Art For Me

Natural Black Hair Tutorial! Usually Black hair is excluded in the hair tutorials which I have seen so I have gone through it in depth because it’s really not enough to tell someone simply, “Black hair is really curly, draw it really curly.” 

Jaime and Khaji being plural is so important to me. Their connection is indescribable. Jaime is Khaji and Khaji is Jaime but they're also very separate and they disagree and have different ways of going about things and different perspectives and identities, but they are both central to each other, they are both big pieces of the other's identity.

They are not themselves without the other. Not after all this time. Not after sharing a brain for so long, learning to work together, no. Not after all this.

Do you get me.

The people around them have to learn to accept that there is no Jaime without Khaji and no Khaji without Jaime, and there is no heroic Blue Beetle without their harmony.

They are each other's other half, even if they had never imagined this happening. They are NOT a well-oiled machine, they are NOT always on the same page, they are NOT perfect, but they are together and they are Blue Beetle and they are the world to each other.

Don't get me wrong, there's some horror to be had here. But there's also some connection, some bond, some love.

Also like, yeah Khaji changed Jaime's life, but Jaime also changed the course of Khaji's existence too.

She is dead serious when she offers for Murderbot to press charges against the humans who shot it. She also won't let the refugees be threatened or intimidated by that same legal action by her own officers. She makes sure everyone knows the rights and protections they're due. She says, No, we will not be charging Human One, "because I understand she’s experienced extreme trauma and because the consultant refused to make a complaint," because she understands due process is necessary for justice, and because she understands that what she doesn't understand comes from trauma—on both sides. She says, Are you going to help us find the real killer, "Or is this just how your whole group treats people who get hurt trying to help you?" because yes, she does understand where Murderbot's coming from better now, and because she has to speak up—she cannot simply accept the humans fear this SecUnit, despite its own resignation, not when her job is to restore and repair the society that holds both victims. And when she keeps Murderbot and the refugees from coming face to face with each other, it's not only for the humans' sake, it's for Murderbot's sake too. An unmediated, charged possible confrontation would harm both parties and serve no one. Her words and actions reflect her sincere beliefs in compassion and justice, and those of Preservation's.

Grace only recently got food that tastes okay. the dome is as comfortable as the eridians could make it, but its not a hyper-realistic recreation of earth. the gravity of Erid hurts grace. there's still a literal wall between him and the people (person) he cares about.