some men are made to suffer

AoT things I send people when I don’t know how to human and text normally:

the way other people (esp non filipinos) are blaming filipinos instead of blaming the marcoses for their massive disinformation campaign & probable rigging of voting machines.... it doesnt sit right with me

this is SO CRINGE……..

oh the confusing sexual identity dreams i know he has about vale

do you ever think about how marco is one of the last people who knows how close shanks and buggy once were? do you think he ever looks at shanks and instinctively searches for buggy? i bet you marco looks at shanks surrounded by his crew and still thinks that shanks looks lonely. because back then, you could never find one without the other. if you insulted shanks, you insulted buggy and vice versa. they were attached at the hip. if you got one of them alone, you better savor it because in the next five minutes, the other one would come find them. like in my heart i know every time marco sees shanks these days all he thinks is where's the rest of you?

911 Season 1 + Buck being a baby (derogatory)

My hand slipped and I genderbended the vr46 academy

evolution of gamers

Got bored on a train and decided to do some veeery quick sketches of crystalized Marco AU since this idea is so cool and so angsty!!!

@marcobodtlives It's not much but I hope you like it 😊

12 years after his passing marco simoncelli is still so alive in all our memories 🤍

I can't help but think about what if Buggy was raised in White Beard's ship rather than with the Rogers? In my heart of hearts I really do want to believe that Rogers cared and treasured Buggy like he did Shanks but afaik Shanks feels like a favorite; he's given the strawhat, and there's the Wano flashback of the Roger pirates about to face off the Whitebeards, and Shanks is wearing Roger's current captain hat on top of the straw hat while he's munching on some chocolate (😭) and idk, it makes me feel for the little clown

Whitebeard seems like he's a better father figure than Rogers considering his treasure is his family, so I wonder if he would have a better understanding of how Buggy feels, and how to raise a kid who doesn't take to battle as quickly as the other kids (let's say Marco bc he probably is the only other kid in the ship). Would Whitebeard celebrate and praise Buggy for his creative inventions and bombs? Would he encourage Buggy to be the flashiest boy of the Grand line, and to wear his red nose proud bc no matter what, he loves Buggy the way he is anyway? Idk I'm just thinking about what if Buggy wasn't broken and jaded :')

I'm still a Shuggy enjoyer so I want Shanks to be still a part of Buggy's childhood. What if Shanks is interested in Whitebeard's youngest bc he's also a kid too, and he's super eye catching. Shanks probably tries to fight Buggy but he gets overwhelmed by Buggy's bombs or whatever, or because Buggy's too good at dodging and/or running away (Whitebeard probably clues in that Buggy's not battle heavy, but he has immense potential when it comes to escapes and getting out of danger). Shanks just falls in love with this kid who he can't quite grasp and always looks forward to seeing again. Or maybe Shanks also gets adopted as a Whitebeard, but Whitebeard's parenting polishes Shanks and Buggy's strengths in a way where one doesn't feel inferior to the other and they're both happy kids. Lots of maybes...

Case and point, Buggy as a Whitebeard would maybe fix him 😭

buggy as a whitebeard pirate… i do think he ends up mentally healthier for it, but not necessarily because “roger’s a bad dad”—imo he’s not trying to be anyone’s dad, he’s buggy and shanks’ captain, it’s a different relationsh—*a long hook drags me offstage*

ahem. anyway.

potential upsides to being a whitebeard pirate:

if buggy’s in whitebeard’s crew, he is whitebeard’s family. there’s no room for doubt, he joined the crew this morning and has already been called ‘son’ three times.

lots of support, resources, etc. should he eat the chop-chop fruit. this is a crew with a lot of devil fruit experience, they know how to deal with the limitations that arise. if buggy mopes and complains about not being able to search for treasure underwater, i bet somebody comes up with a diving suit or a little submersible boat he can use; if he wants to swim, they find him a fresh water pool; etc.

there’s not just two kids around—he’ll get less focused attention, yeah, but the same is true for everyone. cap’n dad might play favorites, but i think that not being the favorite hurts more when there’s only two options. when there’s five, ten, dozens of other kids fighting for his attention… well, buggy might be bitter about not being the favorite, but he surely knew the odds weren’t in his favor. also, not being codependently reliant on one single peer/friend can do wonders for your mental health.

no childhood trauma over the crew breaking up and the captain dying!

potential downsides to being a whitebeard pirate:

he never gets to leave the nest. whitebeard pirates who want leadership roles can become division commanders; if they want an independent leadership role, i guess they can become captains of whitebeard subordinate crews? but it seems to me that they only leave if they die, retire, or turn traitor. i think buggy would find that stifling. whitebeard: the world’s most powerful helicopter parent?

there’s not just two kids around—if focused attention turns out to be something buggy really needs, that’s a shame, because he’s not gonna get it.

this is not a crew that cares about finding treasure or going on grand adventures. i don’t think buggy is gonna be too happy about whitebeard’s “the real treasure was the family we found along the way” ethos. though maybe he just ignores this, the way ace ignored whitebeard’s lack of interest in the pirate king title.

adulthood trauma over the captain dying and the crew falling apart/being destroyed by a traitor!

Exactly 1 brain cell between them

wip wednesday 1.24.24

well i stayed up too late and now its wednesday, so here's a bit of an elliott lefevre (chambers) x marco peña (the kissing booth 2 & 3) something. i'm not sure what to tell you. there was art and @lostcol enabled me.

“Shit,” Marco mutters as he walks up the pristine sidewalk to his new school. It looks like… well it doesn’t look like any school he’s ever gone to. He snaps a picture and sends it to his sister with “this is some serious rich people shit,” before he walks into the shiny new building.  He heads to the counselor’s office where a too-friendly white man with long hair wearing a thin tshirt and jeans introduces himself as Coach Jones despite not coaching any sports and gives him a rather baffling introduction to Crystal Valley, finally wrapping up when there’s a knock on the door.  “And that leads us to phase two of your onboarding process,” he says before calling, “come in!” A bored looking white boy with long shaggy hair and bags under his eyes leans against the doorframe. He's wearing an odd floral print button up shirt that's too big on him. He's got the top several buttons undone. He looks like he’d rather walk into traffic than come further into the office. Marco watches as the counselor gives him a strange, intense look before announcing, “this is Elliott, your transitional partner! He’ll show you around, help you ease into life at Crystal Valley.”

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Some more fan art from @pdrrook Perfumare VN. Based on the scene from Reed's route, where Reed and my MC, Liz, dress up to look for Marco in The Sea Chant.

It's still hilarious to me that Marco tries to build a rep as a dangerous drug dealer, and while he does pull a gun on the MC, the dude isn't actually very tough. Lbr, his real name is Alios, and he got beat up by an accountant and a perfume sales girl. Tbh Marco comes across more as a spoiled rich kid trying to play gangster after watching Scarface too many times.

Honestly, Marco is lucky to have gotten away with just a broken nose and hand. Sure, Liz doesn't seem that intimidating at first, especially next to Reed and his reputation working for Alan. Other than her Allure tier I headcanon, she also used to carry a straight razor in her purse for extra protection. What? She's a single woman living alone in Elazar, and she stayed in some pretty sketchy neighborhoods! She wants some extra insurance just in case her Allure ability won't work. Unlike Marco, Liz didn't have a rich father. Her dad ran a barbershop back in Jona, and honestly, she had a decent side hustle back in her Academy days, cutting students' hair.

Sadly, she'd still need a license to work at a barbershop or salon, so she's stuck dealing with assholes like Marco. Again, he's so lucky Liz couldn't fit a straight razor in her tiny clutch bag because she wouldn't hesitate to add more scars to Marco's face.

i still can't get over the fact that Grant's first idea after finding Marco was:

"Hey, we should totally fuck!"

Like HELLO?!? SIR??? THAT IS NOT THE ISSUE AT HAND?!?