#dismemberment theory etc

[3cosmicfrogs]

Narcissus did not fall in love with his reflection because it was beautiful, but because it was his.

My contribution to @fandomtrumpshate 2024, gift for my nieyao partner in crime @tavina-writes !

[8bitsupervillain]

Higurashi When They Cry Hou Ch. 6 Tsumihoroboshi pt. 12

His rousing speech about the importance and strength of friendship notwithstanding, I think this is the most realistic and human Keiichi has been. Despite his words, I think it's very clear that Keiichi doesn't truly believe Rena about everything she's said. He might believe her about the surveillance, but the rest?

Again, I swear to you I'm not just trying to take what the VN says and put my own spin on it. I genuinely get the impression that Keiichi is just trying to be supportive to his friend who might be going a little bit over the edge because of the stress of the murders and dismemberment.

Also I'm just amused by the notion that there's this one singular white van the cult uses to apprehend those they deem a threat. Just roving the countryside and around Hinamizawa. They seem to want to grab her for questioning and to retrieve the scrapbooks, but I wonder if they'll also try to just run Rena down like they did Keiichi in Onikakushi. "Diplomacy failed, gun it Steve." Oyashiro cultist named Steve, yep.

See, how much do you think it would've changed anything if in Onikakushi Keiichi did something like this and pulled Rena to the side to hash it out about the cult, curse, etc? I know things probably would've just progressed the same as they did, because she pretty flatly denies anything happening to Satoshi until the very end, but it makes me wonder. Maybe Keiichi believes her just because she's a pretty face, I don't know.

See, this is what I mean by he seems to be more human this time around. In other chapters he would immediately leap to either the this is a load of bunk conclusion or the instantly ride or die with Rena conclusion. Here however, he's initially filled with doubt about the situation. Anyway, Keiichi is approached by the mysterious van of danger.

"Hey random kid, did you happen to see a girl? No reason in particular, wink." I don't know if these guys are actually part of the secret cult hit squad, or if it's something like they're actually orderlies at a mental hospital Ryuugu senior wants to commit Rena into, but they are incredibly bad at their job. Even if it were entirely on the level you'd think at least one of the people in the van would pipe up that maybe they should go about things in a less conspicuous way.

This is an interesting TIP that I would've assumed would be mentioned either towards the very end of the chapter, or after it was over. It's an interesting idea that somehow Rena might be responsible for infecting some of the other with the bloody maggots curse/parasite idea. I'm not sure if it's one I necessarily believe could be the case, but it's a fascinating wrinkle to add to the theories about what's going on. I keep flipflopping on the idea of it, because none of the others show outward signs of aggression that are attributed to the parasite idea. And those that do are already in an environment of extreme stress. Rena mentions the idea it's the curse to Satoshi, but that's only after he tells her about the extra footstep. Rika claws her throat out, but she's already in the high pressured environment of trying to kill Shion. Tomitake is in theory actually being attacked by the villagers after Watanagashi.

[sahsahhh]

im reading foucault but i cant make annotations in the book because i borrowed it so im gonna use tumblr as a notebook

My thoughts about Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault, Part 1 - Chapter 1

red is for key concepts, green is for parts im confused abt, purple is for stuff that isnt in the book but i correlated

it starts by contrasting two really different punishment styles: a dismemberment and a prisons routine

Punishment Economy spread in Europe and US (late 18th century/early 19th century)

scandals

reforms

new law and crime theories

new moral and political justifications of the right to punish

old ordinances abolished

habits supressed

modern codes <- new era of criminal justice

body as the target of repression disappeared -> this process was brushed off as humanization

less directly physical punishment

Supression of the Punitive Spectacle - understanding of the punishment rite as equally or more cruel than the crime itself, approaching the spectator to a violence they desired to be far from, inverting the roles and turning the judge into an assasin and the condemned into a victim

punishment as a cruel reality -> punishment as an omnipotent force

death and pain caused by the Justice is an intrinsic consequence which it (the Justice itself) is ashamed to impose; so it watches from the distance, encharging others of this burden and mechanizing the punishment execution - the Justice system as a religious system

Theoric Negation - no judge will ever say the objective of a sentence is to punish, but rather to reeducate

end of the public torture -> Extinction of the Mastery over the Body; not touching the body, or touching the bare minimum, in order to shake someting that isnt the body; the body becomes an intermediary to deprive the individual from their liberty

the executioner was replaced by guards, doctors, teachers etc who guarantee the justice system isnt aiming to cause pain - they use ways of annulating the pain, ex. annesthesiating somebody condemned to death

double process: Supression of the Spectacle/Annulation of the Pain

equalization of the punishment to every condemned: the death penalty would only occur by decapitation, by the gallows <- start of the punishment system mechanization and reduction in the contact between the executioner and the condemneds body

The Death Industry and Hannah Arendt"s Banality of Evil

the condemned should wear a veil when being decapitated - a crime without a face. you cant develop empathy when you dont see whos suffering

The Era of the Punitive Sobriety

The French Revolution turned the gallows into a spectacle again - the governmemt had to take action to contain this popularization

liberty deprivation as a penalty has never really worked without some mastery over the body as a complement - innevitable consequences of the prison? should the criminals suffer more? what would be an intangible punishment?

Relaxation of criminal severity (goal change)

"May the punishment, if i say so, hurt more the soul than the body" - MABLY, G. de, 1789

division between the allowed and the forbidden

by judging a crime, the problems that led to the crime are also being judged -> "second hand" villanification of defects and differences, of the "shadows" -> the criminals whole history is brought up during a judgement, being a decisive factor for their sentence, not for explaining a fact, but for qualifying an individual -> these "shadows" are punished in order to change the individuals core and turn them into a docile member of society

the scientific field may back up a condemnation by showing the individuals biological inadequacies, thus providing the judge with a reason to punish not the infraction, but rather the infractor for being who they are, the infractors soul

the evolution of the criminal procedure:

"what was the crime?" -> "what does this crime mean? how should we classify it?"

"who is the criminal?" -> "how was the criminal made? where, inside his soul, is the crimes origin?"

"whats the laid down punishment?" -> "how can we correct them? how can we make sure theyll get better?"

The Question of the Madness in the Justice System

1810 french code: "theres no crime if the infractor was in a dementia status" <- many judges misinterprted the code, treating madness as a mitigating factor, not as an annulating factor

1832 french code: any crime includes, as a legitimate causative factor and as right to use, the possibility of madness <- implies an appreciation for normality and the sentence gives a precription for a possible normalization

the judgement process is divided, shared between many people - psychiatrics, teachers, cops share the right to punish

judges dont judge crimes

judges do something other than judge

the right to jugde isnt exclusive to the judge

the judgemet doesnt involve only legal aspects -> the figure of the judge isnt only the one who punishes

Punishment and Social Structures by Rusche and Kirchheimer

political economy of the body -> punitive systems adapt to them

the history of the body: how do historical events interfere in the biological basis of existence? - political investment in the body to use it in the economy as a production force in a submission system. the body is useful only if it's productive and submissive at the same time. this submission may be established through ideology, but also through direct action, which is not necessarily violent - power microphysics

power isn't a propriety, but a strategy - it's a web of dynamic relations. poqer isn't a privilege of the dominant class, but their strategic positions which are reproduced by the dominated ones. this power infiltrates between the dominated and these, even fighting against this power, sustain it. profound, multipolar relations of power. the fall of these micropowers doesnt obey the law of all or nothing, they aret extinguished because of the fall of an institution, and no significant episode happens without the effects induced by them.

power produces knowledge and knowledge produces power - Political Anatomy: study of the materials and techniques that sustain the power relations

the king had a double body: mortal and immortal; but the condemned has no body, only a soul - the "soul" is where the power effects are, its thetool used to control and punish through a complex system. the men thats invited to free is in itself an effect of a profound submission.

[vacantgodling]

🐐 Goat - is your character artistic? do they create? how is their sense of fashion? 🐉 Dragon - is your character lucky? do they believe in luck or fate?

for anyone from red death :3

~ @void-botanist

oooo thank you!! time to do this for the main trio :3

🐐Goat - is your character artistic? do they create? how is their sense of fashion?

RED -> cannot be artistically creative to save her life, which is really funny considering what her powers are/curse is—which tbh i should actually explain. so, red’s curse is that she can create anything but anything she creates cannot be undone. it sounds great in theory, but it means that: let’s say she creates a tree because she wants shade. that tree can never not exist now. someone could try and cut it down and they couldn’t, someone could try and uproot it and it’s impossible, it is now a permanent fixture of the world and it cannot be undone. red has a small “hack” around this which is — to a certain extent she can create “nothingness” to sort of reverse engineer stuff she creates but creating functioning air molecules in place of what she’s made gets very difficult the larger and more complex something she makes is. so, tbh red doesn’t use her curse often because it is a hassle. she has only, since discovering it by accident, used it three times for very specific reasons. and by the time the book ends she will use it a fourth time in a very massive way 👀 but i’m getting ahead of myself this is off topic. AHEM. she can be… creative in means of death if that makes sense, but she doesn’t really view it that way—she views herself as being very straightforward even if most people wouldn’t think that way. i can’t think of a good example but she is very much likely to suggest full body dismemberment to deal with a problem tm.

fashion wise, red hasn’t allowed herself any luxuries for years and when she meets hel the only thing she owns that looks nice is her red cloak that she wears. the rest of her clothes are dirty and tattered (bc if you hadn’t guessed, one of the things she’s created is that cloak so it’s impervious to the elements, to burning, wear and tear etc. same can’t be said for everything else of what little she owns).

HEL -> can be a creative person with incentive. he does scribble down his thoughts or visions he has, but he doesn’t feel like a deep seated desire to create like how you and i perhaps feel about writing. however he does enjoy looking nice, well groomed and put together. he gets very uncomfortable if he hasn’t bathed or has worn the same clothes for long periods of time so this whole “traveling on the road” thing isn’t really his Thing.

ARDEN -> used to be a musical child when he was young and before the wolf queen killed his father; despite all the gambling, his father always praised him for his voice because it was sweet and strong like his mother’s but arden’s out of practice now. he thinks swordplay in itself can be artistic and remembers seeing sword dancers at traveling circuses in his youth, but there’s no entertainment that goes through their kingdom anymore. fashion wise even without being in hiding he’s always preferred function to frills and would rather have a hearty pair of leather boots than a silk shirt any day.

🐉 Dragon - is your character lucky? do they believe in luck or fate?

RED -> she’s too disillusioned to believe in luck or fate, and if she did, she’d curse it because it seems her very existence is a curse upon all who are with her. (not to be melodramatic but).

HEL -> because he can see and know the answers to anything (being the oracle) he doesn’t believe in luck because he’s cheated luck with his curse. however, he does believe in fate and believes himself to be an instrument of fate and so a lot of how he acts while it main seem shady to those on the outside, is actually to preserve a sense of free will without mettling too much into people’s destinies.

ARDEN -> all his life people have been preaching to him about destiny. he was destined to be king, until the wolf queen, and now he’s destined to defeat her. he isn’t sure if he quite believes in fate but he does certainly think that he has luck on his side more often than not; there’s no reason he should still be alive if he didn’t.

[naraven]

i fee so bad for leaving you all so here a quick skin hc for some of the synthetic beings of genshin! my brain reverted back to its albedo phase and ive always been a long time scara stan so i feel obligated to write a lil something for them :D

cw / describing skin in depth, nothing graphic but some mentions of violence and dismemberment

wc / 600

while being named "chalk prince," i don't think his skin would actually feel all that chalky.

mainly because i think rhinedottir would try not to? it would be weird for albedo to look "non-human" to me

that being said he probably doesn't have normal skin either

if he did, rhine where did you get that from-

i think he would always be room temperature

not like cold-blooded animals who always need a source but also not warm like humans are, in a sense

i think he would have the normal patterns on humans, like fingerprints and pores

the texture of his skin i think could go two ways:

kind of like normal skin but rough

not quite leathery, but the more you feel it the more it feels almost rubbery compared to normal flesh

or, he is just. smooth.

like model levels of good skin

(i'm so jealous i want my skin to look that clean all the time,,,)

i'm debating whether or not he would have body hair?

i'm sure to some extent he would but would he be able to grow more hair,,,?

this goes for scara too how would their bodies make for hair when they can't, y'know,,,

anyways.

he probably doesn't have bones, so if you cut his arm or leg off by accident i think he would just be like all white underneath

if hyv was allowed to show blood i think albedo would be one of the ones who wouldn't

when he gets a papercut do you think he just erodes,,,

since he is probably made of "chalk," i think when bathing or touching water he might turn more chalky

again, rhinedottir would probbaly do something about that, but i like chalk man

i wonder how he digests spiders in his stomach

I LOVE THE BALL JOINT THEORIES!!!!!

maybe ei went far enough to cover him with synthetic flesh, but i love love love the idea of scaramouche with ball joints so,,,

maybe when he is taken in by the people of tatarasuna he still has his "skin" on and throughout the centuries with the fatui he just kind of abandons it

maybe the synthetic skin starts to wear down because he's just a prototype and he hates seeing how he was nothing important so he has a worse quality of fake skin than the raiden shogun-

his fatui subordinates notice that their boss has the body and face of a doll but everyone is too scared to ask why

i think his synthetic flesh would be almost realistic, but of course nothing compared to the real shogun, with his rightful gnosis

kidding. he isn't all that interested in inazuma's affairs at the moment

the porcelain exoskeleton is probably pretty sturdy, i would think

probably almost reflective, polishes when he wants to (he's stinky like that)

he doesn't need anything to keep himself looking pretty he can do that even when covered in dirt and blood tbh

every once in a while dottore or sandrone has to oil parts of his joints that aren't keeping up with his body

after his three betrayals he abandons his human skin because he when he sees himself similar to them he feel disgusted,,,

i think after the archon quest though he would be more comfortable without any fake skin

because he isn't human, he doesn't need to be like them anymore

but while in the past it was because of his contempt for humans, now he feels the world better as air whistles through his knuckles, elbows, knees, neck, etc.

when he would gets hit hard enough that the porcelain breaks, he's probably hollow inside like actual dolls

before again maybe sandrone had to put him back together but now nahida probably helps him pick up the shards and put them back together as best they can

its not as well as it could be, but the material nahida uses are stronger and would probably last longer than whatever sandrone used

nahida and scara friendship real,,,

[1moreff-creator]

I kinda do this for their birthdays lol

Min:

+Abnormality Dancin' Girl by Guchiry

+Lost One's Weeping by Neru

+Aishite by Kikuo

+Entomologists by Ghost & Pals

+Star of the Show by Ghost & Pals

+Pathological Facade by Ghost & Pals

+Appetite of a People-Pleaser by Ghost & Pals

+Marionette by KIRA

+Meltdown by iroha(sasaki)

Veronika: CW for quite a few of these ones. Also, my music taste sorta suits her a bit too much.

-The Chattering Lack of Common Sense, by Ghost & Pals

-End World Normophaty, by Ghost & Pals

-Hide And Seek (English cover by Lizz Robinet), original by Ho-Ong-i

-Corrosion, by Riproducer / RIP

-Final Girl, by Graveyardguy

-Chronic Wasting Disease, by Riproducer / RIP

-The Spider and the Kitsune-Like Lion, by MASA Works (CW for this one in particular, it's really fucked up. Cannibalism, torture, necrophilia, etc)

-Hi-fi Evolution Theory, by Keu Studio (probably her character playlist song)

-What Gave it Away, by Riproducer / RIP

-Matryoshka, by Hachi

-Honey I'm Home, by Ghost & Pals

-Entomologists, by Ghost & Pals

-The Experiment, by Steampianist

-The Boy who Went to Hell, by SHUDDER

-Secrets of Wysteria, by Steampianist (CW, this one is based on real events of violent crimes)

-The Dismemberment Song, by Blue Kid

-Mad Hatter, by Melanie Martinez

-Uncanny, by Ghost & Pals

-God-ish, by PinocchioP

-I Can't Fix You, by The Living Tombstone (Veronika loves FNAF, you can’t convince me otherwise)

-Always Wanted, by MiatriSs - SayMaxWell

-The Red Means I Love You, by Madds Buckley

-Already Dead, by KittenSneeze

David:

-Literature Girl Insane, by Karasuyasabou

-Undead Enemy, by Suzumu and Giga-P (probably his song from the official character playlist)

-Monochrome Mentality, by Riproducer / RIP

-Grey, by QueenPB

-The Distortionist, by Ghost & Pals (CW: Abuse)

-Copycat, by CircusP

-How to Pretend, by CircusP

-Ghost Rule, by DECO*27

-Echo, by Crusher-P

-God-ish, by PinocchioP

-The Court Jester, by thquib

-DISAPPEARANCE ADDICTION, by Kairikibear

-Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, by Set it Off

-The Things I Deserve, by Ghost & Pals (CW: suicide)

-All Eyes on Me, by OR3O

-Not Your Angel, by NightCove_theFox (apparently I’m making him into an Alice Angel kinnie)

And now some I can think of off the top of my head.

Ace:

-Appetite of a People-Pleaser, by Ghost & Pals

-Star of the Show, by Ghost & Pals

Xander:

+Blood // Water, by Grandson

+The Chattering Lack of Common Sense, by Ghost & Pals

+Lost One's Weeping, by Neru

Arei:

+Candle Queen, by Ghost & Pals

+Shunran, by John

+BBF, by KIRA

+i DO what i WANT, by KIRA

Charles:

+Amygdala's Ragdoll, by Ghost & Pals

Whit:

+Again, by Crusher-P

Hu:

+Echo, by Crusher-P

+Rät, by Penelope Scott

+The Things I Deserve, by Ghost & Pals

+My R, by Rachie (CW: Suicide)

Arturo:

+Reform, by QueenPB

Teruko:

+Sing Along, by Sturgill Simpson

+Rotary Dial, by Ghost & Pals

+Dead Girl Walking (Reprise), from Heathers: the Musical

Eden:

+Rotary Dial, by Ghost & Pals

+Magnet, by Minato

Rose:

+Cartoons, by Louie Zong

+Echo, by Crusher-P

J:

+Paparazzi Murder Party, by Vane Lily

Mai:

+Propaganda, by Crusher-P

+Aura, by Ghost & Pals

Songs for DRDT character playlists

I've been compiling songs for DRDT character playlists for a while now, but I'm having difficulty finding enough songs for each character, if any at all.

If you have songs that fit the vibe for a DRDT character, it would be helpful for you tell me. You can say the song title, the artist, and which character(s) it goes to in a reblog, a comment, or you can dm me it. I'll credit you in the description of the playlist. Thanks in advance!

[n1kolaiz]

The Six Realms

Okay, so I was pretty close to giving up on writing analyses but I'm back LMFAO plus I see we're close to 100 followers and I just want to thank you guys for being so very supportive <3

Alright, I'm not sure if anyone's ever written about this, but if an analysis like this exists, please do let me know because I'm kind of curious as to what other people think about this, too!

Remember that time Fukuchi spoke about bringing "about the five signs of an angel's death"?

I read a little bit more about it, and as a minor content warning: this analysis will focus on a few religious aspects (Buddhism + Hinduism). So if I get any of the facts wrong, firstly: I do not mean any disrespect to either religion, and secondly: please do correct me if I interpret anything in the wrong way.

Spoilers for BSD chapter 90 onwards + BEAST!AU under the cut!

So I'll start by talking about the Decay of Angels. As we all know, the members include Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Sigma, and Bram Stoker, and their leader, Fukuchi Ochi. After Fyodor's arrest, the Decay of Angels came into light with Nikolai murdering four government officials in a week. These murders symbolise the Buddhist cycle of existence, or otherwise known as samsara: the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

"We are the Decay of Angels—hiding here as terrorists, a 'murder association', five people who will announce the demise of the celestial world."

Nikolai Gogol, chapter 57

Samsara is described to be a concept beyond human understanding. According to Hinduism, samsara is the physical world where every being has its soul trapped into a physical vessel. The Hindus believe that everything has a soul, and due to a soul's attachment to desire, it is forced into a deathless cycle of being born, dying, and reincarnating into a different body. In Buddhism, the ultimate way to break free from this cycle is by obtaining nirvana.

Nirvana is a Sanskrit word for the goal of the Buddhist path: enlightenment or awakening. In Pali, the language of some of the earliest Buddhist texts, the word is nibbana; in both languages it means "extinction" (like a lamp or flame) or "cessation." It refers to the extinction of greed, ill will, and delusion in the mind, the three poisons that perpetuate suffering. Nirvana is what the Buddha achieved on the night of his enlightenment: he became completely free from the three poisons. Everything he taught for the rest of his life was aimed at helping others to arrive at that same freedom.

- TRICYCLE'S definition of nirvana

As Fukuchi mentions in the panel above, there are six different realms of existence. These realms represent every possible state of existence, but one cannot live in a specific realm forever. Depending on whether or not one's past actions were morally good or bad, an individual is born into one of these realms. Basically, the controlling factor of which realm a person is born into is dependent on their respective karma. The realms are separated into two categories: the hellish ones and the heavenly ones.

The Deva Realm: where beings are rewarded for the good deeds they have done. This realm is void of anything unpleasant. It is basically paradise— empty of unfulfilled desires, any form of suffering, and fears of every kind. Religious individuals, however, do not seek to be born into this realm since its attitude is more or less carefree.

The Asura Realm: where demigods are admitted. Asuras are driven by greed and envy, and may come in conflict with human beings since they are quite similar. They are powerful beings, but quarrel with each other quite a bit, making this realm quite undesirable to be reborn into.

The Animal Realm: where beings are given the form of an animal (you probably guessed that lol). Individuals here don't actually have good karma to take pride in, but rather, they are born into this realm to work off their bad karma (by being slaughtered, hunted, or forced to work, etc). Being born into this realm forces one to atone for their past sins by living out their life as an animal.

The Hell Realm: where one is punished for their evil actions. The most merciless of realms, where one pays for their transgressions through pure suffering, methods of which include: dismemberment, starvation, and psychological/physical torture. However, once a person's term is fulfilled in this realm, they are presumably promised to be reborn into a higher state.

The Preta Realm: similar to the hell realm, in which beings pay for their past sins (specifically: greed and stinginess) by having to survive through hunger and thirst. This realm is also known as the 'ghost realm,' because some pretas are psychologically tortured by being forced to live in places their past selves have lived in. They are invisible to human beings living at that time, which pushes them to face the depths of despair and loneliness. Your typical horror movie, really.

The Human Realm: the only realm where one's actions determine their future. The status (social ranking, physical wellbeing, and so on) of a human being in this realm is determined by their past actions, but due to the fact that a person has their own conscience to differentiate good morals from bad, the actions they commit in this realm have the power to determine which realm they are sent to next.

Okay, so now that I've got that out of the way, let's shift our focus to the Book. Very little is known about the Book, but the basic fundamentals of how it works is that whatever is written in the book will come into existence only if its contents follow the rules of karma. In addition to that, only a few sentences can be written into a single page of the Book, and it must follow the current narrative of the story.

If I'm not wrong, the first time the Book was mentioned was by Fitzgerald, who wanted it to resurrect his deceased daughter in hopes of restoring his wife's mental health. The next time the Book is brought up is when Fyodor's intentions to possess it are divulged; his goal was to decimate the global population of ability-users. And now, the current arc has the Book as its central focus, with a single page in Fukuchi's possession.

[ BEAST!AU spoilers ]

The Book acts as the central point of multiverses, with each character's lives differing from universe to universe.

Dazai committing suicide in this alternate universe stands in sharp contrast with how he decided to start up a new life in the main universe.

Oda staying alive to act as a mentor to Akutagawa in the ADA differs from how Oda uses his death to prompt Dazai to "be on the side that saves people."

And of course, the way Atsushi and Akutagawa have their positions switched in the two universes depicts how different their lives would be if they were given the chance to be mentored by different people— these are just a few examples of how the Book houses an endless amount of possibilities.

[ end of BEAST!AU spoilers ]

Hypothetically speaking, this kind of reminds me of the differing realms I mentioned before, where suffering is promised in some realms, and better things are granted in the rest, depending on one's karma, or the deeds they've done in their past lives. In this scenario, perhaps one's past life can be understood as one's current life in a different universe. That's just a personal opinion though. Take it as you will.

side note: Keep in mind that the person who is more or less impervious to the Book's effect is Dazai, with his nullification ability. I wouldn't want to propose any theories in this aspect (I don't believe I'm fully fact-checked ;_;), but I could use Dazai as a raw example of how your choices affect your future. If Dazai had decided to stay in the Port Mafia after Oda's death, or if he even decided to go through with his suicidal fixations, life would've been different for him in the root universe (obviously, ryley) I mean, you could basically understand that from how he ended up in the BEAST au, but imagine if he really did slip up in his decision-making in any of the universes.

Many analysts have proposed that he went MIA (early in his life) from the main universe for a while to figure out how the BEAST universe worked, whilst having the Book to his advantage. Perhaps his actions were guided? I'm not saying he's all-knowing, but he's sure as hell smart. I'm not sure if Kafka was trying to highlight the concept of karma when it comes to Dazai, but if he is, then I suppose you could say that Dazai is pretty much unaffected by the rules of karma, existing as the centerpiece of all the multiverses. No Longer Human is the namesake of his ability, but the book talks about disqualification from societal norms and generally, the world. I was talking about it with a friend, and they reminded me that Yozo (the main protagonist) was pretty strong in his views against society. Like he didn't speak out of total defeat, he spoke out of defense. If there was anything Dazai actually lost to, it was his guilt— "Living itself is a source of sin."

Then again, that's my personal interpretation since everyone has their unique perspective of his writings. In terms of the actual adaptation, you could translate the word 'disqualification' to 'insusceptibilty' when if it came to the Book's effects on Dazai? This side note is becoming really long lmao anyways I'll link a few theories which afflicted me with brainrot down below.

Another thing before I wrap up, the name 'Decay of Angels' stemmed from Yukio Mishima's book entitled 'The Decay of An Angel.' This is the final novel to the author's tetralogy: 'The Sea of Fertility.' The main protagonist, Honda, meets a person he believes to be a reincarnation of his friend, Kiyoaki, who takes the form of a young teenage boy named Tōru. The last novel of this series enhances Mishima's dominant themes of the series as a whole:

the decay of courtly tradition in Japan

the essence and value of Buddhist philosophy and aesthetics

Mishima’s apocalyptic vision of the modern era

Again, this could be referred to what Fukuchi goes on to say:

Some people view the concept of samsara optimistically, justifying it by saying that perhaps each individual is given a second (third, fourth, fifth, who knows) chance to refine their actions in order to be birthed into a better realm, with their karma being the independent variable.

On the other hand, other people, specifically the Hindus, view the cycle of existence as some sort of plague. To them, the flow of life and being forced to endure the suffering of mere existence in any form was somewhat frowned down upon. Some Hindus viewed samsara as a trap. Besides, having one's soul being limited to a physical body for the rest of eternity was not very appealing, especially since where they ended up at depended on the karmic value their past actions surmounted.

Even so, particular types of Buddhists don't seek nirvana, but instead, like the Hindus, they make an effort to be good people of society, building up their good deeds to increase the likelihood of being reborn into one of the better realms.

As mentioned before, the Deva Realm was the home of angels, the most carefree, gratified beings to exist. Fukuchi describes these angels as the people who don't get their hands dirty, the people who act as the puppeteers of society: politicians.

In terms of parallels, angels were the most fortunate and powerful, but they didn't have anyone ruling over them. A lack of supervision would lead to the abuse of power, which is what I believe Fukuchi was referring to. Deeming himself the Decay of Angels, he sought to prove himself as the 'sign of death that falls on the nation's greed.'

A few fun facts (okay, not really) about Yukio Mishima: he committed seppuku (ritual suicide by disembowelment) on the day he held a speech to voice out his unpopular political beliefs to the public. Mishima deeply treasured traditions and opposed the modern mindset the nation was advancing forward to adapt eventually. In his last book, The Decay of an Angel, he spoke about the five signs which complete the death of an angel:

Here are the five greater signs: the once-immaculate robes are soiled, the flowers in the flowery crown fade and fall, sweat pours from the armpits, a fetid stench envelops the body, the angel is no longer happy in its proper place.

The Decay of an Angel, p.53

The reviews about this series I've read so far describe Mishima's works to be quite complex; his writings demanded a lot of time to deconstruct and understand. They were highly symbolic, and he was pretty obsessed with death and the 'spiritual barrenness of the modern world.' I think you could attach a few strings from here to the mindsets of the DOA members. Of course, this parallel is completely abstract, but I'll go on rambling anyway:

He should have armed them with the foreknowledge that would keep them from flinging themselves after their destinies, take away their wings, keep them from soaring, make them march in step with the crowd. The world does not approve of flying. Wings are dangerous weapons. They invite self-destruction before they can be used. If he had brought Isao to terms with the fools, then he could have pretended that he knew nothing of wings.

The Decay of an Angel, p.113

I suppose you could resonate Nikolai with that excerpt. As much as Fukuchi takes the lead in this whole murder association, I'd like to believe that each member of the DOA plays an equally interesting part in whatever movement they're trying to execute. Fyodor feels it is his god-sent purpose to cleanse the world of its sins, his motto being, "Let the hand of God guide you." Sigma doesn't know where he belongs, since his origination comes from a page in the Book, and is fueled by the desperation to find a reason to live. Bram holds one of the most powerful abilities which is counted to be one of the "Top Ten Calamities to Destroy the World."

What I mean to say is that the DOA members are incredibly powerful, and they're not your ordinary antagonists (or I'm just biased). It's not just overthrowing authorities, mass genocide, and world domination— you could say that each individual is trying to utilize their purposes to their fullest expenditures, and the way they're trying to assert their plan into action is a little more passive-aggressive (framing the Agency, having a convo with a suicidal dude in jail, etc). They're the gray area between evil and good. As they framed the good guys for their own crimes, they're trying to conquer the bad guys for exploiting the innocent as they please.

This post would definitely age well if all hell breaks loose in the current arc (as if it didn't) and Kafka doesn't give us a happy ending.

That's all I have to say for now I guess! Thank you for reading, and once again, if anyone else something they wanna share, feel free to do so <3

sources (tryna follow Q's example ^_^) :

the six realms

samsara

the decay of angels

beast!au

the book

the sea of fertility

yukio mishima

theory: dazai’s emotional/mental state in beast!au

q’s theory: dazai being the protector of the book

theory: beast!dazai and the book

[adamwatchesmovies]

Final Destination 5 (2011)

Final Destination 3 was bad. The Final Destination a.k.a. Final Destination 4 was worse. Surprisingly, the series manages to recover with this fifth chapter. Final Destination 5 contains suspense, gruesome deaths that will make you wince, some unexpected turns, and characters you can feel ok about getting attached to.

Sam Lawton (Nicholas D’Agosto) is on his way to a company retreat when he has a vision. He manages to prevent the death of several people but a series of accidents hint that they were meant to die. As a mysterious coroner (played by Tony Todd) warns them “Death doesn’t like to be cheated”.

At this point in the franchise, you know who's headed for the grave right away. You're checking in to figure out how. Final Destination 5 excels at finding interesting demises for its characters. There is one scene in particular at a gymnastics practice that will have you on the edge of your seat. Little pieces are set up around the room and you don’t know how they fit in the big picture. Something as simple as a screw falling on the group and landing point up or the potential for some laser-eye surgery gone wrong makes for many scenes too nerve-frying to watch but too enticing to miss.

Starting with the third film, there’s been a trend to include men and women that are merely there to add to the body count. They’re so unlikeable you can't wait for them accidentally fall inside a lion’s cage. Here, we have a couple of men who are fairly one-dimensional jerks… but they’re done right. I kind of liked P. J. Byrne as Isaac. He’s such a loser, he’s so unlikeable that he's hilarious. I don’t know if it’s the delivery or the fact that both life and death seem to be against the guy but I looked forward to his scenes. The rest of the people catch on fairly quickly to what’s happening (maybe a bit too quick but I won’t complain about that) and from there, you’re excited to see them run around, trying to figure out how they can escape whatever new plan Death has for them.

Final Destination 5 isn't in the same league as the first two. Despite some new twists, the formula is getting a bit old. The ending makes up for this partially, but more could've been done with its theory that if you kill someone, you "trade spots" with them and "steal" their remaining years. It also - and this is going to sound weird - overdoes the gore. I keep going back to one of the most memorable deaths in Final Destination: the one in the shower. No bones were sticking out, no geysers of blood, no ropes of intestines on the floor. It was so much creepier because the people in the universe didn’t think twice about it. Here, when people bite the dust it’s so crazy they instantly know something’s up. When people's skulls are this easily crushed, how could there not be?

With the franchise now at an end, it’s easy to see who the winners are. Final Destination and Final Destination 2 are the best entries, with Final Destination 5 coming comfortably in third. The opening disaster sequence is spectacular. The deaths are memorable. The beheadings, dismemberments, fatal defenestrations, impalings, incinerations, etc. are inventive. There are some nice grounded moments of horror and some dark humor as well. (On Blu-ray, September 18, 2016)

[needleanddead]

If you really wanna know, alright! Velvet is around, let's say, 1,000-ish 2,000-ish years old. When you first meet her, shes soft and kind, and adores nature, hence being a satyr. Once you get close enough to her, before you know it your already kidnapped. I'll write more later. -Velvet

Continuing on, she also is a masochist. Will be a sadist in some cases. Also, please, please never have chopped down a tree or harmed one. Since shes connected to nature in some ways, she will know somehow. And won't be happy. Shes also a bit ecstatic in alot of things involving being cut open, beat, etc. Also wants a big strong man to husk her away and hold her captive. Hence the masochist part. She ALWAYS writes in cursive. And her first and last name is Velvet Indigo. Colors, lol. -Velvet I wonder how TF Van and Velvet would meet and howd it go! I can imagine they'd meet in the forest, with her reading books under a tree about dismemberment and the history of torture methods. -Velvets creator, Lex.- Also sorry for spamming the ask box, but I just have so many things to say!

Anon, I am always happy to talk about and think about murderous ladies . . . there are never enough evil girls in this community in my personal (gay) opinion! And I am always a fan of murder OCs who are switches or who can also somehow end up as murder MCs too, even if it seems as though many of them would probably be hopelessly outmatched by Velvet!

True Form Van's interest would be majorly piqued! As a whole, he's not a fan of mortals but he very much likes other supernatural creatures and is likely to be 'kinder', but upon finding out that perhaps that's not what she wants . . . he's probably got some of the most intense kinks out of all of my characters and he, too, loves masochists. He also gets incredibly angry when he sees people being uncaring about the world around him! He likes keeping pets, and though most of the time he does indeed take mortals, there's something to be said of the 'status symbol' of having a fellow inhuman as one! Is she immortal? Would she survive a lot of violence if it were enacted on her?

What's her victim type like? I am knitting her a sweater as we speak (in theory because in practise I cannot do that). Also, please do not apologise for spamming my askbox! I am always excited and happy to learn about other people's OCs and to talk about how they might interact with mine. I am pretty shy but I am very friendly and easily excitable! You are welcome to continue talking in my askbox but you're also welcome to DM or something if that's what you would like!

[mittensmorgul]

Hi Mittens, I’m the anon who asked about Christo. I’m sorry to cause any confusion. One example is how they treated Abbadon. Dean specifically outlines how they are going to make sure she’s dead by dismemberment and burying the pieces in concrete. They even repeat that scene in the episode previouslies where Abbadon comes back. So why didn’t they dispose of her like they proclaimed? Then they both leave the room to take the phone call and she escapes. 1 of 2.

2/2 It reminded me of them leaving the Styne brother alone in the dungeon and he escaped. Shouldn’t they know to lock the bad guys down more securely? Your anon who mentioned President Rooney reminded me of that strange situation with the golden egg. Why were they hanging around in the hotel room just to get caught by the feds? Shouldn’t they have freed him and ran? I feel they should be shown to be smarter. So is the writing face value for their characters or is the writing inconsistent?

Hi there! and thank you for writing back! It’s not a problem at all! I love answering questions if I can, and you’re lucky I have some answers to this one that you will hopefully find satisfying. :)

(note that I would put this under a cut, but tumblr has been breaking them lately, so I’m not gonna risk that... apologies for the very long post)

Let’s start with Abaddon, since that one is incredibly easy. They 100% did do exactly what they said they were gonna do to her. They very much did hack her up and bury her under concrete in/after 8.12. They thought they could use her as the demon for the cure in 8.22, though. They’d been trying to capture a demon, but Crowley had ordered all his demons to stay away from them.  Here, from the transcript of 8.22

DEAN: Could we take this hoodoo on a test drive?

SAM: Um, I mean, I have the exorcism right here. All we need is the blood, consecrated ground, and a demon. So, what? We summon a demon, trap it –

DEAN: Or – or we use one that we've already tagged. Do we still have dad's old army field surgeon's kit?

SAM: It's in the trunk. Why?

DEAN: Yeah, I think it's time we put humpty dumpty back together again.

*

They dug her up and stitched her back together (sans hands), and were intending to use her to perform the Third Trial. Hence the stitches holding her head on:

Agreed they were kinda dense leaving her alone, even without her hands attached, when their phone rang... Crowley was calling to blackmail them and it gave Abaddon time to escape. Which is why they ended up capturing and using Crowley for the Third Trial. 

Then in 8.23, when she shows up to tell Crowley that she’ll be taking over Hell now, Sam douses her with holy oil and lights her up. We don’t know definitively what happened to her or her remains after that point because A LOT happened at the end of 8.23, and “making sure abaddon was really dead-dead” was not at the top of Dean’s priority list, you know? Which is the state from which she was resurrected in 9.02...

But in between, she absolutely did spend half a season chopped up under concrete. This is not “bad writing” or incoherent continuity.

They didn’t really have a way to definitively “kill” her, you know? the best they could do was to trap her and bury her, but their own desperation to get the doors of hell slammed shut (which, if you know me you know I think is the biggest act of hubris the Winchesters have ever attempted to carry out) they didn’t really stop to think “hey maybe this is the worst idea.”

I also don’t think they knew that Abaddon had the power to command her hands to do her bidding when they were literally in a box on a table across the room from her... I mean, I would’ve been OVERLY cautious about that sort of thing just because, but I’ll forgive them because they were distracted, stressed, and overwhelmed. Sam was experiencing massive Trial Sickness, Dean was worried about him AND Cas, and then if that wasn’t enough, Crowley called to tell them he was methodically gonna kill everyone they ever saved until they gave in to his demands.

They were kinda distracted... ?

Okay, moving on to the next one: Eldon Styne and the Half-Assed Handcuff. Let’s start by remembering a few details about this Dumbass Scene.

1. It was Bucklemming... something in me always wonders if the crew deliberately fucks around with stuff in their episodes, like the ridiculously ill-fitting handcuff. because

2. this was 10.21, aka the most infamous and egregious example of that one square on the bucklemming bingo card: characters being dumb for plot. Or something like that. I don’t remember the exact wording, but basically having characters at entirely stupid because they need them to do A Plot Thing and can’t think of a better way to accomplish that.

3. this was 10.21, in which the cast, crew, and a good number of the other writers were essentially working under protest, because pretty much EVERYONE other than Carver, Singer, and Bucklemming objected to Charlie’s death.

4. Knowing point 3, please refer back to point 1.

But also, The Styne Family was possibly the STUPIDEST thing the show has ever done, as a whole. The derailing of s10′s overarching plot because whoopsie they were renewed, and Carver wouldn’t be ending the series at the end of s10 like he’d been planning, and oh no they’d come WAY too close to the end of some of their major character arcs and that couldn’t be allowed if the show was continuing, but... double whoopsie Carver was already in development on a new series that he’d obligated himself to, so mad scramble to pull SOMETHING out of his squid-shaped hat and for whatever reason they settled on freaking cartoonish supervillains the Frankenstein Family who had to be both terrifying up front (to pose a serious enough risk to take seriously at all) and then fold like cheap suits when confronted by one (1) MoC-Fueled Dean.

They were scary in 10.18, thanks to Robbie Thompson. It was that final reveal in that episode that let me know we were headed, though. The Styne Family Crest? Yeah, stolen from Young Frankenstein:

(image from the superwiki)

If you’ve never seen Young Frankenstein, please do. It’s freaking HILARIOUS. But it let me know that these were not the terrifying Big Bads we were expecting, they were a parody. They were set up to be Terrible People the rest of the writers could mock. They we were saddled with the atrocity that was 10.21. And Dabb finished them off in Badass Dean Style in 10.22. And that was it, never to be heard from again.

Disclaimer: I have written a whole heck of a lot about this (and about how this was possibly my least favorite thing the show has ever done). the back half of s10 is a hot mess, the Stynes were the worst villains ever (boring, stupid, easily defeated, etc.), and 10.21 in particular hits all the lows even for bucklemming... so I honestly won’t even attempt to defend this one. This was Bad Writing.

And finally, President Rooney... in 12.08, why did Sam and Dean stick around after Cas and Kelly fled? I’ll start this out by reminding everyone that this... surprise... was bucklemming again. Remember that bingo card I mentioned?

(lol I went and found it, credit for this one goes to @messier51 back in the olden days... https://messier51.tumblr.com/post/68535147632/buckleming-bingo  is the original post, from 2013)

and there it is, lower left corner, “Sam/Dean makes a decision that makes no sense.” This is a pattern for them, where they knew the end of the episode must have Sam and Dean being carted off to Black Ops Prison, and this was the best they could think of to get them there.

I’ve said before that I am willing to handwave a lot about this episode because of everything it will give to us down the line (12.09, Jack, it’s basically building the stage on which the rest of s12 is set). And I’ve previously offered the theory that they were Concerned For The President and making sure that he would live/suffer no repercussions of his possession by Lucifer. But I mean, the secret service dudes were literally on the other side of the door and would’ve been able to tend to him just as well, if not better. I think Sam and Dean may have-- in Bucklemming’s minds-- believed that they would be fine. They were only really worried about Kelly being caught there. They thought they would be viewed as “heroes who helped save the president” and not “dangerous threats attempting to kill the president.”

Agreed, it was a stupid thing to thing, especially since Rooney apparently didn’t remember his possession, and is never heard from again in-show. He couldn’t corroborate Sam and Dean’s story. I mean, they could’ve said they were staying in the room next door (it was an adjoining room, because Cas and Kelly sneaked out that door after the secret service guys stormed into the president’s room), and they could’ve just said they heard a ruckus, someone calling for help, and simply found him like that. But they didn’t know that one secret service agent had already been warned about them specifically by “President Lucifer.” That’s absolutely something they should’ve considered would happen, but uh... they didn’t, because bucklemming.

But yeah, that’s... a thing with these writers in particular... we try to acrobat our way around these sorts of things as best we can, and move on :’D

If you have any other questions, please let me know! Otherwise, please check out my tags for these specific episodes. I think I got them all on this post... 

[padawanlost]

I watched Attack of the Clones today and noticed something interesting about how Obi-Wan and Anakin "handled" their creatures in the arena. Anakin tried to calm it and used its force to defend himself against the guards while Obi-Wan cut its limbs and killed it. Kinda remind me of Obi-Wan's line about "a pathetic life form" in Phantom Menace and the way he can be a little "snob" sometimes (snob may be not the best word but I can't think of anything else rn)

I remember reading a very interesting meta on how each beast behaved and how each character handled them was a reflection of the character’s personality and their overall arc. I’ll try to find it and I’ll reblog it as soon as I do it.

As for Obi-wan being a “snob”, yep, especially when he was younger. I mean it takes some arrogance for someone to call a 9 years old slave a “pathetic life-form”. But the more I think about it the less I believe Obi-wan’s love fordismemberment was a result of arrogance. More than arrogance, I’d say it’s the result of privilege. In the real world, law enforcement (and all branches of the governments) are expected a certain level of accountability. Even when you act in (alleged) self-defense, certain mechanisms are activated to ensure some level of transparency and, more importantly, legitimacy. The GFFA didn’t have that. The Jedi Order only answered to the Senate on the bigger stuff and only when the Senate demanded (which it rarely did) so, for the most part, there wasno real accountability. Now, imagine being raised on the belief that as long as you are doing it for the right reasons, you are doing the right thing. You can justify pretty much anything: mind control, murder, dismemberment, etc. Obi-wan is a product of that environment. So, it’s not like there’s something ‘wrong’with him, but there’s definitely something wrong with how de was raised and what he was taught.

We can see this so clearly during Ahsoka’s trial when it became obvious how unprepared the Jedi Order was to deal with accountability and the actions of their own members. They have no ‘Jedi internal affairs’, no system in place to ensure their members are following not only the code but also the Republic’s laws. And, because of that, they can get away with pretty much anything. Of course, that willful blindness is also the direct result of their religious extremism. They are so utterly sure their actions are righteous that they refuse to even acknowledge their members might do something unlawful, let act to alone prevent it. We see this when Padmé accuses Dooku of being behind her assassination attempt, with the Council immediately dismisses her theory on the simple fact he used to be a Jedi, and that’s not something a Jedi would ever do.

In the end, it’s not that Obi-wan mindtricks people and cut off their limbs because he believes he’s better than them. It’s because he feels justified in doing so because that’s how he was raised.

[hotdadslade]

Pennyworth Impressions

So I have seen more or less nothing about Pennyworth, and it’s little wonder why. It was released episodically on a channel/streaming platform no one I’d spoken to had ever heard of, with zero fanfare, and what marketing there was seemed to exclusively focus around ‘it’s about Batman’s Butler’.

So, first things first: Pennyworth is an alt history story with a young Alfred Pennyworth as the main character. That ‘alt history’ bit is important, but is in absolutely NONE of the promotional material I saw. Specifically, the story takes place in probably-the-60s, only it’s a vaguely dystopian world: people are executed publicly, there’s bodies in gibbets hanging around London, etcetc. I’ve seen a lot of people saying they’re not interested because... well, what’s so interesting about this kind of prequel? You already know what’s going to happen.

The actual plot is only barely about how Alfred meets the Waynes. The real plot is about political squabbling between two groups, the Raven Society and the No Name League, who are both secret societies which later become political parties, and they’re pushing England towards a full on civil war. Alfred gets involved on both sides, things get fucky, you know the deal.

That said, I’ve got four big points about the show for anyone interested so far.

One: This show is VERY gory. Not as bad as Swamp thing (which was some top-class body horror), but we’ve got torture, mutilation, heads blown off, etc... All shown with some pretty extreme detail. It is downright gratuitous at times and as someone who’s not a huge fan of gore I had to look away quite a bit. There’s also at least one rape, lots of animal dismemberment, cannibalism... You name it. If you have any sort of content you’re worried about, it’s probably in there.

Two: This show does nothing with the DC license, and seems to actively be made worse by it. The only named characters from the comics are Alfred, Martha, and Thomas. You’ll spend more time wondering how things connect to the characters they’re named after then making any actual connections, such as the reveal that Thomas Wayne has a sister and that he works for the CIA. Nothing really connects back and this would honestly have been a better story if it was just billed as a standard alt history political drama, because then I wouldn’t have spent all my time wondering wtf is going on.

Three: This show is, in theory, a political drama. That’s what it’s trying to be. However it has almost nothing to say about politics and the way it portrays politics is a bit... tone deaf. The fact that one side is described repeatedly (even by their own people) as fascists who are willing to engage in everything up to and including assassination and suicide bombing while the other side are socialists who... might be willing to kill a mass murderer - but are depicted as being on the same level is kind of surreal. All the sides are terrible yet the impression I got while watching is that we’re supposed to be cheering for the old guard (the Queen and Prime Minister) who are also terrible.

For a show almost entirely about two secret societies with opposing political views, the show doesn’t say anything about them, and keeping them all straight is... difficult. Alfred himself is almost staunchly apolitical, refusing to take sides, but considering one side is running around with women’s heads in jars while the other side is guilty of... trying to stop the other side... it kind of falls into the ‘not making a choice is a choice in itself’ category.

Four: The show has no idea what it’s doing.

There’s no nice way to say this, so I’ll be direct. There is a plot. There’s a story here. But that story is wandering and meandering in the most bizarre way. The first episode is astounding. Great character moments, fantastic world building, and it works almost as a standalone movie in its own right.

But every episode after that the plot gets more and more muddled. The characters wander around doing their own thing and only really come together at the end. A character who we should absolutely hate because he’s a complete fucking monster gets a multi-episode recovery arc to make him sympathetic, only for him to toss it away at the last minute.

The best example I can think of this comes midway through the series, and I’m going to go right on ahead and spoil it so I’ll drop it under the cut.

Midway through the season, Thomas needs to go out and do something to keep the show’s main plot going on. However, his drug addict sister, Patricia, has shown up at his hotel room, and he needs to make sure someone keeps an eye on her while he’s gone. He gets Martha to do this. Martha, for some reason I do not understand in the slightest, both says yes and then immediately agrees to go to a party with Patricia.

They then attend a bizarre party at the satanist Aleister Crowley’s house. It is vaguely implied that Martha might have been drugged, but left unclear. The party devolves into an orgy, and Martha repeatedly attempts to leave only to find herself back in the main room. The last time she does this she returns to find the room silent, with everyone staring at her, and she carefully walks across the room to be faced with the devil, featuring a goat head and six creepy eyes.

The scene cuts and we go back to Alfred’s stuff which seems absolutely inconsequential in the face of this bizarre reveal in what should be the B plot.We don’t pick this plot thread up again until the end of the episode, when Martha wakes up completely naked in a field.

The next episode establishes that Patricia has not come back, and that Martha has been missing for three whole days. Martha and Thomas investigate, find Patricia happy and healthy with Crowley, and Crowley is VERY intent on making it clear that no, he’s legitimate, he actually works for the devil. Thomas calls his bluff, insisting on negotiating, and is shown a piece of satanic ritual pornography featuring his sister, which mind controls him into attempting to murder Crowley’s assistant. He’s traumatized and more or less flees the building. At this point, Martha strongly implies that something terrible happened, and it is strongly implied she was raped by the devil and may or may not be pregnant or changed by this in some way.

This plot arc is then completely forgotten and effectively never brought up again.

It is so completely out there that my head was actually spinning by the end of the episode, because Pennyworth just established that the devil is real and may have raped Martha and then does absolutely nothing with it. It almost completely forgets about it, and I can’t even remember Patricia coming up again after that point. It was so bizarrely out of place that going back to it’s usual thriller political drama stuff felt completely wrong. If this was supposed to be a season two tie-in, they did a terrible job of it, because all I could think watching the last few episodes were ‘why do I care about this when the devil’s running around London’.

Overall, Pennyworth was a show with no clear direction and no idea of what it wanted to be. It didn’t use it’s license, it overly relied on shock value, and while there was some fantastic acting, it didn’t save the fact that the plot was all over the damned place. While it had some fun moments, I’d say most of those moments were at the very start and the very end. If you’re interested, I’d say the first three episodes (available for free on amazon) are pretty enjoyable as a standalone set, but I wouldn’t bother with the rest. If it gets a S2 (which so far seems unlikely), I’m not even sure I’ll go back to it.

[8bitsupervillain]

Higurahi When They Cry Ch. 1 Onikakushi part 5

In which things really start popping off.

I wonder if there's going to be any real narrative pay off for why Mion calls herself "this old man." Or if it's just a choice they made translating it.

I get the feeling if this were made today there would've been a single jumpscare screen where Mion's eye is seen in an extreme close up through the door.

My how scandalous, that's what they did to Tomitake?

Can I just say that I extremely dislike when anyone decides they need to censor kill, die, dead, etc.? I try to not complain about it happening on twitter, or youtube, or what have you. People have this notion that you can't say these things for fear of the fickle spirit of the internet machine silencing your posts or videos or whatever, and making them basically unviewable or unsearchable. But to engage in this level of silly self-censorship in your Mature rated game that is in theory being marketed towards adults is just such a bizarre thing to do. Especially since earlier in the game you have characters talking in earnest about bloody dismemberments, and other types of death including clawing out ones own throat. Doubly especially since in this very chapter detective Ooishi and Keiichi talk about Tomitake's death and use the words kill, and dead.

In the other post I mentioned that I couldn't remember if Mion had a gun in the anime version of Higurashi. I'm fairly confident she did, so in that case did they just erase her gun when they did the new art when they brought the game to GOG and Steam? Is this in fact the dread spectre of censorship? I'm not trying to beat my chest and harrumph and decry those darned monsters at mangagamer for censoring my beloved visual novels or anything of the sort. It just strikes me as utterly pointless to suddenly now, ten hours into the VN decide that the word killed is the worst thing the reader could read.

I admire the sheer dogged tenacity VN protags have to willfully and completely act like terrifying situations didn't just happen to them.

The will to try to self-deceive only goes so far. Eventually you must face reality. They're trying to kill you man! At the very least send you a message about shutting your damn trap!

I think things are going to be okay for young Keiichi Maebara!

[theladyjojogrant]

The Missy Chronicles and why it’s one of the best Doctor Who books ever made.

Is it as hilarious as it sounds? Even more so. 

I just read The Missy Chronicles and I still can’t believe how perfect it is. Each story brings something unique to Missy’s character and adds some interesting things to Doctor Who canon that you really, no I mean really, don’t want to miss. 

(Below is a short synopsis of each story and some memorable quotes/things that happened. If you don’t want spoilers, come back and read this once you’ve read the book!) 

1. Dismemberment by James Goss

Basically, the Master always goes to this sketchy gentlemen’s club after he regenerates to just chill and be around other morally questionable people. But this time there’s a problem. The Master (as Missy, though she hasn’t decided on her name at this point) goes to the club like usual after her regeneration, but gets kicked out because she’s a woman. The rest of the story is her carrying out very extravagant plots for revenge on each of the members of the club, including, but not limited to: making it rain blood; tying a man to train tracks, marrying him, and then letting him get run over; and last but not least, freeing an African American slave and letting her poison the food at the club’s big annual celebration, telling them they can be cured if they eat some paper, and then telling them after they eat the paper that she was lying. 

Favourite quotes:

About Missy: “Her eyes possessed that cold burn you got from holding ice.” 

Missy: “So sorry I’m late. Just been running over a maths teacher with a milk float. You know how it is.” (GUYS I’M NOT CRAZY MY THEORY WAS RIGHT AND IT’S NOW CONFIRMED, MISSY KILLED DANNY!!!!!) 

Generally, this story was funny and very typically Missy. Also the African American slave Missy saved is the one who eventually comes up with the name Missy, and the only person from the club that Missy didn’t kill was a certain man named Dr. Skarosa...

2. Lords and Masters by Cavan Scott 

The time lords recruit Missy to go on a mission for them, so they hijack the Eye of Harmony in her TARDIS and send a time lady to hold a gun to her head. Basically she has to figure out what’s causing some strange time disturbances, and it turns out this doctor genetically engineered a creature that could travel in space and time and kept it in stasis so that he could gain the power from its energy or something like that. Missy was supposed to kill the creature, but instead she manipulated the time lady to kill the doctor, kept the creature, and miniaturized then killed the time lady and sent her back to the General on Gallifrey. 

Favourite quotes:

“Missy had places to go and people to subjugate.” 

“Missy gave her the look she usually reserved for simpletons and UNIT personnel.” 

Not too much went on story-wise, but it was interesting to see how Missy dealt with being pushed around by the time lords. She also gets her first “companion” in this story: Yayani, the time lady who’s supposed to kill her if she doesn’t obey the time lords’ instructions. 

3. Teddy Sparkles Must Die! by Paul Magrs

Yes, it is just about as strange as it sounds. Missy becomes the governess of three children in early/mid-20th century England. The children are suspicious of her and go through her things, only to find a sparkly teddy bear who’s really an alien who can distort time and complicated stuff to grant wishes. The teddy bear lets them go to crazy places like the moon and Missy gets the kids out of trouble. In return for her rescuing them, she wants the kids to wish to grow up to be powerful people in the world, and the kids do it because they don’t really get it. So they grow up and become powerful people, forgetting about Missy. Then Missy comes back when they’re older and demands they give her the world. Teddy Sparkles (the alien bear) thwarts Missy’s plan by rewriting time and sending the kids back to their childhood, though he also accidentally incorporates crazy creatures that Missy told the kids stories about into the world. Teddy Sparkles uses up the rest of his energy/life to set everything right again, even inventing a fictional story about a governess with a carpet bag and an umbrella who takes children on fantastic adventures so that Missy will become famous, which is something she hates because she gets crowded by people gawking at her. Missy leaves, and in the end one of the children grows up to be a grandmother, and Teddy Sparkles shows up as a Christmas present for one of her grandchildren. 

I didn’t write down any really memorable quotes from this one, but the whole Mary Poppins connection was great, and I found it interesting that Missy actually “lost” in this one; it wasn’t from her point of view at all, either. 

4. The Liar, the Glitch, and the War Zone by Peter Anghelides

This one is pretty complicated to explain because it’s very timey-wimey, but basically Missy runs her TARDIS into some Gryphons (after escaping from the Daleks at the end of The Witch’s Familiar) and then crash lands in 21st century Venice. Through a series of things happening (time rifts and stuff are involved), Missy’s dematerialisation circuit ends up in 14th century Venice and she goes back in time with a random girl (Antonia) and also tries to destroy 21st century Venice in order to get her TARDIS working again and escape the Gryphons. After the TARDIS starts working again Missy time rams her TARDIS and everything undoes itself, so 21st century Venice goes back to normal. Missy tries to leave Antonia in 14th century Venice with her dead friend who fell through a time rift, but Antonia mysteriously ends back up in the TARDIS. More on that in a sec because...

GUYS. THE THIRTEENTH DOCTOR IS IN THIS STORY. NO JOKE. Missy discovers her dematerialisaiton circuit went back in time when she sees an ad for it being on display in a museum. She tries to ask where it came from, but all the employees keep telling her to talk to the curator. So finally she sets up an appointment, and that’s where I immediately became suspicious. The curator’s office is very thoroughly described, and while the combination of old and new stuff (including a plague doctor’s mask) could be telling of the Doctor (I mean, Day of the Doctor and the Curator, hello???), it also could just be a typical curator. But what set me off was that the curator is never physically described at all. There are other clues (before an obvious reveal at the end of the story.) Through the whole story people keep calling Missy “signora” and she insists that she wants to be called “signorina” instead. The curator calls Missy “signorina” without any indication from Missy. And as the curator is helping Missy find out where the dematerialisation circuit came from, she says “I do enjoy this kind of research myself. It’s a real trip into the past.” Missy also runs into a plague doctor back in the 14th century when she’s getting her circuit back. Then at the end it’s made really clear. Antonia shows up in Missy’s TARDIS (after Missy tried to abandon her) saying “If it wasn’t for her, no one would have seen me again.” She then gives Missy a note: “...two short paragraphs of neat handwriting chastised Missy for her lack of caution, and told her that she would need to try much harder.” Missy goes back to the curator’s office and finds it empty except for the plague doctor’s mask. All the curator’s secretary can tell her is (and it’s the last line of the story): “The doctor doesn’t work here any more.” (*SCREAMS*) 

Also, Missy decides to call one of the Gryphons “Hermione” and then says that she’s a Slytherin girl herself because she goes for the bad boys. She also says that she sees some Severus Snape in herself. 

5. Girl Power! by Jacqueline Rayner 

I don’t know how Jacqueline Rayner can write perfect Doctor Who stories. Every. Single. Time. 

This story is not told in traditional narrative fashion, but initially through messages that Nardole and the Twelfth Doctor send back and forth to each other. Nardole is guarding Missy in the vault and is worried when she seems to be putting together some sort of plot. The Doctor tells him to go along with it, and soon enough Missy is contacting important and influential women all throughout history to create MADAM, Missy’s Army for the Demotion of All Men. (I’m still dying over that XD). She creates a group on “Spacebook” and chats with these women, including Henry VIII’s wives, Joan of Arc, Lady Jane Grey, Elizabeth I, Agatha Christie, and Jane Austen. Basically Missy just wants them all to kill all the men on the planet. But the Doctor joins the chat pretending to be Circe and gets all the women to leave the chat. He and Missy end up talking because Missy of course knows it’s him, and the Doctor thinks she came up an elaborate plot so that she could escape the Vault. Missy sort of accidentally confesses, however, that she was trying to have the oppressed (women) fight their oppressors (men), like the Doctor would do. 

Favourite quotes: 

Literally the entire story. The synopsis is vague because the meat of the story is Missy writing all these feminist things about how to respond to stupid man questions and how to do things that women can’t do at certain points in time (like vote, own property, etc.) and sending them to the members of MADAM. At the beginning of the story Nardole relates to the Doctor things that Missy has asked for, and the Doctor approves or disapproves them. These things include: hairspray, history books about important women (which was where she got the MADAM idea), marshmallows, a campfire (to roast the marshmallows; however, the Doctor doesn’t approve that one because “If she’s still got that can of hairspray, we could all be in big trouble.”), a tiger, and sherbert lemons. 

Missy: “It has come to my notice that being a woman isn’t just about the addition of some wobbly bits and a sudden inability to grow a goatee.” 

Missy on her Spacebook profile under the section ‘other names:’ “Professor Thascales, Colonel Masters, Reverend Magister, Sir Gilles Estram, Mister Saxon. Look, if I called myself ‘Reggie’ or ‘Dave’ the Doctor never even had the decency to suspect it was me. I used to go to a lot of trouble dressing myself up for him so is it so wrong to want some attention?” 

Missy on her Spacebook profile under the section ‘life events:’ “Born, Died, Died, Died, Died, Died, Died, Died, Died, Died, Died, Died, Died Died, Died, Took over some bloke’s body, Died, Died, Died, Became a human, Stopped being a human, Died, Died, Became a woman, Ruled!”

Missy: “I’m 100% done with human women. Hate the lot of them. Hope they all use lead-based makeup and die.” 

I literally did not stop laughing throughout this entire story. And I really mean that. My abs hurt. 

6. Alit in Underland by Richard Dinnick

Takes place during World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls. Missy and Simm!Master travel around Floor 507 with Alit, the girl who gave Cyber-Bill the mirror in The Doctor Falls. The Masters (with Alit in tow) take out some Cybermen who come after them and find an elevator to leave the floor. 

Not much plot-wise, as you can see, and it’s a fairly short story. But bantering between the Masters is fantastic, and one of the best parts is Missy and Simm talking about how much they love cartoons. Missy tells him that she and the Doctor watched Frozen together and Simm can’t believe it and keeps judging her for it, when finally Missy tells him to “Let it go.” 

The other interesting and really cool aspect to this story is Missy’s character. She comforts Alit, tells her a story when she’s frightened, and even holds her hand. She also deliberately saves people, but keeps that a secret from Simm. I really like how the final two stories incorporate Missy’s slight moral shift. And the last little bit of the story, and of the book itself, is awesome: 

Simm!Master: “Tell me. Travelling with the Doctor. What is that all about?”

“I was imprisoned. It was the only way out.” 

“So you did have a plan before you ran into me. Get rid of him; betray him?” He licked his lips. “Kill him?” 

“Get rid...?” Missy looked at the Master, and her face became a stony façade. “That has a certain ring to it.” 

...

“Note to self: Get rid of...betray...kill.” Missy nodded. “Yes. I suppose that’s the only way.” 

The Missy Chronicles, everyone. If you have the chance to read it, please do.

[gristlegrinder]

tagged by @sainterly hello!! i’m so sorry, i told myself i was going to do this and then immediately forgot until i found it in my likes again, like, a month later. rules : answer the questions in a new post and tag 10 blogs you would like to know better tagging: .................nobody because i’m an awkward mess

under a cut because I’m not good at being concise

(A)ge: 19

(B)irthplace: New York!

(C)urrent Time: …8 in the morning. I haven’t slept. 

(D)rink You Had Last: I, uh, had one of hose starbucks doubleshot energy things around 9PM last night. yes, this is connected to the last answer. it was delicious and worth it.

(E)asiest Person To Talk To: Hm, depends? There’s a lot of people who fit this bill, but if I’m gonna be honest the answer is prooobably myself just because I’m one of those people who talks to myself constantly whenever I’m trying to work things out. 

(F)avorite Song: Well, The Past Is A Grotesque Animal, definitely. Recently, I’ve been in love with Homecoming Serf, Fuel, I Listened, Proof, and Holy Water.

Not necessarily my favorite songs, but I recently made a playlist for my tabletop group and it’s got a lot of current lex bangers on it. And A Woman, A Woman, A Century Of Sleep has been today’s loop-on-repeat track, so that counts for something.

(...I’m bad at answering this question.)

(G)rossest Memory: Surprisingly, I don’t have a lot of these? Coming up with one is hard. I dropped a can of soda on my foot when I was eight and I remember one of my toes having this really nasty purple bruise for a week afterwards, I guess? 

(H)ogwarts House: I was a self-identified Ravenclaw for the longest time, but recently I was re-housed into Gryffindor. And I’ve moved far, far enough past my pretentious “ew gryffindors are all fake fans of HP who just like it because it’s the ‘good guy’ house” phase to absolutely embrace this switch.

(I)n Love?: I’m not gonna @ them here but I love my girlfriend!! Nin’s a babe

(J)ealous Of People?: Yeah, that sort of happens. But I’m trying to get better at reminding myself that it’s ultimately useless to hold myself up to other people. 

(K)illed Someone?: ;) only past iterations of myself!! existence ain’t permanent

(L)ove At First Sight or Walk By Again?: Both are probably bad ways to approach relationships tbh. 

(M)iddle Name: I hate it, so we’re not mentioning it. 

(N)umber Of Siblings : 2-4 depending on how you see it! Two half brothers, two stepsiblings (our parents have since divorced, but we still chill and see each other as kinda-siblings, it’s complicated).

(O)ne Wish: Certain individuals currently associated with America can drop dead finally, and also maybe I finally work up the damn courage to start bugging people about uh, religious conversion things and uh, therapy.

(P)erson You Last Called: Probably my dad. 

(Q)uestions You’re Asked The Most: I get a lot of surprised you’re nineteen?!s from classmates / parents’ friends / online people, but I don’t know if that counts. Then, like, generic questions about how school’s going, I think. 

(R)easons To Smile: I move back up to uni at the end of the month, and I’ll be living alone! My classes next semester are all really fun! Audio/Video Production, Film History 1895-1950, Film Theory. I’m finally making progress towards getting my driver’s license! 

(S)ong You Last Sang: When I’m home alone, I’m basically jamming out nonstop, so:

— Q.U.E.E.N. has been stuck in my head for days.

— Guardians has been my muse for a character I’ve been designing? so it gets mumbled-under-my-breath-sung a lot.

— The Dismemberment Song is probably just my favorite thing to belt at the top of my lungs. in general.

(T)ime You Woke Up: …………uh, see previous answers, because I still haven’t slept, (as for yesterday, I woke up around noon).

(U)nderwear Color: I never really cared for “what color is your underwear” questions on a get to know me meme (but teal).

(V)acation Destination: I’m going to Seattle in three weeks for a couple days! Really excited because the tabletop game I run is set there, so it’ll be cool to see some of the places I have as plot points. And a friend’s got me excited for the thought of doing a road trip across America after we graduate. Biggest dream travel spots are Liverpool (points at my gf), St Petersburg, Tokyo, and Antarctica, though. 

(W)orst Habit: Saying I’m going to do things and then the ADHD brain crashes for like, a week, and all of the things I need to do pile up and then I don’t get to any of them. Also forgetting to reply to skype/discord/etc messages.

(X)-rays?: I’ve never broken a bone in my body, or really ever been hospitalized as far as I can remember. 

(Y)our Favorite Food: Cochinita pibil (which is a Yucatán slow-roasted pulled pork marinated in Seville oranges, it’s good shit), biscuits (sausage gravy optional), lately I’ve been craving cocktail shrimp. 

(Z)odiac Sign: Libra!

[jmkitsune]

this is my like FIFTH time seeing a variation of this post and the star wars nerd in me has to say something the above is ALL perfectly hit but let’s look at it from a star wars “lore lens” cause some whiny pissboys need it

...its a long rant sooo under a cut it goes :D

1- IN THE DAYS OF THE REPUBLIC- youngling Jedi’s trained with physical weapons first be it wooden swords or something a non saber blade type weapons- it depended on what you’re looking at, (some sources it was vibro blades (heheheh vibro) and others it was wooden practice swords like on earth where martial artist use bokkens before REAL swods so they can learn the weight/feel of the weapon) was used to acclimate the children to the weapon they would soon construct when Yoda or another Council member took them to Ilum to acquire their saber crystal(s)

THIS BEING SAID- Rey’s YEARS of using her quarterstaff (yes it is a quarterstaff - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Rey%27s_quarterstaff) is established and proven to exist anyway- she had spent YEARS, developed her reputation with it on Jakku, ergo WE KNOW she is good with it when we see her use it protecting BB8

2- Jedi are trained with lightsabers with their masters, using saber on saber contact to determine their skill, agility, etc can’t learn to shoot unless you shoot a target right? - and before you go “yeah after YEARS of practice” here’s a fact some of you FAKE nerd boys (yes nerd boys only) forget/don’t know or care to know- LIGHTSABERS HAVE SETTINGS! (from the canon wiki section - https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Lightsaber)

Other parts that could be added include handgrip ridges and a blade length adjuster.[9][7] Some lightsabers also featured a non-lethal low-power setting used for training.

oh look- NON LETHAL LOW POWER SETTING - a way to train to acclimate oneself with a lightsaber (they weigh differently than non lightbased weapons due to the energy output of the crystal inside the hilt) without worrying about Skywalkering yourself (...let’s be real skywalker men have a limb losing problem we’re calling it skywalkering yourself) because lets not forget- MOST padawans were preteens-young adults...ie - PROBABLY the least graceful, and more prone to accidents than the adult/wiser/more experienced masters who MORE THAN LIKELY had accidents too, even with the force some days you just roll a nat 1 on any skill it happens

Anakin had made his saber -the one Rey has- POST battle of geonosis and during the clone wars, which means he had (as of canon) a padawan (ahsoka) to train during the war. IT IS WORTH ANY theory, presumption or even GUESSTIMATE on any common sense level- his saber had a power setting so when the two trained- he didn’t accidentally well ya know- have the high ground sort to speak lol. also we know during the clone wars- Anakin OFTEN would let Padme have his saber momentarily and she was able to use it without injury, not in full saber combat obviously, that’d be TOO AMAZING (a queen at 14, political bad ass before 20, rock ALL those amazing fashion iconic looks AND able to use a saber, come on, she had to have SOME hard limits) but practically non the less, she did use it in situations that didn’t result in injury- just like Han did in Empire Strikes back to save Luke by shovin him all up in that Tauntaun, and like Finn did in Force Awakens to - oh right GO TOE TO TOE WITH THE GRANDSON OF FUCKING DARTH VADER WHO YES WAS INJURED BUT FINN STILL GOT A FEW HITS IN ON HIM (oh look- non jedi using sabers without dismemberment- tellin ya, its a skywalker boy thing, ben might lose a limb in Ep9 just sayin)

3- REY trained with Luke for pfft we’ll say a week AT MOST, and in that time sure she doesn’t learn a LOT cause Luke was rightly havin a sit an cry with himself as we often do when we grow up and realize BOY the world sucks...and HOLY SHIT DONT MEET YOUR HEROES lol but we do see her practicing with Anakin’s saber...and derping around, we also see her use it AMAZINGLY well along side Ben against Snoke’s guards, she took out a few of them- on her own mind you, using VERY unorthodox saber fighting styles, styles which she probably had mastered for a staff but adapted best she could for a sword.

SO let’s combine these things with the fact we KNOW there is a time skip between Last Jedi and Rise of Skywalker they announced there would be, don’t @ me thinkin I makin shit up  this is star wars I don’t make shit up, except that it should be still canon that lando invented chocolate milk/hot chocolate, THAT SHIT WAS HILARIOUS (if you dont know what I mean- go and read the expanded universe you filthy casual...Im sorry, filthy winging casual- to all you non pissbaby wanna be fans - read Heir to the Empire, its the first mention of hot chocolate in star wars and its between lando and luke, its nothing BIG but its still a gem worth enjoying)

ANYWAY we dunno how long a skip but there is one

so in the time between Rey is gonna obviously focus on training her self more we see that in her jungle training montage in the trailer- go girl achieve your jedi rambo stats :D show us whatcha got, at some point FIXING the Anakin saber (we see her using it in the trailers) and then POTENTIALLY she gets this double bladed flippy saber (WHICH I LOOOooooOOOOVE its sooo gorgeous lol)

if you can accept Luke learned how to fly an X-wing (the equivilent of an f-14/f-16) after only having experience flying T-16 skyhoppers (basic jump planes farmers would use for crop dusting by comparison to an x-wing)  but not that after a LIFETIME of practice with a quarter staff (one that isn’t even that standard in making it looks very like fashioned from something NOT meant to be a staff) and then practiced with a lightsaber to finally come full circle and have a said staff saber combo...turn in your nerd badge and go back to reading instruction manuals for drinky drinky birds I’ll call you when your time out is over

OR if thats too mean

just enjoy the saber flippy sounds, and the pretty colors they make

enjoy the space pew pew and the fact that somehow all the ships in these moves make noise...IN SPACE or can do SHARP BANKING TURNS like fighter jets in atmosphere..BUT IN SPACE

STOP DEMANDING women in this series meet REAL WORLD physics but suspending belief when a slug is a mob boss and a walking iron lung was the scariest thing in the galaxy but a girl who self trained to survive with one type of weapon gets a class upgrade to the ultima version of said weapon over the course of her journey in space wizardry CAUSE YOU JUST BEING STUPID AT THAT POINT

and let Rey have a BAD ASS saber she EARNED LONG before BB-8 found her on Jakku

oh and also- vision or not- we knew WE FUCKING KNEW Rey was getting a double bladed saber from the SECOND she called Anakin’s saber to her in Force Awakens

it was BUILT UP TO AND PROMISED the second we saw her skills with her quarter staff

in writing you dolts- THAT IS CALLED SET UP AND PAY OFF

WE SET UP HER SKILL WITH A STAFF

then PAY OFF with a STAFF LIKE SBAER

see

set up...pay off

now, for GODS KNOWS HOW LONG people clamored “we want more star wars, we want more star wars, give us more stuff that isn’t the prequels!!!” ya know what- THE SEQUEL TRILOGY HAS IGNORED THE PREQUELS SO MUCH til now so take it this from genie 

end rant...sorry guys I just love star wars and hate seeing “the fandom” (minority of sexist boys without lives) RUIN THIS FOR ME AND THOSE WHO GENIUNELY ENJOY THE SPACE PEW PEWS

I just cant guys. I can’t. The girl has been using a staff most of her life but apparently that’s not enough for some people. 😒😒😒