Dork in charge

February 18, 1980: Freddie Mercury makes a cameo appearance on The Kenny Everett Video Show

Barry’s revenge

there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

WITH PLEASURE

(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)

One Piece Men Part2 [Part1]

One Piece Men Part1 [Part2]

Sengoku: There's a box of beating hearts at the front door, Rosinante please keep Law in check.

He collects coins.

He idolises ninjas.

He reads (or read as a kid) comic books.

He has a strong hatred for bread.

His only weakness is literally his fucking teddy bear.

Every single "disguise" he has ever owned has had his custom jolly roger plastered over every inch of it (thus defeating the purpose of a fucking disguise like Law please you might as well have just announced your presence through a megaphone)

^ The fact he owns entirely customised outfits only suggests one of three things;

Trafalgar Law knows how to sew.

Trafalgar Law commissions some poor bastard who's probably too scared to say no to a former Warlord to tailor these clothes for him.

He gets someone in the crew to do it.

Frankly idk which of these possibilities is best.

As if that wasn't enough and god forbid he's ever in a position where clothes aren't allowed and he cannot display his obsession with his late saviour on fabric, he has to make doubly sure that everyone around him knows exactly who he is, and therefore has his jolly roger tattooed both in the centre of his chest and the middle of his back.

Stole the hearts of 100 marines and just fucking mailed them to the Navy HQ.

His ship is in fact not a ship, but a giant yellow submarine.

He makes fun of Usopp by calling him "Long-Nose-ya," Chopper "Raccoon-ya," and Cavendish "Cabbage-ya."

Got so into Sanji wearing his raid-suit that he just ditched calling him black-leg and immediately swapped to calling him Stealth-Black.

Also gave a word by word monologue of said raid suit and everything Germa 66 is and stood for while Sanji was in the middle of a fight.

Pulled a big ol' sike on Doflamingo and literally told him to lick an entire country's asshole.

Whilst wearing a jacket with his late brother's code-name on the back.

And revealed to him his bloodline is that of Doflamingos most hated.

As if just saying "fuck you," isn't a thing anymore.

Also he can make people switch bodies with one another? I'm not entirely sure why that's something Law would think to invent and weaponise, but at this point, I'm too afraid to ask.

In his character song Lost in Shinsekai, he adds his infamous "-ya" honorific to takoyaki.

Yes he really does give food an honorific.

No I am not joking.