#it mirrors real life really

[epickiya722]

It just hit me, AFO is just 100+ years old, right? And he and Yoichi lived around a time of absolute chaos due to the rise of quirks... which isn't that long ago from the present day within the storyline.

Listen, listen. That is insane.

In the span of just 120 years...

People randomly manifested quirks so much that in present day only less than 20% of Quirkless people exist, the first person being a GLOWING BABY

Some people actually used their quirks for selfish deeds, causing a time of chaos

The Second lead a rebellion against AFO, the Third being his right-hand man

There was a time when people with quirks faced discrimination, a time Chikara Yotsubashi (Re-Destro's ancestor) grew up in and even lead a movement to spread his message about quirks which still exists in present day

And people still are facing quirk discrimination

Leading off that, his mother became known as the Mother of Quirks because she was the first person to use "quirk" instead of "meta ability"

Vigilantes became a role people picked up which soon turned into the profession Heroes, only 7 of those first 100 something Vigilantes became known Pro Heroes

Multiple of the OFA Users did live around each other's times, around those 20 years Hikage held OFA Banjo was alive, En was alive and possibly Nana (remember they all were adults when they inherited OFA at some point in their lives and didn't hold the quirk for a long time)

Mind you, this all happened within just a 120 or so year span. I say 120 because I just remembered Doctor Garaki... who is OLDER THAN AFO.

Note that he came up with the Quirk Singularity Theory 70 years ago. HE WAS 50 WHEN HE CAME UP WITH THIS THEORY.

This would be around 20 or so years before ALL MIGHT WAS BORN, which is not a lot of time in between. All Might is only about half of AFO's age, around 50 to 60 years old.

ALL OF THAT HAPPENED WITHIN A CONDENSED AMOUNT OF TIME.

It is very possible that there are people who actually lived through all of this other than AFO and Garaki. There are people in their world who lived through a societal collapse to the present day.

Can you imagine?!

[christadeguchi]

(✿◕‿◕) die (ꈍ ꒳ ꈍ✿)

[ccbatman]

what if i said hal's mom called him "hally" specifically as a play on halley's comet, huh. what if i said she did that because she knew no matter how far he went, he'd always come back to her, hm. what then.

[yellowocaballero]

hi! i've been reading some of your older fics and was wondering if there's any merit in watching buffy for the first time in the year 2024

This may not be obvious, but this is actually an extremely complicated and highly subjective question. I'll try to go on for too long.

As background: my mother loved Buffy and its spin-off Angel growing up. It was our Bible (besides the actual Bible). Not kidding, she was on the forums and fan groups and wrote fanfiction for it and everything (These days, she's really into kdramas and Asian dramas, and calls me about how the Thai seem like big fans of gay people). So I'm quite biased.

BTVS is both a product of its times and ahead of its times. It was a show about feminism and the struggle of living in this world as a woman, when very few shows were doing that. It was the first show to have a long-lasting lesbian couple, and the first show to depict a kiss between them. For better or for worse, it was one of the codifiers of broody vampire boyfriend. It was pretty unafraid to be experimental in a lot of what it did. It had incredibly complex and nuanced character work and growth that I still aspire to. Spike's arc is still matched in quality only by Avatar's Zuko. Angel's long term arc, from Buffy to his spin-off series, still makes him one of the most complex characters on TV. It had the most complex depiction of depression on TV at the time and I still think it's one of the best. I think the show had very high highs.

It also had very low lows. Some of the feminism is problematic in retrospect. The sapphic couple has a rather famous element that was severely problematic. There are, overall, some deeply atrocious arcs that I can appreciate objectively but not in practice. Xander: a whole-ass character aged awfully. On a meta level, the workplace conditions were bad (thanks, Whedon.) There are no people of color. The spoiler's sake I won't go into detail on this, but in general the good stuff was so influential and the bad stuff was just awful.

I think these days people tend to brush off the entire thing because it's Whedon. That is more than fair. But I'd also say that Whedon & Buffy is extremely similar to Brian Michael Bendis & Ultimate Spider-Man. Bendis was fantastic at writing sassy, bouncy, permanently stressed-out teens - issue was, he wrote entirely different serious adult characters the way he wrote these sassy teens. Same with Whedon: the annoyingly constant quips are perfect for Buffy, because that's who the characters are. They're awful in Marvel, because Steve Rogers is not Xander. Kinda similarly, Buffy was genuinely feminist for 90s TV - issue is, Whedon has not grown or developed his views, and now his works feel so sexist (oh my fucking god why did you treat Natasha like that). After a certain point it's egotistical: you're writing like that because you're Joss Whedon and it's how you write, not because it's what's best for the characters and story. But it was really important to me to get the character voices right, and it's freaking difficult to endlessly write dialogue that distinct, full of voice, witty, and clever.

I think BTVS & Angel TV's greatest influence on my writing is how intensely character-driven both of those shows were, and how intricate the characters were. What every character did was something they would do, if that made sense. Even the stuff I hated to watch, that made me uncomfortable, was the culmination of so much (usually). I think I also picked up the constant wit and humor lol. On a personal level, the conversations I would have with my mother where she broke down the character motivations and composition of the story was my first exposure to looking at storytelling from an analytical perspective and a framework of critical analysis, which was an approach I carried into the rest of the media I consumed and that was the primary reason I was able to become a decent writer. Thanks, Mom. Have fun with your kdramas.

TL:DR: There is merit, especially if you care about good character work. There are things about it that may make you want to drop it, which is extremely valid. Season 1 is rough but interesting, Season 2 and 5 are the best, Season 3 is pretty good, Season 4 and 7 skippable, and Season 6 is........epic highs, epic lows......

[gjsxj0]

mindless rambling in tags don't mind me

[wormonastringtime]

reminder.

[spider-man-2o99]

makes you read vulture 2099 again makes you read vulture 2099 again makes you read vulture 2099 again makes  you read vulture 2099 again makes you read vulture 2099 again

[abimee]

ruyan is literally so beautiful that i get ill looking at her

[fourswords]

zelda and shadow in the fsa manga drive me ridiculously insane actually. the panel where shadow is kneeling on the floor and zelda is standing there looking down at him and they're SEEING each other is enough to give me fucking RABIES. LOOK AT THIS

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

The eternal tension between genuinely wanting to watch/read good horror media and wanting to sleep for the next week.

[stylestappen]

i really really like how, amongst a myriad of other firecracking f1 occurences, sao paulo has also collectively plunged us deeper into the lestappen black hole. like i have NEVER seen so much content & lestappen breakdowns without a shared podium preceding it

[mobgeo]

I feel so clueless on how jokes work. I know what makes people laugh, and I can repeat what makes them laugh so I can be funny, but I still don't understand the joke itself. I know how to make people laugh but I don't understand WHY it elicits laughter

[spamtoon]

(Out of nowhere, you are approached by a familiar lightbulb-headed Cog.)

Ah, it's you, cat. Thinking you're oh-so-slick. Muttering and whispering under those raggedy whiskers of yours... Thinking I am unable to hear it all...

Well, you've simply underestimated my fantastic hearing. You probably want to know the reason why I'm here, taking a 'break' from my incredibly important scientific breakthroughs? It's quite simple, really!

(She gets close, and squints her eyes.)

I know what you are.

Farewell, now!

(She then leaves the way she came from.)

(Spam giggles immensely, covering her face... it always seems like she's giggling, isn't she? This lasts... at least thirty seconds. Longer than usual.)

And I know what I am too, Sparky! You broke through something, that's for sure. Really, broke through...

(She looks down, continuing to laugh nervously.)

You know, I find it odd you Havent tried to bulb blast me into the stratosphere by now. I mean knowing how you acted with Frostbite. Is there something peculiar about me that you perhaps can't quite track? Something about me that you... don't know what I am?

I know, I know, I'm talking to nobody again. But you were there when I had a moment today with the one the only Frostbite The Bravecog. You may be remaining. Lurking in the shadows. Knowing about these thoughts that I'm thinking.

(The giggling resumes, lasting far shorter this time.)

Your brother's a piece of fucking barp, by the way

(She braces for impact for a few seconds, wincing while smiling, before comically looking around to realize nobody's there. She sighs.)

Wow, okay maybe toony superhero show logic doesn't apply in this situation. Cool.

WAIT I JUST FUCKING REALIZED WHAT SHE MEANT but like. Dude if she meant that then what's the point I mean the whole ahh sellbot department barping knows unless you're Really low on the ladder. Heheh... maybe she did mean what I thought she meant.

Oh i'm so fucking screwed. What kind of bitch gets filament fever

[hobisexually]

long winded rant in the tags coming that’s partly about weight but in a very unfiltered sad way so if that triggers you do Not read on

[box-dwelling]

As someone who went to a school with a suit as a uniform and who had a teacher there who was very very similar to MVK (derogatory) with a lot of students including myself, I swear to you the fact the von karma siblings dress like that makes perfect fucking sense. When you have a snobbish abusive teacher (also parent in frans case but you know what I mean) who's obsessed with perfection in an environment where you're expected to wear suits, you will be informed of every single stupid rule about proper formal attire etiquette daily and have it hammered into your fucking skull. I knew plenty of that guy's other students (read survivors) who would and still do wear suits in their everyday lives because it was such a thing TM. I wasn't one of them because escaping that environment happened at the same time I realized I wanted to look as much like a scruffy lesbian as possible and chose to forget everything he taught as an act of rebellion but a lot of us didn't do that and still wear suits.

[sorrellegiance]

so it turns out that actually having a conversation with my evil cousin can help me see her as a real person???