#hazel.misc

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a message from our fierce, bizarre, beautiful boy: "hey- zoro nation: uh, I dunno... happy holidays er, ok whatever"

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I'm just thinking back on sabo's dynamic with luffy on dressrosa, and gonna chat about it, so: surprised. a little disturbed. a little angry. those were my feelings viewing what seemed to be sabo's relatively mild response to reuniting with his baby brother- who believed him dead. this was truth for luffy- internalized, total, final and horrid. I think I also subconsciously contrasted that with sabo's experience reading about ace- his memories flooding his consciousness, his shaking hands holding the newspaper... his total paralysis, the breaking of his world. I'm super late to the interpretation party (possibly the wrong interpretation party), but now wonder whether his response was a conscious, painful choice: had he explained to luffy the visceral moment he'd regained his memory, had he allowed his love, joy and grief to roll, he'd've drowned luffy in it all (and himself), who was already experiencing his own torrential flood of feelings as he worked to reconcile the reality of sabo's death with the living reality standing before him. sabo would've traumatized him all over again and in the midst of a high-stakes competition/large battle (the only little wrench in this is that sabo was also likely motivated by his need for luffy to win in order to possess ace's devil fruit-I can't afford to consider it). So I think maybe the revolutionary's posture was to lovingly, purposefully spare his weeping, overwhelmed little brother from coming completely undone

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this is a minor bit of dialogue and not a big insightful deal, but it speaks a tiny bit to zoro's character: he explicitly (and a little frantically, he was freezing) made certain these men were enemies before clobbering anyone or taking anything.

It seems as though he instigated conflict, but he knew after usopp's confirmation that a fight against the full group was inevitable (and I think that's important). and oh to be warm -> the most adorable, slightly looney, joy-filled expression. anyway usopp, yeah he is nuts. now go ahead zoro, go kick some wapol minion ass real quick

[kinda looks like he has untamed-enma-arm in this panel]

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our sweet, idealistic chopper thought these two should meet and share perspectives on medical procedures and diagnoses

"most passive-aggressive but also openly hostile event in one piece history"

that's the name of the chapter

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re-watched some of my favorite sukehiro episodes with his zoro-va-big-boy-gorgeous self

you miss him don't you

but I miss him more than you do

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asahi and his bazooka canon rpg thing hope you kill it today he told me so after he spiked the hell out of this ball

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I had to smush the whole crew together using starting orders because every single expression makes me so damn happy... no matter how minor the character or whether they're considered a "monster", all haikyuu starters are either bizarre strong-men, closet clowns, quiet weirdos or loud ass freak shows, led by ringmasters kōtarō, tendō and tōru- the greatest showmen on earth- and I love these boys so much

I went to a circus event on Saturday; that's the origin of this irrelevant metaphor, but still

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spoilers

the banners. THE BANNERS -> chills. coolest, most striking added touch- like little snapshot reminders of every arc. this manga -> solid, endearing goodness (+ humor's off the charts)