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Ok I need to stop fucking drawing before I wreck my arms again

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sometimes i think about how luffy at his core is truly such a lonely person that in fact his whole character is based off him not being willing to accomplish his life dreams unless he has genuine friends who he would kill and die for at his side. and I think it’s really such a wonderful character trait of his to be able to be someone who people tend to gravitate to, when at the end of the day he’s just trying to figure out how to be a little less lonely.

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It puzzles me when people cite LOTR as the standard of “simple” or “predictable” or “black and white” fantasy. Because in my copy, the hero fails. Frodo chooses the Ring, and it’s only Gollum’s own desperation for it that inadvertently saves the day. The fate of the world, this whole blood-soaked war, all the millennia-old machinations of elves and gods, comes down to two addicts squabbling over their Precious, and that is precisely and powerfully Tolkien’s point. 

And then the hero goes home, and finds home a smoking desolation, his neighbors turned on one another, that secondary villain no one finished off having destroyed Frodo’s last oasis not even out of evil so much as spite, and then that villain dies pointlessly, and then his killer dies pointlessly. The hero is left not with a cathartic homecoming, the story come full circle in another party; he is left to pick up the pieces of what was and what shall never be again. 

And it’s not enough. The hero cannot heal, and so departs for the fabled western shores in what remains a blunt and bracing metaphor for death (especially given his aged companions). When Sam tells his family, “Well, I’m back” at the very end, it is an earned triumph, but the very fact that someone making it back qualifies as a triumph tells you what kind of story this is: one that is too honest to allow its characters to claim a clean victory over entropy, let alone evil. 

“I can’t recall the taste of food, nor the sound of water, nor the touch of grass. I’m naked in the dark. There’s nothing–no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I can see him with my waking eyes.”

So where’s this silly shallow hippie fever-dream I’ve heard so much about? It sounds like a much lesser story than the one that actually exists.

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I loved Lucci's little feral face when Luffy went gear 5. My boy was so ready.

SPEEDPAINT!

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POV: You’re watching the marineford live stream

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If they fought here, Fujitora would have MOPPED THE FLOOR with Doffy ✌️

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Reblog if you've ever cried over the death of a fictional character

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yeah sex is cool I guess

but have you ever had someone leave a comment with a paragraph-long review of your fanfic containing genuine praise, thorough criticism, and an in-depth analysis of all the lore hints you dropped that you spent ages intricately crafting

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ROMANCE DAWN TRIO

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How I always pictured a Tython sunset to look like.

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Screenshot redraw of my fav feral Captain.

Added in some effects cause this man attracts me like a magnet.

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One piece isn’t even just an anime for me anymore, its part of my goddamn personality atp. Ask any of my closest friends and they will tell you about who luffy and zoro and law are. They are a part of my soul now and i will make it everyone else’s problem.

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This quote gives me goosebumps to this day. I can't help but feel in my chest. For wrath, for ruin and a red nightfall!

Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!

part 1, lotr quotes

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