I'll see you in a better tomorrow.
Tbh, I am very curious about the Floatyknife story. I mean, it sounds rather cute, and I am already very invested. They would be absolutely adorable. But maybe don't make the Yuri too doomed? Like very very angsty and doom like, but at the end, they undoomed Toga from the narrative and the wedding is back on?
Just like the Beauty and the Beast with Shigadabi. I can already imagine Kurogiri as the candle holder, very fancy. Very nice. And maybe Magne as the teapot? And instead of the teacups being her children, they are her little siblings? So, literal Big Sis. And Toga is a teacup as well. So adorable. And Toya and Tomura would definitely bond over being rejected from society.
But I'd be very interested in which versions of the stories you'll base this little Au thing on? Like the Little Mermaid can either be cute and all or very traumatic.
So, recently I’ve been thinking about doing some MHA ship fics based on some of my favorite fantasy movies/stories
Current ideas are: Tododeku based on the Little Mermaid
Shigadabi based on Beauty and the Beast
And Togachako based on Labyrinth
Is this something you guys would be interested in? These fics will be on my AO3 btw
I know that may just be my opinion, but I also think it has to do something with the covers. At least when I compare it to older books aka ones my mom has.
If I would go in a bookstore today a lot of covers don't particularly look like they fit the vibe of the book. I don't wanna namedrop names, but I think if a story has hardcore shut you shouldn't put a pastel colored cover on it with cartoon flowers ect. Like my mother's book who had smit often showed two people kissing sensually half naked. Or one person being half naked. That's how you usually know. Today that does not count anymore because most books have the "mature" cover or "child-like" cover and it does not reflect what is in the book as much as it wished.
I mean we say, don't judge a book by its cover, but we should. There cover should reflect the vibe of the book. If it's about blood, murder, cannibalism, revenge and sex or if it's about coming of age stories or self discovery without too hard topics.
Please don't give smit books nice flower pastel covers. You know what I am talking about. Don't make adult books look like children books.
How fast smut has inflitrated books, mostly bestsellers aimed at young girls and young adults is very concerning. Back in the day it was mostly just to be found in fanfics and doujinshis and stuff like that and frowned upon by the public.
Now the consens has shifted to being completely fine with hardcore stuff put in fantasy books and the like with no warning whatsoever on the covers. This is absolutely irresponsible from the publishers.
I don't wanna name names, but it's definitely the fault of booktok and how smut has infiltrated any form of mainstream media.
Booktok was a mistake.
Tbh, I started MHA because I thought it would be inspirational and shit. There is this powerless guy who gets powers from his idol and wants to save everyone. I thought since he knew how cruel society could be, since he experienced it himself, we'd get some great plot twists and conversations with villains. Especially after we got their backstories. But then, for Izuku, the supposed hero of all and everyone, to just go "Nvm, we need to kill them all," was quite shocking to me.
Even more when nothing happened after Endeavor was exposed and after the Lady Nagant thing. Or so much more, he is so close to these villains and their living reality from time to time that it really makes me question how he can still be in support of the heroes and the agencies as much as he is. Like he knows the truth about Tenko but stays quiet, nobody will ever truly know how much of a victim he was.
I expected at least something from Izuku, who is the hero of all. But I should have seen all this bullshit coming when the Eri arc with the festival happened. Like yeah, sure, one dance and a smile helped a girl get over the years of experimentation and drama instantly.
I used to roll my eyes at the "Eri will rewind Tomura to kill him and get Tenko back to save everyone" theory but now I feel like it would have been 10 times better than the actual ending we got. I am just very disappointed at the Manga, especially the conclusion and how rushed the ending felt. I also hate it how tmsome parts of the community treated the villain and the MVA arc, like please stop acting like bratty toddlers who have never heard of empathy and can only hate for once.
"But Dabi wanted to kill Shoto as a kid. He was soo selfish and cruel. He is a sociopath!" He was a fucking kid, kids a petty and need to learn their emotional intelligence from their parents. And since Enji has the emotional intelligence of a brick or course something messed up happened. Toya just wanted his father's attention and the man to be proud of him. And sociopathy is taught and is just another proof of the fact that Endeavor is a horrible person.
"But...but he changed! He is a good father now! He wants to fix his family!" Fix the family by killing the one that exposed him? Fix the family by being an overbearing father to Shoto? Fix the family by literally convincing them that Toya is the only problem and that they need to gang up to kill him? And even if he changed he needs to pay for his fucking crimes.
"But Dabi is evil!" Dabi is literally the product of his father's abusive and neglecting behavior toward his family. Of course, the child of an abuser is messed up in the head! Oh look, the sky is blue. Oh, what a fucking discovery.
And that is just Dabi and Endeavor. I don't even want to start with Tomura and AFO. That is the peak abuser and victim thing where the victim gets not acknowledged and is literally told "Your abuser was bad and all, but you ARE his victim. So why didn't you fight back when you were 5? You should have known better," like please. People!
I love Mha and it has truly great villains and a good idea. It could have been the most awesome story about changing society and stopping the stigmatization of minorities and victims of abuse and villains. It could have been an inspiration on how to better the world. Izuku could have been a goat for redeeming the villains and opening the people's eyes. He could have started a revolution. It could have been wonderful.
But looks like his legs are not stable enough, and now I can't even take him or Hori seriously.
Random 14 year-olds write better endings to MHA than Horikoshi himself. How do you fuck up your "dream series where all my wishes come true" so badly.
Also, sorry for all this yapping, I need to put my anger and disappointment somewhere.
I don't mean everything is shit after this, but things looking back started getting (steadily) worse starting with. Check bottom for more indept view on each option
A) at first I wasn't going to include this one as it happened before most of what I considered shit started happening, but with how much it blatantly favours this lazy-ass child abuser, how could I not include it. And of course, it shows so much evidence that he hasn't changed at all, like only even offering to teach Midoriya and Bakugo to manipulate his favourite victim Shoto
B) when it first happened I was devastated but expected this to lead to greater change to the hero system and society. But no, just a meaningless footnote to the heroes epic battle
C) literally no one questions how a top hero was just so eager to kill someone, or buy a wife, breed her, abuse & neglect his kids to the point one of them was believed dead. Only citizens whining about how Dabi is bad for them
D) here's this apparently big shot hero from the States we've never heard of before and immediately dies. If they wanted to keep Shigaraki from having too many powers they could of just chalked it up to the heroes interupting the process
E) the Todoroki family all blames themselves, this isn't to go into the complexity of abusive households, but to absolve Endeavor's responsibility and guilt. Despite the fact that as the one who created and was in control of this situation, he should be held accountable for theirs as well. The only backlash for his shit is framed as ohh poor Endeavor, he didn't mean for the child he threw away to create consequences, and now people are being mean to them
F) what was the point of this arc? Deku barely asks a villain three questions before giving up. He learns the HPSC had Lady Nagant acting as a secret assassin against any undesireables for them, covered up her arrest and got a replacement assassin (Hawks who has at least one confirmed extra jurdical murder under his belt). Witnesses an innocent woman get attacked for her appearance and was turned away from multiple shelters for said appearance. Deku: Hero Society is the Best, Nothing needs to change, because not every single apple in this basket is rotten to the core! Looking back he just looks worse for this
G) so this child, who due to his parents mistake was blackmailed under great threat & risk, into giving information to the blackmailer, deserves to be chained up and forced to take further risk by the heroes. Remember Endeavor never faces any consequences, nor does Hawks, but this child, Yuga, gets treated like this.
H) once again what was the point? How does Edgeshot know he can do this? How does he know how to do this? Why is he a top hero who has never interacted with Bakugo before this, sacrifices his appearing to be unharmed self, for a random hero student in the middle of a war? Oh and Edgeshot is revealed to be alive at the end of the manga, because Heroes have no consequences and live in magical fairytail land. Again what was the fucking point!
I) This was originally going to be two points, Oh poor Endeavor, victim blaming part 2 and the hospital battle. But I ran out of options and Endeavor doesn't need another personal option. So we got the whole Todofam blaming Dabi/Touya this time, and Endeavor being a whiney responsibility dodging coward again. Then we see the heroes knew that the villains were going to go after Kurogiri, kept him in a hospital. We see that the people aren't going after doctors or patients just trying to get to Kurogiri, get demonized for it. We have victim blamer/ pick-me Tentacole say that their kids will be attacked for this (already happening), and that it's up to them/ him to inspire the violent quirkests to not constantly attack, assualt, and otherwise discriminate against them, no need for the quirkists to be given any responsibility or consequences for their own actions. Oh and Spinner has major brain damage because how else was Tentacole supposed to win this arguement. Bonus points for Hawks calling for Toga to be murdered, doubling right back down on his previous murder
J) in this already overcrowded 3rd act lets make sure all these background characters get a scene! And despite the fact it took years for Deku to get a powersuit in the epilogue, All Might just randomly gets one, no build up or anything. AFO's backstory is left in the past so no one has to consider anything
K) I had hope going into this, but at every turn they kept on making it worse. Deku only tries punching and attacking, rather than make any attempts to actually talk unlike what Shigaraki has been doing since his introduction. Is randomly able to enter Shigaraki's head, doesn't have to see just how fucked Hero Society is as it gets cut short by moral scapegoat AFO coming in and revealing he orcastrated everything! Oh and he flat out kills Shigaraki. Living up to his name and not his goal. Deku that could my ass
Sorry if this comes off as super negative but I've been wondering this for a while, and well I'm pissed at the ending. Here's some people I want to hear the opinions of:
@moodyvoid @nagitosstolenhand @codenamesazanka @shortstrawberryshake @darkonekrisrewrite @nothingofinterest @itsnothingofinterest @villainsandvictimsalliance
Feel free to @ more people
shigaraki: you.. you said i could trust you!!
shigaraki: you said you were a GAMER!!!
spinner: shigaraki... i only play mobile games.
shigaraki: NOOOOO!!!!
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toga: if dabi and i were drowning, who would you save?
shigaraki: you two can't swim?
toga: it's a hypothetical question! who would you save?
shigaraki: my time and effort.
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toga, shooing dabi away: can you go be depressed over there? you're bumming out my whole area.
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dabi, season 6: i'm hot, i'm tall, i'm gay, and i'm in my theatre kid arc
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toga, at starbucks: can i get a venti vanilla latte with seven expresso shots?
dabi, standing behind her: jesus christ, just do cocaine.
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shigaraki, high: the best part of an oreo is the cookie, not the frosting. deal with it.
dabi, also high: darkness without light is an abyss. light without darkness is blinding. you cannot have a coin with one side.
spinner: yo socrates, it's a fucking cookie
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toga: ow!
shigaraki: what's wrong?
toga: i have this weird pain right above my eyebrow.
shigaraki: it's called a stress headache. i got my first one when i was four.
since we have playable arlecchino and her animations I had to update my favourite pairing trope
Sketch from a couple weeks ago
I wanted to meme before the big day.
Not yet, Brutus.. not yet..
Tbh I first thought you posted about Shigadabi and not yourself. And now I can't get it out of my head. Like they get secretly married, and Tomura sometimes slips up.
Tomura: Oh, Dabi? Yeah, he is my boyfriend, you got a problem with that?
Dabi in the background now moving quickly to Tomura: You liar! You lying bastard! How could you!
Tomura: What!?
Dabi: Are you firing me! Am I worth that little to you? Do you even care about me?
Tomura: What do you mean? What is happening?
Dabi: You... bastard! *acts like he faints like those ladies I'm old Hollywood movies*
And Tomura has to catch him and Dabi is only awaked by true love's calling aka. Tomura apologize and calling him his husband.
Vice versa, it's just Dabi bot approving of Tomura or not being satisfied with something he did, so he calls him his boyfriend again. Tomura has been denounced a rank, and he is pissy about it. Because he's a gamer, and that is a direct attack to his honor and abilities.
Anytime me and my husband accidentally refer to each other as “boyfriend/girlfriend” the other gasps loudly and says “I’ve been demoted?” or “I dropped a rank?” or “Am I fired????”
Them just being lame ass boyfriends and gaming together on a couch. They lay around one another like brezels and give the other "You suck, loser," comments when losing before kissing their cheek.
Danger noodles, dinosaurs, and anime DeathNote is the best. Shigadabi/Wriolette/Matchablossom for life, basically semi-working alcoholic, I am a writer (ItIsIAlex on Ao3)
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