sokka takes zuko to see THE BOULDERRR!!
i’ve been wanting to redraw that screenshot of sokka screaming and the boulder flexing in the same shot, but what about if ZUKO was also there! and he liked the boulder too!!
[ID: This is a digital drawing of Sokka and Zuko sitting next to each other and cheering for The Boulder, drawn in warm colors and against a green background with light bokeh effects. On the right, the Boulder smiles with open arms, shirtless and gleaming in the spotlight. On the left, Zuko (wearing septum and snake bite piercings, earrings, short hair, and olive Earth Kingdom robes) sits at the edge of his seat, flustered, wide eyed and with his mouth open; while a blushed and teary-eyed Sokka next to him (wearing earrings and his usual hairstyle and Water Tribe clothing) cheers with his arms raised. Behind him, distorted all-caps text reads “LET’S GOOO BOULDERRR!!”. End ID]
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homelessness can happen for a lot of different reasons. the lack of affordable housing is said to be the main one. no matter how hard people work, many are always at risk of being unable to afford rent.
for me, that's a huge part of it, but there's also the mental health aspect of it. i've had just about every entry level job available. i've had jobs that allowed me to pay rent, though just barely. ive worked really, really hard. and unfortunately, for me, no amount of transitional housing is going to help if i'm always miserable working. no amount of job coaching is going to make it bearable for me. and historically, the mental health treatments ive tried (which are so, so many) just haven't worked.
it seems like the goal has always been to 'get on your feet' i.e. get a job and an apartment. the fact that a shocking amount of homeless people are working (including myself at some points) and even working multiple jobs and still haven't 'gotten on their feet' should say a lot. the fact that even people who have never been homeless are closer to homelessness than to owning a house should say a lot. the fact that a percentage of homeless people actually choose to be homeless should say a LOT. it tells me that the goal has shifted. what i was raised to want is now an impossible task.
it sucks because i know half the jobs ive had would have been easy for me if it was actually worth it. if the hours were less, the pay actually let me afford things beyond the bare minimum, and the working conditions were better. therapy and medication would probably work wonders if my disatisfaction with life wasnt completely rational. but it's all fucked, and we all know it.
it's taboo to say it, especially as a homeless person, but i don't want to work. i don't want an apartment. i don't want to own a house. maybe my views will change if things ever get better, but at this point, i don't want to engage with this flawed system at all anymore. i hate that my value is contigent on how well i can slot into the capitalist machine. i know i have value much more important than that, and i'd prefer to earn my place on this earth through my actual strengths. i want life, my connections with other people, and the work i do to have meaning and significance. until the world makes space for that, i'm more than happy taking a government check and living in a van with a cat so i can make art and stream and watch the sunset every night. that's my goal now
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i really don't see harrow ever choosing alecto over gideon. harrows love for alecto seems much more akin to worship- a religious fanatic obsessed with the beauty and ethereal energy of the thing inside the tomb she has worshiped all her life. she also only knows alecto as a corpse and a hallucination, she doesn't know her as a person. harrows love for gideon has been a life-long endeavor full of struggle and conflict and intimacy and shared pain. it is human. they work because they are both so incredibly flawed and they can connect through those flaws. their initial hatred for each other stems from the fact that they know too much about one another. harrow and gideon's relationship is sustainable because it has already survived through so much. i don't see harrow and alecto lasting. not to mention the fact that harrow lobotomized and tortured herself and went to the ends of the earth to get gideon back. even if she doesn't see it herself, she loves gideon more than anyone else in the universe including alecto
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congrats on 100 comics, @poorly-drawn-mdzs !!!! 🎉🎉🎉
ur comics bring me so much joy, and ur design takes on the mdzs cast are an absolute delight <33 the biggest heart eyes at how much care u put into each panel, and i am being so real rn when i say that every comic update makes my day :DD
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