#op speaked

[puppest]

i havent seen an awful lot of talk about it so i dont know whether its a foregone conclusion i was a little late in coming to but i dont think the red guy has actually for real met any other “red guys” and im also questioning whether he actually knows there ARE any other “red guys” out there, or if he’s just working off an assumption of them being out there that has equal chances of being true or false

i mean even putting aside the simulation twist in the sixth short, every single one of them is a virtual copy of him down to his voice, and then it’s the same in the camera scene in “family.” and the autism coding way he’s very overtly alienated from the other reds in both of those scenes remains consistent; no clothes, too quirky, nonconforming behavior that the rest of them express impatience and disapproval with and im um rotatingit in my brain

like what if it basically amounts to a projection of how he thinks trying to integrate himself into a community of other reds would go, what if it’s all just an intensely negative self image, what if it’s a sublimation of an insecurity he has around the vulnerability of showing genuine excitement and engagement, what if he’s worried the trauma has permanently altered him to the point of not being able to slot into a community of his peers like he wants to, what if it’s about the fear of the Out There being just as cruel as the In Here,

[kermit-coded]

when one piece said "existing is not a crime" and when it said "thank you for loving me" and when it said "tell me you want to live" and when it said "being alone is worse than being hurt" and when it said "you're my friend" and when it said "someday you will find kind people" and when it said "there are people out there who will love you" and when it said

[cup-o-stars]

Happy B-Day to the Corasante!! ❤🕯🎂🕯❤

(Featuring way too many drawings)

[thegreatcaptainusopp]

[overtake]

Much to unpack here ...

[bishy437]

[vampyreribbon]

any of yall ever notice that antis cannot look at normal ass nonsexual artwork without immediately sexualizing it?

i remember once i saw something on tiktok. it was artwork of a father kind of spinning around playfully with his toddler/baby daughter. the daughter had blush on her face, you know, for shading and to show that she's alive.

and i remember antis calling it weird, sexual, predatory, etc. and somehow WE are the creeps..?? nuh uh. that is weirdo behavior.

[tang3r1n]

chubby darling sitting and rambling abt anatomy and how insane the human body is, literally talking so animatedly while her obsessor is just sitting there like ‘oh i’m gonna fuck her so hard once she shuts the fuck up’

my picks; EREN, jean, erwin, ymir, PORCO (aot), aizawa, DABI, mature tomura, momo, katsuki(?), izuku, mr compress, spinner, HAWKS, miruko (mha), ushijima, IWAZUMI, KUROO, kageyama, tsukkishima, aone (haikyuu), GOJO FUCKING SATORU, toji, nanami(?), miguel, i rly wanna say megumi, maki, heian sukuna, TODO AOI, and fuck it inumaki too (jjk), ROANOA ZORO, robin, sanji, sir croc, FUCKING LAW HED GEEK W YOU, uhhh luffy, kidd, penguin, coby (op) WHITNEY, c.sydney, alex, avery(?? iffy), rrrrobin?? (dol), plus all ur favorites <3

[ace-no-isha]

rewatching one piece Again and luffy told sanji “dying isn’t how you repay kindness!” it took so much for that to sink in for sanji. he tried dying for zeff at the battle with don krieg at the baratie. he’s struck down by enel. he tried to jump in front of zoro before kuma. he sold himself to big mom. he sees his life as so worthless for too long until luffy comes to save him. he’s one of the wings of the pirate king. he’s a beloved son to a fighting cook. he is worth so much and has a home in this world and it took his whole life to figure it out. it’s insane how much luffy can heal people’s deepest traumas with his love

[klaasje]

i love it when astarion goes off on one like “i am a lone wolf amongst sheep… a predator… a brooding salacious creature who craves power” you are one of those little white purse dogs with the tear stains that yaps at everything and has bitten three people and you most certainly do NOT crave power. you crave the illusion of power. and blood

[puppest]

this is kind of a crackpot theory but it seems like a pretty crackpot-positive space around here so lets go

i feel like there’s just a little too much reference to immolation in dhmis for a show that portrays many kinds of gruesome deaths but has yet to feature fire aside from small elements in the environment.

if i didn’t mishear, in the last youtube short as red approaches the big screen console the lamp sings “you can have a dream about losing your friends! you can have a dream about burning your friends!” which struck me because the first had just happened prior to the beginning of the short. and the second. has still not happened.

there is a reference to a grease fire in “jobs” when duck is watching the company video, but it’s just a mention. the twins in “family” allude to the burning of dear departed uncle terry (“Uncle Terry died!” “He went on fire!”) and yellow repeats this phraseology in the following episode “friendship” (“Freelancers deserve to die!” “And go on fire!”)

(it also occurs to me that there’s no explicit causative or sequential order established between the dying and the going on fire. dead bodies are easier to set on fire than alive ones due to the lack of moving around. maybe we’re looking at kind of a funeral pyre situation. i am now reminded of the end credits of the “love” short, where malcolm the god burns)

it’s in this same episode where grease fire comes back, in reference to a household one that duck’s meant to be keeping an eye on, as displayed on the duty chart here:

iirc, the only fires we ever see onscreen are in the fireplace in the background and on the candle duck blows out after his song in “family.” i know fire must be difficult to portray with puppetry, but i don’t feel like that’s enough of a barrier to stop the creators from actually going there.

i skipped over “death” earlier, but let’s go back to it now: duck’s cause of death is a lack of water. we assume thirst (or rabies) but then we come to the scene where red’s checking his ID card. the card says for certain that red won’t die “for ages” and that when it happens, it happens “in a lake.” but it only thinks red drowns. it assumes that’s what happens, because There’s Definitely Water.

but what i’m asking here. what i’m working up to. is what would compel red to go into the lake in the first place?

[kermit-coded]

imagine this. you work at a michelin five star restaurant. now imagine some rando challenges dwayne the rock johnson to a fistfight and proceeds to get his ass beat so bad he almost dies. this is the zoro v. mihawk fight from the pov of the baratie employees.

[natdeviantrat]

Just by listening to him, I felt like I was in a trance. I felt like I was fighting. And I cried! I cried in his arms after we shot the scene.

~ Luke Brandon Field on Assad Zaman as Armand during the "rest" scene in 2x05, ScreenRant Interview

It was such a scary thing to do to be sort of thrown into that episode, and it's the one I look back at and I can see– I have a bit of an out of body experience every time I watch it, kind of don't recognize myself in it.

~ Assad Zaman on the filming of 2x05, PRIDE Interview

[fullmetal-the-last-alchemist]

how it feels looking at one piece stuff outside of tumblr

[overtake]

via

[sepiamestus]

First stage of grief, anyone?