TurtleTotem

I'm having trouble articulating my point around this, but:

Thinking about the "abused wife" archetypes you often see in older media (not to say these don't still crop up nowadays, but they were much more blatant and accepted in decades past). Particularly the following two flavors: 1) the irritating, stuck-up, "bitchy" wife whose suffering the audience is expected to find funny/cathartic, because she "deserves" it, and 2) the long-suffering "good" wife (not framed as "deserving it") who the audience is meant to view as a tragic but morally-upstanding (and therefore aspirational) figure of Christian womanhood

and

knowing Tamsyn Muir's propensity for pulling the old gendered-trope-switcharoo

thinking about how neatly Babs and Colum slot into those archetypes

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Notably Muir is not only inverting these tropes on a gendered axis but subverting them, too, on a narrative axis, given that Colum is clearly positioned not to be a figure of aspirational cavalierhood to an audience of literally anyone outside of his Eighth House cultural context, let alone the reader, and that she has Pal outright state that Babs didn't deserve what he got.

Grace leans back and smiles. "It's basically a message from humanity saying 'hey we're peaceful! Here's how to reach our planet!' Heh-- kind of funny to think about now. To be the first and only human to ever make intelligent alien species contact." Rocky: "But Grace and Rocky already in contact." Grace smiles wistfully. "You're right. There's no use for it because we solved our language barrier problem. I guess I'm just listening to it because it reminds me of humanity."

Rocky listens to more greetings and then says, "Rocky thinks human languages beautiful!" As the recording concludes with "Hello from the children of planet Earth," Grace smiles and says with a sniffle, "Thanks bud. Grace thinks Eridian is beautiful too." Rocky says "Thank!" Full list of the greetings featured below cut. End ID]

It occurred to me that I'd never actually drawn these two together, so I decided fixing that would be a good way to end Pride Month.

“I cupped your soul in my hands.”

Finished my reread of Nona the Ninth, fuuuck that book /pos. Nona alt, close ups, and more below the cut:p

Grace loves the little pebbles ☺️