I'm Kinda Glad I Discovered DSMP This Year (yeah, Discover, I Lived On The Wrong Side Of Internet Before

I'm kinda glad I discovered DSMP this year (yeah, discover, I lived on the wrong side of internet before that why).

Obviously in a perfect world I would have stumbled into it in 2020 or 2021 so I could have enjoyed the big hype, it will always be a missed opportunity. But thinking about it, I'm lucky. I would have arrived in 2023 the fandom would have been a kind of no man land. Yet for some reasons I'm here now, in 2024, when the fandom for some reasons started to move and live again a little, most of the big dramas have cool down and shits got closure and everything...

So yeah, I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm happy to be in this rabbit hole here and now, and I'm happy I'm not alone in it. Good vibes and shits.

do u remember when the wider feminist position on gendered sport was that we should abolish it, and that women's accomplishments can be measured side by side (& indeed, neck and neck) with men's? what the fuck happened to that? (*whispering* i know what happened. it was the terf movement.)

I'm in my self indulgent art ear. Here is a MHA x The Umbrella Academy AU I never finished. Izuku is n°7 obviously, the poor quirkless sibling. They're all fucked up freaks with PTSD and bad coping mechanisms that love/hate each other your Honor.

PS: Michikage is human!Dark Shadow, she's Fumikage's twin sister.

Maybe I will continu it one day, but for now here some info dump I had about them:

-N°1, Icehot, "Shoto" ; quirk: temperature manipulation ; after a mission's accident he was save from a certain death by making him a cyborg, technically still working for the Shigaraki Company even if he's no longer in the Academy, studies the wild life of Antarctica

-N°2, Mindfreak, "Hitoshi" ; quirk: brainwashing via a vocal activation, often use the sentence "I heard saying" as a crutch to help him focusing his power ; was one of the first to leave the Academy, become a policeman to continue helping people, deliberately turns a blind eye to his sister's illegal activities

-N°3, Phantom Thief, "Neito" ; quirk: coping other quirks, later learn how to completely "download" someone's quirk ; was believed dead for 10 years after he disappeared during a mission, accidentally downloaded a space and time teleportation's quirk and got stuck into an apocalyptic future for 40 years, worked as a timetraveler hitman for the Commission for 17 years afterwards, learn to control the teleportation's quirk to go back to his family and save the world but messed up and his body return to 13 years old though his mind is still the one of an old man

-N°4, Earphone Jack, "Kyouka" ; quirk: soundwaves' manipulation ; one of the last to leave the Academy, tried to be a policewoman with Hitoshi for a while but got fired because she used her powers to hurt the guilties, became a vigilant with the occasional help of her brother or her ex-partner at the police station, Ochaco Uraraka

-N°5, Dark Shadow, "Michikage" ; quirk: transformation into a demonic shadow creature, she struggles to control herself in this form and often referred to it as an other person ; regarded dead after she was unable to return to her human form at the end of a mission and melted into shadows, still part conscious even if unable to get back to her true form, can sometimes manifest to her twin brother

-N°6, Tsukuyomi, "Fumikage" ; quirk: can create and control shadow monsters and do some short distances teleportation via the shadows, persists in referring to the shadows as another dimension and the shadow monsters as individual entities hard to control ; the first one to leave the Academy, developed a fear of his own powers and of the shadow dimension after the loss of his twin, sleep through day and live at night to avoid "falling into the shadows", caffeine and energy to drinks' addiction, sometimes can catch a grasp of Michikage but thinks he's hallucinating due to his sleep deprivation

-N°7, [classified], "Izuku" ; quirk: [classified], none ; used to train like his siblings with Father at a young age, stopped at 5 years old and was declared quirkless, can't remember what happened during these trainings, feeling outcasted by his family though was the last to leave the Academy after seeing what happened to Shoto, became a mathematics professor at university, got non officially disowned after writing and publishing the book My not so Heroic Academia

And oh yeah Regibitch is Musan Shigaraki (All for one), their mom is a robot version of Inko Midoriya and they have a multi-task butler who never show his face, his name is Kurogiri.

*screaming in angst but also in amaze of the talent and hard work*

[ Harpy Hare]

At 18, everyone receive a superpower. Your childhood friend got a power-absorption, your best friends got time control, and they quickly rise into top 100 most powerful superheroes. You got a mediocre superpower, but somehow got into the top 10. Today they visit you asking how you did it.

Truly hope we will have the Phaeacian in Epic the musical. I know that technically we don't need them story-like because the Phaeacian arc is just Odysseus telling his story, story we already know because Epic tell us the Odyssey chronologically like, and also they serve as a kind of "magic solution" for Odysseus to get back to Ithaca. Jorge can use another solution for Ody to regain his island, like Hermes just dropping him here or something like that, and totally cut out the Phaeacian.

But I think the Phaeacian arc is important character-like for Odysseus development. This is the moment of the Odyssey where he gets back his identity as something to be proud of and something to reclaim what is rightfully his.

When Odysseus gave his full name to Polyphemus he kinda "lost" it, like fae style shit. After that moment he never presented himself again and only gods referred to him by his full name, other characters call him "Ody" or "Captain" (I'm speaking in the musical, I didn't checked all my Odyssey volumes to note all the references of Odysseus' name sorry). In the Phaeacian's Court Odysseus claim back is identity as he entered the "man's world" again and with it his honors as a greek hero and king.

I talk a lot but I just want a callback of Remember Them's lyrics because against the cyclop his name made him lose it all but with the Phaeacian his name make him gain it all 🥹.