Usopp being the best wingman ever and being like "You know Luffy Sanji really isn't a big fan of bugs. We can TOTALLY use that to our advantage"
Ten minutes later Luffy's got Sanji in his arms clinging to him like a koala scared out of his MIND bc he saw a spider in the kitchen (conveniently placed there by Usopp) and Luffy looks over Sanji's shoulder to see Usopp hiding behind the mast giving him a thumbs up like this
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i guess the reason i'm not an anarchist is that i don't think if you get enough people in your community doing mutual aid that one day white supremacy and colonialism are going to poof out of existence. there's a bunch of intermediate steps between those two things, and a lot of them involve large-scale organization, and when it comes to large-scale organization, at some point you're gonna have to do a thing that looks a lot like taking the reins of state power to influence policy.
that necessarily implies some degree of compromise and coalition building and dirty, dirty politics. but i would prefer that people actually do the work of building a better world instead of sitting around in their mutual aid groups going "if only we had a way to organize on a large scale and somehow exert influence government policy! guess this is an unsolvable problem."
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I think another reason why I don’t like or trust Natsume is highkey lowkey because Fukuzawa did not agree to the whole Tripartide Plan beforehand. He didnt agree to becoming the opposite to the Mafia, something that could’ve been fatal for them both, Natsume decided that for him.
God knows how Mori met Natsume or why he decided that a murderous underground doctor with that ability was the perfect person to overthrow the notoriously dangerous Mafia but it wasn’t Mori’s plan.
Fukuzawa and Ranpo had their detective thing before they met Natsume and it was him that directed Fukuzawa to Mori. I’m of the opinion that Fukuzawa didn’t know that Natsume and Mori were planning for the latter to because the PM head until later on when Yosano comes into the picture when Mori’s already a member of the mafia.
In the chapter/flashback above he’s a quack doctor, 4 years after the Great War ends he’s officially in the Mafia, the ADA is official and Fukuzawa knows about the Tripartide, but he fiercely opposes the immortal regiment idea.
Sidenote: Somebody told Fukuzawa about Yosano’s whereabouts and what Mori was going to do with her. It was Mori who got her out of the room, it was Fukuzawa and Ranpo who intercepted them on the roof. Might’ve been Fukuchi, but that’s not been revealed and now he’s dead. My money’s on Taneda
Can you fucking imagine going to someone for a permission slip to run your detective business and the dude up and decides that you and your sixteen year old are the *perfect* people to oppose the Mafia in quasi-alignment with the government (who you previously killed for???)?????
Its likely that Natsume sent Fukuzawa to Mori bc he wanted the future ADA president and the future PM boss to have some idea of each other’s bloodlusts, strengths, personalities, convictions. But that makes him even shadier because its clear he knows Fukuzawa’s assassin past and whatever’s up with Mori. Also, why? Why make them go through the fake kidnapping thing together? Unless he was trying to forge some bond that would make it hard for them to go at each other’s throats in the future, eg: when Fukuzawa learns what Mori plans to use Yosano for. Because a diamond polishes a diamond.
The whole Tripartite Plan makes it so that the ADA, the government and the PM are in a permanent standstill because none of them can kill the other for fear of what would come next and Natsume executed it perfectly and shoved it onto Mori and Fukuzawa, the latter of whom this came straight out of left-wing and hit him like a freight train
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A U.S. Army Soldier during Exercise Combined Resolve 24-1 at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center near Hohenfels, Germany.
The U.S. Army photo by Spc. Leonard Beckett (2023).
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HLAW Day 5: Relationships
Anytime you need a friend
I will be here
You'll never be alone again
So don't you fear
Riley Rys
There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you
We stick together and can see it through
Cause you've got a friend in me
You've got a friend in me
You find out who your friends are
Somebody's gonna drop everything
Run up and crank their car
Hit the gas, get there fast
I am here, if you need me, yeah
I'm in the wind, look for me friend
I'm in the stars, when you need me
When you have a friend
By your side
That helps you to find
The beauty of all
When you'll open your heart and
Believe in
The gift of a friend
Raelyn Lee
And I can't be without you
So don't go anywhere
You show me love like no one else has done yet
And with the road ahead
This is the beginning
Of this love story
Knowing clouds will raise up
Storms will race in
But you'll be safe in my arms
Rains will pour down
Waves will crash all around
But you'll be safe in my arms
Castles they might crumble
Dreams may not come true
But you are never all alone
Because I will always
Always love you
I wanted to do one for Lorelai and Xinghai but I couldn't find a full body sprite for them, but if I had been able to make an edit for them, their song would have been Perfect by Simple Plan.
@hanaleeappreciationweek
@lizzybeth1986
@sazanes
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So Fukuzawa didn’t know about the Tripartite Tactic before going to Mori.
That opens up to avenues to us: Either Mori knew that Fukuzawa didn’t know about the Tactic and thus Mori has an upper hand on him, something that I think appealed to him
Or: Mori thought that he and Fukuzawa were on the same page about agreeing with the Tactic and becoming allies-enemies. This put them both on equal lands (kinda) and gives Natsume the upper hand as he has more information than them both.
Option 2 gives us the fun of Mori having to cope with knowing there’s someone above him and being powerless, but it really depends on what the relationship between Natsume and Mori is/was.
Either way it leads to someone having to explain that they’ve basically duped Fukuzawa into another role against the Mafia when he was already tetchy about leadership. Given that they still (kinda??) respect Natsume in s3 and that this is Really Fucking Serious and Fukuzawa’s shitty track record with realising his friends aren’t actually good friends(COUGH FUKUCHI COUGH) I think we can say that Fukuzawa didn’t absolutely flip a table and confront Natsume over this which just makes me wonder what RANPO thought about this :(
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