#my tag system is all over the place

[i-mode]

love those guys . chilled chuck and layer

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

I wanna know ur Fontaine msq criticisms 👁️👁️👂I’m all ears

I'm not sure if you wanted me to talk about this secretly or publicly but! Here I go!

The TLDR: Fontaine MSQ aestheticised prison, poverty, child abuse, the justice system/court and didn't properly address any of it.

More:

Focalors/Furina has way too much of a sympathetic angle for a dictator who's lets people drown with her inaction.

Neuvillette feels Bad for sentencing some people to death/prison, but that's it. He's one of the most powerful people in Fontaine. If he felt like there are systemic injustices, I.E sending an abused Child to prison, he should be the first person to DO something about it, not just cry and be sad so the audience can be like aw, that's complex character writing isn't it? No it's not! And guilt doesn't absolve you!!!!!!! (These are stuff we deal with in OTCOJ read my fic now /j)

Meropide has children in it, both Sentenced there (Wriothesley) and BORN THERE (Lanoire), and this is just a quirk of the place. Not only that, Meropide accepts prisoners of all genders and crimes. There are abusers and abuse victims in one place. Do you know how bad that is? How much potential for crimes to happen in a place like that— oh wait, Meropide isn't under Fontaine's jurisdiction. If you are assaulted as an inmate it literally means nothing to the court.

Wriothesley had no qualifications when he took over. Depending on how long he lived on the streets, how old he was when he killed his parents, how old he was when he was first taken in by the orphanage, etc, the man might never have more than 4–5 years of formal education. Sigewinne probably had to teach him how to write reports. And do Meropide's spreadsheets. Edit because I forgot to elaborate on this one: This isn't a point brought up anywhere, which is bad, because when poverty and incarceration robs you of a proper education (and the rights to vote in many places too, too, by the way), it reduces your prospects for jobs, reduces many people's ability to get a home etc etc. Wriothesley was just, narratively, Given his position.

Meropide is an industrialized prison, and they portray this as a good thing. Prisoners are paid in coupons for their labour, and this is also portrayed as a good thing.

The One-Meal-A-Day reform was something Paimon gushed about being so great of a perk, that people might want to go to jail for food (could be interesting and reflective of systemic poverty if MHY had brains, but they don't, so I was just Pissed because essentially all Paimon wanted to say was "Prison isn't so bad, but still don't go to prison guys! Prison labour is really hard!"). By the way, in most real-world prisons they are obligated to feed you three meals a day. Because that's how much food a human needs. MHY went with one meal just so they can say "if you want to eat more, you have to work." And then the welfare meal is a goddamn gacha. So imagine you're a starving child who's too weak to work in the fucking robot assembly line, and you wander up for your first meal in 24 hours, only to luck in with a shit one. I'd kill myself.

They wrote Wriothesley, who's a victim of the system, into a guy who's say shit like "I'm the Duke I can do whatever I want" for a cool moment where he choke-slams an inmate (I know he was a bad guy. But also, in copaganda when cops are violent/disregarding protocols, they are always only portrayed to do that against bad guys, so what does our critical thinking tells us about this one?) They wrote Wriothesley, who was an inmate of a prison so bad, so notorious that it is the literal boogeyman of Fontaine, that has a legal (???) fighting pit, with an administrator who abuses his position to be unreasonable, to willingly stay in the place and become an Administrator who would choke-slam an inmate while saying a cool line about how he has the power to do whatever he wants. They wrote him, the guy who had to be fed on the streets by melusines, to think one-meal-a-day was a good enough reform (while he spends god-knows how much on his boat). This wasn't a victim-turns-into-abuser narrative either, they want all this to be seen as positive character growth.

And then, the final kicker is, they gloss over his entire abuse. You can only read about these shit in his profile, which most people don't because they don't Have Him or doesn't care to unlock it/read it online, and they jammed his entire backstory into a flaccid info-dump at the end of his character story quest. This man isn't Allowed to feel abused and neglected and show any reaction to it within the narrative of Fontaine itself, because if they actually Gave Weight to what happened to him, they'd have to confront THE FUCKING JUSTICE SYSTEM they had NO PLANS on criticising. I don't think they ever explicitly said the fucking Crime-Theatre nonsense was Bad either.

I could go on, but this is already so long. But yeah, I hope this gave you an idea.

[imagoddamnonionmason]

~WIP WEDNESDAY~

Was tagged by the lovely @socially-awkward-skeleton to show a little bit of progress with one of my works-in-progress! Which... there are many cause I spin too many plates- anyway!

I... wonder which I should show. Maybe Call of Booty? Shall we? Yeah, we shall.

"The oil lamp in her hand grew heavy and she took a deep breath, as she watched the flame dance inside its little confined space happily. It flickered this way and that, beckoning her to come closer, to see how it wanted to be free, to hear its pleas.  Nadežda took a sweeping look at the secret room, her face lacking emotion, but her eyes filled with that little dancing flame.  Without effort, she tossed the oil lamp into the room, and as it smashed against the floor, the oil spilled. The flame consumed the liquid at the rate of a starving child, quick to relieve the hunger that it felt. Then, the flames shot to the pages. Within mere moments, the room was awash in a devilish glow of flame and the fire gnashed and clawed at everything it could consume to satiate its hunger." Call Of Booty: Chapter 5 - Where there is smoke

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Only a little snippet! I don't want to ruin the vibe I have for this scene. It's currently going through its second heavy edit and may possibly be out some time this week.

This snippet may also change, so if it's not the same when the finished chapter comes out I'm sorry ;u;

But yes, Nadežda comes across something that will haunt her waking moments and apparently the best way to deal with it is... uh, fire.

Who doesn't like a bit of Golden Age arson every now and again, right? Right?!

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Tagging (but with no pressure to take part): @walder-138 @efingart @alexxmason @edandstede @iamcautiouslyoptimistic @deeptrashwitch @welldonekhushi @adlerboi @adlersoldspice @angstkings @mctvsh @alypink - if there is anyone that would like to take part and show off a little something that you're working on, then by all means! Use this as your inspiration <3 I'd love to see what others are working on, so I can hype you up <3

As always, have a wonderful day/evening and I am sending you all very loving good energy ^u^

[thatscarletflycatcher]

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[sagechan]

HUH??

tell me how a ship name gets oversexualized. what are you talking about it's a word

keep their names out of your morally purist mouth!! 💀

[thatoneluckybee]

Nooo don’t be sad, “boop” added to the Cambridge Dictionary a few days ago okay?

[distort-opia]

This is a poll to trick my ADHD into thinking people are expecting shit now so I must organize my damn blog. Help me choose between these two deeply academic Batjokes pursuits!!

[a-court-of-moonlight-and-ire]

semi-related, I saw someone say (in response to Rhys stans) something along the lines of "how are you gonna call characters trump supporters when you cant even admit that your fave is a dictator" and its like. hes a monarch?? just like all the other high lords?? And like, obviously theres an argument to be made that theres really no difference between a monarchy and a dictatorship but like, you cant call a character that to try and paint him as ~super authoritarian and cruel~ when hes just doing fairly standard absolute monarch-shit, its just that hes exceptionally bad at his job

[junewi02]

Oh man I really need to make a navigation/intro post or something....

Or even a commission sheet?????? Or anything at all?????? My bio is also empty as hell but I hate this kind of stuff GAH

[perenlop]

giving myself a timeline to remake. after i finish horizons up to where eve and i are at (which is pretty soon actually) that's when i'll do it

[misc-magic]

Wow I got so many new followers here today! Hello, friends!

I’m afraid I don’t do much here on my main lol. It’s mostly random reblogs and occasional cat pictures.

Though I’ve been kicking around the idea of posting some original writing here… just for my own entertainment…

Anyway, thank you all for following! 💕

[tdmoonanon]

mike but hes a 21 year old stoner tired of putting on facades

[kellystar321]

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[rabble-dabble]

remembering evil terrible pickup lines

the math has gotten considerably worse but at least the drawing is better KLDSJFAKLSDFHKAJHFK

[paperlovesadness]

Tuned into the Grammy's for a bit & it was honestly the reminder I needed on why I don't tune into these things.

Funny thing is that there's legit info out in the world on how the Oscar's work & how it has nothing to to with the movies & everything to do with the money, branding & merchandise (sent over to the members of the academy who usually do not watch the movies at all & are often v open about it 🙃) & we still somehow as a society treat it as some sort of indicator.

Haven't looked into the inner Grammy's workings too close but it's probably a twin situation.

Even 'fair' awards would be controversial in most categories -with art being so subjective. But man oh man why would we ever trust a bunch of members of an American organization made up of super-privileged & out-of-touch folks to - of all people - tell us what music is actually "the best" 🫠

[princehendir]

I'm queueing a bunch of my old posts to rebuild my tags if you don't want to see that you can blacklist #archive. Tagging may be all over the place for a bit while I rework my system thank you for your patience.