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im not gonna visit but that doesnt mean you get to, harlot

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EMPATHY [Medium: Success] – He's worried.

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covering Jack Stauber in my kitchen

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Sometimes u try to write or draw about things and its just an exercise in like inducing a panic attack cus its so painful to dwell on and it feels rlly important to make something out of that pain but its hard to tell if thats just the seductive, sinking quality of wallowing in past injury or the productive impulse of like using art to process pain

Obligatory diane nguyen "bad damage monologue" reference

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pm me to talk details!!!

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Hey! So moving in the city is pretty expensive. I don't exactly have the money to cover the costs of all the fees associated with a move, so any help is greatly appreciated!

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Comms are open again- expensive week plus i want to raise money for my sisters fundraiser. 4 slots open!

pm me to talk details!!!

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Hey! So moving in the city is pretty expensive. I don't exactly have the money to cover the costs of all the fees associated with a move, so any help is greatly appreciated!

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I have a lot of thoughts about how the writers of arcane could have explored their conflict.

Shout out to my beloved friend @nyaz-chys, who gave writing insights, formatting suggestions/sketches that radically improved on my initial thumbnails, and also will be posting a fully colored version of this comic. You are a Legend (league of).

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I have a lot of thoughts about how the writers of arcane could have explored their conflict.

Shout out to my beloved friend @nyaz-chys, who gave writing insights, formatting suggestions/sketches that radically improved on my initial thumbnails, and also will be posting a fully colored version of this comic. You are a Legend (league of).

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The Maiden of Zaun

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hey,

like many people, i come here from the relapse comic. its really, really a good comic. i appreciate it. idk where else to tell anyone this. im almost a year out of the psych ward. around that clean. the comic is really resonant, especially now.

thank you,

anon

Im really glad that it resonated with you, and im glad to hear that youre doing better! Its immensely humbling and im glad you reached out.

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I dont want to be prescriptive but individual wrongdoing (while a major factor) is not *the point* its not jimmys monstrous abuse or curlys enabling behavior its the dead pixel, the locked gun, the unlocked sleeping quarters: theyre living in a circumstance that does not account for sexual abuse and in fact tacitly encourages it. Theyre navigating a place that takes threats to capital/stock very seriously (lock on the supply room) but threats to human life and dignity are not remotely accounted for (no lock on the sleeping quarters.)

Jimmys horrendous on a personal level of course yeh. Curly was willfully blind and favored personal loyalties over the safety of the crew and moral integrity- he is a bad captain, a bad friend, a bad person for that. Thats evident and i dont want to detract from their personal culpability or indeed the crew wide disdain for Anya that allowed for the slow rampup to physical abuse and general marginalization she suffers (Swansea casually demeans her dont fool yourself into thinking hes all that much better than curly and jimmy. Like. In anyas position would you feel safe around him? and while Daisuke doesnt do anything wrong rlly hes highly impressionable to the male mentors surrounding him. Lets be real here hes not an ally. Anya is isolated in this context- the absolute bottom rung)

but be honest with yourselves- as it pertains to Anyas assault- what exactly were the options afforded to Curly in his capacity as captain? Cus there's no universe where a company as abusive, careless, and punitive as Pony Express would ever ever handle Anya's sexual assault with anything other then aggressive punishment for all involved and *particularly* the victim. I doubt they would even be willing to categorize it as assault frankly if it even got far enough to be marked as anything at all

That doesnt make curly any less of an enabling worm obviously. Like i dont know what he would do if he was in a company that, if in a similar situation, would punish jimmy and jimmy alone- but i can guess.

Still it bothers me to see people directing blame to jimmy or curlys personal failures when its very clear to me that the greatest contributors/enablers to the inciting violences of Mouthwashing are Pony Express as an employer and the chokehold they are allowed to keep their gig workers in due to a capitalist social structure that offers no support, no protection, no recourse for justice

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hey i saw part 2 of relapse while being in a really bad place re: substance abuse and it made me fucking weep. like seriously and actually weep. you are an amazing artist and storyteller dude

Over the past few months a smattering of ppl have reached out with similar sentiments- it is always very very humbling. Thanks for your kindness and vulnerability.

I confess theres a fair bit of laundered autobiography within relapse- i have not ever dealt with substance abuse but mental distress, compulsive thoughts and behaviors, and aggressive self loathing are all very familiar arenas for me- the response has been sort of eye opening as to how much overlap there is for this sort of things in terms of emotional response and even at times material circumstance and behavior.

I hope things are brightening for you and i hope the rest of relapse will resonate with you

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When will my beloved best friend Erdemoglu Selim return from the war......i miss you baby.......

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well that was sort of embarrassing