#jonnie's thoughts

[jonniechill]

really surprised i have of yet to see this reading of laios' and toshiro's relationship before tbh

#jonnie's thoughts #dungeon meshi #although given how people are so prone to projecting onto the cast and most of them. are white. that tracks #i dont say that as a negative per say or to negate the more popular reading #but this one just seemed more obvious to me?

[podcasts-in-space]

nonserious theory: when celia asked who voices chester she actually thought the voice sounded similar to the lead singer of this college band the mechanisms. it's nothing to do with the archivist

#tmagp #the magnus protocol #the mechanisms #she actually thought it was just jonny d'ville #celia ripley #tmagp 7

[zonatcannibalism]

whenever i see a post from jonny sims or neil gaiman im like "damn. thats what i want to do with my life. shitpost about the emotionally devastating work of fiction i made."

#neil gaiman #thoughts #good omens #the mechanisms #the magnus archives #jonny sims

[spacedustmantis]

mechs was jon's uni band hc but reversed. jonny d'ville took a break from all the murder and warcrimes to spend a few years writing tragic horror audio dramas

#the mechanisms #jonny d'ville #buggy thoughts #silver screen

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

The "Luffy's fruit is a Zoan" reveal/retcon was extremely controversial when 1044 was first released; do you think Oda did a good job foreshadowing it?

yes!! it addresses a lot of idle questions i had about luffy's powers for quite some time (while also raising a ton more, of course, but that's the nature of one piece).

(all of my thoughts here and on gear 5 in general owe some credit to @grainjew, who has been my main discussion partner on this topic)

luffy's fruit has always been, from what we've seen, kind of weird for a paramecia? obviously since the categorization of 'paramecia' is sort of a grab bag and a lot less well-defined than logias or zoans, that's kind of a hard claim to make, but generally speaking, most of the paramecia users we see throughout the series do not have their powers always on. (the strongest counter-example i could think of to this trend is brook, and even that is one i think you can argue.) luffy's power is way more passive, in the sense that he doesn't have to activate it- it's just there, always. even seastone and seawater do not make luffy not rubber, they just sap his energy and stop him from stretching himself, as we see as early as arlong park.

that is weird! what we see of most other paramecias is that they have to use their powers intentionally, even when those powers do involve transforming their body in some way, like with mr. 1 or alvida. there's a whole plot in dressrosa about knocking a specific paramecia user unconscious so she'll lose her grip on her power and it'll disappear. luffy will stretch when he is asleep, when he is underwater, and without knowing he's doing it. he's always rubber.

so luffy is weird for a paramecia, though not completely unprecedented. his power has always seemed to me to be... almost logia adjacent, in the sense that he's made from a specific material and all his powers are based on being that material, but that doesn't quite track either. aside from the fact that the thing he's composed of is tangible and, again, he can't turn it off, he clearly has access to a greater level of complexity in his transformations than logias do (whose devil fruit powers seem to be basically a binary system).

which actually leads me to compare him to chopper, who is the zoan we know the best, and who, conveniently, also ate a version of the hito hito no mi.

i think the way luffy and chopper interact with their powers is actually very similar. much like luffy, chopper was fundamentally altered by his consumption of a devil fruit in a way he cannot return from. he can still look like a normal reindeer, but he can never actually be one, because the most important trait his devil fruit gave him was human sentience. and he would still have that if you put him in seastone, he just wouldn't be able to transform. similarly, luffy had his body fundamentally altered by his fruit in a manner he does not seem to be capable of even temporarily reversing. he can't make himself not rubber any more than chopper can return himself to being a normal reindeer.

like chopper, luffy's power progression has been based around finding new ways to transform his body and force it into new and more powerful forms. his gears are roughly comparable to chopper's points. that is zoan stuff! chopper is the main other person we see interact with his fruit in that specific way. so, yeah, i actually do think it does make sense for luffy's power to have actually always been a zoan. at the very least, it makes more sense than him being a paramecia, to me.

however, having said that, i also don't think it's as straightforward as luffy just being a zoan instead of a paramecia. we see that the awakening of his fruit definitely has both paramecia and zoan qualities, since he's transforming both himself and the environment around him, as well as other people. (the wiki puts this down to him being a mythical zoan but i just don't think that's true. kaidou is also a mythical zoan and he is completely baffled by what he's seeing.)

i made a bunch of jokes in discord about luffy being devil fruit nonbinary while i was reading this chapter- there's three genders and you have to pick one, and you can't just go switching it up, etc- and i do think that what luffy's fruit indicates is that the sorting system of devil fruits itself is imperfect. outliers do exist that don't fit cleanly between the lines- which we already knew! just look at katakuri.

#i have a lot more thoughts on the thematic resonance and plot significance of g5 #which i WILL get to also. but thats outside the scope of this ask #jonny answers #one piece #not japanese #luffy #gear 5 #opmeta #character meta

[samwise1548]

This episode had me so flustered I don’t even know why!!!!

[ID: Three drawings of the artist sitting on a couch with headphones on and a cat in their lap. The first drawing is of them listening contently with a hand on their cat. An arrow pointed at them reads “listening to magp 6” referring to the sixth episode of The Magnus Protocol. The second drawing has them shooting up in their seat, a blush on their surprised face. Their cat is scared by the sudden reaction. From their headphones a speech bubble reads “Celia [speaking]: Lena, these little donuts are amazing! Where do you get them?”

The last drawing on the bottom is a closeup of the artist, the blush taking over their face. Their internal thoughts say “Sam, if you don’t romance this woman, I will!” with a faded lesbian flag behind the text. \End ID]

#Jonny is the only creator who has ever been able to make me fall in love with two of his female characters on first appearance #the other is Annabelle cane #she is my love <3 #my thoughts #Tmagp thoughts #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol #the magnus protocol spoilers #magp6 #Celia ripley #I wanna listen to the new episode again just to hear her voice again. guys I’m going insane #my doodles #my art

[possiblyawesometmblr]

SHOW ME THE ADMIRAL

#i am kicking jonny sims' door down #the first thing i thought of the SECOND i heard georgie's name #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #the magnus protocol #georgie barker #the admiral

[rennyrose]

I haven’t put much thought into that sort of scenario Nuh nor have I come across works that have really delved into that, at least specifically in regards to Knives and LR interacting a good amount-

If it was just those three I’d find it interesting if they went on a journey together of some sort of self discovery, learning/relearning how to engage with people and contribute to the world around them

#I haven’t put a ton of thought for knives #a blorbo but not my blorbo kind of thing pffffffffft #except for like- the concept of him being a sort of Jonny Appleseed figure for gunsmoke #a solo guy who does his own thing but does his best to help change the world around him #just a cute thought pffffffffft #trigun #trigun maximum #livio the double fang #millions knives #drawing #sketch #digital art #fan art #trigun manga #art

[autisticalastor]

Broke: Mechs canon implies all the Mechs look like we do, save for their mechanized bits (as Jonny refers to them pre-mechanization being "human").

Woke: The definition of "human" has changed over time, and by the point of Mechs canon, it can include things like pointed ears or wonky organs and such, provided someone looks close enough to what would otherwise have been considered human.

Bespoke: "Human" in Mechs canon refers to the dominant species of any planet, provided said species is bipedal, fully cognizant, and able to communicate with other civilizations throughout space, so it doesn't matter what they look like otherwise.

#thoughts I have had due to all the jonnys with tails and asgardians with paws #~Spencer #the mechanisms #the mechs #x

[banana-boots]

cant currently draw it but picture my vision:

marius: its pride month jonny, you know what that means

jonny: huh what

jonny: do you want us to make like gay music

jonny: we do that already

#late night thoughts with boots #the mechanisms #it doesnt have to be marius actually #could be kind of whoever #it has to be jonny tho #for the Vibes #do you want us to make like gay music?

[autisticperrytheplatypus]

#the mechanisms #one eyed jack #jonny d'ville #the mechs #is this anything i thought someone mightve done it before but i couldnt remember #ttbt

[jonniechill]

watched treasure planet the other day and never realized this is how they credited the actors and lead animators... i love it. really emphasizes how the animators and voice actors are two halves of one performance

#of course it only works in the model of 'you work on one character the whole project' but #still very cool. wish it were more common #jonnie's thoughts

[nat-20s]

Honestly obsessed with posts that are like "The Magnus Archives will bi your sexuality" because that literally happened to Jonny Sims himself. Love that for him

#it's wild to me that people think Jonny is straight it's wild that he himself thought that until like. four? five? years ago or so #jonny are you aware of how you describe men #tma

[kathonyy]

KATE SHARMA & ANTHONY BRIDGERTON BRIDGERTON 2x06 THE CHOICE

#bridgertonedit #kathonyedit #katesharmaedit #anthonybridgertonedit #kanthonyedit #bridgerton #kathony #kate sharma #anthony bridgerton #kanthony #dailybridgerton #dailykanthony #bridgertonblr #perioddramaedit #netflixedit #tvedit #kathonykiss2x06 #my main thought after watching these over and over and over again while giffing them is i wish they'd used more tongue!!! #i mean maybe simone and jonny did want to use tongue and they just told them not to idk #often thinking about the season we could have had if they hadn't told simone and jonny to hold back........ #my poll was split on how to post this so i'm gonna do some separate smaller posts as well

[spacedustmantis]

jonny d'ville and gunpowder tim and The Tension

+ extra meme just for you (that's a lie, i made this for my boyfriend)

#the mechanisms #jonny d'ville #gunpowder tim #toy soldier #buggy thoughts #silver screen

[kaizokuou-ni-naru]

So. Hear 5. Nika. Loony Tunes Luffy, if you will. Tell us your thoughts on him and any potential meta? 👀 I’ve been aching to hear it from you since we first saw him go Full Silly Boy.

it's hard to answer this, because i have so many thoughts. i'm just going to try and start from the biggest points and move down.

i like gear five a lot, and i think this development feels very appropriate as a culmination of both luffy's character and the themes of one piece as a whole because of how it interacts with three extremely dominant motifs that have reoccurred throughout the story: freedom, laughter, and the sun.

from the very beginning of the story, luffy has acted, in small ways and big, as an agent of complete freedom. from his first meeting with coby to his breakout at impel down to the liberation of wano, what luffy does is destroy systems that control and oppress, if only because they are in his way. every strawhat is somehow trapped and held back from pursuing their own dreams when they meet luffy, and he frees them all, along with hundreds of others along the way, whether he's inspiring shirahoshi to venture outside or crushing yamato's manacles. his talent for this has always seemed almost preternatural.

luffy is not necessarily a benevolent person; he doesn't care much about helping people in the abstract. he's selfish. he values freedom for freedom's own sake, not because of any greater moral convictions. he doesn't think much about the negative knock-on effects of things like causing a mass breakout at impel down, and he doesn't really go around seeking out downtrodden and oppressed people to free out of a charitable or selfless instinct, nor does he really do anything because it's the right thing to do. he's dismissive of the idea that he might be a hero.

but because he is a completely uncontrollable free agent, and he doesn't really want anything but for himself and everyone he cares about to be completely free, he constantly collides with the systems of oppression that control his world, and when those collisions happen, it is the systems that fail, time and time again, because oppressive systems always do eventually. they can't withstand the light of day. and because he lives completely confidently and unapologetically, he is constantly inspiring others to do the same.

so by the time we are told about nika for the first time, we already know that what nika is said to do is what we've seen luffy doing for more than a thousand chapters: he frees people, and inspires them, and makes them laugh.

i also find luffy-as-nika to be very interesting and thematically appropriate when positioned in opposition to the various antagonists in one piece who have declared themselves to be gods, frequently some of its most tyrannical and oppressive villains- enel, the celestial dragons, doflamingo. all enslave and imprison people, robbing them of their freedom.

nika is a god of slaves, and a creature of liberation. the natural enemy, as rosinante might say, of that sort of megalomaniacal 'god.'

one piece has also consistently connected the theme of freedom, as embodied through luffy, with the sun since very early on. the sun pirates, former slaves, used the symbol of the sun to wipe away the brand of the celestial dragons. (and aren't i curious to know what jinbei might know about nika- he never did answer who's who's question about it.) the fishmen more broadly view the sun as something to be reached when they are truly free. on wano, the coming dawn is understood as the coming liberation. impel down and the florian triangle, places of indefinite imprisonment, are lightless dungeons where the sun doesn't reach. the sun is freedom.

and luffy has always been thoroughly sun associated, from the visual of his hat to his origin on dawn island in the east blue, to his ship, the thousand sunny.

finally, one piece has always placed a great deal of emphasis on smiles and laughter (laugh tale, joy boy, roger laughed, etc)- but that joy must be real. it can't be forced. we're told again and again, through koala, dressrosa's toys, and most obviously the victims of the failed SMILE fruits, that to force someone to smile, denying them the right to cry, is nothing less than an atrocity. people can't be forced to be happy- they should be happy because they're free.

luffy in gear five is laughing nigh-constantly, but it's just because he's having so much fun. unlike the victims of the SMILE fruits, his endless joy is genuine, because in this form, he is completely free- nobody can stop him, and nobody can control him. as he says himself, he can do whatever he wants.

i know that some people felt this moment was in some way a deus ex machina, but it just didn't feel that way to me, because of how well it plays on the story's established themes and trajectory, as well as concepts like devil fruit awakening having been established hundreds of chapters back.

luffy is the sun, the sun is freedom, freedom is joy. i think it makes total sense.

#one piece #jonny answers #op #opmeta #luffy #gear 5 #character meta #long post #what are my thoughts on gear 5 you ask. this isnt even all of them. #sun god nika