#come on .... let her in c:

[appleciders]

love my kids so much bro.....

[bottomvalerius]

if I had a nickel for every time a media series featuring “the arcane” in some capacity severely disappointed me with a decline in writing & characterization choices, I would have two nickels. Which is not a lot but it’s weird it happened twice.

[deus-ex-mona]

god forbid a woman has hobbies

[isfjmel-phleg]

I have to order books for the library today and I just put all the current requests in the cart and I want to run away and forget they exist

[pynkhues]

Anon from earlier about Sam's family. Thanks for letting me know that tribe was an offensive term for the Aboriginal people. I'm not Australian and didn't know. I apologize. And yes, people were using that term on twitter when talking about it. It's all in very bad faith.

(x)

You're very welcome, anon, and I appreciate the acknowledgement. I figured it was probably the terminology being used, and you just didn't know, but it's really kind of you to own it, apologise and be open to learning.

I'm kind of a bit lucky in this sense, because I have a few Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander friends from across different Nations, and I work with a lot of First Nations people in different capacities (actors, writers and artists at the theatre company, of course, but one of my areas of specialisation as a freelance writer is in people-related safety, so I have a - - mm, I don't want to say expertise, because I think this is a space you're always learning in, but perhaps an area of qualification (?) in writing about child safety, gender-based safety in the workplace, and racial and cultural safety, particularly with First Nations people, in which I usually work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to develop documents on what helps them to feel safe in different contexts. I've written these sorts of things for schools, health services and arts venues, so I have a lot of conversations with people in different capacities too. I'm also on the theatre I work at's Reconciliation Action Working Group, so yes! Having a lot of robust conversations every day, haha).

But yeah. It's quite telling to me that someone would stress a level of 'care' over what happened to those First Nations people while using a term that many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples would consider a slur. To do that level of research into a family Sam could possibly be related to, and then to weaponise a community while calling that community something they'd find derogatory just makes it beyond obvious what the intentions behind it are. It would take two minutes to look up any of the many, many guides that exist about this, but those communities aren't who they actually care about. They're just grist for the mill.

[elisedonut]

got yelled at by a customer today because i *checks notes* followed the rules??

[comradecowplant]

"The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace. It failed." I mean, I don't think it's fair to say the entire mission of long-term peace & diplomacy failed just because one greedy power-hungry shirtbird invited the fox into the henhouse & set off the series of events leading to shadow war. sounds like someone needs a lil *buttrock guitar riff* faith of the heart!

[recurring-polynya]

*raises hand slowly* major fan, love your work! I actually only recently discovered your Bleach works in the last few years and I think I've reread all of them at least 3 times. But after reading your "The Greatest Family in Soul Society" series, I've been wanting to ask: How do you think they reacted/handled the aftermath of events in the Bleach Special One-Shot? Specifically Ichika, who possibly for the first time witnessed one of her parents in legitimate danger?

But anyway, CONGRATS ON 1 MIL!!! YOU DESERVE IT! :)

Thank you very much!! 💕

So for starters, if the Hell Arc every actually becomes a thing, I strongly suspect that this will be get addressed on-screen. Kubo clearly intended both Ichika and Kazui to have prominent (although probably not protagonist-level) roles. If this happens, Rukia and Renji will probably either handle this in some terrible way that causes Ichika to feel like she has to go against them and redeem herself or they'll get, like, trapped in Hell or something and she and Kazui will have to go rescue them. It is incredibly rare to see good relationships between parents and their children portrayed in fiction, and my expectations are on the floor for this one.

I talked to my husband about this for a long time this morning because I couldn't think of a single example of a good parent-child relationship in media where both characters have roughly equal narrative weight, and he couldn't either. Usually, the choices are a) parents dead or out of the picture, b) parents are awful and selfish and learn the error of their ways, or b2) generational trauma, which is the same, but parents bad behavior is excused because their parents did it to them. There is also c) stoic parent with lifelong duty raises stoic child to fulfill the same duty, which is the best of the lot, but it's still not great. It's also not really Renruki's style, especially because they've got Byakuya right there as an example of what being raised like this does to a person. 

Maybe Kubo will come up with something interesting, though! I would love to see it if he did!

With all that out of the way, I'll lay out how I think it should go, or how it would go if I were writing it, I guess.

For starters, we are still in a shounen anime. Bleach plays the "young person witnesses an act of violence and is saved" card constantly. As anime goes, I think Bleach actually does a fairly decent job of acknowledging the trauma that goes along with this, but it's also usually deployed as a thing that spurs the "witness" character to want to get stronger. Furthermore, the witness character usually has no sort of support system and receives no comfort after the fact--Kensei saves child-Shuuhei and then calls him a wuss before peacing-out. I doubt Shin'ou had any sort of trauma support group for Renji, Momo, Izuru and Shuuhei after their disaster fieldtrip --in all likelihood, the attitude was more like "wow, you got to see Captain Aizen in action, how lucky for you!" Even in the aftermath of the scene where Renji rescues Jinta and Ururu, Jinta is shown sitting by himself rather than seeking comfort from either of his "parents" (who, granted, are focused on healing Ururu).  That one has an added bonus ofJinta-has-always-treated-Renji-extremely-disrespectfully and then Renji saves him and gets gored pretty gruesomely.

In contrast, Rukia and Renji have both been on the "witnessed the trauma" side of this before, and never had adult figures in their life to help them process anything. They lost and buried three friends before they even went to shinigami school. I think they know how much that sucked and how much damage it did to them psychologically and would be pretty sensitive to what Ichika is feeling. It's actually kind of funny because if they hadn't gone through a lot of trauma together, they might just be stoic about it and think that maybe their own kid should just suck it up, but they were definitely able to see how much it affected the other one. Like, part of the reason they even had a kid was to try to make up for the shitty childhood the other one had to go through.

Rukia and Renji probably run a pretty weird household because on one hand, they spent their own childhood taking care of themselves and making their own decisions and living with the consequences. They did a lot of actual crime, like a lot. Trying to tell their kid what to do would feel like a weird overreach to them. On the other hand, they're soldiers, so they are used a formal discipline system where sometimes you get punished because that's how you learn and make up for your mistakes. Overall, though, I think they respect Ichika as a person they are trying to guide to adulthood, much the way you guide a green recruit into becoming a strong officer. Yeah, she shouldn't have snuck along on a mission for lieutenants, and now she knows why. They're probably still going to yell at her and make her sweep the yard or something, but that's she's their kid, and they know that waiving the punishment would make her feel even worse.

Also, while this may be the first time Ichika has witnessed her dad getting stabbed (and it may not be), it's not like this idea is new to her. I'm sure Rukia and Renji have come home with injuries before, or not come home, and she had to go visit them at the Coordinated Relief Station, or possibly had even go stay with Uncle B for a while. (Uncle B, whose own father actually did die in the line of duty and I've read at least one fanfiction where he was there). A thing I like about Rukia and Renji as characters is that they respect each other's decisions about what danger they are willing to walk into. If they err, it's generally on the side of not stopping each other enough, and I think that is both very stupid and very charming of them. It speaks to the overinflated confidence they have in each other, and also I am tired to death of overprotectiveness being spun as romantic, when 90% of the time it's just patronizing or selfish.

I guess to sum up, I'd say I would like to see Ichika come out of this with more respect for the gravity of her parents' job (vs. the 'dad and Ikkaku went to have fun without me no faaaaaiiirrr' attitude she started the one-shot with). It is interesting that she was able to see the Hell-guys when the lieutenants weren't able to. I hope that isn't something that just gets dismissed (and if nothing else, I think this is a case where Kyouraku as Head-Captain would be like "no I want to hear this" where Yamamoto would have been like "I don't listen to children!") I would prefer to see her get included in the action intentionally, where she's nervous about it, but trying to put up a front of bravado (both because she doesn't want anyone to know how much it scared her seeing her dad get stabbed trying to protect her and also because this is peak Young-Rukia-and-Renji behavior). Seeing what her parents are like on the job, realizing they're both extremely cool but also huge doofuses, and slowly gaining real confidence in herself because they show confidence in her would be a pretty refreshing story, imo.

[murdockdevil-newblog]

OC HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE 2024

Day Five: Social Media AU

Within their canon, what would your ocs Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Tumblr, Snapchat, and/or YouTube look like?

⏱️MARTINA ROSCOE | MARVEL OC ⏱️

like in her marvel verse, reese probably talked her into getting instagram just for the memes and videos. and she got hooked lol. she does not do stories though. so those are blank.

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TAGLIST: @hauntedconfession @edricwrites @blissfulalchemist @gothamrains @fayelistic ♥️ + YOU if you want to be added⚔️

[shewantsitall]

I would do crime to read the very specific Ted Lasso fic that has a vague outline in my brain and I can’t find anything like it but I don’t want to write it this is my curse to bear

[mortalscience]

[akkivee]

despite not quite sharing the same pink-gold-dark palette that otome and ichijiku’s speakers have, i think it’s kiiiiinda crazy kuukou and jyushi’s speakers match theirs in style better than nemu’s lol

[biitchcakes]

what if for my Fallout verse, I just create a vault that's basically Wundagore. . .

like - the High Evolutionary as an overseer, Jonathan and Miriam Drew work as his scientists, the purpose of the vault is to create The New Men: animal-human hybrids capable of withstanding the high radiation of the Wasteland. The handful of residents are all scientists, Jonathan and Miriam being one of the few couples.

Once Jessica is born in December 2078, Jonathan makes her an unwillingly participant in the vault's research and experiments -- under the instruction of their overseer. Blasted with high, yet controlled, doses of radiation. Injected with the DNA of spiders previously experimented on - also already exposed to radiation.

At the age of 10, little Jessica is put into stasis. Body left to marinate for decades, fester in the research pumping through it.

Initially, she's only meant to be on ice for 30 years. Instead, it's just a little under 200 -- emerging from stasis in the year 2273, at the age of 17.

Not concerning myself with her perks rn (though I will get to it at some point!), except for Rad Resistance and Black Widow. Energy weapon / laser pistol.. dual wield? names them Venom Blasters.

[deus-ex-mona]

cutest gamer in the world…

[killbotic]

“ I could help you find the source of the electrical disturbance much faster. ”     a smaller, cuter version of ruby strolls onto his screen uninvited and already looking somewhat critical. fingers taps the screen that separates them, bringing up a construction map. the dramatic swish of her fingers opens up an exact hall and floor of a building not far from their current location.     “ this electrical box is still operational, and is drawing unneeded power from your energy cells. ”     pulling a comically large red pen from the negative space below, she circles the address and the floor number.     “ I can get there pretty quick … if you give me access to the city grid, that is. ”     ah, her true motive is revealed and with it, her true form occupies the screen.

it’s not that she wants to do anything destructive, ruby just wants to reach through the roots of this civilization and absorb as much data as she can. it’s similar to living in a house with one locked door — she wants to see what’s behind it … and why he’s so insistent on keeping her out.     “ come on, adam, pretty please? pretty please with a cherry on top? you wouldn’t want to make a pretty girl cry, would you? ” / @nyt1ba let her in.

[thats-a-lot-of-cortisol]

My mom just sent a message to the family group chat suggesting that my siblings download the 'For the Strength of Youth' magazine on their Gospel Library app and talked about how much the youth magazines helped her testimony growing up and like, cool. Fine. Don't know why the 'sending random spiritual thoughts in the gc' thing started out of nowhere when it hadn't been a thing for a decade but this is just another one of those, and you're ofc allowed to talk about things that are significant in your life.

I don't think sending the 'What I Did When Someone Close to Me Challenged My Faith' article right afterwards was strictly necessary though 🙃