#but it is so underhanded still

[abrahamvanhelsings]

crozier being kidnapped and telling goodsir not to worry because edward will be there on the morrow, completely sure of it, like it's inevitable. edward in fact immediately going to rally the men to get crozier back and finding they held a vote without him and it's been decided they'll leave without crozier (and without the sick). edward having the choice between being left alone with no chance at crozier's rescue or his own survival, or taking up his duty and leading the men onward. crozier in hickey's camp believing in edward's sense of loyalty and edward not showing up, not knowing how edward fought for him. crozier showing up at the final camp seeing edward mutilated but alive like he told him to, only to die. thinking about edward's absolute sense of loyalty to his captain and duty towards the men tearing him apart and it never saves anyone

#crozier thinking edward left him behind kills me #out there with jopson dying thinking crozier left him behind. things that will haunt me forever #the terror #was having lunch with colleagues (media scholars) who were discussing oscar nominated films #but i was silent for the whole of it bc i was sitting there like *autism creature* <- full of terror thoughts #imagine watching anything else. lmao. not me for the coming three months at the very least #im about to write another post abt edward's loyalty to crozier and how that's both a strength and a flaw in fact #also thinking abt le vesconte holding that vote bc like... w/o crozier edward is ranking #like the hierarchy is in shambles but the vestiges of it are still there #something so insidious abt making sure the men are united in their decision against edward bc dundy Knows what edward would want #and it isn't to leave. so he takes away the option entirely #im not saying this is completely evil. dundy is also acting in a way that he thinks will save the most men (i.e. cutting out the weak links #and not embarking on some desperate rescue mission #but it is so underhanded still #edward little

[lokh]

fake dating au where shuro ends up pretending to go out with laios in order to secure his inheritance.... but is it really what he wants? a journey of romance and self discovery that ill never ever write

#i imagine some political intrigue too but frankly i dont know enough #not pictured: marcille and co losing their fucking minds becos laios what were u THINKING #shuro #nakamoto toshiro #laios touden #laishuro #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #art #maizuru #i imagine shuro also doesnt want to win his succession with something so. underhanded and untrue lmao. #and then when it DOES become true... well does he even want it really 😭 #i feel like hed still end up doing it but at least hes actually examined his own wants etc #delicious in dungeon

[angelsdean]

I need people to understand how S&P (standards and practices) works in television and how much influence they have over what gets to stay IN an episode of a show and how the big time network execs are the ones holding the purse strings and making final decisions on a show's content, not the writers / showrunners / creatives involved.

So many creators have shared S&P notes over the years of the wild and nonsensical things networks wanted them to omit / change / forbid. Most famously on tumblr, I've seen it so many times, is the notes from Gravity Falls. But here's a post compiling a bunch of particularly bad ones from various networks too. Do you see the things they're asking to be changed / cut ?

Now imagine, anything you want to get into your show and actually air has to get through S&P and the network execs. A lot of creators have had to resort to underhanded methods. A lot of creators have had to relegate things to subtext and innuendo and scenes that are "open to interpretation" instead of explicit in meaning. Things have had to be coded and symbolized. And they're relying on their audience to be good readers, good at media literacy, to notice and get it. This stuff isn't the ramblings of conspiracy theorists, it's the true practices creatives have had to use to be able to tell diverse stories for ages. The Hays Code is pretty well known, it exists because of censorship. It was a way to symbolize certain things and get past censors.

Queercoding, in particular, has been used for ages in both visual media and literature do signal to queer audiences that yes, this character is one of us, but no, we can't be explicit about it because TPTB won't allow it. It's a wink-wink, nudge-nudge to those in the know. It's the deliberate use of certain queer imagery / clothing / mannerisms / phrases / references to other queer media / subtle glances and lingering touches. Things that offer plausible deniability and can be explained away or go unnoticed by straight audiences to get past those network censors. But that queer viewers WILL (hopefully) pick up on.

Because, unfortunately, still to this day, a lot of antiquated network execs don't think queer narratives are profitable. They don't think they'll appeal to general audiences, because that's what matters, whatever appeals to most of the audience demographic so they can keep watching and keep making the network more money. The networks don't care about telling good stories! Most of them are old white cishet business men, not creatives. They don't care about character arcs and what will make fans happy. They don't care about storytelling. What they care about is profit and they're basing their ideas of what's profitable on what they believe is the predominate target demographic, usually white cis heterosexual audiences.

So, imagine a show that started airing in the early 2000s. Imagine a show where the two main characters are based on two characters from a famous Beat Generation novel, where one of the characters is queer! based on a real like bisexual man! The creator is aware of this, most definitely. And sure, it's 2005, there's no way they were thinking of making that explicit about Dean in the text because it just wouldn't fly back then to have a main character be queer. But! it's made subtext. And there are nods to that queerness placed in the text. Things that are open to interpretation. Things that are drenched in metaphor (looking at you 1x06 Skin "I know I'm a freak" "maybe this thing was born human but was different...hated. Until he learned to become someone else.") Things that are blink-and-you-miss-it and left to plausible deniability (things like seemingly spending an hour in the men's bathroom, or always reacting a little vulnerable and awkward when you're clocked instead of laughing it off and making a homophobic joke abt it)

And then, years later there's a ship! It's popular and at first the writers aren't really seriously thinking about it but they'll throw the fans a bone here and there. Then, some writers do get on the destiel train and start actively writing scenes for them that are suggestive. And only a fraction of what they write actually makes it into the text. So many lines left on the cutting room floor: i love past you. i forgive you i love you. i lost cas and it damn near broke me. spread cas's ashes alone. of course i wanted you to stay. if cas were here. -- etc. Everything cut was not cut by the writers! Why would a writer write something to then sabotage their own story and cut it? No, these are things that didn't make it past the network. Somewhere a note was made maybe "too gay" or "don't feed the shippers" or simply "no destiel."

So, "no destiel." That's pretty clearly the message we got from the CW for years. "No destiel. Destiel will alienate our general audience. Two of our main characters being queer? And in a relationship? No way." So what can the pro-destiel creatives involved do, if the network is saying no? What can the writers do if most of their explicit destiel (or queer dean) lines / moments are getting cut? Relegate things to subtext. Make jokes that straight people can wave off but queer people can read into. Make costuming and set design choices that the hardcore fans who are already looking will notice while the general audience and the out-of-touch network execs won't blink and eye at (I'm looking at you Jerry and your lamps and disappearing second nightstands and your gay flamingo bar!)

And then, when the audience asks, "is destiel real? is this proof of destiel?" what can the creatives do but deny? Yes, it hurts, to be told "No no I don't know what you're talking about. There's no destiel in supernatural" a la "there is no war in Ba Sing Se" but! if the network said "no destiel!" and you and your creative team have been working to keep putting destiel in the subtext of the narrative in a way that will get past censors, you can't just go "Yes, actually, all that subtext and symbolism you're picking up, yea it's because destiel is actually in the narrative."

But, there's a BIG difference between actively putting queer themes and subtext into the narrative and then saying it's not there (but it is! and the audience sees it!) versus NOT putting any queer content into the text but SAYING it is there to entice queer fans to continue watching. The latter, is textbook queerbaiting. The former? Is not. The former is the tactics so many creatives have had to use for years, decades, centuries, to get past censorship and signal to those in the know that yea, characters like you are here, they exist in this story.

Were the spn writers perfect? No, absolutely not. And I don't think every instance of queer content was a secret signal. Some stuff, depending on the writer, might've been a period-typical gay joke. These writers are flawed. But it's no secret that there were pro-destiel writers in the writing room throughout the years, and that efforts were made to make it explicitly canon (the market research!)

So no, the writers weren't ever perfect or a homogeneous entity. But they definitely were fighting an uphill battle constantly for 15 yrs against S&P and network execs with antiquated ideas of what's profitable / appealing.

Spn even called out the networks before, on the show, using a silly example of complaints abt the lighting of the show and how dark the early seasons were. Brightening the later seasons wasn't a creative choice, but a network choice. And if the networks can complain abt and change something as trivial as the lighting of a show, they definitely are having a hand in influencing the content of the show, especially queer content.

Even in s15, (seasons fifteen!!!) Misha has said he worried Castiel's confession would not air. In 2020!!! And Jensen recorded that scene on his personal phone! Why? Sure, for the memories. But also, I do not doubt for a second that part of it was for insurance, should the scene mysteriously disappear completely. We've seen the finale script. We've seen the omitted omitted omitted scenes. We all saw how they hacked the confession scene to bits. The weird cuts and close-ups. That's not the writers doing. That's likely not even the editors (willingly). That's orders from on high. All of the fuckery we saw in s15 reeks of network interference. Writers are not trying to sabotage their own stories, believe me.

Anyways, TLDR: Networks have a lot more power than many think and they get final say in what makes it to air. And for years creative teams have had to find ways to get past network censorship if they want "banned" or "unapproved" "unprofitable" "unwanted" content to make it into the show. That means relying on techniques like symbolism, subtext, and queercoding, and then shutting up about it. Denying its there, saying it's all "open to interpretation" all while they continue to put that open to interpretation content into the show. And that's not queerbaiting, as frustrating as it might be for queer audiences to be told that what they're seeing isn't there, it's still not queerbaiting. Queerbaiting is a marketing technique to draw in queer fans by baiting them with the promise of queer content and then having no queer content in said media. But if you are picking up on queer themes / subtext / symbolism / coding that is in front of your face IN the text, that's not queerbaiting. It's there, covertly, for you, because someone higher up didn't want it to be there explicitly or at all.

#long post #LONG-ass post #but it needed to be said! #i'm sorry if you think every creative involved with spn was a braindead asshole but the thing is. #even the most mediocre of writers understands a thing or two abt symbolism and writers working in TV are plagued by S&P #countless writers have talked abt the S&P bullshit and having to tweak and edit down their work to get past censors #it's a reality of writing for television #and the people who understand all this and understand the context of making TV in the early 2000s (to present tbh!) aren't 'delusional' #i'm sorry but it's naive to think that queer stories and queer characters are free to be told even nowadays. it's still a constant battle #times have changed but unfortunately not as much as you'd think #the confession !!!!! the confession still struggled to air and what we got was so obviously hacked down to bits!!!!!! #how can anyone think getting destiel content into the show was ever easy? #how can anyone think the pro-destiel writers weren't constantly having to be careful and underhanded in their writing? #there's a reason queercoding and subtext exist and it's this!!! it's censorship from TPTB #anyways. people much older than me have been talking abt this for ages. younger fans who are used to more open queer rep need to understand #it hasn't always been that easy and even nowadays SO many networks are still not willing to take a risk on queer stories #so creators do what they can #vic.txt

[synthwayve]

Thinks about Micolash and Laurence’s rivalry that never strays from the confines of academic snark or the occasional jab despite their shared ambition(and possibly also just accompanying a general friendship they could have had since they worked together at some point. Idk I’m a softie. Sue me.) eventually involving into a full on intellectual divorce. Cries. Explodes. 72 casualties.

#will delete #I am just having thoughts #like yeah listen I love the toxic aspects of their dynamic especially peak healing church #and I’m honestly shocked most people put Micolash in the seat of power there #if anything I think he’d be underhanded with having dirt on Laurence’s operation or his reputation #but yknow. headcanons vary #consider: they could have been soft once. they could have been #and they could have stopped each other’s descent into their respective cosmic obsession(blood and insight) #but neither can actually let the other have his way. if Micolash abandons his research and just does whatever Laurence commands him to #he’ll never be able to pursue his own interest(which could even stave off the scourge). it’d be Byrgenwerth all over #but if Laurence lets Micolash go and just do whatever his silly heart desires #not only will he legit go insane but itd happen at the worst of times. he needs to priortize the blood while they still have time #so they both just. stalemate each other to death #yadda yadda insufferable academics believing only their method must be correct to the detriment of the other #not in a ‘I personally hate you’ way but in a ‘why won’t you just listen to me’ way #I just think there’s fun to be had there. they’re both horrible. #also idk this is being prompted by Laurence being typecast into being completely helpless at the height of his power. against MICOLASH??? #let’s let him be a little evil too come on now #but idk. maybe my take is wack

[leviathiane]

yes, death mark is a rather flawed game. its got a lot of problems in all three iterations and in some ways death mark one, while being less technically impressive (lack of animations, no character sprites actively moving, art a little worse overall, less character sprites in general) it kind of handled a lot of very important aspects of the game better. namely, the plot, character integration/interaction, timeline, and yashiki just being a lil baby who isnt straight up inexcusably bad at his job--

but you must consider this:

Death mark 2 yashiki bondage CG,

#its got so so so many problems that felt easily fixable with just. more or better writers #the ghosts are less scary and the fanservice is still gratuitous to hell #the new system for battling is cooler i Think maybe havent decided but #man MK ghost was So disappointing it was unreal #thaat ghost was just... not scary #they went a kind of comedic route with the designs that feels underhanded #why do they have googly eeyes who decided that #also the weird student teacher love stuff #which makes sense considerin ght eplot but i wish it was handled better #in general a lot of the writing could have been handled btter by far-- #regardless of that tho the presence of flaws make it easier to latch on as a creator #bc theres LOTS to do in terms of fix ups and changes in fic #and lots to discuss #depths' talks #death mark #i really hope this isnt the last of the series but according tot he studio it is #which SUCKS im DEPRESSED

[extremelyputridfishbreath]

speaking of my favorite daughter gin

i dont remember if i've posted this but this is her first drawn image ever i think, but this was supposed to be for cpi! her club penguin design has always been very consistent, other than a few changes with her goggle colors changing a few times, her scarf becoming a medal and her spots changing and the color (and shape) of her whiskers as well! :>

#honestly gin is so funny to me (affectionate) because shes literally so normal. #her girlfriend literally brainwashed the band and only pivoted from it because it was too much effort. penelope is rich and a crazy cat lad #but for puffles. even her HENCHMAN is some talking drawing from the box dimension...AND THATS NOT GETTING INTO EX- DICTATOR HERBERT AND HIS #ACCOMPLICE KLUTZY OR THE SEVERAL ROBOTS THAT TURNED EVIL...OR LITERAL EVIL GHOSTS #meanwhile this girl eats hot chip lies and cheats at sports and games #...god she probably was seething about how everyone has something going on but shes literally just a snow leopard who uses underhanded #tricks to win... * gin voice * SCRABBLE WE'RE GOING TO BUILD A DEATH RAY! #...as you can tell much like scrabble im SO normal about her (lie) #fun fact her spots are technically STILL that detailed in the more recent drawing. i just toned them down bc im emulating the (new) upa #style to a degree and well. while i wouldnt say her stylization now is super animation friendly (bc i dont animate) i think itd probably be #at least a little more managable lol. so like if i drew her in club penguins style again shed be more spotty

[cradlestar]

At this point, I’m not all that impressed with Grassley. Its MS tech, specifically.

Darilbalde had a ton of features, and it was clearly designed to match the Aerial in versatility. Lighter weight, a javelin that could be dual wielded or thrown, two extra beam saber limbs, feet anchor, floating shields to defend against the GUND-BITs. After seeing their MS get cut into ribbons, Jeturk realised just how OP drones are, and they brought their A-game here.

Gundam Pharact didn't have as many features as the Darilbalde, but at least Elan used it in interesting ways. He took advantage of the terrain and his MS' speed. 

The Michaelis has a wired claw arm with beams and the Antidote. Sure, it can be used for both melee and ranged combat, but that's about it. It doesn't even come with handheld weapons. 

The Beguir-Pentes are also basically the same as the Prologue, except they have a shield. I was actually expecting the shields to do more, like the pilots would line up in a phalanx and make an impenetrable beam barrier or something. Or split up into a copycat of the GUND-BITs. It’s such a unique and cool piece of equipment. But it’s just the Antidote. Which they obviously didn’t update as Prospera was able to override it.

Compared to the other two, Grassley is just not very imaginative. Says a lot about its CEO, hm?

And Shaddiq didn't strike me as a particularly talented pilot either, at least in this ep. Clearly he wanted to use strength of numbers to intimidate Miorine before the fight’s even started. (”There’s still time to call off the duel.”) But by then, his strategy was to take out everyone before going after Suletta, using the Antidote as backup. He was good at coordination, but I get the feeling he'd lose to Suletta in a one-on-one match. That's why he had the duel be in teams of six. It's almost cheating considering Earth House has 2 pilots. 

No wonder he's not a fan of duels. He knows where his strengths lie, and piloting is probably not one of them.  

#plus he tampered with school regulations to force miorine into the duel #I get that they’re trying to make him more sympathetic but he still comes off as underhanded in his attempts to profit off Gundam. #let's hope shaddiq doesn't pull a riddhe... #This is not a mark against the show btw just my thoughts about the big 3 so far #mobile suit gundam the witch from mercury #g-witch

[courtofcwls]

Obviously with the way the show is written Jayce had to be the one to meet Silco for the negotiations for Zaun’s independence, but damn I’m still mad it wasn’t Mel. We were robbed of the two best political players in the show meeting. IMAGINE how brilliant that conversation would’ve been.

#the underhanded insults we would’ve gotten #the snide remarks from both #trying to constantly out-match each other and finding themselves negotiating with someone who actually rivals them #it would’ve been so fucking good #I know it had to be Jayce but still #we were robbed #would’ve been top three scenes in the show for sure #they’re never gonna meet and I’m upset about it #arcane #silco #mel medarda

[jipuragi]

Yall really saw kwon minwoo do the B A R E minimum, and now the heart eyes are on??!?

Oh he ‘lifted the suitcase’ for suyeon...??

guy, gal, non binary pal....minwoo literally put more time and effort going to a cyber cafe to trash youngwoo in his anonymous blog post, come on now!

if a dude has been canonically a dick, the effort he puts in to woo a romantic partner should be at least equal to the effort placed into his acts of dickishness. 

#kwon min woo #extraordinary attorney woo #choi su yeon #girl im so sorry you deserve so much better #i still maintain he has some underhanded agenda

[thelovelybitten]

“Why? What’s the point of living when the only girl I’ll ever love is gone?”

“No dude, i feel worse.”

“Dude, i don’t have time to start over with other girls. I’m nine years old, dude. If i don’t work things out with Wendy, I could be alone my whole life.”

“I can’t let Wendy go. This whole time, I’ve been having my friends do all the talking for me. It’s time i took control.”

��Tell her i love her.”

“I can’t believe it. She’s in love with someone else.”

“There’s nothing else i can do. She was my whole life.”

And antis really think Stan doesn’t care about Wendy. Weird.

#otp: i cant do it alone #south park #stendy #stan x wendy #viv speaks #LIKE BE SO FUCKING FOR REAL PEOPLE #season 7 ep 14 ended me. brought me back to life. and killed me again. #friendly reminder that i still haven’t watched all the episodes yet ad I’m still learning about the characters. #SO WHEN I WATCHED THIS. I DIED ON THE INSIDE #it’s the audacity of antis to really say that Stan hates her or Wendy doesn’t care abt him—delusional. #Wendy wasn’t treated properly so she left. Stan noticed after the fact and he was lost without her. LIKE HE CARES. but he’s fucking 9. #he doesn’t know shit abt feelings ok #tbh what wendy did was underhanded by dating Tolkien but she just wanted someone who’d actually give her attention #they’re fucking children but from an adults’ perspective—yeah. it’s a dick move #anyways live laugh love stendy #i know they’ll come around I’m just mad this happened #like WHY TREY AND MATT WHY #THIS WAS SO UNCALLED FOR ??? #all I’m asking is for happy stendy okay thanks #END RANT.

[sleepysun]

I deem Tyrant Wife Pampering Diary a solid 6.5/10 in my opinion

#nana's reading recs #danmei #spoilers #chinese novel #danmei spoilers #danmei novel #Tyrant Wife Pampering Diary #TWPD #it wasnt too long just 80 chaps and the translation was pretty decent #not overly angsty but pretty cute i guess #its like one of those filler novels you read that isnt really all that heavy on plot or too political with all those underhanded schemes #the mpreg isnt really overly described but mostly mentioned offhandedly #mc and ml deadass handled all their shit in the beginning so their wasnt really a conflict and it was basically smooth sailing for them #a few bumps in the road but still #hmmmm #kinda disappointed but still it was pretty good otherwise #now that i think about it the character growth was meh #would i read it again? maybe but only if i had nothing else to read that piqued my interest #i should really rate all the novels i read to keep track of them

[ifeelfreewithoutmyshoes]

It’s gotten to the point that I’m getting homework assigned to improve my serve…

#I cannot for the life of me get an overhand serve to work #and it’s so frustrating!! #I wanna practice but at the same time usually it means someone won’t get a serve to receive cause it’ll be shitty #and I don’t wanna do that #but today we had some time where we weren’t that many #so I was like okay today I’ll stick to it #and keep practicing #and fucking none of them came over the net ughh #my coach ended telling me to just do a few underhanded serves for a while to still get to receive smt #which was fine but also ugh #so after training he was like if you do this with a tennis ball you can practice the movement #which is very nice and I wanna do that but it’s wild that it has come to that #last time I practiced it I got two over the net out of like 15 #but still that was something! I can do it sometimes #so like I will do it some day not all is lost #but it’s wild that such a simple movement doesn’t work for me #idk if it’s coordinating with the ball as well but it’s shitty #oh well I’ll try and find a tennis ball at home bc my coach wanted to bring me one #but I won’t be there next Monday and next Wednesday is cancelled #so I’ll try and find my own bc otherwise it’ll be a while #fingers crossed #I will get it one day! I’m making fucking sure of that #me #volley serve progress #I might come back to this post some day

[hivepixels]

.

#the characterization for Royalactin was so fucking good actually #definitely one of my top fave slkt fic dynamics #i just keep revisiting it for their conversations.. ive never seen a slkt vibe depicted with so much underhanded friction #theyre already in Something together. but there's so many cues for vulnerability completely pushed aside #its cool. its comfortable. its whatever. its normal. there's an agreement there that works well enough its lasted them this long. and yet #they try to gift the other more than what they've explicitly asked for (but they just cant stand it) #they want to express their appreciation for receiving what they secretly long for (but they just cant stand it) #its always one extreme after another.. either all cards out on the table or nothing not a word #the kink itself is a tangible entity they shamelessly attach to in order to distract from the awkward tension that would otherwise persist #a shared task that provides them with active needs and problems to be solved keeping them from confronting open honest expression #such a good interpretation of established relationship that still burns me emotionally #shld really type up a comment sometime... but will the ever elusive anonymous user orphan_account see it.... #mumblings

[zeb-z]

“bad and pierre were the heroes of today the server will never know how they sacrificed their reputation to save everyone 😞” yeah and they will never know either, what are you talking about. they made their decisions without having any of the information elquackity had - there were no heroes making a difficult decision to save who they could save. there was no honor in their actions today. bad assumed everyone would be using the same underhanded tactics he planned on using. pierre just wanted to win, survival his priority even if it meant the cost of the others. any so called “heroism” was entirely accidental.

#here is what they knew: the losing team dies permanently. green wouldn’t have many people if at all ‘awake’ today #and their team leader was begging them to keep it tied to give green a chance to fight at least until tomorrow #and there were risks to the 50/50 because they didn’t know for sure what would happen. the point is they agreed to try and make it fair #and see what a tie would result in #they’ve successfully burned the last of their bridges - bad and pierre at least - and maybe doing so avoided total wipe out #the point is they didn’t know that. and hindsight changes nothing. they made the decisions with what they knew and their decisions were not #kind nor honorable #yes it did bury their reputation. not a difficult conclusion. they made their own damn grave with that yknow #and yes I understand their reasonings - I’m still saying they’ve been shortsighted and needlessly ruthless and underhanded #again stressing - this is about qBad and qPierre. meta wise I respect Pierre stirring the pot knowing shit will come down for it #idk burning down everything in an extreme ‘whatever it takes’ burns bridges too #I have too many thoughts I’ll have to make another post instead of tag about it but like. I need us all to be so real rn #I just keep seeing this take about how bad and pierre (bad especially) are soooo misunderstood and it’s like please for the love of god #you are falling for the same tactic bad tries to use on everyone else. a tactic that works for himself time and time again #if he can justify everything he’ll never be in the wrong - and he’s allergic to being in the wrong. hes an unreliable narrator like no other #he didn’t last minute turn in tasks to save everyone and be the hero. he didn’t have that information!!!! #it was an unintended benefit that he doesn’t even know about. we as the audience know about it through quackity. they do not! he didn’t tell #them shit! bad did it to save his team and to protect himself. it wasn’t some masterminded nonsense #this whole idea of them being misunderstood is wild. they took their own reputation and shot it dead like a lame horse #sure they’ve got their reasoning. but actions certainly have their consequences #idk. good luck and godspeed blue team because from here on out it’s gonna be even more of a battle #only tagging base organizational tags o/ this is more of a rant than anything lmaoo #qsmp #mcyt #z speaks

[toskarin]

[trying to show my left-handed friend I'm a good ally] yeah it surprised me a lot how much anti-left-handed language is still floating around. it's honestly kind of sinis... sorry, I didn't mean that, I wasn't trying to be passive aggressive or underhanded or....... I try so hard.anfi always,mess up erverythijgg..

[franeridan]

I really don't say this enough but I love zoro so much..........I love him so damn much.............

#aside from all the ways in which he's simply put ideal #with how much fun he is every time he appears on screen in that specific comedic way I adore so much #I'm??? genuinely baffled that there were still people who needed him to outright say that he's the first mate ????? #he's so reliable......... sobbing in my hands he's such a pillar #i just read that part in ph where he tells luffy to stop screwing around #and luffy apologies!!!!!! #oh i love their relationship their relationship has me full insanity mode BUT this isn't about them it's about ZORO #he's amazing he's fantastic #there's the part in fishmen island where they're holding the king hostage #and he's like #he's so smart he's so quick! and the way the whole crew LUFFY INCLUDED follow his lead when he takes it....!!!!!!! 😖😖😖😖😖 #listen I know luffy tends to listen to everyone in the crew when they put down their foot but with zoro it's a whole different thing #and it's not even bc they always think the same anyway because on mildly serious stuff they actually don't? #they have the same brain for bullshit and for super serious stuff but on dealing with things on the spot they think completely differently #and i love that!!! i love zoro's specific way of solving what he considers mild inconveniences #(brutal strength and underhanded tactics usually) #and i love that the crew actually follows him when he's around and luffy's not #and when it's serious stuff !! and he outright gives orders!! #like this time in ph and that time with usopp in w7 or back in alabasta when he told the crew to just leave it to luffy and go on #I JUST!!!!!!! AAAUUUGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! #do you ever love a character so much and for so long that at some point it stops being possible for you to put it into words because!!!!!! #wow I love zoro so fucking much #W O W