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What you said about your ideal ending for bnha, that the villains would win and change everything, then the hero kids would come back in, straightening things out but being able to make the necessary societal adaptations, sounds brilliantly perfect! Like a destruction and re-creation type of ending.
I really like that idea, as currently the kids have zero intention or means of changing anything in hero society, and it seems the only way to avoid an a**pull ending of 'and the next generation fixed things (no descriptions given and everything is suspiciously the same, but it all worked out!)
I do think that the villains will be saved and the hero kids will win in the end but seriously Thanks for never giving up in thinking we should get a better conclusion on the plots/themes/characters in bnha rather than something generic and unsatisfying.
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Thanks, and you’re very welcome.
Really, I say that ending was “my pipe dream climax for a while” but really its always something I��ve kept in the back of my head. Because someone at some point needs to address the societal faults of HeroAca’s setting, right? And if the villains really are destined to lose and can’t achieve any of their ambitions (not to mention arguments that the League are so self-destructive they shouldn’t achieve their ambitions), then logically it should be the kids.
But the kids’ arcs aren’t headed in the direction and have never been about that in the first place. Their arcs have always been about becoming heroes and saving people, and about what kind of hero they’ll become and how they’ll save people. That’s what all the hurdles they’ve ever faced, past and present, have informed. Even Shoji, the one hero who does want to fix something wrong in society, wants to do so by being an All Might wannabee, which his own origin story showed not working. And while this could all be rectified by listening to and working with the League; as is, changing society just doesn’t seem to be their role. And if it isn’t, then maybe their role is just protecting innocents in the transition and saving the villains when their job is done.
Which would mean the villains' job, their role, is changing society. That is the conventional understanding, right? The villains challenge the status quo while heroes protect and pursue justice.
Of course, there is still the argument that they’re too self-destructive for any of their goals to be something to aspire for; but hey, maybe their character growth is meant to be about learning to be less self-destructive villains. I’d argue that’s what Spinner’s been going through a lot of, at least; juries out on if Dabi & Toga will be headed that specific direction. And maybe they could learn to be less anarchistic and destructive to those around them too, after that. Might be good if they’re supposed to rule for a period, and then come to an understanding with the heroes in the end.
And if we got to see what a “villain society” under Shigaraki & PLF rule is like at that time, get to see the villains put their money where their mouths are and what’s right or wrong with their aspirations & ideals, well I think that would be pretty cool.
Certainly preferable to the a**pull ending of us being told everything got solved easy.
Honestly I think if they went with that ending, where we’re just told Class 1A fixed everything easily off-screen despite all the hurdles in the way of that (not least of which being their own disinterest); I wouldn’t believe it. I’d think they did enough to convince themselves they solved prejudice and government corruption; but they wouldn’t really, and a new League made of villains saying all the same things as the current League would form early into their professional careers to their great confusion.
Hence why I don't much care for the idea of that ending. Complex problems require and deserve hard, detailed solutions.
#ask & reply#bnha#shigaraki tomura#spinner#dabi#toga himiko#league of villains#lov#paranormal liberation front#PLF#hero society#class 1a#I'm not sure how on the table any of this still is; so this might just be rambling of what could have been#but to hold out hope:#my stupid long term predictions
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today in church one of the priests referred to trans people as "those who are growing into the gender they were called to be" and i'm kind of enjoying the idea of like....divinely ordained top surgery
#if god thinks i should get top surgery he needs to venmo me $9000 usd#there was someone in the gay social hour who said she had gotten kicked out of multiple catholic churches (for being trans)#and her therapist recommended this church specifically....#going into affirming churches still makes me a little emotional if i am being fully honest. if you have an affirming religious space#i hope you can hold onto that shit with your life#anyway. charming way to think about it i like it more than the bread and wine one personally#me#edit: to clarify this was at an episcopalian church
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I was so nervous to do this but
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I'm so wearing these when I go to Manchester for the protocol s2 thing
#im actually pretty happy with how they turned out#i just hope the design holds up to wear and tear of shoes#tma#the magnus archives#the magnus protocol
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SCIENCE BEGETS TRUTH✨
#ace attorney#my art#ema skye#the text behind her also says 'SCIENCE BEGETS TRUTH#and she's holding two micro pipettes haha#I really liked doing this one tbh... it's fun silly ace attorney stuff but behind it is a message I truly believe in too!!!#I used to work in a lab. I thought I wanna gunna be a scientist#I'm an artist now though (as you can see haha). I hope AU scientist me is out there living her best life!#this art is a love letter from me to ace attorney and to science!!!!#thank you everyone on patreon for voting for me to draw ema skye
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your love returns in tragedy (ID in alt)
#farcille#falin touden#marcille donato#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#coming face to face with the consequences of acting out of love - marcille u will always be famous#dunmeshi is really a series that keeps on moving bc it's about so many different characters and centered on the journey#rather than like... introspectively on one singular individual so i dont think we see marcille dwell on it but we can see her fatigue#her shock and surprise in the recent ep “don't hurt her she's just confused” Gah. desperately trying to grasp everything thats going on and#not to lose hope. bc undoubtedly the remains she put together was falin's - that short moment of reprieve the party had was with falin#she was able to bring her back her magic did it!! but the violence the fatal swings was not falin at all.#just pondering about holding that guilt... it's such a huge responsibility to be in charge of life in the first place and yet it is#a burden she'll keep trudging with. defying the natural orders to keep the people she love alive... i Lauv her...#also shared sentiment with the rest of the fandom but God. Chimera Falin... she is Everything....#ruporas art
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fascist gets elected for president of the US, a week later mcr drops tbp lore about a dictator,,,, save us mcr
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OH MY GOD I NEED TO EAT YOUR ARTSTYLE, CHEW AND COMSUME IT,
Your Jayvik art means MILLIONS to me, there's something so cozy and happy about how you draw the boys that makes me want to consume more of your art MY GOD 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜
All the loves to you and your art 💜💜
Thank you so much!! Please enjoy the snack!
#🤲 I humbly offer#these silly guys have been one of my most favourites since the show aired#thank you for your kind words!!#I’m holding off on drawing any s2 content until it’s been out for a bit longer so I don’t get in trouble#but the s1 boys is also good for my soul#hope we’re all doing okay after that final act#hoo boy#my art#ask#arcane#arcane league of legends#jayce talis#arcane jayce#viktor arcane#jayvik
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girl . girl
#SHES GIVING…….. berserk 2016#uzumaki#junji ito#uzumaki anime#uzumaki junji ito#IM HOLDING OUT HOPE ITS ONLY THE SECOND EPISODE but oh my goDDDDD THE QUALITY DROP 😭#also the pacing is like. at break neck speeds. 40 Benadryl speed idk#PLEASE MOSQUITO EPISODE BE GOOD LOOK GOOD ETC AMEN 🙏 the preview for it looks good so PRAYERS#this shit should’ve at LEAST gotten like 6 episodes man 😭 why it’s only getting 4 confuses me
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SHE'S BACK
#i'm losing my shit#clicking on that trailer and hearing hannah telle's voice#bEYONCE?? meme but max#this is resurrecting my life is strange hyperfixation#it might end up being ass but omg i am so happy to see max again i am holding out for hope for now ;;#life is strange#lis#max caulfield#life is strange fanart#lis fanart#double exposure#lis de#my art
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the more I play the more I think lucanis basically knows it's illario who betrayed him right from the beginning (he's had a year in the ossuary to think. not that many people knew where he was going. when you ask him 'did Illario know you'd be on that ship' his only answer is the hardest flattest 'yes' you ever heard). so it's not so much about figuring out who the traitor is (because that's ludicrous. we all know. immediately. they didn't really bother to hide it lmao) as about methodically closing off every single avenue of denial lucanis has clung to that whole time with as much or little gentleness as you might prefer until he has no choice but to admit it. because the moment he has to admit it, he'll have to do something -- feel something -- about it. and that's such a catastrophic event in lucanis' inner landscape (he has had TWO people in this whole entire world up until now and will do anything to hold on to them with a heartbreaking child-like desperation, even at and especially through the detriment of his own self) that he'd rather just. not. what if we quite simply. didn't. what if we just stayed here in the emptiness where we can both pretend you didn't hurt me in a way I should never forgive. I have so much practice in that with caterina already it's always worked out great for everyone so far. (press x to fucking doubt but that's trauma logic for you lol)
after everything illario did, so much of the storm of lucanis' emotions around it is 'what the FUCK did you get yourself tangled up in this time and how do I get you out of this mess safely'. what's worse: the fact that your brother murdered you, or that he put himself in horrible danger doing so and thus exposed you to the risk of losing him forever. lucanis' heart certainly has an opinion here and it's fucking unhinged (affectionate)
the themes of dissociation in lucanis' character in general makes me feel nuts. allllll these contradictory messy things he needs to cut off from each other because they can't coexist or be easily reconciled inside him. but all remain stubbornly true separately anyway and will have their due one day. love and resentment. tenderness and fear and rage. terror and longing. love and freedom don't coexist. the burned out golden child anthem is playing in the background. he was always caterina's favourite and he has to keep striving to deserve that dubious honour with every breath he takes and then, presumably, mercifully, some day he will die and be excused and can rest. and until now he's suppressed all the -- natural, healthy, protective! -- negative feelings that threaten the few attachment relationships he actually has, at the cost of ever actually having his needs for connection and safety met and leaving his core self imprisoned and compromised. and spite goes 'what. no. that's dumb fuck that' (*spite voice* I do not understand that and even if I did I would not respect it) and does not allow him to fall back into that, which I think is what saves his life, ultimately. it took being possessed by a demon for lucanis to even contemplate telling anyone he loves 'no' in any way, but hey. whatever gets you there right lol
lucanis is dealing with the freeze response allll the way down baby. and he was even before the ossuary, that just turbo powered it and brought it to a breaking point way before it could happen naturally. but something was going to break eventually no matter what, and I'm just glad that in the end, through the power of friendship and also pure spite, it doesn't have to be him
#I am worried about him all the time. but also: his found family of godslaying maniacs and also the power of love. there are reasons to hope#when there was only one set of footprints in the sand that was the veilguard party holding lucanis in their arms#and going 'excuse you he said no FUCKING pickles!!!' while he's like '🥺should you guys really be -- ' 'YES'#dragon age#dragon age: the veilguard#dragon age: the veilguard spoilers#dragon age spoilers#lucanis dellamorte#dragon age meta#there's some messiness to his arc but what mary kirby managed to capture here about how this works. is everything to me#he is so exactly for me. I'm sorry for all the people he turned out not to be for. but not for him being for me#the gift of looking at him and hearing 'you're more than what you're going through' and be forced to annoyedly go 'okay#MAYBE that could be also be true for me. maybe.' he's going through it. and also so much more and the funniest person in the world#he's so worth it to still have in the world!!!!#I'm so glad we don't get to 'fix' his relationship with his family and especially caterina actually#that is stuff that would need to happen on a time scale waaay outside of the one in this game#and there's Something very real in having to go 'this is not for me to decide for you. who you love and what you do about it is yours'
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blond era + crop top era
#was gonna make a bigger comp for blond!phil and crop top!phil but like. i'm holding out hope for a proper vid of either one of them sdjfs#dan and phil#amazingphil#phil lester#dpgdaily#phan#dnp gifs#my gifs#compilation#dnp instagram#Something we want to tell you!#Time for a Big Change#Judging Your Faves With No Context#dnp liveshows#(liveshow from august 9 2015)
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BIGB APPRECIATION (angst) TIME !!! ive had this in my head since january and i realised i could just. make it.
"All the world will be your enemy, and if they catch you, they wil kill you. But first, they must catch you. Be cunning and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed" - Watership Down (paraphrased)
#trafficblr#bigbst4tz#ldshadowlady#zombiecleo#im only tagging those 3 the others dont count#slightly rough but ingore that i rushed this all out today :P#ironically i love how cleo turned out the most#tumblr stop eating 90% of the pixels please#i have not actually read or watched watership down so i hope this quote actually holds up well#my art
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Career Day
#comic#comics#fans of strange bird may like this. or.. not..? im not completely sure tbh.#been holding on this one for a minute and finally figured out how it wanted to be finished. hope you enjoy!#art tag#digital art#personal comic#lizard#roly poly#career day#a comic of fear#poetry#artists on tumblr
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scrapped john dory and branch
#soup scraps#dreamworks trolls#trolls#trolls branch#trolls john dory#this was made alongside 'john dory and branch' piece#got a little embarrassed and backed out eheh#it's messier than usual but i still hope yall like it :)#btw jd is holding bitty b’s glasses inside his vest#Branch is definitely taller than jd.#he just exudes shorty energy sometimes#both of em do tbh#so maybe... pretend this is an au where branch is younger? maybe jd came back to a gray branch pre trolls movie#he'd be more angry than sad though imo#tried a slightly different style#they've got them bishonen eyes lol#sorry i haven't been able to work on any new pieces this week#hopefully it'll be different next week :)#excuse the messiness#trolls fanart#my art <3
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manifesting for S3 🤍🤍
#star wars#star wars fanart#star wars the bad batch#tbb#the bad batch#clone force 99#the bad batch crosshair#omega fanart#the bad batch omega#star wars the clone wars#tbb omega#tbb crosshair#clone trooper crosshair#bad batch#manifest uncle cross#I know S3 is gonna be sad but we hold out hope#he totally loves her#bro has a weakness for children#he totally cried after this#he stuck it up in his bunk but refuses to let anybody know that
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If I was in a lucid dream with a ghost, I would simply impress them with my blunt rolling skills
#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#mdzs au#MDZS disco elysium au#This is brought to you by my Scrambled Egg brain - slowly burning up as I try to finish a long comic for this AU.#I hoped it would be done several days ago but I've changed things so many times....It is now Very Close to being done!#I probably should have just posted each page daily but at this point I'm just being stubborn. I want it complete and together.#Ruining the surprise a bit to say 'yeah its a digital art comic'#But its been tricky figuring out the style I want to use for it!#hence the swaths of MSpain(t) doodles that boil down to 'how would this look if I did X?'#I wanted to do a fully Black & White Ink style. But I scrapped it. Then I did small bits of colour. And scrapped it. Sigh.#This comic started out as just the first panel and then my brain went 'hold on. Its time to make a dumb joke'#Any disco elysium fans who finished the game probably know the scene I'm doing for the *actual* comic after seeing this <3#Anyways I know in my heart LWJ would roll the worst blunts ever his first time. And then dedicate himself to the rolling craft-#-until he has finally mastered it. He would roll blunts so good that people would hire him and pay him a monthly salary for it.#But he declines. His master blunts are for his beloved and his beloved alone.#wwx would roll above average but after having lwj do it for him he can ever go back.
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