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I think some of the loneliness of autism is that you feel like you hurt people just by Interacting Wrong, but you donāt know how to Interact Right, and the more effort you put into it, the more exhausted you are and the more artificial it comes across (with the end result of people still being upset with you). and itās not anyoneās fault for not liking Being Interacted With Wrong, and itās not your fault for doing it so wrong, but it is very, very lonely.
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Did you know that a collage of art by Craig Thompson, Emil Ferris, and Benjamin Dewey would work this well?Ā Us neither!
Me And Alan Bathearst will be at table 31 for the comics expo! :)
Lyft just offered me free credits to break the strike this week.
Thereās a lyft / uber strike planned this week from 7am to 9pm on Wednesday May 8th. I got a notification this morning that every ride taken this week gives me credit on future rides. I found that tempting but then remembered why they are doing it - to encourage folks to cross a picket line. I for one wonāt be taking advantage of this offer, as I stand in solidarity with people utilizing their right to free speech to bargain for better working conditions.
Consider this a friendly reminder to those who follow me that this is happening, and I hope youāll support the appsā drivers in their quests for better pay.
I donāt usually post anything other than my own work and the occasional fanart here but IF THE BOOT FITS
Guys, this is why I LOVE when people ask me questions about TeaFeathers!Ā Questions help me out so much, and are so fun to think about and answer!
Same. Though I frequently forget to ANSWER questions I read all my asks and sometimes it helps me work out things I hadnāt thought about yet.
Donāt call me out like that :P But seriously, having people ask me questions I hadnāt thought about my world forces me to think on them and helps me to further develop it, character motivations, the story at largeā¦ the list goes on.Ā Itās a HUUUGE help.
I feel like this one checkbox encompasses Em & I's ENTIRE COMICS PARTNERSHIP.
Okay but consider this- Elizabeth Swann. Sheās a pirate nerd from the beginning. Sheās fascinated. And by the time the Black Pearl blasts Port Royal she knows enough to defend herself- first with the iron, then with the Code. That nerd studied pirate law enough to quote it.
And not just pirates. Presumably sheās been on a ship once- when she comes over from England. But nope no piracy wasnāt enough for this kid no she did some intense studying of sailing too because why not. So when theyāre being chased down whoās coming up with all these nautical maneuvers? Elizabeth fucking Swann, sea nerd extraordinaire.
Fast forward and sheās not just a nerd anymore. And she isnāt a pirate, either. Sheās the Pirate King, doing battle with Davy Jones and the entire British navy, with every Pirate Lord and their crews behind her. No more improvised weapons, no more parlay- she commands every black heart that ever set sail. And then her bae becomes ferryman for every soul lost at sea.
So then what? Everyone just goes back to what they were doing? And Elizabeth just goes home to make a quiet life for herself as a single mum? From studious sea nerd to Pirate King and now suddenly sheās happier at home, waiting for Will?
Give me an epilogue where Elizabeth has her fatherās estate and enough gold to keep her comfortable for a lifetime, but instead travels the world, her son at her side. Adventuring and exploring, in and out of the law. Tell me she calls up Calypso for tea from time to time and they talk about uncharted lands and the price of sugar. Tell me in some ports sheās recognized as the daughter of Governor Swann and wined and dined. Tell me in some ports sheās recognized as the Pirate King and gets barrels rum on the house.
Tell me even honest sailors whisper stories of the mysterious and elusive Pirate King, who rarely strikes at all but then vanishes for years at a time.
Tell me Elizabeth spends time aboard the Flying Dutchman, so she can be with her husband, and her son can be with his father and grandfather. Imagine young William learns to sail on his fatherās journeys to and from the land of the dead. And when he finally captains his own ship, heās learned to be both a respectable gentleman and a good pirate.
Imagine Elizabeth spending her life on the sea, sometimes with Will and sometimes not, with a wind from Calypso always in her sails, adventuring enough for lifetimes as a part-time well bred lady, part-time Pirate King.
yes this
This, exactly. Like, the only possible reason - and my personal headcanon of Elizabeth post-At Worldās End - was that the little house we see in the epilogue was just a tiny āvacation homeā. So when Will has his day on land, they have a place to meet and neither of them has to figure out where the hell the other is right now. Will just goes āokay weāll run into each other at sea often enough, thatās a given, but when I have my day on land, wouldnāt it be nice to have a little place of our own?ā and when itās that day, they meet there, the Dutchman makes port nearby, right next to her ship. And when the day is over they kiss and both set sails with their respective ships, off to new adventures.Ā
No way in hell will Elizabeth fucking Swann just be a stay at home mom in a tiny cottage waiting for her hubby to come home. Likeā¦ if anything, Will was always the one who wanted to settle. If anything, HE would be the one who would wait for his pirate wife to come home. The only reason why that is not the case is because he has to captain the Dutchman, he doesnāt reall have a choice.
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At Target this lady told her son he couldnāt have a Wonder Woman doll because āthatās for girlsā and then bought her daughter the same one. It got me thinking about how often I see people bar young boys from appreciating girls/women as protagonists and heroes, and my own experience with it as a kid.
Arrgghhh this makes so much sense y'all! I understand a lot of my childhood angst now.
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Give yourself a big hug for making it through this year.
Hang in there, yāall. Good and learning still comes from the bad stuff.
please make sure that wherever youāre at in life, you donāt treat it like a transitory period. donāt waste your college years wishing to already be graduated & have a job. donāt waste your single years wishing for someone to be in love with. if/when those things come, they will come in due time and they will be good. but there is nothing like looking back and feeling empty because you wasted literal years ignoring what you had because you were hoping for something better. while itās important to better yourself and reach for your goals, donāt neglect the present because thatās where you are now and itās your now that determines your future.Ā
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Blasting through a TON of potential plotholes/unanswered backstories with your bestie that make everything MAKE SO MUCH MORE SENSE and bring SO MUCH MORE DEVASTATION AND TRAUMA to you characters. Thanks,Ā @plotholetsi
So lookin forward to the trauma that is Jikoshia Books 3&4 :D
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Sometimes, itās in your head.
Just wanted to share that sometimes, your supposedly objective, logically considered thoughts are in fact, heavily influenced by your mental state.Ā
Last week, I struggled to churn out some art after having a REALLY good night with it the night before.Ā As I drew, I kept looking at it and thinkingĀ āwow, this is GARBAGE compared to yesterday! WTF?!āĀ I pushed through till the page was completely penciled since I was attempted to record it, and set the page aside, sure that Iād have to come back later to redo it.
I let the page sit.Ā I didnāt draw the next day.Ā Or the next.Ā Or even the next.Ā In part because of other obligations, but mostly because I dreaded coming back to what I knew in my head to be an absolute failure of my current abilities.
Tonight, I picked it back up, determined to move on to the next page (repeatingĀ āfinished, not perfectā as my mantra for the evening).Ā I stared and examined and took a real close look at the parts that I hated so much and discovered, wellā¦ theyāre actually pretty good.Ā Yeah, I could tweak some minor anatomy stuff and throw in some more details, but overall this page is nearly as good as the one before.
Long story short, I knew coming out of that night of drawing that my mind was in a bad place and I still let it convince me that it knew what it was talking about.Ā Itās not always easy to recognize, or even pull yourself out of, but if you find youāre judging yourself or your work harshly, itās probably a good idea to set it aside and come back when you feel better.
I think people really underestimate how fucking evil a large chunk of American Christianity is, when they try to say to antichoicers āwell if youāre against abortion, at least you should support things like WIC and SNAP, so that women facing an unplanned pregnancy can still feed their future kidā
Iāll be blunt, to American Christians like this, ābut single mothers and their kids will starve!ā is the entire fucking point. Being ostracized by your family and community and left for you and your bastard child to starve alone in abject misery and deprivation is what they believe the Godly punishment should be for being āunchaste,ā and that things like food benefits and contraception are destroying moral society because they let women have unapproved sex without being as controlled by the fear of being cast out to starve with an unwanted kid (this also heavily ties into misogynist racism against woc, especially black women, who are accused of being āwelfare queens,ā draining good, properly chaste white Christians with kids born from their supposedly mindlessly lustful and irresponsible behavior, that can only be kept in check with threats of starvation or violence).
āWomen (especially woc) cannot overcome their base urges and live virtuous lives without being heavily trained and coerced by threats of deprivation, isolation, and violenceā is one of the most important unspoken ground rules of reactionary movements, both religious and secular
Evangelicals have no long-standing theological problem with abortion. My parents have been married for longer than evangelicals have been against abortion.Ā Evangelicals in the 1970s didnāt care about abortion. Being againstĀ abortion was a Catholic thing. Evangelicals thought abortion is unfortunate, but not evil.
What changed?
Bob Jones v. US (1983).
Bob JonesĀ University,Ā an evangelical school, had a segregationist dating policy. It means what you think it does - they wouldnāt allow white students to date black students. They also wouldnāt admit black students who supported interracial marriage. This was in the mid-70s. Loving v Virginia was nearly a decade in the rearview mirror.Ā The governmentĀ threatened to revoke their tax-exempt status as a university unless this Jim Crow shit stopped. The school sued, and this eventually went to the Supreme Court. The Court, unsurprisingly, agreed with the government.
What was clear to evangelical leaders, then, in 1983, was that out-and-out racism was no longer going to be tolerated. What could they focus on that would have the same effect? What could rally the base without openly espousing racist views?
Reagan, with hisĀ āwelfare queensā dog-whistle politicking gave them a like-minded politician glad of their support. And Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was only to happy to tell people what he thought of abortion.
So here we are, thirty-five years later, with every evangelical doing their damnedest to pretend that evangelicals have always been against abortion. Theyāve lied themselves into believing it, and now they claim theyāre against birth control too. Thatās even more spurious - If they actually thought life begins at conception, then birth control would be a necessity, because fertilized eggs being rejected is the norm. Most of what they want to call human life never even gets implanted in the womb, or lasts very long if it does. And if they cared about life, welfare programs ought to be the most important, to ensure everyone has a good standard of living worthy of human beings.
But they donāt care about those things, so the only conclusion is that they are not pro-life.Ā They just donāt want to see family planning and health care go to women, people of color, LGBTQ folks, etc.
It was never about being pro-life.Ā
(and incidentally - Bob Jones v US was an 8-1 decision. Who was the dissenting voice? None other than William Rehnquist. Who was elevated to Chief Justice by Reagan when Warren Burger retired a few years later. None of what has happened has happened by accident)
Randall Balmer has a really good article about that here.
And itās worth noting that Bob Jones University defended their policy exclusively on religious freedom grounds, but Rehnquistās dissent was based entirely on procedural grounds. Even the one justice who wasĀ āon their sideā didnāt buyĀ their argument and had to justify it on other grounds. Itās been a long road from BJU v. USĀ to the Hobby Lobby case.
I have a similar theory about why evangelicals fight so hard against believing climate change when supposedly humans are stewards of the earth. Itās all about evolution. Climate change is a proxy war. Itās all the same rhetoric about scientists being corrupt and only looking out for their own interests and trying to shove their research down other peopleās throats.
For a group of people who supposedly believe that God charged them with taking care of the Earth, they really seem to have bought into the whole āI can do whatever I want to the planet because God put us in charge of itā mindset really hard. Of course, maybe this is just the 21st century version of manifest destiny.
I think another problem is that with a large chunk of US evangelicalism, the world ending is what they want. The apocalypse means that the chosen few get carried off to heaven as a reward for beating the shit out of their gay kid or whatever, while the rest of us who failed to give the true believers the obedience respect that they feel entitled to are left behind to die in slow agony before being cast into eternal hell. Itās really hard to get people to give a shit about the planet dying when they view literally would have the world end to own the libs
Itās ABSOLUTELY what they want. During the Bush years, they were pretty up front about it, too. The entirety of the Evangelicalsā support of Israel is explicitly so that the Jewish People rebuild the Solomonās Temple; which is a prerequisite for the events of Revelations to happen. The sooner itās built, the sooner the Rapture can sweep them up into Heaven so they can laugh as all the āsinnersā suffer the End Times. They donāt ACTUALLY care about Israelis or the long lasting sociopolitical factors of the area; theyāre literally just pawns for the most death cult aspect of American Evangelical Christianity. Itās legitimately terrifying that people like this run large sections of a nation already capable of destroying all life on the planet.
Itās a fatal but common liberal mistake to assume that evangelicals are motivated by (misguided) compassion. Theyāre not. They will watch you die and be pleased about it because youve gone to hell faster.
I think some people will read this and think itās really dramatic, but I was raised in a mega church in the Bible Belt. This all spot on.
Some DA4 Ideas
Me and @thealmightym got off on a HUUUUGE tangent this morning, upon the suggestion that the Inquisitor + love interest might show up in DA4 based on how the romance loads into game (assuming the Dragon Age Keep continues to function as well as it has so far:
Lavellan/Solas romance:
I can totally imagine a storyline where, if you import Solas-romance inquisitor, as the new DA4 hero, you have inquisitor tag along on occasion. If you fuck up at the missions with them, inquisitor joins Solas in trying to wreck the world. If you complete all the missions with them, they take your side in the end fight with solas.
Inquisitor+Cullen:
You can join them on their farm for a side mission or two. One of the side-plots is Inquisitor helping hide Cullen's younger sibling from the newly formed circle/templar/whatever as young sib is starting to have little magic bursts. It's equally fretful and adorable.
Inquisitor + Iron Bull
Inky and Bull have formed a new Bull's Chargers. If Inky wa Qunari, there's some of his/her old Tal Vashoth band joined up now as well. They show up as a random helpful encounter aiding you in world events. If you run into them enough times, they come to you asking for help on a diplomatic mission, Halamshiral style side event. It ends in the whole crew being chased out of the party for wrecking EVERYTHING and if you play your cards with, a menageāaātois with your old Inquisitor+bull plus new MC.
Inquisitor + Sera
This oneās easy. Inquisitor and Sera are married GAY AF ladies who show up as random encounter in urban settings. Only instead of helping YOU, they drop you arrows with notes on them of missions that need your specific flavor of diplomatic aid. Missions like: having you seduce a noble lady/gent while they steal said nobleās unearned goods. Stabbing a few really shitty nobles in the junk in a painful but non-lethal way. Immediately lose missions if guards or innocents harmed in process. Poisoning the food at the banquet of a robber-baron so everyone in the party gets diarrea BAD. Oh, and their skin turns purple for a week. And bees follow them.
Inquisitor + Blackwall
You meet them at missions in Weisshapt if Blackwall was told to join. Inq has joined them there indefinitely, and the two of them are the only two allows to Orlais & Fereldan as diplomats after that whole Wardens-turning-kinda-evil SHITE. They send you on a variety of one-off 'kill this monster' type missions, culminating in another encounter with the Architect, who can either help you by giving you something to defeat Solas, or you can fight, or they paralyse you and walk away without giving you ANYTHING depending on your game choices.
If inquisitor pardoned Blackwall, you run across the two of them in a cabin in the woods somewhere, trying their best to keep under the radar as they raise a couple of boys as out-of-the-limelight as possible.
Inquisitor + Josephine
Her ending goes one of three separate ways. Either she's got the bandit fleet under her wing, or her family has kinda lost status by the end. Or she's kinda bloodthirsty and killed some peeps.
I'm seeing their ending influenced by Leliana. If Leliana NOT Divine: Leliana is stealthily traveling alongside Inky & Josie to continue acting as a spy/ pulling strings of various nobility. While the peasants donāt suspect anything, most of the nobles are bloody terrified anytime Inky+Josie (and the unseen Leliana) roll into town because it means a few shitty nobles are gonna just be snatched away without a word. Inky+Josie show up as a set of espionage missions on war-tabley thing, and you can also interact with the trio at parties/ open-world spots where nobles show up, etc. Inky will very dramatically foil an assassination attempt on MC in DA4, starting a mission that culminates in an odd scavenger-hunt/goose chase of missions, culminating in Leliana identifying a spy within (DA4 organization here) who is trying to corrupt MC with magic. This traitor is not found in any other storyline, but is present in all other storylines (finger waggling here).
Josie+Inky IF Leliana IS Divine: series of wartable missions where Josie is convincing (DA4 group) to aid the Divine on various missions. Culminates in Inky foiling assassination attempt on YOU, and then enlisting your help to foil an assassination attempt on the Divine. Meanwhile, Josephine has been kidnapped, the Divine attack a diversion.
You go on a goose-chase of missions to figure out where they're keeping her, and when you finally get there, Josephine has things well in hand, and has a group of thugs tied up, and is regaling them with stories so entertaining that they're fallen over laughing despite being tied up. She looks over at Inky, who looks back at her lovingly, and says, "What took you both so long?"
NO ONE DAMSELS JOSIE
Inquisitor + Cassandra:
Inky + Cassandra have put away (most of) their adventuring, and have opened a bookshop.
Cassandra very convincingly makes a good bookshop owner. She recommends a different book each time you come in, based on what events you've finished/ things you've decided in game. "I see you came back from Hamalshiral. Can I recommend 'My Lady's Coattails'? It's a VERY saucy period piece with a side of court intrigue."
At a later date, you find her in the midst of dealing with several unconscious people in the shop, half her battle gear on. Turns out she's been doing some do-goodery on the side, and doesn't want Inky to know. She enlists you to help deal with a local thug who has been threatening the shop and people in town.
You go and deal with the thug, and turns out it's WAY more than a local thug. It's a REGIONAL thug, and it turns into a whole long mission, halfway through, you run into Inky who was sent along by someone else in (DA4 group) because people heard DA4-MC and Cass got in over their heard. There's a whole scene of Cass being mortified that Inky found out, Inky being like, "Don't be. I'm missing and ARM and you're a bad-ass, why would I keep my wife from helping people?" And they kiss and it's equal parts adorable and awkward in front of you. They cough and you proceed to PUMMEL the lead bandit-dude.
When you return to the shop, you still get nod-to-game book recs for the rest of the game.
If you die more than a certain number of times on any one mission, Cass will sarcastically recommend, "Gennevive's Sword Primer". Inky interupts to ask why the non-fiction book. Cass sneeringly jokes, "Because our MC needs to work on fundaments."
Inquisitor + Dorian
I feel like his is the hardest, because he has such a FIXED position in the DAI wrap-up. And given that everyone assumes the new game will center on Tevinter, he'll probably be a central or pivotal role the story nods to or revolves around.... Hell, maybe it's just this...
MC has several encounters with the Magisterium. Dorian is actually one of the most consistent council members. Despite his distaste for the High magisters of Tevinter, once he was shoved into the role of leadership, he used red tape like a weapon, pissing off a LOT of other politicians who were perfectly happy with things being as easy for them to rule as possible. If Dorian was romanced by DAI Inky, there are several events where you can see him being uncharacteristically called away from a meeting, and if you follow, can see an event where he meets with his foreign lover for a small chat and a furtive kiss.
At this point an event occurs where another council member offers to aid (DA4group) financially or politically if they can get dirt on Dorian. You're lead down a series of espionage missions where you copy the communication crystal, and can either aid Dorian by re-tuning it to crush the other council member, netting you a series of side-quests lead by DAI Inky to disrupt more blood mages outside Tevinter, or you can hand over the communication crystal to Dorian's rival, and have an instant massive boost in faction points towards Tevinter Imperium/ who-the-fuck ever, cause let's face it it's the edgelord choice you gotta put in the game for people who insist on wanting to play shitty-evil person, ābecause reasonsā.
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Had to get some feelings down on paper. Anxiety and thought spirals have been a giant pain in my asss the past two days.
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So I am nervous as hell to announce this but I have started a Patreon. Patreon is a website where people can pay artists to make new art and support their work. I am using this as a subscription service for peopleĀ to get my zines which will help pay for the cost of printing them up front. Every timeĀ I make a zine, depending on what tier you sign up for, you get a digital and/or physical copy of my work.Ā This is a nerve wracking step for me. Itās one thing for people to like my stuff on social media, itās another thing to ask people to support me financially. But Iām broke, so I need help funding future projects so I can keep making comics, which is literally my favorite thing to do.
Please consider supporting it if you can. Thank you!Ā
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