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Fandom Reasons to DUNK on Andrew Hussie

There’s plenty, but for the sake of brevity let’s run through the options here: • The Hiveswap Development Scandal • His lack of management for inflammatory and socially combative employees • His employees he hires doing sketchy things like selling nudes in a venue where underage kids have access to them and not being immediately fired for it • The destruction of the MSPA forums and lack of an official replacement • The degradation of Homestuck itself moving forward (full flashes missing in official capacity) • Quashing fan projects in the past such as a Homestuck fighting game • Claiming Homestuck belongs to the fans and walking that sentiment back to ‘only the fans I approve that work for my corporation’ • Slurs • Radio silence over most of the above issues • Skaianet • Is an old man (in his 40s) trying to stay hip with the kids and being cringe as hell • Anger over either the ending of Homestuck or the entirety of the Epilogues/HS2 If I missed any be sure to say so below!

The funniest sword fight scene in the history of cinema. 

“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”

a hero emerges 

my favourite trope is “antagonist and protagonist narrowly avoiding each other in the same space” and The Emperor’s New Groove nails it perfectly I wish more media did stuff like this

An Octopus unscrewing a lid from the inside.

Vincent & Theo Van Gogh 

Hannah Gadsby in Nanette (2018) // At Eternity’s Gate dir. Julian Schnabel (2018) // Loving Vincent dir. Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman (2017) // Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to Theo Van Gogh (1880) // Almond Blossoms by Vincent Van Gogh (1890); painted as a gift for the birth of his brother Theo’s son named after him

woman yelling at cat meme but make it ancient greek red figure pottery

“NO HE IS NOT DEAD AND HE IS COMING BACK AT THE WORST MOMENT..” WHAT WTF NOOOooooooooooo oh god please no. I thought I would fine with whether Jeanist is dead or not BUT NOW I just want him dead and to stay dead damn it!

Finally, I will not wait for the “official” translation or whatever because I need to speak about that but the thing is, this whole chapter is a symptom of the “cul entre deux chaises” effect that I was talking about (and yes, I will continue to use the French expression because I like very much the image and the rhythm of it, sorry not sorry). Of course, what I will talk about will be a lot of assumptions on how the author works but I think I’m not too far from the truth given that I saw it coming - the BJ thing when we learned he was alive. 

I think MHA’s main problem is that instead of having one nuanced guiding line for its narration, it has two of them. Because it’s not very clear like that, I will try to explain it further. While reading MHA, I have always had the impression that I was reading two different mangas in one. 

World 1: The Heroes with the kids

World 2: The Villains with the League

You are going to tell me that it is normal and that they can exist at the same time. And given how it is written, I don’t think so. Here is why:

What I call “World 1″ is extremely simplistic in its view of the world, the society. The Heroes are the good guys, the Villains are the bad guys. You have to stop the bad guys. It is easy as that. No question asked. It is a black and white world. There is an idealization of this world by the characters living in this “world”.

What I call “World 2″ is nuanced in how the world works. Most of the Villains in it know that what they are doing IS wrong. They do not pretend that their actions are morally right. But, they point out why they are doing this and how they came to do this. They are not blind to the society they live in. It is a grey world.

And the problem is: they can’t live together well because in general, when you have a black and white version of a fact, it can’t win against a grey version. Why? Because a black and white version is weak and fragile. It can't hold the questions when the grey version can because it accepts that the answers are not clear-cut. For example, Hawks’ actions invalidate “World 1″ because he is a Hero. Thus he should be Good. But it is not the case: it is not clear-cut evil (he can use the greater good justification) but not clear-cut good either (he killed someone for a crime he had not committed yet + it wasn’t his place to be judge and jury and executioner). How to deal with that when you divide the world into GOOD HEROES vs EVIL VILLAINS? You can’t. But it can live in the “Grey” world because his actions are neither entirely good, neither entirely bad. He is a Pro-Hero who had done at best questionable things. It is not possible to just close your eyes and put him in the Good Hero case (nor in the Evil Villain, btw).

So, in this situation, you would think that World 2 has to slowly bleed onto World 1 to paint a complex and not easy world to live in, leaving the whole thing as “the Bad Side is not necessarily utterly bad, pure evil and the Good Side is not necessarily utterly good”... which is normal. Characters with simple views of world have to evolve when said world is not simple. Especially when it is the main protagonists we are talking about.

But it is not the case in this manga: not only World 1 resists but, in the end, it seems to have the last word.

If World 2 was not here being nuanced, it would be okay. But it is not. And because of that, it forces us to have a selective memory. We have to forget that Heroes sent minors to war (yes, it was to evacuate but I am not sure that you can defend that without being of very bad faith) without their parents’ consent (when it was a huge point that they were children and that they had parents, you know - in another manga, you would not care, but not here) because it does not fit in the “Good” case where it should be in World 1 vision. When it could have easily lived in World 2′s vision.

And you are going to tell me that I am negative. That the author is doing this to make a huge reveal and make the Heroes change their mind... It’s nice to be positive but I don’t believe it. Not after so many chapters. Not after so many occasions. Not after a pattern appeared. And chapter 291 is a big example of this pattern.

The author undermines the nuanced speech to sweeten the pill that yes, the Heroes are not Good without questions. Dabi is making a speech on how Hawks killed Twice and Best Jeanist? No, finally Best Jeanist is not dead so he is wrong. No matter that there was still a corpse in the bad. No matter that he killed Twice. There is something not right in his speech so, it is the proof needed to consider it wholly wrong in-universe and undermine its impact for the readers too. I am sorry but it is the case. Of course, it will cause a huge problem in society but still, it is not innocent. It is a conscious choice from the author and ignoring it is not a solution. 

The same technic is also used when it comes to Toya’s backstory. Of course, we have his point of view, but then we have Endeavor’s memory. Why, if not to undermine Toya’s speech? I am not at all against Endeavor’s redemption (or having his point of view btw). I dislike the character but it can be interesting to see. However, it seems to be done at the expense of Toya’s own traumatic experience. Again, just like for Best Jeanist, it is not to say that Toya’s story will not have an impact, but to have the abuser’s point of view just after who lessens significantly Toya’s bad experience (just look at how Dabi says that he was crying every day and how Endeavor’s memories are way nicer)? The place where it was put in the narrative is not innocent. It can’t be.

Is it because the author doesn’t want to destroy the Heroes’ image? But it is too late for that. It is already destroyed if you take attention to what the villains are saying or what some people in the Heroes’ society lived/are living. Is it because the author wants to reassure everyone on Endeavor’s redemption? But it is a redemption: the fact that he has done bad things IS the point. He can still be redeemed even if you don’t lessen the negative perception of what he had done to the readers (in this case, it mostly impacts the readers, not necessarily the characters in-universe, imo... at least for now). We know that Endeavor wants to do better. We do. I even believe it. But if the author really wanted to show the entire truth in its full terrible impact, he would not have done that. It is just done kind of deceitfully because Endeavor’s vision is not inconceivable given that he is responsible for his family situation (it is easy to conceive that he would lessen the problem, even inconsciously, to save himself some guilt). The problem is not that Endeavor sees the past like that. It is really where it is put in the narrative. The timing does a lot.

What Horikoshi is doing is safe in the way that he can still choose what he will do in the end. However, the more it progresses, the more it is dangerous in terms of writing quality. Because he will have to purposely ignore a lot of what had been told and even retcon some important (and morally grey) things. He will have to choose between World 1 and World 2 because they cannot live together. The Heroes Society can not be flawed and flawless at the same time. Of course, it could still change... but after 290 chapters and the tendency to put everything under the carpet... let me be negative.

(I hope what I said was clear. Not sure but here I go anyway. This platform is not meant to write pages and pages anyway.

And I will come back to talk about how this tendency I mentioned is here since the FIRST chapter. The premise of this writing flaw was here since day one. Just hoped it would be more complex than this.)

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Hi I’m mad again. 

I saw someone say that Hawks tried to inflict the least amount of damage onto Twice as possible while trying to capture him. 

This is incorrect. 

Let’s take a look, shall we?

He’s sticking him full of feathers right here, but hey, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt: Maybe he needed to injure Jin to try and slow down his clones. Not good, but not terrible.

Okay. Hm. Well, a gigantic bloody slash isn’t great. You know, usually that can kill people. But sure, fine, whatever, it’s just Hawks trying to keep him contained (even though he totally could have arrested him whenever before this all happened)

This is where it gets bad. Jin just got over his trauma, and Hawks is re-traumatizing him. “Oh, but maybe Hawks didn’t know the obvious scar on Jin’s forehead is a traumatic spot for him?” 

But I think he does. He said the only people he couldn’t find information on were Tomura and Dabi, meaning he has access to Jin’s files, meaning that he most likely knows what had happened. Also, even if he somehow didn’t, there’s a giant scar on his forehead, and he knows he might have had trouble with his quirk. Ergo, if he was smart, he probably would have known anyways. So yeah, he purposefully re-traumatized him-

-before trying to stab him right through the scar and into his brain. If Dabi hadn’t come in at that very moment, Hawks would have killed Jin. 

“Oh but Jin’s quirk is very powerful, Hawks needed to take him out, and Jin wasn’t complying!” I can hear you arguing.

But here’s the thing. 

Jin considered Hawks a friend, someone he could trust. Hawks could have used any moment to cuff him and take him to prison. He could have given him a hug and cuffed his arms, he could have snuck up on him in his sleep, he could have done any number of things before resorting to physical violence and mental trauma. 

But he didn’t.

He didn’t try and take Jin in peacefully, he immediately decided to go with violence. 

Here’s a panel a lot of Hawks stans use as an argument.

“See, he’s giving Twice a chance! Jin should have taken it if he didn’t want to die!”

Of course Jin wasn’t going to come quietly.  Hawks was threatening him and his family directly, had just betrayed his trust, and Jin had no way of knowing if Hawks was telling the truth. 

We all know there was no way for Jin to have a normal life after this. For all his good-heartedness, he is still a villain. He’s killed, he’s kidnapped, and he’s for lack of better words, ‘mentally unstable.” They would have put him in prison or they would have put him in a facility, he’d never be able to see his family again. Of course Jin wouldn’t take that. So he decided to fight, and Hawks decided to kill him. 

Hawks didn’t do everything he could to help Twice. He didn’t try to give Twice a fresh start, he damaged Jin’s body and his psyche to extremes, he didn’t even try to take him in peacefully. 

No.

Instead he killed him. 

my Among Us strategy is to get murdered as quickly as possible. i prefer to be a ghost bc it makes doing my tasks easier. i find it so annoying when my crewmates interrupt me for pointless meetings like ‘oh shit there’s a dead body in the reactor.’ green sasuke i don’t care i have data to upload

Kocoum (voiced by James Apaumut Fall ) from Disney’s Pocahontas (1995)

DOES THE NDN LIVE? : NO

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ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:

This was the first time I remember seeing a Native American character die in a cartoon. I was five-years-old at the time. 

My experience with Pocahontas as a child was different from most children (I could never understand why the white characters were supposed to be the “good guys” when they not only killed this man but were singing and bragging about killing Indians all throughout the movie). But I remember watching this specific scene so vividly: the horror that flashes on his face when he realizes what happened to him, Pocahontas’s very emotional reaction to his death, the people crying as his body is brought back to the village. There was something about this death that felt so personal and unjust and at five years old I didn’t understand just what it was.

Kocoum is murdered by a white man so that the white man can have an epiphany, and he is forgiven for it. Before he’s killed, he has to be framed as being jealous and violent so that there’s a “good reason” to kill him off. A man who was singing with his friends about murdering “savages” gets to have a redemption arc but a jealous NDN who literally fought against these men who invaded his home, almost bludgeoned his friend to death and is kissing his future wife has to die. 

And as if all of that wasn’t bad enough, Kocoum was Pocahontas’s husband in real life. She had a child with him, and when she was kidnapped, Kocoum was murdered and her child was raised by the women of his family. When Pocahontas was held in captivity, she never saw her son again. Disney was familiar enough with this story to know the NAME OF HER ACTUAL HUSBAND but decided to turn him into a jealous suitor who has to die so a settler can learn a lesson.

you know what’s always bothered me? how people talk about their babies having “random weird fussy days” and they get mad about it right but the thing about that is...

babies don’t steadily grow, they grow in spurts, which means on a growth day they’re in quite a lot of pain ... but no one takes it seriously because a baby can’t communicate that they’re growing over a centimeter over night and that HURTS

like, massage your fussy baby ... theyre having a hard time ... theyre growing obscene amounts in a short period of time and need love and care ...

Me: "jesus christ the adult pro heroes fucking suck lol"

You: "um sweaty, this is a shounen manga of course the adults are useless-"

See, that's a perfectly valid meta answer. This genre is centered around the young male protagonist and his friends, of course they're going to be in the spotlight for the majority of the series.

But from an in-universe perspective, imagine watching a group of cops or soldiers stand around uselessly as a pair of teenagers fought a god. Whether he meant to or not, All Might's reign as Number 1 made every other hero complacent and useless in situations where their Quirks don't apply. None of them (except Aizawa) even carry any weapons to help in a fight.

I'm not dissing your fave pros because there's nothing they can do. I'm dissing the adult heroes because they knew full well they were going into a war, and none of them thought to bring a gun. I'm dissing them because they brought teenagers onto a battlefield and now have no choice but to hide behind them due to their own incompetence. They knew about the nomu and Gigantomachia and chose not to mobilise a military unit for this raid; this is entirely the fault of the HPSC, and every other pro who stood by and said nothing against the children getting involved.

This is a shounen manga. But there's a world within this manga, and the adults of this world fucked up big time.

Ngl this hurt me

Please, reblog! IIt’s called self defense. Apart from having here, in the US, one of the highest cases of homicide and rape in the world and high rate of GBV, think about how this could help your mother or sister

There r no jungle book boys in twst so I made my own :-)

Since the jungle book takes place in Madhya Pradesh n the twst universe is comprised of fantasy lands, I tried to combine fantasy elements with actual Indian menswear, not sure if I hit it rite but I'm very open 2 suggestions!

Working on king Louie next 🍌

Why are they purring tho? Are they... *whispering* furries?

wh what, it-it’s *whispers* omegaverse

“Run! To the bunker!”

Last days of the uprising. The greatest and the most despicable all leaps for freedom. He swore he voted against it and yet his honour did not let him abandon the men and women he had fought for for the last five years… and of course he joined the fights. How could he not? It was his duty. Somehow, on those chilly September days he found himself reminiscing about his life and his choices. The good and the bad, the ones he regretted and the ones he had found joy in. Just an old man reflecting on his decisions even though they did not matter in the larger perspective. In the end it all led to one September day. When t h a t  d a y came, paradoxically, he was and he was not ready. And yet, without a second thought he led his men through the flames into the bunker, as the sky fell on him. A single foolish Pole for whom the world had truly ended.

ah yes, did i mention he literally died in ‘44?   

Hetalia Historical Week- Day 3

Up in Ashes

@historical-hetaliaweek​

Poland: Look, if the world’s got a problem, I solve it. That’s how it works.

Greece: And if you got a problem?

Poland: Then it’s not solved at all!! That’ s how it works!!

art by Seth Tobochman

Toga Himiko’s Easy Life

We see Himiko hitting a breaking point in the latest chapter, going on a suicide run and declaring that heroes are no longer necessary for her easy life. I’m going to review Himiko’s character arc so far underneath the cut to show what pushed her to this breaking point. 

Czytaj dalej

“Here. It’s called Shu Hui. It’s an alternate showdown ending. It happens in one on one Heylin versus Xiaolin showdowns only. When someone changes sides during the fight, it means there are no enemies, so the showdown stops by itself… Wait, Omi, you didn’t become evil, did you? “

I love how when Shigaraki was introduced it was just “okay so this dude wants to destroy everything, that’s the only thing he wants to do, nothing else, just destroy, which very convenient because his quirk allow him to do just that. Also he’s covered in hands for some reasons, he hates all might guts and want to kill children for funsies and he talk like he’s in a video game” he was so cartoonishly villain the first time I saw him I couldn’t take him seriously because I found absolutely hilarious.

But now, now that we know he’s been abused to hell and back and groomed to become AFO angry murdery pet. That AFO made sure he’ll never recover from his trauma, that he’ll stay emotionally unstable and dependent from him. Took away his name, to remodel him into what he wants him to be. Isolated him from other people except from Kurogiri who was literally made to be his personal caretaker. That video games must have been one of the only form of “contact” from the outside world he got for years, outside of y’know murders. That he’s wearing his family and victims remains even thought he said himself it made him sick because AFO encourage him to, so he can stay enraged. That he believe he doesn’t need a future and that destroying everything is the only thing he can do.

He’s been brainwashed to be a murder machine yet he still is kind toward the rest of league, calling them his “nakama”, ready to fight an entire army to rescue them if needed and ready to kill when someone mess with their feelings. He cares a lot and literally his first thought when he learned that an entire army, that included multiple people with a lot of political influence, was willing to be under his command was to think how he now had the money for Compress’ sushi, something he had mentioned once over a month ago and he remembered. He never contradicted missing Kurogiri either and said that his nakama could do as they please/didn’t have to do anything they didn’t want to when he talked about his plan to destroy everything.

But he’s still brainwashed and let himself being experimented on by Ujiko because he wants more power. Even though he knows the Nomus often lose their sense of self and are basically made into murderous monsters. He’s doing everything AFO wants him to do, he becoming everything AFO wants him to become. And he died for it. It’s very obvious he won’t stay dead for long, he’s the main antagonist and the story is far from over. But right now, even if just temporary, Shigaraki died. Killed by the people who groomed him into become a villain. And it was planned since the moment they bought him with them. And once he’ll come back he will most certainly still do what they wants him to do

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The only form of actual free will he have, when he doesn’t destroy or plan on destroying, he express it by being kind and caring towards his friends. A part of him is still the same kind child who played with the other rejected kids. The main antagonist is one of the biggest victims of the manga and no one knows. The heroes dehumanises him like they do with every other villains. The league is full of people who were discarded, abused, villainized or weren’t saved. And Shigaraki made sure his friends had a place to go, promised them they’ll get their revenge against the society that gave up on them. And that’s something he decided to do. He could have just used them, treated them as nothing else than assets and pawns like AFO treats him. But he chooses to care. Because despite everything he is still kind.

And that just destroys me.

Jin if the league took Eri

He has no idea but he us gonna watch outdated things with Eri asking that she does not tell Shigaraki the things they watched.

He will call disney plus a sham for not having school house rock.

By the end of the day Eri is singing all the little songs and will not stop singing to conjunction junction.

Kurogiri had fear when Jin said that he would watch the kid in his motel room but he comes back and sees just Eri asleep on Jin with a blanket on the kid as Jin is fully immersed with the kids show.

Jin knows a lot of them missed out on childhoods so everyone is gonna give what they can to Eri and if shows and bedtimes is something he can do he will do it.

Then the first time it is late she can't sleep and Jin takes her to the park at lile 11pm. And she goes on the slide and swings and stays out till about 1 am and is tuckered out she nearly falls into Jins leg walking back.

Jin scoops her back up and it feels different in Eris mind this feels warm and safer as Jin wraps his jacket around her even though he still has the mask on he whispers to her, "Get some sleep kiddo it'll be okay."

Jin is gentle with the kid and he sleeps on the couch giving her the bed but often wakes up when he feels her crawl up onto him.

Dead Poets Society (1989) dir. Peter Weir

I guess a lot of people are seeing Dabi’s reaction to Twice’s death(?) as him not really caring, because of the kinda manic expression on his face. I just wanted to say that everyone has their own way of responding to trauma/loss/grief, and Dabi’s way isn’t bad or “incorrect”

There are a lot of reasons someone’s emotional reactions to trauma/loss/grief might seem “inappropriate”, including a history of trauma and certain mental illnesses. Dabi said himself that he’s physically unable to cry due to his burns, and that would take a serious toll on a person’s emotional health (especially if it happened at a young age)

Also, Dabi might just be putting on a front while Hawks is there. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he’s dissociating to some degree, and Twice’s death(?) won’t really hit him until later. Dabi can’t afford to break down right now, not in front of an enemy

Tldr don’t assume Dabi is cruel or uncaring just because his emotional response is atypical

Top 10 Favorite Movies

I like the movie Jack best, but book Jack needs some love too, so I’ll take bits and pieces of both