#(also we're hitting SAD season which makes me more insane)

[sidewalk-scrawls]

Really oughta take a self-defense class given I keep (UNINTENTIONALLY) getting into confrontations with strangers.

[puffyducks]

DCRC Week #16

Wiggity what's up my fellow book clubbers, today we're taking a look at the ethics of treating artificially made intelligent lifeforms as second class citizens and what the qualifying factors are to determine a being as truly "sentient" and deserving of basic social rights. And by that I mean we're reading PKNA #12: Second Draft which is a comic where nothing bad happens!

This post is LOOONG btw.

okay we're just gonna start off our comic as normal and-

WOAH who's this handsome young devil in his little fancy suit??? What's that? Head of Ducklair Industries?..... yeah sure that makes sense I think.

Everett Ducklair 🤢🤢🤢 get a job stay away from him. Also this is a really nice way of saying you had to stop him from being overtaken by insane homicidal tendencies and putting guns in all his inventions btw

Haha woah what was that. Did the fabric of reality just tear for a second there or did my ADHD meds just kick in. Probably just me.

MASTER Donald???..... I don't even think I can write out the jokes I wanna make here they're too inappropriate for this blog sorry. But also what the fuck.

Uno stop mothering maybe I WANT to get frostbite and lose all my fingers

Not to take a sudden side tangent here but is this supposed to be like, a good thing? Don't the other seasons exist for a reason? I always thought fall and winter were meant to be like a cleansing period, they bring balance to the two other hotter seasons. If it's eternally spring, do some plants just never die? Are animals ALWAYS in the breeding season? Today we're going to overanalyze this one concept in an essay where-

OH MY GOD IT'S ODIN wait nevermind hiii Odin hiiiii. what's lookin good cookin. I mean- shit. fuck. shit.

I'm kind of obsessed with the way Odin is drawn in this comic. His whole body is all wiggly like a bendy straw. His stances go crazy.

gayass

Guys ever since I made that post about Odin's outfits and noticed that he's barefoot here it's been haunting me. Like it might just be a coloring error in this panel but also... why'd he take his shoes off. Also sorry for immediately revealing that it's Odin but um uhh I totally don't know who the OTHER cloaked figure is.

girlll you're giving away the game SHUT YOUR MOUTH

TWO Lylas?!?!?!

I'm loving Donald's shock lmao bro is fucking flabberghasted

This picture is so fucking silly bro. Nooo you can't put Odin in jail, he has such a nice suit on :(

Donald getting offended on Uno's behalf, not knowing that Uno is literally sitting right behind him. SURELY he'll figure it out eventually right.

Omg guys it's Geena!!! Remember Geena? From Portrait of the Young Hero? Anyways she has a gun now

Way to go Donald, you showed her basic empathy for like 2 panels and it gave her an actual sense of self value and NOW she thinks she deserves rights 🙄 she's gonna Detroit Become Human up in this bitch

beaming you with my evil lasers. what if he just fucking fried her brains here I think it would've been funny

Oh that's. probably bad.

ohhhh noooo.....

OOOOHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ok so bad news, Geena fucking exploded and her droid rebellion is presumably over. The GOOD news though is that droids are destined to get their rights anyways, just in a less violent manor than in the timeline Geena had started. So... I guess that's a win?

Disappears in a cloud of beautiful sunset smoke... Goodbye Odin 👋

Donald. Please. DONALD.

Okay so there's a LOT to say about this comic (so much that I kept hitting the image limit and having to make edits to my post to make it more concise) but if I could summarize it into one word: damn. Like I'm just kinda sad now.

The whole concept of "do robots deserve to be treated like human beings" is a common argument to explore, we've seen it in all kinds of media before. The ethics that get touched on in this comic are nothing new, but I can't help but find this comic incredibly interesting to read in the year 2024. Maybe in 1997 the idea of robots integrating into our society seemed like a far-off concept, but in present day the ever-growing integration of AI technology really makes this chapter feel a little more close to home.

I mean, it's easy to be like "yeah, well of course the droids deserve to be treated like people." I mean, Lyla and Odin are droids, and we like Lyla and Odin! Odin is literally so lifelike that people don't even KNOW he's a droid. But I can't help but think about how this all ties back to the current ongoing debates surrounding the usage of AI, and specifically AI-made content. Obviously the AI we currently have is nowhere near the level of the characters in this series (chatGPT fucking WISHES it was Uno) but there's really interesting debates to be made here.

What qualifying factors determine whether or not a living being is deserving of the same rights we humans give to ourselves? Is it being biological? I mean, there are literally millions of types of animals on our planet, but we don't even treat them with the same level of respect we give to ourselves. So, is it intelligence? If we were to create a computer with the intelligence level of a living, breathing human person, would they be entitled to basic "human" rights? HELL IF I KNOW.

I love the way this comic handles exploring this topic. Geena isn't WRONG for wanting more, she's wrong in the way she went about it. Going as far as to literally alter the course of spacetime only further complicated things, for her AND for the other droids. Had Geena instead devoted her energy into droid advocacy in the modern day, things may have gone differently. This story isn't the end of droids getting rights, but it is unfortunately the end of Geena.

We ended on a happy note, but overall this story is a pretty melancholic one. Especially that whole "only machines can be rebuilt" like DAMN.

Anyways that's enough media analysis for today, time to take off my smart thinking hat and go back to being generally kinda stupid. I'm not gonna add anything about Angus Tales here at the end because I already hit the image limit lol. Umm shoutout to Angus Fangus for having like 110 parking tickets. Idiot.

[starlight-shades]

tag gamerules: favorite: movie, hobby, animal, character, color, place, season, album, food

movie: I'm one of those people who doesn't have just one favorite anything. But I tend to rewatch Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron every now and then (it was def my fave for a bit when I was a kid). I used to make my dad watch it with me whenever he stayed home to watch me when I was sick.

hobby: Does drawing count when it's what I went to school for? If not, I'll go with reading. Love a good bit of escapism. I love storytelling more generally in all sorts of forms (i.e. movies, TV, games, etc), but reading was definitely what got me started. Recently I've been reading a lot of fanfiction. Last year I kept track of all the books I read and I ended up with the insane number of 534 books read.

animal: I'm a big fan of hyenas. This is another one where I don't have just one favorite, but hyenas are where I'm sitting right now. I think that they're really neat for a variety of reasons. They're matriarchal which is super cool, and they were used in medieval bestiaries as a sort of example of sexual deviance because they were believed to be hermaphroditic (they aren't, the females just have external vaginal canals that look like a penis- it makes giving birth as difficult as you think it does). I think they're a really cool example of how nature doesn't give a fuck about human ideas of how sexual dimorphism (and subsequently gender) should work. I tend to gravitate towards animals that media tends to use as shorthand for evil bc I think it's lazy and irresponsible (I also love sharks).

character: Ghost. I do too much projecting for it not to be him. I'm deep in my COD era (this is a COD blog after all). He's just this big beefy man who is deeply traumatized and has trouble trusting people and developing deep relationships. What's not to love?

color: It's maroon. It is maroon, it has been maroon, it will always be maroon. IDC that I surround myself with pastels. If it has to be one color and not a palette, it's maroon.

place: the aquarium <3. It's just so calming (when the children are not screaming, but we listen to the children scream because they're excited and it's good for them and we're an adult and can wait until they move on so we can watch the fish in the quiet). Every now and then I'll take a day in the middle of the week when school is in session to go to the aquarium or the zoo by myself. I like watching the animals, and I don't feel bad about sitting and drawing them for like 30+ minutes when there aren't any other people who's view I'm blocking.

season: spring. When it's easiest to spend time outside. It's not too hot, and if it's chilly I can throw on a sweater. I like sitting outside in the afternoon sun and reading poetry out loud. Makes me feel like a fairy.

album: star-crossed by Kacey Musgraves. That album came out around the time I had to put down my cat, and I would just listen to it on repeat and cry. It's got a very specific grief+nostalgia combo that really hits me. It's still one of my go-tos when I need a good cry. I have playlists for when I'm happy, but that album has a special place in my heart. 'if this was a movie..' and 'camera roll' are probably my favorite songs off of it.

food: this one is hardest I think. My family is Not Great at expressing feelings, so I ended up with food as a proxy for love and care. And both my parents draw from a pretty diverse set of culinary practices for various reasons, so I've inherited it. When I'm feeling homesick, I'll cook Italian. When I'm sad or missing my brothers, I'll cook Korean. When I miss my mom, I'll make Turkish. As I'm writing this, though, I'm thinking about dumplings.

TY to @soapsdish for the tag. Idk why the formatting did that.

I don't really have any other moots I know well enough to tag, but feel free to do this if you'd like!

[mothmanchronicler]

lmao i took notes while i watched the new episode

archie and the dog holy fuck this show hates pets

fangs & tony like "we're still bi and still queer!!!!" *looks directly into the camera*

why'd they act like that to kevin that was super weird !! i don't even like kevin and i wish that conversation had happened differently

cheryl "was that curse for realsises?"

"are you bingo's dads??" YUCK i hate frank but i hate the someone mistaking your dad for your boyfriend thing more

all four legs broken???? what's with adult archie and legs

thank god we get another girl boss villain

poor britta "mistress blossom" ???

also betty and archie being like ugh everyone cares about us

also spooky abt them like mysteriously surviving also betty acting SO weird abt archie covering her body during the explosion

cheryl is like insanely gullible

EVIL AURAS bro WHAT

why do all these idiots refuse to admit they need help like so deeply it's infuriating

where can i get veronica's vintage green phone ???

why is betty in charge at the fbi

also poor reggie he set a hard boundary with his father and veronica doesn't even care

ooo she put a hit on daddy

why is glen acting like an alcoholic husband

i hate glen but i also holy shit evil auras!!

love the framing of the debris arch around archie's mom, cool set design !!

reggie's dad!!! (also it was a chekhov's reggie's dad when he mentioned him earlier)

why are the ghoulies so well dressed

okay archie's either in a coma or ??? ya that's all i got

is fp gonna be in this season?

betty seems so off, but i can't explain it

archie going red circle again (1 point to coma)

veronica with reggie in the hospital something something veronica and archie after fred was shot

i get now that it was about her dad and wow he's dead (i don't believe it lol)

tabitha is like the only good person in riverdale lmao she cares so much abt jughead

okay EVIL AURA

OKAY BETTY ARCHIE PSYCHO TEAM UP

threatening auras

archie looks so mad abt betty sleeping with glen

also the twilight-esque betty being like you won't hurt me archie i'm not scared is so funny to me

but this is like headcanon level b*rchie and i'm here for it

OMG BRITTA !!!!!!! ABIGAIL !!!!!!!!!!! so cool

the editing when they flashed back to britta during the curse scene was bad

british man ???? dressed like american psycho guy. he's weirdly sinister omg !!! pickens !!! we hate founder families

betty girl gang except they're all pigs which makes it not cool

aw tabitha crying

also someone on here manifested hard of hearing jug

archie don't buy that house

veronica crying

and lying !!!! damn it veronica

also reggie seems like he's lying but i think it's just the acting

"cheryl's house will be safe for britta" okay toni and every social worker in riverdale

cheryl's outfit is so good

abigail trapped in the brooch??? nice

i hate archie sorry serpents

wow archie's just going crazy& he's only been endowed with superhuman invulnerability for like a couple days chill out man

NOOO CHERYL !!!! nana rose !!! fuck off nana

i'm still surprised that kevin didn't want to be part of the baby's life before like bro it was still your baby

love betty's top

archie seems very unenthusiastic abt dating betty

BINGO

omg TBK !! disrespecting betty is punishable by death (strap me to the chair i guess i'm guilty)

post episode thoughts:

archie and betty just straight up don't care about jughead huh thank god for tabitha

betty was so weird this episode can't wait to find out what's happening

all the crying made me sad lol

evil auras

[eonghwa]

I hope it passes soon and you feel stronger both physically and mentally! I miss seeing your posts. I'm well, coping let's say. I just saw we're actually getting another The Real version as a title track which is exactly what I needed, also the Kingdom remixes?! Aaaaaah, I can't wait to listen to the Wonderland one on repeat, I'm also curious about the Korean versions of their Japanese tracks. I absolutely adore Still Here, so we'll see if I like the Korean one as well. I'm definitely more excited for the comeback now, I was looking forward to it before, yet felt a bit conflicted and overwhelmed especially after Turbulence got released (I feel like I'm one of 5 people who don't vibe with the song, though I appreciate the vocals and the message 💔)

I selfishly hope they're not gonna be very emotional or slow... but I know they can't always release upbeat fun songs & hard hitting bangers. 😭 It's just that my seasonal depression and ADHD brain needs something noisy and fun so I don't go completely insane...

And the fact we're probably getting not one, but TWO MVs with pink Hwa! 😍 Honestly the day he gets rid of the pink will be a very sad day for me... - I.A.

thank you, that goes for you as well! ♥︎

yes!! i’m so happy about the real as a mv and a title track!! and again we’re getting two titles, they really be spoiling the fandom a lot 😭 and the kingdom remixes 😭😭😭 honestly this is everything i could ever ask for lol i kid you not when i read wave, wonderland and answer on the tracklist i almost teared up, it just further prove this is my fave zero: fever album!! 💗 i’m really so happy and excited about this album!! they always live up to my expectations and more! and for me, i’m very excited about the korean version of better since it’s always been one of my fave songs of them, so again, yes the tracklist is just perfect ♥︎

and i’m happy you got excited too! tbh when they first announced it i was pretty conflicted too, i was pretty overwhelmed by everything but i’m glad i’m excited now. and i’m sure you will get more and more upbeat songs in the future as well!! they always got you, i promise <3

just the fact that we are getting a whole comeback with pink hair makes me so happy!! like printed pages with that look!! let’s just appreaciate and love the pink hair now that we have them and not think about the future now ajdhsjdg