'til sunny days return

huh...wasn't actually expecting to get into prerelease. Will i play like shit as usual and get destroyed? Absolutely. but I'm just happy to get to play either way

Said rituals were performed to signal the end of warfare as well as to prove a new king as worthy of the role by offering some of their life energy in the form of blood back to the gods in return for the sacrifice they made to create them.

The offering of one's own blood to the gods was also said to encourage them to summon rain to places hit by droughts. Often to draw blood for the ritual, venomous stingray stingers would be used to pierce the skin to induce a trance like state as well.

There's....a LOT of parallels with the K'iche' mythology as notated in the Popol Vuh as well as Olmec/Toltec based myths as well.

I think it would be kinda sweet in a way though if that's why he suddenly stopped fighting and instead just defended (aside from the poisoning thing but...that's also part of the symbolism too). Like

"goddammit...what the fuck do you mean you just gave me some life energy back?? I just started destroying everything and doing my big flashy nihilistic villain monologue as the building collapses and NOW THIS LITTLE SHIT GIVES ME THE TINIEST BIT OF HOPE THAT SOMEONE COULD CARE? NOW? WHEN YOU'RE GONNA GET GODDAMN CRUSHED TO DEATH IN 5 MINUTES???... whatever...guess I'll play along and test to see if he really is that determined. Good luck you little shit, maybe you can make it out alive."

so then think about all the people that are conveniently erased and hidden away.

the ones made Zero. Void.

now think about why the WG would be opposed to a sun god that casts light on all, including those intentionally left in the dark. The inconvenient remnants.

Montjoie Screwjob

that's not a typo either. It's historical reference + wrestling reference

Once you know a lot about both... realize a LOT of one piece is history used to make goofy ass wrestling puns

Also there's a kayfabe story layered on top of the actual story and that they intersect at times. It's legitimately so incredibly rad once you see what oda has really done here.

and never trust a hulk hogan looking bastard. fuck the hulk hogan

There's an absolute fuck ton of foreshadowing and evidence in the text alone, but adding in v clear Buddhist and mythological parallels that oda has been borrowing from, etymology and phonetics, WWE references, number symbolism, and an absolute fuck ton of reference to real historical events that align with the overall theme of one piece like....

Willing to bet 1190 is gonna drop some insane shit with it. It might not drop now and it may be some other reveal/cliffhanger leading up to the anniversary but....i genuinely am bought in.

Funnily enough I don't think that's actually the shit ivankov was talking about though in impel down. I also kinda don't trust ivankov too tho and kinda think he's a wg psy op but that's a whole other thing

I think croc and dragon are actually the same person who was like...split into (at least) two people. possibly by the xingtian axe?

The Harley mural is A LOT of reference to the nahua legend of the fifth sun. It links up to the whole imu parrot theory being a Popol Vuh parallel funnily enough too. But the phrasing of the text on the Harley is undoubtedly a reference to this.

idk man this month has been cursed as hell and I've had negative social energy

then immediately got hit by 572 cars bc i ran out of the meds that give me the ability to have any semblance of working executive function.....and now the pharmacy is saying that my meds are "backordered indefinitely" and there's no timeline at all as to when they'll be back on stock

suffering

I PROMISE IM NOT IGNORING PEOPLE just got a bit of soup brain for a few days bc immediately stopping taking psych meds cold turkey suuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkks

hate this damn country, man. apparently the issue is that there's now a generic drug shortage bc the dipshit's "war" has limited the ability for drug companies to get ahold of some component that goes into many different meds. So now that access to said component is limited, the supply that DOES manage to get shipped over here ends up rationed with significant priority given to name brand medications over generics...

so I could technically get my meds rn....if i just simply spend $300 a month instead of the normal $20. as if that's an amount of money I have just lying around and can justify spending on purely the brand name alone.

Looking for new friends into one piece/opcg especially but I also really love disco elysium, witch hat atelier, better call saul/breaking bad, bg3, and dark souls/elden ring/bloodborne. others too that I'm probably forgetting. Happy to be oomfs with y'all and chat about ocs.

Mostly interested in ships with some element of queerness thrown in there somewhere.

I'm old and wanna be free to yap about more mature shit with other old people so if ur a minor, respectfully, begone.

Currently super obsessed with my beloved cross guild morons. If you draw Crocodile or draw/write crocomom/dad cute stuff I'm coming after ur art.

More nonsense rambling about ship vibes and stuff I'm cool/not as cool with under the cut