#words cannot describe the absolute vitriol i hold for this ship

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Caleo (Calypso/Leo)

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[explodo-smash]

Warning post about SaiSaixChan

Regarding recent problems, the team at Explodo Smash has decided to put out a long overdue warning about the user SaiSaixchan.

We often get messages about why we don’t consider, nor hold any value to her word or her analyses about the BNHA series.

It goes much beyond disagreements with her interpretations about the show/manga itself and more with her displays of manipulation, homophobia, hypocrisy, and absolute disregard for the morality of the source of her information, her words, or the concerns of the people who admire her.

We do not think her followers, or people who interact with her, are aware of her misdeeds, and we would like to confront them now.

TW: homophobia, mentions of pedophilia, transphobia and sexual assault

Firstly, I would like to emphasize SaiSai has expressed homophobia on more than one occasion and tends to either delete it, excuse it, or disregards people’s comments or worries about it. 

Never once does she apologize or acknowledge it for long periods.

On her twitter, when talking about gay ships, she spoke on how she just preferred heterosexual ships + friendships because she was exposed to incestuous/pedophilic art which made her turn away from gay ships (specifically) and also blaming those who ship gay ships, referring to them as “toxic”.

Preferring platonic relationships in art/story alone is fine, however she had made it clear she associates pedophilia and incest with gayness only, despite these horrible tropes also existing in a mass in heterosexual shipping.

Instead of acknowledging this, she deleted her tweets and ignored the people who tried to speak to her (names omitted).

She had a tumblr post stating similar, which has again, since been deleted (recently because it was up about last month when a friend asked why I was wary of her).

But here’s proof of those screenshot’s existence (X) and how she repeatedly reblogged that because she thinks many people were that traumatized by gay content online like herself. (Screenshot below incase she deletes this too)

She does not seem to realize her homophobia is not a case of whether or not she supports them, but the fact she associates gayness with these things, and holds this idea that her fans, and fans of same sex ships, are always out to fetishize them, but never this experience to heterosexual ships, somehow.

This leads us to discuss her treatment and discussion of gay ships and the characters. To justify her distaste for any of the gay ships in BNHA, she cites the most transphobic, abusive, and absolutely abhorrently worded translations of the series.

She acknowledges the translations are bad, but whenever people try to speak to her about her meta or interpretations as derived from those translations being bad--and not reminiscent of the characters--again, she ignores it, and yet, people continue to heed her words and listen to them as fact.

Her support for LGBT cannot exist alongside the fact she admits she associates [gayness] with abuse, incest, pedophilia and “fandom fetishization” inherently, not without her acknowledging that’s a horrible thing to believe and spread to others, period. Yet she seems to take no interest in taking that route, even as her fans have approached her multiple times in that hope.

It’s incredibly dangerous she has such a voice in the fandom considering her words and vitriol almost always comes from a place of either internal hatred, homophobia, or her own perceived projection.

And that’s where we lead into her weird obsession with Bakugou, and how it’s finally reached the point of being completely inappropriate.

Sai will insistently cite the character Bakugou as abusive in every situation but his relationship with Ochako. She has been known to go between insisting she loves this character alongside obsessively seeing him as some weird combination of abusive to tsundere.

She is creepily and constantly on the edge of sexualizing if not inappropriately romanticizing him, despite calling him her “son”, and this offense may not be as severe or obvious if she didn’t insist on putting someone she wants to be seen as a “mother” to in obscene situations.

She describes a situation from early chapters of BNHA as a “molestation”, an INCREDIBLY triggering, exaggerative and awful word to describe something that happened to a child character, and she cites this as Bakugou getting ‘proper punishment’ to an anon who asked.

When confronted about this and how horrible and unnecessary the wording and description was, she had no care in the world to alter or maybe consider that it was inappropriate.

And now recently, she has begged the question to her followers of whether or not Bakugou would have a crush on her, going onto add she means “puppy crush”, nothing serious, as if that makes it a cleaner question.

And again, when confronted about this, she has deleted replies speaking against her, and allowed the user who said something about how weird and creepy it was to be relentlessly and horrendously harassed for more than enough time before saying “it was an old post” and no one deserves “anon hate”.

She’s intentionally double-speaking here. It being an old post does not disregard the fact she was the one who reblogged it again, got confronted about it, and allowed a CSA victim to get harassed for days about it afterwards.

The user who confronted her never got any reparations or apologies from Sai about the comments her followers are saying to her. Instead, Sai chooses to once more be quiet about, and ignore, the situation.

Over the past 2-3 years our team has existed in the fandom, Sai has presented manipulative, two-faced, and horrendous behavior, and has not changed. We very much regret being silent this long. Her audience of primarily children continue to echo and repeat her, not realizing her words, analyses, and demeanor have always, and will always, stand from a place of hatred.

She uses her position as “fandom mom” to have kids start her fights for her, she uses her following to create an unsafe space for BNHA fans, and preys on the naivety of those who follow her to pat her position.

Her ego makes her incapable of letting any kind of conflict around her name breathe, she has hailed herself as the Second Coming of Horikoshi despite nothing she’s ever said or done has been credible, genuine, or from a place of love for these characters, she goes out of her way to make the environment of fandom toxic while believing herself to be the most non-toxic user of them all.

Sai not only uses transphobic/abusive translations to make a distorted points about the characters, the conclusions she arrives at with the story and other people just aren’t true and actively contribute to a lot of evidently harmful pervasive mentalities in the fandom, which she defends and dances around upon confrontation.

We ask for nothing but people to be wary of her, and her true nature. We are very sure many other people have had bad experiences with her that have been dug out or ignored, and we encourage people to share them be it on this post or on anon.

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Settle Down About The Eagles Keeping Donnell Pumphrey

I can already feel your vitriol as you as you read these words, but just hear me out on this. Besides, what else are you going to do today, get back to work? It’s the first day after Labor Day weekend, these kind of days are made for ingesting 1,400 words about your favorite team’s fifth-string running back. Your boss can wait.

Much to the ire of most of the fan base, it appears the Eagles are keeping Donnel Pumphrey as their fifth running back. From a statistical standpoint, Pumphrey’s preseason was brutal. He totaled 49 yards on 26 carries for a despicable 1.9 yards per carry. As a receiver, he’s been only slightly better, catching 13 passes for 72 yards. The larger point is that he failed to make a noticeable play on any of his touches. As a smaller and supposedly quicker player, Pumphrey most certainly did not live up to his billing in the preseason.

So why the hell did the Eagles keep him?

The Big Picture

Based on his preseason performance, Pumphrey may not be able to contribute right away, if at all in 2017. But that’s OK. The Eagles – probably not a legitimate Super Bowl contender this year – need to focus not just on competing now, but also on keeping an eye towards the future. In his press conference immediately following the 4:00 PM cuts on Saturday, Howie Roseman described the thought process that went into making the roster decisions:

“When we make these decisions, we’re talking about the 46 (players activated for game day), the 53 (complete roster) and then the 63 (complete roster plus practice squad) and we want to make sure our coaches have the best 46 guys that they need to go into Washington, and then, from there, there are also guys that we want to develop.”

Roseman also later said:

“We are trying to balance where the ceilings are of guys, especially some of the guys that may not be playing, may not be active. We don’t want to lose a guy that, a year from now or two years from now, we think has starter traits.”

Right or wrong, the front office and coaching staff see something in Pumphrey that has yet to show itself on the field. In their multiple debriefs following the draft, Roseman and his second-in-command, Gregor CleganeJoe Douglas, often mentioned Pumphrey’s toughness and lightning-quick feet as traits that drew them to the running back. Although they weren’t on display in the preseason, when looking back on Pumphrey in college, there is no questioning that assessment.

While traits like speed and strength are relative to the competition, toughness and lightning-quick feet are not. They should be able to translate to the NFL. At least that is what the Eagles are hoping. And Pumphrey did have one run in last Thursday’s preseason finale that was reminiscent of his college days. It was not a play that would stand out on the stat sheet, as it only resulted in a 4-yard gain, but Pumphrey displayed the quickness and suddenness in the hole that made him so effective at San Diego State:

The Eagles front office has a process and, by keeping Pumphrey, they are trusting it. The scouts and coaches spent hours on him. They saw something that they liked. For a franchise looking to improve, there is little harm in giving a player they believe in a chance to develop.

Rookie Development

The transition from college to the NFL is a major adjustment for rookies. As fans, we are willing to accept and acknowledge this, but only until it affects us. Once the preseason starts, if we are not entertained, we look to immediately banish the player straight to hell.

Pumphrey talk post-draft: “Pumphrey will probably need some time to develop, get stronger, add some weight, learn the playbook, etc.”

Pumphrey talk in preseason: “Pumphrey sucks, cut his ass!!”

Fans can afford to think this way, but the Eagles cannot. The rookie learning curve is gigantic, and quality organizations recognize that. It is not simply a matter of Pumphrey learning where to run on each play– that can change depending on the dozens of formations the team utilizes. Then it can change again based on the personnel and alignment of the defense. That’s not all: after the ball is snapped, a running back must read the reaction of the defense and execution of the blockers in front of him and hit the appropriate hole. There are an insane number of variables that impact what a player is supposed to do on any given play, and rookies must understand all of them and be able to process them in real-time.

None of that takes into account the adjustment the player must make to the level of competition. On top of the information and data a rookie is asked to consume, he also has to adjust to the bigger, faster and stronger competition. This takes time and consistency. In college, Pumphrey was a cut above the rest athletically. He could make those college defenders miss in his sleep. In the NFL, he has to be ready to make that cut a half-second sooner on every play. That takes time. It’s like playing Madden and deciding you’re going to sack up and change the settings from All-Pro to All-Madden. You start taking a ton of sacks and throw a ton of interceptions, but if you can weather the storm, you’ll eventually steady the ship. You’ll adjust and figure out what does and does not work on that level of play.

I’ve heard people acknowledge that the learning curve may be a factor but then say that Pumphrey is not even showing the speed and athleticism necessary for the NFL. Speed and athleticism, though, are very much intertwined with the mental side of the game. There is a difference between a player’s athletic speed and their play speed. Football is a complex game. If a player cannot make the required mental adjustments, he can never play to his full athletic potential. There have been plenty of good athletes over the years who have been unable to play fast. Pumphrey is still trying to make those mental adjustments and it’s entirely possible he never does, but it’s way too early to make that determination.

He Holds the NCAA Rushing Record!

What do NCAA rushing records mean in the NFL? Absolutely nothing! It does tell us something about Pumphrey. There is something special about him. Despite his small stature and lack of power, he still found a way to be the NCAA All-Time leading rusher. That’s not nothing. That’s not the San Diego State record, not the Mountain West record, but the NCAA rushing record. Of course, you could argue that the competition in the Mountain West is relatively weak, and that is a valid argument. Then again, there have been hundreds of other running backs to come out of the Mountain West who never came close to owning the rushing crown. The next closest has almost 1,500 less yards than Pumphrey.

I can’t argue that Pumphrey has been good this preseason. I can’t even argue that he definitely deserved to make this team. But, let’s not pretend to be mad about keeping a fifth running back. I understand that some may have preferred that they keep another player such as Dillon Gordon or Nate Gerry over Pumphrey, but do you really care that much? Is anyone losing sleep over it? What other player that got cut on Saturday was really going to make an impact on the 2017 team? Pumphrey has not shown the playmaking ability he did in college, but at the very least, his background makes him intriguing as a developmental player. If there is any NFL level talent in him, we deserve the opportunity to find it.

Game Week

Congratulations! We’ve finally made it to Week 1! Football is officially back. We can finally stop fighting amongst ourselves about players who won’t even dress on Sundays. Later this week, I will be doing a mailbag. Feel free to send me any Eagles related questions. I will pick the best ones for the post. My Twitter handle is @S_Cottrell23.

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