Jaxon

Drawing based off of a hc that @chrisisoverit sent me!

(I hc that Darry was rlly chubby as a kid, but due to bullying he started working out in high school, and joined the football team and everything. Chris-Is it ok to call u that?-came up with the idea that Sodapop and Ponyboy always pull up old photos of Darry to tease him, and I loved it so much I had to draw it-while including my own hc of Darry being a chubby kid pre-High school).

No... not really.

I talked with @imgoincdayzee about it and he brought up good points— First of all, they live in a wealthy area so already the expectations of seeming put together and perfect are set on the kids in the classes, so while she DOES get in, it's not accepting.

The teacher probably had high standards for her especially, since they wouldn't like her most likely, and are looking for any excuse to try and flunk her. Her dog habits and features are expected to be hidden, like her ears to be blended in with her hair and act like a proper and pristine human (and well, not much to do with a dog nose and legs.)

The other girls in the classes are nicer, but don't know much-if anything- about puppypeople and would echo the beliefs they hear from their parents.

Puppypeople aren't seen as dancers. Doesn't seem like the thing they could do at all with how they're seen as non-human and therefore less important, and their dog like legs make it much more difficult to follow routines. I feel like a lot of the discrimination I imagine the puppypeople to go through does mirror some aspects of how people of colour are perceived, and so yes I believe ballet is a bit like it. Except its just made up dog people and it mirrors the horrible beliefs around real people.

like late 20s-early 30s, don't have a definite age tbh.

Same sex marriage rights, so many pride parades, and so much support.

But then they would see you denying their existence.

Another reminder that those people from the 60s are alive right now.

❄️🌨️ Darry and his baby Arlo in the snow <3