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I have One Piece feelings again!!
Feb. 12th, 2016 11:29 amI AM FULL OF ONE PIECE FEELINGS. In the middle of the Impel Down arc right now on my reread, dreading Marineford, but the arc is so good. I am incoherent with my all-consuming feelings and I want the next few volumes from my library, and I want to be up to date, and I want this series to actually end, and gloriously, so I can feast on all of it. Works in progress are the bane of my existence, but we have another ten years to go. Dammit, Oda. This better be the greatest ending of all time.
I want fic, but top stuff on AO3 is all OOC m/m slash set in boring AUs (HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE THE ONE PIECE WORLD AS IS??) and top stuff on FF.net is all Luffy/OFC self-insert wish fulfillment (where the OFC is the self-insert if the author's female and Luffy becomes the self-insert if the author's a guy...). WHERE IS MY GOOD GENFIC? OR EVEN GOOD SHIPFIC SET IN CANON UNIVERSE? It is so hard to find LJ fic. LJ, why did you die? :(
Upon this reread, being older, I really find that I adore Luffy. You can't commit to this series and its ridiculous premise and world if you don't embrace him and his blind optimism and simple faith and love for adventure 100%, just like his crew. Beyond that I really, really love Nami and Robin and wish they got to do more. I know in a world where being superpowered by strength really wins the day they aren't as valued, even for their brains, but god do I love them so much for having passions that aren't just to win every battle. And yet, in the end, they are driven by friendship and loyalty just like every other Straw Hat. But they can help and protect their friends in different ways. Their vulnerabilities speak more to me, too, than, for instance, any of the guys'. A guy afraid of being weak and unable to protect those he cares about is different from a girl, even in this world (of crazybad girl pirates too, yay), afraid of being weak and unable to protect those she loves. They have different choices and opportunities. Neither Nami nor Robin will ever be Pirate King, for example. And that sucks. But then, that's not what either of them want, anyway.
Love Zoro even more this time around, the stupid loyal lunkhead, and Franky a lot more than before, and am less swayed by Sanji. Chopper remains adorable and I still have trouble committing to Usopp (I appreciate all he is! it's just not my character type!) and Brooke (his backstory is touching, but mostly for Laboon; I felt no particular emotion attached to Brooke).
I am bursting with feelings about all the other pirates, warlords and rookies alike, background characters, Garp, the whole mystery of the blank 100 years, THERE IS SO MUCH. I GET YOU, ROBIN. I NEED TO KNOW. But I'm OK to go along for the ride for now.
Jesus, I'm going to be like 40 when this series ends.
Edit: THIS IS NOT A DRILL. KOMATTA TOKI NI WA HOSHI NI KIKE HAS FINALLY BEEN FULLY SCANLATED HOLY SHIIIIT it's only been ten goddamn years. Now I have something else to reread in between my One Piece feelings.
I want fic, but top stuff on AO3 is all OOC m/m slash set in boring AUs (HOW COULD YOU NOT LOVE THE ONE PIECE WORLD AS IS??) and top stuff on FF.net is all Luffy/OFC self-insert wish fulfillment (where the OFC is the self-insert if the author's female and Luffy becomes the self-insert if the author's a guy...). WHERE IS MY GOOD GENFIC? OR EVEN GOOD SHIPFIC SET IN CANON UNIVERSE? It is so hard to find LJ fic. LJ, why did you die? :(
Upon this reread, being older, I really find that I adore Luffy. You can't commit to this series and its ridiculous premise and world if you don't embrace him and his blind optimism and simple faith and love for adventure 100%, just like his crew. Beyond that I really, really love Nami and Robin and wish they got to do more. I know in a world where being superpowered by strength really wins the day they aren't as valued, even for their brains, but god do I love them so much for having passions that aren't just to win every battle. And yet, in the end, they are driven by friendship and loyalty just like every other Straw Hat. But they can help and protect their friends in different ways. Their vulnerabilities speak more to me, too, than, for instance, any of the guys'. A guy afraid of being weak and unable to protect those he cares about is different from a girl, even in this world (of crazybad girl pirates too, yay), afraid of being weak and unable to protect those she loves. They have different choices and opportunities. Neither Nami nor Robin will ever be Pirate King, for example. And that sucks. But then, that's not what either of them want, anyway.
Love Zoro even more this time around, the stupid loyal lunkhead, and Franky a lot more than before, and am less swayed by Sanji. Chopper remains adorable and I still have trouble committing to Usopp (I appreciate all he is! it's just not my character type!) and Brooke (his backstory is touching, but mostly for Laboon; I felt no particular emotion attached to Brooke).
I am bursting with feelings about all the other pirates, warlords and rookies alike, background characters, Garp, the whole mystery of the blank 100 years, THERE IS SO MUCH. I GET YOU, ROBIN. I NEED TO KNOW. But I'm OK to go along for the ride for now.
Jesus, I'm going to be like 40 when this series ends.
Edit: THIS IS NOT A DRILL. KOMATTA TOKI NI WA HOSHI NI KIKE HAS FINALLY BEEN FULLY SCANLATED HOLY SHIIIIT it's only been ten goddamn years. Now I have something else to reread in between my One Piece feelings.
