Todoroki: Midoriya, What Age Would You Go To If You Could?

To paint y'all a picture, I'm pretty much sure after all the chaos and falling out of heroes and all the heroes that are throwing in the towel, that the kids are all going to pick up the mantle and show the nation true heroism again.

And once everything is said and done, Shigaraki is defeated/apprehended/ neutralized by a concentrated effort of all of them combined, but LED BY the duo of Deku and Katsuki working in perfect tandem, and Katsuki providing protection while Deku focuses on the whole OFA/AFO aspect of the struggle. (A sidenote: I actually also had an idea of Katsuki being like Katara when Aang meditated into the Spirit World; protecting Deku's physical body if Deku pulls Shiggy back into the Vestige world to duke it out and try to reach out to Shiggy)

But the picture I want to paint, is AFTER that, Katsuki and Deku pull each other up(also hello parallel to Katsuki wanting to take that hand!). Holding hands, they emerge from the rubble, throwing their other fists into the air a la All Might's signature pose, and for everyone that bears witness, they yell together "I AM HERE!!"

But then! All the other students stand up and join them and theyre just ALL SHOUTING AND POSING, and its not for them so much as for the people. And its not JUST one person being a monolith of a man like All Might, its a dawning of the new generation of heroes that refuse to quit, even when things have gotten their darkest.

And somewhere in this scene, "I am here" becomes " WE ARE HERE" and spreads across Japan as broadcasts go out and more people see. And civilians gain courage and former heroes gain courage and villain movements get pushed back by their combined forces as more and more people stand up and say "I AM HERE/WE ARE HERE"

And not only is it like the ultimate culmination of their built up symbolism of being two halves of All Might, and the ultimate trajectory of their deeply interwoven friendship, it also calls back Aizawa saying to Joke in the Provisional Exam arc, when he called the two of them the most influential students in his class, the ones that inspire ALL the rest to be their best. It pegs them for the leaders of the new generation.

And I think, with their very unique experiences and takes on the world, they're going to be great at it. 💖👏

one piece saved my life man

this is making me lose it

uhh im drawing smth for my bsd astronomy au i swear i have just been busy w other stuff and also Writing The Thing but in the meantime here is a drawing of dazai and chuuya that i turned in to my astronomy teacher for our cosmology unit (i did get a 100 if u were wondering lol)

the dumbest smart person i know

[jan 2025]

Okay so this this stream,

-Tommy revealed that Wilbur and Elodie stay in the office across from Tommy’s until 3am to edit sorry vids

-Tommy looks for music in “that Wilbur playlist”

-He and Wilbur sat in a car for hours coming up with group channel names

-When Tommy and Wil first met Wil said “By the way man, if you do a group channel- I’m in. I don’t care what you do, just know I’m with you all the way” and Tommy got super excited (and then ran home to swear at bbh)

-Tommy was nervous to ask charlie to join because he was starstruck so Wilbur asked him for him

is the world really such a terrible place? yesterday i asked if oat milk was extra and the barista said yes so i said ok just regular milk then and when she gave me my chai latte she whispered “i used oat milk ;)” doesnt that make u want to live another day?

they call it among us because

i cant express how much i hate fucking bees 

It's not lost on me how the Titan willingly showed Luz his language to share their power with her right from the beginning, as soon as she'd proved herself a friend to King, on a day she needed a little help to connect with him how he needed her to

The way the phone glitched when it was cracked always stood out to me as strange, and now we know why. That was the Titan intervening through reflective surfaces to share his magic with Luz for the very first time

Then we see this even more clearly with the Ice glyph, how he literally moves the stars around to show her another bit of his language with her, right as she's getting discouraged about only knowing one spell and she needs some help to get into Hexside and truly become a witch

I doubt that Fire glyph would have appeared if anybody else had caught that grudgby ball. If it would, then witches would know all about at least that glyph in particular. But nobody recognized how Luz did magic. The Titan intervened again and showed her how to make fire

And there's something kind of poetic to me that Fire is the last glyph Luz learned to become a witch fluent in the language of the Titan, and how fire is connected to humanity as one of the very first things we learned and the mastery of which helped define us as a species hundreds of thousands of years ago

When she finally learned Fire, she knew all the basic ingredients at last. She had finally stepped out of the realm of humans and had become, in her own way, a full-fledged witch. Her mastery of the element is what signified the birth of a human witch. There's a lot of symbolism to unpack in there

I'd say the only glyph Luz discovered on her own would be the one for Plants, given how they're more interested in magic than science I doubt many witches would've looked so closely at a flower before, but it's possible the Titan intervened yet again and rewarded her for her curiosity

The original human witch claimed he could speak to the Titan, but he was actually speaking to and protecting Luz from the very beginning