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starry-bi-sky · 4 months

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I'm in A Mood™ (stressed) so im going back to my roots of melting two character together into one person. So bruce wayne!danny fenton. Danny Fenton who, for eight years, grew up in a beautiful gothic manor with his mom and dad under the name "Bruce Wayne". Playing piano with his mother, running around the manor with his father.

Then when he's eight it's ripped away from him. There's blood on his hands and pearls pooling at his feet, and both his parents are dead in front of him.

And he gets shipped off to distant relatives "the Fentons" shortly after, Alfred close on his heels because someone needs to take care of him, someone that knows him. Bruce goes to the Fentons for the safety of anonymity. Gotham's press wants to sink its teeth into him.

Danny misses his city even if it took everything from him. There are shadows in his eyes and he's pale as a sheet even beside his distant cousins, and they change his name to "Danny Fenton' because nobody should know that their newest child was illustrious orphan Bruce Wayne.

They call him Bruce behind closed doors. Danny prefers it that way, he clings onto the name -- the one his parents gave him -- like a lifeline. He makes friends with Sam and Tucker. Tucker takes one look at the willowy, morbid little boy standing in the corner like a shade, ghosts in his eyes, and drags him out into the sunlight, and takes him over to Sam.

When Danny is twelve, he's still not over it -- and he's a little obsessed with the Fentons' research, with the morbid. He has books upon books on death, murder, detective work. Anything he can get his hands on. And stars. He loves stars.

Alfred owns the apartment next to them and comes over regularly. Danny clings to him.

When Danny is twelve, he's still quiet, meek, a shy little thing prone to being bullied. Freaky little Fenton with the night in his eyes and too-cold skin even before he put one foot in the grave. in a sleepover in his room with Sam and Tucker, he tells them the truth. They're his friends, he trusts them.

"My name is Bruce." he murmurs, voice quiet as the breeze, always quiet. he's staring at his star-covered sheets.

"Like Bruce Wayne?" Tucker asks, a joking tone in his voice.

Danny smiles a little, lamb-like with insecurity. "I am Bruce Wayne." And he takes them down to the lab, disrupting Maddie and Jack, to prove it. Sam tells them of her own wealth then shortly after. They start calling Danny "Bruce" in private too -- its trust. Thats what it is. It's trust.

Sam goes to media functions and comes back with aching feet and complaints on her tongue -- and Danny soaks it up all like a sponge, splayed across a beanbag chair with Tucker in her room. He's not envious of her, he used to go to events with his parents and they kept him safe from the ugly of Gotham's Elite. For the most part. He's had comments made at him, he doesn't miss them.

Alfred returns to the manor semi-regularly, Danny goes with him. he wanders the hallways and helps Alfred clean, the last thing either of them want is for their home to fall into disrepair. He brings Jazz with him next time, then Tucker, then Sam. They all help him clean, and he shows them his room. The one across from his parents', it feels strange.

When Danny dies when he's fourteen, the first adult he tells is Alfred. He and Jazz go over to his house more often than they stay in the Fentonworks building. At least at Alfred's, the food doesn't come to life. Alfred sits at the kitchen table and weeps when Danny tells him, Jazz is upstairs, and its just the two of them.

Danny's ghost form wears pearls around his wrist and the gloves look stained with some kind of black substance. He looks like a child who died in a lab accident, but he also looks like a child who has shadows dripping off his shoulders, curling at his feet, hanging from his eyes.

because amorphous blob batman has my heart always and danny/bruce will not escape it even in death even if that IS the only reason im giving him Mild BatBlob Vibes...so far

when they go to the manor, alfred helps danny make a pile of stones between Martha and Thomas' graves, nobody but the two of them (and sam and tucker) will know what it means. (not even bruce's children later down the line, not for a long, long time)

danny dives into ghost fighting on shaky feet and not half as witty as he once was in one world. he's skittish, skittering between blasts from shadow to shadow and clumsily making his way through each battle. but helping people lights a fire in him. he still has shadows dripping off his feet but there's a purpose in his eyes.

and god help him, he's going to help people.

#dpxdc #dp x dc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dp x dc crossover #dpxdc crossover #dpdc #dpxdc prompt #this is just me torturing danny for a little bit because im stressed and i cried for an hour while i was driving so im taking it out on B #thanks for being my little stress ball danny #aha my old middle school habit of frankensteining two characters together is resurfacing again :) yall should've seen my wattpad drafts #in middle school. i had 50 of them and most of them were me combining two characters together to make one person and putting them in one au #my most memorable being skydoesminecraft and harry potter. THAT was a fun worldbuilding experience #do i think that growing up with the fentons would fix bruce/danny completely?? hurm. no. dont kid yallselves jazz is not a licensed #therapist not even at like. nine when she meets danny. she's not helping him through his trauma in the slightest. she's nagging.#she's his sister or sister-like figure before she's his therapist. would he be #*entirely* like canon bruce tho?? no. dannybruce is a mix of the both of them. but this is still the first post of the au and is more so #just me doing the equivalent of popping a stress ball so nothing is smoothed over. mostly im just trying to keep bruce's trauma prominent i #danny's character because he IS Bruce. i dont want him to just be 'danny with bruce's backstory but without any of the ugly bits'.#danny and bruce is used interchangeably because they're the same person but sorry if his personality feels imbalanced i came up with this o #the spot. was going to type more but the stress has left me. for now. watch ur back danny 👀

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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 1 year

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Errors, “Errors,” and Sci Fi

@strawberry-crocodile

tvtropes calls stuff like the wolf example "science matches on" which I think is a pretty fair shake

This. This is what’s got me thinking so much about errors. There’s a certain danger, here. A certain way that this particular effect — delicious dramatic irony — tempts the mind when reading old stories, even true ones.

What do you know about R.M.S. Titanic? I ask my class every year, and the first hand rises. “It was unsinkable,” the student inevitably says, and everyone is nodding, “or so they thought.” I write the word UNSINKABLE on the board, underneath my crude drawing of a ship with four smokestacks. It will be crossed out before the end of the hour, but not for the reason they expect.

“I find no evidence,” Walter Lord, preeminent biographer of the ship’s survivors, wrote, “that Titanic was ever advertised as unsinkable. This detail seems to have entered the collective mind so as to create a more perfect irony.” Indeed, historians’ examinations of White Star Line documents show the shipbuilders themselves worried it would be so large as to risk collision; they stocked several more lifeboats than 1910s regulations required.

The War to End All Wars (deep breath, satisfied exhale), also known as World War ONE. Chuckle. Shake of the head. What if I told you that this phrase, used primarily in American newspapers after the fact, wasn’t meant to be literal? Nowadays we’d say The Mother of All Wars, or One Hell of a Fucking War, but we wouldn’t mean literal motherhood, literal intercourse. What if I said the armistice and the Lost Generation and the Roaring 20s were all braced for another outbreak of European conflict, and yet we still failed to prevent it?

Did you know they were so confident in the safety of the S.S. Challenger that they put a civilian schoolteacher onboard? I do, because I’ve heard that one repeated many times. Only, see, it’s got the cause and effect reversed. Challenger launched on a day the shuttle’s engineers knew to be dangerously cold, because the first civilian in space was on board. And NASA knew its shuttle project would be cancelled entirely, if they couldn’t get that civilian’s much-delayed entry into space in the next two weeks. So they launched on a cold day, and killed her instead.

These are all what cognitive science calls Hindsight Bias on the personal level, what sociology calls Presentism on the cultural level. Social psychology’s a little of both, is primarily interested in why you’re sitting on your couch in a Colonize Mars shirt watching PBS and chuckling at the fools who believed in El Dorado. It wants to know why the mind flees straight from “marijuana will kill you” to “marijuana will cure cancer” without so much as a pause on the middle ground of its real benefits and drawbacks, its real (mild) risks and rewards.

And they can paralyze the sci-fi writer, if you think too much about them. Jetsons is futurist one decade, retro the next. “There are no bathrooms on the Enterprise,” the creators of Serenity say smugly, as if Gene Roddenberry should’ve simply known that decades later it’d be acceptable to show a man peeing in full view of the camera, nothing but the curve of the actor’s hand to protect his modesty. “No sound in space,” the Fandom Menace says, “No explosions in space,” and “A space station can’t collapse in zero-G.” Only then NASA burns a paper napkin outside of atmosphere, transmits music using only the ghost of nearby planets’ gravities, and logs onto Reddit long enough to point out the Death Star would implode in its own gravity field. And now we’re the ones pointing, the ones laughing, at those earlier point-and-laughers. Self-satisfied, smug in superiority. As if we did the work to find out ourselves, instead of just happening to be born a little later than George Lucas.

#errors #continuity #sci fi #presentism #star wars #titanic #world war i #science marches on #history #started a new post because i got waaaaaay off topic here #if you think the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (1993) should've had feathers #you're a lot more ignorant about paleontology than the people you're trying to criticize #science was not handed down to us in its perfect complete form circa 1943 #stop for a second before you call out someone else's reptilian denonychus #someone else's oxygenated moon #and ask: am i better read #or am i just more recently born?

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averagecatdoodlesenjoyer · 5 months

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People liked my poorly drawn mspaint yttd, so I figured I should use my powers for good. (and if you haven't seen my previous posts: yes the image is drawn badly on purpose)

Hi! As you may or may not know, this week (21-28 January) is the global strike week for a ceasefire in Gaza. This was called for by Bisan Odwa, a journalist from Gaza (@wizard_bisan1 on Instagram). Here is a link to her post calling for this strike (click).

I'm posting this in the YTTD tags to spread awareness in the circle I'm most active in. I want to encourage you to participate however you can! Literally anything helps, no matter how small it may seem to you! The YTTD community on Tumblr has proven to be very active and cooperative, so I believe that we can make a real difference if we work together.

Here is a post with helpful graphics on how you can participate (click)

And here is a post on how you can help Palestine not just during the strike, but any day (it updates regularly!) (click)

Thank you for your attention. Free Palestine!

#sorry if the wording is a bit wonky I'm. not used to writing stuff like this.#your turn to die #yttd #kanna kizuchi #my art #I desaturated the image to make this post more accessible but please tell me if i need to desaturate it more #yes i should've probably done this before the strike begun but this idea came to me just this evening I'm sorry

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jiiyawns · 2 years

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rereading archie gave me a disease and the disease is shadow the hedgehog

just smth for fun . wanted to keep the panel layout and dialogue the same but change the drawings as i saw fit... the og is a lot more dynamic imo but i liked the expression practice i got

#archie sonic #sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #sth #sonic #nicole the holo lynx #maria robotnik #i love.archie shadow sm #i miss him every day. i spent way more time on this than i should've bc i like #started Drawing it weeks ago #and then within that time i got better at sonic style and etc. etc. so #it kept changing #i also was fucking stupid and decided new brushes i never used before and whatnot was great for this #as if that isn't also a time sink . if this were a real comic with a deadline i would've been fucked #LOL but i think in the end i like... most of it. the colors piss me off so fucking much #the closeups are absolutely the parts i like most then there's just smaller bits that im like yeah okay that's nice #fanart #draw

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thresholdbb · 18 days

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Uhh...

#im not making cardassian prosthetics but I needed to figure out something a little more complicated before mutant Tommy P #this was like an hour of messing with clay #my bat'leth drop cloth comes in handy lol #I only used tiny garak as a model... probably should've looked up actual references lol #my hands are sticky...#cosplay updates #make bad art or whatever

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dreameroftheblue · 5 months

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I don't wanna wait till the sunshine fades And bury our love in a shallow grave 'Cause the world could be cruel to us or We could live for the dangerous so Let's start, let's start a riot Hard to sit still when your head's on fire Oh yeah 'Cause I'm a supernova And you're my four leaf clover

#this one just kind of spilled out of me very quickly - lines done in like. one session right before I should've been going to bed lmao #and then spent a few more finishing and fiddling with it including finding that middle version kinda neat #all those studies comin' in clutch! didn't need to use a particular screenshot of crowley's face as direct reference this time :D #good omens fanart #good omens #aziraphale x crowley #aziracrow #wings #angel wings #naga #lamia #artistic nudity #nsft #?#not really hornee because naga junk should be at the end near their tail #and right now it's all tucked away inside anyway haha #also I showed my mom this one and she seemed very very confused lol #haven't really gotten much other feedback so uhhh if it needs critiquing. go ahead I guess

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thepringlesofblood · 7 months

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fckin. i've watched Tin Can Bros' masterpiece Spies are Forever a bajillion times. I've listened to the soundtrack a bajllion times. when my phone malfunctioned and I lost all the music I downloaded from my dad's giant folder of pirated mp3s, the fuckin Spies Are Forever soundtrack was one of the 3 albums that remained bc it was one of the only ones I'd actually bought. which means i listened to it over and over and over until I was able to get student-discounted Spotify (and tbh i do still listen to it over and over, just on Spotify).

and I JUST NOW realized that Curt's beard from the 4 years after Owen's death is a double entendre.

the only other queer person he knew in his line of work just fucking died. of course he gets a beard.

#he needs to mourn without people questioning #why he's so upset over some guy from fully another agency #so he misdirects it as general depression/hiding himself from the world #so people don't pay attention [badum tssh] to the cause of his grief #fuck man every time i look at saf it gives me more interesting subtext #spies are forever #saf #tcb #tin can bros #curt mega #original post #i should've written my intro to queer studies final paper on spies are forever #i had it all planned out and i scrapped it bc i was scared my prof would watch it and not get the full context of the nazi stuff #and i did the adventure zone balance instead #which was nice but not nearly as deep of a lasagna as spies are forever #this shits got layers for days #tagpost #if you dont know what i mean by 'beard' in a queer context #google it before yelling at me #i know its kind of an older term idk if the youths use it anymore

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fioleespring · 4 months

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#i never expected too much from the adaptation and i like watching it mostly because i can joke about every scene with my sister #but suki #my girl my dearest #she was just so meh from my expectations #and yeah taking katara's anger away was way worse #but suki was a minor side character in season 1 #she didn't have that much screentime even in the og show so it should've been easy to make her character more like the original #they took away her sass and her strong personality #she gives vibes of a crane now when before she was more like a tiger #and i wish her hair was shorter sigh #they also robbed us of a sokka in kyoshi warriors uniform moment #one more thing that was just amazingly horrible is how often they use the word hope #if it was like that in the og then i apologize #but damnn it sometimes feels like i'm watching the ember island players #atla #h talks

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randomidiocyncrazies · 1 month

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Honestly... milgram project is fun bc you get to analyze the characters (and try to work out their "murder" + the circumstances surrounding it) AND you get to analyze the fandom as a bonus too

#milgram #i'm actually still really salty that ppl voted Amane Unforgiven/Guilty with the reasoning that it's for her own good #like i get it. both choices were bad #but you're honestly telling me that ppl thought telling a little girl she's not forgiven #when she showed willingness to at least hear different viewpoints in her voice drama #is BETTER than forgiving her???#and when she doubled down on her cult beliefs as a result of us telling her she'll find no forgiveness from us #THEN we tell her she's forgiven??? after she brought into the kool-aid more than ever???#like if you're voting so she'd distance herself from the cult then isn't it more important to reject her devotion to her cult now???#anyway. she should've been forgiven from the start #and i honestly think we've locked her into a 'bad' ending ever since we tried to 'save' her in T1 #with our holier-than-thou smug attitude ('it's for her own good!' bro that's nothing but paternalism the thing she hates most)#to tell her we don't forgive her for what she did after years of being abused by a cult #(i say 'we' as if i didn't only find out about milgram a week before Kotoko's T2 vote closed)

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queen-boudicca · 4 months

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Someone: ugh marvel sucks now

Me: you're so right, 100%, agree completely

Someone: they peaked in endgame

Me: ...

#i will never understand why people like endgame #i mean i hated infinity war bc it had to do the contrived shit where very powerful characters had to be very foolish #bc otherwise they could win immediately #and the way that they decided saving vision was more important than the hundreds of wakandans that would die instead #and many many other reasons #but endgame was a billion times worse #it had exactly one redeeming quality and that was Steve using Thor's hammer #but even that was undercut by his ending so #anyway Steve should've done the snap and Tony should've retired to be with his family #and also everything else about that movie sucked too #god the fucking “”“girl power”“” shot where all the women come together to help a man when they should've just given it to Captain marvel #way to admit you have zero female characters by the way #also way to disrespect black widow like where was her wreath during the funeral scene??#anyway there's a billion more problems with that movie but my point is people will be like “everything after endgame sucks”#and I'm like my guy everything after whatever movie was before infinity war sucks #tbf i heard the new black panther and guardians are good #but I've stopped giving marvel my money so #marvel #anti endgame #anti marvel

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paperhats-and-evil-schemes · 1 year

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Black Hat lunged at his counterpart, body contorting into a vicious conglomeration of teeth, smoke, tendrils, and distorted bone. An echoing symphony of shrill, unholy roars filled the room as the enraged demon carried out his onslaught, ripping into White Hat’s body with a fury unparalleled to anything Flug’s seen from him before. And considering how much Flug's seen already...

I wanted to make BH way bigger but then WH would look too smol to see well enough haha

@ Nosy anon, I promise I'll come up with a proper actual snippet to respond to this one of these days, but in the meantime, have this random impulse drawing and a very very short paragraph of fic to go along with it lol?

#villainous #body horror #black hat #white hat #flug #I wasn't planning on adding so many details to this but I got carried away when I discovered TRADITIONAL ART BRUSHES SHIIIT DUDE #WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME I COULD USE PENCIL AND WATERCOLOR DIGITALLY!!??#I MEAN I OBVIOUSLY SHOULD'VE KNOWN CONSIDERING HOW FAR TECHNOLOGY HAS COME BUT DANG #I'VE BEEN MISSING OUT THIS IS SO MUCH EASIER THAN HOWEVER TF I WAS GETTING BY BEFORE #OP #My writing motivation may be a finicky lil trickster but my drawing motivation has been weirdly active #Granted I'm more used to actual pencils and paints but hey #Maybe I'll do more of these lol #Way less cleanup to do 😆#I still have like three other White Hat drawings I've been meaning to post for a while but never got around to #Welp

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tenok · 2 months

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#I want complaine not only about bad takes in this fandom but also about theories that just!! so!! stupid!! but also I'm a good person that #doesn't shit on other people's fun #so I mostly suffer in silence #and block people in bunches #'you see! this theory absolutely doesn't take agency from character and doesn't minimize emotional impact!'#says person about theory that roughly summariasized as 'Crowley AGAIN knows more than Aziraphale and it's all so SAD because if only #Aziraphale knew he wouldn't make this desicion!'#I want to scream #somehow it also never about what kind of monster Crowley would be to willingly hide memories Aziraphale supposedly erised and never gave it #back in whole four years they had before season two #like. maybe not be a cowards and embrace 'I was a pussy and somehow didn't get a courage to RESTORE MY FRIEND'S MEMORY with some kind of #VITAL INFORMATION that could've IMPACT HIS LIFE OR DEAT DESICIONS #and now he's in place where he could be abused erased or killed and IT'S MY FAULT' angle hmmm?#at least it could've made it interesting #but noooo #also how the fuck them kissing in 1941 should've impact Aziraphale's desicion anyway I can't get logic behind this theories #(the angle with 'memories are not about some stupid kiss but about what Crowley saw in heavens' could've work but like first: Crowley didn'#saw anything Aziraphale won't hear from Metatron in next scene or can extrapolate using base logic #and anyway if Crowley wanted to use it as argument he like. should've start with it and not with 'blah blah you're an idiot we should run #from earth'#AT BEST I could've get behind him giving Aziraphale some kind of weapon or possibility of safe out or like. hell's fire to self destruct as #last resort. but memories? and especially Aziraphale's memories??)#anyway yes it's me being a hater. I just have no place to vent about it but I sure hope that no one that likes this theories will see it.#you do you!!! but I hate it so much!!!

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humanlyimprobable · 2 months

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Heyy shh shshshshsh don't cry, buy a bulk pack of pierogies (any flavour you like), bake until golden brown, top with sour cream, great value chipotle & ancho hotsauce, honey, and salt and pepper to taste.

Use a spare piece of bread to soak up any sauce left behind.

Ok?

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shubh-mangal-zyada-saavdhan · 8 months

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Satyaprem ki Katha AU where they focused on Katha healing while Sattu decides to help support Katha by completing his law degree and helping her build a case against Tapan, representing Katha in court as her lawyer, and helping her get her deserved closure by putting the bastard in jail himself.

#and honestly they should've skipped the ace plot #the movie was amazing overall but that was genuinely just a setback for our community #because they showed people being disgusted and frustrated at her being ace #and there was never any resolution for that except Katha just saying she wasnt ace #but the movie was so good otherwise honestly #i just felt like they rushed kathas final decision to stop tapan before he destroys anyone elses life #i feel like they should've substituted the ace plot with sattu finishing his degree and fighting for katha in more ways than one #and ofc katha healing and getting the love she always deserved and becoming the person she used to be before tapan #let me know if any of yall want me to write this au because i might if i get time #satyaprem ki katha #kiara advani #kartik aaryan #but yeah i also feel like this was both kiara and kartiks best performance till date #bollywood

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mcalhenwrites · 11 months

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If you're into M/M monsterfucking romance, this is gorgeously written and was a delightful discovery for me a few months ago (and now I'm pining after the rest of the books in the series):

#and if you have any recs for books like this...#I can put them on my lengthy to-read list and eventually I'll get to them...?!#much as I like this series so far I didn't make this post as anything more than a suggestion to mutuals that might be interested #I don't know any of you and it's great y'all like these books and this author is FANTASTIC #but yeah shutting down reblogs like I prob should've done before #maybe don't reblog shit people don't put in main tags and make someone used to almost no activity have a sudden spike in it

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evilkitten3 · 11 months

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Wanted to tell you that YES while all that happened bakugo is (even tho being held by multiple people) just laying on the ground for multiple chapters

it's incredibly funny to me bc like irl it's been. almost a year since that chapter came out. and he's been lying there the whole time. he's one of my favorite characters but tbh i really want the story to finally cut back to him and have edgeshot pop back out and go "yeah no there's nothing i can do he fuckin dead" bc it would be so freaking funny.

ofc it'd also be pretty bad writing but that's neither here nor there

#bnha #bnha spoilers #i stopped reading the manga back in like 2018 or something #i think it was a bit before the ''joint training arc'' or w/e #anyway since i stopped reading all i know is bits of what people mention that i bother to read #so basically: bakugou died (two whole time) kurogiri was always dead (zombie nanny) and the villains are still more likeable than most pros #also dabi is todoroki's older brother but literally everyone knew that since the dawn of time so that doesn't really count #also apparently genderbent captain america showed up but then died #and overhaul made a friend #also togachako might become canon which is the most important thing #having said that: i keep seeing ''toga redemption'' getting tossed around #fuck that! uraraka corruption!#go girl tear the society that trapped your family in poverty and forbid you from using your quirk to help to the ground!#rip maim kill etc #also aoyama is the traitor which is stupid #i still say it should've been hagakure. and that she shouldn't have felt bad about it #let 1-a deal with a friend with a fundamentally incompatible ideology you cowards #oh and also apparently horikoshi is just snipping bits of aizawa off whenever he gets bored or something idk

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