#exposition post

Izuku and Katsuki venture to the capital of the Elven Realm to challenge King Enji for the right to marry Shouto. He, of course, accepts their challenge, enraged that some mere humans would dare consider themselves worthy to marry his heir. It's a difficult battle, but using their combined strength, Enji is soundly defeated, knocked unconscious at their feet, humiliated in front of his subjects.

Without time to spare, a royal wedding is had the very next day for the joining of Izuku Midoriya, Shouto Todoroki, and Katsuki Bakugou. Their ceremony is filled with joy and promises of devotion and love, a promise of what's to come. And that night, Katsuki takes both of his Queens properly and entirely with them having drunk the potions, fully intending on having them with child by the time the sun rose.

When dawn's light filtered through the canvas of the tent, Shouto slowly awoke, feeling pleasantly sore and happier than he'd ever been. He lies in a tangle of limbs with husbands- his husbands! - warm and safe.

So, we as mods tend to follow a survivors first model that we’vepicked up from other survivor oriented groups we are a part of. Whatthat means is that we do not feel that it is our place to question ordispute accusations, only to share the info that we’re given. Now,does that open the door for false accusations by abusers who aretrying to smear their victims? Yes, it does, but making ourselves thearbiters of whose claims of abuse are valid and whose are not is avery slippery slope that leads us right back to the dominantculture’s model of handling survivors’ claims of abuse, rape andsexual assault.

We know for a fact that false accusations of rape and sexual assault are extremely low (only around 8%). I would venture aguess that false claims of abuse are probably similarly low. As loathas we are to ever provide a platform for abusers to attempt tofurther victimize their survivors we understand that is a necessaryrisk inherent in what we do. Also, I personally feel like there are afew things about our platform and our model that further minimizethat risk.

First, anyone is free to submit their story. If your abuser wereto send us a submission falsely accusing you of abuse that in no wayprevents you from sending us your story or us from sharing it. It’snot a race to our inbox where whoever submits first is the survivorand whoever submits second is the abuser.

Second, most abusers are chronically abusive. They burn bridgesand alienate people over and over again. They usually cannot keeppeople in their lives long term. That makes it really hard for theirspin doctoring and abuse jacketing to stick in the long run.Generally what happens, even if it takes a while, is that people willsee the truth of the matter because one of the two people involved ina dispute  is continually hurting and alienating others, burningbridges, destroying relationships and being called out. And the otherhas only ever been accused of abuse by this one person who is clearlyabusive themselves. The more people an abuser hurts the strongertheir survivor’s narrative becomes.

Third, we’re not asking you to believe anything you read here.Seriously. What you do with this information is up to you. Includingwhether you believe any of it or not. All we ask is that you hear it,you don’t silence or dispute it, and that you hold onto it in caseyou or someone you care about needs it one day.

As for your statement “I know for a fact this has happened herealready…” when you say “here” do you mean on this blog? InPortland? I’m going to need clarification. Though if you arereferring to the call out we published for Max all of the mods onthis blog have personally borne witness to their abusive behavioronline or in person and can assure you that their call out was acollaborative effort involving at least 10 people.

As far astalking privately we’re always willing to receive emails at theblog’s email address: [email protected] chat through tumblr’s messenger system, but for security reasonsnone of the mods here are willing to provide personal contact info.

Natsuki ended up leaning on Yuri, and when she eventually woke up she was blushing with a passion. Yuri, without thinking, said it was cute. Natsuki looked upset, but didn’t yell as she usually did when the others in the club called her cute. Yuri offered to let Natsuki spend the night since it was late, which surprised her, but she accepted.

Yuri woke up early the next morning, but not earlier than Natsuki, who had taken over the kitchen and was making muffins and breakfast. Yuri was shocked and embarrassed at her guest making food for them. Natsuki demanded that Yuri calm down and take it, because she didn’t do this for just anyone. Yuri nervously agreed and made tea for the two of them.

bobbie sue’s big thing is she’s been waiting for a place to make herself at home... waiting for a coming-of-age opportunity... waiting for a chance to make something of herself, prove her worth, find love, find work, graduate from child to adult. she’s always been a believer of structure in life like that.

but no more. she’s giving up. (which is bittersweet, but what can you do?) she’s basically skipping it entirely. skipping learning who she is, what she wants. skipping learning how to be on her own, how to love herself, how to be confident, how to live on her own, live without a support system.

most importantly, she’s gonna start taking herself seriously. she doesn’t want to be the same neurotic little person she’s been seeing in the mirror for her whole life. her biggest wish has always been to become an independent person who others will take seriously and maybe even rely on, and she was waiting for life to teach her the lessons she needs to become that person but instead,

she’s just gonna do those things. fuck being taught, fuck relying on others, fuck hating herself and getting nothing out of it. she’s still going to struggle with self-loathing... you don’t just graduate from that kind of thinking without work. but she’s planning on making an actual effort to stop it, or at the very least rise above it.

basically, she smart. she’s skipping grades. happy new year and all that.

The Portland Abuser Archive is a newly established and collectively moderated archive of public call-outs for abusers in Portland, OR. We accept submissions of both first person accounts and generalized call-outs for perpetrators of physical, emotional and sexual abuse.

This blog exists to act as both a shield and a megaphone for survivors who wish to share their stories and act in solidarity with other vulnerable folks in their communities. We are here to amplify the voices of people who would otherwise be unable to speak out against their abusers and shield them from the backlash that so often comes with publicly naming your abuser.

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