Kyawtchais
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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 (S4, E3)
In the evening, Kyawtchais joined the family at their hearth for dinner. As they ate, the small-one, once-weaver asked tall-Lefeng to tell a tale of the mountains, of how the tall-one killed the great cat whose skin made the small-one’s new cloak. Kyawtchais’ fingers started dancing at that. Ey had noticed the cloak, made of…
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Planting Life in a Dying City: Kyawtchais (S4, E2)
Season notes: autistic shutdown, internalized ableism Kyawtchais would have liked to spend more time with Lefeng — ‘mud’ her hands shaped the name. One day ey would need to ask Lefeng how ey got such a name. It almost made ‘kyawtchais’ seem normal! Especially with Lefeng’s words for the deadfire — friend-at-night, guide, beautiful —…
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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, Kyawtchais (Season 4), cover
Kyawtchais lost eir chance at a happy future years ago. The Trial Family offers a second chance – if they can accept Kyawtchais’ odd ways.
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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…
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Planting Life in a Dying City (S3: Kolchais, E6)
Season content notes: ableism, internalized ableism, violence, autistic meltdown Like most mornings, Kolchais woke slowly. Eir thoughts moved sluggishly, fighting their way through a haze of pain. Ey reached out, confused, and felt a warm spot next to em. Lefeng. Always up and active as soon as possible. Kolchais rolled over and buried eir head…
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Planting Life in a Dying City (Kolchais, E4)
Season content notes: ableism, internalized ableism, violence, autistic meltdown Kolchais squatted with the Silent Spinner and watched the market — or tried to. The stalls on either side blocked eir view. Ey could see only a small part of the market. Even so, there were things to look at. The Western market was largely unfamiliar.…
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Planting Life in a Dying City (Kolchais, Interlude: Kyawtchais)
Season content notes: ableism, internalized ableism, violence It was late afternoon when the Short-One sought out Kyawtchais. Kyawtchais was starting to think that Short-One might also be Wise-One, Seeing-One. With a Wise-One, a Guarding-One, and a Silent, Caring-One as parents, the trial family was stronger than ey had been told. Small, but thick yarn poorly…
