#tldr: ANGRY AMY RANTING

[crossroadsfossil]

aaaaaa on the topic of your quirk-related illnesses post: do you have any headcanons about disability in bnha’s setting (quirk-related or otherwise)? and i guess by extension: should quirklessness be classified as a disability?

Fuck it- world building prompts. Send a fandom and a prompt. ILLNESS CONTINUATION

So, before we get into BNHA and Disability, I will note that I have next to no knowledge of how disability is view/treated legally or socially in Japan, which is the view we’re given. All I know is what I’ve gleaned from pop culture and one pair of youtubers (Simon and Martina). I’m making an assumption that Japan and the USA have similar ideas regarding disability, and those ‘ideas’ are, at best, lacking in empathy and sympathy and mostly lip service. 

Additionally, I will be using the term ‘disabled’ as it’s laid out by the ADA, as that’s what I’m most familiar with. Disability is defined as “a person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activity.”

NOW, as for BNHA universe- 

I think having a disability in this universe would be like being disabled in reality. It would suck. If you’re very lucky, you have a support network that can assist you. If you’re moderately lucky, the government pays lip service to assist you. In all cases, I’m pretty convinced that society sees the disabled as either something they did to themselves, or an inconvenience or something to be pitied at best and hated at worst. 

I think the potential in the BNHA universe to become partially or completely disabled is much, much higher. There’s statistically a higher chance of being disabled through violent means- Hero or villain inflicted injuries. I think quirk lashback would increase the likelihood of becoming disabled.  

Fuck, we’ve seen how the BNHA universe treats the disabled, and it’s not good. One of the characters with the largest presence who is also disabled is Jin Bubaigawara and, well. He was killed. He fell into villainy. He had no. Goddamn. Support. And that is common in the real world so I doubt it’s any less common in this one. 

There are others who are visually disabled. There’s Ectoplasm, who’s missing his legs. There’s Ingenium, who’s paralyzed. There’s FUCKING ALL MIGHT. I don’t know how well Etoplasm and Ingenium are treated. I don’t know how All Might is treated, but from what I remember of the whole post-skinny might reveal, it’s not great either. 

All Might does what a lot of people with disabilities do, myself included. He hides it. Clearly, there is a stigma attached to being crippled. There is a stigma to being less than 100%. There is a Stigma for not being ‘plus ultra’ enough. 

I wish I had some fun headcanons for disabilities in the BNHA universe. I wish I could whip up some delightful headcanons about how it’s better than it is in the real world, how there are funny, quirky things like I could with the illness post and having the Pepper Up Cough. I wish my headcanons about this could be fun and more headcanons and less applying what I know and have experienced to this universe. I wish I could. But I can’t. 

I think being disabled in BNHA is just as bad, if not worse than in the real world. We’ve seen the cruelty related to quirks. We’ve seen the apathy of the general public. We’ve seen a lot of that society and not a lot of it is good. 

Here is my headcanon: I think if you are perceived as being less than healthy, you are seen as weak. A victim at best and a deserving villain at worst. I think the support for disabled people is nonexistent, no matter how minor or severe the disability. I think it’s the same vultures, different liver kind of situation with BNHA as it is with RL. 

I think there are more people with disabilities than there are in RL. I think more people hide having a disability too. I think getting a doctor to diagnose a disability would be harder than it is in RL, and gods knows that’s hard enough. I think discrimination based on disability would be more prevalent. 

I think there were be types of quirks that would almost guarantee a future disability. I think it’s brought up in a lot of fic discussing Present Mic and Bakugou and Jirou- their deafness or the deafness of those around them. I think it’d affect characters like Midnight- who would probably end up with a chronic lung issue unless her body is adapted to breathing it in all the time. I think Aizawa is going to have eye issues eventually, probably even going blind at some point. I think Nedzu, being a rat in a human world, would be considered disabled simply because the world is not built for him. I think Cementoss would have mobility issues as he ages. Fatgum and Momo probably will have issues regarding how fast they burn fat/nutrients. It’ll probably manifest in their hearts.

I think a lot of people end up with a disability brought on by their quirk. The human body is an amazing thing, but it has limits and I don’t think those limits play well with time- or another way to say this, I think people are more likely to burn out faster than we are. I think it’s going to be more like an animalistic ‘live hard, die young’ sort of thing. 

I also think it’ll be entirely glossed over by the populace at large. People are very good at ignoring things, and a growing number of disabilities would probably fall under ‘things to absolutely ignore’. 

I could ramble more, but I want to get to the next part of your question:  

Should quirklessness be classified as a disability

I read that and, hoo boy, it triggered an immediate bout of snarling until I could analyze why it pissed me off. 

Let’s return to the definition I gave at the beginning of my answer. A disability is anything that interferes with a person’s ability to do one major activity. In canon, what do we know of being without a quirk? 

It’s said that 20% of the world is without a quirk. Is this accurate? Is this reflective of each new generation? We’re not given information on this. I’ve read plenty of fic that have explored the validity of these given statements, pointing out that they don’t seem to agree with what we’re shown in canon. I’ve read fic where it’s stating this is gross oversimplification, or a skewing of the actual data, which I’m a bit of a fan of being numbers like that are never accurate. One in five people have no quirk? Really? Then why was there no other quirkless kids in Izuku’s school? Does affluence play a factor in this? We’re just... not given a lot of detail, and the details we are given are not pretty. 

The details are this: being quirkless has hindered Izuku Midoriya socially, and, if we want to extrapolate from there, it has probably hindered him educationally and professionally as well. Melissa Sheild has been hindered by being quirkless. Not to the same extent as Izuku, but she is, according to the wiki, ‘ she used to be seen with pity for being Quirkless’. To me, this sounds like people have... hm. how to say... ‘tried to protect her’ for her ‘weakness’. 

Basically, looking at these two individuals, it sounds like society takes away their agency, and if that doesn’t ‘hinder one major aspect of an individuals life’ then I don’t know what does. 

ALso, look at those who BECAME quirkless. Does it hinder them? Are Mirio and Ragdoll hindered? Yes. 

So, following the rules I set out, yes, being quirkless does count as a disability. Legally, would it count here? I don’t know. If someone fought for it, then I can see some countries classifying it as such. It’s certainly treated as a disability in canon. There is a stigma to being quirkless. 

Do I personally want being quirkless to be a disability? 

No. But I am hella biased because I AM disabled. I see Melissa out there living and doing things I would love to do. That I would love to do. Notice I didn’t include Izuku. That’s because I see him having some comorbidities, which, kind of annihilates my knee-jerk reaction, doesn’t it? If he wasn’t quirkless, he probably wouldn’t have the comorbidities. Since he does and they also impair his functioning, then... I think it can be logic’d that he does have a disability. Multple, perhaps. 

Again, my logic may not be super solid there, but... According to the rules set out via ADA and medical professionals, yes. In that new society, it would be a disability. 

I hate it, but in that universe, the baseline for ‘100% normal’ has shifted, just as it’s shifted over the past hundred, three hundred, thousand, six thousand years. That line is always shifting as humanity grows and changes. Hopefully, that baseline begins to include empathy and sympathy and compassion into it. 

[sassypotatoe1]

I just had a super idea

So the high school I went to sucked. It was just, a piece of shit hot mess that only cared about five things.

Money

Rugby

The school musical, if you will (don't be fooled it was done purely by jocks who did rugby, the cheerleaders, and highly autotuned singers who forked in the money, the arts received no recognition and a ton of hate in that school)

The preppy kids' stupid little fashion show.

Their 100% senior passing number (oh they didn't actually hire good teachers and help kids who struggled, no they fraudulently registered kids who were identified as a high failure risk as private distance learning students not actually a part of the school, just the school district so the numbers on paper would show that everyone passed)

Now does all the above mean that they want the best for their students and therefore put a lot of effort into encouraging students to do well in these things? Nope. All they care about is their image and how much money they can make based on it. That means that the kids that got stuff were kids that paid a fuck ton, and the kids that could "tarnish the good reputation of this school" got treated like shit, only making their participation, discipline and mental health worse instead of better.

The "moral system" by which students were punished or rewarded was pretty strict on what it considered wrongdoings and even stricter on what it considers awardable action (which was usually taking part in rugby, or revue("school musical"), which meant that the preppy kids with lots of money and the jocks got all the rewards and the poorer kids who couldn't take part either due to circumstances or politics didn't).

A lot of stupid shit got pretty strict deductions (you started out with a certain amount of points which you lose for bad behaviour and gain for participation and good behaviour) and when I was about 11th grade, every deduction got sent to your parents via sms, which meant that "troubled kids" i.e. kids with attitude, or kids who didn't do homework or participate, kids who smoked or got in fights (also the most likely victims of domestic abuse) now likely suffered more domestic abuse because their parents now knew about every "transgression". Did you know that not doing your homework cost you 10 marks,but winning an arts competition only gained you 5? Also, smoking cost you 250, fighting cost you 500, drugs cost 1000 and an immediate suspension but sexual harassment and/or assault only cost you about 100?

The school was really not that hard to break into and got vandalised a ton, either by angry students going there or outside people who hated the school. What got vandalised the most (due to being the easiest to get into) was the girls bathrooms. It would be a miracle if a year had gone by without at least a three month ban on people going to the bathroom whenever they needed to. Instead, you'd only be allowed to go when it was lunch (which lasted half an hour in a 7 hour school day yo) during which time most students wanted to, you know, eat and socialise instead. If you did want to go to the bathroom in that time, you'd first have to find the teacher with the key and ask if you could go (that's right) and they could then deny you based on whether they believe you might want to smoke or vandalise the bathroom. During class time, if you wanted to go, you had to go during the one class out of the 7 that the teacher had any semblance of humanity or you'd get told "you should've gone during lunch break or between classes".

Here's the issue with "between classes" though. When the bell rings, your current teacher insists on finishing the class first, because it's "a warning not a final bell". Then, you have to get to your next class, often across the grounds and with only 3 very crowded ways to get there, that can take anywhere from 5-10 mins. You get to your next class and get a 5 point deduction for being late, which was completely out of your control, and then you were supposed to have "gone between classes", which during bathroom lock down season took even longer, because you have to go get the key and permission first.

Lastly, dress codes are ridiculously strict, and applied even stricter. We were allowed:

No makeup

No hair color

No earring hoops bigger than a 10 mm diameter

No earring studs bigget than 3mm

No earrings any other colour than gold or silver with clear gems

No hair ties any other colour that black, brown, green, yellow, navy or white (yellow and white constantly got called out despite actually being allowed)

No sideys,fly-aways, bangs longer than your brows, choppy bangs, hair loose if longer than the middle of your throat.

No jewellery, what so ever.

No wearing summer uniform items in the winter or winter uniform items in the summer (despite the summer shirt being made by a much thicker and warmer material that the winter shirt)

No uniform to be worn without a blazer and pull over (yes, even in the summer)

Skirts need to hang on knee when standing

On sport days, no tank tops or amy tops without sleeves, no yoga pants or other tight pants without a shirt big enough to hang over the butt, no brightly coloured running shoes, same rules for hair, no cut out or tight shirts, no shorts shorter than the knee

Guess who those rules applied to?

Anyway you can catch me ranting about my high school in severe anger for days, but the idea I had was to get in contact with some of the younger kids I was friends with who I know is still going there, teach them some fun little laws and tips, get them to rally and protest against these purely appalling human rights violations, and force that one school to change their tune, which will hopefully get others to follow.

TLDR I am going to revolutionise the south African public school system who's helping?

[pan0ramy]

:D

i was tagged by @fndm-trsh-sht to answer these, so here it is!! thank you for tagging me. <3 ^^

RULES: Answer 11 questions, tag 11 people and write 11 questions for them to answer!

1. Who’s your favourite villain?

OOOOOH THIS IS A GOOD ONE. i normally love the villains in any kind of media WAY more than the heroes, so this is pretty hard. ;-; 

if i had to pick, though, i’d probably pick the first person that came to my mind (since that means they did their job well) - mother gothel. god DAMN was she well written. once you know her motives, you think you’ve got her figured out - but then she just keeps developing as a character as the film goes on, and you realize you’ve barely even scratched the surface! plus, when you look back on her past actions, you see what she was really trying to do; that, in my opinion, is the sign of a really good villain. :D

2. What do you fear most?

i’ve actually already talked about this topic before - here’s the link to that post! TLDR: my worst fears are fire, spiders and rock climbing walls. yes, i know that sounds weird. trust me. there’s a story behind that last one.

there’s also one fear that i’ve... never talked about much on my actual blog. and it sounds even stupider than the rock climbing thing. i’m thinking about making a post about it, so if i do, i’ll link it to here as well. ^^

3. iz there aliens, my doods? :O

i’m honestly kinda on the fence about this! sometimes i see videos and i’m fully fuckin convinced it’s a ufo?? and then someone proves it wrong scientifically. and it leaves me confused. BUT THERE ARE SOME THAT CANNOT BE EXPLAINED. SO MY ANSWER TO THIS IS YES. WE HAZ ALIENS. :D

4. From 1 - fuck, how much of a shitposter are you?

i’d say i’m a solid 6.4

5. What type of music do you love?

most of my itunes is full of k-pop (go figure, haha) but i really like rock/alternative too. i have a crapton of natewantstobattle, p!atd, even imagine dragons (WHO ARE AMAZING LIVE, MAY I ADD). and then i’ve been obsessed with melanie martinez recently... my music tastes are all over the place. XD

6. i s  i t  a  b e a u t i f u l  d a y  i n  t h e  n e i g h b o u r h o o d ?

you are not gonna BELIEVE what popped into my head when i read this.

this bolded, spaced-out style of writing is normally how i’d write darkiplier’s speech.

so now i’m just imagining dark very begrudgingly singing the mister rogers’ neighbourhood theme tune.

PLEASE DON’T ASK ME WHY MY BRAIN IS LIKE THIS

7. Favourite ego?

...WELL I BET YOU DIDN’T EXPECT AN ESSAY ON THIS SUBJECT BUT HERE WE FUCKIN GO. IMMA RANT TILL THE COWS COME HOME. 8D

in case you couldn’t tell already: it’s dark. this is honestly a really easy pick for me. but not for the reasons you might expect!

the reason i like dark so much is because of the complexity mark has given him personality-wise. dark’s got an awful lot of layers to him; he’s got his suave, seductive side (which i think he’d use to get you to trust him), but underneath that ruse you’ve got his angry, power-hungry side. AND I LOVE THAT. complex characters are my shit.

plus, there are so many little details in ADWM that build upon this personality - and they even kinda give away his character and goals before he has the chance to open his mouth! y’know, like his body language and shit like that. i don’t know if it was intentional on mark’s part, but i don’t care. i love it anyway. :D (i did make an analysis on this kinda stuff a while back (just a heads up, it ended up being WAY too long but oh well), if you’re interested... i know. i hate self-plugging too. i’m sorry. ><)

(also - and i admit, this is very self-indulgent. forgive me, amy [i mean peebles, not me] - but MARK IN A SUIT. GOD DAMN. ALSO THAT LIL NECK THING AAAAAGH)

okay. imma stop now. i think you get the point. :D

8. You have all the power in the universe. What do you do?

in the universe? i’d definitely start with the things that lot of people would consider sappy, but i consider incredibly important - y’know, end all war, cure cancer, end poverty, stuff like that. once that’s out of the way, i just want to make sure humanity doesn’t fuck itself over down the line. once that’s done, i’m happy. ^^

9. If you had to choose a power, which one?

i’ve always wanted invisibility! imagine what you could do with that. :D awkward situation? gone. sneaking downstairs to get a snack in the middle of the night? done. avoiding someone you don’t like? easy. it’d be badass!! :D

10. Is... is dabbing truly dead? *le cri*

DABBING SHALL NEVER DIE, MA BOI

(...well, not as long as i’m alive, haha)

11. What’s your favourite colour?

red! and not for the reason you think, i promise. i’m not a yandere. XD

and now for my own questions! :D a warning in advance: these are going to be shit. 8D

1. You get to meet one fictional character & hang out with them. Who is it and what do you do together?

2. If you could swap bodies with anybody for a day, who would it be?

3. What’s your biggest pet peeve?

4. What would you do if you won the lottery?

5. You can only listen to one song for the rest of your life. What song is it?

6. If you could pick one YouTube ego to work/team up with, who would it be? (If you don’t know of any egos, you can just pick a YouTuber!)

7. You develop the ability to learn one language instantly. Which language do you learn?

8. If you could do anything in the world right now, with NO risk involved, what would it be?

9. A movie is being made about your life. Who do you choose to play you?

10. If you could become a supernatural being (e.g. a vampire, a werewolf,  a fairy, etc.) what would you become? Are there any specific powers you’d like to have?

11. Who would you consider your inspiration/role model?

god, i hope those are okay D:

anyways!! now to tag people. :D as always, you don’t have to do this if you don’t want to! i tag @caffeinateddreamthoughts, @lostqueenambrose, @yourestillnotmytype-58, @booperdooperladdies, @ask-the-egos, @tbex2468, @stardustphan, @artsandfandoms, @dreamsoffallingstars, @ekhoecho & @impossiblerebelblaze! i’m sorry if i’m annoying any of you guys by tagging you. D: