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like people forget that weird girls grow into weird adult women. it doesn't just go away. and no you don't perish when you turn 25 or automatically turn into a nonweird wife and mother like some kind of Pokémon end evolution, you end up like me.

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i really love that scene where he’s eating the onigiri so i redrew it LOL

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More shitty sketches but I uh

I really like Marco

(Various sketches of marco as I taught myself how to draw him in my style. Everything WIP as usual)

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Marco is the type of person who wears the most fancy and expensive suits, looking smart and handsome, and then has the silliest, brightest socks under it all. He sits down, and you see a peek of neon colours or pineapple print.

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op / inktober day 5: map

happy birthday, marco!

im almost tempted to go back to deleter 1 and markers just so i have control over the greys tbh. i of course, forget to scan this version first again

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Love bite 😘🐈🐱

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Lost some precious honk-shoo hours for this, but finally finished cleaning up the "Vash gets malewifed" meme.

Also threw in the other 2 animatics to have em on the art blog.

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Saira Vargas  -  https://www.instagram.com/sairasays/?hl=es  -  https://arealtrashact.tumblr.com  -  https://sairavargasart.carbonmade.com  -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/saira-vargas-12b58916b  -  https://twitter.com/arealtrashact?lang=es

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They really could have..!!! Bulma has ALWAYS given #BadBitchNamedTasha vibes

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By Ryotaru Hino

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I thought I was the only one who did this..! 😳🫣

sometimes i wanna post my selfship playlist but my music taste is so odd

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utilising the gift of imagination to hallucinate moments of tenderness between fictional people

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One Piece/Ranma - Amazons

So one huge Ranma Reference/inspiration that is stupidly obvious that i never really thought about despite having read both one piece and Ranma for close on 20 years now, is how blatant Oda was about taking inspiration from Rumiko's "chinese amazons" for the Kuja.

Though the actual japanese wording for the group isnt directly amazons(instead basically using their homeland of Joketsuzoku as the denominator of their ethnicity as opposed to the english official translation) in every other way they are stupidly similar, down to the meta beats.

Both are heavily Chinese inspired societies of warrior women, with similar architecture who's only settlement is a mountain town, who famously value strength above anything else.

Even our first main look into their cultures both feature competitive matches between amazons.

Both luffy and Ranma had a seemingly inconsequential match on these very same introductionary arena's that both ended up being some of the most important fights of their entire lives(This setting up everything Ranma ever learned from cologne, and for luffy this was the beginning of him winning hancocks heart and everything that came from that) where both wowed the onlooking amazons with their massive power, but also lead to both of them winning the heart of one of the amazons there in the long run(though for somewhat different reasons).

Also, Oda famusly made Hancock as "perfect" a romantic partner for luffy as he possibly could have in order to have some fun with parodying the tropes regarding love stories, with even her name Hancock being a reference to one of the big early names of rubber during the victorian age... but one aspect that was dropped for the final product was that Hancock was originally supposed to have purple hair... An aspect she would have shared with Shampoo, though her's is a bit different in shade.

the most important dynamic within both amazon cultures as related to the actual plot is between a younger, more contemporary amazons(Hancock and Shampoo), and their wiser older mentor who used to be incredibly beautiful but who's looks withered away with age.

For bonus points, both are famous for carrying around a staff in their old age.

The twist of course is that Cologne and Shampoo's relationship is defined by their shared blood and with the older woman loving shampoo dearly and generally doing everything in her power to help her achieve her dreams, while Gloriosa and Hancock do not share blood and have a much more tumoltous relationship though they still care about each other.

Furthering their meta connection, Both people also are essential for the story through introducing more mystical techniques into the story, With Ranma being taught several of Cologne's techniques, most famously his trademark hiryu shoten ha, while in One Piece, though they didnt introduce it, it was here where through the kuja we finally got a real introduction to the 3 colors of haki that would dominate the second half of the series.

Honestly im baffled i never really realized how much ranma influenced One Piece before, and how Oda managed to still make it his own while clearly taking inspiration from one of the big series of his childhood that wasn't dragon ball.

Also given how Oda was one of the first(and by far the biggest author) to just blatantly steal Ryoga's "Strong Guy with terrible direction sense" schtick with Zoro, i honestly dont get how i never really realized how much Ranma influenced One Piece before.

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manga - 1998 - 2023

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in loving memory of my favorite shirt

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