soiejo

joined 5 years ago
[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

12/20

spoilerI thought the last one was a easy Nazi quote (the narrative of "higher race" winning), and after seeing it was from churchill, I still stand by it

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When grinding, I like to use a pretty good deck I found online. It's a red aggro/burn that has 0 rare cards, so it's cheap to build, pretty consistent and can definetly wim games. It's not the type of deck I usually enjoy playing, but it can be pretty fun and useful.

But yeah, I also get kinda nervous when thinking of new decks to brew, every choice feels like I'm wasting my few WCs lmao

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Started to play again after they released that "timeless" format (love eternal formats). It's been fun, but my God it is annoying to get wildcards

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Most democratic amerikkkan election:

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

renewables are the only way

Nuclear fusion is renewable energy though

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 43 points 2 years ago

Maoist standard english spoken with a fed accent

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hideaki Anno is spinning in his grave rn, and he's not even dead

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Like, I just found out that they transliterate Stalin as 斯大林, how can you not love that?

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

哈马斯

Unrelated to the meme, but I can't be the one that thinks chinese transliterated names are very cute right?

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

SpoilerYea, that means she was 10 years old pre-timeskip right? That's a insane age to be a pirate captain, especially one of the "worst generation"

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

CWThat's a very good writeup and it does change my mind on some level.

I agree that saying ginny is "Kuma's love interest" was a misstep on my original comment, and that their relationship is more nuanced than that.

On a side note the allusions to rape/SA were already made with the Boa sisters and the introduction of the CDs in sabody park.

So I don't remember now since it's been a long while since I've read them, but until now the notion of SA of slaves by the celestial dragons was mostly a "heavy implication" thing - we see them act extremely gross and possessive towards women, and see the trauma inflicted upon their victims. This fits OP's brand of a manga geared mostly towards children, that ocasionally deals with very dark themes. This chapter however leaves no doubt; Ginny got pregnant while she was enslaved and then she was discarded, and that's why I believe this chapter is very brutal even among the other chapters showing the violence of slavery.

For the brutality of the chapter, I think Oda does well in juxtaposing the successes of the now Freedom Fighters to the inner despair of Kuma and co. It's the acknowledgement that revolution is brutal and that behind the triumph is real people who've lost nearly everything.

That's a good way to put it. All in all, I'm loving how this arc is giving a lot of exposition to the Revolutionary Army in general and Kuma in specific

[–] soiejo@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (7 children)

spoilers also CW:SAGonna be honest I don't think Ginny's story was handled very well in this one. It's a character we barely known for two chapters, and then we learn she got SA'd and died shortly after. Kuma's backstory was very good until now but this kinda falls into the old "Using sexual violence against a female love interest to fuel the tragedy" of a male character trope, apart from being an extremely dark aspect of slavery even One Piece avoided until now. Maybe I'm wrong, I've seen wildly polarising takes on this chapter but it did left me with a bad tast personally

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