Doing an experiment
Please rb to expand my sample size!
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since my return to tumblr I’ve been seeing a lot of ppl talking abt disabilities & I have one piece brainrot real bad so I figured I’d babble a bit
it took me a weirdly long time to realize that... Shanks is disabled??? like. he lost an arm. if the fan theory is correct, he lost his sword arm. and only after losing his sword arm did this man go on to become one of the four most powerful people on the seas.
and he’s not the only one!!! Crocodile’s missing a hand. Tashigi’s probably legally blind without her glasses, which she keeps fucking losing. Fujitora’s blind, Zolo’s sense of direction is so bad it probably qualifies as some sort of intellectual disability — hell, Whitebeard himself, Edward fucking Newgate, is on a ventilator for the entire time he spends on the page/screen. and yet.
none of these people are defined by their disability. Whitebeard is considered the strongest man in the world. Zolo is fucking Zolo. Fujitora’s an admiral, which is the only reason I’m calling him Fujitora in the first place. Tashigi is Smoker’s right-hand man. Crocodile is one of the first truly imposing villains the straw hats come across, and, oh yeah, still making himself relevant nearly a thousand chapters later. and Shanks... well, Shanks is one of the Four Emperors, a.k.a. legally classified as one of the four biggest threats to the current world order. he’s doing pretty okay for himself for a guy who visibly struggles to button his shirts.
it just makes me think. Oda has made a world where disability accommodations are... normalized. in a weird sort of way, but still. hell, this is a maritime setting — having a devil fruit power is a permanent disability, and yet people don’t hesitate to take them on. because everyone is just... used to accommodating them. can’t swim? don’t go overboard, keep someone on watch around the water, bathe with a friend. only one hand? that’s fine, that’s why you keep your first mate around. can’t see? we have superpowers for that. we can handle it. to paraphrase Usopp: you do what you can, and leave the rest to your crewmates.
anyway I really love one piece
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My aunt drank three entire cartons of milk and my mom laughed at her for it and that was the whole dream.
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AAAH I'm so pleased!!! I used Irish Breakfast instead of my typical English Breakfast (running low and have barely touched the Irish) and it was PERFECT! Stronger, heavier, earthier, but if you keep the brewing time below 5 minutes it's perfect... 3 cubes sugar, two splashes of cream. It's thicker and pleasant and not overly sweet. This is an exceptional result. I'm so happy.
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I love you ghosts fics but sometimes ooh boy I have no idea what you're talking about. occasionally there will be a paragraph that is just so british it truly becomes unintelligible to me. is that thing you just said a place, a brand name, or a person?
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here's to my homies who know the Truth (that using milk rather than water with hot chocolate packets is actually 🤢)
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So today I have acquired my first black sugar milk tea
It is very very tasty, rich and sweet and slightly floral
I however am British so I had to “water” it down with like an extra quarter cup of milk because my tastebuds are weak and feeble and flavour confuses them
Black sugar milk tea 10/10 ideal companion to Lotus cookie butter sandwich cookies and Marmite sandwiches
(Yes I know Marmite is Extremely Flavour whether you love it or hate it but I guess that’s where all my Flavour Strength went)
And then I made hot chocolate with black sugar milk tea instead of milk and let me tell you friends it 30/10 fucks immediate significant improvement
If you too are weak to Flavours I recommend having a snack like said cookie butter sandwich cookies or some other strong not-quite-sweet flavour to help ease you into the black sugar
It is almost fruity which I suspect is the molasses and perplexed me muchly until I got used to it
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