Did this for Twitter folks, but I sure as hell took my sweet time with it lol

Anyways, have Chen, Law Hero and Atsuro!

Also, just the lineart version

tw: blood, suicidal ideation (? probably ? it's Boone we're talking about so. yeah)

so make it one for my baby and one more for the road.

it's still wednesday where I'm at if your clock is 30 minutes off so here's my wip wednesday post for my day 1 @bylerween2023 fic!! ghosts my beloved

yall are gonna annoy me to death with your weird Catholic Laura Lee fixation.

Listen. As a New Jersey Catholic(TM) raised around other NJ Catholics, quite a few of them WAAAAY more pious than myself, Laura Lee is not our tribe. She never so much as makes the sign of the cross for fuck's sake. BUT

You know who is Catholic?

Mari.

I should prooobably watch the VOD for the sin scuffle. Very unfortunate I couldn't see it (I already had plans with friends) i could learn a lot from watching sin mirrors HDHEBDIJD

And if I said I didn't like organised religion in the first place then what

hmm. had an actual conversation with nightmare coworker today that seemed mutually productive. she apologized for saying some bullshit that hurt my feelings and i clarified that my intentions are to help not to undermine her, and we both agreed that there's no competition against each other and that it's the lack of growth in our role that's the problem. it was...productive.

and further cementing for me that it is time to begin making my Exit. i will be sending out my resume to a few places this weekend.

i'm still processing the conversation, and am struggling to place myself in where i am responsible to better my behavior. because i genuinely don't want to be an ass, even though i really don't like this lady and will jump for joy the day i never have to see her again. she stated that she knows my intentions aren't to hurt her, and that she thinks i'm very kind. i apologized for if my behavior came off as undermining her, and said that my intentions are only to better my own growth—and that i know she's trying to succeed too. i validated her feelings, and complemented the effort she is putting in.

where i'm struggling with is: am i in the wrong/causing harm and needing to change if the issue is that her feelings are incongruent with what she knows of my intentions? her feelings are her responsibility (WOW i almost typed "her feelings are my responsibility". i feel like that's a freudian slip) and she states that she knows i don't mean to hurt her. i'm going to try to be more clear in wording my intentions with her (she feels like me trying to take work off her plate is to undermine her. when really, i'm caught up and see her getting overwhelmed, and i want to help and also have something to do since i'm bored).

but i'm really struggling to look at my role in this and pass judgement on myself. i can and want to do better, and i don't think i did anything wrong, but i'm always so hesitant to say it's not my fault or i didn't do something bad. like i can't trust my judgement on that. my intentions were good, her bad feelings are ones caused by her insecurities, which she more or less has expressed to be aware that they are not true—the hurtful thing she said to me, she acknowledged was said out of hurt and not what she actually thinks. so, is it fair to say i'm not the bad guy? i'm not in the wrong? i know good intentions that still result in harm don't absolve anyone, but when the things that are clashing are insufficient communication and reactive insecurities... i'm not a monster, am i?

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OMGGG peach you're so sweet 🥺🥺 i'm literally doing this to you rn

sending these vibes out to my mutuals too! i have way more than ten of you i'd want to pass this along to tbh~

Will Fei Rou and the other men who took part in Azula’s purity examination face consequences for it once Ozai is defeated? I mean, will we get to read about it or it’ll be something implied? I know they were under Ozai’s orders, and he’d retaliate against anyone that would dare to lie to him, but it’s still pretty hard to read that chapter when revisiting older arcs.

Uh, I think I'll mainly imply it because honestly it's a disturbing subject for all the concerned parties, including myself as the writer and you guys as readers. Fei Rou sure as hell isn't going to keep a job as head physician for the Royal Family once the war ends, regardless of how the war wraps up and who ends up in power afterwards. He basically kissed his job security goodbye after Ozai gave that order and he fulfilled it, and he knows that as soon as Ozai is no longer in power, he's going to be lucky to only get fired for what he was part of.

I honestly do have a smidge of compassion for the guy because he very much hated doing what he had to do, he absolutely regrets it... but that doesn't mean he's getting out of this with zero consequences just because he's sorry. What he did is way too serious for that to be the case and he knows it.

Along with that, I'll say... for your sake, maybe skip chapter 236 in the future rereads ._. there's a handful of Gladiator chapters I'd gladly never touch again in my life and that one's square at the top of the list. I still have no idea how I managed to write it but it sucked big time and it's waaaaay too painful for me to ever consider revisiting that nightmare. So, yeah, you're 100% allowed and even encouraged to skip that one for your mental health's sake :'D everyone is.

Y'all either really sleeping on the fact that the lair games episode heavily implies that all of the turtles can go into their shells (yes including Raph) or I haven't read enough fanfic/seen enough art yet.

Oh my god. I've been reading (and really enjoying) the book Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich for a while now, and I'm finally almost done with it, so I went to do a little reading about Erdrich, and.

She wrote 3 sequels???

I've read this entire book and I had NO idea that there were sequels. My goodness.

I can't stop thinking about that post I reblogged earlier about fandom being exhausting..l. I don't know.

god watch me do many courses and work at the same time this fall

sometimes i watch golden girls and i just tear up remembering everything each cast member did for the queer community

estelle getty lost her nephew to AIDS and moved in with him during the last months of his life to take care of him. she started a foundation that cares for people affected by AIDS that's still there to this day. she saw one of the writers on her show was queer, walked right up to him and said "you're one of us!" and promised to protect him. she put her career on the line to become an outspoken ally of AIDS patients at a time when it would've been career suicide

bea arthur was a staunch gay and trans ally who donated a lot of her time and money to helping homeless lgbt youth. when she died, she left them thousands of dollars to stay afloat after she was gone. she was incredibly socially active in the queer community!

rue mcclanahan was a staunch advocate of marriage rights for gay couples and openly devoted her time and money for the fight for equality. she also openly participated in queer spaces and loved the community with her entire heart. she was intimately aware of gay mens' particular love for her character blanche and she fully embraced it

everybody knows by now about betty white's activism, but i'll say it anyway. not only did she join the fight for marriage equality, but she was a great mother to her lesbian stepdaughter. she participated in anti-bullying campaigns specifically against lgbt youth. she accompanied liberace to events because it wasn't safe for him to be out. she loved us and she fought for us just like the others

all four of them did SO MANY amazing things for us, and it makes me happy that we had people like them -- that we still do in people like dolly parton! we didn't deserve them. i wish i could've met all of them and told them how grateful i am!

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Anyways fuck these dumbass legs