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This can’t be reblogged enough.

I don’t know how many boys follow me, but I gotta bet there’s some. I just wanna tell y’all to be careful.

Abusive girls exist and what they’re doing is seen as like “badass tough don’t take no shit” but your girl should not hit you. Ever.

She should not demand for you to hand over your phone to look through.

She should not yell at you and humiliate you either alone or in front of people.

She shouldn’t make you distance yourself from your friends or family.

She shouldn’t scratch you or twist your arms.

She should not call you names.

She shouldn’t tell you ‘she’ll kill herself if you break up’

These are just a few examples of abuse and it’s just seen as okay when girls do it and god knows I’ve fallen victim to it a few times, but you shouldn’t have to.

Never worry about not being in a relationship. If they’re worth it, they won’t hurt you.

No one has the right to hurt you.

Are we gonna ignore how this website is just fine with fear and hatred of an entire sex because the person with the fear and hatred has had one or more genuinely bad experiences?

Like, I don’t think I should have to explain why that’s an incredibly toxic mindset to have in regards to any demographic and not something we should promote.

The women all reply with “Actually enjoy my fucking life in safety for ONE day.”

I don’t disagree with the sentiments expressed here but I do think it’s worth mentioning that the heroes’ situation with villains is often more comparable to this: You’re a firefighter, you’re trying to save everyone in a burning building, regardless of who started the fire. Then you run into a guy with a flamethrower that tries to blast you every time you try to get near. How do you save this guy? Can this guy even be saved or should you focus on the people he’s directly hurting?

The situation is a complicated one. The villains do need mental health more than they need imprisonment but let’s not forget that they are actively endangering innocents and lashing out against any heroes that try to stop this. It’s unreasonable to expect a hero to see them as a victim needing saving in that context.

How is it that Spinner—

—Loyal, caring, tender, loving Spinner, so attentive and empathetic and ready to help shoulder the burdens of others - end up demonstrating/using/directing these qualities for complete Villains? For the League, the most dangerous and deadly terrorist group in HeroAca Japan, full of people who holds very callous attitudes towards mass murder? These guys, of all people, he finds worthy of his love.

(Don’t get me wrong, I love the League.) What I’m trying to say is, I think Spinner is a genuinely kind person, all things considered.

Spinner is determined, he’s willing to work hard, and he’s quite observant and sharp. In another life, he very well could’ve gone down any of the different paths to succeed in HeroAca society. Had things been different.

Had the environment he grew up in been supportive and safe. Had his community not tormented him, had people been not even just kinder, but simply decent.

Had he not feel he needed to retreat from the world as a hikikomori.

What I’m trying to say is, if he had wanted to, Spinner could’ve be a Hero even. That someone has earnest as he couldn’t - and instead was let down, slipping from the grasp of the teachers, the adults, the guardians who were supposed to catch him - is a tragedy.

One might point out that some people are just bad eggs; they were born rotten,

I don’t agree; I don’t believe that sort of determinism - or any kind of determinism - to be true. And in this case, Spinner truly isn’t someone like that. He has principles he sticks with, he wished for a better, more just world, and he is kind.

Yes, no one forced him to join the League, and the path of death and destruction he’s on is the choice he made. For that, it stains him and he bears individual responsibility, most definitively.

But I think it’s undeniable that the environment played a large part in turning him into the type of person who would make a choice like that - a world where remnants of anti-mutant movements still exist, something that at best means very discriminatory attitudes…

…And at worse violence.

It’s a world where people can so casually, dehumanizingly call him (and other people with mutant-type quirks) ‘lizard’. It’s not just Spinner who’s suffered experiences like these: Shoji Mezo, UA Hero student, comes from a hometown with similar prejudices and hides his face to avoid scaring people; Tsuragamae Kenji, the fucking chief of police, gets insulted right in his face.

And so the discrimination, the psychology toll of that, the dwindling possibilities available to people like Spinner– theses issues are also systemic, woven into the structure of HeroAca Japan, and from that arises Villains.

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But just now I mentioned Shoji, didn’t I?

Just now I pointed out someone who went through similar things and didn’t turn into a mass murderer. Shoji got into UA, best Hero School in the country, he’s a great guy, a nice boy, he overcame these things—

Why had he needed to *overcome* obstacles like that in the first place? Why do these ‘similar things’, these failings exist in the first place? They shouldn’t. They mustn’t in a proper society. No one (’born twisted’ or not) should come into existence with dangers like these hanging over them.

But that’s impossible. That’s how life can be, sometimes. Try as we all might, we can’t prevent all these little things. You can’t save everyone.

Then what exactly are Heroes? In the society of the HeroAca world, saturated with them, who claim they try to save as many individuals as they can, who promise the people they’ll be there, who took on these obligations when they threw the cape over their shoulders and named themselves after the warriors of divine blood in Greek legends, representing the original meaning of the word ἥρως: hērōs - defender, protector. And they furthermore say, push the limits, go beyond! Anyone can try!

Plus Ultra.

I’m being a bit unreasonable here, true. It’s not fair to the Heroes to expect so much, to make this huge problem a fault of an individual pro-Hero, even if they had agreed to this duty. It’s too immense a task.

But neither was it fair to Spinner that he had to live with the hard, grinding, heavy weight of the failings of Hero society his whole life.

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Anyways, I think this is why heroes, whenever any opportunity shows up, should reach out their hands to help even the people who don’t ‘deserve’ it.

This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.

Just looking through FMA posts and I’ve never felt anything be so loud before

I can’t be the only one who thinks King Bradley is almost unreasonably atttactive