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Also, a decent amount of stuff being mentioned is… paparazzi and ‘journalists’ and people looking to make money off of tragedy, as opposed to some rando who just watched an episode of Dateline?
Like, I know there are plenty of true crime ‘fans’ that do this reprehensible shit, but framing all True Crime Media as morally wrong is one of those things that can and will end up with people who aren’t harming anyone—or even doing advocacy or research— being dragged through the mud. Not to mention when people who are victims work with media to get their stories out.
There are many ways something as delicate as this can go sideways, but wholesale throwing the genre away is not gonna help. It may even hurt certain groups of victims.
Try to: Listen to victims; try not to sensationalize; make sure shit’s accurate; don’t fucking cross boundaries.
Bitch you are a piece of fruit why does it look like I murdered you. Why do you leave my fingertips red and stained. Why do you run down my hands to my elbows when I tear you apart. Why must I rip your body into bloodied chunks to get what's inside of you. Why do you sound so lovely when I crack you open. Why must I eat you with a knife and my bare hands. Why is there so much of you and why is there never enough.
abandonment issues are sooooo funny. "i'm scared people will leave me so i push them away first to avoid being hurt" girl the prophecy is self fulfilling!!! the sabotage is coming from within!!! you forgot about the cycle!!!!!!!!!
Bruh the high school I went to was designed by a guy who was like. known. for designing prisons. There were some rooms where it wouldn’t even be four sided, just a horrid, misshapen triangle-esque room with no windows. Metal doors with only a slit of glass to show the hallway. Fluorescent lights. You could still hear thru the walls tho.
Luckily, I ended up in the windowless room that resembled a warehouse interior more than the prison block, but that ended up with us cleaning the whole place ourselves and suspecting there had been a bird held or injured there. And there was just. Broken equipment everywhere that no one would get rid of. And an old guy that occasionally walked thru class and into the Other Room that students were not supposed to go near but was connected directly to my class.
the only reason i ever miss high school is because it produced genuinely hellish photos such as this one
the most fucked up thing ever is being obsessed w ur own oc. why do i have to make content of them why cant they just magically appear on my screen for me to reblog 200 times. fucked up and also evil
I need a thing where like, Luffy hears the term or someone using it and either
1.) misinterprets it to mean the order they joined the Strawhats (thus making himself his own first mate maybe?? Either way, Jinbei is so confused because he’s either ninth mate or eleventh mate depending on if Luffy counts himself and if Vivi is still in the count; the youngin’s just Go With It and the only other Older Man asked to see his panties instead of answering what the fuck 9th to 11th mate even means))
Or
2.) everyone first mate. the strawhats are First Mate as a collective. Luffy goes “yeah, I got first mate.” and points at everyone, including the ship.
I do view Zoro as Luffy's first mate, for three reasons.
1. Many other crews have a second in command/commander of the strongest squadron or whatever, why shouldn't the strawhats?
2. Zoro has made his role as the checks and balances to Luffy clear since water seven. It makes sense that this duty is that of a vice captain.
3. As much as I love it, I think one of the most powerful strawhats deserves a more dignified dedicated role than "sword hobo."
You can decide that he is if you want no one's stopping you lmao but my biggest issue with it is when it's used as a fact...when it's not. In terms of writing the Strawhats, Oda has purposefully not made a first mate. Zoro's role is literally just swordsman and that's all he needs to be, because the Strawhats work as a collective. The only one with any official title of command is Luffy because he's the captain, but the reason there's no first mate is because any Strawhat will take command in whatever the situation calls for.
Sometimes Nami takes charge, sometimes Zoro takes charge, sometimes Sanji takes charge, etc etc. The Strawhats are purposefully NOT meant to be like other crews, and having a first mate creates a power imbalance amongst the Strawhats regarding 'who Luffy trusts the most' that ruins the dynamic of them being a collective. There's a constant joke that outside pirates think Zoro's the first mate, or sometimes even the captain, but of course characters like Nami, Sanji and Usopp would laugh their asses off if ANYONE thought Zoro was second in command. Hell early on there's even a page of Usopp telling Luffy HE'S second in command, and Luffy saying sure whatever. The Strawhats as a crew essentially laugh at the strict hierarchy other crews put on themselves.
Point is, Luffy is undoubtedly the captain, but that's the most hierarchical the Strawhats are ever going to get - because honestly ANYONE has the qualifications to be the unofficial first mate. At this point in time I'd honestly say Jinbe would be the best first mate, but there's never going to be a first mate. Once again, it was an extremely purposeful choice of Oda to not give anyone that role, and it's because Luffy would never compare his crew in terms of putting his trust above or below anyone. That's not like Luffy, and that's not like the Strawhats. The fact there's no first mate means Luffy completely trusts his crew to make their own decisions as a whole when he's not around.
Reminds me of the one time in middle school I went out like an hour before a hurricane hit just to get some salami and scali bread because I had the Dark Urges. I ended up eating a sandwich and also was scared that several trees would just crash thru the wall lmao.
haven't had a sandwich in ages but i listened to my demons at the store yesterday and got sandwich stuff and now at 9pm after an impromptu 3 hour nap im eating a sandwich and brother this is positively scrumptious
I’m glad that he’s finally getting some repercussions for his plagiarism and generally shit behavior, but I cannot help but be a tad bitter that people have been calling James Somerton out for plagiarizing for like, YEARS only to be dismissed and called “straight white girls” — which, beyond the misogyny involved in dismissing someone for being a woman, shouldn’t even be a matter of contention when there’s hard evidence that he stole from others.
Like. People were shooting the messenger for years without even LOOKING at the message. And all it took was someone to actually read the message aloud to have people actually listen.