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[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

It's something of a problem that most books on here are at least 90% "Never Heard of That Before". I know you probably can't do anything about it without a criteria for popularity (of which I doubt a good unbiased one exists), but it makes it hard to be interested in any of the polls when you've never heard of the book and it seems no one else has either.

Yeah I totally get it and i understand that it can make people lose interest, but as you said idk if something can be done about it

I definitely want to keep your submissions bc this is about all of our reading experiences, even though they tend to be niche most of the time

Thats why i decided to add the goodreads choice wards winners but now im noticing that there are lots of books (like nonfiction and poetry) that arent that popular oops

There are simply too many books overall and reading a book takes more time than watching a movie (on average) so one person wont have read or even know most of the books that exist

I bet even if we did the new york times bestseller list there would be books that many havent heard of

[20001541]

There's a small theory that I've had for a while but recently felt more validated after seeing what Hori said on the popularity poll livestream

The thing he said being this:

Which is interesting because we all know he infamously said back in 2018 that he planned on revealing Hisashi at some point in the story. Which as we know today never happens. So, it leaves us with the question, what happened?

Because in order for him to say this he must've had something in mind at the time for what he wanted to do with Hisashi. The first time we learn his name is in the BNHA Ultra Archive book that came out in 2016. Never officially translated into English btw so this is all we got.

Anyways this means he had something in mind for Hisashi for a while then, but then he changed his mind and kept him out of the story. He feels he put everyone and he wanted to put in the story and wouldn't change anything.

My theory is that he might've planned to make DFO a thing initially but decided it would be best if the story goes a different route and kept it out.

Because why else would you say you plan to reveal who is Hisashi is at some point only for your story to end with no sight of him? Not even a tiny mention. Let us not also forget how people pointed out that Inko's birthday 07/04 spells out nana shi in Japanese which is like Nana's name. It's also canon that All Might pointed out how her hair reminds him of Nana. So I wonder if he also planned on her being Nana's daughter and had AFO target her as a result. This was also something I found to be rumored among some Japanese fan forums. Even though the translations I got weren't great the little I could understand suggested it.

And even though I lost interest in DFO and stopped believing before the story ended this one panel has always stuck out to me.

Hori is insanely detailed oriented, like during Dabi's first appearance he's in front of a hair salon which foreshadowed that the hair colour he has now isn't his real one and was used as proof in Dabi is a Todoroki theory. So the fact that Hori chose to place the "my only family" bubble over a shot where Izuku is watching everything unfold stands out to me even now. Keep in mind this chapter released in 2018 which was the same year Hori said he planned to reveal Hisashi. Maybe could be me reaching, but still something to consider.

I'm not entirely sure of all of this actually and could be wrong. But it's an interesting theory as to what could've happened behind the scenes.

Another theory that I'm less sure of but can see it being possible is that the elements of the reveal he intended for DFO ended up being used for the reveal with Tomura.

Think about. It's actually crazy how similar the Tomura reveal in 419 was similar to what a lot of DFO fans were hoping for all these years.

AFO took on a whole new identity to get close to a civilian, he helped build the home Tomura would live in, played a part in Tomura's conception, he took away his original quirk, set Tomura up as a successor, and AFO had a big reveal moment that left Tomura devastated... like I remember several posts that theorized things like this about Izuku. The reason why AFO targeted Kotaro in the first place was because he was Nana's son and I remember that Inko being targeted for being Nana's daughter was a big part of the Inko Shimura theory.

I don't know for sure if this reveal was built off of his ideas for a DFO reveal he had initially planned. Really it depends on when he first created the idea of AFO being behind all the terrible things in Tomura's life and if he even had DFO in mind in the first place at some point.

But it's fascinating either way. Either DFO fans were right in how they interpreted some aspects of the story to suggest DFO were true and correctly guessed some aspects of the story that were recycled for a different reveal later on, or they were completely off the mark and by coincidence some of their theories for DFO ended up being eerily similar to how the 419 reveal ended up being.

[radfem-polls]

curious because of the gold star lesbian poll

lesbians, do you believe in comphet?

I'm going to make some options here

I believe society pressures women to be in heterosexual relationships, and a woman can still be a lesbian if she fantasizes about men or is in a (consensual) relationship with them

I believe society pressures women to be in heterosexual relationships, and a woman can still be a lesbian if she is in a (consensual) relationship with them, but not if she fantasizes about men

I believe society pressures women to be in heterosexual relationships, and a woman can still be a lesbian if she fantasizes about men, but not if she is in a (consensual) romantic or sexual relationship with one

I believe society pressures women to be in heterosexual relationships, and a woman can still be a lesbian if she fantasizes about men or is in a (consensual) romantic relationship with one, but not if she is in a (consensual) sexual relationship with one

5. I believe society pressures women to be in heterosexual relationships, and a woman can still be a lesbian if she fantasizes about men or is in a (consensual) sexual relationship with one, but not if she is in a (consensual) romantic relationship with one

6. I believe society pressures women to be in heterosexual relationships, but that a lesbian will have no interest in men and will not enter any (consensual) romantic or sexual relationship with one

7. I don't believe society meaningfully pressures women to be in heterosexual relationships

8. I don't have an opinion/i don't know

9. something else not described here

10. I am not a lesbian

-🐌

I'm a firm believer in number 6 and I think 1-5 are homophobic attitudes from people who believe bisexuals can call themselves lesbians. Lesbians don't owe inclusivity of our language to bisexuals who want to use it as a label/identity (lesbians don't "identify" as lesbians we simply ARE lesbians). Lesbians are lesbians because we are attracted only to women and under no circumstances attracted to men. Society can elevate kinds of relationships in society, but it can under no circumstances invent attraction because attraction is innate and something you're born with (otherwise conversion therapy would work).

[solarweer]

So the Sol interest check poll was a success?

THEN HOW ABOUT CROWE'S?????

We need 30 people to put $5

(just like Solivan's)

C'MON SOULMATES LET'S MAKE HIM REAL AS WELL!!!!!!

[beannary]

HELLO I AM THINKING OF MAKING TLP MERCH!!!!

Hi there! I've been wanting to try my hand at making keychains for a while now so here we go! Here are three different designs that I've come up with for potential tlp keychains.

[fandomregression]

Possible New AO3 Tags!!

So, I think we all know that the ao3 tag situation is...not ideal. You have basically two choices for tags: Age Regression/De-aging (which is technically meant for physically regressed/de-aged characters, not agere) or Non-sexual Age Play (which is...the wrong thing). Both of these tags are inaccurate for our community, but we have used them because its as close as we can get. It's even gotten to the point where Age Regression/De-aging has wrangled everything under the sun for agere (agere, age regression, regression, and every tag we make complaining about our tag situation). So! I have two possibilities for new tags we can use!

🧸Inner Child Therapy🧸

this one is probably the most obvious choice? at least it is to me lol inner child therapy is another, more clinical name for agere, so it would be a good choice. it's also not currently used for anything on ao3 (Healing the Inner Child is a tag, but not currently one with more than i think 3 fics, and it's not a common tag, so it would more than likely get wrangled, but I think it'd be okay)

with this one, we would also have the option to use secondary tags like we use with Age Regression/De-aging currently (think how a lot of fics use "Age Regression Little [Character]" tags, we could use something like "Inner Child Little [Character]" instead)

i think inner child therapy as a term would also help with the stigma around agere because it really...can't be confused with anything else? not as far as i can make out anyway lol

a con toward this would be that not many ppl currently know this as a term, and therefore it would be hard to implement

🖍Crayonfic🖍

i just think this one is cute. like we're all just out here writing our fics in crayon to share with each other hehe

in my head, this would even be able to include a whole tagging system using diff crayon colors to mean different things (when i was thinking of this concept, i was thinking along the lines of pink crayon = fluff, blue = angst, green = whump, purple = romantic, orange = platonic, white = diapers, etc etc etc etc)

it just so cute in my head lol, and it would definitely be easy to separate from the current tags

a con toward this one is just that it could be confusing to try to implement and i could see it getting wildly out of hand and complicated if we aren't careful with it

No matter what, it will absolutely be a struggle to change tags to get away from what we have right now. In order for any sort of new tag, one of these or something else, to work we would all have to agree not to crosstag. When tagging fics, you would *not* be able to tag it with the old tags and one of the new ones because it would more than likely result in the new tag getting wrangled and then we're back to square one. It would have to be a community effort to get it explained *why* things are different, now, and how to find fics. It would also be a struggle to get authors of older works to maybe switch their tags out so that new readers can find them more easily under a new tag.

These are just my ideas, and I'd love to open the discussion up to you guys!! If there's any other ideas for tags, I'd love to hear them!!!

[deoidesign]

Thinks about my next series again... I drew the icon for it!

I'm planning to have it launched within a year! I'm hoping for summer 2025. I want to make a prelaunch page before Time and Time Again ends so people can subscribe if they're interested, but I'm worried the series return would be too early...

[stormyoceans]

LINE READING SO DEVASTATING I NEED TO DIE ABOUT IT

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[vincentspork]

I keep seeing posts abt lesbophobia enacted by bi women that I broadly agree with until op slides in some implication that bi women wield societal power over lesbians and then I'm like. Well

[cathodic-clairvoyant]

There's a lot about discussion of hdwr that baffles me (not all discussion to be clear, because i do think there's a lot of good discussion about hdwr. But equally so are there the ones that make you wonder if you're reading the same story) and I think one that is especially annoying is the constant infantilization of miwa as this passive eternal victim. It drives me up a wall because this is quite literally an issue she's struggled with within the text of the story! She had an arc about how she dislikes how people treat her this way like towards the beginning of the story! And like even ignoring that, this story is about like nuanced and realistic portrayals of being in relationships and learning how to navigate them and so it's like what's the point if you're going to immediately reduce the characters to "the victim" and "the victimizers?" Is that even interesting? Is that a useful lens to look at interpersonal relationships?

[wanderer-clarisse]

yes I will draw whichever option wins this one! (although I have sketches for some of them already and I'm still gonna post them anyway :D)

go wild in the tags! let us know all the hyper specific details from your imagination!

[unopenablebox]

look. most people on tumblr, like most people everywhere, are just kind of innumerate, at least in slightly unexpected cases theyre asked to discuss on polls. they can't demonstrate an understanding of probability and they also don't understand compound interest. this is bad, but we can't fix it by explaining on the polls at length why they are wrong, because people on tumblr, in a specific manner but also still pretty much like people everywhere, think you are a fun-ruining evil stemlord who automatically loses the argument and should be put to death as the oppressor if you try to explain math to them

[dykesbat]

WAS TAGGED BY @ekleiipsis <33333 TYYYYYY <3333333333333333333333333333333333 THIS WAS A LOT OF FUN EVEN THOUGH IM LIKE. A WEEK LATE.

i was tagged once here and once on my sideblog so i decided to put bruce over on that poll to even it out :)

no pressure tags: @lafigliadirappaccini @batmanstwelfthkid @malice-maids @everiistence @spiiderpunk