the higher-ups (and Yaga) immediately trying to leverage Gojo & Ieri's absence to put Yuuta on the roster??? God that's such a stark moment. Thank god Nanami and Gojo saw through that one immediately, because Yuuta wants to justify his own survival so badly he would've fallen straight into it.
That whole scene, with Yuuta immediately jumping on the opportunity to help people even though something is Extremely Wrong with him and he's on the brink of physical collapse--this boy is selfless to the point of self destruction and I am chewing the drywall about it. I love him so much.
If only he was able to summon his newly found homicidal rage in defense of himself, the higher-ups would no longer be a problem. Alas, this boy is Extremely Unwell.
(Sea Glass Gardens is absolutely incredible and i am obsessed with it in a way that is totally and 100% normal. I'm so normal about it, trust me <3 )
The thing about Yuuta is that he really is prime to be taken advantage of right now and the higher ups know it. They had him try to kill himself for them--they know that there's a window of opportunity that they can use to get him under their thumb and avoid The Problem of Gojo, which is, namely, having a human weapon who you cannot fully control. Gojo nailed it from the beginning: they want a magic gatling gun with no personality or free will. They learned their lesson with Gojo and are trying to rob Yuuta of his agency before he learns how to protect himself.
And Yaga's part in that scene really was meant to kind of emphasize how, even with the best intention's, he just doesn't work to protect the kids. Like. everything he said was technically true, and he meant it with the best of intentions. He's the guy who has to think of everyone's needs. he has to manage this crisis. he's got a lot of people hurt badly who just came out of a war, and a lot of people going into fights with some very aggravated curses spawning without sufficient manpower to address the danger and no healer to save them if they cut it a little too close. He didn't have the intention of manipulating or sacrificing Yuuta, but he was aware that it would come to his detriment and risk.
The issue is the higher ups. They don't give a shit about the people in their workforce. They should be the ones doing whatever it takes to solve this crisis and save their people--and if that means giving up on their machinations? They should have already done it. It's their responsibility.
They just don't care. They want Okkotsu Yuuta under their thumb, and their society hemorrhaging is treated like an opportunity, not a dire problem to be solved. They don't care if half a dozen of their own people need to die to do it. Hell, it's better if they do die--they can put it straight on Okkotsu for not being willing to sacrifice himself, when they should have been making whatever promises they had to in order to make this work.
Gojo's done this before, is the thing. He was Yuuta, a long time ago. Nanami was right there watching it happen. They both know what the higher ups do: They let society get to a crisis level and put all the responsibility on you to save it. they let you maneuver yourself into a vulnerable position as a result, and then they use it as leverage to put their goddamn boot on your neck.
The thing is that Gojo adopting megumi all those years ago really did put them into a crisis state. the zenin pitched the mother of all bitch fits trying to secure his unconditional return, and they were a huge percentage of jujutsu society's labor force and resource pools. instead of the higher ups managing the problem at all, they took advantage of the situation and shoved more and more of its weight and responsibility onto gojo, until he was dropping off his own kid at his abusers' compound thinking it was the only compromise that could resolve things. megumi paid the price for gojo not calling bullshit, and right now, with him in a hospital bed? gojo's less willing to repeat mistakes than ever.
he knows that they're going to use the safety and suffering of everyone else as the leverage against him, and he knows that as terrible as it is, he cannot blink first. He's played this game before, and he knows that the only way to get the higher ups to back off on something like this is to dig in your heels.
I think what happened to Megumi all those years ago and how bad it got before they put a stop to it is something that haunts all three of them. When they first started raising him, they were very young, and they were very broken, and they loved him very, very much. He was their little boy, and he was never the same after the Zenin. They were supposed to protect him, and they didn't, and not a single one of them has forgiven themselves for that.
Megumi was sort of sacrificed for the greater good when he was a kid. None of them thought that that was what they were doing when it happened, but that's what happened. His happiness, safety, and wellbeing were sacrificed to pacify the Zenin and make it easier on everyone else.
Megumi and Tsumiki had to become their non-negotiables after. They had to become the things they refused to compromise on. The Zenin would take miles and miles if you gave them a millimeter, let alone an inch.
Gojo didn't think he was compromising them when he left them on their own to deal with Geto's war. They were disgustingly self-sufficient kids. They had been alone for longer stretches of time when they were practically toddlers--they should have been fine on their own for a couple of weeks.
But they were still his kids, and he still left them alone for everyone else's sake, and now his kid is blind and half dead in a hospital bed. It's like being punched in the face by old mistakes.
So they're off the roster completely, all of them. And they're not compromising an inch on what their focus is, and they're not letting anything happen to any of the other kids in their care.
It's terrible that their coworkers are suffering, but it wouldn't be happening if the Zenin hadn't fucked with Gojo Satoru's kid, of all the goddamn people. It wouldn't be happening if the higher ups would actually do their job and start managing shit.
And if they use Yuuta as an anxiety riddled bandaid on the bullet hole in their society? Then they'd be sacrificing him the way they sacrificed Megumi all those years ago. And they have never been less willing to do that.
I'm so so glad you like the story! Thank you for talking with me!
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ok guys i dont wanna be a hater but im gonna be 100% honest i didnt rlly like the nimona movie 😭 I MEAN IT WAS FUN. it was nice. but i feel like it was missing everything that made me like the original graphic novel and honestly by the last like 30 minutes i was kind of just waiting for it to be over so i could read the book again 😭 NO HATE TO ANYONE WHO RLLY LIKED IT believe me when i say i dont think it is bad or anything. but i feel like just sooooo much was changed that it didnt feel like nimona at all to me. idk how to explain it, im sure once i reread the book i’ll be able to put it into words since the original will be more fresh in my mind. i think it was good but as someone who was literally obsessed w the og graphic novel it was honestly kinda disappointing. but i dont rlly care honestly its still rlly cool it got a movie!!
but in my mind at least it proves that some things dont need to be made into a movie. ppl act like movies are the best form a piece of media can take and if something gets made into a movie then that’d be the peak form of it. but i honestly think nimona works wayyyyyy better in its original graphic novel form. most of the early stuff is way more slice of life lowkey stuff that lets you get attached to ballister and nimona as characters and get invested in their relationship w each other, BEFORE all the angsty final act stuff happens. also there honestly was just a ton of stuff that felt to me like it worked better in the original, like jousting tournament thing instead of the knighting ceremony, nimona being captured and being forced to turn into her “true” form rather than this new version with it just sort of happening bcuz of Emotions, etc. also the movie suffered from a lot of pacing and tone issues imo but the former i think is just from that lack of the slow buildup of their friendship, and the latter is something that i think just worked better in the book. idk again I’LL BE ABLE TO SAY THIS STUFF MORE CONCRETELY WHEN I ACTUALLY REREAD THE BOOK but i dont remember there being so much jokes and goofy shit DURING serious scenes. like iirc in the original during serious scenes it was SERIOUS. but in the movie theres so many unnecessary unfunny jokes and stuff. idk IDK i probably just had too high expectations idk. anyways
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I delayed my haterism for 2+ weeks and honestly at this point I just kinda don't care anymore so I'll just lay it to rest here
Long story short like a month or so back I found out my brother who I haven't talked to in 8 years is a V Tuber through my dad and I was apprehensive watching at first but eventually decided to pop in his streams not logged in just to see how he is nowadays and he seemed better! He's retained his enjoyment of whatever he's playing and who he's playing with while also not getting irritable quickly(like me) like he used to, and he (seemingly) wasn't/isn't a bigot anymore as I noticed he did have queer friends he would play games with, so there has been definite improvement since he's been going to therapy for roughly 10-ish years now, with all the context out of the way, onto why I'm so... Idk
Roughly 2+ weeks ago I drew his V Tuber and asked my dad to send it to him, he did, and for over a week I saw no sembl of a response, so during a call from my dad, I asked him if my brother said anything yet, and no, my brother doesn't respond very quickly, which is believable considering that yeah, while he and our dad are on good terms, doesn't mean that they'll talk ALL the time, so I gave it some more time and still nothing. Sure, maybe he will eventually, and yeah, there's been 8 years where we haven't talked and bad blood, but at the same time, I extended an olive branch in the form of a drawing that comes down to "Hey! I like your V Tuber and what you do!" And while I wouldn't expect anything big, but just.... A "nice." Or "cool." Would suffice, at this point it's clear as water that he saw it and chooses not to say anything. Idk maybe I'm overreacting and overthinking but I just wanted to try and reach out in a way I thought he would like, maybe he'll eventually say something but I honestly doubt it at this point
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*cw; toddler injury*
i had a dream about masa and our son touma! yay! but i was in distress the whole time. so, boooo! lmaooooo. touma was bouncing in the middle of the bed with a hanger (idk how safe that is but he looked happy so we let him). i had my eyes on him I SWEAR and then masa said something and i looked at him for a SECOND and next thing you know there was a THUMP!
touma was on the floor!
i gasped and masa yelled, "touma!!" we both rushed to the floor to him.
touma, as solid of a boy as he is, wasn't even crying and it was quite the fall. the bed is pretty high up lol. he was more so startled by our sudden appearances and that's when his little lip started to quiver but i calmed him before he could cry.
i checked him to make sure he was okay. he seemed okay. no bruising, yet, or knotting. i stretched out his arms and they seemed okay. then his legs. then i stretched out his arms again and i noticed that his forearm is very visibly wrong. when i touch it, i can tell it's tender because he begins to whine and pull away from me.
"his arm is broken..." i tell masato, "HIS ARM IS BROKEN!!!"
"it's not--" he leaned into to see for himself and he immediately hissed out a swear. "fuck!"
"start the car! we're taking him to the hospital." i said, pressing my trembling lips against my baby boy's head. "i'm so sorry, touma. i'm so sorry i let this happen..."
"hospital?" masato sounded frustrated with me, "just pop it back into place. he'll be fine."
"pop it back-- what, are you crazy?!" i yelled, startling him and now he's finally crying. i immediately begun to console him. "fine, i'll start it."
"no, it's fine- he's an aizawa. he can handle it." he said, reaching for the boy's tiny arm until i swat him off.
"stop it! get away! you psycho- we are not popping a toddler's bones back in place!"
"what do you think they're doing to do at the hospital, kulemi?"
"not whatever the fuck you were about to do! go away!" i hold touma to my chest protectively as i scramble around the room to pack his bag. i'm taking him to the hospital whether his father is coming along or not.
"i wasn't going to hurt him." he said, "at least not on purpose."
i glared at him but said nothing else. he placed his hand on his hips and let out a long sigh before finally dressing himself in a t-shirt, then swapped his shorts out for a pair of jeans.
"fine, i'll get the car."
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