The Joker 2 Sex Scene Is Exactly How I Imagine Spinaraki's First Time Went Btw

little ‘tsu

dabi: *actively committing suicide*

his family: ''how do i make this about me?''

‘geten’ and 'dabi’

natsuo and touya

Shh, he sleepy

I know everyone’s been inundated with information this week, so I’ll try to make this short. Given the content of this blog it would be hypocritical to not say anything, so here are some points in absolute briefest terms:

If you can protest, protest. If you’re constrained to participating in non-risky peaceful protests that don’t violate curfew (because of your age, your ability, or other factors), then participate! But also be prepared for things to turn ugly. If you can’t protest:

Donate.

Volunteer – a lot of cities have clean-up crews and pop-up food pantries that could really use extra hands.

Help protestors by giving out supplies (bottled water, snacks, PPE), being someone’s point of contact, offering transportation, babysitting, etc. There are more ways to help with your time and energy than only protesting.

There’s a bunch of donation links going around as well, so I won’t list them, but if you have a hard time making a choice (like me), this page will split your donation between 70+ organizations at once. If you have only a small amount of money to give, consider donating to Jamee Johnson or Destiny Harrison, whose funds have not yet reached their goal (all links from the BLM carrd). You can also contribute to Chrystul Kizer’s (warning for non-graphic mentions of CSA in link) or Miss Major’s fund. If you like choices, the BLM carrd has an extensive donation list, in addition to other information and resources.

Lastly, a couple short readings:

POLICING SLAVES SINCE THE 1600’S: WHITE SUPREMACY, SLAVERY, AND MODERN US POLICE DEPARTMENTS

POLICE AND THE LIBERAL FANTASY

WHY VIOLENCE WORKS (I disagree with many assessments here, mainly about other countries, but it’s a relatively short and accessible read about how violence informs political life)

AGAINST INNOCENCE

If there’s anything else people would like help finding (specific information, local opportunities, etc.), let me know and I’ll do my best when I’m around.

i know you've touched on this subject before but it really pains me to hear how people voice their want for touya to die instead of being on life support despite the fact that he, himself, still wanted to live. "there are still arguments I want to have, and things I still want to say," after all.

i think people misunderstand a lot of touya's feeling about taking his own life at the end of it all. from what i took about his character, as soon as he reclaimed is name again, he regressed back into how he was emotionally as a child, and it only got worse from that point.

a damaged child, especially a neglected one, will always hurt themselves and care little when they've been shown no care. so how do they get that care? hurting themselves, and if necessary, ending their life. but he doesn't need to do that anymore.

he wanted to live, and though his circumstances are saddening (or well was, let's hope he can finally do things considering there was no confirmation), it's a good thing he showed some kind of regret about the fate he nearly had, and expressed a desire to still continue.

I think this is fully on how Horikoshi depicted the situation with needlessly cruel horror that feels really unnecessary.

If Ch 426 put more care into depicting Touya:

1. Not being in pain

2. Getting relief from his family coming to see him

3. Getting affirmation that he’s loved and always was

4. Showed that people were in fact grateful for being saved

People wouldn’t feel like Touya would have been better off dying. Think in comparison how nobody says that Spinner or Overhaul would have been better off being dead and it becomes painfully obvious how Horikoshi undermines his own narrative with the circumstances he set up, which feel like needless horror.

I fundamentally understand what he’s trying to portray, but I think his art choices are at odds with his narrative goal (if that is to depict a peaceful death for Touya as a fix-it for his violent death on Sekoto peak).

Even if he wanted to depict Touya’s hopeless, miserable state,he could have shown the chapter in parallel from an internal headspace where we can see child Touya getting emotional relief -sort of a continuation of the Ch 388 image.

Redrawing of the touya portrait for a zine piece im working on, it wont be super visable so i wanted to post it separatly

People joked about Spinner being written like a pink-haired female love interest for Shigaraki and now here he is having a magical girl transformation sequence.

…I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness… envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance…

…I had cast off all feeling, subdued all anguish, to riot in the excess of my despair. Evil thenceforth became my good… The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion…

…dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment… I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion… But now crime has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No guilt, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine…

For while I destroyed his hopes, I did not satisfy my own desires… I desired love and fellowship, and I was still spurned. Was there no injustice in this?

Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all humankind sinned against me? …I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on… my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice…

…My work is nearly complete… Do not think that I shall be slow to perform this sacrifice… Soon these burning miseries will be extinct. I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames…

—Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus