What I found absolutely impressive and stunning about this comic is the way the artist explained the identification and elimination of the confounding factors in the Rat Park study. This is one of the hardest parts of experiments to explain to the public, and I think it was just brilliantly done.
So my therapist said something awhile back and it’s really stuck with me.
I was talking about the stupid things I had done in high school. How the stories I wrote were stupid and how all I ever wanted to draw was anime shit (which was stupid) and how immature I could be, etc etc etc.
and she was like “Why are you so determined to beat up on Little Maggie?”
It took me off guard, I was like “what do you mean?”
“Why do you keep saying Little Maggie is stupid? You say she was stupid and immature but wasn’t she just a teenager? Do you not like who you were as a teenager?”
I shrugged and was like “I think teenage me was very creative and was probably just having fun and being a teenager…”
“So why beat up on her and call her stupid and embarrassing?”
“I dunno, because I guess now I’ve learned a lot.”
“But she was young. She didn’t know. I’m just telling you this because if you keep beating up on Little Maggie, you have to remember that she grows up to be you. When you put bruises and scars on Little Maggie, you’re leaving all the healing for Big Maggie. Your insecurity about who you were as a child is going to come through into your adulthood. Be nice to Little Maggie.”
And I’d never really thought of that before? It seems status quo to just… hate who you used to be for not knowing enough, but that’s totally illogical. Of course a younger version of you doesn’t know what you know and can’t act with the wisdom that you act.
And even if Little Maggie was writing silly stories about her friends while ripping off anime and drawing her own “manga” and being immature and goofy, she was having fun, she was being creative, she was enjoying the things she liked and she wasn’t hurting anyone.
She’s part of my past and hating her is hating the foundation of who I eventually became.
Just food for thought.
I almost recently have reblogged this before but please friggin read it
i named my inner child henry because it’s easier to be nice to little henry than little jesse
Cheery almost falling into a vat of molten tallow because she’s too anxious to interrupt by calling out for help isn’t relatable to me specifically but I’m sure it’s relatable to someone
Azula was one of the best written static characters on ATLA
And they wanted me to believe Zuko weak ass could beat my queen ? TUH
they had to make her have a mental breakdown to give Zuzu the edge smh
*prepares thinkpiece on ATLA*
I just think it’s funny how the only representation of mental instability and neurodivergence on the show led to the downfall of the most powerful female character
Ummmmm? The most powerful female character was blind though and didn’t have a mental breakdown?
Azula can fly with fire and therefore can avoid detection by Toph’s seismic sense
CLEARY yall forgot about this lady
she can fucking bend blood… like don’t tell me she isnt the most powerful character
Not powerful enough to stop her top lip from looking like the crust of a beef patty but ok. Why you so loud for ?
O m g
Things are heating up in the Avatar fandom
Anyway…even Zuzu knew he couldn’t take her on by himself that’s WHY he brought Katara along. But then his dumbass thought “Oh she’s ‘slippin’ so I can take her” but my queen was like YEET!
So we gonna act like Katara didn’t bring Aang back from the dead and stop the rain in a whole ass area? And mastered Blood Bending in like 3.5 seconds, y’all tripping
Remember Katara went toe to toe with Azula in the crystal caves and had her ass yanked up in the air like she was about to pull a Mortal Kombat finisher. Zuko had to bring her cause he knew he’d get that ass whooped and needed Katara to win. Respect her gangsta.
Also Hama lip looking like Beef Patty crust 😂😂😂
Katara fucking WRECKED Azula and snatched her entire soul in like five minutes flat.
Not only that, Katara fucking wrecked Azula back in THE SEASON 2 FINALE
She was fighting Azula, Aang was fighting Zuko
She had Azula on the ropes and panicking the entire time. If Zuko hadn’t knocked Aang temporarily away and jumped in to help, Katara would have beaten Azula then too, even when Azula was fully mentally stable.
Even with the power of Sozin’s Comet kicking Azula’s bending up by a thousand, Katara was able to beat Azula in five minutes. Most powerful female character my ass.
I just love that there were enough ridiculously powerful female characters in the show that we can have arguments like this.
Snowy may or may not wear high end eyeliner in his day-to-day, but when it comes to game day, he still uses the same Maybelline pencil liner that he bought for $5.99 when he was 16.
Blackest Black, “like my soul,” because you cannot convince me that this pretentious hipster goalie was not a certified jock edgelord when he was 16.
He lives in constant fear that Maybelline will discontinue the product.
anyways hermione is a cutthroat bitch and her demonizing divination is due to the fact that she literally #cannot with emotional forms of magic. quidditch? which requires an emotional partnership of trust with the broom? nope. divination? which requires an emotional openness and willingness to forego logical conclusion at the whims of fate? are u fuckin kidding me. patronuses? which require not just technical skill but also a deep connection with your own emotional core? uhhhhh we’ll just let harry handle that one.
movie!hermione, w/ her advanced emotional intelligence and absolute willingness to meet each and every emotional need the boys have, should have of course been good at emotional magics like divination. shes fucking superwoman. but book!hermione? who destroyed a girls face without mercy because she ratted out the DA? who erased her parents memories so she could fight in a war? who solved dumbledores’ mysteries using ancient runes, an art that is practically the math of magic? book!hermione will destroy you and she will do it armed with the cold hard facts and the cold hard facts alone. book!hermione doesn’t give a shit. instead of getting a regular pet, book!hermione was drawn to a magical cat who is self-serving and intellectual and helped her gather clues rather than serving as an emotional companion. i mean fck.
full offense but hermione is so hardcore and logic-driven and she literally could give a SHIT about ur feelings
I was gonna counter this with the fact she gave the boys emotional advice on their love lives, but even then she did it in a very cold, logical way. “Cho is feeling x because y therefore you should have done z.”
just moving along like everyone else 