#I wouldve been fine

[aeaeaexxzd]

the closer i get to finishing season 6 the more i wonder WHY the show didnt end at 6 seasons like i can feel the natural end of this story approaching and im thinking whatever it is they did to push it further will not be enough to convince me its worth it. like

no one needs this. i dont need this.

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

logan on that plane when the divorcees started arguing had to have been AT LEAST one of his top 20 worst moments in life if not at least one of the most awkward like imagine not liking flying in the first place and then the plane starts being crumpled like tin foil once the metallokinetic gets frustrated and now we're all nosediving towards the middle of the ocean

[lorebird]

Several weeks ago @neogotchi said "desertduo but frenrey" and it was powerful enough that I drew something hlvrai adjacent for the first time in years. No clue what to do with it but it's out there in the world now

[6-epigraphs]

Unboxing my childhood friendship implosion from temu | Graphic by Hawk9248

Bonus

[colfy-wolfy]

someone reposted my art on twitter and got 2k likes without crediting me at all ?! help what do I do

do I report them ?! do I dm them what

[atompalmers]

coop and lady raven sketch compilation

[evelynpr]

Might be a hot take as a bkdk and tgck truther here, but I find izuocha endlessly fascinating, beautiful, but also tearfully tragic.

I see their love for each other as something representative of their innocence and naivety when they only knew so little about who they were, and what was to come.

I think the main barrier of their relationship is that its rooted in how they see each other very idealistically, specifically that they're attached to the image of their Best Heroic Selves, and not the deeply selfish, destructive, freaky, and egotistical parts of them. To each other, they need to keep fulfilling that image or else that same person they looked up to would almost die in front of them, and that would be too cruel. Although that hero is still there, that same person they looked up to is not the same now because of...well...everything.

Izuku had barely even talked to girls when he first met her. She was Izuku's first ever real friend (Sorry Kats, everyone and him knows he was terrible), so he saved her in that entrance exam even if it was so dangerous. She gave a new meaning to his derogatory nickname just by being a friend that believed in him. After that, she saved him several more times (Blackwhip and Megaphone are the biggest samples iirc). It makes perfect sense that she is Deku's hero.

Ochako hardly knew what it meant to be a hero when she first got into UA. Just by reaching out to some kid tripping, she made a new friend who would then save her in that exam, then save him again in return. This boy then became someone who was always working so hard to save everyone in trouble, and she realized she wanted to be just like him too. "I want to save people"

But...Deku changes. The weight of One for All is on his shoulders and he needs someone to carry this burden with him. He continues to want to save other people at the expense of himself, still not letting his true selfishness and ego ever show- and it only grows more and more unbearable.

Then...Ochako fell in love with Himiko. Truly, relentlessly, selfishly and devotedly in love with a girl who then dies giving her blood to her- the greatest expression of love Himiko could ever give.

Not that they can't love each other because of this happening (and...so many other things oh god), I'm honestly not sure how to explain it- But them ending up together after losing that innocence and naivety? After Ochako will forever grieve the girl who showed her love in its most beautiful and ugly form? After Izuku changed so fundamentally as a person that the butterflies of a nice girl talking to you doesn't exist anymore? After that simple image of being a hero and being in love has completely changed for them both?

Even so, I believe they still love each other. There is no label I know of that can properly describe them though. They are each other's image of being a hero when it comes to saving people. Aside from Shoto, no one else can grasp the grief of the person you tried to save dying in your hands. They would no doubt try to cope with these losses together, and just try to get better together...but so much has changed. They've changed. The world changed. What are they now? Who are they now?

"What happened...to us?"

[untowardsthoughts]

relistening to s1 and im on ep 48. it will never not make me cackle when anthony starts describing how glenn's chained up and muzzled and freddie goes 'this is a lot of overkill for someone whos clearly not a risk' and anthony goes 'okay well if you dont want them to think youre a THREAT then FINE youre just sitting there! on a crappy cot!-' and they laugh and r like no no no and then go back to their og plans

if they didnt backtrack, glenn wouldntve been in there for 20 yrs 😭 he woulda been sittin pretty on his cot for 2 days at best before they all start breaking him out 😭

[pilkypills]

So like I’m not against characters being ooc in a fic because I’m well aware there can be intent behind it or a desire to explore different scenarios and whatnot plus I don’t really feel good complaining about art I get to enjoy for free but ooooooh hooooooo it burns my biscuits when people make Balin the bad guy

[fire-in-my-woods]

Will never not think about the potential LIS 1 would've had if Rachel and Chloe's roles were reversed

[volatilemask]

if gabe doesnt wanna marry it then MOVE OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shellem15]

I have this feeling (mostly from the conversation with the Raven Queen, which i have a host of issues with that ill probably make into its own separate post), that there's a good chance cr3 will end with a "the power of love/friendship saves the day (or at least circumvents apocalypse) style consclusion. Which is not unexpected nor unreasonable, of course, but it would be kinda a meh ending for me depending on how it's handled.

I think once bells hells pressed the predathos button, that probably should have eliminated any possibility for an "all's good" ending, or even a "some stuffs real bad but the world overall is mostly okay" ending. It's literally the equivalent of Laerryn's "I cast blight" in Calamity. You've just brought on apocalyptic levels of "shit's bad man."

That doesn't mean they can't do damage control, of course. The Ring of Brass did so in EXU Calamity, and that literally saved the world in the long run (even if the Calamity still happened).

But like, cmon. Anything other than Calamity 2: Electric Boogaloo would feel underwhelming to me. But maybe that's because I just really, really think a Calamity campaign would be sick as hell.

Like that would be so fucking cool dude, just putting the players on ultra hard mode where they HAVE to be smart and creative and decisive in their playstyles otherwise they WILL just straight up tpk. NO INDECISIVE WAFFLING! NO ENDLESS CYCLICAL DEBATING! You gotta act fast and act smart and then commit to it! You gotta coordinate with each other and make plans that you actually go through with! You gotta pay attention and remember shit for later! It would just make my optimized mechanics/button pushing goblin brain very happy.

I just think, whether the gods die or get chased off or do end up staying (which i am partial to, for obvious reasons if you've seen any of my other posts), it can't just end in "well that was bad but the world's mostly okay, if a bit of a messy adjustment period" at this point. Because the big red button just got hit, and you've gotta commit to that. Go big or go home, baby.

Edit: Oh, would you look at that! I did decide to go through with that Matron Conversation post.

[thrumbolt]

If you're this scared about sharing content you don't like, maybe you shouldn't host a character week.

[whoviandoodler]

'isn't the whole point of the show that love transcends severance??? but then why didn't imark go with gemma!' yes but the whole point of the show is also that innies are no less human than outies, and that the relationships they form are no less love than the relationships their outies form. what imark did WAS irrational and impulsive and ultimately doomed, but it was also very human of him! it was as much mark to take helly's hand as it was to agree to a basement floor surgery so he could see gemma again. he's proven many times that he will make reckless and selfish choices for love even while he's trying to be a good person otherwise, and there's no reason to expect imark to suddenly deviate from that by sacrificing his bond with helly just because we wish gemma happiness.

[torchiiko]

2 dialtown thoughts before i nap

gingis character development is so interesting. they kinda need to experience every route to rlly hammer it in i think but its fascinating that when doing the speed dating theyre put off by everyone only doing it to gain smth, showing that despite their urgency to get into the fair & lay eggs they do actually yearn for smth More. they even say it outright in olivers route, they had a mutual agreement that benefitted them both & yet feelings changed & theyve grown attached. its like subconsciously they craved companionship even if they couldnt recognize that bc they were so convinced they were content all on their own

the choice to give norm a sticky note face is also very interesting to me, bc dog couldve just left it at a plain paper bag. the choice to have gingi hallucinate different expressions is also interesting, bc none of the other characters rlly have readable expressions given their object heads. karen can emote the most with her paper tray & such, but norm gets proper expressions in the form of drawn faces. its a rlly interesting way to highlight the separation between him & everyone else, a reminder that he does in fact Have a Face in a way no one else does