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  1. CW: Queer webcomic recommendation, covid, punative justice

    I've recently become enthralled by Maximus Graves's #webcomic #WhatHappensNext Will Shock You: whathappensnext.webcomic.ws/ar .

    To me, it feels like an example of #art indirectly grappling with the #covid19 #pandemic. The main character's isolation and stagnation resonate with my experience of still being #CovidCautious. I don't know the artist's stance on #covid, but the first comic was posted in 2021 when some people still took it seriously.

    The #comic also deals with #RestorativeJustice, #PunativeJustice, #transphobia, #incarceration and more themes in the story of a young trans man recently released from a psych ward after being convicted as a murder accomplice in his teens. Denied a meaningful way to re-enter society and trapped by #trauma, he becomes aimless and depressed. It's dark, but it's also punchy, unabashedly #queer, emotionally honest, and deeply compassionate.

    I don't know that I've ever read a story quite like this and wanted to share it!

  2. I binge read #WhatHappensNext instead of working yesterday and I'd wholeheartedly recommend it to all the chronically online 2013-era tumblr peeps tuned in.

    It's a webcomic about the fallout of two teenagers committing a murder, the fucked up-ness of true crime and our behaviour online, and I love every last characterization choice the author has made so far.

    whathappensnext.webcomic.ws/

  3. I don't believe in magic, he said,
    and she straightened,
    her shadow filling out behind her.

    She smiled a mouthful of glossy teeth.

    He put more weight on his back foot...
    but he felt like leaning in.

    You have come to the right place,
    she asserted, reaching for his hands.

    #ShortStories #Microfiction #WhatHappensNext