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despite everything i have ever said about the matter, i do actually enjoy writing

[akcugrai]

FAQ

Q) who are you?

A) Akcugrai! (Pronounced akoo + grey) I write things, you can see them here

Q) Are you dead?

A) Na

[parcelcrow]

Homemade Foresight memes to hold you over to the sequel

Based on Foresight by @akcugrai on Ao3, I absolutely adore this fic and as I do with any piece of media that I love... memes were born. I can't help it, it's a reflex. Anyways, enjoy!!

SPOILERS FOR THE FINAL CHAPTER BELOW!! (someone tell me if there's a better way to mark spoiler-y things, I couldn't figure it out)

FINAL WARNING!! IF YOU PRESS THE BLUE KEEP READING BUTTON BELOW YOU WILL SEE SPOILERS FOR THE ENDING OF FORESIGHT BY AKCUGRAI!!

[akcugrai]

memes, memes of my boy? 🥺

[akcugrai]

so i'm working on this story about these two siblings and i thought it was going to be about their reconciliation but every time i try to write a scene where they actually talk about their feelings i just go :/ and take it out because it doesn't really work for the story. anyway it's been over two decades in-universe time so i might be losing this battle

[akcugrai]

i love saying words recreationally

[akcugrai]

Everyone in the comments is sad about Izuku in Misunderstandings, but I believe you will give him a happy ending, so I'm calm and I just enjoy the angst. If a need arises, Bakugo will help him. In his twisted way, but he will. So that sad thing you mentioned in your post? Bring it on!!!! You are an excellent writer 😘

thank you for your confidence o7

i keep forgetting that Misunderstandings is sad because every time i think about the bad parts i just instantly cheered up. like, look at my boy, look what an awful time he's having :)

and finally: minor semantic quibble☝️bakugou will so something that is in his own self interest that will (for inscrutable reasons) end up being beneficial for Izuku's mental health. this will continue forever and neither of them will ever learn anything from it

[akcugrai]

hii okay so firstly, i love your work, foresight is easily in my top five bnha fics. secondly, how did you come up with the ideas for it and the no quirk au? i’m so curious about your thought process behind your writing because both fics are really unique, and kind of convey a sense of izuku being swept along by the universe’s current. how do you do it

Hi! Glad you enjoyed it!!

As for the thought process for my writing…I really have no idea. It starts when I get hit with a cosmic ray of the original premise, then I pick at it until a bunch of character moments and plot threads fall out. Then once I physically begin writing I start getting more and more ideas until the final product is completely distinct from whatever idea I had originally.

Also, I guess a similarity between Foresight and no quirk is that in both of them I spent a lot of time as the author working out what was going on in the outside world while making sure that they were as clueless as possible—which I think is what granted it the particular flavor of nonsense lmao

[akcugrai]

Hello! I just read Foresight for the first time and loved it! Like MHA meets Eminence in Shadow but the protag knows the danger he’s in. The AN said it might take a while for a sequel, but since it’s already kind of been a while I figured I’d check in.

It’s cool of not! Just thought I’d check.

I'm glad you liked it! Also I'm adding that to my list of shows/books/etc that people have told me Izuku's powers are similar to and you can't stop me, I'm making a collection and it's very dear to me.

As for the sequel...well, it's a work in progress. The problem is mostly that I have a job and social life that gets in the way of me being able to get obsessed with writing the way I used to (tragic). What I can tell you is that the portion I've written so far is nearly the length of Foresight and I'm only about halfway through my outline lmao

[akcugrai]

Heyyy! So I’m trying to make art abt Foresight, and I’m working on things with Slingshot and Leader right now. I’m not really sure how to draw them beyond general stuff (hair color and personality) and I wanted to know if you had any hairstyles, outfits, face inspo, general vibes that I could pull from to design them? Idk if that made sense lol I am so tired rn

oh the pure serotonin this message gave me... 👌

Anyway...I'm not actually sure how much I can help as I don't usually have a very clear mental image of the characters that I write, but there are a couple things that I'm not sure if I said out loud about Slingshot and Leader that might be helpful:

Both have pale silver hair that looks like they've just stuck their fingers in an electrical socket, any attempt to tame it ends disastrously. Are tall and thin in a gangly awkward way. Leader's in his early twenties and Slingshot is in her late twenties.

Leader is always moving, basically imagine a hummingbird. For clothes, he always puts on whatever he finds first in the morning, though he can pretend to have a developed sense of fashion if required for a con. He has a lot of scars from his misspent teenaged years so he always wears long sleeved shirts and pants.

Slingshot is much more sedate. Tends to be guarded and stiff if she senses danger. Spends most of her time being distantly amused at everything going on. Also, she had a highly dedicated grunge aesthetic phase that lasted from her teenage years to her twenties that she's moved on from but glimpses of it appear in her wardrobe.

Random fun facts:

They were not at all close when they were young since they functionally lived completely separate childhoods.

You didn't ask about Paper Cup, but he's a very solid, slow-moving guy who almost always is wearing a large, shapeless brown jacket.

Anyway! Not sure if this is the most helpful for what you're looking for exactly but I sure enjoyed thinking about these weird little guys. Especially since Izuku basically never payed attention to any details so most of it existed purely in my head before now. Cheers!

[em-iliart]

Big into herons rn

[akcugrai]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[akcugrai]

this chapter really has resulted in a couple absolutely delightful comments and bookmarks ajksdfl

[akcugrai]

uhhh, so terrible news for any fans of this work. i thought izuku had hit rock bottom and things would start to get better within the next chapter, but i just had a delightful idea for further torment.........

like, i gotta, right?

[thesingingbullfrog]

[akcugrai]

so til that canva automatically saves everything you've created on the site, which means that a beautiful creation I thought i'd lost when my last laptop conked out actually still exists >:)

[akcugrai]

gaze in awe upon the wonder of the official Foresight sequel's extremely aesthetic and serious moodboard:

this singlehanded motivated me to write nearly 25k of the fic

[akcugrai]

so til that canva automatically saves everything you've created on the site, which means that a beautiful creation I thought i'd lost when my last laptop conked out actually still exists >:)

[akcugrai]

so i'm rotating a bnha au in my brain and there is only one way to explain why it is necessary to write it to fill an egregious gap in my fic resume:

[akcugrai]

wait hold on i just realized

[akcugrai]

so I've been reworking the plot of No Quirk because I wrote myself into a corner (for the forth time lmao) and with the new spin I've put on it 4/4 of my works on ao3 will have a main character being kidnapped/held against their will as a main plot point

achievement get!

[akcugrai]

bad news, started imagining an AMV of my fic set to Kiss Me, Son of God by They Might be Giants, chat, are we cooked?

[akcugrai]

I had to get sedated for a dental procedure yesterday and I kept asking the anesthesiologist questions about what she was doing and she set her hand on my shoulder and told me that everything was going to be okay and not to worry

...and I had to think of something to say that wasn't "I'm asking these questions not because I'm anxious but because I have a scene of an anime fanfic that I'm writing that involves a character being medically sedated and I wanted to add some realism by adding details from the procedure you're using"