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bees. they/she. i finally caved and made a jrwi sideblog so my beloved mutuals don't have to look my chipcest posting directly in the eye. as you may have already gathered, i am an adult and i sometimes post adult content. if that's not your thing, i invite you to keep moving.
currently relistening to wonderlust!
To that one person that wanted me to post it 🌸🌸🌸
was talking about charlie to my mom today and i was like ‘it’s frankly embarrassing how much i like him.’ and she went ‘why? do you LIKE like him?’ first of all mother i am 23 years old. stop that. second of all Yes but i wasnt going to say it
i swore right there on my father's eyes, that i would never be compromised
the Unwitness Protection Program is so insane, actually, because yes, it’s about plagues and strigas and arcane rituals that make the dead come back, but once you remove the supernatural elements, the verismo of their situation really hits you. You are fifteen, and your father forces you into a car so he can scream at you as he takes you deep into the back country late at night. You’re sixteen, and your aging grandmother refuses to accept that something is wrong with her sense of reality. You’re sixteen, and you have to pretend you still know what’s real as your father cheerfully tries to solve problems you aged out of three years ago. You’re fifteen, and you’re the only one who can stop your friend from hurting herself. You are fifteen, and a priest has done something terrible to you that no one will ever believe or understand. You’re not even eighteen yet, and you have a terrible feeling that you’re not making it out of this year alive. You’re just sixteen, and you can tell no one. You’re only fifteen.
i love sibling estrangement as horror. Only one person in the entire world has been through what youve been through and they deny it . Awesome
Not to be the guy that always thinks about the villains too much, But. Thinking about how David, from his lines in PD, seems to have not only grown up in Deadwood at least partially, but also references the town being fucked up in a way that implies he could also see that things were wrong, provides a Very Fascinating angle to view him through.
If he could see these small things going wrong so often, but he didn't have other people around him who recognized that and the adults presumably pretended everything was okay, doesn't that offer such a beautiful explanation for why he's so okay with being the monster behind the scenes? After all, isn't this just how the world works? People going missing just happens, it's only a problem if you start thinking too hard about it, if you break the social contract and start screaming about that silly elephant in the room. If nobody hears a tree falling in the forest (or the teenagers falling in the forest, screaming in the forest, screaming in the street, why can't anybody hear them, see the monsters wearing the skin of priests and parents,) it's like it never even fell!
charlie, on whether or not he could blow 100 random men to completion within 24 hours: what if i’m just not good enough?
Saying this all very quick, but: in Unwitness Protection Program, William Wisp has a 40 in his Intimidation skill (the base level for this skill is 15). This is strange, as UPP William Wisp has all the threat level of a chihuahua in my eyes, and even PD William Wisp is hesitant to intentionally scare people and typically require dire circumstances to be pushed into it. This says some interesting things about his character development, but I will hide my main thought about it under a read more out of courtesy to UPP fans who are new and have not watched up to the Greyscale arc of PD.
Now, this is a very far gap in character development to make comparisons across, but with the Greyscale arc in mind, I would like to draw everyone's attention to the Call of Cthulhu guidebook's explanation of the Intimidation skill.
How Interesting that this is the skill that predates so many other traits that I feel like most see as much more central to the character of William Wisp. It was his death that created or exacerbated many of those parts of him, so what does it say for a boy so thoroughly changed by this event that he worries he isn't the same person that fell if this is something he kept from that person?
Then again, maybe it shouldn't be surprising that even a younger Will had the seeds for going too far in him already. As David said: he's from Deadwood. He was never coming out normal.
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wips and stuff from past few days and this is like. ... a fraction of it too ive genuinely been waking up at 6am to squeeze in more drawing time
unfortunately extremely funny to me that riptide’s thesis seems to be ‘restorative justice is possible if ☝️ you are ontologically good’
i think what’s actually the most interesting to me about this is that gill went into that fight with the knowledge that chip wanted odalath dead. so odalath had to meet a certain threshold of Goodness in order to earn an exemption from capital punishment. and the fact that it’s chip who has a vested interest in seeing odalath executed is going to influence where gill places the goalposts for Good Enough, perhaps to the extent of subconsciously moving them if odalath gets too close to them. it also influences how strongly gill tries to sway him. since it would be bad (and potentially fatal) for chip to leave odalath alive, gill pays lip service to the idea of convincing odalath to see their side, but really, as charlie puts it, he spouts a bunch of one-liners and pretty much gives up on trying to convince him after that first attempt. gill imagines himself as a hero, so he must act heroically, but when heroic action works against his self-interest (which expands to include the interests of his close circle) his dedication to that action is extremely malleable. their attempts at harm reduction are limited by how convenient the outcome would be. your life is only worth what it weighs against these four incredibly powerful people’s ultimate goals. mercy is earned through fortuitous circumstance. but they’re the heroes, and everyone will believe them when they weep about how hard they tried to save you.
also they literally collar him and prevent him from speaking. they do not take it off after he is defeated to allow him to negotiate a fair surrender. gill committing war crimes under the guise of self acceptance is so awesome. was it self care when you extrajudicially murdered that old man.
for the record this is not a criticism. i like when characters justify their actions to themselves no matter how horrific they are. how aware the council is of this/whether or not this makes them ‘problematic’ is not really relevant to me outside of a sociological perspective.
listening to the rolled and just laughing to myself. condi like Well i’m glad it was fucked up! maybe you’ll think about that in the future! as charlie and bizly actively justify it to themselves
unfortunately extremely funny to me that riptide’s thesis seems to be ‘restorative justice is possible if ☝️ you are ontologically good’
i think what’s actually the most interesting to me about this is that gill went into that fight with the knowledge that chip wanted odalath dead. so odalath had to meet a certain threshold of Goodness in order to earn an exemption from capital punishment. and the fact that it’s chip who has a vested interest in seeing odalath executed is going to influence where gill places the goalposts for Good Enough, perhaps to the extent of subconsciously moving them if odalath gets too close to them. it also influences how strongly gill tries to sway him. since it would be bad (and potentially fatal) for chip to leave odalath alive, gill pays lip service to the idea of convincing odalath to see their side, but really, as charlie puts it, he spouts a bunch of one-liners and pretty much gives up on trying to convince him after that first attempt. gill imagines himself as a hero, so he must act heroically, but when heroic action works against his self-interest (which expands to include the interests of his close circle) his dedication to that action is extremely malleable. their attempts at harm reduction are limited by how convenient the outcome would be. your life is only worth what it weighs against these four incredibly powerful people’s ultimate goals. mercy is earned through fortuitous circumstance. but they’re the heroes, and everyone will believe them when they weep about how hard they tried to save you.
also they literally collar him and prevent him from speaking. they do not take it off after he is defeated to allow him to negotiate a fair surrender. gill committing war crimes under the guise of self acceptance is so awesome. was it self care when you extrajudicially murdered that old man.
for the record this is not a criticism. i like when characters justify their actions to themselves no matter how horrific they are. how aware the council is of this/whether or not this makes them ‘problematic’ is not really relevant to me outside of a sociological perspective.
unfortunately extremely funny to me that riptide’s thesis seems to be ‘restorative justice is possible if ☝️ you are ontologically good’
i think what’s actually the most interesting to me about this is that gill went into that fight with the knowledge that chip wanted odalath dead. so odalath had to meet a certain threshold of Goodness in order to earn an exemption from capital punishment. and the fact that it’s chip who has a vested interest in seeing odalath executed is going to influence where gill places the goalposts for Good Enough, perhaps to the extent of subconsciously moving them if odalath gets too close to them. it also influences how strongly gill tries to sway him. since it would be bad (and potentially fatal) for chip to leave odalath alive, gill pays lip service to the idea of convincing odalath to see their side, but really, as charlie puts it, he spouts a bunch of one-liners and pretty much gives up on trying to convince him after that first attempt. gill imagines himself as a hero, so he must act heroically, but when heroic action works against his self-interest (which expands to include the interests of his close circle) his dedication to that action is extremely malleable. their attempts at harm reduction are limited by how convenient the outcome would be. your life is only worth what it weighs against these four incredibly powerful people’s ultimate goals. mercy is earned through fortuitous circumstance. but they’re the heroes, and everyone will believe them when they weep about how hard they tried to save you.
also they literally collar him and prevent him from speaking. they do not take it off after he is defeated to allow him to negotiate a fair surrender. gill committing war crimes under the guise of self acceptance is so awesome. was it self care when you extrajudicially murdered that old man.
unfortunately extremely funny to me that riptide’s thesis seems to be ‘restorative justice is possible if ☝️ you are ontologically good’
i think what’s actually the most interesting to me about this is that gill went into that fight with the knowledge that chip wanted odalath dead. so odalath had to meet a certain threshold of Goodness in order to earn an exemption from capital punishment. and the fact that it’s chip who has a vested interest in seeing odalath executed is going to influence where gill places the goalposts for Good Enough, perhaps to the extent of subconsciously moving them if odalath gets too close to them. it also influences how strongly gill tries to sway him. since it would be bad (and potentially fatal) for chip to leave odalath alive, gill pays lip service to the idea of convincing odalath to see their side, but really, as charlie puts it, he spouts a bunch of one-liners and pretty much gives up on trying to convince him after that first attempt. gill imagines himself as a hero, so he must act heroically, but when heroic action works against his self-interest (which expands to include the interests of his close circle) his dedication to that action is extremely malleable. their attempts at harm reduction are limited by how convenient the outcome would be. your life is only worth what it weighs against these four incredibly powerful people’s ultimate goals. mercy is earned through fortuitous circumstance. but they’re the heroes, and everyone will believe them when they weep about how hard they tried to save you.
i have got to go to bed but that episode Did Something to me.
I will die your daughter
