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I sincerely apologize if I insulted you. That was not my intent at all.

You are correct that Aizawa’s practice is terrible if we take only canon information before 254 into account and is probably still pretty terrible after.

However, just because this trait isn’t productive as shown in the series doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the potential to be. I have been trying to prompt you to imagine such a scenario since you are clearly a very creative individual who writes amazing stories, but if this is the thing that is beyond your ability to imagine, that’s fine. I can spell it out for you.

Here’s the problem: We don’t have that much canon information to work with in the first place. We get the minimum possible information to establish Aizawa as expulsion happy and are expected, as readers, to fill in the many blanks ourselves. You have clearly chosen to do so in a way that paints Aizawa as being that bad or worse all the time given your vehemence that this is the only possible interpretation of events.

You keep pointing out that this is a permanent black mark on the student records. What about the other side of the coin? Where the hero industry is incredibly dangerous and quirks can be highly lethal? You know, the very thing that the USJ lesson was supposed to be highlighting according to Thirteen before the LoV attacked?

These kids have potentially lethal abilities and training and are going to be going into a profession that will threaten life and limb on a regular basis. I myself would sooner put a permanent black mark on a student’s record than risk them being one more corpse on the streets or getting others, like a classmate, killed. First year should be the safest a hero course gets, and there are several close calls in the series itself, some of which aren’t even related to villain attacks.

Honestly, for as expulsion-happy as Aizawa is supposed to be, there are spots where I honestly think he isn’t expulsion-happy enough. Such as Katsuki in the battle trial. He should have booted him that same day or at least the next morning and we all would have cheered him for it.

I think a lot of Aizawa hate comes from the fact that he is seen as an obstacle for our favorite protagonist, Izuku. I agree that Aizawa should have done more to help Izuku overcome his self-destructive issues, but he isn’t wrong that a kid so self-destructive that he cripples himself with each use of his quirk is a bad fit for heroics. A conclusion that Izuku proves right by wrecking his arms past the point that Recovery Girl can heal them. Aizawa isn’t right about Izuku, but he’s not necessarily wrong either and Izuku pays the price for not learning that lesson soon enough.

The main issue with Aizawa as a teacher isn’t just the threat of expulsion, it’s the fact that he’s very hands-off in his sink-or-swim style. There’s a lesson to be had in his expulsion threats, but he just isn’t involved enough in canon to make it viable. Most writers lean into tired hands-off Aizawa and drop the expulsion aspect to make him palatable. However, to fully explore the expulsion-as-teaching method, we have to make Aizawa more involved with his students.

So here goes:

Aizawa prepares some very well-researched files on each of his students and is very concerned at Izuku’s listing him as quirkless (among other things), but chalks it up to him being a rare late bloomer and puts together a list of trustworthy quirk counselors who specialize in late bloomers/difficult quirks that he intends to give Izuku day one.

The expulsion scare for the quirk assessment test is half a logical ruse to light a fire under the class’s butts. He was still prepared to follow through if someone got last place from half-assign it, but that didn’t happen.

When Aizawa hands out schedules after the assessment, Katsuki nearly explodes at seeing guidance counseling on his. This prompts everyone to check and see that, yes, they all have scheduled guidance counseling as well. Aizawa tells them that regular guidance counseling is mandatory under threat of expulsion. Because every pro hero needs therapy and far too few get it, so they’re going to be developing good habits starting now.

Aizawa takes Izuku aside after dismissing everyone that first day and tells him that he needs to get his quirk under control and if he breaks any more bones in class, he’s expelled, listing off several heroes that Izuku’s never heard of who all were crippled in the line of duty by being reckless. He follows that up with the list of quirk counselors for Izuku to look into.

The battle trial happens as in canon and Aizawa is livid. Bakugou is expelled to Gen-Ed the next morning before class starts, very publicly, for reckless endangerment of his classmates and “excessive force in a load-bearing environment”. He has to write a 10-page research paper on the dangers of destructive quirk use indoors, citing at least 5 different news articles where someone lost their lives as a result and will not be allowed back in the classroom until he can produce a paper worthy of at least a 90 grade. Also, because Aizawa believes in equal-opportunity unfairness, the rest of the class has to write a 2-3 page paper on the same topic referencing at least 1 news article.

Aizawa tells Izuku that Katsuki’s deadly attack is the only reason he isn’t being expelled as well and to see him after class. Talking with Izuku about what happened makes Aizawa realize just how damaged Izuku really is. He’s a natural self-sacrificing idiot (good for heroics, bad for self-preservation) with a self-destructive quirk and a potentially fatal lack of self-worth. He understands in that moment that threatening expulsion will not work on Izuku because he doesn’t care enough about himself to give that any teeth, but he needs something to keep the kid from crippling himself in the short-term so he can get to the point that he isn’t breaking himself all the time. So Aizawa does something he really didn’t want to ever do and threatens to expel Uraraka as well if Izuku breaks any more bones in class. He does not mean this and is praying like crazy that Izuku does not call his bluff even as he is listing incidents where people died because the hero on scene was too injured (from being reckless) to help. He then starts suggesting everything Izuku can do to get it under control, from daily quirk counseling (starting that same afternoon) to just talking it out with his classmates or even just practicing with activating his quirk without doing anything with it. Whatever it takes to get him past the bone-breaking stage. (Izuku shakingly takes this to heart and attacks his own quirk in counseling and study groups with an analysis fervor beyond anything he’s ever shown before, figuring out Full Cowling before the USJ and Aizawa is so proud and relieved when he can rescind the expulsion threat against Uraraka and just limit it to Izuku himself.)

+1 - “I am here to help you be the best heroes you can possibly be, and if you ever make me think that your best potential is a corpse or an enabler of corpses, I will expel you so hard you would think All Might punted you out the door himself and then <I>re-enroll you just so I can expel you again</I>. Hate me if you want, <i>I don’t care</I>.”

+2 - Aizawa has a near encyclopedic knowledge of heroes getting themselves or others crippled or killed on the job through recklessness, showboating, or incompetence. He will cheerfully whip out such examples any time they seem appropriate to the situation.

I know you like quoting canon at me, but the point of fanfiction is to go beyond canon. To fill in the gaps that the original creators left. If on this point you honestly can’t look past canon to see potential, then I genuinely have nothing more to say on the subject. Thank you for taking the time to debate me.

On 254 being a retcon for Aizawa’s expulsion tactics: I’m not so sure. I think the intention was always to go that way, but the writing was never able to focus enough on class life to the point that it could be established and built upon as we just jumped from crisis to crisis. I agree that the practice as shown is detrimental, but I disagree on the idea that it is completely devoid of potential. To me, that is as shortsighted as declaring certain quirks inherently villainous.

what.

I--

sorry hold on let me see if I can understand this.

You're suggesting that me saying Aizawa placing a permanent black mark and traumatizing his students for no benefit is bad, is the same as me declaring that a Quirk is inherently Villainous.

Not only is that one of the single dumbest takes I have ever had the displeasure of reading with my own eyes, you're also leveling personal insults at me. What the fuck. Why-- are you okay? WHat the fuck.

Honestly I've blocked people for less. I could easily justify deleting this ask, blocking you, and going about the rest of my life a happier person. But I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. Don't waste it.

So let's ignore your strong implication that I'm discriminating against poor little aizawa who just wants to cause unrelenting and incredible stress to his students for again, no benefit, and focus on the actual meat of your argument here.

Are you aware that in Japan, High School is not compulsory? From the perspective of his students, Aizawa is not only threatening their time at UA, but any high school at all. That Black Mark is still on the records of the students he expelled! I'm not making that up! I'm not exaggerating!

He never indicates that he transfers them to Gen-Ed for 250 chapters. We have no reason to believe that he transfers them to Gen-Ed before this. Even if it was hypothetically planned from the start instead of something to retroactively make him look like he isn't ruining he futures of these students by throwing them out of the top school in Japan with a Black Mark damn-near ensuring that none of them are ever accepted into a High School, it's still a shitty retcon because there's no foreshadowing! There is no reason to believe otherwise! Hell, we're given every reason to believe him at face value!

If Aizawa really did renroll them, then it should've been listed there in the records All Might read, or Aizawa should've said something about it. The line about ending half-assed dreams is practically confirmation that they are kicked out of UA. There is no reason to say that if he intends on renrolling them.

Unless, of course, it was a retcon thrown in later.

Funny how when Shinsou talks about the possibility of taking someone's place in 1-A and them being move to Gen-Ed, he calls it a Transfer and not fucking Expulsion.

And we are now something like five asks deep in this chain of your insistence that Aizawa's expulsion do in fact have some level of value, but you've yet to identify a single case where they would be useful except when Bakugou knowingly and deliberately used lethal force against Midoriya. Congrats. The burden of proof is on you and all you can do is repeat the same line but slightly louder. That's not even Aizawa's expulsion scare tactics, that's how literally any school would function in the real world!

You want to convince me that Aizawa's expulsion threats have value? That's your fucking job to prove! Give me a decent example! What the fuck makes you think it's okay to tell me to convince myself and insult me for not doing so?!

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My take: While Katsuki has the perfect strong quirk for this society, his parents *dont* and are frequently targeted by quirk supremacists for having weak quirks or arrested for stealing a child (Katsuki has undergone so many DNA tests to prove he’s their real kid it’s not even funny). He wants to go to UA and be a hero, not for canon reasons, but because if he gets successful enough Re-Destro will shake his hand for a photo op and he will be in the perfect position to *blow the guy’s head off*.

PotS: How does Bakugo end up in the resistance?

That is an excellent question. I'm not actually sure

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[points at dnd akuma au] you are a GENIUS

*blushes* Thanks!

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It is not unfeasible for a library to have multiple styles of tags, especially if some materials are older. The label on the Batman graphic novel looks more freshly printed than any of the labels on the Nana manga.

Furthermore, there are methods by which libraries will send books to other libraries, such as floating collections or inter-library loans. So even if the books do ultimately belong to different libraries, there are still sufficiently plausible reasons for them to be arranged like this at the same library if they had been requested by the same patron.

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Alternatively, Hawkmoth designs based on their subconscious desires, but he only gets one try at it. Even highly skilled designers often need multiple drafts to get a concept they are confident in. I’m sure both Gabriel’s and Marinette’s sketchbooks and wastebins are full of designs they would never willingly let see the light of day.

After watching simple man, I kind of wonder if the akumatized villains costumes are similar to the miraculous users costumes in that the holder is the one who designs it based on their desires. Like I mean, before this episode there have been some pretty odd and horrible looking villains, but this one REALLY took the cake. There is NO WAY Gabriel would create a costume that horrible. But I could TOTALLY see Marinette’s grandpa creating a costume like that. It kind of makes sense in a way, since the akuma’s act similar to the miraculous as far as the masking goes. Thinking back at some of the villians, I feel like their costumes make more sense when you look at it from that perspective.

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Check.

Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.

I'm trying to prove something.

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The Bible is full of stuff that people leave out or ‘conveniently forget’ when it doesn’t suit them.

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So there’s this huge dudebro in my class, who, yesterday, sat next to me. And I’m sitting there sweating because like… I’m wearing my shirt with the lesbian flag on it, and he’s the most popular jock in school, and always has this look on his face that say ‘I can and will kill you’. He looks me up and down, stares at me for a minute and then goes, “So. Girls in skirts and long socks, am I right?”

To which I nodded solemnly, both out of agreement, surprise and also a healthy amount of awkward fear. He nodded and went, “You get it.”

I said, “Yep.” He fistbumped me, and on went our lives.

#If I ever have a chance to I am basing characters off of this.

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me, an autonomous adult in college: *looks up tips for managing adhd on a deadline*

every single result: AS A PARENT to help YOUR CHILD WITH ADHD monitor YOUR CHILD'S behavior and reward HIM for doing work because CHILDREN WITH ADHD need constant support-

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Sure, why not?

Hey uh reblog if you think asexuals are LGBTQ+ regardless of their romantic identity

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This is incredibly sad to me. I remember Harry Potter coming out and basically starting a read movement among so many people. It was amazing to see the simple act of reading become so widely spread just because of a single book series. It was phenomenal and a unilaterally good thing. To hear that something so good is being used to fuel this kind of hatred breaks my heart.

And to those who say, but second hand books and read them, what about the one who buys a second hand book, reads it, thinks wow how awesome is this i need to find more and starts supporting JK not knowing what an terf asshole she is.

You are still perpetuating the fandom.

It does make me wonder if she was a homophobe, racist, facist etc whether her ‘fans’ would still be like - but you can support the art but not the artist’ She isnt like Lovecraft who everyone knows he was a racist bigot. He is dead, his work is known for it’s time but it’s not affecting current policy, like JK Rowlings work IS.

The UK anti trans bills that came in were also a direct result of HER LOBBYING PARLIMENT.

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Here’s Chat Noir’s character sheet. You may notice that his stats are about two ASIs above being equivalent to Ladybug’s spread. The increased stat total was part of the concessions Xavier made to Matt to get him to join the game.

#game master akuma au #character sheet

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I started making character sheets for the Game Master Akuma AU using the system on roll20.net. As you can see, the heroes start off at a precarious level 1.

#game master akuma au #character sheet

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Halloween Akuma: Jack of the Lantern

So, October is just around the corner and I thought I’d give a fanfic prompt to the community in the form of an Akuma. The basic premise is "what if Hawkmoth akumatized someone who had actual sinister leanings?" with a heaping helping of Halloween lore thrown in.

To start off with is our victim, an old man by the name of Jacques Samuel Hain. He's out on the eve of October 31 dressed like a vampire and offering candy to children on the street and gets upset when they refuse to take it from him because he's a stranger and they have good sense. Hawkmoth senses this and sends an Akuma his way.

The problem: Old Jacques has a history. He's obsessed with Halloween and has been since he was a young boy. Especially the art of 'trick or treat'. He's really into the 'trick' part. It started out relatively innocent, but continued ramping up year after year until, after he was an adult, it seemed like a funny idea to poison some of the candy he handed out. It was years before people caught on and he was arrested. He served decades in prison and when he got out, he basically left the country and went to Europe where he's been moving around trying to recapture his pranking days by offering candy to children, some of which is poisoned, and moving before the locals get too wise. He's a miserable and terrible person, but he puts on an air of a kindly old man who just wants to give joy to children. This has fooled a lot of people. And now it has fooled Hawkmoth.

Jacques is akumatized into Jack of the Lantern, a spindly man in an orange and black fall-themed suit who carries around what looks like a hollow carved turnip (formerly his candy bowl) that glows with unearthly blue flame. Mayura gives him a companion known as Pukah, a shapeshifting beast whose amok is in Jack's tie.

Jack of the Lantern has many powers, all related in some way to Halloween.  - The first is 'Night of Samhain' where he can weaken the barriers between this world and the next during the night of October 31, allowing the spirits of the dead to roam freely. This causes the extensive catacombs under Paris to start disgorging undead as the bodies within get up to roam the land of the living. Other, less human spirits, begin inhabiting things like mannequins or toys and animating them. Jack can call these spirits to him with a hunting horn and send them to pursue a target of his choice.  - The second is 'Trick or Treat' where he can grant someone a boon or play a trick on them. This typically comes in the form of changing their clothes to a costume of some sort, either cool or embarrassing. It does not work on anyone wearing a costume already.  - The third is 'Become the Mask' where he can turn someone into whatever the costume they are wearing depicts. Combined with his second power, this causes rampant chaos in Paris in short order.  - The fourth is 'Will O' Wisp' where he can create and launch spectral flames from his lantern. They are able to hover in the air and he can direct them with his mind. They burn extremely hot and cause much pain if you're hit, but leave no mark. For whatever reason, these flames can turn any vegetable into a Jack-O-Lantern.  - The fifth is 'Sinner's Wager' where he can make a bet with someone, the loser becoming trapped in a small sack-like purse that hangs from his belt. He always cheats on these wagers and he uses them against Hawkmoth and Mayura promptly, meaning they are trapped in his purse and unable to halt his rampage.  - The sixth is 'Hallowed Eve' which traps all of Paris in a temporal field that makes it so the night never ends. Nothing inside can get out, nothing outside can get in. This means the adult Bunnyx cannot come to the heroes’ aid.

#halloween #miraculous ladybug #ml akuma #writing prompt

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^ This

Does anyone want to hear my rant about how Chat’s clinginess around Ladybug has absolutely nothing to do with his romantic feelings for her and everything to do with emotional abuse or are we all tired of that discourse

#character explanations #not character excuses