#asylum inmate

[pandadrake]

Dr. Crane yelling at the Arkham Asylum staff for removing the images from his presentation slides due to "triggering content," as though that was not The Entire God Damn Point.

I was wondering what Dr. Crane would do with the results of his fear gas research then I remembered that Arkham Asylum contains 90% of Gotham's scientific community.

Follow-up to my last Batman comic doodle.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

The inmates are truly running the asylum.

🤦🏽‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

[awenavi]

[hughmanbean]

Crimes Against Existence

The High Queen Phantom has expressed concerns about the state of law within the Mortal Realms.

Walker, sensing a chance to redeem himself in her eyes, volunteers to go out and report the state of the lands to the Queen. She seems pensive, but agrees. Under strict conditions that Walker must NOT detain nor arrest any mortals that would not have been taken into custody or otherwise punished by mortal authorities in the same situation.

She hands him an addendum to his book the Duke has written up for him to use as reference while he operates in the Mortal Realms.

He reluctantly agrees and makes his way to a mortal settlement with that he can sense has strong criminal influence.

He follows the trail to one of most crime-infested cities on Earth: Gotham. His guards clean out an old office, and he sits himself down into a desk.

He turns on the TV and tunes into a random channel. A man who seems like he'd fit with the Far Frozen is locked in combat with a skilled mortal in some sort of outfit. After a bit of research, Walker learns these are the rogues and vigilantes.

Well, this explained quite a few of the High Queen's problems. Though she doesn't know of them just yet.

Now, how do we rectify that?

[undergroundrockpress]

The Persecution and assassination of jean Paul Marat performed by the Inmates of the Asylum - 1969. Photo by Joaquin for the Underground Press Syndicate.

[citybythesea1-blog]

Was anyone going to tell me Arkham Asylum was destroyed in canon, or was I just supposed to find out for myself by buying a comic book?

It happened in Detective Comics #1047

[dragonflight203]

Replaying Arkham Asylum, and I have some burning questions:

-Why are the prisoners barefoot? Why is everyone always barefoot in this damn asylum?

-Why are there bundles of paperwork in the toilet stalls in Penitentiary Cells Access?

[whistlingstarlight]

Not to be a Crispin Whytehead apologist or nothing but the guy was considered a "feeble-minded invalid" by the staff meant to look after him, had his mind tampered with in some way to have it psychically inaccessible (which given it was Loboto taking measures, probably wasn't harmless), and was then stuck guarding an elevator under the belief he was an orderly with his vision slowly diminishing. Also he's canonically scared of Fred when both are lucid, implying some darker stuff went on before Waterloo-O.

I can't really blame the guy for mocking Fred. It's not nice, no, but it's probably the only shred of proper control he's had in a long time, and it's over a man who used to have control over him.

[yellowocaballero]

oh geez kakashi of the roleswap au is rin?? That's why Obito stabbed him bc he got the sanbi and then they thought he was dead but he was in akatsuki- is this anything am i crazy (if this is spoilers then you don't have to answer but) WOW if I'm right this is really big brain roleswap, bigger brained than what i already glimpsed of this 😍😍😍😍

I don't want to say everything, partly because it's not very definite and set in stone for me, and partly to preserve some of the mystery (Also partly because you guys have such good ideas, I wasn't planning on keeping her alive before you guys made me think about it jkasldf) .

Once you decide that Kakashi just doesn't have the right kind of crazy to do the shit canon!Obito does, and that we need to dedicate the story to women's wrongs, the roleswap gets really hard. Because a) Rin has no character. and b) there's no third person to swap with Rin. It ended up becoming a sort of shell game, where Obito's role got split up and Rin ended up adopting some other roles from other characters. Lots of room for creative freedom. Maybe the essential evil of the story can be a girl who saw the world fail the people she cared about, and decided to rewrite the world to create a safe place for the people she loved. In Naruto, it takes a very kind and loving person to be a genocidal megalomaniac.

Kakashi, meanwhile, is somebody most marked by his loyalty. His love is less idealistic and large, and more cynical and gritty. I connect him to Konan: somebody who follows the dreams of the person they love, and who makes the dreams happen. Yes he is absolutely just fucking around in the Akatsuki, being a lazy bum and annoying Kakuzu and Hidan to death. Yes he is Rin's personal assassin and shadow monster. He has layers. To me, he's a somewhat-comedic loyal goon/wifeguy who loves his partner-in-crime/world peace and who sometimes enters a dissociative state and commits atrocities. What, is that a crime all of a sudden.

The Ame 3 ended up being a big part of the swap, and a lot of the swap ended up happening between Rin & Nagato and Kakashi & Konan. Yahiko, this is YOUR hero academia! The Akatsuki are NOT a terrorist organization! They're nice guys! Look, Deidara and Sasori are artists, they're respectable - okay, Hidan and Kakuzu aren't respectable, why are they in our peace loving organization - why do our political enemies keep dying - Konan, what do you mean 'don't worry about it' -

[thebitchthatcleansarkham]

What if instead of Arkham Asylum is was called Freakham Asylum and instead of getting treatment we got Freakment

[straightouttablackgate]

[sharnefarn]

I came in to work this morning to find paperwork waiting for me. Not usually a big deal. Sometimes a Leave slip, or something I forgot to sign, but not this time. This is a little heavier.

Essentially, it’s a contract from my boss… making me the boss effective immediately, through the end of May 2025.

I have the option not to sign, and put it on my boss to find someone else to do it. I’m glad he gave me the option, but he knows I’ll sign.

I’ll be damned if I’m gonna have some other cunt come in here and try and teach me how to run my office. GTFOH.

At the same time… why do I do this to myself?

Glutton for punishment, I guess.

Did I mention my boss is already talking about extending it for 6 months after that?

Fuck.

[frostise]

louise strikes me as the type of driver to go over the speed limit on a highway and meticulously avoid a car crash. she possesses the "heavy chain smoker father prone to road rage and blasting punk/metal music 24/7 while the passenger dies from fear like a chicken interacting with a dog" except she's never the reckless driver, but rather responsible...unless involved in a police chase. then that's totally a different story and she will not hesitate to run over a cop to evade arrest

[englishknightsky]

had a sudden moment of clarity as i thought "in universe, who the hell would buy a baby onesie with mount massive asylum on it- oh my god EDDIE WOULD"

[rwpohl]

marat/sade - the persecution and assassination of jean-paul marat as performed by the inmates of the asylum of charenton under the direction of the marquis de sade, peter brook 1967

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

Patient Self-Government

"The mad are often taken to be irrational, dangerous, or even otherworldly; objects of pity, care, or concern, but not, in most accounts, the proper subjects of democratic institutions. But the reality of asylum life suggests a more complex picture. Patients can be sophisticated participants in the institutions tasked with their confinement and care.

The basic architecture of legal rights for patients committed to mental hospitals that we know today didn’t emerge until the 1960s and 1970s. Before that time, patients had little recourse to the courts to address intolerable hospital conditions or to protect their due process rights. For those found incompetent to stand trial, like many of the residents of Howard Hall described later, the situation was particularly bleak; even if patients were judged to be of sound mind, they would immediately face a criminal trial or plea deal, then be shuttled off to prison. Despite the inability to make a cognizable legal claim, and despite significant collective action problems—the ubiquitous potential for ward conflict, staff and patient predation, various and sundry illnesses—patients could, and did, collectively advocate for better ward conditions. How did “the mutterers, the masturbators, and the paranoid” of Howard Hall accomplish such a feat?

To become participants in the hospital order, patients required mechanisms to test reality, resolve conflict, and represent their interests. [There were] two sets of institutions that patients and staff devised for this purpose. The first set was an outgrowth of group psychotherapy. An early psychoanalytic experiment made possible the forms of collective action that later gave rise to patient administrative groups (PAGs) and a wider patient federation in the hospital. The second set concerns the place of PAGs in the wider organizational politics of the hospital. The struggle for representation provoked backlash. As wards challenged the authority of their custodians, their efforts were met with repression—not repression in the overt form of a Nurse Ratched, but with more subtle shifts in procedure and organization. Staff made strategic use of the traditional hallmarks of democratic governance—election, representation, deliberation, and constitution making—to contain and control wards."

- Christopher D. Berk, Democracy in Captivity: Prisoners, Patients, and the Limits of Self-Government. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. p. 26-27.