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hey!!

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ugh I hate calculus… why did I sin up for this

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i know i have a new meta damn near every week after a new ep comes out, but i really wanted to talk about one of my favorite scenes in this whole arc

this scene took me by surprise because it’s not in the manga. reigen never receives a second email from his mom. this is all bones, shedding a little more light on reigen’s upbringing and his relationship with his parents, and i can’t get over how needed this was for reigen’s character.

from what we know of reigen’s mom, she seems kind of overbearing and her concerns center mainly around reigen’s career choices and his future. that’s not to say she’s uncaring about reigen’s emotions or his wellbeing, but from the 2 times we’ve heard from her, she comes off a bit…cold. the overly-polite way she phrases things is very detached, as if she’s talking to an acquaintance, a coworker, a client. not her own son.

and from that one little glimmer of insight she gave us about reigen’s father, it can be assumed that he was never very open with reigen. cared about him, of course, but wasn’t one to outwardly express it. 

overall, my theory is that reigen’s family was the type to never say “i love you” out loud, never allow themselves to show genuine emotions, never cry in front of others. i firmly believe this is why reigen himself bottles up his emotions, why putting on a facade comes so naturally to him. sure, working at a call center certainly helped shape his public persona into the loud, eccentric caricature it is, but i think his home life was the main contributor.

his reaction to this formal, criticizing email from his mother is one of resignation. this behavior from his parents is nothing new. always criticizing, always so concerned. they want him to settle down. they want him to get a reputable job, a “real” job. they want to hold a family meeting, something reigen has probably been through many times before. he’s not doing anything right. he’s disappointing his parents, as usual. 

and when he was following his parents’ will? when he was a young salaryman doing everything he was supposed to? he was miserable. he was depressed. he had a meltdown in the form of abruptly quitting his stable job and renting out an office without even having a plan.

it’s all of this context that makes this scene all the more powerful:

look at his fucking face. how long has he been waiting to hear this? not from a client, not from his bar “friends”, not from somebody insincere, someone trying to get something out of him. but from someone who genuinely cares about him, someone he admires and looks up to? this arc isn’t just about how reigen became lonely, depressed, and borderline self-loathing since mob ditched him, it’s something he’s been feeling for long, long time. 

mob is, and always has been, the splash of color in reigen’s otherwise monochromatic world. and it’s not until this kid, who’s working hard every single day to better himself–to control his dangerous powers, get more physically fit, stand up for himself, make friends and socialize—this kid who’s grown up so much since the first time he stumbled into reigen’s office, says that reigen is a good person, that he finally allows himself to tear up and start believing it for himself. 

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Me: *hiding under the bed*

Murderer:

Me:

Murderer:

Me:

Murderer: country roads take me home to the place I belong

Me: WEST VIRGIoh no

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hound wrangler 

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It’s a bit redundant, but I wanted to write it down because I appreciate it. 

Reigen could say anything at this moment. Dozens of cameras are pointed his way. Thousands of people watching him. 59k tweets, right? Everyone’s talking about him. He has an audience. His business is on the precipice of collapsing. Everyone knows. Or at least they think they know. Reigen needs to say something to keep his business afloat.

He’s losing the audience. Or he already lost them before he started the press conference. We know Reigen, we expect–want–him to use his 100 speech level wily ways to slither out of his miserable situation. Hell, even Ritsu and Teru were like, “Oooh, what does he have planned??? This mastermind??? This genius??”

And he’s got nothing. His mind is totally blank, he can’t think, and at this point, he’s just fed up. So instead of dedicating his press conference to his business, to his reputation, he dedicates it to the only person he cares about hurting in this scenario.

To Mob. Because he messed up. And this might be the last time he gets the chance to say something to him. Because maybe Mob knows. And once Mob knows, he’ll never talk to Reigen again. They haven’t spoken. Maybe Mob hates him. Maybe Mob is really angry at him. But after this? After all of his lies? Once Mob realizes how much Reigen used him, it’s over. There is no possibility for their relationship to ever be repaired.

So he tries, one last time, to convey to Mob that he gets it. Maybe he doesn’t get Mob anymore–he’s an esper, has struggles outside Reigen’s range; remember the end of the manga?–but he gets it. “You’ve grown so much” is such a weighted statement. It has more than one meaning. It means that Mob has matured. And because Mob has grown up, Reigen has no right to tell him what friends he should have. He has no right to keep Mob in a box. Mob knows how to deal with people more. He’s more head-strong, more experienced than he once was 3 years ago. Maybe Reigen kept viewing Mob as this 10 year old kid, the same kid who relied on him so desperately 3 years ago. And maybe this is Reigen finally understanding that he’s no longer the skittish little esper child, and instead realizes that he’s the boy who clawed his way out of Mogami’s clutches and had the strength to learn from it rather than buckle.

It’s an apology where he doesn’t say sorry. And it’s the most important line in the entire episode.

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— boku no hero academia

izuku midoriya 「 緑みどり谷や出いず久 」

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Math proves that capitalism sucks and that capitalists are greedy.

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I wonder if Thor’s Allspeak extends to animals

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Imagine This

Imagine that your partner has been hitting you. Yelling at you. You’ve been married for a few years, you’re both in your 30s, you have a little daughter, and everything you do seems to be wrong. You’ve been made fun of, mocked and belittled by your partner. 

But you need them, because you can’t take another failed relationship. You can’t be alone again, and they’ve got you convinced that all the beatings and scratches and scrapes are your fault.

You tell your friends and they laugh. No matter how many bruises or cuts you show them, it’s still your fault, so you hide them. You feel trapped, but you don’t feel like you can escape. You’re convinced that you’re just locking yourself in.

And you see online one day an article. Someone else went through what you have. They got the cuts, the bruises, the scratches. You see that here is hope and freedom from these beatings. The physical and emotional pain can go away, there is someone there to help!

So you write down a list of 10 abuse victim hotlines, for people being abused. And you call them one by one.

If you were a man:

6 of those hotlines would refuse to help because of your gender.

3 of those hotlines would refer you to or give you a number to a hotline dealing with people that abuse and are looking to stop.

1 of those hotlines would help.

Out of those 10, 2 of those would also laugh at you or say you deserved it.

If you were a woman:

10 of those hotlines would help.

Abuse is very scary, but what seems scarier to you; being abused, reaching out and getting the help you need, or being abused, reaching out and getting laughed and turned away over 60% of the time because of who you are?

Only 8% of men who call abuse hotlines find them ‘very helpful’ and get the assistance they need.

Women can abuse. Men can be abused. Men need equality and help too.

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Noragami + Yato ㅤPhone Wallpapers (640 x 1136)

夜ト — Yatō  ( Yaboku ) ㅤㅤ⇉ requested by anon.

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This is all of jojo's bizzare adventure

how yall draw 14 year olds:

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For @invaderhogtwopointohno for the @kacchakosecretsanta

This actually inspired me to write a whole famfic based on this concept so thank you for the idea!

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ashido Mina/Asui Tsuyu, Todoroki Fuyumi & Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko Characters: Ashido Mina, Uraraka Ochako, Asui Tsuyu, Todoroki Fuyumi, Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko Additional Tags: Femslash, All The Ships, Domestic Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Male Slash, requests welcome, BNHA Secret Santa, BNHA Slash Summary:

Want some fluffy BNHA Slash? Feel free to dive in! (Requests welcome)

My gift for @yousei-miryoku for the @bnhafemslashss . I hope you enjoy it! 

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Chapters: 2/? Fandom: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ashido Mina/Asui Tsuyu, Todoroki Fuyumi & Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko Characters: Ashido Mina, Uraraka Ochako, Asui Tsuyu, Todoroki Fuyumi, Usagiyama Rumi | Miruko Additional Tags: Femslash, All The Ships, Domestic Fluff, Romantic Fluff, Male Slash, requests welcome, BNHA Secret Santa, BNHA Slash Summary:

Want some fluffy BNHA Slash? Feel free to dive in! (Requests welcome)

This is my gift for @salty-th0t for the BNHA Slash Secret Santa. I hope you enjoy it! @bnhafemslashss