I Will Refer To It As My Head UFO Interview.

friend who lives hundreds of miles away: i made food

me: can i have some

No one wants to leave the country they grew up in, but news like this shows how difficult it is to live in Gaza with homes, schools and hospitals destroyed.

So I hope you can help me evacuate my family from Gaza so that my father can get treatment abroad. I beg everyone who sees this to either donate or participate so that we can get out of this nightmare.

Luz: Hey you guys wanna go get some D-E-S-S-E-R-T?

King: Yeah dude, I need me a T-R-E-A-T!

Collector: Watcha guys talkin about?

Hunter: Yeah, why did you guys just spell dess-

Luz: NONONO SHHHHH!

King: SHUT UP DON’T SAY IT!

Hunter: … Uh… why?

King: Oh god how do we tell you this?

Luz: Collector… can’t spell…

Hunter: … WHAT?

King: He can’t spell, so when we talk about something he wants we spell it out loud, so he doesn’t get too excited.

Hunter: He is a god. He can’t handle hearing the word treat?

Collector: TREAT?

Luz: NO TREAT!

Collector: TREAT?

Luz: NO TREAT!

Collector: TREAT?

Luz: NO TREAT!

Collector: Awww….

Hunter: Okay what is happening?

Luz: We told you, he gets excited when he hears the word T-R-E-A-T.

Collector: Watcha talkin about?

Luz: Taxes.

Collector: Aw shucks.

Hunter: What, so you guys just treat him like a toddler?

Collector: TREAT?

King: NO TREAT!

Collector: TREAT?

King: NO TREAT!

Collector: TREAT?

King: NO TREAT!

Collector: Awwwwwww.

King: Dude, you gotta spell if you are talking about F-O-O-D.

Hunter: Okay… so are we getting an S-N-A-C-K?

Collector: SNACK?

King: Oh COME ON!

Luz: Dude REALLY?

Hunter: OH COME ON! I SPELLED IT!

King: Well he knows how to spell SNACK!

Hunter: SO HE CAN SPELL SNACK BUT HE CAN’T SPELL TREAT?

Collector: TREAT?

Hunter: NO TREAT!

Collector: TREAT?

Hunter: NO TREAT!

Collector: TREAT?

Hunter: NO TREAT!

Collector: GOD DAMMIT!

Luz: Okay he is getting fussy. It’s time for an N-A-P.

Collector: Yeeaaaah~

Hunter: What does N-A-P spell?

Collector: Party.

okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

Mute Obanai x Mute Giyuu

Just saying. It's cute.

The eel mural is finished!!! Thank u so much to everyone who bought a print / anything from my shop and helped make this happen!!

I recorded the whole process so I'll post some vids of that soon if ppl are interested!!

Brainy weresmurf bc I love him

Yess!! I'm coeliac and I'm on a cooking rota with my friends- they're all really good at checking ingredients and they scrub all their utensils so contamination is rare, and my contamination avoidance is the same as theirs anyway, and yet when I asked for advice online about talking to them about not using my wooden utensils on gluten stuff etc, I was bombarded by people telling me to cook for myself- I wasn't asking for them to dictate how I choose to manage my condition, I wanted a way to tell my friends why I don't want them using my stuff without offending them

I don't get hugely sick from contamination, and in my case specifically, I don't think avoiding gluten to extremes is worth the stress, not to mention cooking for myself every night etc

It's my life- I can do what I want with it. And I choose not to stress about contamination. Other people can, and I understand that, but I also believe that it's up to each individual how they manage their condition- if they don't care, that's up to them.

Just don't tell a restaurant you're coeliac and then eat gluten from your friend's plate- if I'm gonna eat something from my sister's plate, I tell the restaurant it's a mild intolerance and not to worry about contamination

When I tell them I'm coeliac, I will never take these risks- it's not fair on those who cannot deal with contamination, nor the chefs who work hard to keep my food safe when I'm just gonna render it pointless anyway- but I don't think it's wrong to take these risks if you're coeliac, some people act like it's the worst thing you can do ever

I'll deal with this shit how I want, thanks. I've found my balance. Sorry it's not the same as yours.

This may be a hot take but anyways.

Whilst we need the general public & to some extent, newly diagnosed people with coeliac disease to understand the seriousness of the condition. I wish people within our community would stop fear mongering so much.

We get it. We need to not be exposed to gluten. But also we still need quality of life. There comes a point where the harm stress does to our body, outweighs small occasional risks of exposure.

Having a ‘may contain’ food item once in while, is not that serious. It is not going to do a massive amount of damage to our bodies in the long term, even if it does have traces. Getting exposed from eating out one time, is not going to cause cancer.

Some people get extremely ill & I’m not dismissing that. Most of us want to avoid it regardless of the severity because it sucks. But what I am saying that if people want to take small risks once in a while, they shouldn’t be made to feel bad or like that is going to kill them. People should be allowed to ask ‘hey, anyone tried this may contain? Did you get sick from it?’.

I don’t know why but it’s always the ‘may contains’ that people are the most wildly judgemental about. Everywhere you eat out is a ‘may contain’. Your home is one huge ‘may contain’ if you live with people who eat gluten.

Do your best. Allow your body to heal after diagnosis &/or exposure. Figure out what risks feel like a reasonable balance for you between not getting sick/not having ongoing exposures & quality of life. Maybe this works better in places where it’s easier to avoid exposures because of better/clearer labelling laws but that’s all I can speak to & where the chaotic judgement is coming from too.

Everyone has been sharing such amazing art with me. I thought I’d show you all one of mine. I don’t know the first thing about digital art, but I love to paint. The background is water colors and Obanai himself is acrylic 🐍~