Miles To Go Before I Sleep

A fanworks side blog she/her | ForestAngel on AO3 | sci-fi/fantasy

[baixue-temple]

SVSSS cast and how they'd play otomes.

Shen Yuan: Claims his sister installed the game on his switch without his permission, but has also posted numerous criticisms and reviews about it, mostly in how it fails to go into the proper depth that the POV Main Character really deserved and in fact-- Luo Binghe: Was given the game by SY who thought LBH would love having so many hot girl options; he is instead devastated that he can't court the kindly tutorial NPC that shows up once. Shen Jiu: Only plays on his phone that he can easily hide behind a textbook, because he'd rather chew his own foot off than admit he plays dating sims to relax. Has played the Childhood Sweetheart route so many times he can recite it from memory. Shang Qinghua: Bought it purely to see the sex scene CGs, but got bored halfway through so he's never actually finished it, plus Mobei-Jun keeps throwing it at him so he must also hate it?? Yue Qingyuan: Very much fixated on the "I can fix him!" Bad Boy route, but accidentally keeps making choices that ultimately lead to the Bad End and isn't sure what he's doing wrong yet. Ning Yingying: Too busy playing competitive-grade Mortal Kombat to think about this. Qi Qingqi: Runs one of the biggest yuri fan blogs as well as a very intense youtube review channel. Seems to have oddly-charged debates with a M-Meiyin user who she keeps banning from the comments and then randomly un-banning only to argue with her again. Mu Qingfang: 100% achievement hunter. Surprises all his friends by playing some of the most intense ones until they realize it's because his tolerance for gore is unnervingly high rather than actually loving horror themes. Liu Qingge: Min-maxing the MC's stats for fun and skipping every possible dialogue. Somehow finished the game without romancing anyone. Is refusing the devs' emails begging him to explain how he broke their game. Sha Hualing: Started playing for the sex scenes, stayed for the complicated economic gameplay challenge. Blushed so hard when the MC held their crush's hand for the first time she almost passed out. Mobei-Jun: Was watching Airplane play from over his shoulder. Is silently very pissed that he quit playing just when the Enemies-To-Lovers route was getting spicy, but won't bother saying it. Throwing the game case at him should be hint enough. Liu Mingyan: Played once, put it down and never picked it up again, but has been writing increasingly unhinged and headcanon-heavy fanfic for the past five years. Ming Fan: What the fuck is an otome.

[forestangelwrites]

Liu Qingge is the GOAT.

[forestangelwrites]

I’m flipping through my rough drafts and snippets and didn’t even realize I have themes in my writing? While yes, they’re mostly SI/OC, I’ve been writing a very specific flavour of “drop them into a world, let them build a tiny house”.

Which is what I’ve been doing in my Pokeani SI - a tiny house lugged around by Silph Co hammerspace tech.

Or furnish/decorate a dorm room, like this KHR/CLAMP School Academy cross-over, and this ancient pre-canon Harry Potter SI.

I even have this really weird FFVII SI that has world building around materia-infused tents that give them enemy-away properties?

Maybe I should turn them all into a jumpchain series around tiny-housing my way through the multi-verse. But like starting over with *different* tiny spaces each time, not like the TARDIS.

Should I call it “Living Multiversal in a Tiny House?” as tribute 🤣?

[diaz-fox]

@ writers, just out of curiosity.... when you write multichapter fics, do you have each chapter in a separate doc or have everything on one big doc?

[forestangelwrites]

I currently use Microsoft OneNote because I type better than I handwrite. But I also never grew out of lined notebooks with sections and tabs and crude newsclippings for research. So each of my WIP is a new section in my giant Notebook, and each chapter/Worldbuilding/outline is a new page. And I just go back and add snippets/links/sketches anywhere when inspo hits.

RIP word count and posting but that’s a future ForestAngel problem.

[gentrychild]

The post about Tododeku being considered some kinda vanilla ship was taken straight out of my mind... Cos y'all know what happened right? Todoroki saw Izuku give no shits while throwing hands with a freaking genetic abomination and thought "Imma challenge this crazy mofo" and then he accused him of being a secret love child and followed it up with unloading tragic backstory(tm). After that they valiantly tried to murder each other on national TV, live...Izuku broke his everything and permanently disfigured his hand and Todoroki somewhat overcame a lifetime of trauma via talk no jutsu. They also blew up the arena by virtue of thermodynamics and almost killed everyone if it wasn't for an overworked cementoss. The next time we see them, they are ride or die. Todoroki just booked it to a shady alley to fight a serial killer cos of a freaking location ping. Then Shouto joined the Bakugou Rescue Squad(tm) cos Izuku said so..no questions asked. Let's not forget that Izuku, hero fanboy and anxious Duracell bunny stood up to Endeavour BEFORE he knew the tragic backstory(tm). Tododeku is just straight up ride or die. And the fact that people think they're a vanilla ship, platonic or romantic...just amazes me.... Cos these two would most definitely commit light recreational murder(tm) and call each other to for a cute evidence destroying and body hiding session.

You are right and you should say it.

I am very attached to the Todoroki/Midoriya fight because it's nothing short of insane.

It starts with Todoroki (accidentally?) eavesdropping Uraraka and Tenya mentioning that Izuku is eating with All Might. Similar quirk + Midoriya risking his life to save All Might (someone who shouldn't need help) and so he immediately put on the tinfoil hat.

Just before the Sport Festival starts, Todoroki challenged Midoriya, someone who can't use his quirk without breaking his bones, instead of Bakugou, aka the other strongest fighter in the class.

And Todoroki turns out to be right because the sheer possibility of Izuku using his quirk too close to him during the "Grab a headband" fight made him use his flames for a moment, which is a pretty big deal.

Todoroki then lures Izuku to an isolated area, it's the first time they actually talk to each other for real, and Todoroki proceeds to ask him if he is the Symbol of Peace's secret bastard child???

He then doesn't even give a second to Izuku to recover from it and tells this kid, that he has pretty much never talked with before, his entire tragic backstory.

As someone who protects their secret more fiercely than a dragon protects their gold, this one shook me more than the actual content of the tragic backstory. There is also the fact that it was a huge risk on Todoroki's part as it was possible for whoever listened to him not to believe him.

Izuku then sees Endeavor. I am not surprised about him talking back to him because Izuku has social anxiety but doesn't have much patience when it's more serious. And yes, from his expression, it's pretty clear he believed Todoroki.

Izuku goes to this fight mentally prepared to snap as many fingers as necessary to win. He doesn't have any other way to fight Todoroki.

Not only does he break many bones in this fight but he pretty much tells Todoroki "You ain't shit" because Todoroki never managed to hit Midoriya. All his damage is self inflicted so far.

At some point, Todoroki wonders if his dad has paid Midoriya to convince him to use his fire, which is very funny to me.

Izuku actually directly punches Izuku with OFA at some point, which is a pretty good deal as at the time, he avoided it in order not to turn his opponents in chunky salsa.

"IT'S YOUR POWER!"

Enough said.

Once the flames were unleashed, they both decided to just unleash their full power on each other.

That something they didn't even do in the USJ, while fighting villains.

You said that an overworked Cementos is the reason why they didn't killed everyone by the virtue of thermodynamic but since the walls were created were vaporized, I am more leaning towards their attacks cancelling each other.

And don't forget how they didn't really talk to each other during this fight, and yet, they quickly understood what the other was trying to say and why they were doing this.

No, seriously, they shared a glance to say "Hey, want to beat the crap out of each other to evacuate some trauma?", the other mentally answered "Yes!" and the next thing Midnight knew, there was no more arena.

And that's just the Sport Festival.

[forestangelwrites]

…I thought that was how teenage friendships worked?

[valtsv]

characters will literally get a headache or nosebleed out of nowhere and be like "huh. weird. well it's probably nothing." girl, look around you. you're in a story. it's relevant to the plot.

[valtsv]

[forestangelwrites]

OP hate to break it to you, but as someone prone to migraines and nosebleeds, it be like that irl. So while it might be Plot-Relevant in story, that character you just called out is so relatable I can’t even.

Though I admit I’ve never had a nosebleed just thirsting before…

[angryrantsofdomesticity]

The Science behind Erasure

-it's actually ingenious!!

SO recently I wondered....if Aizawa does hero work after hours...does that mean he also has increased night vision?? Because it wouldn't makes sense for a hero who relies on his eyes to work at a time when he can't see....right?

(this led me on a scientific deep dive because I am a huge nerd.)

As we know, Aizawa's eyes light up (red) when he activates his quirk. It just so happens, red doesn't glare like other colors of light do. This means red light makes night vision easier. Why? Because your pupils don't need to re-adjust between the light source & the dark around you! This reduces eye strain & keeps your field of vision clear & consistent at night, while still illuminating your path!

Simultaneously, red light is difficult to see at a distance so it'll help keep your position safe from possible attackers. This is why military flash lights are usually red!

So YES!... Aizawa's quirk can improve his night vision... By acting like a red flashlight! But that's not all!

Then I started thinking of HOW his quirk works...He stares at someone, his eyes glow red, his hair floats...and somehow the enemy's power stops working??

As we know, Erasure deactivates the enemy's quirk gene. This happens when Aizawa glares at them. But HOW can he deactivate a gene by only seeing the outside of the body? Especially since Erasure doesn't erase physical mutations??

Turns out, red light has a longer wave length than other colors, allowing it to penetrate the body more easily! In fact red & Infrared light (invisible to humans) is often used in medical imaging to detect things like veins and blood vessels beneath the skin.

Simply put Aizawa's quirk penetrates the body kind of like an x-ray. The reason we can see his eyes light up, and NOT the target being illuminated( like the picture on the left below)?? It's because he likely also emits red light that crosses over into infrared spectrum. So the red light that actually enters the body is invisible to the naked eye.

However real x-rays fall on the opposite side of the light spectrum under Ultra violet light. They not only enter but pass through their target, So to be clear Aizawa probably does not have x-ray vision. You may have also heard of Infrared in terms of night vision goggles. Aizawa likely does not have thermal/night vision either. His eyes only EMIT visible red light which allows him to see better in the dark & Infrared which enters the body.

So while Aizawa's glowing red eyes may at first seem like a meaningless, but cool, feature of his quirk, it's really the tell into how erasure works!

However, glowing red eyes only tell us how aizawa's quirk REACHES the gene, not how he switches it off! So how does he do it?? With an electromagnetic field! The light spectrum is a small part of the larger electromagnetic spectrum & the only part of it visible to the human eye!

So, how do y'all know I'm not just making this up?

Because his hair floats!

What's the most familiar electromagnetic force humans encounter on a daily basis?--- STATIC ELECTRICITY! When aizawa switches on his quirk he essentially becomes a cat being rubbed with a balloon! The carbon nanofibers in his capture weapon conduct static electricity so that floats too!

Aizawa's Erasure works by emitting an electromagnetic field, which like the infrared light, penetrates the body of his target! Now that we know how his quirk reaches the inside of the body, the question is how does it disrupt the quirk function?

As it turns out, electricity can be fired at DNA to switch Genes on and off in real life! So Erasure specifically targets the quirk gene and immobilizes it temporarily with electricity!!!! That's crazy!!!

Since we know Aizawa can't erase the quirks of heteromorphic types it's safe to assume it's because physical mutations effect more than one gene & Erasure specifically targets a single quirk gene.

If Erasure got into the hands of AFO it could easily mean the end of the world, or any one who apposes AFO for that matter. Sure AFO could use Erasure as Aizawa does, but he could also scientifically manipulate it to target genes OTHER than the quirk gene. Meaning he could kill you, or even make your body fall apart, with just a look.

Congrats you made to the end! You now have a PHD is Shota Aizawa.

[angryrantsofdomesticity]

@akseedragon713

Okay, this is a really good question!

The answer?? It might not change anything!

A possible explanation for his eyes glowing yellow, instead of red? Typically, human eyes are only red when there is no pigmentation. Like in albino people! Aizawa's eyes are normally black, so even if light were passing through them, they still wouldn't lose all their pigmentation when glowing. What happens to dark eyes in the sun? They turn a gold color!

Brown & black have more red than other eye colors. This means a visible red glow would be canceled out by the red in his eye color. Orange & yellow are next on the color spectrum, so it makes sense for his eyes to glow an adjacent color with the least red in it, which is yellow!

This means Aizawa's eyes could still emit red light, while glowing yellow in appearance only! SO to be clear, this has less to do with his quirk's function & more to do with how his quirk over laps with his normal physical appearance.

[forestangelwrites]

I have found IRL Izuku’s Analysis Notebook entry on Eraserhead! Mad respect, OP!!!

[alolanrain]

Literally on my hands and knees to know what the I have to do to get someone to write Ash Vs Ingo in a brawl fight in Hisui

[forestangelwrites]

Hey, I too love the concept of Ash being yeeted by Arceus into Hisui and I found this absolutely amazing series by Seito on AO3. I’m not sure if you meant Ash vs Ingo Pokémon battle rematch, or actually in-your-face fist fight? Because if you meant the latter I’m not sure why/how they would’ve even gotten to that point; but if it’s the former option you HAVE to check this out:

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

It’s the fourth in the series, but the whole thing is worth a read!

[forestangelwrites]

I haven’t decided yet how dystopian the BnHA-verse will be for my SI!fem!Izuku fic. Mostly because I don’t feel I have the skills to tackle the implications and consequences with justice.

But my SI has a questionable imagination and read enough dystopic lit to have a healthy appreciation for worse case scenarios. Sure, it seems she landed the best, closest-to-canon version of Inko, and a benign version of Midoriya Hisashi - for now. Circumstances can change on a dime. She’s got connections in Detective Tsukauchi and Sir Nighteye, having given them all the details of canon bnha she could remember; but no plan survives contact with the enemy. Meta Lib Army quirk supremacists are a thing, and so are anti quirk cults; so are corrupt Hero Commissions, but she didn’t know enough of the plot to be of any use.

But what was once anime and tropes played for laughs/drama/plot progression is now reality, where each flap of a butterfly’s wings have real and potentially deadly consequences. And how far does quirk discrimination penetrate up through the Japanese government? To the future legislations?

Long story short, Midoriya Uguisu has a disguised GFTO bag hidden under her bed, checked over every week. She is aggressively saving the earnings from her Poketubing content creation. She is secretly researching the immigration policies of quirkless friendly countries - just in case. She loves her new family and friends, but - well, better to be prepared and not need it, and all that.

[forestangelwrites]

Poketuber ForestAnthem content creation ideas:

Smash.TV: live-streams on weekends

- Pokemon Let’s Plays & challenge runs;

- Streams Saturdays in English, Sundays in Japanese.

HeroTube:

- Pokemon stream recordings edited into episodic series.

- hero analysis using Pokemon analogies.

- Ocarina song covers.

Tessergram:

- Pokemon & Ghibli-themed bento art

- the bento-art was something picked up from Inko! It was part of mother-daughter bonding.

[forestangelwrites]

Not comfortable with showing her face, my fem!Izuku designed a fakemon to serve as her channel mascot/avatar. So I guess she’s a Poke V-tuber? Her V-Tube handle across all platforms in BnHA-verse is now “@ForestAnthem”.

Anyway, introducing Morimii! (sketched during lunch break since I couldn’t get her out of my head all morning @ work):

I’m thinking she’s Grass/Ghost but can learn ALL sound-based moves. No idea whether she evolves or not.

Yes, this is how we’re incorporating the ‘green bunny’ fanon in this AU 😆. The gold accents is because “nature’s first green is gold”.

I didn’t have time to draw a shiny version but I think her ears/hood/poncho will be a deep Japanese maple red, with sunset orange emblem & choir score.

[forestangelwrites]

So I wrote myself into a corner in the last chapter of my BnHA SI!Midoriya fic. Instead of working out a solution, my brain fixated on figuring out what my Midoriya Uguisu (fem!Izuku) did during middle school.

We’ve established that Uguisu attended middle school online (learn at own pace with pre-recorded lectures style) in Chapter 4. That takes up about 3 days a week. She goes to the local library to study.

She took up martial arts. I’m thinking Aikido - because of focus on conflict de-escalation - and maybe Tessenjutsu - because self-indulgence is a thing. That takes up most of her late afternoons - schedule akin to after school clubs.

Maybe she volunteers at a local soup kitchen during the lunch rush? Makes sense since she sets her own schedule for school work, and Inko doesn’t want her out too late. I like it. Headcanon accepted.

So what does she do the rest of the time? Again, self-indulgent here, but an SI/OC based on me would totally take the chance to catch up on Pokemon games she never had time for before. Yes, the Pokemon franchise either made it through to the BnHA present, or the emulators survived.

TL,DR: yay, my Fem!Izuku is now a part-time Poketuber!

[sky-fi-fangirl]

if i was given a task by a talking lion, i would simply write down the 4 steps to finding the lost prince so i don’t forget.

rip to Jill Pole, but i’m different

[forestangelwrites]

On the one hand, I am a list person, so mood. On the other hand, I would totally write it all down and then forget to consult the list when the time comes. Or forget where I kept it. So RIP Jill & me I guess.

[femmedionysus]

I feel like the real peril of growing up Christian that no one really talks about is how deeply veggie tales songs get embedded into your fuckin head like a ticking time bomb of inanity

it could be decades later and you’re minding your own business in line at the grocery store or on the bus or trying to fall asleep and from the depths of your brain comes “the bunny, the bunny, ooh I love the bunny”

you’ll never be free

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

someone, being normal: it’s time

my goblin brain:

[wyomings]

anytime i lose my hairbrush…..yall already know whats going down

[bemusedlybespectacled]

me: walking anywhere

in the depths of my hell mind, in a French accent: KEEP WALKING! butyouwon’tknockdownourwall keep walking! BUT IT ISN’T GONNA FALL!

[delphinidin4]

I scrolled all this way down my dash to tell you that I NOW HAVE “KEEP WALKING” STUCK IN MY HEAD!!

[edgar-allan-possum]

Oh no! What we gonna do?

(the king likes Daniel more than me and you!)

[forestangelwrites]

I can tell you that, decades later, I’m still waiting for my water buffalo. I’ll take the fat one.

[forestangelwrites]

But also Veggie Tales oddly gave me my first conceptual understanding of AI? Like - Bob the Tomato’s ‘so done’ expression when the ‘computer’ starts the synth-like:

“So what we have learned applies to our lives today/God had a lot to say in his book…”

[femmedionysus]

I feel like the real peril of growing up Christian that no one really talks about is how deeply veggie tales songs get embedded into your fuckin head like a ticking time bomb of inanity

it could be decades later and you’re minding your own business in line at the grocery store or on the bus or trying to fall asleep and from the depths of your brain comes “the bunny, the bunny, ooh I love the bunny”

you’ll never be free

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

someone, being normal: it’s time

my goblin brain:

[wyomings]

anytime i lose my hairbrush…..yall already know whats going down

[bemusedlybespectacled]

me: walking anywhere

in the depths of my hell mind, in a French accent: KEEP WALKING! butyouwon’tknockdownourwall keep walking! BUT IT ISN’T GONNA FALL!

[delphinidin4]

I scrolled all this way down my dash to tell you that I NOW HAVE “KEEP WALKING” STUCK IN MY HEAD!!

[edgar-allan-possum]

Oh no! What we gonna do?

(the king likes Daniel more than me and you!)

[forestangelwrites]

I can tell you that, decades later, I’m still waiting for my water buffalo. I’ll take the fat one.

[gemmarosity-deactivated20180906]

i cant believe americans on tv really say rock paper scissors like???? its paper scissors rock omg do u irl americans actually say rock paper scissors????

[gemmarosity-deactivated20180906]

rb this with whether u say paper scissors rock or rock paper scissors

[doing-talking]

me normally: linguistic differences are so interesting and cool! I love hearing different dialectal variations.

me, reading “paper, scissors, rock” with my own two eyeballs: the lord is testing me

[forestangelwrites]

Am Canadian, but I did grow up playing “rock, paper, scissors”. Anything else sounds really weird to me? So when I saw “paper, scissors, rock” I was like EH?!

But then it dawned on me that the Cantonese name for this game lists the order as “paper, scissors, rock”. Which I learned first. So…I’m just gonna lie down now.

[bittern]

physically, yes, i could fight a bird. but emotionally? imagine the toll

[forestangelwrites]

Honestly if the bird in question was a Canada Goose I would be in trouble physically (and prob legally) but it would be so emotionally validating.

[aconstantstateofbladerunner]

Hones i just don't really get the appeal of dadzawa with izuku? It makes sense with eri and shinsou, but izuku already has a father figure who cares about him in Canon.

Agreed.  I don’t understand why more people just go do dadzawa with shinsou instead of bashing all might to make it work with izuku.

[forestangelwrites]

I think a lot of the appeal, for me, is that Aizawa the first example of a hero and authority figure who ‘made it’ with ‘barely’ a quirk. Sure, Erasure is pretty OP as a game changer from a meta perspective, but in-universe it only negates some categories of quirks, and literally ‘blink and you’ll miss’. It implies that Eraserhead’s success as a hero, albeit underground, is because of his skill, strategy, determination and training. The fact of his existence runs counter to the vlaues being preached about the more ‘desirable’ your quirk, the more worth you have as a human being, never mind as a hero.

So we come to Izuku’s burning question to All Might on that rooftop after the slime villain: “can a person become a hero without a quirk?”. All Might said no. He had reasons for saying no other than simple bigotry - but the fact of the matter was, the #1 Hero said no. He changed his mind about Izuku later, but even then, he offered Izuku his quirk right after saying he could be a hero. So you can argue he didn’t actually negate his comment on the rooftop. The anime (and presumably the manga, but I’ve only watched the anime) then changes lens to the insane lengths Izuku goes to master his inherited quirk(s). Given the drawbacks such that he seemed better off NOT using it (exhibit A: first & 2nd rounds of the sports festival) in the early seasons, I’m probably not the only one who wondered whether Izuku might have been better off without OFA. Maybe then he’d have learned to fight smarter rather than try to be a carbon copy of All Might. (Izuku-kun, you are an inspiration for working so hard for your dream and the legacy entrusted to you, but please stop breaking your body). Like, Izuku eventually learns to fight both smarter as well as harder; but like that saying goes - when you when you’ve been given a hammer, all your problems start to look like nails. And bad habits are hard to break. Wish Izuku would have learned that lesson from the start.

And who do we know that HAD to have fought smarter not harder because he didn’t have a combat oriented quirk? It was established that Aizawa himself got into the hero course @ UA through the Sports Festival because his quirk was no good for the entrance exam. As a lot of fanfics have noted, Aizawa essentially fights quirkless. So can’t blame us for wondering if Eraserhead would’ve given a different answer on that rooftop. And because Izuku deserves all the good things, it’s only a small leap from there ( only rational) to have dadzawa thrown in the mix. I agree that these fics could do without the gratuitous All Might-bashing though.

It doesn’t negate the dadzawa phenomenon for Eri and Shinsou, of course. Dadzawa!Eri is pretty much canon, and Shinsou is the Aizawa analogue for the current hero cohort, so there’s plenty of those fics floating around. But the most powerful draw for Dadzawa and Son!zuku (besides him being the protag)? “It might have been”.