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Kaminari and Tsuyu’s underutilisation really grinds my gears because they had SUCH potential to be really interesting characters who would have fleshed out areas of the story that were otherwise lacking. Like just off the top of my head:

Kaminari has a pretty high social intelligence. He’s generally pretty good at diffusing stressful situations, handling difficult people, and connecting with others regardless of their origins. All of which are skills it would have been REALLY useful for Deku to develop if the end goal was for him to save villains. Additionally Kaminari’s struggle to control and utilise his very destructive quirk, which effectively damages him if he uses it too much, could have acted as a more open, smaller and closer to home comparison to Dabi’s situation, providing the main cast with a starting point for understanding some of what he went through.

Tsuyu is really the person who should have been given the mutant plot line. Unlike Shoji, she was a character we’d actually spent time with, and even if the plot line was last minute, Tsuyu had in text things that could be built off, like her difficulty making friends due to her appearance, and the fact she’s shown to be hesitant of using certain powers (like regurgitation) because she feels they’re gross. Additionally, Tsuyu internship seemed to be setting her up to be a sea based hero, an environment that people often (famously) need to be saved from, but also an environment where heroes will always be needed even if their jobs lack the glamour of villains to fight.

Yeah, I agree.

Tsuyu was an early favorite of mine, so I was really sad to see her fade into a really lame storyline where she could add nothing.

I think both Tsuyu and Shoji could have been used in the mutant plotline (and Tokoyami + Kouda), but it also should have been built much earlier - showing microaggressions, slowly weaving in the type of discrimination that heteromorphs face. And it should have been resolved better than telling heteromorphs to be "good victims" and solving it by giving Shoji an award.

And yes, Tsuyu absolutely should have been a sea-side water-based rescue hero and not continue to exist to be Ochako's emotional trashcan in a wildly imbalanced "friendship" well into her late 20s.

Kaminari to me actually had some nice highlights in that he was one of the only students ever showing emotions like fear in battle situations (like he did in the PLF War). What I really wanted is a pay-off for his friendship with Bakugou. I think it would have been awesome to see him defend Bakugou's body when the Twice clones swarmed Floating UA and restart his heart in the end, instead of the self-exploding sweat nonsense.

it feels so good to know that a lot of people either still hate bkg and/or hate how his redemption was written and dont just suck up to his mediocre writing https://x.com/blar_wolf/status/1915288020376310177?s=46

I will be honest I haven't touched Twitter in a while, but it is finally good to see people waking up and critiquing bakugo's character in masses. From the time I used to be on Twitter, there were a few that would call out Bakugo and his horribly written character arc, but most of it was silenced by bakugo stans and the overwhelming support his character continously received.

I do hope that this behaviour continues and people actually critique mha as a whole based on writing quality of horikoshi and not on fandom. Yes, I believe that the fandom should be criticised for their actions but a lot of people have resorted to defending mha by saying that the show is good but the fandom is bad which is false in my opinion since there are unpleasant things in both the story and fandom!

maybe it’s just my personal obsession desire and passion for metaphorically visualizing the growth and change of characters via reflective physical change to their image and bodies, marking both the passage of time and the growth of their self through distinct phases of visual design, but like

i fell out of BnHA a while ago because the shift in general theme and tone just wasn’t doing it for me, but I saw the page of them grown up today and i just.

…

….its the same picture.

they are just. looking exactly the same. but a little taller and a little less round cheeked???? and like three of them have a bit longer hair????

…boring.

like truly, i expected More. at least for his Boy Favorites.

More drawings of the sillies and this is a very specific headcanon

So it's canon that Mitsuri was awfully shy when she became a Hashira so I like to think that since Kyojuro was literally the only person he knew there she clings onto him like if it was her life LMAO

Bonus meme THATS GUESS WHAT I COOKED 🔥🔥🔥, Capcut keyframes were so fucking hidden and for what reason istg 😭

Wonder if it's canon or not that the poison was actually for Hakuji but since he wasn't at home that time, Koyuki and Keizo were killed instead.

So the footage of Owen training the tiny raptors in the new Jurassic World kind of (inadvertently, I think) confirmed something that always bugged me about the social dynamics mentioned in the first film.

Owen’s using the term ‘alpha’ wrong.

Of course, the concept of pack alphas is rooted in a lot of erroneous studies anyway. But if we take his actual assertions about it and Blue’s behaviour at face value, then Owen is wrong. He’s not the alpha. Blue is the alpha. The pack follows her cues, that’s why they go with her when she decides to follow the Indominous, and it’s also why they listen to Owen - because Blue does. If Blue stops, so do the other raptors. They’d don’t just wait it out to see who’ll win, they immediately follow Blue’s lead.

Blue’s the leader. 

Owen is, actually, the mediator.

He is the one who stops disputes between the raptors and defuses tense situations. He is permitted this status precisely because he’s physically weak (compared to raptors) but socially important. His social importance was created by rearing the raptors and forming emotional bonds with them. But they know full well that he’s squishy and beatable (though they probably don’t realize just how lethal some behaviours might be for him, comparatively). Blue knows she can kill Owen and that Owen is not strong or very useful at leadership decisions for a velociraptor pack. She accepts his input because he’s dad.

So since Owen actually isn’t even in the running for pack leader, and challenging him would be pointless because then you’d just hurt him and cost the pack a socially important member, and also probably get beaten up by Blue, he is the ideal mediator of disputes. His intervention de-escalates situations by reducing the amount of violence that’s permissible. 

But because he was using so much containment and physical force (even if it was through equipment, obviously) to keep the raptors in check, I think Owen misjudged his placement in the raptor social group. Especially since he actually was tougher than them when they were babies. He thought they listened to him because they believed he was stronger than them, and that this was an illusion he had to maintain.

That was never actually the case, though. Blue knew Owen was way weaker than her the whole time. She just valued him anyway.

There’s probably a metaphor about toxic masculinity in there somewhere.

Older and Wiser

If you watch the interview from Bojack Horseman, that's exactly what would've happen to Bakugo if the narrative ( Hori ) doesn't sugarcoat every misdeed he's done.

Bakugo: "I didn't tell Deku to kys until we're in highschool!!!"

Reporter: "I'm sorry what?"

Bakugo: "!!-I mean-!?-I-!!"

Reporter: "Did you say you tell you're 'childhood friend' to 'kys'??"

Bakugo: "That was me and Deku in highschool!! Not my fault he's a useless quirkless!!! I was only a teen!!".

And all of the conversation would be broadcasted in live TV too lol.

Katsuki would fuck up an interview like that 😂

every time a proshitter smugly proclaims "You'd never survive 2015 tumblr" or something similar to a person who expresses very valid disgust towards a pedophilic/incestual or other gross ship I get reminded of those "anti-woke" old men complaining about modern media and how people today are "just so sensitive!" while bragging about how dark and "complex" the media they grew up with was when in reality it was just filled to the brim with any and all bigotry, including the vile shit proshitters like to romanticize.

Both groups also like to claim that arguments against their problematic comfort media are somehow an attack against the poor, innocent proshipper masses by the "sensitive snowflakes" who, in their eyes, are somehow weak sensitive worms while simultaneously controlling every single facet of the entertainment/media industry and being cartoonishly evil

so uh. something to think about

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