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HALLELUJAH OUR MY PERSONAL LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE IS OVER. (Partially.)

Very unfortunately, we collectively still have many ongoing national nightmares.

But I finally hit upon the one actually competent person at my local social security office!!! Today is a day of jubilation!!!!! I AM FREE!!!!!!!

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JJK Bits & Bobs for @panharmonium

1x01:

The two canine shikigami Megumi (Fushiguro) can summon are called the gyokuken, the divine dogs, which ties into his cursed technique, the Ten Shadows, being based off the ten sacred treasures from shintoism. No idea why it was changed to be called the demon dogs in the anime.

In the manga, Megumi has green eyes instead of blue.

Megumi may be a grumpy guy with sea urchin hair (as opposed to duck butt hair 😉), but he's also very polite! He always addresses Gojo as “Gojo-sensei” and the Zen'in person he compares Yuji to in episode 1 is “Zen’in-senpai” too!

Yuji is just the best and I love him dearly.

1x02:

Gojo:

[shows up in an intense moment and immediately starts teasing Megumi and taking pictures of him] "Since my student is watching, I think I'll show off a little. :D" "A request from a precious student? Leave it to me!" (Also, I like that Megumi's answer to Satoru asking if his desire to not let Yuji die is motivated by personal feelings is “Yes. Please do something about this.”) [notices Yuji likes hoodies and incorporates a hood into his school uniform customization, and according to Megumi, this is a pattern.] [tricks his new country bumpkin students but then treats them to dinner (without trying to weasel out of paying *cough cough* *fond side-eye of certain other team leaders*)]

Me: I'm fine. This is fine. I like him a normal amount. [vibrates]

Gojo's line to Yuji about Sukuna, “Don't worry, I'm way too strong for him” is a very good translation under the syllable constraints, though it doesn’t completely capture the thematic bearing of “Don't worry, I'm the strongest.” (Nothing spoilery concerning what I am alluding to here; this is just one motif-type thing that is somewhat lost via non-specific wordings.)

The fact that the first thing Satoru says about the Jujutsu world's elders/higher-ups is that they're cowards… really just about says it all. If you enjoyed how Kakashi handled/acted towards Homura and Koharu after Danzo's death, then you are in for a treat. :)

As is pretty obvious at this point, I'm just really amused by the ways Kakashi and Satoru either mirror each other or are total inverses of the other. They both have revolutionary mindsets, they are both habitually late, Gojo has a massive sweet tooth and, as we know, Kakashi does not. They're both dog people (this never comes up in jjk's story, but was mentioned in a Q&A with Gege Akutami). I'll try to add on to this list as you progress ‘cause it's like my favorite thing.

Gojo’s big smiles in reaction to Yuji stating his convictions of how he wants to live and die. 🥰 [“Nice! I like people like you.” 😊]

Megumi: There were plenty of other empty rooms, weren't there? Satoru: But isn't livelier better? I thought it'd be good for– Megumi: Classes and missions are enough. This was an unwelcome favor. Satoru: 😟

I have A LOT of feelings about this exchange and it wouldn’t make sense to talk about now and it is KILLING ME. THEY'RE THERE THOUGH.

1x03:

Protagonist throwing himself at his new teacher to hug him? Check!

At the beginning of episode 3, Yuji is enjoying a light blue (ramune flavored) popsicle, the same kind of popsicle Gojo is often depicted with in official art, such as this chapter cover illustration by Gege:

I wonder if Yuji and Gojo have the same favorite flavor?

Yuji (observing Nobara for the first time while decked out in tourist-y stuff): This is kinda embarrassing. Megumi: Yeah, so are you.

Nobara: *disgusted by Yuji's eating habits* Yuji: Hey! That's not very nice! Megumi: I agree with her.

I adore the first-year trio's dynamics so much. <3<3<3

Megumi: I think I'll go [in with Nobara and Yuji], too.  Satoru “Tough Love” Gojo: Don't push yourself. You're still recovering. *sits on the ground so his student has the nicer resting spot*

Nobara Kugisaki makes self-referential puns to herself like a DWEEB and I love her for it. <3

Yuji Itadori casually Kool-Aid Mans through a wall and thinks nothing of it because it’s not like it was reinforced concrete or anything, just like he rammed into my heart. <3

Megumi Fushiguro always has his nose in his phone and quietly pouts when he's left out of things and I love him for his grumpy sea urchin ways. <3

1x04:

Oh yeah, so the series picks up in June 2018 and then skips ahead a week or two to the start of July 2018 for episode 4. And since we're on the topic of dates, all three of our first years are currently fifteen. Nobara, like Sakura before her, is the oldest, Born August 7, 2002. Megumi is in the middle, born on December 22, 2002. Making Yuji the baby with a birth date of March 20, 2003. Satoru is 28 and was born on December 7, 1989. Oh lookie there, what a similar age gap between–

Okay, but the way Yuji's Japanese VA first speaks to the white divine dog (popular fanon headcanon is the wolves’ names are Shiro and Kuro because Megumi does seem the type to simply dub them White and Black 😄) and says he's a good boy has to be one of my favorite line deliveries ever!

Nobara and Yuji may have gotten off on the wrong foot with each other, but I love that they react the same way to the disappearing door in the innate domain and praise Shiro upon learning he can smell the way out for them, much to Megumi’s annoyance. :) All three of them complement each other so well!

Megumi: And what happens when someone you saved goes on to kill someone else? Yuji: Then why did you bother saving me?!

Gaaahhhhh they respect/admire each other so much but the way they clash and navigate their personal philosophies and how that impacts their relationship is so, so great! Yuji is trying to honor his grandpa’s request to help/save others and if he can’t, give them at least “proper” deaths, while Megumi has a strict moral code of his own, though you’ll have to wait a little longer to hear it…

Nooooooo! Shirooooooooo! :( :( :( :( :(

“If I died here - if I actually died - would that be a proper death?!” + “I thought I was at least strong enough to choose when I died.” MY BOY. :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

Fun fact about Ijichi, the auxiliary manager/assistant manager depending on the translation with the glasses: he’s actually only 26! His birthday is April 20, 1991. Unlike many of the other managers, he has a cursed technique and originally trained to be a sorcerer before switching over to his current career track.

Yuji: You're often irritated when you're on the phone, Fushiguro. Megumi: That's because of Gojo-sensei, not the phone.

😂😂😂

I don't know how they did it, but IMO, every one of the opening & ending songs really hit! Especially “Lost in Paradise”! It's probably my dad's influence, but its jazzy feel is definitely my favorite (or truthfully, tied for first, but we haven't gotten that far yet).

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Welp, every single version of the hidden inventory kids officially hate me. Loath entirely. Want nothing to do with me. I'm trying to give them a better life and they're avoiding me like I'm Gege Akutami himself. I'm being shunned!

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Today is the five-year anniversary of the day my father passed away. That might sound slightly morbid an anniversary to remember, but that number has stuck with me because of a figure my family came across after my dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a few months before he died. It said that one year after being diagnosed, only a third of those with that specific cancer are still alive. After five years it’s only 4%. I remember very clearly thinking at the time, as many would I suppose, that I would give just about anything to have those five years.

So that time has been on my mind a lot lately, but more importantly, my dad has been on my mind quite a bit. The last few weeks I’ve been writing down, little by little, all the big and small things I remember about him. Honestly, a good portion of it is the little, inconsequential details that made him my dad, and it’s more than a little sappy, but I’m not going to blame myself for nearly all my memories being of the cheerful variety. :)

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It is finished.

It is 19,587 words long, pending tweaking of the last section. I don't want to talk about it.

But I can FINALLY rest!!!

That is enough.

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The BBC was ridiculous in the mid 2000s. Let's have British folk hero Robin Hood be a skinny twenty-something with designer stubble and a mop top. Let's have Guy of Gisborne be a depressed emo bad boy dressed entirely in black leather. Let's give this thing a budget of £2 and have most of that go on CGI archery shots. Screw it, have Maid Marian be a masked vigilante. Period accurate costuming? Nah, give them hoodies.

So much fun. 🤣😂

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Do you think about this every day, or are you normal 💔

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I honestly do just presume everyone in the world has watched naruto I just can't comprehend a person that hasn't witnessed rock Lee take off his training weights or seen naruto sit sadly on a swing 50 times so when I see someone say they've never seen naruto I just don't believe them they have definitely watched naruto it is a universal life step

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So we've officially passed 16K. And you know what, fine. Whatever, chapter. Reach double the word count of chapter 1 in less than 800 more words, see if I care!

I gotta be zen now 'cause I have to write two characters arguing - well our pov character thinks the two of them are fighting but really pov character is just having a really awful couple of days and something's happened that makes them jump to conclusions and so they are being very snippy + passive aggressive to their friend - and my brain is holding the words hostage because any degree of conflict makes brain saddddd but we can't move on from this scene if you won't give me the words, brain! So I do not have TIME for your shenanigans, neverending chapter length!

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me @ you:

(but lovingly)

(and apologetically, as evidently I can not format/use tumblr today for the LIFE of ME 😡😡😡)

Also, you are apparently very helpful to your followers, according to the half dozen likes and 1 new follower this post accrued in the hours after your reblog (I'm laughing forever over this, not to worry; it's just that I have no idea if they were simply putting their trust in you, that any fic you're looking forward to they'd be interested in as well (fair), or if we've just given them undue expectations because WHO KNOWS what I'm writing. 😅)

For the record, this is the general vibe:

So long as y'all are on board with that and not much in the way of plot, have at it! (Is this the part where I dredge up the whole of my woeful stock of courage to come clean and admit to Pan and the rest of the world my current writing project isn't related to Naruto? I suppose it is. Sorry to demolish everyone's hopes and dreams in me. *is ashamed*)

I was going to confess all this to you, Pan, in my next correspondence-reply. I truly didn't mean to give you the wrong impression. What happened is that I originally conceived it as a Naruto/JJK crossover, so even if Jujutsu Kaisen doesn't work out for you, there would be parts of it you could still potentially enjoy. But then it evolved after I'd already mentioned it to you, and I had to end up splitting off the naruto crossover bits into their own plot, and I'm still in the process of fleshing that out. In the meantime, I've been working on a minor JJK portion, which now is its own thing with a narrower focus. So, yeah, that's... that. I know you support all my writing pursuits no matter what they are directed at, so this is hopefully not a letdown or big deal, but I am sorry if I misled you.

And sorry that my non-silly tags sounded more dramatic than intended. I'm okay, mostly. Just a little less okay than I used to be. I've been thinking about it being almost five years since I felt anywhere near healthy. Overall I am not bad off, I don't think; it's more about mourning who I was before and likely won't ever be again. I'm lucky to have friends who understand and empathize with that experience, as well as meet and take me where I am. I have been extended that grace, and I'm so grateful to you and everyone for that. You are all I could have hoped for in a friend. But I also miss who I was. I wish I could engage with you the way it was so comparatively easy to do before all this. I wish you could know that me. Not because she was a "better" version or anything. It's just... we have lots of fun now and I wouldn't change any part of that, but it's a drop in the bucket to the fun we might have had, volume-wise. It doesn't really matter if it isn't hampering our friendship - and I don't feel it does - but the longing exists regardless. I'm having trouble encapsulating the exact emotion, but this is somewhere in the ballpark. I'm not failing to give my all into my relationships because I'm doing the best I can, but it's not all I am, and I want to be all I am.

That's too many buts. I'll let it be for today.

Hitting 10K in a single chapter: Niiiiice!

At 12K: Wha- hey, whoa there buddy. Where do you think you're going?

14K: No, you- stop! STOP WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU GOTTA SLOW DOWN I'M NOT EQUIPPED FOR THIS--!

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Hitting 10K in a single chapter: Niiiiice!

At 12K: Wha- hey, whoa there buddy. Where do you think you're going?

14K: No, you- stop! STOP WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU GOTTA SLOW DOWN I'M NOT EQUIPPED FOR THIS--!

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i mean ship what you want, read into relationships between characters to your hearts content, but there’s something to be said about a particularly well written friendship, where they love each other and would die for each other and just understand each other but it never becomes romantic. like, platonic soulmates

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what wot fandom spaces and especially mat enjoyers are like rn

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PLATONIC INTERPRETATIONS OF CHARACTER DYNAMICS ARENT ANY LESS VALID THAN ROMANTIC ONES PELASEE