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I seem to have fallen out of love with reading and I don't know how to get back into it. I want to support all these new creators coming into the fandom but I just; Don't have the energy to engage in something new, even when it's fanfic so I already know the source material and can hit the ground running. I still write and update my WIPs, but that makes me feel even worse for not reading others story's as I know how important comments are for motivation. How can I fall back in love with reading?
First of all: hugs. Take a deep breath in. Hold it. Let it out.
You don’t have to do everything.
Life is busy. Life is stressful. There’s a lot of stuff going on and that’s all a lot to deal with. If you don’t have the energy to read fic right now, then don’t read fic. I’m at a point where I’m dipping back into fandoms I read literally twenty years ago because that’s what my brain can handle right now. I’ve accepted that, and I’m giving myself what I need.
Reading takes energy, just like writing does. Commenting takes energy too. All of it requires focus and concentration and mental processing power that you might or might not have a lot of.
It’s not that you’ve fallen out of love with reading. It’s that your brain can’t handle new information right now. It might be a good idea to unplug a bit, if you can. Step back from social media. Ignore the news for a week. Reconnect with yourself and the people around you without thinking about everyone online or out in the world. If you’ve been stretching yourself too thin, take some time to contract again.
The other day, I redid a stress inventory that I did when I was working full time while in graduate school and buying my first home. I’ve got more stress now than I had then - and that’s saying something! But when you look at that list and you think about the world we live in currently, you can see how much we’re all going through.
Forgive yourself for not being able to do what you used to be able to do. Rethink what your “normal” is. Your best is going to be different on any given day because some days are better than others. You’ll get back to reading again when you have the energy for it, so do what you can to take care of yourself and get some of your energy back. ❤
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Starting today, and until December 31st, you can pre-order Romance Dawn, an One Piece zine focused on the first half of the series: 31 artists, 6 writers, over 70 pages of content, and loads of merchandise!
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hi!
i’ve wanted to draw cora-san recently so @corazon-week gave me the perfect reason. but ahh! it’s late! sorry...
the first picture is my main submission and it’s definitely NOT a projection of how i spent my halloween. so i drew a happy little cora facetiming law.
if anybody could suggest good free photo editing software i’d be very grateful!
bye bye!
Poland just made it legal to torture women.
abortion law in Poland was already the strictest in Europe, abortion was allowed in only 3 cases:
if the pregnancy was a result of rape or incest
if the mother's health was at risk
in case of foetal defects.
another problem is that there is something called "conscience clause" among Polish doctors which means that they can deny a patient certain treatment if it's against their conscience or beliefs (yes, it mostly applies to conservative, catholic doctors). some doctors went as far as not telling women about foetal defects until it was too late to terminate pregnancy. what's more, abortion in case of rape happens very rarely, since it's difficult to prove rape in the eyes of Polish law.
in 2019, only 1100 legal abortions took place in Poland, a country populated by 38 milion people. 98% of these abortions happened because of foetal defects.
on October 22nd 2020, Poland's top court ruled abortion due to foetal defects inconstitional, basically making abortion illegal.
Polish women will be forced to give birth to children with basically no chance to live. they will be tortured physically and mentally. rich women will be able to visit neighbouring countries to have abortion there but there are plenty of women who will have unsafe, illegal abortions, endangering their lives.
there are protests happening all over the country. not for the first time though, we've been protesting abortion ban for few years now. there's a sense of solidarity among us but the truth is, we're afraid.
this is how catholic extremism looks like. Poland is becoming a real-life Gilead and it's fucking terrifying.
there’s like, half an hour before doffy’s birthday ends for me so there is no way in HELL i’m not gonna post my SHITTY ART.
honestly i only colored the three most important parts of his look because i’m a lazy ass not because there’s any meaning behind it
Multiple Personalities Millennial Trafalgar Law au
What if there was an op au that was like the millennial/genz answer to fucking Fight Club
May I present:
Dissociative identity disorder Law, but instead of being a toxic 90s action movie trope hes just this gay depressed millennial with some shitty early trauma, no will to exist in our dystopic modern society, and an antiestablishment streak a mile wide
So, one of us
His alters aren't some crazed antihero things, but protective personalities that (soemtimes ineptly) try to keep him safe from harm and stress
So, his crew
Penguin is the main alter, an efficient yet chill goofball who takes over whenever law cant deal with mundane stresses like going to the bank.
Look, hes a millennial, the bank is a fucking ordeal.
Shachi is a peppy, social sweetheart who takes over when law is forced into social situations, especially groups. Shachi and penguin together take care of most stresses Law faces in the world
Law can deal with most things, he's getting better. but there'll be seemingly random things like a siren or a screech of laughter and he'll just find himself phasing out, til hes gone, and penguin will find himself standing on the street with no real clue how they got there or what they're supposed to be doing. But he rolls with it! Penguins good at figuring things out and getting them home. Law leaves notes for him and shachi on their phone so they know what's up that day if something should happen. They record clips for each other on the phone too, to discuss things. They regard each other like roommates, even brothers.
There's the bepo alter, who comes out only in private, and carries the burden of Law's need for comfort. He's emotional, hesitant and extremely vulnerable. He's also one of the only ones law can let out or stifle on purpose.
Law tries to let bepo out now and then, because he feels bad that he's always stuck in the deep dark of laws head. Law will bring home a fluffy blanket and a pumkpin spice latte and let bepo take over for a couple hours, so he can experience some good things.
Then there are the Doffy and Cora alters
These aren't quite... as helpful as the crew alters, but they're not actually antagonistic. They're part of Law's development and they're older than the crew. They're also the only ones that can 'co-pilot' with law and share thoughts with him, though never at the same time.
Law can't control them.
They come out in response to more extreme stresses, and can sometimes take over and push law to the passenger seat. They are usually at odds with each other and sometimes fight to come out if they don't like what the other is doing.
Doffy is simple. He emerged from law's early experiences of extreme cruelty, and that's what he's good at facing. Any hint of toxic treatment from others and Doffy will suddenly be in Law's ear, analyzing the threat and suggesting horrific ways to eliminate it. He also tends to emerge in moments of extreme frustration or pain. He wants things to be simple for law -- he wants them to do the things that will get them ahead, and to not care about the human consequences
Law never lets Doffy take over because law is not a fucking idiot.
Law has a complicated relationship with cora.
Cora is an expression of love and altruism who emerged from witnessing others' pain. He's actually kinda violent himself, but just because he's so protective. He cant stand seeing others hurting, especially the weak, and will come out when Law is faced with injustice or grief.
Law feels complicated about him because this empathy and self sacrifice thing is seriously nothing but trouble. Every time. Law wants to do things Cora's way, he really does, but it's never good. You get involved in stuff you dont wanna.
Cora has a bad habit of taking over if Law is being resistant, and making him stop the bullies, punch the cop, or worse, offer a shoulder to someone in need.
Which is great, except that these things usually lead to Law being faced with violence or second hand trauma in turn, which then leads to... doffy coming out.
The fic is about Law navigating daily life with all this happening in his head. But the tension doesn't come from like, "will doffy win and make law do all kinds of crazy stuff" because all of the alters, doff included, are just there to keep law safe.
The tension of the story is about Law navigating the shitty everyday of late capitalism, and learning how to be vulnerable safely, and finding balance between his fight or also fight coping mechanisms, and maybe finding love...
I mean, definitely finding love.
And since this is a fight club au, at the end of the fic he definitely still blows up some credit card company together with his lover and they hold hands
This coaster will kill you
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so here’s a one piece sketch dump because i draw the straw hats when life is mean to me.
sorry for the dinky photos :/ that’s the best quality i’m capable of.
i just really like the straw hats (and their +1) definetly click for better quality
so yep, that’s the post
angry smol in need of cuddles
should i be writing my historical investigation? probably. am procrastinating on it by drawing this prick? yeah.
Me after One Piece 906
We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names ~ Nikita Gill
kidlaw exchange 2020 signups open!
2020 has been a crappy year but you know what’s not crap? KidLaw. Let’s do an exchange event.
Signups are open now and will close 13th November!
Proposed timeline of events
10th October- Applications open 13th November - Applications close 20th November - Exchange gifts assigned 24th to 31st December - Post the exchange gifts!
What kind of gift can you ask for?
Any, as long as it includes Kid and Law. It doesn’t have to be holiday themed! You can have other ships! It doesn’t even have to be overtly shippy!
please reblog to spread the word, and make sure to check out our links
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Everything we love about One Piece:
Day 2: Antagonists/Villains.
I don’t know why i ‘no church in the wild’ed them but i needed a connecting theme so I could do all my favourite villains so here we go.
from their crew to yours
fresh, clean no-terf version for reblogs!
Your mom and aunts aren’t on tumblr. Please warn them about this as well.
i give you, my personal favourite sequence of images in existence:
How do u deal with all the problematic aspects of One Piece (transphobia, sexism, etc?)
Okay, so I’ve hit most of the individual “problematic” elements of the series individually, and I’m not going to regurgitate my thoughts here, but I feel like there are a lot of people in fandom today who hyper focus on individual flaws of a story to the point of being unable to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. This goes for a lot of things, not just One Piece, because we live in a world of surface level hot takes, and most people don’t take the time to think critically about the media they consume.
To put it simply, it’s not as easy as “[X Series} did [X Thing] bad, and therefore [X Series] is bad”.
Using a non-One Piece example, the last couple months I’ve been reading through Moby Dick. It’s a book that was written in the 1850s and has a lot of the causal racism that you’d expect from the time period. It’s a story that condones and encourages the indiscriminate slaughter of sperm whales for nothing but the oil they produce, vilifies albinism, is overly long and at times incredibly pretentious.
I don’t enjoy Moby Dick because of the racism. I enjoy it for its insight into 1850s whaling life, the symbolism of Ahab’s futile struggle, and because Ishmael describes a certain species of porpoise as a “huzzah whale” due to the fact that they’re small, happy, and fat. I read past the offensive stereotypes and see the genuine friendship between Ishmael and Queequeg and read quotes like “Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian” and see that Melville was trying to work past the caricatures typical of the time period, and even if he was successful by the standards of today, he is to be commended for the attempt.
The flaws of Moby Dick (and its author) do not detract from the overall quality of the work, at least for me. It is one of the great American classics, warts and all. And while I believe stories can shape what we feel and believe, at the end of the day It’s the reader’s responsibility to separate fiction from reality. Do you, the reader, feel like One Piece’s flaws outweigh it’s merits? Is the bad so egregious that it forever sours the good? Or are you aggressively picking at aspects you personally don’t like and throw it in the face of fans who do?
There are aspects of One Piece that can be rightly criticized, both in structure and content, but I don’t read the series to validate my beliefs and opinions. I can think [Insert Controversial Character Here] is a fun character and not condone their actions. It’s a story, there needs to be conflict. If nothing problematic happened it wouldn’t exist.
(Note that there’s a difference between a conflict that’s necessary for the plot and a misstep by the author. The people who came away from things like Sanji’s timeskip antics thinking they were funny already thought things like that were funny. Oda did not make it so.)
Oda is not free from his culture and worldview. Neither am I, and neither are you. Sometimes you’ve got to bridge that gap yourself and meet the author halfway, and in the instances where you can’t, there are ways of having a healthy discussion within the fandom that don’t devolve into shouting matches and name calling. This goes both ways—people who blindly defend a series can and often do have the lack of critical thinking as mindless haters.
And if a series (or a book, or a movie, or whatever) truly causes that much distress, then don’t engage with it, and don’t shit on the people who do. It really is that simple.
"I would like to be remembered as someone who used whatever talent she had to do her work to the very best of her ability."
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933 - 2020
BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who charted a course for women’s rights at the U.S. Supreme Court and became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, has died from complications from cancer. She was 87.
Now is the time to call your Senators and let them know that we cannot confirm a Supreme Court justice until after the election.
Stop taking people with dementia to the cemetery
“Oh yeah, every time that dad forgets mom is dead, we head to the cemetery so he can see her gravestone.”
WHAT. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard some version of this awful story. Stop taking people with dementia to the cemetery. Seriously. I cringe every single time someone tells me about their “plan” to remind a loved one that their loved one is dead.
I also hear this a lot: “I keep reminding mom that her sister is dead, and sometimes she recalls it once I’ve said it.” That’s still not a good thing. Why are we trying to force people to remember that their loved ones have passed away?
If your loved one with dementia has lost track of their timeline, and forgotten that a loved one is dead, don’t remind them. What’s the point of reintroducing that kind of pain? Here’s the thing: they will forget again, and they will ask again. You’re never, ever, ever, going to “convince” them of something permanently.
Instead, do this:
“Dad, where do you think mom is?”
When he tells you the answer, repeat that answer to him and assert that it sounds correct. For example, if he says, “I think mom is at work,” say, “Yes, that sounds right, I think she must be at work.” If he says, “I think she passed away,” say, “Yes, she passed away.”
People like the answer that they gave you. Also, it takes you off the hook to “come up with something” that satisfies them. Then, twenty minutes later, when they ask where mom is, repeat what they originally told you.
hold the fuck up I just noticed there’s an apple juice emoji
🧃
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