#mysterious egg post discourse

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

re ur egg post. aren't eggs a kind of fetishised commodity? in marxist philosophy within capitalism an egg has inherent value as a commodity that can create more capital for capitalist and is detached from the value of the labour and the being (a chicken) who created it. the labour of animals is not valued at all under capitalism. even egg laying hens are eventually killed and eaten and, once they have been sexed, boy and girl chicks are separated at birth and the boys are put in macerators (blenders basically) and ground up alive (or put in gas chambers etc) as they are not useful for laying eggs and farmers do not usually bother to raise them for slaughter for 'meat'

commodity fetishism is a very intersting part of marxist theory and can be applied not just to objects but also to living (or often dead- we kill over 60 billion farmed land animals a year, that's not including farmed fish, bycatch or wild animals) animals

DO YOU DEADASS THINK LIVE CHICKS ARE BEING PUT INTO GAS CHAMBERS

there's TONS of stuff i could say to debunk each line of this but frankly its NOT worth my time but oh my god. the line "boy and girl are separated at birth and the boys are put in macerators (blenders basically) and ground up alive (or put in gas chambers etc)" is the absolute funniest sentence ive ever gotten to read. why is 'meat' in quotes? what is the "etc?" how does marxism even play into this? WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ME EATING HARD BOILED EGGS?

THIS IS MY FAVORITE ASK OF ALL TIME.

anyway for any of my followers who don't know as much about poultry raising basically every single word of this ask is absolute bullshit me and my family have been raising chickens for eggs and meat for decades nobody is putting the chicks into blenders alive. (not to mention that it's pretty difficult to sex chicks until they're quite a bit older)

[alchemicaladarna]

Little tangent about my journey with the QSMP fandom <3

First, I'm going to preface this post by saying, I wouldn't have been interested in the server, been introduced to so many communities, languages, and cultures, if not for the eggs and the admins. So, I initially gained interest when I saw a lot of people posting about Tallulah and.... Misclick duo (lmao) so I decided to check out what everybody was talking about mid-April 2023.

I watched Philza's April 29 VOD- "last" day of the eggs. Absolutely loved Chayanne and Phil planting potatoes because of Phil telling stories about Techno. Cried like a baby after. So now I'm invested.

I downloaded Twitch the next day, in time for the Brazilians' arrival. My main pov continued to be Philza, so I was a Crow for quite a while, mostly into the summer. I started watching Cellbit when the mystery really started to ramp up by the end of May.

Then Bobby died and everyone's reactions made me sob for like, a week.

Summer was probably the most time I've had fun watching QSMP. I don't know why, but it was such a good era, despite the discourse about elections lmao. I began to gravitate more towards watching Foolish's pov and when Jaiden began streaming every day, I had her as my main pov as well. Shoutout to the doozers and Jaiden mains <33

Then, Tina and Bagi arrived and I began religiously watching them as well for, uh. Reasons 🏳️‍🌈 XD. Got invested in Bagi's lore and then everybody became really busy during October so Bad and Bagi were pretty much the only ones consistently on the server XD.

Then, and only then, did I hear little whispers about q!Badboyhalo's soul vultures and possible death? And I got really really interested then. And that's where the Ghostie era started lmao. Up to now, Bad is the only person I'd watch consistently and keep up to date on his lore because well, after the soul vultures arc and especially Sweet Despair, you can't really go back to anything else after that you know?

Of course, without the QSMP, I don't think I would've discovered/re-discovered so many wonderful streamers like Fit, Tubbo, Étoiles, Mouse, or Baghera to name a few.

The past few weeks have probably been the shittiest and most anxiety-ridden weeks for me ever. But, I don't want all the negativity and anxiety to overshadow what was, for me, THE most special and unique fandom experience I've ever had. The QSMP is such a special project, there's no doubt about that. I want that to continue.

So, if this post can offer any sort of positivity and relieve some of the dread we've all been feeling, to any person from any community, that would mean so much to me already.

Send love to and the utmost kindness and care to any and all ex admins, and continue to show your support for the current admins too please. It will take a long time for this to be resolved, and it's terrifying I know, but all we can do is support each other and wait.

Remember to always take care of yourselves and no matter what happens, it always rains before you can see a rainbow right? So, in other words, things will become worse before they can get better. Idk what will happen with the QSMP, but know that life becomes better eventually. No matter the outcome, you'll be ok. We'll all be ok. <333

Edit: oh my god I just realized qsmp 1st anniversary isn't tomorrow. Today is the 20th djrjtbrbebd

There's still 2 days but um everything else I said is still true XDDDD

[iantimony]

tuesday line go up (derogatory)

hello from the end of my workday. writing this on my office computer as i watch my simulation crash in real time in the background. convergence line go up :(

listening: astonishing legends the body on the moor part 1, for some reason astonishing legends is such good Cleaning And Organizing noise to my brain. i've raised my eyebrow at some of their conclusions sometimes but i love a good unsolved mystery that doesn't focus on true crime what i can say

more 00s, just whatever shit the spotify algorithm spits out basically..."hard and heavy headbanging tuesday afternoon". i think for brevity i am going to focus on posting only the things that stuck out to me or are ear worms at the moment, which for this week is miss murder by afi, the kill by 30 seconds to mars, and out of control by hoobastank, especially the line in the latter after the chorus that goes 'and i may never know the answer to this endless mystery' that for some reason tickles my brain.

reading: Bring Back Those Pumped Italian Sodas (Anna Hezel): i LOVE italian sodas. the candy shop on main street near me does italian sodas and it is my favorite little treat to do a hot girl walk downtown and get a little bevvy to come with me. they whip so hard. bring them back everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!

elitism is the enemy of the people (Mina Le) and the linked The machine in the garden. (Emily Sundberg) ... discourse(tm) about What Substack Is For, which means nothing to me as a non-substack user. i use a rss reader to follow a few specific substacks but i do not use the platform even a little bit. sundberg seems to disparage the list format (shoutout to miss deb perelmen who i saw in there as an example of things that are pushed on the platform now) (deb's newsletter is one of the ones i follow with my rss feed lol) slash the concept of "list of content I’m consuming" which. looks at my weekly roundup posts. lol. i do understand to an extent, though - does my weekly roundup post make me a Writer(tm)?? i would kinda agree that no not really.

this zine that i think i reblogged yesterday is very cute.

watching: i saw the new alien movie with a friend! it was really good, i enjoyed it, i did look up the jumpscares beforehand because i do not do well with those in theaters especially the big imax ones, but it ended up not being necessary - the local theater here has no imax or any of the big surround sound gimmick things, which i actually prefer, and it also means the tickets were dirt cheap. 10/10 experience. the movie itself was fun, the correct amount of peen/vag imagery that one would expect from an alien movie. important to note that the dehumanization of an android character (who is also the only black character and strongly autism coded) is a big plot thing, it is not Good that he is treated that way and that is also a plot thing but it is important to know going in so it's not a surprise (thanks to someone in a server i'm in for pointing that out, i didn't clock it as being potentially triggering when i saw it but i was like ohh yeah that does make sense to warn people about). really good cast and plot overall, there was only like one point where i was like "whyyy nooo that makes no sense, why would you do that" (without too much spoiling, the gravity turns on and off in a portion and they were just. zooming up an elevator shaft using the lack of gravity. like why would you not be staying near the ladder. you KNOW it's going to turn off at some random point. anyways), but in general the decisions the characters made were really reasonable which made it very fun to watch the consequences of like, yeah, that is also the choice i would have made, shit. the ending made me go EUGH!! in a good way. lots of good easter eggs that i probably missed some of. made me weirdly nostalgic for my dad because when i was growing up he had a life-size hyper-realistic rubber facehugger model. he used to mime getting attacked by it. my mom hated that fucking thing. it must have gotten thrown out or given away at some point. anyways, as the kids would say: it's kino

thank u celestialtourguide for ur dropout login xoxo, i have been watching a lot of 'make some noise'. i love how sometimes you can hear the crew laughing in the background.

youtubesphere:

jimmy robins: The Fallout of Watcher's Betrayal, what sparked me looking more at dropout. also found out from the comments section that sam reich is son of robert reich ??? wild

finished the george r r martin problem. basically: yeagh

dangelo wallace: not gonna link em all but his videos on chapell roan, katy perry, blake lively, and starbucks. pop culture updates that mean nothing to me. good background noise tho

mina le: underconsumption-core, travel outfits, and Paul Mescal’s shorts, the luxury of privacy & the celebrity vs. influencer paradox. my boyfriend is a proponent of the tiny inseam shorts and i wholly encourage it. more of that, please, from everyone.

made in the moment: My Crafty Boston Apartment Tour. as someone who is also just moved into my own apartment alone for the first time and is in the process of making the space feel like mine, this hits interestingly.

playing: dnd as normal. i finally got to go mask-off, was replaced by a doppleganger like six months ago and finally got to pop off and kill some guys and beat the shit out of my friends lol >:b i have also moved the game that i run to biweekly instead of weekly. i just have too much fucking things happening and dm burnout real.

making: evil eye coasters! these made me very nervous because of how streaky the underglaze is! so i did the tedious task of re-coloring in around my sgraffito lines of my [redacted] coasters. clear coated them and crossing my fingers. these coasters are also too thin, two of them are too warped to use as coasters so ill have to figure out what to do with them. maybe drilling a hole (carefully...) so i can hang them up somewhere? the [redacted] coasters are like twice the thickness so i don't think they'll be warped as bad thankfully.

i also. made. mesopotamian foot bowl :) i did not have a reference image at the time because that happened to be when the t mobile towers went down for a few hours last saturday so i kinda just freeballed it but he looks. so silly i love him. i think im gonna have to modify him, i was chatting with the studio owner about it and she was like "if you threw that bowl on a wheel you should hollow the legs out, wheel pottery twists slightly as it dries and that plus the drying rates being different will make them just pop right off", which, i can always glue them back on! but i should give him the best odds possible. bonus lil tushy

i made a BIG BOWL !! it's not really clear from the image but it's the most clay i've ever thrown at once, i think it's like. 2.5 lb?? i didn't actually weigh it first oops i should weigh it. but it's like a foot across at the top. i put it on little ball feet to use as some sort of display bowl i think.

and there's one more bowl that is really unremarkable so no picture for now.

fiber art: made a fucking. magic the gathering card cozy for a friend that my local mtg group is putting together a care package for. it's so fucking stupid i love it. not gonna post a pic of the front, it's just a dark red border to hold the card in. i might outline the swamp symbol with matching embroidery floss (or maybe navy??) to make it pop more, might also sew a small square of fabric on the inside to hide the loose ends. colors were chosen to match his main commander which is braids

eating: FINALLY finished the gyudon. um . didn't cook many more recipes. i was going to do one pot chicken meatballs with greens and deb smittenkitchen's corn bacon and parmesan pasta last night but i spent two hours wandering walmart like my ancestors wandered the desert and came home and just had leftovers lol. the cooking will commence......today after i post this and go home.

misc: the midwest is hot this week! fml! on the plus side i don't think my average energy bill in my new place will be worse than my old one despite the worse insulation based on the mid-cycle energy report email i got, on the minus side now i am not splitting that cost so technically it feels more expensive :( thankfully i have finally been finishing the process of closing my dad's accounts so i will have a little padding in my bank account, plus i think i am supposed to get the fellowship i won deposited soon?? shrug. i booked some flights using credit card points that in retrospect i should have booked with Money because of that fellowship but oh well. i am still in the Everything Is So Expensive stage of moving as i finish getting furniture and miscellaneous home goods, hence the two hour walmart wander yesterday. i still need a couch. i think i am getting a frat house walmart futon for like $150 just because it's space efficient and won't break the bank and will be easy to sell when i move out. i should probably order that before i go visit home for 3 weeks ...... anyways. that's this tuesdaypost done and dusted.

[embossross]

2022 in Books: Fiction Edition

literary fiction published 2015-2022 (based on publish of english translation!)

breasts and eggs by mieko kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

heads of the colored people by nafissa thompson-spires (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - a perfect short story collection. so witty!

the hole by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

larose by louise erdrich (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

i will die in a foreign land by kalani pickhart (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the house of broken angels by luis alberto urrea (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

less by andrew sea greer (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

there there by tommy orange (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

at night all blood is black by david diop (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

beautiful world, where are you by sally rooney (⭐⭐⭐)

weasels in the attic by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)

joan is okay by weike wang (⭐⭐⭐)

a tiny upward shove by melissa chadburn (⭐⭐⭐) - one of the most upsetting books i've ever read :( lots of merit but good lord is it rough

open water by caleb azumah nelson (⭐⭐⭐)

earthlings by sayaka murata (⭐⭐⭐) - competing with a tiny upward shove for most disgusting difficult book to read. this one i almost couldn't complete

kim jiyoung, born 1982 by nam-joo cho (⭐⭐) - this is so overrated. it's not a novel. it's an essay pretending to be a novel.

very nice by marcy dermansky (⭐⭐)

true love by sarah gerard (⭐⭐) - ever wanted to shake some sense into a character before?

spark by naoki matayoshi (⭐⭐)

people from my neighborhood by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐)

the doll by ismail kadare (⭐)

literary fiction published 1971-2014

sexing the cherry by jeanette winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i have never highlighted more lines in a book. prose got me in a chokehold.

love in the time of cholera by gabriel garcia marquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

norwegian wood by haruki murakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't wanna like murakami as much as i do but damn he doesn't miss

midnight's children by salman rushdie (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

less than zero by bret easton ellis (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

woman at point zero by nawal el saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - read this if you want to get homicidally angry :)

lion cross point by masatsugu ono (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

post office by charles bukowski (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

dept. of speculation by jenny offill (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if i'd ever had to fight for a relationship this would have been a 5 star.

the dangers of smoking in bed by mariana enriquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

woman hollering creek and other stories by sandra cisneros (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - cheat code: read this aloud. prose drips off the tongue.

the ten loves of mr. nishino by hiromi kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

kitchen by banana yoshimoto (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the divorce by cesar aira (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - 4 stars on the merit of the first part. the rest is probably a 3 star

if you kept a record of sins by andrea bajani (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

love by hanne orstavik (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

too loud a solitude by bohumil hrabal (⭐⭐⭐)

the factory by hiroko oyamada (⭐⭐⭐)

a feather on the breath of god by sigrid nunez (⭐⭐⭐) - good for what it is but a bit lightweight? maybe too critical because i loved 'the friend' by the same author

the white tiger by aravind adiga (⭐⭐⭐)

sleepless nights by elizabeth hardwick (⭐⭐⭐)

the story of my teeth by valeria luiselli (⭐⭐) - cool concept. unsure about the execution.

interpreter of maladies by jhumpa lahiri (⭐⭐)

battles in the desert by jose emilio pacheco (⭐⭐) - should have been a novel not a novella. it ends right as it starts to gain steam

literary fiction published start of time-1970

the passion according to g.h. by clarice lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - favorite book of the year!!!! an existential crisis on paper!!!!

japanese tales of mystery & imagination by edogawa rampo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - the 1st short story in this is insane! insane! the chair! i'm screaming!

miramar by naguib mahfouz (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

we have always lived in the castle by shirley jackson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the blind owl by sadegh hedayat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - pinnacle of slow descent into madness fiction...or it's not that slow i guess

pedro paramo by juan rulfo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the turn of the screw by henry james (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - would have been 4 stars, but i read an edition with lit crit essays in the back and it was so fun to read the "but are the ghosts real?" discourses that i had to give it that extra star

i am a cat by natsume soseki (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - if soseki ever described my physical appearance in writing i'd promptly perish. he eviscerates people. dear god.

giovanni's room by james baldwin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the old man and the sea (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the interpreters by wole soyinka (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i don't even know what i like about this book. bad characters, no plot, confusing prose. and yet...it's got a rhythm. it possessed me.

pocho by jose antonio villareal (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the living is easy by dorothy west (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - one of my fave protags of all time!

yesterday by juan emar (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

naomi by jun'ichiro tanizaki (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

passing by nella larsen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

bartleby, the scrivener: a story of wall street by herman melville (⭐⭐⭐) - tell you why i didn't give this more stars? i'd prefer not to.

season of migration to the north by tayeb salih (⭐⭐⭐)

everything and nothing by jorge luis borges (⭐⭐⭐) - i read this with a migraine. i was not in the right mindset. i'll give ficciones more attention someday.

portrait of the artist as a young man by james joyce (⭐⭐) - listen i'm not proud of this rating either. joyce isn't 2 stars. i'm just a 2 star reader.

genre fiction from all time

the fifth season by n.k. jemisin (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐) - STUNNING

the invisible life of addie larue by v.e. schwab (⭐⭐⭐⭐) - i usually don't care for fantasy and hated the other v.e. schwab i read, so this was a nice surprise. it lost me at points but ultimately regained me. deals with the devil are my kryptonite.

a court of mist and fury by sarah j. maas (⭐⭐⭐) - i get the hype. hard to criticize because its faults are what make it so good to others. i liked a lot of it.

how to stop time by matt haig (⭐⭐⭐)

the goddess chronicle by natsuo kirino (⭐⭐⭐)

never have i ever by isabel yap (⭐⭐⭐)

almond by sohn won-pyung (⭐⭐⭐)

once more upon a time by roshani chokshi (⭐⭐⭐)

sea of ruin by pam godwin (⭐⭐) - i thought this was a pirate romance. it is smut. pure smut. i was blushing on audio book. not a fan.

city of refuge by kenzo kitakata (⭐⭐)

nothing but blackened teeth by cassandra khaw (⭐⭐) - bizarre ending. like it could have been ok but it missed the obvious homerun for no reason.

velvet was the night by silvia garcia-moreno (⭐⭐)

colorful by eto mori (⭐⭐)

plays

millennium approaches by tony kushner (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

a doll's house by henrik ibsen (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

the inspector general by nikolai gogol (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

waiting for godot by samuel beckett (⭐⭐) - listen i'm just a dumb dumb. i know it's good. i just didn't like it.

[thenighttrain]

leanne always bringing the chaos sjsjsjsj it's so funny it's always your posts at the centre of a discourse

so when do you think she was cloned?

i knoow like idk how i attract this energy! and it was a perfectly normal post 😭 i shouldn’t have reblogged it but my instinct is to troll right back when i see a comment like that..

so i think she was cloned sometime in 2016/17, during the months we didn’t see her. it was a mysterious disappearance and the perfect opportunity to clone herself. we all thought lwymmd was satire but she was being literal. she said there were easter eggs in the music video we still haven’t figured out - she was talking about this. the maths is mathing ✅

[themarinaalexis]

Dissecting the PLL’s Friendships

Doing some rewatching has made me really consider the friendships between the individual Liars, and I thought it would be interesting to dissect each one, discussing their dynamics with each other and who I feel had the strongest and weakest bonds. I’ll start with the core four, and may make a separate post detailing their relationships with Alison and Mona.

Hanna & Emily

If I had to label one friendship between the girls’ as the strongest, it would have to be Hanna and Emily. Not only did they never seem to get into the big blowout fights that some of the girls did, they showed each other support and love during some of the biggest moments. When Hanna found out that Emily was gay, she provided compassion and reassurance that it wouldn’t change anything between them. Emily’s first reaction to Hanna’s dismissal from the pageant that she needed to win to pay for college was to enter it and win the money for her. It’s undeniable that all of the Liars supported each other, but Hanna and Emily always seemed to go the extra mile.

Spencer & Aria

There’s always seemed to be a bit of discourse surrounding Aria and Spencer’s friendship. Are they truly the strongest friendship in the show? Is “team Sparia” overrated? Having watched their friendship play out, I think it’s indisputable that they had a close bond. There was sort of a “big sister, little sister” vibe going on in their scenes that adds to that closeness. I can’t say they had the most significant friendship as far as bigger moments and storylines, but their friendship often felt like the most normal bond between teen girls, and they tended to be the duo that “got things done” as far as the mystery and investigation.

Emily & Spencer

It seems like fans tend to fall into one of two camps when it comes to this friendship: Those who believe they were the closest out of the girls and will die on that hill, and those who don’t think they were particularly close at all. I fall more into the second group than the first. While they certainly had their great moments together and I do believe they cared for each other, their similar personalities (protective, headstrong, with a tendency toward judgmental attitudes) led to more fights between them than any other combination of Liars. They also didn’t seem to have the compassion toward each other’s problems that they often did for others (there was a coldness that permeated Emily’s attitude toward Spencer spilling her guts about Caleb, and Spencer’s reaction to Emily lamenting her stolen eggs). 

Aria & Hanna

This friendship is unique in that it seemed like they were perhaps the closest out of the girls in the first season or so (even referring to each other specifically, multiple times, as “best friends”), but drifted apart as the seasons went on. Maybe this just had to do with the writers determining which combinations of Liars worked the best together, or maybe it really did have to do with the rumored tension between Lucy and Ashley starting around season three, but the fondness between Aria and Hanna seemed to diminish as the show went on, aside from a few sweet moments in later seasons.

Hanna & Spencer

I’ve always maintained that while entertaining on a show, Hanna and Spencer’s friendship would never last in real life. Between Spencer constantly correcting Hanna’s pronunciation and Hanna making snarky comments about Spencer’s intelligence and ambition, at times they almost seemed more like frenemies than friends. I would however, say that despite the snark and bickering, they seemed to have one of the most genuine and consistent relationships on the show, ignoring, of course, the love triangle disaster. Between Spencer seeking out Hanna for support after her parents’ separation, and Spencer comforting Hanna during Ashley’s time in jail, they were consistently there for each other.

Aria & Emily

Undeniably, for me, this is the weakest relationship between the four girls, which is ironic considering they were the first to reconnect at the show’s start. It always felt like the writers just...forgot to establish a deeper friendship between these two when they did all of the others. While they tried to make up for it later in the show by pairing off Aria and Emily for a good amount of storylines in season 5B and beyond, and they had their fair share of fun moments together (the stand-out being their conversation about prom in “FrAmed”), they never seemed to have the big scenes together that all of the other Liar combos did, and my perspective of their friendship weakened as a result.

Who would YOU say are the closest out of the core four Liars?

[animefreak1145]

Call me very silly, but I’m impressed with BOCW’s (short) campaign at how it’s good at capturing the mystery and mindfuck, and how everything’s up to you.

Don’t get me wrong, I really love Adler but I don’t condone both his nasty actions and Perseus’ actions at all. It’s kinda funny on how ppl are debating whether Bell belongs to Adler or Perseus, but to me, there is no right or wrong.

It’s only up to your imagination.

In my headcanon, Bell knew that both the US and USSR are nasty and right in their own ways, and their choice is just up to you. I find it silly if ppl come on others for choosing Adler or vice versa with Perseus, so my place is a discourse-free zone if you’re wondering 🥴

fuckidon’twannatalkabtthelatestcutscene

I concur! Despite me wishing it was longer—seen here with this wonderful user’s post—I am still wholeheartedly impressed.

I am still reeling on how amazing the game is, and the mission Break on Through. There are many Easter Eggs throughout the game that showed you hints of you being brainwashed—or just something not being quite right with Bell at least. (I really thought Bell just had repressed trauma with Perseus while in Vietnam and Adler was trying to get it out for way too long. I am embarrassed at how much I trusted Adler. 💀)

And I never really took note of such a debate, hmmmm…but I can see where others can get that from. Although we do see Perseus and Bell had a close relationship as seen in the Duga ending, but let’s not make it seem Bell wasn’t a tool for Perseus. Just like they were for Adler.

Depending on one’s own take of Adler in fan universe, there’s no denying that’s all Adler saw Bell was. Perhaps there was a hint of companionship in the few weeks they knew each other—torture/brainwashing included—based on how Adler sent certain dialogue in Break on Through and Hudson commenting “They don’t know who they’re dealing with” about the safehouse crew and Bell getting closer(or Hudson may have just been talking about Perseus, it can go either way) but really, that’s what Bell was seen as.

Perseus I’m sure sees/saw Bell as that to a degree, but it mixed with the companionship/comrade aspect so Bell naturally became more to Perseus than a tool/subordinate.

In the end though sadly, like Mason, Bell is a pawn between two large powerhouses of a game board that have others moving them around. A shame we didn’t get more between these two, they have so many comparisons and yet differences due to where Bell was born Shame they were born in the wrong country.

I completely agree the two super houses of countries are horrible, deplorable, and every other -ble there is like terrible—yet it’s how it is. How every country is. What every country would do for theirs, no matter how sick the patriotism can go.

It’s what makes COD:BOCW a brilliant game that way, that no country is a saint no matter how righteous the path may look.

Thank you again for another ask! >/////<

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technotranquility replied to your post:                  oh, so his prosthetic arm is just —– you know —-...                

   …maybe it’s just a prosthetic arm that’s made to look like a normal one so he can do buisness like a person?    

primedspecimen replied to your post:                   oh, so his prosthetic arm is just —– you know —-...                

I agree with @technotranquility​. Even in his first short, his right arm appears to be flesh and blood, too, even tho he punched through a metal wall without the gauntlet.

i can see your guys’ view, really, and I would agree with you, but blizzard has... how do you say it in english ugh.... created precedents? in ow there are a lot of characters that have prosthetic limbs, on top of my mind: junkrat, symmetra, mccree and genji. probably there’s more, but i can’t recall right now. (i am talking specifically about upper half on the body)

now, excluding symmetra’s arm/gauntlet, since it has been made with the specific purpose of shaping objects through hard light, we still have rat, mccree and genji. i don’t remember if it has been mentioned in actual canon, but it’s very likely that rat created his prosthetic arm himself from scrap, so there is a reason why it is so odd and mechanical and not polished, not refined.

mccree? the story behind his prosthetic arm is a mystery, we know nothing, it looks more mechanical than cybernetical, but still, it doesn’t look that human, does it? its all metal and shiny and stuff. it stands out a lot for someone who would like to keep a low profile, it is a detail a bystander would remember for sure if they ever assisted to a shootout in which mccree was involved. if there is A WAY to make it look so human, why did mccree not bother to, you know, actually try and make it look like that? and pray, mccree’s arm is finely tuned, it gotta be for sure. it’s really an amazing piece of engineering.

now, genji. i want to write a more explanatory discourse on his case, because you know, gotten revived from the brink of death, blackwatch’s deadly weapon, yadda yadda yadda but i am tired, so please imagine it HAHAHAH but bare with me: since his ENTIRE BODY was rebuilt into a cyborg and since OF COURSE that would have been a fucking AWFUL trauma for a young man, and we have like recurring proof of how ‘unfit’, ‘unnatural’, that made/makes him feel, why don’t actually try and make it look more human, if THAT was a possibility????

so, with doomfist’s prosthetic arm looking so human, i only call that.... mistake. a recurring one too. i am perfectly aware his prosthetic arm was showed several times, in the origin short, in the masquerade comic, but now with the storm rising we have a very close look and it’s just--- super disappointing. especially given how awfully augmented his OTHER ARM, his FLESH AND BLOOD ARM, is! look at here, look just at his hand!! :

knuckle shotguns, odd light on the back of his hand, synthetic palm that are locked to the fingers with some weird metallic ball, some red esagonal pattern on his arm.... and wanna talk about his HEAD?

first, look at the part of his body that merges with the gauntlet, on the front. what are those lights for???? and also: what is that light on his temple, if not fashion statement? XD the headpiece is removable, okay, but:

TOTALLY STEALTHY AND NATURAL HAHAHAH.

and his ENTIRE HEAD has this like.... cracks? around it? like as if the upper part of his skull were removable. anyways---- totally NOT a human look.

what i am trying to say is--- why bother making your arm look human when a) your other arm totally doesn’t and b) your head is a cracked egg with strobo red lights????

this post is----- too long.

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Hello! I was wondering if you could tell me about having a nerite snail? I want to get a snail but I'm concerned about the breeding rate. I know Apple snails can hold sperm for up to 6 months after mating and that females will lay eggs even if they aren't fertile. I don't know if it's the same for nerites, but I don't think I could handle squishing the eggs or anything.

Hello there anon! :D Thanks for the ask ^-^I most certainly CAN tell you about having a nerite snail! I have one myself. his name is lestrade :3 he is a handsome lil cutie ^-^

Nerite snails are fantastic algae eaters, and poop a lot less than mystery snails per my experience (I had one when I first got into the hobby). If your tank doesn’t have a ton of algae for them to snack on, you can supplement their diet with algae wafers, fresh blanched veggies, or snello! [ Snello recipe from “Snails, Snails, Snails” Facebook group here:https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/file/snello1pix.pdf?token=AWzty23Ice_qrDFLLn0V7CkUqgbpbhPRXh_iD_3YHRpivbpucukh8EzgSTorznniF7UEb-_WoXle-HaTj91c_SUHE_AX_jKeFD-ECwWqjPG77OncC8YgD9j6Q0wERNtvD1RnCbVmjlF77CbKkjIG1-D- ]

They come in tons of different colors and patterns too :p Lestrade is a tiretrack (aka tiger) nerite, but there are also black racer nerites, zebra nerites, tri-color, red and horned nerites! Horned nerites are much smaller as adults than other nerites :p[ A recent post/discourse about horned nerites here: https://hella-free-space.tumblr.com/post/160924210019/horned-nerites-these-freshwater-snails-are-much ]

[ photo source: http://www.fishforums.net/threads/tons-of-nerite-eggs-on-driftwood.426761/ ]From what I’ve read, nerites are sexual! That means there needs to be a male AND a female in order to reproduce successfully. I don’t *think* that females will lay unfertile eggs, though, so if you end up with only one nerite snail and eggs in your tank, there may have been some breeding going in the store tank, before you brought your snail home. Nerite snails can lay eggs in freshwater, but they will only hatch/survive in brackish water.The eggs look like little white dots. I’ve never had my nerite snail lay eggs in any of the aquariums I’ve kept him (i don’t actually know my snail’s sex…i just gave it a male name ^-^”) in, but the eggs seem like a pain to remove since nerites lay individual eggs and not egg cases (like mysteries do). I don’t think you have to squish them or remove them if you don’t want to though, since they either won’t hatch or won’t survive long in freshwater, you don’t have to worry about snails overpopulating your tank :p

[ Photo Credit: “DSC_5332-2 (de-wolf)” by de-wolf, https://hiveminer.com/Tags/radula,snail/Interesting ]Fun Fact! Nerites have radulas, and their little radulas leave these cool tracks as they eat algae and stuff off the glass or ornaments in your tank! :p

If anyone has anything to add or correct, please reblog or let me know! :)

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they r in your inbox grilling you on chicken communism

GODDDDDDD THE FUNNIEST PART OF IT. THE FUNNIEST PART IS I WASN'T EVEN EATING FACTORY FARMED EGGS WHEN MAKING THAT POST. THEY CAME FROM MY OWN BACKYARD CHICKENS. NONE OF THE MADE UP ASS SCENARIO THAT ANON CAME UP WITH EVEN APPLIES. I DIDN'T BUY THOSE EGGS

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tagged by @everybodys-favourite-fanboy​ to do an ask thing, I’m not gonna tag anyone but if u wanna do it consider urself tagged

Rules: answer 30-ish questions and tag 4 to 20 blogs you wanna get to know better.

1. Nicknames: Generally people just use my actual name (though recently “Grandma Unicorn” has gained some traction; it’s a longer story than belongs here)

2. Gender: Non-binary

3. Star sign: Capricorn

4. Height: 174cm / 5′8″

5. Time: 6:10pm

6. Birthday: January 11

7. Favorite bands: Daft Punk, Silversun Pickups, Placebo

8. Favorite solo artists: Mystery Skulls counts as a solo artist right?

9. Song stuck in my head: Freak by Silverchair bc my mum has been constantly and badly singing it for the past several months please release me from this hell

10. Last movie I watched: Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo

11. Last show I watched: I think it was Space Dandy

12. When did I create my blog: My first one in like I think 2011, I remade early 2015

13. What do I post/reblog: I post my own art and cosplay (on the occasions I actually finish things), some personal posts, and reblog animals, food, science-y stuff, fan content, occasional aesthetic/stim stuff and The Discourse

14. Last thing I googled: Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman

15. Do I have any other blogs: A NSFW blog that’s rarely active (url is available by private request), and a couple saved URLs I plan to use for future projects

16. Do I get asks: Occasionally

17. Why I chose my url: I made a joke one time and that was the punchline, also I like eggs and flans

18. Following: 152

19. Followers: 184

20. Average hours of sleep: Try to aim for 8, but days I have to get up early it’s usually more like 6-7 and days I get to sleep in, anywhere up to 10-11

21. Lucky number: 57

22. Instruments: Played cello for something like 8 years but haven’t touched it in almost as long (practicing where other people could hear me made me very uncomfortable and I don’t have a huge amount of privacy where I am)

23. What am I wearing: Green shorts and a Where The Wild Things Are shirt inherited from my sister

24. Dream job: None (but until that’s viable, vet nursing is the goal... if I was medicated/had better control of my brain I might consider a creative profession)

25. Dream trip: Honestly location or method doesn’t matter, travelling with friends in general would be nice

26. Favorite food: I can’t choose one... crab, salmon, mcdonalds hot fudge sauce, plums, eggs, avocado, cookie dough, pasta, caramel macarons, mangoes, strawberries, fresh cinnamon donuts, the list goes on. I just really love food in general

27. Nationality: (White) Australian

28. Favorite song right now: My earbuds broke months ago and the new ones I ordered only just arrived today so I kinda haven’t been listening to music but it’d be something by the Silversun Pickups (Catch and Release off the top of my head is great)

29. Last book read: Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

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The Philosopher’s Stone appeared in de Nederlanden

At the present time, our materialistic science derides alchemists as misplaced mystics who pursued a dream of finding a chemical compound that might transform base metals into gold. Indeed, they recognize that much scientific breakthrough was achieved through these pursuits, but they throw out out the goal of the alchemists as simply a fanciful or impossible plan and fantasy. However, there exist fascinating incidents, a few so deeply curious that the mind can barely cope with the outcomes, and they are instantly thrown away as far too fantastic for serious consideration. Let’s recount some of them here so that the reader who is unfamiliar with the literary works might be sufficiently intrigued to do research on his/her own.

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But first, a quick discussion of the “Philosopher’s Stone”. This is the quest of the Alchemist; a fabled material which could not just transmute metals into gold, but might cure any specific disease, banish all sickness from a person’s life, and award a prolonged lifespan, if not immortality, on the body. At least, that is how it is depicted. That may or may not be a “cover story”.

In an anonymous 17th Century alchemical text, The Sophic Hydrolith, this process is described as “purging the mineral of all that is thick, nebulous, opaque and dark”, and what would be left would be a mercurial “water of the Sun”, which had a pleasant, penetrating odor, and was very volatile.

  Portion of this fluid is set aside, and the remainder is then blended with a twelfth of its weight of “the divinely endowed body of gold”, (regular gold won’t perform because it is defiled by every day use). This mix then forms a strong amalgam that is heated for a week. It is then dissolved in some of the mercurial water in an egg-shaped urn. After that, the leftover mercurial water is added slowly, in seven portions; the urn is sealed, and held at such a temperature as will hatch an egg. After forty days, the urn’s ingredients is going to be black colored; after seven additional days compact grainy bodies similar to fish eyes ought to appear.

After that the “Philosopher’s Stone” starts to make its physical appearance: first reddish in color; then white, green and yellow like a peacock’s tail and then stunning white-colored; and afterwards an intense glowing red. Finally, “the revivified body is quickened, improved and glorified” and is found in a ravishing purple. This as well as some similarly difficult to understand and weird appearing scripts are the bulk of Alchemical Literature. Maybe these texts were a code, and we must persist in reading many texts of this kind and searching for clues there and in the stories of the alchemists themselves. Now when you read the anecdotes about so-called Alchemists, something very mysterious is going on …

For instance: In 1666, Johann Friedrich Schweitzer, physician to the Prince of Orange, writes of having been visited by a stranger who was “of a mean stature, a little long face, with a few small pock holes, and most black hair, not at all curled, a beardless chin, about three or four and forty years of age (as I guessed), and born in the northern part of the Netherlands.”

Before finnishing the story, it must be highlighted that Dr. Schweitzer, who was the author of a number of medical and botanical books, was a cautious and also objective observer and was an associate of the philosopher, Baruch Spinoza. Schweitzer was a skilled scientific observer;a respected medical man, and not given to frauds or even practical jokes. However, his story is, in modern comprehending, impossible.

  Now, what happened was that the stranger made small talk for awhile and then, more or less out of the blue, asked Dr. Schweitzer whether or not he would recognize the “Philosopher’s Stone” if he saw it. He then took out of his pocket a little ivory container that held “three ponderous bits or small lumps … each about the size of a small walnut, transparent, of a pale brimstone colour.

  The stranger informed Schweitzer that this was the very substance hunted for such a long time by the Alchemists. Schweitzer held one of the bits in his hand and questioned the stranger if perhaps he might have just a tiny part. The man rejected, but Schweitzer was able to steal a tiny bit by scraping it with his fingernail. The visitor left after ensuring to come back in three weeks time to show Dr. Schweitzer certain “curious arts in the fire”. Well, the instant he was gone, Dr. Schweitzer ran to his laboratory where he melted some lead in a crucible and added the small piece of stone. But, the metal failed to transform into gold as he expected. Instead, “almost the entire bulk of lead flew away, and the rest transformed into a mere glassy earth. Three weeks later, the mysterious stranger was at his door once again. They conversed, and for quite a while the man refused to allow Dr. Schweitzer to observe his stones again, yet, finally Schweitzer said “he gave me a crumb as big as a rape or turnip seed, saying, receive this small parcel of the greatest treasure of the world, which truly few kings or princes have ever known or seen”.

  Schweitzer must have been a real complainer and crybaby because he recounts that he protested that this was not sufficient to transmute as much as 4 grains of lead into gold. At this, the stranger took the piece back, cut it in half, and casted one part in the fire, saying: “it is yet sufficient for thee!” At this point, Schweitzer confessed his theft from the previous visit, and described how the substance had behaved with his molten lead. The stranger began to laugh and told him, “Thou are more sly to commit theft than to apply thy medicine; for if thou hadst only wrapped up thy stolen prey in yellow wax, to preserve it from the arising fumes of lead, it would have penetrated to the bottom of the lead, and transmuted it to gold.” The guy leaves at this point and promises to return the next morning to show Schweitzer the correct way to perfom the transmutation but, the next day he came not, nor ever since.

Schweitzer recounts:

Only he sent an excuse at half an hour past nine that morning, by reason of his great business, and promised to come at three in the afternoon, but never came, nor have I heard of him since; whereupon I began to doubt of the whole matter. Nevertheless late that night my wife… came soliciting and vexing me to make experiment… saying to me, unless this be done, I shall have no rest nor sleep all this night… She being so earnest, I commanded a fire to be made – thinking, alas, now is this man (though so divine in discourse) found guilty of falsehood… My wife wrapped the said matter in wax, and I cut half an ounce of six drams of old lead, and put into a crucible in the fire, which being melted, my wife put in the said Medicine made up in a small pill, which presently made such a hissing and bubbling in its perfect operation, that within a quarter of an hour all the mass of lead was transmuted into the … finest gold.

  Baruch Spinoza, who lived  close by, came the following day to examine this gold and was persuaded that Schweitzer was telling the truth. The Assay Master (officer who assays or tests gold or silver coin or bullion) of the province, a Mr. Porelius, analyzed the metal and pronounced it authentic; and Mr. Buectel, the silversmith, subjected it to additional test that confirmed that it was gold. The testimony of those men survives to this day.  Hence, either they all are lying, or Dr. Schweitzer really did have a strange experience precisely as he describes it. The fascinating thing is that other people have described comparable visitations by strange men who proclaim to them the truth of the alchemical process, demonstrate it, and then mysteriously disappear. It has happened sufficiently often, in widely enough separated places and times to suggest that it is not a collusive fraud nor a delusion.

Twenty years earlier, the Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician,  Jan Baptiste van Helmont, who was responsible for several important scientific discoveries, and was the first man to realize that there were other gases than air; and who invented the term “gas”, wrote: For truly I have divers times seen it (The Philosopher’s Stone), and handled it with my hands, but it was of colour such as is in Saffron in its powder, yet weighty, and shining like unto powdered glass. There was once given unto me one fourth part of one grain [16 milligrams]… I projected [it] upon eighty ounces (227 grams) of mercury made hot in a crucible; and straightaway all the quicksilver, with a certain degree of noise, stood still from flowing, and being congealed, settled like unto a yellow lump; but after pouring it out, the bellows blowing, there were found eight ounces and a little less than eleven grains of the purest gold. Sir Isaac Newton studied alchemy until his death, remaining convinced that the possiblity of transmutation existed. The great philosophers and mathematicians, Descartes and Leibnitz, both were convinced that transmutation was a reality. Even Robert Boyle who wrote a book entitled The Sceptical Chymist, was sure until the end of his life, that transmutation was possible … Weird or what?

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'American Horror Story: Cult' Premiere Recap | Ryan Murphy on Election Night

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'American Horror Story: Cult' Premiere Recap | Ryan Murphy on Election Night

[Warning: This story contains spoilers from the premiere of FX’s American Horror Story: Cult.]

The first moment of American Horror Story: Cult is chill-inducing.

“I am running for president of the United States!” announces Donald Trump.

“I am running for president of the United States!” echoes Hillary Clinton.

No matter what side of the aisle, the flashback footage of the actual 2016 presidential campaign is an eerie place-setter, a reminder of how far away that moment in history feels in today’s divided America.

As promised, the seventh season of Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series kicks off with a minute-long ramp up to 2016 election night. Using real footage of then-candidates Trump and Clinton, highlights down memory lane include mentions of Trump’s wall, Clinton’s emails and a growing “palpable fear” as protestors on both sides clash. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s like incredible,” Trump says. The statement, so attacked at the time, now serves as a reminder that hindsight is 20-20. 

Cult opens on Nov. 8, 2016.

Kai Anderson (Evan Peters) is sitting on the edge of his basement couch listening to Fox News as the chuckling anchors declare Trump the 45th president of the United States, winner of the most “unreal” and “surreal” election America has ever seen.

“The revolution has begun,” Kai says softly. He then humps his big-screen TV, his blue hair thrusting in the air. “Fuck you world!” he screams before chanting “USA! USA!” 

Over at the Mayfair-Richards’ house, Ally (Sarah Paulson), her wife Ivy (Alison Pill), young son Oz and their liberal-leaning friends are holding out hope, glued to MSNBC. “I won’t believe anything until I hear Rachel Maddow say it, she’s the only one I trust,” says Ally before Pennsylvania is called. “It’s the politics of fear, it always works,” says her stunned friend, the Asian-American head council member in the show’s Michigan set town, population 10,000. 

When MSNBC announces Clinton’s concession phone call, Ally watches with tears in her eyes as Trump takes the stage, horror music at full swell. “Go to hell Huffington Post! Fuck you Nate Silver!” screams Ally as she falls, debilitated, to her knees. “Oh God, how could they have been so wrong about this!”

But 10,000 is also the amount of votes Clinton is losing to Trump in their swing state. “You want to know who to get mad at for this? Our own state of Michigan. She’s losing by 10,000 votes. That’s the size of this town. And who is at 40,000 votes and counting? Jill Stein.” (In Michigan, Trump defeated Clinton by 10,704 votes, while the Green Party candidate took in 51,463 votes.)

Later, it will be revealed that much to Ivy’s dismay, Ally quietly voted for Stein — Murphy shining his season-seven spotlight on one parcel of American voters forced to face their own complicity in the election results. The council member also screams at his wife for not voting: “Look at our friends on the couch and tell them that they might not be able to maintain their rights as a married couple because you were too busy playing on Etsy to go vote!”

Kai, meanwhile, is busy mashing up bags of Cheetos in a blender, using the crumbs as orange makeup while he practices his “yuge” impression of Trump in the mirror. His sister, Winter Anderson (Billie Lourd) devoted her college semester to campaigning for Clinton. “She was supposed to win, is this really happening?” the depressed co-ed tells a friend before being interrupted by Kai. He then asks her to link pinky fingers. “I’m just so scared now,” she says. “Everyone is,” he replies with a smile.

Then comes the opening credits sequence — the mashup of phobias, Trump and Clinton masks and the franchise’s theme song with a patriotic twists ends with two hands, pinky-swearing, in handcuffs — and Cult truly begins.

“How the show begins on election night, pro or con, I think everybody can relate to the feeling of that evening, and that was the launch of the season,” Murphy said at a recent press event, attended by The Hollywood Reporter. On Sept. 1, when Clinton was the presumed winner, Murphy decided to use the election as a jumping-off point to explore how the cult of personality and leaders such as Charles Manson rise up within a disenfranchised community. After Trump’s stunning win, when Murphy and his writers began to plot the season in December, they changed the opening scene. “It was very easily switched because pro or con, either candidate, Evan’s character, who plays somebody who rises up because of anger in our country, was always the same.”

Murphy went on to explain that despite what many people may think — including the show’s conservative fans who have tweeted at Murphy that they plan to quit watching — Cult is not about Trump, or Clinton.

One thing the season is about is a “growing sense of anxiety in our culture,” something Murphy explores through Ally’s range of irrational phobias, which are re-triggered after the traumatic election night similar to when she was nearly crippled by her anxieties after 9/11. She has a fear of clowns — triggered by her son reading a Twisty the Clown comic book — blood, holes and confined spaces, to name a few. Later in the episode, when Oz sees a gaggle of clowns murdering their neighbors, the council leader (Tim Kang) and his wife, it’s unclear if he suffers from the same phobias as his mother, or if a Purge-inspired gang of killers is truly on the loose in this idyllic suburb. [At the end of the episode, Ivy reveals the name of their neighbors to be the Changs. Roanoke viewers will remember the Chang family — providing an Easter egg and perhaps the second clue, in addition to Freak Show‘s Twisty cameo, that Cult is indeed within the AHS universe.]

“One of the things that I personally experienced after this election was a wild increase in my life in anxiety,” said Murphy. “I think a lot of people can relate to that, no matter what side you’re on, because there seemed to be such a painful discourse going on, and everything seemed to be at Mach 4 level. You could feel it in the news. You can feel it now when you watch it. We’re on the brink of nuclear war one week, and then, the next week we’re on to something else equally extreme. I want to lean into the escalation of fear in our culture.”

That escalation is embodied in Kai, who delivers a verbose speech to his town’s council on why fear and chaos should reign. His interpretation is deemed delusional by the council. “I’m glad you 4Chan guys feel empowered to join the rest of us in civil society now that Papa Bear Trump is telling you it’s OK,” says that same councilmen from Ally and Ivy’s house, laughing at Kai’s emergence from his “parent’s basement.” But Kai has indeed tapped into the pervading fear surrounding them. He baits a group of Mexicans into beating him up, so he can use the scenario to his own political advantage. And he throws a drink on the lesbian couple he encounters on the street, Ally and Ivy.

As the restaurant owners and their white privilege become a target of Murphy’s satire, they also represent the Americans who long for the days of President Barack Obama. “For the first time I was included in the discussion, in the world,” Ally tells her shrink, played by Cheyenne Jackson.

“Our feeling is that everybody lost their shit after the election — Republican or Democrat — and everybody’s still losing their shit, and nobody’s really figured out from either side where to put those feelings,” Murphy explained. “[This season] is about somebody who has the wherewithal to put their finger up in the wind and see that that’s what’s happening and is using that to rise up and form power. Using people’s vulnerabilities about how they’re afraid and they don’t know where to turn, and they feel like the world is on fire.”

Though the season has plenty of satire on both sides — “I think that we’ve been very careful to be fair,” said Murphy, who laughed at Ally fighting her clown demons with bottles of rosé — the showrunner said he wanted Kai’s Cheetos-happy reaction to the election to represent the blindness many in this country had leading up to Trump’s election. (And yes, those were real Cheetos.)

“Evan really put real Cheetos on his face, but it was also meant to be a little bit deeper,” Murphy explained. “The idea that you can make fun of Trump all that you want to, and you can claim that he’s absolutely a ridiculous figure, which many people do, but there is some anger in the country and passion in the country that he has tapped into that elevates him from a cartoon figure to someone to be taken seriously, in my book.”

That anger and how it has the power to manipulate is truly what the season is all about.

“Evan’s character was making that statement and rubbing it into Billie Lourd’s face, that she really was looking in the wrong direction,” he explained. “You felt it leading up to the election with all the liberal news. The laughter and cackling that all of the liberal news shows would have about that group of people in our culture, making fun of them, talking about then in a negative way, which led to the shock of, ‘Oh, they haven’t been taking these people seriously. They’re not jokes. There’s something go on there.’ That’s what that scene is about.”

The premiere sets the stage for Ally and Kai to again cross paths, as the couple hires Winter as a nanny for Oz. Winter and Kai will also continue to reveal themselves in mysterious ways, but after screening the first three episodes, it’s unclear how the characters will seemingly be joining Kai’s yet-to-be-revealed cult.

Throughout the season, Peters will portray six different cult leaders through flashbacks, including Manson, David Koresh, Jim Jones and even Andy Warhol. And Trump supporter Kai elevates himself from running for city council to running for the Senate. “I think he’s really a young genius,” said Murphy. “He has really taken the part seriously, and done a lot of research about cults and the rise of fascism, and what does that take, and how do you speak to crowds, and how do you manipulate people?”

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[alexmey-does-an-arts]

I for one welcome the chicken discourse. I think chickens should be allowed to vote so they can stop factory farming themselves

chickens should be given scholarships into IT programs for college

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Chickens should be picki g themselves up by their bootstraps

chickens just need to invest in the right stocks

[alexmey-does-an-arts]

Wow can you tag your vegan propaganda its despicable that people would willingly eat plants when there is no need and studies have shown that feel pain.

All you need to survive is to photosynthesize just like our ancestors did. Its only capitalism that's been causing people deevole to need to eat smh