Ahh Yes The Ability To Get High On Air

Just a little reminder for anyone who could use it. ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭♡ It feels validating to have your efforts acknowledged.

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Just thinking about how I thought haymitch was an asshole for calling Katniss sweetheart in the first 3 books but now knowing it’s because she reminds him of Louella

I don’t know they’re saying stuff but it’s all in Japanese and I can’t focus enough to translate

guys ive not been paying attention in this lesson what are we doing rn?

Yep I’m so so proud

oh yea also

~3 days 5 hours clean

I didn’t go trough with it yesterday, are you proud of me, now?

"Wait, Ekko likes it when I top him?"

*gently nudges you* am I annoying?

one piece is so fucking good at communication. oda's always aware of how information moves around the world, how it can be misinterpreted, deliberately twisted, censored. there aren't that many series where the interplay of fact + the telephone game of its dissemination is depicted so organically beyond a one time use as plot.

the marines rewarding smoker for defeating crocodile is deliberate propaganda, and the WG's decision to hide the mass breakout at impel down to obscure a massive governmental failure. the news that sabo killed cobra was as much gov't lies as interpretation by the third-party news org and that misinterpretation was actively used by the revolutionaries. we're told that the whitebeard pirates instigated the payback war through public channels but find out from marco that blackbeard invaded first and they were acting defensively.

there are underground information channels where information is bought and sold in WCI, the same arc where we learn that katakuri takes such pains to conceal his meriendas from his siblings who believe him to be perfect, the same arc where we learn that brulee knew all along. not everyone has the same information and the information that's spread isn't always true, nor is it always false.

and then you have god valley, lulusia and ohara straight up wiped off the maps and their existence & histories erased. you need an immense amount of power to do that, which we understand the WG to have. wano that's isolationist and thus cut off from information passing in AND out of it. roger's final words which too many people heard, the WG couldn't have hidden that or stopped the great age of pirates even if they'd tried. televising the death of whitebeard and ace to demoralize pirates and put the age to an end, then whitebeard's announcement that the one piece is real which only spurred it on harder. there are too many other examples to list

ig ultimately it's not surprising that one piece puts such emphasis on the transfer of knowledge & information considering the mystery at the foundation of the series, but it's refreshing to see it in a piece of media and to see so many levels of it, to see different characters with different kinds of access to it. it's a constant, ongoing theme that's touched on from all different angles at all levels of the world from the personal to the global.

part of oda's mastery of character is just this constant awareness of Who Knows What and how that will affect their interactions with each other. nami's secret that wasn't a secret at all, usopp's final lie to his village, the chefs at baratie trying to drive sanji away so he can follow his dreams... yet misunderstandings because of bad communication are rare, and when a fight does happen because of stubbornness and pride getting in the way, it's not a funky plot driver but a hurtful, friendship-ending blowout.

i don't dislike miscommunication in fiction, but the way it's done is almost always... bad? i don't want to see adults with the emotional maturity of 12 year olds fighting over middle school level beef, if I'm not seeing the careful interplay of differential access to information & character personalities causing realistic and understandable breaks in communication, what's the point!!

WTF that was amazing

Untitled.

i made a comic in google slides for some ungodly reason

I’m about to tweak out about the hunger games

Sotr spoilers

HEFFIE NEVER COULD’VE BEEN A THING BECAUSE HAMISH‘S HEART ALREADY BELONGED TO LENORE DOVE AND WE WERE ALL SITTING UP FAUNING OVER THEM AND ALMOST AS MUCH AS WE ARGUED ABOUT PETER OR GAIL (EVEN THOUGH EVERYONE KNOWS THE RIGHT ANSWER IS PETER BECAUSE NOBODY LIKES THE PRIM REAPER.) I SWEAR SUZANNE IS THE MOST AMAZING WRITER BUT SHE MAKES US LOOK LIKE IDIOTS OVER AND OVER AGAIN BECAUSE WHAT DO YOU MEAN HE ALREADY HAD A LOVE? I SWEAR THERE WERE 100 PEOPLE WRITING HAYMITCH AND EFFIE FANFICTION AND YOU’RE TELLING ME THAT NEVER COULD’VE HAPPENED. HIS HEART BELONGED TO LENORE DOVE. AND LET ME ADD ANOTHER THING THE MOVIE OF THE FIRST THREE BOOKS COMPLETELY STRIPPED THE REASONING OF THE HUNGER GAMES AROUND BENEATH HIS FEET BECAUSE THE IDEA THAT THE HUNGER GAMES HIGHLIGHTS THE CAPITALISTIC SOCIETY OF OUR CURRENT WORLD AND THE FACT THAT THEY ARE JUST KIDS IN THE ARENA ISN’T SHOWN PROPERLY. I HOPE THEY DO BETTER WITH THIS ONE BECAUSE I AM LOOKING SO MUCH FORWARD TO IT. I HAVE ALREADY READ THE NEW BOOK 5 TIMES. I would also like to add that they’re announcing the casting as they do the reaping to at a time and girls first.