Tried Drawing These Amazing Strongk Ladies For The First Time :^)

Oh hey they're sitting next to each other. Thank you for the crumbs, Horikoshi 🙏

you arrive at work (hungry, as usual) excited for more under-tarp sex with your work husband only to find that he's not there. when you ask your boss about it he berates you. you talk to your only remaining work friend about it, but he blames you for not being able to be with his not-work wife and then kills himself. you decide to seek out the treasure map hidden by your other dead work friend. the treasure is your work husband's not-work wife, who is currently trapped in work hell. you're trying to memorize the directions in your darkened office (no work is being done). and then elon musk walks in

@/wings_yomi: 付き合ってる現パロイヴァティ (withミジスア)

穴に入りたい

do you think this was the first time someone called shouto a kind person, and that's why he reacted this way?

shouto, who has been called beautiful, powerful, and strong, but never kind. who is often associated with his father's strength by other characters, but never with the gentleness of the love he felt for his mother. the one who was raised as a weapon against all might's success by his father. and izuku dares to look him in the eyes and call him kind, like no one ever had before.

Tododeku is great because they’re both like “this is me and the bad bitch I pulled by being autistic”

Me and the five other Tododeku shippers are doing great here (we haven’t gotten much content since the stain arc)

I think Mark and Rex should get together cause they're both bisexual disasters who probably don't realize they're bisexual yet and have a terrible 0 for fucking 0 history of dating women, cause it never ended well for either party. and like. I don't think it'll fix them. it'll probably just make them worse but I think they should kiss anyway.

quiet mornings in the dorm

the thing with dabi is that his actions speak louder than words. he contradicts himself every other sentence, which is common with trauma. he SAYS he doesn’t care about the league but he ran up like 8 flights of stairs (and he NEVER runs) just to try and save twice, and stated five seconds before he claimed he doesnt care about them that he was upset at his death (bc he wanted to use him, yeah yeah. personally i have no clue how twice would have fit into his plan so i think he was just bsing there but thats up for interpretation) and then right after said that h*wks should have focused on him instead of anyone else (ie. tried to kill him instead)

like... its pretty clear that he’s an unreliable narrator. he claims he’s just using the league for his own goals but why fight with them in the mla arc? they’re outnumbered, weakened, and lack resources. wouldn’t it make more sense to just join the mla instead? clearly he has some modicum of trust and care for the lov, even if he himself doesn’t realize it.

Yes! He definitely is the one person in the League who very obviously tries to keep a distance as shown when he is missing in big moments like when Magne gets killed and Compress loses his arm, but then despite the fact he never even met Overhaul, he helps take him down later on in the arc.

What's really important to note, too, is the fact that his biggest weakness is his own quirk and yet he fought Hawks to try and save Twice.

He clearly put a lot of faith in the League, considering he joined them after the only noteworthy achievement they had was the USJ incident. But even when their hideout was taken away from them and they had nothing, he still stuck around.

Yes, you can claim everything he does is because he wants to use them, but he's also shown on several occasions that he respects Shigaraki.

If you compare his usual speaking patterns with that in the broadcast in Japanese, he speaks really polite instead of having that typical rough way of speaking. Dabi is his villain persona. He literally admits that everything he's done was to ensure making Endeavor fall as hard and deep as possible; not just by boosting Endeavor's career, but also by building himself up to be this awful villain.

If he wants to shock the world by showing that Endeavor's own son has become a villain, he can't just be a random criminal, he needs to be a big threat.

And I think to him being rough with everyone and keeping a distance is part of that. Besides, we saw that he is willing to die during this, so what's the point in trying to build up a relationship, when you're gonna die soon anyway?

The problem is that it's natural to form a bond. People, the more you learn about them, become a part of your life. They make their way into your brain, whether you want them to or not.

Besides, people have an easier time getting close to those they can relate to, so the League all being people who have been through a lot of pain, who have been judged, pushes away, and hurt all their lives? I think even if he tries really hard not to, he can recognize himself in them, too, and wants to save them because he would want to be saved also.

And can I just say I like that first piece of evidence you gave? Dabi's love language is running up multiple flights of stairs!

Some instances that I feel show how some messages in MHA are detrimental, especially on how victims react to their abuser, can be gauged by responses that tend to be highly prevalent in the fandom.

(Definitely not every fan, but a great majority).

Endeavor is a great example. Whenever you post criticizing his approach to atonement (and ultimately criticizing Horikoshi’s writing), you get BOMBARDED by people either belittling you for not liking his character or essentially forcing you to like his character by frantically writing “at least he tried” arguments.

If I have the CHOICE whether to forgive his character or not, especially given he goes through an atonement arc and not a redemption arc, why is any form of criticism about his abusive behavior and essentially his abuse of power practically ignored by the story unacceptable?

The message was detrimental because people operate on the notion that for victims to be good people, they must forgive and even help their abusers. MHA presents people who choose not to forgive him as either a monster (Toya) or inconvenient (Natsuo). And if they are still unforgiving, they must admire the abuser for doing the bare minimum (taking responsibility; this is also about Natsuo).

Essentially, they are considered "imperfect victims" because they weren't merciful in their approach to their abuser.

The majority of the fandom tends to ignore the lack of actual consequences for Endeavor's actions because he vows to talk to Toya every day. Insisting that doing the bare minimum, which is recognizing his son's existence and suffering, became his "hell" is a wildly fucked up message, in my opinion.

It harps on the issue mentioned above that if a victim isn't receptive to forgiveness or doesn't act "demure," they are seen as an inconvenience—which is how the Todoroki family ultimately views Toya.

On a less critical note, I'll vent, so if you don't like this, just ignore it.

I'm so fucking tired of stories depicting imperfect victims as people who deserve death and torture. Plus, having to be on the brunt of so many people acting like you're morally fucked because you're not impressed with how a writer handled abuse. Horikoshi is not the first writer to try to atone a character who is an abuser (and he isn't the first to fail at that, either).

I'm not about to dick-ride every decision every author makes. Especially if the message convinces some audience members that victims are inherently broken if they can't bring themselves to forgive and/or admire someone who hurt them.