Graduation [KiKasa]

thanksillpass:

Kasamatsu thinks this is what dying feels like – you can’t breathe and can feel your brain collapsing on itself, the desperate rush of blood the only sound you can hear. His face feels hot, his palms are wet, and Kise is looking at him patiently and respectfully like Yukio doesn’t look like he’s choking on his own tongue at all.

He tries to calm down by reminding myself that this is it – the graduation, the last stop; they won’t see each other ever again, probably, not if Kasamatsu can help it, he’s going far away enough anyway. Kise rocks on the balls of his feet awkwardly, still aggravatingly patient, and Kasamatsu grits his teeth.

He fists his palm and presses it against Kise’s chest, a little bit more violently than he intended, making Kise stagger back slightly and frown in confusion. Yukio uncurls his fingers slowly and presses his hand flat against Kise’s heart, still unable not looking at him.

He lets go then and turns around to leave, hears a gasp escape Kise’s lips but he keeps going, he won’t turn back, he can’t face him. That’s the one challenge Kasamatsu Yukio has to back down from and he deserves the privilege of running away, he’s worked hard enough to earn it. He’s not a coward.

“You’re a coward, senpai!” Kise shouts, and Yukio falters in his steps.

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wetorturedsomefolks:

dealing with myself as a human being feels a lot like being a perpetually exhausted zookeeper tasked with watching a capricious chimp who is always causing trouble and acting out and just making my life hell but once in a while when he’s tranquil i just watch him manipulating an object in his hands and we make eye contact and i understand that in some sense we’re the same

laughlikesomethingbroken:

areeceyafterlife:

 My favourite thing about the whole ‘no man of woman born’ thing is that it applies to a very broad church.

 For example:

  •  People born via c-section (no man of woman born, meaning natural childbirth, aka, the Shakespeare approach)
  •  Women (no man of woman born, aka, the Tolkein approach)
  •  Non-binary types (see above)
  •  Aliens (no man of woman born, with the meaning of man being in the ‘mankind’ sense)
  • Artificial intelligences (see above again)
  • Transmen (no man of woman born, the man-ness appears to come later as gender is a social construct. Arguably borderline, I know.)
  • People carried by a man (no man of woman born)
  • People grown in vats (no man of woman born)

 Basically, anyone who isn’t a human cisgendered male delivered via natural childbirth by a woman could kill Macbeth. (Given the equipment via science!, the child of a transwoman born via natural childbirth would still count as unable to.)

 It’s odd that you can divide mankind into ‘Macbeth killers’ and everyone else, even though everyone else is in the minority, especially if aliens are real and we create AIs capable of murdering Scottish kings.

there are two genders: macbeth killers and macbeth

How do you think Kise and Kasamatsu will call to each other being together? I don think that “Kise” or “Senpai” would last for so long.

aiwritingfic:

Mmm, you’d be surprised, Anon-san.  ^_^;;;;;  I don’t tend to give people nicknames, but once I develop a way to address them, it’s super hard for me to switch out, and as far as I can tell, people generally act like this.  Once you get used to calling someone something, it takes a lot of work and conscious effort to change.  Instead, what’s likely to change is the way the name is said.

What I say is not the be-all and end-all, because I am not natively Japanese and this is not my culture; no matter how much I ask and observe native Japanese, there is always going to be a gaijin filter that colors everything I see.  Additionally, even between two Japanese people, opinions on these matters will differ.  In the end, the default way of treating this is always to err on the side of politeness unless you are daring and don’t mind the risk of offending the other, or the other side asks you to switch forms of address.  That said, here’s a VERY long answer under the cut!

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