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Only thing I’m gonna say abt it bc I haven’t read the books or participated tje fandom since I was in elementary school but. Ppl’s reaction to Squirrelflight becoming leader is so funny. The misogyny of the authors has rubbed off on the fans I see, how are you gonna tell a victim of domestic abuse that’s she’s a worse leader and suffered less than her husband. And all the alternate leader suggestions from these ppl are the lame ass guys. this is one of the saddest characters in cat fiction let the girlie win at least once good lord
#‘but she’s old so she’ll just die right away’ and? she’s still kickin so far anyway#they’re gonna pull some nightstar shit w her and pull sims bs excuse I just know it but. I’m gonna enjoy the win for now lol#also heard that they introduced TNR to the books. this will my be handled well#*not be#I loved warriors but it wreaked havoc on cat care. your cat is not a warrior quit letting it outside to die.#and TNR is not a viable long term solution it’s just putting a bandaid on a gaping wound#introducing this controversial tactic into annanthrpromorphic cat book is. NOT gonna help I already know ppl who don’t spay or nueter bc#‘what if they want to have babies later 🥺 I don’t want to take away their freedom’ ma’am they are animals.#and there is such a massive amount of cat overpopulation that the only option to make sure the ones able to be adopted actually get to be#would be to cull massive amounts of them. talk to a shelter worker they are literally up to their knees in cats#and half of them are so feral or sick that the only humane option is euthanasia#anyway. I support women’s rights and wrongs lmao#squirrelflight#squirrelstar#warrior cats
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Comm for @ CitrusCynical! Part one bc I'm working on a few more ♪
#talking about work. first i didn't do much outside sending a lineart today bc *turumrumrum* i got a pc!#yayy! clapclapclap!#still gonna use the laptop to draw since the cpu only has one hdmi entrance and i can't connect the tablet#buuuut i have a piNK KEYBOARD. literally my dream come true#i might be able to play genshin again♪ i might be able to download bg3 in my own pc♪#I'll be able to use a paint textured brush bigger than 100 pixels♪#he hehehe hehe#the wifi connection sucks tho. we'll have to connect it with a wire i think#downloading steam at turtle pace lol#rui draw smth#art commisions#commission#oc#original character#im so happy i was literally at the edge all day lsndmsmdm#I'll upload a photo in my twt probably. i wanna show off my pink keyboard pink mouse and pink cat-themed mousepad#I'm also! reclaiming to Clipstudio support for my product key bc i bought it in like 2020 and we lost the email with the code#i have a pirated version but it's old. and i also have enough money rn to buy the newest version but my mom tells me to get my own again#ñeñeñe
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Our shelter vet is at a big conference and apparently wowing the ppl with out protocols and procedures,,, love our team and our job sometimes, actually
#now if only i was in on monday to hear from her bc usually shes a grumpy hardass >:[#like i mean we're this good BECAUSE she is absolutely NO disrespect. but genuine compliments and support directly from her is like gold#fox talks#also i havent actually been that involved in lot of the hard stuff to be fair FULL shout out to my coworker who's like. absolutely killed i#since she was hired and has all my respect for her work ethic and dedication to keeping our cats well
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y'all actually have irl friends? like, actually?
#i have one (1) that i am iffy about [you have all seen the annoying thread]#i am sorry that i keep bitching about this but#literally if I vanished the only consequences would be my dad would probably get mad and i'd feel bad for not uploading also my cats sad#i refuse to believe people have ever had friends they just hang out with after school#or go out on weekend adventures with for funsies#those things only happen in tv shows and commcercials. they are not real#awe fuck this is an avierant nw huh#avierant#fuck#but fr couldn't be me#also i remember watching some sappy video on youtube where the guy talked about coming out to his mom and she hugged him#and said i love you and all that#er#that happens?#i just got hit with a “I don't care” and “why didn't you wanna tell me? are you stupid?” and sometimes when he's mad he'll inform me#that i'm actually not bi i'm just gay [i think he genuinely forgets]#y'all have people irl that support you? why? are you stupid?#[i am going to be such a fucked up adu. oh yeah i am an adult. hell yeah i'm a fucked up adult >:)]
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[image description: two photos of a black cat. in the first, she sits in a still cat wheel, staring at someone. in the second she is laying down, also staring. in both, she has a similar expression of looking annoyed and tired of your bullshit. end id]
its official im adopting a second cat her name is cayenne and she comes home tomorrow 💕 shes very shy with people so will probably hate me for a while but thats ok she loves other cats and oregano and i are a great time for helping shy cats im very excited 💕
#im very excited abt her :) been talking w this rescue sbt her for a few weeks#i posted in a fb group for MN foster cat orgs like hi :) looking for a cat#biggest priority is that they love other cats bc i want a friend for my clingy social lovebug of a cat#a perk would be a black cat and/or a shy cat because i know thise are harder to adopt out and me and oregano are a great pair#for working w shy cats w experience feom when i fostered#and a foster replied w cayenne who checks all those boxes#its also very cute bc when i talked w her foster. apparently like four other people at the org saw my post and Immediately thought of her#so it reall really sounds like shes gonna be a good fit for us :)#the foster said she at one point had a helper cat they were also fostering which helped her a TON#but they werent bonded and that cat got adopted so her progress slowed a ton#shes been w the foster for over a year now so im so so excited to give her a home#she also has a cat wheel that she uses for emotional support lmaooo#apparently when shes stressed sometimes she will go and just run on her cat wheel as stress relief#so shes fucking ripped bc she works out all the time as a stress response fjdkfhff#anyway!!! im so excited. brain is only thinking abt her rn#oregano is gonna have a sleepiver w felix so she can get used to the space#without him trying to bust the door down to say hi to her#i love her stinky lil grump face. obsessed.
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I start volunteering at the cat cafe in a couple weeks but I honestly don’t know what’s happening and I need full instructions on what I’m doing but they said they’d train me on the job but I cannot comprehend verbal instructions so i think ill die
#wdym you’ll just train me on the job?#i only drink water idk how to make cappuccinos and shit#I need practice man .#my support worker told them I’m autistic but nobody understands what autism is so 😭#i knowww they’ll expect me to do shit I can’t do and I’ll try and do it bc I don’t want to look stupid#but then I’ll look stupid bc I’ll do it wrong#- my life#I lit would rather just be in the back rooms cleaning out litter trays and shit#and looking after the cats#I don’t want to make drinks and talk to people#lmao#they haven’t told me shittt I just went to meet the manager and she was like ‘ok can u start then’ and I’m like???#u know nothing abt me what#I guess I’m not getting paid so surely they won’t expect much#im just anxious#cos I just get everything wrong#and it takes me a lot longer to learn how to do practical things . so ppl think I’m dumb as fuck :(
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I’ve been wounded by a tiktok. Well, I’ve had wound reopened but a tiktok.
Basically, a critique of a family prank video in which a husband pretends he’s destroyed his wife’s possessions, but not really. And the critique boils down to “Your panic and distress should never be the punchline to any joke or prank ever.”
When I was in college, my first year, pokemon soul silver came out. And I loved that game. I spent over 100 hours on it the first month alone and was deeply attached to my team.
I found out the following year, that one guy in the friend group had been planning, colluding with my other friends, to get a reset copy of the game and switch it out with my copy so I’d think all my data had been erased.
The entire friend group knew.
And only a single one of them stopped and said “hey, that’s fucked up actually.”
So this guy didn’t go through with it.
And I found out about his plan, while I was dating him my second year. At the dinner table. With the rest of the friend group. Who admitted that yeah, that almost happened and they were just going to go along with it.
I was fucking shocked and devastated just hearing what almost happened. This was over 10 years ago and I’m still traumatized by the thought of it.
What I hate most though, was that even after hearing this fucked up plan that would’ve fully sent me into a meltdown during finals week, I still kept dating that guy for nearly a year. I still kept all those friends who would’ve betrayed me throughout the rest of college.
And maybe part of me wishes they had gone through with it, just so I could’ve cut all those assholes out of my life way sooner, because that guy was still abusive and cruel. He didn’t change. My friends were still heartless and careless with me, and none of them even attempted to keep in touch after graduation.
My distress is not a fucking punchline, and the fact that every single friend I had in college except one was complicit in making it the punchline, is a scar that I don’t think will ever heal.
#that shithead purposefully upset me repeatedly and it wasn’t even until after I dumped him that his ex clarified#that he gets off to upsetting his girlfriends. like.#had I known I was autistic a decade ago…#I made the mistake of keep giving everyone the benefit of the doubt bc surely no one is that cruel. surely my FRIENDS aren’t that terrible.#but they are. they were. and at 32 my mom still recounts how basically every friend I’ve ever had has treated me terribly despite me bending#over backwards for them.#it’s no wonder I spend so much time online. ever since like 2004 probably.#the only nice people I’ve known have all been online bc shocker!#we’re all queer and neurodivergent and it’s infinitely easier for us to communicate through writing than talking#shithead McFuckFace apparently said a lot of fucked up shit about me before and while we were dating.#that the rest of our friends just. never bothered to tell me about.#anyways. I’ve been angry and overstimulated all day and now I have a horrible headache#love being retraumatized over and over by the same fuc#fucking things. 🙃 definitely makes my current situation so much easier. 🙃🙃#definitely does not make me wanna yeetus deletus myself from fucking existence. 🙃🙃🙃#and I just gave my cats their flea meds so I can’t snuggle with them fuckkkkk my emotional support kittens why u gotta have fleassss 😭😭😭#apple talks#to the tune of spam
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toestalucia / lunarcry / flovverworks
gran of granblue fantasy. captain of a crew of skyfarers, might not guess from first glance though. getting more powerful for each half year that passes. kind of struggling more too. big fan of dreams people call impossible. / multi, including lanna of island of happiness&sunshine islands. pop star who’s currently staying at the island as a break. really terrible at singing, but loves it with all of her heart. fishing is her hobby. / akira of promise of wizard. isekai life. cat lover. wizard lover. average person enters a weird elevator and gets called sage and tries their best to befriend twenty-one sage’s wizards. will compare u to a cat.
all written by stardust, anyway lets hang out
#anime rp#video game rp#harvest moon rp#story of seasons rp#scopophobia#eye contact#NEW MONTH NEW ME <- person who did not read ch9&10 yet like they said they would#took everything in me not to use sofia or fenrir for multi but.......the sos tags r the tags i dont have anythinig in it.....so#:D#anyway a3 fans....if ure outt here...#ok the real promo is the tags im here to tldr plots i want#akiwa. more talking about magic systems..akira only knows the wizards 'using magic with their heart' (cries about lwa again#a believing heart is ur magic.....) so i think meeting other magic-users is Fascinating for them#meeting pet owners...simple. akira does not have a cat. WANTS a kitty but. anyway animals are cute after all?!?!?#little siblings dynamic. on my knees. please.... akira being caring n supportive of younger ppl is my weakness#gwan. a..any kind of 'i know theres this power in me but i dont know what it is or how to activate it' vauge in regards to the blue...#in general those themes. gran just wanted to find their dad but has now been in worldthreathening scenarios a billion times#also just...being happy n fooling around#the opposite of what i want for akira. i want more older ppl looking out for gran. but i DO want gran looking out for younger ppl too#LANNA.........WHOMST I HAVENT WRITTEN IN YEARS AND YEARS............but....even then..........i want things#of lanna weighing her idol career vs her life on the island. lanna being aware shes not Amazing at singing#but tries her hardest regardless cuz she loves singing n performing#ok im cutting it short GOODBYE
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just realized that Dest would be a perfect white knight in the rpg au
#cat chatters#the party needs someone defensive!!!! there's like. 2 mages and 2 support and only 1 frontliner#the frontliner is RU and he's built like a twig#still debating on whether or not to keep peals as a bard. like. he sure talks. idk what else he would be
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I've been think about moving back in with my mom recently and thinking about things
#Sel talks#I feel like some of people might view it as “oh. You couldn't make it out on ur own :(” and that's not what it is#I really think I needed the time and space to figure myself out on my own for a bit#But if I really want to move to Oregon or possibly some other place outside the country I really need to start saving#Which is not possible when I'm renting a 2 bedroom apartment by myself#My only other concern besides like the trans stuff (god wow. It feels really weird to label myself that) is my cat's living arrangements#My mom's not a big fan of cat's but my step dad has a couple of them so there would be arrangements for him in some way.#I'm just not sure that they'd be up to my standards :/#But! At least they seem supportive of the err trans thing. I still need to talk with them 1on1 this weekend but#Yea#Amazing how a $15/hr job here can get me a 2 bed appartement and a cat
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Sad things that are technically very minor in the scheme of things but nontheless ruin your day all the same.
I spent the last eight hours typing away at a big long post about my blorbo whom I very rarely have the energy or guts to gush about.
I love my blorbo and very much wanted to maybe, just maybe, write something that might cause people who have not thought as obsessively as I have about this character to maybe appreciate their struggles, realize where they might have been unfair to this character and others like them in the past and maybe, in a teeny tiny way help people writing fanfic about my blorbo to actually write them as a character rather than a (cute) set piece that happens to be in their blorbos' lives.
I was under no illusion that my blorbo would become theirs. In all honesty I didn't expect more than like two people to ever actually read it and good odds those two people would still disregard it completely because there are very legit reasons for people to find my blorbo obnoxious or annoying.
BUT STILL.
That doesn't mean I expected some program (that's apparently reset its automated schedule to mid afternoon instead of the 4am I had it) to close all my internet pages as I was still writing them!
So yeah. I'm just gonna go mope and look at silly memes for a while until I can stop feeling grief over losing my character gushing and I hope anyone potentially reading this is having a much better day.
#sadness over a comparatively minor thing but I needed to vent#the blorbo in question was Morgana from Persona 5 btw#He's a jerk who the game/my people pleasing main character makes into my jailer but I adore him#I wish people would think more about what kinds of struggles he must have navigating a human centric world#while trapped in a form that he doesn't identify as his own and leads everyone into treating him as non human#which yeah he's physically nonhuman and it can't be helped that people not in the know can't hear him talk or realize he's a person#but like#He's a person and its kind of screwed up that the fandom only ever remembers him to rag on or diss his 'insecurity' arc#which is more accurately his 'realizing he has an entire support network to lose and not knowing how to handle' arc#combined with his longer ongoing 'all I have is my identity as me and if I'm not human what is that even worth?' arc#which is different to Teddie's (my fav P4 character) in a few key areas#such as Teddie putting most of the issue on his nature of being nonhuman#whereas Morgana is more terrified of having who he is ignored in favor of the casual callousness of others#and being helpless to actually effect anything in the real world due to being to everyone but MAYBE the PT a cat#(all that said I agree with the general consensus the pre Okumura arc was handled poorly and Ryuji deserved an apology too)#but still#he's a people#If he can get a human form without it being the result of something bad he's totally valid in that#and he still deserves to be treated as a person even if he can't#all of which is more a fandom problem than a PT problem#but just saying#Futaba sweet amazing gift to the world that you are#if I was Morgana and you smooshed my face without warning like you do his#you would probably end up bleeding#(and as a result I would probably end up being thrown out and left to starve or get put down in a pound or something because cat body)#but anyway#first time using a gif#is it alright to just search here and use the ones that pop up or is a bit research first advised?#strangely enough ranting in the tags has made me feel a lot better even if I am still a bit sad#oh neat you can move tags up and down in the order when editing that's neat
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I high-key miss being surrounded by friends, love, and support 🙃
#I've lived here for a year and haven’t made a single friend lol#it's really making my bpd symptoms more difficult to manage bc I relied so much on support of friends#the only person that ive been able to talk to for an entire year is my partner#i love him very much#but I miss having big fun group conversations and board game nights and performing together and dynamic relationships#work is miserable bc I really believe in what I'm doing and love being able to support the at-risk youth that need me#but everyone I work with refuses to listen to me or respect me and I'm getting frustrated#idk i can't even sleep bc I'm running through work in my head to try and make everything run as smoothly as possible#and when I'm there I'm dismissed and talked down to#if it weren't for the kids I would say fuck 'em all#but I want to be there for them#i can't help but feel worthless and inherently unlikeable#I started typing to distract myself bc I lost it bc even my cats don't want to be around me lol#i can't wait for the next chapter of my life bc this ain't it fam#and it never has been#im so alone#i wish I could cease to exist w/o my partner having to deal with having to pay for everything and ig being heartbroken#i just don't feel like it's worth it#which is ironic bc I tell kids all day long that it is#y'all don't even know the shit ive been through just to still be where I am and not have made any progress#in fact I would say i'm regressing#lmao I can't type anymore#personal
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vent continued here but plz ignore this, for some reason venting on tumblr makes me feel slightly better 😭
#the meowing of a cat 🐱#sometimes i cant focus on talking to him because all i want to do is confess my love to him but i cant#because he doesnt feel the same way and it's very obvious my feelings are not platonic in the slightest#my crush is the sweetest person ever and i know he is only forcing himself to be my friend because he's so nice#i dont know if ive been creepy or weird but i know he finds me weird and it fucking destroys me. but i rlly just want him to be honest#if he hates me it will destroy me so fucking badly but also i want him to do what is best for him#and if that's to get away from me i support him#i dont even know why i think he hates me. ive been trying my best not to show my overflowing love for him and i try to be a normal friend#god. i hate this. i hate this. i hate this i hate this i hate this#i hate this because my fucking ROMANTIC FEELINGS have clouded me from focusing on my TRUE friendships#i love my friends so fucking much i know they will never leave me and will never hate me#but ofc my three month crush apparently has more priority according to my brain -_-#i want to spend as much time as i can with him and i want to learn as much as i can abt him#and i hate it because i love my friends. i miss my friends but everytime im not with my crush i feel like he's going to forget me#i hate myself. i hate myself. i hate myself so fucking much#i dont know why im like this#i guess when i get attached to something i get very attached#i miss my friends but i get so on edge when im not with my crush#because my dumbass thinks i have a chance even though it's very fucking clear my chances are 0%#and i will never ever ever be someone special to him#i will never even have a special platonic relationship with him like my other friends. i will only just be a friend#he will never look at me the way i see him and that's fine with me but at the same time i wish i could send my overflowing love to him#i want to rot this summer. i dont deserve the people who actually see me as someone special#im a very cruel person. im sorry to my friends and my crush. im sorry
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How to spot a (heart wrenching sad cat) Charity Scam
So I've been get a lot of requests for money in my askbox lately, from users I have never seen before! Usually sad cats, sometimes gender affirming medical bills, a queer person being made homeless etc etc... and guess what? None of them are real! It's scammers who have learned how to work tumblr's userbase and prey on our general sense of community and charity.
Here it is, so sad! So tragic! But let's note a few things:
It's generic. They don't know me, I don't know them. it's addressed to 'friend', no use of nicknames or usernames.
Even the cat and the problem are generic 'little kitty' who has 'urgent needs'. This is not how real people talk, this is because this scam is being used over and over with different accounts a different 'cats'.
Praying (uh huh.)
Asking you to reply privately- This is so people don't spot the scam and point it out the mark and because if too many people posted replies to the same message it would beome really obvious that this is a scam. If they're looking for 'boosts' so badly, then why do they need you to reply privately?
Now that I'm suspicious, let's investigate.
Sent me an ask and then followed me! Sounds like they're just hitting up anyone and everyone, but even more likely they have a list they're working from.
(I get so many, I'm probably on a mail-out list a mile long, just being hit up for cash. Likely I fell for one of these once and got my name added to every scam list for miles, but oh well.)
So let's see if they're a bot or a real person!
The blog looks genuine enough, they've got a bio, a fandom etc. And it says they're an artist!
And of course there's that sad cat post, pinned right to the top, so I don't have to look any further through the blog for verification... Looks super legit, pics of the cat, pics of the bill... of course anyone can print out a bill and take a picture of it...
As I do scroll futher, it's full of reblogs making this look like an active user. So how can I tell it's not genuine?
Well, if they're an artist they probably post right? Doodles? Pictures? Let's have a look at their origional posts.
The fastest way to do this is by using an outside tool like Original Post Finder.
just type in the suspicious username and go...
Voila! As suspected, the only post this bot account has ever made is Sad Cat Post.
Confirmed: Scam. Do not give your money to these guys, it looks so real but they're just here to make you feel like a bad person for not handing over everything you can. Charity is wonderful, supporting friends is wonderful, but tbh save it for people you actually know irl/ mutuals you have an actual relationship with. Don't believe any rando who comes knocking!
Love and kisses, stay safe out there.
#scam#tumblr scam#I'm putting this in all the same tags the scam post uses#kitty mom#emergency#catblr#kitty help
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I love Izutsumi. She's got a great design, she's a fun addition to the main party, she adds some new tension, and she's honestly one of the reasons I read dungeon meshi in the first place. I mean, "the most cat to ever girl" is an extremely appealing hook to anyone who loves cats and girls (me, I love cats and girls).
However, while I have always liked Izutsumi, I finished the story kind of feeling like I didn't really get her. I felt like I had a decent grasp on her character an character arc (she's a traumatized teen given space to feel safe and open up, and because of that she realizes that she can't grow without letting go of the coping mechanisms she once needed). But I didn't feel like I really understood her role in the story as a whole.
She follows the group of her own accord, after a coincidental meeting and a misunderstanding of what they can do for her. She's never super invested in saving Falin, at least not compared to the rest of the group. Though they do help her escape Maizuru's shackles, and are clearly good for her in general, she doesn't really have a healing Moment with the group the way that Senshi does with the hippogriff soup.
And yet, she gets an entire chapter, the third-to-last chapter, dedicated to exploring her growth and future. She's the one who frames much of the falling action, who lets us check in with everyone. She's the one who helps talk Laios into accepting his role as king. She may join the story part way through, but she is there for most of it. So Izutsumi! What's your deal!?
Well, I think I've come up with an answer, at least for myself, that I really like. Two of them, even! Though they both really work together to form the overall point - Izutsumi is the character that most helps the story face towards the future. Here's why I think that.
So the first of these "ah-ha" moments was when I realized that Izutsumi really is the best supporting evidence for Laios' point about the good things that wouldn't have happened if Falin hadn't died.
If Falin hadn't been eaten by the dragon, Izutsumi probably would still be a slave. It was because of Shuro and Laios' parties both being in the dungeon to rescue Falin, as well as Marcille's use of ancient magic in the resurrection, that she got the chance to escape. None of that would have been the case if Falin hadn't died. Shuro wouldn't have separated from the group and joined up with his retainers, Marcille wouldn't have revealed her knowledge of ancient magic, and Izutsumi never would have even met any of them. They are only part of her life because of Falin's death.
Though this isn't explicitly pointed out by Laios or Izutsumi in the scene, I do think you can very much feel the presence of it. For one, when Marcille reflects on the journey and how much it made her realize she didn't want to lose everyone, her relationship with Izutsumi is prominent:
It's the main original group at the top and center, but when you read it right to left, it’s Izutsumi and Marcille who might catch your eye first. And it's specifically Marcille and Izutsumi's relationship on display here, not just Izutsumi's presence in the group in general.
Also, after Laios' statement about how none of their adventure would have happened without Falin dying, it is Izutsumi who gets the final word:
Izutsumi is also the one here who is the most forward-facing. Chilchuck is trying to correct Laios, Senshi is focused on the immediate future, and Izutsumi is talking about her new goal.
And I want to talk about that goal in general as well, because it’s also interesting how it comes up. In that moment, everyone is trying to remind Marcille of her less destructive desires - to eat food, to share it with them, and to meet Chilchuck's family. All of which are previously established, existing desires. When prompted by Chilchuck to join in, however, Izutsumi offers something new:
That's interesting, isn't it? It's kind of funny, of course, to see her rambling on about a completely new thing, her own personal motive, in the middle of everyone working together to reach out to Marcille. Izutsumi doesn't even know who Yaad is! But at the same time, it’s kind of meaningful. Amidst the focus on desires that everyone already had, she adds a completely new one to the mix. It’s even the final bridge that lets Laios reach Marcille.
It is, in fact, even an idea that comes back later to help out another lord of the dungeon. The idea of finding new goals and feeling new desires... this is exactly how Kabru reaches out to Mithrun, after the Winged Lion is gone
So yeah, Izutsumi's presence here, both in what she's actively choosing to say as well as what she represents of the consequences of Falin's death, supports the story's ideas of moving forward. Of accepting the past, and finding new reasons to live.
Which is all really good, and that alone works pretty well as an answer to what Izutsumi's role in the story is.
But oh, oh. There's more. Something I realized after having thought of all this, because I still couldn't let go of the feeling that there was still something I was missing.
And as I reviewed the things I loved about Izutsumi - her sometimes unhealthy ways of coping with trauma, her struggles with isolation, her skill with fighting, her selfishness contrasted with the ways she grows to care for and protect the group, her perpetually guarded nature, born from the seeming impossibility of ever fitting in or finding a safe place to just be herself - I realized something.
Izutsumi...
is a foil to Falin.
Where Falin copes with isolation and trauma by being eternally caring and struggling to say no to people, Izutsumi copes by constantly saying no to everything she can. Falin is often considered selfless, but does have selfish desires that she can’t easily express until a moment of crisis. Izutsumi is delightfully selfish, but chooses to stick by her friends when they need her. They are both transformed, against their will, into partly monstrous hybrids, and they both will have to live with that - there is no undoing what has been done to them.
Falin anchors the group in the past. Izutsumi pulls them towards the future. Neither would find freedom without the other - it is Falin's death that leads to Izutsumi joining the party, and likewise, it is Izutsumi who inspires the realization of how they can save Falin.
And Falin is her future, as much as Izutsumi is Falin's. Both learn to be a little more like each other, even though they never meet. Falin gets a little more selfish. Izutsumi gets a little more willing to bend.
In this context, I feel like I have finally started to understand just how important Izutsumi is to the story. She is a proof that they cannot just go back, and she is a clawed, happy-to-scratch-anyone-who-pisses-her-off reminder, at that. In any conversation about what the group wishes would have happened with Falin, she cannot be ignored or brushed aside.
She is a reminder that, even in the midst of a tragedy so big it feels like a shadow you will never escape, you have yet to met all the people you will love. Hell, some of those people might even be catgirls. We should all be so lucky.
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Steve, who is born into a long line of shifters, but unlike the magnificent creatures his parents and grandparents before him became when they turned, he turns into an ordinary house cat.
Steve, who is an embarrassment to the Harrington name amongst the secretive society of shifters and so is essentially abandoned in Hawkins to fend for himself.
Steve, who is deeply ashamed that his shifting animal is a fucking cat until he meets a Demogorgon and then suddenly, being a cat - aka, the perfect bear trap bait - is the best animal he could have asked Magick to become.
Steve, who quickly becomes the Party's self-appointed emotional support person (cough cough, cat) and makes sure that he checks on his kids and is there to provide snuggles when needed.
Steve, who is really nervous about his kids starting high school - especially El and Will - and who sneaks his way into the school when he's not working and hides out in the drama room.
Steve, who is caught off guard when he bumps into Eddie Munson in his cat form, and then keeps bumping into Eddie Munson in his cat form, and pretty soon he can't keep pretending like it's not intentional but he likes listening to the guy when they're both hiding out in the drama room, and it doesn't hurt that he has excellent hands that give excellent tummy rubs -
Steve, who is present at the kids' first Hellfire Club meeting, and who is caught off guard by the disdain in Eddie Munson's voice when he talks about "King Steve."
Steve, who hops onto the game table, makes eye contact with Eddie Munson, and shoves his DM screen onto the floor with a loud crash.
Steve, who spends the rest of that session (and the next) on Jeff's lap, because Jeff's tummy rubs are pretty damn good and Jeff has only ever had nice things to say about Steve Harrington. (Take that, Eddie.)
(Eddie, who pouts the entire time and shows up at their third session with some catnip toys and an apology, even though he really doesn't understand why he has to apologize to this cat about Steve Harrington or why his new sheepies think this whole thing is hilarious.)
#not sure if this is something or if it's nothing but it's definitely a thing#steddie#steddie crack#steve harrington#eddie munson#just wait until eddie tries to make a “pussy” joke#yeah that's totally going to end well for him
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