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I gotta be honest with y'all I'm just melting away this week and it's only getting worse, so have some silly fanart to SFTH #12!

Because I loved Gator Luke so you have to as well!

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

I went to a “Cancel Canada Day” event and burst into tears - not because I was surprised to learn of the unmarked graves (survivors told us they were there. Our government pushed it aside, and we let them), but because seeing all the people gathered in mourning drove it home: They. Were. Children.

This is my country’s legacy - and it’s not history. The last schools closed during my lifetime. My Father went to school with students who lived at the local residential school, after it was changed to a boarding house (read: holding centre) for indigenous youth who went to local schools.

I suppose I'm asking if you just write a character raw or have some sort of master dossier on their personalities, histories, and [SPOILERS], or a secret third thing? How do you distil a character? Do you, or does story come first?

Maybe that just sounds like "How do you write?" or "How do you move from a concept to a formal construct?" but I've recently been alarmed by the "Created Using Generative AI" on Ao3 and I refuse to use it, even for 'structure/continuity' so while I'm at it, I thought I'd ask you about your process.

This is an interesting question and I'm not sure I fully understand it. When I build characters I don't have a specific method for organizing their traits - I don't mix up qualities between characters, I don't lose sight of who's got a dead mom vs who's got a code of honor or a lot to prove. It's not an unattributed list of character qualities in my head, it's all firmly under the umbrella of each individual character's disparate facets. They could be broken down into character reference sheets or bulletpointed bios, but I've never felt the need to do that; most of my character details are in miscellaneous notes files scattered across fifteen years of irl time.

The trouble you might be having is seeing characters as lists of qualities rather than networks of interconnected forces and consequences. A character can have a bullet-pointed list of salient character traits (strict personal code, unsociable attitude, has a cool sword) but in my experience it's more useful to consider what aspects of a character's life have shaped them and how. What things have happened to them, and how has that thing affected them, and how does it inform how they react to future things going forwars?

Just finished this 20 minutes ago,, took about 2-3 hours of flow state to make,, I am so deeply obsessed and in love with Project Hail Mary right now TuT Grace mean so much to me as a character