#then there'd be an issue

[youngpettyqueen]

I know the decision to have Julian's parents have him augmented was made on the fly but imo its pretty obvious from early on that Julian has Family Issues because he avoids talking about his family like the plague and I think they should've incorporated this into the Julian and Sisko dynamic right from early on because I think it would've made for some really compelling stories and moments and could've set up a REALLY interesting Julian and Jake dynamic which they kinda started to do but never fully went for

[books-and-dragons]

I'm so sorry, I'm kinda drunk and dropping another idea, do with it whatever ye will.

Yknow how in the beginning of the game, Sojiro tells Ren he won't take care of him when he gets sick?

Consider: he's not used to city germs/being that closely shoved against other people on the train. He DOES start to get sick around Kamoshida's Palace, powers through it, and then is SUPER sick just after it's over.

He plans on sucking it up and hiding it, but Futaba hears his hacking coughs over her bug even when he's upstairs, followed by wheezing, maybe even a little weeping. He's constantly in and out of the bathroom, and he's starting to run out of tissues.

Futaba nervously texts Sojiro that the kid they took in sounds awful. Sojiro is gruff at first and says he's not a baby, he can take care of himself. She responds by sending him the audio and suddenly Dad Instincts kick in

y/n

obviously it's a YES, our brainrots continue because early-game ren and sojiro dynamics break my heart every time how dare you get me so invested in this idea, this post got too long so it's going under a read more

listen listen look i love sojiro and the coffee family okay, but early-game?? sojiro could catch these hands

ren has already been though so much by the time he arrives in tokyo, to then be put into a dusty old attic like a spare part would absolutely fit in with ren's own perception of himself at that stage. it would be almost too easy for him to put his own health on the backburner kinda like he's already used to it

very used to not taking up space, 'not being a bother', and then sojiro really reinforces this message when ren first gets to leblanc- so when ren inevitably gets ill a month into his probation, it's already doomed for maladaption

tokyo would be such a breeding ground for sickness compared to the countryside, and ren just doesn't have the consitution to deal with it. the dusty attic and poor eating habits don't help matters, and then we have the stress of kamoshida and the metaverse?? ren is not having a Good Time™

at first it's something he thinks he can shrug off, and is adamant that ignoring it is the way to go. a cold, it's nothing, he can handle this alone, no need to bother anyone else with it.

inevitably, he gets worse, because that's what happens when you don't rest and let yourself recover. a tickly cough becomes a tightness in his chest, mild congestion shifts into an attack on his senses and blurriness- but maybe that's the dizziness. he's not really sleeping, either.

it's something that's becoming increasingly difficult to brush off and hide, he even relented to finally getting some medicine (nothing as strong as he needs by this point, that would eat too much into his limited funds, but some painkillers to take the edge off). once or twice he's tempted to stay off school, at morgana's insistence, or a too close call where he definitely blacked out for a minute, but then sojiro's voice will ring in his head 'i won't be the one looking after you if you get sick', 'your parents got rid of you for being a pain in the ass', and all his worst insecurities come rushing back and he's resolved to deal with it on his own

meanwhile, futaba's been making use of her hidden audio bugs- normally they're a comfort for her in the daytime, but since the new kid- ren- has been staying at the cafe (part-timer her ass, how gullible does sojiro think she is?!), she's been listening more frequently. when ren gets sick, she figures it out quickly.

time goes on, he's not getting better- he's actually getting worse- and futaba starts to wonder if she's the only one who knows

(there's something in his sharp contrasts- the quiet kid who shuffles through the cafe and takes sojiro's scolding, to the coughing kid who cries into the silence of night when he thinks there's nobody there to see it- that stabs through her numbness. it feels like a companion to her own ghost)

one night she swears the kid gets up to be sick, and there's hardly any sound heard from the attic all night. if nobody's gonna help ren, then she will (futaba used to like helping, once upon a time).

she texts sojiro the next day, when ren doesn't say anything again, and goes off to school with what she bets is a fake assurance on his face

and you're so right, sojiro dismisses her concern really easily, claims the kid can 'take care of himself' and he won't 'baby' the part-timer. insists ren needs to learn some disipline, then maybe he'll stay out of trouble

frustration wells in futaba- if she was less fixated on what was going on with ren, she'd register it's one of the first changes of mood she's had for months- and she responds with nothing but an audio clip, an attached explanation that this is just from the past few days- it's been going on for weeks, then she waits, and hears the distant sound of her compilation through one of the bugs, a hitched breath from sojiro, curse words under his breath-

for all his earlier postulating about not helping ren if he gets sick, sojiro is immeditely struck with a pang of concern- it sounded bad, and if futaba's words were anything to go by, this had been going on for a while. the kid's at school now (at school, being as ill as that and he was still going to class-), so sojiro will talk to him when he gets back. there's a chance he goes a bit too over the top, between the variation of medicines he purchases, supplies he grabbed from home- if you accused him for over-compensating after maybe being too harsh on the kid in the beginning, you'd be right

and you just know ren would be so resistent at first to help, or even just the offer of staying off school. in his sickness-induced fugue, ren's filter-less in rattling off how he can't stay off, what will the students and teachers think, and he has work that afternoon, and a test soon, and he doesn't want to get in the way-

sojiro's heart just shatters

this kid, whose been silently carring the weight of the world and has apparently been falling to pieces for weeks now and sojiro didn't even notice?

(a part of it reminds him too much of the other kid he's got at home, the countless ways he's already failed futaba, and now ren too? he feels useless)

sojiro focuses on what he can do, and that's making the kid rest. work will understand, school can wait, ren isn't an inconvenience, he guides the kid to bed, calls takemi immediately (who rushes over, despite the fact she's technically closed at this hour, and refuses to take any payment),

even still, there's this stilted awkwardness between them when the quiet pushes on too long- they hardly know each other, afterall. sojiro is still figuring out the 'caring for kids' thing, and ren isn't familiar with any kind of parental affection, so some of sojiro's care veers a bit too close to clinical or mechanic, and ren still struggles to communicate what kind of help he needs, but it's enough for now.

for now, sojiro is there. he's trying, and at least ren's getting some colour back on his skin. for now, ren's willing to take a few days off and have some medicine, but he's over-apologetic and definitely tries to make up for his sickness once he's healed. it's gonna take them both a while yet, but luckily there's always their guardian hacker, ready and able to call them out when needed (and maybe some day she'll be able to keep an eye on ren and sojiro in person)

[mantegato]

just thinking about ykvi n my art like... check this out

^ not her first design, but the first version i ever drew of her current design! this was may 2014

^ then this was a redraw of her i did in oct 2017, and tho i've drawn her a couple times since i haven't liked any of them as much as this so it's stayed on her petlookup this whole time lol

and THIS the most recent sketch of her... not done yet obviously bc i havent been able to draw rly, and there are issues that need fixed but im liking it so far and just !!! it's wild how much better this one is even in sketch form than the first one :']

[cockonfetti]

Zosan fic idea that I need to get outta my system!!

- The Sanji Buddy Rota -

its finally zoros turn on the "help sanji thru (sic!) family dinner" rota. not sanjis first second and third choice, in fact he's always skipped him on his turns and no one ever complained, but turns out Zoro’s perfectly good at it, neither too charming nor too abrasive

some snippets

(it happened on a drunk late night, after sanji had finally opened up abt it "we're gonna beat them up" luffy said gravely, "YES" a few yelled, punching the air, as zoro,who sanji had thought was asleep, grumbled "I'll fillet the bodies enough so no one can find them" "you dont even know what that means" "course i do! it means cutting them up, das enough-" "no, you baboon, dicing is the better way" "more meat!"

"STOP" namis fist rattled the glasses of varying content. "that will create more problems than it solves. what we need is a buddy system. a sanji rota, like a chore chart that strikes 3 for one of us each time. he's never going there alone again" the crew hummed (or cheered) in varying degrees of agreeableness "that way we can figure out their weaknesses when we finally off them, perhaps some libel will suffice" she checks her nails with a huff, then smirks "and eat and steal what those rich assholes dont appreciate. you dont mind, right?" "nami, dear, your mind amazes me, i could never oppose anything that blossoms from it")

~~~

(no one else has time or strength left. but he'll never agree to it, right? or just make fun of him, or mess up.

"just ask him, man." Usopp groans.

when zoro just says, "sure when?" he says it without any delay and uncertainty, like sanji simply asked him to breathe, or for his heart to beat, or, well, for him to beat someone up for sanji.

noted.)

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Rise of Red gonna still have me forever bitter we never gonna see the aftermath of D3. We never gonna see more villain kids as they settle down in Auradon and try to be good but likely struggle. We never gonna see if Mal was right to free the villains alongside the kids or if she was wrong and that some villains do want revenge still and that Mal based her decision simply on her dad doing one good thing and that was it. We never gonna see if Auradon fully changes or not. There is literally so much that aftermath of D3 could tackle in films, but no, ignore that I guess, say it all worked out somehow and just jump straight to fucking Wonderland plot with time travel for some reason.

[sixamese-simblr]

We talk a lot about tumblr politics but reddit politics is also fascinating. On the front page of the website there's regularly posts from r/antiwork from 14 year olds who think their mom asking them to do the dishes is bourgeois oppression, and posts from r/fluentinfinance from 14 year olds who wonder why poor people are too lazy to ask their dad for a better job

[existencebringsonlypain]

I don't know if my elementary and middle school education was just leagues above some other schools or what, but sometimes I'm amazed at how much basic knowledge high-schoolers don't know

[super-rangers]

okay same anon from this morning I’m back from rereading chapter 1!!

I love that Regina is already repressing her attraction to Janis before she even gets hit by a bus lmao girlie never had a chance. I swear if she wouldn’t have had a redemption arc they still would’ve ended up hate fucking at a graduation party or something

She's been repressing that attraction since 6th grade lmao It'd be unrealistic if I didn't include any thirst from the very beginning

no but you're a genius,,they definitely would have hate fucked and it would've caused a cataclysmic spiral in both of them

[red-dragon-archfiend]

My Yugioh anime hot take of the night is Alexis Rhodes might've been the main character if Jaden wasn't set in stone as the protagonist

[myrfing]

i feel like even though we got to go to thavnair we never really got to delve deep into it. it was mostly vrtra business, the great work, and The Econony which all mostly scrapes the surface. if only crafting stuff was in radz (bloodshot eyes still going on about this)

[blackvahana]

Yeah. Man. I'm just sitting here remembering I've been doing this my entire life. I feel like there was a patch I wasn't, part of the teen years, and that's either I've forgotten because trauma orrrr something else but

No wonder I've never felt anchored on this plane. But it doesn't matter, well, no, it matters a lot, but this life is just constantly isolating in how it works so I will keep the talk of not fitting in here and what being weirdly one got in one foot out has done to talking to myself lmfao but... I remember. I remember being in the garden as a really young child and I'm not a young child. I'm this chimaeric fairy-type thing of swirling and bulging colours like a psychedelic faceted-insect-eye's led trip, four or more wings of different types that are again, so ungrounded, so psychedelic, vivid. Not uncertain. Not half-formed. Fully formed, the starbeing in me just barely contained in the shape of the human-pretending-to-be-a-fae it's pretending to be

I remember so much, actually, and it's. it's just weirdly melancholic....? Maybe not melancholic, but it's so sad and I don't know why. Actually. I mean I've been trying to piece it together for like twenty minutes now but... People get a little irritated at me for being very "you don't understand and no one sees me" but like. I have lived an entire life walkinv streets where no one sees me. It's very complicated, there's. mental health stuff in there because of course I've come across a lot of spirits but I have bad issues seeing people as real but like. Man yeah no I am a snail and one part of me can be physically seen but the other has always been on the other side

[decepti-thots]

i'm still not quite calling it, but roberts calling the potential 2024 companion book for mtmte his expected 'last word' on the series and the last two volumes of the notebooks being his seeming priority right now, i'm getting to a point where i think it's very likely he's not going to be selling any further scripts. that is, re: the digitization project and access. hnnn.

[lesenbyan]

Scientists: want so badly for adult children who are friends with and/or still dependant on parents for money or a roof to be Bad that they are intentionally looking for detriment in the study results

Study results: so overwhelmingly positive they can't actually find the data needed to twist the narrative

Scientists: >:|

[pilferingapples]

I just gotta share that following your blog with only the faintest understanding of Les Mis is fun, though one of your latest asks really threw me for a loop when you mentioned FMA. I sat there confused how there's a Full Metal Alchemist translation of Les Mis.

listen I've been in this fandom intensely for *mumble* years now and STILL it throws me

but also it's even weirder to me that there aren't a dozenty FMA/ LM mashup/AUs??

[uupiic]

Late night thought: They should've just called DA2, Dragon Age: Kirkwall.

Because that's what it is.

[duckapus]

Destistential Crisis

Between being dead for four years and not knowing whether or not she counts as the "real" Desti, DST-19 has been going through it ever since the end of the Haltmann war, and as much as the crew and her old teammates are trying to help most of them have similar hangups over it. The only exceptions are 3(who's offered his services as a therapist if she wants), Melony, the Hologram Trio and the kids, since none of them actually met the original her. These issues end up leading to a crazy, somewhat stupid misadventure on this particular day, because this is the Mushroom Kingdom, damnit!

Meanwhile, the Admins try to figure out the appropriate response to the Haltmann triplets' existence and origins, and our main group do their best to make sure this doesn't all end in tragedy.