so i had another idea because of pinterest
working on a modern zosan au and heres some drawings that are kind of context to the story? only zoro drawings today whoops
yes, nami bought him that shirt. yes, nami took that polaroid.
zoro and luffy were on the baseball team together all throughout high school and college, luffy being team captain a lot of that time and the two being the star pitcher/catcher duo <3
It’s funny when American authors come up with a new European nation so their main character can be a secret royal without the pain of researching a real nation. We should all start doing that with North America, just make up a new state. My protagonist lives in New Utahioshington which is the 51st state and located between Delaware and Maryland
doing this with one of the fics im writing but basically taking the states and making up cities to fill them with. yeah this is basically happening in massachusetts but for lore reasons it has to be a completely fictional version of massachusetts
You ever think about how crows are acting not unlike how early humans probably did and you're just like. Oh ok
I saw a Thing one time about how the earliest sign of civilization is a healed femur because that shows that we were taking care of each other because if we Didn't a broken leg would mean you Die because you can't. Do things
And I was thinking about this and I remembered also seeing an article about this one mated pair of crows where one of them broke its beak and thus couldn't properly feed itself on its own. So the other one helps
So basically I have connected the two dots ("you didn't connect shit") I've connected them
And also they not only use tools but teach each other how to construct them, so uh
Really makes you think
Realistically I know immortality would kinda suck but I'd love to see where crows are going with this
Fun fact, there is little info on crows (as far as species of interest go) because they're so good at evading human tactics for collection and observation. I had a friend who studied them in grad school. Not only do they describe humans to each other (so crows you've never seen before will avoid you), they also learn the precise distance of net cannons (for trapping and tagging) after 1 encounter and then stand at that distance the entire time (making naive researchers think maybe they can juuuust caych em). So basically you need to befriend them (a common strategy), or find a murder that's never seen you before (researchers wear presidents masks to throw them off, but then they remember and describe the cars). In this case, you have one chance to collect enough in the group to get good data. Whatever crow you catch once, you probably will never catch again, ruling out biosensing devices (like they use with other birds and turtles n junk).
The latest big finding about crows is that they have a grasp of knowledge breadth, meaning they "know what they know" meaning they are conscious (self aware), have subjective experiences and can reflect on their knowledge. (Source) This also implies they have an understanding of the unknown.
Look up Andreas Nieder and Jon Marzluff's work if you want the deep skinny.
the end result will be beneficial regardless of what happens now, because there's basically 3 options at this point:
-either it habsburgs itself into oblivion and that's the end of it
-they'll have to be way more careful with input which will drastically reduce the things they can do and also make it easier to check what exactly is going in (basically crippling the thing)
-they'd have to find built-in methods to make the generated images distinguishable from the original ones to avoid inbreeding, but this would of course mean *anyone* would be able to use these methods and therefore generated images would become much easier to spot
it's dying either way!!!
yes!!! death to ai art!!!!!!!
reblog to kill machine learning images being passed off as art faster
love is in the air? yeah sure
ppl who say zoro is the only real strawhat bc hes the only one who hasnt "betrayed" luffy are the weakest links.
first of all theres also chopper brook franky and jimbei
secondly did you not watch nami, usopp, robin or sanjis arcs ???? thats all you got out of them???? thats like 400 whole ass episodes you just completely skipped thru/ did not understand.
go watch one piece again and actually pay attention ffs
also, having a 'betrayal' arc doesnt make someone less of a strawhat... because luffy still loves and accepts them despite their experiences, because he values them as people. its called character development. they grow from their 'betrayal' because luffy has undying trust in the people he keeps around him and that is not a bad thing. he's going to fight for their dreams no matter what. he chooses them for a reason. he keeps them around for a reason. if luffy says theyre a strawhat, theyre a strawhat.
Obligatory “what if they were evil” sketch
One more
Here’s HSTHETE, the 24 hour comic I drew this year! Thanks to everybody who followed along on twitter this weekend as I posted these pages <3
Au fucking revoir Mister Prince
i just can't believe that oda fucking create sanji, a stereotypical ladies man who simps to an embarrassing degree for women while having his hackles comically raised around everyone he perceives as a man - and most notably butting heads with the more obvious ~manly man~ of the crew. haha, classic anime running gag, the kind that gets obnoxious at times but still makes you laugh.
AND THEN, like a billion chapters later, motherfucker steeples his fingers and goes "soooooooo... what makes a person Like That?"
and the answer is that he grew up in fucking Toxic Masculinity, The Kingdom. the answer is that he was always Different, in a way other guys instinctively perceived as weak, and that made him the target of visceral scorn and violence. the answer is that he was sensitive, sweet, caring, nurturing - feminine-coded traits which are only valued by patriarchy insofar that they're performed by women in service of men. the answer is that in a kingdom comprised almost entirely by violent men, the only ones who were ever kind to him, the only safety he ever had, were a girl and a woman.
so cooking is for women and servants, it makes you less of a man. only women will ever really value you for your passions and dreams. women are also actively hurt by the way the world works, they are unsafe unless they comply with men's violence, and you have to protect them.
(men will always know what you are, and they will hurt you if you let them.)
and even after he leaves... at baratie he is cherished and respected, but even that is an extremely masculine environment. we don't talk about our feelings, we don't let our guard down, the only love is tough love. when he tries to express his artistry and express himself through his cooking, rather than just filling orders and making money, he gets mocked.
so here is a man who will not raise a hand to a woman, because he rejects the masculinity he was raised with and refuses to become yet another man subjecting women to violence. he is desperate for women's attention and affection because it's SAFE, it's the only kind he can trust. other men are potential threats and must be treated as such. he must at all times be snarky, tough, Not Feminine, because to be perceived otherwise is to be powerless, to be hurt.
like y'all. the queer coding of it all? the overtly feminist themes? the active rejection of toxic masculinity and the way it's shown to be directly tied to imperialism? what the fuck.
every time i see a "sanji is a straight man, he loves women and hates men" comment on fanart or a headcanon i need those people to understand that not only do people have personalities separate from their sexuality but sanjis backstory is the perfect recipe for severe internalized homophobia.
nobody considers that, apart from not trusting men period, if he were to find one attractive? thats against everything he knows and he feels the need to actively act aggressive toward them so nobody gets any ideas. theres no way you can determine a fictional character's sexuality because there's always multiple ways to interpret behavior and how the hell are you going to know if they're actively hiding something?
and, one more time for the cishets, you don't know the queer experience, so you can't identify it! gay people are not all stereotypes! headcanoning characters as queer or having explicitly queer characters does not take away from your enjoyment of a media!
if it does, theres something much deeper wrong with you <3
sanji is having a crisis, its fine
(i plan to make this a comic in five parts.)
bitches listen, colin bought the same pastry penelope ate cause he wanted to know what her mouth tasted like in that moment: THIS IS CANON.
actually hilarious that colin bridgerton returned to london absolutely determined to be in his slut era. he said if there is one thing i am it is a whore. and then one (1) kiss with penelope later he was like neverMIND i am a MARRIED MAN i am MONOGAMOUS life is about LIFELONG PARTNERSHIP ACTUALLY
