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okeejjj it's done! I hope you enjoy this comic. It is in no way a medium I am comfortable with but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have fun. Next time I'm not greyscaling tho.

Some notes under the cut because this pretty much only makes sense to me,,

one of my favorite things to say about Undine is that the story can be viewed as an allegory for mental or physical disorder, and how people will marry someone disabled or neurodivergent knowing they are, and then freak out when they act disabled or neurodivergent. she says "im a weird fish lady and if you stay with me you're in it for the long haul" and he said "sure whatever" and immediately when she started acting like a fish lady he freaked the fuck out. i am also well aware this book was made in 1811 and that this was in no way close to the author's intention, so i always state beforehand that this interpretation comes from a modern lens. Similarly with another favorite book, the entirety of Rebecca the main character definitely has some type of anxiety disorder, as most of the book is within Mrs. DeWinter's head as she spirals before being broken out of it. I am also well aware in 1938 when it was written; "female hysteria" was just being phased out. This one can be a little closer to home and can have me speculate about Daphne du Maurier's own experience, but from the angle that this is not a modern author writing about a woman's anxiety disorder.

I think more people should know that L. Frank Baum was racist asf, in later books taking inspiration from minstrelsy for how the scarecrow acted and creating a society of white and black dolls where the black dolls were the servants and that's "just how things were." because it gives amazing context to the social issues Wicked has always been commenting on, and now even more obviously. Something like this would never fly (lol) under L. Frank Baum, but he's not profiting and his work is being reclaimed by those he hurt.

When I say there's no right answers to media interpretation but there are wrong ones, take people posting about the first Wicked movie saying Elphaba shouldn't be played by a black actress or "why can't they just be two girl friends" where they completely miss the point the original author and later writers were trying to make. You're ignoring how queer the original author was. THIS is removing the art from the artist, but something like The Wiz I don't think is. The original author was racist, fuck that, we're doing it anyway. Something more like taking or removing the art from the artist, not completely ignoring that they ever existed.

"the Portrait of Dorian Gray should've been more openly gay" is a very-well known shitty goodreads post for good reason. Oscar Wilde was in a time period that got him imprisoned for being gay, it's from such a modern perspective it hurts. THIS is separating the art from the artist.

Separating the art from the artist is hard because it is a surgical procedure with only casualties, similarly to separating the heart from the body. We can medicate the heart, and do surgeries to fix problems and keep the human alive, but you can never remove the heart without killing the host

Translation: Parents aren’t making the conscious effort to help their children develop necessary skills and letting iPads raise them.

THE HUNGARIAN FLAG???

Imagine: You're the pinnacle of your species, elevated above all others, able to comprehend and apply forces that could tear another's soul apart. Your warriors spontaneously exploding into writhing goo sounds catastrophic on paper, but at the end of the day, it's just a metaphysical medical issue. Not terrible, considering what other legions have to deal with, right?

And yet, no matter what you try to fix it, nothing works. The problem persists and you start getting desperate, frustrated. You're supposed to have all the answers! You're the scholar, the mage, the keeper of the arcane. Peering under the veil of reality to commune with its tumultuous undercurrent is just Tuesday for you. How does such a simple little puzzle like this continue to stump you?

From what I've read, Magnus seems to work best whenever he's paired with someone more grounded. Not just to keep him from skipping off down a new research rabbit hole every two minutes, but to support and stabilize in general.

Being a psyker in the Imperium is already a very isolating position: you're constantly regarded with suspicion, your primary worth lies in how your unique properties can be harnessed for the benefit of others. Magnus thinks he can't rely on anyone else to help him, both because he thinks no one else could understand and of the risk of attracting the wrong kind of attention and getting his legion censured permanently.