Fucking CRYING IM USING THAT PHRASE FOR EVERYTHING NOW

Shinsou Hitoshi, disheartened by his defeat in the Sports Festival, does everything in his power to transfer into the heroics course, with a little extra help.

A story exploring the "what-ifs" of Shinsou's training prior to his return, becoming more and more canon-divergent as my desperate desire to give Shinsou what he deserves runs wild.

Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead & Shinsou Hitoshi,Class 1-A & Shinsou Hitoshi,Shinsou Hitoshi & Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic,Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead/Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic,Shinsou Hitoshi,Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead,Yamada Hizashi | Present Mic,Class 1-A (My Hero Academia),everyone shows up at some point,Shuuzenji Chiyo | Recovery Girl,Kayama Nemuri | Midnight,Anxiety,Anxiety Attacks,Personal Growth,Quirk Malfunctions,Angst,Hurt/Comfort,Fluff,Class 1-A as Family (My Hero Academia),Implied/Referenced Child Abuse,Foster Care,Child Neglect,erasermic,Copious amounts of domestic Erasermic,Misunderstandings,MIC ACTUALLY BEING IMPORTANT IN THE STORY,Cat Cafés,Cats,Chatting & Messaging,Minor Original Character(s),Minor canon divergence,unfair representation of the foster care system.

Couldn't recommend enough. All about a hurt Shinsou being shown love by his new gay dads.

Let's play a game. Its called Fic Rec.

Basically, how you play, is we give each other fic recs so we can share and interact with this Fandom

Here I go

Fic Rec round 1

TW: suicidal thoughts

Summary:

Midoriya Izuku's bad relationship with heights started at a young age.

It had started festering when he first hurt himself falling.

It grew violent when he first learned what it felt like to fall out a window.

And it turned into cold hatred when he first learned that jumping didn't always mean getting away, sometimes it meant getting trapped.

But as much as he hated heights, Izuku thought it looked pretty from 30 meters up high.

It was also weird, he thought, that in movies they portray people as crying, screaming, whimpering, and being so emotional as they stand on the edge.Izuku just felt empty.

A sense of calm finality.

This was it.

This was how he was always destined to end up.

He closed his eyes and breathed.

"Midoriya, step away from the edge, kid."

And Izuku’s eyes shot open.

. . .

Yalllll I cannot even express how good this writing is. 100/10, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, whatever you call it. Its P R I S T I N E

bubbline 💖🖤💖🖤

I think the best way to describe my fashion style is ‘confused time-traveller who learned 21st century fashion by watching fantasy movies’.

I feel absolutely fabulous wearing a swooshing cape and poofy skirts to walk around town by the way.

Sewing Machines & Planned Obsolescence

I've got these two sewing machines, made about 100 years apart. An old treadle machine from around 1920-1930, that I pulled out of the trash on a rainy day, and a new Brother sewing machine from around 2020.

I've always known planned obsolescence was a thing, but I never knew just how insidious it was till I started looking at these two side by side.

I wasn't feeling hopeful at first that I'd actually be able to fix the old one, I found it in the trash at 2 am in a thunderstorm. It was rusty, dusty, soggy, squeaky, missing parts, and 100 years old.

How do you even find specialized parts 100 years later? Well, easily, it turns out. The manufacturers at the time didn't just make parts backwards compatible to be consistent across the years, but also interchangeable across brands! Imagine that today, being able to grab a part from an old iPhone to fix your Android.

Anyway, 6 months into having them both, I can confidently say that my busted up trash machine is far better than my new one, or any consumer-grade sewing machine on the market.

Old Machine Guts

The old machine? Can sew through a pile of leather thicker than my fingers like it's nothing. (it's actually terrifying and I treat it like a power tool - I'll never sew drunk on that thing because I'm genuinely afraid it'd sew through a finger!) At high speeds, it's well balanced and doesn't shake. The parts are all metal, attached by standard flathead screws, designed to be simple and strong, and easily reachable behind large access doors. The tools I need to work on it? A screwdriver and oil. Lost my screwdriver? That's OK, a knife works too.

New Machine Guts

The new machine's skipping stitches now that the plastic parts are starting to wear out. It's always throwing software errors, and it damn near shakes itself apart at top speed. Look at it's innards - I could barely fit a boriscope camera that's about as thick as spaghetti in there let alone my fingers. Very little is attached with standard screws.

And it's infuriating. I'm an engineer - there's no damn reason to make high-wear parts out of plastic. Or put them in places they can't be reached to replace. There's no reason to make your mechanism so unbalanced it's reaching the point of failure before reaching it's own design speed. (Oh yeah there is, it's corporate greed)

100 years, and your standard home sewing machine has gone from a beast of a machine that can be pulled out of the literal waterlogged trash and repaired - to a machine that eats itself if you sew anything but delicate fast-fashion fabrics that are also designed to fall apart in a few years.

Looking for something modern built to the standard that was set 100 years ago? I'd be looking at industrial machines that are going for thousands of dollars... Used on craigslist. I don't even want to know what they'd cost new.

We have the technology and knowledge to manufacture "old" sewing machines still. Hell, even better, sewing machines with the mechanical design quality of the old ones, but with more modern features. It would be so easy - at a technical level to start building things well again. Hell, it's easier to fabricate something sturdy than engineer something to fail at just the right time. (I have half a mind to see if any of my meche friends with machine shops want to help me fabricate an actually good modern machine lol)

We need to push for right-to-repair laws, and legislation against planned obsolescence. Because it's honestly shocking how corporate greed has downright sabotaged good design. They're selling us utter shit, and expecting us to come back for more every financial quarter? I'm over it.

random but i had a dream that erasermic had a super serious divorce and then they threw a “divorce” party right before signing the papers and it was just watching megamind. good news tho at the end of the dream they got back together if u cares about that 😭

NSNDVDMDBDJDNDBDNDBDNDBXNX THANK U ANON OBSESSED W THIS IDEA. I want u to know I'm imagining they watched megamind bc it was Their movie and by the end they were making out sloppy and tearing up the divorce papers. megamind saved their marriage

I worked very hard on this

Happy Pride?

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Another entry in Taka's accidental adventures in insulting people.

As someone who has an allergy to face-paint I have to duck and weave when folk bring out the rainbow face-paint sticks at pride, and I always have the urge to justify myself...

But no one believes you if you say something like 'I swear, I'm not honophobic! I just have an allergy!'

an "Allergy" indeed...

Reblog if you're not homophobic

Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad. 

cis man with gynecomastia scars: hi

the smartest transphobes in the world: kys tranny

and people wonder why I say that transphobia is a danger to everyone.