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my pokemon oc (guy who sucks)

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It's been roughly three years since ISWM came out and has stood the test of time since, space was so cool 💙

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Wow. Another Tumblr update I regret installing! How surprising!!

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Buggy is so girlfail and no I will not elaborate

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i love this "with mama" meme. mm yes give me more baby animals with mmama.

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Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff. (edit: yes, cliff then hyenas. But cliff first. Lol.)

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took a step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

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Last post for tonight :)

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Some redesigns I never posted (I think?)

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The redesign meets the redraw :)

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And the correct answer is always c

drivers ed is like:

what should you do while driving?

a) text on your phone

b) look at the road

c) cocaine

d) hit children with your car on purpose

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shoulder angel and shoulder devil except they're shoulder defense attorney and shoulder prosecutor

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In preparation for my birthday in a week, I slightly revamped my pinned :>

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Hi there, I'm Baldwin! I voice The Doctor and Bigger Body DogDay in Poppy Playtime and yes, I've seen your fanfiction and thirst for both characters lmao.

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The Dash Siblings! A pair of flight savvy siblings. The shorter but older Valiant Gale and the taller but younger Spectrum Storm! Their parents differ too. Valiant's parents are Rainbow and Daring while Spectrum's parents are Rainbow and Thunderlane!

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I redrew Hurricane Twist! Butt freckles!