#im stupid proud of this

[cactus-cactus-cactus]

I’m literally typing this post in a google doc because my computer keeps SHUTTING DOWN and i lose everything i type on tumblr boooooo boo hiss

 But anyway I have lots and lots of connections to make yay

So, the Lok-Up chapter in Thunderhead. Pretty interesting! For one thing, it introduces Purity. However, there’s one specific scene that really fascinates me (Page 186-187 if  you want to look) ー Purity pulling that knife on Greyson. It’s so out of nowhere, he’s understandably pretty shocked, she starts tasting his blood, etc etc. But her justification is what really gets me: “‘I just wanted to make sure you weren’t a bot,’ she said. ‘The Thunderhead uses them to spy on us, did you know that? It’s how the Thunderhead can see in places it don’t got got cameras. The bots look more real all the time. But their blood still tastes like motor oil” (187).

So! That’s. Uh. 

We see she’s right later in the book, in Chapter 38, A Trilogy of Critical Encounters. Specifically, the second encounter, which describes Faraday, Curie, Anastasia, and Munira as they attempt to share intelligence in a coffee shop. The entire chapter is also narrated by the Thunderhead, oo aah. It makes THIS bone-chilling statement after stating that Faraday disabled the cameras: “It is no matter; I am far from blinded here, because I have a camera-bot sipping tea several tables over … It is a simple machine designed for a specific purpose: to minimize blind spots so that I may better serve humanity, And today, serving humanity means hearing this conversation.” (383). ABSOLUTELY INSANE THING TO SAY. Later on, when Faraday realizes they’re being watched in the Library of Congress (Page 442) he understandably Freaks the Fuck Out. What in the surveillance state… anyways.

Let’s pivot to Greyson for a second. As far as he knows, his primary purpose is to simply protect the scythes. That was his original job, at least. He infiltrates the acid plot for the purpose of protecting Curie and Anastasia. Traxler (Also how did traxler get involved in any of this? Who is traxler??) certainly lets him believe that. But here’s the thing.

Despite what greyson is told, his purpose is not noble.

He’s not a savior. He’s a spy. Unsavories and scythes alike are catching on to the cameras and the bots. The Thunderhead is powerful, but as shown in later books, it lacks the power of humanity. It needs Greyson as a loophole, as someone who can break rules that it is physically unable to. It’s USING him as the final evolution of the bots that “get more real all the time”ー and no matter how much The Thunderhead claims that it’s trying to save humanity, it’s still really, really scary. Purity says it herself at the end of the Lok-Up scene: 

“‘So what does [my blood] taste like?’ Greyson dared to ask.

She leaned close to him. ‘Life,’ she whispered into his ear.”’ 

He’s the perfect spy. He’s undetectable, because he’s the one thing the Thunderhead can never become. He’s human.

[latexjester]

i like to think they had a lot of board games on the tulpar

[rendevok]

Act II ~ The Challenge

A tapestry for chapter 2 of Let No One Sleep by @azalawa-scroggs on ao3

[persona-brainrot-real]

Sae Niijima is such a good character it drives me insane a little. She's not a mother nor a maternal or doting older sister but instead a twenty four year old who was thrown into a position of responsibility that she never asked for. She loves Makoto just as much as she resents her and its so apparent every time they talk up until November. "Are you studying?" (I want you to do well) (I need you to get a job and stop making my life harder) "I'll use any method necessary to get this promotion" (Life will be easier for us) (So stop distracting me with your problems) "Focus on your future" (I know that you're capable) (I can't afford to waste my time on you, so stop wasting time on others)

Makoto is not only the sole reason she pushes as hard as she does for a promotion, for success, and the reason that she loses herself in her animosity over her fathers death, but also someone she can't stand for so long. Makoto was 14-15 when their father died. Sae was 21. As soon as she got the career she wanted and things started to look up, her stability was robbed from her and she was disillusioned with the system that her father had taught her to rely on and completely adhere to. How do you manage, the daughter of a cop, following his footsteps towards law enforcement, when you're suddenly reminded of how unfair it is? You can't quit, your little sister relies on you and she's so young and struggling just as badly with this grief. So you pick yourself up and you get moving again. You push harder, press further. You abandon your morals and your ethics because punishing criminals (guilty or not) is almost like punishing the man who killed your father.

And the whole time she's fighting for promotions, going for drinks with the SIU Director to make herself more favourable for promotions, trying to navigate being a woman in a competitive, suffocating, male-dominated field, falling behind despite doing so much where others are promoted for doing so little - all the while your little sister comes back from school and her biggest issues are so small compared to yours.

Persona 5 revolves so heavily around grief and loss and change and Sae embodies all of that so well, all of the sharp and unpleasant and jagged parts of grief.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

everybody go home. this is my magnum opus

[sunbeamfemme]

If you're a white femme and you want to participate in our communities, you need to start doing self-reflective anti-racism learning and work. The amount of harrassment and gaslighting directed towards studs and butches of color by white femmes on this website is absolutely abhorrent. They're siblings, family, friends, lovers, and most importantly, people deserving of care and respect. If we're not working to make the world safer them, we're failing in our role as femmes. Do better.

[llemon-soda]

ruining his tough guy persona....

[tabooiart]

i havent seen enough commotion for curt mega as tinky. i see him in that role and i think to myself yes that is where he should be that is what he should be doing

[puppyeared]

(guy who has never played cotl) haha au time

[romanceddawn]

Puzzleshipping: "You gave me your heart, you know..." [Insp.]

❕ Please do not repost to any other sites ❕

[twinktor-frankenstein]

HEHHEHEHEHE I got a little silly

(Btw the one next to James is @shinymoonforest 's Silas)

I head canon Thierry has a tattoo of the AO3 logo but he "won't say where ;)"

(Its not actually anywhere inappropriate he just thinks it's funny when people assume it is)

it's on his thigh... it's his cutie mark.......

[we-cool-beans]

After spending a few weeks making this id like to have a sit with whoever designed the Mystery Shack. Main question being “WHY???”

Anyways this is for a graded college assignment, used manila folders, hot glue, acrylic paint, and fake moss, more pics under the cut

Ignore the mess in the wip photos im in the process of moving

[sqlatoon]

i graduated college today!!! i decorated my cap to be salmon run themed!

[556ch0cl8]

Hey guys, I made a random generator to make a nugget for fun

The results change each time you input your name/a word

[harryzroze]

HES HERE HES HERE AAAA

[skitskatdacat63]

Seb comes to Fernando's bedside to cheer him up! (aka resolving my turmoil over there being no vettonso moments yesterday)(long gif!!!)

+ what if Fernando hadn't been out sick!