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The importance of community in One Piece, or Why it's all about food.
How villages in the East Blue, the first place we meet, the cradle of five out of the Straw Hats (yes, Sanji, too, shut it) and Luffy's specifically, are all close knit communities where people take care of each other.
How we're introduced to Luffy without a family, but not left to his own devices. How Makino feeds him and lets him hang out at her bar. How he can just walk up to the fishmonger and demand food. How the surly mayor gets down on his knees and offers the bandits money to save Luffy's life. How they all keep tabs of Luffy's bounty and celebrate it, knowing it was his dream. Even though he stopped living with them when he was six.*
How Zoro was raised in the dojo, as far as we know. How he forfeited his life in pursuit of his dream and so he was alone, unmoored, as he chased Mihawk, until he found the Straw Hats.
How the people of Orange Town refuse to abandon anyone, even a dog, who they enter a pirate-invaded village regularly for, so they can feed him. How the thought of Buggy destroying their history drives the mayor to go on a suicide mission just to make it stop. How, when he takes a while to get back to their refuge, the rest of the villagers storm the town, uncaring of the same pirates. How they chase the Straw Hats out when they think they hurt their mayor (well. When they found out they hurt the mayor), and how Luffy laughs all the way to the port because it shows that they're good people who love each other.
How the people of Syrup Village rankle against Usopp's cry-wolf tendencies, but literally shape their day around it, and some even admit that they find it funny. How they all grouped together to defend one of their own when he's accused of being a murderer (even if they're wrong about Klahadore). How Ussop, whose first instinct is to run and whose knees won't stop shaking even when he chooses to do otherwise, risks his life for their safety, then his reputation for their peace of mind.
How Nami, since she was little, has been living for her village, even though they've cut her off. How they only did that so she'd feel free to leave them, even though it would mean they'd always be hostage to Arlong. How, upon finding out that Nami had been tricked, they all decide enough is enough and they'll fight the Fish-men for what they did to her.
How Franky helped his family, previously on the dumps and seemingly destined to become the dregs of society, turn their lives around just by giving them a place where they could all be together, and became the kind of criminal that could take care of Water 7. How Sanji and Robin and Chopper were all told to go to sea so they could find people to call their own.
How they take this to the Grand Line. How the Straw Hats don't ever really steal, because people are often eager to help them. How the villages change into kingdoms, and yet the common theme is that people care for each other. How kingdoms will choose peace over the safety of armies because it means no one gets left behind – left without medical care, or without water, or turned into toys to fall through the gaps of society.
No one can survive alone, especially in a place as dangerous as the Grand Line. It's why so many of the Straw Hats' adventures begin with someone feeding Luffy – taking them into the fold, taking care of them like they would their own. It's why, polemic as the scene was, Luffy was so furious when he thought Zoro had attacked the people of Cactus Island, who'd been kind and welcomed them even though they were strangers, wanderers, the kind of attitude which keeps the world turning.
It's why the villains are always so surprised when the Straw Hats show up to battle with hordes of allies. They think they'll only really have to deal with Luffy. They think a man is an island, that bonds of fellowship don't mean anything, that they can kill and abuse people, their subjects, and the rest of them will just take it, not care because they, at least, survived. (It's why people turning against their subordinates always sets Luffy off – yes, there's loyalty, that's your people, but more than that, they'd give their lives for you, how dare take without giving back?) Alternatively, they think the Straw Hats don't have any stakes in the fight – as if feeding someone isn't giving them life. As if it isn't letting them into the fold, making their troubles your troubles and vice versa.
*It's one of the reasons I kinda resisted first Ace and then Dadan tbh. The vibes, man.
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me when I leave my lovely rural house under a hill, by the forest, with two lovely flower gardens, a bike ride away from a little village and I stand somewhere near traffic in a city: mom?? COME PICK ME UP
#too many people#why noise#where fresh air#what happening#the cons of this living is that you do have to travel to cities a lot#for like everything#from doctor appointment to shopping that isn't groceries
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So since Echoing Whispers is stuck in Decision Limbo tm I thought i’d share some earlier versions of it.
Well, technically these take place much later on in the story timeline. But they were my first attempts at writing it down, and they ended up fitting together nicely lol
Enjoy!
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"Please Echo, can't you just ask him?"
The fairy crossed their arms as they looked at the human, Ryan.
Normally the table Echo was standing on would only come up to Ryan's waist. But the knight was on his knees so that his head was level with Echo. It had been comical watching the tall human scrunching himself up in hopes of swaying the tiny being.
It wasn't going well.
"And why can't you?" Echo smirked. "Last time I checked you have less magic than a gnome."
Ryan fidgeted, glancing over Echo towards the door next to the table. "I know that. But well, you know?" he looked at the fairy pleadingly.
"I don't actually." Echo shot it down mercilessly.
"Echo, please! I'm pretty sure he still hates me."
"Oh yeah definitely. He does not like people messing with his books." Echo laughed.
Ryan stood with speed he really shouldn't have covered in armor and threw his arms in the air "Than why are you being like-" he looked at the door again.
Echo causally looked over their shoulder "Hi Whisper."
Without any noise, the door had opened. Now a cloaked creature stood there. Their white eyes were half focused on the human.
Ryan stuttered for a moment before abruptly turning and dashing down the hall.
"He can be quick when he wants to. If only he could talk that way." Echo turned towards the creature "Took you an awful long time to investigate. Loosing your hearing too old man?"
Whisper huffed and put a clawed hand palm up on the table.
"Yeah I don't blame you for not wanting to deal with him." Echo walked over and plopped themself down on Whisper's hand. "It's just going around in circles with that guy."
"Not you?" said Whisper.
"Of course not."
Whisper rolled his eyes as he raised his hand up so that it became level with his shoulder.
"Nope! Higher up." said Echo.
With some more judgmental huffing, Whisper raised his hand up to his head.
"Thank you sir." Echo jumped from the hand to Whisper's head. They leaned back onto one of Whisper's horns and wrapped their arms around it. It was a bit of on awkward position, but it worked.
Whisper, as silent as ever, shuffled back into his tower.
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Echo stared up at the ceiling, bored out of his mind.
He sighed loudly and threw his arm over the side of the shelf. He looked down to see if there was a reaction.
There was none. Whisper hadn't even paused as they stirred the bright purple potion they were brewing.
Sighing dramatically, Echo sat up. "Wwwwhisper."
Whisper again ignored the fairy. Instead they shuffled over to a table laden with bundles of herbs and began shifting through them. They pulled one out.
"That's wolfsbane. The lavender is next to it." said Echo.
Still silent, Whisper put down the wolfsbane and grabbed the correct herb.
"Seriously?"
Whisper's shoulders shook in their laughing manner. They held the bundle of lavender over the cauldron and pulled off the flowers letting them drop in the boiling liquid.
Echo rolled his eyes. With dramatics that were wasted on this audience, Echo grabbed a nearby vine and rolled so that he fell off the shelf and onto the vine. Clinging to the vine, he climbed down to the lowest table part of the cabinet.
It was an absolute mess on the surface.
#g/t#g/t writing#g/t ocs#unfinished#dragons writings#gonna try and us that as#like my original art tag#or well for writing#or#dragons works#for like everything#i will get organized eventually lol#echoing whispers#these are two separate stories#but they also kinda work as one
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i think we should remind musicians they can absolutely make up little stories for their songs btw. it doesn’t have to be about them at all. you can invent a guy and put him in situations to music. time honoured tradition in fact.
#i love reading your examples! however next person to be like um actually this exists?? it’s on sight#i know it exists. i think it’s fun. that’s why i think more people should do it.#sometimes i think the confessional style loses impact because everything has to be excavated from the depths of the soul#and somehow. confessional writing seems to be going with the most disaffected bland sound possible. odd.#i love deeply personal songs! i love when songs sound like they mean something to the artist!#something something wider issue of mining trauma and being performatively vulnerable for quote unquote content#idk i don’t have the actual knowledge to write about this well there’s just something not landing for me recently#mine
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obsessed with this
#like. not to make everything about good omens but#crowley#there are so many versions of this with him gazing at aziraphale its so fkabdkahdbw#i did a real bad job at positioning these fjsbdhs i also know the last one is 'no one knows what..' but. whatever#.jtxt
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i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".
it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.
do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.
but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.
do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).
you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.
walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.
no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.
do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."
you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.
there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.
i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.
he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."
#spilled ink#warm up#“why did u tag it warm up” bc i wrote it off the cuff while drinkin coffee lol#btw the 30 dollar buy in for the dog walking is bc they pay the organizer a small pittance so she can#run fb ads and stuff and like she does put in a lot of work i don't mind paying her#but that's exactly what im fucking talking about like.#ppl can't afford to volunteer their time anymore and we all understand it!!! everything costs money for everyone!#like we didn't have to use to say ''do you mind paying me back for the stuff we ate''#we used to be able to afford to feed our friends once in a while!!!
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Saw this on Twitter and I obligatory need to share it
#dungeon meshi#ryoko kui#dunmeshi#like this is literally explain EVERYTHING#i aspire to be a cool artist like her#delicious in dungeon
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god i love my friends. shout out to people who love their friends. this is a post for friend lovers
#sorry i thought too hard about everything and got weirdly emotional like hgoly shit#i talk to people here every day and we know stuff about each other and shit and we exchange ideas and waaa#we're like all basically penpals but better#im realizing how revolutionary this is. like had we all been born earlier we never would have met#and even if we did we'd have to talk through letters with weeks if not months in between responses#can you imagine that#every day instead i literally wake up and my friends are there#insane#i love having friends
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Must be a Sugondese joke.
#dungeon meshi#chilchuck tims#laios touden#senshi#Looks like I won't be able to post this on dungeon meshi thursday so instead I will have a fun past/future conversation#This is wednesday me who has not seen the episode yet but I have such a strong feeling that it is going to be extremely special.#*This* fight is what the first arc has been building up to and it has *so* many incredible moments.#We're going to see the chilchuck knife throw! The leg sacrifice! The bones!#Watch them ramp up the quality this episode and go wild with the frantic action of 'oh god our plan is going to shit'.#Hello. Me of the future who just watched the episode.#I knew it was going to be good but that...that blew my mind completely. My high expectations were beyond met. My god.#I'm just speechless at how well they handled everything. The leg. The tension. That ENDING.#If you have not already: PLEASE watch Dungeon Meshi.
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I think game studios should just release their character creators online. For the times when I don’t wanna play the whole game, just the lil dress up part
#yes this is about baldurs gate 3#no I don’t have a decent computer if any description or a PlayStation#I do wanna play the game but I mostly wanna make my dnd characters for hours#you could literally do it for everything tho#totk outfits and dyes#Skyrim could have it’s 17th release#outfits in shit like assassins creed games#dragon age#fromsoft games#the sims maybe??#the options are endless pls game devs#video games#nintendo#Xbox#Sony#PlayStation
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seeing reddit refugees repeatedly hit their post limits and comment their thoughts on every reblog is kind of refreshing. site migration be damned these guys know how to blog
#reddit blackout#it’s great#i love the excitement!! it seems like everyone is enjoying tumblr so far#reminds me of 2010 when people reblogged everything that hit their dashs#mine
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wait a second wait a second wait a second wait a second wait a s
#dungeon meshi#adventure time#senshi of izganda#izutsumi#ice king#marceline the vampire queen#simon petrikov#my art#knowing like. everything about me. I'm surprised it took me this long to make this connection
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Buckshot: Part 1 of 4
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
#hazbin hotel#radioapple#hazbin hotel fanart#human AU#these aus are so freaking fun to work on#it’s like that movie everything everywhere all at once#alastor#Lucifer hazbin#husk#niffty#Charlie Morningstar#Saint Peter#radioapple nanny au
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my favorite genre of games is the one where you can gather a team of idiots and wander around with them doing sidequests
#this game is like everything i love in dragon age but mooore#and it also has a sexy elf with a tragic background and a funny mage with a proneness to blow up#baldur's gate 3#bg3#bg3 astarion#bg3 karlach#bg3 gale#bg3 lae'zel#bg3 shadowheart#bg3 halsin#bg3 tav#bg3 fanart#baldurs gate 3
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love when ppl defend the aggressive monetization of the internet with "what, do you just expect it to be free and them not make a profit???" like. yeah that would be really nice actually i would love that:)! thanks for asking
#yes i want things to be free like ??? that is not a weird desire#'but but it costs money to keep up' ok and? how is that my problem#the government has plenty of murder dollars they could reallocate a few to make internet services universal if they wanted#also these companies were perfectly capable of supporting themselves before the internet got drowned with ads so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#edit: muting notifs on this post bc new additions have kind of petered out#so no one feel bad about adding something someone else has said‚ it is not bothering me im just trying to keep my#notifs page cleanish lol#also since i saw some people are being redirected to read my tags: firstly hiiiiii this is a special secret message for you:3#secondly i have learned since making this that the reason they were able to support themselves previously was because#of investors bankrolling everything#and theyre now finally realizing that theyre never going to actually make a profit and arent as willing to invest#however thats just a minor correction and doesnt change my overall point#once again. so many murder dollars#so thats why im just adding it here in the tags rather than making an actual correction#anyways . love yall 💕#origibberish#bigger gibbers
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