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Been a long while and no posting here. Welp, I’m back! This was a commission done for Joey on Discord, it’s his DnD character based on Fallout!

Animation practice

Bakugou doing what he does

every single person who reblogs this

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will get “doot doot” in their ask box

stop what you’re doing. it’s Horikoshi’s latest twitter sketch celebrating the release of Volume 24. behold. 

bruh

i find it SO funny when ppl act like deku is one of those uwu pacifist protags like steven universe or aang cause like. listen. there is not a single problem deku hasn't solved by hitting it really hard. He got his quirk from all might by throwing his book bag into a villain's eye. he got tdrk to overcome his mental blocks & to like him by punching himself into unconsciousness. he got kouta to like him by punching muscular into unconsciousness. he got both eri AND sir nighteye to like him by punching overhaul into unconsciousness. he got hero killer stain to like him by punching stain into unconsciousness. he got shinsou to tolerate him by punching shinsou into needing medical attention. he got bkg to begrudingly respect him by punching bkg very hard. deku is very kind and compassionate and his main motivation in any given situation is his inherent need to help someone in need but that doesn't cahnge the fact that hes absolutely feral and down to fight at any given moment.

When someone toxic needs a friend

I just wanna add a little personal reflection to the discussion of Spinel’s treatment in Steven Universe: The Movie.

A few signposts so you know where I’m starting with this:

A criticism I’ve seen: 

Steven was not particularly warm to Spinel. He did not hug her. He did not offer to be her friend. He spoke carelessly and triggered her toward becoming murderous again. He only cared about what she could do for him.

A perspective I’ve seen: 

LOTS of people with borderline personality disorder or strong feelings about abandonment personally relate to Spinel and are critical of Steven from this perspective.

Rebecca Sugar’s commentary on Spinel:

The thing about Spinel is that she’s a really toxic person. 

She’s so toxic that she’s literally trying to poison people. 

In my interactions with friends who have had a history difficult enough to make it hard for them to trust other people and sometimes even actively want to hurt others, it’s just a very difficult situation to navigate. In the case of Spinel and all of these characters, that’s extremely exaggerated because cartoons have the ability to be extreme exaggerations. I wanted to explore what it’s like when you’re trying to help someone who really doesn’t want to help themselves, who wants to embody the negative feelings that they have about themselves. I think that’s something really real. I hadn’t seen that in a cartoon before. 

Spinel, unlike many other characters, actually has the goal of hurting people, which is new territory for the show. She really wants to hurt Steven, and there’s a reason that she does—because she’s in so much pain. I just wanted to explore all the dimensions of that.

I also think Steven has his way of trying to handle and dissolve conflict. It’s not necessarily a good way for him to handle this situation. It really leaves him in a difficult state, and I think what I wanted to show in the way that they interact is that at a certain point, when you can’t help someone, you have to be able to protect yourself. 

Ultimately, he can’t really convince her to change. It’s something she’ll have to want for herself. But what he can do is protect himself from her, making it impossible for her to hurt him. 

It’s sort of up to you if you would like to love her. If you watch this movie and she, you know, frustrates you, that is totally fair. I want that to be a big part of who she is.

[From the AV Club interview]

So here are a few things I want to shed light on.

It’s very interesting that Rebecca intended Spinel to be read as “a toxic person” because so many fans fell in love with her, said they’d be her friend, hated intensely on Pink Diamond because of what she did to abandon the poor Gem, and sympathized with her directly. But Rebecca was looking at Spinel from Steven’s perspective. And that’s also what I did.

I’ve been Steven. I have VERY much been Steven.

When you meet someone who was done dirty, when you recognize the horror they’ve been through, when you see how much pain they are in and agree they have the right to be angry, it’s natural for empathetic people to offer themselves as comfort.

But when you’re Steven, you also know it isn’t YOUR fault either. Before you have the ability and experience to set boundaries, you can get sucked into other people’s stormy waters and think you’re helping if you drown in solidarity with them. What’s really important to preserving yourself is learning that you can stand on the boat and toss a life preserver. That it doesn’t ACTUALLY HELP to jump in the water and sink with them.

Some folks are angry that Steven didn’t jump right into sacrifice himself on the altar of friendship in the service of an intense, literally murderous stranger who tried to poison him and his planet and lash out at his friends, robbing them of their rich pasts and their relationships because all of it hurt HER so much. It is SO easy to understand WHY SPINEL WAS ANGRY. But nothing she was doing to Steven, his friends, or the Earth was going to fix her problems, and furthermore, she FULLY UNDERSTOOD that it was NOT THE FAULT of any of the people she took her anger out on. It was irrational, yes, and that is part of her dysfunction. But also, in these situations, what helps explain it still does not excuse it.

Some have railed at Steven saying he somehow forgave genocidal tyrants like the Diamonds but couldn’t be friends with a damaged Gem like Spinel who just wanted friendship. The big difference there is that Steven got involved with the Diamonds when both parties believed he was a different person. The Diamonds believed he was the lost Pink Diamond, and Steven has also spent much of his superhero life believing he WAS his mother and was therefore obligated to accept punishment for her crimes or to clean up the messes she made. Now that he knows he is not her and that she did some pretty horrible stuff, he also wants the right to stop feeling responsible for every person Pink hurt in the entire region of space.

Steven gave Spinel basically compassionate treatment. He did not abuse her. He did not insult her. He occasionally coddled her when it seemed important (and though some said he was too businesslike while he pursued his mission, he was literally looking at the world ending within two days if he didn’t solve the problem). And most importantly … .

He let her leave the garden.

Spinel stayed in the garden all those millennia because Pink Diamond told her they were playing a game. All that time, she had visions of Pink returning so she could see her smile, hear her laughter. We see a sequence where she tried to follow Pink out of the garden and Pink manipulated her into staying willingly. We watch those feet leaving and one pair of feet staying behind. We see Pink disappear.

When Steven goes to leave the garden, Spinel follows in the same manner. Some have criticized him for letting go of her hands.

But he invited her out of the garden. He didn’t say stay. He said come with me.

As he sang about her deserving someone better, he was sincere. But he did not say the person to make her feel found should be him. He did not want to take on another person with thousands of years of baggage who would require a specific brand of attention and so much tenderness to avoid snapping. He did not allow her to be held by the hand and led out. He recognized that she needed encouragement to leave this place because of what was done to her, but he wanted her to take the steps.

Compassionate people are crushed all the time under the weight of needy people who make it hurt to love. People like Steven can acknowledge that Spinel deserves love and deserves to be happy without accepting that it’s heartless to stop short of personally doing it. Especially when you literally have to take physical, mental, and emotional damage as a general consequence of offering support and counseling. It is sometimes just beyond what you can do.

I made the mistake several times of getting very close to someone who treated me poorly while taking comfort in my presence. I cared that they were hurt and I didn’t know how to say “You deserve love” without stepping in and loving them. In EVERY case I was involved with, the person went from initially grateful to “why don’t you help me more?” shockingly quickly, and two of them deliberately tried to create situations where I would be trapped with them and isolated from others. 

I could get very personal here but I don’t think I need to. Those of us who relate all too well to Steven wanting to help others will have been in this situation. Your heart hurts for people who live with pain that has never touched you, but when they’ve made it clear with one of their first actions that they feel satisfied at the idea of ruining your life, trusting them could mean the end of you. Especially if they demand that you risk life and limb to fix and save them before you’d dare to call it love, and especially if they want to be fixed without feeling responsible for initiating any of it. Some people mistake suffering for working hard toward a goal. Both can hurt but only one is constructive. If I’m expected to spend extensive resources on someone, I need some partnership in the goal, and I can’t accomplish that with someone whose wish for companionship manifests as “I want you to feel as bad as I do, and will take steps to hurt you so I have someone to cry with.”

Steven risked his actual life while he didn’t have powers so he could go talk to Spinel, and he wouldn’t fight her when she wanted to fight. He protected himself while she spent her anger. He STILL put himself in the line of fire far more than a less compassionate person would. He took time and tenderness to listen to her story and sympathize with her, tell her she deserved better, bear witness to what she’d become after being treated like a discarded plaything, and bring her hope with promises of a new future and a way to feel found.

Sadly, Spinel flipped back to being murderous at the first sign that Steven might be about to prioritize someone other than her, reframing his reasonable needs as if he was planning to abandon her, isolate her, discard her. This was a trauma reaction, yes, and she isn’t entirely to blame for being upset because she was worried she was just being used and none of her actions were logically thought through. 

But does someone ever “deserve” the friendship of a specific person who can’t feel warm toward them because of their OWN bad experiences? 

No! 

Steven has a big heart but he has his very own huge storehouse of trauma, and being physically attacked with his family and planet put in danger over the actions of his mother is at the top of the list. Instead of assuming that the person who has trauma the loudest is the most hurt, can’t we just acknowledge that Spinel’s and Steven’s respective traumas make them NOT the best match for friendship?

The ending of the movie, with Spinel going off with the Diamonds, might seem a little disturbing with all the codepencency floating around there, but if you want to talk about compassion, I think this is a good place for Spinel to start. 

She just wanted to make Pink Diamond laugh and enjoy her life. She longed to do that for so long and then it all ended when she found out she would NEVER GET TO DO IT. I think bonding with the other Diamonds and having a familiar, safe place to experience the kind of love she’s used to will be a good FOUNDATION for building herself into a person beyond that. For now, she needs comfort. I hope they treat her well.

Squad freshness level: Plus Ultra!! ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

a saga

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Every Fic I’ve Ever Written

Because someone requested I do this :)

Amateur Ghost Hunters: Tumblr Master Post | AO3

One And the Same: Tumblr Post | AO3

Short Prompt Requests: “You need to wake up because I can’t do this without you.” | “Im not jealous.” | “I could kiss you right now!” | “I’m going to take care of you, okay?” 

Frilly Pink Apron: Tumblr Post | AO3

Where Did You Go?: Tumblr Master Post | AO3

Don’t Play With Your Food: Tumblr Post | AO3

Twin Stars Week:

Day 1: Tumblr Post

Day 2: Tumblr Post

Day 3: Tumblr Post

Day 4: Tumblr Post

Day 5: Tumblr Post

Promise Ring: Tumblr Post | AO3

Workplace Relationship: First Chapter (Tumblr) | AO3

Capacity to Love (Uncompleted, on hiatus): Tumblr Master Post

The Shrinekeeper and the Harvest God: Tumblr Master Post | AO3

Bakudeku Positivity Week

Day 1 / Honeymoon: Tumblr Post | AO3

Day 2 / If You’d Have Me: Tumblr Post | AO3

Day 3 / Blinded: Tumblr Post | AO3

Day 4 / Aim for the Heart: Tumblr Post | AO3

Day 5 / Karma: Tumblr Post | AO3

Day 6 / A Series of Dumb Decisions that Actually Turns Out Okay: Tumblr Post | AO3

Day 7 / Together: Tumblr Post | AO3

Where the Road Leads: First Chapter (Tumblr) | AO3

The Prince and The Frog: Tumblr Post | AO3

Talking it Out: Tumblr Post | AO3

Halloween:

An Unlikely Pair: Tumblr Post | AO3

The Witching Hours: Tumblr Post | AO3

Mine: Tumblr Post | AO3

The Kiss: Tumblr Master Post | AO3

5,000 Words for 5,000 Followers:

Call Me, Nerd. Tumblr Post | AO3

First Date, First Kiss Tumblr Post | AO3

I’m Not Your Husband (But I Could Be Your Boyfriend) Tumblr Post | AO3

Three Christmases: AO3

As Right as Right Now: Tumblr Post | AO3

Foster-Mates: Tumblr Master Post | AO3

The Vessel of the Seer: Tumblr Master Post | AO3

Quirk Shenanigans:

Opposite Personality: Tumblr Post | AO3

Time Travel: First Chapter (Tumblr) | AO3

Kid Katsuki: Tumblr Post | AO3

Playful Rationality: Tumblr Master Post | AO3

Empty My Inbox Challenge:

All Your Fault: Tumblr Post | AO3

Say it Again: Tumblr Post | AO3

I Believe in You: Tumblr Post | AO3

Kacchan-Sugoi: Tumblr Post | AO3

In Your Care: Tumblr Post | AO3

Love Language: Tumblr Post | AO3

9 Prompts for 9,000 Followers:

hug | muse | fairytale | defense | fate | harm | pressure | villain | partner

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⁠— From kindergarten to elementary school, middle school, and high school… We’ve known each other for a long time, but until now, we’ve never talked about how we really felt. Because I had nothing at first, along with the parts I hated about you, I saw vividly all the amazing things you could do! You, who had so much that I did’t have, were an amazing person much closer to me than All Might!

Bakudeku + Growth & Development 

↳ for su (@atsushisnakajima) happy belated birthday! ✧･ﾟ: *

Smooch Smooch cause they're fluffy and in love

hey i have hiccups can someone scare me

To me you are the image of victory

So true… and not just for cats…

smol kirishima motivacional gif ✨

Choose your starters~

Draw this to commemorate one of my fav gen starter before the new gen come out =3

this is the ideas shiggy. reblog in the next 10 seconds and be blessed with good ideas 

Battle montage!

Mondays be like…

Pro Heroes.

alright man just listen it came to me in a dream and I just-

All Might’s other life long friend from America

twitter

me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???

my brain:

my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………

Your grandmother has always been a little kooky, her age and deteriorating sight only amplifying this as the years go by. However you’re pretty sure this takes the cake. Looking down at the strange black puppy in her arms, you try to wrap your mind around the sight. The tiny thing seems to drip shadows, eyes a vivid glowing red, and as it sneezes, a small plume of smoke escapes it. 

“and you….want me to have…it..?” You ask cautiously, eyeing the multiple glowing eyes and the happily wagging tails. Dear god is that a split tongue? “Of course dear! Oh you’ll get along ever so well! and you could do with some company!” She says definitively, shuffling forward and dumping the squirming bundle into your arms.  You’re not sure if you want to ask where she got it, but her excitement makes you hesitant to deny her gift. Guess you have a hellhound now. 

Female Loki! Here’s a preview sketch for this Friday’s upcoming Avengers episode. Painting a pt 2 with more chars! Stay tuned 💚

kacchan realising he doesn’t just think of deku as a rival and a friend. it confuses him, because it’s deku, someone who’s constantly getting under his skin.

it’s nothing like the flowery descriptions he’s always seen and heard of, but he’s not so stupid not to notice that it isn’t normal to suddenly catch yourself with a strong urge to kiss someone who supposedly have platonic feelings for

many people would call him an idiot for not noticing sooner, but the way romance or crushes are normally described just isn’t enough to encompass the gravity of how kacchan feels

it’s hard to notice something that’s been there for a long time

their relationship just isn’t the innocent first love that gives you butterflies. no, the thought of deku doesn’t make him break out into a cold, nervous sweat. it lights him aflame, encourages him to do better than the previous day, to keep those eyes on him

he’s seen the way others behave around the ones they’re attracted to, how they get so tongue tied and flustered, behaving so differently from themselves, and kacchan feels the opposite with deku. with him, kacchan feels the most like himself; in his rawest and most unfiltered form

a lot of what they have is long standing, already established, but deku continues to surprise him. keeps him on his toes, keeps him challenged.

it’s nothing like cherry blossom confessions and puppy love. and because he never had a proper form of comparison, he’s never been able to put a proper word to it.