#bitter melon benefits

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Top 10 Vegetables for diabetics

A proper diet is rich in essential vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, anti-inflammatories, and a variety of micronutrients. Vegetables are the healthiest sources of vitamins and nutrients. They also create a feeling of ‘fullness’ and keeps hunger pangs at bay. Here are the Top 10 vegetables for diabetics…

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"Bitter Melon: Bites of Bitter Bliss"

"Bitter Melon: Bites of Bitter Bliss"

            https://amzn.to/48vrVyO 1. Preface: Bitter melon, scientifically known as Momordica charantia, is a unique and fascinating vegetable that has carved a niche for itself in the world of culinary delights and holistic health practices. Originating from the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, bitter melon is celebrated for its distinctive taste, nutritional richness, and…

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【苦瓜海鲜汤｜Bitter Gourd and Seafood Soup 】

苦中带甜，味道鲜美又营养，

做法也超简单，还可以清热解暑，

更适合大热天喝。

别错过，赶快收藏。

A soup taste without bitter , delicious and nutritious, easy cook , and most suitable for hot weather to drink and it can clear the heat from our body. Don't miss it. Save it now!

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【主要食材｜Main Ingredients】

1.苦瓜 Bitter Gourd - One / 1粒

2.鱼圆 Fish Ball - 10 pcs / 10粒

3.干鱿鱼 Dried Squid - 1 pcs / 1条

4.鲜虾适量 Fresh prawns - appropriate / 适量

【配料部分｜Side Ingredients】

1.浓缩鸡汤 Concentrated chicken stock - 1 spoon / 1汤匙

2.胡椒粉 Pepper Powder - Moderate amount / 适量

3.炸红葱 Fried red onion - Moderate amount / 适量

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【准备食材的部分｜Preparation Ingredients】

1.把清理后的苦瓜切块。 Cut the cleaned bitter gourd into pieces.

2.之后，浸泡10分钟，为了去除苦味。 Afterwards, soak it for 10 minutes to remove the bitterness.

3.然后,把鱼圆切半。 Then, cut the fish ball in half.

4. 过后,用烧水把干鱿鱼泡开。 After that, soak the dried squid in boiling water.

5. 把鱿鱼片泡至10分钟，之后切条。 Soak again until 10 minutes, then cut into strips.

6.最后，准备好去皮的蝦子。 Finally, prepare the peeled prawns.

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【烹饪部分｜Cooking Part】

1.打开电炉,把锅热一热。 Turn on the electric stove to warm up the pan.

2.放入少许的油，再倒入切好的苦瓜。 Add a little oil, then put in the chopped bitter gourd and stir-fry.

3.将苦瓜炒至松软。 Stir-frying the bitter gourd until it become fluffy.

4.过后，把鱼圆和切好的干鱿鱼倒入锅中。 After that, add in the fish balls and the dried squid.

5.加入一汤匙的浓缩鸡汤和适量的胡椒粉，一起搅拌。 Add one spoon of concentrated chicken stock and moderate amount of pepper powder, stir it well.

6.过后， 倒入半锅的清水，煮至沸腾。 Then, pour in half pot of clean water and boil it as well.

7.之后，放入鲜虾再煮至五分钟放可出锅。 Afterwards, add the prawns and cook for a further five minutes before serving.

8.最后，出锅前放入一些炸红葱，就可开动啦！ Lastly, add some fried red onions before serving and you can get ready to eat!

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【 来多了解苦瓜的知识｜More knowledge about Bitter Gourd to learn 】

1 | 苦瓜有几个品种？ Family varieties or Kind of Bitter Gourd

2 | 不同苦瓜苦味的排行榜 Bitterness Taste Range No of different bitter gourd

3 | 苦瓜的营养成分差别 What’s the different nutritional values of different kind of bitter gourd?

4 | 如何降低苦瓜的苦味？ How to reduce the bitterness taste of bitter gourd?

5 | 苦瓜有什么好处？ Benefits or Good of Bitter Gourd

6 | 苦瓜的历史来源 Origin history of Bitter Gourd

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Bitter melon: Bitter melon is a tropical fruit with hypoglycemic properties. It contains substances that can help stimulate insulin production and increase glucose uptake by cells.

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hello i would love to hear about culturally specific dishes in the blightseed setting. what do the animals taste like hows their fat content... herbs and seasonings and the trades involved perhaps..... hows the salt economy? love your setting and if you have a list of ingredients i will invent meals in my head and be well satisfied... i just love food and cooking in world building it is so important to me :-)

OK this is crazy because I had literally just cooked a Lore Friendly Meal the night before I got this ask.

Since this is a super broad question gonna default to Imperial Wardin since that's what I'm writing in right now and has the most developed food economy. (Sorry.)

This region currently dominates the eastern Inner Seas tradeway so has a very broad access to imported foods and spices, and many of its staples are not originally native to the region. Its regional cuisine is quite diverse and varied, largely owing to its status in the tradeway and a long history of immigration to the region (as well as a wide variety of native regional variations in diet).

For simplicity's sake I'm mostly going to stick to staples that are grown in-region (whether native or not) or commonly imported. Also mostly sticking to domesticated plant life, or very common and easily acquired wild plants. (Also not all these plants/herbs/spices would be 1:1 with real-world equivalents, or would be of unique variants that don't exist irl, but if they're basically the same thing I use the IRL word)

Staple base foods: maize, barley, wheat, and rice (closer to O. glaberrima than O. sativa), red yam (a yam regarded as very delicious), white yam (a hardier but poorer tasting yam, often associated with poverty), cassava, chickpeas, other legumes.

Staple vegetables (regionally varies): Cabbage, lettuce, okra, onions, garlic, chili peppers, celery, peas, kolis (a drought tolerant, cactus-like plant. Young stems are tender and edible), camiche (a tree that produces edible seedpods and young leaves).

Staple fruits: Dates, figs, pomegranates, olives, melons, apples, bitter cherries, kolis fruit, nara (a type of citrus, comparable in flavor and sourness to lime).

Widely used spices/herbs/flavorings: cumin, saffron (VERY expensive but natively grown), coriander, culantro, thyme, fennel, sage, tumeric, cardamom, ginger, firebug (an insect that is dried and crushed, provides a reddish hue and slight acidic flavor), anuje (a tree sap which is the region's most popular sweetener).

Livestock: cattle, horses (the small 3 hooved kind), hogs, ducks, geese, one domesticated species of gazelle, some camelops (rare in this region, imported), one type of small domesticated lacetor, several types of fowl.

Other meat (common wild game, or livestock raised in smaller or more localized capacities): crocodiles, gazelles, aurochs, salutachin (a meat dog breed), doves, nechoi, lacetor, hippegalga, anara (a large semi-aquatic rodent), hespiornis, unkata (a large flightless bird), ibis, pheasants, rabbits and hares, caviar ants.

(Of the fantasy game, most nechoi have a strong, lean gamey meat, but an-nechoi is fattier and milder. Lacetor is generally mild and tough (with a few very fatty cuts) and benefits from slow cooking and heavy spices. Hippegalga is lean and mildly gamey and has a nutty quality. Anara tastes like wild rabbit, but slightly fattier. Unkata kind of just tastes like turkey.)

Alcohol: Wine is very important and is consumed (mostly watered down) on a daily basis. Date wine is most common and least expensive by far; only small parts of the region are ideal for viniculture and grape wine is somewhat uncommon. Other fruit wines are common (bitter cherry and kolis fruit being most popular). A very strong liquor is produced from anuje sap, with sweeter and lower ABV versions available as a kind of dessert wine. Grain-based beers and liquors are widely available, but not as prized as fruit/anuje drinks. Mead is somewhat rare and is mostly seen as inferior to anuje.

Salt economy: this region is a dominant player in the salt trade, having a large area of salt flats and marshes in its south. Salt is widely accessible throughout the region via internal trade routes.

Fishing: The region has a huge fishing industry along its coasts and the diet in the coastal cities is enriched with seafood. Pretty much any edible sea life is eaten. (Dozens of fish species, octopus, squid, clams, urchins, oysters, scallops, crabs, lobster, shrimp, etc etc). The tiny, schooling larval form of yotici are also sometimes eaten.

There's also a 'whaling' industry for leviathans, which have very rich, blubbery meat high in iron (I guess I'd describe it as a fattier, stronger, bloodier version of alligator meat), and uhrwal, which have very tough, gamey meat and are considered an acquired taste, used specifically for delicacy dishes.

Misc lore:

Arthropods are not widely eaten in the region and have stigma as peasant or famine food. Some local exceptions are made for locusts, and the eggs of caviar ants (there is a very small industry of ant farming in Ephennos, brought by White Sea qilik immigrants).

Dogs have been used for meat in this region for hundreds of years (largely in the form of the salutachin, a breed specifically developed for meat), but the practice declined under the 3rd Burri empire (in which context it was seen as an 'unclean' food). Cultural trauma from feral dogs eating the dead (and in turn being eaten by starving civilians) during a siege-induced famine has made it specifically taboo in Godsmouth. Dog is now widely considered a famine/poverty food in most of the region, though corn-fed salutachin is still a delicacy in the city-state of Wardin.

Animals that eat human flesh are taboo to consume in most parts of the region (whether this extends to all/most predators or just obligate scavengers varies).

Eggs of skimmer gulls and ibis are considered delicacies.

The basic diet varies across the region, but a huge proportion of the established cuisine revolves around cumin, onions, and peppers for flavoring.

The majority of the diet for an average person is built on savory grain porridge and mashed legumes.

Dairy products are important to the everyday diet in the eastern 'dairy belt' of the region, but are of lesser significance elsewhere. Horsemilk and cow's milk are both common.

Maize is usually consumed after nixtamalization for greater nutritional content.

Most people (especially in the cities) do not eat meat on a regular basis, as even for self-sustaining farmers and herders, the value of livestock for milk, textiles, labor, sacrifice, and trade means that frequent slaughter is often unsustainable. Most get their everyday protein needs met with legumes, and those in coastal cities have broad access to seafood.

Animal sacrifice is vitally important to the practice of the Imperial Wardi faith, but the meat of sacrifices is not eaten (outside of a few specific rites and festivals) and is instead burned.

Khaitmeat is rarely eaten outside of desperation (or opportunistic slaughter of old/injured animals) due to their great value and a developed taboo around its consumption in some parts of the region.

Hunting is a pastime for the urban upper class and typically forbidden within the territories of the city-states without an expensive 'license' (unless one one's own lands, which also generally requires having big money). Poaching for meat in the outskirts of cities is common among the urban poor.

Hunting is a key part of the diet throughout the rural parts of the region, many rural commoners eat meat more frequently than their urban counterparts on this merit.

Some established dishes (either vaguely conceptualized, or have come up specifically in writing):

Pounded white yam and nothing else (a famine food).

Pounded white yam with whitefish and pepper soup, a hearty common meal in Godsmouth.

Savory cornmeal cakes (cornmeal cooked in vegetable broth, lard or olive oil, peppers, onions, cumin, salt, cheese, wrapped in a corn husk and cooled to be eaten on the go).

Shitty cornmeal cakes (a famine food) (cornmeal with weevils in it, you can't really get the weevils out and it's protein so might as well, salted and cooked in water).

Grain festival beef/horse stew (tough bone-in cuts slowcooked with peppers, onion, garlic, and any other available vegetables. Usually heavily spiced. The resulting broth is used to cook the grain (usually hominy, rice, or barley), the meat and vegetables are served on top, sometimes with cream or cheese).

Hominy porridge with milk and sprinkled cheese.

Wheat porridge with dried dates and anuje.

Reed duck boiled in date wine, flavored with peppers, coriander, cumin, and saffron (VERY fancy).

Pickled kolis stem bulbs.

Fermented kolis stem bulbs and cabbage.

Gannegal soup (made with bull penis, hominy, garlic, onion, cabbage, and chickpeas in a spicy broth, supposed to support fertility)

Raw hippegalga meat, thinly sliced with onion and hot pepper, all marinated and cured with nara and eaten cold atop barley or rice (also supposed to support fertility)

Anaebi soup (made with reed duck, lily bulbs, rice, and okra, supposed to support a healthy pregnancy)

Cow tripe and cabbage soup

Finely chopped meat/fish/shellfish or vegetables with onions, wrapped in dough and fried or baked.

Peledyo (A strong, heavily fermented fish sauce favored in the coastal cities (this is pretty much a garum ripoff), which is mixed with wine, vinegar, honey, etc to form the base of other sauces)

Very spicy shellfish soup with a peledyo, wine, and pepper broth.

Caviar ant eggs marinated with nara, vinegar, chopped onions and cabbage, mixed with rice.

A sweetened bean porridge made with cream and anuje.

Hummus-esque spread made with chickpeas, garlic, onion, peppers, and olive oil, usually eaten with bread.

Whole spitroasted horse

A type of root vegetable sausage (intestine casing stuffed with mashed cassava or yam, onions, garlic & cumin seeds which have been cooked down in lard, sometimes with minced meat/offal. Boiled all together.)

Blood sausage (usually horse or cattle)

A kind of donut fried in oil and then soaked in anuje and fruit syrup.

Roasted peppers and onions sauteed in heavy cream, usually served atop grain or a grain porridge.

Toasted locusts, locusts fried with rice or barley, pounded white yam stuffed with fried locust and onions (opportunistic meals during locust plagues)

Fried sprats with pepper and onion sauce

Crab stock soup with onions, peppers, crab meat or whole softshell crabs, and crab roe (sometimes with cream)

Squid ink soups (variety of seafood or seafood-stock soups, blackened by squid ink)

A simple 'trail mix' made with dried camiche seeds and hominy

Dessert bread glazed with fruit syrup or anuje, covered in dried dates

Raw minced lacetor with peledyo, garlic powder, cardamom, coriander. Used to top grains or to be eaten with pounded yam.

Thinly sliced uhrwal flank simmered with date wine and vinegar.

Fatty cuts of an-nechoi belly, usually slow cooked and eaten in soups.

Minced kolis stalk, onion, and pepper, salted and marinated with nara or vinegar

Roasted figs with cheese

Also here's the lore friendly meal I cooked, the grain festival beef stew. Here served in only the lore friendliest of dollar store paper bowls

This specific dish is eaten as a part of yearly grain festivals celebrating the end of the harvest. In most contexts it's an agricultural community event with each family contributing whatever vegetables and spices are on hand, and each donating some of their harvested grain. It's cooked in a huge pot and usually serves dozens of people.

The exact vegetable/herb/spice components would vary wildly within the region, timing, and by the success of the various harvests, but will generally be farmed (rather than foraged) due to the nature of the festival as an agricultural celebration and thanks-giving. Cumin, peppers, and onions are considered the absolute bare minimum necessity. The grain will usually be maize, barley or rice, and may be mashed into a savory porridge instead of eaten whole.

This will usually be one of few times a year where meat is eaten in abundance in the agricultural context. The meat is almost always beef or horse, usually tougher bone-in cuts are chosen for this specific dish. These animals will have been slaughtered specifically for this festival, with the best cut of meat from each being burnt in an offering of gratitude to Ganmache and Anaemache (ox-face and river-face of God, both of which are associated with agriculture and harvests), at the base of what will become the cooking fire.

The meat and vegetables are cooked on low heat in water until the meat is soft and tender and a broth is formed (which should be very strong and spicy, as it will be used to flavor the grain). Some of the broth is drained and used to cook the grain, which is then served with the meat, vegetables, and a few spoonfuls of broth on top. In the eastern dairy belt, milk/cream may be added to the broth, and/or it may be topped with crumbled cheese or sour cream. This is next to heresy in the west.

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For my easily accessible grocery store equivalent, I used a beef shank, 2 onions, 2 jalepeños, one habanero, a bunch of garlic, okra, and cabbage. Seasoned with cumin seeds and tumeric (very lore friendly) and a sazon packet because I had it (most of the spices involved are at least passably lore friendly). Also jasmine rice (not lore friendly but it's what I had).

I first toasted cumin seeds in olive oil, then added the vegetables and stirred until they were cooked down. The meat and vegetables/spices were cooked in water on low heat for ~5 hours and seasoned to taste. Some of the broth was then removed to cook the rice. Meat + vegetables are spooned on top of the rice, along with some broth.

Results: It's preddy good. Might be a little better with roasted or sauteed rather than heavily cooked down vegetables, but the latter is how it would be eaten. I also had a sore throat at the time and ended up just drinking the rest of the broth. It felt amazing. 6.5/10.

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Good kinds of tea for me to try??

I’m glad you asked, please, sit down while I ramble away about my beloved known as tea :)

(Disclaimer: some of teas I’m thinking of might be specific to brands I can get here so sorry if one piques your interest but isn’t available) Long list ahead

Herbal Teas:

Mixed Berry Teas

Rose hip tea

Honestly any fruit tea haha

Chamomile

Apple chamomile warm fuzzy happy feels

Apple Cinnamon

Lemon Zinger: cold relief and soothing zingy taste beloved

Sleepy Time: soothing minty and just calm

Candy Cane Mint Tea

Gingerbread (holiday tea) high in cinnamon and very calming and soul warming :)

Pomelo Tea If you can get like a jar of pomelo, and mix it with water or black tea it’s kinda sweet and tangy. And, sore throat soother :)

Caffeinated

Lavender White Tea (iced) it has a bit of a slight oily feel that’s hard to get used to at first. But if you like the scent of lavender you’ll like it.

Genmaicha (brown rice and green tea) it’s kind hot an earthy taste, not everyone’s cup of tea, but one of my personal favourites. Also boosts impunity and had many gut & health benefits :)

Strawberry black tea or green tea (make your own and shove in the fridge) 2 tea bags got 1L of water, add some lemon slices/juice and strawberry purée or juice (or pineapple juice :)

Peach Green Tea

CHAI CHAI CHAI!

^ Add some milk and cinnamon too if you want :)

MATCHA try osuicha (thinner, less thick and strong) first if you’ve never tried matcha

(but also… uh, white stores sell like one type so stick with about one to two thumb sized scoops) SORRY FOR THE SHADE! it’s kinda true tho

GREEN TEA (do not leave your teabags in past 2 minutes, gets bitter at that point)

Oolong (taste is strong. Not for everyone) have with milk and brown sugar tho! It’s good that way too :)

Rooibos with a dash maple syrup

Classic Orange Pekoe/ English Breakfast with milk

MISC CATEGORY

ICED BARLEY TEA (grew up on this stuff in Taiwan haha ) idk if they sell that stuff here, but I love the light sweetness and it’s got this cooling effect (hence why it’s a summer drink)

WINTER MELON TEA. sweet kinda syrupy Taiwanese must have. Sorry…I doubt you could get it overseas, but look out for the condensed chunky block forms at Asian markets maybe? To cook a batch at home

Anyways, long tea ramble!! Try some out and hope you like them :)

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[kimberly40]

🎃 Few of our common crops have such a long and storied history as the humble pumpkin! These orange gourds are part of our family traditions, our favorite meals, and the cultural fabric of our nation. Here are some facts about pumpkins:

1. A pumpkin is, surprisingly, considered a fruit.

2. The name "pumpkin" comes from the German word "pepon," meaning "large melon."

3. It is believed that pumpkins originated in Central America over 7,500 years ago.

4. Pumpkin seeds contain many health benefits as they're filled with vitamins, minerals and unsaturated fatty acids.

5. Pumpkin flowers are edible.

6. There are more than 45 different kinds of pumpkins.

7. Pumpkins are grown on every continent except Antarctica.

8. About 90% of a pumpkin is water.

9. Pumpkin shells used to be woven into mats.

10. Jack -o'-lanterns originated from an Irish myth, and before using pumpkins, people in Ireland and Scotland created these now-Halloween-staples with turnips and potatoes instead.

11. Pumpkins were once thought to be a cure for snakebites.

12. Pumpkins are native to Central America and Mexico. Originally small and bitter, they were selectively bred by Central and Native Americans to be bigger, fleshier, and sweeter.

13. The world’s heaviest pumpkin weighed more than a ton. In 2016, Mathias Willemijns of Belgium grew a record-breaking pumpkin that weighed a whopping 2,624.6 lbs. To put that into perspective, his pumpkin weighed roughly the same as a small car. To this day, the pumpkin still holds the Guinness World Record for the heaviest pumpkin in the world.

14. Each pumpkin contains about 500 individual seeds.

15. Pumpkin spice does not actually contain pumpkins. Pumpkin spice or pumpkin pie spice is only the spice mix that you commonly use in making pumpkin pie. Rather than pumpkins, it typically contains cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. Finally, allspice may also sometimes be added into the mix.

16. Some pumpkins are poisonous.

Although most parts of pumpkins are edible, some varieties of pumpkins contain toxins called cucurbitacins. These are bitter compounds that protect some pumpkins against animals that may want to eat them. Consuming a large amount of cucurbitacin can lead to poisoning, which some refer to as “toxic squash syndrome”.

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Top 10 Vegetables for diabetics

Vegetables are generally high in water content and fibre, both of which help your digestive system function smoothly. They also create a feeling of ‘fullness’, which leads to smaller food portions, and keeps hunger pangs at bay. This makes them excellent choices for weight loss.

Read full blog here: https://www.freedomfromdiabetes.org/blog/post/top-10-vegetables-for-diabetics/2695

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Do you think that Leano's life and Legosi's life would have been different if Toki wasn't dead? If Leano had had her mother and if Legoshi had had a grandma?

I think it would have been different, but I can't seem to make up my mind on whether ‘different’ also means ‘better’.

— Psychic

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Toki’s Death + Its Impact on Gosha

Though it's debtable as to whether Toki committed suicide via Gosha’s venom, or whether it was meant to be a spontaneous declaration of love of some kind ... I think that there's a middle ground between the two.

You can be naïve and selfish; having one trait doesn't cancel the other out.

I say “naïve” because I want to give Toki the benefit of the doubt, and look at the situation from a perspective she may have had. She’s implied to be airheaded (this is said by a bitter Yahya, but it seems to hold up), yet she's incredibly accepting of Gosha.

In her mind, her kiss of death wasn't necessarily suicide. It could have been an attempt to make Gosha realise that he doesn't need to be so cautious around her. Maybe she saw how Gosha isolates himself from others due to his venom, and wants him to feel loved.

If you’ve been protected from something for so long, you tend to underestimate the danger because you’ve never, personally experienced it. This would explain why she chose to kiss Gosha in front of their child — she didn't actually expect to die.

As for the “seflish” part of the equation: that was still an incredibly selfish risk to take. At the absolute worst, she could have expected to die. I don't believe I need to explain this point further.

Back to Gosha: Learning that your beloved killed themselves is one thing. Learning that they killed themselves, using you to do so, has to be a different kind of pain completely.

It's a death that wouldn't be possible at all if Gosha were not a Komodo dragon. So then, the natural question that comes from this is: “Was Toki so unhappy with her relationship with me (Gosha) that she felt the only way to escape was to kill herself?”

The thing is, Gosha can only assume that that was what Toki felt. He has no way of knowing. Assuming that Toki had ... admirable intentions, she failed in whatever she was trying to do. Her death, I believe, led to Gosha’s relative indifference towards their daughter, Leano.

But what if Toki survived, or better yet — she never attempted to kiss Gosha without his disinfectant?

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What if Toki Lived? [Leano]

If we work with the assumption that Leano, in the manga, knew that her mother died as a result of her father, then it's understandable why she would seek to distance herself from him as much as possible. Part of it which be the societal pressure, but there's no denying that Gosha was a large factor in Toki’s death.

In this AU, where Toki never kicked the bucket, I feel as if society would have still pushed Leano to pretend she was a pureblooded wolf. The alternative to that would have been bullying (perhaps similar to what Melon faced as a child).

Is it strange that I don't see Gosha as the type to encourage anyone to claim him as family? It's strange — he gives the impression that he won't fight to change the status quo (though he's upset that the status quo even exists in the first place).

On the other hand, Toki would be more encouraging. She wouldn't shy away from trying to make Leano feel proud of her Komodo dragon heritage.

What does it say when it's your mother who has to assure you that nothing is wrong with you? Consequently, what does it say when your father seems to have accepted that animals of his type (which make up ½ of you) will always be treated badly by society?

It's a mixed message.

Still, it's better for Leano to have that positive reinforcement from Toki than none at all.

I still believe that Leano, once her scales grew in, would have barricaded herself in her room. But, I want to believe that she would have eventually left her room.

She would have worn clothes to cover her scales, but eventually ... eventually, maybe she would have stopped covering them.

I don't know if she

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What if Toki Lived? [Legoshi]

Legoshi learnt most of his mannerisms from Gosha. I can't say I can picture him as anything but soft-spoken, but maybe Toki’s encouragement makes Legoshi more confident in himself.

Toki wouldn't want her grandson to turn out like her daughter. Unlike Gosha, who is content to let Legoshi find his own way, Toki is extremely willing to give Legoshi advice.

In my head, Legoshi calls her more than he would call Gosha, just by virtue of Toki being more helpful.

[godsbox]

headcanon prompt: satoru’s first kiss

OKAY, SO. it wasn't especially significant, or meaningful, or memorable. ask and he'd think and struggle to say exactly when or what the very first was, but at the time it was a nice little milestone, a page marker for expected things he was guaranteed to excel with flying colors at now that he'd left the clan's residential estate and achieved independence as a tech student. still, in spite of intentions and those same expectations, he'd polarized himself from his only classmates for a while. difference in backgrounds and dispositions dulled the shine of being the gojo satoru, so he pursued those superficial connections outside the grounds, spent every other afternoon nagging for admittance to navigate nearby sites, to shop and sample foods and put his striking anonymity to full use around the usual hangout spots for neighboring students - the sorts that'd benefit from his attention as much as he did theirs, mingling groups mutually thrilling in the novelty of something as typical as flirting after school. it was one of those days, usual and surface leveled, a finger curled under a girl's chin like the way they do in the movies and a lingering peck behind a shared booth, feeling full with melon soda and little scattering butterflies. they hadn't exchanged given names and that was a ceiling hit, a milestone passed, nothing bitter in the shallowness, and she'd carry the thrill of the silliness of a day with the blue - eyed boy to her following classes. that was what it was, what he was : silly, thrilling. nothing any more meaningful than just that. it'd lose its shine eventually, the gimmick in accepting childish dates from anyone bold enough to offer becoming amusing, but not as shiny as that year ago, as two years ago. he'd grow, and so too would his taste for connections, unfulfilled with superficiality and unwilling to compromise, even if that meant staying empty.

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