ok hot take. we all hate capitalists. I know. I do too. I really, REALLY hate capitalists.
that being said C!Quackity is the definition of a capitalist. like in a fully "I made the money, I deserve it because I took the risks." "its not my fault that some people dont work as hard as I do." "las nevadas is a company, the only government is the corporation which Quackity owns." way.
he is sat RIGHT at the bottom right corner on the political compass, and he is not budging. obviously, thats not to say hes a homophobe or a racist or generally a bigot, but hes very much a land hoarding, greedy, individualistic, profiteer type guy.
him and wilbur have gotten into several arguments about this, as with pretty much all of the ways Quackity runs his goverment, and shots have been FIRED.
I think the main argument from wilbur would be: "was it your fault that you were homeless after you ran from schlatt? do you really belive that youre the only person who has ever needed to run from financial abuse?" and "if it hadn't been for my policies about taking in all we can feed, then you would have starved to death in the woods. according to your philosophy I should have told you to piss off because you wernt profitable."
and then quackity responding with: "you change your ideology like youre a kid playing dressup, dont act like youre better than me because you woke up and decided that being a marxist suited your situation best, you just want something to argue about." and "you only took me in BECAUSE I was profitable. maybe not through labour but you would have used me as a bargaining chip any day of the week."
anyways, they've both been heads of state and both of them are well versed in political science and economics, which leads to both some very fun conversations and some less fun arguments. (wilbur might enjoy it a little)
ok so yes I agree with that take in the context of the smp, but it's also important to point out that minecraft "capitalism" is what those capitalists who want to convince you it's good claim capitalism to be. Food is abundant, shelter has little requirements to be functional, you can literally just dig a little into a hill and you're set, and then make a farm from things you can find anywhere. Anyone can mine, anyone has access to anywhere that isn't already someone's exact base, food is easily accessible and renewable, etc etc.
What Quackity's doing is he's actually providing a luxury service which isn't at all necessary. And Las Nevadas deserves to earn a profit from people using its facilities, cause they've been carefully and deliberately made to provide entertainment. Quackity doesn't have monopoly on food, shelter, land, resources, etc. Anyone could make their own small version of LN if they had the want and time to. So it isn't fair putting cQuackity in the same box as idfk bezos or musk, cause in cQ's case it's deserved, earned, and not a monopoly that causes everyone but him to suffer. Translating that into real life is just simply much more difficult than taking it at face value
As a sidenote I think that while Quackity is like that on the outside, he still wouldn't ignore someone needing help. Like, he's definitely got that built up resentment of "I had to work for all of this so hard, I've gotten through so many hardships. Why should someone else have it easier??" but then when the push comes to shove he's still end up helping, even if just a little bit.
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⚠️TSC spoilers
“Do not let us hurt you unknowingly.”
- Jeremy to Jean
This is among the many reasons why I love AFTG. TSC covers a trauma response focused on fawn/people please/placate. I personally prefer the term placate because of its focus on having to be the one to regulate or calm someone doing harmful behaviours to the person placating. For Jean so much of his reactions and trained responses is to ignore his own discomfort, boundaries and self to survive. So when he’s not in survival mode and those responses continue it hurts the people around him.
Because that’s the unfortunate thing about placating in non abusive environments, it doesn’t serve you and it (like all other responses) can make the situation worse. It means that someone unintentionally hurts Jean and Jean in the nest has never had the experience of someone not wanting to cause harm when conflict arises.
People want to know if Jean is hurting, if they can make things easier, if something can be accommodated for. Because they do not want to be the cause of hurt.
It’s not just about that Jean shouldn’t be hurt or injured, that his boundaries and safety are important. It’s also about the person not wanting to unknowingly hurt someone.
For me it’s something I needed to hear, all the more reasons why AFTG is loved.
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thinking about how dean’s character gets simplified in fandom, or more specifically, the very black and white lens that gets applied to him. because integral to dean, from my point of view, is that he is both a victim of abuse and a perpetrator of it. that these two things do not cancel each other out or outweigh each other to the point that only one matters. he’s both, you cannot separate him from the fact that he’s both.
but very often, people do. dean is either a victim. or he’s an abuser. it’s like it’s hard for people to hold both those facts in their heads at once. dean went through incredible amount of trauma as a child and an adult, is routinely faced with violence, has resorted to alcohol abuse to cope with it. he’s also a violent person, someone who retreats into tactics of emotional abuse and control when he feels threatened, who hurts the people around him constantly and the people who are closest to him (ie Sam, Cas, later Jack) get the brunt of that abuse. these are just facts. they’re things that happened on the screen and cannot be denied.
and it’s. idk it’s weird to me (not unexpected, because he’s hardly the only character to ever get this treatment) that dean of all people is the one portrayed in such an either/or way when one of the defining moments of the show for him is that during his stint in Hell, he was tortured and then became a torturer to escape that, to feel like he had some control again, and he relished in it. it’s baked into who he is.
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i have planned to write a pseudo-essay or some kind of detailed look at linebeck in phantom hourglass and how he can be interpreted as autistic but thats not going very well right now so here are some autistic linebeck headcanons
He has low empathy and as such has a hard time responding very well to emotional situations, but he can take advantage of his lower empathy in situations where empathy could make things harder, like tending to wounds or rationally handling emotionally-charged situations
His coat is a comfort object and he made it specifically to act as a very slight accommodation; it’s heavy and barely lets any light through it, and he can keep all kinds of little things in pockets sewn into the inner lining, but larger objects do make it more uncomfortable to wear at times. It’s mostly good to carry around things to fidget or stim with and can be helpful in trying to recover from overwhelming sensory experiences
He doesn’t usually stim in public, but taps his fingers on tables quickly and tends to rhythmically snap his fingers when excited, and on his ship is more vocal and more willing to stim, even if around others. One of his main stims that he’ll do for no particular reason is that he’ll hold his arm or back of his wrist/hand up to his nose and mouth for the smell.
He masks frequently to please people. His default mask is that arrogant and brave front he puts up for islanders and other he may come across. Usually, if that mask doesn’t work, he tends to double-down because it usually works and, in his experience, dropping the mask has usually gone badly (non masking he’s rude and blunt but more outwardly excited about adventure and his ship and all of that, i consider it where overseas in the game is when he usually isn’t masking. this shifts his arc to be about him learning to stop masking and feel comfortable being himself)
His special interests could include stuff related to treasure hunting but it could really range from stuff about adventuring or the ocean or engineering (relating to his ship) to stuff not at all touched in the game like music. He really enjoys music, listening to it, playing it, and writing it. He also enjoys and is fascinated by shellfish.
When busy or otherwise occupied, he doesn't usually notice when he's hungry. He doesn't have as much of a problem noticing thirst or exhaustion, but feeling hunger is a problem for him, and often leads to him going a long time without eating. On the other hand, he doesn't mind eating the same thing repeatedly and is perfectly fine with blander foods, so handling food supplies for when he'll be overseas for a long time is easy for him.
He knows he's autistic, he's known for a pretty long time, and he has books on it; he also knows that Link is autistic, but doesn't say anything about it and instead waits until someone else tells him. Until (and after, I suppose) Link actually learns that he's autistic Linebeck just makes sure to keep note of what accommodations he might need and if there are any textures or tastes or smells he can't stand. He doesn't have much of a problem helping out during sensory overloads, even soon after meeting him. It's more out of understanding how it feels to not have your needs met and a sort of solidarity rather than actual friendship.
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i know we joke and point out how different things would have been if jason came out to sister chantelle instead, bc there is so little support in his life and the only one who knows His Truth TM is peter, but...
he's Really good at playing his role. peter was picked out as gay when he stepped in for diane during rehearsals, showing he's memorized juliet's lines as he does the choreography with jason, even finishes his lines For him. and yeah, it's obvious, so chantelle has him stay after rehearsals, but.
the thing is, jason was still able to pass as straight. he was Literally the romeo to peter's juliet and, perhaps because he was romeo from the start--due to his popularity--it was inconceivable he could ever reciprocate what peter felt for him.
the thing is, peter did not choose to come out to sister chantelle. he only chose his mom, and also matt as a technical bonus. he did not seek out support--only wanted to stop lying to the people he loves and is close with. he got her support anyway.
jason did not choose to come out--it happened for him. he then chose to come out to father flynn, who i assume was not at rehearsals amd did not hear bc why would he be at rehearsals. begged and cried for support and did not receive. sure, he got a speech about how the church would be his spine, that he could work past it, but that kind of support is a rejection.
so i have to wonder... if matt never walked in on jason and ivy, had never callously, carelessly outed jason--
--would anyone other than peter and matt even know, without a doubt, with absolute certainty, that he was gay?
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this probably needs a cw but idk what exactly just like cw your stereotypical anger issues father's behaviour to his wife?
anyways LMAOO its like out of a movie my father being on the phone while going on his screaming and threatening match at my mum as usual and is now freaking out because obv everyone heard him, lol just shows he knows its shitty because if he didnt why would he be so worried about everyone hearing him ? lol im so happy his friends will all know what hes like behind closed doors this is great news, i just hope he doesnt take it out on my mum or me in return lol
one thing i am worried about like growing up i was just scared of him and scared of men and in turn scared of ever being in any relationship with men because i assumed theyd treat me like my dad, what im worried about with my brothers if at the other end they'll grow up thinking this is how to treat their s/os in reverse yk? sure he's slightly less extreme but like not by that much lol, but the boys still get spoilt favourite-ism for being boys so they adore him and like im just worried they'll grow up and even if they don't do it they'll just shrug it off when they see other people do it
but all in all wake up embarrassment call for him having a great day today ❤️❤️
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@ofwitchery 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐮𝐧𝐚.
“My Lord,” she calls to him sweetly. “T’is the dawn of a New Year, may I request something of you? I desire to feast on your flesh… and, in return, I may take whatever you want of me.” // unprompted.
❛❛ 𝒔𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒍 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒔❟ the title does nothing for him, nor does it mean anything to him, truly. The reverence therein, however, tone saccharine in the decadences of a woman's voice is as music to his ears. my, my, how he would enjoy the cries of her served violence from his hand. The thought promotes a perverse sort of glee from him.
Lower lids along the apples of his cheeks arch like crescent moons to an ever growing grin, slivers of ruby peeking out to regard her with his full attention. His purr is unmistakable, a vibration of the chest that reverberates the very air about him.
❛ another year bygone, and its successor come to chase it away, ❜ Sukuna waves away the very notion on the one hand, unconcerned of the coming and goings of time that does not perceive him in the slightest any longer, ❛ How utterly — ❜ boring, skated the edge of his lips. Fangs glisten when bared around the flash of a tongue peeked out to wet reddened and bruised lips, and Sukuna bothers not to hide his interest. no, no, he's thoroughly engaged. The narrowing of ruby gaze as it trained on her face, shifting and searching her face desperately for the smallest of reaction from it.
❛ business or pleasure ? ❜ he rumbled out an inquiry of her motives, not of fear or concern, but of curiosity.
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