Kyawtchais
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Planting Life in a Dying City (S4: Kyawtchais, Season Finale)
…when ey reached the gate, Kolchais and Lefeng were waiting for em. Kolchais held a skein of yarn. It was nearly impossible…
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Planting Life in a Dying City (S4: Kyawtchais, E9)
Season Content Notes: (internalized) ableism Dinner was a pleasant memory and Kyawtchais had used up all eir fiber. Ey was debating whether to return to the SilentSpinner compound or stay there for the night. Kolchais had made it clear several weeks ago that ey was welcome, but Kyawtchais was still feeling eir way. Especially with…
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Planting Life in a Dying City: Kyawtchais (S4, E8)
Season content notes: (internalized) ableism Kyatchais waited nervously outside the compound. Beside em was eir wise-parent, the leader of eir parents’ generation of the SilentSpinners. They had arrived early — rudely early, to much of the city. But they weren’t waiting for city-folk. They were waiting for farwalker Lefeng, who would be on eir morning…
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Planting Life in a Dying City (S4; Kyawtchais, E7)
Content notes: internalized ableism Kyawtchais woke the next morning leaning against the compound wall with a blanket wrapped around em. Ey sat up cautiously and stretched. Eir mind had the dense settled feeling that told em it wasn’t worth trying to use voice-speech. Worse, some of the grey fog lingered, making eir thoughts slow and…
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Planting Life in a Dying City (S4: Kyawtchais, E6)
Season content notes: internalized ableism Kyawtchais struggled to keep eir head up, eir feet moving. The street was quiet, not like the market areas and docks where the family-less lived. But from inside the compounds came the noises of forest birds, children playing, grandparents yelling… and over (Or under) it all the scrape-scrape-scrape of Kyawtchais’…
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Planting Life in a Dying City (S4: Kyawtchais, E5)
The family had two projects that occupied their time: trying to find a trade and rebuilding the compound. Lefeng and Tsouchm continued with day work, alternating it with time spent helping build. Some of Kyawtchais’ family also came to offer help once in a while and even a few representatives from other families. All the…
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Planting Life in a Dying City: Kyawtchais (S4, E4)
Content notes: internalized ableism That day set the pattern for the coming days. During the day they were back to work on the walls. On some days, the gruff-one and tall Lefeng stayed home, so the work went quicker. Kyawtchais thought ey could feel the family weaving itself together even as the walls rose around…
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Planting Life in a Dying City: Kyawtchais (Season 4, Episode 1)
As Kyawtchais had come to expect, the watchful-one, tall-one, once-walker, never-still-one, greeted em at the gate. Kyawtchais hand spoke a greeting and needed to close eir hands to keep from adding the name-sign, One Watches, which was how ey had come to think of the watchful-one. But ey did not have the right to such…
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Planting Life in a Dying City (S3: Kolchais, E8)
This season ended up being on the short side — next episode will be the season finale, and then we’ll pick up with Season 2 of Last Lady of Luna the week after. Season content notes: ableism, internalized ableism, violence, autistic meltdown The next morning, the Spinner returned to help with the building. When ey…
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Planting Life in a Dying City (S3: Kolchais, E7)
Season content notes: ableism, internalized ableism, violence, autistic meltdown They spent the afternoon singing and learning each other’s songs. There was no way to know what songs they would sing in the future. Family songs were always built around the family trade — the rhythm and pace of the work. But for now they had…