And You Can't Bring Them Back

Morning on the Polar Tang

Background and canon compliant version:

They are playing Monopoly.

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Luffy: Come on. Please?

Ace: No.

A Pirate pretending to be a Marine vs a Marine pretending to be a Pirate

Luffy's not used to being the big brother.

ya know a few times ive seen people bring up that from luffy's POV law is the first person to go "i want to be your friend, i think youre strong enough to help me with this situation i need help with" (which isnt what law thought he was saying necessarily but like. thats definitely at least PART of what luffy interpreted the alliance as) but id just like to take a moment to highlight that from law's POV the guy who is capable of defeating multiple people that law KNOWS he wouldnt be able to beat in a one v one fight (doflamingo and kaido. aka the guy thats been law's worst nightmare for over a decade, and one of the most dangerous people in the new world) keeps looking at law and going "we are equals, we are friends, and i will not give up on either of those ideas" like. im gonna be honest. i dont know if law could win in a fight against luffy (he might but probably only if he caught luffy off-guard because luffy trusts him enough to not expect it, but law wouldnt do that unless he felt he had to and thats. not gonna happen anytime soon because luffy isnt a threat to him), but more importantly i dont think that at this point LAW thinks he could win in a fight against luffy, not after luffy consistently keeps winning fights law knows he either lost or would have lost if hed been the one in luffy's place. maybe at one point but by wano? definitely no. so luffy looking at law and seeing a friend, rival, and EQUAL? that probably means a lot. imagine the most powerful person you personally know looking at you and going "we are the same" and like you dont think theyre right but also how fucking amazing is it that they really truly seem to think that?? anyways i had a specific point i was building up to but forgot it while typing so this is what youre getting-

Bleeding heart

Make sure you say "I wonder what they're doing right now..." about your comic relief friends every now and then so the episode can cut to their B plot

no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

My honest reaction when I found out about Law's hobby🤭🤭

when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. when all you have is a paintbrush, everything looks like a canvas. when all you have is a cock, everything looks like the exhaust pipe of a 2014 honda civic. so yes, to answer your question, i am stuck. please call the emergency services

i didn't watch house but

Thats actually really cool

I remember talking with Jabberwacky back in the day and, because it learned its responses fairly directly from other users, conversations almost always very quickly devolved into arguing with the bot over which one of you was a bot.

you belong here, sakura

I hope Suo’s backstory is so normal and nothing tragic happens whatsoever bc that would be the funniest thing ever. like everyone in the manga AND the fandom thinks this man comes from some crazy background but no he’s just some guy that likes being a little mysterious

Keep in mind I’m a cis woman writing this.

So I was debating posting this but I think it needs to be said.

So I’m a student teacher and this week, we started at a new school district. Now I won’t presume to begin to pretend that I know what everyone’s political ideologies are in this school district but keep in mind that it’s in rural New York State and rural New York State tends to run red. Not as red as some other places but definitely not blue and not even really purple. 

Anyway yesterday was my first ever professional development day. So I’m all dressed up, introducing myself to other teachers, and I shake hands with the superintendent who seems like a really nice guy.

And about halfway through the day, he goes up to the front of the theater and he starts talking about the best ways to talk to and help transgender/nonbinary students. It’s the basic things we all learn in our education classes. And you can tell that he’s a bit uncomfortable and so are some of the teachers. And at last, he stops and says, “Folks, I have to be honest. My father is rolling in his grave right now.”

And I’m in the back like, “Oh no.”

And so he pauses again and then he starts implying that he was raised to have a very negative opinion on the transgender community. And he continues to say that he had to unlearn a lot in the past few decades and then he admitted that he still doesn’t get it. He outright admitted that he personally doesn’t understand how someone comes to the conclusion that they’re not their assigned gender. And he admits that of course he doesn’t because he’s never had to go through that.

Another pause.

And then he says, “But I don’t have to get it.”

The theater fills with whispers and then he says [and I’m paraphrasing here], “I don’t have to get it. I don’t even have to agree with it. Because it doesn’t matter what I think or what I feel or what my beliefs are. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is that I respect that student and I respect their choice.”

And then he reminded the teachers of every single policy that the school district follows from letting any student use their bathroom of choice to changing the students’ names per the students’ requests to not telling the parents anything unless the student gives consent to do so.

And at the end, he brought it back by saying, “My father just rolled in his grave again. But it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what you think, it doesn’t matter what you believe, because it’s not about you. It’s about your kids. And you need to love your kids! Love your kids! Love your kids!”

Long story short, this looks like it’s going to be a good placement.

love your kids!! love your kids!!!

‘You don’t have to get it’ is the most important and (apparently) most difficult lesson to learn, alongside ‘this is not about you.’

Bepo's smile > optimal buoyancy of the Polar Tang

This is kind of a part 2 of a comic I did ...oh god 9 years ago

The hearts pirates are fine they are just back at the animal park they all got their hats at having fun they are fine