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#op #opfanart #yamato #one piece fanart

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history will remember who the monsters are

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katie mcgrath’s 32 flavors and then some

#this is a one piece blog but #katie mcgrath #is absolutely STUNNING

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i love him and his tiny momo doll

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sketch of the grumpy man

#one piece #art #one piece fanart #op zoro #zoro art #roronoa zoro #zoro fanart #yeehaw #he is very special to me #one day i will settle on an art style #today is not that day

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unwavering faith

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i will no longer bleed for you

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bossom buddies amping each other up to go into battle (or the club)

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that one unphotogenic friend

(based on this)

Bonus:

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Sorry guys

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sanji fit alignment chart bc wow are they Something

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Ace inspired by @legendaryjarcollection Sabo Piece

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Diable Jambe

#holy shit #this looks awesome

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WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE ROCKS IS WEARING A STRAW HAT

#one piece #op spoilers #ch 1049 #rocks one piece

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Seriously though, can we get some acknowledgement of how much one piece’s themes fit really well into that very particular flavor of super down to earth and joyful anarchism? The kind of Emma Goldman saying “If I can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution.” There is such a dense thematic cohesion around freedom and how the person who aspires to be the freest of them all also spreads freedom wherever he goes. Where a wish for a world where people are free is expressed as being able to eat however much they want. Where joy and life are at the forefront of everything, not buried by theory or complicated politics or power struggles. Luffy inherently understands that joy is worth pursuing and that is all he needs to know to understand the world around him. All he needs to know is that when the right to joy is taken from people he cares about (and he cares about anyone he meets who will show him some basic kindness in return for his own) he has fists to throw and rather than being the sole liberator and leader of his own version of freedom he instead just tears down the oppressive structures and gives people back their own belief and hope, leaving them to build something for themselves, something he has no interest being involved in because he can’t take charge of the lives of others. Freedom = joy and life = food in one piece and it’s such a simple way to address it, but it strips away all of the bullshit that overcomplicated it. It presents the theme from a perspective that everyone can understand, no matter how much you understand the specific political situation, or the logistics of revolution. And I think that’s important. It’s important to understand that freedom serves people, because otherwise you run into danger of making people serve an abstract idea of freedom.

#op spoilers #ch 1049

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[Text description:

Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story.

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Richard Siken, the worm king’s lullaby; from “War Of Foxes”

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[ID: Tumblr user @slowwshoww writes:

suzanne collins killing prim after everything katniss did to save her………. THATS how you write a story about the brutality and futility of war ma'am thats what we call a compelling and fucked up narrative yessums thats storytelling babes!!!!

Tumblr user @books—and-cleverness adds a quote from an interview with the author of the book:

« That was one of the first questions I asked her when we sat down: ‘Did you always know that [Prim] was going to die?’ And she said, ‘Oh yeah, of course, that’s the whole point.’ » (x)

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[ID: Tumblr user @orpheuslament:

i love tragedy i love circular narratives i love ppl who cannot escape their fate & characters that have been dead since the beginning

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[ID: Tumblr user @faustandfurious:

the worst fictional deaths are actually the ones you see coming, where there is enough foreshadowing that you have time to hope, against all odds, that the character will survive, even as you realise that there’s no way out this time, they’re not going to make it, this was always how it was going to end.

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[Text description:

Do you still believe myths

can save you? Foolish creature

Let me be clear: every version of this story

Ends with you being slaughtered.

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Tory Adkisson, Anecdote of the Pig

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[ID: Tumblr user @sawasawako:

if you’re dead at the end of the story were you dead from the beginning. oh emily brontë we’re really in it now

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[Text description:

This was always going to happen. She’s been dead from the beginning.

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Aeschylus, The Oresteia

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[Text description:

This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody’s doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.

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John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

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pompeii is closed forever because a volcano threw up