By icehippo. OG DOGGOS I really love the colors and drawing style of the Undersider group piece. It really makes it feel like a happy family drawing, and it’s nice to see the OG doggos included under the Undersiders label, as part of that happy family. As for Mannequin, again we have him in an […]
“A chemical trigger for something I already put in his DNA, when I was patching his regeneration abilities together. Reverses the regeneration so it does the opposite, starting with the heart.”
Ahh, interesting.
Amy looked at her hand. She’d just taken a life. A mercy, most probably, but she’d killed.
“WHAT HAVE I DONNNNE”
Something she had promised herself she would never do.
Aw.
She shivered. It had been so easy. Was this what it was like for her father? Had she just taken one more step toward being like him?
digamma-f-liveblogs: well that was easy Oh, so this is how you cure retrograde amnesia. Maybe it’d work on Mark’s procedural variant too! Hey, Amy, have you tried just telling Mark in nearly meaningless terms how to do one thing, in the hopes that it might cause all his skills to come back? It’s half-assed enough […]
The letter. Carol wasn’t angry in the same way Victoria was. What Amy felt from her ‘mother’ was a chill.
Oh right, I forgot to mention, “the letter she’d received” doesn’t sound like the same letter she took from her mom.
Her mom who is apparently Dumbledore.
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AMY DID YAH PUT YAH NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIYAH
She knew that she was only justifying the darker suspicions Carol had harbored towards her since she was first brought into the family.
Are you sure she actually is harboring such suspicions? It seems like Amy is prone to being insecure about this sort of thing, which may cause her to assume things that aren’t necessarily true about how others see her.
It’s possible, yes, that Amy’s right. I just want to keep the option open that she isn’t, because I’m not sure how much I trust her as a narrator for other people’s thoughts on her.
It was doubly crushing now, because Amy knew about Marquis. Amy knew that Carol was thinking the same thing she was.
That she’s heartless and callous, her father’s spitting image?
I mean… okay, fair, under the current circumstances, it may very well be true that Carol thinks that of Amy in relation to the Mark case.
Fun fact #1 from the book of Revalation: The Four Horsemen (Conquest, War, Famine/Pestilence, and Death), were actually summoned by Jesus to punish the wicked.
Fun fact #2 about the book of Revalation: Originally the word apocalypse meant revalation. The Bible book being called both Revalation and Apocalypse associated the word with the end of the world.
Fun fact #3 about Revelation: Armageddon is the name of the place where the last battle is to be fought
I knew the last few, but the first one is new to me. Fits quite well with everything else I learned about the events of Revelation when I went wiki-reading during the chapter, though.
The Christian end times are pretty intense.
Also, I like when the word “apocalypse” is used for a revelation instead of a mass destruction. 🙂
She tried the front door and stepped inside. The inside was nicer than the outside, watertight, heavily reinforced. A feminine looking teenaged boy with a mop of dark curls stood at the other side of the building. He had two men and a woman guarding him.
CALLED IT
Hiya, Alec, what’s up?
I mean, besides being visited by a girl who just made your soldiers kill themselves.
Also, is Alec controlling the men and the woman? And if he is, would all of him feel the effects of Newbie messing with his puppets’ emotions and be forced to act on them, or would they be mostly immune to tricks like the suicide switch because no matter how much Newbie might make them want to do something, they don’t have any control over their body to do it with?
Based on how things went with Shadow Stalker, I’m inclined to think the latter.
I always like to discuss the concept of sympathizing in writing. I’ve seen people who love it, I’ve seen even people who are scared of it, because they find it dangerous. Like it is somehow dangerous to humanize broken, damaged people. It is exactly what will help us reflect, as a race, I feel. Washing away social constructs requires you to understand them and, yes, even sometimes sympathize with terrible people. Its why I loathe tumblr’s constant hate parades against people sometimes.
Lets use a recent unnamed case for example. Lets say an artist is showing off his defensiveness towards pedophilia or being homophobic. You DO NOT solve this with indifference, but neither with pointing at their flaws or shoving hate and death threats, calling them names. You talk, you understand and you make them understand too. You take away the US vs. THEM mentality instead of fueling it.
Hell, its why pedophilia is such a problem anyways! Because we dont TALK about it, we shove it under a rug, we dont educate our children and we MEDICATE, arresting people who DO IT, instead of PREVENTING it, treating it like it is, a mental/psychological health issues, taking it out by the root. These people, all kinds, are outcasts and they know it. We bring them in instead of pushing them out, because we are oh-so-faulty on seeing the transition between person with problems to person causing problems. Taylor, and Worm, is itself a PERFECT character study for this.
Yeah, I agree with a lot of this.
This sort of thing is part of why I like shows like Steven Universe and MLP:FiM. They both make most of their villains sympathetic but misguided, broken people whose better sides can be brought out, and whose flaws can be mitigated, with a little help from people who care for them. It is a good thing to write your villains as people, in general, which was one thing I praised Interlude 11e for.
Yet, as you mention, it’s something I’ve heard of Steven Universe getting criticized for doing with the “big bads” of the show, even though it’d be straight up out of character for the show to not do it.
(Steven Universe is far better than MLP at executing this. The prevalence of the “evil switch” in major villains is one of MLP:FiM’s biggest flaws as far as I’m concerned, but the core idea is present and prominent.)
I do think it’s important to stay aware when you sympathize with these people, though. I can sympathize with Hookwolf, or Purity, or Coil, but I should keep in mind what sort of people they are while I do so.
Also, I personally think pedophiles are closer to the “person causing problems” end of the gradient, at least if they act on it in some way. Which does not require it going as far as actually having sex with a child. However, “bringing them in instead of pushing them out” might in some cases be a better solution. A lot of things should be treated on a case by case basis, and this might be one of them.
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