Mad_Chiсken

John who has nothing, John who can be put away with just a thought, John who has control of nothing, who isn't needed for anything, who is now, more than ever, a passanger

It makes me siiiick it makes me sick

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

So I've been seeing a lot of "eldritch", "true form" et cetera things, and wanted to say that some of you are cowards. A lot of lovecraftian shit IS full of teeth and eyes but, like, really?

They are so used to sharing a body that once separated, things like privacy and personal space don't really occur to them as something they should pay attention to with each other. It is very common to see them taking up the same physical space (brushing up against each other, leaning full chest-to-back over each other to look at something, physically moving the other instead of asking them to move, etc., etc.), and they are almost always touching in some way. Their default standing positioning in almost any situation is John slightly behind Arthur, with their shoulders pressed together. If one of them is seated, the other is probably either hovering behind them or perched on the arm of their chair. They do not find their physical proximity to be strange in any way because they've been a lot closer. They don't even notice how close they are unless someone else points it out, which isn't very often since people think they're freaky, so they try not to draw their attention.

Arthur is a decently tall man, but John is a good half foot taller than Arthur, and a bit broader. The sudden height difference is a bit of an adjustment for John, as he had become used to seeing things from Arthur's height and judging distances in proportion to Arthur's body size, so he bumped into a lot of things in the first few days of walking around in his own body.

Because they primarily interact with each other, John is less aware of the social norms of personal space than most people are, and therefore, has made multiple people uncomfortable by getting too close to them/touching them to move them out of his way. Arthur is subconsciously aware of John at all times, so he will subtly pull John back to his side if he's getting too close to other people and make apologies if necessary. The only other person who doesn't seem to mind John's extreme closeness is Faroe because she recognized very quickly that physical proximity to someone he knows seems to be a sort of comfort for John, so she made an effort to be close to him, and now she doesn't think anything of it. She pretty frequently leans on him and links arms with him when they’re walking, particularly if Arthur isn’t with them, because she wants John to feel comfortable.

Despite his earlier complaints that Arthur could talk to anyone, while he was only able to talk to Arthur, John doesn't actually have much of a desire to speak to other people very often. He is fully capable and does not have any anxiety about talking to other people; he just doesn't really want to. Most of the time—whether it's as simple as ordering something at a cafe or as complex as communicating with police about a case—Arthur is the designated talker of the two of them. It's not uncommon to see John lean down and say something to Arthur while he's talking to someone else, and have his input voiced by Arthur instead of just outright saying it. John's a bit of an attack dog, though, and he loves a good argument, so he is more than willing to yell at someone, particularly if they are brushing off, ignoring, or being rude to Arthur. If a point needs to be made, John will make it, and since he is more physically imposing and doesn't speak as often, people tend to listen to him. However, John does occasionally forget that other people can hear him now, and he has openly insulted multiple people while standing right in front of them.

If their investigations require touching any unknown or gross-looking substance, it automatically becomes Arthur's job because John will refuse. The idea that if Arthur has not touched it and deemed it acceptable, John will not touch it applies to most things, even if they are just regular objects that he has not seen before, because he is very picky about the texture of things that he touches. The only exception to the rule is corpses because he has to touch them for his visions to work, but he hates doing it. There have been multiple instances of people attempting to hand him things, only to have him stare at them until Arthur reaches around him and grabs the thing, but if Arthur hands something off, he won’t bat an eye before taking it. He also avoids shaking hands with people as often as possible, usually by either busying himself with something else or simply hanging back from the conversation, because he doesn’t like not knowing what their hand is going to feel like before he touches it.

Arthur had a hell of a time introducing John to food because he is also a very picky eater. They discovered that John hates anything bitter or sour, but he is weirdly into spicy food. The first thing aside from water that John ever consumed was a sip of Arthur's coffee, which he promptly spit out and declared disgusting. John prefers tea, but if he has to drink coffee for whatever reason, he takes it with honey and a bunch of cream, which Arthur finds horrifying and much too sweet. They are chronic meal repeaters because John is very hesitant to try new things.

I forgot I had this site so I'll post the whole comic I've been doing since last year

This comic explains a weird virus that arrived at Nevada out of blue and one of the Nexus Core's newbie scientists, Maurice, does a research about it.

krinkels, swain, no one else seems to bother about it, just brushing it all off as random trolls and telling us we just shouldnt engage. this isnt an obscure small portion of the fandom, these are literally the Biggest animators/creators of this fandom across all platforms, including some madness day judges and even official voice actors who are either bigots or defend others bigotry using the same excuse that theyre somehow just low effort random trolls. these are the biggest names in this fandom harassing and silencing smaller creators for saying anything about it who then arent able to defend themselves on such a scale and getting pushed out of the community for it.

this shouldnt just be ignored. i dont care if you keep liking madcom or not over it, i definitely dont plan on leaving it soon. what needs to be done is to be outspoken about how this kind of disgusting behavior shouldnt be allowed or accepted. we cant just forget all of it for the sake of enjoying madness day or animations or whatever, especially not when at any moment they may set their sights on you.

previous posts for context:

Considering the only public response so far has been a lukewarm call for everyone to break it up, we need to do a lot more than just reblog and retweet posts condemning what happened (as important as that is for awareness).

Krinkels discord is just @/krinkels. [email protected] is a public email on his Facebook account. Directly make your displeasure with the continued fostering of the alt right in this fandom KNOWN and UNAVOIDABLE so it can finally be addressed.