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i love that one old timey 1910s trans dude who has a tiny wikipedia page for himself that he earned entirely due to him starting fights in bars and being the city’s hottest casanova

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I remember some YouTuber tweeting like “TV shows are too political these days old shows like Fresh Prince didn’t have all this sjw bullshit” and like the first episode will and uncle phil talk very sternly about malcom x

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She did not fucking stutter.

SHE SAID WHAT SHE SAID!! POINT BLANK PERIOD

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Happy pride month to the tiny cowboy and tiny Trojan man from Night at the Museum

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Yes, it’s really called that.

Nar Nar Goon

Humpty Doo

Pisspot Creek

Mount Blowhard

Ugly Creek

Quality Knob

Banana

Mount Buggery

Little Hell

Nowie

Broke

Cockburn

Come By Chance

Innaloo

Prominent Nob

Woolloomooloo

Orange

Broke

Bullshit Hill

Wangie

#these are all real places in australia #australia #we name things weird shit

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Some good news in the midst of all this chaos.

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Endeavour we don’t fuck with on this tumblr but I’m going to touch on a few things about Bakugou.

1. Bakugou has been raised by someone who expresses themself aggressively, both physically and verbally. His normal is being yelled at and his mother hitting him. This is normalised behaviour. It’s not unsurprising that he acts the same.

2. At no point did any of the teachers or his parents pull him up on the way he expressed himself in primary school/middle school. He grew up with a powerful offensive quirk and no one stepped in to make sure it wasn’t going to his head which was a big mistake considering how much praise he would have gotten for having such a powerful quirk.

3. Midoriya doesn’t know how to deal with being told no. He has hero worshiped Bakugou from day dot. He idolises Bakugou even after all the shitty things Bakugou has done to him. Bakugou didn’t want to be friends with Midoriya after it came out that he didn’t have a quirk. Is that shitty?? Yeah but they were young and that absolutely would have stemmed from the point above. The problem is that Midoriya kept trying and trying. He never let go of Bakugou. He watched and observed and held Bakugou up to this standard in his head for better and worse. Would you honestly be nice to someone you don’t want to be friends with if they kept idolising you and annoying the shit out of you every day? I doubt it. Eventually most people would crack and start getting mean to try and make the person go away.

4. Midoriya is the only character who can forgive Bakugou but in order for that to happen Bakugou needs more development (and preferably therapy). Bakugou is 16 and most of the shit people hate on him for (except the roof comment which he made at 14, I think?) is shit he did as a child. They’re both still babies in the scheme of things. They both have a long way to go and for Midoriya and Bakugou to actually come full circle they would both have to come to terms with their own shit in their complicated relationship.

Bakugou and Midoriya’s relationship is complex and you have to take into account the factors that created the history they have. They didn’t just get where they are out of nowhere. They’re both complex characters and they wouldn’t be the primary and secondary main character of the show if they weren’t.

Bakugou and Midoriya need therapy to deal with their issues. I’m personally hoping that in the future we do get to see the boys actually work on their problems with each other. Bakugou’s development comes from Midoriya’s and it’s probably going to piss people off that he isn’t likely to get pulled up by anyone else but that’s where fanfics are your best friend.

The biggest problem with BNHA re: abuse and bullying is that both abusers (Bakugou, Endeavour) are given a chance at redemption simply because nobody really knows what they did. They know the WHY - the justification - they know the ‘aftermath’, but they don’t know the gritty details. Neither of the abusive characters have to actually make up for what they did OR suffer any public consequences for their actions BECAUSE no one really knows what they did. Ex 1) Endeavor gets to live on as someone many people look up to and, despite not earning it the way he wanted to, he gets to be the Number One Hero. He literally gets to achieve his dream. The narrative sets it up like its a punishment, but in reality its a consolation prize. A real punishment would be Endeavour being stripped of his title for uhhhhHHHHHH child and domestic abuse. A real punishment would be Endeavour winding up in a situation similar to Ingenium - why didn’t Endeavour ever have to face a real threat from the Hero Killer or a similar “morals driven” villain who sees him for what he is? A real punishment would be All Might rejecting him as a hero or Shouto flat-out refusing to be near him once and for all with all of his other children. There’s still /some/ hope for this narrative through Dabi and through Shouto’s continued resentment, but honestly I think at worst Endeavour will get a heroic ending considering how things have been framed so far. Ex 2) Bakugou gets to even become a student at UA when, lets be real, if they knew about his past he likely wouldn’t have been allowed in. Can you imagine if his teachers EVER reported his behaviour towards Midoriya? Then, to make things worse, his classmates never really find out what he’s done to Midoriya because, again lets face it, they wouldn’t be able to maintain their status as heroes in the narrative if they supported Bakugou after hearing about the extent of his actions early on. This goes double for the teachers. All of them know /something/ is wrong, however they have no idea that Bakugou spent a decade intentionally demolishing Midoriya’s dreams, his personal sense of safety, his self-esteem, and then ultimately suicide-baited while also THREATENING him out of going to his dream school. Oh and then continued this pattern of abusive behaviour well into their shared schooling to the point that multiple characters made it Midoriya’s problem to resolve, risking his future because of Bakugou’s resentment. This goes TRIPLE for All Might and Inko. None of the characters /really/ get to call Bakugou out - at most he receives a slap on the wrist and, because that slap effects him deeply due to his insecurities and the fact that he’s clearly the author’s favourite, we are supposed to believe that this is ‘redemption’ or in any way…fair. That it is somehow equivalent to what he’s done. Keep in mind that his slaps on the wrist have been less severe than those experienced by other students for more minor or first time offences.  Redemption for both of these characters means NOTHING as long as the other characters they interact with are unaware of the extent of their actions and as long as they continue to not experience any real PERMANENT consequences for their actions. There’s no real lesson learnt…there’s just a “but they were really heroic deep down and they had to get past their insecurities for their true selves to show” which is kinda messed up when you consider uhhhhhhh their victims? It paints the victims in this scenario as martyrs who, in their acceptance of their abusers, get to make them better people. It essentially makes the heroism of these two the responsibility of their victims. Because it is through their silence that Endeavour and Bakugou got the chance to truly achieve their dreams.  Also, as an extra to really make this hit home: none of the other characters, who ARE good people, are handed nearly as much to them by the narrative. Every single other character has to work HARDER for their positions despite uh…not being terrible people. Endeavour is Number One and so is Bakugou in pretty much every way that counts. They both have countless people supporting them. They have been acknowledged and accepted by the strongest moral pillars of the story despite not deserving it. All of the other characters have flaws that drag them down somehow WORSE than an established abusive past lol. Like imagine…low self-esteem somehow holding you back worse than beating an actual child and your own wife. Shouldn’t the previous abusers have to work harder than everyone else and come from lower than everyone else? Shouldn’t they fall behind in “true” heroics? Have more personal crises? Shouldn’t they be forced, time and again, to come face to face with their past decisions? Because right now it seems like they’re being treated as equal to every other character, if not better, which is bullshit in a hero narrative. 

#look all i can say is the boys need therapy #bakugou #midoriya #deku #kacchan #mha

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I majored in gif making.

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My mom sent this to me and i’m howling

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the fact that tangled has a perfect set-up for major miscommunication between rapunzel and eugene to be the final emotional climax of the movie (“why’d you leave me”) but instead sidesteps that in favor of a beautiful battle between the two of them in which they try to out-sacrifice each other because they love and understand each other that much. the fact that they each try to save the other using the best means they’ve got at their disposal, the ones they’ve used their whole lives: rapunzel bargaining with mother gothel and promising away pieces of herself- this time all of herself- in exchange for his safety, Eugene pulling one final scam and trick when he feigns tenderly touching her face so he can actually cut off all her hair and set her free. the fact that Eugene’s plan works but as a result he dies, Flynn dies. (he told us this at the beginning, “this is the story of how I died” but remember- it’s a fun story.) The fact that the swashbuckling rogue and trickster and thief Flynn DIES so that rapunzel, the girl who never got to have a life, can LIVE. The fact that after one final successful trick Flynn dies so Eugene, little lost orphan boy, can rise again in his final and only role as a good man and as rapunzel’s husband- all of these make tangled the masterpiece it is. in this essay I will

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Find someone who supports you like this cat supports his owner’s music

via @sarperduman

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Yeah, you people are my largest threat.

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That’s it, that’s the show

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The women’s bathroom is just a big room with individual stalls. I don’t get why it’s such a big deal if anyone uses it? If you need to pee I got your back fam.