#y’all see the arms???

[housecow]

it’s no wonder i’m outgrowing everything..

[royaltea000]

Qitian dasheng and other outfit concept sketches

[centaur-dreaming]

Y’all don’t think…………?

[gojooooo]

😭😭😭 that’s his tiger cub your honor. his little monkey if you will. you cannot separate them i’m sorry it’s against the rules (source: because i said so)

[wildsaltair]

HOT HOT HOT HOT SUPER HOT HOT HOTTTTT

[murdleandmarot]

Bluebelle and her music box :)

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Matt’s arm tuck in Foggy’s elbow is so personal to me

[dekusleftsock]

Turning tragedy into hope-Let him lose those arms

I’ve tried making this post three times so let’s hope that third times the charm y’all.

I’m just gonna come out and say it but when I saw that panel where Izuku doesn’t have any hands I literally got so excited.

AND ITS NOT BECAUSE I LIKE MY FAVORITE CHARACTER GETTING BRUTALIZED (well? I do think it’s a little funny but shhh)

But it’s because this has been foreshadowed almost as much as the handhold itself between Izuku and Katsuki. And it’s wonderfully tragic in the best of ways. Literally half of the commentary surrounding it when it came out in the leaks was “omg I thought of that!” Because literally everyone and their mother KNEW this was coming in some form. Izuku was going to lose an arm, and that would be the case.

Hell, even outside of the story the amount of official art and AU’s Horikoshi drew that had Izuku without an arm is astounding. Like it’s so painfully obvious that this was coming, and so he upped the shock when he made Izuku lose them both.

Izuku is even doing his white eye thing, he isn’t shocked, he’s angry. My dude is pissed. Clearly, to me at least, the loss of his hands is less of a shock to him and more so that he’s angry that afo took away the reason he lost them in the first place—Tenko.

Y’all gotta remember who Izuku is, he’s the stubborn motherfucker that refused time and time again to give up on his dreams, he’s the one that illegally saved Iida and Katsuki, he’s the one that refused to let go of Tenko’s hands because when he was in his time of need, it comforted him.

Izuku has been told by his doctors for over a year atp that he was going to eventually either lose his hands, or lose the function within them. He’s accepted that. He can try to stop it, hold it off through equipment and treatment, but at the end of the day, everything breaks eventually. He knows that. We know that.

So if he was going to lose his arms in some way, it’d be through this: saving someone, holding their hands, never letting go, comforting them.

It’s tragic and sacrificial, but Aizawa’s the same. Did we make theories about how Eri is gonna heal him from being an amputee? Did the story say “actually due to this cool magical illusion/quirk it was all a mirage/eri could heal it”? No, it didn’t. Did Mirko somehow get her arms and legs back because they’re tied to how she views her strength? No, she didn’t.

And there’s a reason they didn’t. Multiple reasons they didn’t. They’re heroes, their scars tell their stories.

Not even mentioning how that’s such a trope (“everyone else keeps their long term injuries except for the main character because he’s special and gets main character powers, like not getting a disability from a dangerous job! :)”), but why should eri, a little girl, be responsible for everyone’s injuries? She doesn’t even have full control yet, she’s playing it by day. (People LOVE to talk about how all the 1-A kids are just kids fighting in a war, except when it comes to a little girl being responsible for everyone’s injuries, somehow)

The reason eri was shown wasn’t because she was going to somehow save the day, but because she wasn’t. It was supposed to stop those theories from having actual merit, because eri doesn’t actually have the built up strength to help.

So, with that out of the way, I wanted to say how this is so fucking beautiful. It’s tragic yes, Izuku and Katsuki never got to hold hands, not properly, but maybe the measure of their trust is beyond that. Maybe, an embrace could suffice—this would go back to Izuku’s vigilante arc. Where, instead of holding hands, Katsuki caught him when he needed to. And he’s going to do it, again and again.

Maybe holding a robot or silicone arm won’t feel the same, but it’s the feelings surrounding it that matters, not the act itself. The hand hold is still there, the hands still haunt the narrative like a mouse within the walls. It bites at cords like their own emotional walls.

Katsuki missed his chance, over and over again, and he’s going to have to come to terms with that. But that’s not to say that the story won’t let this aspect haunt the narrative like it always has. It’s still THERE, and I believe in Horikoshi to continue to write a story about hands while the main character doesn’t even have them.

Izuku’s hands are tied to his strength, physically and emotionally. He views them has the glue that ties his heroics to himself. His hands have always reached out to others, his hands have always punched those who were wrong, and even when he had to switch fighting styles he still saw them as the reason he was able to fight at all. They represent OFA, his love, his anger, his weakness, his strength. They represent his sense of self, and yet he’s more outraged than hurt that he lost them for Tenko to be free—only for AFO to take away that freedom all over again.

THATS why the loss had to happen. THIS. He lost something so incredibly valuable to himself, but he lost them of his own accord. He could have let go of Tenko at any moment, yet he didn’t because he wanted Tenko to know comfort and freedom. He wanted him to be free.

You could say that Tenko was telling Izuku to let go because he was breaking down his emotional resolve, and I believe you could also say that he was telling Izuku to let go so he doesn’t hurt someone who tried to help him all over again. You could say it’s both. It’s selfish and selfless, like everything in this story is. But Izuku refused to, and that was a choice Tenko could never take away from him.

So, that’s how I’ll turn this tragedy to hope, because this was done out of Izuku’s love, why take away that meaning?

Why put them back?

Why take away those scars?

Scars tell stories, they tell you how we became the greatest heroes.

[deus-ex-mona]

such is the tale of a ✨chronically online hypocrite✨

[tau1tvec]

I ain’t gonna try and invalidate anyone’s personal experiences or opinions, let alone gripes about Starfield, bc I’m sure a lot of them are warranted ( it is a Bethesda game after all ) but I’m gonna be real, this game is deep, and a lot of what happens in it is about being at the right place at the right time, or the wrong place at the wrong time, either way you shake it, ain’t no way one person’s 50-70 hr experience is going to even remotely cover a lot of what this game has to offer. I’m at 20 or so hours, and I haven’t even gotten to the second city outpost yet. Everyone in my house is currently playing it, and aside the main questline, we’ve spent a lot of our dinners together just talking about what our characters got into and going “you can do that ???” or “that was there ???” or “I can’t believe I completely missed that!” which luckily you can usually go back and revisit it if you did, bc open world ( universe ???)!

Now I ain’t gonna ask anyone to spend a ton of money on a game they might not like, and these days $70 is a ton of money, and it is definitely not a super cinematic and linear RPG experience in the way of BG3 or BioWare or anything, although it is heavily influenced by a lot of sci-fi film and TV, and has its lovingly crafted Interstellar and Space Odyssey like moments, but if you’ve got a rainy day fund, or other means to get it, absolutely do and just like, take your time and enjoy it for all that it actually is. Not what some YouTuber built it to be, bc they like collecting clicks from speculative videos.

Then, if you do still insist to know other people’s opinions about it, look at more than just one perspective, but know that this game, like other Bethesda games, is really what you 🫵 make of it.

[badolmen]

“here’s a chubby [insert character name]! ☺️” but they still have defined obliques, no double chin, no fat over their belt, muscular arms, thigh gap -

[junii-moony]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK DO YOU MEAN DAISUKE????????????

[wildsaltair]

I’m suing him for irreparable mental damage, from which I will never recover

[i-am-the-quintessential-queer]

I need more men in sundresses this summer

Y’all look so handsome in dresses

[windshieldwiper]

oh my fucking god im frothing at the mouth

[flowercrowngods]

next time steve and el sit down and steve talks to her, tells her something, or just asks her how she’s doing, asks her about her day, asks her if she’s okay — eyes alert, focused on her — el goes very silent, very still. smiles. because, “you’re talking again.”