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Usopp Rant š” TL:DR
It pains meā¦
āIf Usopp doesnāt do anything in Elbaf, Iām giving up on him. I love Usopp. I do. But if heās useless in Elbaf, Iām letting him go.ā
Or better yetā¦
āEven if Oda were to throw Usopp a bone, it wonāt make up for 10 years of uselessness.ā
Heck, this takes the cakeā¦
āWhen Usopp told Nami to lie thatās when I lost all respect for him. The crew should have left his lowsy a** back in Water 7. He became what he was so afraid of.ā
Nah. I was wrongā¦
āIf Van Augur loses to this useless bum, itāll ruin all of One Piece for me. Itāll be a major a** pull.ā
Regardless of wherever and whatever direction Oda goes in with Usopp, Iāll always stand behind Usopp. No doubt about it. It honestly gets my goat when people in snark threads or even official One Piece pages (*cough cough* Reddit, YouTube, Worstgen) continue to criticize Usopp for small things, like they just really want him to lose (nitpick the h*ll outta him). Like, no kidding. But thereās one thing that really bugged me about Wanoā¦.
And what that wasāwas in a famous scene when Namiās about to get annihilated by Ulti, and Ulti tries to force Nami into denouncing Luffyās dream, and Nami remains firm by opposing the villainessā¦and Usopp wants Nami to lie and say Luffy will not become pirate king. He thinks this and urges for this to happen. For her to do so.
Now, I do honestly understand why he said that, and why he did it. If people had good reading comprehension and knew how to pick up on context clues this wouldnāt have to be brought up in anything regarding āUsoppās bum-a**ā.
Point blank, Usopp didnāt want Nami to die.
Lying means nothing to him. They both know Luffy is going to become Pirate King. Theyāve seen their captain make the impossible happen!
Ergo, my main gripe is that it seems what Oda did is that he had to paint Usopp in a bad light in order for another character to look good. Nami is awesome. Kudos to her for staying head-strong. But in the same breath I stand by Usoppās actions and see nothing wrong in them. Luffy wouldnāt look at Usopp badly if he found out what he did, because as the strawhat himself said, thereās no such thing as playing fair in a pirate fight (I may have paraphrased this), and whatās important is Nami making it out alive.
A dead navigator? How else are they getting to Laughtale. F*ck winning the raid/battle when the Strawhats are down a member. It was already looking rough with Luffyā¦
So, the misconception that Luffy would be mad at Usopp for saying that to Nami is illogical. Besides, how can Usopp force his ideals onto others? Yes, if heād been in Namiās same exact situation, he wouldāve done what she did. But the point in that scene FOR HIM was about wanting to protect a friend. He loves Luffy, and has already defended his dream (e.g. Arabasta). The first one to do so! But for Usopp, whatās important in that moment is Nami making it out alive. He CANāT watch a friend die. He canāt watch a friend die in the hands of some b*tch with a power trip; trying to force Namiās hand. And sure, Nami remained head strong, and she did the d@mn thing. But when other people and fans decide to commend Nami for that moment while also putting Usopp down, things get really ugly for me. Nami fans and Usopp fans should be allies. But it doesnāt happen because they praise Nami and kick Usopp down to the ground.
No, this doesnāt go for EVERY Nami fan, and Iām not saying Usopp fans arenāt guilty of this.
So, I donāt criticize Usopp for his actions. Nor do I criticize Nami for her actions. What Iām trying to come to terms with is how it seems like itās the whole classic case of painting one character in a very bad light in order to paint another character in a very good light.
Very SEEMINGLY so, Usopp regresses (no he did not regress!), and Nami progresses (cheers! š„³šā¦haters ruin it).
Itās a bit disheartening to have to defend Usopp over such pettiness. But Iāll continue to trust in the process. It just seems like Usopp fans are running on switchblade faith. And sometimes that faith isnāt enough.
But thereās indeed a beauty in the whole concept of retrospect, and at this point, it really does appear that in the overall One Piece narrative, in the overall grand scheme of things, Usopp is the true underdog.
And if people are so certain that Usopp doesnāt a stand a chance against Van Augur then why even entertain the idea? People always maintain (and it STRONGLY appears) that outside of Luffy vs Blackbeard, Usopp vs Van Augur is the most anticipated duel in the Blackbeard Pirates vs Strawhats battle.
Again, why even insult Usopp, if yāall are associating this āsniper with the ice cold dripā with ābum Usoppā? And if Usopp winning would be such an a**pull, will that keep yāall from watching? Will yāall not stop and look? Yāall low key have some big expectations for Usopp (who yāall consider fodder).
The fight might not even happen, yet haters are still looking forward to it. The speculation is strong with this one.
I honestly donāt understand it when people say Usopp is holding the crew back. How??? If that was the case Usopp would be given more focus. The camera would stay on him a little longer.
Itās like Usopp can never win.
Like this BSā¦
āYeah, but Luffy and Law wouldnāt have been turned into toys because Haki can counteract DF powers. So, they wouldāve been able to successfully mitigate the situation without Usoppās help.ā
Why???
āNo. Usopp is still useless. Perona couldāve been defeated by Robin if she were there. Strawhats can make it without Bum Usopp.ā
But in all seriousness, I think most of the hate is honestly just bitterness and impatience. And overall, misguided expectations. But people just donāt know how to articulate stuff proficiently in a debate (the comment section) without hate.
If youāre going to like a character, you have to know what youāre getting yourself into. And if you donāt want to do the research, then just pick up on the fine details and know what you want (know who you are). Usopp has flaws, but to just straight up say āI wish he could f*ckin dieā and some other hot mess? No dice! If you donāt like him, move on. If you like him, but canāt love him at his ālowestā then get to steppinā.
There are a lot of bitter fans whoāve been unimpressed with Usopp post time skip. But there are even some far more bitter enough to the point to say that whatever he accomplished pre-timeskip was his peak, and that the whole fight with Perona was Oda ājust throwing him a boneā. Some arenāt even satisfied with Enies Lobby Usopp, because he didnāt get a decent 1 v 1. āHe shouldāve had Sanjiās fightā. Typical shonen fan, I guess.
Yet, this bitterness also stems from the upset of Water 7ās narrative working in favor of Luffy instead of Usopp (apparently Longnose was the bad guy here š).
Ughā¦The Sniper King joke isnāt fun anymoreā¦
āYeah. I truly just separate Sniper King and Usopp now. Meme aside. They really are separate people, and Usopp is just a bum.ā [Proceeds to show panel of when Usopp was on the ground, heavily injured after the Franky family ādealt with himā. And the crew found him. And other racial slurs followā¦]
Final + Conclusion
Usopp is still my favorite One Piece character (unconditionally), and I hope heās given the justice he deserves. I love Sniper King, but I donāt want him to comeback because of the haters.
Usopp needs to get the last laugh.
His fans deserve the last laugh.
We will get the last laugh.
Just wait and see, heāll come in clutch again.
#i need to stay off Reddit and YouTube#but this is what I was met with#when first getting into OP and still am#met with#no criticism to any OP character#one piece#rant#Usopp#god usopp#one piece usopp#op usopp#sniper king usopp#usopp one piece#straw hat usopp#captain usopp#sniper king#sogeking#Wano#onigashima#Nami#Strawhats#Mugiwara#essay#tl;dr#toxic people#elbaf#Van augur#Blackbeard#cat burglar Nami#wesleysniperking
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amab and afab, if they were used as shorthand for the actual full phrases that they signify, with emphasis on the "assigned" part, and an understanding that they are enforcements of normative (ie, dyadic and cisgender and binary) sex, would be like. really useful. but people took the terms and started using them as shorthand FOR normative sex instead of the ENFORCEMENT OF normative sex. so when other trans people (almost always dyadic trans people) ask for your agab they are almost always asking for your Original Genital Situation. your starting point, so to say. and the reason FOR asking is also almost always bc they are trying to also enforce a certain kind of normativity within queer spaces (which is stupid bc being queer is inherently non-normative but here we are). like, you cant be a lesbian if you're ftm, bc you ARE m, so if you ARE a lesbian, then that means you're lying about some aspect of your identity. does that make sense?
it is always always always incredibly.... i do not trust dyadic trans people that use cagab terms, even moreso than i do not trust dyadic trans people that just use agab terms. agab is also coopted intersex language, but the "coercive" part of cagab SPECIFICALLY refers to medical "intervention" of intersex characteristics, such as "corrective" surgeries and hrt. i am deeply fucking suspicious of any dyadic trans person that uses those terms exactly the same as described above, even moreso if they do so bc "all gender is coercive".
like. yeah. that's true. but you use these terms to erase and overtake intersex discussions on the medical abuse of intersex infants. and i cant help but wonder why you would feel the need to do that.
#iirc it was also common to tirf ideology and the baeddel group#< notoriously intersexist group#to say nothing of any other tirf beliefs#both of these misuses of agab and cagab come from the same source#but it is . deeply disconcerting with cagab#bc its like. that is such a lesser known term in the greater dyadic trans community#you would HAVE to have known what it originally meant#either YOU are misusing it INTENTIONALLY#or someone TAUGHT you to misuse it INTENTIONALLY#people that are cruel and bigoted always want to believe theyre good people#so its hard to convince them when they are being bigoted#esp as marginalized people#and especially as a marginalized people that is particularly affected by the same enforcement of normative sex#the more i learned about this the more i learned abt intersexism in trans spaces#the more i notice it. its so fucking pervasive#and like u should care abt intersexism on its own but its like#no surprise that the ppl misusing cagab terms usually are transandrophobic (as the discourse du jour) and exorsexist#these things go together and reinforce each other#anyways it sucks bc ill see a BEAUTIFULLY written analysis of transmisogyny but so often there will be#like one thing. two things maybe.#and ill go to ops blog search a few keywords and lo and behold#they are transphobic. they are intersexist. they are racist. they are aphobic.#all forms of exclusionist politic in the queer community just lead into each other ad infinitum#nauseating... and#i will read the theory of people who disgust me or who are fundamentally wrong abt other ppls experiences bc i think they still have#valuable things to say but i am SO FUCKING TIRED of running into the same goddamn problem EVERY fucking time#i think its just the posts that get circulated the most that are like that#bc i think the majority of people dont actively seek out and learn abt new queer theory as it rolls in#or other ppls experiences in general#so they dont learnt to recognize the red flags or even realize why its bad in the first place
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nobody fucking touch me rn i went to see tf one in the cinema and im shaking. they actually made a good transformers movie. what the fuck
#time to go home and read the entirety of jro's mtmte and lost light again ig#what the FUCK i was not expecting it to be actually fucking stunning. that's MY loser dumpster fire of a children's toy franchise how did t#ey actually make it . good#really good#five out of five stars. when elita said āyou dont have the touch or the powerā i fucking choked#obviously it is only going to mire the canon more because of the changes to megatron's backstory (no gladiators š) & lack of allspark plot#but i dont even fucking care. dont even touch me rn i cant ever get over this#broken friendships & corruption arcs are THE SHIT and they did this one better than i was expecting#when pax fell like a falling star... primus itself opened to him...#ratchet cameo! arcee cameo! jazz cameo! not to mention ALPHA TRION#i can see the war in this . i can see this . millions of years in the future they will still b fighting. orion mightve been a āpacifistā by#megatron's standards but he knows how to fight. he fights more than he should. and bee.... bee... THATS MY FUCKING NAMESAKE GUYS DONT EVEN#TOUCH ME RN. IM SHAKING. HOLY SHIT#bumblebee you are SUCH a dork. what the FUCK.#and the quintessons!!!!! i am LIVING for the art direction and the organic/inorganic imagery#those quintesson energon-hoover things reminded me of energon eaters too. & in that first shot of them entering the cave w the primes i#originally thought scraplets before i came back to myself. there's something to be said here tho.#they did a good job with the worldbuilding. suitably alien-like. exceeded expectations. that ginormous quintesson ship? i'm going insane#you can SEE the birth of the myth in this stupid fucking movie you can SEE how op becomes who he becomes. the way he grew. the way they bot#grew until they were the only person that could hold the other back . the way he is going to be irreversibly changed. d16's eyes...#that scene w starscream has a chokehold on me. i cant breathe. the way they all looked at megatron when his blaster emerged#the fight scenes#ELITA ONE !!!#AIRACHNID !!!!#honest to god though i must confess that the first coherent thought i had about this movie was āoh they made him so cuntyā . abt pax. i#am so sorry#but okay okay okay i . they were amica endura at the beginning. at the least. i'm. AKHRERJGH#tf one#me when megatron ascended out of iacon & he was the only land vehicle amid a swarm of planes. me when the SYMBOLISM#š
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What a good episode. Maaaaaan
#I can't even start I'd be here forever#It did take me in fact like one hour total to watch it lmoa. It sooooo good!!! The animation is very good#(albeit it's awfully low on brightness at times. But such seems to be the sin of lot of recent media unfortunately)#but I'm not even going to dwell on that. The plot / storytelling is so good. Sooooo god. I adore this arc.#Love the symbolism. I've been saying this for almost two years now (is it really been that long ever since these episodes came out... ) but#I want to write an analysis on the op & ed so baddd. The emphasis on the twilight this episode!!#Like the sun was setting on the detective agency. I love love love the hd. They're so cool in this episode and they're so cool in general.#I ADORE Jouno. I don't feel particularly strongly for sue/giku yet their scenes are so cute and funny. I see why people ship them.#Even Tetchou I don't usually care much about is so !!!!! I love all the hd so much fr!!!!!!!!!!#I love love love Jouno. Like much like it is for Akutagawa I'm very weak for characters that aren't really good people.#But they're still trying to be a better person than they were. And oftentimes they end up doing a terrible job!!#But the fact alone that they're //trying// has me ougheueueueu. Here in this episode you can see Jounoā#sliping very easily in his cruel / sadistic habits. But he is trying to be a person that cares for others! He made good actions in the past#and he will again in the future even though right now he's acting like this! Because improvement isn't linear! I love him tonsss#And DON'T get me started on the ada. Yosano's āWelcomeā scene. I love women. I love women. Yosano please one chance#KENJI'S SCENE God I needed this. How could I forget the way this literllyyyyy rewinded my brain when I read the manga for the first time.#That scene is so deep and poignant and so so meaningful I. Oughhh#I am going to run out of tags am I not#Kyouka saving Atsushi!!!!!!! That scene is one of my all time favourites. It makes me soft to remember when the s4 trailer droppedā#I was so overjoyed for that bit of them holding hands :') Rightfully so!!! It's so cute.#Her coming back to save Atsushi. The ādon't worryā I didn't kill themā direct towards Atsushiā#that is so so Akutagawa and it sends me insane hhhhhhgggggggggg#Kunikida!!!!! His āI'm not leaving anyone behindā!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not precisely Kunikida's first fan but aaaaaahhh he makes me feelā#so much for him in this scene!!!!! Mmmhhh one last note would be. It bugs me a little how the ada is defined terrorist by the militaryā#forces starting this episode? I don't have space to elaborate properly but. An action to be considered terrorism must have clear politicalā#orientation and goal. Violence alone isn't enought to be defined terrorism. It's an incorrect use of the word#Up to the next episode!!! Can't wait to see more Atsushi š„°š„°#random rambles#It's late now and probably most are asleep rn... Then I'll be queing my posts for tomorrow probably
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is there like a curse you get put under when you decide that you like cold weather better than hot weather to never ever shut the fuck up when someone expresses a different opinion on the subject, or is that just a choice you are all making
#i really don't get it. i don't do this on posts about liking the cold#but every post about liking hot weather is FULL of people like 'ohhh but op have you considered it's easier to warm up than cool down'#as though a) that is true everywhere or b) we've never heard it before#first of all no it's not i will refer you to the years ive spent insomniac in the winter because no matter how i huddled i could not feel m#toes but second of all we fucking KNOW. we Know. we know you feel that way. It's not a secret we are AWARE. WE KNOW#no one's saying you can't like the cold but for fucks sake if you're not gonna say anything helpful what's the point of saying it#red rambles#i know i'm being a bitch this week but also i don't care. it's like fucking clockwork#every single time i reblog one of those posts i just wait for three or four people to tell me about how they 'can't peel off their skin' if#it's too hot. as though the only way to cool down is to take off layers#unfortunately i am not afflicted with whatever curse this is. sorry about your inability to shut up when you're clearly in disagreement tho#for the record i'm still housetrained and i have no intention of expressing this annoyance by going and bothering people who like the cold#you can like the cold if you want to i dont give a shit#but like. Seriously what the fuck is the deal with this shit#do you actually think that 'weh weh but actually the cold is better' is a unique opinion. approximately 50% of the people in any given place#will agree with you#there is absolutely no new complaint you can offer under the sun that will be fresh to anyone hearing it#as we have exhausted literally all of them by the age of like twelve.
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I wish you could write (fanfiction) and play video games at the same time....
#suddenly feel like playing bg3 again but not now !! we just started writing for yhe first time in a thousand years last night.....#i am going to go play some coral island tho#is morning is still early........ and i had half a joint leftover so i just smoked that. its farming time#im gonna write fanfic while visiting my gdad later for sure#i am going to be good and visit ! but ik a lot of the times i tend to get ignored so like. the Real Adults can talk#which is fine ! but does get boring for me so i will be writing fanfiction this year when i sense that i am no longer involved in the convo#op
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omg skyblock's 4yr is on the 11th you guys got any guesses for what they'll be doing
#i expect another century cake but they're running out of colors and stats to increase so idk if we'll get a *new* one#would love a new crab hat of course but i wonder if it's gonna change again :0#PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE BRING BACK SHINY PIGS I AM BEGGING PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE#first of all i have a co-op member now who needs the blood god crest#but also I HAVE SO MUCH MORE MONEY I WANT MORE ART OF WARS#and i like the piggies... i would like to see them again please#i still think i should be able to spawn them on my island#they dont drop anything they just run around with their silly particles and high-pitched oinks#i was so ecstatic when they came back last time but it's been a year i'm going through withdrawals man#chat#sb
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homestuck is getting SAD and i donāt WANT THIS i want to read about shitty children lovingly bullying each other i donāt want to watch them sobbing over each otherās corpses :/
#Iāve gotten stuck in reread village#just refinished act 3. skipping the stupid intermission. so not too long from now I will be right back at the sad parts#itās just like. i think part of the reason i latched onto hs over christmas is bc a piece of engaging media with an interesting plot/#relatable and lovable characters/CRUCIALLY a very stupid sense of humor was exactly what I needed#and now Iām like. invested and itās getting angsty. which I am into!!! but Iām like. v stressed out rn#which makes me fragile#and so I want my fiction to be an escape yk? which it canāt really be (at least not that kind of escape) if it gets my emotions up#but itās like I rly want to get to act 6#Iām 2/3(?) of the way through 5.2 so Iām almost there#and I really want them all to get together + Iāve been promised lots of juicy character development and relationship building#but I also know it keeps getting angstier#and so idk what to do lol!!!#whatever rant over Iāll figure it out#my friend and I have been reading out loud a lot so thatās probably how Iāll do it#bc itās more fun plus I can yell with her and also hit her when Iām mad that I started it in the first place lol#bc of the angst#(sheās starting htn soon and I canāt wait for the roles to be reversed teehee)#anyway. rant over for real now#if youre still reading this send me a spoiler free ask about how much you love terezi or kanaya or something#op#hs
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i wish i had a more normal social upbringing because making new friends and exploring fwb situations is like what do you mean you have a life outside of me? what do you mean i am not your #1 priority? what do you mean we aren't hopelessly codependent on each other?
#txt#op#like i recognize it as my codependency which i am still very much working through so i try to handle it as maturely as i can#but sometimes i can't help myself because i take flaking so personally and it really hurts when i am always the one to make plans first#because i want new healthy relationships so bad#i just get so excited when someone wants to be my friend or a little bit more i want to hang out and do things and whatever#ugh idk thinking about this is making me sad#anyway fuck rio and fuck ellis and i cant believe i still have to heal from shit from those stupid assholes
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I should've told you about...
āYeah, you probably should have,ā they say. āWe couldāve helped you. We know you like we know ourselves.ā
I didnāt want to burden you with it.
āBurden? When are you ever a burden, rancher? You use that word a lot. Love isnāt a burden.ā
You loved me.
āAlways.ā
What do you mean, always?
āEven if we didnāt know it yet, we loved you. We loved each other, all of us. One soul. One heart. Across time. Isnāt that something? A thousand years in the future, thereās someone that remembers you when they dig their hands in the earth and hum while they do it. A thousand years in the past, thereās someone that does a double-take in a market because they thought they heard your voice. Itās just a bunch of little souvenir forevers, isnāt it.ā
your soul in blatchery plain | tundra vow | "wanna know a secret?" | goodbyes on star-grass | garden of heroes | the lusher the cradle, the lusher the grave
and still, the cradle blossoms: a fic about falling in love but make it familial and heartbreaking, but worth it to have loved and lost than not loved at all
fic link | playlist link
#linked universe#fanfic#xi replies#the twilit wolf#father time#the champion of the wilds#the warrior captain#congrats OP on writing the first fanfic to make me ugly sob in almost 2 years#I am wrecked#i've used up so many tissues#this fic is a bona fide masterpiece; one that stays with you long after you finish it#that even when you can't recall exact lines you always remember how it made you feel#and there are so many good lines to be sure both dialogue and prose#but the emotions are what carry it#this coming from someone who has never played a LoZ game in her life or read any of the mangas#I'm familiar enough with the lore to get the jist but I'm not what you'd call a fan or anything#regardless i'm still a puddle on the floor after reading this#something something choosing to open yourself up to others in the face of inevitable heartbreak and carrying that love with you forever#something something transcending the very fabric of space and time to find Your People - the ones who complete you#something something ''i love you and have always loved you even when i never knew it#and through loving you i learned how to love myself because you hold my soul within you''#something something ''It is a greater act of worship for a saint to love someone this deeply than it is for them to pray'' something#*blasts Peter Hollins' cover of ''The Last Goodbye and yeets another tissue in the garbage bin*#anyway good fic and good art OP yum i'm eating it it's delicious and it hurts but in the best way possible#the pic of Twilight hugging the statue of Time did me irreparable psychic damage thanks for that :)
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Skypiea time
Robin saying that because I know she only got on a ship to then leave it...
Nami sees Conis and gets sanji out of there so SHE can talk to her akdhksajka not a single second lost
Hello my favourite panel of nami maybe ever
Sillies...
CHOPPER YOU ARE THE CUTEST
Robin throws this guy off a cliff and to make just to make sure she breaks his neck too akdjsksk who is doing it like her???
OMG ACE!!!! IT IS TIME!!!!
#luffy being jealous of nami handling the waver.... sibling behaviour#so many robin chopper moments my god... and zoro still mistrusting here... the coparenting of chopper is just beggining#already needing a ship carpenter damn..... franky i miss you#robin saying to nami she is brave for jumping off the ship and then telling chopper to please be careful.... yeah.... š„ŗ#luffy saying that they will fall off the island if they take the wrong door and they immediately fall qldjsonwlssls#and luffy just says that was all usopp! we failed! and it is not shown but i know he is smiling#i have gotten used to seeing luffy with his shirt open and the x scar i got surprised when i realized he doesnt have it yet.... oof#the priests having āmantraā aka haki is so op for the second island like damn.. and they got BEAT.... losers#the city of gold aka vearth aka part of jaya went into the sky 400 years ago āļøāļø#robin wanting to stop the campfire so they dont give away their position... she doesn't need to hide anymore!!! party time#life's 36 agonies... zoro is so deep when he wants to... also first pondo hou attack... why against thus random man tho akdjsksl#shandora fell 800 years ago āļøāļø#laki.... and wiper ... this hit so much harder in the show tho.... my bad... maybe they put some flashbacks in here instead of wherever els#wait wait.... shandia fell 800 years ago when the world gov was formed and robin just found a poneglyph that says they went to wat with the#enemy... so the shandians were enemies to the world gov i am sure of it... like the d clan and probably the ryugu kingdom and wano too#this shit is so interesting like there must be a reason roger came there last and with oden to read the poneglyphs AND LEAVE A MESSAGE#having robin and zoro fighting enel right now is so good man.... zoro learning to trust her since he has issues with her since the start...#i dont think there has been a villain that has been more scary than enel... they were terrified about his powers... apart from sabaody#never getting over nami being the one to witness the horrors this arc and then volunteering to go woth enel.. paralel to her with arlong to#where did conis get a bazooka šš i mean slay wait why does she want to off herself by proxy of enel... they hated jesus too conis its okay#ace wearing red in the cover story.... idk where im going with this it is his color... not taking luffys yellow with him for the search?#SANJI HOLDING USOPPS HAND SLEEPING IS ALSO ANIME ONLY??? AJDJAJAK NOOOOOO they keep putting in the homoeroticism#usopp and nami fighting enel is so funny this is something else.... hag reunion š« hag struggle š« and sanji stepping in at the end... šš»#the girl they are about to sacrifice looks like laki and she is karugaras daughter and then wyper is his descendant.... i see#oh here starts the love story central to the story.... truly i forgot karugara had a wife and a child... i see why#WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD?? KARUGARA EXPLAIN#christ.... just the pages of textless panels about karugara and noland having fun together.... its enough to make a grown (wo)man cry#noland just laying on his side on a rock thinking about karugara you cant make this shit up#āthe bell will always sound for youā while crying and sobbing.... are you kidding me... and then they can't come back šššš#reading one piece
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Tumblr on the Seven Seas
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Can we stop all normalising the use of "sc*rvy" as a fun little thing to call people?? I literally had sc*rvy last year and it was even worse than when I got my hand cut off. Fuck anyone who uses the S word without even considering how triggering it can be to those of us who have ACTUALLY suffered though it
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No wenches?
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Honestly you people are so insufferable I genuinely hope you walk the plank
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AHOY???
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Okay but OP is literally a landlubber, mateys
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nahhh why is it literally always landlubbers faking scurvy and sending plank threats ā ā
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everyone says "land ho!" but never "land ma'am"
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Really makes you think
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this whole crew was so gullible ngl, i just cut my hair and dressed in my fathers clothes and they all fell for it, hook line and sinker??
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honestly im surprised no one has found me out yet. surely i dont seem that much like a man? i mean it makes this way easier but like. im still a woman. obviously
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mateys i have come to a shocking realisation,
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wildest argument for piracy i've ever heard was that the gold stored on government ships is dangerous cause it weighs them down, so they're just 'lightening the load'
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no thanks
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outta my way gayboy im boutta get it
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i have drowned at sea
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i am SO sick of the term "ship-shape" like, matey, which shape?? Ships come in so many fucking shapes like have non of you ever boarded more than one vessel in your career???? Anyway fake ship fans DNI with this post i can NOT be bothered with your tomfuckery today
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girl its not that deep ā
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to YOU. i just get it
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honestly being held for ransom isnt that bad. kinda nice to be held
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SQUAWK
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CAW SQUAWK SQUAWK
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CA-CAW
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the cabin boy just winked at me?? after offering to help clean my gun? privately. in my quarters. tonight.
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i think i hauve scurvy
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mateys I SWEARR my captain and his first mate are gonna kiss before our next voyage. they literally have so much romantic tension every time i see them its nauseating
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wtf its so problematic and harmful to ship real people?? unfollowing rn i thought you were better than this
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i literally rob and kill people for a living?????? that's where you draw the line???
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op killed them
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even better news mateys, they kissed ā ā ā
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Amazing meta (love it), and just to add a quick note on Taigen seeing Mizu with her chest bindings: Mizu seems to bind with sarashi cloth. Which based on my (admittedly little) research, was commonly enough used specifically as a torso binder by both men (to help conceal a larger abdomen) and women (to help with comfort during pregnancy) in Japan during the Edo period! When it comes to samurai specifically, some actually bound their torsos or portions of their torsos with sarashi to help with extreme bleeding when/if they are cut/hurt in combat. So, going back to your statement about people seeing what they expect to see when it comes to Mizuās gender (which is bang on), I took Taigenās reaction to Mizuās otherwise bare chest as evidence that he was not only doing just that, but also further projecting his idea of Mizu as a samurai onto her further. Since a samurai with sarashi chest bindings may even look normal to Taigen, or at least normal enough not to be of notice. And it may even be so little of a āgiveawayā as it were, since Ringo clearly thought nothing of it?
Mizu's spectacles, and the levels of her disguise
In drafting some more Blue Eye Samurai meta posts, I find myself writing out the comparisons between what Mizu can and cannot hide about herself, and how that affects how she moves through the world.
Like, I get the jokes about Mizu's glasses, if only color contacts had existed back then, etc. etc., and I think (hope) that most viewers don't take the glasses jokes seriously, as in "I don't care about the suspension of disbelief because BES is a cartoon." But I wanted to write these thoughts out anyway without burying them in a text post about something else.
I think the points I'm going to lay out here are viewed very differently by different people, so please feel free to add to this post, reply, or put your thoughts in the tags!
Not only do Mizu's glasses not actually help her that much, there's surely more to Mizu's mixed race appearance than just the color of her eyes.
In my view, this was pointed out in episode 1:
I'm willing to bet most of us were expecting young Taigen to say "blue eyes," not "ROUND eyes."
Obviously this is still about Mizu's eyes, but not even spectacles can hide their shape.
I don't think the show is obligated to point out everything about Mizu's face that isn't quite as Japanese as the people around her expect. Though the creators have said that they specifically designed Mizu - and her clothes - to read both as "white" and as "Japanese," as well as both male and female. I think there's more about Mizu's features that read as "white" than just her eyes.
This is where my own headcanons start entering the picture, but it's my impression that people can just tell that Mizu looks different, whether or not they can put a finger on exactly how.
There's the little girl who looks at Mizu and then hides on the way into Kyoto:
When there's more to your face you'd like to cover up than just your eyes, big hats are a big help!
By the way, most of these examples have to come from the first half of the season, since by the second half, either Mizu is too preoccupied with fighting henchmen, or everyone Mizu is facing knows who she is already, and she therefore has no reason to hide her mixed race identity.
It's worth mentioning that the mere fact that Mizu has to hide multiple aspects of her identity - her mixed race and her sex - results in her having to choose clothes that really, really cover her up, which doesn't win her any favors either:
(Zatoichi reference, anyone?)
If it were as easy as, for example, tying her glasses to her head and wa-lah, nobody would ever know she was half-white - then (1) Mizu would've just done that long ago, and (2) Mizu wouldn't be so on guard and on tenterhooks 100% of the time the way she's depicted in the show, even when her glasses are on.
Her spectacles sure don't help her in the brothel, which is full of observant women who are trying to seduce her, meaning they get good long looks at her:
Mizu never takes her glasses off, but they still send a woman to her who has light eyes, thinking that must be what will interest a blue-eyed man:
No wonder Mizu gets mad after this, lol
So Mizu never takes her spectacles off in the brothel, it's dimly lit inside, and the women can still tell that she has blue eyes. I'm getting the sense that Mizu putting on her spectacles isn't a guarantee that people suddenly can't tell that she looks different.
And yet no one spots that she's female.
Mizu can hide her breasts, can wear her hair in the right style, can hide what's between her legs, can walk and talk and behave like a man - and she's been doing it for almost her entire life, to the point that not only is she very good at it, but the threat of being found out as female is deadly, but isn't presented in the show as omnipresent.
Let me explain.
She threatens Ringo for nearly saying the word "girl" out loud, because while she's constantly ostracized for being mixed race, being a woman traveling without a chaperone, carrying a sword, and disguised as a man will get her killed or flogged or arrested or some combination of these things.
But in addition, it's been drilled into her since she was a child that if she is discovered as female, the combination of her being mixed race and female will identify her as someone extremely specific, someone known to some bad people, and she will be killed:
I think of it as Mizu thinking to herself, "Being found out as mixed race means I'm treated badly. Being found out as mixed race and a woman means I'm dead."
Mizu's hair is cut as a child. But she isn't made to wear a big hat, or cover her eyes somehow, or anything like that. Because hiding her sex is a more successful endeavor than hiding her race.
Ringo finds out she's female by accident, but once Mizu accepts the fact that he won't rat her out, she relaxes pretty early on in the season. Because the threat of being found out as female is mitigated pretty much 99.9%, since Mizu has gotten so good at being a man. And also, because most of the time, people see what they want to see. Even if Mizu's face makes her stand out as "not 100% Japanese," no one in the world of BES looks at Mizu's clothes, her bearing, her sword, hears her voice, and will ever in a million years conclude that she is a woman, because expectations around gender roles in the Edo period were so rigid and so widely enforced.
One detail that proved this to me is after the Four Fangs fight:
Ringo takes off Mizu's clothes so he can stitch her up, then leaves her clothes off even after he's done. He doesn't even throw her cloak over her as a blanket or anything. There's a little a straw (pallet?) as a divider there on the left, but anyone could just peek around it and see Mizu and her chest bindings. (I think it's mostly there as a windbreaker.)
And Taigen is right there, but he doesn't give a shit:
Opinions probably vary hugely on this, but my impression is that because the show doesn't make any kind of deal about Taigen being in the room with Mizu here, my guess is that Mizu isn't in any danger of Taigen thinking she's female. Even when I watched the show for the first time, I assumed that Taigen had seen Mizu out of her clothes here, and that he thought nothing of it.
Eat your heart out, Li Shang (Mulan 1998). I actually do think that this scene is a direct and purposeful side-eye to that movie, lol
There's obviously some nuance to how "severe" being mixed race is compared to how "severe" being a woman is for Mizu:
After all, Swordfather can't bear to listen to Mizu confess to being a woman.
So a Japanese man can go wherever he wants, whenever he wants in BES. A Japanese woman has limited options: marriage, religion, or a brothel. A mixed-race man is an eyesore in this story. A mixed-race woman is a death sentence.
May as well eliminate the female aspect, and do what you can about the mixed-race aspect. Because that's just realistic.
Meaning Mizu can avoid the strictures Edo society places on women. But she can't avoid the repercussions that come with being mixed race. And I truly don't think that it's just because "there's no brown contacts yet."
#amazing post btw!!#blue eye samurai#mizu#bes#i am truly disappointed that we didnt get absolute confirmation that taigen saw mizus bound chest and just didnt think it was a big deal#but i still think that scene is making a point#again i dont think most people take the glasses jokes seriously#but its been bothering me ever since i first saw them#i really dont think mizu just looks like a 100 percent japanese person...... with blue eyes#and i bet that will be made even more obvious when she goes to london where im sure she will meet plenty of people#who are more than happy to point out their observations to her#<- prev tags#absolutely#look your takes op#blue eye samurai meta#bes taigen#bes mizu#bes ringo#mizu blue eye samurai#taigen blue eye samurai#ringo blue eye samurai#bes meta#blue eye samurai theory#blue eye samurai headcanons#bes headcanons
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so lucky i have friends that will occasionally show me sa art they see on socmed since it's so rare for artists to cross-post their sa art on here anymore
#i say cross specifically bc i can still point out which have tumblr accts and don't use them aaaa#like if you don't have one in the first place that's fine idc this place has been half empty since 2018#i mean specifically when i get shown smth on insta and have a visceral reaction bc#don't you have a tumblr ????? and yet i can't like or rave abt it on here. shame#its ship art too like there's a couple that still post asl on here and yet all their sa art is relegated to other platforms#i am over here like a starving man thinking mannn tumblr is the weirdest site to upload art to anyway#like if they're worried abt negative opinion they wouldn't refuse to post to tumblr of all places#aaaaaaaaaaaanyway the point is that i still get to see some of it shoved in my face n i appreciate that#(like moto posting op art again i had a conniption at that one glad i got to bear witness)
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ive always wondered how other blogs with multiple mods work bc like ive seen ppl talk abt having discord servers and stuff to coordinate posts and im just here like 99% sure the other mod on ours doesnt even know my current url
#which to be fair is bc there was a mixup w my urls when she first reached out so she ended up contacting one of my sideblogs#and the sideblog is still up and i can pull up our old messages so i mean she has a way to contact me if she needs#but yeah i dont think we've talked directly at all since then and that was . a couple years ago now#ill just randomly get bursts of notifications and be like 'ope amelia just posted something i bet'#whats great too is like she was intending to set me up with inbox access to answer asks too but for some reason we just never#got it working so i never have to worry about finding the spoons to answer stuff#i am simply the ghost that reblogs stuff sometimes#which to be clear: absolutely not complaining this is the ideal setup for me#im just also aware it isn't usually done that way
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This woman tests me every time I see her and for what
#so me and my old coworker (who is the person iām complaining about) went to visit our mutual friend and her 3 week old baby#to her credit she suggested a very sane plan. pick me up at the co-op; iāll navigate since i know where this person lives; weāll walk to the#park which is very close to our friendās house; and we can sit down there and all cuddle the baby#stay for like half an hour maximum and then our friend and the baby can go nap#and that did all go to plan but tell me why the first thing my coworker said when she saw me was āoh youāre still limping then?ā#yes karen i dislocated my knee eight weeks ago; tore one ligament; overextended another; tore multiple muscle fibres and now i have a muscle#imbalance and fluid on my kneecap. todayās walk is brought to you by two cocodamol and a sock brace#it did rub me the wrong way lol because i feel like iāve been making a lot of progress these past couple of weeks and to hear her dismiss#me saying that with āyouāre still limpingā was likeā¦. yeah i know i am but iād rather be limping than just not moving at all#i donāt need the cane anymore. i donāt have a quad lag anymore. i can stand up for longer than 10 minutes. these are Improvements#and then iām holding the baby and she says āis this making you broodyā oh girl absolutely not#i love kids; i think theyāre adorable. iāll babysit and iāll entertain them but i absolutely love giving them back to their parents#at the end of the day. like. seeing my very good friend exhausted & hearing about her emergency c-section while her baby boy screams for no#reason is VERY good birth control actually karen. thank you for asking#and then on the way back all she does is complain about her spoiled grandson and how awful her daughter in law is and iām. š#iām grateful to her for giving me a lift there and for facilitating this. and i do think she is overall a good person#but some people are hard to get along with. and for me whose tolerance for bullshit is right near zero itās.. itās a lot#personal
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