#but might be other POVs as well

[quagsthecryptid]

Suddenly inspired to write a ballroom oneshot set in Pearl’s beautiful new build,,, the brainworms are back

[hajihiko]

Love your art and your general presence within the fandom, but I wanna know if you get the vision. So, I’m going to walk you through a thought experiment:

Your whole life has been filled with devastation. Your closest childhood companion was killed, your parents died before your eyes, you’ve been kidnapped and thrown away once they’ve realized you had no one left to come for you. You’re dying from the inside out. Everyone you love and admire thinks you’re a freak.

And then you meet this girl. And she actively tries to include you into her friend group. She goes out of her way to help you when no one else is willing. She’s not afraid of you in the way everyone else is.

Now imagine this person, who was the only one to ever offer you an ounce of empathy, dies before your eyes. Your only friend is dead and you can only blame yourself for this outcome.

That’s Komanami (Nagito x Chiaki). How are we feeling?

well the thing is if you start an ask like that, i am in fact less likely to consider it

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

it already made since that Aizawa was going grey, but now knowing he is responsible for arguably the most famous people in the entire world and they won't stop making tik toks and backflipping in public I understand even more

See I actually really love this Aizawa because he’s sort of the definition of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Had any other class pulled this shit, he would have expelled every single one of them, and it would have been the right call. Because had any other class pulled this shit, it would have just been arrogance driving them to Yokohama.

Every other class had the benefit of a world with all might. They all would have never been in the situation to be the only thing between a city and utter disaster. They never had been faced with a disaster where the heroes fucking announced that no one was coming.

But they could come. They could make it in time.

Every other class he’s ever taught lived in a world where the system had not completely broken down. If they all went AWOL and showed up to fight fucking S-Class villains, they wouldn’t have to worry about the villains killing them, because he would have done it himself. It would take absolutely suicidal levels of reckless arrogance to show up to a fight you’re not experienced enough to handle and then get in the way of the trained professionals who can actually do this. He would have expelled every single one of them for their own good and for society’s good.

But that’s not what happened here.

Those kids knew for a fact that no one else was going to respond. They knew for a fact that the choice was their own safety or everyone else’s.

And the thing is that they really were the Big Fucking Heroes of the day. Like. It can’t be understated how much good they did in that one night.

It wasn’t just saving the people immediately at risk. The entirety of Japan was terrified when the news broke. A lot of those villains ended up in Tartarus after their own little reigns of terror—and All Might put a lot of them in there. They were all liable to massacre a few people when they hit the mainland, ultimately escape, go to ground, and start all over. They’d all have to be hunted down and recaptured. The expectation was that it was going to be months if not years dealing with the ramifications of this.

The only villains that weren’t recaptured that same night were All for One and Stain. All for One, well. Was a hugely embarrassing failure considering they publicly threw all their resources into recapturing him and fucking failed at it.

Stain was the only one the kids didn’t contain to Yokohama, and it’s because they didn’t try to.

There’s this entire dramatic confrontation between Stain and Iida in my head that I love. Iida was the one who ultimately made the call not to devote any resources to Stain. He was the only one who wasn’t attacking civilians and wasn’t liable to down the line. Hell, he stepped in a few times to stop the villains. Stopping Stain took him, Todoroki, and Izuku all working in concert the first time around. And granted, they’ve all grown since then, but he hasn’t forgotten how close that fight was. He doesn’t think that just one of them alone could take down Stain (except for maybe Shinsou, but he was on the other side of the city handling crisis after crisis and there was no way to pull him out for Stain) and they did not have the fucking resources for more. Fuck, they didn’t have the resources for one person to go after stain.

Going after Stain meant taking resources from people actively attacking civilians to go after someone who had never attacked a civilian. Stain could wait. Everyone else couldn’t. It turned out to be a nonissue because all of his brother’s sidekicks got together and hunted him down like a wild boar in the immediate aftermath.

Class 2-A isn’t credited just with saving Yokohama—they’re credited with saving Japan from the bloodshed that would have been all those villains loose on the streets for months after. People were actually buying tickets out of the country before they realized that the villains had all been contained.

Part of the reason why Toshinori, as a teenager, wanted a symbol of peace was because of the fear the public had when they went about their day. This is a public who had been in peace for so long that they had forgotten what it was like to be afraid in the streets, and they were remembering it tenfold.

There’s all these dramatic high moments in my head of the fight that night. And one of the biggest is Izuku and Mirio going after a villain team that had been considered the worst before the League of Villains. They had like, a nine month reign of terror before All Might and Sir Nighteye tracked them down and put a stop to them. People were petrified of them getting out again, potentially joining with the League, and unleashing havoc like never before.

Like Stain, they weren’t attacking people. But that’s because they were focused on escaping, going to ground, and coming back worse than ever. Izuku and Mirio made the call that it would just be them who responded. They couldn’t afford to devote anyone else to it—they were massively outnumbered and overstretched as it was. That was the fight that the class was most terrified would end in one of them dying. They just barely managed the victory, and the world exploded when reports came through that this villain team had been contained. The first time around, their kill count had been in the high double digits, and everyone expected them to manage at least the same again if they got free.

On that vein, I don’t think it could be overstated just how much this fight did for public morale.

You know in canon, how society just sort of crumbled? Villains roamed the streets, people were in shelters, UA was full of refugees? Society isn’t there in pez because of this fight.

The LoV fully expected this to have crippled society. If the heroes took the bait and went after AfO without anyone left to defend Yokohama, there would have been a bloodbath. The public would have been completely disillusioned. There would have been riots in the street over this. And there would be a lot more villains out there to bring new terror.

This was such a dynamic story that people were ecstatic after it. They had more hope than they had before AfO escaped.

If AfO had escaped on his own, there would have been an upsurge of fear and unrest. But after this? The public was more emboldened and unified than they were before AfO had escaped. Fuck it, the villains hadn’t won yet. Fucking look at their funky little kids go. They’re so fucking proud of them. The worst villains on the planet losing to a bunch of high schoolers shouting “WEE WOO BITCH” while badly driving ambulances. They won Yokohama. They’ll win again.

So. There’s Aizawa. Who has never been so fucking afraid in his life. He’s got all of these brilliant fucking children who are so painfully young, and the entire world wants to eat them. The world doesn’t know that that’s what its doing, but it is.

He bitched them out in the aftermath, because he could have had to bury all of them, and it would have killed him too. He was so scared he couldn’t breathe and getting more scared, because even when it was only the morning after, he knew they had pulled off a kind of magic that wouldn’t be forgotten easily. It’d just keep getting harder to save them.

But he kind of wishes he didn’t bitch them out. He wishes he told them that he was sorry that they were ever put in that position, and that he’s so glad that they’re all alive, and he’s proud of them. He’s fucking proud of them, because they did something amazing.

[7clubs]

i have to finish my cool epic comic job deadline first before i can make fanart for it but i need to say this right now. i finished the standalone novel "the spear cuts through water" by simon jimenez last friday and i'm still crazy about it. like i fear it's already my favorite book of 2025 and it's only january.

my fellow fantasy metafiction fans GET ON THIS!!!!!*

*if you can handle it! it's an adult epic fantasy with very graphic violence. cws: gore, domestic (familial) abuse, torture, cannibalism, body horror, ableism, probably more...

[shadystranger]

this moment so fucked up💀

[fideidefenswhore]

 the tudors (2007-2010) / the concubine, by christopher rae / the six queens of henry viii (2016) / zombie (2018), cover by bad wolves / the white princess (2017) / hunting the falcon, by john guy & julia fox / viii, by hm castor / the white queen (2013) / henry viii, by lucy wooding / firebrand (2023)

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

In The Roses of Pieria

dark fantasy romance

a woman takes a well-paying but suspicious sounding job as an archivist working for a mysterious estate owner, and finds herself translating numerous never-before-seen artifacts from her specialty field on an ancient civilisation

as she begins to translate romantic letters between two ancient figures and unravel more about them, her frustration over the knowledge being kept secret and confusion over what the letters reveal grows

but between that and her developing feelings for her employer’s assistant, she finds out that getting to close to these secrets is dangerous

lesbians, vampires, fey

[spasikonik]

an edek themed collage 🪲

[akkivee]

you don't understand how good it feels to be drawing an unhinged kuukou again lmao

[nandysparadox]

im kind of an apologist for the crew when it comes to epic tbh.. justice for them gone too soon 🕊️

[soobvape]

i need brownies so fucking bad rn

[liquidstar]

a friend who'd wait :)

[lemonynuggets]

23 for music asks hehe ^^

YIPEE

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

Karma by AJR just because it’s my favorite song ever <3

[bonestrouslingbones]

that one scene in atbb where russ is being a tall asshole to karma on purpose but instead of squatting down to his level he pulls this shit

[an-urgent-appeal]

monitoring by deco*27 could be a soldierspy song if you just give me 12 hours and 5 cans of monster to explain

[anerdssketchpileblr]

Aaa ok I never thought I'd share this thing anywhere but lately the ml fandom, specifically the Lt au and @sillysiluriforme's work has been really inspiring me. So I introduce to you Emmanuelle Emilie Agreste.

She's an old miraculous oc I've had for years and never done much with outside of my own head tbh. She's Adrien's older sister and also a sentimonster, created bc in my mind/version of things Emilie had to give up on a lot of her acting career after moving to Paris and marrying Gabriel.

So instead she makes Emmanuelle, an almost perfect copy of herself, (except for the eye and hair colour, Gabriel's and Nathalie's respectively as little Easter eggs bc she thinks it's cute, but Emma ends up dying her hair and wearing contacts all the time anyway), who will never age or get wrinkles and who has a head start in the industry by starting acting work as a child. A dress up doll she can mold into the actress she could have been if she'd started earlier, who she can live vicariously through while she stays at home.

Less of a daughter and more of an advertisement, a way for the world to never forget her. Because this child has her face and her voice and will never shut up about honouring her legacy. The concept of Emilie the actress will live on far longer under a slightly different name. Also less of a daughter and more of her biggest fan. The perfect protogee who listens to all her advice and never has alternate ideas on how to do things and will never speak badly of her.

Essentially she exists to stroke Emilie's ego and Act and that's all she really knows how to do at the end of the day. Girl who is so normal about her mother and definitely has a personality outside of her career.

I picture her role as like. Minor/secondary villian (bc she was helping Gabriel through making more possible akumas on purpose bc she wants her mom back too) who has an eventual 'redemption arc' but they aren't actually a better person and it's only bc their brother is a hero it turns out and they like him more than their father. She really only cares about her mother and Adrien, who she is protective of but also more than fine lying to. She thinks he's a dork for wanting to go to public school but whatever. It's fine, Chloe will tell her if something goes wrong there.

She's in the range of 19-22 somewhere, and she works in a lot of projects not exclusively in France, so she's usually travelling and away from home. She's known for getting into relationships with her costars that start when the project is in development and somehow always ends once the hype is over. Adrien talks to her over the phone more than he sees her in person until she gets 'trapped' in Paris for coming home during the akuma crisis and has to actually start living in her TV show set never breathed in room.

I don't think she'd actually work/exist in the Lt au bc my version of Emilie in my head is a different kind of freak than the Lt version, who I do not think would make her. But it's fun to play around with anyway.

Specifically I just keep thinking abt her relationship with Lt chloe tho, bc in my little head world she's Chloe's awful terrible manipulative cool older friend/mentor figure who encourages all her worst traits for funsies and to bring about more akumas. And Lt adds another interesting layer to their dynamic in that chloe is also a sentimonster made to resemble her mother, and both of them idolise their mothers desipte them being not actually that great. girl who was made by her mother to be a copy of her mother vs girl who was made by her father to be a copy of her mother. surely this mentorship will go normally.

I also imagine her being like an awful older sister/mentor figure to the galattaca girls too. At her core she is an enabler and someone who turns a blind eye to fucked up shit to stay 'comfortable'. (And a manipulative asshole too.) What I'm saying here is I think she could make Aurore specifically so much worse and would have fun doing it. Evil girl and her younger blonde apprentices 💙

Summary: shes my horrible evil daughter I'm throwing her in the trash, I'm giving her a biscuit, she needs to face consequences for what she's done I'm denying her the catharsis of punishment she will learn to make meaningful change and mend her relationships, she's great in theory but not in practice, she shouldn't exist and she knows it, she's like if a show pony developed sapience. As you can probably tell, she's infested my brain like the parasite she is 💙