tozette. (archiveofourown.org/users/Tozette)
I post bits of fics and about whatever I'm doing, and I have really loud opinions.
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I just sat down at my PC and said to myself, 'Well, I don't know, watching the second half of that Bleach episode I started seems like a lot of commitment to sitting upright?'
I just sat down at my PC and said to myself, 'Well, I don't know, watching the second half of that Bleach episode I started seems like a lot of commitment to sitting upright?'
I know caffeine is, like, an actual psychoactive drug, and I know I consume amounts of it that are frequently classed as 'excessive' by people I know, but it's also like... I think sensitivity to caffeine is very dependent on the person.
And! I have a good comparison between "tozettastone regularly consuming caffeine" and "tozettastone severely limiting caffeine" at hand! In my early 20s I stopped consuming sodas, coffee beans, coffee, and proper tea for 18 months (causing havoc among my family). I tried this because I got diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and various people kept going, "Er, are you SURE it's not the amount of caffeine you have?"
Trials on the entire population concerned (me) show: it's not.
I'm just not that sensitive to it. I can have espresso before bed and experience — from the conclusion of my many trials — just about zero impact on whether or not I go to sleep. Now, caffeine is still a CNS stimulant, so what else it might be doing to my sleep cycle? I have no idea. So if I decide I want coffee after about 7PM I usually go for decaf (to the extravagant disgust of my parent) just in case it's secretly Up To Something, but unlike with e.g., alcohol, it's hard to say what impact caffeine actually has on my sleep.
And yet, I know some people who are so sensitive to caffeine that they cannot drink decaf because of the traces. So... I think caffeine must just be a thing that affects different people very differently.
...either that, or my nonna's canny methodology of giving us coffee every single morning as a tiny child has created flamingo-salinity levels of caffeine tolerance in all her grandchildren. Hmm.
ETA: this does mean i can have 2 cups of coffee and be the sleepiest and stupidest motherfucker at the 9am meeting, though... :(
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When Emily died, she got to meet some kind of great cosmic power, and everything felt right with the world and she was at peace — for, like, five seconds.
Then something else knocked on the door.
"Hiiii. Sorry," said a bright-eyed lady in a pink skirt suit, knocking the door of metaphor open with one rounded hip, "d'you kind if I just scooch on in and grab this one?" If the great cosmic power answered at all, Emily didn't hear it. "Great! Thanks so much!"
She hauled Emily out by her arm, tucking it into her side.
"Was I in an office?" Emily wondered. Her memories of the great cosmic power were already misaligning itself.
"Sort of? More like the foyer. I didn't let him get you to the elevators. I'm Kitty, by the way. Sorry to steal you away from your afterlife, but I really need you for something else."
She was outside now, on a featureless city street with planters full of cigarette butts, where the rain fell on everything except her. Kitty invited her to perch on the edge of a planter next to her.
"Oh my god," said Emily, blinking rapidly. "Did I get hit by that train?"
"Yeah. Dropped your earbud on the tracks and tried to pry it out. Those level crossings are dangerous, huh?"
"They were new! Goddammit. I'm dead? Like, dead?"
"Ugh, yeah," said Kitty, "I know I'm being flippant but it really sucks. It does. I was a psychpomp for almost a century before I got this gig, and it doesn't stop sucking for the people who're going through. Especially if you pull them out of the processing. Processing is comforting. Raw-dogging this shit is always a big shock." She gestured here to a big gold-edged revolving door into the office building. "Reincarnation, you know."
"Reincarnation is... a revolving door outside an office building?"
"This is all kind of a metaphor?" Kitty admitted. "You're reinterpreting it. It really says something that you think of them as bureaucrats in an office building, though. We've really moved on from agricultural metaphors... I guess jeans and a combine harvester lacks the romance of the scythe."
"What?" said Emily, bewildered.
Kitty sighed and patted her shoulder. The shape of her hand did not match the size of the icy limb Emily felt. "Don't worry about it. So, listen, I know this is a really big, bad time for you, and you're probably distracted what with dying and all, but the powers that be think we've got a serious problem in the world next door and they want you to fix it."
"Fix it? Me? The world... next door?"
"Yeah, just one over. Well, three over, I guess — from your perspective. It's an anime."
"The problem's an anime?"
"The world is an anime. Look, I'm not saying you're perfectly suited to doing it — you're not. Emily, girl, you died to a train. Its path could not have been more clearly telegraphed. You do not have 'battle shonen character' written on your forehead, you know?"
Emily knew this about herself, technically, but she'd never actually had to think about it before. No, she wasn't shonen protagonist material. Who was? And yet, she still felt as though she was being insulted somehow. "Um, sure? Why — why me, then?"
"There are certain qualities a soul needs to be compatible with each universe. Most of them are perfectly and specifically suited to their own, which is great until you need to inject a new soul into an established timeline. That's when you have to start looking for souls that are a bit more..." She paused. "Generic."
Emily flinched.
Kitty gave her a sympathetic smile. "It's not a bad thing, you know, being a bit featureless. It lets you blend in."
"I feel like you just told me my soul is boring."
"Well..."
"My soul is not boring," declared Emily. "Maybe you're just a bitch?"
"Nnno, I really..." Kitty paused. She cleared her throat. "Well, don't worry about it. It's not saying you're boring. It's like having a boring face. Nothing's wrong with it, and you can still make as many expressions as you want and wear fun makeup. Except better, because, like, nobody can really see the soul stuff your soul is made of. Don't worry about it! Anyway, I really hate to rush you, but our window of slotting you into the new world is really passing us by! Are you ready for the rules?"
"Um, okay."
"Okay. One: you don't tell anyone there about this — " she waved her hand around " — whole experience. We won't let you say it anyway, but the psychopomps are very active and they do it differently over there because... uh, they created a very weird system and won't let it fail, basically. So if you drop too many hints they might get, um, fiesty. Two: do not romance the main character."
"What?"
"Yeah, uh, that's the big problem in that universe. In the regular course of the universe, the main character marries a girl he met in highschool and then they have a baby — except, listen, he's an artificially created hybrid creature, and she has the power to reject reality as we know it, and their kid was —"
"Not that," said Emily, scowling furiously. "Are you trying to tell me that not only am I dead and you think I'm boring — "
"Your soul, not — "
" — I'm not even the main character?"
"...Well, um, everyone is the main character of their own story, obviously," hedged Kitty. "Anyway," she added, transparently trying to change the subject. "We were going to," she waved her notepad, although Emily couldn't read it, "just prevent one or both of them from being born, right? Or kill them? But then actually they're both needed to prevent this one guy taking over the whole psychopomp business over there.
"So we decided to just," another hand wave, "send someone different in with a different soul and a message in her heart! So all you have to do is avoid any kind of — you know, anything procreative! — with the main character. We'll offer some guidance and assistance to you along the way, of course. It's still a battle shonen series and you're not optimally equipped to live in it, so we're prepared to give you some support in exchange for good behaviour. But you should be fine."
Emily frowned. "All you want me to do is not talk about you, not fuck the main character, and survive?"
"Well, there are a few teeny tiny other things you might need to do — there's a reason we have to replace this girl rather than kill her! — but, mostly, yeah. Just that. Easy, right?"
Emily still took a dim view of the offer. "What if I refuse?"
"Ohhhh," said Kitty. "No, no, sorry, I didn't mean to give you the wrong impression — I'm not making an offer. I'm telling you what will happen. And our time here is winding down, so it's going to happen in about five."
"What the fuck? Five — five minutes?" Her heart wasn't ready!
"Four," Kitty smiled, mysterious and satisfied. "Three."
"What? No!"
"Two..."
"Wait!"
"One!" Kitty wiggled her manicured fingers in a cutesy wave. "Bye-bye!"
Sometimes you have to stare at your everyday boots and decide if it's really worth resoling them, or if so much of them is trashed that it's going to be a Boots of Theseus situation.
TYBW arc fight scenes are truly chef's kiss - it's nice that they expanded some of them for the anime as well since the manga was a bit of a rush job. Also Shinji & his haircut definitely does not disappoint in TBTP arc!Can't wait to hear your thoughts :))
Thanks! I'm still moving slowly through the arrancar arc. My last treadmill workout featured the Cirucci v Ishida fight, so I have a bit yet to go — this is episode 157 and the TBTP arc in the anime starts around 205, I believe. (Although there's like a 21-episode filler arc between the two that I will probably skip entirely.)
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I know this is ages out of date, but despite reading a ton of your fics over the years, I only recently read The Soulmate Phenomenon one and I'm obsessed! Usually I don't particularly care for soulmate stuff, but the idea that it only happens once a person is set in their ways/following major life events is compelling! Also just love Sakura in general there. Anyway, just wanted to throw some good vibes and admiration your way!
Thank you.
I also liked thinking about the idea that the characters' personalities are too malleable until they've had more experiences and only enough xp will give them a soul mark. Kind of like a nature-and-nurture theory of soul development.
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