Bitch, What Were You Trying Before?

Bitch, what were you trying before?

and my personal favourite:

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I think the target’s perception of what their real name is is extremly important in context of bnha. I noticed this a lot when I write posts, if it’s clear who I’m writing about I usually use the shortest version of the name (eg. Deku, instead of Izuku or Midoriya), but with Shigaraki Tomura, I mostly use Tomura or Tenko, because as AFO himself said: it’s his name.

AFO calles him Tenko before he gives him the name of Shigaraki Tomura, so the name itself is a reflection of the power AFO holds over him.

Obviously one could argue that Tenko was the name given by his  father, who was also abusive, but it’s also the name of the family members that he had love for, especially Hana (who unlike the adults is in no way to blame for the child abuse).

But Tenko doesn’t really hold that power anymore, especially given that the abuser behind it is dead, killed by his victim

And AFO seems really proud of himself when he gives (now) Tomura his last name and doesn’t seem to distance himself from it. All For One is his name, his title, his quirk, his general power, but he still is pretty strong about Shigaraki being his name.

If you look at real people with titles, sometimes artistic names or even nicknames, they often use these names in public settings and get refeared to it, but that doesn’t reflect them in private. Anne Hathaway still gets called Anne by most, even tho she made it clear that Annie is how she is called in her private life. Most people couldn’t tell you the real name of Marilyn Monroe or Lady Gaga, but those weren’t the names they used in their private lives. And outside of her family, no one called Queen Elizabeth II, just “Elizabeth”.

Imo Shigaraki is the name AFO uses to refear to himself in private. It’s a name for himself and his little brother (and the 2.0 verions he’s trying to create with Tenko), while AFO is his name for the public, a title for people to fear.

Which would tie in really well with your: “can we have it both?” solution, the figure of AFO gets kept in check, but the man Shigaraki, the one who groomed Tenko and made him Shigaraki Tomura isn’t gone until he is called out by his name.

When he steals Star and Stripe’s quirk, I wonder if Shigaraki could use it to free himself of AFO’s control?

I mean as long as he gets the opportunity, all he’d need to say is something like “AFO can no longer control me” or something to that effect, and AFO’s biggest victory is suddenly followed by him losing everything he put into Tomura just like that.

there’s nothing purer or better than how much kids enjoy being picked up and then hurled at soft surfaces

Are we going to talk about Admiral Ackbar or what?

@owlsinathens How Balon sees Theon in A Clash of Kings

A large strawberry squid, one of three caught on the last trawl of the Deep-See cruise. Photo: NOAA Fisheries

“The strawberry squid, gets its nickname from the berry-like appearance of its bright-red body speckled with numerous jewel like luminescent photophores ” via @octonation

My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”