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"I don't care about bkdk" ??? Then why are you watching the bkdk show???

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as much as i adore the shie hassaikai arc and think it was executed fairly well, one thing that will always stick with me is that they introduced a villain, overhaul—potentially with strong opinions about quirk discrimination and specifically in regards to how the quirkless are treated—and then had midoriya fight him and it never comes up.

i'm not saying that overhaul should have been a sympathetic bad guy or redeemed at the end of the arc (though i do think that's something that could have been pulled off, if horikoshi wanted to explore that route with him), but, that i think the shie hassaikai arc should have been a chance for midoriya to revisit his past—bullied for being quirkless—and then reaffirm something about his current beliefs.

here is a ragtag group of villains who pulled the short stick with their quirks. here is a villain boss who would prefer a world where everyone is quirkless. what would midoriya izuku—the formerly quirkless, quirk enthusiast nerd—say to these people?

overhaul had potential to be a villain who could challenge midoriya's thinking and force him to reflect on his childhood. but most of the arc focused on lemillion and eri, and only briefly touched on overhaul and some of the eight bullets' feelings in regards to their quirks, and how society orbits around quirks.

it could have been really interesting if, for all that overhaul is the absolute worst guy ever, he (against all odds) is the one person who feels strongly about quirkless people. and midoriya wants to say no, you're wrong and you're a villain, but he can't fully invalidate everything overhaul says because he experienced being quirkless firsthand.

and so midoriya must reflect and go: yes, you might be right about how quirks (something people are born with or without) unfairly dictate how people are seen and valued in our society. but that doesn't mean quirks are inherently wrong, and that certainly doesn't justify any of what you've done or what you plan to do.

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❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Is this anything

Never forget what they took from you (wingman athena)

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Penelope: Yeah, this shroud is taking me 20 years.

Suitors:

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Ok but wouldnt it be really funny

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POV your five foot tall scrawny student can lift you off your feet (you are eight feet tall)

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i bet positive thinking goes so hard when youre a normal person

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Started crying over that poor woman that was run over by that racist while protesting

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the weirdly vengeful and petty tones aborted babies take in pro-life propaganda images are so funny like this passive aggressive "was it worth it mommy?" and "it's a shame you can't join me in heaven mommy 😔" like do you ever wonder if you were aborted for a reason you little bitch ass baby

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could we have athena watching tiny telemachus play or run around or smth? :)

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Sure hope a god doesn’t come around and punish him for his hubris

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I see the word "inaccurate" used a lot when comparing Epic to the Odyssey, and I don't think that's the word we should be using.

"Inaccurate" implies that Epic was aiming to copy the Odyssey exactly and missed the mark, or made mistakes, or misunderstood the source material, but what actually happened is that deliberate changes were made. Changes that were made for this version, because it made sense for this version, because there was potential for a great story with alternate themes, motives, etc.

That's just...what adaptations do. They change things to better tell their version of the story, and they should just be referred to as changes. Neutral. Especially if they're being adapted into a different medium, like from an epic poem into a modern musical.

And honestly I wholeheartedly blame Disney for confusing what adaptations are supposed to be and supposed to be doing but anyway

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These being Bakugo's dying words and dying thoughts? Yeah you can try and rip bakudeku from my cold, dead hands. Don't talk to me.

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Nerds 💚🧡

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Fight the power