#ch 887

[larkreadsop]

*insert that ‘he’s just like me!’ meme here*

Reading this honestly made me really happy because this is something I’ve had to explain a lot being ace and the idea that aesthetic attraction is a legitimate thing that doesn’t...in any way correlate to sexual attraction isn’t something that gets talked about a lot but this explains it well.

[everyjimbei]

Big Mom is right at their heels

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Nooo the fact that the baby can tell who his grandfather is...ahh...

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And this is one of those moments where I can understand the...criticisms I’ve seen and that I alluded to back with Pedro in that it’s very hard to know whether or not to become emotionally invested in a ‘death’ scene when there’s still a very, very good chance Oda will turn around and go ‘just kidding!’ a few chapters later. 

Obviously this goes back to pre-timeskip as well with characters like Pell and Bon-chan but I think it didn’t bother me as much then because we pretty much knew with certainty that nobody was dying outside of flashbacks until Marineford which is why that arc hit so hard at the time, but now it’s kind of like...am I supposed to feel sad? Is it okay to feel sad? Is it fine to see this as a character arc only for the emotional weight to be negated in the future?

So it’s hard because the scene itself is great but knowing the outcome kind of lessens the impact when you never know what to expect.

[larkreadsop]

Sanji no this isn’t the time to be thinking about cooking

[larkreadsop]

...Yeah, Bege takes gratitude about as well as 95% of the characters in this series do

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At this point I’m just amused by Vito being Sanji’s biggest fan and Sanji refusing to acknowledge him at all

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Again this is just for tiny Sanji doing the splits in mid-air and kicking that entire cake onto the ship