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novelconcepts · 5 months

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In watching more interviews with Liv about Van and the escalation of Van's pragmatism to such dark degrees, I find myself genuinely baffled that anyone could ever think Van the bad guy. I mean, I'm perplexed at finding ANY of these girls The Bad Guy. The bad guy is the situation. It's being lost. It's freezing. It's starving. It's being scraped down to the barest bone of being alive. They make choices that might be snippy, or cruel, or hard-headed, sure--Shauna refusing to just hash it out with Jackie; Jackie being too stubborn to come inside; Taissa refusing to discuss her situation plainly; etc--but by the time we reach the end of season 2, it doesn't even matter. Petty bullshit doesn't matter. Jealousy doesn't matter. Those things are still going to be present and complicated, because--for all their choices, for all the distancing they're trying to do--these kids ARE still human beings. But it isn't the point.

The point is survival. Plain, simple, straightforward. Van's pragmatism is survival. It is the difference between living another day with blood on your teeth or dying pretty. It is the difference between fighting forward through the fire and the snow and the hell of it all, and laying down to die. Van knowing, in watching the ritual violence of Shauna beating Lottie nearly the death, that they will be killing and eating one another soon. Van coming up with the cards for the hunt. Van not blinking when the moment comes, Van choosing a weapon that doubles as a tool to bring the body back, Van refusing to apologize for staying alive--it's not evil. It's not Bad Guy behavior. It's purely about survival, because there is nothing else left to her--or to any of them. They can play the pretty little Sweet Angel Girl game and die, or they can get dirty, bloody, horrific and fight. Van chooses the fight. Van chooses to fight for herself, for her lover, for her team, even knowing not everyone is going to make it out...because the alternate path there is that no one makes it out. Van knew the baby wouldn't live. Van knows the rest of them won't, either. Not unless they start making the hard choices.

And, honestly, the fact that Van sees this narrative coming. Comes up with this plan. Brings out the cards. To me, that is the opposite of Bad Behavior. That is as close to justice as anyone can find in the wilderness. If someone else came up with an idea, maybe it would have come down to voting--but that would have had such a human element to it, with bitterness or hostility or whatever ultimately petty shit always comes of humans selecting who to Other. The cards don't leave room for that. It isn't fair, because the situation isn't fair, because Man vs. Nature isn't fair, but it's as close to a just system as they could possibly find. It's the kindest solution to an unwinnable game. Not to bring it back to American Gods again, but all I can think is "it's easy, there's a trick to it: you do it, or you die." Van gave them that.

#yellowjackets #yj meta #van palmer #i simply cannot ever accept people blindly hating ANY of the girls for their actions at the end of S2 #because by that point it's not about personality flaws or errors of judgement or teenage bullshit #it's survival. it's literally do or die.#be mad at the stuff they did the first few weeks out there. THAT was in their control.#but by the end of S2 it's 'do i want to live? cool. then this is the next step. there IS nothing else. we are eating belts.'#every once in a while on instagram or somewhere i see a hot take like 'oh this whole thing is THIS girl's fault'#and it's like no no. no--apart from misty busting the black box--NOTHING these girls do will change the fact of their situation #they might make it worse or make it more palatable but in the end #it's the purity of man vs. nature as a story #and any of them getting darker. more logical. more pragmatic. just means they're putting another day breathing first.#the human element of it comes in with the faith and the ritual and the acceptance of violence--but the violence was coming either way #'this place cannot be argued with. and that is how we survive: by giving into that.' exactly. liv hewson you genius. exactly.

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 9 months

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"Anyone who believes in a Sky Daddy, rapture, end time, the second coming, judgement day, heaven or hell should never be allowed to hold any position of power or authority."

#apocalypse cult #apocalypse #sky daddy #rapture #the rapture #end times #end of days #judgement day #judgment day #second coming #second coming of jesus christ #religion #religion is a mental illness

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good-beans · 7 months

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I know most of our focus goes (rightfully) to the trial songs, but I genuinely believe Baptism of Fire is equally a masterpiece of meaningful writing and intense vocal acting

Incoming tag rant because I need to yell about this, feel free to yell back

#milgram #fuuta kajiyama #like the other vds have good writing about the character and whatever social issue their crime focuses on #but this one is very pointedly about YOU #its about the audience. its about the milgram project. its about self reflection. its about self-appointed roles. its about you #even if you didnt vote t1 or anything the whole things is calling on you to reflect on your own judgements of others #how you treat people who come off rougher. how you treat people who have made a (bad but) common mistake.#do you also find entertainment in seeing people dragged down and suffering because it would 'serve them right?'#but es always remains in control of the situation. the drama doesnt end with 'and fuuta was right - you guys suck!'#its clarified that situations are different and have nuance. we are reminded to look at things with nuance.#then we are smoothly re-immersed in the story #and then!! the acting itself!!!#arthur lounsbery put his whole fussy into that performance (<- fuuta pussy) and i am in his debt every day for it #in both his vds hes just super expressive and fun to listen to #i dont understand japanese but he packs so much interesting intonation and emotion into every word -- im obsessed listening to him #he nails all the subtle emotions fuuta has: the pouts and outrage as well as underlying fear grief insecurity and immaturity #and then baptism of fire hes just... Wailing #like mahiru has her innocent and pathetic cries of pain in her sweet voice that works for her character but fuutas pain feels much more raw #the way hes practically sobbing at the end -- his voice cracking and screeching throughout -- the whimper of pain #its so unbearably intense!! it hurts!! and its supposed to!! but hes just so raw with it #and dont even get me started on his pained hysteric laughter omg....#its just. a masterpiece.#i always appreciate the vds but i dont think ive enjoyed/relistened to one as much as this one #okay WAIT im back to add one more thing because im obsessed with ths idea of intentions #specifically in milgram i think the intention behind the murders are very important to consider #so i love love love the huge focus on 'i didnt expect/mean for this to happen'#plus as a general theme in fiction i think its sooo juicy when good intentions get fucked up #so i loved the repetition of that #fuuta is such a special case because he genuinely had no desire or expectation for his victim to die #(maybe kazui too? but he doesn't say so in his vd like fuuta does)

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cits-kirby-brainrot · 6 months

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Papi and morpho pretty please ! After that papi post I've been inrsted more in you're interpretation of papi

Took a little bit but here you go!

In death Papillon, or Papi, is a stubborn soul who, despite his memory of his former life slipping with every year past, refuses to find peace in his death. While his reasons for his unrest has been lost to time, he still hasn’t moved on, determined to make something right with the mortal world he can’t leave behind. Naturally this has come into conflict with Morpho, who’s job it is to reap all souls of those who’ve died. Despite all their efforts, Papi has done the impossible of escaping his final rest several times.

After several years, Papi’s soul has begun to become unstable due to his defiance of the natural law, which is a terrible because a soul that is left to fester leads to very unpleasant consequences. So, Morpho makes a deal with Papi: they will give his soul a semi-corporeal body that will house and keep his soul safe. In exchange, Papi is to become their apprentice and follow their example and reap the souls of the dead. This exchange is only supposed to last until Papi achieves peace with his death.

Papi can’t remember much of his life on the mortal plane. Centuries of being in a state between life and death has degraded his memory down to basically nothing. When not being told to do work by Morpho, Papi spends his time searching the galaxy to find the thing that will give him peace. He doesn’t know what (or who) he is looking for, but he is sure he’ll know it when he finds it. He has too.

Yet in all these years and no luck, even a stubborn soul can begin to waver.

(And some alive!Papi)

#kirby series #kirby papi #papi kirby #morpho knight #my stuff #answered asks #gijinka #requests #headcanons #am ignoring everything in the light novels because I know nothing about it #basically just made an oc and made it wear the skin(butterfly wings) of an established character #a little(lot) of story crafting never hurt nobody #Morpho: come now child your judgement day has come #Papi: nuh uh #Morpho: fym nuh uh??#creationverse

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martianbugsbunny · 8 months

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"I know that you took the things that mean the most to me" and "Maybe you should have fought harder for them" like....that's not about Raven. That's just not how you talk about a sibling. That's about Erik. Charles very explicitly (and understandably) feels he was abandoned, like Erik was able to just up and leave his life and take away the greatest love Charles had ever known without caring how much it hurt. And for Erik it's always been about wanting Charles to join him, wanting Charles to fight with him, maybe even wanting Charles to love him enough to say "screw the world" the same way Erik does. Charles is pissed because Erik took himself out of Charles' life on that beach and Erik is pissed because Charles chose the other side over him and let him go.

#*dabs in cherik*#yes I will overthink every scene they have together what of it?#cherik #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #erik x charles #charles x erik #xmen #xmen movies #xmen prequels #xmen days of future past #as a haver of siblings myself I feel qualified to make that one judgement lol #'if you had fought harder maybe X wouldn't have come with me instead' just doesn't give sibling #that's the kind of phrasing folks usually use when taunting somebody about the fact that their SO left them #Erik is talking about himself just there #and honestly Charles is talking about him too but he would never say it out loud in that movie #martianbugsbunny ships

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beebfreeb · 2 years

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sexyman descendants entertains me greatly. DAY BE UPON YOU!!!

freak who is in debate and law studies and wants to argue with you so bad it's a disease. LOVES to ask you about hyper-specific hypotheticals that relate to your worst mistakes, as is customary <3 JUST as annoying as any other judgment boy.

#sexyman descendants #gregory horror show #ms paint #beebfreeb art tag #ghs #judgment boy #judgement boy #every other judgment boy HATES them. where did they come from. who put her there. scariest thing that's ever happened to them #i was afraid that i wouldnt be able to come up w/ anything other than some variation of ''jr'' or ''judgment girl'' so DAY WIN!!!

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sky-high-standards · 20 days

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Judgement is near

Heyy ppl the eclipse is coming soon and I'm scared I am currently listening to the bible and I feel full in feel like the spirit is in me as I'm listening to the Bible of my Bible app that u guys should check out In the book of acts it states that God will show his signs which he has every single one of them yet we refuse to believe I'm glad I've seen these signs cuz the eclipse could be the day and hell is more agonizing than anything and I want to put u guys back on track I want to save y'all before it's too late God will forgive us give your life to him heaven and his love is much more desirable than earthly things the moon is turning red and the eclipse will make the sun darkness I truly hope him wrong cuz I wanna be old enough to start my family but it will be do beautiful in heaven with Jesus God bless those u actually read my rant have a good day and have faith in Jesus through him u will have eternal life.

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obnoxiousbloodstain · 2 days

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Damian Priest, I will bite your ankles.

#this is about him telling Dom he doesn't need anybody #SIRRRR #ugh I cant #I hate men #- coming from a man.#wwe #the judgement day #damian priest

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000marie198 · 21 days

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Hi, in light of recent earthquake in a place that never gets hit by earthquakes, let this be your painful harsh reminder that frequent natural disasters and earthquakes are one of the signs of Qiyammah, if you even still believe in THE Day of Resurrection.

There are many signs and over half of them have already come true (Current Palestine genocide included)

Better return to your faith and start praying before the day the Sun rises from the West and no more prayers or pleas for forgiveness will be accepted

#this is no joke.#i most genuinely and seriously advise to not take it as a joke #yes I'm a Muslim and rhe signs were prophesied in our religion #that does not mean this thing isn't real.#you believe in Day of Resurrection too right?#islam #day of judgement #day of resurrection #i can make a list of the signs i knew as a child and have seen come true over the years as i grew up #new york earthquake #new york #earthquake #new jersey earthquake

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 9 months

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"If anyone made me wait two thousand years and they still hadn't shown up, they'd be dead to me.

Adios amigo."

“Three gospels quote Jesus as saying that he’d be back in their lifetimes. That was over 2000 years ago. Christians are carrying around an expired bus pass, waiting for a bus that isn’t coming and doesn’t exist.” -- Docktor Jim

You can have "Jesus is real" or "Jesus is coming." You can't have both.

#jesus christ #christianity #religion #myth of jesus #jesus myth #second coming #second coming of jesus christ #judgement day #judgment day #rapture #the rapture #religion is a mental illness

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notetaeker · 9 months

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Please have your kids memorize longer surahs in a fun way when they're little. That way those surahs will always be filled with a distinct comfort and nostalgia like nothing else when they get older. It doesn't even have to be a whole surah. The satisfaction of reciting qur'an and reaching an ayah you know is so amazing. It's like arriving at a place that's packed and recognizing your friend in the crowd ;_;

If you make it fun then it'll be such a powerful thing in their lives. It's a different kind of comfort subhanallah.

This also works on yourself by the way- you are the youngest you'll ever be so might as well start today... Who knows? Some years down the road you might read the ayah or happen to hear it and recognize it like you would an old friend 💓💓

#it has to be fun tho or else it might not work #You know when else it'll be useful?#when the qur'an comes literally as your friend on the day of judgement to give u literal comfort #I had this post in my drafts but I'm only making this connection right now after a lecture series of what happens in the grave #subhanallah #reminder to myself lets be honest i haven't memorized in months 🥲 or even reviewed anything tbh #islam #🌙

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dreddedwheat · 4 months

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Back to the Dredd-tomes: Judgement Day

Okay, so-!

Brief introduction: I used to have a previous blog that focused on my youthful fanboyism of the 2000AD and Judge Dredd universe. A few misstimed clicks a year or so back and that all got nuked, and it basically killed my enthusiasm for writing stuff up, since I lost a metric ton of amateur analysis, fan-mixes and other stuff that most people would usually forget.

There was a lot of back and forth with good folks like @judgeanon (who I credit with helping support what is a vanishingly small online discussion around Dredd and 2000ad in general), which is now sadly mostly lost. Usually for the better with my more immature antics, hence the fresh start and fresh name to go with it.

However, after a Christmas filled with a sudden surge of - probably ill-informed - Dredd buys, I decided to get back into things. That means actually talking about the comic that was formative for me as a fan of both comic-books and fiction in general...

JUDGE DREDD

And where better to start than the biggest, the meanest, and the best/baddest (depending on who you ask) Dredd epic, JUDGEMENT DAY. (Spoiler warnings, images courtesy of the 2000AD site and Google Search.)

So, let's get into a basic overview of this contentious Dredd epic...

The Story so far: Judge Dredd is a law-enforcer in Mega-City One, a massive post-apocalyptic metropolis. As a Judge he's authorised to deliver instant sentencing on the spot, no jury or court necessary. He's judge, jury and executioner, and he is the law, but you probably already knew that.

Johnny Alpha is a Strontium Dog, a mutant bounty-hunter that wants to break free of life on an increasingly anti-mutant Earth. Taking on the bounties no-one else will touch, he utilises his unique 'Alpha Eyes' to see through walls, sense other people's intentions and more. He always gets his man.

Alright, now that introductions are out of the way, let's get into it. For the uninitiated, a Dredd 'epic' is a pretty standard description for a big summer storyline. This all started with the "Apocalypse War" back in the eighties, a storyline which defined not only Judge Dredd but also British Boy's comics.

For American fans, and British comic readers of a certain age (like me) it's hard to imagine a time when most British comics were simply lukewarm re-treads of the same adventure stories you'd read in the fifties, sixties and seventies. Of course, not all of these were bad - far from it - but like many things in Britain during the eighties they were a victim of a stuffy, uptight and squeamish society.

2000AD proved to be a seminal title in many ways, mostly in introducing borderline graphic violence, mature storylines, cynical themes and more complicated heroes. Judge Dredd, a tyrannical authoritarian supercop who nonetheless has strong principles and heroic intentions is the most emblematic of that.

However, for most of his lifetime Dredd had been a relatively straightforward and heroic figure. And although a direct criticism of this was not far away - in the form of the Democracy Now storyline - the Apocalypse War was perhaps the first time we saw Dredd on a firm backfoot.

The lantern-jawed hero was put thoroughly on the defensive when the Sovs, a pastiche of Soviet-era Russia, attacked and destroyed a large portion of Mega-City One. It was a grand war story depicting the Judges of the city waging guerilla warfare and culminating with a particularly chilling page where Dredd retaliates using the Sov's own nukes, obliterating hundreds of millions of people.

Yee-ikes, even nowadays this is vicious stuff. Now imagine this in a mag that's being sold next to "The Beano" on shelves and you can imagine why this was considered such a definitive storyline.

But, okay, why am I telling you this? Well, put simple, Judgement Day is a result of the inherent love that writer Garth Ennis, best-known now for titles like The Boys and Punisher Max, had for this storyline. At least that's the prevailing thesis put forwards by people like JA, God knows that online discussion of Dredd is hard to come by no matter what.

Regardless, this should set the stage. By now, Mega-City One has fazed many crises and successive near-extinction events. Most recently - at the time - Necropolis, where the Dark Judges (we'll get into them) invaded and took control of the city's Judges, attempting to carry out their campaign of omnnicide before being narrowly halted by Judge Dredd, McGruder, Cadet Giant and the everlovin' Psi-Judge Anderson.

So, stage-set, where does that lead us?

Judgement Day is, in simple terms, Dredd vs Zombies. Pretty cliché now, but back in the 90s this was still a fresh and rather bloody concept. And regardless of what one thinks of Ennis' writing, the art is stunning and graphic, with Dredd mainstay Carlos Ezquerra taking center-stage. Although I'd argue that Dean Ormston is at least second-best if not better, with some mouthwatering - pardon the pun - depictions of flesh-eating zombies cribbing from giallo films.

Judge Dredd - and the rest of his post-nuclear world - suddenly face an overwhelming undead assault from the necromagus Sabbat. Resurrecting billions of corpses, Sabbat wages all-out war on the Mega-Cities, and all seems lost until the arrival of Johnny Alpha...

Alpha and Dredd had already met in the story "Top Dogs" where Johnny and his partner, the time-displaced viking Wulf Sternhammer, narrowly escaped capture by the lawman. Naturally, they don't get on too well.

Regardless, Alpha proves instrumental in helping Dredd - and a coalition of international Judges - finding and destroying (or near-enough) Sabbat in a bloody showdown in the Radlands of Ji, a part of post-nuclear China.

In-between we have lavish set-pieces of Dredd and his fellow Judges fending off hordes of the undead, flashes to other parts of the globe and other judges playing their part, as well as fantastic art throughout.

So, what's the problem?

Well, the main issue is that, as JA pointed out in his own posts on the storyline, Judgement Day is very much a 'blockbuster' event. And sadly, it's as close as 2000AD has ever gotten to emulating the American comics ideal of the big crossover event. And NOT in a good way. Although you couldn't criticise it for being slow-paced and overwrought, it has many issues that mark it out for fans.

For one, the storyline - as I only recently found out - ran consecutively in both 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine, the latter a solely Dreddverse-focused publication. Now, obviously, the issues with asking people to buy two magazines, monthly and weekly, aside this also meant that the fairly fast-paced movie-style storyline was constantly being broken up.

Add onto that the ridiculous stakes ("Billions of people are dying! Planet Earth is on the brink!"), an at-times-confusing tone (Sabbat's zombies performing a Disney-esque musical number during the climactic showdown), the destruction of various international Mega-cities - few of which we'd even had the chance to know - and the borderline fanservicey pairing of Dredd and Alpha, and we have a recipe for...not a disaster, but something that's a bit of a messy moment in the Dredd saga.

Because, yes, Dredd's story has been continuous, and while not concrete generally the broad-strokes have always been pretty solid (usually a tweak to a character's origin or what they said and did here, but stuff like the Apocalypse War is almost untouched). Judgement Day really feels like a moment where a lot of potential areas of the world like Brasilia, Mega-City Two and others were, quite literally, nuked off the face of the Earth. We also saw some interesting side-characters gored under the zombie hordes, such as Oz Judge Bruce and Judge Dekker.

Basically, Judgement Day slammed the door shut on potential plotlines, was shaky in terms of the publishing angle and overall had more of an overwrought Hollywood blockbuster than intense action-thriller. It also came hot on the heels of Necropolis, and arguably was part of a quick-succession of world-shaking crises such as Inferno which, as far as I can tell, numbed readership going into the 2000s.

Sabbat also stands as quite a weak villain. He rarely appears until the finale, and his backstory - a downtrodden teacher's pet turned murderous necromancer - may be an amusing reference to the aforementioned "Beano" but it's also a bit of a silly one for someone who's meant to be our big, brutal bad-guy, and not in a good way. He's not a bore to read, but sometimes his moments of simpering arrogance can undercut what is essentially an apocalyptic moment for the world of Dredd.

However, even more frustratingly, Judgement Day is also a massive stepping-stone in terms of the-then current Dredd plotline, making it very hard to ignore. It effectively marked Chief Judge McGruder's last major heroic moment, the first time we saw Judge Hershey take up the mantle of Chief Judge and perhaps the most definitive Alpha/Dredd crossover.

I think it's a testament to the overall high-quality of major Dredd storylines that Judgement Day holds up as well as it does. But it also bears all the hallmarks of something that would work well in a vacuum, but which has a messy place in continuity. I'd loved to have seen a non-canon take on this, perhaps allowing us to bring in characters like Wulf Sternhammer - who was sadly offed before this storyline was written - into the zombie battle royale.

There's also some usual holdovers of poorly-aged stuff that was endemic to British comics at the time. Hondo-City, Ciudad Barranquilla and other areas get equal billing but some traces of their stereotypical origins remain. This storyline did go some way to fleshing out the wider world - as much as it obliterated it - of Dredd.

Yet I can't deny that, in the moment of reading, Judgement Day is enthralling. It's pure, gorey action and fanservice. I just wish it didn't cast such a shadow across later stories, and that it hadn't taken so many interesting places and people with it in the process.

Picking this story up, you know what you're getting, and if you're along for the ride...you'll have a hell of a time.

As it stands, Judgement Day is a weaker entry writing-wise but still well-worth picking up for the art and general premise alone. If you're a new Dredd fan and want something a bit lighter than the commonly-cited "America" storyline, this is a fine way to get into the fast-paced and more action-focused content of 2000AD without needing much forward knowledge.

FIN

#Judgement Day #Judge Dredd #2000AD #Comic Spoilers #Analysis #Please excuse the messy and rather unfocused writeup #But I figured either go big or go home when it comes to returning to the comics game #Edits are likely to take place at some point or another

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