#shocked monkey

[knwatchesninjago]

S1E4 Never Trust A Snake

OH MY GOSHH!!!!!!! THIS IS EP!!! I loved it soo much!!! (great... now I sound like a broken record, lol)

BUT AHHHHHHH!!! okay, okay...how about we just get started, alright?

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Okay... for starters... that bird gave me quite a jumpscare, loll. I mean like... what?!!?

That perspective... *shudders* reminds me of all the weird Gabriel Agreste perspectives in MLB, loll

*shudders again*

AnYwAyS, loll

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What is that pose!?

Pftttt... I can'ttt... That pose screams Lloyd all over, loll!!

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Next we got some...

#SiblingBonding

^Okay... may I just say... THIS IS NOT STRETCHING!!!! ^

What is this!??! "SwOoPiNg CrAnE!??!"

"PINCHING CRAB!?? (questioning Ninjago rn, if u couldn't tell, lol)

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Anyways... now onto the *drum roll please* :

#Lloydster_Enters_The_Scene

I seriously can't wrap myself around the fact that this little gremlin is gonna be the ✨Green Ninja✨ someday....

Also may I just say... taht 4th pic of Lloyd with candy on his face... HE'S SO CUTE!!!!! 🥺

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Also... it wouldn't be Lloyd if he didn't regret his life decisions. (I have a sad feeling that this might be the last ep we can see of our little gremlin regretting his choices... 😢)

#RegretsLifeDecisions

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Alas... what are the life lessons we can learn from all this?

DO NOT LEAVE YOUR CHILD UNSUPERVISED!!

Like seriously... I dunno what Misako was thinking... Garm I understand, but Misako had no excuse!

But y'all... if you all are planning to have kids... please make sure that they're taught properly about stranger danger. it's kinda sad how easily Lloyd falls into these snakes' trap bc he doesn't know about you shouldn't just blindly trust a random stranger who claims to be your 'friend'. And also... please don't abandon them, loll. I seriously don't know who taught Misako to be a mom. Lol.

Anywayss... since I don't want to end this post of on a serious note...

#Kai_Has_Some_Really_Stretchy_Hair

loll...

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Anddddd.....

"Scales, my old chum"

When I heard that I was like... whattttt!? What the heck is a "chum"?

So I did some research, lol!!

loll.

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Tbh... I'm really not happy with the "30 images per post" limit.

I wanted to add way more pics, ngl. But alas...I'm up to 30, lol!!

So with this I bid y'all farewell.

🙉🙊🙈

"That looks like the shocked monkey"

Byeee!!!!

~KN out~

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[flimflamfranky]

hi buddy

[fluffyartbl0g]

I VEHEMENTLY DISLIKE the thought that the strawhats will seperate after their grand adventure is over. NOOOO!!! They’re gonna keep going on adventures FOREVERRRRR!!! What I will accept though, is that every so often, all the straw hats will take maybe like a 3 month break from their adventures and hang out with their respective families for a bit, or do whatever. THIS IS GREAT FOR ME CAUSE SABO AND LUFFY HAVE BARELY HUNG OUT EVER SINCE THEY REUNITED AND THEY REALLY NEED SOME BRO VACATION TIME!!! Except,,, when you put liberator of countries, bringer of freedom pirate king luffy and revolutionary sabo together,,, for THREE MONTHS,,, let’s just say they get up to some shenanigans ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

[beaulesbian]

Every once in a while I think again about the end of Thriller Bark and feel completely insane and ill about Zoro's sacrifice, FOR LUFFY, specifically (you know, the character Kuma's threat was directed at). It wasn't even that long into traveling together, a few months maybe, yet Zoro was ready to give up everything in that moment - in the chapter with Kuma appearing being titled The End of the Dream ! - to protect his crew and Luffy, so he could continue in his journey.

Since Luffy and Zoro met, they always understand how words and promises were imporant to them - with Luffy punching Helmeppo in ch. 3 for lying to Zoro. Zoro learnt how serious Luffy was about his dream, and soon he realized he backed up his words with actions as well - untiying Zoro and giving him his swords back - his biggest treasures. It meant that Zoro could be honest and honor-bound in the same way to Luffy, to gain this mutual respect and trust between them since day 1. To wield his swords to protect both Luffy and later their whole crew, and to step in a way between Luffy and danger.

He was being actually more upset that Sanji got up from the previous Kuma's attack and interrupted their fight - Zoro was trying to keep the whole crew safe by this exchange for Luffy's head - if Sanji was offering his life for Luffy half dead and without much strength left to fight for himself (he started the offering of his own life already believing he woudn't survive, with a "you should find a new cook"), then this very specific sacrifice would be meaningless to the crew (- if this arc was taking place post WCI, then it would turn out very differently, with the strength of Sanji believing in Luffy, but it wasn't his moment during this scene) - it would hurt them more than help them, because as much as Zoro was prepared to die as well, he was prepared to keep fighting until the last breath.

Zoro was thinking he might die - Kuma's words were pretty certain he WOULD die - but he still had the willingness and strength to take on the deal for Luffy, for his captain and his crew. ("if i die here, it just means I wasn't worth much to begin with" this line he says times and times again during the overall story, like in Rogue Town throwing Kitetsu and waiting if it would cut off his arm, up until standing against King in Wano "it's my power that was lacking", and all the other times he was questioning his worth - it's something he tempts the fates he doesn't believe in, to actually harm him, to take his strength away if he doesn't deserve to survive. and it's him saying he knows and accepts his own weaknesses - of not being strong enough (in comparison to Sanji in this example), and always fights through them.)

He threw away his swords, including Wado Ichimonji - literally throwing aside his and Kuina's dream, to compell Kuma into a duel (with the anime playing 'The Very Very Very Strongest' when Zoro bowed down and pleaded Kuma, offering him his head instead of Luffy's) so Kuma wouldn't go after the crew and specifically Luffy later - no matter the outcome if Zoro would surive or not.

And then, he was actually strong enough to survive taking his captain's fatigue, agony and pain! Possibly being the only one who could survive taking Luffy's pain.

Zoro could have back out when Kuma offered him the 'taste' of the pain, with the realization of the scale of the hurt with the very possibility of dying from it. But that wouldn't be Zoro now, would it? He accepted and took all of Luffy's pain so his captain wouldn't have to suffer or die, and when they found him afterwards, he still kept standing, tense with the fatigue but alive! (again, with anime adding the music of 'Luffy's Fierce Attack' to underline the importance between these two).

He was training for this since the beginning - to become stronger to shoulder the pain of his crew if necessary. (And not only that - he was preparing for that so another Kuina incident didn't have to happen). He was the first one to fight one of the Warlords before anything really began: his fight with Mihawk at Baratie really set the tone and his own goals to overcome - a glimpse to see on how much different levels the Warlords actually were in comparison to Zoro, Luffy and the others, and if they were supposed to beat them so Luffy could become the Pirate King, that always meant to be ready and to get even stronger than them.

(small spoiler for egghead, ch. 1102: seeing Kuma (a Warlord at that time) remembering this Thriller Bark event later, during Egghead arc, and thinking that even he might have passed out from the pain, makes it all the more meaningful that it was Zoro who took the pain and withstood it - establishing how high was the strength of his willpower, already before timeskip.)

There could be so many other nuances and details from these last few chapters of this arc, and even what this deal meant for the following arcs! Zoro was still in pain on Sabaody, and because of that the crew wasn't as strong as it could have been (not to say they would have a chance anyway, knowing what all was in the motion).

The next is the tragedy and beauty of LUFFY never finding out about this. Half of the crew knew: Sanji, Brook and Robin knew the details, but would never tell Luffy - and that shows their loyalty to both Luffy and Zoro (and Zoro's decision). Luffy woke up and first thing he did was to jump up and down, excited not to be weighted down by his injuries, and only seeing his swordsman being down with injuries so severe he was out more days afterwards, knowing that something else attacked them (him = Zoro), after he was passed out from the fight against Moria, brought down his mood (even if it's not much noticable, but the change into subtle worry is there in the few next chapters).

"I can't explain it either!" - meaning he was thinking about it too, possibly how weird it was for him to move normally after such long fight. We don't really ever hear/see Luffy thinking about something, except when it's mentioned how he came up with a solution or idea, telling us there's more to Luffy than just being straightforward in his goals and speech. With Luffy being sometimes very emotionally intelligent when he wants to be, he could have figured it out from all these other people in the room asking similar questions and deducing. Even Usopp was putting two and two togehter. We might never find out if Luffy actuallly knows or not. Luffy probably wouldn't ask Zoro directly, especially if Zoro wouldn't tell first and didn't want to talk about it

- because for Zoro, nothing happened! Nothing, that would compromise his and Luffy's first promise. For Zoro to become the Strongest he couldn't back down from the duel with Kuma (just like before with his duel with Mihawk at Baratie. When he's faced with something he swore to overcome, he can't back down or evade. Even back then Luffy understood that as he held back Johnny and Yosaku, but Sanji was perplexed how far Zoro (and Luffy) would go to reach their dreams). When Sanji was asking him in front of Kuma "What about your dream?" Zoro was still thinking about his dream- it was just that the context has changed, it changed into a journey. His dream is the most important thing, but it wouldn't mean much, if, when on his way to accomplish that, he would betray his other words and promises.

[rrandomtthings]

One Piece • Opening 25

“Sekai No Owari” | “The Peak”

[symbologic]

Do you ever wonder if deep down, in Luffy's heart, he doesn't let himself worry about Zoro because he genuinely can't? Because the alternative is simply too horrifying to contemplate for even a second?

Think about how awful it was for Luffy when he lost someone very dear to him at Marineford. This person had even promised — promised! — Luffy that he would never die. That he would never leave him alone. Yet this person who was supposed to be Luffy's constant was ripped away from him, and Luffy was powerless to stop it.

"Devastated" doesn't even come close to describing the abject despair Luffy felt at that moment. He completely shut down and went catatonic.

[kissthecolors]

so can we please be absolutely sure that there's a mirrorball...

[cosmonautroger]

Peter Gabriel, Shock The Monkey, 1982

[sugarbear2001]

Sooo when is Zoro going to see Luffy's sun god form??

[camelspit]

i think the neverseen wouldve been defeated by now if theyd let dex keep his book 1 bitchiness

[sketching-shark]

Starting Journey to the West assuming its the story about a silly goofy monkey going on monster-of-the-week adventures with his friends:

Reading about Sun "was-definitely-a-warlord" Wukong smashing the upteenth person's head into a meat patty but a few chapters in:

[misskattylashes]

EXCLUSIVE - Alex played the opening bars of Standing Next to Me in Milan on 15/07/23

Cr Rowenarxm on IG

[mugiwara-lucy]

Luffy actually apologized for doing stupid shit for once 😬

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

the sole and devastating problem with monkey man is that it will literally never be able to push past the people who think the concept of the film disrespects hanuman ji to be exposed in an environment where people see it for more than its name.

[samarecharm]

I should add poledancing to the list of odd talents that Akira has but has no business having due to growing up in a small suburban town. I only had access to it bc i had a YMCA that had a MASSIVE gym (in a criminally underfunded part of the city); there were poles put up alongside some other structures to allow counselors to make up some shit for us to do lmao

Hes got a flair about him; speaking from experience, it is FUN to do gymnastic shit like that, and its really really REALLY good for ur core. Other things on the list are basic gymnastics (he hates that shit tho, the classes he took sucked ass), Parkour (loves this; less about running and more about utilizing ur core and bracing for falls), and Knife Flipping/Spinning. Theyre all odd things that coincidentally ended up being VERY good experience for the metaverse :) YEAH the metaverse makes it easier to pull off tricks, but he already knew how to do all those things; you cant get Ryuji or Yusuke to spin kick off a pole wo having them fall and bust their ass- Its ALL skill babey

[forged-in-kaoss]

O^8