We See EVERYBODY Else As Cute Little Babies And No Spinner,,,,

Do you guys sometimes remember that even back when Katsuki's life was in danger, Izuku still couldn't bring himself to spell out his full name to Mandalay and still called him Kacchan and Mandalay had to broadcast his silly ass nickname all across the students

anyways we should be absolutely terrified of kirishima because he's way too emotionally intelligent for a sixteen year old kid

lil rant while i watch mha

I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS I HATE HAWKS

I AM SO HEARTBROKEN EVERYTIME I WATCH THIS ARC AND HAWKS KILLS TWICE 💔💔💔💔 GAHHHHHHH TWICE DIDNT DESERVE THIS GAHH 💔💔 curses upon ye hawks this is why you’re quirkiness and bitchless in the end

happy pancake day 🥞

izuku places his entire sense of identity and self-worth on being a hero, and having the quirk that allows him to be one. those two things, heroism and having this quirk, are inextricably linked to him - when he was quirkless, he couldn’t be a hero, and he got the quirk so he could be.

izuku also clearly identifies heroism as saving people. when he fails to save people - ie fails at being a hero - he feels worthless. if he doesn’t save, he’s not a hero, and thus is nothing.

now apply this reasoning to when he offers mirio his quirk after the overhaul arc. again, without a quirk, he can’t be a hero. why is he wanting to give away the very thing that he thinks makes him valuable to other people?

because he failed to save someone, so he’s already not a hero. he thinks he doesn’t deserve his quirk, the thing that gives him that worth and identity, because he doesn’t deserve to have any worth or identity. he’s already squandered it. he deserves to be nothing again.

fuck's sake, I miss them

i think when people talk about dsm diagnoses being 'destigmatised' it's usually the case that what they mean is the public perception of the diagnosis name (depression, anxiety, etc) has become associated with minor, temporary, or resolvable forms of distress. the experience of being so depressed you cannot get out of bed, or brush your teeth, or work -- that experience and those behaviours have never been 'destigmatised,' only associated with other diagnostic labels in certain discourses seeking to present 'depression' as treatable or minor. it's basically a semantic nosological shift, rather than any actual 'destigmatisation' of the behaviours psychiatry exists to pathologise -- widening (minimising) the diagnosis, then just moving any leftover 'scary' symptoms to a different diagnostic bucket. it's a rhetorical shell game that does not challenge, but exists symbiotically with, the ableism that causes behaviours like "not being able to get out of bed" to be stigmatised in the first place.

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favorite sibling who knows they’re the favorite and uses it to their advantage but it’s Shoto refusing to train until Enji lets teenage Touya get piercings

I feel like a thing I wish was more generally acknowledged across fandoms is that "I don't find this character sympathetic" and "This character was not intended to be sympathetic" are obviously connected but are, ultimately, two completely different statements that may not overlap at all.

Ultimately what you think about any given character is a completely subjective issue that has no right or wrong answer. The narrative may be trying to evoke sympathy for them, and you may just feel that it flat-out was not successful in doing that. You may look the author straight in the eye and say "Nope, I see what you're trying to do, but f*ck this guy actually, he's The Worst and that's all there is to it". And no one can tell you that you're wrong for doing so.

But when it comes to picking up on what the story is trying to do, whether you ultimately think it did a good job or not, I would argue there's at least some measure of objective reality. And I feel like people sometimes end up conflating them, so you end up with these posts like "I can't believe people sympathize with this character when the story clearly just wants you to hate them!" and it's like... yeah, I think people sympathize with this character because the story is very clearly and intentionally painting them as sympathetic. I could point you at a dozen different scenes that are clearly meant to evoke sympathy for This Character. You don't have to have found any of it compelling, but at a certain point recognizing it's there is a simple matter of reading comprehension.