#Individualized Program

[dillyt]

Great news for uninsured adults in the USA who want a COVID-19 booster! It now appears that ALL CVS locations are now active participants in the Bridge Access Program. The Bridge Access Program gives out free Covid-19 vaccinations to 18+ adults who otherwise can't afford one, so if you have a CVS near you, please go get one! For others who don't have a CVS near them, please go to vaccines.gov, click on "Find Covid-19 vaccines", fill out which vaccines you prefer (you can mix different vaccines if you have to so i reccomend just marking all of them for the age groups you need), and when the next page loads mark the "Bridge Access Program Participant" option to see only locations that are Bridge Access Program participants. Hopefully, other places that aren't CVS will start participating soon, so just check back every so often to see if there are any updates. The CDC Bridge Access Program website also has more details on what locations will be participating, but only CVS is appearing as an active participant on the vaccines.gov location finder at the moment.

[thereisabearonmyceiling]

what's this thing called again?

possibly the dumbest thing i've ever drawn. pls open the image it's so blurry otherwise

[unlocklist]

my tragical magical girls, ✨ Riley & Anastasia 🦋

[gods-of-kanto]

Is all we can do right now is just wait for the right moment, like the one you mentioned, Pepper?

Pepper: I- we have to waut for that right moment. We need to- i'm... I'm getting too distracted, i need to focus.

It is alright to feel Pepper. Isn't that what you told me? But you cannot think of this Ash as your uncle. Objectively, it is not true.

Pepper: That is peddljng two different ideas in my head System, I get it, i swear i do. But putting it into practice is another scenario.

Of course, i don't doubt that.

Pepper: I meed to figure out what the fuck that little bitch did to them- if it does it again then-

I'll review the tape, but the camera was off a majority of the time. I tried getting the humans to annoy them to keep it on but-

Pepper: Yeah... I know...

(Pepper has seemed to vaguely acknowledge your questions, but she didn't seem to answer many- if any of them)

@haycoat-art @dingbat-things @pixelgamer07 @churchofyolk @one-simpleman

[charlie-rulerofhell]

just wanted to find one specific piece of information ... and then somehow ended up extracting all nearly 300,000 voicelines of the game, and spent the last two hours listening through all of Samuel's 800. love how he spends the majority of that time either swearing at random people / events, or complaining about the stench or the weather. or dropping some Jewish wisdom.

i also know now that his favourite dish are his mame's hamantaschen, that he once had a lucky knife but lost it, is no early bird (well, given he gets sleep at all), has the funniest battle insults ('God made a joke when he made you!' nearly broke me), got dragged into a mine once by some older boys and wandered around lost in there for a whole day (give me your knife, Sam, where are those fuckers now?), has about a dozen different terms of endearment for Henry and the pettiest exchanges with Hans ('Did he tell you that or did you figure it out yourself?' -- 'Stop the mockery, and answer when a no­bleman asks you something!' -- 'But of course! Forgive me my insolence, my lord!')

gotta say, it was worth it.

[fjordfolk]

every time someone in a discussion about breeding for BOAS reduction in pugs says to 'look up this program called Retromops' i slip a little arsenic into the produce section at the grocery store

[cozylittleartblog]

random note about king on that animation, i got really lucky with how simple his animation was and how clean my sketches were to begin with that i was able to do very minimal cleanup on what i had sketched (and add back. his horn. it's supposed to take place just after echoes of the past, Oops) and call it done that way instead of having to redraw the entire thing like i had to on his dad

first sketch > line cleanup > nearly final animation (i'd added slight eye movements last-second but otherwise that's the final)

[cent-scratchnsniff]

messy doodles plus with some picked ramblings with them as i process, learn, and progress. yes only some out of many. i talk far too much. i missed so much too im just too tired to talk abt those aspects rifht now

[wolfmanbananza]

After finishing Mouthwashing for the first timr I was surprised at my own passivity towards Jimmy and his actions. Don’t get me wrong, I hated him the most amongst all the characters but in terms of blame, Pont Express reaped all of my anger.. Maybe it’s because I had rewatched Alien previously but I abhorre the fact that corporate greed pushes people into this selfish ‘save your own skin’ mentality

[g1deonthefirst]

wasn't alfred a hedge fund manager? i get where ur coming from re: the class divide post otherwise btw but am somewhat stumped ab this bc he was definitely the one making the most money and likely highly educated as well, and ended up a cav. ig it is STEM/nonSTEM divide?

hi! yes, alfred was a hedge fund manager — he was also augustine's brother and so comes from a similar (presumably very wealthy) background. this exception doesn't really disprove the rule to me: either way, john was disproportionately likely to make people who were highly educated necromancers and people who were not cavaliers. i want to walk through a couple possible reasons for this.

the first possibility is that john (1) believed that people who were more "intelligent" were more likely to be able to understand necromancy and (2) implicitly believed that people who were academically high-achieving like scientists, lawyers, doctors, etc. were more "intelligent." clearly, john and the lyctors all seem to think pretty highly of their own intelligence. john in particular went from being a poor māori kid to being an accomplished scientist, and i don't think it's a stretch to say he probably believed he deserved it on the basis of intelligence.

in contrast, both alfred and cristabel have their own talents and intelligence disparaged — john describes alfred as "useless, but a darling" and augustine describes cristabel as "not hav[ing] the intellect you'd ordinarily find in a sandwich or an orange." additionally, necromancy is talked about in scientific terms, which lends itself to the idea that you might need some scientific understanding to be good at it. i think it's entirely possible that john consciously decided that some people wouldn't be intelligent enough to hack it and made them the cavaliers, a problematic assumption chiefly in that it equates academic achievement with innate intelligence.

the second possibility, and to me the more likely one, is that john simply made the people closest to him necromancers while making people he wasn't as close to (essentially his friends' friends) non-necromancers. it's pretty clear that the people john made necromancers were people who directly worked on john's original cryogenics project with him, while the cavaliers were all people who got dragged into his cult by those original project members. alfred is a perfect example of this — he's there because he's augustine's brother. other people have made posts about the possibility that john did this to intentionally separate his friends from the people they loved.

but either way, i think this demonstrates who john as a character cared about. john, as a successful scientist, surrounded himself by people who were highly educated and successful, predominantly (as you note anon) people in STEM. people who are disproportionately likely to be white, neurotypical, and cis, or at least disproportionately likely to be able to conform to white/european, neurotypical, cis standards. not only is john not as close to people in his project-turned-cult that aren't as highly educated, but poor people aren't present at all. there are no janitors, no retail workers, no manual laborers, no farmworkers. i don't get the sense that john ever really unpacked his internalized biases or questioned why he primarily values people who are highly educated.

"but," i imagine my hypothetical reader who's somehow made it this far protesting, "of course he's surrounded by highly educated people. he's working on a cryogenics project!" well...precisely. tumblr user sophelstien's scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds essay touches on how this project demonstrates that john is not as progressive as some people assume he is, but what i'll say here is simply that john didn't have to make the people in his cryogenics project the leaders of his new society. and by installing the very people who our society rewards into positions of power, john — consciously or not — shapes the new society he's creating with the old society's inequalities.

[petz5]

would u guys still love me even if i take one billion years to finish college

[boof-chamber]

i'm tired of being blamed for being exploited by other people.

like when i was trafficked - the reason that shit is so common and widespread - despite the way the public acts like it's a big deal and they super duper hate it and give so many huge big shits about this crime of exploitation - and the reason traffickers know they can get away with it is because they specifically target people who they know no one gives a shit about. they know that if we tried to get anyone to help us, we'd find out that human trafficking is not really that big of a deal after all.

at first i was very careful about what i said to people because i was afraid they'd call the cops and make everything far worse. as it turns out, i could have walked through any government agency or any service nonprofit full of mandated reporters saying "hi, i am a trafficking victim, hello? can someone help me please?" and no one would even look up from their paperwork. they’d hate me just for creating the expectation that they should give a shit.

people only care about hypothetical victims. the sort of perfect victims that they want to save, that they'd be seen as heroes for saving.

not people like us. and by "like us" i mean real human beings who cannot or will not harden ourselves to better tolerate the conditions of this fucked up society.

and since there is no legit treatment for the deep psychic pain that comes from seeing all this heinous shit that happens around us and to us day after day - we use drugs.

they hate us for not adjusting to the horrors.

that is why we are "marginalized." we are banished. and to deprive human beings of social connection is violence. it's like taking a fish out of water and leaving it to suffocate in the air. when we deprived of belonging, the same is going on for us, but it happens so much slower. the torment can last for decades.

that is what really causes "mental illness." it's not some "chemical imbalance" or "malfunction" in our brains. it's severe prolonged alienation. when we are harmed in the most fucked up ways imaginable, the people around us act like everything is normal. they want us to believe that everything is normal. that we are in the wrong for feeling hurt when they hurt us. that is where trauma comes from.

we are blamed for having been vulnerable in the first place. the real crime is to reveal vulnerability to a society that values competition as a virtue, and instills a "duty to exploit." there are no rewards for those who pass up an opportunity to take advantage of another's vulnerability.

and when people are marginalized in the way that people who use drugs are marginalized, they feel powerless, hopeless, that there is nothing better on the horizon. we see the way the "respectable upstanding community members" live, the way they treat one another like shit, step on toes, backstab, lie, manipulate - anything it takes to get ahead, no matter how it may hurt anyone else - we see them rewarded for this, again and again. that's all we ever see and that is all we know. and so we treat our own the same way.

but the thing is, the impact of all that duplicitous behavior doesn't hit those more powerful and privileged MFers the same way. they are cushioned by their relative "respectability."

for us though, it is pretty devastating. and there will be no one to feel sorry for us or make us whole again. because we can't be "made whole" with anything that can be bought or sold. material security can make things easier for us, of course, but the entire reason for our suffering in the first place is that we can't or won't harden - even in a comfy house with a nice car and adorable shoes, we will still have to see and know everything we know, and we will still feel the pain of believing there is nothing we can do, or nothing we should do - there will always be this void, gnawing at us, no matter how hard we try to fulfill the obligations that are supposed to make us deserving of a place of respect in this society.

because the human part of us won't go away. it's that fish, suffocating on the shore, fighting to breathe. the fish isn't gonna be able to breathe any better with a new car or cute shoes. the fish needs water or it will continued to suffer until it dies.

and for us, it is social connection. that's what we are deprived of. humans are social animals. our species has only survived as long as we have through interdependence - as in, "to each according to their need, from each according to their ability” - genuine bonds of trust and care for the safety and well-being of our fellow humans.

this shit we've got going on here - it's anti-human. we were never meant to live like this. it only feels like a burden to care about others because we are forced to keep plugging along, doing the shit we have to do for our own survival. and all those things we gotta do are things that uphold and maintain the anti-human system. we are told that we cannot do anything about the other shit, it's not our problem, we need to focus on our own survival. and that's why it feels so overwhelming and burdensome to care about other people's struggles. that's why we are supposed to believe that self-care means "accepting the things we cannot change."

they are telling us to purge ourselves of our remaining humanness. stop caring. because caring - it's not really just some warm fuzzy feeling or the pain of putting ourselves in others' shoes - it's meant to drive us to act. and that's why it hurts. we feel the drive but can't act. we are convinced that we can't, that there's nothing we can do.

social connection - deep genuine bonds with other humans - are as essential to our survival as food, water, and air. we are starving, and the pain of empathy is hunger pangs that we are being told to just ignore.

the only thing that will make it not hurt so bad is solidarity. to learn how to trust and be trusted. to realize the power that comes from knowing that we have people, we belong, and our people have got our back no matter what, and we got theirs too. that it’s never a burden to look out for one another. it is what we do. it is why we are here and it is as good for us as it is for whichever one of us is in need. we all have needs, and we will all need a bit more at times. and we all have the capacity to meet those needs for one another. we do not lose anything by doing that for one another. it is our purpose. it’s the reason we are alive. it’s the reason we want to be alive.

when we are isolated, it is a lot more devastating to be betrayed or exploited, but when you've got a community of people who not only care, but will also catch you when you fall - it doesn't hurt so bad. you can move forward. shit happens, but it ain't a big deal because you never have to go through any of it alone.

that's it.

[solitaryschizoid]

Every single time I attempt to do research on RAMCOA and MK Ultra/Monarch, my brain gets fuzzy and I can't concentrate so I have to close out the tabs I had open and afterward I feel normal.

[jobyoda-philippines]

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[hydranoid]

i ain't never making stop motion graphics and eating pussy from the bronx ever again

feat faggots ive made so far

i need to fix up the green one and make the neck more swingy

[impzone]

hm. after all this time i still get angry about this so i think it’s about time i make a comic about how i feel about personality disorders