I’m so incredibly hyped for the Berlin liveshow!

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

Welcome to our fair city. I hope that you enjoy your stay.

This is a man who is VIOLENTLY aware that when it comes to conservatives, he is a Muslim first, a Brown Man second, an Immigrant third, a Socialist fourth, and a human a very distant fifth, if considered at all. He was also a young adult during the Obama Years and will have seen Republicans rip Obama to shreds for wearing a tan suit instead of a dark one and use literally ANY excuse they could to try and degrade his image.

"#as someone from new york, #it's working. #and i do mean this in the sense that there are people who i know for a fucking fact would not have liked him otherwise, #who are like 'huh maybe he's not so bad.' #like there are people in my life that I have seen do a full heel turn because he isnt just the mayor, #he acts like The Mayor fucking Schmigadoon-style. Mayor is his archetype. His cartoonish bit. His trope. #and he NEEDS to do that because otherwise those same people are gonna pivot hard in the other direction. #he works so hard to be The Mayor. #it is essential to his appeal as a politician trying to win over people who would (and frankly still do) kinda hate him, #Just enough to get their vote. #he is The Mayor of all Mayors. The Mayorest of all time. #he constantly quotes other NYC mayors not just to show that he is a new Yorker who loves new york, #but to validate his own decisions by calling up old dead white guys that old white new Yorkers like. #its fascinating. #i love watching him act and dissecting his campaign from a neutral POV, #but its so hard not to get wrapped up in the mythos. #to quote someone else in the notes -- 'he's a politician even if he has dimples.'"

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magic caused their disability -> the magic that caused it was too strong therefore magic cannot fix it -> don't make the character look for a magic cure in this case -> seriously. stablish theres no cure if you want. just don't make them look for the cure -> although. bonus if they Could get a cure. they just Don't Want One. -> don't make them being disabled a punishment for Doing Something Bad. nor a punishment in general. a spell going wrong is far better. trust me. Disability As A Punishment is overused asf. -> only write them hating magic for this if you plan to make them embrace both magic and their disability in the future. otherwise give them a positive relationship with magic since the beginning.

magic removes their disability -> don't do that -> mainly if they become abled when they're in their Super Form (example freddy freeman). do NOT. fucking. do that. -> let them stay disabled even if superpowered. invent some excuse or whatever. -> other option is let it remove the disability but keep them using their aids out of habit. you need to be very careful with that one tho bc you can fuck it up -> overall just. don't remove their disability -> oh but don't let their disability make them less of a hero fuck that -> if you make them the "weak link" of their team i will kill you with hammers

evil magic removes their disability -> if you plan to make a plot twist where the magic was actually Evil all along you not only can but Should remove their disability -> show their discomfort with this -> but it remains ignored because "you should be happy you're abled now!!" -> in the end its found out them being made abled was foreshadowing the magic's Evilness -> again. very careful with this one. -> still the implications of Evil Magic Making Them Abled are so much better than Evil Magic Keeping Them Disabled. trust me. seen both.

their own/other characters' healing powers should make them abled/"heal" their disability -> either stabilish that healing powers can only heal stuff that can be healed with modern medicine (aka not disabilities and chronic conditions and stuff) -> (least fav option) stabilish that it can heal that stuff temporarily, but it comes back worse soon enough so its not worth it -> or make the disabled character to not be willing to try and get healed -> not bc they're scared but bc they'd rather stay disabled

magic could make their disability less disabling without removing it -> this can actually be very well done -> for example if a characters disability is worsened by cold, casting a spell that makes the room warmer -> or if they switch between mobility aids through the day, a spell that makes their mobility aids tiny (pocket sized) so they can carry them around more easily -> or a spell that makes their wheelchair move on its own without them needing to push it bc they're too flared/exhausted to manually push themself -> as a general rule tho. keep it at things that can be done irl, or at least make it inspired by them

disability as a punishment (they were cursed/they threw a spell too advanced even tho they were warned not to/etc) -> just don't do this -> seriously. pick another punishment. don't fucking do this.

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