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iiseor · 3 months

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☆ gloomchair2010 ☆

synopsis: ellie adds you in a chat room after a mutual game. IB

cw: AU, kind of loser!nerd!ellie x popular!reader except reader is like a loser in the online world and popular irl while ellie is the opposite; make sense?? Semi stalker!ellie. This is part 1..if this does good ill continue !

ⓘ new friend request: @gloomchair2010

accepted ! reject

Gloomychair2010 has joined the chat

@gloomchair2010: hey :D

@ynspeaks: hey..?

@ynspeaks: do i know you?

@gloomychair2010: lol.. dont think so ! but we just played random duos together :)

@gloomychair2010: good game and all, just wanted to see if you needed help figuring out how to work your weapons and stuff so next time you dont die so quickly xD

@ynspeaks: haha right, i just realized your username... thank you, and i dont really play often... but you can help if you'd like :)

@gloomychair2010: really??? Would've thought you were a pro the way you stood there and let that guy shoot you in open space !

@ynspeaks: omg >< was i really that bad?

@gloomychair2010: maybe just a little ....

@gloomychair2010: nothing a little mentoring cant fix... whenever you have the time.

@ynspeaks: sounds fun :D I'm down

@ynspeaks: i like your display name btw !!!! it's so cool

@ynspeaks: what does it mean?

@gloomychair2010: you don't know ?

@ynspeaks: should i ? :(

@gloomychair2010: haha thought you would, it's a metaphor to a pretty popular game.

@ynspeaks: ohhhhhhh

@ynspeaks: i dont know much about this stuff story :<

@ynspeaks: kinda just getting into it, needed a distraction :]

@gloomychairs2010: oh....? Really??

@glooomychairs2010: something wrong?

@ynspeaks: nothing big... just life you know?

@gloomychair2010: sorry to hear that :(

@gloomychair2010: maybe you should try playing musical chairs, it'll make you happier

@ynspeaks: ??????????

@gloomychairs2010: gaming reference, sorry

@ynspeaks: sorry LOL , ill learn eventually :]

@ynspeaks: my moms going to call me for dinner soon so ill have to go, but it was nice talking to you. A good distraction so far :D

@ynspeaks: Im y/n btw... if you didn't read my user!

@gloomychairs2010: oh right it's getting pretty late

She said knowing she stays on the game way past midnight.... every night

@gloomychairs2010: oh and I'm ellie... in all honesty i didnt read ur name xD

@ynspeaks: it's okay!! you were too busy trying to save me from dying LOL

@ynspeaks: Nice to meet you ellie :3 chat later!!

@gloomychairs2006: nice to meet you too y/n :^)

*ynspeaks has left the chat*

*gloomychair2006 has left the chat*

After your chat ended, ellie found herself reminiscing about the conversation between you two. Though the conversation was extremely short, there was something so intriguing about you that she could somehow feel through the screen.

and that night, instead of staying up till 4am playing video games, she decided to take all technology based skills she obtained over the years, and utilize them in a deep dive internet search on you and who exactly @ynspeaks really was.

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aroacewxs · 7 months

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the ruikasa that lives in my head is not romantic in the SLIGHTEST and it cracks me up. sharing my repulsed aro ruikasa thoughts here hehehe don't mind me

first of all i just cannot see tenma tsukasa above all people, the aromantic of project sekai (he's competing with ichika for number one coded aro) sparing one single thought in his empty head for romantic feelings. i feel like tsukasa lacks all common sense surrounding society's idea of what is suggestive/romantic/flirtatious, to the point where if he were to be assigned a role that required him to perform a kiss scene or something of the sort, he'd be all "boy oh boy im going to knock the audience's SOCKS off with this one" and completely disregard that this is actually very very embarrassing for the poor actor that has to be on the receiving end of his rehearsed romantic gestures

oh yeah, speaking of rehearsed romantic gestures

i need you to picture a pathetic tenma tsukasa, specifically kamikou fes tsukasa, on one knee in front of his mirror at 2 in the morning, reciting his cheesy love monologue and chuckling to himself after for how GOOD he is. "just ham it up. it'll look so good. i'm so good. genuinely who else is professing their undying love for their soulmate like i am"

on the other hand, rui actually has thoughts. these thoughts fill him with such distress it makes him feel nauseous. he's really just going about his day, rehearsing with wxs at the wonder stage when he suddenly feels a surge of warmth swirl in his chest whenever tsukasa gladly complies with his wacky ideas. he's just trying to live his poor life when the excitement and adrenaline from performing shows with wxs has him in shambles later because he's debating whether or not this is what everyone calls Romantic Love (it's not. he's just a repulsed aro loser who would die for his friends)

tsukasa: rui, throw anything my way and i'll deliver with 12000% !!!!! guaranteed!!!! as always!!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA

rui: (god are you trying to torture me or what. am i deserving of such a person. Goodness gracious i feel like im floating whenever I'm around these guys is this some kind of sorcery I'm unaware of. i think my heart is going to twist and leap out of my chest they're so good they're so wonderful and im really just here aren't I im really just here and oh my freaking god is this what they call having a crush. is this what everyone around me has been hyping up. jumping jellyfish if it is, it feels AWFUL and i can't believe i've been thinking i'm missing out. no but then what really defines romantic feelings because if we're talking pros and cons and hypotheticals and possibilities, i would not want to kiss tsukasa like that, but isn't that a given when you love someone in that way. am i crazy am i broken am i an anomaly. I need to write this down for later and perform a google search)

#project sekai #project sekai headcanons #wxs #wonderlands x showtime #tenma tsukasa #kamishiro rui #aromantic ruikasa/p #rui and tsukasa #they're both theatre freaks #rui sopping wet cat loser #tsukasa prideful peacock loser #there is. NO kissing of lips happening here #tsukasa oblivious aro. romantic social cues fly over his head #rui repulsed aro with overflowing amounts of love for his friends

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cepheustarot · 8 months

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What kind of person will you meet soon?

Attention! This reading is for entertainment purposes only. This tarot reading does not give a 100% guarantee that all the described situations will occur. You build your own life and destiny.

Choose one or more cards. Trust your intuition.

Card 1: The person is calm, unhurried, he can do everything slowly, he is balanced, even in stressful situations, he remains calm and does not give in to panic. This person can also be called a leader, he has the ability to lead people, to be in charge, he successfully achieves his goals and plans goals, he never stops there. He can also be called lucky, luck is always, or at least in most cases, on his side. In some situations, he may behave relaxed, bevause he know that victory will be on his side. At the same time, he cannot be called decisive, he often cannot make a decision, because he carefully considers the pros and cons of one or another option. He also cannot be called a permanent person, he may be interested in many topics, get carried away with something, but at the same time he does not have a permanent hobby or social circle. You will get to know this person thanks to your friend or acquaintances, you could also be in the same company all this time, but never communicate closely. Or you will be brought closer together by joint activities, work on a project. I also want to note that communication with this person will give you motivation, inner strength. If it was hard for you to refuse people or it was hard to defend your opinion, then through communication with this person you will learn to defend your personal boundaries, put a person in their place. It is also possible that you always judge and look at the situation from one side, but soon you will learn to look at things from two sides, which will help you not to jump to conclusions.

Card 2: I want to say right away that this is a person from the past! Perhaps earlier you were brought together by a close friendship, or maybe even you had sympathy for each other, or your parents communicated well with each other and therefore you also had to contact. It may not necessarily be your friend or lover, it may be a relative, a family member, a classmate, and a person with whom you shared a common activity, work. The person himself is sullen, uncommunicative and for the most part closed, laconic. A creative person, for some reason intuition suggests that he is interested in music, plays a musical instrument or collects albums of musical groups, knows many genres, perhaps creates music himself. But this is not necessarily music, there are many creative areas, remember this! By the way, despite his sullenness, he is quite generous and always ready to help in difficult times, share experience, advice, support and comfort. Perhaps he drives a car or rides a motorcycle, skateboard, bicycle scooter, etc. And it is also possible that he often moves. With regard to what communication with this person will give you…Faith in yourself and the belief that you can move mountains, because you are a very capable person in yourself, you learn a lot and know how to do a lot. Now it is morally difficult for you and you feel like a loser or do not understand how to be and what to do next. Therefore, communication with a person should help you or at least raise your inner mood.

Card 3: Here we are talking about a peson who is quite well-groomed and neat, always dresses well and has a sense of style, he is in the center of attention and it is difficult not to notice such a person. With all this, the person looks unapproachable, it is difficult to get to know and get closer to him, he seems to be deliberately not letting people get closer to him. Probably, earlier he had an unpleasant situation with people where he was betrayed or framed, which is why he behaves extremely cautiously. He needs a lot of time to trust a person. I also want to note that he is quite talented and capable, he understands a lot of topics and can do a lot of things (if not now, then at least in the past). The acquaintance will take place thanks to some mutual acquaintance of yours and this person will turn to you for advice, since you have been described as a competent person, a good specialist or a person with extensive experience. If you decide to get close to him, then please be careful and attentive! At a minimum, a person is quite sensitive and takes words to heart, it is difficult to communicate with him in this regard, and he can also quarrel with your close friends, which will lead to the termination of communication with friends.

Thank you for reading! I will be glad of any feedback <3

#pick a card #pick a card reading #tarot #tarot cards #tarot reading

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tessavelland · 7 months

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The Innkeeper (s2e3)

Edward immobilized opens his eyes in the realm between worlds to ask a blurred figure, 'Am I your hostage?' His guide comes closer. Ed cries out in fear, 'Captain Hornigold?' and is answered with 'Ben now. Just Ben.'

―Guess I do work for Blackbeard. Hmm. I'm Ed, he said, introducing himself to Stede.

―Just to be...Edward. To do what makes Ed happy, he said, confessing his love to Stede.

The once-fearsome Hornigold, under whom Ed and Jack first became outlaws, in this tranquil place is a pirate who retired.

―The only retirement we get is death, said Izzy.

―He retired, said Frenchie, believing Ed was dead.

'The last time I saw you, you said you'd flay my skin and feed it back to me!' cries Ed.

―I tried to get it down without tasting it, said Jeff the retired god-king of cannibals.

―Open your fucking mouth now. Eat up. Don't forget to chew, said the Kraken.

In the time before he retired to give shelter and soup to lost souls by the sea, the pirate captain forced a live crab down a cabin boy and killed him from the inside out. (Ed remembers; he was there.) The winner of Felix versus Crab was the crab.

Felix is Latin for happy

The winner of Turtle versus Crab was the crab. The turtle had to be armed with a knife; he wasn't a natural killer. The crab had pincers sharp enough to take a turtle's head or a toe. But the game's rules are brutal.

―Loser gets his head cut off, and the winner...gets his fucking head cut off!

Without someone waiting for him, the pros-and-cons life list is fucked. Edward enraged spears a staff at a rock.

On a ragged flag the Devil's lance stabs a wounded heart

Another rock and rope appear and plunge, the weight of heartbreak dragging Ed to drown.

―Remember how he used to stab us? Beat us down?

But Edward untethered opens his eyes when Stede lifts the veil from his face.

―Act of Grace!

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Note regarding the above: I think the cabin boy is a metaphor for Ed himself, even if it's a true story. 'I was there. He was a really nice guy.'

Toxic grief amplified by self-hatred is the crab that nearly killed Ed just when he'd found and lost happiness (Felix=happy), clawing him apart from the inside, inducing his deranged death-wish behavior.

Toxic masculinity and PTSD from abusers like his father and Captain Hornigold set him up for his unstable identity and deep anger and sense of being unlovable. Poor Ed has had to swallow a lot of crabs.

#ofmd edward teach #ofmd kraken #our flag means death #ofmd s2 meta #ofmd #ofmd season 1 #The Innkeeper #ed teach #edward teach #blackbeard ofmd #ofmd meta #ofmd season 2 #the gravy basket #davidjenks #alyssa lane #alex sherman #benjamin hornigold #ofmd episode 3

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fwb-anon · 3 months

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the idolz and their controversies... part 1

because we love drama

i don't hate any of them btw <3 i just like to make the world as realistic as possible with people doing some questionable shit or having controversial actions/opinions at times...

gonna get beheaded for that but LET'S START WITH GOJO <333

gojo (ex... whatever the big jjk group is called, former tripleS + GG member)

he's actually fine, at least for someone who's been an idol + a producer for like... almost twenty years sheesh

does get a lot of rumours but we don't care about those

his biggest controversy is basically the one that.. he hasn't "fixed"... putting "" because truth is everyone is divided on this ("does he really need to fix it?" you decide booboo)

anyway, he uses aave despite being the palest japanese mf ever ❤️ some black fans don't care, others do care, some non-black fans don't care (not that... we care about their opinion...), some non-black fans do care, one of the pro arguments is "well at least he uses it correctly" so you decide if you're pro or anti gojo now /J... /hj i know some of y'all are extremists

has been called greedy as a producer but let's be real he's a man so he doesn't actually get called out a lot for this + he's one of the most popular idols anyway so who cares (if it were a woman tho...)

okay so this one is actually fake af but he's been called xenophobic and racist towards panda (who's chinese) and yuuji (who's half dominican) because they had less than 2 seconds of line in a song. gojo didn't respond to that, but a week later the behind recording was out on socials and everyone was able to see that 1/ panda actually had more lines but got outsang by most of the group (understandable, he's not a vocalist), 2/ yuuji can't sing to save his life, so giving him one line was already very nice of gojo

okay everyone, you can breathe again it's over for gojo's controversies

shikamaru (from hanafubuki)

oh god where do we start

nah tbf he only has one big controversy and it's: he's sexist

OKAY SO technically he isn't anymore because he got women's studies classes as a trainee otherwise he was kicked out for being a sexist little shit

he does have.. "traditional" views but honestly he's also very open minded

got accused of being sexist because he said he "sees himself with a boring job, a wife, two kids, and his wife cooking dinner for him when he comes back from work"

gonna play devil's advocate and say that's literally how it works with his parents and they like it that way, so

also he said (after being accused of sexism) in a radio show that while that's how he sees his life in twenty years, he wouldn't mind it if his wife was like "no i wanna work too"

they'd just have to agree on a schedule and all, especially for the kids (he wants kids so there's no way he's marrying someone who doesn't tho which is... common sense)

jiraiya (ex wabi-sabi, now soloist)

he's not sexist but he's been labelled a pervert... ngl he does like to look at women's bodies BUT he doesn't make them uncomfortable... leave me and my old man alone... where is @sexygeriatric-retirementhome :( <3 i'm still working on your ask i just take years to reply

has a tendency to date younger people, mostly women but sometimes men (bi icon) <3

has had some ableist comments in the past, mostly when he was a teen though, and although he never addressed it he's never done it again so... you decide...

(btw you gotta realise bro was technically in the public eye from 1991 [pre-debut era] to... well... nowadays... so he's been an idol for 33 years so yeah)

has been caught with porn magazines on his shelves LMAO he's such a loser <3 he was a teen when that happened and also had a gf at the time so that was fun LOL

has struggled with an eating disorder as a late-teen/young adult, which led to him being in a very poor mental state and "giving advice" on how to lose weight. <- pls don't excuse that, that's just the explanation as to why he said those things in the first place ❤️

he did talk about it a decade later and said he was wrong, also donates yearly to charities (mostly anorexia related ones)

oh yeah i forgot but he's also been accused of having predatory behaviour towards young idols (hanafubuki's neji, bureikou as a whole, kismet's konohamaru)

basically -> he hugged neji when neji was crying (neji was 16). he regularly compliments bureikou (girl group with the naruto girlies + AFAB NARUTO YEAAA), also has a very close bond with naruto herself since he's her godfather, DID talk about her body as in "she's growing up fine" (you take that as you want honestly)... did make a joke about naruto growing up fine but being so tall yet so flat (<- didn't phrase it like that tbh but that was the joke, naruto is 180cm tall and flatter than sakura). konohamaru is his nephew in this au and the way he's been teasing him or even hugging him rubs people the wrong way, mostly because of the previous things (for people who think he's actually having predatory behaviour) and because kono was 15 when he debuted. honestly idek, you make up your mind <3

gonna be real he probably has way more, he's been in the industry for 30+ years LOL but yeah brain is smol

neji (hanafubuki, soloist)

has had ableist comments in the past, mostly about shino's quirks (fyi shino is on the autism spectrum) -> owned up to it and apologised to shino and shino's dad, literally people learned about it because neji mentioned it during a public apology when they were having a concert

neji is basically if character growth was a person

bro is gay as hell (and dating shino!!!) but was homophobic so... character growth <3

honestly props to shino for staring at neji and thinking "i will talk some sense into him" cuz LOOK AT THEM NOW <33

a few fatphobic comments towards choji during predebut era too, but gonna be honest he quickly changed his mind and is literally "choji's husband" (and choji is his wife <3 <- their dynamic is light hearted) so ykw i don't think choji would be fine with that if neji was still fatphobic

again: ✨ CHARACTER GROWTH ✨

i'm hungry so i'll make a part two later

geto will be in it.. if i don't forget

#fwb.idolz #cw eating issues #cw ed mention

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darkstaranthology · 5 months

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'photographs' was the sixth fic posted for 'dark star - an izch anthology.'

Discussion of single parenthood, past spouse death, canon-typical bullying and quirk discrimination, general misogyny themes as they relate to canon BNHA, and age-gap romance, and other triggering content below this cut. There will also be spoilers for the fic, if you want to read it for yourself first.

Fic stats:

~21,000 words

One-shot

E rated (explicit sexual content, age-gap romance, past minor character death and grief/mourning)

Archive Warnings (AO3): None

Canon Setting AU

'photographs' is a one-shot, concerning a canon AU where Izuku 'Deku' Midoriya is childhood friends with Ochako 'Uravity' Uraraka, after their respective mothers meet each other by chance. She becomes his inseparable companion for several years of his life, before she eventually moves back to the western part of Japan with her parents. Now, he is trying to work up the courage to ask her on a date. There's just two problems: Ochako Uraraka is twenty-seven years old, and Izuku Midoriya is twenty years old, and Ochako Uraraka is now Ochako Nakano, widowed by the death of her pro Hero husband a few years prior.

Bit of an odd duck, this one. 'What if Ochako had been Deku's childhood friend in addition to/instead of Bakugou' is one of the most enduring ship-specific AUs for izch fandom. It makes sense, it's a very obvious extrapolation of the themes of the series in my opinion. Despite basically never interacting, Ochako and Bakugou have a lot of thematic contrast going on, and the basis of shipping them, casting them as 'love rivals' for Deku, or casting Ochako as 'the good friend' in contrast to Bakugou as 'the bad bully' all are natural conclusions to draw from their writing in my opinion.

This particular rendition of it was inspired by a piece of fanart by a JP izch artist that has now unfortunately moved on from izch. They now largely draw Deku/Bakugou and 'Dekubowl' content, which I still follow them for! But all their izch art has been functionally obliterated from the internet, which is a huge shame. They drew a specific piece of art that showed Deku, seven years younger than Ochako, and the progression of their lives from him as a baby, to her with him as a young boy, to her in Hero school seeing him in middle school, to her seeing him in the 'Dark Deku' arc of the manga, to him finally coming to her to ask her out. 'photographs' is actually a blunt, direct adaptation, almost beat for beat, and I've been told by a mutual friend that the artist is flattered I enjoyed her work enough to write a fic adaptation of it.

There's other elements, though. At the time this fic was written, the now-famous 'loser Deku's idea of a good first date' manga panel, where he describes taking a girl to an amusement park to hold her hands and split a crepe, was a sensation in fandom. Of course, it was instantly cannibalized for basically any Deku ship, and this fic uses that idea in what I felt was a very thematically entertaining way given their age gap.

I wouldn't really call this fic problematic. It's problematic in the sense that if I knew Deku and Ochako as real people in the situation laid out by the fic, I wouldn't tell them it's a good idea to date. But objectively there's no express power imbalance - she's not his babysitter, teacher, or boss - and both are now adults. It's just a mildly inappropriate age gap between two people who've known each other for years. I think the way we react to age gaps depending on who is involved is very fascinating, and it's funny to me that I could've just posted this fic to my main profile, and I doubt anyone would've even blinked.

It's part of 'dark star' because I wanted people to consider the implications of it all, though. The way Ochako lived a happy life, had a happy marriage to a man her own age, and had a child with him, and now in the ruins of that comes Deku, being a little selfish as he asks her out. The way that Ochako was this incredible person for Deku, and she's never really seen him as his own person, now seeing him come to her 'all grown up,' and how she buys a little bit into this fantasy of his that she probably shouldn't.

It's a little bit inappropriate and toxic, isn't it? Yet it's also romantic. I think these things can be true at once. One goal I had for 'dark star' was for izch to feel 'messy.' Other ship fandoms routinely write fairly brazenly fucked up content of their own ship, often thematically nasty even in a way that mistreats other characters or even marginalized identities (i.e. misogyny, homophobia, etc.), and those ship fandoms will eat that stuff up. Now, personally, I don't really want to write 'thematically nasty' content, per se, but I do want to write thematically challenging content that is reasonably open to interpretation. I would find it very reasonable if someone read 'photographs' and came away thinking 'I don't think these two should've dated, probably.'

There's other things, too. The reality of 'the canon plot' sneaks in at points. Sometimes this fic feels like it has almost no relationship to canon at all, then One for All will creep in to rear its ugly little head. I say that, but I do love One for All and the canon plot of BNHA. BNHA's manga largely collapsed under the weight of bad calls on its side plots, but I think its main plot has generally always been pretty good. I think this shows in this rendition, where the side plots have been largely obliterated to laser focus on 'Deku.'

Without Ochako, there is no Hero named 'Deku.' This is a statement that I would like to tattoo to the forehead of most of BNHA fandom. In 'photographs,' there is a 'Deku,' in the positive sense, but his distance and emotional removal from Ochako has left him more damaged. He presents a strong front, but he eventually admits to Ochako that he hasn't lived a very happy life. He's only twenty, but he's gone through so much no one of his age should, while Ochako has lived a fairly normal, well-adjusted life for someone of her occupation.

There's a moment where Ochako is trying to convey to Deku that she must remain focused on her child, as she is a single parent now. She's successful enough that she can afford that, which is a luxury. And she's self-conscious of her age and of the sexism of Hero society, so acutely aware that 'her life is over' now that she's over twenty-five, a widow, and has a kid. Deku doesn't see her that way, but she sees him as naive, basically like another kid.

Through the date they go on, she sees another side of him. She sees how he's amazing, just like canon Ochako does, but in the transit of Venus-type of way where she goes from seeing him as the little boy she always loved, to a remarkable young man reshaped by One for All. This is both good and deeply inappropriate, and you can feel her fighting with herself through the fic to try and convince both herself and Deku that he should go for someone of his own age, a peer who will see him for what he is.

But nobody else cared about quirkless Deku. No one sees his value. They only see One for All. Only Ochako loves Deku for Izuku, not for One for All. So he clings to his love for her, up until the moment he's ready to let her go, and she finally pulls back, realizing that she can't possibly let him go when she needs him.

I think there's some really good romantic beats in this fic, which I was fairly proud of to read back through in editing this year. I've referenced the famous 'amusement park date' a few times since in other fics, but this fic ironically is the only on-screen direct rendition of it that I've written. It's a little bit perverse in that regard, but I think it's a very mature, textured, difficult take on the subject matter that asks the audience to think critically of the ship, while still asking them to root for them in the end.

Incidentally, this fic borrows a plot point and some general tone elements from ss3dj's (@marcuskay-ss3dj) famous 'Green Tea Rescue.' That fic is probably the most popular and famous rendition of 'izch as childhood friends,' using the common trope of 'Ochako transfers to Aldera Middle School in her last year.' 'photographs' does not use that format, but it does borrow my absolute favorite plot point from GTR (namely 'who is Hisashi?'), and it serves as a sort of soft homage to the early parts of GTR.

I think there will be a handful more fics in 'dark star' that are these sort of light 'breather' affairs. Some of them have very fucked up, dark conceptual themes, like sibling incest or teratophilia, but the actual tack and tone they take with those themes is comparatively light (i.e. as dark comedy rather than drama). It's necessary for me to write these 'breather' episodes, mostly because you can only make so much awful stuff before it begins to feel overwhelming, at least to me. Still, 'photographs' is part of 'dark star' and not just a regular fic of mine because I wanted the audience to think carefully about its theme and message, and to draw their own conclusions.

If you have thoughts about challenging themes, age-gap romance, childhood friend AUs, and other related material, I'd love to hear about it! So if you enjoyed 'photographs,' please let me know! Or if you didn't, I don't mind hearing why. I hope you have something intelligent to say, rather than boring pro-/anti- discourse stuff or 'your ship is bad,' though. These fics are for adults, and I expect you to engage with them like adults.

Have a nice day.

#izuocha #izch #dkch #izuku midoriya #ochako uraraka #bnha #mha #bnha fanfic #mha fanfic #dark star - an izch anthology #photographs #fanfic #cw: age gap #cw: minor character death #cw: grief

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dialogue-queered · 1 year

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11 June 2023

Beneath the veneer of Russian military “tactics”, you see the stupid leer of destruction for the sake of it. The Kremlin can’t create, so all that is left is to destroy. Not in some pseudo-glorious self-immolation, the people behind atrocities are petty cowards, but more like a loser smearing their faeces over life. In Russia’s wars the very senselessness seems to be the sense.

After the casual mass executions at Bucha; after the bombing of maternity wards in Mariupol; after the laying to waste of whole cities in Donbas; after the children’s torture chambers, the missiles aimed at freezing civilians to death in the dead of winter, we now have the apocalyptic sight of the waters of the vast Dnipro, a river that when you are on it can feel as wide as a sea, bursting through the destroyed dam at Kakhovka. The reservoir held as much water as the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Its destruction has already submerged settlements where more than 40,000 people live. It has already wiped out animal sanctuaries and nature reserves. It will decimate agriculture in the bread basket of Ukraine that feeds so much of the world, most notably in the Middle East and Africa. To Russian genocide add ecocide.

The dam has been controlled by Russia for more than a year. The Ukrainian government has been warning that Russia had plans to blast it since October.

Seismologists in Norway have confirmed that massive blasts, the type associated with explosives rather than an accidental breach, came from the reservoir the night of its destruction. Some – including the American pro-Putin media personality Tucker Carlson – argue Russia couldn’t be behind the devastation, given the damage has spread to Russian-controlled territories, potentially restricting water supply to Crimea. But if “Russia wouldn’t damage its own people” is your argument then it’s one that doesn’t hold, pardon the tactless pun, much water. One of the least accurate quotes about Russia is Winston Churchill’s line about it being “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.” This makes it sound as if Russia is driven by some theory of rational choice – when century after century the opposite appears to be the case.

Few have captured the Russian cycle of self-destruction and the destruction of others as well as the Ukrainian literary critic Tetyana Ogarkova. In her rewording of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Russian classic novel Crime and Punishment, a novel about a murderer who kills simply because he can, Ogarkova calls Russia a culture where you have “crime without punishment, and punishment without crime”. The powerful murder with impunity; the victims are punished for no reason.

When not bringing humanitarian aid to the front lines, Ogarkova presents a podcast together with her husband, the philosopher Volodymyr Yermolenko. It’s remarkable for showing two people thinking calmly while under daily bombardment. It reminds me of German-Jewish philosophers such as Walter Benjamin, who kept writing lucidly even as they fled the Nazis. As they try to make sense of the evil bearing down on their country, Ogarkova and Yermolenko note the difference between Hitler and Stalin: while Nazis had some rules about who they punished (non-Aryans; communists) in Stalin’s terror anyone could be a victim at any moment. Random violence runs through Russian history.Reacting to how Vladimir Putin’s Russia is constantly changing its reasons for invading Ukraine – from “denazification” to “reclaiming historic lands” to “Nato expansion” – Ogarkova and Yermolenko decide that the very brutal nature of the invasion is its essence: the war crimes are the point. Russia claims to be a powerful “pole” in the world to balance the west – but has failed to create a successful political model others would want to join. So it has nothing left to offer except to drag everyone down to its own depths.“How dare you live like this,” went a resentful piece of graffiti by Russian soldiers in Bucha. “What’s the point of the world when there is no place for Russia in it,” complains Putin. After the dam at Kakhovka was destroyed, a General Dobruzhinsky crowed on a popular Russian talkshow: “We should blow up the Kyiv water reservoir too.” “Why?” asked the host. “Just to show them.” But, as Ogarkova and Yermolenko explore, Russians also send their soldiers to die senselessly in the meat grinder of the Donbas, their bodies left uncollected on the battlefield, their relatives not informed of their death so as to avoid paying them. On TV, presenters praise how “no one knows how to die like us”. Meanwhile, villagers on the Russian-occupied side of the river are being abandoned by the authorities. Being “liberated” by Russia means joining its empire of humiliation.

Where does this drive to annihilation come from? In 1912 the Russian-Jewish psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein – who was murdered by the Nazis, while her three brothers were killed in Stalin’s terror -first put forward the idea that people were drawn to death as much as to life. She drew on themes from Russian literature and folklore for her theory of a death drive, but the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, first found her ideas too morbid. After the First World War, he came to agree with her. The desire for death was the desire to let go of responsibility, the burden of individuality, choice, freedom – and sink back into inorganic matter. To just give up. In a culture such as Russia’s, where avoiding facing up to the dark past with all its complex webs of guilt and responsibility is commonplace, such oblivion can be especially seductive.

But Russia is also sending out a similar message to Ukrainians and their allies with these acts of ultra-violent biblical destruction: give in to our immensity, surrender your struggle. And for all Russia’s military defeats and actual socio-economic fragility, this propaganda of the deed can still work.

The reaction in the west to the explosion of the dam has been weirdly muted. Ukrainians are mounting remarkable rescue operations, while Russia continues to shell semi-submerged cities, but they are doing it more or less alone. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has been mystified by the “zero support” from international organisations such as the UN and Red Cross.

Perhaps the relative lack of support comes partly because people feel helpless in the face of something so immense, these Cecil B DeMille-like scenes of giant rivers exploding. It’s the same helplessness some feel when faced with the climate crisis. It’s apposite that the strongest response to Russia’s ecocide came not from governments but the climate activist Greta Thunberg, who clearly laid the blame of what happened on Russia and demanded it be held accountable. But there’s been barely a peep out of western governments or the UN.

Pushing the strange lure of death, oblivion and just giving up is the Russian gambit. How much life do we have left in us?

Peter Pomerantsev is the author of Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

#the guardian #op-ed #the observer #peter pomerantsev #2023 #russo-ukraine war #ukraine #russia

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f3r4lfr0gg3r · 8 months

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just right [goldilocks general headcanons] 🐻🍯

(art cred to Zac Retz)

cw; some angst but that's about it :^

author's note; Sorry this took so long! 🙇‍♀️ ty to those who waited

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From what can be seen in the movie, I definitely perceive Goldi as someone who doesn't have much sense of belonging as an orphan and in a family of literal bears and actively searching for a connection with someone she can highly relate with. She's seemed to yearn for normalcy for years and part of me thinks a small part of her is insecure, comparing her life to the stories of what "just right" or "happily ever after" seems to be.

As the perfectionist I interpret her as, it would be reasonable for her to reach out to these conventional standards for families as the right way to do things– in the process ignoring what she had right in front of her. Despite the amount of conventional social norms in fantasy she breaks just being herself, I assumed she clinged onto the family ideal as a way of coping as an orphaned child.

Dreaming of the perfect family, and this feeling of everything being just right all the time…when in reality families aren't truly like at all. I think that's what she learned in the film's ending. But anyways enough analysis of Goldi and her behaviors– onto the headcanons!

- She refuses to let anyone touch her hair but herself and sometimes Mama Bear due to trust issues.

- Continuing on the topic of hair, with the amount of curls on her head it knots up easily. Every night she has to brush out curls that are tangled together.

- She styles her hair primarily out of convenience because her hair gets too wild when it's down and makes it hard to see or do things (part of me thinks her current hairdo is a product of her having too much hair to put into two buns and improvising)

- Very acrobatic as can be seen in the scene of her climbing on the bears

- Many kids were scared of Goldi when she was younger because she tended to get into fights and played rough (always been a biter)

- Goldi just seems like a picky eater to me, very particular about what she eats

- With her need for things to be "just right", Goldi is a definite perfectionist when it comes to many things as I've mentioned above in my analysis

- She has a habit of not asking for help when it's needed (Probably due to her having to become pretty independent from a young age)

- I believe she already had a bit of a criminal record and was a street urchin before meeting the bears, so I bet she's a pro at pickpocketing by now

- Smells like grass and honey with a hint of bear, which is surprisingly comforting

- Has a habit of correcting people when they speak about her interests (totally not projecting )

- Likes messiness but in an organized way if that makes sense-

- A very stubborn person!!!!

- Goldi loves fantasy stories, has a stash of them in her room (her taste changed a bit as she got older though so while I believe she's still a sucker for fairytales, she also likes a good novel on pirate adventures at the moment)

- When playing games she can be both a sore loser and winner 💀

- Let's be honest, Goldi is competitive...to a really high degree. She can make anything into a competition-

- Concerningly good hearing, the type of person who'll hear you whisper something across the room

- Secretly pretty good at drawing, but Goldi never talks about it because she never thinks her drawings are good enough to her ridiculous standards

- idk why but I feel like she'd really like sea shanties and idk why (pirate obsessed goldi???)

- Really protective of the bears, especially Baby– just those older sister instincts ifykyk

- Why do I feel like she'd just be a big fan of apple flavored stuff-

- I get sapphic vibes from her idc what anyone says! (I'm writing gn reader for her but still >:D)

- Along with that I feel like if Goldi truly found someone she thought of as cool she'd try to play it cool but stumble over her words the second they compliment her (gay panic for the winnn)

- Seems like the type to unknowingly ramble about stuff she's passionate about (those people>>>>>)

- Tries her best to hide vulnerability as she's someone who sorta views vulnerability as weakness when it comes to herself

- From their interactions, it's safe to say Goldi's closest to Mama Bear

- Part of me thinks Goldi tried for years to imitate the bears when she was younger, trying to be one of them so they could be somewhat of a "real family"' (But when it wasn't working out the way she hoped, Goldi just began wishing for a human family– maybe even her biological parents)

- Very well read, and knows alot of fun facts despite keeping it to herself

- She's really good at climbing trees and hunting, looking at where the bears live it's safe to assume they live off the land around them

- Never has her hair down around other people (it's embarrassing in her as bc it's so messy)

- A horrible singer but knows it, and loves to sing because of how much it annoys others around her (finds it funny)

- That walking stick she has, I think it may have been a gift from Papa Bear (he just has the vibe of someone who widdles/carves things idk why)

- Goldi definitely tried archery before (kinda gives me Merida from Brave vibes so...yeah)

- Stronger than she looks, I don't care what you say Goldi has some muscle to her

- Forgets her own strength occasionally and accidentally broke a few things because of it

- I feel like she makes her own clothes, they just seem handmade

- Very random, but Goldi does parkour, urban climbing, or both

- Goldi's favorite color is definitely always changing around, one day it's orange and then another day it's purple– just seems like the type of gal to appreciate vibrant colors

- Definitely has loads of random shiny trinkets she's stolen in a box

- As an older sister, I definitely know that Goldi and the family are the only ones allowed to insult Baby, as that's how they show love- if anyone else did it they're asking for a fight

- She's not touchy in a conventional way, instead opting to playful wrestling and things of the such to show physical affection at first (lowkey a softie for hugs in secret tho)

- Not the best at opening herself up, Goldi always seems to be a bit guarded so it definitely takes her quite a while to warm up to people

- Winter is her least favorite season because that's hibernation time, aka the time where she feels the most alone

- Because despite how much of a front she puts up sometimes, she loves her family with her entire heart and is highly affected by the sudden quietness that fills their home

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My Duel Academy Life is Wrong as I Expected Chapter 4 - Our Differences Caused Dissonance Forcing Me to Learn True Irritation

Fandom: My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, Yu-Gi-Oh!

Series Summary: Having zero passion for Dueling or even Duel Monsters, Hachiman Hikigaya is the last person you would expect to even attempt to enter the most elite high school for upcoming Pro-Duelists and Card Designers in Japan and yet here he is. Wielding an Ojama Deck, this loser loner is forced to butt into the lives of other students after his dorm Resident Advisor, Professor Hiratsuka Shizuka, forces him to join the Service Club along with Yukino Yukinoshita, the Ice Queen of Obelisk Blue. Together, their clashing personalities and viewpoints must compromise as they attempt to solve problems around Duel Academy Island.

Chapter Summary: After interrupting their Duel, the Slifer Red Dorm Resident Advisor, Shizuku Hiratsuka, forces Hachiman Hikigaya and Yukinoshita Yukino to form the Service Club. Here, they must solve the problems students across Duel Academy Island bring. But two people trapped in a classroom everyday? How will they navigate this romantic comedy situation?

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Looking at the most beautiful girl in Duel Academy sitting by the windowsill and reading a book, you quickly realised the romantic comedy set up you were in. However, instead of making your heart race all it did was make your stomach gurgle.

You were already quite accustomed to scenarios that would make an ordinary individual fall head over heels with a person. To the point, in fact, that you already knew the obvious romantic comedy traps.

Case in point: the romantic comedy scenario you had found myself in. The setting sun bathed the room in a warm, orange hue as the open window let in a warm spring breeze that contained cherry petals. For all intents and purposes this was the exact same situation you found yourself in when confessing to Orimoto. In the end she told you she wanted to start as friends and, from then until the Duel Academy Senior High School Practical Admission Test, you two hadn't spoken even a single word.

“Under the cherry blossoms / strangers are not / really strangers” is a haiku written by Issa Kobayashi. To you, a youth with no experience, it was a symbol of hope that the mood set would bridge the gap between you two. However, you realise, as you gained experience, Issa Kobayashi, being a Busshist priest, must have meant the erasure of desire. In this sense, strangers are not really strangers because they have forgone the need to bridge the gap. After all, a stranger is only a state of being when you care about, when you have the desire to, form such a connection. Thus, Q.E.D., ergo, in summary, people are only interested when the other person is undeniably attractive and when there’s an advantage to be had.

Undoubtedly, the best course of action when presented with such a situation is to be hated. In this way, one has no desire and since desire is the root of all suffering, there would be no suffering.

#yahari ore no seishun rabukome wa machigatteiru #yahari ore no seishun love come wa machigatteiru #yahari ore no seishun rabu come wa machigatteiru #yahari ore no seishun love comedy #my teen romantic comedy is wrong as i expected #my teen romantic comedy snafu #yugioh #yu-gi-oh #ygo #fanfic #fan fiction #ao3 works #ao3 link #ao3 fic #ao3 fanfic #crossover

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Maybe the reason male positivity people haven’t been talking about the raped men is because they didn’t know about it? I found out about it on your post where you’re complaining that male positive people only hate women (wrong btw!)

Do YOU care about those men or are they just a convenient pawn to whine about people needing to care more about women?

Are you out of your mind? Male posi blog post about the dumbest fakest most niche oppression men allegedly face and the only excuse you found is MayBe tHey Dont KnOw? The image of these stripped men naked in the desert have made plentiful of headlines already (with little to no reaction from the very same people begging us to take SA seriously 🙄). The Israel government proudly posted them on their socials... PUH-LEASE

And I am not the one branding myself as a male positivity blog so I don't owe you or anyone posturing as a relay of male suffering on my platform. It's stupid to be like "do YOU care?? 🤪" to ME as if it was a gotcha. Go ask this question to male posi blog owner, genius. Unlike you or them I am actually pretty consistent in my care for Christians anywhere they are (Palestinia Christians), but also as a consistent Iife ethics pro life pacifist.

Those posi blog are the only ones to use men as pawn to guilt shame women into not caring enough and pose feminism as a selfish movement for not caring enough about men struggle. It's no wonder they routinely engage with incel and anti feminist losers. As much as I dislike how much rehashed this term has become, male posi blog (ESPECIALLY those ran by women) are the biggest pickme(n). They think whining will make any change in men's life while never taking any proper action. Why? Bc deep down those men don't want help or fix those problem, they just want attention. That's why meninist #mgtow never managed to achieve anything of consistence bc their ultimate goals is to 1) emotionally blackmail women into lowering their standards 2) distract women 3) get laid. Not help men.

You don't even make any sense because when I talked about those men it wasn't even doing so to elevate women "needing help". Just to point out both male posi and anti SA Zionists hypocrisy.

Men comparing themselves to the achievement & "privilege" of women are so disgusting and unmanly. And those shitty male posi blog & their enablers (like you) enable it 🧍🏾‍♀️

#sorry but if those male rights warrior are misinformed abt the hottest conflict of the moment where so many men die #or are left with PTSD they're very bad at their job and should just quit idk ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯#answered

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My Duel Academy Life is Wrong as I Expected Chapter 4 - Our Differences Caused Dissonance Forcing Me to Learn True Irritation

Fandom: My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, Yu-Gi-Oh!

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Undoubtedly, the best course of action when presented with such a situation is to be hated. In this way, one has no desire and since desire is the root of all suffering, there would be no suffering.

#yahari ore no seishun rabu come wa machigatteiru #yahari ore no seishun love comedy #yahari ore no seishun love come wa machigatteiru #yahari ore no seishun rabukome wa machigatteiru #oregairu #yugioh #yu-gi-oh #ygo #duel academy #duel academy au #fanfic #fan fic #fan fiction #ao3

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Pros and Conned

Masochists are exploited by the chief sadist. Real suckers crave more agony. It’s insane to still have to make the case against someone convicted of being the most obnoxious phony ever generated. Claim charges won’t hold up on appeal if that assuages dented consciences. Seeing how Donald Trump screws up against Joe Biden again will fail to offer much drama to those addicted to a certain bleak variety.

Identity theft victims and identity theft victim protection commercial victims have invested what’s left in reforming a broke and broken cult. The sort of blindly nasty lackeys who still haven’t come up with clever insults for everyone who points out Trump isn’t exactly a super president or leader or truth-teller or alpha male or conservative or businessman or true success or example of decency might be black holes of misery, but at least they’re humorless. Call anyone who disagrees an ugly fat loser. Throw in an accusation of being cuckolded for a true throwback. Based on the infuriating primary, that seems to be the party’s direction.

The biggest liar possible is merely more blatant, which is convincing enough to fool those who enjoy hearing exactly what they want to hear. The most political president won’t go away because his marks need him. Affirmation can be negative.

Some people seem to have missed a few years, so I’ll just point out Trump was already president. Since the most obvious lessons are the apparently the toughest to retain, let’s recall that he didn’t do much, broke a lot of promises, and was mostly a pushy liberal. He’s actually been a pretty public phony since at leas the mid-‘80s. Ask a friend who knows how to do web searches for examples.

Psychological specimens unwittingly participate in an experiment to see how far they’ll go without checking results. Trump has spent his regrettably charmed life preparing for this very moment. All he needs are fanatics who think checking claims would be blasphemous.

The worst parody possible of a business titan still isn’t obvious enough for repeat offenders. Lenin couldn’t have conjured a more damaging caricature. Thinking calling himself the best increases sales compensating for not actually creating anything anyone would ever want to buy, own, or receive as a gift. Trump has thankfully nothing to do with how actual commerce unfolds unless he ruins Grover Cleveland’s special claim.

Even lousy salesmen know who wants to be hoodwinked again. Such humiliation is too mortifying a fetish for a Pornhub private tab search. A failed personality test leads to the most obvious projection possible embodied by the cheap insults that reflect their own bleakness. It turns out there can be something worse than 2016. We have to be more careful about phrasing wishes.

Consumers head back to the timeshare meeting to beg for another week. The only bigger dupes are convinced a name in gold reflects success. Heed fellow alphas who slavishly obey every command from someone who tells them exactly what they want to hear.

Display over actuality is Trump’s brand. Slap his name on it. Being focused on winning over principles while sucking at both is a special gift of an example. Pair horrid principles and outcomes with loyalty thats’ blind and without other sense. Unquestioned fealty naturally won’t be reciprocated. Falling for his pouting rioting incitement wasn’t punishment enough.

Claiming to oppose corruption in all forms as they lap up bombastic copy from a shameless anthropomorphic commercial is one way to distrust everyone. Lackeys view basic facts suspiciously while trusting the most dubious source. Promoting conspiracy theories too preposterous for truthers comes naturally while ignoring the very real case against an ex-executive that only sounds outlandish.

If you like learning patience, you’re in luck. A desperate nation will wait another four years to get a half-decent president. And that’s only a slim possibility. Based on deflating precedent, 2028 will feature an even more monumental disappointment as Kamala Harris defeats Tucker Carlson.

Serious problems indifferently roll forward while the clown battle royale proceeds. Unfathomable debt is going to become somehow even more unwieldy. Coincidentally, the government that does nothing is going to somehow provide even less value while draining enough life force to make vampires shake their heads.

Those still stubbornly hypnotized by fake gold are not as gullible, oblivious, delusional, and nasty as eight years ago. They’re much worse because of the ensuing stuff that happened, namely that whole term where their regent got what he wanted. There’s no more pretending they don’t know how a presidency would unfold with only his run as a game show host and steak salesman as examples. He sure seemed honest when he was telling the world how amazing he is as his meager empire teetered. Some curiously want to let him extend it nationwide, again.

Trump’s rather rare helpfulness is naturally inadvertent. The problem is voters, not who gets their votes. Sure, the chosen human deity will screw up life and everything about it. But allowing arrogant oafs to run our lives provokes guilt in a country with a choice of representation.

Noting government bites comes naturally to humans who prefer options. That whole selection process should mortify anyone registered. It’s not that there are than putting up the fakest leader and most genuine brat one more freaking time: it’s that not enough participants bother to look.

#Donald Trump #president #election #2024 presidential election

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Enemies to Lovers with Booker Dewitt HCs part one.

(this is not canon but it follows characters from the storyline) this is a very long one, i know hcs are supposed to be sweet and short but i got carried away. this is mostly the reader’s backstory and the enemies part. enjoy.

CW: MENTIONS OF MISOGYNY, BLOOD, KILLING AND BOOKER BEING A COMPLETE LOSER ASSHOLE, READER HATES RELIGION AND EXPRESSES IT. not proofread, ignore any mistakes 😇

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- Working for a world renowned physicist such as Rosalind Lutece, and her male counterpart, Robert, had its pros. For example, you were paid well, you learned something new every day, you were treated as a high class individual, and you felt like you had a purpose.

- Working for a world renowned physicist such as Rosalind Lutece also had its cons. you worked in dangerous environments with dangerous chemicals and machines, your tedious work kept you from socializing, and you couldn’t afford to make any mistakes ever. all of those you could handle. there was just one con that absolutely turned your life upside down.

- you met Ms. Lutece before Columbia was even built, before Comstock had even thought of the idea of a city in the sky. you went to school together, played in the streets after dark together, dreamed of a big future together. The two of you were basically inseparable. She wanted to be a physicist and you wanted to go into mechanical engineering. the two of you knew exactly how hard it was for women to get ahead in your desired careers, or to even go to college at all. this didn’t stop either of you, you worked through your primary and secondary years proving yourselves that you were capable of achieving these dreams.

- although your college years were probably the worst years of your life due to misogyny and discrimination, you were extremely grateful and lucky to have graduated in the late 1800s as a woman with an engineering degree. after graduation passed, you weren’t exactly sure what to do now. nobody was going to hire a woman, even if you did graduate top of your class.

- when lutece was invited to Columbia, she demanded that you come with her. she explained that this man, who claimed to be a prophet, had built a city in the sky, and wanted her to work for him on a very secretive project. she told you that she explained to him that you were a mechanical engineer, and anything she needed built you could build. you didn’t have anything holding you back anymore, and you couldn’t deny that you were extremely interested in the mechanical aspect of a floating city in the sky in the 1900s.

-off you two went, you moved to the city in the sky and set up shop. you never personally met the man who claimed to be a prophet, but your life pretty much revolved around his project. you and rosalind, and later robert, spent years researching, experimenting, etc. until you could finally start building the proper machines.

- that was many years ago. it was now 1912, and hell had broken loose in what many considered to be their own slice of heaven. the “false shepherd” had arrived in columbia, with his motive to “lead the lamb astray”. you never believed any of that propaganda. you were a very analytical woman, never believing in religion because it just didn’t make sense to you. facts were facts, and religion lacked a lot of facts. but you kept that to yourself because you were grateful for the opportunity of living in such an advanced place, even if the residents were a bit on a naive side.

- once you found out that this feared false shepherd was a man named booker dewitt from down below, you almost wanted to laugh. from first glance, he looked pretty normal, a bit rugged sure, but relatively normal.

- it surprised you to find out you’d be leading the false shepherd through columbia. this wasn’t your choice, it was rosalind’s decision, which surprised you even more because this woman was working for the prophet, the man who instilled fear in the minds of the citizens of columbia about the very man she wanted you to help.

- you were very hesitant to say the least. you didn’t want to lose your life helping a man you didn’t even know. but you trusted your best friend, so you agreed.

- the first time you met booker, he was a complete jerk. he insured that you knew he was in charge, despite the fact that you had lived in columbia and he had just arrived not even hours ago. every off handed comment he made about you being a woman in engineering made you bite your tongue and recite in your head that you were doing this for rosalind, not him.

- other than giving him directions and the occasional heads up that an enemy was approaching, you didn’t speak. he did the fighting, you did the navigating. you never once got a thank you, or any kind of gratitude on his end.

- when you did begin to converse more, it was mostly bickering.

- “mr. dewitt, i’m telling you that this way is safer. if we cut thr-“

- “listen lady, i don’t care if that way is safer. my way is much faster, and the faster we get elizabeth to this damn airship, the sooner we can go our separate ways. understand? who’s the one who does all the fighting while you stand there with your head up your ass? yeah, thought so. we’re going this way.”

- booker interrupted you a lot. he also challenged your self defense skills, as well as your competence. that man honestly made your eye twitch and your heart rate increase in the worst way possible. but you were doing this for rosalind.

- you didn’t even like looking at him. he always had this scowl on his face, like the world had beaten him down until he was reduced to nothing. underneath, there was a sadness that he tried not to show. but every time elizabeth was taken from the two of you, he freaked out more than he should, considering how much he boasts about his combat skills.

- one time, he had almost gotten you killed, using you as involuntary bait to distract an enemy. that was your last straw.

- “mr. dewitt, listen to me when i talk to you. you are a pathetic excuse for a man. what kind of man throws a woman, who is helping him might i add, into direct danger? i have done absolutely nothing for you to treat me this way. if anything, i have ensured all of our safety. you are destroying people’s homes, and for what? i don’t know. if not for me, you would be dead by now. i’ll give it to you, you’re a damn good fighter, but goddamnit i am the one who is fucking helping you!”

- with a gasp you covered your mouth. what kind of a lady uses fuck? only the germans used that word and if your mom had been around she’d make sure your bottom was bruised for weeks.

- his reaction didn’t surprise you. you had scolded him right after he killed about a dozen cops, and a few firemen. blood all over his ragged clothes and his chest rising and falling with heavy breaths, his gun in one hand.

- he just stared at you and scoffed. “alright lady. listen here, i don’t know who you are or why you’re supposed to be helping me, but i’m required to do whatever is necessary to make sure elizabeth is safe. not you. so if that means putting you in danger, i won’t hesitate. ” and then he and elizabeth walked away with you reluctantly trailing behind them a few moments later. it dawned on you that he did not care about you or your opinions on him, or even your safety.

- you were just about ready to murder him yourself and collect the generous reward that comstock was offering. but you were doing this for lutece. and comstock had already considered you a traitor as well.

- the mindless bickering continued.

- “mr. dewitt if you keep talking, somebody is going to hear you. i advise you to be as quiet as possible.”

- “then you should stop talking as well, lady. your shrill voice is a lot more noticeable than mine is.”

- “you are putting us all in danger! we are not going that way!”

-“i don’t know how many times i have to tell you. i. am. in. charge. you either follow me or die, choice is yours.”

- elizabeth decided to never get caught in the crossfire, no matter how many times she wanted to scold booker for treating a woman so disrespectfully.

- it wasn’t until meeting jeremiah fink when booker revealed his true thoughts about you.

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Copycat (Male)

Katsuki Bakugo X Male!Reader (Not really)

Wotd Count: 2160

Requested: @supernerdycookietrashblr

Request: may I request a Bakugou x reader where reader based on jinx from arcane has similar abilities as her. Like maybe in past like middle school Bakugou used to bully her badly to point she called her mean rude names a jinx kinda reader felt worthless and had breakdowns kinda similar the episode of arcane since I kinda inspired by that maybe she went missing and later becomes psychotic villain that bakugou made her to be and Bakugou regrets his actions and tries to reason with her but she too far gone I hope this makes sense I kinda love jinx charcter Aslo if ok to add those like inner thought that jinx (has like scribbles idk how to describe it in the show ) has from her trauma like for reader when she those moments due to bakugou tramua her Sorry if this seem too much if unable to do it understand I just hope this makes sense

Aslo I love jinx sm so yeah fill free to dm me ask questions

Warning: Death of parents, overall craziness, bombs, Bakugo being an ass

I hope that I did this justice because I do think that this is a really cool idea and I enjoyed writing it.

Female ver.

The first time that you could remember being called a Clutz when you were 5 years old, you were running down the hall when you crashed into an ash blonde kid with sharp features and a tongue to match. He was the one who started the name “Why are you such a Clutz?” He asked with a smirk plastered on his face but then that was when you met your first friend Izuku Midoriya, the cute little broccoli haired kid that helped you off the floor and helped you clean your hands.

Izuku become your only friend but he was a small drop in a large ocean, especially when Bakugo had a following like that of a pro hero, even Izuku chased after him with offerings in hope of acceptance while you tried for a couple of months he never appreciated the little trinkets.

While your parents loved you, they weren’t the best people, they were villains but their suit leant to keeping the identities a secret so after having you they retired hiding away from the life that they lived before. Unfortunately they couldn’t hide from it for very long and before they knew it All For One had found them and proposed a partnership and they refused so you came home to your house burned to the ground. That was where everything started to go downhill. You weren’t in school for about a week while they settled you in your new home but when you went back nothing had changed in fact it only seemed to have gotten worse with everyone getting older and stronger, you had no quirk and no family you were weaker than you had been.

You spent most of your time sketching creations that you wanted to make, “woah what’s that?” Izuku asked as he looked over your shoulder “oh sorry I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable I just think it’s really cool and-” “It’s okay Zuku.” You smiled. “I was just thinking about different ways to-” “Rip off other people’s quirks?” Came the harsh voice that you had learned to hate. “What are you up to Copycat?” “Nothing.” You answered voice low as you stuffed your papers into your bag but he grabbed one before you could and unfortunately for you, it happened to be the one that would mimic his. “Did you think that you’d ever be able to handle my quirk?” Bakugo asked as he leaned over you. “I don’t want your quirk.” You argued. “Why is yours better?” He asked. “Kacchan.” Izuku warned. “Oh wait, you and this loser don’t have quirks.” He smirked down at you as he burned the work that you had done. “Just do us all a favor and follow your parents into an early grave.”

The next years of middle school Bakugo chose you as an easy target and you tried your hardest to hide, you spent all your time tinkering away in your room but nothing that you made ever worked. The real problem came when Izuku developed a quirk, one day he was there and the next he was gone. “Izuku!” You yelled when you saw him doing what looked like some crazy training routine. “(Y/N)!?” He seemed shocked and you smiled as you walked over dragging a large scrape metal piece behind you. “What are you doing here?” “I was just looking for some stuff.” You answered, showing him the metal. “What are you doing?” “I’m training, I’m going to take the UA entrance exam.” He answered. “You have a quirk?” You asked. “He’s stronger.” You were sure that was your Mum’s voice, as a loud incessant buzzing sound in your head like static as if they were talking to you through a radio. “I was a late bloomer.” He answered, scratching the back of his head. “He’s lying, look behind him.” Your Dad, your eyes moved to the man standing a few feet away watching you talk. “So your leaving too?” You asked. “Leaving? No! You should come to UA to.” He argued. “I don’t have a quirk Deku remember?” You asked. “Copycat, remember?” “(Y/N)?” He asked softly as you turned away from him. “You don’t need him.” Your Mum said, your head turned in the direction of the voice that you heard. “I don’t need him.” You mumbled to yourself as you continued to drag the metal behind you. “Prove it, get rid of him.” Your father goaded you and you glanced behind you but they were both gone.

You made your way home but when you got there “(Y/N) there you are.” Yuki breathed as you walked into the house, she was one of your foster parents but you could tell something was wrong. “Stay on guard.” Your Dad warned. “There’s someone here to see you.” She said as she led you into the living room where there was a man sitting, he had a green jacket on, latex gloves on his hands, sharp brown eyes. “Your son will be delivered back to you.” He waved them off as he walked over to you and stood in front of you. “Who are you?” You asked. “An old friend of your parents.” He answered, the moment that he spoke to you the loud noise stopped. “I hear that you like to build things.” “They never work.” You answered and he smiled. “That’s because you don’t have the right material, come with me and I promise everything that you need will be provided for you.” He answered, you looked at the people who had been looking after you and it was in the moment that you realized that no one in your life was around because they wanted to be, they all just felt sorry for you. That was the day that you disappeared.

A few days later the police showed up at UA asking to talk to Bakugo and Midoriya. “Do you two remember this girl?” They asked, they both looked at the picture and nodded. “Have either of you seen him recently?” He asked. “The last time I saw that Copycat was on the last day of school.” Bakugo answered. “Mmm we heard that you didn’t get along.” The police officer said. “Is there a problem with that?” Bakugo asked. “Well he’s gone missing, his foster parents reported him missing a few days ago, you two are the only people in the class that remember him.” The officer explained. “Missing?” Izuku asked. “I saw him a couple of days ago, I was training for the test here, he was angry at me I think.” “Angry?” The officer asked. “he didn’t have a quirk so I guess he felt like he didn’t belong here, I always thought that he could be in the support class though.” Izuku explained. “Well you're wrong, he never would have fit in here.” Bakugo cut in. “Do either of you know where he might have gone?” The officer asked. “No.” Both of them answered one sounding more regretful than the other.

Years past before either of them saw you again, they were both established pro heroes. At first they were just hearing of someone building quirk replicating equipment for villains, but then a name was added to the action, the person had apparently called themselves Copycat and finally there was a picture given to all heroes after you had been seen doing a deal and there was no doubting it, the one that they were looking for was you.

“Hey you okay?” The low level thug clicked his fingers in front of your face, the jarring noise causing an explosive banging in the side of your head. “Stop that and give me my money before I put a bullet between your eyes.” You ordered and he frowned. “Yeah whatever.” He muttered as he slid the case towards you, you opened it and quickly checked the money before nodding to yourself and throwing him the grenades. “Woah what the hell are you doing!?” “Try not to kill yourself, they’re about as explosive as the pro heroes personality.” You informed him hopped out of the window of the abandoned building and disappeared down the alley. “How does this help you!?” Your mother asked as you rolled your eyes, slamming the gate behind you and hoping to shut up the voice in your head. “He’ll come to me soon enough.” You mumbled as you opened the door to your hidden workshop. “And if he doesn’t?” She asked. “Then I’ll take the fight to them.” You answered. It only took a few more dealing in the open to draw the heroes attention but the first person to find you was not who you were looking for.

“Shoto right?” You asked. “Former No.1’s son?” “Correct.” He answered and you sighed. “Well you're not who I’m looking for.” You shrugged as you pointed the gun at him “care to have a little fun.” You shot and his teeth gritted as your bullet hit him through his fire. “Hurts doesn't it? Last person that I tried it on said the same thing.” “You hurt people a lot, Copycat?” The smirk that stretched over your face at the voice you heard was nothing short of deranged. “Only the ones that hurt me first.” You answered as you swung around throwing a knife at him before disappearing from view. “Where’d he go Icyhot?” He asked. “This is your chance to kill him now!” Your Dad’s voice urged you on. “Dynamite… Did you know the nitroglycerin that your body produces gives off poisonous fumes?” You asked as you fitted the mask to your face, he glared at you as you sat on the scaffolding platform. “There’s no windows in here so if I drop this and it doesn’t explode, you’ll suffocate to death doesn’t that sound fun.” “What the hell do you want?” He asked. “Me? I want you to understand what you did.” You answered. “I remember there was a time when I would have done anything for you but you laughed in my face and it wasn’t good enough when I stayed away from you and that wasn’t good enough.” “He’s not the same person that he was before.” Shoto said. “Stay out of this Icyhot!” Bakugo warned him. “That's good because I’m not the same person either.” You shrugged, dropping the glass vial on the floor. “You know what Bakugo?” You continued when he didn’t answer you “you really did grow up handsome. Shame good looks were wasted on a terrible personality.” Before you could say anything else there was a loud crash that caused you to stumble back out of view as bright red flashed across your vision. “Kacchan is he here?” You recognised that voice. “Bet your best friends now that you're both pro heroes.” You glared at them both. “(Y/N) please, we’re still friends, we can still be friends.” Izuku said softly, “you just have to come with me so we can figure this out.” “Don’t trust him.” You Dad warned. “He was your best friend, he wouldn’t lie to you.” Your Mum answered. “Shut up! You mean lock me in a cell in tartarus and throw away the key.” You glared at them. “(Y/N)-” They were cut off by what sounded like a loud explosion, your eyes moved to the direction that it came from as you laughed. “Looks like civilians need your help, what will you do with no hero association?” You asked, Bakugo made a noise of disapproval but was the first to leave, Shoto following after him before finally Izuku left.

After the rescue was complete the three top heroes gathered together “You both know him?” Shoto asked. “He was an old friend, he didn’t have a quirk so he was bullied a lot, looks like he fell in with the wrong crowd when he went missing.” Izuku answered as Bakugo looked up in the direction that they had come from. “I don’t think that we can save him.” Bakugo finally said. “Who’s fault is that?” Deku asked. “I get it Deku, I messed up big time when we were younger. It's my fault and it’s my problem to fix! If I could do things differently I would but I don’t think that there’s anything left to save.” Bakugo answered. “he needs help, if you don’t understand that then you still don’t understand what you did to him.” Deku glared at him. “I know what he needs Deku! I’ve never been able to fix anything that I’ve broken, he is no different, I want to help him change what I’ve done, I know I was a horrible kid and I’ve been trying to make up for it since I became a pro hero.” Bakugo answered. “Then be a hero and save him.” Deku glared at him before walking away. Bakugo watched him leave before walking away, worried about any future altercations with you.

*Part 2*

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Hello. I am the person who sent you and your friends several messages earlier today that I was worried I was becoming a nazi and was begging you folks to kill me before I did. I want to explain why I did so, both as an admittedly very inadequate apology, and as an attempt at helping you and your friends find closure. I understand there is no excuse for how I bullied, retraumatized and terrorized all of you.

It is great if you consider me an antisemite and hate me forever, for indeed someone like me deserves such treatment. I have seen your posts describing me as a gross, pathetic loser, and I understand that you are completely right.

A few months ago, I became addicted to Arknights and spent 1000s of dollars on it, only stopping when my parents took away my bank account access. As such I began to view the game and Hypergryph and Yostar as evil, fascist, ableist, and antisemitic.

I became somewhat obsessed with trying to tell other people how bad it was, and convinced that Reunion was heroic, but the first two times I published essays about this I had to delete them because people called me a terrorist and braindead for supporting Reunion and not liking the game. This initially hardened my conviction that Arknights was ableist antisemitic pro-slavery propaganda.

Coincidentally, I have severe autism and ADHD, and due to being bullied by teachers in elementary school I have had severe anxiety, depression, and self-loathing ever since, considerably aggravated when I was beaten by a police officer following my first suicide attempt at the age of 15 and institutionalized for 4 days following my second attempt at the age of 16.

I say this not as an excuse, for there can be no forgiveness for my heinous actions, merely to help give context.

Last night I had nightmares about my daddy attacking me and couldn’t sleep very well, so I forgot to take my antipsychotic medications in the morning. I also had a somewhat stressful doctor appointment in the morning. When my third attempt at criticizing Arknights was somewhat poorly received, mommy says I had a self-loathing psychotic episode.

As I read in your essay that you mentioned you were Jewish, and I figured that the worst possible way to treat a Jewish person is the way a nazi would, and I misinterpreted you as defending Rhodes Island, I figured that Reunion, and by extension myself, must be nazis, and Rhodes Island, Hypergryph, Yostar, and the gacha gambling companies I had previously hated must be antifascist good guys.

This does not make much sense to me, since I was previously a socialist and thought that corporations and capitalism supported bad things like fascism and antisemitism, but I now understand I was wrong. By sympathizing with Reunion, I accidentally set myself on the path to becoming a nazi.

Since I have seen lots of memes that nazis deserve death, and I agree with those memes, I tried to start searching for ways to kill myself. Unfortunately I am too cowardly to jump out the window again, and could not break my skin with a kitchen knife, so I felt I had no choice but to ask people on the internet to come shoot me.

I attempted to apologize profusely in these posts, but I understand now that this was merely attention-seeking. Again, I am sincerely sorry, although I understand these words ring hollow, and indeed are an abuse tactic, unless I actually make good on them and kill myself. Please rest assured that I will continue trying to do so beneath my parents’ notice.

While my mommy has insisted over and over again that I am not a nazi or an antisemite because I do not hate Jewish people, I now understand that even calling myself those words permanently and irrevocably turns me into them. And nazis, of course, a category which I unwittingly have become part of, are hateful antisemitic genocidal monsters.

While I have never been very religious, I will now dedicate the rest of my life to finding redemption for my sins by committing suicide or finding someone willing to kill me, in hopes that God will forgive me for the crimes I have committed against an innocent ethnoreligious group. I am not currently aware of any methods I could use to successfully commit suicide, or any ways I could get someone to kill me, but I will at least continue to search for them until I either succeed or die of old age.

As long as I search, I hope I will no longer pose a threat to the safety of you or any other Jewish people.

Though I know it is asking far too much, I must try to humbly request that you post this to share with your followers. I have seen them making memes about me being an example of the alt-right pipeline, and since I suspect they are correct in this, I would like them to understand why I became trapped as a Reunion nazi so that you and your friends may more effectively protect yourself from me and nazis and Reunion members like me.

Please wish me luck as I embark on this final journey to atone for my unforgivable sins. Oh, and my mom doesn’t want me to die, so please don’t tell her either. Thank you for your time.

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