Fan fix have taken over the goblin brain and now I live exclusively in the MHA fandom doing rare pairs smh Check out my stuff: https://archiveofourown.org/users/WyldWynter
how I sleep knowing as a fanfic writer who writes for herself and her own enjoyment first and foremost, I have the power and the freedom to write whatever I want however I want forever
one of my personal dabihawks headcanons is that they actually find each other HILARIOUS. like they're both one sarcastic comment away from hysterically snorting, but for obvious reasons they have to pretend they'd rather gouge their eyes out with a spoon every time they're in the same room lmao
friends bkdk running an agency and izuku is bad at paperwork
kacchan: why is there still paperwork on your desk?
deku: uhm -
kacchan: this is from three weeks ago!
deku: *inches towards open window* i have no idea what you mean
kacchan: deku you sonava -
deku: *leaping out the window* there is no paperwork in ba sing se!
kacchan: i don't get paid enough for this shit
- i want to be somebody (to someone) - new ShigaDeku fic OUT NOW
This manga takes on an impossible task convincing me Dabi’s the ultimate evil when they placed him in a forest of trees and children, and all he did was toss a match at it and walk around ominously.
His flames are probably burning between 3,000- 5,500 degrees, he’s a walking crematorium and easily could have slaughtered everyone in that forest in about ten seconds flat from either straight up incineration or smoke inhalation. Hell, Mustard had half that forest filled with, likely flammable, gas. Twice was there to make as many clones of him as he wanted. That forest should have been lit like the Fourth of July in Missouri.
And yet there’s not a single casualty. Imagine that.
Dabi is the most Nerfed overpowered character of all time. If you wanted him evil he should be god tier levels of scary- and yet every single thing that happened in this series continuously reinforces to me that his character ethics backslid spontaneously just to flatten his nuance.
MHA wants to have the aesthetic of a gritty show where the villains are the darkest of evil and are very dangerous and serious.
While also having the villain characters be incompetent, utterly pathetic losers who can't kill their way out of a paper bag.
While also having the main characters always win in the end and absolutely nothing in the story can't be undone or have them get a second try.
So you have utterly asinine scenes like people standing near blue flames like it's a pleasant afternoon trip to the beach. Because apparently thermal radiation doesn't exist in this universe unless the author wants it to.
The utterly random nameless losers Dabi kills do a LOT of heavy lifting for his street cred.
You would think that the man who can instantly reduce human beings to chunks of carbon, a level of heat that takes hours to accomplish IRL, would be one of the most dangerous people on the planet.
Keep in mind that Tomura needed to touch you for most of the series to hurt you. Dabi just had to raise a hand and flames cover you and you're dead.
I'd like to explain something REALLY, REALLY important about a realistic application of Dabi's quirk: YOU DON'T DODGE IT.
Just standing within twenty feet of Dabi when he ignites should flash-fry a person's lungs and cause third-degree burns from the radiant heat alone. Blue fire is hot enough to melt steal near instantly. We've seen Endeavor himself do this with orange fire.
Dabi's flames are hotter than his. The argument of "It's just anime physics!" no longer applies when the source material canonically applies them for a cool fight scene.
PEOPLE are less durable than buildings, steel, and trees!
If Dabi shoots blue fire at you, even physically avoiding the flames still means he most likely either kills you or inflicts third degree burns on your body that cause catastrophic damage.
Blue fire burns upwards of 5,000 degrees, which means even if you successfully dodge roll ten feet away from his blast, the extreme UV light and ambient thermal radiation will permanently blind you before you even hit the ground.
A fire that hot acts like a massive welder's torch, emitting a UV flash so intense it causes immediate photokeratitis, while the radiant heat,traveling at the speed of light! instantly boils off your eyes' protective tear film. Because the human blink reflex is far too slow to beat the speed of light and heat, the ambient air temperature would literally cook the proteins in your corneas, turning them cloudy like egg whites hitting a hot skillet.
Dabi doesn't even have to try to blind you; permanently boiling your eyeballs in their sockets is just the passive, unavoidable side effect of standing in the same zip code as a walking blast furnace.
A man who can casually set an entire forest on fire, which killed absolutely no one, by the way, is not a person that you try to dodge roll like a dark souls boss.
This is one of the weakest elements of MHA. It has a bloated cast of characters who do absolutely nothing and serve no function other than being props for merchandising with a comparatively tiny cast of antagonists who never achieve anything of real value until the plot is ready for them to succeed, and no one the audience could possibly give a shit about is allowed to die.
Zero stakes. Zero fear on who will live or die. Zero reason to care.
tomura: ok i will be streaming my favorite hero's favorite game
deku *logs in to watch*
tomura: ...
tomura: i'm gonna need a moment
deku: take all the time you need i can wait!!!
tomura: *screams in the void*
okay so there are three types of writers when it comes to dialogue tags.
the first type writes this:
"i can't believe you did that," she exclaimed breathlessly, her voice trembling with barely concealed emotion.
the second type writes this:
"i can't believe you did that," she said. "i just — i can't." "i know," he said. "do you?" she said. "yeah," he said.
and the third type has been told "said is invisible" so many times they've started doing this:
"i can't believe you did that," she whispered-yelled, her eyes flashing.
all three of these are wrong. (sorry.)
this is what's actually happening in each case.
1. the purple tagger
"you BETRAYED me," he snarled furiously.
the problem isn't the snarl. the problem is furiously. if he's snarling, we know he's not delighted. the adverb is doing work the verb already did, which means you don't trust your own writing. and your reader can feel that.
also: people cannot hiss words that don't have an s in them. "i love you," she hissed. no she didn't. she CAN'T have.
fix: one strong verb OR one adverb. never both. and only when said genuinely doesn't cut it.
2. the said-only purist
said IS invisible. that's true. but a page of nothing but "said" in a tense scene creates this weird flat affect where everything feels equally weighted. the invisibility is the problem, not the solution.
"get out," she said.
versus
"get out." she didn't look up from the counter.
the second one has no attribution at all. we know who's talking. and now we know she's not even giving him the dignity of eye contact. that's CHARACTER. that's free.
action beats do more work than tags. use them.
3. the said-is-dead convert
this one genuinely pains me because it usually comes from good advice received badly. someone told you to vary your tags, and now your characters are interjecting, conceding, deflecting, and sighing their dialogue like a victorian novel.
"we need to leave," he urged. "i'm not ready," she hedged.
hedged. HEDGED. what is she, a financial advisor.
the rule isn't "never use said." the rule is: your tag should disappear, and the line itself should carry the weight. if you need urged to tell me he's urgent, the line isn't doing its job.
the actual framework (one sentence)
ask yourself: does this tag add information the line doesn't already have, or am I patching a weak line with a strong verb?
if it's patching, rewrite the line.
- rin t. ✨
Hey tumblr, a close friend of mine and her family are going through a really difficult time right now. I don't usually share things like this, but seeing what she's been facing, especially alongside her mother and siblings, has been heartbreaking. her mother just created it and asked me to share it!
If you're able to donate to her GoFundMe to help prevent their eviction, it would mean so much. If not, sharing is appreciated too. ❤️:
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One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work that’s just. Devastating. Like you’re sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Let’s do it.
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