etiam si vita plena malorum...

Page 1. Kris, a human with long hair, sits with their head down and looks at their hands on their lap. A voice says: "Just for the record — you're not in any trouble, Kris." Kris's face is in shadow, only their exhausted eyes are visible. The voice continues: "It's just, you know, protocol." It's Asgore's voice, a large bearded goat monster wearing a police cap. He's smiling tensely and says: "Your mom really fought me about this— this interview. [interview is italicized.] So, help me out, Kris? You know how she gets when she's mad." He laughs awkwardly and his laugh fades into silence. He and Kris are sitting on opposite sides of a table. A single lamp illuminates the room from above. Kris remains hunched, face hidden by their hair.

Page 2. Kris slowly lifts a hand to their head, saying: "I... lost... something". Asgore's eyes are cast in shadow by the police cap and he looks with a more intense expression at Kris as he says: "You lost something?" Kris mumbles "mh". Asgore says: "Well, maybe I can help you find it!" Kris's other eye is visible through their hair. They keep their gaze low. They say: "My headband." Asgore's horns are shown as he says: "The red one? With horns on it?" Kris's mouth is zoomed in on as they say: "I can't find it." Asgore's staring eyes are zoomed in on as he says: "That's pretty odd. You wear it everywhere." Kris replies: "... Yes." Kris starts to get more stressed out as Asgore continues: "You can't find it, huh… It's hard to believe, you leaving it somewhere on accident."

Page 3. Asgore stares straight at Kris. Behind him, there's a shadowy figure of something, perhaps a monster with a long snout. Asgore leans in, and says: "Kris. If you know something, you should confess, okay? ["know something" and "confess" are in italics.]" Kris is sweating and starts to cry as they struggle to put together a sentence. Various panels of them blend together and as they clasp their face it becomes engulfed in shadow again except for a single crying eye. The speech bubbles, which become messier and more jagged as they go on, say: "I- I don't- I didn't- I was just- We were just- And she- [the speech bubbles switch to handwriting instead of a font] ughhhnnnn I don't wannaaa I don't wanna goooooo Daddy... Momma... I'm gonna die I'm gonna die"

Page 4. Kris wakes up on a sofa, covered by a blanket. There's arguing in the background that goes: "Asgore, I told you-!" "I know, Tori! I know, okay!? I screwed up like I do everything-" "Oh please ["please" is italicized]. Do not start with that-" Kris rubs their eyes and notices Asriel, a young goat monster, sitting next to them. They seem to still be at the police station. They say Asriel's name through the noise of arguing. Asriel looks exhausted and irritated. He says: "Oh. You're awake." Kris asks: "What's going on." "What's it look like? Dad said you freaked— had a panic attack, so he called us to come pick you up and now Mom is yelling at him." The siblings listen in on the arguing. "Tori, it's just- I think we should get in touch with their old therapist again," Toriel interrupts: "What?" Asgore says: "Clearly, there's somethi" but gets interrupted by Toriel: "Something about the case! Be honest. This isn't about our child's wellbeing." Asgore responds: "That is not fair. ["not" is italicized.]" Somewhere along this conversation Asriel comments "oh wow."

Page 5. Kris says: "My… what? I've never even been to therapy before." Asriel looks at them and twists his face as he glances into space and says: "Uh. Yes you have?" He leans his head back in exhaustion and says: "Well. You probably don't remember 'cause it was a long time ago." He fully leans into the backrest of the sofa and looks at the ceiling. "Heck. Maybe I should go with you this time. Every day just sucks now." He glances at Kris and notices something in their expression. As he leans forward, he furrows his brows and his lips split slightly open, showing gritted teeth. "You do know something. ["do" in all caps]"

Page 6. Asriel's expression has fully turned angry. He yells: "Why aren't you telling Dad!?" Kris wraps the blanket around them and hides their face. They say: "Stop yelling at me." Asriel yells "Kris!!" and they reply: "I- I-don't know. I don't remember" Asriel echoes with doubt: "You don't remember!?" His expression is still furious, but with a smile mixed in. "Hah! ["hah" in all caps] What, you just magically forgot!?!" Kris's speech bubbles melt as they say: "I don't know, I don't know, It was dark," The text becomes handwritten and all capital letters. "too dark, and the trees, were in the way". Among unclear imagery are trees, the tail of hell and a deer monster with a long snout and short hair.

Page 7. There are two smiling side profiles of the deer monster with short hair. They are near identical and move in unison. The one in front has its fur/skin in dark and hair in white, while the one behind it has these colours in reverse. The one in the back has more detailed features and more natural expressions, while the one in front keeps staring and smiling across the three panels on this page. Panel 1. The one in front says: "You lost something?", the one in the back says: "Come on now, enough crying!" Panel 2. The one in the front laughs "Ha ha!", the one in the back reassures: "It's okay!" despite her smile looking very forced. The one in the front says: "As if it was ever yours to lose." the one in the back says: Everything will be okay!" Panel 3. The one in the front says: "You idiot!" The one in the back begins to melt away, and her words melt away as well as she says: "This is all just a bad dream"

Page 8. Kris clasps their head. Asriel has his arm around them and still seems irritated. His words of "oh- come on Kris, hey, i didn't mean to" are barely audible to Kris, but more than that they're focused on their thoughts. They think: "just a bad dream?" A voice says "yes... a deep dark dream. When you open your eyes, the light scatters that darkness. But it never leaves entirely. It's always there, in the back of your mind." Kris clasps their shirt around their chest. "There's something inside me. There's something inside me. Something was taken out and something else was put inside. I can feel it I can feel it I can feel it I can feel it I can feel it I can fe"

Page 9. Asriel is talking, but his dialogue is all scribbles. There's a voice coming from under the couch. It's in all caps and it says: "Kris, it's okay, don't cry, The pain itself is th" [the rest of the speech bubble is hidden behind Kris.] Kris asks: "who... are... you?" The voice replies: "i'm your friend, don't you recognize me?"

Page 10. The voice from under the couch speaks and the lines connecting its speech bubbles circle around Kris: "let me ask you something. how does one fill a glass? of course, this is a rhetorical question. i already know the answer. to fill a glass, it must first be empty. kris. everything will be taken from you. and you will be filled with something beautiful. but first. you must be empty. december was" Asgore says Kris's name and interrupts the voice.

Page 11. Asgore stands in front of the kids with his cap in his hand and says: "I owe you an apology. I didn't realize how- affected you were by this.You weren't ready, and that's okay. Your mother and I will get you the help that you need," - Asgore picks Kris up, - "I will fix this. All of it. I swear. Then, everything can finally go back to the way it used to be." Kris looks over Asgore's shoulder closely at their mother. She looks angry, but is silent.

What to do if you find a baby bunny.

Tenna art by @9Aaaalt29 on twt

The crowd roared in confused enthusiasm as Tenna gave a gracious flurry of low-FPS bows, pausing only for the occasional stink-nose at his audience plants who weren’t throwing enough 3D roses.

Eventually, the room fell silent. It was Senshi’s turn to speak.

He puffed out his chest, took a long, sweeping look over the audience… and shook his head.

“I can see not all of you are eating properly.”

The crowd murmured with embarrassment.

“I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s time to take the turkey out of your icebox. I have seen the ingenious technology with which your people store food... and I have also seen the waste which results from such convenience.

“The food you take had a life. Beasts grew fat on the grass of the field, plants grew from the sun’s rays, and mushrooms grew from minerals in the cracks of caves. And yet, it sits in your iceboxes, collecting moisture until it perishes.

“Eat what is given to you. Because its life will make you stronger, too.”

Without another word, Senshi left his podium and stepped away from the stage. The crowd murmured in confusion. “Is he really like that?” somebody said. “I only remember reblogging the photosets of him tripping and showing ass.”

--

Back in the Green Room, Tenna wrung his antennas nervously.

“Y-y-you think they liked me!? They HAD to!! I mean, I don’t know what Asgore was thinking, getting that weird haircut and running that food waste campaign, but… YOU thought I did good, didn’t you, Kris?”

Laios nodded aggressively, a streak of blue face paint peeling from his forehead.

“You did AMAZING, Tenna! By the way, now that we’ve seen all your insider campaign secrets, do you have any more videos of Susie? Especially her tail... If I could get a look at that, I could finally tell if she’s a dinosaur or --”

THWACK. Fake antlers butted Laios’s head.

“LAIOS?? Weren’t we dressed up to help SENSHI???” Marcille hissed, gesturing awkwardly with her hooves.

Suddenly, Tenna turned to the two adventurers.

“Hey, WAIT a second. SOMETHING’s not right here...”

Laios and Marcille held their breath.

“Where the heck are my POINTS!?”

Just then, the door opened. Chilchuck took one step into the room, whistling and holding a large bag.

Everyone turned to him.

Chilchuck paused, took a step backwards, and closed the door.

“CHILCHUCK!!!” yelled Tenna.

“How come Chilchuck got to stay Chilchuck!?” yelled Marcille at the same time.

--

if you are in the Thunder Bay area, the Whitesand First Nations families who have evacuated their homes burning down in Ontario are requesting supplies or monetary dnations

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Namaygoosisagagun First Nation/Collins has burned to the ground. The entire community is nothing but ashes after being quickly consumed by wildfires. They did not have any support from emergency services, and no one offered aid. The community saved themselves by escaping into boats because no one came.

Mishkeegogamang and Cat Lake have lost power. Families are ending up in shelters with nothing. Armstrong, Lac La Croix, Whitesand, Gull Bay, Lac des Mille Lacs are currently in the fires path and all members are being evacuated.

All this loss, all this devastation, and it was entirely preventable.

After steadily underfunding wildland firefighting and purposefully excluding Indigenous wildland firefighters and Indigenous wildfire organizations from wildfire operations, firefighter training, decisionmaking, and resource exchanges, in 2025, Doug Ford slashed the forest firefighting budget.

It's hard to ignore his decision to cut funding and leave us out of adequate fire training (even though we've lived with forest fires for thousands of years—far longer than settlers have been in Canada—and made sure fires like the ones we're all seeing today were prevented through kinisitotēn) when, despite making up less than 5% of the population, we account for 42% percent of all wildfire evacuations in Canada.

And when we are successfully evacuated, we face discrimination and racism—like Kashechewan—because it's always been easier to blame us than it is to blame the true culprit: denialism, corportate greed, and colonization.

The people of Collins and every other impacted community deserve better.

Right now, the AFN is currently accepting donations to help Collins First Nation. If you're able to, please consider donating.

ONWA (Ontario Native Women's Association) is another great place to donate to. They have outreach vans going to motels and inns and offering food, water, resources, and cultural support to those impacted by the wildfires.

Other places to consider donating to are Mikinakoos Emergency Fund, Red Cross, True North Aid, Indigenous Climate Action. You can also send donations directly to Whitesand First Nation via e-transfer ([email protected]) and they request that you add your full name in the e-transfer comment section to receive a tax receipt.

*Before sending money, verify that the appeal appears on an official First Nation, Tribal Council or registered charity channel.

If you can't offer financial support, please consider donating items of need. Moontime Connections is currently accepting drop-off donations. If you live in the Thunder Bay area, Namaygoosisagagun Health Office is also taking in donations! They can also bemailed to Superior Inn Hotel & Conference Centre at 555 West Arthur Street, Thunder Bay, ON, P7E 5P8.

items needed are: food, diapers, medical masks, men’s and women’s joggers (all sizes), children’s clothing (newborn to size 14), children’s shoes, summer clothing, men’s clothing, toiletries (lotion, Vaseline, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shampoo, conditioner, soap, deodorant, etc.), strollers, adult depends-all sizes, dog & cat food