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gripped by fear
my piece for dark waters, an op angst zine
And I'll sing you to sleep and I'll sing you tomorrow
Bless you with love for the road that you go
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My current update for the shop! Apologies on not having updated here, as of this moment, a little over 50% have been shipped out and received by customers before the holiday season! My shop is being handled by Atlass, dear friend and trusted mod of many many zines who is US-based, because I'm unable to (due to home and personal reasons). Worry not, she's being compensated for her work with a cut of the profits. She's also working on at least 1000+ orders (both from zines + my shop) and has had to manage my scatterbrained process. Delays are on my shoulders not hers, she's gone above and beyond to ensure your packages are safe and secured on their way to you. My utmost apologies for the delays, my thanks for your patience and understanding, and I truly am excited for these little guys to come home to you. <3
"my hate far exceeds yours"
Seeing a few "those MEDIA ILLITERATE CHILDREN still INSIST that the finale was BURY YOUR GAYS" floating around.
I'm happy to break down my reasoning:
As a side note, I was born in the 1980s. I grew up in the UK under Section 28. For what it's worth, I also have a first in English Literature. I've been suffering terrible media representation of gay people my whole life, and when I see it in a show which made a point of encouraging gay fans to feel safe and seen and respected, I'm going to point at it and scream very loudly.
I was going to slightly argue against the idea that the choice to kill Izzy was Bury Your Gays on the technical definition, since BYG usually requires that the gay being buried be part of a newly formed couple.
Until I remembered that Izzy confessed his love for Ed, Ed confessed his love for Izzy, and then... one of them dies tragically by the end of the narrative. Oops.
"Works using the trope will feature a same-gender couple and with one of the lovers dying and the other realizing they were never actually gay, often running into the arms of a heterosexual partner. This trope was originally used as a way for gay authors to write about gay characters without coming under fire for breaking laws and social mandates against the 'endorsement' of homosexuality. However, Bury Your Gays persists today in a time and social context in which it is no longer necessary to give gay characters and stories bad endings in order to be published. ... The pattern of this trope’s usage states that in a narrative work (novels especially), which features a same-gender romantic couple, one of the lovers must die or otherwise be destroyed by the end of the story. Many instances of this trope draw a direct correlation between the couple confessing their feelings for one another, kissing, having sex for the first time and the character’s death; they often die mere moments or pages after their relationship is confirmed for the audience." (Hulan, 17, emphasis mine). Izzy dies in Edward's arms by the end of the same season in which he confesses his love to Edward and has a coming-out arc. Although in this case Ed obviously doesn't disavow his queerness, and continues his relationship with Stede, Izzy's death is essentially tied, by the show's narrative itself, to his queerness and his feelings for Ed and the crew.
i think there's something so mean about how, when S1 ended and GB broke up, izzy AND his fans were called abusers (among other, horrifying things), i closed all my anon asks and twitter/ig dms because of it. i came into the fandom when the season just ended, "this feels like coming home" i said, and got a death threat a few days later. "i just want izzy to be happy", and a dm saying "you don't belong here" arrived. i got dragged in a doxxing scare, someone i know did get doxxed. now S2 has ended and what we feel is a disservice to his character, on the road to recovery and healing after the horrors of episode 1-3 and a suicide survivor dealing with disability, he gets killed off unceremoniously because 'he has no more role in the narrative'? just when he found a family and belonging he could've sailed with? he could've been written out without dying, getting his own happy ending. instead, he got killed by a stray bullet, on an avoidable 'suicide mission' (had someone else taken his place). and with us being upset, suddenly we have no right to grieve and be sad about this? suddenly we have people laughing at us and downplaying how heartbroken we are? we saw him happy and at home, we just wanted to end the show with that, him alive and experiencing the world with family. i related to him so much, of course it hurts. a lot of izzy fans started the S3 renewal campaign because we wanted to think everyone would get their happy endings. it's so sad to think about the show now. it's been more than a year and i still love this character and the community he's brought me. he's gotten me through tough times and given me hope. let us have this, let us be sad and upset and speak our criticisms, for kindness sake, for the kindness the show used to promise us. the same way people whose ships get broken up on cliffhangers and tragic ends are upset, let us have this too. this is a public message, but you have nothing good to say, if you're here to downplay the hurt, if you're here to laugh, please just scroll on by or block.
Hello!! I absolutely love your art, especially for the one piece characters - so full of emotion & movement, & colorful to boot! I'm actually creating a playlist for izzy hands atm, & I wanted to ask if you would be okay with me using one of your works as the cover art, with a link to your art post included. if not no worries, I just wanted to check with you first before I did anything. I hope your day is going well, & thank you for making such amazing art, it's so awesome to see when you upload a new piece ^^ 🥰
thank you for your kind words, it means a lot, especially as a fan of both those shows <3 i dont know how delayed this response is but yes, go ahead, i'd love to listen to it when you have it ready as well
