Momma Dusk

Oh hey! Haven’t seen this in forever! Didn’t reblog it when it came across me before, not gonna skip it this time, I need some good vibes.

Alright. If the world’s of all my fandoms become real I’ll believe you.

This was genuinely what it was like growing up in New Agey circles btw, my mum's friends would come round like "So I went out to the woods this weekend and fasted and meditated and I had a vision of the Sacred Stag and all my guardian angels and I asked them how to find love and they said that I need to focus on my own healing first and stop repeating cycles of the past" and then the very next week it'd be like "So I'm back with James again" girl..... the Sacred Stag could not have been more clear....

Conservative beauty standards are back with a vengeance which means it's especially important to go out this summer with bellies out and bodies unshaved. Also be unapologetically disabled with mobility aids and wearable medical devices and stim toys and ear defenders and all that stuff. You need it. People need to see it. Everyone needs to be reminded that life is unquestioningly more enjoyable when you're not living inside an arbitrary set of rules created by people who are offended by all the wrong things.

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

its been 12 years

13 years

14 years

15 years

16 years

Loss is a dancing queen, young and sweet, only 17

18. it’s now legally allowed to vote, drive and buy hard liquors in a lot of countries

I've been thinking about this comic for a while and I think I know what would have made it more impactful. The expression is just shock. There's nothing else and when you just look shocked, nobody takes you seriously. It's an act, so he should have had a vastly different emotion for each panel. I get the comic wanted a minimalist approach since it had no text for this page, but give him some more emotion. It doesn't have to be hammy, since that's how it came across despite the artist's effort against that, but show fear, anxiety, turmoil, then pain. That would have given it more power and it wouldn't have been a joke for nearly two decades.