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happiest belated birthday to my sunshine boy luffy

luffy IS selfish. i need to correct myself. he does everything simply because he wants to and he doesn’t care how big of a mess he makes to get his way. but his way is always freedom and kindness and food for the hungry and water in parched lands and happiness for everyone around him. his selfishness is so inherently selfless that it feels wrong to call him selfish but he is undeniably selfish. it just so happens that he’s kind, too.

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your post was put onto twitter!

https://x.com/kiyodia/status/1919058316262523244?s=46

ahh that’s so cool 🥹 thank you for letting me know!

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finished my @sanjiartcollab piece! thank you for hosting!

i liked these too

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she has an iron grip on their finances

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me pretending my enormous feelings arent crushing me to death and carrying out routine tasks that are good for my health and longevity

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I gotta say I'm obsessed with what Luffy does to the typical "sunshine" character trope, in that he's an exception to the usual portrayal but perhaps the most true to it of anyone. He's not "sunshine" as in pure niceness and sweetness and innocence. He's sunshine as in The Sun.

He's joy and light and warmth, illuminating all the beauty of the world, but he's also powerful enough to kill and blind and burn. He's an everyday annoyance. He's the strongest force of nature that exists. His happiness shines bright for miles. So does his rage. You could look at him wrong and be screwed up for life. You never want to live without him.

I can't get over this.

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OMG this is lovely and exactly what played through my head as i wrote this 🥹💛 thank you

luffy IS selfish. i need to correct myself. he does everything simply because he wants to and he doesn’t care how big of a mess he makes to get his way. but his way is always freedom and kindness and food for the hungry and water in parched lands and happiness for everyone around him. his selfishness is so inherently selfless that it feels wrong to call him selfish but he is undeniably selfish. it just so happens that he’s kind, too.

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foggy hillside. having fun with a whole bunch of textures today.

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Carl Frederik Sørensen (Danish, 1818–1879), "Danish Ships in Rough Seas" (details), 1877

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It’s getting really scary in Lebanon. There is no safe place. They’re saying they want to make Lebanon worse than Gaza. I’ve already lost a handful of family, I am begging you to talk about Lebanon. I am begging you. You can’t sleep, you can’t eat, you can barely drink water if you find an open store. Please, speak up. Please, give Lebanon importance too. We were at rallies for Gaza everyday for month. We were donating all we had to them, I’ve been trying to help for as long as I can. Please.

There's no way that would be adequate enough to convey how tragic this is.

Israeli officials saying in 2023 that they plan to "erase Gaza" are the same lunatics who in 2024 are saying "Lebanon will not exist."

Every day it's more evident that Israel is deploying the same strategy of collective punishment in both Gaza and Lebanon; from evacuation orders and the displacement of over 1.2 million Lebanese people, to the targeting of healthcare workers and facilities.

Just like in Gaza, entire families in Lebanon are being annihilated, villages decimated, and children remain a target of Israel's violence with over 200 children killed in Lebanon just in the past two months.

The similarities are chilling and the reality is undeniably horrific. And just like with Gaza, this is a reminder to all, myself included, to always include all fronts of Israel's violence in our advocacy.

What's happening in Lebanon today is a clear extension of Israel's settler colonial violence and expansionist mindset that started in Palestine and seeped into Lebanon, and who knows where to next if Israel isn't held accountable for its crimes and atrocities.

I pray for your safety 🤍

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LOOK WHAT MY BF GOT ME 😭😭😭😭😭💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛 gear five luffy in a KITTY PONCHO??? god i fucking LOVE the one piece store

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hey y’all. my boyfriend’s sister’s cat needs a lifesaving surgery, but it’s $5,000 and they can’t afford it. if you could donate id be eternally grateful!! if not, please reblog and share this post 🥲 thank you

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literally will never get over that first moment of luffy looking at nami going insane with grief over the loss of any chance of saving her people. nami just looking at luffy and saying “save me.” two words is all it took and she has another family now. i love them i love them i love them

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literally will never get over that first moment of luffy looking at nami going insane with grief over the loss of any chance of saving her people. nami just looking at luffy and saying “save me.” two words is all it took and she has another family now. i love them i love them i love them

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life update i’m in japan visiting my bf !! i’m in the countryside and it’s gorgeous

i forgot to update on this earlier but i will Not be going to japan this fall lol but i might go this winter to visit my bf

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i love when tropes subvert expectations because they could have made the pirate king's son some douchebag antagonist or an obstacle to luffy's dream but instead we were given an older brother with so much love it still looms large even two years after his death. ace was born into a world that scorned him for existing, and still he found an endless reserve of unconditional love for luffy, enough for him to put his anger aside and raise this scruffy boy on his own. his father being the pirate king has been a thorn in his side for as long as he's been alive, yet he didn't hate luffy for making it his goal; instead, he went around showing off luffy's wanted poster and telling anyone who crossed his path that his little brother was going to become the king of the pirates.

and then he died with the sole regret of not being able to see luffy reach his goal, but he died happy to know that he was loved; that even if it changed nothing and didn't save him it was there. he got to die in the arms of the person who loved him the most, got to spend his final breaths thanking him for all the love they shared in the short time they were given together, and i think it's just so incredibly sweet and heartbreaking that of all the paths ace's character could have gone down, they chose one that had love at the center of it all.

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luffy said he doesn’t want to be a hero, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be kind