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ok im waffling on about fallout instead of having breakfast but i saw a criticism of how the prisoners were treated that's stuck with me.
spoilers!
so i think the criticism wasn't incorrect, per se: it condemned the way the show portrayed the vault dweller's naive intention to rehabilitate their murderous captives. it found fault with a common, and horrible, message that tv shows like to say, which is that carcerial violence and even the death penalty is the only effective way to deal with criminals, who are a fundamentally Bad category of human. im sick of that message too! but i think that wasn't what was going on here, actually.
so like, the vault dwellers had only ever experienced violent loss the once, and didn't really know how to cope other than denial and repression of the ordeal. but they were all hopeful and enthusiastic that their prisoners, the invaders that came to kill them all and take their stuff, could be eventually welcomed into the community as their comrades. the champions of this cause were nebbishy dorks and painfully out of touch academics. this is pretty normal for how prison reformers are portrayed, if extremely fucking annoying for those of us who ARE in favor of prison reform.
but so of course when the son of the former overseer, Norm, speaks up and suggests killing the prisoners, because why should they share resources with invaders who explicitly wanted to keep hurting them? why should they show mercy to their attackers? everyone is appalled by this suggestion. because they had to reinvent the whole concept of vengeance right then and there, because grudges and cycles of violence are anathema to a bottle society like theirs. they have been raised all their lives to forgive and forget and now, put to the test, they're recommitting to this ethos: get along, let the past go, look towards the future, believe the best of everyone.
but the prisoners die, anyway. the prisoners are killed with rat poison. and the thing is that Norm who suggested it didn't do it himself. and the prison guard who's blamed for it, even though she privately agreed with Norm that the prisoners are dangerous and unforgiveable, she didn't do it either. it's not a moment of triumphant, cathartic vengeance and it doesn't prove that there's no way to negotiate with terrorists and invaders but kill them like vermin because that's not what the message is meant to be.
the message is that norm stands there in the middle of these inconvenient prisoners, these corpses dressed in his own people's uniforms, and he looks at the new overseer. and he knows that she killed them, and she knows that he knows. she wanted him to know. this is her message and he's reading her loud and clear. and he doesn't look like a guy who's just been backed up by authority, who's just been validated in his desire for the ultimate control over those who have wronged him.
he's scared and pale and the music is ominous as fuck. and he's inside the cell, he's directly in the middle of it.
because what just happened is that he realized his entire society is being held prisoner, and the overseer is the one with the rat poison. and that he doesn't know, anymore, what freedom and safety and justice actually mean, just that he doesn't have them and he doesn't know where to find them.
that's what that scene meant. not that rehabilitative justice is a pathetic delusion of people who have no idea how to make hard choices.
but that before you advocate for killing prisoners, you might want to see how big that prison is, first.
and which side of the bars you're standing on.
#fallout#look i went NUTS over the prison scene#it's gonna live in my brain for a good long while#RATS ARE A BIG THEME IN THIS SHOW#the rats that are vermin and the rats that are lab subject#both disposable#both struggling so hard to survive#both in pain and wondering what's going on and why is life so hard#both disposed of when they go where they shouldn't
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day 20: chose violence ♡
(femslashfeb prompt list)
#minifemslashfeb2024#danganronpa#kirumugi#shirotojo#tsumugi shirogane#kirumi tojo#salak: toujou kirumi#canistel: shirogane tsumugi#toxic yuri arc idfk#bros that execution still gives me the creeps#you can hear her scream. like. bro#anyway what if you made the perfect soulless servant out of a real person#and then tormented then disposed of her like a doll. and you were both girls
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Starting to feel like the most unbearably insufferable thing about John Constantine is he's a good detective. He's a wizard who smokes in other people's houses, he's the most annoying man you've ever been attracted to, and he's unfortunately genuinely competent
he's got a lot of columbo trickster energy
but columbo has enough befuddled grandpa energy to temper it and gaslight you into thinking he's maybe being annoying by accident
constantine is being annoying on purpose and everyone knows it
#original#ficblogging#they will both show up outside the window of your palatial beachside estate where you're trying to dispose of evidence#but only one of them will successfully look as confused as anyone by his presence#columbo says 'i'm here by coincidence' and you're sure he can't be but you can't actually rule it out and maybe you ARE just paranoid#constantine says 'i'm here by coincidence' and you both know he doesn't care that you know he's lying#also he's probably claiming the coincidence is that he was meeting up with your dad who he matched with on grindr which adds a layer
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why is my follower count going up. what did i do. u weirdos are freaking me out. buddy whats up
#feeling so attacked rn. all my hollow spines are standing on their ends#oh buddy you have NO idea how highly venomous and yet totally erratic my disposable body parts are#heck *I* have no idea#we are both in so much trouble the two.2 of us#anyway yes. yes my follower count frequently goes up that is how follower counts tend to work once u break containment#what you call 'audience appeal' i call a 'BIG FAT VIRAL LOAD'#but currently we are undergoing hm.m. a rarely precedent-ed surge. and i? i have some concerns about the public health implications#protect yourself. say no to social media#or at the very least make it so unprofitable that mr muskrat sheds the delicious delicious tears of stockholder lifeblood
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“cody only has under an hour of screen time in all of star wars” maybe to you he does. to me he's the main character
#he's my most special little guy don't you GET it#in my mind's eye he also has at least an hour more of screen time from being in the kenobi show#because that's canon. FOR ME#bickering like an old married couple protecting luke and throwing bodies into the sarlac as a personal murder disposal on tattooine#everyone raise a glass for the first draft of the kenobi show that had cody chilling in the desert with obi wan as his secret buddy#where we would have had a deeper focus on themes of guilt and sacrifice and repentance and hope for a better future#by virtue of cody being there and exploring his new relationship with obi wan where they're foils for each other both driven by guilt#“my cody was so fun” yeah of course he would have been he's post war scrappy uncle cody killing bounty hunters every other thusday#how is that not the most fun thing ever#he's just so sunshiney like asfdsskk#he's my rotten soldier#he's my sweet cheese my good time boy#this is what i get for hyperfixating on clone wars for months on end#strong opinions on the rich inner lives of copy paste men and their 3 million brothers#*deep sigh* this is my life now and i love it and cannot save myself#star wars#the clone wars#the bad batch#tcw#sw#commander cody#codywan#tcw cody#clone wars#cc 2224#(thinking of any more tags used for cody)#(nah i think we're good)#andis thought geyser
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“When I was 8 they bathed me, their water made me pure
What did an 8-year-old have to ask for forgiveness for?”
song and character by @weevildoing
#tptm#irreverent girl#my art#religious trauma#<implied bcuz of the song#i noticed irreverent n disposable girl both hav unbelievably big eyes. i like that they match
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can you draw edgar and scriabin playing on a park like brothers for the vargastober? ty!
Day 7 - Play stupid games
#My art#Requestober#Vargas#Edgar#Scriabin#I cannot tell you how tempted I was to make a Les Enfants Terribles reference for this prompt lol#I knew it'd be too much to ask for a daily challenge tho lol so single tube-tunnel for these two!#How /did/ Scriabin get up there tho - did he fly up? Think himself up there? Actually crawl up there?#He generally keeps his abilities pretty realistic when he's a kid which is very cute haha ♥#But even if he did cheat his way up there it's also a very charming thought to realize only in that moment that he's very small and scared#Got himself into a situation he didn't think through and was bad for him! That tracks lol#Edgar goes on a quiet rant about playing safely and Scriabin just ignores him haha#There's also something cute about them both agreeing to cheat for a moment and Edgar pulling him down into the tube with him hehe <3#''Just close your eyes and fall through!'' ''Catch me!'' It's cute 💕#Kidverse is always cute tho ♪ And sad - but mostly cute!!#Also you know this is Requestober over here right? X3 I'm not doing Vargastober this year!#Shoutout to disposal-blueeee's prompt list tho :) Very cool!#One of these years I'm gonna do a doodle for every chapter of Vargas ♫ There's enough to choose from! Lol
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impulse (1995) #48 save me. impulse (1995) #48. save me impulse (1995) #48
#rimi talks#i just reread it and im once again having a giggle#its just so fucking funny. everything about it is so funny#bart having no idea who the riddler is. the riddler thinking he can take advantage of bart to get back at wally and tim.#the two hostages being max and morlo. the way they keep bickering with each other instead of paying any attention to the riddler#the way max just keeps freeing himself to dispose of the bombs bc both riddler and bart are too busy arguing to notice theyre still live#and then he comes back to his seat to keep playing hostage#its just so fucking funny i love you impulse (1995) issue 48 sdkjfhajksda
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I’m I the only one who thinks elvis got a good tan in Germany? Bcs I’m looking at photos while he was in the army and his hand look DARK idk if it’s bcs of the lighting or anything but his hands look so dark compared to the rest of his body😭
I see what you mean! even though the majority of his photos from Germany are in black and white, he still manages to look so glowy (?)
which I’m not surprised about it considering they made this man work and sleep outside for almost 180 days out of the year due to his job in the military 😭
“The outfit I was in had quite a bit of field duty, we stayed in the field six months out of the year”
interview with Elvis on March 7, 1960
it’s giving a Toby Kwimper in Florida level of tan ⬇️
sigrid schutz was really outside that man’s home every day and I’m jealous!!
also what a contrast to these professional photos taken of him in 1959 where he looks like a literal marshmallow
#german girls were really winning from 58’ - 60’#imagine having him at your disposal when he’s looking like that 😭#they got the best of both worlds#he’s so so so pretty I can’t#kissable#huggable#eatable#elvis presley#elvisaaronpresley#elvis#elvis fans#elvis photos#elvis history#elvis asks
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Season 2 is my favorite silver flint dynamic by far
#like I get why people go crazy for their soulmates/obsession/homoerotic betrayal i do get it!#but there’s something about season 2 that’s just so crunchy and fun 💕#silver sitting at flint’s feet to plot… obviously seeking his approval… the flipping of that dynamic as silver chafes#under the assumption that he’s at flints disposal#them making a spectacular team and pissed off about it#both of them looking each other in the eyes and lying through their teeth#knowing each other well enough to spot the lies but not well enough to call each other out on it#delicious 💕#black sails
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I didn't expect either of my haunted doll comics to ever be liked so much, uuuhh anyway shoutout to everyone in the tags & replies who, like me, read books as children that gave them lifelong sentimental crybaby syndrome.
#nardacci doodles#corduroy was like FormativeTM#I don't remember if I ever actually read velveteen rabbit as a kid? like it seems SO familiar but I can't remember it#skelebee recommended it when I was brainstorming the restoration comic so I looked it up & was like wow yes this one line is perfect#I'll always love you isn't about toys it's about living pets#but I think some people treat their poor pets like toys & also act like both toys & pets are disposable#so I think it's good & important for children to understand that animals are real living things & should be treated well#anyway fight fast consumerism hug your dog cry over inanimate objects fuckin yolo
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pb needs to make ending up single in single LI books possible. so much pressure would be taken off the story and the romance and more importantly, it would help make everything feel less forced
#one day i'm gonna write a wholeass essay on pb single li books istg#and the fact that their single li romances are shit (for the most part) bc the book is single li#bc by being the only li to the readers disposal they have to make aure the audience like them#and their way of doing that is by shoving the li into our face and playing up the instant attraction and all that except#this only leads to a forced and inorganic romance#oh and it leads to the mc behaving in a manner that's incredibly inconsistent#pixelberry#playchoices#choices#single li books#(i wrote this with both kiss of death and cursed heart in mind btw)#kiss of death#choices kod#the cursed heart#choices tch#choices criticism#ig
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Good Omens Hc (Ineffable Husbands + Ineffable Interns and a mix of family) to help the fandom recover just a tiny bit
-If Aziraphale gives Crowley freckles when he gives him kisses, Angel gains a beauty mark from Crowley’s kisses (like falling/dying stars)
- I feel like since Eric can multiply, it’s the opportunity to give Muriel tons of kisses
- Aziraphale and Crowley share a garden, these two are always bickering about how to treat the plants
- Muriel asks question after question about demons, a lot are ones Eric doesn’t know the answer to and giving that he likes mischief, he makes a bunch of stuff up (all in good fun)
- Muriel sings incredibly and Eric loves to listen even if his ears can’t stand it (because it’s literally heavenly)
-Aziraphale has taken on whistling centuries ago and had become quite the professional, Crowley will sometimes catch him whistling “be-bop” (only because it reminds him of the demon)
- Aziraphale accidentally left his ring before he left for heaven and Crowley kept it (giving it back when Azi came back to reconcile)
- Aziraphale wrote, preformed and produced an entire play as an apology (Crowley couldn’t even get through the first chunk before he was sobbing from laughter)
- When Aziraphale blushes, it has a glow to it that only ethereal beings can see, so when he’s red in the face, to Crowley, he looks like a Christmas light
- Aziraphale picked up a few hobbies while Crowley asleep for the century, Dancing being one of them and another being Piano. The Piano is something Crowley doesn’t know about because he’s a little embarrassed and doesn’t play when he’s around (like dancing, Angels aren’t meant to really play instruments despite owning harps)
- Muriel has intimate knowledge of what Heaven can and can’t detect, they use this to their advantage when Eric wants to “stir up mischief” (He’s too embarrassed to call it a date)
- Muriel has taken to drawing Eric and Eric gets a little weird about it (it’s the sweetest thing anyones ever done for him and it makes him feel.. awkward. He loves it btb, he just can’t show it right)
- Muriel blushes a lot around Eric but has no idea what it is, so they think they got hell fire on their face (They glow too)
- Eric and Muriel are the opposite of Azirphale and Crowley when it comes to sleeping. Once Muriel learned what it was and how to do it, you couldn’t stop them from taking a nap anywhere, Eric on the other hand has taken to watching over them (Aziraphale gets jumpscared walking into a room and seeing multiple Erics watching over Muriel) (Like (Demon) father like (Angel) child)
- Angel plays the piano for Muriel and teaches them how to, and they pick up the skill immediately (He also teaches them how to read sheet music)
- Aziraphale is not allowed to call Crowley “Anthony” outside of a private area or things may happen
- Chat gave me the idea that the Z. In Azi’s middle name is Zebidiah and I will hold onto that, Crowley calls him that on occasion to be funny because he couldn’t have chosen a worse middle name (Not that “Janthony” can talk)
- Crowley has taken on eating a little more but it’s rare that he’ll finish what he has
- Crowley takes great passion in watching Muriel tell people to piss off when they walk in the bookshop, even when Muriel learned it was considered rude
- Omg!! Crowley and Azi introducing Muriel to Warlock, siblings!!
- Crowley listens to audio books (I.E. makes Aziraphale read to him)
- Eric shared a piece of candy with Muriel, not knowing they’ve never had food before and now they have a huge sweet tooth
- When Eric threatened to Eat Muriel, they laughed in his face and that’s how his crush started
- Muriel’s started after Eric kissed their hand to rial them up when they first met (Angel and demon beef)
- Omg Muriel learning how to dance from the first ever Angel to do so (So now the number is a straight forward two)
- Muriel miracled facial hair on their face because they've seen Crowley with it before and wanted to try it (they have long sideburns now, much to Crowley’s dismay because it reminds him of Brother Francis)
- Eric and Muriel once held hands for “safety reasons” and now do it often
-Crowley still gets called to watch over Warlock and he always bregrudingly obliges
- Since I assume Muriel has a more Cockney accent, maybe they learn some of the slang words that come with that (Aziraphale gives them a book on it and deals with the repercussions)
- Crowley and Aziraphale has separate bedrooms (not that they don’t love each more than heaven and earth put together) but having their own space to decorate and do their thing helps tremendously (even if they end up in the other’s room most of the time)
- Crowley took Aziraphale’s last name and it’s very funny when they go out together and when someone says “Mr. Fell” they both turn
#I really made this about Muriel and azi didn’t I my bad 😭#I just love them both not that I don’t love Crowley and Eric a lot too#good omens#ineffable husbands#ineffable interns#eric the disposable demon#muriel#muriel good omens#good omens season 2#aziraphale#Crowley#good omens seasons 2 spoilers
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not entirely sure how to best articulate this, but something i've been rotating in my head lately is the :handshake: solidarity between black and disabled american experiences:
both experience other marginalized groups' progressive movements actively exploiting them to further their assimilation and acceptance into current power structures; notably, the feminist and queer progressive movements
both experience a form of oppression centered in their visible bodies, blocking them from utilizing acceptance within power structures to their own benefits (or temporary safety) moreso than other groups who are able to temporarily "blend in" and reap the benefits of assimilation
both have presumptions of violence enforced on their bodies via thin-slicing
both actively and specifically targeted by eugenics, including for the benefit of progressive movements
related to the prior bullet point, however, both in living memory and currently experiencing mass literal nonconsensual medical experimentation, among other genocidal medical tactics (mass forced sterilization, etc)
both the highest targets for lethal police violence among any marginalized groups in america (over half of everyone killed by the police in america has a disability--literally, over 50%--and black folks are killed by the police at a higher rate than any other racial group by orders of magnitude)
both plagued by the constant phenomenon of highly publicly-visible grifters from their own marginalized groups attempting to push social narratives about their oppression being overblown or actually "privileged," despite those grifters being extreme outliers in not facing most aspects of marginalization the rest of the group broadly faces
and of course, because of this overlap and interaction between forms of oppression, the black disabled experience is intensely marginalized and subject to extreme social + state violence
and as i've been thinking about this, i am infuriated by the attempts of social-media lefty grifter types to pit disabled and black experiences against one another--as if the groups are mutually exclusive and have no overlap, as if the groups don't experience a shared history and current experience of being stepped on and exploited in other groups' frantic clawing for assimilation into white supremacist abled power structures. as if we aren't both historically actively left behind and pushed farther down by movements like the queer and feminist progressive movements' active utilization of the power structures that view our bodies as disposable trash, in order for those movements to profit off our bodies and gain power in society--power over us, because we're the disposable underclass.
our fights are linked; ableism and white supremacy don't only go hand-in-hand, they also prop each other up in a horrible incestuous clusterfuck of hegemonies. to pit disabled and black experiences against one another in a thread of clout-driven twittok rage-click fuel is to leave our black disabled community members to rot, and to ignore the solidarity we could have.
#i'm sorry if this sounds particularly derogatory towards queer and feminist movements atm#i've been both learning a lot about disabled disposability within those movements and about antiblackness in them#and disposability of black bodies within them#and it's been making me feel... very jaded.#i don't believe in the oppression olympics but at the same time not every marginalized experience is an exact 1:1 equivalent within society#it's not about being ''more'' or ''less'' oppressed--it's about the broad social movements and marginalized individuals' places within them#not being interchangeable and certainly not progressing in 1:1 equivalent ways#all american-centric ofc.
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roy: get your fucking dog, bitch!
dick carrying 11 year old jason todd underneath his arm: he don’t bite
roy now regretting having a sparring session with the new robin: yes he do!
#dc comics#dc universe#dcu#batman#titans#teen titans#speedy#arsenal#roy harper#nightwing#dick grayson#robin#jason todd#jason was never the angry robin#dick was never the angry robin#jason isn't feral but he knows how to fight dirty so he'd use any method he has at his disposal to win just like any other batfam member#gothamites are just built different#the loa are wary of any trainees/recruits from gotham because of both bruce and jason#this is inspired by a jaykyle hc i saw on here where it said that jason is the kid who bites
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you ever just. become overwhelmed by a sudden out-of-nowhere wave of tenderness and affection and longing for reconnection directed towards someone to whom you no longer speak for Very Good Reasons
#‘out of nowhere’ she says like she hasn’t been doing a lot of reading/thinking recently about various tragic messy breakups#and the later regrets of the parties involved#anyway. tell me not to text her#it’s been over two years since the last time we talked… absolutely no reason to break that streak now. lord give me strength#she was really fucking mean to me! like objectively intentionally unwarrantedly cruel! it ruined an entire year of my life#and fundamentally changed me as a person on a deep level! there’s a lot of things i used to like about myself that i don’t think i’m ever#going to get back#and yet every once in a while we have to do the whole ‘maybe i could make things right’ song and dance 😔#the thing is most of the time i’m not even really angry with her anymore like enough time has passed since all the shit went down that#really i just sort of look at her behavior and feel sad. both because of the impact on me but also because of the ‘that’s really how you#felt you needed to act towards someone who cared about you? you couldn’t have just expressed your feelings in an honest and productive way#instead of just lashing out in the cruelest possible way and ruining the entire relationship beyond hope of repair?’#and i feel bad and sorry that it went that way and honestly i kind of pity her and hope she’s gotten some of her shit worked out#so i’m not like. actively pissed off at her anymore. but also i can’t think about her without thinking about the worst year of my life so 🙃#i don’t actually feel that trying to reopen that door would be very healthy for me at least#we did try a Reconciliation of sorts a couple of months after the initial falling-out and while it was kind of helpful for me in that she#like. apologized lmao. and affirmed that i wasn’t crazy and she did in fact On Purpose say the most hurtful things she possibly could have#said to me given the information she had at her disposal. and that i really had not done anything to her that could warrant that. etc.#it also left a sour enough taste in my mouth that i just don’t see a future where the two of us spending time together is enjoyable for me#and yet… the regret will always live inside me i think. maybe if i were a stronger person…#caseyposting
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