#nikolaila

[thebibliosphere]

Possibly an odd question, my apologies if it sounds rude.

Since you do lay on the floor often, have you ever considered painting the ceilings with interesting patterns? There’s some neat stencils out there, and ceilings are just horizontal walls.

Funny you should ask, I just bought a nail gun and some materials for redoing our ceilings with the full intent of a) remedying the ugly popcorn texture and b) making my time spent laying on the floor more aesthetically pleasing lol

[rayshippouuchiha]

Odd brain track that came to me in a dream.

What if Harry Potter’s Firebolt was charmed except it was spells of protection and good luck and possibly comfort instead of curses like everyone assumed. All of that extra magic (plus some of the original safety charms) was stripped away when the investigation (and stripping) was done to it by non-professionals. Leaving a broom with dangerous speeds and turns with some of its safety charms missing with the gap filled only by some of Harry’s last bits of accidental magic fueled by belief and joy of flight that a broom can and will stand up to certain things.

Sirius when he finds out they did that to his godson’s broom is furious. (And terrified, he can feel that some of the original protections on the broom are missing (anti-shattering, fire resistance, rot resistance, etc.) alongside the extra bits he paid for it to have.)

Oh man. Oh now I’m just thinking like what would have happened if the Firebolt had ended up a little more like the goddamn car?

Like they stripped all those enchantments and the like but something went just a bit screwy in the process and now Harry’s got a broom that’s a whole lot more alive than it should be too.

[copperbadge]

treesah replied to your post “jeffreydickens replied to your post “In 2012 I said “I truly believe...”

Wait but Captain America could be bi!?!? He was clearly super into Peggy at the same time he was pining over Bucky

Oh 100%! And if we include the possibility of him being Bi, that means even more people care about Cap’s sexuality than that random asshole’s opinion. 

livingflame replied to your post “I just took the brownies out of the oven and they are…bubbling.  I may...”

maybe you've made oven-baked pudding?

That’s basically how it turned out. Which is especially interesting since it has neither milk nor eggs in...

nikolaila replied to your post “I just took the brownies out of the oven and they are…bubbling.  I may...”

Well if they taste nice you can say they are some random creation

They do actually taste decent. A strange texture, but an ok flavor.

justalurkr replied to your post “I just took the brownies out of the oven and they are…bubbling.  I may...”

That is...well within the realm of possibility. How in (insert higher power of your choice)'s name did you get brownies to bubble?

Well, I used yogurt instead of eggs. Now, I’ve done this before, but always before it’s been greek yogurt, and this time it was plain, plus I was tinkering with the coconut oil to butter ratio. I think it may have been the extra whey in the yogurt.

frostyemma replied to your post “a-non-sequitur replied to your post “Me: How long have we known each...”

eh, even if you are secretly a filth monster, if you live alone and are happy with your style, then it's good... right?

This is true, though I try not to be a filth monster around others if I can avoid it :D

[theotherwesley]

@nikolaila: My desert dwelling soul laughs, and wonders if you would melt in July where I live. If you think 80 is hot what is 112 with very low humidity.

Yes but you see, you choose to live in that inhospitable landscape with its demon heat, and that is not our fault. In our fair country we do not tolerate such offenses from the sun! Every degree over 75 is an insult, and a gross violation of our rights as delicate, shade-dwelling frog people. Whence the outraged screaming at the sun every summer. 

[rayshippouuchiha]

For April Ray, I gift thee a Plot Bunny. Feel Better Soon.

Here’s a terrifying quirk. “In Another Life.” It throws the one who gets hit by it into a world a step sideways to theirs, where they land on the opposite side of their birth year. Twenty year olds arrive twenty years before their birth, hundred year olds land one-hundred years before their birth. The world is slightly off from the original, and the victims stay until they die. When that happens they snap back to the instant after they were hit by the quirk, the only outward sign they experienced something is a full body flinch. Nothing physical carries over. Only memories.

Izuku has poor luck. The slime villain is placed in a pocket with a flap so is never dislodged and freed. So his last encounter with All Might is the disheartening message that he shouldn’t go into heroics because look what happened to me. (All Might is a bit of a lucky fool, he never tells anyone about his encounter with the green haired child and that said child now knows his most debilitating secret. Lucky lucky him that Izuku would never tell a soul what he learned on that rooftop on the worst day of his life.)

Izuku is drowning in his lost dream with nothing to take its place for several weeks until he watches a documentary on silver aged heroes with supposed weak quirks, and realizes that maybe he could claw his way into that branch of heroics. Perhaps never a Spotlight hero to save everyone with a smile, but maybe an Underground hero who could offer a hand up and some comfort. (Fragile hope like a soap bubble blooms, and he hides his new dream in the depths of his heart. Maybe not useless maybe maybe.)

He’s hit by someone’s quirk on one of his thinking walks barely a week after he’s decided that maybe he could be a hero. (Seven months to the entrance exams for UA Heroics.) The person in question thinks it’s just a vivid nightmare quirk, but it isn’t. Most of their victims tend to “arrive” in such poor situations that they “die” and return in less than an hour from the victim’s perspective. Izuku however manages to survive for quite awhile.

(Pick your favorite or make your own:

He’s ninety-seven, long retired from a successful heroics and teaching career, and goes peacefully in a hospital bed a year after his beloved dies.

He’s sixty-two and pulling a last stand, retired from active heroics but still a teacher with his wits and knives and he will not let his students die. His beloved will get them out and he’ll give them all the time they need. None of these people will get past him (none do).

He’s thirty-seven and had been considering his plans for shifting from full time active hero work to teaching more classes before this. Then the drug raid they were providing backup on went complicated and in the midst of the chaos uncovered the active trafficking ring. The well staffed, armed, and lethal trafficking ring. He knows that he and his beloved take too much damage putting them down. Poison and venom and strange drugs and lingering quirk effects and bleeding wounds. They clear the ring, perhaps too roughly as there are more corpses than usually acceptable but he can feel his heart stutter stop and his world goes dark before he hits the floor dimly hearing the all secured from his comm on the way down.)

And then he’s back to fifteen with a flinch, too many years and knowledge and reflexes in his head. And when he knows the year again, grief for his losses. That this life may never be as good, but he’s going to try. To do anything else would belittle those who helped him. Even though were he to encounter them tomorrow none would know him.

At least he knows what would probably work in an exercise plan to get this body up to his (former) standards. Barely resisting the urge to either laugh hysterically or bawl like there’s no tomorrow, Izuku jogs back towards his body’s home. He has a deadline to meet for UA. (He’s not looking forward to second round of High School, and all the hormonal soup.)

Who his “beloved” is I’ll leave up to you.

OOoh Oh shit please yes I love this. I love this so much.  I want, I need, all of this. There’s so many ways this could be taken.

[rayshippouuchiha]

Having looked at too much art, contemplating the wild world of quirks, and what exactly unknown Underground Heroes may find themselves willing to do for investigations.

Somebody in the Underground network has a tattoo creation/destruction quirk. Positives, Underground Heroes can have tattoo markings change as their operational needs do without having to deal with makeup or long healing times. Negatives, application and removal process hurts as if you were getting it done by a tattoo artist.

This means Aizawa has likely had several different tattoo patterns etched on his skin over the years depending on which fighting ring, drug cartel, or yakuza gang he’s trying to bust. He’s Underground and lives covered from throat to ankle, only skin visible is his hands, face, and sometimes neck. Who knows what lingering traces of last operation’s tattoos hang around until the Artist has a free time slot to remove them.

(This also means that Underground Heroes have a constantly updated sheet listing “identifying markings” in order to start the process of elimination on who this random corpse is if they die disfigured on duty.)

ohhh I like this

[rayshippouuchiha]

I tired. Brain silly. Have some weird thoughts Ray.

Animals with quirks exist. Cat with a Flerkin quirk. Belongs to Aizawa, he picked it up from an abandoned box in an alleyway the morning of USJ on his way to campus. It’s cute and a cat and his old one passed away a couple months ago, and it’s friendly so into the scarf it goes. Sure it’s training day, but it’s first class of first year training. It’ll either be boring, hilarious (to him), or he’ll have to expel three students from the hero course for a combination of failing to follow safety, common decency, and pure stupidity.

Instead they’re attacked by Villains. Fortunately it wasn’t too hard to round up and secure the thugs the Villains brought with them. Unfortunately he’s not quite sure if Snowbell consumed the dangerous trio of Villains, if the warp gate villain got them out of wherever Snowbell’s second mouth put them, or they’re in a pocket universe accessible only to Snowbell. There’s gonna be a lot of paperwork to resolve this mess and he’s looking forward to none of it.

Snowbell will get extra treats though once he’s got them home though.

Aizawa ends up registering Snowbell as a hero companion because hell it comes in handy and it gives him an excuse to carry his cat around everywhere

[rayshippouuchiha]

Ray! An idea for a training.

Obviously one of the things UA has to teach it’s students is how to remain calm in the face of insults and derogatory remarks. The baby heroes are gonna run into people who aren’t grateful for being saved, press who want ugly sound bytes, angry grieving people, antagonizing opponents, the people being arrested, etc.

So before they go into the whole lots of training; Aizawa and the other hero course teachers round up the students, and have them pair up to insult each other tournament style. First to react poorly as defined before the start loses. (It’s good to see where somebody needs work before they start.)

The teachers have bets of course.

Nobody’s surprised when Bakugo is out fairly quickly because he threatened to burn someone’s face off.

Kirishma flames out earlier than expected.

Mina lasts longer than expected.

Midoriya is the dark horse who both wins the thing and gives Aizawa knowledge of about four new insults/threats. (For some of the personable spotlight heroes it’s more like fifty. Midoriya sunshine sweetness is apparently capable of having a very foul mouth.)

(Midoriya was quirkless for a long time. He’s heard a lot of things in his life just from skulking around. Some weren’t even addressed to him!)

I want to read this. Just, so much.

Everyone’s expecting Midoriya to break quickly cause he’s normally so open with his emotions but no, no this boy is stone.

It ends up being very very upsetting for everyone but him.

Somebody please write this and then @ me with it