And now for something completly different …
[story behind] A friend of mine got these shoes for something like 5 euros. I got it for the Valentine’s Day - perfectly my size. I offered to wear it for 3 days … with cheap KAFOs or without 😀
Ok we started adding more stuff with time…
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Steve Cox, ‘Useful Accoutrements’, 2022.
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i cleaned my shoes for the first time in like 8 years and i feel like the bootleg version of those art restoration videos when they take the varnish off and you go "THAT WAS BLUE????"
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I remember as a kid, Gingivere having genuine concern and affection towards Verdauga- which did actually seem to be somewhat returned? In our first introduction to him, he reprimands Tsarmina for snapping at her brother, before gently-but-firmly reprimanding Gingivere for not fighting his own battles- was my first exposure to the idea that someone could be both a loving parent, yet a bad person.
I was so used to the bad guys I found in fiction being like. Either Ozai level abusive parents, to sort of cement that 'They're so callous that they don't treat their own children any better than the other people they hurt!'- or bad guys that SEEMED really awful until we saw that they loved their kids to indicate 'See, they aren't so bad, there's some good in them after all!'
And then there was Verdauga.
Verdauga was not a good guy. Before we actually meet him, we see what his rule over the country has done to the people there. Poverty abounds. There's little to no food for the citizens living near Kotir, and we know that's not because there was never any to begin with- no matter how many mouths you have to feed, whatever you can harvest is to go to the castle. Anybody who objects is either killed or imprisoned. When we meet Ben and Goody, they're trying to decide whether or not to risk freezing to death trying to escape- what ends up being the deciding factor is that their young children will have to start working in the fields at Kotir if they don't. That's how life IS under the wildcats.
And then we meet Verdauga- old, ill, nearing the end of his life but no less violent for it- and watch how he interacts with his children. He doesn't insult them. He doesn't demean them. He treats them... with a certain amount of respect. He's in charge, but doesn't rub that in their faces unnecessarily, only exerting authority to make a point. He's not overtly sentimental, but we can see that to a certain extent he cares about them.
That was a new concept, and I still remember being fascinated by the implications.
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i think star vs will be the next kids show i watch, since it's another one that people seem to either think is HORRIBLE or they absolutely love it, which is my bread and butter
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