Listening To "When The Walls Fell" By The Beverly Crushers For The First Time And I'm Lowkey Getting

Sketched some characters/scenes from the play “Sherlock Holmes: Der Fall Moriarty” (The Case Moriarty) that I got to watch live today on my way home from there, Toby was a balloon dog, it was brilliant😭

Happy Sherlock & Co anniversary :)) I finally finished a digital drawing of these guys for the first time, the designs aren’t exactly final yet but I love them so have them anyway🫡

Finished the Spock collage for my portfolio

Rewatching The Sign Of Three after having listened to Sherlock & Co.'s 10-parter is funny because now I'm recognizing names

Like OHH THAT'S their Sholto! Interesting!

AND JONATHAN SMALL AHHHHHHH

If I may offer some of my own interpretation for why this is supposed to be degrading:

First of all, it makes it harder for the guards to sympathize/empathize with them, which leaves them with even less hope to get out and leads to them being treated harshly consequently, which is degrading. And the android looks play their part in that even if it wasn't something that they'd personally see as degradation. (Of course the guards would be doing their jobs anyway but it leaves no room for tricks, no room to even try to pretend to be a human, no room for one of the guards to show weakness and question what they're doing.)

Most obviously: they're being forced to do something. They didn't just go "ah wait actually let me remove my skin rq it was getting kinda uncomfortable anyway", the guards ordered them (mind you, the androids they caught that *were* deviants had been trying to *escape* getting ordered around and now they'd be ordered to do something (something that would lead to their doom too) again, except this time it's not even just "in their program" to blindly follow orders. This time they're being threatened and forced to do something against their will.) It wouldn't even matter if they wouldn't usually mind doing this, being forced to do something and remain in that state in order to not be killed is degrading.

Another aspect is that androids live with their skins being turned on. At least so far I have seen no instance of them turning it off just for the sake or "looking their true self" or anything like that, Markus did it in the tower for the sake of not being recognized as easily and yes, probably also to represent androids, but I've seen no other android do that voluntarily. Of course one could argue that that's because they need to fit into the human society, but even in their safe haven they remained with their skins turned on. Noone in Jericho seemed to think "Ah finally, I'm away from the humans and amongst other androids now, let me show my true form in peace", of course that can all just be because they're in the middle of a revolution, but saying that "they're like that", without acknowledging that they in fact do not spend most of their time "like that" doesn't really seem like a strong argument to me. I understand what you mean and I agree that under different circumstances their non-human designs wouldn't be degradation, but these circumstances make all the difference here.

Furthermore, it creates uniformity. All of the androids in the camps look exactly the same, except for male and female body shapes and the one kid, Alice, maybe their eye color and facial shape if we're looking into details up-close. But if we're just seeing the camps as they are, it's just a bunch of androids that can be lumped up and killed row by row. Even if they weren't as connected to their human looks, their identity still gets stripped away by making them look uniform. Yes, that is what they look like, but no, I do not mean their "humanity" when I'm referring to their "identity". I mean their individual looks that keep them from just becoming one big mass to the humans.

Additionally to that: Androids seem to have a certain connection to their skin. Think about North and the android that was the same model as her, they have been living their lifes with these skins and I honestly find it hard to imagine them not having built any kind of connection to the looks they'd gotten used to at all. And then having that be taken from them forcibly and having to see no mercy in the way the guards perceived them... That is degradation.

And last but not least: these camps are supposed to mimick concentration camps. So they did the equivalent of shaving their hair off and taking their autonomy, individuality and hope. Taking the last bit of similarity to humanity (of course not actual humanity in the case of the androids, but similarity, which is the only way these humans would've understood and not been able to ignore that they are alive too, by seeing their resemblance) any human could see in them and sending them to die. The most important part of this degradation is their death becoming inevitable and looming over them as the humans give them orders they can't fight against and the panic about the upcoming destruction rising as they're forced to do something themselves that'll move them one step closer to their death.

I've got no intention of arguing much further here though, just thought I'd share my thoughts on this too, hope you have a nice day

I just finished Detroit Become Human for the first time and I’m in desperate need to talk about it

can’t figure out how to change the estimated time for send-off so I just put the info into the description instead for now🧍

But they’re up on Etsy again now!! Troy and Abed as keeeeeychains🎵

Go grab yours before the small batch I ordered is used up‼️

if I were to put these back up on Etsy

how many of y’all would realistically buy some?🤔

SH&Co. Sign of Four p10 spoilers under the cut🫡

So: Is it too soon for me to mention how devastating this episode’s cover art is now?

Mary’s bedroom, where she was first exposed to the case that would end up being the death of her. The seemingly harmless children’s stories her dad would tell her about this special diamond… I mean look at this, she even drew pictures of it and had what I’d presume to be a toy diamond here. All of that amidst an otherwise completely normal children’s bedroom with plushies, an unfinished boardgame and such. Us being able to look at her past, back when none of this had become clear, wayyyy before we or the Bakerstreet trio even met her, seeing all these childish items just lying around innocently, with a dawning fate looming over her room, just waiting for her to grow up and get behind all this. Something about the fact that the curtains are being curled up by the wind could almost make me shiver, it makes her room look even more left behind with no one there, because we know where she is now.

Subspace Rhapsody in a nutshell🗣️/j

Got a reel with this audio on my fyp a few months or so ago and instantly knew I had to make an SNW Subspace Rhapsody doodle reel for this🥸

Can’t believe this may be the last thing I’ll have drawn at my school

since I’m sick, could you guys please give me some doodle requests for characters that I should draw being sick?👀

can be any fandom I’m in tbh lol and if you’re not sure whether I’m in the fandom just throw them in there anyway, I’ll see if I get around to them anyway🫡

I just finished Detroit Become Human for the first time and I’m in desperate need to talk about it