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Izuku has his own problem children now

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Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?

Well, have I got the html for you!

Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!

Second kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/tHMjbb6/second-kudos.png" alt="second kudos">

Third kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/52bggQH/third-kudos.png" alt="third kudos">

nth kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/6y7qGtC/nth-kudos.png" alt="nth kudos">

yet another kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png" alt="yet another kudos">

It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):

Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)

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It’s finally time!!! Here’s my piece for this years @tododekubigbang!!

I had the pleasure of drawing for @winter-parrot’s absolutely excellent fic, how to fake-date a hero (hero license optional)! Go give it a read if you’re a fan of fake-dating romcoms, her writing is absolutely hilarious and she totally nailed the chemistry between our boys!

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It's here! My fic for @tododekubigbang 2024 is posted!! I've never done quite this much outright fluff or comedy before, but it was good fun to write. Check out my awesome artist @eclipsedrawsthings's artwork as well, it's so wonderful!!!

Rating: T Warning: None Relationship: Midoriya Izuku/Todoroki Shouto Summary:

Izuku is fresh out of Hero school, back in Japan, and fighting to make a name for himself in the face of the HPSC's bullshit. Almost getting arrested for vigilantism after a midnight conbini run was not in his plans. Nor was fake-dating the responding hero. ------------------------ “I am not fake-dating Todoroki Shouto!” Izuku yelled into his phone, his voice pitchy with denial. “Why not? It’d be good for both of you,” Ichiko said, like it was a perfectly sane idea to propose. The problem with having a hypercompetent friend for a PR manager was that, well, she was hypercompetent. And when she came up with an idea as insane as fake dating Todoroki Shouto, it actually sounded sensible somehow. It would, in fact, help Izuku’s popularity and ranking and even his campaign to finally get HPSC sign-off on his license. And it would, in fact, probably help Todoroki Shouto to have a whirlwind romance for a few months, if only to be something other than Endeavor’s perfect heir for a little while. A win-win situation for both of them. There was just the teensy-weensy problem of fake dating Todoroki Shouto. Which was, of course, absolutely fucking ridiculous. And insane. And unthinkable!

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Imagine Ochako as Izuku's most supportive wingwoman who enthusiastically helps Izuku with his attempts to get noticed by Shouto.

So, when nothing seems to be working, it's Ochako who gets offended on Izuku's behalf. Like, how dare Shouto not notice Izuku's sheer cuteness. It's even more frustrating because she had been pretty sure that Izuku's crush is reciprocated - so why isn't Shouto asking Izuku out on a date yet?!

(In actual fact, Shouto is immensely struggling not to combust anytime Midoriya so much as breathes in his direction).

Ochako getting so frustrated that she confronts Shouto about it.

"Why don't you like Deku-kun?"

"What?"

"Why aren't you asking him out? Don't you like him? Is he not cute enough for you? Not hot enough? He wore THE SHORTS for you--"

(Shouto definitely does NOT think back to thighs and--)

"-- and he's even wearing the cutest outfit with the newest official Shouto jacket today."

Shouto almost breaks his neck looking for Izuku - and quickly finds him wearing a jacket that looks like his hero costume.

"Todoroki-kun, your hair is on fire! ... wait... WAIT..." and Ochako follows his gaze. "OH MY GOD!!!"

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day 4 of tododekuweek on twitter

crossover

The Prince and the Pro-Hero in a slow dance.

tddk | tdiz

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LOOK at them they’re so BEAUTIFUL!!

Here is my piece for the @tododekubigbang, i had the honor to work with @castleintheair1989, read her story "Lattes and Love Stories" ❤️

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@tododekubigbang @chiasa-art

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day 4 of tododekuweek on twitter

crossover

The Prince and the Pro-Hero in a slow dance.

tddk | tdiz

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Happy Birthday Izuku!! 💚💚

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An Inconvenient Time

for day 1 of @tododekuweek. Prompt: But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love. -- Gayle Forman. I definitey did not write anything ahead of time, but I had this idea as soon as I saw the prompt, so have this strange little ficlet I wrote in like an hour.

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The first day of third year comes and goes, almost disorientingly normal. Iida-kun is the first to arrive in class, as always. Kacchan is loud and rude and uncompromising, as always. Nedzu-sensei holds a school-wide orientation that Aizawa-sensei skips, as always. 

In a strange way, it almost feels like stepping through a portal two years into the past. If they didn’t move like soldiers, ready to run or attack or defend at half a moment’s notice. If their eyes didn’t wander constantly, scanning for threats or exits or civilians in danger. If they weren’t all bearing scars or missing limbs or both.

Midoriya Izuku is seventeen. He’s a lowercase-h hero of the War before he’s ever an uppercase-H Pro Hero, license and all. He’s a household name in his own right. He’s officially unranked, because he’s not officially a Hero, but every magazine and website and hero forum polls puts him in the Top 25, minimum. 

So seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love. 

The problem is, Izuku’s heart never got the memo. It staggers and stutters and trips over itself, every time he sees Shouto-kun. Blood rushes to warm his cheeks with alarming regularity, whenever Shouto-kun is near. His traitorous eyes find Shouto-kun in every room, in every crowd, in every Xitter feed video. 

Shouto-kun is always beautiful, always mesmerizing. Loose and comfortable in his body and himself, in a way he never was at fifteen and scared and bitter. Effortlessly charming when he smiles, or talks easily about his mother and siblings, or fails to understand jokes even now. Irresistible in the powerful competence of his body, and in the solid, steady weight of his presence, and even in the undignified way he snorts with uncontrolled laughter. It’s a lost cause for Izuku, long before he tries and fails to stop staring, stop wanting, stop daydreaming. He thinks he has loved Shouto-kun for a long time already. He thinks, perhaps, that he has loved Shouto-kun all along. 

But seventeen is an inconvenient time to fall in love.

The War may be over, but the world doesn’t get to go back to normal so easily. There are dozens of reckonings big and small still to be faced, dozens of problems still to be solved, dozens of institutions still to be rebuilt. 

And there are final exams still to be passed. Being war heroes doesn’t grant them any exemptions in Aizawa-sensei’s eyes, even if the man fought for and with and along them, nearly to the point of his death and theirs. If anything, he’s stricter on them than ever—because the world beyond is unstable. Because he knows the heights they can reach. 

There isn’t time for things like love and heartache. Not when there’s an entire country out there that still needs their help. 

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Graduation Day dawns bright and clear and chilly. A few early sakura blossoms flutter under the morning sun, pale-pink and joyful. 

Midoriya Izuku is eighteen. He’s the Number 12 Hero in all of Japan. He’s surrounded by all the up-and-coming Heroes of his generation, all of them in the Top 50. The current Number 1 Hero mingles easily with them like the old friend he’s become. The former Number 1 Hero is all but crying as he stands next to his mother, snapping endless pictures. 

And in his arms, bright and proud and beautiful, he holds the Number 17 Hero. Shouto is grinning the widest Izuku’s ever seen, and Izuku’s grinning back just as wide through the endless tears. It feels like a happy ending and a new beginning all in one, when he pulls Shouto in for a shameless kiss. Their classmates hoot and cheer, and his mother’s camera clicks a symphony with the reporters, and Kacchan complains loudly, and nothing could be better. 

The country is still rebuilding, even now. They still wake up with screaming nightmares and ache with scars that will never fade and tense at sudden movements. The weight of a whole society’s expectations still rests upon their shoulders, settling in and making a home. But still, for this one moment, Izuku is fiercely, fearlessly happy. 

Because seventeen may be an inconvenient time to fall in love, but as it turns out, eighteen is a glorious time to be in love.

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Something about them ignites the highschool slowburn romance lover in me

I did a bg and lighting but ended up liking the flats better

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[It’s your power, isn’t it?!]

With his words, Izuku saved a soul laden with suffering and hatred.

Shouto will never forget.

Quirkless or not, Izuku is a Hero.

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this is a parallel to the [Thank you for being Shouto’s friend].

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My entry for TDDKFCValentines2024

This was such a fun collab, thank you guys! And sorry for posting so late 🥹

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Quirkless support course deku my beloved <3

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the shared crush crisis

part two!!

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probably my most powerful interpersonal communication hack is to, whenever possible, ask either/or questions rather than yes/no questions

for example, when chatting with coworkers, i’ll often ask if they have any fun weekend plans. but let’s be real - we all feel like friendless losers when someone asks that question and we go “uhhhhh… no.” so instead, i phrase it as “so, do you have anything fun planned over the weekend, or are you just going to enjoy having some time to relax?”

phrased like this, there’s rarely any awkwardness. you’ve presented two options & given both equally positive connotations, so your conversational partner has an automatic “out,” so to speak

but it works for higher stakes conversations too!!!! my mom was saying this weekend how she and her neighbor both like walking around the neighborhood & that she wanted to suggest they take a walk together sometime, but was worried about how to approach the conversation

so i said “how about you just say ‘i’ve noticed we both like taking walks! would you be interested in going for one together, or do you use walks for some precious alone time?’”

now Walking Neighbor has an automatic “get out of jail free card” if she wants to say no!!!! which means my mom doesn’t have to worry about the conversation being uncomfortable, because she’s set it up to go smoothly

either/or questions rather than yes/no questions. it is really like magic