#and the fact that he literally funded his hero suit for 8 years of his life

[whomstdosthouthinkiis]

once the leaks are translated I will cannibalize them for parts, such as the bakudeku talk and other characterization, but most will be discarded.

To everyone here's something I have taken to heart since getting into star wars: If there is a part of canon you don't like, you can just ignore it. which is what I'm gonna do.

extra chapter? never heard of her. mha has 430 chapters. this is known.

[lilybecca1]

Wait, Bakudeku is literally considered canon in the Japanese fandom???!!! Like no joke, in Japan Bkdk being canon is actually a widely accepted thing?? Like, let me get this straight.

The manga was meant for Japanese audience mainly, so the romance would also be something that is suited for Japanese audience, not the direct and straight forward approach that non-japanese shows have when it comes to romance. And you guys remember the "Rest of our lives" scene? Well yeah, that's actually a marriage proposal in Japan. In Japan they don't say Will you marry me? Some of the most common proposal lines are literally:

“Let’s spend the rest of our lives together.”

“Having you by my side is what completes me.”

“I can't imagine my life without you in it.”

“I wish I could give you everything, but I hope that this ring is enough.”

"I will protect you forever."

Like bro what?? These are literally Bkdk coded. Like Izuku fr thought once that he can't imagine his world without Kacchan in it. And the “I wish I could give you everything, but I hope that this ring is enough.”?? Replace ring with hero suit and you get the freaking ending of the manga. And I will protect you forever is also so them like I just can't yjxnsjxjnxjdkkxkxkxkxkkdk

I know we were all waiting for Horikoshi to make Bkdk canon in some big way like at the end they're revealed to be together or some confession or some shit but we do forget sometimes that this is set in Japanese culture and in Japan things are very different. Much more subtle and way less straight forward and obvious. Most japanese husbands and wives don't even normally say I love you to each other, because they express love through different ways, like action. And that is very hard for our non-japanese brains to understand cause it's just so different over there and instead of being expressive, love in Japanese culture is more about gratitude expressed through actions and devotion. It's much more symbolic.

So then when we think back on all those Cherry Blossom official arts, well NOW it doesn't seem too far fetched to think it might mean something, does it? For us, all these little hints and symbolism are just that. Hints and symbolism. But for Japanese people? They know how to read it very well and it's common in Japan to express certain things through symbolism. Like "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?" Is a full on marriage proposal line. It doesn't seem like it to us, but to them yes. Also let's not forget we literally have a scene with Deku looking out at the moon and Bakugo too 😭

So, if we look at it in a Japanese sense, and that in japaese culture, love is expressed in a more symbolic way, and through actions and devotion, then it isn't so hard to believe anymore that Bakugo and Deku are actually fully implied canon in the manga. I mean talk about devotion..Bakugo literally spent 8 YEARS to help fund that suit for Izuku. He took "actions speak louder than words" fcking seriously.

Like would it be better if Horikoshi actually made them say they were in love or made then kiss or something? Yeah, but realistically speaking that probably wasn't gonna happen either way. And the fact that the Japanese fandom, who the manga is literally meant for, is fr congratulating Bakudeku for being canon!!!! Like y'all if the japanese fandom thinks that they're canon then it's safe to say that they are. Because in a sense, Japanese people can read and understand that "language" behind those hints better than us. And if they say it's canon, then I bet my ass it is.

TOO BAD I AIN'T FCKING JAPANESE

Like seriously why is it so hard being European. We wouldn't believe something was true until the cold hard evidence was literally laid right in front of our freaking eyes.

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“Invincible”, Season 1 (2021) Review

Somehow both very cool and very fucking stupid :D

About Created and written primarily by Robert Kirkman (principle writer for The Walking Dead comic and TV show), this Young Adult cartoon basically synthesizes a number of comic book characters (e.g., Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Hellboy, Wonder Woman, Gambit) and tries to balance their heroism with cynical twists and dark realities. It's an exercise like Brightburn (2019) in that it mirrors existing comic writing all too closely in order to make violent twists. The cool stuff arrives pretty much immediately. You can tell right away that the physics have some level of realism, and it quickly gets serious because of this. The easy comparison would be to The Boys (also by Amazon, also about violent heroes, and also very well-produced). So, if you like The Boys (2019–), you'll probably like Invincible only a little less.

(( Some spoilers but nothing too specific ))

Wrong Focus But, the stupid stuff comes from the same error that the Kick-Ass movie (2010) made: it focuses on the wrong person(s). In Kick-Ass, the error was focusing on.. well.. "Kick-Ass", an irredeemable loser and waste of screen time. Invincible makes the same mistake, focusing on.. well.. "Invincible", a (so far) irredeemable loser and waste of screen time. So, despite its virtues, this show cannot escape that it made the decision to go for the Young Adult viewing demographic. It reminds me of Alita: Battle Angel (2019) in that way too: some very cool adult concepts ruined by the dramatic devices of unrepentant teenage stupidity and irrelevance. I didn't even like that stuff when I was a teenager, though Jordan Catalano gets a pass.

Main Cast and Characters The supporting characters were also very stupid. The most annoying was definitely Amber Bennett (voiced by the otherwise cool Zazie Beetz from Deadpool 2 (2018) and Joker (2019)), 

who is supposed to be attractive somehow to Mark Grayson ("Invincible", voiced by Steven Yeun, who played Glenn on The Walking Dead) 

despite the fact that she constantly judges him, fails to understand him, often fails to give him any kind of benefit of the doubt, and continues to scowl at him and be hurtful towards him even when she has information that should change her outlook towards him. And because she is part of the love triangle shared between herself, Invincible/Mark, and "Atom Eve"/Samantha (voiced by the awesome Gillian Jacobs from Community (2009–2014)), 

audiences simply have to bear with it that Amber's annoying character will be present and wasting time until Mark can realize that Amber is in fact toxic and that Eve actually understands him and can improve him in more positive directions. That love triangle should have been a 20-minute distraction, but I'm guessing that it will eat up a season or two more, especially if the writers become cowardly and fail to change things for fear of messing up a perceived "winning" formula. In my ideal story line, they would skip ahead 10 years, drop the teen drama, the love triangle, and the stupid jokes and have Invincible and Eve paired in defense of Earth, with the main tension being from their worry that the other would be horribly gored in front of them during lethal fights against cosmic enemies ;)

Aside, I am aware of Amber’s motivation for being a bad person, I just think her justification is not based in understanding, empathy, and a regard for the gravity of Invincible’s situation. In a strict political sense, Invincible should not commit a lie of omission by keeping her in the dark about his identity — even if for the “noble lie” reason of protecting her — but in a real sense, he is a fucking teenager who just developed his super powers. For her to pretend that he should reveal his entire identity to her — a potentially transformative and even dangerous decision — after a few months of teenage romance paints an absurd portrait of her mind. It does, however, align her with Omni-Man, because where Omni-Man forces Invincible to become an adult in the fighting sense (pushing with full force early on), Amber forces Invincible to become an emotional adult by getting him to understand that toxic people such as herself need to be given boundaries — and he needs to learn to clearly delineate and communicate his real desires. By knowing that he does not want Amber, people who regiment his free time, or people who do not suit him, for instance, he can realize why Eve was an obvious decision: Eve understands, can make time when they have time, and will let him find his decisions. Part of a coming-of-age story tends to be realizing what one actually wants, and Invincible’s hesitation in telling Amber his identity shows that he does not truly want her. This separates Invincible from, say, Spider-Man, who avoided telling Mary Jane his identity not because he did not want her but because he wanted at all costs to protect her.

The next most annoying character has to be Debbie Grayson (voiced by TV-cancer Sandra Oh and who luckily was not animated to look like the real Sandra Oh and who should have been voiced instead by Bobby Lee due to Lee's successful MadTV parody of Sandra Oh). 

Debbie basically fills the role of Skyler in Breaking Bad, except that Debbie's character tends to be slightly more understanding before her inevitable and toxic Skyler-resentment and undermining behavior. Despite having an 8-episode arc of change, Debbie's character flips too quickly and lacks the empathy and Omni-Man motive-justifying that would make her interesting (the comic's development may vary). For instance, if she refused to believe that Omni-Man meant his own words, that would make her empathetic and perhaps virtuous even if misled, but instead she dropped their "20 years" of understanding after viewing Omni-Man in action, which makes her appear shallow, easily manipulated, and unsympathetic. That was a definite "Young Adult" genre move because it shows immaturity by the writers to break apart a bond of 20 years so quickly. Mediocre teens might accept such a fissure because their lives have not yet seen or may not comprehend that level of time, but adults know that even long-standing and problematic relationships (which, beyond the lie, Omni-Man's and Debbie's was not shown to be) take a lot of time to break — even with lies exposed.

Omni-Man The biggest show strength for me was of course Omni-Man, who in a success of casting was voiced by J.K. Simmons in a kind of reprisal of Simmons' role as Fletcher from Whiplash (2014). 

The Fletcher/Omni-Man parallel shows through their being incredibly harsh but extremely disciplined and principled, forcing people to become beyond even their own ideal selves (this via Omni-Man's tough-love teaching of Invincible — comically, Omni-Man was actually psychologically easier on Invincible than Fletcher was on Whiplash's Andrew character). Despite the show's attempts to villainize Omni-Man, he, like Fletcher and also like Breaking Bad's Walter White, becomes progressively more awesome, eventually representing a Spartan will, an unconquerable drive, and a realistic and martial understanding of a hero's role.

To the show's credit, while it wrote Omni-Man to be outright genocidal and from a culture of eugenicists (again, Spartan), they could not help but admire him and his "violence" and "naked force" (for a Starship Troopers reference), giving him a path to redemption. That redemption comes in part because — despite the show's attempt to be often realistic and violent — its decision to be directed at young adults via dumb jokes, petty relationship drama, the characters’ reckless lack of anonymity and security in their neighborhood (loudly taking off and landing right at the doorstep), and light indy music also made the portrayed violence far less literal. With a less literal violence, the real statement becomes not that Omni-Man really did kill so many people (though he certainly did kill those people within the show's plot) but that he was symbolically capable of terrible violence but could be reformed for good. That's the shortcoming with putting violence under demographic limitations. If it's a PG-13 Godzilla knocking down cities, the deaths in the many fallen skyscrapers don't matter so much (the audience will even forgive Godzilla for mass death if it happens mostly in removed spectacle), whereas if it's Cormac McCarthy envisioning a very realistic fiction, every death rides the edge of true trauma.

By showing light between the real and the symbolic, it is much easier to identify and agree with Omni-Man. For instance, when Robot (voiced by Zachary Quinto of Heroes and the newer Star Trek movies) 

shows too much empathy for the revealed weakness of "Monster Girl" (voiced by Grey Griffin), the audience may have thought, "Pathetic," even before Omni-Man himself said it. And this because Omni-Man knows that true and powerful enemies (including himself) will not hesitate to use ultra-violence against these avenues of weakness. "Invincible" can make his Spider-Man quips while in lethal battles, but he does so while riding the edge of death — something that Omni-Man has to teach Invincible by riding him to the brink of his own.

Other Cast/Characters and Amazon's Hidden Budget It was impressive how many big-name actors were thrown into this — a true hemorrhage of producer funding. Amazon has so far hidden the budget numbers, perhaps because they don't want people to know that the show (like many of its shows) represents a kind of loss-leader to jump-start its entertainment brand.

Aside from those already mentioned, the show borrows a number of actors from The Walking Dead (WD), including.. • Chad L. Coleman ("Martian Man"; "Tyreese" on WD),

• Khary Payton ("Black Samson"; "Ezekiel" on WD),

• Ross Marquand (several characters; "Aaron" on WD)

• Lauren Cohan ("War Woman"; "Maggie" on WD)

• Michael Cudlitz ("Red Rush"; "Abraham" on WD)

• Lennie James ("Darkwing"; "Morgan" on WD)

• Sonequa Martin-Green ("Green Ghost"; "Sasha" on WD) 

There were also connections to Rick and Morty and Community, not just with Gillian Jacobs but also with... • Justin Roiland ("Doug Cheston"), who voices both Rick and Morty in Rick and Morty,

• Jason Mantzoukas ("Rex"),

• Walton Goggins ("Cecil"),

• Chris Diamantopoulos (several characters),

• Clancy Brown ("Damien Darkblood"),

• Kevin Michael Richardson ("Mauler Twins"), and

• Ryan Ridley (writing)

That's a lot of overlap. They even had Michael Dorn from Star Trek: TNG (1987–1994) (there he played Worf) and Reginald VelJohnson from Family Matters (1989–1998) and Die Hard (1988), and even Mark Hamill. Pretty much everyone in the voice cast was significant and known. Maybe Amazon got a discount for COVID since the actors could all do voice-work from home? ;)

Overall Bad that it was for the Young Adult target demo but good for the infrequent adult themes and ultra-violence. Very high production value and a good watch for those who like dark superhero stories. I have heard that the comic gets progressively darker, which fits for Robert Kirkman, so it will likely be worth keeping up with this show.

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Anthems Even Dumber Than The Fringe Groups Performing Them

Music has always been a valuable tool for making an important testimony to a wide gathering. Why, it was folksy objection music( and folksy protest music alone !) that stopped the Vietnam War … at least according to folksy dissent musicians. But when you’re writing music with a content, the music is only as important as that message. And if that content is “I’m having Batboy’s moon-baby” levels of crazy? Well, you are able to find them on this here list…

# 8. Anti-GMO Music Is A Discography Of Awkward ‘7 0s and ‘8 0s Song Covers

Here’s an anti-GMO extend of the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” starring everybody’s papa " class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> TAGEND When he’s not busy slithering out the bureau intern with quips about what he’d do if “hes been” “2 0 years younger, ” Dana Lyons must waste his spare time studying bioengineering, as evidenced by his texts " class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> TAGEND

Flounder In the tomato A little human In the rice that we sow Mouse genes Really make a pig grow And we’ll form tons of fund

Scary shit , no doubt. His alarming projections lose some of their weight, however, when you realize that pronounced “flounder” is actually a gene that increases resist to frost, while the “human” is an enzyme found in breast milk that campaigns bacteria. Sadly, the mouse-pig occasion aim to lower the toxicity of animal turd, building it considerably less adorable than it sounds.

If you thought Lyons’ dancing was squirm-inducing, we have three messages for you: Pantsless grape costume.

Here’s three more: No , no , no .

And once he starts get overly suggestive with the carrots …

… you’ll find that, much as if you’d feed one of those GMO Piranhapples Lyons tried to warn you about, you have become abruptly and ferociously infertile. There’s too “Don’t Eat It” by Swami G, a tone-deaf covering of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” boasting an alternate-reality MJ dunked in a tub of lard and sap of all perceivable aptitude TAGEND

It doesn’t take long for shit to get real, as hippies and Evil Suits reenact the one-armed knife campaign from the original music video. With corn!

We have a different prompting for where they can fasten those . It doesn’t seem too dangerous until you remember that this is GMO corn , so a single gouge would doubtlessly justification you to grow corn-silk tentacles. Meanwhile, research scientists whose hairstyle induces us think he’s maybe not an actual scientist injects some nearby vegetables with his nefarious GMO juice TAGEND

“I’VE SET THE SCIENCING TO FULL EVIL! PREPARING MAXIMUM DOSE OF MURDERTRONS FOR INJECTION! ”

Our heroes proceed to snack on the adulterated nutrient, which kills them and resurrects them as twitching zombies, thereby establishing that GMO-hating hippies have accurately zero respect for the King of Pop’s catalog.

“You’ve been hit by, you’ve been hit by, a bad video.”

# 7. Furries Doing Pop Covers

The “Larger Than Life” music video from Eurofurence 2014( no, we didn’t constitute that up) kickings off with a singing, dancing dog-man’s minimally reassuring jaw mechanism flapping along to the verses as his eyes follow you wherever you go. Wherever. You go.

Even into your nightmares. Tonight .

Then, boom! Stripper pole leopard-lady!

Wait, this might actually only be a Miley Cyrus GIF . If that doesn’t float your ship, perhaps this furrified version of “Single Ladies( Give A Ring On It) “, inevitably named “All The Single Furries” TAGEND

Three pups re-create the far-famed Beyonce video, wearing S& M cervix collars and hopelessly furring up the melodics with nonsense like, “If you like it then you shoulda place a leash on it.”

We’d preferably not understand their Lemonade . Of direction , not everyone shovels Top 40 guidelines. For those whose flavors recline more toward Viking Death Metal, there’s this Amon Amarth cros TAGEND

Finally, you can coalesce your twin loves of hardcore metal with hardcore dry-humping person or persons in a rabbit costume.

The lightning is actually static buildup from yiffing .

# 6. The Anti-Chemtrails Ballads

Got ten minutes to kill? Well, that time could lose no crueler fatality than if you burned it listening to this lady sing about chemtrails TAGEND

But they need every one of those times, because Violet Sky has a message to get out, by God, and that word is, uh … we’re not sure? Maybe that aircrafts are crop-dusting us all with mind-control juice …

“Right there! Picture? You know, the thing that literally thousands of beings examine every day? ”

Or perhaps the letter is “the sky’s not all that.”

Then there’s “Chemtrail Cowboy” …

Wherein a reanimated skeleton sings a joyous country sung about his period place: Thinning the population by spraying authority poison on us.

Hey, Zelda enemies gotta make a living somehow .

# 5. 9/11 Reality You Can Dance To

YouTuber and overall general psychopath ScootleRoyale wishes to inform you that “9/ 11 Was An Inside Job” the best lane he knows how: Via a bouncy electro ditty juxtaposed with epitomes of the twin towers collapsing and beings horrifically dying TAGEND

What good is a tragedy if you can’t dance to it?

We have no joke here, other than the facts of the case that this was moved . Then there’s “9/ 11 ‘s A Lie” by the Free Bees, a surprisingly proficient include of the Bee Gees’ disco classic “Stayin’ Alive” TAGEND

Despite what it remarks in the description, please do not share this “like STD.”

In this reimagined version, the Bee Gees don’t prowl the New York City disco scene on the hunt for strange with feathered whisker and a circumstance for golden series, but instead stalk a blasted hellscape, searching for the truth about 9/11, but merely ascertaining person .

Plus the feathered hair .

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