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I had a thought

I was thinking a lot about Kurogiri today, specifically his relationship with Tomura Shigaraki and All For One. It’s safe to say that the three have known each other for some time; AFO seems to trust Kurogiri to guide Tomura and support his ideas and actions, and Tomura, however begrudgingly so, trusts him enough to allow for his aid with his plans and also to. Well. Not kill him.

Which probably means they’ve all known each other for perhaps, at the very least, a few years. My guess; Kurogiri, if not already around earlier, was probably brought by around the time AFO was gravely injured in the first AFO vs All Might battle. Regardless of whether he was around when AFO first found Tomura, or when AFO was injured and very slowly recovering, I’d imagine Kurogiri had to continuously provide familial and moral support to Tomura, as both the loss of his father and the potential loss of AFO had to have almost destroyed him.

So I’ve just been imagining Kurogiri, in his best attempts to comfort this small, disgruntled, vengeful kid, cooks Tomura his favorite meals, steals video games and consoles for him via his warp gates, plays said video games with him, steals animals from shelters for him to play with if he ever gets lonely, encourages Tomura’s villainous ideas, tends to his wounds, trains him, etc. Most likely early on in his life, Tomura would probably get very distraught over the sheer destructive power power of his quirk, and would probably be constantly crying and screaming about everything he touches dying (not that it really matters; Kurogiri is quick to replace whatever he destroyed immediately). But seeing that constant fear, I can imagine Kurogiri trying to aid that problem by stealing a pair of those smudge guard pinky gloves for him to wear, at least until he can get completely 100% used to touching and holding things without using all five fingers to do so. Kurogiri is in Ultra Mom Mode, he will do anything to make sure this kid is Not Sad; partly because of All For One’s desire for Tomura to become his successor, but also because. He just cares.

He wants to see Tomura succeed. He wants to see him make the right choices and create his own league so powerful that nobody has even a smidge of hope in stopping him. However many years the two have known each other, Kurogiri has developed a strong sense of care for this spoiled gremlin brat (and, if we’re being honest here, was probably half the reason why he’s a spoiled gremlin brat to begin with), and he’ll be patient with him, despite Tomura’s temper tantrums, despite his threats to kill him as well as everyone else he doesn’t like, despite his general unpleasantness.

Obviously I can’t speak much for all that’s going to happen after Season 3 and that whole fiasco, but it’s nice to think

of course i have a lot of pent-up rage you fool i’ve been the same height since i was 12

Bunny Mights

I can’t even remember which one I liked the best, it’s been so long since I last saw any of them. That one is pretty funny tho

The Pink Phink | Director: Friz Freleng | Studio: DePatie–Freleng Enterprises | United States, 1964

More random tropes that I fucking love: Becoming the mask you wore.

Like oh shit, this character who was sent to spy somewhere under a false identity suddenly realises they've started to genuinely become the person they claimed to be? Someone who's been telling the same lies about who they are for so long that they're actually forgetting that the story isn't true? Finding themselves genuinely doing the things they pretend to do in front of people, when they're alone and nobody's watching? Answering to a name that wasn't supposed to be theirs without thinking?

Ooohh-hoh-hoh, you lost track of yourself in pretending to be someone else? You were only supposed to impersonate somebody, a plausible background and a name you came up with on the spot, and now that the people you were supposed to infiltrate have become your true companions? You lost yourself in the game you played, and no you no longer know who you truly are, and where your true loyalties lie? And both sides would mark you a traitor if you came out with the truth. On a scale of one to ten, how bad did you fuck up.

Fuck that is a good trope. Never seen it done badly. Pour that shit on a table and I'll chop it into lines and snort it.

Bonus:

Consistency what’s that

Anyway have a vine I redrew

One of the things I love about BNHA is all the headcanons you can come up with that make sense and don’t change a thing plot wise, which is why you can rip my half-German-Yamada-Hizashi headcanon from my cold dead hands.

naruto

카카시 :: kakashi hatake

When I say “Fanfiction is free” part of what I’m saying is yes, you did not pay for the thing.

But I saw a comment from someone that made me realize the rest of the intention behind these words is being lost.

Fanfiction is provided for free, but it is not produced for free.

Authors pay their effort, including physical and emotional and mental. Authors pay their time, in planning the story (mental time) and writing the story (physical time). Sometimes it’s less than an hour for something quick and dirty, like askbox prompts. Sometimes it’s years of their lives in epic fic hundreds of thousands of words long. Authors pay additional time to alpha read their own stories, trying to make sure that they’re free of SPAG errors and make sense and sound good. Beta readers pay their time and effort alongside the authors for editing the stories. Authors pay for posting their stories with all of the anxieties that come from allowing their work - which to this point they have invested all of the above - into the public eye because while it has certainly cost them a good amount to produce the story, fandom history has proved that many other people out there enjoy fanfiction, and authors believe that at least someone else will enjoy their story, too.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that it costs the writers a lot of something in order to produce it. A lot has already been paid into a piece of fanfiction by the time it is available for readers to read. The expense of fanfiction creation is, by and large, resting squarely atop the shoulders of writers.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay the cost of creating fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is that readers don’t have to pay in anything - not time, not money, not effort, not anything - in order for fanfiction to be created. It’s a donation. It’s a gift. It’s available for you to take or leave, at the expense of someone else.

Writers have, for a very long time, requested donations of one thing as remuneration for everything they put into making fanfiction: comments. Authors have asked, in so many different iterations: “If you have consumed what I have labored and invested in to create and if you have found any enjoyment in it, please tell me, so that I can recharge enough to do this again.” Some of them may recharge on critical comments, but most of us don’t because we’ve already paid everything we want to pay to create the story.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” isn’t just that it doesn’t cost you any money. I am saying “Please respect the time and effort you didn’t have to pay into creating this thing you enjoyed, by respecting the individual creator’s requests.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “be kind to authors, they have paid a lot for this gift they’re sharing with all of us, and they deserve to feel like it was worth it.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t charge authors more time and emotional effort than what they’ve already provided you at no absolute cost.”

I’m not saying any of this to argue. It’s a fact that authors pay into providing fanfiction. They do it for fun. They do it out of love. They do it because they enjoy writing. No one is making them do it. No one is paying them to start or finish the story. That doesn’t mean it’s not WORK. And the only return they get on what they put into the story is the kindness of strangers that invest a little bit back by leaving a nice comment. That is why they stay, that is why they do it again, that is why we have fanfiction.

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please don’t be the one charging authors so much more that they leave.”

What I am saying when I say “fanfiction is free” is “please keep it that way.”