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Character Analysis: Kazuha’s Melancholy [2.3]

**Post title is from the book Vera’s Melancholy, which is available to read in-game.

an unplanned post taking a critical look at Kazuha’s personality and its contradictions.

as a fair warning: there will be minor spoilers for Gorou and Beidou’s hangout events. no leaks tho. also, spoilers for the archon quest up to 2.1

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in true canadian fashion: sorry i'm late

although, in some ways, i'm actually early. You know what I realized doing this ambitious painting? this year is going to be the 15th anniversary of IAMP.

The call for auditions was uploaded September 22, 2009, and if I recall correctly my audition as artist and VA was accepted around October or November of that same year. I've grown a lot as an artist and as a person in that long time and for some weird reason I just can't let these guys go.

anyway, thanks for everyone who participated in the roulette, I know it doesn't seem like a big deal but I really struggle drawing all of these guys without losing steam. it really helped! especially since I don't do a lot of gouache work and I second guessed myself a lot. It warms my heart a little to see you guys engaged in this silly game.

what else is there to say. oh yeah, I put two types of maple leafs. the stereotypical sugar maple is in the upper right of course, but I also put a manitoba maple in the lower left because that's the kind of maple I'm most familar with where I'm from. it's long been my mission to bring the western rep in whatever I do, so it's kind of my love letter signature to my own constantly changing understanding of Who Am I and Where Am I From.

anyway. enjoy :) i enjoyed making it. thanks to ctcsherry for creating these guys

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Condensed Milk - A Dirty Money Comic pt 15

[part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6] [part 7] [part 8] [part 9] [part 10] epilogue: [ part 11 ] [ part 12 ] [ part 13 ] [part 14] [ x ]

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apart from this being THE WORST THING i have ever drawn so far (the only context for which is this). I've got no notes so here's something @quatschmachen wrote instead:

I (F, 255) have a friend (M, 414) who has a terrible boyfriend (M, 119), call him Jerk. They broke up three years ago, and I was so happy that this terrible relationship was over... or so I thought.

I decided to come visit my friend, only to find Jerk is there! I have spent the past 3 years shit talking Jerk and affirming to my friend that breaking up was the right decision.

Here is the part where I may have been the asshole. Jerk was serving me tea and pretending to be nice, when I went ahead and vented to him about why he was here and what he was doing. I did not hold back, but honestly, I wanted to make sure my friend wasn't somehow being blackmailed. Me and Jerk ended up in a big fight, and my friend had to separate us. My friend assured me Jerk had apologized but then admitted the words "I'm sorry" did not even occur.

Afterwards I ended up accidentally on purpose breaking Jerk's collar bone... but he deserved it after insulting a literary classic.

AITA?

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User987: hold up, the age gap his how much?! problematic from the start. Are you sure your friend isn't taking advantage of the other person?

User69;): This isn't your relationship. I understand being concerned for your friend, but getting into a physical altercation is too much. ESH

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Condensed Milk - A Dirty Money Comic pt 14

[part 1] [part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6] [part 7] [part 8] [part 9] [part 10] epilogue: [ part 11 ] [ part 12 ] [ part 13 ] [ x ]

eyy its been a hot minute (a year)

i got over some of (but not all of) my block on this comic that's spinning out of control. there should be more i assume but idk when.

Notes below as per usje

blue sky bert deactivated. manly man soother applied.

ben's ISBN shirt is real - i think i first saw it at the U of T bookstore tbh.

Flashbacks take place sometime between October 2019 and March of 2020, I think.

marie's outfit is based on a drawing i did like TEN YEARS AGO if you can believe (thx for fishing that out @celestialily)

FIFO stands for Fly-In-Fly-Out (i.e. oil camp shift work)

i said earlier in the wips about how i like the trope where stoic characters have the same facial expression for everything- I just think it's funny that for Ben his sole expression is ^_^

joel saying "great to have you back home" is referring to ben being on the east coast / in his element, i'm not conflating NL with the Maritimes I promise.

that said I think they know him well enough that they can tell when he's PISSED lol. I feel like Ben tends to mask his anger a lot (which is why I showed his anger in a reflection rather than on his face in part 6 above there.

but yeah the point of this page is kind of. "ben isnt an idiot and he was genuinely mad and everyone knew it". well. everyone except bertie obviously.

ok seriously what questions do we still have to answer and how do i end this comic before the epilogue is longer than the og? i dont knowwwwww! tell meeeeeeee.

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Failure

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Definitely a lot of Canada and I'd add Germany for the tries (and fails) to be a responsible adult

@ anyone who wants to join!

GUYS. NEW REBLOG GAME. I found this on Pinterest I don’t know who made this by credits to them!!!

Me: England and Canada and Italy and Germany-

I tag: @karkacho-wha @madam-of-lithuania @marsinout @gybas-blog @koolkat9 @savameh @starsilversword @lillipupz @vikingosten @bonethievery @garnetgoose0-0 (only if you wish too ofc! <3) and anyone else who wants too!

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brothers pt. 2

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i feel like as a fandom we do not spend enough time dissecting how fucked up the scene described here is.

“Young Master Wei, that night, you took the two halves of the Stygian Tiger Seal and pieced them together. After you were satisfied with the killing, you were a spent arrow as well. WangJi was injured on your rampage. He was in no better shape than you, barely supporting himself by leaning on Bichen. In spite of this, as he saw you stumble away, he immediately followed.

“Right then, not many people were still conscious. I, too, was almost unable to move, and I could only watch as WangJi, whose spiritual powers were clearly about to be drained, staggered towards you. He brought you onto Bichen as soon as he grabbed you, and you two left.”

just. the mental image of lxc being so injured and so drained of spiritual energy that he can only watch helplessly as his brother continues to aid the man who did this to him - to all of them - is fucking breaking me.

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Thinking about how Lan Xichen tells WWX that Wangji’s complicated feelings for him are mirrored by how he felt regarding their mother, but doesn’t seem to realize that his own feelings for JGY are equally shaped and mirrored by his feelings regarding their mother!

Like, he looks at his brother and sees that stubborn, unyielding love and is like ‘ah yes i recognize this’ but he cannot see in himself that his lack of desire to know the details of his mother’s crime are exactly like his reluctance to look at JGY’s actions with any real scrutiny.

because lwj has had to grapple with “what if the person you love did something unforgivable?” and made his choice, but xichen has been studiously avoiding thinking about that question at all for his entire life.  lan xichen wants to give everyone the benefit of the doubt!  he wants to believe the best of everybody!  and sometimes that means deliberately not asking the questions he really should ask, because if he did he’d have to hear the answers!

he knows his mother Did a Murder.  If he asks why, and finds out her reason, then he has to decide, is that a good enough reason?  And if it wasn’t, if the reason was just, like, he annoyed her and she lost her temper, then he has to deal with reconciling his memory of his sweet, kind, loving mother with the knowledge that she did something morally reprehensible and completely unjustified.  but if it was a good reason, if for example the teacher had attempted to assault her and she was defending herself?  well, then she’s vindicated but the rest of his clan is implicated.  now he has to deal with the knowledge that her punishment was absolutely unjust and that all her suffering (and his, and his father’s, and his brother’s) was a terrible injustice perpetrated by his family!  now he’ll have to look at his clan’s elders, who he is supposed to respect, and know that they did something inexcusable to a woman who didn’t deserve it!

by not asking the question, he maintains a state of shroedinger’s-cat-like paradoxical neutrality - he can assume the best of both his mother and his clan.

Likewise, he has carefully maintained a neutral state regarding his sworn brothers, trying to make peace between them and assume only the best of each of them, because if he looks too closely, then either NMJ is right, and JGY is a bad and untrustworthy person, or JGY is right, and NMJ is being cruel and unjust.  as long as he doesn’t actually look directly at the conflict, he can continue to pretend it is just a troublesome personality clash instead of a fundamental and irreconcilable difference of worldview in which he might have to make some kind of moral judgement call!

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how you can help palestine

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

help buy e-sims for people in gaza (PLEASE HELP CONNECT GAZANS TO THE WORLD. if you would like to stay updated, please follow @/Mirna_elhelbawi on twitter)

currently holafly e-sims are needed. please donate.

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

secondary donations:

palestine children's relief fund

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

click to donate - arab.org

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani - gofundme

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

NOTE: journalists based in gaza are saying a demand for ceasefire is the priority as not all donations are reaching gazans (focus on the donations that are directly reaching gaza). so please contact your local MPs every single day demanding as such. palestine need a permanent ceasefire.

Petitions

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty.org

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

location specific petitions

gaza call for ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

[EN5622] call for ceasefire and end to occupation - parliament of australia (AUS)

closes 13 dec @ 8.59pm AEST

[EN5628] retract governmental support to israel and demand ceasefire - parliament of australia (AUS)

closes 13 dec @ 8.59pm AEST

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

ceasefire and allow aid to enter gaza - oxfam (CANADA)

house of commons petition 4661 (CANADA)

closes 9 dec @ 11.03am EDT

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

special visa for palestinians in gaza with family in NZ - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

palestine action

join the resistance

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians | (very very important please share + read the sources provided)

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text CEASEFIRE @ 51905 to call for a ceasefire

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

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I made an animation thingy! This one has no audio though, that is because I have no way to add audio to them. Thus the subtitles.

This is a little party the Provinces are attending. (Owen and Joel no longer trust the punch)

Also, enjoy a lil bit of the dirty moneys.

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IAMP FIC: DEFENSE PLAN

Happy late Canada Day/ early Fourth Of July. I promise the requests are still coming, but in the meantime, please enjoy this silliness while I attempt to crush writers block.

Ralph leans around the side of garden shed, scanning the backyard with sharp eyes. Everything was still under the early July sun. The freshly trimmed grass and large wooden deck were bare, save for the empty patio furniture, barbeque by the back door. and the open box filled with pool toys. Ralph’s eyes narrow. It was quiet. Too quiet. He wipes his sweaty palms on his shorts before readjusting his grip on the gun.

Silently, he slips around the corner of the shed, gun at the ready, and raises one hand, beckoning behind him. Owen and Ilan slip out after him,  and they sprint across the lawn, ducking down into the shadow of the deck while Ralph provides cover. After one last scan of the yard, Ralph ducks down after them, and together the three of them crawl along the in the shadow of the deck, eyes and ears peeled for the slightest hint of movement. One false move and they were goners, all of them.

 Slowly, they make their way around the deck to the far side of the lawn, pressing into the shadow of the stairwell leading down into the pool area. Ralph’s nose wrinkles as the smell of chlorine rises to meet them. 

Ilan raises a hand and they stop. Together, they look up to peep through the handrail of the staircase. Ilan reaches down and presses the “talk” button on his walky-talky.

“Home Base, this is Prairie One.” Ilan murmurs into the microphone at his mouth, “Target has been sighted and we are in position.”

“Roger that, Prairie One,” Northwest’s voice floats through the tiny speaker. “Mountain One reports that the coast is clear, you are free to take down. Repeat, you are free to take down.”

“Roger that, Home Base, we are moving in.” Ilan releases the talk button and looks back at his fellow prairie provinces. Owen gives him a firm nod and Ralph’s fingers tighten on his gun. 

“Let’s do this.”

“On three,” Ilan says, “one. Two. THREE!”

The three of them stand  as one and sprint across the patio to the pool area, brandishing their guns with a loud war cry. In an instant, they surround their target, trapping it within the circle of their bodies. 

Ilan presses down on the walky-talky again, “Home base, this is Prairie One. Target has been acquired. Repeat, target has been acquired.”

Ralph slides his aviators up onto his head, giving their newly captured prey a steely gaze.“I’m afraid you’re going going to have to come with us. Nice and easy now, we don’t want any funny business.”

From the lawn chair in front of them, Oliver shoots him  a look over his glasses and turns the page of the music catalogue in his hands. 

Ralph deflates. “Oli, c'mon.” He pokes Oliver’s shoulder with the barrel of his Super Soaker water gun. “Stop being such a snob.”

“Go on, Oliver,” Owen says with a smile. “It’s fun.”

Oliver sighs and fishes in his pocket for the script Ilan had given him at the start of the game. He pulls the crumpled sheet of paper out and smooths it against his thigh, squinting as he tries to decipher the handwriting scrawled across it. 

“Congratulations, weiners-”

“Winners!” Ilan corrects quickly.

“Winners. You have captured the target, therefor proving yourself as the superior half of Cana-”

“Fire!”

The sudden war cry drowns out whatever Oliver was about to say next.

A stream of water knocks Ralph’s sunglasses off his head. They skitter across the patio and slip into the pool with a quiet splash, drifting down to the bottom. Ralph whirls around to face Marie, eyes wide and water gun drooping in her hand.

“I’m sorry, Ralph. I didn’t mean-”

“I shall have my revenge!” Ralph cackles with a grin, raising his own gun and firing a stream of water at her. 

“Bonnie! Hold on!” Joel rounds the corner of the patio at full tilt, firing his own water gun wildly. “Noooooo!”

“Home Base, this is Prairie One! We are under attack! Repeat, we are under attack! Send reinforcements-agh!” Ilan spits out a mouthful of water while Annie giggles like a maniac from the top of the deck, the bright green hose in her hands. 

“Man down!” Owen shouts, as Benjamin and Nanook drop down from the maple tree halfway down the lawn and charge towards them, their tiny water guns flashing in the sun. Further down, Victoria and Kate burst out of the garden shed in the far corner of the lawn, sprinting across the grass after them.

Oliver, meanwhile, flips the page of his magazine, lips curving into a smile as he comes across an in depth article about Chopin’s Nocturnes. He tosses Ilan’s crumpled script off to the side and settles down to read, ignoring the water fight going on around him.  

He’s two paragraphs in when a well aimed shot to the corner of the page sends the magazine flying from his hands. 

“Hey!” Scowling, Oliver goes after it, only to be stopped short when an arm wraps itself around his waist, the muzzle of a water gun pressing between his shoulder blades. 

“Come with me or the jersey gets it” a voice murmurs in his ear.

Oliver might have blanched, had the voice not been more familiar to him than his own. Still…he looks down at the brand new Toronto Blue Jays jersey, sighs, and lets himself be slowly backed up towards the house and the earlier designated “Eastern Base." 

"Freeze, Frenchie!” Victoria yells, ducking around Joel and leveling Jean in her sight lines. “Alright men, and woman,” Victoria nods at Kate, “Operation Western Storm. Let’s go.”

Instantly, a Western line of defence forms, five water guns trained on the eastern province.

Jean smirks, shrugs and lets go of Oliver, shoving him forward a few steps towards them. Slowly, the other eastern provinces fall back around him, their own weapons raised. 

“Allons-y.”

“Fire!”

“Feu!”

Oliver wails.

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Matthew smiles at the small caravan of cars traveling up his drive way. Mentally, he goes through his checklist one last time, making sure he had copious amounts of spare linen, multiple pup tents, and a frightening amount of food, as Al clambers down from the driver seat of one van, dashing across the driveway and bounding up the steps to gather him up in a bone crushing hug.

“Happy Birthday, Mattie! Ready for a week of cross border birthday festivities?!”

Matthew nods, looking over his brother’s shoulder as the one by one, states slide out from the vans, stretching limbs and popping backs.

“Where is everyone?” Al asks, looking around excitedly.

“Around back.” Gently, Matthew disentangles himself from his brother’s arms, “I’ll take you around.” He leads him around the side of the house, the states trailing behind.

Rounding the corner, Matthew stops short at the all out arm flailing, curse throwing, water everywhere war that greets him. 

“Water fight!” A voice calls out from behind him. A figure runs past him, he thinks it might be Florida, bounding up onto the deck and grabbing a water gun from the box by the barbeque. Seconds later, Nevada follows, and the dam is broken, as states stream by them, running to join in the melee.

“Invaders! Regroup, regroup! Defense plan ‘Maple!’”

“Oh man, why didn’t you tell me, Mattie?” Al grins, “I’ve got the suitcase in the trunk.”

Matthew stares. “You brought your suitcase of Super Soakers.”

Alfred rolls his eyes. “Of course I did. Be right back!” He disappears back around the house.

Matthew watches him go for a moment. 

“Bring me a big one!”