Quirky as Hell

There is a deliberate visual language in the wilderness: warm yellow tones from firelight and sunlight in the spring and summer months are frequently set against the deep blue of night and the soft, icy blues of winter. This persistent blue-and-yellow motif ties the survivors to the team they once were, while also showing how the wilderness twists and consumes that identity.

One of the clearest examples comes in the show’s very first scene: the Pit Girl sequence. When she first falls into the trap, it’s early morning, and the surrounding area is tinted in cold blue light. The next moment shown is the group gathered around a bonfire, the flames casting bright yellow light across their figures as they eat her, the warmth of the hue made horrific by the act it illuminates. There’s a tragic irony in how they remain surrounded by the very same colors that once united them as a team, even as they begin killing and eating each other to survive.

They want to act like high levels of sickness whether it be airborne or foodborne are normal and not the responsibility of agencies like public health or food safety regulation so they can get away with dismantling them.

i HATE self-censorship for a lot of reasons, but being in crisis work makes it even more frustrating. who are you censoring for? like i am being so fr, WHO are you censoring for? have you even thought it through? people who have been raped know that they have been raped. if someone attempts suicide or is grieving someone who did, saying "sewer slide" isn't going to protect them from any of the feelings. a murder victim's family isn't going to feel better bc you said "unalived" instead of murdered. if anything, it's just extremely invalidating and othering. it's saying "what happened to you is so bad that i won't even say the word," which is NOT trauma-informed care. you are not protecting survivors/victims when you self-censor. the ONLY things you protect when you self-censor are the puritanical ideologies that are being encouraged by rich fascists who want your money and obedience

ICE killed another person in maine today, just days after the murder of lorenzo salgado araujo in houston

the maine immigrants rights coalition has released a statement confirming he was a 26 year old colombian man who was authorized to work in the US and had a valid social security number

Erosion by Tamsin van Essen. Who knew parasitic invasion could be so beautiful?

van Essen on her project: