#but we didn't lose either

[hellenhighwater]

You mentioned emotional stability, which I get, but it made me think of the meme about ‘how do you not cry when people yell at you’ and I’m wondering both: whether there’s as much yelling in law as in tv, and whether you’ve ever cried while doing law

Nowhere near as much yelling as TV!

The only people I've ever had yell at me are non-attorneys who are representing themselves and who do not understand how this whole system works, and generally speaking...they're not in a position where their yelling is hurtful? Every time it's happened it's been more like a person throwing a tantrum, and I just...can't take that seriously. No one I actually work with (or opposing counsel) has ever managed to yell at me. I have cut off a couple people who were working themselves in that direction and redirected things back to being civil.

Frankly: I will not put up with that shit.

The list of people who are allowed to yell at you in a professional setting is very, very short, and the circumstances where that is appropriate are few and far between. It does happen in some workplaces but that's a question of office culture and individual shitty temper. My boss would never yell at me--it's unprofessional--and if he did he'd have my resignation on his desk by the end of the day. Opposing counsel is not entitled to yell at me; I am their professional peer and I don't have to put up with it outside the courtroom, and if it's inside a courtroom, the judge is likely to shut that down.

We're lawyers. In this profession, it's widely seen that losing your temper is a sign that you have lost your professional regulation and it discredits your argument. That's true in and out of the courtroom.

I have come near tears in court, but mostly because if I hit a certain point of rage I will tear up. Twice, I've had a judge hand down a ruling so wildly unjust and unexpected that it threw me off balance and into immediate fury, but I've always been able to keep it together and carry on without actually crying.

Mostly the practice of law is just not that personal. Even if someone is yelling, it's not at me as an individual. I don't make the laws, I don't decide the facts, I just take these things and lay them out. If someone's mad, it's not usually a personal attack. And you learn to deal with and understand that kind of anger--often frustration--as you go.

#my lawyer parents are both of the mindset that when you lose your temper you lose the argument #which resulted in a childhood where we didn't get yelled at we got lectured #i can recall very very few occasions where either of them raised their voice at us #and like yes anger does not negate a valid argument #it is appropriate in some circumstances #but most of the time it does not make a person more credible.

[shima-draws]

Haha remember when I said Genshin was being homophobic by running Alhaitham and Kazuha at the same time. Ahaha.

First 10 pull on Kazuha’s banner. I get Kazuha. I go to pull on Alhaitham’s. Two pulls in I get Qiqi. (I am sad to be once again cockblocked by Qiqi.) Two pulls after THAT I pull Alhaitham. What the fuck. What the actual,,

I pulled THREE five stars within 60 wishes. How in the FUCK

I’m so sorry for ever doubting you Genshin I may have called you homophobic but you blessed me during this Pride Month

#AND WE! STAY!! WINNING!!!!!!!! #I CANNOT BELIEVE MY LUCK. WHAT THE FUCK. #LITCHRALLY my two favorite characters and the ones I use the MOST #I now have C4 Kazu and C2 Alhai #I'm REELING #Maybe I should go try the lottery /j #I didn't spend any money on this banner either this was all from primos I was saving. #SWEATS PROFUSELY #Still in shock. I went into this knowing I'd probably only be able to pull one of them #But I got BOTH... #AND I STILL HAVE TIME TO SAVE UP PRIMOS TO PULL MORE #I'M GOING FOR C5 KAZUHA. If I lose the 50/50 I will save that guaranteed for the new 5 star #I'm going to assume it's Charlotte but I really don't know #Genshin Impact #CRAZY. INSANE EVEN. #Shima speaks

[lotus-pear]

WHERE THE FUCK WERE DAZAIS LAST WORDS..?? THE "FINALLY.. AT LONG LAST..." WHERE WAS HIS BITTER GRIMACE AS HE ACCEPTED HIS DEFEAT. WHERE WAS FYODORS "GOODBYE, DAZAI-KUN" WITH THE HEARTLESS SNEER AND NARROWED EYES.. WHERE WAS CHUUYA GLANCING AT DAZAIS MUTILATED CORPSE BEFORE THE POV SWITCH

#THEIR ONLY EXCUSE FOR NOT INCLUDING IT IS BC THEYRE ANIMATING IT NEXT EP #ISTFG STUDIO BONES TRY TO ANIMATE A SINGLE SCENE CORRECTLY CHALLENGE (IMPOSSIBLE) GO!!!!!!! #uhm on that topic sigzai elevator scene ate they omitted the underwater kiss but that's ok bones is homophobic we know this #nothing but praise for sigmas confrontation w fyodor they ate w that scene tbh the voice acting the mood the colors was all on point #very rare studio bones w i will give them that one #sskk scene was also beautifully animated atsushi crying for akutagawa to see him broke my heart again :(( #50/50 w this one tbh we didn't win but we didn't lose either?? #bsd

[genia-caliber]

Okay but

Nightfall, have you considered another one of your colleagues as your new office crush... I'm just asking!

#Fiona frost #sylvia sherwood #sxf #sxf 87 #sxf spoilers #spy x family #Nightfall #my post #Sylvia knows what's up with everyones feelings Im 1000% certain she knows spy boy loves his fam and can't leave them #and I dont believe she'll make him either. this lady knows what it means to lose a partner and child #i dont believe she'll make him go through it. I just dont. it would go against literally everything else we know about her #she let him go on that cruise remarkably easy didn't she LOL #anyway I support queering up my beloved heterosexual propaganda franchise always and every time

[bri-does-art]

Will you be leaving Tumblr?

Most likely.

From the looks of it, our data has already been compiled and will be handed over tomorrow (I don't have details, the article is locked behind an account creation pop-up) so there's little that can be done for what's already been posted.

I have very little faith that asking those giants to take out our data is going to lead anywhere. There is no obligation in the contract for them to do so.

And even if I were to opt-out, (if that's even going to work at all, remember how well "opting-out" of Tumblr Live worked?) do I really want to keep giving my engagement to a website that feels free to do that kind of scummy shit behind the backs of their userbase? No warning, no talks, no transparency at all? This sits really wrong with me.

So, unfortunately, I most likely will leave Tumblr.

#look my friends #i'm a little burnt-out on caring about AI at all #it could be a wonderful creative tool if the whole practices surrounding it and how they acquire their data sets didn't fucking reek #i care so little about AI art. nothing will ever compare to something that has been handcrafted. #made from human motion. human imagination. human emotion. AI art will never replace human artists. #no AI will ever be able to replace me to tap into my vision and imagination. i do not feel threatened by AI. #in fact i laugh at the very idea of letting some fancy statistic model threaten me #but as little as i care about that i DO care about people making profits off of MY work without my consent #i will not stand idly by and let them make more money off of my back #as we say in french: ''ils nous mangent la laine sur le dos'' they eat the wool off our backs #and i'm not just gonna willingly let them keep eating the wool off of my back #either they fucking pay me for the data or they lose my presence and engagement

[bookwyrminspiration]

including proper citations where you're not "supposed" to is the funniest fucking thing in the world to me. i just sent an email to my instructor quoting and citing said instructor with a works cited section

#shitpost #it was me arguing that I shouldn't have to go to tutoring for this paper due tomorrow #it's part of the paper requirements but she said we could send an email arguing why we shouldn't have to #and MAN i hope she excuses me because #i was planning to write the whole thing this afternoon and tomorrow #and if I have to come back to campus. just to go visit tutoring for a few minor pointers #i'm going to be miffed #i asked her how many points i'd lose if I just didn't do it #and she was like...i don't know...I didn't think that far ahead...i didn't think anyone wouldn't do it since it's a requirement.... #like. love her but also. have you MET college students??? #we will skip things sometimes #anyway. she came up with a number and it's not...bad? but it's not great either #so. i'd really just rather be excused #this is what I get for writing my essays last minute. alas #i always do pretty well either way!! so

[frenchy-and-the-sea]

mmmmmmmm sad

i was really excited about my CoS game yesterday but a few of the players seem to be very fixated on getting to the next combat/room they can steal stuff from? and getting annoyed when my character expresses caution? I got interrupted once or twice while looking through some of the lore-related stuff or while trying to find an alternative means of doing something besides "charging right in." Like, not just the character taking off to do their own thing - the player interrupted me to tell the DM that we were going down a hallway. Like. Okay.

we were told this was going to be a roleplay/exploration/mystery heavy game and I'm feeling like that's only fine if it fits in the span of six minutes. And so now it feels like I'm the one making the problem.

#hush frenchy #i need a curse of strahd tag #it's not like we're going slow either. we had...three different combat scenarios in the last game? #and that was with our fighter avoiding one because he made friends with a dog #we've been clearing levels of this house like it's our job #so i guess i'm just kinda put out by the fact that my character expressing frustration with another for triggering a dangerous combat #was met with 'but did you die?' from the player #and like no! I didn't! but I did end up saving all of y'all because they were vulnerable to radiant!! #and because I burned a higher level scroll to maximize damage and take them out quicker!! #you thought losing points off of your strength was bad WITH all of that work? what if you didn't have a cleric!! #idk it just feels like it sucks more because i was so excited #i'm also the only one who isn't a cis dude besides the dm so it feels....idk. it feels bad

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

Honestly though, this (what Ashe is pointing out) is exactly why I don't think GW could possibly end well. There's no "talking it over" after all the bloodshed (especially bloodshed started by them, and especially bloodshed started by them that didn't have to happen).

The way the narration leaves it "open" too at the end of GW just comes across as "it failed". It feels like... a kind of pointless story?

And I know some people might think that since Dimitri personally isn't as deeply affected by losing Matthias and so might be willing, that's still no good if his people and closest allies aren't. Rodrigue and Sylvain wouldn't be so forgiving, and I do think Dimitri would follow suit because that's his father (Rodrigue)'s closest friend and one of his own closest friends' father.

Add that to the fact that they have Sreng to deal with still (and I imagine sooner or Sylvain would figure out that Leicester had a hand in provoking Sreng to attack Faerghus) on top of losing Matthias and I imagine all the stress and aggravation wouldn't bode well for Leicester as far as Claude's thinking of things working out goes.

I just really can't see where GW goes afterward that would be "good" or works in Claude's favor at all. Maybe that was the intention and it was meant to be a route with a completely tragic ending, but apparently there are players who think it would end well and whatnot and I just can't see that happening (both from Faerghus' end and from Adrestia's end, the latter of which Claude discussed within GW itself).

If their intention was for a totally tragic ending, like yeah, I can see that... but as always the writing muddies the waters to make it sound good while something bad is happening. It keeps trying to have a positive spin on bad things as if they're just afraid to commit to a fully bad ending.

#DCB Three Hopes Run #also to be specific the reason I just call Rodrigue his father outright is bc he refers to him as a “second father” in Houses #but I'm not gonna literally write “his second father” every time I mention it and honestly “adoptive father” doesn't work for me either #bc him being an adoptive sort of parent doesn't make the fact that he /is/ a parent to him any less valid #like a parent is a parent and I don't feel the need to point that out and the feeling is mutual between them #if Rodrigue is literally calling him ''my boy'' it's a pretty cut and dry parent/child relationship #obviously I'm using Houses context in this case but it's still accurate in Hopes #and I just can't see losing Matthias going over smoothly at all and things getting better with time #I mean Matthias is such a major player in Faerghus and so important that I just can't see them being like #well it was only /one/ important bigwig who died. like no it was one important bigwig saving a whole lot of lives #who is also very intelligent and has a deep say in politics. that's ofc not counting #as Ashe says here in AM in reference to Adrestia that they've killed so much on both sides bc of the war #that he can't imagine just sitting and talking now. just because we as players only saw one named character die #and just because that character wasn't a playable character nor a returning character we already knew and loved #doesn't mean hundreds if not thousands more didn't die in Leicester's invasion #like Ashe says here I just don't see how both sides could sit and talk after all that #esp since Sylvain would prob be involved and uh... Sylvain is... a very emotional and angry person #and extremely vengeful (and they rly leaned into that side of him in Hopes in all routes) #I canNOT imagine talks with him involved not getting heated and aggressive #and he'd /have/ to be there bc he's the Margrave now in GW. if they want to have important talks like that #they need all their major players which like even if Felix say wasn't there #Rodrigue has basically equal authority as Felix bc Rodrigue has the respect of experience and has proven himself #so they could be swapped out for talks and Felix being the ''official'' Duke wouldn't affect talks in the least #if Rodrigue was/had to be present instead. with Sylvain you've either got no other options #or you've got Miklan who I can't imagine would want to even get involved with all of that #both bc of his mixed feelings on Matthias but also bc he's been out of the political atmosphere for so long #so yeah I uh... can't... see talks ever going well unless Claude legitimately makes amends somehow #or Houses Claude gets in there smacks him around and fixes some shit before heading back to his own verse lol

[your-greatest-queen]

YOU GUYS

(link to the video)

#noah schnapp #will byers #gay #lgbtq+ #stranger things #byler #coming out #Y'ALL I AM LOSING MY MIND #EVERYONE IS LIKE *yeah we all knew* BUT #I DID NOT #AND I'M SO HAPPY FOR HIM #AND SO EXCITED #AND JUST #OH MY GOD #noah schnapp is gay #fuck yeah #also I didn't think he was straight either #I just #never thought about it? #I'm bi but I'm also aro-spec so I sometimes forget people feel romantic attractions at all and so I don't always consider the options lmao #so I definitely wasn't one of the *he's the straightest guy alive* people #but I wasn't walking around talking about all the fruity vibes I was picking up either #but anyway this is THRILLING #I hope this lifts a weight off his shoulders and he can really be who he is now without worry #i love him your honor #platonically

[metacrisisdoctor]

"rose is allowed to still be in love with eleven/twelve/thirteen/etc"

#sorry but i just disagree with this so deeply lol #it's not the same as nine to ten #because rose doesn't know eleven+ #that doctor has lived thousands of years without her in canon. he has fallen in love with other people. he has let her go #but even MORE than that. tentoo exists bc rose BEGGED ten not to regenerate #she may love the doctor. but it's ten specifically that she was in love with. #she fell in love with nine and grieved him deeply when he changed! she doesn't want to go through that over and over #that's why him saying i'll never regenerate is what gets her to pause. because she wants that version of him forever #which YEAH is a lil unfair of her- but that is fine! she is selfish and it's intentional #who wants someone they're in love with to change or lose everything that made you fall in love? #i ​wholeheartedly believe she would not want any other doctor than nine ten or tentoo based on what we saw on screen 🤷🏻‍♀️ #and it matters to me bc that's part of their story! part of who she is and part of why their ending works #rose sees ten starting to regenerate and says BUT I CAME ALL THIS WAY #she didn't want a different version of him. and he never wanted to change again either #because that version of him was born out of love for her #& all those things are tied together within the narrative

[bitegore]

objectively insane thing to put in a short story outline

A couple times Drag Strip had fought Motormaster so hard that Motormaster had to give up, dragging them both into the medbay broken as fuck or maybe radioing for help because neither of them were able to get the upper hand, and it completely fucked Drag Strip’s brain about this. “99% of fighters give up right when they’re about to start winning #keepfighting” style

#red rambles #ask to tag #i think this is vague enough to not need any warnings lol #'hey yeah you didnt lose this one time. you didnt win either but you didn't lose. are you willing to consider other options now-' #'BUT I DIDNT LOSE im gonna win ONE of these days' #alright man #tbf the plot is breakdown dead end and wildrider all independently going up to drag strip like 'hey man. you gotta do something else or you #and motormaster are going to actually kill each other. can we interest you in some fucking off forever instead of sticking around fighting' #and drag strip going NO IM GOING TO WIN. FUCKING BELIEVE IN ME. YOU STUPID BITCH. YOU KNOW I CAN YOU JUST DON'T WANT TO SEE ME WIN

[twpsyn-who]

Soulmates AU in which when your soulmate is in a situation that can result in their death you get to see through their eyes. Like, I don't know how to explain this- it kind of flashes between what you see and what your soulmate sees. You know those edits where there's a scene going on and there's another one faded in the background happening at the same time? Similar to that. The idea is that you get to see what your soulmate sees too, on top of what you're seeing.

Now, this AU but JeanMarco. With Marco asking the others where's Jean, just for him to start seeing a corpse right in front of his eyes not even a second after asking. Seeing through Jean's eyes as he's trying to get hold of that gear and stuff. And once Jean's safe, once it clicks that you know his best friend is his soulmate Marco can't wait for them to graduate so he can you know tell him that.

Then, you know. That happens. And Jean is so fucking confused because he keeps seeing Annie crying, looking down on him. Only when Annie starts getting off the gear, when his soulmate starts moving around trying to get away he starts panicking, starts moving around faster than before. And maybe he's too late. Or maybe he shows up in time and kills the titan. I don't know. That's not where I'm trying to get, but to the second option AKA Marco pulling an UNO reverse on Annie because he's a smart sneaky bastard like that and being like 'Hey you can't kill me, my soulmate will know it was you' which makes her stop trying to take off his gear. Reiner keeps telling her to do it, Bertholdt keeps yelling about that titan coming closer, but Annie... she has seen things, at some point. Flashes of moments that weren't hers, happening right in Trost- right in that moment. And she didn't give them too much thought until that moment, until it got confirmed that it has nothing to do with her titan powers.

'What do you mean by that?' she asks, because she needs to know more. Because she wants to know more. And Marco starts explaining how it works. Tells them that he has found his soulmate, that they will put all the blame on them for his death. Reiner doesn't believe him, keeps insisting that he's playing them around - he, and anyone born and raised on Marley, has never heard of something like that before, it doesn't exist - but Annie tells him to shut up and to let Marco go. Cue to the plot of any fic in which Marco doesn't straight up die after finding up their secret.

Anyway I don't know man, just,,, We need more soulmate aus for JeanMarco. That's an order.

#When I wrote this my mind was to Mina x Annie like straight up I was like 'Yeah Mina's Annie's soulmate and she saw her dying' but my brain #liked to remind me that you know Armin has a nerd death experience too. So it can go either way guys the idea is that Annie's soulmate l #either died in Trost or was close to dying #Some little things I daydreamed about while waiting to get home to finish this post (more like little details for the au than anything #else) : Only Eldians can have a soulmate aka only subjects of Ymir. Marley being the racist motherfucker they are aren't aware of the whole #soulmate thing. That's why Reiner Berthold and Annie has no clue something like that exists they didn't get taught about that. Meanwhile #everyone on Paradis knows about soulmates kind of hard not to when many SC die on a basic lol. Is something normalized for them #Also another little detail would be that a Titan Shifter can't see during their shift. Aka Eren didn't see through Mikasa's eyes during #Trost despite her being near death at some point(s) (I'm thinking about when Titan Eren punched that Titan coming for Mikasa but honestly? #She was in danger when Eren lost control too). So yeah that's all I have for now #I think it also make sense a little for some soulmate thing to occur on top of the titan powers given the whole 'love story' between Ymir #and King Friz (or whatever his name fuck that guy- in a nonsexual way). So yeah we should totally play around with the concept of soulmates #more #This post is a mess but I started it at like 11 pm and finished it at 6 pm let me be man. My sleep deprived mind came out with this one #I make no promises to actually write something with this - I'll have to re-watch the first two season and kind of update as I watch the #other seasons so yk. Low chances. But feel free to use this as you please haha. Go wild guys. It doesn't even need to be JeanMarco yk #Like Annie seeing Mina die with her own eyes??? And her thoughts process for the whole time once she finds out she was her soulmate #Or ykyk Historia Witnessing Ymir's death??? Nicolo losing his shit over seeing that little girl shoot his soulmate??? LEVI SEEING FLASHES #OF BIG ASS STONES THROWN AROUND #Man actually you can play around with Levi so much like we have Petra too and Hange and- #Regardless #aot jean #aot marco #aot #jeanmarco #Aot JeanMarco #jean kirstein #jean kirschstein #marco bodt #marco bott

[roryfrommybabysittersavampire]

the state of American politics TERRIFIES me because what do you fucking mean you're choosing to THROW AWAY YOUR VOTE in the name of activism when the result will be the other guy winning and the thing you're protesting Getting Worse, along with worse lives for already oppressed people in America. a lot of people are giving away how narrow minded they are right now. I'm sorry, but there is no third option until we rally and fight for one, and no one is fighting. not voting for Biden won't end the genocide. you need to be fighting for Palestinian people, but you need to be able to seperate that from the immediate threat of Trump winning. our system is broken, and we need to start fucking fixing it but that process will not be finished before the election ends, and the election WILL end, and if you don't vote for Biden our president will be Trump. you Can Not Let The Need For Change Distract You From The Present

#joe biden #two party system #hey this animal can talk #but there is currently no other option #and that's not even considering the fact that individual voters have no power anyways #do what you fucking can now #also! I'm trans. if trump wins I'm genuinely terrified that I will lose my access to testosterone. sure #it sounds selfish #people are fucking dying #but America will not stop funding death because you didn't vote for biden #and all we can do is try our best to keep life livable here at the same time #you have to be fucking selfish when it's this dire #trust me i'm basically a communist #i don't want a genocidal liberal dinosaur in office either #leftists

[simptasia]

mum and i were almost not able to buy our house because a real estate lawyer heard us casually say i'm autistic and alarm bells went off in her head, because she believed that meant i wasn't mentally capable of understanding what i was signing up for

#and she demanded a doctors note. which not how any of this works #theres no policy that works like that AND gps are not the people who are like #''yup this person sure is a person alright'' #she just had heaps of prejudice and she let it affect her job #so a lady from one of those places that advocates for ND and disabled people tore her apart #she lost the 4000 dollars she was gonna be paid. and she got fired #and everybody else from that company that we spoke to was either appalled or pretending to be appalled about this #either way it worked out #i was so upset at the time because it was literally a week before it was time to move??? #and i was so afraid of us losing all our progress #plus. yeah i was hurt by the insinuations and the attempted disrespect to my agency #also even if i was cognitively disabled... i think cognitively disabled people deserve to own houses too #i was a fucking adult and i managed to get to every gosh forsaken appointment to sign forms #and then do it all again because what i was signing didn't match what was on my birth certificate! #...not my fault - turns out the nurse wrote my fucking name wrong #anyways. i was exhausted but i did it damn it. so that bitch trying to rob us of our home??? fuck her #6 years later and the house is now 100% mine instead of 50% #and im gonna assume that bitch never got a job in real estate again #she was totally cool with me until she heard the word ''autistic'' #and clearly pictured somebody... how do i put this... somebody with vacant eyes who smacks the side of their head when they're upset #not a bad thing by the way! hell i've been that flavour of autistic plenty of times. we contain multitudes!!!! #don't mean we don't deserve to own property. we live in a society!!! let us be a part of it #but yeah that was the most serious case of me being dehumanized due to what i am

[rayofspades]

I'M SO FUCKING MAD WHAT DO YOU MEAN I COULD HAVE COME BACK FOR THE GIRL IF I GAVE HER ALE KASDJFLKJSKJLAKSJFDLKFL GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!

#fear and hunger #I WAS WONDERING IF I COULD LET PARTY MEMBERS GO AND COME BACK FOR THEM #AND APPARENTLY YOU CAN #BUT ONLY IF YOU GIVE THEM A MIND HEALING ITEM #I DIDN'T KNOW SO I LET THE GIRL GO AND THOUGHT DAMN I GUESS EITHER SHE'LL DIE OR I CAN GET HER LATER #BUT DIDN'T GIVE HER ALE BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANT TO WASTE THE RESOURCE IF SHE WASN'T IN MY PARTY #I'M LIVID #I'M LOSING IT #THIS WAS SO FUCKING CLOSE TO BEING A PERFECT RUN #SKFDAKJFLKJSAJJALSF #ahem. anyways i beat skin granny again #but my party's doing a lot better than last time #so on we go #I was so distraught i misspelled ale somehow

[franeridan]

nearly done with my op reread and for the longest time my theory was that the d marked the descendants of the people native of the island that eight hundred years ago fought the twenty nations, but rereading the part about lili I thought maybe it's more lax and it marks everyone who opposed the current government in general, not just those from the island - she was the queen of one of the twenty kingdoms after all, and imu didn't seem to know the nefertaris had a d in the name as well, but before the war there would have been no reason to hide it? so i think it's something they added to their names later, maybe to recognise each other as allies? or something? the kozuki were obviously allied too and don't have a d though, so I can't say this theory makes a hundred percent sense. also i find interesting how law is hiding the water part of his name too together with the d, i wonder if that has any further meaning? another interesting thing is that there seems to have been some form of prophecy or prediction about what's currently happening in the manga, since oden knew he had to wait twenty years and the sea monsters in the oden flashback on fishmen island were talking about it too... maybe a prediction about a war? since oden wanted to unleash pluton. I wonder what exactly they found out on laugh tale that made them all laugh when the events the wg is keeping secret seem to be this tragic... also, i think i never even noticed during my first readthrough of egghead but there's someone offshore with blackbeard's flag? a small boat, it seems, but I think atm we know all blackbeard pirates are either on the pirate island or fighting against the hearts (;;;) so I wonder who exactly that is? also, I didn't catch this either first time around but I feel like the germa might just be heading there as well right now lmao the thing with kuma returning to mariejois happening so soon after vp talked about the ancient robot attacking mariejois and no one knowing why is also suspicious to me, I wonder if vegpunk used data from that robot to turn kuma into a cyborg and that's tied to why he returned there for apparently no reason...?? anyway I thought rereading would help me clear up some questions but instead it left me with even more kkkk should have figured

#I'm about ten chapters away from the latest one im so sad #im also sad cause i just saw kidd and law lose once again but that's beside the point maybe #luffy is headed to elbaph next i wonder if he'll find kidd there... #i love shanks sm and i get why he protected his own but i love kidds crew i hope they're okay 😢😢😢😢 #the hearts too but i trust the hearts will be back #bc the manga used the word destroyed for kidd and defeated for the hearts #defeated sounds a bit less........ definitive #and also cause we know at least bepo and law are fine and bepo said to trust the crew to be fine too so #i don't think oda would be that big of a bastard #maybe blackbeard took them hostage hoping for law to be back since he obviously wanted the ope ope fruit? #maybe theyre with pudding now and they'll help her escape #maybe i need to stop setting myself up for disappointment lmao #but yes i trust the hearts to be back for now but im worried about the kidd pirates ;;;;;; #i hope shanks didn't kill them kidd had just become one of luffy's friends 😭😭 #also hoping garp didn't actually die but that's........like............... hoping in a delusional sort of way yk #on punk hazard kuzan told smoker to trust that his sense of justice is still intact #and i sorta like kuzan's morals tbh so i trust he knows what he's doing when he stands between blackbeard's crew #i just hope he won't regret it yk? man just maybe killed his life techer for this i hope this is worth it for him #also straight up i just don't want luffy to lose someone else like straight up my son doesn't deserve this #and dragon doesn't either!!! #i love dragon so much........i hope he'll be luffy-relevant soon..........