What If I Was A Repressed Gay Ghost From 1916 And I Confessed My Love For You On The Stairway To Hell™️

Give it back, Max!!!

sherlock holmes deduces you are trans before you've figured it out yourself and refers to you with those pronouns and then when you look confused is like "ah...had you not arrived at that conclusion yet?" and wafts away in his dressing gown to smoke seventeen pipes, leaving you in a gender crisis

vampire: My darling, my eternal flame, my heart's joy taken human form... you simply must drink water your blood tastes like shit.

Because someone is on the ball, Turner Classic is playing (among other WWII films) The Great Dictator today.

If you haven't seen it, please do. It was produced by Charlie Chaplin in the late 1930s, when it became clear that the war was going to happen, and came out in 1940 after it had started. Essentially, Chaplin realized that his famous mustache was about to be usurped forever by a fascist, and that fascist was going to kill a lot more people in the future than he had already.

It's a parody, made before the worst horrors of the Nazi regime were known to the general public, so there is discomfort here (if you've seen Disney's Der Fuhrer's Face, you'll get the idea), but the movie ends with Chaplin essentially saying "fuck it, no one else seems to be speaking out about this and I'm going to use my platform to do that."

For context, this character is a Jew who has been mistaken for the dictator (for obvious mustache-related reasons), and has been sent onstage at a rally to give a speech. Instead of trying to impersonate Hitler, he says what he really thinks. And keep in mind, Chaplin was coming out of semi-retirement for this. It was the first time most people had ever heard him speak, and this is what he said:

Idk who needs to hear this but if you like this you'll like One Piece.

And I know. I know. You wouldn't think so. Maybe you think it's too long. Maybe the art style is off-putting to you. Maybe you think it's just a regular shonen. But I promise, from someone who was in your shoes a few months ago. It's good. It's really good. Infuriatingly so. In my opinion, quality-wise, it's closer to Fullmetal Alchemist than it is to My Hero Academia or Naruto.

One Piece has been running for so long there's a 99% chance any trope you can think of has been in there at some point.

Red and blue gays? You know it. Silly little guy being just as tragic as the brooding guy? It's there. "The love was there, it didn't change anything, but it mattered that it was there"? Literally an entire arc. Found family? The whole plot. Cyborgs, mermaids, zombies, skeletons? All there. Canon queer characters? Most beloved. Anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, anti-war massage? Check, check, check.

It's all there. And it's SO good.

Start with the Live Action. Start with the manga. Start with the anime. It doesn't matter how you start, it's incredible. Some people plow through the whole manga in a week, others watch the anime over a few months. There's literally so many ways to consume it.

media: the very serious brooding asshole character is actually super deep and complex

me: ok

media: the dumb joke character is actually super deep and complex

me: ghhogoohhh. ohhhh oh mygod. oh m. oh. are you kidding me. oh i am going to throw the fuck up over this

y'all...

Hi I feel like this is a good time to say this blog is not safe for work because none of my thoughts about that image are PG

I'm obsessed with drawing sanji being pampered

(Omg press for higher quality jeez)

Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an  adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol 

Sanji

top five most important things you can give a character. 1. bisexuality. 2. autism. 3. so much negative rizz it loops around into irresistibility. 4. so many bad events. 5. a coping mechanism that’s cute and silly provided you don’t think about it too hard