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[electric-sheepgirl]

wolfgirl/puppygirl version of Haru Urara called Awoo Awawa

[str-dusts]

Assad Zaman's 2026 Birthday Charity Project

We have reached the end of Assad's birthday charity project !

Thanks to you, we have raised 826,91£ (960,39€) that have been donated to the Trussell Trust.

To all the people who purchased items from our shop:

Thank you for your support and for helping us raise funds to give something back to the people who need it the most. We are so proud of this community and the things that we are capable of achieving when we work together!

To all our collaborators:

Thank you so much for your generous art donations. We couldn't have done this without you! This fandom has the best artists and we are so honoured that you have decided to share your talent with us. We are in awe! This is all thanks to you!

See you next year!

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💬 5  🔁 43  ❤️ 67 · This week, we have reached 700 raised! This is so much more than I could ever expect and I am very grateful for everyone

Artists collaborators :

- "Millenial bambi" sticker by @umulata - "Armand Miniature" print and sticker by @nightislands - "His single oracle" print and "Directeur artistique" sticker by @againwithpurpose - "Assad Zaman" sticker by drinkbatmilk - "He mad as hell" sticker by Aguss - "Assad Zaman Birthday" print by ferric.tapes - "The Vampire Armand - a Gothic poster with Jamdani-inspired motifs" print by Oswinworks

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hey. hey in2it content creators

i love u so much u have no idea

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i think the camera directors are got7 biased tbh

[la-petite-marie]

So yesterday someone named @ragific decided to talk some nonsense on the yk tag, and now they are being extremely defensive and acting like “omg i’m a victim, a damsel in distress” and is calling me out because according to them, i was rude (and honestly i tried not to be but i’m done with bullshit n the tag). Oh, I’m also delusional, but aren’t we all?? Cause like i said before, what we know about them is from what we see on tv shows, vlive, fancams, etc etc.

Read at your own risk (but tbh this whole thing is ridiculous, we r all ridiculous so yeah...)

1. “And dont fucking tell me that Yoongi is always soft for Jk and that i need to stick to it because welcome to fanfics. Again its fictional. There are no defined answers and thats the beauty of it and if you cant grasp your head around it, I worry about you “ Again lemme just say what characterization means. ‘Characterization is a literary device that is used step by step in literature to highlight and explain the details about a character in a story.’ Now till here i get what you are saying but, “dont fucking tell me yoongi is always soft for jk and that i need to stick with it”, do you ever saw him actually not being soft with him tho? i mean, he is sassy at times, but with everyone that doesnt mean he is aggressive. but again, are you sure we r talking abt the same person?? oh wait do u, personally know him? im sorry, really, you TOTALLY RIGHT! omg. but anyways... “again it’s fictional” oh you dont say, i mean i should have got it when i wen to look for fanfic right? RIGHT?? but what do i know, honestly. I Besides, as far as i know he’s a real person, a human being, and if you want to characterize him in another way you tag it, but i clearly dont need to say it to you, cause you’re the master on it.

2. I have an idea on how fanfic stories works, but thanks for your input :) “Youve just passed judgement which is something you yourself stated you dont like.” what i meant and what my gfs trying to tell you was that the way you expressed yourself seemed off cause we all (and by we all, i mean me and my gfs) understood you said that yoongi was aggressive, as in whole body and language aggressive, which he is not, or never showed to be. Again, i wasn’t trying to be rude, i just EXPRESSED myself saying i didnt agreed with it, you were the one being rude to baah, when she clearly wasn’t so don’t try to act all innocent in here.

3. I may not be korean, but i’m well aware of some things about its culture and its places and people. I also know that people from both Busan and Daegu are expected to act a bit more colder than people from other cities, places. But again, the way you tried to convey yourself was that made me disagree with you, cause again, you didnt expressed yourself in a way we totally understood you. Yoongi speaks very aggressively and subtitles do not convey that. “Because I can respect people’s differences when it comes to information they come across.” I mean i get it, but imo i still think it wrong write them in a TOTAL different way, as in so ooc, that you don’t know who that person really is (idk how to explin myself, nor how to express myself rip). Yeah i get that, freedom of writing, and sometimes you want to change a few things abt them cause it’s the way you want it to be, but sometimes people really take it as a real thing, that’s where i have a problem, they (fans) think they r that way and start to talk abt it as if it’s really real and that’s not it. They are human like us, a living and breathing human being, you are supposed to be respectful of that person, cause you if are writing about them, so i’m 100% sure they would want it to be authentic and if it’s not, it’s ok, but don’t think they are that way, cause they are not.

4. You really are trying to teach me about shipping lmao cute. “Being a shipper isnt a title. You dont go to school for it and get a diploma out of it.” Omg i never knew *gasps* bitch please i’ve ranted before about the shit this fandom does and says. It’s like you’re trying to teach me about life. Nice try, but i can’t handle it :) Also I’m not trying to dictate or govern you I just expressed my disagreement with your post.  Im’ well aware people have diffenrent opinions, but that’s not what I was and am tryig to say to you, and honestly I’m tired to try and explain it, ause you’re clearly don’t get it. And yeah i know i don’t own the tag, lmao because if i did it would be free of bullshit and it would be all rainbows and sunshine, cause that’s what yk is about. If you want drama and go @ me then do it, but it would be nice with you didn’t tag yk on it, cause now you’re calling me out is there, and honestly again i don’t mind ppl going @ me, but just don’t mention yk te way you do, cause we already have other ships there that are not yk, so the less bullshit and drama on it, the better. “If you are going to be a baby about it then thats on you and I have zero sympathy for you.” The only one being a baby about this whole thing is you, who are acting like a victim, when you’re not honey, sorry to inform this to you, but yes I was rude, but you weren’t any better than me so pls sit down.

5. I have to agree with you there, “If you dont like then dont read.” Amen. Praise the Lord. “You giving yourself that entitled attitude is like me saying Ive known kpop for longer so you dont know shit.” lmao ok sure jan. And gotta agree with you on the “fucking stupid”, this whole drama and discussion (or whatver the hell this is) is fucking stupid.

And to end, come @ me all you want, but if you are doing another post after this pls use yk instead of the whole ship name, i’m sure other peaceful and nice shippers would appreciate it. 

Anyways, have a nice day ;)

[str-dusts]

Merry Christmas 🎁

[electric-sheepgirl]

while abstraction has parallels to a variety of real-world things, i think that attempting to view it as a one-to-one parallel for any single thing ignores its multi-faceted nature, and ultimately ends up producing relatively weak readings of the text.

the most obvious comparison is taking one's own life. this is the way it's largely framed in-universe, and the way that the characters seem to think about it. people only do it when their mental health is at a breaking point. neither we nor the characters ever witness it happening - it's something that people only do when they're alone. those who remain stable hold funerals for those who've abstracted. and of course, there's the phrasing of Jax's final words.

while this reading is straightforwardly supported by the framing the characters give the events, attempting to read it exclusively through that lens results in contradictions that are too significant to prevent the reading from being completely accurate. most importantly, we know as soon as we've seen Queenie post-abstraction that the mind of someone who's abstracted isn't gone, it's just altered. an abstracted individual isn't able to communicate, nor are they able to act as they once did, but them or some part of them is still there. in this way, i think it's also analogous to having a disability, particularly one that makes the disabled individual be seen as "not valuable" to society at large.

the circus is structured around being able to participate in, and derive enjoyment - or at least socialization - from Caine's adventures. anyone who isn't able to do that is not considered to have worth, and seen as a problem to be "fixed," which we see firsthand in Caine's psychologization of Zooble. in this lens, abstraction is also a social death, as someone's who's abstracted is structurally prevented from participating in adventures. we also see this in the fact that other people avoid people who've abstracted. that social death is then compounded by the fact that Caine sends abstractions to the cellar, where they cannot be seen by others or interacted with. i see this as transforming that social death into something closer to a physical death, as the abstractions are quite literally buried and made impossible to interact with again, even if others might nominally want to do so.

thus far, i've been focusing largely on the mental effects that abstraction has on the abstracted. this is not to say that the physical effects - the corporeal transformation - associated with abstraction is insignificant. this transformation is a physical disability in its own right. however, i think fully understanding abstraction requires recognition of the fact that it is neither solely a physical disability, nor a physical disability that is decoupled from the mental disability. if it was either of those, it would be something that Caine would be able to fix, given the degree of physical manipulation he's able to exert over others. he himself says that he doesn't have that level of control over minds - and as much as he's shown to be an unreliable source in that he does have some control over minds that he is unwilling to admit, i believe he's at least mostly telling the truth here. throughout the majority of the show, his central motivation is shown to be to keep as many human minds as possible as engaged as possible, so i believe he would choose to reverse abstraction if he was capable of doing so. given all that, i think it's most accurate to say that the disability associated with abstraction is one that starts as a mental disability, and then subsequently and additionally asserts itself as a physical one, while remaining inextricably linked to the mental aspect.

tangentially, i also find it interesting that abstracted individuals tend to be aggressive when in well-lit spaces, and calm or even sleepy in dark spaces. i think it's likely that this aspect is also an important consideration for a full understanding of abstraction, although i don't have enough to say about it myself to incorporate it fully. the most concrete thing that i think i can say here is that, to me, it suggests a potential altered emotional response and difficulty with expressing emotions other than anger. the emotional response seems easy enough to understand as a reaction to the mental and physical trauma associated with abstraction, but i'm not entirely sure what to make of the fact that darkness is soothing to abstracted individuals.

in all of these readings, i think it's important to recognize how the circus becomes a more kind and equitable place for the abstractions after the finale, and how that reflects on the real-world parallels of abstraction. that kindness is a fond remembrance and a compassion for those who've passed, rather than sending them away to never be thought of again. it's accommodation for the disabled, even when that disability is so extreme that it prevents the disabled individual from interacting with others in a normative way. it's acceptance that being "fixed" is not always realistic, that being "fixed" isn't and shouldn't be a requirement to not be cut off from social contact. it's a hope for a more empathetic world.

[str-dusts]

2026 is gonna be our year...

Wishing you all a happy new year 🤗