stop it condoriano! this is not you!

This past June 24th, two massive earthquakes destroyed various cities of the country, the first one being of 7.2 and the second one of 7.5: the strongest of our history... I don't live in Venezuela at the moment, but my family lives there! Thankfully they're fine, but the rest of the country is in shambles... (Update: there's been replicas of the earthquake all around the country... Yesterday there was a 5.2 replica...)

There's an estimate of 50.000 missing people, many of them under the debris of fallen buildings, other couple of thousands needing medical treatment...

Millions lost their homes and their families... My dear Venezuela needs help!

Please, if you know any venezuelan artists, commission them and help them! Thank God I don't need it, so please focus on other artists from venezuela! If some venezuelan artist is here on Tumblr, reblog this post with your commission charts so others can see it!

(On my Twitter, I have a lot of venezuelan artists reblogged! I want to warn you, I also have a lot of sensible images and videos from the earthquake and the aftermath reblogged on my Twitter too...)

Now, if you want to help more than one individual, here's a link to Caritas if you'd like to donate: Caritas (it's a Catholic assisting organization)

Yummy (a venezuelan private delivery company, they are offering free rides to hospitals and deliver medicine all across the country and are recollecting money to help refill medical treatments, food and any thing the affected civilians need)

(Update:) DO NOT DONATE TO THE RED CROSS!!! The venezuelan branch is compromised!!! It has direct ties with the corrupt regime, so any help you want to send to the Red Cross will be STOLEN by the dictatorship!

Long time no post! Here's my rendition of Sanji if Vinsmoke Judge had his way.

Also…

Quick fire Stealth Black plot ideas / themes to help inspire more stories for everyone. Let's goooo!

Also, I should add a disclaimer that some themes are unpleasant.

Read below!

Purronoa Nyoro Black Paw Nyanji

im gonna punch them

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Also, if I had a nickel for every time a pirate whose moniker starts with the word "Red" lost a limb while saving a child's life, I would have two more nickels.

Which still isn't a lot, but it's weird that both those kids are in the same crew now.

My family now lives in a tent with no stable shelter, my sister Jana has no school, and I have no steady job. My brother Kamal carries the burden of the entire family, working every day to secure just enough food, while I search for any work, no matter how difficult or dangerous, just to survive.

My mother, the beautiful dream we once cherished, wished for a calm and happy life for us, but the war tore us apart and shattered our hopes. As for Jana, my innocent sister, she lost her school, her books, and even her sense of hope, yet she still writes her dreams on small pieces of paper, hiding them in her torn clothes so they won’t get lost like everything else.

We are not asking for the impossible, only what keeps us alive with dignity and gives us a chance to rebuild our lives. Every donation, no matter how small, means so much to us. Your support will give us hope to keep going and try again. 🙏❤️

But like

He's nooooooot a perfect parent. He's really not. Sanji got his particular brand of chauvinistic toxic masculinity from somewhere and it's not just from Judge.

Zeff is sexist. We know this about him. He's also physically violent with the people around him, even the ones he cares about (especially the ones he cares about) because he doesn't know how to be soft with people and emotional intimacy terrifies him (because Masculinity). Zeff prides himself on fulfilling his own definition of what makes a Man and that definition has very little room for frou frou shit like hugs and expressing your feelings.

Zeff is the kind of guy who will not hire women in his kitchen because he refuses to kick them in the head which is the only way he knows how to interact with his crew. He then proceeds to kick a child in the head for daring to suggest he might just, like, not treat women differently to men.

Like if we're all being really honest with ourselves canon Zeff is the aging relative who we do love but don't talk about our queer friends around. Not because they'd be actively hateful, but because we don't want to spend the next hour and a half attempting to explain what being nonbinary is to them only to have them throw their hands up and say they're too old for all this weird newfangled kid stuff.

Like.... If Sanji returned home some flavor of trans and/or with a man on his arm..... it would take Zeff a minute. (And it would not be a graceful minute)

And I'm not saying this because I necessarily dislike all the fan versions of Zeff who are openly affectionate with Sanji and accepting of any flavor of gender and sexuality shenanigans he's getting himself into. I think those are great and like, I'm the last person in the world who's gonna get up in arms about canon characterizations. Sincerely, do what makes you happiest.

But sometimes... I wish in works that are actually attempting to tackle Sanji's flawed relationship to manhood and gender, the hand that Zeff played in all that was acknowledged more often, rather than pinning it all on Judge. Because that's interesting, there's meat there. Like how are you even supposed to feel when the person who had such a massively positive impact on your life to the point that they basically saved it, also severely damaged your ability to understand and interact with yourself and others? How do you process that?

War and Love meet on the battlefield

Hear me out about Zoro and Sanji as Ares and Aphrodite

Specifically, the Renaissance interpretation of them which was heavily focused on the duality of their natures. The contrast between love and war, but the overlap between passion and violence. Aphrodite admiring the passion with which Ares views battle and Ares appreciating that a person fights the most passionately when motivated by love (whether it’s for or against) is very Zosan coded.