#and i love watching them learn and develop

[kotonoba]

Spicy Joke with a Stoic Man

Summary: You, the reader, decide it was time to show Zoro and Perona that there is a more human side to your boyfriend, Dracule Mihawk's stoic demeanor by cracking a joke with him in their presence. Only, it backfires, not on you, but on them.

a/n: Can you believe it? I finish my nursing semester & decide that I should go & reread One Piece only to get hooked on more characters. Now, I end up writing about them. & you know what. Of course the first one HAD to be Mihawk. Life's hard, & I love that about it.

Warnings: suggestive themes, female reader, suggestive/mature joke, slightly OOC because I haven't fully grasped Mihawk's personality (but I love him so bad, so do you blame me?)

Inspo. (I'll link it when I find it)

Posted on AO3

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For a man of his caliber, loneliness is to be expected. He has stated many times that he does not trust anyone, and he finds it difficult to trust people. First, a Marine Hunter who does mercenary-like jobs, then crowned as the World’s Strongest Swordsman, and finally given the title of one of the Seven Warlords of the Seas. With the abolishment of the Warlords system, the Marines went after him, though it didn’t matter to him, what mattered was you.

You latched onto him relatively early on, a victim of the corruption of the World Government that left you with nothing but a boat of knowledge on weaponsmithing and a variety of survival skills. You were a bother to him initially, as you had washed ashore on Kuraigana after one of his outings. He learned to tolerate you after finding out you would rather stay out of sight and out of mind. Your joys in life were unusual, as you enjoyed creating and admiring strange weapons, while also reading. Most of the time, he doesn't see you, when he does, you're in your world, reading.

He grew accustomed to your presence, longing to see you after a long day, and he developed romantic feelings for you. You didn't deny him; instead, you accepted his cold, stoic exterior, fully aware that he was a man of few words, with deliberate strikes, much like a blade being wielded. You were just a civilian with a mind full of wonders, you watched him train every day, picking up on his techniques significantly faster than the Humandrills that resided on the islands did. You piqued his interest; he often suggested teaching you how to wield a sword, but, without an excuse, you always denied. 

Today was no different. Perona, with her new boy toy, was nowhere to be seen. “You have a great memory and flawless stance,” you looked up from your position on the floor, admiring some steel and alloy you found on the island. 

“I don't fight, I wouldn't have a stance,” you responded dryly.

“When you hold a sword, testing the weight with each stance, it is simi– it is exactly my training stance. You cannot say you don’t have a stance,” Mihawk pointed out. Despite the tension and how distant it seemed, this type of bickering was normal and more comfortable for your lover, so you decided to roll with it. He was more gentle and softer when the two of you were alone, knowing no one would burst through the door. You weren’t opposed to it; you liked having a side where only you could see in private. 

“I have to take into consideration what people would feel, why wouldn’t I copy the best example given to me by my boyfriend?” You knew that pointing out his relation to you did something for him, as it got him speechless immediately. You got up from your position, placing the steel and alloy on the table in front of Mihawk. Gently, you pried away the newspaper in his hand, you eyed the door a little before sneaking a quick peck to his lips. He chased your lips a little, and you gave in willingly, which earned a hum from him.

“Wow, rare to see him so… human,” Zoro teased. You turned to face him, covered in wounds and scratches, followed by Perona, who was just bickering at him for getting lost in the first place. 

“He’s plenty human,” you defended, at least he’s plenty human to you, and that’s all Mihawk cared about. During this whole time, he only watched the conversation unfold; he didn’t bother adding to it. Watching the person he loves defend him was a different kind of happiness he enjoyed silently. “My love,” Mihawk’s amber eyes turned to face towards yours, a malicious grin painted on your features. 

“Oh no, what is it?” That grin, Mihawk knew better than to trust it. 

“I’m envious,” you sighed dramatically, leaning against him, glancing at his apprentice from your position.

“Envious of what?” He followed your eyes to glance at his apprentice, who seemed to have caught on to your antics and had gotten progressively more concerned about what was to come from your mouth. 

You cupped your hand on his face gently, turning his attention back to you. A low, curious rumble resonated in his chest. “Your beard, you know why?” You were met with silence before Mihawk shook his head, “because your beard is on your face, and I’m not.” You smiled innocently, watching the tips of Mihawk’s ears burn red. 

Mihawk groans, rubbing his temple in a circular motion. Perona exploded in laughter, watching the two swordsmen’s reaction. The world’s greatest was in turmoil, wondering how he should respond, while his apprentice seemed dumbfounded by his master’s response. “Ten laps. Ten laps around the island, Zoro,” Mihawk glared, his arm finding its way around your waist, pulling you closer to him, “go with him, Perona, in case he gets lost, I need to have a ‘talk’ with my weaponsmith.” 

You watched the two who had just returned angrily storm back out of the mansion. You turned to face your boyfriend, who was slowly calming down from your joke prior, “Isn’t ten laps a little much?” 

“It is not enough for what I am about to do to you.”

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Feel free to request something, if I'm not comfortable writing, I'll tell you while I work on what I can & can't really do at a later date. I tried my best not to use y/n because I understand it irks some people, if it feels weird to you, do tell me.

[wannabedragon-yep-lumenemporium]

Cryo Mort a Rickver analysis!!

Okay my first post-episode reaction was:

Because I'm a big baby with an acoustic brain and my expectations were too defined in a precise shape to feel fulfilled by something actually wrote by different ppl then myself, so I just re-watched the episode/ re elaborated it, and... no, I actually liked it, a lot, and it wasn't even that far from what I expected...💀so... idk, it's 5 am 💀 I think the lesson here it's that we never should take things for granite 🗿(this emoji is faulty btw, it doesn't have reversed butt)

Aaaaanyway let's go as usual with:

my take in general

episode's themes I noticed

sus/interesting details

_________My take (I'm part of the R&M cult, so, impartiality)________

First of all, I laughed sooo hard for the entire episode, it was silly silly for real.

Visually, it was absolutely S T U N N I N G.

You can definitely see that some scenes have more CGI in them (look at these rolling cubes, look how smoothly they roll, just ✋😞👌)

Also, the prospective now shifts more often, offering different sides of the character design, especially with Morty.

Speaking of which, Morty character development was kinda cool and unexpected: he seems more himself now, and he truly showed some new grit this episode:

"I draw the line at..." it's not something that I would ever expected to hear from our Morty

I absolutely love how much of a natural leader every version of Morty actually is thanks to his critical sense.

This time we see him becoming an anti-capitalist through and through, growing to hate a system of disparities and abuse, eventually understanding that he couldn't save people from themselves, but only blow up the system from its roots, hoping that the survivors would chose wisely what to do with their new lives.

the space fight scene it's an interesting parallelism to the Sun King episode, where people fall completely prey of their paranoia and nonsensical drives, starting to kill each other without a real reason.

Also, if this episode's Morty's pseudo president arc wasn't enough, there's another Citadel parallelism here: no matter how you chose to break the system, those who refuses to change will eventually die in any case, you cannot save them.

Because the problem with revolutions is that they are nothing more than mob justice: there is no time to change, to develop a widespread, decent level of mental hygiene, to form and consolidate new ideas, to shifts people opinions towards something more constructive, there is no room for actually planning a new way to live, there is just violence. As history shown us with French Revolution, if people aren't ready for a consistent change, once a status quo is deposed, another ruling class of abusers will promptly rise at expense of the mob.

These themes are deep considerations about our current world wide situation, and also speaks volumes about E.Morty choices. I am more and more convinced that he initially planned to actually change the Citadel, before realizing it was impossible to save people from themselves, just like Morty is slowly realizing, season after season, that sometimes be kind and empathetic isn't enough for those who never learned how to love, how to be happy along with other people.

"Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter when the promise of a brave new world unfurled beneath a clear blue sky?"

The majority of people from the anti-social society we have, knows perfectly how to hate and destroy, but they don't know how to build and maintain. "Starting anew" to them means doing it at expense of others, to grab everything they can, while they can, in the attempt to fill their inner void, to shuts their fears, to feel in control of the entire world.

The Citadel story line parallelisms continue through seasons, as a cautionary tale, and even after the Citadel got destroyed, some of the remaining survivors tried to repeat the cycle again, killing each others out of greed.

We have the ex-mutated Mortys that Rick saved, and the portal-travellers reset survivors. Think abt it: in both cases they had an imaginable luck to survive, (surviving to the Citadel collapse/portal mutations and to the forced teleportation onto the citadel wreckage) they had the incredible chance to start anew: and what do they do? The ex- mutated Mortys start to cannibalize other Mortys, eventually auto killing each others, and the seconds ultimately die because of greed (so basically the same, but metaphorically).

Mortys who actually chose to start a new life, are able to do that after a long time spent building and maturing, processing what they experienced, slowly leaving the citadel life style behind, finally ending the death cycle: they stop looking for revenge, they stop looking for goals that belonged to their past, they stop looking for friendships forced by common misery, they leave all behind and start anew, alone but not lonely, maybe for the first time in their entire life.

Maybe this time Morty really is closer to understand Evil morty reasons.

Totally E.Morty stance, look at those fists, lol 💀

"Cry me a river" takes an interesting meaning under the post-episode light, bcs it's linked to several key moments of the episode: Jimmy's apologies seems to be pretty empty, as much as his parents' apologies; the priest unsaying his lack of faith just bcs he's facing death, even the Takeys and the Makeys are just kept in line by the chips, not by felt empathy or ideals of brotherhood and equality: everyone here is "crying a river", in a bad way, little or nothing will actually change after these events. Instead of accepting and justifying Rick's constant betrayals as he did in s 5, this time, Morty reacts to Rick's abuse: when Rick abandons him in huge troubles just bcs of one of his own whims about randoms drugs/materials, Morty beats the sh*t out of him 💀 he doesn't hesitate to go against Rick's will and he even exposes him at some risk in order to resolve the issues that Rick himself caused; so yeah, it's the same theme from "Borrowed Time", but with a big twist, since this time Morty behaves as someone who finally got the lyrics 💀 Rick seems to have Morty's same bitter feelings, but they're about his family of origin instead. For the first time we really see how much of an open wound this still is to him, after all this time... He doesn't feel like they were his real family at all, he feels betrayed and abandoned from the people who were supposed to care about him, those people who "were the sun" to him... I'mma cry

We finally start to dig into Rick's childhood, which, realistically speaking, is what made Rick as he is. Personality disorders such as narcissism, develops during childhood, the period when we are most vulnerable and we still lack of all those tools that allow us to process trauma in a healthy way; that's why you cannot develop narcissim or bpd just like that during your thirties, for example, and that's why it's so hard to treat personality disorders, because your brain literally formed itself around the maladaptive structure that allowed you to survive. So, Rick digging into his unresolved childhood trauma? yeah, I think we 're gonna eventually see that.

This Morty still doesn't understand what it means to realize that your family will never actually be able to love you as they should: it's not about some younger sibling or relative, it's about your parents, your adult relatives, those who were supposed to protect you, to guide you, to love you no matter what, those "you cannot chose". Maybe if Morty stayed with his Prime family, one day he would have finally get it. Maybe this version of Morty will have a family that at least tries their best. But surely this Rick didn't have the privilege of a loving family.

Rick is the usual piece of crap, but he at least is cognitively learning to show some basic respect for Morty. He ask for Morty's opinion and consent before jumping straight into adventure, he accept Morty's conditions. Even if he's still a piece of crap...

...is a more decent piece of crap.

I think a message that flew a little bit under the radar with Rick loving so much his "new parents", is: everyone looks good, when you don't know what happens daily, behind closed doors. Because what really prevents toxic people to truly build and enjoy relationships is a chronic lack of maintenance, not being consistent in who you are, not being consistent in what you love, with who you love... love it's not a great show every once in a while. Love is every day, even in the bad days, even behind closed doors: it means to recognize the same person you love even when things go off the rails, trusting them because you know them, not the mask they wear. Losing yourself in narcissism is the great tragedy of this personality disorder, endlessly drowning into forever-shifting, empty waters, dragging others down with you. We can say that ppl with narcissism are pieces of sh*t and whatever, because they really tear apart other people's lives, but this doesn't make narcissism less of a curse for narcissists themselves. In other words, if u think your family sucks but those of your friends do not, think twice, they probably suck too 👍

The white privilege: the ep. gives a little bit cheesy depiction of the rich ruling class tbh, because you can be privileged and naive as much as u want, but if your empathy works, one day you wake up and do something with the power you have, otherwise you're just an accomplice. The same rich-privileged-ppl thing, ignoring the consequences of their lifestyle, fits perfectly as an example of the narcissistic role of enablers: maybe for your own good, out of survival instinct or just out of blissful ignorance, you protect the abuser and consistently allow them to perpetuate more abuse, just by doing nothing and passively accepting what they tell you. Jimmy is the perfect example of what a second generation of privileged, blissfully ignorant people is: he completely lacks of contact with reality, he did a mess just for fun, he doesn't understand that what he did killed hundreds of his people, his friend and almost himself. And acts like that not because he lived a life without consequences, but bcs he lived a life without values. The change of heart of Jimmy's parents in fact, it's the show pointing out that the real problem wasn't Jimmy but the lack of guidance from his parents, that only now are realizing how little time they have to become good parents. It doesn't takes much time for them to be back to normal though. I mean, her name is Karen.... I love how Morty totally sees them for what they are and shuts the capsule when he gets so fed up with them💀

electro shocking ppl whenever they're assholes seems to work good enough lol💀

_________________Ep. Main themes in a nutshell__________________

Citadel parallels, Citadel parallels everywhere! also Morty/ E.Morty parallels everywhere!

Bad parenting

People not willing to change cannot be saved and they are quite dangerous too

Rick is cute in baby outfit 💀

__________________Sus stuff/interesting details___________________

"Ball is life!" and other differences between pilot and actual episode: that's sooo sus bcs... when the early stage version of this episode came out on yt, a lot of ppl said in the comments that the line "Ball is life" was totally out of character, and they were right, except... there is a Morty who's actually great at basketball and actually loves it: it's Comics' Morty... aand u know what I think about him 👀 Even some parts of the ep. dialogues where different, especially on Rick's part, so I wonder: was it just a draft revision or Rick already had this adventure with another Morty, just like he did with Snowball arc and other adventures? And did the first adventure resulted in Rick giving the cryo people the first chips and telling they would have died if they removed them...? (basically like he did in Ragnarick?) Or maybe writers just like to mess with us 💀

The Makeys has an implanted chip just as the Mortys from the Citadel used to have (another ref. to the Citadel's dynamics)

....Any idea of what New Lizzy entire thing meant? bcs I don't...

Thank you for reading!

[jazzypizzaz]

actually I'll put this in reblog, so my followers (hopefully) don't think I'm stupid, just that I have bad taste (lol).

I love this insight into the author's intent and what the close perspective from MB is intended to accomplish. Thanks for sharing that -- I love when people dissect fiction based on what the story is trying to *do* at a deeper level, as well as the deliberate gaps based on unreliable narration, so thanks for pointing that out, and I can appreciate the concept of the books a bit more now.

honestly I read them quite a while ago and never thought about them since so like. this was not an Official Developed Opinion lol. this post was just me brainstorming on my own blog why I was enjoying the show, when I stopped reading after the fourth book in the series because I realized I found them kinda boring.

I think this in part comes down to how there's two distinct ways of enjoying media (at least for me): 1) sifting the layers and levels of meaning to dissect what the work is trying to say and how well it does that, author's execution of an idea through fiction, and 2) being entertained by getting wrapped up in characters' lives and experiences, just along for the ride. Obviously there's overlap and the best works have appeal for both.

with most sci-fi books in my old book club, I was the one arguing for reading based on the first mode when others talked about slow pacing and underdeveloped characters etc -- the sci-fi concepts, the ideas the story developed, that's what it's about!!! that was the fun part for me!! however MB Diaries, I admit, since they are light, easy to read novellas, I slotted purely into the second mode, bias on my part...

and since the books are such a close POV, if you're not enthralled by MB's voice and thoughts, there's not much else to fall back on in this regard. the plots are kind of whatever, the action was repetitive and not engaging to me, the other characters are background, so it's all whether you want to read about a depressed socially anxious robot learning how to be a person. and like I totally get the appeal on an objective level, #relatable 100%, absolutely no shade there, but personally I got bored of hearing how much it just wanted to watch tv and be left alone. me too, so it's not interesting to read about. so on a pure entertainment level, yeah I do like seeing the humans as people exhibit personality with all their silly naivety, even though I understand there are good story reasons for why they're cardboard in the books.

anyway I LOVE hearing why people love media they enjoy, so while I'm sharing my personal preferences here, I want to emphasize that I do appreciate you breaking that down for me.

I was pretty whatever about the books (sorry), but I'm actually liking MurderBot way better as a tv show....... tbh all the human characters except Dr Mensah kind of ran together in the books, like my fav parts were when MB was interactibg with other bots/AIs... the humans didn't seem to have all that much personality, which is an obvious fix in the show when I can see them

[linguisticsnerd13]

guys I love teaching preschool

[tommygotwrittenoff]

i literally do not care about big emergencies on abc's 911. i want to see my characters talk to each other and have stories that are parallels to small, everyday (everyday for first responders) emergencies

[jh-sketches]

DO YOU SEE THE VISION.

[wildsaltair]

Ranting in the tags isn’t enough so I’m going to say one more time that just because Maximus isn’t morally gray doesn’t mean he isn’t complex

[citadelofswords]

i think i am possibly simply not smart enough to write a mystery story

[fanthirtheen]

Honestly, I have headcanons, I have analysis, and I have tropes that I love, but overall, I just love stories. And most of the time, the stories I love aren't mine. I love being told a story. So more than anything, I love canon and learning more about the characters that exist in it. If new episodes come out that have characters doing things I didn't expect, I'm not going to get angry because the creator is changing the characters, I'm going to get excited to get to know the characters that already exist in the creator's head a little better.

If I build up expectations of my favorite gay demons during this hiatus before October, that's my fault. I love fanfiction and I will continue to write it and acknowledge that I am playing dolls. I can be disappointed if Helluva Boss does something I personally wouldn't have done with the story, but I'll get over it. I don't know the story. Every new episode is about learning and enjoying the ride.

This isn't about anything specific, honestly. Just, I think a lot of people get hung up on the characters they build in their heads and get angry when it turns out the person who created the character has a different version in theirs. Nothing changed, we just learned more about them, and I love learning more about them. That doesn't have to change the version of that character you have in your head, or in your fanfiction. For example, I've been interested in making Stolas and Blitz a TINY bit more emotionally competent than they are in canon, and I know that isn't how they are, but that's why I'm writing fanfiction and not the show itself.

[the-lark-ascending69]

I loove the android robin au it's really one of the most interesting au I have seen in a while.

I am always happy to see new post abt it

Also making my favourite characters go through hell and then receiving comfort from their people is like the best thing ever for me so every time I see a whump!Robin post I like automatically

People loving android!Robin makes me so happy anansnssndsnsns she's curious and excitable and full of wonder and the world keeps punishing her for simply being alive. Sometimes it's too painful even for me, big whump lover 😭😭 though seriously, there is not enough Robin whump, and while all the characters in the show are very whumpeable, hurting my little blorbo Robin feels special because... she's just so deeply lonely. She's lonely and she thinks she deserves to be because of something wrong with her (pulling this interpretation from Surviving Hawkins lore which is canon to me 😭). That was a big idea I had when I first came up with android!Robin... that there is something wrong with her. Broken. In this AU she's literally broken in a lot of way (battery and memory problems, weak joints in her lower half, etc), but that's all within the range of normal robot problems. The real issue with her is that she's sentient. It terrifies people because it really brings out the existencial horror of... well, existing. It terrifies Robin most of all. She is the problem. She is what's wrong with her. She shouldn't exist.

But at the same time, she loves being alive so much! She doesn't understand it and doesn't know how it happened, but it happened, and now she's real and wants to experience life and the world and know people like human beings do. So it's her constant battle to become human despite humans having hurt her so much in the past... only for Nancy to already see her as human. Just one made of metal and plastic, but human nonetheless. She's the first person to see her that way and maybe everyone else thinks she's crazy, but Nancy is used to that. She's so sure of this, though, of Robin's self-awareness. She trusts her so blindly. She doesn't even need proof. And not only does she believe her, but she defends her humanity in front of her friends and family so ardently, fighting so hard for Robin to be aknowledged by everyone else as human. Fighting so hard to give her a home and family for the first time in her life.

Nancy has it bad for Robin, really. She's just so in love, even if everyone else thinks she's crazy for falling in love with a machine (no one thinks she is, though, because they all know Robin, and once you know Robin, it's impossible not to love her).

[mayomkun]

Finally done with teen wolf rewatch. Phew

[lesbianlenas]

the way that some ppl thrive off of drama and conflict is wild to me…..like i cannot imagine. some ppl live their lives trying to get other ppl to argue w them and it’s like why are u doing that…..and then they’re like why does everyone dislike me 🥺 and ppl like that never look inward either they’re like it must be other ppl that are the problem as if there is not one common factor in every conflict they have had. truly i just don’t get it. like try being personable for five mins and maybe u will have some joy in life. on god.

[ilseofskadi]

there's a kid who i just love when he talks it's so funny-cute

i'm pretty sure his mom speaks german at home with him so his grammar is a little off, for example:

"what do you have?" becomes "what got/have you?" and idk man it's so silly

also instead of the dreaded "why?" that goes on loop he says "and why?" in a pitch that just makes me smile he's so silly

[todayisafridaynight]

ORHGH YOU'RE SO RIGHT THE SEGA CARNIVAL LEVELS OF SONIC RIDERS HIT SO HARD they're so fun and cool and colorful and I love them 😭 anyway I remember idling in Yakuza 5 and looking at my phone for a bit while standing in a bar as Saejima and my head SNAPPED up when I heard Dreams Of An Absolution play in the bar because I was like SILVER THE HEDGEHOG'S THEME FROM SONIC 06??? (I was a Sonic kid growing up fjdjdk)

SONIC KIDS UNITE OH MY GODDDDD SIMILAR REACTION THO !!!!! I FORGET WHEN I REALIZED IT EXACTLY BUT I WALKED INTO THE STORE AS KIRYU AND THE SECOND I HEARD DREAMS OF AN ABSOLUTION I SCREAMED AND JUST STOOD LISTENING TO IT WITH A STUPID GRIN ON MY FACE (i also stood around Way Too Long Than What Was Appropriate when playing YK1 cause i just kept looking at the sonic displays in the sega arcade....) like oh my god......... THAT song that everyone memed on for a good half decade in MY yakuza game ??? i love you..

BUT YAYAYAYA I LOOOVVE THE CARNIVAL LEVELS SO MUCH THE MUSIC IS SO FUN TOO when i was growing up For Some Reason i had an allergy to just. Maintaining Save Files (im lying its cause we had like three memory cards and i wanted to keep makin animal crossing towns but you need A Whole Memory Card for one town) because i kept deleting my saves over and over HOWEVER the benefit to this is that i'd always be excited to do the grand prix and unlock the carnival levels

GENUINELY SO WORTH IT theyre so fun and cute and have SO MUCH LOVE for the other sega ips !!!!!!!

[orcelito]

Honestly when I say I'm not a movie watcher I feel like most ppl just don't really Get It. Or maybe instead, I just don't get how other people *are* more movie watchers than me.

Like I watch movies socially, when someone I'm hanging out with wants to watch smth, bc then I can chat about it with them & even make commentary if we're watching outside of theaters. Keeps it entertaining. But on my own??? Sitting still for 1-2 hours straight?? Focusing on one thing for that long??? Nevermind the fact that I can easily focus on smth like reading or video games for that long or longer - video games are significantly more interactive & when im reading I often take little breaks to fuck around on my phone Anyways. And sure, I've had times watching a show or whatever where I watch a full 12 or so episodes in a row, aka longer than a movie, but STILL... it's still more bite sized, easier for my brain to digest before moving on to the next one. Watching a movie alone is like hell to my adhd brain.

So im like yeah, a lot of people like watching movies more than I do. I can understand that. But then there are people who are like "how can people not have watched this / have watched so few of these? Do they just not watch movies?!" And uh I mean kinda yeah, in my case. Not everyone likes watching movies?? From my perspective, I don't understand how you can enjoy sitting down and consuming all of One Story in 1-2 hour periods of time (excluding sequels and such, tho those still aren't the same as episodic things). But you don't see Me going around being like "how can so many people have watched these movies?! Do you have nothing else to do with your time?!" Or smth like that bc that would make me sound like an insane person lmao. Do you get what I'm saying

[cathymee]

why does showtime have random episodes where they just make as much mj references as they can