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Doesn't the fact that (now confirmed by the recent leak chapter) shouji was attacked after (like right after) he saved the girl, invalidate his whole argument? Because while he did obviously change that one girl's mind about him, if the act of shouji saving the kid got him those scars in the firt place, what does he think he is going to accomplish exactly?

I mean, I know they're going for 'generational change', really really passing the buck in these situations, but if their goal is to be cool heroes to make things better for their kind and through shouji's story only the one person he saved accepted him, they seem pretty comfortable with a long haul while admitting all the horrible things are still going on? And at least so far, they seem to have no intention (or even a mention) of even returning to those places were the mutant hate is happening?

What do you think about this narrative choice? And do you think what spinner then said was right?

Hey, I'm doing okay, thank you. Just fighting a headache, so I hope that what I'm about to type makes sense.

This chapter shows a return of the argument that oppressed people need to fight for the "right reasons." Except it doesn't really go at length to explain what these reasons are, except for some vague, abstract feels-good ideal that is really no response to the demands of their opponents.

I think that the kids are trying to back away from offering a real solution by pushing a narrative of acceptance and friendship over actual accountability. The two "right" examples offered here both hint towards the same thing. First, there's Kouda's mom, who found an out from a life of harassment about her appearance when she received the unconditional love of her soon-to-be husband. Then there's Shouji and the little girl he saved versus the crowd who attacked him for it. In both cases there's a common denominator. The lesson they're trying to push by citing these examples seems to be that so long as mutants have at least one person on their side, and so long as they have someone they want to protect, it's possible and encouraged to brave through any oppression. Kouda's mom had her husband and son, while Shouji had the one good memory and the little girl's gratitude.

Now, this argument fails to land for several reasons.

One, it downsizes and trivializes a social issue into something much smaller that doesn't need society at large to answer for it. Finding true acceptance in friends and family doesn't cancel out the oppression. It just makes it more bearable, at least for those who are lucky enough to find it. But for them and for those who are not, oppression still remains a very real problem that needs addressing. Saying "but I have friends!" means nothing because having friends is not the point. These people are demanding that society do something about groups like the CRC. They're asking protection from massacres like incident 6/6. In the grand scheme of things, the fact that some mutants found warmth and belonging is irrelevant to the questions currently being asked.

Two, this argument is tone-deaf and self-serving. The hero kids assume they are the only ones here who have friends and people to protect, or just people on their side willing to stick with them unconditionally. That's false. Spinner is literally fighting to free one friend, Kurogiri (which he has stated as the goal of this attack several times now), and to protect another one of his friends, Shigaraki. Spinner accepted AFO's power to protect the League as a whole because the League was the first real home he had. Just like Kouda's mom and Shouji, Spinner also has someone who accepted him for who he is in Tomura. The heroes don't get to use the "I have friends to protect and they love me very much" card if they're not ready for a uno reverse move. It's not the winning argument they think it is. It just shows their ignorance and self-centeredness.

Three, channeling rage into fighting for "the right reasons" and becoming heroes is also not a response to the problem of oppression. If it were, we wouldn't have things like Gang Orca being called villainous or making children cry because of his appearance. The thing is, while entering the hero business gives heteromorphs the chance to discredit the prejudice that their quirks make them all subhuman or villainous, visibility alone doesn't cut it. One thing that would help is using that platform to address discrimination, using their status to help the cause. Ideally, though, heteromorph discrimination shouldn't be on heteromorphs alone to combat. A vast majority of the people responsible for oppression don't do it because they don't know better, like, say, the kids when they called Shouji an octopus. People who created social hierarchies based on quirk privilege will want to stay prejudiced to maintain said privileges. So I find this argument ineffective. It distracts from asking accountability on a societal scale, making it into a private conflict that can be solved with rep and good will.

Imho it's not the fact that Shouji was attacked right after rescuing the child that invalidates his argument then, but rather the fact that he's talking about peas when he was asked about peacocks.

As for the last question, what I think about Spinner. I think he's right, and that the kids are only "winning" this argument because Spinner is too incoherent to string together a counterargument. Like. It's almost hard to watch how Hori is dumbing down the points the villains are pushing forward (enough so that even a rock would understand them) and making the villains easier and easier to save, but the heroes still can't be bothered to save them. They have their work cut out for them but still struggle to get past the very first step. Listening.

Like. The whole thing here is that Spinner accepted these powers (that make him so fearsome and wooooo... Dangerous in the heroes' eyes) because society beat into him the idea that he's worthless so long as he's not strong on his own.

The heroes can talk about the power of friendship all they want. The truth is still that their society is individualistic and quirk elitist as hell. They have rankings. Things like "there is power in numbers and in relying on others for help when you need it" are a very recent development. Like, as recent as Deku's rogue arc. But their society doesn't function on those ideals. In fact, it's engineered to squash those "weak" enough to rely on others to win. Think of Monoma and Shinsou and their respective struggles to be seen as "worthy" enough to call themselves heroes wannabes. Both were called villains simply because they weren't flashy enough on their own, because they needed to borrow their power from others.

Spinner is first and foremost a victim of that society. He didn't fall prey of AFO's schemes because he's a heteromorph (even if AFO instrumentalized this for his own gain). He fell prey because he thought he was useless alone.

This chapter once again brings focus to his need to fill that emptiness in his heart. Unlike Dabi, Stain, Shigaraki—or anyone in the League, really—Spinner doesn't think he has it in him to "change the world on his own"

But he still wants to.

AFO seized this opportunity to manipulate him, and Spinner gave in because he saw no better options to truly make a difference. Let's remember that during the first war arc, when the PLF saw their hideout get stormed in by an army of heroes, Spinner was pretty powerless. He had no big showdown, and even his attempt to wake up Shigaraki backfired.

But if Spinner fell for AFO's machinations, it's because society told him, over and over, all his life, that he's useless so long as his quirk is useless. If he became Godzilla and endangered civilians, it's because he was taught that to be someone he needed to be this strong.

The kids can tell him their inspirational stories all day long, but the reality Spinner lived is still one of kill or be killed. They can tell him that they want to become heroes and change the world all they want, but the truth remains that Spinner was never in the running for heroism in the first place. His quirk was too "weak" and forgettable.

So the point is, while the kids have the luxury of channeling their anger for "the right reasons"—while they can grit their teeth and bear the oppression because they can make a difference in the future—Spinner simply doesn't have that option to fall back on. If he wants social change, he can't rely on becoming a hero to get it. And if "friendship and people to protect" was enough to change things for the better, he wouldn't have seen friend after friend die.

So while his reaction might seem cold or insensitive, I think he has every reason to be angry. The kids aren't offering him any alternatives. They're just casting judgement from their high horse.

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goes into kevin defunctland video expecting fun documentary about disney channel bumpers, comes out of it having watched a feature length introspection on the worth of art to its creators versus the impact it as on those who consumed it and how success is relative and the tragedy of legacy and how achieving your dream can still sometimes be unhappy and how despite all of this, sometimes all you need to change perception is a video, and people willing to help you be remembered for what you are and always will be. i am now going to stare at a rock for 4 hours

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that post thats like "youre not like hannibal lecter you dont even brush your teeth at night" changed me now every time im brushing my teeth i think omg im gonna get such a good grade at being just like hannibal lecter

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I didn’t know you could get banner characters on the standard banner till I pulled him

#does not make up for loosing 50/50 on kazuha and venti #i hate coloring anime #tighnari #genshin impact #this is the art tag

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Wolves

#star wars rebels #ezra bridger #this is the art tag #somehow never drawn him before #or at least i dont remember drawing him #i think i made him look older than intended

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Scara, it's 4pm! Time for your villain rehabilitation training!

#YES #THIS IS EXACUTLY WHAT I WANTED TO SEE

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Rebels makes me wish Palpatine stayed looking like the kindly old man, That scene with him an Ezra is so well done. Like imagine if in the original trilogy we only ever see the Emperor hooded and menacing then in ROTJ we just see this nice looking old guy and hes like, hello young Luke ! all sweet and shit until the very second he starts to electrocute him, maybe even still looking kind as he does it. I genuinely think it would be more off putting

#star wars has problems with making all their villains scarred and disable in some way #.txt

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Echo Base.

A fitting name, for not only the way the few noises that occur bounce down long frozen corridors, but how one's thoughts, while stuck on the base, circle around and around, in endless loops, each one just a little more dire than the last.

“Here’s a riddle for you, Commander,” Hera flicks the toggle to shut the data pad down, then boot it up again, “What do you call a pilot who isn’t allowed to fly, a spy whose cover is blown, and two droids with terrible personalities?”

Cassian Andor, in return, offers a small sardonic grin. “Mission control of Echo Base, clearly.”

My Cassian and Hera friendship fic is updated! And there’s stunning art commissioned from @crow085 to match!

#this is the art tag #hera syndulla #cassian andor

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nothing worse than when the premise of something captivates you but then it sucks ass. bro you put this idea out into the world and you didn't even do it a shred of justice

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As it turns out tumblr does indeed have a tag limit but it doesn't tell you that or how many is too many and just lets you add words forever then deletes them when you press post

#that mha post had like. so many more tags #and they are gone now </3 #anyways the todoroki arc could have said something good but instead it says lets forgive human traffickers and abusers #and if you dont forgive them than you're evil

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Average day at LOV headquarters

#yes i know this is ooc #Fucked up dabi's jacket on the first page but im not fixing that shit lol #the cover took at long to make as an entire comic page #also can you tell what pages i drew first based on how i get better at drawing the mha style #at least i feel like i can see that #my fav panel is the younger brother cold read one #its the last one i drew #mha dabi #touya todoroki #tw domestic violence #my hero acedamia #this is the art tag #boku no hero fanart #also i started reading MHA because i matched 1:1 with shiggy on every personality test (MBTI enneagram rulen shit like that) #and was looking on a personality databse for what character matched me to most #add mha to the list of series in which the good side are those seeking to preserve the status quo and the villains are people with #legit grievances and a desire to make society better but then have the villains inexplicably like. fight children so we know they are bad #and the end resolution is that society is fine and everything was an individual problem not a systematic one #also fuck endeavor redemption arc #and while enji may SAY it doenst matter if hes forgivven the story SHOWS that it does matte #In the manga Shoto literally explicitly says that if he didn't forgive Enji then he would be as bad as Dabi #and Deku says that what enji did in the past donest matter cause he was nice to him #and the only thing Natsu says against endeavor is that he neglected his kids when thats literally the least of his crimes #and while people see this as a Get Endeavor moment the way the whole arc is framed you're supposed to see Natsu as unresonable #it's why hes shown to be angry and hitting walls and endevor is perfectly calm #the narrative of the story brushes all the truly awful shit away and pretends like it didnt happen #i seriously doubt the fact the Endeavor human trafficked his wife then beat her to the point she was afraid of her own kids for looking like #him will ever be adressed #Rei literally bowed in apology to Hawks for what Touya did shes treated like shit by the narrative #also the fact that Deku explicitly states that none of the shit Enji did in the past mattered because he was a good mentor is such bullshit

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Image description: it's an illustration of Aayla Secura and Quinlan Vos from Star Wars. They're both older. Quinlan stands with his back to Aayla, holding his green lightsaber low, he's ready to fight. He's looking off to the side. Aayla is standing behind him, she's in profile. She has a frown and tears in her eyes, she's also holding her lightsaber in front of her face in a meditative/defensive pose. End of description.

Edit: y'all never saw anything shhhhh

#LOVELY BEAUTIFU LGEORGEOUS

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hey don’t cry. 200,000 clone troopers with a million more on the way, okay?

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Commissioned the lovely @crow085 to draw a scene from my Luke & Vader fanfic This Life of Ours! Thank you so much, it’s so insanely beautiful!! <3333

Original AU + Character designs belong to @polarspaz!

#this is the art tag #luke skywalker #Darth Vader

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im not finishing this

#scaramouche #sketch #genshin impact #i hate coloring anime #this is the art tag #blanket permission to finish this if you want #my fav archon quest so far #that mha fancomic is doing damage to me the last pannel looks like mha style... #genshin 3.2 spoilers

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This scene is still living rent free in my head

#Darth Vader #Ahsoka Tano #this is the art tag #star wars rebels #i hate coloring vader's helmet

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Annoying (some dialog taken from Empire 2004)

#I HAD FORGOT TO PUT IN WHERE I GOT SOME OF THE WORDS FROM #why are all my fancomics 7 pages #i dont do that on purpose #boba fett #Darth Vader #Fancomic. #star wars #could definatly keep working on it for a few more days #but... nah #not really worth it... #this is the art tag