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He's on break :)

#i have no idea who this guy is #anyway #sibling art #grillby #undertale

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Drawing him like this delights me to no end

#its a little guy alright #grillby #undertale #sibling art

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Sabo: Why didn't you say before that my hair looked dumb?!

Ace: You didn't ask! I don't just walk up to people and tell them they look dumb!

Sabo: That's the point of family, Ace!

#oh yeah. this one's a winner #the most hysterical conversation I've ever had with ny brother #sabo #portgas d. ace #one piece #asl brothers #incorrect quotes

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I know that he's been alone for fifty years, but someone should tell Brook needs to be careful with inventing new bone puns

#💀 #brook #one piece

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occasional posts from users

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SCHWING~🥽✨

#monkey d. luffy #sun god nika #op spoilers

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miss all sunday 🥀🤍

#hi👉👈 #nico robin #one piece #avenoirn

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ROMANCE DAWN!!!

#monkey d. luffy #roronoa zoro #nami #one piece #romance dawn trio #avenoirn

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TW: racism

I think the way that comic book media has uncritically pushed anti-Arab racist propaganda (among other kinds) for decades upon decades is an important thing to acknowledge. Like it's not just a couple of bad apples here and there, it's always been pervasive. So many stories, so many villains, so many Arab coded fake evil countries. That kind of thing desensitizes people, dehumanizes entire groups. The politics of media designed for young men and boys (and not just them but for years that was the only audience that mattered, thanks sexism) has consequences.

Seriously, what was this:

As far as I'm aware this never even got an explicit retcon.

I was a little Muslim boy in the mid 2000s reading a Death in the Family because I wanted to know what happened to Jason Todd, and I didn't understand the depths of the propaganda that was being fed to me. I was so desensitized to hearing about terrible things happening in the middle east, and evil terrorists that I didn't question it. And my parents talked to me about what was going on and how it was wrong. But I was still a little kid and I loved Batman and I wasn't at the point where I could really look at the narrative critically, to realize that the authors have worldviews that are biased. I don't think I even grasped that different people wrote the characters. Iran electing known super-terrorist-serial killer-baby eating clown The Joker to represent them because he understood their values is yes, notably crazy, but most of this stuff isn't so loud and obvious, and we didn't leave it in the 80s. Just look at what happened to the depiction of Talia and Ra's post 911 and how they progressive became less human. So just think about the generations of kids reading this crap who had no counter messaging at all. Where does that leave their empathy?

I'm not saying that everything we're seeing is the fault of comic books, that's stupid and reductive and insulting to the complexity of the reality. But what I'm saying is that a lot of these narratives are actively complicit in the kinds of inhumanity we're seeing. Marvel thinking it's appropriate to throw Sabra into a movie in current day is a glaring transgression but it's not some kind of strange outlier. Lots of those films are actively funded by arms of the American military, just look at Captain marvel and Iron Man. And if anyone likes imposing an agenda onto the narrative, it's the military. A lot of this is baked into the fiction, and we owe it to ourselves and others to actively contend with what that means.

I dunno I'm just mad, and disappointed and maybe a little guilty that it took me this long to really realize the full state of things. I spent a lot of time blindly consuming. Like these books were created to be aspirational, to show good people trying to make a better world. But as always happens when art is completely beholden to money, they still serve the politics of the ruling class at the end of the day.

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pre-crisis jason the goober ever…

detective comics #566 / detective comics #560 / detective comics #560 / detective comics #530 / detective comics #540 / detective comics #535 / detective comics #535 / batman #396 / detective comics #562 / detective comics #540

#jason todd #batman

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Twinkle Toes

#aang #avatar the last airbender

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#iceburg #shanks #one piece

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another sketch the best mother son duo

#ohh pretty #portgas d. ace #portgas d. rouge #one piece

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#monkey d. luffy #one piece

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formed a band and turn out they all have different music tastes

#monkey d. luffy #nami #roronoa zoro #one piece #romance dawn trio

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WOOOO HAPPY DEATH DAY LIL GUY!!! 🥳🥳🥳

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zoro has such a flair for drama currently at the scene in whiskey peak where he waited on the top of a roof in the dark for the perfect moment to interrupt the baroque agents and give a whole ass menacing speech about how he knows who they are, what their plans are, their secrets, and that he’s going to kill them before slipping away into the shadows like a slasher villain n reappearing in the middle of them to their absolute horror while pretending to look for himself on the roof. and just spending the whole ordeal cracking blasé jokes while beating them effortlessly up like a right bastard (and yelling at his cursed sword)

#roronoa zoro #one piece