#BC Alumni

[iristial]

[milfhandholder]

Concept for a spinoff series: the reapers in a high school setting. No questions asked, they're just a bunch of cool 'teens'

[lambergeier]

i'm beginning my slow transition towards the state of "not playing genshin" (after 18 Solid months lmao) (i've ceased all resin-based activities and am only logging in for the daily bonus and commissions) and this is good for a number of reasons. for instance i am both writing and reading more! but also this liberates me to experience the purer pleasures of genshin unadulterated by the dark patterns. those purer pleasures are ofc the insane lesbian shit shinobu and yanfei are up to in this week's event

[caimitos]

saw a post about projecting your ethnicity onto a character and started missing vespa ilkay. so so bad

[plusultraetc]

Saw the tags on the Toshinori post and do you have more to share?? Any insights? If so I’d welcome hearing them 😭 He really is so self-sacrificial and it hurts but it’s truly at the core of who he is

This has been sitting in my inbox for almost a week because I needed to make a futile effort at organizing my thoughts into something coherent--but this is as organized as they're going to get for now! Thank you so so much for the ask though bc I do love to yell about MHA <3

(Obligatory reminder that I'm watching this show in such a confusing order so if what I'm about to rant about has been addressed before and I'm harping on it unnecessarily I Am Sorry.)

(For anyone curious, this is the post btw)

SO. It feels relevant to mention that my sister and I were talking about All Might in the first place because we were talking about MHA Moments That Haunt Us. For me, it's the 'I am not here' sign hanging around the neck of the All Might statue in Kamino Ward after the Paranormal Liberation War. It literally lives in my brain rent-free 24/7 365 days a year, especially with the AM vs AFO fight being relatively fresh in my mind. The reversal of All Might's catchphrase and all it represents hurts, but to display it at the site of his 'last stand' in Kamino? That's brutal.

All Might vs All For One and how that rematch plays out is so so important to the story for so many reasons, but one of them is that the fight itself is a sacrifice. Toshinori gives everything he has, short of his life, to defeat All For One. He gives up his physical strength, his public image as the unbeatable Symbol of Peace, and, effectively his Quirk ("Goodbye, All For One. Goodbye, One For All" haunts my every waking moment, still!)

This battle is also the culmination of years of All Might's life and heroic philosophy (because Toshinori has been both practicing AND preaching self-sacrifice in the name of the greater good since we met him. It's what he thinks a hero does). Kamino is the sacrifice to end all sacrifices, if you will. Yes, he does get to walk away from the fight with AFO, but he walks away irrevocably different, almost unrecognizable. He's forced to totally change his focus and his mindset and his life. Everything he has given up is made literally visible in the deterioration of his body.

But most most importantly, All Might's sacrifice at Kamino was... all for nothing. Even if AM defeated him in that moment, All For One is free less than a year later. The world is in shambles. People are afraid, and their faith in heroes is crumbling. Heroes are afraid, and this time, they have no idealized symbol to rally behind. When Dostoevsky wrote "Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing," he was talking about All Might btw.

Toshinori gave this fight (and his career, and being All Might) everything he had, and it still wasn't enough. He sacrificed so much of himself, and so much of how he perceived himself and his purpose, and he didn't even save the world. He just bought them time--and not much of it. I think that's why he's so desperate to keep fighting, no matter the cost, no matter what condition he's in--even 'quite literally half-dead.' He can't let Kamino be the Symbol of Peace's final stand, because Kamino was ultimately for nothing. Instead of saving the world, it has been reframed through the sign on the statue as All Might abandoning the world. And ever since then, he's been scrambling to prove that he is still here.

(There's also probably something here about Sir Nighteye telling him that he was going to die. Since Nighteye used his Quirk on him, Toshinori has been anticipating sacrificing his life for good. Knowing that his entire hero career is effectively a fight to the death has probably maximized his self-sacrificial tendencies.)

[rocker-socks]

The way the "Brucie" persona falls apart with the slightest in universe digging because DC hates timeliness that make sense leads me to wonder how many people genuinely think Bruce just gave himself a lobotomy.

[honeysuckle-venom]

I haven't logged into facebook in months (I generally look at it 2-3 times per year for a total of about 15 minutes per year lol) but I logged in to check something and in my notifications I had a bunch of "new friend suggestions"? Which I don't remember being a thing in the past. And one of the suggested people was my old psychiatrist??? Who I stopped seeing several years ago and didn't like??? And have no other connection to??? I know facebook knows everything about everyone but uh...it shouldn't know of any connection between me and her??? I'm so confused and a little bit disturbed

[thewingedwolf]

taylor was on rob has a pod for the pressure cooker comp and i love that she had a blast and can enjoy the show as a watcher, also i forgot how funny she is!! i hope she does some more talks with rob & taran. also she wants them to do another pressure cooker for alumni bc she wants to see if she can do it ajsjsj like just for funsies.

[pikslasrce]

wheres that post like... being trans in uni is having to pretend you (still) care about harry potter..

[dykeseinfeld]

hi what’s your PhD program about (in as broad strokes as you want)?? pls gush if you wanna gush this is so exciting and you’re gonna absolutely smash the shit out of it ☺️☀️

it’s literally about. Nothing. lmao

it’s one of very few programs that lets you truly just study whatever you want, tho centered on social sciences, philosophy, and classics. it’s just so insanely freeform and i could truly just sit and think and take whatever classes i want to that relate to my ultimate dissertation in like an old school academia kind of sit in a tower way

it’s like. the dream. idk bc most of their current grad students got their MA before going so idk if they’d be willing to take me directly from undergrad but the two profs i had who approached me abt going to grad school specifically highlighted this program as something that suits all my interests and would allow me to just Study so. fuck it we ball

[iristial]

reiwa fancam mode melo (geats) | 4 aces & the black fox

[rleonard9]

why is eamon powell kinda 🫣

[asinglesock]

on the one hand I KNOW that this community director job at the school where I went for undergrad is probably a pretty miserable gig, BUT it's 18.75 an hour, plus a furnished apartment on campus (pets allowed!!) and a meal plan during the school year. which is actually not a lot considering how much time the job requires but I think I would thrive in those circumstances as long as the work wasn't unbearable.

[1o1percentmilk]

have to go craft a saul goodman-ass argument for why my brother did not use chatgpt to write his essay

[caimitos]

my most self indulgent hc that is closest to my heart and haven't talked about in years is vespa ilkay filipino (her eyes have a rage you only see in 3rd world med students)

[vogelmeister]

*checks notes* thats two people I went to high school with wikipedia pages