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[super-fast-octopus]

Happy d-day peeps! I know technically speaking that Aug 15 1997 was the first incident, but I like to pretend that the second accident also occurred on Aug 15 a year later. Stuart is taking a nice relaxing bath

[weepycat]

"how to prevent smile lines" there are a thousand more important things to do with your time than postpone evidence of life's joy on your face

[vrepit-salt]

[tygerbug]

This is the money Marge. Reblog for good fortune

[kendrajk]

YOU ONLY KEEP ONE BULL 

(Originally published in Comics For Choice)

[thehornedwitch-deactivated20211]

And the rest, my darlings, are meat.

[glitterandrocketfuel]

Never punched reblog so fast in my life

[lordof5moths]

[ashenmind]

I hope every health insurance exec dies from painful and preventable disease

[bpdkipland]

my favorite picture ever is the one that says “HELL IS FULL, BITCH” and then it has the national suicide prevention hotline on it. it makes me smile every time 

[bpdkipland]

THIS ONE!!!!

[bogfox]

I wonder who made these! I have this one saved:

[bitchstew-deactivated20240821]

Chaotic Good

[bpdkipland]

*slamming my fists on table* I NEED MORE!!!! MORE!!!!

[cozza-frenzy]

If anyone has the skeleton apologizing for triggering someone, I’d like that for my collection, please.

[catalystforameow-deactivated202]

Here!

Plus some more^^

[puddox]

[spiderman-anti]

ME ME ME

[wetwareproblem]

Gangster Popeye, the inventor of this style and artist behind several of these pieces (I’m not sure about all of them, though they appear to be her style) is a Salvadorean trans woman. Her Patreon is here.

[sewickedthread]

reblogging for artist credit and patreon info

[parentheses-posts]

This post has 1 set of parentheses.

[kubo]

i think we should abolish the term middle east

[kubo]

like i know ive said this before but it is so incredibly eurocentric because its literally a reference to its relative location to europe. and because this definition is so alienated from its actual geographical context you have people genuinely believing the middle east somehow transcends continents and doesn’t exist in asia. there are so many disputes over which countries are middle eastern and which aren’t because the entire thing is an imprecise way of grouping different cultures together by white people who think we’re a monolith anyway and this could all be avoided if we just use the term southwest asia and break free of europes influence over brown people.

[darishima]

made a chart of the straw hats' skin tones with the colors being screencapped directly from the episodes, to show how much they've lightened. this is more than just an "artstyle change" or "design evolution" or "just the timeskip" this is blatant racism/colorism. it's fucking ridiculous and i don't understand how toei is continuously getting away with it please reblog btw, i think this is something people should see

[maybeamiles]

To add onto this, here's the full-color spread of the straw hats for chapters 999-1000. There's an argument that this whitewashing is done to be more accurate to the manga, and I would like to propose that this too is bullshit.

First of all, Oda appears to use the same technique whenever he colors skintones, something easily seen if you compare Zoro, Franky, and Sanji here.

They all have a white highlight, a few layers of skintone foe shading, and then a shadow layer and some purple for realism. Comparing colors won't do us any good here, because this shading style doesn't have a distinct midtone like the anime does, and depending on how closely you pick your colors the texturing of the markers leaves some spots darker than others.

The biggest differences in skintone come from how many layers of skintone color oda applies. Robin, Luffy, and Ussop all have fewer highlights than Zoro, Franky, and Sanji, while Nami has fewer shadows than anyone in the crew.

Yes, all the straw hats are pale, but you know who isn't?

Blackbeard. It doesn't take a genius to see that he has a MUCH darker skintone than anyone else in the show. And in Oda's official art?

Same skin tone as everyone else. Now if Toei actually cared about manga accuracy, why make everyone pale except blackbeard? For that matter, why make Robin one of the palest straw hats when, if we look at the *miniscule* differences in coloring, she's supposed to look like Ussop or Luffy?

One piece has two problems when it comes to depicting characters of different races (three if you count the poor design decisions for Ussop and Blackbeard). The first is that Oda either cannot or refuses to draw more than one skin tone. The second is that Toei saw this, decided to take their own artistic liberties in the beginning, then backtracked (for some reason) during the timeskip and has continued backtracking ever since.

Oda can ABSOLUTELY be better than this. One Piece can be better than this. It HAS been better than this. The limited skintones we had in the early days of the show aren't great, but they're loads better than what we have now. I love One Piece. I will still watch the show and read the manga. But as a fellow artist, if Oda and Toei are trying to depict a world where men can be made of rubber and reindeers can talk and fish-people swim in the sea then it is their failure as storytellers and artists if they refuse to depict different colors of humans, and we as a fandom need to acknowledge it as such instead of sweeping it under the rug like we so often do.

[darishima]

fascinating also that blackbeard hasn't gotten noticeably lighter at all despite his manga coloring being significantly paler. surely there is no racist undertone here

[vrepit-salt]

[iiota]

refraining from a lot of election joke posting and instead I just donated $55 USD to gaza soup kitchen and i encourage anyone else to consider donating even a couple of dollars to the people who will be affected the most from whatever outcome happens

you can also donate to care for gaza here

[tpup]

gazafunds is another good way to help; it shows you vetted campaigns that are low on donations

[huckleberrycomics]

Thinking of you.

🤍🖤💚❤️

Fundraiser under the cut.

Please follow this link and read @ahmedpalestine's story. His fundraiser is currently at €6.030.

[where-s-all-blue]

Modern AU : Hackers

Aka the much needed "We all live in other countries but we still somehow became friends"

Might also be a ZoSan AU because I can

This AU is free for others to work with if they so please and it's even recommended.

So everyone lives in the countries Oda said they would be from:

Luffy : Brazil

Zoro : Japan

Nami : Sweden

Usopp : African country (Oda didn't specify which one)

Sanji : France

Chopper : Canada

Robin : Russia

Franky : America

Brook : Austria

The crew uses some app like Discord or such to keep in contact, and most of them have originally some sort of self made logo as their icon until Usopp decides that he'll draw them icons. But he does this only after he has had few video calls with all of them so they all pretty much know what the other look like.

Except for Zoro and Sanji, who have never been in a video call together nor have they been present on a video call with the whole group at the same time.

Most of them also have jobs already safe for few:

Sanji is in catering business run by Zeff, Zoro does competitive kendo and Usopp is a journalist.

Robin is a historian while Brook is in a symphony orchestra, Franky is a game dev.

Chopper is still in med school while Luffy and Nami are studying to become a firefighter and a tour guide respectively.

Either way, it just so happens that Zoro has his next match in France and Baratier is their caterer. Zoro and Sanji see one another few times and notice how the other one makes them think of the icons Usopp made, but it never clicks for them.

It goes as far as Usopp, who's on duty there to write about the kendo competition, greets them both at the same time, using their online names (Mr Prince for Sanji and KendoMan for Zoro), both of them answered to him at the same time and yet they didn't realise it.

The two dumbasses even message one another asking for advice on how to woo one another:

Mr. Prince: Mosshead, quick! I need some sword facts so I can impress this hottie who's rn training across the street without a shirt

KendoMan: I am in middle of practicing for a tournament you stupid cook, I can't help you

KendoMan: Oy, cook, I need your help so I can make this cute blonde fall for me

Mr. Prince: Eat a dick mosshead.

Mr. Prince: You didn't help me, I won't help you

They are also having complicated feelings because they reeeally like that mystery swordsman/waiter but they also like one another's Internet personas. They only realise that they were in the same city once they are both returning to their homes and decide to send some photos to the group chat.

Later on Zoro decides to move into France because he liked it and he opens a dojo there. Naturally, he and Sanji meet again and even manage to score a date with one another somehow still oblivious about the truth.

Another exchange of texts with their online personas:

KendoMan: Fuck me softly with a chainsaw. COOK HELP ME WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO ON A DATE???

Mr. Prince: I CAN'T HELP YOU MARIMO, I AM HAVING GAY PANIC IN THE RESTROOM AND MY DATE IS WAITING FOR ME TO COME BACK

It takes one last message to which Sanji apologises over as he needs to answer to his friend, who just so happens to be Zoro. And then it finally clicks.

"Your hair is....actually green? I thought that it was just something Usopp added for shits and giggles" "Your eyebrow actually has a curl??" "I mean yeah? They both do but on the opposite ends, please don't ask me how that works, I don't know"

Everyone else has been anticipating the moment they realise that they are crushing on one another, but kept their mouths shut, they also had a betting pool about it. Usopp had been dropping them hints all the time.

Captain Usopp: Jeez guys leave some romantic blabber for the rest of us too

But the duo always thought that he was just joking about things.

[melxfanaccount]

Melanie Martinez - The Trilogy Tour - Glasgow, UK 🤍

[animentality]

[meldoujin]

Baby Effect! Chapter 1 - Abandoned ship

Hey! I'm bringing my comic from Ao3 to Tumblr from now on! We've been there for a year and a half, but shit happens and we gotta move on 😤 Good read, and don't forget to read it right to left ⬅️ (search for #BabyEffect! to find more)

There's still 22 more chapters to go~

– meanwhile, mel is struggling not to redraw the entire comic