sorry whenever I think about jesset i'm like. we need to kill brnine. just for a second though. it passes. I love brnine I would never

Okay, now that I’ve finished Partizan and processed it a bit, I wanna talk about how Partizan handles the issue of ‘bare life.’

So, for some context, in my real life, my PhD research heavily emphasizes the ways in which social life and especially cultural practices are fundamentally embodied. As part of my research practice, I am always asking questions about the role that bodies play in political life. How are bodies and their functions politicized? Who decides which bodies are “political?” How are bodies cared for? By whom? Whose bodies aren’t cared for? Why? What are the material effects of our norms about bodies and their functions? What meaning does a system implicitly give to bodies? Which bodies get exploited? What is the toll a system takes on bodies?

Put more simply: we live our lives in these meat sacks, so in what ways do our politics account for and fail to account for their needs?

Needless to say, when Austin said at some point in relation to speaking with diversity consultants in preparing for Partizan (I don’t remember where, so I’m paraphrasing), “this season is about robots and robots are about bodies,” my excitement shot through the roof.

And Partizan did not disappoint!

media club plus has made me start tiptoeing into friends at the table, and I'm starting at possibly the weirdest entry point but that doesn't MATTER because it means i got to hear the following, in a gundam mini-game...

Jack, happily, conversationally, after confirming their character has a trait that lets them know weak points in machines: Hey, Austin?

Austin: Yeah?

Jack, about to commit a minor war crime: You want to know what the weak point of a mech is?

Austin: Yeah, what's the weak point of a mech?

Jack: The fucking pilot.

THOUGHT THIS AD WAS A FRIENDS AT THE TABLE SHITPOST

FatT pinup week day 3; playtime on the kingdom come!

remember when Ali tried so fucking hard to have Brnine die in a grand act of sacrifice and Keith - Keith, not his character - desperately did everything he could to sabotage her attempts......

keith really said only one of us can grand sacrifice and I already did it

only the hand of fate itself* could save Kalvin Brnine

*this episode the part of fate itself will be played by Keith J Carberry

i don't know if it's Friends at the Table as a piece of art or the very specific life circumstances under which i started and have been listening to it, but no other piece of art i've ever enjoyed is as tightly linked to Memory as f@tt is. hearing the first beats of The Long Way Around makes me want to burst into tears, not just because COUNTER/Weight is so, so, so good, but also because all of it is so tightly linked to the nice memories i have of listening to it (during a time nothing else was nice). it's good, it's lovely, f@tt is The podcast of all time

when i heard abt es whole thing this was my first thought

I don’t think I ever uploaded my year before last secsam grandecho comic here! Some good ol’ hurt comfort and a confession! The script can be found here for image description. (edit ahhh i forgot a text layer reblog this version!)

(id in alt)

Forgot the caption I had on twitter:

The house by Arbit was thrown together hastily, meant to be a temporary space that became permanent because Grand didn’t have time to find or build something better. The first time Echo visited they told him his kitchen was shit, so he spent his free time in the next few weeks making a better one. They told him if he had a workplace he could move his tools and diagrams out of the living room and people could exist in the space, so a glass dome full of metal and blueprints sprang up. They looked out of his front door and said they liked the view and soon there was a porch. The house grew slowly, weekend work, conversations over drying paint. It took both of them awhile to realize he was making a home to share, a place built by and meant for the two of them. Grand Magnificent isn’t known for collaborations, but he remains fond of this one.

happy birthday friends at the table...... here's some fanart spanning from 2017-2023

this is how ali friends at the table plays ttrpgs

happy birthday friends at the table

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I NEED PINK MILLENIUM BREAK HAT

LEGALLY I NEED IT

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THE FINALE OF PALISADE aka FINALISADE: FINAL SCORE!!

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in general i really like waze for navigation but occasionally it’ll tell me there’s a railroad crossing coming up where no railroad crossing could possibly be, such as in a parking lot or a quiet street in a suburb with poor transit connections. sangfielle ass app

*sangfielle delivery person voice* fuck fuck FUCK this route was clear ten minutes ago and all of a sudden my orb of wayfinding is telling me there’s a railroad crossing up ahead? stupid trains thinking they can go wherever they want. my boss is gonna have my head if i’m late on this delivery