also relating their new shared limb difference. It was cut down significantly for time. v_v

I loved figuring out how he moved and hopped around on just one leg. Truly my favorite little guy.

(I'm going to share the full thing eventually, but I need to do some formatting fixes to the pdf file and then turn it into gifs for socials and I've been busy sorry haha).

[saltpepperbeard]

OFMD Week Day 1: Favorite QAR Crew Member

Fang 🖤🐶🏴‍☠️

[applestruda]

Happy one year to moon big and my favorite crew

[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.

[yamsgarden]

One pieceeee oh sweet freedom