#fueling agent

[mvrr-6]

demiiiiiiiiiiiiii

[corneredcopia]

I feel like it’s pretty likely they will mention that Stone knits/makes clothes in movie 3 because of everything we’ve seen so far. Rob’s patched up coat, the scarf, Rob’s onesie, the blanket on the doctor’s chair, and Lee mentioning Stone would knit as a hobby. I’d be so nice to get a canon confirmation of this 😭🫶

[opal-owl-flight]

AGENT 8 TIME BABY!!! IM FINALLY SATISFIED WITH HER DESIGNNNNN

Sidenote: Her hair used to be as puffy as the Rival Octolings, but something happened between the end of Sploon1 and Sploon2 that made her hair "shrink" to what we see in game (the physical appearance of Inkfish is influenced by both environmental pressures and social contexts. It may have been because she was taken off the field, thus reducing environmental stressors, or it may be bc she was making efforts to hide her Octarian identity to make blending in with Inkadians easier upon escaping. Or both! I havent written it out yet). Rediscovering/Remembering her heritage thanks to other ex-Octarians moving to the surface, and an overall acceptance/acknowledgement of Octaria by Inkadia as a legitimate nation, shes "puffing" her tentacles again!

[tazuransi]

i pledge myself to you

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[velvetjune]

imagine being director Northmoor of the FBC and one day you revel so much in your power that you literally explode. and instead of doing anything else about it, the FBC goes “when life gives a secret paranatural government agency lemons…” and throws your possibly-alive, moving corpse in a power plant so they don’t have to worry about their power bill. then going onwards, people only refer back to you using ominous light-based puns

[honeydewmelan]

swap au + gardener owen! thanks to mars and szol on the discord for this idea :D

[technovillain]

well if it isn't the old consequences of my actions.

don't mind me i'm just writing frazie and norma into a trope i like. frazie really resents norma for what she did to razputin. she can't stand to see him cry, especially at the hands of some older kid. so she decides to lash out and be really underhanded towards norma by pretending to be her friend and trying to get her into more trouble by being a bad influence on her on purpose. unfortunately, norma quickly develops a crush on her from the attention and actually starts to lose her strict rule-following personality a bit for the sake of impressing frazie. this starts to frustrate frazie because the "plan" is no longer working. frazie starts to realize that she is actually starting to enjoy spending time with norma and realizing that the two have accidentally actually become genuine friends. norma opens up about being glad that frazie gave her another chance and acted genuine towards her, especially considering what happened between her and raz, because she is looking for a really good way to actually make it up to him. and frazie feels incredibly guilty for being a big ole petty meanie when it turns out norma was trying to better herself this whole time and their whole friendship was based on a lie T_T

[hauntingblue]

Rewatching act 2.... yeah ISHA WATCH OUT FOR THE CYCLE ISHA!!!!! NOOOOO

[electroratio]

i love you coa4 i REALLY really love you coa4.

[nocturne-yume]

to the people on tiktok parading around the little speech caitlyn gave her parents in s1 where she supposedly advocates for the people in the lanes suffering due to deliberate neglect by the government: have you considered this is context that makes her actions in s2 seem even more horrific?

you can't pin her decisions now on ignorance. she turned her mother's invention into a weapon of war, even after seeing what it does to innocent people. BECAUSE of what she's seen it do. she's witnessed firsthand how weak and vulnerable the people in the lanes are, and now uses that against them; caitlyn is deliberately exploiting their weaknesses simply because she knows she can get away with it. She's thoroughly dehumanised them in her mind lol there's no going back. and she exhibits this directly in her own words, nevermind her actions! from "her blood in your veins" to calling them "animals" CMON now.

[silversnakedemon]

Can’t dress up as Agent Mega for Halloween, so I’m settling for Bond

[dark-twist-fairytales]

The Legends of Avantris campaigns, but it's like an actor AU of sorts

[fatehbaz]

Vidal [...] emphasizes the close relationship that existed between the Louisiana settlement [at New Orleans] and the Caribbean island [Haiti, the colony of Saint-Domingue] during the former’s French colonial period (1718-69). It has become a bit of a popular adage to describe New Orleans as the northernmost port of the Caribbean, but Vidal’s Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society demonstrates the substance behind these claims. [...] New Orleans is the missing link, a late-forming city that largely inherited its founding ideas, practices, peoples, plants, and laws from its longer-established imperial neighbors [France, Spain, Britain, and what would become the United States]. It thus offers the ideal case study in which to consider how colonies around the Americas developed in conversation with one another [...].

Vidal convincingly argues that New Orleans was a “slave society,” or a settlement in which racialized slavery informed every part of everyday life from its inception, whose physical construction was done alongside the “construction of racial categories” (p. 1).

This is an important shift within Louisiana historiography, which has long stood by [...] [the] argument that early New Orleans offered the semi-unique example of a “slave society” devolving into a “society with slaves.” Abandoned by the French following the spectacular failure of the Compagnie des Indes, the standard story goes, New Orleans became an isolated backwater until the 1770s, struggling to survive and permitting, out of sheer need, less disciplined contact between residents of European, Indigenous, and African birth and descent. [But] Vidal, in contrast, shows that, while Louisiana struggled to create a full-fledged plantation economy during the French era, this did not prevent its capital from organizing itself along the highly stratified lines of the Caribbean islands.

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Furthermore, she argues, because New Orleans did not see many new residents after 1731, free or enslaved, and because it was a smaller settlement, white inhabitants were able to build upon these ideas in a relatively stable environment - focusing much of their energies on surveilling, containing, and disciplining the enslaved and free persons of color (p. 26). [...]

Vidal especially points to the 1729 Natchez attack and ensuing Natchez Wars [against Indigenous peoples] as pivotal moments in the militarization of white New Orleanians [...].

Subsequently, a scrupulous supervision of racial boundaries became the norm for the rest of the French era and fostered “a sense of community among white urbanites” (p. 141). Chapter 3 takes readers to the streets, levees, and other public spaces of New Orleans, where whites sought to sculpt the privileges of “whiteness” against both residents of African birth and descent as well as one another. Elite men and their wives scuffled over the best seating at church in an effort to recreate France’s ancien régime culture; socially lower [...] nonslaveholders, meanwhile, carefully guarded their weaker claims at mastery through street violence [...]. Beginning with a careful reading of census categories, Vidal traces how distinctions between European settlers [...] were increasingly replaced with those centered exclusively on race by 1763. [...] [Vidal then] follows the ways in which the demographically diverse workforce of the early colony made up of white indentured servants, convicts, and soldiers in addition to enslaved Africans - gave way to associations of difficult and degrading labor limitedly with the enslaved. [...]

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French Louisiana inherited racial categories from the Caribbean but adjusted them to fit local needs, experiencing “not so much a loosening, but a more complex transformation” of its racial regime, largely through violence (p. 371).

Vidal documents how the Superior Council utilized targeted prosecutions and punishments to increasingly “imprint terror and instill obedience” on the enslaved (p. 390). [...] [The book] thus details a society in which racial hierarchies were asserted and supported through both top-down and bottom-up policies and practices, as “no social institution or relationship was left untouched by race” (p. 504).

To this end, Vidal speaks to important conversations by historians of enslaved women in the British Caribbean, including Jennifer Morgan and Marissa Fuentes. These authors have used a similarly wide range of sources [...] [and] archives to underscore the invasive nature of colonial racism. [...] [I]n part [...] Vidal’s [chapters work] to decouple lower Louisiana history from the fur traders of New France [Ontario, Quebec, and the watershed of the Mississippi River] and to reattach it to the planters of Saint-Domingue [in Haiti and the Caribbean]. [...] Combing through administrative papers, censuses, laws, parish registers, correspondence, and judicial records from both sides of the Atlantic, readers will get a sense that there is little Cécile Vidal has not seen or considered. [...] Her book [...] hopefully will convince an even wider audience [...] [to engage with] comparative, cis-Atlantic, and transatlantic studies of imperialism, race, and slavery.

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All text above by: Kristin C. Lee. "Review of Vidal, Cécile, Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society". H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews. January 2022. URL at: h-net dot org/reviews/showrev.php?id=56913 [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[unprocione]

ashley: we work really well together! what if someday i become an agent like you? we can protect the us together from any and all threats! :) leon, who was blackmailed into agency and doesn't have the heart to shatter ashley's perception of her father & the government she herself plays a role in, literally holding back vomit: haha let's focus on getting out of here first--

[schyrsivochter]

You know how it goes. Rewatch Star Wars Rebels, get feelings about Agent Kallus.

Guess what episode I watched today? (It’s S2E16 ‘The Honorable Ones’. Obviously.)

Also, major spoilers for S3 ahead.

From the very start of my rewatch I’ve noticed how much more character Kallus has compared to the rest of the Imperials. Like, Aresko and Grint are one-dimensional and fairly pathetic, the Inquisitor is less pathetic but still one-dimensional … you know. Kallus is still fairly villainous in S1, but he’s … I don’t know how to describe it. More expressive, yes, but not only that – he’s allowed to be by the cinematography.

THO, of course amplifies this.

The scene where they’re both in the escape pod. It’s astonishing how quickly the tone changes from ‘still fighting in the cramped space’ to ‘damaged the controls and thrusters, doesn’t matter, I can’t let you win’ to ‘oh we’re crashing’ to ‘OH KARABAST WE’RE CRASHING OH NO’ (already not at each others throats any more).

The scream when Kallus breaks his leg – I have no idea how Oyelowo did it, but it’s somehow the most convincingly pitiful scream in the entire series so far. Even when the Inquisitor had Kanan tortured, his screams didn’t feel as real.

And then, you know. They’re still arguing, but both of them quickly realise that surviving is more important. Kallus trying to make Zeb see from his perspective, admitting he doesn’t know what happened on Geonosis and why the Empire would commit genocide there – he’s obviously uncomfortable with the accusation. And Zeb’s retort about how he should start asking questions, I’d completely forgotten that! Of course that would get under his skin!

Also, I just realised: both of them have personal reasons to detest the other – Kallus because it was a Lasat who slaughtered his first crew, Zeb because he believes Kallus’s bo-rifle to be unjustly stolen – and both of these motivations are addressed and revealed as unjustified. Another way in which the fight between them is coming to an end.

And then it’s fighting monsters side-by-side and climbing and saving each other’s lives (Zeb catching Kallus and throwing him over the rim rather than letting him fall to the creatures; Kallus taking Zeb’s gun and shooting not Zeb but the creature behind him).

Of course, I already know that Kallus is going to defect and take over Ahsoka’s job as Fulcrum in S3, and I know that he appears among Rebel ranks in S4, but since I haven’t seen S4 yet and have little memory of S3, I don’t know any details. So I’m really sort of invested now? I can’t imagine their interactions ever being the same again. Not after this. (Not after they’ve slept huddled against each other like that. God, that’s cute. No wonder people were starting to ship them back when the episode first came out.) Also, Zeb looking back towards where he knows Kallus is hidden and Kallus taking the warm rock with him and keeping it. I don’t know what this is making me feel but it’s something.

Bonus:

Seems like Tumblr knows what’s up …

[agent-flyingfox]

Oh I can show you the Raccoon real quick!

*Buggy runs out for a bit, then runs back in holding the most deranged looking raccoon. The raccoon is huge, looks like it just came out of a dumpster and wouldn’t be surprising if the raccoon had millions of diseases that hasn’t even been discovered yet*

This is Patrick! Found him injured in a dumpster so I took him in! He likes to steal things and can apparently set things on fire now but he’s a lil bud!

*She sets him on the ground and he flops on the floor*

"Wait - Wait Buggy I didn't ask you to BRING- "

*Plop. Patrick is there, on the floor, frothing and contorting.*

"I...Well. Words on their own could have been enough, but now that he's here, I....Hm."

*They crouch down to get a closer look. Patrick snarls and thrashes as Flying Fox gets closer...And after a little fit...He flops back down. Breathing.

Like a scared or cornered cat. Breathing. In and out and in.*

"Ah. Poor thing... You have a bit a habit, don't you Agent Buggy? Taking in lost and scared animals. We ought to call you Agent Noah's Ark, eh?

Jokes aside. I think we should take little Patrick to an animal rescue. If not well, maybe a doctor? We have a few here, right? What kind of injury does he have?"

Kind regards,

Agent Flying Fox