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I lose my housing on the 30th and I am honestly terrified which I haven't said out loud yet until now so ✌🏻

I have been rationing my gabapentin and duloxetine (my two nerve pain meds) so that I don't have to refill them because I can't afford to pay the refill copay. Which has been causing a lot of flares.

First of all, welcome!! Spam is enrichment. Please continue throwing breadcrumbs into my enclosure :')

On the handwriting bit: Yes. I do think Minato struggled with neat handwriting when he was younger. My personal headcanon is that his mind moved faster than his hand could keep up with. He would be trying to write down one thought while already solving three related problems, cross-referencing two sealing principles, remembering something Jiraiya said six weeks ago, and mentally rearranging an entire mission plan because someone used the wrong road on a map.

So his early handwriting was probably fast, cramped, uneven, and deeply offensive to anyone forced to grade it.

The ideas were brilliant but the kanji probably looked like they had (barely) survived combat.

I also think the clan-less thing matters here. Minato did not grow up with some stern auntie hovering over his shoulder like, “No, hold the brush properly, your stroke order reflects the dignity of this bloodline.” He was talented, observant, and frighteningly quick, but there were probably a lot of small refinement skills he had to discover later because no one was grooming him from birth for clan politics or inheritance records or formal correspondence.

At first, handwriting was just the thing that got the thought out of his head and onto paper before it escaped.

Then he started realizing that presentation mattered. Because reports mattered, archives mattered, sealing notes mattered, Orders mattered. The difference between “brilliant” and “usable” could be whether someone else could read what he had written under pressure.

And once Minato understood that, he (painstakingly) fixed it. His adult handwriting is probably neat, efficient, and almost irritatingly pleasant to look at because he deliberately built it that way. Which makes it funnier, because he would have very strong opinions about legible mission reports.

Hokage sama would you consider a polycules? 👀 Don't say no I'm sure Kushina would be okay with it

Oh, this is actually an interesting question buried inside an extremely dangerous sentence.

Because yes, in a high-mortality military society, you would expect Konoha to develop household structures that are more flexible than a simple nuclear family model. Not necessarily because everyone is in a romantic polycule, but because shinobi life practically demands extended kinship.

You would need godparents. Clan guardians. Mission partners with legal authority. Communal childcare. Inheritance arrangements that account for people dying young. Widows and widowers being absorbed back into clan households. Children being raised by grandparents, cousins, teammates, or whoever survived the mission that their parents did not.

So I absolutely do think Konoha probably has a lot of non-nuclear family structures.

But polycules as the default solution? Uh. I mean, it could be A solution - but maybe not as ideal as it seems.

For one, Konoha is still a clan-based society. Marriage is not only romance at times; it is inheritance, bloodline politics, household alliances, land, names, succession, and custody. The Hyūga are not looking at a five-person emotional support web and going, “Excellent, very stable.” They are looking at it and drafting seventy-three bylaws before breakfast.

Second, adding more partners does not automatically make a household safer. It can create more adults, more support, more income, more childcare, yes. It can also create more grief, more legal ambiguity, more clan disputes, and more people to lose.

Third: shinobi are emotionally repressed little weapons with tax records. Please imagine asking three ANBU, two Jōnin, and one exhausted medic-nin to communicate their needs in a healthy, transparent manner.

The village would collapse before the next war.

As for Hokage sama--

Minato looks up from his paperwork very slowly.

The room goes quiet in the way rooms do when someone has said something that will either become a diplomatic incident or a family anecdote.

“I support strong community networks,” he says carefully, because he is Hokage and therefore legally required to pretend this is a policy question. “I support widows, widowers, orphans, shared guardianship, and social structures that prevent children from being left alone after loss.”

A pause.

His smile remains pleasant.

“My marriage, however, is not a village infrastructure project.”

Someone coughs.

Minato folds his hands on the desk.

So as y'all saw from my pinned post, I lose my current housing next week due to the owner selling, I haven't been able to find a job, and more.

WELL! I finally have housing which is moving in with a friend of mine. After a month of absolutely no luck on jobs i finally have not one but 3 job interview within the next week. I had hardly been rejected by where I applied, let alone made it to the interview stage. The third thing is, after a year of the process for going on T, my endocrinologist put the orders in yesterday for my prescription so I'm starting T soon!!!

Thank you so much to everyone who has been sending good vibes, prayers, wishes, etc. my way. Especially thank you to those who sent funds which I've used for gas, groceries and will be using on prescriptions once they're ready.

I don't know when I will have a job yet, let alone first payment so any help financially is greatly appreciated, but 0% pressure as I know a majority of people are struggling. I will keep accepting good vibes because still going through it but at least I will have a roof over my head

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It’s a win if you squint and want a sentient barrier with legs. Put Shikaku and Minato together and Konoha either becomes a utopia in six months or gets annexed by paperwork.

Inoichi and Minato may both be blond, but in my headcanons they’re cousins - same cursed gene pool, same “smile sweetly while planning violence” energy. Also: between the two of them, there are enough pranks, psychic sabotage, and perfectly-timed public embarrassment incidents to ensure they would rather die than be legally bound to each other.

Minato would absolutely use Hiraishin to swap Inoichi’s shampoo with dye. Inoichi would absolutely walk into Minato’s mind mid-meeting and project elevator music until Minato cracks.