#pryce and cutter

[dalesbianfoppishdandy]

ever wonder why it's pryce and cutter, not cutter and pryce?

it's because marcus cutter is a #feminist

[plainlyraine]

Cutter is the real problem. Miranda Pryce gives me a lot of emotions, not great ones, but I fully believe that Cutter is the reason she is the way she is

[praggmatic]

I may have reformatted the entirety of Pryce and Carter's into a 600+ page A6 book that I then got printed.

[in-abstrxcto]

HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY, WOLF 359!

Here's the Season 4 poster to celebrate!

To the cast and crew (if they somehow happen to see this) (I doubt any of them are on Tumblr so I'll just ramble to the void):

This show honestly changed my life. I know it's cliché, but really, it did. It also helped me as a writer — watching the AMAs to hear what the writers said and studying the scripts improved my skills exponentially. Furthermore, the plot, the voice talent, the sound design and the soundtrack are all crafted amazingly — you can really tell the show is brimming with passion! It's really a love letter to sci-fi fans too.. gosh, I could honestly talk about why I love this show for hours, but I'll keep it short. Essentially, if you see this, thank you for creating something so wonderful. Thank you for inspiring so many people. Thank you for creating such a great story.

To everyone else (I know it'll mostly be fans seeing this, but just in case one of my followers hasn't listened):

If you haven't listened to Wolf 359, I highly recommend it. 10/10 show. And it's definitely a good starting point in terms of fiction podcasts; since it's so cinematic, you can visualise everything you hear very easily, making it great to listen to! Also, for a show that's 10 years old, it aged really well. Many shows like that fall to the issue of having outdated jokes and references, but Wolf 359 is a truly timeless one.

[commsroom]

cutter was born in the 20s, and he'd become "arthur keller" by the early 70s, so obviously pryce's story at the beginning of brave new world can't be taken literally - that's not even an old man, much less "older than anyone she had ever met." it's also inarguable she was an adult already working on her... ideas for the human body when cutter sought her out; "i want you to make a doll for me" and "i found people who had some very bold ideas about how to... tune up the human body [...] i funded their work, and provided them with a willing test subject" are pretty definitely referring to the same events. so, it's fairy tale language, but the question is: why? why frame it this way?

one part of it is the "fountain of youth" in connection to immortality, strength, and health. the implication isn't literally that cutter is very old and pryce is very young; it's that she represents this power, and that he wants her to bestow it upon him: "then you and i will fix the world. i will be young and you will be whole." cutter and pryce choose to look eternally 28, while referring to and conducting themselves as if they're very old: it's not just vanity, it's part of their self-mythology. simultaneously young and old, having overcome the natural order.

that mythology of "overcoming" natural limitations is especially significant for pryce: characterizing herself as a "little girl" within her own story is both self-victimizing and self-aggrandizing. pryce does not see herself as disabled so much as temporarily inconvenienced; even the usual limitations of the human body are something she hopes to transcend. "instead of being wretched or afraid, the little girl decided to be clever." she was put at a disadvantage, but overcame it all by herself because she was smarter and better than other people. by extension, anyone who can't do what she did just isn't good enough, even as she's closing doors behind her and making it harder for others like her. and at the same time: it's an underdog story that requires her to have been an underdog. she hasn't been in a very, very long time, but the power she holds over others remains justified in her self-perception by this image of a sick little girl who was hurt by the world. there's an implication of inherent worthiness, and even a sort of expected assumed innocence in characterizing it that way. the first thing people notice about pryce is her eyes, and... sure, maybe it's the technology, but if cutter can catch bullets without any visible signs, it seems likely to me that, like her age, this is at least in part an aesthetic choice. it intimidates people. she's turned this point of hurt and vulnerability into a power play, and remains attached to it.

and that's the other part of the mythologizing that's going on: presumably, pryce was not the only person who worked on all of this. cutter funded others. but the story retroactively simplifies it, in a childish fairy tale way, and paints an image of them as exceptional, uniquely capable and so uniquely deserving, people.

i think there's something interesting to consider here about pryce in contrast to hera: that pryce is a woman who self-justifies her cruelty via a mythologized girlhood, while hera is a woman who was never a girl, who was never considered innocent or even allowed the same recognition of the ways she's been a victim. pryce resents humanity and all it represents, resents her body and its limitations, feels that being human has only caused her suffering, but still clearly believes that she has more of a claim to humanity than hera does by nature of her biology and upbringing. pryce's "bootstraps" attitude re: disability and her own self-victimization are the crucial things here, but i think that is also particularly interesting if you read hera as a trans woman.

(incidentally, this is part of why i have a particular love for hera designs where she's just a regular woman, more angular, and maybe even older looking - a natural 30-something in contrast to an unnaturally maintained 28 - than pryce. they're both women who have chosen how they want to look, and it highlights something.)

[nobodysdaydreams]

Is this anything?

[aeli-tan-art]

!SPOILERS for the podcast Wolf 359 !Flashing Lights

song: Mr. Brightside by The Killers

programs used : Procreate + EPOS + UE5

[ottosbigtop]

Aaand a collection of wolf stuff I’ve been hoarding once more

[isabellovelaces]

Wolf359 live action dream (nightmare) cast

This is just for laughs please do not take this seriously

Eiffel: the sign stick figure guy

Minkowski: Sue Sylvester

Hera: Trisha Paytas



Hilbert: queen never cry baby

Lovelace: Sevika from Arcane

Kepler: Lestat De Lioncourt

Maxwell: Tulip Olsen from Infinity Train

Jacobi: Bakugo

Cutter: Lin Manuel Miranda

Pryce: Nara Smith

[mykelneedssleep]

“Are they lovers?” “Worse” but it’s just Pryce and Cutter’s extremely strange, borderline co-dependent colleague relationship

[erebugs]

"It must look like a real person, and sound like a real person, and be a real person. Can you do this for me?"

"And if I can?"

"Then you and I will fix the world."

[the-eiffel-watchtower]

I love having a brain. I just made Doug Eiffel say “skibidi rizz, Commander” in my head and then giggled for five minutes

[dalesbianfoppishdandy]

I'm thinking about Goddard Futuristics again and. while Cutter is bouncing back and forth between official positions and fake identities I think that Miranda Pryce just doesn't officially exist? Maxwell is an expert in AI working for Goddard's black ops division and yet had no idea who Pryce was. I think that there's some sort of black box "cognitive technologies development team" that exists on paper work. Money goes in, AIs come out. *however* i think that Pryce is the only person there

[in-abstrxcto]

I love these guys.. the petty girlboss duo!

Anyway, I like to think the evil dream team discuss their evil plans over a very evil brunch..

[nobodysdaydreams]

This exchange just came to me, but imagine if after they get back to Earth, Doug reconnects with Anne, Minkowski reconnects with Dominik, happy endings for everyone, but then one day Doug meets up with the gang and is like “Anne got diagnosed with ADHD last week. I was actually looking over the diagnostic criteria, and I gotta say, there were a few things I resonated with myself, and they do say this stuff is genetic. But I don’t know, what do you guys think?”

And everyone else is staring at him like wait does he not know? How does he not know? Did he know before he lost memories? He had to known then, there must be a medical record of it somewhere. But if he’s saying there isn’t, then did Doug really not know?