7. One miscellaneous awesome thing about the fandom.
At first, like a lot of people I suppose, my impressions about Oda's artwork were less than stellar. But then gradually I got to noticing... whenever I'm reading a chapter of One Piece, it feels at last twice as long as a chapter of most any other shounen work. He may not take the time to shade or perfect every detail, but he does fill absolutely each and every space of every panel with as much content as possible. There is so much going on on every page, and of course each page is just littered with speech bubble after speech bubble on top of that. XD Oda just has so much story he wants to tell. You have to love him for that.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
Lol I don't even know. I will say that I am on the edge of my fucking seat waiting to see if Jinbe will actually join Luffy's crew though. 8D
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, or fanvid that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.
I'm just going to link some of my favorite Sanji gen recs here.
Once More With Feeling by Aleia15 (angsty time travel epicness... exactly my sort of fic. This is incidentally the only fic in this list that isn't quite gen all the way through (there's some ZoSan here), so do take note)
Seven Deaths by X-Parrot (pretty sure virtually everyone in the fandom has read this fic, but that still shouldn't preclude it from being recced)
Thirty Days with Sanji by dandy wonderous (your basic 30 day drabble collection, but I enjoyed them a lot)
'Til You Feel it All Around You by Tonko (the best fic in the OP fandom, bar none. Sanji gets enough play for me to include it in a Sanji rec list, but really this is a gen fic in the truest sense, and every single member of the crew gets the spotlight at some point here. If you read any fic in this list, read this one, and if you read any OP fic period, READ THIS)
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At first, like a lot of people I suppose, my impressions about Oda's artwork were less than stellar. But then gradually I got to noticing... whenever I'm reading a chapter of One Piece, it feels at last twice as long as a chapter of most any other shounen work. He may not take the time to shade or perfect every detail, but he does fill absolutely each and every space of every panel with as much content as possible. There is so much going on on every page, and of course each page is just littered with speech bubble after speech bubble on top of that. XD Oda just has so much story he wants to tell. You have to love him for that.
8. One completely random thought I have regarding this fandom.
Lol I don't even know. I will say that I am on the edge of my fucking seat waiting to see if Jinbe will actually join Luffy's crew though. 8D
9. One fic/essay rec, fanart, or fanvid that depending on the fandom I either had lovingly bookmarked or saved onto my hard drive, or only just now found during a two-minute Google search.
I'm just going to link some of my favorite Sanji gen recs here.
Once More With Feeling by Aleia15 (angsty time travel epicness... exactly my sort of fic. This is incidentally the only fic in this list that isn't quite gen all the way through (there's some ZoSan here), so do take note)
Starvation Diary # 2 by callosum (awesome genfic, again with plenty of angst (JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT), but also lots of sweet nakama bonding and we're-all-in-this-together...ness. Really true to the spirit of the series in that sense)
Seven Deaths by X-Parrot (pretty sure virtually everyone in the fandom has read this fic, but that still shouldn't preclude it from being recced)
Thirty Days with Sanji by dandy wonderous (your basic 30 day drabble collection, but I enjoyed them a lot)
'Til You Feel it All Around You by Tonko (the best fic in the OP fandom, bar none. Sanji gets enough play for me to include it in a Sanji rec list, but really this is a gen fic in the truest sense, and every single member of the crew gets the spotlight at some point here. If you read any fic in this list, read this one, and if you read any OP fic period, READ THIS)
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