#type: rant

[thedarksideofyay]

I was working at a bank for 3 years and I really felt like this. In August, I finally snapped and quit.

I know not many people can choose not to work, I'm currently just trying to get my diploma before I get out there. But lemme tell you: it's been years since I felt like learning or making art in my spare time.

Not only do I feel like doing more stuff, I've been much more sociable. I don't feel like a goblin when I'm at a party and I don't want to rip people's heads off.

I finally have enough energy to finish the more difficult classes at college, that had been stumping me since 2020.

I got a 3d pen for my birthday, which is kinda ironic cause I already had one and never did anything with it. I've been making a lot of stupid little pokemon with it and it might be the best thing I've done all year.

We don't have as much money as we had back then, but jesus fuckin christ it was so unhealthy. A bank is an extreme example, but ever since I've been scared of going back into the workforce.

at work: i could be cooking and cleaning and coding and reading and working out and weaving tapestries and playing video games and climbing a mountain and having sex and filming a movie right now yet they keep me trapped in this prison. idle hands are the devils plaything and i am being forcibly molded into his perfect conduit. i must break free, seize the day and waste not the beauty inherent to finite mortal life

at home: my one true passion upon this pointless earth is bog mummy imitation

[isuggestforcemasc]

My sister in Christ trans men are constantly infantilized and forcibly feminized and being masculine is punished by our peers because inside queer spaces it’s always ‘men yucky’ or ‘men evil’ like friendly reminder that not all masculinity is praised and not all femininity is punished

Most trans people were forced into a role they didnt want. Forcemasc is directed to transmascs and butches, not trans women. Same way around with forcefem.

[daizthecraze]

It’s genuinely hilarious how much of an afterthought Octavia is in Stolas’s mind. I didn’t watch the latest episode cuz I’ve completely given up on the show, I’ve just seen a post, but you’re telling me he said out loud he’ll rather be dead without Blitz by his side and his daughter heard him!!?. (Even if it was a soliloquy) the fact that he thinks that is just soo sad in a bad way. “Stolas cares about Octavia” MY ASS. Him saying “what about my daughter when his powers were taken away at the end and all of his fans just ate that shit up LMFAO be fr.

[annagxx]

Iss saal bhi nahi mila

[ecurps]

Me: This is Symptoms.

Drs / Normies: Have you considered Symptoms are your fault and stopping.

me: you literally have a disorder. this is symptoms

me: no perhaps my soul is rotten

[sixhundredwinionsinatrenchcoat]

Obviously I'm all for gay rights and stuff but as an aroace person I really wish we would stop acting like certain things are automatically romantic. One example I can think of is with Patroclus and Achilles, people often say that Achilles wouldn't have been so incensed with rage and killed so many Trojans after Patroclus' death if they weren't lovers. And I'm not saying they weren't, but can we not pretend that there aren't people who would do that for their friends? Because there absolutely are. I'm so fucking tired of people who claim that romantic love is inherently stronger or deeper than platonic love because it's NOT.

[rusted-soda-can]

My thoughts on the new MHA leaks:

First of all, it generally baffles me how much modern fandom relies on the canon. The point of fandom and headcanons and shipping is not to remain so strictly and exclusively faithful to the canon work(s).

Even in canon, they retcon and change things all of the time. There’s alternate universes and conveniently ignored details, etc. all of the time.

There should be no reason to bash someone online just because they are into a ship or subscribe to a headcanon that isn’t canon, (key word: headcanon). Literally all of this is made up. It genuinely has almost no impact on your day to day life outside of the internet.

I understand hating on a ship or headcanon that is illegal or unethical or otherwise gross, that’s not what this is about.

The insane amount of hate that bkdk shippers are receiving online is disgusting and concerning, not only from izuocha shippers. It’s honestly not even about the ship. The lack of polite debate and civil disagreement is scary.

Which brings me to my second point, the anger from bkdk shippers and togachako shippers is not unwarranted. I may seem biased as a shipper of both, but my distress towards the leak is not due to “delusions of grandeur” or hoping for a queer ship to be canon in such a large and mainstream manga.

I am very much aware of what ships are likely to become canon, but the ending has many problems and not just in terms of ships.

Many of the images seem to be enhanced by ai and lack continuity (Izuku missing a freckle, Bakugou appearing on Izuku’s other side without moving, etc.).

And plot wise/character development wise it just makes no sense. Ochako would never forget about Toga and their past so easily. Izuku would never turn down Bakugou’s request to be hero partners. None of it makes sense.

Of course every fandom will have toxic spaces, but it seems to consume the majority of the MHA fandom, which makes the series wildly unenjoyable to much of the potential and current fandom.

So no, bkdk shippers are not “the problem” and are not “delusional”, they are actively enjoying a piece of media and being shamed for interpreting it.

Insane.

Side note: I am also loving the angst, jokes, and headcanons that are coming from this leak, don’t get me wrong.

[julezo]

characters who lash out violently and disastrously against help are beautiful and amazing. my only issue is that none of it is enough for me.

Jason Todd fanfiction shouldnt just be “i hurt people and they’re scared of me”.. It should be Dick Grayson trying to connect with Jason, and Bruce trying to connect with Jason, and him ramping up killings to keep them away from him.

if you’re writing a angsty Midoriya Izuku fic where you make him a neglected and ignored child, and then have him happily slot into the Aizawa/Yamada family, i don’t care for that. if you have a vigilante Midoriya and he easily and joyfully gives up his vigilante persona when admitted into UA, I disagree. Make him bite and claw for freedom. push them all away over and over and over until theres someone who cannot be moved, still waiting for him to relent.

and i do know, obviously, that canon Harry Potter folds like a wet paper towel to authority, but who cares about canon when you’re writing fanfic. Make him scramble against Dumbledore, even if you’re writing good!Dumbledore or misguided!Dumbledore. make him suspicious of Sirius and Remus. Make him viciously protective of his friends. if he’s free with crucios in book 7, then make that an arc!!! make him self isolate during the tournament and bite the hand of anyone because it seems like everyone is trying to commercialize his being. after book5, make Harry be incredibly rude and violent towards anyone who bullied him in OtP and now wants to be his friend again.

sick and tired of healthy and forgiving characters. be better.

[angelshizuka]

I swear, have people who claim Mastermind is "rushed" never had a near death experience before? (Either for themselves or a loved one.) Because if there's ANYTHING that "rushes" things like this, it's truly realizing how fragile life is and how little time you have left in either your own life or with the life of someone you love.

Do not fucking test me, I know from personal experience and this episode is EVERYTHING I felt (the only main difference is mine was platonic, but at it's core it's the same). How years of constipated emotions were finally able to leave my mouth, fighting harder than ever before to get past my own fears to say and do things I've never thought I could.

I know this is fiction and technically doesn't need to be realistic to be good, but even then I will die on the hill that how Stolas and Blitz acted during the situation and how they came out of it are extremely realistic and in character.

Especially Blitz, this wasn't even the first time he almost lost Stolas to death and he spent the past month being certain he'd lost Stolas forever in general. And then almost loses him to death again, all because he's giving his life for Blitz. So, of course Blitz is gonna make sure he's not gonna lose Stolas again.

[elvishdemigod]

Okay. Stolas is a complete piece of shit of a father.

Stolas has chosen Blitz over his daughter multiple times.

He hired and flirted with him at the carnival with his daughter. Oh, and before that, said very sexual things in front of her when calling Blitz. His mind, when preparing for protection for a trip with her, went to calling the guy he hooks up with and immediately thinks about sex.

When he went to find her in the mortal realm, he not only had Blitz along, but also preoccupied himself with thirsting over him. And it was Loona that found Octavia. Not him.

Then he was willing to not only get himself killed for Blitz, but on live tv, where his daughter could see

She's told him how she's scared he'll leave her for Blitz. He promised he wouldn't.

Yet he did.

He actually fucking ditched her for the guy he was running around with. Was about to let himself die (as he thought would happen) on live tv, where his daughter could see.

Octavia saw her dad ditch her and sacrifice himself for his side guy.

See, Stella shouldn't have been made a villain. Because this shit is not okay. She could've been shown still loving her daughter, while hating Stolas at the same time. Because we've seen her be less shitty with her daughter than Stolas has. Even if she faked a sad face and open arms probably out of manipulation, she's still done less harmful things to her daughter than Stolas has.

Imagine how low Octavia's self-esteem is that her dad, who she loved, just prepared himself to die for the imp he always forces along while with her, without a single thought to her. So bad, that the side piece is a better dad to his adopted adult daughter than Stolas is to his biological kid daughter. Not sure if it's true, but I heard Viv actually hates Octavia. Which...says a fucking lot about her, tbh. "Teenage girl with parents always fighting, who just wants her dad and terrified of losing him, but has to deal with him choosing casual hookups over her many times" does not sound like a hateable character. If Viv hating Octavia is true, that just makes all this so much worse.

Stolas uses sex as extortion, doesn't give a shit about his daughter outside of empty words, still sees imps as lowers and uses them like objects and somehow expecting Blitz not to see that shit as shitty? I don't care if he's a gay guy forced into his situation, that's no reason to ditch the daughter who you explicitly told you weren't going to ditch.

Yet I'm supposed to believe Stella is the evil one here? So far, all I've seen is she deserves to take Octavia.

[nodameshield]

i can't look away from this car crash.

the inconsistencies with the story we read for 400+ chapters, the hopelessness around Izuku's entire character, deeming bkdk's dynamic entirely useless after all the effort to set them up as the 'wonder duo', 'the ultimate rivals' -- and then? What is this? was it all to waste?

where is Izuku defending his dream? where is his ambition to become the #1 hero? if what he wants to do now is teach, you have to show me that!! you should've shown me that sooner! Show me an Izuku who is admired by his teachers (AM, Aizawa, GT...) not because they're heroes, but because he admires how they teach and now he longs to become a mentor as well. Then, maybe, this whole shift in his perspective would make more sense. But the thing is:

Izuku loved his mentors because they were heroes. Not because they were teachers.

(teaching is the noblest profession do not come for me -- all I'm saying is: this is not consistent with his character!)

If he loves being a teacher now, I'm not seeing that, either! I'm not seeing a deep desire to help kids (like Tenko) to make better decisions or have better opportunities.

All I see is a depressed twenty-something boy with dead-eyes and office-shoes. If I wanted to see that, I'd read literally anything else!

Where is Izuku? Where did his character go? what happened to his personality? Where is my shōnen manga MC? the kid who cleaned a beach with his bare hands and no quick, fueled by the ambition to become a hero? if that drive was there before the quick, it surely should be there long after the embers burned out...

it pains me, because it feels as though everything else that happened in this story was for nothing. it collapses on itself and becomes pointless. If the message was that once you grow up you should give up on your dreams--well, then call me Katsuki 'cause I don't even know what to say to that! What kind of shit message is that?

If the message is that you should do the best with your circumstances, Izuku is still not doing that! He could be a hero again now. He has the suit, he had an opening, an offer, even. But he still didn't want it. He's settling. It's mediocre. I hate it. I hate this for him. And I hate it if this is what he's become.

Also, I was not about to be queerbaited by a shōnen manga. I've been around the block and I knew what to expect. But maybe even so I was too naïve, because what they did to bkdk's relationship goes beyond the ship, it fundamentally kills their bond.

How am I supposed to interpret Katsuki not only working for nearly a decade in order to get Izuku his suit, then waiting for Izuku to be a hero again and then WAITING AGAIN to invite Izuku to join his agency, rejecting all other prospects because it was always Izuku, always Deku, the one he wanted by his side as a partner -- and I'm supposed to be okay with Izuku never acknowledging this? Rejecting Katsuki's proposal without a thought? That is not Izuku. And it's a disservice to the friendship they spent 400+ chapters rebuilding, the rivalry I was shown from day one.

There were so many better ways to address their dynamic, even if there was a shift in it due to Izuku becoming a teacher or whatever. If Katsuki was to be rejected and disappointed in the end, you might as well have left him dead, for there was no purpose to his character after that without their rivalry. (by this I mean, you set up their dynamic to be a duality. One can't exist without the other. If you are going to change your mind, tell the audience! Show the audience! there was no buildup for this. is sloppy. is mediocre again.

anyways i obviously care about this. I wanna look away but i can't. I can't. I've spent years of my life loving these characters, learning from them, following their story. I thought they'd have a better send-off. I thought their creator understood the characters (he gave us every sign that he did).

I thought the ending would be consistent and good, like most of the story was, and it hurts to be proven wrong, especially when it's not only bad, but painfully, regrettably mediocre, which is the worst fate a beloved piece of media can get.

[jellyfemmedyke]

We are not as a group, going to start pretending that binary trans people have privilege over non binary people. We don't have to be "the most oppressed" for our issues to be important. jfc then you got other non binary people talking down to me, like I don't know my own oppression, just because I disagree with them??? okay "binary privilege" I'm throwing people out the window

[rouxaroo]

I fucking HATE when transphobes try and pretend children can't be trans or know they're trans. When people say they didn't think about their gender at that age. I fucking did!

When I was 9 I was hanging out with this girl who lives near my step dad's place and I described myself as a "tomgirl" a term I made up for myself to describe being a trans girl. When I was 4 I had a fit in the store because I couldn't understand why I wasn't being treated like the other girls. When I was 7 people mistook me for a cis girl and I was as giddy as a goat in hay. When I was 8 I wrote little stories and drew pictures of me becoming a girl and joining the Winx Club. At 5 I tried to remove my penis because it felt wrong. When I was 12 I started voice training because I was terrified of my voice getting deeper.

Fuck you trans kids know ourselves! My only regret in life is that I wasn't allowed to start HRT when I was 13 like I begged for after I realized what trans was and there was some hope for women like me to live our lives as women. My only regret is I couldn't get a vaginoplasty and have my balls thrown in the trash a decade ago! My only regret is that I spent a decade thinking I was a freak and alone in this world while I had millions of sisters around the country and the globe living exactly like I was.

Fuck you anyone who says trans kids don't exist. Fuck you anyone who says trans kids can't decide for ourselves. Fuck you anyone who tries to obscure who and what we are from us, making us think we're mutant abominations.

[golden--goofball]

might be time for me to delete tiktok because WHAT in the fuck is this bullshit.

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i can TASTE my brain rotting from reading these comments holy fucking shit dude.

[gayrobot9000]

This is actually awful, sorry. Friendships have not always been like this. Throughout nearly all of human history, we were in tribes or groups that gave us a near-constant sense of community and friendship. It was a great survival strategy, so we developed a need for it. However, the system that we're all currently trapped in prioritizes capital above all other human needs. I ❤️ capitalism!

Look, sure, maybe your social needs change when you get older, but holy shit, you should not be having to maintain all of your friendships with 2 texts a year.

And another thing: if y'all don't need this connection, good for you. Can y'all please stop being smug about it?

Friendships as a teenager: we used to talk 5 hours every night now it’s down to 3… are we still friends 🤔? I wonder if they don’t like me anymore

Friendships as an adult: omg I’ve finally cleared up 20 minutes of my schedule to talk to my friend I haven’t spoken to in 4 months #bffs #we will find eachother in every life