Remaining whimsy despite it all!

i think this is genuinely the scariest expression they could have given him. wind archer smiling is so incredibly rare. we don't even have a happy sprite for him. so the fact he's smiling here is TERRIFYING.

like beyond just the insane implications of raven's line about ananas being persistent across every timeline (the implication here is that raven has been to other timelines and completely wiped the floor with ananas in them), the fact that he is smiling is genuinely what scares me the most.

what the fuck happened to make him like this. what brought him to this point. to be able to stare the death of all that he once loved in the face and smile about it.

I finaly finished this animation!

For years after 9/11 we were constantly told “NEVER FORGET” and the idea was basically “keep feeling sad and afraid and especially ANGRY forever; don’t let time dull your emotional response like it’s naturally supposed to; continue to justify the injustices by feeling this way all the time.” And the 3000 deaths were constantly pointed to as this huge deal that justified any lengths to go to.

And then Covid hit. And there were several points during the height of the pandemic (because fun fact, according to the actual definitions of a pandemic, *it’s not technically over yet!* ) where we were having a 9/11’s worth of deaths every week or so. And suddenly 3000 deaths were not a big deal at all. Instead of being enough reason to go to war far away and strip us at home of many rights too, they weren’t even enough justification to make people wear a damn piece of fabric over their face.

3000 people died once and now the government can legally wiretap anyone without a warrant, and hold people at Gitmo under suspicion of terrorism (no need for due process)… 3000 people dying every week but we should all still be going out to brunch and concerts and who cares about the disabled and immunocompromised?

Plus some more^^