#goody proctor

[obscurelittlebird]

[stinkysocks420]

I saw goody proctor with bob bryar

[something-truly-evil]

hey. do cry. i was on the dancing with the devil island and i saw goody proctor

[man--eater]

wip wednesday 10/16/24--monster!Alastor AU

time for some more monster!Alastor x Daphne shit from my upcoming Halloween oneshot It Will Come Back. Yes there's monsterfucking, yes it's set in the 1640s in Puritan Massachusetts, yes the dialogue is in Early Modern English, and yes, I regret all my life choices because I'm up at 2am writing dialogue in iambic pentameter, how have you been?

here's a rough little piece of the cover art I've been slowly working on. There is still a long ways to go. trying to go for a vintage illustration style despite my inability to draw straight lines also how dare he have such pretty eyes with those long doe eyelashes tagged by @sunsetofdoom and @copaline and @michaelasworlds-blog!! I will tag: @cynical-kitten @gbearyacorn and some people I don't know but would like to see more from 🥺👉👈 @redvexillum @frostbittendoe Time to share a piece of whatever you're working on, writing or art, for Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss! Feel free to use the banner.

[ballpitwitch]

Keanu Reeves Me and Will (1999)

[eowynstwin]

I don’t really know how to say this correctly, so I’m just gonna say it honestly, please don’t come into my inbox telling me how bad of a person the OP is of any given post that I’ve reblogged. I understand the need to be aware of what kind of people are on this site and what risk they pose to other bloggers, really I do, but I do not like the fact in the SLIGHTEST that every single person here is being surveilled for their politics—are subject to fucking algorithms via tumblr savior/xkit/etc monitoring the types of posts they make or reblog. That does not sit well with me in the slightest, no matter what kind of people are being surveilled.

Nor am I particularly comfortable with people surveilling MY blog in case I misstep. I do not vet every single OP of every single post I reblog because I am not fucking crazy. I certainly do not reblog things from people I already know have shown their ass, but I do not want you to come into my inbox tattling on people I don’t know. If you really believe ACAB, stop fucking acting like cops.

[gophergal]

Another reminder that my stance on fiction is "do whatever the fuck you want, just make sure folks can avoid it if they dont wanna see it"

[klanced]

I see where you're coming from, but also blorbo is different to everyone and we all had different experiences. I was in voltron but pidge was my blorbo, not lance, so I rarely saw him. And then I saw Yuuri everywhere whether I wanted to or not. Also, polls are not about accuracy, as much as we might think they should be. Life is a popularity contest. 🩵💙🩵💙🩵

my blorbo rankings contain multitudes. however, i am cognizant enough to recognize two things:

while lance is not my specific blorboest blorbo, i still rank him to be a more iconic blorbo than yuri. and so my vote for lance is still valid.

this poll is about most iconic blorbo. i like keith and allura more than i like lance, but i firmly believe that lance is voltron's most iconic character. i define "iconic" based on the following criteria: a) canon material; b) fandom experience and reaction; and c) impact on outsiders (the "did i see this character everywhere" standard). i heavily value points in the (b) category over points for (a) and (c).

lance's canon material sucks ass. however, the fandom's ability to 1) go crazy over lance anyway, and then 2) ability to extrapolate so heavily, insist on digging so deeply, and create so genuinely is impressive to me. and also incredibly hilarious. this is why i made the toxic iconity argument: i deeply respect the daily battles lance stans fought, both between themselves/the wider voltron fandom, and the constant enduring sisyphus-level uphill battle against the quality of the canon material. lance stans were able to create everything out of veritable nothingness, and i believe that deserves to be commemorated.

[gauntlings]

you go to salem massachusetts one time and then you can't stop thinking about freaky puritan roleplay huh. tough economy to be a weirdo

[w-i-t-c-h-y-g-i-r-l]

jodhi may in the severed sun trailer

[obscurelittlebird]

Abigail: Look, Goody Proctor, I know we don’t get along.

Elizabeth: [scoffs] Yeah, we sure don’t.

Abigail: Shut up. I brought you a gift as a peace offering.

Elizabeth: What is it?

Abigail: Here, it’s a bath bomb. You just throw it into the bath when you need to relax.

Elizabeth: …

Elizabeth: Abigail. This is a toaster.

[littletreetopper]

did...did lucifer do something problematic?

[riphimopen]

JUMPSCARE

i would NEVER, go out with an ugly girl. Why?

[an-aura-about-you]

hi I watched an opera version of The Crucible tonight and now I'm fundamentally different as a person.

[himblebo]

The devil is real and he told me to think about going to grad school

[philosopherking1887]

Another rant about Neo-Rousseauianism on the Left

Why do people in the online Left have to set up this false dichotomy between “people are inherently evil” (i.e., selfish, competitive, aggressive) and “people are inherently good” (i.e., altruistic, cooperative, caring -- since those are the meanings we all tend to assume these days)? Showing examples of people being altruistic, or evidence that ancient humans cared for the vulnerable in their communities, doesn’t prove that that is the pure, sole essence of human nature; it shows that that’s part of human nature.

Human beings everywhere, in all cultures and time periods, have always shown a mix of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ behavior. Both tendencies exist in all groups; (almost) all individuals have both tendencies within them. Why is it so difficult to draw the inference that both are equally natural, and neither is a mere imposition of the artificial conditions of civilization (or capitalism, or Western colonialism, or whatever)? Then you won’t be ~shocked~ when people sometimes are selfish and violent, sometimes for no good reason -- i.e., when it’s not somehow determined by their social situation (or they’ve been “corrupted by society,” in more overtly Rousseauian terms).

Why does this bother me so much? It all comes back to what my professor in a history seminar on the French Revolution said about how Rousseau’s philosophy led to the Terror, which I didn’t fully understand at the time, but which has come to make more and more sense as I spend time in Leftist spaces on the internet. Rousseau claimed that human beings are naturally good, but living in society, particularly in corrupt social structures that makes some people dependent on others, corrupts their natural inclinations to sympathy and leads to envy and the desire to dominate others. If we can just institute perfect social structures, then, everyone would return to their naturally innocent, benevolent state. (Rousseau’s own views are a little more complicated, but this is more or less how the Jacobins read it.)

But what happens when people continue to show selfishness and the desire to dominate within a social structure that has been (in theory) perfected? What’s wrong with them? Ideally, they can be ‘reeducated’; but if they persist in not being appropriately good-natured, they must be dangerous anomalies, and there’s no choice but to extirpate them from society, to purify it. This was what happened during the Terror, when people appeared to the Jacobins to be working against the good of the people (as they understood it): they must still be corrupted remnants of the old society, unsuited to have a place in the new.

Left Anarchism rests on the Rousseauian assumption that if you just leave people to their own devices, they will all be benevolent and prosocial; that what actually makes people bad is the existence of laws and institutions, and if no one has institutional power, then no one will harm or wrong anyone else. But we have zero evidence that this is true, and it honestly just seems like a perverse interpretation of human history. Under lawless as under lawful conditions, people still show a mix of benevolent, self-interested, and malicious impulses and behaviors.

The idea that humans are or should be naturally good, not naturally a mix of good and evil, encourages the idea that people should be punished not just for breaking explicit laws, but for behaving immorally (or even just having those inclinations), because it shows that they are somehow intrinsically wrong or corrupted, a dangerous deviation from wholesome human nature. And the only mechanism available to sanction anti-social or ‘immoral’ behavior in a society without laws and institutions is vigilante or ad hoc mob violence. Who decides what’s deserving of punishment? Who decides what the punishment is? Anyone and everyone. It has the potential to collapse into a kind of totalitarianism, where everyone has to fear their neighbors -- but now they have no clear way of knowing what will incur punishment. (And frankly, we already see this kind of thing in microcosm in the self-cannibalism and purity politics of online spaces dominated by certain strains of Leftist ideology and social justice rhetoric.)

A system of laws is preferable to anarchism for exactly the same reason that it’s preferable to authoritarianism and client-based systems of affiliation and loyalty (feudalism and its smaller-scale variants): it minimizes arbitrariness. Generally speaking, people have a way of knowing what they can do and what they’ll be punished for; they’re not subject to the whims of individual rulers or vigilantes. Most people will follow the laws because they want to be cooperative, or just because everyone else is doing it. But some people need the threat of predictable sanction so that their self-interest will guide them to behave in ways that are beneficial to the community. The rule of law rests on the assumption that people are a mix of altruistic and selfish, cooperative and opportunistic. Ideally, institutions moderate the ability of opportunistic individuals to wield power arbitrarily. They are built to harness a combination of the altruism and self-interest, the generosity and ambition of individuals to work for the good of the whole society.

And if the laws and institutions aren’t working for the benefit of the whole society? You change them; you don’t tear them all down on the assumption that the mere existence of institutions is what causes oppression and injustice, and that an egalitarian utopia will materialize as soon as all the Bad People (the billionaires, or the cishet white men or whatever) are guillotined (or eaten, or shot into the sun). There’s not a single class that can be identified and pruned out as the source of all evil in society. There will still be selfish, opportunistic, competitive, violent tendencies within people after the ones currently in power have been executed; you can’t rely on Fundamentally Good Human Nature to reassert itself in the absence of those Few Bad Apples.

You think there shouldn’t be billionaires? Great, I agree on that. But the solution is not to execute the people who are currently billionaires because they made all their money by exploiting people and they were immorally hoarding all their wealth instead of giving it away to people who are starving. You know what that sounds like to me? The revolutionaries beheading Louis XVI not because he broke any identifiable laws, but because “no one reigns innocently.” You can’t execute people for being immoral. You make laws so that people who are inclined to behave immorally can’t do massive harm to others without incurring predictable penalties. You rewrite the tax code so that it’s impossible for anyone to become a billionaire without breaking the law. You change employment laws so that employers can’t exploit their workers in the ways that were necessary for the owners to become billionaires. If the billionaires broke existing laws to amass their wealth, make sure they’re prosecuted “to the full extent of the law,” as they say. But the sentence for committing financial crimes, tax fraud, employment violations, etc. is unlikely to be the death penalty. Can you prove that bad working conditions caused deaths? Great, maybe you can get ‘em on negligent homicide. But there’s no sane, rational, sustainable system that can license summary executions for people who caused a lot of harm by doing bad things that were legal, or didn’t carry the death penalty, at the time they did them.