a wonderful ao3 author note
No no you don't understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can't!
EVERYBODY knows (or should) that you DO. NOT. STOP. in Vidor, Texas.
It’s best to just run out of gas elsewhere. Whatever you do, black folks, DO NOT STOP IN VIDOR, TEXAS.
There’s a good chance you’ll get lynched or just come up missing - and I’m not joking.
also do NOT stop in Harrison, Arkansas!!!! (relatively close to OK and MI) a nazi town with a BIG KKK organization.
Reblog To Save Life
reblog to teleport your mutuals to a massive party when jkr dies
People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.
I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.
I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.
There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me
Gen and Senkus height different makes me feel content. It’s right. It just makes sense.
List of explanations for why Senku’s clubmates thought Yuzuriha would reject Taiju’s confession:
They simply did not know Yuzuriha at all and only perceived her as a pretty girl who was out of Taiju’s league. Most plausible, but also the most boring.
Yuzuriha was very subtle about her own feelings for Taiju and so no one but really close friends knew about her crush. Also pretty plausible, adds a bit of characterization, but not very interesting.
Yuzuriha has rejected boys “at full power before.” Slightly more interesting, implies Yuzuriha was popular enough to get asked out and felt strongly enough to reject them in an intense way. Perhaps these boys disparaged Taiju and Senku, or made fun of her interests?
Inagaki didn’t really think much of writing the boys betting Taiju would be rejected because that’s just how a lot of fictional background characters react to “dorky boy asking out cute girl who must be totally out of his league.” Dullest explanation ever, but we’ve all read something involving a romantic thread where the author is clearly just going through the classic tropes. Frankly Taiyuzu would be very boring as a ship to me if I did not immediately fall in love with their characters and their dynamic with Senku, and I kind of stumbled into that. Like, all we know about Yuzuriha for the first few chapters is that Taiju is madly in love with her enough to motivate him to stay awake for 3,719 years, and she made fun of him for the sparrow thing. If it weren’t for that bit (which seems to be early-installment-weirdness since she doesn’t really act like this again), then up until the hostage scene Yuzuriha could practically be replaced by a cute lamp. Hm. This kinda turned into a mini-rant about how easy it is for authors to not bother putting in the effort to write convincing romantic hooks because everyone can see the tropes. Oh well. Y’all know I love her.
The boys were surprised to hear Senku specifically betting on Taiju not getting rejected because they thought Yuzuriha was in love with him. Hilarious concept, I’m outlining a fic for it now.
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