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It is such a unique pain when you have a story that is deeply personal and impactful to you and you just desperately want to share it, but it doesn't fit the popular mold so you're left just drowning in emotion with no one to share it with.
KOSA is in the United States Senate and it must be stopped.
There can be no negotiation with KOSA, it must be fully, totally, rejected.
You cannot negotiate with the right to speak freely.
You cannot negotiate with the right to privacy.
You cannot negotiate with the right to read freely.
You cannot negotiate with the right to create freely.
You cannot negotiate with human rights.
This is not a negotiation, this is a battle.
If you live in the united states, call your senator, 5 calls .org should be good for that. Afterwards, spread the word about KOSA, call out anyone who supports it, organize a anti-KOSA protest, I don't fucking know, just try and stop KOSA.
If you don't live in the united states, signal boost this to anyone you know who lives in the united states. And then look if there's anything like KOSA in your country. If so, do whatever you can to stop it.
America is a bellwether nation. If it implements censorship, everyone will.
I don't care if you hate america, I don't care if you hate americans, this is not just a battle for america this is a battle for the world.
And to any accelerationists, planning to stand aside and do nothing to stop this as it goes through, hoping to launch a revolution afterwards. The world and the people will remember that you stood by, and did nothing. And you will be doomed for lack of popular support.
This is a total war for the freedom of the internet, and privacy as a whole. There is no middle ground in this conflict. Neutrality is just passive support of tyranny and surveillance.
you know what, "because i'm in pain" is a good enough reason as any. why do you want to take meds? in pain. why do you wanna cancel? in pain. why didn't you want to talk? in pain. yeah don't be a jerk to everyone you meet and expect them to welcome that. but why were you being a jerk? in pain. it's a reasonable explanation. being in pain should be enough of an explanation. it should be considered an immediate problem that we try to fix as soon as possible instead of expecting the vast majority of people alive to just get on with it.
I Wish all my disabled folk a good doctors-actually-listening-to-the-symptoms-you're-describing-and-not-reaching-to-a-conclusion-from-biases-they-have-about-your-pre-existing-conditions-or-your-identity
and a
doctors-fully-listening-to-the-symptoms-you're-describing-and-not-stopping-halfway-through-thinking-they-already-have-the-full-picture disability pride month
one of the most frustrating things about being disabled and chronically ill is that everyone around you is allowed to be worried or scared for you. but the second you yourself say you’re worried or scared, suddenly it’s “you can’t be so negative, think positively, you might be totally fine in five years”
but i have to placate everyone when they’re telling me multiple times a day that they’re scared for my health??
abelds have this funky ability where they hear disabled people say they "can't" do something and instead of hearing "can't" as in, cannot, they hear "i can if i push myself and i just don't wanna". which is really interesting!
One of the best things I've done for myself as a disabled person is get rid of my shame around sitting or laying in weird places. Bathroom floor? Check. Random sidewalk? Check. Lobbies of various professional buildings? So many checks. It is not embarrassing or shameful for me to take care of my body but it is embarrassing for architects and city designers to value appearances over accessibility
world trigger is so hard to finagle a good roleswap for because everyone fits their role (and battle position!).
but if i were to pitch something localized for tamakoma-2:
osamu as an agent from aftokrator. he got left behind in the invasion and honestly didn't even make that much of an outward splash and surrendered to capture very amicably. they tested his trion. they tested his trion again. and they're all so boggled at this citzen-level person was even allowed on this excursion with like 4 other black triggers. like what is he DOING here. he's a little unsettling and sharp as a whip and even when he's being honest, they feel like they're being swindled. jin points out using osamu for the rank wars and no one can really see him as a combatant, but this osamu has actual battle experience and he has a very large and unknown personal drive. he is not very threatening, but he is absolutely dangerous. jin walked in on him using the microwave without having been taught how and stared for a long moment. somehow, osamu is an all-rounder
yuma as an operator. i just am so enamoured with the idea of yuma and his dad getting lost in the engineer weeds and play acting battles through actual simulations. it's the aspect of yuma specifically having to be divorced from the battlefield and having a strangely intense commitment to never letting his teammates get caught off guard by a sudden enemy. not on his watch. in this roleswap, yuma would be fully human. his dad is still dead and still made a black trigger for him specifically and he is still dying, but he is more level, somehow. he left after old border disbanded and did his own thing, but kept in touch with hq. his dynamic with kido is oughh very interesting. eventually once border gets off the ground, he rejoins as an operator and probably flies with suzunari-1 for a bit before jin nudges him back to tamakoma with the promise of something Fun in his future. (the bt fight is...something that was resolved long ago and I feel like yumas bt could easily be adapted into something purely non-combat...copying triggers did wonders for their research)
hyuse is also fully human in this au and probably takes over chika's story which is an easy swap since just replace rinji with his master and you've got it. i like to keep everyone's relative trion and aspects the same, just with the caveat that they'll be specced to whatever battle role they will swap into so hyuse isn't a trion monster like chika, but he's still a juicy target. his trauma more about him having all this potential, him being extremely competent and an appetite to do something about it, but being unable to. because he didn't want to cause his master so he kept that shit down on lock and was very inoffensive and normal even though he would sometimes look at border and wonder...and then his master disappeared. and suddenly he has no leash and there is something he can do...so it would be very fresh for him. as opposed to chika who had some time. and he would be coming in as a new agent and as a sniper. because he would love the special sniper training sessions so much and the aspect of him always having his teammates' back from afar, keeping an eye on them and being this steady, distant presence on the battlefield...yeah.
usami is an interesting one. usami would be a neighbour and would take on yuma's storyline. really, i just like the aesthetic of usami having the "you all right, four-eyes? oh...you don't have glasses...it's okay! glasses is a state of mind" moment with chika (spoiler for this roleswap lmao) is endearing. but mainly bc I think she deserves to geek out about trion tech...i WILL be giving usami replica in this au and in her expanded neighbour backstory, i like the idea that she treads on similar aspects of fighting in calvaria, but it was her friendship with raymond and his daughter that swept her up in that fight. she's an independent and lone agent who built replica herself (he has several 'skins' including a disco skin) and eventually felt curious and wanting for a change of pace. her dad had a friend on meeden...she decided to take a leap and saw this little girl who was in need of protecting and hell, she's very good at that! she is an attacker here, and she just wants to help
chika...i mean. cmon. not to be classic shoenen all over the place but she deserves to be someone with this hidden power which gets discovered. I do think its fun to think thst she follows osamus track to the letter and that jin had actually forged her trion count or that part of chika's secondary side effect allows her to suppress her trion amount to something normal. it would be her own motivation to find her brother and sister that led her to border but, but she would be so much more lonely. and as a result, lost. she floundered as a c-rank much in the way as osmau did because she has the drive, but struggles to really get anywhere because she is so focused on staying...normal and unobtrusive. its not until usami 'saves' her, realizes this kid is a monster (the first apart from jin to see through her) and decides she's going to bring chika out of her shell that she starts going places. she'd be a shooter, ofc, and the captain
This will probably be out of order as i'm just going to stream of consciousness it, but let me yap about my fic: ...part 1, because i got tired.
at it's core, lambs is a fic i wanted to be about the way that jin loves. it's not that he cares, it's that he loves. and he does it sincerely. that's also another part of his character. he means everything he says. sure, it comes with footnotes attached, but he means that too. sincerity is something he works very hard to maintain. it keeps him grounded, and it keeps his heart.
A polite mother raised a polite son.
this is like one of THE keystones of osamu's character for me. a lot of it comes from his mother who is willing to be there for him, who is willing to allow him to do what he believes in and what he thinks is right, but is also so willing to intervene when she feels it's 1) necessary and, more importantly, when he 2) asks for it. it's something that filters down to osamu because "i'm sorry" is a very different conversation from "forgive me". as we'll soon see.
Assuming the first position, Jin bends forward. His forehead grows cold.
a lot of this fic plays with warmth as connection and coldness as distance.
...but that was a real body over there. Real flesh-and-blood.
another element that gets repeated a lot. dovetailed into warmth as connection etc. ever since ashihara said that they tried turning off pain in trion bodies, and walked it back because the pain was necessary, i've not stopped thinking about it. trion bodies as distance. jin rarely triggering off. jin's outfit being a carbon copy of what he would wear casually as a real person. you see the vision, right?
"Mikumo Osamu," he said, voice like a sword with seven branching paths and one vicious point.
this is very much an ace attorney reference about the seven branched sword, as quoted:
"Shichishito". The treasured Kurain Village heirloom whose name means "7 Branched Sword". It is said that this sacred sword represents life itself. Though the branches may appear to be infinite, the choices limitless… …like our destinies, the sword comes to but one end. One merciless point. And when the silver cord, the fragile thread that binds us to this world, is severed… …the illusion is revealed and the implacability of fate is finally laid bare…
but also, in lore, i believe the sword also has a lot of diplomatic implications. something ceremonial, something representative of alliance and shared interests.
this is very much a commentary on osamu's place in the story, as the protagonist. while i am part of the protagonist quartet truthers, i do think some of them are more protagonist than others. osamu being the one where everything kind of hinges on. he's at the nexus of everything. all the strings, all the paths—that's his shoenen protagonist power to me. he is someone who is written to represent choice, possibility, and responsibility. branching paths, one viscious point.
Wings beat furiously against his palms, scratching in scars that weren't meant to fester, not yet. He didn't want to let this butterfly go, but Mogami's legacy was heavy on his hip.
it's mentioned later in a conversation with shinoda, and more explicitly with karasawa, but choice will always be an interesting word with jin. it's also one of the central themes that this fic explores. that jin can play 4d chess all he wants, everything still comes down to people's individual choice and the responsibility they all take for their part in it. so he'll give osamu a chance to choice, even if it means he'll prune the sprigs to narrow osamu's choices down to a select few. it's still a choice, and he doesn't have nearly as much control as he would like to have.
mogami is proof of that.
"Is the best I'm able to contribute just waiting for someone else to allow me the right to do something?"
i love u rinji. i love that rinji really is at the core of things the same way that hatohara is at the core for ninomiya. we love to see these kids being wrecked by the co-conspirators lmao. jin has NO idea about how much rinji makes up osamu. he'd pout about it, if he knew. because jin truly thinks himself like a good 40% of the engine behind osamu's actions and while this fic is literally about how much jin is behind osamu, it's also about how much jin is NOT behind osamu askdhasd. he makes a reference later about whether he or chika were actually equitable—the person who brought osamu here or the person who brought osamu here.
very much one of those points where you got to shake ur head at this kid like chill out man, it's not that dire and you are not nearly that important.
A window opened. Four-Eyes in Kido's old bed, in a casket, lying still on the Tamakoma couch with a crutch leaning against the back. Four-Eyes in blue, in an Operator suit, in a white, hemp katabira to cover the holes.
in all of these futures, osamu is still and stagnant. death isn't the only thing that could kneecap him. hell, even in the future that this world goes with—osamu is also stagnant. six months man,,,six months marching in place (blows a kiss to hyuse and wakamura)
Something terrible had finally solidified in the stream. A large rock, many months away, but inevitable and all-consuming.
it's a little basic, but water as the future. the way that it flows, and adapts and how we can put obstacles in its place, but water will eventually erode at you, even right down to your bones.
Like an omen, Tachikawa sauntered into the hall with a blank hunger on his face. He came here to fight.
a little tachijin, as a treat. i think tachijin is so fucking delicious. what if you were able to keep up with someone who could see the future through sheer skll, and because you never once thought you could ever be left behind. it's a special sort of arrogance and self-assurance that is so counterpoint to how jin operates, but is also so fundamentally similar. tachikawa would be fascinated with jin even without the future sight. it's jin he hungers for. jin and all his mess, his contradictions, his distance, and inescapable want to be close and not lonely anymore.
and again, jin cares. he told miwa he's not doing this because of osamu, but because he truly worries for them. and he's being sincere! yes again it comes with a lot of asterisks, but he means it all the same.
holy shit this note is going to be long.
anyway. continuing. the shinoda-jin scene. funnily enough, i thought of this scene before i started reading osamu's first disciplinary hearing to get quotes for a later scene. so it just ended up being complete coincidence that it worked out. that jin seeking out shinoda to not only get osamu doctored in as a c-rank, and also seeding out early and necessary support for osamu to survive long enough to be in a place where he can truly draw out border's potential.
but it just made sense to me, you know? because shinoda has that overhead in hq and personally deals with enlistment, or has arashiyama squad, who are firmly under his tier of command, to carry it out on his behalf.
on the inklings of shinoda/karasawa—it's my dark horse of a ship. i think karasawa, who's so pragmatic about things, but still believes and champions heroes being enamoured by shinoda who is very moral and surprisingly mischivous, but having the heart and strength of a man who knows his convictions, and wears them well—like, it's perfect for them. karasawa is so able to temper shinoda and bring him close to his best self, because that's honestly what karasawa wants, in the end. he strikes me as someone who could make people better (or worse), and despite his somewhat grey morals, he looks out for the good of the world. and shinoda can reign in karasawa and give him a truly moral compass to prevent either of them crossing a line they can't walk back from. they're fascinating, and i need more fics of them immediately.
ruka thinks karasawa is sus, but is also indebted to him for getting her and yotaro settled in an official capacity in the government's eyes, so he can stay, i guess.
i also kind of wanted to explore osamu has an operator. i really don't think he would make a good operator. i think he could make a good operator eventually, but it's such...he's just not suited for it. even in the match with ninomiya, he got so tunnel-visioned, he didn't realize that he nearly got killed if not for chika acting against his orders. like i said in the fic, his ability to multi-task is underwhelming and i sincerely don't think he could keep track of everything from that distance, using the data and technology and language that the operators speaks. he could do it, but it wouldn't suit him at all. and on top of that, he would be miserable doing it.
he needs to have his boots on the grounds. he needs to in it. he needs that tangibility, and i think he would struggle with the distance, even though the operators are just as capable of catastrophic failures (and successes!) that could severely impact the battlefield, it's different, and i don't think osamu would be able to reckon with it in a healthy way.
He wanted to see it happen with his own eyes.
speaking of distance affecting the way that you do things—lmao, jin wanted front row seats specifically.
i also wanted to seed yotaro into this because i do think yotaro is such a huge part in why jin came out of aristera as well as he did. so many of them died, but in their hands were these two kids that represented possibility. and i think that's the unsaid foundation of why jin is so hell-bent on adults keeping out of the fight of their juniors. about giving these kids a future and the choice to choose.
Even witches sought to fatten their Hansels, exercising patience by taking old twine and dipping it in tar.
hehehe, it's like the title. it's not unlike what jin is doing, we're just nicer about it because he's a cute anime boy.
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My pain has been particularly bad this week, so please allow me a small rant.
I'm so happy to learn of Disability Pride Month. Though, it makes me a little uncomfortable to use the word 'pride'. I'm not proud of my disability. I'm not proud of how I've 'persevered through' my disability, because often I''m not able to. I'm not proud to constantly be in pain.
I'm not proud of who I am despite my disability; I mourn who I could have been without it.
My disability is my constant companion and is always at the forefront of my mind, whatever I'm doing. Will I be sitting for too long? Will I be standing for too long? Will there be comfortable chairs? Will I wake up in (more) pain for no reason? What will I have to miss out on, that my friends and family can do? What is worth doing anyway, then paying for it later?
I know the point is for visibility and a celebration of disabled people. But right now I want Disability Anger Month. Disability Grief Month.
I want to be allowed to be upset that my sister has stopped reacting when I say I'm in pain, because it's so normal, without being upset at HER. I want to be allowed to cry because my painkillers aren't working (they never work completely). I want to be allowed to be angry at the guilt I feel when I have to call in sick to work because I can't bear to sit at my desk for a moment longer, or when I can't contribute to household tasks, or when I can't properly play with my goddaughters.
I want to scream at how BORING it all is.
What's the point of pride? I just want to be seen.