#brainrot is strong tonight

[myed89]

Emetwol sketches!

[dekusleftsock]

I think that there’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what exactly is…happening with Izuku’s character. Specifically in regards to chapter 425.

I’m glad that a lot more people generally recognize that Izuku is not a character that can be read at a surface level, given that he’s both a repressed person with built up emotion of basically everything and also a very glaringly HUGELY unreliable narrator, but that doesn’t necessarily mean I agree with the ways I’ve seen this most recent chapter spoken about.

I see posts, comments, etc with ideas like “Izuku don’t suppress your emotions! Open up with people! It’ll be okay I promise!” When that’s fundamentally not what is happening here.

There’s always always ALWAYS been a distinct difference in character throughout horikoshi’s writing when he is showing that a character is:

A—Avoiding emotions, thoughts, ideas less than ideal for them. Not opening up when they probably should about their problems given that they’ve been handed the space to do so. Just genuinely not acknowledging, feeling, or expressing emotions that they don’t want.

B—Reflecting on the ways they feel about the world, themselves, or other people given their new perspective on a situation. Not outright reaching out to others to talk about these problems/feelings, but instead waiting until the moment they feel they have the most confidence to do so with their new outlook on their own life.

And genuinely, guys, to grab your BkDk attention rn, this is the exact reason why Ochako’s reflection on her feelings for Izuku and thereafter decision to pull away from them WAS NEVER GOING TO END IN OCHAKO EXPLODING WITH HER LOVE FOR HIM.

This was another common interpretation I saw of Ochako and Izuocha for a long time. That because she pushed these feelings away, they were somehow going to explode in this unbelievable way and she would “get the boy” because of it. That her arc would surround accepting her romantic feelings and that she can’t just push away how she feels for a career.

But yk. That didn’t happen. At all. Nowhere close even.

The same kind of goes for Katsuki, allmight, etc. They all had moments in their arc where it was spent genuinely reflecting, and the only reason we as the audience never connected it in the same ways we do ochako or Izuku was ALWAYS BECAUSE the narrative showed their inner thoughts while doing so (mostly because Allmight’s arc after losing OFA and Katsuki’s arc on what it means to be a hero were so intrinsically tied, both starting at the same time and ending at the same time during the final war. And because they were so tied this caused their own reflections, development, and thought process to be broadcasted to us frequently throughout their arcs… to each other. They also somewhat shared aspects with Izuku, but these were cherry picked more often than not, like dvk2 for example).

To us Katsuki never seemed to be.. idk, suppressing his anger in any way because we were always told what he was doing and why (side note: this is why I’ve always thought arguments against Katsuki were so weird, bc unlike characters like endeavor or Ochako he wasn’t like… hiding who he was and how he was changing. Ever. Like the audience knows at all times past basically season 3 what Katsuki is thinking and doing. Like how do you watch this happen, stare me dead in the eye, and tell me how much of a terrible and awful teenage boy he is. Like damn I didn’t think we were this dumb. This is also my theory as to why he’s most popular, his arc is very… in your face if that makes sense). Katsuki’s entire mini arc on reflecting his mistakes and his childhood and his future is spent TELLING YOU that it’s what he’s doing. (I’m referring mostly to the endeavor internship arc, the provisional license exam makeup, and basically everything in the war arc related to him leading up to bakugou Katsuki rising here)

And see, Horikoshi will stare you dead in the eye, tell you “this girl has taken into consideration that she doesn’t want to waste her time training her career focusing on a boy because he kinda caught her fancy”, and y’all will still say that this will explode in her face.

Y’all this is a series about learning how to manage emotions, maturity in relationship to one’s emotions, how to feel an emotion, but in a way that is helpful. Horikoshi isn’t telling you “go buck wild, feel everything all the time and always express it”, in fact he explores why you DONT do that! Through Toga or Shigaraki, they show how grief and anger can genuinely consume you. But he also shows why you shouldn’t just put everything in a box to never look at or acknowledge, or why you shouldn’t just let your grief destroy the world around you, or pretending that some emotions simply don’t exist.

I can’t say this enough, so let me say it now, mha is about the extremes of your psyche. That you should control something, but not too much. Everything can be harmful. Everything can be good.

Izuku is not controlling too much, he’s expressing just enough.

I LOVE shaming this dickhead at all times in all my posts. I love saying he’s an ignorant dipshit with a weird amount of distaste for a girl who just confessed to him. I’ve joked that chapter 348 is basically an entire chapter spent on Izuku calling Himiko a mean dyke. And yet I also believe he’s doing nothing WRONG here.

In fact, I’ll even say that this moment right here?

ISNT EVEN IZUKU DOING THE SOCIALLY APPROPRIATE THING ABOUT IT! But he’s still TRYING to reach out to someone he thinks MIGHT be able to understand. (And frankly, this moment is far deeper than what it’s being made out to be, to me it reads more like an unrequited friendship that Izuku both desires and has thought of them to have, while simultaneously showing the distance Ochako has successfully wedged between them for her own sake. Maybe it was always there though, maybe in weird, miscommunicated Horikoshi fashion, this is a representation of how Ochako always read all those “fun friend hangouts” as a little more than that, and without those feelings the friendship never really held any substance to her in the first place. Where Izuku saw his first real friend at UA, she saw little more than acquaintance)

Simultaneously, Izuku is genuinely reflecting on what it means for the world to change, to be a hero, to live after loss—and trying and failing to gain the connection he desires from individuals who can not and will not afford him that.

Izuku is ready for the world to change, a few select characters are also ready for the world to change (mirio, for example), but not nearly enough are. So maybe I’ll have to take this back if I’m proven wrong and I accidentally looked into this far past what everyone else did for no reason, but I genuinely believe with moments like this

And this

Aand this

That Izuku has come forward with that aspect of his character development. He’s reflecting on his new beliefs, not repressing his emotions for them.

[newyearz]

just thinking... bachisagi band au... bachisagi in a band... the 1975 robbers "you look sooooo coooooollllll" when they're gayly playing guitar... the stolen glances... the "bachira and isagi being gay for 10 minutes and 32 seconds" compilations on youtube... the PR nightmares...

[huellitaa]

tinnitus play and suddenly im climbing up the walls scratching the ceiling rolling up the floor juggling my nuts shaking my ass

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

Me already in the middle of 3 different rewatches: what if I rewatch unicorn academy

[eevanta]

with how much team bolas expressed they wanted to stay together and rp their way through purgatory, i do think that at MOST they’ll add one or two people who are skilled/competent in pvp/survival but are also willing to join the rp. all of the team started throwing in ideas and saying that they wanted to stay together, and i really think they’ll advocate for it with the admins.

that being said i cant wait to see how this plays out. im a philza main so seeing him genuinely interested in lore? and he’s excited about it? oh boy!!! its like christmas! and with charlie, cellbit, baghera, foolish, and jaiden? its like my dream dnd table

[gunpowder-gemini]

The rest of my OCs I uploaded for art fight this year! One of these is not like the others lmao. In order I have my fankids of Urbosa and Daruk, Jureena and Bezak. Then my pre-calamity Snowfield stable owners Gessa and Ren. Lastly Will, a NatM OC.

Art fight character page links under the cut, come fight me!!

Jureena

Bezak

Gessa

Ren

Will

[causetheturtle]

I think Barriss and Ahsoka should get to beat the shit out of each other again as a little treat

[scintillatingshortgirl19]

no your honor listen. just look at him. he is so little. he is. teeeeny tiny. he has never done anything wrong in his life

[another-clive-blog]

Oh well I'm using this occasion of being very personal today to announce that I will take a break during the holidays ! It will probably be like, 22nd of December to 3rd of January ?

I will probably keep the queue up and post a few drawings I've already scheduled, but I don't think I'll actually be there. Also I'll try to empty the inbox before that !

[adorkablenerd]

POKEMON ASK GAME!!

Send me a character and I'll tell you 3 pokemon I think they would have!

[rennarita]

"I hate you so much."

"come on, big boy"

[vounnasi]

thinking of the camerata...

the song is a conclusion, "not in a shy way." i don't think there was much regret about what transpired, only how it ended.

we only really get to hear from asher and royce, grant dies without a word and sybil's processed, but it's asher that explains that they only wanted to help people. "give the people what they didn't know they wanted." the four wanted to see the city change for the better.

and had red's "assassination" not gone wrong (i think it would've gone wrong no matter what. the fact it was based on a lie is shaky enough ground), i think they would've continued. it fits the tone the song has - at least, the later swell of triumph.

so you could say they pushed for change in their way.

[babacontainsmultitudes]

hrrnnnggg... lovesong...

[normiematsu]

entire dashboard is choro rn. smile ^_^

[newdleboy]

also what if i just went full feral and went through the mlb eps and worked out what mk was vaguely doing in all of the like -- big episodes JKSLDFJSKLD