Oh God, there’s this one Black Mirror episode, Shut Up And Dance, and you just made me imagine Lisa being in charge of a similar scheme.
*looks up the synopsis on Wikipedia*
Huh. Well, that’s something, alright. Maybe I’d have to actually watch it to really appreciate it, but from the synopsis alone, it’s unclear which message is supposed to have most weight. Don’t watch child porn? Be careful what you install? It’s fun to pit bad people against each other with blackmail? Are the hackers supposed to be seen as the goodguys of the episode?
Also, did the bank robbery have anything to do with anything? Was that just to make the police arrest Kenny, when they could have him arrested just for the child porn in the first place, which is what I assumed was happening until right before starting this sentence (not to mention the murder of the guy in the forest)? Or were the hackers using that to make their victims believe the hackers’ motives were monetary?
I should probably stop criticizing the narrative of an episode I haven’t seen of a show I haven’t seen (but have discussed and seen other episode synopses of).
But yeah, that sort of shenanigan seems like something Tattletale might enjoy doing, though I don’t think she’d make it a legit battle to the death sort of deal. She might make them think they had to battle to the death, but arrange for both to be arrested before they could do any real damage.
Also add the fact that this whole debaccle of her paying for stuff to everyone is basically by using blood money and the like from Coil’s enterprise. People tend to second guess where that sort of money comes from, specially if it comes from an unknown villain who shouldn’t have that much to give away to begin with. But apparently Taylor never considers or notices this
Yeah, that’s a good point. She was unwilling to use the dirty money from her Undersider gigs back when she was trying to be a hero, but now she’s spending Coil’s money left and right without even sparing the idea of dirty and/or blood money a single line of narration.
It is implied in Interlude 8b that much, maybe most, of Coil’s riches are actually clean – earned through using his power on business decisions – but Taylor wouldn’t know that, and some of it is definitely ill-gotten.
At least Taylor could rest assured that he’d probably still have gotten that money regardless of how much of it she spends (as long as she doesn’t spend so much that Coil is forced to increase his income), so even if it is blood money, Taylor not using it wouldn’t make much of a difference on that end, while if she does use it, she can make the best of it to make someone else’s life better.
Oh God, there’s this one Black Mirror episode, Shut Up And Dance, and you just made me imagine Lisa being in charge of a similar scheme.
*looks up the synopsis on Wikipedia*
Huh. Well, that’s something, alright. Maybe I’d have to actually watch it to really appreciate it, but from the synopsis alone, it’s unclear which message is supposed to have most weight. Don’t watch child porn? Be careful what you install? It’s fun to pit bad people against each other with blackmail? Are the hackers supposed to be seen as the goodguys of the episode?
Also, did the bank robbery have anything to do with anything? Was that just to make the police arrest Kenny, when they could have him arrested just for the child porn in the first place, which is what I assumed was happening until right before starting this sentence (not to mention the murder of the guy in the forest)? Or were the hackers using that to make their victims believe the hackers’ motives were monetary?
I should probably stop criticizing the narrative of an episode I haven’t seen of a show I haven’t seen (but have discussed and seen other episode synopses of).
But yeah, that sort of shenanigan seems like something Tattletale might enjoy doing, though I don’t think she’d make it a legit battle to the death sort of deal. She might make them think they had to battle to the death, but arrange for both to be arrested before they could do any real damage.
“I’m not good with girls, mainly.“ Any thoughts on this line and its implications towards their friendship (and aborted romantic relationship)?
I actually almost brought this up before he said it. I didn’t really comment on this line because this was discussed back when their ship was pierced by a hundred cannon balls and sank faster than you could say “Swiss cheese”.
I do like that we got a little more elaboration on why, and how it tied back to Brian’s relationship with his father, with his father bringing him to gyms filled with macho-men to train but not really giving him much opportunity to interact with girls.
This mix of exposure to machoism and inexperience with girls also seems to have instilled some lowkey sexism in Brian, though not too much more than average, and not too prominent a part of his character. He respects women; he just has some conceptions about the differences between men and women that may not be entirely accurate. Most people do, really, I’m just saying it might be slightly more prominent than average for Brian.
“But as far as bugs are concerned, at least, I figure anything goes.” but… what about bug rape?
(I’m assuming you mean bugs raping other bugs or Taylor forcing bugs to procreate, rather than raping a human using bugs. Which is a very disturbing concept that did cross my mind during that scene.)
Judging by Taylor’s overall attitude towards bugs and their lives, I think she’s including that too under “anything goes”, only considering human rape in her response to Charlotte. Taylor seems to have no qualms with deliberately sending bugs to their deaths or ordering her subordinates to kill a bug, and she already said she’s breeding them (though she doesn’t seem to be using her power to accelerate that, so maybe she does concider mind-control rape worse than mind-control murder even when it’s bugs). She is, quite literally, not the type that “wouldn’t hurt a fly”.
(Incidentally, I am.)
We also saw a similar attitude towards the rats. Taylor just directed her swarm to perform a thorough local rat genocide, showing absolutely no mercy or compassion for the rats. And yes, there is a profession for people who do this kind of thing, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less disturbing when they do it.
“First off we have the man who can wield a bearing-sword-sized, or bigger, blade as effortlessly as a dagger, provided it started out as one.” That’s not actually Jack’s power. He extends the cutting edge of the blade, not the blade itself. So he can cut you from across the room, but whatever he uses stays the same size. The benefit to using bigger weapons is that the force behind the swing also transfers.
Right. I guess my description of it was a bit influenced by the visual symbolism for his power in the piece I was talking about.
I think the description still kinda works if you take it with a pinch of metaphor salt. The blades don’t really grow, but in practice, it’s almost like that’s what he’s doing.
Incidentally, another benefit I can see to his power is that he can swing without being hindered by his surroundings. It remains to be seen whether the semi-metaphorical extension actually gives any feedback on the dagger’s end when the extended cutting edge hits something, but if it does, it still allows him to adjust his weapon according to the needs in the moment. Either way, he’d be able to swing a weapon effectively sized like a greatsword or bigger like he would a dagger or longsword, instead of the polearm-like way you’d normally have to use a greatsword.
In other words: Swinging a greatsword like a longsword or broadsword would usually cause the ground to get in the way of your sword movements, forcing greatsword wielders to use it like a polearm instead. Jack, however can use a smaller blade to avoid this problem and still get the range and power benefits of a greatsword (and beyond).
The Jack Slash fanart you recently posted was by synapsekisses, who has posted them to both their Tumblr and on the Parahumans subreddit with that name. They also have some other excellent pieces – a fantastic Bonesaw, perfectly creepy Coil & Dinah (that I’m pretty sure you’ve already seen), and a great Tattletale portrait as well as a reaction image of her, in reference to an Always Sunny reaction image.
*updates post to credit properly* Thank you!
And yeah, I’ve seen some of synapse’s work before – good stuff!
The Faultline picture is a meme because it’s never actually stated what color Faultline’s costume is, so enterprising fan artists can choose anything they want, no matter how garish.
Ahaha, I see! It is overall pretty vaguely described, too, more by feel than by its literal appearance.
When sending me this ask, Sharks also added:
Apparently including lonsheep.
Honestly? I really do like this design. It’s not really what I’d imagine character-wise, but it’s nice.
Have you heard of this Ladybug/Worm tone-swap by tumblr user Pabel and Nine? I remember you saying you were a fan of Ladybug at some point. It doesn’t spoil anything for Worm you haven’t already reached.
That sounds awesome and ridiculous. 😛
The cuteness, shipping fuel and banter of Miraculous Ladybug applied to the characters and setting of Worm… the gritty gray and black morality of Worm applied to the characters and setting of Miraculous Ladybug… I’ll admit I’m more interested in the former half, but the whole thing sounds great.
I can’t actually go to Pabel and Nine’s blog, due to spoilers, but if I could I’d definitely go there to check this out. 🙂
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