#shan's asks

I'll try to explain the context a bit before sharing my point of view about what is happening in Venezuela right now.

There are at least three types of Venezuelans:

The ones that view Maduro as a dictator and are celebrating that Trump sent bombs to our country to capture him, since they've been asking for an invasion for years now.

The ones that view Maduro as a dictator but don't agree with the air strikes in our country, since it broke several international and local laws, as well as began war on our territory.

The ones that defend Maduro and are against what happened, declaring that the president was kidnapped and the country attacked.

If you want to be properly informed, look for each point of view, read about it and decide what you believe is true. You will find real stories behind each group, stories that can't be denied. They all have their reasons that you should read about if you want to form a proper opinion on the matter.

Now...

I was in vacations, trying to enjoy it after one of my grandmas died. I woke up at 2:30am to two kids (8 and 12 years old) screaming at us that they were bombing the Capital and that we needed to pack our bags, only what you could carry in those because we needed to leave and go home asap.

We were supposed to return from the beach tomorrow. We went to sleep after watching the fireworks, playing cards and doing karaoke. We didn't know we would wake up to bombs, quick and panicked goodbyes and screams.

All we thought about was how many were dead, where would they bomb next, where should we go, how many supplies did we have.

I just came back from the streets. Like I said, some people are celebrating, some people are terrified and crying, some people are protesting, most people are silently waiting.

Are these our lives now? What will war do to us? What type of government will we have now? Are we just jumping from one dictatorship to another, just because the US wants to control us?

It is a fact that Venezuela is not a drug producing country, as the United States has chosen to say we are in order to justify their attacks. We do not export drugs. If Donald Trump had really wanted to fight a dictatorship to free its people, then he would have been true about it, he would have followed the law. He wouldn't have sent so many Venezuelans to El Salvador, he wouldn't have kidnapped so many immigrants, told Venezuelans to return to their country knowing he would send missiles some time after.

Venezuela has one of the biggest oil reserves in the world, which is the actual reason behind this US war against Venezuela.

The United States of America also has a history of influencing and intervening in Latin America to place governments that will give them whatever resources the US needs. If you need more proof of this, research Operation Condor. The US has been behind several terrible dictatorships in Latam.

It's what they've done in Iraq, Vietnam and more recently Palestine. They see something they want, so they justify their attack behind "freedom" and proceed to destroy the country.

Trump already said so himself. He's behind our oil industry. He's not doing this because he wanted to get rid of a dictator and loves democracy.

He's a greedy criminal, a fucking rapist.

Trump declared he was ready for a second round of air strikes. This is not how we Venezuelans will get democracy, since he will sure as hell influence the elections. Regardless of how you view Maduro and the Venezuelan context (which there're plenty of opinions, posts and papers about), an invasion in the form of air strikes is NOT the way.

The United States of America is not only breaking international laws like the United Nations laws, but he also didn't inform the US Congress before the attack. He just ordered his troops to invade the aerial space of Venezuela, attack our cities, our infrastructure and people.

We're waiting now. I'm not sure if there will be more attacks, if they are going to call for a "fair" election, if people will pillage tonight. The silence is maddening.

Only supermarkets are open. All those places have their gates partially closed.

So we wait for what the US Congress will say about this, what the UN will say about this, what other countries will do, what people will allow to happen to us.

Let's be pathetic together

Have you ever thought about what would come after the ending of the war?

The answer is: the newest, improved flu.

“I want to smash my head against the wall.”

Dabi is sitting in the far corner of the room, naked from the waist up, eyes closed and head tilted up as if he was staring at the ceiling.

“Great plan, no head no pain,” Tomura hears Toga giggling to Spinner's comment, “except we need our heads to be alive.”

More than a few pair of eyes turned to him at that, staring at Tomura laying on his side, rolled in blankets so he can't possibly move. Or in this case, feel the cold air of the room that Dabi has failed to warm, since he can't use his quirk at all. And even if he could, Spinner thinks, he would be too occupied sneezing and setting things on fire.

“I can't live without a head either,” a chorus of dissapointed owws has him rolling his eyes with more annoyance than disbelief, “and I've been told this is a common sickness nowadays. Deku mentioned it'll be gone in a week. It is harder for us due our lack of vaccines. That's it.”

Another chorus of murmurs comes, followed by a collective, loud grumbling when they all try to change their positions and remember to how everything, everything aches.

END MY MISERY. OCTOBER 21TH IS OUR CHACE, WE MUST DO IT.

With all of that in mind, your post definitely helped me better explain why I favor Dabi’s dynamic with Tomura.

I'm a shigadabi fan 100% of the time always no matter when you read this 💖

Shigadabi has so much substance within the canon for us to play around. The parallels are never ending, their dynamic has rich history and they'd potentially understand each other in a way no one else on the story can.

At the very least, they're canonically friends. There's so much respect, trust and recognition in their interactions. It's so dad that most of the LOV will never know the real story behind Tomura... Or the fact that he refused his own salvation because his bond with them matters more to him than his own wellbeing.

I just don't see the appeal of dabihawks, when Tomura is right there. Both Dabi and Hawks spin around Endeavor and symbolize the different impacts Enji had in kids with lives that are equally miserable for different reasons. If anything I see them more as rivals that could potentially become friends, but lovers? You have to change so much within their dynamic to achieve that...

We have no other option but to obey Trump's demands or he will attack us. He sent over 200 aircrafts to our Capital and made it very clear that they are superior in a fight, so unless we want to get bombed again we have no option but to "peacefully negotiate".

It's not that we want to negotiate with the US after what they did. They have us surrounded by the sea with ships, capturing any ship that's not from the us and dares carry oil transactions in Venezuela.

For context, they literally just air paraded their troops over the Venezuela monuments dedicated to freedom on the Capital. Also, whatever person gets "elected" in Venezuela to be president will be a puppet of Trump.

It's insane that saying "hey, maybe one person shouldn't be able to invade a country and do as he pleases without anyone saying anything or doing anything, you know? " is viewed as controversial right now.

Yes, I've been working so I was super busy, but today I got notified that I'm basically fired from my job (which is funny because I didn't want to go to work there anymore, so the universe was just ironic over it).

People here are living a sort of "normal" that's mostly trying to work to keep the incoming of money during this crisis, but a lot of people are getting fired giving the economic and political instability after the US attack.

To be honest, I think you cannot ask much more of a generic shonen and maybe our expectations for it were too high.

I guess that my biggest issue with Endeavor's arc is that he is given a second chance solely because he pretended to be on the heroes side— and I say pretend because he is one of the most abusive characters of the entire manga.

What Enji did to his family and the reasons behind his actions are so dark. Villains like Toga, Tomura and Dabi were conditioned to act like that, but Endeavor? "I saw my dad died and got jealous of All Might, so I bought a wife to give me powerful children to feed my ego". Even AFO has more substance than that.

Maybe if the story had framed it as the ones that get a second chance are sometimes the ones that deserve it the least... But it was so righteous? Like we should be happy he got the redemption while the majority of the League of Villains died. Like we should be rooting for him more than any of the villains we saw got beaten down since they were little kids, to the point they only knew how to be evil or take revenge in order to exists.