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BNHA Gen Exchange Interest Check!

As the name says, we’re planning an event focused on My Hero Academia's gen dynamics; for the purposes of this event, any pairing that is not romantic will be accepted as a gen ship.

The interest check will be open for two weeks from Sunday, June 22nd to Sunday, July 6th.

For further info, you can check our carrd! You can also drop any question on our askbox, if there are any doubts left.

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Some fanboys with terrible disguises walk into a (hero merch) store and run into each other-

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I’m rewatching haikyu (excellent decision) and love the characters but every time it cuts to ukai and takeda my brain keeps going bkdk? 👀 no quirk small town au bkdk with ukai as bakugou and takeda as izuku? 👀👀

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🏞️.

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fanfic (mha mostly), and emotionally-driven coming of age stories- I like to hop around genres

Iceland. Or a remote biking path in the countryside, surrounded by old windmills and lavender fields

The notebook from my grandma that I’m steadily filling up with world-building/character notes and writing excerpts

Check In for Summerfest 2025!

You approach the check-in counter. A bored attendant hands you a clipboard.

To receive your boarding pass, just reblog this post with:

Your name (or handle)

What you write

A fictional or real destination you’d love to visit

One thing in your "writer carry-on"

Example:

K.E. Koontz Horror & weird fiction Fog-covered mountain town A notebook filled with suspiciously wet pages

When August hits, we’ll match you with a gate or terminal based on your vibe. This is just for fun and no pressure to participate daily—hop in and out as your flight schedule allows!

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This is my first time trying my hand at writing in my non-native language. I had to look a few things up but I think it came out okay? If anyone who speaks Italian has any advice or notices any mistakes pls lmk! English translation at the bottom

Titolo: La Strega | 236 parole

C'è una strega nella casa. Guardo alla mia bambina, congelato, mentre lei mette una ciotola di latte al tavolo per il gatto nero. 

Il gatto nero che vede a me come può vede la mia anima e non è colpito. 

“Amore,” io dico. "Dov'è ti scopri questo gatto?”

Bianca non riposte. 

“Amore,” io dico. 

“Si chiama Eloise, papà,” Bianca dice, scocciato. “Ha mi detto ciao questa mattina fuori la finestra della mia stanza e piangeva quindi l’ho aperto.”

“Eloise,” io dico. Eloise, la strega che parla con mia figlia.  “Lo vedo. Bianca?”

“Che cosa?”

“Eloise ti ha dato un dono?” 

“Mm.” Bianca accarezzano il gatto. “Sì. Un topo. Ma lui era morto e non lo voglio.”

Mi siedo al tavolo con la mia testa negli mie mani. Ci sono tre regale di streghe:

Un- Non possono entrare la casa di un stregone senza permesso (e vice versa)

Due- Se un membro della famiglia accetta un dono fra la strega, regola numero un non avere potere

Tre- Una strega mangerà il tuo cuore se non piace tu

Ma, potrebbe essere peggio. Potrebbe essere un'altra strega. 

“Ciao, Eloise.”

Eloise cambia da il gatto a una donna, e lei è bella come sempre. 

“Mama!” Bianca dice. 

“Ciao, amore. Sembri forte.” Eloise vede a me. “Il tuo babbo, non così tanto.”

“Per quanto tempo si fermi?”

“Solo una settimana, non si preoccupa."

“Va bene. Bianca?”

“Sì?”

“Puoi trovare la mia medicina?”

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Title: The Witch | 236 words

There is a witch in the house. I look at my little girl, frozen, while she outs a bowl of milk on the table for the black cat.

The black cat who looks at me like she can see my soul and is not impressed.

"Honey," I say. "Where did you find this cat?"

Bianca does not respond.

"Honey," I say.

"Her name is Eloise, dad," she says, annoyed. "She said hello to me this morning outside the window of my room and was crying so I opened it."

"Eloise," I say. The witch who talks with my daughter. "I see. Bianca?"

"What?"

"Did Eloise give you a gift?"

"Mm." Bianca pets the cat. "Yes. A mouse. But he was dead and I don't want it.

I sit at the table with my head in my hands. There are three rules for witches:

One- They cannot enter the home of a wizard without permission (and vice versa)

Two- If a member of the household accepts a gift from the witch, rule number one does not have power

Three- a witch will eat your heart if she doesn't like you

But it could be worse. It could be a different witch.

"Ciao, Eloise."

Eloise changes from a cat to a woman, and she is as beautiful as ever.

"Mama!" Bianca says.

"Hello honey. You look strong." Eloise looks at me. "Your daddy, not so much."

"How long will you be staying?"

"Just a week, don't worry."

"Okay. Bianca?"

"Yes?"

"Can you find my medicine?"

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Pride month = queer book recommendations 😌

In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune: currently on chapter 12 and I’m frothing at the mouth with how much I like this book!!! Sentient robots? Check. Playful banter between characters? Check. Loving parental figure with a dark past? Check. MC is explicitly asexual

The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy At All by Sumiko Arai: sapphic slice-of-life manga with a gorgeous, striking art style. my friend loves it- on my tbr list

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers: pretty sure this made it onto last year’s recommendations list lol but bonus points for a totally gender neutral MC (and sentient robots again, yay!). part of a series but works as a stand-alone as well. solarpunk

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz: a queer coming-of-age story that had my teenage self by the throat. this book stayed with me for a while after i read it

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera- a story about sexuality and self-discovery set in a world where you can choose to suppress your memories with tech! I remember feeling very moved when I read it, lowkey deserves a re-read

drop your own recs in the comments/reblogs!

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thanks for the open tag @oh-no-another-idea

Acrostic Tag Game Rules: given a word, find a sentence in your WIP that starts with each letter My word is ALOUD and I'm pulling lines from my kamibaku apocalypse au for mha rare pair week

A- And he doesn’t know why this boy’s silent attention feels like rain in the desert but it does, so he sits quietly and lets himself be examined.

L- "Like, jackpot lucky. Unless you’re planning to eat me.” 

O- Other scabs flake off from his elbows and knees as he goes. Old, childish wounds that Kaminari always feels stupid for crying over. He’s seen worse. He’s had worse. There’s just something about a gentle scrape that could’ve come from a playground accident that aches more without a family to fret over it. 

U- “Um,” Kaminari starts, painfully aware that he’s splayed out on the ground with the Crawler’s still-twitching body only a few feet away, covered in blood and dirt from weeks of travelling on foot.

D- “Dumbass,” he says, swiping over his mouth like he could erase any trace of his humor, “I told you you’d fuckin’ trip.”

very gently tagging @unicornfairycat @ghostapop @honeybewrites +open tag for anyone who wants to play! your word is TRIPS

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Meet Cherry!

Name: Cherry (last name undetermined) Age: 17 Birthday: April 2nd Sexuality: Straight, demisexual (ace spec) Status: Catcher A song that fits her character: Which Witch by Florence + The Machine Favorite movie: Jaws (1975) Favorite genre: horror/thriller

Cherry is bold, driven, and fiercely loyal, oftentimes to the point of recklessness. Like the relatives of many of her peers, Cherry's parents were killed in the Barringsfield Explosion when she was a baby. No one her age has any recollection of the event, but Cherry still longs to live up to her parent's legacy. What little she knows of Catching was handed down to her from her aunt.

World-building note

Catching techniques are unique and passed down generationally. Each family's techniques are slightly different and sharing them with someone who is not a spouse or blood relative is considered extremely intimate, improper, and sometimes taboo.

In larger cities with more established Catching families, there is no shortage of suitors who come to call on eligible family members.

Cherry likes: challenges, black nail polish, white chocolate covered pretzels

Cherry dislikes: losing, corded earphones, crows

Cherry wears: athletic clothing, with a fondness for pairing small tops with large pants

Relationships | Cherry...

is dating Carter, her childhood sweetheart

is friends with Frankie

looks up to and is jealous of Veronica

strongly dislikes and is suspicious of Nishtha- whose ability is not easy to separate in Cherry's mind from the death of her parents and the general violence of Adylton

credit for the picrew goes to @maetheellen

sealed taglist: @lyngracetalksnwritesnstuff (ask to be added/dropped!)

Sealed navigation post (<- click me)

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Navigation post

WIP name: Sealed

WIP Intro

Character Intros for: Cherry, Nishtha, Veronica, Carter, Frankie

Writing things:

Voice exercises for: Cherry, Nishtha, Veronica, Carter

Excerpts/snippets:

Fake tweets: 1, 2, 3

WIP ramblings and other writing process stuff: Writer's Chat- WIP count,

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AU: Childhood friends Mina and Izuku

Mina gets into tarot and tries to teach Izuku, who nods along seriously and then starts (very gently) shuffling his hero cards and interpreting the spreads with an internal logic only he (and Katsuki, somewhat begrudgingly) can understand

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matching nerds 💚🧡

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If only I could type fic in moving vehicles without getting nauseous 😔

That’s the real origin of this fake tweet btw

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:,)

These lil guys *sobbing*

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Putting together character intros for my WIP Sealed! (<-wip intro link)

I’ll prob post each intro in order of popularity on this poll instead of making a new poll each week. Also, every character here is a POV character except for Frankie lol but I felt compelled to include him

Not a writing snippet but it’s WIP related so I’ll add the tag list: @lyngracetalksnwritesnstuff

(ask to be added/dropped)

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Title: cycles | Fandom: bnha | Pairing: bkdkbk | 624 words

Present day | 5 years ago | 15 years ago

“Kacchan, let’s play a game,” Izuku says, leaning forward, scarred hands bunched against his cross-legged shins. Katsuki shifts on the small bed until their knees bump, Izuku’s All Might posters grinning down at him from the walls. “Okay,” he says. It feels like falling into a memory. “What game?” – “Kacchan! Let’s play a game!” “What game, Deku?” “Let’s play heroes!” – Katsuki’s smile is mean. His arms are crossed sharply over his chest. “Deku. Let’s play a game.” – “Two truths and a lie,” Izuku says. Katsuki tries to blink away the aftertaste of something sour. He nods. – “I’ll go first.” – “I’ll go first.” – “One, I’m going to get into UA. First try.” Izuku nods, the truth in that is unmistakable. – “Okay, um…oh! I’m an alumni of UA.” A broad, wobbly smile overtakes Izuku’s face. Even in the blue half-dark, Katsuki can tell that his cheeks are pink. “Wah, it feels so cool to be able to say that out loud!” Katsuki tosses the pillow at Izuku’s face. “Too obvious, nerd. And you’ve been sayin’ that for years.” Izuku tosses it back at Katsuki, chuckling. “True.” – “Duh, we always play heroes, Deku.” “Yeah, but this time we can be heroes in space!” – “What’s two?” Katsuki asks, pillowing his cheek on his hand, attention soft. – “You’re going to make it into UA’s hero course,” Kacchan sneers. Izuku knows this is the lie, but the words- spilling from Kacchan’s bold, abrasive lips- still make his heart sing. – “Two is…I prefer curry over katsudon.” Katsuki rolls his eyes. “This is baby shit, gimme a hard one.” – “Kacchan! Wait up!” “Too bad, Deku, my spaceship’s just faster than yours!” – “And…what’s three, Kacchan?” The last truth. The punchline, presumably. But even so, Izuku wants to know. – “Wait! My spaceship’s fast, too, Kacchan!” – “Three?” Kacchan’s smirk deepens. He leans close enough that Izuku can smell the nitro sweat starting to pool in his palms. – “C'mon., what’s the last one?” Katsuki asks. – “When I get there, I’m gonna leave you in the dust.” It’s supposed to be a truth- to be Kacchan’s final, awful truth- so Izuku doesn’t know why his eyebrow twitches over this revelation in exactly the way it didn’t over the lie. Kacchan walks away after that, hands stuffed deep into his pockets, and Izuku clutches his notebook to his chest, re-ordering the game in his head. Truth. Truth. Lie. – Izuku’s smile broadens, cheek dimpling. A truth. “I love you, Kacchan.” – Two truths and a lie: Kacchan is mean. Kacchan is more than his sharpest edges. Izuku isn't desperately, hopelessly curious about Kacchan's truth. – “You…what?” Katsuki whispers, spine snapping straight. Their knees are still touching. The All Might’s on the walls of Izuku’s childhood bedroom are still watching. They’re nineteen years old, having a sleepover in a bed far too small for their war torn bodies and Izuku is offering up his truths to Katsuki like they aren’t mouthfuls of water in the desert. Katsuki’s desperate to hear it again. His face burns. His heart feels like it’s in his throat. Izuku smiles at Katsuki like he knows all of these things. He takes Katsuki’s frozen face in his hands and says it again. “I love you, Kacchan.” “But-” “No but,” Izuku says, pressing their foreheads together. “I love you.” And in the cradle of their faces Katsuki lets loose a truth of his own: “I love you, too,” he says. “I’m- I'm sorry it took me so long.” Izuku hums, gently thumbing away the mist from Katsuki’s stubborn eyes. “And the lie?” he asks. Katsuki huffs out a weak laugh. “And the lie is…I’m not gonna marry you someday.” Katsuki can feel the heat radiating from Izuku’s face, even as he says, “Too easy. I already knew that one.”

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middle school era bkdk au's and explorations are one of my fave things to write tbh, now featuring a fem!bkdk twist and the early stages of pining 😌

Summary and link:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/66510580

Izuku plucked another hair, managing not to exclaim out loud this time.

“You’ll poke your damn eye out, Deku,” Kacchan said.

Izuku continued to pluck, determined. She didn’t wanna be Sasquatch anymore. Or bushy brows or fuzzball or anything else unsavory. Kacchan wouldn’t understand, her brows were sleek. Thin. Perfectly arched to show her annoyance.

Kacchan plucked the tweezers out of Izuku’s hand and chucked them out the open window.