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Here is my part of the One Piece Big Bang!

An illustration for the awesome fanfiction of @sneakend

The fanfiction is about Kid, Law and Killer and the things, that happened after Kid's loss against the Shanks Pirates.

Read the amazing fanfic here:

Thanks!

Q - A ship you’ve abandoned and why

There’s only really been kidlaw ever since I got back into One Piece, but back when I first got into it as a teen I originally liked zo/robin, which got me into those ffnet mostly het ensemble fics where everyone is paired off together (it was like... luffy and nami, sanji and vivi, zoro and robin, lmfao i cringe looking back but in my defense i was only into zo/robin out of all of these also i was like 16). And some of them had smoker/ace as a side-ship, at which point i went hmm this m/m stuff is good lol and branched into z/s from there, which obviously had a lot more content than zo/robin so that became my main ship. Honestly I still have a soft spot for zo/robin, even if their canon interactions have completely petered out, and I still think smoker/ace is hot even if Marco’s introduction made it obsolete as a ship lol, but I don’t care for z/s at all anymore, nothing against it tbh it’s just one of these teen!me things that I feel I’ve outgrown ahah.

R - A pairing you ship that you don’t think anyone else ships

I heard you’re interested in Latin, German, Japanese, and literature, so I did some browsing and found a variety of interesting resources!

Latin:

A Loeb Classical Library Reader, photo and text from Amazon

Ad Infinitum by Nicholas Ostler, photo and text from Amazon

So You Really Want to Learn Latin (Book I) by N.R.R. Oulton, photo and text from https://fivebooks.com/best-books/learning-latin-harry-mount/

Studying Japanese through German:

This site has many good resources! https://japanliteratur.net/japanisch-lernen/

Here are a few books it suggests for learning Japanese if you know German:

Japanisch, bitte! - Nihongo de dooso 1  PONS Grammatik kurz & bündig Japanisch

Here’s a quick read about some German influences on Japanese anime and literature!

 https://medium.com/contemporary-german-literature/the-fusion-of-german-and-japanese-culture-1102884fab87

~~~~~~~~~~  Yoko Tawada highlight   ~~~~~~~~~~

Yoko Tawada is a poet and author who was born in Japan but has lived in Germany for many many years. She writes in both Japanese and German!

Memoirs of a Polar Bear, by Yoko Tawada, photo and text from Amazon Portrait of a Tongue, by Yoko Tawada, translated by Chantal Wright, photo and text from Amazon

Yoko Tawada’s first publication, Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts, a bilingual German-Japanese collection of poems.

A recording of her reading her poems (I couldn’t get the file to work, but maybe you’ll have better luck!)

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And a few more literature-related resources:

http://bungeikan.jp/international/detail/38/  German Literature in Japan. Published in Japan Quarterly (Vol.7 No1 P193-199, published by Asahi Shimbun Company, 1960)

Japanese Book News Website and Japanese Literature in Translation Search List Search  sponsored by the Japan Foundation, cultivating friendship and ties between Japan and the world.

The Literature page of the Goethe Institute, Germany’s cultural institute. 

Let’s Read Masterpieces of German Exile Literature, from News Digest, a news site focusing on Germany published in Japanese.

Dude I used a cardboard box as a table for years in my first apartment so...

Thanks!

And ummm turns out I lied this one doesn’t really have a specific story lol. It’s more one of those things I’ve always wanted to write because of feelings, but I still haven’t come up with a plot for it so far.

Basically the intention was to write a fic sequel to Brubaker’s Winter Soldier run which despite the name is a Bucky and Natasha book. Idk how familiar you are with the 616 going-ons but Brubaker is the guy who came onto Captain America in 2005, said “you know that Bucky guy who’s been dead since the 1940s and is so famous for never having been revived that it’s a meme? let’s revive him” and came up with the whole Winter Soldier thing. He wrote Captain America all throughout that + Cap’s death after Civil War + Bucky/Sam taking over the shield + Cap’s revival and Secret Avengers etc, and ended it all with this Winter Soldier run with Natasha as a co-star (he wrote BuckyNat as a couple all throughout his time on Captain America, and made it an integral part of the Winter Soldier’s backstory).

It ended with Natasha getting her memory wiped and Bucky choosing not to tell her they were together after that to protect her, one of those comics trope intended as a baton for the next writer but the next two Natasha writers (as much as I liked them) mostly handwaved it away and then she died/revived and afaik that’s been it between her and Bucky. Admittedly I don’t keep up to date and her continuity’s a mess with her only getting a run every couple years and the writers (understandbly, at this point) always pick-and-choosing their own canon every time and dropping whatever’s not compatible. I always thought they deserved a proper getting back together in the noir action spirit of that Brubaker run, though, and since it’s not happening I really wanna write it as a fic one day! (On top of that, while I’m not generally a Brubaker fan except for this particular run, it does annoy me slightly that in the end 616 and the MCU and fandom in general pretty much went wow @ everything Brubaker came up with around the Winter Soldier, except ~for some reason~ for the part where he always meant for Bucky and Natasha to be a couple, so there is a bit of spite involved ahah.) 

I thought maybe you’d enjoy a list of Japanese mystery books linked from bookmeter...

1. Out by Natsuo Karino

2. The Decagon House Murders by Yukiko Ayatsuji

3. The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino

4. Crossfire by Miyuki Miyabe

5. Confessions by Kanae Minato

6. The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada (I also quite liked his book Murder in the Crooked House)

Also, the youtube channel I listen to for new music as I study just posted this Japanese music to listen to!

God forbid do not feel awkward!!! i think it was a testament of great big dick energy of the four of us, Kim, Smartie you and I, to be the only ones actually using the N/SFW category for what it was meant for

we owe these two legends for requesting the good stuff so we could serve with a big red E

also on this note your addition on the fic cracked me up so much with the “oops shit do you even like breathplay” thing like this is a fic that obviously came fom the dick and it sure reads like it in the good way and i respect that so infinitely much