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My brother and I are discussing how disappointed we will be if The Wall doesn’t show up in the new Spiderverse
#we are going to build a wall and The Spider-Man is gonna pay for it#spiderverse#across the spiderverse#atsv#into the spiderverse#itsv#spiderman into the spiderverse#spiderman across the spiderverse#spiderman#spider-man#the wall
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be mine.
billy sighs. rests his forehead against the cool metal of his locker. tries to ignore the hum of people talking around him. holding hands. cuddling. it’s a shitty day. it’s a shitty day and billy knew it was going to be a shitty day before it even started.
he knew because he had been the one to say it. yesterday. to tell steve that they’re not- that billy doesn’t need to be treated like a fucking girl. that they’re just screwing around. that he doesn’t give a shit if steve wants to fuck someone else today.
that steve might as well go crawling back to wheeler because billy sure as shit can’t hold his hand or call him sweetheart in the hallways. that he gets enough heat at home without the whole of hawkins high knowing how much of a queer billy hargrove is.
and then billy had walked off. slammed the door behind him and gone home. had picked a fight with neil just to top it off.
all because he was scared.
is scared. scared of steve harrington with his preppy fuckin’ polos and dumb hair. his pretty eyes and pretty smile and ability to tilt billy’s world on its axis just by looking at him. scared that steve will get bored of him. that he’ll realise billy isn’t worth the effort.
scared.
billy sighs again. shuffles back slightly and glares down as he twists the lock. the door swings open and billy is halfway to grabbing the book he needs when something falls out. a scrap of paper. no bigger than the palm of his hand. a note.
it lands on billy’s boot.
he looks around. wonders who had felt brave enough- dumb enough to shove a note through billy’s locker on a day like today. he bends down. picks it up. reads the words in front of him.
quarry, 9.
there’s a little heart scribbled on the top right hand corner. billy traces the familiar writing with a thumb. feels that all too familiar feeling in his chest. he clenches his fist. hears the crinkle of paper as he does.
then he looks up again. into his locker. really looks, this time.
a pack of marlboro reds lay on top of his books. unopened. new.
next to those, something smaller. candy, billy realises. a sweetheart, specifically. the words kiss me etched in pink.
billy smiles. can’t help it, really. it’s restrained. barely there. just a small twitch of his lips but a smile nonetheless. his first smile of the day. credit to steve fuckin’ harrington and his inability to leave well alone.
billy smooths the note out. places it next to the reds. next to the heart. tries to tamp down on the butterflies swarming in his chest. he takes a deep breath before stuffing the cigarettes and note into his pocket.
his hand hovers over the sweetheart.
“hey.”
billy pulls his hand back. fast. as if he’d been burned. he looks to his left. locks eyes with the boy now standing next to him. feels his heart stutter. “hey.”
steve gives him a knowing smile. “good day?”
“no.” billy frowns. you already knew that. “pretty shitty actually.”
steve leans. folds his arms. “that bad, huh?”
better now that you’re here. billy swallows. turns away from steve. back to his locker. “did you want something, harrington?”
“nah, just..” steve smirks. reaches out. billy feels his breath hitch. steve’s smile gets wider. he flicks billy’s earring. once. before turning on his heel with a see you around thrown billy’s way.
a promise. something deeper to them but. casual. friendly to anyone watching.
billy watches him leave. wonders if steve might be okay with them having to do things differently. wonders if this might be enough for steve. for them. wonders if he could be enough for steve. hopes-
billy jumps when the bell rings.
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they meet up later. at the quarry like steve had said. neil under the assumption that billy’s seeing some girl. steve’s parents likely thinking the same.
billy feels as though a weight has been lifted as soon him and steve tumble into the back of the beemer. all cold hands and fumbling with belts. awkward limbs and steamed up windows. and billy lets it happen. lets himself be held. lets steve be sweet to him.
billy lets it happen. finds himself thinking that today might not be all bad. and that he might be more than a little bit in love with steve harrington. he pushes the second thought down. focuses on winding a hand into steve’s hair and sucking a mark into the soft skin just below his jaw, instead.
not all bad.
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later finds them huddled under a blanket in the back of steve's beemer. sharing a cigarette. marlboro. red. steve nudges billy after a few minutes. doesn't say anything just. nudges him. billy tilts his head to the side. gives steve a look. steve just looks down as his hand finds billy's under the blanket.
then he presses something small into the palm of billy’s hand.
billy raises an eyebrow in question but steve’s already looking away. staring out into the night. cigarette glowing in the dark. billy rolls his eyes. wiggles his arm free and holds the object up to the window to get a better look.
be mine.
he laughs. loudly. tries to hide the racing of his heart. calls steve a fuckin' cheese. and a sweetheart. waits until steve turns to face him again before pressing the candy to steve's lips and pulling him in to exchange kisses that are almost too soft. too sweet for whatever this is. whatever they agreed for this to be.
steve pulls back first. whispers against billy’s lips “hey, baby?”
“yeah?”
“happy valentine’s day.”
“…yeah.”
almost.
steve grins and reaches out to play with one of billy’s curls. billy laces their fingers together under the blanket.
or maybe it’s just right.
#billy ‘i’m too hard to love’ hargrove and steve ‘i’m literally so in love with you’ harrington#the queers are queering#billy hargrove#steve harrington#harringrove#my words#i was thinking of those love heart sweets we have here and found out sweethearts are a thing so here we are#i haven’t done my research so idk if they were a thing then but i assume they were#so#suspend your disbelief if you must#anyway#i think it’s fun to imagine steve’s biggest gripe being his sexuality crisis at the begging of them hooking up#but once that’s out of the way he’s just got billy on the brain#but billy’s problems come later when he has to be like#vunerable with his emotions#and he immediately tries to build the walls he knocked down back up#because it’s safer that way#but steve just won’t have any of it#yeah that#also he feels bad because steve can’t be all steve with him in public and it’s like#a thing#but steve finds ways to work around it
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My thoughts on how the Milgram mv machine works based on the evidence we have:
(I know there’s been discussion about where exactly the interrogations take place, but wherever they are,) the prisoners are made to sit in a specific chair near the wall that houses the machine.
It’s ordinarily hidden, but the wall panels shift aside to reveal it when the mechanical sounds play in the dramas. As well as the walls moving, the chair transforms to restrain the prisoner and attach whatever it takes to access their brain. The fact that none of the more frightened prisoners try to run or break it makes it seem like they physically cannot. This is why Fuuta sounds so panicked, and why Amane is suddenly helpless in front of Es in their T1 vds.
(My mind conjures very classic sci-fi mad scientist machines with wires, pipes, lights, nodes, needles, etc, but I’d love to hear how other people visualize it.)
In some vds (maybe all? I’d need to check,) you can hear Es take some steps right before their iconic line -- it would make sense that for safety reasons, the power mechanism is placed across the room. Once again it could be anything, but the sound effect makes me think of one of those giant wall-mounted levers you have to pull down.
The voice dramas don’t really provide the type of crime details that an actual interrogation would reveal, and it’s odd that they’re placed before the extraction rather than after Es gets to see the new details. This leads me to believe the machine functions with priming. All Es needs to do is get them talking about their murder, so it’s on their mind.
The video produced is much like a (non-lucid) dream. Even if the prisoners figure out that this is how it works, they can’t control it just by thinking really hard about something else. The murders produce the strongest emotional affect, and that’s what it picks up on. If someone else used the machine, it would default to whatever gave them the strongest emotional reaction in the ~15 minutes beforehand, hence why Es’ video focuses on their daunting task ahead. (The Undercover theory is still a bit loose, though, given the private shots that Es wouldn't have known about). It’s why the videos are usually closely linked to the vd topics/beats. I also like to think that the reason their prisoner colors appear so much is because they’re looking at those colors on their uniform 24/7.
The bell rings to inform Es that it’s the optimal time to use the machine -- the prisoner has been thinking about things for long enough that the video will be about their crime, and if the conversation lasts much longer they’ll start thinking of other things. It’s at a different time for each prisoner because it’s based on the specific conversation. I guess Jackalope is listening in to the interrogation, timing it perfectly. (The only one that kind of messes with this theory is Yonah, because they just keep talking afterwards lol, but it could just show that the interrogation is still in Es’ control.)
Their “Sing your sins” is the final priming nudge to get them to think of their actions as a sin, revealing their guilt.
Once activated, the prisoner enters a sort of trance/sleeping state. It’s very much like REM sleep, with the machine forcibly activating neurons and recording the output. The prisoners have asked Es what they saw, meaning they don’t remember the mvs. I like to think the prisoners do experience the mv in real time, acting as the major version of themself that appears, but can’t remember it afterwards. It’s when you experience a dream, but as soon as you wake up you’re just left with fleeting emotions and memories right on the tip of your tongue.
The video plays immediately upon extraction -- whether on a huge projection or little screen depends on which room it’s in. It simultaneously saves the memory so that Es can rewatch it later (on those old TVs in the jailbreak mix). The machine downloads the song and video together, but requires special parts to retrieve them. The technology is pretty new and fragile, so if one is broken, there might be a delay between when Es can hear the extracted song and see it with the video. (That’s my justification for Kotoko’s delays -- after 9 prisoners the parts wear out, or maybe Mikoto himself overheats it with his complex situation.)
Based on the lack of conversation we get afterwards, I picture Es leaving before the prisoner wakes from the trance. The machine adjusts their brain back to normal before they awaken, restraints freed and able to return to the rest of the prison.
It’s very much like a dream, so it’s not harmful despite the amnesia/head injuries the prisoners have. It does, however, exhaust them. Brain activity alone takes a lot of energy, so forced brain activity with added emotional strain would cause them to feel pretty drained the rest of the day.
#milgram#👍👍#if theres anything contradictory please lmk -- this is how ive been taking the evidence we have so i definitely want to rethink things if#theres a mistake#but also i just wanna hear what people have been picturing 🤔#i mentioned it before but the jailbreak tvs really did shift my brain from sleek tech to clunky old scifi vibes#im also still partial to an idea mentioned a long time ago about the prisoners waking up to catch the last few moments of their mv#and how heartbreaking that can be for some#but i feel like it would make more sense if there was no direct interaction after the extraction since es is overwhelmed with different#reactions (from us) and the prisoners themselves are raw with emotion and fatigue#i like the thought of interrogations occuring in that big courtroom (seen in undercover and now deep cover)#but that room seems way too echo-y for the vds to take place in#and it seems overkill to build every cell with moving panel walls and access to the machine#so the jurys still out on that one#(also hehe im still so excited that my oc fits very nicely into all of this but i kept this post 100% canon compliant)#analysis/thoughts
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Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.
#I'm from a seaside town that has become popular with tourists who come for the beach and the mediterranean climate#and the typical whitewashed walls of mediterranean coastal towns#in just a few years the average rent has gone up so much that now the average rent id#*is over 1000€ per month#one thousand!#that's a whole salary!#in the past 2 years they've been building a new neighbourhood. they've destroyed the vinyeards to make a new neighbourhood that will make#the town 1/3 bigger than it is. that's a lot. but all those houses are luxury houses with private swimming pools for rich foreigners (we#already have 2 private British schools high schools and college(in the british sense)/baccalaureate where their kids go and never have to#interact with locals. I teach some of those kids and they're very prejudiced against locals and very bigoted against the catalan language#(which ofc they never bother to learn)#there's a law in catalonia that says that for every certain amount of houses you build you are obligated to build a certain percentage of#affordable housing. so in this new neighborhood they built the bare minumum affordable housing which is still too expensive for us#and since there's so few of them everyone is competing to get them. the city hall and the bank have had to make an official competition for#them but you only classify if the renr would not be more than 1/3rd of your salary which is impossible. my cousins who are in their mid 30s#and have been working a good qualified job for 15 years (and their partners too) are considered too poor to be considered for the#affordable housing#everyone is having to move out to other cities away from their friends and family and current jobs. the only jobs left here soon will be#mostly directed at tourists#and the only way to continue living here if you're a normal person and not rich is if you're an only child who one day might inherit the#parents' house#but we look around at what's happening in nearby cities and we see the next step which will be airbnb taking the houses that are left#in many places (I've posted about thia before) there aren't any flats for rent or sell anymore that isn't an airbnb#I'm still lucky in my town when compared to other places like Barcelona which are already full of the airbnb plague#actualitat#airbnb#tourism#touristic massification#gentrification
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i wrote this as a joke because I wanted to strangle a guy watching tiktoks without headphones on the bus, but im genuinely disturbed that we've gotten to a point where convenience comes first. and it depresses me even more that its used to justify and monetize greed
#like we have so many ways of doing things that could help us in the long run but because we're told it requires more work we just cant#its too resource intensive. or maybe its too much to maintain. we have to overlook benefits so money can go into more important things#we teach each other to do things a certain way so it works for everyone but who was it convenient for first? what abt who it might hurt?#i have to wonder if the rules our current system uses is worth listening to or following if it doesnt have our best interests in mind. u an#me and the ppl around us.. would we be better off if i ate my meals knowing the person who grew it wanted to feed others the way they could#feed themselves? and that isnt to say we're going to be happy doing it but i guess satisfied that its helping someone instead of quietly#accepting that itll eventually go in the dumpster behind a grocery store because it stopped looking appetizing or it wasnt on sale anymore#what about building homes so we can shelter each other? what if we were satisfied with what we did because we knew it would be paid back#with kindness? isnt that what we evolved to do?? heal each others bones and tell stories and help each other??#why dont houses come with solar panels or generators unless we find a way to make people pay to use the sun? why is our pooled money used#to fund genocides instead of education and hospitals? whose interests and convenience came first when we started this??#i wont pretend to know the answer because i dont. but we all know we're miserable and im sorry to say that i cant see myself fighting#for a world that wont fight for me too. why do we work if we cant live from it?? why did they stop us from plucking more teeth from our#bosses until they could build more walls around themselves and then go back to underpaying us??#im so tired. i cant even imagine making it to age 70#yapping#vent
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I'm sure "Why We Build the Wall" from Hadestown is meant to be a metaphor. But I can't help but feel that Trump tried to make that metaphorical wall literal.
#hadestown#I'm sure lots of people have had this thought before#I have had this thought every time I've listened to this song for years#We build the wall to keep us free#The wall keeps out the enemy#The enemy is poverty#They want what we have got#What do we have that they should want?#We have a wall to work upon#Hadestown is set in pseudo great depression times right?#So the concept of work for the sake of work makes sense then too#but the parallels are there#And the work is never done
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i watched all of hadestown last night and i'm still not okay. i listened to the entire track list again as i doodles shuake a billion times. they're so eurydice and orpheus if i tried hard enough
#persona 5 royal#persona 5#goro akechi#ren amamiya#akira kurusu#shuake#LISTEN TO ALL IVE EVER KNOWN. PLS.#most romantic song ever#and shuake core TO ME!!#i like them an average amount#also listening to wedding song. and why we build the wall. and our lady of the underground. and how long. and and#JUST. JUST LISTEN TO HADESTOWN OK
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currently obsessed with theatre and long-running shows and how lines that were originally throwaway lines can take on new meanings based on the time and environment the show is performed in. anyway here’s a clip of ‘i know him’ from hamilton west end on the day liz truss resigned.
#never thought that line would be a show stopper#but like why we build the wall in hadestown being written in 2006. obviously not about trump.#and yet anyone who saw it post 2016 would assume so#i just think it's so interesting how things change over time!!!
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a piece i did for aleena over on twitter in lieu of stickers from my raffle, given that she already owns most of them LOL
they requested flug in the camp leader outfit from the Elmore short, and given that that's probably my favourite short i was more than happy to oblige!
(considering making that middle one into a sticker... he's just so cuuuuute)
#villainous#villainous fanart#dr. flug#demencia#5.0.5.#my art#aleena was sooooo patient with me and i super appreciate it#november and december were a total mess for me with me running that secret santa#did i talk about that? hi i moderate the r/neopets secret santa art event now#I GUESS#it was totally a labour of love i really cherish being a part of it#but i was WOEFULLY UNPREPARED#so its january and im not even done sending christmas cards out yet#and i meant to make more headway on that this week but i got sick#so. next week. i hope.#in between building ikea furniture#we desperately need storage so i bit the bullet and got a wall shelving unit#i'm very excited ive wanted it for like. two years now.#it wasnt cheap but thats what credit cards are for baybeeee#ok thats it love you bye#if you reblog please delete my tags lol
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faith in the future deserves to win album of the year for all this time alone
#and i keep on building mountains hoping that they'll turn to gold#but the truth is i still doubt that what i do can get me home#our eyes meet and i can tell that you’re the same as me?#it’s the way we see ourselves through walls of trees?#but the friends we make the love it takes it’s worth the pain?#a masterpiece#logan.txt
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got this very nice used quilt for pretty cheap. it's 100% cotton and very stiffly textured. the texture is amazing i love it so much. i am apparently not the only one.
bonus because the look on her face
#callie#also we have a lot of blankets on the couch#i have bad chronic pain sometimes and i use them to build support walls
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We still have this little critter, and she has successfully healed from her spay.
She rejected her homemade cone of shame (rolled up soccer socks courtesy of J) so we got her a proper baby shirt. It’s shocking we got her into it, and that she tolerated it as well as she did. She may be a shit, but she’s a good kid at heart. Maybe because she’s so stinkin’ cute.
It is probably wishful thinking, but her manners seem to be getting better. She still hasn’t been formally introduced to Zelda, but we can already tell she’s a little bully, so keep your fingers crossed because it would kinda suck to rehome her.
(It’s doubly hilarious because I’m the “no more cats can’t deal argh!” sort and this lil shit just HAD to choose OUR yard as the place to hang out in.)
Mammals are so utterly frustrating!
#Frida#cat#stray cat#tortoiseshell#tortie#she’s obnoxiously cute and sometimes that’s annoying cause I want to make sure she learns some good manners#she still likes to bite#but it’s mostly play biting and she’s slowly learning we find it rude#I’ve never been good at training animals and that’s all on me#Zelda’s backstory is she was borderline feral as a kitten when J found her#so she’s special and hates everything but j and me#she’s chosen me as her person which is really odd#I just don’t want Frida beating up on Zelda because Zelda is a coward#the shirt was adorable and it kept her from getting up to shenanigans#build a bear lookin’ ass#she fell asleep on me multiple times so at least she’s a cuddlebeast#when she’s not doing parkour off the walls#honestly she isn’t as much as a disaster as she could be so I am grateful
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Limp Bizkit featured in Crossbeat & RPM (Rock & Pops) Japanese Magazines (2000)
#where does a person sign up to lounge with LB in that cool little couch grotto?#I can bring the snacks fellas. Fluff your pillows? You got it boys!#Wes is probably like “Guys... I can hear the ocean through the wall!”#Lee just casually flipping Wes off#while Fred looks like he's about to get frisked by a cop like “heya copper... do these dickies make my ass look phat?”#Wes sneakily about to claw at Fred's head makes me chuckle#Sam and John are just there for the vibes lol#I just like seeing the guys have fun and be silly in photoshoots#poor image quality in some of these I know (and the one that's repeated but couldn't leave my boy Sam cropped out like that)#but what can you say? It builds character.#this one has been collecting dust in the drafts for god knows how long. the orange was calling out to me this October I guess.#Limp Bizkit#nu metal#Fred Durst#Sam Rivers#DJ Lethal#Wes Borland#John Otto#down the rabbit hole
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Tr fans looking at the newest tr wall like anyone up for wall heist (part 4?)
Tokyo revengers in joypolis
#ok but if we took all the walls so far could we potentially build a tr house????#tokyo revengers#tokrev#tokyo rev
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I dunno why, but I can kinda see White Spy as being rather vain for some reason (or that's at least another headcanon personality I am giving him that isn't really official, alongside me headcanoning him as being a pompous, sassy perfectionist).
Look'n handsome there, White. Look'n REAL handsome.
(Here's the original comic version that was released about a decade or so before the animated adaption from MADtv):
I have to imagine that White's fairly vain demeanor is also something Black usually exploits at every given opportunity via his pranks. I mean, I can definitely see Black as being quite a bit of a prankster. Here's another comic (which was never made into an animated adaption for MADtv nor CN's MAD; I wish they did for the former); however, White's more overdramatic as he falls for a rather obvious prank and his vanity is pretty much downplayed this time, I guess:
As much as I admire how much of a prankster Black tends to be, but poor White. The dude basically had a heart attack right then and there because of such a twisted prank Black just pulled on him. Wow, Black. Just, wow.
I do not claim ownership of any content. Spy vs. Spy belongs to the defunct MAD Magazine and the late, great Antonio Prohias.
#spy vs spy#black spy#white spy#antonio prohias#mad magazine#I swear White Spy is vain#as calculating and cunning ahead of time White is he tends to fall for the more obvious traps#boy is Black such a twisted prankster#as much as I admire Black's trickster and smart-alecky demeanor but wow dude...#also here we have another example of the architecture from the Spy vs. Spy comics being ridiculously designed#why would somebody brush their hair and use a hair dryer in a little building that is just a random washroom with just a sink and an outlet#not to mention said random little building having a wall missing no less
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ok just putting it out there
i don't intend on abandoning tumblr just yet, but man. man !! you can find me other places.
bluesky || pillowfort || cohost || patreon
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#chan says#JUST just made the cohost and pillowfort accounts#so. i don't know much about them but they look alright#love a tag system. anyway#i'll be hanging out around there. i see...some writing on the wall#pretty darn bummed. i ultimately just want to share my art#and there will always be places to do that and so i will#but i had just finally managed to build an audience here! wahh !!#plus there's a lot i like about tumblr !! ahh well. we watch and we see
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