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I lied, I did end up with a Murderbot draw idea. I just got stuck on how I would portray ART, this unfathomable Creature™ of a bot brain. And then I had the epiphany of combining a black hole with a basket starfish and it was perfect.
[Voice of someone meeting their soon-to-be best friend in the entire universe]: You made a mistake, Murderbot, a really bad mistake.
Animated version of panel 2 below the cut; warning for bright moving lights/eyestrain.
This is very much something i can see happening in canon idc
also i think there is a larger issue at play here, which is how white-liberal ideology around the construction of "proper" behavior has done a number on how conflict vs. safety, and safety vs. comfort, are conceptualized in collective spaces, where for example any confrontation or interruption to actually address something potentially unsavory is seen as an escalation, borderline an act of violence the way it disrupts everyone having a good time, and "letting it slide"/moving past something/redirection is seen as a de-escalation and the righteous choice of "not taking the bait" or "being the bigger person" or whatever self-pat on the back. that is not what de-escalation is. conflicts and disagreements aren't inherently dangerous, and trying to prevent the existence of conflicts by entirely ignoring the issue because confronting it is uncomfortable and we do not want to "escalate" is not how safety is achieved.
Further evidence of Murderbot being an unreliable narrator:
Murderbot: Well, I guess I'll use these crappy drones that the cheap-ass company paid the lowest bidder for. I wish I had better drones.
ART, watching over MB's shoulder: Those drones are so cool. I want drones like that. Dads, can I have drones like that? Can we get new drones on the way home?
ART's family: Peri, where did you schematics for state-of-the-art, highly secret, corporate military tech?
ART: Oh. You know. Lying around.
As someone who has worked in moderate (corporate) security environments, and commiserated with people who worked in high (military) security environments, I can tell you:
This may *sound* like a contradiction, but it really isn't. The security equipment absolutely can, and often is, built by the lowest bidder. It absolutely will suck at the job, that job being "be secure".
It'll do that even while being the best in the world.
Heck, in one case the company spent years working with multiple vendors on a security solution that would exclude anyone who didn't have a satisfactory solution.
Then they gave up, designed, prototyped, tested, and manufactured at scale their own solution because none of the vendor solutions worked in practice. They all sucked too much to use, despite a heck of a lot of work trying.
In the same vein it isn't hard to find military people who will share the "secret" that a lot of military equipment is very expensive, restricted from the public, and a complete POS to work with.
one of those nights where i'm overwhelmed by the alienation and hatred of place that's built into everything these days. nowhere on earth left untouched by the sound of aircraft. lights are on 24/7 and i can read a book on the sidewalk at any hour - night, which is almost half the world, is functionally abolished in many places, including in a checkerboard pattern around most of the places i live. the house across the street was torn down last year; what's getting built has less color, fewer facets, it can fit triple the renters; it was designed by and built by and owned by people who fear any connection, relation, opinion, desire.
coming home at 930pm and not wanting to cook in an empty house; almost every restaurant is closed and the streets are empty. (not quiet - in addition to the general hum or whine of lights, there's mosquito sound generators tucked into a couple spots. they're not on during the day because this is sandwiched between multiple school zones.) the restaurants that are still open charge $18 for the cheapest things on the menu, and the actual meals easily run to $40. lately i've been so busy and so poor that at least one meal a day has been a replacement shake pilfered from my job. neither the restaurant customers, nor i, are eating anything that has been in this area for more than the last few centuries, at best. the dumpsters in this neighborhood are locked inside the garages of the adjoining apartment complexes at night; forget stealing, i can't even rummage through the trash. i go home and make a salad; i am eating baby spinach in november, i am eating arugula in the pacific northwest.
thinking about the storefronts that are lit all night and the planes passing overhead. what it would take to allow quiet, dark, peace, back into the world. arguments i have in my head with neighbors, strangers. what would happen if all the planes are grounded - my job, which i do think is good, collapsing almost overnight. arguing with my boss in my head, with the department of health, to allow me to do slower work, work that brings people into the place where they are living, work that isn't flowing from transport chains and sterile disposables and the cheapest option for the most participants. imagining this work is alien even to myself, despite this being the focal point of my attention most of the day. considering the values that i hold, and what i think would need to be held to be able to live with respect to the world around you, and how far away it is from everything discussed in my line of work. the disposability of poverty; who is even afforded the dignity of discussing "sustainability" - locality - relation - attention.
my self, my life, the politics that i already live in - attention that i am giving to the smallest life i can see around me, most of them overwintering now. I cannot pass an outdoor speaker without fantasizing about its destruction; regularly i am thinking of bolos, slings, improvised spears, anything that could reach high enough to smash them, to make things a bit quieter. I drove 31 miles today and that was on the low side. remembering ten-lined june beetles in summer - they often get trapped under artificial lights, waiting for the sun to go down before they move. the sun never goes down. friends who know me send me photos asking about them, wondering who they are and why they're still on the porch in the morning. wondering if my explanations reach them - if they feel sympathy - we are all stuck under the artificial lights, waiting for the sun to go down.
i needed to write this out anyway for my book so here is the actual dialectical materialist argument for family abolition and youth liberation, by the way:
the continued existence of capitalism depends not only on the circuit of production but also the circuit of reproduction. social reproduction is the process by which the working class prepares and maintains itself for the exchange of labor-power for a wage. this can also refer to how the bourgeoisie maintains its power generationally. marx introduced this concept in capital but did not explore it in depth.
there are two scales of social reproduction: day-to-day and intergenerational. the labor pool is replenished via three processes: gestation (having kids), immigration, and slavery.
day-to-day social reproductive labor is usually carried out by women. this includes the work of cooking, cleaning, budgeting, and all the other work that goes into running a household. the wife in a typical nuclear family does this labor unpaid, but many affluent households choose to hire cheap migrant laborers (usually also women) to carry it out for them.
intergenerational social reproductive labor is usually understood as the work of raising children - that's as far as it's been theorized in existing marxist feminist work. but i believe that children are responsible for the bulk of this type of labor. the work of formal and informal education for the dual purposes of developing job readiness and internalizing capitalist norms - it's not recognized as labor by, well, much of anybody but i hope that changes in the future.
one of the key features of capitalist education is establishing the alienation of labor, so that by the time children grow up, they're ready to integrate into a compliant labor force. another key feature of education is maintaining the reserve army of labor, which works to undercut attempts to organize labor or establish worker solidarity. the neoliberalization and globalization of the economy has extended this second feature of education both to adults and previously inaccessible labor markets around the world.
this (unpaid) labor occupies most of childhood and its imperative is reinforced by three pillars: the family, the market, and the state. you could argue for the education system to be considered a fourth pillar since it operates somewhat independently of other state apparatuses, at least in the US. depends on how you look at it. the family, the market, and the state work together (imperfectly, unevenly) to reproduce capitalism.
the family is the smallest unit of social reproduction. the nuclear family form developed around the same time as the industrial revolution and is inextricable from patriarchy, white supremacy, ableism, and all the other -isms we usually talk about. the family form in general developed after the agricultural revolution, as a mechanism for inheriting wealth and maintaining socioeconomic hierarchies. families aren't just a source of violence and coercion; they're also most people's primary source of care and support. but abolishing capitalism also necessitates abolishing the capitalist family form (as stated in the communist manifesto).
family abolition doesn't just mean tearing families apart. it means expanding systems of care so that the family isn't the only place that people can receive it. in their original writing, hegel, marx, and engels all used the word aufhebung to refer to abolition, which is really better translated as "positive supercession." so people should still be able to get care from their families if they like, but it shouldn't be their only option. marx believed that this principle was well represented in the paris commune. i believe that the 2022 cuba family code referendum also provides a great model.
to me (an adult), if a socialist/communist movement is going to last, it requires a thorough analysis of minors as an oppressed class. the continued existence of capitalism depends on the extended disenfranchisement of young people until they internalize capitalist norms and prove themselves capable of capitalist reproduction. this process is absolutely key to establishing the alienation of labor. dialectical analysis of children vs. their parents, children vs. the state, working class children vs. the bourgeoisie is all sorely needed. the thing is that hardly anyone has explored this! marx and engels make some passing references to it, and contemporary marxist feminist theorists like m.e o'brien and susan ferguson incorporate this idea into their analyses somewhat. but nobody that i can find has approached this question comprehensively or systematically. which is why i'm here! writing! a lot!
sources!
the communist manifesto (lol)
the origin of the family, private property, and the state by friedrich engels
capital by karl marx (heinrich's introduction to capital is much more beginner-friendly btw)
marx's 1844 economic and philosophical manuscripts (to understand the theory of alienation, specifically)
childhood in world history by peter n. stearns
social reproduction theory: remapping class, recentering oppression edited by tithi bhattacharya
family abolition: capitalism and the communizing of care by m.e. o'brien
making workers: radical geographies of education by katharyne mitchell
schooling in capitalist america: education reform and the contradictions of economic life by samuel bowles and herbert gintis
gift for a certain bunny
when the character's real body isn't their human one but some kind of accessory or tool that contains their life force
when the character's human projection subconsciously shapeshifts to reflect how they perceive themself and/or what they want and becomes weaker and less within their control if their container is damaged or separated from them
I'm making a piss skull after work
here is how to make my favorite stupid drink ever, Piss Skull. step one, get a skull.
Any skull will do but the whole point of this is to drink it from a skull. Step two, ice cream. Any kind of vanilla. I like French the most so that's what I'm using.
Next is Alcohol. this step changes depending on my mood. The first and most common one I make uses Malibu, but sometimes I use a plain or vanilla vodka. When I want to get fucked up sometimes I use both vodka and Malibu. The ice cream covers up a lot of the alcohol taste.
And the final step: pineapple juice. This is what gives the Piss Skull it's name, because the ice cream makes it look frothy like disgusting troll piss. Enjoy Piss Skull.
Optionally, you can stir it. You'll lose the troll piss effect but it'll melt the ice cream better so you don't end up with chunks at the end (which I usually like but this skull has a straw so I don't want that today)
Oughgg having the realization that almost every single "creepy" thing Nikki/"Nikki" does are also things that a lot of rape victims do, specifically ones that a lot of non victims find unpalatable. Acting out, fawning over her abuser, self harm, wetting herself, getting into/writing about dark and taboo topics, et cetera et cetera.
The horror of Obsession is just a woman being a "bad" victim.
Went to go see the movie bout some pretty amazing digging
this was my favourite part
Pablo's gonna get exterminated.