#emperios art

[emperiocism]

woahhh it's... headshots!! Not the most exciting thing in the world but I've been wanting to knock out my personal designs for these guys, especially for some characters I don't draw a lot of.

#also yes youve seen that jon before. i got lazy lmao #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #tim stoker #sasha james #elias bouchard #basira hussain #melanie king #daisy tonner #emperios art #tma #the magnus archive #tim looks so fresh faced and young here OTL. he should probably look a bit more ragged but o well ;;

[initforthelolzz]

No one does queer representation quite like One Piece.

Allow me to explain in great detail.

I’m going to talk about the queer rep in Impel Down, and you’d best buckle up cause it’s rant time.

Impel Down is one of my favorite arcs because I love the story line, it’s downright hilarious, and Luffy’s struggle to rescue Ace is incredibly compelling.

But there is another reason why I love Impel Down so much, and that’s the queer rep that utterly knocked me off my feet.

Now, I’ve come to accept that queer representation in anime (not touching on any other media in this rant) is generally nonexistent or extremely rare… if you’re watching anything other than a BL.

On the rare occasion that we do find some LGBT rep it is usually extremely subtle, and shown exclusively in convoluted subtext and minuscule details that are easily overlooked. While this representation is so incredibly meaningful to everyone who’s able to pick it out, the subtly makes it all the more easy for homophobes to argue that it was never in the first place.

Keeping all this in mind, I finally picked up One Piece several months ago after refusing to watch it for a long-assed time (It was too long and I thought the art style was weird. Dear god have I eaten my words.) I’d heard on social media that One Piece was big on trans representation, but I wasn’t prepared at ALL for what I’d find in that department.

I had NOT expected to find One Piece’s treasure trove of LGBT characters in Impel Down of all pleases, and the shock factor made it so much better.

The arc had already been chaotic as fucking hell by the time Luffy reunited with Bon Clay, and their reunion made me tear up. Like dude!

I hadn’t been particularly attached to Bon Clay before but THIS ^ was it. This scene right here, he wormed his way into my heart istfg.

Can we appreciate this scene please?! The sparkles in the background?? The leg lifting?! The REUNION HUG?!?! I love this so dearly not just because it’s fucking ADORABLE but because of what it *says.*

Bon Clay is an outwardly queer character, and Luffy absolutely adores him. Those two are best friends and we treat queer people with respect and they are good people. We can be friends with them and allies with them and they aren’t something to shy away from just because they’re different.

Be fucking for real. The representation is so positive, and it never ceases to blow me away.

If you thought that this representation was enough YOU WERE WRONG because this BARELY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE.

Iva. Emperio Ivankov. The Queen of the Queers. He is a gender fluid ICON and a literal drag queen. His special attack is a wink that blows shit up. His Devil Fruit ability is quite literally hormone therapy.

Do I need to say more?

THATS RIGHT, I FUCKING DONT

Now, this is One Piece we’re talking about, so naturally characters are going to be wildly exaggerated but ARE YOU KIDDING

IVA’S ABILITY IS HORMONE THERAPY. HE CHANGES PEOPLE’S GENDER AS AN ATTACK. HIS POWER WORKS THROUGH SYRINGE NEEDLES THAT POP OUT FROM UNDER HIS ACRYLIC NAILS.

I love Iva so fucking much words cannot describe 😭

Oda didn’t just say “look, I made a queer character” he really said “fuck it, nuclear option it is.” It is literally impossible to ignore the fact that Iva is LGBT, and One Piece’s queer rep is SO IN YOUR FACE, especially in Impel Down. It’s impossible to ignore, which is the stark opposite from the usual business with “implied” queer characters in anime.

Implied? HAH.

There is a kingdom of gay people living INSIDE THE WALLS of the biggest prison in the world. They are led by a gender fluid drag queen and run a strip club bar in the middle of a fucking prison, where they drag new gays through the cracks in the walls to join them.

Dude.

I love One Piece so much.

All joking aside, the introduction of Iva and his kingdom of gays drove me to tears. Like deadass. The representation literally drove me to tears, I was sobbing.

Why? Because it was so positive.

Do you know how meaningful that is?

It made me fucking cry, man.

Iva’s speech introducing his gay kingdom, like goddamn. I can’t even remember exactly what he said because I was crying the whole time.

“We’re here and we’re queer.” That’s a quote from fucking One Piece, dude. I can’t, I can’t.

It wasn’t just the introduction of Iva’s kingdom or the LITERAL LESBIAN COUPLE SITTING AT THE BAR, it was the way the sense of community was presented.

We’re called the LGBTQ Community and I don’t know if Oda’s a member or not but HOT damn if he doesn’t know what it means to be a part of it.

I’m talking about the Luffy situation. He fought the Warden and got his ass handed to him. He was poisoned to all hell and about to die at 17 but Bon picked him up and carried him to Iva’s Kingdom. He’s wanted to meet Iva his whole life but by the time he did he was more worried about Luffy’s condition than anything else.

And then we find out that Luffy had insisted that Bon get medical treatment before he did. What a guy. When Iva got Luffy, he said that it was a lost cause to try and overcome the poison. But he was willing to give it a try anyway.

Let’s discuss.

Iva injected Luffy with hormones to help him beat the poison. Luffy underwent hormone therapy. (I will cling to this tidbit of information forever, YOU CANT TAKE IT FROM ME.) When Bon woke up, he demanded to see Luffy.

Iva warned him about what he would find, but brought Bon to Luffy at his request. When Bon found Luffy, he found his friend chained up and screaming in excruciating pain. We didn’t see Luffy in full at all during this time, but when Bon looked through the door he was horrified.

He got defensive. He started yelling at Iva, saying that the person inside that room was not the Luffy he knew.

Iva was firm, and told Bon that Luffy was going through a tough challenge, and he would be different afterwards, but he was still the same Luffy.

Do you see it? Can you read between the lines? This exchange made me sob all over again. Why? I urge you to think about it, to see the underlying message here.

Bon broke down into tears, realizing that Luffy was fighting for his life. He apologized and took back his harsh words.

Then he spent hours outside Luffy’s cell, screaming till his throat was raw and cheering him on. He couldn’t do anything to help Luffy, Luffy was fighting this battle on his own. But he could be there for him.

I ask you again, do you see it?

As the hours passed, others in Iva’s kingdom trickled out to see what Bon was doing. They told him to stop screaming, that it was useless. They mocked him, told him he was being a fool.

Then Iva stood up for him, and told them to see Bon for what he was doing. He couldn’t help Luffy, but he could cheer him on. He could be there for him.

Within moments, the entire kingdom was outside Luffy’s cell. Cheering him on. Encouraging him. Supporting him. They didn’t know who he was but they saw him fighting and immediately backed him up.

It isn’t just representation, merely the presence of a queer character or even an entire kingdom of gays that makes it meaningful. It’s how those characters are shown, how they behave.

Oda could have thrown in a queer character here and there and left it at that, but he went out of his way to show the incredible support system that this community provided. They jumped to Luffy’s aid. They were so supportive and cheered him on until he beat the poison. They fought alongside him… and you know what else?

When Luffy woke up, he accepted them in a heartbeat. He didn’t question anything, just saw a bunch of people and thought “huh. New friends!”

Oda’s representation is exaggerated as much as it is painstakingly accurate in nature and positive to a tee. Obviously it isn’t perfect. Iva and the squad were still mocked, called “freaks” and “weirdos.”

But it’s about Luffy. How Luffy behaves. How Luffy reacts. Even in the face of how the rest of society views Iva and his kingdom, Luffy sees them as friends and allies and doesn’t give a singular shit if they’re gay or not.

Luffy accepts everyone, and he doesn’t draw the line at queer people. The aroace king himself. You heard it here, Luffy is the ultimate ally.

Of course I’m not even scraping the surface on this topic and Oda’s representation is in no way perfect, but Impel Down remains the greatest example of queer rep that I’ve seen this far.

You gotta give credit where credit is due ✨

#one piece #✨✨✨ #rant post #one piece analysis #opinions #hot take #luffy #bon clay #iva #emporio ivankov #monkey d luffy #lgbt representation #ayyyyy #the gays #luffy the ultimate ally

[sintiva]

Sinnnnnn!

Who’s your favorite JoJo characters 1 through part 5?

( you can answer if your caught up with JJBA )

okay’ i’m at part 6 so i’ll give characters from each part.

part 1. erina, straizo, that one zepelli (i forgot his name), speed wagon!!, and those two nights who dio brought back

part 2: JOSEPHHHHH, ceaser, lisa, all the pillar men(especially kars), smokey, that german dude was funny and he redeemed himself

part 3: joseph😫😫, avdol, polnareff, kakyoin🥹, dio, vanilla ice, hol horse, n.doul, mr. d’arby, MF IGGY, enya (she was a scary bitch but still)

part 4: i actually loved every character in part 4. kira 😫😫😫😫, killer queen was such a fire ass stand, josuke, okuyasu, the alien character(i was in love) rohan, tomoko, etc.

part 5: BRUNO MF BUCCIARATI (one of my top 5 characters if i’m being so fucking fr), abbacchio, fugo(i wish we got more of him and his stand) purple haze would’ve dealt serious damage and we ain’t get it, mista, narancia, diavolo(he could sinister things to me and i’d let him), trish, risotto (and his entire group)

part 6: JOLYNE OML, weather report, anasui, ermes…. ermes🥴, ff, emperio, daddy jotaro (i wanna slurp the skin off his dick), jhongli (cause he got the fattest ass in jojo’s that i’ve seen), dio cause he looks so mf good in the art style, i understand why pucci in love.

#sin’s asks ˘͈ᵕ˘͈ #whew #this made me tap in to my memory bank fr #i don’t even think i got every one but i got the important folk #jjba

[bomberheung]

轟炸機金幣 #Bombergoldcoin #帝鋒金銀幣 #emperio （在 榮拳館 WUnique Martial Arts & Fitness） https://www.instagram.com/p/CiwCM9tvN6J/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#bombergoldcoin #帝鋒金銀幣 #emperio

[killing-time-w-kaz]

Quick Emperio Ivankov sketches

I don’t entirely approve of the whole okama thing, but Oda has gotten better at depicting trans, crossdressing and other queer characters. I have a soft spot for Ivankov and love sketching him

#one piece #Emperio Ivankov #emporio ivankov #my own art #fanart #sketches #queer characters #death wink

[suraelis]

There’s a interview where the head animator of Part 5 said that if there’s enough interest for Part 6 on social media, they’ll think about animating it.

And I need more content of these three.

#jjba #jojo bizzare adventure #Narciso Anasui #weather report #emperio #stone ocean #my art

[tiki-punch]

🦋 STONE OCEAN 🦋

#art #digital art #illustration #fanart #jojos bizarre adventure #jojo #stone ocean #jolyne #foo fighters #weather report #hermes #anasui #manga #anime #part 6 #emperio

[burlesque-articulation]

Chapters: 13/13 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Oliver Banks/Peter Lukas, Peter Lukas/Elias Bouchard (past) Characters: Oliver Banks, Peter Lukas, Tadeas Dahl, assorted Tundra crew, Original Characters, Simon Fairchild, Elias Bouchard Additional Tags: Canon Typical Violence, Explicit Sexual Content, Minor Character Death, major character death (he gets better), elements of existential dread, brief periods of memory loss, canon typical descriptions of death, brief descriptions of severe injury, tags make the fic sound a lot more serious then it is, dumb shit do happen, RQBB2020, I'll toss in some extra content warnings throughout the fic as well, bcuz AO3 keeps reordering my tags on me and making them completely illegible Summary:

Peter "doesn't describe himself as a thinker, as he actively avoids such an action" Lukas meets Oliver "just wants a nap" Banks, who is masquerading as Antonio "is definitely a marine biologist, trust" Blake, as a single odd circumstance brings them together aboard the Tundra as she begins her voyage towards the Panama Canal. The ship's final destination? Point Nemo.

The situation aboard the cargo ship only grows more odd and overtly strange as time passes, and yet very few questions seem to be answered. But it's as they say, some mysterious don't require a resolution. Often times, is it not simply enough to say, "wouldn't it be fucked up if--" and to promptly leave it at that?

Written for the Rusty Quill Big Bang 2020!

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Ahhh, finally have time to post a quick link here! Anyways, this was my fic submission for the RQBB 2020 hosted by @pilesofnonsense ! It was so much fun working on this, and even more fun to get to have a artwork done for it by Emperio! Link to the amazing art they did HERE! And also a big thank you to @wildcherrylime for beta’ing this mess for me.

#burlesque writes #tma fic #RQBB2020 #this fic is somehow both very silly and very serious #and rarely is there any grey areas where it happens to be both silly & serious #also kudos to me for strapping two random planks together and declaring it a ship worth sailing

[paracordspain]

🔰Link directo Paracord: http://bit.ly/2VanhUE ✅ Reales Alcázares de Sevilla, diferentes estilos arquitectónicos. Los Reales Alcázares de Sevilla es de aquellos monumentos imprescindible para visitar si vienes a esta increíble ciudad. Patrimonio de la Humanidad desde 1987 esconde entre sus paredes amores, traiciones y un sinfín de leyendas y anécdotas. Morada de reyes musulmanes como Abderramán III en su palacio Dar-al Imara o Casa del gobernador y el rey poeta Almutamid en su palacio Al-Mubarak o palacio de la Bendición que según se cuenta fue el más bello palacio de Al-Andalus y cristianos como Alfonso X “el Sabio” con su palacio gótico, Pedro I con su palacio mudéjar, los Reyes Católicos desde donde planearon la reconquista del reino Nazarí de Granada, Isabel II en el llamado Cuarto Real Alto que es lugar dónde residen los actuales monaras españoles cuando vienen a Sevilla. El mejor ejemplo de arte mudéjar único en el mundo, y su palacio gótico mandado construir por Alfonso X “el Sabio” el lugar donde celebró su boda el emperador Carlos I el monarca que tuvo bajo sus mando el emperio más vasto jamás visto, desposándose con Isabel de Portugal en el Salón de Embajadores en el Palacio mudéjar, lugar dónde se han rodado escenas de la famosa serie de televión “Juego de Tronos”, al igual que en los jardines del exterior. ¡Te esperamos! 🤠 ✅ https://paracord.es ___________ #sevilla #sevillahoy #loves_sevilla #sevillanas #catedraldesevilla #catedralsevilla #alcazaresdesevilla #alcazaressevilla — view on Instagram http://bit.ly/2KRBzW6

#Instagram #IFTTT

[emperiocism]

surpriiiiiiise! it's your weirdo boss, out to join you on your smoke break.

#jonelias #the magnus archives #jonathan sims #elias bouchard #emperios art #this is actually pretty old but i have been lacking in uploading my stuff here ahhhh! i'll try and be better #jons dropping a cup or something idk :'3

[emperiocism]

I am completely in love with your jonelias art <3 I love all your art but the jonelias one especially gives me life <3 Elias feeding Jon when? Uhh Elias really taking Jon out for dinner to make him eat properly when???? Love that you mentioned this in the tags of your latest piece

You can draw anything you want of course, I'm only joking haha, unless uhhhh 👁👁

Thank you so much!! Have them on a little dinner date. Jon's talking shop and Elias is simply besotted <3

#emperios art #txet it #jonelias #jonathan sims #elias bouchard #tma #theyre sharing an appetizer of nachos or something because i made the table too small to draw actual food :'3 they'll order more later

[emperiocism]

TOXIC YURI LET'S GOOOOO (ahem, sorry - Gwen and Alice and Sam and Colin. So hyped for more Protocol ahh!)

#emperios art #the magnus protocol #magpro #gwen bouchard #alice dyer #colin becher #samama khalid #sam khalid #(idk which one people are gonna use for sam and gwen tbh - full long names or nicknames 🤔

[emperiocism]

I was thinking about an alpha Elias and beta Jon earlier today. Elias is in an unplanned rut and subvocaling all over the place and Jon is totally out of the loop :'3

#TOO BAD JON #you're gonna start finding pillows and shit in your office #and elias will be taking you out to many dinners #get cared for. idiot (love) #jonelias #tma #the magnus archives #emperios art #jonathan sims #elias bouchard #this is very silly but i couldnt get it out of my head haha

[emperiocism]

Whoahhhh, it's a wild Jonah! I've never drawn him before, lol

#jonah magnus #tma #the magnus archives #emperios art

[emperiocism]

Someday I'll draw more canon-compliant JE but NOT TODAY!!

#tma #jonathan sims #elias bouchard #jonelias #emperios art #i'm a big old sap shhhhhh

[emperiocism]

And they were /roommates/ 🤡

#tmp #the magnus protocol #emperios art #mr. bonzo #nigel dickerson #sorryyyyyy not sorry uwu