Yuna and David having watched their autistic son be so isolated all of his adult life and never having a happy relationship or close friends who understand his anxiety and then finding out that the man they’ve spent a decade hating on his behalf can casually talk him down from a panic attack in less than a minute
I saw someone wondering about flower language, but thereβs none, rather thorough the comic I only used one flower - yarrow, which historically had been used to stanch the blood flow from the wounds. I just wanted to have some physical symbol with which I can show the connection between the women. On the 2nd page I use it to show the nunβs vocation (apothecary), on page 3 she asks for yarrow to stop the bleeding, and later in the comic whenever we see the peasant fiddling with the flowers, it is to help prepare them for drying. By page 14, the apothecary mentally connects the yarrow flowers with the peasant.
In page 8, the hymn in the background translates to βCome, bride of Christ, receive the crown which the Lord has prepared for you for all eternity.β I found that it is sung during perpetual vows in some nunneries.
I tried to convey much with the compositions. The idea was that it is a monastery that follows the Benedictine Rule, which encourages the practice of silence. I tried to convey this rule-driven monastic life with symmetrical, decorative, silent compositions, and reverse it when the rule was disturbed (or when the apothecaryβs mind was disturbed). In the last page, I tried to merge both, to convey that the two women found balance and connection.
Hey y'all β Iβm making this post on behalf of Sami and his family, who are still suffering in Gaza. You can find their fundraiser here. Itβs atrocious that people have to continue to live in such awful conditions, and if we are able to help them I think we should β even if itβs small! If you can, please consider donating or reblogging his fundraiser.
Samiβs family is large and has many young children who deserve a better life. I desperately hope that the Rafah crossing will be open soon and theyβll be able to leave and find a better life β but they need the funds to do so.
β¬13,576 / β¬30,000 raised as of January 14th, 2026. Please donate you if you have the means to at all, no matter what it is that you can afford to contribute doing so as soon as possible will make an impact and is absolutely worth it, and reblog this post using tags so more people can see it and donations wonβt stop coming in! This is seriously time sensitive!
Honorable Mentions: The Long Walk, Caught Stealing, The Naked Gun, Black Bag, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Thunderbolts, Companion, The Monkey, Eddington, One Of Them Days, The Roses, The Ugly Stepsister, Together, The Testament of Ann Lee, Friendship, Companion, Oh Hi!
