#raven's ranting

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Sighs deeply. Ok who wants to join my calming circle?

Read this and then take a deep breath. (SBS/Twitter post with Kid Pirates backstory, contains spoilers)

OP/Kid Pirate spoilers and general word vomiting below - DNI if you don't want to be spoilt. TLDR second to last paragraph.

While I'm happy we finally got SOMETHING - I'm mad af that it came as an afterthought of copy/pasted story board notes instead of being adapted into the manga. IDK if that means it'll never happen or what but learning about how the Kid Pirates (pre-pirate crew and literally just being in different gangs) literally toppled a corrupt ruling gang and more or less liberated their island (while Kid was prob in his mid-teens no less?!?!!!) is so fucking cool!

Luffy didn't liberate his first town until he was 17 and Kid already had his infamous pirate reputation by 19, so he could have been anywhere between 14-18 by the time he led a coup on a whole ass island?!!?! (- pure speculation on the age he did it.) Get FUCKED God of Liberation Nika LMAO. Angry mans is literally just Luffy but bigger (hotter), scarier, and more vindictive.

I wonder how much of the coup fall out was attributed to them. Like OFC they took down the ruling gang leaders of the island but how many people died in the fallout(pre and post) that were prob killed by the gang leaders/gang subordinates or w/e that got pinned on Kid and his crew instead and then the WG just ran with it? Would explain their unusually high civilian count.

I can see the headlines now: rookie crew Kid Pirates murder entire island as they took off on their maiden voyage, and then the Kid Pirates were like yeah sure we're pirates now, lets be BLOOD THIRSTY AND SAVAGE PIRATES everyone thinks we are anyways.

<takes breath> Moving on.

Now...don't get me wrong, I don't HATE the idea that Kid's love interest died and naming his ship in their honor...but THAT'S the straw that broke the camel's back for him to A) build alliances with other gang leaders and B) DO A coup d'etat? That's...really boring, especially if Oda doesn't elaborate or give us ANY more background on them or even any flashbacks of their pasts.

How Kid recruited the others for the coup d'etat after his girlfriend was murdered.

So um yeah. TLDR Kid's love interest was murdered and he went OFF, liberated his island from a corrupt gang family with his buddies and THEN made his crew.

Before I end my unhinged rantings, I would like to say: I FEEL SO VALIDATED in my OC fanfics where I write Kid as a closeted romantic who would do ANYTHING to keep his love interest safe and NOW WE KNOW WHY hehehehehehehehehheheheheheh ok bye.

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Instead of doing my Kinktober updates I played with Procreate <3 Getting back into drawing so I can finally bring my OCs to life. Once I get used to this app, its over for you putas

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NO BUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS NEW CHAPTER THOUGH

OP spoilers DNI below if you don't want to be spoilt

If the giants took the books of Ohara to Elbaf, that means we HAVE to be going to Elbaf next.

"The group that brought the books to Elbaf was lead by someone covered in bandages," - it's either Saul, Clover or Olvia.

THAT PERSON HAS TO BE THE MAN MARKED BY FLAMES AND I 'M ALMOST CERTAIN ITS GONNA BE SAUL - and so maybe we're getting Kid Pirates and Straw Hat pirate shenanigans soon?!??!?! PLEASE

If Dragon didn't create his army until after the destruction of Ohara, how did he know Clover and how did he even get there? I'm starting to think maybe Dragon was in the Marines just like Garp wanted his son/grandson to be, but Dragon could not DEAL with the WG being what they are and this was the final straw that made him DEFECT. With all his knowledge of the WG/Marines and now apparently Ohara? No wonder he's considered the biggest threat.

Also if Dragon WAS in the Marines - and at a high rank if he could just side up into Ohara post buster call WITH VEGAPUNK - maybe Dragon has a devil fruit? Considering that most top ranking Marines have DF power except Garp/Tsuru? IDK IDK but willing to accept it.

Vegapunk is definitely dying though I think.

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No thoughts just this gif on replay in my brain

Love you bb😘😘

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OP Event idea and would like some input

Would people be more interested in a "blind date event" where readers can request to be set up on a blind date with their blorbo of choice in a modern au setting (I play the role of the matchmaker like in Mulan, sass included for free) -

OR

- a "one kiss is all it takes" event where reader can request a perfect scenario where their blorbo of choice falls in love after one kiss?

Please comment or send me your thoughts - I am already making the banner for it :) Looking to keep cap it at 10 requests, one blorbo per request. In a perfect world I don't get repeat requests

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Kinktober Update

I know I said I don't post on Sundays but I felt bad for not doing all my updates so enjoy the BDSM Bondage HC that went up earlier.

Decided that I was a little burnt out on writing so much smut in such little time and the last updates weren't tiles that were requested so I'm giving myself permission to simply not do them.

I will post the last two prompts on Monday the 31st: they'll be a soft scenario with Kid and the final Halloween Party story.

Thanks for all the support - this was a fun activity and a delicate reminder on why I hate giving myself deadlines. I will continue posting my own fic story updates and other art I make, along with any other shorts or some seasonal stories in the future. Writing requests are still open and my Ko-fi account is nearly set up :)

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Fanfiction Writing

You ever get so far ahead of your fic that you create an entire ass world and home for your characters? Like beyond the scope of what you've written and posted.......

....anyways I gave Kid like 13 children bye have a nice day!

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God bless Trulieve for being such a messy bitch

The webpage works about half the time but today, on a sale day, I made an order and they sent me the receipt - my order total is $0 because the system somehow priced each item at $0....

So like my weed is free today right?