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Cats are so awesome. There’s an animal in my house and it likes me. This rules

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everyone's all about queer subtext until it's aromantic or asexual

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Notes on Torturing The Character In The Science Facility

my takes on this trope rarely if ever have anything to do with the character being "special" or being studied for powers they innately have, if they are special its something that was done to them

it's about the medical trauma

it's about the violation and lack of bodily autonomy

the "living weapon" trope, but the key characteristic is catastrophic functionality

i love, love, love the concept of "catastrophic functionality" in a person: character that can tank ludicrous amounts of damage and just Keep Going in virtually all circumstances barring outright dismemberment. They can keep going, so do they "deserve" rest and/or pain relief?

after a lifetime of having their distress treated as whiny and unreasonable, they have what would be a dangerously high tolerance to pain and exhaustion.

another key function of the Science Facility is to fix the damage Character takes, maybe using enhanced healing technologies or 3D printed organs or something. this leads to Character's body being treated as relatively disposable cause "we can just fix them"

extreme version of this: Character can't die even if they wanted to

people who work with Character are informed that they're dangerous and arbitrarily violent, and their fear of Character makes it easier to justify restricting autonomy

It is TRUE, cause Character does not have tools to set boundaries or protect their body other than violence. vicious cycle of being perceived as dangerous and therefore denied autonomy, and being forced to use violence to defend autonomy

the restraints used to hold Character look like major overkill, which underscores how dangerous they are. LOVE this trope

character being desexualized to the point that their non-consent to touch, to being stripped down and examined, or to procedures is trivialized. There is no non-clinical context for their body, and the "clinical" framework eclipses any possibility for bodily violation to be understood as violent.

types of uncanniness: Character looks human but has some subtle inhuman traits or characteristics. (I'm obsessed with reflective eye shine, personally.) OR Character looks like they've been taken apart and put back together, like flesh pulled over a much more unforgiving and indestructible metal scaffold. OR Character gives off "undead" vibes; they're just not quite alive in a way that sets off air raid sirens in people's brains

Often, Character is dead and Came Back Wrong (varying levels of literalness)

anyways yeah. i never stopped writing this trope and probably never will. it's a good one

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made by mochimonki on tiktok but i can’t stop thinking about it

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guys you don't understand i love big buff horses so much

draft horses you are gods most perfectest creations

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I wonder if “we have to torture this special character. in the lab facility. with secret science.” is an interest all 12-year-old children share or were we just the generation exposed to Maximum Ride

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I’m pissed and generally upset for no reason and it certainly doesn’t have anything to do with the fact that I didn’t sleep last night

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can't today. busy.

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Hump-nosed Lizard (𝘓𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴), family Agamidae, Sri Lanka

photograph by The_O_Wildclicks

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Once I liked a piece of fanart so much that I bit my phone and cracked the screen

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Latest pet peeve that keeps coming up is people calling any predator an “apex” predator. But I’m keeping my mouth shut and letting people have their fun. But not keeping my mouth shut enough to not make a post about it.

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Maltese Wall Lizard (Podarcis filfolensis), family Lacertidae, Malta

Photographs by Benny Scerri

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4chan memorial post. rest in hell