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Those pillows and sheets match Dabi’s eyes.

Which could mean nothing.

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The big three are a polycule, you cannot convince me otherwise

Even if it's a qpr

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Bonus points: Oboro's death had the strongest impact on Midnight, because she was genuinely the closest with him (they were the first in the polycule to initiate ANY romantic stuff)

Plus she just genuinely loved him (I'M NOT SAYING THAT AIZAWA AND HIZASHI DIDN'T, BC OFC THEY DID)

And it took a lot of time for her to actually figure out her own romantic preferences because she was just so devastated :(((

Rooftop squad, but all four of them were in a polycule in highschool (it lasted until Oboro's death, because they all took it very poorly)

And then the three of them had this weird relationship until Midnight was like "hey uhm I think I actually might be into women exclusively...?"

So then EraserMic stayed as the only ones from the OG polycule that prevailed in a romantic relationship and Nemuri just stayed as their literal best friend ever

LET ME COOK GUYS (might draw them soon)

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Rooftop squad, but all four of them were in a polycule in highschool (it lasted until Oboro's death, because they all took it very poorly)

And then the three of them had this weird relationship until Midnight was like "hey uhm I think I actually might be into women exclusively...?"

So then EraserMic stayed as the only ones from the OG polycule that prevailed in a romantic relationship and Nemuri just stayed as their literal best friend ever

LET ME COOK GUYS (might draw them soon)

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Oh I’m sure

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been….been thinkgin… about them….. theyr the bffs ever… think they should be allowed to remain happy

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Shigadabi apartment living is so funny to imagine because they are 100% that toxic couple that gets into violent domestics with yelling and thuds and glass breaking and the whole nine, then Dabi storming around every few weeks with a shiner and throwing all Shigaraki's stuff outside, then blasting "love the way you lie" for several hours on repeat until Shigaraki eventually comes back like two days later then the whole apartment complex can hear them having rough and nasty "make up" sex through the paper thin walls

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ough pintshipping... pintshipping save me... everyone please draw more pintshipping pleaseeeee... I cannot be the only one...

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Decided to also share an old drawing of mine

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my champignons almost rotted here's one of them

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im looking thru my old utdr arts from like 4years ago and theres some really funny shit in here. idr if ive posted but we are reviving it here now

i might revisit some of these as redraws or something theyre cute nd funnay

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MAIKA MONROE as LEE HARKER LONGLEGS (2024) dir. Osgood Perkins

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there's a p common attitude in fandom spaces (fandom in general, not a specific one) that's like "why care about canon, or the characters being ooc? we're here to play with the dolls any way we like" and as much as i obviously am a person who thinks about canon a lot in theory i'm into that. in practice though when popular fanon takes things in a wildly different direction from canon so often it's in the service of taking something that was originally canonically weird and interesting and making it blander. it's flattening a complex character into a broad archetype i've seen a million times before, it's taking two characters with a complicated canonical relationship and writing them in a way where you could find-and-replace the names with any other popular migratory slash fandom pairing and the fic would make as much if not more sense. if you're going to break away from canon at least do something interesting? don't make it less weird? i feel like i'm watching someone take a really beautiful expensive cut of wagyu steak and grind it into hamburger to cook it well done and cover it in ketchup

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So yuriful

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Kenji: My car’s in the shop so I rode in on Brooklynn’s motorcycle. I guess you could say I’m a gearhead now?

Brooklynn: He held onto me so tight, it was like a two-mile Heimlich.

Kenji: Those things have NO walls on them!

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Guys, I swear that in my head they never divorced and are still happily married

Silly bonus:

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Why I think Kenlynn is crucial to the development of the series (aka my excuse to yap and show you guys my art, who cheered)

There is something that's very obvious when watching the show but I hardly ever see it being brought up and that is how little consideration of the consequences of her own actions Brooklynn has. And that is something that hasn't changed yet.

Don't get me wrong I absolutely love Brooklynn, but it's pretty obvious that she is not entirely aware of how her actions affect those around her.

The examples are countless, from Yasammy breakup to the remaining people in Nublar 6 getting killed multiple times (not even mentioning the emotional trauma that she put them through by faking her own death)

And while some decisions she had made are more or less explainable by the fact that she wanted to protect her friends, the cause of most of them are without a doubt the decisions that Brooklynn had made in the first place.

And her lack of consideration roots back to her relationship with Kenji. Or more specifically to their breakup.

It is no surprise to anyone that the breakup was Brooklynn's fault- neglecting her boyfriend for the sake of her own secret investigation. But the most important scene to understand how little consideration Brooklynn had for her own actions is the scene where she talks with Darius about their breakup.

She is blaming Kenji for the breakup, for not understanding her, because she was "only working". She doesn't fully realise how her own actions destroyed their relationship, as she blames Kenji for not understanding her.

And as much as I love Brooklynn as a character, there is no doubt that she is not the best person in the show. She is unaware of the harm she causes, while chasing something that she isn't even sure what it is.

It's also important to note that (as biased as it might seem) Dinostar is not working right now (!!!). Darius seems to be much more in love with his own imagination of Brooklynn, an adventurous, brave woman, rather than noticing the truth, how much harm is Brooklynn causing, while not even being aware of it.

Now. Why do I think that Kenji and Brooklynn are crucial to the development of the series? Because Kenji is the one who got hurt by Brooklynn in the most visible way.

He is aware that what she's doing is not right.

Contrary to Darius, he sees her whole, he knows who she is and that's why he breaks up with her.

It had been visible even back in Camp Cretaceous that her desire to chase the different cases she thinks of (which she is convinced are for the better, to protect her friends) has been an issue in her and Kenji's relationship (ofc in the 'first date' scene when she stood him up). We didn't get a solution to that issue back then, because of the Kenji plotline that happened right after, but it's always been an issue.

And her death affects him in a very deep way, as he becomes passively suicidal throughout the whole series (his father's death also has some cause in it, but the two are combined)

He is the one who suffers from Brooklynn's actions, even if he chose to isolate himself from her by the breakup, in an attempt to not get hurt.

Personally I think that for any development in the series, first it should be established that Brooklynn will have a change of character, some development. And as I said, I think her and Kenji's relationship, whether they get back together or not, is the best way to tackle the topic, to actually make her notice that she NEEDS to change to stop hurting the people around her.

Again, I do not think that Brooklynn is all bad, I just think that she makes bad decisions that lead to dangerous situations, and then she makes more bad decisions to protect her friends from said situations, without noticing that she is the one to cause the situations in the first place. That's what is so tragic about her.

Personally I'm also a bit salty about her and Kenji not fully working things out during the end of CC (all it took for her to trust Kenji again after he betrayed her was one apology more than he gave to Yaz and Sammy, which was really disappointing, because I personally was hoping for Brooklynn to have more emotions about the situation), so I am hoping that in Chaos Theory we finally have a serious conversation between those two that actually leads to anything.

So my prediction for the next season/s is that we will get the Nublar Six gradually realise that maybe what Brooklynn is doing isn't entirely good and that maybe at some point she should be stopped (she just took down the Broker, but she is not finished, finding a different thing to chase). How little consideration for their feelings she has, blinded by her own desire to get the job done, even if the job seems to be neverending. Since Sammy and Kenji already realised that, I think that Yaz and Ben might be next. Which leaves a great opportunity for Brooklynn and Darius to talk about it, cuz I firmly believe Brooklynn will notice that before Darius does.

But again, I think that for her to notice that, there will have to be an interaction with Kenji (possibly her noticing how her death actually affected him, something that Yaz had pointed out multiple times before, because the plotline of his passive suicidal attempts have not been yet resolved???)

Anyway, this was my silly rant + my excuse to show off some art!

Remember that it's fully subjective and biased (because I want Kenlynn to get back together, shocking I know).

Also the lyrics on the billboard are from Mitski- "Your Best American Girl":33