Managed to track down a high quality photo of r/place prior to the destruction for those who want it. May it rest in internet history.
Can someone explain what this is and why everyone was obsessed with it for a few days because I kept seeing it referenced with no context
r/place was an April fool’s event put on by Reddit (first in 2017, then again this year in 2022) where a blank canvas opened up on April 1 where users could place one single pixel, once every five minutes. Pixels would overwrite anything placed in that same spot previously, with the canvas constantly changing in flux. Hundreds of communities and hundreds of thousands of people came together to build incredible pixel art, defend their little swaths of territory on the canvas from griefing, form alliances with nearby territory to protect each other’s artwork, and hide lots and lots (and I mean lots) of amogus characters.
After 3 days of war, fighting bots, twitch streamers, and griefers, this was the final canvas. On April 4th the only pixel that could be placed was white, and the canvas quickly reverted back to a blank slate, with only screenshots like this to commemorate what hundreds of thousands of people came together to create.
coda of sorts to 5x14 – see author’s note on ao3 for warnings.
Eddie shuts the door to the truck behind him and shields his eyes from the sun with his hand, peering at the entrance to the building. Sometimes Eddie gets here a minute or two late or Christopher finishes early, and he’ll already be standing at the door waiting for Eddie’s truck to pull in, and all Eddie will get is a distant wave from Christopher’s instructor, Siena, before they go.
Today isn’t one of those days, though, and with a bounce in his step, Eddie starts towards the entrance.
Christopher and Siena aren’t out yet when Eddie gets to the stands, so he rests back against the railing, curling his hands around it, and keeps his eyes trained on the locker room doors. He drums his fingers against the metal, tap-tap-tap. Counting down the seconds.
Really, Eddie doesn’t know why he gets so—excited seems like a stretch. Anticipating maybe fits better. There’s no reason for it, though. Even when Siena comes out, there’s no guarantee it’ll even happen, and even if it does, there’s absolutely no reason to be standing here waiting for it like it’s something special. It doesn’t even mean anything. It’s ridiculous, but—
“Dad!”
Christopher comes tumbling out of the locker room, covered in dirt and beaming wide enough that Eddie can’t see his eyes through his squint. Siena trails behind as Christopher hurries over, wearing the same smile everyone who spends more than five minutes with Christopher can’t help. Christopher knocks into Eddie’s hip when he gets within range, more stumbling than intentional, but Eddie gladly takes whatever willing affection he can get from his pre-teen nowadays. He steadies Chris with a hand on his shoulder, then lets himself run that hand through Christopher’s dusty hair.
“Hey, buddy.” Eddie allows Christopher to pull back, returning his smile as Chris peers up at him. “How were the horses today?”
“I got to ride Lucky today!” Christopher rocks in place with his excitement. “Then he ate a sugar cube out of my hand!”
After months of this, Eddie hardly even needs to tamp down on any lingering fear at the thought of Christopher riding a horse without him around, which lets him focus instead on the second half of Christopher’s story. “Yeah?” Eddie glances up at Siena. “The sugar cubes were alright?”
Siena waves him off, smiling amiably. “Your husband checked with me last week. Sugar cubes are great treats for the horses.”
All the restless energy from the waiting settles comfortably in Eddie’s chest like a sigh. “Oh,” he says, “good.”
Really, it’s so dumb. It doesn’t mean anything. Still, Eddie waits for it every time.
Summary: After your first date with Adrian Chase, he drives you home.
Word count: 3.9k
Rating: R/Explicit/18+
Warnings: smut, loss of virginity (Adrian), minors dni
A/N: this was originally written as part of a series, but I don’t think it’ll ever get posted so I decided to rework it to be read as a one shot. Thanks to @vigilantefucks for all of the support and for being the first to read this.
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“Thanks for driving me home,” you said as Adrian pulled into the visitor parking of your apartment building.
“Of course. You know it’s not a safe neighbourhood.”
“Yeah…” you acknowledged. There was a beat of silence before you decided to ask him the pressing question that comes after a successful date. “Do you want to come inside?”
“Oh, uh…” He checked the time on the dashboard of his Sebring. “It’s kind of late and I have an early shift tomorrow…”
“Oh, okay,” you said, disappointedly looking down at your shoes. The date had gone well, right? Why would he blow you off now? Unless… maybe he didn’t realize what you were asking?
“Sorry,” he said.
You looked up from your feet, noting his grimace. “Adrian?”
Here’s an excerpt from the BNHA Vol. 4 light novel at the end of the Cultural Festival chapter where everyone is back at the U.A. dorm common room, and Satou made candy for everyone. Kirishima offers Bakugou a piece, and Bakugou challenges Deku to the obstacle course. Enjoy~
While the others were choosing various candies made by Satou, Bakugou sat alone on a sofa elsewhere. Kirishima came over and said, “Here’s yours, Bakugou!” as he offered a fruit candy to him, but Bakugou muttered, “Does it look like I want to eat sweet crap like that?”
Satou saw Bakugou and brought out a bright red candy, giving him a wink and a thumbs up. “I knew you would say that,” he said, “so I made you this hot pepper candy!”
Within the red candy was a piece of red chili. Bakugou was always fond of spicy food.
He sneered and said, “Don’t try to accommodate me like that! How do I even know if this crap is supposed to be sweet or spicy!?” Bakugou raised his hand and was about to release an explosion, but Sero interjected, “Hey now, he made it for you after all!” and shoved the candy back at Bakugou.
Deku watched them nearby as he sweated nervously, and Bakugou noticed him as he said, “Hey, shitty Deku!” and approached him. “Did you also do the obstacle course, you bastard?” Bakugou growled.
Deku asked, “Obstacle course?”
Ojiro answered, “It’s that thing where All Might’s high score still remains unbeaten ever since he was a student at U.A.”
When Deku heard this, his face completely changed.
“What!? Such a thing exists!? What do you mean there’s an obstacle course that still has All Might’s high score!?”
As a die-hard fan, this could be an unforgettable chance of a lifetime, and he was stunned. Bakugou yelled, “serves you damn right!” as he snickered satisfyingly.
Kirishima explained, “Bakugou tried that obstacle course multiple times but just couldn’t beat All Might’s high score.”
Kirishima had a regretful look on his face, but Bakugou nudged him and said, “Hey, don’t say unneccessary stuff like that!”
Bakugou then pointed his red pepper candy towards Deku and said, “You bastard, you better man up for next year’s Cultural Festival ‘cause I’m going to beat both you and All Might’s high scores!”
Deku replied, “Okay! I’ll try my best to not lose!”
Upon accepting Bakugou’s challenge, Deku felt inspired and bumped his two fists together with enthusiasm.
