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9r7g5h · 5 months

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The Downside of Trusting a Dumbass

Fandom: My Hero Academia, Boku no Hero Academia

Rating: T

Genre: Humor/Partial Soc Med AU

Summary: He wasn’t actually stupid.

Words: 1,794

Denki knew that, sometimes, he was impulsive, and that impulsiveness could be considered stupidity.

He wasn’t actually stupid. He’d gotten into the same college as everyone else, and had enough scholarships that he would graduate without too much debt in the end. Just, you know, sometimes he acted without fully thinking things through, because he had the thoughts and wanted to see what would happen on the other side. Like the time when he threw bath bombs into the reflection pool on campus to see if they would actually dissolve despite it only be lukewarm. Or when he ordered twenty-seven pizzas to that Greek party he wasn’t actually going to, because he knew Kirishima was going to be there and bros made sure bros were fed, but forgot to prepay or tell anyone. Or when he accidently blew out the electricity to the dorms because he wanted to see what would happen when he connected three generators together and hooked them up while the power was still on.

He was just a man of science, really, just people didn’t appreciate his scientific explorations. Especially his roommates, though he could kind of see why. If the three of them weren’t involved with his ideas (which Bakugou rarely was, though Sero and Kirishima more often than not were), they were cleaning up after him, so he could see why that was annoying. But that didn’t mean he was stupid.

Right now, for example. The student union had been putting on a whole thing about safe sex for the last two weeks, and he was actually standing there reading the board! Taking pictures and everything, even putting down the numbers listed in his phone, just in case. He wasn’t dating anyone, no, but it was still good information to have for whenever he got some future mythical partner. He'd been flirting a lot with that Shinso guy who worked at the library, so who knows!

In the height of responsibility and intelligence, he even took one of the free condoms that had been scattered across the board, making sure to put the tiny pushpin back in place once he had detached the condom from the cork. Someone was obviously keeping the board stocked as students took what they needed, and it would just be rude to make their job harder. Double checking the expiration date, Denki cheerfully slid the condom into his wallet before leaving for his next class, whistling quietly to himself as he preened over this little reminder of just how smart he was.

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Living in a quad had its pros and cons.

Pros, it was a 24/7 sleepover with three of his favorite people, full of fun, laughter, late night conversations about the nature of the universe, good food, and only a few death threats each day. If he needed help on any of his school work, it was easy to just roll over in bed and stare at Katsuki until he gave in and answered whatever question he had, meaning his grades stayed high without him having to pull out any of his perfect hair (though he did still go to the library. Had to see that sleep deprived cutie). Game nights were easy to schedule; just make sure all four of them were there, grab something, and verbally challenge their manhoods. He never slept through his morning classes, and had he mentioned the food? The school cafeteria food was fine, and the number of fast food restaurants on campus were great, but all three of his roomies were great cooks, meaning Denki had quickly put on that freshmen, sophomore, and junior 45.

Cons? Whenever one of his friends brought someone home the rest of them were banished to one of the dorm study rooms, meaning every single Thursday night saw him, Kirishima, and Sero waiting until Katsuki let them come back home. Because his weekly date nights with Izuku were sacred, he would kill them if they came back early, and none of them wanted to be the reason the green-haired sunshine bunny boy teared up at a date ending early.

That had happened exactly once, and still haunted them.

So it was strange when all, halfway through a round of Mario Kart and still hours away from Katsuki letting them come home, all three of their phones started buzzing like crazy.

Denki quickly stood, patting his pockets to check, ignoring the looks Kirishima and Sero were giving him. This was his time. His moment. He’d forgotten his wallet.

Denki flopped back onto the couch, crossing his arms behind his head, more than pleased with himself. He had provided an indispensable service today, had been there for one of his best bros, and was getting pancakes tomorrow for it. Denki was more than pleased.

A feeling that just increased when they were eventually allowed back into the dorm, the three of them ignoring the extra, softly snoring lump in Katsuki’s bed. Not that they could have looked even if they wanted to, his protective mastiff of a boyfriend eyeing them all carefully to make sure none of them did more than glance in their direction, and even that got bared teeth and a scowl that promised death. Though Katsuki did, not as reluctantly as normal, return the high five Denki held out for him, his lips almost in a smirk before he settled down to curl around Izuku’s back.

A feeling that was overwhelming when, at the little bit of free space they had set up a table in so they could all eat and play games together, Izuku sat the next morning wearing Katsuki’s clothes, looking soft and happy and picking at one of the plate of pancakes Katsuki was cheerfully bringing into the room. The human equivalent of a shit bomb was smiling, for fuck’s sake, freely leaning down to kiss Izuku whenever they were close enough, seemingly uncaring of his friends seeing the disgustingly adorable PDA.

He, Denki, had done that. His intelligent forethought had led to this, and the delicious platter of chocolate chip pancakes sitting in his lap. There was no way anyone could call him a dumbass now.

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“Hey babe, what’s up?”

It wasn’t uncommon for Katsuki to just accept phone calls from Izuku while they were all supposed to be working and put them on speaker; it was almost appreciated, hearing their friend ramble about his classes and what kinds of things he’d done that day with his roommate and respective squad. Izuku’s voice was just soothing, even if he thought otherwise, and a welcome break from trying to destroy their brains with formulas and equipment names and safety regulations.

“Don’t ‘babe’ me, Katsuki. I’m pregnant.”

For a long moment it seemed like none of them could breathe, none of them could move, all they could do was sit there and stare at the phone on Katsuki desk. Waiting for Izuku to say something like “April Fool’s day” or “Happy opposite day, fuck you,” just something like that. Despite the fact they were in October, that in the last few years Izuku and Katsuki had been dating Deku had never been into holidays like that, and this wasn’t something he would prank about.

Katsuki was pale, paler than usual, his eyes wide and mouth partly open as he tried to figure out what to say. Finally, he seemed to settle on something. “But...but the condoms...”

"Only effective when used right, which I'm starting to think you don't know how to do,” Izuku snipped, the sounds of him walking somewhere in the background of the phone call. “Think about what you want to do. I’ll be there in a few hours.”

"Is that Bakugou?" Ochako's voice, while a bit distant and tinny, was still loud enough to be heard through the speaker, angry and sharp. "Tell him he better get used to being the ball-less wonder, I'm coming for him! Toga gave me a knife!"

"Ochako, no!" The fact that they were on the phone seemed forgotten as the two friends began to squabble, the call quickly dropping, leaving the room in silence. For a long moment they all just sat there, the three of them watching as Katsuki's head fell into his hands. It was Kirishima who finally broke it, clearing his throat as he tried to sound casual.

"Bro, did you... was there... did any of them-"

"No, shitty hair, none of the condoms fucking broke," Katsuki growled, lifting his head to glare at them all. "If it had and I thought this was an actual possibility, do you think I'd really be this freaked right now?"

“This kind of shit just happens sometimes,” Sero cut in, looking over at Kirishima with the well known shut the hell up before you get yourself killed look he had perfected over the last few years. “Manufacturing defects, latex decay, sometimes random things just happen and there’s even a small hole in them. You couldn’t have known, bro. Any idea what you want to do?”

While Katsuki, Sero, and Kirishima began discussing and processing his feelings and options, things they were all sure Izuku was doing with at least Ochako, if not the rest of his friends, Denki was silent. Silent and running through the vague memories of that day all those weeks ago in the student union, of the small pushpin he had put back into the cork board without a thought.

Maybe he really was a dumbass.

When Izuku and Ochako showed up a while later he was still quiet, more than happy to leave the room with the others to let the couple talk. Or, rather, help drag Ochako and her pair of scissors from the room with them, Izuku just looking exasperated as he plucked them from her hands, thanking them all pleasantly for giving him and Katsuki privacy to talk about their new situation. Happy to just sit there and listen to his friends talk and argue and theorize in the study room, only commenting when he was spoken to, never fully interacting as he sat in that new revelation of his stupidity. With everything going on, no one seemed inclined to question his silence, happy to let him exist in the chaos as the rest of them planned and prepared for whatever announcement waited for them back in the room.

A silence they all, Denki himself included as he ran away from a pissed Katsuki, just barely dodging the chair Izuku had thrown at his head, his aim only just off because his other arm was occupied by their sleeping baby girl, wished he had kept when he came clean and asked for godfather rights a few months later.

Hey. It’d seemed like a good idea at the time.

#the 9 one queues it #fanfic #bakudeku #bkdk #mha #bnha #my hero academia #fanfiction #izuku midoriya #katsudeku #bakugou katsuki #denki kaminari #mha denki #Denki is a dumbass and I love him #And the chaos he brings to everyone else's lives #Mpreg

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vicholas · 2 years

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This whole article is pretty laughable and badly written but also I feel it’s a pretty good example of something I’ve been thinking a lot about Wikipedia, which is that if you get well familiar with how things are done in there, the kind of language Wikipedia admins like, and how to try to decorate an irrelevant topic to make it look more notable than it is, they won’t delete your article and will be happy to keep it there.

Wikipedia admins and editors claim to be pretty strict about notability of topics and about having tight standards on what to deem notable and what not, but along with a lot of documented bias they have, they have a very pedant quality of appreciating more bullshit articles that try to polish a turd by making it look encyclopedic, over the kind of articles that can be more important but were written by someone less familiar with Wikipedia’s formatting and culture.

Here in the Mako Mori Test article, you have a neat little section at the beginning talking about gender theory in film to make the article look serious and that it knows what’s talking about, talking about Judith Butler’s views that have nothing to do with this to make it seem there’s more historical precedent to your fucking Tumblr test than there actually is.

You have a section in the article about criticisms towards the Bechdel Test being used as measure for Feminism In Movies, which the article uses to boost as proof the Mako Mori test is the cool hip new alternative despite that test not being mentioned in those criticisms sourced at all. But citing those criticisms makes the bullshit test seem more valid.

Bullshit “respectable” sources to make your turd article look important is easy when you know when to do it. The Mako Mori Test article has 30 sources listed, including academic books, all formatted neatly to make it look good and disguise that their main source is a fucking Tumblr post and most of those sources don’t talk about said test at all, most are about unrelated reviews of Pacific Rim, of the Bechdel Test, of feminism and movies, of feminism criticism of Disney movies.

Of the 30 sources in the article, only 9 talk about the titular test:

Of those: 2 are Tumblr posts, 3 others are other kinds of blogs, 1 is Aja Romano of all fucking people, 1 is a women's lifestyle magazine, 1 is an independent science fiction magazine, and 1 is Slate, arguably the most respectable and credible source from the whole list. And the Slate article is not about the test itself, it’s about the treatment of Mori in the second film and brings up the test related to the character’s impact and reactions to her treatment in both films.

Bullshitting sources to make your topic seem more notable than it is gets easier as time goes as internet journalism relies more and more on reporting on whatever trend is popular in social media to be topical, and those sources are counted as reliable by Wikipedia. See the, fucking, Wikipedia article on "Dark Academia” which has Nytimes and The Guardian articles talking about the topic in its sources.

This whole following section of the article feels like it’s just there to have more sources at the end of the article (each source is just. a link to a site defining each of these concepts listed in relation to feminism analysis) lmao:

I could continue dissecting the article but this post is so long already. Anyway I get frustrated with Wikipedia a lot, I wish the stupid ways Wikipedia works would be discussed more instead of being treated as this whole. flawless system. Wikipedia admins are humans, and often pretty dumbass and shallow ones.

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professorrealitycheckcontrovesy · 3 months

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If you believe this is fake,

And this is real,

You were probably dropped on your head as an infant!

Religious fundamentalists, science deniers, and conspiracy nuts are all mentally retarded!

It amazes me how conspiracy nuts can look at thousands of real photos of Earth and say they're all fake and CGI, yet all flat Earth images are fake and CGI, and they believe it without any evidence whatsoever, talk about mental retardation!

The people that believe it is somehow possible for all of history, science, and academia, spanning as far back as several thousand years, to be a "lie", and all the world's governments are in on some unrealistically expensive conspiracy to hide the real shape of the Earth, yet believe that some random guy on YouTube or TikTok is telling them the "truth", are mentally retarded morons!

Watching conspiracy nuts on YouTube or TikTok, does not count as research, and repeating their retarded talking points, does not make you a critical thinker. Research is not cherry picking what scientific facts fits your worldview, and rejecting what doesn't, that's confirmation bias! The universe is under no obligation to make sense to anyone, and objective reality is under no obligation to conform to anyone's beliefs, nor should it! And if you believe that reality should conform to your beliefs, then you are an arrogant, willfully ignorant dumbass!

The reality that we all inhabit, is the only reality that exists. Your delusional fantasies are not reality! The only reality that exists, is the physical, material reality, that we can detect with our five senses. We're not in a simulation, this is not the Matrix, there is no Heaven, and there is no Hell! There are no alternative realities! There are no such things as metaphysics. The material reality is the only real objective reality. All these other beliefs, are just wishful thinking at best, so wake the fuck up! Lets live in reality people, no adult should still believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, or the Tooth Fairy! Absolutely no one is Neo living in the Matrix, absolutely no one is gonna be the hero that will save humanity from the evil global conspiracy, there are no real psychics, and absolutely no one has their third eye open, because no such thing exists! We're all adults, only kids should be playing make believe!

Conspiracy YouTubers and TikTokers are not educational, they are brain rot plain and simple!

If people are willing to believe conspiracy theories over publicly available information that everyone has access to, and empirical data that is objectively verifiable, then it's a sure sign that the American education system is completely fucked!

#flat earth is retarded #knowledge is not a democracy #there are no alternative facts #willful ignorance is mental retardation #stupidity is a privilege not a right #stupid people should be marginalized

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daydreaming-in-daisies · 1 year

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Once again I'm up late because I can't sleep, I have a headache, and I'm still freaking out about potentially not graduating this semester. What else is new lol. Like fucking hell will this trash ass period of my life just fucking END ALREADY????? I swear to God being in school for so long has felt like I'm living in some weird ass time warp. The worst part is seeing people my age who have been out for a few years and have been able to travel, build their own life, and actually exercise their independence. Not experiencing those things and not knowing when I will when I so badly want to is pretty embarrassing. It makes me feel delayed compared to my peers.

I know everyone's life is different and life isn't linear, but damn, at times I still feel like my childish, awkward 18 year old self. I think it's because I've recognized that I made a lot of decisions I wasn't actually ready for back then, and I'm realizing how shitty the consequences of that are now. I definitely picked the wrong major. However, there's no way I could've just not gone to college because what else was I gonna do. I didn't realize that I wanted to do fashion until that introspective period of the pandemic. I didn't realize that it was okay to change my mind about goals I once had and to potentially disappoint others in the process. Idk why exactly, but before then I thought that changing your mind, growing as a person, whatever you wanna call it was bad. Like it just made me "fake" or "indecisive" or something like that.

I was also still pretty heavily into manifesting/LOA/toxic positivity, which back then I didn't have the life experience, maturity, or desire to confront the fact that that was a bunch of bullshit that I was taught and that basing some of my life decisions on what I thought I was going to "attract" was dumb af. I only stopped believing in that pseudo-spiritual, pseudoscientific garbage about a year ago. Which by the way, leaving that cult (yes, it's a cult idgaf) after practically growing up in it was easily one of the most difficult things I did. Because it took me years to actually sit with myself and recognize that this was a belief system that was not only damaging, but also not at all science or reality-based like these fraudulent-ass LOA gurus say it is. That shit had a HUGE influence o on me, as well.

So I guess I don't necessarily feel like I'm still the dumbass teenage/early 20s that I was before, but I definitely feel like I'm forced to live as that person sometimes, because much of my external environment from that time period hasn't changed. I still go to the campus that I did when I was 18, I still have a lot of the same personal items (ex. clothes, school supplies, accessories, etc.) from back then, I still have to center my life around school like I did back then, etc.

That's why I feel so fucking trapped. Idk if I'll finish this semester. I really hope I do, but there's a chance that I'll graduate next semester. I dread having to do this shit for another semester, because I no longer want live as the sad college girl who's constantly losing her damn mind over grades and classes that I won't even use in real life. Tbh my entire educational experience hasn't been that great, and I've realized that academia just isn't for me. It's not an environment I thrive in and that's fine. For years I felt guilty about being one of those people who didn't live up to the "high school/college is the best years of your life!" ideal. But I don't feel that way anymore because I've realized there's more to life outside of those stressful, and quite frankly, OVERRATED years of your life. Like fr having gone through college and being almost finished, I can honestly say it's not a big deal if you didn't particularly like those years. Trying to get a degree while balancing a job, your social life, your health, and your sanity is fucking HARD and from what I've witnessed, damn near an impossible standard. I don't know a single person who had all of that shit together. There were good moments, but I would NEVER revisit this shit ever again.

I have a lot of plans for after I graduate. I plan on starting my own business and revamping some of the stuff I had for it before. I also plan on travelling more often and getting a new job. I'm most definitely throwing away a bunch of my old shit because I don't wanna be reminded of my unsure, awkward college self. I also plan on hanging out with new people and building new relationships, but this time being smarter about who I hang out with lol.

I know this weird lull won't last forever, but sometimes it doesn't feel that way. All I know is that I'm pretty sure that mid 20s, delayed teenage rebellion is probably gonna start after I graduate. Idk how crazy I'm gonna get (it probably won't be that bad lol), but after all of the fuckery I've been through over the years it's most definitely time to get lit fr.

#Words #Thoughts #Personal #Long Post #Ngl I was really emotional while writing the beginning of this post but now I feel a little less shitty

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dumbassacademia · 3 years

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my astronomy professor just told us that whenever he sees the sun rise he says “Hello again, old friend”

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academia-slut · 3 years

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here's to all the clowns who get so deep within a specific topic of their research they forget what the original topic was about and start dissociating from this dimension

#here here #dark academia #chaotic dark academia #chaotic academia #feral academia #dumbass academia #science academia #light academia #studyblr #science #science side of tumblr

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iconwannabe · 3 years

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i feel the aliveness of my organs and cells when i gulp water after 10hours of dehydration and realise i am indeed real, alive and one within the world

#why does this sentence sound wrong from my literature pov #fufk it nvm nothing is right #also go drink water dumbass #text #text post #rant #rant blog #writing #writers on tumblr #vent #writing blog #chaotic #chaotic academia #science #reminder #iconwannabe #thoughts #shower thoughts

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can-we-die-now · 1 year

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random guy : my ovaries are exploding

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lonelylittledot · 2 years

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@adelaideandart just invented a new aesthetic:

“I love crossovers between serious scientific theories and their dumb interpretations.“

I’ve decided to call it

dumb academia

#aesthetic #aesthetics #academia #dark academia #light academia #dumbassery #dumbass #science #true power is using your knowledge to be a complete dumbass

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lichenaday · 2 years

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i have a few questions about adhd in academia, please feel free to only answer them if want to

1. best mistake you made with adhd?

2. what kind of organizational systems do use to manage your adhd in academia?

3. what did you have to unlearn to succeed with adhd in academia?

4. what were some of the hardest things to accept about being adhd in academia?

5. with adhd, anxiety, and depression, how do you combat procrastination in academia?

thank you for your time and congrats on your success! 🥳

1. Best mistake you made with ADHD: Like the funniest? Almost certainly the time I picked up a venomous snake in the woods during field work, got bit, and had to go to the emergency room. I am now a cautionary tale within the department. I blame this on my ADHD, maybe it was just me being a straight-up dumbass, but I find that I tend to hyperfocus on something and don't have room in my brain to consider the consequences because SNAKE SNAKE SNAKE NEW SNAKE FRIEND GONNA CHECKOUT ITS BELLY SCALES FOR BETTER ID PURPOSES YES THIS IS A VERY GOOD IDEA. Best for me personally was impulsively signing up for my first lichenology class!

2. I have a therapist! I am lucky to live in Germany, where the very-low cost of my student health insurance covers the cost of talk therapy. Most universities have some sort of student counseling service. I saw an academic counselor for a few sessions and quite frankly, didn't find it helpful because yeah, I know how I am supposed to study, but I'm built different, and so I found my therapist with the help of the student union and she was essential to my success. USE THOSE STUDENT RESOURCES. 3. I have had to unlearn a lot. But perhaps the biggest thing I realized is I never really learned how to study? I always skated by on just like, being smart. And being really good at rote memorization. Being a good test taker, essentially. But now that I am at a level that is super challenging, and forces me to think theoretically, I actually have to study for exams. Like, a lot. And that means I need to start studying like, more than a day before the exam. So relearning how to study has been a nightmare, but ultimately really good for me? Probably? Ask me again in 10 years. RIP my GPA 4. A few I can think of: a) not everyone is going to *get* you. Academia selects for certain types of people. If you are different, you are gonna stand out, and some folks don't know how to deal with that. If you asked them individually, of course they would say that all perspectives are welcome in academia, but they probably have some internalized biases that they don't realize. And you gotta just accept that. You will find plenty of folks who do like you, and are willing to work with you even though you may work at a different pace, ask lots of questions, talk a lot, and need extra help from time to time. b) You might get shit grades. And you will see other people putting half the effort as you getting much better scores and it's gonna hurt. But academia is biased. The system is built to reward certain types of intelligence, and ADHD ain't generally one of those types. But you don't have to let that hold you back. You can actually get by being a good worker/writer/public speaker/passionate scientist, and the grades will only matter to the folks/institutions you are better off not working with anyway. c) You are good enough. And you deserve to be here. Even if things are harder for you, you are slower to learn, you struggle--science and academia needs you passion, your perspective, your desire to change the system. 5. Hahahahahah . . . I don't combat it so much as embrace it. It's just how I'm wired. And I may procrastinate, but I still get my shit done. Eventually. One of the best suggestions I got was "eat the frog first." If you have something you gotta do, set an alarm for an hour earlier than you have to wake up, and work on it right then, first thing, before you have anything else to distract yourself with. Reward yourself with your favorite hot beverage of choice. Or scheduling alternating tasks. Gotta do the dishes, gotta write a paper. Write until can't anymore, unload dishwasher, write until can't, rinse dishes, write until can't, load dishwasher, write . . . so on and so forth. I gotta do dishes because I am out of dishes, so I guess that means I gotta write, too.

#lichen asks #lichens #lichenology #adhd #grad school #ama

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scholarbeing · 4 years

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00:22 | november

it's 22 minutes into the new day, therefore the opportune time to LEARN!

#no kidding guys #bitches be losing sleep #im bitches #lol i have an afrikaans and life sciences paper on monday what is life #extreme daytime procrastination and manic nighttime student #dark academia #studying #study #we live for aesthetics only #no sleep we die likee dumbasses #it took me 8 minutes to make this post the fuck #by the time im done tagging ill probably be discouraged from studying #oh well

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lemonade-baby · 3 years

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Today is my favorite boys birthday and I decided to make a list of my favorite Bobby/Boggie centric fics because they’re stunning

I’m Not Sick, I Took All My Vitamins by @a-tomb-with-a-view

Meggie blew it out of the fuckin park with this one and I also realized that “whoopsie daisies, I should probably see a doctor” after I read it. We love protective/dumbass Bobby because that really is what he is.

Looking for answers in the pouring rain by @nickalicious

Levi’s a little shithead for making me cry over this. I’m just- I’m speechless over some lines and even the first line of the entire thing makes me emotional. I don’t know why don’t ask. I’m a sucker for hopeless romantic Boggie too

Make Him Smile by @sunset-bobby

I’m being honest when I say that Syd made me discover my love for Alex/Bobby (I don’t really know their ship name so that’s what I’m going with). The sequel to it Make Him Cry is just- mmmmmmmm

BOBBYS SEXUALITY CRISIS SUMMER by @the-anxious-gay-drummer

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this is just- I- I'm a sucker for Bobby and Carrie as siblings and Sunset Curve just being dumb teenagers and this gives me all of that.

Take a star from my sky by @thegirlfulloffandoms

Jess gave me Dark Academia Bobby and Science Nerd Reggie and my lil heart is broken because I love them. I also can't get over "Buttercup"

There are def more but I gotta go to work soon and these are just some of my favorites. You should all go read them and soak in the beauty that is my friends writing (I actually don't know Agnes but I hope to one day because I just think she's pretty cool)

#julie and the phantoms #bobby wilson #fic recs #happy birthday bobby wilson ily babey

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whimperandabang · 2 years

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dead poets society (for the fandom ask thing)

The first character I first fell in love with:

Honestly I don't remember if I fell in love with Neil or Mr. Keating first but one of them. Probably Neil.

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now:

All of them and also none of them? Like I’ve always liked the characters that I liked and hated the characters that I hated, but both of those got taken to a new level when I found the fandom and the dark academia community.

The character everyone else loves that I don’t:

Honestly? Pitts and Meeks. I mean I don't hate them, I definitely like them for what they are (and Radio Free America is iconic) but honestly they're such minor characters that the most I can say about them is that I'm neutral to positive. Their personalities are one-note and they don't have much development. (And that's okay! They're minor characters. It's just that I think the way that they're much beloved is a result of like. Fandomification.)

The character I love that everyone else hates:

Okay, I wouldn't say I love him, but. Knox. I do see a lot of Knox hate/Knox anti-ing and I had a brief phase of that myself, but when I rewatched it over the summer my feelings changed. He's not perfect, he definitely done some Yikes things, and the romance with Chris (while it has cute moments) does feel forced, but he's got room to grow. I have hope for this dumbass. (On a tangentially related note, I have Opinions about Richard Cameron, but the amount of hate I see is negligible compared to the amount of apologism, so I didn't put him here.)

The character I used to love but don’t any longer:

I don't think I have one? I have a few for which the opposite could be said (see my Knox opinions above- he's pretty much the only one actually), but DPS has a pretty rigid binary of deeply hatable and deeply sympathetic characters. (I've seen takes that dispute this, but I don't really agree with any of them.)

The character I would totally smooch:

Neil and maybe Charlie. But mostly Neil. Beautiful boy.

The character I’d want to be like:

Despite my earlier Pitts and Meeks bit, I'd have to go with Meeks. The extent of his development tells me he's probably the ideal Dead Poet. He seems fairly well adjusted (as much as any Welton boy is well adjusted), he doesn't seem to have any extra trauma the way Neil and Todd and Charlie do, and he's good at math and science while also maintaining an appreciation for the arts/humanities. Please give me some of your STEM skills, sir.

The character I’d slap:

DPS has an abundance of slappable characters. Top of the list would be Mr. Perry. I actually wouldn't slap Cameron (I have complex feelings about him).

A pairing that I love:

Anderperry. I'm not head over heels for them, but it's solidly my favorite DPS pairing.

A pairing that I despise:

I'm not a huge fan of Cameron/Charlie. Just not my thing.

Thanks for the ask!

EDIT: Just realized I left out a wholeass question. Whoops.

#dead poets society #dps

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brightgoat · 4 years

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Why Prometheus?

I’ve been reading a whole lot on the Prometheus myth, because of the Frankenstein novel (little teaser: i’m making an au because of course), and oh my god - this motherfucker-

He reminds me a lot of Lucifer, in the sense that they can both be seen as ‘Lightbringers’, they both defy the gods, they’re both trickster figures, and they both give knowledge to humans which has negative consequences and for which they’re punished.

His name means ‘Forethought’ and he symbolises science, progress and humanity. And I just find it interesting how these myths like,, demonised knowledge. Adam and Eve were banished from Eden after eating the apple and obtaining knowledge (they also obtained emotions like shame which they didn’t have before i think), Prometheus was banished and punished for giving knowledge to humans. It’s like even back then people knew that knowing shit, while making some things easier, brought on a lot of new types of struggles and burdens that just cuz they were new and disproportionate amongst people, made shit harder. That or they demonised intellectualism which is common of religions lmaooo Cuz in the myth itself, none of the humans seemed bothered, it were the Gods (religious figures) that threw a hissy fit.

I guess this just seems so prominent today in politics or whatever, people sometimes demonise or proudly reject Academias, Universities, science, progress, sociology or just basic statistics cuz it doesn’t agree with them. They’re proud of being stupid and they wanna keep the masses stupid as well idk

Prometheus was like this cunning, tricky dude, in the war between Gods and Titans, he was with the Titans at first of course (he himself is one), but because the Titans didn’t wanna use his tricks on the Gods he was like “fuck it” and switched sides and the Gods won.

Prometheus apparently created humanity, or was one of the titans/figures that did, and then the gods don’t allow them knowledge and he’s like ‘wtf guys i spent so long working on this, look at how dumb they are they need help’

He tricked,,, Zeus,,, into eating shit??? ok it wasn’t shit it was like bones or horns covered in fat or smthn and Zeus got so fuckin pissed but couldn’t do anything so when Pro stole the fire he like rubbed his hands and was “oh finally hes gonna get it for making me eat shit that one time where’s my eagle”

ANOTHER version of the myth, that still keeps him as a cunning dude but at the same time a dumbass which we love, actually suggested humans already had fire, but because Pro made Zeus eat shit, Zeus was like “hAH im gonna take away the humans’ fire now fuck youuu” and Pro was like “oh fuck damnit no not my babies’ so he stole the fire back and Zeus was like “GOTCHA BITCH”

ANOTHER ANOTHER version suggested Zeus ATE SHIT ON PURPOSE so that he had a reason to take the humans’ fire (cuz he just wanted to be a dick or smthn) and Pro was like ‘oh fuck well-shit---’

anyways Prometheus is a dork that we love who means well and disrespects the Gods

be like him and make him proud by educating yourselves

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