Flora Nightingale

A 21 year old girl with ADHD who plays Minecraft, watches too much YouTube, and sometimes writes Inuyasha Fanfiction. I even draw things on occasion. Also, I'm a bit shy, so, if you want to talk about Inuyasha, feel free to message me.

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WIP Fanfic Preview

The Truth of Love Shown Through Time – WIP Title

Chapter 1 – A Celestial Mix-up (WIP Title)

Header Note – Thanks Alannada for giving me the idea that inspired the chapter title!

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A god spoke and said, “So, I think I may have messed up.”

Their companion god asked, “In what way?”

They said, “So, what do you know about the group of people traveling with the reincarnated priestess entrusted with the Sacred Jewel? I was tasked with taking the soul of the half-demon Inuyasha and swapping it with the soul of his future self for seven days. This was to ensure that the Jewel was destroyed and that foul abomination Naraku ceased living.”

The other god said, “Yes?”

They continued, “I grabbed the soul of the priestess in his place.”

The other god then said, “Oh.”

They asked, “So, how badly did I mess up?”

The other god said, “The timeline still went to plan. You did just fine.”

They said, “Can you show me?”

Both gods went over to an enchanted pool that allowed the user to view any event, no matter the time or place.

The other god then said, “Look and see for yourself.”

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As Kagome came to, she felt someone gently rubbing her ears as she was lying with her head in their lap. A wonderful smell drifted into her consciousness through her nose. She drowsily wondered what it could be and shifted slightly as she slowly drifted upward out of sleep.

The hands on her ears paused for a moment before resuming their petting of her ears. Wait. Hands. Rubbing her… ears? What?

Kagome snapped her eyes open to find herself staring into the face of her own human twin. One that was gently massaging her ears, making her feel relaxed. She immediately leapt to her feet in alarm.

Her double slowly got up and approached her like one would a frightened animal. Kagome freaked out and leapt out through the roof of the hut she had been in. She looked back at the hole in the hut that she had just created by jumping before realizing that she was heading for a head-on collision with a tree trunk. She closed her eyes just in time to hit the tree with her face. Wham!

She groaned as she slid to the ground, face throbbing from the impact. She slowly opened her eyes to try to assess what had happened to her. Had she seriously just jumped through a roof and into a tree twenty feet away!? Also, where was Inuyasha? Wasn’t he always somewhere nearby, keeping an eye out for danger?

Kagome reached up to touch her face to check how injured it was and blinked, confused at the sight of Inuyasha’s Fire Rat sleeve falling around her arm. She looked down and saw that she was wearing the rest of Inuyasha’s clothes as well. Where was Inuyasha and what he was doing without his clothes? Even when he gave her his Fire Rat for protection, he always kept his pants and undershirt.

A twig snapped and Kagome quickly glanced over to see her double approaching from the direction of the hut before bolting deeper into the woods, looking to get away from the imposter and to find Inuyasha. She hoped that this wasn’t one of Naraku’s schemes.

Kagome only made it a short distance before she heard her double call out “SIT BOY” and she felt something around her neck yank her face first into the ground.

Urg! Somehow, her mouth had gotten full of dirt and she couldn’t move her head enough to spit it all out.

Kagome heard her double walk up to her and, as the force holding her face to the ground released her, she looked up to see her double squatting in front of her. Her double asked her, “Inuyasha, what happened? Is everything ok?”

Kagome blinked and looked down. Her hands didn’t look like the ones that she’d had her whole life. She pushed herself up into a sitting position and grabbed a lock of her hair from behind her head. It was white, like Inuyasha’s! With shaky hands, she slowly reached up to check the top of her head for the dog ears she knew Inuyasha had. She found them right where they should be, if she were Inuyasha. Well, at least now she knew why she was wearing his clothes!

With wide eyes, she looked up at her doppelganger who was looking down at her with a confused squint. The doppelganger asked her, “Are you... Kagome?”

Confused, Kagome answered, “Y-Yes? Who’re you?” Kagome knew her voice sounded strange, but really, what had she been expecting?

Her double said, “I’m you, from three years in the future. I remember being you, right now.”

Kagome gave her double freaked out look. She said, “Y-You mean to say, I’m in the f-future?! W-Why do I l-look like Inuyasha?!”

Her double said, “Yes! You’re in the future! And you’re in Inuyasha’s body at the moment. I’m pretty sure he’s in yours right now.”

Kagome gestured down at herself and said, “W-Wha? R-Really?! I-I… d-do you have any idea how or why this happened?”

Her double said, “No real clue, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Naraku’s doing. He woulda tried to use it to his advantage somehow. Maybe some god was playing matchmaker or something.”

Somehow, that didn’t really reassure Kagome, but she held her tongue. If her future self didn’t know for sure the cause, and nothing bad had come of it, then she shouldn’t bother worrying about it. Kagome stood up and asked her double, “K-Kagome, d-do you have a m-mirror? I n-need to see myself.”

Her future self nodded and motioned for Kagome to follow her before they walked into the hut. Pointing over at the wall near the futon, Kagome’s doppelganger said, “There’s the mirror.” She walked over and sat down on the futon. Kagome gulped before standing in front of the portable hand mirror hanging on the wall and looking into it.

While Kagome had been expecting the sight, she had still been surprised to see a very disgruntled and surprised Inuyasha staring back at her from the other side of the mirror. Kagome blinked, looked down at herself and back at the mirror, and made very silly faces that mirror Inuyasha mimicked perfectly. She felt very light headed and abruptly sat down. She couldn’t help but feel that this was officially the strangest, most crazy thing that had ever happened to her. She was somehow in the body of the man she loved sitting next to his wife who was her own future self. What insane god could have possibly cooked this up?

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Inuyasha drowsily wondered what the warm slightly boney fuzzy thing that he was hugging could be. He opened his eyes to see that the one in his arms was Shippō. What was the fox doing in bed with him and Kagome? Shippō usually slept at Kaede’s place or in a different corner of the hut.

Inuyasha looked up to see that he was laying in Kagome’s old sleeping bag, outside in the middle of the woods. Silently beginning to panic, he sat up to get a better look at his surroundings. Looking around he spotted Miroku and Sango laying a short distance away on opposite sides of a burnt-out campfire. He didn’t see Kagome anywhere.

Shippō piped up, saying, “Kagome, is everything ok?” Inuyasha’s sudden movements had woken the little kit.

Startled, Inuyasha looked down at the little fox in his arms and reflexively asked, “Kagome?” Inuyasha was confused by Shippō’s question. He wasn’t his wife.

Shippō gave him an odd look and said, “I’m gonna get Inuyasha, you’re acting funny.” He jumped out of Inuyasha’s arms and took off in the direction of a tree across the camp.

“What the hell?!”, muttered Inuyasha to himself. He was sure that he wasn’t Kagome, but he was now starting to suspect that there was something fishy going on. On a whim, he took a closer look at his body.

He was wearing Kagome’s school uniform?! What on earth would he be wearing that for? For that matter, how was he even wearing it? Inuyasha knew that the skimpy thing was far too small for him to even fit into without it tearing.

With shaking hands, Inuyasha reached up and touched his chest, hoping that he wouldn’t find what he dreaded was there. His hands touched his chest and he felt breasts beneath his hands. He squeezed them for good measure. Yep, those were a part of him, as surely as his stupid ears usually were.

Across the camp, Shippō shouted, “Inuyasha! Kagome’s acting funny! I think she’s sick!”

Inuyasha then reached for his dog ears, hoping that they were still there and that he was wrong about what he thought had happened to him. All his hands felt on top of his head was hair. No fuzzy ears. He touched the sides of his head and found human ears right where they should be on a human.

Suddenly, a red blur jumped in front of him. It was someone who looked identical to him, Fire Rat, dog ears, and all.

Inuyasha gulped. If he was right about whose body he was in, this may well be Kagome wearing his face.

His double said, “Kagome, you better not be sick, we need to get back to Kaede’s Village by tomorrow evening. You wanted to see your family and we need to restock our food.”

Or not. Maybe that wasn’t Kagome. Screw it, he wasn’t about to pretend that he was Kagome and maybe in the process he would get some answers.

Inuyasha said, “I’m not Kagome.”

Confused, his double said, “Well, who else?”

Inuyasha replied, “Inuyasha, same as you say you are.”

His double said, “Kagome, I’m Inuyasha. You’re Kagome. You ain’t making sense.”

Inuyasha then said, “But I am Inuyasha! I’ve always been me!”

Shippō looked at Inuyasha then over to his double and said, “Inuyasha, she’s acting funny. See!”

Inuyasha’s double said, “Yeah, she is acting funny Shippō. How about you go wake the letch and Sango up. I’ll sort this out.” 

Shippō scampered over to Sango, who was sleeping on one side of the dead campfire.

Inuyasha’s double then asked Inuyasha, “Kagome, did you bump your head or something?” His double looked worried. It seemed that Inuyasha wasn’t going to be believed. Instead, his double was now convinced he’d gotten himself hurt.

Maybe it would be better if he gave up on trying to convince his double of who he was before his double started thinking he was demon possessed.

Inuyasha answered, “No, I… I just need some space. I’ve got a lot on my mind.” No kidding, he couldn’t stop worrying about his predicament.

Inuyasha got up and walked until he found a small clearing not far from camp. It was far enough away for it to be mostly private but close enough that he could scream and be heard. It would be a good place to be alone with his thoughts.

He sat down on a large rock to one end of the clearing and began thinking.

How had this happened to him? Inuyasha knew he’d gone to bed as himself with his wife beside him last night, like usual. He didn’t have any memories between then and when he’d woken up. He also didn’t remember any particularly strange incidents recently. No strange demon encounters or foreboding omens.

It suddenly struck him just how familiar everything that had been happening was. It was almost as if he was reliving something.

Then he remembered it. That week, the week during which he could have sworn that Kagome had gone crazy.

Oh gods.

Inuyasha now felt like he finally understood what had happened that week before Kagome and him got together. Just before she’d officially confessed her feelings for him. All of her downright bizarre actions and words now made so much more sense. It wasn’t even Kagome doing and saying all those things, it was him in Kagome’s body. He had been the one who had claimed to be himself that first morning and it had been him who had tried to fight Sesshomaru with an untransformed Tetsusaiga. It had been him who had called himself a coward too afraid to face his feelings for and fears of rejection by the one woman who would never reject him.

Oh gods, his head was spinning from the sheer shock of a morning he’d been having.

Wait. What had happened to the Kagome whose body he was currently trapped in? Was she currently under the tender loving care of his wife, her own future self? Oh gods, what if his wife tried to do fun things with her younger self, mistakenly thinking that she was him!? This whatever it was would only last a week, right!? It had better!

At that moment he heard some twigs snap, breaking him out of his thoughts.

Inuyasha turned his head and spotted his past self sauntering into the clearing where he was sitting. He knew what he had to do. He just had to pretend to be Kagome. Ka-Go-Me. How hard could that possibly be? Oh, wait, he already knew he was going to do a terrible job of it. He groaned into his hands. This was going to be such a long stressful week.

Chapter 2 – (WIP Title)

Kagome had been sitting on the floor, mind spinning, when her future self broke her out of her thoughts by saying, “Hey, are you OK? You look a bit pale.”

Kagome started slightly before looking her future self in the face and saying, “Uh, I… I think so! Just a bit freaked out!” She was ok, she just needed to push through her disbelief at the bizarre situation she was in. It wasn’t every day that someone swapped bodies with their future self’s husband after all.

Kagome tried to focus on taking deep, slow breaths in order to try and calm herself down a bit. Breathe in. And out. In. And out. She did her best to ignore the concerned look her future self was giving her.

Ok, she was feeling a bit better now. What to do now? She looked up at her future self and blinked. Wait. Her friends, how were they doing? Was Miroku still alive?

Kagome then asked, “How is everyone doing? Is Miroku still in the land of the living?” While Miroku usually tried to brush it off when asked, Kagome knew that he feared that he would be swallowed by his wind tunnel, just like his father and grandfather before him.

Her future self said, “Sango’s fine, actually, she’s better than fine and Miroku’s the same! They have three kids together, twin girls and a boy. And don’t worry, Shippō’s just fine. He just slept at Kaede’s last night.”

Kagome was so happy! What a relief, her friends made it! They didn’t die to Naraku or any of his evil minions! They even got married and started a peaceful family life, just as they’d dreamed of!

Kagome’s future self startled her from her thoughts by asking, “Hey, wanna go meet them? We’ll need to tell them about this anyways.” Her future self gestured at Kagome, indicating they needed to tell their friends about the body swap. 

Honestly, it didn’t sound like a bad idea and Kagome did want to see her friends, so she answered, “Yeah! Let’s go see Sango and Miroku. I can’t wait to see how they’re doing!”

Nodding and standing up, her future self motioned for Kagome to follow her as she left the hut. Kagome followed her.

Future Kagome then spoke, saying, “It’s not far, just beyond this patch of trees. Inuyasha had our home built a bit further out than Miroku’s. He feels safer where there are fewer people.”

No real surprises there. Inuyasha wasn’t exactly a people person. In fact, he was more than a little skittish around people he didn’t know all that well.

As they walked down the path, Kagome couldn’t help but wonder how Sango and Miroku would react to her swapping bodies with Inuyasha. Would they believe her or would they think that it was all a prank and if they did believe her, would they laugh at her situation?

No, they probably wouldn’t. Well, Sango probably wouldn’t, Miroku could be quite the jokester sometimes. It was how he coped with life. Even then, she knew that Miroku’s laughter didn’t mean that he couldn’t take a ridiculous situation seriously if need be.

It wasn’t long before their destination came into sight and her double looked over her shoulder to say, “This it, Miroku and Sango’s home!”

Kagome and her double walked up to the entrance to their friends’ hut before then Kagome’s double knocked on the doorframe of the hut.

A groggy looking Miroku poked his head out from inside the hut, squinting at them in the bright morning sunlight. He said, “Kagome? Inuyasha? What brings you here this early in the morning?”

Being called by Inuyasha’s name felt really uncomfortable and weird, so Kagome shifted on her feet in an attempt to relieve the feeling. It didn’t really work.

Kagome’s double looked over at her before sighing and looking back at Miroku, saying, “We have something important to tell the both of you. Can we come in to talk?”

Miroku looked back and forth between them before saying, “Sure, but can we get presentable first? Also, could you please try to not wake the baby, he only just went to sleep and we don’t really want to have to go through that struggle again.”

Kagome nodded in agreement and her double said, “Sounds great! We’ll wait out here!”

They waited a few short minutes until Sango poked her head out the door, saying, “We’re all dressed, you can come in now.”

As Kagome and her future self walked into the hut, she looked around its interior. She saw two sleeping girls and the previously mentioned baby lying in one corner, while Sango and Miroku were sitting near the firepit on the other side of the hut. Sango motioned with her hand for Kagome and Future Kagome to come over and sit next to them on the floor.

Once they were both sitting down, Sango, with a confused and curious expression on her face, asked, “So, what is it?”

Kagome felt an anxious jittery feeling coil around her heart, making her shift in place and fidget with her sleeves and claws. She really didn’t want to talk about this, but she had to try. She owed it to herself to try to be brave.

She gulped and took a deep breath, before stuttering out, “I… Um… I’m… I’m not… I’m not … Inuyasha.” It felt like each word was going to kill her as she said them. She knew that they wouldn’t, but still…

As soon as she’d gotten that last word out of her mouth, she started hyperventilating as Sango gave her a look of ‘What are you talking about?’ and Miroku did a double take.

Future Kagome, who’d been looking reassuringly at her, patted her on the back before turning to Sango and Miroku, saying, “This is going to sound crazy, but… That’s past me, from when we were still hunting jewel shards, not my Inuyasha.”

Sango and Miroku just stared blankly at them for a few moments before Miroku said, “You’re right, it does sound crazy.”

Sounding annoyed, Sango muttered, “You better not be Shippō pranking us. Or Inuyasha pranking us, for that matter.”

Miroku looked over at his wife for a moment before he hesitatingly asked, “If she’s here and you’re here, Kagome, where’s Inuyasha?”

Kagome had no clue. She didn’t even know how she got here to begin with, or if she would return to the same time and place she’d left or not.

Her future self seemed to know, however, as she said, gesturing towards Kagome, “In her body, in the past. Probably arguing with his past self.”

Sango, who was understandably skeptical of what they were saying, said, “How do we know that this isn’t some elaborate prank or a demon that’s trying to mess with us?”

Uh… Kagome didn’t know how she was to prove that. Maybe…?

Kagome took a deep breath and said, “You’ve told me about how Kohaku once gave you white day lilies when they were in bloom.” She really hoped that would convince Sango.

Sango’s eyes widened for a split second, before she said, “I’ve only ever told Kagome that. How’d you…?” She looked stunned. After a moment, she continued, looking contemplatively at Kagome, “Did Kohaku tell you? No… He wouldn’t. Not for this.” She paused and then asked, “Kagome?”

Kagome numbly nodded her head yes.

Sango just sat back and stared at the ceiling. Kagome couldn’t really blame her, as she felt the same.

Miroku, who’d been watching the byplay between his wife and Kagome in Inuyasha’s body, then said, “Well… how did this happen?”

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Future Kagome then said, “Oh yeah, that reminds me, you did put a hole in the roof of the hut. Could you go get the carpenter to help fix it? He lives in the house to the left of the Headman’s.”

Right, that did need fixing, didn’t it. Why did she have to get the carpenter though? Eh, why did it matter, she’d been the one to jump through the roof anyway. She should at least do this to help fix it.

Kagome said, “Ok, I’ll go get the carpenter. It’s the least I can do after putting a hole in your roof.”

She walked to the door

Future Kagome said, “Ok! I’ll heading back home now. I need to get ready for the day.”, before she turned to Sango and said, “See you later!”

Kagome and her future self walked out of Sango’s hut before parting ways. Kagome set off towards the village center to get the carpenter.

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[jess-oui]

Happy InuKagMoro Week! 🥰

Happy 1 Year Anniversary to the reunion that I will never not recover from 🥺

[were--ralph]

cant stop thinking about this video

[were--ralph]

For context this was in response to someone saying their cybertruck was heavy duty

[sexygaywizard]

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

oh no no NO no no I am sorry my dear @thebirdtm you are NOT underselling one of the most seminal pieces of television of my entire childhood like that on MY watch.

"How is claiming they drowned a Hilux possibly underselling it" GREAT question.

To start with a little disclaimer, Top Gear's Hilux did not start off, as in the video above, in pristine condition. It started off with nigh-on 300k kms (for you yankees, that's about 8.4 million Boeing 737 wingspans) and a condition to match.

And it's only once careless driving around town yielded zilch in given shits...

(look, I found a local newspaper picturing it being driven around!)

...that they decided to drown it. Now, the underselling part: if you told me that they drowned a pickup the first place my mind would go to would be "driving it through a river a bit too deep for it, perhaps as deep as its height, until it stalls and then tugging it back out. You will concede that's rather different from tying it down on the seashore with the second highest tide in the world...

...and leaving it there until it engulfs the whole truck...

...only for the ropes to snap...

...and for the truck to be lost to the tides for FIVE HOURS.

(and for those wondering, yes, just as promised, well within an hour and the mandatory limits of basic tools and no spare parts, up the mechanic made the thing fire and away the presenter drove it - I must imagine doing a number on his clothes in the process.)

Oh also I would have mentioned the caravan.

Or at least the wrecking ball.

But hey, at least the fire was mentioned.

Still, I feel it's criminal to leave out how they celebrated it surviving all it did: by parking it at the top of a 23 story building for all to see! :)

Wait NO-

Well, that was uncalled for. Given what it survived, it deserved to rest in a museum instead of being unceremoniously cleared out with the other chunks of public housing that buried it.

Or at least, given that buried it wasn't...

...to be tumbled down from the rubble utop which it sat...

...and be fueled up.

"be fueled up", pfft, what for?, I hear you say. And you are right.

Look at that thing, you say.

Let's be serious now, however pretty of a story it would be that's not a truck that will do anything remotely in the ballpark of firing up, let alone running.

And again, you are right.

The battery was disconnected.

Sorted that, tho

"You can't be serious." Oh darling I sure can! "Well the presenters can't then" no no, I assure you, it lived. Go see it for yourself! It's at the National Motor Museum in Beaulieau, England!

I grew up watching Top Gear and it shaped me in many ways. My adoration of old Toyota Hiluxes is one of them.

[kyraneko]

The Toyota Hilux is absolutely the small god of endurance and defiance (and possibly masochism).

[thivell]

yes I'm reposting about a small god truck are you kidding me

[fuedalreese]

they're AMERICANS?

[chibird]

[chibird]

Your version of a good day can evolve over time too, and that’s okay. 💛

[swampgrl01-deactivated20240730]

tumblr night shift is crazy everyones ready to die or ready to fuck

[wishyroses]

Back in my day we called it nightblogging and we blamed the Australians

[i-m-snek]

"Why are you still on tumblr, it's a dead site" Tumblr is the ONLY site that still works in the way of -Follow this person, see their posts- instead of -you stopped scrolling and stayed on this post for .2 seconds longer than others, here's 100 more posts like it- I hate algorithms. Tumblr has its many issues. But at least I keep my choice of what I see.

[nandomando]

[friendshapedhole]

Story is wild

Little girl was part of a county fair agro-educational program where they raise an animal for a few months and at the end it’s slaughtered. Supposed to teach them about the economics of farming and stuff.

But the little girl loved her goat so much she was crying on the day her goat was supposed to be taken away, so her mom sent the county fair people an email saying “I’ll pay for the goat and any expenses. We’ve had several deaths in the family in the past year, I don’t wanna take away one more thing my little girl loves.” Technically the goat had already been sold at auction, so the mom was on the hook for about $1000, only about $70 of which would have been profit for the county fair.

The county fair people were irate and got law enforcement involved, over this “breach of contract”. They literally got a fucking judge to sign a search warrant, authorizing them to go to this little girl’s house and search every room and every cabinet or box “large enough to contain a small goat”. The sheriff’s deputies seized the goat, and whoever they gave it to immediately slaughtered it, though they were supposed to wait until some kind of agreement had been worked out.

In the county fair’s initial email correspondence with the girl’s mother, they made it clear that they were pissed off because the story of the little girl who loved her goat was circulating on social media making them look bad, and they felt the girl needed to be taught a lesson about keeping your promises or whatever. So they refused the mother’s offer to pay for it, and insisted they get the goat. Even if it meant sending the fucking cops into her house lmao.

[birdblogwhichisforbirds-deactiv]

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair

[kunosoura]

the congressman who bought the goat didn’t have any objections to the family saving the goat from slaughter either! it’s fucking insane that the cops were so eager to play act their swat commando fantasies that they played stooge to the benefit of no one except some self important local organizers!

Alternate link, LAtimes locks their stuff behind paywalls sometimes

[theelectricfrog]

Don’t forget the part where the goat wasn’t where they had a warrant to search, so they drove 500 miles, leaving the area they have legal jurisdiction in, then searched a farm they didn’t have a warrant for ans seized the goat. The fair then had the goat slaughtered, even though a court had ordered them to keep it alive until ownership was resolved and despite the fact that both potential owners of the goat had decided to keep it alive.

They broke multiple laws in order to “teach” a little girl the “lesson” that “everybody has to follow the rules”.

I sure hope all of the complaints sent to Shasta District Fair CEO Melanie Silva, whose decisions these were and continues to defend her actions, are polite and don’t waste too much ink. I’m certain nobody would take advantage of the fact that the Sasha District Fair and Event Center’s contact page lists their phone and fax numbers, not to mention the email form below that.

[shi1498912]

Would be a shame if that information was to circulate far an wide, and ruin that despicable woman's easter holidays

[ralfmaximus]

I found the lawsuit filing. It is a work of art, brief and to the point. If you read nothing else, check out page 2, the section headed Nature of the Action. Magnificent.

[bisquid]

One of the things that bugs me in the notes is a bunch of people being like 'it's a livestock animal, it's her fault for getting attached' and.

My dudes, I cannot emphasize enough that the little girl's emotional attachment to the goat is in fact the least of the issues with this story. The main issue in this story is the fact that a bunch of cops broke multiple laws, including the unlawful entry to the property the goat was being held, the unlawful seizure and destruction of said goat, and the unlawful use of a criminal search warrant in a civil dispute case, just to start with.

The little girl owned the goat. At no point in the proceedings - and indeed at no point in the proceedings in the course of the normal auction-purchase-slaughter of a livestock animal in this program - did the fair own the goat. At no point in the proceedings did the person who successfully bid on the goat actually own it - he had made the winning bid to purchase rights to the meat. He hadn't even done that yet! The goat legally and incontrovertibly belonged to the little girl. The very worst that should have happened in this story is a brief property ownership dispute in a civil court.

The fair CEO decided to unlawfully force the auction of the goat, and, when the girl's mother began to dispute her actions, to make a false claim of theft, with precisely ZERO legal basis, calling the cops on an already emotionally fragile child, and then had the temerity to be angry with the child's mother because the story was making them look bad on social media.

Regardless of your opinion on the meat industry, livestock slaughter, or 4H, 'cops drive 500 miles, perform an illegal search, seizure and destruction of an American citizen's property, on the word of a biased 3rd party with zero legal rights to the property in question' should make you angry. Because it is a violation of civil rights, and also had no motive besides needless cruelty to an already grieving child.

[jazzybot4]

News to know: The next court update on this is sometime in October 2024. I'm watching this case because it covers a lot of different facets of how contracts work, minors rights, property rights in the face of law enforcement seizures and searches, and how does one county fair have so much brutality to wield against a then-nine-year-old. I would not be surprised if this gets bogged down again with more counter-suits. It's absolutely ghoulish that they're doing all this over less than 1000$ of goat and one little girls grief. I hope that the judge who sees this case knows just how dangerous it is to dismiss, since this is a matter of third-party property rights infringement using law enforcement agents as bludgeons. The Sheriffs *cannot* be allowed to maintain extrajudicial authority.

[listen-to-the-trees]

UPDATE:

GIRL WINS $300,000

After deputies took her pet goat to be butchered, girl wins $300,000 from Shasta County

Shasta County agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit over a decision to use deputies to seize a girl's pet goat to be slaughtered. It's

[wizardshark]

A HAPPY ENDING

[nick-nellson]

The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise

[paracosmdreaming]

YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE LOVE I HAVE FOR FANFICTION WRITERS *eternally grateful for them sharing their amazing writing skills*

[mikkororo]

Justafewsmallsteps Post! Because Reasons! 

For Inuvember, Nov 16: InuKag Day! Sorry I didn’t post anything up on the actual day here on tumblr, but here’s a link to the accompanying fanfic.Worry byHelikaAkileh aka justafewsmallsteps! 

“They were always butting heads, but who knew they’d even fight about taking care of one another? It fascinated Kagome how gentle a grumpy hanyou could be towards her, and it astounded Inuyasha just how much one girl could care about him.“ 

Feel free to check out my other InuKag oneshots there as well!

[51wheezes]

reblog if your inbox is always open for new members of the fandom who may be a little shy or intimidated. doesn’t matter whether or not you’re a “popular blog”; everyone here is equal and if you’re reading this as a new person/someone considering entering the fandom, we will not turn you away!!!! talk to us!! make friends!! i more than understand being shy but trust me this fandom is chill come join us in this hellhole

[solarisbeam]

Drew Inuyasha and I kinda like his design :P

[peocokruu]

The whatever-melon fruit that Kagome got from her world was damm good! All of sudden he couldn’t shake off the feeling of gratitude building on his chest, and to both of their surprises he said with not too many thought -

“Kagome… thank you for all you do”

[xhartbigx]

Reblog if you’re over 20 and still read/write fan fiction.

I’m curious!

[fanarts-manga]

My @inuvember contribution for day 8 : Kikyo.