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Fashion plate from the Journal des Demoiselles, unsigned.

there's no star aspec flag for zoos

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star aspec flag, for zoos :)

the tama ever

So something that I was unsure of until we got to this section was whether or not Victoria’s attitudes were supervillain-specific. Does she think that villainous capes are a specific social ill outside of crime in general, or does she think the former is part of the latter and approach them the same way? One of the hallmarks of classic superhero faire is that it sets up situations where a law-and-order type stopping the criminal from harming society is the best and only solution, often posing this as both the typical situation for law enforcers and a justification for law enforcement. That last part often is not wanted by modern authors, which can lead to weird tightrope acts that more often than not end up either being completely thematically incoherent, unrecognizable as superhero comics, or being stealthily supportive of a “cops are the best response to the naturally-occuring social disease of crime” thesis they’re nominally against. If the classic comic formula is “x supervillain comes up and endangers everyone, but the day is saved by y superhero who kills them/puts them behind bars/resets status quo in acceptable way”, the modern comic often tries to have its cake and eat it to by saying that the above is completely different from “x criminal comes up and endangers everyone, but the day is saved by a cop who kills them/ puts them behind bars/resets status quo in an acceptable way.” Because their not just criminals, you see. They’re supervillains. Completely different then. Punching out the Joker is necessary in the story, you see, and that necessity doesn’t have any political message about crime at all!

But Victoria isn’t written with this modern tendency. She is very classically in the a-criminals-a-criminal social mode, to the extent that she’s frustrated by a smaller fraction of criminals facing punishment. She thinks its a serious problem that the threat of incarceration isn’t there to stop people from committing relative misdemeanors. Prosecuting only the worst 10% is the societal failure she focuses on, rather than all the problems that motivate such behaviors, because all those problems seem huge and immovable and stopping/punishing criminals is what her job is.

antis care about respecting peoples boundaries?

I have to tell you about my dogs!

This is Rumba. He is about 4 or 5 we think. He was stray for a little while and is very afraid of hoses. :( He's actually my wife ( @apocalycious )'s dog and he's the softest boy. @mistresskabooms calls him The Velvet Himbo. He's very gentle and curious. He wants to stand next to me and sniff every envelope if I'm packing orders. He loves snap peas SO MUCH.

If you are not playing with Rumba and he wants your attention, he will just keep bringing you different toys to see if THIS is the toy you want to play with. Or he'll stare at you.

Cap (Captain Malcom Reynolds) is MK's dog; we adopted him for her 15th birthday. He loves getting one-on-one attention from humans and doesn't pile sharing human playtime with other dogs, but he does like to play with Mila and Rumba. He and Rumba are like an old married couple, and also best friends. He dances for attention.

Cap loves His Girl more than ANYTHING and if MK is in another room and he can hear her, he'll start whining and crying until she either can't he heard or she comes to see him.

Cap really loves broccoli but... old man dog broccoli farts. Sorry, bud.

Mila (Lyudmila Pupperchenko) is the dog of @dadhoc, my spouse. She's 80% anxiety and 20% loving Her Person, and she stores all her anxiety in her extremely long legs, I guess. Seriously, she's like 80% leg, too. Mila loves our wife, too, just not when Evie has legs. Something about Evie standing up makes her anxious but many things make Mila anxious. We had a super harassy neighbor at our old house who had to yell a lot, and it's taken a couple of years and a lot of work to help her enjoy walks and relax.

Mila is terrified of wind, which would be fine if we didn't live on the side of a mountain.

If Mila really likes you, she will very solemnly sit down with you and boop her snoot against your mouth just once. If she really really likes you, she may try to lick the tip of your nose with the tip of her tongue. This is very rare and she only does it with people she really likes and when she's very relaxed. It is her ultimate sign of affection.

Last but certainly not least...

Guardian of The Ball, Breaker of Chains, Lightning Conqueror, The Potato, He of a Hundred Names...

Ser Davos Seawoof.

He's the youngest of our dogs, at 4.5 years old. Highly energetic, highly vocal and extremely smart, he causes himself problems by being so smart. When we drove to OR from PA 2 years ago, he broke out of 4 harnesses, 3 leashes, and out of his kennel twice. The last time he had to be boarded, he had to be moved to a glass-door kennel suite bc he kept shoving his nose into the wire door trying to break out of the wire-door suite to play with the humans.

Davos (aka Doble, Devos, Davis, Dabo, Adobo Spice, Dave - all but 1 of those have been misspellings on vet or boarding records) is half AmStaff, half Mini Aussie Shepherd. His Job is "chase the ball."

It's important to know where your ball is at all times, says Davos.

We play lots of enrichment games with him - one of our favorites is hiding the ball in a big soft rope basket with soft toys, towels, etc. He already beat all of our food-based puzzles, annoyingly quickly, so. Yeah.

He's hyperloyal and protects his family from all things but ESPECIALLY the neighbor's cat, who he HATES because that cat should not be in HIS YARD. (This is true.)

He once ran out into the yard while it was raining to bark at a thunderstorm, evading me while challenging the thunder to a fight. He seemed extremely pleased with himself when the thunder stopped, so we joke that he fought a storm and won.

Davos is my dog, and I love him so much.