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tawked · 7 days ago

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So one of the things I like about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which I think is somewhat underappreciated in the audience because it clashes hard with the utopic vision of the future, is that the Federation is in many ways still systemically and culturally ableist.

I think this is explored best in S02E06's "Melora," obviously.

This episode starts off with Dax being shocked that the replicator contained a schematic for a wheelchair, because no one has needed one in three hundred years. Bashir answers that no no no lol, Federation replicators in fact cannot make wheelchairs based on their built-in libraries, and that the wheelchair is a schematic that their incoming wheelchair user coworker sent over to have replicated for her on arrival.

The rest of the episode explores how this utopic vision of the future that the difficult-to-accommodate disabled are not a part of has absolutely de-normalized the cultural concepts and accommodations surrounding some disabilities, thus creating complex and seemingly anachronistic institutionalist-era realities in the space future.

This is, to me, deeply interesting because it highlights a very real conversation around pursuing cures against pursuing accommodation.

It's basically acknowledging the threat of the Gattica style shit currently engaged in by dudes like Elon Musk and these freaks

(for those who don't recognize them, these are weird pro-natalist yuppies who claim they've done shit like genetically engineer their kids for high IQs, a scentifically impossible thing. they are, unsurprisingly, very racist but in a SoCal-Berkeley way.)

becoming so normalized in society that we effectively engineer out the majority of "defects." Everybody starts off with a happy healthy life as defined not through accommodation and infinite diversity in infinite combinations, but through the elimination of variation that would necessitate different cultural practices, different architecture, different understandings of life worthy of life, blah blah blah.

It's not "in the brilliant shining future nobody has to be disabled," it's "in the brilliant shining future the disabled aren't allowed to exist, and we don't have to think about them" lol.

But! Geordi LaForge!

Well, Geordi is born blind in a context where blindness can be perfectly accommodated, debatably even cured, via his wundervisor and / or surgically implanted eyes. In fact, in the movies, which do not exist sorry, Geordi gets them eyes stuck in and in so doing even loses the cultural signifier of his blindness, as well as situational considerations of blindness.

Further, Geordi is in this unfortunate weird space a lot of disabled characters in science fiction are, where his prosthesis is considered cool enough that it passes some kind of ableist vibe check wherein the character is no longer necessarily received as "disabled" by the audience. It's a cool cyberpunk thing, and thus loses its audience association with disability in many ways, ala Adam Jensen's sword arms or the unexplored nature of voluntarily cutting off one's limbs to replace them with robot parts in Cyberpunk 2077.

Geordi "can do things," he just "has to do things a little differently." The "a little differently" here is defined as "wearing a thing on his face" and not a different process or method. We never see how Geordi lays out his quarters or prepares his uniform, tools, whatever in a way that makes it all more accessible for him; he readily assume the first thing he does in the morning is plug his visor in. Glasses.

It's a fun cosplay idea in a way a wheelchair isn't.

The thing is, when Geordi is without his visor, he's fucked.

I don't just mean the episode where he's trapped in a island with a Cardassian or whatever, I mean on the fucking Enterprise. Say they're in a crisis, he falls over, wangs his noggin on a console and breaks his visor. Look at the open layouts with no handrails leading anywhere, no braille or layout signage posted, nothin'.

How the fuck is he going to find his way to the turbolift?

These are not accessible environments for a blind bloke. These are accessible environments for a sighted bloke wearing glasses.

The thing to consider as well is, we know Geordi's blindness is absolute. Blindness in real life is pretty diverse, actually, and many blind people do have some vision. Not Geordi. So, all the lights that communicate where to go in a crisis mean fuck all to him.

And, considering how often the Enterprise is in crisis, crew members are cut off from each other or the ship, the practical realities Geordi has to deal with on away missions that are simply never accommodated - it becomes apparent that Geordi is considered effectively the same as any sighted crew member.

His disability accommodation is individual and his responsibility. Nothing is provided by Starfleet except, perhaps, new visors and free visits to Beverly.

The same criticism exists for my man Hemmer,

who is played by blind actor Bruce Horak, yes, but who exists in a similar state to Geordi. I doubt they considered Mr. Horak a consultant on blindness and how a blind crew member would work in their series, because again, his blindness is accommodated for by magical future thing that doesn't fucking exist. In this case, psychic senses or something (idk I've never watched nuTrek sober).

If you look at the environments he's in, or the situations he deals with on away missions, sans those Daredevilian supersenses he'd be shit out of luck.

They're so adverse to giving blind characters so much as a cane.

I'm not saying the inclusion of blind characters is bad or that we should not engage in these fantasies of disabled characters being able to live and work equally to able-bodied characters without the need for accommodation, necessarily. I'm certainly not saying every blind character should have a sighted support following them around or a dog or whatever. My criticism is not of the blind characters' individual accommodations not being up to my arbitrary standard as a sighted viewer lol.

What I am instead attempting to hightlight here is that the shows seem adverse to engaging in disabled / accommodative environmental design or in the more complex, social realities of disability, and that's something that the episode "Melora," the wheelchair user episode this post is about lol, addresses in depth.

Julian is a future space doctor who doesn't know how to comfortably talk to someone in a chair. That only happens in a universe where doctors don't encounter wheelchairs in their professional lives. That's a reality brought about specifically by the comfortable eugenicist realities of the future, where although due to a war the Federation draws the line at "enhanced" individuals, it obviously voluntarily engages in liberal eugenics to the effect of eliminating disabled life in many meaningful forms. Its society, where doctors seem to need an aide like this to do their jobs properly:

And idk! I think that's neat. I think that's a powerful flaw in the utopic vision of the future that Roddenberry and the others probably didn't intend originally, and that DS9, commendably, attempts to explore.

Especially because Julian was a lil autistic boy who was forcibly cured through similar treatment, and correctly identifies that this means the him who existed before was drastically altered for his parents' fear of actually accommodating him.

anyway this post was brought out of me by some dickhead saying Melora "breaks the setting" for them lol. bro they fought a eugenics war, they definitely didn't come out of that culturally unchanged. you're just scared of wheelchairs. fuck u

#star trek #ds9 #deep space nine #star trek ds9 #disability #disability in media #julian bashir

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randybutternubber · 2 months ago

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I 100% agree with what you said. The truth is that the environments that allowed these animals to exist simply don’t anymore just like you said. I get that way more people are going to be excited about dire wolves, but I personally think that they should have started with something else.

The passenger pigeon project imo is way more realistic and ethical. They’re up front about the fact that the pigeons they’re trying to make will essentially be hybrids and not TRUE passenger pigeons. It’s also way easier since we know quite a bit about them- the biggest hurdles are the fact that their habitats aren’t what they used to be and that they’re trying to replicate things like their migrational behavior.

I honestly think we should start even smaller though, maybe with some very recently extinct amphibians, and hold off on rewilding them. The more recently extinct they are the better.

Unfortunately, the world has moved on without the dire wolf, and I don’t believe that they can be ethically released. Again, they’d just be releasing some big ass white wolves. even if they somehow (it’s not gonna happen 💀) brought back dire wolves in a more complete form, the megafauna that they rely on is gone, the world is completely different, and it’s so so so risky.

I love the idea of de extinction- especially to right our wrongs- but I do not think that the method they used here is viable in the way they’re trying to push it. Like I said, I’m not against genetic engineering, but you said it best- these are designer dogs, or I guess wolves. They are not dire wolves, not even close.

I believe dextinction can be done in some form, but probably not now, not because our technology can’t do it, but I just don’t think humans are ready for that ethical dilemma. That being said, it’s going to be far easier to bring back an animal that’s gone extinct in the last ten years than one that’s been gone for 10,000.

Again, I think recent de extinction is infinitely more ethical and feasible- not perfect, but better. Bringing back something like the Mountain Mist Frog which has gone extinct extremely recently (like 2021)- mainly dude to a disease- seems like a better candidate. Not saying we should, but it would be better, especially since we can engineer them to have some for of immunity which is a whole other can of worms blah blah. I don’t think we should necessarily rewild these hypothetical frogs though

Im rambling, but I feel like we need to prioritize prevention of extinction in the first place, and it’s definitely not mutually exclusive to de extinction. It’s just depressing to think that in a few decades or something we might be trying to catch coyotes in order to bring back wolves. I got a little science fictiony in this reblog, so sorry about that. In short- de extinction is cool but i dont think bringing back animals like this is viable

I’ll admit, I was pretty mad when I made the first post and I would have worded things better had I not been utterly wacked out with a fever (“genetically twisted” makes me cringe) but I do agree with what I and what you also said

Sort of unrelated: Something I left in the comments is that I’m very bothered by the fact that they chose to make the wolves white. I know they’re trying to make them look like the GOT wolves which is in itself ethically dubious at best, but we know that white fur increases the chances of deafness and blindness in many animals- especially canids. I’m not a genetics expert, but I can’t be the only one who thinks that this was a TERRIBLE decision, right? Again, prioritizing aesthetics over health.

Also don’t feel bad for adding onto the post! It means a lot to me that random people from all over the world want to add on and talk to me about crazy shit!

The whole “de extinction of the dire wolf” makes me SO MAD.

It is not a dire wolf. They just fucked with a grey wolf’s genome in like 20 different places. They aren’t even in the same genus.

Iirc They also haven’t stated what studies/info they used in order to determine what parts they changed. This company is looking for investors and is purposefully misleading the public.

I don’t even want to think about what health issues these poor animals could have in the future. Heart issues, arthritis, blindness, etc.

chances are once people forget about them they’ll be put down because of health issues or something similar. They aren’t dire wolves, they’re just grey wolves that have been genetically altered to fit the public perception of what a dire wolf is. They literally are made to look like the wolves in game of thrones, and named like them too.

47 failures and 3 successes, I seriously hope most of them died in utero.

We should be investing money into the conservation of these animals, not just exploiting and genetically twisting them for no good reason.

Do not let them do this shit with elephants.

Elephants need all the support they can get to keep their species alive as it is. Elephants also have a crazy long gestation period. They used domestic dogs to carry the wolves, idk if there’s a surrogate animal they can use for elephants.

These animals will likely live miserable lives and die young.

I’m not against genetic engineering, I’m against lying to people and genetically changing organisms purely for profit without caring of the consequences that could arise or doing so or altering organisms irresponsibly.

They can study these things while the animals are in utero. These wolves should have never come to term. This is NOT a viable method of de extinction.

Im super sick so im sorry if this rant sounds insane but omfg do not let them create the most mid Paleozoic park filled with the most miserable ass animals ever.

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mytwinklelights · 4 years ago

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A Reunion - Part 1 | Peter Parker x Stark! GN Reader

A/N: Remember over a month ago when I wrote this preview and didn’t post again? Oops sorry, I had to take a little break from tumblr because I was reading way too much fanfic. But now I’m back, just to post, still no reading for a while! Umm but yeah, here’s the first part! I can’t guarantee when part 2 will be posted but it’ll definitely be within the next 2 weeks! I hope you like it, please let message me with any feedback because I need validation to stay motivated lol

Summary: Y/N is an Avenger, the youngest Avenger. Then, Peter Parker comes along and they’re happy to finally have someone their age to hang out with, even if it was the boy they spent their senior year of high school crushing over.

Content Warnings: I don’t think there are any - let me know if I missed any though!

Genres: Friends to lovers, Stark! Reader, Frequent cameos from Avengers and them being cute, Slow burn, Fluff, Angst

Word Count: 2019

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“Alright gang.” Tony begins, standing in front of all the Avengers at the end of a large oval table in the conference room.

“I’m sure you’ve seen these ‘viral videos’ of this Spider-Boy kid swinging around the city and being a friendly neighbourhood vigilante. Well, Happy and I have managed to track him down and he’s agreed to join the team”

“Viral videos of superheroes?” Steve exclaims, looking at Tony whilst tilting his head and looking genuinely exhausted. “I’m still catching up on these keyboard cats and kids biting fingers”.

I giggle. Having Steve around was just the same as having an uncle you saw once the year who lived of the grid. He was extremely sweet, but utterly clueless to anything other than his job. But I mean, that job does include fighting evil aliens.

“Anyway…” Tony continues as the other Avengers chuckles die down after Steve’s outcry “he arrived not too long ago. Happy is next door giving him all the T&Qs and they should be done now. Let me just check and I’ll introduce you all.” Tony then leaves the room, and the other Avengers start to talk among themselves.

I pull out my phone and type ‘NYC spider boy’ into YouTube clicking on the second search result with 20 million views. I have seen this video before as my friend Michael sent it to me around a week ago.

“Do you think there are many other super kids wandering around the city?” Sam asks, whilst looking at the video of my shoulder. Currently the hero is stopping a city bus from off-roading into some confused tourists by building up a wall with his web.

“I doubt it, I mean I guess he’s the only one going viral” I answer, moving the angle of my phone so the others who have gathered around me can see “but it would be cool to be able to meet some people my age who do what I do, no offence guys”

They all laugh. Being the youngest Avenger and hanging out with 30+ year olds all the time can be kind of isolating, but it’s like having a super close family. A family who also happen to be in life and death situations regularly together. But that’s a great bonding experience I would say.

“Guys, this is Peter, the Spider-Boy” Tony draws our attention away from my phone to the door where he has just entered.

“Spider-Man” Peter mutters as a lame attempt to correct him.

“Peter?” I question and the boy stood in front of me was not who I expected. I didn’t expect the masked vigilante swinging through New York to be someone that I knew.

“Y/N?” He responds, looking even more confused than I am “What are you doing here?”

“So Tony Stark is your dad?” Peter asks.

After seeing a guy from your school who you shared a chemistry class with last year, walking into a super-secret meeting for superheroes where he will be now joining your team. It is understandable that Peter and I were now talking this out to figure out how this state could be so small.

“Yep” I answer. We were sat next to each other on bar stools at the kitchen island. Wanda made some of her famous fruit smoothies for us and we were both stirring them around with our straws whilst conversing alone in the main living space.

“But your last name isn’t Stark, or Potts?” He continues, genuinely really confused about this whole situation.

“Yeah, well you can’t have the daughter of a billionaire and superhero couple walking around New York City alone, going to a normal school, having normal hobbies. It’s like asking for me to be taken hostage. So, I don’t have either of their last names and the general public doesn’t know I exist. It’s for my safety” I continue, reciting this memorised answer I’ve had to say to multiple people once they find out my existence.

Peter nodded as if he was understanding everything, he probably was, but I guess this wasn’t the conversation he planned to have today.

“And you’re the great Spider-Man” I continued, wanting the change the subject from me to him. “How did that happen? Wait… were you Spider-Man when you sat behind me in Chem last year?”

He began to explain to me the story, it happened to him on our school trip to OSCORP we took last year for our Chem class that happened just before the end of the semester. Something about a radioactive spider. It was strange, kind of the weirdest superhero transformation story I’ve heard. And I’ve heard quite a few.

My story was nowhere near as interesting. I guess having superhero parents who were always around weird alien technology and contaminated substances led to some weird epigenetic alterations of their reproductive cells and then when they had me, I could turn invisible.

They didn’t know at first, I was seemingly a normal baby. Then at my 2nd birthday party when they surprised me with a freaky clown, I was so scared that my body just decided to turn invisible. They weren’t expecting it, the clown definitely wasn’t expecting it and they had to cover up with a very convincing lie.

From then, whenever I was embarrassed, scared or essentially in a situation where I wanted to disappear. I did. Literally. It wasn’t entirely effective though as even though my body tuned invisible, the clothes I was wearing didn’t. I spent the majority of my preteen years of being a walking hoodie and jeans with no head or hands protruding from the gaps. For my 13th birthday Bruce and I got to work on a suit which responds to the activity of my skin cells, when I was invisible, my suit was invisible. It made it a lot more effective for me to actually be invisible when I turned but it also meant my dad let me start training to become an Avenger.

Training was fun, I worked with Nat a lot in our gym in order to become an efficient fighter. ‘Just because people couldn’t see me, doesn’t mean I shouldn’t know how to serve a mean right hook’ she always said. I also spent a lot of time with Wanda, trying to manage my powers. Now I am able to actually turn invisible and visible again on demand. And it only takes extreme embarrassment now to turn me invisible against my will, which is great because mum and dad finally let me, after my years of begging, attend Midtown High and stop being home school. This is where I met Peter last year and now I’m at Columbia studying genetics and engineering. A double major, I know but when you’re around the top geniuses in the world everyday, there is no such thing as too much learning.

“So, I guess we’re the only Midtown Alumni to have these crazy powers huh?” Peter finishes. After a long ramble about his becoming a superhero story. I guess he wanted to ease the tension after I couldn’t really think of what to say after “that’s super cool”. It wasn’t like I wasn’t interested, I really was, but when I wanted to have another person my age to hang out with, I didn’t expect it to be the boy I spent my senior year of high school obsessing over. I had turned shy, like really shy, like my normal levels of shy times 50. I couldn’t think of what to say.

“Sorry, if that story was too long and boring, I’ve only gotten to tell it to one person before, my best friend Ned so I was kind of excited to be able to tell it again.”

“No, it wasn’t boring, it was genuinely really cool!” I say a little too loudly and enthusiastically. I cringe at my tone of voice and speak normally again as I continue “It’s just I didn’t really expect the new Avengers recruit to be you, you know, like someone I know. It’s just kind of weird, but nice? I don’t know, now I’m rambling”

Peter chuckles.

“Umm, so are you going to be staying with us whilst you train or are you going back to Queens?” I ask, hoping this new question will miraculously erase Peter’s memory of what I last said.

“A bit of both, my Aunt is back in queens and I don’t want to leave her completely alone, but this upstate facility is a little too far for an everyday commute. I’m here just for today but once I start training on Monday, I think I might stay for the whole week.”

“Well, I can give you the tour! Since you’ll be staying with us soon, I guess you’ll want to know where everything is!” I say whilst jumping of my bar stool and putting my half full smoothie cup in the fridge. I noticed peter has just finished his, so I grab the glass and put it in the dishwasher for him. He thanks me as I do so.

“So this is the kitchen, where we make our food, different from the kitchen where the chefs make our food for occasions, charity events blah blah blah. And also, this seating area here is kind of the main seating area where we’ll sit throughout the day. Lots of sofas because there are lots of us and this is Bucky’s armchair. Don’t ever sit in Bucky’s armchair.” I say, stopping behind the chair and resting my hand on the headrest.

“Bucky, scary guy with the metal arm right?” Peter questions whilst following me at a slight distance around the room as I show him around. I nod. “Yeah, don’t worry, I won’t be sitting in his chair” he laughs.

I continue to show him the rest of the complex, the gym, the labs and finish up on the floor with all our rooms.

“I’m not sure which one of these rooms will be yours because we have a couple spare ones, but they all have the same layout. Look I’ll show you mine” I walk into my room, then hold the door open for Peter so he can follow me in.

“Uh, so this is my room. Obviously, yours won’t be decorated like mine but It’ll be the same size and have an en-suite attached with a full shower and tub and stuff. You know, the basics” I say, whilst sitting on the edge of my bed.

“I like your room, it’s cosy” he adds whilst looking around and then heading for the bookshelf as soon as he spots it.

“Ah thanks, I mean it’s cool, bigger than when we were in the tower in the city so I can’t complain” I say whilst also looking around. What is it about someone else being in your room that makes you see it with fresh eyes and make you super self-conscious that there is going to be a rogue piece of underwear on the floor? Even though I know I tidied my room this morning.

“Holy crap, Vision you scared the life out of me” I say on an exhale whilst holding my hand to my chest after the large gasp I just made as he enters the room, through the wall.

“Sorry, but your door is open” He continues, “Mr. Stark has told me that your car is here to take you back home Mr. Parker. If you would just follow me, I can lead you there” Vision continues, as if him just floating through my bedroom wall and speaking to the boy from my chemistry class now turned superhero was a normal thing to happen on a Thursday evening.

“Oh… thanks Vision” Peter says with some hesitancy, you can see that this is a weird circumstance for him too. “Well, I’ll see you on Monday then” he says smiling at me and walking towards the door. Which vision doesn’t use to exit.

“Yeah, see you then” I smile as he closes the door and I’m left in my room listening to him shuffling down the corridor.

Part 2

#peter parker #peter parker x reader #peter parker imagine #peter parker imagines #spiderman imagine #spiderman x reader #spiderman imagines #avengers imagine #avengers x reader #avenger imagines #stark! reader #stark!reader

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anyu-blue · 4 years ago

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OOF

Okay so you know how sometimes in the creative process ideas sneak up on you?

Well I just got one of those in the sense that I feel like I got punched in the face it snuck up on me so fast and was/is so hard and heavy I’m left a little stunned and reeling...

Yeah..

Haha

Sooo in the possibly futile idea I may one day write it or have some reason to have written it down here we go:

Iz story in which after the Florpus movie (Maybe- IDK I haven’t seen it or 99% of Invader Zim soooo who knows) Dib is more or less forced or convinced (not sure which direction we’d go here) to gain a more... rigorous form of therapy, in which he becomes calmer and of course is lead down the path most other people are- in the sense he becomes ‘normal’.

Of course it would start with Dib actively avoiding Zim- his brain conflicted and fighting itself, but as time went on he’s become a totally different person (I’m thinking he becomes a football player sort of TOTALLY different). Calmer, level headed. Kind, but slightly aloof. He’d gain popularity with the most normal of the normal and grow to be a forgettable face as much as just a ‘decent’ person. I think he’d gently avoid the sciences- as that would have been the cause for his mental break when he was 12 anyway- and pursue other, more practical, and normal human things. Gaz wouldn’t be immune to all this- their father might just have to accept Dib as a lost cause and be proud of him for what he COULD do rather than pursue science like he want him to... in which case Gaz will become the target of her father’s overbearing desire for a successor. She’ll be amazing at it... but withdrawn in a more forlorn way- calmer as well.

What this entails is he is convinced through RIGORIOUS therapy that Zim is, in fact, a human with some weird medical condition(s) and eccentricities himself- which for normal people are to be avoided.

In my version of this story (regardless of how the show or movie turns out cuz idrk their real relationship, really) Zim would definitely take notice and having had been exiled completely from the Irken race on threat of death (or worse). Zim would not entirely give up on domineering over the human race, but he would funnel it in a different direction- screw the tallest (more or less- though he’d NEVER NEVER say it out loud) this is HIS world and he will find a way/ways to make it more to what he wants/needs.

But anyway.. Zim would notice and would realize Dib’s sudden loss of potential. I don’t know that he would know why Dib gave up to begin with- not knowing about the severe therapy- all hush hush- thinking it was some human need to process the trauma that was their space adventures. He’d just give him space as he himself would be processing it all and changing a part of his core self to be not for the Irken race, but for himself (ROUGH when you are genetically engineered to be self sacrificial for the cause)... And by the time he notices Dib is actively avoiding him.... by the time he notices Dib has all but forgotten him... Zim has more pain and wrenching to go through.

ANYWAY

Zim WOULD eventually notice. He wouldn’t be held back in grades because GIR can help as a stand in, and so does Zim’s own knowledge and ‘medical’ condition excuse- he can pass his classes with zero effort and blah blah... but he’d notice that Dib is... different. And he’d notice he doesn’t entirely like it. And of course he’d be more of the ‘shy kid’ after all is said and done. But one day he’d approach Dib (because Dib certainly isn’t going to come talk to him, despite the stares and more Zim tries to burn into him) and try to talk to him. Dib would be completely neutral-level kind. Knows Zim’s name, but the memories are all... twisted and weird and blocked, more or less. So it’s basically like they were never enemies or whatever they were. Almost like they never knew each other at all.

And that would hurt. It would HURT in a way Zim finds too familiar and wrenching. Dib would ever be kind, but yeah... his soft kindness and gentle letting down of “Hey, bud, I’m sorry but I’m not sure what you mean and I got some stuff to study for, bye.” that’s totally NOT Dib... but is? But no...?

Cue Zim with another breakdown/loss and a bit of his old self resurging to never back down- to get Dib back- the ONE who KNEW and sure maybe judge him, but with Irken adgenda off the table maybe they could be friends?!

Shenanigans of Zim being a pest/bother in school and stalking and otherwise, and Dib TOO GOOD at suddenly looking the wrong direction (almost like a reflex, weird), and having someone else around, and some backfiring... Dib’s kind gaze getting harder and harder to bear because it’s almost like PITY.

Possibly lots of blood. Possible gore? If I could stomach it?

Some themes of self harm, and psycosis, and dark thoughts/themes, and perhaps even some.. em.. nsfw unsolicited offers like Zim screaming “I’ll even let you dissect me!!” in the middle of the cafeteria to try and get SOMETHING of the old Dib back.

Possible Zim physically attacking Dib on a few occasions too. Possible Zim starting to wonder if he IS a human with severe mental issues... he knows he not lol but the IDEA and he’s just SO confused!! and at a loss.

Lots of reckless behavior.

REALLY rough...

But.. knowing me...

I adore happy endings... so all that pain and toil and turmoil would be worth it.

Dib would start to crack. Fight himself too. Try to maintain. Try not to maintain. Realize he has this weird reflex and weird physical reactions around Zim. Know SOMETHING is.. wrong.. off... Epic Mental breakdown ensues.. Not sure about Gaz, but she def has a part...

In the end... they would save eachother.

I’m thinking this would also be a ZaDr type fic... cuz I love messy love too... lonely and never lonely all in one.

But yeah.. *ahem*... all of this hit me in the span of like 5 seconds earlier and I’m... *croaks* I’m TOTALLY okay...

*Squeaks*

#personal #fic idea #holy hell #iz #invader zim #dark headcanons #dark themes #trigger warnings apply #Zim #Dib #readmore #fandom stuff #writing it down #for later maybe #I feel like I got punched in the face... maybe the gut too #feels #oof the feels #the feels

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resetting37 · 5 years ago

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A R C F O U R

It’s a happy finale, the friends are reunited after a fun night of crashing a ball and dressing up ! It looks like happily ever after <3 (but it’s not I’m sorry there’s more to the story and there’s worse - and better !! - to come)

Context time !

So a few months prior, Audrey ran away to her hometown in the island of Dile to find the source of the substance Aurora stole from her in (aka the amulet Audrey always wears around her neck.) She needs proof that it’s “connected” to her and not something Aurora can willfully take to a lab or whatever she was going to do with it. But while Audrey is gone, a lot happens. Avery and Zack return to the city (after being kidnapped by Trinity, do you think that’ll come back to haunt them ???) and everyone learns that Avery is the secret half sister of Aurora and Samson. So it’s her newfound way of entering the prime circles, what she truly wanted from the beginning. She’s a little distant from Morgan after realizing Morgan didn’t have concerns over her disappearance and Morgan is trying to fix their relationship.

Of course Morgan feels awful, but Avery’s working towards her own internal struggles at the same time while handling this new wave of attention from Aurora and Samson. She’s not committed to Morgan all the way. Don’t get me wrong, they’re not completely broken up either - we still get to have them be together. Avery is just not ready to be Morgan’s girlfriend (insert trademark logo) - that is, until the event I’m gonna get to.

Meanwhile, Kat’s undergoing her alter ego “GLOSS” as a secret attempt to regain her old fame. And it works ! In fact, Gloss is more famous that Kat ever was. Gloss is adored by crowds through her battle games against genetically-engineered creatures.

Zack’s welcomed back into his family while his new friendship with Sean grows, despite that being a conflict since Sean still has tension with Advik. To be fair, Morgan is the only one out of Advik’s friends that knows why Sean and Advik hate each other (the only secret Advik can actually keep). But, that doesn’t stop Morgan from wanting to be friends with Sean. What ?? Maybe he’s nice now ! As for Advik, his situation is relatively the same as it was from the previous arc. He works alongside Echo in attempt to follow his prototype’s footsteps of being a ~scientist~. His tension with Sean and Aurora and his fear of the experiments are what are stopping him.

Anyway, now that I’ve basically summarizaed Arc four (jk more stuff happens it’s not all angsty there’s fun stuff) Everything changes when Audrey returns ! But she’s got a friend with her ! The sole resident on Dile, Lilith. (Lots of Arc four’s story revolves around the events on Dile, but for the sake of this post, I won’t go into it.) Now that Audrey has found the source of her amulet’s power, SOUL, she can find the amulet again so she can publically take it back and show the council it’s not theirs.

She’s hiding under the radar, and the first person she goes to is Kat. She tells Kat everything and apologizes for leaving. Morgan, Advik, and Zack also get the news that Audrey has returned and go to Kat’s place to see her. Avery is purposely left out because she’s super close with Aurora right now and they can’t afford to have Affora find out Audrey’s back in Evelow. Another important note is that Lilith and Advik remember each other !!! They hadn’t seen each other in ten years, who would have thought they’d ever see each other again ? Audrey doesn’t blame Advik for being preoccupied on Lilith’s return more so than hers. After all, her mind is on Kat the most. When she was in Dile, she did a lot of examining on her relationships and she realized that she did love Kat in a way that was different than the way she loved her other friends.

Regardless, the Group of six have to find a way for Audrey to get back her amulet and prove to everyone Aurora can’t possess it. But how ? And when ? Perhaps the grand Evelonian Ball, suggests Advik. It’s conveniently being held at the city hall in the same center that the laboratory the amulet is being stored in. Due to the heavy security of the ball, it’d be easy to sneak into the laboratory due to less attention there, which leaves the difficult part of making the entrance into the ball. None of them are invited to the ball. If anything, Advik and Zack have bad blood with Aurora and are blacklisted. A thought was maybe Morgan would be Avery’s date and she’d be their inside access, but Avery is too close to Aurora (see above) they didn’t want to risk it. Which bums Morgan a bit, but she understands.

Then Kat has the idea of going as GLOSS ! No one knows Kat is Gloss besides her friends, and despite Gloss not being invited, she could make a date to someone that was. Perhaps Crystal ? And who else to pose as Crystal than her brother Zack. They’re not twins or anything, but with makeup and some styling, it could work from afar. As for the real Crystal, Morgan uses that attraction Crystal had for her to her advantage and get Crystal to take her as her date to the ball. Would this hurt Avery ? No, because they wouldn’t make it to the ball ! Morgan would make “accidental delays” to make sure she and her date don’t make it to the ball so that Kat, aka “Gloss”, and Zack, aka “Crystal” could infiltrate the city hall and thus let the rest in after they retrieve the amulet from the lab.

And so it works. Morgan is Crystal’s date, Kat and Zack dress up, hell, Advik, Audrey, and Lilith get a little fancy for the occasion.

The Lab Heist is a success. The trio sneak in, aren’t caught, and find the amulet. It’s back to Audrey ! But something’s off with Lilith. This is the lab she grew up in, and while Advik and Audrey initially assume this is the reason for her discomfort, she says there’s something else.. SOMEONE else.. and Advik knows. It’s Adam, who was taken in after a deteriorating condition, who is being held in a lower level in the laboratory. So Advik tells to go get him and that’s where they part ways with Lilith. Don’t worry, they’ll meet again, and soon, but Lilith has parted ways in this night.

Meanwhile, the infiltration into the ball is a success. Kat and Zack, ahem, Gloss and Crystal, are in the grand Evelonian Ball ! But oh no ! Turns out the real Crystal was a little more persistent in going to the event so now she and Morgan are there too ! Aurora makes some side comment like “Of course Crystal would have two different outfits and two different dates” and that’s when it catches Avery’s attention. Something is up, and she confronts Kat and Zack.

(Kat has her mask removed in this picture ? This was drawn before I had the alter ego totally laid out so that’s why) and they tell Avery that Audrey has returned and their plan to come to the ball with the amulet. Avery is in, but they have to get off the dance floor, they need to find a way for the others to sneak in without Aurora’s attention. But they have been caught by Crystal, who gets ultimately gets Zack kicked out. But security couldn’t recall which was the imposter date so Crystal lies and says Gloss is her date, getting Morgan kicked out. After all, she wants to find out who’s behind the mask >:-)

Anyhow Morgan and Zack have been kicked out, and Kat is stuck inside. Avery sneaks out to help Morgan and Zack back in, but Zack already contacted Sean to get him a change of clothes and was out of sight, so Morgan and Avery use this moment alone to reconcile. Blah Blah sappy stuff, they love each other and want to be together <3

When Avery and Morgan are out there, Advik and Audrey run into them. Avery lets them the three of them in with her, and soon all eyes are on them ! Audrey proclaims to the crowd that she is a host, Aurora would never be one and stole the amulet from her. Aurora is McFreaking pissed. Doesn’t help that Avery and Advik stand up for Audrey (Aurora ? Betrayed by her sister ??) and the grand reveal comes when Gloss comes, tells everyone that she is Katsumi, the woman they all once shunned for spying on behalf of Aurora. And Kat finally gets to have her telling off. Aurora gets them all kicked out, but the damage is done. The ball continues, but Aurora makes a silent departure, and a promise to herself that she’ll get back at them. It may take some time and some manipulating, but she’ll do it.

And then they go to the diner ! Yay ! It’s happy ! They’re eating fries and sodas, with Aurora plotting her revenge behind the scenes. Thanks for joining me on this incohesive tale I had fun telling in, I promise it’s so much funnier in my head with a lot more detail and dialogue lol

#art #Katsumi #Advik #audrey #Avery #Morgan #uhh maybe I’ll tag Lilith and Zack due to playing roles in this.. they’re not in this drawing and I have good reasons why #Aurora plays a role too but I don’t talk about her too much in this do I

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 5 years ago

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HGPC 17 - 21 | Koi to Producer 2 - 6 | Appare 5 - 8 | Fugou Keiji 4 - 6

...only just realised I was missing some tags. They should be there now or soon.

HGPC 17

Why do I get the feeling the Sawaizumi family will be held hostage one day…? (Maybe I’m just being negative?)

The episode title mentions Chiyu by name, so I wonder why the translation didn’t…

Customer service! You can’t get away from it, even in COVID times…! (Impressive!)

Hmm…you can actually read part of the booking for the Smiths in the book if you know the kanji.

I thought the Smiths would speak in English, but they actually speak in fluent Japanese if the word “susume” was any indication.

Ah, Sukoyaka sweet buns! (from the other episode about the festival)

HGPC 18

Don’t burn down your house with scented candles, kids!

Also remember to use your knees when lifting heavy boxes! (<- says a charity store volunteer, who does this stuff on the regular)

These days the mascots usually have a human form. I wonder if this is implying that particular direction…? (I woke up today and was craving a certain oneshot I’d read during my scanlation days…if it is, it would fill that niche nicely.)

I wonder if the kids will recognise this Ashita no Joe parody…?

HGPC 19

“…since you were young?”

Oh! Element of Wind again!

Koi to Producer 2

This almost feels like Victor is assigning a school project to Protag-chan…it’s a bit sad, really.

It’s nice they let Protag-chan have a personality.

It’s fine if you can’t read the katakana, but Gavin’s name is Haku in Japanese, so it throws out the immersion somewhat…also, I know I shouldn’t be complaining – I’m the target audience here – but do these guys look kinda similar or what…? (partially kidding)

High school sweethearts, huh? “Childhood friends” is my favourite angle of a romantic relationship, but it gets so overused by harems it comes around to being boring…!

I-Is this Stand My Heroes…?! (LOL…?)

Can we not with 1st person cam…?

As cute and dorky as this stuff gets…how does Gavin never get found?! Does nobody ever look up in this city?!? (I thought Evolvers were meant to be a secret…?)

GPS tracker? That’s no better than large corporations using your location data…Isn’t that creepy…?

Hold on, when did she get his phone number? You would assume it was before this entire chase after the boy happened, but still…?

LOL, the English on the board.

This anime is gonna cause me some frustration, but it gives the good stuff in roughly equal measure. It seems to omit the fact you interact via phone with your bois for intimacy (in the game).

Koi to Producer 3

LOL, that’s so clearly Gavin…

By googling, you find out Uptown and Queens are in New York.

Ohmygosh! Did the creators know I love the trope where only people with superpowers can move in certain circumstances?!

Uh…his name is Kira in Japanese? Did someone read the katakana wrong?

Pictured: Depressed bishonen eating bad pudding. (…That joke sounds better in my head. I forgot what meme I was meant to be parodying there, but I had a meme in mind.)

Lemme guess…this man (I dunno if it’s one of the previous bishies with an identical face or a new one) is looking for MC-chan. *sigh* Update: Yep, just Victor again. To be honest, I don’t like anyone who calls harsh words “their sign of love” – love should be honest and upfront. That’s how it becomes heartmelting.

Koi to Producer 4

Okay, in order, it seems to be hexadecimals, Javascript (you can tell from the “const”), some kind of profiles which are apparently for human lab rats (which seem to have some kind of nonsense filler text), a DNA model and DNA bases (ACGT).

The text on the screen says something along the lines of this being an official broadcast of this man’s arrest and this man was a genetic researcher. Obviously, if I wanted to put more attention into what it meant, I would, but I won’t sweat the details this time (because it doesn’t seem to impact the plot).

The guy’s name is Minor because minor key (geddit?)…that’s my guess.

I started playing the game due to this anime, if you didn’t know, and I unlocked an expert in ch. 2. I thought he was Minor, but turns out his name is Spine (an older man).

The diary, true to form, contains details about either one case or several cases, two involving children. The bottom of the 1st page says “if it’s fake, I’ll laugh”.

Hey, I once told Crunchyroll I wanted an anime about hacking (so is this a dream come true? I reveal all in the next sentence!). Hackers don’t congregate like this…they’d be too conspicuous, even with the secret hideout!

The code in the top left appears to be…C? I think? (Note they declare “unsigned int”.)

Kiro sometimes reminds me of Masayoshi (SamFlam)…it puts a derpy smile on my face.

*blah blah blah I’m Key* - Wuh…? F*** you, Kiro!!! (There is such a thing as piling too much cool stuff on to a character, y’know – I’m guilty of it in my own writing.)

3684 isn’t a very safe password (says someone who once aspired to be in cybersecurity).

What bugs me is that Simon is a perfectly fine name…it’s just a bit boring. Kiro/Kira I get (a bit), but Lucien/Simon…? *shrugs*

Ohh! Based MAPPA! Thank you for making this adaption look great!

Koi to Producer 5

Oh, I got an SR in the game recently and it has a line like, “Only a fool stays up all night to do others’ work. Victor talks like that a lot…

The sign so obviously says “Renka”, meaning “love flower”. “Loveland” really is a step down from that…

Where’s Gavin’s guest badge…?

“Happiness Noodle Store”…?

“…the end of our first year…”

If this weren’t a Chinese work by origin (or Japanese work by translation), I’m sure Protag-chan would have gone after Gavin, despite being told the contrary.

Kanya = Minor. I’ll take a note of that.

One of the books behind Minor says “Gale Start”…hmm…

That GPS tracker is still unintentionally creepy, IMHO.

Koi to Producer 6

…oh. (dejected) Probably a beach episode or something.

What the actual heck was going on with Lucien…? It’s like he was having a tiny stroke there…

Lucien’s power is listed as “???” in the game. I thought he was an aura-reader when he said “show me your colour”, but that shield thing he did means he might just have various psychic powers…? *shrugs* We’ll find out eventually.

Running in heels is hard…

LOL, that’s so clearly recreating a CG from one of the cards.

This is the 2nd time this has gone pseudo-isekai. As much as I like to joke about it…I fully expect someone to be sent to another world at this point.

I couldn’t possibly see Victor on any kind of game show, come to think of it.

Appare 5

This guy’s middle name is “Rich”! That’s silly!

A boombox from the 19th century…makes sense, somehow.

I only just (?) realised Al has a tiny tie on his usual outfit.

Back to the beginning already…just start!

Appare 6

…I just realised Appare mouths “I got it!” in the OP.

Al Lion (sic…?)

Isn’t Sofia in that train…? Update: She might have been, she might not. Hard to tell when they don’t confirm.

This series seriously could’ve done with a dub…Even with weird hokey Hetalia accents, it would be good stuff.

These bunches of people at designated points…reminds me of the book I was reading while in Japan. The Long Walk by Stephen King (part of a compilation). It still gives me shivers down my spine when I remember it.

This “leave in the middle of the night” thing reminds me of the Amazing Race.

“Valley of Despair” is made-up, but Death Valley exists. It’s one of the hottest places on earth, hence the name.

LOL, Kosame scores himself one (1) prarie dog and two (2) Hototos.

I thought Appare was being inconsiderate at first…but he’s being considerate, in his own way.

Oh! I didn’t realise, but Saito Soma is Al.

Appare 7

“It’s not one plus one, but one times one!” – LOL.

Hybrid engine? In the 1900s? Hmm…

LOL, I think Al just did a hadouken.

This stuff’s like an animated Galaxy Brain meme! It’s amazing!

I managed to successfully predict – without watching ahead – Appare would catch himself with his traps.

Kosame with his hair down…is rare. Not exactly attractive because we have to care about the racers rather than lust after them (and the artstyle actually prevents me from doing so, because it’s deliberately quite cartoony), but it’s rare.

Appare is surprisingly childish…that’s what makes him more than a Sheldon Cooper, I think.

The spelling of the place is actually “Ely”, if Google-sensei is any indication. C’mon, subbers! You’re American (most likely)! Can’t you put in the legwork (or the Google-fu) to discover what place in Nevada this is?!

Subbers make characters say “shit” a lot in this show, hmm? (contemplative)

Now this evil guy here *points to screen*…that’s hair I like.

Appare 8

I just love this OP…don’t you?

I like how the steam/gas boat/car has Chinese numerals on its dial.

Kosame means “small rain”, so “heavy rain” is obviously to contrast that.

The Hototo joke never gets old.

I thought I just saw someone leave the saloon…

Nice hair + terrible face = bad equation.

I can almost imagine the wee-oo-wee-oo-ooooooo…wah-wah-wahhh…(You know the one sound snippet, right? The one theme from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - or whatever movie it is – that maybe involves a tumbleweed rolling across the screen, and then a huge shootout? If you don’t know it, play a sample on this Wikipedia page!) playing in the background.

It’s convenient the prarie dog didn’t appear when Hototo (old) had his revenge spree.

I noticed there’s a bit of a mark under Kosame’s left eye…it suggests that he’s been crying (or maybe it shows tiredness from the race…?), but it’s not that noticeable.

So that’s the real Gil…and tose were his henchmen that threatened to hang everyone bar Kosame. Got it.

(notes to self) So, for charting a course with Appare Ranman!, it’s Los Angeles -> Death Valley -> Ely -> Denver -> ??? -> New York. Got it.

Fugou Keiji 4

“Daisuke-sama” isn’t “Lord Daisuke”, it would be “Sir Daisuke”, I think…but “lord” has a proper translation in Japanese.

The truck has a Shinagawa licence plate. Anime really does like Shinagawa, huh? (Based on ID: INVADED and this.)

I think it’ll be interesting to see Kambe handle this without HEUSC.

The board for Sanchome (which is equivalent to a suburb…or a county, I guess?) has posters saying stuff like “take your dog poop home” and “let’s protect the environment!” (technically, it says “let’s protect the region/area!”, but that doesn’t translate right. There’s even a flea market. Still, those posters don’t have any big hints…not that I know of so far.

I kind of forgot that dude was the gardener for Kambe’s house…er, mansion.

I noticed a poster in the kouban says haru (spring) on it. That’s probably the same one that Haru’s name is signified by, assuming that’s not in combo with another character or few.

Oh great…the sister is an overbearing one.

Ahh…he doesn’t like natto. So that’s the problem. Daisuke is childish (like Appare)…Note I don’t like natto either, but I wouldn’t run away from home (or similar) because I was fed natto.

I noticed Kambe uses shinseki (which doesn’t refer to close family). “Relative” is a correct translation of that word, I just wanted to check that word was the right one for the context.

There’s a green tea bottle by the sink…I don’t think I’d mistake that shade of green for anything else.

LOL, I didn’t think we’d actually get to see Kambe with his hair “down”, so to speak. It’s…an interesting look, for sure.

Oh my gosh! It cost him (Haru) $15!!! (LOL, cheapskate…says the cheapskate…*suddenly droops and stops laughing*) Update: Sorry about the sudden downer there. I was having what the kids these days call a “woke moment”…at least, I think that’s how they use that term.

…I’d watch that crime drama. It’s funny.

Just realised Kato has an older model of phone than Kambe does.

This episode was kinda like a Tokyo Sonata kind of thing, huh? The sensational in the middle of the not-so-sensational…”sensational” for this show, anyway.

Those kids look like the ones from Erased.

*lightbulb goes off in brain* What if the dog went to Kambe’s…?

Can Suzue actually hear HEUSC while Kambe is using it…? $2.46 though…that is cheap, in comparison to the ham.

This was the cheapest episode so far (about $550)…probably because it was an insight into Kato’s life, more than Kambe’s.

Fugou Keiji 5

The flag seems to be based on Cameroon’s (which is in Africa, not America) and the “Arita Kinen” seems to refer to Arima Kinen, meaning this episode is set around Christmas-ish. Credit goes to Kambe Zaibatsu on this show.

I-It’s a Humvee!

Polyadoll (sic)…?

The Poliador guy speaks perfect Japanese…(?)

The star! It’s a key thingy!

I thought Kamei was the 1st Division dude with the reddish hair. Turns out it was the blonde…? Update: Redhead is Hoshino.

Ummmmmm…he was reading porn…? Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh…okayyyyyyyyyyyyy…

…oh, the costs for Kambe’s tuxedo are on there. So’s the cost for repairing the bike Suzue rode.

Fugou Keiji 6

I never knew there were so many money proverbs to be used as episode titles…

What is Kambe doing with his hands…? He’s not even using the computer.

Imura seems to use a Windows 10 with Cortana on the taskbar.

HGPC 20

What’s with all the Naruto running this episode…?

HGPC 21

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#simulcast commentary #healin' good precure #fugou keiji: balance unlimited #millionaire detective #Koi to Producer: EVOL x LOVE #mr love queen's choice #Appare Ranman!#Chesarka watches AR #Chesarka watches HGPC #Chesarka watches Koi to Producer #Chesarka watches Fugou Keiji

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geekpellets · 6 years ago

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I’m not even in the mood for real.

Blue My Mind Blue My Mind is about a girl who is going through a transformation that is naturally a metaphor for puberty. The movie is filmed well. It’s well paced. Luna Wedler puts in an attention grabbing performance. There aren’t a lot of practical effects, but they’re well done. BUT LET ME BE HONEST HONEST, the movie was SO blah for me, personally. The reason being is, Mia is far too unlikeable of a character for me to want to root for or give a crap about. She makes ALL the wrong decisions, from the get go. It’s one dumb decision after another, and her crippled decision making skills never goes away. It starts with, “On my first day of school I immediately decide I want to hang out with the wrong crowd.” Listen, from me to you, if you’re hanging out with a bunch of people an ONE of them drinks ketchup straight from the bottle like it’s nothing, that’s fine. If TWO of them are drinking ketchup out of from the bottle like it’s nothing, you need to reevaluate your WHOLE life. Even though I liked the ending, when I really think about it, even that stuff was straight disrespectful. I could not get behind this girl, because she’s bringing the worst of it one herself, every time. Not once does she make the smart decision. Am I suppose to feel for her? Am I supposed to sympathize for her? That’s hard to do when she is the type of person I’d be rooting against in a horror movie. If Jason Vorhees was running around slashing people up, I’d be like, “Yo, Jason, you need to get Mia. All she does is screw up, intentionally. Smarter better people were killed for less!” Listen, I lean a little cold. I’m not heartless. Movies effect me emotionally more often than I’d usually admit. But I can’t with a character who’s this self-destructive in a movie that wants you to sympathize with her. Movies starring self-destructive characters can be great, but it’s either because of the suspense of waiting for the comeuppance, like in Josh and Bennie Safdie’s Good Time, or because the film shows you that the character you are following is trying to be good or is trying to overcome his or her self-destructive behavior. How is Bojack Horseman more likeable and sympathetic to me than this 16 year old girl facing something she can’t control? That’s crazy. Anyway, so I felt meh throughout most of this movie. This movie struggled to hold my attention most of the time. I could never suggest it. I wouldn’t watch it again. Some people like it. It has a lot of buzz. That’s something. This film didn’t appeal to me, but that doesn’t mean its a bad film. Usually, when I don’t like most of a movie but it has a strong ending or climax, I give it a 2/5. I’ll bump this one up to a 3 because it is competently made and performed. It just failed to make me feel anything but indifference. If I sound upset or disgruntled, it’s not because of anything that’s explicitly happening in the movie. It’s because I’m so disappointed at my indifference. The movie doesn’t want you to feel indifference. It wants you to feel bad, and I want to be there with this movie. I want to experience what people who are giving this movie high scores experienced, but I can’t. I can’t get over this kind of depiction of a character that makes her seem relentless unlikable to me in a movie that’s supposed to tug at some heart strings. Errors of the Human Body I learned about this film in horror circles, so let me be the first to say, if you’re like me and expecting body horror, lower your expectations. Lower them by a lot. Errors of the Human Body is more of a drama than anything. Take the average medical drama, preferably one that takes itself seriously, make it about genetic engineering, and put that bad boy on HBO. There’s research, there’s people fighting over the research, there’s the dramatic results of the research. That’s Errors of the Human Body. If that sounds like your sort of thing, you’re in for a good time. This movie lets the actors and the characters do the heavy lifting, and they succeed. Michael Eklund, Karoline Herfuth, and Tómas Lemarquis all put in a great performance. I’m going to say it, Keroline Herfuth is another person who deserves to blow up. Look, Hollywood stays asleep. Don’t even get me started on how Fiona Dourif hasn’t blown up yet. ANYWAY, the movie puts a lot of time (ie, all of its time) into these characters, exploring their complexities and evolving relationships. It’s good. It’s good stuff. Everyone gets to be chill, everyone gets to be fun, everyone gets to be a prick. The pacing was good until the end. I felt like it lingered on some scenes a little too long. It’s actually a tad more complex than that, but the best I can describe it without going into spoilers. Some things are a little drawn out towards the end, but it doesn’t hurt the film so much. The mood is gray, and empty, and melancholy- intentionally so. The practical effects are mostly better than I expected. The blood is great. You can’t tell me that these mice weren’t harmed in production, I SEENT IT (I’m just saying, the stuff with the mice looked real. I’m not really claiming it was). There is an effect near the end that’s just ok. I don’t think it was bad, in fact I’ve seen some real life equivalents so it is accurate, but you do know that it is an effect and in a movie that plays things so down to Earth maybe it is a bit jarring. The make-up work is right where it needs to be. This isn’t a movie I would watch again, I wouldn’t buy it, I don’t think you need to go out looking for it, but I did enjoy it while it was on. What can I say, I watched ALL of House. I’m not immune to the appeal of medical dramas, and clearly I’m not immune to the appeal of sci-fi medical dramas either. Go ahead and turn this into a show, HBO. Trust me, and then hire Fiona Dourif.

#Blue My Mind #Errors of the Human Body

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nolightsinthedark · 6 years ago

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4, 9, 11, and 16 for the writer asks

4. what are some ofexamples of storytelling that inspires you outside of books?

Musicis probably the biggest one (though plays/musicals, and movies are alsoanother). My favorite thing to write is the relationship between people, orpeople and institutions, which are pretty big topics in music, especially my favoritegenre, punk rock. I usually focus on lyrics but I also take from tone. Unfortunately,I have a hard time writing while listening to music, because I’m easilydistracted.

9. what’s a series orfranchise you secretly or not so secretly think you’d be, like, a REALLY goodwriters for if they’d stop being cowards and hire you already?

Notreally a series per say, more like a genre as a whole. So back in the day (andkinda today but I don’t have much time to read) I was really into dystopianbooks. There was one in particular called “Perfected” by Kate Jarvik Birch that kinda opened my eyes to this issue, moreor less about if a law was passed that allowed humans to be genetically engineeredas pets. The idea was supposed to be about how people could more or less buythe perfect host. They were pretty, polite, could play an instrument, blahblah, interesting idea really. So much potential! Is it fucked up? Absolutely! Ripefor manipulation and government overthrow? Of course! Did any of that happen???NOPE. Chapter 2 love interest enters and the plot just drops off the face ofthe earth so fast you would think it was being pursued, and that happens a lotin this genre. Authors have such INTERESTING ideas, but don’t have the SPINE togo all the way with it and fall back into safe formula and I hate it. Its dystopian!! Its supposed to be a little fucked up!! Its supposed to make you question the legality of things! Its an allegory for things happening in the real world, not real life situations!! I justwish a publishing/editing whatever firm would hire me to hold a rolled-up newspaperto glare down at authors and say “MORE!!! MORE!!!” Its like people aresprinkling pepper on their raw chicken books and I’m desperately asking forseasoning as they dump all the good herbs into the water and pretend it’sinteresting. Be brave! Go all the way with your ideas! don’t just pepper them in!! If i can’t taste the suffering on the page, its not there!

11. if you currently write fanfiction or have everwritten fanfiction, please tell us about the plot of the first fic you everwrote

Ilegit don’t remember my first ever fanfiction, I know it was Naruto, and it wasbad. It was written in script form (like a play, not cheeky script writing,like legit tv adaptation, it was bad.) I don’t remember the plot at all, and that’sprobably for the best. The best part about this fanfiction was that it waswritten on actual paper before I had internet, and I’m pretty sure I burned it. Either way, i don’t write much fanfiction anymore. I kinda promised myself i would focus on my own characters and my own writing, because a lot of the time i was getting wrapped up in these stories i didn’t feel like were my own and I couldn’t properly own. I realize this is BS, I love READING fanfiction, but i just can’t put my heart into it the way i do with my original fiction.

16. do you write any particular genre? how do youfeel about genre categories in general? love them? want to combine them? wantto do away with them altogether?

Iwrite a lot of what could be considered fantasy or magical realism. I mostlyjust like the idea of magic and the freedom it gives you. I can do literallyanything, hand wave, and call it magic. Its wonderful. I think genres arehelpful to readers. I want to know what to expect in the world. Magic? Murder?Science? Robots? Some of these things are no-gos for me, and genres will looselytell me what kind of story I’m in for. That being said, I don’t think a writershould worry about fitting into a specific genre. That can be something sortedout after its done. Genres communicate to readers what you’ve written, but theycan be constraining for writers. You don’t try and find a box for a present youhaven’t built yet, you wrap it after in something that fits. Books should bethe same way.

Thanksfor the ask~ Feel free to send more if people are interested ^^ I don’t dothese very often, but they are fun.

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pandaparbat · 7 years ago

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I just saw Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

I used to love dinosaurs as a kid. I used to read books, watch movies, play games about dinosaurs and even eat dinosaur shaped food so it wasn't a big surprise that I loved the original Jurassic Park enjoyed The Lost World and.... Tolerated 3. I thought that was it for my paeleological fix until Jurassic World.

I loved Jurassic world. I know it wasn't the best movie out there but it was a really fun sequel and i felt it was how the sequels should have been from the beginning; seeing the park up and running with new dinosaurs despite the previous disasters and taking the genetic manipulation to a new angle. That being said it was very close to being a carbon copy of the original.

So when I saw Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom yesterday I was gung-ho for some dino action with some of my favourite actors but instead I got... A mess.

**Warning Spoilers ahead**

It starts off okay. There's a volcano on the island going to explode, we need to save the dinosaurs, blah blah blah back to the island for a suicide mission. This is weak but I'll suspend my disbelief for a reason to see some dinos in the jungle (you would assume after a traumatic event of every creature trying kill you would put a damper on wanting to save them or ever stepping foot on an island like that ever again but whatever). And the first bit is your regular "look at this magestic dinosaur" and then followed by "run the fuck away from the other one trying to have a quiet lunch of you" except with a volcano erupting. Admittedly it's pretty awesome and I enjoyed it a lot. I even didn't mind the inevitable bretrayal by the military group but after that things got hairy.

Going on the boat, taking care of blue and T-Rex blood transfusion was cool but then we arrived in California. Where we find out that they're going to sell the dinos for money and start cloning them all over again including a genetically engineered dinosaur more deadly than any other. What bothers me the absolute most about this is the infinite stupidity of the characters as they never seem to learn from mistakes, theirs or others.

It feels like even the people making the movie didn't learn from their mistakes as it is a near carbon copy of the less successful The Lost World where:

A character from the previous movie is convinced, reluctantly, to return to the island for one reason only to be betrayed by the military force with them and take the deadly (and by this movie 4 times proven deadly) dinosuars to California where one escapes and wreaks havok.

But as I was saying, the characters in the movie don't learn from their mistakes. Remember the Indominus Rex? The dinosaur that they genetically engineered that single handedly tore Jurassic World to the ground causing all people to evacuate the island and making it unlivible to any human? Well now the same scientist (not even a different person) is taking that DNA and creating something even smarter and deadlier! Why? Why? It makes no sense. You saw what a lessser version of this could do to an isolated ecosystem, so why would you create something even worse and expect a better result especially on a well populated continent. It's just dumb and after that the whole movie became comical. Of course the dinosaurs escape and the Indoraptor's escape is the dumbest of all. It went almost like a cartoon (I swear they made that raptor smile slyly as he tricks the human who's dumb enough to climb in the cage with the deadliest dinosaur ever imagined). Of course our main characters are stuck being chased by them and it all just gets so boring. Admittedly the dino auction was an interesting idea and that's believable and kind of fun but most of it is booming and predictable.

The worst offender by far though, was the ending. So again **Spoilers**

After witnessing the destruction wrought by these creature in the park and now in this estate they've been trapped the characters have the decision of releasing the dinosaurs or keeping the door closed have them die via poison gas that is leaking into their chambers. Intially and heartbreakingly they decide its better for the dinosaurs to die and not doom humanity but... Nope. One of the minor characters takes it unto herself to fuck us all over and open a Pandora's box of terrible lizards.

It makes no sense. I understand the loss of the dinosaurs is hard to handle but it's either that or the extinction of the human species and that doesn't seem to be a hard decision in my eyes.

It's like releasing a bunch of crocodiles into a public pool. Yeah, it's sad that the crocs will die but the other option is way worse!

The only possible saving grace of this is if their inevitable sequel is a live action version of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs set several years into the future (or even possibly Mad Max with Dinosaurs).

Sadly I was very disappointed with this movie and in my opinion, it's enough. You've beat this idea to death. Stop here please. Or at least give us something new next time.

So when I saw Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom yesterday I was gung-ho for some dino action with some of my favourite actors but instead I got... A mess.

**Warning Spoilers ahead**

It starts off okay. There's a volcano on the island going to explode, we need to save the dinosaurs, blah blah blah back to the island for a suicide mission. This is weak but I'll suspend my disbelief for a reason to see some dinos in the jungle (you would assume after a traumatic event of every creature trying kill you would put a damper on wanting to save them or ever stepping foot on an island like that ever again but whatever). And the first bit is your regular "look at this magestic dinosaur" and then followed by "run the fuck away from the other one trying to have a quiet lunch of you" except with a volcano erupting. Admittedly it's pretty awesome and I enjoyed it a lot. I even didn't mind the inevitable bretrayal of the military group but after that things got hairy.

It feels like even the people making the movie didn't learn from their mistakes as it is a near carbon copy of the less successful The Lost World where:

The worst offender by far though, was the ending. So again **Spoilers**

It makes no sense. I understand the loss of the dinosaurs is hard to handle but it's either that or the extinction of the human species and that doesn't seem to be a hard decision in my eyes.

It's like releasing a bunch of crocodiles into a public pool. Yeah, it's sad that the crocs will die but the other option is way worse!

The only possible saving grace of this is if their inevitable sequel is a live action version of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs set several years into the future (or even possibly Mad Max with Dinosaurs).

Sadly I was very disappointed with this movie and in my opinion, it's enough. You've beat this idea to death. Stop here please. Or at least give us something new next time.

#jurassic world #jurassic park #jurassic world lost kingdom #movie review #movie reaction

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resetting37 · 8 years ago

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Sean

I don’t think any of this comes across as anything new, but I thought it’d be neat to talk about him referencing this question set. I just chose Sean because he’s just one I was thinking about.

What would completely break your character?

Having no one on his side. He already has a hard time dealing with the fact that there’s no way every single person he meets is going to like him. But to have everyone openly against him would hurt him so bad. Also, could you imagine being blamed for the destruction of your city and the loss of your friends ?? (spoiler alert)

What was the best thing in your character’s life?

He doesn’t really... have things ? He takes pride in his charisma though ! And his hair. Sean loves his hair.

What was the worst thing in your character’s life?

Depends on which point of his life I’m talking about. When he was still living in the lab, he didn’t care for the controlling and curfews and just the tedious rules. It took him some time to actually hate it, but it never made him happy. He was told it was for good reasons, so he never defied it. Once he leaves the lab, it’s the paranoia that he doesn’t like so much.

What seemingly insignificant memories stuck with your character?

Until he was allowed of the lab, Sean’s life was repetitive and uneventful. Maybe just the interactions he had with Trinity before she left for good. They didn’t have many, but each time had tension. And maybe each time was insignificant, but they don't leave Sean’s mind too many times.

Does your character work so that they can support their hobbies or use their hobbies as a way of filling up the time they aren’t working?

My setting doesn’t really require labor (sighs if only our world was like that) but many do work for luxuries and the stuff that goes past your comfortable necessities. I think Sean does end up getting a job (idk where) and it’s more likely for the former.

What is your character reluctant to tell people?

“Hello I was genetically engineered so I can have skills and traits that surpass ordinary humans. This includes temperature adjustments, full immunity, prolonged periods of being awake, and fast memory. I was kept in a controlled environment in which I was studied on. I’ve seen escaped that laboratory where there is a likely chance I am being searched for.” -said certainly not Sean.

I mean, it’s not a huge secret, there are people who are aware of that, but it scares people.

How does your character feel about sex?

Despite having his curfew and limited access outside the lab, he has had a decent social life prior to leaving the lab. And including a social life, he slept around. He has fun, but he’s always been kind of the submissive one in sex. Doesn’t mind it, but he kind of wants to try something else. A little embarrassed to mention that though.

How many friends does your character have?

Mostly through association with Aurora at first, but more people wanted to know him, so Echo introduced him to their friends, then Samson, an Evelonian socialite, introduces him to his friends, and so on.

How many friends does your character want?

Sean has teased Advik about the thought of meeting his friends now ;-)

What would your character make a scene in public about?

*Starts playing the piano at the department store.*

What would your character give their life for?

Sean doesn't want to give his life for anything ? Like, he loves people (some) but he’s trying something new now which is to put himself first. He doesn’t want people to benefit from his death, he wants people to appreciate his existence.

What are your character’s major flaws?

He has a bit of a god complex, like only he can solve the larger issues the city has, therefore will be quick to blame himself if something goes wrong.

What does your character pretend or try to care about?

Those really terrible movies his friends like to watch together in irony. Why do they like this ??? It’s so bad ??? He even laughs along to an inside joke one of them may say in front of him (They don’t mean to, but then he starts laughing and they’re like ‘wait is this sarcasm because we’re leaving him out ?’ And then they don’t say the inside joke in front of him anymore because they think they hurt Sean’s feelings.)

How does the image your character tries to project differ from the image they actually project?

Overall it does ! Especially when people first meet Sean. He likes impressing people and he’s good at it. However, since first introductions are what he’s best at, some people may get tired of him and it just. wears off on some.

What is your character afraid of?

Isolation and Rejection. Won’t dive much deeper than that.

What is something most people in your setting do that your character things is dumb?

he thinks mocking is weird ? Like when his friends tease each other by just repeating what they said in a different voice, he just. thinks that’s not funny ? Not as if he thinks it’s genuinely mean, he just doesn’t see the humor behind it. Everyone else does, so he might smile awkwardly. He thinks self-deprecating jokes are sad. He’s also having a hard time adjusting to obvious exaggeration.

Where would your character fall on a politeness/rudeness scale?

politeness being 10, rudeness being 1, Sean is probably a 8 ? He really does try to make people like him, but sometimes his comments may come across as mean (although not intentional at all) and if someone were to comment on that, he’d just be too apologetic on how he should have known that was mean, blah blah blah. He kind of low-key makes lots of things about himself, don’t you think ?

#oc talk #if you guys want to see me do a specific character next let me know #otherwise it's rando again #character questions #sean

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nsorchidsociety · 7 years ago

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Toward a Society

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kybN4dlBA5c

By Dr. William L. Pierce

I’VE SPOKEN BEFORE about the intentionally destructive purpose of the mass press in Western society. I have talked about the psychology of liberalism, about that which makes liberals do the mad and harmful things. Today, though, instead of talking about the enemies of our society now, the enemies of our people, let us only speak about our folks and the type of society that we require.

You understand, a society is a really complex thing: it’s similar to a living organism. It reacts to discerning environmental forces, and it evolves. In past ages it was the battle of individuals to live, the competition of our individuals against other peoples, different races, which determined that the nature of our society. Societies which functioned nicely survived. Societies which did not work well perished. Historically, if some crazy liberal came along and could change all of the rules and structures in a society to suit some egalitarian dream of his, the society could sink like a stone, and its people might perish. And that is what is happening to our society now, although it might not be obvious to us due to this time scale. Following the experimenters complete their deadly work, it may take a society 200 years to disintegrate completely and sink from sight. That’s not long by a historical viewpoint, but it is long enough that the majority of the individuals involved never understand what is happening to them.

The society we had in Europe up until the end of the 18th century — or you can say, the many national societies, which really were very much alike when compared with any non-European society — that European society had evolved over a span of many, several generations of our people, and it’d fine itself to our special temperament; it had evolved its institutions and its ways of doing things which satisfied us as a public and allowed us to shape viable, efficient communities. And if we colonized North America and other areas of the world, we introduced the vital portions of our society together with us.

And what exactly were those vital components?

The very first crucial element was sequence. Everyone had a place within our society, whether he was the village blacksmith or even the king, and he understood what that area was. He understood how he fitted in, what his duties were, to whom he owed loyalty and esteem , and to whom he subsequently was not able to give guidance. It was a hierarchical society. There was no pretense that everyone was just as competent or equally as creative or just as brave or as appropriate for leadership as anybody else. People had social rank and social standing and social power commensurate with their societal responsibilities and with their contributions to society.

The second essential feature which our society had was homogeneity. Everyone had the same roots, the same history, the same genes, the same sensibilities. Or at least, there was sufficient genetic similarity, but there was a near family relationship among the individuals, so people knew each other. A village, a state, a nation was like a large, extended family. People felt a feeling of kinship, a feeling of belonging, and a feeling of loyalty and obligation which extended to the whole society. This feeling of belonging, this feeling of a common history and a common destiny, this feeling of individuality, has been that the glue that held the society together and gave it its strength. Plus it gave people their individual strength too. Just knowing who they were, in which they had already been, and where they had been likely made a huge difference in their sense of personal security, in their own ability to plan ahead and be fairly confident of what the future held for them.

This homogeneity and the resultant sense of family, of individuality, has been tens of thousands of years in developing, exactly like the hierarchical arrangement within our society. And we developed, we evolved, along with our society. The type of society we had became imprinted in our genes. Naturally, it was not a perfect society. It was filled with imperfections and problems. We were creating new technologies, by way of instance, and our society did not always have time to correct itself to these innovations before even more innovations came along. However, it was a society in which we were strong and confident and less or more spiritually healthy.

You know, the opponents of societal arrangement and racial homogeneity will attempt to confuse the issue by pointing out we now have a longer life now, our infant mortality rate is much lower, we don’t need to work as difficult to encourage ourselves, we can buy all kinds of shiny gadgets which our ancestors couldn’t, and so on. They want you to feel that these changes came about as benefits of this breakdown of order and the destruction of homogeneity. However, they did not. They are all the outcomes of technological innovation. Our medical scientists learned how to control the diseases which shortened our lives. Our scientists and engineers learned how we could work better. Plus they learned the way to make new tools and new toys for us.

But to be sure, not all of the degenerative changes within our society which have occurred in the past couple of centuries have been the effect of the destructive efforts of the Jews along with the liberals. The Industrial Revolution really was a enormous jolt to our conventional form of society. The Industrial Revolution took people off the farms and from the villages and packaged them into mill cities like sardines in a can. This is a fantastic strain on the old order. The new relationship between mill owner and mill workers was much less wholesome a person as had existed between landowner and employees on the land, nor was the newest, urban life-style as spiritually healthy as the village life-style.

Unrest and revolution have been fomented in the latter part of this 18th century and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries: egalitarianism, Communism, democracy, equal rights, no responsibilities, welfare applications, feminism. The old arrangement was drowned in blood. In France that the aristocrats and the landowners were butchered in response to this resentments which the liberals had stirred up one of the rabble. Afterwards in Russia exactly the same process happened, when the Jewish Bolsheviks eventually gained the upper hand and appeared maybe not only the aristocrats, but everyone who’d worked a little harder and been a bit more successful than the rabble. The kulaks,the small farmers and landowners, were killed en masse, from the millions, in order to “equalize” Russian society and destroy the last traces of the older, hierarchical order.

And in the societal chaos of the 20th century that the enemies of our people could present their idea of racial equality alongside their idea of social prestige. We were told the descendants of our slaves are equally as good as we are — perhaps better — and so they should turn into our social equals. We should bring them in to our schools and areas, and we should intermarry with them, and we should buy Food Stamps for them with our taxes, and we should provide them preference in hiring and promotions. And we should start our borders to every one of the non-White wretched refuse of the Third World’s teeming shores. They also are our equals, we are told. The more diversity the better. Diversity is our strength. Et cetera. Et cetera. Blah, blah, blah.

We’re too confused and disoriented with the destruction of our social order to withstand this noxious propaganda. So here we are in the end of this 20th century. There are a number of men and women who will attempt to convince you that things never happen to be better. We surely have more equality and less order, more diversity and less homogeneity than ever before. And that clearly suits some individuals, as well as the liberals and the Jews who’ve been pushing for these changes.

Are these changes better for us?

The suicide figures, the medication figures, the crime figures, the divorce figures, and also the mental illness figures give us part of the response. The numbers should help us keep our grip on reality when the Jewish websites attempt to convince us that we need more of the same toxin they’ve been dishing out for long: greater equality, more insanity, more diversity.

And we should be able to check into our own souls for the rest of the response. We should understand we need again to get an ordered, structured society, in which all of us have a place and will probably be valued according to how efficiently we fill that location. We should understand we need again to get a society that is optional, in which we can truly feel a feeling of belonging. We should understand that we need a society in which we’ve got a feeling of permanence and stability, not turmoil and doubt. We should understand that we need a society in which everyone strives for quality, not for an imaginary equality. We should know that in order to become healthy again we desire a society in which we can truly feel a sense of rootedness and obligation, as opposed to the aimless, drifting, rootless, cosmopolitan, egoism which characterizes American society now.

If we are honest with ourselves we understand that we all crave a wholesome society again, we need it. But too a lot of us have allowed ourselves be persuaded by the enemies of our people that the type of society we desire is no longer attainable. Our enemies inform us, “We have destroyed the arrangement on your society. We have made everyone equal, and you dare not attempt and take that equality away. That would be like attempting to take candy from a child. We have opened the candy shop and told every one of the children they can get as far as they need, and it is all free. They all will fight you in case you attempt to change that, if you attempt to inform them they need to make their candies.” And our enemies grin in triumph when they see the way that demoralizes and discourages a lot of us.

Plus they tell us, “We have destroyed the homogeneity on your society. We have substituted your homogeneity with diversity. We have brought every non-White form on the face of the earth in your midst, we have brought them in by the millions, and we have forced you to combine with them. Currently there’s nothing you can do to restore your homogeneity.” And they grin and say, “What can you? Are you going to attempt to root out every non-White and every mongrel and ship all of them away or get rid of these? You don’t have the stomach for that. So you’d better just learn to live with every one of these non-Whites along with mongrels. Pretty soon you’ll be a minority on your land.” Plus they gloat.

And it’s correct, of course, that a lot of us do not yet have the stomach to do what should be done. And thus the suicide rate and the divorce rate and the abortion rate will probably keep rising. The government will keep on creating more prisons. The cults will keep on thriving. And the Jews and the liberals will continue telling us just how wonderful it all is, the way things have been better, how we should appreciate all of the diversity and equality.

But, you understand, all of the while the amount of us who really do have the stomach to do what needs to be achieved will be growing. Our numbers are increasing, since more and more of our folks are coming to understand that the only choice is death: departure for our society, departure for our children, death for our kind. What the Jews and liberals have done to our society is equally deadly. It cannot be sustained.

Order and homogeneity, a feeling of identity and belonging, are not just luxuries for us. They are very essential. Without them our society sickens and dies. The liberals might not be able to understands that, and also the Jews, with their media propaganda, so attempt to keep the rest of us by realizing it, but we may observe the proof of it all around us. And we are determined to do anything we must do to get again a society because of our own type, a society where we can really belong and feel a sense of obligation to, a society in which we have a location and are valued if we fulfill that place nicely, a society based on order and quality and construction and commonality. We’ll have it. We’ll do what’s necessary.

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By Free Speech, May 1997, Volume III, Number 5

Video by Omniphi

from Society http://www.nsorchidsociety.com/toward-a-society/

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