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Tucuxi Sotalia fluviatilis

🗝️TEAM LOCKSMITH NO JUTSU 🗝️

Artist: @lildraws, Writer: @tucuxi

Title: Meet Me At The Intersection Word count: 25,688 Rating: Teen Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Tags: Disability, Physical Disability, Alternate Universe - Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pre-CanonChronic Pain, chronic disability after traumatic injury, Stubborn Umino Iruka, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Survivor Guilt, civilian shinobi relations, Shinobi Politics (Naruto), Shinobi Culture (Naruto), Anbu Root (Naruto), Anbu Hatake Kakashi, Trauma, medical bias, systemic bias, Denial of care, Ableism, Medical Gatekeeping, Canon-Typical Violence, Medical Jutsu, Original Jutsu (Naruto), Mobility Aids, Past Child Neglect, Minor Character Death, Canonical Character Death

Summary: Umino Iruka regarded the man standing before his shop counter with what was probably poorly-veiled irritation. "Yes, thank you," he said. "I know how a triple-layered chakra lock works." Long years of experience kept Iruka's tone even: losing his temper meant losing customers, even if there weren't very many people in Konoha who did what he did. * * * The canon-divergent au in which Iruka graduates the academy, does 3 D-rank missions, and then retires, because his leg was badly crushed in the kyuubi attack—so he re-trains as a locksmith and makes chakra-manipulated locks. A story about systemic structural power imbalances between shinobi and civilians and the various ways in which expectations of physical strength and implicit ableism are detrimental to community trust. In which Iruka finds himself stuck between worlds, all because Sharingan Kakashi demanded the impossible, and Iruka made him a quadruple-layered chakra lock.

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"Silo 4"

(LP. Silo Editions. 2018 / rec. 2017)

[ID: An image of a tucuxi from Apú y el espíritu del río (Apu, the Spirit of the River). End ID.]

[Fic Book Covers 2/?] Thought and Feeling Interwound by tucuxi

2 cardboard pieces, acrylics used

I gave a try at painting two Tucuxi Dolphins (Sotalia fluviatilis)! 

This species lives in the freshwater Amazon River in South America. I believe most of its range overlaps with the better-known Amazon River Dolphin, or Boto (Inia geoffrensis). 

This species is relatively small (about 4 to 6 feet long). They are generally shy but can be acrobatic at the surface.

If I could travel anywhere in the world to see any cetacean species, this is probably the one I’d choose. 

I’m not sure what it is about them that grabs my attention - perhaps its their small, adorable appearance, or the fact that we know so relatively little about them, or maybe it’s just because I’ve always been a bit obsessed with the thought of river dolphins…