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Outfit from a costume party 🥰😈🩷

[cobaltash]

On day 7 of the Pride Challenge, I give you, right out of the PAN-try, the awesome  Asaara Adaar, who belongs to the wonderful @starkmartell !

Thank you for letting me borrow her for this project!

[momolady]

Hi Momo! How's Big Billy going to react when his grand baby starts dating? What happens if they bring home a different kind of monster? 💚

Oooh this is a good one. Big Billy was always particular with his own kids when they started dating. He knew they deserved the best so anytime they dated he would sniff around their prospect. His grandbaby is a whole other thing. He’s very protective of baby Billie. When she starts to date I think he would nearly have a heart attack, especially if she was to date another creature. I think it would be the first time he truly felt old.

[fuckyeahnickburkhardt]

That was a heartbreaking episode, but it does bring up an interesting point that I had never thought about. Personal ethics vs the protection of all and how hard it must be for Wessen that have a history of Alzheimer's of dementia.

The episode was indeed heartbreaking. It was also a very uncomfortable episode for me to watch for a lot of reasons. I mean...on the one hand Rosalee and Monroe truly care for each other and were following each other’s wishes when they made that commitment to one another.

On the other hand, one of the problems with euthanasia practices is that elderly and/or disabled people, especially those with mental illness, dementia, or other such problems are especially vulnerable to abuse of any kind. There’s an ugly tendency in Western culture--and other cultures, I’m sure--to devalue human beings who don’t meet a certain standard of health or “productivity” as burdens or even dangers to society who are unworthy of life.

There are very real concerns among the disabled and mentally ill communities about euthanasia, precisely because of those attitudes and because of the risk of disabled people being euthanized against their will or pressured into choosing euthanasia by family members who don’t want the burden of caring for them.

So watching an episode that validated that narrative by depicting elderly victims of dementia as literal murderers was extremely disturbing to me. The episode treated euthanasia completely uncritically, as necessary and merciful without any caveats, and even dismissed criticism of it as outsiders just “not understanding” a community’s needs.

That was horrifying. And that horror undercut the episode’s emotional punch for me, because the whole time I was sitting there as a chronically ill person thinking about the message it was sending about people like me, whether intentionally or not.

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I turned 31 on the 5th and I look good 🎃

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I almost never take pictures of myself straight on, I need to more often 💚🖤

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I love this pendant 💚💚

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