Mha Salt - Blog Posts

I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH MHA.

No, it's not the fandom. It's not even the show or manga direction.

It's an inherent theme in this entire series.

Grooming.

And no, I don't mean sexually. Although that is a topic I'll try and talk about. I'm really gonna try and make sure this is coherent, but it's me, so don't expect much.

Lemme point out some obvious examples-

This poor baby.

And these babies are two obvious examples.

But I raise you this-

Every. Single. Person.

Hawks. Class 1A entirely. Every single hero student and citizen in this world has been groomed and pulled into a propaganda campaign that being a 'Hero' is something fantastic.

LOOK AT ME IN MY METAPHORICAL EYEBALLS WHEN I SAY THIS-

THAT IS NOT OKAY.

PLUS-

The amount of sexualization *sobs into hands*

THESE ARE FUCKING CHILDREN. MINORS.

And look, if, for example, Midnight as a teen:

Her as an adult:

I HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM WITH HER TEEN COSTUME.

Like, look, you wanna wear that as an adult? Okay. You are a consenting adult. As a teen??

NO. Please, Gods, I do not care if she designed it, you can wear cargo shorts, a tank top, and a belt if you want to have skin for your quirk.

REPEAT AFTER ME-

YOU CAN SHOW SKIN IN A NON-SEXUAL WAY.

But look at all the class 1A girls.

Sorry, I could only find a pic of some.

Look, having boobs and curves as a teen happens. BUT, accentuating them as teens- as minors who have no right to consent to that at WORK.

This is not them deciding to wear crop tops and shorts on their free time, this is a career. And it's not just the girls either...

This whole thing just upsets me.

Oh goodness gracious

Tumblr please understand that just because I post critics of bnha does not mean I want to see posts about the show UNLESS its about slandering them.

I switch to For You for one second thinking I was going to get a fresh feed of media I genuinely care about. But no its flooded with shows I’ve slandered being praised one way or another.

Quite frankly idgaf about the general census fandoms portrayal about the show. Not the inside jokes, fanart, fanfic, headcanons, fanon portrayal, ships or controversial discourses surrounding themes like (allegations for) marginalised identities & oppression because who are we kidding thinking Horikoshi did a great job at it when he himself never even faced such things.

For example there’s no point of me caring about ships like togachoko when the canon itself couldn’t even handle it right. Because from what I could tell it didn’t know if it wanted to be portrayed as positive or toxic. Don’t care about its fandom discourses like if Oochako is suffering from comphet, if Oochako deserved Toga from Izuku, if Oochako’s bisexual, if this and thats the fourth.

And I’m saying this as a (Asexual) Lesbian who does genuinely care about representation. Same thing can be said for other aspects but I don’t want to get too ahead of myself and possibly alienate myself.

If you genuinely believe Horikoshi did a good job at portraying lesbians like that then 🤷‍♀️ All I’m saying is theres no point emotionally exhausting yourself in those fandom discourse if the creator themselves has shown time again to fumble even their own canon representation. You honestly deserve better than that.

Heck, I don’t even want to see fanart /fanon from my supposed favourite character Hitoshi Shinsou. Only canon screencap/manga panels and slander off him. Miserable fucker is not even getting a smile from me.

And I also do not care to emotionally invest myself with the canon anymore. Cba to care about the vigilante, movies, sideplots or whatever. Don’t want to actively see that unless its just canon posting without any bias comments.

The only thing I want to see from the mha tags is criticism, slander, and better reimagines.

Yes ik I sound miserable. No I would not go out of my way to deliberately shit in the fandoms tags and ruin it for everyone. Yes I get some ppl are emotionally invested in this series. No I don’t want to see any positive praises on my feed especially if its bias driven.

I’ve got to start actively cultivating my feed. I didn’t want to block bnha / mha tags because thats just doing too much. But now you leave me no choice Tumblr

((Tbh this can be said for other shows I once used to be a fan of that I’ve grown to hate. i.e Miraculous, Doctor Who))