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It bothers me how many people are morally incurious, and it bothers me even more how many people seem to think that interrogating morality is proof of immorality- because I'm pretty sure that the latter is at least partly driving the former. Asking why an action or institution is wrong does not necessarily mean that someone thinks that that action or institution is right. If you never ask yourself why something is wrong or right, then what is determining your morality? Because it's not you.

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SPREAD THE WORD!

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Anti blogs are so pathetic. Tell me you actually are obsessed with someone/something and are embarrassed to be without telling me. Sorry you want to be miserable, I guess. 🤷‍♀️

Just… Who has the time to dedicate a whole page to something they hate? This is the only explanation for it.

To be clear, I’m referring to things like celebrities, fandoms/fictional works, food lol, etc. Not something like politics, which actually affects people.

#anti blogs

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TAYLOR SWIFT STYLE: FASHION THROUGH THE ERAS

Available for pre-order now. Out October 8, 2024.

The story of Taylor’s style evolution from almost two decades of looks.

The designers. The details. And the intention behind it all. Featuring 200+ photos spanning 10 albums (+ Eras Tour). Accompanied by Critically Kind commentary (natch).

When it came to choosing a single image as homage to Taylor’s style, I selfishly had greener ideas in mind. Never fear - the spine is 💚.

One look made the most sense. A look iconic and quintessentially “Taylor”: Unabashedly girly, that had a cat eye sharp enough to kill a man, and a red lip classic thing that we all like. But also one that meant something more. A look that Taylor took and elevated to take on new meaning - intertwining the two methods of communication she has used in equal measure her entire career: Her music and her fashion.

A watershed moment capturing a rising country star poised on the precipice of her next great venture months before unleashing an album that would lift her out of the modern day trappings of ‘pop star’ and into someone of true, undeniable, legendary status. While looking every bit the timeless icon she would become. It was also a moment that split apart the atomic identity of Taylor Swift the artist before her reputation was leveled and rebuilt into something even grander that we see flourishing today.

I hope this caption gives a glimpse into the heart, the soul, and the care that went into this book. I’m sure you know, but I’ll earnestly say it now: Pre-orders mean everything. They make a difference. I’ve put a link in bio here options to pre-order from your preferred seller.

Taylor once dreamed of writing an album dedicated to a real love that shines golden like starlight. As a love letter to her catalogue and career that’s changed and formed my life in every way - the front and page edges of this first run of TSS: FASHION THROUGH THE ERAS ⭕ will be gilded in special, first edition gold foil.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press for believing in the style behind the story and that this story in particular was worth telling.

- Sarah

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You are not wrong at all.

is it over now? would have lich rally changed the trajectory of pop culture in 2014. IM SAYING.

#taylor swift

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It never ceases to amaze me how many tiny, obscure fandoms simply exist and are loved by someone out there, no matter how niche the interest. There is literally something for everyone and it makes me marvel at how unique we are as individuals.

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the person reading this is going to survive the rough patch they’re going through

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#palestine #gaza #free palestine #free gaza

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#cw genocide #palestine #gaza #free palestine #free gaza

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Me, after I finished the live action One Piece:

#no but seriously #throughout their conversation I started to feel like I shouldn’t be watching it #it was a looong convo too #almost like they were on a date and not an interrogation #zeff #garp #monkey d garp #garp x zeff #tehe #old men yaoi #one piece #opla #one piece live action

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Oh my goodness! Please give us anything you are comfortable with sharing! I am enamored with this AU.

I love it that there seems to be a general agreement that Shanks and Doflamingo would be annoying, tehe.

Shared boyfriends who share boyfriends....

I love them so much god

#one piece #au #shanks x crocodile x buggy x mihawk x doflamingo #mishanks #bughawk #shuggy #doffuwani #crocodile x doflamingo #buggy x shanks #crocodile x buggy #mihawk x buggy #crocodile x buggy x mihawk #doflamingo x buggy #cross guild polycule

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#doflamingo is a filthy liar #donquixote corazon #donquixote doflamingo #donquixote rosinante #one piece

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Yes. Buggy is a pretty, pretty princess.

Crocodile gives him shirts and they look like dresses on him. Buggy has to wear belts with them.

“I like my shirts on you. Wear them, pretty boy.”

Usually Crocodile likes to pick Buggy up and throw him onto the mattress when he is wearing them.

And whenever Mihawk gets the chance he just carries Buggy around.

“Love, hold on. There's a big puddle.”

“You hurt your toe, Darling? Let me take you back to our tent.” What Buggy missed is the sly grin on Mihawk’s face because he’s going to ravish the pretty little clown.

Meanwhile by Elbaf:

Shanks has been having a bad feeling for a while now. It's been increasing. He can't take it anymore and needs to see whats been going on. Closing his eyes he turns in the right direction and concentrates. Finding the island, then the town there. He searched further through different tents. Finally he finds his favorite clown. Pursing his lips in an effort to kiss him.

Yasopp, Roo, and Beck are watching this with raised eyebrows and disbelief.

Shanks looking further into the scene furrows his brow. Gasping. He watches in horror as that big reptile mauls Buggy’s little face. Looking beside them at gold eyes looking right back into his. Mihawk smirks at him then breaks off Shanks connection.

Shanks curls up into a ball with despair emitting off of him. While the three of his closest friends just sigh at the sight. Roo knows to get the ice cream ready. While Beck and Yasopp go to break out the good booze.

Anyone ever think about Buggy being like. 6'5. Like bro is BIG. He's so tall. He's probably used to being on the taller end of those around him, bc he specifically recruits folks who don't have some ungodly drive, some excess power in the back pocket, just typical ass people with a certain set of skills that can be expanded on.

Then Cross Guild happens.

And Buggy is... looking up to meet eyes.

Mihawk and Crocodile are arguably gargantuan. Buggy in comparison looks TINY.

And now think for a minute. Buggy may not he built like a body builder, but he's got circus skills. He's often depicted with aerial gear. He fights with KNIVES okay he's specifically bringing knives to a knife fight with interest. Bro isn't LACKING in muscles. He's probably pretty freaking sturdy, all things considered.

But Mihawk is used to swinging Yoru around like she's weightless.

Crocodile is easily over a head taller than Buggy, and nearly twice as wide.

They could both pick him up like it's nothing.

And if you try to say that smth like that doesn't do things to Buggy D. Clown, you're a liar.

Buggy deserves princess treatment and pretty boy privileges, including boyfriend shirts and being carried around, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

#buggy the clown #buggy the pretty clown #one piece #cross guild #cross guild polycule #crocodile x buggy x mihawk #crocodile x buggy #mihawk x buggy #slight #shuggy #shanks #in despair #lols #red hair pirates #sir crocodile #dracula mihawk

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i was listening to Buggy’s Cherry Bomb, but then I remembered this song Cherry Hunt and my braincells collided

and behold: bughawk burlesque au

#buggy one piece #one piece #dracula mihawk #bughawk #buggy x mihawk

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Doflamingo finding out about Cross Guild:

Shanks finding out about Cross Guild:

#it’s true I was there #one piece #shanks #doflamingo #cross guild #cross guild polycule #buggy one piece #dracule mihawk #sir crocodile

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The Problem With Yasopp

So like many people I was genuinely surprised by Netflix One Piece, adaption, which turned out the exact opposite of pretty much every single travesty that america has made when adapting Manga and Anime.

It certainly was not without flaws, for one thing it needed to be at least 3-5 episodes longer in order to fix it's pacing issues if it wanted to get all of East Blue into one season, and the fight scenes while very well choreographed, didn't exactly sell me on the superhuman strength of most of these characters.

However, there was one thing that genuinely pissed me off, in large part because the american adapters changed something they didn't like, in order to fit "western sensibilites" and in doing so, completely missing the point, and frankly tragedy of the original context.

That of course, is the character of Usopp's relationship with his parents Yasopp and Banchina, and the rather sad tale of plans going completely arry due to twists of fate.

In the west, the character of Yasopp has been a rather contentious one, for several reasons, but also one that has been a bit altered by the changes from Japanese to English.

Yasopp is critiqued heavily by people who don't like him for abandoning his kid, and his wife to seek adventure on the high seas. Now this is not untrue, but there is a bit of context here that's a bit lost in translation.

And you can really tell that, because the way Netflix portrays Yasopp leaving is the surface level one you might get if you just read Syrup Village arc, and you don't pay any attention at all to the timeline given.

In the neflix series, it's explicitly said that Yasopp left Usopp and his mother while Usopp was still a baby. That is such a common reading, that it's actually what the One Piece Wiki claims happened(Another example of why you should always be critical of Wiki's).

The actual Manga tells a different story.

Yasopp left Syrup village right before Banchina unexpedetly got sick with the disease that ultimatly killed her.

When Usopp is so touchy against Kuro about him badmouting his father, it's not in the context of him idolizing some father he never met, because Usopp and Yasopp knew and loved each other dearly. Usopp's wish to see his dad again isn't some wish to meet the father he only knows through stories, but to reconnect with the dad he loved so much growing up and was sad when he left.

And then of course there is the glory of mistraslation. If you've read this part of the manga, you might rightly be wondering, what sort of woman would be proud of the man who abandoned her to take care of their kid while he sought adventure.

The answer, which the english translation does not give, is a woman who was the one to convince him to go out on that journey in the first place.

Because that is what happened in the orignal manga. It was Banchina, for reasons we don't fully understand or have the context for, eho convinced her husband to go out and seek his dreams.

That's the reason why she is so certain Yasopp will NOT be coming home, but why she is also not bitter about it. She was the one who encouraged Yasopp to go out to sea, while she stayed home and took care of their kid, until he grew old enough to care for himself, and seek the seas himself if he wished.

The story of Yasopp, Usopp and his wife is a genuine tragedy, but not because Yasopp abandoned Usopp before he ever got to know him, but because Usopp's parents made plans for the future, that while not perfect by any stretch, seemed workable enough... only for the entire thing to come crumbling down after Yasopp left due to something as mundane as a random disease.

One can certainly make an argument that this was NOT the best course of action for Yasopp and Banchina to take, but it's not the complete deadbeat dad who abandons his baby trope that the Netflix series portrays it as.

Further hammering in that this was a bit more complicated than that, Yasopp seems to have been one of the very first crew members Shanks tried to recruit, having sought him out not long after Roger died... And Yasopp seems to have flat out rejected him, as he stayed with Banchina for years and years afterwards.

It adds a lot of context to the idea that Banchina was the one who ultimately convinced Yasopp to go out and chase his dreams while she took care of the kid... Because it took years and years for it to ultimately conclude at this course of action. Yasopp would continue to reject Shanks offer to join him for years to instead to take care of his wife and kid, until about a year before Shanks met Luffy, when his wife told him to go.

It's a hell of a lot more nuanced and interesting than what Netflix did, that's for damn sure.

#yasopp #yasopp is not a deadbeat dad #he’s a good papa #would be devastated to find out about Banchina’s death #banchina #is a great woman #she probably encouraged him to pursue adventure #like toki did for oden #opla #fumbled the bag