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aviculor · 8 months

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Another thought just popped into my head. What if all the wacky phenotypes in One Piece are because of devil fruit lineage factors? On top of all the nonhumans like minks and fishmen and mermaids, it's apparently normal for a full-blooded human to be 20+ feet tall or have horns. We've seen devil fruits that make you bigger (like the one San Juan Wolf ate for complete overkill). And as I said in my previous post, Saint Jay Garcia Saturn possibly just opened up a pandora's box for the existence of demon zoans which could explain the likes of Kaidou and Moriah.

What if the Void Century was what happened after devil fruits first came into existence? The original fruit users freely had children, passing on traits given to them by their fruits which caused said children to be born as mutants. The world government covered it all up. They made devil fruits restricted and controlled exclusively by them, and they banished all the mutants they could find to remote islands in the Grand Line. The ones who could never pass as human, that is. The ones that looked like animals, the ones too large to live in cities, the ones with extra body parts. They all had to go. But a pair of small horns here and there, some sharp teeth, growing only a few feet taller than normal...those flew under the radar and remained in the gene pool. That's how we got characters like Shoujou and Merry. What is the difference between Shoujou and an orangutan mink? Or Merry and a sheep mink? Their ancestors weren't Different enough to be banished to Zou 800 years ago. For those who weren't so lucky though, those centuries of isolation caused the inhuman traits to become endemic to their islands- cemented into the populations generation after generation until none of their offspring could ever be human-passing. They became known as the minks, the giants, the long-arms, the long-legs...yes, even the fishmen and mermaids since we know thanks to Kaidou that Fish Fish fruits exist. All of these "races" are freely able to interbreed with humans and eachother, showing that they are still fundamentally the same species. Which is best demonstrated by the Charlotte family where Big Mom basically has a bingo card she's filling out of races she's had children with. And it's no coincidence that so many pirates are people with physical abnormalities; while people like Kaidou and Big Mom and Moriah are Certified Human by pedigree, their differences have nonetheless alienated them from Polite Society (tm), essentially forcing them into lives of crime.

Which actually reminds me...while we all know Big Mom is a 28 foot tall cannibal that enters dissociative feeding frenzies, another unusual thing about her is that when you work out the timeline for her menagerie of children (which thankfully someone else did on the wiki), you'll notice she gave birth every year for 42 consecutive years. That is not just strange, it's so physically implausible that I would also consider that to be evidence of of devil fruit lineage. An invisible mutation from a paramecia user centuries ago in her family tree. This idea explains everything, all the superhuman feats from "ordinary" people we see in the series. Maybe even haki. And the world government doesn't want anyone to know.

#one piece #one piece spoilers #wmg

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fredandginger64 · 6 months

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Dean says " telling what I really think of my partner is a hazardous chore. Our partnership in many ways is like a marriage. I dare say we have spent more time together than most married couples do. On the road together while we were mainly doing nightclubs we even roomed together most of the time. We never had a difference of opinion that we couldn't resolve ourselves and very quickly. Indeed, until a bunch of outsiders got into the act, we never had a problem we couldn't resolve by sundown. As a gag sometimes I say that it seems like we've been together 15 years but it's actually 5. Psychologists will tell you the first 10 years of a marriage are the toughest. It's the same with a creative partnership such as ours.

"I don't want to sound stuffy yet in some ways our relationship has been a far greater trial than the usual blending of abilities and efforts towards a common goal. We've worked under continuous pressure and a never ending sussession of deadlines. This sort of thing can try the patience of an angel and you won't see either of us wearing wings. We've matured to the point where we realize no two humans see exactly alike but this need not break up the family. In fact Jerry and I both feel that if either of us had to sacrifice our individuality, the team would suffer irreparable damage. What makes it spark and create the kind of entertainment that our particular public buys is a blending of two divergent personalities. We're not twins identical in temperament and backgrounds- we're "Pardners" which is the name of our new film. Of course I think Jerry works too hard but he doesn't think so, not even when he's so tired he can't see straight. I think he is too generous with material. His clowning on the set, at home or the golf course is frequently more amusing than many specially written acts written and produced in plush cabarets. He's wide open to ideas and appreciates the little things as much as the big ones. He loves everything he does-thats why he insists on working with the writers on our show and our films. That's why every little detail concerns him, every decimal point in a film budget, every curl on an extras' hair. People ask if it's true if Jerry makes most of our decisions concerning our careers. Jerry would be the first to explain that a team needs a spokesman and he frequently speaks for the both of us- but only after we have consulted with each other and thrashed things out. Professionally we think so much alike and our interests are so mutual and I trust him explicitly. Jerry will on day be a highly successful producer if he wants to. He has great executive talent and an inquisitiveness that would get a cat in trouble. His is sensitive yet he can take a joke. I remember when we were playing the Copacabana in New York City. We went out to dinner and got back late, barely in time to dress for the show. We got into our tuxedos in a hurry and could hear the band playing our introductory music. I slipped into my shoes and was halfway out the door yelling for Jerry to hurry. But he couldn't. There he sat, slipping his feet into his patent leather shoes but unable to move them off the floor. No wonder, I had nailed them down as a gag. So he went on in his tuxedo and socks. But he got me back later on. It was my wife's birthday so Jerry sent her a mink coat in my name. Naturally he charged it to me. How was he to know I had already bought her a mink coat that day

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"Until a bunch of outsiders got into the act"

I hope this helps @judy1926

If you need any more help please let me know.

#martin and lewis #partners #they loved each other

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glfc2112 · 6 months

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Today is the day we've been waiting for. Geddy Lee has released two demos in a double-A single entitled Lost Demos. (Available where ever you consume music). They were originally written and recorded for his solo record My Favourite Headache. They were shelved. People were first able to hear them in the audio version of his memoir My Effin' Life. Here is what Geddy said. I'm excited to see these 2 'lost demos' released," said Lee in a press release. "I loved the songs when they were written and in some ways they feel as fresh and perhaps more relevant all these years later." In a recent interview on Out of the Box, Geddy spoke on both songs. "Gone" was written about just after the loss of Neil's daughter Selena. "When you lose somebody, you relive a lot of your other losses and I was thinking about how does one deal with a sudden disappearance of someone form your life especially a daughter. I wrote this song with Ben (Mink). It was the first song we wrote for My Favourite Headache and we demoed it, it just felt beautiful. I felt it was too raw, too close to the bone. I didn't think it was appropriate to relase it out of respect for Neil and the way he was. I didn't think it was right. So we shelved it." Geddy on "I Am... You Are." "The other one was a song we had left sort of incomplete, but most of it had been recorded. It was called "I Am... You Are." It was about relationships and about me in the midst of a difficult conversation with my wife which happened more then once in my life. I think the personal nature of that made it also something that I wasn't prepared to follow through with." One both songs. "Hearing them last year, when I discovered them again, I was like 'wow.' I was amazed how they stood up. So I asked my friend and part-time Rush producer, David Bottrill, to come in a have a listen to them. He came over, sat down, and loved them. He loved how raw they were and loved how honest he thought the vocals were. Very different from the other things that are on the album. He said 'just leave it with me. Let me play with them and see if I can clean them up without changing too much.' He didn't want to lose all. The gutiars are original, my vocals are original. They were done almost 24-years ago. We put now drums on it. Got a friend of mine to play drums on one song. Then we called Benny up, Ben Mink, and said, because David thought the song really needed a violin solo, and Ben is amazing. Ben is so amazing. He's like the Jeff Beck of violin and he pulled off a corker of a solo. "Anyway. He mixed them and sent them to me and I was really shocked. It really lifted me up and made me remember how much fun it is to make records." Geddy is a superb and wonderful human. Humble and genuine. Enjoy.

#RUSH #Geddy Lee #My Effin' Life #Lost Demos #Gone #I Am... You Are #My Favourite Headache #Demos #Ben Mink #David Botrill #Spotify

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naytile · 4 years

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whereistheonepiece · 3 years

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Oh yeah so a week ago I got to hang out with my friend. We saw the new One Piece ep (the one where Toei threw us a crumb of Zoro and Sanji interacting) and my friend said something about Wanda and Carrot having boobs. I told her "They're technically humans."

She gave me this look

as she often does when I tell her about One Piece worldbuilding facts.

She also commented on the anatomy of that one woman with butterfly wings, saying it was bad. My brother and I told her it was good by One Piece standards. We all agreed that was pathetic.

We also told her how long we've been waiting to see this episode animated, and how we're waiting on the Minks to go Sulong Mode. We then had to explain was Sulong Mode is. I showed her a clip of Carrot during Whole Cake Island. She was disgusted by what's his face rubbing his belt to keep his Djinn active.

#wanda #carrot #zoro #sanji

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