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Alright, to ao3's soon to be arriving Wattpad Refugees, a basic guide to general user culture:

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i'm such a big fan of laios using being well fed as proof that he's serious. like there's so many techbros & etc who will use not eating breakfast as proof that they're productive & just in general, the idea of being "too busy to eat" is getting more common (which is exactly what toshiro is doing here!) but laios is like. no. i'm so serious about this i'm thinking about what comes next. i'm so serious about this i'm making sure my body can do everything it can when i need it.

the fact that everyone in the party took care of themselves & carefully planned out their route & when they'd take breaks is what made them so successful. they always made sure to understand their limits

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Zuko: There’s something off about her. I can’t explain it but she’s slipping. 

 Azula:

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proud advocate all things freak nasty

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MHA HOT TAKE #1

MHA suffers from what I call the Young Justice problem, where a show that's supposedly about the younger generation of heroes giving the adult heroes a disproportionate amount of focus.

I call it the Young Justice problem because the cartoon Young Justice tries to jam in the entire Justice League instead of just focusing on the kids like the comic did. The TV show Teen Titans deliberately never had any adult heroes show up because they knew it would take attention away.

Good stories are succint and cut away any unnecessary characters or plot thread. There's also only so much screen time youre dividing between characters. During both war arcs shallower characters we've spent less time with like kamui woods are in the middle of the action while kids are off to the side. Nobody cares about kamui woods. If you do you're lying.

The All Might fight is the single worst case of this issue. If you had to have a big fight against AFO to stall him then why not have the entirety of class A team up to fight him instead of All Might using a deus ex machina robot suit with Attacks based on 1a students he's spent zero time with. That would have been fun to watch at least.

I like x men and teen titans I'm here for the teenage superheroes more of them please.

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MHA Hot Take #2

For a series where every single character in the world has a unique quirk and their super powers can be literally anything, that the main kids we focus on are... a super strength guy, a fire and ice guy, and an explosion guy which is the same as being a fire guy. If we stretch out the main cast which is me being generous we have a super speed guy, a gravity girl (this one is unique at least), colossus from x men and a lightning guy.

All of the interesting quirks are in the more fringe members of ua who don't have arcs on the same level. Why isn't Sero the focus he's literally spiderman in your spiderman inspired manga. I'd rather see simple quirks used in more creative ways.

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MHA Hot Take #4

People are way too harsh to Spinner just because he's cringe, like some people were just dedicated to demonizing everything Spinner did.

Spinner: says he admires Dabi for being strong and determined and that he won't go down so easily.

Everyone: He's encouraging Dabis suicidal ideation somehow because he didn't purposefully book Dabi a therapy appointment.

Dabi: gets back up because he's strong and determined.

Spinner: Idealizes shigaraki a little too much gets tricked by afo into doing his bidding thinking he is helping shigaraki, gets his mind violated, and in the last moments realizes he liked shigarakis one on one time getting to know each other more than his big moment destroying deika city as a part of a character arc.

Everyone: Spinner is a terrible enabler to Shigaraki.

Spinner: puts a hand on shigarakis face to wake him up in a crisis situation where the heroes are about to kill them and afo takes over shigas body.

Everyone: This is spinners fault somehow and not you know AFOs.

Like damn you can be a serial killer but goddamn you if you're kind of codependent and needy.

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easiest explanation i have for pronouns that "don't make sense" (neopronouns, he/him lesbians, etc) is that a person's pronouns are basically just a nickname we use for that person so we don't have to constantly say their name when talking about them. a person's pronouns also tend to have an association tied to them, which is usually an indication of their gender. that said, much like how your nickname can mean whatever you want it to mean, your pronouns can mean whatever you want them to mean. and, with enough practice, if you can remember that someone has a nickname, you can also probably remember their pronouns too (no matter what they are)

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So I recently had the thought that Superman as depicted in the DCAU canon probably has the best-articulated-by-the-narrative and most-consistent character flaws of any Superman I’ve seen, in a way that’s enabled by the long-formedness and consistent creative vision of the series.

He’s got an Atlas complex that grinds the gears of his equally-durable, equally-capable colleagues in the Justice League. He has deep-seated fears of moving the wrong way and breaking something or someone, which is then upstream of some moderate control issues. He’s got anger problems, although it’s rare for someone to push him far enough that this takes center stage; you see this with Prof. Hamilton in the series finale of STAS, but also in a number of fights against opponents strong enough that he starts getting frustrated. When the stakes are lower, he can be cocky bordering on genuinely vindictive; there are lots of examples of him rubbing his opponents’ noses in it when he finally gets them on the back foot, and it’s shown in flashbacks that he was genuinely kind of a dick when he was a teenager and hadn’t completely sorted out what proportional responses looked like. He doesn’t always think through the implications of his grand projects, be that the implicit threat-escalation posed by the expanded JLU, or the massive disarmament project he spearheaded that turned out to be part of an alien invasion scheme. There are probably more of these that I’m forgetting. The final roundup here is that he’s a good guy. He’s far and away from a perfect guy, with perfect judgement. All of this amounts to something that’s more coherent and specific than the contradictory, subject-to-eternal-revision mess you could assemble from his 60-something year publication history in the comics, but nonetheless with a substantial-enough runtime that all of these traits can be put on display again and again.

In turn, this allowed the collective DCAU continuity to get away with at least three “what if Superman went rogue” plots- four if you count the mind-control situation in Legacy- specifically because they did the legwork to establish the concrete neuroses and psychological vulnerabilities that might cause this specific version of Superman to go rogue. It was never completely insane that Luthor might figure out the exact set of words, actions, and personal losses necessary to coax this depiction of Superman into an authoritarian partnership for the supposed greater good. It’s not completely insane that this depiction of Superman, if pushed far enough, might lose faith in the collective judgement of humanity and decide to put the world and all his loved ones in a bottle. And when the Cadmus plot rolls around in JLU, it’s as effective as it is because they’ve already advanced two roads-not-taken, established what levers you need to pull to make this specific version of this guy cross the line, and that Cadmus and Luthor are pulling all of them. 

I emphasize the specificity here, because the flipside of this are Superman-gone-rogue narratives that jump right to that as the cornerstone of the continuity, with no real opportunities for juxtaposition. A major issue I eventually developed with the Injustice franchise is that despite its pretenses of being an alternate universe, there’s no established continuity that it’s deviating from, bar its own. To some extent I feel as though it’s banking on the audience transposing their gestalt-understanding of Superman and the broader DCU- hell, their understanding of the Justice Lords arc in particular- in order to elide that they’re playing extremely fast-and-loose with the specifics of what has and hasn’t happened to Superman in this continuity. The DCEU is a runner-up- jumping right to the Damocles-sword of a bad-future after two movies is jumping the gun, in the same way everything about the 2010s DCEU was jumping the gun. I think you could plausibly attack TDKR’s portrayal of Superman under this logic, although I personally wouldn’t- but that’s its own post.

Point being that you can’t sell me the upset of a paradigm if you never established it-you need to set up the pins before you can bowl worth a damn.

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i hate when ppl act like the only reason to not like a "sad" ending is because you can't take it or whatever. personally as a tragedy enjoyer, i hate a poorly written ending. i hate an ending that is just kind of a bummer. i hate an ending that feels mean-spirited to the audience. i hate an ending that's redundant. i love a sad ending that is thematically consistent, poignant, and bespoke to the rest of its narrative.

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why is the pressure to be “the bigger person” always placed on the person who was wronged?

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CONTROL.

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tradgedy enjoyers when you look into the eyes of your worst enemy and can only see yourself

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diversity loss this trans man is just as much of an emotionally unavailable avoidantly attached brick as any cis guy

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Sometimes it feels like y’all just make up nonbinary people to get mad at . “Super misogynistic nonbinary theyfab person named Sock who doesnt understand the REAL trans experience bc they look like a cis women” like okay yeah your words mean nothing to me

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