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[yonicbonds]

you should draw Dirk strider with a cane. For the soul.

this was such a pleasure to draw :).

[bendingwind]

For the end of year meme!

Something you want to do again next year?

What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year?

Something you want to do again next year?

I'm definitely hoping to meet up with my new Dragon Age friends again in June!

2. What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year?

Well it's a whole new apartment in a whole new city halfway across the country from where I was at the start of the year so there's that 😂 It's a little smaller than I'd like but still much closer to my Ideal Size (smol) which has helped me feel better and more secure in the space

[harmonyscarf]

i think a lot of people misinterpret izuku’s character. he has probably the most extreme case of savior complex I’ve ever seen in media. he doesn’t see his own worth, for him the only thing that makes him feel good about himself is helping others, so never relies on anyone, never takes himself into account, tries to make everyone’s problems his own. and it’s sad that people don’t see that, because a lot of his actions make much more sense once you take that into consideration, (1)

this exactly!! it feels like izuku is treated so unfairly - by the narrative, by the fandom, by the adults and characters in the manga...

i definitely agree his character is misinterpreted a lot. and then some people say stuff like ‘izuku has no flaws’ or ‘izuku gets no consequences’ which makes 0 sense, because if doing /that/ to himself during this Whole Arc isn’t a character flaw i dont know what is. and also, the possibility of him losing use in at least one of his arms is a definite consequence. things aren’t looking too good for him.

if people get mad at him for trying to fight shigaraki on his own (like in the aftermath of this whole arc) im gonna be SO upset. because like, what choice did he have? the adults/pro heroes in this manga are Literally Useless (side eyes endeavor). what was he supposed 2 do? that one page where ofa warns izuku about shigaraki approaching, and izuku looks around at the civilians being evacuated (and tbh he looks pretty fucking scared), making his decision to go off on his own, breaks my damn heart. because he shouldn’t be having to make that decision! this shouldnt be his responsibility, he’s just a child.

and speaking of the aftermath of this arc, i’m so scared for him. his self worth is going to be at an all time low because he thinks he didnt save anyone (which is bullshit, and another instance of him not crediting himself. he saved them all from shigarakis decay when he used float & blackwhip).

if you think about it though him breaking his arms/legs in his fight with shigaraki was all for naught as well, because in the end tomura was just another person who needed saving (in his eyes). so like, this whole situation just sucks for him. and tomura was another person he failed to save, and afo got away so

i feel like we’re definitely gonna get another “izuku tries to pass on ofa (to mirio)” moment bcus he /must/ be feeling not worthy rn.

i don’t know where i was going with this but in conclusion can we get uhhh one (1) self worth for izuku please because he deserves it. he’s done so much. and definitely what you said at the end of your message. we need a moment like this, where someone says smth like this to izuku please 😭😭

[zenigata-koichi-keibu]

Dilf

I don’t understand!!! I see this all on this website !! What does it mean!!?

[bendingwind]

for the ao3 wrapped meme: 1, 3, 6

How many words have you written this year?

It looks like I've posted 98,051 words so far this year! I have no idea how many I've written, there's probably another 30-50k words or so in my scrap bin, and Too Many ongoing WIPs (not all have wordcount but some do). I've got a fic that should be about 15-16k that I hope to post soon (I hoped to post it last week but I've been super sick and ended up needing to rewrite the last third of it, which I'm still working on) and I plan to post two more things that I haven't written yet before the end of the year!

3. What work are you most proud of (regardless of kudos/hits)?

Oh no! I love all of them :anguish: I think, maybe, this is just a little lullaby is the one I'm the most proud of? I just think it's artistically Neat™️ and I had a ton of fun writing and formatting it.

6. Favorite title you used

Titles my beloathed! Once again I will not defend my sense of humor but I maintain that Courting Traditions of the Oblivious Soporatus is a great title and still makes me chuckle.

[yonicbonds]

[bendingwind]

🖋️ for Friday! :)

I couldn't decide which story to go with so I'm going with two excerpts :D

Adult!Toshiro/Byakuya, from the prologue, which takes place about three years before the story:

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Spring crossed into summer. Toshiro was hot and grouchy and too tall and very clumsy, to his great dismay.

“My my, you do look older,” old man Kyouraku said one day, which was how Toshiro learned that all his hopes had been in vain, and Matsumoto had been gossiping.

“What’s the pot?” he demanded when he arrived back at his squad’s headquarters. Matsumoto looked up at him from her desk, where she had been doing paperwork for once, with a practiced innocent smile.

“The what, Captain?” she had asked.

“The pot, Matsumoto,” he growed. To his great dismay, his voice cracked, ruining any threatening effect he might have hoped to have had.

Matsumoto gave a valiant show of trying to keep a straight face, but in the end she collapsed into giggles. Toshiro crossed his arms and scowled at her.

“I’m not allowed in on it, since I have insider information,” Matsutmoto admitted at last, once her fit was over.

“You had Lieutenant Hisagi place your bets for you, didn’t you?” Toshiro demanded.

“That would be cheating!” she said, but she winked.

“Well?”

Matsumoto lowered her voice to an annoying stage whisper. 

“There are a lot of theories, but mine is that you have a crush,” she said.

Toshiro flinched with his entire body.

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Rukia/Renji pre-academy (maybe discussion of underage sex, depending on whether you consider them to have been underage at this point or not. Nothing graphic. Proceed accordingly.)

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“Okay,” Renji said, his head in his hands.

“That was bad,” Rukia agreed, perched on the decrepit porch beside him, “but I bet we can do better.”

“Don’t tell me you seriously want to, to keep trying after, after that,” Renji said, mortification dripping from his words. “I didn’t even--”

“We’ll ask around,” Rukia interrupted, not particularly interested in dwelling on that herself. “Someone will know what to do. I could just as easily be the problem.”

Renji groaned aloud.

“You’re going to ask every single person we know until we make this work, aren’t you,” he asked. Even his ears had turned red with shame where they poked out above his hands, Rukia noticed. Under other circumstances, it would have been hilarious.

“At least I finally found something you’re bad at,” she said, trying to distract him.

“Fuck off,” he said. “You didn’t exactly excel yourself.”

Teeth had been involved. Rukia felt warmth rise in her own cheeks at the memory.

“Shut up,” she said, but she leaned into his side and wrapped an arm around behind him.

“It was just supposed to be fun, not a competition,” she said. As if anything between the two of them had been anything but a competition.

There wasn’t a lot else to do during the long early autumn months when food was plentiful and easy to come by, after all. Most of their friends, and the other kids they’d lived with over the years, picked it up as a pastime once they got old enough to be interested. Rukia had been old enough to be interested for years. She just… hadn’t really trusted anyone enough to give it a try.

She eyed the sun, still pretty high in the sky. 

“Hey Renji,” she said, pulling away just enough to jolt her shoulder against his side, “I bet I can make you, y’know, before you can make me.”

He lifted his head out of his hands to glare at her.

“Cannot,” he said.

“Can too,” she said.

“I’ll fuckin’-- show you!” he said, and Rukia grinned at him.

There was no possible way that she didn’t come out of this a winner.

[harmonyscarf]

Do you think instead of “LMFAO”, All For One says “LMAFO”?

im assuming u meant LMAO and LMFAO but i think afo would say LMFAO bcus hes a weirdo