NYT has been discouraging reporters from sharing photos of luigi mangione - not due to concerns for his safety but to dissuade sympathy - and refuses to post his alleged manifesto in full. and today, they published an opinion by bret stephens about how brian thompson is the "real working class hero" of this story.
reddit deleted luigi's account, which was completely innocuous and consisted mostly of him giving out advice in health subreddits. they're also deleting any post that includes his alleged manifesto and banning users for sharing it.
luigi yelled that this was "an insult to the intelligence of the american people" while he was being dragged by police and news pundits are framing it as a deranged and violent outburst. news media are picking apart details of his life to paint him as a cold-blooded and mentally ill individual. even something as innocent as playing "among us" with friends is being framed as some insidious look into an assassin's disturbed psyche, ffs.
news media are also capitalizing on luigi's supposed "bizarre and impossible to understand" politics as an obvious way to paint him as a scary individual when the guy is... a centrist, at most. whose views are similar to those of your average college-educated white guy.
multiple news media also keep harping on about how luigi comes from a rich family. an obvious attempt to break the class solidarity that's been formed around this case by continuously trying to tell us "oh he's not like you guys" while ignoring the now pretty well-documented accounts of his multiple health struggles throughout the years.
and all this, and he hasn't even been found guilty of the crime he's allegedly committed. luigi is, as of right now, still innocent until proven guilty. and the news are trying to tear him apart because they obviously fear the symbol he's becoming for low and middle class america.
I can’t help but wonder ⚔️🦇
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to be fair if the potion that was supposed to free men from the chains of evil turned me into some ugly fucking thing who does every fucked thought that pops into its damn head id probably kill myself too
hyde gives me confidence in myself as a disabled cane-using person. i didn’t know i could beat someone to death with a cane
So Edgeworth’s shoulder width (along with other characters in the early games) has been a long topic of discussion. I was curious, and it turns out that on his front-faceing sprite, they’re 1.5x the size of his head. Now, for most people, the width of each shoulder is about the same width as your face, that’s one of those anatomy tricks that artists use to keep people looking, well, proportional. So I wanted to see what he looked like with “normal” proportions.
Here’s his in-game sprite:
Here he is with corrected proportions:
Like, he actually looks like a young adult here, holy shit. They could probably even be a bit wider than this and still not make him look like he stepped out of an early 2000′s yaoi manga.
And then, since I was already editing this sprite, the next logical step was, of course, widening.
And again, for good measure.
x2 size for easier viewing:
Enjoy.
back on my diasomnia bs again lads!! Lilia’s birthday isn’t until January but I wanted to get this out while it was still in my head and before they ruin all my headcanon. not pictured: Yuu insisting that the Fudgie the Whale cake is absolutely essential to the process.
also I don’t care what canon says, in my heart Crowley made birthday parties mandatory after episode 4 in a half-assed attempt to boost morale. by the time we hit episode 7 there’s going to be compulsory bingo nights that nobody finds fun except Trein probably.
Care for a ramble card? Ramble about anything and everything and anything you want for as long as you want
Aha thank you, this is a good excuse for me to talk for no reason /lh I suppose I'll discuss one of my theories about Jekyll and Hyde. One of my main theories is that Dr Jekyll lives at 28 Leicester Square. I'm pretty sure most people have this as a head canon but I'd like to go into a lot more detail about it. So, first of all, John Hunter was a surgeon in the mid-late 1700s and he was known for buying bodies and taking them in through the backdoor of his house so that he could experiment and dissect them. This, obviously, caused an uproar amongst the people of England and the debate ensued about whether it was "for the greater good" because the only way we can learn about the human body so that we can treat people is through an autopsy. Now, how does this relate to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Well, at the beginning of chapter 5 it was said that Jekyll "had bought the house from the heirs of a celebrated surgeon" Suggesting that perhaps he had brought the house off of Dr Hunter. There is also a similarity not only in house the house is structured, with the main part of the house being separate to the theatre and cabinet to the point where the back door and the front door face completely different streets, but also on the basis that R.L.S also created a short story The Bodysnatcher 1884 (2 years before J&H was published) which suggested that Stevenson already had knowledge of bodysnatching and therefore must have heard about the tale of John Hunter. Thus leading me to believe that whilst it is not a directly spoken element of the story, Jekyll's House was heavily and consciously implied to be John Hunters house. Another reason why I particularly like this idea of this is that Leicester Square is only a ten minute walk from Soho which is where Hyde lives. I like this because Leicester square is shown to be quite a middle class residence (as shown on The Charles Booth 1898 map) whereas Soho was riddled with a mix of people ranging from those living comfortably and those who lived in extreme poverty. This links to the duality of man showing that despite these neighbourhoods being close, there is still such a difference between them. However it also relates to the profiling theory that some criminals like to stick close to their home base, showing that Jekyll chose a house for Hyde in Soho so that he could easily retreat to his own home if something were to go wrong, hence why Hyde has run of Jekyll's house. So to conclude, Stevenson made a conscious decision to have Jekyll's house at 28 Leicester square because it was John Hunter's house who was an unethical doctor too and also because it's close to Soho. :D So sorry this is very long but nonetheless a fun ramble. Thank you
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