Starting a new thread of insane shit I over hear my husband say to our toddler.
“Here, will this rice cake cracker sate your dark passanger?”
2. “Come now my child.”
*bluey the album starts playing*
3. “Oh I am so sorry. You’ve been mildly inconvenienced. How dare I truly”
4. “It is she! Her Majesty, Queen of the Sludge, Keeper of Goo, DJ Baby P (In the House) Dropper of Beats and Clapper of Hands”
5. He is in charge of bathtime and he lifted the ghoul tonight while singing “come with me and you’ll be in a world of baby sanitation” and I laughed so hard I snorted pasta
6. Okay this is more one that he said to me about the toddler but he was home with her while I was at work and I just got this text
7.
“Happy Independence Day Sweetie! Nationalism is a cancer!”
8. This is another one he said to me about her but still it made me laugh so hard I nearly choked
9.
*Penny babbling in the back seat, many la la las coming from her car seat*
“Are you singing us a song? Ah yes the dulcet tones of goblin”
10.
“Listen kid, I can’t let you have the cup anymore because you keep chugging the bath water, so we just have to remove the cup from the equation.”
11.
*penny is screaming, trying to climb back up a big slide at the playground*
“Someday you’ll learn about ,I don’t know physics and the myth of Sisyphus ,and you’ll start making a lot of connections I think. “
12. *Pen is still screaming and baby cussing about not being able to climb back up the slide*
“The problem is that you set goals for yourself that are unattainable by both man and baby.”
13.
“You can keep the cookie container, I don’t care. What kind of father would I be if I tried to separate a small raccoon child from her trash!?”
14.
*Penny is crying because the bucket she insisted on sitting in fell off the couch with her in it. Husband is bouncing her and rubbing her back after assessing that no physical damage occurred, just a bruised toddler ego*
“Oh my poor sweet angel. She fucked around and found out.”
thinks about how love and sacrifice are major themes of one piece thinks about how love and sacrifice are major themes of one piece thinks about how love and sacrifice are major themes of one piece thinks about how love and sacrifice are major themes of one piece
These three scenes from the recent episodes on Wano struck me as similar at first because of the way Marco, Corazon and Yamato say the word “Free”. But as always with One Piece, there are other common threads woven in here - of Fathers, Fate, Loss, and Inherited Will.
Yamato has no freedom because he is the son of Kaido. Marco and Law, on the other hand, were both put on the path to freedom by their adoptive fathers.
Marco, the first son of Whitebeard, is no longer bound by his father’s voice, or his will. He is free to do as he chooses. Yamato, who felt bound to remain on Onigashima by his father’s will, is finally able to express his true desire with the help of Whitebeard’s other son, Ace.
Ace helps Yamato break free – metaphorically – from the shackles of Kaido, and realize his desire to follow in the footsteps of Oden; the same way that Ace himself sought to break free from the shackles of Roger, and would go on to follow Whitebeard, picking up the mantle previously held by Oden.
Law’s situation is a bit more nuanced; Corazon’s words still have a hold over him, but not in a way that takes away his free will. Sengoku ensures that Rosinante’s will, for Law to be free, is carried forward – by telling him that Corazon’s love for him, that the act of saving him, is not tied to Law’s status as a bearer of the Will of D. Where Law might have felt compelled to seek the true history in repayment of Corazon’s sacrifice, he now chooses to do so of his own volition. This freedom is a recent development – for all that Corazon willed him to be free, Law never truly escaped the shackles of Doflamingo until the man was defeated – by Ace’s little brother, Luffy.
Yamato rejects the hand dealt to him by fate in order to start on his path to freedom, whereas Law, upon finally gaining his freedom, sets out to find the meaning behind his fate. Their actions on Onigashima are driven by the will they inherited from another – Law by Corazon’s will, and Yamato by Oden’s – just as Marco’s very presence on Onigashima is driven by the will he inherited from Ace.
Law lost the father that nudged him towards freedom, Yamato lost Ace, and Marco… Marco lost them both. Yet of the three it is Marco – who carries in him a bit of Whitebeard, a bit of Ace, and a bit of Oden – that experiences freedom in the truest sense.
i think its really neat how you have the obvious parallel of luffy and roger with their child-like sense of adventure, but also whitebeard and ace who have more family-oriented goals (and you can really see that in ace in how he settled with the whitebeard pirates and stopped senselessly throwing himself into danger just for the hell of it, because now he had a family, and a man he respected to call his father) and i only realized this recently, but you can also trace a parallel between oden and sabo as nobles who felt suffocated in their sheltered lives and wanted above all else to see the world and break the status quo
