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how fucked up is it that naruto actually had to be pretty responsible for his age and all the years before that for him to amass a decent amount of savings with this obviously limited budget and how proud naruto was of his savings when having them meant that he definitely had to repress the very natural childish urges to splurge and then jiraiya just shamelessly takes them under a guise of being a responsible adult figure to naruto only to spend an orphans life savings on booze and women but naruto's not even fucking mad because he's a little kid and hes just giddy that an adult is gonna specially train him so jiraiya just gets away with it

friendly reminder to read vicodin on sunday nights

being happy that my favorite disabled asian veteran character is gay but being scared that this is the extent of their lgbt+ rep and klance will never happen

yusuke: hey kuwabara! lets do something later! maybe we could go to the park and ill beat the shit out of u and itll be fun haha

kuwabara, who has experience with male friends other than yusuke and isnt up to getting his ass kicked today: or we could just....play a video game?

yusuke: huh. thats so weird ive never done that shit before but sure ill kick ur ass later then :)

The bad taste gang might come for me over this post, but the fact is that BNHA and MP100 have some overlapping themes, and that’s one of many reasons why they get compared. BNHA’s treatment of those themes is shallow and unwittingly cruel, but is supposed to be read as positive. Meanwhile, MP100 approaches those themes with hope and compassion

Both BNHA and MP100 explore themes of value as an individual and in society—value judgments of who is average, who is extraordinary, and who is inferior. From the very beginning, BNHA asserts that people are not of equal value, but anyone can improve themselves to meet or exceed the average and become valuable and worthy. I don’t like that one bit—it assigns worth to each individual based on their level of mental and physical ability. It seems like a positive message at first glance, but upon further inspection it’s just desolate.

BNHA asserts that if you physically can’t conform to norms, the only acceptable route to happiness is to do the impossible and exceed those norms. MP100 asserts that if you can’t conform, you are still no better or worse than anyone else, and the path to fulfillment is treating yourself and others with respect.

MP100 answers the question of who is worthy and who is not with the idea that nobody is special—not in a positive way, or a negative way. (“If everyone is not special, maybe you can be what you want to be”.) In the end, whether your ability level in one area or another is within the bell curve, or if it’s at the extreme edge of the range of human experiences, you are good enough to value yourself and be valued by others, but you are not superior, either.

What makes Midoriya different from the established norms around him is something that he must change about his nature as a person. What makes Mob different is his powers and his neurodivergence, and while he’s insecure about both of these things and afraid of the way they manifest in combination (reaching 100% and having a meltdown), the narrative shows that those are neutral qualities and he can do whatever he wants with the hand he’s been dealt in life. (“Mob, Mob, What do you want?” “Mob, Mob, whatever you want!”)

Midoriya’s happiness relies on meeting and exceeding the social norms set for his body and future—gaining a quirk and becoming a hero. He has to change to be treated with any respect. But Mob’s happiness relies on learning that it is okay to be who he is.

Another theme is power: in BNHA, the pursuit of power is treated as something noble and admirable. In MP100, power is treated as something that only immature, self-aggrandizing, destructive people seek; or, in Ritsu’s case, power is something that people seek when they feel helpless and unsafe. But that’s another essay unto itself.

Mermay 2019 part 2

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lots to consider

gay people real?

“Inosuke! Inosuke! They’ll be bringing our reforged Nichirin Swords soon!”