I think we should be allowed to burn corporations to the ground
even aside from all the current residuals&streaming availability fuckery, I was looking at 978-0786847655 one of the Disney Fairies books with some lovely illustrations and the artists listed are
The Disney Storybook Artists
That’s nothing. That’s less than nothing. I want names and proper credits. SO many books are published by the mouse with only this catch all name listed for worlds of work. What if I want to track down the artists and support their individual work? Do you keep them in a cave and not let them see the sun? Or do you just not believe in proper crediting.
‘oh but there was probably a contract and they were surely paid’ yeah and ???? paid how much what about residuals are the artists even allowed to put these books on their work history since without their name credited anywhere. The contract or job listing or internship clause or whatever tactic disney uses to get away with this is scummy while sure this type of thing should be low on the list of priorities on how to de-shitify the world, it should be on the list.
yes some of the artists who have worked on the franchise are listed on the artofdisneyfairies tumblr, but that’s a fan account and it’s incomplete. A book should have full proper credits in it
The corporation may own the art but they didn’t make it and they shouldn’t hide who did the work as neither artists nor ‘consumers’ benefit from that.
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hi. can you elaborate on harrow's schizophrenia? asking in good faith, I'm schizotypal myself. she's always ticked me off as weird in nd way, but not in psychotic/schizo- way. i was really disappointed when her "insanity" turned out to be genuine haunting.
Hi!!
Have you seen this post collecting the supplementary materials in which the author mentions Harrow's (and her) schizophrenia? The endnotes of Harrow the Ninth, interviews, ect. Public statements only; nothing that violates her privacy.
More detailed elaboration involving the actual text under the cut, if that's what you're looking for.
I'm not gonna dissect Harrow's personality for nd traits, because that would personally feel skeevy to me. But I will say that even before I found the meta evidence in the post above, I never thought Harrow's "insanity" was entirely explained by the hauntings. Abigail may have thought so, because it did explain the Egg Notes and certain other things that happened in the River version of Canaan House, but Abigail had a very limited knowledge of Harrow's mind and history.
First off, I want to be upfront that I'm not schizotypal, so my analysis is mostly based on the books themselves and second hand knowledge. Feel free to hit the back button now. If you still want to hear my textual analysis, I'd be grateful if you'd let me know if I fuck up.
The last section of Chapter 3 (pages 51-52 in the American hardcover) is worth a re-read. It describes Harrow's condition when she was ten years old. Auditory and visual hallucinations, losing time, strong sourceless emotions, and so on. That's all well before the start of the haunting Abigail offers as an explanation.
Then there's a bit of advice from Crux:
Again, this memory is from years before Wake started rearranging the furniture in Harrow's head. If the haunting was causing all of Harrow's symptoms, why would Crux have been helping her learn how to manage them as a child?
There's also this fun little detail from the Epiparodos, when Ianthe is examining what Harrow did to her brain:
Atypical size or formation of the left superior temporal gyrus is commonly associated with schizophrenia, and I suspect Muir put that hint in intentionally.
So that's my thesis. It's not a dichotomy. Harrow is both schizophrenic and haunted, but only the haunted part was Abigail's business.
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listening to ep 100 of riptide and thinking about the parallels of the encounters with jay’s dad
in their first encounter, at the block, jayson ferin (grizzly, man, i’m sorry but why does it have to be spelled that way) knows exactly what to say to intimidate jay. he ridicules her choice to become a pirate, insults her friends. but he also shames her for having left featherbrook island. for “leaving her mother all by her lonesome.” jay’s response is that her mother can handle herself, though her father continues on, speaking at her rather than to her.
the majority of the conversation, jay pleads more than argues. she doesn’t need to prove him wrong. she just needs to convince him to let her friends live. she doesn’t move to attack or defend, just walks up to her dad, head down, and puts her fist on his chest. she immediately surrenders. says she’ll return home, do what he says, begging him to let the others go.
this doesn’t pan out of course. gillion acts, fights against jayson for the sake of his friend, for her freedom. but jay’s internal conflict, the secret she’s spent all this time lying about, her genuine care for her friends but her want to somehow appease her father, to find out what happened to ava. there’s uncertainty. and jayson sees this, and uses it to punish them. by forcing her to punish them. there’s nothing else she can do.
she shoots gillion in the chest.
in episode 100, as the crew has just left zero, they’re ambushed by the navy. as jay’s father lands on their ship to arrest them, something is different. jay has committed to her choice, to her co-captains and her crew. jay speaks against him.
“you shouldn’t be here.”
jayson ferin doesn’t know his wife is sick, that her magic is leaving her. jay herself has only just found out, but it makes sense that she hasn’t been able to return home as a wanted pirate. jayson doesn’t have that same excuse, yet he’s been absent for years. he doesn’t visit home often, not even before jay left to be a pirate.
when her father asks why, jay says “of course you wouldn’t know. always blind to everything around you, especially your family.”
he speaks as if he’s looking past her, trying to separate the person he sees from the daughter he raised. trying not to think about how much she looks like ava.
“my family would never forsake their duty on some immature whim of emotion. i see no family-“
jay interrupts him. “yeah? and what about mom? you ever once think to look over her? check in on her maybe?”
and jayson’s response is what really stands out to me.
“my wife can take care of herself. how dare you use her to provoke me. is this how far you have fallen?”
he’s contradicting his words in the block. not that he really meant what he said, as he didn’t truly care about jay leaving her mother. he cared about controlling the situation, and his wife was an easy card to play to make jay feel guilty.
as jay challenges her father, he assumes she’s trying to play the same game. weaponize their remaining family to gain control. she isn’t.
“when was the last time you saw her?”
jayson ferin is silent.
“i saw her a week ago. she’s very sick, dad.”
he doesn’t seem to even consider that she’s telling the truth. skirting around the subject to insult jay’s character before addressing it.
“try to trick me all you want. but it will not be me who dies a fool. and do not dare use my wife to bargain.”
“that’s just like you, dad. just like you to think i’d use mom as a bargaining chip and not tell you out of pure concern for her. i would’ve stayed and helped. but, y’know, you have so much navy on the island no i couldn’t even do that for mom.”
there’s such a contrast in how jay holds her self during the block and now. her father never allowed her to be her own person, wouldn’t have acknowledged it even if she’d tried to do so. and she knew that in the block, knew it long before she left featherbrook. it may have been easier had she gone back home with jayson after the block, but it would have been a betrayal. not just to her crew, but herself. she knows better now. knows what she wants and what she’s worth.
“so you know what? you continue to do your thing. be a bad husband, be a bad father, i don’t care. right now? i’m gonna get you off my ship.”
and she shoots at him.
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