Okay, Thought: In AUs Where Auguste Lives, How Would Laurent, Who's Courting Damen, Interact With Jokaste,

One of my resolution for 2022 is to post daily (no matter if they’re sketches or works in progress) but it seems with this resolution, my daily sketches of DaChuu will be revealed =.=;

Unarmed Black Man With Hands Up Shot By Police.

Charles Kinsey, 47, a behavior therapist from South Florida was shot in the leg three times by the police in North Miami while laying on the ground with his arms up and trying to help his patient with autism who had run away from a group home.

It all started when someone called 911 and said there was a man walking around with a gun. However it was Kinsey’s patient who was sitting on the ground cross-legged, playing with a toy truck.

Charles got shot by police despite telling them he was only trying to help his patient.

The police shot him, handcuffed him and left him on ground bleeding.

North Miami police have not released much information at all. They haven’t released the officer’s name, they haven’t given us an update on the investigation. However, they did say that the state attorney is now a part of this investigation.

#CharlesKinsey   #BlackLivesMatter 

#StopPoliceBrutality   #NorthMiamiPoliceDepartment

That ol’ chart of mine makes the rounds online periodically and it drives me crazy because it’s frankly not very good. So, I finally got around to remaking it.

I doubt this will get anywhere near as popular, but I wanted to make it.

Good reference for animation, comics, and for visualizing phonetics!

Currently, I am trying to figure out how to color hair but even after, somewhat, finishing this piece, I still have no clue how haha.

btw, this is from The Dark History of the Reincarnated Villainess. Below is the illustration I used as reference.

I was talking over dinner over the HP world building / plot, mainly missed opportunities, and I feel like sharing one main point here: the wizards already live in a dystopia.

Wizard dystopia evidence:

Small society with little cultural diversity. There are other cultures referenced but they never play a large role, there’s this sense of Brit wizard exceptionalism that infects not only their relations with muggles but with foreign wizards too. Even when shit gets dire they don’t really call in allies for help or anything.

They have slaves and defend it as something the house elves prefer (+ Hermione is given the villain-with-a-point treatment in her efforts to free them; she is well meaning but her methods are Too Much and she doesn’t really Get It)

Second class citizens (particularly thinking goblins) are looked down upon and there is an extended history of them attempting to rise up and being defeated. This also goes for squibs (well, not the rising up, but).

Widespread racism - towards goblins, werewolves, centaurs, muggles… a lot of this is institutionalized or supported by society at large even if not officially approved of (think goblin statue in MoM lobby, werewolf treatment, the emphasis on being pureblood even in ‘nicer’ families).

Lack of proper education - the ‘best school’ has a lot of unqualified teachers working there but even beyond that there doesn’t appear to be any further education after 17, and especially with regards to the muggle world even so-called enthusiasts like Mr. Weasley and the Muggle Studies teacher don’t seem to know what the hell they’re talking about

Resistance to new ideas - goes hand in hand with some others here, but their world is steeped in tradition at the cost of innovation. They use candles and quills and fear of the Other is a major part of everyone’s life. They are highly selective about who can know about them and limit what change they can make.

Only ONE real source of news. No other newspapers we really hear of besides the universally-derided Quibbler. We also know for a fact the government has their hands firmly in the Daily Prophet.

Corrupt government - shows up strong in later books but is present from the start via the Malfoys clearly buying their way and also through the…

Harsh punishments for lawbreakers - Azkaban is pretty brutal and there is not much evidence of a more minor punishment beyond like… fines. We know from that the government has just skipped trials when it wanted to, and even the trials it gives don’t seem especially fair or thorough

At the very least, this society is highly flawed. And honestly, there’s nothing wrong with this set up. It’s great, even. Except for one detail…

Voldemort represents change. And he is the enemy.

What I mean by this is that he shakes up the status quo. Everyone seems horrified at him killing Muggles because of a combination of patronizing pity (“those poor helpless muggles can’t defend themselves”) and xenophobic fear (“if he reveals us to them we could all die”). There isn’t widespread societal hatred of his message that wizards are superior so much as there is to his methods. Some of which include things like giving power to second-class citizens like werewolves, for example. Sure, our heroes all know that his message is Wrong, not just his methods.

But Harry was abused by muggles and dives right into the escape of the Wizarding world. Hermione longs to be accepted and her hangups tend to get punished by the story (making them character flaws or moments of humor), until there’s even a scene where she fully cuts ties with her roots. Even exceptions to the rule (werewolves are horrible predators, but Lupin is a great guy. Giants are seen as violent beasts and half-giants discriminated against, but Hagrid is a true friend.) seem to only emphasize the rule itself by being the only exception and even having reinforcing events around those 'good’ characters. (Fenrir Grayback revels in being a beast and leads a whole pack of like-minded werewolves, and even Lupin has put people in danger multiple times. The giants sided with Voldemort/beat up Hagrid with even his brother being so dangerous he had to be tied up, and Hagrid himself has an affinity to dangerous creatures that has put being in danger several times.) These aren’t one to one comparisons but overall the impression you get is of exceptions while the norm isn’t really challenged.

And since Voldemort, who breaks the rules of the Wizarding society, is the villain, our heroes become representatives of returning the world to the way it was before he ruined everything. Their grand victory in the end is nothing more than a return to the status quo, at least on a textual level. Maybe Hermione becomes Minister of Magic but as far as I recall we don’t hear about all the house elves being freed or the goblins getting a fair shake.

And since the world is already pretty much a dystopia, albeit one with fun magic flavoring, this victory doesn’t make anyone really better off. If they had defeated Voldemort using Muggle tech or unconventional thinking or something, that would have helped to lead to a story of change. But they instead used old magic, pretty much, and let things go back to the way they used to be. There is no forward progress in the end. No true overhauling of the corrupt system.

What do you think about the post-June 2014 messages on Search for the Blindeye? I find them strange because some of the messages on what appears to be the Author's side start to sound more like Bill's messages, referring to Dipper as Pine Tree (although maybe if the Author had some way of seeing the normal world ("You're saying no?") in the same way communicates he'd know Dipper by that name?), the little couplets... It'd also be interesting to see if the Author were responsible for the credits.

lol wouldn’t it be interesting if in the next episode, the author refers to them with their corresponding symbols like it’s normal and everybody would be so uncomfortable about it. 

You have a point though. It bother’s me that the year before, right after the “Author” stops sending out messages, “Bill” says “HE’S GONE BECAUSE YOU FAILED” 

When the messages started appearing again, they become more cryptic and it’s harder to tell if it’s the “Author” or “Bill” talking. (Normally Bill is on the left and Author is on the right but now most of the messages are the coded ones on the right)

Some of the coded messages I found interesting were.. 

“ALL THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE COULD BE YOURS. IF YOU ARE WILLING TO MAKE A DEAL.”

—which is presumably Bill since he says something like that later on in Sock Opera. 

But then there’s..  

“SANITY AND CLARITY WERE AROUND AT FIRSTUNTIL I HAD MET HIM AND WAS COERCEDGUILT BUILT UP AND IT ATE INSIDEI COULD NOT FORGET NO MATTER HOW I TRIEDREASON TURNED TO DOUBT AS QUICK AS A FLASHFIND HIS SECRETS IN MY CACHE”

which is probably the Author and “HIS SECRETS” would be referring to Bill’s secrets whatever those are. 

Another one is..

“A WISE OLD OWL LIVED IN AN OAK THE MORE HE SAW THE LESS HE SPOKE THE LESS HE SPOKE THE MORE HE HEARD WHY CAN’T WE ALL BE LIKE THAT WISE OLD BIRD?“ 

You know what has a lot of owl images?

The Mystery Shack. Or the former home of the author. Is it possible that the author has received enlightenment somehow (possibly through Bill)? But it turned him insane in the process?? 

We officially know next to nothing about the author (so far in the series) but all these clues (plus the crazy ramblings in the journal) lead to nothing good. 

Sukuna knows who he wants

SLAMS FIST ON TABLE

FROM THE BOTTOM OF HIS HEART

So I may have did a (most likely to never be finished) BSD comic of soukoku.

hope you guys like it. 

dazai’s queer coding in bsd

content warnings: mentions of sa, and dazai typical suicide mentions. includes stormbringer spoilers

As it is pride month and Bungou Stray Dogs is perhaps the fruitiest anime of all time, I will be discussing Dazai’s queer coding and why I believe he is gay, instead of the popular bisexual headcanon. I am referring to mostly anime-only content, with the inclusion of light novels and minor manga moments.

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