I've been writing fanfiction since the '90s. While I do post in-progress snippets of fanfiction I am writing here (you can check the "my writing" tag for that) the main place to read my written work is on AO3.
In case of shenanigans here is the address: https://archiveofourown.org/users/SofiaDragon/works
I use my bookmarks as a collection of stories I have read and enjoyed enough not to lose. I also use the Recommended Stories feature, so if you want to see a list of fantastic stories, you can utilize the filter or just click here.
I reblog a lot of things that catch my attention, but mostly fandom stuff and current events. There are a lot of different fandoms I am interested in, and sometimes I'll go back to the stories that first got me interested in writing. From ACD's Sherlock Holmes and Star Trek to the latest MCU movie and Spy X Family or even Eminence in Shadow - I like a wide range of story types so long as the characters are well crafted. Give me someone who seems so real they can walk right off the page or a setting I can sink into, and I'm happy. If you like that sort of thing, pull up a chair and stay a while.
I do not blog about charity for spiritual reasons. That I do not reblog posts or answer asks about charity means nothing about what I do or do not support offline.
More personal stuff about who I am under the cut!
Autistic spectrum cis female demi-aromantic. US American, social-democrat, has been overseas but not as much as I'd like. Can vaguely understand tourist Japanese and Spanish with context to help, but only fluent in English.
I put a lot of worldbuilding in my writing with a dash of humor and dramatic irony. In IRL conversation I'm sarcastic and enjoy ethical and political debates - and I have the privilege of coming from a family where we don't take those disagreements personally and will happily "devil's advocate" a position just to prolong the discussion if the conversation is productive in finding the flaws in the political ideas we support. Especially on the internet, hot intellectual debate of serious issues without catching feelings is a rare commodity.
I studied world religion, psychology, and creative writing as an Early Childhood Education major for my first round in college. Then I had to go make money due to a family calamity, so I swapped to Small Business Management and learned about economics, politics, teaching adults, and bookkeeping. Eventually, I took a job at a small chocolate shop and learned how to make gourmet chocolates, because the high stress and long hours of my management job was actually killing me due to chronic medical issues.
I believe that most of the fan criticisms of series and movies come from a place of love, since we wouldn't care so much if we weren't invested. You will see posts tagged "critical" or "criticism" related to fandoms that I adore. That thing I said about intellectual debates? It absolutely applies here.
I also tag political posts. If you don't want to see commentary on real life drama when browsing please filter your tumblr - I highly recommend a side blog with "#politics" blocked if you don't like seeing that stuff when you are in fun fandom mode generally. Curate your experience.
I've had some mental health struggles related to my poor physical health (chronic illness sucks) and fertility problems stemming from a hormone imbalance caused by working in an office where my boss used testosterone cream irresponsibly, don't try me on gender dysphoria it isn't a trigger it's waving a flag in front a bull. I will give you the horns. I'm very strong on trans/genderqueer issues partly because I have experienced the distress of my body doing masculine things like growing a full beard against my will and partly because I have a cousin more than 20 years older than me who transitioned when I was a kid and is one of the most actualized and happy people I've ever known.
Nobody should be forced to use their body or perform their life in a certain way for the benefit of other people contrary to their nature or will. This also includes medical privacy and legalizing [while responsibly regulating] most drugs. You will see this theme in some of my stories and it colors all of them in the sense that my idea of what is morally correct includes that kind of freedom.
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can we also bully grace a bit more for the fact that he apparently eats a lot of microwave meals but doesn’t know how to use a microwave properly. “pockets of nearly frozen noodles next to tongue-melting plasma” bro you’re supposed to stir it……..
The main reason why I tend to throw Xeno and Stan's canon ages overboard is because of the whole 'Xeno was Senku's mentor when he was ten' angle.
Maybe USA is different, but in Germany, if your institution gets an email from a 10-year old and you want to mentor him (which would undoubtedly happen above board, so everyone knew about it), you need to have the kind of experience one only has after several years of working in that field, and also a certain level of maturity a teen or young adult would not have.
A teenager or even a very young adult also wouldn't be allowed to do that. There are safeguarding laws, supervision requirements, piles and piles of documentation and reputational risk involved. Mentoring a child is being accountable for said child.
Also, Stan, someone who is explicitly stated to be Xeno's childhood friend and the same age as him, is clearly written with the bearing, career history and command presence of someone who’s been active for years, which doesn't align with their ages.
Plus, they both have chosen the two most DIFFICULT fields of work to get respect in. At their canon ages, they would have NEVER accumulated the kind of commanding presence and respect they wield. They would have been seen as young whipper-snappers who're trying to cut corners, not the commanding presences they are.
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Idk about all that mentor stuff you mentioned being the same here in the states but as for Stanley yeah I don't think he'd have his rank by his canon age.
And neither of them would have the respect that they seem to have in canon at their canon ages. At least in my opinion too.
I know nothing of the military system and if Stanley could be his rank at 25.
And I always assumed Xeno was not mentoring Senku in any official way. He just saw the email and decided to email him back. Nobody at NASA knows he is emailing Senku.
But yeah I agree I see them more like 35-ish. Above 30 years old. You can't really call the KoS "kids" when they are barely older than Ukyo.
Emails in a scientific institutions are VERY strictly controlled to avoid leaks and such. If Xeno wrote him back unofficially, or forwarded the email FROM A TEN YEAR OLD to his private email address, his scientific career and his life in general would have been through. So no, it had to have been above board.
Also, some of the equipment Senku used for his model rockets, especially of the fluid variety, can't be bought by just any private person. So how else would he have gotten them?
Third point would be the connection between Byakuya and Xeno. In any interactions we see, Xeno and Byakuya behave like people who know each other. Not people who have just met for the launch of the Soyuz, but people who have had contact before.
As someone with US military family: Yes, it is possible for Stanley to be a marine raider captain at 24-25. It means he was tapped for leadership back in basic, as many who excell and don't need to spend that time learning the basics do. I know more about Navy Engineers, but if you are passing the physical and mental/skill tests they make you tutor the other guys in the unit.
It's a work culture thing, during basic training and engineering school if one guy in your unit is failing you all are, never leave a man behind mentality includes maintaining your quals. Enlisted officers can cap out before 30 and then they can either do some classes using their GI bill to become commissioned officers to try and rise higher (I would expect this of Stanley) or they get comfortable running their team and make a career of collecting as many bright colored ribbon candy as they can. Either way, he's got a lot of brown on his nose to get where he is. He impressed someone, maybe even spent a deployment as some big shot's secretary or enforcer knocking heads together. If you interact with the boss more you are more likely to be promoted, and the military equivalent of shift supervisors who drag people to their dentist appointments (you get in big trouble for missing the very much mandatory medical appointments in the US military) or ride their ass about getting their qual exams done interact with the brass more.
What he can't be is both a marine pilot, aquatic warfare specialist, paratrooper, kitchen sink repair man, and the leader of a raider unit of 14 of the most extra marienes the corps can produce. (One of those isn't in the series encyclopedia, but you get the meaning.) The guys that drive the bus aren't parachuting out of it behind enemy lines to run an op - they got to return to whatever aircraft carrier they took off from. Same for the all crosstraining he supposedly has, there aren't enough active mission hours in the 2 year expiration of all those for him to maintain them all - and yes all those expire if you aren’t constantly doing them! Soldiers do not qualify once and then they are always qualified for skilled jobs! Stanley has too many specialties, not too much rank.
Xeno also skipped to university at an insane tween age, so he might have the position but not the life experience. He's the burnt out gifted kid who was pushed too hard and hit a wall because his skills are writing checks his social rank can't cash. It isn't even about being personable or the art of the elevator pitch, he's too young to throw his weight around. He doesn't get the respect others with his degrees do. He's 21 emailing an answer to a 10 year old, and maybe the annoying kid with too many questions gets fobbed off on the lowest on the totem pole who is more than willing to talk to someone like him... but it wouldn't keep up for 4-5 years.
Xeno calling them kids and generally being grumpy because Stanley should have rescued him already; Ukyo giving him side eye: "Dude, I'm one year younger than you." (He's two because he was petrified longer but anyway...)
Well, given recent comments from the author and the way season 4 went, I say the author sees these characters as plot decices with a few vibes tacked on. Xeno could have been emailing Senku unofficially from his personal email, Xeno and Stans ages can be bumped up so they are more reasonably experienced, we can do whatever we want. Boichi certainly did.
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Minerals and rocks don’t give a f*ck. There’s one called pumice that literally floats on water. Snowflakes are technically minerals. There’s nothing humans can dream up that nature hasn’t already got covered. I had an art teacher show me some painting once and try to tell me it was not like anything produced in nature and solely human made. I pulled up ‘rapakivi texture’
Looked exactly like this. Scientists should know better lmao
Since Dr. Stone Cour 3 is starting in a few hours, I wanted to help the anime watchers a bit.
So here's a recap on what happened in Cour 2 to refresh your memories <3
okay but we can't know for sure that the loud noise and bright flash offstage—which occurred after the character who was holding the gun exited the stage with it—was a gunshot, because we didn't get to directly see it
god I'm such a slut for Chinese eggplant in garlic sauce *decides it’s inaccurate to refer to myself as a slut in light of my minimal sexual activity* if The Enemy discovered my ardor for Chinese eggplant in garlic sauce, they would gain a significant strategic advantage
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I'm in a restaurant that's imitating the southern USA (think country music, BBQ, lots of references to Texas). I need an American to explain if getting a bag of popcorn with your food is normal over there or just imitation restaurant weirdness 🤔
Allergic people kept making a fuss about the steakhouse that had buckets of peanuts because there was a BIG ASS sign on the door saying that you should not enter if you had a peanut allergy. Tge peanut dust is still on everything and in the air, but the peanuts come in a sealed bag that is put in a bucket for "sanitary reasons" probably more related to some franchise owners putting the nuts on a new table after a kid licked the salt off the shells and put them back.
Look up Cracker Barrel restaurants or classic american diners (New Jersey native, I know diner food.) Popcorn at the table I have never seen, that's movie theater and fairground/flea market stuff, but the rest of that is pure america. The decor in the background is Texas Roadhouse or Cracker Barrel, the ice cream could be from any of a dozen chain or local places near where may parents live in Jersey. Special occasion treat, I'd expect a sparkler, song, or balloon to come with it if we made a reservation and told them it was a birthday.
Completely understandable about the peanuts in bags. Also, agree with the above comment as someone from the states. A lot of mexican restaurants would give you a basket of chips and a bowl of salsa before your meal, or certain restaurants would give you bread sticks or (american) biscuits with jam/jelly and butter in the same manner. Perhaps that's where this restaurant got the idea for the bag of popcorn?
Yeah, I don't think I've ever heard of anywhere giving popcorn specifically. Probably because as others above said popcorn is more of a casual snacking thing unto itself. Chips and salsa at Mexican type places, or bread of some kind would be the bring to table automatically things. Elaborate milkshakes decorated with entire other desserts are A Thing for the last several years (I have time blindness). Often ice cream shops that do basically just that, or maybe places that are trying to be trendy. Not sure if it's *still* trendy though since I don't generally go places that would do that, or keep up. It's probably been 5-10 years since I've heard about milkshakes like that? But I don't know if I just stopped hearing about them or if I stopped hearing about anything.
Ice cream sundaes with the works were a retro nostalgic thing in the 80's, Friendly's kids meal with the cone hat or half PB cup horns and surprise candy in the bottom is a cherished childhood memory and they still make them. I had my kid's birthday party at a Friendly's a couple years ago and it was an ice cream sundae bonanza. Whole oreos? No, but crushed ones, pb cups, gummy bears, sour worms, every syrup, and mini chocolate chip cookies were offered on a buffet. It was kindergarten chaos, and the adult sized ones are crazy too...
There are many cone head sundaes, all with different flavors and personalities. They don't always have the mustaches, I think that's a November thing? They all have surprise candy at the very bottom of the dish. Always a spoon of the smaller ones like the mini gummy bears, m&ms, or something like that.
Watermelon sherbet with gummy worms was my go-to as a kid. Now it's coffee with M&Ms.
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