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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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Tbh I can't remember either what character I created last... I think I know which person's pov I edited last... But that person is alright, not the nicest, but not the worst either....

And the situation she's in.... Hm currently it's alright - nothing that will burn on the stove - but she has been through some bad things...

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Chapters: 5/? Fandom: Hakuouki Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Hijikata Toshizou/Yukimura Chizuru, Shinsengumi - Relationship Characters: Hijikata Toshizou, Okita Souji (Hakuouki), Saitou Hajime (Hakuouki), Kondou Isami (Hakuouki), Toudou Heisuke (Hakuouki), Nagakura Shinpachi (Hakuouki), Harada Sanosuke (Hakuouki), Sannan Keisuke (Hakuouki), Miki Saburo (Hakuouki), Souma Kazue (Hakuouki) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - School, More characters added; Aged down; Yankee, delinquency, violence and street fights, I fixed SSL in what I think would actually fit the modern school days of the Shinsengumi, Hijikata is a cool guy with a motorcycle Summary:

SSL is in contrast of history a violence free world, but what if the Shinsengumi can't escape the violence even in their next life. The story of the Shinsengumi told in modern age, facing broken families and the discriminating school system. Fighting for the top, and maybe finding the truth of life and a meaning deeper than fist fights.

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THIS IS NOT REAL. If you get this comment, they’re just trying to get you to delete your fic.

1) I would have gotten some kind of email from Ao3 if this was true

2) this comment is formatted to be perfect to tack onto any fic they choose

3) ALSO why on earth would Ao3 get rid of entire fandoms off the site? Even if they WERE inactive? Who knows if others will be ‘late’ to the fandom and want some fic to read. Who knows if someone wants to come back to their 6 year old account only to find most of their fics deleted.

I’m lucky to be a reasonable adult who has seen tricks like these who also had a very kind person comment their own doubts.

Please let your Ao3 friends know <3

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It's "Elbow and shoulder man" obviously 😂

Usually those kinds of readings come from the time not everyone had a surname and when they chose it, they just selected Kanji that they liked in meaning rather than it fitting the pronunciation of the name.

The Hiji could be a relict of an older Yamato kotoba, that got represented with 土, because it's an easy to understand and write Kanji.

Hmm. I've known both of these kanji for half of my life at this point and yet there is no conceivable way in the absolute buttfuck that I ever would have read 土方 as Hijikata. One of my favorite references, Myoji Yurai, says it can also be Ubukata (also wouldn't have guessed), Tsuchikata, or Dokata. The name belongs to about 11,500 people—enough that I still feel a little embarrassed that I don't know, but not mortified.

土, as we reviewed yesterday, means soil, earth, or ground. It's read つち, ト, or ド. Don't confuse it with 士 gentleman, which has a short horizontal line on the bottom and a long one on the top.

方 means direction, person, or alternative. It’s read かた, -がた, or ホウ. It

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I just remembered my fanfiction that started to 80% in the original setting (10 years had past and people separated) and 95% of the original people and ended with keeping one canonical person and the rest were OCs. And it makes me proud, gives me the motivation to one day start my 100% own story....

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Hello tonight I bring u: mr oni man

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And then it's the 壬 from 壬生 (Mibu🤣😉)

the ship name for Hijikata and Chizuru with their combined names formed 土千 and isn't that just So Sweet?? The shape looks like they're completing each other...

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May the Fourth be with you!

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Sorry to join this conversation.

I think as Kotowari mentioned, they still gave him shelter, yet they most definitely blamed him constantly for not being a woman. So much that he desired to be one (not only starting to hate his sister), to get treated better. Not because he is a woman by heart, but because he wants to survive better.

Thus unless Chizuru who temporarily seeks shelter being a boy, to avoid unwanted attention. Kaoru from the days he is with the Nagumos, perfects the art of being female, just to lessen the anger of that family. Thus he seeks shelter being a girl, but to the point he can no longer live as himself, has to deny himself, pretending to be someone he's not.

I don't know, if he's purposely deceiving, but at this point of growing up over 10 years in that environment, the feminity must have become his second nature. It is protecting himself. He knows he won't become what the Nagumo family wants him to be, but if people believe him to be, he might feel some kind of reassurance.

As for his puberty, I think that with his puberty and not only physical changes, he also establishes himself from the family raising him, he goes out, meets old family members (Koudou) and in this, he reassumes his masculinity, because first he still is a man and second he knows better than no one how hard it actually is to live as a woman.

Yet, the rejection of the people raising him, his constant pretending to be someone he's not, twisted his heart and mind. But he would never admit that, he rather is being mean and says he likes to deceive people than to beg for pity or understanding. Because he still protects that part.

That's what I deem as a logical chain.

The anime and the movie did Chizuru dirty for me😭 cuz at least in the game Chizuru for me at this sorta of young boyish look, I always thought if she more smart with her disguise and work on her voice more she could pass off as a young boy much longer not get so easily discovered.

Also it's implied that Chizuru (since she's a Oni) has some sort sixth sense (or spidey sense lol) I haven't play the game in a long time and forgetten most of it but does it get brought up much? like the developer can't introduce such a dope ability and not make it be used at all?

So this is part of two very old Hakuouki asks I got a lifetime ago and I am so sorry to only come back to them now… Anon I hope you are still around to see this answer and I am very very sorry about this.

I like Chizuru in the movie and the anime, still 😅.

I don’t think her disguise is that unbelievable. Sure it is not the most convincing disguise I have ever seen (and plenty of people who do interact with her are not fooled: Hijikata, Saito, Okita, Sannan…) but I think it is enough to fool bystanders, which its actual purpose (hence, why guys like Ito are actual threats to her safety, because they can’t really be kept at a "safety distance").

I think to judge Chizuru’s disguise one must remember how gender (as a social category) is about assigned roles and presentation to the outside world. A woman is supposed to act and dress a certain way, a man a different way. While Edo era clothes were less gendered than European clothes of the same era, there were some differences that allowed the onlooker to immediately pick women and men apart (notably the hairstyle, but also some clothes were strictly gendered like haori for example, etc.). In the same way, the way to pick a man apart from a boy was also through presentation rather than being strictly an age category (boys had bangs, men shaved their head, etc.). Of course, some people defied those social constraints and there were categories of people who were also allowed to toy the line between genders (male actors who played female roles, kagema, but they were a bit on the "outskirts" of polite society and also they could be on the receiving side of a lot of scrutiny because of this).

The main things that make Chizuru’s disguise work in universe is that and the fact that people will see what they want to see. A woman is not supposed to be dressed and act (carry a sword around, travel on her own) like she does. So she must be a young man, end of story. Thinking that a woman might be able to do all that (dress as man and behave like one) is more challenging (and dangerous) to the very structure of society than thinking that Chizuru is just an effeminate young man. So the onlooker who sees her pass by might, you know, check her out twice because she looks and sounds very feminine but hey what’s more likely? That the Shinsengumi has a young woman disguised as a young man running around with patrol and gave her a sword for some reason or that the Shinsengumi has a weirdly effeminate page? Especially considering that effeminate/beautiful young men were not exactly unheard of in Japan at the time…

At the end of the day, Chizuru does not need to do much more for her disguise to work on its intended target (onlookers) and doing more might actually raise more suspicions (working on her voice more and speaking with a voice that might sound fake would draw more attention than simply being high-pitched).

As for your question about her “spidey sense”, you are touching the thing I think Hakuouki handles the worst: the vague and incoherent canon around Oni lore (or all the supernatural lore). Oni powers are not well-defined, change from one route to another, and are inconstant in nature. In the routes I have played as for now, I don’t remember Chizuru having any kind of sixth sense, expect maybe knowing a bit in advance when they might be a problem with rasetsu and even that might be just me misinterpreting the tension being built during tense scenes, lol.  

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He's one of his kind

Lei Mengsha, you are such a goober. I love you and your weird laugh.

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When you rediscover something that once was your life and now you cannot move on again, what do you call it?

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Till the End of the Moon German Translation Coming October 1, 2025!

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I said on the 7th of March, so my Hakumyu senses were right! Hehehehe!

Musical Hakuouki Shinkai Toudou Heisuke hen cast visuals have been released! Check out full details on the website

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