the one he makes at the end of chapter 540, vol. 55 is seared straight into my soul. he almost went }:3 and I cannot deal with it like a normal human being. I love his facial expressions, those sad eyebrows are *chef's kiss* 💚🐊
Ah yes, this one, right?
It's a hilarious expression and definitely an underrated one kjshdfjgkghf Like we've seen him smiling plenty of times before this, with that classic evil grin we all know and love, so something about this panel is so funny to me, like if it wasn't for the hollow look in his eyes he'd look almost mischievous here and I love that. He's up to no good and he knows it dsjkfhgshdfghkdjf
IDK if I have a favorite expression from Crocodile, typically my favorites are just the really meme'able, funny expressions and this man does not have any of those to offer (which is fine really), and really every panel he appears in during Impel Down + Marineford are fantastic, Oda kept us so well-fed
I think I'll give a shout-out to this panel though, because while I think this man was already irreversibly changing my brain chemistry (while I was falling down the Crocodad Rabbithole and re-reading Marineford obsessively), I think this is the panel that finally kind of broke me
Like I think it was this panel (from chapter 577) that finally made me go "wait, am I losing it or is Crocodile kinda handsome" lmfao
Whoever decided to let Jennifer Lawrence hold the laudatory speech for Lily Gladstone, I feel so fucking seen by them. Because for me it was just a perfect moment.
Jennifer Lawrence, who had her first Lead Actress Academy Award nomination for Winter's Bone, a heart-wrenching beast of a movie driven almost entirely on Lawrence's stellar performance. Jennifer Lawrence, who did not receive this award back then, although I so very direly hoped she would. Jennifer Lawrence, who got her Academy Award just two years later.
She speaks to Lily Gladstone, whose performance is the key to make Killers of the Flower Moon an important movie. Lily Gladstone, whose performance wrenched my heart almost as much as Lawrence's once did. Lily Gladstone, whom I so very direly hoped to win this year's Lead Actress Academy Award.
My wife and I have a tradition of watching a recording of the Academy Awards during breakfast on the morning after (time-zone wise that's better than pretending that we're still young enough to stay up way past ass o'clock to watch it live). And today marked the first time in years that it left me fucking sobbing over my breakfast.
And I want to thank the Academy for that.
Bonus points for giving me perfect comfort after Gladstone did not win the award. Lawrence also did not, but she did so later. So there is hope. Gosh. I needed this reminder.
thinking about the time i got to chat with eric and melissa (and nathan) and melissa recognized my sailor moon tattoo in my zoom pfp and immediately starting singing the theme song. 🥺💗