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Dawn / 30+ / Canadian ( ꈍᴗꈍ) Editor, writer, artist, gamer, developer, queer, anti-fascist, pro-shipper fujoshi.

Untitled comic. Post-Maximum, Vash/Wolfwood, grief, mission fic. In another twelve pages it’ll all make sense.

Enjoying as a working title “Bring Me the Head of Grett Glass” but it’ll make it a hard sell when I print it for cons.

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_alt: image description: Page 10, panel 1, the car sits in the dark of night with a settlement in the distance. From inside, Jill shouts, “Were you here the whole time?!” In response, Vash cries, “Did you kidnap me?!” Panel 2 reveals two vague figures in the desert. Jill goes on, “I didn’t—” but is interrupted by Vash shushing her. Panel 3 shows Jill hiding behind the steering wheel, and Vash hiding behind her seat. He asks “who are those guys?” Panel 4 shows Jill’s face as she hesitates. Panel 5, she answers: “They’re the Glass Ghost Gang.” The illustration shows the two members of the Glass Ghost Gang. The one on the left has dark skin and is sharply dressed, and appears to be carrying a sniper rifle. The one on the right has pale skin and an exaggerated brow, with a strap full of bullets across his chest. Panel 6 shows Jill’s face but not her eyes as she goes on: “They’ve been terrorizing our village.” Another speech bubble overlaps the gutter between panel 6 and 7. “They kidnapped some villagers a while ago.” Panel 7 shows the half-moon hanging in the sky. Jill goes on, “They were held for ransom, and we had to give the gang something important.” Page 11, panel 1 shows the night sky over the distant settlement. Jill continues from off-screen, saying “As part of the deal, they were supposed to leave. Why are they still here?” Panel 2 shows a distant illustration of the two members of the Glass Ghost Gang, looking around cautiously. “They don’t look very friendly,” Vash observes from off-screen. Panel 3 shows Vash in the car, behind Jill’s seat. “Maybe they’re waiting for something?” he asks. Panel 4, Jill observes, “I think they’re waiting for Vash the Stampede. They said on TV that he was heading this way.” The art, showing the pair inside the car, shows Jill with a thoughtful look on her face. Vash, however, flinches. Panel 5, Jill reaches across to the passenger’s front seat to a bag she appears to have left there. She says “But I won’t let them have anything else.” Panel 6, we see Jill’s back as she opens the car door and steps out of the driver’s seat, bag in hand. Off-screen, Vash calls “Uh, Miss?!”

Starting to look like this fancomic is going to end up 40-50 pages. I hope you’re enjoying it! <3

Untitled comic. Post-Maximum, Vash/Wolfwood, grief, mission fic. I swear it really is Vashwood it’s just gonna take a while, trust me.

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panel 1: The woman leans back where she sits in the driver’s seat of the car while Vash loiters in the background. She has a hand on her pregnant belly. She says “I can’t ride my bike in this condition, so I thought I’d walk. Panel 2: Milly and Meryl face her. Milly asks "You didn’t have anyone else who could take you?” The woman says, “‘Fraid not.” Panel 3: We see Vash looking away from the reader. Meryl, off-screen, says “In that case, let us take you the rest of the way, Miss…?” Panel 4: The woman, with a smile, says “Jillian Bell. Please call me Jill.” Panel 5, we transition to a village. Jillian in voice over goes on, “I know a great little place where you can spend the night.”
Panel 1: Jill smiles and gestures to an inn behind her and says “Here you are! The folks here will treat you just fine.” Panel 2 depicts Milly and Meryl. Meryl says, “Thanks, but we can drive you all the way home.” Jill, off-screen, says “That’s okay. I can walk from here!” Panel 3: In a wide panel, Jill waves and Milly waves back. Jill says “Thanks again! Bye-bye now!” Meryl says, “Milly, is it just me…” Panel 4 turns back to Milly and Meryl. Meryl continues, “or does that smile seem familiar?” Milly, smiling brightly, replies, “Now that you mention it, she reminds me of Mr. Vash!” Panel 5, the girls look back at the car they came out of. Meryl says “And where did he run off to this time?” Milly says “Uh-oh!” Panel 6 shows a darkening sky and the tops of buildings. Off-screen, Meryl says “For the love of—”
Panel 1: It appears time has passed and, in the dark, a shadow approaches the car that is still parked in the road. Panels 2-4 depict the door opening, closing, and the car and headlights turning on. Panel 5 shows the car driving away through the village streets. Panel 6 depicts the car driving into the desert night. Panel 7 shows us a pair of hands on the steering wheel. In panel 8 we see Jill’s face as she sighs, with relief?
Panel 1: In a large panel of the night, we see the car driving through the desert, kicking up dust. Panel 2: The car seems to come upon a settlement with a tall chapel with cross in silhouette. Panel 3: The headlights turn off and the car powers down. Panel 4: The car, now silent, sits in the dark and looks out on the settlement in the distance. Panel 5: Jill sits in silence with her hands on the steering wheel, gazing forward, presumably at the settlement. Panel 6: Vash, his hair a mess, sits up from the back seat, startling Jill. He appears to have been woken up from sleep and asks, “Huh? Where are we?”

Please share! Also there’s a twitter thread of this comic so far that has a sad amount of notes https://twitter.com/playerprophet/status/1656029116838330369?s=20

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Untitled comic. Post-Maximum, Vash/Wolfwood, grief, mission fic. Plenty of insurance girls and a couple randos.

[_alt: Page 4, panel 1, Meryl looks sinister. She says “It’s the never-letting-him-out-of-my-sight-until-one-of-us-dies plan!” Panel 2, Milly sits behind Meryl. She asks “Is that different from what we used to do?” Meryl says “No, but just look at his face.” Panel 3, Milly turns to see that Vash is wearing a horrified expression. Panel 4, a wide shot of the car driving over sand dunes. Off-screen Milly says “Great idea, Meryl!” Meryl replies, “Keep on him with the questions, Milly!” Milly replies, “Right!” Panel 5, Milly looks at a book. She says “Um, this one says…” Panel 6, Vash gazes through the car window as Milly says “…Oh.”
Page 5, panel 1, Milly sadly regards her book. She says “I was asking you about Mr. Wolfwood.” In panel 2, Vash wordlessly gazes through the window. In panel 3, Meryl squints and says “Huh?” Panel 4 is a wide shot of the desert and a silhouette. Meryl says “What is someone doing all the way out here?” Panel 5, a woman drinks from a water flask. Panel 6, the woman, very pregnant, cheerfully says “How kind of you folks to stop for me!” Meryl, her hair in the bottom right, shouts “How could we not when you’re super pregnant?!” Panel 7 is a wide shot of where the car has stopped and the woman is seated in the driver’s seat while Vash, Meryl, and Millie stand outside. The woman says “Oh, we’re not THAT far from town!” Meryl argues, “Still!”]

Next post will probably have to be 4 pages so it might take a little bit. I have more free time and less work to do thanks to my Patrons (wink wink nudge nudge).

I can’t imagine Meryl would use the words “super pregnant” but it’s the best I could do.

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Pages 1-3 | 4-5 | 6-9 | 10-11 | 12-13 | 14-16 | 17-19 | … Post-Maximum, Vash/Wolfwood, grief, mission fic. Plenty of insurance girls and a couple randos. After everyone enabled me with the reception on this one I’ve decided to just let myself serialize this little comic while I work on it.

[_alt: Image 1: A fancomic of Trigun. Four panels. Vash thinks that something changed on the floating ship. In panel 2 Wolfwood regards him with a complicated expression. Vash wonders “Maybe when you looked at me with that face?” In panel 3 we see Vash and Wolfwood in a hospital room. Vash wonders “Because of what I said in that hospital room?” In panel 4, Wolfwood is standing a distance away outside. Vash wonders, “Because you learned Earth was coming?” A speech bubble interrupts his thoughts, saying “Mister Vash!”
Image 2: panel 1. Milly sits next to Vash. She complains “You weren’t listening again!” Panel 2, Vash looks away from her through a window. He says “Long drives make me sooo sleepy.” Panel 3 depicts Milly, but Vash’s dialogue continues: “Besides, I’m sure you have more interesting people to talk to, right?” Panel 4, Milly looks hurt and starts “But Mr. Vash–” but is interrupted by Meryl, who says “It’s fine, Milly.” Panel 5, we see Meryl is in a seat in front of Milly. She says “He was never going to give in that easily." 
Image 3, panel 1: A large scene-setting panel reveals that the trio are in a car driving across the desert. Meryl says "He’s been an isolated pain in the ass for years. Why would today be any different?” Vash retorts with “Hey, that’s not very nice!” Meryl replies with “If it wasn’t true, I wouldn’t say it!” Another speech bubble from Milly begins in panel 1 and brings the reader to panel 2, another interior view of the car with Milly behind Meryl. Milly says “But Meryl, we need that information! You already spent your advance for the Vash the Stampede biography on this car!” Meryl, smiling, says “Not to worry, Milly. I have a plan.”]

I just wanna work on this basically all the time but I have bills to pay so I might post draft pages on my Patreon first fyi.

Untitled comic. Post-Maximum, Vash/Wolfwood, grief, mission fic. In another twelve pages it’ll all make sense.

Enjoying as a working title “Bring Me the Head of Grett Glass” but it’ll make it a hard sell when I print it for cons.

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_alt: image description: Page 10, panel 1, the car sits in the dark of night with a settlement in the distance. From inside, Jill shouts, “Were you here the whole time?!” In response, Vash cries, “Did you kidnap me?!” Panel 2 reveals two vague figures in the desert. Jill goes on, “I didn’t—” but is interrupted by Vash shushing her. Panel 3 shows Jill hiding behind the steering wheel, and Vash hiding behind her seat. He asks “who are those guys?” Panel 4 shows Jill’s face as she hesitates. Panel 5, she answers: “They’re the Glass Ghost Gang.” The illustration shows the two members of the Glass Ghost Gang. The one on the left has dark skin and is sharply dressed, and appears to be carrying a sniper rifle. The one on the right has pale skin and an exaggerated brow, with a strap full of bullets across his chest. Panel 6 shows Jill’s face but not her eyes as she goes on: “They’ve been terrorizing our village.” Another speech bubble overlaps the gutter between panel 6 and 7. “They kidnapped some villagers a while ago.” Panel 7 shows the half-moon hanging in the sky. Jill goes on, “They were held for ransom, and we had to give the gang something important.” Page 11, panel 1 shows the night sky over the distant settlement. Jill continues from off-screen, saying “As part of the deal, they were supposed to leave. Why are they still here?” Panel 2 shows a distant illustration of the two members of the Glass Ghost Gang, looking around cautiously. “They don’t look very friendly,” Vash observes from off-screen. Panel 3 shows Vash in the car, behind Jill’s seat. “Maybe they’re waiting for something?” he asks. Panel 4, Jill observes, “I think they’re waiting for Vash the Stampede. They said on TV that he was heading this way.” The art, showing the pair inside the car, shows Jill with a thoughtful look on her face. Vash, however, flinches. Panel 5, Jill reaches across to the passenger’s front seat to a bag she appears to have left there. She says “But I won’t let them have anything else.” Panel 6, we see Jill’s back as she opens the car door and steps out of the driver’s seat, bag in hand. Off-screen, Vash calls “Uh, Miss?!”

Starting to look like this fancomic is going to end up 40-50 pages. I hope you’re enjoying it! <3

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One of the most interesting things I’ve noticed about non-natives appropriating our stuff is they never want anything but sage, smudging, and feathers.

Native people will share: our food, our music, our dancing, our art.

But no one is interested in those. They don’t CARE about our food and music. We never see those things in popular culture. Non-natives just want to take our religious items, because they feel entitled to the things people don’t want to share.

A Tribe Called Red (techno Native beats):

Taboo #noDAPL protest music (Native Hip Hop):

Supaman (Prayer loop song, Rap)

Check em out. Add on. Support Native Artists. Spread the love y'all

Good musical options. 🙌🏼

I FRICKIN LOVE A TRIBE CALLED RED!!! Seriously, listen to their stuff it’s so good!!!

Adding to this:

Music!

Snotty Nosed Rez Kids (”I Remember My Name” Native hip-hop)

Frank Waln (”Wokiksuye” Rap)

JB the First Lady (”The Most Unprotected Girl” R&B)

Clothes! There’s also a lot of Native designers doing amazing work blending old and new styles. These are two of my favorites

Food! There’s a been a major resurgence of interest in indigenous foods lead by Native chefs, many of whom are on youtube!

Sean Sherman - maybe one of the most famous Native chefs. There’s a great little video on him here and his website is here!

Dance! This one is a little trickier because no, you, non-Native person absolutely should not dance at the powwows unless it’s an open dance AND you’ve been invited to do so. (And if you have, please don’t do the white hippie dance. Please.) However, you can and absolute come out and support the circuit & the dancers. Some of my favorite dancers/competitions:

O.B. (Ohh Bizz) who mostly does grass dancing. (Yeah, I know he hasn’t updated in forever. the #NoDAPL protests derailed a lot of people’s lives.) He’s a lot of fun to watch and a complete sweetheart.

FNUC Powwow 2019 (also, yes, the announcer is pretty much typical for a powwow. You want a person who can roast literally everyone in a 10 mile radius? A powwow announcer can do that.)

And here’s the 2019 Grass Dance Finals at Little Creek

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Reblogging again for most excellent additions!

CBC (Canadian broadcasting corporation) has native music show called reclaimed. You can stream it online anywhere from their website. And I think you can even make playlists.

Slightly off topic, but if you’re interested in Native American cooking, go and get yourself a copy of The Sioux Chef. It’s a really good book with some fantastic recipes in there

Please don't sleep on Jeremy Dutcher, who is a two-spirit trained opera singer who made an album reviving old recordings of Wolastoqiyik songs.

Untitled comic. Post-Maximum, Vash/Wolfwood, grief, mission fic. In another twelve pages it’ll all make sense.

Enjoying as a working title “Bring Me the Head of Grett Glass” but it’ll make it a hard sell when I print it for cons.

Pages 1-3 | 4-5 | 6-9 | 10-11 | 12-13 | 14-16 | 17-19 | ...

_alt: image description: Page 10, panel 1, the car sits in the dark of night with a settlement in the distance. From inside, Jill shouts, “Were you here the whole time?!” In response, Vash cries, “Did you kidnap me?!” Panel 2 reveals two vague figures in the desert. Jill goes on, “I didn’t—” but is interrupted by Vash shushing her. Panel 3 shows Jill hiding behind the steering wheel, and Vash hiding behind her seat. He asks “who are those guys?” Panel 4 shows Jill’s face as she hesitates. Panel 5, she answers: “They’re the Glass Ghost Gang.” The illustration shows the two members of the Glass Ghost Gang. The one on the left has dark skin and is sharply dressed, and appears to be carrying a sniper rifle. The one on the right has pale skin and an exaggerated brow, with a strap full of bullets across his chest. Panel 6 shows Jill’s face but not her eyes as she goes on: “They’ve been terrorizing our village.” Another speech bubble overlaps the gutter between panel 6 and 7. “They kidnapped some villagers a while ago.” Panel 7 shows the half-moon hanging in the sky. Jill goes on, “They were held for ransom, and we had to give the gang something important.” Page 11, panel 1 shows the night sky over the distant settlement. Jill continues from off-screen, saying “As part of the deal, they were supposed to leave. Why are they still here?” Panel 2 shows a distant illustration of the two members of the Glass Ghost Gang, looking around cautiously. “They don’t look very friendly,” Vash observes from off-screen. Panel 3 shows Vash in the car, behind Jill’s seat. “Maybe they’re waiting for something?” he asks. Panel 4, Jill observes, “I think they’re waiting for Vash the Stampede. They said on TV that he was heading this way.” The art, showing the pair inside the car, shows Jill with a thoughtful look on her face. Vash, however, flinches. Panel 5, Jill reaches across to the passenger’s front seat to a bag she appears to have left there. She says “But I won’t let them have anything else.” Panel 6, we see Jill’s back as she opens the car door and steps out of the driver’s seat, bag in hand. Off-screen, Vash calls “Uh, Miss?!”

Starting to look like this fancomic is going to end up 40-50 pages. I hope you’re enjoying it! <3

DO NOT LET SOCIAL MEDIA TURN YOU INTO AN AMERICAN

As an American: Seriously, please don’t

ok well i don't

"Americanization" is a real phenomenon, and how non-Americans should be cautious of it is taught in different countries at school. It's taught in Greece and people from other countries told me their elementary or middle school teachers (using the American grades, to make it make sense to the majority on the site) talked to them about it.

It's common sense here, except for USians, so I'll analyze it a bit more for the dominant demographic here. In a globalized setting, the most dominant culture affects the others and sets the trends. The way our language works, how we think, our levels of politeness and intimacy, and our levels of respect. (flash news, they are going down 😂)

I don't want to imply that there is nothing good in the US. There are plenty of positives in the country. It's just that for the rest of the cultures online it's a constant daily fight to not forget our roots, with the degree US media and brands have permeated our lives. In Greece at least we watch more US American media than Greek media nowadays, and many of our shows are rip-offs of USian ones, with little adaptation to Greek reality and culture.

And to demonstrate the amount of this exposure, a 22-year-old Greek asked me the other day "if something happens we call 911, right?" This might have literally cost them their life, in a dangerous situation! Because all the movies and songs they consumed (not an unusual thing for the Greek youth) were what they knew. And I found a similar comment in this comment thread.

Lots of Americans in the notes failing to understand this post. It's not about not liking the US. It's not about you feeling ashamed or guilty for being American. It's not about you.

It's about American media drowning out native language media all over the world, and workplaces requiring the English language in your repertoire more and more. It's about proper translations and foreign language dubbing of films disappearing because "everyone speaks/should speak English anyway." All of this is leading to the deterioration of native speaker groups of languages worldwide.

In my country, Dutch language courses can't find enough people who want to study the language, while English language courses are overflowing with people who want to study the language. There is even widespread distaste for the Dutch language for being crude or sounding rough or what have you. That's our native language!!! That is our culture in its purest form!!! That is knowledge we inherit from our parents as they did from theirs!!! That is how we learned fairytales and folk stories and myths!!! That is the language that shapes our communication and our way of thinking!!! To hate your native language is to hate yourself at the deepest level.

And yet it's so normalised. Droves of foreigners living in the Netherlands will never learn a word of Dutch, because "everyone speaks English anyway." We are the world's leaders in non-native understanding of English, but it comes at a cost. A grave cost we will continue to pay.

If you're looking to support your non-American friends in any way that is not performatively shouting "I hate being an American" into the void, first of all, unlearn that hatred of yourself and your culture. You are of no help self-flagellating, and there is a difference between holding your country accountable for its issues, and denying yourself your culture because your country is doing and has done bad things.

(I am not going to get into arguments about whether or not US American culture exists. It does, and if you think differently you are welcome to change your mind.)

Secondly, learn about other countries. Learn a bit of Chinese. Take an interest in the Italian political system. Ask your friends about their countries' folklore. Watch documentaries about art from Nigeria. Absorb information that is not fed to you by American media.

And thirdly, quit expecting your non-American friends to communicate in a way that appeals to you. The French and Dutch will always seem rude to you because our way of communicating is far more direct than the way you communicate. People from other cultures may seem vague to you because their way of communicating is far more indirect, and you're not used to that either. Quit being frustrated when you don't get what we mean exactly. Quit assuming we mean the absolute worst thing you could imagine just because you didn't get what we meant the first time. Ask us to explain if you need us to, and learn to accept that we are different from you.

We are already adapting to your culture 100% of the time we are online. It's your responsibility to adapt to us, too. At least do your friends the courtesy of learning about and adapting to them.

This is a big problem in other English speaking countries. I live in the UK, in England no less, and there was a point in my childhood where my brain would bring up 911 as the emergency number. And on top of having our culture's stomped on we have people making fun of the way we do things and justifying it as "well you deserve it because you're English" like the backwater underfunded poverty stricken areas people mock have ever had any power. There's an Americanisation of food, and culture, an import of social justice issues as the American understanding of things is superimposed over our own history by kids who mean well but have learned all their vocabulary from Americans. We share many things but these issues are not the same and treating them as the same can be detrimental to the change people want to bring. (For example our most diverse prime minister's have all been Conservative, and the last one to bring up God while in office was "left wing" Labour. Even the colours of left and right political parties are different here.) Poverty is experienced differently. Class is experienced differently. Race is experienced differently. Racism is experienced differently.

And half the time if you even talk about it you have god damn 19 year olds hopping up and down screaming like toddlers because you're not doing it right for their needs.

If people are jumping to the idea they should call 911 rather than whatever it is in their country, That's A Problem and people should say so.

--An American

We actually have it set up in Australia so that if you forget it's 000 here and dial 911 instead, it will still connect you to the emergency centre. That's how much of a problem if was.

I've had to put actual effort into making sure my child, who lives in the UK, learns to speak its own language and not what Americans speak. Its mad I had to put limits on American media consumption. I never had to do that with ANY other countries media. Not even the dominance of RP in English media did as much damage as American media did. As if its not hard enough trying to keep regional dialects alive. Theres kids growing up with American accents ffs! (And yes you could criticise the parents and screen time but this aint happening with other accents. I think that's important to recognise)

And I am forever having to remind people what country they live in whenever politics come up. Its not uncommon for people to *only* know American politics and not even realise it. They have just learned thats "the way things are". And the same with law! Trying to tell their own solicitors to do things the "proper" (american) way! Brits walking around talking about their constitutional rights! First amendment! Its fucking ridiculous! People thinking "oh I know my rights" and woops now you're arrested because you can't actually talk to the police like that and your silence can actually be used against you.

I've seen multiple British poc be torn apart online for discussing their lived experiences, and even other British poc back up that harassment because they've been taught to think about things the American way, so the American racists attacking British poc must be right! Trying to discuss any non-american race politics (for the benefit of the fucking opressed) is always inevitably derailed because how dare we not fit the whole worlds experiences into the tiny boxes americans can relate too. Which in turn just destroys people's ability to educate and give people the vocabulary they need, which then deprives people of the understanding and connection they need to process and deal with their oppression.

Thankfully things have changed in the past few years but there was a time it was almost impossible to find (free) educational resources for BSL because well, why learn that when you can learn ASL?

Even when trying to engage with other languages and cultures, its ruined by American culture. My kid abandoned its language studies for years because it just could not deal with the demand of having to not only learn a new language but also learn American to use apps like duolingo. How discouraging for a young child to be told over and over that they are wrong for using the correct, very common but not American word.

And it just permeates everything. I lost my native dialect to classism and fought so hard to get it back. And yet I have to keep diluting it online so I can just talk about things else everything I post will be derailed by americans cooing over the silly little brit using weird words instead of like. Enaging with what I say in a meaningful way. Or I'll get threatened with doxxing by some bratty teenagers because I used a BRITISH colloquialism that coincidentally occurred in an American dialect and they just can't get their heads round the fact america doesn't own everything.

And yeah the 911 thing is a fucking problem. I've encountered near zero little kids these days who will remember 999 first no matter how much the adults around them try to help them.

Someone should write a romance novel about the tragedy of my marriage where my wife left twitter for instagram and I’m back here on tumblr where we met

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merry christmas. this has nothing to do with christmas.

this is an old ff7 comic that i made a few years ago for a zine that didn't pan out. if you're wondering why the quality of the art dips after page 1, it's because i planned to completely redraw this comic, but decided i should be working on my vn instead. i hope you enjoy.

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David Cleary!

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i'm in Ireland and the search for that bastards name is still blocked and hidden... the legnths the british go to defend and protect their instruments of colonialism and violence is beyond belief. no justice for the victims and yet every measure taken to protect David James Cleary and his fellow murderers.

Never a better time for the Streisand Effect than when it's a government covering up acts of brutality and evil.