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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.

Sidenote on my tags on my last reblog, but I also wonder if the open front on Dabi's new outfit isn't also meant to invoke seppuku imagery, the samurai ritual suicide

What made me think of this is the fact that Horikoshi clearly gave some thought to how much of Dabi's chest to expose, cause the preliminary design didn't show a lot of skin (notice the version on the left, which is clearly reminiscent of burial clothes, or 死装束 in japanese):

The right side is crossed over the left, in typical fashion for funeral ceremonies. Normally, you wear a yukata or a kimono with the left over the right, as only the dead are dressed the other way around. Dabi's outfit is then supposed to bring to mind the way you'd dress up a corpse for the last rites before a burial.

However, Horikoshi discarded this more "proper" look for what we as a fandom called the "yassiefied" version, with an open, bare chest:

Which honestly brings to mind the aforementioned seppuku ritual.

I know that Dabi is no samurai and that he normally likes loose and low cut clothes, but the fact that his burial-clothes-inspired shroud is specifically open all the way down to his belly seems too deliberate to be coincidence, or something thrown in for fanservice alone, especially considering how the design wasn't originally meant to be... Slutty, for lack of a better term.

So I guess that what I'm saying is: since Dabi went into this war with the intention of committing murder-suicide, it wouldn't surprise me if his outfit too was meant to invoke that duality: that is, the idea that he's both someone already dead (and whom his family mourned and buried), but also someone ready to take his own life to correct a wrong

Idk, just some food for thought

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it’s based on the alternative ending of Wants and Needs by @happojin :3

we can't see Spinner's left hand and Shigaraki's right hand. they're secretly holding hands.

A lot of people get hung up on the fact Dabi called spinner lizard, which is considerably quirkist, but no one ever wants to talk about how after the first and only time it happened he never did it again once spinner clearly established he didn't like it. Dabi was willing to grow as a person and learn not to use the term for his teammate after one time.

I tried to make it funny but can you feel the scream from the bottom of my Mariana trench soul?

Disclaimer 1: I haven't read the manga since about summer, 2020, but this is the impression I got from all the spoilers that, well... flooded my dashboards. I also felt physically ill about the thing in the middle panel and felt it all over again while drawing it ngl.

Disclaimer 2: Hawks is both drowning Deku and Dabi, but with an added layer of "why are you even here" bc has he ever actually... DONE anything to prove his character development (apart from not fighting Toga) that no one else could have done, or was it all say, no show?

(ps I know these don't apply to class 1A for the most part, instead it's about... basically everybody else)

Stickers project !!!!

Sorry I just can’t draw spinner, he is super ugly in this style and I don’t really know how to draw reptilian characters😔💔

ASS FUCK WATER FUCK shit

I'm at the movie theater to escape the heat and almost the entire row in front of me is just a group of 12 year olds... send help