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sharonisthebettercarter · 4 months

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Homelander this, Billy Butcher that. How about Ryan huh? His entire life, so far he had the pressure of being watched. In the compound he had to live in hiding from his mom's rapist and his spermdonor, until the end of season 1. Then in the end of season 3 and now 4, he becomes chained to Homelander and will have to follow him and his plans, though in a way Ryan will be blind to his shackles as he will be so obsessed with having a father after losing his only blood parent and after billy gaslighted him, unless ryan ditches Homelander's ass. If he finally runs away, until he finds a friendly group of people who will take him in and not hinder him, will really only deluding himself that he is finally free, or with zoe if his fondness for her is well known, it's a only a matter of time till Homelander (and Billy) ruins it.

oh goodie, i'm glad you asked this one actually--

this is called history repeating itself.

and it happens when we fail to address the root of a problem and allow cycles to perpetuate themselves. the theme is that becca didn't want ryan to become his father (or billy for that matter)

she literally chose to run away from her own husband and *ask VOUGHT* of all things for *help* because she knew his psycho revenge rampage bullshit would be awful for her and ryan (and she was 1000% right about that) and to make sure ryan would remain a secret.

and wouldn't you know, it's funny how that works out. butcher and his obsession ended up being the catalyst for homelander digging deeper--and discovering becca and ryan... but i digress.

and now ryan is in danger... of becoming his father.

mostly because of what his father went through, those issues never getting addressed, and then said father unknowingly bringing ryan into that world without realizing what it's going to do to him.

but here's the thing, homelander has no control over that. even if ryan managed to escape homelander and butcher (and if i'm being honest, even before then because isolation and sheltering to that degree is not helpful for a child), he'd still have to contend with a world designed to mistreat him and repeat the same cycles. both men are awful for him as is, sure. but so is the rest of the world and that's not going to change just because they die or disappear.

and if ryan becomes his father, well...

that's just the kind of thing we can expect. with or without them.

"those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

#ryan butcher #homelander #and so on #and so forth #history repeats itself #billy butcher #the boys #the root of the problem #is the system in place #which fails to help victims when they need it #billy and homelander were once ryan too #the fact that it was never addressed is what has put ryan in danger now #and will continue to leave him in danger #even after they are gone #if he doesn't die first...

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faline-cat444 · 1 year

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Yes,this is a reference to

#The Root of the Problem

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tron20emails · 1 year

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Subject: Congratulations!

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Date: Mar-03

As we near our launch I want to take this time to congratulate the team on a job well done. Soon, all the long hours and hard work will pay off.

We are the beginning of a new influence. A new Adam and Eve if you will. We have the ability to sway the masses' perception of what is right and what is wrong. We will create a new world according to our terms.

Be proud of your accomplishments and look forward to a new kind of future!

CEO

Future Control Industries

#congratulations!#[email protected]#[email protected]#mar 03 #the root of the problem #assembly level #fcon ceo

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mlpoutofcontext · 1 year

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#idw comics #mlp #my little pony #mlp fim #my little pony friendship is magic #Fluttershy #Applejack #Root of the Problem

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centaurianthropology · 1 year

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One thing that I think a lot of Disco Elysium meta misses (likely because a lot of it is very clearly written by young Americans writing from an intensely American-centric cultural perspective without even really realizing it) is that one of the singular and central themes of the game is massive-scale generational trauma in a home that is economically collapsing as its resources and people are being drained by an occupation. People have noted that no one tries to help Harry, despite the fact his mental illness is incredibly obvious to everyone around him. He tells Kim that he completely lost his memory, and Kim politely asks him to focus on the work. He tells Gottlieb that he had a heart attack, and Gottlieb tells him that if he’s still alive it couldn’t have been that bad. That he’ll drop dead sooner or later, but then so does everyone.

And that’s the most important thing: so does everyone. Look at Martinaise. Look at the world in which Harry lives. It is not our own, but it is adjacent to ours. More specifically, it is clearly adjacent to the states of the Eastern Bloc: overtaken and occupied by a faraway government that clearly doesn’t care about Revachol or its people. And that is obvious in every tired face, every defeated citizen, everyone trying to eke out a little happiness or meaning in spite of the overwhelming trauma and damage around them. The buildings are still half-destroyed. The bullet holes are still in the walls. The revolution was decades before, but it still feels to the people there like a fresh wound. The number of men of Harry’s generation who are not alcoholic or otherwise deeply fucked up are very few. Some, like Kim, hide it better, but the deeper you dig into his history, the more you realize how damaged Kim is. He’s more than a little trigger happy, and hates that about himself, but he is a product of his environment: Kim’s entire life is seeing people he cared about shot and killed, so his instinct now is to shoot first himself, to protect those few people left who still matter to him.

Harry is not unique in his trauma. He is a distillation of an entire culture of people who tried to rise up and make something beautiful, and were instead routed and occupied. He is trapped between the occupation and the people on the ground, along with all the rest of the RCM. Their authority comes from the occupying government, but it is implied that they were formed out of the remnants of the citizens militia which sprung up from Revachol itself as a way to try to mitigate some of the horrors being committed on its streets. The Moralintern sure as hell wasn’t going to get their hands dirty, so they happily conscripted (and therefore could better control) this group, who are only recognized in certain places, and whose authority mostly amounts to giving out fines. The RCM is corrupt, but it is corrupt in the same way its culture is. Bribes are considered standard with them, not a moral failing, but a necessity, so long as those bribes are correctly logged as ‘donations’. It’s how the RCM stays afloat, and the rest of Revachol completely understands that. Everyone would take a bribe if it meant they kept eating. Everyone would take a little under-the-table money if it meant keeping a roof over their heads. The officersof the RCM certainly don’t make enough to see a doctor. They have an in-house lazarus, and if he can’t fix them they just die. Mental health care? What mental health care? Harry doesn’t get it for the same reason no one else does: it doesn’t really seem to exist. There are no counselors, no psychologists, no psychiatrists. How would they even start? If the world is what is broken, if everyone is suffering a similar catastrophic amount, it makes sense that Harry’s trauma would simply get rolled up with all the rest. Kim asks him to get on with the job because Harry’s suffering is not remarkable in Revachol. He is one of an entire generation who have an astronomical number of orphans from the revolution, and so many younger people are left more or less orphans as their parents drink themselves into oblivion like Cuno’s father. So Harry’s truly unique attribute is embodying all that trauma, having it all inside of him, filling him to bursting.

To really engage with the themes of the game, engaging first and foremost with the reality of Revachol is imperative. Imposing our own reality onto Revachol, particularly if coming from an American perspective (which tend to have the habit of both viewing the world through an American lens and not realizing they’re doing it because they’ve never experienced a different lens), will always feel shallow to me because of this.

All that is to say, I would love to hear some more explicitly European meta about this game, and especially Eastern European meta. If anyone can point me to some good, juicy essays from that perspective, I would be grateful!

#Disco Elysium #is such a good game #but I found a lot of the meta around it frustratingly shallow #and very VERY American #which is also frustrating #given how clearly Eastern European the roots of this game are #I have no problem with people using a game or other work of fiction to inform their own lives and experiences #but I find it strange when people engage with the game #as though it was coming from an American perspective #asking why certain things happen or didn't #based on how they would play out or have played out in America #anyway this a rambly way to request some meta from other cultural perspectives #I am very interested in reading it!#Disco Elysium meta

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leroibobo · 6 months

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really do not think people understand the extent to which palestinian sites/landmarks (especially muslim ones) were destroyed, beginning in 1948 until now, even in cities. the oldest extant mosque in jaffa (al-bahr mosque) was built in 1675, even though islam came there in the 7th century

#not to mention that many mosques that /were/ restored but are in 'jewish areas' r heavily guarded & prayer is hardly if ever allowed #to anyone thinking ''you can say the same thing abt jewish sites in mena countries''. you can't have one repaired w/o the other #and ultimately the root of the problem is both the colonization of palestine + antisemitism. advocating for palestine + against #antisemitism are far from mutually exclusive #(and for the love of god please stop using mena jews as a political gotcha i swear to god #and it's not like a regime that forced everyone to integrate into the ''new jewish'' culture is any less genocidal)#as someone who comes from one of the jewish groups who was affected by that to arguably one of the highest degrees & who's also a staunch #antizionist even i know that. politics re: cultural site preservation are stupid but that doesn't make it any less stomach-wrenching #it really is just Luck. al-bahr mosque just so Happens to be in a ''mixed city'' so destroying it'd be a ''bad look''#the tomb of nahum just so Happens to be in an autonomous kurdish territory so restoring it isnt as big a deal #and then people have the gall to wonder how i could ever ever ever sympathize with those ''savage arabs''. seriously??#btw im muting notificaions on this post so if you have a problem with me just dm me or block me whatever idc

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horrorknife · 21 days

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babe, this wouldn't be the first time it will not be the last time there's no parasol that could shelter this weather

#chainshipping #saw #adam faulkner stanheight #lawrence gordon #saw 2004 #saw franchise #saw movie #song is oil and water by incubus #'chainshipping is a healthy relationship' EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER #post bathroom theywould be the most dysfunctional and horrible couple and i think thats awesome and sexy of them.#adam is spiteful and angry and lawrence is obstinate and bitchy. they live in two extremely different worlds #i just wish more ppl would willingly explore the wildly antagonistic nature of their relationship bc its intoxicating to me #to me they are like insanely possessive of each other but they have these idealized versions of one another that dont fully live up to the #person in their head #they are riddled with problems and issues but at the root of it all they care for each other and understand each other in a way no one else #ever will #so they cling to each other and learn to love each other and learn to grow together. but it takes a long time #and akgdmfglf i have such a Specific Vision for apprentice adam in my head like . most of my chainshipping ideas involve apprentice adam bc #i just love the concept too much #anyway apprentice chainshipping goes absolutely crazy. you should try it sometime #if youve read all these tags im kissing you with tongue.#my art

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thoushaltnotlive · 21 days

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Me before reading tsc: haha Kevin is weirdly homophobic about Andrew and Neil for someone who has a big fat crush on Jeremy Knox. He's totally in denial and projecting lol.

Me after reading tsc: I-is that why he was- so when he- oh... Oh

#Kevin was probally reminded of Jean #The rumors about him and their consequences #Kevin Day cares #but he doesn't know how to show it #and he has some DEEP ROOTED problems too #aftg #all for the game #tsc #tsc spoilers #the foxhole court #the kings men #kevin day #jean moreau #neil josten #andrew minyard #the sunshine court

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broken-from-memories · 1 year

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when taylor swift said ‘who could ever leave me, darling? but who could stay?’ and when phoebe bridgers said ‘i get this feeling whenever i feel good that it'll be the last time’ and when lorde said ‘they say, you're a little much for me, you're a liability’ and when maisie peters said ‘got the news just last month that i am exhausting and you're not in love’ and when gracie abrams said ‘every time i get too close, i just mess it up’ and when lizzy mcalpine said ‘how do i tell you that i don't know what it means to be happy with somebody?’ and when boygenius said ‘i don't know why i am the way i am’ and

#personal #idk #feeling weird #feeling like i am the root of all problems but im probably just hungry rip #taylor swift #the archer #phoebe bridgers #lorde #maisie peters #gracie abrams #lizzy mcalpine #olivia rodrigo #boygenius #too much #not good enough #actuallyme

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socialjusticeinamerica · 6 months

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The overwhelming majority of people in the union live in poverty.

But an uninformed public is ignorant of this and resentful because a TINY number of A-Listers make millions.

Don’t hate people because they get something, instead demand to get what you are due.

#union strong #sag aftra #health care #unions built America #corporate greed #oligarchs are the root of our problems

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faline-cat444 · 1 year

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This is no “Left turn at Albuquerque” or “Not in Kansas anymore”

#The Root of the Problem #Craig of the Creek #Craig Williams #Kelsey Pokoly #JP Mercer

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tron20emails · 1 year

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Subject: Report

To: [email protected]

From: [email protected]

Date: Mar-03

Unfortunately, Mr. Crown, Mr. Baza, and Ms. Popoff have been digitized into the system without the correction algorithms.

The algorithms were extracted from Ma3a the moment we digitized the team in. I'm afraid there is nothing I can do to save them. If I were to bring them back now, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't return ... well, as they were.

LabTech

Future Control Industries

#report #[email protected]#[email protected]#mar 03 #the root of the problem #command module #fcon ceo #fcon lab tech #seth crown #esmond baza #eva popoff

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firesmokeandashes · 11 months

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All the fanfic readers/writers, after finding out they can't read their before-bed fanfics, and escape reality for a little bit, because ao3 is down: