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ID: Two sketches of Gladys, a fat kobold, posed and dressed like the screenshots of Glad Gladys from The Electric Company. End ID.

Gladys feelin glad, glad, glad

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there's a fascinating type of post on this site which boils down to "what if, instead of being cliché, such-and-such work of fiction instead dodged all genre tropes in a way that instead made it really boring"

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Here's an earlier version of Emerald City. Oscar Diggs had a the wall built because, of course, he's terrified of the wicked witches. The wall will be build taller, the city will expand over the years, and a lot of green paint will be used to eventually resemble the version we saw in chapter seven:

--but of course I also had to redesign the castle because I already redesigned it in chapter nine:

I'll probably redraw the castle bit of the city in chapter 7 to match before I publish the book.

The castle is also way too big in the far shot of the city, but that's just a purposeful abstraction because it looks good.

If you like my comics, please support me on Patreon! (link in bio)

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Princess Tutu — Håll Om Mig

Marisa Panaccio, Tidirium Studios. 2006.

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be the wizard you wish to see airbrushed on the side of van

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inside of you there are two intestines.

one of them is large, and the other is small.

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audience who is hyperfixated on the series vs. creator who cant remember shit

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death note is a metaphor for autism because like half the series is about scenarios such as: i will die if i can't remember the most normal human response to 'do you want to play tennis,' a conversational feat that is entirely beyond me.

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when everything else falls... one more page, and this chapter is done!

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Y'all have got to stop virulently hating men. Like, I'm sorry, I fucking hate the patriarchy too, but the patriarchy isn't just men and saying it is just exculpates complicit women. I am the mother of a young boy, and I look at this precious, empathetic 8 year old boy I'm raising and I don't know where online is safe for him. Places like this will say he's evil just for his gender, and other places will say "we'll be your friend if you hate with us," and still others will radicalize him in other ways. Where is he supposed to go? Why are we saying the radicalization is the fault of the kids just trying to find a place to hang?

Like this is seriously getting urgent. You have got to fucking stop conflating the patriarchy and men. 53% percent of white women voted for Trump. Men aren't the problem. White supremacy and Christian patriarchal structures are two examples of patriarchy-reinforcing structures that aren't solely couched in maleness. Men aren't the problem, and pretending they are drives more men into more welcoming extremist spaces and also ignores all the parts of this that are forwarded by people who aren't men.

What I see happening all over is scared, depressed, lonely people looking for someone they're allowed to hate automatically, unquestioningly - someone they're allowed to place all the blame on. Fascism says people of color, non-Christian people, queer people, etc., are the ones they're allowed to hate.

And way too many of yall answer that no, it's leftist to hate men instead. You are doing *the exact same thing they are.*

Fucking knock it off.

The answer is we're not supposed to hate anyone automatically based on their immutable personal characteristics. Hate the specific people who've hurt you. Hate the self-reinforcing systems that let them get away with hurting you. Hate the strangers who prop up those systems. Hate the fascists. Hell knows I hate Donald Trump, but it's not because he's a man, it's because he's a piece of shit.

Hate the pieces of shit, not the gender.

But don't hate men just because they're men. That's unhelpful, stupid, insane, and entirely counterproductive. Fucking. Stop.