/Also knocks on wood. :)b I hope work has been going well for you, too!
...I would so totally be okay with something like a Comprehensive Guide to One Piece by Oda, with all of the expansions and stuff. That would be amazing. And agreed, I think of all the Straw Hats he was the one that we still haven't gotten Luffy...I don't know, helping like he did the others, which is odd considering how close he and Luffy are. I mean, obviously Luffy rescued him from the Marines, but he didn't have that kind of vulnerability and need for a push as the rest did at some point... :|a Well. I guess he kind of got that push extremely gradually, over the course of the series, given how we see he's changed when he sacrifices himself on Thriller Bark, but it's different somehow.
Hmmm, yeah, I can definitely see what you mean. Bonds form pretty quickly in OP, and that doesn't affect their strength at all. And reading other people's meme answers has also made me think about how the rivalry could be more problematic for the Zoro x Kuina pair than the ZoSan pair, given their goals, so. :|a Interesting to think about. And HMMMMM, I totally agree about Koushirou. :Db I really wonder if he'll come back into play somehow, although most of me doubts it, since it seemed like he was just re-supplying the the Revolutionaries rather than being heavily involved...
...ILU for this paragraph. It's like you distilled all the times I've thought long and hard about this pairing and why it generally doesn't work for me (because I don't like not knowing why I instinctively avoid something) and put it into much more coherent words than I ever could. I agree so hard, I've heard proponents of the pairing always saying that Nami would love to be treated like a princess after the life she's lead, and I agree that she enjoys how Sanji treats her as it is now, but not that she would ever want it to go further than that. She'd know it was unfair, and just, this: I don't see her wanting a doormat for a partner (and she needs someone to tell her no from time to time and stick to their guns), that's exactly how I see it, which is why I like her best with Luffy, and then Zoro after that. The dynamics just work better for me. Also agreed on the possible-resentment from Sanji, depending on how things played out. :|a
Oooo, yes, I just re-read Hamon a couple of days ago, and it's just as amazing as the first time I read it. So solid, and yes, the worldbuilding. It just feels real, and right. (XDD yaaay for cooking references, hahaha!)
*___* YES. The Nature of Things. I've forced myself to stop checking for updates every other day, but it was hard. I really like get-together fics for ZoSan that are as far from easy as possible, because...it just can't be easy, not with how they are, I think. And that fic is a really unique—not to mention hot >_>—way of going about it.
:D Teal deer are awesome!...for emergency food supply, mwahahaha
...I would so totally be okay with something like a Comprehensive Guide to One Piece by Oda, with all of the expansions and stuff. That would be amazing. And agreed, I think of all the Straw Hats he was the one that we still haven't gotten Luffy...I don't know, helping like he did the others, which is odd considering how close he and Luffy are. I mean, obviously Luffy rescued him from the Marines, but he didn't have that kind of vulnerability and need for a push as the rest did at some point... :|a Well. I guess he kind of got that push extremely gradually, over the course of the series, given how we see he's changed when he sacrifices himself on Thriller Bark, but it's different somehow.
Hmmm, yeah, I can definitely see what you mean. Bonds form pretty quickly in OP, and that doesn't affect their strength at all. And reading other people's meme answers has also made me think about how the rivalry could be more problematic for the Zoro x Kuina pair than the ZoSan pair, given their goals, so. :|a Interesting to think about. And HMMMMM, I totally agree about Koushirou. :Db I really wonder if he'll come back into play somehow, although most of me doubts it, since it seemed like he was just re-supplying the the Revolutionaries rather than being heavily involved...
...ILU for this paragraph. It's like you distilled all the times I've thought long and hard about this pairing and why it generally doesn't work for me (because I don't like not knowing why I instinctively avoid something) and put it into much more coherent words than I ever could. I agree so hard, I've heard proponents of the pairing always saying that Nami would love to be treated like a princess after the life she's lead, and I agree that she enjoys how Sanji treats her as it is now, but not that she would ever want it to go further than that. She'd know it was unfair, and just, this: I don't see her wanting a doormat for a partner (and she needs someone to tell her no from time to time and stick to their guns), that's exactly how I see it, which is why I like her best with Luffy, and then Zoro after that. The dynamics just work better for me. Also agreed on the possible-resentment from Sanji, depending on how things played out. :|a
Oooo, yes, I just re-read Hamon a couple of days ago, and it's just as amazing as the first time I read it. So solid, and yes, the worldbuilding. It just feels real, and right. (XDD yaaay for cooking references, hahaha!)
*___* YES. The Nature of Things. I've forced myself to stop checking for updates every other day, but it was hard. I really like get-together fics for ZoSan that are as far from easy as possible, because...it just can't be easy, not with how they are, I think. And that fic is a really unique—not to mention hot >_>—way of going about it.
PS - LOVE FOR YOUR PARAGRAPHS OF DOOM. MUCH LOVE.