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Please let Loki join the Strawhats. Please, I am begging you, Oda.
Please let Loki join the Strawhats. Please, I am begging you, Oda.
Please let Loki join the Strawhats. Please, I am begging you, Oda.
Please let Loki join the Strawhats. Please, I am begging you, Oda.
Please let Loki join the Strawhats. Please, I am begging you, Oda.
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We here at Tumblr have noticed everyone has very strong feelings about every post on this site being changed to a picture of Lex Luthor from The CW's Smallville with the words "Lex Get Bald Tonight" over it. To this we say: we're listening. we hear you. and we couldn't give a rat's ass what you think. Get out there and start balding.
listen, I respect others’ opinions even if I don’t agree with them, as long as they’re not disrespecting or harassing anyone. so this is not to throw shades at op. but a gentle disagreement and a reminder that, while people can absolutely do whatever they want when it comes to fictional characters (as long as they’re not harming anyone in real life), the point of shipping has never been about whether or not the ship is canon. for decades, the point of shipping fictional characters is that it’s fun. that’s it. that’s all. there are so many ships where characters aren’t even from the same source material and therefore have never met in canon.
I’m not telling you or anyone what to do, but as someone who’s been in fandom space for so many years (way before tiktok became a thing), my advice is: you will find liking fictional characters, shipping and engaging in fan contents so much more enjoyable if you don’t treat canon as a rule, but a suggestion instead (so whether or not you will follow canon, how much of canon you will follow, if any, is entirely up to you). don’t let canon limit and dictate what you can or can’t enjoy.
if you don’t like canon, indulge in your own headcanon, create your own fan contents — you have the freedom to create your own world for your comfort ship and characters.
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These remind me of this drawing by Franz Kafka from the 1900s. We've been feeling this way for a long time.
prev, i'm sure you mean my guy Leonid Pasternak
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Absolutely adore how two chapters after we learn Elbaf is a blood purist society and one of a Celestial Dragon deriding the 'lower world' for its filthiness, Scopper's first moment of page time has him explicitly saying "fuck you actually, the world is a big, beautiful place. Love who you want and enjoy the amazing people and experiences that come from mixing cultures who by the way will always find ways to thrive in spite of the hardships they face".
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What do you think of Buggy choice of dressing as and call himself a clown?
This is a great question I love it! I think a lot of things about buggy’s choice to dress as and call himself a clown. I think it has to do with how he felt growing up and his needs that hadn’t been met. Before I say anything I want you to take a look at buggy’s outfits throughout his childhood and see if you notice anything.
First off he always wears a hat. I think this is to mimic shanks who had been given a special hat by Roger. So he can feel special too. He also consistently dressed bright but the first two images are pretty regular outfits for a pirate boy his age. In the third image he’s a young teen and here you can see he’s wearing the makeup we are familiar with for buggy. We know that Roger liked “flashy” things and I think Buggy at the time of the third image had caught on to that and started dressing more flashy to get his attention. in the fourth image he’s sixteen/seventeen (he wore this before rogers execution too.) He’s already accepted that shanks was going to be rogers successor. he realized he couldn’t get rogers attention so he stopped dressing flashy stopped wearing makeup and gave up. thinking shanks as the favorite. But as an adult buggy sports the dark eyeliner + red lips look.
This is because he wants attention again. So one of the reasons he leaned into the clown aesthetic is because he’s fallen back to chasing attention by doing flashy things his captain liked. He’s like a child begging to be noticed. It’s the reason he loves jewels and money too, he wants flashy things to fill a void left by the lack of attention from roger as a kid. He is also mimicking Roger. he says flashy now which he didn’t even say as a kid. He wears the same hat, coat, handkerchief + head scarf roger did. I also see this as him permanently grieving rogers death. He’s still dressed like rogers out there to see him. More on his attention seeking, Buggy knows he had become a coward. When Luffy trusted him in impel down he said so himself.
Played as a joke ofc but it does show he is aware. Despite this He is so addicted to attention that he will pretend to be a headstrong pirate that his followers believe him to be even when he wants out.
He’s like a child playing pretend you can see him loving it too.
By being a flashy clown he gets attention and validation. negative or positive. Despite how he portrays himself I think he still prefers positive attention deep down. and by being the liar he had decided it was easier to be as an adult he can get the attention he wanted without actually earning it. because trying to earn it didn’t work when he was a kid. Now on to another reason I think he does this. Buggy is owning being the fool he thinks he was. One of his monikers is “buggy the flashy fool” when you take into account that buggy was a kid surrounded not just by another kid that his captain saw more potential in (shanks) but also some of the strongest most respected pirates in the world, you can imagine how he felt. Like a fool. Buggy was the only one that was seen to be scared and crying out of fear amongst the crew.
Imagine you’re a scared child and every adult around you decides that your rightful fear of death was humorous because to them it’s obviously going to be handled. He must have felt like an idiot. Buggy had done the most selfless thing a person can do and gave up on his dreams because he thought it was the best thing to do for shanks future
But shanks (for reasons that’s hinted to be because of destiny) in buggy’s eyes, backstabbed him and didn’t go through with what Buggy thought was rogers wishes.
Buggy felt like a fool for giving up on his dreams for nothing. He felt like a fool for believing in shanks. So I think him making himself into a literal clown or “fool” is his way of reclaiming that. “Oh so I was a coward for being scared as a child? Fine, then that’s who I am. I’ll just use others and avoid danger like one. I was a fool for being selfless and believing in shanks? Fine then I’ll believe only in myself and selfishly take things from others instead! I’ll make something of it, Nobody can hurt me this way!” By reclaiming it he’s trying to make it powerful but I don’t think it has worked because it’s clear this life and mentality has led him into terrible places with fake people that despite his best efforts to pretend otherwise, he wishes loved him beyond the facade.
Buggy had built his adult life off of being greedy and fake so it’s no surprise that he’d find himself surrounded by those same type of people. But he still seems shocked. He let himself be betrayed again. (Although i think buggy feelings were valid I also don’t think that shanks betrayed him) Another note is that it’s very likely buggy is pretending to despise shanks. at least to the degree he presents because there is a cover, if it’s canon or not is debatable but oda drew this on his own it wasn’t a request. where he and shanks were happy and drinking together.
It’s actually really sweet buggy even helps shanks fill up his cup because his hand is already full. Fake hater lmao So yeah in my opinion it’s a mix of wanting attention and trying to own and make something out of his self-perceived cowardice and foolish/clownish personality + obviously try to do something with that nose he can’t get rid of. Buggy doesn’t want to fix himself to be actually likable because that’d take addressing his mental issues so he pretends and performs like a clown or he runs. He felt like a coward and a fool. aka a “clown” so he became one literally and figuratively.
Why do you think the Roger pirates treated Shanks and Buggy so differently?
ooooh this is going to be a long answer! It depends on which Roger pirate we are talking about! We have to analyze them each and also keep in mind that the story is still being revealed. I’ll start with Rayleigh. I think Rayleigh, while stern, treated them pretty equal. He scolded them both the same way when they got into immature arguments about nonsense
he seems to remember buggy fondly and went out of his way to mention him when discussing shanks with Luffy. He’s also smiling + knows he’s an east blue pirate. He’s been keeping tabs on buggy from a distance Which tells me he loves him very much.
Although it’s clear he, like buggy had noticed himself, saw more potential in shanks/saw Roger in him. and since he believes in the next generation being incredibly important this is a sign Rayleigh sees more in shanks future then buggy’s. (I’ll talk more about this later.)
Rayleigh treats them pretty similar from what we’ve seen but he sees more potential in shanks. Although since shanks (and perhaps buggy we don’t know yet) was a responsibility they never really asked for I think the roger pirates had a hard time interacting with the more sensitive side of children. They didn’t know how to deal with their emotions very well. particularly Roger, but to an extent Rayleigh too. On two covers we see them not really tending to them when they are emotional.
The second one really stands out to me because both shanks and buggy are sobbing. Despite Roger obviously dealing with way worse then a fucking lion they are still small children and are scared for their father figure while roger just laughs it off (I love roger don’t get me wrong but c’mon) We still don’t know much about rogers relationship with them at this point but he clearly sees more potential in shanks too + probably views him as his son as he gave him his straw hat. Rogers possible favoritism was so noticeable that it’s directly what caused buggy to feel like he had to give up on his dreams. A child buggy noticed that his captain saw more potential in shanks. This permanently damaged buggy’s self worth.
(I want to say that in the manga buggy was never seen looking at shanks angrily like he was in the anime, he was just nervous and seemed to feel left out) This is probably why buggy craves attention the way he does as an adult. Even if superficial and fake. He didn’t get it like shanks did when they were children. No matter how hard he tried he couldn’t measure up to what shanks was to them by just existing. So he chose to lash out at shanks who wasn’t at fault for this. who also has a lot of mental problems and pressure that Buggy didn’t notice.
If shanks didn’t want to be what Buggy thought the crew wanted him to be then that means he gave up on himself for nothing. it means Roger died for nothing. it means that buggy didn’t get the love he wanted from Roger for nothing. He wasn’t running away from shanks here, he was running from the idea that his dreams were thrown away for no reason. So the difference in treatment and favoritism is most abundant and true with Roger. Now, for gaban. Gaban to me is who the fandom thinks Rayleigh is. He’s the most parent-like. He was seen helping them get supplies.
He was the first to be seen calling them their kids.
And he seems to be the most emotionally in tune with the kids, I’ll show an example of this soon. To me, there is a possibility gaban knew about buggy’s self image issues and had talked to him about it before. While Rayleigh possibly and Roger definitely hadn’t noticed. With Roger causing it. Spoilers if you are not caught up on the manga below!
Another thing we have to keep in mind is that to an extent they had to pay more attention to shanks because the world government had made constant attempts to kidnap him. Shanks and Buggy were too young to understand or remember this.
They were forced to keep an extra eye out for him. Which buggy could have interpreted as them caring for his safety more. shanks was born with celestial dragon blood. The Roger pirates believe that him being found by them was fate rather than chance. Thus making his life significant in the world as a whole.
Shanks has also regretted his birth because he feels guilty to have the same blood as the celestial dragons. (Also an Example of how in tune gaban is with the kids emotions is shown below)
“That’s your bad habit again…” tells us that he’s had breakdowns about his birth before and that gaban had been the one to comfort him about it. This mental problem and guilt toppled with the government trying to take him made them watch shanks incredibly closely. As far as we know so far Buggy was just unfortunately on a boat with exceptional people. He was an average kid being compared to the boy of fate without ever seeing the drawback from being that boy. He felt forced to make adult choices as a child and thought the crew saw him as lesser than shanks. He thinks he’s lesser than shanks. And they didn’t do a correct job of letting him know they loved him just as much. I will clarify that Buggy was not at fault for this. he was a child. It was the adults jobs to make him feel as loved as shanks. I think he was as loved as shanks but was treated as more average which buggy interprets as not as good as shanks. They sadly failed to make buggy feel worthwhile but they love him deeply too. Shanks didn’t do anything wrong in this scenario but buggy lashed out at him. They were both just sad kids who lost their captain and were torn apart by it.
So in honor of One Piece officially overtaking Superman as the most sold graphic novel series under one author worldwide, Oda wrote what the One Piece is on paper, put that paper in a chest, put that chest in a pressurized container, then sunk that container to the bottom of the sea at an undisclosed location.
So if anyone out there wants to know what the One Piece is before it’s revealed in the story, they just have to set sail for themselves and find it.
Had a haunting nightmare that I started a political movement similar to the one at the end of the Joker movie but instead of burning things down and being crazy, all of my followers just dressed up as the Joker and stood at street corners holding signs that said things like "IM NOT JOKIN" and "WHY SO FURIOUS" as like, a vague protest against Everything Going On Economically And Politically Right Now. It was called jotesting (Joker Protesting) and it resulted in my Tumblr account getting nuked
Fully convinced that if Dragon has a fruit that controls the weather he’s the one that sent the lightning down on the execution platform in Loguetown. He was there, from him stopping Smoker we know he was keeping an eye on Luffy and prepared to step in to protect him if need be. He knew Luffy was rubber.
