@ people who are way too into hawks and insist on calling twice "jin": you think you are himiko toga but you are not himiko toga
He looks like a volleyball
Hmmm I just wanna put it out there that
Who cares if youâre âinherently evilâ (which is a concept I donât believe) or more likely, might have a predisposition to antisocial tendencies? You can still change. You can still modify your behavior. Itâs never too late to do better. Sure, maybe thereâs stuff you canât fix, but you can still do better.
one of my issues with the MLA arc resolution is that it just feels like a very incomplete understanding of ideology and praxis. it reminds me of people trying to âdebate awayâ nazis or antivaxxers or terfs or whatnot, bcs thereâs this idea that the ideology will just⌠go away if you âwinâ somehow?? which is a very liberal understanding of ideological conflict imo. there are a lot of ideologies that are illogical, and which rely on the denial of facts and the invention of conspiracy theories to sustain themselves, which is why itâs so impossible to âwinâ against those people. but even when you move away from those ideologies and get into ones that are more liberal or leftist, you still get ideological conflict, and youâre often met with clashes of fundamental values, and opinions about what is morally acceptable or necessary, and so forth. ideology is a whole system of ideas, built from the ground-up, and you often have to work long and hard to get to the foundation to significantly change it (eg: marxism isnât just about being anti-capitalist, it comes with a whole set of ideas about human dignity, and human desires, and what constitutes human nature, and through what kind of means capitalism strips them away or modifies them, and why capitalism does this, etc. even before you get to anti-capitalism, a marxist and a neoliberal will probably already disagree about, like, human nature, and who deserves dignity and what dignity even means).
thatâs why Redestro giving in so easily is so unsatisfying to me, because thatâs rarely how it happens ime. given how many people complain about their jobs and their wages, but refuse to take the logical next step to complain about the economic system they live under, it makes no sense to me that this guy who benefits from hero society and that kind of societal order would want to expand his concept of âfreedomâ to include Shigarakiâs view. the change shouldnât be as simple as Shigaraki showing off his quirk, i want to know: why does Redestro accept this as his new vision of freedom? where does he feel like the MLAâs own ideology fits in? if he discards the MLAâs ideology entirely, why does he think Shigarakiâs is better? where does he see himself fitting into Shigarakiâs final goal? thereâs just so much that goes into the formation and adoption of an ideology that this abrupt about-face, without so much as touching upon those questions, makes it feel unrealistic, because itâs never just as easy as debunking one idea. itâs an entire system of beliefs, and if Shigaraki managed to change enough of it for Redestro to willingly and happily follow him, I need to know what changed, and why, and how it leads to this conclusion.
anyways i really do want dabi and rei to meet face to face and her start crying and him tenderly lifting her chin before putting on some big sloppy grin and telling her how miserable of a creature she is and then proceed to set her ablaze. King. bonus if itâs in front of the rest of the family.