#is this unreliable narrator? maybe?

[disasociatehaze]

I finally worked up the courage to post one of my in-progress crossover fics. It's a BNHA x FF7 fic because I think it's a severely lacking niche with a ton of potential. This one in particular because it's prologue works better as a stand alone than the others I got and if it gets a decent enough response here I'll actually make an AO3 account. Not sure where it's going yet story wise, but its going somewhere. Comments and critiques are accepted.

Wake Up, King o’ the Cats

Prologue

People hadn’t always had quirks, it was only 200 years ago that people started developing supernatural powers that became common in society today. However, it was only after the dawn of quirks that people started to don the costumes— that were once staples of the superhero comics they once read— to stop superpowered crime that it became an official profession. Pro-Heroes is what they were called from then on.

Izuku had always known he would be a hero when he grew up— had said as much with unflinching confidence whenever he was asked. When he was told he couldn’t be a hero because he was quirkless, he simply looked confused while his mother was devastated. He didn’t understand why he couldn’t be a hero without a quirk because he already knew that quirks did not make a hero. Heroes were not what were shown on tv or on the corners of the street; heroes were people who gave everything to make sure people were safe and keep the real criminals from hurting anyone again. Heroes are different from Pro-Heroes, though All Might was definitely both. Izuku liked All Might even if he thought his smile was strained. 

That day, when they got home from the doctors office he didn’t ask his mom if he could be a hero. He just grabbed some paper and started to draw. When Inko asked if he was alright, he looked at her solemnly and told her with confidence he would still be a hero. Had Inko not broken into tears to hug her son— who was clearly in denial, she would have noticed the drawing Izuku had made. She would have seen her son holding hands with a cat in a cape and a crown surrounded by others, all of them wearing a pink ribbon on their arms with the exception of the girl wearing it in her hair. 

Later the drawing was carefully stored in a drawer, but forgotten. Izuku made many drawings after (some similar to the first; others more like blueprints) and learned all he could as he grew older. His thirst for knowledge was seemingly unquenchable. He was still bullied by his classmates for his quirkless status, but it always felt like it wasn’t worth dwelling on for him when he had blueprints to make. He didn’t need a quirk to be a hero, not when he could just design support items to fight with. Izuku would never stop fighting to improve life for others— he knew he was an unstoppable force with enough effort.

Izuku hadn’t realized why he was so odd until this moment as his life flashed before his eyes, suffocating in the grasp of the sludge monster villain. 

He was immobilized with no way to escape. 

Izuku was falling asleep.

Maybe now he could rest.

As Izuku drifted to sleep, he remembered his life as the world faded to a soft green and began to smell of flowers. A chime of laughter on the wind urged him conscious along with a light slapping to his cheek. 

Reeve awoke and he wished All Might had just let him sleep.

[pineconnie]

“the jump for the beef is so easy how could you fail this!!” have you perchance heard of worldbuilding or fictional stories

[myokk]

My writing/reading question of the day:

Do you prefer present tense or past tense? Or something entirely different like future tense? For writing AND reading🫶

The more I write (I wish I realized how fun it was before this year😭😭😭) the more I realize I like to play around with language & tense choice can have such a profound impact on how your writing comes across & even how I feel as I’m writing. With my oneshots I’ve been playing around with only present tense & my main fic is past tense (but present during the flashbacks - idk don’t ask it just felt right😆).

Or does nobody else think about tense and I’m just alone in this😆😆😆 LANGUAGE IS JUST SO COOL !!!!

[dr-mothman]

I think not a lot of people talk about AM's self-esteem issues and self-destructive tendencies and it makes me sad.

[shalomniscient]

nobody ask me why i’m on an angst kick or why i’m thinking of furina of all characters but what if. furina x reader but furina knows reader is actually in love with focalors and really is only by furina’s side as her aide/retained because focalors ordered them to and yet she still plays along because holy shit she needs companionship (and maybe the horribly overtly emotional sex) or else she really might just end it all before focalors can

[writerorlion333]

Parallels Between Spiderverse Villians: "It's All Your Fault Miles"

Kingpin: Blames Miles for the death of his family in their final confrontation, despite the fact that A) Miles was not Spiderman yet, and B) His wife and son left because he was about to punch Spiderman (Peter P.) in the face while holding him by his neck.

The Spot: Blames Miles ruining his life despite the fact that A) He chose to work at Amex, B) He was partially responsible for the creation of the collider in the first place, and C) if Miles hadn't blown it up, they would likely all be dead.

Miguel O'Hara: Blames Miles for breaking the multiverse despite A) It was in no way Miles's choice to get bitten by a spider Amex stole by mucking with spacetime, and B) He has no concrete proof of his theory, as evidenced by how he claims that Miles saving the Inspector was disrupting Canon even though without Spot that never would have happened in the first place

[visenyaism]

the levels of haterism aegon iv reached are legendary if nothing else

awesome how thematically you can think to yourself: well of course the firstborn son of a 13 year-old boy hostage and his 20something wife he was forced to marry who was then summarily abandoned by his mother at a young age and raised in the shadow of his baby brother who is the archetypical Perfect Knight and forced to marry his sister who he did not like as a teenager and spent his entire life locked into one massive selfish hedonistic binge session would have significant deep spiritual wounds and some level of humanity motivating him to lash out like that. and then fire and blood is like so aegon iv was actually a hater from birth. straight up literal evil baby. clocked his first attempted fratricide at eighteen months. no one hated like this

[lattuce]

shoutout to media with only one female character that’s just a vessel for a sexual assault and/or pregnancy plot line with very little or no characterization beyond that

[galaxythedragonshifter]

Idk if this has been debunked or not, but I'm pretty sure that the statistics that Dark Sun told Sun (about how many Moons kill their Suns and what not) were either lies to further his "Sun liberation" vendetta. Or incorrect statistics that he believes are real.

It's probably the former, considering he's even smarter than Eclipse, and I don't think he'd accidentally get a different statistic than the truth. Although, it's possible he did mess something up.

The reason I don't believe the statistics is one: Ruin already destroyed 5,000 dimensions that included the creator (aka the guy that causes dimensions like the SAMS, EAPS, Ruin's, ect to exist in the way it does.)

The dimensions left over that include the creator (such as eaps, the swap dimension, tsams, and some others) are only alive because the creator is already dead, had a heart attack, or are in between life and death.

And thousands of other dimensions exist as well. Considering they don't have the creator, I would assume they function differently than the ones we know from the SAMS's perspective. And since it's a multiverse, I would also assume that said multiverse includes other fan made content as well.

If that's true, Moons aren't always the abuser/bad guy in the situation.

A LOT of fanfics, especially as of recent, have been utilizing the "Sunhinged" trope for Sun. Making him incredibly passive aggressive, and sometimes possessive/yandere/abusive towards Moon (so the opposite of what happens in Creator universes it seems).

So if Dark Sun caused a 35% discrepancy in the multiverse, just how many of those dimensions were unnecessarily roped in? How many of those universes were triggered into those "Sunhinged" Suns killing Moon unnecessarily???

Because not many dimensions like SAMS, EAPS, DS's old dimension, and Ruin's dimension remain. That 35% might be dragging in universes that don't have the same dynamic as those Suns and Moons do.

Just how much damage is Dark Sun causing? Especially if that discrepancy increases.

Edit: ALSO, Atlas implied those statistics could be a lie at the end of that episode. So yeah, I truly do believe that what Dark Sun said was incorrect or a downright lie.

[idkimtiredanddumb]

No because Neil is SUCH. An unreliable narrator but he’s also so convincing and also like confused and missing all these social cues and clues but like I am too??? It’s so easy to get swept up in his head The first time I read aftg I was just nodding along how does he make every decision he makes (most of which are insane) ??? so??? convincingly??? rational??? AND THEN (embarrassingly) the “doesn’t mean I wouldn’t blow you” blew BOTH OF OUR MINDS like upon rereading I was like … that was so terribly obvious and yet. And yet.

[pharawee]

The Renovation was released yesterday on WeTV and the first (of two) episodes is free two watch.

It's a very low-stakes show that's selling exactly what's on the tin: writer checks into resort that's currently being renovated and tries to get with the owner so he can use the whole thing as inspiration for his next novel.

There's basically like, 30 minutes of hurt/comfort with a focus on the comfort part - in the form of not one but two very long and drawn out sponge baths. It feels a bit like whoever came up with the whole thing is really living their best sponge bath enthusiast life.

And then, right at the end, this happens:

What. the. Dickens.

Yeah... uhm... they won, I will be tuning in next week.

[victorian-nymph]

also why in posts i see headcanoning the ages of characters is anya like a fresh faced baby at like 22-23 or something,,,, make that woman in her late twenties rn. she has managed to not get into medical school eight separate times thats eight times she's missed an enrollment cutoff date which is at least four years of trying to get it, and the fact that you need a bachelors as well usually to get into med school so at minIMUM she has to be twenty six-seven. make her the frustrated mid twenties bitch that she deserves to be goddammit.

[qprpbj]

do u ever think about how the darry dally, dally johnny, hth etc scenes without pony physically in them are all retellings TO him about what happened and not. what actually happened. and how inaccurate they could be to what Actually happened. the words and actions actuallyyyy said. literally he just made up what happened in his imagination after being told about them. ponyboy i love you and your silly little imagination

[youngyoo-apologist]

OG!Cale drawings, I love this guy.

[chiarrara]

i think its wild how beautiful and foundational the queer readings of jjk are considering how violently anti-queer the manga is in practice

[adelaidedrubman]

OC SMASH OR PASS

i was tagged by beloveds @imogenkol and @rhettsabbott, thank you dears! warnings for smash related topics and jestiny

RULES: pretty self explanatory. include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. the “other” label can be used for “sexuality misalignment” (ie: oc is femme and you’re gay, vice versa or you aren’t into smashing but a specific thing you wanna do with them like perhaps hug or study them under a microscope idc).

art by the incredible @derelictheretic!

QUICK FACTS:

full name: jestiny ellen rook

height: 5’4½

age: 28 c. 2018

gender: gal

pronouns: she/her

sexuality: bisexual

PROS:

❤️‍🔥 great sense of humor. never a dull moment

❤️‍🔥 can catch so many fish. knows all the best spots. might mock a bit but will ultimately bait your hook and gut your catch for you. you’ll never want for trout. good provider many fish

❤️‍🔥 a certain roguish charm?

❤️‍🔥 possibility of meeting hank!

❤️‍🔥 full bush (with happy trail)

CONS:

❤️‍🔥 your manic pixie dream girl is actually deranged

❤️‍🔥 does she look moderate to you? could refuse to leave you alone for months could vanish into the night and move 200 miles away tomorrow could burn your house down. that’s part of the quirky fun experience she offers

❤️‍🔥 Dark Empath™ (sexual)

❤️‍🔥 banned from the spread eagle romance route speedrun 100% no glitches no wild animals no shirt no service

❤️‍🔥 ipa drinker and you can taste it iykwim

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