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this line is so jarring to me because if shigaraki really is gone... where are his friends waiting?

up until now we always took their survival for granted, no matter the situation they ended up in. toga's blood loss. dabi's quirk awakening at the brink of death.

but calling back on shiggy's line "even if [...] i turned into an empty shell, i'd still need to become a hero to those guys"

suddenly has me worried about the fate of toga and dabi.

they're waiting for him.

but where?

Some muppet spinneraki kids for feel good <3

i think if i were to make a small correction to that post, it’s that i would emphasize that pedophilia is already normalized and that’s why writing about it for titillation does not invent the issue of societal pedophilia, but rather is the manifestation of and contribution to it.

for example, it is also true that “bury your gays” is not the cause of cishet voyeurism towards lgbt suffering and death, but it’s one way for cishets to stoke their own desires for seeing it; and minimizing characters of color in a narrative doesn’t create the problem of poc being overlooked off-screen, but rather characters of color are overlooked on-screen because poc are overlooked irl.

so it’s correct that if we got rid of every piece of fanfic or fanart featuring underage sex, the problem of pedophilia would still persist because it is built into our system and society, in the form of widespread child abuse, victim-blaming, and lack of legal rights for minors. images that normalize pedophilia would still proliferate in the form of "art,” in the ways that underage celebrities are sexualized and adultified (as well as their less-known peers on insta or tiktok trying to look older and sexier), in modeling, in marketing, in off-handed comments about “jailbait.”

by and large, societal abhorrence toward pedophilia goes only as far as an abstract concept—like trying to dismantle the wayfair conspiracy—rather than taking actual substantive measures that would actually protect children. that would require we didn’t live in a society that largely condones child abuse and abuse in general.

the expansiveness of the issue, however, doesn’t mean anyone should brush off fictional pedophilia because it’s not a big deal in the grand scheme of things. part of being against pedophilia means being vocal against its normalization in all respects, it means supporting systemic changes that give children power to leave dangerous situations, and it means watching out for the minors around you. it means you have to do all these things simultaneously, and not just shrug your shoulders under the illusion that you are somehow not part of any system because you fancy yourself that way.

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Dabi's first interaction with Spinner really was to call him a slur

It's probably to be expected for the product of a multigenerational eugenics project though...

Also, it's funny how the only league members to survive the manga are the ones without heroic counterparts wanting to save them.

This is certainly a narrative choice...

re: last reblog i want to be in awe of people's imagination and the breadth of interpretation each individual can bring to a text, but my experience in fandom is that, in practice, people will use that imagination to try and headcanon their way out of racist or trans/misogynist or imperialist or pro-police texts.

u guys want tomura to be ur possessive boyfriend so bad when hes one of the least possessive characters in the series…there is another shigaraki who is actually possessive like that but idk if u wanna hear that one out

……………last time Shigaraki said "do your best". it was to a Overhaul that he left armless and "quirkless".

No, no, hear him out!