#<- not super but this is more negative than i like to be

[femmesport]

hi love, your fics are amazing. i love them so badddd!

can i request juju watkins x oc being mommies?

just like maybe their day to day lives and routines, them being soft for the kiddos and absolutely just being the fun chill parents who provide structure when need be.

you can turn this down if you aren’t too comfortable writing it, all love boo 🌸.

wc: 1k an: thank you so much for your sweet words!! omg this is such a cute prompt! i love this!! i didn't want it to be super long and so i strayed from the prompt (so sorry) but i just wanted to describe a super sleepy and soft morning. i will be returning to this prompt at a later date with a pt. 2 that focuses on them with older kiddos and how their parenting styles develop. i really hope you enjoy!! as always, feedback would be appreciated!! tysm <3 -- tea ★’*•.¸♡

exhaustion didn’t feel like the right word to describe what juju was feeling. exhaustion sounded so negative and none of what juju was feeling was negative. 

watching you become a mom and spending these early mornings with you two were some of the highlights of her life. you and baby miles had brought her more joy and love than she ever thought possible.

it was nearing six in the morning when your son began whining slightly. you tried to shift gently out of juju’s arms, but she tightened her grip.

“you stay, baby. i’ve got him” she pressed a kiss to your temple and then went to stand up.

“you have your first practice back today, i’ve got him. you lay down and get some rest” you are standing up but don’t see her making moves to lay back down.

juju beats you to his bassinet and is gently picking him up. she cradles his head carefully and presses him to her chest, which was only covered by a thin sports bra. your son coos at the feeling of his mother’s skin.

you smile at them gently.

“you should really be back in bed, baby” you wrap your arms around her waist and rest your chin on her shoulder looking over at the boy who made you two moms.

“mm, i’ve been up for a while” she hums smiling down at your son.

“should’ve woke me up” you smile into her shoulder.

“nah, you spent the last nine months growing our baby and now you are spending so much time doing so much. you need the rest” she turns her head and kisses your forehead gently.

you decide to step back and let her have a moment with your son. you take some time preparing a bottle and checking the temperature to make sure it is perfect.

by the time you return to your bedroom, you found juju in the rocking chair you guys had put in the corner near his bassinet. juju had your son snuggled gently against her chest and a smile so full of love.

you froze in your tracks feeling so overcome with emotion. seeing the woman you love become a mother has been a feeling you have been struggling to put into words. you just wanted to bottle up every moment and live in this forever.

“here you go, baby” you offer her the bottle and she looks up at you with a dopey love-filled smile.

she mutters a soft thank you and leans forward to kiss you before feeding your son.

“why don’t you take a shower while i feed him” she smiles up at you.

you nod and head to the bathroom. you take your time brushing your teeth and detangling your hair.

once the water was nice and warm, you stepped in and let out a sigh of relief. you have been so worried about your son, that it has been so hard to have these moments to yourself. you wanted to enjoy it despite the guilt telling you that you should be in there with your son.

you were quick in the shower and finished up getting ready in a comfortable pair of sweats and an old oversized practice jersey you had found in juju’s side of the closet. by the time you had finished, you walked into your room to see miles asleep in the bassinet and juju standing over him.

you lean on the door frame with a soft and sleepy smile as juju turns around. she slowly approaches you and wraps her arms around your waist. you wrap your arms around her neck and look up softly at her.

“i know i say it a lot, but i will say it a million more times” juju whispers into the space between the two of you, “i am so in awe of everything you have given to us and our family. i am so in love with you that i cannot even begin to describe my feelings. you really are my everything.”

she leans down and kisses you softly. “i love you.” you kiss her in return, mumbling the words into her mouth.

“what time do you have to leave?” you ask softly, breaking up the moment.

“i need to leave in an hour and a half, but first i am going to make you breakfast” juju leans down and kisses you one more time before letting you go and heading out of your bedroom and into the hallway.

you head to the bassinet and gently pick up your son, careful not to wake him. you hold him closely to your chest and head out towards the living room. you set him up in the bassinet that juju had built for out here.

you made sure that he was going to be visible and then sat at the counter. you kept an eye on him and then occasionally turned to stare at your beautiful wife.

“alright, my love, here you go” juju sets a plate of your favorite breakfast foods in front of you after a bit of her quietly humming while cooking.

she sat her own plate beside yours and poured each of you a morning cup of coffee prepared just how you liked it. you just sigh in contentment.

“miles and i are the luckiest people in the world, you know that right?” you ask and juju smiles at you.

“i’m sure i have you both beat. i am so lucky to have the woman of my dreams beside me and the product of our love in the form of the world’s sweetest boy.”

any words you want to say are caught in your throat. you smile and turn to your breakfast. you eat quietly, occasionally glancing up at your son who slept gently across the room.

as you finish up, juju gathers the dishes and presses a kiss on your forehead. you smile and stand, heading back towards your son. you look at his sleeping form and smile.

you and juju might not get it right all the time, but this life you had built was more than enough.

[zazaiafe2]

The shift has nothing to do with your entire day(or the potential key of shifting)

Many people think that their entire day, general state, or constant mindset determine their ability to shift.

But observations and data show something much more subtle and interesting.

Shifting does not depend on your whole day, nor on all your emotions and thoughts over 24 hours.

What matters is a few critical seconds, a very short moment, a real cognitive window opening.

It is during this window that the shift occurs.

All mental, emotional, and spiritual preparation serves only to create the conditions for this window to open.

1)What we observe in people who shift effectively (even on command):

At the moment of the shift, it's like a sudden switch.

It’s not a long process

We don’t “work slowly to shift” over several minutes.

We shift all at once when this cognitive opening appears.

This window can foster these conditions of appearance.

That’s why people practice methods or preparations, but in truth the shift is instantaneous, there’s no waiting.

This window lasts a few seconds at most and can appear consciously or unconsciously.

What happens during this window:

- Natural micro dissociation: the person detaches from their usual identification with the body and the self of this reality.

- Decrease of critical internal dialogue: automatic thoughts and self-judgment slow down or briefly suspend.

- Feeling of neutrality or emotional emptiness: no need to be ultra positive or euphoric. Often, gentle emotional neutrality settles in.

- Blurring of proprioception: the body is perceived as fuzzy or distant; space and body weight feel reduced.

- Weakening of rigid cognitive control: the critical mind temporarily withdraws.

- Passive tipping sensation: the shift is not forced, it aligns and carries you. It’s not a “push” but a “let go.”

2) Emotional state : much more subtle than we think

This is where many popular beliefs about shifting are wrong:

- It’s not about being super positive that helps the most.

- It’s not about being emotionally empty that guarantees anything.

- It’s not about repeating robotic affirmations until exhaustion that will necessarily get you there.

What seems most favorable is a low-intensity emotion, whether positive or negative.

Emotions like:

- calm sadness

- gentleness

- light melancholy

- peaceful serenity

- floating neutrality

...are often more conducive to shifting than strong emotions like panic, anger, fear, or even extreme euphoria.

The key is not to erase negative emotions, but to be able to observe them without merging with them at the key moment.

It’s more about the relationship to the emotion than the emotion itself.

Emotional state of people who shift before shifting.

3) Anxiety : a very misunderstood factor

We must distinguish:

- Performance anxiety (“I absolutely want to succeed now”)

-> extremely unfavorable, as it triggers hypervigilance.

- Chronic or general anxiety(being anxious daily, perfectionist, or ruminative)

-> which does not necessarily prevent shifting if, at the key moment, the person can release cognitive vigilance.

That’s why profiles with dissociative tendencies, high cognitive plasticity, or an ability to briefly detach their ego from the situation may sometimes shift more easily, even with open eyes.

4) Why meditation is powerful in these cases

Meditation is not magical by itself, but it teaches to:

- observe thoughts and emotions without clinging to them,

- reduce internal dialogue and self-judgment.

- let tensions pass,

It prepares a more flexible mental ground, ready to seize the window when it opens.

For anyone with a very busy mind, I invite you to do 5-10 minutes of meditation, it can help.

The real work before shifting: opening the cognitive window.

Now that we’ve seen that shifting happens within a very short cognitive window, the question becomes:

How to best prepare this window?

How to facilitate its opening?

5) Affirmations and visualizations:

They work if placed at the right moment:

Before: they prepare the window. (So they are still useful mainly to make your subconscious accept the idea of shifting and make you feel safe).

During: within this cognitive neutrality window , simple gentle affirmations or visualizations are enough to orient your awarness anchor point toward your DR.

6) All preparation serves to loosen your control system

It’s not the endless repetition of affirmations rose itself that works, but the fact that they:

- reduce fear

- strengthen your inner comfort with the idea of shifting

- progressively reduce your hypervigilance

Each visualization, script, or intention helps familiarize your mind with the idea that it is normal and natural to shift.

The goal is not to create rigid belief, but to help you relax with the process. The more your nervous system accepts that it’s possible and safe , the more your cognitive vigilance will decrease.

I saw someone share that they listened to bird sounds. I think that for some people, nature sounds can help, but it depends. Maybe other things can be beneficial for others, others sounds.

You can also create playlist related to your DR and listen to it.

7) What you aim to achieve before the window(not necessarily during the day but just before if you don’t sleep):

- a state of global calm, not necessarily euphoria

- a relative emotional stability: even sadness can be fertile ground if not coupled with self-judgment

- a gentle trust: “I let go, I have nothing to force.”

8) Frequent obstacles to neutralize:

- Expectation of immediate result-> Let go of the idea of "when".

- Constant hyperanalysis -> Observe your thoughts without giving them too much weight.

- Emotional stakes -> Learn to let the obsessive urge to succeed right now pass. (It’s not a problem if you have this urge generally in life, but at this specific moment, try to set it aside.)

Concretely: how to open this window ?

Preparatory exercises that help a lot:

- Gentle progressive relaxatio practices: consciously relax each part of the body.

- Body scan before attempting: observe tensions, thought without judgement.

- Slow controlled breathing (but not forced, e.g.: guided breathing, Wim Hof, holotropic breathing, 4-4-4 breathing...).

- Thought observation techniques: "I notice, but I don’t merge with them."

Definition of holotropic breath work

I give you some videos that you can explore if you want.

9) The key moment approaches when:

- your mindbecomes a bit foggy, not empty but flexible.

- Thoughts pass by, but you no longer feel the need to cling to them.

- your body feels less "heavy" in space (proprioceptive interference).

- you feel a slight distance from yourself: light passive dissociation.

- Performance judgment decreases.

A simple image to remember:

Shifting is like jumping from a flexible branch when the wind is perfectly calm.

All your work prepares the branch’s flexibility and the wind’s fluidity.

When the perfect breeze comes... you shift naturally.

Some really helpful practical tools:

- Regular observation meditation (even 10 minutes per day).

- Calm sleep routines without sensory overload.

- Creative activities before sleep (writing, drawing, soft music).

- Light and fluid visualization (not rigid or obsessive).

- Limit emotional over-engagement during the attempt.

I think this guided meditation can be very helpful to some people

Many think they have to fight their emotions or suppress doubt.

No.

You can shift even with doubt, even with residual anxiety, as long as you’re not merged with this emotion at the key moment.

-> There you go.

What often blocks people is trying to control the process all the way through.

But shifting is an active letting-go, an intelligent release.

10) Common mistakes that close the window:

❌ Trying to necessarily feel a very positive emotion.

❌ Judging yourself for being anxious or not "perfectly ready".

❌ Confusing "I must control everything mentally" with "I must observe without attachment" .

❌ Using affirmations compulsively (robotic affirmations sometimes create tension instead of relaxation, even if they might work in some cases, don't worry.)

11) What to do during the critical moment

When the window opens (even for a few seconds):

✅ Stay in this floating state.

✅ Gently visualize your DR or mentally repeat a simple anchored affirmation.

✅ Let the shift happen without trying to force the transition.

It’s a gentle, passive sliding, where consciousness aligns elsewhere.

12) Why do some cognitive profiles shift more easily?

Because they can naturally:

- Slightly dissociate

- Temporary suspend their identification with the CR self

- Reduce cognitive critical load

- Let thoughts float without merging

But all this can be learned and the capacity to shift itself is natural it's just your rational mind that "block" everything. It’s not "you have it or you don’t" . These are modifiable neurocognitive skills, not mystical talents.

Remember this key point:

You don’t shift by being "perfect".

You shift when you manage to create this micro cognitive window,

it’s a phenomenon of natural alignment that happen all the time .

Happy shifting this post was so hard to make and so long to translate 😭took me hours and I'm not sure I expressed everything I wanted to.

[userm3rc]

customizing my avatar! ★

✎ summary; how would slytherin boys react to you getting a new piercing?!

-including; draco, blaise, theo (a tad bit suggestive, he just loves u so much :[ ), matteo , enzo

an; this totally isn't because I just got an eyebrow piercing :3,

✮⋆˙ draco; flabbergasted, astonished, at a loss for words really.

realizes somethings changed the moment he lays his eyes on you

truly believes this just enhances your already beautiful features, though is a tad bit confused on the method ...

"a needle through your body part..? why....??"

don't take it in a negative way he's just perplexed! he loves it! genuinely believes he has the best bloody partner in this damned school.

boasts. "oi have you seen my partner recently? yeah they're so much tougher than you" insert that damn smirk...

needs to be educated on the healing process and how he needs to be gentle, but is willing to learn and help with your guidance

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✮⋆˙ blaise; always so stoic stoik, you're praying for even an eyebrow raise.

notices immediately but doesn't make a fuss, its not his style duh

takes a mental note to compliment you about it in private, he likes it! just doesn't feel the need to bring attention to it if you haven't already yourself.

blaise loves to keep things quiet and private (private but not a secret is his motto, probably on a sticky note hanging on the bathroom mirror), this applies to things you do aswell

"looking a tad more decorated than I last saw you" he'll mumble into your temple

his eyes linger on the piercing a bit longer than everything else, admiration shining in his eyes

although he's not always loud lover, he's attentive :,)

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✮⋆˙ theo; smirking and plotting how to eat your face off without taking the piercing out:

should've known something was up when he's quiter than usual, taking an exaggerated drag of his cig...

eyes glued on the new jewelery embedded into your skin. not looking anywhere else, its like if he looks away it'll leave

you know the day is over when he finally meets your eyes and they're hooded, hot and heavy...

once he's over feeling horny he loves it, though doesn't understand the concept its an open wound and wants to keep fiddling with it

after some scolding he stops picking at it so much, you'll still catch him staring at it for weeks after, he's quite enchanted with it.

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✮⋆˙ matteo; the first (and only) time you'll see him pause mentally and physically

don't asked if he noticed something new, why else are you in his lap after watching him buffer for 10 seconds straight?!

if you thought he was possessive before, its as if he's on steroids now

can you blame him? his already super sexy amazing attractive partner just UPGRADED (he didn't know it was even possible!!)

loves it so so so much, similar to theo, just keeps his eyes glued on it for as long as he possibly can.

you'll need to tell him IMMEDIATELY to be gentle or else he'll continue to eat your face off and caress it... after the initial warning hes on his best behavior until its healed...

YOUR personal fidget toy? no YALLS.

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✮⋆˙ enzo; flustered blushing like a school girl as if he's not a minx himself

cheeks are flushed, body is hot, its like he fell inlove all over again.

cutest reaction of the bunch, he's genuinely curious and asks tons of questions.

"why there? where did you go? did it hurt? does it hurt right now?"

please do not be fooled he's just as bad as theo but has a slight idea that its an open wound and won't pounce on you. (yet)

is creating a mental board of all the new jewelry he'll get you so you have options to switch it out with once its healed.

thinks you're super cool, if you push hard enough (asking him once) he'll get a piercing with you as a bonding method :)

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omigosh hope u guys enjoyed, pls pls pls feel free to send it reqs I love these silly little guys :3

[riyatheobsessing]

Door Appreciation

I was thinking about Door. By, erm...The standards of the D family, he's actually quite a good parent!

He's physically affectionate with Boy, rather than being "traditional" and kind of distant with his son. He's unafraid to show concern for him.

He's quite honest with him; he doesn't try to shield him from the truth for the sake of peace of mind. This is probably also partly because in these situations, underestimating how fucked you are will get you killed, but I think it also shows that he respects him. He treats him as being intelligent and capable enough to be told exactly how it is. He isn't the kind of parent that raises their child on heavy condescension and infantilisation. Although, Boy is 11, so, you know, a bit more being treated like an 11 year old might be in order, but, you know, by the standards of this family's way of life, not bad.

He isn't the kind of parent that raises their child on negative reinforcement. When Boy does something well, he praises him. He encourages his skills, interests and sense of humour. He rewards him when he does well. He's not the kind of parent that rules by shame and judgement, causing their children to grow up feeling inadequate and like they're never good enough. His way of parenting is far healthier than that, and I think it shows in the ways Boy is mostly quite open about himself, like freely showing the family his writing and sharing interests such as gaming with them.

Also, again, by the standards of the D family, he shows concern for Boy's mental health. While he does seem to equate being able to get through it with being "strong", he doesn't seem to hold it against Boy that he's having difficulties, or view it as some failing.

Despite bringing Boy into hunting and teaching him how to use a gun, letting him drink booze, etc, he does have concern for Boy's childhood innocence, and he supports his interests like any good parent would do.

TL;DR: Door looks like he kind of smells of BO, but I think he's a good dad by the standards of the D family. His relationship with Boy is super cute and I love them.

[dearlymrme]

Well-Balanced...? (Black Leg Sanji/Reader)

Part of Schrodinger's Shooting Star series.

Summary: Sanji is used to the morning shift. He's not used to having help from someone waking even earlier than he does. Your stay is obviously stressing you more than you let on and far be it from him to let you feel useless. You have a habit of ruminating on the negatives. So, he reminds you to rely on your crew. Anything on your mind, ask them instead of letting it circle in your head like a shark.

Sanji had woken up like clockwork, always before the sun, having learned day one as the Straw Hat’s chef that Luffy is solar powered and requires the bare minimum to be super charged for the whole day.

He found you in the kitchen nursing a steaming cup of tea. Normally he’d admonish anyone, man or woman, for touching his tools while he’s not present. Even Nami and Robin, two of the most beautiful women in the world, were not spared his scolding if they had to lift a finger in his kitchen.

Then he saw the dark bags under your eyes, and pale parlor had him clicking his mouth shut and taking stock of things.

The only evidence you had made tea in the first place was the wet sheen in the sink and suds in the drain. The counter was also wiped and nothing out of place from how he had left it last night. He supposes he can respect you in his kitchen given that you respect his kitchen.

The one sin he can’t pardon is the overwhelming herbal scent. He can tell a poorly brewed tea just by the smell.

He glances your way and watches as you take a slow sip from your cup and doesn’t know whether to be concerned or impressed by your lack of expression. As though your taste buds have fallen asleep in order to make up for your own lack of sleep.

It’s got to be bitter but given the eye-bags that seem to get heavier and darker every day, he can’t blame you for wanting something to help with the exhaustion.

A good rest would also do it but he’s overheard Nami say you toss and turn with the ship. Either still unused to the sea or it’s the stress of your circumstances. You were scared, though you only showed it through small motions.

Your hands ticked the same way his did when the urge for a smoke was too much to ignore. You chewed your lip like it was made from candy. Even though Luffy’s usual antics seemed to lighten your mood there was still a weight pulling you down.

While you said that this was not a world you would be well suited for, he was at least grateful that your world had manners. Despite what he knows is one of the most bitter teas to have ever been brewed on the ship, you polish it off without wasting a drop. As he gave the counters an extra wipe before prepping for breakfast, you casually soft stepped behind him to wash your cup.

Then, you asked him in a soft but tired voice.

“Anything I can do to help?” He saw the haunting hollowness in your eyes. Someone with the need to just *do*. A distraction of any kind to help your brain process.

You’re still adjusting, Chopper made it clear for them not to press you too much, but there is a big difference between physical health and mental fortitude. You seem self-aware of your own state of mind. Any time you're seen it’s always in the constant company of another crew member, just coexisting in the same room. On the Merry, it would have been near impossible to pull off. The Sunny had more room for privacy if wanted. So, it was intentional that you never let yourself be alone.

He’s realized that something big to help you is to feel included. Small things, busy things. Sometimes, something as mindless as tying rope or counting coins. Sharpening colored sketch pencils for Usopp. Sorting through the recycle pile for Franky and separating the nuts from the bolts. Tidying up the library shelves for Robin. And having a near holy amount of patience by letting Luffy play pretend as he describes their adventures so far.

He didn't even have to tell you to wash your hands. The second he gave the okay, you had already started to lather, even getting under your nails. He let you shower the eggs and hand them over one by one as he scrambled. He corrected your hold on the small knife and showed you how to properly mince the peppers with your knuckles instead of your fingers. He let you set the table, and by the time you were done laying plates, the crew would be up and minutes away from running in for breakfast.

Breakfast, as usual, is hectic. Your first morning with the crew comes teaching the most important lesson of the Straw Hat Pirates.

“Make your plate fast and guard it with your life.” Dawning realization as if you knew the storm approaching by heart. You had managed to stack your plate just before the crew fell through the door. Gangling limbs of rubber and constricting holds as Usopp and Nami try to pull Luffy away from the inevitable.

“Dang it, Luffy! Let us at least get to the table first!”

“But it smells so good! Sanji made bacon! Oh! Oh, and I smell sausage!” Robin made her appearance and, with her multiple arms, managed to wrestle him down.

Both Nami and Usopp collapsed from the effort it took to hold back the straw hat captain.

“Come on now, Luffy. We want our lucky star to have a chance to eat, too, right?” Luffy froze and hummed, pouting as a sign of defeat.

The black haired archaeologist smiled and released him from the grapple. A clone hand sprouted from his shoulder, giving his head a praising pet.

And your eyes had widened with the boy flashing you a trademark smile.

“Sanji’s food is the best in the whole wide sea. You can have first dibs, I guess.” He huffs as he takes his seat with the rest, hands twitchy to grab a plate. He pouts as though forcing himself to eat a spoonful of medicine. “But hurry up, I’m hungry!”

You were allowed that one blessing that one day. Then, you quickly adapted to the hungry greed of Luffy’s stomach like a pro.

Today was no different, your arms wrapped around your plate like a fortress of fortitude and brandishing your fork in your hand like a knife. You leaned over your plate and made to jab Luffy any time he stretched his fingers anywhere near your food.

It was humorous just how futile it was. Their captain tapped on one shoulder to get to you to look and then snatched your bacon off your plate while your head was turned. No one could help you. Every day was an entirely different lesson as Luffy came up with new and inventive ways to snatch scraps.

And at the end, with breakfast finished, you would usually pick who to spend your day with before they left the kitchen, following in their shadow like a lost puppy. Given that you remained seated as the crew thanked Sanji for the meal, you had decided on him.

You carefully tidied up the table, separating the plates from the cutlery to hand him for the sink. He trades you for a clean cloth, and you’d wipe up the mess.

“You know, you don’t have to do any of that, right?” He interrupts the quiet idle clattering of polishing forks and freezes when he feels a tension suddenly creep in the room. He turns to look over his shoulder to see you holding the broom with sudden white knuckles and a look of anxiety.

“Sorry, am I–...? Um, does it bother you?” Lips chapped from constant nibbling, he realizes his bad choice of words and quickly tries to backtrack.

“No, what I meant was…If you want, we can just talk?” You look at him with wide and lost eyes. “You’re always trying to work through it on your own. You’re quiet even though you're suffering. You don’t have to take this whole world on your shoulders, you know. You’ve got a crew now."

He offers his hand for you to take. A smile meant to settle your stomach as well as any meal.

"Lean on us a little.”

You hesitate long enough that a lesser man would have given up and returned to the task at hand, but he can see you mentally arguing and working through the logic of it all.

“Sometimes the best things in life are best doing scared.”

It settles you, grabs you by your shoulders, and shakes the hesitation from you. Like he’s added oil to your joints, and the stiffness works its way out of you as you set aside the broom and take his hand.

He grinned, tugging you over and stepping around you almost as if he led you in a dance before placing you in front of the sink to finish the dishes, and he starts on lunch.

“What’s bothering you so much? What is on your mind right now?”

“How does milk regrow your bones?” He huffs a laugh at how you start on one of the silliest questions.

“Milk regrows your bones. That’s just a common fact.”

“Is it? I mean, is milk the only thing that's literal like that?…What kind of cow do you even milk to get milk that can regrow your bones?”

And he pauses from wiping the counter for prep and glances towards you.

“...Does…milk from your world…not do that?”

“No!” You state solidly and continue washing the dishes.

“Will your carrots actually improve my eyesight? In my world, it's an old wives' tale. A lot of expressions like this are just to get kids to stop being picky and eat their vegetables.”

He stares, prep now set aside for later as he takes a step to you and takes you by the shoulder.

“What?” You blink at him, and a deep pit begins to open in his stomach.

“What else have I been feeding you that’s like that?”

A few minutes later, the dishes are finished, and water boils. You sit on the table with Chopper across from you, listing off vegetables and fruits. Chopper furiously scribbles in on his increasingly thickening pile of notes about your health.

Sanji furiously turns pages in his cookbook and recipe cards. Scouring his memory and cross-referencing every recipe he’s ever cooked up to this point in an attempt to salvage the nutrition he thought he was providing.

“You mean eating spinach doesn’t actually make your muscles grow?”

“I mean, it does, but not to that extreme!”

“What about tomatoes? Can we still use them as sunscreen?” Chopper asks in genuine and fearful concern.

You close your mouth and shock overtakes your own face.

“You can use tomatoes as sunscreen?!”

Sanji's hands shake as he reaches for a cigarette.

“What kind of hellish world do you come from…?!”

How much dietary neglect had he been subjecting you to by accident? On the topic of allergies, he had watched you like a hawk with any foreign ingredients.

But he didn't expect their regular shared foods and ingredients to be so biologically different. They needed to start from the ground up and formulate a new diet plan.

Each and every food-stuff from apples to zucchini has been brought to question.

Chopper starts once again, another page in your ever growing file.

“M-Maybe it’s the way our soil interacts with the Devil Fruit-infused environment?! Or our entire world’s geology? You said that while your world is more salt water than fresh it’s a LOT smaller than ours?”

“That was more of an assumption, really. I figured it had to be smaller because we've mapped the whole thing.”

“WHAT?!”

And then Nami is sitting in the kitchen, also with a notebook furiously scribbling in her pages with wide-eyed shock.

[miss0atae]

Here is the newest post I make about not understanding what Thada his doing with his brother. Sometimes, I feel like Thada is making a mistake in handling his little brother. He may have spare him some time and thought instead of being only obsessed with Armin. They could have had a great relationship in a different world. I think it's even worse if he also made a reset (as some people think it could be a possible theory).

However, having a good relationship isn't what Thada is doing with his brother. Instead, he is alienating him even more. Of course, it's because he wants to help Armin as much as possible. I imagine his problem with Thiwthit lies in the past. Since they haven't shown us anything that could explain the animosity between them, it's hard to understand why he isn't close to Thiwthit. Or is he just a pawn to be used?

I feel sorry for Thiwthit because you can see how he has such an inferiority complex when it comes to his older brother. Thada is the one who is the true heir, he is the one making money and he is the successful one. It's easy to see why Thiwthit would believe he is in some way deficient, or inferior, to him. And yet, he wants to show everyone he can be as good as Thada. He is so eager to show he is good that he chooses the easy way, which is, in his case, the worst one.

The problem is that Thada isn't stupid. He should know how Thiwthit feels and yet he doesn't do anything. He lets the situation deteriorate and for what? To see what moves his little brother is going to make? It feels like a pointless lesson to teach if you don't explain properly why you're doing this to the person involved. As much as he is sweet and caring with Armin, I feel he sucks at being the big brother. Again, maybe he doesn't consider his brother someone worth his time. That's something that makes me even more curious about why.

I'm glad his secretary told him that what he was doing with Thiwthit wasn't good. Either he underestimate him or he just doesn't care at all. I feel like Thada is making a mistake with him and he is instead creating his own rival without really thinking about the negative consequences it could have. It is quite obvious Thiwthit wasn't really raised to be a well-rounded individual raised by his mother and the only person who could have helped make him a better person, doesn't care about him at all.

I get that Thada wants Armin to be super famous, but I guess I wanted him to do this without making Thiwthit the villain of their story. His brother already doesn't know how to handle business in the right way. Proof in this episode was how he got angry when he couldn't buy what he wanted and now that he knows Lilly's secret shady business with young actors, I bet he is going to make more mistakes… There are little chances that Thiwthit will learn and he may lose more than he bargain for.

It makes me sad for him. I like him despite his flaws, that's probably why.

[musicalmoritz]

Thank you for explaining it, to be honest I didn’t rly look through their acc long before I blocked them so I figured I probably missed some things. I still don’t like how they came into the Mitsukou tag talking so negatively about the ship, and also how they kinda…idk condescended the shippers??? Obviously there is an issue of ppl only portraying them as fluffy but I’ve seen a lot of diehard Mitsukou fans that love them for their faults (I am one of them lol). I also think that writing an analysis on something you’re heavily biased against is not a good idea

That being said, I’m sure that one post was not a reflection of who they are as a person, I would never assume something like that. But since this is Tumblr I kinda decided that that one post was enough for me to not really want to see more from them. I block people very freely and often over super small things so like I said, it was nothing personal at all. And I’m glad to hear they weren’t singling out Mitsukou for being queer, I guess out of context that post looked worse than it was

Anyways, thank you so much for the explanation, I appreciate you taking the time to clear things up!! I am sorry if I offended anyone with my original post or this one, I’ve just seen a lot of very similar takes in the past so seeing that one kinda set me off to rant about it. I wish your mutual nothing but the best🙏🏻

People who say “Mitsukou is SO much more than romance” are so fascinating to me bcuz imagine if someone said that about HanaNene. “You guys focus too much on the romance side of their relationship🥺.” That would sound really fucking dumb, right??? Because the nature of their dynamic is romantic and that does not erase their depth or flaws. In fact the romance is what makes them flawed. Why is it only with gay relationships that people start whining and whimpering about people only focusing on the romance???

[mars-ipan]

kinda funny when ur brain’s gut instinct is repression so you just kinda watch while your stress and emotions get bottled and corked and the whole time ur just like “that is going to bite me in the ass so bad later but i can’t seem to open the damn bottles without getting glass everywhere so! guess we’ll wait”

[wallpacapaca]

Let me start with the key players in this story:

- Ehri Mol, my main Warrior of Light. Chaotic lesbian lizard lady who abhored Ardbert until the Rak'Tika portion of the story (we will get into the shift in her opinion later).

- Odgerel Mol, Ehri's twin and also a shard of Azem. He's a scholar in Sharlayan with a focus on the study of ascians and the ancient world (tangent: my Azem, Orpheus, got twice sundered due to Trauma He Endured From His Not That Great Brother Emet-Selch Sacrificing His Wife To Summon Zodiark) (that's only really tangentially relevant but it needed said because Od is also an Azem of the Source but NOT the one that rejoined with Ardbert, that was Ehri)

- Adelram Hylfist, Ardbert's son (because I'm very self indulgent :D). I call him Ade (pronounced addy) for short and will likely do that during this cause im dumb and will forget this isn't all being screamed to my FC and is instead a public tumblr post

In this version of events, Stormblood, Shadowbringers and Endwalker all basically happen as normal with some minor additions, mostly because I have too many OCs and I want to make them all fit in. Notably, during that part of post SB when all the scions are dropping like flies, Ehri is getting super depressed about it and meets and befriends Adelram who admits he may know what's going on. This gets revealed later but Ade was brought to the Source in a similar way by Hydaelyn (he's my 1.0 WoL so that's fun) that G'raha was using to bring Ehri and the scions to the First so he has Experience with this first hand. He himself has been looking to try and get home for a while now and suspects that keeping close to Ehri may just do the trick. It does but not before he leaves her a note explaining that whole situation to her because admittedly that's confusing as hell.

Flash forward to ShB and Ehri is understandably pretty vocal constantly about her negative opinions of Ardbert given the Current Situation She Finds Herself In. Ade, who is traveling with her, understandably comes to the same conclusion he had when first getting back to the First which is "Oh shit oh no no one can find out I'm that guy's kid oh fuck oh shit". This lie ends up coming to a head during the Rak'tika section and Ade admits the truth which is what starts to turn Ehri around finally because she has been Very Antagonistic to Ardbert the entire time. She doesn't tell Ade she's been talking to his dad's ghost though. I also think it's important to note Ehri and Ade are splitting the role of "Warrior of Darkness" here with both taking in the light of the wardens so they're both getting pretty fucked up emotionally by this point due to the sheer amount of aether they've taken in.

Shadowbringers ends as normal with Ehri rejoining with Ardbert. During that fight, Ade recognizes the axe of course, and knows that his father did the right thing in the end wherever he is. He let's all the light he took in go to support the big smack to Emet (tangent: Ehri at the time didn't know it was because of Azem but she fucking hated Emet at first glance so needless to say this sequence is even more brutal in my HC than it is in the game).

Things all kind of play out the same until post EW with the exception of Ade making a pact with Titania to get the funny fae transport between worlds power so he can go help Ehri during EW so he's part pixie now don't worry about it im sure he's fine also Ehri and Odgerel weren't really on speaking terms until EW because of something that happened in ARR so now Odgerel is part of the story.

Ade is visiting the Source again during the post story and trying to help work on a way to better support travel between the worlds (hey remember when that was what Y'shtola was supposed to be doing? ... I miss Runar) and Ehri and Od are doing the Pandemonium stuff and hearing Ehri and Ade banter about Ardbert gets Od think thonking that there simply must be a way to do a mini sundering of sorts. Split up the soul a bit, ya know? The interaction goes a little:

Odgerel: Now, I may be wrong, but I'm sure I can figure out with enough time a formula to identify the aetheric qualities of each soul rejoined to yours Ehri and pick out his. At that point I would just need to pluck it from you.

Ade: Wouldn't that potentially harm her though?

Odgerel: That's true...

Ehri: OH MY GOD PLEASE GET HIM OUT OF ME HES GIVING ME STRAIGHT MAN THOUGHTS AND I DONT WANT EM I DONT CARE IF YOU MESS IT UP YOUVE GOTTA TRY

So Odgerel, also being gifted with the ability to use the Azem crystal due to being a sundered shard of my Azem, spends some time doing the smart person things and eventually comes to the conclusion that in addition to needing the crystal and his formulas someone with really strong memories of the person has to be there to draw that sundered soul out. He observed that Ardbert's soul would always be a bit easier to pick out when Ade was around. With all of this realized, he makes and attempt, and ta-da!

They do this on the First and travel isn't able to really be achieved between the worlds yet so he's just happily enjoying his retirement there with his kiddo :)

ardbert lives au enjoyers: what is your explanation for it?

[pileofpawns]

i’m still so fucking confused on what the paramount sonicverse is doing with the emeralds. Maybe bits were explained in the Knuckles series (I didn’t watch it.) but it’s still really fucking weird and nonsensical regardless.

[t-u-i-t-c]

balance & naga // episode 31

[thevioletcaptain]

if you as a fic reader ever become possessed by the urge to do a popularity bracket with the fics other people wrote and shared for fun and for free, consider:

don't ❤️ 

[arolesbianism]

GUYS.

New dupe real! Also new pod????? Olivia is that you girlie speak to me

[izzyizumi]

Digimon Adventure ~ J.P.N Version ~ Episode 39 + Izumi Koushiro{u}'s Parent + Kido Shin (Jou's 2nd eldest Sibling)

"Don't say such {negative} things! I {b e l i e v e} in these children!" - Koushiro's parent, referring to Koushiro and, the "Chosen Children" as a Whole, (including Jou)

"It'll be all right, Nii-san.

We'll make {absolutely} sure the s u n does 'come up'!"

-Kido Jou, after overhearing from afar, Triumphant-like

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My Commentary: This small but significant sequence takes place not long after Koushiro is revealed to be a canon Adoptee. Mrs. Izumi is fully aware that Koushiro has accepted Mrs. Izumi (+Izumis both) as Koushiro's true parent{s}, however, we are not given indication that the other supporting characters were actually told about 'the secret' of Koushiro's. Shin's surprise, in that regard, can hardly be held too much against Shin - which Mrs. Izumi eventually quickly recognizes, dropping the argument and frustration - Shin was likely completely unaware how strongly Mrs. Izumi felt during these moments, while Mrs. Izumi was likely running on pure adrenaline responding!

Mrs. Izumi, in the original version, is also using a neutrally polite speech pattern that is overall appropriate when speaking to children; Koushiro, in the original, is also known for speaking throughout the entire series with a formal and polite pattern that is "unusual" for Koushiro's age, while it's more "typical" for Mrs. Izumi to use similar in this sequence.

Shin Kido, Jou's 2nd eldest sibling closer in age, the 2nd born of the three Kidos, is the sibling who appears throughout Adventure Episodes 35~39 and later Adventure-specific episodes (such as flashback sequence in Dark Masters arc) specifically. In the 2nd sequel series, "02", Jou's oldest sibling, Shuu, was introduced. The U. S. dub combined "Shin" and "Shuu" into "Jim", a singular character, but they were actually two separate siblings! (Thus, Jou is speaking to Shin as if Shin is the younger of the two siblings, addressing Shin commonly with a 'casual' "Nii-san", though in this scene, Jou sounds surprisingly more 'assured' and perhaps a slight bit 'full of' self, but is quickly grounded by Sora and Mimi not long after.)

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[instinctsxbad]

*scratching at the walls thinking about how no one has adapted Peter’s college arcs in a consistent and satisfying way.*

[mad-hunts]

this post might be a little controversial, but i feel like if DC just listened to its fans once in a while... they would've come up with something much better than joker: folie à deux 🤷‍♀️ just sayin' — like, i will never not be amazed that they passed up the opportunity to make a batman beyond movie drawn in the same style as the spiderverse movies!! but they DID