Lurking-lesbian - Lurker

rewatched pieces of water 7 recently and i honestly adore that nami kept stealing cp9’s handcuff keys. such a “small” detail (relative) in a such a major character development/power-scaling/worldbuilding arc but it means sooo much to me. since then, i’ve been lamenting the fact that nami’s cat burgler habits have been left to the wayside in recent arcs (can’t remember the last time she committed plot-relevant petty theft?) only to realize that i am the fool. i am the blind one

my girl fucking. stole zeus from big mom.

TWICE.

Nobody in Weezer even has asthma. I just looked it up. On the information super highway.

i hope i never ever ever see this image while im high or it will also straight up kill me. it would make me so scared my skeleton would run away And id be a boneless scared heap on the ground

I know this is talked about a lot but still,

Luffy being the only one who can make Zoro laugh and smile like this means so much to me </3

i feel like fandom would really benefit from adopting the idea of readings, as in interpretations. anyone can interpret canon as saying anything on even the most tenuous of justifications. if you interpret a detail or moment in a particular way, great! but if someone interprets that thing in another way, even in a way which directly contradicts your interpretation, that’s also okay. multiple readings can exist at once without invalidating any of them

a lot of fandom drama seems to arise from people acting as if their interpretations are True or Factual in some way, when really all anyone can do is speak to their own interpretations & experiences. which is natural! and good! many voices with many interpretations and approaches is healthy and good. the trouble is depicting a reading, which is a very personal thing, as universally true, and then getting frustrated that others don’t interpret events the same way. & i get it, that can be annoying, especially if you think those other interpretations are misunderstanding the canon. but so much of the time it’s just a different reading, taking into account details you might not have noticed or maybe just viewing them in a different light, informed by different life experiences & values & everything else that goes into a personal interpretation of a creative work

by trying to depict One Single Reading of a text as Correct, fandom loses all the nuance of interpretation & also just turns everyone into a bunch of rabid raccoons fighting over different ways to look through the same kaleidoscope

seeing posts/content about “zoro and luffy’s last meeting” almost makes me laugh sometimes bc what exactly do we think is going to happen……..zoro is going to be the worlds best swordsman, luffy is king of the pirates, and they just look at each other, shake hands, and say “ok see ya!” not only does this negate the fact that the whole point of being a pirate to luffy is freedom and his FRIENDS (he doesn’t want to adventure alone), and zoro has gone from a lone wolf to pack protector. the only thing that could potentially separate them is death and even then I’m pretty sure zoro would March into the afterlife and drag luffy back by the scruff of his neck

I am alway confused when people (generally ZoLu shippers but not only, nothing against the ship itself though) characterize Zoro and Luffy's relationship as "Zoro is so obsessed with Luffy that he would follow his orders like a living weapon, no question asked".

Because don't forget that Zoro's role in the story has sometimes been "non ironically yell at Luffy because he is doing something Zoro really has a problem with".

Like, how could you forget "If Usopp does not apologize and you welcome him back anyways, then i am getting the fuck out of here. We're pirates, not school children" ? I also remember a few "Hey Luffy you better take things seriously right now stop joking around" post time skip. Zoro is totally devoted to the Strawhat pirates and their captain, and was notably ready to risk his own death against Kuma to save him (even if at first he was like "if you stop me from becoming the strongest swordman you will pay for it") but he also has his own principles which are not always aligned with Luffy

I've noticed that despite all the crew having consistent internal monologues highlighted at some point in the anime, I can't think of one instance Luffy has had one so far (in Arlong Park arc at least)

Which leads me to think A) his head is empty there are no thoughts going on in there B) he just says exactly what he's thinking at all times or C) even they couldn't work out what was going on in Luffy's head

The funniest example of this is when the villagers come back when the Buggy pirates are defeated and ask Who are you and what happened to our Mayor????

And Nami is having the death note style monologue of weighing up every pro and con and possible outcome of what to say and then it switches to Luffy who immediately says We're pirates! :D I knocked out the mayor! :D