I come back for a hot second (and go into hiding pretty much right again) with some redrawn screencaps of what I'm watching currently!! 👀 All I have in me are the sillies-

I think constantly about Pudding and Sanji being obviously parallels of each other and how fucked up it is that Pudding had to live the life Sanji managed to escape but she constantly gets hate online as if she hadn't been literally manipulated by her mother through the whole fucking arc. But okay. Yes. God forbid women have any sort of trauma response and if they do they're not allowed to have a redemption arc because of course they're extremely evil for making your silly baby boy cry and they don't have a heart even though it's explicitly shown in screen that they do and they regret their past actions.

I’m SURE someone has done this before but I NEED to see Zeff doing Gordon Ramsay bits. Zeff yelling at his stupid employees and then turning around and acting so sweet and kind and understanding with little baby Sanji it’s literally so perfect I need this like yesterday

cannot stop thinking about how jealous tye hearts and strawhats must be of each other because like imagine you're a strawhat. your captain is in the middle of a war and sees his brother die in front of him. you and your crewmates are scattered across the globe with no way to reach him. you don't even know if he's still alive until months later when he reappears on the front page of the newspaper with message for you guys. later when you're all reunited with a new alliance on the way, you find out that this weird ass pirate and his crew was there post war. weird ass pirate and his crew patched your captain up. weird ass pirate and his crew was there in your captain's darkest hour and you weren't. it should've been you by his side and it wasn't. and on the hearts side of things, your captain leaves you behind to fight his abuser. he does not let you come with him. you live on a submarine. you've all seen each other at your worst moments. you've seen how much doflamingo scares your captain. you've been working on this plan for fucking years and instead of letting you stand by the man you have chosen to follow he sends you away and instead takes strawhat's crew as backup. you dont even know if he's alive until the news comes out. strawhat luffy and his crew were there as your capatain faced his abuser and you weren't. it should've been you by his side and it wasn't.

People need to chill about the one piece live action. Some stuff isn’t gonna be perfect but it almost never is when you transfer fantasy anime into live action

I think it looks pretty cool so far!

I THINK!! usopp and nami (and maybe others too) need to learn haki. They said you can't be in the new world without it because everyone is just so incredibly strong and here we are. They are getting headbutted to death and can't do anything about it (their abilities are being nerfed for the plot I know) but they could be SO GOOD if they could do something more idk.... we saw how strong nami was with zeus.... but she has fought with her bostaff before and that just disappeared... nami haki bostaff you will live in my dreams I guess

episode 454:

sanji genuinely looks his absolute prettiest in pink lipstick and light purple eyeshadow. it completely overpowers how unflattering his dress was

I’ve heard CNetz complain about how the anime would add extra shit that makes Sanji worse for the sake of comedy (like the pervert gags) but if I stick to the manga I’ll miss out on all the cute fillers and anime-only moments but I’m too early into One Piece to juggle both the anime and the manga ARrdtsgabbaj I’m dying help a sister out

okay so hypothetically... scott pilgrim zosan au????

So I have been watching One Piece right? And I am like at episode 425 or something, like after all the Straw-hats are separated by Kuma right? And in one episode we see that Sanji is banished by the paw pad man to the Queer TM island. (From a first glance the men in drag if they are supposed to be trans women that depiction is very transphobic ngl are not depicted that flatteringly but I also want to give the benefit of the doubt because Oda has time and time again managed to subvert expectations on characters but alas). Which makes me think that Bartholomew fricking Kuma, one of the Warlords of the Sea, looked at Sanji Once and was like "yup, no way that guy's straight, have a fun self discovery at queer island vacation".

I gotta say it bothers me an insane amount when people refer to the Vinsmoke Brothers as "grown-ups" and say they were old enough to know what they were doing during WCI. Because despite agreeing on the fact that yes, they are abusers and Sanji has all the right in the world to not forgive them, the thought of them being irredeemable, especially emphasizing their age... Feels wrong.

People seem to think that once you turn 18 you're all grown-up and aware of your own actions, but when you've been manipulated and used and abused since the day you were born, no you are not. Abuse stops your normal growth and understanding of your surroundings and the development of a personality. And I am not saying they didn't know any better or justifying shit because they are awful people and there's no excuse for what they did to Sanji. But their whole story is about how they didn't grow up at all and are used as machines, and about how Sanji grew up too fast.

Sanji knew what torture was at the age of 8 but his brothers don't know what actual love is being 21. And I think both situations are extremely fucked up.

Referring to somebody (especially somebody who has grown up in a toxic environment) as mature and an adult (as an excuse to say they are aware of what they're doing completely) when they're 21 is just so wild to me because first, the didn't have a chance to grow up at all, and second, it's just 21 how the hell is 21 that old for you? People justifying the actions of teenagers but suddenly deeming people in their early twenties as "old enough to know better" is stupid. You don't turn 18 and suddenly become aware of good and bad out of nowhere. They were clearly caged and trapped in that cycle of abuse and didn't grow up at all.

Neither Sanji nor the viewers have to forgive the Vinsmoke brothers for their behavior at all, but you can admit somebody is redeemable and had a shitty life and they're the way they are because of their abuse without actually justifying their actions or forgiving them. Yes, fuck the Vinsmoke brothers. They're horrible people. Sanji should hate them and if the story ever makes him forgive them I will be extremely furious, I would despise that. But acting as if they were inherently evil and being +18 made them mature and emotionally aware all of a sudden is just not understanding their characters in the slightest.

DIABLE JAMBE SWEEEEEEEPPPP

I have concluded that the video essay space is in fact lacking in Usopp content. There is basically just one discussing what I want to talk about and it's by a channel that's literally only done One Piece videos the last year and based on the chapter titles it's not exactly what I want to talk about

fandom calling pudding selfish for what she did at the end of wci don't understand the nuances of being an absolute gaslight gatekeep girlboss who can't help but be messy to further the plot