#connor rants

[crittercisms]

twinkification of elliott sdv hurts me so bad. it keeps me up at night

[royalarchivist]

Connor: [Reading chat] "Tumblr loves you, by the way." That's great to hear. Shoutout to the girls.

[magniferaindicat]

“Connor is the worst assassin” Connor is the truest assassin, who fought and nearly died for people who he wanted to protect and also who couldn’t fight for their freedom. And in the end he returned to his village gone. The people he fought for, his home, taken away by people he trusted.

I mean sure he had the homestead and the assassins but he would not have left his village if he didn’t know their safety was at risk, and he lost them anyway. Say what you will of him but he is a good man who continued to fight even after losing everyone he cared for—his mother, his mentor, his best friend, his father. He may not show it easily and has a brutal combat style, but he is loving, kind, and gentle. He only wants what is best— he does what is right, no more, no less. I love you Ratonhnhaké:ton ☹️ I love you so much it hurts.

[atanx]

This, to me, is the most impactful ending in the game. Spoilers, obviously.

You get this ending by getting Kara captured, winning the Revolution (and I do mean REVOLUTION, not demonstration) with Markus and freeing the androids at the CyberLife Tower with Connor.

And this is almost perfect, as an ending. Yes, technically the demonstration with high public opinion and Kara at the Canadian Border and Connor as a deviant is considered the best ending, and it does make it possible to have Josh alive at the end, but there's some issues with it.

Disregarding how the pacifist ending is unrealistic because public opinion without activism (and even often with activism) doesn't work in real life and demonstrably hasn't worked in-game, either, up until now; a lot of deviants still die. There's like what twenty left at the end? In the revolution ending it looks like more to me although I could be wrong.

Then there's also this: in the pacifist ending, Markus, for a lack of violence, can't shut down the camps. I'm pretty sure - and correct me if I'm wrong - that you cannot free Kara and Alice (and Luther and Jerry and literally the hundreds of other innocent people) by succeeding with the demonstration. So while Markus has set up camp in front of the concentration camps, innocent androids such as Alice are getting destroyed within the camp. And you can't save them. More androids die in the camp by choosing to demonstrate when there is a genocide being enacted on the androids.

Kara's storyline is somewhat about the simple people. It's about the heart. The people just trying to survive, that just want to live and be free. The people that, for whatever reasons, whether they don't have the means to do so or they have something they can't afford to lose, can't fight back. North says "If you're not willing to fight for your freedom, then maybe you don't deserve it." (as a comeback to Josh being an infuriating pacifist) and while I get the frustration, I don't agree. Everyone deserves freedom. The people who can't or won't fight included. The Kara Captured part shows that those people cannot be saved through naive hope but only through concrete means of action.

If I critically think about Markus' situation when choosing Revolution or Demonstration, demonstration is not a viable option.

In this playthrough, I played the best route possible for Markus (in regards to public opinion), which means: Markus didn't push Leo (I mostly wanted the graveyard scene in Night of the Soul). Markus steals the truck of spare parts by distracting the guards with the barrels. Markus doesn't kill anyone in Stratford Tower (and neither does North). Markus sends a strong pacifist message during Capitol Park and doesn't kill the cops. At this point, public opinion is high. Now comes Freedom March. Law enforcement doesn't care that public opinion is high. Markus chooses to stand his ground and sacrifice himself to once again send a pacifist message and really get his point across. Public opinion is really supportive.

Law enforcement doesn't care.

Even with high public opinion, no one does anything to stop androids getting rounded up in the streets, shot in the back running away, or shot in the head even though they're kneeling on the ground in surrender. Androids are being stuffed into concentration camps, which the public understands as being just that indicated by the journalists' questions, yet no one does anything. There's no human protests, no one attempting to contact the androids to help them, no resistance against the camps, nothing!! Nothing! All there is are a couple people on TV who go like "Damn those androids really looked like people who just want to be free and the cops just shot them in the back! :( this is so America."

Public opinion hasn't done anything for the androids and still isn't! There IS NO HUMAN ACTIVISM at all!

Not knowing that, since this is a video game, a demonstration leads to the "Best ending", how can you expect Markus to choose demonstration? When protesting hasn't done a thing before, how could you just stand by and say "please don't!" while your people, innocent people are being slaughtered? From my personal view, the only valid choice here is to try and save as many lives as possible through violent revolution.

Obviously, it's desperate, and as Markus says when he succeeds at the battle, "This isn't a victory. It's the beginning of a war." I acknowledge that! Even though in this ending, there is no war, and negotiations begin (because Connor popped up with an army), there's no way to know that going into things. But public opinion is supportive! And in fact, it stays supportive even with the decrease of choosing Revolution! So that gives time to get public opinion to carry over into activism. Violence at this point buys the androids more time, more future, than standing by and marching yourself right to the doors of the concentration camps with no proper way of defending yourself.

And I'm open to discussion on this, I'm interested in hearing other people's viewpoints! Because right now, 150h into the game, I don't see a sensible alternative in the situation of "our people are being killed in concentration camps".

All of these people on screen would be dead had Markus chosen to demonstrate.

[palinecrosis]

reed800 > reed900 and the mischaracterization of connor

I never understood people’s affinity for reed900 over reed800, and all the reasonings I’ve heard for it never make sense to me. Just to be clear, this post isnt meant to attack anybody who ships reed900, I’ve watched Detroit evolution alright. I fucked with it heavy. I’ve got a solid three Reed900 fics in my ao3 bookmarks. I have credentials. Don’t come for me.

Anyway, I will always prefer Connor and Gavin’s dynamic over a Nines and Gavin hypothetical one. I feel like the reason people don’t like covnin is because they often misinterpret Connor’s character, I see this amongst convin shippers too, not just people who dislike the ship. 

I keep hearing the argument that “Gavin hates Connor, and Connor doesn’t stand up for himself. Nines would be more cold, which matches Gavin’s personality.” This is probably the shittiest take I’ve ever heard. The DBH fandom tends to see Connor as meek. Because of this, they think he’s vulnerable to Gavin’s hostility, which is just not true. When we’re introduced to Gavin, he’s antagonistic towards Connor right of the bat. Connor, in order to keep the peace, remains professional. This is because initially, it’s not in Connor’s interest/programming to disobey or disrupt humans. He prefers to move along, focus on the mission and ignore unnecessary distractions. However, when Gavin persists, when the android being interrogated is about to self destruct, Connor has the choice to physically stop the officer from restraining it and he does, defying Gavin in the process as well. Connor does not care about Gavin’s human authority in this case, he only cares about what he knows to be true and sticking to his objective. 

Now you may bring up the breakroom scene in which Gavin punches Connor, Connor just seems to let it happen despite it being a direct physical attack and not just an offhand comment. I hate when people bring this up because at this time, Connor was not deviant yet. He did not develop enough consciousness/deviancy to actively choose to defend himself. Again, in order to move things along and cause the least ruckus possible, he takes it. I’ve also heard arguments that Connor “pretends” to be hurt in order to seem subservient to Gavin to make it seem like he’s not fighting back against a human. I like that theory! 

People also seem to forget that when things directly misalign with his mission, Connor is quick to go against anybody, even humans, who stand in the way. Have people forgotten what Connor did to Gavin in the archive room? He beat the living shit out of him, incapacitated him, and walked off with a final tie adjustment as if it was nothing. This is the Connor who you’re calling meek, the one who pretended to be the Traci’s dead girlfriend to get to Jericho. The one who sampled Markus’ voice to take advantage of beaten down Simon’s loyalty. The one who nagged Hank to rent Traci’s until the lieutenant humiliatedly obliged. The one who chased Kara and a child down a highway. The one who gets himself killed multiple times just to accomplish his mission. The one who sarcastically told Gavin he’d “miss their bromance.” PLEASE. 

All of this is to make a point for a romantic/sexual dynamic between Connor and Gavin that actually puts them as equals. Where we get the good ending with deviant Connor, androids having rights, Gavin being forced into sensitivity training and actually learn to see androids as people (we love the Gavin Reed Redemption tag). None of that degrading convin bullshit where Connor puts up with Gavin’s bigotry and thinks “I can fix him!” Where Gavin actually takes responsibility for his own behavior and slowly learns to change his outlook. 

Connor would not shut up to Gavin’s insults. He’d push back just as hard, sarcastic and sardonic in his own way. He’d spit some sort of off putting logical roast at Gavin to hurt his feelings, psychoanalyzing him to a T. They’d have amazing back and forth, banter fuelled with sexual tension, actual physical fights, prolonged angry eye contact, pinning down and grabbing dangerously close to certain areas. Connor beginning to warm up to Gavin’s hostility, being smart, seeing past it, knowing it’s a cover up for something more raw and vulnerable. Gavin starting to think “Maybe he’s not so bad” to “he’s funny” to “he’s pretty fucking hot” to “shit maybe I like him”. DO WE NOT SEE THE VISION!! 

anyways I need to convert more people to like convin. yeah you can make your case for reed900 but they will never have as much chemistry as convin and not nearly as much hatefuck potential. thank you for reading. 

[astraeajackson]

OMG WHY ARE PIPRAVI SO CUTE I CAN'T-

[princeyralsei]

I got into Ultrakill recently

[clumsycapitolunicorn]

"Lisa... Lisa, don't. It's alright, just...give her some time."

CARLA CONNOR & LISA SWAIN | CORONATION STREET

[iamespecter]

THIS REMINDS ME: CONNOR MCGRATH'S VIDEO PAINTS SIX IN SUCH A NEGATIVE LIGHT I WAS SOOOOOO SEETHING WHEN IT CAME OUT.

https://youtu.be/ifQX1pkIHd4?si=sd-HE49_HDi3asv3

Like, the guy describes Six as a manipulative monster(?) who never cared about Mono in any way, and said he was right about his initial thoughts about her and I was like, "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT BRO THIS IS A NINE YEAR OLDDDDDDD"

They could never make me hate Six and Mono but damn do I hate it when people egg on my girl like I'm aware Six has done. not so nice things and I do not condone those actions whatsoever, but the misinterpretations of her character, man..... GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR GO SIT IN THE CORNER AND THINK ABOUT WHATEVER NONSENSE YOU'RE SPEWING ABOUT!!!!

STOP THINKING THIS FRANCHISE HAS BLACK AND WHITE CHARACTERS!!!! STOP THINKING SIX IS PURE EVIL THAT PLANNED ALL THIS ALL ALONG AND MONO IS A SWEET LITTLE BABY BEAN WHO IS THE PUREST OF ALL!!!!

BOTH PROTAGONISTS HAVE DONE FUCKED UP THINGS --ESPECIALLY TO ONE ANOTHER-- AND BOTH ARE MORE COMPLEX THAN THAT KIND OF SIMPLISTIC MINDSET!!!!!

I WILL become a hater istg

[kittynugg]

awww look its fo.. hey why does he have that hat? wasn't it like the sixties when he was ten which one of you gave him that hat??

who the fuck time traveled and gave him dipper's ha-

anyway bit over reblogs are appreciated bc they help little artists grow while likes are just a little brownie point but do whatever idm!!

insanity is under the cut like my last post (again its long i actually went through the timelapse since this was all on ibispaint)

for some reason it took me three minutes just to draw this circle

perfect bean head right here

the eyes were a nightmare to size and orient i fucking hate eyes

figured it out!!! yeahhh!! i actually started this drawing with a vision, there's this one shot of freckle in lackadaisy i took inspiration from

ohhhh shit things are getting crazy now we're bringing in a reference

drawing the hat killed me it was so difficult wHY

luckily your intrepid artist pal connor (me thats me!) figured it out. sort of

this was incredibly overwhelming and a nightmare to deal with look at all those lines everywhere

but i fixed it as always! also you may notice that the hat has been enlarged significantly

also you may notice that the hair has been enlarged significantly (drawing the hair was awful. someone please give me hair drawing tips for like ruffled hair or hair being pressed down PLEASE HELP ME)

was originally gonna steal dipper's entire look

then i decided the coat would be better for reasons beyond me

here he is mid-coloring, you get to see a bit into the process of my lineless style (last drawing was different because it wasn't originally intended to be lineless)

aaaaaaaandddddddd without lighting/shading

all in all this took me about two hours total, i think like an hour and forty five minutes you can probably look at the first image for the exact time

which means it took TWO DAYS BECAUSE IBISPAINT HAS A FUCKING LIMIT FUCK YOU IBISPAINT FUCK YOU anyway thanks for lookin i'll do a solo drawing of stanley later on

[crittercisms]

dawn and edie are such interesting characters. especially as a duo.

they’re complete opposites and yet they’re the exact same.

they parallel so well, yet they’re on the opposite sides of a spectrum.

edie and dawn are objectively as obsessed with the curse as one another, and i think that fact gets tossed aside because dawn’s obsession is negative.

deny it. what’s fact or myth? is there any truth to it? is it all just stories? she fixates on the curse via the stories. she blames the stories for the fact her sons are gone. she doesn’t blame fate, herself, the lack of proper mental care of both of her sons, but falsified stories.

who does that sound like? at face value, if i hadn’t mentioned only sons; it would have easily sounded like edie. edie blames her children’s death on the curse. which is just stories. that’s all the curse is. and doesn’t take responsibility for her negligence.

the odd thing is though, edie is exclusively know for her obsession with the curse and dawn isn’t.

and that’s because dawn doesn’t flaunt it like edie does. that is a huge reason dawn’s not known for her obesssion while edie is.

it’s really interesting to see how someone can take such a similar concept and turn it on it’s back without losing the original concept in the mix. but it’s so hidden that a regular observer doesn’t notice it at first.

i don’t know. this probably isn’t at all cohesive. i was just thinking about it because it’s been on my mind recently.

[coolguyincsworld]

i hate that joe locke doesn’t get the credit he deserves on his own show

as much as i love kit i feel like the heartstopper fandom is kit obsessed

on ep 4 (journey) all i’ve seen is “kit and wills scene” or “kits acting” (and i promise i am not hating on them) and people completely forget about joes acting in this ep. cuz as a person who has suffered w an ED, i cried at his acting and felt that they did a great job depicting it and joes acting was phenomenal when it came to that.

and not only ep 4, the whole show he was phenomenal from 1x01 to 4x08. and i think he finally deserves the recognition for the show that hes THE MAIN CHARACTER IN

[magniferaindicat]

I think I’m crazy for noticing how Connor and Haytham both have habits of clasping their hands together but Haytham’s is usually behind his back, guarded, commanding authority and respect while Connor’s are clasped together in front of him. Like he’s shy, yet far more open, also quite guarded but willing to reach out and help someone.

[crittercisms]

hate the fact so many people think dear evan hansen is supposed to be “oh! good story good protagonist” when it’s not. every character we follow is incredibly flawed and it’s portrayed that way. it’s your fault if you can’t see OBVIOUS criticism of our main character’s actions through the show.

“but! but the end! he got scot-free!”

he lost the only actual friends he had. he lost the murphy family who he felt was his only family at that moment. before speaking about the letter being his, he already lost alana and jared, and the ONLY person he had after the fact of revealing that the letter was his was his MOTHER. a woman who, throughout the show, he had a strained relationship with.

not to mention did we just ignore good for you, which came BEFORE the letter.

also i think….? complaining that the murphy’s didn’t out evan is SO weird.

in the end of the show the murphy family literally gets doxxed (in the novel, they quite literally SAY where the family lives online, as well as zoe’s number. jfc poor girl), because of something these people believe to be connor’s suicide note, which quite literally doesn’t say ANYTHING bad about the murphy family. people just decide to dox the family because they have the interpretation that the murphy family is all at fault.

can you IMAGINE what would have happened to evan if the murphy family came out about that? it would be SO much worse.

the murphy family is dysfunctional, yes, but they aren’t evil people. there’s a REASON they didn’t come out with it because. they didn’t want evan getting the same treatment as them, no matter how badly he fucked up. because they have REASONING in their brains.

this is so easy to understand and people so lack the skills to think about media in the current day. like no. the show doesn’t explain it to you outright, and it doesn’t come to a perfect ending for you. and it shouldn’t have to if you’re able to understand media to an extent.