Cool intro to Scopper, I’m curious what his role is gonna be in this arc. Also it’s interesting the teleport circle sticks around

Yeah with what Luffy is saying as the panel cuts to him it seems likely but the hair and striped coat made me think of Shiki first

Also the theme of this arc looking like “pacifism is cool, but sometimes violence is necessary” is

Just re-read the chapter, is the person approaching the castle Shiki???

I don’t think the giants really know all that much. The one reading the Harley text right now is Robin, but for the giants they said it was archaic which is why everyone has a different interpretation of Nika. They might know a little more about the Void Century because of their longer lifespans although they’re a relatively isolated country too so there’s not really many people to tell.

I know there’s other stuff that happened that was cool and interesting but hooooooly shit that mural is a mega lore drop!! There’s so much, the different gods, the weapons, the depiction of societies!! ELBAPH KEEPS DELIVERING!!

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Shanks has beaten the allegations

No way they make Shanks’ secret twin a jobber lol

You could be onto something cuz the arrow design looks the exact same, but on the other hand why wouldn’t the God’s Knights interfere when Sabo came in?

Evil Shanks be like: I love being a Celestial Dragon

Good lore chapter! Whatever caused Loki and Harald to fight definitely seems ideological based on the fact that Harald ripped his own horns out and Hajrudin being of mixed giant blood while declaring he wants to unite the giant countries makes this an interesting dynamic.

Also Gunko fact I learned: her name apparently refers to uniform pants in Japanese, so her lack of pants is a joke by Oda

It’s interesting that because some of the giants said Nika is a god of destruction it’s possible the previous apocalypses were caused by Nika

“There’s a siege on Marygeosie, the pants budget has run out entirely” -

Things are already in motion! I’m interested by what Jarul meant by Loki following in Nika’s footsteps, it seems like there’s a lot of possible interpretations of Nika’s legend on Elbaph.

Let the struggle session begin

Y’all say this now, but we’ll see who’s laughing when the Ontario Liberation Front formally establishes the People’s Republic of Toronto

It’s 100% the same. Whenever someone asks where the settlers will go I always point to South Africa where, despite living under apartheid, they did not kick the settlers out.

No notable Indigenous movement in North America I’m aware of has advocated for sending back settlers, it’s about self determination.

Uncharacteristically bad take from Prashad here. Settler colonialism is inextricably linked to capitalist imperialism, if you don’t believe one I don’t think you can credibly believe in the other. And mistakenly conflating nations with ethnicities and doing the “where are the poor settlers supposed to go?” strawman nonsense! Unbelievable!

The Indigenous peoples of North America are not ethnically homogeneous, but they all went through shared historical experiences under settler colonialism that constitutes a distinct nation in contrast to the settler nation that established a nation-state. The nation the state was formed around does not contradict the mode of production and that it is still the bourgeoisie in the position of power.

At least he still makes the reasonable conclusion that we need to move away from the nation-state model towards a plurinational model.

The owl seems sus? And I wonder what the infiltrators want with Loki?

I had this earlier this year while staying with my inlaws for a few weeks. The mattress in their spare room was a super uncomfortable spring type and the pillow was way too thin and soft. I think the way I was sleeping to compensate for the discomfort of the bed was also putting a ton of pressure on my shoulder joint.

What helped me was alternating the side I slept on, positioning my shoulder in a way to avoid putting pressure on it while sleeping, and in the morning doing shoulder circles to slowly iron out my range of motion.