#herostoried

[vsagis]

Ochako's apology is met with silence, broken only by the faint sound of rustling when Izuku puts his hands in his pockets. Despite the obvious implications that would come to mind first, this silence doesn't weight heavy on the shoulders, coming as a sign of a thoughtful moment than anything else.

"People do a lot of things they shouldn't," Izuku sums up eventually, cleverly, as his words could be an answer to both the other's statement and her veiled question. Realizing it—or is he?—a moment later, he adds one more thing: "I'm sure you'll find out everything about me soon enough." Most likely when the classes start, in half an hour give or take a few minutes. As if out of spite, there's no clocks around for him to see when exactly.

"You're a nice girl, you know. You seem... kind."

Ochako's face falls at Izuku's sudden drop in mood, and it hurts when she can tell she's disappointed him. It's ridiculous that she should care about that - he was (is?) a villain! But... even in his anger, he's trying to be understanding. He's holding back his frustrations, at least to an extent.

She doesn't know how that makes her feel.

"...I'm sorry." Ochako finds herself apologizing, eyes downcast as she plays with the fabric of her shirt awkwardly. To be honest, she still doesn't entirely get it. She wants to ask what he means when he says he wouldn't, and when he says he doesn't have a quirk... honestly, it takes her by surprise. It's not something she'd thought about before. But all the comments she's heard throughout her life, about the quirkless... suddenly rush into her head, filling her with shame.

"They... they shouldn't treat you that way." It feels stupid as she says it - obviously, he knows that already - but she still wants to make her feelings clear. But if there really are people out there who think people like Izuku shouldn't exist... how is he supposed to reach them, anyway? Is it even fair to ask him to try?

Ochako bites her lip - she can feel herself growing more and more confused, and she feels like a traitor to herself for even considering the thoughts floating in her mind! All at once, she wants to run away, so that Izuku can't "corrupt" her anymore - but she stays rooted in place, thinking deep down that Izuku doesn't deserve that.

"I guess... I don't like seeing people get hurt. But I don't even really know what you did as a villain, so it's not fair of me to judge you..." She can't help but wonder if Izuku even really is a villain. He seems just like an ordinary boy, like one of her classmates... did the Heroes make a mistake somehow...?

@vsagis ( continued! )

[whilereadingandwalking]

Herostories by Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir, translated from the Icelandic by K.B. Thors, is a novel-in-verse of found poetry, drawn from a history of midwives in Iceland, traversing frigid, brutal climates to help people deliver their babies, both lauded and isolated, both integral to society and outside of it, transgressing the boundaries of gender. It's interesting, and has the Icelandic beside the English as well as an interview and note from the author and translator that is really interesting and enlightening.

[schoolspectres]

HAVE YOU HEARD THE RUMOR...?

SCHOOLSPECTRES: an independent multimuse for characters from the manga toilet-bound hanako-kun, including sakura nanamine, tsuchigomori, mitsuba and more. if interested in interacting, please leave a like or a reblog and i'll check out your blog - thank you so much!

[sliceoflife-stories-blog]

🎧Re-presenting Real-Life Heroes #SliceOfLifeStories

[fictionandreality]

How to Write the Best Heroes: Why Every Hero Needs Something to Save

[dryeyed]

what kind of tragedy are you?

doomed from the start.

there was no way of winning, and you knew it too. but you still tried. you tried again and again and again to change it. you fought tooth and claw to change your fate, but she cannot be easily manipulated. it’s not your fault. the game was always rigged against you. from the moment you entered the narrative, your fate was sealed. you didn’t stand a chance.

tagged by: stole it from my mumu <3 tagging: @deathonate, @kaiyobi, @newsave, @herostoried (toga?), @fireburial, steal + tag me!

[togethersmiled]

OKAY SO impulsive decision and i'm so sorry for the inconvenience, but!! i'm going to move my muses here over to a new blog, @herostoried! mostly because this blog is a mess and it was a bit depressing constantly reading back on my failed attempts to be active, otl. if you'd still like to write with me, please follow me there and i'll follow you back - though you might not get the notification as the blog is new, so keep that in mind! <3

[anotherwaytosay]

Join us on Friday, September 27th at 8 PM at Molasses Books for the Fall edition of the series -- an all-alumni event featuring Nicholas Glastonbury debuting his translation of Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet (Soho Press), a gay thriller, "...dishy, suspenseful, boiling over with black humor," "The Birdcage as done by Highsmith," Marine Cornuet with the first English translation of French-Algerian poet Anna Gréki's Algeria, capital: Algiers (forthcoming Pinsapo Press), written in prison after Gréki was arrested for participating in the Algerian liberation movement against French rule, and K. B. Thors with a collection translated from Icelandic: Herostories by poet-historian Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir, and an essay by the same author about a queer turn-of-the-century midwife.

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Nicholas Glastonbury is a writer, translator, and editor from the Florida backwaters. His translations of Turkish and Kurdish fiction and poetry have appeared with or are forthcoming from Tilted Axis Press, Comma Press, Soho Press, Sandorf Passage, Nightboat Books, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in cultural anthropology and lives in Crown Heights.

Marine Cornuet is a Brooklyn-based translator, poet, and editor. Algeria, capital: Algiers, her translation of French-Algerian poet Anna Gréki’s collection, is forthcoming with Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found: the CUNY Poetics Document Initiative in the fall of 2024. Recent translations include Cloche Pèlerine (Le Castor Astral, 2024), a French translation of Kaveh Akbar's collection Pilgrim Bell. She is the presse manager and a member of the editorial collective at Ugly Duckling Presse.

K.B. Thors is author of Vulgar Mechanics (Coach House Books) and the forthcoming Berserk Her, as well as the translator of five books including poetry, fiction, and art text. Her translation of Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir’s Stormwarning won the American Scandinavian Foundation’s Leif & Inger Sjöberg Prize and was nominated for the 2019 PEN Literary Award for Poetry in Translation. Her translation of Tómasdóttir’s Herostories was published by Deep Vellum in 2023.

[rococodeco]

Winter reading

I spent that beautiful liminal time between Christmas and New Years with 2 lovely wintery novellas, Small Things Like These, which deserves all the hype, and The Blue Fox, which absolutely crushed me.

In January I didn't read much but I finally finished Matrix. I don't know why that book just didn't captivate me the way Groff's other work has. If I could go back, I'd read this before reading The Bear Woman because that book was too much of a peek behind the curtain of how an author approaches writing about a woman who's story has been mostly lost to history and may have ruined Matrix a bit.

Radiohead's There, There was playing in my head (and sometimes my speakers) the entire time I was reading Tommy Orange's There, There, but it pulled me out of my reading slump.

In January I watched a youtube video talking about this book and something about woman with a chronically ill husband and a father in the ICU who runs away to takes a trip to research her novel in the desert felt very relatable to me. Death Valley is the best kind of autofiction.

Herostories is poems about midwives battling the storms of Iceland to get to laboring women, a celebration of the heroic deeds of mostly forgotten women.

I was looking for some more woman runs away to the desert fun but I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness didn't deliver. It was more of a messy confessional essay on The Cut than a novel. Great cover though.

Josh and I started listening to Daisy Jones and the Six when we drove out to California in September and finally finished it this month. It was a fun audiobook and I think I liked it better listening to it than if I had read it.

I don't get squeamish reading books often but all the smoking in Night of the Living Rez grossed me out. I don't know why it says "Stories" on the cover. It's definitely a novel, a non-linear novel, but still a novel - the chapters are too connected to work as standalone stories.

I'm currently reading Cannery Row and dreaming about a trip up the coast to Monterrey. I'm at that point of the year when I get so drained by work I don't often feel like reading. Cannery Row is a good companion to take slowly.

[cottonmtophat]

Things about the world,this is one of the city names Typicals,my second main character,Kelf,was born in this city

[hs-quotes]

Have a great year!!

~ Gen 1-5

[musedriven]

she turns so easily at her name; no, not at her name. at the person calling it. she knew it was a bad idea to come back to this place; the spot that the villain known as Himiko Toga died and a scared little girl lost everything. but how could she not come back to the last place she saw her crush? her second hero. a place where she last felt hope. the last place where things had made sense to her.

" maybe. or maybe you're just dreaming. " she teases so easily; as if nothing had changed. as if she had not been presumed dead by the world. a benefit of having to transfer her her own blood more than once now. a final parting gift from Jin; his last wish fulfilled though not exactly in the way he might have pictured.

"... I didn't expect you to come back here... " she admits, sounding almost shy as she turns her attention back to their spot. her hand rubbing absently against her forearm in an attempt to self soothe. " I guess I thought you'd be done with me after... after everything. but I missed my hero. I miss my family... I know it was silly to come back here; but I had to... I missed you..."

"Himiko-chan!?"

Ochako's face is pale, and she's never worn an expression as shocked as the one she's wearing now. As if she's seen a ghost, she stands there, stunned- too confused to even will herself to move.

...When did the life of Himiko Toga become so important to her? It feels like these feelings... crept up on her so gradually, that by the time she noticed them, they'd already been there forever. Ochako had convinced herself that caring about a villain like Himiko had made her strange, selfish and wrong - but ever since that final battle, she's hated herself for ever feeling that way.

Because she was too late. She'd been so caught up trying to figure out if Himiko was a villain or just a hurting girl that she hadn't been able to see she was both. That even if she had hurt so many people... she herself had been hurting just as much from the very start. Ochako just wanted to see her smile again, and maybe that made her a bad person, maybe it was wrong - but frankly, she couldn't care less anymore. The pain she felt when she realized that Himiko was sacrificing herself for her was just too much to bear.

So now... how is it that she's seeing Himiko before her, when she'd thought she was dead and gone forever? She wants to believe so badly in what she's seeing, it's like her heart's being squeezed in a vice, but she's so scared that it's a lie.

"Is that... really you...? You're alive?"

@musedriven ( starter for himiko! )

[toshart]

Sketches .. From ‘Fallen Angel’ A paradoxical take centered around the DC Public Library.Based on life drawings with @bosswacko @d_cmodels. @daniella_traub. Another fantastic session .. Two of the finest storytelling models. #lifedrawing #storytelling #storyboarder #herostory #fallenangel . . . . . #charactersketch #sketch #sketchoftheday #sketchaday #sketchdailies #sketch_dailies #sketch_daily #procreate #figuredrawingclass #doodle #drawing #dailydoodle #daily_art #daily__art #dailysketch #dailydrawing #instaartist #instaart #instart #instagood #igart #igartists #illustration #ziptones #storyboarding https://www.instagram.com/p/CPFbSxUjhar/?utm_medium=tumblr

[wyzedominick]

I feel like the #planetsarealigning in my life. Even tho I am 30 years old, and I am not entirely #sure where I am going in this life I believe that I am in a good space. I am working towards my #dreams everyday, and even tho I am not where I thought I would be I am right where I am supposed to be. That may sound kind of silly but really, it has given me a great amount of #peace to realize this. As long as I am working towards my dreams I can let my life be an #adventure, and in stories like that there is always evil or bad in the world. But those #badthings are what makes great #characterdevelopment in ever great #herostory. Maybe instead of griping about those things we should try to worship them. Life is hard, but that doesn’t mean it is not worth living. :) hope y’all have a fantastic day! https://www.instagram.com/p/CDMMAyhlvEV/?igshid=1ctqxugka1grv

[altaart]

Collab with @lionheart_superverse , WAY overdue tbh - xD #superhero#hero#story#herostory#storymaker#herostory#superherostory#superpower#superpowers#redraw#collab#artistscollab#digitalpiece#digitartist#digitalaerists https://www.instagram.com/p/CCdeufcjCAP/?igshid=k0h0usk6u6ht

[americansnippets]

If you could be a Super Hero for 24 hours who would you be? Which locker should you choose? . . . #beyourownhero #superhero #mondaythoughts #herostory https://www.instagram.com/p/B5lyYJuBt7f/?igshid=16o3u2qwk0t54