#mirko's introduction post

[mirkodoesstuff]

WELCOME TO MY LITTLE CORNER ON THE INTERNET, VISITOR!

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☠୧⍤⃝ 𒋨𒆙𒆜𒄆𒁎 ☠୧⍤⃝ 𒋨𒆙𒆜𒄆𒁎

Hello! My name’s Mirkoslavec, however you can refer to me as Mirko, Mirk or a secret third option (or my a completely different name, if we’re close). I'm 19 years old and my birthday is on June 8th!

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Ever since I was young, I was into various things, such as drawing, writing, creating various headcanons, reading, sleeping (this one is obvious) and, obviously, wanting to be original. I started to both draw and write ever since I was a little kid, and though most of my stories were either lost to time, were deleted ‘cause I was embarrassed and decided to just delete them from existence, I still improved through time, the same goes for drawings. However, unlike with stories, the old drawings are, mostly, still saved on my pen drive, however, most of them are from the year 2019, so it’s just 5 years ago. If I ever decide to post some of my old art there, I would do it as a form of redrawing those drawings, so I wouldn’t really feel ashamed of myself.

I’m really into various topics as well, mainly the darker ones, such as death, loss of loved ones, addictions, dark thoughts, dealing with various mental problems, having to come up with the past of the loved ones, that you recently learnt through the most unexpected way, torture, politics (as in, learning why things are that way, and not in another way), history (because I just love learning about the past, especially about Mediaeval Times and the last century). However, don’t expect me to get political - I just want to get away from the real world and just enjoy every free moment I have, and also I know, how people can get heated due to that topic.

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The mascot of this blog is a character called “Miroslav Bochto”, who seems to be, at first, just a normal, anthropomorphised food object (there is an object version of him), however actually isn’t an object at all. His reference, under his “used” form is there:

Miroslav will be used mainly in “personal” art, such as in art, where I celebrate various holidays, such as vacations, Christmas, Halloween, art for other things, such as rants, reviews and just in general.

Of course, there are more than one “main” OC, however Miroslav is the main one, as he was created in thought of, directly, representing me.

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I know, currently, three languages - Polish (my native), English (pretty good) and German (basic knowledge), however I wish I could learn Russian, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese and Icelandic.

Another thing I want to learn soon is how to code and create 3D models. I have my reasons - with coding I could actually create a game on my own - either a fangame for one of the fandoms I belong to, or my own original game, with modelling it’s a mix between “I want to create games” and “I want to create cool stuff, that aren’t only 2D” due to the fact, that I;m aware about the whole thing with me having to not only learn how to code, but also knowing how to improve the game, how to create various events, that would get the players hooked, how to not make the game be unfairly hard or unfairly easy etc., and with modelling, I might focus on creating, firstly, only 3D models, completely for fun, and not for any games, unless… Something would change.

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☠୧⍤⃝ 𒋨𒆙𒆜𒄆𒁎 ☠୧⍤⃝ 𒋨𒆙𒆜𒄆𒁎

I’m in many fandoms, so you might expect to not only see drawings, headcanons, opinions etc. related to only one fandom, but also for many fandoms.

I belong to:

Object Show Community (BFDI, II, LOTS, BOTO, plan to watch more Object Shows)

Five Nights at Freddy’s (and fangames, such as Five Nights at Candy’s, Playtime with Percy, Those Nights at Rachel’s, Dayshift at Freddy’s, The Joy of Creation, Popgoes, etc.)

Warrior Cats,

Cartoon communities (The Simpsons, Gravity Falls),

The Sims,

Omori,

Skyrim, 

Terraria,

Stardew Valley,

OCs (as in my original universe for OCs I have), 

Undertale (and its AUs),

Doki Doki Literature Club, 

Anthropomorphised animals

Brawl Stars

And many more, however I don’t really remember them, however, if I remember some, I’ll either add them or just upload a drawing from fandoms I didn’t list there!

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The tags, that I plan to use are divided in four categories, due to me wanting to make the blog be as easy access not only for me, but also for anyone reading the blog.

The first category is “Personal tags”, which are tags supposed to indicate what the post is supposed to be about.

#mirko draws - it’s obviously a post, featuring a drawing.

#mirko redraws - same as above, however it is more about redrawing either an old piece of mine, a scene in games/in movies/in comics or something else

#mirko’s opinions - used, when I share an opinion over various things

#mirko rants - as the name says, it is used when I rant about something

#mirko rambles - used, when I ramble about something, such as the newest released episode, the news about various games, etc.

#mirko reviews - a post, that indicates, that what I posted is a review of something (either a game, an episode of a TV series, or webseries)

#mirko reblogs - as name suggest it, it’s used when I reblog stuff from other people.

#mirko's answers - tag used for asks

#mirko vents - used only for venting (either through art or text… Or both)

#mirko’s special announcements - only used when I want to announce something special

#mirko’s introductory post - only used for the post you’re reading right now

#mirko’s headcanons - used on a post featuring my headcanons for various characters

#mirko’s comics - a comic, that was created by me.

#mirko updates stories - this tag is used, when a story, either on AO3 or Wattpad, gets updated

#shitposting time - a tag for various shitposts, that are going to be occasionally posted, related to various events.

#mirko’s designs - designs created by me

The second category is “Fandom-related” tags, that are only used for something related to projects for fandoms I’m part of.

#the rising moon universe - tag used for all posts, that are related to a BFDI AU, which is “what if BFDI characters were anthropomorphised, and there was more stuff to it?”

#goikian stories - a tag used for all posts, which are about an AU based on beta BFDI content (such as Firey comic series, Total Firey Island, Total Firey Island Points, etc.)

#along came a bubble - a tag used for all posts, which are about a BFDI AU, in which Bubble snapped at everyone, who mistreated her.

#among the clouds - a tag used for all posts, which are for a BFDI AU, in which TV needs to deal with a heavy loss of his

#battle cats - a tag used for all posts, which are for a BFDI x Warrior Cats AU.

#paltronics’ experiments - a tag used for all posts, which are for PWP AU, in which Paltronics decided to use a technology to create an updated cast of the original characters, adding more stuff to it.

#percy’s afterparty - an AU, in which many years after the incident, that changed the poodle’s life completely, Percy is forced to confront the forgotten past

#the playhouse of damned ones - an AU, in which the playhouse was abandoned for an unknown, for public, reason and Nick decides to see what happened in there

#our playtime - some sort of OMORI x PWP x BFDI (woah) AU

The third category is “OCs” related

#miroslav and friends - a series of stories/comics/drawings etc., featuring my persona - Miroslav and his gang in various situations

#lights in darkness - a series of stories/comics/drawings etc., featuring my original characters, still related to object shows, living on an island and having lots of adventures.

#the forest seven - OCs, that belong to the Forest in Goikian Stories

#the forest guards - a group of OCs (both objects and cats), that were guarding the Evil Forest for many years

#wolkrows - a group of demonic creatures, that have two forms - one “hidden” and another - the real, blob-like form

The fourth category is “things I did for people” related

#mirko’s art for people - a tag used, if the art was requested by someone

#mirko’s paid work - a tag used, if the art was bought by someone

#mirko’s gift - a tag used, if the art was a gift for someone

#mirko’s part of art-trade - a tag used, if the art was a part of art trade with someone

#mirko’s part of collab - a tag used for my part of a collab

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Naturally, the tags in fourth category wouldn’t be used so often, due to various reasons, as, for example school, me being busy with life or any other reasons.

Requests - CLOSED

C0mmissi0ns - CLOSED

Art-Trades - CLOSED

Collabs - CLOSED

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You know, I wish my blog could be kid-friendly, however… Me being me is making it impossible, so I require everyone, who are visiting my blog to be at least 15 years old! Under 15 do not interact!

Another thing I want to say, that on my blog you can find themes, such as:

Gore,

Death,

Torture,

Addictions,

Nightmares,

Dealing with mental problems,

Memory loss,

Paranormal activities,

Repressed memories,

Mystery pasts,

Breakups/bad romances,

Loss of friends/family etc.,

Kidnappings,

Body Horror,

Disturbing lore,

Suggestive themes,

So, if you’re uncomfortable with any of the topics above, don’t follow me, don’t try to force me to not talk/make stories based on those topics/etc., just because you dislike those topics! 

All of those topics will have warnings.

You can expect some of “lighter” stuff be there too, because even people like me need some fluff, right?

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The list of my other social media is:

Gamejolt - Mirkoslavec

Discord - mirkoslavec

Toyhouse - Mirkoslavec

Deviantart - Mirkoslavec 

Cara - soon

Hope you will enjoy the stay there!

[class1akids]

Tbh your posts on merch and the top 10 make me feel kinda split, because on one hand: WOW literally ALL of the top 10 are male… this merch lineup of what sells is SUPER male dominated… we are literally teaching these corporations that women don’t sell… that doesn’t feel great, and I don’t feel like I can lay the blame entirely at Hori’s feet. (Like Monoma is one of my top 5 characters, I love an absolutely hatstand kid with the energy of a Saturday morning cartoon villain… but having been on the ground since his introduction, this kid has always been an acquired taste and it feels kinda weird that he outranked literally EVERY female character in the series.)

On the other hand, I also get why this happened. MHA is massively male dominated, and the women who are in it are massively overshadowed and written with much less depth than their male counterparts. Plus a lot of them, especially the girls of 1A, got kinda fazed out and boiled down as the series progressed. Also, the series has a fair amount of female characters who are/were generally liked by the fandom (Momo, Jiro Mina, Tsu, Mirko), how badly do you have to fumble to get ALL of them off the top 10??? Momo and Jiro even have a decently sized, still not pissed off, shipping community for god sake!

I think the main problem is that while Hori's female designs are mostly attractive and many of them have good vibes, like you say, their stories were not explored and friendships didn't get much depth.

The fandom wasn't anti-women to start with. In the popularity polls we had female characters in Top 10, especially during Act 1 (first two polls) with a resurgence in the 5th poll after again several school arcs + MVA boosting Toga:

1st - Uraraka, Asui (Ch 52 - up to SF)

2nd - Jirou, Uraraka, Asui (Ch 106 - up to Kamino arc)

3rd - Uraraka (Ch 146 - mid-Overhaul arc)

4th - Momo (Ch 192 - Up to Pro hero arc)

5th - Momo, Uraraka, Toga (Ch 235 - mid MVA)

6th - no female char (Ch 279 - mid PLF War)

7th - no female char (Ch 321 - mid Class A vs OFA)

8th - Uraraka (Ch 359 - mid Final War arc)

9th - Uraraka (Ch 403 - mid Final war -> following Toga vs Uraraka)

But as from Act 3, the only female characters who got a lot of prominence were Uraraka and Toga, while early favorites like Tsuyu or Momo have faded into obscurity. Jirou got a decent endgame highlight and that translated into a solid Top 20 spot for her, but looking at the epilogue, etc. she didn't get much love from Hori.

Now panel count doesn't always translate into popularity, but it's interesting to look at the relation of the two. For this, I'm comparing Global poll rankings with panel count. This is the list of 25 characters with the most panel count. 6/25 are female characters, but only 1 from the Top 10 - Uraraka.

Izuku Midoriya    (2) - 6616  

Katsuki Bakugo (1) - 2321 

All Might (12) - 2029 

Tomura Shigaraki (9) - 1945

Shoto Todoroki (3) - 1885 

Ochako Uraraka (11) - 1663

Tenya Ida (18) - 1303

Shota Aizawa (4) - 1235

Endeavor (6) -1225

Eijiro Kirishima (5) - 1105

All For One (38) - 916

Tsuyu Asui (26) - 747

Dabi (8) - 745

Denki Kaminari (14) - 740

Hawks (7) - 722

Fumikage Tokoyami (19) - 722

Momo Yaoyorozu (22) - 693

Himiko Toga (13) - 681

Twice (31) = 662

Mirio Togata (21) - 653

Minoru Mineta (43) - 641

Mina Ashido (33) - 635

Kyoka Jiro (20) - 624

Yuga Aoyama (27) - 553

Mezo Shoji (28) - 518

So clearly Uraraka having 2.5x the panel time than any other female character helped her get into 6/9 (or 6/10 including the global poll) times into the Top 10, but she underperforms characters like Aizawa, Endeavor, Hawks, Dabi, who have significantly less panel time, but more prominence in the polls.

I think some of it is writing density - these male characters have fairly deep story lines with interesting interactions with a wide range of characters. Some of it is shipping (EndHawks, DabiHawks, EraserMic are all fan favorite strong ships). And some of it reflects that over time the manga's core audience (at least in terms of voting and merch) became older teenage / adult women who were more interested in male characters and some adult male characters, than a teenage girl with a crush on the protagonist then turned into a doomed yuri with another teenage girl before it went back to the crush on the MC.

I think also Hori put a lot of his efforts particularly into Uraraka, who may be the encouraging, smiley, woman ideal for male audiences, but not necessarily the type of female character women audiences like. I don't know if there is a possible generalisation to make, and there is no accounting for taste, but I think a lot of women prefer characters with more spunk, spirit, drive, leadership, rich relationship, a dark side to overcome, etc.

And while other female characters from class A had sometimes more interesting personalities, their stories were mostly rushed or faded away.

As for adult female characters like Mirko, Nagant or Mt Lady - they got cool designs but not enough backstory and emotional interactions that can really make a character rise.

So I have no problem laying most of the blame on Hori. Appealing designs go a long way - and men do buy Toga and Mirko figures - but in the end, compelling characters are more than just design. It's also about story depth, and relationships that turn into ships.

And MHA female characters tbh are not that compelling compared to other stories tough shonen overall has a poor track record when it comes to interesting female characters. And while Hori copied a lot of Western Comics, he didn't tap into what makes characters like Storm or Rogue such fan favorites.

[cinemocha77]

Meteor Shower | Chapter 4

Hawks x f!reader

ao3 | chapter 1 | chapter 2 | chapter 3 | chapter 5

pairing: Keigo Takami ; Hawks / f!reader

synopsis: Congratulations! In the summer months of your final year of university, you receive an extremely rare offer to intern at one of the top hero agencies in Japan. Your excitement is curbed, however, when you learn that it’s from the agency of Hawks, the enigmatic hero whom you may or may not have a deep and complicated history with.

genre: childhood friends to strangers to friends to lovers

tags: childhood friends to lovers, canon compliant, hawks, Keigo Takami, slow burn, fluff and angst, reader is Quirkless, reader is a surfer/photographer, original male characters, original female characters

Chapter 4: On the Wing

“So,” you ask, hands digging into the pockets of your hoodie to keep warm, “What’s your reason for visiting this time?”

A playful spark dances in his eyes. He replies simply, “Curiosity.”

“Curiosity?” You repeat. “Care to elaborate?”

"So do you wanna talk about it?” Taki asks, his eyes focused on the screen of his camera as he adjusts the exposure levels.

“About what?” You fiddle with the strap of your gear absentmindedly.

You’re lounging on opposite chairs around the common worktable of the media office. Floor to ceiling windows run along the length of the wall behind you, the brilliance of the morning sun casting a soft glow on Taki’s features. You spin aimlessly in your chair as you wait for the others to show up.

Taki shoots you a pointed look. “Your childhood friend —who also happens to be our boss— pretending not to recognize you and bailing on us at lunch yesterday?”

Much to his surprise, you let out a laugh. “Ah, it was a dick move, to be sure. But it’s water under the bridge. He made it up to me last night.”

Taki raises an eyebrow. Your face heats up, hearing your own words. “Not like that!”

“You know what, I don’t even wanna know.” He turns back to adjusting his camera’s settings, leaving you to run your fingers through your hair self-consciously.

“There’s nothing to know, except that you have a tendency to make a lot of inappropriate assumptions,” you mutter.

“I didn’t say anything,” Taki says in a singsong voice, smirking.

“You said a whole lot with your expression,” you shoot back.

“Y/n, I think you might be projecting.”

“And I think you need to hurry up with your adjustments. Mirko and Watanabe are here.” You nod to the door behind him.

Taki glances up in time to see Hawks’ secretary knocking on the glass door of the office. Watanabe enters, followed by Mirko and a woman dressed from head to toe in varying shades of pink, from her puffy blouse and flared trousers to her chunky platform boots. Even her hair is a bright bubblegum hue. Though it takes a second for your eyes to adjust to the shock of color, you think her overall appearance is quite charming.

“Good morning, Y/n, Taki,” Watanabe says. You return his greeting, and he gestures to the pink lady. “This is Kaia, the head of the media department. Until your arrival, she was running a one-woman team.”

Kaia makes a beeline for you and Taki, beaming. She grasps your hands before Watanabe even finishes his introduction. “Thank god you guys are here, I’ve been up to my neck in this damn agency! Watanabe, you’re my savior.”

She blows a kiss in his direction, and his cheeks turn the color of her hair. He stammers, “N-no problem.”

Turning back to you, Kaia complains, “Do you have any idea how stressful it is to plan and direct shoots, coordinate schedules, take all the photos and videos, process them, and post them on our website and social media accounts, all on your own? That shit was making my skin break out.”

You grimace sympathetically. “That sure sounds like a lot. But Taki and I are here now. We’ll do our best to help you.”

She claps her hands. “Love the enthusiasm. College students are so cute! They have yet to be jaded by the disappointments of a full-time job.”

Mirko clears her throat. “Kaia, sweetie, you should tell them what we’re up to today.”

“Right!” Kaia smiles mischievously. “I hope you guys did a good bit of stretching this morning, because we’re going to be running around the city following Mirko on her mission.”

Mirko puffs her chest out, her muscles flexing with pride. “Don‘t feel too bad if you can’t keep up. I’m pretty fuckin’ fast.”

You and Taki exchange excited looks. Now this is more like it. Speed is no issue for you; in fact, it makes for the most thrilling subject matter to capture on camera. Maybe there was some deep seated biology at work —the thrill of the chase and whatnot— but ever since you had first picked up a camera, it had been your greatest pleasure to seek out visions of swiftness.

“Where do we start?”

~~~

Outside the entrance to Hawks’ agency, the team gathers around Watanabe as he reads aloud the briefing on his tablet:

”The mission is simple. The agency has caught wind of a villain’s plans to steal a prized painting from the local art museum. The villain’s Quirk allows him to brainwash those who are standing still, making theft in a museum quite easy. The crime will take place in broad daylight, and considering the delicate nature of the objects on display, it wouldn’t be advisable to confront the villain inside the building. Therefore, Mirko will be waiting to apprehend him the second he steps outside. Mirko, your job is to recover the artwork in one undamaged piece. Our media team will be following you to document the confrontation, as well as the state of the painting once it’s been recovered. Any questions?”

Taki raises his hand. “My telekinetic Quirk allows me to take photos remotely. I’ll be able to see where my lenses are pointing through an app on my phone. So I don’t think it’s necessary for me to keep close to Mirko. Where should I stay?”

“You can wait outside the villain’s Quirk radius with me,” says Kaia. “We’ll be communicating with the others through earpieces anyway.”

She’s leaning on her motorbike, which, rather unexpectedly, is devoid of the pink hues that compose her entire outfit. Instead, the bike is a sober matte gray that clashes magnificently with the fuschia frills of her blouse.

Watanabe turns to you. “What about you, Y/n? What’s your method for photography?”

You grin at his question, and reach for the object slung around your shoulder by a strap. It’s a sleek metal cylinder no longer than a foot. “I’m glad you asked.”

You press a button, and in a series of neat, satisfying clicks, the object in your hand expands into a contraption greatly resembling a metal windsurfing board. It hovers a few inches off the ground, its engine purring like a cat. Sprouting from the middle of the board is a sail with a control panel and gearshift located on the handle. The board’s exterior is scratched up from years of active use, but thanks to your loving attention and regular maintenance, it still glides through the air as smoothly as ever. Instinctively, you reach out and stroke the sail, your eyes gleaming with tenderness.

“This is my baby,” you say, and your voice rings with pride. “I had it made when I was at UA High, as a way to combine my love for surfing and photography. It’s gone through several iterations at this point, but I wouldn’t be the photographer I am today without it.”

“Let me get this straight,” Mirko says, her bunny ears twitching involuntarily. “You take action photos while flying through the air on a fucking hoverboard?!”

You exchange mischievous grins with the bunny hero. “Yup. So don’t worry about slowing down for us, Mirko,” you reply.

“Now that’s what I’m talking about! We’re gonna get along just fine.” She claps you on the shoulder with so much enthusiasm that you wince at the sheer strength of her grip.

Kaia whistles appreciatively. “Not bad, Y/n! This means I can leave the photography to you two, and focus on my strong suits, direction and social media.”

She sighs, looking immensely pleased. “Shall we get going, then? Are everybody’s earpieces working? Right. Lead the way, Mirko!”

Mirko crouches low to the ground. She shifts her weight to her haunches, preparing to sprint like her life depends on it. Watanabe retreats until he’s right by the agency entrance, waiting to see the team off and offer remote support. Taki settles himself behind Kaia on her motorbike and hovers his phone screen in front of him while two cameras float up on either side, all suspended by his Quirk.

You step onto your board, feeling the familiar engine hum beneath your feet. With one hand gripping the handle and the other holding your camera to your eye, you brace yourself.

And then Mirko is off, shooting down the street like an arrow launched from a taut bow, and you’re zooming through the airspace above her, dodging street signs and stoplights as you go. You keep your camera locked onto the bunny hero and snap a couple of photos. You revel in the rhythm of it all; watch, wait, turn, breathe, shoot. The air currents are smooth and supple beneath your feet. Here, suspended in the air, with your body leaning and bending with every twist and turn of the sail and your weight shifting as your feet dig into the board, you feel composed and alert. The only comparable sensation to this is surfing the waves back in your hometown.

From the corner of your eye, you can see Taki’s cameras keeping pace with you and snapping photos of their own.

“Alright, team!” Kaia’s voice chirps in your earpiece. “We’re just around the corner from the museum.”

“Right on time,” responds Watanabe. “We’ve just received reports from confused personnel that the painting has been stolen from right under their noses. It seems the villain is using his brainwashed victims to hold off security while he makes a break for the exit.”

“On it!” Mirko shouts.

She rounds a corner and you follow in her wake. The museum comes into view. It’s a wide, brick building foregrounded by a spacious courtyard. Dotting the courtyard are a few colorful and eclectic sculptures.

Mirko leaps over Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkin just as the thief scurries out through the exit, the painting tucked under his arm.

They catch sight of each other, and before he can activate his brainwashing Quirk, she dives and tackles him, sending the painting flying high into the air. It seems as if it’s happening in slow motion, but you know it’s only a matter of time before it will come crashing down to the ground.

“Oh god, should I—?” You begin, craning your neck to watch the painting practically spin into orbit, but Kaia interrupts over the earpiece.

“No need to worry, Y/n! Our gal Mirko is a lot more careful than she looks.”

Your eyes fall back to earth in time to see Mirko subduing the villain in a series of quick, efficient motions. Hastily, you point your camera at them and resume your documentation. In a second, she has him pinned facedown on the floor with his hands behind his back, and in the next second, she deftly catches the painting that was hurtling toward the ground.

“NICE!”

The whole team is whooping congratulations over the earpieces, and Mirko laughs triumphantly as she hops around, still warding off her opponent’s brainwashing Quirk. Taki’s cameras zoom around the scene, documenting the state of the painting. You hear blaring sirens drawing closer, and then a police car pulls up at the entrance, ready to arrest the thief.

The villain is grumbling loudly as Mirko hands him over. “I’ll get that artwork and then some next time! This isn’t the last you’ll see of me, for I am the Villain—,”

“Yeah, yeah,” Mirko yawns. “Don't bother telling me your name, bud. I’m shit at remembering the boring ones. See ya!”

She slams the car door behind him.

~~~

In high spirits after the successful mission, you and the rest of the team sit down for lunch at the cafeteria, laughing riotously as Mirko re-enacts the ridiculous way she had to hop around to avoid getting hit by the brainwashing Quirk.

“I probably would have looked less stupid if I actually got brainwashed!” She says, cackling as she sits back down.

Kaia wipes a tear from the corner of her eye, choking out, “I— I wish I could have seen it for myself!”

“It was great,” you chuckle. “Seriously though Mirko, seeing you in action was amazing. You handled everything so efficiently!”

“Wait ‘til you see me in action.” A smooth male voice chimes in behind you, sounding amused.

You glance over your shoulder. Hawks is holding his lunch tray aloft, the visor propped on his head and the windswept appearance of his honey hair indicating that he’s just returned from his morning patrol. He tilts his head inquiringly, his eyes fixed on you.

“Mind if I join you happy campers?”

You stare at him, trying not to think about the night before or the slight quickening of your heartbeat for whatever reason.

“No lunchtime patrols today?” You ask.

The corners of his lips quirk up. “Nah, that was more of a one-time thing.”

“Ah, gotcha.” Smirking, you scooch over and make room for him on the bench. He settles down comfortably next to you. You look up and realize that the entire table was watching your exchange with the winged hero curiously. Perhaps you’re conducting yourself too casually around your boss whom you supposedly just met yesterday, you reflect. Feeling self-conscious, you drop your gaze and stare intently at your sandwich.

If Hawks notices the others staring, he acts completely unabashed and wholly absorbed in digging into his lunch with enthusiasm. The only other person who seems unfazed is Mirko. She leans forward, eyes glinting.

“You should have seen the interns this morning,” she says to Hawks. “Taki was like a freakin’ camera whisperer with his Quirk, and Y/n literally surfs through the air on a hoverboard while taking photos! It’s like they were born for this job.”

Hawks chokes slightly, looking up from his yakitori to stare at you with sharp, curious eyes.

“A flying surfboard, huh?” He asks.

You steel yourself to meet his knowing gaze. “Um, yeah.”

“How fascinating,” he muses, staring intently. “I’d love to see how that works.”

Watanabe leans forward. “Well, the media team is more than capable of accompanying you on any missions—”

“No, thank you.” Hawks’ eyes snap to his secretary. “Bringing civilians along on dangerous missions doesn’t sit right with me.”

“Hey,” Mirko interjects. “I had my doubts too. But I’m with Watanabe on this one. The interns know what they’re doing, and we obviously took precautions to avoid unnecessary trouble.”

Hawks’ brows knit together in frustration. “Look, that’s all well and good, but—”

“Don’t we have a say?” Everybody turns their head to look at Taki when he speaks up. Disconcerted by the sudden attention of the entire table, he clears his throat.

“I mean, the whole point of a hero agency’s media department is to relay the efforts of the heroes to the public. A strong image helps to reassure society and deter potential villains from wreaking havoc.”

He looks at you for support.

“Right,” you nod. “And an unavoidable part of documenting that is being down on the ground where the action is happening.”

You turn to Hawks sitting beside you, and say firmly, “We knew what we were getting into by coming here.”

Perhaps it’s your imagination, but you think you catch a trace of anguish in his expression. It vanishes before you can be sure, replaced by a breezy, conceding smile.

“Well, it looks like I’ve been outvoted on this matter!” He laughs. “Sorry if it seemed like I was doubting you interns, but you know what they say: better safe than sorry.”

He changes the subject by asking Mirko about that morning’s mission, and the disagreement is promptly dropped as she leaps off the bench for another reenactment.

~~~

Later that night on your balcony, you lean against the railing and breathe in the cool air. The fleeting agitation on Hawks’ face when you talked about accompanying him on missions has been bothering you all day. His words from the previous night echo in your mind: “I didn’t want to drag you into my mess… I couldn’t lose you, Y/n. I couldn’t lose my best friend.”

Ever since you were children, Keigo had been protective. He’d made sure you walked along the innermost lane of every sidewalk while he stayed closer to the passing cars. He’d sent his feathers to float after you while you climbed trees in the park, so that they could catch you if you fell. Once, when you were twelve and sightings of an escaped villain had been reported alarmingly close to your area, Keigo had gone as far as to sneak out of his training facility at night and fly across Kyushu, just to clamber clumsily through your bedroom window and keep watch over you until the morning. You had stayed up together, building a pillow fort and shaking with hushed laughter as you swapped jokes and ghost stories until the sky lightened over the sea beyond your window. His act of disobedience had gotten him into a world of trouble with the commission. But when you apologized profusely for it, he just laughed and said, “What are you talking about? That was so much fun!”

Still, you weren’t a little kid with scratches on your knees and palms from falling off one too many tree branches anymore. You could handle yourself in a sticky situation or two…

A large red feather floats through the air in front of you, interrupting your train of thought.

You shake your head, chuckling in exasperation.

“Is getting jumpscared on my balcony going to become a regular occurrence?” You ask.

“Hey, I put some thought into giving you a heads up this time around,” Keigo says, smiling lazily as he steps down from the railing and onto your balcony. “Seeing as your screeching almost broke my eardrums last time.”

“Harsh,” you pout. “My boss can be so mean. Sorry about your eardrums, sir.”

It’s hard to tell in the darkness, but you swear you see the color in his face deepen slightly.

“Don’t call me that,” he mutters.

Flustered isn’t a bad look on him. You make a mental note and file it away.

“So,” you ask, hands digging into the pockets of your hoodie to keep warm, “What’s your reason for visiting this time?”

A playful spark dances in his eyes. He replies simply, “Curiosity.”

“Curiosity?” You repeat. “Care to elaborate?”

“I wanted to see your flying surfboard.” Then he tilts his head and gestures to the skyline spread out before you. “And, if you’re up for it, we could go on a little joyride through the skies of this fine city of mine.”

You consider this, biting your lip. “I don’t know, I’m already in my comfy clothes. It’s a tempting offer, though.”

“Then why resist the temptation?”

You look up into his amber eyes, and know that as much as you want to play coy, you can’t help but take him up on his offer. Grinning despite yourself, you duck into the apartment to retrieve your board, calling out behind you, “Give me a second!”

Back outside on the balcony with Keigo, you hold out the metal cylindrical contraption in your hand and press the button. It clicks and expands into your flying surfboard, its retractable sail stretching proudly to its full extent as it hovers inches above the floor. He whistles.

“She’s a beauty, no doubt about it,” he crouches down, inspecting the board. “So this is what you had made when you were at UA?”

“Basically,” you reply. “Inspired, as you know, by Treasure Planet. And you.”

He looks up, surprised. “Me?”

“Yes. You.” Your smile is genuine if a little wistful when you explain, “You looked so happy and free every time you were flying, I just wanted to follow you up into the sky and catch a little bit of the light coming off you. You looked like magic.”

There it is again. The way you manage to disarm him with your honesty and perceptiveness, making his breath catch in his chest. Keigo stares at you, marveling at the way you seem to truly and effortlessly see him in the best light. For once, he’s lost for words.

You continue, a little nervous under the intensity of his gaze, “Anyway, I was right! There’s nothing like the freedom of flying. Shall we get going, then?”

He clears his throat and nods, stepping back to watch you prepare to take off.

You step onto your board and tug on the sail just so. It lifts you gently up into the sky, leaving your balcony and the agency building behind. Cool night air envelops your figure as Keigo stretches his large red wings and takes flight alongside you, matching your pace. His eyes don’t leave you.

“Are you trying to race me?” You call out, grinning.

“Come on now, sweetheart,” he replies. “You know better than to bet against m— hey!”

Keigo’s taunt is interrupted when you yank the handle of your windsail, instantly accelerating the board and leaving him in the dust. He angles his wings and speeds after you, exclaiming, “You got a head start! That’s totally cheating!”

You slow down. You’re still laughing when he catches up to you. “Oh, it was so worth it to see that surprised look on your face!”

He huffs, trying and failing to look upset with you. “You really have a way of catching me off guard that I’m not used to, Surfer Girl. I’m calling for a rematch.”

You stick out your tongue. “I’m good, thanks!”

Here in this weightless realm where the silent city lights below and the twinkling stars above seem equally distant, your laughter is for one another’s ears only. Laughter that bubbles up like a freshwater spring, and flows just as easily.

Gradually, wordlessly, you fall into an easy rhythm, circling one another in the indigo sky high above Fukuoka. From Keigo’s point of view, with his gaze trained on you as the stars spin in the background, it’s as if the celestial lights are orbiting you in your own little world. All he wants to do is stay in this moment, his vision filled with the sight of you floating through the air, eyes sparkling and hair blowing in the currents of the wind.

His expression glows with contentment, mirroring the warmth you feel inside your beating heart. Somehow, those childhood afternoons you spent together on the beach in your hometown no longer seem so far away. Even now, those two kids could be playing in the sand of some cozy shore, unharmed by the passage of time.

“You know,” he says presently, “It’s like we’re dancing right now. You ever see those videos of two birds of prey spinning around in the sky together?”

You raise an eyebrow. “Aren’t they performing courtship rituals when they do that?”

Busted.

Though he’s pretty certain that isn’t what this is. You’d have to be holding on tightly to each other, for one thing. And you’d have to be something other than just friends.

He’s quick to recover, shaking his head and laughing. “Those damn romantics!”

“I know, right?” You sigh dramatically. “Humans need to step up their game. We’re getting shown up by the birds.”

“They mate for life and everything, too,” Keigo adds inconsequentially, his tone light as if he’s discussing the weather.

“Huh.” You lean on the handle of your sail, your voice teasing. “And I was under the impression that some birds of prey prefer to lead the bachelor life and revel in all the delights and liberties that come with it.”

He snorts. “Ninety percent of what you read about me in the tabloids or on the Internet is totally fake. Well, maybe seventy percent… fifty, at least fifty!”

You fake a gasp. “You’re telling me you’re not actually the secret baby daddy of four different celebrities?”

“God, is that what they’re saying now?” Keigo shakes his head in exasperation. “That’s rich. When I have kids, I’ll be damn sure to have them with the right person. And be fully present in their life.”

You blink, surprised by the certainty in his tone. “You seem to have put a lot of thought into it.”

He slows down. You subconsciously mirror his movements until you’re no longer circling one another, but floating in the sky face to face.

“Heh, yeah. Sometimes, when this hero business gets gnarly, it helps to think about the kind of future I’m fighting for. A peaceful and uneventful future where I can kick back and relax and maybe, if all goes well, build a nest of my own. So to speak.”

He laughs, avoiding your gaze in apparent embarrassment. “I know how delusional that sounds, considering I couldn’t even maintain our friendship without fearing for your life. But hey, a bird can dream, right?”

Frowning at his self-belittlement, you drift forward, closing the distance between you. At the sensation of your hands reaching for and wrapping around his gloved right hand, he looks up in wonder.

“You’re not being delusional, Kei,” you say firmly, squeezing his palm. “You’re working harder than anyone ever has for that future. Honestly, I bet it’s much closer than you think.”

His gaze softens and he smiles at you with eyes like warm honey. “Thank you. I really hope you’re right, Y/n.”

You stay that way, drifting along on the breeze together. A comfortable silence stretches on. He turns his gaze to the city spread out below, and you see the mischievous glint in his eyes before he speaks.

“Race you to the river?”

And of course, you reflect, rolling your eyes and smiling despite yourself when he tucks his wings and dives towards the glimmering waterway without waiting for a response, it’s only fair that he gets a head start this time around.

I am floating away Lost in a silent ballet I'm dreaming you're out in the blue and I am right beside you Awake to take in the view Late nights and early parades Still photos and noisy arcades My darling, we're both on the wing Look down and keep on singing And we can go anywhere — On The Wing, Owl City

[veilvth]

(*￣▽￣)b NOT awkward or embarrassing introduction ノ⊹

🌻 ꒱﹕Anywhooo, my name is Mirko: yapper, cringe, you know the gist. I use mirror pronouns, which basically means you should use your pronouns when talking about me, but I do not actually mind, use what you want. You could label me as quoiromantic and mirrorgender, but I don't really care about those either! I am just a human that yaps.

🌼 ꒱﹕To be honest, I am mostly here to reblog my friends' art (¯▿¯), you should check their blogs out they are pretty cool, hard working and skilled... I might post my own art but I doubt that, if not I will stick to rambling!

🌼 ꒱﹕About DNI, it's the classic drill: homophobia, transphobia, racism, etc.... anythig that a Trump/Maduro supporter would spit! If you shame people over their interests, go away as well...

🌻 ꒱﹕Regarding myself, if you've come this far, you must keep in mind I am in fact a minor. Other than that, I am just really hyperfixated on zenless zone zero and Hugo Vlad, but I also love talking about Pierce the Veil and my other interests, if for some reason you want to know what they are, I have a list on my carrd:

🌼 ꒱﹕That should be enough. Thank you for reading this! You are more than welcome to uh, ignore this, and go look at my friends' art instead! Go support them, hurry up!!

- 💬

[missultimatepsycho]

My updated introduction post(I will most likely update this every couple months)

So hi my name is Isabelle, but I’m know as Elle on tumblr. I think I’ve had this blog for almost over two years. So basic info I’m a INFP-T, a writer and a toootal theater kid.(my pronouns are also she/her

@thefaceonthemoon is my second account were I post mostly about creepypasta and my au for it

My favorite movies are; Juno, The Outsiders, Saw 2. Favorite Shows; Arcane(only on season 1; SO NO SPOILERS), Jujustu Kaisen, YellowJackets.

My Favorite Singers/Bands; Mitski, Tyler The Creator, Blink-182, Green Day, Ayesha Erotica, Alex G, Mindless Self Indulgence, Mommy Long Legs.

Favorite Characters; Kokichi Ouma (Danganronpa), Aubrey (Omori), Yuta Okkutsu(Jujustu Kaisen), Viktor(Arcane), Obanai Iguro(Demon Slayer), Bloody Painter(Creepypasta), Mirko( My Hero Academia), Pony-boy Curtis(The Outsiders)

My Favorite Books; Speak by Laure Halse Anderson, Perks of Being a Wallflower by I forget, lol, and probably Hollow City by Ransom Riggs.

Games; Omori 2020, Danganronpa V3 2017, MouthWashing 2024.

Fandoms(my most recent fandoms); Omori, Danganronpa, JJK, KNY, MHA, Creepypasta, PJO, Arcane, Hunter x Hunter, Death Note, The Outsiders.

Sorry for kind of ignoring this blog, and only reposting stuff. I’ve need to take a break for my mental health and I’ve kind of taken a step away from the marauders era(the main fandom I post about) fandom because I’ve gotten a bit uncomfortable with how some people perceive and treat some of the characters. And how much people have just discarded the original material, I know it was written by terrible person who I hate but still it annoys me because I read all of the Harry Potter books and like how she wrote the characters were really cool. So like that’s a short summary of why I took a step back from the fandom, and don’t look at what I just said and don’t I think I was defending Jk Rowling in any ways because I wasn’t.

[cheriktism]

“ INTRODUCTION ”

MICAH or VINCENT　⠀╱⠀⠀ he it

eighteen⠀⠀┈⠀⠀ german system⠀Ꮺ

dni: basic dni criteria, xeno/neo antis, anti furry/therians etc, pro/com/darkshippers, maps/zoophiles etc, non traumagenic systems (includes supporters/people neutral about this), trump supporters, in general fascists, people who romanticize disorders, people who support/are transracial, terfs, people who think he/him and transmasc lesbians aren't a thing (disclaimer: transMASC people are NOT necessarily men. i do not believe men can be lesbians), transmeds, anti-recovery, people who are strightly against final fusion OR functional plurality (both are valid choices), fakeclaimers obv., ableists, zionists

NOTE: this list is not limited to these things, there might be things i forgot here and i block freely. if anything on this dni list makes you mad then leave, don't waste my time with arguments.

byi: please use tone tags for things like sarcasm/jokes/anything that the tone might be hard to understand with. this is to prevent misunderstandings, i will NOT disclose details about anything regarding my mental issues/disabilities/other private things. this includes talk about the system. i will not answer questions about it, you can DM me but do not feel offended if i don't respond or don't want to talk to you, this blog will contain nsfw sometimes. i will put warnings, if i see any minors int with those posts you're blocked, don't dm me if you're younger than 16 or older than 30. you can interact but don't dm me or ask for my other socials

more about me!!

heyo, you can call me micah or vincent, rotten dolls or doll is okay too. i'm 18 and from germany so english is not my first language. i'm fine with whatever pronouns apart from she/her or shx/hxr, my favorites are he/it. ask for more i like. i will not be like super active here, since i have a low social battery and have work on most days apart from weekends. you can ask for my discord or dm me here if you want, but don't feel offended if i don't answer. also, you might see this post mentions that i have DID, so some alter will use 'we' and 'us'. however, there will be no to rare system talk, don't ask about it unless stated it's okay. i'm not interested in system discourse on here either, so please respect this. i also LOVE making rentries, if you want to see any of the ones i made, feel free to ask in DMs, since i don't really want to post them here

current main interests: ghost (band), phasmophobia, insym, marvel (especially x-men, winter soldier & spider-man), sleep token, jjk, bnha/mha, bsd, star wars, hannibal, banana fish, sherlock, arcane, hello charlotte

likes/interests: space, horror games, will wood, rock music (eg. skillet, bmth, slipknot, ghost, linkin park, powerwolf...), history, politics, physics, informatics, books/reading, mitski, jazmin bean, babybugs

other fandoms/interests: doctor who, attack on titan, good omens, fnaf, markiplier, fantastic beasts, genshin impact

fav characters from some media:

marvel

- iron man / tony stark

- peter parker / spider-man (all actors)

- charles xavier / professor x (movies)

- natasha romanoff / black widow

- loki

- bucky barnes & winter soldier

- clint barton / hawkeye

- sam wilson / falcon / captain america

- logan howlett / wolverine

bungo stray dogs

- oda sakunosuke

- chuuya nakahara

- nikolai gogol

- lucy montgomery

- ryunosuke akutagawa

- atsushi nakajima

- akiko yosano

- edgar allan poe

my hero academia

- tomura shigaraki

- dabi

- hawks

- himiko toga

- spinner

- mirko

- ochako

- aizawa

- shoto todoroki

jujutsu kaisen

- shoko irei

- gojo satoru

- toji fushiguro

- yuji itadori

- miwa

- megumi fushiguro

- maki zenin

- uraume

arcane

- viktor

- ekko

- jinx

- sevika

- mel

- vander

hello charlotte

- charles eyler

- charlotte wiltshire

- bennett

- vincent

- frei

favorite ships from some media:

marvel

- cherik

- pepperony

- stucky

- winterfalcon

- lokius

- peter and mj (tom holland)

bungo stray dogs

- shin soukoku

- soukoku

- kunizai

- sigzai

- fyozai

- ranpoe

- fyolai

- doa trio

- perfect crime trio

- odango

- rimlaine

my hero academia

- togachako

- spinneraki

- todobakudeku

- momojirou

- erasermic

jjk

- satosugu

- itafushi

- sukume

arcane

- jayvik

- caitvi

- timebomb

other fandoms/media

- asheiji

- johnlock

- hannigram

- aziracrow

- harry x ron x hermione (this is underrated imo)

- sherliam (moriarty the patriot)

- thoschei

- wriollette

- kazuscara

- jeanlisa

- cynari

- kaebedo

and more!!

NOTE: If these ships make you angry, just block me. I don't care what you ship as long as it's legal and not super weird, respect my opinions i'll respect yours too. Don't be weird!

[ladysirenity23]

Before I start the Liyue arc in the Sagau Headcanons ..

Here are some stories I want to post in wattpad soo choose for me what to post first with these introductions :]] will do a poll after

"𝘔𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘺 𝘐𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘴"

You sought to kill your mother's former protégé as he returns as a teacher in your old high-school while being ignorant to the people who'll be affected by your petty revenge

X fem reader

Warnings:

child-neglect;

intense mentions of gore;

sadistic mannerisms;

toxic parent reader;

Very slow redemption ;

Love interests;

All Might

Endeavour

Mirko

Hawks

Fat Gum

Midnight

Eraserhead

Present Mic

Vlad king

Overhaul

Oc

+

"voleuse de coeurs"

Settling down in your homeland was never the life you'd wish to spend in, so you go to a trip all over Teyvat!Learning about the mysteries of each nations,Escaping each and every crime you have committed, And on the plus side!You may have stole a couple of hearts on the way, and an archon's gnoses while your at it!wait-

X fem reader

Love interests;

Aether

Lumine

Kaeya

Diluc

Childe

Rosaria

Eula

Amber

Kazuha

Ayaka

Thoma

Xiao

Razor

Bennett

Fischl

Sucrose

Albedo

Ayato

Chongyun

Ganyu

Scaramouche

Keqing

Xingqiu

Sara

Itto

Dainsleif

Oc

+

"Ang 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖎ñ𝖔𝖘𝖆"

In which a once sealed goddess now roams the world of Teyvat with two companions who'm she tried to kill upon meeting them.

Xfemreader

Love interests ;

Venti

Zhongli

Baal

Dainsleif

Xiao

Ganyu

Kaeya

Aether

Lumine

Tartaglia

Scaramouche

Diluc

Baizhu

Oc

+

[unlikelyjedi]

My Hero Academia Pride Headcanons (Pro Hero Edition)

If you'd like to see my headcanons for the 1-A kids plus Shinsou, it's linked here!!!

This is all about the Pro Heroes!!

Except, not all the Pro Heroes because that would be ridiculously long, and there are a lot of Pros I don't care about or just plain don't know what their sexuality would be.

You think I know the romantic trysts of a washing machine??

You think I know who Best Jeanist likes?? Mans too busy dying and resurrecting over and over to go on any dates.

So, this list will talk about only the Pros I'm interested in covering.

Disclaimer: These are my own thoughts and opinions. This is how I’m choosing to engage with this media in this post. There are other ways to engage with a chosen media and neither way of engagement invalidates the other. Art is subjective. Fandom is ultimately for fun! Don’t take me too seriously!

Now that the long introduction is out of the way:

Yagi Toshinori | All Might (he/him): Bisexual

Not only did All Might have an American Romance™️ with David Shield, not only did he have an on again/off again with Sir Nighteye, but I'm here to convince you that he is married to his Good Friend™️ Detective Tsukauchi Naomasa.

Go on, tell me I'm wrong. Why does this random police officer know the OFA secret when not even David Shield does, huh??? Tell me. You can't. They're married.

Oh and some people ship All Might with Midoriya's mom and that's valid, I guess. You do your thing, people!

I just don't think All Might is straight. I gave him the Bi-label arbitrarily. He could be pan or gay or something else feasibly. That's the fun thing about headcanons. you can make it the Fuck up!

(but I do like to be realistic within a certain parameter to how the character is written and I just think All Might and the Detective are sus)

Todoroki Enji | Endeavor (he/him): Straight

Some people write Endeavor as homophobic and while I think that's not an out of there interpretation, I think it's more nuanced.

I don't think he's homophobic in the outright hate sense. I think he's obsessed with power and lineage, and that manifests in his control of Shouto specifically.

So, if Fuyumi brought home a girlfriend or Natsuo brought home a boyfriend, it wouldn't be a big deal.

But Shouto bringing a boyfriend would be an issue because Endeavor wants the Ultimate Hero. To do what he couldn't do. That would be hard if his masterpiece brought a boy home.

This is beyond the scope of this discussion, but I do think Endeavor is allowed to atone for his mistakes and abuse. I don't believe he's afforded forgiveness from anyone he's hurt, and he absolutely deserves consequences, but Enji himself is allowed to do better and want to do better.

Where it's relevant to this discussion is I believe he'd drop that mindset against Shouto once he realized it was an overreach of his power and hurting his son. He'd eventually get to a point where he's not as controlling and not as much of an asshole.

Takami Keigo | Hawks (he/him): Bisexual

He's got the charisma! The flamboyance! The Trauma! He's Pro Hero Hawks! All the women and men swoon for him and he's got his pick of the market!

That is, if he actually had time. No, he's too busy making sure his city's safe. Too busy being held in a cage by a combination of Hero Commission conditioning and his own ideals.

Oh and let's not forget that he's spending all his off-hours at the behest of his side-job as a LOV spy.

It's a good thing one of their members is hot. Literally and figuratively. At least it gives him something to look at while he's trying to keep himself together, and oh no, he's caught feelings-

Usagiyama Rumi | Mirko (she/her): Sapphic

She's a lesbian. Most of the time. She likes girls. Loves them. Would date them.

So why is she sleeping with wanted criminal Shigaraki Tomura-

ijessbest on insta made me like this cursed ship so much!! To me, at least, it's a purely physical thing for both parties.

I think she's romantically and physically attracted to women, but also physically attracted to men?? That's my idea, anyway.

Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead (he/him): Gay

Aizawa would be happy with just his cats and coffee, really, but he just had to like men. And specifically the loudest blond on the planet.

Aizawa absolutely had a crush on Oboro in high school. It's not clear what would've happened if he'd survived. Maybe he would have ended up with Oboro. Maybe they'd have split up. Maybe he was always meant to end up with Hizashi. Aizawa doesn't dwell on it. What happened happened and he wouldn't trade what he has now with Hizashi for anything.

Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic (he/him): Bisexual

On the opposite side of things, Hizashi laid eyes on the transfer student from the support course and was immediately smitten. He was not subtle about it either. He made Shouta a playlist, a playlist, and Shouta said "thanks, but I don't use spotfiy" and Hizashi cried for weeks. Nemuri won't let him live it down even to this day.

Years later, when Shouta asked him out, he nearly busted both their eardrums from the shock of it. He really thought all this time it had been unrequited, and he wasn't about to even attempt to bring up the idea of a relationship after Oboro.

Now they're happily married and Hizashi makes them do cute couple-y things together all the time. But not in front of the kids.

They're actually pretty subtle about it. Not even Midoriya picked up on it, and he picks up on everything. He only realized after Aizawa adopted Shinsou and noticed Hizashi also treating Shinsou like his own.

Kayama Nemuri | Midnight (she/her): Bisexual

Mostly men-attracted, but that doesn't make her any less bi. I also like the idea of her quirk working best on people who are attracted to her, not necessarily guys. I personally ship her with Ms. Joke actually.

Fukukado Emi | Ms. Joke (she/her): Lesbian

Emi (a lesbian) continually asks Aizawa (a gay man) to marry her because she finds it very funny! She likes annoying the shit out of Aizawa. But she likes women. When Emi asked Mic for his friend's number, Mic was about to have a fit before Emi explained it was Midnight's number she wanted. Mic quickly got with the program and (not-so-subtly) encouraged their relationship along.

Nishiya Shinji | Kamui Woods (he/him): Pansexual

As my Pan sister says: Everyone's eligible but none have applied. (or so he thinks)

I don't think he's had much luck with dating, despite being a pro. Is it because of his costume? Will he ever find love? He just hopes it's someone he likes and not someone egotistical like Mt. Lady. Could you imagine him dating her-

Tatsuma Ryuuko | Ryukyu (she/her): Lesbian

Lesbian Dragon Lady!!! Why, you may ask? Vibes. Would marry the Lesbian Dragon Lady.

Sakamata Kugo | Gang Orca (he/him): Aro/Ace

Despite his harsh exterior, he's really a people person, but not a relationship person. He'd love to make a queer-platonic connection and maybe raise a kid one day.

Takeyama Yu | Mt. Lady (she/her): Pansexual

Her ass is out for all genders. You know, like, "Nice to meet your assquaintance"?? No?? (I'm not tryna sexualize her I promise)

I think she's much more worried about ratings and numbers than a relationship. And if she did decide to start dating, she'd have her pick of the pool. She might like people regardless of gender, but she also has standards. She'd never settle for someone like Kamui Woods. Could you imagine her dating him-

Toyomitsu Taishiro | Fat Gum (he/him): Pansexual

He just loves who he loves. Comfortable in his sexuality and his body image. Truly someone to look up to.

Chatora Yawara | Tiger (he/him): Trans

Actually Canon!!! Tiger is a trans man!! It's so nice to see him open and visible! Even if it's just a small blurb. He's treated with respect by the narrative and I appreciate that!

That's it for the Pros!! Next time I'll tackle characters I've missed including some from the LOV and some students in other classes!

Until Next Time!!!

[dekusheroacademia]

How I would have fixed the pace of BNHA

Okay, one of my main criticism for BNHA is the way the pace seems all over the place, with characters being sidelined and then thrown into the focus and then sidelined again, with the story now rushing to the ending. So. This is how I would have fixed, and distributed the current plot over two years of school time, with the final war happening at the beginning of the third year, just in time for the students to go back to normalcy.

YEAR ONE

Year one´s pace is pretty much a normal pace for a school story. Everything can easily be kept the same, with the end of year 1 being the Overhaul arc.

The only thing I would add is a smaller arc focusing on the hero world and some more classes. In particular a class about heroes in the rest of the world so we can learn how big of a deal Star and Stripes is, plus a small villain arc about the discrimination of heteromorphic quirks, maybe focusing on Shoji. This can be added as a build up to the Stain arc, with villains feeling emboldened by Stains´ presence and a fringe of them can be anti-heteromorphic quirks, or can be anti quirks in general.

Pepper in some information about how companies work with agencies, and throw in Redestro´s company - and everything would work the same.

Year one would end up with the Overhaul arc (post license) and Deku vs Kacchan 2 (plus Brava and Gentle criminal), so year two would start with their new status quo.

YEAR TWO

Because of the licensing exam and the way kids have been thrown into actual villains like Overhaul, the focus can be given to the Hero Public Safety Commission, with the introduction of Hawks and Mirko, plus the whole Endeavor as first one.

Something about the impossibility of organizing a tournament because of safety reasons, and class 2a vs class 2b as an alternative, plus Shinsou exams.

At the same time, Redestro can keep working as a villain, and Hawks can do his think as a spy. This would allow us to know more about the Safety Hero Commission, and give a spot to Mirko. Maybe they want to hire her too but she is distrustful. This would introduce us to heroes who went rogue against the commission (ex. Nagant) and would explain why Mirko doesn´t want to have interns.

The rest of the second year can be divided in more classes and subplots/arcs can be added. For example, a "festival like" subplot where we see Mirio adapting to being quirkless (we could have some insight on Deku and Aoyama here) and Eri coming to the realization that she doesn´t want to be scared anymore but actually wants to help him recovers his quirk. This could happen in parallel with the internship, so we could have the whole Endeavor dinner and internship (and Hawk´s investigation), Aizawa visiting the prison and thinking about his past while training Shinso and Eri, actual... other internships.

They could face some smugglers (working for Redestro) as a major villain arc (with unlocking another quirk plus actual focus on training Catch a Kacchan), and the second year would end up with the League conquering the Liberation front and the start of the war.

This means that at the end of the second year would end up with the start of the war, Bakugou´s sacrificing himself and Deku leaving. Because Eri and Mirio were focused on, his sudden quirk recovery would also not be out of nowhere.

YEAR THREE

Deku vigilante can be post year two, basically during the break. So we could see the students actually reacting to his letter, the parents moving in and more about what the new world is.

Maybe even the fall of the Commission, with their dirty secrets coming out as well thanks to prisoners escaping. This would make Nagant a major plotline instead of a one chapter fridged woman. Mirko could even be thrown in here and we could see her starting to want to work with the kids and being vendicated for her distrust of the commission.

The rest could literally be the same, with Deku coming back. Plus a moment of down before the war. For example, something about Mirio, Nejire and Tamaki reassuring Eri etc etc. During this moment of down time, where everyone is resting and recuperating then we can start to see that Aoyama does not seem that happy and the sudden revelation would not seem out of nowhere.

I think I am okay with no more down time from here on, as it looks like they all have a plans for the villains, but because of the surprise elements they are better to be revealed by flashbacks as Hori probably will.

The end of the war, whatever it is, could mean the beginning of normalcy again and their third year of school.

As year one is particularly dense, it would be also easy to move the license exam and Overhaul directly in year two.

[iidascalves]

First patrol (Hawks x reader)

So I got a little carried away writing the beginning of this one, but I just REALLY love Mirko. I wasn’t sure what to use as the reader’s quirk so I just did the ability to create telekinetic force fields with energy in different shapes and shit. Also, (h/n) will mean your hero name. Once I finished I writing this I decided it was a little long so I split it into two parts. I guess this first part can be considered a various x reader lol. I’ll post part 2 soon! I’m having a lot of fun with these so please don’t be shy to send requests or asks! Thanks :)

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“THAT’S NOT FUCKING FAIR” Bakugou screeched in the common room.

“I literally don’t know what you want me to say.” You stared blankly at Bakugou as he was practically foaming at the month. His hands began to emit smoke.

“Kacchan, calm down! (Y/n), I’m happy you got such a great opportunity!” Izuku tries to congratulate you while holding a death grip on Bakugou’s arm. “You and Mirko will make a great duo!”. You smiled at his reassurance and braced yourself for his detailed mutterings about the specifics of both your and your future mentor’s quirks.

“Thank you. I’m excited but nervous.” You shifted in your seat while your hands were in tight fists. “I’m excited to prove myself.”

“I’ve met Mirko before. She’ll enjoy working with you, I’m sure of it.” Todoroki spoke for the first time all evening from the dinner table as he slurped cold soba. You honestly had forgotten he was there.

“Oh yeah! Your father and Mirko team up sometimes, right?” Izuku mentioned as he turned on the couch to face Todoroki.

“Yes.” Todoroki took a slurp of soba before continuing. “If you run into him, be wary. He’s more concerned about his reputation than a rookie looking for guidance or protection. That’s why Hawks does his own thing most of the time. My dad can’t be bothered with anyone else.”

“I’m sure (y/n) will be in good hands with Mirko.” Izuku tried to ease the tension in the room. As Todoroki is a man of few words, it’s rare for him to share things like this. You decided you should head to bed to prepare for your long day tomorrow.

“Alright guys. Thanks for chatting with me. I’m off to bed.” After replies of good nights and wishes of luck, you tried sleep off the anxiety until tomorrow.

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“Ready to rumble, (y/n)?!” Mirko enthusiastically greeted you when you entered her office.

“Yes Ma’am! Thank you for letting me join you today!” You bowed to Mirko and straightened up as you heard her walking toward you.

“No need to be so formal!” Mirko gave you a big slap on the back as she passed you. With your back aching and stinging, you closely followed her to the elevator. “I don’t take just anyone out to patrol with me, (Y/n). You got something special, kid.” She gave you a large smile as the elevator door closed. You were thrilled to finally start your internship, with your idol none the less.

“Thank you, Rumi. It means a lot coming from you.” You tried to calm the reddening of your face as you two descend to the lobby of her agency.

“Don’t sweat it! And remember that on the street I’m Mirko. Right, (h/n)?” Mirko smiled at you as the elevator rang.

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After a few hours of patrol you and Mirko still hadn’t had any calls or serious confrontations. Although popperazzi and other media outlets seemed to follow you both everywhere, they were only taking pictures from a distance as not to interfere. “Sorry that this is such a quiet day. I wanted to see you in action!” Mirko began chatting with you and you two walked.

“No, it’s alright. Something is bound to come up anyway, right?” You smiled and continued to survey your surroundings. A teenage boy ran up.

“You’re Mirko, right?” His face was a deep red.

“The one and only! Want a picture or something?” Mirko smiled at the boy. His head whipped around before his eyes frantically landed on you.

“Hi. Can you take our picture, please?” You held up the fan’s phone to take a picture with Mirko.

“1,2,3, smile!” You continued taking a few pictures until Mirko put her hand up to her ear intercom. You handed the phone back to the guy and awaited news. Mirko nodded at you after coming off the intercom.

“Let’s go. No time to waste.” Mirko turned serious as she dashed off to the lower part of town. You used your quirk to manifest a board to ride on in order to keep up.

As unfamiliar buildings flew past, you couldn’t recall seeing the surrounding landmarks on the sheet of information Mirko gave you about your sector.

“Mirko, are we close?” You grew anxious and unsure as you approached the scene.

“Yeah,” Mirko grinned as she gained momentum by swinging off a lamppost. “Stay sharp. This is uncharted territory for you.” You nodded and picked up speed, feeling the wind press against you.

Finally, you saw the scene you were summoned to. A monstrous villain was holding a car with a family trapped inside above his head. You didn’t recognize the villain, he was most likely an angry civilian that snapped. The villain was towering about thirty feet above you. He was angrily screaming, the veins on his neck and arms were bulging and strained. It was obvious this guy never used his quirk like this before.

“You think he used an enhancer?” You kept your eyes glued to the car the villain gripped.

“Probably.” Mirko’s smirk wavered and her brows furrowed. “Bunch of bastards have been juicing up and wrecking shit recently.” The villain began to shake the car and screech in anger.

“I’ll get the car, you get the guy?” You asked Mirko as your eyes focused in on the car and you activated your quirk.

“Read my mind. Just give me a boost.” Mirko smirked and slid a foot back in preparation to jump. “Let’s go.” Mirko lept sideways causing the villain to whip his head in her direction. You raised your left hand and manifested a platform under the car. Your right arm shot out as you made a small platform about seven feet in the air for Mirko to vault off of. Your eyes remained on the car as you heard Mirko’s feet pound on the platform and you saw a swift white streak knock the villain from under the vehicle. While Mirko repeatedly kicked the villain into submission, you lowered the car with the clamoring family to the ground. You ran to the car and escorted each member to the side where a small crown was gathered. You turned to see Mirko with the villain in a suffocating leg triangle. The villain’s screeching quieted and his body began to lose muscle and shrink.

“Mirko, should we take him in for questioning?” You pulled handcuffs out of your pocket and placed them into Mirko’s outstretched hand.

A gust of wind passed behind you making the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. You also felt an intense warmth behind you. “We can take him off your hands. You’re in our jurisdiction after all.” You spun around to see Endeavor and Hawks. Your hands clenched and your chest tightened at the sight of the two top heroes.

“Number 1 and 2, always a pleasure.” Mirko hauled the villain to his feet. “So what if we’re in your jurisdiction? You guys didn’t get here fast enough. That’s why we were called.” Mirko smirked.

“Mirko,” Endeavor began to speak. ” we were being briefed on an important future mission. Our delay was expected so they called you and uhh.. Shouto’s classmate.”

“’Shouto’s classmate’ is not the name of my intern, Endeavor.” Mirko put a hand on her hip and raised a brow at the number one hero. Her ears perked up at the arrival of an idea. “How about this: we walk this jerk to the precinct and do introductions over some lunch?”.

“As long as the place has chicken.” Hawks smiled at Mirko. You wanted to admire his handsome features, but decided against it out of fear of embarrassment if he caught you. “Endeavor treats since he was the reason we’re late!”. Endeavor crossed his arms and sighed. He then began walking in the direction of the precinct. Mirko and Hawks shared a laugh and Mirko began hauling the villain behind Endeavor. You paused before following. Your eyes were still trained on Endeavor. You wondered if he would have cooperated at all if you fought with him instead of Mirko. Hell, he didn’t even bother to learn your name after being friends with Shouto for the past year.

“So what’s your deal, kid?”. Hawks was suddenly walking by your side. You tensed at his sudden presence and looked ahead towards Mirko.

“My deal?” You glanced at him to see if his eyes were still on you, eyes briefly meeting before your head turned.

“Yeah. Does Endeavor spook you or something?”

“No.” You could feel your face getting warm. “He’s just intimidating, I guess. And hearing what Shouto has to say about him doesn’t really help.” You didn’t like being questioned like this.

“I get that. He’s a shitty dad.” Hawks stretched as you two walked. “He’s also a pretty difficult guy to get to know. He’s starting to change for the better though. But his social skills are still shit.” Hawks looked over at you to make sure his remark made you smile. He knew if he kept talking you’d loosen up and get more comfortable. “How’s your first patrol going?”

You glanced at him and smiled. “I can’t complain about lunch with the top two heroes.” Hawks laughed.

“Yeah, I guess. I’d say you’re doing pretty well for your first time. Mirko doesn’t team up with just anyone, you know.” Your face got even warmer as you became flustered once again.

“I’m mainly only good for defense and rescue.” You looked away from Hawks and started to fidget with your hands.

“Don’t be modest, kid. I saw you rescue that family back there.” Your face was own fire upon hearing his praise. “Also saw you kick ass at the sports festival. If it were up to me, I’d have you do more offense training.”

“T-thanks.” You said shyly as you scanned around you for something to look at to distract you from your own embarrassment. Things remained pretty quiet as you continued to walk to the precinct.

[diopup]

【Le Introduction】

Hello all! °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° I used tumblr back in the day but forgot about it for years and remembered it existed again. Slowly getting back in the swing of things on top of learning all the new updates that have been added on! Here are some fun facts as you explore this dumpster fire that is my tumblr page:

mostly based around sharing/posting content related to JJBA

but I share/post other content such as Inuyasha, MHA, HxH, and others from time to time

totally a dog irl don't worry about it

fav character(s) of all time 5ever: dio (jjba), doppio/diavolo (jjba), jotaro (jjba), mikitaka (jjba), sesshomaru (inuyasha), koga (inuyasha), sango (inuyasha), hisoka (HxH), chrollo (HxH), mirko (mha), jin (yyh), koto (yyh), rengoku (demon slayer), and melon (beastars)

if you happen to not like any of the characters I listed above for what I post that is totally okay but please be respectful

here mostly to have fun and share common interests w/ the wonderful folks on this website

my fav food of all time are peanut butter & raspberry jelly sammiches

Thank you for reading! Please enjoy (◡ᴥ◡) ♡

[daredgeek]

BNHA Hamilton!AU(?) part 1

However! I will flesh out the idea around it since I have a few ideas and maybe someone actually wants to write this ^^

Genre-wise I think it would be angst (obviously) and fluff in between, but also drama, ‘cus yeah, Hawks going to the LOV

Since the reader is Mirko’s sibling then, I guess they would have a similar quirk to hers, rabbit related I mean. Or maybe if the reader is an adoptive sibling or something they could have something completely different. 

The chapters would probably base loosely on separate songs, but not all of them, since idk what you could write to some of them

Alexander Hamilton/My Shot:

Basically a recap on Hawks’ background story. How his childhood went and his way to become a hero. The chapter would end with him being a well-liked hero, maybe before he became number 2. Also including the plan of him becoming a spy in the LOV and him accepting the mission.

The Schuyler Sisters:

Introduction to Mirko and the reader and their bond between siblings. Maybe they hang out together,  maybe Mirko has a day off or something and they have a nice day in the city, going shopping, going to an arcade, or some other nonsense. I imagine the reader being a bit introverted or at least less extroverted then Mirko.

Right Hand Man:

Going a little into detail about the relationship between Hawks and Endeavor. Maybe the events of chapter 186 to 192.

A Winter’s Ball/Helpless:

Possibly the announcment of the Japanese Hero Billboard Charts, where the reader is being dragged to by Mirko (not really, they also want to support their sister, but nobody needs to know that).

Aaron Burr, Sir:

Hawks meeting up with Dabi to get into the LOV as a spy and describing the things he has to do to be seen worthy of the league. 

The Story of Tonight (+ Reprise):

Hawks being accepted in the inner circle of the LOV andgetting to know them a little better. Dabi(maybe?) & Hawks talk alone at some point where Dabi(again, maybe?) tells Hawks that he knows about the reader and that, if Hawks was to ever betray them he will make them (the reader) hurt. He (Dabi(?)) will search for them, will find them and will kill them. That’s where the angst comes in if that wasn’t clear ^^’‘

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More ideas coming later (and this post probably being edited too)

Also, yes the songs are supposed to be out of order

[laceymorganwrites]

Boku No Hero Academia characters on TikTok

Class 1-A:

Izuku: wholesome pep talks

Kirishima: memes, loves the pov Videos, he´s Always more confident after watching them

Bakugo: refuses to partake in any trend and leaves mean comments on any trend videos

Jiro: Posts Videos of her music

Denki: memes with all of his Friends, leaves nice comments on Jiro´s videos

Momo: all the DIY stuff

Todoroki: doesn´t have the app, but Midorya Always makes him watch tiktoks of the heroes and their friends

Aoyama: the classic lip sync, but he´s surprisingly good at it, will also take tiktoks of others if they ask him, he Always gets the best angles

Fumikage: takes Videos of him sitting on a Chair with death metal blasting in the background

Tsuyu: loves playing with the cute filters

Mineta: is blocked from the fucking app

Shoji: Tsuyu teaches him About filters and he loves the triple screen

Ochaco: does collabs with her friends

Iida: will spend Hours on the app to report People who post ´inappropriate´ videos

Mina: meme Squad with Denki and Kiri, she Always Comes up with the funniest ideas

Sero: duet king

Ojiro: does Videos of him Holding Things with his tail

Hagakure: Fashion account

Sato: Food videos

Koda: animal videos

Other students:

Shinsou: refuses to duet with Denki, but secretly watches all of his videos

Monoma: leaves hate comments on class 1-A´s Videos and starts a fight with Bakugo and Kendo in the comments every time

Tetsutetsu: Sport challenges, like the 100 push ups etc.

Kendo: is only on the app to Keep Monoma in check

Ibara: her praying with a filter and Choir Music playing in the background

Mirio: random Videos of Tamaki and Nejire, random Videos of Sir Nighteye, does challenges and duets with his Friends and Bubble Girl, does Sports challenges

Tamaki: only there for support, doesn´t take Videos himself, but likes watching other videos

Nejire: Fashion account, leaves positive comments everywhere

Mei: promoting her babies

Teachers:

All Might: doesn´t get the app at first, after an introduction from Mic he does pep talks

Aizawa: doesn´t have the app but makes involuntary guest appearances on Shinsou´s, Mic´s and class a´s videos

Mic: YELLING

Midnight: 18+ Stickers everywhere, and all she does is hold her Whip and wink at you (Denki once accidentally liked one of her Videos)

Nezu: Shares his philosophic thoughts

Vlad: takes videos of his class like a proud dad

Heroes:

Endeavour: doesn´t have the app, but gets memed a lot by Hawks

Hawks: memes Endeavor a lot and occasionally makes slowmotion Videos of his quirk

Ms Joke: tells jokes obv

Best Jeanist: Fashion account obv (yes, he does collabs and duets with Nejire and Hagakure)

Mirko: sports challenges and feminism

Mount Lady: sexy sexy Videos, gimme likes

Fatgum: comments on Kiri´s and Mirio´s (only the ones with Tamaki in it) Videos like a proud dad. Kirishima sometimes does funny and wholesome Videos with him and Tamaki at the internship

Villains:

Shigaraki: dissolves Things and People comment: ´satisfying´

Dabi: only on there for the cosplayers and dms

Toga: is one of the cosplayers, fake blood warning but it´s not fake

Magne: Fashion account, duets with Toga and Twice

Spinner: Stain cosplayer

Twice: does all Kinds of stuff, the Trends, fucks around with filters etc.

Giran: promotes his weapons etc.

Mr Compress: Posts random Videos of the league

Overhaul: roasts people´s dirty rooms

Hi, welcome to the end of this post, here´s my tiktok: @lmorgan_cosplay, so if you like cringe, cursed Videos and bad Cosplay, ya know the drill <3

[oupacademic]

Every year the third Thursday in November marks World Philosophy Day, UNESCO's collaborative 'initiative towards building inclusive societies, tolerance and peace’. To celebrate, we’ve curated a reading list of books and online resources on social and political philosophy, ranging from authority, democracy to human rights, as well as historical texts by philosophers who shaped the modern world. Browse the entries and start reading today.

Celebrate philosophy and explore our collection for more blog posts, articles and reading suggestions. Follow us @OUPPhilosophy on Twitter.

Knowledge and Truth in Plato: Stepping Past the Shadow of Socrates, by Catherine Rowett

Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes, by Timothy Raylor

John Locke: Literary and Historical Writings, by J.R. Milton,

Adam Smith: A Very Short Introduction, by Christopher J. Berry

Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution, by J. C. D. Clark

The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Sandrine Berges and Alan M. S. J. Coffee

Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray, edited by Emily Anne Parker and Anne van Leeuwen

Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960, by Gary Gutting

 ‘Confucian Political Philosophy’ by George Klosko in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy

 Adam Smith’s Libertarian Paternalism’, by James R. Otteson in The Oxford Handbook of Freedom

‘Sophists, Epicureans, and Stoics’, by Mirko Canevaro and Benjamin Gray, in The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought  from The Oxford Scholarship Online

‘In Defense of Uncivil Disobedience’ by Candice Delmas, in A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil from The Oxford Scholarship Online

‘A chastened individualism? Existentialism and social thought’ in  Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction: VSI by Thomas Flynn from  Very Short Introductions

‘Looking At Rights’, in Human Rights: A VSI by Andrew Clapham from  Very Short Introductions

‘Why do we need political philosophy?’, by David Miller in Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction from  Very Short Introductions

[srasamua]

Using Python to recover SEO site traffic (Part three)

When you incorporate machine learning techniques to speed up SEO recovery, the results can be amazing.

This is the third and last installment from our series on using Python to speed SEO traffic recovery. In part one, I explained how our unique approach, that we call “winners vs losers” helps us quickly narrow down the pages losing traffic to find the main reason for the drop. In part two, we improved on our initial approach to manually group pages using regular expressions, which is very useful when you have sites with thousands or millions of pages, which is typically the case with ecommerce sites. In part three, we will learn something really exciting. We will learn to automatically group pages using machine learning.

As mentioned before, you can find the code used in part one, two and three in this Google Colab notebook.

Let’s get started.

URL matching vs content matching

When we grouped pages manually in part two, we benefited from the fact the URLs groups had clear patterns (collections, products, and the others) but it is often the case where there are no patterns in the URL. For example, Yahoo Stores’ sites use a flat URL structure with no directory paths. Our manual approach wouldn’t work in this case.

Fortunately, it is possible to group pages by their contents because most page templates have different content structures. They serve different user needs, so that needs to be the case.

How can we organize pages by their content? We can use DOM element selectors for this. We will specifically use XPaths.

For example, I can use the presence of a big product image to know the page is a product detail page. I can grab the product image address in the document (its XPath) by right-clicking on it in Chrome and choosing “Inspect,” then right-clicking to copy the XPath.

We can identify other page groups by finding page elements that are unique to them. However, note that while this would allow us to group Yahoo Store-type sites, it would still be a manual process to create the groups.

A scientist’s bottom-up approach

In order to group pages automatically, we need to use a statistical approach. In other words, we need to find patterns in the data that we can use to cluster similar pages together because they share similar statistics. This is a perfect problem for machine learning algorithms.

BloomReach, a digital experience platform vendor, shared their machine learning solution to this problem. To summarize it, they first manually selected cleaned features from the HTML tags like class IDs, CSS style sheet names, and the others. Then, they automatically grouped pages based on the presence and variability of these features. In their tests, they achieved around 90% accuracy, which is pretty good.

When you give problems like this to scientists and engineers with no domain expertise, they will generally come up with complicated, bottom-up solutions. The scientist will say, “Here is the data I have, let me try different computer science ideas I know until I find a good solution.”

One of the reasons I advocate practitioners learn programming is that you can start solving problems using your domain expertise and find shortcuts like the one I will share next.

Hamlet’s observation and a simpler solution

For most ecommerce sites, most page templates include images (and input elements), and those generally change in quantity and size.

I decided to test the quantity and size of images, and the number of input elements as my features set. We were able to achieve 97.5% accuracy in our tests. This is a much simpler and effective approach for this specific problem. All of this is possible because I didn’t start with the data I could access, but with a simpler domain-level observation.

I am not trying to say my approach is superior, as they have tested theirs in millions of pages and I’ve only tested this on a few thousand. My point is that as a practitioner you should learn this stuff so you can contribute your own expertise and creativity.

Now let’s get to the fun part and get to code some machine learning code in Python!

Collecting training data

We need training data to build a model. This training data needs to come pre-labeled with “correct” answers so that the model can learn from the correct answers and make its own predictions on unseen data.

In our case, as discussed above, we’ll use our intuition that most product pages have one or more large images on the page, and most category type pages have many smaller images on the page.

What’s more, product pages typically have more form elements than category pages (for filling in quantity, color, and more).

Unfortunately, crawling a web page for this data requires knowledge of web browser automation, and image manipulation, which are outside the scope of this post. Feel free to study this GitHub gist we put together to learn more.

Here we load the raw data already collected.

Feature engineering

Each row of the form_counts data frame above corresponds to a single URL and provides a count of both form elements, and input elements contained on that page.

Meanwhile, in the img_counts data frame, each row corresponds to a single image from a particular page. Each image has an associated file size, height, and width. Pages are more than likely to have multiple images on each page, and so there are many rows corresponding to each URL.

It is often the case that HTML documents don’t include explicit image dimensions. We are using a little trick to compensate for this. We are capturing the size of the image files, which would be proportional to the multiplication of the width and the length of the images.

We want our image counts and image file sizes to be treated as categorical features, not numerical ones. When a numerical feature, say new visitors, increases it generally implies improvement, but we don’t want bigger images to imply improvement. A common technique to do this is called one-hot encoding.

Most site pages can have an arbitrary number of images. We are going to further process our dataset by bucketing images into 50 groups. This technique is called “binning”.

Here is what our processed data set looks like.

Adding ground truth labels

As we already have correct labels from our manual regex approach, we can use them to create the correct labels to feed the model.

We also need to split our dataset randomly into a training set and a test set. This allows us to train the machine learning model on one set of data, and test it on another set that it’s never seen before. We do this to prevent our model from simply “memorizing” the training data and doing terribly on new, unseen data. You can check it out at the link given below:

Model training and grid search

Finally, the good stuff!

All the steps above, the data collection and preparation, are generally the hardest part to code. The machine learning code is generally quite simple.

We’re using the well-known Scikitlearn python library to train a number of popular models using a bunch of standard hyperparameters (settings for fine-tuning a model). Scikitlearn will run through all of them to find the best one, we simply need to feed in the X variables (our feature engineering parameters above) and the Y variables (the correct labels) to each model, and perform the .fit() function and voila!

Evaluating performance

After running the grid search, we find our winning model to be the Linear SVM (0.974) and Logistic regression (0.968) coming at a close second. Even with such high accuracy, a machine learning model will make mistakes. If it doesn’t make any mistakes, then there is definitely something wrong with the code.

In order to understand where the model performs best and worst, we will use another useful machine learning tool, the confusion matrix.

When looking at a confusion matrix, focus on the diagonal squares. The counts there are correct predictions and the counts outside are failures. In the confusion matrix above we can quickly see that the model does really well-labeling products, but terribly labeling pages that are not product or categories. Intuitively, we can assume that such pages would not have consistent image usage.

Here is the code to put together the confusion matrix:

Finally, here is the code to plot the model evaluation:

Resources to learn more

You might be thinking that this is a lot of work to just tell page groups, and you are right!

Mirko Obkircher commented in my article for part two that there is a much simpler approach, which is to have your client set up a Google Analytics data layer with the page group type. Very smart recommendation, Mirko!

I am using this example for illustration purposes. What if the issue requires a deeper exploratory investigation? If you already started the analysis using Python, your creativity and knowledge are the only limits.

If you want to jump onto the machine learning bandwagon, here are some resources I recommend to learn more:

Attend a Pydata event I got motivated to learn data science after attending the event they host in New York.

Hands-On Introduction To Scikit-learn (sklearn)

Scikit Learn Cheat Sheet

Efficiently Searching Optimal Tuning Parameters

If you are starting from scratch and want to learn fast, I’ve heard good things about Data Camp.

Got any tips or queries? Share it in the comments.

Hamlet Batista is the CEO and founder of RankSense, an agile SEO platform for online retailers and manufacturers. He can be found on Twitter @hamletbatista.

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Using Python to recover SEO site traffic (Part three)

When you incorporate machine learning techniques to speed up SEO recovery, the results can be amazing.

This is the third and last installment from our series on using Python to speed SEO traffic recovery. In part one, I explained how our unique approach, that we call “winners vs losers” helps us quickly narrow down the pages losing traffic to find the main reason for the drop. In part two, we improved on our initial approach to manually group pages using regular expressions, which is very useful when you have sites with thousands or millions of pages, which is typically the case with ecommerce sites. In part three, we will learn something really exciting. We will learn to automatically group pages using machine learning.

As mentioned before, you can find the code used in part one, two and three in this Google Colab notebook.

Let’s get started.

URL matching vs content matching

When we grouped pages manually in part two, we benefited from the fact the URLs groups had clear patterns (collections, products, and the others) but it is often the case where there are no patterns in the URL. For example, Yahoo Stores’ sites use a flat URL structure with no directory paths. Our manual approach wouldn’t work in this case.

Fortunately, it is possible to group pages by their contents because most page templates have different content structures. They serve different user needs, so that needs to be the case.

How can we organize pages by their content? We can use DOM element selectors for this. We will specifically use XPaths.

For example, I can use the presence of a big product image to know the page is a product detail page. I can grab the product image address in the document (its XPath) by right-clicking on it in Chrome and choosing “Inspect,” then right-clicking to copy the XPath.

We can identify other page groups by finding page elements that are unique to them. However, note that while this would allow us to group Yahoo Store-type sites, it would still be a manual process to create the groups.

A scientist’s bottom-up approach

In order to group pages automatically, we need to use a statistical approach. In other words, we need to find patterns in the data that we can use to cluster similar pages together because they share similar statistics. This is a perfect problem for machine learning algorithms.

BloomReach, a digital experience platform vendor, shared their machine learning solution to this problem. To summarize it, they first manually selected cleaned features from the HTML tags like class IDs, CSS style sheet names, and the others. Then, they automatically grouped pages based on the presence and variability of these features. In their tests, they achieved around 90% accuracy, which is pretty good.

When you give problems like this to scientists and engineers with no domain expertise, they will generally come up with complicated, bottom-up solutions. The scientist will say, “Here is the data I have, let me try different computer science ideas I know until I find a good solution.”

One of the reasons I advocate practitioners learn programming is that you can start solving problems using your domain expertise and find shortcuts like the one I will share next.

Hamlet’s observation and a simpler solution

For most ecommerce sites, most page templates include images (and input elements), and those generally change in quantity and size.

I decided to test the quantity and size of images, and the number of input elements as my features set. We were able to achieve 97.5% accuracy in our tests. This is a much simpler and effective approach for this specific problem. All of this is possible because I didn’t start with the data I could access, but with a simpler domain-level observation.

I am not trying to say my approach is superior, as they have tested theirs in millions of pages and I’ve only tested this on a few thousand. My point is that as a practitioner you should learn this stuff so you can contribute your own expertise and creativity.

Now let’s get to the fun part and get to code some machine learning code in Python!

Collecting training data

We need training data to build a model. This training data needs to come pre-labeled with “correct” answers so that the model can learn from the correct answers and make its own predictions on unseen data.

In our case, as discussed above, we’ll use our intuition that most product pages have one or more large images on the page, and most category type pages have many smaller images on the page.

What’s more, product pages typically have more form elements than category pages (for filling in quantity, color, and more).

Unfortunately, crawling a web page for this data requires knowledge of web browser automation, and image manipulation, which are outside the scope of this post. Feel free to study this GitHub gist we put together to learn more.

Here we load the raw data already collected.

Feature engineering

Each row of the form_counts data frame above corresponds to a single URL and provides a count of both form elements, and input elements contained on that page.

Meanwhile, in the img_counts data frame, each row corresponds to a single image from a particular page. Each image has an associated file size, height, and width. Pages are more than likely to have multiple images on each page, and so there are many rows corresponding to each URL.

It is often the case that HTML documents don’t include explicit image dimensions. We are using a little trick to compensate for this. We are capturing the size of the image files, which would be proportional to the multiplication of the width and the length of the images.

We want our image counts and image file sizes to be treated as categorical features, not numerical ones. When a numerical feature, say new visitors, increases it generally implies improvement, but we don’t want bigger images to imply improvement. A common technique to do this is called one-hot encoding.

Most site pages can have an arbitrary number of images. We are going to further process our dataset by bucketing images into 50 groups. This technique is called “binning”.

Here is what our processed data set looks like.

Adding ground truth labels

As we already have correct labels from our manual regex approach, we can use them to create the correct labels to feed the model.

We also need to split our dataset randomly into a training set and a test set. This allows us to train the machine learning model on one set of data, and test it on another set that it’s never seen before. We do this to prevent our model from simply “memorizing” the training data and doing terribly on new, unseen data. You can check it out at the link given below:

Model training and grid search

Finally, the good stuff!

All the steps above, the data collection and preparation, are generally the hardest part to code. The machine learning code is generally quite simple.

We’re using the well-known Scikitlearn python library to train a number of popular models using a bunch of standard hyperparameters (settings for fine-tuning a model). Scikitlearn will run through all of them to find the best one, we simply need to feed in the X variables (our feature engineering parameters above) and the Y variables (the correct labels) to each model, and perform the .fit() function and voila!

Evaluating performance

After running the grid search, we find our winning model to be the Linear SVM (0.974) and Logistic regression (0.968) coming at a close second. Even with such high accuracy, a machine learning model will make mistakes. If it doesn’t make any mistakes, then there is definitely something wrong with the code.

In order to understand where the model performs best and worst, we will use another useful machine learning tool, the confusion matrix.

When looking at a confusion matrix, focus on the diagonal squares. The counts there are correct predictions and the counts outside are failures. In the confusion matrix above we can quickly see that the model does really well-labeling products, but terribly labeling pages that are not product or categories. Intuitively, we can assume that such pages would not have consistent image usage.

Here is the code to put together the confusion matrix:

Finally, here is the code to plot the model evaluation:

Resources to learn more

You might be thinking that this is a lot of work to just tell page groups, and you are right!

Mirko Obkircher commented in my article for part two that there is a much simpler approach, which is to have your client set up a Google Analytics data layer with the page group type. Very smart recommendation, Mirko!

I am using this example for illustration purposes. What if the issue requires a deeper exploratory investigation? If you already started the analysis using Python, your creativity and knowledge are the only limits.

If you want to jump onto the machine learning bandwagon, here are some resources I recommend to learn more:

Attend a Pydata event I got motivated to learn data science after attending the event they host in New York.

Hands-On Introduction To Scikit-learn (sklearn)

Scikit Learn Cheat Sheet

Efficiently Searching Optimal Tuning Parameters

If you are starting from scratch and want to learn fast, I’ve heard good things about Data Camp.

Got any tips or queries? Share it in the comments.

Hamlet Batista is the CEO and founder of RankSense, an agile SEO platform for online retailers and manufacturers. He can be found on Twitter @hamletbatista.

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