Midoriya Izuku came in first place at the first round of the sports festival WITHOUT EVEN USING HIS QUIRK!!! LIKE IIDA HAS A FUCKING SPEED QUIRK. Iida’s thing is literally that can run very fast but Midoriya Izuku not only beat Iida but also hundreds of other students without even using his quirk?!?!?!?
Like who allowed this kid to be around mere mortals when he’s clearly an enlightened being with superior energy??? that’s why he was born quirkless tbh, cause the gods were like nah he’s too powerful but then All Might fucked it up and now the gods are quaking cause Midoriya’s coming for their necks.
but then as if that’s not enough-this kid, THIS KID DECIDES-you know what, i’m content if i DIE at a HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS TOURNAMENT-time to permanently disfigure myself YOLO and proceeds to just break every finger?!?!?! BUT NOOOO HE’S NOT DONE-HE DOESN’T JUST BREAK THEM ONCE-HE BREAKS THEM TWICE!!!
And mind you this is out of a desire to win a fuck fuck high school athletic competition (i can’t stress to y’all enough how not deep that was, why was the most low stakes arc the most stressful one). he breaks his bones just so he can help some kid he had ONE conversation with in a shady dark alley. Like he doesn’t know this kid!!! Literally who the fuck is Todoroki Shouto at this point besides one sad backstory but Midoriya-a God amongst mortals-is like nah he looked sad, lemme cheer him up by disfiguring myself 🙂
Are we even surprised that he got no offers??? Like bitch if I was a pro-I’d be like nah that kid is a walking disaster. He’s clearly a god hiding in a human body that can’t contain his energy. Not about to piss off a god by accident.
So in conclusion, Midoriya Izuku is hard af behind the cheery smile and could kill us all with his pinky finger without even using OFA if he wanted to
This is a hot take that could possibly lead to chaos in the already fragile monster fucking community
If I look at a mouth and instinctually know how to kiss it with my human mouth, it is not a monster, it is a variation on a person, probably with larger than average teeth. It isn’t a monster until I have to strategize
So much of the Euro-American understanding of being trans (or anything other than 100% constantly identified with your assigned gender) focuses on discomfort.
Some people take this idea to an extreme and claim you can’t be trans unless you hate your body and want every surgery available to you. As many other writers have said before, that’s not true. It’s perfectly possible to be trans with only mild dysphoria or none at all. It’s perfectly possible to be trans and have a mental map of your body that looks just like the one you already have.
But I’d like to push even harder against the idea that trans=discomfort. I’d like to offer this: sometimes the exploration of one’s gender can be motivated by pleasure rather than discomfort.
Let me give an example. Let’s say there’s a person named Cal. Most people think of Cal as a boy, and Cal’s all right with that. So far as Cal’s concerned, a boy isn’t a bad thing to be. But sometimes, Cal likes to imagine being a girl and being treated as a girl. Those fantasies are always accompanied by feelings of pleasure, satisfaction, anticipation, and warmth. Eventually, having had these thoughts for years, Cal asks people to use ‘she’ pronouns in private and to refer to her as a girl. Cal does this for another year before claiming the label “trans”.
Some people would say a person like Cal can’t be trans because there’s no dysphoria, self-hatred, distress, or even discomfort. There’s just a pleasure-based preference. But why is distress necessary? Why are trans people supposed to be defined solely by our pain and self-hatred?
It’s my opinion that defining trans people solely by discomfort is an aspect of transphobia. The idea behind trans=discomfort is that being anything other than 100% cis is so awful that no one would do it unless the alternative were unlivable. Think about that: defining trans people solely by their experiences of discomfort means believing that being trans is so awful that only misery could drive us to it. And to me, that sounds like the thinking of someone who really hates trans people.
So I’ll come out and say it: sometimes transition or self-exploration of gender is not just about lessening discomfort, but is about improving and deepening the pleasure we take in our lives.
“Think about that: defining trans people solely by their experiences of discomfort means believing that being trans is so awful that only misery could drive us to it.”
just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!
makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.
Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and you’re done.
0 products also works great
because I’m gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but it’s really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all
I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but that’s up to you
I’m sorry if I didn’t express this clearly enough in the original post but I’m not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how it’s Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter
no face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.
makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.
this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that
the notes: so like……. what youre saying is……. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead… i gotcha
make up used to literally, unironically kill women due to the fact it contained horrifically toxic substances like fucking lead and women were still expected to wear it. it was unironically more socially acceptable to kill yourself with makeup rather than not wear makeup
a lot of women nowadays are allergic or intolerant to the substances used in modern makeup but society still shits on women that don’t wear it
death to make up and the make up industry for making women feel worthless without some expensive fucking goop plastered all over their beautiful faces and for enabling some of the biggest assholes in society to hurt women for their choices
just moving along like everyone else 