Roxy Roadkill

I keep seeing this picture and similar ones and it keeps giving me thoughts. Yeah I do agree with the message ! And these animals are hated by many peoole !! But let's be honest. These are still fairly conventionally cute. They're big eyed fluffy affectionate pretty intelligent mammals and birds. So today, I'm offering y'all my own version.

You are not going to pass a skillcheck against a rip current once it has you.

Waves will not bow to your physical prowess no matter how impressive.

Shock does not care that you used to be on your school swim team.

If you hit your head, being good at swimming isn't going to turn you face-up while you're unconscious.

Earlier this month, the case of “Hilary Maloney,” a transgender woman convicted of abusing her five-year-old daughter, drew public and parliamentary scrutiny when she was housed in the Dame Phyllis Frost women’s prison.

↑ paragraph 5

But women’s advocacy groups have long warned that the state does not publicly track which biological males are housed in women’s prisons, nor whether they have histories of violent or sexual offences. The recent placement of Maloney—a man convicted of child abuse—intensified demands for transparency and reform.

↑ paragraphs 11 and 12

A "fetish" can be when you fixate unduly on an object and end up worshiping the object rather than what it represents or what it's made up of, so your fixation bears no fruit

It's not really a problem if an author gets off on what they're writing, the author's feelings about a subject aren't inherently an obstacle

But treating a specific theme or topic as one-note, so that your portrayal of it is one-dimensional and unnuanced? That IS an artistic obstacle