"Watch Where You're Going Ya Damn Nerd, Damn It, Can't Even Walk Around Town Without One Of You Getting

"Watch where you're going ya damn nerd, damn it, can't even walk around town without one of you getting in the damn way!" (Pokemon GO AU)

deku's latest pokécatch

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When everyone blew up about Pokémon GO Bakugou Katsuki swore he'd never ever play the damn game.

He ended up muting just about every person he followed on Twitter, stopped using Facebook (because my fuckin god even the teachers were playing!) and he shut off anyone who randomly stopped on the street to stare at their phones, catching whatever stupid Pikachu that'd shown up. So how the game ended up on his phone was quite the mystery (or not really, he knew it was that hair for brains asshole who'd been messing with his phone last week).

And now here he was, walking around downtown, having created his character and trying not to look like all the losers playing this shitty game.

Of course, it was easier said than done when it pissed him the fuck off. He was absolutely sure that he'd thrown the ball at the freakin bird cawing at him but the damn thing wouldn't go inside. No. In fact, the ball would go past the damn thing or it would disappear and he'd have to try again. He gripped his phone, tempted to smash it to the ground, "You little fucker-"

"AH!" his face was assaulted by dark green locks as he almost toppled over some stranger. The guy turned around quickly and shot him an apology but Katsuki short circuited. Are those really his natural eyes? which, fuck, now that he'd thought it he realized he shouldn't be one to talk. But they were just so...bright, and freckles. He didn't know many people with freckles...if any at all.

He scowled, "Watch where you're going ya damn nerd, damn it, can't even walk around town without one of you getting in the damn way!"

A blush immediately adorned the guy's face, "S-sorry, just, I-wait...are you playing too?"

Fuck. Katsuki stashed his phone in his pocket and growled at the stranger, "The hell I am!"

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female deku: hair troubles

because the ideas just keep coming OTL (at least it’s short this time) 

i thought of this idea on 7/15 and am thinking of using this for katsudeku week day 2: childhood (i’ll see if i can incorporate confessions like day 1′s brainstorming)

femaleizuku and katsuki as childhood friends

growing up, deku always had longer hair that she’d put up in pigtails and then a low tail

one day she gets into an accident with katsuki (aka he burns her hair). katsuki DID NOT do this on purpose

since this happened when they were kiddies, katsuki is pretty traumatized by it and starts to keep deku at a distance because he’s afraid he might hurt her but deku is a clingy kid who isn’t easily deterred

after that deku has always worn her hair short because it’s just more convenient. she still ends up being AMs successor, doing training, going to UA (yatta yatta)

one day katsuki hints at wanting her to grow out her hair and she eventually does. he’s pretty much been feeling regret since that day, thinking it was his fault she hasn’t grown it out even though deku assured him thousands of times it was OK 

he’s so happy she grew it out! 

inner tears, outward smile and the class almost dies because KATSUKI CAN SMILE?!

he needs to protect his girl because now she’s even cuter (LOL)

i would think a canonKatsuki with femDeku wouldn’t be as rough in his bullying if deku were a girl? idk, all his friends were guys but since their parents are friends (are they i think where did i see this?!) then they’d be friends regardless of gender. i would think his mom would be on him about his behavior towards deku-chan because she’s a girl

also, idk if anyone else got this but when i was a kid and i liked someone my parents would tease me about my ‘boyfriend’ and this is so part of this story. i think deku would blush and not deny it or confirm while katsuki would explode and super deny it but ok maybe he does like her?? kiddie crushes ♥ 

I’m sick of people telling writers not to use an idea because it’s “overused” or “not original.”

A huge part of writing is making the idea your own.

Do you want to write about vampires?! THEN FOR GOD’S SAKE, WRITE ABOUT VAMPIRES!

Oh, dystopian futures are overused? PUT YOUR OWN SPIN ON IT!

Guys, don’t let people stomp on your ideas. A story is a bunch of puzzle pieces that everyone has access to - but it’s your choice how you put them together. How you put it together and how you present it makes that idea uniquely yours, even if it’s a familiar concept.

Your idea isn’t lame.

Own it.

Make it yours.

modern world/GO AU: katsudeku

so i thought of this for day 1 of katsudeku this morning while getting ready for adulting. the plan is to start writing this up after i put up this post (lol) also inspired by all the pokemon Go trash on my feeds

i made katsuki not as big a dick as canon just because his dekuanger is embedded in their quirks and childhood relationship (i believe) and here there is none of that. i was aiming for something like canon kiribaku

katsudeku day 1 #brainstormingthread from my twitter

1 day ago (7/14)

izukus bday is 7/15, katsukis bday is 4/20

first meeting! the day after izukus bday at a park where izuku accidentally bumps into katsuki??

they’re both playing GO but katsuki is a closet GO player who is slowly getting really into it

they both weren’t paying attention but katsuki blows up because keep outta the way ya damn nerd!

but izuku saw the game on katsukis phone before he could hide it and giggles, he starts pestering the other boy and even explains stuff about the game

he gets super excited because all his friends are already playing and know so much about it but here he can nerd out ‘for a good cause’

they have this ‘date’ and katsuki is panicking IS THIS A DATE and they plan to meet up again later

they exchange their contact info

5 hours later

turns out katsuki had been struggling to catch this pokemon because the ball wouldn’t fuckin go!! Izuku gets it on the first shot and katsuki mutters fuckin nerd but can’t REALLY be angry at the blinding smile directed at him

katsuki decides to call that pokemon fuckmunch in izukus honor and that becomes a habit, where he’ll be playing GO and can’t stop thinking about deku and he names pokemon after him like a dork

deku thinks the fuckmunch name is because katsuki is really angry but then comes to learn that angry is his default mood

one day katsuki calls him by some of the pokemon names he’s got saved and izuku realizes what’s happening because he’s observant as fuck the little dipshit

8 hours later

tying in the birthday prompt, deku’s phone is new! a birthday gift he received from All Might (idk relation yet) and first thing he does is play GO because his old phone would constantly crash but this one is so nice and NEW

when he exchanges numbers with katsuki, kacchan thinks he’s special because wow i’m his first contact (inner squeal) and that’s how katsuki thinks up dekus nickname

obviously he’s a hermit with no friends so midoriya ‘can’t do anything/deku’ izuku is perfect for him (he’s being a tsundick?)

but deku doesn’t get his nickname on their first meet. by the time he does get it deku knows katsukis mo so he fires back with kacchan and the names stick!

eventually katsuki finds out deku is very much social with two clingy, nosey, and overprotective friends 

1 hour later

katsuki also learns about a third friend Todo-something who is studying overseas who deku frequently talks with (he knows this because it’s the only number besides his that stays at the top of his sms messages

at this point deku explains the contact/new phone/birthday

katsuki gets deku a late present!

note: this has expanded longer than i thought it would so i’ll just keep editing and adding stuff as i think it up. i’d love to do a bit of fanart for this when i finally post it on ao3 (most likely just lineart xD)

Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

Best of luck!

Fanfiction Writing Tips

Some of these can be applied to all types of fiction, but some of these are more fanfiction-specific. And, I am in no means a professional, but a friend asked me for writing tips, and I thought I’d share them.

1.) When you’re writing dialogue, picture the character’s voice in your head. If you can’t picture them saying it, you’re writing them out of character. This is something I cannot stress enough, as it has been a lifesaver many times.

2.) Visualize the scene in your mind. How would they move? What kind of area are they in? Do you think the scene would work best on a couch? What would this character do on a couch? Cross their legs or lean on the side? Picture the scene for proper description of the scene, and that makes it easier to figure out what they’re doing with their bodies.

3.) Find a balance of show and tell. Don’t make the whole story just them completely in their minds the whole time unless it’s an introspective piece, and don’t make them just in the moment, either, as it’ll limit their ability to be connected with. Try to find out what reads best, balancing their inner thoughts with their actions. I would suggest just trying out different combinations, or figuring out an estimated ratio from a fic that you think is well-written.

4.) Never ever ever write your story in present tense. Never ever ever. It limits the ability to focus on what’s necessary. It can be experimented with, but it is often not good for fanfiction, as it can lead to stories being too wordy in explaining obvious actions. It has its place, but unless you’re already comfortable with writing in past tense, I would not recommend it.

5.) Pick out some important scenes and quotes before you begin writing. By having something to go by, it’ll be easier. For instance, write the summary to your story before you’ve written it, and go from there. I, personally, love to write dialogue before actually delving into the story. This gives me something concrete to work around, and guarantees that I’m following my original idea.