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love rediscovering things i thought i "outgrew." amazing how much mental energy i wasted being ashamed of interests that are actually the gold-bearing veins of my bedrock psyche? which i will be mining for profit and pleasure for decades to come? say it with me: reuse recycle reobsess
#i really tossed out all these fascinations because they were “cringe”???#peer pressure should be a controlled substance the way it destroys the decision making centers of your brain...#anyways modern teenagers discovering and renovating early 2000s culture aren't wrong#they aren't RIGHT but they aren't wrong.#yes i am being haunted by visions of a distant past i would much rather forget#yes i am simultaneously rediscovering its beauty through another generation's eyes#it's whatever. blah blah blah glimmering multifacets of human existence blah
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Any previous fandoms you have been in before ratiorine?
hard to even call it a separate fandom since it's genshin but i used to be a huge albedo fan in high school
i subsequently got really invested in rhinedottir too and made fandesign for her, i didn't post them anywhere so i think i lost most of them but i do have this (with addition of small albedo)
#ive been kinda distant with genshin for the past year or so but the latest mondstadt brought me back#like no joke if rhinedottir shows up more in story i genuinely might start drawing fanart for her again
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𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬; 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫.
𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨����𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧.
𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟓 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝: “𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫“; 𝐦𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬.
excerpts from a book I’ll never write
#aesthetic#poetry#poets corner#writing#poets on tumblr#quotes#art#life#poem#poetscommunity#spilled writing#spilled poetry#spilled words#spilled thoughts#spilled ink#distant future#past quotes#lovers#love quotes#failed relationship#relationship#past love#in another universe#maybe in another life#poetic irony#past vs present vs future#old love#hurt/comfort#forever and always#forgiveness
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Was thinking about an 'alternate universe' where a young Sasuke, in the absence of guidance on how to carry out his clan traditions, tries to connect to his fractured identity by spending time in the Naka Shrine and accidentally summons the ghost/spirit of Izuna who hears his cries of injustice and grief from the other side.
Truthfully, I don't know why it would be Izuna in particular, but I'm kind of playing around with the idea that his death was viewed as so unjustifiable and horrific by Madara that Madara's devastation over it prevented Izuna's spirit from properly/completely passing over into the Pure Lands. So, Izuna's spirit remains in this unaware-but-restless state and one day it materializes to answer the call of another Uchiha (who also just so happens to be an Indra transmigrant, like Madara, if we want to go there... maybe their emotions carry extra weight and power within the spiritual world) now trying to process his own unimaginable grief, this time over the death of his entire family, bloodline, and culture. Thus they become bound to one another (for better or worse) and Izuna is, from then on, always there, carried by (and only visible to) Sasuke on his journey...
Maybe they both come to believe that if they get justice for the clan (which they initially believe is by killing Itachi, 'the kinslayer') then Izuna will finally be freed and Sasuke will have done right by his family and avenged them. But really, I think what would actually be keeping Izuna 'stuck' is the plan that evolved (at least partially) from Madara's grief over his death, Project Tsukuyomi... thus their quest expands and the two then need to figure out how to alleviate Madara's guilt/sense of loss over Izuna's death and rekindle his feelings of hope in the world once more (ie. stopping the plan). Somehow, lol.
And I think Izuna would be a fun character to do with this with because there's so little we truly know about him, but so much we can infer due to his impact on other characters' actions/story events.
Idk, in my opinion there's just a lot of opportunity here for a good mix of heart and comedy, especially with Izuna as a more defined character that has a little more freedom than other characters to be molded. I also think having someone Sasuke can connect to, that's from his clan (but is also still deceased and a reminder of how alone he is, ie. end of the day Izuna is still a ghost, an ancestral relic of the now-dying clan) would have a profound effect on him.
It'd almost be like his own inner Kurama voice except Izuna provides no chakra or power amps, only scathing commentary on how much he hates the injustices of the village (and its Senju leadership) lol. Also, I like to think his reactions to all the in-universe stories about 'Madara's deeds' (which is really Obito) would be entertaining.
A sketchy comic since I like the idea so much haha:
#izuna uchiha#sasuke uchiha#uchiha clan#naruto#naruto au#naruto fanart#Spoiler about me... stories about grief and the acts involved with processing grief mean a lot to me.#I think it's profoundly human and the way each of us interacts with the emotions it carries/inspires is incredibly unique#annnnd Sasuke interacting with ghosts just feels right and is something that should happen more.#But like fr how would Izuna react to Madara stabbing Sasuke during the war arc? Unable to talk to his brother and seeing him kill this -#- distant relative that he's really bonded with over the past few years...#Wanting so badly to intervene but being helpless to do anything. Also Tobirama is nearby in that scene lol. Would be quite interesting.#Izuna is 100% a yapper. He has that vibe.#Like Sasuke orders him away during the Sasuke-Itachi fight because Izuna is just tallying up/ranting about all of Itachi's lies about him -#- and Madara/the nature of the clan.#i should start writing these down lol#not serious#Haven't drawn in a while I miss making dumb comics.#hoping there are no spelling mistakes - oh well.
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Anyway, if I had a nickel for every time a series had six installments that gradually escalated in ridiculousness, only for the sixth installment to end with a universe reboot and the seventh installment to pick up in a new universe where alternate versions of the original characters now exist in the distant past, I'd have two nickels.
One of those series is JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The other is Riverdale
#some caveats#the gradual escalation of jojo is subjective#jojo kept going after part 7#jojo also started in the distant past so its not as ridiculous of a jump#also i should say *a* new universe not *the* new universe bc sbrverse and ireneverse are different#idk if alternate versions is the right term for the riverdale kiddos but according to friendly space ninja its close enough#no hate to riverdale btw. i watched the first season and then learned about the rest of it via destiel news network and whatnot#i hope yall had fun with whatever happened in that show#riverdale#shitpost#not fashion#ffsu.txt#stone ocean spoilers#riverdale spoilers#?#tonight were gonna find out how much overlap exists between those two fandoms#araki please end jojo with the main characters watching jojo on tv like riverdale did im begging
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I cannot be the first person to point this out, but I never quite processed until now just how much the "cracks" spreading out from Luna's Mark on Vanitas resemble Altus's sky.
We know the spreading cracks from Luna's Mark are related to how Vanitas is being rewritten, and we know that Altus's existence traces back to the rewriting of the World Formula during the Babel incident, so it seems like this cracking effect is caused by Formula alterations. But in what context? We see lots of formula rewriting in this series, including some pretty massive revisions in Gévaudan, and I can't find or recall any other instance of reality cracking into spiderwebs like this.
Vanitas's Mark contains the power of The Vampire of the Blue Moon, and Altus's cracks center on its moon, so maybe that has something to do with it? Or perhaps it's a sign of a rewriting's instability, since from what we see with Misha, becoming "something else" as a result of the Mark is not a good or stable state of being for the blue moon boys.
In any case, there's no real way to know what's up with this right now, but this connection has been haunting me since I finally caught it this week.
#I feel like I may have even seen someone else's post about this in the distant past#but even if I did. it never really Hit Me until this week. y'know?#while I was staring at that bal masqué panel for my franken post#vnc#vanitas no carte#the case study of vanitas#vnc vanitas#theory#english major hours#parallels
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Picture this, if you will
One day, at Carnivale Lecroux, Frost is on a ladder or something, trying to hang up decorations. Gricko is helping hold the ladder, but then Hootsie runs off or something, and Gricko runs off after her, accidentally kicking the ladder in his wake.
So the ladder is unstable, and just as Frost is about to fall, Torbek (who is always lurking, and is just never noticed) happens to catch him. They stare at each other in pure astonishment for a moment, before Frost says “…hello…”
Gricko, hearing the ladder fall, immediately turns around and goes “Frosty! Are you okay!?”, running up to Frost (who Torbek is setting down now, not saying a word). Frost assures Gricko that he’s fine, and he goes to turn around to thank this mysterious bugbear who saved him, but Torbek is nowhere to be seen (back in the shadows, as always).
A week later, when Frost pulls out decorations to hang up, Torbek emerges from the shadows, immediately offering to hang them instead. Frost is like “it’s you! I didn’t get the chance to thank you for saving me last time.”, and Torbek more or less waves him off. “It’s fine,” he says, “Torbek is used to it.”
Frost asks for his name, and Torbek gives it. Frost accepts his offer to help with decorating, and they become friendly with each other. I wouldn’t necessarily say friends, no, but on the rare occasion they cross paths, Frost gives him a friendly smile, maybe chat a bit if they have time, and hey! At least he actually remembers Torbek’s name!
#under the firm belief that frost was pretty friendly towards Torbek in the past#I mean. Gideon and Kremy couldn’t be bothered to remember Torbek’s name (or that he was even an employee)#and sure Gricko did remember Torbek’s name and that he used to work for them#but Gricko still felt…weirdly distant? when they introduced Torbek during guys night#sure Gricko tried to include him in things. but it felt more like an obligation to me.#but frost remembered Torbek’s name. even after not seeing him in years and without being told.#and yeah frost was distant for a while. but tbf Torbek did nearly kill him and they weren’t sure if and when he was going to snap again.#but the few times they did interact (before S2) it did feel like there was a genuine connection there#(and I felt this even before discovering Frostbek)#Gricko’s friendship feels like an obligation. frosts friendship feels genuine.#to me at least#legends of avantris#once upon a witchlight#ouaw#morning frost#torbek#frostbek
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you talk about commissions and client work plenty but you don't really post any art. what's up with that
order of operations, sorted by importance: 1. you are a very unpleasant person and people don't like to talk to you if they can help it 2. people ask about this sometimes! I'm very neurotic about this actually, because I prefer to only post Finished Commissions when I'm open for NEW ones, and right now I'm really just trying to work through my queue. so, maybe 1 out of every 10 clients will ask that their commission be kept private, so I don't ever post those. THE REST I HOARD. anytime you post a finished commission, you're inherently promoting yourself as an artist who takes commissions, and I try not to do that until I've given myself enough room to take on a significant amount of work 3. I don't make a lot of non-work art (sticker art, promo art, commission art, etc) these days because I'm sick and twisted in the head, unmedicated, and also I have carpal tunnel
#in the past (recent past. also distant past)#I've taken on too many clients at once (bc I need money to live) and that's not great#you shouldn't ALWAAYS take clients#so I don't do promo until I have ample room#which means not posting finished pieces until I'm comfortable advertising commission slots to a bunch of people#sergle answers#also this ask is rude LOL and you are being rude. okay bye love you
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Although human civilization on Qefre is a couple of thousand years old, it has developed along idiosyncratic lines due to the existence of a planet-wide teleporter network left behind by the long-departed terraformers. These teleporters are essentially stone rings a couple of meters across that can instantaneously exchange everything in a spherical bubble inside them with a similar bubble inside another teleporter (usually including a flat stone platform that provides a convenient surface to stand on). Although their capacity is limited--you can move a lot more people and certainly far more goods by train or ship than you can by teleporter, even if those conveyances go a lot slower--they allow far-flung cities to cheaply stay in close communication with one another.
The basic political unit of Qefre is not the state but the rashun, a kind of ritual-political association tasked with managing the eruni, the logistics management system that controls access to recovered ancient technology. The terraformers seemed to use the eruni as a kind of basic permissions system to distribute and manage responsibility for the planet-wide terraforming infrastructure and its supporting technology; the powerful nature of the eruni and the need to use them responsibly meant that the planet's human inhabitants quickly developed sophisticated social systems for protecting them against misuse, which inevitably became entangled with questions of political power and competing interests between social groups. Rashun became landholding organizations early in Qefre's history, and soon supplanted most early proto-states in regions of extensive human settlement.
In the modern era, rashun club together with local governments and private political associations into "circles" which undertake most low-level administrative functions; these small-scale circles are in turn grouped into larger planet-wide circles, of which there are about fifty; and these larger-scale circles in turn are grouped into ten loose associations, which collaborate to manage affairs of regional or global interest. Since circles can hold territory basically anywhere within the region of human settlement, there has in practice been a strong pressure toward institutionalizing various forms of collaborative and representative government at all levels in order to prevent an absolutely sclerotic degree of political deadlock strangling economic growth.
Not that this hasn't been an issue in the past; indeed, much of Qefre's history has been an endless series of petty local wars, some rising to the scale of planet-wide affrays, with the fragmented structure of territorial control only serving to increase the amount of chaos when violence did break out. Eventually the largest cities, including all the teleporter-networked ones, got so sick of this state of affairs that they ganged up to completely expel the rashun from their immediate territories, and implemented a "power-sharing" agreement that was really an early form of representative democracy, which came to have a profound influence on the internal administration of the rashun themselves.
When the Western Territories were opened up by the discovery of the teleporter at Ar-Amal, the independent cities and the rashun hammered out a set of agreements to prevent a destabilizing series of landgrabs in the surrounding region; but now that the Territories have a large native-born population, many have begun to grumble that they are simply living under a kind of shared fiefdom, quite different from the actual self-government that the cities in the east--or, indeed, the subjects of the modern, collaborative rashun--enjoy. There is a growing local home rule movement, which envisions something quite different from the governments of the east for itself: exclusive territorial sovereignty, with no role at all for the Delegations in its internal affairs. Opponents argue that this is preposterous: that not even the haughtiest of the eastern cities could get away with demanding complete political autarky. To which the Territorialist answer is that all the eastern cities are equals in political affairs, and their political affairs (and political interests) are irrevocably bound up with their neighbors, in a way that is very different from the subordinated and exploited Western Territories. It seems to be an intractable conflict, where neither side is willing to entertain any notion of compromise, nor is it clear what such a compromise would entail. How it will resolve ultimately is anyone's guess.
#worldbuilding#tanadrin's fiction#qefre#the humans on qefre know the planet was terraformed in the distant past and that they're not native#but don't have a clear idea of how they got there#or where they came from#the landscape is still scarred here and there#the aftermath of apparently vicious wars fought with terrible weapons#but whether it was the terraformers or the ancestors of the present-day human population that fought those wars#is anyone's guess
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"We set Breath of the Wild so far in the future of the other games as a seamless way to essentially reboot the series and lore so our new ideas don't have to be beholden to and limited by established canon."
OK 👍
"We set Tears of the Kingdom a few years after Breath of the Wild as a direct sequel, but we also liked how much freedom not adhering to established canon gave us, so we decided to clumsily retcon both fundamental lore & seemingly random mundane aspects of canon without any explanation, instead of properly expanding on existing plot threads and environmental storytelling cues firmly established in BotW, to the confusion of many returning players."
What 😐
#totk#tears of the kingdom#botw#breath of the wild#tloz#loz#legend of zelda#the legend of zelda#zelda#sorry I've been watching TotK video essays lately out of the blue and this baffling choice started bothering me again#nintendo#also no I'm not talking about the “past” Zelda gets sent back to conflicting with the older games#the distant past with Raura & Sonia is still set thousands and thousands years after the og timeline in a new Hyrule#Again—BotW was a hard series reboot in everything but name only. That's fine. I'm talking about lore inconsistencies from BotW -> TotK#and just characters not recognizing you for no reason. Baffling
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Compelling research by Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard University, confirms that civil disobedience is not only the moral choice; it is also the most powerful way of shaping world politics – by a long way.
Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns. And although the exact dynamics will depend on many factors, she has shown it takes around 3.5% of the population actively participating in the protests to ensure serious political change.
#time for me to remind everyone#in American who always disbelieve#when I talk about#erica chenoweth#epic research project#on successful regime change#(this time it is not a da2 anti-wank post#although it has been in the distant past)
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Chapitre 230 - A World Reborn/Resurrected World
BROKEN JAM JAR CONFIRMED!
It’s hard to get more broken than that!
Also Evil Wolverine screaming Don’t do it in the sidelines is delightful. This is what the anxiety demon inside my head looks like whenever I have to answer the phone.

And there we go! There goes the Tsubasa power being used to return everything to the way it was.
I think I’ve said this elsewhere but I really love the symmetry of the wings being used this way at the end of the plot here. It ties up and inverts a lot of the plot beats that we’ve established throughout the series in a way that's very satisfying, like;
The Sakuras previously being used as tools, now being able to use their own power for themselves (and reclaiming both their agency and their personhood)
The wings being intended (by Evil Wolverine) to break the universe for what he wants, but here they’re used to restore it instead
The feathers being scattered across the dimensions was a method for Evil Wolverine’s plans, but now the fact that they have memories of the dimensions is working against him, leading to the ultimate ruin of his plan
The fact that the presence of the feathers in a world would typically cause some kind of disturbance or imbalance as a result, but now the fact that they were there at all is what is letting all the dimensions be healed
Also the feathers also being parts of Sakura - their absence was initially going to kill her, and now the Sakuras get to use them to save her (and the others) from dying
The flip of both Sakuras initially being Evil Wolverine’s victims, now being the people directly responsible for his downfall
And there’s something in the parallel of the feathers coming together to make Sakura who she was, and now the Sakuras are coming together to make the worlds what they were
And I like the idea that Evil Wolverine absolutely destroyed the lives of all these people individually, but now they’re all here together and he just can’t stand up against them all. If he hadn’t hurt them all they wouldn’t all be here, but here they all are saving themselves and all he can do is scream about it.
It’s pretty straightforward but also very just narratively satisfying to see it wrap up this way.
#Eldritch Sakura has used the move Uno Reverse#It’s Super Effective#Liveblogging the reservoir chronicle#Tsubasa#Vol 230#Sakura#Not!Sakura#Super Sakura#Evil Wolverine#Also I’m just pleased with the entire Sakura character arc#I remember in the distant past I was initially worried#Waaay back at the start#About how it was all going#But now I see the vision!#I get it now#It just took me an unbelievably long time to read it all
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It’s time to call in the big guns, boys
*takes a shower, eats, and goes to bed early*
#shut up e#personal blogging#if you’ll believe it I’m queuing this from Monday (before the chaos)#Because I figure I’ll need the reminder by Friday#my prediction: GOP sweep and Trump takes it. god save our souls.#if I’m right please be kind to yourself. hug a friend. make some tea. watch a good movie. it’s gonna be okay#best wishes and love from the distant past
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can you leave me in the distant past
#professor layton#hershel layton#uwaagahh..#lyric in caption from distant past by ee#too long no ee posting i think#this was originally gonna be two gifs with different lyrics on them but i didnt have time for allat#literally i dont have csp ex so i couldnt make the gif long enough#ANYWAY!#i love u hershel laytin#finished drawings
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life in hisui has to be so incredibly bizarre for the protagonist if you choose to imagine them as being from modern sinnoh without amnesia. for all the usual reasons but also because like. to them ‘sinnoh’ is just the name of the region they live in but everyone else here keeps referring to this ‘almighty sinnoh’ being that they worship. maybe this is just me as an american but. if i stumbled upon a place where a bunch of people praised ‘the great god america’ i would assume them to be a freakishly patriotic nationalistic cult and nope out of there so fast. like imagine how that would sound without context
#pokémon#legends arceus#this one’s been marinating in my brain for a while#ik the actual answer is that they renamed the region after ‘sinnoh’#based on what kamado hinted at i mean#but also like.#’sinnoh’ turned out to be a false name for arceus#but it wasn’t dialga or palkia either#so where exactly did it come from? in-universe i mean#i guess the answer is the celestica had multiple names for arceus because volo was familiar with both#but then like. lol. they renamed the region after the less-true name#maybe they thought using the true name itself like that was a little too intense and possibly blasphemous#idk. back to the sort of time loop theory that certain things that allegedly were from hisui’s future were actually from its past#aka the region was sinnoh to begin with then was hisui for a while after the diamond and pearl clans got there#something something the mention right off the bat that the space time rift appeared in the distant past once before pla too#pokeposting
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hc design for a younger kotoko but i based most of her appearance on the theory she's that one unknown girl we see in harrow.
she likes to play wolves when she's not fist fighting bullies on the playground.
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kotoko - age 11~ had long hair as a kid. cut it short in middle school for many reasons. though, she neither liked nor disliked having it. strong sense of justice / black & white thinking from an early age
#milgram#digital footprint (my art)#kotoko yuzuriha#i didnt draw it but i imagine shes yelling at a baby fuuta bc he was being a bully lol#the worms r real#ran a yapathon on discord explaining her relationship with femininity + having long hair in a distant past#the colours look so much more bleak on my laptop screen kms but too lazy to try to fix it again
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