#life in the panopticon

[valeriapryanikova]

nice view

[magnuspanoptes]

the thing that really makes elias stand out among the rest of the cast, is that he's the only (or at least, one of the select few, but definitely the Only major recurring) character who's unquestionably having fun. everyone else spends copious amounts of time on feeling utterly miserable and it IS miserable around here what with the universe literally tending towards evil, but elias has a) figured out the inherent meaninglessness of it all (well. that's definitely not the podcast thesis but it was the Would Quite Willingly Doom That World brand of transgressive madness in the name of disobeying the divine order of things that motivated him. compels me. always rebel against the gods) and b) karmic justice is simply not a thing within the world of the magnus archives, there's no narrative comeuppance for being a bad (or reward for being good) person, so there's no just deserts to be had here, he died for entirely unrelated reasons and in the grand scheme of things his fate was not all that different from anyone else in the podcast, plus jon also dies mere minutes later. but did he not have fun? did he not ruin everyone else's lives and have fun the entire time?

[maratus-v0lans]

Came up with this in one of my exams and new what must be done. Also, ignore my refusal to draw hands i was having a moment

Ngl the magnus archives has taken over my life atm lmao

[screamlet]

idk kinda feeling backed into a corner by post-finale fanon with like..... What Mature Grown Buck Would Do in His Grief. but, hear me out - unhinged grief-stricken abandonment-fueled "if you want to stop me you'll have to catch me first and i know you won't bother to chase me" behavior in the worst year of his life. idk!!!! what if he gave into his worst impulses and did unwise things!!!! gave himself things to REALLY cry about!!!!

[bsptourist]

ph_cabinet_v11

created by EHOT

[neodafloof555]

i know he calls it the spiders nest but because of from the archives and the Magnus archives, watcher grian and all that, I've been calling it the Panoptic-Bomb

[bondsmagii]

other fun #farmlife things:

morning walk on a backroad turns in to a literal slow moving traffic jam because it's Hay Time and there's 6 tractors and one full size articulated lorry using the one single lane road

neighbour on the next plot greets you with "haven't seen you in a while!" and while you've walked past his property many times you've never seen him before in your life. (the traditional breaking of the year's silent observation period of the newly arrived.)

[anicehomicidaltree]

I’m playing the new fantasy life and I’m really enjoying it so far but…

WHAT IN THE CEASELESS WATCHER IS THIS?!??!

[thirdtimed]

the unimaginable power i would hold if i had the skills and energy required to materialize the animatics. in my head. anyone here heard of vocaloid

[itskaist]

started act III in clair obscur going insane

[asurrogateblog]

I resent being taught lessons but yah I guess if paul can still be a silly little guy after his many unrelenting encounters with the cruel indifference of the universe I too can remain an optimist

[lizardsfromspace]

The degree to which old small town newspapers casually doxxed their citizens is remarkable. Here's a list of everyone who entered or who was discharged from the hospital. Here's uncomfortably deep coverage of the minutiae of our high school's activities. Where are our high school students going over winter break? The whole town needs to know! Write us a mean letter? Here's your address, so everyone can send you mean letters too, or show up at your door, which is unlocked, because it's a small town

[freakoutgirl]

facebook friends with some of my coworkers now so i can't post things like "i hope all trump voters explode"

[creative-anchorage]

It’s easy to be judgmental when you’re young. It’s something of a rite of passage. You watch adults make mistakes and say: that’ll never be me. I will never cheat, I will never fuck up, I will never get divorced.  And then you grow up. ... The more that I write about discourse and the internet, the more that I feel like I’m writing in circles, writing towards the same truth at the core of everything wrong with people online. It’s hard to make a few of these points without sounding like a conservative schoolmarm, but I write about them because I’m worried that the social fabric is fraying. Years ago it was inconceivable that people would publish full names and details about the people that hurt their feelings, and now it’s normal. It is easy to dismiss this behavior as that of the very young, the very online, or the very misanthropic, but behind the avatars and cartoon profile pics are very real people. They’re at our jobs, they’re at concerts, they’re refusing to speak to people at Kohl’s and coffee shops. The higher the number of people engaging in openly antisocial behavior, the more afraid I become.  I originally wanted to write about etiquette this week, but my thoughts there are connected to this. While misanthropy has always existed, the flattening of the internet allows these people to speak with authority, when normally they’d be shunned. Refusing to acknowledge the humanity of people around you, refusing to speak to your coworkers, refusing to drive your friends to the airport, keeping logs and ledgers of everything the people you claim to love owe you: none of these things are normal. They’ve become normalized because antisocial people get online and scream about how they don’t owe anyone anything, and then wonder why they don’t have friends or a community. These are not people who are fun or engaging, and I would never take this advice from anyone. Who is asking selfish, miserable people for their thoughts on how to behave in a society? Everyone, apparently. [...] Believing that everyone who hurts you deserves to be “punished” is no way to live. Religion and policing have shown us that apparatuses of punishment don’t prevent people from engaging in bad behavior. Ask a Catholic or a Southern Baptist about their experiences growing up doused in shame and a constant fear of punishment.  Ask them how it transforms their thoughts and beliefs into shapes they no longer recognize. 

[the-ipre]

I love plotting out my story and getting weird with it and knowing that a fandom could take those seeds and make it SO much weirder

[crowlore]

lucian makes a 3 note tumblr post and suddenly everyone wants to put his ass on trial for every grievance the family has against him. okayyy what if we all killed ourselves