#Homing

[shimamitsu]

eunyung baek

[asitrita]

Thoughts on the Donquixote's crucifixion.

Since today is Good Friday I felt like sharing this piece of interpretation of Donquixote family's "crucifixion". Throughout the series and Doflamingo's life I think we can see some symbolism, paralelism, or just vague allusions and hints to his nature being similar to that of the Antichrist (opposite of Christ) or the idea of Doflamingo as Lucifer or a fallen angel (we see something akin to The Last Supper with his "family", including his own personal "Judas" sitting at his left; his ideology of being the rightful king to rule the world, yet not being willing to sacrifiece himself for anyone, but actually expecting everybody else to sacrifice themselves for him; his agent-of-chaos personality; the entire idea that he is almost a devine creature that fell from Heaven to Hell, stripped of his rightful power, status, and legitimate possition above humans, betrayed by his own family and blood; the nickname "Heavenly Demon", etc.). However, I believe the moment in his life he comes to incarnate all these topics comes just after his and his family's crucifixion, or just right after the very moment he lashes out against the rabbid mob awakening and loosing his haki. Just seconds before we have this image:

Here we have Homing, whom we know is a good man, in the middle, at the centre of the scene. Rocinante is to his right hand side, and Doflamingo is to his left. As you might know, Jesus Christ was crucified together with two more people, often refered to as the good thief (traditionally named Dimas/Dismas), and the bad thief (traditionally named Gestas). The good thief was crucified at the right hand side of Jesus, while the bad thief was cricified at his left. Maybe I am looking to much into it, and I'm pretty sure someone else must have already realised this, but I can't help to notice the paralelisms and similarities. In this scene, while all Homing is concerened with is the safety of his children and doesn't mind begging and humiliating himself to try to get the mob to free them, to the point he asks the enraged mob to forgive his children, for they were only little kids, Doflamingo's anger gets the best of him and he lashes out at the crowd, not asking nor begging them to put him down, but threatening to kill them all for their actions, all while blaming his father for all his surffering and his family tragic fate. No forgiveness, no acceptance, but defiance and a promise of vicious and bloody revenge for his father and the craze mob's wrong-doings. Homing was willing to take in all the hate, die for the sins his kind had committed over the centuries, if only to appease the mob and get them to spare his children. He was willing to die for them (and he eventually did, though not in the best way possible, tbh), he was a good person and this scene perfectly shows that, despite his naiveté and the tragic and dire consequences of his actions, he acted out of the goodness of his heart. Doflamingo would not even lower himself to the point of asking for mercy, not before humans he believed were below him. We all know how the story goes, how Doflamingo and Rocinante turned out to be complete different people, with the whole good vs evil motive they have going on. Again, I'm probably digging too much into it, but I just like the Rosi/Dismas, Doffy/Gestas and Homing/Christ paralelism. More so considering how Homing will eventually willingly die for his kids' future, which sounds kinda biblical given we are all God's sons and daughters, and he (Jesus, God's son, God himself) died for us (even if in Homing's case he did die for nothing, as Doffy will not be accepted back among his kind); and how, just after Homing's (Jesus) death, it will be Doffy who becomes, in a way, the symbol of the fallen angel, of the gone-wrong-Jesus, of the anti-Christ, almost Satan himself (ruling the underworld, as his father's heresy took the throne above away from him). He replaces his father as the semi-Biblical almost Christ-like figure, but in a reversed, twisted and sick way.

Crucifixion by Giovanni Donato

[quirkwizard]

What do you think Barrier and Homing would make?

New Quirk Name: Cover Fire OR Hard Target

This Emitter type Quirk allows the user to make a yellow barrier half the user's size around their hand. This barrier attracts and captures any projectiles that travel near it. The user can then fire any projectiles they gather back out. This is done by the user looking through the shield and reversing the effect, instead pushing the projectiles outwards at the other targets up to medium ranges. This can work with the projectiles of the user as well, like throwing a rock only for it to go into the shield. This gives the user a good mix of options, able to both protect themselves from attacks while also sending them right back at their foes. They can block enemy attacks, redirect their allies' attacks, provide covering fire, send items out to people, or just do cool trick shots. Though the Quirk only works with projectiles, leaving the user open to other kinds of attacks. The user will need to move the shield to properly pull in projectiles and to keep it from accidentally affecting allies.

[bottlepiecemuses]

Donquixotes Tend To Have A Habit Of Being Crucified

Seriously, Mjosgard shared the fate of his relatives, especially Homing where he dies because he decided it was better to be human rather than a pure privileged scumbag. All in all the world nobles do what they can to cross out anyone who doesn’t adhere to being a pos. 

[the-bejeesus]

New video of mine dropped yesterday btw

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Homing ship", photographed by André Kertész, 1944

American vintage postcard

[theriverbeyond]

i must not get takeout. takeout is the wallet-killer. takeout is the little-death that brings total obliteration. i will face the kitchen, fridge, and pantry. i will make choices about what to cook and then execute them. when hunger is gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.

[slavicafire]

sobbing into my plate after overhearing a conversation between a mom and her tiny daughter in this shopping centre food court

[blazeball]

"okay kid, i have a doctors appointment, you can handle this big fuckoff bus, i believe in you, keys are in the ignition, this thing DOES NOT HAVE INSURANCE so DON'T GET PULLED OVER, have fun"

[sabertoothwalrus]

girldad mode activate

[bakedbeanchan]

random fire nation diplomat #492 will never understand the complex and fucked up relationship between the water siblings like I do 🙄

[shimamitsu]

[aromanticduck]

Please reblog if you can, I'd like to get as many different results as possible!

[quirkwizard]

What are some eccentric quirks you could imagine a social media influencer "showing off" for likes and follows? Gotta imagine some influencers in the world BNHA do stuff like that, kinda like how rich kids in our world show off their wealth, but replacing wealth with quirks.

Oh, I absolutely think that would be a thing. And while I think you could apply pretty much any flashy Quirk to this idea, like one where people ask Bakugou to blow up stuff with his power, I decided to go with the ones I thought the format the best.

-Creation: Imagine people giving you donations and asking you to make stuff. All kinds of weird, custom-made items just to see if you could do it. Heck, people could pay extra for merchandise literally made by you.

-Homing: Considering how many people have and still do get attention with trick shot videos and other content like it, I can imagine that a Quirk basically designed to do that would be great for getting attention.

-High Spec: Obviously, since the user could learn and understand pretty much anything, you could show off whatever profession or skill you want in order to gain attention. It might be a waste of your vast intellect, but hey, it still works.

-Mimicry: You could possess whatever you want as long as it's smaller than a fridge. Imagine all the weird tricks and perspectives you could make when you could move anything like your own body. You could make live content as your own mascot character.

-Manifest: Besides showing off all the weird forms and combinations you could make, there would be great for challenges. Imagine trying to speed run where people pay you to eat and change yourself. Good luck beating the game with octopus hands.

-Overclock: If you just want to show off, there are a lot of ways you could show off with this. Think something like making a commission piece in a matter of seconds, filming yourself doing things with a high-speed camera, or pranks where you set up and pull everything off in seconds.

-Flight: This would be like a middle ground between daily vlogs and all of that footage of drones flying around. I'm sure a lot of people would tune in for those kinds of shots and tricks. And with the barrier, you don't have to worry about dropping your camera off.

-Warp Gate: Mostly useful for more travel- or exploration-focused influencers, basically traveling wherever they want without any real limits or budgetary restrictions for whatever shoot location they want. It's not like they respect private property anyway.

-Poltergeist: Not only could you pull a Chronicle and get a camera angle wherever you want, there are just so many cool things you could do with telekinesis. The most obvious one here is faking those ghosts in the totally haunted place you're in.

-Glamour: This would easily be the best one. You could basically add whatever you want to your videos, and it would look like the real deal. Forget spending hours editing or messing with filters, just wave your hands, and like that, you can show off whatever you want on screen.

[aximili]

tbh the fact that cats purr was an unnecessary bonus we don't always acknowledge. they're already cute and baby and little and soft and make silly noises and do funny shit. but they also like to cuddle and make a soothing pleasant noise to indicate they are happy when they cuddle you? huge. huge for the human race.

[the-bejeesus]

I was re-reading the Dressrosa arc and something I noticed is that the flashback implies that it’s Doffy’s fault the villagers found out they were former Celestial Dragons. This struck me as odd, I remembered it being Homing’s fault.

And indeed, in the anime, there’s an additional filler scene where Homing is purchasing food from the local market, and in a moment of idiotic honesty, reveals he’s a Celestial Dragon.

This is such a terrible change on the anime’s part. Yes, it makes Doffy more justified in hating Homing, all of their suffering is truly Homing’s to blame. He done goofed. But it makes Homing much less of a respectable character. There’s a certain point where naivety becomes stupidity, and this action crosses that point. There’s also the interesting aspect that Doflamingo holds so much anger towards his father, when in reality he is ignorant to the fact his selfishness brought his own downfall.

What makes this dumber to boot is that in the manga, Homing took preventative measures to avoid people that might have been wronged by Celestial Dragons. He specifically picked a place that’s not affiliated with the World Government. Revealing to the civilians that he is a Celestial Dragons completely contradictions this precaution.

His mistake was that, while he was avoiding people being actively wronged by Celestial Dragons, people that had been wronged by Dragons in the past would have likely fled to a place like this. After 800 years of slavery and torment, no corner of the world is unchecked.