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art, some of my art, shitposts, fanfics. yes, that's me.

[wileycap]

I think the most hilarious place to put Post-Canon Sokka would have been the university at Ba Sing Se. I think he would have made a great unhinged professor. Also, in true Sokka fashion, he should have completely dodged fame. Momo is more famous than he is.

He wants to demonstrate to the class how this thing called electricity works, so he's going to be bringing in a Firebender, so everybody be cool, we're all friends here... and in walks Princess Azula of the Fire Nation. One-time conqueror of the city. One of the students is currently writing an essay on how her brief rule of the city affected fruit trade. She says she considers the class to still be her subjects as she doesn't acknowledge any pretenders to any of her thrones, but for now you're exempted from bowing and "Your Highness" will do. It's a really interesting lecture.

"Okay, guys - hey, listen up, everyone - I won't be here next week, me and Aang are going to-" yeah right, sure, Professor Sokka knows the Avatar. Except, of course, the Avatar walks in sheepishly and says that Appa might have gotten into Sokka's hybrid crops, and then you all have to sit there and watch your professor chase the Avatar around with a sword.

One postgrad student is specializing in Water Tribe Cultures. She's currently studying the massive cultural shift that happened in the Northern Water Tribe at the end of the war - oh, and Professor, I absolutely know that you're from the Southern Water Tribe, but it's just that the shift started with Master Katara, and of course I don't think that every person from the South knows one another haha it's just that I need to ask her some questions and I thought maybe you could help me write a letter or write a letter of introduction or...

Sokka looks at her blankly and goes "yeah, she's my sister. KATARA!" which is followed by a faint answering "fuck you!" from Somewhere and to the horror/elation of our postgrad, Master Katara bursts in and is promptly beaned in the head with a rock by Professor Sokka. Her brother. her hero and her professor are siblings and currently brawling on the floor.

Sokka does not teach or study history, but he does sometimes sit in on lectures about recent history. Whenever he does, several doctoral students flock in to sit near him (even if it's an intro course) so that they can eavesdrop on his grumbling. (No matter how they try, an "overheard utterance" is not a valid source according to their professors. No, we have no sources on the Avatar's bison taking part in combat - sky bison are not war animals and...)

He gets regular deliveries with the Beifong family crest on them, and he goes "sweet, Toph must have found some new minerals" and at this point nobody needs to ask which Toph. He seems to have friends everywhere, literally everywhere. Wang was headed out to this massive swamp to study if it's one big organism, and Sokka told him to find some guy named Hue and "don't mind the loincloth." One time the university gets shut down because the Earth King wants to visit. Oh, visit the University? What an honor- Of fucking course not, he wants to visit Professor Sokka, who yells at him and his royal guards for interrupting his day. The Earth King and his many, many royal guards then sheepishly say sorry and file out.

The last straw is when - not a week after he yelled at the Earth King - the assistant head of the Political Science dept walks in to the faculty lounge to find Sokka having tea with a nice normal man dressed in Earth greens for once, and can't resist a little joke. "Let me guess, you're having tea with the Fire Lord." And then she can instantly tell that she fucked up, because both of them go stock still.

So when the two men awkwardly stand up and proceed to introduce the Fire Lord whose portrait she has in her office because she is the assistant head of Political Science as Li, a server at the Jasmine Dragon, she just says "hello Li" and leaves to find a bottle of something strong.

[thekijs]

The 300 level poli-sci final exam at Ba Song Se University is infamous for the airship question. It's an essay question, worth a whole 10 points on a 60 point exam, asking for the primary influences that led to airship technology no longer being used for military purposes after its initial introduction by the Fire Nation during the day of the comet. No matter how the rest of the test changes it's always on the exam, and no one ever gets more than 9/10 on it. Doesn't matter how thorough your knowledge, how compelling and in-depth your essay, how many brilliantly sourced paragraphs you manage to frantically scratch out before the exam period ends. Nine out of ten, never more, with exactly one exception.

Professor Sokka.

Apparently he audited the course when he was originally a student at the university, a few years after the war, and submitted the only response to ever get a perfect score on the airship question during the first year it was included in the exam.

On a dare, you ask if he still has his exam so you can see his record holding essay, and to your surprise he does and he obliges. It's five words long, but only if you include the source as well.

Indicate the primary cause(s) that prevented the pursuit of military airship technology after the hundred year war, with sources. (10 points)

"AIRSHIP SLICE!!" (1)

(1) I was there.

[thekijs]

Okay this isn't staying hidden in the tags. A+ addition

[somestorythoughts]

This is delightful

[succubusboyfriend]

being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

[succubusboyfriend]

someone: oh yeah, do this exercise during your warm ups! it’ll help

me: my what

[suave-eddboy]

[thepioden]

What’s up I have an actual college degree in art and I was never ONCE taught to do warm ups.

[sparksel]

when i was in undergrad, it was kind of mentioned in and offhand way that we should do warmups, but we were never shown what that meant. And, y’know, we were young so it didn’t matter so much. 

Being older now and having an art job it’s…kind of essential. 

So: a quick primer for those of you who are like ‘ok but how do i actually go about doing this warmup thing.’ 

1) you may be tempted to do ‘a warmup drawing’ which is just a drawing that will take longer than it needed to and probably be frustrating and kind of bad because you didn’t warm up first. It’s tempting but always a trick your brain is playing on you! Do not trust! 

2) warmups will vary based on what feels good to you/what task you’re about to do/what motor skills you want to practice. That being said, some good standbys:

a) circles. Just a whole page of circles on whatever drawing surface you’re going to be using, whether that’s your tablet or your sketchbook or a drawing pad on an easel. For these circles you should make sure that you’re drawing from your shoulder and not your wrist. In fact, you want to be drawing from your shoulder rather than your wrist most of the time! forever! your wrist is delicate please preserve it! 

In order to ensure that you’re drawing from your shoulder, when you’re holding your pencil or whatever drawing tool you’re using, the only part of your hand that should be touching the drawing surface is part of the last two fingers–some people prefer the finger tips, but I tend to favor the first knuckles. Either way, the fingers should really be ghosting over the surface, providing guidance rather than support. 

I usually start with big circles and then go to smaller circles and lines of ellipses, and then try to fit circles and ellipses inside other shapes i’ve already drawn as a precision exercise, but i don’t do that unless i’m feeling loose

b) spirals! i don’t always do spirals, but if i’m stiff and the circles just aren’t cutting it, spirals are a good fall back. I start from the center and work outward, going both clockwise and counterclockwise until i feel comfortable with the whole range of motion. Some people really care about getting perfect spirals but for me it’s all about making sure i’m comfortable with how i’m moving so who really even cares about how the spirals look. Not me! 

c) lines! straight lines! in parallel! i do a mix of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal. These are often more from the elbow than the shoulder, especially if I’m working on a smaller surface. For this exercise, I recommend holding the drawing tool perpendicular with the surface

d) connect the dots. This is a precision and accuracy exercise and takes two forms. The first is to draw two dots and then draw a straight line between them. The second is to draw three dots and draw the curve that connects them. This sounds a lot simpler than it is in practice. Take time to ghost over the line you plan to draw before actually committing to your line. (I don’t always remember where I picked up my warm up exercises, but I’m pretty sure I got this one from Scott Robertson. His how to draw and how to render books are very technical but also accessible and worth checking out)

e) cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders. These help get your brain into a more volumetric space. I draw multiples of each, rotating the forms around, and I’ll often take the time to do some rough shading on at least a few of them

f) spidermans! This one is really good if you’re going to be storyboarding or working on dynamic poses. Just fill a page full of spidermans doing all sorts of acrobatics. 

g) beans. I don’t do beans too much anymore, but I know a lot of people like it so I’m mentioning it here. Fill an area with different size bean shapes without lifting your pencil off the paper. 

h) short medium and long line repetition. draw a short, medium, and long line on your page, and then draw directly on top of them 8 to 12 times, doing your best to exactly trace what you’ve already drawing. Repeat with a wavy line. I’m bad at this one, which means I probably need to do it more. 

And there are lots more options too! Hit up youtube to see what other people recommend, put together your own go-to list, mix it up when you’re getting bored, etc. 

This is a long list, I know, but I usually don’t take more than 10 to 15 minutes to warm up, and I can warm up one handed while I’m drinking coffee, so, multitasking hurrah. 

Sometimes I’ll advance to a precision warmup and find that I haven’t loosened up enough yet; it’s totally ok to go back to an earlier exercise! Also, all of this has the added benefit of kind of ritualistically getting you into the drawing mode so even if I’m not feeling it before I start, by the time I’ve gotten to the end I’m usually Ready For Drawin’. Brain hacks. 

so, yeah! that’s a lot of words, but! Warmups are important! Save your joints, take less advil, do better drawings! 

[concerningwolves]

[t-c-art-inspiration]

How on earth are you supposed to draw from a sholder? might as well tell me to draw from the foot. It makes no sense

[justpickupthatpen]

https://youtu.be/pMC0Cx3Uk84

https://youtu.be/NBE-RTFkXDk

:3

[stupidlittlesideblog]

Reblogging to save a wrist

[justpickupthatpen]

[briarbramble]

Hi I have a literal animation degree and I learned fucking ✨none✨ of this

[reader93]

[reader93]

[aivilo93]

[aivilo93]

[aivilo93]

[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[the-thread-of-the-infinite]

What about the one with the princess locked in a tower learning to become a wizard? That’s lived in my mind for years and I haven’t seen it in a long time

[death-of-the-endless]

Oh, love that story, adding it to the list: 20. Princess Talia and adding a few more contenders 21. Thyme 22. The Monster under the Bed 23. A Meaningful Death 24. Humans are unstoppable…until they aren’t 25. The Monster under the Fridge 26. Antler Guy 27. Cleric slamming healing spells

[death-of-the-endless]

Adding a few more I remembered:  28. The Frog and the Scorpion 29. HSTHETE 30. The First Witch in the World 31. Imagine that Oceans were replaced by Forests  32. A Faerie taking a Name  33. The Dragon on the Farm  34. Synovus & Menace  35. Raising the Anti-Christ  36. Aliens vs. Flora & Fauna of Earth (pretty sure there are even more additions to the original post but I had this one saved)  37. Doctors without Borders…in Space!  38. The Villain-Wrangler  39. The Last Contact  40. The 100 Parent-Point Children  41. And the Heavens Wept  42. The Night Gentleman  43. The Serpent God and their Priestess 

[knottahooker]

44. No One Showed Up for the Last Storytime

[adamskiiii]

Wow! @writing-prompt-s contributing to like half of these!

[writing-prompt-s]

I can hardly take any credit for these stories! But I love sharing them. Unfortunately I cannot read all the prompt responses so please tag me if you want me to reblog a story that resonated with you so I can give it a little boost :)

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

⁂

Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[writing-prompt-s]

You never knew your birth parents, growing up across the country in orphanages. While alone you learned to cook and shared your meals across the world, eventually owning your own business. One day you suddenly find out what your parents were. They were Fae… you’ve fed thousands Fae Food.

[caffeinewitchcraft]

The call from your New York restaurant comes at 2am their time which is a sensible 11pm your time.

“Boss, we need you,” the manager says. Hercules – the name he chose for himself when he first started working for you – doesn’t scare easily. He can’t, not while running three of your restaurants in the cesspool that is New York city. “Someone just drove a truck through the flagship.”

You’re already out of bed and out the door. “I’ll be there before the sun comes up.”

Hercules’ relief bleeds through the phone. “Thank you.”

“You’re my right arm, Hercules,” you say. You’re wearing the plaid pajama set Mercedes, your left arm and the woman who runs your LA restaurants, gave you for your birthday. You can buy clothes in New York. “Thank you.”

Your Thank yous are far and few between. They’ve always felt awkward in your mouth and worse leaving it. But Hercules is one of yours and it’s easy to volley the words back, to not accept his gratitude in the face of his loyalty. No thanks needed. You’re part of me.

Hercules swallows hard. He knows you well. “Boss.”

“Hercules.”

You hang up at the same time.

Los Angeles is still awake as you roar onto the streets. Your motorcycle is the same one you bought when your first restaurant started turning a profit. Prodigal. The name of it is carved into the body. The streets are damp from a rare spot of rain. You’d gotten caught in it while leaving Queen earlier. It had felt like a bad omen then and your lip curls as the moisture sprays up under your tires now.

You should always listen to your gut.

Keep reading

[popsicleofdeath]

I'm trying to prove a point to my brain: Reblog if you think fanfiction does not need sex to be good.

There is a trend I’ve noticed that smut fics tend to be much more popular than anything else and honestly I just want to have something to look at to remind myself and that writing doesn’t have to have sex to be worth putting out into the community.

[reader93]

No, a fan work doesn't need to be smutty to be good. Some of the works that I've printed for myself, are better than sex.

Don't get me wrong, sex helps in a big way (especially if you're in that mood). And people have favourites, which they go back to often (which I personally think contributes to the popularity counts/hits).

But the ones I save, re-read, print like 3 copies cause a friend will be curious and disappear with it? Often doesn't have any sex (or very little). And some of them? The intimacy and sensuality all happens with their clothes on (and sometimes on opposite sides of a very public hall); and not a single porny or smutty word in sight.

[elencaorange]

Twitter

[unicornempire]

This is some truth laid down right here boy.

[quasi-normalcy]

Millennials have essentially been forced into a perpetual teenagerhood by socioeconomic circumstance, we desperately want to grow up, and we’re worried that we’re running out of time to do so

[iansoulfox-deactivated20201026]

damn does this sting.

[glorytobabalon-deactivated20220]

I was talking with my roommate about this earlier.

[audio-sexual]

Someone put it into words. I couldn’t myself but this is something that hits me daily, especially when I lay down to sleep. This constant feeling of time is almost gone & I’ve done nothing.

[jamaicanblackcastoroil]

I’ve been especially feeling like that within the last year

[bronze-rhea-breakspear]

I think I see this before me as a chasm and it’s like yeah there’s a bridge, but damn if it doesn’t look rickety and uncertain about it’s job.

[sassenachsansa-deactivated20201]

That ticking clock feeling…

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[cfluffiness]

Someone in facebook also posted this too

[xmagnet-o]

Omg

[halcyonjester]

Mediglyphics

[klubbhead]

This shit’s infuriating

[pseudonymsobriquet]

Oh, this is a type of shorthand!

There are 3 main types, but from my research, this looks to be American Gregg Shorthand.

As you can see, there are set symbols for every letter.

Let’s break one of the words down:

Using the Gregg Alphabet as reference, we can see most of the letters in “atrophied” are present. But why no “o” vowel, and why is “ph” written as “f”?

Simple. In shorthand, you cut out all vowels in a word when writing it down, with the exception of words that BEGIN or END with a vowel (hence the “a” at the start being present), or like in the “i” in “atrophied”, to make it more readable when the sound could be harder to distinguish if it isn’t written. In “atrophied” if the the “i” isn’t written, it could be hard to tell if the writer meant a “fud”, “fad”, “fod” or “fid” sound, for example.

Also, since Shorthand is a phonetic writing system, you are encouraged to write down the phonetic sounds of words rather than the actual letter blends - in this case, write an “f” instead of a “ph”.

So in actuality, these aren’t just meaningless scribbles - it’s Gregg Shorthand, a writing system developed to take down notes more quickly than when written out in full, which is very useful in a medical or journalistic environment.

Some people can even write over 100 words in a minute! And, it’s been in use since John Robert Gregg invented it in 1888! Wow! So old!

Isn’t language amazing~?

[jeza-red]

why not just… write the word as it is? You’re saving only a few letters per sentence this way, may as well write the damn ting out proper? 

[sosuperawesome]

Resin Keycaps and Wrist Rests

Holdener Shop on Etsy

[airframeextender]

June 7th, 1942: Edward Hopper completes his best known painting, the seminal Nighthawks. When asked by a Chicago Tribute reporter about the philosophical meaning behind the diner having no clearly visible exits Hopper responded, “Shit. Fuck. I did it again. Goddamnit. Fuck. Not again. I did it again. Shit.” and slammed his hat on his leg.

[hyperbolicker-blog]

how does this only have 150 notes

[scarvenrot]

I fucking laughed so hard at this all artists are hilarious

[wintcrwind]

I have had this scheduled since december

[airframeextender]

oh its that day again

[corvidprompts]

“Let me just- you kidnapped your kid?”

“It’s not! What it sounds like, exactly. Xir parents were abusive and also a lawyer and a cop! I’m a poor philosophy grad from community college. I never would’ve won that case.”

“So you just, what, grabbed the kid and fled the country.”

“It worked!”

[north-peach]

Damn it, people.

[chaosgreymistchild]

@north-peach

So. You gave that. And I did A Thing.

- Kisuke kidnapped the Kurosaki siblings from Isshin, who, let’s be honest, is probably one of the worst amongst Anime A+ Parenting Dads.

- Isshin is a well-respected, if wildly eccentric, doctor. Urahara Kisuke is an equally eccentric candy-store owner. This is Japan. Do the maths.

- Isshin pleads for his children to be returned on TV. It goes viral in Kurakara, and eventually Japan as well.

- By this point, the Urahara Shouten has become Urahara’s Rare Candies, moved to England, and has very much earned both it’s store name and a reputation for being owned and opperated by a family of eccentrics.

- Yuzu still cooks btw. She takes lessons from Tessai.

- Ichigo does well in school and doesn’t have to fight off bullies about his hair colour anymore. On the flip side, Kisuke takes him and girls down to the basement for training sessions (read: sparring) once a week, and expects them to run katas and workouts every day or second day. 

- The Kurosaki siblings all grow up to be brilliant fighters.

- They also grow up to learn that Kisuke had claimed some local gang territory for himself.

- They learn this because an Old Friend kicks down the door to Urahara’s Rare Candies.

- Optional Plot Twist: The man’s name is Reborn

[wolfsrainrules]

@north-peach @chaosgreymistchild PLEASE tag me when you do things like this I LOVE THEM-

-Reborn isn’t quite sure about the Sunny Mist he met that One Mission he Doesnt Talk About at first

-It gets better when they get stuck for a while, trapped together. Close proximity and a situation like that is rather a bonding experience. 

-they kept in contact after that Incident. 

-Kisuke took offence to the people who set up that Incident, and took over the entire Famiglia’s territory after demolishing them. (his kids will later discover this) and he takes rather good care of the people in that territory so long as they’re loyal and help him stay on top of the Underworld happenings/keep an eye on his kids.

-Reborn does NOT expect that Mist- Kisuke- to have children. 

-One of those children (Ichigo) is a Sky.

-The other two are a Sun (Yuzu) and a Lightning (Karin)

[thefringeperson]

@wolfsrainrules

-Yoruichi is a Cloud, because all cats are.

-Tessai is a Cloudy-Storm, enough Cloud that he has a Territory, which is the kitchen, but mostly he has Storm-Obsessiveness in being the best at the things he’s put his mind to.  Like Kidou and cooking.

-When Reborn is grumbling about Iemitsu one day, Yoruichi is curious in a professional sense, because Iemitsu’s job is supposed to be like half of what the Captain of the Second Division did (boss of the Varia doing the other half), so she checks him out.

-She is, of course, disgusted.  Nevertheless, this leads Yoruichi to learning about Nana and Tsuna, as well as Xanxus, and she already knows how Kisuke would react to the situation, because he already *has*, so of course she kidnaps fluffy little Tsuna, freshly sealed, and brings him to join their family in England.  She also manages to remove Xanxus from the basement without anybody knowing.

-Tessai gets rid of the truly horrible seal out of his own professional pride, and Kisuke has fun figuring out Zero Point and teaching Ichigo and Tsuna, who free Xanxus, and then Kisuke puts the very angry Xanxus into therapy and “kidnaps” the entire Varia for that family that he took over.

[wolfsrainrules]

–in tears– THIS IS GREAT THANK YOU. @chaosgreymistchild @thefringeperson @north-peach 

-this leads to a Kisuke-Ichigo-Varia raised Tsuna. 

Take a moment and absorb that.

-Vongola will have NO IDEA what hit them. NONE

-Tsuna LIKES Uncle Reborn and sets his mind to fixing the curse. Kisuke and Co have been working on it for ages, but Tsuna jumps right in.

-Checkerface walked right into a case of WILL KILL YOU AND NOT REGRET IT OR LOSE ANY SLEEP when he came anywhere NEAR Tsuna and Xanxus looking for new Sky Arcobaleno. 

-Checkerface is not used to being considered a baby. Compared to Shinigami though? Yes he is. And they will treat him as such if he wants to act like one

[north-peach]

@chaosgreymistchild @wolfsrainrules…and oh look, we dragged in another one @thefringeperson

Oops, sorry?

To be fair, I was probably going to add to this and forgot? I would have tagged you, honest.

Anyway-

-Reborn manages to put together that these people were originally from Japan, and Kisuke did a thing- perhaps something similar to That Incident We Won’t Be Mentioning- and essentially kidnapped these kids.

-He likes Kisuke. Despite the way he insists on dressing in what was the height of Japanese casual wear last century, he’s clever and morally ambiguous enough to not care about society’s rules.

-He is also, very skilled, with a sword and extremely fast. (sometimes Reborn wonders who would win an all out fight between the two of them)

-He notices things about this odd family. Like how archery and swordsmanship are Things Ones Does, same as poetry that doesn’t make any sense, even if it sounds cool. Also that one cat that Reborn swears is an agent of chaos.

(not that he minds)

-Yuzu is adorable and a very good cook and takes a likening to the strange Italian who wears expensive color coordinated suits, carries a gun- even in England- and is always polite.

-Ichigo’s grades are usually in the higher percentage of his class, but one day, one of his teachers accuse him of cheating and he ends up frustrated, ranting at the unjustice of it all at the dinner table.

-Reborn decides to tutor Ichigo for a month. Kisuke approves. Ichigo despairs.

(perhaps, years later, Reborn will call again, to introduce his students to one another)

-Ichigo nets instant Uncle or Brother status because he’s cool, he’s got a soft spot for kids and Tsuna’s hair is a dark orange. And orange haired people have to stick together.

(plus Tsuna reminds Ichigo of Yuzu)

[thefringeperson]

@chaosgreymistchild, @north-peach, @wolfsrainrules, @ladyhallen, @hi-pot-and-news … I think that’s everybody who’d be into this?  I may be dragging in even more, but if they don’t mind then that’s okay, right?  Okay.

The thing is, because Yoruichi kidnapped Tsuna before Vongola needed him to be the heir, he’s not there when Nono wants to send Reborn to tutor “Iemitsu’s son”.  Because Yoruichi kidnapped Xanxus, he’s not there when Nono goes to defrost him in anticipation of setting his adopted son up to lose the Ring Battles to the heir he thinks he has.

So Iemitsu panics a bit when he goes home for the first time in most of a decade and his son isn’t there and his wife is just as she always was, and not particularly bothered by the fact of their missing son.

So Nono panics a bit when he goes to defrost Xanxus, but the big chuck of Zero Point Ice isn’t there and no one in Vongola Security has any idea of a) where Xanxus is, or b) how long he has been out of the basement.

Meanwhile, Reborn is explaining the latest mafia-political cock-up to Kisuke and all of his kids (because all of them, yes, even Xanxus) have decided to hold very fiercely to Kisuke as their father, and he’s happy to let them all do so.  So they’re his kids now, and woe-betide anybody who tries to make one of his kids do something they genuinely (and with legitimate reasons to back them up) don’t want to.  (Homework, no matter how much they don’t wan to do it, does still need to be done.)

Ichigo has regular spars with Squalo, and sometimes they go out Hollow Hunting together, competing to see who can kill the most in a night.  Loser treats the winner to dinner at the best sushi place outside of the Candy Shop (because Tessai and Yuzu make the best, really, but there’s a matter of principle here).

Karin gets tips from Luss on various un-armed styles, because of all the things Kisuke drills them in, she likes that best, and enjoys the story Kisuke tells of when he was Captain of the Twelfth, and took his Lieutenant to the Maggot’s Nest for a visit, and shocked her with his bare-handed prowess.  It’s especially funny when said former-Lieutenant comes to visit, the story gets brought up, and she almost flies into a Hollow-Rage at the reminder, only to be literally sat on by Kisuke down in the basement until she’s calmed down again.

Karin doesn’t spar with Lussuria, but the okama has promised to as soon as their heights aren’t quite so disparate.

Yuzu, for all she called Kisuke ‘Papa’, has really taken Tessai for her role model.  He’s taught her how to cook, and how to use Kidou in amazing and (to everybody not in their family) terrifying ways.  One time a pervert tried to get fresh with Yuzu, she’d used a Kidou on him even faster than Karin could run over and kick him in the balls.  And Yuzu had done it with that same innocent smile on her face, too.

Tsuna, once the seal has been removed, dedicates himself to being as much like Auntie Yoroichi as he possibly can.  She was the one who brought him here, after all.  She’s quite literally his hero.  No longer tripping over his feet even when walking slowly, Tsuna loves having races or playing tag with Auntie Yoroichi (human or cat form) all over the neighbourhood.

Xanxus is the one to teach Ichigo and Tsuna all the little tricks to using Sky Flames, and sometimes Xanxus and Ichigo nerd out over some project that Kisuke left the notes for lying around, and then Kisuke finds them nerding out, and they all disappear into the lab until Tessai shows up at the door to drag them all away to eat and sleep and shower.

Xanxus is the one who stumbles into an answer to the Hogyoku, when they’re all sleep deprived and shouldn’t still be at it.  They have an awesome Eureka! moment, but then Tessai shows up to take them in hand, and by the next morning, not one of them can remember what that answer was, nor decipher their notes that might have helped them figure it out again.  So the Hogyoku is still a problem.

[chaosgreymistchild]

Fringe, have I ever told you how much I love you.

So, umm, continuation. Because, come on, this can’t finish here.

@thefringeperson​ @wolfsrainrules​ @north-peach​ @ladyhallen​

Tsuna is promptly adopted by Yoruichi when he learns to shunpo at “Shihoin speed”.

Iemitsu is completely blind-sided by this fact so when he tries to “rescue” Tsuna, it… doesn’t end well. For him at least.

The first time Iemitsu meets Lady Yoruichi is both horrifying and breath-taking. Breath-taking because she is a beautiful woman, and the only thing she wore was a thin, back-less shirt, that, well, not only was she not wearing a bra, but also very much well-endowed. Horrifying, because she had beaten his Guardians to within an inch of their lives.

I… got nothing, anymore.

Probably a good thing, as I need to get on better terms with Morpheus. 

[ladyhallen]

@thefringeperson @chaosgreymistchild @north-peach @wolfsrainrules

I love you guys for tagging me.

Okay. Y'all gotta think about this.

Hibari is territorial. A child in his territory got missing. The mother does not care. Years later, the herbivore father finds out and raises a fuss (and somehow makes it come across like it’s his fault).

Hibari chases after Iemitsu. Iemitsu unwittingly leads Hibari to the mafia.

There is much chaos, until Kisuke “accidentally” (ssh, no he was not spying on the Vongola) sees Hibari wreaking havoc and thinks, “aww, look at that feral child, he’s so cute.” And decides to take kidnap him too.

(except no, it’s not a kidnapping. He was lured with the promises of strong people to fight. Shinji and Reborn, the poor baits, are not amused.)

[kitsunekage1988]

This could tie in so well with my “Dino leaves the mafia” fic! He’s got a head for business, imagine him working in the stop, completely unphased by all the bullshit and quietly taking the shop to new levels. He never asks to join the training or the family but still somehow gets pulled in…

[north-peach]

@thefringeperson @chaosgreymistchild @wolfsrainrules @ladyhallen

Okay, yes, I love that idea.

So Reborn somehow manages to drag Dino into this mess and Kisuke is an inventor, Tessai is more of a domestic person, very traditional.  While they do their best to manage their business, there are times when Kisuke just forgets that he has Things To Do, Products To Sell and everyone else is busy with school or chores or lesson on How To Use Their Supernatural Powers.

So Reborn’s like lowkey showing off his student like, “Dino was so hopeless, used to trip over everything and couldn’t hold a decent conversation without stammering.”

Dino is very likable. Ichigo likes him, Tsuna takes to him, Yuzu is immediately awarded little sister status. 

He’s friends-ish with Squalo too, so bonus! 

Somehow Dino gets saddled with the actual business part of running a business. Now they’re a chain of Urahara’s Rare Candies. 

Shinigami live a long time, so undoubtedly, in the last thousand years, a lot of them learned recipes to candies now lost to time. Some didn’t even stay in Japan so now there are sections of Rare Candies from Japan along with any others any of Kisuke’s people have picked up over the centuries. 

Hibari is delighted with all these people.

Seriously, none of them are herbivores. The brightly colored female is venomous, the one that can turn into a cat is very cat. (he doesn’t like her human self, rather prefers her feline form)

Even the fluffy Namimori missing child can pull up some serious firepower and speed when he desires. 

He doesn’t want to leave, but his instincts are screaming at him to return to his territory, to protect, to patrol Namimori’s familiar streets. 

Kisuke shows him to an empty door frame and explains this will take him from their current location to his Office at Namimori Middle School.

Kyoya… Kyoya is touched. 

This one is very dangerous, he knows. Never losing that easy smile and that loose posture, always indulging in mischief, but Kyoya can feel a general air of bloodlust around the man and knows exactly what he is.

Carnivore.

But one who is old and tired, picking up small animals to sharpen their fangs. Kyoya doesn’t quite know how to feel when he realizes that this carnivore is choosing him as a small animal to help. 

But the carnivore can be convinced to spar with him. Shows him how to use the purple flames, shows him how to do anything he asks. 

Namimori is patrolled, protected and defended, but Hibari Kyoya spends the rest of his time around this strange pack of people.

[jewish-tutter]

someone explain the jewish holidays to me like i'm 5 years old

[rizaoftheowls]

Purim: They tried to kill us, we survived. Let’s tell the story, wear silly costumes, and get wasted. (Optional: have a carnival or a play!)

Passover: They enslaved us, God freed us. Remember this via a big ceremony/feast and then don’t eat bread for a week. This is a big one; you’re going to have to clean your house and host all your relatives.

Tu B'Shevat: It’s Earth Day, let’s eat some fruit.

Simchas Torah: We read the entire Torah every year, and we got to the end! Let’s have a dance party and then start all over again!

Tisha B'Av: They destroyed our temples. That sucked.

Rosh HaShanah: Happy New Year! It’s time to ask (and grant) forgiveness for the wrongs done in the past year, pledge to do better, and wish for a sweet new year. And go to synagogue for HOURS.

Yom Kippur: Rosh HaShanah’s somber counterpart. God decides on this day your fate for the next year. Repent your sins, hope for forgiveness, and fast. (And go to synagogue for HOURS.)

Yom HaShoah: Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Sukkot: Harvest festival! Sleep in a hut under the stars.

Shemini Atzeret: Man, I don’t even know?

Shavuot: God gave us the Torah! That was pretty nice of him.

Chanukah: They busted up our temple and tried to forcibly convert us. We responded with guerilla warfare. Let’s eat some fried food. Candles!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

So basically the entire Jewish holiday calendar is giving the middle finger to death and high-fiving, with or without various combinations of prayer and foods.

[rizaoftheowls]

Yup. Or as we say, “They tried to kill us, we survived, let’s eat.”

[galaxy-of-great-possibilities]

thank you for the desc’s bcs they are beautiful and i am now educated

[above-d-clouds]

A handy table for everyone:

[cityglowing]

Y’all have no idea how happy it makes me to see my goyim followers reblogging this. Really. It means the world to me.