HOWEVER looking at this board like... it got myself smiling in the middle of the night because holy shit.. HOLY SHIT THEY'RE REALLY PARALLELING EACH OTHER WTF

and also seriously it's really beautiful to look at TuT) they had their own aesthetic for these shots but like ouhsgdhsd it's the way the colors align with each other i'm basically playing puzzles lmao

this shot by shot still goes by my favorite parallel ever likeeeeeeeee

OKAY so idk if this is canon cus I can’t find the post but someone made a post about how Eridians apparently don’t have a spacial memory/recall/remembered spacial awareness like we do, and therefore if they walked through a room and “saw” it, then tried to walk through the room “blind” aka deaf and unable to echolocate, they’d be totally lost. They don’t retain awareness of how to navigate that space. Unlike humans, who can mentally visualize the navigable area of a room they can no longer see, allowing us to walk around in the dark with some semblance of where things are. That post mentioned how confused Eridians would be seeing Grace walk around his house in the dark and not run into Everything, he actually seems to know where he’s going.

And then I had a realization while rewatching Iron Lung. THEY WOULD FIND WHAT SIMON DID INCONCEIVABLE. Absolute freak of nature shit. And what I mean is his ability to map his surroundings and learn them and navigate them. Simon literally could never effectively see things while moving, all he had was a proximity radar and occasional shitty photos that would only ever be “how things looked 3 seconds ago”, and he mapped the area in the blood ocean with decent success and at certain points no longer even needed his map. He managed to gain a sense of his surroundings outside the ship, and understand those surroundings, navigating essentially blind. Only knowing/discovering if something is in front of him once he’s right there almost up against it, close to collision. Building a visual of the space by approaching a direction until he is stopped. And that method of navigation?

In all reality, what most accurately describes the way Simon navigated is by feel. Simon navigated by touch.

Simon "the butcher" who keeps apologizing for not knowing better, for causing harm to the people in the room, for being rightfully angry and lashing out, turning every knob and lever and pressing that damn button because why would it work when he doesn't have any power and why didn't they just Tell Him??

Simon "the butcher" who gets teary and has the look of a hurt child on his face when ava mentions filament station and his voice trembles when he is quick to say "that wasn't supposed to happen"...

Simon "the butcher" who apologizes to the sm-13, an inanimate object, after hitting the console.

luffy stole all the royal children and now uses them as a pillow. without any shameΣ(°ロ°)

I just think it's an interesting thing that Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji always call Sanji their brother, whereas Judge openly says that they're not family.

Ichiji and Niji says Sanji is "younger brother", and Yonji says he's "older brother". Even in that dining room scene, Niji doesn't say "If you keep acting like this, then you're not my brother anymore". What he said is more like "You are our brother, that's why you shouldn't be like this".

I've always said that all they want is to be a matching set of 4. What they don't like is that Sanji is different. First him for being weak as a kid, and then second for being too nice.

When Sanji was pretending to be evil in front of Luffy they all suddenly did a 180 and immediately accepted him. He's strong now, that's for sure, and he's finally "behaving properly".

This panel too. Most people might be paying attention more to the words, contrasting Luffy calling him cook while the brothers beat him up for cooking. The picture, though, is also an interesting contrast. I think a lot of people see this as Niji and Yonji mocking Sanji, but it looks to me more like they're congratulating him for what he did and completely not noticing how upset he is.

It shows that they like him "now" and is being friendly, contrasted with how they treat him as a kid, but it's for all the wrong reasons.

luffy stole all the royal children and now uses them as a pillow. without any shameΣ(°ロ°)

Between characters

singing off-key to the same song

spontaneously dancing together

arguing passionately about a completely wrong fact, then looking it up at the same time

finishing each other’s sentences… incorrectly

Laughing so hard at an inside joke that no one else understands

trying to whisper to each other but somehow getting louder and louder

walking next to each other and slowly drifting towards each other, bumping their shoulders together

making dramatic eye contact during a boring conversation

competing over who can hold eye contact the longest

sharing earbuds and silently fighting over the volume

attempting to cook together and slowly accepting chaos

spontaneously quoting the same line from a movie at the same time

dancing badly on purpose and committing too hard

playing rock-paper-scissors to decide something unimportant

“They felt sick.” — Vague. “They threw up.” — Sometimes, but not always.

Illness isn’t a switch you flip. Fever and nausea creep, spike, ebb, lie to you, then come back worse. They live in the body first, and that’s where your writing should live too.

Below, I've written a lil' cheat sheet for you. Reblog so you can come back later.

What unsettles others is how intentional his pleasure is. He lingers over a sauce not because he’s lazy, but because he’s listening, to memory, to the body, to history. He cooks after wars, after arguments, after losses that don’t have words yet, feeding people before they realize they’re being taken care of. France is generous with butter, with time, with joy, because he has seen what happens when joy becomes scarce. Indulgence, to him, is not excess. It is continuity. It is the stubborn, smiling decision to keep living well anyway.