Bad Influence Dad.

[herzspalter]

Risotto Nero loves cats, he’s just a big clown about it

My favourite subgenre of Squadra comics is Risotto not being very good at every day tasks and nobody really having the heart to tell him.

These cat shenanigans are from a conversation a couple weeks ago with my good friend @pomlivv who is a very sweet person and an amazing artist and I can’t recommend her work enough <3

[magicalmeatman]

okay so i think we have Established that aizawa is Not A Good Role Model for doing things to ur friends

^^ano the r idea by the Gr e A T @ruuska;;;;; a l l H a i l

bonus:

our Lord and Saviour

[my-wayward-karma]

[hajnarus]

ah yes, I love part 2

[hajnarus]

You all wanted part 2

[da-boy-o-kultur]

Awwww Joseph, we love you.

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

i am… thinking about smiles. the expression, not the fruits, though i guess i’m thinking about those too. 

smiles, and laughter, show up a lot in one piece. it’s the sort of motif that doesn’t get a whole lot of attention drawn to it in-story (until very recently) but when you pay attention, it’s everywhere. 

like, the first page of the manga, and the very first opening, what’s one of the first things we’re presented with? roger grinning on the execution stand. we always see people smiling in the face of death. ace is the other most obvious example, but there’s also saul, rouge, luffy on the stand at loguetown, and law telling doflamingo to fuck himself. i see it pinpointed as a trait of Ds sometimes, and it is that, but it’s not exclusive to them either. bellemere dies smiling, as do hiriluk and otohime as they hand their dreams down to their children; corazon smiles to cheer law up before he dies, and wants that to be the way he’s remembered.

and then there’s laughter. one of the most popular posts i’ve ever made on this stupid blog was a semi-shitpost pointing out a possible connection between the focus placed on laughter in one piece and the name of laugh tale for the final island of the grand line. many many characters in one piece have a unique style of laughter, and you even have scenes like saul (again, a D) encouraging robin to smile and laugh with his own silly laugh, even when he’s dying.

the final words of binks no sake, a pretty important song in one piece, literally describe a neverending tale of laughter- and the song begins and ends with brook’s laugh. and the rumbar pirates, too, die smiling and laughing and singing.

and here’s a fun fact for you: in japanese, ‘smile’ and ‘laugh’ are the same word- 笑う/warau. 

and then, of course, there’s joy boy, too, who just by his name alone is clearly connected to all of this. 

on the other hand, there’s multiple examples of literally forcing people to smile, and its clearly shown just how cruel and inhumane that is. ebisu town is the latest and most obvious example of this, and feeding the failed smiles to the people there is literally referred to in-text as orochi’s greatest crime. and there’s also koala (and presumably other slaves of the celestial dragons), who trained herself to always smile and seem happy to avoid punishment, and fisher tiger’s victory is in getting her to finally stop, and finally cry. 

one piece is a story all about freedom, and one of the most fundamental freedoms is that to express yourself and your feelings honestly. so it follows that one of the worst crimes would be to steal even that freedom. in both the cases of koala and the people of ebisu town, the reason they’re forced to smile is because their crying is annoying to their oppressors. 

and luffy is smiling almost constantly. just cause he’s happy. just cause he’s free.

[skybson]

Every named Clone Trooper in Star Wars: The Clone Wars

[gallusrostromegalus]

McElroy Voice: Look at all these beautiful boys!

[one-time-i-dreamt]

#JUNKTERRORBILL please sign the petition

Sign the Petition

JUNK THE ANTI-TERRORISM BILL AND UPHOLD HUMAN RIGHTS!

[blossyay]

I can’t believe I took all this time to make a 9 page backstory for Colton from Animal Crossing HAHAHAHAHA

[emmmeralddd]

[mindiposa]

Another redraw of Luffy :3

[popokko-deactivated20210315]

apparently the dallas police dept set up an app where u can anonymously submit videos of ppl breaking the law so they can find and arrest them and kpop stans are spamming it with fancams to the point that it crashed… can we get 100k likes for our soldiers

[birthofvcnus]

PLEASE SHARE. A WOMAN WAS ABDUCTED AT A PROTEST. LICENSE PLATE EEV-701. IT IS A FORD ESCAPE 2003.

[gahdamnpunk]

American Girl stories were the best tbh

[that-catholic-shinobi]

Dude, read the books, she and her mom freed themselves in Book 1. We don’t disrespect American Girl in this house

[allthefandomss]

Don’t you dare disrespect Addy, or any of my girls for that matter. American Girl used to be legit. Good stories, good dolls, good movies.

[smugkoalas]

Felicity’s story was set in the beginnings of the American Revolution, and addressed the conflict that she faced when her loved ones were split between patriots and loyalists. It also covered the effects of animal abuse, and forgiving those who are unforgivable.

Samantha’s stories centered around the growth of industrial America, women’s suffrage, child abuse, and corruption in places of power. Also, it emphasises how dramatically adoption into a caring family can turn a life around.

Kit’s story is one of my favorites. Her family is hit hard by the Great Depression, and they begin taking in boarders and raise chickens to help make ends meet. Her books include themes of poverty, police brutality, homelessness, prejudice, and the importance of unity in difficult times.

Molly’s father, a doctor, is drafted during the Second World War. Throughout her story, friends of hers suffer the loss of their husbands, sons, and brothers overseas. Her mother leaves the traditional housewife position and works full-time to help with the war effort. They also take in an English refugee child, who learns to open up after a life of traumatic experience.

American Girl stories have always featured the very harsh realities of America through the years. But they’re always presented honestly, yet in ways that kids can understand. They just go to show that you don’t have to live in a perfect time to be a real American girl.

[chaos-in-the-making]

Dont you fucking dare disrespect the American Girls in my house. ESPECIALLY Addy!! That was my first REAL contact with the horrors of slavery, as I read about her father being whipped and sold and her mother escaping with her to freedom, but also how freedom was still a struggle.

A slave doll. Please. Read the books.

[ironwoman359]

Don’t forget Kirsten, the Swedish immigrant who had to deal with balancing her own culture and learning the english language and customs of her classmates, or Kaya (full name Kaya'aton'my, or She Who Arranges Rocks) , the brave but careless girl from the Nez Perce tribe, or Josefina, the Mexican girl learning to be a healer.

And then there are the later dolls, that kids younger than me would have grown up with (I was just outgrowing American Girl as these came out), like Rebecca, the Jewish girl who dreams of becoming an actress in the budding film industry, or  Julie, who fights against her school’s gender policy surrounding sports in the 70s, or  Nanea, the Hawaiian girl whose father worked at Pearl Harbor.

These books, these characters, are fantastic pictures into life for girls in America throughout the years, they pull no punches with the horrors that these girls had to face in their different time periods, and in many cases I learned more history from these series than social studies at school. And that’s without even mentioning the “girl of the year” series where characters are created in the modern world to help girls deal with issues like friend problems, moving, or bullying. We do NOT disrespect American Girl in this house.

[razzleberryjam]

American Girl is probably going to be the only exposure young girls are going to get to history from a female perspective. This is actually kind of important considering that in history classes we dont really get that exposure. We dont hear about what women felt and endured during these time periods cause schools are too busy teaching us about what happened from the male perspective, which is not unimportant, but we need both. Girls need both.

[star-linedsoul]

These books were such a crucial part of my childhood and shaped my love of history, which still ensures today. These books can be a young girl’s first lessons in diversity and cultural awareness (hopefully burying that insensitive “we’re all Americans” tripe) and looking at history from more perspectives than just that taught in school. They also are an example of how women have ALWAYS been part of history, which some people would rather us not believe.

I think Kit and Kaya were the newest American Girls when I started “aging out” of the books, but hearing about some of these kinda makes me want to revisit them!

[breezeinmonochromenight]

I wasn’t gonna say anything, but you know what?

Nah.

OP (of the tweet thread) was either a actively trying to start shit or is just a huge fucking moron. Probably both.

I’d like to point out that the company that makes American Girl dolls actually doesn’t skimp when doing their research and they don’t make the dolls with the intent to be offensive in any way:

[looney-mooney]

Dude Kaya’s my absolute FAVORITE of the American Girls, I had an entire collective volume of all her stories with like, a glossary of terms used in the languages of a couple different Native American tribes (not just the Nez Perce, but a neighboring tribe that shared a river with them during a particular part of their migration cycle and who they mingled with often), as well as a guide to some of the Sign Language they used to overcome the language barrier between tribes. One of my favorite characters was her blind older sister, because she was so uniquely vulnerable and strong, far more cautious and mature than Kaya but also so vulnerable and dependent on others? And there was this one arc where she was LOST in the WOODS and it was SUCH an engaging story, I was on the edge of my seat the whole time! I even made my own doll for her because we had a spare Kaya doll that had to have a haircut.

Felicity’s my second favorite, but mostly because I never got over the moment of shock and realization that hit me when Felicity’s best friend’s grandfather (who was loyal to the king of England) was INPRISONED FOR NOT BEING AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY. BY FELICITY’S BROTHER. AND HE WAS GOING TO BE TARRED AND FEATHERED, AN ACT THAT WOULD KILL HIM. It really made me take a step back, because in school we’d been learning about the lengths revolutionaries would go to to drive out the colonists, and I never considered that a lot of those acts were cruel. An old man getting tarred and feathered no longer seemed like an act of rebellion, but an act of genuine cruelty. And like… it made me realize that it’s important to be accepting, even of those whose world views you don’t agree with. It’s important to punish those who genuinely hurt others, and prevent others from being harmed. And it was also the moment when I realized that the history taught in American schools is… INCREDIBLY biased.

One of the best things about the American Girl books is that they don’t ever just show one person’s perspective. They do their best to surround the main character with characters whose beliefs and experiences will challenge their own, and they do their best to show these characters being FRIENDS. And then they show how, even though these two characters care deeply for one another, their cultural differences still cause unique struggles, because there is almost always horror on both sides. And for Kaya, they didn’t do a colonists vs natives thing, they instead showed the cultural differences between two different tribes, which was incredible because it reinforced that diversity of culture that indigenous tribes had.

I just. I love the American Girls books. SO MUCH.

[swimmingblue]

Total appreciation if they took the time to a) get consent from the First Nations group and then b) work with them on research. Because that’s so much better and more respectful than A LOT of portrayals of first nations groups around the world, especially in popular American media (cough cough SMeyer)

[animauxing]

dumb and dumber.

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

Love that Sabo appears to be like, exactly as shit at names as Luffy. The poor announcer’s name is ギャッツ/gyattsu (which is ‘Gatz’ in English according to the wiki), Luffy calls him キャッツ/kyattsu (‘cats’) and then presumably going off of that, Sabo calls him ペッツ/pettsu (‘pets’). It’s like the world’s most inept game of telephone. I love them. 

[eggmondsammich]

Modern AU where Doflamingo is the goose on college campus who spends his days harassing students and staff. Nicknamed Doflamingoose.

They start a “Goose Watch” segment in the college newspaper

[tinsil]

jonathan