#which means if i could make money doing it then i could like. actually feasibly do it as a job maybe

[slugandthorn]

pain and agony of having so much to learn to make more things but I need a job/further schooling to learn but I have to have made the things first

#.txt #Painful cycle unable to find value in my art but I already gave up and I'm already trying again some one needs to make this easier #And I think my life would be simpler if I just focused on drawing over 3D and tech anim but the time it would take #To function at a professional level as some sort of concept artist. #Also fine artist and concept artist community is well. Unfortunately unbearable. #Lacking so much animation experience in 2D and 3D I'm having trouble focusing on it to move forward. #The most experience I have is in 3D character art at this point probably but inability to finish things which also plagues #Every other concentration. As well. #I am sitting alone in the room trying to find something of value to express and it will never reach anyone. Existential dread like. #I think it's the searching for storytelling skills limiting me because I do not have the competitive nature #To be that into raw technical skills. Which is killing my ability to make a portfolio. #If I had more time to just keep on keeping on at my part time job I think I would just make the graphic novel I want to make. #To have something expressed and in the world. And then I could actually focus on technical things. #But this thinking has just become a roadblock it is not feasible but I do have several paths planned I just have to. #Recognize what is useful to me. But not just giving up anytime I have a new idea. #My interest goes between implementing animation within a greater scene and also the technical minutia I think is whats killing me. #Making multiple portfolios at once. Which isn't so bad bc ideally I'd be doing generalist work. But generalist means more time limitations. #My brain is convinced it can just work past time as a factor. Which is how we reach the problem I am having now (need money). #I think something I need to recognize is I've always thought my perspective and understanding of stories held some value. #But that only stands from my own perspective and it does not have value outside of that. #Even if it does reach other people it does not retain interest. And while it benefits me internally. I'm not making a career of it. #Which is fine. #I think the things I valued from story can still be found in technical skills. And anyone can develop a technical skill with some time. #If I keep my focus. #I think that's something close to a resolution I've been looking for. Been needing some profound change in my life and I think the desire #And constant failure of communication has been what's preventing me from moving forward. #I want to go out and do things. That is possible. Focus on skill and ability. Maybe the other stuff will come later. #Digesting this and hopefully not spending my days sleeping anymore.

[tsams-confessions]

Monty is the worst character in the Security Breach Show world, or at the very least between SAMS, LAES, and MGAFS. And I mean that: I have never hated a character in ANY media more than I hate Monty.

Monty is rude, aggressive, greedy, and doesn’t give a fuck about the people around him. From the very beginning, when he was shown in SAMS, he was an asshole: they destroyed Sun and Moon’s mini daycare area after Sun hired them to take care of it, scammed Sun with their space business thing, and exploited Moon for his money. And you would think that during the Eclipse arc(s) that she would improve because people she interacts with are getting hurt, and their world could potentially get destroyed, and yes, she did do some good things and had been a big help for the celestial family, BUT none of those “acts of kindness” were truly long-term.

When Earth was introduced as a character — who, by the way, is the only damn reason I want Monty to stay alive and well because I know that Earth will be upset should something like that happen — Monty immediately pined on her, but in the worse way he could’ve: he set himself and Earth on dates when Earth had absolutely NO CLUE that the dates they were going on were romantic and deliberately lied about his past to keep Earth from finding out the terrible things he’d done. Actually, I hate Monty x Earth as a whole because Earth is much too good for someone like them. Monty is an absolute simp for her, and usually that can be cute and stuff, but he’s ONLY nice to her.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Monty quite literally BEAT OLD FOXY SO HARD that his memories hit reset, to which he rebuilt him and essentially made current Foxy his best friend. But the minute Earth came into the picture and they started officially dating, Foxy was abandoned and is still consistently treated like garbage by the person who was deemed his greatest friend. I mean, in the episode where Monty gets her more feminine body, she goes to Foxy’s house to APOLOGIZE for being a shitty person to him, and what does he do the VERY NEXT EPISODE he’s with Foxy in? HE KNOCKS FOXY UNCONSCIOUS AND TURNS HIM INTO A FOX PLUSH TO GET BACK AT HIM FOR SOMETHING THAT WASN’T EVEN HIS FAULT.

Not to mention, Monty had straight up THREATENED both Solar and Ruin all because of her own rage against Stitchwraith. I understand she was going through a hard time, but NEVER has she taken responsibility for those outbursts nor has she even APOLOGIZED. In addition, she MURDERED a helpless version of Stitchwraith from another universe all because he was a Stitchwraith, and she didn’t get the information she wanted out of him EVEN THOUGH PUPPET EXPLICITLY TOLD HER NOT TO RESORT TO VIOLENCE.

The way he ignores people’s advice, well-beings, etc. for his own selfish reasons make me genuinely hate Monty as a person and as a character, especially because he’s supposed to be a “good guy” that has “improved” since the beginning of SAMS. I could honestly rant forever about how terrible Monty is, but then this would be far too long. I honestly hope to god that Earth eventually puts her foot down and corrects Monty about their behavior because that seems like it’ll be the only feasible way that Monty can truly improve since Earth’s the only one they listen to in some capacity

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#sun and moon show #the sun and moon show #tsams #sams #tsams confession #< block this if you dont want to see these #mod 1blood

[endiness]

(the following contains book and show spoilers.)

i have to say, i think the main reason why radovid was aged up beyond the romance with jaskier was to provide redania with the stability it lacked in the books after vizimir was assassinated in order for the show to have a central pov for the north. because the show almost has that with philippa and dijkstra, but the one area that's really lacking — if the show stuck exactly to the books — is the war itself as redania was not in a place where it could fight until the end of the series. but aging radovid up old enough to be king should fix that issue by virtue of redania actually having a leader and therefore not falling into chaos. and even with that change, the show could still feature later issues redania runs into with the war just by having them run out of money by the end of the series and needing more and/or facing so many losses in their army that they need to hire more soldiers.

and within that whole idea, i can see the show using radovid as a substitute for other northern nobility and royalty. like, given the little that is known about radovid in the books and what philippa's plans in them are, the show could easily use radovid in tankred's role as both characters were almost betrothed to ciri in the books. (and i say this fully as a radskier shipper in radskier shipping mode, but i am still ✨ manifesting ✨ radovid being used as a daniel etcheverry replacement.) (also, like, insert speculation about radovid being jaskier's anna henrietta here.)

all of which is to say that i think it makes sense that the show would do something like that — having a central pov for the north and condensing things a bit — because it is a tv show, and one with only 8 episodes per season at that, and as such there's a limited amount of time to work with. the show's focus just with next season alone will already be split enough as it is between geralt, jaskier, and the hansa; ciri and the rats (and bonhart); yennefer and the lodge; francesca and the elves and the scoia'tael; and nilfgaard with emhyr (plus wherever vilgefortz may fall into.) philippa, dijkstra, and king!radovid round out a northern pov — the one pov that's missing — without having to split the focus even more if the rest of the northern nations were really featured. (just to say: i don't think that means the show will erase the rest of the nations, i just think that when it comes to having a central one to focus on, it'll likely be redania.)

(also just to add: i think radovid being aged up old enough to be king likely has to do with philippa, too, and her storyline — or lack thereof. because yennefer has largely taken her role in the lodge, so she kind of needs another storyline to focus on. at least initially, anyway, as i suspect yennefer will eventually leave the lodge to go to skellige and try to find ciri. but in the meantime, philippa still needs a plot and puppeting king radovid makes sense given everything that happened last season.)

but just to bring it back around to the radskier of it all... i think these reasons are why it does make sense that the show would make them love interests. jaskier is already connected to redania by virtue of being the sandpiper, so they have completely feasible reasons to know of each other, meet each other, and fall for each other — and all without taking up time introducing someone that would never have the same political impact and ramifications to the plot that radovid does by being older. (which i do still largely think was the point of aging him up.)

and then there's how their relationship will affect everything in the future — and we know per lauren that their relationship is going to have ripple effects in the future. i know there's been some speculation that losing jaskier on top of everything else will turn radovid ~evil, but i think that's speculation largely based off of the games — which the show has nothing to do with. i think what will happen is actually the opposite and that radovid will try and do his best to remain a good person and a good king — which imo also makes the most narrative sense, too, given that the place we last left off with them was radovid basically vowing to jaskier that he would prove himself to him. he can't exactly do that in person anymore, but he can still try to prove himself to jaskier even if he’s not with him.

plus i still think that the show hasn't based radovid solely off the stern, either, and that he'll end up being more of an amalgamation of all of the king radovids throughout redania's history. and as far as i know, no one on the show has ever confirmed which radovid he's supposed to be based off of and the only thing we do know is that lauren said he's a character that "continues to show up in the books." but that's a description that fits the stern, the bold, and the great. so i think it's entirely possible that through having met jaskier and falling for him, radovid will end up as the great rather than the stern. (also something something radovid, like the bold, going to kovir.)

and just as far as jaskier's side of things go... obviously there's speculation about radovid being jaskier's anna henrietta. which imo does have merit given radovid's status in society and how what we saw of their relationship in s3 fits the picture (and even the timeline, if only vaguely) of jaskier and anna henrietta's romance prior to the books. i don't know how the logistics of it would work exactly, but i think it's completely possible that when jaskier and geralt (+hansa) separate that jaskier somehow stays with radovid. because jaskier really does need to be put on a busTM to escape the fate of the rest of the hansa, and radovid fulfils the same role of jaskier's love interest that anna henrietta did.

and just for one last thing. but it includes season 4 spoilers. like, for real writer's room spoilers. so, y'know, beware of the following if you're trying to avoid those.

imo the leak that happened already kind of proves at least some of my speculation and theories, specifically about radovid and redania being used as a central pov for the north. because they say radovid will lead the troops out into battle when geralt and jaskier escape the northern army camp. but in the books, the forces at the northern army camp were from cintra and temeria. but in the show, the only forces we know for sure are there are from redania as radovid is the one leading them. so either redania has replaced both forces (i don’t see this as likely as the show could’ve just said ‘redanian army camp’ if it were only them, but it’s referred to as ‘the northern army camp’ which implies multiple northern forces), they're there in addition to both forces, or they've replaced one of the forces — likely temeria. either way, it probably means that radovid will either be there as a daniel etcheverry replacement or a vissegerd replacement.

#radskier #radovid #jaskier #the witcher #!txt: the witcher #the witcher spoilers #spoilers for the books and s4 #...

[i-write-boop-spoops]

Guzma as an expecting father! headcanons

ignore the fact I'm a day late for father's day, it's dilf! guzma time!

features: pregnancy and discussion of symptoms, a smidge of angst, and some mild references to sex

Enjoy!

Oh shit.

Well, this wasn’t part of the plan

It’s not necessarily unexpected though

Admittedly, you two had been rather lax when it came to protection

And as much as he talked up his pull-out game, Guzma found it very hard to put his money where his mouth is when he’s about to bust a fat nut

So here you are

His baby

His fucking cinnamon applin

Almost in tears as you tell him that you’re pregnant

From all the shock, he doesn’t know what to say

He doesn’t know what to feel either

His mind is a swirl of emotions

It takes him a moment (or several minutes) to fully comprehend the situation

Not great, since you’re freaking the fuck out waiting for his response

Eventually, he just gives you a big, reassuring hug and tells you that he’s here for you, and your baby too.

In reality, Guzma likes the idea of having a family with you

And you’re his boo, he’d do anything to support you, no matter what

He really really wants to be a good dad

A provider for your burgeoning family

The kind of man you deserve

So first things first – well after he takes you both out for malasadas to calm yourselves down and celebrate - he’s gotta get a job

He’ll take anything

Fast-food chef, janitorial duties, cashier, Pyukumuku thrower…

Hopefully some professional battling to get some legit earnings

Next thing, you two are moving OUT of the Shady House

And by extension Po Town

That place is not suitable for babies

You don’t stray too far though

Getting yourselves a cramped (but thankfully two-bed) apartment in Malie City

Lowkey

And by that, I mean HIGHKEY

Guzma thinks you’re hot af pregnant

Man is like 100 times more handsy

Which is wild considering how handsy he already was

But his touches are a lot gentlerand loving

Though still quite protective and possessive

My man may or may not have shed a tear when he felt that first kick

Guzma goes back and forth on whether or not to propose to you

On one hand, he loves you, and he wants to give your baby a more stable home

But on the other, he doesn’t want you to feel like he’s just doing this because you’re pregnant and it’s “the right thing to do”

Plus, weddings are so stressful

And expensive!

Eventually, he decides to wait until after your baby is here to propose

After all, they’d make such a cute little flower boy/girl on the big day!

God-mon Plumeria!

You two set up the cutest little nursery for youe baby

Ideally he wanted to fill it with brand-new stuff

But that wasn’t totally feasible, so many things are second-hand

Some from when you were born!

One of the new items though, is a cutiefly teddy

It was the first thing he bought for the baby

First thing he bought from his first pay-cheque actually

Walking home tired and stressed from his first week on the job

He’s usually pretty good at dealing with your symptoms

Gives you back-rubs, holds your hair back when you’re getting sick, over-indulges your weird-cravings…

Seriously he went out at four a.m. trying to find somewhere that sold pickled lumberries so you could have them with some yogurt and peanut butter

Though considering the fact he is new to all this + he has 0 patience things can get a bit hairy sometimes

Like he is not good at handling any mood-swings

Or when baby kicks him in his sleep

One thing he does enjoy about you being pregnant is that you’ve taken to wearing his clothes a lot more

They’re big on you, so they’re perfect for your changing body

We all know how he feels about you in his clothes 👀

He keeps ultrasound pictures on him at all times

Just as a reminder of his little larva

Makes the tough days easier

He loves being the big spoon even more now

Finding great comfort and excitement in holding you and cradling your bump while he falls asleep

When baby finally comes

Yall know ya boi is gonna be right by your side

Doing his best to support you through this traumatic, demanding time

(though I can also totally see him just chilling, casually eating a sandwich while you’re pushing out a LITERAL human baby from your bits)

Once baby pops out, and you get to hold your little one

Guzma wraps his arms around both of you, gazing at the wonderful life you’ve created together

And after a moment he asks:

“So, Guzma Jr.?”

“Absolutely not!”

#guzma #guzma x reader #guzma pokemon #guzma headcanons #guzma pokemon x reader #guzma pokemon headcanons #ya boi guzma #pregnancy

[killian-whump]

Okay... so there's a new Colin interview here. It's a joint interview with Rothberg, so be warned of that if he's someone you can't stand. Like all of us. We all can't stand him.

ANYWAY. Moving on. I'm going to put my thoughts about it here, because I have a lot of thoughts - some good, some not-so-good, and I like to share them. Plus, I'm a little bored.

Colin says this about the TSR show: "I love music, I love acting, I love film, and it was an opportunity to get to speak to some really incredible creators and stuff like that, so it was a lot of fun." Which is exactly what I've thought all along - he's in it for the fun of talking to some rock stars about topics he loves. No news there.

He talks more about the interviews and interviewing and the interviewees and... if you're seeing a trend here, I don't think that's on accident. It's obvious this is what Colin's involvement is about. I don't honestly think he could care less about the tech aspects of the project.

Which is why, predictably, as soon as they start talking tech nonsense, they switch to talking to Rothberg. He babbles some bullshit, throwing tech buzzwords around like confetti, then tries to drag Colin into his bullshit by reminding everyone he's a producer on the show: "Having his tutorage, you know, and I've worked in the industry for many years, but his insights into producing is mind-blowing. It was something I was actually shocked to actually see the levels of his knowledge and his foresight, and it has really kept the team going."

Now listen. Being a "producer" on a project can mean anything from nothing to everything, and we don't know where the truth lies - but I don't see Rothberg giving Colin much creative control here at all. Maybe - Maybe - when it comes to the actual interviews and the people/subjects they choose to focus on - you know, the interview stuff Colin's interested in here that Rothberg doesn't seem to give two shits about. But the rest of this project, all the parts we don't like, I highly doubt Colin's leading the team on that front. But nice try at trying to make it sound like he's involved in your tech bro nonsense, Rothberg. Nice try.

And then Colin interrupts Rothberg with, "I only played it down so that he'd say something nice about me. That’s all." Classic Colin being Colin and saying Colin things. But... we also know why he played it down, lol. We know, baby. It's okay. We love you.

So then they start talking about Colin's music career and Rothberg says, "We have very big exciting plans for Colin’s music stuff."

NO YOU DON'T.

BITCH, YOU DON'T.

Don't you touch my baby's music stuff. Don't you even breathe on it. Don't you look at it. It's not for you. I swear to God, if you taint his lovely musical offerings with your money-grubbing douchebag ways, I will hunt you down and do terrible things to you. I'm so upset right now, I cannot even think of terrible things to do to you, but believe me, I will think of them and do them and you will be sorry.

O'Donoghue just laughed, "I’m saying we’ll see. That’s what I’m saying." Oh. Oh, okay. That's Colin-speak for no. Whew. Do not let that man have anything to do with anything he doesn't already have his hands on, Colin.

I need a moment. I need to calm down. Dear God. I need a drink. Maybe a long vacation. I'm too old for this shit.

Anyway, so Rothberg goes on some more about the Metaverse and all these big plans about immersive games and meet-and-greets and a bunch of other things that are on the "roadmap" - a word that basically means nothing in meta-speak, because 95% of the things on it will never, ever happen. Tech bros are basically selling you the idea of things they could do - even though most of them are impossible and/or not financially feasible. He adds, "Of course, there'll be all kinds of wonderful retail opportunities." because of course there will be. If he could get away with it, he'd stick Colin in a box on a street corner and charge people a grand a pop just to look at him.

Then the interview gets to something actually interesting - Once Upon a Time. Even Colin gets visibly interested at this point: 'I also shared that I had purchased a prop from Once Upon a Time a few years ago. It wasn't particularly exciting (Liam Jones' enlistment papers from "Good Form"), but O'Donoghue instantly lit up.' This is why we love this precious cupcake. He wears his heart on his sleeve and when he loves something, you know it.

He takes the interviewer on an adorable tour of the stuff he took from the Once set that I think we're all jealous of. And he goes into what the interviewer calls a "passionate description" about the show and what it means to people and how much it means to him that he was able to be a part of it and... You know what? I'm just gonna say what I already said: When he loves something, you know it.

They talk about the possibility of a reunion (and nothing he says here is indicative of one in the works, so settle yourselves down) and Rothberg chimes in that they could do the reunion in the metaverse and Colin replies, "Or a reunion in the metaverse. But, look, what was great about Once Upon a Time..." which translates to:

Have I mentioned lately that I fucking love him?

The interview continues with more of Colin talking about his experiences on Once and... Look. It's obvious where his heart is and where it isn't - and overall, this is a good and fun interview with Colin, minus the parts where Rothberg and his dumb ideas have any part in what's going on.

And yes, we're going to keep dunking on Rothberg forever, because he's a coward who never once addressed those of us who were speaking out about the n-f-t nonsense for months - but then attacked someone speaking out for the first time because he thought he saw weakness in her that he could exploit and mock. In doing so, he exposed himself as an ableist asshole to us all, and I have no respect whatsoever for him. Also, you fuck with one of us, you fuck with all of us. We don't put up with bullies in this fandom.

But we sure do love Colin, and that hasn't changed.

And this project is all about using Colin's likeability, Once's popularity, and Colin's already-existing fanbase to prop up and fund Rothberg's tech bro fantasies. That hasn't changed, either.

But Colin knows what's up. We know what's up. We can enjoy the Colin goodness where it shines through and toss the rest.

#colin o'donoghue #purposely not tagging this #with anything else #except #tsr debacle

[northern-passage]

Hello! I have a few questions as someone who takes great inspiration from brilliant works of interaction fiction and similar methods of storytelling. I hope you don’t mind me asking!

1. If there something that draws you to the current format of interactive fiction storytelling rather than something such as a visual novel? Do you enjoy it more, is it less costly, easier for you, etc…?

2. What are some of the most prevalent difficulties in writing within the medium?

3. What do you wish you knew before you began writing interactive fiction?

Keep up the incredible work, I always love seeing what you post and create <3

ohhh these are fun questions :-) thank you!

question 1: i actually tried to do a visual novel first! but it is a LOT of work. i managed to do some sprites and a few backgrounds before i gave up. if i was to try and do it again i'd have to pay another artist to join me which just isn't feasible for me right now. i suppose the things i like about IF could be applied to VNs too, but i like what interactive fiction adds to whatever narrative you're trying to tell. the medium itself is a part of the story, if that makes sense. it can't exist without the main character who can't exist without a player to guide them. i like giving the player choices & i like taking them away. i like how vast the genre is, and i like seeing how other people use the mechanics and code to pull off some really interesting & unique stories.

question 2: hmmm i think what gets hard for me is just fatigue... when you write big branching narratives, you have to write a lot of tedious shit, hahaha. like currently with blood choke i've been working on the same conversation for about 3 weeks. there are dozens of variations of it, depending on who the mc is, what choices they've made, and how the other character feels about them, and whether or not the mc went with her or went with someone else means the conversation has to be shuffled around elsewhere in the chapter, and it's all extremely extremely tedious. it feels like you're writing so much, but it's literally just one conversation, one scene in the entire chapter. but you have to write it about 20 times. so it's easy in IF to run out of steam very quickly. i definitely think that's what happened with me with tnp, i hit a huge block after writing all of the combat variations in ch2, i was just so exhausted & knowing that i would have to write even more complex scenes at the end of the chapter accounting for all of it was very demoralizing. BUT i feel like my long break has helped quite a bit and i am excited to get back into tnp next month 😈

question 3: this one is tough... i'm not really sure, to be honest. i've been here for a while now and i feel pretty comfortable for the most part. i was a reader & a lurker before i started writing so i got to see a lot of the way other readers treat writers before i became one, which was helpful for me. i think if i could go back i'd tell myself that this was going to be a way bigger project than i anticipated. and also tell myself that this is my hobby and i should be having fun, not stressing or worrying about making money or pleasing other people. of course i want people to like my work and i appreciate their support, but that shouldn’t be the only reason why i'm writing… i’m writing because i want to.

#thanks again :-) #ask #anonymous

[shuttershocky]

Mahoyo was released in English before anything else because they were already making the port for JP and realized they have less to lose by experimenting with it, as the technical work for the JP side isn't as intensive as a new game. The game underperformed on PC in 2012, so giving it a second wind on consoles with voice acting and HD visuals made sense as a lower budget in-between game. I doubt they have some roadmap for international releases. It's still very much an afterthought. Since Glass Moon made back its money and Mahoyo's loc did well, they can justify the resources needed for localizing it so that they could localize Red Garden later too. Creating a Fate port seems less feasible to me for the JP side. There's nothing they could add to it to entice JP players. Most of them have already either played the game on watched the anime. If they haven't, they can play it whenever they want on their phone, as Realta Nua is fully available on the App and Play Stores. The people who played Mahoyo on PC picked up the console version for the new voice acting and HD visuals. Those are both available in the latest release of Realta Nua as well. I'll believe Type Moon sees the international audience as a priority when we see a Steam version of Mahoyo and Glass Moon (which Nasu said he wanted in that 4gamer interview). It's not impossible that they localize Fate, but I doubt it's a shoe-in since it's a release that would only really target the western and Chinese audience.

W

Why the fuck do you call Tsukihime that Blue Blue Glass Moon Under the Crimson Air doesn't actually mean anything in the title

Also while you're right that the International audience has always been an afterthought for, the success of Mahoyo's loc DESPITE Aniplex's barebones effort to market it is why I believe things will change. Through sheer power of word of mouth and a catchy hashtag they were like the 3rd best selling Switch game on Amazon in the middle of December, that's fucking nuts.

But I don't need to talk about Mahoyo OR Tsukihime's successes to argue for why a FSN English and Simplified Chinese release is viable, I only have to point out FGO

People were already playing FGO in Japanese and reading translations online. By the time FGO Global was launched, the Japanese version was ahead by a gargantuan two years. And still, not only has FGO's international versions survived for over half a decade, they've started making official releases for other Fate spinoffs with English and Simplified Chinese announced at the same time as the Japanese announcement (Samurai Remnant and Extra Record), once unthinkable.

They would have to hate money even more than they already do. They already tried burying Mahoyo and that didn't work, no way in hell is Fate/Stay goddamn Night an unviable project.

[isfjmel-phleg]

@fictionadventurer replied to your post: @lady-merian replied to your post: I won't be...

With Tamett, the most obvious concrete motive is money. Keeping this job to help out his family. But now I'm considering: what does Tamett think his long-term future looks like? He can't be Josiah's companion forever, can he? Is he preparing to be his father's heir? How does he feel about that? What kind of life is this education supposed to be preparing him for, and does it match the life he's likely to have? (Theoretically, does a past as the king's companion mean that adult-Tamett could count on the rewards that come from a friend in very high places?)

That's a good point! Tamett's family is indeed counting on the income his job brings in, and around the time he gets sent to school, there might be some new and urgent expenses that come up and increase the pressure for him to maintain the job, which means he would have to try extra hard to stay on Josiah's good side--not easy.

Tamett's family are basically landed gentry on a small scale, but rather impoverished by their class's standards, and as the only son, he is set to inherit the property whenever his father dies. He is not expected to take up a profession (as a younger brother of his, if he had one, would be expected to) but to go to school and later a university to study something generic and respectable before settling down to the life of a gentleman. Is this actually financially feasible, or even advisable? Probably not. But it's social expectation.

The family is counting on two things for Tamett's future. 1) Reaping the benefits of having been Josiah's companion, which include having his education provided for and having a hypothetical friend in the future king of Lienne, which might get him special favors like money, gifts, or positions, and 2) possibly inheriting his uncle the Duke's title, since his uncle currently has no children and no brothers, which makes his sister's son the next in line.

So Tamett just has to play his cards right for the first of these and hope for the best for the second. This would be a situation suitable for someone with a lot of social ambitions, but Tamett doesn't really care about status and has often thought that he'd rather do something actually interesting with his life. Study bugs. Work on automobiles or aeroplanes. Anything but suck up to people whose good opinions he personally couldn't care less about. But that's what's required of him, and he can do nothing about it.

The world is changing, though. Tamett will be grown up by the mid-1910s. His future might not look like how he--or anyone else--could ever expect.

#replies #fictionadventurer #The Blackberry Bushes #Tamett Lockridge

[aurosoulart]

hey, for the record ive seen a few posts now about lives privacy policy/tracking being pretty sketchy, just for the record. idk how true that is since i haven't touched live at all but i just wanted to mention it in case there IS something sketchy going on that could potentially be bad for you/other potential live streamers

oh yeah I read through the ToS and I think I know exactly where peoples' concerns are coming from

in many social media ToS's, there is a section saying that by agreeing you consent to have all your content reproduced freely and without pay by the platform.

the purpose of this term is so that the platform can take your content and do different things with it - like DeviantArt's or INPRNT's Twitter accounts promoting artists by posting people's artwork, or basically anything involving a platform taking user content and featuring and/or changing it in any way. these use cases include things like automatic thumbnail crops of images, automatic watermarks, and content being categorized and featured in any way - but the list goes on and examples are many.

here's a specific example: I signed a similar ToS contract when I submitted my work to be featured on Intel's Office Hours. giving Intel permission to 'reproduce and transform my content without pay' allowed them to take my art and reproduce it (via screenshots) on their Twitter feed in order to promote the Office Hours session, and it gave them permission to actually show and record my work on the livestream in the first place.

these terms are broad in their wording and many people are not comfortable consenting to them because the language sounds predatory, but this is how social media currently functions in the internet ecosystem we know today.

we create and share content for free, and while social medias may give us tools to make money using them - these platforms are not obligated to pay creators when, say, crossposting their work somewhere else or featuring it on the Tumblr Radar.

the ToS DOESN'T mean these platforms get to take and sell your content directly - like they can't take my art and start selling merch with it - which is the only thing I personally care about regarding my own work.

it's definitely a tradeoff though, regarding privacy and personal data. like with late stage capitalism, there is no real 'non-sketchy' way to produce content for social media these days because we are all treated as products ourselves.

as a content creator, I have to weigh the pros and cons of what a platform provides for me vs. what it takes - but ultimately if I want total, %100 control of my work, I would have to stop using social media entirely, which unfortunately isn't feasible for me because it would directly harm my income. (my feelings on that warrant a whole post of their own but I think I'll stop typing here LOL, this is a novel already)

TLDR; the ToS sounds predatory but it's not as bad as it's worded to be... but it is still kinda iffy because that's just the state of social media. you can take it or leave it depending on your own preferences

#auropost #SORRY THIS IS REALLY LONG #and thank you for your concern anon it is appreciated to see people looking out for artists #stay critical stay vigilant etc.

[drtanner]

I'm feeling directionless today and it's resulting in me sitting here with my thoughts and getting rankled about Numerous things, but mostly about how bullshit it is to hear how other people in enviable positions got to where they are and how fucking isolated I am from anyone who could meaningfully help me achieve anything. There's that quote, something about being less interested in the weight and convulsions of Einstein's brain than the certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweat shops; I think about that quote just about every fucking day, and I especially think about it, and think about it bitterly, when I hear about someone who got to where they are by knowing someone in the industry they got into, or getting lucky by being in the right place at the right time, or having the freedom to try something that might not work.

(tl;dr - Yes, this is about the monster dating sim, again, but also it's really not. I've been pissed about this stuff for A While.)

The more I sit here and have ideas for this video game that will never get made, because I certainly can't make it by myself but it's either by myself or not at all, the more irritated and resentful I get at having been railroaded into mediocrity. Where were my big opportunities in my youth? The people I was supposed to connect with and get a leg up from when I was older? All I was ever told when I was growing up was that I should work hard at school, get good grades and ensure myself a sensible job that paid well, and to never dare dream of doing anything else. Now I'm a few years shy of being 40 and I'm fucking nothing, and frustratingly isolated from anyone who could actually help me execute any of the ideas I've been having. I could have all the good ideas in the world and it wouldn't mean shit.

For someone who grew up being told that my being "bright" would automatically assure me greatness as long as I never let that inherent trait of brightness be compromised by mistakes or failure, I sure did end up going fucking nowhere.

"Oh Tanner, just learn to code! You can find everything you need to learn to code for free online! It's easy, you can just make your game by yourself!" Yeah, maybe if the fucking ADHD meds had worked for more than a fucking day. I have a disability that affects my focus and memory, I am not learning how to do jack or shit, no matter how much I might want to. Just the thought of sitting down and coding something sets my brain shrieking like a distressed toddler and I think it might actually kill me to try, and that's before we get into how much art would be necessary to make this fucking thing. I work so fucking slowly, it would take me a fucking lifetime to make enough art for even the simplest dating sim. It is not fucking feasible.

I know what needs to be coded! I've spent the last few weeks coming up with Systems and ways to make things work beyond the basic functionality of a bog standard dating sim that I know wouldn't be difficult to code for someone who knows how! I know what art needs to be made! I just can't fucking do it myself, and once again I am left to wonder how, exactly, one becomes an Eccentric Auteur™ who just has the ideas and doles them out to a team of vastly more practical people who turn them into real things. One assumes that you have to have money to get started doing that, which I, a disabled old queer, most certainly do not.

It's going to be by myself or not at all, so I guess it's going to be not at all. Life's not a bed of roses, is it.

NB: Pre-emptively, I know that there are game engines that one can use to make dating sims easily. They are not going to be sufficient for the shit that I've been throwing into this game's google doc for the last few weeks. Believe me when I say that I'm more upset about this than you are.

Also, if you try to suggest that I should use AI to help me with any part of this, I'm going to walk to your house and smash your fucking kneecaps with a brick. I should not have to explain why.

#Tanner talks #the PhDemon Dating Sim #long post

[that-stone-butch]

How is gun control evil? This country has mass shootings like every other day, what else can we do to stop them which will be practical and won’t take several generations to achieve?

i didn't write that post so quibbling on wording is something you should take up with the person who actually did, but i can see you just want to pick fights about gun control so you're in my inbox. so let's get started.

that post didn't start with gun control is evil, it started with 'showing future employers you failed a background check is evil' because there are a lot of reasons someone could fail a background check and limiting a person's ability to find work in an economy where you need money to live is always a fucking bad thing. it then goes on to say that the disproportionate affects gun control has on minorities is evil.

i personally don't think that gun control is evil in a vacuum, but i think it is super complicated and intermingled with a variety of other socioeconomic and political factors, and pretending that it isn't is fucking stupid. pretending gun control is an unalloyed good is politically shortsighted. there are a lot of moving parts at work here, and they all exist within a system that prioritizes white supremacy and state violence.

the first thing you need to look at is the carceral nature of gun control. in the U.S., felons are prohibited from owning guns, even after they've served their sentences, if their crime is classified as violent. this is another strand in a web of factors that makes jailing political opponents of the system a method of complete disenfranchisement. if you are found guilty of a crime that the state deems violent in our racist pay-to-win busted ass legal system, you have been effectively disarmed (as well as made much less likely to find work, barred from voting, and much more likely to be put back into prison in your lifetime)

i want you to stop for a minute, think about america's legal system, and remember who this facet of gun control really disarms. sure, there are plenty of dangerous jerkbags this law prevents from legally acquiring guns, but if you think this doesn't disenfranchise predominantly people of color and people of significantly reduced means and options, you're a fucking idiot.

on the topic of reduced means, the government tends to favor passing gun 'control' that is just additional fees and tax stamps, because they provide additional income for the government. for example, in my state and most others, you can own a suppressor so long as you register and pay an additional $200. this makes the ownership of guns and additional equipment pay-gated, and this further keeps guns in the hands of the wealthy and privileged over that of poorer individuals.

another thing you need to consider is that bans on the acquisition of firearms only affect legal trades, and only once they're passed. no one's going to stop buying back-door guns just because you said it's illegal. additionally, people tend to rush certain armaments before they are banned. if you go on reddit you can find people buying up crateloads of 10+ round AR mags in anticipation of mag bans. hell, every time a democrat is elected president, people rush to buy certain equipment and ammunition in anticipation of gun control legislation. you want to ask questions, i ask you this: how do you feasibly undo that kind of stockpiling? you can't just 'make it illegal' and expect existing guns and munitions to just vanish into thin air.

i'm not interested in talking all that much about mass shootings, because i think it's super fucking ghoulish of you to come into my inbox with that after i say i believe the disarmament of the proletariat is a mistake; you boil down the many factors of political violence to mere gun access. there are a lot of factors that drive political violence and mass shootings; the FBI is routinely found to use informants to goad terrorists (yes that includes 4chan racists, yes this includes white children like rittenhouse) into acting on their beliefs. additionally, controlling who purchases guns doesn't control who has access to them; rittenhouse for example used a gun that was purchased for him by an additional party. how do you, inbox guy, prevent that from happening? how do you, inbox guy, use mere gun control to change a system that encourages white people to commit violence and routinely shows white people that there are reduced consequences for harming minorities? because i guaran-fucking-tee spoiled little shits will find access to guns no matter how many laws you pass.

gun violence is a fucking tragedy but unfortunately reform always takes decades to achieve. the entire system needs to be reformed, and that's never going to happen with a disarmed proletariat. the current system encourages gun violence against minorities and emboldens the perpetrators of mass shootings, how about we focus on dismantling the power structures at play here.

#ask #anonymous #racism #antiblack racism

[pinchraccoon]

Pinch Reviews: Slime Rancher

This one feels a *little* bit like I'm cheating, because I've actually played the majority of this game before, but I got further than I did before this year, so it counts as something I can review.

Slime Rancher is exactly what it sounds like, your goal is to ranch slimes for their byproducts. You do this by building up your ranch, buying upgrades, expanding outward, and selling product that you can get from a variety of cute little blobs of goop.

I love the feeling of playing Slime Rancher, it's incredibly cozy, and even in instances of comparative danger, stakes are never so high as to make you feel as though you've wasted time for a failure. Slime Rancher is incredibly kind to a player, and wants you to learn how best to optimize your favorite slimes and your favorite playstyles.

The basics of Slime Rancher are as follows, and of course, this is for *most* players, there's plenty of ways to play that don't even involve ranching if you really wanted to, but most players will do the following:

Collect slimes and establish a farmed food source nearby to feed to the slimes in order to gain "plorts" from them, which are sellable for money, or much later on, used in the crafting of useful tools. Sell plorts to get upgrades, and from these upgrades you can more easily access new areas, and with that, new slimes whose plorts may sell for more. Rinse and repeat until you're satisfied with your ranch!

This is the absolute basis for the gameplay, but there is an incredible degree of depth regarding each and every interactable item and slime in the game, and figuring out how to manage resources you can feasibly create in order to maintain optimal plort gains is really really intuitive to learn about, as all the information you could need to optimize your strategy is found in the guides, and things like specific slimes' favorite foods, the nuances of chicken farming, and lab tools mean that you can send the return on a continually dwindling investment into each pull of plorts through the roof if you manage your risks properly. Completely alone I was able to earn more money than I possibly know what to do with, and set up a system that will allow me to earn another impossible quantity of money if I sell my plorts at the right time.

I find myself comparing the game to Stardew Valley frequently, although I don't feel it's entirely apt, as SR lacks the in depth social elements that SV has, and my comparisons between the two are entirely based on my feelings regarding the perceived pressure that the two have. Please bear with me while I explain the difference.

Stardew Valley has a tendency to make you choose how you spend your time, and setting up anything too deeply is something that you'll likely have to spend an entire day tearing down in order to improve, every action has a negative reaction, it feels, and Stardew feels much more invested in being a simulator of capital than Slime Rancher. What I love about Slime Rancher is that it allows you to learn about it so easily, and it rewards you handsomely for managing to optimize on the reading that you might do. Even without a lot of reading, a player can figure out potential strategies that might have great value as well. As such, the comparative kindness of Slime Rancher, to me at least, is much more palatable than that of some other cozy games on the market that are much more focused on your optimization, as opposed to rewarding you reasonably every step of the way.

Ultimately, Slime Rancher is a game that brings a massive grin to my face and stimulates the part of my brain that wants to experiment with economic ideas in order to do the most I can in the game itself. I firmly believe that anyone at all can pick up and play Slime Rancher and have a good time with it. I sunk a cool 16 hours into the game in one day upon me picking it back up and playing it, and I long thought my ability to marathon games was lost. I never play games for that long anymore, and Slime Rancher made me want to. My only conceivable issues are with a few quality of life possibilities which would have been nice, like mass depositing or mass selling of plorts, but they're relatively minor issues, really.

If you want a cozy game but really really just want it to be cozy, play Slime Rancher.

#Pinch Reviews #Slime Rancher #Game review #vtuber #Pinch Raccoon #cozy games

[horce-divorce]

We don't really have a deadline to leave other than "sometime when the weather is nicer," but generally speaking we have about 2 months to either find a new car or fix our setup for the summer. If we can't swap it out we'll still be okay out there, it's just so exhausting to have to move our stuff around constantly to make it fit inside a Murano. We can NOT stealth camp with this setup, it's boondocking only, which makes things a lot more complex, and we can't even really fit all of the supplies we actually need with us in there at all times. We also can't take anyone else in the car with us when we've got it set up for camp, which can make things weird in a pinch at times, too.

I've posted this before, but here's a couple pics of what we're working with: the whole house from the outside, and the view from our bed when its set up. I could probably keep doing this indefinitely if it was just me, but with both of us and all our supplies in here it's pretty tricky.

I've never sold a car before, and I know mine is NOT worth the full blue book value, but if I could get even 1/4 of it I'm pretty sure we could buy an equally used van with that. But I also have never bought a car bc my dad passed this one down to me... I know you need to, like, check the frame for rust, among other things? but idk how to identify other big deal breakers.

Anyway... saw the notif for ~60 days and I just got ponderous. I'm working on some posts for Ko-Fi right now as well, thinking about what kind of art and other incentives I'll be able to keep offering from camp this summer.

I've been trying to post more on Insta, too, as much as I hate it... I've sworn off all other social media and I don't really want my tumblr attached to my IRL stuff as much as possible (i know it already is to a certain degree, i just try to keep things tidy), so I guess Insta is where I'll be for now, unless a worthy successor to DeviantArt shows up. I suppose I could make a side/art blog too, but I already have one for photography and like, mehhh Idk.

In any case, I'm very grateful not to be out there now. Here's some pics from the last few days. Michigan is getting even more snow than here because of the lake effect.

We're hopeful of coming back here next winter as well... it'd be nice to be able to stay here long term. Our friend shares our dream of being able to bring the cats here and reunite them with Bel, but it's ultimately not up to them, so we're not sure if or when that might ever come to pass.

For now, the one thing that's for sure is that we need to be able to stay mobile, and we need more space in the car. But I do think that keeping up our usual lifestyle like this is feasible. We've both been making art here, and we do it out at camp more than anywhere else. If I can figure out a good sub tier structure for ko-fi and have subscriber stuff go out once a month instead of going to the post office every time I get an order, that would be way easier. And having some money coming in would mean ebegging less. I haven't looked into air fairs/fests yet either but maybe I can sell some art there too. But again, we either have to have a bigger vehicle or some kind of home base for all of it to work. It's tricky, but no moreso than trying to get housing.

I accidentally added a poll and I'm not copypasting this entire draft to get rid of it omg. End of post

#me #car living

[ravynfyre]

Hi firefighter friend. I was reading your old post about elevators in a fire emergency and was wondering why slides are not more available for staircases for these situations. They make slides for children to put on stairs in their homes.

Greetings!

The short answer is money and space.

The long answer is that slides just aren't practical or safe, cost too much for too little benefit, and would take up space that could otherwise be used to make money.

So those slides that people can buy to put on their home stairs for kids... they aren't designed for hundreds, or even just *dozens* of people using them all at once. They're made robust enough to handle a couple of kids playing now and then. To scale something like that up to handle many adults using it all at one time in an emergency would be prohibitively expensive. And having something like that break in the middle of an evacuation would be dangerous and would then be a waste of space that could otherwise be used to move people.

Which leads into the next problem... would the slide be installed all the time? or would it be stored until needed? If stored... where would it be stored, how would it be put into place quickly and safely, and whose responsibility would that be? What better use could the space where it is stored be put to? If it is left in place at all times, how do you keep people from hurting themselves by screwing around on it?

There is a particular average pitch of a staircase, and that is, quite frankly, a little steep for a slide in a commercial building. How do you engineer in a slide that is safe for that pitch, while maintaining a safe point to enter it and exit it at each floor? The City Museum in St. Louis, Missouri has a 10 story slide. (I recommend visiting the City Museum if ever you can. It's loads of fun for all ages). You can only get on that slide at one point - 10 stories up. You can only *exit* that slide at the end, on the ground. It is a spiral slide, and it isn't very fast at all. It would honestly be quicker to walk down the slide, but because it is a spiral slide, you can only have so many pounds per square foot of the slide, which means that it is only safe to have a very low number of folks on it at any one time. (I recommend checking out the Waterworld USA, Banzai Pipeline water slide disaster from 1997 to understand what I mean) There's really no in-between on designing something that is too fast for commercial staircases, and designing something that has unlimited entry and egress points. And people *will* be foolish on it if it is available at all times. That's just a pure liability nightmare waiting to happen.

Additionally, there's no may that someone in a mobility scooter or a wheelchair could just wheel their device onto the slide and survive - access ramps in construction are an extremely shallow pitch for a reason, and there is absolutely no way to build a slide shallow enough for a mobility device to use without taking up way too much of a building's footprint. So any sort of slide would require that someone help the person with such a device anyway. If the individual has some level of paralysis, they will need assisted all the way down - it will *have* to be designed with a point to enter or exit on *every* floor, which may be a point that stops the person's forward progress... which means that someone is going to have to go with them to keep them moving or transfer them onto the next part of the slide. And this whole process would be much slower than simply taking the elevator and keeping the person and their mobility device together.

Finally, no building designer is going to "waste" that much valuable commercial space on something that is *likely* to create lawsuits from people being dumb. It's just not financially feasible. Especially not when elevators already work "well enough" for such a task, and having an elevator go out of service in an emergency is actually incredibly rare. (MGM Grand, Grenfell Towers, World Trade Center for examples, and those events were so catastrophic that even stairways were compromised, as well)

Now, there *have* been some experiments done with high rise evacuation slides that deploy *outside* the building... They are called "evacuation chutes" and are usually made of rope or fabric woven into high tensile tubes of material. You enter the tube from the top, and then slide through it all the way to the ground. There's a lot of problems with these designs, though...

One would have to be deployed from *each floor* of the building as you can ONLY enter from the top. If there is fire exiting the building at a point further down the building along the same path as the chute would pass for your floor? Can't deploy it. You're screwed. If the building is big enough to support it, maybe you can have two for each floor on opposite sides of the building... but now you have to get everyone from some floors down via a single chute, rather than splitting between two.

Next, they are quicker than stairs, but to keep them safe, especially at higher floors, they are still not *fast*. The chutes are constructed like those fingertrap puzzles that hug your whole body tightly as you pass through it... rather like being eaten by a constrictor snake, in order to keep you for going too fast if you start high up. Wouldn't do much good to get you to the ground so quickly that you die from the impact of stopping at the bottom, after all.

They are also only really useful up to a certain height, based on the materials that they are made from. They can only *carry* a certain amount of weight at any one time, which limits how many people can be in the chute at any point in time... and the higher up they start, the more the chute itself weighs, which cuts into the amount of people that can use it at the same time. Even robustly built metal fire escapes have collapsed under the weight of too many people trying to evacuate at the same time... an evacuation chute wouldn't do anyone any good if a dozen people piled into it at the same time, one after another, and it ripped away from the building and collapsed because it couldn't handle the weight. Now *no one* has access.

It all basically boils down to cost versus effectiveness... Stairs work for the majority of people almost all of the time. If the stairs don't work, then the slide or chute that might have been there instead wouldn't work either. But there are too many things that could go wrong with slides or chutes just as a matter of course that you won't run into with stairs. It's like the mousetrap problem... hard to improve on such an efficient, CHEAP design, especially when the ones who *can't* use it are such a small percentage of the population.

No, I don't AGREE with that philosophy. There *should* be better ways to evacuate those who need assistance more quickly and safely than "hope someone can carry them down the stairs" or "wait for the knuckle-dragging hose-monkeys to get them". There just hasn't been a SAFE, efficient, and cost effective means of doing so invented yet. And, unfortunately, slides and chutes just really are *not* safe, or cost effective.

But this was a very interesting and intelligent question! Thank you for asking!

#stupid firefighter tricks

[lunar-wandering]

you know what would be WILD of me. instead of like. focusing on writing a whole entire book and then editing it and then going through the hell of finding a way of publishing it. what if. instead. i just. made a side-blog. and like. uploaded. one chapter at a time. like how old stories like Jekyll and Hyde were published one chapter at a time. I'd do like either one chapter per month or one chapter per week (depending on how long the chapters are).

I mean i'd have to pick which one of my stories I'd do this with and like, make a very rough draft of all the events that need to happen and all that but like. There'd be mistakes and flaws but like. I could take Ko-Fi donations throughout the whole thing and then at the end, if I have enough money, i could like, make paperback copies to sell... IDK if i'd actually go through with this at all but the option is There and semi-feasible I suppose.

[baiika]

Give us the Yuzu meta 👀

//I intended to gather actual srcs for this but then Got Lazy because Yuzu isn't one of my muses, so y'all just gonna have to take me at my word. & I won't pretend some of this isn't headcanon, but I do my WORK on this shit so I'm fairly confident in my interpretation.

What really bothers me is people treat Yuzu like a passive maid when the opposite is true. If anything, she's the matriarch of the Kurosaki family. & like, don't get me wrong, she's a very sweet girl who loves her family very much. But I think the difference between a maid & matriarch is decision-making & caretaking (including shit like discipline), which she does.

Starting off, very early on in the manga, while Ichigo is explaining how his sisters responded to Masaki's death, he explains that Yuzu took up the mantle of cooking & cleaning. I think this is where people got the passive maid from, & just haven't dug any deeper than that.

During Hueco Mundo arc, Rukia stays with the Kurosaki family. Instead of staying in secret, Rukia asks the family to stay. During this, it's shown Isshin & Yuzu are the ones who welcome Rukia. If Ichigo had say in this, he could've just had Rukia stay over without Rukia having to invent a sob story. But neither he or Karin are involved in this decision. The only child who is involved is Yuzu. I believe this is evidence that Yuzu has more say in the family affairs than Karin or Ichigo.

I've seen this tidbit around saying that if someone in the family doesn't brush their teeth within a certain amount of time before &/or after eating a meal, they don't eat the next meal. I've had a hell of a time hunting it down though & just don't have the time to continue looking for it for the sake of (checks notes) tunglr rp. While I don't agree with the methodology, this is a common punishment where I'm from, & I can see why she would enforce it based on one of two (or the combination of) two hypotheses.

It could be argued that Yuzu is a very hygienic person & just doesn't want to smell swamp-breath, but I doubt it's the case.

Yuzu being the primary housekeeper would mean she would be more familiar with what groceries are needed. This means she's involved with errands. Additionally, it's common for Japanese kids to run shopping errands entirely unsupervised. A family friend saw it semi-frequently when he visited Japan. I know there have been other observations on it, but again, I won't be sourcing any of this as I usually do out of Sheer Laziness(tm). Point being, the combination of cultural mores & Yuzu's position as cook & housekeeper, it's not a leap of imagination she'd take care of groceries, as well as other errands. It's entirely feasible she has a say in the budget.

(This, of course, contributes evidence to her position as matriarch, but I'm going a slightly different direction with this.)

Now, I'm a homeowner. My husband takes care of the money & bills while I take care of the housekeeping. This works for us because our different brands of neurodivergency give us different strengths. I'm better at manual labor & he's better at smarty-pants things. While I do contribute to the budget, he's the one who draws up the logistics monthly, which means every month, we gotta make room for shit like good works, rainy day, our variety of subscriptions, insurance, doctor, optometry, dental, therapy, & psychiatry appointments, etc, & how we're gonna pull it off in the budget. Sometimes it's by the skin of our teeth!

Isshin is the sole provider of a home of four. Doctors ARE paid a lot, but a lot of people don't understand how much goes into a small business. My father-in-law owns his own lawfirm & in the early years, I've been told that there were times they were in the negative between payroll & business expenses. Whatever Isshin makes is probably stretched pretty thin between himself & three kids. If Yuzu has a hand in the budget, she would have, at minimum, a vague understanding they're cutting it pretty close with bills.

This makes me think that she enforces this rule & rules similar to it so they aren't hemorrhaging money on shit that's easily prevented.

Which brings me to the pinnacle of my point-- if she isn't the matriarch, why isn't Isshin, the patriarch, doing any of this shit?

I haven't examined Isshin closely enough to give answers on his character, so I don't know why. What I do know is given his largely standoffish approach towards parenting his children (I mean, he knows Ichigo is a shinigami, but lets the boy fight hollows at all times of night, despite having a curfew in place), it's given Yuzu the opportunity to fill those shoes following Masaki's death.

#yuzu tbt #ooc; kogi rambles