MYSTERY HIMEJOSHI

I heard we're sharing DnD designs, so here's my girl Amaryllis! She's a Wizard and a Martial Magi (basically she can punch with magic)!

FLY hit its first stretch goal of 25k for a fully animated scene! ON TO THE THEME SONG!! Keep sharing, keep backing, keep flying! ❤️🪽💫

I was being facetious with the trick part lol but you know the joke "I might be racist, but you're mean and that's worse?" It's the root of that. We discussed it back when we read White Fragility. You can see it in Trump, Elon Musk, and your average Tumblr racist:

They really, REALLY want to be liked. Not just liked, no that's not the right word, but validated.

Think about it this way. Racism is the status quo; the default, right? Part of maintaining that default is through normalization, and that includes the solidarity necessary to reinforce that (DiAngelo called it white solidarity).

So, if being covertly racist is the status quo, then that means you will be socially rewarded for being so. When you get rewarded, people are nice, friendly, relatable, they keke and haha right alongside you. But when you confront someone's racism, you're not socially rewarding them anymore- the spigot of validation has been paused! Instead of taking it as a valid critique, you are seen as socially punishing a person. You're being MEAN, because the validation I got from everyone else's also-racism was NICE!

That's why when you confront racism, you HAVE to stand firm on it. You cannot feed into the desire for the validation of their behavior. That's what makes a lot of people snap. The blowup is meant to stop you, to force you back into compliance! The only one being punished really is you for bringing it up.

And hell, if not socially validating a bigot is punishment... 😐 Why would that be... A bad thing? We're not hitting you with rocks, we're just saying we don't fuck with you and your behavior. (But that's also a part of really all of the books we've read in #cbc book club so far; that antiracism is seen as violence.)

honestly the fact that she refers to the prisoners as her family when we've seen that she abuses them (and also excuses forcefully kissing Eddie as "important for family") feels so much creepier when you remember that her orphanage was called Happy Family Home, and that child Simeon preferred to be outside during winter "taking refuge" inside an igloo instead of being inside the warmth of the orphanage, and he also already had kerosene inside it ready in case he needed to use it to run away or help someone else run away... I really do think that Fifi was abusing him (and maybe other kids) even way before the whole "witnessing the murder" thing happened

I wanted to try designing a slightly older version of Kamila! Might be a canon-compliant continuation AU I have in mind lol

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Ghost Trick is the perfect game because it’s got two buttons and they’re Ghost and Trick. It’s also a perfect game for reasons I can’t tell you