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Hear me out; the U.A. Entrance Exam isn’t restrictive enough.

(a rant/comparison of the U.A. Entrance Exam with medical admissions, from a first-time medicine applicant)

Alright, we’ve all heard of how horribly biased the exam is against Quirks that only influence humans or living being. Rescue points? Hidden; and the sight of those robots is more than enough to demoralise a kid who’s been working months for the practical exam only to find that their Quirk won’t even affect their opponents. Your only other option is... *checks notes* competing in a series of trials with kids who have had extra training with their quirks, or nepotism. I agree that it’s unfair! But quite frankly, I think those particular issues have been done to the death.

My issue is with what the Entrance Exam lacks - particularly, some way of, I don’t know, testing the kids’ morals? These kids are going to be starting on a career that’s an amalgamation of a celebrity, a police officer, a healthcare professional and a firefighter, and there isn’t a way of checking if any of them might be homocidal?? And this is the top hero school in the country! Like, even my secondary school admissions had interviews - for 12 year olds. Surely 15 year olds can handle them, let alone those trying to get into U.A..

Now, you might argue; but being a doctor requires more academic rigour! It requires intensive study and practical skill, along with excellent bedside manner and social skills! That’s true. In the UK (which is arguably one of the countries in the Anglosphere where it’s relatively ‘easy’ to get into medicine), medical admissions typically require straight As, high scores in 1/2 entrance exams, and beating others at either a panel interview or at an MMI (multiple mini interview) just to get an offer. But, I’d argue that being a hero requires skills that are almost, if not equivalent, with these.

You can’t tell me that heroes don’t need to be aware of the laws governing what actions they can or cannot do. The written exams that the kids take at the end of each year is evidence that they do need some theoretical hero-related knowledge to graduate - plus, they need to come out the other end being able to (to some extent) manipulate the media, and reassure civilians, talk villains down, control their Quirk and use it to subdue villains and rescue/evacuate people, etcetera, etcetera.

In my mind, the admissions should be nearly as complicated as medical admissions - where they ascertain your motivations, your circumstances, your critical thinking ability and your social skills over both entrance exams and interviews before even letting you onto the course. This ensures that they’re not wasting resources on someone who may drop out after the first year, and tests the teenagers’ suitability for the profession.

Sure, maybe the written entrance exam contains some version of the CASPer* and/or the BMAT**, but if so, how did someone like Bakugou (who, early on, is unashamedly tunnel-visioned on getting #1, fuck everyone else) get in? How did, despite how much I love her, Uraraka (who wants to join a profession that must have been known for its high mortality rate - for the $$$) get in?

Their Quirks are good, definitely, but did they know what they were getting themselves into? Did they know what the role truly encompassed, or were they blinded by the fame, the rankings, the money? Did they know - at least the basics - of the emotional and mental toll that came with being a hero? Did they know the kind of people they might encounter?

Quite frankly, if U.A. didn’t at least check for this, they’re doing both their potential students and the general population a great disservice - which, seeing that Endeavor is a product of U.A., seems to be the case.

It should not be that easy to embark on a career as publicised and as dangerous as being a hero is, and yet that is how it appears to be. Doctors have to have the right motivation because if you hate people, no matter how knowledgable and capable you are, your patients are going to have an all around horrible time - and that ‘only’ leads to higher mortality if people are reluctant to visit the hospital. In BNHA? A bad encounter, or several bad encounters, with heroes has the potential to create villains. Surely, in that case, hero potentials should be vetted more thoroughly?

I’m a fan of this show and I’ve read hundreds of thousands, if not millions, words worth of BNHA fanfiction, but when I turn off my suspension-of-disbelief, my day is instantly ruined (that might be a slight exaggeration, I get that it’s for plot convenience - but still; where are the fucking restrictions?).

(*CASPer: “[The Computer-Based Assessment for Sampling Personal Characteristics] [...] asks what you would do in a tough situation, and more importantly, why. This helps determine behavioral tendencies of applicants pursuing people-centered professions.”

**BMAT: “The BioMedical Admissions Test  [...] tests your ability to apply scientific and mathematical knowledge, as well as problem solving, critical thinking and written communication skills.”)

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to be honest there has never been a fictional character i’ve actually wanted to date. like. i want them to date each other. i don’t want myself as a person to be involved in this scenario whatsoever. what would i add to this narratively? what’s my thematic purpose in the narrative? immersion breaking. 

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so mad, i was typing up a rant of epic proportions and now it’s gone. using a word processor to retype ;(

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watching hannibal for the first time, but out of order because i have no patience, and it's only enhancing my experience imo.

i went from lecter being a mildly concerning unofficial psychiatrist for will to margot suggesting that hannibal is prescribing murder for will's treatment, then to them murdering a guy together, and i'd say this is a PEAK experience :')

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typical episode of nbc's hannibal season 1: will investigates another chesapeake ripper kill, unaware that hannibal is secretly the murderer! :)

hannibal season 3: still heartbroken from their breakup, hannibal decides that the only way to get over will is to eat him, but he is interrupted in the middle of cutting will's head open by the corrupt Italian police, who kidnap hannibal and will and bring them to hannibal's nemesis, a horrifyingly disfigured man who drinks martinis made out of children's tears, and who wants to eat hannibal as revenge for hannibal forcing him to eat his own face

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Techno, talking about the charity goal: -we hit 300k apparently

Philza: Yoooo!

Squid and Techno: Lets goooo!

Philza: That is insane! [Claps] Holy.

Squid: That's amazing -

Ranboo: Oh no

[Message in chat says 3 Withers have been summoned]

Techno, running and screaming in panic: No, wait! I FORGOT ABOUT THAT PART, I FORGOT ABOUT THAT PART -

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This means Minecraft = Self-Actualisation; you know what? I can get on board with that.

Just in case anyone else was curious.

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Trying to get into Welcome to Night Vale and I’m not following the plotline at all. I’m really confused, and I feel that’s kind of the point.

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what i’ve learnt from studying psychology is that even though you may not have free will, believing that you have free will helps to improve your quality of life and increases your chances of success.

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One of the most fun ways that literature has influenced our language is the word “wight.”

In Old and Middle English and in some conservative dialects of Modern English “wight” just means “person.” Sort of like “dude.” It *can* refer to something supernatural or spooky, but it doesn’t necessarily.

But see, J.R.R. Tolkien (because of course it’s Tolkien) loved adapting archaic or obscure words into his modern fantasy, and he coined “barrow-wight” to refer to animate spirits (wights) dwelling in old tumulus graves (barrows).

But of course most of the people reading Fellowship had never encountered the word “wight” unless maybe they’d heard it while visiting their granny out on the wild moors of Old Fuckingcesterworthshire, so the word re-entered the mainstream lexicon with a new definition that Tolkien had unwittingly given it.

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Pupil of the Eye

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THE EYES FAVORITE LADS

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I finally caved and started listening to tma and this is the man yall are horny about? this british smartass of a librarian??? the one who is so dismissive of every single story that he would certainly die first in a horror movie???? what. I was promised a office romance and got the most fucked up stories read by a bored man with a organisation kink who hates all his coworkers

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me realising my ao3 history has 360 fics read in the last week: ._. me realising exactly 250 of them are WC/DCU crossovers: :0 me realising i have four exams next week: :O

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Watch them take another month to actually do anything about this lol

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so i know we make jokes about Jon asking the assistants to commit crimes, but i was thinking about the bits in 81 where he talks about getting brought home by the police three times by age eight, and just… what if he asks for info you can’t get except by breaking into places because he’s so used to doing it himself?

like, I’m just imagining Tim joining the research department at the institute and meeting fussy academic Jon who’s a skeptic but knows a ton about this supernatural stuff, and befriending him because he’s kinda hilarious if you can sit through the acid.

And then they go to do field research together, and the man who Tim half-thought had never been outside in his life climbs a ten-foot fence without a beat of hesitation because this is where the statement happened, Tim, now hurry up, we’re wasting enough time on this blatant fabrication already…