like the mary ellen carter rise again!

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Illustrated book project 🩸by @lusidraws

Anne of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

There's atleast 3 types of racism in here, against French Acadians, against Arabs and the purpoted race mixing happening in the wilds of London and general settler colonial erasure of indigenous Canadians because tbh that is what pastoralist fantasy is. This is just the first chapter.

Home boys here refers to the practice of rounding up street children in London, housing and feeding them for a bit and shipping them off to the colonies for labour, with all the abuse that follows at institutions that hire isolated children.

According to the British House of Commons Child Migrant's Trust Report, "it is estimated that some 150,000 children were dispatched over a period of 350 years—the earliest recorded child migrants left Britain for the Virginia Colony in 1618, and the process did not finally end until the late 1960s." It was widely believed by contemporaries that all of these children were orphans, but it is now known that most (88%) had living parents, some of whom had no idea of the fate of their children after they were left in children's homes, and some were led to believe that their children had been adopted somewhere in Britain.

Instead he’d chosen to come to Ottawa, when he could have gone to almost any team in the league. He’d chosen a team that hadn’t made the playoffs in over a decade. He’d chosen it because it was Shane’s hometown, and close to where Shane lived. He’d chosen it so he could build a life in Canada with the man he loved.

- The Long Game, Ch. 22

He’d set his boyfriend up in his hometown, not far from Montreal, because that was convenient for him.

- The Long Game, Ch. 23

Except that's revisionist history designed to make Shane look bad! They chose Ottawa for hockey reasons (cap space, roster needs) and logistics (it's the closest team to Montreal and Shane's contract isn't up so he can't move, it lets Ilya start the Canadian citizenship process). None of the reasons Ilya moves to Ottawa rather than another team has to do with Shane's connection to it - not even being close to Yuna and David, because they're not a factor when they make the original plan!

It's framing the move to Ottawa like a Hallmark movie where the significant other is forced to relocate to their partner's hometown where their partner lives and knows everyone and is woven into the fabric of the community while the person who moves is completely isolated from THEIR friends and family - except Shane ISN'T woven into the fabric of Ottawa like that because he doesn't live there. Ilya sees Shane's parents (aka his only emotional tie to Ottawa besides Ilya) more often than Shane does, and Shane hasn't lived in Ottawa since he was at least 18, if not earlier with billeting.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Willow Rosenberg/Buffybot, Tara Maclay/Willow Rosenberg Characters: Buffybot (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Willow Rosenberg, Tara Maclay Additional Tags: Implied Spike/Buffybot, brief mentions of vomiting, ambiguous consent, Set about a month after s5e22 The Gift, Smut, Angst, robotfucking, Guilt Sex, Grief Sex, proxy sex, Sex as robot maintenance, wireplay, Cunnilingus, Vaginal Fingering, Cheating with your dead best friend’s robot doppelgänger, Willow is a technophile, Willow has OCD but honestly she deserves to feel guilty about a lot of what she’s doing, Willow was always kind of gay about Buffy, Willow cries before during and after sex, Tara gets empathically cucked, Tara I am so sorry, Buffybot still has her original ‘Spike’ programming, Buffybot is the only one having a good time, Xander almost died the night before this fic takes place but that’s not important right now but it also kind of is, Not a crackfic/crackship in the slightest but Buffybot’s dialogue and the general awkwardness is pushing it, Foreshadowing the Great Full Copper Repipe of ’01, Author’s thinly veiled technology lust, Yes beta we come back from the dead like Buffy Summers Summary: