#manton

[dryococelas01]

Everyone judges Manton, accusing him of all manner of perversion for making the striped puppet of his daughter do nudist cannibalism but no one asks:

What if his daughter was just like that?

Maybe she was just kinda freaky and manton is accurately representing her and what she'd do if she was super strong. Ever consider that?

Let the man walk he's innocent.

[railwayhistorical]

Chasing the TC Turn, 4 of 4

Completing a series of posts chasing the the Traverse City Turn of the Great Lakes Central: here the train is seen south of Manton, Michigan, by two or three miles.

The former Grand Rapids and Indiana line, later Pennsylvania, looks really attractive here, curving back and forth a bit through the landscape of the northern lower peninsula.

Four images by Richard Koenig; taken July 25th 2023.

[marosar97]

Happy fair to all and enjoy the spring✨ Andalusian art. Folkloric personal illustration

Personal practice, focused on the elements that surround the festivity of my city, The April Fair of Seville. Inspired by its folkloric characteristics, we can see represented the clothing, decorations, vegetation, instruments and drinks.

#artpiece , #humanartist #Sevilla

[bundy-keating-1997]

Home Office #jadealyciainc

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Olive Manton, 2023

[wine-porn]

Cascading

This vineyard burnt a few years ago and it appears no one has revived it. I always thought their Pinot on a level above even some of those from more-acclaimed regions in California, and getting down to my last couple bottles. This is Manton Valley AVA–way up north in Tehama County east of Redding–but before you go all: Sierra Foothills, which would seem logical–this is actually NOT the Sierras,…

[garlandedspirits]

Isabella and the Pot of Basil

William Holman Hunt, 1868 // Arthur Trevethin Nowell, 1904 // John William Waterhouse, 1907 // George Henry Grenville Manton, 1919

[estavionpira]

William Manton: It's over for you, JoJo! My Stand, [THE SIBERIAN], is invincible!

Taylor Hebert: What the- what the fuck are you talking about, you just ate ten people.

[abyranss]

Infinity Train au again.

If the numbers increase with badness then how could Bonesaw possibly have so many while Siberian lacks any at all? Bonesaw is good actually, that's her whole deal. Trust me.

They're like an evil Tuba and Hazel.

Manton is on another train car, having a not good time.

[artbyblastweave]

Heroify... the Siberian?

This has been done a couple of times- the default play I've seen, and also the one that I can't really improve upon, is that the construct is actually independently sapient but stuck under Manton's control, I-have-no-mouth style, and turns tail when he gets splattered. I've also seen two SI fics where the writer bodyjacks the Siberian and uses the above as their cover story. (one of which, Paper Tiger by @abittothewest, is a really fun and well-done deconstruction of what was at one point a very self-indulgent trend of SI fics where authors hi-jack the body of a wormverse character and use it to Fix Everything. The protag wakes up in the Siberian's body when she was halfway through eating a hero and it only gets worse from there.) I also had a take a couple years ago on a "Siberian swap," where Manton's daughter gets the Siberian vial, manifests an orange-and-black-striped masculine father-figure-big-brother construct named Bengal, and together the two of them roam the American countryside getting up to whacky good-natured coming-of-age hijinks, like Calvin and Hobbes if Hobbes was both real and capable of pulling superhumans in half lengthwise if Calvin asked nicely. Never really did anything with that though

[tiffany-loves-broadway]

In Death Note, the protagonist is granted the ability to decide precisely when and how people die; he can effectively write his own death-based RPF into reality. However, he is so mind-bogglingly unimaginative with this broad and far-reaching ability to manipulate fate - quasi-omnipotence - that he generally runs with the default cause of death (sudden heart failure), and is effectively a mediocre supervillain with an orbital satellite that hits you with a heart attack beam. Although this enables a tense cat-and-mouse detective story, it also demonstrates, IMHO, that the writers have likely not thought hard enough about the deadly implications of probability manipulation, and probably do not expect their audience to either.

In Final Destination, the antagonist is an abstract personification of Death, like the Grim Reaper; he manipulates random chance events (a la Shamrock, or more generously the Simurgh, from Worm) to engineer the deaths of people who were "supposed to" have already died in earlier incidents, people who are messing up his plans with every moment they remain alive. However, he is so gratuitously boastful and showboaty that he exclusively kills people through elaborate Rube Goldberg accidents, which they are able to temporarily escape from with some effort and situational awareness; he does not kill people with any of the numerous less narratively appealing things that could suddenly and unavoidably kill anyone at any time, like, say, a lightning strike, or a heart attack. Although this enables a philosophically-inclined (snerk) sort of off-beat slasher franchise, it also demonstrates, IMHO, that the writers have likely not thought hard enough about the deadly implications of probability manipulation, and probably do not expect their audience to either.

[dryococelas01]

I feel like this fan base forgets the fact that The Siberian is a renowned scientist too much.

Just imagining one of the S9 talking about powers and being so wrong The Siberian breaks her silence to call them a fucking moron.

[railwayhistorical]

Chasing the TC Turn, 3 of 4

Continuing a series of posts chasing the the Traverse City Turn of the Great Lakes Central: here the train is seen rolling through the town of Manton, Michigan.

Since my previous post, the train as made the mainline of the former Grand Rapids and Indiana at Walton Junction and is moving southward toward Cadillac.

Four images by Richard Koenig; taken July 25th 2023.

[victoriadallonfan]

Okay, so we know why the Siberian looks like a woman. But, uh… do we know why she’s zebra striped?

When Shards create the limits and aesthetics of powers, they pull on a lot of different avenues of information: the host's memories and experiences, the data of the world they inhabit, and the Shards around them.

Things we know about William Manton:

He's going through a nasty divorce and custody case

He's an expert actor

He went behind everyone's back to win over his daughter with a near fatal plan

His Wife/Child Projection is animalistic in appearance, not just in stripes but in pupils, claws, and a desire to be cannibalisitc

A clone of his treated his projection as a replacement wife/servant/possible sex doll

My headcanon is that the Siberian represents his internal attitudes on women (hostile appearance, lack of clothing is preferred, maternal to young girls, cats often being tied to femininity), and his play-acting/speech of wanting to be "free" to Bitch is really a self-projection.

He was being fucked over (in his opinion) by the rules and laws of the land, and he might blame them for his actions in mutilating his daughter.

How much easier would things be if HE could just have acted on his impulses? What if anyone could?

Women in his life hurt him, intentionally and "unintentionally" like his daughter (but really his fault), so the OG Siberian is a literal sexy, Maneater.

His clone is the opposite end of the extreme: the servile, docile, wife who listens to her hubby (note this is still Manton play-acting a role he feels women are serving or should be serving).

In short: Doctor William "Misogyny" Manton

[rebel-sqrrl]

How much do you think the average person from Siberia hates the PRT for their naming choices?

[cpericardium]

How would you rank the members of Cauldron in terms of hypothetical parenting skills?

there is a fic about this very thing if you would like to see

I considered just copy pasting "distant and emotionally neglectful" for all of them but,

Doctor Mother: She raised Fortuna all right didn't she. Didn't she

Alexandria: Places high expectations on the kid and they definitely feel it. Also overengineers many trials by fire to fuel the kid's personal growth, but other people (e.g. faculty, bosses, daycare employees) are not allowed to administer those trials unless given explicit instructions

Eidolon: Somewhat protective and not bad in the beginning, gets increasingly insecure about his parenting skills over time and buries himself in hero work. Child most likely drinks a vial to get attention and becomes his arch nemesis

Contessa: She tries her best -> child eats ice-cream for dinner -> police can't find enough evidence to make the charges stick -> the case goes cold -> she tries her best ->

Number Man: Reads parenting books in secret and attempts to follow them to the letter. Gets flummoxed and disgruntled when the child doesn't behave in exactly the way they're supposed to. Starts reading classified cia manuals on enhanced interrogation techniques instead

Custodian: Enjoy your surveillance state kiddo

Slug: Most likely to raise a child who isn't damaged by their childhood

William Manton: We saw how this turned out

I just realised I didn't even rank them. From best parent to worst

Slug

Custodian

Number Man

William Manton

Eidolon

Doctor Mother

Contessa

Alexandria