#op 1052

[chenziee]

Fly, little bird (away from everything)

Written for the wonderful @opmarcozine! So happy and honoured to have been able to take part in this project 💙

I wrote one more fic for the digital add-on which is much, much lighter than this ahaha If you fancy yourself some silly pineapple flambe and jealous kittens, stay tuned for later this week! (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

Last chance to grab yourself a copy!

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The one time the Whitebeard Pirates had visited the Land of Wano, it was a peaceful and beautiful country. Marco still remembered the lush forests of Kuri, could smell the aroma of the giant koi being grilled over fire, could hear Kin'emon scolding Oden for wanting to leave. It was a great place; the stories Oden, Inu, Neko, and later Izo had shared with the family were all fun and happy.

With the isolation policy, they all assumed the country was still the same. That Oden had made his way back to the country after Roger's execution and was now busy being a terrible Shogun—having more fun than governing, giving Kin'emon and Denjiro grey hair while Toki did nothing but encourage her husband.

They had no reason to think there was anything wrong with their brother (or uncle?) and his country.

But then the news reached them.

Watching Pops' almost permanent wide grin freeze and eventually disappear was never a good sign. Honestly, a skirmish with some stray Beast Pirates who thought picking a fight with another Emperor was a bright idea wasn't a good sign either but Pops going from relaxed to shocked to angry was in a league of its own.

"What's going on, yoi?" Marco asked as he rushed towards the group dealing with the mess.

When Izo turned to look at him, Marco startled at the sight that met him. Izo's lips were pressed into a thin line, his jaw clenched. His brow was furrowed so deeply that his carefully applied make-up was creasing and the look in his eyes was… full of fear.

Marco took a deep breath, his gaze darting between Izo's twisted expression, the looks of anger on his other brothers' faces, and Pops, who had stood up to his full height with Murakumogiri in hand, his grip tight as he glowered at the pirates in front of him. Haki was vibrating in the air when he finally spoke up, his voice resounding around the Moby Dick with a commanding tone that would make even the greatest Neptunians quiver.

"Kaido's ruling the Land of Wano? What's that mean, squirt?" he asked.

"Exactly what I said," one of the Beasts said, voice full of fake confidence even as he visibly shook in fear.

Dead silence followed his words. Everyone could imagine what it meant.

Carefully, tentatively, Marco raised his hand, placing it on Izo's shoulder. When he didn't immediately shake him off, Marco squeezed lightly, hoping to remind his fellow division commander that he wasn't alone. Marco wasn't sure if that was enough… but he didn't know what else to do for him right then.

It seemed like a pointless question when Pops demanded to know what happened to his little brother; Marco was sure they could all imagine Oden's reaction when he had learned Kaido put a pawn on the Shogun's throne and took control of his homeland. Oden might have hated the isolation policy but he loved his country and its people.

Letting go of a shaky breath, Marco tried not to imagine what Oden's last moments might have been like. He simply squeezed Izo's shoulder tighter.

The man stood still for a moment longer but then he finally shook Marco's hand off and stepped forward.

"What about the retainers? What happened to them?" he asked, voice carefully measured.

"The castle burned down. There's no way anyone survived," the Beast answered after a reluctant pause.

Heavy silence settled over the deck before Izo turned around, his coat swishing behind him as he walked away. No one dared follow him.

"Toss them overboard. I don't care what happens to them," Pops announced, sitting back down in his chair to signify the matter over.

Marco didn't wait around to see Jozu leaving their lives in the mother sea's care. With one powerful wave of his wings, he rose up high to the air, soon leaving the Moby Dick behind as he shifted into full phoenix form and took off to nowhere in particular.

It was moments like this that he was grateful to his devil fruit. The ability to just up and leave when he wanted to clear his head or just needed a break—that alone was worth the threat of drowning in a puddle. Maybe he should take Izo up here once the gunman sorted out his thoughts.

Once Marco sorted out his own.

He wanted to go back; he wanted to go to Pops and demand they turn the ship around and go to Wano to free their family's country, to get revenge… But he wasn't stupid. He knew it was impossible—not without putting countless lives in danger and not without the World Government getting involved. After all, this wouldn't be just a matter of two rival crews fighting amongst themselves. This would be an open war between two Emperors.

It was simply not going to happen. Pops would never agree and Marco himself wouldn't easily make that decision. Maybe if Oden was still alive, if they were sure Izo's sister was alive… it would be different. But as it was, there was nothing to gain, Marco knew.

He knew, but that didn't stop him from wishing they could just go and do it.

And so he merely waved his wings, rising higher still.

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­­Looking at the large stones in front of him, Marco wondered if it was possible for tears to run out. It had barely been a week since Marineford, the wounds still fresh, still tender, still so damn painful... and yet, Marco's eyes stayed dry now. They stayed dry despite the cold, hard reminders within an arm's reach; reminders that he would never again hear Pops' laughter, never again find Ace sleeping on top of his own medical records and setting them on fire.

It almost felt like the gravestones were mocking his inability to cry anymore.

It didn't come as much of a surprise when quiet steps approached him before a delicate hand came to rest on his shoulder.

It took a long time for either of them to speak, time filled with mutual understanding and mourning for the ones they had lost. But finally, Izo's soft whisper was carried by the breeze to Marco's ears. "Thank you for being here."

At that, Marco snorted. "Shouldn't I be saying that in this situation?"

"Maybe. I just wanted to say it," Izo replied, his tone lighter but every bit as serious as it was before and Marco's shoulders sagged.

"I'm sorry. This is the second time we let your family die," he muttered.

Izo clicked his tongue, letting go of Marco's shoulder to instead whack him over the head. "Shut up. Neither what happened in Wano, nor this was your fault. We all did what we wanted in the end. Including Pops and Ace."

"I know," Marco sighed. "It's just hard, yoi."

"It is," Izo agreed quietly, his hand landing back on Marco's shoulder to give it one last squeeze.

Marco huffed, a small smile finding its way to his lips for the first time in days. "Thanks, yoi."

"You know where to find me," Izo said before he took a step back.

Marco briefly wondered whether he was that predictable or if Izo was simply that perceptive but he decided not to dwell on it. He let his arms be engulfed in blue flames that soon formed into fiery feathers—soft, warm, and familiar, turning his arms into powerful wings which could carry so much weight… but which still couldn't carry the future of the crew.

But if he let them… maybe they could at least carry the guilt and leave it somewhere far above in the clouds. Maybe turn it into rain to replace the tears Marco couldn't shed anymore.

"I'll see you later," Marco only said before raising into the air, Izo's nod nothing but an afterimage as he took to the air, just like he had done years ago after they had learned about Wano’s fate. Just like he had done countless times in the past few days.

As he rose up, higher and higher, he was surprised by how much lighter he felt now; it was like he was leaving behind not only Izo and Whitebeard and Ace’s graves, but also a large portion of the weight that had been sitting on his shoulders for days—months, really; ever since Thatch was killed—and which had been keeping his wings from spreading fully.

It would probably never go away but maybe, just maybe… it would become easier.

And he would never have to take to the air to mourn ever again.

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As he soared through the skies of Wano, Marco couldn't help the wry smile pulling on his lips. What a naive wish he had made two years ago.

There was no one to comfort him now; no one to squeeze his shoulder and smile encouragingly. Izo was gone, just like Pops and Ace and so many others.

But Marco… kept soaring.

[persephil]

And gay wrongs in the back

trans rights :)

[ichigoginchan]

he's worried about his husband

[liceparade]

saw it on the dash and wanna do it so.

tagging @vincentpriceofficial @porosenoksposts @volturialice @uncancellable or whoever wants to do it

[fowlfics]

2024 Writing Roundup

Big thanks to @chromatic-lamina for tagging me! 🥰 I saw that post before seeing the tag, and I spent the entire scroll down wishing I had been tagged in something like that… Only to find out that i WAS tagged in it 😆  Strap in, this is going to take a hot minute! (it took me 2.5 hours to gather all this info, but it'll likely take 5 minutes to read LOL)

I have posted 54 works on my AO3 this year, which is both more and less than what I’ve actually written xD More, because some of the fics I posted had been sitting in my drive for a very long time, now. And less, because there’s a bunch of zine fics I’m not allowed to let out yet :3c

(Also, due to the fact that I didn’t grab my fic stats until May, I will be only considering fics posted this year for kudoes/hits, rather than looking at what all fics gained this year)

This year was DEFINITELY a One Piece year, that’s for sure. There were six old fics I’ve posted (4 BSD, a Frieren and a Goncharov), and 11 zine pieces I’ve freed from jail (Batfam, Sailor Moon, CSM, HP, Original, two OPs and 4 BNHAs) which I will not be considering. As well as a translation of a polish fic that I’m also discarding for the purposes of this roundup! That still leaves 43 fics ✨

words posted: 123,867! A fairly decent number for me <3

additional words written: I’m going to treat this as just “unpublished zine fics wcs” bc otherwise I’d go crazy trying to track down the WCs of all the WIPs xD That’s be 25,522 words!

fandoms: One Piece, mainly! But also singles of HP, HTTYD, TMNT, TMBD and two BNHAs! 

highest kudos: Three of my fics broke the 1k mark this year - family connections sits at 1390, Kitchen ABCs at 1079 and You Are Loved at 1052~! Overall, I’m very happy with that; Those are some of the fics I’m happiest with. 

highest hit one-shot: That is once again family connections at 8,714 hits xD Close behind, at 8,361, is between crocodiles and flamingos

new things I tried: Hmm, don’t know if that counts, but I tried NOT going bonkers in Fic Fight xD I only did the minimum one fic this year, mostly because I wasn’t much in a BNHA mood but I also didn’t want to lose my streak at 4th year. I also wrote a HTTYD collab with Katia - that was a lot of fun! It was spontaneous and a very good way to bring the fic you want to read into the world without having to write all of it xD OH and also the TMBD because that fandom tends to write in 1st person POV! It turned out to be pretty fun xD OH x2 lol looping back, this year was when I started rawdogging it in discord instead of writing in docs! It has its advantages, that's for sure, but it's unsustainable for longer fics haha

fic I spent the most time on: 🤔 That’s a pretty difficult question. It’s hard to track how long I’ve spent writing each particular fic. I think it’d land on either between crocodiles and flamingos or Nature, Nurture, seeing how they’re both ongoing longfics. 

fic I spent the least time on: On vibes alone, I feel like A Wrinkle In Time was the shortest one because I wrote it for Tumblr 🤔 But there are a few fics with shorter wordcounts…

Okay I am going to try and timetrack the shortest fics I’ve got (so all under 1k), bear with me

Deus Ex Machina; wc: 705 - Aug 7th, 6:10-6:52am. Total of 42 minutes

Gifting a Horses's Birthday; wc: 841 - Feb 26th, 9:20-10:05pm. Total of 45 minutes

Godhood; wc: 858 - Aug 7th, 8:35-9:10am. Total of 35 minutes

Her Sister's Legacy; wc: 870 - Feb 27th, 5:10-5:55am. Total of 45 minutes.

A Wrinkle In Time; wc: 888 - Apr 9th, 10:50-11:34pm. Total of 44 minutes.

Disowned; wc: 990 - Feb 11th, 12:32-1:02am. Total of 30 minutes.

(The Nika fics were easy to check, I went through the doc history. For all of the rest (turns out I wrote the tumblr drabble in discord, too!), I had to check discord - thankfully, most of the time I tend to send a message and then start typing so it’s pretty easy to check the timestamps (all in my personal yap channel lol I’m not spamming general xD) That Dadan fic was actually the one I used to start my thread! )

Okay so that conclusion was unexpected XD Apparently I love torturing Sabo so much it made my hands fly o7

favourite thing I wrote: Oh that’s a difficult question! How could I possibly pick one of my babies over the others? xD If I had choose, it would be one of those: You Are Loved or Machinations of Love or Art of Remembering or Nature, Nurture! Or five other fics I decided not to include in order to keep it more succinct! The problem here - which, really, is the opposite of a problem except in the context of this question - is that pretty much all I have written for One Piece was written out of love xD (Also just to put this out here- my favourite zine pieces were for the KobyLu zine, CP0 zine (both will release in Q1 2025) and Pigment of Imagination (POs running till Jan 7th) - two of those pieces have focus on Sabo, and I’m sure everyone can guess which two xDD

favourite thing(s) I read: Well uh. I have read exactly 1,139 OP fanfics and 1.6k fics total this year so this is also a bit of a difficult question 😭 I have scrolled through my history and marked any titles I recognized as ones I enjoyed particularly well, but this is by no means a complete list xD 

TMBD:

A Crowded Mind by verynotokay 

Summary:

When malware takes over SecUnit and it nearly kills three of ART's crew, ART is left with two bad options: keep the governor module on with ART as the Client, or partition off part of itself and stick it in SecUnit's head.

> I loved the dynamics between ART and MB in here!

Autonomous Systems by @rj-abacura and @foxprints

Summary:

I’d been trying really hard to start working on myself in the run up to my Preservation humans heading home and my PSUMNT humans heading back to the university. And that’s my excuse for why I didn’t notice sooner that something was off with ART.

I’ve received my next assignment from the University. They’ve ordered me to recreate 2.0.

> Fake Marriage AU!!!! The angst is exquisite and it holds me at the edge of my seat all of the time LOL

Star Trek:

The Exiles by Moreta1848

Summary:

Spock is a child of two worlds. What if Nero had come for Earth first?

A rewrite of the 2009 movie with several key changes, continuing on past where the film ends.

> I’ve read this fairly recently, but it’s so good I’m going to include it on the list. I liked the author’s characterization, and the colour-language aliens were particularly interesting imo!

HP: 

The Evans Boy by lonibal  

Summary:

“Mr. Evans,” Ollivander said, smiling wider. “Any relation to Lily Evans?”

“Who?”

Harry Evans was almost like any other boy growing up in Cokeworth. He lived alone in a house nobody else could see, he stole food from the supermarket and never got caught, and he had a little brother who had been hidden after the night their mother was killed. Harry was a secret, and he promised not to tell.

A letter in an empty vault, a small boy with broken glasses, a portrait of a scowling girl. As Harry begins unraveling his own past, the threat against his brother grows.

How long will his secrets keep when Harry is the only one standing between his brother and the world?  

A story about family, friendship, growing up, and, of course, the most powerful magic of all

> This one was recced to me by a friend, and it’s still got me in a grip. Part 1 is finished, Part 2 is ongoing, and the Author had to have sold their soul to some supernatural being considering the speed of their updates 😭 

And, finally, OP: 

Heavy Boots by sinelanguage

Summary:

“Blackleg Robin,” she says with a mock bow. “I’ll have the misfortune of serving you today.”

Something crashes from behind her, and then someone yells; Fullbody’s gotten up, surely. Robin taps her toe on the ground, stretching out her legs.

“Now, if you don’t mind,” she says, “I believe our livestock is trying to escape.”

Or, Zeff finds Robin and takes her in. Robin and Sanji Roleswap AU.

> absolutely GORGEOUS fic. I love it so much, the roleswap is perfect and the writer’s style is very fun to read!  

Scars Fade, Bones Mend, Grief Remains the Same by @betsib

Summary:

Marineford goes as it usually does, except for three things: Akainu doesn't hit quite as directly, Luffy refuses to let go of his brother and Law ends up with both of them at his operating table.

While the world believes he is dead, Ace slowly recovers and finds a new home in an unexpected place.

> I have read this fic so many times 😭 It’s hands down my favourite AceLaw, and very nearly favourite OP fic overall. I inflict the following paragraph on pretty much anyone i can:

 Law stormed into Portgas’s room, slamming the door behind him. “You’re early,” Portgas said, eyebrows raised. “Ceremony didn’t go well, I take it?” “It went fine. Give me your spine,” Law said, ignoring the incredulous look on Portgas’ face. 

writing goals for 2025: Oh that’s easy, for one 😂 I want to finish my ongoing longfics (so Nature, Nurture and between crocodiles and flamingos) and continue the You Are Loved verse and AceNika verse. Definitely can set the goal of at least one Fic Fight entry, too! Other than that, I’ll just go with the flow. 

new works: Not going to be of much interest to the OP crowd, but I do have another TMBD fic I’m fairly far into. Beside that, I have the YAL-verse sequel aboutish half done, and I hope to celebrate Episode 483 anniversary with something even worse than last year xD As for zine pieces, it’d be more expedient to check the notes on my zine collection - I do need to update it a bit but it works as a rough estimate xD I will be able to post my Sailing the Stars piece the moment the year turns, so you got that ASL piece to look forward to for Ace’s bday! :3c 

tagging: well of course i’m going to toss it at the mdl crew: @mangogreent @goodlucktai (good luck Tai xD no but srs feel free to ignore, no pressure!), then @katia-anyway @deadnamedblog and whoever else would like to play! 

[roleplayfinder]

Muse: Eddie. Character l'm searching for:

Venom

Genre: angst, fluff, romance, adventure, drama, nsfw.

Age: I'm 23 looking for 18+ roleplay partners

Literacy: literate to semi literate to novella.

Minimum of 3 paragraphs. Maximum: don't have one. Longest I've done is 1052 words or 50 paragraphs. It varies on the roleplay and such.

Rules: no controlling my character, no one liners, no being OP or helpless.

Stay away from: water sports, feet fetishes, scat, vore. Everything else Is on the table.

I'm very indecisive and I have ADHD and autism, not to mention I have a life so replies are undetermined at how frequent they are.

They can be immediate or slightly delayed it depends.

Plots: don't have any at the moment but l'm willing to make some with you, listen to any you have, or go with the flow.

[xxroleplayfanaticxx]

Roleplay!!

Muse: Eddie. Character I’m searching for: Venom

Genre: angst, fluff, romance, adventure, drama, nsfw.

Age: looking for 18+ roleplay partners

Literacy: literate to semi literate to novella. Minimum of 3 paragraphs. Maximum: don’t have one. Longest I’ve done is 1052 words or 50 paragraphs. It varies on the roleplay and such.

Rules: no controlling my character, no one liners, no being OP or helpless.

Stay away from: water sports, feet fetishes, scat, vore. Everything else Is on the table.

I’m very indecisive and I have ADHD and autism, not to mention I have a life so replies are undetermined at how frequent they are. They can be immediate or slightly delayed it depends.

Plots: don’t have any at the moment but I’m willing to make some with you, listen to any you have, or go with the flow.

This person is a bottom.

I have discord we can rp here on tumblr or on discord. Just comment on this post or dm me if you are interested!

[asf-director-turner]

ASF Rogue Agents Memo

Attention all staff. As you aware around a month ago a part of the ASF (ASF Division B) went rogue and attacked several of our sites and taken the staff hostage. While we were able to repel the attack and are recovering from it several former staff of the ASF and Division B are not in our custody. The staff in question are as following along with their affiliation / Status. Shade Anon: [Rogue] Aussie Anon: [Unknown] Tropical Anon: [Rogue] Bush Anon: [Unknown] Snake Anon (The guy with the bandana not the actual snake): [Unknown] -Black Op Anon: [Unknown] [Deceased] - Approximately 1052 Seagulls under the leadership of Tropical Anon: [Rogue] If detained they are to be triad for Traitorous, Attempt at dimensional destruction, Dimensional destruction, Murder, Obstruction of justice, Dimensional smuggling of the 1st degree, and more. For more info please see the recently made protocols. Remain vigilant.

[taurgo]

Oda could literally draw Yamato with a trans flag in his hand with a speech bubble saying "happy pride fellow lgbts" and 85% of the online op fanbase and subsequent dudebros would STILL do the mental gymnastics to try and muh muh muh their way of using the correct pronouns

[lordsmaf]

ONE PIECE SPOILERS THEY SAID TRANS RIGHTS

[homemadebabka]

OP 1052 SPOILERS!!!!!

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TRANS RIGHTS!!!!!!

[gallerylover]

Zoro remembers 😭

I love these two💛💚

[graymer]

i don’t think i can properly express how much i love yamato

[sateii]

the 11th one

[gumgumvibecheck]

king of hell makes good on his promises

[megashadowdragon]

@bottlepiecemuses​