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[matenrou-fan]

Hi, could I request Jakurai, Jyuto and Hifumi with a reader that can see the future?

Jakurai, Jyuto and Hifumi with a NB! s/o that can see the future

NBreader;; just wholesome stuff;;

-He's both interested and worried.

-So, you can see the future? How did you do this? How long have you had this ability? Can you show him?

-Jakurai is curious, is it your natural skill or maybe it was something that you somehow received from Chuoku. Who knows, if they were able to create hypnomic, who would stop them from experimenting on people?

-So he would listen really carefully, even if you get this power yourself or were born with that.

-As doc AND your boyfriend he also worried if this ability affects your health. If it takes too much strength from you he would try to make sure that you don 't use it that much.

-"Mm? You used your ability today because Dice wanted to know what lottery ticket would win?" - Jakurai looks at you with a slightly surprised face, and then a soft smile irradiates his face. - "Hehe, trying to help others with your powers? It's so sweet of you, darling, but remember to not push yourself too hard, okay?"

-Of course he would ask you to see his future too, but only a little bit. He thinks there's something interesting about the mystery of the future, Jakurai is sure that people need to explore everything themselves, but there's one thing that he wants to know.

-"Sorry for bothering you, s/o.. I do hope you feel good right now and can help me with my little request, if you wish.." - his voice is soft and quiet as always but you can hear some slight nervousness in it.

-It's about his son, Yotsutsuji. All that your boyfriend wants to know is if his son will be able to wake up from a coma, as thoughts about him and his well-being chasing Jakurai every day.

-He both wants and doesn't want to know about this, as he is afraid the truth would be far away from his expectations. But he also wished that you would give him a little hope with your answer..

-That's something surprising for him.

-But Jyuto is more chill about it, and mostly used your mysterious skill as another reason to flirt.

-"So you can see the future? Hoho, that's why you dressed so cute today?" - he got closer, touching your chin so you would look at him - "You knew you would meet me and decided to make an impression on my heart?"

-He's quite curious but not really worried. Well, if you feel good and it's not hurt you during the process then why not? Maybe some time ago, before the H era, Jyuto was skeptical about all paranormal things but he literally can beat people with rap now, so there's nothing surprising that someone can read the future.

-I don't think he would ask you to use your ability to help him with work or something, he doesn't want you to feel that he dates you only for the profit, after all.

-And also he would make sure no other people would take advantage of your strength. Even if you're actually calm and collected, for him you're too precious and naive, it's so easy to lure you into some troubles and bad stories..! So Jyuto would check all the strange humans around you.

-But of course he also wants to know if he would succeed in his goals to get more promotions in work and also eradicate the drug traffic.

-This is probably the only thing he would ask you about, as it's one of the few topics about which he's never joking.

-Also;; If you can see a future can you also change it? So if something in his future plans actually gets bad, he will just change his tactics to not get into this situation you warn him about.

-"When we just met I thought I would be your guardian.." - he smirks, patting your head. - "But it seems that you are my little guardian angel, mm?"

-Ahhh, he's so excited…!

-There's so so so many things he wants to ask about..! Hifumi is just SO curious about your ability now!!

-What would happen with Matenrou? Will they be able to win a division rap battle again? Will Doppo always be so negative about his work?? And the most important question for him.. Will he be able to win in this fight against his fear..?

-"Ahhh no, no, no, don't say it!!" - he whines and giggles, jumping around you - "It's so interesting, but I don't even know if I actually want to hear it.. Ahhh, how hard..!"

-Isn't this more funny to have some surprise from fate? That's how Hifumi thinks.

-He loves to explore everything himself, as he always has a positive mindset and is waiting for some interesting gifts from the future, even from every next day.

-Well but sometimes he still can't control himself and starts clinging to you with a bunch of questions, absolutely random and small questions about the near future.

-He just can't help but get so curious about your skill and how you can improve it. Hey, what if you will also learn how to rap?? Maybe you will get a rap ability that is related to your clairvoyance??

-"I can be your teacher, your guide in this long path of hard but pleasing work with your mind and imagination..! Let me be your service and help you reach the highest point of your capability..!"

-You notice that Hifumi was in his gray suit already, going to a meeting with Matenrou as he said this pompous speech. He looks at you with a charming smile and takes your hand - "I'm sure Sensei and Doppo-kun wouldn't mind your presence so why don't you get a sneak peek at our training?"

[holykillercake]

A Day In The Sun

pairing: MARCO x fem!Reader

word count: 3.3k

summary: You left the Moby Dick to go on a solo mission, from which you would never return. Two years later, when hope seemed to have drained out, a loud rubber boy appears, leading the way back to your family.

highlight: ¨I guess he´s not coming, so... tell Marco I will always love him.¨

warnings: angst, MARINEFORD spoilers 

notes: This was an anon request for a ¨ [as angsty as possible] Marco with a fem!S/O who left the Moby Dick a year or two before and then they ran into each other by accident somewhere¨. I really hope you like it!♡  I feel like I chose an easy path with Marineford, so maybe I´ll try this one more time with a non-canon plot. The angst, tho, the angst! 

𝕷𝖊𝖆𝖛𝖊 𝖈𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖘, 𝖗𝖊𝖖𝖚𝖊𝖘𝖙𝖘, 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝖑𝖔𝖛𝖊!

                                                                  ☩

You watched the guard check the chains for the fourth time with an amused grin on your face. He pulled it, hit it, and almost wet his pants with the effort. 

The funnier part was that he did all of that while trying to stay as far from you as possible. 

¨So, am I getting company?¨ no answer, just a glance and a drop of sweat falling down his temple ¨Will you tell me who´s my guy?¨ he ignored you again and left.

A few minutes later, you heard the lame sound of chains echoing throughout the cold walls. You had a minute to process the silent and compliant steps before the rest of the prisoners started to yell wildly. 

You observed the shadow of your new cellmate projected onto the filthy floor. Then his dirty feet when he walked by you, giving yourself the trouble to look up only when he took a seat while the guards locked him. 

You let out a disdained scoff and waited for ¨privacy¨ to talk to him. He, on the other hand, never bothered to look up. 

¨I would offer you something to eat, but as you can see, my hands are tied.¨ you shook the chains, hoping that the distasteful joke would make the man lift his head.

But he showed no reaction to your words. Instead, he remained leaned forward with his head down.

 You snorted heavily.

¨You know, I was kind of hoping to be the only Whitebeard pirate around here.¨

 That was more than enough to make him face you. His narrowed eyes watched you for a moment, trying to recollect your features in his memory. 

¨Oh, come on. Did I really change that much?¨

¨Y/N!¨ he shouted and tried to fight the strains.

¨How are you doing, Flame boy?¨

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The heart beating inside of your chest felt like it was going to jump out of your mouth at any moment. Although you were sweating, all of the ice around you made you wish you had more clothes.

 How could you be cold and sweating at the same time?

Everyone had their eyes on you. Well, not only you. But the entire troupe that fell from the sky altogether with a marine warship, the weirdest circus freaks brought directly from Impel Down. Your home for the last two years. 

As soon as Luffy stepped on the ice field and started to attack marines in order to reach Ace, the real beginning of the battle began to seethe in Marineford. 

You joined your fugitives comrades and jumped out the ship, but differently than the straw hat boy, you ran to the opposite side. Dodging every marine in your way to get to the Moby Dick. 

Whitebeard looked at you like a proud father and let out his legendary ´Gurarara´ laugh while the Commanders stared at you as if you were a ghost.

Not that you didn´t actually look like one. Even for them, who always considered you to be one of the prettiest women they have ever seen, you looked a little bit mistreated.

Your hair was dirty and messy, your always radiant skin was dry, and the bags under your eyes were deeper and darker. 

If it wasn´t for the look in your eyes, they wouldn´t have recognized you. 

The spark and shine remained stoic. The will to live and to fight remained standing strong, even though the rest of you seemed to be brumbling apart.

Marco stood on Pops' right side, still showing the same anger in his eyes as when you said that you were leaving the Whitebeard Pirates. But you couldn´t focus on that. You were too busy trying not to get killed to care about his attitude.

And more importantly, you were so happy. 

Every night for two years, you prayed for the chance to see them again, to brew saké among your family, and laugh in their companies. It was so close you could feel it in your fingertips. 

¨Daughter, you don´t look healthy.¨ Whitebeard said when you reached the ship.

¨I guess feeding me wasn´t on the top of their list of priorities, Pops.¨ you laughed.

¨And I suppose you met the troublemaker over there.¨

¨We were cellmates, can you believe it?¨ Marco peeped into your conversation, trying to look like he didn´t care ¨He was updating me on the current Whitebeard Pirate´s activities. Said you got yourself some pretty cute nurses.¨ 

You elbowed him slightly in the leg, and the Emperor gave his staccato laugh you missed so much.

¨Daughter,¨ he spoke more serious ¨I know it´s a lot to ask of you right now... but we need to get that boy outta here. You´re in?¨ 

¨Have you forgotten who I am, Pops?¨ He smirked, already knowing your answer ¨ Of course, I´m in.¨

You looked each commander in the eyes, in a silent agreement that when this madness was over, you would answer all their questions. When they looked back at you, nothing had changed. For them, you were still the same Y/N from years ago. 

                                                             ☩

¨I can´t believe Pops wants to keep that brat.¨

¨We should have him thrown off of the ship.¨

¨You should cook him for dinner, Thatch!¨

You couldn´t hold the smile bending on your lips when you heard the Division Commanders talking about the rookie Pops had brought onboard.

The kid had been trying to kill him for a while now. Even Jinbe had to step in and engaged in a 5-day battle with the young pirate. That, for some reason, got Whitebeard´s interest. 

You felt a warm hand embrace yours and turned to see the First Division Commander take his seat on your side. You smiled when he leaned over and gave you a habitual kiss, the kind you share when you wake up in the morning or when you meet up in the halls.

But your heart ached behind your smile. Because, although it was something usual for him, something that he would do thousands of times for the rest of his life, for you, it could be the last.

You were about the destroy everything you two had and break his heart. 

But you were out of options. You knew that, and so did Whitebeard. 

When the first part of the meeting ended, and Pops had explained his motives to want to keep the hot-headed boy, someone questioned him about the second topic they needed to discuss. The one he kept as a secret even from Marco. 

Your heart pounded faster, and your face heated. Whitebeard frowned and gestured something, giving you the word. The weight of the sixteen commanders staring at you made you shrug and hold Marco´s hand tighter. 

¨Y/N?¨ he called you with a tone of concern in his voice. 

You just avoided making eye contact with him. You couldn´t face him.

¨I, uh...¨ you raised your head and stuffed your chest. You had to be cold. ¨I-I am going on a solo mission... and I am not coming back.¨ 

The room went totally silent for a few seconds before they began to bombard you with questions and inquires, to which you could not respond. Marco, on the other hand, remained speechless, waiting for you to tell him that it was a joke.

¨I, uh...¨ someone interrupted you ¨I am leaving tomorro-¨ another Commander cut you ¨... tomorrow morni-¨

The blast of Whitebeard´s cleaving blade hitting the floor made all of you shut. 

¨The decision was made!¨ his thunderous voice cracked the wooden walls ¨And blessed.¨

Marco shot up, his chair met the floor in a loud thud. ¨Pops, you approved this?!¨

¨Son...¨ the First Division Commander scowled and started to walk out of the room. 

You reached him and held his hand to stop him. He turned, staring at you furiously.

¨Marco...¨

¨Why, yoi?!¨ 

You shook your head, not being able to tell him what he wanted to know. Tears began to fill your eyes when he pulled his hand from your grip and left the room. 

A single tear made its way down your cheek and you quickly wiped it. You couldn't turn back on your decision. Even if that made the love of your life hate you. 

¨Y/N...¨ Thatch touched your arm softly ¨Are you in trouble?¨

You attempted to give him your best warm smile.

¨When am I not in trouble, Thatchy?¨

The next day when you were saying goodbye to your family, everyone was there, even the Fire-Fist boy.

 Everyone but the person you needed the most to be there. 

Every Commander hugged you tight, saying that if you ever decided to come back, your chair among them would be waiting. 

You tried to hold your tears in the beginning, but that became an impossible task. 

Pops held you close to his chest and suffered with you, for he knew the sacrifice you were about to make. And even a man like him couldn´t avoid it. 

His voice roared through the four Blues when he declared, loud and clear, that you were his daughter and would be forever a Whitebeard pirate. 

¨I love you guys. I love you, Pops.¨ you looked around, searching for your boyfriend ¨I guess he´s not coming, so... tell Marco I will always love him.¨ 

When you stood alone on the seashore, you waited. You waited until the Moby Dick disappeared on the horizon. You waited for Marco to have a change of heart and fly over to you, saying that he loved you and he would miss you.

But he never did.

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What happened was that you were a little rusted.

You got tired faster and weren´t as agile as before. So you preferred to keep yourself out of the line of fire, where you would disturb more than help. Your job was to back up the Division Commanders and make sure they would keep a clean path for Ace´s brother. 

You wanted to be thrilled with the adrenaline of a battlefield, but you were scared. Every time Whitebeard stopped and put his hand on his chest, you feared. 

That was the reason why you turned yourself in in the past, the reason why you didn´t ask him to fight for you.

He saved as much energy as possible for this war, but you knew he had started to die the minute he disconnected himself from the life support. 

¨What are you up to, old man?¨ you mumbled to yourself.

Before you could do or think anything else, a sharp scream took your attention. Kizaru hit Marco with laser beams, and you noticed another Marine Officer approaching him with sea stone cuffs. 

You grabbed a gun and ran towards them. Even rusted, you were incredibly fast. With an impulse, you jumped and grabbed Marco by the collar, shooting the marine with Haki-imbued bullets. 

But again, too late.

Perhaps years ago, you would have been able to prevent this from happening, but at that moment, all you could do was get him out of Kizaru's sight, causing his laser to hit you in the thigh. 

You turned in the air, changing your position so that he fell on you when you landed. In that battle, his life was worth more than yours, and it was your duty to offer support to the Commanders - your Commander, especially. His body had already gone through a lot of stress, and the sea stone handcuffs prevented him from using his powers.

You tried to muffle the scream when you hit the floor. 

¨You ok?¨ you asked.

With so much of a glimpse he put himself to his feet, ignoring you and the blood he spilled before running back to the mess. 

From that moment on, the situation got really bad, really quick. You went berserk, killing the marines like a freaking calamity. Your thigh was gushing blood, deep gashes covered your body, and your heart was torn apart. 

Because despite all of your effort and sacrifice, the mission failed.

You didn´t see what had happened, but the person you were supposed to rescue, Ace, the Second Division Commander, was dead on the floor. And his brother was having a breakdown.

Ace had a peaceful smile on his face, and you thought that it would have been nice to get to know him better.  From the days you shared a cell, you understood why Pops wanted to keep him. He was a pretty nice guy, after all. 

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¨And how did you end up here?¨ Ace asked you.

¨Remember the solo mission thing?¨ he nodded, and you gave him a ´ta-dah face. 

Suddenly, he got pale.

¨This... This is where you´ve been for the past two years? Why?¨

You hummed, pondering over your words.

¨I know things about the World Government that I shouldn´t. And when they found out, I got an ultimatum... I could turn myself in, or they would have thrown a buster call on us.¨

¨Y-You sacrificed yourself? But you know Pops could have handled it, right? We all could have handled it.¨

You smiled at him, deciding not to tell him the ugly truth. 

The World Government knew about your knowledge regarding the Ancient Weapons and the National Treasure of Marie Geoise for a long time, but they waited to get to you. They waited until they had the perfect chance, and Whitebeard´s illness was just it. 

At the beginning of his illness, he didn´t have the proper medication and life support devices, so he was vulnerable. Still stronger than all of you together but too vulnerable to deal with the Admirals and the CP-Zero.

When you took Whitebeard´s hand and accepted to be his daughter, you swore your loyalty to him, you vowed to protect your family even if it cost your life.

¨Yeah, I guess this one is on me.¨

After listening to everything he had told you, you knew Whitebeard would use the public execution to rescue him. He would not let anyone take another child of his. 

That was the reason why you couldn´t tell Ace about your father´s state - not that he didn´t know, but he could be oblivious. And he would be crushed with guilt if anything happened to your old man. 

¨Hum, but tell me, kid. Any chance the phoenix had already forgiven me?¨

You saw your answer in his awkward look. 

¨He didn´t know about this as well, right?¨ Ace opened and closed his mouth a couple of times ¨He thought you had bailed on us when Pops needed you the most and... he still likes you, Y/N. He´s just hurt.¨

¨Yeah... okay...¨ you whispered.

¨If you´re right... and Pops comes to rescue me, I´ll let everyone know you´re here. And we´ll come to rescue you.¨

Your nose burned with the feeling of crying. Even with his powers restrained by the sea stone cuffs, he was so warm. 

¨Well... I could use another day in the sun.¨ and you sobbed. 

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But there was no sun. 

There was no sun, and your father, together with Ace and thousands of your allies, were gone. 

And the dream of brewing saké with your family, you did reach it, but couldn´t hold it.

When he opened a crater on the ground, separating him from his crew, you stood beside him, begging him to reconsider 

¨Pops, don´t do this...¨ you whined, choking on your own tears ¨I-I just came back...¨

He looked at you in the eyes and wiped your tears.

¨My daughter...  I´m sorry I failed you.¨ You shook your head and held his huge hand ¨I know you´ll take care of the boys. Your room and your seat remain untouched.¨

You couldn´t say anything else before he threw you on the other side. 

Now the Red Hair Pirates were collecting Whitebeard and Ace´s bodies to assist with the funeral. Jozu scooped you in his amrs and carried you back to the ship as you cried. He walked you to your old room and put you in the bed, leaving without a word. 

Inside of your cabin, you raged, not wanting to accept the fate of things. You punched the walls until your knuckles bled, you cried until your throat hurt and wished to go back in time, when you were in your dirty cell, and Whitebeard was still alive. 

When do you think people die?

When they are shot through the heart by the bullet of a pistol?

When they are ravaged by an incurable disease?

No. It’s when… they are forgotten.

When the sun began to fall, you got up from the cold woodboard and reached the door, making your way to the deck. 

The Commanders and the rest of the crew were scattered around, mourning their losses. The family was falling apart, and this time Pops wasn´t there to glue the pieces back together.

I know you´ll take care of the boys.

His words echoed in your head. 

You watched the hundreds of men injured, bleeding through their wounds and passing out unattended. Where was the man in charge? 

A sudden anger consumed you, and you rushed to his room, kicking the door open. 

¨What the fuck do you think you´re doing?!¨ he didn´t answer, nor did he move. 

Marco looked miserable, sitting on the mattress, leaning forward with both hands on his head. 

You had a lot of emotions going on in your head.

You were happy because you got to hear Whitebeard call you daughter one last time, but you didn´t know how to live in a world where he didn´t. 

You were happy to be with your family again, but it killed you to see them crumbled like that. 

¨Not now.¨ he spoke when you approached with calmer steps. His voice was hushed and broken. 

¨Marco, you have to-¨

¨Get out, yoi.¨

¨No. You are the one getting out and help-¨

¨GET THE HELL OUT, Y/N!¨ he roared.

¨NO!¨ you roared back and pulled him by his collar, facing his teary and red eyes. ¨YOU TURNED YOUR BACK TO ME ONCE, BUT I WON´T LET YOU DO THE SAME TO THEM!¨

You let go of him and shed heavy tears.

¨You have thirteen Commanders and hundreds of men out there who need you. So suck it and step in.¨ you said with gritted teeth. 

¨They can handle themselves, yoi.¨ he grumbled.

You scowled

¨Is this how far your loyalty goes?¨ he clenched his fists ¨Pops offered you a seat on his side, and you took it! NOW USE IT!¨

¨SHUT UP! YOU DON´T KNOW THE THINGS WE´VE BEEN THROUGH, Y/N!¨ he marched towards you, stopping a few inches from you and yelling in your face ¨You have no idea the things we´ve lost, the things I have lost!¨

¨I do know!¨ you pushed his chest ¨I have always known, but you didn´t! You didn´t because you´re Marco, the Phoenix! And you´re great! Great rare, mythical Devil Fruit. Great First Division Commander. YOU. ARE. GREAT.¨ you sobbed, helpless ¨But being great didn´t make you confident, it made you spoiled. It made you forget what loss feels like. And now you lost. We lost.¨

He let himself fall on the mattress again, head down, tears dropping on his ragged pants. 

¨So you don´t get to drown yourself in commiseration, Marco. You don´t get to sit here, feeling sorry for yourself.¨ your voice came out weak ¨They need you. I... need you.¨

You watched him for a couple of minutes but seeing that he wouldn´t move, you sighed, ready to leave the room and do his job. 

¨I hated you, yoi.¨ Marco said before you could leave..

¨I know.¨ you whispered and leaned against the door. 

More tears fell. 

Two years in Impel Down were not enough to break you, but that... that was a difficult hit to take. 

¨All these years, I hated you every single day.¨ 

¨I know.¨ 

¨Even when I thought you were dead, I hated you.¨

¨I know.¨

¨And when Pops told me what you did for him... I hated myself.¨ 

The both of you broke down. 

¨I know, Marco.¨

You turned slowly and walked to him, sitting by his side, laying your head on his shoulder. 

His shaky hands held yours, and you weakened, feeling the touch you missed so much.

¨I can´t do this, Y/N.¨

¨Yes, you can.¨ you touched his face gently, so he would look at you ¨We can.¨

You slipped to the floor, holding each other in your arms, hoping that the tears would wash away the pain, the guilt, and regret. 

[steampoweredshow]

Dr. Elanor Bell is a senior research scientist at the Australian Antarctic Division where her role combines a passion for conservation and the polar marine environment, with her experience of coordinating multi-national research and translating the outcomes to policy. Throughout her career, Elanor has wintered twice in Antarctica studying some of the smallest organisms on the planet (microbes) and now works on the largest creatures on the planet, Antarctic blue whales.

In our conversation, we talk about microbial ecology, seahorses, whales, and working in Antarctica.

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[00:00:45] Elanor's interest in environmental biology. [00:00:57] Wanting to make a difference. [00:01:22] Combining her love of marine biology and plants. [00:02:48] Field work in Scottish woodlands. [00:03:28] Envisioning a future in the tropics. [00:04:11] Discovering the beauty in microbiology. [00:05:46] Discovering polar ecology. [00:06:07] Unexpectedly ending up doing a PhD in Antarctica. [00:07:50] Being far from home in an isolated environment. [00:09:00] Preparing to go to Antarctica. [00:09:07] Intensive scientific training. [00:09:37] Intensive field training for working and living in Antarctica. [00:11:00] Elanor's outdoor passion and the Duke of Edinburgh's Award providing foundations. [00:11:33] The psychological and interpersonal training. [00:12:58] Elanor's experience on her first deployment. [00:13:54] The cold and being out on the ice. [00:15:30] From lakes in Antarctica to seahorses. [00:16:41] Coming time to write up the PhD. [00:17:20] The struggles of writing a PhD. [00:19:03] Needing a literal sea-change from pure science. [00:19:31] Looking for conservation work, something more applied. [00:19:57] An opportunity to work with seahorses in Canada. [00:22:07] Taking chances with new experiences. [00:22:57] Project Seahorse. [00:23:31] The various aspects of conservation work. [00:24:39] Conservation is more than just the message, it's giving back to the communities involved. [00:26:07] The purposes seahorses have been fished for. [00:28:03] Returning to microbial ecology. [00:29:02] Taking a chance on a postdoc in Germany on extremophiles. [00:32:00] The opportunities and flexibility to explore different work. [00:32:50] On the scope and flexibility of postdoctorate work. [00:34:48] Being able to design a marine conservation course incorporating Elanor's past work experiences. [00:35:36] The desire to pursue more applied sciences. [00:35:53] Needing to solve the two-body problem. [00:36:27] Relocating the family to Australia. [00:36:36] Submitting a manuscript as she went into labour. (!!) [00:38:26] Returning to the Australian Antarctic Division to study whales. [00:38:49] Wanting to do research that would contribute to conservation. [00:39:27] Writing job applications with a baby sleeping on you in the middle of the night. [00:41:08] Balancing field work with young children. [00:41:45] The struggles of breastfeeding while travelling for work. [00:42:51] Being able to see the science applied at a policy level. [00:43:09] Timing the longer journeys and being selective about the work related travel. [00:43:28] Combining eco-tourism outreach with research. [00:45:02] Communication with Antarctica is so much easier than it used to be. [00:45:56] Researching minimally invasive techniques for studying marine mammals. [00:46:53] Using sonobuoys for scientific research purposes. [00:48:22] Other methods and technologies used to collect data about whales. [00:49:28] Learning about the populations and population health through biopsies. [00:50:52] Getting a picture of Antarctic Blue Whale population health. [00:52:09] The project is a multidisciplinary study: The whale/krill relationship. [00:53:15] Socialisation and feeding behaviours. [00:54:38] The impact of the krill industry on whales. [00:55:19] How all that ties back in to conservation. [00:56:16] Everything you wanted to know about whale toileting behaviours but were afraid to ask. [00:57:21] The sampling process and analysing the impact of fertilisation. [00:59:27] The cycle of productivity. [01:00:21] The impact of smaller whale populations on local productivity. [01:01:11] Bonus Question 1: What hobby or interest do you have that is most unrelated to your field of work? [01:02:37] Bonus Question 2: Which childhood book holds the strongest memories for you? [01:02:40] Elanor's father reading to them at bedtime. [01:03:07] Elanor's relationship with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. [01:05:00] Bonus Question 3: What advice you would give someone who wants to do what you do? Or what advice should they ignore? [01:05:09] You don't need a plan, but you should enjoy what you do. [01:05:27] Gone is the ivory tower. [01:06:31] Find a mentor and a support network. [01:07:41] Finding mentors. [01:09:52] Finding out more about Elanor's work.

Topics/Resources/People Mentioned

St Andrew's University

Gatty Marine Laboratory (wiki)

Daintree Forest

Diatom (wiki)

British Antarctic Survey

La Trobe University

Australian Antarctic Division

Duke of Edinburgh's Award

Nottingham University

Project Seahorse

McGill University

The Shedd Aquarium, Chicago

Extremophile (wiki)

Heliozoa (wiki)

Potsdam University

Two-Body Problem (wiki)

Life at Extremes by Elanor Bell (BookDepository)

International Whaling Commission (IWC)

Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein (GoodReads) (BookDepository)

The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkein (GoodReads Book 1) (BookDepository)

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[kurtty-drabbles]

Misfit au (underneath)

N/A: I´ll use this plotline that Columbina has an agenda, look, the mystery not my forte, per se, but, hey, I think I can do something better than the current Marvel events.

@djinmer4 @dannybagpipesarecalling @sailorstar9 @discordsworld @look-ma-no-hands336 @bamfoftheundead

The government of the US often select the military division of New Gotham as being one of the best places to do experiments. The president of the US does believe in this statement even more as the old president was violently murder by a gang group, it was a bit ironic, Trump supports the white nationalist, but, a rumour saying Trump was a Lizard people make the gang revolts against their leader and no one survive in the massacre, well, no one that matters.

The new president has lots of issues to resolve, but, he always has time to see what New Gotham´s military division has to offer. The Suicide Squad sounds amazing...on paper.

"That project can´t be linked to the new presidency or administration, we had our fair share of Trump´s dirty deeds to fix it," the president said and Amanda Weller assured him everything is under control. The program is cancelled and everything was dealt with accordingly.

As the president is out of the facility Amanda´s mask crumple and she asks one of her generals about the current situation. "They are under Ra Al Ghoul´s protection and if we go against him...we´ll lose many things"

"They won´t be quiet about what happened" Amanda replied bemused. "And news about them?"

"No, they are well behaved for now"

Meanwhile, New Gotham is facing a typical night, heroes and villains playing along, however, Columbina is not among the groups. She´s in a different place, Arkham prison to be exact.

"Halt," the brave keeper said to Columbina as she´s going to the file´s archive. The woman didn´t stop her movements and many bullets are shot at her without any success.

One kick on his stomach and the guy was out. "Weak, I had to be taken down by more than one kick" she replied. And walks to the files room. All the files about Suicide Squad are there, of course, why wouldn´t be? but they are a highlight in black so no one can read what´s written.

Columbina bites her lips again and a loud tsk escape her lips. "Of course, I should have expected this"

And she leaves Arkham with the file in her hands, in front of the entrance/exit of Arkham was the general that hunt her down like an animal. The man has a special gun aimed to Columbina´s head.

"I should know you would come back here, freak, you can´t resist going back to the place where you were born" the general replied.

" That´s so edgy, did you steal that from a Hot Topic?" Columbina asked and the general shot at her, instead of a bullet, it was electroshock. It should have to make Columbina pass out, but, that´s not what happened. "and now are you recycling plot? Well, there´s too many of you so...makes sense"

More shock is sent to her body, but, Columbina is completely unphased by this. "Oh, shock does not shock me anymore" And she phases his heart out, no remorse for this man, not for this kill.

_________________ On the next day, the news is covering the death of the said general. Kitty is looking at the image of the dead body and then back to Kurt Ryder. "It was you" Kitty nods "why?"

"He was one of the heads of Suicide Squad, he ...make me endorse so much pain just to be the fitting killing machine...seems comic his perfect killing machine end him" and now she asked seriously this time. "Now, is not so funny date Columbina or Kitty Pryde, do you want to end this? Or do you want to be dramatic and call the police?"

"Now, you´re being dramatic here. Katzchen, I won´t end things because of that, I want to understand what´s going on...You don´t have to do this alone"

"I´m too broken, Kurt, " she said with watery eyes.

"Each piece of you is unique, Kitty, wanna know why? Because it makes you."

"Sappy" she jokes drying her tears. Kurt holds her hands and listens patiently as Kitty tells all about Suicide Squad, how everything happened and what happened since day 1. Now, Kurt is not feeling sorry for the general.

[ninja-scenarios]

Orochimaru reacting to a pregnant S/O

this was requested by @otogakure-no-sato

I REALLY went overboard with this. Also, I put this in a modern setting. I need more Oro requests. 

It had been one of those nights. Orochimaru´d said he would come home early, so the dinner had been ready and you had been sitting at the table, waiting. But as the hours went by, the chances of him being early diminished to nearly zero. It was pointless calling him, because he was either still at work – the lab was a phone-free zone – or driving. In either cases, you weren´t mad at him. Being the head of his team brought great responsibilities and he had worked hard to be where he was now. He always worked hard.

After a while you had settled onto the couch, and turned on the TV. You turned on your favourite show, it was called “Hello Counselor” and contrary to its name, was actually a Korean comedy show. You always had to turn on the subtitles, otherwise you wouldn´t understand a thing. But today it was hard to focus on anything as it was getting overshadowed by the words you carefully spun since morning. They left you excited, happy but also scared. Before you knew it, you had picked up on your old habit and bit your nails.

The sounds of distant steps and jingling keys made a feeling of home settle in your stomach. Immediately you got up and rushed to the door, falling into the arms of your partner once he had stepped into the house.

He welcomed you with a low, warm chuckle that you felt vibrating in his chest while he pulled you close to him and kissed your hair. This was by far always the best moment of the day.

“I kept you waiting again, my love…” Orochimaru said after a few moments, his hands stroking over your back and holding you tight. You didn´t reply, instead lifting your head to look at him. Since the day you´d met him, you hadn´t stopped looking at him with this admiring gaze in your eyes.

Orochimaru leaned down and placed a longing kiss onto your lips. After you pulled apart, he got the chance to take of his coat and lean his leather shoulder bag against the wall. A glance at the TV. Your favourite show was on, that meant he had really kept you waiting. A look at the watch.

You went into the kitchen while he took off his shoes. “I´ll warm up the food for you.”

“It´s already late, my dear, let me do it.” It was his way of showing guilt. He wrapped his arms around your waist and pulled you against him before you could reach the cooker. You giggled and he kept you tight, using his other hand to stroke the hair away from your neck to place a loving kiss onto your skin.

“I want you to get a good amount of sleep. I´m the one who was late after all.” Indeed, while he needed only 4 hours of sleep (how?), you on the other side needed a minimum of seven. You turned around in his arms and faced him, smiling up at your pale-skinned boyfriend. He took your face into his hands and leaned down again to kiss you. You came to nuzzle back against his chest while he rested his chin on your head.

“That stupid trainee again… thinks he´s so smart and ends up almost destroying the whole quantity of samples…” He muttered into your hair

You giggled against his chest. “Don´t be too hard on him, Oro. He probably feels intimidated.”

It was true, almost the whole team was scared of your boyfriend. The funny thing was, you shared a workplace. While he had just been promoted, you had started working as a packaging designer. On your first day, a co-worker had given you a tour to make you familiar with the company. He had also shown you the lab, where you had inevitably bumped into your current partner. It had started with a lazy side-glance, a lot of blushing and wide smiling on your part, and Orochimaru eyeing you up curiously but a lot less conspicuously. Even two days afterwards your knees had still gotten weak.

Yet it had taken a month till you started dating. Two years after the start of your relationship, you had moved in with him into the house he had inherited from his parents. His mother had died 10 years ago and his father lived in an alms-house. The two of you visited him every now and then. Even though you worked at the same place, your relationship hadn´t stirred up a controversy since you both worked in different divisions. Fortunately, the company had given you a permanent job, allowing you to leave your designer´s company where the competition had always been really high and stressful. You could never forget Orochimaru´s proud look. After you had designed the packages, the company had asked you to also give them a new logo and freshen up their website (even though that wasn´t what you had studied, but it wasn´t hard for you). Currently, you were working on packages for their subsidiary. Also, rumour had it that the head of the company planned on giving Orochimaru the lead after his retirement.

“Go to bed, love. I´ll join you very soon.”

It really was late. With a sigh you nodded and let him kiss you goodnight. While he heated up dinner you slipped into your pyjamas and brushed your teeth. As you slipped under the covers you suddenly remembered something. The whole day you had wanted to tell him something… Now it was too late. You could already feel yourself dozing off when you head hit the pillow and only partly felt Orochimaru slipping into bed on the other side and wrapping his arm around you. Tomorrow, then.

 When the alarm rang, it was the first thought that came to your sleepy mind. Orochimaru reached over your body to turn it off and kiss your hair. He always woke up before you and let you snooze for 20 minutes longer to slowly wake up. But not today. You rubbed your eyes and sat up with a groan. A chuckle resounded from next to you.

“The last time I saw you getting up at this hour was when you wanted to watch the, what was it called, “The last airbender marathon”? “

You giggled and blindly punched into his direction, hitting his shoulder. He chuckled again and ruffled your hair. “Feeling naughty, are we?” His words made a shiver run down your spine and you internally cursed because it wasn´t Sunday and you couldn´t spend the whole day in bed with him.

You tried to get up but slumped right back down. “Oro…can you carry me?” You croaked out, leaving your head hanging low. You were definitely not a morning person.

Orochimaru cocked his head but lifted you up, nonetheless. Engulfed into his strong arms, you wanted to go right back to sleep but your nervousness prevented it.

The both of you got ready and you sat down at the table while Orochimaru made breakfast. How could you break down the news to him? Your head was almost smoking while you bit your lip, tapping your fingers onto the glass surface. How would he react? This one question was nagging at your brain the whole time.

Finally, Orochimaru sat down and put two plates with delicious looking scrambled eggs and toast on the table. You were far too nervous to take a bite so you took a huge breath and looked at him.

“I gotta tell you something, baby…” Orochimaru looked up from his breakfast, sensing that something was off immediately because you seldom called him like that. In the meantime, your eyes widened. The nickname you just used was dangerously close to the topic you wanted to talk about.

“Er…” Just to be sure, you searched for something like a bowl in case you really had to throw up from the corner of your eye. Your hands started trembling and you looked back at Orochimaru, who had fixated all his attention on you. No backing out now. Just say it. How can that be so hard?

“I´m… pregnant.”

You bit your lip, anticipating his reaction. You had talked about kids at the start of your relationship and agreed that you should wait a minimum of three years before you started planning on getting a baby. Now, your fourth anniversary had been three months ago, but because of work, nobody had started planning anything.

Orochimaru completely stilled, eyes wandering down to your belly. It looked like he was completely emotionless but you knew him. He was overwhelmed with the situation. After a few seconds he stood up and kneed next to your chair to put a hand on your stomach.

“The test said I´m three weeks pregnant. I know since yesterday…” You felt tears rolling down from the corners of your eyes. Not because Orochimaru hadn´t reacted yet, not because you were unhappy, but simply because the situation had finally sunken in. It had seemed so unreal the whole time.

“I sensed that there was something.” Orochimaru started and then looked up at you. At the sight of your tears, his eyes widened and he quickly leaned up to wipe them away. Finally, a smile grazed his lips.

“Are you happy?” You asked carefully. His smile grew and he cradled your cheek against his hand, using his thumb to stroke over it. “I am.”

“Do you… wanna keep it?” -  “Of course.”

You let out a breath you didn´t know you were holding and smiled. Orochimaru went back to stroking your belly. There was something in his gaze and you could swear you´d just seen a thin watery layer graze his extraordinary beautiful eyes. That your body was able to produce life… amazing. You would give him a child. His admiration for you was clearly visible in his eyes. No doubt he would start treating your body like it was made of porcelain.

Suddenly your hunger kicked in and you grabbed for the fork to start eating. Orochimaru was quicker though, because he stood up and snatched the plate from under your nose.

“Oro! – Why?” You whined out but he shook his head and walked back into the kitchen with determined steps.

“Don´t eat that. You need something way healthier.”

“But you´re going to be late for work.”

Orochimaru paused for a moment, then continued putting things from the fridge onto the counter. “I´ll call and say I´ll be late today. After all I don´t have an assistant for nothing.”

You gaped. In all those years, he hadn´t been late for a second. It seemed like parenthood really changed people. With a smile you went behind him for a surprise hug. “I love you.” You whispered into his back.

Orochimaru chuckled. “I love both of you.”

[atlasfield]

For save one, we needed sacriface another. The cost was high, very high. But it was needed. "Now, we travel together, whatever we want to go, we will be there".- They exclaimed in chorus. They were divided, now they are together. No more fear,  we don´t hate, we are in peace, and we are not suffering, Love on anything and for everything, not matter if the world is a hell. We make mistakes, we need solve it. And never fall on fire again. --- And with this we finish our story of this year, the topic, duality, separation, division, good and evil, how on a single moment we fall into a hell we created. So I hope you enjoyed it and now as I said on the begining you are in a good company. Have a good night.

[the-travelling-witch]

hiii! congratulations on 500 followers!!

could i pls request a romantic matchup w the tr boys? hehe

my pronouns are she/her and my mbti is infp

as for personality i’m quite bubbly and cheery! but i only show it to my close friends 😅 i’m kinda cold w people i’m not close with. i get told i look/act older than i am, probably bc i’m very motherly as i’m the eldest sister and eldest cousin 😭

my hobbies consists of drawing stuff such as portraits, sceneries or just random doodles. i like drawing my friends a lot. and i also really like reading hehe my current fixations is romance mangas tho. and i like listening to music a lot, my favorite genres are rock, city pop, r&b and just everything honestly.

my likes are: sour candies, strawberries (i even dyed my hair red bc of it), cats, and fashion.

speaking of fashion, i tend to dress myself very grunge-like but depending on my mood i’ll also dress preppy or lazy haha

my dislikes are: overly sweet food, open mouth eaters, bossy people, and weird textured food

yeah that��s all teehee

CONGRATULATIONS ON 500 FOLLOWERS AGAIN <3 MUAH XOXO

thank you!! you´re so sweet ଘ(੭ˊᵕˋ)੭

this is one of my favourite characters, so i hope you enjoy being matched with...

CHIFUYU MATSUNO Tokyo Manji Gang First Division Vice-Captain

You had been browsing the bookstore for what felt like an eternity, trying to find the final volume of the manga you were reading. The last one ended on a cliff-hanger and waiting for the next instalment had basically been torture.

After searching through a couple more shelves, you at long last spotted a familiar cover. And it looked like you were lucky too because there was only one copy left. Ready to head home and get right into the story, you grabbed the volume. You didn´t make it very far, however, as a rather broad guy blocked your way.

“Give me that book. My girlfriend has been whining all week about it being nearly sold out and I can´t hear it anymore. Now hand it over.” His voice was rough, like someone was rubbing a cheese grater over pavement.

“Excuse me? Why would I do that? I got to it first, end of the story. Better luck next time though.”

“Didn´t you hear me, you little brat? I´ll be taking that.” With that, he grabbed the manga and pulled it out of your hands. Your protests seemed to fall on deaf ears as he just turned around to leave.

“Hey, what do you think you´re doing, asshole?”  The appearance of a new voice froze him in place. You tried to get a better look at who had been talking just now but you couldn´t see anything really. “You can´t just go around taking stuff that isn´t yours. Now give the book back.”

“Y-Yes, of course Chifuyu. Please, I don´t want any trouble.” Turning back around, he handed the manga back to you with an apology before hurrying off.

“Thanks a lot for your help but what exactly just happened here?” You mustered the guy in front of you. He wasn´t much older than you and he didn´t seem like the type of person people would usually run from. Rather the opposite, actually. “What did you do to him?”

‘Chifuyu’ sheepishly rubbed his neck and averted his turquoise eyes. “Nothing really and that was so long ago, too…Anyway, that manga, do you like it?”

“Huh? Oh yeah, it´s one of my current favourites,” you said, not quite letting him of the hook yet. “Did you read it, too?”

“Yeah! You should definitely check out this other series by Ai Yazawa, it´s really good as well, maybe even better!” It was as if a fire had been lit inside him, his eyes visibly sparkling. “I could lend it to you if you want. What would you say about meeting up and exchanging recommendations?”

First of all, I´d love to see you guys together, you´d look so cute I just know it

Like your grunge-like fashion next to Chifuyu´s superficial innocence insert black and pink house meme

But then, personality-wise, it´s the opposite; your bubbly and cheery behaviour and him being a gang member ready to throw hands listen, I´d kill for you guys

Anyway, back to the topic at hand—

You definitely have dates where you just read shoujo/ romance manga, recommending new ones or discussing series you both read

Chifuyu is absolutely ecstatic that you love cats, this means you can hang out with Peke J!

Although, he tends to get a little pouty if you pay more attention to the little fellow or if Peke J prefers your lap as his napping spot now

Not gonna lie, Chifuyu tends to be very enthusiastic about making a plan but oftentimes doesn´t think it through all the way, so having someone reliable and level-headed around has saved his ass more often than he´d like to admit

But that doesn´t mean you have to play mom in your relationship; there´s hardly anyone who is more loyal than him and he can get serious too if the situation calls for it

If you draw him, he´s so flustered but tries to act all cool and smooth (he´s not fooling anyone)

Takes you to scenic places on his bike, so you can sketch the scenery

Also lets you doodle on his hand and arm if you´re bored but will return the favour while you´re at it, teach him some design skills, those shirts were a fashion war crime

Your relationship is very easy-going and has that childlike wonder to it and I mean that in the best way possible; best friends to lovers vibes

There´s no pressure to do certain things, to act a certain way or to work towards a certain goal; it´s okay to just sit back and relax from time to time, living in the moment and appreciating the now instead of constantly worrying about what´s next

Runner-up: Mikey

It´s no secret that Mikey isn´t living as carefree as he pretends to be, so having someone where he doesn´t have to hold up appearances is a huge deal for him. In return, he helps you set boundaries for yourself, he´d hate to see people take advantage of your caring personality. Mikey also teaches you how to fight. He´d rather just always be there to protect you but he knows that´s literally impossible, that´s why he makes sure you can stand your ground on your own.

[pocketwatchgames]

Patch 1.8: Season 6 & Precision Engineering

Patch 1.8: Season 6 & Precision Engineering

A new season starting with clean ranked leaderboards, a couple quality of life features and fixes regarding multiplayer games, and a few balance adjustments come with this patch. You'll also find some news about past/current/upcoming community events at the end of this announcement.

Ladder Reset

We have seen lots of familiar names in Season 5, but also some new players making it to the top of the ladder (in no particular order): NightSlayer, Kipo, Imari, Tatanka, Ploob, QQ, Trumpet, Melvinfro, Snake, The Gentleman, Arilou, mocaccino, Satoros, Tiki Gray, Pile, Big Pimpintosh, R22, Epicosity, James, and Meek have all made it past 1,000 points (hope I didn't miss anyone, you've been rushing past me way too fast).

Now we all go back to a fresh start. Have fun climbing the ladder, again, in Season 6, beginning now! (Or simply take a few steps and have a good time anywhere on that ladder.)

Balance Changes

These adjustments are mostly minor tweaks (Mole buff, Toad nerf, better counters against Barbed Wire), and a slightly bigger change to Mines, which are now faster to build, slower to sell, easier to reveal, and less efficient against units of higher tiers: That should shift their use towards offensive play, covering your retreat or protecting your siege and poke attacks.

Commander: Reveals cloaked enemies after standing still for 1.6s (from 2s)

Toad: 9 HP (from 8 HP), 1x speed (from 1.3x), 2 single target damage (from 4)

Mole: warren has 24 HP (from 18) and loses 2 HP (from 3) per Mole spawn; effectively increasing the durability of Mole warrens, and reducing the loss per Mole from 10 to 5 Food

Barbed Wire: 7 HP (from 14 HP), takes only 50% damage when touched; effectively making Wire more fragile against melee/aoe attacks and during construction

Mine: 5s build time (from 10s), 2s sell time during which the Mine is revealed/can be attacked; 8 single target damage (from 14), revealing that unit if it is cloaked/can cloak

Improvements and Fixes

Ranked matchmaking goes faster to full search range (14/14, which means any rank in any region) and restarts automatically every 2 minutes (with full search range) to prevent your lobby and search from timing out. (There has been a bug that prevented you from finding a match after searching for too long without restarting the search - should be better now!)

Hourly leaderboards don't get wiped completely when the next hour starts, only entries older than one hour disappear. (Thanks to pyro for significant help on this!) Also, the style of the "Me" filter changed, showing other players' rank in relation to yours.

Some players reported crashes in local FFA games due to a divide by zero error. I cannot reproduce that issue, but I changed something that will hopefully prevent this bug from occuring. (In case you've had that issue: please tell me whether it actually got better with this patch!)

Sometimes players started without a full deck in multiplayer games. This should no longer happen. It was a rare and irregular bug, though, so I cannot verify this is fixed 100% - please tell me if it still occurs!

Multiplayer on Mac has not been possible for a while due to some changes on the infrastructure TnT multiplayer is running on. but it's finally fixed!

PS4 crossplay is temporarily disabled while we figure out some issues on that platform.

Community Events

Running

The "Summer Open Lunch" of the (20)21 Duels just started. It's a competitive play-at-your-own-pace series of games against "bosses", each with their own special rules. See all details here ​ The TnT Dual Championship's grand finals will be streamed live, soon. This series of 2v2 matches has been interrupted due to the Mac multiplayer issue mentioned above, but now we are looking forward to see Premish vs MeekSlayer and Heartaru vs Satball in the semi-finals of the upper division, as well as SzenPaw (already qualified for finals) vs GEG (semi-), Gortoros or The Tatankas (quarter-finals) in the lower division - guess yourself who's in there or watch the finals to find out! ​ Tandordraco is now doing a show called TnTTalks on Twitch every other week, discussing various topics like tournaments, balance and meta with changing guests, showing highligths of recent games etc. - You can find it on Twitch or YouTube! ​ Kipo recently started a King of the Hill format: Players can claim a hill by winning a best of 5 match against a King of the Hill. There are four hills for different skill levels, and you can jump in or drop out at any time - just contact Kipo on the Pocketwatch Discord! ​

Past

The first season of the 2021 TnT Championship ended in March, with these medal-grabbers: Meek (1st), Melvinfro (2nd), and The Gentleman (3rd) in Premier Division; Tatanka (1st), Kerpa (2nd), and Epicosity (3rd) in Intermediate Division; Leon (1st), Tandordraco (2nd), and Cavernus (3rd) in Beginner Division. Congrats to you, and thanks to everyone taking part in the Championship, as player, organizer, caster or viewer on Twitch! ​ The idea of TnT Clan Wars may have started as a joke, but eventually they also became a cool new tournament ending earlier this year, with Lizard Wizard Magic beating the Toad Road Gang for first place, and the Badger Missionaries in third place. Congrats and thanks to everyone involved! ​ Enjoy and have a great feast! EELuminatus

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"Well... Are there any particularly nasty groups? I know I'm gonna make a lot of waves... are there any groups that might be problems?"

"Nasty groups?" Nadia asks, opening her hands. "If magical girls think I sent others to attack them, I am dead. I am only myself, fimti? I do not paint targets."

You open your mouth to argue, but Sayaka beats you to the punch. "What?" she snaps, straightening with a sharp jerk. "Why would you help them hide?"

Nadia tilts her head and leans forward. "Yes, Sayaka. I am helping the Iowa group by hiding the fact that they tend to raid cities, fimti?" Her eyes flicker over to Mami, intent and sharp...

"And Iowa?" you ask.

"They travel almost as much as I do. The last I heard, they were in India," Nadia says with a shrug.

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The Iowa group?

Well, there's Jackie, of course. No-one knows what she wished for, not even those in her motley group who have the dubious honor of being her 'friends'. For whatever reason, the topic just never comes up - and you might think that's because of who she is and how she interacts with people, but no, she's not that scary. It's been several years since the last time she had to cut a team-mate in half from crown to crotch without bothering to shatter their Soul Gem; these days, she saves the excessive violence and dismemberment for the people who are too smart to listen to her talk.

And we can't forget Willow. She was just so tired, you know? Why was it that no-one would adopt her? What was wrong with her? Was she too old? Too ugly? Too much of a fuck-up? Even her mother had thought she was unlovable, obviously, or else she wouldn't have been left at the orphanage. Sometimes she wished that her mother was actually dead, because it would mean the woman hadn't actually wanted to abandon her - but wishes weren't real.

Except that wishes were real, as it turned out, but even when the Incubator came to contract with her, she couldn't find it in her to reinvent her mother as a good parent. She just wanted someone to take her away from the orphanage, and protect her, and tuck her into her own bed in her own bedroom and read her bedtime stories and give her enough to eat. But maybe - even if she wouldn't, couldn't, shouldn't put it into words - maybe she also wanted to be better, maybe she wanted to be the kind of girl who would be adopted by a real person, and loved genuinely, maybe she wanted to be the kind of girl who wasn't an ugly fuckup who could never do anything right-

So her unreal older sister Siobhan came to the orphanage to try to adopt her. But she wasn't much older than Willow in body, and someone like Jack knew that Siobhan was only a few minutes old when she came for Willow, or maybe she was exactly as old as Willow was; all a matter of perspective. The matron certainly didn't know, but she could guess. She laughed Siobhan off, and told the girl to get knocked up if you want to be a teenage mother, like everyone else in this city-

Was it any surprise what happened next?

The funny thing is, Willow started out well-centered. She just had Siobhan to take her hand and guide her through Barriers and through the world. But it's almost easier for Willow to project Siobhan's pale shape than it is for her to keep her real body taken care of, even magically speaking. It had always been easier. What was the last time Willow bothered to take her own body with her, instead of leaving it in one of Riley's preservatives? Letting Siobhan carry her Soul Gem about is simple and elegant. She looks at the world through Siobhan's yellow eyes at all hours. She lives through Siobhan's form; she pretends she still needs to breathe, pumping Siobhan's lungs. It's almost like she is Siobhan.

As for Riley? Surely you can guess. It was such a sad story, perfect fodder for the gossipy nurses during the break in the middle of their grueling shifts at the hospital. That poor woman, wasting away. That poor girl, who has to watch it happen. It was such a sad story, perfect fodder for the Incubator to seize upon, a nice high-potential recruit with almost no effort whatsoever. Riley wished that she could make her mother better, and she did make her mother better. And then she did it again, and again, and again, and again, but the enchantments never stuck for long, and then the enchantments weren't enough, all because the sick was just too deep, and because she had the ability but not the skill. And then at the end of it all... well.

What was a girl to do? When you don't get what you want - when you fundamentally can't get what you want - you can suffer, or you can learn to stop wanting.

She never needed to interfere with her soul directly, but what did that matter when she could sculpt bodies like clay? A Soul Gem was just another kind of brain to shape, after all, and it was trivial to box up her Witch inside the gemstone, where it could never get out. It made such a din in her head, putting up protest, crying and screaming, what is oh my god what are you let me go i didn't want this please stop please i just wanted please please PLEASE-

She couldn't find it in her to bother to be nice. She cut out its tongue so it couldn't shape telepathy, and sewed its lips shut so it couldn't wail in the back of her mind, and then she nailed it down to the metaphorical backboard of her Gem. The senseless and helpless thrashing of the thing is so perverse it's beautiful. She's caught loveliness in a dry bottle, like her mother's old habit of putting pins through butterflies to hang their corpses on walls.

Her dumb team-mates don't think it's nearly as amazing as she does. Even Jack and Siobhan, who do dote on her so, seem to take in her enthusiasm with a kind of condescension. And Jack is quick to confine the burning spark of her creativity, even if she feeds that fire with all of the kindling she can scrounge up. Most of the others can't bear to look Riley in the eyes. But at least they all appreciate her boring healing magic and her normal enchantments, every last one of them but Natalie.

Natalie... where to begin? Natalie wanted not to feel like a monster. Her therapist always told her that she had to be able to love herself. Why would she not? She was so very much the kind of person that many would envy - which was sort of a part of the problem, because Natalie was a creature of craven envy herself. She wanted what came so effortlessly to others, and others wanted what came so effortlessly to her.

So she looked in the mirror and she - what? What did she see? It was like staring at some foreign, distant, lost thing. She was looking at something that looked like a monster, but it was what people saw when they looked her in the eyes. She wanted to get rid of the monster. She wanted to kill it. She wanted to kill the silhouette, the absolute border and shape of her sadness, but she couldn't even imagine how it could be done. The monster wasn't even quite real; it was there in her bones, but it was as much a shadow of being meted as it was a corporeal thing. There were boundaries and markings and divisions, and those measures and meters couldn't be defeated or escaped by any means that she could think of. Maybe they were all in her head.

She wished to transmute her boundaries. She wished to be able to change the shape of her sadness, her heartbreak and dim nostalgia, until it was all something bearable. She knew that some people in her life expected her to be a monster, and she left room for that. But she also knew that once she had experienced life in the world in a way that she could bear, it would be so much harder to go back to being a monster; it would always be easier to be something else.

And perhaps that was why her wish and her magic took the poisonous form that it did. It was easier to be whole, and so that was who she was, in the baseness of her flesh. And just as it was always so much harder for anyone to Transform and don her raiment, it was always so much harder for Natalie to Transform, because the monster followed her in subtle ways. Her raiment would be shredded time and time again only to be sickly restored, a hideous tatterdemalion that grew stronger and stronger and stronger until it eclipsed her own magic, until it eclipsed her own body, until she might as well have been the monster again, until she was more of an alien monster than she had ever been. A screaming itch, emotions and flesh always always ALWAYS raw.

Natalie and Nicole and weren't anywhere close to being normal recruits as Magical Girls, albeit for different reasons. Nicole, perhaps, felt too old, even though most people would say she was all too young... and even if she felt old, she still felt like she had never grown up. How had she gotten here? What was she doing? Something inside of her had been beaten into shape and cauterized, and maybe it was because something had been done to her, or maybe it was because she was just of the wrong shape to fit in the world without the touch of hammer and anvil. She was pig iron, and there wasn't a fire in the world that could make her into ore again, or purify her into steel.

It was the perfect opportunity she had been given by the Incubator, worth the price of her soul. To grow up again, for as long as it would take in order to get it right. But what would that even mean, getting it right? What would it mean for her to grow up? She wanted the feeling of being-an-adult, of riding on top of a wave and being in control of her life and her self, she wanted not to be dragged away under riptide and not to have her body dashed against the rocks. But that feeling - if it isn't just a lie to children - will never come to her, not by her mere living, and so she hasn't aged a day since the day she made her Wish and became twelve again.

What she wants is a future she will never experience, and she wanted to be a child in a way that maybe she never really was to begin with, looking for a gray ghost, the color of anemoia. She fears the riptide in the wake of time, but even her team-mates fear that riptide more than she does, because they know that at her whims, they could drown for a very long time.

Nicole always says they could drown until the end of all things, and only Jack ever dares to refute her.

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"Testing vs. Checking"

You will find this meme under discussion at all of the leading software quality assurance (SQA) conferences today including GTAC, STPCon, STAR, CAST and the various Selenium confs.

In short the discussion revolves around whether a Cartesian divide can be effected between the human and the computer's role in software quality assurance.

"Testing vs. Checking"

It is not the discussion itself that bothers me. Although Cartesian division is out-of-fashion with Devops Luminaries(tm) such as myself, I can certainly see the utility of a Cartesian point of view when establishing certain foundational local taxa --- as we Test Architects often must do!!!

Concern trolling

What jerks my fucking chain though is the god damned concern trolling.

The biggest problem by far is all the fucking language policing that goes on in the testing and in the agile community. Language policing is microagressions. Stop it and apologize.

The most common form of Language Policing (aka Tone Policing) that I've seen take place around "testing vs. checking" is "correcting" people who choose to identify as automators of test activities.

I've personally been interrupted while speaking at a conference at least three times only to have the interruptor explain that "checking isn't testing." Yeah motherfucker. I already knew that and I don't give a shit about it becasue from my perspective that's minutia that everyone takes as written in the first place.

Interrupting other professionals' to corret trivial language choices is uncool at best. Viewed in a dispassionate light, such behavior is elitist, immature and alienating. Most people won't put up with that, either because it makes them feel bad or because it makes them feel like they've wasted their time. Yet the behavior persists for some reason.

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“In a world where nothing is normal anymore (not that normal was ever that great for most of us), one thing has actually become slightly easier: online dating.

It used to be treacherous to wade through a sea of profiles and photos, trying to glean from arbitrary details if someone was a match. “They listen to Solange? They are clearly culturally and socially awa — oh, no they just said that women comedians aren’t funny. Hard swipe left.”

But now that politics is at the forefront of every conversation, debate dominates our feeds and minds, and protests are filling up our nights and weekends, it’s more acceptable to cut to the chase and see where people stand.

This also means it’s easier than ever to spot a basic bitch and back away quickly.

Some believe this new era has created division. I am here for that division.

Some believe this new era has created division. I am here for that division. I am here for saying “fuck nuance.” You either totally get it, or you don’t get it at all. Some people want us to reach across the divide, to listen to each other and come to a compromise. As if the steps to dismantling white supremacist patriarchy are just suggestions that we can pick and choose from, like frozen yogurt toppings.

I will not be reaching across that divide, and I’m certainly not gonna do it in the bedroom. I do not consider spending my energy teaching someone how to be a human being a sexy pursuit. My dating motto in recent years — and especially now — is this: “If it ain’t woke, don’t fuck it.”

The problem lies in actually finding these unicorns. Every dating app is the same because every dating app has the same trash people on it. The only differences in these apps are the interfaces through which to harass or ignore each other.

So, I propose a new app. Let’s call it Snoflake, because we’re all so beautiful and unique and for no other reason. Snoflake will be a safe space where “cucks,” “libtards,” “SJWs,” and “nasty women” can find that special someone. It’s spelled weird because dating app. To join Snoflake you must pass the following 11-question test. Once you pass you are allowed to join and create your profile.

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1. Are you a feminist?

a) Absolutely, I am. I hope we can talk about it a lot and learn some new things about feminism together.

b) Nah. I think women should be treated equally, but feminists think women are better than men. The word itself is such a problem, ya know?

c) Feminazis are the worst. Sexism is over. I wish they’d relax and stop complaining. These days men are the real victims.

d) Hell yeah, I’m a feminist. I’m the best feminist. Let me tell you how feminist I am. I’m so feminist I tell every woman I know to stop wearing makeup, because I prefer them without it. I’m so feminist I think we need a matriarchy, because men are inherently the worst and there’s nothing we can do to fix that, so women should be responsible for everything. Now hush and let me keep talking over you to tell you all the things I do for feminism. I am gonna teach you so much about feminism.

2. OK cool. Use the word “intersectionality” correctly in a sentence.

3. You’re at work and your colleague makes a joke that is sexist/racist/homophobic/ableist/etc. You:

a) Call them out on it immediately and explain why it isn’t funny.

b) Roll your eyes and complain to your friends about it later.

c) Politely laugh along, even though you feel uncomfortable, but eventually forget about it.

d) Keep the banter going and top it with an even better joke. That shit is hilarious. People need to stop being so PC and chill out!

4. Julian Assange is ___________.

a) a traitor.

b) a hero.

c) probs a rapist.

d) cool with Nazis.

e) Both c and d.

5. What does cisgender mean? (No Googling, boo.)

6. It’s Halloween! Pick your costume:

a) Donald Trump. He’s so orange and silly and also I have no imagination!

b) An Indian chief with full headdress (still got one from that festival last summer).

c) Probably something topical or a clever pun. I’ll figure it out the week before.

d) Nothing because I am joyless.

7. Which was the best season of RuPaul’s Drag Race?

a) Four, obviously. But six and eight are pretty great. (Also, I know the show can be problematic, but I can watch it with a critical eye while still appreciating the brilliant things about it.)

b) OMG I totes wanna watch it, but I just haven’t had time yet. Maybe we could Drag Race and Chill sometime? (Also, I’ve heard the show can be problematic, but I can watch it with a critical eye while still appreciating the brilliant things about it.)

c) Is that like a NASCAR show? Haven’t heard of it.

d) I do not watch television because I am joyless.

8. Name three Manic Pixie Dream Girls from popular media and explain why they are problematic.

9. Black Lives Matter

a) True

b) True

c) Actually, I prefer to say “All Lives Matter” because I am an ignorant piece of shit.

d) True

10. How did Donald Trump win the 2016 U.S. Presidential election?

a) By running on a platform of white supremacy and misogyny, appealing to conservative white America’s desire to maintain power over marginalized groups, and capitalizing on the complicity of liberal white Americans who benefit from that power and didn’t take enough accountability to change it.

b) He listened to the white working classes (aka America’s most oppressed and forgotten group) and promised to make their lives great again with his dope business skills.

c) Hillary’s emails and identity politics. Seriously, she’s the worst. And it didn’t help that women, queer folk, and people of color wouldn’t shut up about wanting some human rights. If they’d piped down and appeased white guys we wouldn’t be in this mess. Also Bernie would’ve won, and it has nothing to do with gender, okay?

11. Are you woke?

a) I’m woke AF and always have been.

b) You can’t call yourself woke, just like you can’t give yourself a nickname. I’m uncomfortable using that word, not only because it is often misappropriated, but because I still have a lot to learn and always will.

c) Do you mean awake? Say it correctly. I am a grammar snob, because I am joyless.

Good luck and swipe ya later on Snoflake!

A note: It’s important to remember that this kind of awareness is a journey, not a destination. Plenty of my friends would get a few of these wrong and they are wonderful people. So if you don’t pass this test right away, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person. It just means you can’t join my dating app.”

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Who is the worst person on the Netflix series ‘Tiger King?’

If ever there was a present that capitalized on America’s love of stupidity, obsession with absurdity, infatuation with superstar and the weird capability to miss blatant egocentric cruelty, it is the Netflix series that has captured the nation’s consideration as coronavirus-necessitated quarantines have change into the new regular throughout the United States.

Yep, I’m speaking about “Tiger King.” 

To be clear, the solely finger I am pointing right here is additionally aimed squarely again at myself. My spouse and I watched over the course of our first two quarantine weeks, and it was, let’s say, an expertise. The series attracts you in with the loopy twists and turns, earlier than too lengthy disgusts you with the actions of the topics and by the finish you’re simply glad it’s accomplished. Then, when you’re a standard person, you’ll spend the subsequent couple of days questioning why you willingly gave up seven hours of your treasured time on this earth watching what these horrible individuals did to one another, and extra importantly, to those fantastic animals who didn’t deserve any of this.  

Mainly, when you haven’t began it, you most likely shouldn’t watch, except you identical to committing hours to a series that makes you hate just about everybody and root for everybody to wind up in jail. In that case, binge away. However, y’know, hold studying.

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Right here’s the Netflix abstract of the present: “A zoo proprietor spirals uncontrolled amid a solid of eccentric characters on this true murder-for-hire story from the underworld of huge cat breeding.” This, people, is the kindest use of “eccentric” I’ve ever learn. 

This weekend, I posted a Twitter ballot asking you to choose the WORST person on Tiger King. The 4 choices: Joe Unique, Carole Baskin, Jeff Lowe and Doc Antle. I didn’t embrace an “all of the above” choice as a result of generally in life it’s a must to select. Additionally, Twitter solely offers you a max of 4 choices for a ballot. 

Pointless Quarantine Ballot: Who is the WORST person on the @netflix Tiger King series?

— Ryan Fagan (@ryanfagan) March 29, 2020

There ought to be an “all of the above choice.” Listed below are the 4 contenders, every with three compelling the reason why they’re the worst person on the “Tiger King” series. Warning: Spoilers under.

Joe Unique

Who he is: The title character, Joe Unique (stunningly, not his actual title!) owned and operated the G.W. Unique Animal Park in Oklahoma, the place he owned a few hundred tigers, lions, ligers and different animals. 

Why he’s the worst

1. His reply to any type of monetary bother was to breed extra tiger cubs to promote. He wanted just a few thousand bucks? Breed and promote a tiger cub that’s assured to spend its whole life in a cage or some type of confined space, residing a life that’s nothing like the life a tiger ought to stay. It’s insanely egocentric. 

2. Sure, he’s painted as a sympathetic determine in the final episode — unusual for a man who was simply despatched to jail after being discovered responsible of paying somebody $3,000 to kill a rival — however even other than that complete factor (an enormous factor to put aside), he knew on some stage what he was doing with these animals was unsuitable. Keep in mind in the final episode (we warned you there can be spoilers) when he talked about his two chimps hugging one another of their new dwelling after he saved them in cages subsequent to one another for 10 years?

Yeah, he knew. 

3. Travis Maldonado wasn’t harmless, however he was an addict who crossed paths with Joe, and Joe fed that habit to meth to maintain Maldonado round. Maldonado spiraled right down to the level that he dedicated suicide at the zoo. He was 23 years previous. 

Doc Antle

Who he is: Owns Myrtle Seaside Safari, the place he fees vacationers premium costs to play with tiger cubs, most of them proven off by his harem of scantily clad ladies. 

Why he’s the worst

1. He’s simply the creepiest person on the present — I began to kind “character” as an alternative of “person” as a result of it’s means too simple to neglect whereas watching the present that these aren’t actors enjoying a task, however precise individuals behaving like this in actual life — what with the means he treats the ladies in his life and just about everybody round him. 

2. He, too, breeds large cats for the sole function of getting cash. In the event you can’t have vacationers holding and taking photos with tigers which might be greater than 6 months previous, it’s a must to have a gentle provide of tiger cubs at the facility. Then, they spend the remainder of their lives in cages, or worse, as is insinuated however not substantiated in the present. What’s additionally insinuated however not substantiated are the allegations of rampant animal abuse at his facility, which was raided by the feds in December 2019.  

3. It’s unattainable to get away from the cult-leader means he treats individuals, ladies particularly. He clothes his ladies in subsequent to nothing, pays them subsequent to nothing and calls for they work lengthy hours on daily basis, with out holidays. And he then expects them to be thankful for the alternative to work with him and his large cats. Ugh. 

Carole Baskin

Who she is: Baskin runs Huge Cat Rescue, positioned outdoors of Tampa, Fla. 

Why she’s the worst

1. Let’s watch out how we phrase this. It certain looks like the people who made this series for Netflix assume Baskin had rather a lot to do with the mysterious disappearance of her very rich husband in 1997, they usually make about as compelling of a case as might be made with out precise proof. That’s a fairly vital a part of making a case, although. It ought to be famous that the Hillsborough County sheriff’s division has re-opened the case, asking for individuals who may need leads into the disappearance of Don Lewis. 

2. Even when she didn’t have something to do together with his disappearance, the means Baskin handled Lewis’ first spouse and their kids after Lewis’ disappearance — particularly relating to what ought to have been their share of the inheritance — is nothing in need of horrible. 

3. Baskin has loads of cash in the financial institution — Lewis disappeared as a multimillionaire and did we point out she pocketed the lion’s share of that? — however she chooses to not pay her lots of of workers — sorry, volunteers — that hold her operation going. She admits on digital camera that she doesn’t even trouble to study their names for a few years. 

Jeff Lowe

Who he is: A mid-series entry to “Tiger King,” Lowe was launched as the “angel investor” who would save Joe Unique from his monetary points, however that didn’t occur. 

Why he’s the worst

1. If Antle’s the creepiest person on the present, Lowe is simply the slimiest, most egocentric and conniving person on the present, and that’s actually saying one thing. The dude repeatedly exploited tiger cubs to seduce ladies into threesomes together with his spouse — he carried the cubs in suitcases as much as Vegas lodge rooms to make that occur. 

2. Appears fairly apparent that Lowe arrange Joe Unique to take the fall, with the aim of taking the zoo, for causes which might be too lengthy and intensive to dig into right here. 

3. He’s truly a convicted felon. He has been arrested or charged with home violence and fraud. In response to this report, he nonetheless has 4 lively warrants in Las Vegas for failure to finish standing checks on previous incidents. His home in Las Vegas was raided and marshals impounded the animals they discovered. 

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