oops! all pirates
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isunshowerso remember how back at the beginning of june i decided to watch one piece the anime for a guy? yeah. i'm about 60 episodes in now (by episode number, i skipped ten because i got given the filler list by a different friend) and a weird thing has happened. I Actually Kind Of Enjoy It.
i'm not sure what it is. if it's the ensemble cast everyone has childhood trauma of it all. if it's the honestly pretty intriguing worldbuilding of "world that is mostly ocean and sometimes people get superpowers". if it's just that i really needed something to watch and i happened to get told to watch this at the right time. or what. but like. actually i am enjoying it. i'd watched the live-action on netflix already and really enjoyed it, but i don't really watch animated tv generally and the anime is. okay. if anyone is reading this who isn't familiar with one piece as a concept. it's a thousand episodes long and has been running longer than i've been alive and it's STILL GOING. so obviously i was originally like "im not watching all that" and then later, like, "i will watch a few episodes because This Guy likes it and then probably stop once i get bored" but the thing is, dear reader(s), is that i'm not bored yet. i got to a natural stopping point recently (the point up to which the live action adaptation stops, ish) and was like hmm i'll watch something else for a few days so i don't totally burn myself out.
and then what did i watch? treasure planet. YES it just happened to be on hulu but YES i picked it because it was also pirates. (space pirates this time.)
my latest nefarious plot is to find the wherewithal to, like, run a tabletop game again and set it in a world that's mostly water and has a thriving pirate culture. and then invite The Guy to play the game (explicitly pitching it as "yeah i watched this anime you said you liked and it would make good tabletop") and like some of my friends i guess--i have other friends who really like this anime so like--and then, idk? i hate running games though, it stresses me out and i feel like i'm not very good at it, but maybe that just means i need practice, iunno. anyways did you know that The Ocean
actually this post is NOT "all pirates" because i also want to add that the past week i've been really good about cooking meals for myself that don't come out of a cardboard box and yield leftovers that i can take to work. i made risotto last week. and pancakes. and iirc TWO pasta dishes and those even had VEGETABLES in them. i bought FROZEN PEAS at the grocery store like an ADULT. how fucked up is that (i'm very proud of myself for this actually this is a life goal i've had for several months)
i'm not sure what it is. if it's the ensemble cast everyone has childhood trauma of it all. if it's the honestly pretty intriguing worldbuilding of "world that is mostly ocean and sometimes people get superpowers". if it's just that i really needed something to watch and i happened to get told to watch this at the right time. or what. but like. actually i am enjoying it. i'd watched the live-action on netflix already and really enjoyed it, but i don't really watch animated tv generally and the anime is. okay. if anyone is reading this who isn't familiar with one piece as a concept. it's a thousand episodes long and has been running longer than i've been alive and it's STILL GOING. so obviously i was originally like "im not watching all that" and then later, like, "i will watch a few episodes because This Guy likes it and then probably stop once i get bored" but the thing is, dear reader(s), is that i'm not bored yet. i got to a natural stopping point recently (the point up to which the live action adaptation stops, ish) and was like hmm i'll watch something else for a few days so i don't totally burn myself out.
and then what did i watch? treasure planet. YES it just happened to be on hulu but YES i picked it because it was also pirates. (space pirates this time.)
my latest nefarious plot is to find the wherewithal to, like, run a tabletop game again and set it in a world that's mostly water and has a thriving pirate culture. and then invite The Guy to play the game (explicitly pitching it as "yeah i watched this anime you said you liked and it would make good tabletop") and like some of my friends i guess--i have other friends who really like this anime so like--and then, idk? i hate running games though, it stresses me out and i feel like i'm not very good at it, but maybe that just means i need practice, iunno. anyways did you know that The Ocean
actually this post is NOT "all pirates" because i also want to add that the past week i've been really good about cooking meals for myself that don't come out of a cardboard box and yield leftovers that i can take to work. i made risotto last week. and pancakes. and iirc TWO pasta dishes and those even had VEGETABLES in them. i bought FROZEN PEAS at the grocery store like an ADULT. how fucked up is that (i'm very proud of myself for this actually this is a life goal i've had for several months)
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Date: 2025-07-20 02:13 am (UTC)