Snowflake Challenge, Day 11

In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favourite interview, a book) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

OMG GUYS OMG

This actually gives me the opportunity to talk about Violent Messiahs without feeling like I'm being super dumb.

Omg. Okay. Violent Messiahs is a comic book series that had two arcs—the first arc ran for 8 issues, and then there was a second miniseries that ran for 4. (If you are interested, pm me, because I have the canon on my hard drive. I WILL GIVE IT TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE. Also, I've bought the series three times now. Because VIOLENT MESSIAHS.)

It's the story of a police officer named Cheri Major and what happens after she transfers from New York to a place called Rankor Island. I will be the first to say that it's a little Gothic and pretentious (Rankor Island? The Rankor Island Police {who run around with RIP written on them all the time because of it?} Over the top poetry?)—

But somehow, despite all of its flaws, it's more than that. It's got serial killers and vigilantes and secret societies and fucked up people in a fucked up place doing fucked up things. It's about all the horrible, dark things in life, about changing your destiny, about finding something to fight for. It's a love story. It's crime.

There's no one moment I can pinpoint, both because the series was so short lived, and because I've lived with this canon since I was seventeen and every moment leads to the next and the next. JUST READ IT, OKAY? JUST LOOK AT MY ICON.

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And an update on Artemis—

It's not cancer, at least. There's something wrong with her kidneys, but they aren't sure if it's an infection or if it's a chronic condition due to her age. Right now, we have her on a low protein diet, she was given some IV fluids to help with potential dehydration, she's got an antibiotic and a kidney strengthener. She's supposed to take those for ten days, and they'd like to see her back in two weeks to see if she's improving.

Despite all of my freaking out and mental preparation for the idea of putting her to sleep, the vet reassured me that we caught it early enough and that for being fifteen years old, she's in great shape. So there's that.

I have no idea how I'm going to pay for another vet visit in two weeks. ;_;