The Exposed

(semi) candid

Bonus:

aku merasa mengenal dia (tapi ada entah di mana, hanya hatiku mampu menjawabnya)

I’m re-reading Dressrosa and look at this color spread 😭😭😭

I have never seen this before

The ASL brothers are drawn together as adults

And, and…..

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What's really crazy about this is that the citizens of Trash Mountain really do just mind their own business. It's specifically mentioned they don't want to live within city walls while making up a significant portion of Lowtown's economy by reclaiming and recycling the city's garbage. These people by and large aren't criminals or bandits causing problems for the citizens within the city's walls.

So not only is Goa's king planing to murder a bunch of innocent people trying to "clean up" a problem his own policies created, but he's also hurting the citizens he ostensibly does care about in the process.

And then after the Celestial Dragons leave the kingdom just...starts dumping garbage again. No efforts are made whatsoever to ensure that the problem of Trash Mountain never repeats itself. There is no long-term solution.

That's his little brother

Based on this tweet

to be clear, I believe younger artists and minors can write good fics (not to say “fanfic must always be good” either because it is a hobby and I still believe that as long as it’s done with love and the artist’s joy, it is good) and I believe it’s good when younger artists and minors start making art at young ages.

that said, a lot of fanfics out there that you read and love are done by adults with kids, jobs and responsibilities. adults who have years, decades of practice under their belts. adults who don’t let life and responsibilities take away their joy in creating.

One Piece has always linked piracy, freedom, and the sea, but this speech by Sabo is one of the clearest examples that really lays out the philosophy of the manga. I think it's really important that after this all three boys say their dreams aloud to one another (perhaps for the first time) which then leads to them becoming brothers. Oda goes from general ideas of freedom, to each character's specific example, and it's only after showing that they're united in these ideas do they forge that ultimate bond.

I like the composition of this panel. The use of screentone on the Celestial Dragon's ship adds a really nice contrast to the white space on the other side of the panel. I also like that this explosion doesn't hit Sabo's two(!) pirate flags. The flags are pretty much the only thing on the ship that survives getting hit, other than Sabo's hat (and I suppose Sabo himself), the symbol of Sabo's conviction being stronger than the military might of the Celestial Dragons