An Excerpt From A Project I'm Working On:
An excerpt from a project I'm working on:
Saiki knew it would be a bad day when he woke up.
First, he had a premonition and had to stop the gas station from blowing up because of a stray rock. Then, he got a call from Kuusuke, letting him know he would be over next weekend. After that, his limiter had fallen out, and he’d gotten stuck in a time loop for hours, all before breakfast.
Finally, to top it all off, he had to take his younger sister to school with him.
“Please, Kusuo, honey?” his mother pleaded, eyes sparkling. “I promised Hana I would see her band today, and Kuriko doesn’t have anyone to watch her…
‘Fine,’ he said tiredly, looking over at his 5-year-old sister, devouring pancakes at a concerning rate. He met his mother’s eyes again, quickly averting his gaze when he saw her glistening eyes.
“Oh, Ku, thank you so much! I’ll get you some coffee jelly on my way home.” Good grief. He turned away, going through a mental checklist before school. He had all his bags, his homework was done, and Nendou’s favorite ramen shop was closed for the morning, so he should be fine
A slight tug on his pant leg made him look down to see Kuriko staring up at him, mouth wiped clean of syrup and her light pink hair in a ponytail. Her hair was longer than his in girl form - it reached all the way down to her shoulders.
“Kusu-kun, when are we going?” she whined, staring up at him with large, lamp-like eyes. Saiki let out a huff.
‘Right now,’ he said, opening the door and gesturing for her to go before him. She skittered outside, setting off in a random direction that was definitely not the way to get to PK Academy.
Good grief.
‘Kuriko!’
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After teleporting them both back to his house (no, Kuriko, they couldn’t teleport straight into the school; people would see them), they set off along the stone-ladden path to the academy, Kuriko leaping from stone to stone, determined not to touch the cracks.
“Kusu-kun, are we theeere yet?” she whined back at him, the fourth time in the last fifteen minutes. Could psychics get aneurysms?
‘Five more minutes,’ he said blandly. It wasn’t the truth – without teleportation, they had about ten more minutes until they arrived at PK, but Kuriko didn’t need to know that.
Of course, he was so focused on making sure Kuriko didn’t kill herself by accident that he forgot to watch out for other life-threatening dangers.
“Buddy!” Nendou called, slinging an arm around his shoulders. Saiki nearly punched him in the face, but restrained himself at the last second.
“Nendou!” Kaidou called out, panicked. “You’ll kill him!” Good luck with that.
“What? Buddy never gets hurt!” Nendou boasted, finally looking down at the small child that was staring at him in abject fascination. “Huh? Who’s this?”
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Heartbreak - Aiura Birthday Celebration
Mikoto watched the blue-haired girl in front of her with interest.
"Hey, I ain't judging you, babes. So, love life, huh?" she smiled, watching Teruhashi's face split into a rueful smile.
"Oh, I was just curious!" she exclaimed, avoiding eye contact. Mikoto nodded, reaching out and tilting the crystal ball this way and that.
"Doesn't seem like you'll date around a lot," Mikoto said. "There's deffo there's someone, though. He-"
Pink hair.
Aiura froze. Maybe it was someone else...?
The crystal ball slipped from her grasp and shattered with her heart as Kusuo Saiki's purple eyes stared back at her.
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Oh man this newest episode of Earth is crazy. I'm so glad aliens under the sea are made up for television and aren't actually real.
Every Single Argument I've Heard Against Increasing Intelligence in My English Class and My Counterclaims
We read Flowers for Algernon, and this discussion ensued. We now have to write an essay about it, and I am sure I must be missing something, because I can't find any reason to side against increasing intelligence.
To set the stage, we debated whether to increase intelligence in real life. This means that any potential effects of intelligence-enhancing surgery inside Charlie Gordon's universe (i.e., the intelligence wearing off) are not applicable. In this debate, we are referring to intelligence—not knowledge. In this context, intelligence refers to IQ, while knowledge refers to information. This means Elon Musk's Neuralink, while not irrelevant, is not the main focus of this argument.
If an argument is good, I will do my best to admit that.
These are in no particular order.
It would decrease diversity.
Starting off strong with this interesting point, those against increasing intelligence argue that increasing intelligence would eliminate neurological differences between people. In other words, it would get rid of stupid people.
The amount of intelligence someone has is not 'diversity.' If everyone had the same IQ, we would not all be the same because we still have our personalities -- and that's only touching on neurological differences. There are plenty of other ways we differ.
Grit matters more.
Personally, I don't understand this argument. Just because something is of more value to your success doesn't mean everything else doesn't matter.
Imagine you're on your way to class. You'd want a pencil, right?
Well, you don't actually <em>need</em> that pencil. You could just take the lead, and it would still work -- maybe not as well, but it would still work. The wood casing around the lead isn't the most important part of the pencil, so, under this logic, it's unnecessary.
Sophisticated crime would increase.
This is a much better point than the last two, but it's still not infallible.
While sophisticated crime, such as bank robberies and pharmaceutical cover-ups, would increase, so would the effectiveness of our methods of battling it. If everyone had increased intelligence, we would still be fighting on an even playing field.
Some people wouldn't change their opinions, no matter how wrong they are.
For example, while Isaac Newton was very intelligent, he was also a misanthrope. People can have prejudices and incorrect opinions despite being very intelligent.
This is true -- to a point. While some people would still be caught up in their prejudice, increased intelligence will let more people see through it. It doesn't make much sense to use this as a stand-alone point
It may only be available to the ultra-wealthy, exacerbating class disparities.
See this, y'all? THIS is how you make a good argument. Talk about stuff like this instead of bringing up weird points about grit and diversity, and you'll be golden.
We need to solve a lot of things before we can make intelligence-enhancing technology available -- that's undeniable. However, this is the case with most medical procedures. The wealthier among us can afford expensive treatments to save their children's (or their) lives and give them a boost in life, while those with less money are left sitting in the dust.
It's not great, but it's the unfortunate reality. Adding another medical procedure to the mix wouldn't make much a difference.
I agree, however, that introducing intelligence-enhancing technology while we have such drastic class differences could be dangerous. It would give the rich a large advantage while middle and lower-class citizens would have a much harder time getting into the same universities as them because they have lower IQs.
See? This is a good argument. I will admit that -- this is one of the best points I've heard against it, and it's rarely brought up.
What do you guys think? I'm mostly limited to the evidence provided by my teacher, so I'm curious as to what some points you guys have are.
If I was unclear on anything, please let me know.
Sources for Arguments:
Intelligence Article
Grit Tedtalk (used as evidence for grit argument)
Anyway, it's 2:45 and I have school tomorrow, so I should probably go to bed. See y'all tomorrow!
new fanfic just posted
Joe Biden/Donald Trump
2024 US election
I can't decide what to write rn.
I’ll reblog w/ the link.
Metori Saiko - Birthday Celebration
Metori glided easily through the math test, marking answers carelessly. His tutors had taught him all this months ago, and he couldn't believe these idiots were still on it. He opened his mouth to tell the teacher he finished.
A frustrated sigh whistled out from beside him, and he glanced surreptitiously at the kid beside him. Kuboyasu stared at his paper, lips pursed.
He glanced at his paper and back at the kid beside him. The stress of the test was clear on his face.
In other words, Saiko had nothing to do with the note now on Kuboyasu's desk.
Kuri-cool!
Just realized I'm probably supposed to blog about me posting a new fic, so...
F/M, Heavily implied Teruhashi Kokomi/Saiki Kusuo
Saiki Kusuo, Saiki Kuriko, Teruhashi Kokomi, Yumehara Chiyo, Nendou Riki, Kaidou Shun
After some complications with scheduling, Kusuo has to take his sister to school with him.
General audiences, no archive warnings, 1/1 chapters, 2,371 words
