mouse in a matchbox

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

Mama Bird

Short practise comic about birds. 

Beauty and the Beast meets Gothic AU but make it a vampire being studied by a dude who just wants to learn what vampires are all about. In the name of Science, you understand.

Vampire Shen Jiu who is gorgeous and cold and ruthless, who was turned centuries ago just to be another vampire's plaything. He's a killer of his own kind, who thinks of humans as rather annoying bits of food. His own bad past as a human only makes it easier to eat them, honestly. Inner humanity? Never knew her.

Then along comes Shen Yuan, bright eyed and fussy and oh so curious. A piece of meat so willingly coming to the waiting maw? Saves Shen Jiu the hunt, at least, but of course this particular snack is chatty and oddly unafraid and offers up a taste for a price. Not the strangest concept, to be sure, but he doesn't ask for money. He asks to learn.

And suddenly Shen Jiu has this weirdo following him around taking notes, asking questions, making observations that give Shen Jiu pause. He's so fully into the monster that he can't see the garden for the roses, so to speak. He's so twisted up with hate and anger and self-loathing that he finds himself thrown that anyone could find something good about him and his situation, who can see a beast and still find something beautiful in its savagery.

Shen Yuan sees the bad but also the good and Shen Jiu begins to wish he could see the world with as much clarity as this strange man who makes him wonder why it feels like his heart skips sometimes, even though it barely beats.