#BURNIN'

[class1akids]

MHA fanart by mangaka Ryosuke Takeuchi

[autumnmobile12]

Burnin': Boss, there's a couple of drunks stumbling down the block.

Endeavor: Are they causing a disturbance?

Burnin': *laughing* No, but it's your children.

[jt1674]

[hkartincolor]

Volume 25 spine and flap

[kharmii]

I'm trying so hard not to get sucked into this as my new favorite thing. Found a couple of good clips from the Dabi/Shoto fight on Youtube. The first one has the awkward sub translation, and I like the dub translation better, especially the part where they change 'You're like the congealed broth of calamity!' to '-And you walked among them, even though you are a child of calamity!'. (Makes more sense)

Shoto deserves a moment of self-pitying teenage angst dealing with this shit. -Like imagine him coming out with, "I didn't ask to be born! I didn't ask to have you feeling a constant sense of self-rejection looking at me like I'm your replacement! I work so hard to be that close to effing perfect, and yet you have to find reasons to call me dirty and shameless!"

Then there's the bite where Shoto tells Dabi he has the kind of powers that can beat him (not true. It ended up being a whole family effort at the end). Dabi comes back with how Shoto had it all -ideal body, fire resistance, training- but he was a spoiled brat who didn't live up to his full potential. Then they changed half-baked 'doll' to 'puppet' in the dub. Calling someone a puppet is more of a burn.

Imagine Shoto saying, "Give me a minute! I'm sixteen! GAWD! I had to grow up hearing it from Dad, and now I have to hear it from my older brother while he's trying to murder me! Then you had the nerve to call me dirty and shameless!"

(Nobody wants to be shamed constantly. Nobody wants to be thought of as a puppet who lets people jerk them around).

Then someone posted a video of the end of the fight where Shoto explains he isn't a puppet. He treats Dabi with a lot of depth and decency for someone his age, even as he defeats him. Dabi makes the comment about the two of them being on parallel tracks whose paths will never meet, and Shoto replies, "Our paths will cross; I'll force them to.."

It's like he understands that Dabi is somewhat the victim even if he did unspeakably evil things, and he's trying to say that someday when the sting of having Dabi try to kill him subsides, maybe then they can forge a familial connection like normal people. (Later he proves it by asking him what his favorite food was as a gesture of kindness, or because he's sincerely trying to connect with him).

Shoto froze the entire city, but he has his provisional license, so it's all good.

[rastronomicals]

3:10 PM EDT August 26, 2024:

John Lee Hooker - "Boom Boom" From the album Burnin' (March 1962)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Chicago Blues

[class1akids]

Burnin sketch by Iwane Masaaki

[autumnmobile12]

The Vanguard Action Squad, Plus Their Affiliates and Enablers

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Out of context, this kinda looks like they're all mocking All Might's victory pose.

Twice be like, “Who farted! It was me!”

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What’s funny about this is when I used the reference from the original Death Parade opening…

…I didn’t realize they were all crammed in the elevator going to Hell.  (Or the Void, you know what I mean.)

[origintriodaily]

Ch 258 Cover page coloring from Reddit

[hkartincolor]

Volume 25 back cover

[chungledownbeamcannon]

My girl's

A hot girl

A hood rat who needs an attitude adjustment

[mitjalovse]

Patti Labelle's solo career made us forget about the fact she was a part of a successful group before that. Nonetheless, she did return to Labelle much later, though she already tested a possibility of a reunion on her Burnin'. Sure, there were only two tracks that she worked with Mrs. Hendryx and Mrs. Dash on that LP, which does fit, because the disc does resemble a typical 90's album of a veteran superstar, i.e. there is just too much of everything. While one can do interesting stuff with that notion, Mrs. Labelle sadly doesn't do that. However, she could've done a reunion of her old band then, since their tunes might be two of the more intriguing ones here. Then again, she probably sensed the time wasn't right that during that time.

[rastronomicals]

10:40 AM EDT March 17, 2024:

John Lee Hooker - "Boom Boom" From the album Burnin' (March 1962)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under: Chicago Blues