#this isnt even getting into basing morality on the law

[bananonbinary]

just saw someone tag one of my posts about how abusive people need to be allowed to change, even if you never forgive them, with something like "it's hard to differentiate between abusive and ultimately human, and downright criminal."

and, i mean this in the nicest way possible, it's hard to differentiate that because there is no difference.

criminals are human. it does no good to pretend they aren't. the ones you're probably talking about, the rapists and serial killers, have certainly done heinous things, and we need to address that, but crucially, they are still people. human beings who made awful, unconscionable choices, that you or anyone around you *could also choose to make*. to declare otherwise is to shield perpetrators that haven't been found out yet.

and i do believe that in an ideal world, people who have done heinous things would have the opportunity to build a new life where they can make society better instead of worse. (that's a bit pie-in-the-sky, but we can still strive to be closer to that than we currently are, even if we know it's ultimately impossible to actually reach it)

[zibus]

Theory time!

I dont think Blackbeard is a true D.

Blackbeard is one of my favorite characters in One Piece, and one of my favorite fictional villians of all time. Im fascinated by everything we learn about him, and by how he serves as a foil to Luffy.

The most important way he foils Luffy is the differences between their approaches. Both have increadible ambition and want to stand at the top of the New Era, but the way they approach this goal are completely opposed.

Luffy is bullheaded in the best way. He picks a goal every arc (usually punch the bad guy) and lets nothing stand in his way. He acts impulsively, based on instinct. In Fishman Island, we see how the crew plans around Luffy disrupting their plans. In Film Gold they even purposefully dont tell him the full plan. He is often also willing to risk his dream for those he considers his friends - to help them achieve their dreams. As he travels, he constantly inspires others, leading to him collecting the crew and Grand Fleet.

Blackbeard, on the other hand, is cautious and meticulous. Shanks describes how BB waited in Whitebeards shadow till the time to strike. He tells Ace he has "a plan to reach the top." Above all he his pragmatic. He recruits not by inspiring people, but by offering them something they want - as seen with Shiryu and Aokiji. Even at the moment of hus greatest triumph, when he shocks the world by obtaining the Tremor Tremor fruit, he isnt willing to do anything that might jeopardize his long term goal. When Shanks arrives, even though BB just declared he is now the strongest, he says its not time to fight and leaves.

There are lots of fascinating details about what makes BB special, but the most intriguing to me is that he doesn't sleep. Ever.

If I wanted to be King of the Pirates, and I never slept, you know what Id do? Id use that time to study and plan. I think we can say with some confidence BB does this. The first step of his plan, as far as we know, is that he studied and memorized every known devil fruit to find the perfect one - the Dark Dark fruit - for his plan. Every move he makes is calculated with the risks carefully weighed.

To get to the point: I think Marshall Teach learned about the Will of D in his studies somehow - not the full truth! - enough to recognize that pretending to be a D might give him a leg up. It might intimidate some, or bring certain allies under his banner, for instance. And so he chose to start using it. He didnt truly inherit the will.

Why I like this: the main reason is that he's the only D clan member who is without a doubt evil. Garp is complex and made choices most of us would disagree with, but he isnt selfish or corrupt like so many in the Navy. Perhaps Rocks was truly evil but we dont know enough about him. Otherwise all the other D members are clear allies of the Strawhats. Furthermore, they all seem to display a clear emotional drive to do what they believe is right. Saul betrays the Navy after meeting a single woman who cast doubt on the gov's intentions. While Vivi goes undercover, it reads more as desperation rather than some thought out plot. We all know about Ace and Luffy. Law is the most coniving among them, but in Dressrosa he goes along with Luffy and abandins his comokex plan to defeat Doflamingo, and in Wano he nearly jeopardizes the mission by turning himself over in order to save his crew. They act on insrinct and their strong moral compasses.

All except Blackbeard.

So how would this tie to the one concrete hint we have about the Will of D? That they are the enemies of the gods a.k.a. the Celestial Dragins and Imu?

Well, we know that BB is willing to work with the Navy to achieve his goals. First by becoming a Warlord, then by capuring Bonney, and currently with Coby. I think if BB thought he could achive complete personal freedom and power by being a Marine he would. And I think he will, or at least try to. He will try to usurp the World Gov. under his control while the true Ds will try to dismantle it. This will betray him as someone who doesnt truly care about freedom - only power.

[tulpafcker]

yo hi your shawn spencer having aspd take is awesome, been looking for a 'popular' character that displays aspd better than dexter. if you ever wanna give more elaboration / possibly infodumping i will be in the audience standing and clapping

u sly dog u got my monolouging.... AIGHT HERE GOES!!

so i forgottt if i said so in the og post but i think henry ALSO has aspd and thats where shawn got it from, but to elaborate: i think that's why henry became a cop

FIRST OFF: wrt cops, i am operating on TV SHOW LOGIC, not real life logic. tv show cops and irl cops are VASTLY different in the kinds of morals each set has. rl cops are deeply unethical but in the world henry spencer inhabits, this is largely not the case. since he's In There and not Out Here, i go with the show's portrayal of cops and their morals and values, instead of real life's. everything i say about cops from here on is about the show's cops, aight? aight lets go

SO the thing about having aspd and knowing on some level that you have it and somethings Different about you is that at some point you HAVE to learn How To Live In A Society Without Immidiatley Getting Ostracized. a common tactic for this is to somehow aquire a set of morals and then just Do That. it's what i personally did, and a lot of those morals came feom whatever community i was in. i liked being here, they had some set of morals, and i just adopted those and treated it as truth. over the years this process has become a lot more refined but generally my morals align with the community i find myself in- namely, queer leftists. so a LOT of my moral beliefs come with interacting with queer leftists at length (because, since i was queer, and thus interacted w a lot of leftists) and going "yeah, that makes sense, this is now a moral standard for me"

so tldnr you need to find a community with some moral tenants that you generally agree with and also like, which sounds like a no brainer but its like. a bit different yk? for me PERSONALLY there really isnt much of an internal set of checks and balances that make me agree w my morals under all costs and i can like. turn it off if i need to

but back to the spencers: being a cop is really good for this. the moral set is easy- you're a cop. you care a lot about The Law. ergo your morals are just... the laws are good and breaking tbem is bad. short and simple and to the point

additionally, being a cop means you get to engage in risk taking behavior and get PAID for it! people dont think youre a crazy reckless thrill seeker, they think you're a HERO! and who needs remorse when you're dealing with criminals? you dont NEED to feel bad about power tripping or intimidating them, its totally fine. its fine. its fine

also relationship issues- henry's divorced, that's not uncommon for pwaspd in relationships. sometimes its poorly managed and/or they wont change and even if theyre stable enough not to be dangerous or abusive, it could be an unpleasant experience for a lot of different reasons- arguments being a massive problem when they happen (the remorse thing- good luck actually getting an apology outta them), worry over the risky behavior being met with flippiance, general lack of emotional vunerability. stuff like that

all this btw is based off my real relationship struggles between me and my fiance who does NOT have aspd (we r like... total opposites its so funny. top 10 funniest matchups of all time)

back to shawn. he is a lot like his father in many ways but the main reason i thought he had aspd is just... he treats EVERYTHING with flippiance and sarcasm. even when hes locking in and being serious, there's still an underlying feeling that he's Just Having Fun With This, no matter the situation. which, this isnt like an official criterion or whatever, but like... i know a LOT of guys with aspd. most of them talk like this. there's always a sense of emotional detachment from most things, because there is one, because they have aspd. i jokingly call this the "sociopath lilt" because theres also that sort of, up-and-down inflection (that shawn has!) that comes with it. its so funny it just makes other pwaspd instantly clockable to me. get thin sliced loser

but once i started thinking about it, more things add up... he's CALLED OUT on his risk taking behavior and flippiance towards serious subject matter IN THE SHOW! he's had a ton of jobs and while i can't prove why he kept leaving them, aspd and having a job... don't mix well. i keep getting fired because i keep beefing w my manager, and i can see the same thing happening to shawn, or maybe he broke a rule one too many times, or got caught in a restricted area, or broke something thru carelessness

and it IS played for comedy but he very often tends to not respect the wishes and autonomy of the people he interacts with, ESPECIALLY gus. he cares naught for anything gus has going on with his job and wether or not he'll get in trouble if he leaves early or does whatever scheme shawn cooked up, and generally sort of treats him not very kindly a lot- which isnt to say their friendship is BAD, its just a pattern of behavior yk?

thats all i can think of off the top of my head rn, but yeah imo shawn is a very realistic take on a guy with aspd whos just like. a regular guy with a mental illness thats to some degree managed, some degree not. very "adhd kid went thru some shit and developed aspd" coded (theres a link; if you abuse a kid with adhd theres a HUGE chance theyll develop conduct disorder and later aspd) (also i guess "some shit" for shawn was the divorce and also being raised by a guy with aspd and being influenced by how he thought a lot)

he's not like, dangerous or abusive or anything, he just has his quirks that can cause problems for him or give the people close to him grief, but its kind of like... an affectionate sort of grief, yk?he just reminds me of myself in a lot of ways. and i like that even in a hc theres SOME character out there that isnt like, a serial killer. imagine having a mental illness and all the characters with it are evil. like yeah theyre cool characters but can i have SOMETHING else for once PLEASE

also lassie has npd send tweet

[kvothbloodless]

As someone who’s followed you for a long time, and a fellow writer….do you genuinely support chatGPT? Even if it has been proven to scrape people’s writings without their consent? And the fact that its a soulless husk of what actual writing is?

So Ive done my best to avoid AI discourse, but I am bad at it. So to put it clearly.

I dont Support chatgpt specifically. Its a program made by a corporation because they can make a profit from it, and curtail its capabilities in line with their goals. I use it sometimes because its fun ans convenient, but I dont pay for it or anything. I think pretty much all legitimate concerns about AI are really just concerns about corporate ethics, at which point the AI specifically becomes irrelevant

I also dont really think the situation in general is one where "support" is the right word to use; its like asking if I support cameras.

I want to be clear im not trying to be vague though; i think in general AI is pretty cool, and that 99% of the arguments against it are factually incorrect, based on inconsistent or bad moral frameworks, or both. Im not going to get into all the reasons AIs are cool, since I dont feel up to doing a Big AI Post, but I do want to gesture vahuely in the direction of how much more accessible this makes artistic creation and experimentation, and all the insanely fun things people can use AI for. However, i do want to address the common arguments against it, especially since it feels like a lot of people are just misinformed and falling into the very easy tumblr trap.

1. Scraping fics without consent: if you post something on a public site for the public to read, and someone downloads it to read it, its not stealing. Tumblr is generally pretty firmly against strict copywrite laws, so its a bit weird that so many people are Very concerned about AIs "stealing" their work in a way thats even less direct than fanfiction. Like, "your writing is so in character" and "wow youre really good at imitating the authors writing style" are common compliments on fics.

To be clear, there are absolutely ways of interacting with free public content thats bad (like reposting). But AIs arent frankensteining stuff together, or copy pasting anything; they literally could not do that. The training/model files are so insanely tiny compared to the amount of training data that it would be impossible for them to be storing that sort of thing. An AI learning from your writing isnt really any different than a human reading your writing, going "oh I like that" subconsciously, and using that to inform their future writing.

Whats that quote about "to get better at writing, read more"? If you believe that statememt is accurate, then Im a bit confused how youd be upset about an AI "reading" your writing and learning from it?

All of the Actual ways this could be used badly (copying someones art style and then selling art cheaper, etc.) arent actually unique to AI (a person can also do that!), and also usually arent really a thing thats happening enough to be a problem (most people who want art from an artist enough to commission them, are going to want it to actually be done By that artist). Using AI to make an original work, or even to finish a fanfic someone else wrote, is no more theft than if you did it by yourself.

2. "Soulless Husk": im sorry im genuinely trying my best here to be gentle and respectful, but this talking point genuinely makes my blood boil a bit, so im not trying to get personal or insult anyone specifically. Claiming that art made by humans is automatically deeper, that art is all about Meaning and Struggle, comes off as extremely pretentious and just doesnt engage with the reality of art. Im having trouble articulating a good argument here, but like. Art doesnt have to be deep, it doesnt have to have a Message, and the necessity of struggling in order to learn about and create art is an unequivocable bad thing.

Many many people make art (visual, written, etc.) becuase they want to see or read something cool or because they think others will find it fun. Many many people who would like to create art do not do so because it requires talent/practice that they are not willing to put the time and effort into developing, and this is not a moral issue. As Ive said before, laziness is a virtue and self-indulgance is a goal we should aspire to. Using a tool to make the incredibly fun act of creating easier and more accessible is awesome.

Also, who gets to define what "actual art" is? Genuinely seems a bit arrogant and presumptuous to declare that something is or is not "actual art" based on your own preferences.

The posts that Really annoy me are the ones that are like "cant understand the people RPing or playing a TTRPG with AI becuz its soulless. I only ever RP with other people because the fun part is being social or collaberatively building story" or whatever. Cool. I rp and play tabletops because i like to have fun and I enjoy those activities. Im gonna be honest, i find it a bit offensive and kinda.. dumb, to act like its somehow morally superior to only enjoy oneself in a way that Builds Community or Has A Meaning. People do meaningless things because they enjoy doing them and so long as no one is being hurt, thats fine.

3. Replacing workers: This is the only argument that has Any weight, but its still a bad argument. Its absolutrly true that AI is gonna put people out of work. The fact that more people will be out of work and struggling is a bad thing. This is also what happens when literally any new technology is developed, dating all the way back to the industrial revolution (at the Very latest). Automation is almost always a massive net benefit to humanity (im aware this topic could be its own series of posts but You Know What I Mean, please dont start industrialization discourse here), and the fact that it puts people out of work isnt actually an argument against it. Lots of radio operators lost their job when telephones were invented, but that doesnt mean people should have never used the telephone and obstinately stuck with radios. When phone technology advanced, a lot of phone operators lost their jobs, but that doesnt mean people were Morally Wrong to use the new developments that made phones far more convenient.

As in all things, el problema es capitalismo; AI isnt preventing anyone from doing art, its just reducing how many people can get paid to do their art. The correct solution to automation putting people out of work is not to stop the wheel of tech development, but to change society so that one doesnt have to slave away in order to survive.

This also raises the adjacent point, which is that halting tech development like this is impossible. Once the cat is out of the bag, its not going back in. AI tech is going to develop and become more widespread and theres literally nothing you can do to stop that. If you want to be upset about that, its your perogative ig, but im gonna be excitedly waiting for the dam to break and we get an open source LLM that I can use without worrying about data privacy or corporate filters, so I can have fun and RP however much I want and finally be able to write the stuff I want to write but cant do on my own because I have adhd and chronic fatigue, and Id kinda prefer if people stopped trying to rain on my parade because they think im not having fun or creating art in the "right way".

EDIT: I did want to add one more thing! A US court ruled that you cant copywrite something created completely by an AI, and i think thats an awesome move and I hope it gets expanded a bit and spreads elsewhere. This isnt a position based on whether something produced in this way counts as "real art" or is morally bad or whatever, I just think that reducing corporate and IP grasp on anything is good, and that AI specifically is going to be most enjoyable when its free and open source.

[moss-selfship]

Do you have a specific idea for a self insert to ship with Entrapta, any storyline etc?

i swear i had put the information about them here but i cant seem to find it? so either im wrong and just thought i did or tumblrs search function is ass (either is possible). but doesnt matter either way, ill explain it here. The explanation is under the read more as it contains some stuff im tagging with a trigger. as well as being long and not wanting to clog timelines Tw incest

STORYLINE So the first thing i want to get out of the way is they are siblings. yes this is a sibling ship, And there is a reasons why. Entrapta is a princess and we all know how royalty feels about incest (im joking, this is a joke XD) the real reason is that she lived alone her entire life. she grew up in her castle surrounded by machines and robots that raised her. she genuinely had no living family that ever raised her. so the idea of the only other person she was raised with being her brother, the only other person she ever really knew being him? well thats a bond that is so incredibly close and goes beyond what one normally expects. they are literally the only other person each other has known their entire lives. even as siblings its no wonder the feelings bloomed when the only other human being you ever interacted with growing up being your brother means the feelings between the two of you are extremely personal and isnt the same as everyone else. like sure there are the robots that taught her all the stuff she knows and TOLD her about society and how people act and stuff. or atleast how they are supposed to..but its not the same. pretending a robot is another person isnt the same. and sure they are taught about laws and societies and stuff..but doesnt really mean much in the end

Plus i mean we already know she isnt the most caring about laws and morals, i mean she happily joins the horde after she sees the advanced technological power they had as well as some "convincing" from catra. so even in the end she wouldn't care im her brother, or realize that its bad no matter what anyone said. To her it only made logical sense she would fall in love with the only other person she had ever known growing up and vice versa.

INSERT THEMSELF

My inserts name is moss aka "The Huntsman" , and as i said before he is entrapta's brother. ive taken some liberties with canon to expand more on entraptas family. See, in the story we have some books and audio recordings of our parents and are able to learn a little bit about them. Our father was a brilliant technological genius and he originally designed the robots that raised me and entrapta, and was the old leader of dryl and he had a deep fascination with first one technology. As you can imagine he is where entrapta inherited her genius and love of robotics and first one tech. She took to his research like a duck to water and sure enough she had an intellect to rival even his. I tried but it never clicked with me and i always ended up more confused than anything. Our mother was in tune with the wilds, combining her otherworldly tracking and hunting skills, the ability to control her hair like limbs, Her deep knowledge of the natural world, as well as her supernatural skill with a spear. She was the greatest hunter in all of etheria and she loves nothing more than the thrill of the hunt. I inherited almost all of our mothers skills and abilities and took to her teachings much more than i did our fathers (that was entraptas favorite as you can see, as well as her gaining our mothers hair powers.) and so i became the great huntsman like our mother had been the great huntswoman all those years ago. Entrapta was only ever interested in these teachings if it involved first one tech based nature. Design wise i feel like his outfit is a mix of furs and leathers with more advanced plating underneath (courtesy of entrapta) and even some augments that can improve my abilities (things like ability to hide my body temperature, muffle my footsteps even more, and change color to blend into environments).

[majachee]

tell me about these ocs 👁👁

My OCs, you see, come from a fairly passionate interest of mine.

And... my grievances towards certain modern adaptations.

See, I like stories that expand on or reimagine classic myths, and use said myths in a new and interesting way! Especially if they have an added cultural/historical influence, like Garmr and Fenrir in God of War: Ragnarök!

For some mythos, our resources are lacking. Especially with Norse mythos, where are main source is essentially surviving ruins and texts from outside sources, and Snorri's Edda (which was written during the Christianization of Scandinavia. And some of the sources we have of the Vikings come from biased outside sources and unnearthed graves.)

So, creative liberties are inevitable. I don't get too up in arms about "mischaractetizations" like some other mythology nerds because... well... they're fictional characters based on thousands year old mythos. And thus, I was inspired to break free from these chains and go absolutely buck wild with my own creative liberties! With some inspiration from other medias, of course. I always found God of War's multi-pantheon story interesting, so I'm expanding on that concept a bit in my own story! I like Hellblade's portrayal of the gods from an outsider looking in, especially with the added context of her trauma, of course these gods of the men who killed those she loved would be seen as monsters! A more modern twist on Orpheus and Eurydice in Hadestown? With the added industrialism commentary? YUMMY. (Ignoring my issues with the Persephone and Hades stuff)

And so, that's what I hope to bring to the table! An exploration of fate, mortality, morality, and philosophy using gods and familiar literary heroes as my chess-pieces, exploring cultural influences through the ages and the ever-changing connection of man and god. The inevitable end to all things.... In reality its probably not That Deep but hey im having fun lmao

As for my grievances.... I feel like certain modern stories miss the original point of these myths. While yes, they're mystical and have some silly bits to 'em, they were used to explain the order of the world back in the day. Why are there seasons? Why do natural disasters happen? Why are we here? Where do we go when we die? What must we do to ensure a safe travel to the theoretical afterlife? Why do we have laws and civilization? But also, people seem to forget the underlying themes of a lot of these myths (esp greco-roman myths); these gods are nuanced like us mortals. While idols of worship, they are not spared from cruelity.

The Kidnapping of Persephone is not only a story of the seasons, but also a story about a mother's grief and the traumatic reality of young women being forced into marriage. Hades and Persephone isnt a good relationship, and its one of those things thats uncomfortable to see romanticized even with the creative liberties in place.

While I do take a lot of creative liberties, I do not want to erase specific meanings found in these myths. Specifically that mortals and gods are both equally flawed and neither are inherently perfect, and the relationships aren't always the healthiest really.

Despite my belief that humanity is inherently kind, that doesn't mean humanity isnt flawed or cruel yk yk?

I explore a lot of silly things with my silly little god ocs and I KNOW THIS PROBABLY ISNT WHAT YOU WERE ASKING FOR BUT YOU DIDNT NAME A SPECIFIC OC AND I GOT OVERWHELMED SO I TALKED ABOUT MY INSPIRATION BEHIND THEM FOR A BIT SORRY LMAO

[wychelm]

im not sure i view the important part of trust as anything other than a lack of fear associated with another creature.. even as a human thats most of what it is for me lol i feel fear from seeing any creature who's intentions im unsure of but there are a few people i am confident enough about their intentions that i feel barely any fear when they approach me, maybe even none sometimes. also i think a lot about how animals experience fear because i do Not believe that it is possible for their experience of being constantly on edge to be similar to the human one for the reason that it isnt natural in us. im anxious all the time bc a system that is supposed to be sometimes active is always active and its deeply unpleasant. i dont believe it would hurt the same if i had evolved such that it was always /supposed/ to be on yknow?

well, I don't know about "supposed to"... I don't think there's much should and shouldn't in evolution, that's a suggestion of some kind of mortality system. I take your point about anxiety but for the record when I said I understood what it was like to live in fear I wasn't talking about anxiety, I think fear and anxiety are not the same. what I was talking about though is probably something far less animal than anxiety is, which is fear of my future and the very real prospect of suffering physically every day until I die. this isn't something animals seem to experience because they don't seem to have a concept of the future as we do, nor do they seem to have "second order thoughts" ie thoughts about thoughts that potentially allow us to reason, prescribe morality etc. above the base level instincts we feel.

regarding trust I think your definition of it feels true to me but I do also think there may be an element of human trust that involves a conscious choice to trust something or someone, again because of our sometime ability to reason and deliberate and choose rather than acting on impulses. however I am kind of conflicted here because I also do not necessarily believe choice exists as we want it to, as we're governed by the same laws of cause and effect as the rest of existence.

maybe I see it as levels of trust, and most animals aren't capable of an actual lack of fear, but rather am ambivalence. but then, humans can never be 100% certain either! and domesticated animals like dogs and cats do seem to show a much greater capacity for trust than wild animals, so perhaps it is something that can evolve.

also I guess there is a difference between being alert and being in fight or flight, though I truly have no idea how we'd even begin to make these kinds of distinctions in animals. in a way it's all just semantics and interesting thought experiments because we can't know the minds of others with certainty, and the further we get away from our species I think the less and less accurate we'll be at guessing. but it is fun to think about.

[in-the-whisper]

so i have been reading the bible for the first time in like five years and oh my god it has sucked so much the bible is so fucking hard to read. (and by read i mean i started with genesis and am currently halfway through Matthew) (i thought the bible was short but it's apparently 700k words long which is longer than the whole of the lord of the rings and the hobbit combined. so . no it isnt short)

two important thoughts for right now:

Life Lesson #1

i genuinely thought for the last like,, ten days that i would have to stop being a christian because as much as i Adore christian philosophy, it has to be grounded in the bible and if the bible is bad then it's all bad

here's part of a journal entry i wrote about it:

I include this because i want you to know that when im looking for answers I Mean Business and i am not above fundamentally changing everything about what i believe based on new evidence. it freaked me the fuck out but i needed to know that if god is evil and i find out about it that i will walk away rather than continue to worship a cruel sadistic God. im not making promises but if you believe in god then you know He Did make promises and one of them was that he loves wisdom, and that it is a good gift, and that he gives good gifts.

my point is that when questioning God, he says ask seek and knock. if he's real then he will show up. if he isn't real it's no longer your problem . \.-./ in my experience he usually shows up even if he takes his time and sometimes it isnt exactly what you want but it's enough to be satisfying (although a three month turn around is kind of insane in biblical terms and he provided me with a woman theologian which i did specifically demand i said i will not speak to a man about rape and i said that means there's nobody for me but Bam apparently there are women who managed to get in there. she's kind of a boss ngl. i also now have a book on theology that answered some of my questions nearly immediately. which is. kind of crazy. my questions typed up are 9 pages long so it's going to be a while ok lmao)

Life Lesson #2

The bible is Not an accessible read. it just isn't. the average person can not pick up the bible, start with genesis, and read through the book of revelation and walk away with ideas about god that are universally true. you would get the big important pieces, god is holy, sin is bad, jesus died for your sins, and he is coming again, repent, love people, love God. but to have a good picture of women's sexuality, rape, violence, war crimes, virginity, sexism, child abuse, murder, and capital punishment? to walk away with an immediate practically applicable moral framework? you will not understand jack shit about the law without research it just isn't going to happen. fortunately for us average people there are scholars who have labored for lifetimes trying to make this information accessible

in other good news Jesus provided us with the Dumb Fuck Version (affectionate): Love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself. If you can grasp that then you're good to go as far as biblical moral frameworks go, that's the most broadly applicable moral guideline you're gunna get. if you want answers to all your questions (i sure do) you're going to have to ,, suffer for it.

i will come back with more information compiled in a reasonable form but im on my first theology book and it's going to be the first of probably dozens. so i might not say anything for a while we'll see

Lilac, you might be thinking, doesn't the inaccessibility of the scriptures cause massive philosophical / theological problems? I currently think so but I'll let you know o7

[billionairesitgirl]

Do you have any tips to help someone who keeps failing? I have been trying for several years now to get started and feeling more and more hopeless every year. I have attended $$$ events, lost weight, moved closer to major cities. Then of course COVID struck and made things worse. Is there something I can do that can help me gain an "in" or are certain things just not meant for some girls.

KEEP TRYING !!!

Yes i screamed it...  but that’s because thats the most important thing in succeeding.

Secondly Congrats on taking the steps and trying..... 

(THIS MIGHT MAKE MAKE YOU NEUROTIC.... If you already are then DO NOT DO THIS)

The following is also important 

1.) Have you asked your self why you keep failing?

Take a pen and paper and spend an entire day by yourself. Think, play things over in your head and Analyze.... This is probably the only time i truly suggested, over analyzing the crap out of your life, decisions, faliures and successes. 

(a) What mistakes, do you keep making? or What mistakes do you think you keep making. 

(b) what makes them mistakes 

(c) Would those actions have worked out better in something else or displayed to someone else 

(d) who and/or what would this action work on

2.) List your obstacles ... Every single one you could think of... 

Make 3 categories

 .....Obstacles you have gone through - What caused it? who caused it? (Regardless of who caused it... You owe some responsibility... so still own up to it... But remember BE KIND to yourself...) 

There is a fine line between being kind to yourself  and completely absolving yourself of any responsibility when owning up to the responsibility of things gone wrong

......Obstacles repeated - How do you NOT repeat this Again?

.......Obstacles Imagined and Obstacles that could still happen (based on different things, character flaws, finances, men’s personalities, race, looks, nature) Get as detailed as needed.  

Man plans and God unplans ... 

However, as humans we have ability to at least create contingencies... try to come up with possible contingency plan and POSSIBLE action on how to still not stand still when one of those obstacles appear... Basically figure out another way to scale through, wiggle through, swim through... whatever way (As long as there is life, health and will... there is a way.... After all people have clawed out of dungeous using only a stick or even their finger nails)

3.)  What have you tried that didnt work? or keeps failing... List it

4.) What ever #3 is that didnt work... What is the alternative that you haven’t tried. 

5.) Clearly you see this as an investment if you have lost weight, moved etc... What is missing in the picture? (I don’t know you, nor have I spent time with you or know your thinking process or views... So this is something even if you dont know what is missing... You have to sit and think... Sleep on it, give it time but remain introspective but be mindful to know when clarity presents itself. 

Being brutally Honest with yourself is the only way to know what is missing and where you are missing. 

Example: I met a gorgeous black girl A few months ago. From the get go, I knew she was hypergamous... The men also knew. But there was something missing and i couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Until we were all talking with the men present. 

She carried herself as a pretty girl, sweet and bubbly... But she made the mistake of trying to emulate the white woman’s countenance... So she could be doted on same as a white woman... I can’t explain this in detail.

But while it is good to emulate things noteworthy in other people... She lost her self and her own personal spark.  As a black woman... She avoided the pitfalls of a stereotypical black woman (quote on quote)... in the process, she mistakenly lost her goddess quality and blended in with the rest.  The men moved on from her. 

My Point is: WHAT IS MISSING... Are your run of the Mill? What is your core

6.) Standard - 

Do you have set standards? expectations of yourself and of the Men and of your surroundings?

Do you keep it? Do you up hold it or do you switch or lower it under pressure? 

Not to give too much information... I refused to live in the poor neighborhood when i moved off college campus. I lived in a condo and lived Smack in the center of the wealthy part of the city. I was not in this lifestyle then... But it was simply my standards... And even though it meant staying on campus longer till i got it... I did that.

Example 2: I have friends who do not care what hole they enter to get entertained (granted you can meet people anywhere)... But I am not the type that goes out very often... So why will i waste my few outings in some frat boys bar or club. So I go to high end places.

Example 3: I met a man who recently sold his company with upwards of $80 Million... I wasn’t told... I was aware of the process and listened to him through the proceess complain about delay in the closing and trying to avoid tax etc

He was deperate to meet me in person. As a matter of fact the day he closed. He flew me to his city (I went cause i was bored).  Long story Short... He is the type of man that got lucky... There isn’t much in terms of comparison... Thinks he knows everything, thinks himself black people’s savior and makes comments such as “If there were black women like you”...  Has some racists views he doesn’t think is racists... I met his friends... I liked one (But he just recently got remarried and was the smartest of the bunch). They had pissing games who had thr most rolex collection etc... He was crazy about me... Still is even without so much as a kiss and i spent a weekend there. (Had my own hotel room)

But, I knew while the money was there, he was generous and was crazy about me... It would drive me nuts being with him and interacting with his friends... My standard here is that I won’t deal with any man who so much as stresses me mentally especially as I am a black woman... I won’t take nonsense.

My Point is : What do you compromise on that you do? It is a long road being steadfast to your standard... But it has been worth it for me.

Do not use anyone’s standard... Create your own and work on keeping it... Men will despise you for it... But respect you all the same.... It is a weird placed to be.

7.) What type of events do you attend. When you attend events, go out etc... What do you do? How do you approach these events? Do you wing it? Do you plan it?  Are you fearless and confident or shy or just pleasant enough to exchange pleasantries alone? What vibe do you give off? 

How do you dress? Different styles can come across different ways... Some ooze Sexy, some ooze elegance with a hint of sexy, some basic, some regular, some say just another event person

8.) Closer to Major cities : what part of that do you live? Even if you are not in the center of things... Where do you go when you go out? How often to do go to wealthy areas, who do you interact with there? 

There is a plethora of questions who have to ask yourself.

With Covid I have met people (but then, I work for myself and have more freedom to move around and also take mini vacation in other cities) And I already have a network... So, I have a  leg up -  

But, I know girls here and people are also still meeting people.

What is stopping you? What avenues and methods have you tried? Have you thought outside the box? 

Hopeless? No... Wrong direction... As you fail you learn things that dont work so that should make you hopeful. 

Also, I am a big beliver in manifestation and law of attraction. Feeling hopless will only make things more hopless...It will attract more faliure...

Find ways to think more positively, ways to turn negative things into potentially positive things... In this case you do not have to be rational... Imagine everything negative happening has a positive... 

e.g  : A man cancelled on you = It wasn’t meant to be... It might have turned into a terrible situation for you... Thank God or the universe for saving you from whatever it is you arent aware of. 

eg : Covid happening : Time to make more money, invest. Brush yourself up, level up some more, learn new ways to meet this men and become more resilient so you come out fire when, the world isnt tupsy turvy

e.g : Getting older: Perfect, the more sure and certain you become in yourself, the more you actually find out what makes you stand apart, the more you find out who you are and realize that whatever amount a man was going to give you last year, you’ve outgrown it with age, maturity, acheivements etc.

You get the gist.... NEVER FEEL HOPELESS

You can feel sad... But not hopeless... Dust yourself up and try again...

Maybe one day i will take time out to share some of my own short comings and faliures... Cause i think we share the successes much more;  that people think there aren’t mistakes and faliures and short comings... I have had them, and I continue to work and fix them. 

The only thing is after my introspection... and brow beating myself and figuring it out...i don’t like to dwell on the faliures... I put my self to work updating myself. Besides I think sharing more good news brings more good news and vibes... But, there isn’t anyone that can claim to not have had obstacles and faliures.

Finally: My sister beleives everyone has a destiny... But everyone is also capable of changing theirs... 

With regards to your question...  About certain type of girls ...

The Answer is NO...

Some people might find it harder, or lack the resources and know how

But trying, pushing ones self, acquiring knowlegde and doing whatever it takes (of course within reason and comfines of morality ) Is what makes the difference.

As i write... I know women who took their entire savings to go to ST Barts for New Year...  (Would I? NO) But some would... My point is. 

You will go as far as you are capable of seeing yourself go.

So if you want a change in your pattern... You have to break the wheel... Try something new you haven’t tried yet... And a new approach. 

Question for you: “Gain an in?” Into what circle do you want an in? What type of man

#hypergamy, #datingtips #sugardatingtips #sugardatingadvice #levelup #levelupadvice #sugardatingtip #sugardating

[jimines]

EXACTLY and like if governments were stepping up to offer to financially support these kids or young moms or AT ALL, even then it would be horrible because being born to a mother who doesn't want you and can't take care of you SUCKS but its way way worse than that because women won't be able to have the abortion and then deliver a baby they can't care for and like the foster care system is so many hundreds of thousands there is NOWHERE for them to even go like ??? they really just want these babies to have to be born with NO options and then they keep cutting government benefits to make sure they'll have even less options

Like when I found out that in the United States that food stamps and women and child benefits don't COVER DIAPERS like you CANT get diapers on them ??? Diapers are SO expensive?? You're just doomed i guess ?? Can't buy laundry detergent if you're poor because the government has a BLOCK on using government aid for that ?? DISGUSTING

How is it better for these babies to be born and die painfully of starvation or neglect than never to be born at all. Its so so so heinous and terrible morally, way way way worse.

And SO MANY PEOPLE die every day around the world waiting for an organ, and all those on dialysis with their kidneys dying and suffering but unable to get an organ because this ALREADY DEAD CORPSE didnt give permission?? The ideas theyre basing all this moral structure on are so so skewed I hate it

everything you just said.. yes. and a big issue with the US law they're working to pass too is that they've let religion get so laced into it. none of them are thinking about what is going to happen to these children or anything, they only care about giving a cluster of cells rights bc some religious karens are getting their panties in a twist over it.😐

it also makes me so sick when i think about the fact that it's always men pushing for this shit. like hello ?? you don't have a uterus, stfu.

literally every day i come across a LIVE on tiktok where a woman is holding a debate over how abortion isnt murder, and it is a l w a y s a man that has joined the LIVE to debate against it. SIRS. ITS NOT YOUR PLACE. like i get its a debate, but if i were a man and i saw that i would absolutely NOT feel comfortable saying a single thing. why do men care so much about what women do with their bodies?? its not their place at all to have an opinion.

[quarkcore]

i think the cost of good moderation also cannot be overestimated like even if (and its a big if) ao3 wanted to moderate content on it beyond what the law demands, it would be a very difficult and costly process imo. like think abt it, fics on ao3 can be upwards of 100 000 words and new works are posted there constantly. its not like moderating things like fb posts, images or short videos (though if youve read anything abt how fb moderates its content u will know that its still an arduous process which traumatises the employees who do it).

before ao3 came along the solution that lj and fanfiction.net had was blanket banning and that wasnt just them being moral purists, it was them responding to the difficulties inherent to moderating. cant read every single fic or community which contains sexual abuse, whether theyre romanticising it or criticising it (or hell, creating communities for survivors)? blanket ban it. sure youll get rid of the important and beneficial stuff too but its literally the only way of handling it.

sure other sites have found better ways but generally that involves an algorithm which is far better at dealing with copies of pre-existing material. for instance, many apps will have an algorithm that identifies and removes child porn thats already been flagged up. youtube removes copyrighted material that theyve been asked to take down by using an algorithm that identifies copies of preexisting songs. another more sketchy example is tumblrs algorithm  that removes nsfw content by identifying what it thinks is an nude/porn. that isnt based on something pre-existing but it is image based. and we all know how well that worked.

by allowing any content that is legal on ao3 they simplify the matter by a) vastly reducing the amount of content they need to moderate, and b) having a pre-existing legal code to refer to (therefore removing any burden on them to come up with a ‘fair’ system which we all know full well would be complex as hell).

my overall question here really is, if you think that the content on ao3 is immoral/unacceptable, how do you suggest they handle that? do you really have a method thats feasible that a) isnt too costly, and b) doesnt throw the baby out with the bath water? having an ideological stance is easy but having a practical solution is harder.

[andy-deer]

Copyright protect both big and small ip's from their job getting stolen, but it OBVIOUSLY benefits the biggest companies the most, and is usually behind a paywall.

In the eyes of the law art is just a product. Therefore names, logos or even certain siloutes are branded. As an ip you may want to stop your product to get bastardize by someone or get your image distorded by fans.

Any fanart, fanfict or fangame is suable to a extent usually related to its publicity and its monetization.

There are laws that also protect you as a consumers and fans, for example you can make a parody, review and monetize a issued newspaper on content, using characters and iconography (star wars specials in lot of shows) and do cameos or references. This is not punishable as the thing you a re monetizing isnt the "stolen" original content.

Patreon, OF, Etc work aorund this making the monetization being a donation or patronize to the artist and not the art itself, you are supporting the person, not the content. But they are still suable.

One important factor is the media it is in. Making a drawing of a drawing, an animation of an animation, and a game of a game is extremely problematic. Also being used in a bussiness if very illegal.

All this comes to the point that every fan-thing is suable to make it "protected" against unfair uses, but are the companies themself who decide if the sue or not artist, being Nintendo and Disney two of the most anoying party poopers, destroying modded roms or fangames.

Most the time they dont sue small artist becouse of the time cost they would have to invest in that would be huge so they just sue the bigger ones wich translates in trouble to the platforms themself. We almost lost memes on twitter and yt due to Article 13 not so long ago.

There are chill corps like Riot that even gives away free uncopirighted content for people to use on streams.

It is strictly regulated and judges will often fail against the companies protecting the citizen, happened a lot. F.ex: Capcon tried to copiright the fighting genre completely, court said "do you want to copiright breathing too?"

Anyting market related, like branding and copyright can be extremely unfair, but ultimately unnecesary.

Disney wont be happy if you sell a movie to Netflix called the avengers (R) done by some random dude and drawed by its little cousin, they will be rightfull to sue netflix, the publisher and the director.

There are also fine tunin on those laws, Disney cannot own Thor as a concept but can own the Thor that uses a specific style that shares a relation with a certain character in a certain way. And yes there are originality laws that can set the diference between stolen, inspired by, parody and plagiarism (last one is doing the same plot but channging the names and aspec a little).

Nintendo could Sue the BOTW demake wich was basically a Zelda game, but not Genshin Impact

Yet there is no way Disney can sue Sr.Pelo for mockey

Sorry for the long text, but i think its a complicated matter.

Laws can be unfair even in the fine tuning ones and therefore judges are needed to evaluate each case and bend this laws forth or back case by case based on theyr own education and morals.

Final thoughts

People have right not to get their job used to profit

People have right to use content for themself as fans

People should be able to monetize reinterpretations and fan crafted content

Two of those statements contradicts each other

OH NO

This planet is a fucking nightmare

[auroradivine]

Unpopular opinion: 🗣KARMA ISNT REAL🗣.

Karma is the tool of the pacifists and pushovers.

Karma implies there's some universal concept of fairness, and universal morality. These things do not exist. The cosmos has no requirement to be fair. A planet full of the most benevolent and moral beings could be destroyed by any number of astronomical events just as easily as a planet of the most evil beings, and the likelihood is only determined by the position of that planet in space, not based on the actions of any of the population.

Who arbitrates it? Who decides that, because you were a dick to that guy on the subway you now have to stub your toe? Who decides what child is starved? What woman is raped? What black man is shot by an officer? It sounds like a bureaucratic nightmare and antithetical to the parsimony we usually see in natural processes.

Karma is a coping mechanism of delayed gratification - like heaven and hell- because there are laws against revenge and retaliation. It’s a concept riddled in fear.

We are told Karma will even things out. But it doesn’t. I have seen too many decent people taken advantage of and even tortured while predator people do just fine and keep getting better at the expense of their victims. But people will hang onto the concept of karma- because it’s all they have and can’t deal with the idea that the one that has so wronged them will never suffer any consequences and have no means for compensation unless they deal it themselves.

To believe in Karma is to believe Breyonna Taylor doesn’t deserve justice...George Floyd didn’t deserve to breathe...Our ancestors deserved bondage

Do you believe that? Because I don’t. I can’t

[spitefulcrepechan]

If that's ok, i'd like to know more about the ocs of yours pictured in your post about unique art styles! They have really cool designs! Also is it ok to check your toyhouse? i prefer to ask before such things, i want to respect potential boundaries

Sure go ahead me TH is available for anyone :0

As for my OCs, well buckle up cuz this'll be a long one

Before I start though, I'd like to note something really quickly-

All the OCs I have are of a closed species called Soultunes, which are basically when souls intertwine with a certain song, which gives them magical powers and a change of appearance, kinda like a Quirk or an Epithet. No you cannot make your own(or at least call an OC a soultune), this species belong to a friend of mine and is kind of a friends-only thing.

Heck, Hecate, and Hecatia Helloh

So these 3, for starters, are demons. They were all one person before falling into hell, and when they got their Soultune, HELLOHELL, they splitted into 3 people. Then they were appointed to be one (or rather 3) of Fimimi's many Arbiters(which are basically Hell's law enforcement)

The 3 are semi-hive-minded, usually having the same thoughts and speaking at the same time, though They're capable of acting independent and can be split apart with no consequence, even sharing different moods.

Heck is the mom friend of the bunch, Hecate is the hothead, and Hecatia is the calm and sadistic one.

They're all pretty aggressive and violent, but also stick to their morals and make sure every sinners get their well-deserved punishment.

Their soultune lets then manifest magic and weaponry based on the sins of the person that's infront of them or the person themselves. Like sins against a child would allow them to create giant raddles or a person who likrs snow gives them snow powers. They can even turn minor sins like picking your nose into raw godlike energy.

They a force to be reckoned with.

Theodora "Thea" World

I honestly have nothing much with this character, not even a soultune- She just exists.

All I have is that she's a human-turned cyber diva and her soultune is Tell Your World.

Kitaa

Haha angela knockoff

So with Kitaa, they're from an alternate universe/timeline, made solely to entertain a god of the main soultuniverse. They were a robot made to solve all of humanity's problems, which they soon realized was due to humanity's inability to have their wishes granted.

So they became a force that rebelled against God and Death, trying to find a way to make everyone the authors of their own everlasting stories.

Grim Reapers attempted to fight back, one foolishly gave them a soul in hopes that sending them into the cycle of reincarnation would permentally destroy them, but all that did was allowed them to attain a soultune. They gained the soultune, String Theocracy, and proceeded to convert their whole universe into an infinite, reality bending library and successfully granting humans the ability to achieve their desires via connecting them to magic books.

They now set their eyes on the current universe in order to "salvate" the rest of existence. Knowing that the gods there would be capable of destroying them, they went under the guise of a mafia boss, with their highest ranking members being the ones with the books.

April Loop

(With and without her capelet)

So I haven't really planned out a backstory for her explaining exactly why she has a soultune, other then that she was dismissive of her own emotions and felt that every day was just a constant repeat of the same old day. She eventually got her soultune and practically used it on herself, trapping herself in a Groundhog Day Loop until someone by the name of Irse convinced her to end the timeloop and now they're besties with a bit of a shipping thing going on dhhdhdhdh

She kinda laidback and awkward, sorta cocky as well, but other than that she's just a plain normal girl.

Apriloop, her soultune, let's her create cherry blossoms on her body which allow her to manipulate time. Having sakuras bloom out of your body can be kinda painful, and she has no control over where they bloom soooo-

Aaand Lastly

Bristol Kakumei

(Ft an alternate outfit)

Bristol's from a very old time(still wondering where, thinking its prob Egypt but idk). And we all know during that time, women weren't considered human beings. She got tired of men treating her like trash, but due to the mentality she was set upon, instead of fighting for female rights, she decided to prove to every incel in her neighborhood/kingdom/town that she was more valuable than any girl they've ever seen. So she had her servants kill her, turn her corpse into a statue, then place her in a vat of amber, literally turning herself into a piece of art. Centuries later, scavengers found her vat and placed her in a historical museum, where she remained for years, even when she gained a soultune that reanimated her, she admired people seeing her as a work of art. Theeeeeeen a thief by the name of Ramona broke into the museum, not with the ambition to steal her, but rather to let her know that woman aren't oppressed(as much) anymore and she can live a free lady. She was easily swayed and convinced by Ramona, so she allowed herself to be taken away by her. Now they're GFs. [Cough]

As for her soultune, well it's Brain Revolution Girl. Prob not that fitting, I honestly think Pyrite Girl is a better fit but eh too late I made her before Pyrite Girl even existed so R.I.P. [badum tsh]. Her soultune just gives her the Midas Touch, albeit controllable so she isnt going around turning everything into gold. Also she's practically unkillable, being a golden statue n all

And this only scratching the surface of all me OCs, you can learn more about them on me TH.

[crossdressingdeath]

saw someone explaining that jc isnt a serial killer even though they believe he did, in fact, spend the 13 years torturing demonic cultivators to death... because he was the proper legal authority in that area! like first of all i dont think that means he gets to do literally whatever he wants, but also that means that modern au jc is like... idk in some aus wwx is a drug addict so jc is probably a cop that murders addicts on the side. thats the only analogy i can think of for this argument

I... don’t think I can put into words how uncomfortable the argument that JC brutally torturing people to death based off a shared characteristic and as far as we can tell nothing else doesn’t make him a serial killer because he’s a legal authority makes me, especially given recent IRL events. Like, this person does realize that being in charge doesn’t mean everything JC does is moral or legal, right? There is zero evidence that demonic cultivation was made a crime punishable by death after WWX died; it’s just too damn useful for that. The Jins seem to openly use demonic cultivation under JGS, or at least that’s the impression I get from the way the whole XY thing is phrased, and XY himself is put on trial for mass murder, not demonic cultivation. There isn’t a word about JC dealing with dangerous criminals, or protecting the people under his care; he’s feared, the way you’d expect a man with absolute authority who frequently uses that authority to murder people he doesn’t like without consequence to be.

Also, sect leaders being considered above the law is consistently treated as a bad thing in the narrative. And inevitably ends with them going too far in their law-breaking and getting murdered; look at JGS! He decided his position meant he was free to do anything he wanted, including rape and allowing dangerous killers to go free. Everyone despised him for it, no one wanted to help him (except JC, who JGS kept pretty firmly on his leash), and when JGY killed him for his mistreatment no one cared enough to look into it. JGY himself, while clearly more aware of the limits of his protection from the law, also ended up dead when he made the mistake of targeting another sect leader. And of course as soon as WRH started going after major sects they were prepared to put him down. So at best JC is 100% aligned with the villains here, abusing his power to hurt those without the strength to fight back. At worst, he’s going to get himself killed in short order when he gets overconfident. And again... especially with everything that’s been happening IRL re cops and the like, maybe... don’t? talk about how actually brutal murder is okay if it’s a legal authority doing it? It’s just a little bit tone-deaf at best.

[whirlybirdwhat]

AU where Morgan reign of terror traumatizes Coby and he leaves with Luffy and Zoro instead of becoming a marine.

ANON I LOVE YOU YOU HAVE INSPIRED ME!!!! I don’t know how to make this a comprehensive story yet so have some headcanons about 

~~REVOLUTIONARY COBY!!!~~~

Coby is disgusted by way marines are run

He has a “THIS ISNT JUSTICE” Revelation like in Marineford, but on a smaller scale. He sees how thin Zoro is, from being starved and crucified for saving a young, and how happy the people are now that Axe Hand is gone and is like - this isn’t the justice I wanted.

“I want to catch criminals, not harm innocent people.”

Coby starts thinking about his new companions and thinks Luffy’s rough and luffs feral, but he hasn’t hurt anyone. Axe Hand Morgan and his son have.

So Coby follows Luffy and Zoro into the great unknown.

He’s not entirely sure he wants to be a pirate however. Unlike everyone else he does have a moral compass.

“I don’t think I want to be a pirate.” He says after watching Zoro keep calling Luffy Captain.

 “Then be a bounty hunter? Go after whomever you want” – Zoro, who does not give a shit about Coby’s internal crisis, but wants to support him.

⁃Coby: “Huh. Okay”

⁃Cue nights where cobys just thinking about his future as he drifts in the waves with Zoro and Luffy being dumb idiots together and just heading for their dreams

HE doesn’t know if he wants to be a bounty hunter, because how can he tell which bounties are for genuine crimes and which are for people the government wants to kill?

Potential other au lmao coby becomes a bounty hunter

⁃At orange town, he panics at Buggy and hides - he doesn’t know how to fight, but he does get the key from chouchou the dog. He’s helping, in his own way.

⁃Zoro sees this and is like “NO. You need to learn how to fight cmon we’ll teach you.” Like Luffy, he has an aversion to people who cant stand up for themselves, but he likes Coby so he’s gonna help.

⁃So Zoro and Luffy tag team each other and teach coby how to fight. He learns a weird mix of swordsman ship and punching that really don’t go together, but its better than what he had.  

⁃In the meantime, Coby keeps on seeing all the places the marines dont reach and keeps losing his faith in the system. He starts wondering why the Marines are hailed as this awesome force when really a lot of the times they just abuse their power or do nothing to help people.

⁃At Syrup, he helps get Kaya to safety with Usopp, still unwilling to fight, but starting to regain his resolve to do something – to reclaim a dream thought lost.

⁃Coby’s disgusted at the Fullbuster guy on the Baratie and punches him. 

⁃“YOUR FIRST CRIME!” Luffy says, cheerfully. The chefs applaud. Go Coby.

⁃Now, Coby isn’t advancing as fast in training, because one, luffy and zoro (and Sanji, eventually) aren’t Garp, and two, he doesn’t have that drive anymore. Why does he want to be a Marine who punishes justice?

⁃But when Arlong shows up Coby figures out his new dream. He knows what he is going to do.

⁃“I’m gonna take down the Marines - they can’t be this corrupt forever, and how many people are just innocent people? I want to give the world justice again!”

Luffy doesn’t really care about anybody else, innocent or not, unless his crew cares, but Coby cares. He’s not a pirate, but maybe if the law isn’t right, being free to do as he wish shouldn’t incriminate him?

⁃THEN the Strawhats run into Vivi and Chopper and suddenly there are more caring people like him, and more evidence that the system is corrupt which he already knows but how can he change it. He’s able to fight off some men now, and helps fight off some of Wapols men and the Whiskey Peak people, but that isn’t enough.

⁃All his friends have goals that seem impossible but they are so sure they alone are going to reach it, even without the crew there. Coby doesn’t feel like he can do the same.

⁃But hen theres alabasta - He’s stronger now, can through a punch, hes more lean with more muscle. He helps fight, and maybe it doesn’t do much, maybe the man (Luffy) who opened his eyes to the world is still there bleeding out, but he did something.

⁃And Ace and Robin have a hint for him, for his dream.

⁃(Who is this, Ace asks, referring to Coby. He has no role on the ship, but Luffy is proud to call him my friend, and say he wants to change the world for the better. To bring back what Justice really is. Ace cringes at the thoughhht of Garp but hums, and says theres a group of people who will do that – The Revolutionaries. Look for them, Ace says, and leaves. They will help you)

⁃(Robin, who knows all, tells him about Dragon unknown in the East Blue, his home, buth the most wanted man elsewhere. He has a plan, to take down the World Government, and perhaps Coby can find equal footing.)

⁃The Revolutionaries -  Dragon, Luffy’s father.

⁃Coby has a goal now.

⁃He doesn’t want to say goodbye to the Strawhats, but he does, taking a boat lent to him by Vivi, and setting off to find the Revolutionaries. Pirates don’t care about fair fights and Justice, but Coby does, and the Revolutionaries do. His dream will grow there, but he will always be an honorary crew member of the Straw Hat Pirates (the first in some stories).

⁃At sea he runs into Helmeppo, whose drifting at sea stranded due to the marines, and helps him. They bond, and Helmeppo has done a little growth in character as well, and decides to follow Coby, much like Coby decided to follow Luffy.

⁃They run into Garp who is losing faith in the new generation and believes that maybe his son is right, gives them a few fists of training after asking about his grandson, and goes on his way.

⁃They save a town or two

⁃Coby punches several people in the face.

⁃Still no sign of the revolutionaries, but they have heard things from the grape vine that a pirate ship has fallen out of the sky into a navy base. Coby assumes at least Luffy is doing fine.

⁃Finally they run into - guess who – Sabo, on a information recovery mission, which Coby helps with. He questions them at first and learns their story.

⁃And knocks himself the fuck out when Coby says “Ace” “Luffy” and “Brothers”

⁃“OH SHIT THEY ARE GOING TO KILL ME” - sabo,after waking up, to a confused Coby and then profusely thanking him.

⁃Sabo agrees to let Coby and helmeppo into the Revolutionaries and trains them (wow Coby’s been trained by a lot of ppl at this point) if Coby helps him find Luffy and Ace.

⁃CUE WILD GOOSE CHASE WHICH ENTAILS COBY BECOMING THE HERO OF THE REVOLUTION just like Garp is the hero of the marines!! They just fight ppl but instead of in the name of becoming the pirate king, its for REVOLUTION and JUSTICE because Coby has a working moral compass.

⁃Coby develops new moves combining all that he’s been taught into a rather weird fighting style with a mix of weapons and martial arts. He gets a bounty, and it’s the worst day of his entire life and also the best. He can’t decide, Helmeppo Sabo and Koala (whom he met when Sabo had to explain why he wasn’t on his mission) laugh at him.

⁃Then Sabo runs into Ace, ands that reunion goes as well as you would expect, but that not the important thing, because its still not enough to not send Ace to Marineford. But they don’t know this. Yet.

⁃Sabo and Ace both get news about Ennies Lobby at the same time. Coby, when Luffy mentions knowing Coby to his visiting grandfather, receives a shudder down his spine as if he has narrowly avoided a horrible fate.

⁃But its whatever. Sabo contacts Dragon and plans to meet with him and Luffy at Sabaody, to keep an eye on the Supernovas and let Sabao and Coby see Luffy again.

⁃They never get a chance, as the Strawhat Pirates have disappeared by the time they arrive… and Ace is on the execution block.

⁃Sabo has to go save him and drags Coby along for the ride, who eagerly awaits the opportunity to THROW DOWN SOME MARINES

⁃Luffy still goes through Impel down and all that, but Sabo and Coby still arrive late to the battle.

⁃You know how Sabo saves Luffy and Ace in that one excerpt? Cue coby punching akainu in the face for trying to hurt his friends then dodging the hell outta there as sabo saves ace and luffy.

⁃He Learns his haki! Is like oh shit my crush is gonna die, better do some shit about that! The haki allows him to actually stop Akainu for a second, and stop the fighting, as he attempts to question the people – is this what justice is?

⁃Coby meets trafalagr law and also buggy again. He isn’t afraid anymore, and doesn’t hide. People are quietly proud.

⁃Luffy gets saved and ASL reunion happens.

⁃Luffy decides to train, and tries to get coby to come along with him.

⁃Coby Is just frustrated because he has a moral compass and Luffy is just here saying he’s now best friends with corrupt war lords and the pirate kings right hand man, who is a cool dude, but why luffy, coby is hurt, please stop punching people because you feel like it.

⁃(Coby’s just putting on appearances)

⁃HEs just a good boy who wants to tear down corrupt systems why do you make friends with criminals luffy why do you hurt coby like this

(Again, appearances, he’s not insane, thank you very much)

After leaving Luffy to train and after helping him due his oxbell thing, he leaves with sabo to FINALLY MEET DRAGON

He goes through his own two year training with helpmeppo who is along for the ride. Who Coby has now decided is stuck with him for life.

Training is hell, because Coby wants to find his own fighting style which means a lot of different stuff and seeing what works best and it HURTS

 “Just be grateful im not my father-“ – dragon

 Coby feels the shudder again

Yknow how The revs have that steam punk theme? Well

 STEAMPUNK COBY!!!!
 this is. so cool oh my gosh

 Coby goes around freeing people and when they asked what inspired you hes like “rubber bastard who doesn’t have a moral compass fkdjsha,dk”

Hes gay for luffy he cant deny it

Luffy fanclub #1

Anyway, Coby goes on to take down Akainu and corrupt governments across the world, and makes his dream of tearing down the marines a reality post Pirate King Luffy