So I'm going to start rewatching MHA because I stopped halfway season 4. This is a way to make myself power through because I do want to get caught up.
Every Friday, I'm going to try to watch at least one episode and comment my thoughts about it.
I started with season 2, episode 14 because while season 1 was cute, personally, I find it mostly boring till we get to the USJ attack.
Instead, I'm going to start with the Sport’s Festival, which was the reason I even got into MHA.
(Also, I've been keeping up with the manga, so I know what's currently going on. While there will be no manga spoilers, I will talk about stuff that happens in the anime later down the line.)
Anways, here are some thoughts on episode 14: That’s The Idea, Ochako:
I forgot what babies they were! They're so cute. And it's so nice to see Hori- and the anime's- style change over time
Especially Iida though! I forgot about his mannerisms and how played up they were
It's interesting how thick they lay on how much pressure Midoriya- and later, All Might- puts on himself about how he has to be the one to take over for All Might. All Might directly tells him that he does not have much time so Midoriya needs to hurry up and learn how to control OfA.
It makes me wonder how All Might was trained
Aizawa!! I forgot he came straight out of the hospital. He cares so much about them.
He's also a giant loser, take care of yourself man!
Bakugou telling Mineta to grow some balls, ahdhkak, I love him
I love Jirou bullying Kaminari
Ashido leaning back in her chair, she's so cute
I LOVE Uraraka!! And I love her firey determination
Todoroki listening on Iida and Urakara’s conversation, XD i love him and Bakugou's eavesdropping asses
Something big I want to talk about for this episode: Uraraka's goal
So there are a couple of interesting ideas that Hori lays out throughout the series, that he doesn’t really have a character make a big grand speech about but are evident anyways. One being that teamwork and working together are what make better heroes- something I'll talk about later because I believe it comes up in the next episode or the one after. Another about leadership.
But this episode lays the foundation for a rebuttal against Stain. While Stain has not shown up yet, his politics and ideas play a heavy role this season and beyond, considering he’s the one to get more villains interested in Shigaraki. And there are many rebuttals also spread out, but this one I think isn't brought up that often.
Stain would have hated Uraraka. He would have listened to one second of her goals and deemed her not fit to be a hero.
But Uraraka is a perfect example of why Stain's ideal version of a perfect Hero society would never happen- not without major changes to society as a whole.
Uraraka has a great quirk. She can and will help people. But she also grew up poor and watched her family struggle, so of course her motivations are going to be money related. That's what being poor does to a person- you worry about survival, you worry about your future, you grow up doing everything you can to change your situation.
Uraraka isn't a selfish person for wanting money for being a hero. And demanding that Heroes go without being paid means that a lot of would be Heroes that would be amazing at the job would be turned away. Considering Hori is a big fan of American comics, I wonder if he looked at how hard superheroes like Spider-Man have it, broke and trying to work a second job while also being a hero, and decided to kind of lay out why that wouldn't work in his world.
Anyways, I love Ochako Uraraka <333
And because I'm such a big multishipper, some cute shipping moments:
Of course, Jirou and Kaminari. I forgot how much she bullies him, I love it
Iida and Uraraka!! I see the vision now, they're so cute and both so supportive of each other
I do like Uraraka and Midoriya, little babies
Ojirou constantly trying to lift Hagakure up, we love a supportive boyfriend
My Ashido/Uraraka heart! The ending sequence is so cute in general but Ashido looking at Uraraka??? I love it
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loved your post defending clary but what is your opinion on jace??? i feel like he's equally controversial
you know how sometimes rereading books a few years later changes your opinion on certain characters entirely bc instead of being some older hot brooding hero they're now just some kid in your eyes. that's me with jace right now
in fact you may have asked his at the perfect moment because i had a whole breakdown about this last night in the group chat last night i feel like this text sums it up quite well
he has 2 to 6 parents depending on how you look at it and for at least 17 years none of them ever loved him. he was fully prepared to go back to his cartoonishly evil kidapper dad who physically abused him bc at least there he felt wanted. he just wanted maryse to read him a bedtime story when he was 10 like she did for alec and isabelle. she never did. he just wants to be loved so so desperately. he can be genuinely hilarious and charming but now i'm looking back on it, it mostly reads like that too is just a way he taught himself to get the attention he wants so desperately. it's implied that he's been suicidal/has engaged in acts of self-harm since he arrived with the lightwoods when he was literally 10.
i think most people (me included!!) just remember him as a sarcastic rude asshole which to be fair is very much who he is HOWEVER every single time we get jace pov he reveals another 5 reasons why he's actually kind of valid in his assholery. this boy is playing DSM-5 bingo and babes his card is FULL and it's literally so upsetting to read. he's just a very sad kid and i'm literally on my way to nyc adoption papers in hand
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But what if danny became jason became danny.
As in, coming out of death portal/pit, both 14 year olds suddenly take each other's place.
And hey, if they act a little... a lot different? Well, this was a traumatic event that would leave anyone absolutely changed.
it's like they became a completely different person.
Jason was very amnesiac, much confusion when he went in so it could be excused that he will panick and show absolutely no chill at being surrounded by strangers that aren't doctors, let alone ninjas, when he came back to life
(after the shock and subsequent almost drowning that went from vertical standing in a hell/hallway to horizontal swimming in a hell-pool. the reverse is also applicable to jason-as-danny)
Oh Jason lost all his fighting skills? He doesn't know Bruce or Gotham? Must be some trauma response. No matter, there are no flaws to correct, just a blank canvas to paint on!
Bad times for "Jason" might include: oh no my morals, murder and stuff, is this hell and all these ghosts?, incredible anger issues, a whole cult of ninjas, coming to terms with the situation that went from 0 to 100 (like, seriously, nothing had ever happened to danny before), evil cult leader and the ??? cult leader's daughter that is kinda your mentor now?,
On the flipside
Danny hasn't yet had his rebellious teenager phase right? He seems very withdrawn for some reason?
Danny? Reading the classics? Doing well in literature class? Lancer is very proud and very concerned
Suddenly Danny is out of the house and won't return until very late, Teenagers am i right? Wanting their independence and all
His friends seem worried but guilty, maybe they had a falling out? And that's why they don't seem to hang out? Don't wanna look too close, they'll figure themselves out, I'm sure
Danny? Awkward string bean and nasa nerd, getting into fights? He really grew a spine, he must have grown tired of the bullying
Bad times for "Danny" might include: first prize for weirdest basement, oh no powers out of my control, im? dead? or not???, suspicious nosy sister who wants to psychoanalyze him, great(derogatory)- new rogue gallery just for me, regular teenage problems, oh yeah evil rich godfather probably
and
(problem that might: oh yeah this is not my body and that's not my name wtf)
Bonus
I am assuming the mish-mash things they have would be those pertaining to the body they just pseudo-isekai'd to but what if
they followed the soul
the powers followed danny, the anger followed jason
which would mean that "danny" would be reliant on the fenton tech which would not be too different from being robin, gadgets and all, and would be an absolute vicious terror on ghosts
which would mean "jason" would be in absolute hell because the waters already made people some sort of meta but this was never seen before,
dam boi can't catch a break
Jason, The Chosen one, it must be Fate, the will of Lazarus, we either become the next "molecule by molecule" in an effort to find out more or we will worship the child—the league of shadows maybe
Or
They don't bodyswap and but still swap stuff
(but who's danny angry at? his parents? sam and tucker? ghosts?)
(in other news jason is a meta now, yep, ghost? no, whatever made you think that... he is still in hot water though,, for that whole "anomaly" thing)
This is all assuming they both don't get away at the first chance they get and actually deal with the "life" they were thrown into
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i’m sure u received asks about the mma 2022 performances - hoping i’m not adding too much noise ur inbox 🫡
but i feel a bit underwhelmed with these performances? i was sad to see the lineups for all of the upcoming award shows and how there aren’t a lot (or any) 2nd gen/3rd gen performers. granted there aren’t as many 2nd gen active kpop artists that are doing music (most ventured into acting but also hello! i want a key gasoline end of year stage!). and 3rd gen bgs are enlisting + ggs disbanded or not as mainstream.
i’ve seen a lot of praise for le sseafim’s stage but idk it wasn’t anything wow. it felt awkward to me?
i haven't actually, it seems like everyone (including me) forgot about it. i don't know what the full list of performers is so i probably haven't watched all of them, but yea almost no strong performances. what the hell is wrong with the creative directors for these groups, like did y'all forget how stage a good awards show performance in two years? the mmas gave like 11-12 minutes to all these trendy fourth gen groups and NONE of them could keep any semblence of my attention for more than maybe three minutes. the only two groups that actually understood the scale of what they were supposed to be doing were monsta x and ive, bc starship has been sending groups to awards shows for ages. and of that mx's was the only one that was actually interesting and in proper scale for the event, and they did it in less time than everyone else. and also gidle but like. was that a good performance? no, but at least they got the scale right.
tbh the main problem seems to me that all these groups are doing songs/vcrs etc that are just too sedate/slow for that large a stage and they aren't planned well. some groups are kinda sol in that regard (sorry newjeans, your music isnt gonna work on an awards show stage without revamping the production), but literally why were there vcrs in the middle of some of these performances. the one in the ive performance literally just covered up them WALKING TO A DIFFERENT PART OF THE STAGE. why. are you too good to sing a song and hype up the audience while you walk? i dont even want to talk about the txt performance it has some of the worst everything i've seen in a hot minute. the le sserafim stage had extremely poor understanding of how to actually use the stage properly and pathetic styling. like sorry diesel outfits do NOT cut it for an awards show performance. enhypen had legitimately horrible styling like what the actual fuck was that. a lot of these groups are treating these stages as extentions of their 'lore' or whatever and having these ponderous ~mysterious~ vcrs without actually realizing that that is not what these shows are for. these shows need BIG performances bc they are long and they have huge lulls in them thanks to the actual awards presenting. it's one of the only types of performance that it's not necessary to build a dynamic arc into because you do not need one.
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I do the warm salt water thing! she's my bestie lol. hot honey and citrus is a nice alternative and is also tastyyyy 🦇
oh the Bad Takes made it to my dash today 😭😭
i only like honey if it’s in tea but i don’t have any right now - but i have strepsils and fruit teas so it’s a nice alternative until i get some more 🙃. my mum would always make me honey and lemon when i got sick, sometimes i would make it even when i wasn’t sick just because i like the taste 😅.
im pretty sure all of the lando fans on f1blr have been on a blocking spree this week. people are basically angry on behalf of people who don’t even mind. they’re acting like lando went up onto the podium and purposely smashed maxs trophy😭 lando apologised, everyone laughed about it, the company said that they’re not angry, a new trophy is being or has been made, all is good. so why are people still angry? 😭🙃 at this point i’m just bored to be honest, i’m over it, as is everyone else ACTUALLY involved it seems. so… why cant they be over it too?
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HELLO LAMB i am flicking thru my folders and i am going to talk abouttttt............gomens au 😈
now u may remember me talking about gomens on here a WHILEEEE ago and i would like to shout out mye themagpiezenith bc they sent me quite a few cool asks about it as well........as far as a Fic goes i decided to narrow it down as such
phil is an angel and he is well he is kind of average at it because he doesn't really care. well frankly he has his own priorities and he quite likes heaven to leave him well alone thank you very much. techno is a fallen angel/demon/what have you bc once upon a time his bestie dream was like So I'm Thinking We Should Secede From Heaven and he was like oh my god that's exactly what i was thinking. well dream wants to Become god but that's his own issues. anyway he is also kind of average at it because causing unending misery to mankind is kind of cringe bro they do that enough to themselves. they are supposed to be enemies but they got bored about 1200 years ago and decided to be besties instead
until......techno gets Assigned to swap a human baby for the antichrist to kickstart the end of the world and he's like Oh God Okay. I Guess It's All Over Now and he and phil quietly decide that instead of guiding the child to be a little hellspawn and kick off armageddon they'll just.....send in their colleagues to equally influence the kid. and buy them some time
unfortunately the hospital got the swap wrong and tubbo actual antichrist underscore sparklez has a fairly normal adolescence kicking it with his besties and adoptive family what have you
this is all fine until about sixteen years later the whole end of the world thing is supposed to kick off and phil and techno are like SHIT WE LOST THE CHILD and dream is like TECHNO WHERE DID YOU PUT THE ANTICHRIST and also tubbo is starting to get these wack powers and ranboo is acting a little demonically possessed and tommy is well doing his best to keep up
does the world end? well maybe yes. maybe no. maybe a little. it will all depend
oh and wilbur is there too! he is the least competent witch ever ^^
this au is so so so fun to write actually and i think the SBI in it ends up fun. but that is just me hehe
ask game!
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