I HAVE BEEN INFORMED VERY LATE THAT IT IS THE PRINCE AND THE FOOL ANNIVERSARY. (school has been kicking my ass I am a bit behind 😭) how people saw this and STILL think zukka is an ‘out of the ass’ and ‘nonsensical’ ship is amazing to me
anyway is that all you and sokka were, or were to one another?
Some love at twilight stuff with the fam. Rusl and Uli are cute, Colin is an annoying little brother, and Kori and Rela are bffs and do everything together. I love them all.
no but Peeta being SUCH a boy is delightful to me and especially when it comes to him being like “hey babe babe babe watch this” and he just like, flips a water bottle over and it lands right side up on the table and he’s like *touchdown hands* and she’s so tickled even though she rolls her eyes
she tries so hard to keep a straight face and remain deadpan when he starts his stupid shit, and truly she is puzzled by it, because sometimes he’s such a deep and sensitive artistic soul and other times he’s like “babe. come look at this snail i found. it looks like haymitch i swear.”.
BUT, 9 times out of 10 she cannot hide her amusement and he knows that she loves it - so why would he ever stop? he loves to see her smile. even if she is like “you’re a goddamn idiot, you know that?”
for those readers who don’t think a character would do this or that and don’t like to see writers write them in a certain way to the point of being argumentative over pure fiction: maybe try doing one of these 🫣 or even 😌 just shut the whole eye socket, look away and move on, because i can promise you complaining to a writer over their own headcanons / depiction of a character is literally goofy as hell
Two episodes into the live action one piece and I already adore it to bits!! They’re doing such a fantastic job of maintaining the good and goofy nature of the show, still making it more crunchy and real (they genuinely made buggy menacing which is absolutely fucking wild) and have done a great job altering the content in a way that works much better for a live action storytelling style. Truly this is everything I could have wanted and more!
I’m especially appreciative of how they altered the story of the gathering of the crew and have increased the external stakes a bit so that you feel more invested in the larger world off the bat. That has always been a criticism of one piece I’ve seen is that it takes a while to really get invested in the world because of how sparse information is until it becomes relevant. While personally I don’t mind the slow pace of world building at the beginning I’ve also been a fan for sixteen years and the need to have investment of the larger world immediately is hardly a priority when you’re 11 years old. At that age you just care that luffy is fun, the people you meet are interesting, and the stories are exciting. The live action has the benefit of knowing the world at large as it is now and being able to foreshadow those external parties we otherwise only got allusions to through the cover stories (which were never even adapted in the anime for the most part) as well as rework how we meet everyone as necessary is wonderful.
Spoilers under the cut (including down the line spoilers, not just for the first couple episodes!!):
Having Nami and zoro meet luffy at the same time in shells town while dealing with Morgan really helps smooth out the time it takes for them to partner with luffy and gives us more time to spend with all of their characters which is an absolute win in my book. I love that we’re already foreshadowing baroque works by witnessing zoro’s meeting with Mr 7, nami’s ‘betrayal’ by having her contact arlong at the end of episode 2, and Garp’s eventual meeting with luffy later on in the series as well as coby’s rise in the marines. Threading Garp in already by introducing him at Rogers execution and then having him be a constant shadow dogging luffy’s rise to power in the background is honestly such a fantastic move and I’m already gleeful at the payoff of the gramps joke reveal that’s on the distant horizon.
Even though I’m only on episode two I already adore the crew dynamics and how you can see zoro’s loyalty taking hold to luffy, as well as the conflicting nature of nami’s partnership and the beginnings of her desperately wanting to actually be a member of this little gang of pirates. Truly, every time Iñaki is on screen I’m immediately so happy because that’s my boy!! That’s Luffy! Hes doing such a good job!!