She’s beauty.
She’s grace.
She slaps the abuser
and throws on-point insults right in his face.
Kanuma Hotaruko, the woman that you are!
5 hours ago
... just loafing around all the time ...
@chaossery
32, autistic, ace"And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels." ('His Dark Materials - The Amber Spyglass' by Philip Pullman)
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hey fellas, something a little different but here’s a little spinneraki action 🤤 I love them they’re so doomed
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「bubblegum shield」
A twitter request from Shirohi-san – thank you! I wanted to draw something cute with Granit, especially since they adore Granit. So I designed this Ludomon-based fashion-esque outfit on the spot! Also realized that people were drawing Raito’s hair down but not Granit’s…so I decided to fix that! >:D
Hope y'all enjoy!
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Granit’s birthday art from the official Twitter. I hope Glowing Dawn or maybe Hotaruko’s family can give him a happier life 🙏
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Yeah, I know, I disappeared for two weeks due to artist’s block. But I followed a friend’s advice and managed to overcome it, which is why I was able to draw Tomoro and Gekkomon :D
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tomura: I don’t need to touch grass, I need the fall of hero society.
Tomura: Let me tell you, last time I touched grass it did not do good things for my mental state!
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So, anyone got any idea how come Raito, whose birthday is the 29th of February, turned 17 in 2050, meaning he was born in 2033 – which is not a leap year?
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Can we all take a moment to appreciate just how damn great those seven look together as a team?
Also, how the Tactics kids are pretty much the missing colors Glowing Dawn needs to become a full-fledged Glowing Rainbow?
The Tactics kids being the missing colors for Glowing Dawn is my biggest hope they’re going to join the main cast for the rest of the series
…but admittedly, it’s 50/50 because the series has a perfect excuse to dismiss them, like making them travel to free all the people and Digimon that Klay sold 😭
They gave them digivolution animations! You don’t do that unless they’re important or gonna come back!
Do you know how hard it must be to animate granit’s fucking hair? Or Hotaruko?
Honestly? I could even live with them not becoming part of Glowing Dawn and being absent for the rest of the series (though I really wouldn’t like that at all), as long as my personal worst-case-scenario isn’t happening: one of them (most likely Raito) dying for pure shock value and because of Redemption equals Death. There’s literally nothing pointing in this direction, yet I’m still anxious that this is where this arc is ultimately headed. I blame the ending of Bnha for this.
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First time finishing a drawing digitally, drawing these character really motivated me to finish. Took me a week and I could still improve but not bad. Yay for digimon beatbreak!
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The portrayal of Tenko (and how he’s viewed)
This is probably going to be a rather messy rant, but I honestly do not like the way the majority of this fandom writes Tomura in AU’s where he grows up as Tenko with his family.
No, he would not be some a shy, anxious, mama’s-boy type of sweetheart that’s just a version of his five year old self in a bigger body. He would probably be bitter, rude, and honestly a somewhat milder version of canon Tomura.
I think I’m going to say something that is controversial (and it really shouldn’t be) but Tomura Shigaraki and Tenko Shimura are not two different people. Tomura isn’t some evil ghost that took over Tenko’s corpse. They are not separate entities.
Even without AFO involvement, they are the same person in the same body, with Tomura growing up in ways that Tenko would not have. Even still, they are, at their core, the same person.
So many people in this fandom love the aesthetic of abuse, trauma, and tragedy (case in point: shinsou and literally every Izuku AU ever) but do not like portraying the effects that abuse has on a character. Not unless they are a perfect palatable victim.
Tenko was being abused at home. He was in an abusive environment with an abusive father. His resentment and hate was created due to these circumstances. When Tenko was locked outside with only Mon for company, he straight up says he hates everyone. That he can’t take it anymore.
This is so incredibly important to me. He is an abused child reacting to his environment. When his father rejected him by hitting him with the gardening tool, Tenko killed his father. Why? Because he hated him. Because he was brought to a certain breaking point by repeated abuse and rejection.
For some reason, these are facts that many fans love to gloss over, despite the fact that these are the building blocks for who he becomes as Tomura, and that is because he is Tomura. They are the same person!
And even if he never killed his family, he would still be stuck growing up with an abusive father and a family that is complicit in that abuse. I have never seen anyone point this out, but it speaks volumes how even after his mom and grandparents went to confront his father, Tenko was still left locked outside.
No one thought to go against Kotaro’s actions and bring him inside or even comfort him (excluding Hana, of course). And you know what? This should affect him as he grows up in Tenko!AU’s. He should be bitter against his family and he should even be bitter against heroes. His family rejected him with kindness.
Why? Because heroes and their existence are the root cause of why his father treats him the way he does. If Nana, a hero, hadn’t abandoned Kotaro, then Kotaro would not have lived a life of foster care and tragic circumstances. Much like how young Touya internalized a hatred for Shouto, because in his mind, Shouto was the reason Endeavor abandoned him, Tenko should dislike heroes for being the reason why his father treats him the way he does.
This is a bit of a sidenote, but I once saw someone say that AFO “groomed” Kotaro in to being abusive. I try to be polite, but that is not at all what grooming is or what grooming means. The internet has watered down words to the point where serious and life-altering acts and terms mean nothing.
Kotaro was not groomed into being abusive. It’s literally stated in the manga that AFO “convinced him to be a bit more heavy handed”. The word “more” means to increase something that is already there. Kotaro was already a strict, resentful man, and even without AFO’s involvement, I’m sure he would have escalated.
Not only that, but as I’ve said in a previous post, that grown adults should know better than to hurt, hit, drag, or even scream at their children for doing normal child-like things. Why is downplaying the actions of abusive men so prevalent?
Also, while it isn’t explicitly stated, the subtext heavily implies that heroes are willing to go out and catch villains out on the streets, but have no power (or intention) to deal with the villains that exist in homes.
I said it earlier, but this fandom hates it when victims of abuse aren’t perfect and easy to love. The amount of vitriol Dabi faces for his actions as a child are insane.
In fact, the way so many MHA fans reacted to the scene showing Touya trying to hurt Shouto is honestly discouraging, as if Touya wasn’t an abused child lashing out and trying to take some semblance of control in a situation where he was powerless. This doesn’t make his actions right, but the reason for them is quite clearly there.
In Touya’s mind, Shouto was proof that Endeavor had given up on him (it’s literally stated in the manga that “he knew what was happening” which is Endeavors attempts to create perfect children) so of course he would lash out at what he saw as a living symbol of what was his life falling apart, a symbol that was a rejection of him.
At that point in time, Endeavor was everything to Touya. Dabi/Touya is not some sociopath, which so many of his haters like to claim. He was obviously a mentally unstable child reacting to abuse in a way that the average MHA fan did not find palatable.
Bringing this back to Tenko, I find it ridiculous how people go out of their way to portray a grown up Tenko as some version of his five-year old self. Five years olds grow up. They face and experience what live gives to them, for better or worse.
While there are certain core characteristics that children have (such as Tenko’s desire to reach out to those rejected) they also obviously grow up and are shaped by their environment. And may I repeat, that Tenko was quite literally being abused.
He should react to that abuse and have it affect him in some way. It shouldn’t just be some background decoration for fans to go feel sad about, and to then never try to show the effects of because they do not want to portray it.
Sometimes I see AU’s where Nao leaves Kotaro, but like… I highly doubt that it would happen.
From what we see, Nao is a stay at home wife, with an almost nonexistent support system. Kotaro is a man with enough money to have a nice fancy house, a sleek car, and enough money to feed five extra mouths.
Not only that, but divorce is both incredibly tough and uncommon in Japan. So many fans look at Japanese media, created by a Japanese person, with Japanese characters, in a setting placed in Japan, and come at it with western views and ideals.
I seriously need people to understand that abuse does not come out of nowhere. Abuse is something that builds up over time. Nobody gets into a relationship with the expectation of being hurt or having loved ones hurt.
And while it’s admirable that Nao stood up to Kotaro with her words, MHA is a story that goes out of its way to assert that action matters more than words. Nao, with her parents, were still complicit in creating an abusive household (even if they weren’t intentionally trying to).
While this is just me personally, it honestly feels as if many Tomura/Tenko fans like the idea and concept of Tomura but do not actually like his character. I am not fond at all of the tragic Tomura OC Horikoshi created in the form of five year old Tenko Shimura.
Because the fandom does in fact treat Tenko as an OC, as if he is a completely different person from Tomura Shigaraki, when they are obviously not. More often than not Tenko is treated like some kind sweet shy character who is totallyyyyy seperate from Tomura, and that Tomura was some evil manifactured by AFO. When the reason of Tomura’s hate and life turning out the way it did was his abusive household. I started this series as a fan of Tomura and in fact I want to see him and the essence of him in AU’s or circumstances where he grows up in a different way.
I want to see victims of abuse reacting and struggling with their abuse in real, messy, imperfect ways, without fans reducing these characters to their child selves in personality. Tomura Shigaraki is who Tenko Shimura grew up to be. That should, at the very least, have some meaning to his character.
Unfortunately, it’s not just Bnha – far from it. Treating messy abuse victims like shit seems to be a common thing in many different fandoms. Two weeks ago, way too many Digimon fans were fucking cheering when a 17-year-old (who also happens to be an abuse victim who’s anything but perfect) was tied to a chair and beaten to a pulp by his 35-year-old abuser, even though that guy is the main reason the boy is such a mess to begin with. It’s really disheartening how selective some people can be with their compassion and empathy.
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Can we all take a moment to appreciate just how damn great those seven look together as a team?
Also, how the Tactics kids are pretty much the missing colors Glowing Dawn needs to become a full-fledged Glowing Rainbow?
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Since we’ve come to the conclusion that Naito and Endeavor are basically the same character, that can only mean one thing, well:
Similarities:
- Desperately seeking acknowledgement from their abusive father/father figure
- resident assholes of their respective antagonist groups
- “no, they’re not my friends. I don’t give a crap about them. I wouldn’t even bother, if it weren’t for orders/ to achieve my ultimate goal of making my pos father’s life a living hell.”
- Raito being a genius who can perfectly mimic anything he’s seen once vs. Dabi perfectly mimicking his youngest brother Shouto’s ultimate move after seeing it just once (Dabi secretly being a genius confirmed?)
- rather impressive kill counts (though Raito’s is – surprisingly enough – most likely a good chunk higher than Dabi’s)
- Dabi being mistakenly characterized as a huge flirt by large parts of his fandom vs. Raito being a canonical
pick-up-artistflirt - loads and loads of theater kid energy
- regularly bring out the worst in large parts of the Digimon/Bnha fandom (people cheering when Raito is physically abused by Naito vs Touya being declared the root of all evil in the hellish Todoroki family when his pos father is right there)
- being declared as irredeemable by large parts of the Digimon/Bnha fandom, aka large parts of the Digimon/Bnha fandom (+ Horikoshi) being in desperate need of a healthy dose of media literacy
Main difference:
Dabi desperately needing a Tomoro of his own