#bear writing

Summary:

Katsuki goes a bit overboard when being mean to a still quirkless Izuku, resulting in The Incident™. Now Izuku is partially deaf and completely blind. When his parents think they’ve finally found a way to make things better for their blind son, life does a complete 180, multiple of those twist flips that you’ll see gymnasts do, and lands on it’s head, which cracks open like a coconut.

After that happens, a kind stranger takes care of what is left of the Midoriya family.

Or

Katsuki makes Izuku blind, stuff happens, and Izuku has a found family.

UA events remain close-ish to canon

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I would love to hear grammatical/constructive criticism, and just general feedback if anyone would want to read this. This is also very self indulgent, so, uh, yeah

As said in the title, it is in wip, so if you have any suggestions after reading, hit me with it!!

A Beautifully Bare Bear Text Editor

This has a 3m 27s minute read time so BARE with me. Sorry.

For the past 3.5 years at school I have been using Microsoft OneNote as my main note taker, thinking “Hey. It works. And I can get it on every device? Might as well just use it.” But over time I feel like my notes just became more and more bloated and cluttered with all the tools that Microsoft just leaves hanging around in the UI. I’ve decided to switch over to Bear, a #texteditor application that’s designed to be just that, bare (see what I did there?)…

I’m not going to go into huge detail on things, but I’m just going off how it feels, what it looks like, usability and practicability.

At First Glance

There’s not much there. It’s just you and a blank screen. No lines, no rulers, no changing colour, font, text. It’s just a blank screen for typing, and it’s really nice. Sometimes I lose myself just starting into this nice blank… screen………. huh, oh sorry. Plus this editor has one of the best things that has ever happened ever and that is MARKDOWN!!! Yes, I’m a little excited. I’m so happy to see an editor focused in it. Markdown is just simple to use and the formatting they use in the application is great, showing where the headers, hashtags, astir and everything.

More Information

In the top right of the screen you get three options: 1. More information 2. Share 3. Delete More information is where the magic happens. Clicking on it gives you more information about the document. At the end of this I pressed the button and it said that I had: 690 words, 3836 characters, 3m 27s read time (yes you should read all of it, it’s not long!), 26 paragraphs. As well as modification date, last device, and creation date. Also, the more information panel also allows you to export the note into different documents quickly in the system.

NOTE: If you press the pop-out button in the top right the window will hover over the editor and will give you a constant play by play of your texting (so cool! gasming).

Organizing

Hashtag everyone likes those right? Hashtags are a great piece of none-sense that someone made up I think for Twitter (but I’m not going to look it up because I'm too lazy) but they work really well! I mean they're just easy to parse. In Bear all your organizing is done with hashtags, and that's it. You go alphabetically, can add the note to n many tags and Bob's your uncle (no not mine, I don't have one).

After that…

That’s really it. Those are the largest features and the most powerful tools Bear has to offer. And there’s nothing more you need to writing. Scripts, screenplays, notes, code snippets, novels, #tumblr posts, you name it, just type it up or Bear.

I will say this though, the largest downside is that syncing across all your APPLE OS ONLY DEVICES (forums say multi-platform is in the works) is only available with the paid version! What’s worst is that it’s ridiculous to not have that feature right in the basic, but I understand that they wouldn’t make money otherwise. It should be a standard feature with a lowered price ($9.99/mo syncing in my opinion).

End of the Day

first of all: small steps are important! pushing yourself too hard and striving for the Perfect Diet\ can lead to burnout. don't stress too hard about it! here is my favorite blog on the planet and while all of leo's articles are worth a read, this one really embodies how I feel about food. basically, it can be nearly impossible to start out doing a million things at once, so doing the bare minimum step you need to get started can be a good way to ease yourself in!

try having a green smoothie for breakfast a few times a week (they're tasty, I promise!)--toss some spinach (not lettuce, which might taste funky), yogurt or milk, a banana, some berries, and a tiny squeeze of honey into a blender and process until it's smooth. (here are some great recipes for inspiration! it's also my favorite food blog; check it out) don't feel like you have to go out and start restocking your fridge immediately, but picking up some plant-based protein powder can be a good way to add healthy proteins into your day. ground flax seed, one of my favorite ingredients, is available at most grocery stores and adds tons of fiber and good oils.)

I think the most important advice I can give is to eat eclectically! the more foods you try, the greater the variety of nutrients you'll consume, filling any gaps or vitamin deficiencies you might be sustaining. there are tons of incredible foods out there waiting to make their way into your next dinner! if you don't like cooking, again, start out small. learn basic techniques like sautéing and steaming (google and youtube are your best friends here!), and work your way up into more complicated dishes.

one of my favorite ways to serve a vegetable is to chop up about a third of an onion and a clove of garlic, saute them together in a pan until the onion is translucent (this makes a great base for almost everything), and then add diced or sliced pieces of whatever vegetable I have on hand. squashes, peppers, and mushrooms work well for this. serve over spinach or add in some rinsed canned beans or cooked grains and you have a filling, hearty meal that will 1. last you for hours and 2. be easy on your stomach! there are tons of variations on this basic formula, for example this avocado based plate (one of my favorites!) or this sun-dried tomato pasta. feel free to experiment! if you've never tried tofu or tempeh, its fermented cousin, 

being kind to your body is a holistic, all-encompassing process that doesn't just include your food intake--exercise is important too! take a short walk around your neighborhood when you get home from school or early in the morning to get your blood pumping and increase focus and brainpower. take a trip to the farmer's market when it opens and scope out some vegetables you've never tried before, then find a cool recipe for them online or in a cookbook and make it. have a pool? go for a swim. have a friend with a pool? mooch. it's less about cutting the bad things and activities and food out of your life and more about crowding them out with good, fun, tasty things, I think--at least that's what works for me personally!

in conclusion:

center lots of meals around plants and plant-based foods

but that doesn't mean you have to swear off of other foods! I'm a vegan, and I really don't know a lot about food preparation of dairy, eggs, or meat, but each of those food groups can have a place on a healthy plate. resources in books and on websites can give a good summary of how!

small steps! treat yourself with kindness and respect but don't feel like you have to become the number one contributor to the health food store's bank account by next tuesday. start with the minimum and ease your way in.

listen to yourself! pay attention to how you feel when you eat. if something doesn't feel good, it probably isn't.

I went to the movies instead.

One of them is my ability to write a character for a chapter or two and come to hate their name, so I'll go back and change it.

Another is re-reading what I wrote and hating it so much I delete it.

I sabotage myself. 

Solange had tried her best to help Judy enjoy Walking as much as she did. Her mother had always described the ability to enter other's dreams as the ultimate kind of pleasure. Jouissance, she would say in a voice ripe with emotion that the English language could never convey. Judy, however, had never found joy from an act she considered to be a great invasion of privacy. She shivered in mortification at the thought of someone wandering into her head at night and seeing some of the things her mind could create.