Books and Berries

On storytelling: books, collaborative, fairy tales, mysteries, how-to, and such and so on and what have you Call me Bee or Berry or whatever! Pronouns are also whatever

[fluentisonus]

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

[justahungrydango]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Getting Together Incident

Hirano Taiga/Kagiura Akira/Miyano Yoshikazu/Sasaki Shuumei

Rated E

Chapter 7/7: But the sun always comes back in the end (+ 8/8, a short epilogue!)

“Not that I don’t appreciate you, Miyano, but you better have a good reason to drag me here on a Wednesday morning.”

FINALLY DOOOOONE!!! ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧ hope yall enjoy reading it as much as i enjoyed writing it (⁠＾⁠∇⁠＾⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♪

[exxos-von-steamboldt]

[delicatefury]

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

[beardedmrbean]

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists shocked to find lab gloves may be skewing microplastics data

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics, U-M study reveals

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

An Embarrassing Mistake May Have Skewed Microplastics Research All Along

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[bbcwhereareyou]

[dominacetrix]

Saw someone on Reddit asking what the requirements are for going to the library. Not to get a card and check stuff out. Just to hang out there. I don't mean to make fun of the poster for not knowing. I blame capitalism and the reduction of third spaces for making the idea of being able to just exist in a free public space seem like a strange concept to people. Anyway. This inspired a meme.

[memeuplift]

[mrbrojangles]

[vashti-lives]

It occurred to me today that you can use Miyazaki films as a really quick way to explain the difference between urban/modern fantasy and magical realism.

Kiki’s Delivery Service: takes place in the regular world— albeit at some nebulous point in time— but also magic is real and witches are a thing. Witches exist in this world because it’s fun and we like them. It’s fantasy elements in a familiar setting— essentially urban or modern fantasy.

Porco Rosso: takes place in an extremely specific place and time and contains exactly one fantastical element— Marco’s pig head— which is never given an explanation and is never questioned as a biological impossibility. It’s clearly a metaphor and commentary on a real world issue but it’s also very much literal. This dude 100% has a pig head. No other mentions of magic are made. This is magical realism.

This story brought to you by the fact that I’ve never seen a fanfic on ao3 tagged magical realism that wasn’t actually modern fantasy.

[anxiousbiscuit]

I was talking about Sherlock Holmes with my cool weird 42 year old coworker the other day and he said that he had read other works by ACD but not any Sherlock Holmes. ACD is smiling down from heaven on his one and only true fan.

[justahungrydango]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The Getting Together Incident

Hirano Taiga/Kagiura Akira/Miyano Yoshikazu/Sasaki Shuumei

Rated E

Chapter 7/7: But the sun always comes back in the end (+ 8/8, a short epilogue!)

“Not that I don’t appreciate you, Miyano, but you better have a good reason to drag me here on a Wednesday morning.”

FINALLY DOOOOONE!!! ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧ hope yall enjoy reading it as much as i enjoyed writing it (⁠＾⁠∇⁠＾⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♪

[andremichaux]

PSYCH | 4.01

[skybluekagikun]

*sits on ur couch* to continue, thoughts on hirakagi's apartment/domestic activities?

Whenever one of them cooks a meal, the other does the cleaning (this keeps happening in tomodachi where Hirano cooks and Kagi cleans 🥰 and their daughter aoi does nothing)

Even pre-HS graduation, Kagi already has slippers, a toothbrush, some clothes, etc at Hirano's apartment. He even has his own key and can come over whenever he wants even if Hirano isn't around. It's his home too after all!! (except on paper 😪) why wouldn't he have free reign??!

Speaking of Kagi coming over when Hirano isn't around, whenever that happens, Kagi always makes sure to leave some snacks or a quick meal for Hirano to heat up when he gets home

The neighbors love them!! They're always making sweet treats and other dishes for the young couple 🥰

Ok so I don't actually know much about Japanese apartments and prices and all that jazz, but this is all fictional so who cares if it's not "realistic" or whatever. Anyways I imagine their first apartment to have basically the same layout as Tamon-kun's apartment (watch Tamon's B-Side) where it's like a small combined kitchen + dining room, and then that leads into two rooms. One room is a typical living room - couch, TV, shelves with books, pictures, trinkets, that kinda stuff. And the other room is their bedroom 🙂‍↕️ double bed, a closet, another shelf with more personal memories, etc etc. Nothing too big or fancy but it works for them and that's all that matters 🫶 idk if I described that well

Kagi's always trying to convince Hirano to shower with him even tho their bathroom is tiny. Hirano makes a mental note to look for a house with a large bathroom when they're ready for that next step

Their parents on both sides help out with rent early on. Later in life when they're both successful they pay them back for helping when they were still finding their footing (their parents try to refuse the money but they insist!!)

There's a box under the bed filled with their Special Fun Adult Toys 😏

[sunnnfish]

Thinking more about Miso soup and i need to ask what the rest of the cast thinks (in ur eyes). How does hirano and kagi and niibashi and ogasawara and eimi and makimura and fuck it MUROI how do all of them feel about miso soup.

hhhhhmmmm well i fear im not such an expert on many other characters... and the miso soup thing is so tashiro-specific to me that its tough to relate it to everyone else. plus its not about the Soup its about the. like. metaphor... which i suppose is what youre asking. so the soup metaphor basically boils down to Would you like to live in a romantic situation where someone tends to your needs with a familial-type love. type shit. (or you tend to the others needs etc etc. a very Domestic situation). And i think there is also something in the way one's family was growing up. tashiro doesn't relate the familial-romantic love to his actual family bc he's got a kinda strange situation. or something. this isnt about him Anyways.

we already get miyanos and kuresawas views on it - miyano would like to be the one making the soup/taking care of someone. kuresawa really likes the domestic vibes of it. this all checks out Especially miyano. petri dish boy. sasaki would similarly understand it and probably also wants to be the one to take care of miyano but he would also let miyano do it. yuki would loooove to take care of tasuku but i think kuresawa ends up being the main one more often.

kagihira 1000000% straight up do the miso soup thing. they are cooking for each other aaalll the time. and taking care of each other. kagi has always modeled his love after his family so Yeah. domesticity city. i do think hirano would be similarly confused if he heard the metaphor but i think if he looked it up or had it explained he would think about kagi and be like Oh yeah.

ogaeimi for sure subscribe to it... eimi definitely knows what it means (fujoshi) and i think ogasawara unknowingly says stuff like "i'll cook for you" and it makes her blush. and ogasawara would get it if he heard it. ogasawara serious love language of making food for people.

hanzawa would understand it on a logical level and i thiiink he would on some levels like that kind of situation but would neeeever be able to ask for it. its a pipe dream. i fear he lives alone for a long time. and gets weird about it when people do things for him. not that he'd ever tell. and on the family side of it--while his family seems to eat together it seems kind of. distant ? idk. i think he doesn't want to mimic his family.

ichinose... im not very into his head yet so anybody feel free to correct me here. i think he yearns bad for a miso soup situation. if dorm manager yanagimoto ever made him something to eat personally hed eat so much hed get sick anyways. buuut he'd like. he says he wont get over yanagimoto for like 10 years or whatever so its like. similar to hanzawa he wouldnt be caught dead asking for more. and theres also some interest on the family side of it for him - i dont think he's particularly close with his parents (i dont remember how canon that is...?) so like. a meal made with love definitely gets to him. cause i dont think he's particularly used to it. or something.

shirahama dreams of asking a girl to make miso soup for him like in his dating games. but whatever relationship he gets into i think he ends up being the metaphorical miso soup maker most of the time. cause of his cringe but noble soul. but he critically doesn't really realize hes the one doing it.

okay i think thats everyone major. i dont think we know enough about many others to make good guesses here... maybe makimura would end up being taken care of in some way. little miss 100 portraits project. muroi... dont know enough about him... ugawa and akikawa... they definitely know the phrase but probably dont necessarily relate to it...? idk. whatever. i think thats everyone. i really didnt mean to write so much but here we are.... peace and love Oh Shit niibashi. he would certainly be Good at the domestic type thing but i dont think he'd actually be very good at Living with people. so he ultimately doesnt really care about miso soup. okay peace and love for real now.

[starspaceace]

i like to imagine the eridians having similar conversations that we're having about their alien

[sunnnfish]

Color palette ask!

Shirahama Kyouji - 19

color palette ask game !

[ID: A digital drawing of Shirahama from Sasaki to Miyano. He is shown from the waist up, grimacing and looking to the side with a full-face blush. He is wearing a Hatsune Miku t-shirt, where shes smiling and posing cutely, with "みく" ("Miku") written under it. It's rendered with a sketchy style, using a limited color palette of dark red, red, light pink, blue, and dark blue, labeled "19." on the side. The artist's signature "sunnfish" is written near his shoulder. /End ID]

we're back with an entirely different style Dont worry about it . shirahama 1000% the kind of guy to wear anime girl graphic t-shirts

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

You know what Lance can have a little adoption. As a treat

[soulren]

“Ghosts are real” I can see how you could believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real” it’s very fair and rational that you believe that

“Ghosts aren’t real anymore” I’m about to hear a poem or very sad story

“Ghosts aren’t real yet” the fuck are you going to do

[maxiemartmanager]