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I did this for pride month.♡

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Trashahime Rewrite: Forest Deep version

When Towa is four and Airi is six, time portals leading to the modern era began to appear randomly and it swept them away.

(Potentially caused by Kirinmaru in the modern era by messing with the sacred tree) but he has an extreme makeover so he doesn’t look like the dollar store version of Takemaru of Setsuna.)

Seeing the sacred tree in the distance, the pair of sisters make their way to it, recognizing it, but are unable to find their way home and are instead taken in by Sota Higurashi- only to encounter their mother, Irene, like two years later when she is only nineteen years old and about to make her journey back to the Feudal Era after being gone for two and a half months. Despite her younger appearance, her scent is the same, and so is her gentleness and warmth, and Towa clings to that memory of young short-haired Irene for the next decade. Maria stays behind to help Sota and his wife look after them, as they are obviously her little sister's future children.

Maria soon encounters an older Koga, who had survived to the modern era by blending in, and is reunited with her precious wolf, Saun, who has grown old with age and has weary bones.

Back in the Feudal Era, six years after Towa and Airi disappear, a moth demoness, Mayonaka, awakens from her restorative slumber within her cocoon, having suffered terrible injuries over fifty years prior from a war that took place in her territory.

(Her name means "Midnight", and she is a relative of Gatenmaru and Garamaru, but unlike either of them she is a daiyokai)

She's been obsessed with Sesshomaru for over a century, and has always been frustrated that he never once looked her way, but upon awakening learns that not only has Sesshomaru has become a daiyokai... but he has also taken Irene, a mortal, for a wife.

Mayonaka is enraged, and sends her minions after Irene in hopes of getting rid of her, but this does little to deter the human, experienced in the ways of battle with her Shikigami, and having InuKag as neighbors and MirSan as friends. And, not to mention, anytime Sesshomaru discovered demons heading for the village with ill intent, he slaughtered them, as he visits fairly frequently to check on his wife and help look after their children- because he is a father who helps with raising his kids.

After two years of zero results, Mayonaka decides she has to take matters into her own hands and curses Irene.

It was a simple curse really, Mayonaka having some of her little moths spread some dust onto her kimonos while they were hanging out to dry, and it started off with just nightmares. It would make it difficult for Irene to sleep, each nightmare growing more and more horrific and taking a toll on her health, but as days to weeks to months go by she is getting noticeably worse, as the nightmares slowly begin leaking poison into her soul. Eventually, she becomes so ill from the curse that she begins spitting/coughing blood until she collapses, falling comatose.

Time continues to pass, but her body grows weaker and weaker. When the Shikigami spirits sense she’s on the brink of death, they combine their powers to cast a spell, placing her in stasis at thirty-five years of age so she would not take her final breath.

Her body is placed in a shrine within Mount Ryosozan, where Tatsunori, her dragon spirit, once lived as a highly respected Kami. The air there is very clean and pure, and will hide her scent. Sora, the eldest child, stands guard, protecting her mother’s resting body at only fifteen years old while Sesshomaru continues to search for who cursed his beloved.

For the next four years, Irene would remain asleep, and Mayonaka will be taking delight in sending Sesshomaru on a wild goosechase trying and failing to find her. All the while, demons have been going missing- swept away by the time portals into the modern era, and Maria, a much older Koga, Hakkaku, and Ginta, and the descendants of the Kururugi Shrine, work together to take care of these threats. They also train Towa in swordsmanship and martial arts, and Airi in the art of Shikigami and archery- as Airi's human blood and connection to spirits is much stronger than Towa's, who has a stronger connection to their demon side.

Shortly after Towa turns fourteen and Airi sixteen, shenanigans happen that get them sent into the Feudal Era. Potentially separated, with Towa being found by Rin and Kohaku (both of whom had viewed Irene as a mother figure, and have met Irene when she was short-haired and see Towa's resemblance to her) while Airi is found by Kin'u and Gyokuto, who note she has round eyes- much like a foreigner- and decide to take her to the village.

Later, after being reunited, it turns dark and Towa becomes human, as it is the fifth night of the month.

Towa resembles Irene the most in appearance, despite Airi having their mother’s eyes, and Kaede comments on this- especially when seeing Towa in human form. Towa asks why her biological parents aren't around if they're still alive, and Kaede informs her that her mother was cursed, and that her father is on a hell-mission trying to find the one who cursed her so he can kill them.

Towa: "She's cursed? So... does that mean she's nearby somewhere? Can we meet her?"

"That... is a question you need to take up with your sister."

"Shion?"

"Sorano." *Kaede smiles* "One of your older sisters. She is protecting her. Ah, but I do not know where you can find her. Perhaps you should speak to one of your OTHER siblings to find out. Shion, being so young, was not given the knowledge of your mother's location- as she was even younger when sweet Irene was put to sleep. Your great demon father could not risk her being found by his enemies, you see... or by the one who cursed her."

Kaede is aware that Irene was cursed and put into stasis to save her life. She also knows that the eldest child, Sora, is protecting her. But she knows not where they are, only what is being done, and if they wish to meet their mother they must first find Sora- and to do that, they must find Hikaru or Akane, for they surely know of her whereabouts.

InuKag and MirSan know where Akane at least can be found, but state that she never leaves the village and is almost never seen by anyone except her parents, siblings, and spouse. As relatives, they might have a good chance of getting into the Kururugi Shrine to see her… but the villagers are very protective of Akane as they view her as a benevolent saintess/kami, due to when Sesshomaru and Inuyasha helped Irene defeat Anastasia.

Gyokuto, a demon slayer like her mother, brother, and uncle, finds out the girls want to find Akane, so she goes with them because she wants to see Hikaru and because she’s annoyed Hisui is getting all the fun of traveling without her. They discover him lounging about in the valley and he takes them to see Akane, though only Towa, Airi, Shion, and Hikaru himself are allowed inside the shrine where she stays.

Akane reluctantly tells them about Mount Ryosozan, but that it is dangerous to visit. Still, Towa and Airi want to see Irene. They have only one recent memory of her- of when they were children and had only been in the modern era for a short time before Irene, at 19 years old, appeared to try and go back to the Feudal Era. Towa wants to see her again.

Towa and Airi want to help the mother who they remember had looked after them so kindly and gently, even when she didn't know who they were. They hold on to that one day so strongly, and to the photo they were given of her, and to the storybook of the Celestial Prince and his Stolen Love that their Uncle Sota read to them so often when they were small, as it told the (albeit greatly twisted over the years) story of how their father once saved their mother from a human lord and his soon-to-be bride, and how Auntie Maria corrected all the flaws in the story and told them the truth of the tale.

They want to meet Irene, and they want to save her. They want to feel her warmth again.

So they go to the mountain.

It’s Towa’s human night when they get there, and Sora has to do a double take and look behind her into the shrine to see the sleeping Irene. Towa, as a human, has shoulder-length hair, and solely because of the connection to spirits her human blood gives her. (Irene's hair grew because of the Shikigami spirits, even when her body was frozen due to Anastasia's spell, the first time she traveled to the past) Hair is viewed as something that holds a connection to spirits, and when human Towa's connection to the spirits is much stronger, and the growing hair as a human represents that connection.

And Sora has known their mother with longer hair all her life.

Looking back at Towa, she gives her the MOST dumbfounded look. “Here I thought HIKARU took after our mother..."

And Hikaru rebuts with a, “I don’t want to hear that from the one who most looks like our father.”

"I think I resemble Mother quite a bit."

"Absolutely not! In what way!? You can be just as cold as Dad sometimes, you know!"

"Well, I wouldn't have to be if you'd just listen to your big sister..."

"I listen plenty! It's hard being the only son, you know!"

When morning rises, Towa is half-demon again.

She mentions she met their mother when she was little, but their mother was younger and hadn’t even had Sora yet. Towa confesses she based her haircut and style off of what she remembered her looking like back then, as a way to avoid forgetting her, and Airi takes out the photo Sota snapped before 19 year-old Irene left for the Feudal Era to show them.

…

Mayonaka wanted Sesshomaru to look at her, to have her on his mind at all times… and had sent minions to kill Irene at first to get her out of the way, but when that failed, she cursed her in hopes that he would finally glance her way. And it worked, kind of.

By cursing Irene to the point where she is on the brink of death, he is now obsessively searching for Mayonaka- to kill- and has been for four years.

But when Sesshomaru finally finds her, he doesn’t even humor Mayonaka in conversation. He just attacks. This infuriates her, and she realizes that he isn’t even looking at her, more as he is just seeing the “demon who cursed his wife”. He doesn’t even know her name. There’s not enough room in his heart to hate her when all he cares about is Irene.

So she decides to take some drastic measures. Mayonaka believes she has to fully get rid of Irene in order for there to be room in his heart for her, because if she can’t have him she WILL have his heart by scarring it so badly that the memory of her will be etched in his very soul- as the woman who killed his love. So she starts searching for Irene.

(Think a very twisted and obsessed Yandere. That's Mayonaka)

When she finally finds her, Sora is there and in the way- trying to stop her. Sora puts up a good fight, but Mayonaka has more experience and ends up killing her by targeting Irene, tricking Sora into sacrificing herself and taking the blow by shielding her mother’s body. As Sora is bleeding out, she collapses atop the sleeping Irene just as Sesshomaru appears, having tracked Mayonaka down.

Sora had bought just enough time for her father to find them, and passes away holding onto her mother.

Sesshomaru is pissed. He goes full dog mode. Mayonaka laughs with delight and goes full moth mode. Giant daiyokai battle ensues. The Inugang and Kiddos all show up at the mountain to see Sesshomaru and Mayonaka battling it out, and everyone is horrified upon seeing Sora collapsed and dead, her blood pooling at her feet.

The Inugang go to help Sesshomaru, but Mayonaka’s minions appear. Lesser demons who despise the fact that Sesshomaru took on a human wife. They end up battling it out while Hikaru, Airi, Towa, and Shion try to protect what’s left of the shrine with Irene and Sora’s bodies inside. Itsuki and Moroha are working with Hisui, Kin’Gyo, and Kohaku and Rin (she's a priestess) to fend off anymore new arrivals. Miasma is slowly killing the foliage that kept the shrine pure.

Sesshomaru ends up leaving Mayonaka a bloody mangled mess, and tosses her down from the sky and into the river below. With a splash, she’s back in her humanoid form, and she is cackling and laughing with delight, grinning as wide as could be. She’s so happy. Sesshomaru is finally looking at her, and she’ll be etched in his heart forever if he kills her.

But he doesn’t.

A familiar scent has reached the entrance, and with it the appearance of hot blue flames that swallow the area, enveloping the lesser demons and disintegrating them all. As it clears, everyone sees a figure walking calmly towards them, and as the figure draws close they realize… it’s Akane.

Akane in her mortal form. The final sibling, Hikaru’s twin sister, the one that could not blend in with society in her normal form, has finally arrived… and her gaze turns to meet the gaze of her father.

Sesshomaru will not kill Mayonaka. He will not give her the pleasure she so wishes to have of dying at his hands. Her body is already mangled, limbs barely hanging on as is. No, she’ll die at the hands of the daughter that most resembles his wife in terms of power and selflessness.

So he turns away. He starts walking towards the resting bodies of Sora and Irene.

Mayonaka is horrified. She starts screeching, screaming at him, that it HAS to be him to kill her. That she did all this FOR him, but… he pays her no heed. So she pulls herself together with what little remains of her strength and pulls out her moth wings, flying towards Sora and Irene. She is determined to kill the human woman.

But Sesshomaru doesn’t give her more than a glance over the shoulder before a massive spirit (Akane’s familiar) appears and swallows Mayonaka whole, sealing her away. She burns the talisman the demoness was sealed in with a vanquishing flame, and Mayonaka is effectively dead… and the curse on Irene broken.

As she starts to wake up, Sesshomaru uses tenseiga on Sora, and his daughter is very confused until she realizes what happened and watches as color returns to Irene’s face and the woman coughs, groaning and rolling onto her side as the spirits release their spell that had kept her in stasis.

Irene is shooketh, and mildly horrified she’s been asleep for so long that Sora is now 19, Hikaru and Akane 18, and that Airi and Towa have returned and are both 16 and 14 alongside Shion!????? Three of her children are young adults now, and two of her babies have returned and are so much older now, and wait, why is Sora covered in blood?

Irene cries, and Sora is laughing and hugging her, telling her it’s alright, and Irene is like NO, IT ISN’T, WHO CURSED ME, TELL ME THEIR NAME SO I CAN BURN THEM TO CRISPS, and they have to tell her that the demoness is already dead. Irene is pissed and upset and going through all the emotions, and ends up smothering all of her kiddos with affection because it's been four years and she missed so much and two of her babies are back but her other babies are four years older now and oh gods how could she have slept so long???

...

Unfortunately... there's still the case of the randomly appearing time portals and all the demons that are disappearing.

The modern era is an extreme danger now, as with all the demons from the Feudal Era being sent to modern times all the demons of the modern era that were in hiding and blending in have decided they were tired of hiding and reveal themselves, lashing out at the humans that had them hide away for so long.

Kirinmaru is the one leading it all.

Kagome, Inuyasha, Moroha and Itsuki, and Irene, Airi, Towa, Shion, and Kin'u and Kohaku all get zapped by one of the portals. They're reunited with Sota, Maria, and Koga, and they watch as the skies grow dark as hundreds to thousands of demons appear, while others are wrecking havoc in the towns.

In a panic, Kagome remembers something from years ago and reveals that inside Kururugi Shrine is a scroll. Hinami and Ren are there, and they know exactly which one she's talking about, and they send Irene to the shrine to unseal the demon and his allies that are with him- and have been for many centuries.

It is a scroll depicting the demon lord Sesshomaru... who had been sealed by his daughter, Akane, in an effort to save his life, many many years ago, and who lost her life sealing her siblings along with him.

To quote Hinami from my Forest Deep fanfic, "Demons existed once. They were in abundance, living in the wild and in their own forms of civilization. Yet when humanity's weaponry began to grow more advanced, their numbers began to decline. Demons started to lose their place in this world. Those who sought preservation hid themselves, while others were proud and died fighting. The few who could pass themselves off as humans did so, and their demonic bloodlines dwindled until nothing but traces of their powers within their descendants remained."

During the era of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Sakoku Edict, demons began to be killed off. They either learned to blend in or died fighting. Sesshomaru, being as proud as he is, refused to blend in, and fought for years until he was gravely wounded. His half-demon, half-white children were being hunted.

Akane knew he wouldn't survive if he kept going. She knew her siblings would all be killed.

So, in a moment of extreme sacrifice, wanting to protect them all, Akane gives up her life sealing Sesshomaru and all of her siblings away. Her descendants, who lived in hiding within the Kururugi Village, acting as priestesses and priests, worshipping the "Great Kami" of their shrine, prayed to and protected the scroll for the next few hundred years, passing down the stories and legends to each generation.

Sesshomaru, trapped with three of his half-demon children and... potentially a grandchild, ponders over the next few centuries why Akane, the child who could not blend in with society, who lived in hiding, who was the one child he was harshest/most strict with to ensure she could survive, did what she did, and how she died doing so, knowing full well he could not revive her with tenseiga after being sealed away.

And as the years pass...

He gets to see her children, and her grandchildren, and her grandchildren's children and grandchildren. Some look just like her human self or just like Irene or just like him, and then it's Hinami and Ren who are IDENTICAL to Akane and Irene, and he's still TRAPPED with his other children while the ONE IS DEAD but her descendants are THERE, and then...

Kagome's finally come to collect the shard of the "shattered bird".

And Kagome sees the scroll and finally realizes why Hinami and Ren look so familiar, and why something always felt so off about them, because in the shrine she sees a little crescent glowing upon the brunette's forehead. With the jewel shard in her hand, Kagome approaches the scroll, the scroll that has what is so very obviously Sesshomaru painted on it, despite the older appearance and change of armor, and when she reaches out to touch the painting... the image changes so his likeness is looking RIGHT at her.

Kagome is, understandably, freaked out.

She books it out of there after listening to Hinami's story, and Sesshomaru is left waiting again. And again. And…

Miasma.

The doors to the shrine slams open.

Irene?

She's younger, much younger than she was when she had died, and she's dressed in the purple kimono with the blue butterflies he gave her shortly before she originally left the Feudal Era, as an apology for having hurt her. She's... not as young as back then, but not as old as when she died. She's somewhere in between. He hasn't seen her in centuries.

And she's... as beautiful as the day he had lost her.

He watches from within the scroll as she rushes over, muttering to herself. He feels the warmth from her palm as she rests her hand against the scroll, gentle flames peeling away the seal.

And then he was freed, along with those who had been sealed with him.

Five hundred years, and he gets to hold her again.

He had missed her so much.

But it's only temporary, for after the battle she'll have to return to his younger self.

[inuyashapridemonth]

Inuyasha Pride Month: Holiday Edition 🌈

Calling all Inuyasha fans! Winter is coming, and we’re bringing Pride Month with us. From December 15th – 24th, we’re hosting Inuyasha Pride Month: Holi-Daze. The idea is simple – show up! Everyone gets a seat at the table, no matter who, what, when, where, why or how they choose to present. If you’re not sure which direction you’re headed in, that’s perfectly fine; we’re just glad to have you as you are. We have a handy list of prompts below the cut to help you get started, but the creative freedom is yours. Because Pride is a state of mind, and we’d like to celebrate you!

One Fandom. Ten Days. Anything goes.

Tag us @inuyashapridemonth and use the hashtag: #IYPMHolidaze when the time comes!

Love, The Mods ♡

Rules & FAQs | AO3 Collection | Resources | Discord Server

❄ Choose Your Own Holiday ❄

Need ideas? We’re here to help. Below is a list of characters, ships, and scenarios to help writers and artists along the way.

List of Inuyasha characters Here.  List of identities/flag colors Here. Inuyasha LGBTQ+ Ships: We’ve listed some m/m and f/f fan-favorites and a few rare pairs to help you set sail. Het-facing LGBTQ+ ships are more than welcome, but we’ve left them off this list for brevity’s sake. If it’s not listed here, don’t sweat it! Everyone is welcome.

Inuyasha x Koga

Inuyasha x Miroku

Sesshomaru x Naraku

Koga x Sesshomaru

Kagome x Sango

Kikyo x Kagura

Sango x Kikyo

Shiori x Rin

Mioku x Bankotsu

Bankotsu x Jakotsu

Inuyasha x Bankotsu 

Inuyasha x Naraku 

Sango x Midoriko

Shippo x Sota

Sesshomaru x Bankotsu

Kagura x Sango

Ginta x Hakkaku

Kagura x Kagome 

Scenario Prompts:

Snowball Fight

Under the Mistletoe

Secret Santa

Home for Christmas

Stocking Stuffer

Snowed In

Hallmark Movie

Decorating

Ugly Sweaters

Ice Skating 

Baking 

Candlelight 

Presents 

Sledding 

Christmas Village

Christmas Cookies

Lighting Candles

Holiday Cleanse

Setting up the Altar

Date 

Silent Night

Holiday Engagement

We hope to see you there! Until then, take care ♡

[reiuruseiyatsura]

11-15: Favorite Anime Art style, Favorite Supporting Character, Least Favorite Anime Song, Highest Rewatchability, and Favorite Manga

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11. Favorite Anime Art style

<> I put this one here mostly because I thought it'd be fun to figure out. There's a lot of anime with art that I love...

<> Ping Ping the Animation has such energetic animation... Redline is so so bold... Nanbaka is just a whole explosion of color... Mononoke is really fun and unique...

<> I'm gonna go with Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun because I've gotten 2 art books for it and the coloring style continues to be something I want to pick up in my own art! All the character designs are fun, the coloring is fun, the way the creators do their stand-alone character illustrations is just so so good... it's all great 10/10

12. Favorite Supporting Character

<> Ginta from Inuyasha owns my entire heart and I've been told multiple times that people are surprised I remember his name. I love him.

<> Shiranui from Dororo is my special boy so he's the special mention

13. Least Favorite Anime Song

<> Another one I wanted to put here just to make me think. I've literally never hated a song- disliked sure, but neutral-dislike is usually as bad as it gets... this is gonna take a lot of thinking on my part..

<> Ok this is a cheap pick. Everlasting Love blasting my ass every couple of minutes 12 episodes in a row kind of ruined it for me LMAO

<> For context it's from the show Vampire Holmes which is about a minute and a half long with a 30 second theme (same theme) bookending it. I was rolling it on autoplay to get through it and it started eating my soul at some point.

14. Highest Rewatchability

<> I don't like rereading books and I don't like rewatching shows BUT. Baccano. I've rewatched it a couple times dubbed and subbed and everything I could watch it forever.

<> This isn't counting movies because those are actually super easy for me to rewatch as long as 1 or more months have gone by- I've seen Redline several times.

15. Favorite Manga

<> Mermaid Saga<3 It hasn't gotten a full anime adaptation but there are a few scattered ones that I enjoyed!

<> And my favorite Manwha is Noblesse! The anime hurts me but the spontaneous basketball episode made me laugh.

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.28

Holidays

Barnum & Bailey Day

Bhakti Mata Karma Jayanti (Chhattisgarh, India)

Children's Picture Book Day

Commemoration of Sen no Rikyu (The Way of Tea; Japan)

Confucius Memorial Day

Defy Death Today Day

Eggsibit Day

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Greatest Show on Earth Day

Haitian Pose Day

Hot Tub Day

International Laser Tag Day

International Women in Music Day

Istanbul Not Constantinople Day

Microfilm Day

National Amber Day

National Car Wash Day

National Children’s Picture Book Day

National Choking Awareness Day

National Ram Day

National Triglycerides Day

Progressive MS Day

Ram Nawami (Nepal)

Respect Your Cat Day

Semana Santa (Nicaragua)

Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)

Sun and Moon Creation Day

Teacher's Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Three Mile Island Day

Virtual Advocacy Day

Washboard Day

Weed Appreciation Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Black Forest Cake Day

Eat an Edy’s Pie Day (f.k.a. Eat an Eskimo Pie Day)

Something on a Stick Day

4th & Last Tuesday in March

American Diabetes Association Alert Day [4th Tuesday]

National Agriculture Day (a.k.a. National Ag Day) [4th Tuesday]

National Fitness Recovery Day [Last Tuesday]

Independence Days

Cakeland (Declared, 2007) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Vernum, Day 2 (Pagan)

Erasistratus (Positivist; Saint)

Festival of the Sacrifice at the Tombs (Ancient Rome)

Fra Bartolommeo (Artology; Saint)

Fred (Muppetism)

Garden Weeds Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Guntram, King of Burgundy (a.k.a. Gontran, Guntramnus; Christian; Saint)

Palmistry Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zarathustra; Zoroastrianism)

Meatball Appreciation Week begins (Pastafarian)

Priscus, Malchus and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs)

Pope Sixtus III (Christian; Saint)

Ragnar Lodbrok’s Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Stephen Harding (Christian; Saint)

Tuotilo (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 6 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [6 of 24]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 15 of 60)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [21 of 57]

Premieres

Andrea Chenier, by Umberto Giordano (Opera; 1896)

April Fool’s Day (Film; 1986)

The Birds (Film; 1963)

Brown Eyed Girl, recorded by Van Morrison (Song; 1967)

Burning Love, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1972)

Duke, by Genesis (Album; 1980)

Elmer Elephant (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Father’s Day Off (Disney Cartoon; 1953)

Futurama (Animated TV Series; 1999)

A Gentlemen’s Gentlemen (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Film; 2014)

The Great Gatsby (Film; 1974)

Houses of the Holy, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1973)

Lucas (Film; 1986)

The Money Pit (Film; 1986)

The Opry House (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Run Fatboy Run (Film; 2008)

Serial (Film; 1980)

Spirited Away (Animated Ghibli Film; 2003)

Summertime Blues, recorded by Eddie Cochran (Song; 1958)

Today’s Name Days

Guntram, Ingbert (Austria)

Albena, Boyan, Boyana, Boyka, Boyko (Bulgaria)

Nada, Polion, Priska, Renata, Sonja (Croatia)

Soňa (Czech Republic)

Eustachius (Denmark)

Arm, Armas, Armo, Kallis (Estonia)

Armas (Finland)

Gontran (France)

Guntram, Ingbert, Willy (Germany)

Gedeon, Johanna (Hungary)

Sisto (Italy)

Eiženija, Ginta, Gunda, Gunta, Ženija (Latvia)

Girmantė, Odeta, Rimkantas, Sikstas (Lithuania)

Åsta, Åste (Norway)

Aniela, Antoni, Jan, Krzesisław, Sykstus (Poland)

Ilarion (Romania)

Soňa (Slovakia)

Doroteo, Sixto (Spain)

Malkolm, Morgan (Sweden)

Gwen, Gwenda, Gwendolyn, Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 87 of 2024; 278 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 13 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 7 (Yi-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 6 Nisan 5783

Islamic: 6 Ramadan 1444

J Cal: 26 Ver; Fiveday [26 of 30]

Julian: 15 March 2023

Moon: 45%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 3 Archimedes (4th Month) [Erasistratus]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 9 of 90)

Zodiac: Aries (Day 8 of 30)

[brookston]

Holidays 3.28

Holidays

Barnum & Bailey Day

Bhakti Mata Karma Jayanti (Chhattisgarh, India)

Children's Picture Book Day

Commemoration of Sen no Rikyu (The Way of Tea; Japan)

Confucius Memorial Day

Defy Death Today Day

Eggsibit Day

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Greatest Show on Earth Day

Haitian Pose Day

Hot Tub Day

International Laser Tag Day

International Women in Music Day

Istanbul Not Constantinople Day

Microfilm Day

National Amber Day

National Car Wash Day

National Children’s Picture Book Day

National Choking Awareness Day

National Ram Day

National Triglycerides Day

Progressive MS Day

Ram Nawami (Nepal)

Respect Your Cat Day

Semana Santa (Nicaragua)

Serfs Emancipation Day (Tibet)

Sun and Moon Creation Day

Teacher's Day (Czech Republic, Slovakia)

Three Mile Island Day

Virtual Advocacy Day

Washboard Day

Weed Appreciation Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Black Forest Cake Day

Eat an Edy’s Pie Day (f.k.a. Eat an Eskimo Pie Day)

Something on a Stick Day

4th & Last Tuesday in March

American Diabetes Association Alert Day [4th Tuesday]

National Agriculture Day (a.k.a. National Ag Day) [4th Tuesday]

National Fitness Recovery Day [Last Tuesday]

Independence Days

Cakeland (Declared, 2007) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Aequinoctium Vernum, Day 2 (Pagan)

Erasistratus (Positivist; Saint)

Festival of the Sacrifice at the Tombs (Ancient Rome)

Fra Bartolommeo (Artology; Saint)

Fred (Muppetism)

Garden Weeds Appreciation Day (Pastafarian)

Guntram, King of Burgundy (a.k.a. Gontran, Guntramnus; Christian; Saint)

Palmistry Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Khordad Sal (Birth of Prophet Zarathustra; Zoroastrianism)

Meatball Appreciation Week begins (Pastafarian)

Priscus, Malchus and Alexander (Christian; Martyrs)

Pope Sixtus III (Christian; Saint)

Ragnar Lodbrok’s Day (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)

Stephen Harding (Christian; Saint)

Tuotilo (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 6 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [6 of 24]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 15 of 60)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [21 of 57]

Premieres

Andrea Chenier, by Umberto Giordano (Opera; 1896)

April Fool’s Day (Film; 1986)

The Birds (Film; 1963)

Brown Eyed Girl, recorded by Van Morrison (Song; 1967)

Burning Love, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1972)

Duke, by Genesis (Album; 1980)

Elmer Elephant (Disney Cartoon; 1936)

Father’s Day Off (Disney Cartoon; 1953)

Futurama (Animated TV Series; 1999)

A Gentlemen’s Gentlemen (Disney Cartoon; 1941)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (Film; 2014)

The Great Gatsby (Film; 1974)

Houses of the Holy, by Led Zeppelin (Album; 1973)

Lucas (Film; 1986)

The Money Pit (Film; 1986)

The Opry House (Disney Cartoon; 1929)

Run Fatboy Run (Film; 2008)

Serial (Film; 1980)

Spirited Away (Animated Ghibli Film; 2003)

Summertime Blues, recorded by Eddie Cochran (Song; 1958)

Today’s Name Days

Guntram, Ingbert (Austria)

Albena, Boyan, Boyana, Boyka, Boyko (Bulgaria)

Nada, Polion, Priska, Renata, Sonja (Croatia)

Soňa (Czech Republic)

Eustachius (Denmark)

Arm, Armas, Armo, Kallis (Estonia)

Armas (Finland)

Gontran (France)

Guntram, Ingbert, Willy (Germany)

Gedeon, Johanna (Hungary)

Sisto (Italy)

Eiženija, Ginta, Gunda, Gunta, Ženija (Latvia)

Girmantė, Odeta, Rimkantas, Sikstas (Lithuania)

Åsta, Åste (Norway)

Aniela, Antoni, Jan, Krzesisław, Sykstus (Poland)

Ilarion (Romania)

Soňa (Slovakia)

Doroteo, Sixto (Spain)

Malkolm, Morgan (Sweden)

Gwen, Gwenda, Gwendolyn, Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 87 of 2024; 278 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 13 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Second Month 2 (Gui-Mao), Day 7 (Yi-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 6 Nisan 5783

Islamic: 6 Ramadan 1444

J Cal: 26 Ver; Fiveday [26 of 30]

Julian: 15 March 2023

Moon: 45%: 1st Quarter

Positivist: 3 Archimedes (4th Month) [Erasistratus]

Runic Half Month: Ehwaz (Horse) [Day 3 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 9 of 90)

Zodiac: Aries (Day 8 of 30)

[inuharu27]

Chapter 14 title page-665

it’s finished! Finally! A month and a day of solid work. 51 pages total. I have to say it’s my very first time drawing Koga and his companions Ginta and Hakkaku. They took me a lot of work but I managed. Hope you like! And thanks for your patience!❤️😄

[otomesakura20]

Chapter 14 title page-665

it’s finished! Finally! A month and a day of solid work. 51 pages total. I have to say it’s my very first time drawing Koga and his companions Ginta and Hakkaku. They took me a lot of work but I managed. Hope you like! And thanks for your patience!❤️😄

[sherryaptx4869]

Something good to celebrate

A short drabble for Shimura Tae's birthday.

“Today is her birthday. I don’t know if she will like what I got for her. It’s not like I even spent money to worry if she will like it or not.” He ruffled his already perm hair. “Aaah, whatever. It’s just that I don’t have someone to give this to and it’s such a shame if this will be put to waste. Besides, it will definitely be useful for her.”

“I wasn’t thinking about her at all when I got this.” He continued to defend himself from an imaginary onslaught of accusing stares and questioning faces from their friends. He placed the item inside his yukata and walked briskly. He needs to hurry if he doesn’t want his friends to drop dead from eating Tae’s dark matter.

As he was hauling boxes after boxes of stuff from the client who is moving away, his client gave the item to Gintoki. He was the only one to attend to their client’s request that day. He deployed Kagura and Shinpachi to another client’s request so they can keep their income rolling and their business afloat.

Now, he is running late for Tae’s small dinner party. Prior, he had to fight tooth and nail with an amanto for the last strawberry-flavored cake. The smug bastard just wanted to hoard every cake in the sweetshop and he can’t get it through his thick skull that Gin-san needed the cake for a birthday party. And so he just let his fit do the talking. He found it effective to silence the damned amanto who is raising hell at the sweetshop chasing away all the customers.

When he arrived at the Kodokan-dojo, everyone is having a good time. He is relieved to see their frienemies alive and well. At the table where dinner is served, he saw no sign of the dark matter making its feared appearance. Upon closer inspection, he saw several bowls of the dark matter near a trash bin labelled biohazard. For once, he’s glad he came in late. He bets it’s Kyubei and the others who ordered edible food for this dinner party in place of the terrible dark matter.

Tae is quick to welcome him. “Gin-san, come on in. Eat dinner, I know you’re famished.” She said as she led him to sit beside her.

“Happy birthday to you Otae. Here is a cake for you.”

“That’s so thoughtful of you Gin-san” Tae said as she took the cake from him.

“And why would the flavour be strawberry Gin-san? I wonder if it’s really for Aneue or for you.” Shinpachi said as he shot Gintoki an apprehensive look.

“Better that than eating your sister’s deadly cooking.”

“And what do you mean by that you stupid man?” Tae asked as a vein popped on her temple.

“I was saying your cooking could slay an army, you uncute woman!”

“Aaaahhh, are you seriously fighting now or low-key flirting? In front of me? How dare you Gin-san!” Shinpachi shrieked but no one paid him attention.

As the night deepens and the laughter becomes more raucous, the item is burning a hole inside Gin-san’s clothes. He needs to give it to her now.

He found a chance when she went into the kitchen to get some more food. He followed her.

“Er… Otae, here is something I want you to have. I’m sorry if this is a hand-me down item, I wasn’t able to buy you anything expensive. But I did not get that from the dumpster I promise,” he even held up his hand.

“I think this will greatly improve your cooking skills. I really appreciate your thoughtfulness bringing over bento boxes for the Yorozuya and for when we go have outdoor activities.” He handed her a notebook containing the family recipe of several cuisines.

“That’s from the previous tenant of the building. I looked the contents over and I know for a fact that you can outdo those listed there. Our family will surely enjoy those foods if they were more edible and palatable.”

Tae smiled. It’s about time she learned a different cuisine to feed her family. He did say their family right? Her heart is full.

BONUS:

“Happy birthday Otae.” Gin-san said as he leaned over and planned to place a kiss on Tae’s cheek.

That same moment,

“Aneue, what’s taking you so long? We need more food ---“

Tae turned her face to see who was calling her at the same time Gintoki leaned over. His lips landed perfectly on her mouth giving Shinpachi a memory he won’t be forgetting for such a long time.

“GIN-SANNN!!! How dare you make a move on my sister in my own house?!!!”

Another tirade of Shinpachi’s rants fired through the house.

[adria-479]

Maybe I should, maybe I shouldn't. But it's done.🫣 In support of Pride Month.. Ginta x Hakkaku.

[sabeia]

GinTae Month day 2 - Edits

I got excited lol 😂

[theqrianana]

GinTae Month 2018 Day 3 - Umbrella

[forgloryforhonor]

an interesting detail you can see in the manga from Benizakura Arc!

Familiar isn’t it? it’s the scene where Gintoki finds out that Otae had prepared his clothes for him despite telling him not to leave sickbay. She leaves her umbrella for him too.

but notice that there’s another umbrella in the vase on the background.

That means that there were at least two umbrellas in that house at that point in time. I presume that the one in the vase is Gintoki’s own umbrella. Gintoki could have chosen not to take Otae’s umbrellla with him.  It was her favorite after all.

But he brought it with him.

Why?

Because that was Otae’s request in exchange for letting him go.

This is the moment where we see that Otae has acknowledged what Yorozuya stands for, who Yorozuya is.

If you think about it, Otae was fulfilling Shinpachi’s request to protect Gintoki. Then Tetsuko had a request for Gintoki. Otae knew that eventually Gintoki will run away and help out just as Shinpachi had predicted.

So this was Otae’s challenge, her request for him as the Yorozuya:

He has to bring back her umbrella. He has to return.

In doing so, not only does she grant Gintoki’s desire to be released from sickbay, she’s fulfilling her promise to her brother too.

[fyeahgintokiandotae]

Did you know that in Japan, October is also GinTae month?

The festival has already started yesterday, October 1. Some Japanese fans celebrate Gintoki and Otae’s birthday on October hence the GinTae shippers dubbed this month as GinTae festival. 

We are inviting you to participate to this 31-day long celebration. It will simultaneously be celebrated along with the GinTae Week on October 23-29. For every GinTae art, fan fic, edits, MVs, gif, post, commentary, etc you will make, we are encouraging you to please include these tags on your posts: #gintaemonth #gintae month #銀妙月間   

Thank you so much! 

Art:  しま‏ Permission to post Please do not forget to visit the artist’s original post. 

[tobito]

[maki-no-maki]

“I think I saw you before.”

“In my dreams.”

—Cherry Blossom Winter