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“Can’t I get a turn, Yakko…?” “In a minute, big guy. I think the princess is just about to knock out…"
I had a lot of fun watching the reboot the other day!!So here is a month old sketch to celebrate~
After watching Ep 11 myself, I think I can say this is my headcanon with confidence:
Both Wakko and Dot have good self-confidence, due to Yakko having raised them since they were little. He did what he could to make them feel good about themselves. Plus they had a fairly stable childhood.
Whereas Yakko, with whatever background may come, doesn’t have as much self-confidence or stability. He had to be an adult and raise his younger siblings, even though he himself was still a kid.
He needs reassurance because it was lacking for him. His siblings already have reassurance.
More doodles of the Warners because my body naturally produces them at this point
((if the bottom right looks familiar, it’s a redraw of my own art from years ago))
Managed to get a few quick snapshots of the Warner sibs hugging/putting arms around each other or just being in close contact because it's just what siblings do.
Drawing a secretly anxious Warner to coup with stress :))))
JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE ANIMANIACS REBOOT AND THIS “IT” PARODY IS STILL FUCKIN ME UP BC IT DIDNT GO AS I EXPECTED AT ALL AND MY HEART HURTS SO MUCH FOR YAKKO???
((SPOILERS FOR EP 11 AND THE FIRST “IT” REBOOT MOVIE))
IN THE REAL MOVIE PENNYWISE SCARES ALL THE KIDS INDIVIDUALLY AND (SPOILER ALERT) THEY END UP DEFEATING HIM BY WORKING TOGETHER BC HE CANT SCARE THEM ALL AT THE SAME TIME bc what is scary to one kid isnt scary to another etc
SO I WAS KINDA EXPECTING SOMETHING OF THE SAME VEIN IN THE SKETCH bUT IN TRUE WARNER FASHION THE “SCARES” HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO AFFECT ON THEM
EXCEPT
fOR YAKKO???
WHEN HE IS ALONE WITHOUT SOMEONE CONSTANTLY VALIDATING THE FACT THAT HES FUNNY OR THAT HIS JOKES HAVE SOME KINDA IMPACT (EVEN IF THE REACTION IS NEGATIVE) HE FEELS??? WORTHLESS?? INVISIBLE??? VERY VERY ANXIOUS..
first “nickelwise” doesnt react to his jokes, THEN takes away his ability to talk entirely aND YAKKO GETS SO SCARED HE VERY NEARLY GETS HIS SOUL SUCKED OUTTA HIS BODY BEFORE DOT SAVES HIM AND HIS FIRST REACTION IS
;;___;;
i feel like wakko and dot’s scares had little effect bc a) dot always thinks shes cute and b) wakko will eat anything whether or not its food, none of these are fears
bUT YAKKO’S NAME AND WHOLE IDENTITY REVOLVE AROUND BEING THE “FUNNY GUY” THE GUY W THE JOKES! “THE ONE WHO YACKS”
TLDR; MY BOY HAS A FULL ON PANIC ATTACK AND ALMOST DIES BC HES SO GENUINELY AFRAID OF NOT BEING FUNNY
is kaminari a furry. it’s for research
audio from here
For real tho...
I believe Kaminari can be vry smart, and knows big brain words... but he only uses them to make jokes lol
And then there’s more
He uhh likes the news (weather channel too)
(The wiki thing) and we see that in the 1a vs 1b thing and the hero’s license exam, and he’s generally seen making well thought out observations (which is more of the author’s writing use to explain things tho)
(Wiki thing)
And let’s not forget his love for the arts!
School smarts is not all there is to intelligents and it sucks ppl still don’t believe this. This boy is very smart and people who don’t think this either (this is also me generalizing bc I’m salty)
A) ain’t looking very hard (I also blame the anime for dumbing him down a bit more) probs bc he’s a comedic relief character
Or
B) like to make jokes abt his stupidity to put someone down (often times this type of person can’t even string a sentence together very well lol, maybe they just want someone inferior idk I’m salty)
My point is, we can all dig a bit deeper. It’s always fun to try to see the nuance of characters, and when it’s a character like Denki, who as a character is not focused upon, has no background, and has very little degree of importance in the story, this is even more important. Also, STOP MAKING COMEDIC RELIEF CHARACTERS DUMB AND ONE DIMENSIONAL!!! I hate it thanks-
Heroes: Rising rant Number two
Did…..DID KAMINARI JUST PULL A BRAINY JOKE !?!?!?
He just said, “We’ve gone plus ultra way beyond what’s allowed by the labour standards act.”
He fucking knows the labour standards act.
WHO TF SAID KAMINARI DENKI IS STUPID ?!?!?!?!?
ANSWER ME YOU THOTS
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The White Lotus Group Chat
Pakku: (post picture of him and gran gran)
Bumi: Ohhhhh!! SoMEONe just got hitched! 🤪
Jeong Jeong: I wish you joy. Love is so rare and difficult to find, protect, and cultivate.
Iroh: What a blooming bride! 😊
Piandao:
Piandao: I think your new grandson just showed up at my house for sword training
Piandao: he doesn't know shit
Piandao: Head of White Lotus HR
(Please click for better quality, lol.)
reasons aunt wu should be in the white lotus include but are not limited to: a) they need more women and b) she can continue to ruin the life of her greatest nemesis, sokka
Sokka: Well, it’s time to move onto Plan 2. Aang: Plan B, you mean? Sokka: That would insinuate I have only twenty-six plans.
Miguel & Coco looking at Hector while he sings
Drabble prompt, something about Momo, exactly 100 words
Oh no my weakness-- 100 word drabbles that I can’t expand on! (this is why I cheat and do a drabble-series) Here’s... several more drabbles than you asked for about Momo adjusting to having a family(I enjoy writing Momo’s POV way too much, this is a problem. Will I be posting *another* Momo drabble collection to ao3 now? Yes. You’ve awakened a monster.) 1. Warm
The best part of being in a conspiracy again is the warmth.
This-lemur-now-Momo curls against his boy's heartbeat and twitches an ear as the soft breath tickles it. His boy is warm and his boy is gentle, and when his boy's heartbeat picks up and begins to race faster than Momo's when he's being chased, his boy never moves. Momo snuggles close, under his chin and his boy laughs quietly.
If Momo didn't know any better, he'd think his boy was dead. But Momo can feel his boy's heartbeat, and he can see the tear sliding down his boy's cheek.
2. Soft
The girl-who-smells-like-the-sea is softer than his boy. Momo laments the time he wasted before learning this because she is so soft, and her hair smells so nice, and she always knows where to scratch his ears. She is kind and gentle and he knows why his boy always gets so warm and flustered when she's around. He likes her for his boy. She makes his boy happy, and his boy breath easier.
When his boy has all the fury of a thousand suns under his skin, and his boy scares Momo, she is there. Calm and steady, like the sea.
3. Bright
Momo isn't sure what to call the last member of their conspiracy.
He is least soft of the three tall-wingless-lemurs, though he and ocean-girl are tied for least warm. His boy is just much warmer than the others. The tall-wingless-lemur isn't soft, and he isn't warm, and though he smells like death still, Momo isn't afraid anymore.
This boy brings the brightness forth every night, though, the strange burning warmth that Momo fears in his bones. The brightness is like the boy--something dangerous, something that could hunt Momo down if it wanted.
Momo leaps onto the shoulder of the bright-boy.
the way sokka and azula’s dynamic would progress from azula being like “sokka is extremely smart and needs to be destroyed” to “sokka is extremely smart and must teach me everything he knows,” but it’s also a very gradual process filled with a lot of rage and resentment and losing to him at pai sho; concurrently, sokka going from “wow I fucking hate you” to “wow I fucking hate you” (but said lovingly). also azula thinks all of sokka’s jokes are funny. every single one. they share the exact same sense of humor and this fact baffles all of their other friends so much
By this point I think I may just be becomming an Epileptic!Kaminari blog, but since the DVD/BluRay just came out I thought I'd cross-post from my Fandom Twitter about why I am so passionate about this headcanon.
There have been plenty of electricity based Superheroes in the past: Static, Black Lightning, Surge, and Thor to name but a few. What marks Denki apart though is the intense NEGATIVE side effects his power has.
There's a trap writers often fall into when creating disabled heroes, where the hero's disability actually grants them some immense power e.g.: Daredevil's superior hearing and reflexes. Denki's quirk does not make his life easier, but much like kids on meds, he's learnt to control it. Mostly.
When Denki releases a sudden and much too intense amount of electricity his brain short circuits, causing him to lose some level of brain function. His dopey expression and dropped gaze could be read as a variety of seizure types. I go with Absence, coz I'm a narcissist.
Not only this, but Denki's "Derp Mode" contains many of the symptoms of a Postictal State ("the altered state of consciousness after an epileptic seizure"). These include, but are not limited to: drowsiness, confusion and headaches. Again, sound familiar? Now, if I believed this was a DELIBERATE attempt at representation I'd be frustrated and a little insulted. There are problematic elements within his "Derp Mode", but when you're epileptic you take what you can get. Which is… overall? Not a lot.
Seriously, take a second to try and think of, say, three explicitly stated epileptic characters in mainstream media... Pretty tough, huh? Even Google can't really help you. Our representation is mostly limited to murder victims.
"How did he die?"
"Well, the super computer didn't like that he tried to turn it off, so it flashed lights at him until he had a seizure and died!"
This is an actual plot line from Elementary. Yeah. It sucks. Back to anime!
Denki's struggle for control is what makes him relatable. He has episodes during regular classes that detract from his learning. His friends make fun of his "derp mode", the period where he's the most vulnerable. These aren't NICE things, but they are all too relatable. He could be criticised for taking too many risks, and trying to use too much of his power at once without thinking it through. This is what we experts call "being a teenager".
From my personal experience, your teen years are when you start to really discover what your triggers are. You try to push yourself, find where your limit is and maybe even try to rebel against it. Perhaps with enough practice you can break those limits and be cured! (Spoiler: You can't be.)
Pushing limits could mean: not taking your medication, staying up late, watching films with flashing lights etc. So when I see Denki being too gun-ho about using his quirk- that's what I see: a teenager testing his limits and making mistakes.
But I also see him LEARNING from those mistakes. He pushes his voltage limit up slowly, testing it in a safe environment with support staff around. He has aids to help refine his technique and prevent overload. His level of self-control from Two Heroes to Heroes Rising is remarkable!
So that brings us back round to the film, and why I cried in the cinema, admittedly on my 4th watch. (I had a pass. I made the most of it.) The answer is: Kaminari knowingly and painfully pushing his limit to save the island. Specifically I am talking about the scene where the power has gone out across the island, and it is Kaminari's job to charge the emergency batteries Momo created to bring power back to mainframe units.
We see him and Momo struggling to produce these generators. They require more energy than they possess, but without them they're doomed. When Jiro suggests they take a break Denki replies "If I don't charge these [batteries] now I won't get to"
This hit home. I have been in that situation. I've had to pull an all nighter. I've had to wake up too early, too often. I've been so stressed that I can feel the tell tale signs of a seizure on the horizon… but I had to push through it. Once that feeling of an oncoming seizure begins there is no taking a break. There is no five minute gap, I have to complete my tasks, be it handing in coursework or stacking shelves, right then coz I'm gonna be flat on my bed in 10 minutes regardless.
That's what I saw in Denki, and in Momo. The familiar pain of knowing the worse is coming, knowing there's nothing you can do, but the pressure of the immediate task means you can't stop. All because, for you, pushing your limits has deadly consequences. For the first time we saw Denki's "Derp Mode" played as a consequence with little to no comedic element. This wasn't "Silly Denki thinking he can do it all! No he can't!" or "Look at his derpy face, how funny it is so make him suffer!"
Denki's loss of awareness was a sign that he had been acting as a hero. He'd given his all for his friends and the islanders. In his next scene we saw him attending a meeting in a Postictal State. He has nothing more to give, but he was still included in the group.
I've never really seen that before. I've never been given a chance to explore those feelings through media. It made me process my life and my choices. Through Denki's extraordinary situation, I was able to look at my ordinary life more clearly.
Denki was me. Denki was me age 10 missing things in class and thinking I was an idiot. He was me age 14, losing friends because they thought I was ignoring them. He was me age 19 at Uni, hiding under a desk during hand-in because my brain couldn't cope anymore. He was me age 24 realising I had to quit my retail job because I couldn't keep up with the long hours; my seizure count going from 1 a month to 3 a day. He's me age 26 crying as I write this.
Representation matters. Seeing yourself represented let's you understand parts of your life you never got to before. It helps you feel seen, like your struggles matter to other people. Denki isn't perfect, but he’s all we have. And I love him.
“If you’re gonna cuss with somebody, you’re not gonna cuss with me, you little cuss!”
kaminari: i like to act like i can't understand something very simple when someone's explaining something to me so i can see how dumb they think i am.
iida: that's called deception.
kaminari: what do you mean?
iida: it's a form of dishonesty that people use for self gain or amusement.
kaminari: sorry, i don't get it?
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