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Harald, buddy, what the fuck is wrong with you

So I don’t mean to sound so mean when it comes to Harald but at this point it’s so obvious the WG is shamelessly using him like a doormat and the guy is just doing whatever they tell him to. He’s in a cult, maybe a pyramidal scheme but definitely a cult, and he’s only losing and losing. He’s doing all of this for WG crumbs and they won’t even give him that (he’s what we in Spanish call a migajero, from migajas, aka crumbs, and even that’s too much)

He’s so busy with external relationships that he won’t notice the inner conflicts in Elbaf, and I don’t mean just his people, I also mean his family, but we’ll talk about that later

Also, the guy is inadvertently running a test trial for the Warlord system. He was doing so much of the dirty work that after he died the government probably thought they could do something similar. They probably thought this could be a good way to keep everyone in check, without realizing not everyone would be as complacent as Harald, so then we get instances like Kuma (blackmail) Mihawk (wanting to chill in peace) Jimbei and Hancock (wanting to protect something or someplace) and then we get Moria (freaky experimenting) and Doffy and Crocodile (planning on taking over an entire country), the WG used Harald so well they thought they could do the same to other people and look where it got them (I could talk about the Warlord system all day because these people could do a background check before choosing their Warlords but they don’t)

Somebody give Shanks an Oscar

We already knew that after Roger but before Luffy Shanks returned to his family and now it’s revealed that he became a Holy Knight too

And he’s become an arrogant edgelord, very similar to Eren post time skip

I remember thinking either he’s lying or he’s absolutely delulu, and if it’s the latter the reality check he will need to go back down with the simple mortals has to be a big one, however he also helped Fisher Tiger escape so I think it’s the first, no one will make me believe that Shanks is actually evil

(Also seeing babies Koala, Hancock, Sonia and Mari is breaking my heart, I love them so much)

And at first I thought it was Shamrock who helped Fisher Tiger but then turn the page and it turns out Shanks is there, boo me for not catching that I guess

The thing is Shanks is trying way too much to be arrogant, like he’s trying to mimic what the people around him are saying that hurts him because he doesn’t actually think that, not only did he spend basically his whole life down there he was also raised by pirates, if anything I expected Shanks to check it out just to see it he liked it and nope out when he didn’t but I guess an undercover mission works out too

Also, Shanks is the one who returns Loki to Elbaf when he runs away after killing Harald, and something tells me that trip to return Loki might line up with the time Shanks decided to nope out, maybe I’m wrong, welp only time will tell

When Oda said he couldn’t write love stories, that was a lie

So I knew that Elbaf was gonna be about love and mixed races since the moment Gaban talked about it, to the point I predicted that Harald’s true love would be Hajrudin’s mother, and while they weren’t mixed race, Shakky and Rayleigh were so cute that I thought that if Oda wanted to write an unapologetic love story he could do it

So I read the chapter and thought that the idea of Loki and Shirahoshi was cute, and then I remembered that people were theorizing that Loki’s pen pal Shaggy was Shirahoshi, and Neptune and Harald used Shaggy when talking about her and Loki being in an arranged marriage and now asdfghjkl

Needless to say I already made a telenovela about Loki and Shirahoshi in my brain while I was listening to Fate of Ophelia and while it might not mean anything I choose to believe until I’m proven wrong, they give me the same vibes as Sanemi and Kanae from Demon Slayer and I think the idea is so cute (and before you say that Sanemi and Kanae weren’t canon and that I can’t base my delusions on what Gyomei said in that data book, guys I know let me dream)

Also I reread Loki’s interactions with Shaggy and Gerd’s words to him register different now, when she said ‘I’m glad you have a friend’ I thought she meant it as ‘I don’t like him but he’s my friend’s brother and I’ve known him my whole life, so if he’s happy good for him’ but now I think she meant it as ‘I’ve known Loki my whole life and I’ve never seen him acting this weird and flustered how interesting’ so yeah

I don’t think I made a post about this in my page, but ever since Caribou found out about Pluton and Poseidon aka Shirahoshi, and went to Blackbeard to spill the tea, I’ve thought about what’s gonna happen to them. Wano, where Pluton is, was somewhat easier because I assumed Blackbeard would go to Wano and bomb it to force their borders open, just like Japan’s borders were forced to open in real life, and that the Straw Hats would return to Wano (doubtful but still an idea) and that they might get extra help (I have an idea of who, but I’m not sure yet), but I had no idea on what might happen to Shirahoshi and Fishman Island, but if Shaggy is Shirahoshi and Loki finds out she’s in danger, I can see him going to help her, might even take the New Giant Pirates along

Without Bartolomeo the New Giant Pirates are the people in the Straw Hat Grand Fleet we’ve focused on the most, so whatever the Grand Fleet does next it could start with them, right?

(Also imagine Loki and Shirahoshi do fall in love and it causes an international incident lol)

(Also also the age gap, yes it would be better if Shirahoshi was over 16, but considering giants age really slowly it really could’ve been way worse)

If this ends up being true, knowing what happened with Lola, Loki turned out to be a hopeless romantic and considering his personality I think it’s actually really sweet (might have something to do with his parents, speaking of which…)

Oda you had one job

The only thing I wanted out of all of this was for Ida to be alive so Hajrudin and Loki could be momma’s boys in present day but now it looks like that’s not gonna happen

I adored Ida since the moment she first appeared, she’s the sweetest girl ever and her love story with Harald is one of the best in the series. She loved Hajrudin so much and then took Loki in despite not giving birth to him and loved him just the same, those are her little boys

And both are showing their love for her in their own little ways, and Loki finally admits that Ida is his mom, that he remembers that his bio mom pulled an Hera on him and that Ida, with her unconditional love, is the only mother he’s ever known

The worst part is Harald, everything he did, all the effort to get peace and a place in the World Government, he did it because of Ida, every single thing, including not helping out his best friend before he died and taking out his horns, it was all because of Ida, but he’s so focused on that he missed what he had close to him, he missed pieces of Hajrudin and Loki growing up, and now he’s gonna miss the last moments of the only woman he’s ever loved, the reason he started all of this to begin with, Ida’s death is going to break Hajrudin and Loki but it’s going to completely destroy Harald and that’s gonna hurt like hell

So much for wanting Ida to live

I know most of the flashback is probably omnipresent so Loki is not actually telling Hajrudin all of it, but if in those five minutes Hajrudin gave Loki to explain himself they have to relive their mother’s loss, now I’m just making myself cry

I started to think about how both Garp and Dragon were asked to take care of babies and how different they both ended up

Dragon was in the twins’ lives for so little time he didn’t really make an impact, and we don’t know what happened to Shamrock after that but we know what happened to Shanks, we can assume that it was thanks to Dragon that Shanks ended up in the Oro Jackson, and the Roger Pirates became his family, he loved Roger like a father, and despite being a pirate, Shanks is a strong, well-respected person and he’s thriving

Then Roger asked Garp to take care of Ace, look what happened

Because I think it’s worse than what happened or didn’t happen in Marineford, because if you make the argument that Garp didn’t help Ace because he didn’t ask that’s fine, I still feel Garp failed Ace in other ways, two specific instances come to mind

The first was wanting Ace and Luffy to join the Marines. Putting Luffy aside, Garp knows about the campaign that killed tons of pregnant women and children, he knows that people hate Ace just because he was born as Roger’s kid, he knows that the Marines and the government hated Roger with the passion of the thousand suns and the fact that he thought Ace would be safe with the Marines is extremely idiotic to me, he would’ve just given Ace for them to kill in a silver platter, because even if he had used Rouge’s name, the Marines would’ve still found out who he was because Cipher Pol could, because they eventually did

The second was when Ace came to Garp and asked him if his life had any value and Garp said he must figure it out, and I get what he was trying to say but that only gave Ace issues so bad that when he was taken and Whitebeard and his pirates and Luffy risked everything to save him Ace asked something like why would you go so far to save me. The fact that his last words were thank your for loving me, because he thought he wasn’t worthy of it because he was Roger’s son breaks my heart

I could compare it to Attack on Titan and how Eren’s mom Carla thought he was special simply because he was born, but I don’t have to go that far, Franky himself said it, it’s not a crime to just exist

Dragon was in the twins’ lives for a very little amount of time, but he did a better job with them than Garp did with Ace, and the fact that Dragon found the twins on the event that radicalized and disillusioned him from the government while Garp couldn’t let go of his sense of Marine justice for the sake of Ace (and to a lesser extent Luffy) I hate it

Also I know that Dragon was very young at the time but if he had taken in the twins he would’ve made a better job than Garp did somebody write that fanfic

And I know Garp wasn’t even there that much, Dadan did all the heavy lifting and she is basically their mother, but still

I always come back to Garp and Roger and Ace and their storyline because I find it so incredibly tragic, I just feel like Garp’s time in the Marines and his sense of justice have made him more harm than good and he’s either oblivious or completely delusional

It’s also why I don’t buy that saving Koby in Fullalead is a good redemption from that. ‘He couldn’t save Ace so he didn’t hesitate this time and saved Koby’ no it’s not enough, because he doesn’t lose anything reputation wise from saving Koby like he would’ve from saving Ace. I love Koby but if Garp wants a redemption saving Koby is not enough, he needs to do something bigger, the thing is I don’t think he’s brave enough to do what it could take to redeem him

Remember when the epilogues came out and the Panda epilogue had Yuta’s grandchildren and people doubted whether or not they were Maki’s too even though Yuta never had that kind of chemistry with anyone else and also ignored that the grandson had all the Zenin genes and pout, all because it wasn’t explicitly stated that Yuta and Maki got married??

Well it is now, JJK is gonna have a spin off and in it Yuta and Maki are explicitly married, so explicitly even the shipping wiki had to change their status

In your face haters, Yuta and Maki are canon 💕

And apparently Maki died first but Yuta couldn’t cope with it and left shortly after, he essentially died of a broken heart, he loved her that much (they both did)

It felt like a small win with the epilogues but now I feel so vindicated, Maki marrying someone out of love is the best fuck you she could’ve given the Zenin clan and I love it

I’ve been reading One Piece for six years, I always thought if I liked a ship that’s what Ao3 is for right

What the hell, making everyone obsessed with Shakky, and I get it she’s gorgeous, but it’s so funny, and then Roger 😂😂

And I always thought that Gloriosa was salty with Shakky because Shakky got her love story but Gloriosa didn’t, it’s so much worse

Just imagine, Gloriosa is in love with Roger, but he’s fawning over Shakky, her first mate, the whole time. And it turns out Shakky doesn’t want Roger, she wants his first mate Rayleigh, and we know they’ll eventually get together, and we know Roger will eventually fall in love with Rouge, Gloriosa never wins

And when this whole flashback ception started I thought the biggest love story was gonna be Ida and Harald but nope (also Harald and Rocks, I love their friendship so much)

Obviously they’re gonna pull an Illiad and Shakky is gonna be there because she’s gonna be like Helen of Troy, what if in the middle of the God Valley incident Shakky just tells Rayleigh she’s in love with him in front of everyone (pls let it happen I want to see Garp’s reaction, as someone who is not involved in the telenovela lol)

It would be kind of funny if Loki, being exposed to his parents’ and Ida’s story and part of the telenovela decides he’s never gonna fall in love while he’s on the ‘girls have cooties’ stage and then boom Lola

And I really need the Straw Hats to tell Gaban that yes Shakky and Rayleigh are married and have a business together in Sabaody (he probably already knows but imagine if he doesn’t lol)

I never thought that I would be writing about One Piece’s love stories unironically but apparently Oda said as long as it’s not the main characters I can do whatever I want 😭😭

Also my favorite scene of the chapter:

Ida: Rocks is not coming back

Loki: shut up you old hag

Ida: …do you want some juice?

Loki: …yeah 🥺

I adore Ida, I really hope she’s alive in present day

So I was pissed at the anime adapting things out of order because they were messing with Keigo and Nemu, who are my favorite characters and my OTP, but now I’m just confused

Because next week they’re adapting Morihito’s birthday and what the fuck

Moi’s birthday is in October (I had to check the wiki lol) and that’s really close to Halloween, so Ran’s introduction, and to the Day of the Eclipse

The Day of the Eclipse happens in mid November, and we’re still missing Ran and his parents, that training with the ogres, Momo, Fran, a few episodic shenanigans, more Kanshi suffering, that chapter where Keigo and Nemu go to the zoo, Morihito breaking the curse and admitting he loves Nico, I can understand if they don’t put the Sket Dance crossover but still what

They’re introducing Kurowa next week like what the actual fuck

I feel like it was fine until they started putting specific dates because the mental gymnastics the audience is gonna have to do, it’s too much

Also I feel like the anime studio needs to be extremely aware that once they adapt the Day of the Eclipse they can’t go back, they know this right?? *Anakin stare* right??

Who the hell thought about adapting the series out of order

Because on paper it’s fine, the series is episodic and it shouldn’t have continuity problems unless it’s on the serious arcs, and it doesn’t, but something about it rubbed me the wrong way, and then I saw this week’s episode and next week’s preview and I got it

I hate it because I feel like Keigo and Nemu’s relationship is getting affected

The first time I really got mad was when they adapted the chapter with the textbook characters, people were like ‘they took a Jojo reference’ I was like ‘wtf they took out half the chapter because it had Wolf and Nemu’ in the manga Keigo/Wolf were already living with Nico, Morihito and Kanshi and Nemu was already their friend, but in the anime they adapted the chapter before Wolf was revealed and they met Nemu so half the chapter is missing from the anime

And I was like ehh whatever

Then they switched two stories around. In the manga Nemu goes to visit and ends up watching a movie with Keigo alone before they go pick up Miharu, in the anime first they pick up Miharu then Nemu goes to visit. Small potatoes but they skipped a part where Nico’s like ‘I wish Nemu could live here’ and Keigo’s like ‘yeah nope 😳’

Now I’m really mad, in the manga first we have a really two cute parter between Keigo and Nemu, and it was here where I felt that they were aware that there was something going on, then we have a two parter for Nico and Morihito, and it involved using a spell where you could see what a person felt for another, if it was love you’d see a flower and if it’s friendship you’d see bugs. When Nico wanted to use the spell on to see what Nemu felt for Keigo Nemu started blushing and said no. I remember when I read the manga and I said ‘she doesn’t want anybody to see because that wouldn’t be a bug’ but in the anime, since they haven’t had their big moment adapted yet, her outburst here doesn’t make as much sense, for all we know they could’ve been bugs

And the worst part is that the Keigo and Nemu chapters are being adapted next week, so why the fuck didn’t you release that first and then the episode with the letter, that way we’d be 100% sure that Nemu’s feelings for Keigo wouldn’t be bugs asdfghjkl >:v

Nemu has had more moments with Wolf than Keigo at this point in the anime

I’m sorry I know I’m probably alone in this and I really don’t mind stand alone chapters being adapted out of order, I don’t even mind that we’re probably not going to see the Minecraft chapter adapted

But messing with Keigo and Nemu’s continuity, that’s where I get angry, like anime what the fuck are you doing

Einar is one of my favorite characters, and I just can’t believe that he’s gone

And the worst part is they can’t take his body back to Iceland, so either they make a Viking funeral or they bury him in Vinland/Canada

Also, Thorfinn’s not aware that Gudri gave birth yet, imagine her being happy and showing off the baby and then him having to tell her that Einar is dead

So I hate the live action remake trend. Sometimes it’s entertaining like with Maleficent or Christopher Robin, but normally I feel like Disney is trying to replace its classics in the public consciousness

Whether because they think animation is inferior or because they’re trying to fix bad faith criticisms from the public that’s small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, I don’t know, I think it’s both

And if it’s the animation angle, rude, animation is the reason Disney is what it is today

I actually didn’t like that they wanted to mess with Snow White because of what it means to the history of animation and Disney in general but ehh they already messed with the Lion King so obviously nothing is sacred anymore

I do admit the original movie is very 30s so a modern reinterpretation would be nice, but make it a reinterpretation of the fairy tale, not the 1937 movie

And the first three princesses receive a lot of flack by modern audiences and I think that’s really unfair, like they’re not perfect but I feel the criticism is that they’re too feminine and not assertive enough, they’re literally victim blaming Cinderella who is a victim of abuse

In Snow White’s case, yes she’s really feminine but she’s also kind and resilient, she went through that scary ass forest by herself, and then became really close to the dwarves

And she didn’t clean their house just because, she did it because she thought if she proved she could help they would let her stay, because she had nowhere to stay because the Queen wanted her dead, it was a business transaction that worked really well, given how much the dwarves came to love her

Snow White is not physically strong but she has her own kind of strength, which gets dismissed because it’s a softer type of strength

Given how much Disney boasts about their live action princesses not needing a prince to save them I was scared they would strip Snow White of her kindness and resilience, because I feel like they stripped live action Belle of everything I loved about animated Belle (Emma Watson I love you but eeehhhh)

I feared they would strip her femininity away because there’s a connotation that the more feminine you are the weaker you probably are which I think is actually more mysoginistic than anything the original princesses movies did

I mean they’re not perfect but Snow White, Cinderella and Aurora are more than what the public thinks

But I don’t know why I’m analyzing Snow White, most people didn’t care about her until Rachel Zegler started trash talking her

And it wasn’t really trash talking, she was just saying the original was very 30s, and she’s right, but still people still used it as a reason to hate her

And look I don’t know what Rachel is thinking but I’m willing to bet everything she said in the D23 was stuff Disney made her say, because it sounds very similar to what they were saying about live action Belle, Ariel, Mulan, Cinderella, Jasmine and I think even Aurora

Ya’ll didn’t care about Snow White until Rachel was cast, because Rachel wasn’t white as snow (my good sir no one is white as snow it’s a metaphor be so fucking for real)

Tell me you’ve never heard Rachel sing without telling me you’ve never heard Rachel sing

She can never catch a break, first West Side Story where she was made responsible for her co star’s shenanigans, Shazam bombed, and now this, at least she did well as Lucy Gray but like give her a good role in an unproblematic movie

The public was so racist with her and Halle Bailey I will never forgive them for that, and Disney did nothing to protect them

And apparently part of the reason Disney didn’t protect Rachel is because she’s pro Palestine

But Gal Gadot is the one who got all the good publicity and the star in the Walk of Fame

She pales in comparison to Rachel and I’m glad people are starting to notice that Rachel is actually good (took them too long actually)

Also quick tangent, Rachel’s styling in the movie is so awful, I never thought they could top how bad Belle’s live action dress was but they did, with Snow White’s main dress, they dressed her like Farquaad in her white dress and she still looks better in that than her main dress ugh

Back on topic, to the surprise of everyone but my own Rachel was apparently the best part of the movie but she has been taking the brunt of the movie’s backlash, and if the movie’s bad she’s gonna get the blame even if she doesn’t deserve it

And again, no one cared about Snow White until Rachel

Ya’ll are so hypocritical with Rachel and Snow White that you’re making me defend a Disney live action adaptation, which goes against everything I believe in as an animation fan

Why do you hate Rachel so much

‘She trash talked the original Snow White’ no one cared until she called the movie outdated, as if ya’ll didn’t think the same

‘She’s entitled’ if this is because of the interview during the strike she wanted to get paid fairly, that’s what the strike was for you dumb dumbs

It’s always Rachel’s fault but never Disney’s

Really Disney has never protected their artists, not Rachel, not Halle, not half the Star Wars cast that was getting harassed, not Leah (tv Annabeth) they suck

Most of their properties are imploding and I’m like what the hell, you’d think they would try to improve but they’re getting worse, and due to recent events it’s only gonna get worse

I really hope that the live action remake trend is ending because I can’t take anymore of Disney’s bullshit

‘If you don’t like them don’t watch them’ I don’t watch them but it’s all over the internet I still can’t escape it

10- Robin and Franky: if Oda actually wrote romance they would be married by now, the banter, the chemistry, the it’s not a crime to exist, I love it

9- Zoro and Google Maps: Zoro buddy we can’t have you getting lost in straight hallway again, we’re in the final saga get it together

8- Sabo and Koala: I just think they’re cute :3

7- Yasopp and child support: look I know you had dreams, but disappearing on your family without the intention of coming back to at least say hello, rude

6- Smoker and Hina: we have the end of Alabasta, the five minutes they were together in Stampede (not canon but still) and that one cover page, you can’t lie to me that’s married behavior

5- Shanks and every single crack theory ever: the Shanks was born to a Celestial Dragon family and the Shanks has a twin brother theories ended up being true, so the sky’s the limit now

4- Usopp and Kaya: they’re so obvious that the live action didn’t bother and just let them kiss, if I unironically have faith in anything from this list it’s them

3- Luffy and food: not since Goku have I seen a character in anything so attached to food, I constantly pray for Sanji’s kitchen because it’s that bad

2- Koby, Helmeppo and Hibari: they give me the same vibe as that Parks and Rec clip with April and her two boyfriends, like this is my boyfriend Koby and that’s his boyfriend Helmeppo