#Complexities

[foxgl-ove]

just endlessly thinking about blue eye samurai.

thinking about how akemi, taigen, and mizu are if a coin had three sides or maybe just the two and mizu is the bridge of metal between them.

akemi being the ideal image for women, for the life they endure. she was simultaneously a princess, a prostitute, and a prisoner. her entire life was men making decisions for her, even the ones that had good intentions, and she believed her deepest desire was freedom. it still is, but she has been revealed to this heinous predicament of her gender, and she’s realized that to reach true freedom as a woman is to be the bird in the cage, to play nice and to earn the love of a man until he buys her a bigger cage and a bigger cage until he trusts her not to fly away. and it'll never be true freedom, but it will come with power. it'll come with the freedom of only one master rather than many.

taigen being the ideal image of a man. not all powerful, but not weak. he had a taste of what it'd be to succeed, and when it was taken from him, that easy success, he mistook it for his honor. he hunted mizu down to kill him, and instead he saved him. he saved him and saved him and he came closer to killing mizu when they were on the cliff's edge, and just when he gets to the point where he may actually fight mizu, he's tortured for information on him. he is tortured. Literally tortured within an inch of his life, enduring such a heinous violence, and he refuses to break. this man was a fight, was the torturer, and the victim of his torturing could've been his salvation from pain but he refused. mizu gave back taigen's honor but not by fighting him.

akemi wanted freedom and learned she would need power to have it.

taigen wanted power and learned that the violence that came with it was infinite and dishonorable.

and then there's mizu. mizu who wants revenge, wants acceptance. arguably the same things as them both. mizu wants acceptance, the freedom of living and the freedom to love and be loved. mizu wants revenge, which follows after violence and power, to get said acceptance. she thinks she must do both, have both, to live peacefully, and she's blatant about how she will not live without either.

she's given acceptance with the blacksmith, her "mother," her husband, but she sees the flecks of avoidance in it.

the blacksmith will not hear of her true gender. her "mother" will not acknowledge the crime of her birth. her husband can't find tolerance for the violence within her, the man of her.

and so she has to balance the woman and man of her, the ronin and the bride. taigen and akemi. and it's meeting mizu that they start to unravel their own identities.

mizu, who is both, and akemi and taigen who thought themselves one but turned out to be neither.

god.

[thepersonalwords]

Your Core Values are the "glue" that holds your business together.

Doris P. Johnson

[tamsiblings]

[complexities-comic]

Complexities

Part 2.

[my-own-truth]

I’m… back here? And- where’s Yuki?!

… oh, don’t tell me she’s here…

[jo-harrington]

You guys wanna fuck your blorbo? I want my blorbo to willingly eat bread made with sawdust and ice cream made of cream steeped in wood chunks. We are not the same.

[thevioletfury]

to my ao3 children patiently awaiting a new chapter: it’s coming I swear… I’ve been spending a decent amount of time laying out the story instead of just free balling every chapter lol

thx <3

[victusinveritas]

Adjusting things in prison.

[crabussy]

slightly furious reminder that fish do in fact feel pain and do in fact experience fear and distress when in pain since people seem to love spreading the myth that fish don't feel pain. what is it with people assuming a creature is incapable of feeling pain or emotion just because it doesn't have complex facial muscles. come on gang

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

I'm as grateful for cellphones as the next person, but sometimes I think about how everyone having a phone on them at all times really did cause us to loose some things as a society. I mean - for example, kids these days will never experience their car breaking down and needing to find the nearest place with a phone they can use. They're never going to have the opportunity to tentatively approach a house only to discover that it's full of queer people having a party hosted by a transvestite to celebrate his creation of a sex homunculus, stay the night, and loose their virginity while unintentionally partaking in cannibalism. It's tragic, that kind of gay sexual awakening just doesn't happen these days because of cellphones.

[pink111shit]

[complexities-comic]

Complexities

PART 1.

Also available on Webtoons and posted to my tiktok! First comic. Hope you all like

[my-own-truth]

There’s no feeling quite like zoning out as a person you hate starts yelling at you.

I speak from experience.

[rottenbittenglass]

even a worm will turn.

[specialsaathi]

Choose Your Battle!

“Complexities of Parenting” series. Part-1.As a parent of a child with special needs, you face unique challenges every day. From navigating societal acceptance and ignorance to advocating for inclusion in schools and playgrounds, it can feel like you’re constantly fighting battles on multiple fronts.But here’s the thing: you can’t fight every battle. And sometimes, it’s necessary to choose which…