#inanotherlife

[spam-that-garbage]

if you’ve ever made a post saying ‘Go read In Another Life by LittleLuxray’ there’s a circle of hell reserved for you. The tear stain on my pillow is nearly as unhappy about this as i am.

[brasideios]

I’m just going to embrace the angst, like I embraced writing OCs. I’m not fighting it anymore.

It will all end well, but there is tragic backstory that must be told first. I don’t make the rules.

[helloescapist]

just thinking about InAnotherLife!Genya who buys out your contract before your debut

Just thinking about InAnotherLife!Gyomei who must leave Sayo in your care.

Just thinking about InAnotherLife!Shinobu who dies at peace with her soul for only knowing you are well

Just thinking about InAnotherLife!Obanai who must watch the first person he has ever loved, love another

Just thinking about InAnotherLife!Muichiro who must abandon adolescence for duties.

Angst inspiration is hitting hard, cannot wait to revisit this series in two months! Sanemi and Rengoku's pieces are honestly my pride and joy as a writer.

[superhazykid]

[forbiddenblackdreams]

they can't take my imagination from me. that's what this account is for... to imagine things different.

[ask-the-byakuya-togami]

Hiya! Mod here again! So, as of now our little roleplay blog thingy is about a third of the cast of THH, but that left me to wonder if there are maybe more roleplay blogs out there!

Like, I would really love the get to include more characters cuz that can be fun! So, if you are a THH roleplay blog (or have been thinking of making one) just respond! Rn I think there's a Byakuya (me), Makoto (@the-ultimate-hope-naegi), Leon (@ask-leon-kuwataa), Chihiro (@ask-chihiro-fujisaki14-roleplay), Hiro (@fortune-telling-fxg), Junko (@ask-enoshima), Taka (@kiyotakaishimaru-official), Hina (@aoi-asahina-rp), Celeste (@queenofliars-inanotherlife), Hifumi (@the-alpha-and-the-omega-fanfics) and Sayaka (@p0ps3ns4t10n)

So, that's it! Just interact if u want- don't feel the need to update often or interact with anybody too! :D

Also, hope the others of our 'group'- can I call it that lol?- don't mind me posting this. It feels very much weird, but also wanted to do it still...

[taweretsdagger]

"he walks among us, but is not one of us:" lost's tragic, (probably) autistic doctors

have been thinking about jack, juliet, and their relationship so much lately, inspired by so much good jack analysis from @eponine119 and @lost-inanotherlife, as well as @youmovedthenachos' discussion of viewing jack as autistic. the more i think about it the more i see this for both him and juliet.

i also think there are some specific differences in how the two behave which can be (at least partially) explained by how autism manifests/is interpreted depending on gender presentation and socialization, but in this post i'll stay focused on their similarities since i can already tell it's gonna be a long one!

both characters similarly display the following signs of autism: strong internal sense of justice (and disregard for social/institutional norms in favor of this), hyperfocus/competence in areas of interest, and a persistent sense of social isolation.

one of the reasons jack and juliet's relationship is so intriguing to me is that they project these traits onto each other, turning the other into a receptacle for the things they want for themselves but cannot bring about on their own. it's a tense, often unpleasant dynamic to watch--somewhat like two mirrors eerily reflecting back and forth into infinity. but the mutual understanding and mutual desire to heal beneath the surface of this tension keeps me hooked and rooting for them.

i'll start off by discussing two of these traits together (hyper-focus/competence and sense of justice/disregard for norms), since i think these are shown most clearly through their lives pre-island, while their social isolation is primarily shown to us on-island.

jack and juliet are doctors who are miraculously gifted in their respective fields, accomplishing medical feats which should be impossible. both sarah and rachel are in seemingly unrecoverable physical conditions which are reversed through jack and juliet's interventions, against all odds. ben and richard also become aware of juliet's prowess as a doctor/researcher due to her success impregnating a male field mouse.

we learn from juliet that jack graduated med school a year early, and i tend to believe that juliet might have done the same (or graduated college early/skipped a grade/etc.), considering that finishing med school at age 26 would leave her only 4 years before being recruited to the island in 2001.

so, we have two people who are near-prodigal in one specific area, but whose lives outside their work are something of a mess. they struggle with personal relationships, struggle to feel confident and secure in their abilities, and are easily influenced by nefarious actors (christian for jack, ed for juliet) who take advantage of their skill and their trusting nature. these dynamics definitely contribute to their sense of isolation/lack of belonging, which i'll come back to in a bit.

both of them also blur (at minimum) the doctor-patient relationship with personal relationships and interact with institutional rules as an afterthought, prioritizing what they personally feel is the right thing to do. juliet steals lab supplies on rachel's behalf (likely for months on end), while jack waffles on whether to turn in his father for operating while drunk, only deciding to do so once he learns that the patient who died as a result was pregnant.

it's a common misconception that the "autistic sense of justice" is part and parcel with a universally-keen moral compass, but in reality this "justice" gets doled out based on whatever specific biases the person possesses. jack's case illustrates this especially clearly; rather than turning in christian right away (because operating under the influence = immoral), he needs a reason to act which aligns with his personal moral code, which certainly has a good bit of misogyny baked into it.

ok, let's move to on-island, and discuss jack and juliet's social isolation and desire to belong, which relates to the title of this post (the translation of jack's tattoos, though n.b. that he does say this is "not what they mean").

it's common for autistic people to feel "alien" in the presence of other humans, and there's research showing that allistic people experience an uncanny valley effect within seconds of meeting an autistic person, due to micro-differences in behavior which are not picked up on consciously. this effect can also contribute to autistic people being susceptible to abuse, since abusers will quickly clock these traits and seek to use them to their advantage.

we are shown the relevance of jack's tattoo translation largely in the context of his (often reluctant) leadership position among the survivors, but it's interesting that juliet also describes in a therapy session with harper that the attention she receives from their society makes her feel isolated. it's significant to me as well that harper immediately interprets this discomfort as juliet being self-important/arrogant. this sort of misunderstanding is a common experience in autistic women in particular, and distinguishes her position among the others from jack's position among the survivors (again, more on this another time).

formation of societies/communities and what makes someone "one of them" vs. "one of us" is a recurring theme throughout the show, and i think that part of why jack defends juliet so adamantly to the survivors is due to the kinship he feels in their shared desire to belong and their incapability of experiencing this belonging. of course, this is tied up with the affection he feels for juliet due to her resemblance to sarah, as well as his stubborn (again, largely misogynistic) desire to "fix" or "save" her like he did sarah.

really, these motivations go hand in hand, and i'd argue that much of jack's compulsion to save juliet is a sign of the projection i described earlier. jack grew up lonely and abused, seemingly without any allies around the way juliet had an ally in rachel. correctly or not, he sees himself in juliet, and yearns to save her the way he wishes he himself had been saved.

jack's plan a = him and juliet escaping the island (and the forces oppressing them both) on the galaga, which is... ahem... foiled by locke (who--you guessed it! serves as a foil to both characters... in disparate ways... that can be viewed as a, uhh... foil-within-a-foil... buuuut that's another post for another day).

a tough break to be sure, but jack's hero complex perseveres. plan b = bringing juliet back to the beach camp, the place where jack kind-of-sort-of belongs, but not quite. this poses a new challenge, a new opportunity for projection. if jack can successfully integrate juliet--an other--into the survivors' camp and bring about belonging for her, then maybe he himself can finally feel that belonging, too.

another plot point worth mentioning here is the "pre-plan a" plan, or juliet's plea for jack to kill ben during surgery. i honestly have a tough time parsing out her exact motivations here (GOD i love juliet's villain era <3), but this can be read as a type of projection as well. juliet cannot save herself from ben, but she can project her desire to be saved onto jack, who has the specific skills needed to botch a complicated spinal surgery without anyone being the wiser.

to close out, we'll discuss the dynamic present in the survivors' camp at the end of season 3. this is one of my favorite stretches of episodes in the show, in part due to the brief gasp we get of jack's positive character growth before things begin to devolve for him at the start of season 4. i think the success he finds in his quest to secure belonging for juliet is a huge part of this growth being possible.

after juliet comes clean about ben's plot, the camaraderie jack waxed poetic about in his "live together, die alone" speech is finally realized. the survivors have managed to correctly assess an outsider as a threat and win her over into defecting from her previous loyalties. (in classic LOST fashion this all happens pretty messily, but regardless, it shows that the survivors have established a true, functional community.) as a result, jack feels more comfortable than ever stepping into the leadership role he's been grappling with for months.

with juliet at his side, he leads the group in mounting a defense against the others and evacuating the beach. we even see him willing to let go of his possessiveness over kate while still expressing his love for her, as he literally ascends to the radio tower. his people--his society, the place where he finally belongs, and, significantly, where juliet belongs--are right beside him.

from there, two things happen which topple us into the next phase of jack and juliet's relationship: first, juliet lies to jack about a gun cache so jack will let her and sawyer return to the beach (a descent, if you will, and i think it's significant that this is the first time we see sawyer and juliet interact amicably), and second, our old foil-friend locke comes out of the woodwork yet again--this time to kill naomi.

at this point, the differences between jack and juliet start to manifest, and from here on out their relationship will be dominated by these differences. they will continue to project their traits onto each other the way they did their similarities; however, rather than this projection culminating in a sense of shared belonging and communal purpose like it did in season 3, it turns more adversarial/destructive and contributes in part to both characters' tragic ends.

so, apart from their initial difficulty experiencing belonging, what do jack and juliet's relationship and on-island experiences have to do with autism? well, another hallmark of autism is a weak internal sense of self. many autistic people struggle to name their emotions, physical sensations, desires, etc., and instead rely on external inputs to identify these. in my view, this is the purpose jack and juliet's relationship serves for them--it beings about a "necessary other," through whom they can identify their own wants and needs.

when jack and juliet meet, they are both locked (LOCKED?) into roles they want out of (jack, literally, as a prisoner, with juliet as a captor trapped under ben's influence). both are desperate for someone to save, or for someone to save them. maybe a little of both. i wouldn't say they find healing in each other, exactly, but i think their relationship is a catalyst for what healing and growth they are able to find elsewhere, despite it also catalyzing their demise.

[ask-chihiro-fujisaki14-roleplay]

Chihiro, I've recently come into a sum of money. Perhaps in addition to coffee, we could go on a shopping spree? Or even save it for another time if that's too much all in one day. I know we previously talked about fashion, so I think it would be very fun to try on and buy different outfits and accessories.

@queenofliars-inanotherlife

Oh I'd love that! Going shopping sounds like a lot of fun.

I'll bring some of my own money as well!

[themattress]

Apparently, Chihiro/Celeste is a pretty popular ship and I didn't quite understand why.

This was basically their sole interaction in the original game:

Then I saw @queenofliars-inanotherlife and @ask-chihiro-fujisaki14-roleplay's RP.

One's innocent, the other not so much, but both lie about their identities out of deep-rooted self esteem issues. They'd be able to understand each other more than almost anyone else.

...Plus, it's just plain cute. There's also that.

[fukawas-words]

🖊 . . " N-Not that you'll remember my n-name anyway, but... I'm T-Toko... Toko Fukawa. "

✂️ . . IC INFO

18 – 19 ult writing prodigy

she / her lesbian

– more hcs will be added eventually i think ^_^

🖊 . . INFO + RULES

rp / ask blog for toko fukawa !! go crazy guys BUT make sure to follow the rules below :D

1 ) dont be weird. the character may not be a minor but i am!!

2 ) magic asks/curses are allowed!! go crazy :D

3 ) art of asks/interactions are fine & encouraged!! you dont even have to ask 🙏

4 ) shippings fine just nothing weird and dont be over 18 oorp please.

5 ) ooc asks are allowed!! specify if its for me ooc though or direct it to my main blog

6 ) feel free to send rp prompts or anything similar to my asks or dms ! if any of the other rp blogs want to do a planned event / interaction please lmk through dms

my main blog is @piercethearataka !!

✂️ . . TAGS

⌗  ooc posts    ╱    posts ooc (  ﹗   )

⌗  toko writes    ╱    ic post ( 🖊   )

⌗  inquires    ╱    ask answering (  ?   )

⌗   free time event   ╱    interactions w/ classmates (  ✂️   )

arc / event tags will be added

✂️ . . CLASSMATES

other rp blogs part of this below!! (ive seen a few of them tag everyone so thought i would too ^_^)

🍀 @the-ultimate-hope-naegi

💸 @ask-the-byakuya-togami

⚾️ @ask-leon-kuwata

💻 @ask-chihiro-fujisaki14-roleplay

🔮 @fortune-telling-fxg

🎀 @ask-enoshima

📋 @moral-compass-kiyotaka

🍩 @aoi-asahina-rp

🎲 @queenofliars-inanotherlife

📝 @the-alpha-and-the-omega-fanfics

🎤 @p0ps3ns4t10n

🗡 @wolfbxtten

[aoi-asahina-rp]

I must say, your antics have been quite amusing. I can't wait to see what you'll burn down next.

Do you plan to get a makeover as well, like Maizono?

@queenofliars-inanotherlife

i will probably guarantee me or Leon will burn something down in the next 48 hours because we suck at cooking but um anywayy- 🤭 and I think it would be cool to get a makeover! I jus need a person who would wanna help me with that.. I've actually been pretty into the scenecore style! so if anyone specializes in that lmk!

[brasideios]

Soo... The next chapter of Another Life is now pretty much sketched out.

At last I’m writing something entirely new, rather than building on what had already been drafted long ago. I am relief.

Maybe it’s because I’m rusty, but its coming out in a much less coherent state than I’m used to - ideas tumbling all over each other, no clear cut order to it, and still my OCs are being pushy - but the gods know I’ll take it, however it comes.

Fingers crossed that I can stay with it this time.

[icefeather22]

Hmm, would you say you are a friend to me?

@queenofliars-inanotherlife

If you want to consider me one, lol! tbh I just interact with the rp every now and again (mostly with the chihiro and celestia acc) but I don't rlly participate. Why?

[theultimateparkourist]

Would you like to play a game?

@queenofliars-inanotherlife

Hm, alright! What did you have in mind?

[ask-the-byakuya-togami]

Mod here once again! While our lovely group has been expending, I have to warn everybody that the Sakura account is FAKE. It's the AOI dude. With Sakura acc I mean the 'Sakura-ogami-rp'/ 'King-non Asahina' one- do NOT interact with it- just block it

@the-ultimate-hope-naegi @ask-chihiro-fujisaki14-roleplay @p0ps3ns4t10n @aoi-asahina-rp @queenofliars-inanotherlife

Please tag the others if I missed somebody- these are just the usernames I could think of.

[ask-chihiro-fujisaki14-roleplay]

*knock knock*

Fujisaki? Are you available?

@queenofliars-inanotherlife

Oh, yeah! Did you need something, Celeste?