We've put an explosive charge in your head

I wish to god I was joking or exaggerating but this is just factual beatles lore I'm so sorry for reblogging this for the 80th time op but the people need to know

on survival

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

sequel to this post where i drew my versions of the risk and threat assessment modules. this time i focused on the governor module!

for the governor module, i wanted to focus on depicting it as choking and constraining for the construct. i tried to emphasize that by using the imagery of the thorny vines mixed with lightening/electricity (especially electricity bc of the literal shocks it administers as punishment).

the top part would extends upward into a web that is apart of the central SecSystem, with all the various constructs attached to it. additionally, the module connects to the temple feed interface that i've decided to give all my construct designs, as well as the data port on their necks. it also has a little branch that extends in front of face and towards their eyes to visualize how constantly aware they are of its presence

as i showed in the first drawing, when a punishment is triggered the gov module would extend outwards, like lightening striking, and also tighten around the constructs head and neck.

i also wanted to brainstorm how the hacked gov module would look for Murderbot, but couldn't decide which idea i liked better so here's a sketch for each concept

I am not Roma myself, but I grew up in a European country where the Romani are a small (like 100 000 people at most), but officially recognised minority. It’s not like I was raised to be a Romani expert (trust me, there is a LOT my education lacks) but for as long as I can remember I’ve known who the Roma are, what their flag looks like, what their language sounds like, and their history. At all my local libraries there was always a small section with books in Romani. In elementary we read kids’ books written by Roma authours about Roma children. Early on, our teacher taught us a bit about the discrimination Romani people face and what slurs to NOT use. In language class our teacher would often remind us of the protected minority language status that Romani has and would show us educational clips about it. Since this is fucking Europe, we would of course go over the Holocaust every year in history class, and part of that was learning about the Porajmos. And our national TV and radio broadcasting organizations provide substantial Romani-language content that anyone can engage with.

I kind of assumed this was the norm, so imagine my surprise when I grew up and got into comic books just to see people in fandom conflate being Romani with Romanian, use the G- and Z-slurs, being racist, whitewashing Roma characters, or just in general having absolutely no idea who the Romani people are. It’s shocking how many people haven’t heard of this whole ethnic group before getting into Nightwing or Scarlet Witch. I literally cannot imagine this happening to any other minority. Ignorance about the Roma is something I see particularly often among the Romani!Dick-deniers. How are you going to be a contrarian about something you barely understand? And there are SO MANY people here that treat the Romani as some kind of exotic, mystical, almost-fictional, vaguely-South-Asian-looking people that you will never run into irl because they only exist within the realms of the circus and fortune telling. Instead of, you know, regular, ordinary people that you might meet at work or school or the dentist’s office, and who might like comic books and use Tumblr just like anyone else.

Even a lot of well-meaning fans can have this weird fetishize-y, aestheticized, and flattened view of these characters’ Romani heritage due to their ignorance. This can be stuff like drawing Dick as having tan skin, and having him use random Romani words in fics just to seem inclusive and progressive, or painting Wanda being whitewashed in the MCU as the biggest problem Romani people face in fandom spaces. I’m just mad about how how the cultural complexities that come with that heritage are erased in cases like this.