- he’s named Dracule and im p sure like half his personality is vampire aesthetic
- his name’s “hawk eyes” mihawk like he couldn’t emphasize HAWK enough
- sails all manner of dangerous seas in a coffin-shaped (and sized) boat to fit the vampire aesthetic
- the boats like literally just a chair in a coffin. there’s no oars or sails. how’s he steer? he just sit there and hope for the best? he’s got nowhere to store food for long journeys. how’s he even use that boat?
- lives alone on a scary island in a castle surrounded by blood thirsty monkeys, almost definitely to fit the vampire aesthetic
- i’m p sure it’s like eternally cloudy there or smth. whole place is surrounded by ruined towns and creepy forests and no other people. what’s he even do out there? i bet he’s reading cheesy vampire novels.
- leaves home for a while, returns to find two people he barely knows have taken up residence in his absence, barely cares
- one of the two people who took up residence in Mihawk’s castle is a guy who’s life mission is to beat Mihawk, he just lets the guy stay
- guy’s got like no friends. the closest he’s got to friends is like. Perona and Zoro who just kinda showed up at his house and Shanks who he mostly seems to like. tolerate
- he seems to find the concept of friendship scary as he’s got a quote where he says he finds Luffy’s ability to easily make friends to be terrifying. mihawk wtf
- chased down a pirate armada across two seas to destroy it just because he’s bored
- carries around two weapons, one being a big black sword the size of him and the other being a butterknife-sized version of that sword which he fights others with JUST bc he can to show off
- “you don’t need a canon to hunt rabbits” and you don’t need to be this over-the-top but here we are
- the butter knife is usually stored as a cross-shaped necklace, definitely to fit the vampire aesthetic
- fights a dude with the butter knife of death, and after deciding he likes the guy during the fight, does the guy the honor of finishing him off via cutting him the fuck in half with the giant sword
- i don’t have a way to end this list and im probably missing something but i’d like to say i love dracule mihawk
(thank you to @ayotofu for assistance on this list)
this post recently passed 1000 notes, so there’s some stuff i need to say
- i Slightly misremembered Mihawk’s boat. that’s okay, everyone makes mistakes, and not a single one of you corrected me. however, it’s actually worse than i remembered. here’s why:
1) i was wrong about it not having a sail. instead, Mihawk’s boat had a mast which was made to resemble the hilt of his big sword, because Mihawk can’t do anything without it being incredibly edgy and extra.
2) in every appearance the sails have been rolled up. does he even use them or are they just for show. how does he use that boat
3) i was informed via tags by many people that Mihawk’s ship ALSO has two candles at the front with green flames. GREEN FLAMES. i’ve lived four peaceful years of my life having read the manga, not knowing this extra-ass fucker has two green candles on the front of his ship but now i know and there’s nothing i can do about it. how the hell did he even MANAGE that. i’m literally so pissed off about this. how do they stay lit when he’s on the water? how do they not just burn away, does he have extra candles stored somewhere? why are they green?
4) did i mention the boat is named the Coffin Boat? that’s it’s name, apparently.
- according to official manga coloring, Mihawk has red eyes. RED EYES. please stop this man
- speaking of eyes, the guy’s got bulls-eye patterned irises? he’s lucky they aren’t red, honestly, or else he’d have two targets for eyes.
- his facial hair. just look at it.
- he’s only laughed like twice in the whole series and im pretty sure he was laughing at Zoro both times
- despite being a powerful and terrifying swordsman, most of the time when he appears on cover pages he’s doing shit like farming and hanging out with baby bears
- on one of the covers he’s enjoying a nice meal with Jinbei, and he eats it using his butter knife of death. he’s likely killed people with that thing and he uses it to eat his food
- his hat
- at Marineford, Mihawk cuts an iceberg in half. he was aiming for Luffy, missed, and cut the top off an iceberg bigger than an entire fleet of battleships
- Luffy was probably the shortest dude at marineford and he’s stick-thin, Mihawk had no reason to make a cut like THIS
what was that about not needing cannons to hunt rabbits again?
- he wears nice shirts around the house at Kurigana but always goes out shirtless and in a cloak. sailing on the Grand Line and East Blue? shirtless. going to the biggest war of the century? titties out and ready for manslaughter
- he agrees to train Zoro for two years despite knowing that Zoro will one day use all that training to come back and kick his ass. he really has nothing better to do out there at his castle i guess?
- i once again have no idea how to finish off this list and still probably missed stuff, but i want to say i still absolutely fucking love Dracule Mihawk
According to the United Nations Convention on the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972, the candle on the port side of the boat should be red, not green. This is a safety issue. Mihawk is inadvertently giving other vessels right of way over his coffin boat.
or: some of you fundamentally misunderstand ao3 and it really, really shows
i was talking about this with a friend a few days ago and since then i've seen multiple posts of various sorts that have just made me think about it more, so. here is me breaking down a disconnect i see particularly with younger members of the marauders fandom (i say marauders specifically just bc that's the only one i'm plugged into):
okay, so i've seen many (usually younger) marauders fans either talking online about how they wish ao3 was more like social media (specifically regarding algorithms) OR talking about ao3/fanfiction/fanfic writers as if they are operating under the same etiquette/guidelines/assumptions they would bring into social media platforms. this ranges from being mildly irritating to genuinely harmful, and i want to talk abt why.
first - you have to understand that social media, in this day and age, exists in a profit economy. and when i say social media here, i'm referring to platforms like tiktok, twitter, instagram, etc. all of these platforms exist in a profit economy where content is a product that can be monetized. this leads to a few important distinctions:
people posting on these social media platforms are generally posting with the intent to get their content seen by as many people as possible, as quickly as possible
they post with this intent because once their content is consumed by enough people, it becomes a product that they can monetize
therefore, if that content gets popular enough, these people can become influencers, where content creation is an actual job and their audience are, in a sort of vague and obscured way, similar to consumers purchasing a product
because of the profit economy surrounding social media, there are certain assumptions + forms of interaction that bleed across almost all social media platforms. the ones relevant to this little essay include:
operating under the assumption that anyone posting anything on the internet wants to go viral, ie. be seen by as many people as possible as quickly as possible in order to grow an "audience"
these influencers are creating content for us, their audience, so they should want to please us. they should also be trying to appeal to the broadest possible audience. therefore, if we dislike their content, we have a right to make that very, very clear.
in that same vein, we have a general right to critique content creators, as they are making a profit and we are the consumers purchasing their product--much like you might feel entitled to a certain standard of service in a restaurant where you are paying for the food.
when you carry these assumptions over to a platform like ao3, it creates problems. why? in a nutshell: because ao3 exists outside the profit economy
ao3 is a non-profit. it does not have an algorithm because it is not trying to sell you anything. this means that the writers posting their work on ao3 are not making a profit. we are not influencers. we are not creating monetized content to sell to a consumer-audience. where consuming content on other social media platforms might be comparable to eating at a restaurant, reading fanfiction on ao3 is more like coming over to someone's house and eating cookies that they made for free. you are in their house. the cookies are free, given as a gift. so what happens when those assumptions outlined above start to bleed over from other social media?
assuming that anyone posting fanfiction online wants their work to go viral -- i've seen this with popular fic writers getting questions like, "are you worried x isn't going to be as popular as y?" those questions are usually not ill-intended, but they demonstrate a fundamental lack of understanding about why writers post work on ao3. it's not to go viral. it's not to build any sort of online following. most of us who post on ao3 have jobs or schoolwork or other commitments, and writing fanfiction is something done for fun, out of a love for writing. those sharing their work online might be seeking community, but that is fundamentally different from seeking an audience, and in no way involves internet virality. if someone is posting fanfic on ao3 with the hope that it'll "go viral," then they likely either won't continue writing fanfic for long or will reach a point where they have to re-evalute their motivations, because seeking joy and validation by turning your art into a product for consumption just isn't very sustainable.
influencers are creating content for us, so we have a right to let them know if we don't like it -- nope!! fic writers are not influencers. yes, even the popular ones. no matter how much other people might blow their work up on social media, fic writers are still outside the profit economy. they are not creating content for an audience. they are not creating content for you. they are writing because they love it, and they are generously sharing it. if you don't like it, don't interact with it. you are never entitled to loudly and publicly proclaim how much you dislike a fic. i talk about this more here
we have a general right to critique fic writers, the same way we do with content creators/influencers -- again, no. you should not be treating fic writers the way you would treat an influencer on another social media platform, no matter how popular they may be. this is not to say fic writers are beyond all reproach; rather, it is a call-in to check your entitlement. fic writers are not little jesters entertaining in your court. they are not subject to your whims. they do not have to do things for you. they do not have to write things you like. in that post i linked on point 2, i talk about what etiquette might look like if you're really concerned that a fic writer is doing something harmful, but that is not what i'm talking about here. i am talking about the proliferation of negativity i have seen, especially on twitter and tiktok, where people essentially just talk shit about fics or fic writers as though they are entitled to have those fic writers working to please them. this is gross, and it needs to stop. you wouldn't go over to someone's house, eat the cookies they baked to share, and then spit those cookies back in their face and start shouting about what a shitty baker they are. or maybe you would--in which case, congratulations! you are Not A Good Person.
anyway, at the end of the day, a lot of this can be boiled down to: Because ao3 exists outside the profit economy, fic writers are not influencers, and you should never be treating them as though they are. i think i see this disconnect largely with younger people just because they've maybe only ever really understood social media within this sort of influencer-consumer-culture economy, and genuinely don't understand how to interact differently with the internet. so, consider this post a call-in to reevaluate the way you interact with fic writers and the etiquette you use when it comes to engaging with fanfic on ao3! i promise that ao3 being different from social media is a very, very good thing, and also a very, very rare thing, so let's treasure it and focus on fostering community rather than trying to morph it to fit the mould of influencer-audience dynamics that we see almost everywhere else <3
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