I Like Their Advice

I like their advice 💕

𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑡 — 𝑅𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒 — 𝐻𝑒𝑎𝑙

dear reader you are kind, selfless, powerful, strong, smart, resilient and determined. you get things done and you are there for the people you love. life gets busy, so busy that often we forget how to slow down and make sure we are okay. it’s easy to work work work, tend to others emotionally and somehow forget to tend to ourselves. it’s so important to be mindful of this. we cannot pour from an empty cup, so we have to make sure we are okay in order to function properly and in order to help others.

ask yourself — am i okay emotionally? am i okay mentally? am i okay physically? these are things we should ask ourselves on a regular basis and if the answer is “no” then you should make it your top priority to tend to yourself.

make sure to get plenty of rest! your body and mind needs this to be able to go on. rest is so important, mentally and physically. turn off the noise and chaos in your life and tend to your needs ... listen to what your mind needs, what your body needs. sleep, food, laughter, a good book, a comfort movie, love, a good cry, social interaction, solitude etc. whatever it is, do that for yourself. allow yourself to recharge so you will be ready to get back to your daily life; school or work.

begin your healing journey. acknowledge what happened. allow yourself to feel.. be sad, cry.. it’s okay. get help if you need to, go to therapy or talk to a loved one. meditate, practice self care - listen to music - music can be very healing, start a healing journal — write down all your feelings daily. start with things that has happened in the past and write down how it made you feel and ways you think you can overcome it. then write down the present things that are happening in your life, how they make you feel and ways you can overcome them.

healing takes time. don’t rush your process and don’t compare your process to others .everyone has their own timeline in life. no one’s journey is the same. so don’t feel like you may be behind or healing too slow. there’s no such thing. you will bloom on your own time.

remember that the love and kindness you give to others is the same love and kindness that you need to give to yourself. make self care and mental healthy a top priority, speak kind words (affirmations) to yourself daily, go to bed at a decent hour and try to get 8+ hrs of sleep each night, clear your mind and let go of things you can’t control instead of worrying about them, don’t skip meals, drink water daily, exercise, try yoga, pick up a hobby that helps you relax and stay calm etc .. if you practice doing these things daily you will see such an important in your everyday life ♡

make it a daily or weekly goal to

rest your mind and body

recharge mentally, emotionally and physically

continue on your healing journey

sending love and positive energy, please accept ‹3

Agreed

So the only reason Gabriel made Marinette break up with Adrien is bc he knew he’d get good akuma bait. Ok fuck you. Thanks for the Marichat but still.

Fuck.

You.

The amount of ass Gabriel was to Adrien in this episode is just-

-Beating the ever loving shit out of him without an ounce of remorse

-No sympathy whatsoever after finding out he’s CN

-Uses his loving relationship to target his girlfriend (the amount of awful in this action specifically is just-I can’t even begin to-)

THEY WERE HAPPY GODDAMNIT

AND GORILLA NEEDS TO CALL CPS BC I KNOW NATALIE SURE AS HELL WON’T

Belle Concept art four

"Belle" concept art by Almu Redondo and Cartoon Saloon

Taken from their artstation

Red spider Lily

This is Very Cute!

Same energy as Connecticut Clark and Malfina (≧ヮ≦)

Interesting, I really like this post

i find it funny that one of rachel’s drawings of herself in the afterword that just went up is just fully persephone. is that something she does a lot?

Alright so I've been making it a general rule for myself to like, not harp on Rachel in any way outside of LO as much because frankly the horse is dead now and there's not much left to say outside of what can be analyzed in hindsight. I think despite everything I have to say about her and her work, she still deserves to get away from this nonsense and I don't wanna spend eternity hovering over her shoulder.

But the afterword was posted within the LO series and is clearly meant for readers of LO in the functioning of being an afterword so let's just call it fair game LOL

I will say, on the whole, it does feel very honest and sentimental and I can respect Rachel for taking the time to write out and illustrate her afterword in a way that was personal to both her and her fans. I can understand why she went at it from the angle that she did and I'm not gonna fault her for that.

But there's also something that feels deeply... disingenuous about her approach right from the starting gun. I will say, before I continue, that I'm well aware I am biased towards Rachel as a creator, and I fully acknowledge that I could very well be reading too much into things. This is just my opinion, take it with mountains of salt.

I can get looking back on your own childhood, your past self, whatever, and going "see! it all got better!" because sure! For a lot of creators like Rachel, it must be wild to look back on where they came from and there's a lot of sentimentality on expressing that through an afterword like this where she reflects on where she came from. Though she STILL didn't acknowledge her other comics outside of LO, I can understand if she wants to leave those skeletons in the closet.

But I feel like her drawing herself as a child who's being given an Eisner by her adult self and all that just feels like some gross attempt to disarm any criticism of her because "don't make fun of me, I'm just a sad lonely baby girl!"

She's not a child. Child Rachel didn't grossly misappropriate Greek myth into their own self-indulged vanity project. Child Rachel didn't claim herself a folklorist of a culture's works only to bastardize them completely. Child Rachel didn't create a hostile environment within her fanbase by bullying anyone who she perceived as a threat, sneaking into critical spaces to try and cause trouble, and writing her own clapbacks into her comic. Child Rachel didn't claim to be challenging misogyny and purity culture only to reinforce misogyny and purity culture through her own self-insert baby-virgin-gets-rescued-by-rich-tycoon power fantasy that regularly glorified abuse towards women and the lower class.

30-almost-40-year-old Rachel did though.

At best it comes across as really cringe sentimentality from a Greek-weeb (heh, greeboo) and goes to show how much Rachel inserted herself into Greek myth without ever absorbing its messages or cultural contexts, it was all about her and her feelings as a sad New Zealand girl with dyslexia who thought Persephone's story was about another sad girl being rescued from her "horrible childhood".

At worst it's an active attempt to play on people's heartstrings by drawing herself as a child who people will naturally not want to criticize. I don't want to assume she's doing it intentionally, I really don't want to leave her afterword on a bad foot, as I can definitely understand as both a creator and a person who struggled with learning disabilities in their own childhood how and why she wants to pay homage to her past and where she came from... but let's just say, as someone who's also gotten way too "lost in the sauce" concerning personal self-reflective projects, I think there's a lot to say about how this confirms that Rachel made LO entirely for herself, about herself, without any actual intention to respect the original myths, because she never truly separated them from herself when she was a child. And, in my humble opinion as someone who has Been There with the self-insert OC's and self-reflective angsty plotlines, I can fully attest to the fact that that's not fucking healthy. Even with personal projects, you NEED to learn to get your head out of the sauce, you NEED to learn to objectively separate yourself from the narrative so the story doesn't fall apart under your own hubris and ego, you NEED to learn to draw a line if you want to have any sort of identity as a human being outside of what you make for people. And that's with just normal original stories, this was a story based on Greek myth which doesn't belong to her.

And this goes for a lot of the things she's said and done in the past, so much of her own "sources" even are tethered to things that she read / watched in her childhood and only vaguely remembers, as if she never mentally left her childhood at all, which just... if the point was to highlight her past and the traumas she went through and how they contributed to her present, an Eisner isn't going to validate those experiences. And drawing attention to her past through the lens of her childhood self absolutely 100% does not absolve her of the negative effect her work has had on the modern Greek myth zeitgeist nor the things she's said and done as a 38 year old woman who should absolutely know better.

The community she entered and took from will forever remain changed by her influence and taking, in many ways not for the better. She has the privilege of walking away and never having to think about it again, with all the awards and accolades that were bought for her, the bravado that she built around being a "folklorist" with zero credentials, and the platform she was given over many other creators struggling to even be heard.

That "place" she claims to have now was built entirely on inserting herself into another culture's works and doing nothing but taking, taking, taking, while offering nothing in return but vanity and lip service. That "place" was paid for and brought to you by Webtoons.