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The Blade of Indifference

Dear Insane Children,

The opposite of love is not hate but indifference. Hate implies a strong emotional attachment between the subjects and in many cases is a component of love or at least a sort of caring. Hate cannot be related to something or someone for whom you don't care.

Indifference is the rejection of the value of an individual or object. It is the death of care and concern. And when directed at someone who we once cared for results in resentment, disrespect, pain, and death.

No one deserves your indifference. That is a blade reserved for only the most brutal of enemies. For there is very often no coming back from the damage caused by indifference. The destruction of trust, the violence against an individual's value.

Everyone and everything has value. Even if that value is to teach you that even Chaos has a purpose.

Omri is working on a beautiful new poster image for Alice: Asylum featuring the Red Queen and King. This preview is only a small sample of the larger image which I'll reveal to you here exclusively on Patreon. We'll also make this new poster image available as an art print for those of you at the art print tiers.

Heading Home Soon

Yan and I are wrapping up everything here in Thailand. Chaos (the sailboat) comes out of the water today - heading for the boat yard where she'll get some summertime R&R. I won't be back to see her until the next sailing season (October? November? Hard to say just yet). 

We have a busy summer ahead of us! Lots of story, art, design to tackle. And, fingers crossed, we'll get some positive movement on the business development side of things as well!

My brain is also filling with story ideas for a collection of modern day fairytales. Look forward to sharing those ideas with you all soon. 

How are you? Is it getting warmer where you are? What's in store for the summer? 

I'll write again once we're back home in Shanghai. 

From Tai-热-Land,

-American & Yan & Lili the Littlest Pirate

The Blade of Indifference

Comments

aww, AMA vibes

sumblinker

So glad you're gonna be back soon, I was going through asylum withdrawals xD Summer is looking like it's going to be really fun. ^-^

Sarah Heist

That was amazingly poetic. I heard it in Dr Bumby's voice, which made it even better. Also it's snowing in Sweden still, ugh! Hopefully we'll get spring soon because I am hella tired of freezing...

Yes, indifference is dangerous, because of the lack of motivation and care. It reminds me of the Apathy Grimm revealed in RWBY Volume 6: whereas other Creatures of Grimm simply share the Dark Brother's desire for destruction, these have a roar that causes people who hear it to lose their will to go on. They're slow and shambling, like zombies, but they're incredibly dangerous because they can subdue whole communities, and they're tough enough to no-sell headshots from a high-calibre sniper round. It's no wonder Miles and Kerry decided they were too powerful for the team to encounter back in volume 1, when they were first planned to appear. But it's also important to note that these are the most humanoid Grimm to appear so far. Apathy makes a person want to lie down and not get back up. No wonder it's so much more frightening than a Beowolf Grimm. Getting to that place in your head where you don't care about the world, the people around you, or yourself? That's the most dangerous frame of mind. And it's so easy to get there, to become dumb to all the atrocious news we hear is happening all around us. Never stop caring. Be a bean (but don't be so full of ego as to be able to call yourself a bean. That just seems like bad form).

was the Dollmaker in the first game, because I feel like he shouldn't be in the Alice 3 if he wasn't. the Dollmaker is the wonderland personification of Bumby and is viewed that way when Alice realizes he is manipulating her, pulling the stings. So unless i am remember wrong, would Alice's mind even subconsciously have a good reason for making Bumby the Dollmaker? I know this wasn't your suggestion, i just kind of wanted to get my idea across and see what others thought.

Im down or up i guess depending on perspective, but im in Florida. so its almost always hot.

I'm pretty late on watching the latest streams, but I have a SUGGESTION. Someone mentioned about Dollmaker running a toy shop where Alice could upgrade her weapons. I'm imagining like the old timey marionette puppet theater where you could only see his hands. And the hands would look like in the AMR boss fight. So happy to hear again more from you guys!<3

Beautiful piece of writing, and so true <3 When it comes to depression, when you hit the stage of complete indifference.. It is both the most dangerous, and in a strange way very liberating. To be so far down, that absolutely nothing matters. But in that, there is also no fear of failure. Makes it easy to be impulsive. Personally, I moved in with a messed up dude I had only known for a few months, in the other part of the country where I knew no one. I've been living here, with him, for 8 years now. Recklessness and "some random guy off the internet" saved my life. Anyway, trying to keep it short: Loving the sample from Omri, so awesome expressions in their faces and can't wait to see the complete piece!

As I said everywhere else this was posted haha, I've always said and believed indifference will always cut deeper than hate. That said carrying around hate for someone or something for so long is like poison, for your own mental and physical well-being sometimes you have to let go and be indifferent (if you can't reconcil) to those who do you the most harm. Carrying that hate around absolutely consumes you and makes you sick. I say get mad work through it and move on for your own sake. I say this coming from an experience of years wasted on a grudge between myself and a close friend. We instantly felt lighter than air when I forgave her after 5 years and we both are so much happier after making up so many years ago.

Yeah, I'm just waiting for it to snow again. 😂

Wendy Jaa

Lili the Littlest Pirate! It's so adorable! 😭❤

Wendy Jaa

Darn those feels

❣Lovely king and queen artwork❣🤴👸

Great art! And modern fairytales? 0m0

Glad to hear the good news! We’re doing great & getting ready for a very busy summer, lots of good on the way :D

Glad everything went smoothly. In Ohio it's getting warmer but I bet mother nature is taunting us yet again


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