Season 4 When?

that quote like “god gave us transness for the same reason he made grapes but not wine; yeast but no loaves — so we may partake in the divine act of creation”

Happy Gego day! 

Oh fuck-

I forgot to feed the children-

My problem with the plf war is that we get little to no information on the regiment advisors

God, ain't it the truth. I mean, I have a lot of problems with the PLF War, but that was certainly a prominent one. Like, I told myself when Taser Face lightning dude got unceremoniously no-sold by a high-schooler and effortlessly one-two'd by Edgeshot and Midnight that, well, if nothing else, maybe we could assume that all those nameless advisors were there to give the heroes some vaguely significant faces to fight while the named characters with more build-up would escape to have more prominent and narratively significant fights at some later point.

But if Trumpet, Geten, and Re-Destro all get off-paneled and arrested, what exactly was the point of the advisors, then? Like, a few of them have escaped, we know, but other than the one who killed Midnight, there's no particular reason to be invested in the fights with them later. It's not like they even got portrayed as a real threat, for all that they were billed as "stronger than the average hero."

Mind, Edgeshot of the Top Ten Billboard Ranking is by no measure an "average hero," but what does that matter, when you're not going to let any of them fight and beat an "average hero"?

Also too, dramatic tension in your fight scenes aside, I continue to be irked that we got all these characters that the League had three and a half months to bond with, only for it to come to nothing. And look, three months doesn't sound like a lot, but the League themselves had only been together for two months when the Shie Hassaikai arc kicks in, Magne gets killed, Compress maimed, and this pisses off the rest of the League so much they scuttle an alliance and maim the man responsible in return.

The League isn't even together for all of those two months! Their early meetings are much more sporadic; they all split up to lay low for a while after Kamino. Three months with the people at the mansion would be much more prolonged contact! I'm forever salty that the fandom just assumes--with little canonical reason to do otherwise--that those fourteen weeks just meant nothing, that not one single League member got invested enough in the cause they were building, the people they were seeing in regular meetings, to spare them so much as a thought.

I can only hope we'll get more of them back later; given their focus on Re-Destro, I find it unbelievable in the extreme that any number of escaped advisors would just let the man stay in prison--not after having lost Destro to prison the same. (Assuming, of course, that Geten hasn't hijacked the contents of an ice machine to break them out already.)

Thanks for the ask!

Found some of these wayyyy back in my camera roll that I never posted?? Anyway persona memes in honor of Naoto’s birthday even though she’s literally only in one of them

Here, have a meme dump

*LOOKS AT YOU WITH PAIN IN MY EYES* *GRINS AND ALL OF MY TEETH ARE MISSING*

danganronpa shenanigans (interactions i hope to see in the summercamp thing 😳😳)

Rantaro: i love the term gender envy. i wanna unlock the other seven deadly gender sins. show me gender greed. i'm like a gender dragon.

Byakuya {gender pride}: f×ck yeah, i'm trans. that's cool as h×ll.

Gundham {gender wrath}: either you give me gender neutral bathrooms or i give you a lobotomy

Kokichi {gender envy}: i like your vibes in the gender sense. give them to me.

Shuuichi {gender greed}: i have seventy-two genders and use thirteen sets of pronouns due to i want to.

Himiko {gender sloth}: gender? oh, i gave up on that years ago. too much effort.

Twogami {gender gluttony}: i am a different gender every day. i go through them like coffee filters. f×ck you.

Miu: my gender is that i'm sexy

It's freaking interesting how the members of the League get angry when people suggest they are miserable.

Watching My Villain Academia, I realized there's a common mistakes characters and fans make alike. That mistake involves talking about the League like they were miserable people who are just suffering and that's why they decided to join and stay in the League of Villains.

When in fact the League gave them a place to belong, friends who care for them, the opportunity to develop their abilities, the opportunity to find out who they are and why are they fighting for, etc.

There's a narrative where "normal" people find those who are different as "poor miserable people". And that narrative is really harmful because you're stating that their situation is a misfortune, a tragedy. In the sense that for example, someone with adhd is pitied and put aside instead of being treated a good way, with all the rights a person deserves.

With that in mind it's easy to understand why the members of the League get angry when other people suggest they need to be fixed. Example: Hawks trying to save Twice and Curious talking to Toga like she was a martyr.

It's the say thinking that makes people see minorities as charity jobs and not people to be properly respected. It's like when the Catholic Church suggests that lgbtaq+ people need to be saved and redeemed, because they are dirty sinners who would never live like normal people.

When Toga thinks about being "normal", she asks herself what does it mean, to be normal. And she reaches the conclusion that she is normal and she deserves to live, love and be herself. People all her life pitied her for being born a monster, but she knows she is not a monster, but a normal girl. Not because others find her different it means she is not normal.

And when Hawks suggests Twice is miserable, he gets strongly offended. Why? Because before finding the League, he was alone, sad and went down a spiral of crimes. He couldn't trust anyone, not even himself, less alone authorities. Within the League he found a reason to be heroic, he found friends, he learned to have fun and smile, he found his motivation to stay alive, he found people who protected him, people who appreciated him, people who saw him like a normal man. So why would a hero decide he was miserable? The difference between the League and the other characters it's that most members of the League never judge the past or the lives of the others without knowing. Mr. Compress says it in the War arc. The members of the League knew it was not their place to choose for a person if they were miserable or happy.

When Geten faces Dabi, Dabi shows that he knows what is like living the life Geten is describing. Geten is talking like Dabi would never get what is like being trained since he was very little, focusing only on his quirk. This makes Dabi angry for the same reason, because Geten is assuming things without knowing.

And when Tomura faces Re-Destro, we can see how Re-Destro realizes he's been judging Tomura wrong all along. It happens with other enemies that face Tomura. Everyone believes they know how Shigaraki thinks, what he wants, how he feels. They think Tomura is a childish man, some dumb immature kid without experience, determination or knowledge.

The problem with the members of the League is that everyone decides what they are seeing. The heroes, the other villains, the citizens, they keep pitying the League.The heroes, the other villains, the citizens, they keep pitying the League. Everyone assigns them a value or a narrative, but just a few persons can see them as they really are. Deku, Ochaco and Shouto are realizing that too, that they've been pushing their views instead of learning and not judging without knowing.

If Toga smiles, who are they to judge if she is happy or not? If Twice says he is sad, why should Hawks assume the reasons instead of talking with him? No one heard Tomura and his speeches, everyone ignored what he was saying in order to create their own version of Shigaraki. In doing so, they were erasing the human being and building a myth, a story, instead of seeing the real man in front of them.

It's good to notice that Deku, Ochaco and Shouto talk about stopping Tomura, Toga and Dabi, but that's it. Stopping, and then what? In order to properly see something, you need to make it slow down, right? So in order for the kids to see the villains as they are, they need to make the villains stop and share some moments with them. How else could Shouto learn more about his big brother? How else could Deku get to know Tomura past if Tomura doesn't talk with him? And how else could Ochaco properly communicate with Toga, if they are always in the middle of a fight?

Take for example Kurogiri. Only when they stopped Kurogiri, could Aizawa and Mic speak to him and understand better the situation. I really hope there'll be some type of communication between Mr. Compress and the heroes, or between Spinner and someone else.

That way the heroes could understand the humanity within the members of the League, their ability to feel love, friendship, to sacrifice themselves for a friend, to overcome obstacles and protect those who they love, etc.

And by doing so, they could realize that all the member of the League wanted was to be happy and fine, they've never wanted to be miserable. Even Dabi who's kinda suicidal, he still holds close to his life, you can see he is conflicted. It's not that hard to redeem them, because they want to live, they want to love.

I repeat it: The League of Villains want to leave and be loved, to be able to exist.

That's the key for this situation.