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You know what, I'll make that poll myself. Inspired by @fandomdemographics's One Piece poll:

@onepiece-polls

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“Race you to the other side!” 🔥 🎩 👒

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i should have known the BtAS episodes were out of order since I know SDS and WNSD are. A quick search gave me the impression that the DVD release order is actually different from the airing, so I'm just going to keep going with it.

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BtAS: Heart of Ice

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Definitely the first I genuinely remembered, if not precisely, then in a few lines and general mein of backstory.

Where to start? I feel my thoughts were a lot more scattered.

First, the glitter on the ice was beautiful (I love sparkles in animation) and one my favorite things to see is falling snow or frost under the sun.

Second, less concrete, is the corporate cruelty at work, that conceited sense of profit that rallies as popularly accessible while not being kind. It will be interesting to see more, if any, this is explored in the broader social fabric of Gotham.

I guess what I'm trying to express is corporate feel of GothCorp.

Third, for such a tragic episode it was also the funniest to me: Alfred and the chicken soup, and this exchange:

"Freeze!"

"That's Mr. Freeze to you."

...are two of the things that got a laugh out of me.

Fourth, first appearance of Arkham. ETA: no longer true, as this seems consistently to be episode 14. I think I will refrain from chronology observations,if I write up any more of these.

Also, Mr. Freeze has henchmen; he also has more of a goal.

On that note, I was reminded again watching this that Batman has a great rogues gallery.

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BtAS: On Leather Wings

One, I really like bats. Even the bat didn't like Man-Bat burn evidence. (I'm assuming he swamped it out for the brown bat.)

Two, was this the guy Joker was pretending to be in "What a Night for a Dark Knight" in Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

On that note, this episode reminded me that Batman *is* a detective.

Also, I'm not sure, how *odd* the whole chemical transformation is, but also knowing that there's weird uncanny occurrences like this throughout Gotham from my memory of other rogue gallery characters.

This crossover with the uncanny reminds me of Scooby-Doo, but here it's more grounded. Usually in Scooby-Doo, if there's real uncanny (e.g. supernatural or monstrous) that's just what it is; it's not a transformation or result of chemicals. When the uncanny is rooted in known variables, it's usually someone in a mask.

Third, the animation was very fluid and dynamic. Very nice. ETA: if this was the first episode, this makes sense.

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One Piece / Over the Garden Wall crossover, featuring the ASL brothers.

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@murphmurphthejerk tags: #forever kicking myself for not giving one piece a proper chance bcus of the 4kids dub 😭#it must've been so fun#but also i might've gone crazy not being able to binge most of the story#very red pill v blue pill type of dilemma#op

These tags are amazing to me as someone who was introduced to One Piece via the 4Kids dub. I got into the manga almost immediately and actually missed the egregiously edited episode(s) (looking at you not-a-gun). Also when I watched Zoro backstory my takeaway was that Kuina was dead because the visuals looked like a funeral. When it reaches Arlong Park I thought, aren't I supposed to feel something a bit more? That's when I learned to download torrents from Kaizoku Fan subs where Arlong Park forum was hosted. Ever since Thriller Bark (in the manga) I've or predominately read it, but starting watching Egghead.

I remember the short-lived theory from that time that Hancock had Whitebeard's symbol on her back and was refusing to fight in the summit war because she was part of his crew.

Do you remember other debunked theories 👀

I don’t specifically remember what people thought was on Hancock’s back, but I do remember people arguing over whether her stone power was a devil fruit or if Oda really was throwing a curveball with the gorgon story.

There was a lot of wild speculation going on in those days. People thought Roger was Robin’s dad, Duval was either Krieg or Gin, that the Straw Hats would fight the other Supernovas on Sabaody, and that “the death of Portgas D Ace” meant that Ace survived getting fire fisted by Akainu and would embrace his Gol heritage.

My absolute favorite bit of fandom history, however, occurred during Impel Down. I used to lurk on the Arlong Park forums back in the day, and on the April Fools Day after Ivankov had been introduced the mods helped create a decently convincing fake spoiler of Luffy being gender bent in order to sneak out of the prison. The debate on whether Luffyko was real or not was legendary. It was a simpler time, and in some ways I miss it.

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BtAS: The Cat & The Claw

sooo may have started rewatching Batman: The Animated Series, and I'm amazed, not that it's good, but how much, so far, I love it in a completely different way as an adult.

I appreciate the aesthetic style more, but more to the first two episodes, I don't think I appreciated Selina/Catwoman as much.

First, there was the combination of thief and cats. My brain went to Nami immediately -- she has a similar epithet of "Cat Burglar," she has a history as a thief, she loves money but loves jewels just as much. It made my mind go: oooh! I *like* women thieves -- who it turns out are independent and prefer to work on their own. Obviously in Nami's case, there's a whole arc around this, and I'm only two episodes in. But man, it tickled a fascination in my brain that I didn't have before.

The other part of this was Selina's affinity with cats or felines. Naming her crime companion cat Isis was beautiful, and she genuinely *cared* about Isis and other felines, which just made me like her more.

Second, going off that, she wanted to build a wildlife preserve for wild cats (mountain lion/cougar specifically, I think). What? I love that! And she was so adamant and unafraid about it. I do love animals and while I'm not a big cats person, I do have a soft spot for smaller cats (and admittedly think lynx/bobcats are cool), so someone going out her way to protect wildlife, whatever the species, is amazing and admirable to me.

Oh and there was some stuff with terrorists and a plauge.

I did like Red Claw being a woman. Oh, and that Commissioner Gordon communicating with Batman actually made sense. And that Bruce/Batman and Selina/Catwoman had good chemistry which I rarely think (characters having chemistry not these two specifically having it).

Okay I think that's all. That's see if I keep doing this for every episode.

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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Any generalization of fairy tales is going to kind of fundamentally fail unless you are very specific about the definition of fairy tales (if you're using märchen or another form of categorization) and which culture(s) you're using as your basis, if your analysis is including other cultures that a given international tale might have traveled to, the biases of the folklore collectors (...particularly if you're dealing with German folktales collected by the Brothers Grimm) and the potential ways that they might have been received by the people (often though not exclusively women) who were telling them.

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lest this be lost in the bellicose noise of the day

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Gender and Identity Meet One Piece

This has been on my mind for awhile this month, and curiously, more to do with it being Pride month than because I associate the month with the beginning of my interest in One Piece. Accurately, I first watched some scattered (4Kids!) dubbed One Piece prior to June, but something about the 17th/18th date registers in my memory as when I committed enough to the show (as I had only been watching…

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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The hydra remains one of the coolest looking attacks in the series. I always love when Oda uses a more stark black and white shading, and the goopy looking texture of the poison is fantastic.

It's also a fun callback to the original mythology of the hydra, which is said to have extremely poisonous blood.

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☀️ Guardians of the Sun ☀️

My artwork for @alabasta-zine - can't wait to see Vivi as the Queen of Alabasta. My rising sun. 💛

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I do think Kuma's flashback, especially the parts about Ginny, and now with the children in Elbaf, adds more context to the Boa sisters situation.

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Greek God Games Submissions

Hello and welcome! For this tournament we will be competing different iterations of Greek gods in media and seeing how these interpretations stack up against each other.

Submission rules

Must be a god: I'm not accepting other figures in Greek mythology for this tournament. Even if they have some divinity in them, I won't take them unless they're a god.

I will also not be accepting "real life Greek mythology" as a media: I think putting the source material in against the spin offs would be unbalanced.

Please don't submit individual artist interpretations: This is mostly keeping something like Epic in mind where people have different preferences for how different artists draw the characters. The overarching media is still Epic. (This may apply to other things too)

Your character has to be a version of the god, not just referencing them.

No OCs please

Nothing NSFW

Only one character per submission but you can submit as many characters as you want

Don't spam one character repeatedly

I base the size of the bracket on how many submissions I get so don't be afraid to submit a lot!

Submissions will close on Saturday, July 5 at 12:00 AM EST (midnight). Have fun!

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