#so yeah op you have a point

[lastoneout]

I've spent a lot of time in both female-dominated and male-dominated spaces and overall I think it's less that either group is more misogynistic than the other, it's more that they're both misogynistic in different ways.

The comments I got disparaging me for not being feminine/a girl "correctly" came from women, family or otherwise, and looking back it very much felt like group self-policing, like they had been beaten down until they were acting like Women Correctly, and now were teaching me how to behave and punishing me for doing it wrong, and in the worst cases it felt like they thought they were helping? like "this is how we're supposed to be, don't you get that? why aren't you acting right? I guess we just have to keep reminding you to Behave" which honestly made me hate myself/feel very unwelcome.

Meanwhile, I was more likely to be accepted for being gnc in men's spaces, and in fact I was kinda...I don't wanna say celebrated exactly, but they thought it was cool that I "wasn't like other girls" for sure, but that didn't make them less misogynistic. I still had to face that like, nerdy misogyny? I guess?? It was clear women weren't seen as equals unless they behaved like I did, and even then those guys tended to have that mild nerdy misogyny going on, or to full on believe misogyny wasn't real and turn into gamer gate/MRA types.

So yeah, being around the guys kinda felt better, because they praised me for the things women mocked me for, but I wasn't free of misogyny by any means, I just had to deal with a different form of it.

And this is part of the reason I have never understood wtf terfs are talking about when they claim that all women just naturally feel safer around other women. I have never in my life felt "safer" around women than men. I mean, I've been lucky enough to grow up with and currently still have lots of friends who are women and are very awesome and I do feel a sense of comradery with them, and I still call myself a feminist and am very adamant that radfems/terfs/gender critical women are NOT real feminists, but when I get just like...air-dropped into a group of random women I honestly feel like an alien and it is made very clear very quickly that I just fundamentally don't fit in.

But yeah, I do tend to feel like I can relax a bit more in men's spaces, but tbh the only communities where I've ever actually felt naturally welcome have been queer and disabled ones. The genders of the people involved don't factor bcs both men and women have been shitty to me for different reasons.

Btw, the most misogynistic people I've met have all been cis women.

[beaulesbian]

I was once again thinking about this goofy Luffy moment after his Lucci punch™ and i had to see it frame by frame.

first the force of it throws them both away, and while Lucci is seen on screen tumbling for a long moment, Luffy is just away in a blink of an eye.

and then his funny scene - his legs are like jelly that he tries to get under control,

he stumbles, falls, rolls into a mix of all his limbs and eyes,

and then only the cloud behind him cushions his fall

- which would be interesting if he can subconsciously control that while he tries to regain the control over his movements - that the environment around him still adapts to his awakened Devil Fruit abilities and morphs to help him. Where others would probably fall through that cloud, for Luffy that cloud backs him up like a trampoline.

It's just fascinating!

[lucabyte]

transfem loop + siffrin... you agree

i does agree.... i does in fact ... write a 7k word essay on the subject..... if you would like to perhaps click that link and read it if you were not already aware...... kisses u on the forehead......... sorry its that long but i had to cover all of my bases you know how it is with textual analysis when you're trying to draw a distinction between "headcanon" and "reading of the text" because those are different things.... to meeeeeeee.......

[moongothic]

There is something funny to be said about how both Dragon and Crocodile are like 2½ meters tall, they are massive fucking men. But Luffy's 174 cm, that's the height of a regular ass person. Which makes him 80 cm shorter than his dads, nearly a whole meter in height difference

Which makes me wonder

Was Luffy a regular-sized baby by our standards but absolutely itty bitty tiny when compared to his dads (like he would've fit onto Dragon's palm), or was Luffy a massive ass fucking baby who came into the world huge but didn't actually get the Huge Motherfucker-genes from his parents and just stayed short

[vimbry]

I kinda feel like there's this weird pushback around people asserting their boundaries online sometimes and I don't really know why. if someone says they don't like a single person liking a large amount of their posts in a short time for whatever reason, a dozen others go, "well I like it when people do that, so everyone is welcome to spam like me". if someone says they don't consider being mutuals to necessarily mean being friends, a dozen others go, "reminder that if we've even glanced at each other even once then we're the bestest friends ever and you can talk to me any time!"

it's not like, morally wrong for people to have preferences for how they'd like others to treat them, and it's strange to try and fight to be the most accommodating kindest nicest doormat ever. I guess the dumb discourse around, you know, colour palette/pose theft or whatever, has made people have more knee-jerk reactions to having an actually reasonable boundary.

[russilton]

“They all take money to get there so what does it matter where the money comes from” is an astoundingly privileged take to have on sport. Holy false equivalency, Batman.

You can BOTH accept the reality of unethical money sources in sports, especially motorsport AND still criticise truly egregious sources and unfair advantages. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to agree that a 15/16 year old selling themselves and their body to corporate sponsors dependant on performance is VASTLY different to having a family member pay for your seat where you have the luxury of extra support. It doesn’t mean they don’t deserve to drive- it just means they’re privileged and you can’t argue away from it.

Whataboutism is right out of conservative playbooks and you all need to be able to recognise it. You can and should be able to have reasonable discussions about different issues without someone telling you “shut up because you’re bad too actually” bc it drags you into being apathetic about everything

[shima-draws]

Big shoutout to One Piece for awakening my motivation and inspiration to draw when it was dormant for *checks calendar* over a year

[piningpercussionist]

I keep watching in mild disappointment as the notes on it keep going up, but in lieu of a response from the OP over on twitter- this post is a repost, yall. You can find the original here (again, on twitter,) if you want to show the artist some love for their work.

[dirt-str1der]

That last post was so bad ..... everyones jokingly being like "omg why are people being so mean in the tags lolll" , and then it was a funny post about a funny incident and everyone in the tags are like "op the name you chose for yourself is so shitty and sounds bad and is stupid"

[hellogoodbyeitsme]

DCU fandom is so funny because everyone is always mad. Feels like living with my parents again 🥰 home sweet home 🥰

[pynkhues]

https://x.com/dhampirdulac/status/1835817074662265040

look at these leaked character summaries 👀

Interesting if they're real! I wonder where they leaked from?

[moongothic]

Hey so also have Sir Crocodile brainrot and have recently reread Impel Down. This is probably nothing at all but it made me question the artistic choice made. Like we dont see Crocodiles full face until Luffy recognizes him. Before that tho he joins in on Jinbei & Ace's convo about Whitebeard and is shown to (non-)react to Boa Hancocks visit. But we only get his face in shadows or see the hook. Which. Why. Oda we know what he looks like and who the guy with the stitches on his face and the hook is. WHY OBSCURE HIM.

My friend, this is what we call a "cocktease"

Okay jokes aside, yes it was an artistic choise. More specifically, a storytelling technique Oda masterfully used to build up hype and excitement to Crocodile's eventual reveal and re-introduction into the story.

So thanks to Ms Goldenweek's cover story (which ran back during Water 7/Enies Lobby) we already knew Crocodile along with Daz, Bon-chan and Galdino had all been sent to Impel Down, when we also learned about Impel Down, Marineford and the Gates of Justice (+ the giant whirlpool between the three locations) to some extent. ((Now of course, if you were an anime-only then you would've had no idea about the former BW members being in Impel Down. And even if you had read the manga you still would've had to actually pay attention to the cover story and its lore, and not forgotten all about it))

So even before Luffy decides he's going to head to Impel Down to save Ace, we know Crocodile's going to be somewhere down there. The second Luffy arrives there, we are immidiately reminded of the fact when Domino mentions Crocodile taking the traditional "bath" new inmates take at the entrance. And as we descend deeper and deeper into Impel Down, with those cuts to what's happening down at Level 6 every now and then, as well as with the Baroque Works Countdown, Oda time and time again keeps on reminding of us of Crocodile's looming presence in the background. This is all absolutely deliberate. Crocodile was arguably the most iconic (maybe not most popular but iconic) One Piece villian at the time, if given an opportunity of course the readers wanted to see him again. But just letting us see him right away would be anti-climactic, and distracting from what's actually important (Ace, and Luffy getting to him as fast as possible). So keeping him hidden could serve multiple purposes:

For one, Crocodile doesn't get to steal the spotlight from the other characters (at least not too early). We can focus on Luffy, Ace, all the new Impel Down characters and the other returning characters in peace, while Crocodile waits for his turn. Another thing is that Crocodile's presence being downplayed gives off the impression that perhaps him being there isn't that important to the story. Thus, him teaming up with Luffy to break out isn't such an obvious twist (and so when that happens, it's ever more hype as a result)

But indeed, the most important part is that by teasing us constantly through out Impel Down, Oda creates hype. He makes us the readers excited if/when we might get to see the bastard, even if it was just a quick little cameo. So when Luffy finally reaches Level 6 and we finally do get that reveal, everyone loses their fucking marbles over the HISASHIBURI DANA MUGIWARA when we finally get to see The Motherfucker Himself. (And indeed, then getting to see him fight alongside Luffy is cool as fucking hell, completely unexpected and absolutely delightful)

But there's also another thing building up to Crocodile's reveal does. Compare his original introduction to the re-introduction

Compare Crocodile at the height of his power and influence, to the absolute rock bottom he has hit. No longer happily laughing while looking down on people (literally), he's filthy, he has given up on life, with sunken eyes and a hollow look on his face, only moved by a thirst for petty revenge (/an opportunity to go out with a bang). He doesn't even get the whole page for his grand reveal anymore, he's been shuffled to the side so the plot can progress on the same page.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

And to some degree, this is kind of meant to be a shocking realization to the readers. That this is not the same Crocodile we remember from Alabasta, that Crocodile died when Luffy defeated him. This is just the husk that remains, a shadow of what was once there. It's a sad sight, and probably not what the readers who loved Crocodile The Villian wanted to see. It's not the epic Return of the (Evil) King they wanted. And that juxtaposition helps, because Crocodile doesn't return into the story as a villian, but as a frenemy/ally-on-thin-ice. And that idea is easier to signal to the readers in a lowkey manner when you do his re-introduction like this.

So yes, Oda refusing to show Crocodile's face until Luffy found him was 100% a deliberate artistic choise. This is fantastic storytelling

[onthatbkdkbs]

I get that everyone has their own taste and everything but 1 thing I Do Not Get is disliking the main character of a series. When you tell me you love BNHA but you hate Deku? Baby girl I don't get you. You do you but you're incomprehensible to me

[franeridan]

okay look I know I've talked about this at length already but I've seen a ton of people talk about how they don't like whiskey peak and how they think it wasn't necessary for zoro and luffy to fight like that or straight up think it was ooc of them, but then the same people will turn around and go "isn't it fascinating how zoro's the only one who can say no to luffy or nearly order him around or that luffy waits for the opinion of before acting for no apparent reason it must be because they are soulmates" and honestly for real I'm the first to subscribe to the zoro and luffy soulmates thought but the reason why zoro can do all that is whiskey peak. that is the moment zoro took a decision that benefited the whole crew without asking luffy first for the first time, and that is the moment luffy unjustly doubted him without implicitly trusting his judgement, and that is the moment luffy learned that actually sometimes zoro sees what's best for the crew before he does and that trusting him to always act with the crew's best interests in mind is something he should do. zoro had never opposed luffy or acted without his consent in any way before whiskey peak and luffy never doubts him and always turns to him ever since, there is direct correlation between the two zoro and luffy didn't learn to trust each other and respect each other through a magical soulbond connection their relationship is actually pretty damn well developed

[dbphantom]

for the wip ask game - ☔ & ❄️ ?

Thank you so much!!! :D

❄️Share a snippet from a WIP of your choosing.

COWBOYS ONE MILLION! This is a post-Wano 'filler arc' for OP H2O AU that takes place on an island shaped like a Sheriff's Badge, run by a lady named Sophie. The gang has encountered Sophie's group of workers before (Linda + Ryan) during a different 'filler arc' (where Luffy gets his wind powers), so this is kind of the resolution of that stray plot thread from pre-TS. Luffy stampedes around an underwater research facility causing chaos (and making friends), but this bit focuses on the backstory of the island :)

The statue is bronze, weathered and dull in the midday sun. It's undeniably a sea king, one with a bird-like beak and serpentine body, but there are wreaths of pink flowers adorning its head.  "Cactus flowers. They're pretty," Nami says as she leans against the stone base, fanning herself with a hand. "All this for a sea king." Sanji rests the bags he's carrying on one leg as he lights a cigarette and takes a drag. "You don't see that too often." Jimbe peers around the boxes of groceries. "It's rare to see an island that worships them these days." Robin looks around. None of the townspeople walking by are giving them a second glance as they rest on top of it.  She isn't surprised- everyone here has been acting strange since they've arrived. It feels like most of them are in a daze, following a set routine without any thought as to why.  No one looks at this statue with reverence. The flowers are old and dried out. Robin thinks if she touched one, it would dissolve beneath her fingertips.  She crouches down to read the plaque and has to brush away a thick coating of sand. 'Altar of the Tide Mother,' reads the engraving. 'All we have become, we owe to her protection.' And yet… Robin stands and readjusts her old cowboy hat as she peers back up at the sea king. Its eyes are blank and nearly weathered away beneath the dead flowers. With the way the petals fall, it looks sad.

☔Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it? If so, what is it?

I would LOVE to write an AU where the Strawhats are all magical boys and girls and Chopper is their power-granting mascot. I never really thought about the logistics of it, it's just something I would be SO down to create. AU crafting outside of the special interest doesn't come very easily to me though so it'd definitely take some effort!!!

BUT IT WOULD BE SO COOL. Maybe one day I'll be able to sit down and make it reality! For now tho, all I got are these doodles.

The vision is maximum!!!

Thank you again!!! This was great :D

[dasloddl]

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