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every time i rewatch luffy and usopp arguing over the going merry, everyone comments about how usopp was feeling useless and he'd tied his self-worth to the merry and because he's not physically powerful he feels like he contributes too little to the crew and if the merry has to be left behind, then so, eventually, will he, and it's a very poignant observation

and obviously luffy could've approached it better, but he was trying so hard to skirt around the fact that the reason the merry couldn't keep sailing was because usopp's repairs on the ship simply weren't enough to keep her going, the knowledge that she couldn't be repaired because the crew simply didn't have a good enough shipwright compounded usopp's guilt and hit at ANOTHER sore spot on top of the guilt he was already feeling about losing the money.

and then ego took over for both of them, which culminated into the actual physical fight... it's hard to watch because it's such a realistic and resonant depiction of what it's like to have a fight with a close friend. the writing in w7 is some of the most emotionally true writing in any manga or anime it's SO good. ugh

dude youtubers always cry at luffy vs usopp because above all else i think what one piece does incredibly well is depict masculinity in such a nuanced, compassionate way that few other media manages to do. it's silly and goofy and over the top, but it always rings true emotionally even when it's dumb as hell.

it's still a shonen so of course it largely portrays men & boys in different stages of life and levels of maturity, but OP's portrayal of women (while sometimes problematic!) is always just as compassionate. i think one thing oda is always aware of is that everyone has internal lives and motivation and history, and even though that can sometimes explain why people are the way they are (even if the way they are is really shitty), he never loses sight of the depth and breadth of human experience. the character work in op is so fucking good. man

Ugliest Sanji Outfit Bonus Rounds Part 2 Semifinals

i love you nico robin

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The life of dyeing your hair at home

Aka i think its cute when they make zoro dye his hair in modern aus

was gonna make a post abt usopp w an image attached but all the images i had saved were too cute so we gotta not do that or i’ll fold and not make the point i wanna make

i can see why people wouldn’t wanna do this because of the insane insane insane INSANE amount of hate he already gets from powerscaling types of people but i wish we as usopp fans would aknowledge the ways that he sucks, a little more. i understand wanting to adopt a ‘my precious baby boy who did nothing wrong’ attitude in the face of all the people who refuse to see even a sliver of good in his character but like….. he is flawed. i wish we could aknowledge that more in a like, normal way.

like, other characters right. like sanji. very common for people to call him a bastard and say they love him in the same sentence. makes sense, the ways in which sanji sucks are a lot lot lot lot more viscerally uncomfortable to deal with than the ways in which usopp sucks.

but a lot of usopp’s flaws are my flaws, so i guess that’s why it feels personal to me. he is so viscerally me and he is so complicated and he is so viscerally still loved by his crew and that’s really special to me. i’m not saying quit the ‘he did nothing wrong’ posts because they’re funny and fun and i get that, but it kinda reminds me of what people do with some female characters too where to combat the hate they just girlbossify the shit out of them and it can feel idk, like a slightly less interesting way to engage with a character who is flawed

TLDR: usopp kind of sucks!!! and i love him!!!!!!!!!!!

Floating head of melanin, Dukes!

SUUUUUPERRRRR !! 🩵

hiii have some anime lesbians

the mindlessness of complete focus

Chromokopia? Yea Sogeking made that

A lil something for the birthday boy🍻