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Yeah, the doctors ran some blood work and discovered I was actually the Thing all along. No, I don't know if my insurance will cover it

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Hello Solar Opposites fandom! I'm back with a new project, this time a text-based shlorpian generator. This site will create you a shlorpian with their jobs, colors, and more already defined. I hope this helps folks in creating ocs, or just to have some fun with. I have some rarer rolls in there, so enjoy!

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Do you support Palestine? Are you an ally?

yeah i wonder what the fan of the 'allegory for oppressed people as portrayed by alien gleep glorps' games thinks about the genocide

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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I think 90% of conspiracy theorists would be a lot happier if they just bit the bullet and got into creative writing

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where’s that 1900s painting of the centaur mother playing with her child in a grassy field?

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sometimes I wonder how y'all are obsessed with specific characters and I'm like "why them" but then I remember that sometimes its literally not your choice you just look at them wrong and all of a sudden they're taking up your every thought forever

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*dipping a dart into an unlabelled flask and loading it into my crossbow* you better not try anything stupid because i don't even remember what this one does

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tiktoks with vine energy

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making aus for ocs are so funny cause like. theyre already in a situation… but what if they were in a DIFFERENT situation

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The most evil person you know is posting about being a people pleaser

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I keep seeing people call the Trump administration shit like “schizophrenic” and “psychotic” and can we fucking not do this please???? schizophrenics and people with psychosis have a biological and neurological basis for their behavior and beliefs. there is no biological basis for being racist and sexist and a monster. schizophrenics and ppl with psychosis are innocent. you can’t beat bigotry with more bigotry

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its absolutely critical that the haters dont get their hands on my old as fuck treasure map

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The Industrialization of Mudokon Chattel

i wrote a whole lot of words detailing my headcanons for the slaving industry in oddworld. obviously there's going to be a lot of talk about fantasy racism, slavery, reproductive slavery, genocide, ect ect. you know, things ow already has in droves.

The Oddworld slaving industry is 75% Vykker owned at time of the revolts; this was from a deliberate push from the Conglomerate to corner the market. As industrialism intensified, the demand for hundreds of thousands more workers overtaxed the Corrective Industry, the initial iteration of obtaining Mudokon chattel directly through kidnapping. The Vykkers revolutionized the trade of unhatched laborers through their streamlining of egg production and the quality of their stock, making the contemporary ‘scrub’ - a worker completely adapted to life that begins and ends in a factory. Slave catching became a thing of the past in more urbanized parts of Mudos.

Acquisitions and Processing are two Vykker branches that work in tandem: Acquisitions plans and conducts raids on the native population, Processing does the necessary preparation for enslaved life - medical examinations, immunizations, and occasionally plucking, docking and neutering where it's needed. Raids are usually ordered in retaliation to territory and treaty ‘disputes’; as industrialization creeps across Mudos, a lot of natives are finding themselves trespassers on their own land that has been purchased by the Cartel. This gives the Cartel free reign to call in Acquisitions, who often work directly with Slig Barracks for contracted raiding parties. After a raid, Acquisition agents look for favorable stock among the captured, and allow the raiders to kill the rest. The raiders are paid extra for bagging queens, though increasingly few are being taken alive.

Acquisitions also takes a less violent approach to collecting future workers through manipulative ends, distributing propaganda encouraging working for the Cartel as well as ‘free samples’ of Soulstorm Brew. When the Cartel sends an envoy to a tribe to negotiate self-enslavement ‘peace treaty’ deals, Acquisitions agents are not far behind. Their pop-up recruitment stands are called ‘job fairs’, and they serve to ply natives with smooth pitches and strong alcohol to get them close enough to shove into a holding cell.

The Corrective Industry is the long-standing institution for Mudokon enslavement, now modernized into facilities that train and condition captured ‘correctives’. The primary buyers of corrective stock are private business owners and wealthy individuals that turn their noses up at scrubs, and indenture contracts too limiting. The process of training a captured Mudokon is gruelling, resource-intensive, and most of all expensive; to make a corrective turn a profit, they need to be fully broken and educated before seeing a showfloor. Depending on the prestige of the trainers, chattel to be sold are quietly purchased during banquets put on by the facility where a corrective’s training is put into practice, serving guests that double as potential buyers.

The largest and oldest standing Corrective Facility remains Viss Madre, a fortress that holds the fastest turnaround and highest quality of its more obsolete peers. While this end of the slaving industry is being rapidly outpaced, as long as wild-caught stock is seen as exotic, it holds value - and as long as the natives have value, Acquisitions and Corrective Facilities that deal with them will continue to function.

SlaveAid is the company that handles the cultivation of scrubs, encompassing the egg trade and drone trade, which consist of multiple companies and brands. Egg trade production facilities hold captive queens that produce industrial volumes of eggs, after being processed by Vykker alterations. The clutches resulting are labeled after their mother, who becomes a sort of mascot for her ‘product’. Some scrubs are only aware of their mother’s name through seeing it on packaging.

Industrialized queens are almost always wild-caught or products of ‘peace treaty’ self-enslavement. Vykker attempts to hatch captivity-bred queens have been unsuccessful in matching the volume produced by a queen born in the wild, as the process of priming a queen’s body for laying scrub stock inhibits their ability to produce healthy princess eggs. Scrubs who are born queens are almost always infertile, and are often desexed to match the physiology of their brothers and prevent unwanted sexual development. Whether or not this occurs depends on the demands of the company who ordered the clutch.

The drone trade involves the other half of scrub production, as well as provides drone stock for purchase. The development of drones comes from both wild and scrub stock, though some companies are picky about their sires. The brands that handle purely one or the other tend to be in competition with one another. Droning facilities adhere to laws and regulations set by the egg trade, as they work so closely with queens who are considered valuable property. The interaction between a worker and a queen needed to develop a drone is hard to replicate in captivity successfully; bait queens are required to encourage drone candidates to mate with them, but the actual mating cannot legally occur in this circumstance. Drone trade brands also handle industrial collection of semen and artificial insemination, labelling the sperm after the donor similar to different brands of Labour Eggs. Rather than being made a sort of mascot, drones who provide ‘samples’ are usually advertised as the product itself - their genetic information and boasts about their natural advantages are front and center for anyone who wants to pair their queen with specific specimens. Egg traders usually buy a small amount from a dozen or so candidates, mimicking the natural breeding process involving multiple drone sires. This ensures the genetic line remains healthy, though over time and use of scrub-drones the percentage of inbreeding damage in scrub stock increases.

Clutches of unhatched scrubs distributed by Labour Eggs come with the premium package of hatching and weaning the hatchlings for a fee in-house. Further premium tiers provide basic education that would otherwise have to be included in a fledgling’s training program, which is always conducted at the establishment that contracted them. While some factories reserve separate spaces and simpler tasks for juvenile employees, many find such special treatment to be a waste of moolah.

While the majority of scrub stock will hatch and die under the roof of the same factory, incidents such as downsizing and corporate takeovers may displace populations of employees. Failing to be reassigned to a different factory under the same company could lead to them falling prey to unscrupulous Employment Distribution brands such as Cheapo Labour, who collect mature stock to be sold off in bulk to other companies ‘as is’. Bulk employment in this manner is considered less reliable than raising employees on the factory floor, as the quality and skill sets of the stock can vary widely. Many smaller scale and localized establishments rely on Employment Distribution to provide scrub contracts where they would have had to hire - and pay - civilians.

No industrialized Mudokon is truly ‘free’ under the Magog Cartel in central and eastern Mudos. The freedom the remaining native populations hold cannot be enjoyed under the ever-encroaching spread of Cartel influence. Nevertheless, the vast majority of Mudokons will go their entire lives never acknowledging their own subjugation. There are urban populations of indentures, who work for actual wages and live in employer-sponsored housing; but their lives, bodies and very souls remain property of the Magog Cartel, sold to them by the Vykker Conglomerate. Even death can no longer be used as an escape anymore, as the Vykkers have capitalized on the commodification of Mudokon bodies as raw materials.

Mudokons are butchered for meat, skinned for leather, harvested of all useful organ and tissue matter. Their grey matter is used in Vykker wetware for Shrinks and other utility AIs. Their identities, their souls, and all other aspects of the individual Self is considered both valueless and a distraction from their informed purpose. More than servant or slave, more than game or livestock, Mudokons have been truly refined into the Conglomerate’s best selling product.

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greener where you water it or whatever

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I just saw a DNI for "evil intentions". nobody puts up a warding talisman anymore just a fucking DNI