𝓢𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓹𝓲𝓽𝔂

All that anyone can say now is: What next? What little thing will change the world because the tinkerers carried on tinkering?

[squidbubble]

So I time-travelled about 6 years into the future (feels like 10) and... yeah I miss the days when I was living on tumblr

I could try to come back again but it might not be the same

[beif0ngs]

is this not them though

[opbackgrounds]

If you pull back and look at One Piece as a whole, chapter 100 can easily be read as the end of the prologue. While I don’t think the series is meant to be divided into a traditional three or five act structure, I do think it’s helpful to break down One Piece into chunks for easier analysis.

Chapters 1-100 introduce the world, Luffy, and his core crew. I’ve noted it several times before, but each villain is a foil for Luffy and how he defines his captaincy and what the ideal pirate should be, showing who Luffy is by giving examples of who he isn’t.

Chapers 101-Marineford fully flesh out the world. Most the major abilities, players and factions are introduced, the rest of the crew are introduced, even if in Jimbe’s case they’re not fully integrated into the Straw Hat Pirates. We meet, and are given reason to hate, the presumed big baddies of the series. Luffy sets his foot into the door of the world stage, but this section ends with crushing defeat as it becomes painfully clear that he’s not ready.

Having endured loss, the New World sets the stage for Luffy becoming King. Alliances, the interplay of various factions, gaining territory and dethroning powers become the main goal rather than a happy side effect of Luffy’s adventures. 

[a-tsute]

“Look.”

[mamenoco]

[terrypratchettparadise]

“The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.”

- Terry Pratchett - Lords and Ladies

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

THIS. WAS. IMPROVISED. (x)

[ereini0n]

“In fact the only things in the flat Crowley devoted any personal attention to were the houseplants. They were huge and green and glorious, with shiny, healthy, lustrous leaves.    

This was because, once a week, Crowley went around the flat with a green plastic plant mister, spraying the leaves, and talking to the plants. He had heard about talking to plants in the early seventies, on Radio Four, and thought it an excellent idea. Although talking is perhaps the wrong word for what Crowley did. What he did was put the fear of God into them.     More precisely, the fear of Crowley.    

In addition to which, every couple of months Crowley would pick out a plant that was growing too slowly, or succumbing to leafwilt or browning, or just didn’t look quite as good as the others, and he would carry it around to all the other plants. “Say goodbye to your friend,” he’d say to them. “He just couldn’t cut it …”     Then he would leave the flat with the offending plant, and return an hour or so later with a large, empty flower pot, which he would leave somewhere conspicuously around the flat.    

The plants were the most luxurious, verdant, and beautiful in London. Also the most terrified.”

[futureevilscientist]

As always, I will point out that one hour is way more time than one would need to toss the plant in a dumpster or something, and thus it is my firm headcanon that Crowley either finds a place to plant the offending plant or find unsuspecting humans to adopt it.

[pratchettgeek]

“And precisely how much nuclear material has escaped?” said the interviewer. There was a pause. “We wouldn’t say escaped,” said the spokesman. “Not escaped. Temporarily mislaid.” “You mean it is still on the premises?” “We certainly cannot see how it could have been removed from them,” said the spokesman. “Surely you have considered terrorist activity?” There was another pause. Then the spokesman said, in the quiet tones of someone who has had enough and is going to quit after this and raise chickens somewhere, “Yes, I suppose we must. All we need to do is find some terrorists who are capable of taking an entire nuclear reactor out of its can while it’s running and without anyone noticing. It weighs about a thousand tons and is forty feet high. So they’ll be quite strong terrorists. Perhaps you’d like to ring them up, sir, and ask them questions in that supercilious, accusatory way of yours.” “But you said the power station is still producing electricity,” gasped the interviewer. “It is.” “How can it still be doing that if it hasn’t got any reactors?” You could see the spokesman’s mad grin, even on the radio. You could see his pen, poised over the “Farms for Sale” column in Poultry World. “We don’t know,” he said. “We were hoping you clever buggers at the BBC would have an idea.”

- Good Omens by Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman

[hitchhikersguidequotes]

“It’s very funny the thing about the towel because… I’ll tell you where it came from. I was on a holiday with a bunch of people, and we were on a Villa in Corfu. And every day we would set out to the beach, and just as we were setting out for the beach there would a problem, and the problem would be that Douglas could not find his towel! Where was my towel? Was it under the bed? Was it on the end of bed? Was it in the bed? Was it the bathroom? Was it hanging on the line outside? Was it in the washing …? Was it …? I had no idea, day after day, where the fuck my towel was. And after I while I just began to think this must be symptomatic of somebody who is so sort of deeply chaotic. But I then … I don’t even know whether I even came up with it first, or somebody on the hold of it came with the idea that somebody who was rather more together than I, would be someone who would really know where their towel was.”

— Douglas Adams, Parrots, the Universe and Everything, a speech given at the University of California, 2001.

[ketunhanska]

May 25th

Every year he forgot. Well, no. He never forgot. He just put the memories away, like old silverware that you didn’t want to tarnish. And every year they came back, sharp and sparkling, and stabbed him in the heart. And today, of all days…

Night Watch by Terry Pratchett

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

The wrap around cover of today’s New York Times!

[primevideo]

Got a question about Good Omens? Submit it right here and you may just get an answer during our Answer Time on May 30th at 4pm EST / 1pm PST. 

The weight of the world rests on an angel and demon’s shoulders. Good Omens premieres May 31 only on Amazon Prime Video.  

[inksplit]

[layton-opinions]

Have you tried putting his beard on his head? 🤔

one clark speaks the truth while the other only lies. what question do you ask them?

[iiloffy]

captain monkey

[pratchettgeek]

What he did say was: “Alf, you’d better ring the station manager.” Three very crowded hours went past. They involved quite a lot of phone calls, telexes, and faxes. Twenty-seven people were got out of bed in quick succession and they got another fifty-three out of bed, because if there is one thing a man wants to know when he’s woken up in a panic at 4:00 A.M., it’s that he’s not alone.

- Good Omens by Terry Pratchet & Neil Gaiman