Tworegimesof - Two Regimes Of

i feel like all my stories are me trying to answer the philosophical question "why did they do that to me" and the answer is literally "it's what worked out best for them" and i sometimes feel very, very sad over the fact that this truth has given me so much to write about

hiii!!! i wanna say i’m a huge fan of your works. i fell down the rabbit hole of nanamei and your works are like an oasis in the middle of a desert. i read the getohime fic where he cheats on manami and goddd its my absolute favourite!! reading it from manami’s pov with mitski/lana songs in the background makes me cry all the time.

while reading it the idea of gojo and manami dating felt so cute and the fanart i saw of them didn’t help a bit. i would love it sm if you gave the ship a thought xoxo

Thank you, you are too kind! Idk if my stories are an oasis but they are something lol. I listen to so much Lana and Mitski, and it's such an honor for my dumb stories to be in anyway associated with them! I feel bad for Manami in that story lol she did nothing to be played that way.

Hmm, Gojo and Manami. A ship I have not thought of, admittedly. I'll have to think more on it but I make no promises!

"He's gotten into you and he knows how to manipulate your limbs with his big naked hands."

Kathy Acker, Florida

We’re going to get the ending of X after all. This was all part of CLAMP’s master plan, I’m sure of it.

Kamo Noritoshi looks like the lovechild of Getohime. I can't explain it properly, but it has been on my mind for quite a while.

The ages don't line up but Kamo certainly has the potential for crazy that both Geto and Utahime have.

If I recall correctly, he's very concerned about being a good son and loves his mom. I could see a GetoHime kid carrying that similar burden, even though Geto and Utahime aren't members of some weird clan. I feel like if GetoHime babysat him as young adults people would give them the side eye I'd sometimes get when I was a teenager with my younger cousins.

I included the gifs for evidence but alas, they aren't perfect and the only one we have of Kid Kamo is him CRYING. But yeah, GetoHime would for sure get some weird looks from busy bodies making snap judgements.

The chokehold that "Greetings From Teenage Hell" by Petra Collins photoshoot still has on me is insane. Rookie Mag is still one of my favorite places on the internet and Petra Collins' archive is an eternal source of artistic inspiration.

I love how the entire website is mostly teenage girls being creative and sharing their work. It makes me emotional just looking at these pictures lol.

Sitting at the bar, Kurenai drags her finger down the side of a glass, wet from condensation. Raidou sits beside her, picking at some grilled fish. Sticks some in his mouth, not talking since they’re both ashamed of what they’ve done, how things are, that they let it get to this point. The bar is crowded, full of patrons celebrating the end of another terrible work week with the people they care about. Sick cosmic joke, it all is. 

There’s a woman to Kurenai’s side, leaning across the bar. Hair up in a clip, loudly talking about how her best friend is getting married. Arm around said best friend’s shoulders, as they finish each other’s sentences. It offends Kurenai, because she remembers when she was in her baby twenties and could be that happy girl in a bar. Smile with all her teeth and mean everything she says, drunk babbling and woo-wooing, liquid courage making it easy to believe that everything will be a-okay. 

We should be this happy. It feels like they are never going to get their turn. Kurenai traces a heart on the bar. Elbow on the counter, chin on her fist, head tilted as she starts to make different shapes—circles, stars, diamonds. Crude flowers, simple Xs, different words all to do with love and hope. She wants to be that girl again, the one who believed that her life could turn out happy. 

“Do you think we’re soulmates?” Kurenai asks the question, even though she knows Raidou’s answer. Their struggles are evidence, Kurenai is certain of it. 

Raidou chews for a minute, swallows his food before he answers because he was raised the right way. Turns to look at her too, this flat expression on his face. “Yeah.” He smiles when Kurenai scoffs, putting her hand over her mouth to smile into her palm. “I wasn’t even joking.” 

“Shut up.” Kurenai tries to sound threatening, but she’s still smiling, silly girl because it’s Raidou doing the talking. He sets down the chopsticks he was using to pick at the fish, then turns his body to give her his full attention. 

“Well, what do you think?” Raidou asks, looking right at her. It’s not hostile or confrontation either. His eyes are soft, like he can really see her. 

“I think that I’ve found you in every lifetime before, and will continue to find you in every lifetime after this one.” Kurenai leans over and tilts her chin down, pretending to glare right at him but smiles at the end to show that she doesn’t mean intentional harm. 

Raising an eyebrow, Raidou lets out a wheeze. “That sounds an awful lot like a threat.” 

“It’s a promise!”

“Every threat is a promise.” This is something that Raidou sincerely believes too. Has told her as much when he tells her that her love is always pointed right at his throat as if she is waiting for him to no longer be who he says he is. 

“I promise to keep finding you in every lifetime,” Kurenai sits up straight, smiles at him to seal it, like she did when they were kids and coming up with plans and strategies for their missions. Puts a hand over her heart as if to swear upon it. 

“You promise?” Raidou’s voice changes into something so much softer, more tender. It doesn’t fit this loud, noisy bar where people are talking fast and loud about their shit jobs and terrible love lives. Jokes about blowing up office buildings and raising ancient demons the background noise to a serious conversation about the laws of their universe. 

“I promise.” Kurenai picks up her drink, takes a sip, then another while Raidou appears to think about it for a moment. 

“So, you think we’ve done this before?”

“And we’ll keep doing it in the future.” Kurenai doesn’t know any other way to be. 

A/N

This ship is my original rare pair shame. I wrote about them in Storms and Lovesickness, both NSFW. Please mind the tags.

Thinking of them!!!!

I am dead.

I am completely normal about this