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Happy birthday to our glorious stupid king

#art #bakugou #kacchan

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One day he'll figure out how to respond to the tenderness the right way😊

#art #deku #izuku #bakugou #kacchan #dkbk #dekatsu #decchan #dekubaku

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Remake of my pfp with the boys 💥🥦

Can’t believe the difference of a year from the original

#art #bakugou #kacchan #deku #izuku

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this actually means everything to me idc

#toga #shigaraki #tenko #dabi #touya #Uraraka #uravity #deku #izuku #bakugou #kacchan #dkbk

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Beach episode…. Save me beach episode……

#art #izuku #deku #bakugou #kacchan #omggggg

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Lets break up the PJO art, with more fanart... I am a professional Illustrator guys, I promise heh!

I love Bakugo so much, his character growth is amazing and he is just son

#art #bakugou #kacchan

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#art #kacchan #bakugou

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"They don't teach us about that in school how am I supposed to know" well you seem to know a lot about Bakugou but they don't teach you about him in school. Do they

#bakugou class was mandatory actually #<=== YES #bakugou #kacchan

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HI HEHEHE

#art #bakugou #kacchan

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Okay I know Katsuki was a jerk as a kid but he’s so adorable in these photos 🥺

#bakugou #kacchan

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ABSOLUTELY FLOORED BECAUSE WHAT DOES THE 2ND TELL DEKU IN TODAY'S CHAPTER????

I don't know if this is exactly where it's going to go. But I'm still amazed that it is coming to letting OFA go. Whether Deku does it or not is a whole nother ball game, though, and I guess we'll see how this progresses from here.

I think a lot about how MHA is Deku’s story. How he became the greatest hero.

I saw this interpereted as him becoming the #1 hero. And I get that. We all want that for him. And he’s supposed to be the pillar of justice. So it makes sense. But honestly, I don’t necessarily see it going down that way? The greatest hero doesn’t mean he has to be top of the charts. And neither does taking the baton from All Might.

I was one of those who thought that Deku would… well, I’m used to my favorites being killed. So it was a natural conclusion in my mind. The eager to help, self sacrificial hero would, well, lay everything down for Tomura until nothing remains but the legacy of a young hero who was recognized by the #1, #2, and #3 heroes as having surpassed them (making him the greatest.)

However, I was discussing this endgame with a coworker of mine, and, of course, he didn’t agree. Which is okay. Everyone has their own ideas about how this is all going to play out, but we won’t know until it’s over. Horikoshi isn’t giving it away so soon.

Anyways, his take was one I hadn’t even thought of: Deku just GIVES All for One One for All back. Which sounded absolutely absurd to me. Because WHY would Deku do that?

The Vestiges.

In the same way we see Deku manifest there in Yoichi’s cell within OFA, I’m sure AFO could, too. It would be, quite literally, an inside job. They would take him down from within OFA. All 9 users.

Of course, I think that would leave him, once again, quirkless when it’s all said and done. But that would be okay. Because, well, he’d have earned his title by then.

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TUMBLR MOBILE SEARCH PLEASE WHERE IS MY POST FROM FOREVER AGO I NEED IT STAT

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Day 3 - Enemies to Lovers! I hope I portrayed the dynamic well enough, but the oil slick texture I gave for toga’s quirk was real fun to render

@togachakoweekoffical

#art #togachako #uravity #Uraraka #toga

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Are you one of the people expecting bkdk to be canon? I just learned that there are people that sincerely believe Hori would have Deku and Bkg have an explicit confession of love. That he's going to be the first popular mangaka to have a endgame gay ship. I am in so many mlm ships of shounen but I've never had the delusion that the author would make them canon despite the evidences otherwise. Like I thought it's fine to ship mlm as long as we stayed in our lane and never harassed the author.

After speaking together, we do believe based on the evidence in the series that BakuDeku being canon is not an even vaguely unreasonable conclusion to reach. We think the story is written in a way you can reach that conclusion easily, so much that even casual viewers who aren’t shippers are questioning the nature/potential conclusion of their relationship.

One of the most consistent and convincing lines of evidence for us has been Katsuki taking on roles/positions traditionally reserved for female heroines/love interests (if you’ve seen anyone call him “narratively androgynous,” this is what they’re referring to). In the context of Jump magazine, we have a number of shonen heroines and love interests to compare Katsuki to. The similarities are so striking that many notable people (including the VAs for the anime) have taken to calling him the heroine of the series.

However, we do think things like homophobia (whether it’s the writer or the audience/consumerbase at large– in this case we’re primarily referring to the audience), the safety of everyone involved, and timing are all unpredictable factors people have to take into consideration when writing/reading a story of this magnitude. Needless to say, if Horikoshi is indeed planning an endgame for bakudeku, he’d also have to take these factors into consideration.

Horikoshi has a record of being pretty in-tune with his fanbase. He definitely keeps some eye on bnha’s reception–for example, he mentioned a while back that both the people who love Katsuki and the people who hate him will have something to look forward to in this finale (we can now see what he meant lol). He’s very likely aware of the people who love bakudeku and the people who loathe it. 

Taking into account that he tends to be very intentional with his writing choices, he’s written this story in a way that not only centered bakudeku’s relationship over others (notably Izuku + Ochako’s, the character he’d presumably end up with if things were going predictably?), but also went the extra mile to distinguish their relationship as unique, closer than all their other relationships, the “biggest pillar of the story” (x, x). He didn’t have to do all of this. This extra push is what’s giving bakudeku that undeniable chance at an endgame right now, because it’s come to a point where no one can ignore the implications of scenes like this:

On the flip side, we don’t think people’s hesitation is unreasonable. It’s scary! If bakudeku were to fall flat of all this buildup/our expectations, it wouldn’t be the first time the romantic implications between a pair of boys in a story like this was ignored. Hell it wouldn’t be the first time a popular pair in general, (gay or not) got ignored in favor of what the author just felt like doing, regardless of what any previous developments in the story or interviews or official artwork would have us believe. There’s enough written evidence that canon bakudeku wouldn’t be surprising, but there’s also (at the time of writing this response) still room for things to go another direction, for all of this to be recontextualized and passed as something else. 

As per social norms/patterns of behavior, this would be disappointing as hell but not surprising. Especially for people who have been let down before, we completely understand the need/impulse to distance oneself from the idea/hope that bakudeku may become canon.

In all honesty, if it turns out bakudeku isn’t canon or left open-ended (say, an ending where they’re partners of some kind/the closest to one another without that explicit romantic confirmation), we would be frustrated/heartbroken. Not because we feel like Horikoshi shouldn’t do what he wants, he should. But because there’s been a clear effort to bring LGBTQ+ readers into the fold, and tell and portray our experiences in MHA. Horikoshi has done a beautiful, incredible job of writing various LGBTQ+ and marginalized experiences as a metaphor in his stories. Toga is a prime example. This is something that readers around the world have noticed, and it’s something MHA is special for (see this data x, and the further context/commentary on it given here x). 

We think it’s intentional. This story and the relationships in it have invoked experiences close and personal to many of us. Things are in a state right now where we wouldn’t just feel baited, we feel like readers would have a right to feel unsatisfied.

That being said, feeling unsatisfied doesn’t equate to feeling empowered to harass or bother others. Especially not Horikoshi himself, and also including other readers who had differing expectations. This is really the case across the board. We should all be able to control our anticipation/expectations without becoming assholes. 

It’s not just the shippers, by the way. People who work on the series or work closely with Horikoshi have rooted for bakudeku to go beyond. Izuku and Katsuki have already done what a good chunk of the readerbase thought impossible and became friends. People see their writing, their potential, and they want more. The voice actors (x, x sorry for the crunchy pic it's all i've got atm), academics (x), musicians (x, x) , editors (x) and more have all kind of rallied around Bakugou and Deku’s bond, with a particular sensitivity towards the deeply and uniquely intimate nature of it + how it evokes romance.

We’d like to see MHA exist free of the burdens previous popular shounen series have had placed on them. But that’s a conversation for the ending. As far as the fanbase goes, I think it’s super important people practice humility and caution when speaking to others. We have NO way of knowing what will happen. People who have been traumatized by situations like this in the past have a right to be anxious, people in general are allowed to withhold judgment until we have all the information we need. However, we don’t think having hope or confidence that this narrative might lead us to a canon bakudeku is unwarranted or delusional.

At the end of the day one thing is true, and this was something we had to fight to “prove” much longer than we had to prove Bakudeku had romantic potential - it’s that Kacchan and Izuku’s lives are going to be forever intertwined in this new era of their world that births from the finale. 

They’re forever intertwined in a way that’s not replicable for any other character in the series, and that’s amazing all on its own. We’ll just have to wait and see how far they take it! Thanks for reading if you got this far, and Happy Holidays!

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Kacchan sugoi

#art #kacchn #bakugou

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Oh, i didn't remember drawing this 🤨

The sketchy todoroki tho...

#art #all might #toshinori #todoroki #bakugou #kacchan

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trick or treat 💚🧡

(ignore how late this is)

prints | ko-fi

#art #deku #izuku #bakugou #kacchan #dkbk