I have an Usopp problem 😵💫
I’m seriously not sure if it’s because of the algorithm, or Oda’s 3 week break and fans are bored and suffering because of it, but it seems like Usopp has become more of (???) a person of interest in the fandom, very recently—for the wrong reasons. Maybe it’s because of my hyper-fixation on Usopp’s journey…I admit. Can’t even cross it out.
…So, maybe it is JUST me.
Maybe that’s why it seems like he’s a person of interest even more nowadays.
I am avoiding Reddit and Worstgen, but YouTube is testing my resolve. I use YouTube for other things besides One Piece analysis vids and whatnot.
Tamir’s Verse do post pro-Usopp videos, but even those bring forward slander in the comments that’s hard to look past, personally. There’s a video about how and WHY Usopp is the most disliked Strawhat! 🤯 I can’t watch Tamir’s Verse videos and shorts at all anymore.
And then there was a poll of “Who’s the Most Disliked Strawhat?” on my YouTube feed. Usopp had the second to the most votes. If “Other” hadn’t been an option/choice, he would have won. If the algorithm is gonna play mind games, can they give me the positive Usopp videos? Please?
This isn’t meant to be a rant at all.
But having to read that Usopp is “The Butt” of the Strawhats is kinda sh**ty. (This was in response to when I posted a comment in one of the vids. I said that Usopp was a nuanced and brave character).
But have no fear, I will forever argue against the harsh criticism. The harsh criticism and arguing won’t matter in a year. I know this. There’s the real world outside. I have to talk to someone about this…I know 😔.
The YouTube algorithm is playing mind games.
I won’t look at the comments I won’t look at the comments I won’t look at the commets I won’t look at the comm–
I won’t post a comment I won’t post a comment I won’t post a comment I won’t post a comment I won’t post a comm-
No more arguing no more arguing no more arguing no more arguing no more arguing no more arguing no more arg–
Let Oda cook let Oda cook let Oda cook let Oda cook let Oda cook let Oda cook let Oda cook let Oda cook let Oda coo–
Conclusively, I’m gonna go do some soul searching. I have an exam this week, and I’m experiencing writer’s block (currently writing a one-shot, writing Act 2 of an ongoing Usopp-centric fic)…and..
So, I’ll go and touch grass.
And I’m gonna give myself the hard challenge of not talking about Usopp for 1 week. You know what? Let’s give myself a bigger challenge. I won’t talk about Usopp for 2 weeks. But if that means not talking about Usopp, I’ll need to stop watching One Piece for 2 weeks, and writing fanfiction (even just updating the drafts) for 2 weeks... I’ll need to stay off YouTube, Reddit, and TUMBLR for 2 weeks... I’ll need to stay off Ao3 for 2 weeks…
I’ll have to clear my cache and delete all my tabs. I’ll have to avoid my email (I’ll unsubscribe from the YouTube messages I receive). I’ll reply to the last of my notifications…then…
2 weeks. 2 weeks. I’ll give it 2 weeks…
I can do this. Right? Right? I’m writing this to instill some discipline in me. I want to find a way to approach things differently, and not argue endlessly about nonsensical comments…I want to feel what it’s like to not participate.
Then I’ll come back to the fandom and be a little bit more positive and well rested. And I’ll contribute to all the nice things.
Note to self. I got this…if anyone is reading this. Thank you for your time ❤️
My break starts now!
Stay true!
– wesleysniperking
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"This Love left a permanent mark; This Love is Glowing, in the Dark..."
This Love (Taylor's Version), Taylor Swift
A hand brushing across, then taking hold of your own stops you in your tracks, and you look down to see your right hand clasped in his left, his thumb already brushing gently across your knuckles; you can just barely feel the cool metal of his ring against the underside of your palm, grounding you in the here and now.
(Dammit, how does he always know how to calm you down?!)
You look back up to find Jesse already looking back, a touch of concern in the light lines around his eyes. Once it has you, you can't break his gaze, sucked in by twin pools of dark brown. Somehow, you find yourself relaxing further.
The song still plays in the background, surrounding the two of you in a cocoon of sound. It feels like nothing can touch you here, in this moment, with him by your side.
("🎶When you're young, you just run; but you come back to what you need...🎶")
(....oh.)
> An excerpt from This Love Is Glowing (in the dark), a fic I posted for the official Rerelease Day of 1989 (Taylor's Version). It is, itself, an excerpt/snippet of the as of yet unreleased Chapter 2 of these hands had to let it go free and-- (This Love came back to me); specifically, it's the ending/epilogue, during which Beca and Jesse finally listen to the song that inspired it all.
(Image ID in Alt Text)
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Don't you hate it when you discover that something that you've been obsessing over is one big, canonically enby-representation game, but then you figure out that the game Devs themselves, nor does half the fucking fandom, care about it enough to be consistent or even bother in the first place to respect the nonbinary representation that is confirmed as cannon. And so you, as a person on the nonbinary spec. have to just deal with it, and feel if you go like "oh actually, this character might look like a she/he but they're actually a they" all the time that you'll be seen as annoying? No? Kk, that's grand.
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found and read a great completed fic:
found the sequel only to realize it isn’t completed and hasn’t updated since march:
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