SPOILERS FOR JRWI PD UP TO S2 EP34. LIKE SERIOUSLY MEGA SPOILERS

I was talking about this a while ago, but I never did make a very coherent post about it so:

I think there's a lot to say about the way that the idea of "doing things for the greater good" is thrown around a lot in season 2 between PD and Xavier + Cantrip + Alan.

In episode 18, during the Belltech heist, Alan ends up killing multiple people because he does not understand what he is doing. When the main trio expresses concerns about this, Cantrip and Xavier hold firm that they're doing things for the greater good-- saving more people than Alan could have ever killed.

Then, during episodes 31-33, William does All Of That. Everybody knows this. He essentially tortures a guy and kills another person, for what he is told is the greater good.

I think there's something so interesting to point out there-- how during both significant events at Belltech, the sentiment of things done for the greater good is there. However, the roles get reversed; the first time, Xavier, Cantrip, and Alan are in control. They are not the ones getting hurt. And during the greyscale arc, everything is flipped-- they are the ones being chased, hunted, sliced apart. The narrative scales are tipped, so to say, in order to make one death (Cantrip's) so much more impactful than the 30 or more people who died in the Belltech heist.

And when the PD trio is split during the greyscale arc, alongside all the other chaos going on then, there is no longer any strong moral platform to stand on, no firm opposition to killing and hurting people like that. (Of course, the death isn't intentional on William's behalf, we don't know if it certainly was death, etc etc.)

When Dakota is trying to figure things out on his own, he thinks to himself-- What would William do?

But at the same time, William can only think-- What would Dakota think about what I've done?

i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

they’re like creatures to me

When a song’s a banger but the lyrics hit a little too close to home

why i oughta (attempts to roll up my sleeves but i struggle with unbuttoning the cuffs for a solid 4 minutes)

more dunmeshi character sketches

@laiosbignaturals

please don't have hair

Oh... O.K.

Bald jame era

uh... never mind

Why did he say that

"Guy" and "man" have different connotations with adjectival nouns. Like "tree guy" = arborist but "tree man" = he lives in a tree, or maybe he is a tree.

They’ll never do a Hitman level set in a Furry Convention because gamers would absolutely ruin it but imagine. like the target isn’t a furry he just owns a hotel that happens to have one every year but you can disguise yourself in a fursuit and some guy will ask you “what species is your sona” and 47 would be like “a wolf. i always felt a connection with…hunters.” and then diana would be like “let’s see if you can sniff out some information, furrty-seven” and then he comes to my house and kills me for writing this

Humans Are Weird

So there has been a bit of “what if humans were the weird ones?” going around tumblr at the moment and Earth Day got me thinking. Earth is a wonky place, the axis tilts, the orbit wobbles, and the ground spews molten rock for goodness sakes. What if what makes humans weird is just our capacity to survive? What if all the other life bearing planets are these mild, Mediterranean climates with no seasons, no tectonic plates, and no intense weather? 

What if several species (including humans) land on a world and the humans are all “SCORE! Earth like world! Let’s get exploring before we get out competed!” And the planet starts offing the other aliens right and left, electric storms, hypothermia, tornadoes and the humans are just … there… counting seconds between flashes, having snowball fights, and just surviving. 

I knew the opening reminded me of something