AthenasPetSnek

Lost the battle with my lack of impulse control forever ago, artist but mass reblogs more than own art posts, ♠️, She/They, my ask box is open =), tell me if you want to get tagged in stuff or not, ask me for my discord if you want it, I also take art requests

[athenaspetsnek]

Hello! Call me Athena!

She/They, AroAce ♠️, not giving yall my age but I'm over 18 (nothing too nasty will appear on my blog tho)

I love to draw! My art tag is #athenas doodles

I switch between fandoms a lot, also have a habbit of spam liking/reblog

Favorite band: The Crane Wives

DM me for Discord! <3

Link to artfight: https://artfight.net/~AthenasPetSnek

List of Blorbos (to be updated):

Janus "Deceit" Sanders 💛🐍🎭 (Sanders Sides)

Moist Von Lipwig 📬💰🚂 (Discworld)

Susan Sto Helit 💀⏳️🎄(Discworld)

William Afton 💜🐰💛 (FNaF)

Micheal Afton 🔦🦊🐻(FNaF)

Darius Deamonne 💜🪄🧵(The Owl House)

Twitch Malto ❤️🐣🤖(Transformers: Earthspark)

Megatron 🩶🤖❤️ (Transformers IDW MTMTE and Lost Light)

Jason Todd ⚖️🐦‍🔥🧟 (DC Comics)

[danielkahndyke]

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

https://e1.nmcdn.io/assets/pushkin/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/Wait-theres-torture-in-Zootopia_-Examining-the-prevalence-of-torture-in-popular-movies.pdf

[danielkahndyke]

like this sentence from the introduction alone is fucking crazy. “approximately half of adults in the united states think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism.” what!

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

we need a cultural revolution in america.

[headspace-hotel]

not to make this important post about my brain worms but this paper actually discusses captain america: the winter soldier at some length

in the appendix (which you can find by scrolling down) CA:TWS is listed as having one torture scene, which immediately made me wonder because there are two that I can think of.

further on in the appendix when the authors are discussing the criteria for including torture, they give the vault scene in CA:TWS as an example of a scene that isn't torture, with the justification that Bucky seems to comply with his captors, and given the information shown on screen we can't conclude whether or not Bucky is a willing participant in the "wipe." Willing participants cannot be tortured, therefore the vault scene is not counted as torture

That is a WILD take on that scene. "doesn't fight back" does not equal "not being tortured" come on now

now, I could see disqualifying the vault scene as being a torture scene on the basis that the purpose of the "wipe" is not to inflict pain, it just happens to be an extremely painful process.

That's an interesting take. Is doing something incredibly painful or distressing to a person torture when there is ostensibly a secondary purpose to the painful thing, even though it also clearly doubles as a way of inflicting suffering and asserting power? This is a really important question to answer, since a lot of instances of torture and mistreatment in prisons and military situations etc. seem to fall under this. e.g. a strip search is nominally for "security" purposes, but it is also forced nudity which is a common form of sexual violence inflicted as part of torture.

But disqualifying the scene because there is not enough evidence that Bucky is being coerced to do it is nuts, since immediately prior Bucky gets slapped in the face for not answering a question and doesn't retaliate, and immediately before that Bucky gets a bunch of guns pointed at him when he acts up

That's another important question. Does being forced to comply with or participate in your own torture disqualify it from being torture?

The answer is, to me, obviously no, and in fact this seems like a relatively common feature of torture: e.g. forcing prisoners to dig their own graves requires a good amount of compliance from the victim and that's a major reason why it's so distressing

anyways the vault scene was what got me thinking about torture in media and got me to rewatching jacob geller's fantastic video essay "analyzing every torture scene in call of duty" which actually cites this paper.

[headspace-hotel]

@dellerose peer reviewed tags

[dellerose]

[Image ID: tag that reads "#damn even the paper researching torture in media excuses torture in media we are so screwed"]

[headspace-hotel]

okay, for one thing, he doesn't "lean back," he is pushed by the scientists. also! the chair restrains him. but even apart from that, how do you watch that scene and get "active and willing participant." Pierce literally hits him when he doesn't answer a question quickly enough.

[headspace-hotel]

@deus3xmachinablog I think it would have to be the scene where the heroes throw Sitwell off a roof yeah. I kinda want to see the breakdown for ALL the movies listed.

[fillianore-moved]

so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!

[shifgrethors]

has anyone done a parks and rec musical parody called the 25th annual pawnee city spelling bee

[civil-defense-system]

accidentally let slip "you will be buried in my pyramid when I die" to a coworker last week btw

[civil-defense-system]

accidentally let slip "you will be buried in my pyramid when I die" to a coworker last week btw

[pansy-picnics]

art block been so bad i rlly don’t want to draw rn but this felt like a canon interaction to me for some reason

[chaoticgouda]

In AWE at the sheer big dick energy this royal mistress exuded

[petewentzisblack1312]

we seriously need to stop conceding to the personhood trap when it comes to abortion rights. is a fetus a person? thats a spiritual question. i dont care about the answer. should another person dictate what someone can do with their body? simple answer: no.

[petewentzisblack1312]

like if a fetus isnt a person it has no right to my body and if a fetus IS a peson it also has no right to my body because there is no other context in which we are required to put ourselves at risk of physical harm to preserve another persons safety or even life.

you dont have to save someone from drowning even if youre a strong swimmer. even in death youre not required to donate organs and that could save several people. you can kill someone if you truly believe your safety is at risk. we dont mandate preservation of life over autonomy in any of these circumstances.

[runaboutism]

ice birb!!

╔══════ ೋღღೋ ══════╗ Drawing random stuffs from the Angry Birds series: - Prev: (1) Red - Curr: (2) Ice Bird - Next: (3) Stella ╚══════ ೋღღೋ ══════╝

[runaboutism]

it's ya girl stella~

╔══════ ೋღღೋ ══════╗ Drawing random stuffs from the Angry Birds series: - Prev: (2) Ice Bird - Curr: (3) Stella - Next: (4) Chuck ╚══════ ೋღღೋ ══════╝

[pukicho]

Parents are giving their children names no one has ever spoken out loud before

[pukicho]

Was it Human?

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

apparently they almost went with weston

[allidrawscomics]

Baby Name Consultant is the type of job title you'd see people claim to have on HGTV while nitpicking 3 different multi-million dollar houses.

[valhalla-dancehall]

it was a stroke of genius to give James T Kirk a bitchy flip phone in the 60's, truly amazing to watch him slam it shut like a pissed off socialite girl in 2000's teen shows

[noyoucantdonteventry]

[stardustfanfare]

my 12 year brother is talking to his friend on the phone and trying to arrange plans to go over to his house this afternoon and was saying that our dad could drop him off maybe and i just heard him say "well i could maybe come over earlier but my dad is busy sharpening his scythe"

[stardustfanfare]

muffled voice coming from the phone speakers: how long till the scythe is sharp

[kosmogrl]

what doesn’t kill me leaves a pit in my stomach that never goes away

[cykelops]

chatgpt is a threat to the symbiotic relationship between fanfic writers and their betas. we are losing our traditions. eradicate the soulless machine and ask your friend who has a full time job and 3 kids to annotate your omegaverse fanfiction like any other responsible adult.

[foulfowledfool]

my house. in the middle of the house. my house in the middle of the house. my house. in the middle of the leaves. my house. in the middle of the sky. my house. with a dog thats twice my size. my house. in the middle of my mind