#and idk much about visuals

[silusvesuius]

snow queen dallas as just an extension of elsa dallas. All that crystal meth and sadness entrenched in his system turned him....Blue ❄💎

[fairmerthefarmer]

My take/designs on the pevensies! (They’re definitely heavily inspired by their looks in the movies.)

Beginning of the lion, the witch and the wardrobe

End of golden age-ish

I’d call this a WIP but it’s not really, mostly once we get into designing clothes in fantasy settings I feel very out of my depth, but I wanna practice more. I’m the most happy with Lucy’s but that’s also cause I most heavily referenced with hers.

Im mostly still just figuring out the clothes design for when they’re in narnia. I want brighter/more jewel toned and warmth to contrast with the more muted London clothes. And for the clothing design I want embroidery, but other than that I have no idea how I would make the designs of the narnian style in this era cohesive.

I also have vague main colours for each of them, lucy green, secondary red, edmund blue secondary brown, Susan purple secondary blue, Peter red secondary purple, and all of them use gold as well.

[residentwordsofaffirmationdealer]

batman & robin - "trust your partner to catch you when you fall"

"just close your eyes, remember your training... and trust your partner to be there for you." batman/nightwing: bloodborne (2002)

"what know what the key is to a good trapeze act? letting go... trusting that there's someone on the other side to catch you." detective comics (1937) #1074

"i always know the hands that will catch me." nightwing (2016) #100

"...because i've always had someone to catch me if i fell." nightwing (2016) #79

batman: legends of the dark knights (1989) #100

"i got you, kid. i won't let you fall--" nightwing (1996) #105

"when we were up on those ropes, there was no mom, no dad, and no son. we were partners... we were equal. each one of us made sure the others didn't fall. i didn't get to keep my promise. and i know i swore an oath to you... i know that this is dangerous. but just like my parents, we're more than partners... we're family. and i'm never going to let my family fall again." batman: urban legends (2021) #23

"and yet, watching them... their trust... he saw something for the first time." the boy wonder (2024) #1

"i've got you." nightwing (1996) #25

"you okay, robin?" the boy wonder (2024) #1

"we aren't just there to catch batman before he falls. he catches us." robins (2021) #5

"you caught me?" "always." batman: shadow war omega (2022) #1

"my job isn't to train you to make the same decisions i'd make. my job is to catch you, until you decide for yourself." batman and robin eternal (2015) #22

"robin! hang on!" "come on, girlie! reach! farther! or get ready to do the gotham splat! i got it! now hang on, and pray he can hold us both. but he's batman, so of course he'll hold us. it's official! i love this man!" robin (1993) #128

"out on the precipice. about to leap. knowing someone would catch you. not your mother. not your father. someone with a foot in the dark. just like me. someone who used fear as a weapon. batman." nightwing (2016) #2

"robin!" nightwing (1996) #? (written by devin grayson)

gotham knights (2000) #1

"dick. i didn't fall. i jumped. i jumped because i knew you'd catch me." nightwing (2016) #8

"and i try to pay bruce wayne back by doing for others what he did for me. by being their net. by catching them before they hit the ground." nightwing (2016) #1

batman and robin (2009) #9

red robin (2009) #12

"how'd you know? how did you know i'd be there to save you?" "you're my brother, dick. you'll always be there for me." red robin (2009) #12

"it's all right. everything's all right." "i just... wanted to... help." gotham knights (2000) #58

batman/superman worlds' finest (2022) #6

"but the trapeze is not a solo act" detective comics (1937) #1074

"it's always been about catching people when they fall." nightwing (2016) #29

we are robin (2015) #7

[allebooklover]

Can’t say much about parallels because I didn’t notice those (pretty sure it’s there tho. Maybe the panel of everything breaking? And how AFO’s big thing is his smile, which matches the whole ‘I want a house of smiles and laughter’ thing Kotaro had in mind for the house), but for me, when AFO revealed himself as part of Tenko’s past, and the main reason why Nana decided to abandon her son, Tenko’s dad, it sort of linked him to the house for me. He was not a part of the household, but he definitely contributed to why and how it came to be. Same for Shigaraki himself.

This is going to be a very long ramble as to why - and how Deku's failure to save Shigaraki relates to this. Spoilers under the cut:

Definitely agreeing that Deku failed to save Shigaraki - but not for reasons most people agree to. Deku failed to save Shigaraki not just because Shigaraki died (although that’s part of it), it’s also because of who he tried to save. He wanted to save ‘that little boy’ - the person who needed saving aka Tenko, before he took on the identity of Tomura Shigaraki. Deku didn’t say anything about wanting to save Villain!Shigaraki, the possessed by AFO villain leader who destroyed Japanese hero society and terrorized him and his classmates throughout the past year. He wanted to save Tenko, the boy whom hero society and civilians ignored in his time of need, who was then picked up and groomed by AFO into becoming Shigaraki.

That distinction between Tenko and Shigaraki is important.

In order to save Tenko, Deku must first fight Villain!Shigaraki, who Tenko became. And he succeeds - they exchange memories during the fight. Deku gets Shigaraki’s memories and perspective of why and how he came to become LoV leader villain possessed by AFO; Shigaraki gets the same but about Deku’s path onto heroism, which helps them understand each other enough for Deku to amateur therapy punch his way into the exact reason Tenko turned to villainy - aka ‘everything to do with that house’. This grants him access to the Tenko who has yet to become Villain!Shigaraki, succeeding in his goal of reaching the boy he wants to save.

Deku gains access to Tenko’s reason for villainy. Tenko’s trauma was caused by his mom, sister, and grandparents turning their eyes away from his father’s abuse, cementing his hatred of how hero society has made people complacent. By reaching out to Tenko even as he’s in the midst of destroying everything he touches uncontrollably, Deku proves that a complete stranger wants to be there for him in his time of need, destroying the reason for Tenko’s hatred. By being there for Tenko in his time of need, Deku eases Tenko’s pain and hatred, and is the first person to help Tenko take a step towards healing from his trauma and become a better person, as seen by his decision to help the disenfranchised and the friends he gathered around him. In that sense, Deku does save ‘that little boy’….

But only in the mindscape. Deku’s desire to save ‘that little boy’, while admirable, was always futile, because that boy has already became an adult. Deku’s support of Tenko in the mindscape doesn’t mean he’s managed to rewrite reality, which is that Tenko became Villain!Shigaraki because nobody saved Tenko back then. It doesn’t change the fact that Tenko became LoV leader and mass murderer Shigaraki. What it does change is Villain!Shigaraki’s mindset - Deku saving Tenko in the mindscape changed Villain!Shigaraki’s goal from ‘destroy the entire earth’ to ‘become a hero for the villains (aka his friends)’. This gives Villain!Shigaraki a chance to change back into Tenko, the person who wanted to be a hero, and meld that childhood desire with his villain experiences to become Hero!Shigaraki. Deku’s goal was to save both civilians and Tenko (not Shigaraki), and by being there for Tenko in the mindscape, Deku does manage to do both, by changing Tenko’s mind from Villain!Shigaraki’s goal of ’destroy everything’ and completing his metamorphosis into Hero!Shigaraki that has the goal of ‘save my friends’, which leaves Hero!Shigaraki open for communication without having to fight to the death.

How this relates to the house:

so Villain!Shigaraki’s main goal has always been to ‘destroy everything that came from that house’, which is his childhood home. Which he did destroy in reality, but is present in the dreamscape bc it was part of his trauma. One big thing that really stuck out to me was how Deku saved Tenko - he did this by holding Tenko’s hand when Tenko lost control of his Quirk, until he regained control again. This is a really cool bit on multiple levels, but how he does it is what matters here.

By reaching out to Tenko and grasping his hands, Deku forces Tenko to redirect the urge to destroy onto himself instead - which does end up destroying Deku’s arms. This prevents Tenko from killing his family (which was a big factor of his trauma), but it also prevents him from destroying his childhood home (source of trauma). It’s still standing pristine. Which to me symbolizes how even though Deku gave Tenko his biggest desire - being someone who was there for him, obliterating his ideology of everyone in hero society being complacent about suffering which gets rid of his hatred and helps him take a step towards recovering from his trauma - it doesn’t change the fact that the trauma existed in the first place, and that Tenko became supervillain Shigaraki.

How this relates to Deku saving ‘that little boy’ (aka Tenko):

by saving Tenko, this opens up a new path for Shigaraki to take. Deku was saved by All Might offering him the chance to become a hero via giving him OFA, and he’s offering Tenko the chance to turn away from villainy now by also giving him OFA - the narrative offers Tenko the chance to be a hero. That’s why child Tenko becoming adult Hero!Shigaraki who resolves to no longer destroy as a supervillain but instead be a hero to villains, aka his friends, is such a good scene imo. It’s a melding of both their goals - Tenko’s desire to change society in a way that validates his past trauma without harming others, Deku’s desire to save. Deku succeeds in his goal of saving Tenko (who has yet to become Shigaraki). In doing so Villain!Shigaraki (the person Tenko became) changes his mind about destroying everything as a supervillain to being Hero!Shigaraki, who wants to be a hero to his friends instead. The reason Deku was fighting Shigaraki was because Villain!Shigaraki wanted to kill Deku and destroy everything; now that Villain!Shigaraki has become Hero!Shigaraki, they can talk things out instead of fighting, which opens up the possibility of them working together to save the people society couldn’t save, aka villains.

That’s what Deku’s desire to save that little boy means to me - the recognition of and expending a helping hand to someone in need that is lashing out due to trauma, while ensuring that traumatized person doesn’t harm anyone else.

Shigaraki presents himself as someone who didn’t need saving when he very much did. By reaching out to Shigaraki in a way that validates his trauma in a supportive way that harms nobody else at great cost to himself, Deku inspires Tenko (the person he was trying to save) to stop being ‘LoV supervillain leader out to murder the whole world Shigaraki’ and instead try to be ‘hero to villains aka people that society failed to save aka the friends he made in the LoV Shigaraki’, which opens up Shigaraki’s path of atonement for his crimes and makes an ending for both of them to live be possible. We see via Gentle and La Brava that villains must be the ones to make the decision to stop villainous activity and stick to it; all heroes and civilians can do is encourage them to change for the better and help them along that path. By inspiring that change in Shigaraki, Deku does in that sense save him by deescalating Shigaraki enough to be open to talking about their ideologies instead of killing over it, which makes an ending where both of them live be possible.

That’s all about Deku saving Tenko who became Shigaraki, how does this relate to Deku failing to save Shigaraki: After Deku changes his mind, Shigaraki newfound desire is to be a hero to the friends he made in the LoV - the villains, and those that hero society failed to save. Specifically, a hero to the villains - aka his friends and the disenfranchised. His villainous self is literally cracking away - he no longer wants to fight, but talk ideology. It’s entirely possible that he and Deku could have resolved their issues peacefully in a way that satisfies both of their desires to save - which makes AFO’s appearance and subsequent takeover all the more tragic.

But there’s more to it, except this involves a very long ramble to explain how Deku’s failure to save, Hero!Shigaraki and Villain!Shigaraki’s desires, and AFO all link to ‘that house’ leads to that Shigaraki’s tragedy.

Hero!Shigaraki motivation and it’s link to AFO: A hero is someone who wins against villains to save others from harm. Shigaraki’s desire is to be a hero to his LoV friends - someone who wins against villains to save the LoV from harm. Who’s harmed both him, the people he cared about (his family sans dad) and his friends? AFO. AFO groomed him his entire life and is the entire reason his grandma and dad made the decisions they did. AFO’s bestie Garaki brought Toya back to life deliberately as someone with a short lifespan. AFO turned Shigaraki’s best friend Spinner into a semi-mindless noumu who’s lost sight of his original goals by manipulating their friendship to each other. And AFO is now currently trying to take over Shigaraki’s body to get OFA (aka his brother) to himself after revealing that he’s the mastermind of every single trauma in Shigaraki’s life.

Congratulations, Hero!Shigaraki - you have your villain to fight against. That it’s the sole villain in the villain gallery you inherited alongside OFA is icing on the cake.

How it relates to the Shimura household:

So there’s this whole thing about the Shimura household being a microcosm of hero society and its flaws. I wholeheartedly agree with this interpretation. Shigaraki’s destruction of the house and desire to destroy anything from that house symbolizes his desire to destroy hero society; that the house was left standing when Deku offered comfort symbolizes that although Shigaraki is now at peace, the trauma and issues caused by hero society still remains. But there’s also cause and symptom to consider.

So for the Shimura household, it’s generally accepted that Kotaro is the one most at fault for how Tenko came to be, because abuse. This is very much true - if Kotaro hadn’t became an abusive parent whose hatred of heroes overcame any love he had to his kids, Tenko wouldn’t have became Villain!Shigaraki. The reason for Kotaro’s hatred of heroes is because Kotaro’s mom Nana abandoned him to be a hero (for very good reasons, but it is still abandonment to the Japanese orphanage system which is like. Really horrible. No wonder he bears a grudge). Why did Nana abandon him? Because she was scared AFO would use him against her or kill him to get OFA - a fear that was very much well founded considering AFO’s whole ‘I manipulated Tenko’s entire life to groom him into becoming Shigaraki since birth’ thing. That would’ve been Tenko’s dad AFO was grooming if the whole ‘hide kid in foster family’ situation hadn’t hidden Kotaro from AFO until adulthood.

And the reason he targeted her family in the first place was because she inherited OFA from the hero he killed, who inherited it from the hero he killed, all the way up to and including the first user of OFA - who only got OFA in the first place because AFO gave it to him. When AFO said he was behind Shigaraki’s creation he wasn’t kidding - he’s the main reason for everything that went wrong within the Shimura household, just that it starts from two generations back in Nana’s time. Which isn’t to absolve Nana’s abandonment or Kotaro’s abuse - that’s on them, all this is doing is explaining the reasons behind their actions - but I honestly believe that if Nana hadn’t been so terrified of AFO, and that if AFO and OFA hadn’t existed in the first place, they wouldn’t have made the actions they did. They could have been happy together, and the house Kotaro built because of his trauma wouldn’t have been made.

Which brings us to ‘that house’ - the Shimura family household. The entire reason Kotaro made the house is because he wanted 1) a place of joy and laughter & 2) a place without heroes, primarily because of the abandonment issues and resentment Nana gave him. Which she wouldn’t have done if it weren’t for AFO. If AFO didn’t exist, Nana wouldn’t have abandoned him, and Kotaro wouldn’t have reason to build such a house. Much like how villains are initially seen as a cause of evil but are later revealed to be a symptom that was created by the flaws of hero society, Kotaro is a person who is initially seen as the cause of evil (an abuser and the main reason for Tenko’s trauma) that is later revealed to be a symptom that was created by AFO’s obsessive hunt for OFA (which AFO created in the first place).

Which is a super long way of saying that when AFO goes ‘I’ve been working on turning you into Shigaraki since birth’ to Tenko, it’s also him going ‘I’ve been working on this ever since I realised your grandma existed’. Which in turn causes Villain!Shigaraki to go from ‘my dad (and later on hero grandma) is the reason for my dysfunctional household’ to ‘AFO is the reason my grandma turned my dad into an asshole that created a dysfunctional household’, adding onto his reason to kick AFO’s butt.

(also visually, AFO's main thing is his wide smile and laughter, and Shimura household is a 'house built for joy and laughter' - aka smiles. so there's definitely a visual link there. and possibly other parallels in the panels in the manga.)

So now Shigaraki has two reasons for going after AFO - AFO being the cause of ‘that house’ fulfills his villainous reason of getting rid of anything related to it, and AFO hurting his pals makes for the heroic reason for it. This melds both the newfound Hero!Shigaraki’s motivations with old Villain!Shigaraki’s motivations together in a way that gets him to join the other heroes in defeating AFO. Which brings us to:

Deku’s reaction to Hero!Shigaraki (and failure to save): So we know from everything said earlier that Shigaraki declares his desire to be a hero to villains to Deku.

Deku doesn’t actually negate Shigaraki’s decision to be a hero. Part of it is because no time since AFO appeared directly after Shigaraki’s statement, but since he’s been shown to accept people so long as they show the desire to change no matter how horrible they were before, I think he would have accepted Shigaraki’s decision to become a hero and attempt to help him with that in a way that benefits society, while also holding Shigaraki accountable for his crimes at the same time.

Whether society accepts and accommodates that desire to become a hero is another matter. There’s a lot of reasons as to why this desire isn’t likely to be fulfilled - we know from how Aoyama and Gentle have been treated by the hero system that a person who has committed a crime will have an incredibly difficult, near impossible path of becoming a hero. Ditto for the dude who threatened to destroy the world, killed hundreds of people in his effort to destroy society, and showed no remorse about killing all those people - Hero!Shigaraki’s main goal is not becoming a hero to atone to society, but to be a hero to his friends aka villains. Doesn’t matter if he’s a changed person now, dude’s lucky if he gets lifelong imprisonment, let alone the opportunity to make up for all the lives he’s hurt and taken - if he even wants to try and atone, that is.

Which is why Deku’s actions after hold so much weight.

Shigaraki wants to be a hero. His goal as a hero is to defeat AFO. In the Final War arc, heroes work together as a team to defeat a villain stronger than they are - in this particular case, the villain is AFO possessing Shigaraki’s body. Thanks to Deku giving Shigaraki OFA, Shigaraki has the vestiges as part of his hero team to fight AFO in the mindscape, and with their help Shigaraki stays present enough to punch out AFO’s vestige, killing AFO and fulfilling his goal as both hero and villain.

Except Shigaraki doesn’t just have OFA on his side - he’s got Deku too. Deku got flung out of the mindscape and has all rights to call it a day especially after losing his arms, but he gets them back and rallies the rest of the heroes (and civilian rooting for him) into helping him defeat the AFO possessing Shigaraki’s body. Hero!Shigaraki and Deku share the same goal - defeating AFO. By gathering people to help him punch out AFO’s physical body, Deku punches AFO and Shigaraki’s body into oblivion the same moment Shigaraki kills AFO - helping Shigaraki in his goal of defeating AFO and saving the world at the same time, at the cost of failing to truly save Shigaraki.

I don’t blame Deku for his failure to save Shigaraki. He didn’t actually want to kill Shigaraki - he wanted to stop AFO, who was trying to possess Deku and kill everyone else. To do that Deku had to pick between saving Shigaraki vs saving the world, and he chose the world. However, I don’t think Shigaraki blames Deku for punching his body into oblivion either - Shigaraki wanted AFO dead just as much as the rest of the heroes did. Dude literally clung to life in the mindscape with the help of OFA just to kill AFO. Deku is a hero trained to save; Shigaraki is a villain who was trained to kill, and they both wanted to get rid of AFO. That AFO died is Shigaraki’s victory and Deku’s loss, even if it results in Shigaraki’s death, because AFO’s death was what Shigaraki wanted and Deku helped with that. Except I’m not sure if Shigaraki views his own death as a loss, either.

How Shigaraki’s death relates to ‘that house’:

Villain!Shigaraki’s goal was to ‘destroy everything related to that house’ - the Shimura household. And he did - in his history, he killed everyone living in that house up to and including the dog, as well as turned the house itself into dust. Deku and Shigaraki killed AFO (main reason for the existence of the house) with the help of OFA and the rest of the heroes. The only product of ‘that house’ left is Shigaraki himself.

Tenko is the only survivor of the Shimura household. Villain!Shigaraki was formed from the dysfunction of the Shimura household. Hero!Shigaraki is an amalgamation of his childhood desire to be a hero, and his experiences as a villain - all of which originates from ‘that house’. So long as Shigaraki lives, so too does ‘that house’, even if it still only exists in the mindscape (Deku prevented Tenko from destroying the house in the mindscape which led to the formation of Hero!Shigaraki). By dying after killing OFA, Shigaraki has fulfilled his goal of destroying everything and anything related to that household, finally fulfilling his original goal as a villain.

And Deku helped him in that goal.

Thing is, Deku didn’t save Shigaraki. But he does something I haven’t seen many people talk about - he listened to Shigaraki’s desires, and helped Shigaraki achieve them. Shigaraki wanted OFA - Deku gave Shigaraki OFA. Shigaraki wanted validation for his trauma - Deku validated it at the cost of his own arms. Shigaraki wanted to defeat AFO - OFA helped him with that, and Deku alongside the rest of the heroes helped Shigaraki deal the final blow. Shigaraki wanted to be a hero - by including Shigaraki in the ‘defeat AFO’ team, Deku gave Shigaraki hero status, unintentional as it might be. Shigaraki wanted everything ‘from that house’ destroyed - Deku punches Shigaraki, the final product of that house, and causes his body to disintegrate at the same time Shigaraki kills AFO.

OFA turned Deku from victim to hero, OFA helped Shigaraki go from victim to villain to hero. By giving Shigaraki OFA, Deku gave Shigaraki agency. And Shigaraki used that agency to aid in his own destruction to stop AFO. That he went out the way the rest of the household, AFO, and his method for killing everything - disintegrating into nothing via his Quirk - is poetic. Tragic, but fitting, and fulfils every single one of Shigaraki’s goals.

Their last conversation supports this line of thinking for me.

Deku fulfilling Shigaraki’s goals: Shigaraki confirms that Deku was right about him being traumatised and couldn’t even destroy Deku’s outreached hand (which is a lie, he actually did destroy Deku’s arms lmao). Deku doesn’t call him out on this, instead changes to subject and says he fought not because he wanted to kill Shigaraki - he fought because even though he wanted to save Shigaraki, he also wanted to hold him accountable for every single wrong he’s done (like terrorising his entire class for a whole year and committing countless murders). And Deku brings up Shigaraki’s desire again - he thought Shigaraki wanted to be stopped so that the cycle would stop with him, so Deku also fought to grant that desire. Not sure if that means he knew Shigaraki wanted to stop AFO possessing his body even if it meant Shigaraki’s death or if it meant stopping Shigaraki from destroying everything because of his trauma during the final battle, tbh - probs the latter. Shigaraki’s small laugh can be interpreted in many ways, but I’ve taken it to mean he’s surprised Deku saw through him and agrees with that assessment. But whether you view this as a correct assessment of Shigaraki’s desires, it’s Deku confirming that he thought about what Shigaraki wanted and tried to make that come true for him - helping Shigaraki achieve his goals once again.

Not just that, either. Shigaraki’s last words to Deku is a request to tell Spinner that ‘Tomura Shigaraki fought until the end to destroy’. And he did - Villain!Shigaraki destroyed society as planned, OFA (vestiges catapulted themselves into him with Deku’s help but it did end up destroying them, with the remnants of the vestiges only rising up at the end). Hero!Shigaraki worked with other heroes (Deku and the OFA Vestiges) to successfully destroy AFO and by extension himself, destroying the villain that hurt his friends and fulfilling Villain! Shigaraki’s desire to destroy everything related to the Shimura household which includes AFO and himself. And when Deku tells him that ‘yes, you did it’ - he’s confirming that Shigaraki has achieved in that goal of destroying AFO and himself. That Shigaraki has won, so that Shigaraki will be at peace.

(Which is why I’m fine with that final panel of Shigaraki’s death by Deku Punch looking so victorious. Deku failed to save Shigaraki, but he defeated AFO and saved the world. Shigaraki failed to be saved, but he achieved all his goals, which included AFO’s destruction. Bittersweet, but more sweet than bitter.)

NGL I also think this is Tomura’s way of telling Spinner ‘hey so you remember my mentor AFO who treated me like shit, groomed me into a nihilistic serial killer, took over my body and used our friendship to manipulate you into becoming a brainless Noumu for his own gain? You don’t need to worry about that guy anymore. I turned him to dust. I also turned myself into dust by killing him, but no worries - we got everything we wanted, like destroying the complacency of society, bringing attention to society’s flaws via its destruction and OFA. I’m dead but we win!’ Which is like. My dude your death is a loss that Spinner’s gonna mourn, telling him you went out with all your desires fulfilled won’t make it feel like a win, you socially awkward man. Deku agrees to pass on this message and does so - another of Shigaraki’s desire fulfilled.

And this leads to Shigaraki telling Deku ‘that depends on what you do tomorrow, do your damn best’, which is like. Shigaraki wanted to destroy society’s complacency and reliance on heroes by killing everyone. He succeeded in destroying society and revealing that complacency and reliance on heroes as flaws, causing massive loss of life, but there are still enough survivors to rebuild that society, and those survivors might once again become complacent and reliant on heroes to do everything, making all that destruction pointless. To me that line is him leaving his final desire up to Deku - being a hero to the villains and ensuring that the complacency and over reliance on heroes remains destroyed, and to do his best to rebuild a society where everyone helps each other instead of leaving it up to another person instead.

Shigaraki’s final desire - hero to villains and how that applies to Deku:

Shigaraki entrusts one desire for Deku to inherit - making sure over reliance on heroes to save everyone in society remains destroyed. Part of this is because Deku is the only one he can pass those desires onto (parallels OFA users getting OFA because they were the only ones available), part of this is because Deku is the one who both reached out to him in sympathy and held him accountable for his crimes. Because Deku was there for him, because Deku held him accountable, he wants Deku to do the same for him - hold society accountable, to prevent the mistakes that created him from being repeated. To do his best to prevent history from repeating itself, and continue what Shigaraki started - not the whole death of hundreds civilians things by killing them, but to keep society from relying on the heroes for everything and to do their part.

And one way Deku can do that is by taking on Shigaraki’s final desire - being a hero to villains.

Shigaraki’s idea of being a hero to villains is by assisting them in their villainy - he enables them in their desire to harm others, because that was all he’d been taught. This applies to those who turned to villainy because hero society couldn’t save them, and those who turned to villainy because they want to fulfil their own desires even if it harms others. Defeating AFO falls in this category - AFO harmed his friends, who were villains, so AFO had to go, amongst all the other reasons Shigaraki had for defeating him. Deku has the drive to make sure history doesn’t repeat itself and desire to do better than the ones that came before him, as we can see with his inheritance of OFA and working to become better than All Might. If he inherits Shigaraki’s goal of being a hero to villains - he can do better than Shigaraki by helping to save those that hero society failed to save, and holding those who are villains because their desires are more important than the lives of others accountable for their crimes, preventing more victims that could become villains in the process. Which I think Deku was already going to do, but like - it’d be more poignant if it was to grant the desire of the man he tried but failed to save.

Anyway. To summarise: Deku inspired Villain!Shigaraki to change back into Tenko mindset by being there for him during the trauma and giving him OFA. This causes Villain!Shigaraki to mindmeld with Tenko to become Hero!Shigaraki. Villain!Shigaraki wants to kill everything related to the Shimura household, Hero!Shigaraki wants to be hero to villains aka his friends, cue AFO, who has hurt Shigaraki’s friends and is a direct cause of the existence to the Shimura household even without the whole manipulation thing, appears and takes over Tenko’s body. This gives Shigaraki the opportunity to fulfil all his desires by killing AFO with the help of OFA, and Deku with the help of every other hero helps Shigaraki achieve that goal by punching AFO possessed!Shigaraki at the same time vestige!Shigaraki punches out AFO in the mindscape with OFA’s help - by giving OFA to Shigaraki, Deku helped Shigaraki regain agency to do as he pleases and an opportunity to accomplish his goals of being a hero. Shigaraki and Deku simultaneous defeat of AFO causes Shigaraki’s own body disintegrates, which means Deku failed to save Shigaraki but Shigaraki achieved his original goal of getting rid of the final product of the Shimura household aka himself. Deku proceeds to have one last convo with Shigaraki where Shigaraki asks Deku to fulfil his last few goals, which is farewell message to spinner, to do his best to make sure society doesn’t repeat its mistakes, and potentially hero to villains, which to Shigaraki are people like the LoV that society failed to save. Deku failed to save, but he did the next best thing which was listen to Shigaraki’s desires and help Shigaraki achieve as many of his goals as possible in a way that helped to save others, and he’s been shown doing that by informing Spinner of Shigaraki’s final words, so from one OFA recipient to another, it’s possible that Deku inherited Shigaraki’s goal of being hero to those society couldn’t save, and definitely inherited Shigaraki’s goal of making sure society’s mistakes don’t repeat itself.

or to put it another way -

All Might rose in a time of fear, when people needed to believe that things would turn out alright in order to move forward, and so he became a symbol of peace—his strength was a comfort to everyone. Because of him, society was able to come out of a state of chaos and stabilize.

But Midoriya was born in the era of complacency that followed. If he became the same symbol of peace that All Might was, then society would stagnate. Another strong OFA user would just reassure society that the heroes have everything handled, that they don’t need to intervene, and that they didn’t have enough power to help even if they wanted to.

That’s why his loss of OFA (a terrible thing in itself!!) is going to work out for the ultimate good of everyone. It actually frees Midoriya to wield the power he was born with—the ability to inspire other people to act. I don’t think it’s an accident that he was quirkless in his rising chapter. When people see Midoriya running to save, even without any power, they loose any excuse for complacency they had. They feel compelled to do the same.

That power—the connection of hearts that formed OFA in the first place—is greater than any quirk. It’s what makes Midoriya the greatest hero.

[lunacias]

She's feeling a swell of an emotion at confessing all of this. She works to get it under control. /// Although he can't understand her, HAYWARD, too, is choking up a little at the sound of PAIGE's voice.

[sunnyknight-original]

KINGERS GAMBIT - CHAPTER 1

“Why couldn’t we just play in the tent-“

(Work In Progress and Behind The Scenes stuff in my Shitpost account!)

[snarkspawn]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FRIENDS

[atalienart]

✧*:･ﾟArt summary 2024

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[akito-shinonome-daily]

🎤 day 477 🎵

➥ today’s akito is from the illustration by buzz for the mirai 2DMV!!

[lyxchen]

You know I really love how Squid Game pushes it's scenes so far that it makes you feel that sense of urgency and distress that the characters feel. It can easily happen that if a scene goes on for too long for the purpose of keeping you in suspense that it then gets boring or annoying. But that never happens in Squid Game. Some scenes are incredibly long, especially the games, I know I got so stressed out watching Dalgona for the first time because the scene just would not end. But that's exactly what the length of that scene is supposed to do for you. Often when you are feeling a lot of anxiety or are in a moment of intense stress everything around you can feel slower. Like time takes longer to pass. Especially when you have a time limit and still need to concentrate and not make any mistakes. And in my opinion Squid Game conveys that perfectly. The games, they drag on even though a game itself is often not that long. Red Light, Green Light has a timelimit of 5 minutes. That's so little!! But they make you feel every damn second of it while watching. I'm not sure if the actual scene was longer than 5 minutes, but it probably was. But they don't cut out stuff. Often when things happen over a span of time in shows and movies they don't add in parts where not much happens and just cut to the part that's interesting again. But in Squid Game because it is life or death and because of how anxiety can make you feel like time is passing slower every moment for the players feels so long and every moment is important. And that's what I really love in how they made the show. Because yes scenes may be going on for a long time. But they're showing you in the most realistic way possible how the players experience these moments. Add to that that there's almost no added in music like pop songs and in general there's not that much background music either. Because it would just take you out of the intensity of the scene, seperate you from the character's point of view. So a lot of scenes are very quiet in the way that every sound you hear is also a sound that a character inside the show is hearing too. Squid Game, just in the way it's made and filmed and in how long scenes take, is made to be so realistic and wants you to feel as closely as possible to what the characters themselves are feeling too. I really love this way of making a show

Btw I made this post because I realized that this doesn't just happen in the games but also outside of them. When Gi-hun is searching for the recruiter we get a montage of all of them searching, the days passing and Gi-hun ripping off pages from his calendar, but even here that montage takes longer than a montage to show the passage of time usually takes. Because it is long. They can't show us every day of Gi-hun just searching again and again but they can sure make us feel like we've just watched that. And you start out watching it thinking "oh they're gonna show us them finding him in like the next 30 second" but they don't. And there's one point where you think the montage is over but then it isn't. And you get frustrated watching it because "why can't they find the recruiter already?? This is taking so long" and that's Exactly how Gi-hun is feeling in that moment. They drag it out, they show you so much of everybody just searching and days passing and they Want you to be annoyed, because then you're really getting it. You're really getting how fucking long it took to find the Recruiter and what a painfully and annoyingly slow and exhausting process it was. And that's just another way that this show is so damn amazing!!! Because it's so fucking good at making you feel exactly what a character is feeling!! They're not just telling you "oh yeah this took long but they did it", no. They're Showing you exactly how long it took.

And suddenly we've arrived at one of my favorite story telling rules which is "show, don't tell" and I think Squid Game applies this rule really really well

(I have more rambly thoughts under the cut that have a little bit to do with this post but focus on another part of it. Also if the structure of this post feels weird that's probably because I had many different thoughts and just kinda put them where I felt they fit in best so idk, I have a hard time rereading stuff I've written so sorry if the flow of it feels off)

Tbh I think it might also be a little bit why the show appeals to so many people and why so many people go and participate in Squid Game the Challenge or that Mr Beast shit. With the way Squid Game is made and filmed to be so immersive it has the power to give the viewer that same rush of adrenaline that the players inside the show feel. But us viewers sit at home and we know we are safe and so we want more of that adrenaline. It's maybe kind of like Bungee Jumping. You get that rush, that thrill of "holy shit I'm Falling", but you know you're safe. You're doing something you would otherwise only experience right before death. And obviously that is what Squid Game the Challenge is like, because being in it you know if this was real, as in real the way it is real in the show, then you'd be very close to death at any given moment. But you're not. Because you don't die if you fail. But you still get that thrill because of that association with death without actually having to be afraid of it. And that's when it gets fun. And while I don't think that this was intended the show is partly also as popular as it is, Because just by watching it you get a little bit of that adrenaline that's fun for you because you know you're safe

Also another thought about the 'show, don't tell' point of it all. There's not that much talking happening in Squid Game. Like people obviously speak to each other but often there are also long periods of time where nobody is speaking at all. But that doesn't matter because this show is so good at showing us everything that is important without much words needed. I'm pretty sure you could watch it without sound or subtitles and still get most of the plot of it. And that's really impressive

[dreamsy990]

hi i wanted to draw my own au so have a snippet of scene i rewrote like 12 times and will likely rewrite again

[rustyrailways]

This might be an odd detail to fixate on but one of my favourite Jayce features are his eyelids, and I feel like they aren't super talked about? When I first started drawing him his eyes were the hardest part to get down (second being his jaw due to how square it is) and I can't tell you how long I spent looking at them as references or studies, eventually there became something so endearing about them.

I love how they always have an element of softness regardless of how beaten down he is. I think it's the way the lid fold tilts slightly downwards to cover his upper eyelid slightly which gives the illusion it's ever so slightly curved or drooped at times. You also can see the shadow where it begins to tilt up again to the corner of his eyebrows, especially in contrast to his previously mentioned upper eyelid which is much more creased with causes a more noticeable contrast. Softer curves around the eye tend to be percieved as more gentle looking as opposed to harsher curves which come across as more intense.

I'm not always too great nor confident with verbal descriptions but if I pull out my cobbled together "eye board for when I'm too lazy to look up a reference" page I put together I (hopefully) might be able to verbalize it better:

^(Latest edition. Now with photos from s2)

These are probably my favourite examples that highlight it. The gentle curve it causes creates a much softer look that absolutely contributes to how doe-like his eyes are. In addition, the permanent crease it causes at the side of his eyes give them an overall more gentle appearance (as upwards titled creases tend to do - often reminiscent of eye crinkles which are associated with people that smile often). Not to mention the extra creases add further visual interest on a purely interesting character design level.

The eye crease in itself, along with his permanent eye bags are other features I unreasonably adore - but I think I might make a seperate post about them. This might be a bit of a curious thing to be thinking about but just I love how much more life it gives him and how kind it makes them look, I always catch myself looking at them :)

Tldr: I love how gentle his eyes are and I need to stare at them for hours memorising every detail and squeeze his head like a watermelon between thighs

[per1w1nkl3]

im sorry is there any straight explanation to spocks character arc in the motion picture??? or am i missing something???? he mindmelts with the machine and- as hes clinging onto kirks arm- tells him how v'ger is just a cold logical machine and it'll never understand this simple feeling (what simple feeling spock. wHATSIMPLE FEELING.) (spock has just come back from the ritual which purges vulcans of all emotion, making them only logical beings). hes so overwhelmed by this realization (hes JUST about to cry. ive never seen him teary-eyed im unwell) that at the end of the movie he decides to forego kolinahr completely. oh and this insane arc and life changing decisions are never really verbally adressed btw.

[skeletalheartattack]

for the past couple of days, i've been working on Boe's house in limbo and getting it to look close to how i've been picturing it in my head - here's a couple of shots so far showing off the exterior and interior, with the top screenshot being further along in progress than the other exterior shots.

[wyrmways]

I love prehistoric planet so so dearly but i do wish that they made the animals a little less gray.

Especially in cases of animals that are theorized to have sexual display traits like frills or crests?? They put some color on them but compared to real life animals (especially reptiles & birds!) they are just sooo dull.

Nanuqsaurus was especially disappointing for me. Maybe it's just because it's normally depicted as some kind of white color, but i feel having the opportunity for such a unique color on this dinosaur and making it mostly the same grayish brown as so many other dinosaurs in the show was a missed opportunity.

Part of this is definitely the filter and lighting they put over certain scenes to make them look more 'natural' i suppose. I think the male hatzegopteryx's crest is actually very beautiful, but unfortunately due to the lighting of the show it often appears so much more drab and dull than it should be, even in broad daylight .

(color in show vs art by ttorroo on instagram)

This is a major reason the corythoraptor design stood out to me, because they were just so bright and beautiful in comparison to everything else in the show! Every time they were on screen i thought it was amazing to get to see these dinosaurs in such vibrant color! This shows that they /can/ depict dinosaurs in this way at least.

And i feel as though the only reason they /were/ blue is because they were based off of the modern cassowaries (one of which i got to see in person recently, they are a GORGEOUS blue. So much brighter than you would expect, heres a picture)

I just feel like, even though i love prehistoric planet, its quest to be overly 'realistic' holds it back in this area at least. The only animals they were willing to make super vibrant were the ones they based on a living similar bird, instead of considering that if the bright colors of a cassowary are possible, there's nothing that says that other bright colors could be possible on other types of dinosaurs.

Especially considering the colors of other birds! If they wanted to base the dino coloring on real life animals, they could have been inspired by other kinds of birds. Just because cassowaries are more 'dinosaur-like' doesnt discount the fact that birds are an incredibly diversely colored and patterned group of animals. There is plenty of potential for other colors in dinosaurs when looking at modern ones.

In fact, i would argue that the fossil evidence we have shows that dinosaurs could have been more brightly colored and distinctly patterned than the ones in the show, at least. While there haven't been bright yellow or blue dinos found, there has been evidence of brighter reds and browns, some greens and purples, iridescent like feathers, and more distinct patterns like stripes on several dinos.

It kind of baffles me how they were able to make leaps like the dreadnoughtus air sacs, but they weren't willing to make the dinosaurs a little brighter? I mean, so much paleo art nowadays depicts dinos in vibrant colors, i dont think it would be too much of a stretch.

Tldr, i love prehistoric planet and i think it has done a lot for the perception and depiction of dinosaurs as real life animals, i just wish that it didnt associate looking 'realistic' with 'looking gray' as much as it does, especially considering the amount of potential traits for sexual display dinosaurs had, and the colors of living birds and fossil evidence of dinosaur colors.

[faunandfloraas]

Seungmin saying they changed song by so it would be easier for people to watch and listen and then me seeing people going "Yes! It's good it's on tiktok and shorts now" and I'm like. Oh. You're all so fucking stupid <3