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  • Planting Life in a Dying City (S4: Kyawtchais, Interlude: Lefeng)

    Season content notes: (internalized) ableism The next day, Lefeng and the Spinner near-adult head out on the trail. Lefeng was surprised to find that ey had almost no knowledge of plant life. Ey was also completely uninterested in plant life until Lefeng connected it to animals — what different animals eat, use to make nests,…

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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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  • Ivy growing over a brick wall. Text reads: "Not speak if not want to," ey said, "but I curious too."

    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 (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, E5)

    Rough edits on this one bc life stuff. I don’t think there’s any content notes on this one, but may have missed something. Sorry. Season content notes: ableism, internalized ableism, violence, autistic meltdown For the rest of the day, they spoke quietly and checked on the Spinner often. Ey was unchanged when they gathered for…

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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, E3: The Worries)

    This one’s a bit rougher than I prefer. Figured that getting back in routine and getting it out was more important that getting it fully polished. Season content notes: ableism, internalized ableism The next few days passed quickly. The charcoal family arrived to collect the ruins of the Colorwork Weaver’s home. Chotaikytsai watched them go…

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  • Planting Life in a Dying City (Kolchais, E2: the Spinner)

    Season content notes: ableism, internalized ableism The sun on eir face woke Kolchais. Ey blinked a few times, eyes trying to adjust to the brightness. The warmth was soaking through em, leaving eir limbs feeling loose and relaxed for once. Not wanting to lose the feeling, Kolchais didn’t move. Instead, ey reviewed eir memories of…

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