#ive never seen a single episode of one piece

[clownbukkae]

#ive never seen a single episode of one piece #yet #but im a simple bitch who sees and unhinged clown and i fall in love #buggy the clown #im very autistic and not normal about him

[bee-seer]

I am not a humble soul

#Ive never seen a single episode of One Piece #I just want to see what 50 of these looks like on the dash #bee speaks

[comradekatara]

specifically asking why *zuko* is sexist is WILD because i can’t think of a single ATLA character that does not at some point say something that reveals how deeply they have gender roles ingrained into them. even aang is not exempt (see: ember island players). anyway i don’t even have a question i’m just baffled. do people think feminism is just “girls are strong like boys”

RIGHT. ive seen people say that zuko “has no frame of reference for sexism,” that zuko “doesn’t know what gender roles are/what misogyny is,” that zuko “is a feminist (????????),” that zuko “would be appalled by sokka’s sexism,” that zuko “respects katara and would do chores with her while aang and sokka lounge around like the lazy entitled dudebros they are,” that zuko “comes from a feminist society and thus wouldn’t understand sokka’s misogyny,” etc etc. like, the fire nation is literally a fascist nation. their patriarchy is overt and unsubtle. what is ozai if not the ultimate patriarch. as i’ve already established earlier today, zuko is far more sexist than sokka in far more insidious ways. zuko has never witnessed any examples of sokka’s sexism and never will, because sokka unlearned his bioessentialist logic in episode four. sokka has witnessed plenty examples of zuko’s sexism, including the time he suggested that sokka (a kyoshi warrior) was a little girl incapable of saving aang, and that time he referred to katara as “your sister” because he never even bothered to remember her name. zuko was raised in a palace and cannot even hammer a nail into a roof without breaking his thumb, while sokka hunted and provided for his entire village by himself for years and aang was raised in a communal society where everyone did their fair share of labor to maintain their temple because there was no class hierarchy. zuko internalized extremely rigid gender roles and attempted to embody the violent masculinity of fascism his entire adolescence. just because he is aware that azula and her friends could kill him doesn’t mean that he respects them as human beings. and just because he’s never called out for the way he patronizes, infantilizes, insults, demeans, belittles, and trivializes women doesn’t mean it isn’t present in his actions throughout the entire show. and yes even aang is kind of sexist. the way katara is framed through his pov sometimes is not great, and the way he objects to being feminized in the play is understandable (bc it’s a piece of colonial propaganda that is intentionally degrading him thru misogynistic logic) but also sort of betrays that he isn’t the perfectly enlightened being he makes himself out to be. i’m pretty sure the only character who doesn’t behave sexistly or accept a sexist status quo at some point is suki, and that’s only because she grew up on the isle of lesbos and also happens to only have an total of 5 seconds of screentime. zuko is one of the principal players in the show and also the most deeply flawed. so like, of course he is sexist as well as subscribing to imperialist, hierarchical logic in other ways. it’s soooo evident throughout his entire character arc. i mean, it’s the entire point of his character arc. but this is the “lestat is woman coded” website so idk why im even surprised at this point.

#unreachedgalaxy #asks #zuko #aang #sokka #suki #hot takes #analysis #also im sorry but bringing up lestat …. we don’t need to bring iwtv discourse into this …..

[softness-and-shattering]

Ok the latest episode of dungeon meshi is gory as fuck.

Major episode 11 SPOILERS

Given that the episode is dragon part one, I assumed they would fight the dragon, mostly fail, cliffhanger, and the next episode would be defeating it.

I did NOT expect them to kill it, root around its insides, and find Falins fucking bones!!

The foot comes down on Senshi and he immediately vomits blood? Chilchuk knocked out by bricks to the head, Laios loses his leg?! (Nitpick but. If the leg was disconnected what was keeping him from falling out the dragons mouth? Anime rule of cool physics?)

And then. Chilchuk and Senshi is heaps of pain and Laios' leg is just itchy? Its a good joke, but I think there's more. Those heals were too easy after that amount of unprecedented violent gore.

Laios had a btw-line about of the dragon and is mating and then dismissed the thought with no given reason. So I think next episode theres gonna be a second Red dragon. ( Its possible part 2 will be next season, but following more common episode title namings, red dragon 1 and 2 will be the season finale. )

And theres the unanswered question of the whole season, why is the dragon more active, why is the ecosystem of the dungeon off-balance. I think next episode will be our big clue.

Re Falin, its no coinicidence we were introduced to the racist rich guy who assures us that souls dont leave bodies in the dungeon. That was confusing up till the last episode because the characters sure act like death is possible, and we've seen dead people and heard about body-retrieval. Then Namari goes to revivals to ask about Falin and there are bodies stored behind the desk guy. Which puts the pieces together, bodies that can be retrieved are retrieved, and the people can be revived. If someone cares to, and presumably pays for it. Someones gotta pay for retrievals.

Its also no accident that our warm-fuzzy sibling scene before finding Falins skull is about a ghost who is trapped with his body, and Falins intuition/ability with ghost magic. Can she be revived, will she stick around as a ghost, remains to be seen. (Remains.)

As someone who hasnt yet read the manga, Im also curious about long term story. Ive gotten the impression that theres significant story to go, possibly probably they reach the end of the dungeon? But Ive not seen Falin present in any of the art, and for the story to continue they need motivation to keep going.

So Im guessing that Falin ends up as a ghost, or unreviveable, and they have to get to the bottom to find the mad mage, work out what stops people from crossing over post-death (does that include monsters, orcs, humanoid mermaids or fish-oid[???]mermen), and only then can they bring Falin back to life.

That or they revive her and theres some other plot hook, but my guess is what I just described.

(Another silly nitpick, the fire is blocked by the adamantium but the heat isnt a problem until after the fire is done? "WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE TO EXHAUST ALL ITS FUEL" THAT WOULDVE LEFT FALIN BEYOND ALL HOPE!!!!!!)

And its funny re Senshi's knife, ooh its mithril it can cut through anything, well of course! he's used it to cut every single monster theyve eaten! And we never wondered how! Foreshadowing by cookware, its ridiculous and I love it.

Last point is it just me or are...is it Kaka and Kiki? Theyre discount Vex and Vax, right?

#for ppl who dont know me my nitpicks aren't hating on the show #i just have a brain that points out these things and they need expression #its not a negative #theres always gonna be a level of movie magic #its fun to find where that line is of what just needs accepting and whats secret foreshadowing to extrapolate from #also no major spoilers please! #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #mine #review #sort of

[melonteee]

what are your thoughts on the one piece fandoms vitriolic take on "spoilers"? ive never interacted with a fandom so grumpy about knowing anything beyond 'well there sure are pirates' like op fans. it makes me so sad to check out series reactors just for them to go 'ok so im not gunna watch the opening or ending, and we'll skip the title card, dont wanna be spoiled! =)'

like... you miss out on some of the best parts of an anime when you approach it like that. ops and eds are meant to tease whats to come and hype you up, yet op fans treat them like theyre plague rats =( and if these supposed spoilers ruin the fun of op, maybe you dont actually like op as much as you think...

idk! just wheres the love of fun! the enjoyment of teases! why watch the anime at that point???

SIGHS I think manga readers take it WAY too seriously. They go into the anime KNOWING what's going to happen, KNOWING what all this means - they have CONTEXT.

Someone who is an anime only will look at all this without that context, they can guess what they're seeing but they don't 100% know it. As you said, it hypes it up! I feel like when manga onlys get mad at opening spoilers, they don't realise anime onlys genuinely have no idea what they're seeing or what any of this means. And as you get further through the episodes, you can point at the opening and go "HEY!! I KNOW THAT NOW!!"

Apart from Robin joining which, I agree, probably should not have been spoiled in an opening - I haven't seen a single anime only complain about the openings 'spoiling' them. It's literally just the manga onlys yelling into air 😭

#ask #melonask

[shankschewtoy]

hi! ive been reading your works for a little while now and i was actually wondering if you could do this idea: what about roles swapped au? to clarify; what if we, the readers, turn into anime characters and the one piece charcters (specifically the worst gen trio tho) would do when they're a huge simp for the reader?

I could also see this as them being set in the modern world and us being in the world of one piece ig. reader is a really great scythe wielder as well! maybe even some blood manipulation? your choice really.

btw, this ask is inspired by another ask i saw! i think they said that thsy were inspired by an obey me shall we date swapped au thing? anyway, i really love your works btw! keep going, darlin'!

— eustass kid simp anon ♥️

a/n - YES :0 I love this idea sm I’ve only seen it the other way around :3 awww tysm anon!! I appreciate the support 💜\(//∇//)\💜 I’ll try not to bully kid just for you <3

Warnings ⚠️ - g/n reader, reader’s a badass as usual 🫡, reader has “chi chi no mi” blood blood fruit (inspired by this), modern au/one piece world kinda?

Law

- he’s kind of a silent simp ya know??

- NO ONE and absolutely NO ONE knows about his fictional crush

- he secretly has his wallpaper set to a picture of you 👀

- But he changes it when he goes to school 💀

- man is such. A . Loyal. Simp.

- like he won’t simp for anyone else but you

- he’s a y/n simp all the way 😭💜

- with other simps he’s like: no?? They’re fictional??

- But we all know he literally worships you 🙄

- whenever he watches one piece, he saves the episodes with you in them and it’ll always brighten his day to see you get the screen time you deserve ✨

- You’re such a badass and you’re literally gorgeous/handsome af so lot of other people simp over you too

- secretly gets jealous 💀

- like he’s the only one allowed to simp over you ok?? 🙄

- he’s such a nerd he knows exactly how your abilities work

- He’s memorized every single move you can make with your devil fruit

- He also goes into like certain phases where he analyzes every single strong point of your abilities 😭

- He’ll make full on graphs and charts of your powers it’s kind of a lot-

- He wishes he could tell someone about it but then that’d ruin his “I’m emo go away” vibe 💀

- I think he’d do anything just to be able to meet you at least once 🥺

- Like yeah- you’re fictional but it doesn’t matter

- You’re still his #1 fav character

- he once gave a person death glares every single time he saw him because he heard that he simps over you as well :0

- Man got sooooo irritated with that guy

- he kinda has a superiority complex when it comes to these things

- his insults are just so fucking mean

- “Dumbass.”

- “He has the mental capacity of a piece of shit.”

- “I bet his socks smell like ass.”

- law that doesn’t mean he’s a bad person 💀

- Man’s your number one fan and you might never know it 😭💜

Luffy

- HE IS OBSESSED WITH YOU

- he’s got those like- stickers on his water bottle of you

- not afraid to rant about how fucking amazing you are to non-anime fans

- doesn’t matter, people need to hear how gorgeous/handsome and how powerful you are

- on discord his pfp is u 🥺

- His abt me matches one of your quotes

- If he’s feeling down? He watches one piece episodes with you in them :)

- you literally make him so happy and hyped up

- Whenever you fight someone, he’s literally jumping up and down, mimicking your movements (pls I’m abt to die ok 😭)

- You use one of your moves?? *Tries to do the same move*

- *Breaks the window*

- “Oops- hehe-“ 💀

- He aspires to be as strong as you

- That’s his main motivation for working out!!!

- 😭💜 pls he’s such a fanboy-

- he started one piece because of you

- If he’s feeling down? He’ll just watch some clips of you and instantly go back to his extremely meat motivated hyper self

- he can’t even think of any other character except for you

- He’s always like: when’s y/n gonna come back :(

- then when you come on screen: HI Y/N AAAAAAAAA

- he eats meat as he’s watching op btw lmao 😭

- lowkey he doesn’t mind if someone else simps for you

- He knows that you’re so fucking awesome so other people will simp for u as well 🗿

- still tho. Obviously he’s the best choice out of your whole simp fan club 🙄

- man might drop his meat if he meets you sometime

- he wants to fight you so bad to show you how strong he’s gotten 🥺

- pls fight him

- you’ll make his world 10x better 🥹✨

Kid

- he’s all like: they’re fucking fictional why would I simp for the-

- … *looks at you*

- “fuck.” -kid 2022

- man just got a crush in 2 seconds within seeing you 💀

- you literally manipulate blood and use a badass scythe

- who tf wouldn’t love you 🙄

- bro like, your nickname is literally ‘the crimson reaper’

- … (yes I made that up and yes I know that it’s kinda cheesy just go with it pls 😭)

- man loves you bec you manipulate red blood (hehe color of his hair)

- wow I’m corny today

- whenever you win a fight (you always do 🫡) he gets up and just starts like throwing his fists up (kid you’re not at a sports game 💀)

- “LET’S FUCKING GO! FUCKIN DUMBASS THOUGHT YOU COULD BEAT Y/N! FUCKIN’-“

- prepare for everyone to hear random cussing at his tv or phone

- killer is concerned af

- kid tried to get Killer to simp for you too but it didn’t go that well

- Kid then realized he wanted you all to himself so then he stopped talking bout you in front of killer

- no one at school knows that he has the biggest fucking fictional crush in the history of anime crushes

- like he’ll literally turn red everytime he thinks abt you 😭

- He’s like tryna go to sleep at 2am and then gets hit with a shower thought

- “If y/n was left handed would that change the fighting style?!”

- kid. go to sleep 🗿

- man spent all night thinking about that

- HE MADE YOUR SCYTHE FROM SCRATCH AND SHOWED IT OFF TO EVERYONE

- yes it’s made out of real metal ✨

- he made your outfit, scythe, weapons, you name it

- you wear it? He’s made it

- I mean he doesn’t wear it- but he threatens his neighbors with his scythe if they don’t leave him alone

- “Uh is this Eustass Kid’s home? I was just here to inform you about these new solar panel types that are 10x more efficient than the ones you have right now-“

- *holds scythe menacingly* “get the fuck out of here I’m fuckin busy.”

- man hates these solicitors 🙄 (as do I- I had to tell one off today 🗿)

- the poor marketer sprinted as fast as he could 😭

- if someone interrupts his one piece watching time, especially if you’re on screen..

- hell nah they’re dead in literal seconds

- He will literally- yeah Idek what atrocious ways he’ll use to kill them

- moral: don’t solicit at kid’s house. Don’t interrupt y/n one piece screen time. do not simp for y/n only Kid’s allowed to 🙄

- man. kid you’re high maintenance ngl

- he loves you tho 💜

a/n - pls. why did that stupid solar panel guy have to stay and talk to me for 20 minutes 💀

<3

#one piece #one piece x reader #one piece hcs #anime hcs #trafalgar d water law #law x reader #law one piece #eustasscaptainkid #eustass kid #kid one piece #kid x reader #luffy x reader #monkey d. luffy #luffy x y/n #one piece modern au

[regret-breathing]

eeeaaahhh fuckit. i never do these but im bored and i love ya @p-paradoxa so here we go.

Last song: Asher White Misses The Good Old Days by Asher White from the album Asher White Sells Herself And Buys The World. its a good album, definitely worth a listen. ive been listening to this album a lot because i recommended it to a cute barista so i gotta brush up on it in case they mention it next time im there 🫣😶

https://open.spotify.com/album/2OF1yjkuOiiZkVbcQpVTv6?si=dIed6mflS6-4rdA9HVQ39Q

Favorite color: GREEN. usually. i like green. greens good. :3 like a rich lush dark green ya feelme?

Last movie/TV show: somehow for some damn reason i made the fucked up choice to watch all the damn marvel movies in a row >:( they are not very good, ive seen like 20 of them now, im as we speak posting instead of paying attention to endgame, which might be one of the worst pieces of crap ive watched in my entire life. the last tv show i watched is MUCH better, 2011’s Hunter x Hunter, it is fucking amazing and i love it very much i hope kurapika gets to kill so many people he’s earned it god bless him.

Sweet, spicy, or savory?: sweet. always sweet. i do enjoy spicy and savory but im a sweet enjoyer. unless bread is savory? what flavor group does bread count as…. whatever it is my favorite is Bread.

Relationship status: profoundly single unless SOMEBODY wants to change that lol

Last thing i googled: the imdb listing for the marvel movie captain marvel. not the worst movie. before that it was trying to figure out if a guy in ant man two was walton goggins. he was in fact walton goggins. i love walton goggins. hes great in that one community episode where he plays a guy who administers polygraph tests. god bless community seasons 5 and 6 and god bless the minnesota vikings.

People i want to know better (if you wanna):

@powerbottom @perditionanddiatribes @loverbearbutch

i never do lil tag games someone else please join me in the leaf pile (i am flopping around in the leaf pile)

#regret posting #am i doing this right

[leejihoonownsmyheart]

WE ARE BONDED...I THINK YOU'RE A GRYFFINDOR?? RIGHT?? IF IM WRONG ILL BE SO ASHAMED

OH MY GOODNESS YEAH I TOTALLY AGREE. LIKE WHY DO ALL KDRAMAS NEED TO BE KTRAUMAS 😭😭?? COULD WE NOT GET SOME FLUFF FOR ONCE...

HELP THAT ANIME IS SO FUNNY?? he's so relatable for turning into dust btw that's actually mad funny 😂😂😂

HAVE YOU SEEN THE ANIME OF THE GUY WHO'S VA WAS LAUGHING AT THE DUDE'S NICKNAME BEING DICK?? I DON'T REMEMBER THE NAME BUT THE VA WAS ACTUALLY LAUGHING IN THE STUDIO

no because cheol/hao/wonwoo (and- hot take maybe- shua and jeonghan??) totally give off that 'passive dominance' vibe

YEAH I TOTALLY LOST FEELINGS FOR THAT GUY....LIKE I THINK I MESSED UP IN THE BEGINNING BECAUSE I TEXTED HIM TOO MUCH 🙃🙃 it is what it is tho because i think im much better off without him...........

OKAY I HAVE A THEORY ABOUT PULLING DOMINANT MEN....you either have to act SUPER independent/borderline "leader" like OR you have to act like someone that could be a sub little housewife (like its the 1970s oops).... IM TRYING THOSE 2 OUT RN SO LETS SEE HOW IT GOES LOL

so many meds?? that sounds so complicated (and borderline terrifying 🙁) it must be so bad to be given something that's supposed to help but somehow makes things worse

would a sleep study actually help? here's to hoping it will because not being able to sleep must be torture brie im so sorry i hope you get through this in one piece (ONE PIECE MENTIONED!??!?!?)

PRINCESS SWITCH IS SUCH A GUILTY PLEASURE?? IM GLAD SOMEONE ELSE MENTIONED IT BECAUSE IM SO EMBARASSED TO SAY ITS...KINDA GOOD......

true. imagine ignoring your child's pleas for mashed potatoes... those creamy garlic mashed potatoes are actually a god given right, you can't convince me otherwise 😒😒

NO BRIE YOU DON'T SUCK! YOU'RE A WONDERFUL BEING THAT DESERVES THEIR PLACE IN THE WORLD.... AND YOU ARE PRETTY?? I THINK YOUR VISUALS ARE REALLY FRESH 😭

i'm doing great (besides finals.)!! YOU GOT THIS BRIE I BELIEVE IN YOU

-finals week or 🫨 anon's final week? stay tuned

Hufflepuff 😨

NO SERIOUSLY they should make a website like does the dog die but for what episode of a drama you should stop watching at if you want to pretend there is a happy ending

NO HAHAHA I DONT THINK IVE SEEN THAT ANIME BEFORE BUT IT SOUNDS SO FUNNY IF YOU REMEMBER THE NAME PLEASE TELL ME???

I actually really heavily agree on that Joshua take that’s crazy but i feel that

NO I THINK I REALLY MESSED UP WITH ONE OF MY FRIENDS i’m so stressed about it too she’s taking a break from social media and i’m going crazy like i feel like part of it is just that i’m too much for her now and i’m so stressed, every day i want to spam her and i have literally been crying every single night because i’m so upset cause i think i really fucked up but like is it worse that i think that she would just abandon me? IDK but i’m so upset it’s been a week now. What if she hates me, and also i went literally crazy and i don’t think she knows how crazy but crying every single night cause i think she hates me and left me is CRAZY like every time i calm down i see reason but i was rereading our interactions so much and analyzing all the things i did wrong so much i had to delete the messages

I’m crazy. I’m crazy actually. I want to just forget everything and move on but imagine i put all this effort into forgetting her because i had a maniac anxious breakdown in the middle of a depressive episode and she comes back completely normal expecting me to be completely normal 😭😭 that would be crazy right

I’m crazy right. I’m crazy.

OKAY THATS IMPORTANT RESEARCH RIGHT THERE ACTUALLY CAUSE I HAVE NEVER EVER EVER MET A MAN WHO WANTS TO DOMINATE ME AND HONESTLY?? IM SICK OF THIS BULLSHIT I KEEP PURPOSELY ACTING UP IN FRONT OF GUYS TOO LIKE PURPOSELY I WILL ACT LIKE A BRAT WHO CANNOT BE CONTROLLED AND NOTHING. NOTHING! PLEASE TELL ME HOW YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT GOES TODAY I LITERALLY TOLD SOMEONE THAT A MAN I FRIENDZONED LIKED TO BE DOMINATED AND TOLD WHAT TO DO AND THE GUY I FRIENDZONED HAS LITERALLY SEEN MY FUCKING BDSM TEST RESULTS AND THERE WERE NO REPERCUSSIONS 😭

Meds are meds i guess i’m just really hoping these new ones work. The sleep study SHOULD be helpful like if it’s a serious health problem. And it will help them know if it’s not like sleep apthia? Or something like that

I WAS TRYING TO TALK TO SOMEONE ABOUT THE HEIST ONE?? AND THEY WERE LIKE but the first one is so bad and i was like oh my god… they haven’t even met the third twin LIKE ITS GOOD???

I don’t remember why i said i suck but oh god so annoying i give myself the ick. TODAY I WAS LIKE i was like when i serve food out to people sometimes i like can’t explain this well but i smile and pose? Like when i turn around i’ll like IDONTKNOW POSE? ITS LIKE SUBTLE BUT ITS LIKE IM IN A MOVIE AND IM THE MAIN CHARACTER AND ITS REALLY ANNOYING AND SUBCONCIOUS SO IM ONLY AWARE AFTER IVE DONE IT AND ITS SO ANNOYING AND IT GIVES ME THE ICK SO BAD i have A SERIOUS pick me problem that no one will EVER acknowledge even when i say it i’m surrounded by LIARS

HOW HAVE YOUR FINALS BEEN GOING ARE THEY GOING WELL?! YOURE GONNA DO AMAZING YOUVE GOT THIS

#TODAY I WAS MANIC MANIC NOT DEPRESSED MANIC SO ITS GREAT DAY AND TIME TO TALK TO BRIE #I ONLY CRIED RIGHT BEFORE WORK IN MY CAR AND ALMOST ONCE AT WORK BUT NOT AT ALL ANYMORE THATS THE RECORD FOR THE MONTH ACTUALLY #b: 🫨 anon

[sanjisblackasswife]

Yk I have never watched a single episode of one piece but ur works got me considering it.. 👍🏾🤔🤐

U know how many comments ive gotten between when i draw or write abt these characters people have said they never seen the show but now they might🤣

I mean obviously i recommend.

At least for background noise i did that all 2020 n im doin it now.

And watch at ur own pace its not a rush.

[fortunemagic]

old commission from march/april  ive never seen a single episode of one piece in my life

#one piece #commission #one piece fanart #zoro #nico robin

[booler]

my solace in life is that ive never seen a single episode of one piece. Like wow… i am truly a lucky person

#txt

[thekingofwinterblog]

Favorite anime?

Anime? Well, i shouldn probably note i dont watch anime in general, with few exceptions. Generally i stick to the manga if there is one, with a few exceptions.

Soul eater, trigun, etc. Or if there is not an original, previous manga like kill la kill.

With that said, i do know which series i consider my favorite Anime overall.

That being the original Naruto Anime. The manga and shippuden both turned into absolute garbage at a very specific point, and never really recovered, but the original Naruto anime, unlike the manga, can be viewed in the context of a separate series rather than just pre and post timeskip.

Looking back at it, knowing how it all turned out, it's actually astonishing how GOOD the original Naruto was.

Naruto might be THE example i would point to, of how you can present your protagonist, their goal, and why it mattera in one episode.

And it only kept on trucking from there.

One piece at it's peak during water seven and Enies lobby might be overall better, but as a consistent bit of work, i regard the Original Naruto as the gold standard for Shonen storytelling, and just anime in general.

Ive seen some people who make compelling arguments that the Sabuza arc, naruto's first arc, ita east blue as it was, was the single best one it ever had... And its great.

And it only got better from there.

It had a great world that managed to combine brutal but perfectly logical and interesting politics rooted in war, ninja clans and economics, a relatively low level magic system that made for logical and strategic yet spectacular fights, and best of all, characters that made this world feel alive.

Barring filler arcs, i can point to every single arc, as having some of my favorite moments in fiction period.

Naruto's interaction with Haku wheter as a passing interaction, their fight, naruto beating him to a pulp, then stopping once seeing his face, Zabuza addmitting he did love Haku, orochimaru's introduction and him beating sasuke around like a punk and marking him, hinata standing against Neji, gaara vs lee, Naruto defeating Neji then breaking his entire world view by confessing that his absolute worst point used to be Bushins of any kind(ive seen so many people miss the forest for the trees with that one by focusing on the fox chakra), pretty much Tsunade's entire arc, sasuke lashing out at Kakashi, only for Kakashi telling sasuke that everyone Kakashi ever loved had died a long time ago, every fight in the sasuke retrieval arc, and the list goes on and on.

Frankly speaking, if the original Naruto had just done a good job adapting it, it would probably be my favorite anime, but the fact is that in so many aspect, they knocked it out of the park. Amazing fight scenes, glorious and iconic music, and capturing every important scene pretty much perfectly.

The only bad thing i have to say about the original naruto anime, is it's filler arcs... But by virtue of them being arcs and episodes, you can very easily skip them, unlike some series who plops down filler wherever, or drags out every single moment again and again tos tretch the run time(one piece, im looking at you).

#naruto #anime #meta #analysis

[taohs]

oh thats great to hear! sometimes working with kids can be fun doing little activities or just watching their favorite shows with them. im happy to say i dont take classes at all so im living as stress free as i can! :d ahhh csm and spy x family im also watching! i still have catching up to do but i agree with both. sxf is wholesome to see the family get closer and closer each episode and csm is just a master piece! the theme or concept of the show can be seen as taboo but everything else is marvelous. ive never seen anime with that many smooth frames, even when you look at the frames individually theres not a single repeating one which alot of other animes tend to have. i also love that they get to have a new ending each episode, the budget is massive hahaha. which characters from either show do you really like and why? and are there any you can relate to at all :o? besides those anime, ive been watching mushikaburi-hime which is just your cliche sweet shoujo, i cant get enough of those though lmao - your animanga secret santa c:

agreed!! it's insane how much work they put into chainsaw man! the quality for each episode reminds me of watching anime movies 💕 for sxf, my favorite is yor! i adore how she loves anya and her family unconditionally. she can be such an airhead too despite her strength. i think i can relate to her since i can be really clumsy and I doubt myself a lot, but i try my best at what i do to not disappoint others :D i also really love Sylvia since im weak for powerful ladies, but i do adore the main cast so much! for chainsaw man, i love the trio and their individual characteristics (especially power, that little goofball). himeno could have been most likely to be a fave, but i feel icky with her taking advantage of denji :’) how about you?

ohh the artwork for mushikaburi hime looks really pretty! 👀 is it a new shoujo that just came out?

#anonymous #answered #secret santa #i hope you’ve been well my dear!!! #I’m so sorry I couldn’t respond faster because I was hospitalized for a few days 💔😭

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Finished S2 on my relisten

Onto Season 2! I remember thinking that the plot started dragging a little, since we start out strong with the initial exploration of the tunnels and then go back to the Monster of the Week format, and I was now invested in the mystery solving. But it works significantly better for the story and it was the right choice, and it definitely is more fun in retrospect to be able to put all the pieces together.  

E42: Grifter’s Bone freaks me out because the idea of listening to something by choice or unwittingly and then permanently being affected. i mean, that’s just how music works in a way, but now its Sinister. 

E43: Section 31 big fan of early Basira and Frank Voss, their voice is so nice

E44: ooh set up to the Unknowing; every single Circus statement just has such a terrifying undertone before they get really bad

I think I’m in the minority of Magnus fans that isn’t obsessed with Michael? Like I understand that he is fascinating but also I don’t really like him?? I don’t know why???

i think i don’t enjoy any statements to do with Robert Smirke and his weird architecture? I dont know why but i lose focus during them. maybe because i hate buildings that don’t make sense because i have quite a tendency to get lost, so this almost annoys me more than it scares me

E52: Exceptional Risk full confession is that I am really bad at remembering when statements have names that are the same, so I don’t always get it when they are connected immediately but once i do realize, they make good statements and good linking for the story

E57: Personal Space I love this statement so much even though it terrifies me

E59: Recluse always enjoy a Hill Top Road statement, there’s so much that goes on and i really want more of the various happenings there

E61: Hard Shoulder i hate Daisy so much sometimes but her statements are good and her voice is really nice (thank you Fay Roberts!)

E62: First Edition love the dynamic here it’s so fun

E65: Binary freaked me out the first time and still freaks me out now, something about the imagery of the broken computer and the shards and pain 

E67: Burning Desire first mystery episode i really got into that has good payoff

E68: The Tale of a Field Hospital i did not appreciate this statement the first time i heard it, thought it was weird and did not enjoy. on the relisten it is incredible at reimagining things that are Just Slightly Off

E69: Thought for the Day first Annabelle Cane statement! it’s wild and i hated it the first time i listened to it but its such a good statement

E70: Book of the Dead is such a good concept, terrifying thank you

E72: Takeaway I hate every single Flesh statement related to the Hans because 1. creepy 2. imagery is the worst in my head 3. somewhat racist and i hate it (sorry for the discourse but god it’s so bad)

E72: Police Lights maybe one of my favorite small details between the Callum Brodie connection to learning about both his parents and then later his own fear domain

E74: Fatigue too relatable

all the Not!Them statements are scary to me because the idea that a monster can just slip in and recreate reality without anyone knowing is so awful and scary to me because you would just have to question everything but you would never know to even start

my favorite theory ive seen is that the Not!Them keeps the witness as someone who is close to having a connection to that person, so close but maybe not quite, and that’s what makes you question it more, because it’s a memory of what you could have had all the time but you don’t know why

E80: The Librarian *insert Jurgen Leitner rant* 

[extended sounds of brutal pipe murder] 

Whoo ready for Season 3! 

#the magnus archives

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no one asked but here’s the anime I’ve watched while in the pandemicverse and my thoughts on them. it’s actually a Lot for me bc I never really watched the genre ever in my life before these quote unquote unprecedented times. and yeah also these are all pretty much only the current popular ones but I’m not sitting through 60 seasons of naruto & friends or something obscure like “my sister turned into a left shoe and jumped 12,000 years into the future” so anyway here ya go

my hero academia: I like this one, it’s fun and upbeat with lots of kooky characters. I heard the fans are cringe compilation station tho but thankfully I can’t read 8/10

demon slayer: still in the process of watching this one and it slaps but man it definitely loses some points for me when they introduce those super demon slayers whatever they’re called, the ones w/ the single personality trait each and the worst character designs in history. legit looks like the circus came to town whenever they’re on screen. 8/10

jujutsu kaisen: i, from the bottom of my heart, don’t understand the plot of this one at all but the art style and soundtrack are completely insane 9.5/10

dr. stone: one of my favs this show literally gets me hyped over some guy making a lightbulb 10/10

bungou stray dogs: I thought this was like your boilerplate anime before I realized i was watching two anime emo supremes fight f. scott fitzgerald on top of blimp that’s actually moby dick reimagined and careening out of the sky at 1000 miles an hour then I figured it was actually something really special 10/10

one piece: I did not and will not watch all 1000 episodes of this but I hear it play on tv when my husband watches it and it makes him super happy and I love him so 10/10 ❤️

promised neverland: I can’t remember watching this but it’s showing up as continue watching on hulu so uh 3/10

attack on titan: 3 seasons of ??? and then another of war crimes idk maybe 6.5/10 because I think the plot is interesting but a little 2 scary 4 me

tokyo ghoul: what a darksided sad depressing show why do you all like it so much are you okay. i seriously thought I’d need (more) therapy after season 1, season 2 was boring, and then it became completely unwatchable 2/10

blue exorcist: fun show but ended as soon as it really started, legit a prologue to a show that never came so that was weird 6/10 (no I’m not checking out the books i don’t need supplemental reading material for anime)

fire force: thought it was cute at first then it got very strange and intense. plot is complete mumbo jumbo but im always rooting for fire feet boy so I guess it’s good because it makes me care. also the second intro song fucks 8/10

tokyo revengers: actually a very poignant story about gang violence but also has the most nonsensical use of time travel ive ever seen in a piece of media outside of a m4rvel property but also why are they all like 12 lmao 7/10

one punch man: caped baldy my beloved 100/10

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HI LEAF IVE BEEN HYPERFIXATING ON MC STORY MODE AND ON STAMPYCAT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT STAMPYCAT BEING THE WHITE PUMPKIN IT SOUNDS SO COOL

HELLO HI YES I AM MORE THAN WILLING TO EXPLAIN

Before I start I wanna give a huge shout out to @mephones-declining-mental-health who was actually the first to point a lot of this out. We spent a lot of time putting this all together and she deserves a ton of credit for it. So go check them out.

ok so mcsm is an old game so quick refresher on episode 6: Jesse and his gang end up in another world and are put into a murder-mystery type situation. They’re trapped in the mansion due to zombies and have to survive until the day while the person who invited them all to the mansion (who goes by “The White Pumpkin”) kills them off one-by-one in order to obtain the Enchanted Flint And Steel. Which Jesse is also trying to get. Minus the main cast, everyone in this murder mystery is based off and voiced by famous minecraft YouTubers from the time. This was a pretty genius move on TellTale’s part because it meant the players were already going in with a certain level of attachment to these characters, allowing the game to kill them off in a way that would be emotionally impactful without effecting the plot of the overall story that much.

The people you meet in the mansion are the following youtubers: CaptainSparklez, TorqueDawg, StampyCat, TheDiamondMinecart, LDShadowLady, StacyPlays, and CassieRose

Multiple of these YouTubers are killed off (though some can be either saved or killed depending on your choices) and [spoiler warning] Cassie Rose is revealed to be the white pumpkin at the end. Her motivation being that she’s stuck away from her home world for and desperate to get back.

Now here’s the thing: that doesn’t make Any sense.

Cassie doesn’t have a single line or any piece of evidence that would necessarily point to her being the white pumpkin. The only real evidence that points to her feels so last minute and forced. And just completely disregards any other scene in which you were collecting evidence.

This would be less frustrating if there weren’t multiple other people that had far more evidence against them. But the one who has the most undeniable evidence against them? StampyCat.

Now I don’t know if they changed the story halfway through development or if the writers at TellTale are just bad at their jobs (equally likely but there is some evidence to suggest Cassie was not always the intended White Pumpkin) but Stampy has the most evidence, best motive, and would have just been a very interesting villain entirely.

Let’s go over everything.

So for starters. The first murder.

Spoiler alert! But the first murder is TorqueDawg. He stands under a dispenser that shoots him with a poison tipped arrow and he dies.

Now, tipped arrows were a relatively new thing at the time, and the game makes a point out of this. A lot of the characters in the mansion Don’t Know what a tipped arrow is. But a few do.

After the second murder (which we’ll address in a moment) you have the ability to interrogate three of the characters. LDShadowLady, TheDiamondMinecart, and StampyCat

Lizzie (LDShadowLady) is fully aware of the tipped arrows. Both Dan (TheDiamondMinecart) and Stampy point this out. When you ask her about it, she says she does know how to make them and taught others about it.

One of the people she talked about the tip arrows to is Cassie, aka the white pumpkin. So story-wise it does make sense. But Lizzie also states that Stampy had asked her about the tipped arrows, and specifically how to make them. So we know he has full knowledge of them.

But what does Stampy say when you ask him about the tipped arrows?

“I’ve never seen anything like it before”

This is Never addressed. Not once. Stampy blatantly lies about knowledge of a murder weapon when he seemingly has no reason to do so and he gets away with it.

So Stampy 1. Has the ability to create the weapon used for the murder and 2. Felt the need to hide this ability.

So that’s pretty suspicious right off the bat.

Now these interviews are caused by the second murder. So let’s talk about that.

Second murder: CaptainSparklez is pushed into a sand pit and suffocated by a very elaborate redstone trap. The trap is activated by one of the buttons on the table that they’re all sitting at.

Each of the buttons activates the trap, but only one of them was actually pressed. The connection we’re supposed to make here is that the White Pumpkin set up multiple buttons to keep suspicion off of themself.

The people sitting at the buttons were StampyCat, TheDiamondMinecart, LDShadowLady and Jesse’s friend Lucas.

Now you’ll notice that CassieRose, the actual White Pumpkin, is not on this list.

TheDiamondMinecart (Dan) is the one who presses the button. Dan is supposed to be a Red Herring here as he didn’t know what the button would do and pressed it anyway (though he’s a bad red herring. And we’ll discuss that in a moment). Even with the knowledge that it wasn’t the white pumpkin who pressed it, it doesn’t make any sense for her to have not been sitting at a seat with a button. And this is never really addressed either. Making this scene a complete waste of time, unless of course the original white pumpkin was intended to be one of those 4 people.

The interviews give us a lot of knowledge about the interpersonal relationships of the characters and what their skill levels are. Such as what I discussed earlier about the tipped arrows. But one thing that stays consistent is Jesse’s insistence that whoever the white pumpkin is, they must be good at redstone.

And he’s right. Every trap set by the white pumpkin at this point was redstone activated. Whoever made it must have been very skilled with it. And out of all the suspects there’s only one who has that level of ability. Stampy.

Both Dan and Lizzie make a point of saying that Stampy is a master of redstone and his skill is unmatched. But when Stampy is asked about this, his first instinct is to lie about it. When you catch him in this lie, he immediately back-tracks.

So Stampy

Has knowledge on how to build the first murder weapon (which wasn’t knowledge everyone had at the time)

Completely lies about this knowledge and is never called out for it

Was sitting at one of the buttons that caused the second murder

Is the only one with the redstone knowledge capable of creating the white pumpkins traps.

Lies about his redstone ability

So there you go! That’s a ton of evidence against him! And pretty much no evidence against Cassie other than the fact that she also knew about tipped arrows at the time.

In fact the dinner scene confirms Cassie can’t be a suspect unless we’re supposed to believe she just hoped someone else would do the job for her. Which considering she’s later characterized to be super paranoid and unwilling to leave things to chance, I doubt it.

While looking through secret tunnels you manage to find a secret conversation between Dan and Lizzie where Dan admits that he was the one who pushed the button on accident and that he feels super guilty about it. Jessie spots the white pumpkin looking through a painting at this moment. And considering he’s also seeing Dan and Lizzie, and he knows where Lucas is, out of all the people sitting near buttons, Stampy is the only one left. If the White Pumpkin was someone who was sitting at one of the buttons (which it should have been) it would have had to be Stampy

Now I do think having Dan push the button is realistic and fine. It’s a button. Everyone likes pushing buttons. But the fact that the white pumpkin would Bet On That Happening and not sit near a button at all feels like it couldn’t possibly be right, especially because everything else is so thought through and calculated. It feels out of character for Cassie to do. Cassie being the white pumpkin also means those interview scenes were an entire waste of time. They gave us no real information that could be used in the case and crossed off the real murderer as a possible suspect.

If *Stampy* was the murderer however, this would have made a lot more sense. As the interviews would have given us a lot of info about him and against him. Plus his relationship to the others. Even if Dan turned out to be the one who pressed the button, we still would have gotten that important info on Stampy. Not to mention that Dan just so happening to press the button before the White Pumpkin got a chance is a lot more believable than the White Pumpkin betting on that.

Now the way the story actually goes is that Stampy is revealed to have the enchanted flint and steel (even though before he claimed to not even want it) and as I’ve said, Cassie is revealed to be the white pumpkin.

We learn she’s the white pumpkin because she’s the only one who didn’t have a portrait of herself with a red X over it, which is a sign someone had died. Meaning she was never intended to die at all.

Now because the writing team didn’t put any actual evidence of her being guilty before this, they slip in a Not At All Subtle clue that she’s the white pumpkin.

The white pumpkin’s hide out is Filled with calico cats. The same cats as Winslow (the cat that Cassie had kept with her). And while this is obviously supposed to tell us it’s her, it doesn’t really make much sense as a clue. Considering Winslow is just one cat. A bunch of cats that look like him is sort of out-of-nowhere. She’s had no real evidence against her other than the final connection, meanwhile all signs seem to point to Stampy.

This doesn’t necessarily mean anything but I do think it’s worth mentioning that there is one character who Does have a ton of animals like the ones we see in the white pumpkin’s room. And that’s Stampy. He has a ton of dogs that could have easily taken the place of the cats. But anyway.

This last second Right At The End clue seems to almost indicate that there was some change in writing half way through the process. Before Stampy is revealed to have the flint and steel (which is something that any character could have confessed to and the story would be pretty much the same), the story makes a lot more sense with the idea that Stampy was originally intended to be the white pumpkin. We can also gather that it seems they intended the white pumpkin to be a man, as the protagonists refer to the white pumpkin by he/him pronouns and that assumption is never addressed when they learn the white pumpkin is a girl.

Either that or the writers are just. bad. Which is also very likely.

That’s all the evidence I have. So let’s talk about how story-wise it would have been so much more interesting to make Stampy the white pumpkin.

Cassie is great. But she didn’t get a lot of actual screen time in game until her villain reveal because she really never had any evidence against her. Stampy however got a lot of screen time and was generally the fan favorite when it came to the youtubers that were in episode 6. He was one of the most beloved youtubers at the time and the writers took that into account.

Whenever Stampy was accused of something, he’d play the innocent card. He’d say things like “it’s me! Stampy! I’m everyone’s friend!” In an attempt to get sympathy. Instead of defending himself, he played at the emotions of the people around him. He was played as the sweet innocent character who wouldn’t do anything wrong. I think this would have made him a Great twist villain. It would have made a lot more sense for the end scene as well, as the other youtubers defend Cassie, saying she would “never do something like that”. Which never really made sense considering they all knew one of them must have done it, and none of them had any real connection to her. Defending Stampy or being shocked would have made a lot more sense regarding the relationships of the characters.

His villain reveal would have been so much more surprising as well, as Cassie’s tone quickly shifts to much more malicious once she admits to being the White Pumpkin. And while I do believe shes a very good actor, I do believe the scene would have had an extra punch if the lines were delivered by someone who was previously set up to be the trustworthy friend who wouldn’t hurt a fly

But it’s Cassie’s motive specifically that I think would have fit So Well if Stampy had taken her place.

Cassie wants the flint and steel so that she can return to her home dimension. She’a been stuck here for a very long time and is willing to do anything to get back home. Specifically saying that she needs to get out of this “stupid world”.

Now this will only really make sense for those who are familiar with StampyCat outside of mcsm. But I’ll do my best to explain.

Stampy, as a YouTuber, was known for his “lovely world”. The minecraft world that he loved and cared about a lot. If the plot line was that Stampy specifically was separated from his lovely world, it would have been a great motive that he was desperate to get back it it.

So uh. Yeah! I think that’s all I got. I’m sure me and Worm aren’t the only people who have come to this conclusion but I’m just here to put it all into writing. I’m not sure if this was all a last minute change or sloppy writing but either way I think it’s interesting!

#minecraft story mode #mcsm #minecraft story mode episode 6 #a portal to mystery mcsm #Stampy cat #long post #wooo boy I am a Nerd haha #sorry for the rant there was just a lot to go over- #I typically don’t go off on tangents like this on this blog but hey. you asked and I provided. #anyway I’m so sorry to my followers for the long post about the cringe minecraft game lmao