#Cats out of the bag

[gtzel]

Important Announcement!

After several weeks of planning, storyboarding, drawing, rendering and dealing with a frustrating amount of image upload difficulties, I’m happy to announce that my big project is finally finished!!

Behold, the newly rewritten and redrawn version of The Boy in the Walls webcomic:

It will now have longer episodes, better and more understandable dialogue, and be more organized. I’m so happy to be able to finally share it with all you lovely people! Please enjoy, and be sure to give me feedback on anything.

[bylerpolls]

is it true that u r a mister cloudycleric

i don’t know, IS it true that i am a mister cloudycleric?

[mikeweasel]

Parallels between Joyce and Mike during both of El's mind dives.

They both made her blackout out googles, held her hands and attempted to comfort her, and spoke to her when she was having trouble. Only difference?

We never see or hear about Mike holding her afterwards. You would think after going through something like that and admitting he loved her he would, right? But they hardly even talk for the next 2 days afterwards.

[hells-greatest-performers]

So when will Calliope’s birth be announced? She’s the newest princess of hell right?

Lucifer: Normally it would be after she was born but due to the circumstances—

*gets sudden notification on phone*

Lucifer: WHAT THE HELL?!

[enchanted-teaforest]

Wait are you her?? Brattypainkiller? If so i hope you remember me lol

You found me. ⭐️

Yes of course.

[the-type-a]

I have a confession to make.

I am actually Courtney. Gabriela is just a facade.

[chriscrond]

Whiskey going to the park on my E-bike. We were looking for the wild turkeys in the area. ♥️

[roboobin]

how old are you?

more than 13 less than 18

[confuzzledsani]

Another “What If?” fic. I love giving myself simple prompts like a question, it really helps me get through writers block.

Summary here:

Basically a story of Hinata gay panicking over his best friend. Let’s be real, we’ve all been there. 😆😭🫠

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[constantlyfalling]

Your delivery has arrived!

[tjrequiem]

WHAT!!?!? OVERSEER IS YUOR DAD??!?!?

Wow, uh, I got a lot of messages like this over the weekend. Guess I let it slip. Whoopsie daisies...

[trashpandacraft]

i couldn't figure out why the tension on the rigid heddle was so bad, nor why it seemed worse every time i pick it up.

i think i've cracked the case.

anyhow, my next big-loom project was going to be tea towels, but now i think it's going to be a cat hammock.

[verypartialobserver]

The cat is well and truly halfway out of the bag

[seirindono]

The Missing Scarf VIII - part 49

Current status: on the run

... so no sleepover?

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[chriscrond]

BEWARE OF CATS ⚠️

[babacontainsmultitudes]

🤔 Admittedly I was a little disappointed by the reveal (but certainly not surprised the foreshadowing was heavy in this episode lol), but not actually against how Beth (and Will) seem to be playing with it thus far- which is to say that I do think it has a lot of potential, and I suspect there's more to what we're seeing).

;) Big ol' ramble below

Mostly the theory has turned me off until now (at least insofar as I've witnessed it transpire in the fandom at large) because it struck me as so painfully ironic to see Trudy, a 1950s housewife, struggle to exist under the system that she's in, fail to fit the mold assigned to her, and be denied her personhood very literally for it (this being ironic insofar as how it mimics how she would have been treated back then). This and because frankly I just think she's a lot less interesting if she's fully a robot LOL, but I'll hopefully get to that in a bit.

Not that the hints at her mechanical nature and the relevance of Tucker's background were lost on me; I can appreciate why those would contribute to a plausible, fun and I think still mostly harmless theory (now fact). However, minus one or two specific posts I've seen on the matter (namely a recent one suggesting that if Trudy is a robot Beth is probably taking inspiration from The Stepford Wives, :( sorry person who made that post I couldn't find it I wanted to credit yoouuu), I've seen the theory just about exclusively presented in a manner that, rather than explore the metaphorical and political significance of Trudy being partially or fully mechanical, at best disregards the parts of her narrative that are at their core about sexism (among other related things), and at worst negates them entirely (i.e. Trudy only thinking and acting how she does because she's a robot malfunctioning and not because the world itself is causing harm and she rightfully wants something more than the role she was forced into, Trudy not even having any real thoughts and feelings of her own, etc.). I just think it kind of sucks to shove all those important things about her aside and say "actually, there's no person suffering here, she's just a robot" and perhaps worse yet to imply that she does have thoughts and feelings but because they result in Weird™ behavior it must be a problem with her code and not at all relate to what women were subjugated to during this point in American history.

CONVERSELY I don't think Trudy being a robot (or at least partially one) at least from what Beth and Will have presented us thus far, inherently suffers from any of these issues? First and foremost because Trudy definitely appears to possess sentience, thoughts, and emotions of her own, matters which immediately complicate her degree of personhood and don't inherently box her behavior in as a bug in her programming rather than an issue with the world she's been put in, quite the opposite in fact! I think they have a very solid groundwork laid out here to make a strong statement with Trudy's narrative (and perhaps ask the question of what is really malfunctioning here), all the more so since [I pull out a Rebecca Swallows-style conspiracy board] I don't think she's entirely robotic in nature? Actually you should just read Mack's tags in this post cause he has great thoughts on the matter (of which those are just some of them), but if I can direct your attention to one thing in particular, it would be Beth's fact (I *believe* from episode 2) about Trudy never graduating high school because of her essay where she suggested that "perhaps women could one day domesticate themselves", a statement that could of course be interpreted a number of ways but ultimately threatened the patriarchal status quo enough (in suggesting women's independence) to cost Trudy her diploma. Taken on its own this fact appears to contradict the theory that Trudy has always been robotic in nature, because it doesn't really make sense that Trudy would have been set up to go through high school (or school at all really) when Tucker's intention was/is for her to be the perfect housewife. You may then suggest that Trudy's memories of this are fabricated and not actually her lived experiences, in which case firstly perhaps you should reread my earlier point on the robot theory being used to actively negate and otherwise disregard the portions of Trudy's narrative that pertain to sexism and feminism, and secondly it really doesn't make any sense to me that Tucker would implant those kind of memories into Trudy's brain? To be completely honest if she's been a robot from the very beginning (rather than someone who became a cyborg, which is what I'm trying to suggest here), then I don't see why Tucker would program her with actual sentience in the first place (suspending my disbelief here with regards to the possibility of programming sentience to begin with). It seems much more likely to me then that Trudy was not always a robot, and instead altered by Tucker to force her into a role of subordination and remedy her """imperfections""". This option is significantly more interesting to me one, because it implies that Trudy has actually lived a life up until the present, full of its own complexities and strife (and dreams, and real actual memories worth exploring, etc.), and hence is not by any means "just a robot", and second because it amplifies the hypothetical statement being made on the lives of the real living women of the era and how they were treated and seen as being "in need of fixing" for not conforming to gender roles or otherwise acting "out of line" with what was expected of them.

OKAY THIS GOT OUT OF HAND SO I'M CUTTING MYSELF OFF HERE but I wanted to my share my current thoughts what with this ending and where I'm at so hopefully that was at least interesting to whoever has chosen to read through this one okay thank you byyyyyyyyye~