#Planning and Management Course

[aroaessidhe]

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Something Extraordinary

historical platonic-romcom

an aromantic woman tired of feeling unworthy when the people closest to her leave her behind for romance, and a gay man in unrequited love who is planning on giving up and marrying a woman in misery and drunkenness

she kidnaps him the day before the marriage to stop him ruining his life, suggesting that they get platonically married instead - and on the ridiculous journey to scotland to elope, they have to convince each other if it’s what is best for them, and what they want out of life/love/and friendship

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hi!! in the fake dating au, what happens after iida escalates the Bakugou Problem in a way that aizawa can't ignore?? how does the faculty react to the information, what measures do they take and how does izuku react to/feel about them??

Aizawa pulls Izuku and Hitoshi in separately to talk to them about what happened at their middle schools. Iida had compiled evidence about both of them being bullied, after all. Both Izuku and Hitoshi try to brush him off, and he doesn’t let them. But, notably, Hitoshi seems to do it out of embarrassment, and Izuku seems to do it out of apprehension. Aizawa realizes that Izuku is genuinely afraid that he’ll somehow get in trouble for this and it makes him reevaluate his relationship with Izuku.

Hitoshi in this AU just trusts Aizawa way more than Izuku does. Part of that is Dramatic Backstory Reasons, part of that is because Hitoshi wins the sports festival in this AU, and it culminates in some major public backlash because of his Quirk. He got almost no offers despite having placed number one. Aizawa ends up offering to take him on as his own personal intern, breaking his previous rule of not having interns at all, let alone ones that were his students.

Aizawa builds a lot of trust with Hitoshi in that week. Izuku, meanwhile, is fresh off the Hero Killer Stain Arc, and he came back to Aizawa’s canon response of calling him out for making a bad call in front of the entire class. His trust in Aizawa just took a hit.

It takes Aizawa a while to get him to believe that he’s not in trouble. It takes longer to convince him that Aizawa’s not dropping it so he should stop trying to get him to. It takes him even longer to get him to talk to him at all about what happened. Even then, Aizawa can tell he’s keeping a lot of it back.

Aizawa knew that it wasn’t exactly great to be Quirkless. But this was all mights secret love child. He thought that his dad would bury any school allowing him to be bullied in some much litigation that they’d never crawl out from under the paperwork.

One of the first things Izuku does is beg him not to tell his parents, and Aizawa kicks himself. Of course the kid was hiding this shit from them. He was going through the stress of his dad’s crippling injury, his parents’ nuclear grade divorce and absolutely rancid custody battle over him, and all the while had the fact that his father was secretly all might and he couldn’t tell anyone about that hanging over him. He had a lot going on in his home life and obviously didn’t feel comfortable asking for help.

He does tell Izuku’s mom and “dad.” He needs to, for things to move forward. He also has a tense conversation with All Might in the teacher’s lounge about how he and Inko, you know, the real wife that he totally had, need to be more careful about fighting in front of their son, you know the one that they had together, because it’s obviously been making Izuku more hesitant to bring his problems to his dad, who is of course all might. Izuku’s not exactly thrilled about any of this shit, seeing as he doesn’t want things to move forward and constantly fights the temptation to drown himself over how being his fake dad has impacted Yagi’s life. But as it turns out, having all might as a fake dad really does change the dynamics of a bullying investigation. Not that Aldera knows all might is the reason why they’re suddenly under fire, but he does make a big difference.

He goes straight to his highly paid team of aggressive lawyers who go out and hire another highly paid team of aggressive lawyers so no one asks why all mights lawyers are suing a random fucking school. They proceed to bury them in so much litigation that the school will never crawl out of it again. The goal is two fold: 1) carry out the sacred precipes of My Revenge Plan By Iida Tenya and make sure everyone involved loses their job and never teaches again and 2) make sure to get rid of every fucking scrap of evidence about Izuku’s bullying. Izuku’s anonymity in the lawsuit is maintained because he’s a minor, and all might’s agency uses it as an opportunity to seize control of any proof of what happened for the sake of his future career. They don’t want security footage of him getting beat up in middle school getting sprung on him during the fucking Tonight Show ten years down the line. All might proceeds to pay these lawyers to do the same to Hitoshi’s school, because he’s a delightful young man and his son’s best friend and all might is enormously proud of him and indignant on his behalf.

Izuku sort of hates the fuss of all of it. He never wanted his mom to know. He definitely never wanted All Might to know. The rest of the class sort of gets the sense that something happened but no one gets into detail about what, and Izuku just. He hates it. He didn’t want anyone to know how he used to be and doesn’t know why everyone has to make a big deal about it when it’s already over. It should have stopped mattering by now.

It’s something he has to work through, how bad what happened to him was. He’s never had anyone like Iida before, is the thing. Someone who dug in their heels, who saw what was happening to him and found it unbearable. Everyone else was just fine allowing it. He spends a long time grappling with it. It’s the first time in his life that anyone treated what happened as a serious issue and it sort of fucks it up because if it is serious now that means it was serious then and just. No one cared.

Bakugou gets dangerously close to being expelled.

It’s very bad. This all breaks as a result of him backhanding Izuku during the midterms. Iida snapped because of that, and he had a laundry list of other grievances regarding Bakugou’s behavior since the start of school. So from the school’s perspective, Bakugou was a bully who kept it up right under their noses.

And it’s one of those things UA really, really can’t ignore. Like. They are training the next generation of fucking super cop. If a hero abuses their power, then that is fucking serious. They have a hard policy of not allowing students who raise ethical concerns to continue in the hero course. If they had known about Bakugou’s history, he would not have been allowed in the school at all.

He barely escapes expulsion because, much to Iida’s displeasure, Izuku speaks out on his behalf and convinces them not to. But he’s put on an academic probation. It goes down on his permanent record. Hes in mandatory therapy. He’s not allowed to participate in group combat training until he’s cleared by Aizawa and Hound Dog. He won’t be eligible to get his provisional license until he’s cleared by Aizawa and hound dog. He’s informed that if he initiates any negative contact with Izuku at all or if he shows signs of bullying any other students then he will be immediately expelled. It’s a big stain on his academic transcript that likely will follow him into his career.

Throughout all this Izuku and Hitoshi are staring at Iida like :o

Iida is not sorry. He was profoundly obvious about his intentions and lust for revenge from the start. He meticulously documented their every injury and what caused them for fucksake. He had a folder in the google drive called My Revenge Plan By Iida Tenya. The fact that they did not believe he could achieve his revenge is not his problem. He believes this was the exact right course of action and if anything he wants more revenge

[overchromatic]

im probably gonna be posting here less frequently for a while due to. Medical Issues.

[anghraine]

Speaking of "The City on the Edge of Forever," I've been thinking about how my femslash Spirk AU winds out through the canon TOS episodes, interacts with gender expectations of the show, etc, and am mentally organizing episodes by how drastically affected they'd be.

I'm also thinking of S'paak hiding her ears beneath a beanie in 1930 :P

[light-wrath-paradise]

Animorphs Book club book 8

My reaction can be summarised as this (yet again):

I don't have many thoughts because uh. That was depressing as hell and I need to stare at a wall.

But I DO gotta say that the subplot with the dead "wife" was so telenovela-esque that for a good minute it was more funny than depressing. Then it got depressing. But it was so jarring and so far out of the left field that for a good second my friend and I had to pause the audiobook and laugh because ????????? Unhinged to just appear, go "I am Eslin, I have a G U N. My secret wife was killed. By my boss. Now I yearn for sweet sweet revenge." and not elaborate. Like. Damn dude ok. Sorry about our wife also. Fucking killed me that he continued like "So anyway I reacted adequately by killing all of my boss' friends. Starvation style." Like ???? Jjhsgdjsdfghsjdfh what????? I mean damn I do respect the grind set but also that's such an absurd escalation out of context. Did your boss kill your wife? Kill all of his friends! And in context the most absurd part is probably the notion that Visser 3 has friends??????? Like??? Wait no Eslin. Eslin wait. I love your John Wick-esque "fridged wife" trope swag but you need to slow down. I need details. I need you to tell me HOW your boss even has friends.

In my heart I do not believe we will see that madman ever again but on god I do wish for an insane telenovela-esque sequence of him just showing up at the most random moment to do exactly one thing and that's to pull a gun on Visser 3. For no reason, I just think it would be kinda funny. Like,,,did your boss kill your wife?:

Kill all of his friends

Acquire a G U N

Attempt to make the local Andalite youth assassinate your boss for you

Pull the gun on your boss

???????

Profit (probably die)

Aside from that, I also need to say that the moment when Ax called Tobias his close friend at the end was so sweet. Also ngl kinda...concerning/harrowing how much Tobias really doesn't give a shit about not being a human. Like it doesn't seem so concerning from other points of view but the way Ax gets increasingly weirded out by Tobias not asking him about the nothlit (idk if I'm spelling that right rn) really reminds you that it IS kinda worrying. Like I get it, I mean...Tobias has no family that cares about him, he has no friends outside of the Animorphs friend group, why would he care? But it's still kinda...yeah.

Also unimaginably surprised by the amount of collective guilt present in the Andalite society. You'd think they're Catholic or something the way they keep beating themselves up and force everyone to also beat themselves up and their system itself is saturated with the guilt and shame and they teach it to kids at school from an early age. Like. Jesus Christ calm down. Stop that. As the Animorphs said at the end of the book - the Andalites made an oopsie once. It sucked, yes, it continues to have consequences that suck, yes, but it happens. Sometimes you think you're doing something kind and it turns into a disaster. That does not mean you should beat yourself up for it or, god forbid, tell other people that they should not be kind lest they make a mistake. Damn I guess we should all be cold assholes forever, huh? I'm sure that can't have any negative consequences.

Andalite society in general seems kinda unhinged. Like...do I get why it is like that? Yeah. But do I find it unhinged? Also yeah. Like ok duty and the collective being the most important things is totally sensible for a prey animal. Safety of the herd and all that. But it's still kinda unhinged that they do make everyone have duty as their number 1 priority and that they have rituals devoted to it. Not all rituals are spiritual or religious in nature, but the morning ritual is kinda...borderline religious in a way. More spiritual than religious, I suppose, but yeah.

Also I love Ax so much. 10/10 character. He has it all: an incredibly hilarious desire for cinnamon buns, the inability to act like a human being (same dude), spitting random facts at completely random times, a thirst for blood only a 13(?) years old could have, a dysfunctional obsession with duty and doing what is right that only a 13(?) years old could have (also lol yeah dude I was like that when I was 13 too. dw you'll grow out of it), he can even code. And he might even be bi (I'm joking but I' referring to the fact that he was like "Yeah so when I morph into a human form I suddenly agree that Rachel is beautiful and that Marco is cute.").

[elbiotipo]

You know all those dumb arguments that planned economies can't work because inefficiency or human nature or whatever. I've seen so many dumb and harmful shit going on just this past month with "free markets" that I actually believe command economies are a necessity to keep us safe from dumb and harmful shit, something essential like public water works.

[feartohate]

trying to imagine what anakin's upbringing would've been like in my sith-born au bc like. it's not like the jedi, where they are still actively raising the younglings and hitting key developmental milestones. there's structure, age-specific socialization- little anakin didn't have that !

[smimon]

okay i know you probably have enough drawing ideas for giant k but i just had this idea invade me.

you know how in snow white (not just the disney version) she pushes together the beds and sleeps on like 3 or more of them sideways? anyway giant k sleeping on 3 beds pushed together. and now i'm just picturing giant k as snow white and everyone else as the various dwarves

Ohoho big brain!!! 👀👀👀 Big brain. I love this idea so much and not just because Snow White is my favourite fairy tale hdjsbdbdfh

Thank you!!! Of course I have to draw it and not just once, let's make it into a comic! Let's gooo

Giant K series #16: once upon a time, in a land far, far away...

To be continued 😉

[caterjunes]

first day of intro to business class today! i did my readings (lots of capitalist bootlicking which i am approaching with an anthropological mindset), made a discussion post, did my homework for the week, and took the chapter quiz (very poorly worded questions which actually directly caused me to get one wrong)

so far so good.

[silverwarewolf]

i just keep winning~

after trying out ultrakill (which, wonderful game, would recommend, but also oh my god it does not work with a keyboard setting for me), i decided to boot up eosd as i was excited to show on stream remilia's spellcards and whatnot. however, that was surely too short of a stream, no? so my plan morphed into 1) show off patchouli's and sakuya's hard mode spells, 2) show practice mode normal remilia, 3) show the first half of the extra stage before inevitably dying to patchouli once more.

and that plan immediately went off the rails because, believe it or not, i actually beat eosd hard mode!! not a 1cc, fuck no, but i did beat it nonetheless. and i have to say, scarlet gensokyo is SUCH a fun spellcard. i still hate remilia's nonspell - the one that's like an offbrand scarlet shoot - and i still find some stage/nonspell portions to be insufferable.

but nevertheless i beat the game and it was very fun <3

of course, i will now try eosd lunatic - KIDDING, i do want to try 1ccing eosd hard. surely it wont take too long... though i will say, it's a very weird thing that if you focus on reimu you can't see the spells very well, and if you focus on the spells you can't see reimu. i still have to try and find the optimal point to focus on so that i can dodge as efficiently as possible.

i still did a good job. i mean, i captured jack the ludo bile no miss, and i did well enough on the extra stage to at least beat cranberry trap! which is barely a dent in the fuckery that is flandre fucking scarlet but we'll get there. it also proves my method of, finishing hard mode first makes extra mode feel better.

after that i played some touhou 9, ft. somehow managing hitless reisen vs eiki, as well as finally getting to fight my wonderful wife yuuka. i don't love playing as cirno, however. and by that point i was tired of buttonmashing (seriously THANK udoalg for changing that mechanic, podd and pofv are very fun in terms of chaos and bulletspam and spellcard spam but the buttonmashing? no thank you)

what does phantasmagoria even mean, anyway.

last but not least i played imperishable night, where i tried out the netherworld team (it's SO weird to have a wide focused shot) and then did a fun little challenge to myself called, normal mode scarlet team while trying once again to eat chips whenever possible. it turns out once you reach keine the difficulty starts presenting an actual challenge! which is to be expected.

i still can only capture one of kaguya's last spells. i fear i'll have to practice much more before i can capture another - and i fear they will only get worse in higher difficulties.

anyway, i had a wonderful time streaming all of these (which is always the case whenever i stream with my wonderful friend) (almost wrote fried which, well, seems fitting considering the many food jokes remilia and yuyuko make) and i shall be riding the high of beating eosd hard without having intended to

[rqg179]

emily saying in the adventuring party that fig really might drop out to go travelling with ayda .... i will cry!!!

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning~ <333

[welkinalauda]

Two years ago my boss K died.

I worked for K for close to 20 years. She was great - she knew the industry and she knew exactly how our system worked and how it got that way. We were friends, or at least as much friends as you can be with your boss. I miss her a lot.

.

A year ago, the company laid off P (who had been K's boss).

They said it was cost-cutting. Redundancy in middle management.

.

Last month, the company laid off D.

D was K's second in command, and he moved into her job after she died. D didn't have all of K's institutional knowledge, but he did his best. D was our department's rep to a bunch of IT projects over the years. Now he's gone and we have no idea what was happening with those.

.

I now report to S.

S is a lovely person and an experienced manger, but she knows...not enough...about the work we do and how we do it. To her credit, she knows that she doesn't know enough and she's asking questions and letting those of us who know more take the lead in meetings with outsiders. But.

My job is maintaining the company database of import duties and taxes.

Donald Trump (may his name be forever and hissing and a curse) has found in US import tariffs something he can fuck with that NO ONE HAS THE AUTHORITY TO REVIEW.*

I am the last one at the company who has a clue how CBP data can be folded and spindled into our system so that it's intelligible to downstream users.

I am an hourly employee. No one reports to me. People in other departments call on me for subject matter expertise and then drop me off the email chain while they make executive decisions.

And I am the last one on the business side who has a half-assed clue how our system works, who has an idea how many paths our data travels down, who knows jack about this shit.

That latest 'pause' on CA/MX add'l duties is going to fuck up our system badly and I have no one to ask for guidance.

I laid out the problem in today's executive orders for some of my colleagues, and they looked thoughtful for a bit and said they got nothing, either.

*The WTO may have authority? and the US is in violation of that agreement as I understand it - but I don't know if the WTO will permanently pitch the US out over the temporary horror that is Donald Fucking Trump

[tealfruit]

if I could explode people with my mind we would have a lot of job openings in upper management

[moreaujeans]

im signed up for an online english course with a professor who has actually some of the worst rate my professor reviews i have ever seen most of which talk about how she never replies to emails and/or didn’t start putting in grades until like the last two weeks of class and she’s currently refusing to even open the course until wednesday… head in hands