#prison studies

[gabbiecasso]

We never had the chance to see a cinematic of the romanced companion reacting to Rook's actual return from the Fade Prison after two (?) weeks like WHY LOL and so I drew it just because I couldn't get it off my head hajksdhah

throws this comic like a grenade and runs away

Also, drawing Neve's expression here hurts so much—why must I draw to hurt myself lol

[2jihiir0]

“Hi, Stevie. Missed you …”

[dreamsandcherrypie]

mama i’m in love with a criminal

[genevawrenn]

Looking back over yesterday, the timeline for The Realm is wild /pos

First, Foolish eats a sandwich.

Ros shows up to inform her King she negotiated to put in a good word for his longest enemy to take him to the ball cause he helped build the ballroom, and now owns 10% of it.

Foolish agrees to go to the ball as long as he can kill his date on the night of the event.

He asks Smajor if he can kill him after he just arrives, stating he feels out of pocket today and Smajor declines. He invites Smajor to Yellow, who declines.

Foolish states that in an ideal world, everyone would be on Yellow except BBH.

Ros shows off her ballroom build so far [has she slept? /lh]

Ros offers for Foolish to help with the chandelier, and he declines, citing the great Mansion crash out of old.

Foolish : "How does on kill BBH?"

Smajor : "With a lot of effort."

Foolish : "I'm just gonna ask him to take off his clothes."

[53 minutes into Foosh's VOD yesterday]

Foolish : "Take off your armour, we are going to fight to the death"

BBH : "Okay :D"

They debate the logistics of said fight and then pivot to speaking about the ball.

Foolish asks BBH about the invite, BBH gives him a diamond and asks him formally, which Foolish surprises us all by agreeing too.

Before adding the condition of murdering said demon at the ball, which BBH joyously agrees to only if he can kill the totem too.

Foolish agrees.

They then state how neither of them is going to treat the other well and the night is going to end in a swordfight, and yes I would mean it as an innuendo with the way these two bastards said it. /rp

Smajor tries to play relationship counsellor but gives up.

They then begin firing crossbows at each other?

BBH tries to argue he now owns 10% of the castle, which Foolish absolutely disagrees with.

BBH offers a tour of the cathedral after Foolish asks how progress is going.

BBH tells Foolish about Chip's pet parrot.

Foolish decides to 'trim' Blueberry's beak and kill the parrot.

BBH immediately threatens to kill Foolish and begins chasing him down.

Foolish dies and reappears at the castle, and then states deal is off.

Foolish then returns to the cathedral to murder every pet that Bad owns.

Bad also calls off the date for the ball and begins to hunt down Foolish for his crimes and for sport.

Foolish thinks the date is back on.

Foolish states he doesn't care how many lives he loses as long as Bad dies once, somewhere during this I believe is when Bad kidnapped the camel that Landduo has joint custody of.

Ros runs to her King in an attempt to save him.

Bad catches back up with Foolish.

By the skin of his serrated teeth, Foolish escapes due to a lucky pearl and flees into the mines.

Foolish decides to go mining.

Chip begins to hunt the King and tries to signal to Bad where he is hiding, appearing before Foolish to bother him and help Bad track him.

They run between dimensions and caves hunting each other, which goes on for quite a while.

At some point during this, Pili gets killed by Pangi once via his axe from Pili1 and the other via ender crystal placed in his home.

Doozers declare the King part of Witness Protection and name him Eduardo.

Foolish is still mining while Bad tries to convince him through chat to return to the castle.

The chase continues through several dimensions and areas of the Realm, with no luck.

The Doozers suggest for Foolish to disguise himself as a certain diamond-themed soul from Bad's past in efforts to hide his identity.

Ros & Aimsey are doing their darnedest to get Foolish to Sneeg cause they think he would be safest there.

They eventually do manage to reunite after several close calls including one in the castle where Bad almost caught Foolish escaping into a nether portal, Ros & Aimsey find the King and begin their mission to escort Foolish to their Smith Daddy aka Sneeg on the Mushroom Island.

They manage to reach Sneeg after Aimsey lends the King his elytra and explain the whole story to their blacksmith who sounds like the most disappointed father ever™.

The Kingdom then decides to have a Kingdom meeting as an aside and discuss Owen.

They receive information that Bad is approaching the mushroom island and proceed to stash their totem King near the Blender™.

Bad then decides to return to the main area after an unsuccessful hunt, and Foolish wants to go back to the castle. They do so.

At some point between the Kingdom meeting and returning to the castle, Pili begs Foolish to take his 3rd life.

Foolish follows through on this request on the castle's front steps, resetting Pili.

Bad and Foolish then get into another argument, and Bad kills Foolish again.

Which means Bad has killed Foolish twice today and four times in total upon this server.

Aimsey calls Landduo out for starting most of the conflict upon this server, which the immortals laugh off.

They reach an impasse but agree to truce on behalf of the mortals.

They discuss the invitation to the ball once more and decide today's events change nothing. They also decide to still go arm-in-arm to the event as well as agree the plan to demise each other that day is still a go.

They part ways, leaving us all confused and amused.

~~~

Like what the hell is wrong with them /lh

They hunt each other for sport by day and go on dates at night (which also might end in death), confound everyone around them, and drag poor mortals into conflicts.

Immortal courting goes wild man, like what the hell.

And this isn't the first time they have been on a server together but its slowly evolved into this bond no one alive understands yet is also goals at the same time cause it seems like they have so much fun together.

It just took The Realm for them to kick it up a notch. Or 3.

[samdeancrimespree]

when that guy points at sam through the prison fence and goes “you’re mine, baby,” and sam just looks fucking perplexed and nods. and dean says (in his sleaziest voice) “don’t worry, sammy. promise i won’t trade ya for smokes.” we get it dean he’s Your property. Jesus Christ. a little surprising they weren’t all trying to call dibs on you too but it’s nice to know that your first response to hearing someone hit on your brother is that he’s already taken.

dean being. Entertained by the fact that sams roommate keeps “staring at him” is also just… unhinged

and then he immediately gets in a fight because some guy said One harsh word to sam. after SAM bumped into him. fucking freak

[amygdalae]

Talk abt second hand embarrassment u ever see a "No stupid questions" professor attempt to navigate a question that is in fact pretty stupid

[kibutsulove]

prisoner ozai art

What the energybending + divorce combo does to a man

[senatortedcruz]

Kim Kardashian being an Elon simp feels like Taykarma somehow

[writingdevil]

Just read your analysis of Nightmare and I was thinking maybe you could write an analysis on Prisoner!

(Sure! I didn't think my character study of Nightmare was that impressive, but if you liked it, it must be at least a pass. Prisoner's a really cool vessel, so this'll be fun. I won't touch on Cage because I feel like that's a whole other analysis. Anyway, enjoy, and I hope this is good!)

I'm almost certain that everything I say for these analysis' has already been said, but oh well.

We all know that Prisoner is extremely sharp, and I love that about her, but I also love that she's content to sit there and have a conversation with you about the situation you're both placed in.

Other vessels like Nightmare or Razor are malicious from the beginning, and some aren't what they seem to be or have a sinister edge to them, like Damsel and Stranger. But with Prisoner, it feels like she's the one who is the most willing to talk about what you can both do to try and foil the Narrator's plans. It feels like the closest to working together, or at least offering the chance to, if you save her.

She's willing to work with you, but isn't an idiot, and knows that TLQ could change his mind and stab her whenever he wants, so she trusts him from a distance. She literally tells you how close she's comfortable with you being. She wants you to slide the blade over. She'll start strangling you if you don't listen to her and try to get her out on your own, because she's not about to risk the chance of you taking advantage of her while she's still in chains and while you hold the blade.

I love that about her character, that's she's both dangerous but not illogical with her violence. Shifty tells us that, 'She has protected herself when others could not.' She wants freedom more than anything, but she knows that they have to play smart about it if they both want to get away from the Narrator's influence.

She knows that both her and TLQ are at the mercy of the Narrator. She knows that TLQ is just as trapped as she is, that there's things that he's in the dark about as well. She can see that, and chooses to work with us, or at least be civil with us, if we're civil to her, like when you get yourself chained to the wall as well with no way out, instead of lashing out and attacking you for making her wait even more, she just instantly settles in and waits for whatever happens next. She tells you that she's 'extremely patient.' She can play the game as long as she needs.

I also love that, even though she can't hear Skeptic, it always sounds like a mind game that they're playing with each other, like the Narrator and the TLQ and the Hero don't exist, and it's just them trying to figure the other out, or see if this is the way they'll move next.

When she starts to cut her head off, Skeptic's only response is, 'So that's her play.' When you carry her head outside, she says, 'Well played,' and that she had to 'take it on faith that you would know what to do.' They just make the whole thing feel like a puzzle they want to figure out, and I love it.

Anyway, that's my analysis, or just my opinion on Prisoner. I love her, and I hope this was somewhat interesting to read.

[bumblydumbly]

Crazy how people buy into the ‘Vander and Vi hero, Silco and Jinx villain’ thing like the writers didnt try so hard to tell you its not even close to being that simple

[soft-pine]

spn20rewatch: 2.19 folsom prison blues

SAM: Dean, does it ... bother you at all, how easily you seem to fit in here? DEAN: No, not really.

there is so much emotional weight and depth to dean's reply here! this whole season, being wanted by the police has been a theme for him. from being threatened with both the death penalty and an extra-judicial sacrificial-lambing in 2.07 to being more on the cops' radar in 2.08:

SAM: So much for our low profile. You've got a warrant in St. Louis, and now you're officially in the Fed's database. DEAN: Dude, I'm like Dillinger or something. SAM: Dean, it's not funny. Makes the job harder, we've gotta be more careful now. DEAN: Well, what do they got on you? SAM: I'm sure they just haven't posted it yet. DEAN: No accessory? Nothing? SAM: Shut up.

to henriksen specifically fixating on dean in 2.12:

HENRIKSEN: Trust me, Dean's a greater risk to 'em than we are. ROBARDS: This is crazy. HENRIKSEN: Crazy's in there. And I just hung up on it.

to the aftermath of the bank situation being dean, once again, more on the radar than sam (2.13):

DEAN: What am I supposed to do? I mean, you've got me on lockdown here, I'm bored out of my skull. SAM: Hey, you were the bank robber on the eleven o'clock news, not me. 

so is it any wonder that dean, whose entire life at this point is shaped by criminal charges for things done entirely out of necessity, is sympathetic to the other inmates?

DEAN: Innocent people are dead. Four so far. SAM: Yeah, innocent. DEAN: You from Texas all of a sudden? Just because these people are in jail, doesn't mean they deserve to die. If we don't stop this thing, people are going to continue to die.

dean knows full well he's in prison because the system doesn't recognize half the real things going on in the world. why should it be any different for these people? he doesn't think he's different from anyone else, he really just doesn't. god i love him!

some other little marvels from this ep:

DEAN: Man, I am freaking velvety smooth.

playing this on a loop in my head i love him i love him i love him!!!

DEAN: I call top bunk! [DEAN’s roommate scoffs and places his things on the top bunk.] DEAN: Okay.

hmm..... makes you think.

less fun is how deacon unsettles me. i don't know. i don't tend to like john's friends and just...

DEAN: Deacon, you are beating the holy hell out of me, man. DEACON: Sorry, Dean. I thought I was going easy on you. Just, uh, trying to make it look real.

i don't love it. i don't love it.

and i don't like the way this episode sets up 2.22 so well. dean uses his body as a punching bag here with abandon. he antagonizes tiny as a distraction and literally the only component of the plan is for tiny to beat the shit out of him while sam sneaks around. he consistently just has to take deacon beating him up to keep his and deacon's cover. this pattern of dean seeing himself as bait/punching bag/disposable is certainly one of the most consistent ones throughout supernatural. i've said before and i'll say again, it's brutal to realize how many times the plan literally is to just let dean get beat to hell to distract someone/thing.

the end of season 2 really is a very specific and sad march of dean studies that bring us to 2.22.

but last but not least, i love how mutual the obsession is between henriksen and dean!!

DEAN: You know, I almost wish I could see Henriksen's face.

like okay... they're literally obsessed with each otherrrrrrr!

[clove-pinks]

Hello friend! What do you know about prison ships in the War of 1812? I’m picking apart an article that says there was a prison hulk stationed in Salem (MA) Harbor which I had not heard of but I thought I’d ask the local War of 1812 Expert :)

First, my apologies for sitting on this ask for ten thousand years.

This sent me down a rabbit hole, because discussions about War of 1812 prison ships are almost all regarding American prisoners of war in the custody of the British, and not the other way around! I'm guessing that the article you found is '"Find a Hell before You Leave this World': Maritimers as Prisoners of War, 1812-1815" by Joshua M. Smith, particularly since Smith has written a lot about Maine during the War of 1812, and Wiscasset jail. Smith references prisoners of war gathered at Salem, Massachusetts for repatriation back to the Canadian Maritimes, and one unfortunate man who died from an illness contracted "while on board the prison ship" at Salem.

Conveniently, the primary source that Smith cites can be found online: the Salem Gazette (Salem, Mass.), March 24, 1815. There is little information to be gleaned from this source, however, which lists the death of George Collins, aged 15 years, under death notices. Poor Collins was "late a prisoner of war in Salem. His death was occasioned by a cold taken while on board the prison ship in this town; and being naturally of a weak constitution, he fell a victim to the severity and privations of the prison."

I found another reference to the prison ship (now called Aurora) in the Salem Gazette of December 27, 1814. The number of British prisoners on board the prison ship is 336 (which gives a hint of badly crowded conditions), but they have been treated to "tables loaded with roast turkeys, plumb puddings, and other good things which distinguish the Christmas," and the paper prints a notice of their gratitude:

A CARD. The British Prisoners of War on board the Aurora, prison ship, return their hearty thanks to the gentlemen of this town, for the liberal and generous provision made for them, in commemoration of the day of our Saviour's birth.

A less sanguine picture of the prison ship is in the Acadian Recorder of 25 June 1814. On pp. 2-3, a narrative titled "Yankee Prison" from a "plain jack-tar" last held at Salem describes cruel punishments and appalling conditions. The sailor is held at Wiscasset jail after a forced march from the Fox Islands, but the worst is yet to come:

We were again removed to Salem, the worst of all places. Here we had a new Captain over the guard and us. This gentleman and the captain of the ship were the only humane men I have seen in America [...] The captain of the ship was never on board more than one hour out of 24, unless on business with the Marshal. The chief mate had sole command, and he was an imperious villain, whose only delight was in the destruction of his fellow men. He now had an opportunity with all his vile crew, to gratify their infernal spirits, not only by daily abuses, but by feeding us on what they thought proper, such as salt beef that stunk so bad, it could not be eaten [....] What would you think to be a prisoner of war, and see one of the guard over you, cock his gun and clap it to your breast, and swearing by the great God he would put a ball through you for getting upon the windlass bits to hang up a shirt to dry; or to have another beating you over the back with his sword, because you could not get down below faster? Behold another go down in the yard, and with his sword cut down all the cloathes-lines, and then cut your few rags that his countrymen had not stolen, all to pieces; to show that he would serve us the same if he dared [...] All this you must put up with, otherwise go in the black hole, as they call it; where you must lay ten days in irons, for the least offence besides being deprived of one third of your provisions.

The writer, who signed his narrative "T.D.," also describes overcrowded conditions and reports that the prison ship leaked badly.

Probably the best single source of information that I have found on American prison ships in the War of 1812 is the 1964 PhD dissertation of Anthony George Dietz: THE PRISONER OF WAR IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE WAR OF 1812. I have not found much about the Aurora of Salem specifically: my search is frustrated by the fact that this evidently popular name for ships was used by multiple prison ships around the same time period.

[nade2308]

A study in blue

Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3

@thethistlegirl

[trans-axolotl]

reading writing from other people who have also survived solitary confinement (in so many different places, prisons + institutions + more) and sometimes the grief overwhelms me. i feel such a strong connection through the page--they put words to this swirling mess of emotions that lies under my skin when i think back to those weeks. they've found a way to talk about what it does to you and what you become and what it's like to try to come back to the world afterwards. i still can't speak about most of it. some days i wake up panicking because my door is shut; I'm glad my walls are thin and my roommate plays music slightly too loudly at night--it's easier to fall asleep when i know she's there.

this quote: "I am filled with the sensation of drowning each and every day."

and this one: "When he walked out of the SHU, he saw his first tree in 12 years."

and this one: "Solitary confinement is a living death. Death because it is the removal of nearly everything that characterizes humanness, living because within it you are still you. The lights don’t turn out as in real death. Time isn’t erased as in sleep…"

(from shane bauer reporting on solitary confinement in California: x)

i don't have words for the kind of rage i feel when i think about all the people being tortured in solitary right now and every single fucking day; loved ones + activist acquaintances + people i have never met. i want to start breaking things. i want to tear it all down. some days i feel so incredibly guilty that i saw the leaves fall outside today--how is it that i get that and she's still in there. there are no words.

[royalarchivist]

Tazercraft and Richarlyson: [ Talking about the butterfly effect that led to Cellbit and Roier getting married ]

Richarlyson: The real cupid is pa Mike.

Pac: If Mike was unintentionally the reason why Richas died*, and that caused Roier and Cellbit to— Wait, you're saying I'm single because you died?! Oh what the hell. No, it's fine, that's fine, that's fine, it's fine, I stayed on the ground so that others could fly, it's fine.

Richarlyson: KKKKKKK Pa, you misunderstood me 0_0

[joelletwo]

[ID from alt: The Prisoner (1967) fanart of number six and leo mckern's number two, intimate and shaded in dramatic red. six kneels behind two on the ground with one gentle hand on his shoulder and another on his throat tilting his head back to make eye contact, smiling lightly. two clutches his arms to himself but is diligently malleable.]

i opened csp and i saw. a pose set.