#for a longggg time

[switchytransboy]

had some fun with halo’s feet tonight with plenty of toe ties 😏😍 their feet were so well restrained these could have passed as makeshift stocks hehehe

@ticklishprey

[mossy-paws]

these fuckass robots that I hate /aff (Ultrakill x PHIGHTING!)

the girls are PHIGHTING! again

[swftlore]

happy 2 year anniversary to whatever the fuck this was

[exymybeloved]

Atsushi: I think I’m in love with Akutagawa… 

Atsushi: … any thoughts?

Dazai: and prayers, you’re going to need them

[in-asterism]

Arcobaleno from @trilies 's Sevenfold AU

[sisaloofafump]

Bat through the ages

A collection of studies. Looking at the first year, the Silver Age, Bronze Age, Arkham Asylum, Year One, 90s, 00s, New 52, Rebirth, and current.

[dunkledog]

felt like drawin g this guy

im gonna crush him between my palms like a big ol' mosquitoooe

[alphaaacademy]

"I am going to burn his world down."

[wistfulwatcher]

C1E44 "The Sunken Tomb" | 2.03 "The Sunken Tomb"

[mapleaves]

sleepy moodboard for a royal regressor 💤🦢

◇ ◇ ◇ / ◇ ◇ ◇ / ◇ ◇ ◇

◇ please dni if nsfw (including ddlg/abdl/etc.)

[amaranthdahlia]

for valentines day have this cheesy mini animation of these two lol

[danelloevee-sky]

I thought about them too hard and started crying

[goingbuggy]

What is Buggy's Endgame? A Post-1082 Analysis

Since the release of chapter 1082, we’ve gotten more insight into Buggy’s character than ever before, especially regarding his dreams and thoughts on past events. So, given our new information, I thought I’d revisit Orange Town Arc to see if 1082 re-contextualizes anything. What’s in the cards for Buggy as a character? What direction does Oda plan on taking him in?

To give you my answer, let me begin in a bit of a random place: the relationship between Shanks and Buggy. 

From the moment Oda first introduced their relationship in chapter 19, Shanks and Buggy already solidified themselves as character foils. Their first panel together is literally a fight over whether the North or South Pole is colder, which is pretty on the nose if you ask me (sorry… I had to). Their red-blue color contrast is also pretty self-explanatory; although green is technically red’s complement, red and blue are often used as visual “opposites.”

Beyond all that surface level stuff, though, what makes these two foils of each other are their opposing values. As a pirate, Shanks wants to “make time to see the world." He has no sense of urgency and no inherent desire to conquer the world — at least, not right away. Buggy, of course, calls this a “soft way of thinking.” Unlike Shanks, he views treasure as the sole purpose of being a pirate. And not just any treasure, but material wealth, gold and jewels which "make its possessor a king."

Shanks and Buggy’s contrasting viewpoints also embody the underlying themes of Orange Town Arc. One man's trash is another man's treasure, and Oda takes great care to emphasize this point, from Chouchou to the mayor.

Luffy's hat ends up taking center stage in Orange Town, however, which I think is a great decision. The straw hat is what tethers Luffy and Buggy to Shanks. It's a weighted symbol, one that helped shape both of their characters — albeit in antithetical ways. Thus, when it’s used as a tool to explore their relationships, it works really well.

Take Luffy, for example. In his youth, Shanks was a pillar of support, friendship, and sacrifice; the straw hat is his treasure because it reminds him of Shanks, but also because it symbolizes what Shanks gave up for him. He owes his life to Shanks, but he uses that gratitude to fuel his own ambition, and to hopefully reunite with Shanks one day as a great pirate.

Shanks allowed him to go after his dream. Luffy knows this well.

Now look at Buggy. He sees the straw hat as worthless, and it’s clear why he does: it’s a painful reminder of the dream that Buggy gave up on, a representation of everything he lacks in comparison to Shanks. And to add insult to injury, Shanks gave that straw hat away to what Buggy sees as an insignificant kid. Of course that would hurt. Seeing Shanks give up Roger’s legacy so easily, abandoning his potential to become Pirate King, when that’s all Buggy ever wanted in life… I mean, wow. It's an amazing role reversal. Buggy gave up on his dream for Shanks, but Shanks gave that dream to Luffy instead.

I think 1082’s context adds some much-needed character depth, and explains a lot of Buggy's rationale. We know Buggy does not value sacrifice or friendship like Luffy does, nor is he the type to go out on a limb for someone. He’s greedy, manipulative when it suits his interests… I could go on forever. So to see that Buggy once sacrificed his own dreams for the sake of Shanks’ — only to have it backfire — makes so much sense. Of course he became a bitter, cynical, and selfish adult. One of the people he believed in most broke his unwavering trust, and he never healed from that experience. (Not to mention that this happened directly after Roger's execution. His faith was already shaken, and it was just one heartbreak after the next.)

The impact of that betrayal only feeds into his greedier tendencies; Buggy is a character who keeps things close to his chest, figuratively and literally. He learned to fear trust, and it shows. All of his adult relationships (Alvida, Galdino, Crocodile, Mihawk) are strictly rooted in business and mutual, self-serving interests. Nothing more.

Just take a look at Buggy and Luffy's reactions to the Bara Bara no Mi story. Buggy can only focus on the things he lost, instead of what he had: a friend who was willing to jump overboard for him in a heartbeat. But Luffy, a character who values the people he loves, obviously has a different perspective. He concludes, “So Shanks saved your life?” Where Luffy sees hidden treasure, Buggy sees nothing but loss.

So why am I bringing this all up? Well, I don’t find it surprising at all that two of Buggy’s most prominent arcs — Orange Town and Impel Down — emphasize his struggle between selfishness and altruism. The internal conflict is played off as a joke in Impel Down, but Buggy has always been simultaneously comedic and complex. He actually parallels Luffy in that sense, but that's another meta for another day.

The position Oda has placed Buggy in is rife with potential. He's now closer than ever to the things which would fulfill his materialistic nature: the One Piece, Captain John’s treasure, and the title of Pirate King. Yet, at the very same time, he's closer to one of his most honest connections in life: Shanks. If there was ever a time for a character to be forced to make a fateful choice, I’d say it’s right about now. People have been wondering why Oda made Buggy a final contender for the One Piece. Why has he “failed upwards” for so long? Comedy aside, I think the answer is a lot simpler than we’re all making it out to be: Buggy’s story just isn’t over yet. 

Oda still has something he wishes to impart to readers, and he clearly believes it will be told best through Buggy’s character. Based on what we know about Buggy — his greed, his guilty conscience, his past with Shanks — I think that story will lead his character to some very interesting places.

Do I think Buggy is going to have a change of heart? Maybe, maybe not. In that regard, he’s already been in a gray area since Impel Down. I wouldn’t be surprised if he accidentally ends up allying himself with Luffy again during One Piece’s conclusion. But with the Cross Guild putting bounties on marines, a (potential) three-emperor interest in going after Blackbeard, and an open-ended Shanks-Buggy plot thread about going to Laugh Tale... Well, there's a lot of places this could go. Would Buggy be willing to give up the greatest treasure in dire circumstances? For Shanks? For the world? Will he become king, and then lose it all? Will he make a sacrifice that parallels Shanks' when they were kids? Who knows!

What do you guys think? Is Buggy going to play a larger role in One Piece’s third act? What is your ideal conclusion for his character in the story? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

[cyndraws]

I coloured my Akako drawing from before :)

[lucky-cambion]

Arthur has just witnessed a murder. And it wasn’t a flock of crows flying over bison and deer in the flat, hot prairie that always makes Arthur want to pull out his journal and charcoal. Arthur has witnessed a man take another man’s life in the freezing Grizzly mountains. He watched from a few yards away as a stranger strangled another stranger. Watched as the choking man pulled and clawed on the others’ arms. Looked at the ringed hand falling down lifelessly. Tried not to think of Mr. Downes and the wailing he heard as he left the farm.

This shouldn’t mean anything to him, shouldn’t make bile rise up in the back of his throat and his blood run fire hot in his veins, he’s lost count of the men he’s killed and the reasons why, whether the reason was—somewhat—honourable or the kind that has been sitting heavily on his shoulders lately. But regardless of all of this, Arthur feels conflicted, stuck between continuing down the icy path or beating the murderer within an inch of his life.

Arthur knows he is not someone worthy of enacting justice, or delivering retribution. He knows this like he knows the weight of a revolver in his hand; like he knows the feeling of bones cracking and breaking under his knuckles; like he knows the fear in a man’s eyes when he realises he’s about to die; like he knows the newfound amplified feeling of remorse when he finds a ring on a dead man’s finger, or a letter from a loved one tucked into a coat pocket near their heart.

As he jerks the reigns back to find the murderer, he wonders if he’s doing this because he’s disgusted by the blatant disregard this man has for other people’s lives. But he thinks it’s more likely that he’s trying to pay penance for his crimes, making a futile effort to even the scales, to become better—because the worse his tuberculosis gets, the less he feels like it’s his own blood he coughs onto the back of his hand.

Arthur isn’t concerned with the motivation for his wrath as he chases the murderer down, nor is he concerned with the fact that this anger and violence is the reason for the mucus coating his lungs and the blood in the back of his throat. His concern is instead with the dead body left in front of a copse of evergreens, left to be eaten by the wolves and foxes, the ring on its right hand to be forgotten with its bones. Arthur similarly leaves a man in the snow, but what separates Arthur from the man whose nose he just broke is that Arthur left the man breathing, and ensures the man’s horse is nearby, so that he may see the next sunrise, and so that he can go see his wife in the morning.

Arthur is often considered by others as an unstoppable force, impassive, and it’s perceptions like these that led him to collecting debts. Arthur believed himself to be strong as well, but knew he was no cold, unstoppable force. In actuality, he was made hard by the hurt and grief that wracked his body, and he told Rains Fall as much. As Arthur gradually became thinner and paler, with dark half moons settling under his eyes as his sickness progressed, his impassiveness seemed to melt away with his fever. And every time he was faced with his own mortality when caught a glance of himself in the reflection of a glass in a saloon, the mirror in a hotel, or the rippling surface of a stream, Arthur became more and more scared. Scared of the death that so many of his loved ones faced, scared of the inevitability of it, of the life that no matter how hard he tried to grasp, continued to seep out of the cracks between his fingers.

[dustyvampire]

why don't you show me a little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress,