I personally wanna see less ‘you are not a burden/it’s not work to love you’ and more ‘you are worth the work it takes to love you.’ I KNOW I’m a burden sometimes. that isn’t such a terrible thing! humans are strong. we can carry burdens. and it is work for me to be there for my friends, but it’s work I’m willing to do.
we need to acknowledge this because pretending love isn’t work will never make people like me feel less guilty for accepting love. we need to talk about it so people don’t feel bad for having boundaries and not always being up to do the work. we need to accept it so we can properly appreciate what others do for us and what we’re doing for them.
yes it does take work to love you. but guess what? you still deserve love, and you deserve people who are willing to do the work to love you. it doesn’t make you bad. all love take work. and everyone is worth it.
it just hit me that there are children watching toh . there are children growing up with a queer cast and children seeing that as, above all, NORMAL, and children seeing luz and amity being treated like any other teenage love story, and children seeing two older queers, raine and eda, loving each other and getting second chances, and children just seeing toh . there are children growing up with the owl house and i am so happy for them
the other day I saw a tweet where someone asked why pride flags only had colors instead of featuring flames, explosions, and dinosaurs and my brain thought, you know. that seems exactly like the kind of flag they might have on the boiling isles
also please appreciate my flag it’s so small in the comic I spent longer making it than I did drawing the panels
