sharpie

are you defending (in this instance) Irish Catholics as a proxy to give yourself grace, to lump yourself in with "the good ones?"

what you're actually doing is absolving yourself of action and self-reflection. that discomfort you feel about white people perpetrating racism is asking you to do something to bring your actions into alignment with your values. instead, you're discarding this feeling by doing some feel-good mental gymnastics to ensure that there is a narrative that gives you an escape hatch, an assurance that there are good white people in the world (ones with whom you identify).

instead, let your discomfort guide you to do something real because if you're not actively standing up against fascism and its children, you're laying down to get stepped on. here are some real things to do:

donate to support the people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatized in racist attacks in Belfast:

don't have money to spare? find local organizers, join them, triage immediate needs in your community, then play the long game to move the Overton Window towards inclusive values. i do not want to hear any wailing about how nothing you do matters, no one will do anything, etcetera, etcetera; these are more mental gymnastics that allow you to give yourself permission to to do nothing

don't have time, money, or energy to spare? go to your local library and pick up a book to educate yourself and build empathy:

no access to a library? do the internal work and pick apart your own internal biases about race (i'll give a starter question for reflection: why did you feel compelled to respond to a post about violence against Black people and immigrant communities by centering white people?)

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This fought me every part of the way, but I NEEDED to draw Little Butcher Simon playing with the xenonite models and Grace giving him the fox keychain. You think a boy trained to kill ever got to really play with toys?? If Eden even had toys in the first place??? Doubt it.

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I was thinking about Little Butcher Simon a lot and then I thought about how Little Simon is basically the age group Grace would teach and now I want a phm/il crossover where instead of Simon being plucked from the sub, he’s plucked from the Rapture.

Grace gets to be a teacher again in the Hail Mary to the most fucked up little space child he’s ever seen.

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