polytrix prequel AU: recording studio conversations

for more of this AU (out of order): x x please support me on P@tre0n, it's the only reason i'm able to make and post so many little comics like this (it's 50% 🔞 content tho, just a heads up <3)

You're one lucky son of a bitch, Garraty

Love when white leftists online talk about ireland like it’s wakanda

Boggles the mind really

no one asked. but i simply don’t think that the version of the long walk/the major/society presented to us in the film would ever allow for a ‘two winners’ scenario. 1) it goes against the whole premise of the thing - all the speeches we hear from the major are focused on the idea of it being a meritocracy, “anyone can win” through determination and Hard Work, an inspiration to combat an “epidemic of laziness”, the themes of pitting the working class against each other to keep them weak and divided - anything that allows there to be more than one winner, especially in a context where it’s for the purposes of letting ray live, deeply undermines the whole institution, which leads to 2) i don’t see the major (and the state he represents) allowing themselves to be undermined that way i think it goes against the Themes of the thing (thinking specifically of the scene before stebbins dies where ray yells at him and the major is like that’s the spirit boy!! like you may think you’re being subversive but you Lost the moment you agreed to walk. you’re playing the major’s game he has All the power and he is not going to give you capacity to change that. you cannot dismantle the system by playing by its rules)

all that to say. i do think you can do a “ray is pete’s wish” scenario but i think 1) he needs to very explicitly Not be a winner 2) it should be a bit of a monkey’s paw situation. i think often of the scene at the very beginning of the film where ray hands over his ID and doesn’t get it back. give me perhaps a scenario where ray can Live but (because the walk needs to retain his power) he is essentially Unpersoned and (in the eyes of the state) reduced to Pete’s Wish. let’s get crunchy with it

#im too cynical about state violence and oppression to imagine them not at least #being indebted to the state and specifically the major for the remainder of their lives in a 2 winners scenario #personally i imagine them being forced to participate in propaganda #by being contractually obligated to endorse the walk each year with some scripted speech #about how happy and grateful they are for how the walk has changed their lives for the better or something #so their happiness together is always tainted by that reminder that it only exists because the state permits it #and that they bought and continue to buy it with the deaths and suffering of other victims of the walk #(and of course they arent allowed to publicly acknowledge their queerness and are expected to lean into #the traditional masculine militaristic notions of brotherhood to sell an 'inspiring' story.) #but i do also really love the idea of ray being made essentially petes bride/property like a fucked up state arranged marriage #it ties nicely (in a cruelly ironic punishment way) to pete getting down on one knee when he attempted to sacrifice himself #and yknow. im a sucker for marriage horror. (via valtsv)

twopartstudio

He was so real for this.

Greywaren

i wonder what they're gossiping about

had to draw them

My biggest gripe about people comparing the 28 Years Later to The Last of Us or The Walking Dead, is that 28 Days Later was literally the blue print. You can literally see how it inspired the other two franchises, and people wanna pretended like 28 Years Later is copying them when this franchise was one of the first.

stroll boys