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compare with the real kanji

First up we have:

Compare with 太

The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the コ “ko” and ロ  “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.

Then we have:

Compare with 会 

The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”

And of course another social distancing one:

Compare with 話 

This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.

Me, a mere 20 year old:

One thing i really like about MHA chapter 291, is that it paints a very clear picture of how endeavor thinks about his past actions. Namely he truely does regret them, but he simply isnt able to see his own past actions in their true light.

Its a very human thing to do, but it also goes to show what Endeavor’s big problem is. He isnt able to understand that everything about his past, from its very foundations were wrong, and thus, he isnt able to really, truly change in regards to his view on hero work and his family.

Endeavor just isnt able to understand that it was his obession with hero work that destroyed him, his wife and laid the foundation for a broken family, and that if he truely does want to make ammends with his family, he cannot simply just be a better hero. being the best hero was what destroyed him in the first place, and its what his son called him out on in chapter 290. the past doesnt forget, and if youre not willing to fully accept it, consider it, and actually introspect and understand what you did wrong, you will never change.

As he sees his son before his eyes again, Endeavor flashes back to happier times, at least in his perspective. His son happy to be training with his fire power.

it is however, a lie, one that endeavor is telling to himself. there was never a point where Endeavors awfull motivation wasnt tarnishing everything he tried to build, both with himself, his abused wife and his children

This is where the road of his pushing Touya to become the best hero he could possibly be ended up, with a emotionally destroyed teenager who had an extencial crisis once he got old enough to truely comprehend what his father was doing. and in the end, he destroyed himself pushing himself as far as he possibly could, just like endeavour wanted.

yet, rather than confront the fact he was wrong from the very beginning, and that his very fundamentals were rotten, endeavor pretends in his own mind that there was something noble in his training of touya.

He just isnt able to accept that While he may or may not have treated Touya as harshly as he later would todoroki(my guess is that he did, but we just arent shown it here, because this is his own flashback and he isnt focusing on it) He didnt have a shred of noble motivation for doing any of this. Touya was when it came down to it, a means to an end.

The reason why Touya mattered to endeavor, as compared to his daughter who he tried to distance from her big brother from the moment she was born, was that he had a quirk more powerfull than his own, and thus had greater potential.

that was his only motivation. as we were shown time and again with shouto in the earlier chapters of the manga.

He made it perfectly clear that he only made shoto as a means to an end and that was the end of it.

however, faced with Dabi, he just isnt able to admitt this very, very ugly fact about himself. he WANTS so badly, to be able to think that there was something noble about him as a father to his son, who’s death he blamed himself for.

He tries to tell himself in his own mind that he would have been willing to let go of his obsession, hatred, and all of it for Touya’s sake, when what actually happened proved that it just wasnt the case.

When Touya dissapeared, Endeavor did the exact opposite, and doubled down making shoto his “masterpiece”. And now, rather than take responsibility for his actions, and acknowledge his part into the making of the monster before him, he tries to desperatly justify himself, and rewrite the past in his own mind by not focusing on the bad stuff.

It’s an incredible human thing to do, but it also proves that endeavor hasnt really changed all that much fundamentally deep down. he still refuses to take full responsibility for his actions and acknowledge that he was, in fact, wrong. hundred, percent, no argument about it wrong. 

It’s a project offering voluntary employment opportunities with fair trade wages to incarcerated women, allowing them to amass decent savings and avoid recidivism (i.e., having to return to prostitution, drug muling, and the other poverty-related crimes as soon as their sentences are up, because they’re right back in poverty where they started).

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

Let me clarify. I see a lot of girls having happy relationships with their sisters, cousins,best friends, roommates to the point where they’ve been living together for years and are comfortable with it. And becuase of that comfort with the girls they’re living with, a lot of women just end up wanting to live/stay with their roommates, best friends, sisters/cousins, etc., for the foreseeable future. 

And when a lot of girls bring this up, they’re met with “well one of you is gonna get married” or “no boy friend in the picture” or “well you can’t stay together forever/you can’t plan your lives around each other” or “what about if one of you gets a husband”

and like–seriously, just stop. when girls mention wanting to spend their lives with their boyfriends and shit, people don’t give them this much flack. girls are expected to pack up their lives to move with their boy friends/husbands.

but god forbid, two girls are just happy with each other, are in a place of comfort with the other that they wanna live together and spend their lives together (either romantic, familial or platonic), then people start to criticize them. So my point is, girls if you’re living with another girl and have been for years and you two are comfortable staying with each other and have basically spoken about just wanting to stay with each other, then do that. if this person makes you comfortable, makes you feel safe and happy, and supports you (whether romantic or not!) then do not let people ruin that bond or shame you for not getting married or being with a man or anything like that. like if you  have something good going, then keep the good going.

I usually just call her “my roommate”, and then sometimes remember how little that communicates to people about our relationship. People are roommates with people they barely know.

Katie is my best friend. We plan together. We work together. We help each other with taxes. We eat most of our meals together. We still end up staying awake hours past when we intended because we’re having a good conversation and enjoying each other’s company.

On the one hand, we have acknowledged that at some point circumstances could change in such a way that it’s no longer practical that we will still live together.

On the other hand, we have both said if either of us gets married it would be nice to keep living together and maybe help coparent any kids we might have with a future partner. Live in the same house. If we both get married, maybe have both sides of a duplex? We’ve talked about making big moves together if we ever decide to leave L.A. Both of us have forms of work that can travel easily, along with potential opportunities that might take us somewhere specific. If Katie got a contract upstate or in Chicago, I’d probably just move with her. If I got a staff writing gig in Vancouver, it’s likely she’d just become Canadian with me. We’ve faced the potential of these kinds of changes, and every time it got serious enough to have the conversation, we’ve defaulted to going together.

Really the only time we discuss not living together (or at least adjacent) the rest of our lives is when we become so financially strapped that we have to think about moving back in with our parents, for the simple reason that while be roommates with each other might be an incredible fit, being roommates with each other’s families is… not necessarily that.

(Granted both of us would ALSO be miserable living at our parents, so that would be like, a colossal tragedy all around).

But we’ve lived in three different places together since becoming roommates, and I don’t see that stopping any time soon. When we talk about the future, we talk in terms of years. We talk with the assumption we’ll both be there.

We are basically in a common law marriage but platonicly, and I hate that sometimes we’re made to feel (by our upbringing, by social expectation) like our successful relationship to each other is actually some kind of depressing facsimile of “real family” or a “real” relationship. That it’s a poor imitation, maybe even a problem. There’s even this underlying fear brought about by social definitions of normal milestones that our healthy relationship with each other is somehow, by virtue of existing, unhealthy, because our stability makes it easier for us to reject romantic opportunities if they’re not ideal. Because while goodness knows we both would like to get laid more often and we complain about our dating app prospects to each other on the regular, we don’t feel the same kind of desperation and loneliness that might be felt by an adult living alone or with acquaintances or a weird home life.

We’ve both expressed, in our more insecure moments, in our moments where we feel the judgment of society most, “Do you think it’s bad we’re such good friends? Maybe I’m not motivated enough to find a boyfriend, because I have you.”

And, like, FUCK THAT. Fuck everything about the world that made me feel like that.

When we tell people “Oh, yeah, we’ve been roommates for over ten years”, the reaction shouldn’t be, “Oh yikes. So when will you grow up and be real adults?” It should be the same reaction to when someone says they’ve been happily married for ten years.

“That’s great! You’re so lucky! Not everyone gets to have that.”

Yes, it’s common law “marriage” and Y’all are adorable, valid, and it works for you so Brilliant.

Baby boomers: OOOOO Is your Safe Space being violated by his comments snowflake??? How AWFUL IT must be to have a REAL man for president instead of OoOoBamA

Trump, after being voted into office: *leaves the UN human rights council, puts hundreds of young children into prison camps and tent cities, takes away valuable items like rosaries similar to the removal of rings during the Holocaust, puts babies and toddlers into foster homes/orphanages, literally treats ACTUAL CHILDREN like prisoners for wanting a better life elsewhere*

Baby boomers: oh….oh no….