“法が人を守るんじゃない。人が法を守るんです。これまで悪を憎んで、正しい生き方を捜し求めてきた人々の思いが、その積み重ねが法なんです。
[The law doesn’t protect people. People protect the law. Up until now, the people who have hated evil and sought out the right way to live, the accumulation of these people’s feelings are the law.]
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常守 朱(PSYCHO-PASS)
[Tsunemori Akane (Psycho-Pass)]
“ ”受け継がれる意志” ”人の夢” ”時代のうねり” －人が「自由」の答えを求める限り。それらは決して－止まらない [“Succeeded will”, “people’s dreams”, “the rise and swell of time” - as long as people seek the answer to ‘freedom’, these things will never end.] ”
海賊王G・ロジャー (ワンピース)
[King of Pirates G. Roger (One Piece)]
“男の道をそれるとも 女の道をそれるとも 踏み外せぬは人の道
[One may stray from the path of a man, one may stray from the path of a woman, but there is no straying from the path of a human!]
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Mr二 ボン・クレー (ワンピース)
[Mr 2 Bon Kurei (One Piece)]
“平和を知らねーガキ共と戦争を知らねーガキ共との価値観は違う。頂点に立つものが善悪を塗り替える。正義は勝つって？そりゃそうだろう。勝者だけが正義だぁ！
[Brats who do not know peace and brats who do not know war have different values. Those who stand at the top paint out right and wrong. Justice prevails? That’s true. Who ever wins is justice!]
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ドンキホーテ・ドフラミンゴ (ワンピース)
[Don Quixote Doflamingo (One Piece)]
“人はいつ死ぬと思う？心臓を銃で撃ち抜かれたとき･･･違う 不治の病に犯された時･･･違う 猛毒キノコのスープを飲んだ時･･･違う!!!! 人に忘れられた時さ!!!
[When does a person die? When their heart has been shot by a pistol? Wrong. When they are struck down by an incurable illness? Wrong. When they drink poison mushroom soup? Wrong!! A person dies when they are forgotten!!!]
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Dr.ヒルルク (ワンピース)
[Dr. Hiluluk (One Piece)]
“Fandom is focus. Fandom is obsession. Fandom is insatiable consumption. Fandom is sitting for hours in front of a TV screen a movie screen a computer screen with a comic book a novel on your lap. Fandom is eyestrain and carpal tunnel syndrome and not enough exercise and staying up way, way past your bedtime.
Fandom is people you don’t tell your mother you’re meeting. Fandom is people in the closet, people out and proud, people in costumes, people in T-shirts with slogans only fifty others would understand. Fandom is a loud dinner conversation scaring the waiter and every table nearby.
Fandom is you in Germany and me in the US and him in Australia and her in Japan. Fandom is a sofabed in New York, a roadtrip to Oxnard, a friend behind a face in London. Fandom talks past timezones and accents and backgrounds. Fandom is conversation. Communication. Contact.
Fandom is drama. Fandom is melodrama. Fandom is high school. Fandom is Snacky’s law and Godwin’s law and Murphy’s law. Fandom is smarter than you. Fandom is stupider than you. Fandom is five arguments over and over and over again. Fandom is the first time you’ve ever had them.
Fandom is female. Fandom is male. Fandom lets female play at being male. Fandom bends gender, straight, gay, prude, promiscuous. Fandom is fantasy. Fandom doesn’t care about norms or taboos or boundaries. Fandom cares too much about norms and taboos and boundaries. Fandom is not real life. Fandom is closer than real life. Fandom knows what you’re really like in the bedroom. Fandom is how you would never, could never be in the bedroom.
Fandom is shipping, never shipping, het, slash, gen, none of the above, more than the above. Fandom is love for characters you didn’t create. Fandom is recreating the characters you didn’t create. Fandom is appropriation, subversion, dissention. Fandom is adoration, extrapolation, imitation. Fandom is dissection, criticism, interpretation. Fandom is changing, experimenting, attempting.
Fandom is creating. Fandom is drawing, painting, vidding: nine seasons in four minutes of love. Fandom is words, language, authoring. Fandom is essays, stories, betas, parodies, filks, zines, usenet posts, blog posts, message board posts, emails, chats, petitions, wank, concrit, feedback, recs. Fandom is writing for the first time since you were twelve. Fandom is finally calling yourself a writer.
Fandom is signal and response. Fandom is a stranger moving you to tears, anger, laughter. Fandom is you moving a stranger to speak.
Fandom is distraction. Fandom is endangering your job, your grades, your relationships, your bank account. Fandom gets no work done. Fandom is too much work. Fandom was/is just a phase. Fandom could never be just a phase. Fandom is where you found a friend, a sister, a kindred spirit. Fandom is where you found a talent, a love, a reason.
Fandom is where you found yourself.
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“。。。どちらか一方に正義があれば、それは防衛か征伐と呼ばれるだろう。だが、これは戦争だ。戦争というのは、どちらも正義だから起こるんだ。
[…if one side was righteous, then it can be considered self-defense or rightful conquest. But this is war. And war is when both sides are just.]
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可城丸秀朝 (ブリーチ)
[Kajoumaru Hidetomo (Bleach)]
“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: ‘What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!’
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“PS, AD and PI each have a lady counterpart, in accordance with deep seated mythology that dictates that any man secretly wishes to have sex with a female version of himself (re: Alvin and the Chipmunks, Mickey/Minnie, etc.)”
(Source: mspaintadventures.com)
“A child knows that real crabs on the beach do not sing and talk like the cartoon crabs in The Little Mermaid. A child can accept all kinds of weird-looking creatures and bizarre occurrences in a story because the child understands that stories have different rules that allow for pretty much anything to happen.
Adults, on the other hand, struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform with the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it’s not real.
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Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That’s hard enough. Every dad casts a shadow, you know? And that shadow is you’re disappointed, you’re resentful, or you feel so supported and loved you don’t understand why life is so hard anyway — or, you know, it’s so long and so dark that you can never step out of it, so you might as well not even try. Right? So. So hero to me is not applicable to the human experience. I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it’s a verb.
(Source: pattinson-mcguinness, via durinian)
“He who seeks revenge must first dig two graves”
“If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger—
If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early—
If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless—
If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won’t understand what Bastian did next.
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“本当の自由とは帰るべき場所のあることかもしれませんね
[It might be that true freedom is in having a place to return to.]
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光明三蔵 (最遊記)
[Koumyou Sanzou (Saiyuki)]
“You always expect your soul mate to live three doors down and speak the same language.”
