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bluberry-muffin · 8 days
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Broke: Bruce wayne uses his batman voice to spook his children at 2 am to get them to stop playing video games
Woke: Batman used his Brucie Wayne voice to interrogate JL criminals in custody in a sealed, soundproof room untill they're begging to be let out and give up the information freely
Hyperwoke: Brucie Wayne and his ensemble of children attend the met gala in their full vigilante costumes and Brucie flirts aggressively with anything that moves
Superhyperwoke: Brucie Wayne and his ensemble of children dress up in fifteen dollar Walmart knockoff versions of JL members and go on a sightseeing bus tour of Metropolis.
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bluberry-muffin · 9 days
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mythologies → death deities
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bluberry-muffin · 25 days
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full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009
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bluberry-muffin · 29 days
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Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"
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bluberry-muffin · 1 month
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"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
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bluberry-muffin · 1 month
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you want me to get high? the thing that killed icarus?
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bluberry-muffin · 1 month
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Late Night Luffy's Dream Theory
So I've heard a fair amount of speculation about what Luffy's dream is after he becomes Pirate King, and by extension, what Roger's dream was (recall Yamato's flashback confirming that Luffy's dream–which Ace shared with him in their long tipsy conversation/totally not a night of passion–is "the same thing the Pirate King" said. Fan speculation about Luffy's real dream ranges from things like "host the biggest party in the world", to "go to the moon", "make a country of pirates" etc but I've always found something fundamentally unsatisfactory about these, and I'll throw my hat in the ring to narrow down the possibilities.
To recap, the information we have about Luffy's dream is as follows: -Both times the dream is alluded to, it's at the end of what I and probably a bunch of other people personally conceive of as major sagas pre and post TS that both culminate in a major battle featuring EVERYONE WE'VE SEEN AND MORE –It's something that Roger, battle-hardened and well into his 40s or 50s–shared with Oden, that was documented in Oden's journal and partially inspired Yamato's unshakeable faith in Luffy –The Straw Hats, Ace, and Sabo are all shocked to hear it and ask if he's fully serious, but several of them support it immediately and the others remain protective over it and swear they'll see Luffy's ambition through. Jinbe, Nami, and Usopp are in disbelief, Chopper and Franky are excited, Robin is stunned, but looks hopeful or contemplative rather than derisive or amused, etc. –Ace and Sabo laugh as children, but swear to themselves that they'll protect Luffy's dream and won't let anyone mock it. As he's dying, Ace tells Luffy that he truly, truly believes Luffy will pull it off, and he's only sorry he couldn't see him make that dream a reality. –Shanks found it really funny, but is repeatedly shown stating he thinks that this ridiculous fucking child he met is going to be the future of the next pirate era, implying that he has some degree of faith in this child he (likely) recognizes as the inheritor of Roger's will Luffy's dream is repeatedly referred to as "crazy", or in some cases, "a child's fantasy", but also implied to be something really pure, ambitious, and highly unlikely but theoretically possible.
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When I come up with fan theories, I tend to approach them less from a "textual evidence" standpoint than a "what would pack the biggest emotional punch and tie into the message/arc/etc that we've been shown thus far" one, and that tends to inform which popular ones I buy into (e.g. I am about 50-60% convinced that Law death will be a thing because, Chekhov's gun aside, Law's been in fucking crisis and unsure of what he'll do as his own man free of Cora's legacy and tries to emulate him in Wano. And while I think there's still a good chance he'll survive to the end for other reasons, there's also potential for a LOT of bittersweet beauty in him repeating what happened to him in childhood by quite literally passing on his heart and life to someone else). Considering what would be emotionally resonant and feel anywhere near as earned as what it's been built up to over two whole fucking sagas, Luffy's dream has to be something absurdly ambitious and thematically resonant. I do not think, if Luffy's dream were something like "I want to go to the moon", that Yamato would hold faith in him through impossibly oppressive circumstances, or that the audience would care like, at all. So if the dream is tied to something at the core of Luffy's character and the underlying themes of the entire series, what does Luffy represent, and what's the point of One Piece? Luffy is, at this point in the story and honestly long before, the embodiment of this sort of radical, anarchic humanism pervading the entire series that seeks to bring genuine freedom, joy, and peace to people everywhere he goes. Even before any divine or joy boy associations, he's the bringer of dawn, the warrior of liberation, the worker of miracles because he sees injustice happening around him and instantly rejects it. He tears down the repressive hierarchies everywhere he goes, and he's eventually going to bring that reckoning to the World Government and Blackbeard and every other might-makes-right, brutal, thoughtless hierarchical oppressor stopping their helpless victims from living free, full, happy lives. And critically, he's the inheritor of a crazy, radical dream that'll shake the world because god knows One Piece loves to talk about inherited will/dreams/legacy.
One Piece's broadly radical leftist humanism isn't based in naïveté either; it's very clear that this liberation is preceded by endless failures. Joyboy fails to stop any of what happens and writes letters of apology, Roger dies before he can realize the dream, and all the while countless atrocities are going on with at least 3 Islands we know of and two whole races having their genocides all but done to completion. Kuma suffers immensely waiting for the Dawn, and effectively loses his life and humanity before it can come, still holding on to his belief in Nika. But none of these things will stop the coming of liberation. Every genocide and attempt to purge the politically inconvenient–Ohara, Flevance, the Lunarians, the persecution of the Buccaneers–leaves survivors or inheritors, with Law, Kuma, and Robin in particular playing central roles in saving or aiding Luffy, the bringer of Dawn. The purge of Ohara fails to destroy the records permanently. The fucking biblical infanticides at Baterilla and the end of Roger's bloodline doesn't stop Luffy from inheriting Roger's will and his brother's legacy. Luffy isn't so much a predestined messiah as he is the inheritor of a legacy of resistance and hope that cannot be killed because as long as someone lives, they will dream of the brand of hope and justice that he embodies. No matter how hard you try, or how violently you suppress people, how many legacies or bloodlines or rebels you put to death, people will survive and carry on those legacies or pick up where your victims left off because you can't kill ideas, you can't kill truth, you can't kill dreams, and you can't kill the basic human desire for joy and freedom. I think the "Child's Fantasy" thing we see associated with Luffy's dream is key to this whole mystery. Wano's the arc in which we get the closest, most explicit declarations of Luffy's ideals, in which his core motivation for killing Kaido–besides helping Momo and his friends seek justice and overthrow an oppressor–is to make sure everyone in the country can eat their fill. It's the kind of thing you wish for as a child–an end to world hunger, world peace, homes for the homeless, an end to prejudice–before a thousand and one adults feed you the lie that it's impossible to distribute resources, that hierarchical oppressive power is natural, that some people are undeserving of life or basic rights and therefore deserve to be harmed by the powers that be. Before your parents and teachers and other people lecture you on the necessity of Authority and Capital and Hegemony or what have you and convince you that a certain number of people simply have to suffer and die to preserve the Proper and Legitimate Hierarchy, that the powerful deserve to be where they are and the that victims of these systems deserve it. It'll be something very much like his aspirations for Wano in the face of the oppression of Kaidou and Orochi, or the World Government creeping up afterward with Ryokugyu loudly announcing that the suppression of the have-nots is the rightful and good state of the world. It'll be a simple, basic hope for good things for him and his friends and all the great people they love, something perfectly possible and right and just and joyful that people have been raised to think of as an impossibility. A place where people can eat their fill, where there's water in parched lands, where people aren't being strangled by heavenly tributes. A world where they can be free. A reality where everyone can be happy, where dreams come true.
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bluberry-muffin · 1 month
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team 🧚‍♂️
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bluberry-muffin · 2 months
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what do you mean jennifer saunder's shrek 2 cover of Holding Out for a Hero didn't play over the entirety of dressrosa arc
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bluberry-muffin · 2 months
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Actually in shock that Law has so much faith in Luffy and the Strawhats since like. It’s been established from the start that he doesn’t have much faith or trust in anything. But he’s watched them perform literal miracles over the past two years so he can’t HELP but believe in them. The Strawhats are so much like Cora, who refused to give up on him, who did everything to achieve the promises he’d made to him…Cora gave him hope, and now Luffy’s giving him hope, even as he’s seconds away from death. Even when the odds are practically impossible. Even though he’s such a guarded and closed off person and finds it difficult to form bonds with others after everything that’s happened to him. He trusts them enough to know that they’ll see this through and bring an end to thirteen years of desperate pain and want for revenge. I’m emo
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bluberry-muffin · 2 months
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LMAO
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bluberry-muffin · 2 months
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reading does take a lot of effort and it is difficult. that’s why you should do it!
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bluberry-muffin · 2 months
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one thing i love about obikin is that the boys are not terribly distinct in terms of their height or weight or strength (at least in live action, filoni's clone wars makes obi-wan appear very slender and small, almost in order to make anakin look bigger and more masculine, but that's a whole other discussion). i like that their physical similarities only emphasize the brother-in-arms, complementary halves of a single warrior aspect of their bond, how they're the dark and light sides of the same coin, one of aristophanes's soulmates split apart and seeking to be reunited as one body. like yes vader becomes super tall and massive when he becomes more machine than man, but back when he was just anakin, he and obi-wan saw almost exactly eye to eye, they didn't have to work to whisper in each other's ears, and fighting back to back was easy and natural. young anakin grew up until they became equal and opposite halves of the team, until they weren't anymore, but lord it was beautiful when they were.
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bluberry-muffin · 2 months
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i am not my mother and i am not my father but a third worse thing
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bluberry-muffin · 2 months
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Sad AceSabo thoughts
this was based on a convo i remember having with one of my friends- idk how this convo started, or if it was based on something as i had found it buried in my docs on one of the fics i'm working on. but just-
Ace a year after Sabo's 'death'. After the pain of Sabo's death refuses to leave him, asks Makino why it hurts him so much. And Makino asks Ace how he viewed Sabo, who Sabo was to him, and after Ace explained that Sabo was pretty much everything to him before Luffy, and hell even after Luffy, Makino told him he loved him. Which years later Ace starts realizing wasn't the same love he thought she was talking about, the same love he had for Luffy and her, and instead it was different, so adult Ace had to come to terms that he met the love of his life when he was a child, but lost him before he realized. Sabo, on the other hand, would realize the days after he remembers, the days he's mourning and thinks back on all he was forced to forget, and realizes that he too met the love of his life, and just lost him before he realized as well. All because they were too young to realize the differences in love. And both had to come to terms that the other was well and truly gone, and no matter what they weren't coming back… and hell, maybe Sabo getting Aces fruit felt a little like getting Ace back.
Sad AcBo thoughts my friends, a fic like this would probably have me crying like a baby, ngl
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bluberry-muffin · 2 months
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I love how in just about any Ace and Sabo reunion fic/fanart/fancomic that I've seen of those two reuniting that Ace will 100% punch Sabo no hesitation. It's pretty much Canon at this point. Like- all of Ace's suppressed childhood gremlin anger WILL be unleashed the moment he lays eyes on the blonde bastard who showed him how to love and care and be loved and cared for.
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bluberry-muffin · 3 months
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✨Slow dancing to Baby in Blue✨
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