Tag: YEP

bisexualwinry:

bisexualwinry:

I’ve never seen Boku No Hero Academia but I trust All Might

I have now seen Boku No Hero Academia and not only do I trust All Might but I would lay my life down for Toshinori Yagi at a moment’s notice I would rob all the stars from the sky if it meant that he would always be smiling and happy I love hi 

cosmic-club:

Unpopular opinion maybe but you can’t blame people for not knowing how to help you. Not everyone is equipped with the intuitive knowledge. Some people just don’t know. And frankly, many of us are confused, all of us are trying our best and NONE of us has all the answers. 

haikujitsu:

kingdomoftyto:

So, Phantom of Truth. 

I just finished reading this Phandom classic, this 350,000+-word dramatic epic, all the way through for the first time. It makes me about a year late to the party, I realize, but in case there are any other Danny Phantom fans out there who haven’t gotten around to reading it yet, I want to take a second to shine the spotlight on this fic one more time.

The first fic in this duology is, frankly, almost flawless as a standalone. The simple premise of “what if the government actually managed to catch Phantom and experiment on him?” is explored to its fullest and most horrifying extent. The story is told from the perspective of Maddie, tasked with leading the research on the unusual “specimen” as a consultant for the GIW, and the reader is dragged helplessly along down a psychological spiral of horror. Danny refuses to reveal his double identity, and Maddie refuses to budge in her convictions. Just when you think things can’t possibly get worse, Dr. Fenton rationalizes her way to another, crueler experiment. Each time you dare to hope a real breakthrough is about to be made, miscommunication and cold, harsh reality slap you across the face.

It was incredible the first time I read it years ago, and reading it again in 2018 only made it more poignant and powerful. This fic about sci-fi gore and angst explores–in visceral detail–such varying topics as defining personhood; the philosophy of sentience and pain; the power imbalance between captors and captives; the ways those with power delude themselves into believing their actions are justified (the ways people–even people with good intentions–delude themselves); and the agony of terrible situations with no one person to blame.

It will disgust you. It will break your heart. It will leave you on the edge of your seat until the very last chapter. It’s absolutely phenomenal.

If you consider yourself a fan of the show, and you can stomach a bit of gore and a lot of pain, you owe it to yourself to read this fic.

And the sequel? If you’ve read the first fic, suffice it to say you’ll want to read the 300k words of fallout. You won’t need an argument from me to convince you. But just in case, I’ll throw in my two cents and say that it lives up to every raw, excruciating inch of its predecessor–all while expanding its scope to include a massive cast and a slow, believable tale of consequences and recovery. The pain and impossible inner conflicts are just as present in this story, but the small victories along the way are more than enough to keep the reader cheering everyone on and stubbornly hoping for a happy ending alongside the heroes. A happy ending brilliant author HaiJu is more than willing to provide, if one sticks with the story to the very end. 

Please read this fic. You won’t regret it.

I needed to read this today, thank you.

the-real-rg:

the-real-rg:

Me: Okay! Here’s that death scene we planned!

My character, who was created for the express purpose of dying and has now decided Not To: bold of you to assume I can die

My favourite thing about this post is how everyone is using it to

1. Call themselves out

2. Call that character out

3. Call THEIR FRIENDS OUT

No one is innocent. Everyone is guilty. The character still isn’t dead

sanguinarysanguinity:

pearlmaser:

sanguinarysanguinity:

Hornblower going on about his Duty like Zuko going on about his Honor.

…this is another of those series where the only people I know who’re into it are (1) friends who’re writing porn about it and (2) my dad. Which makes for some awkward discussions when Dad is like, “Oh, what is her favorite part? Mine is the ship battle in Season Two!” or whatever, and I’m thinking, well it’s probably not that, Dad, but instead I say something like, “Yeah, nothing like a good cannonade!”

Well, ok, in this case, also Steve at work who is funny and sometimes amusing but also super, super Republican, so I have real trouble talking with him because I’ll think we’re having a good time and then he starts slagging the union and I’m like, Steve, man, you know I’m a leftist, that’s not buddies, what if we talked about boats instead? Because you’re in PERS-1 and so smack-talking the union that got you those sweet retirement benefits is super hypocritical, Steve, and I want us to have a collegial working relationship and all but that’s terrible.

For the sake of non-awkward conversation with your dad (and possibly Steve, although Steve sounds like a lost cause, frankly) here is a list of favorite parts of the Hornblower books that have nothing to do with speculation on who might enjoy fucking whom:

  • When Midshipman Hornblower decides that having a death wish is better than being a naval midshipman, and tries to challenge his first captain to a duel.
  • When Midshipman Hornblower tells Captain Pellew that he has a TOTALLY sensible and reasonable plan for going out in the jollyboat, TRUST ME DAD, but instead immediately takes a slave galley by boarding, because he’s Always Been Like This.
  • When Midshipman Hornblower loses his first prize but successfully captures a much better prize instead – while he was a prisoner, no less – and when Captain Pellew asks how that latter came to be, Hornblower totally sandbags his own career because he suspects that Pellew isn’t going to punish him as hard as he wants to be punished. Again, because he’s Always Been Like This.
  • When Captain Hornblower gets super-excited to help drive the canal boat (very much shocking his wife with how dirty and messy he gets), and then the canal boat crew shakes their heads sadly about how he CLEARLY doesn’t know much about boats.
  • That time Captain Hornblower returns from a shore raid buck-ass naked except for his sword, and then hangs around starkers on the quarterdeck for a quarter-hour just to prove that He Totally Meant To Do That.
  • That time Commodore Hornblower is interrupted by a Suspicious Ship in the middle of his deck shower, and then spends the next hour re-capturing a French prize with his bits blowing in the breeze. (<– actual detail from the book)
  • That time Admiral Hornblower has to hang a musician for his sincere
    conviction that one chord sounds better than another, and then
    Hornblower’s wife puts together an island-wide conspiracy to engineer the
    mutineer’s escape and Hornblower never suspects.
  • That time Admiral Hornblower tells a lie and spends PAGES UPON PAGES UPON PAGES beating his breast about his lost honor, how people will be revolted to shake his hand and his in-laws will look on him with contempt and his son will never respect him again HIS HONOR HIS HONOR HE MUST RESIGN HIS COMMISSION IMMEDIATELY OHHH HIS HOOOOONOOOOOR, and then it turns out that it wasn’t actually a lie after all, never mind.

However, if your dad somehow doesn’t share a sense of humor with Mr. Forester (why is he even reading these books??) and thus we must must restrict our conversation to Favorite Boaty Things, then you may tell him that my Favorite Boaty Parts are:

  • the rice ship (is there anyone who doesn’t love the rice ship??)

  • the slave galleys

  • rescuing the shipwreck survivors while he’s a prisoner of war

  • pretty much everything on the Hotspur

  • the water-hoy Princess and that time they took a French prize for all of twenty minutes before having to give it up again

  • the Funeral Procession of Barely-Averted Disaster While Everyone Is Watching OMG

  • treasure hunting on the Atropos

  • all three engagements with the Natividad

  • pretty much every naval engagement on the Sutherland (even that utterly devastating final battle, oh forgive me!)

  • the escape down the Loire

  • the Witch of Endor

  • pretty much everything on the Nonsuch

  • capturing the Caribbean slaver by means of secret sea anchor sabotage