#i feel like in general this fandom has a blessing/curse where the source material is sci fi war story

[lord-squiggletits]

Starting to realize that the reason I beef with Transformers canon and fanon is because it feels as if a lot of people involved either haven't read war stories as a genre or they haven't paid attention to real-life wars so their takes on "necessary evils" or "hypocrisy" or "pacifism" come off as overly simplistic

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Tsukumo Yuki relationship headcanons

Fandom: Jujutsu Kaisen

Pairing: Tsukumo Yuki x reader

Author note: Tsukomo Yuki is the reason I love woman and she can crush me between her thighs send tweet

Warnings: Potential manga spoilers (?) | Mentions of s*x, but nothing too blatantly explicit. I would still prefer it if minors did not interact with this post in any way.

Yuki always asks the people she meets what type of woman they like. If someone were to ask that same question back to her, she’ll most certainly utter back your name as if it were an obvious response.

What’s not to love about you? You’re cute. You make her laugh. You cook for her because heaven knows she can't if her life depended on it. Most importantly, you keep her company due to the lack of curses she’s ever sent to exorcise. Traveling the world is fun and all, but it’s even more fun with you by her side!

You’re not a sorcerer. You can’t even see curses. Yuki is a childhood friend of yours and has kept you in the loop regarding the world of jujutsu sorcery since she started integrating into it. She thinks it’s important for you to know that someone like you, a non-curse user who has no control over the curse energy you create, should know what exactly your negative emotions can lead to. It’s not to make you feel bad or pin blame on you in any way. It’s her way of protecting you beyond physical means as well as a way of showing you that she places a great deal of trust in you regarding the nature of her line of work and her true goals.

Because she rejects the methods of the higher-ups and her ideology is more along the lines of putting an end to the creation of curses permanently instead of letting them manifest and dealing with them when they start causing profound trouble, you’re often the one that has to listen to all her new, sometimes overreaching, hypotheses now and then. You may even take part in her research, but she would never put you in any sort of harm! At least, not unless you give her the okay to. Be warned, if you give your blessing to be her little lab rat she’s prone to get carried away with her methods. Speak up if she’s doing something outrageous or if she’s making you uncomfortable. Otherwise, you might end up in some precarious situations.

As mentioned previously, Yuki isn’t sent out on missions that often, if ever. She instead chooses to travel in and out of the country, for the sake of her research as well as for the pleasure of it. Since she’s one of three, later four, special grade sorcerers her salary is rather tremendous. Unfortunately, her travels outside Japan are “unauthorized” and sometimes her funds get frozen by the higher-ups. Her quick solution to the matter is to fly back, take on a mission or two to get her funds unfrozen (and into your account because you’re her partner-in-crime) or even take on a mission to earn some more funds, and then you and her are right back to traveling the world again.

During one of these money replenishing heists, she met a kid that she took a particular interest in and wanted to mentor, Aoi Todo. It’s hard for most people to spark her interest to the extent Todo did, so you happily supported her endeavors and even met with her young pupil a few times throughout the years. Her methods of training are a bit....extreme, to put it lightly. You understand that holding back her punches will only hinder Todo’s progress instead of allowing him the ability to improve and push past his limits, but you can’t help but flinch over the large scar that marks his face whenever you briefly meet up with him.

Todo is eccentric, but so is Yuki. Perhaps not idol obsessed like Todo, but seeing the way he takes great care of his appearance and flaunts his body (during a battle even), he’s a near-identical clone of Yuki. She knows that she’s good-looking, and she will always flaunt this fact to anyone with working eyes, even you! Does it work every single time? Yes. Yes, it does.

Honestly, how can it not? She’s tall. She has a great butt. She drives a motorcycle. Her tight biker pants are your Achilles heels and she knows it. Sometimes she’ll wear them around the house just to flaunt her curves and other bodily goods, even if it’s the middle of the summer, the AC is broken and the pants are made of stuffy leather material. If it gets your face all heated up, she'll wear it.

The compliments she gets from strangers are nice and all, but it’s your reactions she truly cares about. You’ve been by her side through it all. You're still sticking with her even despite the fact that she’s constantly moving around and living a somewhat free-spirited lifestyle. You genuinely support and help her when almost everyone else has rejected her methods and ideals and brush her off as some lazy, outrageous-thinking woman. Really, you stole this woman’s heart just by letting her be herself, a lazy, outrageous-thinking woman.

Yuki is indeed lazy, to the point it sometimes affects you and your shared apartment is left in a week-long accumulated mess. I’m talking clothes strewed about and spilling out the already full laundry basket, sink filled with dirty dishes, houseplant half dead due to insufficient watering, and little dusty bunnies in the corner of the room. Whenever you try to get around to getting your living space in order, she always drags you back to the bed with her either to nap some more or for a quick round of sex that leads to more napping. Eventually, you have to beat her with a pillow and threaten her with no sex for a certain period of time to get her to back off, which always works without fail.

If you really hold the “no sex until...” ultimatum over her head long enough, she’ll even pitch in and help you clean. But to be honest she kinda sucks at it so it’s sometimes better to just have her sit on the sidelines while you do all the work. She’ll jokingly suggest you clean with just an apron on (because she’s a freak like that), but you haven’t taken her up on the suggestion just yet. It’s mostly because you’ll use the “naked apron” method to further insinuate her punishment if your usual threat begins to lose its potency (because you are also a freak like that).

She’s a bad sleeping partner. Not only does she hog all the blankets and pillows, but she even stretches out her limbs over the entire bed. This usually leaves you curled up in a corner shivering your ass off until you either fall asleep via exhaustion or move to the couch. If you go to the couch, she’s 99.9% likely to wake up and join you shortly after, where she’s less of a hassle to deal with because of the limited space.

She’s a great big spoon, which is actually one of the ways you later use to solve her troublesome habits as once she latches onto you, she will not let go the rest of the evening. Unfortunately, she also snores terribly loud, but it’s nothing earbuds can’t fix.

Some might think she sleeps in something flattering, maybe even a bit scanty. That couldn’t be any further from the truth. Her pj’s are decades-old shirts and gym shorts that she never got around to getting rid of. If not that, she’ll sleep completely naked and she doesn’t care if someone walks in on her with the covers off. She’ll only ever wear lingerie or other promiscuous pieces of clothing if she has intentions of getting between your legs and rocking your world for the rest of the night.

I think it goes without saying that she looks great in lace, but as hot as she may look, she really likes seeing you dressed up in something risque as well.

If you’re female, she sometimes likes to wear matching lingerie sets with you, but her favorite material to see you in is leather, especially those harness-styled sets that squeeze your flesh all around.

If you’re male, she’s a complete sucker for a man in a clean-cut, custom-tailored suit and will take it off as soon as you put it on. Hope you don’t mind losing a button or two, because she will pop them off for sure when she rips your dress shirt off of you.

To all my gender-neutral folks, It’s never too late to whip out that naked apron I mentioned earlier! Or a leather jacket. Everyone looks great in a leather jacket!

Yuki’s diet is fucking terrible. You’re a decent cook, but despite this, all she ever seems to want is greasy take-out food that makes you wonder how the hell she’s still so fit after witnessing her down three chicken burritos in one sitting. Even when the two of you are abroad and are able to try out different types of cuisines not so readily available in Japan, she’ll still want to go out to a fast food joint that you can easily find everywhere. You’ve tried to get her to branch out of her comfort zone and eat somewhat healthier alternatives of her favorite foods, but so far you’ve gotten mixed results.

In summary: Yuki is a pretty outgoing person and sometimes can be a bit of a hassle to deal with, but she’s clearly ambitious and moves to the tune of her own beat. Her goal of finding and effectively eliminating the source of all curses is a testament to the fact that she wants to save future generations from having to carry the burden sorcerers have been carrying for thousands of years. Her goals are not only for the sake of the people who will come after her, but also for the sake of her future with you. You’re someone she genuinely cares for and wishes to spend the rest of her life with, evident by the numerous times she’s come clean to you about her fears of you dying when she isn't around to protect you or of her dying and leaving you behind to mourn during late-night pillow talks in hotels or in your shared home. A future where you and her can travel the world and truly take in and enjoy the sights and wonders instead of searching for an answer to one of the world’s greatest phenomenon is a future worth fighting for, even if she’s met with some pushback or the end goal seems like nothing more than a pipedream at times. So long as you’re there with her to see her research bear fruit, she’ll keep testing and coming up with new methods to eliminate curses permanently, no matter the extremes her research takes her to.

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Tony Awards 2018: Noma Dumezweni Breaks Stereotypes in ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ (Exclusive)

Noma Dumezweni, nominated for playing Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II, is one of ET’s Standout Performances on Broadway.  

Noma Dumezweni’s favorite magic trick to perform in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II on Broadway is the one she’s most worried about.

“Every night, I still go, ‘Have I done it right?’” she admits to ET about one of the play’s many illusions -- without revealing the exact one, in order to “keep the secrets” about what happens onstage at the Lyric Theatre. “It’s the kind of choreography you have to trust with your fellow actors. What you're seeing in the play is real magic in front of you, and that's what I love. I don't need to explain to you how the magic is done; you just need to look right in front of your eyes.”

As Hermione Granger, Dumezweni, 49, is making her Broadway debut in the original two-part play written by Jack Thorne and conceived with J.K. Rowling and director John Tiffany. A transfer from London’s West End, where the show premiered -- she is one of six principal actors to come with it -- the production cost a reported $68.5 million and took 15 weeks of rehearsal to mount in New York City. (“Yes, we needed it,” she quips about the preparation -- and after seeing the show, you will understand why.) After opening to rave reviews and fandom, the play is now nominated for 10 Tony Awards, including one for the English actress for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

“It's a weird thing. I don't know how to describe it,” Dumezweni says, trying to explain how she feels about being recognized for such a prestigious award. “It's like a lovely, shiny bouquet.” It’s a “beautiful bonus” for the actress who just wants to put the work in and tell the story of what happens to the boy who lived and his friends 19 years after the final chapter in the Harry Potter series. “I love that there is heart and you feel something for these characters by the end of this whole experience.”

Born in Swaziland to South African parents who had fled the apartheid regime, Dumezweni moved around Africa before landing at a seaside town outside of London. Only 7 years old, she was a refugee, going to a school where she and her sister were among the only four kids of color out of 1,500 students.

“I remember those feelings of anxiety, like ‘I’m not the prettiest at all.’ You try and make yourself small because you don't want to make people feel uncomfortable,” she recalls of her childhood. On Saturday mornings, she would watch old movie musicals like On the Town with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly and idolize Hollywood’s golden age icons. She recalls Ann Miller’s tap routine in Kiss Me, Kate and all the glamorous Follies girls. Back then, she wished she could be Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis or Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce.

It was theater, she says, that kept her going through school before moving to London, where she auditioned for drama school twice but didn’t get in. She earned a living working in cafes, as a receptionist and at a PR company. Eventually, though, Dumezweni found her place on the London stage, becoming a well-respected Shakespearean actress and winning her first Laurence Olivier award -- the English equivalent to a Tony Award -- for a 2006 production of A Raisin in the Sun. (Her second would come for playing Hermione in 2017.)

It was a prior acting project at the Royal Court Theatre in the U.K. that first connected Dumezweni to Thorne and choreographer Steven Hoggett. When The Cursed Child came along, they asked her to participate in a workshop without telling her what it was for. It was so secretive, she could only read the script in producer Sonia Friedman’s office. “Shut up! It's Harry Potter? What the f*ck?” Dumezweni recalls thinking when she finally learned what the project was.

In December 2015, it was announced that she was going to play Hermione in the play -- the first time a black woman had portrayed the character, originated onscreen by Emma Watson for the film franchise. There was intense reaction to the news, but Rowling gave the casting her seal of approval and clarified that the only thing canon about the character was that she has “brown eyes, frizzy hair and [is] very clever.” Race was never specifically defined.

“What I've realized when the news of me playing Hermione came out is I'm a lightning rod for conversations,” Dumezweni explains of people’s perception of a woman of color portraying the character. At the stage door, however, she gets the biggest compliment when fans come up to her to say, “Thank you. This is the Hermione I read in the books.”

“What's exciting for the younger generation is that there are conversations going on amongst themselves and they're challenging each other, and I want to be part of that, going, ‘Yay! I'm here cheerleading you on!’” she continues. “The closest I can get to that at the moment is being Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

While there are seven books of source material, which she and the cast all studied, Dumezweni recalls Rowling telling her, when they offered her the part, “I want you to do it and it will bring something else, which is all with you right there in the books.” For the actress, what resonated most was Hermione’s interest in fairness and justice. “A specificity to Hermione is all in the books,” she says. But she was able to connect with the character on another level -- as a grown woman and a mother -- that’s new to the story. In the show, Hermione is now married to Ron Weasley and the two have a child together. “There’s a world there.”

Ultimately, she and the production got Rowling’s blessing. The author, who was at the first preview in London, was in awe after seeing it. “She was in awe of the world that had been created,” Dumezweni recalls.

Now two months into performances on Broadway -- and nearly two years into playing Hermione onstage -- Dumezweni is not afraid to admit it’s still hard. Three times a week, both plays -- running two and a half hours each -- are performed on the same day with a dinner break in between. Everyone “is working their tits off,” she says. But it’s those days she finds thrilling. “There is something about the continuation of a story,” she says, that gives her the stamina to keep going during long days. “It's the epic storytelling. The same audience is coming back, so they've gotten to know each other by the break and they're sharing that electricity.”

With seven more months left on her contract for the current run, Dumezweni hasn’t been able to think about too many outside projects. However, she’s managed to squeeze in a few screen roles. She’s set to appear on Netflix and BBC’s eight-part political thriller Black Earth Rising, starring John Goodman and Michaela Coel, as well as Mary Poppins Returns with Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, who sent a note congratulating her on her Tony nomination. “I had a couple of scenes in that, which is such a joy to be part of,” she teases.

Ultimately, the opportunity to be in The Cursed Child has allowed her to not to feel limited in what she does or who she works with. “If you meet the right people to work with, make the choices about the people that we want to experiment with and play with in the rehearsal room, you never know where it's going to lead,” Dumezweni says, calling the play“the greatest gift.”

“Once I've put my foot on stage for the scene that I am in, and play with my fellow actors, I'm happy. I'm absolutely happy.”

The 2018 Tony Awards hosted by Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles will be handed out live at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 10, starting at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.

 STANDOUT PERFORMANCES ON BROADWAY:

Tonys 2018: The Silent Rise of ‘Children of a Lesser God’ Actress Lauren Ridloff (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: Taylor Louderman Becomes the Queen Bee of Broadway (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: The Crossroads That Led Nathan Lane to ‘Angels in America’ (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: Ethan Slater on Bringing SpongeBob to Life on Broadway (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: Andrew Garfield on the Gift of Performing ‘Angels in America’ (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: After ‘Game of Thrones,’ Diana Rigg Makes a Celebrated Return to Broadway (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: How Grey Henson Made Damian More Than a GBF in ‘Mean Girls’ (Exclusive)

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Tony Awards 2018: Noma Dumezweni Breaks Stereotypes in ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ (Exclusive)

Noma Dumezweni, nominated for playing Hermione Granger in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II, is one of ET’s Standout Performances on Broadway.  

Noma Dumezweni’s favorite magic trick to perform in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts I and II on Broadway is the one she’s most worried about.

“Every night, I still go, ‘Have I done it right?’” she admits to ET about one of the play’s many illusions -- without revealing the exact one, in order to “keep the secrets” about what happens onstage at the Lyric Theatre. “It’s the kind of choreography you have to trust with your fellow actors. What you're seeing in the play is real magic in front of you, and that's what I love. I don't need to explain to you how the magic is done; you just need to look right in front of your eyes.”

As Hermione Granger, Dumezweni, 49, is making her Broadway debut in the original two-part play written by Jack Thorne and conceived with J.K. Rowling and director John Tiffany. A transfer from London’s West End, where the show premiered -- she is one of six principal actors to come with it -- the production cost a reported $68.5 million and took 15 weeks of rehearsal to mount in New York City. (“Yes, we needed it,” she quips about the preparation -- and after seeing the show, you will understand why.) After opening to rave reviews and fandom, the play is now nominated for 10 Tony Awards, including one for the English actress for Best Featured Actress in a Play.

“It's a weird thing. I don't know how to describe it,” Dumezweni says, trying to explain how she feels about being recognized for such a prestigious award. “It's like a lovely, shiny bouquet.” It’s a “beautiful bonus” for the actress who just wants to put the work in and tell the story of what happens to the boy who lived and his friends 19 years after the final chapter in the Harry Potter series. “I love that there is heart and you feel something for these characters by the end of this whole experience.”

Born in Swaziland to South African parents who had fled the apartheid regime, Dumezweni moved around Africa before landing at a seaside town outside of London. Only 7 years old, she was a refugee, going to a school where she and her sister were among the only four kids of color out of 1,500 students.

“I remember those feelings of anxiety, like ‘I’m not the prettiest at all.’ You try and make yourself small because you don't want to make people feel uncomfortable,” she recalls of her childhood. On Saturday mornings, she would watch old movie musicals like On the Town with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly and idolize Hollywood’s golden age icons. She recalls Ann Miller’s tap routine in Kiss Me, Kate and all the glamorous Follies girls. Back then, she wished she could be Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis or Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce.

It was theater, she says, that kept her going through school before moving to London, where she auditioned for drama school twice but didn’t get in. She earned a living working in cafes, as a receptionist and at a PR company. Eventually, though, Dumezweni found her place on the London stage, becoming a well-respected Shakespearean actress and winning her first Laurence Olivier award -- the English equivalent to a Tony Award -- for a 2006 production of A Raisin in the Sun. (Her second would come for playing Hermione in 2017.)

It was a prior acting project at the Royal Court Theatre in the U.K. that first connected Dumezweni to Thorne and choreographer Steven Hoggett. When The Cursed Child came along, they asked her to participate in a workshop without telling her what it was for. It was so secretive, she could only read the script in producer Sonia Friedman’s office. “Shut up! It's Harry Potter? What the f*ck?” Dumezweni recalls thinking when she finally learned what the project was.

In December 2015, it was announced that she was going to play Hermione in the play -- the first time a black woman had portrayed the character, originated onscreen by Emma Watson for the film franchise. There was intense reaction to the news, but Rowling gave the casting her seal of approval and clarified that the only thing canon about the character was that she has “brown eyes, frizzy hair and [is] very clever.” Race was never specifically defined.

“What I've realized when the news of me playing Hermione came out is I'm a lightning rod for conversations,” Dumezweni explains of people’s perception of a woman of color portraying the character. At the stage door, however, she gets the biggest compliment when fans come up to her to say, “Thank you. This is the Hermione I read in the books.”

“What's exciting for the younger generation is that there are conversations going on amongst themselves and they're challenging each other, and I want to be part of that, going, ‘Yay! I'm here cheerleading you on!’” she continues. “The closest I can get to that at the moment is being Hermione in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.”

While there are seven books of source material, which she and the cast all studied, Dumezweni recalls Rowling telling her, when they offered her the part, “I want you to do it and it will bring something else, which is all with you right there in the books.” For the actress, what resonated most was Hermione’s interest in fairness and justice. “A specificity to Hermione is all in the books,” she says. But she was able to connect with the character on another level -- as a grown woman and a mother -- that’s new to the story. In the show, Hermione is now married to Ron Weasley and the two have a child together. “There’s a world there.”

Ultimately, she and the production got Rowling’s blessing. The author, who was at the first preview in London, was in awe after seeing it. “She was in awe of the world that had been created,” Dumezweni recalls.

Now two months into performances on Broadway -- and nearly two years into playing Hermione onstage -- Dumezweni is not afraid to admit it’s still hard. Three times a week, both plays -- running two and a half hours each -- are performed on the same day with a dinner break in between. Everyone “is working their tits off,” she says. But it’s those days she finds thrilling. “There is something about the continuation of a story,” she says, that gives her the stamina to keep going during long days. “It's the epic storytelling. The same audience is coming back, so they've gotten to know each other by the break and they're sharing that electricity.”

With seven more months left on her contract for the current run, Dumezweni hasn’t been able to think about too many outside projects. However, she’s managed to squeeze in a few screen roles. She’s set to appear on Netflix and BBC’s eight-part political thriller Black Earth Rising, starring John Goodman and Michaela Coel, as well as Mary Poppins Returns with Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, who sent a note congratulating her on her Tony nomination. “I had a couple of scenes in that, which is such a joy to be part of,” she teases.

Ultimately, the opportunity to be in The Cursed Child has allowed her to not to feel limited in what she does or who she works with. “If you meet the right people to work with, make the choices about the people that we want to experiment with and play with in the rehearsal room, you never know where it's going to lead,” Dumezweni says, calling the play“the greatest gift.”

“Once I've put my foot on stage for the scene that I am in, and play with my fellow actors, I'm happy. I'm absolutely happy.”

The 2018 Tony Awards hosted by Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles will be handed out live at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Sunday, June 10, starting at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.

 STANDOUT PERFORMANCES ON BROADWAY:

Tonys 2018: The Silent Rise of ‘Children of a Lesser God’ Actress Lauren Ridloff (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: Taylor Louderman Becomes the Queen Bee of Broadway (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: The Crossroads That Led Nathan Lane to ‘Angels in America’ (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: Ethan Slater on Bringing SpongeBob to Life on Broadway (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: Andrew Garfield on the Gift of Performing ‘Angels in America’ (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: After ‘Game of Thrones,’ Diana Rigg Makes a Celebrated Return to Broadway (Exclusive)

Tonys 2018: How Grey Henson Made Damian More Than a GBF in ‘Mean Girls’ (Exclusive)