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Help Me Help My Mom: She’s An Aspiring Nature Photographer With No Laptop

A bit of background:

My momma has been through a million years worth of hard times, and she’s never let that keep her down. She spent parts of her childhood homeless, she ended up raising her little sister because their mom was an alcoholic, and a myriad of other difficult things that would, justifiably, make her bitter towards the world. But she’s not. She sees beauty in everything. She worked so hard to be a good mother to myself and to my cousin (because his mom, her sister, was continuing the cycle of abuse that my mother was able to break free of). She’s a wonderful, strong, and relentless person who I love and admire more than anybody else in the world. She was put through the wringer and came out a diamond.

About two years ago, my mom began photographing the birds we see in our backyard (like the beautiful Harris Hawk above; she took that picture about a week ago). She’s only using a point-and-shoot camera because we can’t afford anything better, but she’s able to take amazing photographs even with that limitation. She has a natural talent for photography and she constantly works to improve her skills. However, her laptop is old and non-functional, so she does all her edits on her phone. Wildlife photography has become her passion and her safe place from the difficulties the world throws at her, and I hate to see our monetary restrictions holding her back. I work two part-time jobs and she works full-time as a dog groomer. We still don’t have enough money to replace her laptop to something more capable of storing all of her photographs (she seriously has hundreds of gigs of photos, it’s insane) and capable of handling editing software.

Please, please, please, help me raise the funds to get my momma the computer she deserves so she can take her dream to the next level. She would kill me if she knew I was asking for this, because she wouldn’t think she deserves it. She definitely, definitely does deserve it.

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illiaccrest

Day 4: Miharu and Yoite

Did anything happy ever happen in Nabari no Ou?

#Art by op #fan art #miharu rokujou #yoite

effiesketch

“the atoms that rained down on earth from space became the ocean. they became life. and eventually, they became us.”

inktober day 04. hanabusa’s memories of earth speech in nabari no ou is a super favorite scene of mine.

#Art by op #fan art #hanabusa seki

seatoot

im getting the blues about these poor immortal children again,,,

these mushrooms only grow on unhealthy soil/trees

#Art by op #shijima kurookano #kouichi aizawa

charmingsprout

“@ohrein: wolfpupy is literally raikou shimizu”

i call it… greywolfpupy

#raikou shimizu

papagenoo

✮ A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes ✮

#fan art #miharu rokujou #yoite #art by op

crumbpika

“Thank you, Yoite.”

#edit #miharu rokujou #yoite

metalbeak

on yoite’s sex, gender, name, and abuse

aight it’s been building up for a while but today something i saw on twitter was the straw that broke this camel’s back so i’m here to rant about why the way a lot of the nabari fandom treats yoite makes me angry and a little disgusted

note before i start that i am not intersex (i’ve heard different words for this, could someone tell me whether dyadic or endosex is the more accepted one?) nor am i the victim of child abuse. also, trigger warnings for #death ( #character death ), #child abuse

ok so a while ago i talked about yoite’s gender with tumblr user lokh, and you can see my thoughts and their thoughts on our individual posts. to sum it up: we both feel really uncomfortable with people insisting yoite is not, cannot be, a boy, due to his character development through the series and especially right before his death. like, we’re fine with headcanons, but to say that the interpretation of him as a boy is bad is flat out wrong. but i also have some thoughts i never addressed in that post so strap in buddies ‘cause here we go

so one of the other reasons i’m personally suspicious of people insisting that yoite is nb is that 99% of the time people only do this because he is intersex. if they were just misinterpreting kazuho’s line, then i could maybe understand it, but i’ve seen a lot of people who say “well they’re intersex, so they must be nb” or “i hc them as nb bc of course i do, they’re intersex” which just……… no. yes, nb intersex people exist. but so do intersex people whose gender is well within the binary. when you say that this intersex character - one of the few intersex characters in any sort of media, much less manga alone - must be nb due to his sex, you are reducing him - and real life intersex people - to their genitals or organs or hormones or chromosomes or whatever else contributed to their intersex status. just like you wouldn’t assume the gender of someone based on non-intersex genitals, you can’t assume that every intersex person is also nb. and stop thinking about their genitals!

(and again, this isn’t to say that nb intersex ppl don’t exist, because of course they do, but saying that being intersex comes only as a combo with being nb is the problem here)

and the other reason deals with his abuse. yoite was abused since he was born until just a few days, really, before he died (i’m counting hattori’s controlling of him as abuse). it’s unclear in the story whether yoite was cafab or caxab (that is, coercively assigned no gender at birth; please tell me if there is a better term for this), since it appears that “sora,” a feminine name, was the one his mother would have given him “in case [he] had [been] a girl,” and is probably the name on yoite’s birth certificate. but yoite’s mother died in childbirth, and his father and stepmother do not call him sora, they call him “that child.” so idk, but it’s not really the point whether he is cafab or caxab. what matters is that yoite’s abusive biological father and abusive stepmother treated him as having no gender (”that child,” “it”), directly in correlation with his intersex status and not due to any obvious agender feelings yoite was actually having at the time. their treatment of him as subhuman and subsequent attempted murder of him were based not just on the idea that he had killed his own mother in childbirth, but also that yoite was, to them, inhuman for being intersex.

and when fandom decides that forcing an nb identity on him is right and using his birth name to refer to him is ok, i am quickly reminded of his abuse. he himself says that “sora was never there,” so why do his fans still call him that on occasion? as if it is “more real” of a name than yoite? what is it about yoite that makes people feel like they can use his birth name, a name he has never connected with and cast away long before his death, to refer to him when they would never do that for real people?

#text #analysis #meta #Yoite