(I know this is far off from the show, but bear with me)


Dot and Wakko stayed hidden in the shadows of the bedroom as the voice of their father echoed up from downstairs, a dark aura descending with it from the vehemence in his words. They could not hear Yakko at all, only he hateful words occasionally tipped with the shrill cries from their mother. Yakko was down there, they knew. He was enduring the whole force of their father's rage-filled words. Words like 'discrace', 'disgusting'... phrases like "you did this just to spite me', 'get the hell out of those clothes', 'you've ruined our family'.... The two did not understand. They knew what this was about, how he found out about how their brother 'liked to be with other boys' how he dressed funny. But to them, when they were confided in with Yakko's secret, they only giggled. It was funny to them. It was always something that kids joked about. But now this was something else. When dad saw him sneaking in after handing out with his friends from school, it inspired him to thrash into a fury the likes of which they had never seen before from him. Their mother howled in sorrow in response to the secret. It was terrifying.

"Get out of my face..."

Yakko came in, silently into the dark bedroom. He spoke not a word, just shuffled over to the big bed. He had knoen that this day would come eventually and he would have to weather the far-reaching consequences it would bring. He had held on bravely to his composure, but barely. Exhausted, and with a tense, cold feeling inside his chest, he slowly laid down on the banket. After lying for a short bit, he felt Wakko and Dot curl up beside him. They had been very frightened by what they heard. To them, they could not understand. They were too young to see the significance of what their brother's interests meant. But being too young to understand, they were too young to pass judgement. All they saw was their father in blinding rage over something they saw as 'just funny'. Most of all they saw their older brother in pain.

Yakko put his arms around his two siblings, moved that he still had a small circle of simple love around him.


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This one is in response to 2 things. One was the deletion of some of my drawings by DA, accompanied by insults from other deviants for drawing queer toons. The other is in mind with my own struggles as I try to cope with unacceptance with my family for my homosexuality.

I want to do 2 things with this picture. I want it to encourage people: reach out to anywone in your family struggling with acceptance, THEY DO NOT CHOOSE TO BE LIKE THIS. Who would choose to live through such suffering, to have their family reject or even disown them? To live a lifestyle condemmned as evil and gross by the rest of society for no logical or scientific reason other than predjudice? The second thing I want this drawing to do is to reach out to those queers who have to suffer thorugh this. YOU ARE NOT EVIL. Evil is malicious, with intent, and designed to hurt others. YOU ARE NOT WEAK OR PITIFUL. You have to be very strong to face the truth of being gay in this world. Hold on. Ignore those who hate, embrace those who care.



You are equal.

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Update:
an interesting edit of this drawing can be found in my Scraps.
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