fangirling
Dec. 2nd, 2004 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xparrotOne day I will write one of the serious essays percolating in my brain, of politics and patriotism and all the associated rage and confusion and despair and hope and everything else. But it is not this day. Instead you get hopelessly shallow fangirling, and this meme, which is not so shallow, because it's true that something as simple and silly as fanning can give you so much more:
If there is at least one person in your life who you consider a close friend, and who you would not have met without being part of an online fandom, post this sentence in your journal.
♥
And now, OP ch.347.
$&^@%!(* I WANT PAULIE AS NAKAMA!!
I know there are folks who don't particularly feel the Paulie-love, and I sympathize, we really haven't seen all that much of him, and there's a veritable embarassment of riches of awesome chars running around in this arc... But I can't help it, he's cool, and all hot bloody, and he loves Iceberg-san and Iceberg just as clearly loves him, and he's funny, and Luffy's already sided with him and you just know that he'll be feeling the Luffy-love by the end of this and waaaah...want him! And it's so tragic now, the betrayal - "Stop joking, you guys!!"
Am dying to know how he'd fit into the whole crew dynamic. For one thing - "Iceberg-san"?? and he uses "desu" with him too - a nakama who knows how to be respectful!? and his weird thing with women's dress might be old-fashioned values more than some anti-pervert thing...(either way, wanna see how that clashes with Sanji.)
...and he still looks like Smoker's nephew to me. Want to know if that's just coincidence...
Add to the list of names we want to hear, Luffy to actually learn Paulie's. so he can ask for him by name rather than "rope yatsu", cute as that is (...yes, everyone's shouting Paulie's name. Yes, I am fully capable of believing that Luffy has missed it every time.) (while we're at it, an official spelling would be nice. Paulie? Pauly? Pauri??)
Is it bad that Lucci in all black beating the shit out of everyone is pushing my "super-cool-evil-badguy" button something fierce?
And Zoro, you're here to shout Luffy's name, great, great, I've been missing that - now do something!!
Though am I the only one really, really missing Luffy's smile? How many chapters has it been? He kicks holy ass like this (...getting stuck in walls and stapled to floors aside...), but I miss my silly rubber boy having fun with all his friends...gonna hurt in the anime, to go that long without a Luffy laugh. He's serious for a lot of Arabasta, but you don't see him at all for much of that time...he's been in the middle of most of this action, but so serious...waah, Luffy, get your nakama back and be happy again! All of them!! Including your new shipwright whose name you'll figure out any time now!
I still love Robin, too, Nami just needs to sit her down and explain that it doesn't work like that, trying to betray them for what you so desperately need, you can't get them out of your heart so easily once they're there...and what does she want, that is worth so much? More than the true history...
...also, food for thought, Aokiji said every association Nico Robin's been part of has been annihilated, save herself. Will that apply to CP9 as well?
Okay, next chapter. Now. Please. Luffy + Zoro + Nami + Chopper + PAULIE (!!!!<3!!!) fighting together? *PURE SQUEE* (tho' WHERE THE HELL are Sanji and Usopp?? Does Franky have Usopp?? Is Sanji there too? I hope? Because otherwise he might be lying dead in an alley somewhere...what was this not-reckless thing he was doing? If he were going after Robin he should be there by now, he's not Zoro...unless he met CP9 beforehand, and hence, the alley...)
And speaking of beating up cooks, animated Groggy Ring SO ROCKS. Was a bit unhappy by the initial changes they made to the race, but they're making up for it now. Except for the part where they're worrying me, by showing to me how much I, er, enjoy watching the boys in pain. I mean, hol-y--yah. Ow. Pain. Blood. Lack of understanding how they possibly could still be alive, much less standing (albeit that doesn't last long...)
....mmmm, yum.
Also, movie 6. "Ore no nakama ni nani o shitenda!!!" [What did you do to my nakama!!!] Put that one on my "want to see" list, too. By the Star Trek law of evens it'll be good. And anyway - Luffy worry! Fighting for his crew! I am so easily pleased...
If there is at least one person in your life who you consider a close friend, and who you would not have met without being part of an online fandom, post this sentence in your journal.
♥
And now, OP ch.347.
$&^@%!(* I WANT PAULIE AS NAKAMA!!
I know there are folks who don't particularly feel the Paulie-love, and I sympathize, we really haven't seen all that much of him, and there's a veritable embarassment of riches of awesome chars running around in this arc... But I can't help it, he's cool, and all hot bloody, and he loves Iceberg-san and Iceberg just as clearly loves him, and he's funny, and Luffy's already sided with him and you just know that he'll be feeling the Luffy-love by the end of this and waaaah...want him! And it's so tragic now, the betrayal - "Stop joking, you guys!!"
Am dying to know how he'd fit into the whole crew dynamic. For one thing - "Iceberg-san"?? and he uses "desu" with him too - a nakama who knows how to be respectful!? and his weird thing with women's dress might be old-fashioned values more than some anti-pervert thing...(either way, wanna see how that clashes with Sanji.)
...and he still looks like Smoker's nephew to me. Want to know if that's just coincidence...
Add to the list of names we want to hear, Luffy to actually learn Paulie's. so he can ask for him by name rather than "rope yatsu", cute as that is (...yes, everyone's shouting Paulie's name. Yes, I am fully capable of believing that Luffy has missed it every time.) (while we're at it, an official spelling would be nice. Paulie? Pauly? Pauri??)
Is it bad that Lucci in all black beating the shit out of everyone is pushing my "super-cool-evil-badguy" button something fierce?
And Zoro, you're here to shout Luffy's name, great, great, I've been missing that - now do something!!
Though am I the only one really, really missing Luffy's smile? How many chapters has it been? He kicks holy ass like this (...getting stuck in walls and stapled to floors aside...), but I miss my silly rubber boy having fun with all his friends...gonna hurt in the anime, to go that long without a Luffy laugh. He's serious for a lot of Arabasta, but you don't see him at all for much of that time...he's been in the middle of most of this action, but so serious...waah, Luffy, get your nakama back and be happy again! All of them!! Including your new shipwright whose name you'll figure out any time now!
I still love Robin, too, Nami just needs to sit her down and explain that it doesn't work like that, trying to betray them for what you so desperately need, you can't get them out of your heart so easily once they're there...and what does she want, that is worth so much? More than the true history...
...also, food for thought, Aokiji said every association Nico Robin's been part of has been annihilated, save herself. Will that apply to CP9 as well?
Okay, next chapter. Now. Please. Luffy + Zoro + Nami + Chopper + PAULIE (!!!!<3!!!) fighting together? *PURE SQUEE* (tho' WHERE THE HELL are Sanji and Usopp?? Does Franky have Usopp?? Is Sanji there too? I hope? Because otherwise he might be lying dead in an alley somewhere...what was this not-reckless thing he was doing? If he were going after Robin he should be there by now, he's not Zoro...unless he met CP9 beforehand, and hence, the alley...)
And speaking of beating up cooks, animated Groggy Ring SO ROCKS. Was a bit unhappy by the initial changes they made to the race, but they're making up for it now. Except for the part where they're worrying me, by showing to me how much I, er, enjoy watching the boys in pain. I mean, hol-y--yah. Ow. Pain. Blood. Lack of understanding how they possibly could still be alive, much less standing (albeit that doesn't last long...)
....mmmm, yum.
Also, movie 6. "Ore no nakama ni nani o shitenda!!!" [What did you do to my nakama!!!] Put that one on my "want to see" list, too. By the Star Trek law of evens it'll be good. And anyway - Luffy worry! Fighting for his crew! I am so easily pleased...
