#SR Cast

[zenosanalytic]

Something that really struck me about Scavengers Reign(***SPOILERS*** Btw), and which is REALLY RARE to see in any sort of media, is how it presents facility with violence as something Dangerous and Bad, and incompetence at/refusal to use/hesitance with violence as a generally sympathetic quality.

Like:

Sam has his knife and he reaches for it allot, but mostly he uses it purely as a tool. IIRC(and I might NOT be), he only uses it as a weapon twice and the first time he absolutely gets his ass kicked(tbf: he's fighting a sealouse the size of an elephant at the time), and the second time, while he Murks an Aquatic Murderlemur like a Boss, he's, effectively, (and again I really cannot emphasize this enough: ***SPOILERS***) an Undead Super Soldier being driven around by a parasiteseed latched into his heart&nervous system, and it tries to take advantage of the situation to infect Ursula. So like: this historically good dude's facility with violence, while it saves Ursula from being drowned and eaten, is IMMEDIATELY followed by something deeply sinister.

In a flashback we see a rando named John using a rifle to hunt food, and he turns out to be under the influence of the same Parasiteseed Sam is, so once more we have capacity for violence being narratively near to something sinister about the character.

Ursula uses violence(I think?) a grand total of Once in the entire season, during the aforementioned Giant Sealouse Fight while it's feeding on Sam, and she totally gets lucky with it: She flings herself onto the Louse's back, manages to grab onto Sam's knife sunk there, then flips the louse on its side and guts it before it can get up again.

Azi is interesting because at the start of the story she's well-equipped, including a homemade Guandao(which: Respect u_u), and quick to use violence but she's ALSO presented at this phase of the story as Kind of a Dick, spcl to Levi, her robot companion. BUT!!! She still sucks at fighting. She tries to use the Guandao to take on some Giant Tonguecrabs and they just kind of bully her out of the way until she manages to get one of Levi's flares and deploy it(and blow her and Levi up a little). She uses it a second time to fight Hollow(a psychic monkey thing that Just Wants Some Food, Guys, he's cute and misunderstood and Did Nothing Wrong, Guys <:[ ) and she's not AS incompetent this time, even manages to get a hit in, but she still gets her ass totally handed to her, and almost dies. Later she attacks a REAL asshole named Kris, succeeds, and IMMEDIATELY gets bonked in the head with a rock for her troubles. Her most successful confrontation is near the end, confronting Kris for the final time when, in the process of threatening her with a knife, Azi chooses to stop and appeal to her better nature instead. It doesn't change what Kris is going to do, but it convinces Barry, and they both leave to save Ursula and the Passengers.

Barry loathes violence and conflict, tries to talk people out of it when it comes up, and is good at throwing rocks to stop it.

Kris is one of two(three?) characters we see being consistently competent at violence, and every single time she does it's presented as something sinister which alienates her from others and herself. She's unambiguously presented as a selfish, lying, self-damaging, manipulative villain, and she very much gets the end you'd expect from that.

Kamen is another of the two(three?), and he uses that most human of super-powers, The Ability to Throw Stuff, to kill a bunch of animals and feed them to Hollow. This Does Not Go Well. Kamen's presentation becomes more nuanced later in the series, but for most of it he's presented as a selfish, angry, corner-cutting fuckup and his use of, and facility with, violence is presented as part of this.

Hollow is the Third(?) of the Three(??) shown to be competently violent, and he is presented as an Unambiguously and Terrifying Antagonist in the later half of the story, and wildly Destructive to the "protagonists". He even "Kills" Levi; the sweetest of Robots! BUT! It's ambiguous what's really happening here. To begin with, Hollow doesn't commit violence until having watched Kamen do it Allot to feed it, and when it DOES it's first violent act is done to save Kamen's life(though even then it's a pretty sinister scene). Secondly the extent to which Hollow compels Kamen to violence is ambiguous; Kamen's initial killing spree DOES occur while his eyes are glowing(a sign of Hollow's psychic influence), but Hollow is FLABBERghasted by being presented with his kills; they still EAT them, but if Hollow was compelling him to kill, that he killed wouldn't be so surprising. It's possible Hollow compelled him to "get food"(this seems to be what Hollow's species does; compelling animals susceptible to their influence to pick berries and nuts they can't reach for them, and that's the first food-related thing Kamen does for them), and Kamen interpreted that into hunting when getting fruit was too hard for him. Third, the closer to Kamen Hollow gets, the more violent it gets, and the more protective of its connection to Kamen. Fourth, while Hollow is psychic, it's not really clear how much it understands human minds and thinking. The initial impulse is to assume psychic things are smart but I think it's important to remember this is just how these creatures eat. While WE see the visions Kamen experiences to manipulate him, for all we know Hollow is just Pushing Buttons and Pulling Levers in there. Clearly it knows the image and voice of Fiona, Kamen's ex-wife, but does it understand what those things mean to him, or what it's "saying" to him through those things, or is it just inducing emotions and impulses? A good example of this is its destruction of Levi. Levi was programmed by Fiona, and she gave it her own voice(which: they did this real cool and subtle gender thing with this which I loved :>). Kamen's motivation throughout this is his anguish over Fiona and desire to save her, so why would Hollow destroy Levi? Is this an act of jealousy, or does it only understand that this voice causes Kamen pain, and attacks it as a threat? The series never clarifies. After Avi's final confrontation with Kamen/Hollow leads to their separation, she scares Hollow away by just... throwing a rock near it like it was a raccoon or something. The question of how much of Hollow's actions are intentional vs instinctual is never clarified.

so Anyway:

I just Thought This was Neat :>

[readerconfused]

Percy Jackson was renewed and while everyone was excited to see the new and beloved characters from the books all i thought was "yes! MORE DIONYSUS"

This man will suffer without his work husband at the camp

[stone-stars]

Transcript:

Murph: Uh, we're gonna let uh, little Bug here take us out. Bug? Caldwell: You got this Bug. Jake (whispering): C'mon, Bug. [A pause, then a very tiny kitten meow.] Jake: [soft gasp] YES! [Murph and Emily cackle] Caldwell: Got it! Yes! Jake: That was real. Caldwell: Awh. Murph: Really cute.

[shamixlour]

Arsema Thomas as Queen Akasha please 😭😭😭 im begging Rolin, please......its HER .

[haemr-exe]

omg where did you people come from ... i'm still studying the Art of Kpop so I haven't drawn anything yet (so many heart poses ...) so have these two memes i made (on the days i was bored ...) while you guys wait :3

[timetravellingkitty]

it's not casteist to hate upper castes. it is infact your god given duty as a principled anti-caste comrade. go forth cain and do as you were preordained

[harmorii]

oh misha.....

[0bir]

todays doodle is a little gruesome, wouldve liked to spend more time on it but i have other things to do right now so its whatever

have a younger teo

[fast-and-the-furious]

[insinirate]

Did Viv do something? I haven't been caught up on anything

vivs had a LONGGGGG history of controversy, some backed, some fabricated, and i dont go here so im not that interested in knowing the full depth of her behavior but the consistent trans/transandrophobia and recent playing a part in blacklisting a chronically ill victim from the animation industry kinda keeps me away from her work

[ressioo]

Ress :)

Ress buddy

Trafficlight?

Okay so, neither of these ships work with my guys in my brain so i cant really. Offer either of these

However! I do have a very fun crack crossover au that me and @tenspontaneite have been having fun with for quite a while now It features my Sig and very much has trafficlight content so

Hope this suffices!

Peepaw n Assembly Suns do be vibing

(if you haven't read Assembly you probably should tbh. Its some good shit)

[chirpsythismorning]

Not the actor playing Brenner in The First Shadow play reposting Matthew Modine’s recent photoshoot on his ig story 🤣😭

[zannia]

like i cant have a kid... if my child is getting bullied im going straight to the other parents and whoopin ass. its not gonna be a fair fight either. Im out for blood for them raising a bully. Then im getting their kid expelled + therapy. Like i get so heated just thinking about it

[fitzyames]

from a long abandoned menzies livejournal blog

[garrandia]

nhhhgggg

sh2 remake looks eeeeh

[ceragondubs]

New casting call out for Honkai Star Rail! Deadline is September 30th, 2024! If you don’t have an account on CCC, please see the “FAQ” link for the document that will take you to other ways to submit your auditions!