#I also find it criminal that they discontinued revolution

[shirubiaowo]

I blame @azulashengrottospiano for making me fall madly in love with this fictional man

don’t mind the water marks cough cough

[defnotmadie]

madie thatoneleo masterpost of all of my fics buckle up bozos

in order we have:

multichaps:

Bookstores and Phantom Tears : techno centric bookstore au with bedrock bros not discontinued my motivation just decided to blip out of existence

Starboys and the Shadows that Hide Them : multipov fic with a focus on ranboo, space au, kids got trauma, collab with my buddy roz, super fun fic ALSO NOT DISCONTINUED ROZ IS JUST BUSY

chaos makes interesting (and interesting makes everything) : tommy centric superhero au, kind of a crack fic, super silly, ongoing

just like a folk song (15.1k) : crimeboys centric, short multi chap, both boys have questionable home lives, found family :]

one shots:

Fate’s Story of Grief: I Will Wait for You (3.9k) : first fic ever posted, techno centric, sick fic, mcd, story of loss and grief

Who Knew Secrets Could Change So Much? (6k) : technically a two shot but the second part is an alternate ending, wilbur centric, vigilante au, mcd in chapter two

What is Love? (Can You Show Me?) (4.6k) : tommy centric foster au, probably one of my fluffiest fics, super domestic crimeboys

home is where the heart is (1.8k) : tommy centric au about military brats, he moves around a bit, super self indulgent

wishbones are meant to be broken (2.3k) : tommy centric au with crimeboys, tommy is a son of a politician, mcd

birds of a feather (1.5k) : tommyinnit centric, crimeboys, tommy leaves wilbur to find life for himself, protective wilbur

The Game of Life (6.2k) : my most popular one shot, tommy centric, superhero au, mcd, crimeboys, villain tommyinnit

a burned bridge is nothing but ash and memories (4k) : tommy centric villain au, clingy duo, inspired by trust me not (hero and villain duet), super neat i think

shadow of mine (3.9k) : tommy centric, inspired by shadow of mine by alec benjamin, tommy ignores warnings and bad stuff happens

people and their purposes (20.9k) : first long oneshot, tommy centric, fic about growing up and living life, found family, crimeboys

you can’t force the stars to align (6.1k) : fic fight fic, soulmate au, ranboo centric, tommy and ranboo are soulmates until they arent

slow down you’re doing fine (7.5k) : fic fight fic, detective au, tommy centric, crimeboys, tommy is a criminal who becomes a detective!

time can’t heal all wounds (10.8k) : birthday gift, tubbo centric, time travel au, tubbo tries to save his friend and slowly learns he cant

my heart aches (with every thought of you) (8.5k) : niki centric reincarnation au written from a twitter build a fic, octopus duo!!

i think this time i’m dying (9.1k) : tommy centric, mcd, super angsty, tommy is just really lonely okay

happy birthday to you (4.6k) : birthday gift, tommy centric, fluffy birthday fic, happy ending!

The Silence of Winter (2.6k) : written for scholastic, tommy centric, broken families, apologies, tommy finds peace

Unsent, Unread, Unimportant. (6.6k) : my letter fic! tommy centric, letter/diary/poetry fic, revolutions, powers au, super neat in my opinion one of my favorite fics of mine

take the moment and taste it (32.8k) : tommy centric, slice of life, growing up, clingy duo, mcd, following your dreams

Snowflakes are Fragile (Just Like Me) (3.4k) : purpled centric, fluffy christmas fic, tommy invites purpled over for christmas and shows him the magic in it

The Monopoly of Power (5.7k) : sequel to “The Game of Life”, ranboo centric, superhero au, beeduo

how arbitrary fate is (3.3k) : ambiguous fic, a story of two brothers and one of them is dying, don’t know character until last scene, mcd

death row and finding home (4.8k) : tommy centric, tommy is a death row inmate and wilbur is his lawyer, mcd

you’re lyin’ summer child (5.7k) : tommy centric, mcd, a fic where tommy hates summer except that might not be the most important thing he has to worry about, crimeboys and bench trio

Invisible Strings (5.9k) : tommy and wilbur centric, crimeboys, soulmates au, super duper fluffy, just two oblivious boys

may the road rise to meet you (41.1k) : my royalty au that is literally my child, tommy is a king but nobody knows it and he wants that to change, crimeboys, aeduo, angel duo, bedrock bros, man i love this fic

we’ll fight and bleed for you (4.3k) : wilbur centric, qsmp fic, angst, mcd, wilbur soot and tallulah meet and love each other man

Make the Moment Last Forever (2.5k) : niki centric, photography au, super sweet, birthdays, fluffy!!

to make the halves whole (7.4k) : wilbur centric soulmate au, crimeboys, from a twitter thread i made, letters, mcd oops

we can’t just run away from who we are (5.2k) : birthday gift, charlie centric, qsmp fic, charlie is trying his hardest and so is juanaflippa and at the end of the day thats all that matters

My Soul is Entangled with Yours (5.3k) : techni centric (and then later tubbo centric), apocolypse au, road trip au, mcd, parallels go wild here

A Total Eclipse (4.1k) : tommy centric, nepo baby tommy, serial killer au, tommy is the assistant to techno and wilbur who are serial killers, mcd

A Life We Never Knew (2.8k) : wilbur centric, grief, crimeboys, mcd, grave yard, wilbur goes to visit his mom and makes a friend :]

slowing the beats of my heart (3.4k) : tommy centric, college au (kind of), crimeboys, tommy is stressed about college man thats basically the fic

She Welcomes You (3.2k) : tommy centric, hansel and gretel au, clingy duo, this was an assignment for school, mcd, every year a disaster strikes on a different city this year it was theres and now they are stuck in the woods

you’ll do great things (2.9k) : niki centric fic about college admissions and gifted kid burnout, features wilbur soot and is genuinely a fic i hold close to my heart

Where the Water Takes Us (5.1k) : charlie centric qsmp fic with juanaflippa and charlie getting stranded on a raft and stumbling upon an island where they search for safety

[wewererogue]

Michel Foucault on the Role of Prisons

[excerpts from a 1975 interview; see also Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison [PDF]]

Q. Prisons, in their contemporary form and functioning, may seem like an isolated invention that appeared suddenly at the end of the eighteenth century. But you show that, on the contrary, their origin should be traced to a much more profound social change.

A. When we read the great historians of the classic era, we can see that to a great degree the administrative monarchy—as centralized and bureaucratized as it could possible be—was, in spite of that, an irregular and discontinuing power structure that allowed individuals and groups a certain latitude to twist the law, to establish customs that suited them, to find a way of slipping around obligations, etc.

The Ancien Regime was loaded down with hundreds of thousands of ordinances, that were never enforced, rights that no one exercised, and regulations that masses of people ignored. For example, not only traditional fiscal fraud but also the most blatant smuggling was part and parcel of the economic life of the kingdom. In short, a perpetual give-and-take between legality and law-breaking was one of the conditions under which authority operated.

In the second half of the 18th century this system of tolerance changed. New economic conditions and the political fear of popular movements, which became chronic in France after the Revolution, demanded a different social arrangement.

The exercise of power had to become more refined, more clear-cut and between the centralized decision-making apparatus and the individual as continuous a connection as possible had to be formed. This occasioned the appearance of the police force, the administrative hierarchy, the bureaucratic pyramid of the Napoleonic state.

Long before 1789, jurists and “reformers” had dreamed of a society in which punishments would be uniform, where chastisements for law-breaking would be unavoidable and equal, with no exception or evasion possible.

Suddenly, corporal punishment, the grand ritual of chastisement designed to arouse fear and act as a deterrent-which, however, many criminals escaped-disappeared before the demand for a universality of punishment concretized in the prison system.

Q. But why prisons rather than some other systems? What is the central role of enclosing, cloistering, the “guilty” party?

A. You ask where prisons come from. My answer is “from practically everywhere.” Something was “invented,” to be sure, but it was an entire technique of surveillance: the control and identification of individuals, the regulation of their movements, activity, and effectiveness.

This took place in the 16th and 17th centuries in the army, colleges, schools, hospitals and work places. It boiled down to a technology that made possible exact, day-by-day power over bodies. Prison is the ultimate embodiment of that age of discipline.

The social role of internment is to be discovered in terms of a person who begins to emerge in the 19th century: the delinquent. This establishment of the criminal world is absolutely correlated with the existence of prisons. Within the masses, a small core of people became, so to speak, the privileged and exclusive licensees of criminal activity.

In the classic age, on the contrary, violence, petty thievery and embezzlement were extremely common and, in the long run, were tolerated by everyone. The malefactor, it seems, was able to melt very easily into society. If he happened to get caught, penal procedures were swift and definitive: death, life in the galleys, banishment.

The criminal world was not so closed in on itself, something that developed essentially out of the existence of prisons, out of the “marinade” of prison society that forms a microsociety in which men find real solidarity that will provide them, on their release, with mutual support.

Prison is a recruitment center for the army of crime. That is what it achieves. For 200 years everybody has been saying, “Prisons are failing; all they do is produce new criminals.” I would say on the other hand, “They are a success, since that is what has been asked of them.”

Q. There remains the question of what “benefit” the ruling class derives from the establishment of this army of crime of which you speak.

A. Well, to begin with, it makes it possible to break up the continuity of accepted lawbreaking. In effect, it isolates a small group who can be controlled, kept under surveillance, and thoroughly known. They become the object of hostility and distrust of the very classes from which they come. For the poor are the most frequent victims of most everyday crimes.

The result in the final analysis is gigantic economic and political profit: Economic profit from the fabulous sums derived from prostitution, drug traffic, etc. Political profit in that the more criminals there are the more readily the population will accept police controls.

Not to mention that this system provides a work force for the lowliest political jobs: putting up posters, poll-watching, strike-breaking. Under the Second Empire, the workers were quite aware that the “scabs,” as well as Louis Napoleon’s antiriot forces, were all ex-prisoners.

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