#robotlesbianjavert

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If anyone is put off by all my rapid fire lolix posting please send all comments and complaints to @robotlesbianjavert she KNOWS. What she did.

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I just want to know the thinking behind why shigaraki never reacted to twice’s death.

I feel there's no answer more on the point and concise than @robotlesbianjavert's, especially just the last sentence:

Anonymous said: shigaraki died not knowing about twice

robotlesbianjavert: SERIOUSLY. SERIOUSLY. DID SHIGARAKI NEVER LEARN ABOUT TWICE. DID HE NEVER GET TO COMMENT ON THAT WHOLE SITUATION. like the most insane thing about the end of that "war" arc is that properly acknowledging twice's death should have completely informed shigaraki's feelings towards the heroes and to deku's. i don't even want to say attempts to reach out to him cuz deku just punched him a lot man he didn't reach out in anyway that wasn't just horikoshi making up rules for ofa. shigaraki had to be entirely ignorant about twice in order for any heroes to survive even five seconds around him.

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oh oh, symbrock ghost au?

I didn’t try even a little bit to stick to the sentence limit ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ oh well I had fun

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It wishes it could’ve seen this planet in its prime. The other symbiotes have long since picked it clean, its native lifeforms devoured or enslaved. Only bones of cities left.

Something is stirring, though. It can hear it calling, somewhere outside of the hivemind. It follows the sound through the ruin, weaves through the trash. The hive, after all, has discarded it.

Finally, it can make out the words.

Hail Mary, full of grace ... it hears. Its sight is weaker than its hearing, but it can tell there is no living creature here. It feels cold. Cold like the lightless oceans of home, not the dry heat of this planet.

Here, it says and pulls itself together, trying to speak without alerting the hive.

What -! The cold sharpens. A greeting. It purrs at the comfort of the change in temperature, and the voice hesitates. What - who are you?

This ghost must be old, to not remember the invasion.

Symbiote, it says. Rejected by my fellows. Like you.

Like me, huh?

Yes. No others like you here. It pauses. The world has changed.

What?

Destroyed, it admits. Want to stop the hive that did it.

Hive. Your “fellows”.

It nods the bit of mass serving as its head. It can’t see its companion, but it’s sure that he can see it. Its tentative psychic connection bleeds sincerity. I wanted out. Want to help?

God, yes. The cold flows into it, and it feels so strong it is sure that it could plunge straight through one of the hive’s fire-walled prisons. 

I’m Eddie, the voice says. Guess we should’ve done intros first.

It cannot think of a better introduction than acceptance.

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nal. if you're still doing these. 🌧️🌧️🌧️i believe in you 🌧️🌧️🌧️

🌧️Share something angsty from your WIP.

😈😈😈 thank you kota thank youuuuuuu

Prisons like Tartarus, and Iron Maidens; 24/7 full body restraints, solitary confinement, induced comas and long-term sedation; the Targeted Instant Elimination System— As punishments, they are not cruel and not unusual. They’re used around the world and has become basic detention methods. According to most governments around the world, they are not degrading; they are not inhumane. Quirks has changed the standards of what it means to be human; and thus, what indignities are considered allowable for a human to experience and suffer through has also changed... [...] When one is deemed as having lost the privilege of being called human; when one is seen as barely human at all, there are no human laws, morals, or social norms can’t be suspended to contain such a beast. But it goes the other way too. If you aren’t considered a person; and if you too come to not consider yourself as belonging to the group of beings called ‘people’, then human laws, morals, or social norms don’t apply to you. Human connections and community have no meaning. Concepts like belonging, compassion, or the future do not exist. After that, there is nothing a beast such as you can’t do to an actual person.

tho i have to wonder if this is angst? Or just me on a soapbox.

Well. If not, and with all the rainy cloud emojis, here's Spinner angst:

"I..." I want to follow him. I want to help him. I want to see his dream come true. I want— "Don't worry about it," Spinner mutters. "It's nothing important. Doesn't really matter." Because it doesn't. There's not anything to do, these are just feelings that tumble around inside of him, just dreams that he can't control until he wakes up. That's all there is and that's fine. Spinner knows the step after realization is... confession, but he won't be doing that. Confess to Shigaraki Tomura. Sounds crazy. Shigaraki doesn't have time to deal with things like romance or dating or whatever this is. Plus— I'd been an empty shell. It's why I hate everything. Every living, breathing thing just rubs me the wrong way. Where's room for —love— in all that rage? Shigaraki has given the League enough proof that he tolerates them, trusts them, might even like them, that they are exempt from 'Destroy Everything', but a small quiet part of Spinner wonders. What's after annihilation? What happens when there's nothing else to destroy? Never mind that the probability some of them won't survive this apocalypse is certain enough. The thing about that rage, Spinner knows - has felt himself - is how it's fueled by grief, which itself is a bottomless black hole that can and will smother and eat away at everything. You'll never be able to get back what's lost, and whatever manages to regrow, breaking through that dead-dry ground, is never the same. Colder, smaller, uglier. It's hard. It's survival. There's only essentials and the little space left available is for very precious things. For the few special memories, for fleeting moments of peace, for wild hopes and dreams. Those dreams of Shigaraki's, Spinner will protect. For him, that's enough. Already more than he had ever hoped for.

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unpopular opinion inspired by 'nothing' in particular: the kouta-deku subplot all the way back from the forest camp arc was really weak by virtue of it being deku but it got covered up by the hype fight.

I absolutely abhor the Kouta subplot and resolution! Strongly, strongly agree that it’s so weak. It was dumb. It might have reverse-developed the two characters. Just badly done. I also hate the Muscular fight as well.

So like, we start off with a simple problem: Kouta hates Heroes.

He hates Heroes because his Hero parents died in the line of duty and ‘left’ him, and all he got in return was people telling him ‘it was an honorable death’ and then he was shipped off to be raised by another Hero aunt who believes that platitude and also apparently thinks the boy’s ‘abnormal’.

Going deeper, Kota instinctively senses some of the contradictions of superpowered-society, and he hates that too. The way Quirks are used and conceptualized, and how that ties into the labels of Heroes and Villains.

‘Course, maybe he’s just six and he’s just confused and scared and lashing out and saying things; but regardless of whether he understands it or not, the fact there is anger and dissatisfaction immediately brings up an issue specific to this HeroAca world to explore.

Anyways, the obvious solution is that he goes through an experience or two that will change his mind - he no longer hates Heroes and quirks, or at the very least, he comes to a more complex, nuanced position.

It's true we got the former - Kota is inspired and no longer hates Heroes, but the journey there was bullshit in terms of interacting with themes and narrative weight? He hates Heroes, he gets saved by a Hero who simply learned to punch harder, he's okay with Heroes. That's it????

(Personally I think it should’ve been the latter - what a missed opportunity to examine one super valid reason why people might dislike Heroes, to consider the aftermath issues of battle, to consider what Heroism means to different people and how one might not like Pro-Heroes, they have heroes still. The responsibilities Heroes have to balance: the lives of others, the lives of their own, the lives of their family. Quirks and how they’re used/misused, the feelings around having superpowers and how it ties into the understanding of the self; also what happens if he keeps repressing his quirk or associates it with his rage? All that fun navel-gazey stuff.)

But nah, we’ve first got Deku going out of his way to basically only tell him to stop hating quirks and Heroes. No discussion, no mutual conversation, just Deku's telling his story of quirklessness to tie it into some suggestion of 'you'll get hurt if you keep rejecting things' (not that Deku ever got to accept his quirklessness either...!) I mean, it comes from a well-intentioned place, but it addresses literally nothing at the core of Kouta's grief.

...Which is never addressed, tbh. The Deku-Muscular fight only force him to accept that Heroes are necessary because otherwise a Villain would've killed him, and then to accept quirks because, again, if there's a bad guy with a superpower, you gotta counter that with a good guy with a superpower - with the battle upholding that because it was just a contest of 'Who Can Punch Harder'. I guess it works because life-or-death adrenaline is a trip, but it was so unsatisfying. Terrible, underutilized, flimsy, half-hearted writing. Not to mention that it taught Deku nothing??? about reflecting on Heroes and quirks and society.

At the very least if Kouta has to be proven wrong, there should be questions of like, 'Are quirks a necessary tool of violence?', 'Is it okay to dislike Heroes?', 'What other ways could Villains be stopped?', 'Were the lives of two Heroes/your parents worth the lives of several other people?', 'What ways could Kouta be consoled without telling him his parents died honorably and he should be proud?', etc. The answer to those can all be 'In the end, Heroes are needed and great no matter what, no further questions.' which I would disagree with but at least it would properly structure out the arc????

any ways, yeah. Thanks for the ask!!

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also spinaraki asks. top 5 things that spinner and shigaraki would romantically and ridiculously argue about. go.

Ahhhhh good great transcendent ask???? Hmmm.

I want/headcanon/think Shigaraki and Spinner are the type of couple to casually argue about anything and everything, even regarding things that they ultimately agree on, because they both are pretty outspoken, stubborn, default rather crabby, and just like to grouse and complain. Shigaraki likes to tease and be obnoxious at times, which doesn’t help, while Spinner can get riled up and very passionate about stuff. Also the angry sex is super fun. So!

Video games. Very obvious. They’ll argue about gameplay, characters and themes and plot, strategies and tactics - especially the super nerdy meta? Stuff about character rankings and tiers and exploiting game mechanisms or whatnot. Shigaraki is a pro at stuff like that, super creative and bold, Spinner bit less so, but just as competitive and hard at work; I imagine they can clash a lot over issues ranging from truly interesting things worth debating about, to the dumbest technical details.

Then there’s also just plain old arguments about whether a game is good or not, whether they should buy a game (and who’s paying for it), whether they should play this game or that for the evening. Ultimately, though, it’s fun to argue/talk about these things, games being the interest they share that no one else in the League seems to have. Good for them, fuckin’ nerds.

Their relationship. I guess this is more of a personal headcanon/preference because I like basic emotional intelligence in my pairings, even/especially if it involves awkward conversations about the nature and details of the relationship. Still, these two are pretty introspective, self-aware, and willing to share their honest feelings straight out loud! So I can see them speaking up when really bothered and then arguing until it’s resolved (usually also after they’re in bed, spent and satisfied.)

Choice topics maybe include: ‘we should stop randomly having sex in random places’ or ‘celebrating an anniversary isn’t dumb’ or ‘because you’re important to me, asshole’. Idk, but trust me, it’s very romantic.

Whether that thing they just did was cool or not. It was objectively not. But one will insist it was, though somewhere inside his mind he vaguely also know it was dorky, but look, the cool outweigh the nerdiness; while the other really just has an issue more with the execution or some trivial aspect, even though secretly he did think it was cool, he’s only miffed he didn’t do it— instead of realizing the whole thing was entirely dumb altogether.

I think honestly they both just want to impress each other and show off, but then, hell if they’ll let each other get away with being so corny.

Are these too broad? Sorry if they are! For more specific topics...

First name basis. Okay I’m cheating because we’ve discussed before (with @stillness-in-green and @holioc iirc hi!!) but I still love it. Spinner building up the courage over months to finally call Shigaraki ‘Tomura’, he planned for it, he had it scripted out, he made sure his voice was like 50% lower, deeper, all cool— then Shigaraki, knowing full well what was happening, casually interrupts and calls him ‘Shuuichi’ for the first time, which pretty much gives Spinner a heart attack, both from having Shigaraki use his first name and because he’s livid Shigaraki stole his moment.

I imagine they’ll still argue about that every now and then, afterwards. Smh

How to kill a man. Murder! Between the adrenaline and intimate unspoken vow of mutual secrecy and time spent together, it’s a good way to bond. Then better yet, argue over something minor to get rid of the post-murder jitters and have your mind mildly kept off the awkward, gross clean-up.

I admit, I kinda ran out of ideas here (or, got too many dumb ideas not worth writing out) but hey. These two can bicker over technique, or dumb inadvisable moves they did during the fight that could’ve put them in danger, be more careful! or whether they should’ve killed the guy or not, whether it was the correct guy, etc. Somehow I can see Shigaraki randomly knowing more than a thing or two about fighting with blades, and so have good points to give to Spinner, who acknowledges the info but might feel defensive since hey, he’s the sword fighter here. But ultimately, maybe it’s how their attraction to each other’s bloodlust and homicidal nature manifests out. Idk man

I love them. They fit each other well. Thanks again for the ask!!!

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@robotlesbianjavert

Oh my god rlj I would I’m so tempted but I feel like any Naruto AU post to be shown to the world demands a sketch of Spinner in a fishnet shirt to accompany it. Spinner deserves that much.

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spinner ask!! if you had the control, what's an ideal plot/scene/arc/whatever you'd like to see for spinner in the story following the latest chapter

I would love love love to know more about him! Give me flashbacks that tells us about his family and his life before joining the League! Tie it into why he’s ride or die with Shigaraki and the others now and will continue to do so, harder than before too after all that has happened. That’s a triple whammy of potential worldbuilding, character development, and plot. 👌🏼

Ideally, it’ll come complete with images of a little Shuuichi, maybe hikikomori Shuuichi in that amazing ‘YOU MUST DIE’ shirt, and more mask-less Spinner, looking good in regular clothes. Ideally, there’s a heart to heart with Shigaraki. Doesn’t have to be anything ground-breaking, but a line or two full of meaning exchanged between them. Actually, let’s have him have more conversations with all members of the League, too. Plot relevant conversations, as well as fun banter.

There is also the potential Shigaraki and Spinner reunion. Just give me Spinner shouting out Shigaraki’s name, the panel a close up on his worried face when he sees Shigaraki all beaten-up. Plz.