On A Mental Vacation

Egg/Eggie, pronouns are they/she/he in descending order of preference but I don't mind any of them! Feel free to use any. Arslan Senki fan. Faves are Shapur, Isfan, and Arslan. Shaddiq and El4n enjoyer, avid Prospera stan. Header image by me, I took the photo! And the current icon by @swords-andsandals 💜

[tired-reader-writer]

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

Foxes, Pillars, and Sea-salt Rust

Chapters: 1/?

Rating:

Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warnings:

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Fandom:

Naruto (Anime & Manga)

Relationships:

Uzumaki Kushina & Original Character(s), Hatake Sakumo/Original Character(s), Hyuuga Hizashi & Uzumaki Kushina, Hyuuga Hizashi & Original Character(s), Tsunade & Original Character(s), Orochimaru & Original Character(s), Other Relationship Tags to Be Added

Characters:

Original Uzumaki Character(s) (Naruto), Original Uchiha Character(s) (Naruto), Senju Tobirama, Tsunade (Naruto), Orochimaru (Naruto), Hatake Sakumo

Additional tags:

Konoha Is A War Machine, Shinobi Politics (Naruto), Civilian Politics, Politics, geopolitics, ARE YOU READY FOR SO MUCH POLITICS BABY, Worldbuilding, matriarchal Uzumaki clan, Uzumaki Clan Lore (Naruto), Uzushiogakure | Hidden Eddy Village, all Hidden Villages are war machines honestly, Everyone Needs A Hug, the Senju and the Uzumaki are dark-skinned because I Say So™, Albino Senju Tobirama, he only appears for the first chapter anyways but I wanted to cover my bases, We Put Canon Out Back And Put It Out Of Our Misery, Hey Kishimoto I'm In Your Walls, If Kishimoto Can Retcon His Own Canon I Am Free To Do What I Want™, No Fucks And No Respect Given We Implode Like Uzushio's Internal Politics, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Trauma, Grief/Mourning, Child Soldiers, Naruto Worldbuilding, Other Additional Tags to Be Added

Summary:

“They are not happy about this island, the freedom you represent. This will appease them for the time being, smooth over any tension that may arise,” Tobirama says. “And besides which, we do not intend to let things stagnate, and you know that. This will make future negotiations easier.” “For your dream of peace, right?” “Our dream of peace,” Mito interjects. “You fought alongside us, as did I, haha-ue.” “This is but the first step of a newborn, Kiho-sama. More will come. Good tidings. It is what we fight for.” “Like the waters that retreat before they come again, stronger and taller than ever before,” says Mito. — “From a history unbound from its future days To the sound of my voice, like an anchor in the sea Sinking deeper in a past that's bound to repeat I surrender myself to this fate” — Uzumaki Hoshiori, the younger of Hashirama's granddaughters, volunteers to take Kushina's place as a sacrifice. The choice sends ripples through the world, turns into waves, into tsunamis, until all in the world is swallowed by the sea.

The first chapter is up. The process of uploading made me cry.

Here is the full author's note that AO3 prevented me from including.

[onedivinemisfit]

“Don’t talk to me or my liege lord/adopted son ever again”

Hi I found a new obsession

[yyyqqe]

Because I wanted to see it in color!

[catchymemes]

[yourfaveisintersex]

what if I just made my profile picture a male calico cat or something. hurm

[icewingassasin]

Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.

[yourfaveisintersex]

Oh my god?????

Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????

[yourfaveisintersex]

:)

[tj-crochets]

My grandma just called and, among other things, said “You have hips. That’s good! Men like hips!” and then she interrupted herself to say “Women like hips. People of your preferred gender like hips. I can never remember”  And I was like “Thanks grandma! My preferred gender is none of them, no thanks.” and she was like “Okay, no one will comment on your hips!” very self satisfied, like “aha, I have figured it out” I think like half her grandkids are some variety of not-straight and she can’t always remember which is which but she is the epitome of like “she’s a little confused, but she’s got the spirit!”

[tj-crochets]

Update: I gave it some thought and my estimate was wrong. Of the grandkids that are out, it’s 1/3, not ½

[tj-crochets]

I told my grandma that I’d told my friends about what she said and that some of y’all had said you wished she was your grandma, and she said “Well, you can never have too many grandkids!”  So like…consider her your honorary grandma* I guess? *if you want an honorary grandma, that is

[tj-crochets]

Update on my grandma: I told her my hair was standing up, but instead of straight line it was diagonal and she said “That’s okay, you’ve never been straight!” and then laughed so hard at her own joke I thought she was going to drop the phone

[tj-crochets]

Happy almost pride month! Have my confused-but-supportive grandma!

[tj-crochets]

An update: my grandma just called me to ask if I knew it was pride month

[tj-crochets]

Happy pride month!!

[hexbugswallower]

Spicy stuff has an unusually high ceiling, it seems like. Salty foods can only be as salty as salt. Even the sourest candy of all time poses basically no challenge to an adult palate. Spicy foods, though? They can be spicy enough to make you throw up and that’s not even approaching the spiciest food ever. A spicy food can kill you by being spicy

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

Sour absolutely has a high ceiling. It’s just caused by acidity, isn’t it? We could go all the way to “dangerously corrosive”, could we not?

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

One time, I ate so much sour candy in one sitting that my tongue started actually bleeding

[integer-disarray]

I tasted hydrochloric acid in high school and it was so sour it left a visible burn on my tongue

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

you what now

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

you tasted fucking what now?

[tired-reader-writer]

The weather being this hot this early in the morning should be illegal

[blignick]

[domesticangel]

this is not revolutionary and is apropos of nothing to be honest but I’m so sick of anime art. I’m so sick of pale-skinned noseless lipless bug eyed toddlers with huge tits that all of you people seem to want to fuck. I’m sick of anime girl art that betrays the fact that the artist/consumers see their ideal woman as a prepubescent blowup doll. I dont understand how people can look at that and feel anything but weary malaise, let alone arousal. I’m sick of everyone’s bad taste. learn to draw noses and many different body types or kill yourself. I am hereby exempting myself from letting others enjoy things. I’m outside your house with a baseball bat right now. Your art looks like this but with hentai proportions 👇🏻

[cannibal-rainbow]

fma Brotherhood was like this is the most epic anime ever made. look at these strong female characters girlbossing. genocides can be fixed with reforming the state! you can even fix disabilities used as a divine punishment if you try hard enough :))) <3

[cannibal-rainbow]

i think some bhood fans don't get my satire but idk what i expected from their media literacy since they are after all the fans of this tone deaf show

[guardianspirits13]

I think I did miss the sarcasm on my first read-through, but I am thoroughly fascinated by your interpretation of FMAB.

First off, it's representation of women is some of the best in anime, if not all of pop culture. Female engineers, women in the military, mothers who are depicted as strong and capable, and a woman who can't have kids and is not looked down on for it are just some of the female cast, and they all have *gasp* individual personalities. Compare that to Marvel, whose female characters range from overpowered and cocky to sexy badass. Riza, for example, can be emotionally vulnerable and even have a man be the center of her motivation without her ever being portrayed as inferior or emotional for caring about someone.

It also does a great job of breaking down the effects a genocide can have on larger society and the people it happened too, in addition to the steps it takes for reparations and to rebuild and restructure exploitative systems to prevent it from happening again. We see the ravaged communities of Ishvalans, and rampant xenophobia among the Amestrian population. It's also really fucking bold of you to suggest that this is a bad depiction of genocide considering the author herself based it off of the genocide of her OWN PEOPLE, the native Ainu people in Hokkaido. I think out of anyone, a person who is a generation or two removed from a genocide would be the right person to speculate on how systemic reparations could be made.

As far as disability representation goes... there are a lot of disabled characters in FMAB and the majority of them did not recieve their disabilities via divine punishment nor did they "cure" them. I'm generally not a fan of the "disability as punishment" trope but it's worth noting that for Ed the entire journey was about his brother. Automail was an inconvenience, but getting his limbs back was not his main goal and even then he still has his automail leg.

Aside from the whole "soul binding" thing, failed human transmutation could have been swapped for any real life accident caused by kids making a bad decision and the impact would have been the same. It's more of a "dumb kids fuck up and spend years fixing their mistake" story rather than a "the gods have enacted their wrath and we must atone for our sins" story. The boys grow and learn, and IMPORTANTLY they learn that death is a part of life and not something to be fixed, but something that makes life worth living in the first place.

Sorry I misunderstood your sarcasm! What was that about media literacy again?

[cannibal-rainbow]

Arakawa is NOT Ainu. she is a Japanese person. Japanese people are still to this day colonising indigenous ainu lands. get your facts straight. If she has any experience on genocide and imperialism, it's on the side of the imperialists. This shows in her writing. "behind the history of Ishval and Amestris comes from the history of her own family, who many generations ago have participated in the extermination of the Ainu people, natives of the Hokkaido Island." (Archbold 2023).

Those "badass women" riza, olivier etc are cops.

The brothers were literally punished for committing a sin, doing the taboo thing, by "god". it doesn't get more divine punishment than that. Disability is seen as punishment and magical healing happens after "lesson is learned". There is no way around it, no matter how passionate and lengthy responses you write.

some excellent points that have been made:

Ableism in FMAB +1

On portrayal of genocide and victim blaming

On reforming the state +1

Arawa and her relationship with WW2 & japanese guilt on their war crimes

[hexbugswallower]

Spicy stuff has an unusually high ceiling, it seems like. Salty foods can only be as salty as salt. Even the sourest candy of all time poses basically no challenge to an adult palate. Spicy foods, though? They can be spicy enough to make you throw up and that’s not even approaching the spiciest food ever. A spicy food can kill you by being spicy

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

Sour absolutely has a high ceiling. It’s just caused by acidity, isn’t it? We could go all the way to “dangerously corrosive”, could we not?

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

One time, I ate so much sour candy in one sitting that my tongue started actually bleeding

[integer-disarray]

I tasted hydrochloric acid in high school and it was so sour it left a visible burn on my tongue

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

you what now

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

you tasted fucking what now?

[catasters]

[famouspainterwombat]

[teaboot]

god I wish that were me

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

handmade pearl & seashell necklaces by 秋花宴

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[hunter-rodrigez]

Wild how many people believe medieval armor is super hard to move in.

Like, do these people realize those armors were usually made for fighting... to the death? Where mobility is kind of important???

[drbtinglecannon]

You should be able to rot in bed for 2, maybe 3 hours after waking up before it starts affecting what time it is. If I wake up at 8:30 and lie in bed for 2hr it should still be 8:30 when I get up