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"Her venerable bows looked bearded": One Piece, Intertextuality, and Moby Dick by ghostwriterofthemachine
Fandoms: One Piece (Anime & Manga), Moby Dick - Herman Melville
23 Dec 2023
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Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece is a decades-long, sprawling, occasionally unhinged serialized manga, and within that decades-long sprawl there are many, many references.
Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is another overly-long, sprawling, unhinged piece of fiction, thought by some to be the greatest novel in the American canon.
Let's discuss.
Or: 2.6k of meta essay analyzing and unpacking Oda's use of the Moby Dick allusion. Yes, really.
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24 Mar 2025
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Traveler by TheStraightElf
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Anime), Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)
08 Jul 2024
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Born and raised in sleepy little Pallet Town, Ash Ketchum has always looked outwards to the vast and beautiful world beyond. Driven by wonder, ambitions sparked by the legendary Champion Lance, and the entirely justified desire to shut up Gary Oak, Ash sets out to make his mark on Kanto and the Indigo Conference that awaits him.
But the world of Pokémon has other plans. Joined by a humble Nidoran, Ash soon finds himself in for more than he bargained for when they find themselves facing Team Rocket, fantastically powerful pokémon, and friends he never could have imagined.
An epic journey story, unfinished but actively updating and fully planned. 2.1 million words on FFN and counting.
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05 Sep 2024
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The only point Stain has is the one he uses to murder children by underoriginal
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
24 Sep 2018
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A lot of people consider Stain to be a complex, nuanced villain with a lot of interesting things to say about hero society. I agree with all of that, but I would like to point out that "interesting" is not the same as "in any way resembling something even close to correct".
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04 Jul 2024
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A Historical Reevaluation of the Banishment of Prince Zuko by EmperorNorton150
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
19 Nov 2022
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Professor Sen Huang
Ba Sing Se University
Republic of Ba Sing Se
United Earth States
The Early Modern Review
654 A.G.Few historical events are as well-memorialized as the Banishment of Prince Zuko. One of the pivotal events in the conclusion of the Hundred Year War, Prince Zuko’s scarring and exile led directly to the overthrow of Fire Lord Ozai, the return of the Avatar to world-prominence, and the collapse of Fire Nation’s century-long grasp for global domination. Since then, the dramatic denouncement of the familial feud has been portrayed countless thousands of times—in books, plays, radio dramas, and movies—and remains a staple of historical education in most schools. But is it possible that we’ve all gotten the story wrong?
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26 Jun 2024
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Things that Haunt Our Hallways by ghostwriterofthemachine
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
18 Apr 2021
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“It was a kid,” Yagi gasped out. He had his hand balled up into a fist and the fist pressed to his lips, as if to remind himself that he could not start screaming. “Or. Young person, maybe 20. Homeless, I think. Activated their Quirk on reflex and then ran. The kids—” Here, he pressed his fist harder to his mouth, sucked in a wheezing breath, as if the air itself was pushing down something with physical weight. “The kids—”
“Scattered immediately,” Aizawa finished for him, and Yagi managed a nod.
Yagi’s eyes were so dilated that the blue was almost invisible. He shook violently. He looked like a scarecrow in a windstorm.
Someone activated a Fear-Inducer Quirk so powerful that it reduced All Might to this— of course Aizawa’s class had bolted.
Or:
A Fear Gas fic, BNHA style.
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22 Jun 2024