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An Inquiry of Self-Reflection (Part 9) (End of Chapter 1)

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Participant AU by @notreallyx78

[skellyjingles]

Do you think ragatha teached jax how to play those only two songs he mentioned?

Ever since I found out that Jax can play the piano a little (I was spoiled by a leak), I have been thinking thoughts about the implications of Ragatha having a piano in her room.

Ragatha teaching Jax to play (before everything went to shit) is definitely one of them, but I’ve also considered pre-circus Jax trying to learn piano as a means of being good enough at *something* to impress her dad, but she's only kind of okay at it and it furthers her feelings of being a disappointment and a failure. From then it branches out to:

Ragatha being classically trained in piano and helping Jax get better at it (similar to the idea in the ask)

Ragatha being classically trained in cello, but not piano, and Jax teaching her the little bit of piano he knows

Jax sneaking into Ragatha's room to secretly play the piano; Ragatha is aware of it and likes to listen, but neither of them talk about it. Jax won't, because it means acknowledging that she's letting Ragatha see this part of her and her past. Ragatha won't, because she's scared Jax will stop and shut her out of this too.

Jax never acknowledging the piano in Ragatha's room; neither of them knowing whether the other can play it or not, even at the very end. It's a metaphor, or something.

I don’t really have anything set in stone. There’s lots of interesting directions to take it!

(I alternated between using he/she pronouns for Jax, hope that isn't too confusing)

[scphantom]

Been thinking about this gnome recently

[importantcatpics]

[my0clonic-jerk]

[cardassiangoodreads]

Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all. (The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)

[the-grey-tribe]

I'm reminded of these recordings of school board meetings where right-wing activists read out of "LGBT" books from school libraries, and the progressive members of the school board say "You can't say vagina in here. That book is obscene! Where did you get that?"

Sometimes I have the feeling nobody reads, but some people just like the idea of reading, the idea of education, but neither side actually reads these books. The side that doesn't want to read books, but wants the right to read books, is still preferable to the side that hates the idea of reading, but don't be fooled. It's two bald men fighting over a comb.

[brazenautomaton]

Also, like

"Not stocking a book on the shelf of this library" is not "banning"

It's symbolic harms all the way down!

[siryouarebeingmocked]

One of the most controversial books that was supposedly inappropriate for kids had a graphic depiction of a blowjob. It can't even be posted on tumblr without censorship.

[m0nacrose]

Also Abbylee Yuri

[discount-supervillain]

[pangur-and-grim]

Grim is such a grumpy grandma. she growls in between each lick

[pangur-and-grim]

[dingodoodles]

The destroyer of worlds, and he's damn good at it 🪐💥

(Decided to challenge myself with the rendering on this one 🤐)

[importantcatpics]

[smallpwbbles]

I love, love, love, love, *LOVE* the way you do Ragathas hair, its marvelous!

Thank you! Please have a doodle of her and her fabulous hair while Jax is sitting there bald as hell and jealous about it.

[smallpwbbles]

In the last post/question, could we have it where Jax steals Ragathas hair and Ragatha is setting there bald with only her bow? *polite blinking with my hands together*

The image of Ragtha with only the fucking bow was just funny to me

[smallpwbbles]

Bratty AI fucks around and finds out when you ragebait a Dad enough, more on the news at 11.

Fanart for a REALLY good Caine centric fic called Small Gods. This convo in chapter 7 is SO good, like I could genuinely see this happening in the show! its by @crimes-wears-goggles so go show some love to her and her fic!

I gonna do the second half of this convo too just cause I'd hate to leave it here :)

[smallpwbbles]

Thoughts on dess and Kris? (Maybe noelle and asriel too?)

If u have designs for them may we see them if that's ok? :DDD

I have a Dess design that I finally cleaned up and coloured! I don't really have too much opinons on her tbh other than I hope when she shows up we get some crazy ass fucking body horror or something cause the Knight has some monstrous things going on and I'd love if that was also reflected in the light world

[smallpwbbles]

Felt like doing some fluff real quick.

[smallpwbbles]

Love how you draw Pomni I wanna eat er

Dinner is served.

[smallpwbbles]

I love how I posed Kinger like he has an elbow to rest on his hand