People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.
An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.
Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.
It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…
It’s an ant again.
Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.
This is madness.
Thank you for this good PSA because I’m still seeing sincere, published, professional writers doing “ahhhhh oh no this monster was SO UGLY i’m mentally ill now!”
“For a moment, I heard the music of the spheres … Ineffably beautiful … But now, I am deaf again. As deaf as I always was, though without knowing it, and it is torture …
I must hear it again. I will do whatever it takes, even if I must break this earth to pieces, for even death cannot efface this dreadful deafness.”
… Huh. That is a really interesting insight. The implication that IT is trying to emotionally imbalance the Losers (not merely frighten, but also anger, sadden, etc.) as much as possible is a really intriguing one.
Although the cynic in me wonders if the set designers simply forgot the character is Jewish. Y’know, what with how they don’t really develop that trait in the 1990, but definitely do in the 2019.
{I originally was going to use this for theme park as they’re taking Mike to Disney for the first time, but this also fits for vacation. it prevents me from the teacher au idea I had but that’s okay!}
Richie: WHO’S READY FOR THE MOST UNSUPERVISED WEEKEND OF OUR WHOLE LIVES UP TO THIS RELATIVELY SHORT, 16-YEAR POINT?!
Bev: I get control of the radio, and will kill anyone who tries to gainsay me.
“Most of what you think you know about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is wrong.
This is the model that we all learned in psych 101 is wrong [image of Maslow’s pyramid is shown] where our basic physiological needs are at the bottom of the pyramid and achieving one’s full individual potential is at the apex.
What you may not have known is that Maslow spent 6 weeks with the Blackfoot First Nation in the summer of 1938. He learned about their worldview and the Blackfoot Tipi, appropriated and misrepresented their perspective to establish his own Maslow’s hierarchy, and then didn’t give them credit.
[Image of Maslow’s pyramid and Blackfoot tipi shown, described below]
According to the Blackfoot Tipi, self-actualization is at the bottom of the pyramid. In the middle we have belonging and community actualization, where people take care of each other and help each other with their basic needs. And at the top, we have cultural perpetuity, which is teaching each other how to live in harmony with the land and achieve community actualization through generations.
It makes so much sense, right? Taking care of oneself is not enough. We need to take care of each other and our community.
This is why we need to decolonize psychology.”
Godsdamn it! Is literally *anything* untouched by racist exploitation?!
… probably not, if we’re being honest. I don’t know why this example would infuriate me so much more than others I’ve learned about. Either way, though: Fuck you, Maslow!
Unfortunately, Wukong couldn’t figure out why the kid turned into a half-dragon in the middle of the night for seemingly no reason. So he decided to leave the side of the investigations to Macaque and Mei while he was going to visit an old friend.
While Bai Long Ma was happy to see his eldest brother, he was less happy about the whole “disappearing for 500 years” act Wukong pulled, and the old dragon didn’t give the monkey much time to speak before giving him a piece of his mind.
So, while the Monkey King got a severe scolding from his youngest brother, Macaque had called in the twins to help with the researches. Two pairs of hands and eyes couldn’t hurt after all, that is, after Jin and Yin were done with their jumpscare caused by Mei.
Bai Long Ma: You might technically be the most powerful being in the whole cosmos, but I’m still gonna kick your multicolored ass.
Sun Wukong: … That’s baboons. I’m not a babbon. Just sayin’, my ass is monocolored.
Bai Long Ma: I don’t care if your ass is multicolored, monocolored, technicolored, or merely an allegory for the power of the mind in overcoming hardship and mastering its own impulses on the quest to enlightenment! I’m still gonna kick it!