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it’s interesting how kakashi was made to look like a deadbeat teacher by fandom when this is literally him in the manga lmao

Nimona and the Myth of the Perfect Victim

Nimona is great at showcasing why “If you didn’t act so threatening people would stop being bigoted” doesn’t work. That idea has been rampant in social movements for so long, the concept that if oppressed people were just more passive with their wording, and never got angry or defensive, people wouldn’t have reason to oppress them.

When the village attacks her, Nimona doesn’t initially fight back, but tries to explain to them, showing them her “acceptable” form as a young girl.

But they don’t care that Nimona looks acceptable, they still know her for a shapeshifter and attack anyway. Then, when Nimona fights back with fangs and claws, Gloreth becomes convinced she is indeed a monster. Never mind the context of the provocation, Nimona looked scary, so is now a monster.

Far in the future, Nimona now doesn’t worry about looking respectable. Ballister tells them they should look like a girl, because it would be easier for to be accepted.

To many people, this would be valid reasoning - if Nimona assumes a non-threatening form, no one will be scared. But Nimona knows this isn’t true. If people catch sight of the shapeshifting even for a moment, it won’t matter that Nimona takes the form of a sweet, innocent girl. They will attack anyway.

And staying as a girl forever, never letting them see, is something she doesn’t see as an option. Other people might see it that way, that it is better to forever rigidly conceal their identity so they never once face any hatred, but as Nimona says, while it’s not true death, it sure isn’t living.

Earlier, Ballister was caught destroying the prison with Nimona, adding fuel to the idea of him as a villain, which he blames her for. But he was labeled as one anyway. Had Nimona not gotten him to wreak havoc, he would have remained in prison and never seen as innocent.

While Ballister initially believes that Nimona is ridiculous to dramatically break standards of acceptability, he realizes that some people won’t accept Nimona even if she is “the perfect victim.”

We see this in real life, where even someone who is the epitome of moral decency will still eventually be targeted. Illusions to the contrary are disproven.

Of course the city screams and runs when Nimona transforms into a giant creature, but they screamed and ran when he turned into non-threatening creatures as well. So Nimona is driven to view it as not mattering which she does. Of course, in the end she chooses to help them anyway, and calm herself from her giant form, because Ballister shows her recognition while she is in it.

Ballister sees her in her most terrifying form and recognizes she is lashing out from fear and anger at the treatment she received. He doesn’t demand she stop and be more respectable, he sees them as they truly are and shows them understanding, and that is what calms Nimona down.

There is no perfect victim. Everyone is messy and flawed and will lash out. If there were a perfect victim, it wouldn’t matter anyway. A perfect victim is one who never dares raise an arm against attack, even out of desperate self defense. Nimona would be a perfect victim if she had laid down and succumbed to the pitchforks. Ballister would be a perfect victim if he sat in prison to rot.

A “perfect victim” will always die before being being recognized as such, because the only true acceptable way for a marginalized person to exist is to be dead.

You won’t get it if I explain both at the same time. As your teacher, I’m sorry.

This broke me when I was a kid. Had me sobbing.

As much as we all love to tease him, Naruto’s actually real fucking smart. I do it, too, in no small part because I see a lot of myself in him. Having ADHD, growing up fighting desperately to be able to learn on even ground, with the same opportunity as my peers, and never really having exactly what Kakashi is being here. Most of us never have so much consideration into changing how instead of what is being taught. Yet, here was a well-known, beloved, and even respected character across the world doing what all teachers should do.

For context, the gif above is from one of the first scenes where Kakashi is taking Naruto’s training more directly and teaching him foundations of pieces Naruto already uses. Initially, he goes to explain this in a very direct, technical manner as he would for Sasuke or Sakura, and quickly realizes that is the wrong approach for Naruto. He then, as he will continue to do throughout training Naruto, breaks things down differently or shows him in a tangible way. Teaching him how to access the full extent of the shadow clones is a perfect example of this.

And the biggest reason it made me cry my fucking eyes out is because as he does this, there is not a single implication that he’s looking down on Naruto for needing a different approach. Not even a little.

Now, this is emotional for even more reasons, because we have a much better understanding of Naruto’s parents and a significantly better idea of what Minato was probably like as a teacher. Minato also had a brilliant student who was almost certainly ADHD, I mean we have joked about him being like Naruto since he was introduced, and in all honesty, I’m am really fucking sure that Minato understood a bit more first-hand than it would appear. We see how similar their ways of impulsive thinking are, and how absolutely unintentionally ridiculous Minato is if he isn’t focused. Kakashi being Kakashi was probably aware of these things, probably saw for himself this same example set by his teacher. In other words, Kakashi is a real good fucking teacher and has made me cry for the only reasons a teacher should ever make someone cry, which is still a very foreign experience.

A friendly reminder that Kakashi is actually very fit, he's not skinny or small.

I mean look at those THICC thighs! 👀

This man definitely never skips legs days, I mean, how can anyone forget how muscular and well defined Kakashi's body actually is when we got to see a small glances of him without his loose clothes?!!

Kakashi actually trains as hard as anyone else if not harder as I previously explained in this post

And we've seen him standing beside Gai and Obito countless of times before and there wasn't any size differences between them

Kakashi has a great body and the world needs to remember that.

LIghthouse keepers will never be memorialized like soldiers or cops because they didn’t kill anyone (as part of their job) but they’re like, heroes who saved untold lives through discipline and self-sacrifice doing an impossible lonely job and I’m worked up about  it 

NASA took a pic of the dark side of the moon fyi

Is that a missing nin? Oh, phew, it looks like it's just our talented guest page artist Ellva!

In a recent reblog I saw your talking about some of Kazuhiko Inoue's audios... I've only heard the innocents but not spicy ones 👀✨ do you have the link by any chance? 🤭

Sure! I have them in a neat folder on google, please DM me for a link 😁

(P.s. I’m trying to get a full collection, so any additions are welcome 🤭)