#ohhh my silly

[estrellium]

Silly fish guy! Hope nothing bad happens to him later!!!

[fearfulandhungry]

[unluckedtj]

so. this’ll never be real but i think it’d be silly if kazuma got a small white snake. just to hang out with

[namisweatheria]

I feel like we don't discuss Nami's relationship with gender enough. Her entire character is so deeply informed by being a girl in a male-dominated pirate world and it's so interesting and so worth talking about.

The background creepiness of Bad pirate crews, which are most of them, how they tend to not have any female crew members at all, how they beckon any pretty young woman around to come play with them and join them. It's real bad. It's also like, a totally 2 dimensional portrayal of evil that is reserved for the most background of background characters.

However I think their ubiquity says a lot about how piracy is meant to be perceived by the public in One Piece, and is one of the strongest indicators of how prevalent misogyny is in-world.

It's very normal in One Piece for regular island inhabitants to have never met a Different class of pirate in their life. There's no reason for them to withhold judgement that maybe these pirates won't be like every crew that attacked before, and to wait and judge them by their actions. I mean frankly that would be irrationally weak self-preservation.

There are people who live peacefully under the flags of Yonkos who protect them, and feel loyalty and gratitude to them for it, but that seems to only be thing with very big name pirates. The East Blue, being the weakest and least populated, has no such plethora of powerful people and resulting turf wars.

So. Nami. Is very clearly implied to have never met any Different pirates before. I'm thinking about what that means. About how every group of pirates she stole from were creepy, dangerous men. How she started going out stealing when she was still a young child. How she didn't have a mother anymore to guide her or comfort her. How Arlong would grab her chin inappropriately, talk about her as a "human female", as property, and god knows what else.

How all the men in Arlong's crew treated her patronizingly, pretending they're all friends, teasing her and playing at respect when really not a single one of them ever stuck up for her or hesitated to accuse her of betrayal. Who were always ready to kill her if she refused to cooperate. Who grabbed her and intimidated her when they felt like it.

That's what she had to come back to after a close call with stealing from other predatory men, instead of the relief of home there was a dark, cramped room filled with endless hours of misery and isolation and blood. Where any one of her captors could barge in and demand new maps, work faster, where did you go, you took too long again this time. Endless threats and incursions.

I'm thinking about that her fight scene in Alabasta, where she tumbles and rips off her cape and uses it to catch her enemy's spikes, before leaping to her feet and running out the back door, all in one moment. How it makes her enemy reconsider her and think, "so the girl's not a total novice at fighting after all." What that implies about her experiences as a young thief. The times she wasn't fast or clever enough and had to fight and claw her way out. Why she always carried a staff and a knife. Why she was the only one before Chopper who had any medical knowledge or experience.

You know she was stitching herself up. And the weapons, how do you think she learned to use those? If any of the Arlong Pirates helped her it wasn't out of kindness and it wasn't gentle.

Then I think about Nojiko, and Bellemere's memory, and the only softness in a hard life. How easily Nami connects to every young woman experiencing hardship that she meets. How completely she dismisses the struggles of men unless they mean something to her and are going through something terrible. The way that Nami only has sympathy for women and children is easily noticeable in-text, but it's also something confirmed in those words by the author. And it's clearly because of the life she lived, the men who had all the power and only abused it, who saw her as nothing but a girl to take advantage of, without anyone aside from her sister clearly knowing and caring about any of it.

Nami clearly isn't bitter, she doesn't think the world owes her recompense, on the contrary she knows she is far from the only person in the world to suffer the things she has suffered. She is endlessly reaching out and kind, but only to those that she isn't sure would get help without her. Certainly, before Luffy, Usopp, and Zoro, no man ever reached out a hand to her without an ulterior motive.

I think when she sees a girl in trouble, a girl biting her lip to hold in a scream of grief, a girl running in the woods away from a monster, a girl captured by pirates, she sees someone who no one is coming for. Who no one will stick up for. A person without allies in a world against her. Whether it's actually true in this case or not, she runs straight for that girl anyways every single time.

[ghosthoodie]

GRRRLIE

[seaworthee]

he got the hand made special

[itsalwaysforyou]

I AM FOREVER YOUR MOST DEVOTED BELIEVER

kenny ortgea, descendants 3 / katy prickett, medieval 'love motto' gold ring found near frinton / x / x / x / 墨香铜臭, heaven official's blessing / mitski, geyser / dove cameron and khalid, we go down together / mitski, i'm your man / anne sexton, 'a letter to w. d. snodgrass' / x / florence + the machine, heavy in your arms / x

[joyfuladorable]

Trenchcoat-wearing time, but make it ✨Fashion✨

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OOOH BABY THIS ONE WAS A LONG TIME COMING. NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE!!

YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER. A DAY OF ADVENTURE WITH YOUR CLOSEST FRIENDS. OH HOW TIGHTLY YOU HOLD THEM TO YOUR CHEST, AND OH HOW TERRIFYING IT IS TO WATCH THEM GET EVISCERATED BY SOMETHING YOU DONT UNDERSTAND. MAYBE IF YOU JUST LISTENED A BIT MORE, IF YOU LET THE SMART ONE LEAD THE CHARGE, THIS WOULDNT HAVE HAPPENED. ONCE AGAIN YOUR IMPULSIVENESS LEADS TO DISASTER. HEAR ME NOW, YOUNG TIDESTRIDER, YOUR STUPIDITY WILL BRING THE DEMISE OF EVERYTHING YOU WERE BORN AND FORGED TO PROTECT. HOW COULD THE PROPHECY HAVE CHOSEN SOMEONE SO USELESS? I BET YOU WISH YOU CHOSE THE RIGHT LEVER. FAILURE.

[jj-pines]

More Fionna and Cake redraws

[vvindication]

kind of obsessed with being able to see a visual glimpse of the past with the picture on Harry's badge from roughly '43-'41. something something despite everything it's still you ...

[veearrifarrariboom]

Previous | Next | Green!!!

[beeguillotine]

Happy 100th Miriam Monday!!!!!

WOW... that is a LOT of Miriams!!! Here's all 100 so far, all together!!!!

What a wonderful time I've had so far!!! Thanks to everyone for all the support for this project.. it really truly brings me so much joy!! Here's to many more merry Miriam Mondays to come!!!!!!!

[chipistrate]

HELP WANTED 2

Pax West 2023 Sept 1-4

AU art based on a... theory? Speculation? About Help Wanted 2's plot. Said speculation/theory being that Help Wanted 2 takes place directly after Ruin, with Cassie being the protagonist!

Basically, the AU goes like this; After the elevator collapses, Cassie barely survives and retreats into the VR world in the mask to escape the reality of her situation. Inside, she finds herself in a collection of minigames based on old games/events, being guided by Helpi and Tape Girl. She starts hearing the voice of Gregory calling out to her, and finding pieces of a Freddy plush around each minigame. Helpi and Tape Girl caution her to not collect the plush parts because it would release some monster they couldn't control, but she does so anyways- and upon putting all the pieces together, she wakes up in the rubble of the elevator with Gregory and Vanessa finally having found her and running over to save her.

Dunno how well I explained it, but that's the gist of it<3

[starscelly]

roope as a Character 2 me is so funny bc i absolutely get the “cunty northern european” -> “bitch” pipeline with his personality but like. 2 me!! he serves cunt in the biggest freak weirdo way. if he wasn’t european we’d be making fun of him way more if we’re keeping it a buckkkkk like in a loving manner. like okay hear me now ….. i appreciate what the Stoic Cold Standoffish Bitch archetype does for him and like i get itttt i support it even. but if we’re looking at real life roope oh my goddd. loser. sorry. loser. seeing him interact with his friends you see him behaving absolutely buffoonishly. speaking in riddles and tales. you even see this when other finns talk abt him they’re literally like giggling he is a little jester mannn. we don’t get this in American Media and Teammates because i fear i don’t think he can Inflict Emotion in english well. like he speaks english very well!!! but he and miro and esa share what i call the Toddler Disease in which anything they say sounds very staged and forced and like someone has handed them a script. when for reals they mean it. many such cases but also see: starsmin having to defend miro roope with her LIFE saying they weren’t doing a super scripted video and that is Just How They Speak English.

idk if there’s a point to this … i appreciate the fandomization of stoic roope but i do believe in a world where he is just not that and is just a goofball loser and he is treated as suchhhh

[cereal-killahh]

Ohhh fluterbhy redesign save me