#where be the lie though

[nerdishpursuits]

Fina trying to keep Marta from ripping cabbage-man a new one

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Glamrock Freddy has an existential crisis..

[bluecatwriter]

I woke up in the middle of the night like I HAVE AN IDEA FOR A MEME and I couldn't go to sleep until I promised myself that I would make it in the morning. Behold, my subconscious masterpiece:

[kacievvbbbb]

You do get the sense that the fallout of Roger's death and the Roger pirates disbanding not so much traumatized Buggy and Shanks indifferent ways but instead generated such drastically different reactions to the trauma.

While the trauma of everything seemed to push Shanks into the future, always constantly waiting for something, putting plans on hold and then later in place, for this great moment, this great coming that he sees on the Horizon. For Buggy it rooted him firmly in the past keeping him trapped in this grief masquerading as anger.

While Roger's death forced Shanks to grow up fast, it kind of arrested Buggy's development keeping him stuck in those same feelings, rooted int that same place.

You get the sense that Buggy's whole east blue schtick is just one long overdue rebellious phase one big fuck you to Roger and his ideals. He's rebelling against Roger's principles. One of their rules was don't steal from innocent people and Buggy was keeping a whole town in poverty. If Roger and Luffy's pirating styles are diametrically opposed to someone like Blackbeard, who might be the most literal pirate in the entire series, then buggy is the parody of that Blackbeard piratism. He is playing up cruelty, being the most piratey pirate possible, hell he's literally a clown on a stage. It's all a show! It's his own special way of trying to "get back at Roger" of trying to discard everything Roger taught him for this overacted, over exaggerated clownish cruelty. Mentally he never left that execution square. He is still 15, alone and scared.

Hell he literally never left either, while I'm pretty sure Shanks' booked it out of the east blue as fast as he could, Buggy never lef, might have never left, if not for Luffy. It's part of why Luffy bothers him so much, he's just like Roger everything that Buggy is trying hard to forget and here comes this kid, whose never even met the Captain but is wearing his hat, shoving it right back in his face.

It makes sense that he never leaves the east blue till Luffy literally forces him out of it (fucking with Luffy gets him captured and imprisoned) and it makes sense that it's Luffy that literally breaks him out of prison, literally sets him free, and on the path to greatness that maybe he was always meant to achieve (even if he trips his way into it). This boy that is tragically so much like his old captain but so beautifully unabashedly himself, is what Buggy needs to start letting go off the past, to start trying to move forward.

Maybe that's why Buggy, at what could arguably be described as his lowest moment, gets the strength to free himself from his own self imprisonment, realizing that even back then he was locking himself away and pinning his own dreams on Shanks. And, maybe for the first time ever, Buggy really own his dream. He declares to his tormentors and his crew and the entire world that; actually He wants to find the one piece, him, as captain of his own crew, this crew, not just a part of someone else's. That's his dream and he's willing to turn the world upside down to do it.

[mairaiscarrierofthepaperclips]

*in the back of the ambulance*

Buck: I'm fine! I was wearing my helmet!

Chim: You were clipped by a beam, sit down and hush or your sister will kill me.

Hen: Yeah, Buck. How's your head?

Buck: No complaints so far, right, Eds?

Chim:...

Hen:...

Buck: 😁

Eddie: 🤦

[ingravinoveritas]

Pinterest comments of the week: Good Omens S1 press tour edition.

[vaguely-concerned]

rye in the sheltered glade with evka and antoine after destroying the blight eruption with unholy amounts of alchemical fire, looking Directly at lucanis studying a flower as it emerges undaunted from the thousand year horrors of the blight with all the guileless wonder and fascination of a little boy: yeah that's uh. wow. that is beautiful actually. this kind of does change everything doesn't it

[psalmsofpsychosis]

This is what a point blank shot to the head at 6.30AM feels like by the way

[rey-jake-therapist]

[youremyonlyhope]

"The current Grand Wizard - sorry, Governor of my home state Florida"

DENÉE BENTON OH MY GOD.

[kittykat940]

[that-foul-legacy-lover]

POV. Imagine being this short compared to foul Legacy.

HAHA SHORT /j (i'm not much taller i really can't talk)

Foul Legacy's probably going to be taller than you no matter what, unless you happen to be another Abyss monster or some type of eldritch angel. but this!! you're small, especially compared to him!! the perfect size for him to hold and snuggle against when he's sleeping- he'll never admit to using you as a makeshift pillow. on more than one occasion. he doesn't mean to, really- it just happens in the middle of the night, and you wake up with his arms tight around you and his head pressed up against your chest as he softly snores. nope, it's definitely not because you're warm and cozy, and he instinctively cuddles closer in an attempt to be comfortable and surround you, to keep you safe. you believe him, don't you?

honestly he just really likes keeping you close, and with your size compared to his it's very easy since he can just scoop you into his arms and carry you around. anytime you want to be picked up, all you need to do is reach your arms up towards him, and Legacy chirps happily and kneels so you can hoist yourself up to lean against his shoulder. there are some days where he even refuses to let you go, not speaking when you ask him why. Legacy simply buries his face into your shoulder, squeezing you tightly, but you can tell by the minute shiver and rattling of his armor. nightmares and fragmented memories plague him, but you're always here for Legacy to hug and squish like a teddy bear

[shepscapades]

Hey! i’m really into the dbch story and i was wondering if doc and xisuma ever tell bdubs the specifics of why etho lost his memories, cause if they do that is prime self blaming angst for bdubs

I’m inclined to believe they don’t. Actually (and maybe I should do a small comic for this so more people see it) I imagine, once a month or a few pass and they finally return etho to bdubs as reset, I imagine they are VERY serious about warning bdubs not to try to force Etho to re-deviate— they don’t go into specifics, but they probably tell bdubs that whatever happened had to do with something that was emotionally overwhelming, and that forcing him to redeviate/not letting it happen naturally could trigger the same error. They have no idea what could happen so bdubs needs to be very careful and let Etho find himself again on his own.

Whether or not bdubs gets impatient or can only go so long before he doubts it would be that bad if he tried pushing Etho in the right direction is another story.

But yeah. I don’t think Xisuma or Doc really… tell anyone that this happened. Etho’s error seemed like a very specific one-off scenario, so it’s not something the other hermits should be trying to avoid or be careful about happening to their own android friends, and the only thing telling people would do is make them worried about the situation. All they need to know is that etho was broken and that they need to be careful with him. I don’t agree with their decision to keep what happened to themselves but I understand it I think. Xisuma “i don’t want to worry the hermits” Void and Docm “eh this isn’t the first time I’ve replaced this arm, people won’t question it” 77

[babacontainsmultitudes]

So it was established in the last episode that Taylor still believes in Santa (tbh I wouldn't be surprised if it's come up prior to this ep too but anyways-) so... Do you think (saint) Nicky been has portalling in every year since the betrayal to sneak in a gift for his son amongst the pile? That Cassandra doesn't even notice because it's just one among the many many presents she herself has bought and wrapped? But every year without fail... Taylor gets one gift that simply says "from: Nick" and well, obviously that has to mean it's from Santa (a conclusion which Nicky expects him to come to, and why he can sign his name at all, though he misses when he could just write "dad"). And one year when he's still quite young, a sleepy little Taylor actually catches Nicky in the act, and Nicky wishes more than anything that he could just *stay*, but instead he only softly tells Taylor to go back to bed, and Taylor thinks that Santa is a lot younger and a bit sadder than he expected, but what's he gonna do- not listen to Santa Claus? So he smiles meekly at the man he does not know to be his father, and hurriedly heads back to his room.

Also yes of course Nicky eats the fucking cookies left out of course he's not gonna pass up on free cookies (which are home-baked to top it off) come on that's a given.

[oceans-beloved]

Meme dump yayyy🥳✨️

(off to make more now muhahaha >:3)

[kastillia]