Oi, Rin! Where Did The Bunk Bed Go?

Oi, Rin! Where did the bunk bed go?

Did you eat it?

Dumbass.

we just disassembled it, i didn’t eat fucking wood, are you stupid or something.

rice, like humans, is mostly water. thus, eating rice may be essentially equivalent to cannibalism. and as we know, cannibalism is frequently used as a metaphor or even stand-in for gay sex. therefore eating rice can be seen as the same as gay sex. in this essay I will

we NEED to make poly shipping more popular. instead of ousting that woman from a canon relationship with one of them for your man/man ship to work, consider keeping her there for 10x the laughter and drama. also, improves viewing experience and increases interest from bisexuals like myself

it’s coooold

3, 5, 6, 12, 22 for Kunigiri, and Rinsagi if you want to! :D

absolutely!

3. Most common argument?

For Kunigiri, it'd be about the half-drank cups of tea Chigiri leaves around their apartment. Kunigami has accidentally kicked a few over and ended up with drenched socks one too many times. Chigiri always promises to get better at cleaning them up, but gets too absorbed in books sometimes to remember.

I would see Rin's jealousy causing arguments in the early days of his relationship with Isagi. Once they've worked out that issue, I honestly can't see them arguing much. They're upfront people—they thrash out their issues before getting to the argument stage.

5. Who is most likely to carry the other?

Kunigami and Rin, bahaha. Easiest answer by far.

6. What is their favorite feature of their partner’s?

Kunigami likes Chigiri's resolve and his single-minded competitiveness. The fire within him is a draw for Kunigami.

Chigiri's big on Kunigami's muscles 😉 Nah, jokes aside, Chigiri is drawn to Kunigami because he thinks he's a far better person than Chigiri himself is. He loves the honest, fair person Kunigami is at heart.

For Isagi and Rin, they're the epitome of rivals to lovers for me. They're drawn to each other because they keep one-upping each other. In terms of personality though, Rin is drawn to Isagi's simple kindness and compassion. Isagi likes Rin's lack of pretense and the vulnerability under his hard shell.

12. Who initiates kisses?

This is highly situational. I can see Kunigami and Isagi being the ones who go in for a kiss first. For Kunigiri, Chigiri seems like the type to enjoy teasing and tempting Kunigami into kissing him, even if he wants to kiss Kunigami himself.

Isagi is more of a casual affection seeker than Rin. In terms of passion though, Rin's more likely to jump Isagi if that makes sense.

22. Who cooks more/who is better at cooking?

Kunigiri are tricky for me to answer this for, as I've written several versions of their characters in fics where one or the other are the better cook. The way I see it, Kunigami is better at basic meal planning, putting together something that has the right nutrition and macros even if it's a little boring. Chigiri's better at seasoning generally, and is good at baking. Specifically in Cassis Orange, Kunigami is the better cook.

I think Rin is absolutely clueless at cooking. He's powered by ice lollies and spite after all. Isagi isn't much better, but he's helped his mom make dinner often enough to be semi-competent. Both of them are more likely to buy combini food than cook themselves, at least until they have to maintain an athlete's diet. At that stage, they're totally hiring meal planners/preppers to get the right balance with minimal effort.

so: masking: good, unequivocally. please mask and please educate others on why they should mask to make the world safer for immune compromised people to participate in.

however: masking is not my policy focus and it shouldn't be yours, either. masking is a very good mitigation against droplet-born illnesses and a slightly less effective (but still very good) mitigation against airborne illnesses, but its place in the pyramid of mitigation demands is pretty low, for several reasons:

it's an individual mitigation, not a systemic one. the best mitigations to make public life more accessible affect everyone without distributing the majority of the effort among individuals (who may not be able to comply, may not have access to education on how to comply, or may be actively malicious).

it's a post-hoc mitigation, or to put it another way, it's a band-aid over the underlying problem. even if it was possible to enforce, universal masking still wouldn't address the underlying problem that it is dangerous for sick people and immune compromised people to be in the same public locations to begin with. this is a solvable problem! we have created the societal conditions for this problem!

here are my policy focuses:

upgraded air filtration and ventilation systems for all public buildings. appropriate ventilation should be just as bog-standard as appropriately clean running water. an indoor venue without a ventilation system capable of performing 5 complete air changes per hour should be like encountering a public restroom without any sinks or hand sanitizer stations whatsoever.

enforced paid sick leave for all employees until 3-5 days without symptoms. the vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through industry sectors where employees come into work while experiencing symptoms. a taco bell worker should never be making food while experiencing strep throat symptoms, even without a strep diagnosis.

enforced virtual schooling options for sick students. the other vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through schools. the proximity of so many kids and teenagers together indoors (with little to no proper ventilation and high levels of physical activity) means that if even one person comes to school sick, hundreds will be infected in the following few days. those students will most likely infect their parents as well. allowing students to complete all readings and coursework through sites like blackboard or compass while sick will cut down massively on disease transmission.

accessible testing for everyone. not just for COVID; if there's a test for any contagious illness capable of being performed outside of lab conditions, there should be a regulated option for performing that test at home (similar to COVID rapid tests). if a test can only be performed under lab conditions, there should be a government-subsidized program to provide free of charge testing to anyone who needs it, through urgent cares and pharmacies.

the last thing to note is that these things stack; upgraded ventilation systems in all public buildings mean that students and employees get sick less often to begin with, making it less burdensome for students and employees to be absent due to sickness, and making it more likely that sick individuals will choose to stay home themselves (since it's not so costly for them).

masking is great! keep masking! please use masking as a rhetorical "this is what we can do as individuals to make public life safer while we're pushing for drastic policy changes," and don't get complacent in either direction--don't assume that masking is all you need to do or an acceptable forever-solution, and equally, don't fall prey to thinking that pushing for policy change "makes up" for not masking in public. it's not a game with scores and sides; masking is a material thing you can do to help the individual people you interact with one by one, and policy changes are what's going to make the entirety of public life safer for all immune compromised people.