#in which tori writes

[cobra-wives]

ngl i dont like complaining but i’m a bit upset about how quickly we jumped over from tory’s mom dying to… keenry relationship drama. im seriously peeved about how many people are boiling tory and robby’s characters down to being romantic partners, and i don’t think the writers understand how leaning so heavily on keenry weakens both the individual journeys robby and tory go on — robby with his father/role as miyagi do’s captain/brotherhood with miguel/running in 2nd place, and tory with her mother/role as ck’s captain/relationship with kreese/betrayal of her friends. they CANNOT AND SHOULD NOT be each other’s personal saviors; they HAVE TO SAVE THEMSELVES.

[raelyn-dreams]

In light of fine's event announcement, I would like to formally welcome Eichi to the "Event 5-Stars Going Through The Horrors™️ (2024)" squad.

[cxtori]

wanting to write a wolverine/logan x reader enemies to lovers slow burn sooo badly. thoughts? 👀

[variousqueerthings]

writes many thousands of words of meta over the course of years to explain why cobra kai is about closeted gay people, when really I could've just left it at "it's a martial arts sports show in which everyone has a same-gender rival that they're obsessed with but can't admit to being obsessed with, while they blunder aimlessly from underwritten het-romance to underwritten het-romance"

[mixelation]

oh no i wrote another reborn au snippet instead of the thing i wanted to be writing. no. why

this one minato's POV because why not. mild body horror

“...and that’s why I’m nominating Tori for Team Medic,” Kushina concluded, hands triumphantly on her hips. 

Minato stared at her, and then stared down at the photographs carefully lined up across his desk. They were… graphic. He was so glad he hadn’t let Naruto play hookey from the Academy to hang around his office today. 

Usually brand new genin wouldn’t have a team medic. They simply aren’t qualified for it yet, and they rarely go on missions where one might be necessary. Then again, brand new genin usually don’t have a mission go so weird they need an extra special follow-up debriefing after the fact. 

This had happened to Team Four three times already. Twice for Deidara’s… art… and one time because Itachi had thought using genjutsu on another Konoha team would expedite their mission. It had not perturbed Kushina in the least. Her indomitable spirit was, of course, why Minato had assigned her this… difficult… of a team. But Tori too? Sure, she’d been in the process of fleeing Orochimaru when they’d picked her up, but… she’d seemed so sweet. So normal. 

Kushina’s eyes were hard and determined as she stared back at him, chin out, daring him to question her. It was a look he’d seen her level at countless Academy teachers. It was a look she’d given her commanding officers right before running off and doing something that got her all the demerits on her record. It was a look that reminded Minato that even if they agreed not to let their marriage enter their working relationship, she was never going to just defer to him if she thought he was making a bad call. 

“I think it’s a good idea,” Itachi said when Minato failed to comment. Itachi, in Minato’s opinion, was having a lot of problems adjusting to no longer being team captain. He gave a lot of commentary any other genin would be reprimanded for. “Tori is more suited to it than Deidara or I.”

“Oh yeah,” Deidara cut in, turning to Tori. “Didn’t you say you used to want to be a doctor?”

“Well,” Tori deadpanned. 

Well, Minato thought, staring down at the photos. A medical nightmare, the medic-nin had said. Only Kushina would come away from watching her student semi-accidentally rip someone’s skin off and then regrow it with a seal she made up on the spot and think: yep, make that girl a medic. 

In her written report, Tori had called the move “a desperate attempt to evade capture via a gross misapplication of the leaf technique (emphasis on gross).” She’d stuck her foot to an enemy ninja’s back with chakra, kicked, and ripped the entirety of his back’s skin clean off. Then it occurred to her they were supposed to port him back to Konoha for questioning and attempted to regrow his missing skin. She’d applied the world’s weirdest shaped seal along the edges of the wound and attempted to goad the living skin to grow over the now gaping hole. This had worked. The problem was that the skin had simply not stopped growing. It was still growing, according to the frazzled T&I-associated medic who’d come in only an hour before, even after they’d removed the seal. They were having to cut the skin back every hour to prevent it from overgrowing parts of the ninja that weren’t his back, and it was rapidly draining the man’s chakra. He required so much ongoing medical attention they couldn’t even stabilize him long enough to interrogate him. 

Kushina was still staring him down with her chin jutting out. Clearly she was defensive of even the nice girl on her team turning out to be a horrible monster. 

“We can discuss that later,” Minato settled on as his answer. “Tori, it is never acceptable to use an untested seal on a mission.”

“It was that or let him die,” Kushina immediately contested. “That’s why she should be team medic, you know. If she’d had something like Mystical Palm, she could have stabilized him in a more standardized way.” Kushina cocked her head at him, the hair framing her face shifting in a way Minato would consider a bit sexy if she weren’t currently arguing with him. “Besides, how many times have you used untested fuinjutsu on a mission?”

He didn’t have a counterargument to that. But he’d done those things as an adult and a jounin filled with experience. Also, he’d never made a horrifying skin-growing jutsu. 

Also also, you weren’t allowed to just bring up things like that to the Hokage.

“I can probably undo it,” Tori volunteered. 

Minato usually took care of fuinjutsu-gone-wrong incidents himself. If the problem had been the seal itself, he would have already gone down to T&I and looked at it himself, putting reprimanding and debriefing Team 4 off for later. But the problem had been something the seal had written into the very biology of the enemy ninja, and so Minato had relegated the problem to a medic-nin team to figure out. 

Minato leaned back in his chair, drumming his fingers on the desk as he contemplated Tori. She did a very bad job of looking like someone even the slightest bit exceptional. She looked like a completely ordinary twelve year old girl, and normally he’d dismiss her offer to help as the delusions of a child overestimating their talents. 

But looks were deceptive, especially among ninja. He’d seen her original seal. 

“Alright,” he decided. “We’ll walk down together.”

He dismissed the rest of the team, leaving them behind in the hallway as Tori scurried after him. She somehow managed to do this with the exact gait of a civilian child. T&I was going to be so upset.  

(“So are you still treating us to lunch?” Deidara loudly asked Kushina.)

The ninja was being kept in a low-security cell in T&I, on one of the upper levels for their underground facility. Tori did not seem the least bit disturbed by the whimpering man’s appearance of hundreds of globes of fleshy, slowly expanding, bloody nodules across his body. Minato found himself surprised he’d expected her to be upset for some reason– she was perfectly aware of what she’d done to him. She’d written about having to pause transport to cut away excess skin when it started to grow over his face in her report. 

Tori asked about if they’d run any tests and which ones, and Minato nodded at the on-staff medic-nin to answer her. The problem with making up fuinjustu on the spot– especially ones that affected the body– was that it wasn’t always clear how they were inducing changes. 

There hadn’t been time or resources for any tests. 

“This isn’t really undoing it,” Tori admitted to Minato, “but it wouldn’t be hard to temporarily stop it. I’ve even tested this one before.”

She doesn’t talk to me like I have more authority than the local librarian, Minato thought with mild chagrin as he sent someone off for fuinjutsu supplies. That had to be Kushina’s influence, or else Orochimaru’s interactions with his lackeys were a lot laxer than he’d have guessed. 

“If we wanted to get really funky,” Tori told him, her face brightening, as a chunin ran off for paper and ink, “we could carve it into his skin, and it’d last longer.”

Minato raised an eyebrow. “He’s already getting chakra infusions. I don’t think he’d be able to sustain it.” Tori frowned. Then because he couldn’t help himself, he asked, “Is that what you did the first time? I noticed you didn’t have any targeting elements to prevent getting yourself caught in it.”

That was on his list of things to tell her never to do again, actually. But he wasn’t used to thinking about this type of fuinjutsu. Maybe it didn’t matter and she’d hadn’t actually been one brushstroke away from growing her own skin all over the place. 

“No,” Tori answered, “I didn’t have a fine enough tool and his blood was going to mess everything up, so I…”

They ended up painting a targeted stasis seal on his back, just enough to keep the skin growth in check while still letting him talk to an interrogator. The medic-nin on standby looked incredibly on-edge the entire time. Minato rarely did surgical seals, and apparently if they screwed it up they could stop his heart, but Tori sounded like she knew exactly what she was doing and could easily describe to him her vision so they could both paint and make it go faster. She even incorporated Minato’s suggestions for containing the seal’s effects to a defined area without him having to diagram it out for her. Maybe he should approve her for team medic…

[happy-tori-friends]

mine creachures arrived (i underestimated how large they would be)

now they get to live on the dusty bedside shelf with some other friends :)

[suga-parade]

*dreamy sigh*

[rosie-tyler]

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[unbearable-lightness-of-ink]

so anyway I took another look at the old hatefic which went on pause because the source material is actually unredeemable but I still really stand by all the bits I added and the ocs and the concept overall so here's what I'm thinking:

actually go through and check which lines are mine and which are sourced so I can be sure I'm not plagiarising any phrasing. it's unlikely bc I remember really hating the source writing style and rewriting lots of entire scenes to be less painful to me but I need to be sure

rework some of the characters and setting to actually work for me, which also gives me tons of leeway for the plot stuff too. scrap anyone who isn't an oc and create ocs to replace anyone who's still necessary

figure out what's going on with all the characters who don't take off on a trauma bonding camping trip

figure out what the actual plot is. there's enough foreshadowing I didn't bother to figure out the meaning of that I should be able to do that, especially since I no longer have to be in any way beholden to the source worldbuilding

assess how gay it is and then make it gayer

[readbetween]

there was an incident at my bar (all's well) earlier in the week and my manager's takeaway to me, PERSONALLY, was, "jeez, you have a lot of material to write about working here!"

.. what does she KNOW

[yume-fanfare]

*LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER SOUND*

[privatelife]

my little brother clowning me for going to a concert for only one song but idk. im going alone, i wont be bothering anybody around me, im not going just for internet clout, it's not really a mainstream artist. i just get attached to SONGS a lot of the time and im not gonna deny myself the euphoria of experiencing art that's touched me live and in person simply because it's the only song im currently familiar with. i wont ever feel bad for it. but also because a part of me does feel weird and poser-y for such things it always pushes me to listen to more of their music anyways in preparation. so. idk. it ain't that deep it's just got me thinking... see more live music. it makes life worth living.

[quinnfabrayapologist]

Do you ever wonder how exactly there came to be such a transphobia problem in British feminism?

Not really. Pretty straightforward IMO.

Britain is highly patriarchal and pretty much just an oligarchy at this point, given the majority of people in charge were born rich and went to one of a handful of private schools. Fair amount of them are also journalists to some degree, or work with journalists on the regular, so when those pesky feminists wanted to dismantle their little boy's club, they stoked up a culture war to give them a new target.

A great example is the NHS. There's been issues lately with supply of oestrogen. I have a former classmate who is a raging transphobe and in her fifties. She's constantly on twitter talking about how the reason she can't get her hormone replacement therapy for her menopause is that trans women are taking all the oestrogen. Her source? A right wing newspaper linked to half of the current PM's cabinet. The real issue? The Tories have been systematically gutting and selling off the NHS since they came into power, which is causing shortages now, because the Tories want the NHS to fail so they can say 'see? NHS doesn't work. Time to privatise the whole thing' and make a mint doing it.

So basically, the minority we should actually be worried about - the 1%ers who have had everything handed to them on a silver platter all their lives, including some of the highest powers this land has to give, and are using that power to take our country apart for profit in the houses of parliament - have convinced a decent portion of feminists that a minority with basically no power is the root of all evil.

And so, using their institutional power (being the law-making elites) and their influential power (clickbait articles they've usually written themselves), they've convinced a portion of feminists that the upper-class, born-rich, bred for rule, blue-blooded bullies who thrive off the patriarchy aren't the problem, trans people are, and so the sect of feminists they've successfully turned against trans people are now fighting to uphold the patriarchy on behalf of the Conservatives and calling it feminism.

[toxictrannyfreak]

Good to know that I was right. Cobra Kai got so fucking shitty after episode 1

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Being honest though, I may shit on YGO GX in areas...but its a still better YGO successor then something like Zexal or Arc-V.

[shadowsong26x]

things that occurred as i am pondering 'percussive maintenance':

...poor sam, stuck being the awkwardest fifth wheel in the universe for two thousand years lol.