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Waking up from Hiatus to confirm Bakugo Katsuki is dead. Jeanist feels for his pulse to find there no longer is one.
The UA Traitor was revealed to be The Invisible Gal.
Okay, I think I finally have all my thoughts together in order to do this properly. I wanna talk about Fat Gum being involved in illegal quirk fighting rings.
We all know that one throwaway line: “I used to be a fighter, too - a scrapper like you” that he says to Rappa in season 4, and then it’s just never brought up again. And at first I just thought, ‘Hmm, interesting’ - but then I started reading Vigilantes and found a lot more evidence for it, especially when one the Vigilantes staff members mentioned the following at the end of one of the chapters he appears in: “His Vigilantes version almost feels like a baddie - we made him a little more aggressive all around since we learned he used to be a brawler.”
This is the kind of aggression they’re talking about:
So basically, he beats a guy up for making him drop his food. Definitely not the same guy who hands out candy in season 4.
Then there’s THIS incident:
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Here’s further awesome proof that cosplay is for everyone! Brazilian cosplayer Solange, aka Tia sol (“Aunty Sun”) has won the heart of the internet with her wonderfully accurate homemade costumes and convention appearances around her home city of Manaus, Brazil.
“A friend said that I wouldn’t have the guts,” Solange told BuzzFeed News. “I chose a character and had the costume made without saying another word.”
“I don’t miss a single event in my city. I’d really like to visit other ones, but have you seen the price of the fares?”
“I never thought that I would be well received among the young people, I’ve made a lot of friends during all of this.” Cosplay conventions have become a sort of a haven for Solange: “I can launch myself into the world of make-believe, where anything goes.” Her next event is coming up in December. “I’m finishing up the painting on my new cosplay, Granny Juju from Jorel’s Brother.”
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oh these are all the same person??
this user’s blog is a safe place for trans lesbians.
I know I haven't posted leaks in two weeks now, I've been busy with work and life.
But I gotta pose the question once more:
Where the absolute FUCK are fatgum and suneater? You can't hide them forever and we need to start making some pentagrams to summon them.
Hot take but… some fiction is just better without romance in it and y'all don’t need to rabidly search for romantic undertones where there are none
#remind me someday to write my essay on how fandom has developed through fans only being able to analyze media through shipping from: @libraryalexandria
This! This is it! You put it more succinctly then I ever could. People don’t know how to engage with media from any lens other than shipping, despite the fact that it just doesn’t work to view some media that way.
today on twitter
fandom shit really was a mistake
INSANE
Back at it again...
So it seems Hawks and Jeanist reveal they’ve heard everything, and Rei immediately apologizes.
Hawks knows what its like to be apart of a broken family as well.
Best Jeanist...tol......
More than likely explaining what’s been going on since the attack.
And how all the villains involved are “missing” or just vanished from the public eye.
But it seems they are going to help the Todoroki fam face Dabi.
Endeavor is crying again, and I wouldn’t be shocked if Natuso is telling him to stop and focus on what they need to do.
Besides, the focus is shifting towards All Might, and the power of One for All.I mean why else was Shiggy going after Deku?
jirou: class pres! tokoyami and kaminari are already discharged.
Denki is ok y’all! Also Tokoyami, but I think we knew that.
And so we gotta drag Bakugo away, angry that he’s awake while Izuku is still unconcious. Jeanist and Hawks want to talk with him but...unconcious. Jeanist also compliments Bakugo’s hero name!
Final line: "In his deepest sleep, he's finally reunited with them!"
There’s no break, 304 will release next week and it seems to be a Deku/OFA centered chapter(s).
As always, we thank Atsushi101x and BKIS2327 for the leaks! But I want to mention after last week that I cannot read Japanese, and get these leaks and information from these two directly. THE TRANSLATIONS ARE NOT ALWAYS PERFECT, AND I DON’T MEAN TO SOUND LIKE AN ASSHOLE TO CHARACTERS.
Please, I love Touya development, I promise I don’t want him to seem like a bad child ;u;
I just want to point out: I'm not trying to spread any misinformation! I know very minimal Japanese and I'm apt to make mistakes because of it!
I'm here to help Tumblr view the leaks and give the information as best I can!
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So completely not shocking, we’re seeing some of Rei’s perspective on things. This is probably after the attack, baby Shouto being baby Shouto rn.
Then a timeskip! The ball, could be referencing the earlier scenes we saw a millennia ago...
Touya is spiraling, he talks about killing Shouto.
Ahaha, I was right. Sorry, anime, Touya’s hair is white.
But now...
He’s literally telling Natsuo while he sleeps about wanting to kill their brother.
Rei mentions she’s losing her son with........results.
“My fire won’t go out” Touya honey...he literally cannot stop his desires.
Judging by the water, the location....Touya planned this all. His death was faked, and he knew it.
Probably the last time this boy ever cried.
I think we’re seeing Touya slip into who will be Dabi. He’s telling his dad he wants to be like him still. He’s springy, excited. Look at his lil feets! And then Endeavor sees that he’s still training, burning himself.
Pain, now with context. Probably bringing up his hair color like his dad did all those years ago.
Follows by Endeavor hitting/punching/attacking both Rei and Shouto. I begin to wonder how long this chapter is...although I’m not upset about the lengthy backstory from Rei and his children’s side.
This is before Shouto burned. Natsuo...Fuyumi...it’s obvious they would hear but...I like the flash to the “she was so fragile she could break” uh yeah buddy. You broke her.
They’re juxtaposing! They’re! Juxtaposing! Touya...crying with fire by his eyes. Wonder if THAT’S significant (bruh...have you seen Dabi’s eyes and the blood crying???).
But they’re talking about how Touya is their fault. They ignored every sign he gave of distress.
I lied, I’m pretty sure he faked his death here. Why?
Yeah? Yeah.
Oh boy...
This family is so fuckin destroyed, dude. Endeavor pushes it on Shouto, Rei...we see why she reacted. She only saw his left side, she saw Endeavor...she saw Touya, what he became. Rei couldn’t bring people over, they were scared of her family. Natsuo KNEW what was happening, and they ignored it. He lost his brother, his best friend.
Apparently, Deku appears? “Not in the way you think” what-
Oh...
But it’s brought up that he’s a good friend to Shouto. That he was saved from what Touya became.
Endeavor is like straight up sobbing now though. Shoutao is offering to help fix this. Acceptance?
We end with Jeanist and Hawks listening the entire time this has been happening.
So Tumblr will brick soon, my computer is running ass-slow, but lets thank BKIS2327 on twitter for the leaks this week and uh
Is it me or is the anti movement... really american? We have that stereotype over here that americans are super uptight about sex and super shy about it and obsessed with purity and hiding it from the children and stuff. Idk as a european it always striked me as a product of american culture
it’s very, very American. While there are certainly antis who aren’t American, many of them are.
I have a lot of theories as to why this is, but a lot of them are covered in this post: anti-shipping as the cool new trend (while it’s mostly about the age bracket of anti-shippers as of June 2017 (this time last year), it’s an americentric post talking almost entirely about US phenomena).
tl;dr version? anti-shipping is:
the natural result of growing up both LGBT+/queer and marinated in American-flavored Puritan Christianity/purity culture
with a side order of valuing safety over freedom
b/c you’ve always had freedom of information
but you’ve never known a sense of security
thanks to lifelong internet access
paired with post-9/11 paranoia.
add a dash of radical feminism/exclusionist thinking
never being taught how to think critically, and
zero education on sex of any kind, and
viola: anti-shippers.
someone* added these tags to their reblog of this post, which, uh: this is literally the basic, standard fandom anti-shipper position on ships.
Whether you call yourself an ‘anti’ or not, this is precisely what a fandom anti does: ‘throw down’ if they think someone’s ships are ‘abusive’, ‘pedophilia’, or ‘incest’ (generally with widely expanded definitions, hence the scare quotes).
it’s a pretty solid example of how this works, though:
tag op is 21: too young to remember a world before 9/11 happened or remember a world without internet access
tag op’s strong feelings about fictional ships suggests they flatten fiction and reality to equal levels of potential danger: classic black & white thinking structure that is strongly encouraged by American Protestant Christianity
tag op didn’t read this post with self-awareness and/or application of critical thought, much less click the link that the tl;dr list references
tag op feels justified in limiting other people’s freedom to use fictional ships to explore certain social/romantic/sexual dynamics, threatening to throw down over it.
this is because those social/romantic/sexual dynamics are not safe or healthy in real life.
even though ships are fictional, the safety of censorship is more important than freedom of expression or thought.
the concern is always about ships/sex fantasies: never violence/fantasies about harming others. this is the combined effect of purity culture and radical feminism in a society that glorifies and normalizes violence.
tag op will fight you for bad ships, because it is okay to fantasize about fighting people but not okay to fantasize about unhealthy fictional relationships
Anyway.
I have a lot of sympathy for antis because I think their lives often set them up to favor censorship and abhor education-as-inoculation, but that doesn’t change the fact that they’re being jerks to fellow fans on the basis of assuming things about the core of their person because of what they ship.
fandom policing of this sort is assumptive, presumptive, and deeply damaging, both to the victims of anti-shipper cyberbullying and the anti-shippers themselves, who are encouraged in this abusive cycle hellhole behavior by emotional manipulation and coercion.
(I want to end this with a joke about how American this is, but assholes are everywhere tbh. Americans are just especially susceptible to the thinking patterns established by fandom antis at this precise moment in history because of the factors listed above.)
*if you figure out who it is, kindly be a decent person and leave them the hell alone.
To take this the next step which is to say, why does this matter? There’s a phrase that’s hovering at the tip of my tongue, can’t quite remember it, but it’s a word that basically means “a culturally specific passcode.” (Ed. I looked it up – it’s “shibboleth”.) A thing that members of the community will use to challenge you on your authenticity, to verify your right to be in that community, with the specific implication that this kind of verification is essential for keeping the community safe. The classic example is that of an American brigade in the European theater in World War II, suspecting the presence of a German spy, remorselessly interrogating a new recruit about World Series baseball scores. Because of course, any TRUE American would know everything about baseball scores! – and no non-American would, so if someone fails this test you are righteous and justified in declaring them The Enemy.
The overt, performative denunciation of Bad Content has become the “shibboleth” for modern fandom, as managed by the increasing influence of antis. Why is that every time one of these posts come around people so inescapably feel the need to add “but of course I don’t condone the pedo stuff” to their reblogs? Do they have reason to assume that pedophiles are so universal and normative that any reasonable person would assume they were, unless they explicitly state otherwise? Of course not – it’s a passcode. A performance of cultural acceptability.
And as the anti movement is hugely American, that means that the passcodes and rituals are also firmly based in American culture. Why all the focus on who is and isn’t eighteen? That’s the age of legal adulthood in America. There’s no magical transition in America where you go to bed on the eve of your 18th birthday an infant and wake up the next day magically transformed into an adult, any more than this same metamorphosis occurs at 16 in the UK, or at 20 in Japan. Concepts like the age of adulthood are entirely arbitrary and culturally defined – but the only acceptable metric, among antis, is the American one.
All the other Unacceptables are equally foggy as soon as you step outside the USA boundaries. Are relationships between adopted siblings considered incest? What about non-blood related people raised in the same creche? Childhood friends? Step-siblings? Classmates? Second or twice-removed cousins? Ancestors or descendants? Different cultures don’t all answer these things the same ways (nor is there any reason that they should,) and that murkiness provides plenty of foothold to launch an attack from, when someone else is shipping in a way that Just Doesn’t Seem Right to you.
Anyway, a lot of this goes under the surface. Many antis don’t even realize how inherently American their anti-ness is, and how much of their opposition to Bad Fan Content is rooted in opposition to non-Americanness, because very little of this happens out in the open. They don’t say to themselves, “American culture and ideals are better than any others, and anyone who fails to adhere to those must be punished,” – instead it gets sublimated into passphrases and rituals, little things you do to signal that you are one of the Good Ones, you are Doing Fandom Correctly. And outsiders who don’t know the correct passphrases and don’t perform the right rituals aren’t just newcomers or people with different cultures – they’re abuse apologists and pedos and predators. Outsiders against whom the community must be defended, even if it comes to a fight.
@mikkeneko ’s addition is wonderfully astute, as usual.
this post has had more than one addition from anti-shippers with various objections, and I’d like to make a few additions to address some things not clearly laid out above.
First of all: ‘anti’ is short for ‘anti-shipper’.
anti-shippers called themselves ‘antis’ before anyone else did.
before anti-shippers nicknamed themselves ‘antis’, fandom generally referred to people who shit-stirred over fictional ships they didn’t like as 'rabid shippers’ (b/c they usually loved a different, rival ship) or 'fandom police’ and called the shit-stirring 'fandom wank’.
Secondly: fandom anti-shippers focus most of their energy on policing FICTIONAL CONTENT - fanworks and fanwork creators in particular - by 'whatever means necessary’.
Anti-shippers contend that fanworks that depict harmful and/or illegal-irl content harm people, especially minors, in fandom by 'teaching them’ that harmful/illegal things are 'okay’ IRL (expressed as 'fiction affects reality’.) My primary issue with this argument: it contends that people who consume certain types of fiction make themselves susceptible to predators - and thus abuse they suffer is their own fault.
Anti-shippers believe this potential and indirect harm justifies violence towards fan creators - usually in the form of online harassment, death threats, noise mobs/spam, report spam, smear campaigns, and more.
Corallary to above: fandom anti-shipper definitions of 'harmful’ fictional content are extremely expansive and, apart from some room for mlm / wlw fiction, nearly indistinguishable from American right wing puritan definitions of 'harmful’.
To this end, fandom anti-shippers refer to any ship/ship dynamic they dislike as 'pedophilia’, 'incest’, or 'abuse’, regardless of accuracy, and modify the definitions of these loaded words at their convenience.
They also frequently smear anyone who argues with them as a 'pedophile’. (raise your hand if being called a pedophile over and over again for arguing that nobody deserves to be sent death threats for their fictional content makes you throw up in your mouth a little every time!)
Finally: fandom anti-shippers constantly dismiss and steamroll input from non-Western (particularly non-American) fans regarding anything they dislike in fandom, even if the creators/content aren’t Western/American.
The most egregious example of this is the redefinition of 'fujoshi’ - a reclaimed slur against Japanese women meaning 'a woman ruined for marriage [because she likes/creates BL content].’ Japanese BL (boy’s love, i.e. mlm) fans reclaimed this attack against them and call themselves 'fu/joshi/jin/danshi’, but English-speaking fandom anti-shippers started claiming “'fujoshi’ means 'a woman who’s gross b/c she 'fetishizes mlm’” - and they speak directly over any Japanese or Eastern Asian fan who tries to correct them.
other examples include: getting into arguments with fans over what constitutes statutory rape when the age of consent is different in different cultures*, claiming that first cousins getting married is 'incest’ even when the source culture has no issue with first cousins getting married, or arguing that various traditional romance practices unfamiliar to American/Western cultures are 'gross’ and therefore harmful/abusive.
*there’s nuanced arguments to be made about what’s the appropriate age of consent, etc, but let’s be real: we Americans are hardly in a position to judge or police other nations.
In conclusion: Besides the contentions I make in the OP about how anti-shipping culture is shaped by a very American crucible of thought, the imperialist behavior of anti-shippers:
the 'our moral standards are the Only REAL Moral Standards’ thing, and
the 'we know your own words better than you’ thing,
simply clinch the matter.
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