#this is very much a callout for specifically my family

[stardustthread]

USE YOUR VOICE GRETA VAN FLEET

If it hasn’t been abundantly clear how much I absolutely love the boys, I’m incredibly disappointed in how silent they have been. I’ve already voiced this before, but they do have impact. For the people saying that Greta not speaking about world issues shouldn’t be a big deal are just as complacent and dismissive of the actual pain going on in the world. We hear time and time again in their songs, messages of anti-war and the destruction that hate can bring and we have a duty to spread love, where is that love? Where is it? I’m a Grestie through and through, and I’m also an Arab Grestie. My grandparents and my extended family are Palestinian.

I was born and lived in the Middle East, more specifically Jordan, for long enough to know and feel the pain that my family and friends in Palestine are facing, seeing my heritage and traditions being wiped out right before my eyes. And I feel so guilty because I’m here now, a US citizen in the safety of my home watching it unfold. Imagine how people in Gaza are feeling? You absolutely can’t. The people in the West Bank are facing that fear of the inevitable if we don’t speak up and act. As for the hostages, captured both by the IOF and H*m*s, they’re not knowing any peace either.

For the people citing that the reason why they won’t speak on it is because of the mistreatment of LGBTQIA+ folks contradicts with Josh, that is not okay. Yes, we absolutely SHOULD and HAVE TO ensure safety of EVERYONE, no matter who they love or what they identify as, but repeating false rhetoric without any proof blatantly shows your Islamophobia and xenophobia. You regurgitate information being fed to you by bigoted sources with a reputation for falsifying experiences like it’s nothing. Not to mention, the US isn’t very safe right now for LGBTQ+ folk either. If we were under attack right now, would you stay silent too because Tennessee, Florida, and Texas are enacting hateful bills? Or are you staying silent now because they’re brown. Why don’t you actually ask a Queer Arab what it’s like over there? Talk to them? They exist, and they’re all over social media. And what about Queer Palestinians? Do they not deserve your advocacy?

I listened to and fell in LOVE with Greta Van Fleet because of their message. “They pass the torch and it still burns” gives me goosebumps everytime I listen to Age of Man, it serves as a reminder that through generations, we have a duty to fight and do better. “We do not fight for war, but to save the lives of those who do so” ARE YOU KIDDING? It is RIGHT THERE IN THEIR SONGS! If you still are dismissing the legitimate callout of the boys to speak on an issue WHO EMPHASIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF SPEAKING ON ISSUES LIKE THIS, or you’re dismissing the pain that people who do have legitimate connection to the land in Palestine, please listen to the songs again. Reflect. And if you still don’t get it, I don’t have any hope for you.

I am so heartbroken, upset, and I will absolutely NOT let someone guilt me into not calling the boys out because “we should leave politics out of it”. This isn’t about politics. This is about HUMAN LIFE. Have empathy and for god’s sake, SHOW IT. SPEAK UP AND CALL OUT.

[sansloii]

HOW WOULD YOUR OCS BE MISINTERPRETED BY FANDOM ( stolen from @arcxnumvitae )

Mikah

Exaggerate all their personality traits--especially the Anger. Goes from pillow princess that does no wrong to someone that will punch holes in the wall in the "this is never sexy at all what is wrong with you" sorta way.

Also apparently gaslights their romantic partners. A lot. Because they can be manipulative with targets and people they are actively stealing from. No I will not show proof of that because google is free :)

Penny

Angry Latina that has absolutely zero nuance and is hyper aggressive when Mikah and Evan so much as breathe. so she hates them.

Hates men in general, honestly, because she's a lesbian and cannot be friends with them. Every time she makes a face that is not 100% happy around them is zoom and enhanced because they want to prove that she's a man-hating woman.

Wynn

The way they would disrespect this sweet man hurts my spirit because these people would:

Make him stupid despite multiple instances of Wynn navigating difficult personal conversations and making complex choices. This includes the whole babying thing that would make my skin crawl.

he is quiet so therefore he doesn't speak. No like he's mute. Cannot communicate at all. this also means he's slow for some reason

Also make him hypersexual with no fucking rhyme or reason. They see "he can be rough" and that's it. Off to the races. they would completely butcher him and explain it with "instinct"

Evan

Pussy/Bussy being the therapy he needs he needs to stay in a relationship because of the VERY FEW relationships he's in that started with sex. Like legitimately saying, with their whole chest, that he'll immediately become Better and ignore, the disagreements, and the ghosting, and the lack of accountability, and the shit explanations for his behavior--

also turns him into a raging drunk or something (because of his dependency on alcohol)... like specifically that. and make him super sleazy and incapable of taking no as an answer.

Dakota

Also hates men

people would 100% ship her with Joseph despite Joseph being married. And then turn around and misunderstand their familial relationship, ship them HARDER, and then start drama which results in calling her a homewrecker.

they would draw this woman with MASSIVE tits. And if you correct them, you're an awful human being for erasing her big boobs. even though she doesn't? have size triple-E knockers???? but you're wrong for that.

did i mention she hates men? because she does.

Joey

no personality traits outside of "Lera is my soulmate". You'd think Lera literally has his hand up Joey's ass with the way people describe his behavior

Or! Dakota has her hand up his ass. Like Lera and Koko take turns

they would not know what to do with his trauma. and that scares me so i will not think about it.

Roderick

He's a biker so of course he's a misogynist and sexist :) his DEAD wife was the exception :) no I will not provide proof of that because google is free and i am never wrong

that's it. that's the take.

Andris

uwu he's misunderstood. Of COURSE charming and manipulating your partners is bad but. He's hot. So if they don't forgive him for it, it's their fault and we should shit all over those characters.

on the flipside: he's the literal devil in human skin and super predatory. he is just waiting to assault someone.

very polarizing. People either love him or will tell you you're going to hell for liking him. and the next day, you have a callout written about you because you like him so therefore, you're okay with and condone everything he does. It doesn't matter if you understand he's an awful person and can objectively look at him--you're a piece of shit.

[kienansidhe]

hi, im kienan! im the current host of the disaster hearts system. we are a korean american body with dissociative identity disorder and have had multiple diff hosts over the course of this blogs run. i or some variation of me have been host since around 2017-18ish. for transparencys sake, the body is 25+. do not ask abt age specifics please.

we are a survivor of csa trauma, parental abuse, religious and cult abuse, and generally very traumatized, and our experience of life is irrevocably colored by that lens.

we are disabled and unable to hold a job ever since we got long covid in april of 2020. we are fully dependent on our partners, working on our disability application, and still coming to terms with the reality of being probably permanently disabled.

unless otherwise specified it is probably some variation of kienan speaking.

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i, kienan, am queer and i prefer to be addressed by strangers with he/they/it or fae/faeself pronouns. i dont rlly care which of those you use, tho, no need to rotate or anything.

some other labels that generally describe me: nonbinary, transmasc, gnc, cuntboy, [redacted], [redacted], femme, femboy, genderweird, bi, aro/ace with a couple exceptions, sex favorable, kink obligate, freak, degenerate, pervert.

i currently have 4 partners, referred to here as prettyboyfriend, nesting boyfriend, girlfriend/daddy, and moirail.

no dni, i think theyre stupid and the only ppl i would not want to interact would not respect dnis anyways lmao. if i have a problem with you i will just say so or block you or whatever.

some of my beliefs and what to expect on this blog are under the cut.

i believe in rehabilitation and compassion, full stop. yes, even for those people. i think that othering and dehumanizing others sucks, that thoughts do not define you (yes, even those thoughts), and that the only thing that matters is your actions.

i think callouts are never helpful, ever. ive literally never seen one do anything helpful or good.

i try my best to interact with others in good faith, and i expect the same in return.

we were homeschooled in a cult and our education was heavily ~moderated~ to keep us brainwashed, and every time i think ive rooted out all the misinfo new stuff comes up. please be patient with me if i ask stupid questions, i literally am stupid. i have so much literal actual brain damage. i will do my best to be open minded, i rlly want to learn!

i believe that the best ways to combat csa are better sex education, breaking down the sanctity of the nuclear family, youth liberation (more legal rights and self advocacy for children), and not clogging child abuse report portals with fucking fictional art, jesus h christ.

medicalization of identities sucks. sysmeds, transmeds, im sorry youre miserable but thats not an excuse for trying to make everyone else miserable with you.

labels are only useful insofar as they help you connect with others like you and form solidarity in order to combat systemic oppression. if labels make you angry or miserable, consider not taking them so seriously.

its okay to just dislike ppl. its not always that deep. trying to come up with moral reasons to justify disliking ppl is rlly fucking catholic.

dont talk to me abt christianity. im aware that my trauma affects my ability to be compassionate in this area, so im staying in my lane. in fact probably dont talk to me abt religion in general.

im not a proshipper or an anti i touch grass <3, HOWEVER:

antishipping / purity politics / anti-kink / whatever you wanna call it, ppl equating fictional depictions of Obvious Bad Things with condoning, supporting, or normalizing them in real life are fucking stupid and have done unbelievable amounts of damage that has now reached far beyond fandom and kink circles. get a life, for fucks sake.

ppl who call themselves proshippers and then go around harassing antis are fucking stupid and have lost the original spirit of the term proship / anti-anti, which hinged around not harassing or harming others over fiction. get a life, for fucks sake.

just be kind. dont be a dick. treat others how you wanna be treated. we are all traumatized but thats not an excuse to be cruel. leave the world better than you found it.

youre gonna make mistakes. you just are. youre not perfect and also the world is complex. remember that you cant help everyone. try your best but dont lose yourself in the process.

art is everything. the act of creation is holy. more progress is made by creating -- building communities, making art, growing plants, building houses, building relationships -- than by tearing things down. there is probably a time and place for violence, destroying oppressive systems, bombing weapons factories, but if we arent creating a positive, healthy society alongside the destruction we are just leaving fertile ground for new oppressive structures to take root. create. create. create.

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many hosts has left a chaotic mess of tags on this blog but here are some we use pretty consistently:

#headspace: original posts. diary rambling, random thoughts, actual semi coherent opinions, anything

#my face: the body

#humans are good actually: reminders

#recovery things: mental health help

#important: there is so much stuff in this tag

#bookmark: too much here too lol

#feel better: just fluffy stuff

#vine: general funny video tag

#about, #me kin id, #i ghostwrote this post: stuff we relate to rlly hard + uquiz tags lol

#posts that are funnier when plural

[jackfromthefairytale]

cure album liveblog (aka me devolving into insanity) unedited no grammar corrections this is between me and my phone keyboard

all I'm gonna say is that the singles do not do this album justice

cure: it's a precursor to what's to come I'm already so familier with it. first time I've got both earbuds in though 🥴. it's an expeeince

rumour of light: SHES PRETTY AND HEAVY holy shit the opening instrumental I was gonna cry, the vocalsssssss! the scream melody is so good, jesse's singing is something else (he's singing lower I might be able to actually hit his notes for once) GUITAR SOLO!!! its so melodic and pretty the vocal layering in the chorus is everything to me

idlw wind: quiet straight into heavy djenty, dark ambience, pretty yet heavy chorus, guitars are tight as fuck, chorus vocal melody is so good hes got a little bit of scream in there too, the bridge instrumental part is so !!! HANG ON IS JESSE SCRWMING THERE OR IS JT DOING SOMETJING DIFFERENT I DONT KNOE. outro part of chorus is so !!

blue reverie: fits so well in the grand scheme of the album? it's the slow respite from three quick heavy songs

slow sour bleed: industrial! production heavy intro! reminds me of psalm of sedition? it's gone quiet? very djent. ambience!! heavy/light whiplash. ELECTRONIC? erra typical structure fuck. OH BREAKDOWN THESE CALLOUTS ARE AMAZING. oh she's very heavy

wish: opening guitar haunts me. she's light and building. and an interlude

glimpse: OH! SHE CONTINUES DISTORTED. jesse is going at it with vocal work holy shit! JT CLEAN YELLINH! the guitars here I adore. THE VREAKDOWN HAS BEOKEN MY CEILING. jesse's voice from this chorus specifically is gonna haunt my dreams

past life persona: intro guitar is so pretty. dust of the human shape esque opening verse. very ghost atlas, a bit radio rock (metal)? sounds seaside in summer, type of song you'd introduce to your grandma. backing screams on point. breakdown flows very well it's explosive but doesn't break the stream of the song. is jt singing here?

crawl backwards out of heaven: jt song right after a jesse song, foreboding heavy. verse two is still groovy as fuck. bridge is still haunting as fuck

end to excess: clean glittery guitars, i want this intro to last forever. and now he's screaming. oh that verse lead! blast beats! oh that chorus feels movie-hopeful! I love it! the guitar leads in the second part of the chorus! BREAKDOWN! it's so different wow

pale iris: some good old fashioned metalcore. the verse leads at the start of the verse fit the leads sprinkled throughout the rest of the album. it's weird, it's the first single from the album but appears second last, and now I'm hearing it as part of the picture it sounds so much more coherent.

wave: ?? energetic guitars? reminds me of hyperreality? I love this song I don't know what's going on. some of the vocal parts remind me of a savage hands song. oh that bridge is powerful. I don't want this to end.

it can't be over

please tell me it's not over

that might be the best album I've ever heard.

[binalakai]

hey im kai! you can also call me roach, if you already know a kai in your life because i know how many noncis mfs are named that

im a 21 genderfluid filipino dyke with she/he/it pronouns, i occasionally post my art on @binalakarchive , where all my OCs (at least as much as i show publicly) and fandom art/cleaned up discussions go there. i also do commissions sometimes, best to contact me through that blog!! otherwise, i treat this blog like a neverending journal. i've grown up with it, and on god am i going to use it as such.

in a perfect world where i wouldn't need to establish boundaries, i would not even bother with a post like this, but the more people i follow/that follow me come across it's somewhat necessary soooo

DNI or like. BYF if you're not gonna listen to me anyway: (warning: it's long and text heavy. tldr; don't be weird to me, communicate with me like you would with a real life person because that's what i am, and we'll get along fine)

-basic dni huge bigot (racist, TERF/transphobic, homophobic, etc etc) stuff but if i catch that onto your blog anyway when you follow me i'll block you.

-if you post a lot of doomer stuff/are against mental health care in general, you best keep distance, honestly. its taken a long time for me to not open my wounds and delusions constantly towards the internet if it meant being valid in my mental illnesses. i'd rather not enter that era again.

-i dont get the whole "proship and antis" culture that happens, but for both sakes of people, if you identify with any of those things you might not like my blog too much. i love being critical and analytical of "problematic things", but i'll still discuss them openly n freely. dni if you'll be offended if i diss on ships/approaches to subjects that make me uncomfortable n find comfort in being critical abt it, and dni if you'll be offended if i diss on the idea that media with triggering topics should not have an outlet period.

-if you'll be offended if i block you out of the blue, doesn't apply to close friends/mutuals i just mean with randos who post takes i dont like or cause too much stress in tags i browse.

-if you're gonna get in huge trouble over seeing dirty jokes and crass humor in public you best not follow me. i try best to tag my stuff, but last thing i wanna do is have a stern talk about it.....which is why i also am wary about people under 18 following and will be a lot more liberal on blocking younger minors for their sake or people i assume won't vibe with me period

-if your parents have access to your social media and there's a chance i'll be DM'd by any of them. i dont wanna talk to any of your parents. if you have an issue with me, i'm more than happy to talk about things directly. (ESPECIALLY FOR BUSINESS RELATED REASONS LIKE COMMISSIONS. IT'S HAPPENED A LOT ALREADY DUE TO OTHER PARTY'S FAMILY CIRCUMSTANCES I CANNOT FUCKING CONTROL. STOP IT. ITS ANNOYING AND A PAIN TO HANDLE.)

-if you get too involved with online drama/disputes. i'm not going to reblog a callout for you. if you get even slightly bothered by that statement, do not get close to me period for the sake of boosting callouts.

-if you have specific niche triggers that need to be tagged. i try to do catch alls or basic ones, but i genuinely CANNOT keep track of all my mutual's blacklists. my mind will slip and id rather not put someone in danger/i wanna keep that risk very very low

okay thankies <3 sorry these are so specific, i just wanna be insane on the internet in the safest way possible

[starkid256]

can i rant about how bad 2023 is for me rq?

ok so in the first couple of months of 2023 i was doing great. new year new me amiright. i was chillin on the crk wiki n shit and i wasnt doing very well in school but what can you do the us education system is flawed and nothing can fix it. i made a contest for people to draw strawberry crepe cuz that was the rage and all. once the deadline hit, i was ready to make the prizes.

i hit the biggest fucking roadblock in my life.

i just got hit with the worst burnout and depression i have ever had in my life. it took 11-12 days to write something with 1k words. this depression is still there. it pains me to even attempt to draw or write or anything. whatever, depression like this is very common. eventually, i moved on from the crk wiki and went to comic studio.

oh. comic studio. where do i begin?

to start off, if you dont already know, comic studio is a website to share comics. shocker i know. i met some friends on here from there. some of my moots i met from cs. and yet, it was the worst thing that ever happened to me. there was drama left and right, mainly centering some specific sensitive users that ive blocked on here, there were people sending death threats and threatening to kill themselves every day. and i desperately told them that their lives had value. all of this drama and suicide baiting was absolutely murdering my mental health in cold blood, so when i broke my kindle screen, i had an episode where i nearly killed myself. no one saw. not anyone irl, not anyone online except for a friend who didnt take it seriously. i didnt really draw too much attention to it anyways. btw, all of this was happening while my dad ran off with my now stepmom and was dumb enough to put himself into a mentally abusive relationship. my mom, who i live with, hates those two so much. also my stepmom is queerphobic and has internalized conservativity.

i got tumblr as soon as i got my first phone, near the start of june. i love tumblr with all my heart, but it fucking murders your mental health nearly just as bad as cs. i mean, what do you expect from a website that makes you think that all the problems of the world are your fault? i have met great people here, but it still fucking sucks.

the real nail in the coffin was when a user on comic studio (who i have now blocked on tumblr) made a half baked shitty "callout post" on me. i will say, i did do something wrong that i apologized for afterwards, but everything else was past drama that they brought up even though i had already apologized for all of it. i apologized, and decided that i should leave comic studio. and so i did. keep in mind that all of this has been happening while my main family (which means excluding my dad and step mom) lives paycheck to paycheck.

now flash forward to the present. im on my phone for 14 hours a day on average laying on the couch scrolling through tumblr and watching youtube and playing roblox wishing i was dead. i have no one to blame for this behavior but myself. i would hope that the rest of 2023 is ok, but i already know i will have a horrible rest of the year. yeah this was a rly big rant. ily guys and i hope your 2023 was better than mine.

[tempural]

Hello, sad, introverted young adult with ADHD+ASD like you, trying to be more comfortable with what they're into, just wanted to say that your art has been a sight to behold in an internet age filled with hate and greed. I wish to build up the confidence to talk to you someday and about my love of obscure cartoons, Maybe perhaps I could get u into them myself! But I still struggle with getting comfortable with my 'weird' kinks sadly, and I'm not even into the stuff you like.

Hi sad introverted adult with ADHD and ASD! I'm glad that you've enjoyed the art I've made. If you wish to build up the confidence to talk to me -- you've already done that right with this message? that's pretty cool.......

re: "get comfortable with your weird kinks"

I come from the perspective of always being considered weird. Everything I doodled in elementary, middle, and high school was considered "weird", either because it was strange creatures, full of violence, or indicative of my mental disorders LOL. I only really focused on explicit NSFW art (as opposed to the "haha joke yaoi" I did in high school) around college age? And it seemed natural for my sexual art to be considered just as "weird" and "inappropriate" as the rest of my art, so I was used to people being rude and demanding of me at that point.

It's a slightly different stage if you grew up with the internet as your foremost exposure to art (and how people react to art). I find that a lot of terminally online people haven't seen art outside of what they see online - so they don't realize that very mainstream shit that even they or their parents like has weird kinks in it.

I always use Phantom Of The Opera as an example - I remember my high school summer program doing a field trip to see that musical (I didn't go cuz I couldn't afford it lol). This is a musical that kids go see with their parents and teachers. What is it about? A 16 year old girl who's been groomed since childhood by a weirdo 40+ yr old dude who pretends to be her teacher and father to get closer to her, drug her, kidnap her, and threatens to rape her into submission. And it's specifically "romanticized" and fetishized by the creator, who says he relates to the Phantom and gave him a sequel where he ends up impregnating the 16 yr old :P That's pretty much EVERYTHING that people online rage about, but they're still singing along to it because they judge mass media less harshly than individual artists.

Just some food for thought from my ADHD brain. I know my art is solid, and what I express is real genuine emotion. And I know that people who are going to write callouts and doxx me for my art have something deeply wrong with their own life that they're projecting on me. Doesn't mean I'm not annoyed, angry, or fearful of them. Just means I know I'm smarter than them, and I deal with my issues more maturely (by making ART) thus having a happier relationship with my friends, family, and work.

Hopefully you will find some confidence in your interests as well! It took a bit to build up my confidence, and now I'm hilariously over confident to the point I'm a Norman Osborn-esque figure who nude monologues to myself about how great I am and how sadly pathetic internet folks can be.

[cherishedproperty]

It has been a busy and shitty week, and today is meant for family celebration, so I'll keep this brief.

Many of you have asked me for my thoughts on the current 144/JD/whatever situation. Let me say that I don't follow JD/OLK, nor have I ever. Or some of the other folks involved in callouts. But I have known 144 for a long, long time. We haven't been that close in the past several years, as life has gotten busy and we've just kind of drifted apart. But he has been there for me through some really, really bad times in my life. Divorce, getting my heart absolutely destroyed, single parenting, deep depression...all of it. He's checked in on me when no one else did. He's celebrated every wonderful thing in my life. While we had stopped talking regularly and sharing about our relationships and experiences, I still saw him as a respectable and trustworthy person.

I have been reading everything I can about this situation, and here's what I know:

He broke the confidence of someone he knew really, really valued her privacy above all else, especially at a time when she was very vulnerable.

He has lied to me about this situation—on stupid, small things that he had no good goddamn reason to lie about.

He had a relationship with someone and, at a minimum, did not handle his shit well (beyond disappearing during his annual off-the-grid trip, the exact allegations are unclear to me).

For me, the first two are, as he would say, firing offenses. Beyond that, many specific allegations leading to the labels being thrown around (which I take quite seriously) are unclear to me. I have been told from people I trust that there are additional screenshots and stories that go beyond what has been shared publicly, and these are the source of those labels. I remain open to all of this, and I feel like I must be missing things. But I have not seen these stories myself. So I cannot in good conscience speak to them or to any accusations of him being an abuser or groomer or anything in that realm. I have told others that I feel like I have 5 pieces of a 500 piece puzzle. I think with time, more of the pieces will become clear. But they aren't clear to me right now.

At the same time, on Wednesday, about 24 hours after this all started, I was asked to reblog a post that asserted some things as fact, including labeling someone an abuser and worse. I said that I had not seen evidence of the things being asserted as fact, though I very much wanted to see any evidence. Then, in the middle of what was stated up front as a VERY busy workday (followed by a work happy hour), I was treated as a traitor and blocked. Which saddens me.

Anyway, where I'm at is this: I unfollowed 144, because I fundamentally do not trust him anymore, and I don't need any more specifics than what I have to make that determination. I have made many of my more popular writings un-rebloggable for the time being, after seeing one pop from his queue. I've also backed up my writings and am leaning toward deleting this blog. Even if I stay on this website, doing so on this blog with so many years of history feels wrong. And staying at all, in any capacity feels challenging. Everything about this community is radioactive nuclear waste right now. There are loyalty tests. Every reblog will forever be scrutinized by whose tribe you're in and whether you're aligned with the right or wrong people. Tumblr used to be the one place where I could truly be myself. Now it's just another social media minefield. I'm not sure there will be anything left to salvage by the time all of this is through.

Anyway, those are my two cents, now that I've had some time to process. I know a lot of folks are hurting, and my heart goes out to them.

I'll be offline for the rest of the day (and perhaps the rest of the weekend), focusing on my family and celebrating the love and joy in my life. Peace to you all.

[arbitrarygreay]

I saw afloweroutofstone's recent anime posts, and the end results were pretty frustrating. That list of finalists was so.....well, from my POV, basic as all get out. Insert ted danson gif here. Hell, I see even weeb Tumblrs that seem to know nothing about shows that would actually fit their tastes, and instead keep slogging through the very underwhelming mainstream favorites, while their faves retain a total anti-recency bias. So, some classics that have fallen through the cracks that I gladly proselytize to anyone with higher brow anime tastes! (Note that this doesn't mean that I dislike lower brow stuff. This post's frustration is specifically about how basic people's "high brow anime faves" lists are.) And there is zero Ikuhara, Watanabe, or Gainax/Trigger on this list. There is, however, a fair amount of Yuasa, who is arguably the primary TV anime auteur of the 2010s. Yamada and Tachikawa get multiple mentions each, too.

Kyousougiga: How to even describe this show's genre: Buddhist magical realism but it's Looney Tunes? The show I want the most to proselytize to people about. Matsumoto Rie's career has shown that she thinks in terms of music video rhythms, and this show really put that to use with a few of my favorite sequences of all time. In between those, though, is still just as effective writing about the complex feelings we have towards family, paired with vibrant animation of action that live action does not yet have the balls (or budget) to attempt. Kaiba: The best cyberpunk audiovisual media I have ever watched, period. It makes most other cyberpunk look bad for how effortlessly it delivers its commentary, while having the chutzpah to have the visual aesthetic it has, and yet the animation of that aesthetic only drives in the cyberpunk themes that much harder, making live action straight takes look tepid and shallow. In fact, watching this pretty much ruined Deca-dence for me! A Place Further Than The Universe: Coming of age of high school girls by participating in a research stint on Antarctica. This show has an impeccable sense of rhythm, which means that the interactions between the characters pop, and only get more fun as the various relationships get deeper. This show understands that anyone who wants to go to Antarctica is going to be a bit of a weirdo, and delights in that fact. In addition, the trip isn't just an excuse for the coming-of-age narrative, the show digs into the real logistical details of such a thing. Ping Pong: Imagine Friday Night Lights, but it's about the titular sport, and how the fact that it's not a team sport changes all of the relationship dynamics, and animation means that they're not constrained in their visual depiction of the game. Yeah. By the same guy who did Kaiba. THE RANGE. Gatchaman Crowds: This show is nominally about a sentai-type group of superheroes, but it's actually concerned with exploring themes around internet culture, social media, incentives and motivations around civic duty, trolling, callout culture, politics in the internet age, and arguably some parallels to gun control. The show doesn't always stick the landing on the answers it chooses, but it's still digging into the issues with a depth usually reserved for harder science fiction novels. The Eccentric Family: It's Magical Realism In Kyoto again, but the action is way less broad and the stakes lower than Kyousougiga, which means a different tone and type of story told. The second season repeats a few beats of the first, but just hanging out with the characters is such a good time you don't mind. Where Kyousougiga is concerned with family members having very ambivalent feelings about each other, The Eccentric Family is more about the inter-family interactions of a wider community (at least for the relatively chill tanuki, while the tengu are total drama llamas in deliberate contrast). Odd Taxi: A web of characters make their way through life, some of which include crime and murder, leading to increasing interactions with a mere taxi driver. Stageplay-style dialogue collides with anthropomorphic animal character designs to make the social commentary pop without having your eyes glaze over at the Prestige of the story it's telling. Imagine a walrus in a hawaiian shirt and tiny baseball cap saying "Why not enjoy a bit of sherry and a fudge brownie while strolling along the West Coast?" in total deadpan to an alpaca as the height of cute romance. Keep Your Hands Off of Eizouken!: In a near future solarpunk-ish world, a group of high school girls get into 2D animation, and deal with the logistics of making 2D animated productions. The strong character personalities and interactions make the ride through all of it a fun time. It conveys the sheer joy of artistic creation by showing instead of telling. Planet With: It's not so much a deconstruction of sentai tropes (but filtered through mecha) so much as unearthing a lot of novel nuance by speedrunning the standard storyline (this show gets through more plot in a few episodes than entire double cour seasons of other shows) and digging hard into the fallout, as well as putting the audience in a non-standard POV. Also has some of the absolutely most cursed kaiju designs you've ever experienced (WORLD PEAS). It references an Arthur C. Clarke novel, which tells you a lot about its writing ambitions. The story is all about advocating for empathy and nuance as the highest ideals, when much of the world believes that those are a tradeoff against achieving justice. Hunter x Hunter: There is just nothing like it. This really is simply the GOAT of long-running battle shounen, and there are zero traditional hero narratives here. The battle tactics are cool, the world-building endless yet all so considered, and the character development increasingly Going There without flinching. The arcs rarely resolve the way you think they will, because they know that all of the ridiculous power levels still just belong to people, and people ultimately make decisions for personal reasons. Do NOT try to binge this. Take it at your own pace, and take breaks when you need to (I myself am currently stalled during early Chimera Ant). Most arcs have a slow start, but the construction of every element is intricate and barrels into unstoppable momentum as the arcs go on. Dennou Coil: A story of kids in a world of near-universal AR glasses. Western media really is pretty shit about making shows that are actually ABOUT technology. The stronger examples usually mine character/relationship dramas that could be equally explored set in a different industry. Anime, meanwhile, has the temerity to tell stories that could not be told without the technologies they're exploring. In addition, Western media is doubly bad about displaying how the younger generation is usually on the bleeding edge of how said technologies will change society, since their media about kids are usually mired in the nostalgia of the creators. Dennou Coil, though, actually gets that childhood tends to be subversive more than not. It is fascinating, though, to see how this show assumes a near-total freedom given to kids in Japan to roam around, while it seems US kids (and even teenagers) are increasingly captive to their houses. Equally impressive is that there is no tradeoff between Fun Train and high brow philosophical opining on technology. The latter is effortlessly demonstrated by the former, which is all in character because the kids themselves aren't thinking about it, they're just living it. Hibike Euphonium, Liz and the Blue Bird especially: A story about high school wind ensemble. But underneath that, it's a story about the tension between social politics and artistic integrity. Choose between being the best artist you can be or having harmonious relationships with the people around you. Finding a balance may cause you to never achieve the goals you want or need to, because art is a world where the lukewarm is to be spat out of the mouth. And enjoy some of the most gorgeous anime in the entire industry, perfectly utilized to get across these teenagers' feelings and pretenses. Plus some authentically good wind ensemble music, of course. Liz and the Blue Bird is a movie that can be watched stand-alone, and is a bona-fide masterpiece. Kakegurui: On the surface, this seems like just anime gone indulgent, someone pairing their love of games with their spank bank. However, there's a lot to dig into once you get past the kneejerk reaction. This is a show that is psychosexual, and in particular the links between our basest instincts and class warfare. The story of the poor turning to gambling despite the apparent irrationality of it is a very long one, and this show's power fantasy is making the rich and powerful finally understand that feeling. I actually recommend the live action Jdrama (and movie) of Kakegurui over the anime for that reason, as its writers seem to better understand and so emphasize those political themes, while the second season of the anime is bound by the source material going to more conventional tournament places (and the class warfare themes ironically coming out the most in the anime-original material). At the same time, though, the way the story so wholeheartedly goes over the top makes it fun to watch even without considering the deeper implications. Also the anime has more overt gay ladies. Mob Psycho 100: The incredible animation is the headliner here, probably encompassing the widest variety of tricks of all of the shows on this list, but none of that would mean a thing without the story, whose primary theme is that the stakes of the action mean nothing compared to maturing as just people. But that animation, though. It's a show where motion is everything. Screencaps could never capture the genius of drawing happening on the screen. Memories: More often titled "Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories". Three short movies across four auteurs (seven if you include the music composers, and boy is the soundtrack for all three excellent). Satoshi Kon's Magnetic Rose is gorgeous, but it's really just a Doctor Who episode at this point, most of its best tricks well-pilfered by live action. Stink Bomb has some of the satire of bureaucracy that gave Shin Godzilla its punch, but also features joyous action animation, as the comedy ratchets up right along with the stakes. Finally, Cannon Fodder has the shortest runtime with the highest impact, illustrating a world and narrative with fractally dense detail and intent. Do NOT miss out on this movie. It'll stay with you long after the credits roll. Wave, Listen to Me! (Honorable mention): Is this show actually good? My sheer level of fond affection for it seems to indicated that I'm too biased. I listened to Prairie Home Companion with some regularity throughout my childhood, and this show perfectly captures the way Garrison Keillor would tell meandering and absurd Tales from Lake Woebegone, where you're kind of rooting for the characters, but unsure what on earth might happen in the next five seconds, and if current moment is more or less fantasy within the context of the story itself, and if that seeming detour or non-sequitur a while back is about to get shaggy dog'd right back in. If you want to see what it's like when a stand-up routine is played as traditional story narrative, then you might enjoy this show! The "shows that just spark inordinate amounts of joy for being FUN TRAIN! DO NOT STOP THE FUN TRAIN! but also have good character/relationship work" tier: Kaguya-sama, Symphogear, Demon Girl Next Door, Thunderbolt Fantasy, Saga of Tanya the Evil And finally, the "sports anime executed so well that they make other genres look bad" tier: Haikyuu, Girls Und Panzer Shows I haven’t watched yet/finished watching, but trust the critical consensus on: From the New World, Sonny Boy, Flowers of Evil, Flip Flappers, Revue Starlight, Vinland Saga, Planetes, Katanagatari, Land of the Lustrous, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju, Concrete Revolutio, Girls’ Last Tour, Shirobako, Death Parade, Given, Kino's Journey, Heike Monogatari, Ranking of Kings, Made In Abyss, Dorohedoro, Konosuba, Gegege no Kitaro, O Maidens In Your Savage Season, Devilman Crybaby, and Golden Kamuy.

[gumussercvi]

𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒.

→ First of all, I need to say that I am neurodivergent. I am very straight-forward in my way of speaking, will need to ask specific questions to better understand things, I struggle socializing, and probably will miss unspoken social rules that I will be unaware of. I would appreciate a lot the fact of talking to me about anything that I might have said or done that bothered you; misunderstandings and issues that arise can be resolved.

→ Following me just for the sake of gaining my attention, interacting with my blog such as liking my posts… will gain you getting soft-blocked. It comes across as attention-seeker and leaves unwanted notifications, something that I do not want. I check blogs first before following, something that I do in wanting to write / plot with you.

→ Do not follow or engage with me if you are under the age of eighteen; I want to make sure everyone has a safe online experience. If I find out you lied about your supposed age, you will be hard-blocked. No buts. I am old enough to interact with people of my own age, not minors.

→ Do not drag me into drama, personal callouts or vague posts about third parties. It is something that I absolutely try to avoid on my RPC experience, as real life is overwhelming enough. I can lend a listening ear / safe space for you to vent if we have talked enough and I feel like we have a certain level of trust.

→ Telling me what to do with my characters or knowing details about their personality / life that I did not divulge beforehand on our threads is something that I dislike. These actions are called godmodding and meta-modding; I will warn you on a private message that it is not okay to do that and that you would need to edit your reply.

→ Mature themes can be written in my portrayals, I certainly won't be writing smut in my blog. A fade to black will be enough. It will be labelled as NSFW, and triggers will be asked beforehand / tagged accordingly in my threads.

→ My blog will be single-ship regarding couples for my characters. I do not mind having multiple romantic ships with different people, and having a good time exploring dynamics and tropes with my character. Shipping is something that I enjoy greatly, but I don't believe much in chemistry-based shipping; I am most comfortable with pre-arranged ships. Platonic and familial - like connections are more than welcome.

→ My activity will be slow / sporadic, depending on my energy or desire to write. Roleplay is not the only thing I do to distract myself, and with my disability, I get tired more easily. Please do not rush or pressure me into replying; I am already aware that I have to write replies, and will annoy me the fact of having someone hovering over me. Some days I might be more active than others. Discord can be shared upon request.

[madd-nix]

I love it when I complain about certain things not having more representation, like when a show or movie doesn't have any LGBT characters even if it should, then my family shoots in with "Oh, don't ruin this for me by complaining" or "But they're making plans to add a gay character in eventually"

Like, cool cool cool, glad we'll get one gay person at some point even though it totally could've happened way sooner and I'm glad that you all get to see yourselves represented while I just get ridiculed when I even just suggest that a character could be gay

[vinnybox]

Do you like Danny Phantom?

If so, I wanna know what you think would happen if the Batfam adopted Danny in a Talon Dick au where Dick has wings. (I want this specific au crossover for some reason.) Any headcannons for if that was the situation?

DANNY PHANTOM BELOVED <3 Used to watch that when I was a wee kid

I hadn't seen the show in forever and I don't remember much anymore .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·.  I've seen a lot of fics with the crossover but I hadn't read any of them yet. The concept is COOL tho n I'd love to see if I can explore it one day!

at the moment I don't think I can offer much since my memory of the show is very fuzzy. If Danny were to be adopted tho, I think the gaggle of brothers are gonna get even more chaotic, especially with one who has ghostly powers that shoot beams and can turn invisible and do a whole bunch more.

Maybe I DO have a few headcanons of things in mind based on my... VERY limited knowledge for both Danny Phantom and Batfam 👉👈 Im doing this purely out of “What if?” and “This would be funny” mindset hGDSHD

Headcanons undercut!

Another son/brother with the ability to turn invisible? Cue the family getting startled when Danny and Dick suddenly appear out of nowhere. More sneaky stealthy brothers. Im sure all the batfam does this, but Danny and Dick probably do it more often than the others, keeping scores of who could sneak up on who the most. 

Danny using his cryokinesis (if I remembered correctly that he had this power) to prank his brothers like pelting snowballs at them or making his hands cold and touching the back of their neck (I do that with my friends cause our university is fucking COLD and my hand just absorbs cold a little too well). Danny did it once with Dick but then never did it again after Dick had a bit of a bad reaction since it reminded him of the time back in the court when they put him in the coffin or put him to sleep by freezing him.  (I think at some point Dick WILL eventually recover enough to not have as bad of a reaction to the cold after a few years or something. I want my hurt then going to path of recovery thing 😭) 

Danny tries to sneak up on Dick as a ghost and even while invisible, Dick almost always can tell where Danny is. It's like the cat staring at the wall kind of thing.

Jason: Goldie, what are you looking at? Dick: [Staring at one corner of the wall] Jason: Dick: Dick: Danny [silence] Danny, turning visible: uGH- how do you always know??

Even funnier is the reason Dick always seems to know where Danny is is because he'd just choose to stare at a random corner or part of the room where he thinks Danny is and if he stared long enough Danny just gets too awkward that he eventually reveals himself from Dick's literal unblinking stare. So Dick sometimes DONT actually know where Danny is half the time, he just stares at a part of the room and hopes he's right or close. OR he'd just be doing something and randomly calls out Danny's name, to which the chance of Danny ALSO being in the room is almost a 100%. Danny don't need to know that tho.

Tim also does the name callout thing too and Danny just assumes that Tim and Dick just KNOWS where he is. Bruce probably does this too but he likes to pretend he doesn't know where Danny is until Danny comes out to surprise him. Which, isn't much to be honest HDSGHD

Danny sneaking up on Bruce

Bruce: Danny? Danny, appearing: Boo! Bruce, not even startled: Oh! There you are Danny: You already knew Im here, don't you? And Bruce just laughs and confirms that yes he did know Danny is here.

Its hard to sneak up on the batfam I'd say, even with ghost powers, but on some occasion I think Danny could actually catch them off guard. Cass is impossible to sneak up on tho. (I'd like to touch up on the other's relationship in the batfam as well, just need to learn more about them)

Just like any members of the batfam, he receives Winged hugs, and Danny learns to help preen feathers. Its fun but oh my god there’s so MUCH. But I also think he’d absolutely get slap in the face with Dick’s wings if Dick isn’t careful. Other members of the family has had plenty of experience, trust them.

Cue moments where three brothers (Dick, Jason and Danny) are in the kitchen at 3 am and someone walks in on them and almost had a heart attack at 3 glowing pair of eyes.

[kennyswurvegurl]

TBATF Crew Callout

I just wanted to give everyone a friendly reminder that tbatf's creators have exhibited racıst behaviors towards Romani including use of the g-slur and making their Romani character [SteamBoys AU Tom] a walking stereotype (ie a liar, a beggar, and a con-artist), which does nothing but reinforce ideas that have led to rampant hatred, police brutality, and even genocıde in Europe. Because these quirky tropes have always been funny, right?*

Bonus points for "native costumes"

Being self aware (in the first one) doesn't make you cute and quirky, love! ♡ You still drew that shit and allowed it in your shitty comic!

Don't support those freaks. Please.

EDIT:

I was scrolling through someone's Eddsworld tag and came across this.

This looks so much like those racist "g*psy fortune teller" costumes, and it makes me even more angry at these women.**

Edd then goes on to do a "palm reading" and make tarot puns. I absolutely could not believe what I was seeing, but at the same time I wasn't suprised. If it were anyone else, I would have just assumed it was poor taste and ignorance. I would have tried to correct them and spread awareness of why stereotypes like this are wrong, but given their track record, I don't believe they care in the slightest.

And before you give me any shit, back in the day my own family ran the local circus AND some of them were dukers (able to read fortunes). I know what I'm talking about. I know what is and isn't harmful. Drawing a white man in a Romani "fortune telling" outfit isn't harmless.

Edit²

I elaborated on this edit in a different post right here because I feel I didn't do it justice and this post is already long enough.

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*the resource I linked is mostly for a couple specific groups, but there are also more general misconceptions that they list. I'm trying to compare this with those [points 5, 6, & 11]. I highly encourage reading the whole thing for the sake of awareness. Anti-romani racısm is very real and it's important to talk about it.

**The article I linked for this part was written by an actual Roma woman, so I highly recommend reading it if you haven't.

@tbatf-callout @eddsworld-for-real-justice-2

[queenofbaws]

okay i'm going to ask 4 KNOWING the answer to it but i am asking a specific question that ties into 4. just. fyi. SO. hawke/varric. delightful. i love everything you write. do you have your own hawke or do you just write generic marian hawke AND IF YOU DO, please tell me about her thank you <3

dklfjgsdklfgj quill you're KILLIN ME!!! you are TOO KIND!!! hearing that the hawke/varric queen enjoys my hawke/varric content is enough to bring a tear to my eye :')

for the most part, when i do write hawke, i tryyyyyyyy to keep stuff mostly vague enough that anyone reading can plunk their hawke right on into it. "try," of course, being the operative word, ha! but. i DO have my own hawke!!! the thing is, i just...keep...all my da characters' names the defaults because GOD HELP ME I'M BAD AT NAMES!!! so my hawke is marian, yeah, but she's my marian, if that makes sense ;P she looks a BIT like default hawke, i suppose, in that she's got black hair and blue eyes and she's pale, but like. it's long black hair. and her face is rounder. and...

and this is going to be long.

i am so sorry.

i love my hawke so much.

writing asks!!!

every so often i get it into my head that one of these days i'm going to write a whole big thing about her story, but then i get in my own head and talk myself out of it BLAHBLAHBLAH ANYWAY. she's a dual-wielding purple rogue with the shadow specialization, and she's a pain in everyone's ass. she signed on with athenril when she got to kirkwall, and sorry bioware, but she ended up meeting varric fairly shortly after because you want me to believe - again, this is a callout to bioware - you want me to believe that some new hotshot troublemaker pops up in the underground and it takes varric fucking tethras a year to hear about them??? i think not.

the moment - the moment - athenril's contract is up hawke dips. she'd liked athenril ENOUGH, but all of a sudden here's this SMOOTH TALKING DWARF who can match her joke for joke and drink for drink, and the first time she goes "tell them who we are" or "oh maker, they haven't heard of us. can you BELIEVE they haven't HEARD of us???" on a job and varric just PICKS UP AND IMPROVS??? oh, there's no going back!

this should probably go without saying since it's ME we're talking about, but yes this leads to them being utterly in love, again, thanks bioware but i'll take it from here. there are ups and down here. the ghost of bianca is a real issue from time to time. anders threatening to drown them in blood to keep hawke safe also causes some bumps. but it's fine, don't worry, THEY'RE GOOD.

i am beginning to fall prey to my own obvious desire to write 300,000 words about my hawke. i am trying so haRD NOT TO DO THAT. but i ALSO don't just want to bullet point shit so sdklfjaskdfj the writer's conundrum.

in terms of the team, her closest friends are varric, anders and isabela, and really i think that combination of usual teammates speaks a bit for itself, lmao. there is no one - NO ONE!!!!! - on the team that she hates or doesn't like, per se, but she tends to butt heads with aveline and sebastian the most. aveline for obvious reasons, what with the whole being a professional criminal thing, and sebastian because HOO BOY THIS GIRL ISN'T THE CHANTRY'S (or the maker's, honestly) BIGGEST FAN!!

in terms of the hawke family, she's...a mess. it's a real all-that-remains situation in that, uh, she's...all that remains. because i am who i am as a person, most of the family dynamic is very heavily sort of...steeped in guilt, honestly. partly because i just lavish in the angst of it all, partly because i like playing her family history off of varric's, partly still because i just enjoy the whole idea of da2 being these people who come together to BE a family, idk.

but she feels a LOT of guilt and responsibility for being the one sort of left in charge after malcolm's passing, which leads to more guilt when she can't protect carver from What Happens, turning to even more guilt when she takes bethany into the deep roads because she wanted to go SO BADLY (but didn't take anders because he very much DID NOT want to go), and it just becomes this spiral where her relationship with leandra is a never-ending chasm of the blame game...and then more guilt when quentin enters the picture, lmao.

this is all stuff, btw, that is locked away tight, tight, tight in her chest; stuff no one ever gets to see because hawke is the funny one! the smiley one! the one who always has a joke ready! she can't be bothered by ANYTHING, she's FINE!!! (she's not) everything will be FINE!!! (it won't) she can handle this!!!! (she can't)

she has a strange relationship with viscount dumar in that she's not his biggest fan but enjoys the notoriety (read: $$$) that comes along with doing jobs for him. she's very intrigued by the arishok until She Very Suddenly Isn't. she very obviously sides with the mages, she very much is not a fan of cullen (after spending most of her life idolizing malcolm and trying to protect bethany, he gets about 3 words into the "mages aren't people like you or me" speech before the kill bill sirens start going off) or meredith and do not get her STARTED on elthina. she never really gets to make up her mind about orsino, but them's the breaks.

cannot stress this enough: she is. so fine. with what happens. at the end of act 3. she is so. fucking. fine with it. and the fact bioware didn't give us the option for hawke TO be fine with it. exhausts me to no end. she's so totally on board with what happens. she agrees with anders. she'd throw him a pizza party if she could. ice cream cake. the works.

after act 3 tho (and obviously all the angst the sudden departure from kirkwall and varric brings with it) she goes off with anders, mostly to ensure he doesn't get himself killed in the ensuing fallout. they end up hiding out amongst the avvar because god help me i love the avvar and their handling of mages. but the second she gets word from varric that shit's whack, she's at skyhold as quick as humanly possible, lmao.

this is already so many words so i'm just. i'm just gonna stop. but. yeah. that's...that's my hawke. default first name on the screen, original character in my heart.

if you got past the first para honestly, ty for reading XD

[haleigh-sloth]

Hi 🙋‍♀️ my friend thinks that Dabi is going to be put down(killed) and Endeavor will be the one who’s going to do it as an act of atone. I told her that it was a horrific take because that would be a horrible way to atone and two your essentially saying that Endeavor should re-kill the son he failed and basically killed by his actions of neglect/abuse as a parent which would not be a good path to take! I also stated that three villains are being set up to be saved. She still doesn’t believe me, and asked if I could get a better perspective. So I’m here begging 🙏🏻 🥺 for your input please? Your definitely a lot more perspective and have a better eye than I!

Hey! So I’m going to answer everything, but first ask your friend to provide evidence of this, and to also explain how any of that would be even remotely acceptable to portray in a story that is aimed toward a very large, young, impressionable audience, in which a portion has undoubtedly experienced abuse in their own lives. How would those people feel reading that? What kind of message does that send? Horikoshi isn’t like a writing genius or anything, but he is not THAT incompetent. I mean...do give him credit where it’s due. He’s been building up their redemptions for a long time and he’s already established that as the next narrative challenge for Shouto, Ochaco, and Midoriya. I’m not going to say anything about your friend’s way of thinking because I can’t tell by the way your ask is worded if she believes that’s how it SHOULD go (which is....not good) or if she just has no faith in the writing (which is understandable but I’m gonna try to relieve some of those anxieties). In order to remain polite and civil I’m gonna go with the ladder and assume she just has no faith in Horikoshi, which is understandable, but not necessary! I hope you’re comfortable because this is probably going to be longer than I am anticipating, but oh well. 

Anyway, I’ll start with establishing what is deemed acceptable in the world of BNHA as far as killing goes.

*clears throat* It’s not fucking acceptable. Never was, never will be.

Look, please pinpoint to me where a pro-hero in the story has killed a villain and it was viewed as acceptable. And before you point at Hawks, I’m going to direct you here, here, and here. And there are so so SO many more posts I could find and link you to that explain my point further on that matter, but I won’t do that unless it’s asked of me. Regardless, Hawks murdering Twice was not acceptable, it was not portrayed as such, it was not viewed as such by the characters within the story. Therefore, it was not acceptable. And I’m fairly certain Hawks has a really rough road ahead of him because of his terrible choice, so prepare yourself for that.  But where was I? Oh yeah, establishing whether or not it’s acceptable to kill:

I mean there are more, but I don’t have all the time in the world. Tell her to read the story from the beginning and pay attention to what the story is telling its readers  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Now, we’ve established that heroes in BNHA do NOT kill. That is not what being a hero means in THIS story. Now, what else is something important in BNHA that has repeatedly gotten focus?

Family.

To me personally, the most important callout to the importance of protecting your family is here:

He’s calling out all heroes, but he’s saying this in front of Endeavor. Important. Note that. There’s an entire subplot dedicated to the importance of portraying that putting your family first is the utmost responsibility of a parent. Outside of that subplot, we are shown the very dire consequences of what happens when parents abandon and reject their children.

Exhibit A: Toga

Exhibit B: Toya, or Dabi

Exhibit C: Tenko, or Tomura

These adults are the result of parents who failed their families.

Look, regardless of what people want to say the story is about: whether it’s about heroes vs. villains (it’s not), or about Midoriya graduating UA and becoming the number 1 hero (it’s not), or about Midoriya mastering his quirk (it’s not), there is no denying that BNHA is about heroes SAVING others and parents protecting their FAMILY. 

Horikoshi made it a point to establish a clear difference between the adults and the children in BNHA. He also made a point to show ALL THREE VILLAINS’ origin stories and showed us that all it took was ONE BAD DAY when they were CHILDREN. There is literally a chapter titled “All it takes is one bad day” specifically to drill this into your head. Toga’s life went downhill after attacking that boy in middle school from suppressing her biological nature for so long. Toya’s life went downhill when his flames nearly killed him. Tenko’s life went downhill when his quirk activated and killed his whole family. All it took was one bad day in these children’s lives to completely ruin their futures and take any and every chance away from them at a normal life. 

So with the strong focus on heroes saving people and parents failing their children, why why WHY would it ever be acceptable for Enji to KILL his SON? That not only repeats the first mistake made (Toya’s death), but also negates ALL of the narrative focuses of the entire story. I just...that’s a very very deep disconnect that I can’t force closed unless your friend chooses to look deeper than surface level reading. And it’s not just BNHA that has narrative themes and focuses throughout the story. That’s ANY story you read. Well, any good story at least. I’m not a writer by any means but even I know the basic rules of story telling: 

Leave a message for your readers. Give your story a goal. 

Otherwise it’s just words and pictures on paper that don’t mean anything. 

So I gave you the basics of what BNHA is about, now I’ll give the specific moments that directly tell you that Toya, Toga, and Tomura are going to be saved and redeemed. 

Toya:

Toga:

Tomura:

Now....does your friend really think these panels up here just mean nothing? Because that’s not how manga works. The panels have meaning, especially the ones given the most attention to drawing detail, the ones given the most space on a page. All of these were given their own big moments in their respective chapters. Toga is going to be saved by Ochaco, Toya is going to be saved by his baby brother, and Shigaraki is going to be saved by our main character Midoriya. It’s clear as day right there. 

Now I want to take it back to the Todoroki family for just a bit once more. Their entire subplot revolves around reunification. That has been the established endgame since Shouto’s origin chapters. And honestly? You don’t even have to be smart to figure this out. Like when you see Rei in the hospital, you already assume that she’s going to get out and come home at some point within the story, making the family whole again. THEN you learn about Toya and you learn that he’s ALIVE after ten years of being presumed dead. You really think HE isn’t going to be brought home just like his mother was??? Fam, that is the established goal of the Todoroki Family Subplot. There is no denying this, it is there in the text, and it is not even a little bit subtle. Horikoshi is not subtle. At all. With anything. Ever.  

However, no matter how much textual evidence we are given, there are still people living in denial because it’s either A. Not the direction they want, or B. They really just aren’t grasping the writing. Either way, the redemption set ups are there, whether they like it or not. At this point I’m convinced that the only way to shut villain-haters down is to wait til the last chapter has come out and the villains are fine, Toya is reunited with his family, Toga is alive and well and finds community with the other kids (at least that’s what I predict), and Shigaraki is alive and well and surrounded by people who care about him, a family if you will. Other than just waiting for that moment, idk what else it’s gonna take for the bad takes to stop. 

Now here’s my reality check disclaimer:

Horikoshi could screw us all and just kill the villains off. But that would be bad writing and also ruin the ENTIRE STORY. And believe me I will bitch and bitch until I am six feet under and I will continue to bitch about it in whatever afterlife awaits me. But seriously..he won’t do that. Not to mention I have a million other reasons somewhat unrelated to the writing but more so to Horikoshi himself as to why I believe with all of my being that the three villains are going to get a happy ending, but that’s a different discussion for a different time. This post is already long as shit. 

I hope your friend will look a little deeper at the story so she can enjoy it for what it is. The story has flaws, the Todoroki subplot is definitely a MESS right now because of the focus on Endeavor 🤢, but I believe it will clean itself up and be great in the end. The redemption arcs of the villains are the most interesting thing about BNHA and I know I speak for a lot of others and not just myself when I say this but, the villains are the only reason a LOT of people are still even invested in the story to begin with. If it weren’t for them? We’d all be ghost. So, do with that what you will. I hope this helps ease your anxieties a little bit and helps your friend understand what to pay attention to in the writing.

[hackereaped]

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Due to the content within this post, I’m going to place it under a read more, I will apologize for the suddenness that this might appear as but with a situation that’s been going on since September, I feel it only fair to be able to finally speak up and get this side out there, which will reveal a lot over what’s been happening behind the scenes but I ask that you read with an open mind and do what’s best for you.

I want to preface my feelings on the matter and express that this is in no way meant to persuade or get people to choose any sort of side. This is not intended to be a callout. This is not intended and meant to be reblogged and I ask that you please don’t. This is me wanting to speak my peace on the matter, this is me wanting to get out my side and involvement because it only feels fair for such. If we're friends, our relationship has no correlation or connection to him and the same about his relationships with people as well, do what you feel is best for you at the end of the day but I'd like for you to have the full context first. I'm about to be thirty and firmly believe that people can separate relationships and should be able to.  It's up to me, myself, and I to curate my space accordingly, not anyone else and that's exactly what I've been doing and will continue to do. Things explained here will be the only thing I express on the matter and it'll be left at that.

Cece has expanded and explained most of what the issues we have been dealing with and handling in silence since September and decided that it’s for the best for these to be put out there, for the full story to be heard, for people to be able to take what’s learned and make a well-informed decision based upon what they feel is best for them. Forgive me if this comes across as a jumbled mess, I’ve been sitting on this for a while now and I’m not entirely sure how to go about sorting out these emotions properly and never intend or want this to come across as an attack, it’s only meant to serve as an explanation and expansion to what’s been going on.

It’s my side of a story that I have every right to tell and get out there.

You probably already know by now that this is about Morty / Shibuyacrossed.

The first thing that I want to talk about is the theft which has taken place from my blog. I want to preface this by saying that I do not mind similar headcanons at all and think it's fantastic when people can share similar thoughts and portrayals when it comes to characters. It's super neat that we can share brain cells and come up with similar conclusions as to why certain characters might respond to / act upon certain mannerisms. We even had a fantastic conversation via IMs where we discussed rollerblading / skating Rhyme and that was so much fun! 

Due to the hardblock in place and closing out of the IMs, I have lost access to this but it was one of the few actual conversations we had, which were already very minimal. Again let me say that I fully expect people to share / have similar headcanons when it comes to these characters especially and that's great! There's no issue with that. What I do take issue to is in the aftermath of what had gone down, something that you decided to make me part of via association anyways, is the  blatant soft block which happened to my Rhyme blog and then your Rhyme going live with this specific headcanon posted and phrased the way that it was.

Youngest child in a strict family, Rhyme was pushed very hard by their parents from an early age to do as well in school and life as possible. They took this responsibility upon themselves when it was thrust upon them, never complaining and always trying their best, hoping that if they did well, they would be less harsh on Beat. Unfortunately, they were not invulnerable from this stress, and was prone to anxiety attacks quite frequently when they were younger. Never medicated or treated for this, they unfortunately had to learn to deal with it on their own, holding it together in front of their parents and peers and often breaking down when the second they were alone. - morty’s version

remember when i mentioned that the pressures placed upon rhyme do impact them and they simply hide it from everyone? why can’t you be like your sister? or, she’s heading in the right direction, what about you? is a lot to live up to. she doesn’t want to let her parents down and at the same time - she believes in beat and doesn’t want to let him down. so with a smile on their face, they work hard, listening to the rules in place, studying hard, hanging out with her sibling when they can, be good, do right; after all: you only get one life with your loved ones right? Haha. - my version

* important note that the panic attack headcanon was technically posted prior to that but the original post has since been deleted since I moved the bullet point to another post with various smaller posts. I’ve also provided the launch date screencaps for the sake of timeline purposes. The earliest post that I do have a screencap for dates back to September 06th for panic attack mentions.

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I want to reiterate that I don’t mind the similar headcanon(s) at all. The portrayal just makes sense when you dig deep into Rhyme as a character and what they go through. What I do mind is the way that this entire blog and their portrayal came to light, for it to be phrased the way that it is, to be posted the way it was right after you decided to block me.

When I first saw the blog, it was via a reblog from a mutual I still had at the time and I hadn’t even noticed that I was softblocked until I got home from work and was finally on my computer to realize that’s exactly what had happened on my Rhyme blog and my multi. On top of similar mannerisms in blog portrayals, it made me uncomfortable to the point that ( again, let me point out that I was softblocked first. ) I decided to hardblock and curate my space, to protect my safe area out of fear that more things might have been snatched from me, this took place after Cece’s follow up message she received from him and I decided I was finished altogether. 

This is when my hardblocks started taking place.

I should also mention that it's not even the whole Rhyme having panic attacks that's setting me off about this. Like we can all agree that these kids are dealing with trauma and their mental health would respond accordingly to such a result so that's a fairly common meta that I feel the majority of us would have and that's fine. It's the similar writing and incorporation of this headcanon right when I'm softblocked and the blog is made. That's what doesn't sit right with me about this. That's what upsets me.

That’s the primary thing that I needed to personally address, however I have been involved in more than this. By mentions alone, by association alone, by being played out as this package deal with Cece that I wanted to add and expand on this. Again, please check out Cece’s explanation for more context / screencaps / and better explanations as to what has happened as it’s already there and I don’t feel it necessary to break down every single thing a second time in this post.

Let’s start with the obvious vague made about us:

two days later i noticed that they and one of their friends, who i had not talked to about the disagreement between me and the other person at all, had both blocked me Everywhere.

I didn’t have anyone talk with me about the situation this part is speaking about due to the fact that I was able to see the disagreement with my own eyes, this happened on a public social media platform where I was mutuals / following the parties involved at the time. I could easily see with my own eyes what went down and from there, make my own decision over how I felt. But it’s important to know that when this had taken place, I hadn’t done any form of blocking. We were still very much mutuals and they were still in our discord server at the time as well. 

Any choice or opinions made during this time was from what I watched taking place live with my own eyes and nothing more, nothing less. 

I’d like to place emphasis and repeat that we are still mutuals during this, I haven’t blocked them anywhere, I didn’t block them anywhere despite my growing discomfort.

After the situation had allegedly died down and we were trying to move on, we were trying to keep quiet and just let everyone live life on their own path. 

You made the choice to softblock me and curate your space which is your right to do, and please do that. ( Sept. 29th realizing my softblock, Sept. 29 when I finally hardblocked ) But then I took notice of the theft and seeing as you had already soft blocked me yourself, I took it a step further for my own personal comfort to hard block you.

I did not block you in any way until you made the first move. 

It’s understandable to be upset and to curate your space accordingly, and I want it to be known that Morty has just as much right to block as he deems that he needs to for his well being and mental health. The reason I keep bringing this up is due to the fact that in his posts, they claim I went out and made the first move for no reason other than being talked about and this is the furthest from the truth, that is not how it happened at all. 

because i know i was talked about behind my back again. i know that an argument with one person, made another person who wasnt involved at all dislike me enough to block me. 

I’m going to be honest here. Morty isn’t really talked about until a stunt is pulled and we manage to catch it on the dash. This ties along with us literally trying to vibe and let bygones be bygones, keeping quiet and to ourselves so we can continue to enjoy this safe space, this happy place, this fandom that’s been so much fun to be part of. I wouldn’t want to do anything to jeopardize that and along with our lack of communication or any sort of relationship, there’s been absolutely no reason for this to come up, for you to come up and be talked about. 

I don’t bring him up. Cece doesn’t bring him up. And if they are, it’s only to our two other friends when something takes place on the dash again and we need to vent about it.

This one argument isn’t what made me do anything. It’s the build up of discomfort, it’s the theft, it’s been a number of things that had taken place which made up my mind for me. I’d like to repeat that I’m allowed to curate my space and remove anything that makes me feel uncomfortable in the same light that Morty is. I’m not mad about the blocks, I’m upset about how it was handled and how I’m being made out to be the one to dislike them from only one argument when that isn’t the case. That’s never been the case. 

if i hadnt looked up to them both so much it wouldnt be so bad. but i am having such a hard time dealing with it and a lot of twewy stuff reminds me about them and what happened, unfortunately.

There was a noticeable pedestal I was placed on that was absolutely noticed fairly early on, this was the start of my discomfort. I felt pretty uncomfortable with the way it felt that despite the limited interactions we had, that the way I was treated along with Cece. Admiration and flattery is one thing but there were certain reactions which made me feel fairly anxious and uncomfortable that I was willing to push to the side over possibly being an over analyzation on my part. 

But it kept going and only continued to feed into the trail of other uncomfortable coincidences from there. I was willing to overlook this, I wanted the chance to get to know him. To at least see if we could have a potential friendship in the future but was always limited. It felt distant. We never had the chance to expand into anything more because of this. 

I won’t dig deeper when it comes to the rest of the vague post. Cece breaks it down perfectly and I’d advise you to check that out again for further context. I don’t like being made out into this horrible person where only one side of the story is being shared and it’s not even the full or accurate representation as to what happens.

I’d like to make a comment about the anon hate Cece and I had gotten a bit back. Where I was mentioned in it for that two for one package. It hurt. It hurt a lot getting that. 

I’m thankful that we were able to turn that situation into something positive and while it might not have been from Morty directly, the timing of it makes me believe that they are very much linked in some manner. It absolutely feels linked no matter how you look at it. It feeds into who we’re being made out to be in a place I adore so much. This is speculation more than fact, there’s zero proof, but this tying into the way we are being portrayed is, to be frank, appalling and completely villainizes us.

I understand how it can appear with matching urls and matching themes and there absolutely being a bias there when it comes to who I respond to and when. That’s because I get the most excited for our plots considering Cece’s one of my very best friends and we chat on a regular basis. We expand and grow so many dynamics together that when I can find it in me to write, they typically take priority over the fact that I enjoy these so much!!! 

But even with that, I do my best to reach out and chat with people. I want to get to know people, I don’t want people to feel like I’m limited when I’m not. Cece and I aren’t exclusives in most places and fully support interacting with duplicate muses. The only ones are Beat and Rhyme and even then there are exceptions. I love seeing various takes and expanding on dynamics with new, potential friends! 

Back to the original point, it’s not cool, it’s not right. 

I’ve had people bait me with triggering things that I won’t expand on, I’ve had people take advantage of my own really bad mental health struggles in exchange for comfort and my attention. And while I’m not going to dig too deep into it, I've hardly been able to do much, or rather as much on the dash compared to when I started these blogs because my own mental health has been terrible. This isn't the place to unpack all of that and a lot of it is super personal that I'd rather keep it to myself and away from the dash but the point I'm wanting to make here is that I have been juggling my own mental health and these false accusations and twisting of the stories absolutely hasn't been helping.

It’s up to me to curate my own space, it’s up to me to handle myself if I’m having a bad day, it’s up to me to keep my dash clean and my mental health isn’t anybody else’s obligation. 

And that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to do. 

I would have been alright with letting everything go, with carrying this on as just a between us situation but the more I start to think it over, the more unfair I realize it is to us. 

I hate feeling like I’ve been backed into a corner and I don’t want to remain silent about it anymore. Please take this not as a callout again, that’s not what this is intended for, it’s just my side of a problem that’s been taking place for months now. Whatever you need to do as a result of this please do, I’ll understand, curate your space. I just wanted to tell my side because it’s fair.