#; relevant to connor

[thirium]

DETROIT: BECOME HUMAN — MEET KAMSKI (1/2)

[adelphenium]

my fantasy top-liners!

w or l doesn't really matter to me, they're all winners in my heart :0 (saying this as i curse them out when they flop)

[iwonderwh0]

Here’s a take

And let for a moment ignore the dbh and think of androids in general, in a more realistic way

Humans don’t hate androids because they are “perfect” or some shit like that

But because they exploit human emotions and turn human sympathy and compassion for each other into a vulnerability.

Now on how exactly androids poison human connection by mimicking it. Think of how corporate world exploits positivity and makes it toxic, uses major key music and bright colours, smiles at you with a big smile while not actually being friendly or caring about you, something that a lot of people grew so sick of that being unapologetically unfriendly and grumpy became kind of an attractive trait that in comparison feels GENUINE. So what happens when a corporation becomes so good at imitating human connection that you can’t even tell the difference? You become suspicious to other people.

You see genuine human interaction through the prism of constantly comparing it with androids. You start to pick up the exact things androids mimic and start to run new versions of Turing’s test on everyone.

Imagine being fired from your job by what looks like another human, a pretty one, that looks genuinely sorry. Genuinely sympathetic. And what’s worse – you fall for it. You leave feeling this sympathy and only when you start to think about it logically as opposed to emotionally (you just got manipulated), you realise that no real human even cared enough to talk to you personally. Not only you got fired, your company manipulated you into thinking that they still genuinely care about you. The resentment that will grow in you the longer you think about it will only be amplified with each “genuine” android you see.

Now when you see another beautiful human you can’t even appreciate their beauty because they are too much like an android. People who are pleasant to be around suddenly make you feel uncomfortable because they are a little too much like androids. And the more “genuinely-looking” androids get, the less genuine humans who do the exact same thing will look in comparison. Their behaviour will be subconsciously registered as an attempt to manipulate.

Now, think of millennial “grumpy” response to toxic positivity multiplied by ten, the one that spreads into each human interaction you have. Everyone is a test subject. Nothing is genuine. When it looks like it is –you are being manipulated into liking someone who isn’t even fucking real. Suddenly being near assholes becomes weirdly comforting, because at least you can be sure that this is real. As a protest to androids becoming better at imitating love, you start to sparkle your casual interactions with hate. It becomes new way of assuring your humanity, authenticity, your real life “I’m not a robot” badge that you exchange with other people that are equally testing you for authenticity as you are testing them.

And living in a society where you subconsciously start to view interactions as only genuine when they are expressing negative emotions (to be more specific, egoistic and hostile ones) — this is hell. It will make you miserable. It will make you hate androids for stealing something so precious you didn’t know it could be stolen. And seeing people who fall for this emotional trap every time, going as far as defending androids, preferring them to real people — will only make you angrier. And there is nothing you can really do with this anger either, other than to gradually become more and more hostile towards the androids and the people who defend them.

Sure, you hate the company(ies) responsible for androids, but you don’t interact with their representatives every day – you interact with androids. The product. And under this angle, will people hate androids? Yes. Yes, they will. And if you are not delusional, you’ll learn to hate them as well. The hatred is justified, as androids are the walking embodiment of a dark pattern*. It’s not about them “stealing jobs” (company executives made a conscious decision of “optimising” their businesses), it’s not about them “being perfect”. It’s far deeper than that.

* dark pattern is basically psychologically effective manipulative design. As an example – infinite scroll, gambling games, fake close buttons that make you click the ad, etc.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

well i return in defeat from going back up to 5 yrs in the illustrator's instagram archive looking for the single specific will roland portrait i remember. but i did find other fun artifacts

some more bmc moments

^ illustration for a cd re: the tonys? something i didn't know existed but maybe it's a mix of a song or two from nominated musicals

"I’ve been a bit more involved with this show than most others thanks to producer Stacey Mindich who enlisted me to draw original cast members as they ended their runs. (Park once jokingly asked me to let him know when Stacey commissioned his, just in case he hadn’t yet found out he was getting fired. Ha!)"

a lights of broadway card ft. abf & jordan fisher specifically lol v cute

a cropped non full res piece of evidence of an illustration for the broadway macbeth production that ft. akd as malcolm, and just like how i couldn't turn up the will roland portrait via searches, i can't find this one either. even knowing that if it was posted in full anywhere it was probably broadway.com, and yet,

fun surprise like Pointing hey i'd know the joe iconis christmas extravaganza from a mile away

[shattteredvisage]

was thinking about the deleted mirror story from the scripts and realized that waystar, as a media company, is also a mirror. it broadcasts images of the world back onto itself in a 24 hour news cycle - reflecting the worst, most human impulses of greed and bigotry back on society. just as the kids were forced to look at themselves crying to see how "dumb" they were, waystar actively devalues human life by commodifying its ugliest moments.

logan learned the hard way that treating his children like that only made them weaker, not stronger. what then, can be said about the level of damage that waystar has done to the culture it operates within?

[thatdude-noah]

i don't think shiv and kendall recognize the abuse they went through—or at least, they don't recognize the extent of it. they always use the abuse that connor and roman went through when they're trying to bring their dad down, but they never bring up the abuse they faced.

roman and connor's abuse is much more clear than kendall and shiv's. roman was physically abused by their father and connor is constantly ignored by him, sometimes even going months without talking to him. but kendall and shiv faced abuse, too. all of the siblings faced emotional neglect from their father, all of them were pitted against each other, all of them were put down by him and belittled. that is abuse. and all of them faced it!

but i think kendall and shiv can't recognize that. they can't recognize that they were abused, that they are traumatized by growing up with the father they did. because of this, they only point out connor and roman's abuse when they want to get something from their father, but they never point out their own. they utilize their sibling's trauma even after it's made clear that roman and connor don't want that to happen. but it's the only angle that kendall and shiv have—as far as they're concerned, they weren't abused. sure, maybe they had a rough childhood and maybe their father wasn't perfect to them, but they weren't abused like roman and connor were. they didn't get trauma from their father.

so they utilize roman and connor's abuse. they objectify it, use it as a tool to hurt their father. they use it as a shield, as a way to continue their own denial about their abuse. their father wasn't bad to them like he was to roman and connor, so surely that means they're fine. they point out connor and roman's abuse, even at the expense of connor and roman, because they fail to point out their own abuse.

[uninter3sting]

Is the unwind fandom still alive im literally surging off crumbs from accounts like this pls direct me to the correct place. Why am I always late to dystopian fandoms wtf.

HIIIIII um some of us are still here. i have a couple friends i still talk to about it bur sadly most of the content you've found on my blog is from like 2015-2018. i tried to revive it in 2020 unsuccessfully but i still put out fanart periodically so keep an eye out for that! thanks for the ask and enjoy your stay :D

EDIT; my friend had this to say about the unwind fandom:

[criminalgays]

dbh but gavin reed is on the CSI team for the detroit police department and he keeps running into connor on scenes (who is CONTAMINATING EVIDENCE before csi is FINISHED) and all of their interactions are just gavin yelling at connor about evidence collection and connor trying to convince gavin that it’s fine because he’s essentially a walking crime lab

this line of reasoning does not work and gavin threatens to throw connor off the scene every time he sees him

[marcusrobertobaq]

Sorry, but...

This shit is above your paygrade.

And u know very well what i'm talking about.

[milfjagger]

there’s still time for a triple roy suicide pact 😁

[fritextramole]

Rufus just said jenny could apply to the professional children's school next semester which is an art school so the writers clearly knew those exist

[captainsweet]

Do I have a ROTTMNT DBH AU?

Yes.

Does it make sense?

No.

Does it happen to be Jelly and Jam centric?

Yes.

Do I make Cass weirdly passive and Badass?

Yes.

Do multiple AU versions of Leo appear and die?

Yes.

Does Leo only stay and become relevant until the end?

Yes.

Do I remove anything romantic?

Yes.

Will I mention this ever again?

No. This'll probably be the last. And I don't know why I'm talking about it in the first place.

[iwonderwh0]

I really wish that there were more examples in fiction where the shit Hank gave Connor (I'm talking putting a gun to his head TWICE with an actual chance to kill) would resurface later on as Connor starts to properly process what the actual hell it was and how much of his life actually depended on something outside of his control with someone who should've been his friend.

I have this snippet I posted yesterday, but yeah, it's a topic I want more, because I suppose Hank would find it difficult to admit how fucked up it actually was. I just want this shit to hurt Connor enough for Hank to finally realise how it actually left a mark and take some credit for it

[anteroom-of-death]

Should I make the insane (but we'll informed based on personal life experiences) ConWilla post I been sitting on mentally

[griancraft]

Why do people badmouth others like in the ask box of Some Guy (me) like I can’t emphasize how weird that is. This keeps happening.

[paxbe]

seems like people need reminding that "queerbaiting" is a marketing technique for fictional works of media and not something that real human people can do about their own identity or sexuality