Lefeng
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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 (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 (S3: Kolchais, Season Finale)
We’ve come to the end of Kolchais’ season. It’s in many ways it’s been a quieter time than Lefeng and Tsouchm had, but I think that fits the wise-one. When we return to Planting Life it will be the Spinner’s turn to take center stage. But first, season 2.5 of Mighty Hero Force Epsilon starts…
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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…