#MHA salt

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

this showed up on my feed and.. two things.

1. bakudeku are NOT childhood friends to enemies to lovers idk what show this person watched. bakugou and izuku were NOT friends at any point. bakugou was izuku's bully and it stayed that way until the present timeline.

they also never become enemies, they were not even rivals, the rivalry was purely imagined by bakugou, while izuku always tried to stay on good terms with him.

do people not know what "enemies" or "rivals" mean anymore? it doesn't work that way if the aggression and animosity is one-sided.

2. same goes for c//a. they were friends, sure, but catra was adora's abuser at the same time. and while they could be called enemies while they were on opposing sides, like bakugou, catra was the one who imagined a betrayal and used it as an excuse to continue hurting adora.

i do agree with the fact that these two ships are similar though. they're both instances of abuse being glorified and the abusers treated like cute little tsundere babies.

[theweeklydiscourse]

God forbid you ever criticize the lack of consequences Bakugou experiences in MHA, or suddenly you’ll find dozens of Bakugou stans pouring into your mentions to make a speech about how cruel you are for forcing him to eat cement. They’ll act as though “consequences” inherently involves throwing him into the dungeon or putting him in detention for 100 years and then moan about how him facing consequences would only perpetuate a cycle of abuse/discrimination.

Listen, it’s not really that much of a consequence if the “consequence” in question isn’t directly connected to his current or past bad behaviour. “Oh but his scars!” “When he died that one time!” “His guilt for getting kidnapped” None of those are related to his bullying, and in my opinion, that makes them insufficient as consequences in an arc about changing for the better.

The consequences I would actually like to see could be as simple as: Izuku feels sad/mad because of what he went through, or certain characters reflect on how Bakugou’s past impacts their perception of him. More introspection on the victim’s end is needed, Bakugou doesn’t necessarily need to be pilloried for the arc to be satisfying.

[palesweetscherryblossom]

I’m sorry but I find it so damn cartoonish that AFO fr just orchestrated Tomura’s entire damn existence.

I personally found AFO just plucking Tomura off the streets and manipulating his trauma way more horrifying than what we have now.

Since that can happen in real life.

But no because say it with me folks: AFO has to be the driving force behind almost every character in MHA.

Next thing you know, Hori gonna tell us that AFO personally gave birth to everyone in the MHA universe

(Also, TF does he mean that Hana was too damn old? Man was just dragging shit out!)

[sparkles-and-trash]

The double standard in the fandom with blaming all sorts of shit on All Might and praising Aizawa for being the «best teacher ever» never falls to astound me.

How is being super apathetic, using manipulation tactics and lies on students, and being generally very uninterested in them so much better than All Might?

He doesn’t want the kids in the war any more than Aizawa does, and still all I see is «Aizawa never wanted the kids to fight and now he’d watching them die waaah» and «All Might really sent these kids to war huh???» from the same people like what

All Might spends a lot of time on Izuku ofc, but how is that different than what Aizawa does for Shinsou?

All Might is great at cheering on all the kids. He took the time to really see and understand Bakugo.

He tries to be there for Shouto with the family issues.

Your little fanon version of secretly supersoft Aizawa isn’t real, and neither is All Might the Terrible.

They’re both flawed characters who’s doing their best, but one of them is a stereotypical hot tired man, so nobody bats an eye at him.

also, don’t get me fucking started on the fact that Aizawa never seemed to notice anything is off about Shouto.

People always includes it in fics, but he never ever mentions it.

As a teacher, it should be pretty obvious that something was wrong, and even if he obviously couldn’t take Shouto out of Endevours house, he could have done SOMETHING.

Talked to him. Anything.

And I know he is traumatized. I get it. But so is All Might. And Present Mic. And Midnight.

Everyone handles trauma differently, but if your refusal to deal with it affects your ability to be compassionate and ignore your own prejudice (like how he treated Izuku vs Shinsou based on his own experience when he had no idea how hard Izuku worked or what he had been trough) maybe you should’t be a teacher.

Again, the fact that he didn’t react to how Izuku clearly had very little control over his quirk and how he kept hurting himself???

I just think he is a very flawed character, and not half as great a teacher as the fandom wants him to be.

[mmprviolet]

I dont even really fw dabi like that but it boggles me how he and other villains in mha aren't even allowed to be given nuance but Endeavor is. Not hating or anything I'm just confused

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

Ochako wanted to be like Izuku so much that she ended becoming a souless shell who just exists to be a perfect hero exactly like him, poor girl 😔

[dirt-apple-productions]

Can someone…explain Eraserdust? I see so little chemistry there. And Tenko is just a baby. Eraser may as well be his teacher, too. It’s so weird.

[moodyvoid]

After pestering him for days, you finally convince Dabi to pierce your tongue.

Beforehand, he’s taunting you the whole time saying “It’s gonna hurt really bad— are you sure you still want to?” getting a kick out of seeing you nervous.

However, once it’s time for the act, he’s surprisingly gentle as he tilts your head to face him just right and he directs you on what to do. His voice is soft, but stern.

“Stop moving.”

You start to realize how intimate this all is once he’s up close to you, lining up the needle. The two of you catch eyes for a moment, “Take a deep breath for me… and breathe out.” as he pushes the needle through, securing the jewelry in place. You blink a few times, not even realizing it’s over.

“Not so bad, huh?” he asks, putting aside all the tools while you look in the mirror.

You go to ask him what he thinks about it, but barely get the question out before he’s kissing you — something he was fighting the urge to do the entire time.

[saltisboring]

First Meetings

[tinyshinysylveon]

what's really interesting is katsuki's dialogue in the end, he says, "腐れ縁だわ.." which is basically-

like they are close but not that close ;; i was considering putting it as a "toxic relationship" but rotten also goes the same way. i really like that he admits to others openly that their relationship was terrible to the point where he tries to change ;;;;

edit: because some understood it differently lol i described 腐れ縁 as "an undesirable but inseparable relationship" as i've mentioned above. i took the literal kanji 腐: rotten/sour since if you do try to describe 腐れ縁 in simpler terms, it'll more than likely lose its deeper meaning ;; if i were to edit it out, i would say "it was a complicated relationship" instead. now IF i had enough space tho, i would prob put "it was an unsavory relationship where i couldn't break it off no matter what."

[v0id-clawz]

Some shippers really make you question if you both watched the same show...

Like hurting the other is not a love language!

[potahun]

i really like the idea of todoroki "ill atone for the rest of my life" enji ending up living a relatively calm, secluded life, becoming passive with his family to give them the reins and decision-making power 100%, getting into gardening, dabbing into consulting part-time and mostly remotely etc. which all contributes to a very healthy life eventually. meanwhile, hawks is getting desiccated at the office, running on ten coffees a day, battling the safety commission at its roots, pulling all-nighters all the time and yanking at his own hair, frequently shows up at enji's door with tons of food and eyebags that almost reach his nose, only to conk out and nap on his couch

i think that's the post-timeskip life i want for them

[linkspooky]

Remember when everyone kept saying that it was wrong to call the League of Villains a family because they were all just toxic people making each other worse? The same people that said that the league had to be separated and the villains had to be saved by the hero kids in order to get better?

Now that 2/3 of the villain trio is dead, I wonder how that crow is tasting right about now?

[palesweetscherryblossom]

I’m so salty about Tomura’s writing, we watched him grow into the symbol of fear, only for that to be snatched away.

LET SHIGARAKI OWN HIS TITLE! LET HIM SHOW OFF HIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!

(I’m so done with AFO’s story, I don’t wanna hear about how he was evil from the minute his dad developed sperm)

[sparkles-and-trash]

Villain stans, DabiHawks fans and other adult character fans that also appreciate the rest of the story and cast, and who doesn’t hate basically all the kids in a weird way are a bit too rare imo 🫡

[sayuricorner]

Unpopular opinion: I think class 1-A from MHA manage the "Friends class" dynamic way better than the Akuma class from Miraculous Ladybug.