Questionable Bones + Slime

Bloodymary on the rock Angsty Poster

even if you have built a found family with your classmates and been through hell together, they will still leave you to your lonely existence. in the end, you'll barely be friends anymore - unless, of course, you become useful to them again. then they might pick up the phone.

some people are too flawed and broken to be saved, and it's for the best if they just die. no one will be around to mourn them, anyway. oh, we said that we would do everything we could to save them? sike.

the societal system cannot be reformed or changed in any way. instead, the impetus of saving people should be put on random civilians being in the right place at the right time, not on the authorities whose job it actually is to save people.

if you are too much of a nuisance to your abusive father, it's better if you just die. your younger brother wants to bond and eat soba together? fuck no. die.

extrajudicial murder by heroes is completely fine. in fact, it'll get you promoted! to a job where you will do nothing to change the status quo, even though it's what you've presumably been working towards for the entire story.

Shigaraki was established as an immature and arrogant AFO's heir and since they were separated after Kamino, his journey was all about learning to stand on his own, developing his own agenda, establishing and chasing the goals he set out for himself. In other words, since AFO's imprisonment, Shigaraki was gradually healing from years of grooming, brainwashing and social isolation.

His backstory revealed in the My Villain Academy arc had challenged the readers and their views of this character, showing his extreme trauma, his guilt as a 5 years old boy who had killed his entire family in a quirk accident. It also finally explained Shigaraki's fervent devotion to AFO, the only one who had reached out, who wanted to help, who cared.

Of course we were aware AFO's motives can't be pure. He was preparing Shigaraki as a future vessel for himself, a means to achieve his dream of living forever.

Then, by the last war arc, Shigaraki has all the agency, individuality, autonomy ripped away by AFO stealing his body. He spends the entire second war fighting for control, silenced by AFO and the narrative barely giving him any chance to talk. One of his main goals was protecting his comrades and their dreams - this is taken from him as well, the League spent the entire second war separated, not even getting one final chance to see each other. Shigaraki dies while thinking of his friends, of his goal to save them, which he will never be able to achieve. While Izuku was at least given a chance to directly confront Shigaraki on his final quest of trying to save him, Shigaraki spent the entire time even before the second war delirious, and until his death, he had never even learned what happened to his friends, the people who chose to follow him, trusted him and supported him.

The very last thing that happens to Shigaraki before his death, is learning that his entire life, everything that had happened to him, was caused by AFO and his schemes. This strips Shigaraki of the last of his agency, turning him into a martyr. His story is no longer one about the unfairness of the heroes-adoring society and hypocrisy, good VS bad victim, trauma and coping with it. His story is about becoming a victim of a creep who had been grooming him since he was 5. One who had tried his best to make a life for himself outside of his abuser, and then had this life cruelly taken from him. Shigaraki doesn't even get to talk or react to the fact he has to sacrifice himself for AFO to die. Izuku doesn't ask him, doesn't apologize to him, he just presents the fact plainly. Shigaraki just has to deal with it.

He went from a victim to a martyr and the story barely even acknowledges it. Deku and Shigaraki were the only people who had learned the truth and neither talks about it or is allowed to share this with the world. Shigaraki died an unwilling martyr, and is remembered as a monster no better than AFO. The public draws no line between the abuser and his victim. Izuku or Allmight don't exhibit any intention to reveal the truth, and we already have Dabi's example on how this turns out.

Using a random fic of mine as example..

The left example: ✅✅✅

The right example: ❌❌❌

Idk how many times I’ve read a good fic summary and been so excited to read before clicking on it and being met with an ugly wall of text. When I see a huge text brick with zero full line breaks my eyes blur and I just siiiigh bc either I click out immediately or I grin and bear it…it’s insufferable!

If that's happening I recommend you use https://html-cleaner.com/ to fix it!

Pop your text into AO3 as usual, then switch over to the html tab, grab the html, and paste it in html cleaner, then hit the "clean html" button.

Then paste the new text back in AO3's html window instead of the original.

Print books DON'T look like that. (Barring some specific stylistic choices where everything is *deliberately* more or less one paragraph, frequently to indicate stream of consciousness, hi James Joyce) They *use indents at the beginning of paragraphs*.

Which is clearly *not* what's happening in the screenshot/most of these I've seen, it's single line break per paragraph, no indenting, which means the only way you can tell there *should* have been a line break is if the text wraps somewhere in the middle of the line. It's confusing.

(I'm speaking about english specifically because that's the example language in the post). No, they don't double space between paragraphs typically, because there is a *different* indicator of 'new paragraph'. (ebooks vary, of course, usually by your user settings I'm assuming).

A single line break between paragraphs is only viable if you're indenting each paragraph, and since web browsers handle whitespace for indentation differently (usually skipping/combining it), double line break between paragraphs has been the standard on the web for... as long as I've been on the web? (I can remember a few older geocities etc personal sites that used indentation rather than double line break but they still *used indentation* as a marker between paragraphs. Wikipedia, any online news article, that's all pretty much the same) This also means you're not relying on the text wrapping at a position where it visual clue of blank space at the end of the line, since browser windows can be different sizes.

My girl Cassandra deserved a better fate. Let her be one of the Ithacan sisters.

A true story from 1928 with a few artistic embellishments.