You Wanna End My Reign Of Terror So Bad It Makes You Look Stupid

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sorry i unconditionally LOATH people who hc elias (jonah) as a bigot SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! he would NEVER be transphobic you literally dont get him YOU DONT GET HIM!!!!!!!!! taking him AWAY from here you dont have elias privileges anymore. die

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randomly got annoyed again today at fandom portrayals of elias as a luddite. you think the world's most powerful avatar of beholding would be.... behind the times? ignorant to the progress of technology? even if you choose to ignore the fact that the digital age revolutionized beholding as a dread power (going from something tied much more closely to the hunt to something so much more exestential and all-consuming... the surveilance state! online surveilance! wiretapping! data gathering! predatory privacy policies! the zoom boom! etc!!!) and that the evolution of recording technology is how the institute was able to function as efficiently as it did to tell us its story... why would it ever make sense to you that the world's most powerful beholding avatar would remain wilfully ignorant of... anything. let alone wilfully ignorant of how the vast majority of the world functions and communicates. plus his greatest fear is death!! you think he isn't up to date on all the most prominent medical advances? that's just a willful misreading of the text.

“Threaten then, I’ve got nothing.” “That’s… almost true.”

MAG 106: A Matter of Perspective

[tw: emotional cruelty, abuse of power]

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Elias Bouchard/Jonah Magnus is trans send post

there is this fascinating thing that comes out in some branches of tma discourse that reveals a kind of fucky mindset that a lot of people have, and it's the idea that if an action is justified then all of its negative outcomes can be written off as negligible, or the vice versa, that if something had negative outcomes then it couldn't have been justified. I see this a lot in georgie discourse, where people can't seem to hold at once in their heads that it is completely within a person's rights to cut off a friend for the sake of their own safety and it can (and most likely will) really suck for that friend and make them feel done wrong by and abandoned while leaving them worse off with less support. the core weirdness of that awful melanie take was the idea that she didn't have the right to be traumatized or feel upset at jon for the bullet surgery because there was no other way, which is a take so antithetical to everything tma tries to express and to, like, the everyday realities of real life that it genuinely boggles my mind. really How do you end up thinking like that. I want to know.

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