Charlemagne’s Cosplay And Crochet Corner

I am Charlemagne, and I have been cosplaying for 27 years! This is my cosplay and crochet corner, where I will be posting my photo shoots, my work, and my tutorials!

[pirozhokdia]

I'm sure that when they meet, Shanks and Buggy will have a good drink, and if they spend a few more days together, Shanks won't even notice that he's started drinking less, and Buggy won't notice that he's become calmer and more friendly. Someone might think they have a bad influence on each other, but people close to them will immediately understand that they have a good influence on each other.

[wizardysseus]

the thing about CC is that she did plagiarize. she was found guilty of plagiarism and banned from fanfiction dot net! she plagiarized pamela dean, among others, and lied about it repeatedly! it happened! and regardless of whatever else she writes, regardless of whether the publishing industry and her fans trust her not to do it again, regardless of how many times her wikipedia page gets scrubbed clean, that will always have happened! so it is not in fact cruel gossip, but a factually true statement, to say that she plagiarized and i'm not interested in supporting her or giving her the benefit of the doubt because she plagiarized and lied about it repeatedly! fuck!

[wizardysseus]

what really incenses me about cassandra clare — and forgive me for bringing this up again, but i don't think i've articulated this point yet — is not that i believe she is currently plagiarizing. any accusations i've seen about recent work seem to me to be superficial. but even if one could prove that she never plagiarized again once she started publishing, it wouldn't matter to me, because she chose to capitalize on her fandom history. while trying to distance herself from what she did, she made a brand out of the fanfic pen name "cassandra clare" and continues to profit off the reputation and fanbase that she amassed while she was, provably, a plagiarist.

you don't get to do that and bury the things that made you famous. as an individual, as a human being, she is capable of change and any other good qualities you may want to ascribe. but she built her career on lies. professionally, i don't understand why she gets to move on.

[toppingilyarozanov]

the worst part for me--worse than building her career on plagiarism--is that her career was also built on a truly reprehensible level of harassment. she told her followers to help get her unbanned from FFN (as if that would ever happen) and they spent months harassing the site owner and several abuse team members. one of them, after enduring extensive abuse, ended up in the hospital.

this was just the beginning of the harassment, though. CC additionally used her friend heidi, a lawyer, to send cease & desist letters and other forms of legal harassment against ppl. none of it would hold up in court and these sort of things weren't even heidi's area of expertise as a lawyer, but it still happened.

CC was such a terrible serial harasser that people started to leave her alone about the plagiarism stuff after a while because it was just not worth her blowing up your entire spot. not just with her lawyer, but with her minions who harassed targets on her behalf. getting a deluge of harassment is a horrible experience that hurts people, so of course people tried to avoid it.

i hate CC because she hurt lots of people. she did it intentionally, repeatedly, and with singular focus on covering her own ass no matter who she hurt.

she has the career she has now because of her harassment of fandom as much as the plagiarism.

[alessandriana]

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[digitaldiscipline]

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

[nosecretshereao3]

Overanalyzing One Piece - Chapter 1

Walk with me as I overanalyze One Piece Chapter 1 after finally reading the entire Manga.

(This will have spoilers for the entire Manga FYI)

Luffy's First Liberation

Obviously in the past 1.1k chapters this scene with the Sea King has taken on a whole new perspective. Shanks says later on that he lost his arm betting on the new generation, but then in recent chapters we've learned that it was also a good thing probably that he did lose that arm. Was it intentional to lose it? Unsure.

He could have cut it off himself if that was a problem, so I like to think that it was something he gave up for Luffy instead and that in that moment he wasn't just saving Luffy but Luffy was also saving him by helping him lose the mark of Imu at the same time.

We can even take it even further and see this as Luffy's first liberation of someone against Imu/the World Government, removing the mark of ownership on them just like he does at Enies Lobby with the flag without even knowing it.

St. Shanks

Firstly, now we actually have crazy context for this timeline because Shanks would have pulled up about a year after being in Mary Geoise. Which ties into something else later -

You're telling me we get Beckam saying that they aren't saints when we 1k+ chapters later get the title card of ST SHANKS? Oda is fate's favorite because so much of what he wrote almost thirty years ago lines up so well with where the story ended up going.

Luffy Learns Hard Lessons From First Mates

I find it so sweet that Beckam the first mate of the Red Hair pirates is the one saying this to Luffy because he essentially hears this from two other legendary first mates too. His own (Zoro) post Water 7 and then Rayleigh after Marineford.

One it shows how vital that role is, but I also think that Luffy it's extremely important to see from the beginning what a good right hand looks like and the understanding that their supposed to have of their captain which is why their words should carry so much weight.

The Theme Of What Is True Strength and Manhood

A major theme that we get in this first chapter that becomes such a through line throughout the series is what it means to be strong and what it means to be a man. Luffy's entire worldview ends up being shaped by this situation with Shanks and the example that's set for him.

What I think is really beautiful about this is that we see this in all of his crew members but especially in his two wings:

We see it from Zoro in Jaya where he goes along with Luffy's command about not fighting and explains to Nami this very same lesson

We see this at the heart of Sanji in Whole Cake where he can't bring it in him to leave someone for dead just because they hurt him and how much Luffy appreciates that

One Day They'll Find Each Other

Speaking of Sanji tell me why I nearly burst into tears seeing this panel of Luffy getting beat up and just kept thinking about how somewhere out there a little blonde boy in the North Blue was also getting whooped not knowing they'd find each other some day.

Luffy Never Changes

Love that we get Luffy defending Shanks all this way in Chapter 1 and then saying the exact same thing all the way in the most recent arc. Some things never change.

Luffy Knows When He Isn't Strong Enough

I think that in this single line it really highlights a part of Luffy that is sometimes forgotten because it does happen so rarely, which is he knows when he's been beat. In this chapter it says he understood he wasn't strong enough yet to go with Shanks and we see this again in Sabaody when he tells everyone to run away because they aren't strong enough to win the situation.

What Were You Scared Of Shanks?

This is literally such a throwaway line, but now with so much more added to the story it could be a million things. Was it knowing that he was well known and powerful so someone could attack the village? Was it because he had just let Mary Geiose not long before coming here and was worried the world government would look here? Is it because Luffy ate the fruit he stole from the government?

Most of those things weren't created yet, so really I get to just decide what that answer is but not even in my own headcanon can I decide.

Shanks Giving Luffy The Hat

Gosh is this just an all time favorite of a scene. The bedrock of the entire series, the foundation of the whole story, and there's more to it now in hindsight than there even was then.

Shanks gets to see the man who raised him, his Captain, the man who made him who he is again in this little boy. He gets to see that Roger is still alive in people like him. He gets a glimpse of what he lost.

We know that meeting Luffy is special to Shanks because he talks about it with Rayleigh in a flashback we get in Sabaody which is adorable, and it must mean EVERYTHING to him to give this hat to Luffy in this moment.

Shanks and Buggy

One thing I'm always going to want to talk about is Shanks and Buggy, and this line by Shanks here I think is actually the crux of the later fight we see in flashback of why they went their separate ways.

Shanks was the one that had all the potential and the drive as a child, the one who said he was going to be like Roger only to say not yet when Buggy was relying on that expectation the most. Buggy saw this version of Shanks that he sees in Luffy and then saw him not follow through.

That's why he hates him so much too at the core.

The Threat of Ten Crew Members

Please, I see every new character as a threat because of this line. LETS JUST LET IT BE VIVI AND CALL IT A DAY PLEASE. I can't handle another new character here to take up more page time. I can't do it. Literally nothing to analyze here, only a prayer to let out into the universe to hear. PLEASE LETS SAY ITS HAPPENED ALREADY.

My Favorite Panel

[tvarchive]

ONE PIECE | 2x02: Good Whale Hunting

[queerolddad]

Don’t let fake fans tell you different, Trek has always been queer 🏳️‍🌈🪐🚀

[captain-charlemagne]

My partner and I went to Otakufest in West Palm Beach today as these two messes who need to sort out their shit before they get to Laugh Tale. ❤️🩵

[captain-charlemagne]

Planning for a Shuggy/Shanks and Buggy photoshoot in the future, I intend to utilize our natural, beautiful local surroundings. Given that we have a little mini Grand Line practically in our back yard, and that it just so happens to be one of my favorite places in the world, it screams to be done. We had a gorgeous and glorious Gentlebeard photoshoot down in Key West a few years ago - I am looking at other places in the Keys for this.

[rasplejax]

Shanks Plush Interest Check

Hello friends! My Marco plush project has come to a successful end and I would like to start another plush project for Shanks!

I've put together an interest check you can find here.

Shares are greatly appreciated!

[princebuffovt]

[princebuffovt]

I've got you prev

[captain-charlemagne]

Idk how to explain this but your face suits shanks so well. Something in you just says shanks. Maybe it’s makeup skills, because buggy is perfect too! I love your shuggy cosplay so much, it makes me love this ship even more

Awww, Anon! You should know that this message made our day, my partner and I. Thank you so much; the compliments mean so very much. Stay tuned to this channel, because there WILL be more Shuggy cosplay in the future!

I have to say though, I didn’t do Buggy’s makeup; that was all my partner’s fine work!!

[captain-charlemagne]

My partner and I went to Otakufest in West Palm Beach today as these two messes who need to sort out their shit before they get to Laugh Tale. ❤️🩵

[captain-charlemagne]

My partner and I went to Otakufest in West Palm Beach today as these two messes who need to sort out their shit before they get to Laugh Tale. ❤️🩵

[yuttikkele]

hey gamers I’ve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock

[self-made-purgatories]

watching the realization publicly dawn in real time in the comments is fucking amazing

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[yuttikkele]

I DIDN’T KNOWWWW

[alexis-royce]

I love how this functions as peer review. Modern researchers have still been able to replace past results. These bitches gay.

[onyxbird]

Don't feel bad, OP. Experimental replication and blind testing are important to scientific research. By publishing your findings, you have provided valuable input to the field. 🫡

[wagyubeefs]

“the fandom has decided - ” “everyone agrees that - ” “we all know that this is the only right way to - ”

[wyvernslovecake]

God Valley has the reputation of being all about the clash between the old generation of pirates, when the actual focal point was the children caught up in the conflict.

There are the teenagers on the cusp of adulthood like Dragon and Iva grappling with (for possibly the first time in the case of the former) the horrors of war and having to take up responsibility in rallying others and protecting other children when the adults in power throw them to the wolves.

There's the younger kids like Ginny and Kuma, right on the cusp of adolescence who are trying to help out the best they can and whose innocence isn't quite as eroded as Dragon's but it's getting there.

And then there are the littlest among them. Baby Shanks and Shamrock and little Teach who are utterly incapable of understanding what's going on as their homes and families are being torn apart around them. Utterly helpless to do anything but cry in terror.

Ironically despite being so young, it's these particular kids whose futures are going to be most shaped by this nightmarish day. Both for the better and for the worse.

[questionable-method]

Garp's parenting decisions are already nigh incomprehensible both morally and logically but I can't stop thinking about how much MORE incomprehensible they would've been from Luffy's perspective. Like hey Grandpa so that pirate saved my life why do you hate him so much you're sending me to live with mountain bandits. those are who tried to kill me Grandpa. Grandpa are you on crack