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@interoteme
"INTEROTEME" — but you can call me Boss, Operator, or whatever your little heart desires. I draw what we like. I tend to die and get reborn again every now and then. Feel free to rummage around my inbox, I like getting asks (especially about my OC/my views on characters). I'm an adult; I major in linguistics. The one running things around here.
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saw kyle gallner in person yesterday
Both Benson and Randy are victims of incestous abuse when it comes to their mothers in specific. I think about that a lot, how they have so many parallels—as we already know, but this one stands out to me more than the rest. Randy's mother is overbearing, and even controlling of the way he dresses, which is a pretty telltale sign regarding the nature of their relationship and the projection that Randy's mother puts onto him.
At 21 years of age, where Randy should be able to go out and drink and be his own damn person, he's still got his mother telling him where to be. What to do. What to wear. But Randy worries about her, he panics if he doesn't pick up in time, and he thinks his mother has a point when she decides to step in, because he doesn't think he deserves to make any kind of decision of his own.
Benson recognizes this practically immediately. When Randy mentions that he got held back in 2nd grade, Benson is so shocked that this could happen to a child, he determines right away that this must have been some sort of cruel and humiliating punishment. He's right, it is embarrassing for a kid so young at 7 years old to have to be singled out and held back a year because his mother thought it would be what's best. He wasn't allowed to move on from it because his mother didn't even let him to grow up with the rest of his class. No, he had to sit through 2nd grade all over again under the impression that this would have never happened if he never did that to Beard.
It makes sense for Benson to have caught on that this was abuse to some degree, because the wellbeing of children is so, so important to him. That is some over-parenting bullshit. He is so quick to start insulting Randy's mother who he is hearing about for the very first time because he's already got such a bad taste in his mouth after hearing that she could do such a thing to her 7 year old, and now look at the little pussy he's grown up to be, wasting his life away allowing himself to eat floor burgers. It makes him sick.
The thing about Benson's mother, however, is that she has instead neglected him. Earlier in the film, he expresses to Randy after getting him to admit he is a virgin that he believes that "all of the world's problems" can be blamed on people having kids too young to be able to raise them properly, and then allowing themselves to get hooked on meth. It is no secret that his mother is an addict, so it becomes clear that when Benson said this, he was speaking from experience.
His Ma was too fucked up on drugs to even notice the shit that happened to him in third grade, and even contributed to the hard, abusive mindset and worldview that Benson currently has. You can tell that the words Benson tells Randy after leaving his house, You make me hurt you when all I want to do is help you because I care about you, is something he is regurgitating after hearing it time and time again out of the mouth of his own mother. This is what it means it love somebody. Sometimes you have to hurt them to make them understand, especially when they have nobody else.
Now, Benson hates his Ma, he hates the home he is in, and tells Randy to just forget about that house, but we still see him be so affectionate towards his mother. Even after all this time, this is the woman that raised him, gave him life, and endured the hardship of addiction. How could you blame her? How could you leave her even after all she's done? Look at the state she's in, she can't even get out of bed, for Chrissake!
There's a string that Benson has never severed away from his ma, and yet he tells Randy to get the courage to break free from the threads that his mother has him entangled in.
To those who use my art as their icons and don't credit me just know that I see you. Now I know I've said before that you don't gotta, 'n you still don't, but, yanno. I see you.
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Hey Boss you're literally right. Sorry about what these ppl are adding to your post. Borderlands fan reading comprehension
LOL it's okay at this point I'm more feeling bad that the only stuff I'm posting is discourse textposts and that I haven't drawn anything properly in another month or so... perhaps I'll get in a Jack for ol' times sake, I am still always thinking about him and he has been integral to my identity for like 2 years now. God, my OC too, I keep wanting to draw or write stuff of him and Jack but man. I just don't have the motivation to get myself to draw anything anymore. I gotta lock back in. For you guys. My dedicated fans.
banger post boss . the last ask has me reeling we're just saying anything now
Thank you, Ben! I only post bangers, as you know. I really don't get it, though. You also make a very good point in the tags mentioning that it is very strange when others want Jack to be a racial minority So, So Bad yet also completely ignore the actual brown characters—the allegory is much more impactful if he were white considering how Roland, a black man leading the main revolution against him, is murdered and then Jack (racistly!) puts on a blaccent, pretending to be him to the player and then proceeds to mock him. You really cannot get more in-your-face about it when it comes to Handsome Jack.
Yes, Jack is my absolute favorite character in the series and I even consider him one of my favorite characters across all of fiction, I will admit this shamelessly, but whenever I see people draw him with dark skin, I raise an eyebrow, and you should, too. Not every character out there should recieve these headcanons—now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying people should stop having fun, I don't really take issue when fellow brown individuals feel like projecting their skintone in characters they like, but I usually only see this flavor of Jack drawn by white people. My theory is that white artists do this to come across as more "woke," if you understand what I'm trying to say here, but they fail to understand the undertones they implement when they draw him anything but white.
No, Gearbox is not free from criticism (as the fandom is more than aware), and there are a lot of anti-Native or generally racist elements (you see how the Pandorans are or arguably even the manner Tina speaks—as much as I love her, you can like her and also just accept that yeah that's a little racist coming from Gearbox), but there was a clear intent in the message they were trying to deliver as they criticized corporations and their white supremacist CEOs.
Also—the person who was in my notes saying all that is Argentinian. Point and laugh.
Brown people can do genocide too. Also Hitler was a Jewish hypocrite.
people in real life: hey man how's it going
Is race an important part of Handsome Jack's character?
Yes, and I view him as a poc (I'm white)
Yes, and I view him as a poc (I'm not white)
No, and I view him as a poc (I'm white)
No, and I view him as a poc (I'm not white)
Yes, and it's bc he's white (I'm white)
Yes, and it's bc he's white (I'm not white)
No, and idc that he's white (I'm white)
No, and idc that he's white (I'm not white)
I don't go here/Results
I'd add a "I hadn't considered this at all/don't think about his race" option but I don't want this to be neutral, so I'm making you think about this with me. Please rb if you can I'm really curious about it.
Why are there more white people hcing jack as not white than poc themselves??? This scares me!
the correct answer was [Yes, and it's because he's white.] Sucks to see that the winning poll was white people not recognising how his whiteness adds to the story, and how integral it is, but eh. Anyway you guys failed
Will forever be a POC jack believer idgaf ♥ even if i'm "white" or whatever he's poc in my heart of hearts (+ him trying to be "white" trought his mask due to insecurity + acting certain ways to fit the hyperon hirerarchy. ++ The writers never implied anything)
Dunno why white (? Whatever that is) people can't hc characters as poc but ok!
you don't think that the writers were implying anything about his character ? handsome jack? handsome "space-hitler" jack?
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my comms are open again but i don't feel like advertising sufficiently so like. please? ty
i've lost my ability to draw, so i've been feeling like him lately
just can’t stand this city anymore
I LOVE THE WAY YOU DRAW I JUST WANNA GOBBLE IT UP
who sent this. i'm sorry for not posting in like 2 months. i'm glad i'm still being thought about
