#town of the living dead

[1899sbiggestbabygirl]

I want to expand on this idea in the future:

Dutch Van der Linde is the perfect analogy for the white saviour.

He presents himself as someone who believes in equality; however, he uses his progressive stand views as long as it's rewarded with praise, his support is very minimal (basically not being overtly racist) and receives praise over it, but is willing to overlook racism if it benefits him ( him letting Micah stay in the gang), his views are literally based on a privileged man pretending to understand the oppressed (Evelyn Miller, Lenny calls him out on this), he pretends to care and empathize with the structures of oppression but is very willing to exploit them anyways (the whole thing with the wapiti tribe).

at his core I think Dutch would see himself as a saviour -but the narrative itself shows who he really is, and what every white saviour at its core is: A fake hero.

Sure, Dutch's saviour complex and manipulation is evident with all characters, but to pretend that race or ethnicity doesn't hold a big role in how these dynamics work (especially on the time period) would be willful ignorance.

#with that being said rdr and rdr2 do have their white saviour moments #but in a way it functions more of a 'hey these guys are good despite the times' reminder than anything #rdr1 has that sherif american guy living in that mexican town... that's very white savour ish but eh... #anyways #anyone else got any ideas? #rdr2 #rdr #red dead fandom #dutch van der linde #character analysis #meta #rdr2 meta #txt

[zabiume]

every day i think about the fact that there was going to be a page where tatsuki talks about how similar ichigo and orihime are but it had to be cut out because page limit :////

#the fact that they have tangentially been in each others' lives since they were 12 years old always gets me😭 #her best friend used to be his best friend...her brother died at his father's clinic...such a small town romance i'm dead #from orbiting each others' lives to building a tentative friendship to actually becoming close to getting MARRIED #but also tatsuki's unique position of losing a best friend and gaining another...but also watching the two of them becoming friends #love this teen drama love this ot3 #ichihime

[sincerely-sofie]

I'm imagining a scenario where team Skull go to Twig while Opal is on a play date or something, and ask Twig to teach them opal's unique way of talking so they can better understand her.

And Twig is just reveling in getting to teach these 35-40something year olds how to talk old 'english' style. She'd oblige of course, since they're friends at this point. But she would make her enjoyment of this situation abundantly clear.

Although Twig is more familiar than Team Skull is with the outdated, oftentimes obsolete vocabulary that Opal uses, she’d still defer to Ark as a teacher on this subject. Ye Olde Medieval Pokespeak is something she can struggle with and use incorrectly when she jokingly incorporates it into her own speech, and she doesn’t want to accidentally give Opal further trouble than she already has while interacting with people. She could also use some lessons herself— she understands how things work and how most words are used, but not why, and would sit in with Team Skull as Ark quizzes them on vocabulary and grammar, taking extensive notes as she is so fond of doing.

Also, it’s kinda funny to watch Skuntank squirm when interacting with Ark after an interaction where he realized what Ark’s species was.

#I really need to polish up the fic where Skuntank learns that Ark is actually Darkrai #y’know. the minor deity who tortured an entire town + drove a major deity mad + was behind a plethora of disasters around the world? #apparently that guy and Ark— the creepy loser who Twig is all lovey-dovey with— are the same. #Skuntank learns this when Ark is manning Twig’s market stand for her #and he immediately absconds to go kick down Twig’s front door + inform her of the fact that she’s living with a Legend that wanted her dead #‘ARE YOU OKAY??? ARE YOU BRAINWASHED??? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HANGING AROUND THAT FREAK? BLINK TWICE IF YOU NEED HELP’ #she kinda just. stands there for a bit. #explains to him that they’re engaged #and then /dies laughing/ at the face Skuntank makes #she mentions that Celebi is going to think this is hilarious #and Skuntank goes ‘YOU KNOW CELEBI????’ #‘pfft. yeah. we met when I was a human in the—‘ #‘WHEN YOU WERE A /WHAT/???’ #Twig legit almost passes out because she gets so lightheaded while laughing at him #shadow baby au #pmd team skull #pmd koffing #pmd zubat #pmd skuntank #pmd darkrai #pokemon mystery dungeon #pokémon mystery dungeon #pmd explorers #pmd sky #pmd eos #pmd2 #pmd #sofie answers asks

[sourkitsch]

Novels about women having mental breakdowns will literally occur on the north shore of Massachusetts

#the bell jar + things have gotten worse both name drop towns i live near #also I work in Cambridge. where one of the characters (Zoe) lives #there’s guy on the train near me who is either asleep or dead it’s kind of hard to tell

[nowheresville-dakota]

#rural america #rural living #rural #small town life #rural gothic #midwest gothic #ruralcore #midwest america #dead end #road sign #road signs #corn field #prairie life #prairiecore #grass #grasscore #corn #farm #farmcore #small town things

[froot-batty]

Ed lore time

Part 1 -> Part 2

Eddie grew up in a very, very small religious town in West Virginia. It was a town where everyone knew everyone, and from the moment Ed learned how to talk and walk, the town knew him to be...weird. He was a very smart kid, but he was skittish and off-putting - he would talk too much or too little, have odd routines or compulsions, range from anxious or irritable to withdrawn and melancholy seemingly without provocation. These obvious neurodivergencies Ed had caused people to start spreading rumors, and look down on him and his parents for not "fixing" whatever they thought was wrong with him

The fact that Ed wasn't the ideal child they'd wanted greatly pissed off Ed's parents. When they were younger, they had tried to "fix" him, correcting him harshly and reprimanding him when he fell out of line. This was all it was, at first, until an incident in Ed's childhood

Ed had always been a curious child. The education in their town was focused more on religion and the basics rather than anything that really fascinated them. Because of their utter lack of interest in what was taught (and the fact that they just didn't get on well in a school environment), Ed did absolutely terrible in school. They preferred to keep to themselves, their nose in any book they could possibly get their hands on

One thing that intrigued him the most were machines, such as computers. Seeing the inner workings of things such as cars delighted him; and working on cars, in fact, was the only thing he and his father ever bonded over. However, this interest for the things that went on *inside* would eventually grow from just the mechanical, to the biological

Eddie grew to love studying dead animals. While he had been born with low empathy, he never went out of his way to kill these animals himself - rather, he'd just explore them after they had already died. Except for one time

Ed had come across a rabbit caught in a trap while taking his daily venture through the woods behind his home. It was still in the process of dying when they stumbled on it, and while Ed knew the right thing to do was to try and help it out of the trap, they merely stood there and watched as it died, emotionlessly. All they could think about was how utterly fascinating it had been

He would think this way the first time he watched someone die. He and his father had been alone in the house when his father had started to have a heart attack. Watching the utter desperation - the *vulnerability* - on his father's face froze Ed in place; he needed *his* help, just like the rabbit had, and Ed had the power to deny or provide his help as he wanted. At this point Ed didn't wish his father dead, nor for any real harm to come to him at all, but it made him feel...powerful

Their mother would come in and call the police before his father would actually die. But from that point forward, Ed's father never forgave them for standing and watching while he pleaded for their help. He became crueler - physically violent as well as verbally - until over the years Ed's parents would just slowly start to ignore him more and more

#his lore involves another character so he's special and gets multiple parts #also i know ed is usually from connecticut but i wanted his town to have that “dead end nowhereville” vibe to it #and the entire state of wv has that vibe #also because i used to live in wv and its MY au i get to decide where my silliest boy is from #frootverse #edward nygma #the riddler #my art #doodles

[vintagenews]

Source and details.

#vintage headline #ghost town #living dead #headline

[sunsetzer]

Rasmodius totally has the same vibes as Ardyn Izunia and I love that for him

#ff15 au where everything is the same but ardyn has the same role as rasmodius does in sdv lmao #imagine if he was just like... some guy who shows up and provides assistance with slight disinterest #the weird guy who lives outside of town and isn't exactly menacing but something is off #the concept of ardyn being an entirely neutral party is weirdly so funny to me #hes just vibing.. this 2000 year old man... just vibing in the woods doing Wizard Activities #the scene where rasmodius makes the player drink the mystery brew and it gives them the power to speak with the junimos #ardyn would 100% do that and if there were any adverse consequences of noctis drinking the potion hed just shrug and be like #well you arent dead right #im thinking about this too much lmao #ff brainrot meets sdv brainrot yet again #im just gonna keep connecting sdv characters to ff characters in my dumb little head #sdv #stardew valley #sdv rasmodius #ff15 #ffxv #ardyn izunia

[smute]

theres a 1312 graffito on the sidewalk outside our house which is based obviously but honestly so hilarious im about to poast my full address just so you guys can understand how ridiculous it is to see something like that here

#its not just that we live in a very quiet part of a small town #theres also like. zero foot traffic #our street is literally a dead end #and ours is one of 3 houses on it #like #theres a no 1 #3 #and we're no 5 #and thatse it #there are only 3 pedestrians here #the old woman who lives in no 1 and passes our house when she walks her dog #the mailwoman #and me lmao #the numbers also face our house #like i can read them from the window #its just so random #i love it #&

[potatoeofwisdom]

Insane. The people on the street are having loud unapologetic conversation at 12 in the morning.

#I’m upset that I can’t hear what they were discussing :( #it seemed interesting #also the neighbours screaming has amped up in intensity #I wonder what that’s about #also a fire truck just drove by #i can’t stress enough how absolutely bizarre this all is I live in a tiny country town what is happening #after 11pm the town is DEAD #I walk around at that time sometimes just to chill and lie down in the car park or something #normally no one is around #I don’t actually mind the conversation btw it’s just surprising for my town #potatoe rambles

[mariatesstruther]

okay wait im obsessed with the idea of chihuahuas surviving especially well in the apocalypse

#like those dogs are just so sturdy and live to be like 15+ #imagine jackson just having its own town chihuahuas #tommy would definitely want one and maria would definitely be like fuck off #he would get one on the condition that he shares it with ellie and it lives with their house #ellie and the chihuahua having matching jackets and booties/gloves #knitted by maria ofc #tommy and his chihuahua having matching hats #joel would HATE IT #michonne would want one and rick would say YES MA’AM HOW MANY #it would like in a little cross body bag that she keeps on her person at all times #people come across them and think its a weapon and shes like yeah i got somethin MAJOR dangerous in here’ #out comes mister snoozy poozy aka mister snooze aka snoozey poozey poo #rick gives death glares to anyone that tries to make fun of michonne for having the dog #anyone who even threatens the dog is dead #joel too wiuld kill for the dog #richonne #richonne au #tlou au #not coming back to the fandom at all i just cannnnoooootttttt stop thinking abt this #but fuck niel dont stream szn 2 on max dont give them NO mf money

[fitzrove]

Its ok maybe if you look up the lyrics to was für ein grausames leben and read them in english you will be okj<3

#[gnawing and biting] #ashjdjgjg i think i don't want to live in vienna after all #i'm by nature an easily depressed person and in some places it's too easy to make your life revolve around dead people and death at large!! #i had a lot of fun on my trip but i also had some terrible times #mostly the part where i was sick #one thing that i think would pose a major issue long term is the insanely narrow opening hours for supermarkets - in germany many stay #open until 10 pm. closest one to my hotel in vienna closed at 7:30 pm... #also i just can't deal with big crowds and tourists in my living environment full time dhhfhfgh i always need to be somewhere away and #voluntarily go into the tourist parts only if i want to #like how in cambridge it was insane in the center but i would walk 30 minutes every morning from by the train tracks :') a nice quiet #residential street and i could shop at the local sainsbury's and only go to the historic city centre when i felt like it and could prepare #so like i have to live in a quiet area but within reasonable distance of (and with good transport to!) a more exciting busy area #but um yeah now i have to awkwardly tell everyone irl that i've been talking about it to that i don't actually want to do it anymore xD #it's ok i still want to live Somewhere Interesting with historical stuff... #if i manage not to have a mental breakdown that is ahshhdjdkf #i like my current town a lot :')

[lostlegendaerie]

stayed up two hours past my bedtime and ran my phone down to 1% bc that stupid Reddit post by the racist UK dipshit weighing in on American Rock Music culture showed up on my dash again and. I can't help it. I hate that post so much. Motherfucker cited one (1) verifiable government act and 11k people were so hyped to dunk on US politics they ignored the part where OP shits on historically Black-dominated music genres and straight up lied about the origins of three other bands

#aaaaaAAAAAHHHHHH #biting and killing and biting and killing #I don't even GO HERE I hate concerts they are too loud and I avoid live music but THATS HOW I KNOW ROCK ISNT DEAD #BECAUSE I CANT GO TO HALF THE BARS IN TOWN WITHOUT EARPLUGS BC THEYRE ALWAYS HOSTING LOCAL BANDS!!!! #I only know ONE LUMINEERS SONG #I'm not a fucking expert but I have farmed enough to know bullshit when I see it

[enjomo-arch]

y'all be honest is it too much if I develop an entirely new island in op world based off western / 1900s years / maybe some visual inspo from RDR which was originally ace's home island before he got moved to goa kingdom and also an island ace settles in during post timeskip to stay low

#「002」 𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗢𝗙 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥 #I'm sorry I'm obsessed 👍 #And honestly my ace is pulled out of canon so much that I can just put him in a dumbster for the rest of his life and it'd be canon #I also think an island entirely being based off RDR / 1900s but a little modern to keep up with one piece times #Just old towns resembling similar ones to red dead like Valentine would be cool #Ace returning back to his roots and his home where he lived with Rouge before she died also hits #Maybe law was settling the polar tang around it to keep off radar and because ace said the island is in furthest parts of the grand line #So it was a safe place to keep him in and stay low definitely more safe than Sphinx after MF #I just think it'd be very cool... : (

[moregraceful]

post-vacation hangover except I didn't go anywhere I just spent 4 straight days with Sierra so post-Sierra's vacation hangover...has anyone ever had a guest visit them and you're showing off your boring cringefail city with great weariness and they notice five thousand beautiful and deeply stupid things you never noticed before and then they leave and you have a renewed appreciation for your city 😭

#they sell ESPRESSO MARTINIS AT THE TANK #downtown is DEAD #there are amazing vegan nachos downtown!! #there is a nirvana soul kinda close to the tank!! #veteran's day is on a FRIDAY #and if you're a 10 on the east coast you're 50 in san jose and a 1000 for the barracuda!! #i can't believe i got them to haberdasher i forgot that place existed until this week and then we were there until 12am talking abt keebler #god truly fuck san jose conceptually this place sucks but living in north county was so so so much worse and i'm glad i'm down here again #and i get to show my beautiful friends this town #and i get to experience with them how deeply stupid this cringe ass boring city with bad highways is but with a kind of appreciation #asking sierra 20 times yesterday when they are coming back. you wanna come back for the all-star and season finale sooo bad :(((((( #now i have to write a sermon instead of being put in a medically induced coma or writing weird keebler/ekky all afternoon #which is a hell i think only methodists could design #fresno oilers.txt

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#there's something really beautiful about experiencing the weather patterns of a new place #where i live now. its not like where i grew up. not like the foothills of Appalachia but its more familiar than the Chihuahuan desert was #when i go home to ohio everythings so green. so green. unimaginably green and the towns are in the woods. the hills roll #and trees billow deciduous and packed so tightly the treeline is like a wall of plant matter. here there are trees but they are tall and #evergreen. patchy in places like shrubs in the desert. the grass grows green but also pale tan and dead. houses are routed in valleys #between mountains. they're made of wood and not stucco but they still look strange and the landscape is crumpled together tall. and there's #water. it rains. days can be dreary and gray with drizzle. i forgot what thats like. when a single low stratus cloud blocks out thewhole sk #and fog clings to the trees. my school bus used to drive by a lake where thr fog was so thick i didnt kno how the driver could see the road #but somehow i forgot how much joy suspended water vapor gives me living in a place where when it rains it pours so hard the streets flood #and the greedy ground drinks the landscape dry. but there are new things as well. here smoke rolls up over thr mountains and gets stuck in #the valleys so that the weather forcast reads: Smoke for days on end. im used to tornado warnings and heat warnings and dust storm warnings #but ive never expected Smoke as a type of weather. and im sure there's more to experience. ive only been here like 3 weeks. its not as gree #as home. the storms dont seem to get quite so violent. the woods are so full of bears that its an active threat. but its not the desert #and while ill miss the shapes of desert plants and little lizards. when i look up at the pine and spruce trees i feel like i can breathe a #little easier. well see how i feel once the long cold winter sets in haha #but i dunno. part of me still longs for a violent thunderstorm. one where u can feel the temperature drop and u csn feel it building all da #one that bends the trees and smells like ozone. it was never like that in thr southwest and im not sure that happens here #but maybe thats just a desire for chaos and violence as a product of my pathological internal control. i cant be spontaneous so let nature #bring the fear to me. some of my favorite memories are watching lightning strikes #so it goes i suppose #unrelated #listen. is it fucked up to have ohio nostalgia? maybe so. but in my defense i grew up in the pretty part of ohio lol