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Hey there! Please consider checking out some of the essays I’ve written:

Respites - Volume 3: Even More One Chapter Manga Recommendations - Even more one chapter manga recommendations! (Posted 2/16/24)

The Goliad Dilemma - A four-part essay analyzing Donquixote Doflamingo and Donquixote Rocinante from One Piece, Millions Knives and Vash the Stampede from Trigun, Johan and Nina from Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Hyakunosuke Ogata and Yuusaku Hanazawa from Golden Kamuy through the Episode Goliad from Adventure Time. (Posted on 9/15/24)

Respites - Volume 2: More One Chapter Manga Recommendations - Another collection of one chapter manga recommendations! (Posted 7/18/24)

The Many Apocalypses of Red Dead Redemption 2 - This essay explores the concept of what it means to exist during an age of tragedy and how one can move from being a witness to suffering to actively working to ease the suffering of others. It’s rooted in my experiences playing Red Dead Redemption 2 while the world crumbled apart in front of me. (Posted 12/5/23)

Respites - Volume 1: One Chapter Manga Recommendations - Respites are short form works that I write in between bigger projects. I've collected some amazing one-shot/one-chapter manga recommendations that you can read in 5 minutes. Check them out if you're in the mood for a quick punch to the gut. (Posted 11/24/23)

Good or Yourself: A Deconstruction of the Horrors of Identity - This essay explores horror of identity and how the lack of identity can turn everyday people into "monsters" as seen through the 1957 film Fear Strikes Out and the Manga Blood on the Tracks. (Posted 9/18/23)

Narrative Sinkholes - In this essay, I describe a phenomenon I've dubbed Narrative Sinkholes and how it presents itself in Arrested Development, Kidding, and Black Sails. (Posted 4/29/23)

This list will be updated as I continue to publish my essays, but you can stay notified on my next release by subscribing to my substack!

Lastly, here’s a link to my google drive full of resources regarding the entertainment industry! I’ve taken extensive notes during my internships/entertainment jobs and they’ve helped me land interviews at Disney, A24, AGBO, UTA, and more. There’s also a ton of scripts (features and pilots), screenwriting resources, career/internship resources (great for learning how to break in), general info on how TV/Films are made, plus some resources on narrative design/video games! Check it out and I hope it’s helpful to you.

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Reblogged spicymeowie
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Intellectually, I know this bird is real. But I’ve never seen a photo or video where it looks real. Like this video just doesn’t look real. I will never be convinced this bird is real. Even if I saw this in person I would still think it’s fake, even though I know it’s real.

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Reblogged satyajit-ray
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West Papuan Indigenous people call for KitKat boycott over alleged ecocide
Thousands of acres of rainforest is being cleared to produce palm oil, used in popular Nestlé and Mondelēz brands
the Guardian
West Papua’s Indigenous people have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties and Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits and Ritz crackers, and the cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory.
All are products that contain palm oil and are made, say the campaigners, by companies that source the ingredient directly from West Papua, which has been under Indonesian control since 1963 and where thousands of acres of rainforest are being cleared for agriculture.
More than 90 West Papuan tribes, political organisations and religious groups have endorsed the call for a boycott, which they say should continue until the people of West Papua are given the right to self-determination.
Raki Ap, a spokesperson for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, which is overseeing the call, said: “These products are linked to human rights violations, in the first place, because West Papuans are being forced, with violence, to get off the land where they’ve lived for thousands of years, which has now resulted in ecocide.
“This is a signal to the countries who are dealing with Indonesia, especially those in the Pacific region, to take notice of who they’re dealing with and how they are basically allowing Indonesia to continue the colonial project in West Papua, the human rights violations, and also ecocide.”
West Papuans say more than 500,000 of their people have been killed by the occupation in the past six decades, while millions of acres of their ancestral lands have been destroyed for corporate profit. Indonesia, already the world’s largest palm oil exporter, is now breaking ground in West Papua on the world’s biggest single palm oil plantation, as well as a sugar cane and biofuel plantation that will be the largest deforestation project ever launched.
“West Papuans’, especially the ULMWP, position is very clear: we are a modern-day colony,” said Ap, speaking from the Netherlands.
“Indonesia hijacked the right to self-determination in 1962 when the Netherlands and Indonesia signed an agreement without any consultation in West Papua … After that, in 1969, there was a so-called referendum, which wasn’t fair, which wasn’t under international law, one man, one vote: just 1,025 men were handpicked at gunpoint to vote for integration to Indonesia.
“So this is the foundation of the Indonesia’s colonial project. When we became part of Indonesia against our will, basically the genocide unfolded.”
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Reblogged forestgreenlesbian
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last week two ambulances, a fire truck, a UN vehicle and around 16 rescue workers were dispatched to save people crushed under the rubble after a bombing in rafah (do you remember rafah? one of biden's red lines.) they disappeared, and due to israeli tanks nobody could enter the area and nobody knew what had happened to them.

a few days ago after the tanks left the vehicles were discovered crushed and buried under the sand, and one rescue worker's body was recovered. israel admitted to targeting them. and then yesterday the rest of the workers' bodies were recovered in a mass grave. one of the corpses had wire around one foot, indicating torture and interrogation, several handcuffed, all of them buried in their clearly marked uniforms and gloves.

cnn reported this story alongside like five other incidents of israel targeting humanitarian workers this past week to little outrage because the workers killed were palestinian and not international, and because israel has been regularly killing humanitarian workers.

but for the PRCS (the palestinian red crescent society), the same organization that hind rajab called desperately from her car around this time last year, one of the few that struggled to save lives throughout the war even when it got their workers killed by israeli forces, these are fathers, sons and loved ones who spent a genocide digging people out of rubble with no equipment and trying to save lives:

all of them were buried in a careless mass grave of rescue workers, found after a week of pleading from their loved ones and radio silence from their murderers and those who enable them.

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Reblogged unshinydeino
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One of the most important things to unpack and unlearn when you’re part of a white supremacy saturated society (i.e. the global north) and especially if you were raised in an intensified form of it (evangelicism, right wing politics, explicit racism) is the urge to punish and take revenge.

It manifests in our lives all the time and it is inherently destructive. It makes relationships and interactions adversarial for no good reason. It undermines cooperation and good civic order. It worsens some types of crime. It creates trauma, especially in children.

Imagine approaching unexpected or unacceptable behavior from a perspective of "how can this be stopped, and prevented" instead of "you’re going to regret this!”

Imagine dealing with a problem or conflict from the perspective of “how can this be solved in a way that is just and restorative” instead of “the people who caused this are going to pay.”

How much would that change you? How much would that have changed for you?

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