#Heroic Efforts

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[sadish-radish]

*slaps belly* this bad boy can fit so many raspberries in it

[rogdona]

when did they even add a new rarity on dragon city wasnt heroic enough already

[walks-the-ages]

Hey, EDAs fans! Remember that link that was going around a few years ago with some fan-made audiobooks of the EDAs?

[ID: a graphic of a muscular angel wielding a sword with their wings outstretched, gazing down into a fire below them, with the words "Heroic Efforts Fan Productions - Audios, Videos by R. A. Mitchell - Heaven is for the holy, hell is for heroes." End ID]

Remember how I had a project going, backing up all the links to the Wayback Machine ?

Well, I found out this year that the last of the EDA audiobook links have all died sometime last year after being on the website for ~13 years, so everything I had managed to save to my computer has now been uploaded to the Internet Archive!

this is why, when you find fandom gems like this, you need to start backing them up as soon as you find them!

Especially content that is older than a decade!

Webhosting does not last forever, especially if an account has been inactive for years, and we already know that Google and all its monopolies is changing their policies to start removing content that has been inactive for x amount of years....

If you see something, save something.

[ID: the cover of the Eighth Doctor Adventure novel 'Vampire Science', a mostly-rec cover with the silhouette of a giant vampire bat swooping towards the official seal of the United States, a circle with an eagle in the center, now styled like an Audiobook cover, saying "Doctor Who - Vampire Science by Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman, Unabridged with Music and Sound Effects performed by R. A. Mitchell." End ID]

Get the Official Wayback Machine extension and set it to auto-archive all the pages you visit if they haven't been archived in the last 24 hours.

If you find fan-made audio dramas like this, right click on the play button and download them, and make folders with dates so you know what is from where and by whom, then keep hold of it somewhere safe.

If you find fan-made audios on Youtube, you can back the whole channel up to the wayback machine, and download the videos using a variety of websites and tools.

If you find old fan-made comics, you can usually save them as PDFs, or save individual panels in a folder, then create a PDF version from them.

Just like so many Classic Who episodes were lost to the BBC trashing reels because they didn't see their worth, so too does tons of fan-content vanish from the internet every year, either because the website finally broke or someone couldn't pay the hosting fee, or just someone vanishing one day and not being around to preserve their works!

Let's make this the official Doctor Who Fandom Motto please:

If you see something, save something.

[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. 🙄

[hellisanhonourstudent]

Unpopular Opinion

I find it weird that Logan and his Navy jobs are consistently portrayed as rosy and pristine. The franchise is always examining socioeconomic structures and institutions in general,but somehow the Armed Forces are immune to corruption. Even when there are good people wanting to do good things,they're often shown as struggling while doing so(Sacks in the movie,Keith... it's almost his whole thing,Veronica oftentimes). To top it all,the work frequently draws attention to things that look to clean and neat in order to invite a deeper look at them.

Besides,showing the Navy's dark side would've solved the whole "a well-adjusted,morally upstanding Logan Echolls is boring/we don't have anything to do with Logan" problem. He could struggle with a hard call he had to make,notice something crooked being done by some of his similarly or higher ranking officers,going out his way to pick jobs,or realize anything about how fucked the military can be. Heck,we didn't even have him snarking about some pompous shithead. In fact,showcasing the military's dark side could've been used to highlight the good in it,not to mention making the upstanding people inside it stand out. The latter one is especiialy important if Logan is going to be a true believer.

However,to have Logan be in the military without actually examining what he might do at the jobs nor have him feel any conflict doesn't exactly paint him on a heroic light,IMO. Despite being nicer and better adjusted,he's on a relatively privileged position of a structure that harms the disenfranchised all while not caring about anyone else but himself and the ones he cares about. Not quite different from his youth,IMO. In fact,the Navy might be a hardcore version of Veronica's lawyering job - neat and prestigious,but leaves a lot to be desired,ethically speaking. And I didn't see any evidence of the contrary.

[farosdaughter]

Thinking about how Henry Crawford is the closest thing Mansfield Park has to a hero

[xoshepard]

my gf is a milf which hasn't been relevant until now but i just have to tell everyone that yesterday i took her and her daughter on a santa-based train ride and they were sitting together but the daughter wanted a better view of behind her so i switched seats with her and was holding hands w her mom and then she pointed at us and yelled at the top of her lungs on this crowded ass train "LESBIANS!!!!!!!" and im still crying laughing why are children so fucking funny

btw laughing out loud is apparently NOT the correct response in that situation

[miharuhebinata]

the thing about jackie is that i LIKE that she's dead

[importantdestinydefendor]

More differences in the Translations

So I talked with @innerchorus under a post (were I was very short-sighted at first but thanks to this wonderful fandom I have now a better understanding of the characters!) and I mentioned a difference in names between the German and English translations. And so I thought I make a post about them!

Left are the English translation, right are the German ones.

Alfarid = Alfreed

Saam = Sham

Kubard = Kubad

Zandeh = Zande

Gurazeh = Graze

Shaghad =  Shagard

As we see in the German translation there are only a few missing letters or the german version of the name. (But what happened with Gurazeh here...)

These are the ones I could find at the moment and if I find more, I will edit them in.

Feel free to add more if you find more. Even in other languages!

[yeahyankee]

Laura Bailey, succumbing to the intrusive thoughts we all had during this portion.

[anakinsafterlife]

My kids just started saying "literally" in nearly every sentence, and I'm afraid I'm being very elder Millennial about it.

[revelingrexan]

MADE IT JUST IN TIME FOR MY ANNUAL "HIGH EFFORT OBSCURE / NICHE CROSSOVER VILLAINOUS FANART" PIECE

this round, featuring Dr. Slug from the Heroic AU, with references to Fullmetal Alchemist (actually a redraw of this specific picture) and the arcade game Metal Slug

...this wasn't supposed to look cool

he's a dork

i'll bet that arm isn't even functional

[suckinitup]

i dont think that dakota would get into fiber arts on his own but i DO think that knitting could fix him

[darkjusticiar]

Sorry I lovie "we never killed cazador so now astarion is on the run forever and begs you to kill him ending". Call me a sadist if u like. As if it is my fault

[river-muse]

The most recent session of the Starfinder campaign I've been in broke me so bad I had to go horizontal for a bit and then get the very last scene drawn <3 Tai really isn't allowed to keep anything good in his life.

After so many years they reunited at last in the worst way possible- and all this time neither of them have been able to let the other go in some fucked up co-dependency.

This arc was gonna be fun, they said. It's a Battle of The Bands event at Songbird Station for charity, they said. The team's Captain didn't sign up for his finally rebuilding confidence/mental health to shatter at Ikoma coming back into his life. Especially because it's unknown how much longer that Ikoma will even be alive for or if he'll even stay the rest of that time.