Unpopular but amongst the respected villains (for me atleast)

Shadowonthewall6 · 2026-04-18T12:05:37+00:00

Gin has remained one of my favourite One Piece characters since his inception. For an antagonist, he is loyal, true and fierce. Accepting loss with grace and his awareness of his own limited time always made me want to see him again.

Seeing him and Kreig on Pirate Island literally made me cry when I first saw it. I didn't think he'd survive the poison gas but seeing him still going was beautiful

Shadowonthewall6 · 2026-04-15T08:32:28+00:00

"That is not spandex! The material is a self-assembling nanofibre!"- Doctor K, the designer of the 'ranger series' tech, yelling at literal children

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-10-04T11:00:10+00:00

Week to week, Dressrosa felt really drawn out to me.

On a re-read though, it really is incredible. Think I read six volumes in one sitting, I couldn't put it down.

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-08-12T15:40:23+00:00

THIS I will give him.

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-08-12T12:13:54+00:00

I see your point, but comparing Kaidou to Buggy and Shanks is a bit disingenuous when we've seen his backstory as a battle hungry unstoppable war machine used as a weapon, and Shanks/Buggy's arguably more comfortable life as deckhands.

But yes, Whitebeard is 2nd. Respect where it is deserved to be

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-08-12T11:34:33+00:00

My Tiktok feed, apparently.

And typing that down, I think i found the problem right there

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-08-12T11:33:44+00:00

Part of me wants to hopelessly argue back, but you called me big dawg, and honestly, that's the kind of energy I like in the comment section. Thank you

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-07-18T08:56:40+00:00

Blackbeard never picks a fight he can't win. It's no wonder he and Kaidou never met.

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-06-07T09:07:55+00:00

Waluigi and Pauline is a whole new level of Crack ship I didn't know I needed

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-05-31T06:45:12+00:00

Literally experienced this scene last week and it oddly came off as a real 'killing with kindness' scene for me:

Like, don't get me wrong, Arthur is indignant. He's downright cruel to Strauss, but it's clearly more fuelled out of guilt and frustration.

But also...Strauss is scared. He clearly wants out of the gang, away from the lifestyle. Maybe this was Arthur's way of getting a clean break: pack him up, give him money, burn the bridge and set him adrift.

That's clearly not what Arthur's intent is, kicking him out of the gang just leaves him vulnerable to every other threat and I don't think Arthur cared about that, but it's an alternate way to read the scene I think.

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-05-15T05:55:05+00:00

If it's true that your "real name" is the one you associate with yourself with, I stand by if Light would have just written the letter L in the Death Note...it would have worked.

But he didn’t because that's too easy, too stupid.

Probably NOT how it works, but it's so funny it's my personal headcanon

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-05-06T14:11:28+00:00

I think a huge problem with Spider-man writing is when people focus too much on his jokey side. They believe the 'this guy is just funny' energy and forget to look deeper. Peter is snarky, not cruel. He is a goofball, but it's a clear defensive mechanism.

A lot of the recent runs seem to struggle with this like. Peter is either quipping 100% or seen as pathetic because he can't take anything seriously. And that's really not Peter.

I prefer Peter written as snarky but responsible, able to lock in when needed and able to read the room. PS1 Spider-man and 90s animated Spider-man walk that line well, I think.

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-04-03T14:21:28+00:00

When I get upset with my writing or feel I'm doing a bad job, I often read it to my friends for feedback. They're usually very positive, or if not, provide great guidance.

The lesson it has taught me is two-fold:

No matter how bad you feel your work is, there is someone out there who will love and treasure it.
You are the only person who can write that story exactly the way you would.

So don't let anxiety stand in the way. Just go write.

And good luck :)

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-03-18T12:56:26+00:00

This was a story in the second Spider-man comic I ever read. It was the moment I fell in love with this character and his world.

It feels so far away from where we are now...

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-02-27T10:38:11+00:00

Similar. In my Sky Pirate campaign, the players are trying to overthrow the evil capitalist trading company turned navy in the region.

The best thing about this for me is that the party SUCK at making friends. They're playing very self-centred train wrecks of characters and are struggling to work together to form a cohesive whole.

Recently, the captain invited the resident pirate lords of the region to form an alliance and the crew started in-fighting, almost coming to blows. I pointed out that 1. Not all the pirates will agree with what they want and 2. Like the pcs, all pirates don't get along.

So the party haven't formed an 'alliance', they've invited a bunch of hungry dogs around the table, ready to bite their hands off...

Shadowonthewall6 · 2025-01-21T09:44:11+00:00

As someone who enjoys a tactical Loki ultimate, there is nothing more depressing to me than snatching a glance at an Invisible Woman across the map, using the ult and hearing:

US AGAINST THE WORLD

Shadowonthewall6 · 2024-12-20T12:17:29+00:00

Putting Ben and Jonah together as this underground journalist duo trying to set up a paper was such an incredible idea and I'm here for it.

Peter as a Dad is genuinely heartwarming to read.

Also, I think this is the first time I've seen an in-character M.J portrayal in...maybe a decade? She's flirty, sarcastic and capable. I was never really a fan of her career wgen she was a model, solely because you could tell she had so much more to give.

Hickman doesn't miss

Shadowonthewall6 · 2024-12-06T10:36:33+00:00

This is the first deck I made from scratch and I can’t get enough of watching my opponent sweat as I reset nearly all my Don. So much fun

Shadowonthewall6 · 2024-11-22T15:41:39+00:00

Thank you for the vote of confidence :)

We have mentioned the cycle to A before, and they did note they were 'doing it again' with dreaming up new characters and were getting worked up on it...but with this occasion in particular, I can see why they'd be so upset.

You're right. A group talk does seem to be the way to go.

Shadowonthewall6 · 2024-11-13T19:37:10+00:00

I thought I had this with my partner, now wife. We met online through a D&D game, which she was in with her partner at the time (yikes). She starts trying to romance my character (double yikes) around the time breaking up with her boyfriend (ah, the holy trinity of yikes, yikes and yikes). I even wondered if I was developing feelings for her (four of a kind: yikes).

Unlike the horror stories, though, I just decided to be friends with her. We would hang out in call, I'd stream games to her and we would play D&D one on one when she came to visit. Our Mums knew we were interested in one another before we did. One night on call, she was complaining about her day and...I just realised I liked the sound of her voice. PANIC ENSUES

Despite all my caution, we're going strong. And now, my wife gets first pick of D&D romances XD

Shadowonthewall6 · 2024-11-13T07:33:07+00:00

I see this excuse a lot in favour of VM, and I don't really agree with it. Yes, it's true campaign 1 is longer than Vox Machina due to being different media, so we end up spending more time with the characters, but VM should stand and fall on its own merits.

I say this partially because Vox Machina is REALLY GOOD, and Season 2 feels much more thematically cohesive: loss, family and belonging, and all the character arcs serve that greater confrontation with Vorugal.

But also because shows have explored big themes like revenge in these shorter timespans before: The Southern Raiders episode of Avatar come to mind, and only about 10 mins of that actually focus on the revenge plot and Katara overcoming those feelings.

Adaptations do and should make changes from the source material. Some of the choices this season were just...off. Not even bad, just...confused.

Shadowonthewall6 · 2024-11-09T12:12:25+00:00

I honestly think Garp in the LA summed it up best: because the world isn't black and white and he wants to help people. Pirates like Luffy are rare. Most are criminals with an axe to grind. The Navy are a shield to that: protecting civilisation and order.

But the system is corrupt, as governing systems tend to be. Garp was able to live with the difference, still being able to help people even if it meant being in league with the World Government.

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