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thejakeformerlyknownasprince · 1 year

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Question: why do people refer to Tobias in Megamorphs 4 as a "quasi-voluntary" controller? I don't have access to my copy right now but I don't recall anything that would imply he had any knowledge of what he was joining/cooperated in any way? Did I miss something?

So I call Tobias quasi-voluntary, because I think — from my read of MM4 — that Tobias is about as voluntary as any "voluntary controller" ever gets. Which is not that voluntary. Tobias goes to a Sharing meeting because Jake's there, but pretty soon he gets sucked into the cycle of love-bombing: "When you attend your second meeting of The Sharing they assign you a guide" (MM4). In Tobias's case it's a guy named Bill, a few years older, who spends every meeting praising Tobias, and talking up how the Sharing cured his depression and being a full member changed his life.

Bill waits for Tobias to say "I want to be a full member." And then he asks if Tobias is sure, and Tobias says "Yes." Bill presses all the way to "You trade a little bit of freedom for a lot of belonging" and gets Tobias to agree a third time. When the time comes for the "ceremony" (infestation), Chapman makes Tobias explain why he's joining, and Tobias does. Three more times Chapman asks, and three more times Tobias says, out loud, that he wants what's going to happen next. Chapman explains why they want Tobias's consent: "We only have problems in twenty-one percent of willing members. And there are... fewer incidents of contested control." Tobias withdraws consent when he realizes they're about to put a slug in his brain, but by then it's too late.

Later Tobias says "Most painful of all was the image of myself swallowing everything the Sharing told me. I had walked, willingly, to my own destruction. At the time I'd seen no alternatives." So is Tobias voluntary? Well, is Chapman voluntary? He agrees not to resist in exchange for Melissa not being recruited, and he keeps his end of the bargain (#2). Not only does he not fight back while there's a yeerk in his brain, but there's every possibility he's one of the people allowing the yeerk to slip out of their brain and then quietly walking to go wait in the break room without supervision.

Okay, but surely the taxxons are voluntary. They chose to ally with the yeerks... Only it turns out their options were ally with the yeerks or starve to death (#53), and just because their leaders chose the yeerks doesn't mean individual taxxons were okay with it (Andalite Chronicles).

But then, we all know Taylor is voluntary. Because she gave up her freedom for little old things like... relief from pain. And escape from discrimination. And basic health care that didn't cost her family their life savings (#33). And she could never change her mind, because she got punished by Sub-Visser Fifty-One for misbehaving (#43).

But Mr. Tidwell's definitely voluntary. He chooses to have a yeerk in his brain even after joining the YPM. Only he was so depressed he couldn't take care of himself when he joined (#29), and probably would have literally died without the yeerks.

Hang on, is Tom voluntary? He spontaneously offers to "be quiet" and "never trouble you again" when Temrash 114 starts trying to recruit Jake (#6). We don't know for sure that Tom isn't hanging out in that same break room after the events of #1, in exchange for Jake not being recruited.

So on. We know the Sharing targets people who are unhoused and/or mentally ill, and that the ones with happy, stable home lives (Tom, later Jake) tend to go unconvinced. You have to be vulnerable to end up voluntary, the series shows, so vulnerable that your whole ability to consent is seriously called into question.

#animorphs #yeerks #controllers #voluntary controllers #tobias fangor #emohawk #mm4 #yeerk empire #cult tactics #consent issues #intense indoctrination #heck - maybe alloran's voluntary - he does wait around to be reinfested rather than trying to escape in book 8 #maybe jenny lines is voluntary if the alternative is dying of withdrawal syndrome #maybe visser two was telling the truth in book 41 about having convinced marco to go voluntary #IS EVERYONE BUT EVA SECRETLY VOLUNTARY?#more at 5:00

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dcdarkweek · 3 months

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DC Dark Week Prompts 2024

Use these daily prompts to stoke your insidious ideas. See how many individual tiles you can cross off your card, or try and conquer a sequence. Post your cards at the end of DC Dark Week to show off your progress!

Day 1 - Body Horror - May 5th Day 2 - Consent Issues - May 6th Day 3 - Interpersonal Dynamics - May 7th Day 4 - Reprieve - May 8th Day 5 - Power & Control - May 9th Day 6 - Graphic Violence - May 10th Day 7 - Otherworld - May 11th

Click each day to see the full prompts with their theme inspirations. Be sure to mute the tags for any content you wish to avoid.

#dcdarkweek #prompts #body horror #consent issues #interpersonal dynamics #reprieve #power and control #violence #otherworld

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xenosaurus · 2 months

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Tonight’s story is cosmic horror, starting with an introduction to the protagonist, Henry “Jonesy” Jones. (pre-tagged for triggers)

Jonesy is a young man with an arts degree and a passion for painting and sculpture that’s gone nowhere. Struggling to pay bills, he starts driving for a ride-share app, even though he thinks he’s above something so mundane. Frustration with his life turns into artblock, which feeds into the frustration, until one day he picks up a rider on their way to the hospital.

The rider gets a call during the drive— the person they were going to visit has passed away. Jonesy uses the experience of witnessing this moment of grief as inspiration for his art, and produces the first piece that’s actually sold in years.

Trying to hold onto that high, Jonesy starts hanging around the local ER, picking up riders on their way in and out to get them talking about their experiences.

After a month of that, he picks up his ideal meal ticket, a shaky, frail grad student on medical leave. The man introduces himself as West, and takes the empathy-bait to vent about his health. Nobody can figure out what’s wrong with him, with repeated nonsense results in his tests— blood tests coming back as pure bile, in the most recent incarnation. Jonesy offers to buy him a beer to keep the conversation going, and after they’ve both had a few drinks, West kisses him, having read the concern as something very different.

Jonesy, who has never turned down positive attention once in his life and is past tipsy himself, drags West back to the car, where they have a very messy hookup in the back seat.

Afterwards, Jonesy drives him home, with an odd feeling of being watched.

#body horror #unsanitary #original stuff #death #consent issues #longtime followers might recognize older versions of these characters #I redid them!

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achenetype · 1 month

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What would happend if Raven reader never left the nest?👁️ Love ur writing

THIS SPARKED SOMETHING IN ME OH MG GOD

MDNI; implied sex, hand wavey consent, abuse, raven-typical cult behavior and stockholm syndrome, riko is his own warning, injury/violence

listening to: sea, swallow me by cocteau twins

you can’t leave the nest, for a multitude of reasons. some of the other ravens still see their families; they go home for a weekend or for spring break every once in a while. they cite living close to the university, their parents being concerned or overprotective.

your family lives thousands of miles away and they hate you, so you stay at the nest. winter break, spring, summer. you know how edgar allan university looks baked in heat, drenched in rain, blanketed in snow.

riko moriyama and kevin day become your lifeline. he never leaves either. you spend more time together with them than you do with any of the other ravens, running perfect laps on castle evermore’s perfect court until all three of you are out of breath. you suck sparkling air into your lungs and laugh on the way back to your dorm, riko’s arms around your and kevin’s shoulders. perfect, perfect, perfect.

riko becomes captain and that perfection turns icelike and cold. he pushes everyone to their limits, especially himself. you and kevin push back. most of the other ravens are too scared to, but the three of you are perfect perfect perfect, the three of you are brilliant and nothing can stop you.

nothing can stop you until riko shatters kevin’s hand and you spend hours picking up the pieces.

nothing can stop you until riko shatters at the same time as your arm, when he does the same thing to you.

you spend weeks in recovery. riko sits at your bedside, murmuring apologies. murmuring we had to make it look believable, murmuring im so sorry.

your arm heals. clean break. clean hole where kevin used to be. clean, perfect number one, riko moriyama.

you still love him, which you’re not sure is a fact or a weapon. he is too tangled in you to separate what you are from what he is, and who hasn’t been cruel, in the nest? who hasn’t broken someone else to get ahead?

you have. riko has. this makes you a perfect match.

neil josten, newly rechristened nathaniel wesninski and number four, leaves as soon as he appears. some part of you resents him for it but a bigger part is, selfishly, grateful for riko’s attention to be back on you. you want your place by his side back—you want your life back.

you can’t leave the nest even when riko beats jean within an inch of his life. you can’t leave when that girl from the foxes appears and whisks him away, when riko breaks a window and punches a hole in the wall and screams about how his perfect court is falling apart.

everything is falling apart, you want to tell him. everything is falling apart and we can’t do a damn thing about it.

(instead you kiss his knuckles and help clean the glass off of the floor. instead you murmur distractions: how good his form was today, how pretty he looks with blood in his teeth, how you want him to shove you up against the court wall and take whatever he wants. you’d give it to him anyways. you’ve given it before, given everything else.)

(you fall asleep that night feeling hollow. riko’s arms around you and his head on your chest are no comfort. you want to hate yourself in a new, sick way, something that sways in your stomach and makes you want to puke or slash your wrists open like one of the freshman backliners did last week.)

(you want to hate yourself, but you can’t.)

and you can’t leave, either.

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lifblogs · 9 months

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Hmm, Aarovos, you made this child without Viren’s knowledgeable consent.

#like dude wtf #the dragon prince #the dragon prince spoilers #tdp #tdp spoilers #consent issues

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zerrah · 10 months

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Ugh, my mood has been all over the place. I wasn't able to write anything today. T_T Maybe tomorrow?

I'm working on my darkfic! This is probably my darkest larusso fic yet. It's a continuation of the kidnapping ficlet I posted a few months ago.

Cut for spoilers, in case you'd rather wait to read the entire chapter.

He knew it was wrong, probably needed to get his head checked, but he couldn’t stop. Didn’t want to. He wanted to corner Daniel again, hold him close, catch him and never let him go. Even if he begged.

He grew older, and became a fuckup, letting down his mom, aimlessly drifting from job to job where he didn’t go anywhere, did nothing with his life. Passed out on the floor, his head spinning and the scratchy carpet making indents in his cheek and arms, as he missed another baseball game for Robby, another parent-teacher conference, another birthday. The alcohol turned his stomach sour, but it had its claws in him, wouldn’t let him go.

And then Daniel Fucking LaRusso appeared, his face sprouting up on bilboards across the 101, then popping up in television commercials, LaRusso Auto spreading everywhere. That same big mouth, plush lips, dark eyes. It was like the universe wouldn’t let Johnny forget him, rubbing LaRusso’s success in his face.

He hated him.

He couldn’t stop thinking about him.

The memories cropped up in the back of his mind, LaRusso’s face creeping into his dreams. He couldn’t get a date, hadn’t been out in months…longer. He just had all this pent up frustration, a longing that made him sick in the pit of his stomach, set his skin on fire.

And he couldn’t fantasize that way about a girl…wouldn’t. Not the way Johnny thought about him. Holding onto his throat, squeezing until he drool, coming all over his face. Putting that mouth that was always running off to good use.

And Johnny sometimes wondered how LaRusso would react. He heard he was married to a hot wife, probably had kids. Maybe he’d be upset, or angry, distressed even. Or maybe he’d been such a pain in the ass all those years ago because he had wanted it. Johnny bet the twerp liked getting stalked, and degraded, held down in a vice-like grip. Maybe LaRusso yearned to get chased and caught, and no one had the balls to do it.

Not yet, anyway.

#dark lawrusso #darkfic #consent issues #kidnapping

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hislittleraincloud · 9 months

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Casting could not have gotten a more boring, bland actor to play Tyler.

I saw some Wyler fan complain (somewhere on Facebook) about how awful and creepy Xavier was to have entered Wednesday's room without consent (when she was off with Enid and Tyler at the Gates Mansion).

Bitch, you did not fucking forget that Wednesday her goddamn self broke into Xavier's room and went through his stuff in the second goddamn episode.

I mean. I guess your rationale is that it's just how Wednesday rolls, huh? And that other characters are held to a higher standard, even though here on this show, they are all equally powerful until the last episode.

Well shit, if you want to talk about lack of consent, how about the several times Wednesday was pressured to please Tyler? She damn well did not want to nor plan to go to the dance, but since he was stupidly standing there, she was pressured/coerced/emotionally manipulated into going. Granted, that's Thing's fault, but it was all Tyler when he coerced her into a date because he was making her feel like she owed it to him for "nearly getting him killed" (when all of that time he stood there securing his fucking date and all she wanted to do was leave, HE WAS MANIPULATING HER SINCE HE DIDN'T ALMOST GET KILLED...do y'all not remember that? The date wasn't owed. It was all manipulation.).

She had said no and behaved like she wasn't interested since the frickin' beginning. When Tyler whined about "I thought we liked each other", he was manipulating her, because she was Laurel's target. (And speaking of Laurel, Tyler had more chemistry with Laurel than he did with Wednesday. #Gatesmonster)

So to that, I give another warm

Fuck that monster🫠🔥

#tyler galpin #tyler #wyler people #xavier #xavier thorpe #wednesday #wednesday addams #twunter douchehands #boring actors #zero chemistry #fuck that monster #i felt like being a bitch tonight #consent issues

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agerefandom · 1 year

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Maybe stupid question but what does forced regression mean?

Definition is under a ‘read more’ because it might be upsetting to people who have triggers around control and manipulation

Forced regression is basically when someone knows how to trigger your regression and does it regardless of your consent or permission

It can be kind of consensual (ie. you’ve given them permission to pull you away from your work if you’ve been neglecting self care, you protest but they carry you away and tell you that you’re too small to be working right now)

Or it can run towards heavily non-consensual, where someone intentionally triggers someone’s regression to make them reliant on the manipulator, or easier to control (this is a very Hannibal-esque dynamic, in a less realistic fic they could use the openness of regression to kind of ‘reprogram’ the other person, that’s not how regression works but shhh)

It definitely could be argued to cross some lines between kink and regression, since it introduces power dynamics, so I need to think a bit more about how I’ll be tagging and rating those fics.

#tw forced agere #not stupid at all!!!#I’m not even sure if it’s a term that’s used about agere #kink mention #consent issues #asks #anon

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sailorsol · 9 months

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Dear douchebros,

Just because someone is in a costume for a convention with things like lekku or other alien appendages does not mean you can touch those things without permission. Yes, I will throw down with you in the middle of the bar when you grope my friend's lekku the same way as if you'd grabbed her boob or her butt.

Remember, kids, cosplay does not equal consent.

#cosplay #conventions #consent issues #fuck you dude

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dcdarkweek · 3 months

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DC Dark Week - Day 2:

CONSENT ISSUES

For May 6th, we will be pursuing content relating to Consent Issues. Dance along the nuanced line of consent, and permit yourself to explore those circumstances under which it all goes horribly wrong.

Mind the tag “Consent Issues” if you wish to avoid content for this prompt day.

#dcdarkweek #prompts #consent issues

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shallowseeker · 11 months

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Kelly + Jack + water + taking control of the narrative

Kelly + the pool of self-reflection

KELLY: "He said he was thrilled. He said it was the only time he ever created anything."

When Kelly is calling her friend about her pregnancy, she's by the swimming pool, with the sound of water gently playing in the background.

She will be linked to water again:

when she tries to escape her fate in the bathtub

when Castiel glimpses her in The Future by the side of the ocean (script only)

and again when she lives in the house by the lake with Castiel

there are multiple "sea" and "chaoskampf" paintings hanging in said lakehouse

THREE fisherman + stormy sea paintings appear in the nursery Kelly is painting in 12x23

Indeed, the portal to another universe opens up just in front of the lake, symbolizing transition and revelation. (In particular, it will be Mary's revelation of what would have happened had she not made her demon deal.)

But what's the big deal with water?

For starters, it's an inversion of Sam, whose nursery was enveloped in the motif of fire. (Jack's nursery is notably not enveloped in fire; he only gets this motif when Dean's room is shown burning in his AU earth torture as he listens to the screams of Sam and Dean, his earth fathers.)

The pool itself is the physical embodiment and reference to the very beginning of Earth, primordial chaos, before mankind existed.

In Supernatural with its highly Biblical motifs, bodies of water can also be tied to new beginnings and resurrection. We see it with Cas and the Leviathan (when Cas walks into the lake to die, Baptism-like).

Water can also be a tremendous uncontrollable force that takes over your life, as with Dean and AU Michael. In symbology, drowning is a specific warning of doom, representing your helplessness, overwhelming emotions, or the impending death of a loved one.

The number 5:

Here, Jack is associated to room 5, the fifth element Aether: According to ancient and medieval science, aether, also known as the fifth element or quintessence, is the material that fills the region of the universe beyond the terrestrial sphere. Jack is an unstoppable life force, and Kelly's (unfairly) caught in the middle of it.

The broken mirror?

Here's an interesting shot. When Sam is exorcising Lucifer, a mirror breaks (it's above the chest of drawers and between Dean and Kelly). The common reading would be to attribute this to bad luck and offending the gods. Another SPN-common thing is to try to one-to-one link to characters. But the interpretation I think I like the most with regards to mirrors is the breaking OF Chuck's control and the beginning of Jack's usurpation. (Kelly Kline means, "war, small.")

Indeed, one wonders if Jack is already at work, protecting himself from his position in the womb. He's throwing off the narrative and making things go wrong. They're too easily able to defeat Lucifer, and after this, all the "heroes" he came into contact with start failing left and right.

Sam and Dean are incarcerated

Because of that, at least one of the Winchesters is symbolically defeated by Billie the reaper/future Death

Cas loses Kelly, and he can't hunt or find the boys

Rowena's magic won't work

and even Crowley comes up null

The only one everything's going "right" for? Kelly Kline. Jack is working to ensure he's born.

Later, we'll see Jack choose Cas as Father (and Cas's truck breaks down + Dean immediately gets to work to fix it) and in choosing Cas, Jack (symbolically) takes Dean at the same time, narratively reflected by stealing control of Baby.

(Image from WinchesterFamilyBusiness).0

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lifblogs · 1 year

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In season 9 Sam wasn’t saying he wouldn’t save Dean’s life if he had the choice. He was saying he would not force violation upon Dean to do so! That was the whole point. After all Sam’s been through (metaphysical rape as his latest consent trauma here) he would not make someone else get violated. That is where he draws the line. That’s what that discussion was about.

#spn #sam winchester #dean winchester #consent issues

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mr-orion · 4 months

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Cw: rant about real life people in smutty fanfic and how i think that breaches consent 😡

Looked at the smut side of tumblr to see just how explicit I can get with my side blogs. Any embarrassment I had about ever posting about my OCs and writing is heavily outweighed about the andrew garfield x yn I glanced at.

It's not even the fact its smut, its the fact its about a real person and I want to puke 😭 like thats gotta be a breach of that persons privacy??? Like. I can't imagine thinking that's ever okay to post. I only know that this guy is a real person and couldn't consent to that. And even if he did like, there's tons of other real life people written about, that probably didn't consent to that either :(

Like. If you were in that situation that'd be hella creepy right??? Not tryna accuse anyone or anything but like. I just want to understand how that could possibly ever be okay? A fictional character is one thing, thats perfectly fine for the most part, but a real life likeness???

Idk maybe someone has like some really good point that will cull the vitriol in my gums about it but the three main things i see with it is

1. It would be hurtful if they saw it

2. Their boundaries of consent have been broken, they could never consent

3. If people wrote about rl women the way these people write about rl men we would outraged. Possibly even call it predatory

#???#the ick #writblr #writing #thoughts #ethics of writing smut about real people #consent issues #consent #non consent #fanfic

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