#zero-cycle

[etherealriver]

criminally underrated moment in my opinion.

[drrba]

ALMOST TIME

[crystallizsch]

jamil jamil let down ur hair

[little-meowyao]

Hi,

JIN LING IS NOT HOW AN ABUSED CHILD BEHAVES. He sasses at JC and he KNOWS he's all bark no bite. The instances of JC hitting JL in canon are EXCEPTIONAL. If JC hit JL regularly, he would NOT have said "Not even my uncle hits me!" at WWX. That shit STICKS. You are all stupid

[vodid]

zero's pressure

[bittersweetresilience]

the great gatsby / kentucky route zero / koe no katachi / disco elysium / omori / night in the woods / homestuck / koe no katachi / l'étranger / disco elysium / firewatch / john dies at the end / everything everywhere all at once / the subtle art of not giving a f*ck

[theonidan]

Bireena | Emotion Frees

[omegalomania]

6 years ago today, fall out boy released a record that changed the trajectory of my life.

happy 6 years, mania. i'll always love you.

[wistfulpoltergeist]

When you downloaded young Sherlock Holmes 3D model to recreate him in all details for Sims 4, but was fascinated how well this model looks, so ended up rendering him in Blender. (❤ω❤)

In case you wonder where I got him: HERE. And it's probably illegal, so all credits go to Frogwares and his designer of course.

[haveyouthoughtaboutcomicstoday]

Your name is Guy Gardner and you have an angry father. Your mother barely seems to notice that life is happening around her. Your older brother is perfect, perfect, perfect. Except that he isn’t and he gives you the ammunition to hurt him, but his greatest fear is being treated the way you do. The way he watches and observes but does nothing about the way dad treats you. There is an angry man in your house and everyone is just trying not to catch his ire. You will never be the perfect son, but you do not blame them for not helping you. 

Your name is Guy Gardner and you have an angry father. Your mother is dead, dead, dead. She wasn’t much of a mother to you before, and so you don’t think you can grieve like everyone else. You have an angry brother, but his mom died so you understand. You have a sister and she’s the only one who doesn’t look right through you and it’s your job to protect her. There are three angry men in the house because you don’t know any other way to be.

Your name is Guy Gardner and you have an angry father. He hits your mom sometimes, and you know it’s your job to take care of her. You know the shape of your father’s anger and you know how to turn it toward you. You can’t fight back yet but taking hits meant for her is the next best thing. She doesn’t thank you, she mostly just doesn’t understand what would drive you to do this.

Your name is Guy Gardner and you are an angry man. You don’t know how else to be but you never hurt kids and you still know how to take a hit better than anyone. You carry your love for others in the bruises on your face and the scars on your skin. Every time you fail to protect another rookie you feel the weight of failure crush you a little more. There will always be an angry man in your house, but the person it’s directed at never changes. 

[spinji]

Imma be honest, I have no idea where people are coming from sympathizing with All For One.

I get the simps, you guys are gonna twist things for your meow meow all you want. More power to you.

But the narrative wastes no time showing us that AFO's greed and desire to control is INSTINCTUAL. He stole nutrients from Yoichi in the womb, stole his mother's quirk, and (arguably) stole her life. This was long before he'd be developed enough to make a conscious choice.

"But AFO is the one telling us this so of course he might lie" No???? We don't have any characters that could relay this information to us so the narration is just neutral omniscient dialog to explain what's happening, referring to AFO in the third person. This isn't diagetic narration.

Do you honestly think AFO, losing his goddamn mind in the middle of a fight, would turn to Bakugou like "so my mother was a prostitute-". The last page is the only one explicitly from AFO's point of view and that has a very obvious change in perspective. So no, I don't think All For One is telling us the story of how he was almost eaten by rats. We can absolutely take this at face value.

There are more complicated implications about the world building in this chapter, like how the actually recorded first quirk was flashy but harmless to set up a nice and happy origin of meta abilities despite that not being true. It puts AFO in a tight position as well because well he grew up in a hellscape with no parents and learned how to survive on his own right? So it's okay that he killed all those anti-quirk people right?

What about Yoichi?

Yoichi grew up in identical conditions to AFO, just as starved, just as unloved, just as alone. But Yoichi also grew up kind. He had empathy and hope, not wanting innocent people to get hurt. You can't inherently blame their circumstances when AFO has been a dickhead since birth and yet his twin, in the same scenario, did not. The difference? AFO had power and a compulsive need to control.

Yoichi would not have felt the need to run away, willingly, with Kudou if this was meant to be AFO's tragedy. Tenko's family ran to him, Touya's family thought they lost him, AFO's ran away from him.

AFO is blinded by ego and an all consuming sense of control. He is very much meant to be the embodiment of these things, monolithic as a threat. And his pursuit after One for All has been both a power grab and a desire to have complete control over his brother again in the form of suppressing his vestige.

Remember how Himiko actively chose not to live by a villain name? Because she didn't see herself as a criminal?

This is All For One's origin story and we still only know his villain name.

Do you really think that's not intentional?

[houseofheroesau]

Time tried riding with Wild on the Master Cycle once.

Never again.

[koetjingwarrd]

You're my baby, say it to me...

[specialagentartemis]

The end of a fandom fixation is such a bittersweet feeling. It’s like a fever breaking; you were in the throes of it for a year, two years, however many, it’s all you think about, you want to discuss it and create for it and relate everything back to it, it’s the constant running background noise of your brain. And then something happens or maybe nothing happens. And one day you realize that you don’t really care like that anymore. You don’t feel the desire to check the Tumblr tag or keep up with the AO3 tag and the fan conversations spinning ideas about it don’t give you the urge to join in. You sit down to your fanfic WIPs and don’t really see the point. You’re looking forward to the next installment but don’t feel the need to Do Fandom about it. It’s gone from your Fandom back to a thing you just like.

[link-is-a-dork]

[gnnosis]

love, of all sorts / wherever you are

[ “home,” edward sharpe and the magnetic zeros / everything everywhere all at once (2022) / afterlife 1x04 / ted lasso 3x12 / greywaren, maggie stiefvater / succession 4x10 / “francesca,” hozier / dead poets society (1989) / “queers” (bbc), alan cumming / “i carry your heart with me,” ee cummings ]