Ichigo had just been kicked out of the Soul Palace and rather than going home to sulk, he went to Ikumi’s house.
Personally, I interpret this in two ways.
1.) These are the people that Ichigo doesn’t want to disappoint the most. They hold and trust him in the highest regard, therefore he doesn’t want to see them again until he’s well enough to earn their support again.
He doesn’t want to show vulnerability to those he aims to impress.
Or
2.) These are the people Ichigo refuses to be vulnerable around simply because he can’t trust them.
If Ichigo ever cried in front of Isshin, he’d come out of the conversation with a black eye (Isshin’s love language, shown to nobody but Ichigo)
For Chad and Orihime, they have shown an unwillingness to allow Ichigo to be vulnerable. They seem to have trouble allowing Ichigo to be moody without either taking it personally or telling him he shouldn’t feel anything.
Prime example:
Ichigo just found out his close friend defected to the enemy’s side. To ally himself with the person who killed both their mothers.
Ichigo’s allowed to brood about that but these two don’t allow it. (Not in a slanderous way, I just think they have a perfect image of Ichigo that doesn’t include his “darker sides”)
Anyways, based on the ending of the manga the reasoning is probably the first one.
But I personally think the narrative better supports the second reason.
I agree, the narrative supports Ichigo holding back from them because he doesn't trust them.
He repeatedly pushes them away or fakes confidence in front of them rather than have any real moment of vulnerability or connection, and most important to the Ikumi moment is that the TYBW situation comes on the heels of TLA where, when he was the most vulnerable and in need of support in the entire series mentally, emotionally and in-battle, these two actively, literally fought against him - ignoring his pleads for them to listen to him the whole time.
Chapter 546 is titled "Hear Me", and the whole point of it is that he is trying to get Inoue and Chad to listen to him that Tsukishima is a bad guy, but they won't. Not for a moment. They don't trust him enough to listen to or believe him at all, not even to listen and consider his words. They simply reject him and chastise him and turn their weapons against him on Tsukishima's word.
Ichigo has had hard proof that in a he-said-I said situation they will not only not take his side, they won't even listen to it.
Just look at Ichigo's face, read his words, and then look at how Inoue and Chad respond to his vulnerability and attempts to reach out.
Inoue shuts Ichigo down over and over with this look like "I knew it. I knew you were like this deep down and I hoped you'd be better, but you're not", the distrust and dislike and suspicion she had as soon as his hollow power appeared flaring full-force with Tsukishima making her remember meeting him first and so being the one she had a crush on:
Chad is the opposite. Just shouting and glaring and blaming Ichigo for everything while he lectures with proverbial cotton wool in his ears, deaf to everything Ichigo has to say. He's patronizing, demanding over and over why Ichigo won't see things from his pov, but not once giving Ichigo space to say his side:
Again: just LOOK at Ichigo's FACE:
No amount of "I knew Tsukishima first" or "Tsukishima is also my friend" excuses the sheer coldness and refusal to offer sympathy the two of them show toward Ichigo here. Of course he wouldn't ever want to get close to that position with them ever again.
They are not safe to be hurt and vulnerable around.
On the other hand, after dealing with them Ichigo is now wary and trying not to be hurt by betrayal and rejection when Ishida shows up in 548 his expression is closing off:
Which is an expression much closer to the look he gets from here on out whenever anything is going wrong if Chad and/or Inoue are there.
Also, I don't recall Ichigo expressing thanks, gratitude or appreciation for either of them no matter what they do or do for him for the entire rest of the manga.
The closest for Chad is chapter 661 when Ichigo gives this wordless look and then turns away when Chad elects to stay behind to handle the statues Yhwach sent to whittle away the group Ichigo was approaching with:
And Ichigo acknowledging Inoue is the only one with him and therefore the one he'll have to rely on in 672, though he never follows through and actually relies on her:
So I think it can be argued that, at the latest, after TLA Ichigo permanently closed off parts of himself from these two.
The Fullbring Arc did irreparable damage to the Karakura Team’s dynamic and cracked any sort of trust they might’ve had for each other. Mostly Ichigo towards Orihime and Chad.
And in a way, it is shown to us in TYBW where
Example A:
He takes the first chance to rendezvous with Rukia and Renji despite knowing that Orihime and Chad likely couldn’t keep up with him even with Orihime’s powers helping them float.
+ Showing a willingness to leave them in enemy territory despite knowing how dangerous the remaining enemies are.
Example B:
Refusing to tell them what Yhwach’s ability is despite Yhwach telling him not too long ago.
Example C:
Not telling Orihime his plan despite allowing her to engage in a battle where the opponent could take her life at any given moment.
Orihime and Chad both have very faulty loyalty towards Ichigo and TYBW gives us glimpses of Ichigo reciprocating their treatment of him.
Orihime and Chad both have very faulty loyalty towards Ichigo and TYBW gives us glimpses of Ichigo reciprocating their treatment of him
Exactly! Ichigo is very much matching their energy in the relationship and reduced his expectations and investment accordingly when they showed how low their trust and loyalty to him really was.
He does this with all of his relationships. He'll give a lot to begin with, then gives what he gets back after that.
Best example: Byakuya, who is an inverse of Ichigo's relationship with Chad and Inoue this way.
He let their relationship reset after he knew the truth of Byakuya's conflict and motivations in regard to the execution, treated him as an equal and a friend, then, after Byakuya showed up for him in Hueco Mundo, and then SHOWED UP FOR HIM in TLA by giving him, unasked and unseen at the time, all the loyalty and trust he'd been literally begging all his friends and family for, he showed up for Byakuya, giving him precedence over everyone, even his closest shinigami friend Rukia when she was down and bleeding.
The above is a video shared by smrchildsadness on Twitter, showing a person participating in a pride parade exchanging a pride flag with a person standing on his (am using his pronoun based on the TikToks/Tweets of what happened) doorway who had a Portuguese flag. There are sounds of cheers and crying and the two people hug each other as they exchange the flags. The man at the doorway then waved kisses to the crowd within the pride parade.
The Tweet says: "NO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND HE WAS WAVING THE PORTUGUESE FLAG BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A PRIDE FLAG AND THEY TRADED FLAGS AND HE'S SO EMOTIONAL TO GET HIS OWN PRIDE FLAG I'M EMOTIONALLY RUINED"
For context, apparently they were worried that maybe he's a nationalist because he was waving the Portuguese flag and some nationalists opposing the pride march were waving that flag. But upon interacting with him, it turns out he didn't have have a pride flag and he wanted to wave *a* flag in support of the pride march. So they had an exchange and now he has his own pride flag 😭🥹.
The image above is a Tweet by kunwara_ladkaa that says "I'm crying so much right now (Image taken by Manuel Fernando Araújo/Lusa)". The image shows the same man from the pride parade crying as he hugs his new pride flag.
The above image is a Tweet by dudz_zZzz that says "ainda não parei de pensar nele," which according to Google translate from Portuguese to English is "I still haven't stopped thinking about him." The image is a drawing of the person from the pride parade, crying as he hugs his new pride flag.
His name is António Fernandes, and you can find the original article where he spoke about this event here
This elderly gentleman lives alone in Porto, when he saw the march coming up his street all he knew was he wanted to participate, so he ran home to get the only flag he had to wave as they passed by, when they did he was overcome with emotion and called over one of the activists, they hugged and exchanged flags, he felt so overwhelmed that he could only hold it and cry.
This isn't a story about a closeted elderly man, António lives and has been living alone for many years now and that little moment made him feel included in something for the first time in many years.
Says the article:
"The act was "of support”, guarantees the man, especially because “each one is as they are and we are all the same”. “The joy I felt at this moment. I cried,” he recalled, still emotional when looking at the photograph offered to him during this report.
However, even though it reached thousands of people, the moment screams a feeling of belonging, of joy and also a portrait of loneliness as a consequence of aging.
Behind that door, whose image spread across the country, António is the portrait of a condition that affects many others like him. He lives alone, but the walls of his home are full of memories of a life shared and full of love. “Memories I preserve,” he stresses.
He's not gay, nor does he need to be to support and respect the cause.
“We all have the same color blood. We are all the same.”
Still with an emotional look glued to the photograph that immortalized his gesture at the march, António remembers: “I felt embraced by all of them”. After a sigh, he says: “See this photo? I want to take it to my coffin.”
Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.
People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring
This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.
If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.
This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.
To turn this off:
Go to your youtube app settings
Go to Privacy
Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"
Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.
@caesarsaladinn I had a whole discussion with a history major who was extremely confident that smallpox is a “common childhood illness” with a very low death rate. Therefore, she believed that historical smallpox outbreaks were either massively exaggerated or used as a cover-up for something else (since “smallpox isn’t that bad.”) I eventually asked if she was possibly confusing smallpox with chickenpox, at which point she said, “aren’t they the same thing?”
One of the less deadly variants of smallpox was called cowpox, and the fact that dairy maids who contracted it tended to avoid the worst affects of smallpox is part of the development of vaccination
Cowpox is actually a separate (but very similar!) virus!
There's a lot of confusion about different "poxes" in this post (which wasn't my intention, and now I feel bad), so here's a general overview (also, obligatory apology for messiness, this was written at like 1 AM):
Smallpox:
Smallpox, caused by variola virus, was a massive problem historically. It existed in the Western hemisphere for thousands of years (genetic evidence of smallpox has been found in Egyptian mummies from ≈1500 BCE, but it was probably around long before then), and it was introduced to the New World during the Columbian exchange, which had devastating consequences for indigenous populations (which were already suffering from colonialist violence, which made epidemics much worse than they already would've been). Historically, smallpox had a case fatality rate between 30-50%, and survivors were often left disfigured or permanently disabled (you've probably seen pictures of smallpox scars, but smallpox can also cause blindness and other complications). Importantly, smallpox only affects humans—it has no animal hosts—which is why it's one of the few infectious diseases to have been completely eradicated. As of May 8, 1980, it officially no longer exists outside of certain designated American and Russian laboratories. (There are, however, concerns that it could be used as a bioweapon, which is why the government still stockpiles smallpox vaccines and antivirals. I wrote my bioethics term paper on this exact issue, and incidentally, it's one of the major reasons why I believe that STEM majors should take ethics courses!)
There were two strains of variola virus: variola major and variola minor. Variola major was much more dangerous, with a much higher mortality rate; variola minor typically didn't cause severe disease. Fortunately, infection with one strain conferred immunity against the other. Both strains are now eradicated. (People sometimes confuse variola minor with other viruses like cowpox and horsepox, but they're different things.)
There were four clinical forms of smallpox: ordinary (classic smallpox, associated with the rash you usually see in pictures), modified (less severe, often occurred in vaccinated people who got infected anyway), malignant (caused a flat rash instead of the usual pustules, associated with immune dysfunction, almost always fatal), and hemorrhagic (caused severe bleeding, and also near-universally fatal.) All of the non-ordinary forms could be difficult to diagnose because they looked so different from typical smallpox. The less serious "modified" form was often confused with chickenpox, and the hemorrhagic form was sometimes assumed to be a completely different disease. Occasionally, historical sources will refer to hemorrhagic smallpox as "black pox," with or without an understanding that it's caused by the same virus as ordinary smallpox.
Other relevant viruses:
Cowpox, caused by cowpox virus (an orthopoxvirus similar to smallpox) causes mild disease in cows, humans, and several other animals. Infection with cowpox virus confers immunity to variola—Edward Jenner noticed this relationship and used material from cowpox lesions to inoculate people against smallpox.
Vaccinia virus, another orthopoxvirus, is the source of the modern smallpox vaccine. It's closely related to both cowpox and horsepox (weirdly, it's actually closer to horsepox), but it's distinct enough to be its own species. Infection usually causes mild symptoms, and, of course, confers immunity to smallpox.
Chickenpox is an entirely different thing. It's caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which is a herpesvirus, not a poxvirus at all! Infection with varicella-zoster does not confer immunity to smallpox or any other poxvirus—chickenpox is from a totally different family.
So why are the names so weird and confusing? Why is everything about all of this so weird and confusing?
There are multiple reasons for this, so bear with me.
Historically, a "pox" was any disease that caused a bumpy rash of pustles/blisters. Chickenpox, smallpox, and the other "poxes" all cause superficially similar rashes—thus the similar names. (Even though we know now that chickenpox comes from a completely different family, this wouldn't have been apparent before the dawn of modern medicine.)
Smallpox was given that name to differentiate it from syphilis, which was known as the "great pox" when it first appeared in Europe. (Fun[?] microbiology fact: There are debates about the origins of syphilis, but the most common theory holds that it originated in the New World, and Christopher Columbus brought it back to Spain. In that way, it's kind of the inverse of smallpox.) Historically, smallpox was also known by a variety of other names in different European, Asian, and African cultures. Again, this gets murky, because historical physicians sometimes struggled to distinguish between similar-looking-but-different diseases.
Other poxviruses are often named after the animals in which they were first identified. This is not a hard-and-fast rule, though, and it can sometimes be misleading (for example, monkeypox virus was first discovered in laboratory monkeys, but it more often affects rodents and other small mammals. The disease formerly known as "monkeypox" was recently renamed "mpox" because the name wasn't accurate.) Also, some poxviruses aren't named after animals at all! It's a weird and inconsistent system (but a lot of virus names are kinda weird and inconsistent).
Related to the above: We don't even know where the name "chickenpox" comes from. I mean, we know it was called a "pox" because it causes a pox-y rash, but we don't know where the "chicken" part originated. There are multiple theories about this, none of which are definitive. The disease itself has nothing to do with chickens.
Basically, a lot of the weirdness is a result of historical naming practices—people identified and named these diseases before modern virology existed, and those names stuck, so now we have similar names for superficially-similar-but-ultimately-different viruses, and names whose origins have been completely lost to time. Later, virologists muddied the waters further by naming newly-discovered poxviruses after the animals in which they were first seen, even when these animals aren't natural hosts or reservoirs of those viruses. It's a mess! And, again, all of this is complicated by the fact that some of these diseases were very hard to diagnose (or distinguish from one another) before modern medicine existed. Now, we can sequence viral DNA and figure out what's actually going on—which viruses caused which symptoms, whether those viruses were closely related, and whether being infected with one disease conferred immunity to another—but historical doctors and scientists didn't have those tools, so they were doing they best they could with very limited information, and that led to a lot of weirdness in terms of how these viruses were named and classified. Our current system inherited some of that weirdness, so here we are.
TL;DR: Poxvirus names are messy. Smallpox is caused by variola virus, which has two strains: variola major (the more severe one) and variola minor (less severe). Cowpox and vaccinia are different viruses in the same family, and being infected with one of them confers immunity to smallpox. Chickenpox isn't a poxvirus at all, but a herpesvirus—it just happens to cause a pockmark-y rash that looks superficially similar to smallpox pustules (and mild forms of smallpox were historically confused with chickenpox).
(P.S. none of this is super relevant to the average person, so don't feel bad if you didn't know any of it. Unless you are a history major inventing new conspiracies about smallpox, in which case you definitely should feel bad.)
Sources & further reading under the cut!
Edward Jenner and the history of smallpox and vaccination
The History of Smallpox (CDC)
The Triumph of Science: The Incredible Story of Smallpox Eradication
Scientific Background on Smallpox and Smallpox Vaccination (from Scientific and Policy Considerations in Developing Smallpox Vaccination Options: A Workshop Report) <- this article is like 20 years old, but it has some interesting information about the clinical forms of smallpox and how difficult they would be to diagnose accurately
Phasing out monkeypox: mpox is the new name for an old disease <- discusses the renaming of monkeypox to mpox, also mentions issues with other poxvirus names and virus names in general
Poxes great and small: The stories behind their names
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Unpatterned all-black kimono are mofuku (mourning items), and pretty easy to find second hand in Japan as they are often worn only once / or are dead (ha!) stock. Seeing them repurposed for DIY projects is not unsual :)
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