#we'll see which sticks

[wribbles]

Izuku as Shouta's older brother & a quirkless pro hero (tho hes not widely known)

The Aizawa's had trouble conceiving a child so they used a surrogate mother (Midoriya Inko) and had Izuku (inko still comes by often, she and Mamzawa became good friends and now inko is the boys' Auntie)

Four years after having Izuku the Aizawas get naturally pregnant and have Shouta. Izuku immediately becomes determined to be the Best big brother ever! (He succeeds)

Izuku is still quirkless & a lover of quirk analysis

Papazawa has a visual Quirk Identifying quirk, and his knowledge and interest in quirks passed to Izuku

Mamazawa has a personal Gravity Nullifying quirk which makes her hair/clothes/anything shes holding float a bit in the air - generally considered a weak quirk - it gives her a slight colored aura

Shouta still has his Erasure quirk

Izuku learns he's quirkless and asks if he can be a hero and his parents say theyre not sure (bc the world is shitty and heroics is hard) but they'll stand with him the entire way if he wants to try anyways - and if anyone could be a quirkless hero, it's their Izuku

Izuku does end up going to UA and graduating as the quirkless Pro-Hero Null, with extra support from Nedzu (Many ppl try to stop him. It doesnt work.)

Shouta has trouble sleeping most nights (stress, anxiety, nightmares, insomnia, etc) and has ever since he was a baby. So he and Izuku-nii-chan have developed a Technique that almost always soothes Shouta to sleep: Izuku holds Shouta to his chest, with Shouta able to hear his heartbeat and breathing, and they just lay/sit together, the calm steadiness and safety of his brother allowing Shouta to put aside everything else and relax.

They found this Technique early, since Izuku has a seemingly sixth sense for when Shouta can't sleep (helped by Izuku's own struggles to sleep through the night). When Shouta was barely a month old, Izuku heard him whining in his crib and, in an effort to be Best Big Brother, crawled in with him and held him close like he'd seen their mom do. He said reassurances and rocked him a little, and Shouta quieted down quickly. They both ended up falling asleep in the crib, finally being found by their dad in the morning who woke Izuku to fondly ask "wtf?" His heart grew even more for his sons at hearing Izuku's explanation and seeing them cuddled so close - he didnt tell Izuku to stop. So it kept happening and now even as adults the #1 method to get Shouta to sleep when everything else won't let him is to just have Izuku hold him for a while. (Shouta does wake up pretty quickly upon being separated from Izuku, which is why it becomes an Emergencies Only situation when theyre adults living separately, but every little bit helps)

Another Thing they have is: as a child Shouta created a habit of jiggling the doorknob before entering Izuku's room to talk to his brother (usually about stuff that upset or confused him but sometimes just bc he wanted to hang out), and Izuku learned to listen for the extra noise to know it's Shouta and he always asks "What's wrong, Sho-chan?" when his brother comes in. They never grow out of that.

Shouta always thinks his brother is amazing and so cool for trying to be a hero and then Doing That, esp bc he knows a bit of how much ppl would criticize Izuku for it.

Shouta did grow up hearing quirkist comments from kids at school about him (and his brother but they never shared schools at the same time after elementary) but Izuku refused to allow them if he heard them and would regularly get in fights with Shouta's classmates after school, even tho his parents wished he'd stop - esp for fear he'd fuck up his school record and chances for heroics, but Izuku never backed down.

(One example of bullying Shouta also got at least once was ppl claiming that he erased his brother's quirk as a kid and that's why Izuku is quirkless & Shouta is a villain. Shouta avoided telling people his brother was a quirkless hero student after that unless it came up - which sucked bc he loves telling ppl how awesome Izuku is, but no one ever believes him.)

Shouta's bullying does contribute to his reticent nature tho, and even Izuku's cheer and chatter don't make him open up (but that's okay, he does what he needs to to keep himself safe. His family loves him always)

Shouta's high school friends all meet Izuku and love him and he adopts them all as little siblings

Shouta tends to use nii-chan with his brother bc theyre so close but does sometimes switch for nii-san if the vibes are right (no massive significance to it just vibes)

Izuku does NOT get OfA & doesnt really meet All Might {{unless he subs for Shouta at UA but thats potential plotty stuff so its flexible}}, but he's still a huge All Might fan and admires the man greatly

All Might, for his part, doesnt know Izuku but he DOES get inspired by the story of The Quirkless Hero: Null & hearing about Izuku's determination to save people and reach his dreams despite the many massive odds, makes AM proud for the next generation and also inspires him to push his own limits as well (if ever meets Null he'd like to tell him and thank him)

[fjordfolk]

Sparty started her Christmas Crisis early this year, and hasn't kept food down for almost 48hrs.

She seemed good today - until 16:30 when the vet's office closed and she ejected four hour old boiled chicken under my workbench :)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hey hey ! ive been lovingly staring at all ur art ever since i found you n ‘ i wanna say !! i love ur artstyle !! sm !! waaugh !! <33

have a star ⭐️

a question ive been meaning to ask though , i cant really seem to find much information about your lights out au , unfortunately ^^”

may i ask what exactly is the premises ? :O

so the Lights Out au is essentially: the Welcome Home Puppet Show was shut down prematurely, and without any warning to the puppets. the employees turn off the studio lights when they leave for the last time, completely abandoning the building and the sapient puppets inside. the building is locked and boarded up to ensure that nothing gets out.

the lights turn off halfway through the neighbors' "day", and everyone - except Wally - goes to sleep, assuming the day got away from them & its just time for bed. the lights never come back on, the neighbors don't wake up, and problems start to arise from the lack of light. Wally and Home are left to deal with all of this alone.

(and Eddie is in the water cause... well. he's just in there! fr tho it's just a running joke for the au <3)

[rotisseries]

rick riordan dickriders on here will be like "why are you complaining about the pjo tv show, go watch the movies and see what a bad adaptation really looks like" ok well listen to the musical watch it on youtube and see what a good adaptation looks like bitch. it can be done. as a fucking stage musical. what did that 15 million per episode do for disney that chris mccarell couldn't

[angelogistics]

do you make original art? have you ever submitted to zines/galleries and been rejected? feel like there's no place for your cool weird stuff on the internet? well, fret no more.

under the floorboards seeks to highlight artists that go unnoticed on the internet and uplift non-fanart pieces that don't get as much traction. UTF will be free to read & submit to forever and published online for the forseeable future.

officially opening submissions for under the floorboards vol 1! there's zero timeline and also i dunno how long a volume will be. each artist spotlight/ article will be posted somewhere, probably on a neocities site i'll host (or maybe mine until i get off my ass and make a second acct).

pls be open to communication either thru email or discord, as i'd love to have a casual interview component as well! shoot me a tumblr dm or email (in tags) if you're interested in being featured.

[vaguely-concerned]

I've been devouring the first few seasons of star trek deep space 9 recently and folks... after several false starts we might finally have found the trek that will take my brain down like the weak gazelle of the herd. I love this shitty little space station and the cast of exclusively weirdos that inhabit it so much

[sysig]

You’re gonna die if you keep that up (Patreon)

[kogo-dogo]

I was wondering, after hrv, does Gordon visit the team? Does Joshua learn about benrey? Does Gordon have any new abilities? Did or will you plan an after story?

I did plan an after-story that ended up caving in because, in the middle of writing it, my mother died. It was an anthology of short stories about trying to integrate Benrey into a normal, human world and the trials and tribulations of trying to make an Old God adhere to the rules of people. I also had stories planned out (but never started) about the new jobs the science team was given as AI around Black Mesa, assisting the different departments. Since I wasn't going to start it until after the post-HRV Benrey stuff was done, I never got around to it.

To be honest, I doubt I'll ever finish it because it's associated in my head with such a bad incident that it's just kind of sat gathering dust in my drafts and I have a hard time even going back to read it.

But, yes, Gordon does visit the team at their new stations and the science team ends up very happy having real jobs where they can interact with real people. Joshua does know about Benrey, just not that Benrey is a monster. Gordon can do some weird things he can't fully control, but it's mild things that are mostly "things that make him become convinced his house in haunted" because he's his own worst poltergeist (he never draws a connection that the only time things fall off the wall or doors open on their own is when he's Pissed Off).

I was also going to introduce Gordon's ex-husband at one point, lol. And his ex-husband's new husband (a younger model of guy) that Benrey inexplicably gets along with, much to Gordon's chagrin.

[esleep]

HELP. i somehow ended up in a relatively casual "book club" composed of some irl friends, most of whom have VERY different taste in books from me. we have a narrow space of overlap thanks to the relatively recent popular acceptance of "fantasy romance" as a genre that adults are allowed to enjoy, so now i can read about elves and dragons without being immediately ridiculed as a Weird Nerd as long as there's at least one sex scene, but it just occurred to me that at some point soon i am going to be required to pick the next book in our rotation and i have NO IDEA what to force these people to read. which means i have the potential do the funniest thing of all time (to me and only me) and force all these romance enjoyers to read Dune. i need someone to talk me out of that and give me some better suggestions before i am forcibly evicted from the friend group.

[sauntering-down]

finished summaries for all the ficlets! posting begins tomorrow! :D

[emblazons]

WIP WEDNESDAY: → Phoenixflare (Dion x Joshua) - FFXVI aka some 'trapped on what feels like a desert island with your lowkey crush on after thinking you should have died' realness for the people today

[snepfeathers]

hear me out. what if I gave Nyx a tattoo sleeve. mostly american trad style flowers. maybe a moth or something. what if.

[shadowgamed]

SHADOWGAMED: an independent multimuse for characters from yu-gi-oh! duel monsters, written by meri. please note that this blog is a sideblog, so all followbacks will come directly from my main blog, @guardiandamned!

[meteorstricken]

Me, watching the monster-fucker crowd slowly emerge for Ultima:

[eleonorpiteira]

Welcome to all my new followers - fellow artists and everyone else!

Don’t be weirded out if we’re mutuals on twitter but I don’t follow you back here - I can’t! This is a secondary blog, and you can only follow people with the primary blog. There's no way to change it sadly, but I promise I’m not ignoring anyone! I’m following back with my personal blog ;)

Other than that please enjoy tumblr, it’s not the best place to be ‘social’, but it’s a good place to share your work in a more thoughtful way than fast-food twitter.

[thethingything]

"your gums will probably be really sore and swollen for a few days but that's to be expected" she was not kidding. I'm glad she warned us and explained why it's so painful if only because I would definitely be a lot more concerned if she hadn't