Struggle∈ℝ

I'm thinking about doing things that are easy to do and add beauty to your life (like reading, going for a walk, making art,...). And we could take picture and post them with a hashtag.

Ginko as a Brimmed Cap in a Witch Hat Atelier AU.

There's no way Qifrey wasn't somewhat based on Ginko, and outside of that Ginko would pretty easily fit into the Witch Hat world. He would be a brimmed cap to me because I don't think he'd particularly care for the laws that pointed-cap Witches ascribe to magic. If magic can be used to save someone, it shouldn't be a taboo; he's with the doctor-witches.

That said he definitely isn't on board with what the brimmed caps are doing at present; so I feel he'd kind of be more of a wanderer (of course) who uses magic his own way; as long as it's used to help people.

I particularly like the "mugura" mushi and wanted to incorporate it into his magic somehow in this AU; Ginko uses magic to connect to the mycelium network in a given ecosystem, which allows him to receive information through the network similar to how he uses the mugura; but it's a dangerous type of magic that gradually roots him to the network if he uses it for too long. The imprints on his neck and cheek are marks left behind by overusing the magic; if he were to completely succumb to it, he would become a part of the ecosystem.

"Murder is bad. In the time period discussed, people sometimes committed murders (2 citations). And most people agreed that murder was bad, but it was widely known that murders still happened."

And your advisor goes, "Did most people agree, though? Was it widely known?"

And you go (sigh.). Okay. And do twelve hours of going back through your readings. And rewrite.

"Murder is bad (4 citations). In this time, people sometimes committed murders (6 citations). People did not all agree that it was bad (2 citations). There was disagreement about exactly how bad (3 citations)."

And you look at your draft. And you go. But. But we all — I mean, the archival sources from the time are in fact QUITE CLEAR about how widely known it was! Like–! I've read hundreds of letters and a third of them mention murder! I've talked to so many historians of this time and place and we ALL talk about the murder thing!

And you look at the twelve goddamned hours of searching you did. And you write several increadingly desperate emails to colleagues. And after another few days, you come to the agonizing realization that, in fact, there are no citations of published work establishing that people knew murders occurred despite them being bad and against the law. And then you spend another week looking up those archival sources. And you rewrite again.

"Everyone knows that [reaction A] works like this and [reaction B] works like that". Very common way to start a paper or thesis in this field. Everybody knows this, we can carry on with the more interesting stuff about [reaction C].

Huh. These 73 citations all cite each other in a ouroboros and the only original source in the lot is a popular science book which is indeed worth citing, but it's a memoir, which I have read repeatedly, and the author of the memoir just threw this out there as another example of "things everyone just knew in those days".

Yellow or pink?