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Dekus no good, very bad, faceplant into masculinity and internalized homophobia
I made this a thought post from chapter 402 originally, but I canât let these thoughts fester any longer. Gotta be correct about it đ«¶đ«¶đ«¶
Alright so when I originally talked about this on a couple of platforms (not just tumblr, tiktok too and a bit on Twitter that has no connection to this account lmao) I feel like people told me that I was âstretchingâ with my assumptions.
But then Togaâs backstory being told to Ochako was⊠directly referenced to a queer allegory. And in 394, she directly says that she likes girls. Itâs the thing said last, implying itâs something sheâs still ashamed of feeling.
This chapter basically confirmed in my mind that Himikoâs blood quirk was the equivalent to the homophobia that was probably in her own household. And in my mind, that means that blood quirk = metaphor on her queer experience.
And then suddenly, the pieces clicked into place.
In 348, Izuku disagrees with Himiko and Ochakoâs idealsânot only at the idea of girly romance, but also at unconventional romance.
Ochako has distanced herself due to Izukuâs inability to confront his own feelings. Shown both physically and metaphorically.
Ochako took all the steps to walk away because from Izuku. Because Izuku held her back.
Or more rather, she realized that Izuku was no allmight, but rather just an average boy in need of saving as anyone else. He is someone whoâs flaws cannot align with Ochakoâs own ideals for a relationship.
Because ochako is weird.
Izuku holds her back. She canât be everything she needs to be while around him.
And thatâs something Izukuâs not going to understand, not like how she needs him to understand.
And Himiko knows who Ochako is on a more fundamental level than Izuku ever will, and thatâs okay.
I feel like whenever I talk about these character flaws having to do with Izuku, it almost sounds like Iâm bashing him? I swear, Iâm not, it makes complete sense as to why he is this way. And there are people (Katsuki) in the world who can have this in a relationship under the right communication, and some people canât. And thatâs just how we exist. Thatâs okay. We donât all have to be compatible with everyone.
Back to the main point, the pieces and the people putting those pieces together were starting to see their parallels.
Even the manga placement parallels them, especially with how clever I feel horikoshi can be with his paneling.
Looking down, looking up. Both three quarter angles. Small mouth expression, big mouth expression. And that blush.
Fake smile when unhappy. Falling for someone who is dying, who youâd do anything for, even toe the line of death defending them, fixing themâjust because you canât help but love someone you wish had walked into your life sooner (or in Izukuâs case, accepted into your life sooner).
Someone youâd sacrifice for. Someone youâre violent for. Someone youâd kill for.
Someone youâd rather let an entire population of people die for than live without.
Someone youâre undeniably, unequivocally, selfish for.
And yet Izuku doesnât recognize his same symptoms of love through Himiko Toga as Ochako does.
Himiko must be dehumanized to Izuku, because if sheâs a person, then she is him.
(Whatâs even more interesting about this panel, is that if the characters were reversed and it was about Izukuâs violent feelings over protecting Katsuki, danger sense would be going off constantly. So toga is the perfect counter, but Izuku is the ultimate weakness.)
So, okay, how exactly do these things matter? How does this have to do with Izukuâs own personal struggle over his masculinity?
I think whatâs important to clarify here is that when I say âinternalized homophobiaâ, I donât mean that he necessarily is beating himself up over the fact that he likes a boy instead of a girl.
I think itâs connected to his fear of rejection, and his own personal issues having to do with remaining a âstrong manâ instead of a âweak manâ.
Izuku may not believe that liking men is anyoneâs business but his own, but does Katsuki think that?
Izuku has called his feelings of admiration gross. Not that he himself is an awful person for feeling them, but that Katsuki will be the one to think theyâre gross. And heâs worked so hard to get to this point in their relationship, he doesnât wanna let it go over some stupid feelings.
And this is where toga comes into the picture, his parallels between her, because just how is Toga supposed to know that Ochako isnât judging her for her feelings? Technically, all of the things sheâs said before the final fight between them have only proved the inevitable. That Toga is gross, a freak, a predator, a danger, because she loves a woman.
How is Izuku supposed to interpret being called a stalker by Katsuki? How is he supposed to interpret when people call him creepy for his muttering and analyzation? How is he supposed to interpret being called a crybaby by his idol, Katsuki, and everyone else when he cannot control that?
How can he handle feelings that are out of his control, and still believe that theyâre okay?
And at the very least, even if homophobia doesnât exist in mha, heteronormativity does. Especially shown through Ashido, a straight girl.
None of that is necessarily Allmight, Katsuki, or even Ochakoâs fault, because of course theyâre just teasing himâbut it doesnât change the fact that it affects how he perceives himself.
So when I say that Izuku has problems with internalized homophobia, I mean that he is afraid of how the people around him will perceive him, than a constant feeling of self hatred due to not liking women.
And when I say that his internalized homophobia is an extension of his masculinity, I mean that because he has no confidence in himself and his more vulnerable emotions, he is unable to accept what or who he is. This ofc affects the people around him, like saying that Ochako CANT be weird because sheâs just âso amazingly normalâ without realizing that heâs just downplaying who she is and what she thinks, or dehumanizing the most openly queer character in the series because it benefits the perception he has of himself, or even silently rejecting Katsukiâs feelings simply out of a need to âcontrol his heart and control his quirkâ.
In Izukuâs mind, the only way to keep Katsuki is to not be the weird kid he was in his childhood. In a way, Izuku is still performing for Katsuki.
#so. hello.#ME ACTUALLY POSTING AN NOT REBLOGGING ADVENTURE TIME??? not as rare as you think..#I really shouldâve wrote this more focused on allmight#bc thatâs where a majority of the MASCULINITY ISSUES come from#but Iâve missed talking about them a lot okay yâall#bkdk#togachako#midoriya izuku#mha deku#bkdk brainrot#bakudeku#bakugou katsuki#bnha deku#mha analysis#deku midoriya
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#Iâm getting so much joy out of this#hello serotonin Iâve been missing#boop#this post has broken my notifications
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to moving forward
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#jjk art#yuji itadori#gojo satoru#fushiguro megumi#nobara kugisaki#itadori yuuji#megumi fushiguro#jjk spoilers#satoru gojo#jjk manga spoilers#hina.comic#before any1 says anything i KNOw his birthday is in december ik ik ik this is just 2 show some post-battle bonding after the trauma#its winter in canon n megumi's birthday has passed and he spent it being piloted like a mech so they need to celebrate Now!!#also this was technically a request lmao anon wanted megumi birthday angst hehehehhe i hope u like it <3 bc it KILLED ME DEAD#im going to collapse remember when i said this wasnt harder than the hydrangeas im having second thoughts#page 8 made me want to bash my head in#could have stuck with one flashback image could have left them monochrome could have done literally anything 2 ease the workload#but noooo the chronic overachiever in me would not allow it#rule of threes i had to include all of them and they Had to be in colour it wouldn't have hit the same if i had kept it monochrome#i needed it to look how childhood memories look i needed it to look oversaturated and hazy and fond but unmistakably Gone#it may have killed me but im so proud of this rn like from an art style perspective these megumis and yuujis r top tier by my standards#personal favourites r the first and last panel of crying megumi like not 2 pat myself on th back but expression?????? hello??????#enjoy your cake megumi you've earned it <333 sorry fr hurting ur feelings it will happen again#oh my god i can sleep tonight bless <333 and i met my 3 day deadline NICE im so good at what i do
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Must be a Sugondese joke.
#dungeon meshi#chilchuck tims#laios touden#senshi#Looks like I won't be able to post this on dungeon meshi thursday so instead I will have a fun past/future conversation#This is wednesday me who has not seen the episode yet but I have such a strong feeling that it is going to be extremely special.#*This* fight is what the first arc has been building up to and it has *so* many incredible moments.#We're going to see the chilchuck knife throw! The leg sacrifice! The bones!#Watch them ramp up the quality this episode and go wild with the frantic action of 'oh god our plan is going to shit'.#Hello. Me of the future who just watched the episode.#I knew it was going to be good but that...that blew my mind completely. My high expectations were beyond met. My god.#I'm just speechless at how well they handled everything. The leg. The tension. That ENDING.#If you have not already: PLEASE watch Dungeon Meshi.
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You need to look up red cornetfish
OUUGUGUGGUHHHHHH YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME
TRUMPET GUY
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Pangur stopped eating due to horrible, horrible stress of occasionally hearing a baby animal mew, so I have found a spot outside the kitten radius to feed her
#pangur#she is so angry that a baby exists#itâs alright though! this is entirely expected#she will burn through all her hatred during the two weeks of kitten quarantine#and by the time heâs allowed out she will be ready to say hello
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This is driving me insane because I swear this is this image:
But with like an AI filter style thing to turn it into a goth girl. I stg
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Book 2 au with Zuko and Katara Lee and Huamei
Katara is separated from her friends, and so she's left to travel the earth kingdom on her own. She stumbles across Zuko, who is similarly travelling on his own. They decide that pairing up and travelling together would be best
#zutara#zuko#katara#atla#my art#book 2 au#book 2 aus have been done before but i wanted to try my own take with tropes i personally enjoy akdjslkdks#also had the urge to draw zutara arguing and just not getting along in general qldjkakslsk#i recently finished natla and also just rewatched book 1 so zutara book 1 dynamic where they're quite hostile with each other is on my mind#they decide to travel together but obviously they don't get along at all at the start#they find each other annoying but that annoyance slowly turns into affection#also alsooo#short hair zuko enjoyers hello#i have switched over to the side of short hair zuko ajrskakdlksjd#also thinking about how to put short hair katara into this akdjaljdlskf#i just think short hair zutara neat :>>
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husband - professor!simon riley x professor!reader
Every now and then, Simon gets a student who doesnât seem to get it past their skull that heâs happily married and not looking for a side chick or mistress.
He can usually tell in the first handful of classes, brow raised as they ask him to visit office hours, shirt peeking a little too low, smile a little too uncanny for his taste. He finds that typically as long as he plays uninterested and talk more about his wife, most of them learn to back down.
Now, occasionally, he gets a student who just doesnât back down.
In those cases, he entertains the office hours, forcing you to stay back and lounge on the couch when they visit, extra affectionate with you when they walk in, ring on his finger extra polished and your matching one visible when you work.
You find it hilarious when you reach for his tea, lips around his straw as you continue to work on your research, drinking up the way his studentâs eye twitches at his blatant displays of affection. Youâre his âbelovedâ when the student walks in, and his âone and onlyâ when theyâre almost out of hearing range. You get a kiss when you walk him to class, and you peek into his class so much more to drop off drinks as long as the student doesnât back down.
He refuses to hold an office hour with the student if youâre not available to hang around. Heâd much rather be called a shitty professor than a shitty husband.
He can find another job. Not another you.
#AUGHHHHHHHH SIMON I LOVE MY WIFE RILEY WHY ARENT YOU REAL#âŸ.professor ghost#âŸ.blurbs#simon riley x reader#Also where r u all coming from why am I getting so many notes hello?? Hi???
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there's like no evidence of gravityfallsdotpng ever existing aside from the internet archive but i miss it so much. maybe my sense of humor is beyond saving but some of these still genuinely make me lose it
#theres something so evocative about the last one#also hello friends ford is here and goodbye friends ford is out just like. echo in my brain forever#leo.txt#gfalls#gravity falls
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I think my copy of the game is broken they've been doing this for 30 minutes
Crop of the Biolizard edit I did bc it makes me laugh:
#art#sonic the hedgehog#sonic#shadow the hedgehog#rouge the bat#their dynamic is so funny to me like hello what episode of Untucked is this#I am rotating them in a 2 bed 1 bath apartment in my mind#Also very proud of how this turned out I think I'm finally finding a comic rendering style that doesn't make me want to rip my hair out#Simplify baybee it's a comic not an illustration you can get a little crazy with it#Spoiler alert. Getting looser with lineart and better at colour schemes and simplifying shading. Is good actually.#It's so much easier to eyeball what a colour would look like in a setting instead of colourpicking the OG palette and struggling with...#...like 9 overlay and multiply and soft/hard light layers#Approximating colour genuinely looks better than forcing local colour into the piece. As long as the values are still there it works out#comic
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posting across the targetverse here bc it did numbers on twitter
#across the spiderverse#spiderverse#miguel o'hara#hobie brown#im posting my art here from now onnnnn#maybe ill make a sideblog thats art only who knows.#bastardibujando#< thats my art tag btw. no i dont remeber what it was before so whatever art i have posted here is gone forever#hi for the love of god hello anyone wanna talk about spiderverse.#og post
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reblogs off + removing this post bc it was a personal post i didn't expect to get big and didn't have all the information. i guarantee you guys would not be meatriding a corporation this hard if it wasn't a cutesy one.
buy esims for gaza
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mary jane's husband and his boyfriend
#if i have the energy part 2 of this would be MJ having to comfort PB through his existential crush#spider man: across the spider verse#miguel o'hara#peter b parker#hello tumblr people#i'll start slowly posting stuff here too#mostly for archiving#so sorry if i'm not too responsive!#the @ in the comics are tecotit bc that's my twt side account and i didn't think i'd post it here woops#also twt locked me out of my tecochet acc for some reason#thanks elon........#teco draws
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Sighhhh, sans undertaleâŠ
#undertale#undertale fanart#myart#utdr#sans#utdr fanart#sans undertale#i havent posted here in so long LMAO FJWKWLWKKENE HELLO
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misc NU doodles part tres
last comic is based off off my nasb 2 clip
#nicktoons unite#danny phantom#jimmy neutron#the fairly oddparents#spongebob squarepants#el tigre#my life as a teenage robot#manny rivera#jenny wakeman#also HELLO HI ive been getting a surge of messages lately and i havent gotten to replying bc ive been a bit busy#and i also wanna say i love reading all the tags on my latest posts youre all so funny#thank you for enjoying my art theres more where that came from#im still i nthe middle of watching el tigre and i ended up getting hyperfixated i fear#mlaatr will be next hold ur horses jenny enjoyers#dewdles#comic
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