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this is the fic!

yall i need to find a fic

it's one where the bakusquad wants to watch buzzfeed unsolved or some other similar show and it happens to be about these kidnappings that happened in musutafu

and like, bakugou sees the screen and just, leaves bc panic, and everyone is confused as to what happens. he asks for midoriya and everyone is more confused when izuku is also worried/scared/etc etc

they were like, close to someone who was kidnapped and bakugou was almost kidnapped himself

does anyone know it??

it's on ao3

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so true

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no this is so real

i started watching the show and it's unreal to me how sapphic they feel???? like their love story seems so queer idk

just watched the australian version/reboot trailer of the office and its honestly insane that there isn’t any version where jim and pam are a wlw couple like hear me out

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i didn't have "i'm broken" teenage asexual angst i had "i'm literally being the only reasonable one about this concept and the rest of you are behaving like fucking freaks" perception issues

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Wait this is funny

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love the genre of horror that's just "the house is alive"

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thinking about wytthias now. both of them being far away from their home, the only home they’d ever known. a home they know they will be rejected to if they return to. that they still long to even though their home hurt them. even though it doesn’t deserve them. wylan and matthias meeting the crows and realizing their own worth. seeing the world from a different perspective than the one they had been brought up in. finding friends and love and family and self worth. i will go and throw up now.

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Matthias: are you ever going to understand the meaning of “emergency”?

Jesper: this IS totally one, Wylan gave me the “five seconds, squeeze a bit more at the end” hug

Nina: oh no

Jesper: exactly, that can only mean that he was mad at me but choose to forgive me before I could find out what I did and apologize

Matthias: so��if he already forgave you what’s the problem?

The other four groan

Inej: because it means Wylan is having that itch buried , and he’ll pull out the card at the worst time, Please,we are discussing serious business here

Jesper: can someone think on a reason why he was mad at me?

Matthias: i have some possible scenarios in what you messed up

Matthias extends a list that rolls to the floor

Nina: did you have that already prepared?

Matthias: i have one for everyone

Pulls out a giant book

Matthias: this is Kaz’s list,volume one of seven

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Fourteen Days of MHA: Day 11

Name

It is widely understood that Katsuki's name 勝己 means "victory + self," which is a reading that goes through many iterations for the story to explore.

In the beginning, his name seems almost like a caricature: a boy obsessed with victory who is self-absorbed. It's not particularly surprising to an audience who knows what his name means when Katsuki "wins" the sports festival. It's right there in his name.

But then Character Development happens, and his name takes on a more ambitious meaning: "victory over the self." Katsuki goes through a long arc of self-discovery and conquering his own fears and weaknesses and misconceptions to grow into a remarkable hero.

To me, there is one final meaning in his name that comes into play in the last part of the story. Katsu by itself means "to win," not "victory." So when I hear Katsuki, I hear "Win Yourself."

Given the struggles Katsuki endures, to me, this means "Win yourself over." The person whose approval he needs most is his own. His standards are so high for everyone but especially himself. He demands perfection of himself. He is satisfied with nothing less than the top spot, the greatest strength. His greatest fears of being weak, of being used against those he loves, of not being able to measure up to Izuku, of not being able to compete with Izuku, all come center-stage in the final arc. And only when he achieves a level high enough to support Izuku and defeat All For One does Katsuki finally get a taste of that satisfaction. At last, Katsuki becomes what he wants to be. At last he accepts himself. At last does he think he's enough--all after an adolescence defined by a powerful inferiority complex.

Katsuki. "Win yourself." Win yourself over. Love yourself. Accept yourself.

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Kaz: Name a time when its important to practice patience?

Wylan: When there are witnesses?

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TWOTM Emissa Corenius : An Over-Analyzation

Major The Will of the Many spoilers and random theories ahead !!

Okay, so when I first read The Will of the Many, I wasn’t reading properly, and I just kinda assumed that Emissa was just a kinda blandly written character in such a well-written world. That was, of course, until the whole twist thing. What I liked was that it wasn’t a complete 360, and that she didn’t end up as extremely bad, but flawed enough for me not to be annoyed with her existence, and for her to not seem like only a Mary Sue 'love interest' character.

The thing is, I don't think she is at all.

First of all, I’m starting this with an analyzation of her relationship with Vis, and her not-so-role as a ‘love interest’. Was it real? Was it fake? I think she eventually did grow to be fond over him after a while, but I’ve always known she was going to betray him somehow. Something about the vibes.

It all started with the glass of water at the infirmary. I know there’s a chance that maybe she’s just, idk, kind or whatever, but after the ending, I’m not so 100% sure.

Not only that, but Ulciscor  constantly nagging about how suspicious he was of her. (Normally I'd pass it off as Ulciscor  being obsessed and hyper-anxious about the mission thing, but this was Emissa, and that caught my interest.)

There’s a really fat chance that she was, somehow, working with Veridius. This does not mean that she’s evil or whatever, and I'm still trying to figure out of Veridius is good or not, but it does make her a lot more interesting and complex.

Towards the end of the Iudicium, Emissa uses Will. You can’t use Will during academy stuff without some sort of source, or somebody allowing to use it. It's simply not possible?? Veridius? He’s literally the Principalis of the academy, after all, and during the infirminary scene at the end of the book, its implied that the Principalis spoke with Emissa beforehand, when he says to Vis that ‘she’s distraught’ and tries convincing Vis to talk to her.

What I noticed in this book is that the author, James Islington, is very careful in what he keeps in the book. Details. Hints. No matter how small or useless they seem. There are MAJOR spoilers, but : Here's a funny example I found.

See? Everything is littered in little details to be explored upon later. Even something as simple as a background detail of Aequa flipping coins.

ALSO, and something that I don’t see talked about for some reason, is the fact that Emissa knows that Indol was planning to deflect from Military to Religion. Indol never told her this. He’s shocked that she knows. Guess who may know??? Veridius???? That's right!!!

The question is, why would Veridius tell Emissa this? No idea from me here. But something else during the Iudicium arc catches my attention, and it’s the fact that Veridius PRIVATELY tells everybody what prize they would get if they won the whole thing. As implied by Eidhin (after he cancels on the Iudicium thing for Vis’ sake), Veridius often tempts them with something they really, really badly want,  and something that would drive them to want to win. 

I’m surprised not many people talk about that scene where Emissa asks Vis for the Heart of Jovan in the Iudicium, so she could win. She’s upset by this, obviously, since she cries and stuff, but I notice that she says “I can’t let us get separated.”

When I first read, I assumed she was talking about Vis, but that wouldn’t make sense, since she basically stabbed him as he fell off a tower (?) like, five seconds later. And also, her and Vis being separated wouldn't be related to her winning the Iudicium, (unless she's in a scenario where she'll have to leave forever or something if she doesn't win, which isn't really likely), Which makes me wonder, who was she really talking about?

Hopefully, we’re find out in the next book. Someone she really cared about? Relative? Family member? Am I missing something? Will this be important?

After all, we don’t exactly 100% know why Veridius planted Vis near the Callidus-Eidhin punchy debacle. He obviously knew Vis would step in.

At first I wondered if he was trying to kick Vis out and expel him, which is probably more likely, but right now I’m running on four hours of sleep and I am high on theories.

I think I’ve read this theory somewhere on the Hierarchy subreddit, too, but what if Veridius planned this whole thing, not to expel Vis, but to plant Vis near the stables as his punishment, maybe for Emissa to keep an eye on him? Or woo him for secrets or whatever the fuck? 

At the very least, whether Veridius did purposely plant Vis there for that sole reason, or as an afterthought after Vis worms himself out with the Threefold Apology, I do think that Veridius did make Emissa watch over Vis on purpose.

Otherwise, I think it’ll be a little random with Emissa just casually joining Vis to scoop horse dung, and I do not care how cool or attractive or fascinating he may appear, I still think it’s important. Hopefully? And why do I think so, you may ask?

I do not really think Islington deliberately wanted Emissa and Vis to be like, endgame, endgame. Like, The EndgameTM.  Maybe Emissa was trying to get more information on him. I don't know. It’s plausible. Emissa is top of the academy after Indol, and besides Indol being of course the smartest (as told by Vis), Emissa is FAR smarter than most readers deem her to be. I don't think everything as simple as this. Emissa simply cannot be this blind and radiant and carefree. She isn't in a perfume ad. We've established, from the book itself, that twotm is LAYERS upon LAYERS and twist after twist.

First of all, I’m so sorry, but Emissa and Vis have like no chemistry (imo). They do have maybe like a teeny, tiny bit, but the thing is that Vis has more chemistry with LITERALLY every other character his age BESIDES Emissa. I know, I know, every writer isn’t perfect, but there’s something so suspicious about Emissa and Vis’ dynamic.

As mentioned once on a Hierarchy Series subreddit post, Emissa and Vis have a strange dynamic that is unlike the others characters. With literally every single other character/friendship/relationship that Vis is in, there are details of each interaction, each feeling Vis has with them, what they do, bla bla bla, snippets of the scene, dialogue, ect.

But with Emissa, it’s sort of just…speedran? Like, besides the whole Suus island romance debacle and theatrics, their interactions just sort of go…

“Emissa visited me in the stables and we talked. For a long time. She helped me. She's nice. Also, her eyes are really green.” 

“Emissa sometimes studied with Callidus and I in the morning, sometimes not. Blablabla, she’s great and funny.”

“Emissa talked with me during Suus after noticing that I was uncomfortable with the politician people, blabla. ”

“Emissa and I trained together. In Three. Emissa helped me study. In Three. Wow, she makes me smile. Haha.”

Obviously, I'm exaggerating, but I'm definitely NOT wrong. Open the book and reread it. I DARE you to tell me I'm wrong.

See, there’s no real scene with them. Is it just me who noticed this? Just a time jump where Vis summarizes everything he did with her and how awesome and fun it was. There’s no way an author, writing a book with this much description and detail, just fumbles a romance by writing it like this.

NOT ONLY THAT, but even the CONFESSION scene isn’t anything as theatric as the rest of the book. Not even a SMIDGEN. Even the whole kiss can be easily forgotten. It’s not some dramatic confession. It's not romantic. It's not even sweet and heart-warming in that subtle, simple way. It's just a really lukewarm 'maybe i like you' and then boom, and it's over in an instant.

Vis mentions Indol and the secret that Emissa accidentally exposes of Indol, and then Emissa (suspiciously) changes the topic to how much she likes Vis and kisses Vis. And then boom, romance. A quick end scene, as if it wasn't ever important.

Isn’t it like, hella SUSPICIOUS? She changed the topic. Kissed him. Distracted him. And then the scene ended like it wasn't a whole Vis-Developing, Emissa-Developing, HUGE relationship moment.

Which, yeah, maybe she did like him at some point, but it sure as hell is convenient, isn’t it? I’m super invested in her character now, which is ironic because I used to not be able to STAND her because I just thought her character was just a really poorly written love interest.

I’m convinced Islington has the writer ability to write a confession/kiss scene much better, and much less random than that. Which means that I really don’t think he INTENDED to make hearts swoon. Just to distract.

Emissa is very fascinating, and few people acknowledge that, and I am EXTREMELY excited for The Strength of the Few to release.

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this community needs more memes. you're welcome.

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i don't mean to be that fandom person but every time The Will of the Many gets described and recommended as "fantasy hunger games!!" an angel loses its wings. i promise you i say this as a big fan of both medias

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one day I’ll finally write that ridiculously elaborate fanfiction that I’ve been carefully constructing in my daydreams for months and then you’ll be sorry. you’ll all be sorry.