#but to hold out hope:

[itsnothingofinterest]

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.

(In response to this)

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.

[iscariotapologist]

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

[drinker-of-paint]

I was so nervous to do this but

Eye docs

I'm so wearing these when I go to Manchester for the protocol s2 thing

[datcravat]

SCIENCE BEGETS TRUTH✨

[ruporas]

your love returns in tragedy (ID in alt)

[i-hear-a-sound]

girl . girl

[polarolds]

SHE'S BACK

[reunitedinterlude]

blond era + crop top era

[morii-moth]

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)

[parrrty-poison]

fascist gets elected for president of the US, a week later mcr drops tbp lore about a dictator,,,, save us mcr

[spacerockband]

Career Day

[mmaeiarts]

manifesting for S3 🤍🤍

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

If I was in a lucid dream with a ghost, I would simply impress them with my blunt rolling skills

[guardian-of-soho]

Aziraphale is a guardian.

We left him at the end of s1 with the knowledge that apocalypse was still coming. He'd saved the world for that day, but Heaven was still bent on destroying it. The ones with the power to burn everything were still inescapably loveless. It really looked like he and Crowley alone of all the Earth-walking beings would fight for the world.

And he loves the world so much. The opening scenes of him in the record shop, buying his Shostakovich 78s? The warmth toward Maggie and her music and her heart? The generosity, and the delight in the shared understanding, and the pleasure in the discovery that he could make her life better? That he could spare her pain, give her a little more time with her joys? He knows how fragile those are.

He wants to give that to the whole world.

He wants to believe he can lift the doom hanging over them all, banish it permanently. He is desperate to believe it. Even if he wasn't longing so fervently to be seen, approved, affirmed by God's word (I was so undone by his jealousy as he watched Job speak to her) -- even without that I can't imagine him not wavering at Heaven's offer, faced with the chance that he could use all Heaven's might to guard the world again and get it right this time.

And then he's offered that power with apparent warmth, and feigned approval, and the shameless claim that at last they understand. They hear what he's been trying desperately to tell them as long as he's lived in the world. They're telling him that he's finally made his point -- that they are proud he's tried so hard for so long.

So -- the ending is shattering. It is maddening. It's utterly unfair on Crowley. And I didn't see it coming, and yet.

Aziraphale is a guardian. He really will have to see for himself that power won't love what's good; there is no way to make the world safe forever.

[fascinationstreetmp3]

"Your eyes are an unusual color, almost violet." — The Queen of the Damned

[keii]

Drew a nalu sketch bc for some reason my old ass art of them is making its rounds again on here lol