#it's coming soon I can feel it

[fivedayslater]

So. I have some Thoughts.

There's a lot going on with this one statement.

Sanji is clearly frustrated with Zoro. We've seen a few times post time skip - specifically on Fishman Island with Hyouzou and Punk Hazard with Monet - that Zoro won't go all out with an opponent if he believes he'd beat them too easily. Sanji knows Zoro well enough to know this, and is frustrated he hasn't finished Lucci off yet when there are five demons roaming the island because he knows he can.

At the same time, this statement is very pointed, very mean, even within the scope of their rivalry, especially considering Sanji's own struggles with his self-worth. It reads as a cold and calculated statement, either to get Zoro's ass in gear or as a reading of the situation.

It is also, notably, very Not Sanji

You can argue that's just the difference between how Sanji talks to Usopp vs. how Sanji talks to Zoro, but the stark contrast between "I'll do what you can't do" and "He's a liability" is pretty Poignant.

You can make the case that Sanji was drawing on his own insecurities to say the meanest thing he could to get Zoro to stop fooling around and finish the fight, which is a valid reading considering...

...that's exactly what happens.

Zoro hears Sanji call him a liability, realizes how serious the situation is, and immediately finishes off Lucci.

But maybe there's another reason for Sanji to be acting so un-Sanji like?

"If I'm not in my right mind" he said.

What if it's less Zoro realizing the situation is serious because of how Sanji is getting under his skin and more Zoro realizing that Sanji is starting to not act like himself?

What if Zoro realizes Sanji's fears when he solicited that promise from him are coming true?

What if it's death pact fulfillment time?

[anonyanonymouse]

put myself on rest mode until the urge to write could no longer be ignored

[lunacias]

She's feeling a swell of an emotion at confessing all of this. She works to get it under control. /// Although he can't understand her, HAYWARD, too, is choking up a little at the sound of PAIGE's voice.

[deoidesign]

Idk who needs to hear this but time and time again isn't over!!!

Webtoon removed the "time and time again will return!!!" Banner and I don't know why, but it's not over!!! There's still another 1/3 of the comic to go! There's a lot more stuff that I'm working on and it'll be coming back soon!

Please be patient with me, I know it's been a long time... But the stuff I'm making is really good and there's a lot of reasons it's taken this long. I promise I want it back more than anyone.

I'm trying to come back around the end of October. I'm doing my best to get everything ready in time, so no promises, but I'm on track to do so! I'm just one person writing and drawing everything, and my editor was fired so I'm not even getting any notes anymore. It's literally just me. I'm doing my best I promise!

[icewindandboringhorror]

HAPPY 16TH BIRTHDAY!!! To this elderly bapy boye!!! he...!!!

[buglaur]

my favourite posts from 2023

[swampybogg]

Twin WIP!

[detectiveneve]

see the thing about Astarion to me is I don't actually think he has a clue who he actually is beneath all of the everything he's got going on. he's got impulses, he's got drive, a will to live, he's got desires and amusements and cravings, but an actual selfhood?? no. there's a blue error screen where the person of him should be, the person -- whoever that was, I'm personally of the mind he likely wasn't good then either, but we'll see where the story takes us -- before Cazador. the man in front of us today is this mishmash of interior delight at freedom and sunlight but also capable of true unapologetic cruelty and willingness to be ugly in a multitude of ways. so he follows the impulse. he follows what intrigues and amuses, and nothing will take that freedom from him again. and he reflects back onto others the violence that was done unto him. a lack of power kept him down? now he wants to accumulate power, so it can never be turned on him again. but he also misses the sun while he's underground. he's mean and desperate and ruthless and it's interesting because he's unapologetic about it, he's unflinching about it. he's vindictive and mean and desperately floundering around throwing stuff at a wall to see what sticks in terms of personhood because who is he now. 200 years of horrific servitude and now he's just out and about and he's in the mud.

and he can be horrible. and yet when you take the routes of prying open the faaairly shallow veneer he has of smug and snark and snappiness, he'll give you pieces of the raw and the desperate -- "I want to know what the world sees when it looks at me. what you see." is a line you only get if you're earnest with him. any other path in the dialogue will have him continue the shallow persona you've come to know. and in all of that I think nothing is "this is real, this is an act," set in stone because I just don't think he even knows, I don't think he has a CLUE what's his and what's the protective measures and what's the real delight and what's the cruel mockery of his surroundings and what he's willing to give vs what he needs to hide vs what he lets slip out on accident. the inconsistencies in his own ideas and what he says and what he does. I think most everything about him is in a weird place of deeply uncertain. is it a lie? is it a glimmer of truth? for me, I like to interpret him in this weird menagerie of half-truths and shallow lies and omissions, because we've only known him a short while and maybe also he doesn't even know the answer yet. who is he? fuck if HE knows. anyways. smash.

[jay-wasstuff]

Fanfic authors after seeing the 10 second cameo

[symbologic]

Will Zoro leave Luffy after they achieve their dreams? Not likely

Saying Zoro's gonna voluntarily leave Luffy at the end of OP so he can "live his own life" (i.e. get married, open a dojo, hang out in bars) is so wild to me. That's like saying Luffy's gonna give up adventuring so he can sit around and gorge himself on meat

First of all, it ignores that Zoro genuinely enjoys traveling with Luffy. Luffy (who's always getting into trouble) gives Zoro the chance to be his best self. And Zoro (who very much wants to be his best self) will always seize that chance with both hands

Second, both characters are like...the poster children of wanting to have their cake and eat it too. If you're Luffy or Zoro, you rarely need to make either/or choices. That's what makes them unique. It's why they've both got conqueror's haki! Basically: If Zoro wants to drink until he blacks out? If he wants to nap all day? Hell, if he wants to get lost in a paper bag?? He is like a big cat. He will do what he wants, wherever he is. He doesn't need to leave Luffy to get those things LOL

Third, Luffy's made it clear the Pirate King needs no less than the Greatest Swordsman by his side. Why would that suddenly stop once they've both achieved their dreams? Is Luffy going to quit being Pirate King? Why would he? Luffy wants to be the most free in the world, so he can live the life he wants...with the people he wants to live it with

In other words, Luffy isn't letting Zoro go without a fight — not unless Luffy genuinely feels he's no longer the type of man Zoro would want to travel with. And wouldn't that be the worst ending for both of them?

[defiledtomb]

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[syn4k]

to be, or not to be (romanticization of the inevitable)

[starrysharks]

super-star pirate quintet - a no-buts treasure hunt across our sparkling camelot galaxy!

[puppyeared]

adhd is when you shoot for the moon but you forgot the rocket fuel and by the time you realize it everyones already on the moon and then you panic and crash into the sun and it explodes

[storge]

Are you really regretting it? I just think so many people are blessing us yet we are deceiving them. I feel bad. We are just putting up a show. Don't be so serious.

Follow Your Heart (2024) 1.06

[novaobscurity]

You are as beautiful as the day I lost you

Drawing Solas is so difficult 😫 I hope I did him justice. I also need better references for his outfit because hot damn