#set up and pay off

[the-owl-tree]

what is with the mental gymnastics people do to justify how crowfeather treats his son. it's not even a case of messy writing, po3 is hammering the reader over the head that breezepelt is being abused and it is important set up for how he gets indoctrinated into the dark forest. that's author intention baby.

[epiphainie]

it's absolutely bonkers to me how easily so many of tommy's scenes in the begins episodes can be read as him being gay and closeted. like we all know they weren't intentionally building that subtext but jesus christ, it works so fucking well. like the team jacob moment was obviously there for hen to witness indirect homophobia at the 118 for the first time but it could be any other way with any other character but no it's tommy and he looks like he's just been caught in the headlights. when will your girlfriend come cook for us comment was just gerrard being a sexist pig but tommy's answer is so awkward, almost nervous, and with the hindsight of season seven it's impossible to not read more into the implications of that reaction. the chicks hate it when you get scars thing is just them shooting shit together after work but coupled with him saying he prefers being single, it almost comes across as him overcompensating for why he is single. even love actually being his favorite movie is like, the show going "hey look, there's more to this guy than just being a masc macho blue collar dudebro" because they want to show chim's influence on him but with the broader context, it again becomes a character moment you read into more, as stereotypical as it sounds

[lesbian-navia]

sumeru text posts part infinity

[lloydfrontera]

what would alicia do if javier turned up at the tournament in a dress and a wig actually?

like. she would recognize him for sure so. does she confront him?? does she out him in front of everyone??? does she take him aside to ask him what the fuck he's doing?? i mean the answer is pretty clear, she made the rules herself, lloyd's the prize and if javier is there to participate he's also there to win but like. what the fuck nonetheless.

or does she just. let him in. does she even try at that point. because if javier's participating it's no longer a matter of whether he's gonna win, its about how badly she's gonna lose.

what do you even do if you organize a competition you're sure to win to marry a guy and then at the last moment his best friend, the only person in the world who can defeat you, turns up and signs in to participate. what's the royal protocol there.

[doodlewizardry]

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[blueskittlesart]

they collect interest on your student loans?????? asking as a horrified non american

not only do they collect interest on your student loans, depending on the type of loan you get some of them start accruing interest the second they're dispersed, meaning that if you don't start paying them off WHILE YOU ARE STILL IN SCHOOL they increase exponentially on you every month!

[eggbem]

I find it very cool that the same move Leo pulls that dooms the planet is the same one that saves it.

"You've been portal chopped!"

Now that's some good Chekhov's Gun

[cloudabserk]

i hate my boss i hate my boss i hate my boss

[dasketcherz]

when the vat7k concept arts/the creators said Hugo and Varian are equals—@dreadpirateurania13's And They Were Roommates fic understood the assignment and what that really meant and executed it so perfectly and masterfully that I have to stand up and give em a thousand applause cuz holy shit the True Hearts Day arc (part 3 specifically) just made history and changed lives (mine)

[zylphiacrowley]

Through the Gates of Gold

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[byjovewhataspend]

the whole 'what is canon and should be examined' vs 'what was a gag and should be ignored' in hero academia is always so weird

Bakugou being put in a dog muzzle and restraints at the Sports Festival is just a gag and not to be seen as a real thing that happened---- up until the LoV sees it and thinks hes being abused and that it would make him hate heroes, so they explicitly kidnap him to show that they are on his side (and also remove his restraints despite him attacking them, to show they are different from the heroes). so not a gag, actually important

Hagakure is naked, its just a gag---- up until we find out Mirios suit was made from his own hair so that it reacts the same as his quirk and hagakure doesnt need to be naked so why the hell is she? Its a gag but apparently its actualyl in-universe sexism (compare her treatment to Bubble Girl, Midnight, Mt Lady, and Uwabami)

'Quirkless people CAN be heroes if they have heroic hearts' seemed like it would be a theme but then after a bit you realized it was just a way to start a character journery and quirk status isnt ACTUALLY importan...... up until izuku loses his quirk and it turns out, yeah, quirkless people CANT be heros, despite being world famous and well trained in fighting and certainly at least as good in a fight as bubble girl (and also despite aizawa havign lost his quirk but not being made to give up his uniform even 8 years later). not a means to an end, actually important

the theme of 'reaching out to take someones hand' didnt actually end up being what it seemed to be, since 2 villains died from it who otherwise wouldnt have. so. we shouldnt have taken that seriously as 'the way to save people thematicallt'. i understand the thought process behind 'killing tomura saved him' but its obviously just not the case for Toga, for her it was clearly a punishment. ((which is bullshit-- the only named character she killed was Curious, and in that scenario she was allowed to do that. i love the MLA but they literally cut off giran's fingers to lead the LoV there to rescue him so they could kill them. all kilsl there were done in self defense. doesnt count!))

also mic and aizawa reaching out to Kurogiri didnt save him in the end. he did 1 single task for them and then died. he died trying to save tomura, even. so reaching out has something like a 10% success rate? i think it only worked to bring Izuku back from being a vigilante... and uhh... maybe it worked on Nagant? a little? (((i dont count la brava and gentle, they showed us from the beginning that gentle was a good guy))). (i guess it worked on Joki Joki but im ignoring that, they arent a real character)

so reaching out a hand ONLY works for good guys. not the desperate and scared and angry. so. again! not a theme, in the end (if so, wayy too messy and specific). kind of a buzzword

anyways this isnt like.. an essay. this is just me going 'whoa. so. this was really hard to anticipate, actually. you really have no idea of what to take seriously or not'

its sort of like those videos that talk abotu 'every time Red shows up there is a ghost, this movie was so meticulously perfectly made' but also there is a plenty of continuity mistakes and things like that in that movie too, and certainly the REST of his movies arent perfectly tight either. if you expect them to be youre going to end up confusing yourself. What is perfect? what is a joke? what is a mistake?

its just interesting. i think thats why mha has such a robust fandom, actually. there is so mUCH that if you focus on any one thing you can change your whole perception of everything and its great for inspiring creativity.

like... its an obvious one, but why did UA even HAVE a child-sized muzzle on hand to put on bakugou at an awards ceremony? and everyone was comfortable doing that publically rather than jsut having him not go up to the podium? that really DOES speak the the society, especially when we find out some peopel at home (the lov) were disturbed by it! people scoff that headcanoning mic and shinsou as havign muzzle trauma is overdramatic but... ua has child sized muzzles on hand and used them in public! Joki Jokis parents sewed his mouth closed and left him to die (and we never hear if they were arrested). thats 2 kids in muzzles at least!! its a lot more kids in muzzles than most fandoms have!

the show (but not the manga) STARTS with Kamui woods calling a purse snatcher 'the lowest of the low, pure evil' before beating him up publically, him and Mt Lady competeing to see who can hurt him in the most excitign and showy way to get fans. thats. Dark. but THAT is just a gag.

on a less dire one, if izuku had been a girl and everything else had been the same, you know 100% that the costume that department gave him wouldve been all exposed skin and skintight lycra. he'd be doign battle in a bikini. his kickboots woudl be heels.

something like 1/3 of hero prospectives seem to just be theater kids that see it as a way to achieve celebrity, and i do think thats interesting for the society and world building

idunno. i just think its interesting. a million little implications that did or didnt mean anything. how often fans go 'stop worldbuilding on that ONE thing, it wasn't serious' whereas they themselved worldbuild on a DIFFERENT thing

thats all. rambling. big fandom. many opinions

[bucksboobs]

Reason number 378 why BuckTommy can’t be over: we haven’t gotten flying lessons yet.

[cericreatively]

When the fic is so good and has been creating new plot threads and mysteries with each update that you're desperately trying to find answers to with hints and clues from both the new chapters and previous chapters that you end up feeling like this:

[agenericplaceholdername]

Resurrected Garmadon is intentionally obscured from the viewers until he fights Lloyd, which is such a cool detail

[takaraphoenix]

Just rewatched 02x08 Raving and it is truly so unhinged of the writers to set up magic!Stiles and not pull through with it.

I mean, they really did set that up, that's not something delusional fans fully made up themselves, they had the damn druid be extra cryptic and make it sound like only Stiles could do this and use such weirdly phrased advise that really makes your alarm bells ring and then they have Stiles run out of mountain ash with a significant way to go and give himself a pep talk about belief and imagination and he confidently strides along while producing mountain ash out of thin air.

He had no mountain ash anymore. It's not even that he still had some left but not enough and he believed that it would last and the container just never ran out - that would somehow still feel different.

No, the writers chose to have him fully run out of mountain ash and magically produce it in his hands, not even in the bag that had carried the original mountain ash. He just magically makes mountain ash appear.

And when he has to break the circle to let Derek in to save Scott it is a near magical gust of wind that breaks the circle, like again Stiles willed it to break.

None of this is random. None of this is just easily explained with something rooted in the plot. The only explanation the writers leave you with is magic.

And then they never bring it up again and never let Stiles perform magic again and how do you do that. How do you introduce something so tantalizing in such an obvious manner and then just forget that you set that up and never pull through with it.

[iamhereinthebg]

As an Akane fan how we feeling??

Annoyed