Law: Well, you did it! You took my one chance in happiness and crushed it. Crushed it into little tiny, bite-size pieces. I really expected better of you people. I guess I’m a loser for that, too! Don’t bother showing up tomorrow. I’ll just tell them you all died in a boating accident. So, thanks, thanks for nothing. (Leaves)
Zoro: You’re welcome.
Luffy: What kind of monsters are we? That poor creature came to us in his hour of need, and we failed him. Law’s always been there for us when it was convenient for him! Nami, when your money was trapped in a fire, who rescued it?
Nami: A fireman?
Luffy: And Franky, when your heart gave out from all that cola, who revived you?
Franky: Some guy in an ambulance.
Luffy: Right! So, if we can all just PRETEND that Law was a fireman, or some guy in an ambulance, then I’m sure that we can all pull together and discover what it truly means to be in a pirate alliance!

horticulturalcephalopod:

mutantwanda:

to elaborate on bookshop’s thoughts, the reason that tonks/lupin was disappointing is not because the concept of tonks and lupin being in love is bad. it’s not. i shipped it way back when and i still do. the reason is that the romance was developed in a way that actively pushed back against queer interpretations of either character. as soon as it’s revealed they’re in love, their narrative becomes marriage-baby-settling-down so fast i think i got whiplash, suddenly he’s calling her “dora” instead of the gender-neutral name she tells people to call her, and pottermore tells us that she’s the only person he was ever in love with, which precludes the possibility of any previous same-gender relationships that might have led to a bisexual identity. it’s a huge disappointment, considering the fact that she’s important to a lot of readers as a gender-non-conforming-possibly-genderqueer character who doesn’t give a crap about others’ expectations and he’s deliberately, unsubtly queer-coded (jk rowling intended werewolves as a metaphor for aids stigma). the straightening of tonks and lupin and the related furthering of the series’ idealization of one way of living your life (“settling down,” nuclear family, putting radical ideas aside as you get older) are a big bummer. 

lusilly