this is what you get

Non-writers also free to weigh in.

I can still remember the fucking drama over the definition of the term drabble that ended up with @copperbadge creating flopsy fest* (and the word flopsy) to cater to a group of people who didn't want to abide by the 'correct' definition but also were tired of fighting with people about what the word drabble meant. And while I don't know that flopsy fest was first created a FULL 20 years ago I do know 15 years ago Sam was archiving multiple years worth of flopsy fests fics on dreamwidth and I can say for sure that people were DEFINITELY fighting about what a drabble was 20 years ago.

*in my memory Sam created flopsy fest BUT as a caveat this was all many many years ago and most of the livejournals that would have been invovled are long gone and it's entirely possible he was just promoting it and somebody else invented it. If anyone has any clearer memories of this feel free to correct me.

2004 sounds about right. I believe a reader actually suggested 'flopsy' but it was created on my Livejournal and it was definitely in response to this debate.

The originating event was that I had promised to write a drabble, which by some common definitions at the time was simply a short fanfic, in exchange for each donation to a charity my readers documented. Someone got aggressive about a drabble being 100 words exactly and went through all the comments, word counted every drabble in order to post the Not Exactly 100 Words count of them, and berated me about writing 20+ fanfics for charity. So that was cool.

If you want the exact date of that, it did make fandom_wank on the original LJ community, which you may be able to search, idk if it's still around. The other person got most of the ridicule but not all of it, and being held up for public commentary over it was even more awesome than getting yelled at on my own journal for it, let me tell you. Great week to be me.

O M G i am SO glad you asked

(i am running a 102 fever so this is probably going to be hot mess... sorry in advance)

Before we dive in, let me make a few things clear:

Bakugou had a really bad attitude problem

Someone needed to hold him accountable for his behavior and help him figure out and process why he was behaving and feeling the way he did

I am not condoning how his behavior at all

Let’s also have a QUICK reminder of the shit that has happened so far before the internships:

Katsuki has been in the sludge villain attack

Katsuki was chained to a concrete pillar, hands bound, and MUZZLED on national (was it national it might not have been but still televised nonetheless) TV, in front of a huge stadium, that already booed him for one of his previous matches, and all of his peers because he didn’t believe he won fair and square and he wanted a rematch. (and honestly I can understand that logic there and isn’t that something you want from a future hero? Someone who is striving so hard for success, they want a rematch for a fight they technically one so they can prove they deserved it???)

His no.1 rival who used to be quirkless suddenly isn’t and is now starting to surpass him and he’s having a lot of big feelings about it (AGAIN not condoning the behavior he exhibited towards Izuku)

Now *cracks knuckles* lets begin

So Best Jeanist, the number four pro hero, actively sought out Katsuki after the sports festival. And even though Katsuki didn’t feel he rightfully won, hey the no.4 pro hero wants HIM, and he’s not going to turn down that opportunity. And he goes, expecting to learn and instead we get the following interaction:

Katsuki was only picked because Best Jeanist doesn’t like him, they’ve only had good candidates (implying Katsuki is bad), and Best Jeanist just wants to reform him to show him what it takes to make a hero because he had the side of a villain in him. (this is the manga interaction between them, but also lets remember that in the anime, he gets restrained. AGAIN.) Like can you imagine being sought out for an internship and getting there only to be told you're there not to learn but to be reformed because you suck that much?

Katsuki is arrogant, he has a pride problem and a massive inferiority complex and that needs to be taken care of. But looking at a kid who already has people calling and treating him like a villain by restraining him constantly and reaffirming that to him?

“Sorry I don’t like you and you’re only here because you are bad and have villainous traits.” Like yes saying “You are not THE shit Bakugou, lets work on that,” great let’s take that approach, is so much different from saying “You ARE shit Bakugou, I need to change everything about your personality.” And that’s exactly how I feel this went down.

You can’t convince me that those statements didn’t stick with him and fuck him up, especially when the LoV kidnap him because they want him to join them, especially when he feels he’s responsible for All Mights retirement. Like maybe if he hadn’t seemed like such a villain, he wouldn’t have gotten kidnapped and then All Might would still be a hero and none of this wouldn’t have happened.

Like I can get behind Best Jeanist wanting to work on Katsuki’s pride and arrogance because it is a problem, but to go in hard from the villain aspect just ugh idk it rubbed me the wrong way. Like there are ways to go about it that isn’t massively damaging to him.

ALSO this is so not relevant and definitely a me thing but with Katsuki you know what you’re getting. He is blunt and honest and full of pride and doesn’t hide what he thinks for one second. Best Jeanist has this aura of like “I am better than you but I am humble about it” and that fake humble bs really just pisses me off for no reason lmao. Like just tell me you think you’re better than me than trying to act like some fake ass humble jean jesus or whatever.

(and this is a whole other rant not necessarily against Best Jeanist but Katsuki reveling his character name and hia reaction being ‘child’ like yeah… it’s almost as if they’re still children… fighting in a war…)