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Punk Hazard children & sanji

People like to say sanji was ooc/rude/selfish in the scene of biscuit room but I'd say that sanji wasn't any of those at all and he was right on point as usual

Now onto the scene, they were all asking around as to what that place was, a nursery? A daycare? A hospital? (See? speculation because the children were healthy and happy playing in a safe environment). Now Let's analyze the situation :

Context for the children : Sanji explicitly says that they didn't know if the kids're there for treatment or not... sanji's logic seemed reasonable to me because a hospital/treatment facility would be a boring place for a child and they'd naturally be homesick and wanna go outside (even if it's dangerous). They didnt know what was going on with the children. They didn’t even know about the existence of Caesar. Hell, they didnt know Caesar was a bad person until Chopper discovered drugs in the candy much much later. Also sanji's reasoning was explicitly stated, and even Nami agreed with him on the very next panel

context for the enemy : They had ZERO context at the time. Even if punk hazard was Sketchy and something WAS going on for sure, they didnt know what type of enemies they'll be facing. They didnt know about Caesar or doflamingo or who is there. Moreover sanji was the main combatant in that group and he had the responsibility of keeping them safe. And with sanji's tendency and foresight to take every possible bad outcome into consideration (that has saved the strawhats' butts several times that i wont elaborate here), it was obvious that he wouldn't take these children with them. Sanji is kind, not dumb.

Risk for the children : Again, when they realized it was a hospital, from their pov, it was a specialized facility for children with a rare disease. And taking 'patients' out of their safe sterilized environment could even kill those patients (they could get infected and/or spread the disease to others), esp in an island like punk hazard where it's like a warzone outside, half of the island is tundra while the other half is covered in LAVA. I'd say NAMI was the irrational one in that situation, because she decided to just barge outside in the snow with a bunch of supposedly sick kids not appropriately dressed or prepared for the weather. If kinemon did not have his dressup ability, the kids would've died from hypothermia. Secondly, The kids were very easy targets (given some of them are LARGE sized and they are literal CHILDREN) and if you consider vergo Monet etc showing up attacking the kids, all of the children would be dead INCLUDING THE STRAWHATS.

The children's condition : the group did break the children out and what happens? When the kids start going through withdrawals, they start attacking them. If Law wasnt present to form alliance and take chopper inside to find the antidotes... the children, nami usopp all would be dead because of nami's rash decision. They didn't even know how to restrain those children and almost died like 20 minutes into rescuing them.

The pirate stigma : even nami says it as she hands over the kids to tashigi (navy). A pirate crew carrying a bunch of children would just bring more risk and problems for both parties involved. (Again, she was impulsive in the biscuit room). They would be kidnappers if shit actually was different.

At the same time sanji is the one who risked his life to save the men and tashigi from the gas. He fought vergo, he saved kinemon, he protected his friends, he was perfect.

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Garp, Fascism, and Parental Failure

Garp is truly one of the most interesting One Piece characters for me because of the extent to which his dogged, relentless devotion to a fascist system–and the supposed "order" it promises to uphold in the face of anarchy or rebellion–perseveres no matter how many times it fails him and his son and his grandsons. He's fully aware of the deep-seated corruption and atrocity, and feels some kind of moral obligation to bend its rules to protect the innocent (as we can see with his attempts to protect Rouge and Ace), but when faced with widespread femicide and infanticide, genocide, slavery and endless examples of egregious cruelty, he is unable to comprehend the notion that the system is indefensible, or that the only moral choice he can possibly make when faced with that level of atrocity is to leave and resist it. His son recognizing the inherent, inexcusable failures of the World Government and its armed enforcers–literally quitting the force to start a revolution– changes nothing. The order to slaughter pregnant people and infants at Baterilla can't convince him otherwise. The countless instances of bribery, the tolerance of atrocity from state-sanctioned privateers, everything about the history of the Valley of the Gods are all things he's aware of, and takes issue with, but never comes to the conclusion that he cannot affect positive change within a system designed for oppression. The public execution of his grandson–a prime example of the marine's fundamentally irrational, arrogant, vindictive cruelty clearly bound to blow up in all of their faces even before their Pyrrhic victory at the summit war–makes him waver, but even when confronted with this obvious, indefensible injustice against a child he raised and rescued by people seeking to murder him on live TV and desecrate his corpse as a show of power, he cannot bring himself to act against it in any meaningful way no matter how much it hurts him to leave his grandson to die. If he can't veto it, he'll stay Vice Admiral and suffer through Ace being sacrificed on the altar of fascist state control, and functionally leave Luffy for dead in the process while he's at it. He fails every single person he wanted to love–Ace, Luffy, and almost certainly Dragon–and allows himself to be reluctantly complicit in countless crimes against humanity again and again and again because he's so deeply steeped in this notion of preservation of order through state control that he convinces himself that even this disgusting, atrocious, fundamentally flawed and untenable excuse for a government is better than abolition, better than revolution, or just the act of expecting accountability or literally anything better from the systems that issue false promises to protect you. Dadan beating the living shit out of him and calling him a failure as a grandfather, as a self proclaimed defender of the people, is one of the most important scenes in the Postwar Arc because a lesser series might frame Garp as a tragic, helpless figure suffering more than anyone else due to conflict of love and duty, but One Piece refuses to whitewash his actions/inaction or allow the grief and suffering caused by systems he's complicit in to take precedence over its real victims: the D brothers.

There's so much I could say about statism and anarchism and the ways people have internalized the supposed necessity of state violence to the extent they can't oppose that violence even when it ruins them or their loved ones, but that horrible indoctrination and its devastating consequences for both him and his family are what makes Garp so fascinating to watch and so thematically/politically important to One Piece as a whole.

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: SK8 the Infinity (Anime) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added Characters: Hasegawa Langa, Kyan Reki, Kikuchi Tadashi, Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Nanjo Kojiro | Joe, Chinen Miya, Shindo Ainosuke | Adam, Kyan Koyomi, Reki's family - Character Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Strippers & Strip Clubs, Alternate Universe - Stripper/Exotic Dancer, Explicit Sexual Content, Aged-Up Character(s), Light Angst, Mutual Pining, Fluff, Shameless Smut, Sexual Tension, Reki Kyan is a stripper, Langa and Reki never met in high school, Endgame Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, other pairings to be decided - Freeform, Confident Kyan Reki, shy langa, good brother Reki, other Reki pairings Summary:

Ever since his parents tragically died in a car accident, Reki has been the sole provider for his three younger sisters. Working as an exotic dancer at the exclusive Eden strip club wasn’t exactly what he planned for his future, but he’s making it work.

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It’s almost Reki’s bday!! How we feeling renga fans? Feel free to share chapter ten of my story 

Chapters: 10/? Fandom: SK8 the Infinity (Anime) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki, Kyan Reki/Original Character(s) (past relationship) Characters: Kyan Reki, Hasegawa Langa, Chinen Miya, Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Nanjo Kojiro | Joe, Hasegawa Langa's Mother, Kyan Reki's Childhood Friend, Kyan Reki's Siblings Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Light Angst, Sexual Content, Pining, Boys In Love, Mutual Pining, Jealous Hasegawa Langa, Gay Panic, Miscommunication, Fluff and Angst, Fluff and Smut, renga, Misunderstandings Summary:

For the first time since his father’s death, Langa is happy. He’s made friends, found a new hobby that he loves, and for the first time ever, found a person who really understands him- his best friend and skating partner- Reki. As Langa is starting to figure out his feelings for Reki are stronger than just friendship, a figure from Reki’s past returns. With Reki’s childhood best friend and original skateboarding partner back in the picture, Langa is starting to feel like he doesn’t fit in anymore.

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Did someone say sk8 the infinity strip club au?

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: SK8 the Infinity (Anime) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki Characters: Hasegawa Langa, Kyan Reki, Kikuchi Tadashi, Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Nanjo Kojiro | Joe, Chinen Miya, Shindo Ainosuke | Adam, Kyan Koyomi, Reki's family - Character Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Strippers & Strip Clubs, Alternate Universe - Stripper/Exotic Dancer, Explicit Sexual Content, Aged-Up Character(s), Light Angst, Mutual Pining, Fluff, Shameless Smut, Sexual Tension, Reki Kyan is a stripper, Langa and Reki never met in high school, Endgame Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, other pairings to be decided - Freeform, Confident Kyan Reki, shy langa Summary:

Ever since his parents tragically died in a car accident, Reki has been the sole provider for his three younger sisters. Working as an exotic dancer at the exclusive Eden strip club wasn’t exactly what he planned for his future, but he’s making it work.

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New chapter of three’s a crowd! 

Chapters: 9/? Fandom: SK8 the Infinity (Anime) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki, Kyan Reki/Original Character(s) (past relationship) Characters: Kyan Reki, Hasegawa Langa, Chinen Miya, Sakurayashiki Kaoru | Cherry Blossom, Nanjo Kojiro | Joe, Hasegawa Langa's Mother, Kyan Reki's Childhood Friend, Kyan Reki's Siblings Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Light Angst, Sexual Content, Pining, Boys In Love, Mutual Pining, Jealous Hasegawa Langa, Gay Panic, Miscommunication, Fluff and Angst, Fluff and Smut, renga, Misunderstandings Summary:

For the first time since his father’s death, Langa is happy. He’s made friends, found a new hobby that he loves, and for the first time ever, found a person who really understands him- his best friend and skating partner- Reki. As Langa is starting to figure out his feelings for Reki are stronger than just friendship, a figure from Reki’s past returns. With Reki’s childhood best friend and original skateboarding partner back in the picture, Langa is starting to feel like he doesn’t fit in anymore.

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New story new story! I’ve had a very hard time writing lately and this is not a continuation of any of my works in progress. But this oneshot did get me out of my writing rut. More things to come  Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: SK8 the Infinity (Anime) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hasegawa Langa/Kyan Reki Characters: Hasegawa Langa, Kyan Reki Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Post-Canon, Fluff and Smut, Shameless Smut, PWP, langa is reki-sexual, Miscommunication, Top Hasegawa Langa/Bottom Kyan Reki, Boys In Love, Loss of Virginity, Reki just wants to get laid, Idiots in Love, Resolved Sexual Tension, Explicit Sexual Content, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Firsts, virginity is a social construct though Summary:

Tears have been shed, feelings have been confessed, and it’s finally happened- Reki and Langa are officially boyfriends. Everything is great. Except for one teeny, tiny issue. Why hasn’t Reki gotten laid yet?

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I’ve been editing my old works. Here’s one of my favorites about firefighter Reki

Langa Hasegawa has many talents, but cooking is not one of them. So it’s not that much of a surprise when the college student almost burns down his kitchen making a frozen lasagna. This unfortunate disaster does lead to one positive outcome. The sexiest red-haired firefighter he's even seen comes to his rescue.

The AU where Reki is a sexy firefighter and Langa is very into that.

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Firefighter Reki is here!! Thank you so much to Talia for creating this amazing piece of art to go with my Renga story Fire Safety. Reki looks too good!! All her art is amazing!

Check out the artist on Twitter @aninfinitelink

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I can’t get over how perfect the finale for Re-Main was! Obviously they never had a serious shot of winning, but sooo many good moments: Amihama outspeeding his brother, Jo making some great saves, Momo getting to play against Minato, Minato faking being mean (and not telling anybody cuz it’s already been established they are all terrible actors lol), Minato being a cute big brother, and of course... that goal!!

 Jo talking to his dad and Minato making the team his phone’s lock screen was just icing on the cake. I’m so happy with the perfect balance of Meanato and old Minato that we ended up with- him laughing with his old teammates again made me tear up a little. Mappa- another season, please!!!

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Yeah, Momo, we get it already. You’ve only said this 100x this season 🙄

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No commentary, just pictures of the team blushing when Minato compliments them

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Okay, yes, I now can see the appeal of Meanato

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I knew something was missing until this episode! We needed the gay, sparkly eye thing!

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Amihama: brother, you want to face me as your rival??!! I’m so happy

Momo: sorry, what’s your name again?

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So it was him??!! The coach was the one who turned him into Meanato

Lol what kind of coach for children tells them not to use teamwork?

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Me at a job interview when they ask me if I have any special skills