![]() In April, the advocacy group Freedom For Immigrants published a report about unsanitary conditions at the detention center, where the immigrants were made to clean the facilities with only water, or shampoo. I don’t have the words to properly explain how horrifying this is. if there’s anything else we can do to help i’ll update this post. Here’s a petition to sign. it’s close to it’s goal. the guards are wearing gloves and masks but the detainees have NOTHING.Īnd here’s a quick reminder - america inspired the nazis to create gas chambers when they gassed latino people during the 1917 bath riots. people are getting rashes, headaches, their insides are bleeding, etc. they are spraying a chemical called HDQ neutral roughly 100 times a day, every 15 minutes at the adelanto detention center (one of the biggest in the country). Empathy for Jeannemary and Isaac provides an inroad for Gideon to reckon with the concept of having empathy for her younger self, and for younger Harrow.I know there’s a lot going on but ICE are now one step closer to literally creating gas chambers. And for the first time, they have a framework to think not only about their own childhoods, but themselves as children. What’s more, seeing the interactions between the teens and Magnus and Abigail shows them what relationships between caring adults and children have the potential to look like. Jeannemary and Isaac are their first direct experience with other teens, and their first opportunity to see what childhood has the potential to actually look like (not that Isaac and Jeannemary had ideal lives either, but I’m not opening that can of worms right now). It’s normal to want to go somewhere that’s “off limits,” to go through a locked door. ![]() Absolutely the circumstances and consequences were extreme, but at the most basic level, the biggest things they carry such enormous guilt over… are completely normal for children. I’m just thinking about how they’ve never been around any other kids or teens, they have no context for what is or isn’t normal in childhood. “All the paint had rubbed off, and Harrowhark looked thin and haggard and no older than Jeannemary Chatur.” Directly after she calls herself a war crime, and right before she says she’d do it again: Oh, you’re absolutely right! It’s not nothing and I wanna talk about it! You know where else Harrow gets compared to Jeannemary? Pool scene. There was something curious about Harrow’s face when it was not fixed into the bland church mask of the Reverand Daughter something thin and desperate and quite young about it, something not totally removed from Jeannemary’s desperation.”īasically, juuust at the moment where Harrow is (badly) extending an (awkward) olive branch, Gideon has Jeannemary on her mind, and she’s just got a new perspective on what it was like to be a sad, desperate child dealing with the violent loss of a parental figure and having to grow up too fast because of it all.įor a split second, Gideon doesn’t see Harrow the evil bully who ruined her life, she sees Jeannemary.Īnd that small recontextualizing of Harrow’s horrible behavior growing up is very quickly followed in the text by “…if this keeps up, we could be friends.” “she remembered that nine-year-old Harrow’s mouth falling slightly slack. And in that context she remembers how Harrow also lost her parents suddenly and violently and at a young age: Then Magnus/Abigail die horribly and the teens are grieving, and Gideon’s feelings towards them shift to pity.Gideon stops hating the teens as much after Jeannemary starts gassing up her biceps at the dinner party.Gideon is constantly describing the teens as “awful” even though the worst thing they do is “be awkward and socially anxious” (projection bc Harrow was a little trashmonster growing up? you decide).This is not the first Harrow/Jeannemary overlap in Gideon’s brainĪnd I want to rave about how Jeannemary and Isaac are a small part of developing Griddlehark: #sometimes you need your gf and your mom ( BUT WAIT “What she badly needed was Harrow Nonagesimus, for whom a gigantic construction of bones would be more fun opportunity than hellish monstrosity, and she needed her longsword.” She does it again right on the next page, I am LOSING MY MIND I cannot get over how even in the middle of complete panic, when she needs safety her mind goes to her sword and to Harrow in the same breath. She wanted her longsword and she wanted Harrow.” I don’t know why I’ve never zeroed in on this line before, but right after Gideon’s gotten Jeannemary out of the facility and is trying to figure out where to go?
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