#op these are hilarious

[mintypsii]

HELP?

[booasaur]

Special Ops: Lioness - 1x07

[couldbebetterforsure]

I know people have all sorts of opinions on how Garp is handled in the live action but, for me, I just find him hilarious. Like, from the perspective of someone familiar with the show and knowing Luffy and Garp's relationship, Garp's expressions after learning what Luffy is up to in the early episodes are funny!

Garp, episode 1: *after being told a pirate with a straw hat robbed a marine base* There's more than one straw hat in the world, it doesn't HAVE to be Luffy.

Coby, episode 2: The pirate's name was Luffy 😔

Garp: *speedrunning the five stages of grief* Goddammit.

[sualne]

vampire terminology used wrong

[ri-afan]

He’s one of my favourite characters, your honour

[acerunaway]

only one bed trope

[buffy-of-ren]

Couldn’t get this out of my head hehehe

[mega-ringsandthings-world]

You just know that at some point after Shanks lost his arm the Marines had the idea to send Mihawk after Shanks on a clandestine buster call, because one less arm and all that. Mihawk takes the order in complete silence, leaves the same day to complete it, and then he and Shanks go off the radar three days after the order was put out. A week later the Marines come to the conclusion that Mihawk has gone off and gotten himself killed and has probably killed Shanks in the process, two birds one stone, nice work, let's find Mihawk's replacement. But first let's give him a call for formality's (paperwork's sake) To everyone's shock and horror, Mihawk actually picks up. To all the more shock and horror, he can hardly be heard over the sound of what is a huge fuckoff party happening in the background. He's obviously drunk, because even though he doesn't sound any different, he's only replying through variations of Hmmmms and Mmmms, and the den den they're calling through looks toked tf out. They try asking him how things went and he laughs. Fucking laughs. After a few minutes of this, they hear the scariest thing of all, a cheery, slurred voice that resounds through the den den. "Heeeeyyy, who's callin', hawkybaby?" It's immediately recognizable as Shanks. Who is. Not dead. After a beat, Mihawk laughs again, says "No one of importance, Red," and cuts the line. Everyone immediately loses their mf shit back at HQ.

[thegreatcaptainusopp]

Zoro going to Usopp for validation >>>> anything else

[skcirthinq]

Soooo, funny story. @heckitall started a very cool crossover between the Rise and 03 TMNT and I. May have. Immediately became invested.

Like. I was worried for days about one of the characters. Soooo I made some fanart. And then couldn't decide which version I liked best, so I dunno. Here's three! With bonus detail shots under the cut.

It's called 'Same as it Never Will Be' and is linked in their pinned post!

Images 1-3: rendered illustrations of (on the left) the cast of TMNT 03, and toddler versions of Rise Leo and Donnie. 03 Raph and Leo are in the foreground, holding injured Rise Leo and Donnie. R!Donnie is biting 03 Leo, while squirming and reaching to the right, and holding R!Leo's hands. R!Leo is being held by an angry 03 Raph. In the background, in the TMNT 03 lair, 03's Splinter, Casey, April, Leatherhead, and an injured Mikey are looking on in various stages of amusement or resignation.

On the right is an illustrated render of the Rise cast meeting up after the events of the movie. R!Raph and Mikey are in the foreground, with Raph holding a toddler version of 03!Donnie, who is upset and reaching toward the left. Mikey is also upset, and gesturing at Raph. They are both visibly injured and battle damaged. In the background of a destroyed New York, scuffed up R! April, Splinter, and Casey Jr are running and swinging their way towards Mikey and Raph, all looking visibly distressed.

Both illustrations are framed and bordered by white-gray mist, with ripple patterns overlaying parts of the whole image. The title of the work and authors name ( 'Same as it Never Will Be' and Heckitall) are written on the bottom border in purple text with blue spray paint effect behind them. Between the two illustrations is a representation of a portal with the the abbreviation of the title (SAINWB) in white over top of it.

There are small differences between images 1-3 in terms of lighting and coloring effects.

Images 4-7 are detail shots of the two illustrations with some lighting effects removed.

[kimmkitsuragi]

crying because he really said it like that 😭😭😭

[yellowocaballero]

So fucking glad to see someone talk about SSS Class revival hunter 😭 I lived it so much and I feel like no one ever mentions it against more popular titles like ORV or even The Lout of the counts family, so I'm so glad to come here and see your amazing takes :>

Thank you for the ask which lets me talk about SSSCRH (the version I read was titled 'Suicide Hunter', which tbh I like more - no beating around the bush).

It's hard to draw an accurate comparison since I'm going off just the webtoon for SSSCRH, while I'm going off both the webtoon and the webnovel for ORV. And I love ORV, ORV is my media blorbo right now, it hydraulic presses my brain, I am writing ORV fanfic - it's, like, funner to enjoy. But SSSRH is just better. In the vast majority of ways it is is better. It's better than the holy trinity by a wide margin. TW talk of suicide obviously.

I can't believe I'm saying this but you need a basic understanding of Buddhism in order to understand SSSCRH. It's not about Gongja's suicides - he doesn't suicide from depression or lack of self-esteem. SSSCRH is about suffering in the Buddhist sense - dukkha. I don't want to make this an essay, so I might reblog this with more information, but extremely shortly:

The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism is the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. You've heard that Buddhists say 'life is suffering'. To put it one way that doesn't require defining a lot of words: the cause of suffering is experiencing the world as we percieve it instead of how it truly is. Suffering isn't just being miserable and in pain, and life isn't suffering because life sucks and global warming exists and people voted for Trump. Life is suffering because we can experience beautiful and joyful moments in this world, but we do not exist in the moment of that happiness or place our ego/'self' between us and that happiness. Living in that moment, accepting the moment as it is unconditionally, is freedom from suffering. The Buddha tries to free people from suffering through teaching Buddhism.

"What does this have to do with the webnovel and manwha about a guy murdering himself thousands of times" it has everything to do with it. Because SSSCRH is about suffering, and it is about using suffering as a tool in order to experience a world unfiltered by ego and break down the artificial boundaries between human beings. Suffering in SSSCRH is not a bad thing. Gongja has the unique capability to (reincarnate.) experience a person's suffering in unity with them, which dissolves the delusion of separation between people and puts us in touch with the reality of oneness.

The Murim arc was fucking insane because Gongja pulls a Big Bodhisattva Move and walks through the suffering of the world in order to achieve full understanding of the human experience. He takes all of the suffering of the world into himself and is liberated. You can tell it's Buddhist because death was not presented as a bad thing - death was an aspect of a happy ending for the Heavenly Demon lady, because she was finishing her life according to her own joy, and because her teachings were passed on she did not truly die.

But the purpose of embracing suffering is to discover the ability to fully embrace life, and that's where Heavenly Demon's teachings were incomplete - as the ghost dude said, Gongja hasn't even experienced his own full life and the infinite capability for his own happiness. You can only feel the depths of sadness when you've felt the depths of happiness. Sadness deserves its place in the world and it can strengthen you, but so does happiness.

Gongja is attention-seeking, envious, and unbelievably petty. When he drills down into his own desires and why he wants the things he wants, you see that he has a very strong sense of justice and right and wrong - he realizes he doesn't want to be famous, he wants to be acknowledged, but on an even deeper level he is desperate for love and to be loved. Everything he does is to experience love, and as such he learns to love others. His love for the Flamey Asshole was purely parasocial and ego-filled, with no concern for who he was as a human. Throughout the manwha, he grows to care for people as they truly are and pierce through any delusions or misleading outward appearances. He has released all attachment to life and death, and as such does not fear death, and as such has taken a step on the road towards becoming a Boddhisatva who frees others from the cycle of samsara, and as a result has learned sick sword techniques and is sooo good at beating people up.

I think the only other thing I want to mention here because otherwise this is an essay: in almost every time loop/regression story, only the final regression matters. In stories with dungeon monsters and NPCs, only the humans matter. The regressor exists in a space where there are no consequences for their actions, so they act terribly and do whatever because none of it matters. In Groundhog Day Bill Murray acts like an asshole because he can. That's not the case here. Everything Gongja does matters. The NPCs are fake, but Gongja never treats them as anything less than real people who deserve life. Once he understands a person's life he never treats them as unimportant. No loop is thrown away and no person or life is disregarded. His choices matter, the way he treats others matters, and Gongja never treats anybody as if they don't matter except for himself.

That was not short. There is a lot more. The female characters are so good and so rich. From a craft perspective it is excellently paced and has a wonderful sense of set-up/payoff and balances tone and maintains a lot of momentum, which is really hard in a time loop story. You have to do a few very specific things to write OP characters well and SSSCRH does it very well. There's more to say from a craft perspective and it's hard to judge accurately from a webtoon but it's good. I was so strangely struck the entire time about how sincere and genuine it was, how it said what it said with no trace of irony of confusion, and I think that's what stuck with me the most.

TL;DR: SSS Class Revival Hunter is good for a lot of very normal reasons, such as excellent pacing and set-up/pay off and characters, but it's also so sincerely and genuinely Buddhist that it blew my tits clean off.

[thirteenth-sword]

time for MORE SLAWBO CONTENT, here's some doodles for this awesome fic written by LJ @tfw-no-tennis !!!!!!!!! it's SO fucking funny and just the tip of the slawbo iceberg to come, so keep an eye out for more!!! we have many plans for these two idiots >:)

also don't steal/repost my art etc. etc. play nice

[macbeth-s]

tags by @heavenlydark

[smartie-arties]

baratie au by @kingcrustacean is so fucking funny, had to draw me some art of these bad boys

[alevens]

two piece; where everything is the same except it's a reality show