[bobtheacorn]

Hey Y’all, here is a friendly reminder to feed and water your local artist/writer friend if you love the content they’re bringing to the table in their spare time!

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[nurssieee]

bored little turtle

[hapalopus]

Hey, don't kill yourself. We gotta be alive in 2061

[badninken]

i need ppl to stop being mean about law’s crew, yeah they’re weak as shit but he loves them and they’re not suppose to be strong 

I have not encountered the meanies you speak of but they don't sound like people we need to care about.

With that said, we've barely gotten to see the Heart Pirates fight at all. They're obviously a crew put together for stealth and/or medical operations, not for all-out war against multiple devil fruit users as with Black Beard and his crew.

The anime leans a bit too much into using them as comic relief which makes them seem like idiots in situations where they shouldn't be. That's sad but it is what it is. Personally I love that they're underrated because I think Law wants them to be. It also allows for lots of headcanons about what they're capable of and what they're actually like in situations they can control. Like, Law is a strategist and he's got a fairly unique ship with underwater missiles and he's got crazy complicated powers that he can use to literally move people around like chess pieces in battle. He's got two guys who swim like fishmen, can survive freezing water temperatures and apparently know how to sink ships with nothing but swords, spears and sheer underwater speed. They could do a lot of damage with that!

I think "weak" and "strong" are unhelpful categories whatever you talk about and powerscaling is a bizarre way to analyze a story. Law obviously didn't gather a crew of dedicated fighters so it makes no sense to rank them on a scale of dedicated fighters.

Also, they're adorable and they're Law's family and he's obviously a little bit embarrassed about them which is hilarious, but he loves them and they love him and they're his biggest fans AND they do a giant coordinated Charlie's Angels/Karate Kid pose every time they're introduced:

I love these nerds. Bullies can laugh at them if they want, they're the ones missing out on the whimsy of the karate-kicking submarine surgeon pirates 💛

[chromatic-lamina]

A friend called them Law’s Heroic Band of Normies, and I like that. This was before Penguin and Shachi got to show their mettle at Winner Island (Jean Bart and Bepo too).

They helped Zou defend itself from Jack, and were at Sabaody (Human Auction House battles). They went into the fray at Marineford (not the crews of the other supernovas).

I think they fought as much as Kid’s non-supernova crew at Wano. Toei did erase Bepo from some scenes and even transported the core crew back to the Polar Tang for a continuity break episode, and cut some key dialogue.

Oda made a point of either crew worrying about, but also defending their captains, and the captains of the rival crew during Kid and Law’s battle with Big Mom. I think Law is maybe embarrassed by the Hearts’ emotion/sentimentality/normalcy, but not by the Hearts. He calls them uchi ウチ/うち (home, household, family) in that Zou scene. Great commentary on it here. He had Bepo and therefore his crew’s Vivre card from before Dressrosa, and it’s mentioned a number of times in the Dressrosa Arc, and is crucial to the plot. Also, commentary here of how Law always intended to return to them after Dressrosa, imo.

Anyway, that’s not really about strength, but we haven’t really seen the Hearts fight directly, other than mentioned above, which is more than we’ve seen other supernova crews fight, bar Blackbeard. Oda probably sank both Kid and Law’s crews cos he couldn’t contend with keeping track of 40+ people, on top of the 10 Straw Hats and his cast of thousands. Unlike Kid or Luffy’s crew, too, the Hearts only have one member of the Worst Generation, but that also seems the rule rather than the exception.

But, yeah, I stay outa the power scaling spaces, but the Hearts wouldn’t have survived (as far as they had) if they didn’t have some strengths. Also, not directly related, but this meta (mine) from some time ago about Law’s relationship with his crew. Written just at the start of the Onigashima raid. I too believe they’re a stealth crew. It’s basically their modus operandi when Law isn’t being dramatic.

Other than Bege, Blackbeard, and Urouge (who hardly seems to be a player, but who knows), it seems that all of the Worst Gen leaders lost their crews. The Hearts are not the Straw Hats, and we live in hope, but Oda has definitely been restructuring and whittling away at the crews as the story develops.

[dahlia-molinas]

if christopher nolan was really the visionary and ground-breaking director everyone claims he is he would have cast ben affleck as penelope

[dahlia-molinas]

everyone reblogging this and saying some version of "but then odysseus would be home in 10 minutes" how does it feel to be funnier than me on my own post

[giragirameganedan]

[katestewartt]

"This is Dr. Captain Ryland Grace reporting from the Hail Mary."

[dragonnnerdd]

IM CRYING, THE VERTICAL ROLLING

[goldengirlssaywhat]

📺 The Golden Girls (1992)

[chimaerakitten]

“Would you block someone just for disagreeing with you?” Pal, I’ll block someone for agreeing with me in the wrong tone of voice.

[taylornprice]

some pretty little climbers in los feliz. in my sketchbook in marker/micron pen

[tothechaos]

the thing they dont tell you about learning to "trust the process" is that you forget and relearn it every single time you make a new piece of art. unfortunately there is no cure either

[tothechaos]

a chart of what i mean for the visual learners in the audience

[veitstanz]

[nicolegendary]

sometimes. things that have a lot of kudos. are worse

[effervescent-fool]

ive never been able to take "climb him like a tree" as a sexual innuendo seriously because i picture climbing a tree in my mind and then i picture a tall man in my mind and when i put those two things together im not seeing anything sexual. im seeing like. circus tricks.

[requiem-on-water]

[embroiderycrafts]

it’s just me and my supplements against the world by colormuse on reddit.

[zorymochuu]

My men is kinda busyy