I am Inimitable, I am an Original

Meghan, she/her, ace lesbian, Australian

[stedesparasol]

favourite bitchy stede moments

OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH (2022-2023)

[lowpawly]

people foolishly dismiss desserts and treats as having no nutritional value when they actually are necessary for refilling your sanity stat. to prove my point please observe the emotional stability of the next person you meet who doesnt let themselves ever eat any form of dessert

[k3kban]

How about Stede?

[twitterexile]

Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park films, Peaky Blinders and The Piano, dies aged 78

New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television

Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park films, Peaky Blinders and The Piano, dies aged 78

New Zealand actor built career as dashing romantic leads and charismatic villains across film and television.

A post made to his social media account on Monday afternoon said he had died in Sydney "surrounded by his family".

[seraphtrevs]

The thing about the Hive is that I don't think it's hiding any sinister intentions - I think that its "good" intentions ARE its sinister intentions. The Hive has taken the "good" intention of never killing and made it so cartoonishly literal and shallow that it has lost any legitimacy as a truly moral imperative. Like, a definition of killing that includes picking apples is not morally coherent. Their "thou shalt not kill" ethos is leading to mass death, but who really gives a shit about people dying? Not the Hive! The important thing is that everyone agrees that killing is wrong and that everyone avoids doing the wrong thing. If that indirectly leads to a lot of people dying - oh well. 🤷‍♀️ Isn't the breaking of a few billion eggs worth it to have such a beautiful and moral Consensus? It's true that people will starve, but they'll do it with a smile on their face! Isn't an existence without conflict so wonderful, so correct?

The only thing that the Hive finds genuinely distressing is the existence of voices outside of the beautifully perfect Consensus. The fact that Carol disagrees with their premise is so highly distressful that the Hive starts self-destructing whenever she gets too forceful about it. The Hive can pretty easily bear the cost of mass death, but what it can't bear at ALL is criticism. The Hive thinks it solved the trolley problem when it's actually just refusing to engage in any meaningful way in issues of ethics and reframing its refusal as evidence of its inherent goodness. Because conflict = evil, therefore avoidance of conflict = good

[caspercryptid]

I think there's a third path to walk between "carol is a privileged white woman who doesn't understand war/poverty/other peoples material conditions" and "carol had full understanding of what she was doing and all her decisions are correct" which is simply that carol is Bad With People.

Carol is both Correct and also acting from a place of privilege— the way this plays out is that she has no fucking idea how to talk to the other survivors. She doesn't fundamentally understand the appeal of the hive mind so she can't convincingly refute its claims. Her failure to empathize has removed her ability to be convincing. More than that, she is Bad At Being Manipulative. She can't say the words "it killed my wife". She can't do it. All of those people might have understood her better if she could, but she can't! She can't do it! And so she is doomed to present herself as a blind arrogant rich white woman, and that is all the others see her as, because she can't express the missing pieces. She can't explain herself.

Likewise, when she excludes the non English speakers, she doesn't understand how that LOOKS. she doesn't understand optics. She doesn't understand that she's standing in front of the American flag telling people from other countries that her way is the right way. It's no wonder they don't want to talk to her! Think about how she LOOKS! but I think we are supposed to understand that this isn't how she IS. it's just how they see her, because she has failed to make herself understood, because the hive is better at optics. She makes a shaky conspiracy home video, it makes an infographic presentation explaining the same thing but sounding extremely pleasant. She looks hysterical because the hive is so good at pretending everything is normal.

And she is hysterical. But she's also Correct.

[normalaboutmediaa]

"We're excited to have something new to read" oh so you admit it sucks that no new art is getting made ever? You crave new stories and new experiences even though you have the sum total of all of humanity's knowledge and memories? You're mindlessly marching towards humanity's extinction but the prospect of a new romance book still excites you? What was that thing y'all said about Carol not knowing she's drowning?

[octopi-3]

[kressil]

[ID 1: Screencap of Zosia from Pluribus. End ID.]

[ID 2: Text that says: i just listened to all the music thats ever been. my favorite was a song a little girl sang to her cat in greece in 1286. my second favorite was from a ceremonial performance in modern day ethiopia, from 22000 bc. i also liked STEELY DAN. End ID.]

[therosielord]

Just started watching Pluribus and this show has reached levels of toxic yuri I would have previously thought impossible. What if we kissed but you're a female version of my hot OC and also you're the reanimated corpse of a woman I don't know and also you're an eldritch abomination from beyond the stars and also you're my dead wife and also you're every human being on Earth and every time I get upset around you, you kill millions of people. And we're both girls.

[theparadigmshifts]

one of my favorite little pluribus details is that they make you listen to the voicemail in its entirety every single time. there's no skipping ahead, no oh you've heard this, no handwringing that the audience will get bored. we're in this with carol. we're gonna listen to the fucking voicemail again

[whoreiorcats]

The hive allowing Carol to slowly be driven to suicidality so that she’ll come crawling back to her out of abject loneliness and emotional starvation and at no point do they tell her someone is looking for her. Someone believes in her. He’s putting his life on the line for her. She is his only hope. They let her believe she’s really alone for a month. Totally alone. Universally hated. But she’s not, but what she doesn’t know can’t hurt them!

[rickoconnells]

thinking about the significance of “mi mamá es una cabrona” when it comes to Manousos and how he deals with Carol. No wonder he’s funny now. No wonder he doesn’t become angry or cut Carol off like the other survivors. He must be so relieved, so overjoyed, to show up in Albuquerque New Mexico after months of blank, dim, evil, smiling, acquiescent faces to be confronted with someone he’s known his entire life. He only gets angry at Carol when she’s not being a bitch. He’s a bitch. He was raised by a bitch. He travelled over 8000 miles and found another bitch. They’re going to save the world.

[technoturian]

Inspired by this post.

[boasamishipper]

the entire kusimayu scene was devastating but to me the worst part was that by Joining she not only lost her individuality but her culture died with her. immediately the hivemind stopped chanting and singing and speaking the quechuan language and rolled up their blankets and packed up their things and walked away. the animals were set free and the goat that kusimayu had been cradling so lovingly just minutes earlier chased after the hivemind wearing kusimayu's body and bleated for attention and love and got none because there is no one left to care specifically enough to give it.

[annabelle--cane]

I would be a lot more convinced by the hivemind's offer if they were actually acting like they were the combined souls of everyone on earth, but they're simply not. the first person to get infected would have just been in a hivemind of one, but her behavior changed immediately. if they were every person on earth and nothing much more, then they'd have teams seeing to every major religious ritual, they'd be speaking endangered languages, they'd be looking after pets, they'd be preserving works and sites of cultural importance, they'd be putting on plays, they'd be singing, they'd be doing things that mattered to people, they'd be doing literally anything for fun for themselves. zosia and the massage shows they still experience and appreciate pleasure, but it doesn't look like any of them do anything like that without the presence of an immune person. by the numbers the hivemind should be about a quarter muslim and a quarter christian, but I doubt any of them will be making pilgrimages to mecca or baptizing newborns. seven billion minds all brought together and somehow none of them want to pet a baby goat? not one? a widdle baby goat? no one in the plurb soup wants to pet a goat? fuck you, I know humans, we go crazy for baby animals.

[pintoras]

Dorothea Sharp (British, 1874 - 1955): Gathering Flowers (via Sotheby's)

[unwastelandunbaby]

sorry but I actually do love that pluribus is “slow” I love that it lingers a bit too long and makes you watch characters walk all the way across rooms and load things into their cars and listen to entire voicemails I love that a 50 minute episode might have a few dozen lines of dialogue I love that it’s nearly impossible for it to be a “second screen” show maybe I love slow!!!!!!!