Canon Is Just A Suggestion

Just a gay lady who never grew out of her fandom phase. If it’s queer, it’s here 🌈Prominently featuring my current hyperfixation, My Hero Academia (mostly BKDK screaming). Also occasionally featuring my other obsessions: Good Omens, What We Do in the Shadows, Not Another D&D Podcast, Dimension 20 (and all other Dropout content, really), It’s Always Sunny, She Ra, Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Avatar/Legend of Korra, Game of Thrones, The Dragon Prince, Fullmetal Alchemist, the CLAMP universe (mostly Tsubasa and xxxHolic), Yuri on Ice, and far, far too many others to name. 😌🌈💕

[thecrickwitch]

Calling all BKDK fanfic curators:

As a relatively fast reader who just joined the MHA fandom a couple of months ago, I’ve read through most of The Big Ones. Those one-shots with hundreds of kudos, those long, complete multi-chaps with thousands of bookmarks on AO3. I think at this point I’ve read most of what many people would consider the BKDK “classics.”

What I want now, and what I’m struggling to find because (bless) this fandom is so big, are those hidden gem fics with GORGEOUS writing. One-shots or 300k+ words, I don’t care. I just want prose that makes me weak. I want sentences that give me that gut-punch “holy shit there has never been a more perfect or beautiful sentence” feeling.

Folks who have been in the fandom for a while and read a lot of BKDK fanfic:

1. Hi, can we please be friends, because I don’t know anyone

And

2. Can you please send me your BKDK fics with beautiful writing recs? Pls? 🥺

[lupinsuniverse]

Fem Kacchan

[thecrickwitch]

obsessed 😭

[t4nnkx]

Which could mean nothing

[thecrickwitch]

I will never cease to be surprised how how damn perceptive fans can be. How did you even catch this???

[thecrickwitch]

HUGGGG ^^

[thecrickwitch]

Bakugo really just MOVE I’M GAY’d his parents

[obsessive-dumpling]

Did you catch that? Did you catch all of it?

Katsuki is crying, uncontrollably mind you, in front of all the most important people in his life. In front of his parents, in front of his hero, in front of his oldest friend, he is crying as if he lost his dream... because he thinks he did.

Not because of the permanent damage to his arm, no. Fuck his arm. Did not shed one tear over that. Barely even blinked. No he's crying because his dream included IZUKU.

"For the rest of our lives..."

For. The. Rest. Of. OUR. Lives!

When he looked at his future he saw them together for the rest of their lives! When he looked at his future all he saw was Izuku. And he thinks he's lost his only way to that future.

"What the hell did I do to you?"

This right here is where we hit misunderstanding central. He's admitting here that without their rivalry, he does not deserve to stand next to Izuku. Even in this vision of their future together that he concocted in his mind, he even says "and I would be on your heels"... He's saying: You were always my future but I know my place... You've looked at my back too long and I was perfectly fine with a future where all I can do is look at yours... But now that's gone. What have I done?

And his only consolation? An emotionally constipated Izuku, trying to hold back tears for ONCE in his life because he KNOWS- he KNOWS he needs to be strong while Katsuki crumbles, but that's all he can do. Because there is a second misunderstanding here.

While Katsuki believes that they could only be together if it was in this one capacity-- Izuku is thinking the EXACT same thing! He thinks he could only stand next to Katsuki if he was a hero. And all he can do now is offer the very last of what's left of that dream. As if saying: Wait! We have a little more time left...if you'll have me, I still have this ember. Shortly followed by a: But you're probably just emotional right now! As if to say: You probably won't care this much once you rest...

Both so close, and yet still missing each other.

Thank Horikoshi that Toshinori is there to be like: The two of you ARE still heroes and will always be heroes. You are MY heroes and now the worlds as well. Restoring them as a pair. Allowing them to cry together and ultimately smile together. Mourning the future they thought was ahead of them while simultaneously celebrating that they at least made it here.

The nuance, the layers, the honesty... Horikoshi is blowing me away... I can't wait to see the new future they create together.

[thecrickwitch]

👆 Perfect breakdown right here

[kafiguas]

[thecrickwitch]

SAME THO

[aashimaar]

I am absolutely not gonna let myself get queer baited i’m just gonna enjoy the canon content there is and not read into it too much and be happy with what already exists and

*checks twitter*

Oh bkdk canon for real

[kickbutts-singsongs]

Masaru and Mitsuki giving their son a moment 😭

[bakugo-softski]

“I thought we’d go on chasing eachother forever” for THEM is…an actual fucking love confession. Like i really think we’re underestimating this guys!!! Kacchan is literally admitting he expected and WANTED TO HAVE IZUKU IN HIS LIFE FOREVER, OPENLY SOBBING IN EMPATHY FOR IZUKU AND WHAT THEY HAD TOGETHER. S O B B I N G OVER THEM LOSING *THEIR* DREAM. That is as close to a love confession as I’ve ever seen one you guys. He fucking loves izuku and now that he knows they won’t be able to go on chasing and competing eachother in their fun little plausible deniability dynamic I’m so FUCKING excited to see how their dynamic changes to accommodate kacchan continuing to keep izuku in his life now that theyve lost their “reason.” They fucking love eachother. They’re gonna start dating. They fucking ARE

[thecrickwitch]

I’m REALLY hoping we get a quirkless!Izuku learning to become a hero with just support gear and Bakugo being his biggest supporter and defender

“WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN HE CANT BE A HERO, HE KICKS MY ASS SPARRING ALL THE DAMN TIME WITHOUT ONE”

[red-sneakers]

He is always thinking of Izuku. Always. Constantly. He’s pining.

Izuku, I’m begging you, please love this man back the way he loves you.

[thecrickwitch]

😭😭😭😭

[bkdk-prophet]

MHA 424 SPOILERS - Bkdk holy shit

People cannot fault bkdks for thinking bkdk might be canon cause the amount of content?? The deliberate choice to give Katsuki most of the love interest tropes?? Izuku controlling his heart and being reluctant to voicing out his more personal feelings to and because of Katsuki ?? The suspicious and constant marketing?? Giga Jump cover with pastel colours and cherry blossom petals, distinctly different from other Giga covers?? Bkdk and Ochaco’s Japanese VA’s joking about Katsuki being the “heroine”?? Horikoshi recommending romance manga, particularly “Blooming Love,” which has main characters that resemble bkdk?? Nobuhiko Okamoto (Katsuki’s VA) making a BL manga (Boku no Kamikakushi) that has a childhood friends to lovers premise, with one of the main characters being named “Uzuki”?? The whole of Chapter 348 with the Katsuki sounding narration, telling us that Izuku’s oblivious to romantic feelings cause he’s a “damned nerd,” and the scenario Deku described to be romantic containing “holding hands” in an amusement park?? Bkdk’s Japanese Voice actors frequently being in amusement parks and posting abt them?? Bones’ change of heart, Bones’ change of heart. Ochaco’s All Might keychain, which was symbolic of her romantic feelings for Deku, becoming a symbol of her and Toga’s connection?? Katsuki having his own All Might themed card that also shares a connection with Izuku?? The fact that Hori cld’ve made the falling art canon, but instead made a distinction between Katsuki who, even when supposed to be at the hospital, flew all the way to Izuku to give him the final push and Ochaco who stays with the paramedics and cheers for Izuku from a distance?? The fact that it’s not even the first time similarities and distinctions were made between Ochaco and Katsuki?? Katsuki declaring that he envisioned a “forever” with Izuku??

It’s not even abt shipwars or abt who gets the most content, I am simply questioning the intent behind these choices cause they’re not pointing to the expected ending. Call me delusional but I’m sure it’s just not me who sees these all laid out. Like, I’m still trying to lower my expectations cause romance was never Hori’s focus—maybe his intention is to make them platonic soulmates and I will be fine with that—but dude. dude. The romance of it all is insane.

[thecrickwitch]

👆👆👆👆

[beybuniki]

[thecrickwitch]

Just a guy and his boys 🥺

[izukatsude]

short angst yuri slow burn yaoi

love story with love story with

sad ending happy ending

[thecrickwitch]

Give Chako her feral girlfriend back right now Hori or I s2g 😭

[bluerosety-blog]

He's finally smiling towards Izuku!! 😭🥺 Please I love them!! 😭💕 I can't wait to read this chapter again after work when I have more time to fully appreciate it! Lol no one stopped him to go see Izu, my heart, then him crying was not on my list of things Kacchan was going to do after seeing Izuku! 🥺

[thecrickwitch]

these canon panels are straight from a fanfic I s2g

[thecrickwitch]

My wife, as we watch Haikyu!! for the first time: “So… volleyball is just one giant allegory for gay sex, right?”

Me: “I mean, I think that’s kind of a given in any sports anime”

[thecrickwitch]

PFFFFT