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good morning katsuki canonically wants to spend the rest of his life with izuku have a nice day!!!

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Katsuki is absolutely devastated and in pain because he thinks the only thing Izuku wants him for is to compete against and do hero stuff with.

So in his mind, if Izuku loses OFA, he won't be spending time with Katsuki anymore. They'll go separate ways because Katsuki believes Izuku doesn't want to do other stuff with him.

Katsuki was holding onto that hope; he was thinking about a future with Izuku, he wanted to be by his side. Perhaps that's why he kept repeating that he could "take care of things when the nerd can't" he tried to make himself so indispensable Izuku didn't have other choice but to keep him.

It was more like "see? I can be helpful! You can't handle everything on your own. You need me so you can't leave me!"

He's also crying because of what it'll mean to Izuku to lose his quirk, but what tears him apart is thinking that he'll lose Izuku.

Katsuki can't see a future without him anymore.

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Just now realizing that this is bakudeku’s own “when I see you take on stuff and get all messed up… it kinda… hurts” like congrats bakudeku you have achieved legendary yaoi status and will continue to have a raving fanbase for the next decade at least even if izuku marries someone else

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The Weight is Not the Same

A post about love tokens.

I want to talk about the Christmas gift that Ochako got from Izuku and why it is the perfect symbol of a doomed love.

Izuku didn't choose that gift thinking of Ochaco. He was picking a generic gift for a classmate and friend. That they received each others gifts after a blind exchange and weren't thinking of each other at all when they picked them. In other words, it was random. Much like the IzuOcha pairing would look random and mashed together by coincidence if Horikoshi ultimately chose to pair them as endgame.

Ochaco might carry the doll around the same way she might carry a crush for Izuku, but the mochi that Izuku received has long gone the way of their romantic potential. I shall not elaborate.

Furthermore, the doll is problematic as a symbol for Izuku and Ochaco's relationship. Why?

Because All Might belongs to Izuku and Katsuki.

No, I don't mean that they have any claim on All Might the person, but these two boys have plotted their entire life's trajectory on All Might the Hero. Their entire relationship can be traced back to All Might. They bonded over their shared love of the hero as kids. The only reason Izuku is with Katsuki attending the same school is because of All Might. They share the secret of OFA with All Might and every time their relationship grows closer to reconciliation, All Might is there, watching over them. Their entire spiritual journey revolves around All Might and synthesizing the dual aspects of his heroic nature. All Might is their signpost and their get-a-long shirt.

Now if Katsuki had received the All Might doll--

Oh.

They both carry talismans into battle, but the weight is not the same.

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the premise of jjk is that children’s innocence should be protected it doesn’t matter how gifted or strong they are and it’s about breaking cycles of abuse and about the children who weren’t cared for turning curses into blessings both literally and figuratively bc sorcerers turn cursed negative energy into a force for good, and gojo turned his heartbreak and betrayal from geto into caring for and mentoring megumi, whose name literally means BLESSING, and the other central struggle of jjk being how do we save those we love and who CAN we save, and is love a curse or a blessing, and gojo, after his heart is broken by geto, says the only people he can save are those who are already ready to be saved by another, and that’s megumi. megumi who tells yuji, fine, if you can’t save everyone then save me. megumi, the blessing, who is ready to be saved, unlike geto, the strongest curse user, who is unable to be saved bc he is lost in the twisted thinking he was left to because he was a CHILD left alone. and whether the series ends happily or whoever survives or if it is devastating, i believe in some way geto and gojo’s love cursed the world, bc gojo couldn’t bring himself to stop geto, and bc they were so strong together that people left them to their own devices despite being children, but megumi and yuji’s love will save it, whether or not either of them will survive, bc yuji was cursed by his grandfather to save who he can save, even if it’s just one person, and that one person may well be megumi, the reason he is able to keep going. and yuji, the protagonist will be able to win in some way because right at the beginning megumi saved him, for “personal reasons” as gojo says, literal love at first sight, but it won’t be who is the strongest that matters but whose love is strongest bc gojo says to yuta love is the strongest curse of all and that is the only thing that is able to beat geto in the end and -

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the thing about jujutsu kaisen is it really is as gay as everybody says and it is equal opportunity about it. yeah whatever the hell satosugu and itafushi got goin on but at the same time nobara’s backstory is like she was plucked out of an angsty yuri and accidentally put into a shonen. then two twin sisters who hate each other are fighting over her. megumi is telling yuji he never once regretted saving yuji and satoru is calling suguru his “one and only” meanwhile nobara talks about her literal ring of keys moment as a kid and thinking of her childhood best friend in her final moments. a BL and a GL at the same time we just don’t have time to unpack all of that bc bitches are dying left and right

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yuji sketches :))

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Growing pains

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Xie Lian came on time.

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Hualian fancomic~

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Tbh, I think if you read an mxtx novel with the expectation that the story’s hero is meant to learn some valuable lesson that fundamentally changes their character and views on life, then you are reading her books wrong. There’s not a single mxtx protag (currently) in existence who changes by the end of the story. It’s the world they live in that is changed because of their actions:

—Shen Yuan’s Shen Qingqiu transforms a toxic masculinity fantasy into a queer romance in which the unhappy stallion protagonist with a harem in the 100s is given his monogamous happy ending with a husband he actually loves and values with reciprocity. They fuck off to their forever honeymoon after exposing the corruptness of the cultivation world that ruined Luo Binghe’s life to begin with, and all of this was only possibly because Shen Yuan was just a genuinely nice fucking person. The world lives to see another day and a fuckton of people who died (or didn’t even get to exist) in the original stallion novel get to live long, more fulfilled lives in Shen Yuan’s revision.

—Wei Wuxian is killed for sticking up for a condemned clan, is resurrected against his will, and still stands by his actions in his first life while protecting those that continued to wrongfully condemn him. As a reward, the corpses of the people he died protecting save him and his loved ones (and the rest of the bystanders who killed them), he bags himself the most perfect and perfectly matched man in the cultivation world, and he continues to help others and do what he wants to the ire of the cultivation world who are now too embarrassed to fight him. The younger generation look to him as a beloved teacher, protector, and role model to aspire towards.

—Xie Lian rebelled against hierarchy as a beloved prince of a prospering kingdom, then as a beloved god against the older gods, then as a reviled scraps god against the then most popular gods of the present day. He was always willing to lend a hand to anyone who needed it and to never hold resentment even if that kindness blew up in his face (and it often did). He gets to marry the man (ghost) who has seen him at his best and absolute worst and chooses him unconditionally, something no one else has ever done before. At the end of the novel, he is the god that all the other gods look to for guidance and strength.

None of these stories humble these characters for being good people. Even when their morally righteous actions net them unimaginably terrible results, even when they falter in the face of their failures, they ultimately remain true to their goodness. And none of the books humble them for that, because being good is not a character flaw. So in short: please stop talking about how mxtx protags “needed” to learn valuable lessons to “be good people” when they were already good people from the very beginning. These stories are not about how the world changes people but how genuinely good people can change the world just by actively being kind even with no benefit to themselves and especially if that kindness leads to detriment.

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💓

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a city of flowers blooms for you

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besties

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And they were tombmates 🪦

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sometimes u just gotta stop criticizing ships for being codependent and indulge in it