#it is a subversion of a trope that has fallen out of popularity and it is directed at a less savvy audience than people often realize

[quicktimeeventfull]

frankly death note is one of those rare series where casual fans often understand it better than people who are obsessed with it bc the intentions and scope of the manga are pretty clear. like i find casual fans are generally pretty invested in the whole question of whether or not light is good whereas serious(tm) fans tend to dismiss this as settled. death note is ultimately very firm on the fact that light's whole endeavour is horrific but this does not mean readers aren't being invited to consider it. imo it's not an especially interesting series if you don't engage with that

[sparklingdemon]

so! (claps) time for more hacker cody lore bc i just can't shut up today <3

so hacker cody was a p big pokemon creepypasta fan at one point. they literally wore a shirt with the pokemon tower ghost that says "game over" on it. they clearly took a lot of inspiration from pokepastas when designing their hack. the secret hidden escape rope easter egg is a direct reference to the "axe candle rope" pokepasta. leaf being glitchy when played as was a subtle nod to fallen leaf (bc hacker cody's then-friend at the time was working on fallen leaf's hack alongside cody's hack)

but at the same time, they also wanted to subvert the tropes that were a part of pokepastas.

"missingno?" nah, that thing is in every kanto creepypasta. get rid of it. it's not relevant to this story. "dead raticate?" nah, i can create drama between blue and the player without it. "self aware protagonist?" nah, the protagonist is the ONLY one that isn't a person anymore. everyone else is. "classic red vs modern red?" nah they're the same character. "red vs leaf?" nah they're the same character. "blood and gore?" nah that's way too edgy and tacky for what i'm doing. when MY protagonist dies, they're going to just drop dead with no visible cause. "suicide?" yes, but through implication only. blue disappears from the game and you're meant to assume the worst, but you never SEE it. the escape rope teleports the player to the tower but you don't SEE the player character hang themself. you're meant to let the implications speak for themselves.

it's got a "i'm not like other pokepastas" vibe to it, while never OPENLY throwing shade at the other stories that use those tropes.

and this all culminates with blue, who the hack's story (arguably) centers around. i initially wrote monochrome!blue for a separate scrapped project before placing him into monochrome instead. i initially intended to write him as a subversion of the popular idea of what a "creepypasta blue" is, and i feel like that's probably the in-universe reason for why hacker cody characterized him that way, too. they wanted something that felt "faithful" to the spirit of blue's character. he isn't trying to kill red/leaf out of revenge towards them personally, he's trying to kill them to drive the player away - and if he's SUCCESSFUL in doing that, then the player will turn the game off, therefore bringing red/leaf back to life when the game reverts to its previous save file. monochrome blue had No Intention of permanently killing off red/leaf, because all he wanted was to free them from the player's influence so that they would (hopefully) be themselves again. be equals again. be FRIENDS again. but blue had to come to the tragic conclusion that there was never a red/leaf to begin with. just cody. (or so he was programmed to think. he never realized red/leaf WERE actually still their own people.) even blue's relationship with prof oak has been subverted in this hack. i feel like blue-centric creepypastas like to adapt oak to be more of an asshole to blue - (for example, saying he doesn't love his pokemon enough sounds cruel and tone-deaf if his raticate died), to justify why blue is so jealous of red and desperate for oak's praise. but monochrome instead shows that (true to the spirit of the vanilla games) prof oak did indeed love blue, but that was not enough to save his life. in the vanilla games, oak is disappointed in blue for losing because of blue's own shortcomings as a person, but monochrome!oak instead finally recognizes that blue was Never Meant To Win Against The Player and tells him it was never his fault for losing against them. but blue couldn't forgive oak for continuing to let the player into the world of pokemon, giving them a second, third, fourth, fifth, tenth, hundredth chance to change for the better, but instead they continued to hurt him and red/leaf. blue viewed oak as complacent with that.

ngl it makes me kind of sad that monochrome!blue is such a Major Background Character (and also dead) bc he's got a lot of interesting depth to him that i'm not gonna get to explore in the same way that i would've been able to with the old project he was from. but it's ok bc i can ramble abt him here and hopefully u guys can appreciate him too kfdhgjgdks…��

but that's also why it's so interesting seeing trainer cody interact w tears!blue now because we get to explore what cody thinks of blue personally. cody is an analytical asshole who's completely apathetic to his suffering. to them, blue was just a character in a story created by an indifferent playwright. so it'll be So Fun to have cody talk to tears about their blue like he was "just a character" when there is in fact a Real Sentient Blue Standing Right There who is Very Pissy about being considered "lesser" to red. (also think it's incredibly funny that trainer cody Literally Canonically Knows About Blue Tears thru the hacker's knowledge of pokepastas, but does not realize that they're talking to a blue tears!blue so they're just talking shit like he's just a regular blue. hope they get a rude awakening lmao)

[seviinoxiel]

I have a theory that all the characters in MILGRAM are subversions,or at least a deeper dissection, of popular murderer tropes (not necessarily in media). They are all guilty, but there is more nuance to it than what can be initially seen.

Prisoner 01, Haruka, is the psychopath trope. It's heavily implied he's neurodivergent and has a lot of childish tendencies. His mother's abuse (which looks to be neglect) is highlighted a lot because Haruka's condition isn't the thing that pushed him to kill, it's how that condition was treated by the people around him. He wasn't given the proper care and it's that system which perpetuates the dismissal of mental health that set him off.

Prisoner 02, Yuno, tackles the abortion debate. She knows what she was going into when she entered sex work and she was willing to abort any unwanted byproducts of that work. Although she herself claims that she wasn't innocent and that she is guilty, she was taken advantage of. She was a high school student allowed to engage in compensated dating. Her reasons may have been selfish but the fact that compensated dating is a thing in the first place really detracts from her guilt.

Prisoner 03, Futa, is an online harasser and a cyberbully (for the lack of a better term). He has a strong sense of justice, but he is largely misguided. The online culture surrounding harassment rewards people for call outs and such regardless of if it's uncalled for or not. Futa was always validated by his following and never saw anything wrong with what he was doing, leading witchhunts and doxxing people. He was blinded by his own sense of justice, ego, and the approval of everyone around him.

Prisoner 04, Mu, is a victim of bullying. We are shown that she was friends with her bullies and that she may have had a crush on one of them. They didn't care about her, though, and they simply bullied her (for reasons we don't know) which led her to killing the one she was closest to. However, her behavior and attitude tells us that she herself may have also been a not-so-good person. She was simply unable to do anything because her tormentors was stronger than her. But now, with Haruka, she found someone to dominate. A person can simultaneously be unsavory and a victim of bullying, and neither of those justifies the other.

Prisoner 05, Shidou, the killer doctor. His story is still a bit unclear but it appears to have something to do with him using the lives of his other patients in order to help one person recover. A futile attempt as the person seems to have still died in the end. Rather than tackling any contemporary social issues I think his case, instead, asks us a philosophical question opposite of the organ transplant ethical dilemma. Instead of arguing for utilitarian ethics, his character argues for egoism. The question is, "Are you willing to sacrifice other people to save one life which you cherish?" and if you are then, "Will it all truly be worth it?"

Prisoner 06, Mahiru, is a selfish lover who thinks she's selfless. She views herself to be the only one giving in her relationship, wanting more from it, ignorant to the fact that her partner is unable to keep up with her and is already suffering. She keeps bombarding her partner with her everything and this, most likely, made said partner feel extremely suffocated. There was no malicious intent on her part but she unknowingly brought her relationship to a halt when her partner committed suicide. Her idea of love was severely misguided. It may have been more akin to obsession, but she genuinely believed that it was love and that it was healthy.

Prisoner 07, Kazui, is someone who we admittedly don't know anything concrete about. It seems clear, however, that he feels guilty for the death he caused because he let himself tell a destructive truth, at least to their relationship. He may have fallen out of love or not have been in love with his wife in the first place. He kept imagining and dreaming for her to break-up but she never did. In the end, he acted according to his emotions which somehow led to her death. I personally think he's gay as it would then become a case of someone so deep in the closet they try to deny who they really are which led to grave consequences.

Prisoner 08, Amane, a child brainwashed by a cult. It wasn't through any fault of her own that she committed what she had done. She was raised by, and possibly was even the poster child for, a cult and it completely warped her sense of morality and self. Her cult's beliefs are so ingrained into her that she embodies it wholeheartedly and without any doubt. Her character is a look into cult members and the cult mentality, how it permeates and warps your entire perception of the world, made more poignant by the fact that she's a child. "Does she truly deserve any blame?"

Prisoner 09, Mikoto, subverts the evil alter trope. DID has been a largely misrepresented mental disorder in media and, while Mikoto's character seems like it's following the trope, I get a feeling that there is more to it. The alter is not necessary evil nor does it kill for no reason. They're a protector who only resorted to murder to help Mikoto out of the bad situations he might have found himself in. Alternatively, it may be Mikoto himself who have committed the murders, the alter only being there to clean up the aftermath. Either way, it's all a trauma response and proper care and therapy would have helped the system better.

Prisoner 10, Kotoko, is an extremely violent vigilante. She, much like Futa, has a strong sense of righteousness and a black and white view of justice. She thinks that she's doing the right thing and that she has authority to fight for what she thinks is right. Beating up the other prisoners and sucking up to Es, however, tells us that she might be doing it more as a way to satisfy herself. Her self-worth is tied to a moral obligation to punish the people she sees as wrong. From what we saw in her music video, this may be rooted in a past trauma and overall dissatisfaction with how justice is legally served.

I may have missed some crucial details regarding their characters and I do still have a lot more to say about them but this post is so long already. But, yeah, these are my thoughts on their characters and what they represent, either as commentary or as an exploration of a popular media trope. I hope I worded it properly.

Anyway keep Yuno, Futa, and Kazui innocent please. My girlboss, babygirl, and DILF trinity amen.

[stregoniconiconii]

I thought I was the only one tired of all the untagged r*nance in steddie/gen fic! I have them filtered out on ao3 for a reason, so why I'm still seeing it? I know not everyone is a stobin first, but I am. so for me it's unthinkable to even imagine Robin dating Nancy (or Steve dating Tammy/Vicki). they would never break the girl/bro/bff code like that😔

untagged relationships get to me in general I just don't like getting jump scared altho I have to say I empathise/sympathise with the ronancers it's hard out there for a wlw ship and they have to do deal with sooo much more untagged steddie and also just. actually this fic with the ronance tag is actually just steddie :)) a common problem for popular side ships unfortunately. but it does annoy me bc I don't ship it and a lot of really good steddie or gen fics just have it now. oh well its just fanfiction

I think Ive said this before but it's not necessarily the bff code violation of it all that gets to me with ronance it's the way that it always seems to be a non issue. like robin sometimes gets anxious over his reaction but Steve never gets upset about it or has many feelings about it in general besides oh im so happy my best friend has fallen in love with someone and ofc it was with Nancy bc everyone falls in love with Nancy and I think im supposed to think its some sort of trope subversion like when Steve didn't really say anything when Nancy "chose" Jonathan bc it's like oh look the thing u thought would be a problem and cause jealousy and emotional conflict actually didn't! which. yeah okay whatever. I happen to like problems. and sometimes im like are we going to explore how Steve folds like a house of cards if he thinks that it will cause the least conflict even if he's like dying inside? and then we don't bc he's busy getting dicked down by Eddie. and also I think Nancy is painfully straight but that's by the by

part of it is also me just not vibing with the pair the spares thing that happens in fandom a lot. like there's a popular pairing and then ppl are like well what are we going to do with the rest of them? and they just start pairing them off and if there's like one left over they get thrown into a throuple or something. like how after s3 harringrove shippers started shipping robin with heather so that nobody was alone. it just makes me wonder how much thought is being put into the shipping...idk. at the end of the day wanting everyone to have a romantic happy ever after isn't necessarily a bad thing I just think it's boring. and I obviously don't have an inside look as to why something I don't ship is popular bc well. I don't read it. so maybe there's a lot of very compelling reasons and characterisations or whatever for whatever pairing that im just not seeing. even if the compelling reason is just hot girls should kiss

[belle-keys]

It’s always so funny to observe YA book trends, cus it's all the product of social media hype, marketing, and the publishing world’s scheming that decides what we read. Content is often disseminated based on marketability and not necessarily quality (this is old news, but still).

Like back in 2005-2008 or so, we had the Twilight-Harry Potter dichotomy essentially ruling the scene, and thus these two series were responsible for why the Percy Jackson series, City of Bones and Vampire Academy, for instance, blew up so much, because these latter series all reiterated the themes that Twilight and Harry Potter (and their rivalry) promoted: secret worlds, beings, societies, and their institutions living among regular people in modern society. Then let’s go to 2011-2014 where the shit was dystopian fiction. It’s easier to illustrate what happened here in terms of trends: The Hunger Games popped off (rightly so) and thus Divergent, The Maze Runner, The Giver, Delirium, Shatter Me and The Selection were the trends now. Likewise, I wanna bet that Hush Hush and Fallen got hype in 2013-2014 cus of TMI and TID ending around that time. John Green had people reading all kinds of sappy, angsty teen lit in 2014 as well, I'm not even gonna expand on this. And finally, with the advent of Sarah J. Maas and Leigh Bardugo in 2015-now, it seems high fantasy is the trend (I also wanna say The Red Queen and the increased viewership of Game of Thrones plays a big part in this by the way). Because of Shadow and Bone, Throne of Glass, The Red Queen and such, it seems everyone and their mom been getting a book deal set in a high fantasy world, usually dealing with a monarchy/power institution vs the “common man”, and maybe someone has powers or some shit like that. Fairyloot itself is a testament to the success of this genre of YA.

But it gets even funnier when you look at how a certain book or book series pops off if it vaguely reminds readers of a previous blockbuster series thematically. When Shadow and Bone blew up, it seemed evident that The Crown’s Game would get attention (because Russia, lol). The Gilded Wolves has gotten traction and I’ll largely bet it’s cus of Six of Crows. I love The Cruel Prince with all my heart, but I’d be stupid to ignore the fact that this series got so much hype across social media because it was released in a time period where intimidating, sexy Fae are trending largely because of SJM. Heck, it’d be stupid to ignore that Fae are the “thing” right now with ToG, ACOMAF, TCP, and all the Fae business in The Dark Artifices and such. I’m not implying that any book lacks quality cus it got hype by the way, but I’m pointing out the way companies know that familiarity is a seller and won��t hesitate to play off it. Right now as we speak, From Blood and Ash is riding the coattails of ACOMAF.

But this even happens with tropes, not just genre!!! I do not care who the hell is mad but after Cassandra Clare made Will Herondale and popularized his Will-ness, if you gave me a dollar for every book boy with dark hair, blue eyes, a love for reading and endless snark then I’d be a rich woman. The “brooding vampire” was a whole ass personality that Edward Cullen popularized, bless his sweet heart. It seems the “progressive hottie” who insists on calling the MC his “queen and equal” is the thing right now: Rhys, Hawke, the shadow dude from The Shadows Between Us, even Cardan if you think about it. Love triangles were the big thing a decade ago, but now it seems that it’s assholes-to-lovers, as we see in From Blood and Ash, The Cruel Prince, ACOTAR, etc. Love tropes now are about power imbalances and the relationship between the hunter and the hunted - The Darkling was an excellent subversion of this trope.

I can think of so many more examples of the publishing world playing off trends man. To add, isn’t it just dandy that after the Shadowhunters Netflix series, we got Shadow and Bone, and now ACOTAR is getting a Hulu TV show? Also, it’s interesting the way “adult series” are getting more traction and I’d largely bet it’s cus of the success of Addie La Rue, Ninth House, Crescent City and whatever it is that Cassie has planned with her new fantasy book. Yes yes yes, I don’t need the business majors to tell me this is how the industry works because the publishing will apply the same marketing principles as any other entertainment industry blah blah blah cus capitalism and pop culture phenomena blah blah blah. It’s just amusing to see how in-your-face this industry operates and controls what content we consume and what we think is “good”.

Disclaimer: I do not think that tropes are bad at all (it’s almost impossible to write “tropeless” work). I do not think that trends are bad or that popular series are bad or shallow. I love, like, half of the books I’ve name-dropped here today.

[aegon]

White women journalists for two years: Dany is EVIL. It’s great storytelling to have a rape & abuse survivor go mad and then be violently murdered by her lover and family... so subversive! These same white wonen: Kylo Ren is BABY! He’s never done anything wrong and shouldn’t be judged for his actions because he was being manipulated. The fact he doesn’t get to live happily ever after with the whole universe up his ass about him being a hero is the greatest injustice ever! Make it make sense.

because when it comes down to it, the morals of most of these basic white fangirls are thrown out the window when they feel threatened by another woman or an attractive man is involved.

for all that tumblr jokes about man-hating and supporting women, the reality is so fucking far from the truth. they’d happily excuse, sometimes even support, abuse and rape, provided it served their agenda, everything else be damned. it’s sickening.

daenerys was a threat to their favourite female character. I’ve never met a woman who’s an anti-dany stan who isn’t a sansa or an arya stan. and I don’t mean “oh they kinda like sansa or arya,” I mean they project themselves hard on these two characters because they inherently lack a personality of their own.

dany was a threat because she was popular, powerful and a love interest to an attractive man. and for that, she deserved to be damned. take every 2000s teen film there is - the hot and popular cheerleader is a total bitch that for some reason everyone can see but pretends not to, and who ultimately gets her due because she’s....what? strong? attractive? confident? those are all great traits to have, but they were still painted as goddamn demons.

it’s fucking messed up that such girls were demonized for our entire childhoods and it hasn’t changed. oh, and only when this cheerleader is “put in her place” can the boring protagonist finally blossom and find true love and happiness. ew.

anyway, that bullshit narrative is strong amongst show!sansa stans who felt dany was leeching off of sansa’s spotlight, so they were openly celebrating when she was abused and betrayed and murdered because it felt like she was given her “due.” The hot blonde cheerleader reveals her ugly colours and is knocked off her pedestal and the real prom queen can reign, yay!

there’s no limits to what kind of punishment they’d happily endorse on someone they see as a threat because to them, it’s simply karma.

the only other time they’ll throw their morals out the window is for an attractive man.

kylo ren is attractive to so many women because he represents the idealised fantasy love interest that every trashy romance novel has peddled: mysterious, has a dark side, difficult relationship with his family, dangerous - but most importantly, possesses a hardened heart that can only be softened by the love of the right woman. he’s not really evil, he’s a victim, he needs sympathy and love. every horrible act he’s done isn’t really his fault, it’s because he was made to.

it’s completely erasing accountability for one’s heinous actions and places the responsibility of everything - even their own moral conscience - on the shoulders of another. and oh, that’s romantic. it is, we’ve been taught as much.

come on, we’ve all fallen for the trope in one way or another. for me, it was dramione - draco was the tortured, angsty soul and hermione was the fierce and determined girl who wanted to break down his barriers no matter what, no matter how much shit he threw at her (he’s afraid!! he’s being defensive!! don’t give up on him!!) and no matter how hurt she was (don’t be selfish!! he’s hurting too!! this isn’t about you, it’s about him and his tragic, complex past!!) swoon-worthy.

and that’s it really - films, books, media, we’ve always been taught that behind every hard man is someone who just needs a little love. that he’ll be your soulmate, your protector, your darcy if you just work hard enough to find his heart, no matter what. he doesn’t actually mean to degrade you, he actually loves you, but he doesn’t know how to express it. every abuse he throws at you is actually a cry for help. don’t run away, don’t leave him alone, he needs you, he needs your love, he needs you to save him from himself.

fifty shades of grey found millions of readers off this trope and an entire film trilogy.

and enter the basic white girl, the one who fantasizes having a badass dangerous boyfriend who’d murder anyone who touches her, who’s hard with everyone else but soft only for her, his special angel.

like the boring protagonist, basic white girls long for the spotlight and to feel special. they’ve knocked down the hot cheerleader, they want the hunk and they want him to be a little bad, a little kinky, a little soft, a little sweet.

it doesn’t matter how bad, it doesn’t matter how dangerous - anything can be fixed with their love. it’s not really his fault, after all.

burn. it. down. it’s romanticising abuse like this that has left so many girls in terrible relationships because they’re under the delusion that this is reality.

so the excuses go round in circles. it’s easier to swallow the fact your morals are shot to shit if you imagine someone like kylo ren is really a soft-hearted baby. he’s not a nazi, he’s just misunderstood. it’s easier to justify why you’re endorsing abuse against women when the woman in question is evil and a tyrant and deserves to die.

excuses excuses, all part of an agenda because becky has a fantasy that helps her through her dull, dull day where she isn’t the hot cheerleader because most cheerleaders actually have nice personalities and the dangerous hunk would never pay attention to her because he’s in prison.

granted, you have many dany stans who are kylo stans too, because they’re not mutually exclusive, just pure hypocrites.

[idontevenremember5minutesago]

Bnha is overhyped and it’s damaging the fandom.

Did that get your attention? Good.

I tried. I tried so hard to stay away from discourse in this fandom because I know how Tumblr is. I’ve been on this site long enough. It’s a site full of complainers who can never be happy with anything. It’s site full of fan entitlement and people who think they can tell other people how to write their own stories and what they can do with their creations.  I know this.

And that would be fine, if they kept it to Tumblr. But there is a rise of idiots harassing content creators with how they feel a story should go and it is driving me INSANE! And with the BNHA fandom on the rise, their newest target is Hori and it is so aggravating.

This man has been through so many failures and disappointments that almost knocked him out of manga writing for good and now he has a hit series and is gaining back the confidence he lost and writing a story he loves and you assholes are ruining it with your disgusting fan entitlement. I saw the Voltron fandom turn to absolute garbage in real-time because of fan entitlement and it so discerning to see it happening right in front of my eyes with the bnha fandom. Again.

(I’m not gonna say it’s because a lot of toxic Voltron fans came into the fandom when the show ended, but it’s because a lot of toxic Voltron fans came into the fandom when the show ended.)

(I’m not even gonna go into the Endeavor death threats because good God)

So let me address something, and I say this as a bnha fan, who loves the show and the characters.

BNHA IS NOT A DEEP SHOW.

The premise. The characters, the setting, the motivations. They are not deep. They are as simple and cliché as it gets.

The characters have done before.

The plot has been done before.

The conflict has been done before.

And that is okay.

It’s okay for a story to be simple and for the characters to have simple motivations. That’s why people like DBZ. That’s why people e liked Naruto Part One. And yes, that’s why people also like Black Clover. Because they are simple shows that employ simple themes that, yes, have been done before.

There is a pretentiousness on tumblr where everything has to be deep for you to like it.

I see this mostly from Bakugou stans in this this fandom. They herald him as a beacon of character development that has never been done before, not just in the series but in all of shonen actually in all media. I have literally seen someone compare Bakugou’s arc to Zuko’s and I just- . It’s so damn stupid. And I laugh everytime I see it because Bakuogu has been done before. His character arc has been done and it’s been done better. It aint that damn deep.

Y’all can just admit you like assholes.  It’s okay. I see this mostly done as defense mechanism done because Bakugou anti come after fans and the character which is okay because Bakugou antis get on my nerves too. But when I see it done unironically I can’t take them seriously. It was said straight out of Hori’s mouth that Bakugou was made to be unlikable, but hey so was some other popular assholes on this site, but the difference between those fans and Bakugou fans is that the other fans can admit they just like assholes.

Whew.  Had to get that out of my system. Probably pissed off a bunch of Bakugou stans. Don’t really give a shit. Moving on.

It seems like most of the damn discourse these days is coming from the fact that Hori is implementing traditional shonen clichés. And to that I say, WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF GENRE DID YOU THINK YOU WERE READING? A shojo? A seinen? A josei? A harem? Of course, it’s gonna implement Shonen tropes.

This fandom has fallen into the traditional tumblr pitfall. People make deep think pieces,headcanons and metas and convince themselves and others that what they’re watching is deeper than it is. When the creator of the show includes something that aligns with their content, they think that their think pieces and metas were right and that was the creator’s intention all along which tricks them into believing that they know all of the authors intentions  and can speak on what the author is trying to do and with that comes an inflated sense of entitlement where they begin to think that the authors decisions must always align with their theories and views and when they don’t, in comes the death threats and the screams that the creator is a terrible writer and doesn’t know how to handle their own story and characters.

You guys want Bnha to be a subversion to Shonen clichés because that’s what YOU hyped it up as. And now that its going against what you want, it’s terrible writing and going down the road of older shonen manga, like Naruto. It drives me crazy when I see idiots on this hellsite attacking Hori for using common Shonen tropes when he has since the beginning, but you guys just didn’t want to see it cause everything has to be deep or a subversion on this hellsite.

It’s so damn aggravating.

Fan entitlement is so cancerous. And I’m so annoyed to see it spread over to this fandom because this fandom was so chill when it was smaller. I’m so tired of seeing big fandoms become crap because of fans like this.

Has the story stagnated? In some ways, yes. It has. The motivations and growth of some of the characters, (NOT JUST DEKU, BAKUGOU STANS) has slowed down since most of them are realizing their arcs. Deku is gaining more control over his emotions and OFA (AS HE FUCKING SHOULD BECAUSE MAIN CHARACTERS ARE MEANT TO GROW AND THAT IS GOOD THING YOU DUMBASSES) Shouto is opening up, Bakugou is shimmering down, Shinsou is one step closer to being in the hero course (which was his entire character arc btw). Iida’s arc has been done and a lot of other characters are reaching plateaus as well or haven’t been explored because there are so many.

But guess what.

The series isn’t fucking done yet. It’s not completed. It’s not done yet. Long stories tend to slow down , sometimes they will hit walls and that’s okay. That is natural.

Holding Bnha to impossible standards where it always has to be on pace because you hyped it up as ‘ The best Shonen ever written tm ‘ is not fair.

So instead of frothing at the mouth when your little meta’s and tumblr post and theories don’t align with the story or it takes a turn you don’t agree with how bout you shut up and let this man write his own damn series and work his story out. He has it planned out. He has gone on record saying this. I think he’s good.

Criticism is good. There are a lot of criticisms I have with Bnha. Not agreeing with writing decisions is good. Having headcanons is good. Having theories is good. These are all valid,

Attacking someone because THEIR story is going a way you dont want it to go, is not okay and it never will be. I can’t believe I have to say this.