It's Gonna Be Okay

Why don't I say it then?

I want you all the time

Inspired by cuptoast's pork soda animatic ❤️💚

"Rumi, I don't think this is working..."

"Shh!"

A quick entry for the Rujinu 1st year KPDH anniversary at @rujinucafe! The theme for today was "Shame or Acceptance". This one leans heavily toward shame, but I think there's some kind of bittersweet acceptance of one another. It can either be perceived as an AU where Jinu was born half-demon as well, or a symbolic representation of their complicated older selves as they navigate their own struggles with identity and shame. Either way, I like it for being a fast and loose creation. :)

If you aren’t particularly great at anything, or if you’re downright bad at doing things people expect of you, you are VALUABLE and your life is just as worthwhile as those black people who worked overtime to be where they are now.

Maybe you’re not particularly strong, athletic, smart, artistic, whatever. I don’t care, because you still deserve to exist and be fought for.

Armored Lady Monday

"Around 63,000 inmates produce goods for external sale...from farm work and manufacturing to call center and distribution services."

"In Oklahoma and Mississippi, [work release] is not restricted to inmates. Oklahoma uses defendants sent to rehabilitation programs to process chickens at a private facility for no pay... Mississippi has ‘restitution programs’ where it sends people to work off debts owed to the state by acting as a temp agency for a number of industries."

"...federal immigration detention centers rely on the labor of civil immigrant detainees to lower their operating costs. The large prison corporations running the centers – like CoreCivic and GEO Group – are currently facing lawsuits, alleging that they employ deprivation schemes, where detained immigrants are forced to choose between living without basic necessities or working for sub-minimum wages, and then are threatened with punishment for refusing to work."