#the sandman - 626 posts [unsurprising, we started strong w the witcher, but these last four months were just overrun]
#the witcher - 531 posts
#dreamling - 307 posts
#video - 217 posts
#merlin bbc - 191 posts [under 2 weeks left 🥲iykyk]
#bnha - 157 posts
#fishy’s bubbles - 149 posts
#fav - 123 posts
#hob gadling - 117 posts
#writing - 116 posts
Longest Tag: 139 characters
#i’m reversing the car and there’s a curb. i’m going forward and there’s a curb. i’m moving sideways like a sandwinder and there’s a curb :/ [i have NO IDEA what this is attached to/what itʻs referring to]
I sent 1 gift in 2022 🦀:)
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
bc of this post from @insertsanity529 and idk if the concept will make it into my fic
@thatboysgotwoah hey so. hereʻs a thing. a very loose thing but it is, nonetheless, A Thing. (a thing i didnʻt realize was 1k until Just Now WTF)
there is also a part 2 in the rbs :)
& an ao3 link with little bits added to it here and there
[ok so maybe i deleted the entire fic from this post but hey itʻs a lot and you can find the ao3 up there or the post right below. itʻs a sandman fic, bc he-llo top tag]
200 notes - Posted October 19, 2022
#4
the Prince of Stories being in love with Professor Storyteller Extraordinaire is Top Tier Stuff
234 notes - Posted October 13, 2022
#3
HE MADE A FUCKN GIRAFFE 🦒
693 notes - Posted May 23, 2022
#2 [gen thought itʻd be my 1st]
hob: would you still love me if i was a worm? 🥺
dream: *turns hob into a worm, contemplates for a hot second as hobʻs Freaking Out on the floor before turning him back, pecking him on the cheek* yes darling, i still loved you 🥰❤️❤️
#volo: cant let anyone know he came through the rift. i'll just take all his stuff *steals id badge from work as well as all his poke balls*
I sent 1 gift in 2022
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
Might I ask for 11 A Ingo?
Ingo reunites with his pokemon :')
Thank you for the prompt @psychic-panda-28
haha umm this took a little longer cause i decided to draw his pokemon too (i got lazy and didn't look at refs for excadril, so please don't look too closely at him) (also a joltik is there because I'm sure that with all of the ones that Emmet has, he as some he's attached to too)
172 notes - Posted May 2, 2022
#4
When your brother returns after suddenly and unexpectedly disappearing into the past, and you cling to him like a koala cause you missed him so much and dont want him to disappear again
But it's fine cause he came back JACKED, and holding you is like holding a bunch of grapes
Bonus
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410 notes - Posted April 6, 2022
#3
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639 notes - Posted February 16, 2022
#2
You ever like. Listen to songs and make them all about your current interest?
But there's always a couple songs that are cool, but dont quite vibe/fit with your current interest
And then later, after acquiring a New Interest, listening to your music and hearing a one of those songs and going "Oh. OH. OOOOOOOHHH THIS FITS THIS PERFECTLY HOLY CRAP THIS SONG WAS JUST WAITING FOR THIS INTEREST!!!!"
In the past, I was saved by an exchange student from Japan.
I was on the way to the Santa Monica Pier with my family.
A fleeing robber came and attacked our car.
I thought, 'At least let my sister---' as I was prepared to die, and at that moment
A moment of silence for Izuku who decided to take a nap for the first time in two months and it’s exactly at that moment that Shigaraki and AFO attempts to steal the most OP quirk in the world.
The war arc had already introduced the idea of Shigaraki feeling stifled by AFO's influence, but I find it really significant that in 330 he's finally equating the mind control to the same oppression he suffered in the Shimura household.
Even as a child, Shigaraki never blindly submitted to authority when it stifled his self-expression. He never gave up his dream of being a hero even when he faced punishment and ostracization. In that household, his father's rule was absolute; Tenko's will couldn't outweigh it. It was his father who decided what was and wasn't allowed and demanded that Tenko gave up his individualism in order to follow the "rules."
The house itself then becomes a symbol of Kotaro's despotic authority. It's not a coincidence that we see little Tenko crying outside, in the garden. Out of his father's house. There's an extra layer of text there: Shigaraki doesn't—cannot—fit in his father's world because it's a world specifically tailored to deny Tenko. So long as he doesn't obey Kotaro's rule, Tenko is an outsider in his own house, someone forced to stay out.
Yet, Shigaraki's character has always rotated around the theme of overcoming that stifling authority, of stomping down his foot against anyone trying to bend him. The more someone tries to cage him, the more Shigaraki fights back for his right to be.
Then tragedy strikes. Tenko's quirk manifests, the Shimuras die, and AFO exploits Shigaraki's stubborn tenacity for his purposes. Shigaraki's traumatized, crushed by the realization of what he's done. It doesn't set in that his relief at being freed from the abuse is a normal response to weeks of taxing emotional oppression. Shigaraki thinks it's something he ought to be punished for. The guilt is crushing him, and it makes him the perfect victim for AFO to manipulate. So when AFO tells him, “yes, it was indeed your will that caused this tragedy,” Shigaraki believes him. He doesn't realize that the abuse itself (Hana's betrayal + Kotaro's overbearing control) was the straw that broke the camel's back. When AFO echoes Kotaro's scapegoating, Shigaraki internalizes that he was the reason for the family to fall apart, after all. AFO postures as a savior, as someone finally vouching for Shigaraki's self-expression. He tells him it's okay to encourage that violence, to keep stomping his foot against authority, because Shigaraki is born evil and he must stop repressing who he is. It's simple and plain gaslighting: in the same beat, AFO validates Shigaraki's feelings by telling him it was true that his family repressed him, and reinforces his guilt by saying Tenko wanted them dead. And Shigaraki, traumatized and crushed by self-loathing and guilt as he is, all too easily falls for it. Yet, AFO is careful to subtly tilt the narrative he feeds to his victim: the stifling iron-fist for Shigaraki to fight against is hero society, not AFO's control.
Fast forward to the current arc. AFO got what he wanted, and he finally shows his true colors. He was never on Shigaraki's side, he was just curating his interests. Making it so Shigaraki could finally express himself freely was never the point. All AFO wanted was to have free reign over Shigaraki's mind, and manipulating that hatred was his only way to exercise that control over him.
So, to go back to the metaphor of the Shimura household as the signifier of Kotaro's authority... Horikoshi took that symbolism one step further. Before, Shigaraki was an outsider in his home. Now, Shigaraki is an outsider in his own head. AFO was never a savior, he only used a more roundabout way to bend Shigaraki to his will. Only, he knew Shigaraki wouldn't let AFO boss him around, so AFO planned accordingly; he made it so that “Shigaraki” wasn't an individual in the first place, but just a container.
Obviously, Shigaraki's arc has always pointed towards the end goal of finally getting rid of this other force trying to suppress him. Figuring out that his “sensei” was just another oppressor was the first step. Hopefully, the next one will be answering the question of “who am I?” with a return to his origins. To Tenko, and who that little boy was supposed to be