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absolutely genius of rf kuang to elaborate on virtually nothing about speer's culture. the only things said about speer are "speerlies are mindless savages" and "speerlies are most definitely not mindless savages". there are no deep dives, no explanations of their way of life, nothing beyond the glimpses that disproves nikan's belief that they are nothing but a violent group. we saw that they had leaders that cared about their people and children. we saw that they are people who found joy in life. but that's really not much.

this emphasizes the horror of genocide. millenia of culture and history, individual lives filled with love, pain, and passion, just completely wiped away. there were only two surviving speerlies. one of them was too young when he was taken away, and probably doesn't remember much. the things he did remember was also probably buried under years of abuse and drugs people were plying him with. the other one didn't even know she was from speer until the last few months of her life, and there was really no one around to teach her about their culture. and if there was, life as she knows it was falling apart. learning about her dead people's culture probably didn't even cross her mind.

without saying any of these things and by intentionally leaving readers in the dark about what speer was truly like, rf kuang said so much about the horrors of genocide. by not saying anything, she said everything. she did the "show me, don't tell me" tip for writers and it was brilliant.

we will never learn most of speer's culture and history and that was the point.

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fate vs agency: altan trengsin and fang runin

The Phoenix outright states: ‘You humans always think you’re destined for things, for tragedy or for greatness. Destiny is a myth. Destiny is the only myth. The gods choose nothing. You chose.’ But is that true?

Altan and especially Rin were doomed by the narrative the moment Speer was razed, the moment they were whisked from their homes to a lab or an abusive household.

The thing is: nobody actually wanted them. They were dirty Speerly shaman trash; Altan was experimented on and Rin was abused for her entire childhood. Even in Sinegard, they were both discriminated against - Altan’s a freak of nature who is used for entertainment even if people fear him, and Rin is only her skin colour - even though they both worked so hard and DESERVED to go there. Nobody wanted them until they went to the Cike.

This fuels the anger that has been curated since they were literal kids. Of course they’re angry, and of course they don’t know how to express that in a healthy way - they’ve ALWAYS been abused, they’ve never known anything else. Obviously that doesn’t excuse some of the things they’ve done because of this anger (see: Altan’s abusive behaviour and Rin’s genocide), but the people around them, and society as a whole, failed them. There were two children, maybe Speerlies, but they were two hurt and scared children.

They did choose some things, but they were doomed the moment that Nikan decided to place them in Shiro and the Fangs’ hands. They were so angry, so hurt, so scared - they never would know anything else, really.

Fate doomed not only Rin’s fate, but the possible future she’d have with Nezha. They loved each other, but they could never have each other. Rinezha are the star-crossed lovers, the Romeo and Juliet, the Pyramus and Thisbe, the fleeting touch, the only kiss, the necessary betrayal and the leaving one behind. They are a walking juxtaposition - fire and water, general who wants absolute destruction and government official/ruler who needs Nikan to be safe for the future, poor and rich etc etc. And yet, they have these soft moments because they know how war destroys; they love each other in spite of all of this, but they can never have each other, because Nezha is the last Yin left, and Rin will never live in a world where Hesperians rule her home.

The Phoenix (and Rin by extension, I guess) doesn’t believe fate exists - that there is a choice for everything - but literally everything ensured Rin and Nezha would never be happy and in love: their race, their positions in power, their ideologies, their families, their relationships with other people, their thought patterns, their beliefs, their relationship with their power/shamanism… literally everything would’ve fucked them up. And yet, here they are defying fate, only to fall back into it again. Love is not enough.

The same goes for Altan and Chaghan. They can never have a healthy relationship where Altan doesn’t die. Altan cannot live, he’s self destructive and miserable and angry. He lives only to destroy and when he isn’t destroying, he wants to die.

They could’ve made choices, yes, but nobody makes rational choices in war. They were limited by the tools society gave them, and yeah, they were awful people, but fate itself doomed them before they were old enough to think.

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𝑮𝒐𝒋𝒐'𝒔 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔

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Everyone freaking out about about this official art:

Being foreshadowing for Deku leaving in chapter 306

Just remember that this is ALSO official art:

Y’all better say BakuBYE because theres no way this boy is letting Deku go off to be a hero alone. He’s already said as much.

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Looking at this picture, I was struck by how familiar that bird head looks and that’s when I realized why it looked familiar.

It’s because it’s one of the gargoyles on the Chrysler Building in Manhattan, New York

Which begs the question: how did Deku get all the way over to the United States by himself after being discharged from the hospital?

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me: deku should have been a vigilante, it would be interesting to see him strike out on his own- deku: *leaves ua*

me: WAIT NO GO BACK-

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gotta love foreshadowing :))))

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this tweet sucker punched me in the gut so i hope it does the same for anyone else who sees it

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DEKU: I wanna save Shigaraki.

FANDOM *hopeful*:…And reunite with your classmates and teachers?… Who all also just went through a traumatic experience?… So we can finally get that emotional reunion where you all to start to recover and regroup together?

DEKU: *discharged from the hospital* 

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HE LOOKS SO SAD WTF!!!! :(

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Oh God Izuku is pulling some aang kind of shit. "And when the world needed him the most- he vanished." Get your ass back here pine head

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★ Dazai Osamu ★ BSD Wan! EP3

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today is mha spoilers day and the day i cry

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ts x disney princesses and heroines

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i was hyped for this season because the manga for tpn literally kept me alive for the first few months of quarantine and now i am so disappointed 😭

On the light of recent events, and by that I mean this week's episode. I have one word of advice to animeonlys:

Read the manga if you want to feel the emotion and want to know the reason why we, manga readers, say this is one of the best arcs in TPN

DON'T read the manga if you don't wanna be disappointed and just want to maintain the good view of the anime. Because from an animeonly standpoint, I think the second season is good.

Well those were two words of advice lmao but really what is happening to the anime, so far I am disappointed :(

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i am so disappointed

No one:

Manga readers:

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Shitposters: If Deku was laid up and unstable in the hospital, Katsuki’d prob be like, “If that dumbass dies, I’ll kill him.”

Horikoshi: Yeah, actually literally that.