#working harbor

[minkstudios1-photoblog]

dockside view © minkstudios 2024

[feralchaton]

feralchaton

[lemonlimestar]

i found this in a comic bin the other day??? they just let anyone do variant covers huh

[merakiui]

so when they said he threw a tantrum…💀

MY REACTION AFTER SEEING THE NEW AZULS!!!!!!!!

TO SEE THE MOU YADA ILLUSTRATED............ omg it's perfect. The look Leona's giving him LOLLLLLL. Ruggie's shocked face!!!! Azul quite literally thrashing on the ground like a spoiled child who was told no. Throwing that big of a tantrum at his grown age....... 😵‍💫 he's CRAZY BONKERS. I love him too much. (♡ˊ͈ ꒳ ˋ͈)

On a side note, I absolutely adore how the manga portrays these (Riddle's, Leona's, and Azul's) mental breakdowns. They're not cute or pretty; they're exceptionally ugly and raw and volatile. It captures the energy very well!!

[orange-coloredsky-archive]

The two most popular reads of the synth plight in Fallout 4 are that of the race allegory and the Red Scare/McCarthyist allegory. In the former example, synths get racialized in a similar way to Black Americans in the late 19th and early 20th century, but just barely. The Underground Railroad is quite literally remade, synths are subjected to slavery at the hands of their human creators and punished harshly for escape attempts. Others have likened synths to fears of immigrants or asylum-seekers from nonwhite majority populations. Synths in these imaginings of Fallout 4 are painted as needing to be saved at the same time as they are vilified and dehumanized – sometimes by the same character over the course of the story. This duality could be a great opportunity for a dive into how white saviorism tends to play out, but in reality it ends up being a messy, deeply uncritical exploration of the impact of race and racism in society. The factions doing the racialization and/or saviorism’s motives are never questioned, and there is a very clear depiction of “good vs. evil” being the end-all-be-all of anti-racism work (again, with no critical thought as to how the “good” side is made almost completely of non-racialized people making decisions on behalf of a marginalized group). Worse yet, it’s contrived. The android-racism analogy has been a thorn in the side of the science fiction genre ever since Isaac Asimov wrote the 3 Laws of Robotics. There’s very few iterations on the idea that have come from popular (white, Eurocentric) media that aren’t riddled with the same aftertaste of white guilt and fundamental misunderstandings of how racism plays out in day-to-day life.

The less common, slightly more agreeable interpretation is that of the Red Scare – which, given Fallout’s inspirations and the setting’s original critique of reliving America’s “good old days”, makes perfect sense. In this example, synths take the role of the Soviet spy: watching over everything Americans are doing and reporting back to a secret base that is plotting to overthrow the world as we know it. Psychological screenings as well as inhumane tortures are utilized to pick synth “spies” out from the good, red-blooded residents of the Commonwealth. A neighborhood is founded entirely around the protection of the “old ways of life”, complete with a white picket fence comically decorated with automatic machine gun turrets. While this is a more charitable analogy that’s grounded in a slightly-deeper-than-surface-level exploration of American history, the Red Scare interpretation is victim to the same pitfalls that plague the racism interpretation. Midway through the game, the player discovers that there actually is a secret base of evil villains hiding underneath our feet, plotting to annihilate our beautiful Commonwealth lives. People do get taken and replaced by synths, they are in our governments, there is an actual reason for synths to be feared. Sure, some synths are perfectly fine people with no wish to be made tools of the Institute’s tyranny, but that is greatly overshadowed by the fact that the Institute’s stated goal is to use synths to gain control over the Commonwealth. There is no real critique of McCarthyism, there is no ideology to be challenged, because the Communists are here and killing your loved ones in their sleep.

[roots-symphony]

You know it’s extra fucked up that lumon literally just erased Irving from the picture but kept it like the same angle/zoom/w.e so it was clear that something/someone was missing. Like they so easily could have zoomed in, moved the three of them to be more centered and made it appear like the picture had only ever been of the three of them, but that is not what they did. It’s almost like a warning to the rest of them, of how easy it is for them to not just be disposed of but completely erased

[esmes]

ooh, let the light in at your back door yelling 'cause i wanna come in ooh, turn your light on look at us, you and i, back at it again

[harborcove]

Harbor Cove, NE

[t-u-i-t-c]

"Mission clear."

+ bonus

[hood-ex]

Damian coming in hot with the assist.

Batman #706

[persimmonsimmer]

Hellebore House

In the language of flowers, the hellebore stands for

tranquility . . . and anxiety

protection . . . and scandal

. . . and . . . delirium.

Can there be dark without light?

Pleasure, without the sting of pain?

Good, without . . . well, “evil” seems a little harsh! Not to mention how simplistic this whole system of binaries is in the first place.

The inhabitants of Hellebore House are not evil, although perhaps they are bad, or something less than good. They are self-serving, certainly. They are rather self-serious, too, and fond of luxury. They are not overly concerned with using their talents to force the wider world into a better, kinder, more enlightened shape. The world can fend for itself.

And who are you to judge them?

[mrtequilasunset]

I hardly see anyone talk about how Measurehead's mom was the secretariat of the Harbor

[istandonsnowpiles]

Incredibly tall Street Light

[gobald]

Emma's love language is invading personal space... I miss the mariner but Far Harbor brings me down so much I don't wanna go....

[boag]

The most relatable thing about Riverdale is the mother-daughter dynamic between Alice and Betty…it’s so real it’s like actually gutwrenching

[chilirasbora]

Harbor seal | Phoca vitulina

Gray seal | Halichoerus grypus

Spotted seal | Phoca largha

What do all of these seals have in common? Homosexuality has been observed in all three species! Happy pride!

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