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wearenotjustnumbers2 · 5 months

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Meet Mohammed Nazzal, a Palestinian child. He was in administrative arrest (this means he can stay held captive without charge for as long as israel decides, also look it up for better understanding) without charge or trial in Israeli occupation prisons and was released yesterday as part of the hostages exchange.

"They shattered metal bars on me, beating me non-stop on my head, broke my hands. They starved me."

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stil-lindigo · 6 months

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an ex-zionist jewish man recently went a bit viral on tiktok for sharing exactly how he sees zionism tie israel to the jewish identity and his personal experience with breaking away from it - I think it’s a really great watch.

He also made a follow up talking specifically about how he learned to humanise Palestinians, and a really integral part of it was his school, which would often bring in Palestinian speakers who’d share their perspective (here’s a link to it).

#tiktok against all odds inspires a lot of hope in me bc of how prevalent palestinian support is over there #so much of the younger generation is so media literate and articulate about standing up to oppression #and getting perspectives like this I think is really beneficial when it comes to understanding where Zionist talking points come from #I don’t particularly think right now our priority should be reaching out to zionists or anything #it should always be Palestinians at the forefront of activism our activism #but this is educational. Zionism is not Judaism and this proves that.#it’s never too late to turn away from oppressive propaganda and have empathy for your fellow man #palestine #israel #free palestine #from the river to the sea

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casualavocados · 5 months

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this is such a solid show so far, i dont even know what to say. episodes feel long, but they're not boring. they're lingering, they last. it takes everyday emotions and everyday experiences and lets them play out; it confers importance to the small things. the story and overall plot-per-ep is simple yet genuine, and everything and every character feels so lived-in. i like the mix of fun and serious, i like the steady growth and trust between mork and day and the little buds of tension starting to bloom. i love the way the camera brings things to the forefront of the viewer's attention, the way expressions are shot and how long those shots are allowed to last on screen...you really feel the emotion coming through, and it really impresses me from both an acting and directing standpoint.....im just rambling but the jist of it is that i'm really enjoying this

#*gestures wildly* p'aof makes this shit look effortless #he comes up with the most original things and then makes them feel justified and ordinary #like the inflatable dinosaurs - oh yeah those were from a costume party years ago #its all just to show day having a little fun and i love how that...gets attention #like theyre not *trying* to build the romance theyre just telling a story #does that even make sense??? bc obviously the story is building the romance #it just all feels really natural and believable even though its only been 3 eps #it feels like its been longer #the characters are already changing but it doesnt feel like its moving fast #MAN. MAN!#last twilight #jimmy and sea are really selling it and so is everyone in the supporting cast #it all feels very entangled while still giving the most focus to the mains -you really see the story from their perspectives #IM. IM ALMOST MAD ABOUT IT P'AOF MAKES THIS SHIT LOOK EASY

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polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup · 3 months

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Just finished reading Pez Dispenser Debris (I don’t even go there but I am fueled by Wiki articles and a love for your storytelling) and first of all—amazing!!! 10/10, I think I need to watch this series now.

Second, I noticed that (while very much distinct) Yuuta & Izuku have a lot of similarities in the voice you gave them—maybe it’s the constant panic attacks or perhaps both of them placing blame for everything squarely on their own shoulders, but ough it makes for the perfect blend of gut-punching angst. I’d love to hear any ramblings you currently have about either of them. I am currently obsessed with both of them now and am placing the blame on you <3

I’m gonna pretty heavily discuss some spoilers for my hero academia in this. I figured that was okay since you’d already read my fanfic and the wiki so the cat is out of the metaphorical bag. That being said, maybe wait to read this answer if you want to not be spoiled for more details in my hero.

Yuuta and Izuku absolutely have the most similar voices out of all of my narrators and it is 90% because they are both completely insane and in violent need of a Xanax and a nice soothing cup of chamomile tea. God I love them both so much. They should each be heavily medicated.

My hero academia is a pretty great watch through the Shie Hassaikai arc. The concept is entertaining, the characters are GREAT, and the world building is really cool.

Then the story sort of. Went to shit.

I tried for a while after that, but eventually had to stop watching. My friends and I have a group chat named “horikoshi just call us” because we got so despondent at the writing decisions after that arc.

Horikoshi. If you’re out there. If you’re reading this. Just call us. We just want to help.

That being said, my love for the characters maintains its death grip on me. I simply adore them. They’re delights.

Yuuta and Izuku, on their face, have a lot of similarities as protagonists. The aforementioned insanity and need of Xanax, of course, but the skeleton of the stories has a lot of common touchstones and themes, like:

Both characters have some kind of history with suicidal ideation or tendencies. In the second scene of JJK0, it’s established that Yuuta canonically tried to kill himself. In the first episode of BNHA, Izuku is told to kill himself by his bullies, in an act which appears to be common to izuku’s life, and the only reason Izuku comes up with to not do it is “then you’d get in trouble for telling me to do it.”

Both characters have severe self worth issues. Yuuta’s looking for a reason to be alive at the start of JJK0. He’s looking for a right to be alive. In a way, Izuku is too at the start of BNHA. At the open of action, he is told by everyone in his life that he is useless. His nickname is “Deku,” which uses some of the same kanji as “Dekunobo,” meaning blockhead. The most direct translation were given is that this is a way of calling him useless. He’s the powerless member of a society choked with superpower, and he’s been told his entire life that he can do nothing, that his dreams are pointless, and that he’s a burden who would be better off dead.

They’re both saddled with power they can’t fully control. Yuuta with Rika, and Izuku with One for All, a transferable power that’s too strong to be contained in his body.

They both have a close relationship with an impossibly strong mentor that they are implied to be the successor of. Yuuta with Gojo, as he’s second only to Gojo in the modern age, and Izuku with All Might (aka Toshinori Yaga), who he is more literally taking on the mantle of One for All from.

They both are chugging that Loving Their Friends Juice and have tried to kill grown men with their bare hands as a result

That all being said, they could not be more different characters and honestly aren’t all that similar.

I have this sort of lasting grievance with literary analysis when people take a list of common plot points or events and use them to make the argument that characters are similar or parallel one another. Like, that’s all facial. The real question is how do they substantively handle those events. How do their story arcs treat those things? How does their character react to them?

Yuuta and Izuku’s actual substantive characters don’t really react to those events in the same way at all. The analysis could go on all day in this respect, really, but the biggest difference is how their respective story arcs treat the cornerstone of their original conflicts.

Yuuta opens action with Rika as the cornerstone of his conflict. She’s who he wants to free, she’s who he’s chained to, and it’s her protection of him that makes him think he deserves to die. Izuku’s cornerstone, meanwhile, is his own Quirklessness. He desperately wants to be a hero, and everyone in his life tells him he can’t be because he is Quirkless. He’s useless because he’s Quirkless. He should kill himself because he’s Quirkless. He’s a burden and always will be because he’s Quirkless.

And while Yuuta’s arc reconciles him with his cornerstone, Izuku’s forgoes it entirely.

The story just. Forgets. That he’s Quirkless. They stop talking about it. It never comes up again. It doesn’t make any real big impact on his character or decisions. It’s one of my biggest axes to grind with how the story developed, and it’s actually one of the biggest reasons why I wrote pez dispenser debris.

Pez dispenser debris was actually inspired by this one piece of my hero academia art where Izuku is hugging his younger self. I don’t know if it was official art or fan art, and I have no idea where it is or where to find it because by god have I tried so I can find it and link it for credit/to boost it. I saw it literally years ago, thought “oh that’s cool,” wrote the original first scene of the fic (where Midoriya stops the bus and is hit by the Quirk), wasn’t feeling it, got distracted by other projects, went to law school, graduated law school, signed up to take the bar exam, and was suddenly electrified in the last fucking month of studying with this fugue state of feverish artistic inspiration. I have never written so easily or so compulsively in my life. I’d write for eight unbroken hours and it would be fucking magic every time. It was like an addiction. I was writhing with a need to create and had so much fucking anxiety about the test I was not studying for instead. The words could not be restrained.

Anyway I taught myself three subjects on the plane ride to the state I was taking it in and passed anyway so it’s fine we’re fine

The moral of the story is that this story has been cooking long enough for me to get two more diplomas than I had when I started it and I have no idea where to find that fucking piece of art that inspired it, but if I find it, I’ll reblog it so y’all can see it too.

The thing is, the narrative sort of forcibly excluding Izuku’s past as Quirkless would make total sense to me if it was used as something Izuku himself was doing.

Izuku necessarily had to hide the truth of his former Quirkless status at the start of action—he needed to keep the secret of One for All. Like, he could not let people find out that a Quirk was transferrable, but you know, just the most powerful one, and also he had it, please come torture it out of him.

But as the narrative goes on, that rationale becomes less important. He has people he can trust with it. And yeah, eventually One for All becomes more known, but the discussion is all about him being all might’s successor. Him being Quirkless and how that affected him and still affects him isn’t really discussed or treated as important. And Izuku doesn’t act like it’s important to him either. He never really thinks about it.

And I just hated that. Like. He spent almost his entire life as a member of society who was spit on. He’s had a Quirk for less than a year. How are his experiences with Quirklessness not important to how he interacts with the world?

The other point of contention I had was Mirio.

Mirio is this superstar of a senpai who takes Izuku under his wing. He has an extremely powerful quirk that’s only as effective as it is because he put in the work and learned how to handle it. He’s a perfect, eternally smiling paragon of heroism. He’s flagged early as the one out of everyone, including heroes with established careers, who is most likely to replace All Might.

He’s also the one who was supposed to get One for All.

His mentor had found him and trained him to be All Might’s successor. Before All Might could meet him, however, he found this feral raccoon child in a sewer and said “oh my god I can’t not offer him incomprehensible power within the first three hours of meeting him” and tripped face first into fatherhood.

During a rescue mission, Mirio loses his Quirk in a way that’s borderline irreversible. There’s no known cure, and the only possible one is dependent on a little girl learning how to control an extremely volatile and dangerous quirk and using it in a way she never has before.

So surely, they’re going to commit to that writing decision, right? He’s Quirkless. We’re bringing back having Quirkless characters. It’s going to be this sick as hell juxtaposition between Izuku and Mirio. We are at least going to force Izuku to reflect on his own times as Quirkless or have some kind of discussion about how Mirio is treated differently now that he is Quirkless.

But no. He gets his Quirk back by the next season. We don’t talk about it much. It’s more of a minor inconvenience than anything.

It’s almost as if the show accepted as an actual rule that you couldn’t be a hero without a Quirk. And then just. Forgot. Everything it had to do with its literal protagonist.

Anyway, I hated it.

In contrast, I fucking loved how yuuta’s storyline with Rika ends. That scene where Yuuta’s turning back to Rika, thanking her for loving him, telling him they can die together? I’m obsessed with it. I recently moved across the country and listened to that theme song on loop during the drive.

Yuuta and Rika’s love was unhealthy. They hurt each other. But it wasn’t malicious.

They just didn’t know how to love each other in a way that didn’t hurt.

They were in shit circumstances. But the love was there.

Yuuta felt guilty for Rika’s love for him and his for her almost the entire narrative. He thought he cursed her with his love. He wanted to kill himself because of how she hurt people out of love for him. It’s why I have moments in sea glass gardens where Yuuta talks about begging Rika to stop loving him—he didn’t know why love had to hurt so goddamn bad, and he’s sorry for that, he really is. He wishes he was better at it than he was.

At the end of JJK0, Yuuta truly is the last person who remembers Rika as she was and still loves her for who she is. He’s faced with Geto, who wants to use her as a weapon. Everyone treats her as a threat or a tool, except for Yuuta.

Like. Just that moment. Of loving someone so genuinely, and being the last one who does, and knowing that everyone else will just use them. I’m obsessed with it.

Yuuta reconciles with his love for Rika and her love for him, and they’re both finally freed. It’s this perfect moment of acceptance that I adore. He comes to terms with his past. It doesn’t hurt him so much anymore.

I wrote pez dispenser debris to sort of force Izuku to have that kind of reconciliation. As it is, he hasn’t reconciled with his own Quirklessness and how that affected him. I wanted to give him something he couldn’t physically escape and had to face.

#tw canon typical discussion of suicide #tw suicide #tw suicide baiting #pez dispenser debris #sea glass gardens #from a narrative voice perspective you are so so right #I tend to change my writing style a bit depending on who I’m writing #and Yuuta and Izuku I use VERY SIMILAR STYLES WITH #to the point where I reuse a lot of sentences between the two stories #I do shift my writing a bit #with Yuuta I tend to use shorter simpler sentences and have a lot of ‘distance’ in the sentences #I use a lot of ‘Yuuta thinks’ and ‘Yuuta feels’ when normally I would just cut to what he actually thinks and feels #like those are a lot of fucking words that aren’t the point. they’re dead weight in the sentence. most of the time they’re unnecessary #but I /want/ there to be that distance between the start of the sentence and the point because it gives more of a detached feel to the #writing and I think of Yuuta as a very detached narrator. he spent most of his life isolated and traumatised. the distance protects him.#he’s got space between him and the rest of the world.#I go off on way more asides with Izuku but that’s less because of a mindset I’m trying to build and more because it’s my silly fun story. I #wanted to write it ‘badly’ and break rules. I wanted the silly asides that have no affect on the story but existed in my head. I don’t let #myself do the same in sea glass gardens.#pez dispenser debris isn’t abandoned by the way I’m just burning myself out on sea glass gardens before I go back to it. I have to take #periodic breaks with stories and I’m trying to get through this one arc before I take one with sgg. that arcs the entire reason why I wrote #sgg to begin with actually. I have a LOT of stories that I /love/ that I never post because I know I only have so much time and there won’t #enough to finish them all. a story has to have something I really want to do for me to actually post it. sgg wouldn’t have made the cut if #it weren’t for this one arc that I found so damn funny that I decided to write the entire thing for the sake of one scene in it. it’s not #that I don’t like sgg to be clear. I love it. it’s just one of my much softer stories?#it doesn’t have a big climactic or intricate narrative. it’s softer and about healing.#its less narratively dynamic and more introspective and probably wouldnt have made the cut were it not for one scene ngl #ill probably finish toy rosaries next once i do that arc like im so close

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quibbs126 · 9 months

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So I had this random idea of an alternate way the Strawberry Jam Sword could work based off this random canon divergent story idea I had in my head and I just want to share it

So basically, under normal circumstances, it doesn’t do much, it’s relatively harmless (well, to the wielder I mean, it’s still a powerful sword regardless). But when the wielder feels an extreme amount of emotion, at least in the negative side, and becomes emotionally vulnerable, it takes control, amplifying that emotion until the wielder is overtaken by it and basically becomes a force of destruction, destroying everything in its path whether it be friend or foe. How the wielder actually stops, I’m not sure, but it’s not easy

I realize it probably wouldn’t work in the games just based on how they work. I think this version would work best in something like a TV show, where you can actually explore that range of emotion

And honestly, it’s not that original of an idea. Or really that good. You could probably just insert this idea into some other show idea or something and it’d probably work. And it probably doesn’t work for Dark Choco

But I dunno, the idea looked cool in my head, I guess, and I suppose I just wanted to share

#the story idea I mentioned was basically that Dark Choco returns from getting the SJS perfectly fine #but then it turns out someone else attacked the citadel just before he got back #and Dark Cacao got seriously injured #and then Dark Choco felt extremely guilty about his absence in this fight and that he abandoned his people #(at least from his perspective)#and it eventually culminates in him fighting off the Licorice Sea but then the SJS making his emotions go out of whack #attacking the Citadel even further #not sure where it goes from there other than possibly Dark Cacao attempting to stop him #it was just self indulgent fanfic I wrote in my head #I do that often #I wouldn’t actually make it since I’m bad at fanfic writing #anyways yeah #take this probably not that interesting idea #cookie run #dark choco cookie #strawberry jam sword #random stuff

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ofliterarynature · 1 year

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Sea Hearts, aka The Brides of Rollrock Island, is the story of a small island community with a history of summoning wives from the sea, a tradition only whispered about until an outcast young woman revives the practices to sow discord and revenge. This moving and sorrowful tale has been hiding on my shelves for ages behind a YA label and a very unassuming cover, but don’t let it fool you! For fans of literary, historical, and speculative fiction.

#selkies it’s selkies #but before you get too excited #they’re not really developed as individuals and they never get their own perspective despite the multiple narrators #which is incredibly disappointing #also it’s very heteronormative #but! I overall really enjoyed it #it was published in 2012 so it is what it is #bec posts #2023 #from Instagram #the brides of rollrock island #sea hearts #margo lanagan #also fun fact:#I did not realize I had two copies of this for YEARS #because the audiobook I have was titled Sea Hearts #only figured out when I was cleaning up my Goodreads lmao

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barbiegirldream · 3 months

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dotn remind me of primeboys 9/11 😭 it's still so fucking crazy to me that the main public thing was that "joke". based on dreams attitude it didn't sound like anything happened between them before that so Tommy mocking dream and then not even Trying to rectify it when he saw the reaction to it, 💀. I wanna know what made him go that delulu so bad, especially after being dreams nmbr 1 fan for so long

no because the prime boys posts I have hundreds and Tommy was a little psycho about Dream and I suppose it's like all drexiters. That type of emotion can always flip negative. vs say Q who I always figure didn't like Dream he was able to super easy take a step back it wasn't emotional for him practical business

#like when you look back at it #he was a teenager isolated from the real world rapidly sky rocketing to fame #and latched onto a few adults around him and used them to ground him #and if they float away he kind of is lost at sea #and got a little bitter #is my perspective at least

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zorawitch · 4 months

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I am loath to call any part of the pro-Palestinian movement anti-Semitic but I have seen one too many posts and comments saying shit like “the Jews killed Jesus” and other age old rhetoric that has been weaponized against Jewish people.

You can be an ally to Jews and Palestinian people at the SAME TIME. The idea that Jewish individuals will only be accepted if they’re a dominant class is anti-Semitic. Your rhetoric helps no one. Giving your generic statement soaked in old anti-Semitic myths does nothing to free Palestine. Follow journalists, boost content and statistics, call, email, and fax your representatives and do everything you possibly can to make sure this ends and Gaza is safe and Israeli apartheid is no more, but your hate works against that goal.

TLDR; if you don’t believe we should be doing everything we can to free Palestine or if you believe that this lack of freedom can be blamed on Judaism as a religion, just block me now and save me the trouble. Rail against Israel, rail against their government, rail against this genocide, but leave Jewish people the fuck alone.

#Not Jewish or Palestinian and this comes from an ally perspective so correct me if I fuck up #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #a.t. shrieking #tw antisemitism

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south-sea · 10 months

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alright but real talk, i'm a sucker for thematic counterparts, and alternates getting to right the wrongs of their originals for the sake of mutual catharsis. semi-modern gets to befriend an alternate mephiles, while second chance shadow gets to befriend an alternate eclipse. alt black doom gets to care for both of them. the running theme is "agency to care for others", not necessarily "taking responsibility due to obligation".

second chance shadow doesn't have the history or context required to understand why eclipse hates him/any iteration of him, for example. he's under no obligation to care or fix eclipse's situation. but that's also another running trend with second chance shadow specifically: certain people either hate him outright due to his looks, or they expect him to hate them for similar reasons. meanwhile he's just like, i have literally no idea who you are, so it's fine. by the way, are you, like, okay? (semi-modern definitely went out of his way to go find mephiles, so it could be argued he's more about the reconciliation/making up for something, but still.)

and make no mistake, it's not all going to be sunshine and rainbows immediately. if they do meet, it is going to take a while for eclipse to not hold a grudge against him. it's going to take time for him to accept that things are different, how, and why. once he realizes this shadow is not responsible for what all went down, and once he's able to accept he's been presented a clean slate, it'll start to sink in how much they have in common. and it'll be shadow who introduces eclipse to these alternate black arms. that's one hell of an olive branch.

i don't expect them to be all buddy-buddy brotherly, if just because shadow does lack a bit of critical history to fully understand how important the idea would have been to eclipse, but he won't reject it if eclipse genuinely starts referring to him as "brother". especially since alt black doom would adopt them both equally on the spot with no small amount of resentment for what they've been through.

shadow doesn't necessarily need a constant father figure, he just needs someone to help him understand what he is/teach him things that no one else would be able to. once that's taken care of, he'll be fine and maybe only very occasionally returns for advice or to visit. his home is not with the black arms, and he does not get the social fulfilment from the context of their species. eclipse on the other hand does need the constant family aspect, and would only benefit from having the kinder community within the alt arms. it's basically like a kid who's gone off to college vs one still at home in elementary school.

#second chance au #semi-modern au #sea talks #hi new followers i am sorry i promise it's not always like this #my inhibitor rings (adequate sleep) are off and self-indulgence is at max today specifically #hopefully it's as fun for you as it has been for me #in any case ros is also in camp 'expected shadow to hate him' purely because he looks like memphis sometimes #it was very pathetic to watch from an outside perspective but now they're friends. on some actual level.#despite shadow being Like That with not always registering when he's actually friends with someone

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polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup · 7 months

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I found sea glass gardens yesterday and it’s so amazing!!! I love how you write all of the characters, especially yuuta (he wasn't one of my faves before but he might be now🤭). Also the effects of reversed cursed energy on him are so interesting! and I giggle everytime when the "power of love" comes up in any context lmao it never gets old.

Also Maki and Tsumiki at the end ugghhhh

I’m just straight up proselytizing for okkotsu yuuta at this point. he is so unwell he enchants me I’m so glad you like him too

The Geto versus Yuuta fight is so endlessly funny to me. POV you’ve spent a decade amassing power as a special grade sorcerer second only to gojo satoru only to get your shit rocked by this clinically anxious sixteen year old in desperate need of a Xanax prescription who got so hopped up on the Power of Loving His Friends that he unlocked his beam attack. Like Yuuta was honestly SO unwell during that final fight. Geto kept trying to do his Big Villain Philosophical Monologue and Yuuta was just going after him with this cocaine addict mania like “The Only Thing In This World I Care About Is Making Sure You’re Not In It Anymore I Am Going To Beat You To Death” baby girl was not okay. I started dropping the power of love gag in chapter one and it wasn’t meant to go on for this long but i find it too funny to stop.

Yuuta, who has a history of loving people passionately and needing to kill someone about it, suddenly experiencing an irrational and all consuming emotional connection with someone who was just terribly hurt by some really huge assholes: oh god oh no oh fuck I may need to kill someone about this

Meanwhile, Maki, meeting someone who hates her family as much as she does and who is willing to fuck up their heirlooms just to spite them: oh no I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me

#maki: fuck she’s hot #meanwhile Yuuta’s just having the worlds quietest panic attack #for the most part he is managing to come off as normal from the outside like the adults have not caught on #so from their perspective he’s totally normal if a little tired and understandably stressed #and then you’re in Yuuta’s perspective and it’s just nonstop screaming #maki experiencing homosexuality: okay okay okay we’re doing this now #Yuuta experiencing homicidal rage: sorry are we not doing my thing anymore #I love them chaotic murder dream team they have that homicidal insanity swagger #sea glass gardens

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bakuliwrites · 3 months

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Trying my hand once again at writing first person POV. Not used to it, so let’s see what happens haha. Sneak peek tomorrow for WIP Wednesday

#I felt an overwhelming flood of Nanami feels #and felt compelled to write from a first person perspective #so Sea Salt is now 1st person POV #dani shares a random thought #fanfiction struggles

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