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Ok what song got you like this?

#for me it gotta be Breed by Nirvana #or really just anything by Ramones #music

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They're coming.

#marching orders

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Who up baning they arthropods rn?

Minecraft buggy maids :]

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See this, this is what I like about TikTok. Little moments like this

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I've started One Piece but frankly am very cautious with actually continuing and investing a lot of time and energy into the work because I'm aware of the transphobia and the general... everything surrounding characters like Brook. I haven't chosen to invest in a long running Shonen since about 15 years ago, before coming to terms with my sexuality, and I fear that a lot of stuff I'll find to be inexcusable. Are the allegations blown out of proportions, or should I be worried?

Well, I don't think I can help you on what you'll find inexcusable or excusable, that's a very personal line that everyone draws for themselves, ultimately. I love One Piece deeply, but I refuse to make excuses for its shortcomings. Like all great works of art, it is flawed.

For something like twenty years, One Piece's primary depiction of visible queerness and transfemininity were the Newkama.

Which... fucking sucks, frankly. Visually, these are designs based 100% on "ha ha ha ugly men in dresses who think they're feminine, ha ha ha" as a joke. They are ridiculous caricatures, and you are meant to find them funny and laugh at their delusions of femininity.

It's a depiction that derives from extant stereotypes of transfemininity and homosexuality in Japanese culture, which... aren't really my place to speak authoritatively on. I know that there are some complexities re: drag culture, reclamation and performance culture, and Japanese queer and trans people have a diversity of thoughts and opinions on both One Piece and the "okama" stereotype more broadly. I can't speak to any of that, that's not really my lane, so I'll just say that from MY perspective, the depiction of the Newkama as visual designs comes across as a dismissive, mean-spirited and frankly cruel depiction of transfemininity.

In addition to that, it should also be said that the Kamabakka are unequivocally heroic and explicitly depicted as correct and morally right in their identities and culture.

This is Bon Clay and Ivankov, two major okama characters in One Piece. If Ivankov looks familiar that's because he's based on Dr. Frank N. Furter from Rocky Horror Picture Show. Ivankov is a major heroic ally of the Straw Hats, and Bon Clay is commonly considered one of THE most beloved and heroic supporting characters in the entire story. One Piece fans will DIE for Bon Clay, you can find tiktoks of people openly weeping with love for this man. If I ever appeared on camera, I would be one of them.

Setting aside their presentation as designs, One Piece goes out of its way to show these characters fighting, sacrificing and standing up for their friends and their communities. It goes out of its way to present their humanity, their compassion and their kindness, and to humanize them to the audience.

The ultimate villains of One Piece are the World Government, a hyper-authoritarian militaristic feudal government with a policy of absolute conformity to authority, and the Newkama and their queerness are explicitly framed as standing in opposition to that evil, and as representatives and avatars of freedom.

Freedom is one of One Piece's central themes, and it very explicitly includes freedom from gender roles and gender norms in that idea. The Newkama, among other things, also stand for freedom of presentation, freedom of gender, and freedom of self-determination. Whatever gender you want, whatever you want to wear, who and whatever you want to be, the Newkama say you can and should be those things, and damn what anyone else thinks.

Newkama Land where these story scenes take place are literally a haven of freedom carved out by queer people inside the walls of a deep-ocean prison that the World Government tried to throw them into to torture and destroy them, which is, objectively speaking, metal as fuck.

I think these story ideas are extremely queer-positive and trans-inclusive, and I think it reads like the work of someone who has queer people's backs and wants them to be part of the worlds that he makes.

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Which makes it all the more frustrating that the Newkama are the only explicit depictions of transness and queerness in One Piece for literal decades. On the one hand, the story is vocally accepting and inclusive, on the other hand, everyone everywhere is presented as cis and straight with vanishingly few exceptions. Queer people exist in One Piece, but only really in the designated Queer Person Faction, rather than as an endemic presence in the world. It's very Planet of Hats in that way.

(inb4 yes I know Luffy is shown essentially as aro-ace, yes I also agree that Nami definitely has a thing going on with Vivi and projects hella lesbian energy. Yes you can absolutely do a queer reading of the story and its characters, and I do that and I love to do that, but there's a difference between something being open to queer interpretation and a story actually telling explicitly queer stories)

It's not until we reach the Wano arc, one of the most recent story arcs, that Oda really gets around to depicting forms of gender non-conformity and transness outside of the boundaries of the Newkama and the "okama" visual stereotype. He's been rightly praised for making those new creative choices (and Yamato is MY BOY I fucking love him), but it still took a quarter of a century for One Piece to even HAVE a transmasc character.

On the one hand its explicit text is quite radically inclusive, the themes and what the story SAYS presents queerness and queer people as good things that make the world a better, richer and freer place. People who try to eradicate or oppress queerness are, without exception, the enemy.

On the other hand, it just hasn't been very good at actually depicting queerness, except as cartoonish stereotypes and very, very occasional exceptions to the cishet status quo.

The portrayal of the Newkama, visually, arrive from a tradition of transphobic, homophobic stereotypes, and I don't blame anyone from being alienated by that. Placing them on the side of the good guys doesn't cancel out the problematic aspect of using those kinds of depictions in the first place, and I am not interested in making excuses for it.

I love One Piece, deeply, I think it is a wonderful story, and I find it very affirming of queerness as a mode of being. But I'm not going to argue with anyone who feels differently.

#they put fucking gigahons in one piece 💀 💀 💀

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God hates you all.

do you ever shut up? i dont think i've gone a day on this site without seeing some relic of your splattering of thoughts.

if tumblr were a bathtub it would be 99% filled with my piss

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Shamrock dye, clovers, and spinach!

Clovers can be found in many biomes, and function similarly to pink petals in placement. Very rarely when broken they can drop a four-leaf clover, which can be brewed into a new potion.

Spinach is found in more mountainous regions, and is a new crop plant. You can use it to craft many different varieties of salad, with carrots, beetroot and chicken. When you combine 6 spinach and 3 golden carrots, you can create an item that allows you to brew a Strength 3 potion.

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Real shit???????

Maroon dye!

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Maroon dye, Cochineal Beetles, Madder Roots and Cinnabar!

Cacti can now spawn with a chance of little cochineal beetles on them! These beetles will go through 4 stages of growth before turning a bright red color, and when bright red, can be right-clicked to obtain maroon dye (to which they will return to their first stage). This process beginning is not guaranteed, however, and sometimes needs to be prompted with cactus chunks, which can be obtained by crafting down one cactus. These cactus chunks, while not a great food source on their own, can be smelted and eaten or crafted into cactus compost - a way to speed up cochineal beetles reddening process and a renewable way to make some more beetles!

Madder is a new plant that isn't that interesting on it's own, but it's whats beneath thats unique - if you dig beneath the plant, you'll find Madder Root. This can be made into maroon dye or crafted in a 4x4 grid to make Large Madder Roots, which can also be crafted down into normal oak planks.

One more method of obtaining maroon dye is deep beneath the earth, beneath Y=0, you may find little clumps of Cinnabar. Budding cinnabar can also be found, slowly growing crystals similar to Amethyst. Mining the cinnabar crystals yields cinnabar dust, and combing 4 dust makes a cinnabar rock. The rocks can be used for decorative blocks, or an alternative to brewing a potion of harming. Cinnabar dust is incredibly dangerous, and can be thrown on enemies for a quick bit of damage on it's own - or mixed with Gunpowder and Redstone to create an incredibly dangerous slurry. The slurry, when combined with copper and a splash potion of harming, makes a Gas Bomb - an area of effect of constant damage. The bomb also creates a brief effect that stuns and harms Guardians especially.

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I’m looking for a Minecraft skin artist/blockbench artist to work with on a regular basis. I’ve tried a a couple on the terrible X website, and unfortunately both took my money and the skins never materialised. Don’t ghost me artists, I want you to take my money for skins -_-;

DM me if you have examples. Please tumblr, you’re my only hoe.

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“kill them with kindness” WRONG! nether dimension

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DIOS MIO!

KOCCHI WO MIRO!

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Le Dhelmise best pokey mann. Funni anchor boi

fuccin love this boi

#pokemon #sun and moon #dhelmise #my beloved #pokeposting

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Why has every single Enby I've ever met either an Eldritch Diety beyong human pleasure and comprehension (I'm looking at you @gemsineyy) or just an absolute chad of a Greco-Roman sex God?

#seriously y'all #why #are #enbies #so #fine #tho

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I agree

Warm bread. You agree. Reblog

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Plunko

ok I said it give me reposts

#Plz #plinkoposting

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Can't wait to this fight animated soon

*Laughs in Sports Maxx*

#jojo part six #jojo ermes #stone ocean spoilers