#...sharing the panopticon

[muffinlance]

Other child: *reaches for legos at the library’s play table*

Toddler: NO DO NOT DESTROY MY PANOPTICON

#I mean he found a inexplicable round eye lego for the top of his tower #what was I supposed to do #NOT teach him the word panopticon? #other parent's slow blink as they processed that statement: 10/10 #and then I had to re-iterate the lesson on sharing #...sharing the panopticon #this post brought to you by The Magnus Archives #statement recorded live June 6th 2023 #statement ends

[kijosakka]

Thoughts. okay so the total drama drama drama drama island special is interesting mainly bc of team e-scope but im going to take a moment here to ramble about his dynamic with other people here,,

(oh and i didn't have anywhere really to slot it into the other post or segue into it here but dodgebrawl as a Moment demonstrates how [this AU] noah can play the social game, just in a very very different way than how it's normally seen.

he knows what he's doing is going to bother his team and incentivize them to vote, i'd say in this au he even plays up the cockiness and makes veiled personal slights against specific people

(mainly those who would be annoyed enough to vote him off, see: heather, justin, leshawna, cody/trent to some extent if he said smth about gwen? < and gwen herself in that scenario. and to another extent beth, since hes playing up his outright mean traits, which would make lindsay vote with her. i dont think he would do anything specific to/with owen or izzy, since he may see izzy as too volatile and owen too genuine)

in the opposite way of whats expected, sure, but it is a social play. he can pick apart what these people are and what they show and push at it to achieve his own ends (and maybe its even some sort of way for him to regain control in this fundamentally uncontrollable situation he's found himself in; he can be the punishment in foucalt's imagining, to a much smaller degree))

so his teammates,,, do not like him tbh. his flagrant display during dodgeball and everyone being pissed at him after the fact is true in this AU, just coming with different motivations. even after the fact when the frustration of everyone fizzles out, hes still majorly offputting because of his detachedness, and deliberately makes his shown traits very unpalatable to experience in person combined with that.

the only two exceptions are izzy and owen respectively: owens mostly coming from a place of genuineness and im going to say while he wouldnt be able to verbalize it, in some manner owen would clock noahs behavior as a defense mechanism. maybe in the sense of 'hes just scared to open up to people!!' or something similar, but he definitely has a lot more faith that noah really isnt that cold and flat.

[*]izzy feels much the same -- except maybe it comes off more to her as strategic. izzy can act, and might recognize that in noah. if you wanted to you could write this in as to why she was eager to swap teams in the first episode, but it wouldnt change that he does get eliminated and thats all she sees of him until the special -- which, her intrigue in his lacking and the fact that it apparently wasnt strategic to get him further in the game, could help explain why she picks him in the team-up.

[*i have soooo much to say about izzy in this au actually. but ill save it for a diff post]

and speaking of the team-up: team e-scope!!!! :0

my au my rules eva and izzy became really good friends on the playa; izzy isn't afraid of eva (and curbing her anger before it reaches a boiling point) and eva is physically adept enough to restrain izzy from Shenanigans that might be a little Much. but eva doesnt really?? know anything about noah?? but izzy insists on teaming with him for the special (and unbeknownst to her noah wasnt even planning to participate initially) so he must be some level of Not Too Bad if izzy wants anything to do with him that doesnt seem to be related to tormenting the guy

and she thinks hes Fine. apathetic and detached and unpalatable (but then again, everyone in their little trio really is to some degree), but can kind of understand izzys intrigue: hes still A Guy, hes just hidden behind 20 layers of non-substance that are so offputting from the first meeting it makes people steer clear of him.

now with tddddi comes two other pertinent details: the justin line, and the Thing With Duncan.

i personally thing noahs 'he's the anti-me' line is really funny in the context of canon but if you squint it kinda works here? wherein justin is non-speaking yet flaunts himself to be the center of attention and clearly shows intent and capacity to scheme (underdeveloped or no, see: awakeathon), whereas noah speaks a lot yet lets himself fade into the background, showing vague hints of the capacity to scheme but no intention or palpable ambition behind it.

^ am i reaching? maybe. the other option here is noah somehow has seen him in-person before on a modeling or red carpet kind of gig and dislikes him on principle because of it/its a jab at it (smth smth they are both opposite ends of the same industry? justin is the face of it in a manner where noah stays behind the scenes and out of sight)

and the thing with duncan,, hear me out here okay noah does his whole song and dance, goes up to him and patronizes him, and duncan retaliates. however, he curses like a sailor and in noah's head has ruined the footage, therefore instead of further retaliating and potentially invoking actual physical harm he just. doesnt react. at all. duncan looks up at him and hes just dead-eyed staring down at him -- and then he leaves.

^ the scene has been ruined, and everyone else is doing so much that theres no reason to play it up any more. duncan and him arent plot important like how heather and lindsay were, theres no reason for the crew to painstakingly edit his swearing out. they just wont let it reach the final cut. duncan is understandably very confused by this, but at that point noah was already gone to find eva and izzy again (< this is when the cast having a running bet that noahs and android becomes Not a Joke)

but life goes on!!! and in the worlds worst comedy of errors (for noah), izzy ends up dragging him along into the lake, thereby leaving him as a confirmed member of the next season.

^ noah is so angry at this. popping blood vessels. he argues with chris endlessly, straight frothing at the mouth at only having two days of real reprieve before he has to deal with the Same Shit again. and chris gets this, to some degree, but also knows that if theres no explanation for noahs non-appearance to hand the producers, theyll be pissed (since all things considered, noahs pretty damn popular among the fans)

luckily for him, courtney just filed a lawsuit against the show!! and since chris is busy running said show, the producers do not want to deal with it and are willing to hand off the case to anyone else -- hence, chris officially signs noah on as his PA, and noah takes over the court settlements and whatnot.

< though i do imagine the producers would see it as a 'get out of the show' scheme, and thereby push way harder for his involvement in WT as a result

but noah does get a break!!! for now, at least.

#formal thanks to ophe for the cast having a running joke about him being an android #that was Not my idea #before-bed rambling. again #wrote this post eating a sleeve of saltines it was an Experience #soooooo much to say about izzy and her dynamic with noah. sososososo much #is the justin thing reaching? yeah probably idc #character analysis #total drama #td noah #dramaturgyAU #if someone wants to takw this idea and run go ahead im begging someone to share my fascination for the concept of panopticon

[bluejaygryphon]

Making the glowing green and black robotic apparel exclusive to GOLEM WORKSHOP was a hate crime against me and my glowy green and black tech obsessed dragons SPECIFICALLY.

#flight rising #fr #dragon share #PAN ALREADY GOT ONE OF THE OTHER APPAREL COLORS FOR THIS SET. THEY DID THIS TO HURT ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #PANOPTICON BABYGIRL IM SO SORRY. I DONT WANT TO GRIND

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

went swimming with my dad and got up to my knees in mud. gerard way was right when he said we deserve to live in the real world with real things and real people. im gonna blow up my computer

#he was also right there are great things to share on there #your ART #your FRIENDS #i probably might have met my best friends on the computernet #but it's rotting my fucking brain #you know #i was thinking about all the essays and video essays and tumblr posts about how the internet is rotting all our fucking brains #and how it's bad #and i agree with all of it #but then i was like. wait a minute. who are saying these things? all the terminally online people #thinkpieces about the terminally online by the terminally online #is this a problem for my dad? #it was not #what am i even talking about when im paddling in a boat telling my dad about how we live in an internet panopticon #what the fuck am i even talking about anymore #and thats not to say it's not like still a problem when i log off #theres too many people on the social media for it to not also be offline real #however #if we all logged the fuck off for a bit #dont give those bastards everything #not saying it would help anything #im not sure it would #but my computer will blow up by itself if i dont do something to stop it anyway #it keeps warning me about it

[youremysunshine8]

Me at work today gently telling my coworkers that they won't end up in a ditch if they turn off location on their phone.

#they were sharing all these 'cute' stories about being tracked by their parents #or tracking their partners and children #and im like #'hi i believe in privacy' #they did not get it at all #one was like 'when do i get my kid a phone? obviously shes already on the ipad 24/7' #idk i know you need to be intentional about these things #but this was not the way #and they all acted like it was normal! #girl you live in a panopticon #traveling with miss google #my post

[socvinc]

Sometimes as a way to placate my internal blogger and panopticon mindset I’ll be experiencing a Situation and then imagine posting on tumblr about that Situation. Then, picking up from there, using people’s imagined responses to go spiraling to the most absurd, unrealistic chain of events possible. My brain juice tumblr will subsume you all. Fools. Just you wait. In my fictional world weirdo bloggers have already overthrown canadian democracy.

#I say this as though i ever even make personal posts on here #Noooo thank you i learnt my lesson from my old old urls. I say panopticon mindset as a joke but i am 100% serious #Some of my friends and beloved mutuals on here in the most affectionate way possible share WAYYY too much like hooo bud #My Imagined Blog Posts method has worked so far. Like yeahhh it’s weird. Sure #Especially since this account is just Sitting Here. But tbh i think its more fun than just posting it

[billyjackass]

one time i scared the shit out of someone i know off-tumblr by sending them a tumblr post they made w no context coz i didn’t actually know it was their tumblr, i just thought they’d like the post. & they texted back “???”

#chronically online culture gives you a very specific panic response to The Panopticon #thinking about how some of my chronically online worsties would police what i posted #and said and saw and reposted #and was like you committed some crimes today #but i wasnt doing that to oomf…… i was sharing and caring

[acornmaybe]

world is a fuck...... 410,757,864,530 dead cops.......

#typoed fuck as duck writing this post. #something something self panopticon or whatever #<- #completely irrelevant and unrelated #acorn being dramatic #went to use my eyedrops (completely empty. gone! digested like a pitcher plant) #acorn original #You would unfollow me? For my pitcher plant eyedrop post? After the beautiful night we share #d? #NOT A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT. EYESROPS IS GONE

[dynamicks]

bro i wish my parents didnt use my computer 😭😭😭 i wanna make a pretty anime man my wallpapers so bad ffs

#dynamicks #they be like “why do you wanna move out you have your own space” NOT ENTIRELY????? NOTHING I HAVE IS ENTIRELY PRIVATE CLEARLY?????????? #plus them pulling shit like “what do you have to hide why are you hiding things from me” mf its not about hiding stuff its about #having things for myself 😭😭😭 its no wonder why i live my life like im in a constant panopticon even when im completely alone in #my room or anywhere else FUUUUCK #i cant do anything without this irrational feeling that im being watched so everything i do feels like a performance to be scrutinized even #when im COMPLETELY FUCKING ALOOOOOOOOOOONEEEE #this plus surveillance capitalism. how the fuck am i supposed to rest lmfao #yes i see how it seems hypocritical that im publically posting abt shit a lot but this is shit I want expressed and shared ok

[yolkcheeks]

This time it was reading fanfic but it’s really mortifying how a further hour and a half slipped by with me screaming internally bones on fire to go upstairs and go to fucking sleep

And yet

I feel so disappointed in myself for doing nothing and so mad that I can’t bring myself to move. I feel like I am watching a show and want to yell about the frustrating writing to someone but it’s just me

I’m the clown and I’m trying to ask the ticket clerk for my money back.

#nightposting #physically exhausted #psychologically wired #emotionally detached #ah yes the three genders #I have so many thoughts and I am somehow afraid now to put them anywhere #I don’t care for long hand journaling #I grew up on computers so typing feels better #I used to be a firehose at times on lj #but now even though I have so many accounts so many places #I feel like I can’t bring myself to talk about this stuff #and like it is very common and almost mr #almost more embarrassing that I am embarrassed #I’m gonna get canceled for having one cringe emotion obviously #the only way that could go #sarcasm aside I do have concerns about the panopticon effect here #and that I am resisting sharing myself even pseudonymously #because I am worried someone might see it and confirm that I am being silly #or worse #say something pitying with absolute wide eyed sincerity #it sucks and I hate myself #but I don’t enjoy that and don’t want to be more vulnerable or at risk of being reminded of my weakness when it is not front of mind #so I will toss off a dry bon mot #offering some caveat or context so as to assuage them and dismiss the topic #[vibrating intensifies] #I feel like a full body version of how I feel when I think about all the month long art challenges I have failed at

[graysontailor]

Eye being a fucking smartass compilation.

#Eye #Panopticon #WIP share

[raspberryflo]

Oh my god okay I need to share this story . Back during my first year of compsci we had an ethics course about surveillance. And we had to read up about this one specific real life case but when I opened the slides it was all about "the panopticon" which I think activated some kind of neurons in my brain because I did not read a single slide and my notes looked like THIS.

To the point where the document is literally unreadable because all the text is COVERED in magnus archives fanart. I went into that exam knowing that jurgen leitner was brutally pipe murdered to death and that the panopticon is where the watchers crown ritual takes place . And I passed with 100%

#the magnus archives #tma #This image makes me laugh uncontrollably whenever I see it #Because literally the rest of the document is normal notes and then it DEVOLVES #There is some readable text after this but its all in bright green and about the ethics of elias beating jurgen to death

[bluejaygryphon]

F Tundras who are funny little lesbians >>>> everything else

#Thats Paradox (She/Her) and Panopticon (He/They) and they are in lesbians together #Paradox is the badass hacker undercover at a giant corporation #except shes not as cool as she thinks because she gets cocky and outright caught and nearly killed #also she has to work as an assistant and hates it so much. she is trapped in hell (having a job) #Panopticon is the loser gamer gril hacker with ADHD and funky pronouns #They've got like 15 monitors and constantly working on at least 3 different things at once #He does a lot of the back end work for Paradox #He's just a goofy little guy #also he nearly gets murdered because of Paradox's overconfidence in her own plans #hes fine tho he loses his arm (kinda) but doesn't die #they DO lose their lifes work tho. that kinda sucks #anyways. Paradox is begrudging in love w him and Panopticon calls her babe at every given opportunity #dragon share #flight rising

[silly-tma-headcanons]

allow me to paint you all a picture.

its 2026. we're on season four of protocol. it's just been revealed that jonah magnus, by a series of comically absurd events, has survived the panopticon and is now living as gwendolyn bouchard. not to set up the watcher's crown or any other ritual, he just felt like it (everyone still wants to kill him, fyi). the real kicker is that there's literally no connection between elias and gwen, jonny just fully couldn't be bothered to come up with a new surname and found this alternative far more funny. nobody ever points out the shared surname of bouchard. peter, simon and the whole archives crew are all somehow there and they do not mention it once. no sign of any recollection. no "oh, I think I've heard that name somewhere!" moment.

michael briefly shows up, through the door, notices someone named gwendolyn BOUCHARD and says "oh like elias! thats crazy bro" and promptly leaves. colin stares at the computer with fear in his eyes and says "DID NOBODY ELSE SEE OR HEAR THAT??" and everyone else thinks he's insane. he promptly goes batshit crazy.

jonny and alex are pointing and laughing as we fall to the floor in a hivemind-like heap of despair.

#archivist goes insane: a saga #not a headcanon #the magnus protocol #the magnus archives #the magnus pod #the magpod #tma #tmagp #jonah magnus #gwendolyn bouchard #elias bouchard

[utilitycaster]

I think this is the last I have to say about it, certainly not until new episodes air, but the thing about What The Fuck Is Up With That is that it's emblematic of the issues Bells Hells have - and to be honest I suspect always might have - regarding trust. It's a party game. It's a fun way to get surface-level answers. It's an infodump. It's telling not showing. It's not a bad thing, but you don't build trust, actually, by providing every piece of information! In fact, sometimes, it's good to keep your inside thoughts inside! You build trust with other people through your actions: through keeping your word, through proving your ability to do what they expect of you. Perhaps this is a personal experience and not a universal tenet, but people who share everything about themselves right away and people who end up being genuinely reliable and close and trustworthy are often two nearly entirely separate camps.

This also does once again feel like something with an interesting echo within the fandom. Earlier on in the campaign, before the introduction of 4-Sided Dive, I received a lot of questions about whether it would be helpful if we had something like Talks and my response was usually "no, the issue is that I know everything about the backstory and not actually much anyone's motivations; I have a factual list of personal history and I'm looking for a sense of someone's personality." This still comes up occasionally when I talk about Laudna, whose motivations remain hazy much of the time; we have a quite detailed outline of her history but it is missing the only things that actually matter. We know what. We don't know why. Bells Hells knows so much what about each other and they still struggle, even now, with "why".

And when it comes to why, telling people is nice, but it's very easy to lie about motivations. Indeed, that's why Imogen ends up fooled by her mother; she knows what Liliana did but assumed there was a deeper why than there ended up being; that Liliana wasn't simply seduced by the idea that Predathos would free her and Imogen from the burden of their powers but was also working as a force for good within the Vanguard and wouldn't hurt so many people. The revelation that the "why" really was that simple was ultimately why Imogen felt betrayed. Knowing more details about Liliana doesn't help.

Chetney ends up being the illustrative exception here, if that helps. He arrived late to the party. He never played What The Fuck Is Up With That. He even told them what he was there for (looking for Gurge) and lied about the "why" (werewolf reasons) initially. He to this day keeps secrets. But he's open about keeping secrets. That caginess allows him to be one of the party members most people trust on a fundamental level. They don't trust him to be kind, or generous per se; they don't even trust him to not hurt them. But they trust him to not hurt them intentionally, since he's repeatedly shown he will take steps to avoid this. He is cagey and uncooperative during most of the honesty exercise, but when he finally says something, it isn't a judgement - it is an explanation of his own behavior. When he declines to share his deal with Morri, he still reassures them that he did not do anything that would fall to them - and that's honest, and that's what matters, that he made a deal for himself and himself alone. Compare with Orym, who hides even the fact he made the deal, or Ashton a couple days ago, who hid their true plans with the shard. On the surface, Chetney is the one hiding something - but he is honest that he hides things. If Chetney's secret comes out? It won't change the party's understanding of his trustworthiness; it will just change some of the facts. If Orym's comes out or when Ashton's was revealed? That's a huge change in the party's understanding of their motivations.

Honesty in this party has been a game from the start, and as the exercises show, it still mostly is. A panopticon is, unsurprisingly, not a great way to make people trust each other; a little open hiding and actions over words are in order. I don't think that's necessarily a problem, in that I think Bells Hells share, if not a vast overreaching goal, an agreement regarding their pretty significant task. But I think any deeper trust is yet to be actually tested, tried, and forged.

#critical role #critical role spoilers #bells hells

[moonshynecybin]

The current motogp grid is put into the hunger games who is winning?

so easily marc it is NOT even funny.... as babynflames has said if he got trapped in a situation where he needed to lop off a limb and it wouldnt effect his riding he'd get that done instantly np. he is insane he loves winning he EASILY compartmentalizes his other competitors as obstacles that he will shove aside in REAL LIFE let alone fictional hunger games world. hes taking it i fear. but he WILL come out the other side deeply scared both mentally and physically... maybe he DOES have to lop off his arm and they give him a prosthetic but sometimes it aches at night and he shivers...

anyways yaoi alert below the cut for those interested:

its the all-victor QUARTER QUELL where shit gets saucy in my opinion! vale as a fellow mentor... a well-liked victor that marc idolized as a kid who's been paraded around like a pony ever since... known for how fun (read: not fun comma scarring) his games were (vale was like 17 fuck ass bob big neon yellow tribute uniform internally screaming desperately playing to the cameras to survive. maybe won by doing equal parts looney tunes style pranks and his absolute ruthless efficiency with a blade.)

so him and marc see each other once a year for a few weeks around the games (similar to motogp they DO have to continually revisit the places they were most traumatized every year huh) and start a lil smth... gravitate towards each other when theyre both trapped in the capitol... wake up in each others beds most mornings and share looks across tables when the capitol socialites start soliloquizing... but they know cant do any more than that bc theyre in different districts (also: trauma.) so they keep it as casual as they can, even if marc's breath catches in his chest sometimes when vale looks at him, and when vale wakes up at home its with an arm reaching over the place in his bed he knows marc should be... and the capitol maybe doesnt know theyre fucking but IS certainly selling the friendship between two of its most popular victors to the cameras HARD... it is known that they tend to chat. it has been noted that they giggle. the panopticon has noticed the marc-being-a-weirdo-in-press-conferences stare.

anyways so the quell hits and marc gets reaped along with vale (who has been quietly supporting rebellious activity for years... gathering strength and numbers.... talking to the other aliens... using his icon status to sway the districts... ) and vale KNOWS the capitol will use marc against him. knows that they know he cares about him. knows that theyre doing this to get rid of them both—keep him in line. (actually in this scenario maybe marc pulled a katniss berry move to keep both him and alex alive. accidental revolutionary icon lol) and keeping marc close will only make the capitol try even harder to kill him which he cant STAND. and all marc knows is that suddenly vale pulls away hard, cold and abrupt. starts talking madddd shit about him in all of his interviews and press... and marc thinks vale is doing it to hype himself up to kill him in the arena and it KILLS him... he thought he was in tragic star crossed love... but he also keeps trying to convince himself he can bring himself to do the same when the time comes, even if it feels like a hole in his chest.... he has to get back to alex. so its awfullllllll until they get in the arena and (INSERT CATCHING FIRE PLOT WHERE THEY BUST TF OUTTA THERE...) and when marc wakes up, blinking and pale and groggy and without his prosthetic, vale is holding his hand by his bedside. and in a low, hoarse voice he starts to explain....

#only scenario marc doesnt win is if the final two is him and alex. it is katniss berry move or instant suicide. #im sure someone has already come up w an au like this like im positiveeeee but i cant find it :/ please link in replies if so #vale in this scenario also knows that a beef between victors of this caliber means that they will both get MAD sponsor money and he worries #he wants marc to have food medicine and his favorite sword in that arena and if throwing marc under the bus will accomplish that he will! #callie speaks #motogp #asks #rosquez