#she says im faceblind

[worldsquietestjojosfan]

[capaldiera]

it's soooooo embarrassing that my mum knows i like twelveclara. and she was in the room for last christmas which is embarrassingly close to being explicitly romantic. keep that shit more unsaid please

[moltengoldveins]

have I mentioned how much being faceblind sucks? Like have I talked about it here? Cause it does. Like, literally nobody knows what it is, or how it works, or why it happens. There’s no research on it, there’s no treatment, no cure. It’s just accepted that I as a person cannot visualize or remember the faces of literally anyone in my life. Other than vague impressions, I cannot tell you what my mother looks like. I cannot remember what I look like. Looking in the mirror kinda freaks me out sometimes cause for a second, im looking at an entirely new face. My friends have to remind me to put facial descriptions into my writing, because I don’t know what my characters’ faces look like. I can usually recognize people, sure, but define recognition? You rarely encounter someone’s face entirely by itself with no context. I memorize wardrobes, hairstyles, hand shapes, postures. But a haircut or a hat can literally prevent me from seeing someone for over three weeks. I sat next to or behind my friend every day in chapel at my college and I literally never saw her. I asked someone where she’d been after three weeks only for them to say “she’s… right there, dude.” She’d dyed her hair brown. The weirdest bit is, I can technically see their faces! Like, when looking at someone, I can see their face. (This is not universal for faceblind people. I’m lucky in that way) but the literal moment I look away, the visual information is gone. I don’t like it. It kinda freaks me out. And there’s… nothing I can do about it. And nobody talks about it.

[thiefbird]

tagged by @oleolesimeeligen but making a new post to save everyone's dash from a post challenging "do you love the colour of the sky" for length! Thanks for the tag <3

❤︎ are you named after anyone?

no, i was named after the poem Afton Water by Robert Burns! So indirectly i was named after a Scottish river? Anyway heres the poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43799/afton-water

❤︎ when was the last time you cried?

couple months ago when i reread the first temeraire book and levitas died. my poor baby deserved so much better than rankin

❤︎ do you have kids?

jesus fucking christ on a cracker no

❤︎ do you play/have you played any sports?

i did fencing in elementary/middle school, and i both competed in and taught archery through high school! currently i am a sedentary rock but if i continue being in less pain+fatigue i may think about joining a roller derby league, bc clearly im not obviously queer enough

❤︎ do you like sarcasm?

yes. im not always good at it when other people do it but i do enjoy it

❤︎ what do you notice about people when you meet them?

hair colour and how their voice sounds. im moderately faceblind and have difficulties with audio processing, so i cant tell their facial features well and i dont understand WHAT they're saying, but i will recognise voices and hair immediately

❤︎ what’s your eye color?

blue-grey but if i wear purple my eyes look purple which is funky

❤︎ scary movies or happy endings?

scary movies i love to terrify myself

❤︎ any talents?

eh? i can write okay i can sew okay i can crochet+knit tolerably well and i can play guitar well enough

❤︎ where were you born?

austin tx. you can probably doxx me with just the info in this one post idgaf

❤︎ what are your hobbies?

knitting writing drawing crochet cosplay and historical recreation

❤︎ any pets?

my beloved cat. she has next to no teeth bc her body keeps making anti-tooth antibodies and then i have to pay 500 buckaroonies to have them removed but it is worth it because she is the cat of the world

❤︎ how tall are you?

5'5" short king

❤︎ what are your favorite school subjects?

no longer in school but the 3 months i went to high school were at an absurdly tiny charter school. it was so small they couldnt support a concert/marching band or an orchestra so the two music classes offered were classical guitar and "rock band" which was essentially a free and in-school version of the School Of Rock summer camps. we learned like fifteen songs and how to set up and do live mixes and at the end of the semester we did three shows (one for the middle schoolers during school hours, one for the high schoolers during school hours, and one after school) and i blew out a microphone and gave a whole horde of middle school kids a sexuality crisis by being Visibly Queer and also cool af

❤︎ what’s your dream job?

either the person who picks out fabrics for period piece films, or captain of a reproduction napoleonic war era frigate. i d charge billionaires absurd amounts of money to serve as ratings on my frigate. they have to sign waivers saying im allowed to have them flogged and also the frigate is not responsible if they die. i am actively seeking investors for my Billionaire Torment Ship

tagging @sapphirablue @gabrielnovakgoestomyschool @everythingmustmoveon @sesamie @glowing-blue-feathermage and also YOU if you want to do it <3

[ghostbrawl]

Sad to tell you that chick is Taylor swift

why did she look like anybody on earth in that one. they reduced her to lady #2 in the back. that could be a melanie martinez backup dancer. a delicate-stomached mormon nurse. a childless and loving it buzzfeed article writer. this is all a lot of words to say im faceblind but do you see my vision

[ragnars-tooth]

okay here are the ratings of chris dlaceys casting :D!! but only david zanna liz and tam because thats as far as i got and i dont have my book on me to check the rest of the casting 👍 

okay so first up! ben barnes as david (thankfully not young johnny depp): i see it but i just dont think he really works for david, a little too chiselled imo

i think that they should just time travel and get young chris dlacey to play david honestly 😎 like ben barnes is very davidcoded in these pictures i’ll admit but somethings kinda just off?? anyway he could play david but there could be better actors for him anyway I DIGRESS. ONTO ZANNA!

alright so for zanna he chose either gemma arterton or gemima rooper! and what can i say i disagree. but also agree. like they both have some of the general zanna feel but theyre just kinda off like

sort of like if you put zanna thru a pressure washer?? anyway they both work pretty well ig but honestly its hard to tell without zannas typical style (goth and stuff) to really hammer in the zanna feel so i remain neutral

NEXT UP- emma thompson as liz! honestly a pretty good choice overall but her features feel a little idk. sharper than i see liz with

also i think shes skinnier than liz would be, she’d be chubby at LEAST in my opinion,, i also feel like she would have a lot of freckles but i mean thats flexible

last up for now is a quick review of tams casting! my opinion has changed since when i first did this im now a colin farrell tam truther

so tam was cast as colin farrell, who im guessing his appearance was based off of a lot because,,, same last name and they look very similar. colins a bit more idk square? than i picture tam but honestly he fits quite well i mean look at this 👇 

like he doesnt necessarily look quite how i imagine tam but i think he has enough of the vibes that he could definitely play him and also there are a lot of silly pictures of him that i think its funny to imagine tam in lol

AND THATS ALL because i cant check for the other casting since im in class </3 and also should probably get back to my work fghjgfdghjgfdsfgh

hope you enjoyed my review 😎 please feel free to say your own opinions on the cast >:) (also iirc this casting was from the back of fire world or fire eternal? cant rllly remember tbh)

HELLO! I got stuck in corporate hell for a bit there soz but I made notes and realised I had more opinions about this than I thought lmao

(Disclaimer off the top: I’m quite faceblind so characters are mostly disembodied vibes to me but I Tried to find actors to fit my points)

Ok so:

David – Ben Barnes (I am so glad I was wrong about the Johnny Depp thing you have no idea)

I wrote exactly one thing about this and it is as follows: ‘he looks like he knows too many things’. I’m a Ben Barnes boy at the best of times but fr he looks too put together and like he could name more than five countries. I think I’m a bit too used to him playing badass characters too and sorry but david just isn’t </3

Zanna – Gemma Arterton/Gemima Rooper

Both of these women look like they would host bake off (this does not disqualify someone from playing zanna) It’s so hard to tell when they’re not all gothed up, zanna through a pressure washer fr 😭😭

Gemma Arterton feels closeish for me I think! She needs grunging up though. Zanna is a henry cavil kinda thing where whatever actress plays her needs to get hotter when fucked up (affectionate) yknow? The opposite of ‘she polishes up nice’

In googling her though I did realise why d’lacey thought of her for sure:

Him and his one goth girl reference fr

Liz – Emma Thompson

I think personality-wise she would be soo good as liz but fr there’s probably someone out there who would be a better visual match

Weirdly enough my first proper exposure to Emma Thompson was when she was Mrs Lovett in sweeney todd so initially I was thinking maybe she’s a good Gwillanna?? But now I just think she’d be a funny cameo as like… Agatha Bacon, or Mrs Gee or something?

Tam – Collin Farrell

This is literally hilarious to me. I am losing my mind. Tidy him up a little and whack some glasses on him and I’ll take it.

(I am now legally obligated to draw tam as obscure collin farrell images)

[thegeminisage]

ok tng update time. yesterday i did "haven" and just now i finished "the big goodbye."

haven: not like GOOD but definitely watchable! i think this was one largely saved from going in my garbage heap pile because nurse chapel played deanna's mom. like, if it hadn't been nurse chapel she would have been the MOST irritating annoying character but instead i was just like awww its majel barrett look at her being all quirky good for her. being ever so slightly faceblind it took me a minute to recognize her, since i just recognized her by her voice. it was also this episode or maybe the next one that i realized she was doing the computer - she uses such a different tone in tng and i hadn't been expecting to hear her voice, but the computer was starting to sound awfully familiar so i looked it up and wow sure enough. GOOD for her.

also, deanna having a truly horrible, wretched, AWFUL mother also endeared me to her more than words can say. i was JUST thinking that even though people say data is the knockoff spock it's not true - data is the inverse of spock, and DEANNA is the knockoff. like this was very much like oh she's half alien half human, it's time for her weird little alien marriage like amok time, it's time to meet her alien family like in journey of babel, etc etc, this episode could have been an email and she could have been a vulcan, etc etc etc. then she stormed out of the room and knocked that little gong thing over and i think i fell in love with her on the spot. im not sure if i wanna marry her or be her but i am now a deanna enjoyer.

my main gripes with the episode were 1. they never really explained how her intended husband and that blonde chick met...am i really supposed to believe lwaxana's bs about the current of life connecting them? and then also him saying goodbye to his parents was like...anyway bye mom and dad! not remotely believable. i didn't really care about him but it was wack.

and 2. deanna and will had an argument but then never got to reconcile at the end...this is the first time i was actually interested in their romance and then they barely got to speak two words to each other. i know tng episodes are 5min shorter than tos episodes, but this is like the 4th time i've thought they needed a bit more time at the end for that debrief scene they always had in tos...can they truly not pace this better. come on

the big goodbye: unwatchable in EVERY way. this episode was so fucking bad. dr crusher trying to make herself look Hot Like Women Do and getting mad when picard invited People Who Were Not Her to the holodeck. the data being from south america joke that is only a little better than kirk calling spock chinese in the city on the edge of forever. the fake stakes. picard walking around with lipstick on his mouth. treating data like a third wheel which should be punishable by law. the 1940s setting which is TIRED when you're not in the depths of whatever i was doing in 2014. COME ON

i will say though that i did love picard trying to learn the little insect language where the letters change their sound depending on what symbols are beside them. me trying to learn japanese on duolingo fr. also i did laugh one time when dr crusher swallowed the gum. her actress really sold that one. great job.

also, what was UP with the characters in the holodeck having their own existential crisis about not being real??? that plus any potential malfunction making the holodeck capable of killing people leads me to believe it should not be on this ship. like if i thought the fake holodeck characters were sentient enough to wonder if they were sentient and doomed to cease existing once i took my eyes off of them i would firstly never enter the holodeck again but secondly call a priest to disassemble it

anyway, tonight we are doing "datalore." can't wait for more data lore and also to meet his evil twin or whatever that's about

[fuyuesu]

my coworker has pink hair and also pronouns . between us im the one currently rocking blue hair and also pronouns but anyway speaking of identity theft apparently ze attended a family gathering of a family she wasn't part of bc one of her "cousins" approached her and invited zer and bc she grew up pretty apart from her extended family she never knew how any of them looked like so ze just kinda. believed it. i called her a dumbass for that but im faceblind and got kidnapped twice bc of it soooo i cant rlly say im any better. ANYWAY basically she ended up getting caught in some drama with an "aunt" at the gathering bc ze supposedly stole said aunt's husband via "pangagayuma" which. um. in english is the use of love potions exclusive to like creepy witches and shit but also u can buy a literaly gayuma down my street for 25 pesos a bottle so ough. ze's like. what. what. and the aunt wldnt believe her so she just said "im a lesbian" in hopes of closing it and maybe making an escape but apparently the aunt came out as bisexual recently and she got a female partner so uh. visceral rage. anyway my coworker ended up having to explain her confusion and they finally realized ze was not their relative and just a really really close doppelganger and the relative in question was in cuba with the aunt's husband . it's also funnier to note this whole story was told while we were embalming the body of a guy who was wearing a . unsettling garment in his lower areas that we couldnt remove so. um. yea <3

THIS WAS A RIDE FROM START TO FINISH IM BARELY AWAKE AND THIS WAS LIKE A BLOW TO THE HEAD

[adultingautistic]

I told my mom i think im autistic, and she says, whenever I bring up a symptom “everyone does that.” its been really stressing me out lately and I feel like i’m faking, any ideas on how to convince her to get me tested?

Ask date: September 14th

So the way I did this with my own mom, was I would wait until SHE made a complaint about a behavior I was doing.

Mom: “God, why do you take everything so literally all the time?”

Me: “You know, I actually know the reason now why I do that!  That’s a trait of autism.”

And now she CAN’T say “Oh, but everyone does that”, because she JUST accused me of doing it wrong.  Meaning the way I did it, just now, stood out in some way.  It was different.  It was so different she commented on it.  So it can’t be that “everyone does that”.

It is also possible that your mother is undiagnosed autistic herself, and also has these autistic traits herself.  When a person has a trait themselves, they are more likely to think “everyone” does that, when in fact that is not true.

So for example if you struggle with faceblindness, and you mention to your mom how difficult it is for you to remember faces, if she also struggles with faceblindness she might be likely to say “Everyone has a hard time remembering faces.”  This isn’t true, at all, but it’s your mother’s perception of reality and so she assumes everyone else thinks like she does (most humans do this).

Another way you can try to bring it up is to mention the symptom first, without mentioning autism yet.  I’m sure you’ve been accused of autistic traits 5,000 times in your life (as we all are). 

So with my mother I would say like “So mom, you know how you’re always saying I’m a picky eater?”

and she’ll be like “Yes”, because she’s called me that 8 million times

and then I say “Well now I know why!  That’s an autism trait, based in sensory issues.”

and she can’t, at that point say “Everyone has problems eating because of sensory issues” because she just said that she agrees I’m a picky eater, as in, the way I’m doing it is standing out from the way others do it.

The last thing you might want to mention is that it’s a matter of severity.  Yes, everyone stims.  All people stim a little.  But when an autistic does it, it’s noticeable.  It’s big.  It’s something allistics feel the need to comment on, and this affects our life.  So it’s not so much that “allistics don’t do it”, it’s that autistics do it to a greater degree, to a level that has an affect on our life, because if it didn’t, nobody would comment on it.

I hope I’ve given you a few ideas for talking to your mother about this and helping her to understand that you’re not “trying to be autistic”, you’re experiencing things that affect your life, and looking for an explanation for them. Your experiences are real, they are affecting you, and they are important, and finding the reason why you’re having them can only be helpful to you.

[fuck-customers]

so fuck one of my managers, i work at the golden arches and one day when i came in just a few mins later a manager asks me to toss some cookies at a regular. i have minor faceblindness so im like uhh I Will. Try. i do end up finding him, he says he should have a sweet tea as well and im like 'the cups are...over there. between the kiosks. its self service, okay whatever ill get it for him hes old and its 6am aka too fuckin early for stupid convos.' get him the tea and a different manager asks if he paid for everything and im like 'i?? literally just got here??? but id fucking assume so??? bc manager 1 told me to give him the food?????' she makes me go ask and he hands me a card and im like uhh okay this is weird but whatever ill charge you again, ring him up for the tea and my manger makes me ring him up for the cookies as well and starts lecturing me about "not doing that again and if i do ill be in serious trouble next time" and im just standing there in absolute confusion about what i did wrong?? but kinda mumble like okay yeah sure bc she. does not like me a ton and i don't want to get legit yelled at. but honestly? im still 100% lost, like. the first manager told me to give them to him??? what the fuck did i apparently do wrong?? an it doesn't help i have autism so im like maybe there's some cue i missed somewhere?? i don't want to do it again but idk what IT was

[extreme-technicality]

Im only messing with you 😘 while im here though could i have some fic recs puh-leaaase - 🍍

Ooh honey, you have no IDEA the can of worms you just opened :D (since this list is so long I’m gonna split it up into SFW Complete, NSFW Complete, SFW Ongoing, and NSFW Ongoing)

SFW Complete:

The Invisible Girl [sonamae]: OK SO it’s Hagakure-centric, with background Hagakure x Shouji and KiriBaku. My favorite part about this is that the romance is important, but not the focus. The focus of this oneshot is on the family she creates with Bakugou, Satou, Todoroki, Kirishima, and Tokoyami. Go read it, it’s great. BIG BROTHER BAKUGOU FTW!!!!!

Ground Zero [sonamae]: Speaking of Big Brother Bakugou, this is the next oneshot in the same series as the above one, but from Bakugou’s pov. Again, the romance is important but not a focus, and that’s so fucking refreshing and I love it so mUCH idk what else to tell you. Just go read these two. The rest of the series isn’t complete, but these two specific fics ARE, hence why they’re in the Complete section.

Lighting The Beacon [M3zzaTh3M3z]: This is one of the first bnha fics I’ve ever read, and I’m so glad this was my introduction to the fandom!! It’s a pretty fluffy oneshot, starting off with Kiri asking Baku out and Baku rejecting him because “who ever heard of a gay hero?” Aizawa hears about that (the basics, no details like names or anything), and things…start to change. Mic says he’s married to a man (its Aizawa), All Might comes out as pan, ace Midnight…and at the end, Bakugou asks Kirishima out very publicly. It’s so near and dear to my heart, and it honestly deserves more attention than it gets.

You’re only relevant until you’re older (they’re gonna talk about you over and over) [futurehearts]: Pro-Heroes Red Riot and Ground Zero are happily married and Baku has a reputation to slowly destroy :D (he’s soft, mainly for his husband, and he knows it…and now so does the rest of the world lmaooo).

Love Notes [PurplePersnickety]: Kirishima gets really, REALLY sappy love notes on his desk for a week or two and works to figure out who it is (spoiler alert, it’s Bakugou being a Soft Bitch). When Kiri asks him about it, he confesses everything and they date in secret for six months before telling the whole class (oneshot).

Sonder [Maplefudge]: I bet this bitch thought she wouldn’t get a shout-out well guess what you write good and there’s nothing you can do about it This is the first work of maple’s I ever read, and it’s perf <3 I’m love. It’s a look at the “totally platonic” (how much sarcasm can I add to two words?) Kiribaku from members of the class, over the course of 13 chapters. It’s full of fluff, useless mutual pining, obliviousness, and “platonic bro kisses”. Read it if you need to scream at some useless gays.

Anger Management [Julietwasanidiot]: The entire fandom is gearing up for S4 by writing hurt/comfort KiriBaku post-raid fics, and I am HERE for it. Because of when it’s set though, there’s going to be spoilers so if you’re anime-only you migt want to steer clear of this one. It’s got an ICONIC rice-and-anger line, though.

Stupid Mistakes [lemxnfox]: Kirishima and Bakugou got in a fight! They fight a lot, but this fight they’ve been fighting for six months and the class is #OverIt. They concoct a plan to lock the two of them in a room and force them to make up– and they DO. Side ShinKami and TodoDeku.

No More Fragments [Ischemia]: Canon-compliant…to a degree. Shinsou takes his place as the Superior Purple in Class A, gets himself a boyfriend (Kaminari) and a squad (the Bakusquad)…and loses it. Or does he???? Canon-typical violence, side Kiribaku, mystery plot.

Caught In My Own Web [anxioussaliorsoldier]: SHINSOU IS IN 1-A!!!!! And he fucks up when trying to use his capture weapon lmao. Kaminari finds him and they recreate the iconic Spider-Man kiss…and then Shinsou passes out from the blood rushing to his head. It’s cute guys.

Be Selfish For Me [A_Reflective_Projection]: WARNING– the entire thing is Aizawa asking 1-A to be careful as pro heroes, by taking them to a hero graveyard. It’s painful. It’s sad (especially when Aizawa brings up a classmate of his who died in their first year as a pro). It ends bittersweet, and there’s some good Dadzawa content in there. The most present ship is Erasermic, and that only really makes an appearance in the last chapter.

Closer [MikeWritesThings]: Fluffy Erasermic, canon universe, where Aizawa starts calling in to Mic’s radio show cuz he misses him. It’s sweet af ❤️❤️

Meaningless Holiday [dysonQueer]: It’s a sweet Valentine’s Day fic, canon-compliant, with established Erasermic for the soul. I highly recommend it if you’re having a rough day and you need some feel-good fluff

Come Back Toe Me [Milligramme]: Aged-up, Pro Hero fic where Kiri has a shit day heroing, but he isn’t physically hurt. Not until he breaks his toe on the coffee table, that is. He can’t stop laughing, and Bakugou can’t stop worrying about his dumbass boyfriend.

Kiss Me Through The Screen [Ischemia]: Aged-up fic with ShinKami as the main focus and some side KiriBaku, but…uh, most of the Bakusquad aren’t full-time Heroes. Kami dropped out of UA completely, and Shinsou never went in the first place. So, Kaminari is working at Jirou’s cafe and works as a SFW camboy at night, while Shinsou is a teacher and watches the stream nightly. Later there’s a plot around a stalker, again please keep yourself safe Pineapple Anon!!

If I Don’t Act… [SilentNorth]: This is gritty and painful, but don’t worry! There’s a happy ending :D (I rarely read/write/recc pure angst, you’re safe here my child). Kiri is a college dropout working two jobs, living with Mina as his roommate, and with a hero complex the size of Texas. Enter art student Bakugou, who can save himself thank you very much. Some mention of depression/attempted suicide, as well as slightly less than canon-typical violence, please keep yourself safe and skip it if that’s going to trigger you, Pineapple Anon.

Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all [theroyalsavage]: A Kiribaku “10 Things I Hate About You” AU where Todoroki asks Kirishima to fake-date Bakugou so he can date Midoriya. Everything is going smoothly until Kirishima accidentally falls in love *gasp*!!

The Skeletons Inside Of Us [firelord_zutara]: Erasermic, quirkless AU where Mic was the lead singer of Aizawa’s favorite local band in college. Aizawa has a crush on him, they lost touch after college, and they didn’t meet again…until their nephews (Aizawa adopted Midoriya, Shinsou is Mic’s sister’s kid) meet and by extension, the uncles. Background ShinKami and KiriBaku, written for EraserMic week (7 chapters).

Life’s a Drag(on) [PurplePersnickety]: FANTASY AU!!! You know, the Fantasy AU from the third ending. But altered, juuuuuust slightly. Bakugou lives in(? ish) a village and helps a dragon when it’s hurt. A day or so later, a (hot) new guy comes to town named Kirishima, and the dragon keeps coming around. Shenaniganery follows. :DDD

Space Dust [PurplePersnickety]: Do you like Star Wars, Star Trek, Firefly, and/or Men In Black? Then you’re gonna fuckin LOVE this :DDD It’s got half-alien Kirishima, cyborg Bakugou, mention of a larger universe outside of the planet (outside of the oneshot too, lbr). It is a oneshot though, even if it is a long one, with canon/typical violence and mention of kidnapping and child experimentation. Please put your mental health and well-being above everything else and skip it if it’s gonna trigger you!!!

Achromatopsia [PurplePersnickety]: DID SOMEBODY SAY SOULMATE AU???? No? Well hAVE ONE ANYWAY!!! Kiribaku soulmate AU (oneshot), where you only see in one color until you touch your soulmate for the first time. Fun fact, achromatopsia is the complete inability to see any color!! I’m sure that’s not gonna have any bearing on the story whatsoever…

NSFW Complete:

A Cast for your Heart [KTG]: Heads up, this is LONG. 90 chapters, 268k, it’s magic and sex and drAGONS and angst and almost-dying!! The fantasy system is completely original, set in modern times, and the OCs??? Don’t get me STARTED. Kiribaku, Tododeku, and Seromina are the bnha ships present as well as a lot of OCxOC ships. There’s also a sequel set to come out this month (July 2019)!!

Long Time Coming [Madam_Muffins]: I’ve probably recc’ed this before, but I just. I just love this one so much, ok? It’s massive Kiribaku slow burn, outlining what might happen if Bakugou is just a little bit more emotionally constipated. Baku fucks up, gets help, he and Kiri get together (and fuck a little), and there’s elements of the Reincarnation and Fantasy AUs in there towards the end!! Go read it, madammuffins is my amazing tumblr mom and I love her to bits.

SFW Ongoing:

Engraved In Your Mind [Hejter]: FACEBLIND BAKUGOU KATSUKI!!! It’s canon-compliant, except for that little detail, but she writes it so WELL that now I can’t look at canon!Bakugou without thinking that he’s faceblind. Kiri finds out and starts working to build trust with Bakugou and help him on his path to becoming the top hero, and it’s GREAT. Slowburn Kiribaku. Like,,,SLOW.

Define: Oblivious [PurplePersnickety]: I bet you thought I was done with the Purple reccs. I’m never going to be done reccing Purple. Deal with it. I mentioned, in the summary for Love Notes, that there was a six month time skip? This is what happens in those six months. SeroKami and MomoJirou are side ships in this one.

The Right Thing [TuesdayTerrible]: Established Kiribaku where they’re graduated from UA, and living together, and being pro heroes…and then one day Baku finds a little girl who tried to kill herself cuz she was quirkless. Needless to say, this strikes a chord in Bakugou (cuz…yknow, he kinda told Midoriya to kill himself in like episode one and then it was never addressed again). He can’t stop thinking about her, and while we haven’t gotten there YET it looks like it’s gonna end with him and Kirishima adopting her and Bakugou apologizing for the bullshit he put Mido through. There is mention of a suicide attempt (clearly), skip it if that’s gonna trigger you!!!

Hands Off! [PullingAllMighters]: Much like Kiss Me Through The Screen, Hands Off! is a non-canon compliant aged-up AU where not everyone is a full-time hero. Kiri is, Kami and Sero are his sidekicks, Ochako is in a different agency, and everyone else is doing Other Shit. Bakugou hasn’t revealed his full backstory yet, but it looks like he was a Pro Hero until a year or so ago when something bad happened and now he’s got PTSD. His old apartment building burned down so he’s living in Ochako, Momo, Jirou, and Mina’s guesthouse until he finds a job and another place to live. This has a fresh take on the hero system, and I really really enjoy it so far!! There is, however, a fairly detailed scene of Bakugou being triggered so if reading that would trigger you, please don’t!! Keep yourself safe, Pineapple Anon!!! Endgame Kiribaku

Blood of my Hand [PurplePersnickety]: Is it obvious yet that I LOVE purple’s writing??? This, I believe, was the gateway work, and I’ve dived headfirst in and not looked back. Fantasy AU, slowburn Kiribaku, and it’s. I can’t even sum it up. There’s too much. It’s too good. Game of Thrones WISHES it could be what BomH is. There’s mention of slavery and past child abuse, please skip that if it’s going to trigger you!!

A Boy and his Dragon [VanHan]: Oh look, another fantasy AU. Have you figured out that I have a type yet? Kiribaku but the Kiribaku hasn’t really happened yet, cuz Bakugou is a literal child who got kidnapped and is probably gonna get sold. He doesn’t even know Kirishima is Kirishima, he just knows him as the cool dragon in the cage. This one just barely makes the SFW list, because there’s no explicit mention of fucking, but there’s a really really gross pedophile that shows up fairly early on and hasn’t died yet. There’s also graphic depictions of violence in the first chapter, and once you combine those two things I would absolutely understand if you decided to give this one a pass, too.

Everglow [Maplefudge]: ANOTHER fantasy AU?!?! In MY fic recc list?? It’s more likely than you think. This one just started, and it’s got that enemies-to-lovers shit going on. Dragons plus my favorite tropes = FUCK YEAH!!!

Crimson [Crocodillia]: I bet you thought I was done with the fantasy AU reccs, didn’t you? Well, HAVE ANOTHER!!! This one has strong HTTYD vibes, and I’ve literally never seen anyone try that before with these characters!! So far there’s only two chapters, but I am HOOKED and if you like HTTYD…you’re gonna like this, too.

Becoming Human [FoolishFortuna]: Demon!Bakugou becomes Human!Bakugou when he refuses to take a kid’s soul. I think we’re three chapters in and he just got to earth and met Kirishima, as well as a few holy people (Midoriya, Ochako, Iida, and I believe Tetsu). Now he gotta find his daughter and keep her safe. Kiribaku with some fairly graphic descriptions of torture and cannibalism in the second chapter, don’t read it if that’s gonna trigger you!! Also he pretty brutally rips apart the girl’s abusive parents.

Surviving for Second Chances [SilentNorth]: TWEWY Kiribaku AU!!! There’s some differences between the original game and the fic, for pretty obvious reasons (medium, objective, and character differences being a few), but this got me to FINALLY watch a playthrough of the game cuz I’m too broke to go and buy it myself!! Kirishima as Neku and Bakugou as Joshua, plus Mina as Shiki and TodoDeku as Rhyme and Beat. Canon-typical violence, and we just finished up Week 1!!

Love And Other Allergens [thefrailtyofgenius]: A Quirkless AU where Todoroki is a lawyer with a flower shop underneath his apartment. Todo finds out he’s allergic to one of the plants, buys a different bouquet every week instead of, yknow, asking for help like a normal human being (I say, knowing damn well I’d just buy allergy medication and not even try to figure out what I’m allergic TO), and accidentally falls in love with the cute (and absolutely fucking ripped) flower boy (Midoriya lmao). It’s LONG. The TodoDeku is extremely slowburn, and there’s a fuckload of side ships. An incomplete list: Erasermic, Kiribaku, ShinIida (Shinsou and Iida), and MomoJirou. Bonus Endeavor’s Bad Parenting, Midoriya Hisashi’s Bad Parenting, and both of those assholes getting locked up forever :D (I’m so serious about the length tho, it’s like 40 chapters or something).

NSFW Ongoing:

Mixing Signals [Shippeh]: Kiribaku aged-up, but they’ve tried to date multiple times and every time Bakugou fucked it up. Every time they broke up, they pretended like they’d never tried in the first place (which…oW), but this time. THIS time, Bakugou swears he’s gonna make them work.

Heartbeat Thunder [Shippeh]: This is one of the few ABO fics I’ll recc, because it’s not just “ooh heat sex fun times”. This has THOUGHT put into it. They’re confused kids goddamnit, let them be confused!!! Basically Kiri doesn’t ever want to rut so he’s suppressing everything about being an alpha, while Bakugou thinks that trying to hide from your secondary gender is stupid. They do fuck tho, which is why the fic is in NSFW Ongoing.

Take a Chance On Me [FanficIsMyThing]: The other ABO fic I’ll happily recc. Kiri is an alpha which lets him be a hero, while Baku is an omega so he’s gotta be a vigilante until the laws get changed. They run into each other on patrol a few times, Baku helps Kiri and crew out a few times, and every time Kirishima *mysteriously* fails to catch the vigilante Chemical X. They haven’t actually fucked yet, but there’s been enough sexy times to put this squarely in NSFW territory. And it’s not just sex!! I don’t wanna spoil, but it’s good I swear.

Opposed to the Typical [Heronfem]: A model/fashion designer AU featuring HoH!Bakugou, model!Bakugou and designer!Kirishima, as well as a metric shitload of others. Basically Kiri is an intern with Fatgum who gets called to help another studio with their fitting, gets assigned to Bakugou, figures out he’s HoH and handles it like a champ. Because he does it so well, whenever Bakugou needs to get his measurements taken again, they immediately call for Kirishima. And ofc they gonna fall in love :3c But its more complicated than that, and I don’t wanna give too much away, but make sure that you pay attention to any trigger warnings at the start of the chapters!!!

[pinnochiro]

im really faceblind like. really struggle to recognise the faces of people who i’ve just talked to, and i used to work in a cinema. we offered coffee, and since coffee took a while, the procedure was to tell the customer to go up to the theatre and then bring it in once the coffee was ready. now i was terrible at this, because i dont fucking know who the hell asked for coffee, and it’s dark in a goddamn cinema, so even if the movie hasn’t started i can barely make out people. mostly i’d just like, walk to the top of the stairs and hold up the coffee and the other person would eventually notice me and raise their hand. easy

one time the manager’s stepson who was like seven was in, and i’ve seen this kid like, twelve times at this point, he knows me and i know him. the problem was that we were doing a special showing of the lion king for kids, with discount tickets for under fives and whatever. the manager goes ‘go sit with henry or whatever the kids name was and keep him company through the movie’ and im like. uh. okay.

so i ended up walking into the theatre and im looking for this kid. i’m up the back and theres. fucking hundreds of kids in this theatre, how am i supposed to tell which generic white boy is the right one? i think i spot the right one, but i don’t want to sit down next to the wrong kid so i don’t really go down there because i know my boss is watching on the cameras and if she sees me go to the wrong kid she’ll get pissed obviously. so instead i just kind of awkwardly stand there for the entirety of circle of life and then i just go back down and say ‘nah i’ve got too much other work to do’ to her as an excuse, and the managers like ‘yeah watching something in uniform is too awkward isnt it’ and i’m just like, haha yeah totally.

anyways thats how my faceblindness saved me from watching the 2019 lion king remake

[theythemsam]

spn 14x13, liveblog, collected posts (all 24 of them) or as i like to call it: More gays named Max. Nice.

Sam just immediately touching cursed objects asdfhj

#idiot nerd

 Okay, the dragons breath is really cool

 “oh, you’re a big boy, you might take some work.” Asdfh?!?!?!

#pls no #i do love that dudes voice though

 “They always talk too much.” Well, Dean’s not wrong asdfgh

 Eliott is such a nerd and he’s fanboying about the Winchesters asdfgh

#i also love that they are known in the town #like that’s so cute

 Max has such a terrible massive crush on Stacy

#and the way her brain goes into dumbass lesbian mode immediately

 I love how Sam is like “we won’t hurt you, just tell us the truth” and Dean is like “I will kill you and your entire family if anything happens to my car, I swear!”

#okay so max is gay she steals cars she is new in town!

 The post office woman calling Sam out for sounding like a weirdo is very good

#the fact that she immediately gives it to dean though ? not good #also I hate the boys flirting with old ladies for information ufffff #its so gross

 Max and Stacy are so cute and gay

#like the way they smile at each other… awwww

 Also they really decided to display Lebanon as super diverse and tbh I like that!!!

 “A serial killer clown. That’s like the best-worst thing that’s ever happened to you. Get it, because you love serial killers, but you hate clowns!” asdfg

#thanks captain obvious asdfgh #dean is so happy he gets to tease his brother

 Elliott is just like “ahhhhh I knew it!” what a cute little fanboy

 Listen, I love JDM and I know it’s been 14 years, but would it have killed them to put a wig on that man and like idk? Powdered his beard darker?

#just done anything to make him look even remotely like john from 2003. Whenever the hell he comes from

 Also how the heck does he recognize Sam & Dean, like not to sound rudeTm or anything, but if you gave me two pictures of Jared, one from season 1, one from now, I would be so very confused

#i do have White Man faceblindness though sooooo #like I a) don’t care and b) am just so bad at remembering faces #like dean maybe? But dean looks very Typical ManTM so I wouldn’t have recognized him either… #but then im not a parent

 John acknowledging that he wasn’t a great dad? And saying that it wasn’t okay? Nice.

#i do get why sam forgives him though but its still like ehhhhhhhh don’t want this #like its for sams own benefit and I get that but uffff #john deserves more of a callout than he gets tbh #”you did your best” me: gagging noises #like he didn’t! #also you can forgive someone even if they didn’t do their best #but this? this aint it chief

 They slowly realize that something is off in this place… yeah somethings wrong boys

#sams slow double take when he sees the wanted poster

 Sam’s TED talk is so bad

#but also kinda sad… #ted talk sam has some serious problems…

 Listen, murder Cas is kinda cool, but he should stop being a lesbophobic dickbag and not interrupt Stacy’s and Max’s date

#home of phobe

 Sam murdering Zachariah is very good tbh

 Cas stop hitting Sam in the head

#angel boot camp made him into a gigantic lesbophobe :/ #the slow mo blood spit cam is kinda cool though

 I wish Dean had also gotten a good scene with John where he gets to call his dad out, but Oh Well

#bleh #like Dean would have deserved that so muchhhhh #but of course they couldn’t have gone there or this would have been too messed up #its just weird since they just had dean acknowledging that john did a lot of messed up shit too him #and then theres just nothing there :(

 Dean’s “I’m good with who I am. I’m good with who you are.” Is so good.

#im love this boy sometimes #and rn its dean love hours here

 Sam finally getting to hear John say “I am so proud of you” on camera is… so good

#yessssss #i still have many many problems with this episode #but it could be worse

 Max and Stacy holding hands… Gaybies!!

[priceforrottenjudgement]

so now I’m watching tld and writing down everything that bothers me.

spoilers obviously. 

00:00 to 30:00

part 2

-so we know her name is eurus (i thought it was spelt euros, but apparently i was wrong.) maybe sherrinford is her middle name? like william sherlock? 

-I’m not 100% sure sherrinford and eurus are even the same person, bc that would be JUST like mofftiss to use something from the canon and have it mean something completely different. i’m gonna keep an open mind towards both possibilities

-mycroft says that sherrinford is secure. and considering the level of supervision he keeps sherlock under, i find it VERY strange that eurus could just pose as john’s therapist for several weeks.

-what kind of accent is that? nobody else in the holmes family has it.

-”why does everything have to be understandable? why can’t something be unacceptable?” foreshadowing to john beating the shit out of sherlock?

-john just casually talking to his hallucination of mary. he’s completely aware of her death but forcibly denying it.

-”I am reminding you of your friend, i think”, lol eurus.

-she’s an absolute psychopath, how she’s willfully putting her fingers in the wound but acting like she’s innocent

-why is mrs hudson listening to ‘freude schöner götterfunken’ tho :D

-those constant snippets from tv shows and adverts showing culverton smith fucking annoy me, but they might be alluding to people missing time? hallucinations? visions?

-i’m kinda frustrated with this villain. i mean he was obviously supposed to be a red herring to hide eurus, but i was still expecting someone really evil :/ he’s just a regular sort of narcissistic psycho

-i mean faith obviously doesn’t like her dad all that much, which makes her acting all buddy buddy huggy later on a bit weird

-that speech about ‘telling someone you darkest secret’, ‘not being able to take it back’ is 100% sherlock’s fears about confessing to john.

-”once you’ve opened your heart, you can’t close it again.”

-”of course you can” mofftiss telling us once again not to trust what we see?

-i mean eurus’ and faith’s accents are very different. i have no idea where to place eurus, but faith is northern? (my first thought when i heard eurus speaking without seeing her was “....is she french?”)

-don’t trust your memory “I’m afraid that some of the memories you’ve had up to this point might also be corrupted” so we can’t trust past episodes either?

-maybe bc we’ve always seen them out of either john’s or sherlock’s pov and they’re both kind of unreliable? (love me an unreliable narrator) maybe that’s also why john looks so good now. bc we see him through sherlock’s eyes?

-cant help it, he just reminds me so much of trump

-i wondered why faith still had the note to show it to sherlock even after culverton saw it

-you can hear that she’s trying to recreate faith’s accent, but not completely and her voice is different

-is sherlock faceblind? or just actually so high?

-so we still can’t be sure if eurus is actually in sherlock’s flat bc billy can’t see her?

-why are the deductions written in chalk and not typed as usual?

-is eurus acting like she’s a suicidal lady on purpose to mess with sherlock or is she actually suicidal and self-harming herself?

-”is ‘cup of tea’ code?” lol, see what you did there

-”It’s congenital” what? the bad luck?

-”your life is not your own, keep your hands off it” why do i get the feeling that this exact thing has been said to sherlock before?

-”you’re suicidal, you’re allowed chips. trust me, it’s about the only perk” same here. is sherlock eating fries when he’s feeling suicidal?

-so we know eurus got the note from culverton. so eurus took the note, kept it hidden in a book, had a relationship that ended, are a good cook, doesn’t get any visitors and we know where she lives? or did she fake all that too?

-they are watching sherlock, but not sure if someone is with him and mycroft doesn’t recognize eurus?

-”pain stimulates your memory, so you tried it again later, your lover failed to notice an increasing level of scars” is he talking about himself again?

-”how do you know he didn’t notice” “oh well because he would have done something about it [...] isn’t that what you people do?” 

-”the way you think” “superbly.” “sweetly.” “Im not sweet im just high.” yeah right.

-”the fact that i’m his brother doesn’t change anything. it didn’t the last time.” so i’m guessing mycroft put eurus away. so why didn’t he notice what she was doing???

-”do you still speak to sherrinford?” “i get regular updates.” so sherrinford is a person, but is it eurus? or a bodyguard? handler?

-”sherrinford is secure” yeah well apparently not unless there is another holmes sibling. OH SHIT TWINS!!!! THATS THE TWINS???

-or maybe eurus is sherlock’s twin...

-”we must be careful not to burn our bridges” shot to sherlock and his estranged sister

-”your life turned on one word”

-”taking your own life. taking it from who? once it’s over, it’s not you who’ll miss it” i feel like this is also something someone said to sherlock

-is the word flickering over the screen ‘someone’?

-”you know what i’d expected you’d’b?” “what am i” “nicer” “than who?” “anyone”

-anyone is an important word. molly said it, eurus says it twice, culverton says it, mary says it.

-he once again has the flashback of the kid playing with the dog and the girl singing, is he subconsciously recognizing eurus?

-also i think that eurus is responsible for redbeard having to be put down. i already had that theory, but then i read [this] and my suspicions were hardened. eurus wanted to kill sherlock and practiced on redbeard, mycroft had her taken away (?), sherlock was possibly too young to properly remember her

-aaand she’s gone. we still don’t know which parts were real and which were hallucinated.

-once again proof that sherlock is hallucinating vividly and losing time

-”they’re always poor and lonely and strange” talking about serial killers. or eurus. or both.

-do all police officers know who mycroft is?

-so that crazy monologue is definitely staged to make mrs hudson take him to john. but why henry the fifth?

-what the fuck is that accent?????

-”are you having an earthquake?!” rwjdkaslöx