#and I expected it

[problemswithbooks]

BNHA ch. 378

All I can say seeing Nagant and Gentle back on the good side is ‘to little to late’.

I like villain redemptions--I wanted and expected the LoV to get redeemed when I first started reading and watching this story. The only reason I’ve soured on it is because it’s so poorly written. It feels forced and unearned on both sides.

Ch. 378 only makes that even clearer. Nagant and Gentle are helping the Heroes now--coming right out of left field to do so. Besides their more sympathetic framing and LaBrava being a prefect counter to Skeptic there wasn’t really much foreshadowing for this reveal. They’re just here so we can get the obligatory ‘saved’ villains that show us that the bad guys can be turned good, even if very little effort was put in to show how these guys had a change of heart. 

Izuku did talk a little to Gentle and he did feel bad during their fight, but that was hundreds of chapters ago. Later Lady Nagant told him her backstory and he just told her ‘hey, maybe look on the bright side of life’ and she changed her tune instantly.

Plus, none of the villains actually did anything that bad. Gentle was a youtuber who essentially pranked people--it’s laughable that he was a villain in the first place. Nagant did kill a lot of people but no one we knew, and it was all before the start of the main story. She joined All for One, but she barely gave Izuku any trouble. She also felt immeasurable guilt for all the terrible things she did.

These two pale in comparison to the LoV who have helped level Japan and killed with glee for the entire run of the story. They never feel guilty or bad for hurting other people. They have targeted the kids and wished to kill them from their very first introduction and have never changed their minds on that. Besides being pals and having sad backstories they don’t really have any redeeming qualities. The only reason they will being redeemed is because Hori said so.

And it’s not like it makes any more sense form the Hero side either. Izuku didn’t care about Overhaul even though he was clearly in major distress and mentally not all there. He tried reasoning with Muscular for 2 seconds before deeming him unsavable. And now Tsukauchi is praising and believing in the changed villains even though the last time we saw him he was being really harsh to Aoyama--a kid forced to work for All for One.

So, yeah, I guess it’s nice that the villains are going to be ‘saved’ but it won’t really mean anything or have any impact. It’ll be as underwhelming as this Nagant and Gentle reveal was. Something I read and go ‘if you say so’. 

#bnha 378 #mha #bnha spoliers #I really did want the LoV to get a happy ending #and get redeemed #and I expected it #but then Hori just kept making the LoV worse and wrose #and giving me no reason to root for them #except that they had been sad kids at some point. #they only ever make bad choices #and their so called bond seems surface deep #considering they don't ever risk anything meaningful to save eachother #like idk I really think Spinner going to Izuku and asking him to save shigaraki would have helped #because he's a)going against afo #B) risking his freedom #and C) going against the established plan which might make Shigaraki angry #but it's ultimately to help Shigaraki #I mean Avatar TWOW isn't the best written movie #but it at least let the villain abandon his main goal in order to show how much he cared for his kid #like he might not even get a full redemption like the LoV will #yet if he did I'm understand it more because of that moment #the LoV don't ever get that though #and it really lessens them as characters

[lastparty]

#thanks to those who added ids i didnt expect this to gain traction. i did it in two minutes and then had lesbian sex

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Must be a Sugondese joke.

#dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #laios touden #senshi #Looks like I won't be able to post this on dungeon meshi thursday so instead I will have a fun past/future conversation #This is wednesday me who has not seen the episode yet but I have such a strong feeling that it is going to be extremely special. #*This* fight is what the first arc has been building up to and it has *so* many incredible moments. #We're going to see the chilchuck knife throw! The leg sacrifice! The bones! #Watch them ramp up the quality this episode and go wild with the frantic action of 'oh god our plan is going to shit'. #Hello. Me of the future who just watched the episode. #I knew it was going to be good but that...that blew my mind completely. My high expectations were beyond met. My god. #I'm just speechless at how well they handled everything. The leg. The tension. That ENDING. #If you have not already: PLEASE watch Dungeon Meshi.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"smart appliances" fuck u i want them dumb as a brick and incidentally as sturdy and enduring

#if i pay hundreds of dollars for an appliance it's only allowed to die kicking and screaming 30 years after purchase #and even then i expect the replacement parts to be in stock and easily installed fuck u

[throesofincreasingwonder]

"A story doesn't need a theme in order to be good" I'm only saying this once but a theme isn't some secret coded message an author weaves into a piece so that your English teacher can talk about Death or Family. A theme is a summary of an idea in the work. If the story is "Susan went grocery shopping and saw a weird bird" then it might have themes like 'birds don't belong in grocery stores' or 'nature is interesting and worth paying attention to' or 'small things can be worth hearing about.' Those could be the themes of the work. It doesn't matter if the author intended them or not, because reading is collaborative and the text gets its meaning from the reader (this is what "death of the author" means).

Every work has themes in it, and not just the ones your teachers made you read in high school. Stories that are bad or clearly not intended to have deep messages still have themes. It is inherent in being a story. All stories have themes, even if those themes are shallow, because stories are sentences connected together for the purpose of expressing ideas, and ideas are all that themes are.

#original post #text post #500 #1k #2k #btw i know my definition of death of the author is loosey goosey here #it wasn't the main point so i went informal with it! as ppl in the tags have pointed out it isn't exact #and i do recommend reading the wikipedia article or similar (possibly even the essay itself if you're narsty) if you want to learn more! #wasn't expecting this to take off so my apologies to my barthes-heads out there #love you mwah #5k #10k #15k #20k

[soranker]

laios985

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #marcille donato #izutsumi #chilchuck tims #senshi #SURPRISE not trigun again lol #ohmygawd sorry i almost felt too lazy to tag all their names #anyways THIS ONE’S FOR YOU EMI 🫵🫵🫵 #you can prob expect more dunmeshi art in the near future BC IM SOOOO FACKING EXCITED FOR THE ANIME HELPP MEEEEE #IT JUST FEELS LIKE IT WAS MADE FOR ME LIKE STUDIO TRIGGER AND BUMP OF CHICKEN OP?????????? DUNMESHI NATION. WE WON.

[dogmotif]

yeah they dropped a new love language. yeah a sixth one. its biting

#ill start listening to people about the love language shit if they do this #also i expect to see buffyverse hannibal and iwtv tags here btw. i hope you guys will do your duty.... #will speaks

[charliebugz]

When Izzy first walked out I was worried that he would be made into a joke that the crew would laugh at

but then he started singing and the dancing began and I realized that he wasn’t meant to be a joke at all. This is the most open and happy we’ve ever seen Izzy and the show treated it that way. Not mocking him but instead celebrating this moment.

When we talk about queer representation it’s usually just focused on queer relationships, but what I love about this episode is it shows other sides of being queer. That moment where Izzy saw Wee John doing his makeup and had a realization that he wanted that too? That is what being queer means to me. The crew singing along and cheering for him? That is what being apart of the queer community means to me.

What i love about this show is that it shows queer joy, not in a sanitized way, but in away that is messy, beautiful, and without any mockery or shame.

#the fact i expected him to be made fun of just reflects how queer people are usually presented in media #i was preparing myself for an awkward scene full of secondhand embarrassment for izzy #but then it didn’t happen. And it just made me immediately feel so warm and fuzzy inside. #like he can express the not socially acceptable parts of himself and not be outcast for it #and that’s just so fantastical to me #our flag means death #ofmd #ofmd spoilers #our flag means death spoilers #ofmd s2e6 #izzy hands #rambling #i speak!

[fixaidea]

Here's a tough one:

You have to remove an animal from a room. Your equipment is a long stick, a bucket and a hoodie.

#herpblr #reptiblr #tumblr polls #i expect aswers will greatly vary depending on coubtry #but im hungarian #nothing especially hardcore lives here #so 100% picking the snake

[spirallingstarcases]

top five men?

like in a row? or do i get breaks

#spi.answers #ask games #anon #I MEAN WHAT DID YOU EXPECT #30k

[lylahammar]

STUDIO TRIGGER????? YOU DID THIS FOR US?

#LITERALLY GASPED OUT LOUD WHEN THIS SHOT CAME UP DLKHFL;DKFH #I DID NOT EXPECT *NEW* SENSHI PANTY SHOTS TO BE ADDED I'M BLOWN AWAY #THANK YOU STUDIO TRIGGER I'M LOSING MY MIND #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers

[puraiuddo]

FanFiction.net is not gone.

Right now it's a victim of DNS (Domain Name Service) spoofing. This means that a malicious party is trying to steal traffic from FFn by purchasing a very similar domain.

Correction:

The new "fake" site that people are seeing still belongs to FanFiction.net—they just misconfigured their servers and are not redirecting traffic from the bare fanfiction.net to the main site at www.fanfiction.net. There is likely no malicious agent. Didn't mean to scare anyone! Just wanted to let people know the site wasn't deleted!

So if you want to read fanfiction and not see leaves, you have have to type out "www.fanfiction.net".

Please share so people stop panicking.

#i was not expecting this to become ANYWHERE near as popular as this is #sorry for the misinformation concerning why the website wasn't working #just wanted to get the point across the ffn isn't dead #fanfiction #ffn #fanfiction.net #fanfiction dot net #fanfictionnet #ff net #purs post #psa

[thestuffedalligator]

My brother-in-law has a Thing where he gives me increasingly rare copies of The Bee Movie and it’s long since gone from “Goofy running gag” to “I don’t know how much money he’s willing to commit to this bit and it Scares Me.”

Where the fuck can we go from here

#my life #bee movie #he’s already given me the academy For Your Consideration copy #and copies in greek mandarin and korean #AND copies of the bee movie video game AND pez dispensers AND christmas ornaments #AND bee movie converse sneakers distributed only to members of the cast and crew #at this point i fully expect to find the severed head of jerry seinfeld in a box this christmas #10k #20k

[mirror-mariposa]

Never gonna get over how the anime made this scene just so,, haunting and elevated. Like I love the manga but I love how the anime has taken these scenes and elevated the themes of death and rebirth with simple shots like this and it’s why even after reading all of the manga I still get excited for the anime because I *know* the anime will not only be a faithful adaptation, but also an artistic masterpiece as it uses the medium to its advantage

#mari talks #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #new episode got me clawing at the walls #I was so hyped for the red dragon arc and you have no idea what this series has done to my autism #so glad the anime exceeded my expectations with the Falin skull scene

[dragonomatopoeia]

i've died on smaller hills, so i can't judge. but i do think it's funny whenever posts about the proper definition of a poor little meow meow circulate, considering none of them mention that the origin was a kpop fan's absolutely bonkers tweet about not being able to protect a full grown man who was getting backlash for including audio from the jonestown cult leader jim jones in one of his songs

#cults mention #i don't actually expect people to know this the internet is very large and it's hard to trace the origins of things #but this is always a wild one to look at from the outside

[etchif]

#For me it's peach. can't stand them #polls #fruit #why do you people hate bananas so much. i expected the pear and pineapple hate but bananas? really?