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We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

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kurenai shoots her shot

On Ao3

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Day 7 - “Let’s Keep It A Secret”

Arguably, Rin likes horrible people, take Kakashi for one, he’s a dysfunctional mess, a wreck of trauma hiding behind a mask.

Kurenai thinks an argument could be made for herself too.

Sure, genjutsu couldn’t be THAT scary, but that was the attitude overconfident shinobi took when they didn’t want to admit that they had barely skimmed their academy textbooks.

Kurenai, at age ten, had driven an enemy-nin mad with a three-layer Hell Viewing Technique and a ‘Bugs Are Eating You Alive’ genjutsu. It had been the first time Asuma asked her out which she politely rejected in the basis that they were both going to keep fighting together for at least the next two years.

It said a lot about her that she had tried to recreate the effect six more times before Hizashi-sensei finally put his foot down on her unethical experimentation on the enemy.

At least Asuma and Raidō supported her efforts to wage psychological warfare.

Which meant that Asuma and Raidō now had to support her efforts to date outside their friend group which only left Team 7.

Kurenai had considered every angle, Kakashi was too much of a stiff, Obito was too…creepy, although no one else thought that, which left Rin.

Rin was nice, she smelled like lavender and lemon unless she smelled like blood and pine, her eyes gleamed with a barely concealed darkness that belayed light, and Kurenai would bet all her money against Raidō that her lips would taste like cherries.

So, yeah, Rin.

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“So, what do we know about Nohara Rin?” Kurenai begins the team meeting, the date carefully selected so that Hizashi-sensei would be busy all day with his brother.

“Nothing,” Raidō says the same time Asuma says “Obito has a crush on her.”

Kurenai nods and writes crush-worthy on the dirt of the training ground.

“We know basically nothing,” Kurenai notes approvingly. “This says good things for her not being part of the friend group.”

Raidō sighs, put upon. “I think she had a crush on Hatake, which valid, he’s pretty smart. But, he’s a shambling wreck of a human being and Obito isn’t much better off. He’s nice though, which means Rin might be nice.”

Nice, Kurenai writes, likes terrible people.

“Excellent,” Kurenai mutters, “now where to have a date.”

She was clanless so the traditional ‘invite to the estate and tour the woods’ was out of the picture, and while Biwako was nice, her misandrist nature would make it insufferable for her to call Asuma for back-up if things went south and she wasn’t close enough with Sarutobi Sakamoto.

The ramen stand would be optimal, but Rin’s sensei was dating the Red Hot Habanero so that was a no-go.

“Hm,” Asuma says in the pointedly not pointed way he picked up from his father. “Hmm.”

“Yes?” Kurenai asks, already running through her ‘Bugs Eating You Alive Through Your Stomach’ genjutsu in her head.

Asuma smiles, a touch mysteriously and Kurenai leans foward, now interested. “I have a guy who owes me for a shipment. It’s slightly shady but that tea shop makes some of the best dorayaki and sakura matcha.”

Raidō squints at Asuma. “Are you giving them the heavily taxed tobacco from Kiri?”

“It’s a living.” Asuma shrugs despite never working for anything in his life.

Raidō and Kurenai exchange deadpan looks.

“So, shady tea shop it is.” Kurenai says, satisfied. “If you’ll excuse me, I’m going to be a horrible person and hopefully get a date out of that.”

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“Hello,” the girl Rin vaguely recognises from Anko’s less than accurate descriptions of in-village teams. “I’m Yūhi Kurenai, may I have the honor of going on a date with you this evening? I have been informed by most adults that I’m a terrible human being whose penchant for trapping those around her in ‘Bugs Eating You Alive’ genjutsu is alarming and a sign of mental instability.”

Obito chokes next to her, spluttering and wiping at his orange goggles in some vain attempt to reach his eyes.

Rin’s still stuck on the ‘alarming and a sign of mental instability’. She can’t help the way her eyes start to linger on the alnost sickly jut to the girl’s collarbone or the mad fervour in her red eyes that remind Rin of her favorite cherry chapstick.

Rin…may have a problem.

“Sure,” she agrees, slightly lost in Kurenai’s red, red eyes. “But you’re paying.”

Obito screeches.

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“Let’s keep it a secret.” Rin says, powdered sugar from the dorayaki on her lips, and a little aroused by Kurenai’s wild-eyed gaze.

The spy-nin they had found in the tea shop twitches weakly as the thirty-six layer genjutsu Kurenai laid on him convinced him that he’s being flayed, drowned, burned, and castrated all at once.

“The spy or the date?” Kurenai asks, leaning toward so her lips hover right above Rin’s. “Or both.”

“Both is good.” Rin whispers, and closes the gap.

Kurenai’s lips taste like the jasmine tea she just had and a bit like blood. They’re not soft, but they are yielding and Rin doesn’t want to pull away even as she feels herself struggle for air a little bit.

Finally, Kurenai pulls back, the powdered sugar on Rin’s lips now on hers, and her red eyes were intent on Rin’s face.

“See you around, Rin-chan.” she mutters, and vanishes in a ripple of heat that makes Rin blink.

Her fingers come instinctively to press to her lips. Was this whole date a genjutsu or was it reality. Rin had forgotten to flex her chakra during it, too charmed by Kurenai for it to cross her mind.

Either way, she decides, it might be nice to do it again.

After all, Nohara Rin likes terrible people.

#femslash #nohara rin #rin nohara #kurenai yuuhi #yuuhi kurenai #kurenai yūhi #naruto #my writing #series: prelude to ecstasy

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T H E T H I N G S W E D O F O R L O V E

#asoiaf #jamie lannister #queue for the queue god

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Day 5 - Lets Keep This A Secret.

Summary:

Arguably, Rin likes horrible people, take Kakashi for one, he’s a dysfunctional mess, a wreck of trauma hiding behind a mask. Kurenai thinks an argument could be made for herself too.

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#my writing #naruto #fanfiction #femslash

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that ship is toxic to YOU. to me it's a complex, multi-layered, essay-worthy dynamic that'd take numerous hours to dissect (during which i'll spend crying screaming tearing my hair out)

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July 14th - July 20th, 2024

Sunday, July 14th - Meeting The Other // First Monster Attack

Monday, July 15th - Runaway // Camp Half-Blood Pickup

Tuesday, July 16th - Emergency Call // Secrets & Lies

Wednesday, July 17th - Prophecy // Abandonment

Thursday, July 18th - Year-Rounder // Social Media

Friday, July 19th - Funeral // PTO Meeting

Saturday, July 20th - Parallel Universe // We Meet Again

Purpose?

More Riordanverse Parents!!! More Sally, more Natalie, more Apollo, and more Amos (and Bast)! There are so many interesting things laid out that we do not touch, but now is the time to consider being put in their situation in reality and become horrified or awestruck!

Why should you participate in this?

It's fun! It has implications, it lets you develop a character's backstory, and develop the adults, who take a backseat to their world-saving (or destroying) children!

So how does it work?

The release date for fanworks is from Sunday, the 14th of July through Saturday, the 20th of July 2024.

Three months to write, create, and draw fanworks. They can be anything, web weaving, fanfic, fanart, meta, ship manifestos (i see you posally & mariahades people), playlists, and gifsets.

Any vibes you wish to bring to the event are accepted, so long as they aren't rancid to your fellow participants! Horror? You can make it worse! Rom-com? You know what you're about. Historical AU? Sure! Smut? You know what you're about.

This is an optional event, run only by me, and should be under the #riordanverseparentsweek, and it will have a AO3 collection under the same name. I'll be checking the tag daily as the event goes on, and will make a masterlist by the time all submissions are finalized!

TL;DR

This is an event celebrating PJO, HoO, Kane Chronicles, and Magnus Chase parents (including the gods)

It's happening from Sunday, July 14–Saturday, July 20

Submissions can be web weaving, fanfic, fanart, meta, ship manifestos, playlists, and gifsets.

the tag is riordanverseparentsweek

The spirit of the event is what matters if you don't want to follow a prompt!

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imagine simping for capitalism this badly

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Naruto (Anime & Manga) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Inuzuka Tsume/Shion (Naruto) Characters: Shion (Naruto), Uzumaki Naruto, Team Minato Ensemble (Naruto), Inuzuka Tsume Additional Tags: Pre-Slash, Femslash, Shion (Naruto) is an Ootsutsuki, Time Travel, disclaimer: i love the naruto movie ladies, Naruto Femslash Visibility Days, Zetsu is murdered quickly Series: Part 3 of prelude to ecstasy Summary:

Well, I die as I live, Shion thinks grimly, doing stupid shit thanks to Ashura. Because Ashura had definitely been in that memory, screaming mostly, but it was encouraging yelling.

Shion and Naruto, now Ashura, are dumped just in time to save Nohara Rin, seal Zetsu and have lesbian panic.

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#my writing #series: prelude to ecstasy #naruto #shion naruto #inuzuka tsume #fanfiction #femslash #naruto f|f visibility days

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Invictus Maneo

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Jason I - Authority to Live

Summary:

Jason is not a politician, but he’s great at being haunted by the ghosts of a past he isn’t even aware he’s heir to. Now with more Octavian!

#my writing #fic: invictus maneo #series: seven shall birth #jason grace #hazel levesque #octavian #frank zhang #camp jupiter #heroes of olympus #fanfiction #fanfic

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okay, you know what? Running away shouldn’t be a crime. It shouldn’t be dangerous, either. Any kid should be able to leave their parents if they want, for any reason. No I’m not kidding.

“But Rue, where will these kids stay? Do you want them on the streets?”

of course not. In an ideal world, a kids would have multiple adults other than their parents they could look to for care, but I recognize that that will never be a reality for every single child. So: youth shelters, if they have nowhere else to go. There should be clean, warm shelters where anyone under 18 can stay for as long as they need, no questions asked. (And of course shelters that aren’t just for kids, but we’re talking about youth rights right now)

“But Rue,” I hear you say, “what if some moody teenager runs away after an argument?”

First of all, I’d rather a thousand moody teenagers run away than one abused child be trapped. Second, so what if one does? A kid needs time away from their parents, so they leave. The vast majority of them will get some time to cool down and then go back home, and if they don’t want to go back, period? Then nine times out of ten, they have a good reason. (Because yes, as hard as it is for you to believe, kids are humans who have common sense.)

“Okay, but what about the one time out of ten the kid doesn’t have a good reason?”

Then the kid doesn’t have a good reason. It doesn’t change anything. If someone wants to break up with their partner because of something stupid, you wouldn’t say they legally shouldn’t be able to. (And if you would, then you’re just a bad person.) No one should have to be in a relationship, romantic or otherwise, that they don’t want to be in.

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tumblr users will have the most inaccessible, unreadable, low contrast, flashing carrd you can possibly imagine, with a dni full of insider acronyms with no translation and numerous link buttons labelled with cryptic captions, and then go ahead and put “ableists dni and kys!” on that carrd

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its crazy growing up and realizing how deranged everyone is and how many problems everyone has. in such mundane ways. your waiter at olive garden believes in q anon. the woman doing your x ray just moved in with a guy she met a week ago. your insurance agent is a hoarder. etc.

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#i don’t want to be mean but the obito pfp makes it funnier #like that’s exactly obito level behavior at that age i’m screaming

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the problem with being creative is that you start to feel very guilty when you haven’t created anything in a while

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“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”

Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.

#if it means avoiding the cliffs of doom to get to indiana then fuck yeah

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