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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    "Listen." Shanks leans forward, elbow on his knee. "I've got a crew to protect and friends to keep out of trouble. You have to give me a reason not to throw you overboard right now."
    Shamrock studies him in silence. Shanks is right, of course. He wouldn't trust himself either. It's already a miracle that he's on this ship. Shanks could've left him in the snow to bleed out or freeze to death, whichever came first. It's what Shamrock would have done.
    "... I refused to offer my tribute to the gods," he says at last.

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    09 Dec 2025

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    In Which Kaidou Experiences, In Rapid Succession: a midlife crisis, a cover story, and the Luffy Effect.

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    08 Nov 2025

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    He chewed his lip for a moment, then stuck out his hand, filthy with dirt and engine grease like all the rest of him. “I’m Franky.”

    The red haired boy grabbed his hand without hesitation, and shook it enthusiastically. “Hi, Franky! My name’s Shanks! I’m a pirate!”

    (Or: When he's ten and when he's thirty-four, Franky meets a boy with a straw hat and a sunshine smile.)

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    07 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 97

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    Jean Bart had been given no reason to believe today would turn out any different from the blurred red-and-gray feeling of the ones that had come before, but here he is: observing calmly as one of Sabaody’s dens of horrors descends into chaos. A bitter curl of satisfaction sits low in his gut at the sight of his masters carried out on stretchers and their attack dogs in white suffering at the hands of three strangers who seemed to take clear issue with the concept of their authority.

    He’d always fancied himself an observant man. You had to be, to survive in Mariejois. And Jean Bart? Well, he’d survived a few close calls, and that had made him learn to pay attention.

    There’s a lot to notice.

    Jean Bart's freedom comes from an unexpected source, and with unexpected kindness.

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    06 Nov 2025

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    Anakin had come to the very obvious conclusion that Obi-Wan Kenobi was completely, horribly inept with technology.

    Obi-Wan had come to the even more obvious conclusion that his Padawan was the most gullible and unobservant person in the entire galaxy.

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    28 Oct 2025