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I know these people are incapable of feeling guilt or empathy most of the time, but I'm going to tell every one of them my mother died and it sucked. I don't care.

Maybe I'm trying to make sure a horrible, pointless, unnecessary death can have some meaning beyond my grief. That my mom's suffering can have some... reason.

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what they dont tell you about being loudly transgender is sooner or later someone will say you helped/were the reason they transitioned and you just have to. sit with that for a while and how wonderful it is that a person can inspire others to take better care of themselves like that. the louder you are the better, you help strangers more than you know

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About Toga

This is sparked by a debate I saw on whether or not Uraraka should've spent time on Toga and about "babying" Toga as a villain.

To paraphrase someone said: anyone would think her quirk is weird and she's still a villain and she's still responsible for hurting people.

I agree!

However

I think it's a jump to say because her quirk is weird/grotesque that makes her a villain. People can think all kinds of things are weird but villainizing the behavior is the basis for most discrimination which is what I believe the author is trying to say. Anyone can be a villain if society says so. I agree that the actions she took/people she hurt therefore still makes her a villain, however it can't be overlooked that society pushed her there. Which, ( if I take my shipping glasses off lol) is the whole point of the ochako, deku and toga interaction. Specifically Ochako and Toga. Ochako realizes that Toga is just another girl same as her and by understanding her behavior she realizes it's not that she's evil that's she's a villain or she's a villain therefore evil. She's a villain because being a hero wasn't an available chocie. Toga thought that's who she had to be to be accepted. If someone like Ochako had just said "hey yeah that's weird but I accept you" things could be different. The whole moral of the story of MHA Is that anyone can be a hero but anyone can be a villain it just takes the right circumstances (ex. Gentle Criminal, Twice, Hawks, most people from Class B etc). Honestly a lot of characters from Class B could easily become villains in the right circumstances. It doesn't excuse her behavior or take away that the fact is yes TOGA IS A VILLAIN. Yes that's how it turned out. However, leaving her at that takes away the human capacity for change. Deku and Uraraka are learning that villains may also deserve kindness as well while still being held accountable (in dekus case he's thinking villains are those that were never saved by a hero) for example Gentle Criminal is being held accountable for his actions but is allowed to take steps to change his life by helping the heroes. Toga's mentality is twisted and has a twisted way of thinking. Would she have ever been able to enter normal society? Probably not but hero society would've been fine. She just would've been seen as a real weirdo lol. However the way the hero society is built that wasn't an option as we see with other quirks (ex again class B) when a quirk is deemed useless creepy or villainous the user is often told not to be a hero. The whole point of Uraraka going through all this effort in the end is for her own character growth and Toga will undoubtedly just be a throw away villain character that never gets her Harley Quinn style come back. At the end of the day she's a villain and responsible for her actions but damn could people have been nicer to her.

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Full credit to @cubewatermelon

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The change well, changed, everything. Was it something you did? You contemplated the idea of sitting near Superman somehow boosting your own abilities. You scoffed at that and re-looked at the number above your head. The question, what to do with it?

You’re a regular office worker born with the ability to “see” how dangerous a person is with a number scale of 1-10 above their heads. A toddler would be a 1, while a skilled soldier with a firearm may score a 7. Today, you notice the reserved new guy at the office measures a 10.

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I love the addition of the lion turtles at the end of ATLA. I know it's been called a cop out, convenient, a last minute addition etc. But I think it's much smarter than people first realize.

I wish more people would love this part of the story like I do. This is what sets Aang apart from any other Avatar and any other MC really. He doesn't compromise his beliefs to complete his duty. It's easy for people that don't follow this moral code/vow their whole lives to just throw it away for the greater good. He also has the benefit of being very young and hasn't had a host of advisors or other people iron out this idea from him like all the other Avatars. After a while being told sacrifice is necessary is exhausting and the world beats this idea of wanting only peace out of people especially one in war.

We as an audience can yell at the screen along with all the other characters 'just kill him? Whats the big deal" but to someone that has taken a sacred vow it would mean the death of their soul. This is taken very seriously in ATLA and Aang's confliction in yelling "you all don't understand the position I'm in!" Is not only towards his friends but also to the audience. Many of us don't understand because many people watching don't follow such a sacred code. His faith in keeping his soul pure by following his moral code is what allows him to unlock spirit bending as the turtles say, to paraphrase, what's truly pure can touch hatred without being harmed. So many avatars compromise their beliefs for the greater good that I believe it's why they never unlocked this ability. It elevated him and I think it's an amazing storyline and not at all a cop out but shows that being told one path is correct by everyone doesn't always mean that it's true.

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I don't like Evangelion and it is because I had the (fortune or misfortune) of having theory a key part of my major. I hated the manga version and never watched it. Finally I watched it but I had already taken my courses on modernism, post modernism etc.

So instead of "oh wow that's what they were trying to do" I might say if I had watched it before that point in my education, it became "oh my gosh, that's what they were trying to do seriously?" After that point in my education and I was already sick of the subject matter.

It's a very surface level representation.

Great animation and sound track though.

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AHSOKA PART FOUR: FALLEN JEDI

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Gandalf being sent back to Middle earth because his purpose was not yet fulfilled is like if you called in dead to work and your boss was like "You're on the schedule until the end of the 3rd age we need you to be a team player. Also the shift lead quit to pursue evil doings so here's a manager uniform."

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“A complete rainbow… photo was taken at around 30k ft above the Earth. On the ground, we usually only see the arc half of the circle.”

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Smith H Tammy 

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just me and my unconditional love for the moon against the world

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I do not like the fact that we are drifting back towards a pearl-clutching anti-obscenity anti-vulgarity ‘everything depicted in fiction must be morally sound and uncomplicated’ state.