Powering Other Peoples Smiles

a flower, a jack of spades, a laptop and a CRT TV lay at a bar...

(tiny doodle comic)

We don’t have any of the large predators we used to (black bears, mountain lions, or gray wolves) but still retain large deer populations. If nothing is removing animals, they’ll quickly overload the carrying capacity of the environment and have massive losses to starvation and disease that can also pass on to livestock. Human hunters replace the large predators that our landscape can no longer support.

It’s kinder to euthanize an un-releasable hawk rather than try to find it a permanent home with humans. Wildlife rehabs have extremely limited space and resources and are usually run entirely on donated money and volunteer time. Only a few are large and stable enough to care for permanent residents long-term, and those spots are few and far between.

An invasive species poses a danger to threatened native wildlife. I will admit- Australian possums are adorable. But not in New Zealand, where they’re an invasive species that eats the eggs of ground-dwelling birds that previously had no such predators. The landowners I worked with replanting native bush, all native Maori, had no qualms about setting the dogs on them.

of the devil fans aren't ready for my ace/aro morgan headcanon based on subtext within the game itself

evangeline "what is everyone's obsessions with firsts" Morgan. evangeline "will wheedle and manipulate and lie but doesn't seem to like flirtation" morgan. evangeline "feels there is something missing from her that everyone else has" morgan. evangeline "literally says she doesn't really understand the concept of love" morgan

the latter refers to familial love too but she also just. doesn't seem to get romantic love either since she thinks that in response to sosuke and (REDACTED)'s relationship

and i think it does make her and serra really good foils, because through ch 2 we see serra DOES understand the concept of physical attraction, romance, and familial love despite being nonhuman, which makes her parallel to morgan, a human who doesn't "get" any of those

even when she actively and maliciously hurts and kills people, the narrative still makes an effort to consider her emotions, her viewpoints, her experience. no matter how disconnected and evil and inhuman she feels, it shows you that she's a person, and it highlights those few people who are positively impacted by her existence. it shows you how hard she works to help the ones she loves, even if she has to hide it under a layer of irony and ulterior motives. and it shows you all the ways Morgan is loved. all the ways her existence still has value, no matter how many people she's hurt, or how she personally feels about herself.

as someone who's often hurt others, who has a very easy time hating herself, and who feels that same disconnect with humanity... it means a lot to me that a story like of the Devil exists. I think any proper analysis of it requires that your heart is open to loving someone like Morgan.

thinking about how she does all of this just so that when the moment she gets found out, a moment she is all but certain will happen at some point, she doesn't have to feel bad about everyone abandoning her. because it's not like she cares about them, right?

thinking about what would happen if someone doesn't give up on her. if someone finds out all the horrible things she's done and still treats her with respect. that serra would still care about her, despite everything.

This should work on any web browser.

Use your mouse to control the head angle. Press M to toggle mouth open/close.

Don't forget to press I in order to hide your cursor and the surrounding UI elements.

It may or may not work on all sites, but worth a try.