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@corrosive-cyanide
If anyone reads this and they actually wanna talk to me, plz start you convo with "sup fucker"
I know that's sounds awkward and aggressive and personal, but damn I'm sick of these bitchass bots and scammers.
fyi gonna be blocking anyone who randomly follows me with 'graphic designer/artist/commissions open' in their bio and they ain't got shit to show for it.
Peace, Love and FUCK Gen AI
Are you tired of dumbasses harassing you in your dms?
yes
FUCK YES
in a world where Shanks and Buggy team up and Roger is alive I can only assume them introducing Luffy to Rogers goes something like this. Shanks holding up Luffy: Captain Roger's meet Luffy. Roger: Well hello lad. Luffy : You're the king of the pirates right? Roger: Yes.
Luffy with all the attitude of a 10 yrold: I'm gonna be the next king so be ready old man. Buggy slowly turning to face Shanks because this is his fault.
Shanks: Captain he didn't mean it. Luffy: Yes I did. Buggy: Why is your child like this? Roger: *laughing*
Shanks, holding Luffy up proudly: Captain! Meet the kid I’ve been telling you about, Luffy!
Roger,beaming: Well hello there, lad!
Luffy, zero filter, pointing aggressively: You’re the King of the Pirates, right? I’m gonna be the next one and steal your crown, old man! Let’s fight right now!
Buggy, slowly turning to Shanks with murderous clown eyes: …This. Is. Your. Fault.
Shanks, nervous grin: Captain, he’s just a little excited-
Luffy, already stretching his arm back: Gum-Gum-
Buggy, lunging forward in pure panic, grabbing Luffy mid-stretch: NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! Do NOT punch the Captain, you rubber-brained disaster!!
Roger, laughing heartily: Hah! The kid’s got spirit!
Buggy, clinging to Luffy like a lifeline, voice cracking with dramatic horror: Why is your child like this, Shanks?! What if he accidentally launches the Captain into the ocean?! I spent YEARS polishing my flashy reputation, I refuse to let your feral kid embarrass us in front of Roger!!
Shanks, chuckling, not helping at all: Our kid, Buggy. Look, Captain loves him.
Luffy, still trying to wiggle free toward Roger: Let’s eat Meat first, then fight! Old man, you any good at parties?!
Buggy: shaking Luffy like a maraca: Stop inviting yourself to destroy everything! Shanks, take your chaos gremlin before he challenges Roger to “till death” battle.
Roger, wheezing with laughter, tears in his eyes: You two haven’t changed a bit. This kid’s gonna shake the world… just like his flashy dads.
Buggy, exhausted, still clutching Luffy: I’M NOT THE MOM- You know what I don’t care at least someone can sedate this rubber menace before he breaks the ship!
Au where Shakky notices Buggy's insane clown rizz and takes him as her apprentice. Buggy weaponizes his insane charisma, learns how to kick someone's head off their shoulders and gains some confidence. Shanks barely survives his teenage years.
I was reading the manga Kingdom and was struck with the idea that Shanks didn't know that FemBuggy was a girl.
Not because she hid it or someone else did, just because no one told him.
The Oro Jackson is full of men minus Toki and Shaky so there is no much to compare or any reference of what a young girl is or behaves, so Shanks knows girl become women at some point and that's it. And the crew does not how to raise a girl and much less keep one safe, so they just dress femBuggy as another boy and raise her to the best of their abilities.
Even though with time they realize that they are making a mistake its a little late, as femBuggy talks and acts like a sailor, no feminity or womanly behavior, they try to rein her by telling her that as she will become a beautiful woman she needs to at least learn how to act like one to be safe when she is older as not all pirates are nice. She sucks the compliment and makes a deal to learn from Shaky and will wear a dress when she turns 15.
Even when she starts to covet jewelry, use make up and let her hair grow, Shanks would be like: he is one flashy man and move one. Even more when puberty hits and they give him the Talk he is still: ok, I Wonder if Buggy was also told about girls?
When she finally turns 15, Shakira gifts her one of her Amazon Lily dresses and femBuggy makes her debut.
FemBuggy who struck a pose to show her legs: what do you think?
Shanks whose one brain cell is working overtime: funny joke, but how did you manage to hid it under so little fabric? *lifts her skirt*
The kick send Shanks flying so far that someone has to dive to save him, and it was done reluctanly after what he did.
this whole idea is absolute comedy gold!!!
The Roger Pirates crew, a bunch of loud, clueless pirate men who’ve never raised a girl in their lives, suddenly realizing they’ve been treating Fem!Buggy like just another rowdy cabin boy the entire time is peak chaos. They’ve been letting her run around cursing like an old-man, fighting, and acting completely unladylike because “that’s just how kids are on the Oro Jackson.”
Then one day it hits them: “Wait… she’s gonna grow up into a woman in a dangerous pirate world. We should probably do something about that.” So they awkwardly sit her down and go:
“Listen, dear… you’re gonna be a beautiful woman one day.”
“You gotta learn to act like one so the scummy pirates out there don’t mess with you.”
Fem!Buggy, being Buggy, sucks up the half-assed compliment like a sponge and immediately negotiates: “Fine. I’ll learn from Shakky… but I’m only wearing a dress when I turn 15. Deal?”
And during her lessons Shanks is on the side watching the entire interaction but it still won’t click with him and just assumes that Buggy wants to learn how to fight in flashy way, and who is more flashy than Shakky amongst the entire crew?…..maybe Gaban….
Fast forward to her 15th birthday.
Shakky gifts her a stunning Amazon Lily-style dress. Fem!Buggy struts out, strikes a dramatic pose, flips her hair, and shows off her legs with full flashy confidence:
FemBuggy: “What do you think?!”
[the crew is cheering and applauding, some wipe away tears because their little girl is a grown little woman now but not Shanks]
Shanks,brain cells working overtime, grinning like an idiot: “Funny joke… but seriously, how the hell did you hide all that under so little fabric?”
immediately lifts the hem of her skirt to “check”. You can hear invisible glass breaking as everyone freezes in horror, even Shakky who still had a neutral smile froze shock.
The kick that follows is legendary. Fem!Buggy sends him flying so hard he becomes a red-haired projectile over the ocean. Someone, probably a reluctant Rayleigh or Gaban, has to dive in to fish his dumb ass out of the water.
After the shock dies down the crew is dying laughing while Fem!Buggy stands there fuming in her pretty new dress, face bright red under the makeup, yelling “I’M NEVER WEARING THIS AGAIN, YOU PERVERTED RED-HAIRED IDIOT! ALL OF YOU!!”
It’s such a perfect mix of crew awkwardness, Shanks being an absolute menace, and FemBuggy’s dramatic energy. The fact that they tried to “fix” their tomboy upbringing at the last minute only for Shanks to ruin it instantly.
But in the end I think such scene will make Fem!Buggy’s confident weaver because of Shanks’s reaction but mostly everyone else’s. It is something new to her, something that took years to practice and still had doubt about it. Questions flooding her head while wondering if she should go through with it, if she even qualified to be seen as a woman with how she acts and talks.
I want to say that Shakky will do some damage control by comforting the little girl and assuring her that she is not at fault, meanwhile Rayleigh is beating lecturing Shanks while asking “WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT WAS OK TO DO?!”
And when they learn his reasoning they just stare at him in horror while contemplating if they should throw themselves into the sea for failing these kids that they took in.
Make up meme
CrossGuild and Cross Guild Days version
Hope u like it n.n !!
This is such an underappreciated moment, by the way, it cracks me up every time. WHAT DO YOU MEAN STRATT CAME TO HIM WHILE HE SLEPT AND LEFT A POST-IT NOTE ON HIS FOREHEAD.
(Grace calling The Woman With The Most Authority Ever "a pain in my butt" is amazing too. Right up there with the «I held up a finger. “No, no, no! You can’t just use ‘I’m saving the world’ as an excuse every time you’re a jerk.”». I love their dynamic.)
there's this ridiculously soulmatey line in the phm book when grace is just kinda idly wondering aloud about why human and eridian technology are at such similar phases of development, and without thinking about it much rocky responds "has to be, or you and I would not meet." which he goes on to explain as (paraphrasing here) "if either planet were less advanced then we couldn't have built interstellar ships, but if either were more advanced then we could have dealt with the astrophage problem from home, so we'd have to be at around the same level to both be here, that's the only way it would make sense." what it sounds like though is "oh, that's easy: the two of us had to meet so the history of both of our entire species lined up in preparation to make it possible." what kind of tau-ceti-crossed red-petrova-line-of-fate nonsense is this.
Non-binary people can't use they/them because they're only one person. Non-binary people can't use it/its because it's dehumanizing. Non-binary people can't use neopronouns because they're too confusing. Non-binary people can't use he/him and/or she/her because that's not gender neutral. Non-binary people can't use no pronouns because that's too hard to use.
No matter what pronouns a non-binary person uses somebody will get mad at them.
"Be not afraid" you say to the startled angel as you crawl out of its shower drain. It doesn't know how you got there, or whether you know what those words mean. It doesn't like the thought that you know that you frightened it. Maybe you've just heard those words before and assumed that that's just the sound you're supposed to make when you greet someone.
I like that the library can send me automated text message reminders that my stuff is due, but I wish they also had an option to personalise the messages. I would like to make them more personal. Specifically passive-aggressive, with progressively less on the "passive" as the date approaches. Like three days before they're due it's like "hey I just wanted to remind you that you still have my stuff, in case you've forgotten that you were supposed to return them. No pressure though! You have three days :)"
Then a day before the date there's another text like "hey you still have my stuff, right? Yeah you have them, I'd know if you'd have returned them, I keep tabs on everything. Return them tomorrow. :)"
And on the day they're due it's just this picture
I cannot recommend bringing your heritage and culture into how you view media enough.
It is important to consider the culture of the person who created the piece, absolutely; but the different perspectives offered by the viewers is fascinating in and of itself and does not always detract from the message.
As an example, when I was younger, I watched Schindler's List. This movie is famously shot in black and white except for one section, concerning a little girl in a red coat. The camera follows her until her eventual death.
I am Turtle Island Indigenous and I was always taught that the only color spirits could see was red, because it is the color of life and blood.
So the second the girl in the red jacket came on screen, something inside me chilled with fear.
The only color in the movie was that red. At some point, I, the viewer, had died.
I remember sobbing at the sight of the burning human piles that were shown, convinced I was buried in there somewhere. The reason I had only seen red on the girl was that my death was recent. I was the ash in the air mistaken for snow. I had died before her and had followed her, helplessly, until she followed me.
The message I got for that was maybe not what the creator had intended: that there was no "being clever enough" or "good enough" or "kind enough" that would shield or protect you from such a massive tidal wave of evil.
You are not exempt from tragedy, that red jacket whispered. You are not special.
When I told some of my white friends about my experience with viewing Schindler's List, some were shocked and the rest just out-and-out mocked me for my "media illiteracy".
"it was just a filming trick to make you feel something," I remember one saying, which terrified me. How had he not felt anything even before she showed up?
However, when I repeated my viewing to a college class, they were fascinated. The implications of what I had seen and felt made the film all the more terrifying and solemn. It encouraged a lot of people to try to ask themselves what media meant from a cultural perspective, where they hadn't done that before.
Having this come across my dash while I’ve been low-key crashing out over the ignored Jewish elements in X-Men comics (American superhero comics in general tbh) is. It’s a weird fucking feeling.
To be clear, I’m not here to scold @sound-the-horn because how dare they read their culture into a Jewish movie, blah blah blah. It’s more about the reaction they got? Because I have a sinking feeling that if I did the same thing, there’s not an insignificant chance that I would get shut down, too. I am Jewish, and in this hypothetical situation, I would be discussing a Jewish film made by a Jewish film about the Jewish genocide, and I still think there’s a good chance I might get dismissed. I’ve seen the Jewish elements in works by Jewish creators ignore, dismissed, or deliberately ripped out too often to not have doubts.
idk what I’m trying to say here. there’s a discomfort with interpretations outside the cultural mainstream I guess? like, it doesn’t matter whether you’re reading or writing your minority culture into a piece of work, there’s not an insignificant chance that it’ll get sanded away if that work gets popular. does that make any sense?
On a more personal note, @sound-the-horn reading your interpretation reminded me of these two bits from Night and Maus respectively:
How long do y'all think it took for people to forget mammoths? One generation, two, three? They got rarer and rarer, until the clan felled the last one that they would ever kill, and the hunters who were there would, for the rest of their lives, keep telling the story of how they once slayed the most elusive grand beast, that was only seen once a generation. And the youths would listen their descriptions of them, and though the description didn't make much sense - there was nothing else quite alike a mammoth that it could be compared to - they listened and thought that one day, they would encounter a mammoth, too.
They might tell their children and grandchildren of this, how the old hunters would tell them of a spectacular beast that one might see only three times in a lifetime, and perhaps kill just once. It must be true, since the clan still has the tusk of one, but no-one alive has seen one.
Their children and grandchildren would tell their own children only vague tales they used to hear the old folk tell, of grand beasts bigger than horses and bovines, the grandest game of them all, but no-one alive has met someone who has seen one.
Oh by the way if you view nonbinary people as having to be either transmasc or transfem, or being man/woman-lite, or tma/tme, or literally anything except what they tell you about their gender, you are transphobic
Stop forcing nonbinary people INTO A FUCKING BINARY.
throwback to my favorite image ive ever seen on this site. a perfect little melange of racism. i could write entire novels deconstructing this thing. its so bad it looped back around into absurdist comedy for me. thats my friend the floating buffalo shaman who has no religion
every so often i remember that most people probably dont know what i refer to when i mention my friend, the floating buffalo shaman who has no religion.
Sure A Username there too. Idk, this might be more of a “likes to charge reblogs to cast” situation than an attempt to describe current reality.
This becomes an extra layer of funny if you take the word 'totally' and run with it, thus reading the whole thing in a teen valley girl accent.
exactly!
I've got to look up every possible way to sew hidden, concealed and non-obvious pockets and other such storage caches in all of my clothing, and then have as many of those as I can fit in every item in my wardrobe. Trying to get as much hidden storage space on my person as possible. Carrying around a backpack's worth of shit without carrying a bag of any sort.
Getting bored while waiting for the bus and just casually pulling a goddamn sewing kit out of my sleeve to start doing needlework on my jeans, like hey hold on where the fuck did you just pull that shit from. Equipping shit from my secret inventory.
Hammer space but it's a pocket specifically located on your left calf. Neat :D
