#effect of torture on torturers

[nerdpoe]

Superboy wakes up in a prison. In the cell, sitting across from him, there's a teen that looks like another offshoot clone of Clark.

He learns in bits and pieces that he's been captures by a shadow government organization hellbent on ridding the world of anyone "ecto-contaminated", or anyone who has ever been dead.

Since he'd died before, even though he came back, he set off their sensors.

He doesn't remember how he got caught, doesn't remember what he was doing prior, but the walls are made of a weird material that glows green and cancels out his powers. It also doesn't hurt him.

Diluted kryptonite? He'll have to steal some and give it to Tim.

According to the kid, they've been forcibly detained to "serve their sentence for illegal immigration from the Realm of the Dead to the Realm of the Living" by way of routinely allowing themselves to be subjected to medical procedures. They are always being watched, they aren't the only ones captive, that apparently his entire high school had been condemned to it as well as some literal ghosts, and if he struggles then they won't give him the mercy of sedation while they do their experiments.

And Kon can't use his power to escape, or free this kid, or free any of the other prisoners. It's the worst case scenario.

Thank fuck he's best friends with a paranoid Bat that might have more contingencies than the Big Bat Himself.

Kon activates the only subdermal tracker he'd allowed Tim to place under his skin, and settles down to wait.

A prison of this design, but more high tech and with less privacy. Apparently the idea behind it was that you couldn't see the guards, but they could see you, and the lights would move at random to make you think they were paying attention all the time.

So psychological torture on top of imprisonment.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #phanfic #story prompt #pow tw #prisoner tw #prison tw #trapped tw #torture tw #medical malpractice tw #psychological distress tw #psychological torture tw #imprisonment tw #Young Justice making a teamup to break their friend out #and also the HUNDREDS OF OTHER PRISONERS WHAT THE FUCK #you can bet ur butt the Justice League will be hearing out this violation of meta and human rights #ecto shielding has the same power dampening effect as kryptonite but none of the pain

[severedegg]

the sillies ever <33

#my art #wh #welcome home #wally darling #howdy pillar #eddie dear #barnaby b beagle #mewmew <3333 #i love welcome home #im annoyed though cause im tryna balance drawing fanart and doing this really fucking detailed commission that im torturing myself with #welcome home fanart #also dont ask why 5000 apples its for comedic effect lmao #i imagine they take them all to poppy n they help bake them into things and experiment lol #her getting all frazzled that theres so many boxes of apples outside her door tehe <3

[befuddled-calico-whump]

Reasons your character may be tortured that don't revolve around trying to get information:

(for those who care about accuracy and don't have time to research psychological techniques)

Revenge: the torturer feels wronged by their victim, and wants to make them suffer.

To get at a loved one: the victim isn't the actual target, but hurting them will emotionally affect or demoralize the torturer's enemy.

To force someone else's hand: similar to the above, torture by proxy to force the torturer's target to turn themselves in, sign a binding document, or make an impossible choice.

To coerce a confession: the torturer needs to pin a crime on someone, and their victim is a believable scapegoat.

Propaganda: we've captured one of your strongest men, now watch as we make them break down and beg for their life.

even more reasons

#if youre going for accuracy you could also have someone inexperienced grill someone for information #someone who doesn't know it wont be effective #whump prompts #captivity whump #military whump #tw torture

[iloveticklingxx]

When the ler is getting ready to tickle your death spot and you immediately react with either a scream, laugh, a whine or just some kind of protest before them even touching you and they take note of it and reply with “oh yeah you’re in big trouble now” and give you that evil smirk right before diving into that spot 😫.

#Makes me wanna just die right then and there to prevent the torture that’s going to come 😂 #tickle thoughts #tword community #sfw tickling #evil lers #lee #lee mood in full effect

[elcucurucho]

“the federation is going to imprison BBH” “BBH is going to get brainwashed by the federation” the federation is going to send BBH to a second, smaller island where streaming is illegal to take a vacation from his vacation. they’re gonna give him a fruity drink with one of those little umbrellas in it and make him listen to jimmy buffett songs on loop

#qsmp #badboyhalo #this would actually be the most effective method of psychological torture to use on him #I don’t think he knows how to take a break

[heather-garland]

i never listened to this song once while drawing this but its a good song

#silent hill #silent hill 2 #silent hill fanart #maria silent hill #sh2 #maria #silent hill maria #goes crazy on effects to cover it up kjsafhksjdfa #tag of torture #Spotify

[angelsdean]

Dean remembering Hell in Supernatural: Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting.

(for context they're up against a Greek Goddess that is feeding on their memories--preferring the good ones--so Dean starts remembering all his worst ones to hurt her)

#society if dean got a proper hell trauma arc #also notice how sam only remembers SECONDS of his time in hell. dean vividly remembers years worth of brutal torture. #like not diminishing the fact that sam suffered at the hands of lucifer but their hell trauma IS very different. #sam's was mostly psychological. he was never on the rack like dean was. he was in the cage with lucifer playing mind-games. #dean's trauma was bodily. physical. unimaginable brutal pain and torture. #sam gets his hell trauma taken by cas. effectively lifting the burden. he knows factually what happened but the trauma response is gone #dean never gets that. dean never has the memories scrubbed clean or the body's trauma response lifted. #dean is the one that teaches sam the 'pain trick' to distinguish between reality and hell hallucination. why does he know this? #bc he's dealing with his own hell trauma. probably seeing Alistair like sam sees lucifer. the difference is we never get to hear abt it #bobby's guide to hunting #hell trauma #dean and hell

[emotinalsupportturtle]

watching succession be like;

Roman is the most pathetic man to exist

oh no kendall is the most pathetic cringefail son to live

slay shiv

no no m poor baby Roman, whats wrong with him

Ken can’t keep from fucking up. The most pathetic human ever

what the fuck Connor? Just shut up

#meanwhile tom the sleazeball and greg are just on a side in a weird psychosexual toxic game of torture and mutual dependance #It’s effectively whos more pathetic off between ken and rome #Interspaced with slay queen shiv at random intervals #Whilst they all desperately seek their fathers approval #Still on season 2 #succession #shiv roy #kendall roy #roman roy #connor roy #greg #tom wambsgans

[tillman]

everyone is always shocked to learn zato-one is a yapper. he loves talking hes just usually either A. caught up in his image to yap too much (old games/carried over to eddie) or B. gets bored too fast to continue his sentences (XRD/strive if it decides to be good at any point). so its really funny then when you catch him at his peak interest and realize he talks more than bedman (missing link ending/certain points in XRD story/mays instant kill/carried over to eddie)

#txt #him just spouting random stuff about how to torture someone effectively to may during her IK because hes having fun for once

[bassboosted-moon-chao]

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#moom makes bullshit #art #digital art #the amazing digital circus #tadc caine #hall of tortured souls #tw eyestrain #tw eye contact #I had too much fun with this one #I was blasting a song that's practically just noise for two hours straight #and I was going ham on the visual effects #I know he doesn't have his hat but #eh he probably dropped it somewhere in the Hall of Tortured Souls whoops #reblogs appreciated #likes appreciated too! #all in all this one was very fun to make #and has scared the shit out of two different people already #tadc fanart #< before I forget lol

[livwritesstuff]

couldn’t stop thinking about this, so here’s a followup :)

When Eddie does eventually get a tattoo for Steve, it’s on a whim.

Kind of on a whim.

He hadn’t forgotten about the idea by any means, but he had yet to come up with an idea that came even close to encapsulating the love Eddie had for Steve, so he waited.

Then, one day, around a year and a half after their initial conversation on the subject and when Steve and Eddie were enjoying a lazy morning arguing over the grocery list (Steve wants to try a new pasta salad recipe, the fancy bastard, and Eddie just wants him to make the same cheesy marinara pasta sauce he’s been fiending over for years), Steve gets called into the hospital.

His second-to-last clinical rotation for his psychology doctorate sent him to the psych floor of a nearby emergency room, which has meant, for the first time, Steve is on-call even when he’s not scheduled to be at the hospital.

Steve is miserable — the most miserable Eddie’s ever seen him when it comes to his psych program — and annoyed with the school for assigning it to him when there had apparently been others available that were closer to how he actually wants to use his doctorate when he finally earns it, but, like he tends to, he’s being a decent sport about it.

He’s on the phone with his C.I. affirming that he’ll be in as soon as he can when he picks up a pen, grabs Eddie’s wrist, and scribbles fresh mozzarella, penne, tomatoes, lemon juice on the underside of his forearm. Below that he writes love you, and below that he adds - S, followed by a heart, a sideways smiley face, and a star, like Eddie’s seen him do hundreds of times. It’s how he signs off every post-it note stuck to the fridge, every message swiped into the fogged-up bathroom mirror, every letter he folds up and mails to Robin or Nancy or both or some other member of the Party.

Eddie isn’t even totally sure Steve realizes he’s doing it, that maybe he just likes that first doodled heart so much he can’t help but keep going, but he loves it either way. It’s sweet and charming and cute and just so, so Steve that it almost hurts.

Steve presses a swift kiss onto Eddie’s lips before making a bee-line for the door, still on the phone with his C.I, and Eddie’s mind is moving so fast he can’t sit with it anymore, so he jumps to his feet, checks his wallet to see if he’s got cash (he does), and then he too is on his way out the door.

Thankfully, at eleven on a Tuesday morning, his tattoo artist is accepting walk-ins, and before his brain completely catches up to his beating heart, he’s got Steve’s words (minus the groceries, obviously) in his neat writing and his heart, smile, and star tattooed on his forearm and it’s fuckin’ perfect and Eddie couldn’t be happier.

Steve returns sooner than Eddie thought he would — before dinner, which is still late, but not as late as it usually is whenever he gets called into the hospital — and as he lets himself into their apartment, Eddie meets him at the door.

“Hey,” Steve says with a tired smile, “Hungry?”

“Look!” Eddie ignores him, holding out his arm so Steve can see the tattoo through the protecting plastic wrap.

Steve looks down blankly at it for a moment or two before the corner of his mouth upticks just slightly.

“You...you did this today? From the-the stupid thing I wrote?”

“Yeah,” Eddie grins, “Isn’t it great. i’m so fuckin’ thrilled with it, man. It’s just — it’s you.”

“Yeah, it’s-” Steve shakes his head like he always does when he’s being bashful, “If you say so.”

He pulls Eddie into a tight hug, which Eddie immediately reciprocates, pressing his lips to Steve’s neck.

“I really love you,” Steve says.

“Love you too,” he replies, “in case that wasn’t clear.”

And Steve is pulling away, so Eddie catches the way he smiles as he shakes his head again. Steve’s eyes travel to the kitchen and then snap back to his own.

“Wait, so did you get the groceries?”

“Ah - fuck.”

part 3

#stranger things #steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #established relationship #psych student!steve #idk is this ooc? i can’t even tell anymore #eddie just loves steve so much he doesn’t know what to do with himself and i love that for both of them #does steve get a tattoo for eddie? #unsure. he doesn’t really strike me as a tattoo kind of guy #he strikes me as a terrified of needles after they were used to drug and torture him kind of guy #and he can hold himself together long enough to get a flu shot bc he knows he can be dramatic about it to eddie later #but a tattoo takes quite a bit longer #and steve has been in school long enough to know that exposure therapy isn’t all that effective #so who knows

[sybeez]

some fries with that?

#just a doodle but man i lashed out on every effect i could add lol #also hey zoom on the eye #sy.png #artists on tumblr #splatoon #side order #splatoon 3 dlc #octaling #aw hell nah they put 8 back in the mind torture labyrinth #sy.op

[slavonicrhapsody]

Honestly debating Elden Ring's characters' moralities is like putting oil in the fire

Someone or anyone ought to make a huge mess out of it,intentional or not

What I think is that hardly any of us can really judge how they act,who they are,cuz we're not in the same story,the same world. I just enjoy how complex and morally challenging it is without thinking too hard about it

yeah essentially my thoughts are that it’s completely unhelpful to take a story and sort the characters into the bad guys and the good guys; this is a story, not real life, and the focus of discussion should be on how their morally challenging actions affect their character dynamics and the direction of the story. at the same time though the severity of their actions in the story should be considered, not for the purpose of simply condemning their actions, but in order to understand how the characters’ actions have shaped their world and the people in it

#it’s the difference between ‘this character did xyz which means they’re evil and i hate them’ #vs. this character did xyz which had this effect on the world which says this about the story #for example: we should all agree it’s Bad that rykard tortured people #but i’m not sitting here saying like how can you people like him he’s so evillll #his actions have severe consequences for the world he exists in but he as a person is not real #hope this makes sense #asks

[bijoumikhawal]

only going "rape and torture are bad" when people defend Palestinians is pretty fucking scummy, speaking as someone who knows more than the average person on this site does about torture, and hates it real bad and knows a lot of people repeat torture apologia because it's deeply pervasive in modern culture

#cipher talk #Again: yes rape and torture ARE bad. Currently there is limited evidence of that occuring from Palestinian militants #During this operation #Instances may happen and may even be likely purely because this is armed conflict #How come you don't state the same when faced with Israeli opinions? #Because there are MANY. AND I MEAN MANY. Near constant reports of both from Israeli prisons and soldiers! #I get part of it is that frankly American Jews and Jews on tumblr do not see the most rabid forms of Zionism #Because I do remember being shocked when I got more active in Twitter and realized just how deeply racist and genocidal #Some zionists openly were #But I really almost want to laugh because like. A lot of yall are reformniks #The state of Israel does not respect you! It barely thinks you're Jewish! But you defend it so hard! #Claiming it's the only refuge for Jewish refugees in times of crisis like I've seen one rabbi do... completely ignoring how many jews #Are effectively declared not Jewish enough for those very purposes #A few weeks ago I was in fact darkly wondering to myself how they would be used if something happened that made Ugandan Jews into refugees #How they were not Jewish enough for the rabhinate but would surely be used in propaganda if antisemitic violence occurred #About why Israel is 'necessary' even though they were denied upfront

[onewholivesinloops]

satorika disembowelment scene is a literal take on the metaphor described in the beginning of minagoroshi, because it's the allegory of satoko taking the pain she's been feeling all this time and reaching into rika and pulling her insides out to make her feel it too. that's basically the type of metaphor satoko would use to express the torture her love for rika has made her feel, so she's cutting open her torso and pulling out her intestines before intimately embracing her and sobbing the feelings she's been circling around all this time by conveying them through hidden messages in the form of murders, with the hope that inflicting this pain on rika would finally make her capable of understanding her, as her feelings of love, hatred, anger and atonement all mix together in a very visceral way in every sense of the word.

#most people are understandably grossed out by this episode but i've rewatched it more times than i can count #it's seriously the most effective and best directed instance of gore in all of the higurashi anime adaptations #it's very similar to how the visual novel handles scenes with gore because there's more emphasis on the emotions #there was definitely some very shocking imagery but it fit the emotional turmoil expressed by satoko and rika #the lighting in the episode was also ridiculously atmospheric #the red palate was a great choice because it helped avoid the excessive blood splatter that might reduce the impact #and there's just an inherent intimacy in the entire scene especially with satoko and rika having a discussion amidst everything #it's still gross but it also helped that they took time to cut away from the gore by simmering in rika's interiority #anyway the point of this is to say that satoko's game mirrors beatrice in the sense that. it mirrors it in a lot of ways but i digress #it's just as much of a torture for her as it is for rika and battler respectively #higurashi #gamo.txt

[i3utterflyeffect]

Imagine if Mango becomes a father figure to Dark and then learns about what they did.

THAT'D BE SO FUCKED UP TBH. assuming this is still king merc but. i feel like he'd just kind of stop talking to them out of nowhere and suddenly start avoiding crossing paths with them much to Dark's dismay... Dark doesn't even get anything on why if they weren't there when King found out...

i mean. then again he probably found out through Chosen's memories. which I'm sure is only worse for everyone involved....... and they'd see the horrified look King gives them, and suddenly they'd feel some weird sense of almost shame, which is weird because they never care about being good enough, they've always been free to do whatever they want without feeling like they had to be good enough for someone (except for when they were trying to impress their older sibling-- they had worked so hard on the virabots and Chosen just got MAD-- they were certain they did nothing to deserve it but the more time passes the more they start to doubt it...)

#dark's already kind of feeling kind of shitty at that point i feel like. because they just watched their sibling get beat up and tortured #and now the only person who's even marginally tried to be a support has just kind of shut themself away from dark #and victim is angry with them and chosen is hurt and SC is judging them this entire time-- if they had to guess probably pitying them-- #and if their injuries had worn off by now they could just take it out on other people but i think SC had a permanent effect on them #so they're just frustrated with their inability to do anything and they're frustrated with how much it hurts #if anyone tried to talk to them they'd probably just get snarled at because dark is NOT in the mood #tommy's stickmen tag