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GREETINGS EVERYONE!!! I've spent the last couple of months working on a full length comic adaption of @goodlucktai's beautiful 'fishbowl' fanfic!!! Below you can read the fruits of my efforts :) Enjoy!

This comic takes place before Dressrosa

hey, mami has the most incredible expressions and i feel her bottomless rage in my soul

Ao no Flag (or Blue Flag) is one of the purest manga I’ve had the pleasure to read in a while.

I’m a big fan of shonen and seinen and I usually lean toward mature or fantastic series, but let me tell you, this is such a sweet and well rounded story that its being domestic and simple is exactly its core strength. 

It’s a classic love triangle (or square) with a small twist since Kaito (the author) added two LGBT characters to the main cast (which is pretty huge considering the context of publication and the intended readers). But the characters are so well rounded and carefully, lovingly constructed that it’s a true pleasure to follow their story. 

I could spend a dozen posts trying to tell you why you should read Ao No Flag and how cute and pure the story is, but I’ll just let the artwork speak for me.

There’s something distinctively pure and domestic about the way Kaito handles his characters. He never feels the need to add fancy or special elements to the backgrounds or the situation, because the story gets its power from the simplicity of its premise.

Every situation the characters find themselves in is something that could easily happen to any teenager in 2018 Japan, and yet it’s handled without the desire for escapism and extraordinary life that you usually find in stories aimed at young adults.

Ao no Flag is not ashamed to be domestic. 

There’s power in simple narratives and there’s power in a simple art-style, in subtle shadows and mundane backgrounds, in everyday life and no-dialogue panels.

There’s a sense of suspension in Kaito’s pages, as if he wants us to enjoy the moment, just like the characters are doing, as if every single, mundane act is worth being narrated.

I always feel at peace when I read Ao no Flag. When I look at Kaito’s art, when I look at the characters, my anxiety suddenly disappears. This manga is so domestic and simple, but the artwork conveys this amazing feeling of peace and purity.

It is like standing in the middle of a sunflower field, with your eyes closed and the wind ruffling your hair. It’s mid September, the sun is warm and you are content. Your heart is suddenly at peace with the world and with who you are.

Ao No Flag - Tai and Touma Holding Hands

But just when people were starting to realize how much power we hold in our hands, this whole “peaceful protest” narrative started circulating and all that energy and momentum drained right out of the movement.  You know why?  Because nobody’s afraid of a bunch of sign-waving hippies that cut and run at the first sign of trouble, that’s why!

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Charge All Four Officers

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Justice for Oluwatoyin Salau

Pass The Georgia Hate Crime Bill

Defund MPD

Life Sentence For Police Brutality

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Kyjuanzi Harris - change.org

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Censorship Of Police Brutality In France

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Fire Racist Criminal From The NYPD

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Abolish Prison Labor

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Soldier Vanessa Guillen Disappeared From Fort Hood Army Base in April. Here’s What You Need To Know About the Case

Vanessa Guillen, a 20-year-old U.S. soldier, last seen on April 22 in a parking lot on the Fort Hood Army Base in central Texas.

Her car keys, barracks room key, identification card and wallet were later found in the armory room where she had been working earlier in the day. Her phone has yes to be found

Three weeks before her disappearance, Vanessa Guillen told her mother that she was being sexually harassed and followed by an Army sergeant, but was afraid to report him, according to the Guillen family who made a website to coordinate their search. Guillen did not disclose the name of the alleged perpetrator to her mother.

Remains were found a few feet from a pile of a burn mound that was searched June 20. Concrete had been poured over the remains, and subsequent rainstorms allowed the grave to settle into natural-looking terrain. 

Identity of the remains have not been confirmed.

2 suspects were in custody one of the suspects died by suicide Wednesday morning when confronted by investigators in Killeen.

Texas Rangers have arrested the estranged wife of a former Fort Hood soldier in connection with the disappearance 

3 other remains were found at that army base including Gregory Morales, Brandon Rosecrans &  Zach Partin

 Krysta Martinez, a former Fort Hood soldier who started the “Where is Vanessa” hashtag and who also filed complaints of sexual harassment at the base died in a Car Accident 

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Who knows about Sally Hemings?

She was Thomas Jefferson's slave.

Called his "mistress," but how can you be a mistress when you were a slave, a child, and could not consent? Had absolutely no choice?

She bore him 6, perhaps as many as 8 children. He kept her locked in a basement room.

The room was recently unearthed, and DNA evidence has proven the lineage of Sally's children.

She was beteeen 12 and 14 years old when he started raping her, and Jefferson was in his forties. He freed the children that he had with her, but not Sally. Her daughter had to free her mother after Jefferson passed away.

This is not taught in schools. This side of history. We are supposed to consider the founding fathers as great men, fighting for justice and freedom, guided by God... when they are evil men. Selfish men who did nothing, save that it was for their own aggrandisement, personal benefit, and financial gain.

I would also like to add that Sally was Jefferson's dead wife's half sister. Sally's mother was raped by her owner, who was Martha (wife of Thomas) Jefferson's father.

These people left a legacy.

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