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99% of "mysterious disappearances" esp of people in their 20s who start acting weird for 48 hours and then vanish are not mysterious, thats just when a lot of reality-obliterating mental illness tends to kick in and it's pretty easy to get a short circuit in your brain that makes you go family guy death pose in joshua tree national park. it's not any less tragic, it's just a documented phenomenon and not particularly predictable. its a big reason the medical advice is for people with a family history of schizophrenia to completely avoid weed and psychedelics. "people just go crazy sometimes" is a principle of human health that used to be a lot more accepted prior to the american midcentury and to a certain extent thats a healthier way to conceptualize and prepare for the risk, as opposed to the modern assertion that anyone acting weird is dangerous and broken forever.

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In art there's this concept of Negative Space, where you learn to understand that it's not just the thing you're looking at that's important, but the emptiness around it, and I wish we valued art more in our society because so much of life is like that.

It's important, when you look at something, to consider what isn't there just as much as what is

The stuff that isn't there is no less impactful

What people don't say is just as loud

Am I making sense?

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Can’t believe I have a post on my blog yet again that boils down to “ancient Egyptians would have thought fucking the hybrid wolf-man version of Anubis that most people think he is was both gauche and illegal because they didn’t conceive of him as a wolf-man; they’d think you’re trying to fuck a dog”

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it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

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my dark twisted secret is i always use my turn signals whenever possible because i believe they were included in vehicles for a reason. i’m a bit of a freak this way. a weirdo

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Obsessed with Amena. Teenager looks at murderbot and says yeah you're adopting me. Yeah I think you are meaningfully partnered to my mom in your own incomprehensible way. Yeah I'm your kid now. Not optional

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An order of reclusive monks moved deep into the chthonic depths of the underworld to better commune with the primordial darkness and discover secret knowledge therein. In the years since they have changed, permanently altered by the knowledge they have gained.

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The fact that the authorities are gagging themselves to show they have both caught and are punishing the shooter makes me think they arrested the first dude they could.

I really try not to be a conspiracy theorist but I’m seriously flip flopping on whether or not I believe Luigi Mangione actually did it, on one hand this guy’s digital footprint is too vast to not be a real person with real motive, but on the other hand the circumstances of how they caught him are so odd that it just doesn’t add up, like, he wore very nondescript clothing and a mask the day of the shooting, suggesting he doesn’t want to be identified, despite this they were somehow able to identify him at a hostel in different clothing without a mask, he not only fled the scene but allegedly fled New York with a fake ID that the police recovered, several days later they found him in Pennsylvania carrying around all of the evidence in his backpack, including a manifesto, gun, and fake ID, the police also claim he had somewhere between $8,000-$12,000 in his bag, yet when asked about it Luigi claims he had no idea where the money came from and suggests it was planted (which raises several more alarm bells because if this “evidence” was planted then what else could they have fabricated to “catch” this guy?)

this not mentioning the fact that I find it really odd that this guy didn’t digitally publish his manifesto and instead chose to carry a physical copy of it around for days

this all could mean that he wanted to get caught but if that’s the case why go to Pennsylvania at all? why not just stay in New York?

I will say, though, that I think some of this can also be explained by this comment on Reddit:

regardless, the circumstances are suspicious as hell

edit: I realized I forgot to mention this part but it’s also so suspicious how everyone, the police, the media, whatever, are all 100% certain that Luigi Mangione did it, I’ve seen so many high profile cases where cops do press conferences and say “this is America, the suspect is innocent until proven guilty!” yet they’re not even calling Luigi a suspect, they’re outright saying he is the shooter and that he did do it, that’s just weird to me

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ironically "stripping the original creator of the ability to make a livelihood from their work" is something that only copyright law is capable of doing

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calling butches "chivalrous knights" and saying that we're literally just here to "protect our femmes" is reinforcing the "masculine partner must be strong and feminine partner must be weak" dichotomy.

implying that butch is synonymous with strap ons regardless of how an individual butch feels is reinforcing the idea that masc people need to have penises in order to be seen as masc.

saying that butches "take control in the bedroom" and are "dominant" partners is reinforcing that masc people can't ever be submissive, and that fem people can't ever be dominant.

associating butchhood with ONLY sexual traits is reinforcing the notion that masc people are only here to be sexual beings, and that there's nothing to us outside of our sexuality.

implying that all butches are attracted to femmes and all femmes are attracted to butches is reinforcing that relationships, regardless of orientation, have to fit into a feminine + masculine partner dichotomy.

you can't invent a Cishet 2 binary and slap a rainbow coat of paint on it and call it progressive. this behavior isn't progressive or subversive because it's being applied to a community that's perceived to be mostly women. this shit is NOT flattering to butches AT ALL. this is literally how we force cishet people to think about cishet men. some of us are disabled. some of us enjoy femininity. some of us are asexual. some of us are submissive. some of us aren't attracted to femmes at all. stop fucking calling us "chivalrous knights" it's so fucking dehumanizing- what about the butches who need protecting

if you seriously believe that "masc partner is inherently the strong protector and fem partner is inherently defenseless and weak and needs saving" is somehow magically progressive just because it's being applied to lesbians:

it ain't.

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More train than dragon but I fold, metro train from the DC area cause public transit is cool

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In other news I'm officially retiring from joking about French people they have too much on their plate already what with the fascism

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So uh... yeah I'm very ill about The Murderbot Diaries :] I'll have to like... sit down and figure out an actual design I wanna draw instead of just sketching whatever first comes to mind.

Also erm... additional murderhelion sketch under the cut

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eagerly awaiting the reveal of what political science 101 concept is she going to stop the plot to teach middle schoolers about. we got bread and circuses we got the extended work on thomas hobbes my money is on haymitch starting this book as an objectivist and having to unlearn that in the face of true struggle