ever wanted to know what your epithet would be if you were a character in greek mythology? now you can! you could be the next wine-dark sea, or maybe you’ll be unlucky and end up as the phallic gecko, because everything is possible in greek mythology
“Being born quirkless in a world where most everyone has a quirk of some kind” is a pretty solid premise. Gives us the whole “rooting for the underdog” theme from the get-go. Izuku gets rejected at every turn for wanting more than anything to be a hero, and he’s rejected every time due to having no quirk. I get it. I get that. I see that.
But also, I just need to say, I lose my mind every time I rewatch episode 1. Every goddamn time and it’s strictly because of this screenshot.
These are. These are Izuku’s classmates. The ones pursuing the hero track. Somehow the series’ world-building just glosses over the fact that ¾ of the quirked populace has stupid fucking quirks. That seems important. That’s a big fucking deal. Like Horikoshi could only draw so many background characters before going “fuck it, he’s got fucking stretchy fingers that’s his fucking quirk”.
That fucker in the middle. That fucking stupid snail-boy. What’s he gonna do? Is he gonna spy on villains by looking over a wall that’s one foot taller than he is? “Oh shit boss, he’s looking above eye-level, we’re screwed now boss”
It’s called a ladder shit-idiot.
Like?? Fuck?! Snail-boy here’s gonna just, make some fucking bolas with his eyeballs? Gonna fucking lasso some villains with his bolas-fucking eyes, this stupid motherfucker? I could punch snail boy in his bitch mouth and I don’t have a quirk.
LIKE
THEY TAKE THE PISS OUTTA IZUKU FOR HAVING DREAMS OF HERO-DOM WHILE BEING QUIRKLESS. LIKE HE’S THE ONLY FUCKER IN THE CLASS NOT CUT OUT FOR THE JOB.
BUT EVERYONE ELSE HAS “WONDERFUL QUIRKS”
THIS STUPID MOTHER FUCKER DOESNT HAVE SILLY PUTTY EYEBALLS GUESS HE CAN’T FUCKING SAVE PEOPLE.
For folks that keep trying to insist transsexualism was a thing that was invented in America in the 1950s, keep in mind that the Chevalier D’Eon had her name and gender marker legally changed by the court of Louis XVI in France ten years before the United States even had a Constitution.
Her chosen name was Lia De Beaumont. Can people lease stop dead-naming Chevalière Lia? She is a very important historical trans and intersex woman. She didn’t just get her name and gender recognized, she blackmailed the king of France into recognizing her name and gender and paying for her an entire new wardrobe. In addition to being a knight she was a secret agent so she had all kinds of dirt on the king. Later in her life she moved to England, wrote a memoir, and opened a fencing school.
holy shit??? #womenwhoneedmovies
She was also a spy in Catherine the Great’s court!
Terry Crews came out and admitted he had been sexually assulted by someone in the film industry, and is now being blacklisted. I have been a fan of his since Idiocracy, and will continue to support all of his work.
So when you wonder why people don’t come forward with their assults, this is why.
Where are all the bitch men who ask about male sexual assault when the focus is on women but are dead silent when men are actually at the focus.
It’s almost as if Men’s Rights Activists don’t really care about men’s rights. Hmmm….
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Yep….
This misses the really powerful piece of the story: Terry Crews was the one who chose not to do the movie. One of the producers told him, essentially, that he could either do the movie and be drop the sexual assault charges, or continue with the trial and have “troubles”. Terry dropped out because he felt standing against abusers was more important than his film career.
It’s bullshit that he was threatened in the first place, of course, but his response was ballsy. I admire him for it.
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