☆ U.A. Teacher Deku X Pro-hero Dynamight!

C'mon, Deku

The easiest way to know whether a dynamic in fiction can be read romantic or not is if you change one of the genders of the character (because if they're the same gender it's easy to read them as platonic unfortunately)

If you can see them getting married if one of them is a girl than that means the romantic reading of that ship is completely valid

Ie. deku and bakugo

I rarely ship characters (especially if romance isn't the main focus), but I can ship them because of jp dudebros thread on heroine kacchan theory (with proof from manga, movies, arts, and promotion stuff)

The dudebros were talking about "if kacchan's a girl, she'd end up married with deku" but it actually makes me think "why would his gender change anything if all those things happen when he's canonically a guy?"

And then BAM! I have found the light

It's the same thing with "why do people say it's platonic when they're both girls / boys but it's romantic if they're a girl and a boy?"

If anyone is denying the romantic undertones then they're just in denial of the validity of that ship and shouldn't shame people for shipping them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Or maybe, if they ship one of them with other characters, put that other character in the same scenario and see whether they see the situation has romantic undertones or not (easiest example: bakugo being targeted by shigafo for being the closest one to deku on that battlefield). If it is, they're just in denial and/or desperate

It's valid if people just like them as platonic ship, but maybe they shouldn't tag other ships with characters NOT involved with the topic of the post? Kinda feels like they're off-topic. For example, seeing a post about dkbk platonic relationship in a td////dk tag would just sour my mood if I'm a 🍰🥦 shipper. I'd be like "I wanna see 🍰 and 🥦, not 💥 and 🥦! Why're you putting that shit in my timeline!?!"

Note: I like the dkbk dynamic more because deku's stubborn n relentless attitude is more prevalent in dkbk jp works, also because I found more funny dkbk jp works than bkdk www

Friendly reminder that Izuku didn’t go charging into the fight with the slime monster until after he saw it had Katsuki

He was literally at his lowest point right then. Not one person in his life thought he could be a hero, and that day both Katsuki and All Might had made it clear to him that they thought it was impossible.

Izuku was horrified at his role in setting the slime monster free, that his own actions could cause harm to someone else, but he still didn’t go running into the fight until he saw it had Katsuki.

He knew his role. He knew it was the heroes job to save, not his. He stayed in his lane, observed, took notes, prepared himself to act, but he still never actually acted until he saw Katsuki in danger.

Only Katsuki’s safety would have driven him to do what he did. Yes, Izuku is heroic. Yes, he is hardwired to save others. But at his lowest point, no encouragement or validation or support from any corner, it was Katsuki being in danger that pushed Izuku to act when no one else would.

It had to be Kacchan.

No. 430 Katsuki making effort to bring back deku's dream

Don’t give me alpha, playboy, flirty Bakugo, give me awkward in social situations, doesn’t know how to flirt because why is that important, has never been on a date because he gets too nervous, doesn’t know how to talk to women or men unless he’s yelling or scolding them, who doesn’t care about the concept of virginity because why does it matter, who only ever thought about dating someone because of Izuku, who only ever thought anything to do with dating/sex because of him Bakugo

Never in my wildest dreams did I think we’d end up here post-canon.

We had three seasons of Katsuki being various shades of angry and two where his cute aggression was in overdrive and any real feelings he had were buried beneath his guilt, inferiority, and rage.

So many bkdk fics from this era had them in a situationship of some kind largely because Katsuki Bakugo was the poster child for emotional constipation. The future of bkdk was often agreed to be this delicious angsty cocktail of yearning and we ate that up. Izuku and Katsuki loving each other but being unable to say it? The tension, the misunderstandings, the regency-esque moments of hands brushing? Bruh. Gorgeous.

And then season six happened and Katsuki apologized, calm, empathetic, validating, and boy did that open up doors for bkdk’s future, but that was followed by season seven where simp!Katsuki really found his sea legs, embraced his new normal and his all-encompassing obsession with Izuku and went LITERALLY RIDE OR DIE for him

Followed later by his return to the manga where everything he did screamed “I’d do anything, break my own bones, sacrifice my own life, my potential, my career, my money, all for him”. Boy came back from the dead and was all-in for Izuku and has never looked back.

We had tsundere!Katsuki down to an art and now we have simp!Katsuki too and whiplash has never in my life made me so happy. We get the best of both worlds. It has never been better to be a bkdk.

Meme redraws to get out of my drawing funk

crazy how bnha’s best written characters are female (toga, ochako, bakugo) so crazy

oh NOW people are turning? now people are seeing what we’ve been saying for years? the parallels weren’t enough, their obsession and devotion to each other? katsuki willing to die with nothing on his mind but Izuku the first time wasn’t enough? it took him doing it AGAIN for you to see it?

not to mention with the latest chapter people who HATED bkdk suddenly feeling confident enough to admit bkdk was a legitimate threat. “they DO have the strongest bond and deepest connection and clearly care about each other the most, but thank god huh?” SO IT HAD YOU SCARED.

I’m not accepting anyone who spent years perpetuating homophobia, misogyny, and bigotry suddenly admitting that they feared bkdk’s possibility then trying to play nice. “you were right I just didn’t want it to happen” Be Quiet.