Talked Very Briefly About This In The Leasecord Server, But The Portrayal Of Faith Has Always Pegged

WHAT US CITIZENS CAN DO NOW 👇👇👇

YOU CAN CONTACT THE WHITEHOUSE DIRECTLY

- Go to https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

- Submit directly to the president

- Click the first option, select your reasoning as election security

State these pieces of information in a paragraph:

- 32 fake Bomb Threats were called into democratic leaning poll places, rendering polls to be closed first least an hour

- a lot of people were reporting their ballots weren't counted for various reasons that are not very sound seeming. (Signature invalidation, Information that the vote counter could not have had)

- This all occured in swing states (PA, NV, GA, etc)

- This is all too coincidental that these things happen and swing in his favor after months of hinting of foul play.

- DIRECTLY STATE THAT AN INVESTIGATION FOR TAMPERING/ INTERFERENCE/ FRAUD IS REQUIRED, NOT JUST A RECOUNT

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As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.

It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.

Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.

Meriam is not a well-written mother, sorry.

It's not a surprise, either. Meriam isn't the saint of a mother constantly portrayed in Leasebound, and I argue that the narrative does her injustice several times by not letting her be a person.

Shez's backstory is far from a shounen hero arc. It's sad, and it's a prime example of Rusty not capitalising on potentially great story arcs for her characters.

To begin, Meriam's story starts when her first husband abandons her in Austalia. She gets a job as a cleaner (and takes off her hijab), as well as takes care of Shez until Chris comes along and acts super creepy until he convinces her to marry him. And then chapter 12 happens.

Chris-era Meriam I will not call a bad mother. She was a young woman stuck in a horrible situation, and had to do what she could to help her daughters and her to survive the conflict.

My biggest gripe with chapter twelve is that Rusty calls it a "shounen" arc. Her portrayal of Meriam and her situation accurately does not look like a shounen arc; it's a serious abusive relationship that they need to escape. Meriam, I'd argue, was treated as 'motivation' for Shez and her backstory at best and a figurehead for why women shouldn't partner with men at worst. Rather than treating Meriam as a character, she's often portrayed as a sobbing mess at the mercy of her husband and then later a poor victim who finally got the life she deserved after escaping.

Since the story is a recollection from Shez, you could argue that's why Meriam is portrayed this way. Shez sees her mother as someone in constant need of saving- it's why she thinks that Meriam never had a life outside her kids and her abuse.

But I doubt rusty would write that. The narrative shows Shez as a great hero who inspired her mother to take action because her mother can't defend herself without her daughter - HER FOURTEEN YEAR OLD DAUGHTER- having to step in for her.

(This moment is particularly apalling; how could anyone see this as a power fantasy?!)

There are almost no healthy mother-daughter relationships in Lease Bound, which is really weird for a so-called feminist comic. Josephine and Jaden. Alexis and HER mother. And yes, Shez and Meriam.

Meriam is a deeply flawed mother. Meriam was married at a young age, had to take care of Shez alone in a foreign country, and then got abused. She will make mistakes, and she's made many, because she had no support from the outside and ultimately all she had were her daughters. That could make a strong, protective, fierce Mama bear....

...but she isn't. She's a **victim**. She's hurt, and she needs Shez to save her. She begs her ten year old daughter to help her after her daughter fights a battle for her. She needs her daughter to train to fight Chris for her. That's not something admiring, that's not a power fantasy. That is fucked up.

And that doesn't mean she needs to be rewritten! This can be good! This can be amazing, even! Meriam could be an actually interesting character, going in-depth on how her abuse didn't MAKE HER A STRONG PERSON! HER ABUSE WAS ABUSE! ABUSE DOESNT MAKE YOU STRONGER! IT TRAUMATIZES YOU! IT MAKES YOU NEED SUPPORT, AND THERAPY, AND YOU ARE HUMAN AND- GOOD GOD!

Why is she portrayed as the mother who can do no wrong because she got abused?! Why isn't she treated with a sliver of more nuance than "the victim"?! Why isn't Meriam seriously challenged, deconstructed, analysed, as anything other than "Shez's mom who got abused and made her hate men?"

That is bad writing! Framing abuse as a continuation of your political agenda instead of seriously exploring abuse and a person's psyche and how it affects someone!

And...well...that's how Meriam is written. That's how Rusty wants us to see her. And it's frustrating because sometimes- sometimes- Rusty gets it right.

This moment is poignant. It's my favourite Meriam moment because she's self- aware, and challenged by Shez. Rusty can do it- she just abandons it in favour of five hundred more pages of "trans bad men bad".

So...we explored all that. We tackled the surface of my feelings towards Meriam. What now?

I can't say more, because I feel like a broken record. In fact, go read up several other posts by incredibly talented Leasebound content creators who have made several dissertations on the story, and they will tell you that Lease Bound is, in fact, badly written, and that Rusty Hearts needs to do more with her story.

Thanks for reading! More about Meriam and Shez is coming soon, and I'll update this post when I finish writing it!

current posts are making the lb tag so much more bearable love the non terf audience wooo

heh blur

lets just say

times a blur

i wiish that i could turn back time

cause now the guilt is all mine

can't live without the

trust from those you love

Still wild that people got mad at a woman for punching another woman in a "who can punch" harder contest. Goes to show how much the world is against female athletes.

Also like

It's still insane to me how Rusty was capable of writing a real world scenario in which a black butch woman (or just a black woman period) would be targeted by transvestigation just for being butch and black, and yet somebow Rusty thought it was completely realistic and truthful to life that it's trans allies who transvestigate, not transphobes

Ah yes

Somebody who supports trans people is 100% more likely to transvestigate somebody and invalidate their identity even if they're a cisgender woman, totally not the group of people who had a brown woman in the Olympics under a internet firing squad because she dared to be too good at boxing, and therein it meant she had to secretly be a man because how dare she hurt the little feeble white princess she was put up against.

straight ship??? On the leasebound tag???

It's more likely than you think!

The minimen.

Might post more abt my comic here soon. If you're interested

THANK YOU MICAH!!!!!

Requiem Adam part 1

Requiem Adam is making its grand debut ! Comic made with love and passion by our amazing @derkuningas

Cw: almost complete nudity , strong language

The story telling trough show is really amazing , we see the emptiness in his gaze then we are gradually exposed to his environment and the people around him , we are not thrown into the unfamiliar harshly and that from my humble opinion is showing a great understanding of her interpretation of story telling

She knows how she wants to tell us her story and she show it well

That panel is perhaps a little too quickly to my liking but it's a great shock as well leaving us hanging for what's coming , its also not in our face , leaving place for explanation when the time will come and simply showing us that it's there to be shown and explored

I like that the premises of the story is told trough a TV broadcast , its such an interesting way of telling indirectly to the viewer what's going on

Again she knows how story telling works and put what's she learn to great use

The character designs are creative and don't suffer from same face syndrome nor do they lack

The guy is shown naked and from a character design wise we understand very quickly that he is a shell , we are gonna grow and learn with him he is our vessel to understand this world

Our girl is dressed "breaking" fashion rules, she wears a skirt , leggings , a big poofy jacket she has a tooth gap , she is unconventional by design amd is flawed , she's arguably the most human of the cast so far because she is shown out of a mold that exist (see panel 3 picture on the wall) her sharp hairstyle can also indicate her sharp personality bringing us to even further analyse her

For our broadcasting lady she is shown tall and strong in a serious pose her haircut covering half her face leading us to understand she likely only says half truths or hides a lot she wears black long dress expressing her strong feminity yet she is in power , she's the one controlling what information people get

Im sorry there's not much more i can say for now except go read it , its worth it and stay on the edge of your seat because the story is coming and you definitely won't regret it 🫶🫶