#reverse shell

[mutter-official]

base64 because it helps me drop reverse shells through command injection exploits >:)

[magical-regical]

Y'all so it turns out if you click on the little clothes hanger icon on the character's profile you can see their alternate art when they reach a high enough insight level and —

Something about this makes me so sad???

Like it's Click. But he's alive. He's solid and corporeal and this might be the last time he was solid and corporeal.

The bandage on one of his arms, his face being nothing but calm and probably only concerned about the angle the shell is coming in for his picture is just tragic. I don't know what happened between when he dies and when he meets the timekeeper or if they're even gonna touch on that but like, man, it's so sad.

How did he get so obsessed with recording what was happening to the point of losing his own sense of self preservation and for said obsession to continue even in his 'afterlife'.

Can you imagine if he got to live until the end of the war? To see the war finally come to an end?

[fumifooms]

I should have touched on dark elves in my beauty standards post... Let me just slap this on here real quick. So as we went into there, beauty standards can show political dynamics and sort of reflects the politics of who get to be seen as human, who get to be seen as desirable and promoted within a society. So like, beauty is power right, in the sense that beauty standards are highly influenced by the ones in power, the ones who have the time & resources to look a certain way and the power to present that look as desirable to large groups. It’s complex and diverse but generally beauty standards are upheld by the elite, the influential.

By the former 'time & resources' thing I mean stuff like clothes, health, makeup or even cosmetic surgeries, or even simply the freedom to only go out in public when you look your best— Meanwhile the latter, the power to present that look as desirable to large groups, usually applies more to situations where it’s about a whole category of people like an ethnicity that was uplifted as the ideal. Not just in a political or economic dynamic, but discrimination on a systematic level without regard for individual appearance or action.

For example in the former, not all people who wear makeup are rich, and while makeup did historically help signal status, if you’re poor and wear nice makeup you can still touch some of that beneficial association with the beauty standards that makeup helps you attain. In the latter……. Well you get, "no, all elves are good! So the elves who do bad things must be something else!". Where, in trying to have uniform standards for a whole group, you kinda just get erased or othered if you don’t conform to expectations. The elves especially put effort into giving off this air of perfection, which they've successfully made tallmen populations believe. So, for those people, the answer that "But elves are inherently good and beautiful and perfect?" asks, isn't "well elves mustn't be inherently perfect", but instead is "there must be bad ones too, innately too." A similar phenomenon happens with the reverse too, where people will say there are "the good ones" within a group that's seen negatively.

"But Fumi, in this case the difference is purely linguistic and perceived, there’s no visual difference!" Yeah, and there being little visual distinction between two groups has never stopped people from being discriminated tbh. Different types of christians seeing each other as heathwbs for example, or the deep british vs irish hatred that has existed. A tidbit of history I find fascinating was the infamous use of "speak white" from english-speaking canadians against french-speaking canadians especially, because complicated history aside, last century as the business owners the anglophones had the power over the majoritarily francophone working class and a lot of political sway even though they were the minority in the Québec region. There’s a different cultural and ethnic identity there, and language was the most important difference between the two groups- and I suppose the most noticeable one.

The way we as social creatures and social groups categorize people and the groups they form is complex, interesting and very important to our society and the way we approach both the world and social interactions, and that's what leads to discrimination. We decide what’s important and then we decide it’s what people should be judged and distinguished by. Belonging to a group is a show of status, and can be a weaponized both ways, for and against. If you’re not worthy to be an elf, a "good" elf, then you’re not.

Interesting especially because looking at the elf portraits page there seems to be many different cultures within the elf race, so yes "good elf" vs "dark elf" is considered something like a race rather than an ethnicity or culture presumably. There's definitely a "main" elven culture since it seems pretty uniform whenever it's brought up in the adventurer's bible and the story, though, wether the differenr cultures form different communities in different places or live together as one nation. But maybe more treated like a mental illness since it’s acquired, or sometimes slang? It's not completely clear wether it's thought of as fully innate or something learned, a chosen moral failure like sin is, but with how they speak about it they do sound very essentialists, even Chilchuck seems to get a chill considering Marcille could be one. Quoting Kui's lore comic, "There are two kinds of elves, nice holy elves and evil elves bewitched by darkness". It’s just considered like an innate thing that separates them from the concept of elves... 🤔 But this sort of category being vague is often a feature and not a bug, because then they can be a boogeyman to bring up just whenever is convenient, that can fit whoever, like calling a kid a "fairy's child" for whatever behavior in the olden days, because if you don't precise a lot what a dark elf is then it can apply to whoever you see fit, and it doesn't need to be coherent or consistent. The sort of discrimination headspace that leads to the classic fascist "the enemy is both strong and weak" type rethoric.

"Dark elves" is interesting within Dunmeshi because it's about people trying to fully separate elves from the concept of bad and untrustworthy people, even though they look the same. "Elf" isn’t just a beauty standard, it is The ultimate ideal of perfection both in appearance and morality, and if something threatens that perception and reputation it has to get rationalized and compartmentalized. Those are coping mechanisms to avoid having your whole world view challenged or shattered. To tallmen who practically worship elves, it’s a huge deal!! To them that makes it make sense! Some elves are born good and some elves are born evil, simple as! No world view re-examination needed!

So for Marcille for example... It’s interesting because she has an outside view of elven society despite being elven herself. She was raised amongst tallmen, aka the people who idolize elves to this intense degree. It had to have affected her dynamics with others— not unlike the academy students, mostly gnomes and tallmen, who looked up to her as some natural-born genius, even though she did do research and study to get her skills and grades. It also had to affect her relationship with having a role model growing up (having none around except for her mother who pretty much renounced her elven culture, a novel series that sensationalizes and glamorizes elves), her dynamic with being elven itself, because even though she doesn't feel like she fully fits into it she's interested in elven culture, and she herself enforces the beauty standards around elves and acts elitist about it- as seen when tallmen actors playing Daltian Clan opera, when men are very masculine rather than very androgynous like with Laios, having long hair, having no facial or body hair. With this angle, all of this behavior of hers is very "internalized high standards that were my bible to follow growing up and so others must follow them too and these high standards must be worth upholding".

Considering everything, elves being looked up to as a role model in appearance and behavior, plus them having the reputation of being great at magic, and Marcille having grown up amongst mostly tallmen, we start understanding that there was IMMENSE pressure on Marcille to conform to that idea of an elf. She has a lot of pressure and a very high beauty & behavior compass to conform to. She also has an idealist and rigid sense of justice and morals, like how Namari is a heartless traitor for leaving instead of coming along to save Falin, and she needs people to believe she has noooo facial or body hair. She probably WAS afraid of being seen as a dark elf, aka fundamentally evil, for her dark magic research. You don't want to be a letdown, do you? You don't want to be the ugliest elf, do you? You don't want to be a dark elf, do you? You don't want to be one of the bad ones.

Shave your facial hair and deny you have any body hair. Take care of elven traditions like hair-braiding and have pride. Be the kind, smartest model student. Do magic by the book. Never do dark magic. Ah shit-

And so she hid the domain of her research, and so she hid being a half-elf.

[wintermav]

Logan when he learns Wade’s a selfish top

[cutiepieautistic]

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[fishareglorious]

Verneider AU where Schneider is a mafia boss that’s running a pizza place as a front, and Vertin is the insane mf that walks into the shop one day and orders a pineapple pizza.

[pick-a-plush]

Tee turtle inside out plushie things? <333

Sure, I can do some cuties from that collection!

[pinkygirlymeg]

Semmelweis takes a bite of Kaalaa Baunaa :3 first of the series Semmelweis bites every woman in Reverse 1999

[holloska]

Made Little Udimo's for my reverse oc's thus far..spunky lil animals

[desimonewayland]

Rebecca Salsbury James Shells on the Sand 1935 Oil reverse painted on glass

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[theloveinc]

blue lock men hot, sexy, etc, but i am so sick of all the little drama between them, just take me out to dinner damn

[rhysintherain]

Alright, time to sort thrift store buttons.

I figured I could buy about a million of these for the same price as one set new for the shirt I'm working on, and matching buttons are boring anyway.

Hopefully there'll be a set here to match the green shirt I'm working on. Maybe even one for the orange shift when I get that far.

[aquatic-anxiety]

You used to talk.

A lot.

Too much.

They didn't like you when you talked. But you keep talking, because you liked talking. You talked so much to the others. It was good, to hear you talk still.

You used to be a source of comfort for them.

Your lips pull into a frown as you curl up at the bottom of the tank fish swimming around you, accepting you as one of their own. And as you drift to sleep, more of what used to be comes to mind.

[Beginning of Dream Sequence]

Everything burns.

Your lung burns from the lack of water for so long, you're too young to be out of the water for so long. Your gills burn, you're false lungs burn, your eyes burn.

It was punishment. Punishment for talking to the others. Talking at all. They say it'll stop hurting when you stop talking.

They were liars

A high pitched sound leaves your mouth, a whine, a sob. Something. But it's not silence so they keep you from the water.

Your vision is blurry, you're gasping but you quiet down quickly. Mouthing for water, limbs weakening, your gills fluttering shut causing your lungs to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze.

You're going to die here. You fear. You're going to die all because you can't keep your mouth shut. Because you can't be quiet.

Why did you keep talking? You're only hurting yourself this way.

It's because you're stupid. And you deserve the pain you get from it.

Gloved hands shove you under the water and you take a big breathe of oxygen before you're ripped back out, like some cruel game.

They're saying something- demanding. They're demanding something from you. You can't hear, it's muffled. A pitch of static in your mouth and ears. You hear crying. Are you crying?

Shut up. Shut up. Shut up. Shut up.

You can't tell how long you do this for. You're cold. You're so cold.

But at least you're quiet.

You're back in the water. Still. Quiet. You've adapted.

You've won, didn't you?

[End of Dream Sequence]

You wake up with a start, a sound in your throat but it never escapes, you know better than that. You crawl out of the tank.

You're cold.

You press against the warm fur of your caretaker. Curled into the side of his arm. And you're quiet.

They treat you much nicer when you're quiet.

[scarefox]

This is a game only this cast can play 😅

[dol-dee]

this is all i get for S Love and Endearment?? come on Avery you're holding out on me babe