Reblogging This For Myself

I love how Zoro most of the time is like "my husbands order," but also when needed becomes the voice of reason for Luffy and its Luffy's turn to be like, "My husband is right"

He drew them in their Egghead outfits

And he drew them looking at each others eyes.

That ain't gay.

I guess no one ships ZoLu more than Zoro himself

Each other's comfort zone

How rare it is to find love, trust, loyalty and companionship in one person

there isn’t a reality where i can imagine luffy or zoro existing without each other. they’ve found each other, and now they will never lose each other.

and in the same way they slept next to each other and woke up at the same time after wano concluded, in some far future, i can see them falling asleep and not waking back up together too.

i adore how zoro and luffy are oftentimes put on an equal level.

like initially, their main parallels exist in shanks and mihawks. even if you remove their connections to zoro and luffy, both interpersonal and as their heroes/fated rivals/some indescribable in between, and how eventually both of zoro and luffy’s narratives will circle back to them respectively; they are blatant parallels to one another on even a character trait level. mihawk and shanks, who were always equally matched in combat, are zoro and luffy's counterparts.

next is how they are each other's weaknesses. luffy is famously, and terrifyingly, susceptible to cutting attacks. after the strawhats have achieved their goals, in concept, luffy's ultimate weakness would be zoro; the world's greatest swordsman. luffy's first mate is his achilles heel. but of course that will never matter, because what would have been his ultimate threat is his strongest companion, his most devote follower, of whom there is no one he trusts more to eternally stand by his side. zoro is equivalent; he is a power focused fighter, strong and fatal, and luffy is agile and inventive, his natural opposite.

additionally is how their dreams balance. luffy, the captain, and his dream that yearns for unparalleled freedom. zoro, the swordsman, who's dream aches for untouchable power. zoro facilitates and protects luffy's dream of ultimate freedom, using his drive of power to be his dearest soldier. while luffy catalysed zoro's direction and puts him in positions to closer attain ultimate strength every day, whereas he existed in limbo without him. luffy's drive of freedom rid zoro of his aimlessness.

lastly, there are so many small moments where they are intended to be viewed as coequal, something closer to partners. them both dying in onigashima then waking up in the same moment, them both being supernovas, kuma accepting zoro's life instead of luffy; equating them in value in thriller bark, them both having supreme king haki, etc. is there nothing more indicative of being equals than two conquerors, harmonious together?

i think a lot of it stems from how zoro's devotion is an outlier. zoro's devotion, at it's foundations, is something so precious because he doesn't need to be luffy's follower, but he wants to be. every enemy pre-timeskip is confused that zoro is the one taking orders, his sheer power and 'kingly qualities' could make him an infamous captain in his own right, and that's a constant theme in his worship. zoro wants to follow, he loves answering to and trusting luffy to make the decisions that's best for them. if zoro had the gnaw for leadership he would thrive doing so, and that makes his loyalty all the more momentous. they could be equals, and there are so many subtle moments where they are shown to be as such, but zoro doesn't want that. he happily stands on the stair beneath luffy just to have the privilege of being allowed to look up at him.

i adore how zoro and luffy are oftentimes put on an equal level, but zoro chooses to revere and follow regardless.

cannot stand the rhetoric that’s like “zoro cares more for luffy than luffy cares for him, zoro is more devoted” BRO first off r u watching? is quiet part is very loud (luffy offering to share his food w zoro, luffy asking zoro about his time during the time skip, luffy blushing when he sees zoro, luffy saying hi to zoro & recognizing him from the glint of his hair, luffy telling him how much he misses him when they go days/weeks w/o each other, tears coming to luffy’s eyes when rayleigh saved zoro) bc while there’s been no grand gesture like “nothing happened” it’s a bunch of tiny, as natural as breathing gestures. but also it’s wild work to think luffy WOULDNT do a grand if given the chance. he’d stretch his hand into the night sky and pluck out a star if he thought it’d make zoro laugh

Advice for girls: buy skinny jeans in the boy’s section

They’re more comfortable, still form fitting, and best of all: THE POCKETS. THEY HAVE ACTUAL POCKETS.

don’t believe me? look:

these are boys pants, and they look just as good on me as any other skinny jeans I own

See that phone? I’m going to put it in the pocket. Must be so small right??

Ah yes, girl pants length. Probably can’t fit any further than that-

what? what’s this?

Good god. Oh good lord in heaven. This is blasphemous.

Look at how much room is still there. There’s chaos in the streets. Babies are crying. Fashion designers are screaming out of fear of the unknown.

Buy your pants in the boys section, girls. Live in the beautiful world you deserve where you can fit shit in your pocket.

A pleasant surprise

inspired by @st-osmanthus most recent post, do you think luffy spent the two year timeskip, and everytime he looked at rayleigh he saw so much of zoro?

he saw a man as powerful, as incredible and as kind as zoro is, but there is an air of tragedy that hangs around rayleigh with every step he takes. do you think he looked at rayleigh and saw a mirror of themselves apart from rayleigh had lost roger. zoro had lost him.

do you think every time he looked at rayleigh he felt reinvigorated to get stronger, not just of his own motivation, but seeing the aftermath of a righthand man without his captain. aimless, impossibly strong, yet lethargic somehow. never quite completely recovered from the loss that roger was to him, lonely and wondering, like zoro had been when he first met him.

and when zoro came back after the timeskip with the same scar that he had looked at for two years on rayleigh’s eye. do you think that cemented every parallel luffy had ever pondered between them?

on a sweeter note, do you think everything he admired about rayleigh as the righthand man of the pirate king, he smiled knowing zoro would become just like him, if not cooler? he was taught so much of what he knows by a man that echos zoro completely, and he must’ve felt so proud knowing what they will become. rayleigh *is* zoro’s counterpart to luffy, because luffy will become pirate king, and rayleigh is the righthand man of the pirate king that came before him. do you think he was happy whenever he saw rayleigh complain about getting old, imagining a day where zoro would get grey hair too.

the ache he must feel looking at the grief that encompasses rayleigh whole, silently promising to never do that to zoro, the pride he must feel when rayleigh showcases unquantifiable strength, the happiness when rayleigh laughs just like zoro. i wonder

"Can't two guys be just friends?" If they stop looking at each other like that then sure