#⠀( abt heroicized. )

[disteal]

sharing your transmasc headcanons about female characters requires, like, 4 weeks of casing someone’s vibe. If everything checks out you can drop the batshit 40 page manifesto on top surgery allegory in the narrative. But you gotta make sure.

[delawaredetroit]

After seeing Mina leap into action in an emergency, Kirishima felt discouraged but still had UA listed as his first choice for high school. He hadn't given up his hero dream yet.

It was only after Kirishima heard about another middle schooler jumping into action to save a classmate even without a quirk that he crossed out UA. Some people think of this moment as Kirishima being inspired by Izuku. But at least at first, this interpretation isn't supported by the text.

When it was just Mina beating him to the punch, he could chock it up to Mina being an ideal hero for modern society anyway. He could justify it by thinking "well not being faster than someone like her doesn't mean I'm not hero material too."

But then, a presumably quirkless kid had the guts to save someone when Kirishima could not. There were no excuses to make after knowing that. It forced Kirishima to reckon with the fact that he was weak in spirit. As much as Kirishima declared that quirks don't matter, in truth they did matter to him. Izuku going against the grain during the sludge incident demonstrated to Kirishima how complacent he was in his own assigned role and he felt ashamed.

Kirishima's view of Izuku (while not knowing it was about Izuku) was similar to Izuku's feelings about Mirio. It was not inspiration: it was discouragement. They felt they couldn't measure up to Izuku or Mirio either in spirit or in talent and almost gave up on their dreams as a result.

On another note, here are several other reasons Kirishima and Bakugou became fast friends. Kirishima thought of the moment in Bakugou's life that Bakugou was most ashamed of (until Kamino) as manly. Kirishima and Bakugou both felt insecure about people who embody this idea of a strong heroic spirit because at some level they both knew they lacked this trait in themselves early on in the series.

[lautakwah]

Could you reocmend me some chinese gangster or crime movies to watch? Please?

BOY COULD I!!! so a few of my absolute faves are: casino raiders 2 (1991) (unrelated to 1 or no risk no gain), god of gamblers (1989), the inspector wears skirts (1988), infernal affairs (2002), a moment of romance (1990), rich and famous (1987), spl: killzone (2005), once a thief (1991), chasing the dragon (2017), and let the bullets fly (2010) (<- only mainland film in this list LOL but also. one of theeeeee best movies ever made. cannot stress that enough.)

and then i can always just recommend john woo, ringo lam, and johnnie to (& wai ka-fai, they tend to collab a lot) since their heroic bloodsheds and crime films are just god tier. a lot of them are also very much genre-(re)defining and it's a delight seeing where the rest got it from 🥰

[reineyday]

ST fandom wank but i saw that anti post that said billy hargrove lived and died a piece of shit and it's like, did we even watch the same death scene 😭😭

you really sat down, watched el delve into his memories to see that when he was a child, his mother abandoned him and his father abused him, saw him get the tiniest bit of emotional validation ever from el, watched that small exchange fuel him enough to break the mind control of the gigantic alien creature he knew nothing about except that it possessed him to step in front of it and literally protect el, a girl he doesnt even know, with his actual life--like he actually died! taking a hit meant for el!!!--and then as billy, an 18 year old lifeguard who teaches kids how to swim and who's had an abusive father practically his entire life, lay on the floor of a mall dying from the wounds inflicted on him by a creature he knew nothing about to save a pre-teen who is a stranger to him, you saw as he apologized to his (step-)sister with his dying breath, and you're telling me that you sat there and watched that whole entire scene and thought, "well, he's still a piece of shit."

where's your compassion?????

[waroferas]

(trying not to run head-first into the nearest wall) ravio is cool . i like ravio

[wombpala]

supernatural blurrywives are like a species to me. uncanny valley. snatches of genuine human desires painted over by narrative functionality. nursing the wounded protag back to health before releasing back into the wilderness of Important Masculine Heroics. return to the myth of suburbia which can only exist off camera bc the camera is what incites the violence that disrupts it. it literally all comes back to djinn-wife from the beer ad: carmen the respectable nurse

[ghostplasmas]

New Sona just dropped.

[birdricks]

getting sooooo emotional abt how like. when rick and bp meet again during the federation stuff its like theyre completely different ppl from who they were when they last saw each other. but it almost makes them become closer instead of driving them apart… until of course their values clash in the worst possible way

[boypussydilf]

the montage of cake ruining shit in ooo by Doing Cat Things… the thing i vaguely half-remember from an adam muto interview abt fionna fucking things up in magical worlds sometimes bc shes coming from an angle of reacting like it’s a Video Game or something…. and simons whole. the way he interacts w absolutely everyone he doesnt feel a need to be “okay” for… I think our main cast might be the Making The Situation Worse gang. theyre here to roll up and ruin everything. cake is magic now but she still has the mind and perspective of a normal cat, fionna doesn’t know how to interact with any of these universes from the perspective of them being unique worlds with real people, and simon just wants to make a fucking beeline to trying to shut his brain off. this is going to go poorly ❤️

[super-paper]

Manga spoilers!

I wanna give the benefit of the doubt to hori bc i know this isn't the last chapter and he could always continue and mend stuff in upcoming chapters. With that said, this chapter does feel rushed and off. And i'm not talking about action wise as most fans on twt think, but i'm refering to the conclusion(?) of shigarakis character arc. Regarding the whole afo/yoichi talk, hori could get away with it a bit, but as for shigaraki.... that's another conversation. There were moments in this chapter that i loved, i really liked izuku understanding of afo deep down, and the little ,although rushed, talk between the brothers. I loved that scene of the ofa users (minus toshinori i think, why????? He deserved to be there lol) and shigaraki punching afo, i love the idea of shigaraki also being a part of that and i find that panel of his and izukus fists connected beautiful in all ways. But then at the same time it's so rushed! I heard some fans think izukus character got ruined by ending the series quirkless, (....?.....) but what bothers me is actually izukus lack of reaction. It's valid and understandable for izuku to not forgive and be upset at shigaraki, but for the same kid that was so set in saving that crying boy for multiple arcs and through this one, and all the compassion izuku felt for tenko, for izuku to not react shigaraki crumbling into dust and disappearing feels so weird and out of character for him. Can one even count that as him saving that crying little boy?? Now, i do expect hori to bring back tomura/tenko somehow, but if not.... well then that's disappointing and i have to wonder what happened with his character arc??

Like, I'm really trying to be optimistic but 😭

Like you said it was extremely rushed and jammed what should have been 2-3 chapters worth of content into a single chapter-- it makes everything seem unfocused and flat. Like, whatever happened between Tenko and Nana getting offscreened completely neutered the emotional impact and "triumph" of Tenko's "return". AFO getting psychologically dressed down by Izuku, confronted by Yoichi and the vestiges + Tenko, and ultimately "exorcised" deserved its own focus chapter rather than being forced to share breathing room with the (equally gimped) exits of two other characters. Tenko and AFO's relationship gets zero focus/introspection-- Instead we have Tenko literally getting lumped in with the rest of the vestiges instead of getting any sort of unique dialog/interaction with AFO even though his dynamic with AFO (and their melding/untangling from one another) has been a MAJOR part of the series. Honestly, if I think about Tenko/Tomura and his treatment any more I'll probably make myself sick-- other people have already said enough on why this would be a terrible ending for him/MHA as a whole if it sticks.

It's just, such an incomprehensibly bad and cowardly chapter lmao.

(heavy criticism re: Izuku's writing under the read more)

I think my main issue is that even if it is a big fakeout, there's just.... no salvaging Izuku's character for me after this chapter. His entire arc and what was supposed to distinguish him from other heroes hinged on this. Like, you can't have your "intrinsically compassionate sees-the-heart-in-everyone" MC smash through the dying remains of a character who is literally begging for Tenko's life and expect ppl to still root for him??? Shiragiri sacrifices himself to plead on Tenko's behalf and remind everyone there that Tenko is a human who has people waiting for him-- but tonally, him getting utterly steamrolled still gets treated like a hype/heroic moment by Bkg's inexplicable arrival on the scene. It's incomprehensibly tone deaf and makes Izuku's almost complete nonreaction to pretty much everything that has happened to both Tenko and himself stand out all the worse.

As a Izuku fan it boggles my mind that other Izuku fans seem to think this was a good conclusion to his character arc. Like. There's literally no way to backtrack or put any kind of positive spin on how Izuku behaved during this fight evn if Tenko does survive, and it kills me. There's no way to spin it that doesn't boil down to Izuku thinking that Tenko was an acceptable loss if it meant erasing AFO from the world.

There was not even a smidge of internal conflict or hesitation or even a single thought spared for Tenko. Zero introspection from Izuku and zero grappling with the weight of the life he's about to take (because from his perspective, even if Tenko *does* miraculously survive, Izuku had no way of knowing he would and still made the decision to whale away on his body as it crumbled!). Like. Zero reflection on the reveal that Tenko was manipulated from birth, zero attempt to reach him or even speak to him again to see if he was still "in there." Zero attempt to minimize the damage to Tenko's body, zero attempt to engage w/ the sole other character invested in trying to save him (💀💀💀) Zero communication with his fellow heroes about Tenko's situation and his desire to save him so THEY could all make an informed choice, zero hesitation in repeatedly whaling away at Tenko's dying body, zero attempt to "go beyond" and change the ending/future. like. Everything abt Izuku's writing in this chapter is utterly ghoulish.

But hey, Izuku's final punch made the rain stop or whatever. Ugh. 🙄

[thisisadonaldduckblognow]

if i had to stop at only one headcanon about casey jr and future raph ever its that middle ground where casey did know him just when he was younger so the vibe is 

someone asks about future raph at some point and with ALL the same reverence of talking about greatest ninjas greatest inventors mystic masters amazing commanders and their big heroic battles etc etc casey is just like “he called me little snapper bc when i first met him i was like 3 and i tried to bite him. when i was 7 he looped a rope around his arm and stood there with it held out for hours so i could play on a swing. he was my best friend.”

[codacheetah]

I finally narrowed down why I don't like warrior cats anymore and I think the reason is the politics of the wc world are exhausting in the exact same way that real world politics are exhausting. A bunch of ableist misogynistic conservatives violently upholding meaningless borders between each other for reasons that basically boil down to stupid ancestral beef, all in the name of their religion. Who cares

[demon-of-the-ancient-world]

"Paul isn't the hero so he must be the villain-" I need you to stop right there and accept the fact that not every story requires or intends to have A Singular Hero and A Singular Villain and if a protagonist isn't one then they *must* be the other, and that the majority of complex stories actually do not have many characters who perfectly fit the role of "the hero" or "the villain"

[graceful-not]

ok but like WHAT DID APOLLO MEAN BY THIS???? SAVED HIS NECK WHEN?!?????

The only time I can think of is Pheonix interjecting in the first trial of aa4 bc Apollo hadn't put it together yet/didn't have the confidence to accept the truth yet, but other than that??????? When tf has Pheonix ever saved him??????

[jjkyaoi]

my favorite mcs are the ones that are so greatly greatly annoyed by the fact that they ARE the main character. like, everything that makes them special is just another thing that makes their life worse/more complicated and they are THIS 🤏 close to losing it at all times. they are trying so hard to run from their destiny 24/7 . like a “that’s none of my business” attitude to when something’s going on but instead it’s “PLEASE don’t let that be any of my business”. when one of the characters tells them, “you’re the only one that can stop this” they’re like. “i’ll try my best” but on the inside they’re like. why is it always something. i literally can’t go a week without there being something. aware of the narrative but fist fighting it

[tea-and-secrets]

I don't care enough to obsessively shit on asexual and pansexual people like my mutuals all apparently do

''i don't care enough'' you want me to clap?

sounds to me like u and ur mutuals suck lol