To Bring Things To A Conclusion. This Tells Us What Chopper’s Awakening Would Be. It Will Enable Him

Yeah yeaaah yeah yeah

i was rewatching enies lobby, and theres a scene where luffy asks zoro a math question, and granted, it’s an easy multiplication, but i had a thought. what if…what if zoro is just really good at math for no reason?

I think about the one piece statues placed around Kumamoto Prefecture often

It's just so cool that this is part of a much bigger project that Oda put together to help his home who had experienced a devastating earthquake. He made an extremely generous donation and they finally completed all 10 strawhats! Jinbe was just unveiled back in late July!

I think I never posted these before except a few… idk but yea!

ok so I haven't gotten any time to really watch a lot of the whole cake arc but here are my thoughts

(Spoilers btw aha)

- SANJI OMFG YOU NEED A BREAK WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE HURTING YOU

-JINBE OMG HII (waves frantically) come back please I miss you answer my dms

-the conflict with Luffy and Sanji really hit me hard

-Luffy really went "babe imma be there just give me a sec I got put in prison and cussed out a big woman"

-the end of the conflict tho sniff my heart why did you do this to me

-AND THEN SANS SHOWS UP fucking katakuri comes in with his cool ass cowboy boots like dhdjfjf

-He looks sick and I can't wait to see him

-literally thought big mom and brook were gonna bone and I'm glad they didn't but we don't know what went down behind those door man

I think alot about serizawa.

that he's so powerful and so sensitive, and how he's the very common Shonen anime trope of "villain with tragic backstory who just needed friends and is won over to the hero's side after the hero listens to them and shows them kindness" but like, his tragic backstory is so grounded in places others just aren't? like, he just didn't want to hurt anybody, so he hid himself away. that's so simple, yet so poignant and painful, so...normal. its such a common emotion, such a common solution. its not a healthy one or a "good" one, but its all he had...and then at some point, his self-imposed isolation became so hurtful to him that it caused him to become vulnerable to exploitation. to manipulation, and he became a weapon in a never ending cycle of violence, until someone was kind enough to listen to him, to want to help him.

and then i think about the fact that that person was just a child who had experienced the exact same struggle but was provided tools by people who loved him to help manage his problems....and it honestly makes me so emotional. because, like, it's a perfect allegory for how living with mental illness affects people.

serizawa is older than mob, so the society he grew up in didn't know how to handle his powers (mental illness/neurodivergency), but now, as times have changed and society has become increasingly more aware, it opens the pathway for people to find strength together, to have people in their lives that understand that they need kindess, they need love, that their mental illness isnt something bad or wrong.

but even more than that, they know that their differences do not make them bad people, they are not something to be shunned and hidden away, but just something to be worked through. just a unique aspect of how that person is, and it's neither good nor bad, just how they are.

and then i think about how serizawa didn't have anyone like that in his life until he was 30, and how those years of isolation and then manipulation (which caused him to do the very thing he was afraid of), how all of that could have broken him could have made him unloving, could have made him bitter. but instead, he overcame his fears, his guilt, his shame, and under all of that, he's just kind.

when i get really afraid, of myself, of the world, when i want to myself hide away and never leave my bed, my room, i think of him, and i feel so comforted, so much less alone.

what a wonderful man, written so gently, so lovingly. it's so rare to see a grown man with a stigmatized symptom of mental illness depicted in such a kind way, it makes me want to hug ONE through a phone screen.

anyway, uh. yeah katsuya. i think he's pretty neat.

How big is the ball pit area going to be?

I don’t know the exact dimensions right now, okay

My partner said our dog looks like, and I quote “Iggy but only when he’s fucked up and human looking”

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