#just a middle earth dude

[marimosalad]

King of Mordor the Southlands ™️

This drawing was totally inspired by the tweet below 🤣

Charlie Vickers plays the perfect combination of disheveled and regal it’s incredible how they found him lol. I will forever be grateful to RoP for giving us discount Aragorn as Sauron 🫠

[youwearfinethingswellwriter]

Halbrand/Sauron - I'm Just Ken

[moongothic]

The worst part about trying to figure out what Crocodile's deal is that because he's so fucking irredeemably evil in Alabasta... Like... Yeah he's just irredeemably evil. Like I love him but he did cause countless casualties, a ton of pain and suffering and literally attempted to blow up a million people

Like no amount of theoretical "trying to do it to save his son from the Government" or "trying to stop the Government from hurting anyone else" or just "doing it for the greater good" is going to make him any less of a mass murderer

But also Robin absolutely 100% helped with all of that shit simply because she wanted to read the Poneglyph for herself.

No amount of her intending to betray Crocodile from the begining and sabotaging his plans erases the fact that Robin also caused countless people to starve to death and die in the civil war. Her sabotages only succeeded out of sheer luck, and only spared the lives of the people at the final battle. She has the blood of countless innocents on her hands. Because she wanted to read history.

But her crimes were swept under the rug because she has a sad backstory and her sabotages worked out just at the nick of time by sheer dumb luck

So Croc??? Just??? Is there a chance??? At all???

But also he did literally intend to sell Buggy into slavery

Like, fuck Buggy, but jesus

What's also killing me is that we like. Don't know what Luffy thinks of Crocodile right now. Which really is like. The thing that will decide how we, as the readers, are supposed to feel about Crocodile. Luffy is our POV

Like we don't know what Luffy's opinion of Crocodile is after he helped save Luffy (and spared Ace once) during the Summit War. Like Luffy clearly fucking hated the man in Impel Down and the two interactions they had during the War weren't like positive (in the sense that Luffy himself didn't think of the interactions as particularly positive. Defending Whitebeard from being attacked once and then being like "wait what HIM?!" when Crocodile defended Ace. To be fair, in the midst of the chaos, there wasn't much time to spend on Pondering On Such Things because Ace needed to be saved, and Oda goes out of his way to not show us what's going on inside Luffy's head, because it's all meant to be out in the open anyways. Regardless, these weren't like "yay it's Crocodile! :)" moments for Luffy is what I mean)

But also Luffy was very grateful of Law for saving his life and was willing to put his trust into Law for their alliance- of course, they weren't explicitly enemies to begin with, rivals at most, but still. Luffy respects those who help him.

But also Luffy grew during the timeskip. Like he's not that clueless anymore (like he finally understands Hancock is in love with him etc), and similarly Luffy gets that Buggy is an absolute loser now. But also Buggy did also help save Luffy's life (even if it was by accident), and while IDK if Luffy is aware of that, I don't think that helped improve Luffy's impression of Buggy

So like. The fuck does Luffy think of Crocodile, at this moment? Even with the Cross Guild reveal, he didn't even really comment on Croc and just focused his energy on being confused about Buggy being "the leader" of CG. IDK it feels almost intentional or something, that we don't know what Luffy thinks?? Especially since we did get Zoro's opinion on Mihawk in the situation?? Or am I delulu?? (Sidenote. I'd love to know what Robin would have to say about Crocodile helping save Luffy's life. What Jinbei might think of the final words Crocodile left him with before blasting them out of Akainu's reach. But mainly just Robin's thoughts)

Like IDK my best guess would be that Luffy still hates Crocodile just the same but is like grossed out by technically owing him one??? In the classic

-kinda way, you know? And that he'd be just kinda confused about it?

Because I can't fucking imagine Luffy being like "oh we're cool now" with Crocodile, let alone "Yay Crocodile :) He saved my life!". But also like. Luffy does kind of owe Croc one. Kind of. And Luffy is usually very respectful of that kind of thing. Aaaaaaaa???

(Also does. Does Luffy even know it was Crocodile who yeeted him and Jinbei out of Akainu's reach to begin with. 'Cause he was unconcious. Knocked the fuck out. Does. Does Luffy even know. Did anybody tell him???)

I just.

There's the reasonable part of me that knows Crocodile is an irredeemable evil dickbag and everything he has ever said and done up to the most recent chapters support that. He is too far gone.

And then there's the absolutely delulu part that loves a tragic villian who gets a heartwrenching redemption that's looking for any fucking sign that could indicate Crocodile could maybe be one

[menlove]

female comedians are so much funnier than male comedians I think we should just start calling them comedians and calling male comedians male comedians bc like. comedians are just. elite in comparison

[liminal-zone]

[CAR CRASHES] [WINDOWS BREAKING] [PEOPLE SCREAMING] [GENERAL COMMOTION] [EXPLOSION] "MREOOOWWWW" [AMBULANCE SOUNDS] [HELICOPTERS]

[emarasmoak]

I can't stop laughing 😂

This is from this comment from Charlie in an interview

"Hal is incredibly normal" "Just a dude. Just a Middle-Earth dude. Ha!"

[meohme-thedorklord]

Happy Day Of The Dude, you fratty hippies!

Big Lebowski might’ve been The Dude 25years ago, but there’s a new kid in town now - Halbrand, who, as per Charlie Vickers’ words, is Just A Middle-Earth Dude (very funny 😑)

Btw, I’m proud of the #Sauron wings on our tol-boi Hal 😌

[librarianbarvarian]

Just saying, if I was Mordred and I was nearly killed and hated by my god despite constantly trying to prove my love and devotion to him, and had that very same god murder my closest friend, I, too, would turn over to the dark side.

I am the runt discarded by its owner. I will bite and tear and claw and burn the world down with me.

[marimosalad]

Hope I accurately captured that Halbrand smirk. He’s doing what he does best… checking out his She-Elf.

[fiendishartist2]

guys what if i want to make my own apollo justice game.

[mylittleredgirl]

there are many good reasons not to see avatar but if you DO see avatar definitely see the 3D version. the entire movie is effects. same movie as the first one just underwater now. also if you are wearing 3D glasses it is less obvious that you will cry like seven times.

[andthebubbles]

i can’t decide which would be hotter: halbrand being just some middle earth dude (like we thought he might be pre-ep 8), or halbrand being sauron (which he is)

[urwendii]

I've just realised a lot of you don't post in the galadriel x sauron | mairon tag on ao3 so I never saw so many of your haladriel fics 🥲🥹

[necromancer-nonbinary]

guy who's been doing a lot of weird musing on death and grief, trying to do anything else: hm, getting a lot of weird death and grief vibes from this...

[richardnixonbutagirl]

my crush asked me if I was a cheerleader when I was in high school and I had to admit that I didn’t even go to high school <3 just normal girl things

[sludgeguzzler]

god i love lotr especially the online fandom bc i might not be a part of it but knowing that one of my dads most formative pieces of media something that he told me stories about in great detail (he knows the lore by heart) making me grow up hearing about it, is also some 17 year olds source of gay fanfiction is simply the best thing