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Digging through whatever stuff I have archived.
Rediscovered my Fairy Tail fics/drafts.
Was it already a decade? Fck, I guess it was.
Still absolutely loving Gajeel, he's such a fun character. I generally have a huge soft spot for the power of friendship gimmick this series has. Also the music slaps.
(also I'm impressed with my characterisation of Gajeel, the decade younger me aced the character voice)
And now I'm in mourning for the ancient thing known as discussion boards.
The Jury's stull out on who's the strongest among the Sannin.
But we have a very clear answer on who's the tankiest.
- Jiraiya got stabbed a bumch and died because of that
- Tsunade got stabbed a bunch and healed it just fine. However when she got bisected she needed a second party assistance on putting herself back together.
- Orochimaru got set on fire, exploded with a snake stuffed with exploding tags, got beaten into the ground by Tsunade, sealed by an asspull op jutsu twice, bisected and took a bijuu-dama to the face. Walked it off.
Okay.
Putting the morality, obligatory outrage and whatsnot on the shelf far away, WHAT is the timeline of Orochimaru's human experimentation?
Orochimaru allowed people to catch him sometime after Kyuubi happened, I'll say between a few months to max two years after. Also before Tenzo and Kakashi met, bc Oro is nosy yet had no idea Tenzo lived.
But what of before Kyuubi?
Goddamit, weekly published manga. Your timeline works only when no one looks at it.
My phone died (r.i.p.) and I've failed at keeping regular backups for shit bc i wasn't expecting it to go kaput at 4am.
You know, I did the thing where you're leaving stuff for later bc lazy despite it being like a whole several clicks and turning on my Bluetooth.
Anyhow, now i'm digging through whatever actually IS on my drive x)
Like I've totally fucking forgot about that 10k words of Orochimaru time travelling and doing the exact opposite stuff he did in canon on purpose.
Probably did vomit it up during one nanowrimo or another and then promptly forgot it was even in my head.
Quote of the day
I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!
Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.
If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.
Let your likes guide you.
(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)
Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych
I’ve come across multiple people calling out fics with topics like incest and/or rape with the following sentiment: “I don’t feel comfortable with my trauma being portrayed/treated like/romanticized like that. They’re using my trauma as something to get off to.”
Is there a way to address callouts about your fics like this without invalidating their trauma?
yes, tell them:
“I’m sorry about what happened to you. but no matter how tragic your story is, the world does not revolve around you. people — strangers — don’t have to censor themselves in order to cater to your personal comfort.
if you don’t like something or are triggered by something, and if you go out of your way to seek those things, so you can be triggered by them, then that is entirely on you. no one forces you to read what you don’t want to read.
not to mention, a lot of victims and survivors use dark fiction to help them cope and heal from their trauma. just because dark fiction does not help you heal does not mean you have the rights to invalidate how other victims and survivors heal from their own trauma.
and just because you personally are triggered by dark fiction does not mean you have the rights to force other people — whether or not they themselves were victims — to censor themselves in order to cater to your personal comfort.
that is not how freedom to create works. that is not how the world works.
again, the world does not revolve around you.
what happened to you is terrible, but it does not give you the rights to be entitled, it does not give you the rights to harass or shame other people who are just minding their own business, people whose actions do not harm anybody in real life in any way, shape or form.
it is your job and your responsibility to curate your own internet experience by blocking, muting, filtering out what you don’t want to see.
you do not have the rights or the power to control how other people create their art.”
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it's literally the evilest thing in the world to finally have time to write but then be tired. like wow you're telling me these two hours before going to bed are completely free but my brain is just Not Feeling It? fuck off
babygirl i got amounts of unfinished wips like you couldn't even imagine
My life is now complete, I have the Legendary Old Fucks ™ figurines.
3 different series, but oh well. This happens when your blorbos are from series that's over 20yo.
Levels of understanding other slavic languages
oh we also have X and it means the same!
that looks like X but misspelled
that's just the archaic variant of X
this sounds a lot like Y from another slavic language I know which means X in mine so this almost 100% also means X
this word is completely different but I can kinda tell the meaning from the morphology
what
okay right now I'm gonna have to dissect the entirety of this language's history to figure out how the FUCK did y'all get to the point of calling X that and not something more normal
I wanted to ask for X and accidentally called someone a whore
I don't even have to look at the blog and I just know this is from a Pole about Czechs
suffering
KAKAOVY CHLEBICEK???!!!???
hissing growling scratching you etc etc
for example
(Polish: are you looking for a squirrel?, Slovak: excuse me, he is doing what to the squirrel?)
(also "hladna pića" means "cold drinks" in Croatian. means "hungry cunt" in Slovak and Czech)
("you're weird" in Czech is the same as "you're amazing" in Croatian, while "you're amazing" in Czech is the same as "you're terrible" in Croatian)
My favourite recent-ish example of #8:
Don't forget this:
And of course pomoć (help) vs pomoč (ordering you to piss on something)
Also remembered this shop from my trip to Croatia (piko means meth in czech and slovak)
przepraszam w CZYM ta restauracja????
This reminds me of that time my (Czech) family went to Poland for my uncle's wedding (because my aunt - his wife - is Polish and they decided to get married in Poland).
The wedding afterparty was in full swing, everyone was drinking and partying.... and an elderly Polish lady approached my two aunts (who were also drinking a lot and partying hard) and commented something along the lines of "jesteście odporne". Which in Polish means "you're resilient" (as in they're handling the alcohol well) but in Czech it means "you're disgusting".
It took my aunts a bit to remember that it means something different in Polish. 😅
another beautiful case of n.8 from @someidioticurl
Czech vision: ah yes an emergency button to press in case of emergency
Polish vision:
Oh, I have a few!
'pozor' in Czech means 'watch out!', but means 'shame' in Russian
droga in czech means drug, in polish it means road
záchod in czech means toilet, zachód in polish means 'west'
odchod 'to depart' in Czech means very specifically 'to depart by foot', while in Slovak it has a bit wider meaning, and buses and trains also combine with 'odchod'. To a Czech speaker this gives the funny implication that departing trains grow legs and walk out of the train station
Croatian 'mrdati' = to wiggle, means 'to have sex' in Czech
'Čerstvý, voňavý chléb' is Czech for 'fresh, nicely smelling bread'. In means the opposite in some slavic languages 'stale, stinky bread'. This kind of 'good meaning in one but bad meaning in other' duality happens surprisingly often actually, see also úžas and odporný above
otrok in Czech means 'slave' but in Slovenian and perhaps other South slavic languages it means 'child'. Very funny when combined with bazaar, turns a perfectly fine baby bazar into a slave bazaar
My friend has a fun sentence from Slovenian - "Hitri otroci kuhali jed na Dunaji". Literally none of the words here mean what a Czech thinks they mean. No not even Dunaj. Czechs read it as 'smart slaves were disemboweling poison by the Donau river', original Slovenian meaning is 'fast children were cooking food in Vienna'
Edit: wait one more. "srpanj" in Croatian means July, "srpen" in Czech means August. Listopad in Croatian means 'October', in Czech means 'November'. rujan in Croatian means 'September', říjen in Czech means 'October'. kwiecień in Polish means 'April', kviteń in Ukrainian also means 'April', květen in Czech means 'May'. Months are fucked up.
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The pain of vague-planning a regression fic with Orochimaru regressing into the wrong time slot:
Naruto is a prankster. Orochimaru would new him as the safest option to attach themselves to (both because of spoilers and because he's too visible to Danzo danzo-ing him into root which is the thing Oro would try to dodge).
And also Orochimaru has no shame and is whimsical, so would totes join Naruto, preferably in the weirdest schemes possible.
I am a crack writer, but not with character actively trying to achieve the maximum crack kind of crack writer.
(also poor Sasuke, stuck with this insanity and Kakashi hiding in his porn)
Ah yes, the late Naruto Shippuden and the absolute hilarity of character life choices.
Sasuke: I need an adult
Sasuke: An adult who doesn't bullshit me or try to fill my head with propaganda and actually answers questions
Sasuke: *resurrects Orochimaru*
Orochimaru: Weird choice but I'm game.╮(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.)╭ What do you need?
Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.
And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'
Both are beautiful forms of writing.
You know those fics/manhwa where the protagonist of the story regresses in time and is all about to relive their life in a better way, but the world is somehow different enough to constantly throw them off?
Let's grab Orochimaru for that story. And let's put him in the Konoha 12 gen instead of 50 years before.
Still a tragic, sad, very talented orphan. Walked through the life not emoting and as if walking through a dream because his old self needed the time to windows update.
Didn't get to graduate early because Itachi still did Itachi thing and Danzo is still doing Danzo things.
(which would be the nice tension holder here. Orochimaru knows all the shit going on behind the curtain and in the basement, but that only makes it all more dangerous to his 12yo self. He's got the memories alone not the muscle memory and not the chakra control even. The only defense is being too odd to disappear without people noticing, but that might run out, people do 'die' in active duty a lot after all)
I have a very vague memory of some other mad character from the old gen either from the fillers or LNs so we have someone taking his slot in the Sannin and in the story (and Orochimaru being deeply offended by that one)
Since it's Orochimaru the plot would get pushed off canon, because Orochimaru would find replacing the same steps both pointless and boring af. Not to mention Orochimaru does know shit is about to hit the fan and soon.
Now then, what team would it be and why?
Following the train of thoughts because apparently it's a trip now.
Fact is, both Naruto and Sasuke have the most eyes on them at all times, so getting glued to team 7 is the best survival strategy if you don't want to get Rooted out. Especially if there's some sort of attachment with Naruto, the guy doesn't let go once he bites.
(also Orochimaru does like the both of them in their weird weird way. Both sentimentally and as actual people who were fun to interact with. Also you know, all the spoilers)
On one hand I do not want to yeet Sakura out of team 7, just so my blorbo can take her place. I do like Sakura, she's my go to when I want to read a long long time travel fix it fic.
Anyhow yeah, I do not want to pick the easy way.
So I can like slap together a random Jonin from the background pic and equally random two on the Konoha genin who pop on the exam arc.
Then I can go and put team 7 and team wallpaper on a few missions together, because Kakashi needs his team to have something else than just the Wave trainwreck and catching a cat in their CVs.
We can say the wallpaper Jonin is pretty much slapping genin together from those who didn't manage to pass with the rest of their teams into something workable so they can try again, so it's all about Kakashi's favorite thing - teamwork.
The Wallpaper Jonin could be planning to keep Orochimaru as a career genin, since he's competent but until now too zonked out to be let out of the village for anything serious.
And it could be the moment when Orochimaru's windows update finally is done and finished and he starts interact and be themselves buuut-
That leaves me with little to no time to build relationships between the characters and makes interactions actually more difficult.
So I'm back at the yeeting Sakura out again.
Let's say we start half a year before the first chapter. Naruto joins new class after failing his second attempt at genin exam and gets talked at by Iruka. Orochimaru also is shoved into the same class and also gets talked at by Iruka - because for ducks sake, at least do show up for the exam.
Instant reason for them to interact, since Naruto is not a dick to people who aren't dick to him we also have a beautiful blossoming Naruto dragging some weird kid around situation happening. One that the adults wouldn't actually want to stop, because the zonked out kid with potential is actually doing something other than standing there and blinking.
The potential genin teams get reshuffled and Iruka might take an offense to it, so he'll go and try to resurrect Tsunade's one med-genin per team thing. Still not team 7 so I'm salty at myself, but at least something to do for her. Also medical seals are also seals, so she might be up to something fun, while Orochimaru is stuck with forever late Kakashi.
Tbc because vague posting is close enough to writing I'm might just crawl out of my stupor this time
(Orochimaru is my spirit animal, take it as you will)
