Virgo Lioness

"Life is Aisha / The meaning of her name"

Idk, I just thought I'd put that out there. It's a common name for Black and Brown girls. There's a similar name in Hindi and Sanskrit, but it doesn't have the same meaning.

I hope tadc fans at least try to educate themselves about the Black joy and love Stevie Wonder poured into that song when he was inspired by the birth of his daughter, Aisha Morris, but idk. We already got MFers calling it niche like it didn't play at all the weddings we were forced to attend growing up.

Edit: added a pic I stole from google of Stevie Wonder holding Aisha, and cleaned up the post a little.

and it sucks if a child says it cause no matter what they'll just grow up thinking it's a song about a shitty ass bunny who died and is a huge ass racist voiced by a racist and mocked sa victims. it sucks that it's just gonna be thought of as the tadc song and even if you say it's about a Black singer's daughter, people will be racist about it.

And when she called Jax out on it and said “I know what you’re trying to do!” both Jax and THE SHOW tried to gaslight us into thinking RAGATHA is the crazy, overbearing one

these are our adults, our voters, our societal leaders

yet they fear another skin color and call it "trauma"

It would give importance to their parallels of parental abuse

It would make jax's actions less heinous if he didn't drive two of their friends to suicide (kaufmo was more carelessness than outright malice anyway)

Ragatha could have a less than pleased reaction at jax badly injuring her mother and it would feed into her belief that she's not allowed to express any negative emotions if she want to keep her friends. Making so the both of them trigger each other's parental abuse traumas.

It would make the emotional moment between pomni and ragatha (jax's current and former bird) more powerful

It would generally tie the jax/pomni/ragatha subplot together a satisfying way

Having strict, religious parents fit with ragatha's character

Jesus, jax doesn't need three people to project their mommy issues onto

And if you think "why would you want to erase a nonbinary fem character?", ribbit is barely a character so it would be beneficial to take their role to flesh out a character who need it.

We will show Ragatha and Kinger's room in merch!

Let's reveal Caine's attitude to abstraction in advertising!

You will see Queenie's name only in tumbler or wikipedia!

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

I love that changeling loser ☝️

"A planned community in Arizona has used time-honored Mediterranean strategies to keep temperatures down and attitudes high.

Western civilization has grown remarkably climate conscious over the last 20 years, but not when it comes to building, civic planning, and especially zoning. Perhaps the interiors of buildings are becoming more climate adapted, and in some cases the facades as well, but in a way that’s a little like inventing a freezer designed to keep ice cream frozen while sitting next to a fire.

Wooden or concrete boxes arranged side-by-side across leveled ground with sprawling, largely treeless gardens and concrete sidewalks alongside wide, blacktop roads is simply a culture of construction that has to be abandoned if living in a world of 2°C or higher annual temperatures [or, hopefully, less than that, but nonetheless likely over 1.5°C] is to be tolerable.

Fortunately for Arizonans, change may have finally arrived in the form of a carless, planned community that looks and feels like a Greek island village.

In the Phoenix suburb of Tempe, Culdesac has arisen as a 17-acre mixed-use neighborhood from the ground up to stay cool and local, taking the concept of the 15-minute city, where anything a resident might need is only 15 minutes away, and putting a Mediterranean spin on it.

Buildings are tall, thick, and totally white. The residential areas look like they were built atop of the ashes of the Phoenix zoning code burnt in effigy. Crammed together, they create narrow streets and alleys that are almost constantly shaded, through which wind is channeled and accelerated in passing.

Windows open towards each other, allowing wind that enters one building to exit into another, while the total lack of asphalt means that the ground temperatures are a staggering 50-60°F lower than pavements beyond the limits of Culdesac.

No privately-owned cars are allowed to enter the neighborhood, in which electric bikes, robotic mini taxis, and light rail shuttle people around town, to downtown Phoenix, or out to the airport.

The street life is lively—there are no cars to bisect movement between the 21 different businesses and eateries, among which is a James Beard Award-winning Mexican restaurant, DIY ceramic business, and some stores run out of apartments—a big no-no under Phoenix zoning laws.

“Once you pull the cars out,” Architect Daniel Parolek who designed Culdesac, told BBC, “there’s so much more opportunity to make a vibrant, thriving community.”

His inspiration was sun-soaked locales like Italy, Greece, and Croatia, where town centers were designed before the automobile and before air conditioning.

Technically speaking, the entire Culdesac neighborhood is one apartment complex, but the paseos, or little alleyways, open up into plazas of open space exactly liked one would expect in a little village in the Cyclades.

Because no one has to jump in a car to get from place to place, people run into each other, sparking conversations, relations, and breaking through the counterintuitive phenomenon of big city loneliness, which in Phoenix hits particularly hard.

“Culdesac Tempe has shown that people do want to live car-free in the US, even in a metro area like Phoenix that’s often seen as the poster child for car dependency,” says Erin Boyd, Culdesac’s government relations and external affairs lead. “This success has shifted the conversation around what’s possible in American development.”

In honor of Pride month I want to share this comic I made about growing up queer. We live in a world that tries to cut us down, I am so glad I stayed around long enough to write stories about finding the light. If your looking for more Black, Queer, and Magical storytelling consider backing FLY on kickstarter