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I stand by my canceled wife (complex fictional female character who is treated like shit by the fandom)
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Blackout Poem Made of Disability Benefits Applications and Denial Letters:
[Image ID: A blackout poem. The edges of the black are straight and rectilinear. I will indicate breaks in the line using the slash symbol /. Some of the excerpts include boxes where you could draw a check mark. I will indicate these by writing (box). The poem goes
Answer every question. / Please tell us if you want us to return them to you. / Select the heaviest weight lifted. / Using fingers to touch, / (Box) One hand (Box) Both hands / Using hands to seize, (Box) One hand (Box) Both hands / reduction / refusal / Termination / Penalty / You can give us more facts to add to your file. / You do not meet with the person who decides your case. / Notice of Decision — Unfavorable / Disabled worker’s name / Date given when disability began / Date of death. /end ID]
The final three lines are from denial of benefits paperwork for workers who died before the end of the mandatory five month waiting period. How many of those deaths are connected to poverty? I don't know, but I can guess.
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«Her bark extinguished the candle flames. The light vanished, replaced by smoke. Yangchen’s features were blanked out in the darkness, and the hallway lamps outside cast her heavy silhouette in the frame of the entryway. It was like she had an alcove to herself already»
#I love the way you use light in your pieces.. but in this one it's such an interesting subversion#your Yangvik pieces usually contain a sense of warmth. the flickering flame or sunlight#it illuminates them. renews them both#but in this one her back is turned to the golden light behind her. her face and front completely shadowed#stressing the deep lines under her eyes. the exhaustion to the point of defeat#what's there to care about that won't be eventually taken from her? it shouldn't matter. worse happened#loss upon loss upon loss. she should remember well enough. maybe if she insists that it doesn't matter it won't touch her anymore#it won't feel like a loss. and yet she's in the dark. as if everything that illuminated her life before is behind her#Yangchen#the legacy of yangchen
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#Kat and Nia shared a look#or alternatively - Ikiaq and Zhi shared a look#but I do really much like how we end up not only with - this child has gone through too much#it also goes into - how did the person who hurt them the most end up that way?#truly dissecting the generations of traumatized people spreading that trauma onwards
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#prev the amount of bad takes to sit through when you have an unpopular favorite character is insane#apparently it isn't a common opinion that Vaatu was done dirty and deserved better#also.. related to my friend#it's rude to leave tags badmouthing a character when the artist is known to draw them a lot even if they're not in that particular piece#it's like - the rest of things you do I find off-putting. not a compliment really
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I don't know what this is from, but I thought it was Sam and Frodo.
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loving a character so much will unlock such vulnerable and cringe parts of you that you try to suppress so bad but you can't like it's so humbling
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Tried a comic-like visualization of the released 'Dawn of Yangchen' excerpt
(I read the first part entirely qrong tho, i'm sorry jfofbfkf)
Oh dear boy, not only her blessings, she herself is hanging above you like the worst parody of a protective charm you could ever ask for.
Among other things, the punishment includes having hot air blown into one's ear, being on the other end of the Avatar's pain upon learning of your betrayal, and witnessing her exhausted, grieving and in desperate need of help.
And having your whole worldview and a sense of morality reset and redefined, urging you to make up for every misstep because it's right and because you want to do it for her.
#and sort of.. becoming so devoted to her than no other life even makes sense even when she detests you#in other words.. Kavik's punishment is knowing Yangchen#because as soon as he gets to know her.. he cannot not love her. he cannot resist the change happening in him#will I make countless obnoxious posts about this book again? maybe#Kavik#chronicles of the avatar#the dawn of yangchen
I'm going to start fucking yelling again
#jetsun#avatar gun#Mesose#no you don't understand.. how just hearing something he'd say immediately puts the past life of Gun at ease#making him forget that he's dead#I may have a very very specific kind of brainrot over them because.. with just a couple sentences#it's clear that Mesose is that trusted companion that really is close to the Avatar#and that fond teasing.. I'm not talking about what kind of relationship they had#but Gun loved Mesose okay? and to know that he failed not just the town but him specifically..#ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch#and you know all about my pet headcanon that they did get another shot. but even that aside..#it must have taken everything for Gun to decide to go on#I'm going to start chewing on drywall#chronicles of the avatar#the dawn of yangchen#Yangchen#also I may or may not feel very called out with that multiple projects thing
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Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.
Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.
And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:
They all fall to their deaths.
Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.
It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff.
Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took at step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.
Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.
It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.
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hc that yangchen was able to converse with her immediate past lives bc she was that much of a spiritual prodigy
(sketches from Patreon)
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Being obsessed with your own ocs is so so good for you i seriously can't recommend it enough
The only downside is that you have to do Everything around here
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when you're sick you're either a prince moder or a dog moder. prince moding is when you demand many little treats, drinks etc. i personally prefer to drag myself off to a secluded corner to either die or recover, aka dog moding
when taking care of a sick person youre either an attendant or a vet. You either bring you ailing ward all that they desire, constantly checking on them and gently encouraging them to eat, ect. OR you have to drag them out of bed while they complain and shove pills down their throat, much to their distress.