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javarium · 6 months

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under the clouds, in my heart | g. satoru

it’s these kinds of days that make Satoru the happiest — that remind him of the wonderful things he has in his life now; thunderstorms where his wife and children are safe and protected inside of his home are all he could ask for

w — post canon! gojo, canon-divergence, pregnant! reader, former first-year student! reader, mentions of underage relationship, mentions of being in a former! student-teacher relationship, Papa Satoru & Mama Reader, Satoru and Reader have a (growing) big family, this ended up shorter than I anticipated

a/n: another fix it fic you guys 🤧 this one has been in my drafts longer than 236

[ apart of the TFFTS universe! ]

He loves seeing you cozied up in his sweaters, no matter the time of year (he secretly keeps it colder than normal in the summertime so you’ll put them on, but he’ll never tell you that). He loves how the hemline rests at your knees, a testament to the cute height difference between the two of you.

With your pregnancy belly, like now, sweaters only seem reach mid-thigh.

Ah, he’s not complaining.

He’s back from a mission overseas a day early, one he committed to speed-running like a demon so he could get back to his growing family. It wasn’t too necessary, considering he doesn’t have to do many more missions nowadays. The only reason he was summoned was because of his long, long influence, to which he most definitely used to get back faster.

But the universe hits his Pause button the second he warps back into his lovely home. For good reason. His heavenly blue eyes take in the scene in front of him, soul imprinting this memory into itself for eternity.

Seiji, his five-nearly-six year-old firstborn, was curled up on your lap, head using your thighs as a makeshift pillow. Traitor. Satoru can hear little snores escaping his lips at the awkward position his head is in. But if Satoru tilts his head, he can see his son’s protective decision from where his head and body lay.

Sanari, his sweet daughter, is curled up by your left arm. Her white curls of hair are splayed out on the pillow behind her as her head rests on your shoulders. Satoru chuckles. He can clearly see drool at the corner of her mouth pooling onto the sweater of his you’re wearing.

Lightning lights up the sky outside. And suddenly, the gushing sound of rain is all Satoru can hear — a downpour. Huh, the clouds had been just as white as his hair earlier. He supposes anything can happen though.

He can’t even see outside anymore now. The greenery has been completely overtaken by the opaque gray of the intense rain and thunderstorm.

Satoru’s head snaps back to you and his sleeping offspring. As much as he wants to join, he can’t bring himself to. He wants to do anything besides ruin the picturesque moment in time before him.

Just look at the family he’s made for himself.

Ah, but the squirming toddler in your arms may do just that anyway. So he doesn’t debate taking Junpei from your arms as he begins to scrunch up his adorable little nose.

Besides, Satoru’s sure you’re bound to wake up soon. His Six Eyes tells him that because the cursed energy from within your tummy is starting to become restless, the twins are finally waking up.

A big family hadn’t been on his mind. You both agreed on leaving your family with Junpei as your youngest. Especially with you falling pregnant so soon with him after having trouble with Sanari’s pregnancy and birth.

But things don’t always go to plan, do they? Satoru muses.

Taking the littlest that'll soon be a big brother wakes you from your nap. You inhale and exhale deeply as your eyes flutter open, blinking quite a few times before your vision clears.

“….’toru~” Your sleepy inhale sounds like a cute sniffle; he can’t help but grin. “You’re home?”

“Surprise, baby,” Satoru mumbles as he sits down and leans over the couch and over your pregnant belly to sweetly kiss your lips. “I’ll be home for awhile this time,” he adds softly. One arm holds his son, the other wraps around the back of your shoulders, hand resting on your upper arm to gently pull your body into him to deepen the kiss. You can’t help but giggle against his lips, and he smiles and giggles into it in return.

Lightning brightens the sky, this time for the longest you’ve ever seen. And following it, is the mightiest thunderclap you’ve ever heard. It makes even your husband jump, surprised by the deafening boom. Your lips separate from Satoru’s, who’s looking out the window with you, impressed by the power of Mother Nature.

It wakes Seiji and Sanari, who despite their maturity for their age, show their age by the fat tears pooling at their eyelids. Junpei, fully awake, begins to cry too, slightly louder than his older siblings. The toddler buries himself into his daddy’s shoulder for comfort and protection. And when the other two see their dad, who’s back home early, they jump to him and do the exact same, hugging him and burrowing into his chest and neck.

You’d take a picture had your babies not been so scared.

When your hand rubs Seiji’s back, the little boy turns to you, eyes watery with fear. He takes two little steps on the couch and softly stumbles into your outstretched arms. He rests his bottom on your thigh, head burrowed into the crook of your neck, little hands balled up into fists with the sweater you were wearing between his itty bitty fingers.

“Come on, Seiji. Off Mama’s belly,” Satoru says, a slight tinge of worry to his voice as he sees him lay a little too heavily on your rounded middle.

The little boy gasps lightly and moves. “Sorry, Mama. Sorry babies.”

You chuckle and kiss his tiny forehead. Satoru presses his lips to the side of his son’s temple, his free hand reaching for his sides to tickle him, saying things about how cute he was.

Sanari takes the moment to detach from her daddy’s side and dives back into your ribs, albeit much more carefully than her older brother. She sniffles, still scared from the clash of thunder, but much calmer now that both her parents were home and awake. She burrows her head under your arm, almost behind your back, leaving her nose room to breathe in the cool air and the sweater that smells like both you and her papa.

It’s so cute, Satoru thinks. She’s the complete opposite of him. She’s the more quiet and reserved one of her siblings. And he still suspects that she still will after her younger twin siblings will be born. Satoru has a feeling, knows in his gut that they’ll be the most extroverted of his children, bouncing off the walls just like he does every day.

Though not so much anymore, heh. He’s still a childish person at heart, but his age is slowly getting to him, slowly beginning to chip away at his ability to be the flamboyant jujutsu sorcerer he used to be. He can feel the ache of time and age begin to take root in the bones of his body that had been so tempered.

In its place, however, took fatherhood, took a new and different kind of responsibility that he was more than excited for — days filled with new challenges, watching his kids grow as he smothers them with love.

His former students were more than capable of handling the load he used to. There’s plenty more of them nowadays than there is of him. With most of them all Special Grade sorcerers, too, he muses. Including you. But you don’t partake in missions like that, mostly being in the reserves of jujutsu society and using your reverse cursed energy like Shoko has.

Especially since becoming a mom.

Satoru sees the rainy day lulling you back to sleep. Being five-and-a-half months pregnant with twins, while also caring for three more while her husband was away would make any woman tired.

His offspring, however, were wide awake.

“Go upstairs and go to sleep,” Satoru says quietly. He sees the waves of fatigue hit every time you blink several times in one go. Your happy expression is getting harder to hold as you grow tired all over again, and Satoru thinks he’s going to have to carry you upstairs, fearing you falling.

But you, ever-stubborn, refuse. “I’m okaaay,” you reply, yawning into the words.

The white-haired man chuckles and shakes his head. “Go to bed,” he says, this time in a more commanding tone. “I’ll wake you up in a couple hours with food ready.”

And when he makes that face, the cutesy one that also means he’s more than happy to carry you to bed, you don’t argue. He does, however, help you up off the couch and watches from the bottom of the stairs to make sure you lose balance and tip backwards. Satoru blows you a kiss, to which you chomp down at, mock-devouring his kisses. He gasps, fake offended, and it gets the giggle out of you he’s hoping for before you go into the bedroom.

Satoru’s heart swells with adoration and love. It overflows even more as he turns back to his two sons and his daughter. God, he almost wants to cry. What did he do to deserve such happiness in his life? After everything he’s done, that’s happened to him, when did the universe decide a beautiful wife and sweet, adorable children were in the cards for him?

He doesn’t know. All he knows is that he’s going to hold his family close to his heart and protect them until his last breath.

a/n: this got published at a completely random time lmao, where did this even come from? this’ll flop for sure but everyone who reads pls enjoy anyway

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foster-the-world · 6 months

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Not helpful

I get the kids ready for school while my husband gets ready for work. Then he walks all three the one block to school on his way to the office. The girls are fine obviously. They get so excited to see their friends as if they hadn't just seen them the night before. Its nice to see. Baby boy is often unregulated. Running ahead, bumping into things, randomly laying on the ground. If I take him alone he walks calmly while holding my hand. Something about being with his sisters makes him act up.

This morning this older Jamaican women goes up to them and starts giving baby boy a talking to. "I see you giving your Dad trouble. You need to stop that. When you get older you are going to make him sad." WTF? Who the hell tells a 3yo they will make their Father sad when they grow up. Then she tells my husband "you need to take things away." Tells baby boy whose generally ignoring her and flailing around, per the usual "he's going to take away your TV." This got his attention. "I like a tiny TV. Don't take it away." He says tiny in place of a small amount and I love it so much. Anyway, just another non helpful bit of parenting advice from a random stranger. Glad it was my husband and not me.

In cuter news baby boy was looking at a book of animals. He said he wanted to pet a large snake. I said won't you be scared. His response "No, I'll have my sisters with me." What a sweet, sweet boy who knows his sisters have his back.

His teacher told me that he finished lunch first and she knew she needed to do something to keep him entertained. So she lets him put on his favorite police costume. She tells the rest of the class that baby boy is in charge. The kids apparently loved it and baby boy took his duties very seriously.

The social worker and CPSE lady came to watch baby boy/put together some ideas to help him. His teacher said he's doing really well but they are very glad to have "a little extra support" as she put it. I get the feeling everyone loves him but he does take up more then his fair share of their time. I'm glad to have the private special ed teacher coming seven hours a week. At least the teachers can take a break then. Then he'll be in individual OT and speech sessions another two hours a week. Combine that with lunch, nap and recess where he behaves just fine. They've got most of the day covered.

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janesaridoll · 2 years

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Ice cream

Pairing || Chris evans x woc!reader

Summary || based on this tiktok

Genera || pure fluff

Warning || pregnancy(?)

To love masterlist

Kofi

Marlyn is 2 - Marcus is 4 - pregnant with Lucas

After picking up your kids, Marlyn and Marcus from day care, Chris was meeting you for lunch. as part of your daily routine with your yet small family

You were waiting at the restaurant where you always frequent, which is close to your workplace,

you were seated at your normal table, your husband entered with Marlyn in one hand and your boy's hand in the other. As soon as your son sees you, he races towards you, disregarding his father screaming for him to slow down behind him and yelling "mommmyyy”

He throw himself at you and you hugged him and lifted him up to sit on your lap

Your husband gave you a look “what?” You asked “You’re heavily pregnant don’t lift him up” he said while buckling your daughter into the kids chair, before he sits down he kissed you cheeks

“But I can’t resist him” hugging you boy and kissing his cheeks repeatedly while he laughed loudly

you ate your lunch, and made sure that your kids are well fed, you asked your boy how’s his day at school “Marcus baby, did you gave your teacher your homework?” the teacher gave the students a homework a week ago and your son didn’t give it to his teacher due to him being really shy about it. He is not the most out going person. Just like you. You have struggled with shyness so being a mom to shy baby was a little bit hard, but through him growing up you learned how to deal with it.

It took you weeks before getting him into school, but through practice of leaving him around new kids he got used to them but not the teachers, he is still very shy around them. You thought that letting him take his homework to his teacher by himself would be a good practice for him but you gave him time to do it and inform the teacher who was kind enough to let it happen.

he nodded his head excitedly and said “katie helped me” katie is your son best friend she’s great with him, she helped him a lot, he prefers spending time with her than you. Which’s upseting for you.

“oh that’s good, you’re so brave baby” you complement him and kissed his head.

Chris looked at you weird while he fed your daughter her ice cream.

“What?” You asked.

“you look so jealous when he mentioned katie” chris said with smirk on his face.

“No! Im not jealous of my son’s friend!” you scoffed at him.

“Oh yeah you’re, you gave the same look whenever sara is mentioned”

“Okay I may be a little annoyed at katie. For god sack she wants to have the same birthday party as him?? Wtf?? I want ot give my baby a special birthday for him!! Alone. Second of all don’t bring that’s bitch up again”

“Okay okay, im sorry, but come on he have his first ever girlfriend”

“She’s not his girlfriend, my baby is too young to love anyone other than his mommy” it might be weird but blame it on the pregnancy hormones. you feel attached to your boy more than ever, he was your first. And you two have been through a lot together. It’s really hard not to feel that, the bond you made with your boy are little by little are getting broken and its too soon for him to unattach himself from you, you thought it will happen when he is in his teenage years, by the time you could prepared yourself.

“Anyway you won’t believe what happened at Marlyn class” Chris said laughing as soon as he remembered what had happened.

“What?” You asked tearing your eyes away from you boy to your daughter who is playing with her ice cream, with her two fluffy pigtails and a bow she’s the cutest baby ever. Hands down, you and Chris produce the cutest babies ever.

"When I arrived to pick her up, she was staring at a kid with a toy, so I waited to see what she'd do. He then sees her gazing at him and he comes close to her, and I thought okay, maybe this lad is going to be katie to my little girl,"

“Now you know how i feel” you said before making him continue.

“No no , wait and hear me, they looked at each of seconds before he shoved Marlyn away” he laughed , adding, "I genuinely thought I was going to kick some two-year-old ass, but she started laughing hysterically, till she saw me, and it was simply like nothing happened."

You stared at him, your smile gone, and asked, "What?"

“yeah!, and she didn’t seem to mind. At all”

"someone pushed my daughter?" Your lips trembled, and tears welled up in your eyes.

"She was fine," Chris said, laughing. "No!, Some kid is bullying my daughter," you say, looking at your daughter, who has an ice cream in her face and is unfazed by anything!

"How come you're crying?"

"What do you expect from me when another kid shoves my daughter around?" You cried, your kids were staring at you strangely, and you weren't sure if it was the hormones or the fear of your baby girl being bullied that made you weep.

"I thought it was amusing..." Chris stared at you, puzzled, and requested a passing waitress to bring another bowl of ice cream to the table.

"Vanilla please," you said as you stared at them sniffling. The waitress nodded and returned to the kitchen.

You returned your gaze to your daughter. "Are you alright, sweetheart? You weren't hurt by the boy? Right?”

The young girl looked at your eyes, which were quite identical to hers, and batted her long lashes at you, saying, "no mommy, I'm fine." She gave you a happy face.

You returned your gaze to Chris. "My kids are too good for this world"

"That's why I'm planning to have more," Chris joked he continues "You're so cute and hot at the same time when you're protective of our kids,"

#chris evans #chris evans x woc!reader #chris evans x black women #chris evans x fluff #chris evans x plus size reader #chris evans x poc!reader #chris evans x desi!reader #chris evans x wife!reader #chris evans x you #chris evans imagine #dad!chris evans #chris evans x mom!reader

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rothjuje · 10 months

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Help. (Will delete, mainly just need to think this out)

George is autistic and receives OT, ST, and PT through the public school system. We have chosen this route more for the social interaction/learning the routine of school aspect than the therapy aspect.

Anyway. The preschool he went to during the school year was amazing. Sweetheart of a main teacher who was there for the entire program, George loved her and would run from me to her the second he saw her. There were always paras and therapists around, it was basically 1.5 adults per child.

Summer program is an understaffed shit show. I get it, it’s harder to find staff willing to work for just the summer. Anyway. My understanding is that one staff member was fired and another quit days before the summer program started. So they combined both special education classes, so George who was already the youngest kid in preschool is now with a bunch of older kids.

George is sensitive and anxious. He’s a real sweet kid, everyone falls in love with him because he loves to cuddle and is just so chill. Anyway. This is a classroom for big kids, not toddlers. No one is sitting on the floor playing with him, it’s a sea of strangers, there is no returning staff.

It’s also at the elementary school so there aren’t toys there like at his preschool. I mean new toys are a big draw for a toddler.

Anyway long dysfunctional story short, we finally get in the classroom and the kids are just kind of fending for themselves. George can’t fend for himself, he’s used to 1.5 adults on the floor playing with him.

So there was a lot of hysterical crying. I snuck out when he was happy and distracted and he lost it when he realized I was gone and I let him cry it out for a bit but the staff wasn’t equipped to handle essentially a toddler when they are used to bigger kids and came to get me.

If they have one person assigned to him, he’ll be totally fine. But they don’t have the staff.

Do I

1. Go to the first half hour every week and hope he gets used to it

2. Leave him and let him scream knowing they are understaffed and overwhelmed

3. Pull him from the program. I’m SAH, I much rather him be home with me. I don’t want to hinder him, but school in the fall will not be a shock because he’s already been and loves it and his main teacher is returning. Only issue is he will miss services because everything is waitlisted out here, but I’ve been in contact with his therapists and can continue what they’re working on.

What would you do?

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vals-cd · 2 years

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𝙶𝚘𝚍 𝚢𝚘𝚞'𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚘 𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚝𝚝𝚢

Hey guys its val sorry i kinda disapperd im a 2 year in uni and its hell sometimes i question if i want to be a teacher ot a stripper idk anyways heres a tiny little fic to hold you guys over because i can’t post as often anymore

Baji Keisuke X Gn! reader

15+ gets a little suggestive at the end

“Are you kidding me Kei again!” you said as Baji walked through the door with a bloodyed face. “Yeah yeah sweetheart just help me clean up.” “God Kei im running out of supplies becuase of you!” You reply annoyed at the fact that he comes home almost everyday somewhat injured.

“Awh how cute you do care about me” Baji blurts out while you patch up his open wounds and cuts. It’s not that you mind him doing this it just make you nervous when he doesn’t show up at 4:00 when he normally comes home because being a full time gang member is horrbly dangerous and you don’t want the love of your life, your boyfriend of 5 Years just to end up dead one day.

“Shut up kei. Seeing you wounded like this makes me super fucking anxoius” “Awh poor baby” Kei annouces trying to make you feel better

“...Aaaaannnndddd, done!” The second you say that Keisuke presses his lips up against yours.

Soon a cute little kiss ends up being a kiss where you are on top of the bathroom sink half naked but whos complaing.

#baji x reader #baji smut #tokyo rev x you #tokyo rev smut #tokyo re #Smut #holy hell #school is kicking my ass

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iloveurmomm · 10 months

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I SEE WHY JANE WANTED HIM LOOK AT HIM WHO TOLD HIM TO LOOK THIS GOOD AND HE TREATS HER AMAZINGLY UNLIKE BUDDY (my account is basically a buddy hate club idc that he’s developing I hate him) 😁

Literally this is just gonna be me hating buddy soo

Like I understand he’s developing but like he literally ruined janes life like he ruined everything she tried to do and LIED ABOUT GOING ALL THE WAY making the other socs make her life miserable and then when to talk to her to ask her to the dance and same with Richie and buddy had this half ass shit saying I love u and blah blah blah unlike Richie who had a thoughtful speech instead of thinking I love you would win her heart over BUDDY IS JUST ANNOYING AND DONT GET ME STARTED WITH SUSAN like I liked her when she was trying to help the pink ladies with the dance then she outed Olivia about the whole teacher think then Olivia blamed Jane making the situation worse then WENT OT MARRY THE PEDO TEACHER 😭

Anyways thanks for my little rant and u should stream the pink ladies soundtrack it has not skips and it’s really good 😁

#jane facciano #grease rise of the pink ladies #richie valdovinos #greaser #buddy aldridge #tumblelog #Spotify

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jackredfieldwasmyjacob · 5 months

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OT 2023 - GALA 1

We're back aaaaaa !!!! Anyways, just as I did with OT 2020, I will be talking about my top 3 favourite performances every week, as well as some honourable mentions. These posts will work a bit different than the OT 2020 ones tho, cause now the show is exclusively streamed in Prime Video, which means they do not upload the full performances to youtube, only 40 second clips. So, what I will do is link those clips in the honorable mentions and in the titles of my top 3, but I will include the full videos for the pases de micros. For the uninitiated, there are two pases de micros during the weeks; these are performances in the academy in front of the teachers that measure how they are doing and what things they should improve and stuff. Normally I will be posting the second one, cause those are usually best.

Update 28/01. I've updated all links to the full performances in the gala.

Anyways, let's start with some honorable mentions <3

Libertad - OT 2020: The first group song! I would say it was a perfect choice, this song really is perfect as a group song, and they sounded pretty good I think (except Suzette who didn't say her lines

Save your tears - Cris and Ruslana: They were good enough I would say! I thought they sounded good, and I really liked the scenography and such. Good performance 👍.

3. EL ENCUENTRO - PAUL & CHIARA

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Here is the original song, by Alizzz and Amaia :)

When I tell you I gasped when they gave them this song... El Encuentro is one of those songs that make me go feral, it's incredible and a bop and I've experienced it live (with both Amaia AND Alizzz !!!) and it's soooo good I love the feeling it expresses and the way it expresses it and yeah.... I'm so happy they got to sing it. I would say Chiara and Paul were perfect for it, they sounded so freaking good and I loved the acting (which becomes even better now that we know Paul has a crush on Chiara sjdsjdj). Also Paul !!! he was the favourite of the gala (SO DESERVED) and he's one of my faves so yeah :) loved this :)

2. PARA NO VERTE MÁS - ÁLVARO & NAIARA

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Here is the original song, by La Mosca Tse-Tse !

Álvaro and Naiara, my favourite twink and choni duo... They're so iconic... Anyways, they had imo the hardest song to defend (not the most difficult but the most 'nominable' one) and they took a glance at that and said 'no thank you <3'. They were great, ate and left no crumbs, made it so so fun !!! They're the best, also Naiara has such a beautiful voice, possibly my favourite this edition.

1. A TU VERA - SALMA & JUANJO

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Here is the original, by the one and only Lola Flores (La Faraona!!!!!!!!)

THIS SONG. OF COURSE THIS WAS GOING TO BE NUMBER ONE. They were the best ones in the gala by far, and they deserved to shine so much, they worked so hard and had such a lovely connection and friendship, they're everything to me <3 Salma and Juanjo are rapidly becoming my favourites and I want to see them in other styles cause they're both folklore singers (Salma with flamenco and Juanjo with jotas) so this song was made for them. Even then, again, this performance was perfect, no notes.

And that was all! Overall, an average gala? I mean, it was the first one, my expectations weren't too high lol. Let's see what next week brings us, with two trios and both an Ana Mena AND a La La Love You song !!!! The nominees are Suzette and Lucas, and I'm not really rooting for any of them in particular, so I have no idea how it'll be go. Nevertheless, I am back hooked to OT, it was so quick lmao.

#vivitalksot #ot #operacion triunfo #ot 2023 #WE'RE BACK !!!!!!#Youtube

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pinkacadessays · 7 months

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Social Media, E@ing D!sorders, and a Debate I lost in High School: Typed Up Edition

Obvious Warning for Content. I don't necesarily agree with everything herein, its just the nature of debates. Resources for EDs below essay.

Last Warning for those who might be triggered.

An Introduction to Why I'm Doing This

I’ve been haunted by the memory of a high school debate for the guts of a decade since it passed. In class, our teacher paired us up and gave us topics to research, and positions to hold in a binary question- one student for, one student against. To myself and my partner- or rather, my opposition- the question was “does social media cause eating disorders?” and my job was to prove that they didn’t.

Let’s talk a little bit about why I was the wrong person for this as a fifteen-year-old, or whatever the hell age I was doing this, I blocked out most of high school… anyway…

I was a little know-it-all who was sitting on the top-predicted grade in our class, predicted among the top in our year, and that had gotten to my head. I also had an eating disorder and I was in serious denial about it. I’m still working to get better years later…

Oh and also, I knew nothing about social media because I barely used it, and I would delete ALL my accounts over the course of the next two or three years… So, I was NOT educated about either aspect of this topic, are you joking?

But most importantly, I did not do my research, I barely knew how, and I didn’t even get a pity vote in the debate! Hell, I wanted to vote for the other girl- in part because I had a crush on her and no other friends in that class, so there’s that.

So, this is my redemption. I know how to research now, I love doing research, and I’m more willing to confront my own issues head-on… and I’m not going up against my first girl-crush this time, so I might make it work.

An Introduction to the Topic at Hand

Eating disorders are about as much of a part of internet culture as cat videos and vine. It’s not like I’m going to sit here and lie to your faces and act as if pro-ana isn’t a significant community on tumblr, or as if Instagram isn’t a cesspit of anorexia, or any other of the countless problems that could be listed on this topic alone.

But I’m here today to prove to you that the notion of social media causing eating disorders… is bullshit. Social media doesn’t cause eating disorders; it doesn’t cause anything, it’s an inherently neutral force with no biases or agendas.

While I will be addressing the issues, I will also be analysing a history of social media compared to a history of eating disorders, and analysing the benefits of social media too to prove social media’s innocence in the face of this accusation.

Point One: Well, it’s Not Like They Don’t

Not to do my opponant’s job for her, but I’m not going to ignore the evidence just to make a point. There is of course evidence to support the idea that eating disorders are directly linked to social media.

I’m going to confess as well that the only social media platforms I regularly use are among the heaviest hitters…

My point here isn’t to deny that, ot to diminish the horrible affects that are evident here; my point is only to acknowledge that it is not social media itself that is to blame, and that there are benefits to social media too.

Point Two: A Brief History of Social Media

In the grand history of the world, social media is pretty new. We joke about Facebook being for old people and for our grandparents, but its fewer than twenty years old. It’s the oldest on this list, with the newest being TikTok at less than a decade old… are we really going to say the “cause” of eating disorders is something that’s been there for five minutes in the scheme of things?

And yes, I am going to be pedantic about definitions of terms. I have an eating disorder and I deleted Instagram because of it, I need this angle.

Point Three: Eating Disorders Before Social Media

Eating disorders are a whole lot older than Facebook, and even than Facebook’s geriatric userbase, and frankly, the little voice in my head that reminds me to check calories before I get a damn smoothie talks more sense than some of those Facebook mum groups. We need to go a hell of a lot further than twenty years to get the full picture of the true cause of eating disorders, but if we even go back fifty years, we get the true insidious history of these horrible diseases.

In the nineteen seventies, one of the ideal images of a woman, who at the time was the thin, pretty it-girl who would have been as popular on tumblr as Taylor Swift was in 2014. She had the bodytype sought by many in the 2010s. While we’ll touch more on heroin chic later, the highly-romanticised Syd and Nancy have had a social ideal projected retroactively onto their waifish and ill figures- with of course the Sex Pistols being sex icons of the day.

In the 80s, we saw the rise of the exercise video encouraging losing weight from home, including notorious titles such as Jazzercise in 1982 featuring the quote “the bigger the circle, the thinner the waist,” reminding the participants of their goal. I’m sure we’ve all heard of Buns of Steel, even if just referenced by Tai in Clueless.

Speaking of Clueless, we go on now to the nineties and return to the mentioned heroin chic. It Girl Kate Moss really did damage when she practically became of the face of an art movement devoted to people who were skinny due to use of heroin, with a boyfriend of Kate’s, the Libertines Peter Doherty being seen carving into his bare chest in a similar fashion to the previously mentioned Syd Vicious.

Only now do we get into the early days of social media in the early-mid 2000s, and its clear to me at least that eating disorders are a pre-existing condition.

Point Four: But that’s Not All

So, if not social media, then what was the cause of eating disorders? Well, the short answer is that nobody actually knows. But one of the proposed theories is that genetics plays a huge factor in the development of eating disorders from anorexia, to bullimia, and others in between.

Two quotes here from Cynthia M. Bulik and her co-authors on these two papers higlight the truths of genetic factors in eating disorders. “Eating disorders aggregate in families, and twin studies reveal that additive genetic factors account for approximately 40% to 60% of liability to anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge eating disorder (BED).”

The significant role genetic factors play in the development of eating disorders is becoming increasingly clear. It has been suggested that about 50% of eating disorder cases are attributable to genetics.

Other suggestions include a connection to OCD, dietary requirements or coeliac disease, or even personality traits such as perfectionism. There are also theories relatedto child abuse, parental influences, peer pressure, and yes, social media; because again, it would be dense to ignore that social media can have a part to play, but it would be foolish to condense the argument down to a simplistic yes or no.

Point Five: Benefits of Social Media

I also want to point out that there are serious benefits to use of social media too. And I want it to be known that I deleted most of my social media accounts a few years ago… because they were fuelling my eating disorder. Trust me, I’m as skeptical as anyone else. But I’m going to talk about it.

First, generally, the site Digital Citizenship points out that “Social media, when used in a responsible and age-appropriate way, can help children learn, think critically and build the skills they need for the future.”

Moving onto eating disorder-specific uses for social media, while there are certainly harmful parts of social media, there are also aspects that can be beneficial. YouTuber Ro Mitchell, to name an example, documents her recovery from an eating disorder on her channel, and she’s not the only one.

Conclusion

Social Media in and of itself is not to blame. Blaming social media just creates a scapegoat and shoves the problem under the rug. But do they actually cause them? Or do they exacerbate a problem already there?

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neurodivenport · 1 year

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i'm gonna talk about the oc in this post because i love her dearly.. one of the ocs i've had the longest & has been through so many changes lmao. originally an x-men oc but once i got out of that phase i still loved her & wanted to adapt her to a different media. she’s currently pretty multi-verse and i basically just insert her into like… every superhero related fanbase i get fixated on

tw for shitty parental relationships & talks of trauma!!

her name is august riley. she’s had sooo many fcs over time but her current one is ruby campbell!! she might be the permanent one since i’ve been stuck on her for like a year and a half lmao

she’s a heroine with empathetic & telepathic abilities.

she was born into a family that had little to no experience with superpowered people, so they never realized she was one until later in her life. since her powers weren’t necessarily flashy, she didn’t realize it herself and figured the constant influx of other people’s emotions and thoughts was just kind of normal.

this snippet i posted a while ago was actually from her character study i did:

over time, when she expressed how she could really feel how others felt, really get into their heads, and nobody else had the same experience- she realized she might be different. a teacher at her elementary school was the only one to really take her aside and talk to her about it. she never had a good relationship with her parents, so she begged her not to tell them, but she did anyway.

since she grew up in a very small town, they all immediately saw her as something dangerous. august was taken in for various scientific valuations, many that left her scarred physically and emotionally afterwards. once they decided this literal child wasn’t a threat, she was sent back to continue her education.

(i feel like i should put… a trigger warning here, but idk what kind i would put?)

after that, she had to move towns and schools, traveling far away from her cultivated life & friends. her parents never really saw her the same, abandoning her emotionally. think matilda type parenting.

somewhere in her highschool years she experienced some sexual trauma but i’m not gonna fully get into that xoxo

since everyone thinks so differently- tried to get a hold on other people’s thoughts and emotions by drawing out everything she saw in a quest to decipher them. it sometimes worked, but more often than not it didn’t. her notebooks became filled with other people’s thoughts.

once she was old enough to move out, she left town, moving to a bigger city, hoping that she would be understood better and not regarded as a freak.

since she was still haunted by the memory of her bully, and her parents, she kept a solitary life, rarely connecting with friends and only keeping few by her side for fear they’d end up like he did. she kept making art, becoming a painter with a fairly big online following.

how i think she fits into the ef universe, she lives in an apartment underneath the force’s. after they move in, she keeps seeing the same dreams over and over, and never her own.

after some investigating she realized her dreams are other peoples. olivers dreams about her mother, skylar’s about her home planet, and chase and bree’s trauma nightmares.

when she starts seeing them around the building, she starts recognizing them from her dreams and becomes interested in why its them that keeps showing up.

stuff happens from there that i’m still working out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

here’s some fun factz about her!!

she doesn’t really have a sexuality label, she takes people just as they come.

she has ptsd + ocd, most of her rituals surrounding numbers and symmetry

despite the fact that she tries to stay solitary, she feels super deeply, and gets very emotionally attached pretty fast. she’s also a hopeless romantic from the books she grew up reading, but is always too scared to actually find romance herself.

is a pretty big insomniac, because she feels insanely guilty about accidentally spying on other people’s dreams constantly

undiagnosed autistic. tbh all of my ocs are on the spectrum LMAO

she also feels very guilty and is nervous about accidentally reading people’s minds without their consent, so she usually keeps headphones in with music playing to try and drown it out

she’s spent so much time with herself that she now has full control over her abilities, but that control tends to waver depending on her own emotions

can probably recite literally any book word for word. huge bookworm. absolute nerd.

dissociates a lot

she loves great danes. adores em. 99% of her camera roll are great dane memes

she needs glasses (near sighted) but literally always forgets them

is amazing at cooking. she always had to cook for herself as a kid, might as well get fancy with it

loves cooking shows too, but gets uncomfortably angry over them sometimes

powers list!!

telepathy

thought manipulation

dream seeking

psychometry

empathy

dowsing

#ocs #august

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ouisrslyneed1feralacadamiablog · 2 years

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Now that Sandman is kinda trending I thought I might give my shitty list of things, that were written by Neil Gaiman, for people to read. Enjoy. Or not. (Btw I did not read every single thing he wrote, 'cus that's like a lot and i have somewhat of a social life and other hobbies, but a part of my bookshelf is dedicated to his books so idk maybe I am semi qualified like my old PE teacher who was 100% stoned at all times and wasn't even a real teacher). Also I kinda left out good omens since I think it doesn't need to be mentioned anyways, its a work of art go read it. Additionally I have zero knowledge with comics so yeah u can Google his involvement with comics on ur own.

- the ocean at the end of the line.

I love it. Was genuinely horrific at points. Loved that. ( insert essay on how the book feels like a children's book written by him, but at the same time it's not and dont give your children that to read. Or do. Am i ur mom) anyway there is a very pretty version of it out with lots of pretty pictures in black and white.

10/10 will not read again I already have sleeping problems

- a study in emerald

As a lover for cosmic horror and sherlock homes, this was amazing. U can read it for free online. There is a comic/visual novel(? Idk it is all pictures and text) it's very good.

Can someone explain y most of Neil Gaimans work is illustrated. It's cool but ot doesn't seem very common with other authors.

10/10 more green slimy things yes pls

- his children's books r cool I guess

Coraline, the milk one, I am to lazy to get up from my bed but u know which one if u google it, and the graveyard book. Again all illustrated and/or haver graphic novels(whats the difference between graphic novels and comics/gen)

10/10 they make me feel like I had a cozy and happy childhood

- the sleeper and the spindle

Did I buy this one because it had two pretty lady's kissing? Maybe, but I am just too gay not to. Again illustrated. Chris Riddell did great with this one(I got up from my bed for this, btw it's 'fortunately the milk' for the book that I mentioned before) it's surprising to say the least. A twist on a classic tale.

10/10 pretty pictures, pretty ladies and a pretty story what else do u need

- the view from the cheap seats

Tbh I bought it on sale because no way am I paying 30 euros for a collection of essays and forewords. It was interesting? I guess. I enjoyed it. Half the time I didn't know what he was talking about. But maybe that was just me being on painmeds at the time of reading.

10/10 got some nice book recommendations that I probably never gonna read.

- American gods and anansi boys

So I know that American gods is kinda known and so on, but I never see much about the 'sequel'( it's not really a sequel as much it is just a different tale in the same universe with one reoccurring character. But he dies in like the first few chapters lol. Kinda.) Anyways. I enjoyed it a bit more. Take that with a grain of salt, because I can't remember shit from the books. Again it's either my very horrible memory or the painmeds. But I remember they were entertaining.

10/10 don't give Blowjobs to people who r driving a car. That's irresponsible. Just don't. (How is that pretty much the only part I remember) there is a short story that acts a bit like an epilogue or side story for American gods. Its good. Again I can't remember the plot, I just remember that it contained an important piece of lore that's finally got confirmed with the side story.

- his short stories

Mmmmmmmh. Read at own risk. I still wake up in sweat at night because of that one short story about narnia. It disturbed me. Alot. I remember Neil Gaiman wrote about this short story in the collection of essays. I hope he loves fucking with people's heads, because he certainly gave me a serious brainfuck. Then again one of the books with a collecting of sort stories is called 'trigger warning' so maybe read that as a real warning lol.

10/10 I am too stupid to understand some of his short stories (certified idiot). But a fool doesn't need to know the intentions of things, he can make fun of it regardless. Anyways. They good. They make idiot happy or sad. Depends on the story. Most likely sad and depressed. Read at ur own risk.

#neil gaiman #feral academia #academia #feral #chaotic academia #feral academic #literature #book recommendations #i am praying to the gods of gay dont make him see this #the sandman #sandman #i guess #i am not proofreading #do i look like an english major?#i minor in italian

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biohazzard121 · 2 years

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Summer is just around the corner for most of us, & i know with the new Werewolf DLC coming al ot of poses makers will probably be working on Poses for them, [Me Included] But i wanted to wait to see who the sims are gonna end up in Gallery best guest like Vampires/Mermaids with human form as primary and Secondary showing human/Alter ego. Anyway off track. So for the past few days i’ve been working on Summer Heat it was a pose i wanted to do to show off a couple of sims i was actually quite proud of,

“Issac Jones Visited Sulani, Not only did he fall in love with the Island itself but he fell hard for a local Girl called Crestella “Stella’ Roe, she was a local primary school teacher with a secret. she was a mermaid. the relationship blossomed and they both gain a few skills. He became a lifeguard. then one cool summer evening Issac plucked up the courage & asked Stella to marry him, at first she said no, Human & Mermaid it could never be, her father wouldn’t allow such a union, Issac was heart broken for a while, and Stella couldn’t stand it, so confessing her love to Issac she showed him why she had said No, Issac smiled, deep down he knew, he’d started to suspect when Stella used to disappear late at night, she refused to swim in the water with him. Issac & Stella are engaged and don’t care what people think about the union”.

Anyway that was the sims version i wanted to upload, but when i threw them back into CAS, after gaining the skills, moving them in together getting them engaged etc. The game said they where CC sims.

Now when i’m pose testing i REMOVE all my mods i just have a folder that says Resource & The current pose NOTHING else, but i’ve noticed that SpellCasters are the same once they start learning their skills and spells.....

Any The “Summer Heat Pose” will be available soon currently its only Male/Female [Tester Pose] & Requires the NO Randomization Mod to work. i’m adding more files, so the sims will have a pose choice but it will not be generic not at the moment Limited time, Sorry.

#Biohazzard121 #Sims 4

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godddd i love sending you these silly messages ots so fun, anyways here in chile you start school at the age of 5 in parvulario until you reach the age of 9 (educación básica) and you start third grade which adds one and a half hours to your daily schedule, so you start at 8AM and then leave at 3:30PM, then you reach the age of 15 and leave at 5:10PM and that is called “educación media”

however this is how some schools work, here in chile we have a different type of school which is called “liceo” and it's different from a “colegio” (which is where i study) and idk much about that so i’ll try searching it up to explain it to you

also that is great!!! i truly hope the rest of march goes smoothly for you as well and that you gozar of good health for the rest of the year. anything you wanna share with us from your week? it honestly felt empty without you after stg ended:( BUT I LOVES THE BONUS CHAPTER! also how does a college work? i start school in two more days 😭 i am guessing you are about to reach your own vacations though?

take care !! sending many hugssss

- 🐣 anon

leaving school at 5:10pm is crazy??? i hope you guys get enough breaks!!! (i say this like my college doesn’t finish at 4:15pm loll) from using google translate, i’m understanding that educación media is like secondary lessons so im assuming it’s like a club? or maybe i’m wrong 😭 and it says liceo means smth like lyceum and colegio is like just school? idk but that’s so interesting to hear that the education system is different over there, but at the same it’s expected.

nothing interesting happened in my week tbh, i have an appointment so i won’t be going to college since i only have a half day there anyways, other than that, i unfortunately got sick and am typing this with a blocked nose and sneezes. it felt like i was gone for a month lol because normally i’ll just gone for two days but i took a nice week off which honestly was needed i guess, idk how much i’ll be active for the upcoming month but i’ll try to be active :) missed you lot

i think easter holidays are coming soon so i’ll be looking forward to that.. for me, in college, i only do a single subject (i do software development) and my whole timetable is just filled with that subject with different teachers, and then you have a single day where i have a personal development class (it’s just us going having discussions about different topics and all). sometimes i have half days, sometimes i have a full day, sometimes i have a day off. tbh nothing that awesome i hate this place loll

anyways i hope you had a nice dayyyy 💗💗❤️❤️

#asks.#from 🐣 anon #also idk why it only hit me now that you speak spanish if you’re from chile omg 💀

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