#the head of black ops

[tiredspacedragon]

18 and 19 for the ask game

18 - It's absolutely criminal the fandom has been sleeping on: Rhotuka Spinners. Rhotuka Spinners are such a fascinating concept. Every being in the Matoran Universe possesses the ability to generate a Rhotuka, but can't do so without a launcher. The launcher is just an externalization method for a power latent in its wielder. That's such a bizarre concept and I love it. And then there's the fact that every sapient character has a unique power. It's like Mask Powers 2.0. And quite frankly I'm shocked that I haven't seen more discussion or theorizing about what various characters' Rhotuka powers might be. I get that we only know a handful of characters' spinner powers and that makes it hard to determine a pattern, but I still feel like it leaves a lot of room for imagination and fun fan-talk.

19 - You're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like: Okay, look. Just. Hear me out, okay. That post, the other day. The one about the Toa Mata's many parents. Where we all kinda established that Artakha is effectively their father, while the closest thing they have to a mother is Helryx. A very distant, work-obsessed mother, but she did still welcome them into the world and arranged their training and saw to it that they had everything they needed. Yeah, now I kind of...ship Helryx and Artakha. Like. Just a little bit. In a weird, semi-platonic, semi-not way. Like, the precursor to the Order of Mata Nui was the Hand of Artakha, but Artakha himself had nothing to do with the organization, it was just named after him. And I can see him mentioning it to Helryx at some point and her actually getting a little flustered because sure, it happened millennia ago, but at the time, she and the rest of the grew were big fans of Artakha, so to speak. She's basically meeting the closest thing she's ever had to an idol or a role model when he shows up in the Core Processor. I don't know, something about two ancient workaholic recluses finding kindred spirits in each other appeals to me. I can see them sharing a drink, or standing together very stoically watching over their shared superhero children. Barely exchanging more than a handful of words but sharing a mutual understanding of safety and comfort in each other's presence. Yeah, I don't know why I'm like this either.

[yellowistheraddest]

the worlds most pathetic wet-cat looking guy

[doodleplus]

that guy that i hate!!

[kaetor]

I swore to myself I'd never redesign the black mask fit because I think it's perfect the (horrible) way it is but then I got bored and had an idea.

[dykealloy]

[mintypsii]

not a part 2, but here's a prequel to this sanuso comic I did last month !!! (takes place the night before ,, technically after the first three panels)

[themgfujoshi]

My take on the bang bang meme since i cant animate haahaahahaha

[imerian]

Aaaaand i decided to post more of my f1 crafts here so here landoscar edition (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

Onse again photo without doodles under cut and some rambling in tags

[leventart-den]

Modern AU about Zoro, a retired police officer with an injury who one day, on advice, decided to adopt a dog from a shelter. Sanji works at a pet shelter and is hiding from his crazy father. Zoro ended up having three dogs now because he couldn't find another reason to see the curly eyebrow again. The dogs are very different and their names are the names of swords from the canon. Zoro absolutely loves them. In addition, it turned out that Sanji and Zoro live in houses next door and Sanji now helps Zoro with the dogs when he has time. Zoro also learned that Sanji always dreamed of being a cook, but for some mysterious reason he no longer cooks. So at some point, Zoro invited him to his place, supposedly to help with the dogs, and in the end he unobtrusively asked him to help with cooking, and now for the umpteenth time Sanji is in charge of his kitchen, joyfully humming to himself while cooking for a group of friends with whom Zoro promised to introduce him. It turns out they both know Nami, Vivi’s girl who, being the daughter of the owner of a large corporation, often donates money and food for Sanji’s pet shelter. Nami's smile when she sees Sanji at their little house party is very sly.

Zoro begins to feel that he is finally getting better.

Sanji feels a little bit happy.

Until one day Sanji's brother appears on his doorstep and declares that his father has a "task" for him.

[agir1ukn0w]

Sanji you incurable simp

Bonus

the full quote is even better: "And like any woman, she's a mystery to be unraveled."😍

bonus bonus

[summershouto]

zosan content creates itself

[beanghostprincess]

it wouldn't surprise me that, despite sanji being the literal cook of the crew, he had an eating disorder (ofc trigger warning here for eds, child abuse, starvation and, y'know, sanji's background in general).

he experienced the most traumatic years of his life trapped inside a fucking cell, with a metal helmet around his head and only eating when his father let him. which was 'only when the kid needs it', probably. which leads to judge saying 'i couldn't even kill my son' and it can translate to 'at least i kept you alive'. and not to turn this into irl trauma, but abusive parents constantly use the 'keeping you alive and giving you food' excuse (the bare fucking minimum) to guilt trip you into thinking that they're good and that you're exaggerating how bad they treated you because, well, at least they kept you alive, didn't they?

so here, sanji sees food as a form of loving but in the sense of 'at least my dad didn't kill me. that's something'. so his vision towards food remains positive but only because of his mom. only because his love language is acts of service and his mom took everything he gave her, even if it was horrific, as a way of saying 'i love all of you. you're perfect because you tried and the fact that you brought me your food is enough to make me feel loved. you're not a mistake' despite his brothers and his father saying that he was, indeed, a mistake and weak for wanting to give food to others instead of just taking it for himself.

both ideas of 'someone who loves you wouldn't let you starve' and 'offering food to others is opening up your heart' coexist inside little sanji's brain.

so it wouldn't be crazy to think that, although sanji loves cooking and his best early memories of it are that book that kept him dreaming while he was locked up, and his mom's words, has a hard time eating food.

besides, sanji is used to giving, not taking. he's not selfish, but actually extremely generous to the point of forgetting about his own well-being. i don't think he actually thinks about how hungry he is until it hurts. until he needs it. he only ate whenever his father let him so he wouldn't starve, and the only thing that made him feel well about food was the fact that he could give it to the one he loved and needed it.

sanji doesn't have good experiences eating food, but only cooking it. it's a great representation of his personality as a whole, to be honest.

then the whole zeff thing happens, and he actually almost starves to death and learns what hunger feels like. but once again, zeff saves him and he's the one to be hungry for not letting the kid starve. which might seem similar to what judge did, but 'not letting you starve because i couldn't kill you' isn't the same as 'not letting you starve because i don't want you to die'. sanji learns the difference that day.

he didn't know somebody could be that kind. especially to him, someone who doesn't deserve it (he thinks he doesn't) because, in his house, love only came when you earned it.

and, you know, sanji's like that. sanji's selfless. sanji does everything for others. and so the guilt eats him up first. what zeff did is beautiful and amazing and we love him for it, but we don't know about how that affected sanji at a young age. which only makes him even more selfless and more of a better, kinder, generous person. and that might be bad, considering how little he thinks about himself already-

he learns that throwing away food is awful, and that you have to be grateful for being able to eat. grateful for living. so his don't-waste-food policy is obviously a big part of his personality due to almost dying of starvation and also owing his life to his dad (zeff, the real one, of course. fuck judge).

but that can almost be dangerous because refusing to waste food leads to forcing yourself to eat only because of his concept of what food means.

and then we have luffy in wci saying the whole 'i won't eat anything that you haven't cooked' which is precious and something very beautiful to say to your cook, but that only brings sanji back to 'starving is a form of loving' and 'you can't let someone you love starve'. and no matter how much he wants to force himself to push luffy away, he gives him food because he knows his captain will keep his promise.

sanji feels guilty, once again, but he ends up fixing it.

the thing is, after everything i've said, i don't think it would be weird to think about sanji viewing food as something external. something that isn't for himself. something that he only has control over because it's for others and not for himself, and it's a concept, a form of love, and not a need. because he does not feel hungry. when it comes to food, he feels responsibility and guilt and love... but never hunger.

hunger is, by all means, a form of selfishness sanji isn't used to unless his body is about to give up completely. he can eat out of pleasure and satisfaction and love for food, but he does it to train a selfless skill that may or may not also be selfish in the sense of 'wanting to be loved and useful'.

so here we have:

seeing food as a form of love because at least his dad wouldn't let him die, but he probably learned to push away the concept of hunger

seeing cooking as the most beautiful way of showing your feelings and efforts and taking care of people

not knowing the concept of hunger due to his own selflessness

scratch the first one, actually starving for others is a form of loving. he will never let the people he loves starve even if it means he dies in the process.

he can't waste food because that would be insulting and disrespectful. no matter the context.

and i'm just saying (and this whole thing is extremely self-indulgent and me projecting again and again) that it wouldn't be surprising to me if he had some issues when it comes to eating and making food for himself.

it's not that he thinks he doesn't deserve food, it's just the thought that he doesn't need it. going back to his past it could be seeing hunger as a form of weakness (not when it comes to others. never when it comes to others), both because of what his family taught him men should be like, and the fact that the manliest man he knows used starvation as a form of love.

so it's seeing hunger as something that makes you weak, but only when it comes to himself because of course, he wouldn't apply the same rules for him as for everyone else. he's just like that.

he thinks about others first, and himself second. always second. and the thought of eating and needing it only comes when it's too much. and when that time comes, the voices in his head tell him that he's weak. and again, i don't think he sees himself as undeserving of food because he has this whole thing about everybody deserving to eat. but he has never played with the same rules as the rest, always a few steps behind, so if he can't fight the thoughts in his head contradicting his morals, that's just how he is.

not to mention the 'don't waste food' part which also would make him feel guilty about not being able to eat if the thoughts of not deserving food and being weak for needing to eat become too much. he can't eat because he doesn't deserve it and because he's weak. and he can't starve, because that would mean wasting food.

so, you know, sanji is out of options here.

if some days sanji just casually decides not to eat- forgets to prepare himself a meal while his crew enjoys his food... that's just the way he is, isn't it? and if he lies about it, it's just another form of love, keeping them away from his problems.

besides, controlling hunger and controlling food is the only way he has to take control of his messy life. when something is out of reach, the unstoppable thing called life he has never been able to control, at least he can choose not to eat. he can choose to starve, this time, with the comfort of knowing he won't. he can choose not to eat this time, not like all of those times when food was controlling him instead.

at least the strawhats will never, ever, starve if he's around. but of course, nobody thinks about asking the cook if he wants to eat. that would be absurd. and it's impossible to think sanji would have some sort of issue with it! sanji, the cook, who keeps telling them not to waste food, not eating? that would be absurd and too selfless to make sense.

that's just the way he is.

[art-by-a-gus]

Pose practice but I have brain worms

[mintypsii]

author x barista cafe au (sanji is competing against himself)

[legend-had-it]

when sanji was on fire in thriller bark I really wanted one of the strawhats to push him into the ocean to put him out

[citrusdownn]

whispers of freedom and love spoken to flowers