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"Come watch." "I won't forget." "I better see you!"

Lisa as Mook in The White Lotus Season 3

I think one of the main gripes when it comes to Midoriya fan’s, who specifically speaking suffered bullying and/or abusive friendships (I do consider their relationship an abusive friendship due to being childhood friends and Midoriya considering Bakugo as a friend) and actively dislike BKDK, is the lack of portrayal of his feelings particularly negative ones not the positive ones which are emphasized in the manga (To the point where some people think Horikoshi is using Midoriya as a mouthpiece to elevate Bakugo which it doesn’t sit right with a lot of fans especially with the kind of history the two of them have). It doesn’t help the fact that Horikoshi technically has the right ingredients to start addressing this type of bullying/abuse such as having actual friends that look out for him which can give him another reference point and the narrative opportunity (actually, I think it should be extremely esencial for his character because you can’t portray a decade of bullying/abuse, especially physical and verbal, without at least showing consequences and showing him heal from those experiences) to actually question which can help address one of Midoriya’s flaws, specifically hero worship and low self worth. It doesn’t help that his admiration of Bakugo is not contextualized as a coping mechanism (and show the actual consequences such as emotional repression) and it isn’t challenged unlike his admiration for All Might where at least it was partially addressed. Actually, I’d argue that Bakugo’s redemption arc is incomplete because of the lack of elements mentioned earlier which is why you have so many fans thinking that Bakugo’s apology is more closer to gaslighting rather than genuine apology because he never directly addresses the specifics and is far more vague (Most of his peers don’t even know or understand why he’s apologising in the first place which is a missed opportunity when it comes to the rest of the class especially considering that there’s characters with anti bullying stance such as Ashido Mina).

This is a general problem with Horikoshi's writing. He's using RL issues like bullying / domestic abuse / institutional indoctrination / racist discrimination / neurodivergence as "spicy setting" that he manipulates as he pleases but never really takes a moral stance on it.

I feel like he "copied" much of his "themes" from existing comic books, but without fully understanding how those comic books used the superhero setting to make social commentary. That's why he doesn't really land well any of the issues he's raising, because it's just a patchwork of stolen settings without a moral guideline.

Deku's writing is especially problematic, because on top of the above, Horikoshi is so afraid to make Deku unlikeable that he never lets him feel negative emotions or fail at anything really. The saintly portrayal became the biggest flaw that dragged Deku down as a character.

ok so

beyond being gross and weird I think there’s something to be said about the lack of literary analysis in proshipping (this post is about mp100 in particular but this can apply elsewhere)

there’s two points I’m getting at here: lack of understanding of the characters being interpreted, and intent of author

first of all, the common rebuttal to “he would not fucking say that” is “it’s just fiction and for fun” (which is just a really common rebuttal for everything but that’s beside my point). But that point lacks acknowledgement that their interpretation isn’t based on the source material. For example: Reigen, the guy who notoriously stood up against a terrorist organization to keep kids from being in danger, being interpreted as a pedophile (there’s no soft way to put it). It’s going directly against what is set up in a (in my opinion) disrespectful way. Also there’s a point to be made about trampling over platonic relationships for the sake of shipping and how that applies to proship but i digress!

There are methods to have characters act in ways they would not normally. In fact, most of my favorite fics across all of my fandoms do this!! What they all have in common is an understanding of that character that explains what pushed them to the point of deconstructing their own morals and values. “Wouldn’t it be fucked up if this happened?” works so much better when you can see how it led to that point. And even then I’d venture to say there are some lines that shouldn’t be crossed, knowing these characters do in fact belong to the author, but me drawing lines in the sand isn’t going to be accurate to everyone’s view. It’s always going to be a nuanced topic!

Second of all is the importance of authors intent when reading. Rather than applying this to the base media, however, I’m pivoting focus onto those creating proship content. What is their intent while writing? Through unfortunate exposure in Multiple fandoms I see these common reasons: fluffy content with or without acknowledging the ship being (for lack of a better word. i wish i knew a better one) problematic, dark content such as gore or rape, or (there’s no way to put this lightly) jackoff material. Keep in mind these are generalizations, but im also not giving some of these people the time of day to add defenses.

The “fluffy” content I can sometimes see as the author of the content not understanding the consequence of the ship itself (incest and pedophilia bad) due to a multitude of factors, and I genuinely do think there are learning experiences for them in non negative or aggressive ways. Dark content I can make a case that this is a form of self harm whether intentional or unintentional, however for some this gets looped into the last category. Finally, it’s pretty obvious some people just yank their shit to incest and pedophilia and I REALLY don’t think I need to explain why that’s bad. Point is, it’s important to consider proshippers intent, and how it’s more complex than just gross people who are intentionally malicious. I think there’s learning experiences here for every proshipper, however those who refuse to acknowledge that their actions have consequences (entirely different post to make there about how proshipping can in fact have real life repercussions) I hold a special vendetta against.

To conclude I’ll say I’m not someone who calls myself an “Anti”. Do I hate proshipping? Yes, absolutely I do. But I also enjoy fiction with darker topics that are handled in a critical manner!! Think Oyasumi Punpun. Good manga btw, absolutely horrifying though. I don’t think dark subjects should be kept out of fiction but I do think they should be handled with care.

Aside from Muzan and maybe Obani, this is so out of character for giyuu and especially sanemi.

𝒮cumbag kny men headcannons

Featuring : giyuu, sanemi, muzak, obanai

A/n : first post! (๑°ㅁ°๑)‼

Sanemi Shinazugawa

Sanemi thrives on chaos. He’s the type to start an argument out of nowhere just to see you upset, then walk away mid-conversation like your feelings don’t matter. If you follow him, he’ll hit you with, “Stop being so needy. I can’t deal with you right now.”

He intentionally makes you feel like you’re not enough. Compliments are rare, but criticism? Constant. “You’d look better if you lost a little weight” or “That outfit’s not doing you any favors.” He chips away at your confidence until you’re relying on him for validation.

He’ll flirt with other girls in front of you, not because he’s interested, but because he loves watching you squirm. When you finally call him out, he laughs and says, “Relax, it’s not like I’m cheating. You’re so insecure it’s pathetic.”

His jealousy is suffocating. He checks your phone when you’re not looking, questions every male friend you have, and accuses you of cheating over the smallest things. Yet he sees no issue with his own sketchy behavior.

When he messes up, he never fully apologizes. Instead, he’ll shift the blame onto you: “I wouldn’t have said that if you didn’t push me,” or “Maybe if you weren’t so annoying, I wouldn’t have to act this way.” It’s always your fault in his eyes.

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Giyuu Tomioka

Giyuu is emotionally unavailable to the point where it feels like you’re dating a wall. You’ll pour your heart out, hoping for some kind of response, and all you’ll get is a blank stare or a dismissive “I’ll think about it.”

He keeps you in a constant state of uncertainty. One day, he’s soft and caring, holding your hand like he’s afraid to lose you. The next, he’s cold and distant, treating you like a stranger. You’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Cancelling plans is a habit for him, but what makes it worse is the way he doesn’t even try to make it up to you. “Something came up” is all he’ll say, leaving you alone and wondering if you’re even a priority.

He has a way of making you feel like you’re overreacting. If you try to confront him about his behavior, he’ll sigh and say, “Why do you always make things so complicated?” as if your hurt feelings are an inconvenience to him.

When things get tough, he doesn’t fight for the relationship. Instead, he’ll pull away, making you feel like it’s your job to fix everything. And if you can’t? He’ll quietly let the relationship crumble, acting like he was never part of the problem.

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Muzan Kibutsuji

Muzan doesn’t see you as a person; he sees you as property. He controls every aspect of your life—what you wear, who you talk to, even where you go. If you push back, he smirks and says, “I’m just looking out for you. You’d be lost without me.”

He manipulates you into thinking you’re the problem. If you catch him in a lie, he won’t deny it outright. Instead, he’ll twist the situation to make you feel guilty for even questioning him. “I only lied because I knew you’d overreact.”

He disappears for days without a word, leaving you anxious and overthinking. When he finally shows up, he acts like nothing happened, dismissing your concerns with a cold, “I don’t owe you an explanation.”

His flirtations with other people are deliberate. He enjoys making you jealous, loves seeing the insecurity in your eyes. If you confront him, he’ll scoff and say, “They mean nothing to me. You’re the one making it a big deal.”

When he knows he’s pushed you too far, he’ll reel you back in with over-the-top gestures: expensive gifts, romantic dinners, whispered promises of change. But it’s all a facade to keep you trapped in his cycle of manipulation.

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Obanai Iguro

Obanai is sneaky to the core. He hides things from you, deletes messages, and keeps his phone locked at all times. If you ask why, he’ll act offended, snapping, “Why don’t you trust me? You’re always looking for something to be mad about.”

He tears down your self-esteem with backhanded compliments. “You’re pretty, but you’d be stunning if you fixed your hair” or “I love you, even if you’re not perfect.” His words stay with you, eating away at your confidence.

He’s incredibly possessive. He doesn’t just dislike you hanging out with other people—he actively sabotages it. He’ll pick fights before you leave or guilt-trip you into staying home. “I just don’t understand why you’d rather be with them than me.”

When he’s upset, he doesn’t tell you what’s wrong. Instead, he sulks and makes passive-aggressive remarks until you’re begging him to talk. And when he finally does, it’s all about how you made him feel this way.

He uses his insecurities to manipulate you. “I know I’m not good enough for you, but I’m trying my best.” It’s designed to make you feel guilty for even considering leaving, even though he’s the one who’s toxic.

Black ace culture is liking dances that have been made by us but are deemed as sexual (twerking, swiggling, body rolling, whining) but you are really just doing it for fun. ♠️

Exactly! We shouldn't be put off from taking part in our own cultures just because of the stereotypes that get placed on us (obviously if you're not comfortable to do these dances that's fine too). Our bodies will always be ours to do, move, travel and shake as we please 💜

@mikeellee @kite2013

As you both notice, it's kind of funny how the interactions of Dr Garaki with both Nine and Shigaraki are such different in the way the scientist treats them (despite both are just lab rats in the end).

Because see how Garaki openly insults, disrespects and laughs of Shigaraki ideas in front of his supposed friends.

Garaki probably felt almost insulted for having to keep the game going just because AFO wants Shigaraki to have this illusion of free choice, when in reality he's just a kid which they still have in the palm of their hand.

Even after MVA when Garaki shows a bit more of tolerancy to Shigaraki for mantain the illusion, in the inside he still makes fun of him because obviously he's the only person to really know Shigaraki is just a vessel playing to be the super villain.

But then we have his interview with Nine...

Notice how the aptitude and demeanor of the doctor is completely the opposite of what we saw with Shigaraki.

Despite obviously he's offering Nine be part of a shady experiment, he acts strangely polite and even shows a bit of curiosity when Nine expose his motives to be part in the experiment.

But also, Garaki thinks Nine is a dangerous individual despite in theory he should be the one in control of the situation and unlike in Shigaraki's case, Nine is alone in front of the doctor.

The biggest difference on how Garaki view Nine and Shigaraki, is that in the first case he sees a real man with strong convictions and an indomitable will who could actually change the curse of the world if he's given the chance.

This is my headcanon, but I think Garaki saw in Nine's eyes the closet to AFO in spirit and convictions (and it's interesting how both of them have the same white/silver eyes, coincidende?).

But for Shigaraki?

He only sees a dumb kid who doesn't even understand the situation he's in. A more obvious puppet who can be used the way he likes.

Shigaraki never had any chance with Garaki.

Oh I forgot to mention, but it's also funny as hell how the doctor shows more respect to Dabi in their private conversations than he does with Shigaraki in the same situation.

This happens because just like Nine, Dabi was a dangerous person who can't be controled so easily by him. So at least it gives him a bit more of respect by the crazy doctor.

A Night Out (going to very different events)

WIP Wednesday feels like the only thing I can participate in anymore 🥹 but here you go!

How appropriate.

my thoughts on canon Muzan

For being the main antagonist of this series, there is a reason why people naturally gravitate more towards his Upper Moons, and that is the execution of his characterization. I’m sure many of you have come across posts explaining the references to natural disasters and his philosophy and also his constant claims to godhood, which are aspects that I do think Gotouge intended to share, but it’s not particularly delved into.

I have had complaints before that it was really difficult to relate to Muzan’s character in any way. Now, I realize that was the point Gotouge was intending to make, however this realization didn’t quite satisfy me like it should have. He’s arrogant, stubborn, and sometimes flat out childish, but at no point do we see any strengths. It’s not clear if he has a genuine passion for science. Or for learning in general. He doesn’t have a single likeable trait to contrast his faults, other than he’s charismatic, but we do not see that part of him nearly as much as we should.

His motivations for becoming the perfect Demon don’t have any plans afterwards, either. Like, what was he going to do after he accomplished his goal? We don’t know. And the fact that we really don’t know, when it should have been stated at some point, is not great, since again, this is our main antagonist. In a shounen.

I don’t know, I don’t doubt Gotouge had big ideas for Muzan, but it feels like they really bit off more than they could chew, and the genre that Muzan is placed in being action-focused didn’t do him any favors. I am a firm believer of the idea that he would have fared much better in some Edwardian era science horror where his philosophy and unique outlook on life would have been expected to be properly explored. But, yeah…

The Reigen Arataka Deranged NormalMan Review

Do you ever think about how Reigen has like. A really strange belief in The System and How Things Should Be. Like REALLY strange. Whatever he's got going on is so much weirder than "scammer with a heart of gold".

I think it all comes together if you read the 10th Season 3 omake like, seriously interrogate this:

This is normal, if comedically thoughtful and realistic for a shounen character. This guy talks like a mandatory reporter. What's strange is what immediately follows:

"AS A SPIRITUAL SPECIALIST" DOING A LOT OF HEAVY LIFTING HERE REIGEN

Not only did he hunt down the families of the children bullying his client (insane. where did he get that info), he also contacted the school as if he were representing his own son in order to get justice, and then hunted down a source of complaints when the school fell through.

This is like a genuinely bizarre level of commitment to the bit, and the bit is "the system works, and if it doesn't work, we will find a system that does work, and if we cannot, hell or high water it is my PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY to make the system stop slouching so it works again".

Long thread on the manga with this reading⬇️

Before I start. Reigen adopting Teru is more IC than you think but I don't think it is IC in the way people think it is. I think about this a lot and I think people who do it because they like Reigen aren't understanding how into his bit he is. Guy who talks to social services

So remember the arc that won people over to Reigen despite the fact he's an asshole who takes advantage of Mob and derides him constantly in order to keep him complacent?

He has Mob's phone on his GPS. This makes sense; he's been taking him out and about since he was 11. Very responsible!

Reigen dismisses the "Boss" mistake thinking well, it's a misunderstanding, but it got me in. Yet as soon as he heard they're committing crimes, he VISIBLY puts on his Boss Pants to chastise them. Again, normal so far. I think any scammer with a heart of gold would do this. (And foreshadowing for why he retried reprimanding the Claw Cadres a second time after getting power.)

Again. He's a scumbag. So he leaves Mob to beat their asses using his previous rhetoric. But then!

Reigen's shady morality is more like "people who can take care of things should take care of things". To him, Mob is the Authority on Espers, and can handle conflict like this. Immediately upon becoming aware he can't, Reigen thinks "oh, okay, so the only person who can take care of things is someone who can deescalate". (Pictured: Deescalation)

Okay. Besides the fact this is insufferable as a general concept - YOU just told him to handle it YOU are the source of his stress - his first step in deescalation is to force Mob to back down. Rather than asking him not to fight, he reestablishes "rules" in order to convince Mob he must back down - the same way he tried using what he said to worm his way out of dealing with this shit - and then sets himself up as the authority figure to which the others must obviously defer in matters of His Boy, like a parent accepting criticism at a PTA meeting. This isn't Reigen claiming Mob so much as "in order for them to not attack Mob, they must view me as a representative for Mob".

And like a good authority figure:

Continuing with his phrasing:

If you think about it, this is like...an objectively very strange and incredibly bold approach to this situation. They're homicidal. Reigen is a DERANGED level of Normal Man. He has this image in his head of normalcy, of the world at standard operating procedures, and reinforces it right through an entire conflict. Carceral beliefs don't even factor into this, simply expressing his principles and expecting them to fold.

And they do lol. I keep wondering how Shou must have felt listening to him talk like that

We see a little more of his good side in work; when he was getting so little work it was affecting his grocery bills, this moneygrubbing scammer still asked for like $200 to clear an entire city of hauntings. (His regular exorcisms are around $30). Fair prices are part of his principles of how the business should be. He operates basically at-cost. He mentions he wanted to come out here because he's bored. He's killing time as a career.

Aside:

Just realized he called Mob in last minute so Mob didn't know he accepted crops instead of money. Shigeo didn't like that

So consider that he never got caught here and there was a call on the news to hunt him down at the end of this bit: for the average viewer of the anime, it's just funny, but this is part of the Mogami pre-arc so we've gotten a hold of him by now; he probably holds an inherent belief that the police will intercept him and not Mob. Why wouldn't they? Why would an adult man want to dress up in a highschool girl's uniform? The System will understand.

Not relevant to my point but I like how he realizes what's wrong with Mob way before the final arc, just not why it's happening. Also he doesn't say anything.

With the way his principles are, you really get the feeling that Reigen does his best to avoid culpability specifically because if something happened that was his fault, he'd have to step up to the plate to compensate for that, which is troublesome to him who is a career time-killer. It does not occur to him that an actual bad person and scammer would not step up to the plate as a matter of course. This is his way

What I find really interesting is that this Militant Insane NormalMan does have a sense of wanting something "special", but rather than whip Mob up the way Dimple did Ritsu, he ended up projecting his own values onto Mob, as if he could recreate a special "self" within him. He's always deriding him and baiting him and lying to him in hopes of creating a superb person that a special individual like Mob finds admirable, as if Mob is the authority on his quality of character. Sad! lol

Anyway, it adds a lot more kick to this famous line. Reigen genuinely believes in Authority

Authority works!

And if Mob (the authority on espers) doesn't work, who's the person who MUST step up to the plate [common sense]? You guessed it.

There are other aspects of Reigen's character that everyone and their dog has already picked up on (his self-loathing is the entire reason the way he talked to Mob in Confession arc hit so hard), but this one's my favourite. He's insane