[Amnesiac Omori AU]
Grown up Omori concepts! My idea for the final chapter of the fic for this AU is that it's an epilogue that takes place ten years in the future (so he's ~22 years old in this pic), so it's got me thinking about what Omori's like when he's older
Notes:
He dyed his hair partially white to honor his past self and to signify how he's accepted his past as part of himself
He's aroace! Never ends up settling down with anyone and is perfectly happy and content about it <3
Not depicted here but for his career I imagine he goes into computer programming!
I'm thinking he maybe becomes roommates with Andrew, no matter what though him and Andrew remain very close
The main conflict for the epilogue's story is that Omori develops a tendency to overwork himself, which is something his friends help him deal with
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I cannot get over just how much policing slur reclamation doesn't matter or help in the grand scheme of things.
Here's a handy chart for determining if someone is doing harm by using a slur.
Are they using it for someone who has not consented to it in any way?
Are they using it in a negative or derogatory way towards others or themselves?
If the answer to the first question is yes, it is harmful because it is using loaded language with a history of being used to harm people without permission, therefore furthering the trauma from oppression even if not intended as negative.
If the answer to the second question is yes, then it's reaffirming the idea that the way someone exists (as described by the slur) is bad and wrong, and that therefore anyone who shares that specific aspect of identity is bad for it.
If the answer to both is no, then quite frankly, it doesn't fucking matter. If someone uses a slur to describe themself or an explicitly consenting party in a positive way, they're literally not harming anyone. Quite frankly, I do not give a shit if they have the "correct" identity to reclaim that slur. I'm going to assume they find it meaningful to their specific identity in a way that makes it useful to them, and leave it at that.
You can make all the arguments you want about how you don't know why someone might be using a reclaimed slur, how the relevant identity might not be visible, how someone can be profoundly hurt by a slur without having the "right" identity, how erasing what a related group of people face based on the violence being "misdirected" and "actually aimed at [other group]" is lateral violence, how you can't actually determine how a word is used against a group you're NOT in and therefore can't actually determine it's exclusively or primarily used against only your group in most cases - and I have made those arguments!
But at the end of the day, I feel like that's meeting laterally violent people where they're at. At the end of the day, it may be uncomfortable to you to hear other people reclaiming certain slurs, but it absolutely does not do material harm if the usage is not negative and the people being labeled as such are consenting.
However, harassing people over the language they choose to apply to themselves and explicitly consenting others, barring them access to community spaces and resources, and essentially enacting punitive justice on members of the community for the crime of... using language for themselves that you don't like?
That IS harmful.
Kill the cop in your head. They are antithetical to our liberation.
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Yuu: You know, Epel, if you want to be stronger, I have a potion that’ll make you tough.
Epel: Have you tested it it?
Yuu: No.
Epel: Are you sure it’s gonna work?
Yuu: Uh-uh.
Epel: Is it safe?
Yuu: Nope.
Epel: I’ll do it!
Yuu: Excellent! TO THE SECRET LAB! *Stylish flip to lever with Grim and Epel*
Yuu: Pull the level, Grim!
Grim: Right! *Pulls Lever*
Yuu: *falls through trap door* WRONG LEVER!!
Grim: Oops.
~ten minutes later~
Yuu: *soaking went with croc on bum* Why do we even have that lever? *Slaps away croc*
Yuu: Get out of the way! *Pulls other lever*
~After ride from hell~
Potion result;
Epel: Sweet! I’m awesome!
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Part of this
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