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morallyinept · 4 months

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A full character analysis on JAVI GUTIERREZ from the film THE UNBEARBALE WEIGHT OF MASSIVE TALENT

I've created this as a point of reference when writing for Pedro's characters, and I hope you find it useful. Even if you just want to learn more about the character. 🖤

FULL MASTERLIST OF PEDRO'S CHARACTERS ANALYSED

FULL CHARACTER STUDY:

Basic Details:

Full Name: Javi Gutierrez

Nickname(s): Javi

Appears in: The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, 2022 (first appearance seen at approx. 18:50)

Age (if known): 39/40 - Javi has invited Nick to his 40th birthday party

Nationality: Spanish - Javi lives in Mallorca, Spain. Javi's villa used for filming is actually Villa Shehereazade, which is based in Dubrovnik, Croatia

Sexuality: Straight

Family: Father, deceased. Cousin, Lucas Gutierrez. No other family mentioned

Spouse/Partner: None, however Javi is in love with Gabriela Lucchesi

Relationship Status: Single

Current Living Status: Alive

Languages Spoken: Spanish, English

Education: Not confirmed, although Javi writes a script that is made into a film, so assumed basic schooling/college education at least

Occupation:

Job Role/Title: Face of a cartel posing as an Olive Grove business run by his cousin/script writer

Special Skill(s): Able to memorise all of Nick's films, use of firearms

Notable Colleague(s): Nick Cage

Distinguishing Features:

Tattoo(s): None

Piercings: None

Scar(s): None

Other Markings: Freckles on neck

Eye Colour: Brown

Prominent Feature(s): Brown curly hair, facial scruff that is slightly greying, moustache

Injuries: Javi is shot in his left shoulder by his cousin Lucas. Javi is also hit and knocked over by a car when he runs out into the road, although he is high at the time and doesn't seem obviously injured.

Hair Colour: Brown

Personality:

Traits: excitable, wild, impulsive

Javi speaks with a Spanish accent as he is from Mallorca, Spain. His cadence is light and mellow, and he weaves into Spanish when excitable and high.

Javi seems to be the highly suggestible type, letting his imagination run away with him. He also seems to live vicariously through Nick's films, unable to do so in his own life.

Javi is the face of a cartel, posing as an Olive Grove business, which is run primarily by his cousin Lucas after Javi's father passed away. It is not confirmed exactly how much Javi knows about the day-to-day dealings of the business, as he wasn't aware of the kidnapping, however he says to Nick, "my cousin Lucas is the head of the organisation! The whole world thinks I run it. When my father died, Lucas took over. He forced me to be the figurehead..." so there is some assumption that Javi would know about some of the business dealings to some extent. And is potentially being manipulated by his cousin as he also tells Nick that "you don’t just leave this world, Nick. You, and everyone you care about, is in constant danger."

Javi is in love with Gabriela, however does not act on it to keep her safe. Explaining this to Nick, he says "I can’t be with Gabriela because that would put a target on her back."

Javi goes through a character growth arc by standing up to his cousin and doing the right thing in the end, even if he knows it will put his own life in danger. Together, he and Gabriela take on Lucas. Javi says to Nick, "I'm never going to have any kind of a life unless I stand up to my cousin! I need this."

Javi appears to take drugs recreationally. He is seen smoking a joint with Nick after jumping off the cliff, and they also take LSD drops to get inspiration for their movie.

Javi is seen cliff jumping and also driving whilst high on LSD, indicating he likes to have adventure and live on the wild side.

Fashion/Outfits:

Outfit 1 - (Opening scene on boat) Light blue blazer, white and grey striped shirt, brown chinos, brown belt

Outfit 2 - (With Gabriela scene) White and grey striped shirt, brown chinos, brown belt

Outfit 3 - (By the pool scene) White and blue striped speedo, cream linen shirt, sunglasses

Outfit 4 - (The cliffs scene) Striped button up shirt, white vest top, burnt orange pants, white sneakers

Outfit 5 - (Paddington scene - 2nd outfit) Cream chinos, white and red striped button up, white vest top

Outfit 6 - (In pool with Nick) Red swimming shorts

Outfit 7 - (Javi's birthday party scene) Green two-piece suit, blue print patterned shirt, gold ring on pinky finger on left hand, dark shoes

Outfit 8 - (LSD scene) Brown striped shirt, green pants, blue sneakers, ring and watch

Outfit 9 - (Clay pigeon shooting scene) Red striped shirt, cream chinos

Outfit 10 - (Nick's family scene & remainder of scenes) Yellow checked linen shirt, blue rolled up pants, brown suede loafers, trades for Nick's Vans sneakers

Outfit 11 - (Premiere scene) Black two piece suit, white shirt, black silk tie with silver stripe detailing

Accessories: Gold Rolex watch, sunglasses, gold ring on left pinky finger with what looks to be a diamond cut into it

Weapons Used:

Weapon(s): (Exact weapons pictured below)

Javi's gun is a Glock 17 (3rd Generation) hand pistol 9x19mm

Javi's collectible Golden Guns are Castor Troy 24k Gold Titanium Springfield Armory M19-11-A1 V-12 Pistols .45 ACP

Modes of Transport:

Vehicle(s):

Javi owns and drives a silver Porsche 356 Pre-A Speedster with the license plate 216F1AG

Javi owns and drives a green 1984 Land Rover 90 with the license plate 940OFJI

Javi owns and drives a speedboat, which appears to be an Art of Kinetik Antagonist model

Dialogue:

🗨 See Javi's full dialogue from the film, including deleted scenes.

Further Character Links (if any):

Behind The Scenes TUWOMT, Behind The Scenes 2nd Video, More Behind The Scenes Footage

Samples of Javi's Wardrobe - Watch, striped t-shirt, sunglasses, yellow shirt, blue sneakers & Adidas sneakers info obtained via Styleofpascal IG

FULL MASTERLIST OF PEDRO'S CHARACTERS ANALYSED

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pandemic-info · 9 months

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At Yale’s Long COVID Clinic, Lisa Sanders Is Trying It All

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Since the beginning of the pandemic, she — together with colleagues in the pulmonary and neurology departments — had been seeing long-COVID patients at Yale but often in an ad hoc way. Some of the doctors had become so flooded with people seeking help that they were having difficulty scheduling and treating their regular patients who came to them for everything else ...

Long-COVID patients, generally speaking, have been very miserable for a very long time, and because the illness attacks their brains, their hearts, their lungs, their guts, their joints �� sometimes simultaneously, sometimes intermittently, and sometimes in a chain reaction — they bounce from specialist to specialist, none of whom has the bandwidth to hear their whole frustrating ordeal together with the expertise to address all of their complaints: the nonspecific pain, the perpetual exhaustion, the bewildering test results, the one-off treatments. “These are people who have not been able to tell their story to anybody but their spouse and their mom — for years sometimes,” Sanders tells me. “And they are, in some ways, every doctor’s worst nightmare.”

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Long COVID has been pushing the limits of hospital systems everywhere, not just at Yale. As Americans emerged from the most acute phase of the pandemic, as mask and vaccine mandates lifted and life returned to a semblance of normal for the people who had contracted COVID and recovered, primary-care physicians started to say, “‘I’m not interested in long COVID,’ or ‘I don’t treat long COVID. Let me refer you to a specialist,’” said David Putrino, who runs the new chronic-illness recovery clinic at Mount Sinai. For their part, Putrino added, the specialists were saying, “This is not what my practice is. This is not an emergency anymore.” Patients all over the country reported monthslong waiting times for appointments at long-COVID clinics. All the while, scientists and pundits heaped skepticism on the very notion of long COVID, arguing that infection made people stronger, that new variants posed no threats, that the danger of long COVID was overblown — implying that what patients were suffering from was all in their heads.

Forgotten in this debate are the 65 million people worldwide for whom the pandemic remains a torturous everyday reality.

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In the late 1990s, patients with a galaxy of unexplained chronic symptoms — including fatigue, sore throat, joint pain, insomnia, dizziness, brain fog, and depression — began to gather into activist and identity groups, calling themselves sufferers of “chronic Lyme.” They had something, they argued, related to a previous infection from the bite of a deer tick, but their doctors were dismissing them as whiners and neurotics. This was in an era when the medical Establishment was rolling its collective eyes at patients who were querying whether diagnoses of “chronic fatigue syndrome” or “fibromyalgia” might fit their symptoms — ones that looked very much like those linked to chronic Lyme.

Sanders joined the chorus of debunkers. These patients had real symptoms and real ailments, she asserted in Every Patient Tells a Story. But the collection of symptoms was “hopelessly broad and overinclusive,” she wrote. “These are some of the most common symptoms of patients presenting to a primary care office.” She concluded that chronic Lyme was a “phantom diagnosis.”

“I completely regret that chapter,” she says now. “I would like to rewrite it.” Sanders explains that she was reacting to the doctors who were preying on suffering people by prescribing interminable courses of antibiotics that were not helping them: “But I completely misunderstood it. The patients were making the connection between their symptoms and Lyme disease.”

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“We’re not paying enough attention,” she said. “We’re not. Doctors are still dismissing this disease as something that’s in your head. I have seen the exchanges on Twitter: ‘Long COVID is exaggerated, not real.’” Women are diagnosed with long COVID at roughly twice the rate of men, Iwasaki pointed out: “I think if the situation was reversed, we’d pay even more attention to this disease.” - Akiko Iwasaki, immunologist at Yale [also known for her work nasal vaccine & long covid research]

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But even Sanders was not prepared for how little doctors and scientists know about long COVID. There is no blood test. Health officials can’t even agree on how to define it. The CDC describes long COVID as “signs, symptoms, and conditions that continue or develop after acute COVID-19 infection” — or, in Sanders’s paraphrase, “You got COVID and then something bad happened.” Under the CDC definition, patients have long COVID if they are symptomatic at least four weeks after initial infection. The WHO defines it similarly but with a different time frame: occurring or lasting at least three months after initial infection. This discrepancy matters to Sanders because, as much as possible, she wants to identify patients who have long COVID and not those who may take a little longer to recover from their original illness. In her clinic, she uses the WHO definition.

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Sanders, more than ever before, is dependent on the patient’s account — on detailed specifics — to establish her diagnosis. It’s a process of elimination and deduction. So she has “learned just to shut the fuck up and listen.”

#covid #long covid #article #medicine #ny mag #yale #re: 'I don't know anyone with long covid'#re: 'JUST get treatment'#lyme #me/cfs #mecfs #fibromyalgia #akiko iwasaki #womens health

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armoredtitanmistress · 9 months

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𝙖 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙡𝙤𝙦𝙪𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙙 | Toji Fushiguro| fate's entanglements

characters: toji fushiguro x gojo!reader, toji zenin x gojo!reader

summary: fate had a sense of humor that you didn't appreciate.

tags: toji x gojo!reader, gojo’s older sister, pre-star plasma vessel arc/star plasma vessel arc, satoru content!, suggestive language, explicit language, symbolism (?), strangers to friends, angst, fluff.

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The ceiling lights that hung above your head did a very lackluster job of replicating the scenic starlit nights you had grown accustomed to. The wooden paneled walls littered with religious scrolls reminded everyone in the room of their purpose for being here. The matching floorboards had probably been polished by a low-ranking clan member. The room was filled with the voices of countless men trying to talk over one another believing their words were more important than the others.

When you first started to attend these meetings, you would listen as attentively as you could as you tried to adhere to the diligent daughter archetype. After a while, they would repeat the same things over and over again just with different wording. It made you realize that being inside this room, power was nothing but a word. None of these men truly cared for the life of anyone: not their families, not their clan, not the non-curse users that they had to save, and not the children that they sent off on missions. No, these men’s purpose for having these meetings was fueled by control and appearances.

“When are you going to just accept Osamu’s marriage proposal? My son is an impatient man with many women being offered to him. Why not make my boy’s day, Gojo?”

“Perhaps you should consider that there is a reason why I have never accepted his marriage proposals, Naobito. Along with any other son of yours you’ve tried to send my way over the years.” You retort as you take a sip of the sake in front of you. Like the others, Osamu wasn’t anything to look at. By far, the most unappealing of them all. You aren’t referring to his appearance but to him as an individual. With his mediocre skill set, you believed he entered the Hei on sheer luck. His only redeeming quality is that he was the same age as you. It contributed to his unattractive appeal as his mental age did not reflect his physical.

“When will you let go of this childish rebellion and accept one of their marriage proposals? Fairytale romances and true love do not exist for someone who is to ascend to be a clan leader.” His words are possibly the only logical thing that has been said during the entirety of the meeting. Love was never something you wanted and you don’t think it ever will. Partially because of the life you were set to have but also you have never felt those kinds of emotions for anyone before aside from familial love.

It was rich that he was talking to you about being childish. Don’t be blinded to believe that the Zenins were the only clan asking for your hand as that’s not the case. Naobito was the most persistent out of them all. Your father wasn’t even as concerned about your future spouse as Naobito was. “You may not understand my worth or even that of your sons but if I may express myself freely, let me pose an even far more daring question that could make you understand.” I did a horrendous job of defining you before. You were indeed still glorified that much hasn’t changed but you were a puppet with a consciousness with a life that could never be your own. “How many of your sons could put up a good fight against me?”

The expression he made was one that you wish you had taken a picture of to show Toji. His thin eyebrows furrowed with a hardening gaze that was on the brink of cracking with the tension that had been created. “Trust, the reason that you are the next head of your clan is purely because fate decided to gain a sense of humor and made you the firstborn. Your abilities aren’t enough to be considered your silver lining.” The man remarked with words that have been made known to you ever since Satoru was born. The only aspect of life that was out of reach for the elders was fate but if this life were a utopia for them, they would’ve had Satoru be born first. You were grateful that you could carry the burdens so that Satoru wouldn’t have to one day. That’s why everything was bearable since this was all for him.

“If you wanted to challenge me to a spar you could’ve asked instead of hiding it with this prolonged conversation. How about we-” The benevolent voice of your father that called your name was enough to stun you into silence. “ You’re dismissed.”

You believed that you inherited your father’s gift of having your tone of voice direct the atmosphere of a situation rather than the words spoken. He had spoken so little during the meeting you had momentarily let it slip your mind that he was present. People would say how similar you were to him and largely judge your character based on his. You didn’t consider yourself to be calm, calculated, or reserved but the world did. You considered yourself to be the complete opposite.

Standing up, you bow to your father, “My apologies.” You don’t even make the effort to see him with the gruff he let out as a response enough for you to know his disappointment. You also didn’t need to bother to look at Naobito to know that his eyes were hunting your retreating body.

You weren’t even allowed a moment to reflect on what had happened as a tiny body with tufted hair like yours was seated at the first steps that descended from the building. His back was facing away from you but you could make out that he was holding onto something, maybe a ball or a toy of his. You watched as his head turned as if he were inspecting the area to either avoid being seen or trying to look for someone.

“Toru, what are you doing here?” You asked, looking around to see if he had come here alone. Most of the meetings took place at either one of the campuses for Jujutsu High but today was the rare case of holding it at the Gojo compound.

“Finally! I thought I was going to have to wait all day for you to come out.” The tiny boy complained as you felt his hold tighten as he tried to tug you away with him. “Now come on! I want to play!”

Those meetings became bearable for him. You smiled at the boy before you ruffled his hair. “I thought we talked about being patient, ‘Toru? You can’t run away from training like this.”

He lifted his head toward you and pouted at your words. “But I missed you! This whole week has been training and it’s always the same thing over and over again. It’s so boring!”

Placing one of your hands into his, you allow him to lead the way, “It’s for good for you. How else do you think you’ll ever get stronger than me? I had to do the same thing at your age to get to this point.”

You didn’t wholeheartedly believe that to be true. He deserved to be a kid and be able to play, go to traditional primary school, and make friends. Naobito was right, fate had a sense of humor. A terrible one at that.

“Whatever, I can worry about getting stronger than you when I’m older. Right now, I just want to play with you!” As the eldest, you should’ve taken him back to the training grounds. As his sister, you let him coerce you into playing an array of different games. It started off physical with games like “Red Light, Green Light” then strayed into games like “I, Spy.” You often wondered if he enjoyed the life he had and if moments like these were as important to him as they were to you. I could tell you that you are naive to undermine your brother’s love for you. In many ways, you felt you were failing him as his sister. The previous comment you made is a prime example of that. You should be nurturing his childhood but at some points, you feel like you hinder it.

As a soft yawn escaped the little boy's voice, he made quick by covering his hands over his mouth. He wanted to keep spending with you. Lately, you’ve been busy with meetings and missions. This was one of the rare occasions that he’s been able to have you alone and away from everyone else. He didn’t want to go to sleep and then wake up with the uncertainty of if he’d even catch a glimpse of you throughout the day.

You smiled at him as you poked his cheek. “I spy with my little eye someone who needs to go to sleep.” You brought your hand out for him to take but the 7-year-old boy didn’t budge.

He shook his head, crossing his arms over one another, and with a pout, he affirmed, “I’m not tired!” His body was against him as another yawn came out.

You scooped him up into your arms and almost instantly he fell asleep. Thankfully, where you guys were was close to the main house so that walk wasn’t far. Once you had entered the house you took notice of the familiar silence that was present regardless if your family was home or not. Your mother prided herself in her image so you assumed she was out at a tea party with high-standing women from other clans. Your father could be anywhere from still being at the meeting from earlier or in this case right in front of you.

“Care to explain why Satoru is with you and not training?” He made no effort to lower his voice and you felt Satoru twist his body a bit at the sound of his voice.

“Father, he is a child. He should not be training as hard as he is now. At his age, I wasn’t-” You were never allowed to speak freely with him, and at times you forget that. No worries, he would always remind you in the form of cutting your words short.

“And that’s where I went wrong with you.” The blue in his eyes was darker and more menacing compared to yours and Satoru’s. His hair was long with half of it being held up in a top knot while the other half was down. His height aided in his uninviting aura standing at 6’4 and his yukata matched his cold exterior with it being a mixture of cool blues. “Naobito’s words hold merit, I hope you know that. Don’t bring your brother down with you.”

“Of course.” is all you say as you continue to make your way into Satoru’s bedroom. There wasn’t much personality to it as it was a traditional Japanese-style bedroom. The teddy bear on his bed that you had gifted him after winning it at a summer festival in high school was the only piece of personality his room had. Placing him down and tucking him in, you kiss his forehead.

“Love you, ‘Toru.” You were making your way out of his room when you heard a mumbled,

“Love you too.” from his direction. Turning to face him, you saw he was still asleep but now was hugging the bear. Your brother would always unknowingly find ways to make you smile which you did before leaving his room while trying to make your way out of the house.

“What are you doing going out at this time?” You heard your father call out from behind you and the smile soon fell. Turns out he hadn’t left when you took Satoru to his bedroom as he stood at the corner of the hallway with his arms crossed.

“I thought it would be a good idea to train. I haven’t been able to recently due to missions.” You lied and he seemed to buy it as he simply nodded before making his way to whoever knows where.

He would have you castrated if he knew you were meeting up with the renowned Sorceror Killer.

“Is that my damsel in distress? How much do you want this time?” You teased the bulky man that looked comedic sitting amongst all the flora. He yanked out a few flowers that were nearby before throwing them at you. Normally you would’ve reprimanded him for damaging your work like that but it wasn’t yours. You had somehow coerced the man into helping you plant/maintain your garden under the agreement that you’d give him money in return.

“That joke stopped being funny after the first time, doll.” He rolled his eyes at your other comment before rubbing two of his fingers together in a money motion before “poofing” it away. “You don’t pay me enough to even consider you another form of income.”

You laugh at this before grabbing the collar of his sweatshirt and pulling it down, you point to the prominent “love bites” he had received recently as you playfully pushed him away, “Maybe not, but those dates you take the women you swindle money from aren’t being paid from the money earned from that highly respectable job of yours.”

A while after you found out about his “hobbies”, you grew desensitized to them. Granted you only experienced the before/aftermath of them; the “borrowed money”, the nauseating perfume that mingled with his, and the poorly hidden hickeys. He described himself to be someone that was just experiencing the world and what it had to offer, good or bad.

“Getting so handsy with me but then pushing me away. You’re giving me mixed signals, doll.” The knack for being hypocritical had to be an inherited trait amongst the Zenin clan.

A year has passed and you both certainly were liars.

To an extent.

Yes, that was the closest that Toji had ever been allowed to get to you. That was in terms of physical contact. Over the year, you have gotten closer. You found out that he was a year older than you making him 22, how he got his scar, the night you talked for the first time he had only attended to tie off some loose ends with Naobito, and that he liked to gamble his money away.

After that initial meeting, the garden continued to be the designated meet-up spot. The number of times you’d see each other varied. Neither one of you had contact with one other outside of the garden so figuring out when the other would show up was a guessing game. You could either see each other every day or go months without any contact. The interactions held similar exchanges overall: talking about their days, stargazing, lingering touches, and unspoken words.

The mutual attraction from the start was palpable, but it had become difficult to deny as the years went by. This is more of an issue for yourself than for Toji, who vocalizes his attraction at any moment as long as there is an opportunity. You denied him for multiple reasons. The first is his instinct to wake up in other people’s beds rather than his own.

You were correct in assuming that Toji was a womanizer even if he heavily denied it.

“Trying to signal to you that we’re friends shouldn’t be viewed as a bad thing. It seems you keep conveniently forgetting that part.”

“Those women could be you if you just said yes.” As per the routine, you ignored him.

“You’re not usually the last one to show up between the both of us. Stuck in one of those meetings again or did something else take up your time?”

“Hmm.” Was the only response you gave him and he noticed your mood sour at mentioning your day.

“What did they do to piss you off this time?” He asked, chuckling at the irked expression you made. Anyone would consider your friendship to be an unlikely pairing that neither one of you could offer an answer to. In terms of bonding, if asked how you managed to remain friends you would bring up the mutual distaste for the higher powers of Jujutsu society.

Landing your head onto his lap and letting your hands run down your face, you groaned, “More like I pissed someone else off.”

He ran his fingers through your hair, pushing away a few strands that had fallen on top of your face. He gave up on trying to get rid of his habit of admiring your features. Though he has never admitted this to you, the women that he has hooked up with have never once come close to your beauty. It’s not like you made it easy with those eccentric features you had. “You know, usually someone has to piss you off before you piss someone else off. If I were to guess it was Naobito this time?”

You shook your head irritated at having to think of that man again before answering, “It’s always the same thing with him. With all due respect, none of your cousins are necessarily the most tolerable to be around.” You knew he didn’t take offense to that. He would’ve made the same remark about them too. Most likely an even harsher and more descriptive assortment of words.

“It was my father.”

“Oh, now that one is different. Don’t tell me I’m influencing bad behavior on you, doll.” He was joking but there was truth to that statement. His influence was not in your actions but more in the actions that you wouldn’t allow yourself to act upon. For reference, as you lay on his lap you wonder how he would feel inside your mouth as you see the imprint of his dick from his sweatpants from your peripheral, and judging based on the imprint alone you could see that he was well-endowed.

“It’s been a year and I still can tell you that you don’t have that kind of effect on me.” Lies like these remained a focal point in your relationship but Toji always knew when you were lying. You’d do what everyone else did when they lied like avoiding eye contact.

“Why don’t you leave?” He has posed this question to you previously and you’d always reply differently. Sometimes taking it seriously, sometimes not as much.

“Are you suggesting we become co-workers? With all due respect, I don’t think I’d take pleasure in knowing my livelihood is dependent on murder.” You chose the latter.

“Don’t knock yourself too short. That gaze of yours could certainly knock a man dead with just a look. Might as well play up your strengths.” He joked as he twirled a strand of your hair in between his fingers.

“You flatter me too much.”

He tugged on the strand his hand eliciting a reaction out of you that he had dreamed about on various nights, “You haven’t answered me. You keep complaining about the same things and the same people. Why not just leave it all?”

“And what? Leave Satoru by himself? I leave and then what becomes of him? The elders will just force him to be the next clan leader and fulfill my responsibilities. That’s not what I want for him.” You’ve fantasized about your life outside of all of this on multiple occasions. If fate had been fond of you right now, you’d be studying in college for a degree you weren’t a hundred percent certain of. Rest assured, you’d have a collective of people who would understand and make you feel certain that you’ll figure it out one day. You’d also be working a part-time job at a nearby cafe to sustain you and Satoru in a one-bedroom apartment near his elementary. He would certainly be a class clown that was adored by all as an individual. Craving the ordinary may seem foolish for other people and if it was then you were truly an idiot.

“You keep mentioning other people in your future but you haven’t said what you want yet.” Alongside the unspoken rule of not speaking about Toji’s sexual outings, topics such as these were hardly ever spoken about. Whether it was because it never came up in conversation or because it was believed to be too much you didn’t know.

“I don’t know what I want. I don’t have dreams. I don’t have aspirations. What’s the point of leaving if I have nothing worth leaving for? ” You shrugged after you removed yourself from his lap to sit upright but didn’t make an effort to create distance between the two of you.

“Do you need a reason to be free?” His tone of voice made his words feel like a throwaway statement. As if it were the most obvious thing in the world. However, those words would continue to hang over your head for years to come, trust me I would know.

From his perspective, he was doing anything to get by. He became a mercenary because it was something he was good at and it paid well. It wasn’t a dream of his nor something he wanted to do. The only thing that it guaranteed him was freedom and a new life. Just like you, he didn’t particularly know what he wanted to do when he decided to leave the clan. He just knew that it was something he needed to do for himself.

Leaning your head into the conjugation of his neck and jaw, feeling yourself get drowsy you let your eyes fall shut. “Don’t feel like talking anymore. Just stay here.”

After hearing your soft breaths, he knew you had fallen asleep. This was the first time in a while that he noticed that you hadn’t even acknowledged the guests that would frequent the sky at this time of night. The illuminated decorations scattered throughout the sky form different shapes. He never actually retained any of the constellation shapes that you’d point out to him. It was mostly the stories and the names that were attached to the constellations that he’d remember. Orion and Artemis were apparently constellations that would appear frequently as that’s a prominent story he remembered you telling him. I would tell you their story but now is not the time.

He wrapped an arm around your sleeping body to keep you steady and leaned his head over yours as he spoke to the stars, “Friends? I think she’s the only one out of the both of us that believes that.”

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illicitlamb · 6 months

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𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐗: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐈𝐑 | 𝟑𝟎-𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐄

SUMMARY | Wednesday finally allows Xavier to draw a portrait of her for himself. In return, he makes her time worthwhile.

“Easy enough?” Xavier quizzed as he pushed himself up from the chair, staring at Wednesday for her approval. He only received a sigh, which was interpreted as a “yes” as she seated herself. “Good.”

Making his way back to his desk, he waited for his wife to get into position, already picking up his pencil. “Turn your head a little more,” he corrected.

“Just draw,” growled Addams in return, but carried through with his order.

Thorpe smirked. “Aye-aye, Captain.” He knew she had been dreading this for whatever reason, but he was more than appreciative of her for actually allowing him to draw a portrait of her – a pose of his choice and on both of their times rather than any quick moment he had while she was not looking.

Starting with the outline of his piece, his strokes were painted as soft lines before being filled in by more defined, darker scrapes against the sketch paper. Now having a reference rather than relying on his visions’ sole memories, he would glance up often, flicking his bangs from his view for his hazel eyes to admire the gothic beauty before him. In the midst of it all, he was doing two of his favorite things: draw and take in the view of his spouse.

The outfit he had chosen for her to wear was still in her taste of color palette but out of her comfort zone with style. A 2-in-1 mini dress complemented with a black tie – a white collared shirt overlayed with a strapped black corset stretching down into a relaxed slim-fit skirt. Instead of matching heels, he finished the selective look with black thigh-high stockings.

Of course, this whole thing was not something she would agree to easily, but it would all come with a favor in return. Just a little while longer.

Seated on the prop for 20 minutes now, Wednesday’s neck began to ache with a creeping cramp that threatened to strangle her into defeat. “How much longer?” she grumbled. A soft, amused scoff teased her hearing.

“Almost done.”

She expressed a nasal sigh and opted for playing the part of a model for several more minutes before being relieved of her statue-like role. Pacing over to her husband, she came up on his left to see his finished work. Of course, it was bold and striking, but his artistic ability seemed to dive into a deeper level of detail. His strokes, his shading, his effort – everything looked intensified with a sense of emotional influence. Maybe it was because this would be one of the only times that she would let him draw her by her will. Or maybe it was because she was finally his – his love, his mate, his wife… even if it was the other way around.

“What do you think?” questioned Xavier while looking from his drawing to her face, searching for a responsive look.

The other’s mocha orbs reviewed the page with an observing gleam. “It’s not bad.”

Thorpe smirked. “But it could be better, huh?” As she looked at him, he sat back. “Everything could be better when it comes to you.”

Giving him an unamused huff, she glanced back at the portrait and leaned forward to show her efforts of seeing his talent. This time she complimented him with phrasing containing a little more positivity. “It’s a very impressive drawing.”

“I think I’ve gotten better at drawing you.”

“You should have,” Wednesday pressed. “Considering your countless sketches of me, I assume you would have me memorized by now.” She glared at him. “It’s a wonder why you were so adamant to have me take time out of my day to do nothing but serve as a reference.”

“Well, I guess that just proves that I can’t get enough of you,” the artist played. Pushing himself up from his desk, he pulled her into him, wrapping his arms around her waist. “Did you ever assume that?”

But this did not phase her as her dark eyes locked to his light ones. “Actually, I did. I just thought you were a little more creative than that.”

Pearlized teeth were sided with raised eyebrows. “Creative?” He then leaned close to her ear with a beckoning voice saying, “I can do that,” prior to pecking her cheekbone and then magenta lips as she turned her head his way.

When they broke, the raven challenged him. “Show me.”

Joining once more in a mutual kiss, things escalated. With his wife moving in time with him, Xavier hoisted her up to have her legs secure around his hips and carried her over to the guest room’s bed. He felt her slender fingers get a feel around his neck and in his hair as he eased her onto the mattress, now granting his own hands more freedom to roam about her petite yet heavenly body.

They kept each other occupied with passionate kisses and occasional, soft moans for several more moments before the heat between them manifested into a burning flame. Thorpe’s shirt was stripped of him and thrown to the floor. Addams’ skirt had been pushed up to reveal black-lace undergarments. Her inner thighs were nudged apart by his knees in time with her handle on him traveling down to massage the contracting muscles of his bare back. Black nails pricked the smooth skin, tracing steady lines before she broke from his lips to catch her breath.

Meanwhile, the other psychic turned his head to plant sucking kisses along her jawline and down her neck. Her luring scent drove him wild, giving way for him to tease her with subtle nibbles here and there which had him smirking in between when he hit a sensitive spot every now and then. Rewarding her gentle cringes with a nuzzle, his roaming hands moved to undo her tie.

Another nip to her neck broke Wednesday’s barrier. “Xavier,” she moaned with a hitch in her voice thanks to her sensitivity.

He only spoke between pecks while freeing the cloth. “What?” Then, he met her gaze. She was calm, which he did not expect judging by her call out to him. “I didn’t think you were the needy type. Guess I assumed wrong.” Holding the tie in his mouth, he took her wrists up and above her head. He transferred his hold to one hand while the other pulled the accessory from his teeth. “You ready?”

Her tempting lips curled slightly at the corners, eyes flashing with an intrigued spark. “Now, this is getting interesting.” After her wrists became locked together by the bind, she was seduced by physical touches – with one hand gliding down her raised arm to hold her tricep, the other slipped down further to press against the side of her chest. Xavier lowered his face closer to hers once more and spoke with a husky whisper.

“We’re just getting started.” He then subtly nuzzled her nose with his, “Can you handle that, Mrs. Addams-Thorpe?”

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rouge-reverie · 4 months

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+*:ꔫ:*About A Dowry of Blood...*:ꔫ:*+ﾟ

Hello!! I read a Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson some time last year... I finished reading it as of the 9th of March, 2023--and the book hasn't left my mind... though I can't say it's in a necessarily positive way,, ★★☆☆☆ - 2/5 Stars

268 Pages

Warning for spoilers under the cut...! Please remember to be nice, as this is just my opinion and is in no way a reflection of anyone or anything,, :>

A Dowry of Blood is [or was]... a very conflicting and interesting read to me. It's so well-loved from many reviews and commentaries that I was... sorely disappointed with this read.

I'm not usually one to enjoy writing my own spiteful reviews, but with something leaving this sort of taste in my mouth, I feel it's better to drop my ideas somewhere and see where it takes me. I am not a published author, nor will I ever be.

The prose is gorgeous,,, to a fault. There comes a point when I'm reading that I realize the ebb and flow of words are becoming—simply put—redundant. And I notice, the more I read, that the prose is making up for something, with its five-dollar words that aren't used to the fullest narrative potential—and budding but not yet flowering flow.

The prose is used to cover for a lack of plot and research. Backgrounds seem to be painted on cracking plywood, still wet and ready to smear, only to be propped up unfinished, as if made for a school play.

That is to say, the writing doesn't exactly take me anywhere when I read. I don't feel the ground, or smell the food in the air, just as if I watched a play with poorly done backdrops,,,

As poetic as the prose may seem, when the time comes, 268 pages of the same kind of lines and slow drag will leave most people bored or unsatisfied. I found myself in the same position, dreading reading or even finishing A Dowry of Blood. Phrases and symbols would be miles longer than necessary, and dusted over, or properly ignored, important moments of their lives and what the characters had done as payoff.

The lack of research shows when someone with prior knowledge of Dracula and its origins reads this book. I had barely remembered this was supposed to be a story about Dracula and his spouses—the man himself was never mentioned by name and no references to the story of Dracula were ever brought up outside of about one singular paragraph.

The other two spouses, Magdalena and Alexi, should be full of culture, rich traditions, and unique movements—but they're not. No one is. Characters are flat, giving the feel of blank and square printer paper. I never saw any depth or reason to enjoy the characters or their relationships.

Constanta's actions were as questionable as the rest. Her lack of communication in her relationship paved the way for this story, but left a bitter taste in my mouth. Her actions were contradictory to her writings, and I could never properly connect with her. She felt fake and easy to poke holes in.

Dracula, never once fully named, was blank as well. I could see how this poses a literary narrative—one where Constanta never got to truly see who Dracula was—but leaving him so,,, baseless was also his downfall. I couldn't see a reason to root for or against him.

Alexi felt pushed, naive, and only so young, and it's difficult for me to find words to describe him other than this pushed—and almost stereotypical—character that someone has carelessly shaped him into. The author frequently mentioned his young age, but it never played a role in any conflicts. He felt like a fetish, something to only be looked at and enjoyed, and never got the treatment other characters would get, with him carelessly tossed in at the end.

Magdalena is also a character I can barely describe. I can't go much far past that statement, as she truly seemed to be filler, along with Alexi.

The romance never felt... there. With Constanta and Magdalena consistently calling themselves "sisters" as they would give their bodies to each other, and even Dracula calling his spouses "Children", it gave me no reason to see anyone truly being in love with each other. The advertising describes a rich polyamorous relationship, but I don't feel like that was ever truly shown. It felt more like watching affairs or some poor attempt at what one would think is polyamory.

A story that proudly boasts about its seductive and gothic themes, with violence and broken promises--proceeds to flinch away from these very themes, leaving me with a forgetful and overall unenjoyable experience. Revelations felt tired and all the same... and its exploration of abuse and its patterns was too simple and never fully explained.

A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson is not a story I intend to reread. Its prose grows old and tired and gives way to a slow and uneventful read. This book took me over a month to finish, when I can usually finish a book of equal or bigger length in only a few days.

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nickel-55 · 10 months

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So my spouse has been watching the ultimate fighter show, and I sometimes watch too because reality tv is reality tv. But it struck me that if you're an artist and you need references for really intimate or passionate embraces between two men or two women that if you pause an mma fight at the right spot you would have a great reference to draw from. There's multiple weight classes (fewer for the women's league) all sorts of body types and they typically wear skin tight outfits (shorts for the men, shorts and sports bras/tanks for the women).... half the time during the fights, I'm like that embrace against the cage would be a really nice pose for some fanart of my blorbos, but I have no artistic skill

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reidsaurora · 2 years

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"Interrupted" ~ A. Hotchner (slightly NSFW?)

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Summary: Y/N and Hotch are forced to work on their six month wedding anniversary. Despite being on the job, they're determined to spend some alone time together. Though, it seems as though someone has it out for them, seeing as every time they're alone, someone finds a way to interrupt them.

Pairing: Aaron Hotchner x Fem!BAU!Reader

Word Count: 1,664

Content Warning: mentions of rapists (related to the case), mentions of shooting (as a joke), sexual references/humor, very mild swearing

Genre: kinda Fluff? it's kinda like one of my other imagines, "Over or Under?" it's more comedic than anything lol

Extra Notes: Y/F/I = your first initial

Based on the Prompt: "What are you doing?" "Striking a sexy pose." "Well, sit down before you pull something."

Originally Written: 01/06/2022

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The perks of marrying a co-worker? You're with your spouse 24/7, you travel together, and you get to experience all the same experiences together.

The only downside? You pretty much have to keep your relationship under wraps in the workplace, or else HR gets involved.

It wasn't like the other agents didn't know Hotch and I were married. We'd been married for six months and Garcia had even been one of my bridesmaids. But company policy stated that, in the instance where you worked with your significant other, you kept your relationship to yourself.

Today was no different than any other work day. We were wheels up, headed to San Francisco to work on a case involving a serial rapist who left his victims to die from the elements.

I sat down between JJ and Garcia, the latter seeming rather excited for her flight. It had been a while since Garcia had been on a case with us in person, so she was very eager to come with us.

"Hiya, sugar," Penelope smiled as I sat down.

"How goes things in Casa de Hotchner?" JJ asked jokingly.

I playfully rolled my eyes before answering, "You know I'm not supposed to talk about that at work."

"Oh, come on. What's HR gonna do? Shoot down the plane?" JJ chuckled.

"Things are going great. We've officially moved in together as of last week and we've really been enjoying ourselves."

Having a lease on my apartment was the worst decision I'd ever made, because I couldn't technically move all my things out until it was up. Hence why it took me nearly six months to be "officially" moved in with Hotch, even though we'd been living at his house for the entirety of our marriage.

"Alright, everyone, these are your sleeping arrangements and who you'll be sharing a room with. Agents Jareau and Greenaway, Agents Y/F/I Hotchner and Garcia, Agents A. Hotchner and Morgan, and Agents Reid and Gideon," Hotch informed everyone.

"But -"

"I know, Y/N, but that's the arrangements I was given," Hotch said, sounding defeated.

"Who cares?" Gideon asked. "You're a married couple. You work together. You deserve to share a room together."

"Yeah, but then who would Garcia and Morgan stay with?" I questioned.

"Stick 'em in a room with each other. They're basically a married couple," Gideon answered.

And with that, we all went back to our respective conversations, waiting eagerly for the plane to land.

I couldn't lie, I was very excited for that night, seeing as it was mine and Aaron's six month wedding anniversary. Even if we were on a case, I knew he'd have something special planned, and I couldn't wait to find out what it was.

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"I can't believe we have to spend our six month anniversary on a case," I pouted, flopping down on the hotel bed.

"At least we get to be together," he said, attempting to look at the bright side of things.

"I suppose that's true."

"And at least we get to share a room together and not be separated like the last few trips."

I let out a small chuckle. "I admire your optimism."

I sat up and looked up at him, a content smile on my face. I took in all his features, examining just about every detail I could. He was wearing a new suit that somehow made him even more attractive than he already was. He had a small amount of stubble on his face, which I'd been teasing him about, but in reality, I loved the way it looked.

"What are you doing?" he asked, standing in between my legs and playing with the bottom of my shirt.

"Just admiring my favorite piece of artwork."

"Hmm, is that so?" he chuckled.

"Mhm."

And with that, he leaned over and kissed me. The first kiss lasted for quite a few seconds before he pulled away. He began peppering short, sweet kisses all over my jaw, cheeks, and neck, which always indicated he was feeling needy.

I smirked as I pulled away, attempting to leave him.

"Where are you going?" Hotch asked, grabbing me by the arm and pulling me in for another kiss.

"Mmm, to take a shower," I mumbled against his lips.

"You need any help?" he asked, his voice laced with a chuckle.

"Maybe."

"OK, well, you go get the water started and I will be right there. I just need to do something first."

And with that, I headed off to the bathroom to start the shower. I placed my hand under the showerhead, waiting for the water to warm up. Once it warmed up, I called, "Aaron!"

No response. That's weird.

"Aaron!" I called again.

Still no response.

I headed out of the bedroom to see what was keeping him. "Aar-"

I was stopped by the sight of him. He was leaning against the wall, one hand rested under his chin and the other on his hip, almost as if he was trying to mimic a stereotypical "sexy" pose.

"What are you doing?" I asked, followed by a quiet snicker.

"Striking a sexy pose," he answered with a smoulder on his face.

"Well, sit down before you pull a muscle or something," I laughed.

He had an offended look on his face before replying, "Oh, just you wait until I get done with you."

"Oh, yeah?"

He chuckled as he walked over to me with a sort of devious look on his face. "When I get done with you, every muscle in your body is gonna be pulled."

"Ooh, I'm so intimidated, old man."

"Big mistake," he smirked, backing me up into the bathroom.

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Once we got out of the shower, Hotch's phone immediately started ringing.

Aaron rolled his eyes and walked over to the phone before picking it up. "Hotchner. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, we'll be right over."

"Who was that?" I asked, walking out of the bathroom as I dried my hair with a towel. I admired my view for a second. He looked hot with a towel wrapped around his waist.

"Gideon. They need me at the police station to help give a profile," he answered as he threw on a pair of underwear.

"Are you kidding me?" I grumbled. Sometimes I hated this job.

"I know," he sympathized, walking over and kissing my forehead.

"Well, just you wait," I warned him, "I fully plan on using you as my own personal jungle gym later on tonight."

"Ooh, look who's intimidating now," he grinned, leaning in for another kiss.

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A little while had passed and everyone had decided to take a break from the case to get dinner. Hotch and I had decided to go down to the hotel restaurant for dinner, since it was a fancier restaurant.

"You look absolutely stunning tonight, darling," he told me.

"You should see yourself," I replied.

"You know, that dress looks absolutely gorgeous on you."

I blushed in response. It didn't matter how long I'd been with Hotch, there were just certain things he'd say that always got to me.

"Although, I think I know a place it would look better," he commented, followed by him taking a bite of his steak.

"Oh, yeah? And where's that?"

"On the floor of my hotel room," he answered.

"Your hotel room?" I asked.

"Mhm. You should stop by later."

"I'll think about it," I giggled.

Just then, we were interrupted by the sound of his phone ringing once again. It seemed as though every time Hotch and I had a moment to ourselves that day, someone just had to call and interrupt. I was beginning to wonder if one of the team members was watching us or following us around.

"Hotchner. OK, we'll be there in a few minutes," Hotch said, hanging up the phone and placing it in the pocket of his suit jacket.

"What now?" I asked.

"That was Reid. They've found another body, but they're unsure if it's linked to the other murders. They need us at the crime scene."

"You're kidding, right?"

"Look, I wanna be with you every bit as much as you do me, but this is our job," he told me. "Waiter, check, please," he said as he flagged down our waiter.

I huffed slightly, knowing he was right. "Maybe someday we'll get to have a few minutes to ourselves," I thought to myself sarcastically.

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Our lips were smashed together, my hands were in his hair, and he was hovering over me. I guess you could say we finally had a few moments to ourselves.

That was… until his phone started to ring again.

"OK, I'm gonna kill whoever that is," I groaned in annoyance, grabbing Hotch's phone from the nightstand. "Hello?"

"Y/N? Why are you answering Hotch's phone?" Reid asked on the other end of the line.

"Hotch is a little busy right now. What do you need?"

"I think I found a possible link between the last two murders," he answered. "I think the killer's M.O. changed because -"

"Did you say 'possible', as in not for certain?" I asked.

"Yeah, but I'm fairly positive -"

"So, you're not a hundred percent sure?"

"No, but -"

"Then can you call back later?" I requested.

"Y/N-"

"Reid, Hotch and I have been trying to get a moment's peace with each other all day. Every time we turn around, that damn phone is ringing and someone needs us. So, unless you're a thousand percent sure that you've found a link, please leave us alone."

"Y/N, I really need to speak w-"

"Reid, I just wanna have sex with my husband in peace!"

Hotch's hand flew up to face, pinching the bridge of his nose. I couldn't tell if he was disappointed or embarrassed.

"Uh, I'll call back later then," Spencer said before hanging up the phone.

"That's what I thought," I snickered quietly, placing the cell phone back on the nightstand. "Now, where were we?"

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pixelnrd · 2 years

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Between just deciding to give up on writing Jewish people because of one failed research attempt and blatantly disrespecting Alex by refusing to change his post to reflect his faith, it's clear your support of jewish people is purely performative and you don't actually care.

To be entirely honest, I wasn't sure if I wanted to respond to this at all. However, after talking it through with some friends, I've decided to respond to you publicly and address your points because if you are going to throw accusations at me then I would like the opportunity to explain and defend my actions.

I never intended to give off any impression that I had "given up" on writing Jewish characters. What I have tried to explain in the past is that I will not be exploring aspects of any religious practice in my Decades Challenge, and as such it should not be inferred nor expected. I have not mentioned any other religions in this story aside from referring to Christmas in a non-religious context. However, I understand that Judaism is both a religion and an ethnic group. These two aspects of representation of a group vs representation of religion are difficult to disentangle, and though my intentions were to focus on the former form of representation I have clearly failed to do this appropriately. I have been humbled by the messages I have received from people who have not felt my representation was culturally sensitive enough and removed material that could cause offense, and in order to avoid further harm by misrepresenting a group that I am not a part of I clarified my approach going forward after the responses I received for the Christmas/Hannukah mash-up pose.

In the aftermath of all this I did recognize that I had more to learn, and that the story of a Jewish-English family immigrating to America was not one that I, as a gentile Australian, had the right to tell. Because of that, I chose to leave that type of story to the incredible Jewish simmers on this site. Alex was and still is a Jewish sim, however his children grew up in a multi-faith home, as seen during their Hannukah/Christmas celebrations. And as I've said previously, the aspect of overt religious practice or observance is not something I have any intention of expressing in my sims gameplay, regardless of the denomination.

When I wrote Alex's memorial post, I said "rest in peace" because it is a phrase that is used areligiously--while it got its roots from the Latin "requiescat in pace," within the modern context "rest in peace" is used across and outside of religions. I know Christians, Muslims, Jewish people, agnostics, and atheists who use "rest in peace" for anyone that has died. I have never meant and will never mean for it to be seen in a religious context throughout the challenge.

If you think I have not done my research, after I received the first anon message regarding the phrase I researched honorifics for the dead in Judaism to better understand why this was a point of mention. I learned that although it is not commonly used, the term is still consistent with Jewish practice, as exemplified here: https://reformjudaism.org/learning/answers-jewish-questions/what-jewish-expression-refer-someone-who-has-died. I also learned through other research that the phrase has been used on Jewish headstones as early as the 600s.

Because of this, I decided to keep the phrase as I thought it consistent with Alex, Maggie, and their family, and fitting in with my previous stance of leaving the format of the post because - as I already explained - it is a template that I have used consistently throughout my Decades Challenge when memorializing the heirs and their spouses.

I am sorry that my decision ended up hurting you, and anyone else who felt uncomfortable with this. Moving forward, I will try to be more mindful of what I say. If you wanted a story that focused on Jewish sims primarily and their experience of being Jewish, I am unfortunately not the person best equipped for that and have never held myself out to be. But if you would like to follow fantastic Jewish simmers to see more Jewish-focused content, I would recommend simmers such as @jewishsimming.

With all of this said, I am also incredibly hurt by what feels like a bad faith accusation. I am human, as are you. I am sorry that you were upset and in the state of mind that makes something like this message seem okay to send, but sending someone cruel words like these is never okay. I wanted to approach your message in good faith, by making my feelings clear, however you have not granted me the same liberty, and that makes me more wary of engaging you in the future. If you are genuine in your feelings and did not intend to insult me, then good. But as it stands, it felt more like you were trying to use a mistake made in earnest as justification to send me rude messages while hiding behind anon.

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not-a-perfect-metaphor · 3 years

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Things husbands do-

(part 1)

1. Frequently combine themselves into one person when speaking.

Jared: “When I say ‘me,’ I mean ‘us.’”

2. Refer to their spouse’s parents as ‘mom’ and ‘dad.’

Jared: “Shhh, my mom is talking.”

Jensen: “Thank you, mom, nice of you to come!”

(UMMM and Jared calling Jensen’s dad ‘papa Ackles’ 🥰)

3. Frequently wake up and turn in at the same time.

(because...duh...they’re sharing a bed 😊, at least as often as possible in Jared and Jensen’s case)

Jared: “We stayed up until midnight.”

Jensen: “Yeah, because we’re awesome.”

Jared: “We’re going to sleep.”

4. Do not social distance from each other during pandemics.

Or, for Jared and Jensen, sort of pretend to, but then forget very frequently that they’re pretending to...

And also say things like this-

Mike: “You and Jared can’t make out.”

Jensen: “No, no, no. We’re hanging out hat on that. That’s happening regardless. Corona or no corona, we’re making out.”

5. Share each other’s food and drinks.

6. Pose in photos together like THIS.

Excuse me, sirs, but that is some major husbanding...

#j2 tinhat #husbands husbanding #so much husbanding #husbanding around all over the place

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book-o-scams · 3 years

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Ed, Edd n Eddy Series Bible (1996) -Analysis-

You can all finally read/download Ed, Edd n Eddy's official Series Bible right here! Thanks again to Chuckletons for sharing this with me and to Joey/Kongiscool0518 for sharing it in the first place, the Holy Grail of lost Ed, Edd n Eddy trivia!

One of the first posts I made for this blog was the Series Bible page. It was a composite of every source we had ever seen reference the series bible so far-- storyboarders in interviews, CN's old character guides, and the biggest source, an old CN UK posting about the show. Well, I figure now that we have the official source, I better update the old page (so everyone knows it's out of date), and make this new Series Bible post using the official source! Not much new information, but I was intrigued to finally learn the true phrasings of some things we had only heard paraphrased, as well as at least one detail from the movie that I couldn't believe came up this early in conception...

Unfortunately, Tumblr has apparently updated its post system to only let me add 10 images? Gonna try and only use images for what I need since you can read the actual document above, I guess I'll transcribe it too for easier reference and so we don't ever lose some archive of this.

Quickly, let's review what a series bible is:

A series bible is how creators pitch shows to networks. They can be called “pitch bibles” as well. Bibles do not usually get posted publicly, because they are initially under a strict Non-Disclosure Agreement by the network; also the creator may simply not wish to share it because it reflects the earliest stages of development.

The pitch materials typically include early concepts for characters, locations and episodes. Sometimes it exposes secrets, in this case, Ed and Eddy’s home lives, and sometimes the stuff in it is completely abandoned because it’s so early in production, in this case, casual references to school and adults.

Alright, everybody, it's time to gather 'round and read the Ed, Edd n Eddy Bible!

THE YEAR IS 1996.

YOUR NAME IS LINDA SIMENSKY. YOU WORK AT CARTOON NETWORK. A FRIEND OF YOURS, DANNY ANTONUCCI, IS WRAPPING UP A SHOW ON MTV. YOU GET THIS FAX.

Linda Simensky immediately fell in love with this concept because as a child, she was best friends with 2 other Lindas for seemingly no reason other than the shared name.

I love how Danny decided last second to pencil in the correct names over each Ed, since they're arranged out of title-order.

"They're friends because they have the same name."

-the Logline for the series.

Fun fact: one storyboard artist for the movie observed that the movie is essentially all about challenging the series' original notion that the Eds are friends ONLY because of their name.

"A Danny Antonucci Cartuna"

-the label Danny used to use under announcements of new productions.

PAGE 1:

Ed, Edd n Eddy

They're best friends because they have the same name.

A gag laden, beat generated CARTOON bumper car ride of 3 misfit youths on a cul-de-sac in the suburbs of America.

Through summer vacation, part-time jobs, or just hang'n out at the corner mail box, they want to belong....but CAN'T.

From home chores, helping neighbors or eating jaw breakers, they want to fit in...but CAN'T.

Ed is into "B" monster movies, model kits and is quick to break out into rashes.

Lots of luck...

Edd is into chemistry, biology and prone to crushes.

Later...

Eddy is into pranks, is stylish and flaunts himself to the world.

Ya Right...

Ed, Edd n Eddy is a show about confusion and contradiction, that awkward part of youth, pimples, big feet, oily hair and... girls???.

Puberty is unforgiving.

I was fascinated by the lack of art on this page, it makes the pitch feel very focused. AKA logo in the corner, the title logo again up top, then the logline appears again below.

I really love the breakdown of Danny's vision of the show. "Gag-laden, beat-generated, CARTOON bumper ride." Very accurate, and I think "beat-generated" is the phrase that interests me the most. I typically think of "animation beats" as sort of a give-in-- technically all things fit a rhythm, so all stories are essentially just a montage of beats. But this does make me realize how important the strength of the beats and their rhythm are to the pacing of a cartoon and making you feel like "that was a good one." I feel like the "seasonal rot" viewers feel over the course of a show, and the way that perception differs from person to person, depends on the type of beats you want. Even though I am very into the experimental beats of a show in its later seasons, I can definitely see how season 1's beats are more typically appealing to a wide-audience, and how important a focus on that is to the longevity of a show.

I found it really interesting how the scams are initially conceived of here as "summer jobs." It adds to the sense that adults were originally meant to be present. Honestly a little surprised nobody with access to this bible had ever thought to mention that-- scams are not referenced ANYWHERE. Their image in the Series Bible is that they have summer jobs and help neighbors, which is certainly a much cleaner reputation than the Eds ended up with in the show. Makes me realize though, were some of the early scams, like Ed's Hive Bee Gone and their newspaper routes, supposed to be leaning into this early idea of them with almost legit jobs for unseen adults?

I was very amused by the repeated phrase that the Eds simply CAN'T fit in.

Loved to finally see the official phrasing for the confirmation that Peach Creek is in America. Not much different than I was led to believe, but still nice to have the true quote.

Also love Eddy being described as "stylish and flaunting himself to the world." The bold-print reactions to each micro-description is a cute idea too, I truly wonder who we were meant to picture saying those things in reaction. Each Ed? Kevin?

The "corner mail box" is an oddly specific phrase-- the Eds do hang around mailboxes throughout the series, especially seasons 1-3, and I believe the canon map does have a corner mailbox, but the idea that the Eds hang out at one specific mailbox went the way of Bro's supposed secret treehouses.

PAGE 2:

Ed, Edd n Eddy

Show Description

Gag laden. True cartoon style, inventive, non parody, fast paced, stretch and squash

Beat driven. (even when characters stop they hold with a bounce cycle. Adults never bounce. Music can play important part, not just fill.) But not a musical.

Cartoon surrealism. (viewers see the show as Ed, Edd n Eddy would, less important things tend to blend into the background, while objects of Ed, Edd n Eddy's desires are focused. Premise driven.)

The school year's over, (yeah!!!!) and the long HOT summer vacation begins (gulp). What to do?

Stuck on a cul-de-sac in the suburbs of America is the last place you want to spend summer break, especially when you find life confusing and contradicting.

Ed, Edd n Eddy is about friendship, and serves to remind us that they're no "good ole days," just smelly runners.

You can tackle anything, when your with your pals.

Their days are spent, for knowledge, acceptance and some cash for jaw breakers. Armed with pimples, big feet and oily hair the three amigos trek into the unknown.

Ed, Edd n Eddy are dying to be grown-ups, but they're kids, and attack adulthood as only kids would. Simple situations turn into a manic rollercoaster ride. (Don't forget your barf bag).

They just want to belong, and they're willing to pull off any insane stunt to prove it. First they need to figure out what it is they want to belong to.

Found it interesting that on this page, the show's logo is replaced with the title written in a jumbled font. Seems like the font from the show's end credits.

Hehe, the continued reactions to the descriptions. Allow me to be Double D for a moment and point out the increased use of parentheticals on this page, as well as one wrong "your".

I love Danny's insight that season 1 is framed by the context of how hyped everyone still is just to be out of school, but also the sense of pressure to make use of their break.

I really appreciate Danny getting further into the details of his summary of the show's style on the previous page. It only makes sense that he had this much of a vision that early.

A second confirmation of the cul-de-sac being in America! I'm also really into the repeated focus on the Eds finding the world "contradicting." I always loved how EEnE's inexplicable cartoon antics supported that sense that the Eds are highly aware of contradictions in both societal things and the actual characters.

WOW, so I'm fascinated by this dual reveal. Before the wiggling outlines, which Danny usually calls a "boiling line" and describes as a tribute to wiggling inking in early animation, the series bible instead refers to him wanting the characters to do the iconic Fleischer "bounce," which is a much more commonly recognized rubberhose animation technique. Very interesting that Danny decided not to stick to that. Did it feel too out of place? Or was the overseas team not willing to animate a weight-shifting for every single held pose? Haha, guess I can see why boiling was an easier compromise. I wonder if he had any other ideas for how to make it more of a 1930s cartoon.

The other reveal to me here is that the movie's choice, that adults don't always wiggle in the show, was an idea from the very beginning! I guess I can better understand now why it's just too difficult to communicate a stylistic choice like that overseas-- no point making Bro not wiggle, that'd just create confusion.

Also, really disappointed that my wish for a musical is officially squashed in the series bible itself. That's a tragedy. The show's over, ya couldn't let me dream, Danny!? Conversely, I love Danny's forethought to say "non parody," I definitely noticed and appreciated EEnE's avoidance of derivative parody humor.

My spouse had to point out to me that Danny probably means sneakers here, lol. Canadianisms!

The comments about the Eds wanting to grow up but needing to figure out what they want to belong to are so great and relate to the movie so well. I've heard those comments before, but the correct phrasing was cool to see.

PAGE 3:

Ed, Edd n Eddy (image of Ed in right corner)

Character Description

Attention deficiency syndrome.

He has trouble...

He can't....um...

OK, he draws all day in class.

When Eddy gets a bright idea...Ed's in.

Ed is easily talked into doing Eddy's "hard work". He has great physical strength.

Ed's happiest with his Model kits and B-monster movies. He draws his knowledge from his movies.

Ed smells. Flies are attracted to him.

Ed has sayings for all situations

ED: "you can change your shirt, and Bingo was his name..."

Ed's perpetually a slave to his younger sister's whims and whines.

Ed may have to baby-sit his sister, or let her watch whatever she wants on TV, or let her dress him up in mom's clothes.

Ed breaks out in Rashes. He's allergic to practically everything, especially Guinea Pigs.

Ed's Mom xerox's his sketches and doodles for her therapist.

Ed's Dad hopes to pass on to his son, his knowledge on "pre-owned" auto sales.

Very cute bit wasting the space at the top of the page. Danny seems very invested in Ed's personality already. The old sources we used to have definitely tried to condense these down to simpler blurbs.

Weird how Danny wants to essentially diagnose Ed with ADHD here (phrasing it very poorly, but it was the 90s and... Canada?). I don't know enough on the subject to debate it, but I still gotta point out Ed's canonical cracked skull!

Interested in the comment about Ed being most allergic to Guinea Pigs. I don't think that animal was ever even mentioned in the show. Eddy mentioned an old gerbil once....

Neat to finally have the real phrasing of the official word on Ed's parents! I saw someone comment earlier that this seems to be hinting Ed's Dad is selling stolen cars. I've never thought to question the legality of his apparent second-hand-car dealership (I imagined he works with Eddy's dad, who has received a legitimate award for his salesmanship), but those quotation marks are certainly making Mr. Ed's practices questionable! Best case scenario, Danny meant that more like italics or something, but maybe Ed's dad IS up to no good...

PAGES 4 & 5 (Ed's turn sheet and expression sheet)

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Ed, Edd n Eddy (image of Edd in right corner)

Character Description

Edd

is really smart.

is really quiet.

Edd is unnaturally-- polite.

Edd hasn't been allowed to take gym ever since the Dodge ball incident. He's been excused to free study time in the library.

Edd doesn't like it when people touch his things.

EDD: "You may enter in my room, but don't touch my Lego robot. Thank you."

Edd's learning to play Peddle steel guitar. (his Mom makes him)

Edd's prone to "crushes". Girls in School, in his neighborhood, TV, anatomy books. He mails "true loves" his socks.

Edd is always ready for action, even though he can calculate the implications.

Edd constantly mumbles.

No one ever sees Edd's parents. They both work nights. They communicate to their son solely through Post-it notes. Edd's not allowed to touch anything in the house while they're gone. Anything.

Interesting how Danny slightly differentiates the barely-used space at the top here from Ed's description, to characterize Edd as more quiet and mumbly, adding an awkward "--" mid-sentence, perhaps to create the impression that Edd halts to choose words carefully.

Everything on this page feels familiar, from the character guides and other old sources. The most interesting thing to me here is that Edd's Mom forcing him to practice Pedal Steel Guitar is established this early, don't think I knew that, but I had noticed that it existed in his room from ep 1.

I love how the explanation in the beginning for why Edd goes along with their dumb schemes even though he's smart is basically just "he's always ready for action." ?!? I guess in a way???

That weirdly phrased Edd quote amuses me because it references Lego, just like the original concept background for his room before somebody nixed the copyright-namedrop.

Edd's prone to crushes thing has been reaffirmed over and over in character bios even though it really doesn't come up outside of the cupid magic in HPH and the pilot-episode heart eyes at Sarah that are barely canon. Still, I've always loved the truly disturbing statement that he mails "his true loves his socks" and how that managed to make it into canon with a comic book example, a cel animation example and a digital era example.

PAGES 7 & 8 (Edd's turn sheet and expression sheet)

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Ed, Edd n Eddy (image of Eddy in right corner)

Character Description

Eddy

Exhibitionist.

Megalomaniac. (quote from his report card)

Eddy is the unofficial leader of the trio.

He's always got a plan, a stunt or a weird noise.

Eddy's the "class clown". He loves showing off. He loves being the centre of attention-- no matter how stupid the reason is.

Eddy is the only kid in his grade to have been expelled for aw hole week from school. It was his turn to set up the video for science class. He switched "Our Friend Yeast", for a video he "borrowed" from his parent's room.

Before Eddy's brother went....away, he enlightened Eddy with the "legends" of the neighbourhood. Eddy knows where all the abandoned tree houses are, which sewer pipers are safe to spelunk, and the secret recipe for the "El Mongo Stink Bomb" (it's been in the family for years).

He is the one who is most able to pretend that he knows it all... and doesn't care what anyone else thinks about him.

His genes are working the fastest.

Eddy's Dad is constantly concerned that Eddy may grow up to be a ...figure skater.

Eddy's Mom never believes his little darling was involved in such a heinous act.

Funny choice that Eddy's wasted-top-space is just two one-word descriptions, and allegedly lazily swiped from his negative report card.

Wow, we knew the report card quote and the "Our Friend Yeast" story from the UK show guide, but now we also know Ed's page says that Ed draws in class, and now I realize that Ed and Eddy have series bible school blurbs to match Edd's classic dodgeball incident blurb. Anyway, it's great that Eddy's showed his entire school some sort of sex video his parents have.

Very interested that the phrasing for the Bro/El Mongo Stink Bomb blurb even seems to suggest it's a family recipe. Eddy's Dad did have prankster stuff in his closet in JJJ... did Bro learn his prankster ways from Dad?? The neighborhood's secret tree houses have come up in other descriptions (at best, I'd say this could be related to that creepy shack the Eds found in the woods), but I think it's new info that Eddy personally learned the sewer routes from Bro. Interesting...

Thankfully, I had already heard about the Bible's awkward reference to Eddy being the most pubescent as "his genes are working the fastest," lmao.

Once again the Double D in me comes out to point out that the description of Eddy's Mom seems to switch to the Dad's pronouns.

PAGES 10 & 11 (Eddy's turn sheet and expression sheet)

PAGES 12-14 (Sarah, Jimmy, Rolf, Jonny, Nazz, and Kevin lineup of all 6, then 2 zoomed in lineups of the first 3 kids and last 3 kids)

(Funfact: the kids' designs were allegedly freelanced to an outside studio, hence why their refined later-season designs are so different from these lizardy starting places, lmao)

PAGE 15: (images of Sarah and Jimmy next to their blurbs)

SARAH

Ed's baby Sister.

It's her way or the Highway.

She has everything done for her, if NOT she'll "make" them do it.

She can be quick to judge.

Whinney.

A tatrum for every occasion.

More than a handful for Ed...or Edd and Eddy.

Thinks Edd is kinda cute.

Wants Eddy to MOVE...to another planet.

JIMMY

Sarah's best friend

He is always playing with girls, boys are just too tough.

He is accident prone, when ever we see him he has a different affliction, ie: band-aids, patches, casts, lumps...etc.

He is very clean.

The Ed's frighten him, "They're such brutes".

I'm surprised how much of the UK guide was accurate to what was really in the bible for them! Also surprised Danny misspelled "whiney" and "tantrum," one right after the other. Is this how Sarah spells them? ...Sorry, Danny, I yam what I yam.

PAGE 16: (images of Rolf and Jonny next to their blurbs)

ROLF

First generation of a landed immigrant family.

Nationality not important.

He's proud of his heritage.

He has peculiar traditions and/or customs.

He eats "weird" things.

He has hair on his back..... "yuck".

He confuses the Ed's to no end.

He confuses the other kids to no end.

JONNY 2x4

He is a wanderer and very inquisitive

From early morning to supper time, he is always outside playing, with his buddy, "Plank".

"Plank" is a wooden board that Jonny drew a face on with a crayon.

Jonny has wonderful conversations with Plank. ...Plank is a piece of wood.

Jonny makes himself very "accessible" to the Ed's.

Found it interesting that Rolf's bio is less clearly phrased than the UK bio set it up to be-- there they made it sound more like he mixes up who the Eds/kids are, here it's unclear whether it means that or (more likely) just means the obvious statement that everyone finds him confusing. If it's that, what a lame hollow bio Rolf got. This kid's based on you Danny, show some of that personal side!

Always loved Jonny's description, his life sounds so cute. Playing outside literally all day. Interesting to have it confirmed that Jonny drew Plank's face, I preferred to think the Eds drew him and sold him to Jonny, but whatever.

"Accessible" has always been an important vague description of Jonny to me. It really only applies to how chummy they could be with him in season 1, but it still sorta applies to his personality throughout the series as well.

PAGE 17: (images of Nazz and Kevin next to their blurbs)

NAZZ

She's cool, calm and assertive.

She is the most matured of the kids, or so she thinks.

She's into make-up and fashion magazines and Boys.

Sarah thinks she's awesome, wants to be just like her when she grows up.

When she enters a scene, all activity stops... boys freeze, they sweat, their hearts beat faster and faster. They lose their ability to talk. When she leaves, they recover and conclude it was something They ate.

She thinks the Ed's are funny.

KEVIN

He is cynical and sarcastic.

He thinks he knows the "routine". That's because he watches "60 Minutes".

It got a big laugh out of me that Kevin's description is only 2 sentences long. Nazz even has a more detailed character description from inception than Kevin. Love this for them.

Who's the Eds' rival? Well, he's cynical, sarcastic and he watches 60 Minutes, doesn't that tell you enough!?

I love the "mature... or so she thinks" remark about Nazz, a grounded flaw for her to have, being a little overcommitted to being mature like Eddy. It also perhaps suggests naiveté that makes it a little more reasonable that they didn't notice they were dumbing her down at the end of the series, but I do think the movie version of her better reflects the Bible's concept.

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The Other Neighborhood Kids

Lineup of May, Lee and Marie.

The Kanker Sisters

These gals are tough. They bother, bully, provoke and bewilder everyone.

They live in a motor home park on the other side of the Cul-de-sac. The other kids have never been there.

They are proud of their Tammy Faye Baker memorabilia.

Their project "Cooking with Ketchup" closed down their school for a whole week.

No one likes them, especially the Eds.

They are determined to marry the Eds. They want them to do their dishes.

Amused that the Kankers are essentially being labeled backgrounds characters here, the role they mostly fell into in season 5. "Other" neighborhood kids...

I love that the Kankers have a school blurb to match each of the Eds', and that theirs has similar destructive-intentions to Eddy's video premiere story.

I believe all of this was all known from the UK guide as well, but still, neat stuff!

PAGES 19 & 20 (zoomed in Kanker lineup and their height chart with the Eds)

PAGES 21 & 22 (early promo art that used to be on CN's old Eds webpage, the art of the Eds eating jawbreakers at the end of ep 1 with the overhead text "Ed, Edd n Eddy love JAWBREAKERS!!!", and the art of the Eds all running with overhead text "Ed, Edd n Eddy see something shiny...."Jiggers." That weird "jiggers" statement at the end was normally edited out and I don't know what it means. Looked it up and it seems to be Chinook jargon (like when Ed said he was "skookum at X's and O's") usually said in the same sense as "CHEESE IT!")

PAGES 23+:

The rest of the pages in that bible download are from a 2004 storyboard test. The storyboard sample "It's Raining Eds," which we've seen some submitted samples of before, interpretations with Ed attempting to fly or chew gum and Edd making radioactive gum, I was surprised to find out the outline is just the original outline for the opening sequence to season 3's 'For Your Eds Only', seemingly Jonny was not written into the original outline (or was excised for easier testing purposes) but Kevin's brief cameo was. Now I wonder if they knew this would be used for a test when they wrote it, and if they would've come up with a less random way to include him if weren't forced to be a concise bit for testing's sake. (Your limit is typically 40 storyboard pages in my experience.)

I also noticed that in the included background references, the anonymous adult neighbor house next door to Ed's is officially just referred to as a "generic house."

My analysis ends here, but be sure to download that sometime and enjoy all the raw storyboard sketches at the end of the document!

#ed edd n eddy #series bible #aka cartoon inc #aka cartoon #discovery #eene news

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Can I convert Orthodox being trans?

My father is a secular Jew and my mother is a lapsed Christian. For almost the entirety of my life, I have wanted to convert Orthodox and have done everything I possibly can to observe, I taught myself how to read Hebrew, I davened regularly, I tried to keep shabbos and kashrut in a house that observes neither, I briefly joined a Hebrew elementary school before I was urged to leave for mental instability, I became a member of a local shul, I even had a non Orthodox bar mitzvah, all while knowing that in reality I am not Jewish but just zera yisrael. I don’t think I could serve Hashem and the world in any better form than Judaism, and I feel that it could be my duty to to ensure that Judaism in my family will not disappear and that the G-D loving pious men and women I am descended from did not go to Auschwitz in vain. The problem is that I intend to transition once I turn 18 and I’m scared that no Orthodox beis din would take me. What are my options? Can I swerve around the fact that I was not born female once I have the operation? That doesn’t seem right and I can’t imagine Hashem would look too favorably on me joining this way. And also while I respect reform and conservative, there are certain theological beliefs in both that don’t align wth how II perceive Judaism so I don’t want to go that route. I just cannot abandon my heritage and I simply cannot not be a girl and yet I am born in a predicament where I have to sacrifice one for the other. What can I do?

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Hi @lanasmoczynska,

Some caveats before I answer this - I did not convert orthodox, although I did work with an orthodox rabbi for a bit and seriously considered it. I still have ties to that community, that rabbi, and (pre-pandemic) would still attend services there. Ultimately, it was not possible for me to convert orthodox because my spouse was not converting with me; my non-binaryness seemed to pose less of a problem, albeit we didn’t end up having to quite reach that question. However, it is also worth noting that I would likely have ended up effectively converting as my assigned sex at birth despite my non-binaryness being respected for non-ritual purposes. Therefore, I have neither the experience of actually completing an orthodox conversion nor of trying to do so while sitting on the opposite side of the mechitza from my birth assigned sex.

Even in my community, however, while there are trans men who sit on the men’s side, dress as men, and observe halacha as men, they still do not count toward minyan and are not called up to the bimah. I am not sure if they would insist on counting a trans woman or not, as we do not have any active members who are trans women, although I suspect not. As a non-binary person, I was accommodated with being referred to using the right pronouns, allowed to choose my presentation mode, and allowed to sit in either a third space or pick the side of the mechitza that best fit my presentation, which would have been the women’s side. Unfortunately, I don’t know how conversion would work for a trans person in this community, since the trans members we have were born halachically Jewish. It is worth noting that this community is at the outer left edges of orthodoxy as far as I’m aware. Therefore, I can say that it is possible to exist as trans in this community, it may even be possible to assemble a beit din that would convert a trans person in this type of community, but there will still be ways in which it is not perfect.

All that said, my recommendation would be to reach out to Eshel and see if they can recommend an orthodox rabbi who you can work with who will respect your gender identity. I would recommend following this up by having a conversation with trans members of your prospective community if they exist. (If they don’t, you will want to consider seriously what it would mean for you to be the first one.) Regardless, it certainly won’t be an easy road, but if that is what is in your heart, all you can do is try.

Eshel’s info can be found here: https://www.eshelonline.org/transeshel/.

Additionally, I will also point out that orthodoxy does not have a monopoly on traditional halachic observance. If you cannot make orthodoxy work, the traditional egalitarian movement might be a viable alternative for you. Hadar is a good place to start looking if you are interested.

Edit: If you would like to further discuss my personal experiences around what it’s like existing in that community as trans and/or what my work with that rabbi looked like, you are more than welcome to DM me.

#jumblr #converting to judaism #jewish convert things #convert feels #orthodox #halacha #frumblr #starting conversion #submission

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All For One is the Father of Nana’s Son and Grandfather to Shigaraki

Before I get into the nitty gritty, I’d like to thank all the people who’s inboxes (and in one case dorm) I burst into to yell about this as I wrote it, and the people who proofread it (often overlapping). Your support has been greatly appreciated. This has been a theory I’ve been thinking about since chapter 235, and I’m happy to finally write it up. Based on dialogue, Star Wars, and similar physical features between the characters, I’ve come to believe that it is highly likely that All For One is the Father of Nana’s Son and Grandfather to Shigaraki.

Edit: it didn’t show up in the tags at first because of an external link for a source but that’s been fixed

Edit2: Added Part about AFO giving Shigaraki his surname!

Dialogue

The more I reread All Might’s final battle with All For One, the more one thing nags at me. Why (and how) does All For One know Nana’s full name (and also that cute smiling pose? Where did he learn about it?)? He doesn’t know the civilian name of All Might, despite saying directly to his face how much he loathes him. He also doesn’t know Gran Torino’s civilian name even though his surname is in his hero name, and Nana outright says his first name in All Might Rising.

Hell, he only barely recognizes him as “Shimura’s Friend..?”, despite him pretty much being the guy who grabbed All Might and got out of the fight. Why remember Nana Shimura’s full name and not the others?

Star Wars and Koseki/Family Records

It’s no secret that Horikoshi is a huge Star Wars fanboy. There are so many Star Wars references ranging from obscure to blatant to “the official sub and dub had to change it for copyright reasons”. Perhaps the most prominent reference to Star Wars is All For One. His life support mask and revealing of Shigaraki’s relationship to Nana is quite reminiscent of Darth Vader, no? When a Darth Vader reference appears, it is often in tandem with him. In the original trilogy, Obi-wan Kenobi tells Luke Skywalker that his father was killed by Darth Vader. We all know that’s a lie, though one could interpret it as true to a degree. With the rise of Darth Vader, Anakin Skywalker could be said to have “died”. Through Gran Torino, we learned that Nana’s husband was killed. That’s it. That’s all we know. It’s possible that Nana lied about her husband dying literally. For all we know, her husband died the day she found out he was All For One. Adding on more Star Wars references, when talking over the outline for this with my friend, they noted how Nana and All For One as a couple could potentially mirror Padme and Anakin. In both examples, the latter (on the “dark side” or moving there pretty swiftly) killed the former. In any case, how could Nana cover up her husband’s death? Same way she hid her connection to her son. In the most recent chapter (281 at the time of this writing), we learned that Nana tinkered with the family records, known as Koseki. I had a difficult time getting information on these, but from my understanding, while they were relatively easy to get access to at one point, these days only family members are able to. Good thing, because according to this site (linked through tumblr) they contain “an individual’s full name; gender; birthdate and birthplace; parental relations (names of parents, relations to them, etc.); spousal relations (name of spouse, date of marriage, date of divorce, etc.); data related to the death of an individual (date, time, place of death); name of legal custodian or legal guardian; and data related to inheritance, such as the disinheritance of a presumed heir.” The same site also says “The information recorded in each family register is based on formal declarations made by citizens to their local government (municipality) at the time of a child’s birth, marriage, etc,” and that the information given to the municipalities is “submitted on a pro forma basis -there are cases in which an individual intentionally or negligently makes a false declaration’ that is subsequently incorporated as an entry in a family register,” lining up with Nana’s comment about tinkering with the family register.

Physical Similarities Between All For One, Kotaro, Shigaraki, and the First User of One For All

This is the part that got me started on this line of thinking. Over a year ago when chapter 235 was released, I realized that this shot of Kotaro looked… startlingly familiar.

(The anime version’s a little brighter than the scan)

Their angular features and rather defined noses were very similar, an oddity for a series with such a distinct cast of characters. In fact, the only characters with very similar features are usually related to one another (Mom genes are a joke for a reason). The BNHA discord I’m in agreed with me. Around a month later, I considered the possibility that the fact I’ve been drinking Nana/AFO juice practically since I joined the fandom may have influenced my judgement. So I sent two separate panels of Kotaro and AFO to a friend of mine. She’s not interested in BNHA, and the only context I gave to the panels was that they were BNHA panels I wanted her to look over. That was it. The conversation we had is screencapped below.

If people interested in BNHA and someone uninterested in BNHA could see it, then I was onto something. Recently, I remembered her response to the panels and that launched me into full theorist mode. Exceedingly late on August 25, I spent at least thirty minutes scouring the manga for panels of Kotaro and pre-injury All For One. looking for more physical similarities. And boy, did that search deliver.

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Similarly Defined Noses

A friend even pointed out how, though it’s difficult to see with Kotaro due to a limited range of expressions, that All For One and Kotaro share a crinkle around the mouth. They’re correct.

You could even make a case that they look similarly broad shouldered as well.

This extends to Shigaraki as well, as in at least one panel in Volume 11, he’s drawn with a similarly defined nose.

All For One isn’t the only Shigaraki that Tomura Shigaraki bears resemblance too. It’s been said before that Shigaraki bears quite the resemblance to the first user of One for All, and it’s easy to see why.

Their hair is drawn in an eerily similar way. Their eyes too. Looking closely, I’m starting to think their noses look pretty similar too.

They also kind of look similar to All For One’s eyes (what’s visible of them) and nose too. While I can’t be certain, I’m willing to bet that if Horikoshi suddenly decided to draw All For One with longer hair (and show more of his face), he’d look quite similar to Shigaraki (and his younger brother) as well. People have speculated that Shigaraki is related to the first One For All user, and I agree. I believe that he’s his grand uncle, and I believe All For One is his paternal grandfather.

August 29 2020 Addition

I didn’t think to add this to the theory until after I posted so here’s the addition (which I’ll add to the main theory post later). Why did All For One give Shigaraki his surname? It could be argued that it’s a power play or something by replacing Nana’s surname with his own, but wouldn’t All For One take that opportunity to rub it in All Might’s face? Wouldn’t hearing “Oh yeah I also gave your master’s grandson a part of my name” after you found out he was her grandson from your enemy hurt like hell? You could write it off as a private middle finger but that doesn’t make much sense to me. All For One has the subtlety of a freight train when being petty. He could easily say it’s his name to anyone because he’s A) a minimum of a century old and B) known to have been born/raised during the time period when quirks were first sweeping the globe. Any records on him could have been lost/destroyed in the passing years or during the chaos. Hell, he could have destroyed them himself. It’s safe to say that there is no one alive but All For One and Shigaraki who knows the significance of the name “Shigaraki”. When the UA staff was researching Shigaraki Tomura and Kurogiri after the attack on the USJ, they concluded that both were using aliases.

While all we’re told outright is that they checked the quirk registry for the two, I’m inclined to believe that’s not all they did. Villains, for what seems to be the first time in history or awhile, attacked U.A. Highschool with murderous intent towards a teacher and his students. Said teacher also just so happens to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest hero of all time. There’s no way they’re just going to do a sweep through the quirk registry and call it a day. Yet they don’t find anything on the name “Shigaraki”. No one knows about this name, and he doesn’t say anything about it. All For One could have given any name to Shigaraki. So why his own? I don’t think it’s for one last middle finger to Nana - he’d make a huge show out of doing that to All Might. To me, I think it’s because they’re grandfather and grandson. Perhaps it was some twisted form of sentimentality? A twisted way of acknowledging a family member? It’s the only thing that makes sense.

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[𝕊𝕜𝕖𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝔻𝕦𝕞𝕡 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 2020✨] P3

Woo!!! Finally got the the last one everyone!! I've been delaying this for so long so I'm really sorry for that (´；ω；｀)

Let's get into it then!!✨✨

[TIDDIES warning because we all know Housamo characters has them 🖐️😔❤️✨]

Ok, I'm an absolute simp for Tanngrisnir and the Battle of Bells Ikebukuro Christmas Event just increased my love for him a thousandfold!! (●♡∀♡)✨✨ Truth to be told, I drew this before the night of the release of the said Event so I'm just!!!! Happy!!!!✨✨✨✨ Ded Moroz out there really be giving my early Christmas present 🖐️😔❤️✨

In this piece, I drew a cough cough towel only adorned teacher because I felt that LW did him dirty from not giving him a sauna skin variant for Mystic Christmas Event which would actually showcase his tiddies that was hidden away in his tracksuit skin variant-

I don't mind if he only had a split moment of appearance but dear GOD give him and the others (Jugo, Marchocias and others I can't remember their names but know their faces well-) SOME DESERVING SCREEN TIME AND SKIN VARIANTS ｡:ﾟ(;´∩`;)ﾟ:｡

Same reason as the previous piece!!! I just wanted to do more skin variants for my goat hubby and once I'm finished with some current works, I'll work on the sprite making for the skin variant!✨(Besides, i have a thing for my F/Os in sweaters..👉👈...they just suddenly look so ❤️❤️) I'm pretty much excited for it but we'll have to see if IRL businesses will try and kill me or not (・–・;)ゞ💦💦

Also!!!

HE!!!✨✨✨❤️❤️❤️❤️ My hubby who's obsessive with stew making (ㆁωㆁ)

I think I did Yoritomo dirty in this one considering I had an art block that time and just wanted to draw someone and why not the new characters from CHP 11? There's a full picture for this but I decided to not include it in since haha anatomy went brrrr-

This was done in the real early months in 2020 and you can tell the improvements I have now!! And yes!! This piece was the first of me drawing Tanngrisnir, there's some errors how it looks stiff and him looking like he's not really going to kick with determination so I'll try to redraw this soon and give it a more oomph to it and it'll be good! Really loved this piece and making the spinning wheels was already a pain to draw-

Not to flex but- I'll be flexing here because I don't have enough artwork of Housamo characters yet so everyone have to deal with seeing my bestie's artwork presents drawn for yours truly! ✨✨

This was from the art challenge that we did together and the pose reference was from a Chinese Romcom movie called Love At First Kiss (it's so comedic that it's frustrating-) and if I have the time, I'll try to post more of her presents she's done for me because her art is just 😤👌✨✨✨❤️❤️!!!

Here's a little progress work I'm doing right now which is my take on the Exiles and the first of it would Euryome, The Exile from Olympus!

Excuse the really messy sketch since lining the art would take time so I decided to fill out the colours first so I don't have to make my head spinning thinking about what colour to put it with- But I'm really happy how it turned out, especially the water! Which happened to be an accident but nonetheless looks pretty good! This work in progress is actually done during 2021 but you'll see why I included it in✨

THIS was the first design of Eurynome which I done in 2020, now flipping through the papers, I saw this piece (while disrespectfully looking away at the very terribly drawn Ophion which you guys can see half of it-) and wanted to redraw it and so I did!

Somehow, the design was toned down, with the rope rings and horns especially. What I had in mind for the first design was how Ophion was her spouse who is also by chance a dragon kind thus I had implemented the horns.

The revamped version however was more to showing the fluidity of the clothes which was taken from how Eurynome is an Oceanid that Iived in the waters so I wanted something that wouldn't be too heavy looking and went something with more simpler and lighter adornments

So there you have it! The end of the Sketch Dumps from 2020 has come to an end! The next series would be Sketch Dumps from 2021 that will be posted from time to time so please do anticipate it!! Thank you to everyone who had liked this and reblogs are very much appreciated!!

Note that my commissions are still open!! If you want a three art pack for just 15$ just hit me up and we'll get to it! Only two slots open so be quick!! 😤👌✨

Summoner-chan, signing off!✨

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