A Tolerated Madness

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

https://archiveofourown.org/works/86305976/chapters/228297331

Title: varying shades of gray

Chapter: 12/12

Word count: 46,818

Summary: Six, Six-A, and Six-B make up the Sierra Six team. They are the best of the Sierras. The fastest, the deadliest, the smartest. When Denny Carmichael sends them on a mission he doesn’t intend them to come back from, Six and Six-A are the only ones able to escape. Six-B, formerly known as Ryland Grace, is left behind.
What will his brothers do to rescue him and ensure his safety?
Whatever it takes.
What will Denny Carmichael do to finish the job and stamp out the Sierra program for good?
Just about the same.

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My completed multi-chapter series for this AU by @chicharonie22 here: https://www.tumblr.com/chicharonie22/816439763948208128?source=share

Where Coltland Gentry are all part of the Sierra program.

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Contemplating a series set in the Blade Runner 2049 universe where Officer K and Sierra Six are both Blade Runners of the same model. Six fails his baseline first after discovering that two boys (twins, you might say, the only two replicant children ever built by Tyrell) may still be alive thirty years after he watched them die, and he drags K on a mission to find them.

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Still on my Driver bullshit because I need to at least partially talk about his duality, especially since I like to read through and see people’s characterizations of him. I’m a firm believer that you can and should play dolls however you want, but I see a lot of pendulum swings between “violent stalker” (most frequent) and “incapable of violence” in fics, and Driver is squarely in the middle of that LMAO

Driver is, at his very core, humanly inhuman. He’s a young kid (18-19 at MOST, and that’s being very generous with his age) in the book, and his entire life, he’s been beaten, used, and abused. He wasn’t socialized hardly at all, and the friends he did have weren’t really capable of helping him — and in several cases, they benefited from Driver acting like he does, since Driver’s violence was directed at people who would hurt them.

Violence is one of the only universal languages that he consciously (key word there) understands. And it’s also a language he speaks VERY well. It’s what he believes everybody speaks, too. The book is absolutely littered with Driver’s violence against other people, both deserved and undeserved, but I think a good example of what his violent streak can look like is when a few punks are teasing him and he, very purposefully, laces his keys between his fingers and punches one of them in the throat, killing them. (See below).

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turquoisemagpie
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I think this is super important to remember.

rubyvroom

No kill shelters result in animals dumped on the highway and tossed in the river because the rescues wont take them. That’s the part they never tell you.

Meanwhile the spca will take every animal, and if they have to euthanize them at least it will be done kindly and not via neglect or cruelty.

rubyvroom

Because people in the notes are not getting this, let me explain:

No-kill shelters TURN AWAY animals. When they’re full - and they often are because most of these no-kill shelters are small - they stop taking them in. While they are “taking their time to find the right homes for every single animal”, many other animals never get in the door. Somehow they don’t count those animals, or track what happens to them. A success for them doesn’t include the ones they turned away. They’re taking their time because they can. 

The No-Kills who brag about 100% adoption rates are the worst, because they tend to reject the most. The animals who will be difficult to adopt out? They just don’t take those. Special needs? Too old? If they’re going to be hard to adopt out, they can claim to be full, even if they’re not. 

They are telling owners they absolutely cannot take their fifteen year old cat because they are full of litters of kittens. Adorable kittens that will turn over quickly, and boost their adoption numbers. So what happens to the fifteen year old cat? After days of being rejected at the shelters they get dumped on the side of the road somewhere, or worse. 

You cannot imagine the VOLUME of animals that a city shelter deals with. The kill shelters are not allowed to turn anyone away. The difficult cases, the special needs, the elderly, the feral. The dog that bites, the cat that pees everywhere. Every animal is going to be taken in and treated with kindness. They are going to be assessed and treated for their fleas and conditions and behavioral problems. They will get their time on the adoption floor. They will get the best chance possible to find a new home. And if it’s not possible, they will be humanely euthanized, and that cage space will go to the next animal who is already waiting for it. It never stops. While you were working on the paperwork to adopt out 1 cat, three people brought in 4 more. It’s a numbers game that you cannot win if you aren’t turning people away.

A lot of times kill shelters get the animals that the no-kill shelters refused to take. Maybe their owners bring them. Or maybe they got literally thrown in the garbage, abandoned, or put in a bag and tossed in the river, when the no-kill shelter said they were full. The police and rescuers will bring these poor injured animals to the city shelter where they will be cared for. The volunteers will spend days and weeks trying to wash the tar out of their fur, or treat their broken bones, or whatever other horrible thing has happened to them. They will feed and house them. They will put most of them in new homes. They will save many many more animals, by orders of magnitude, than a no-kill shelter ever will. A no-kill shelter will brag about dozens or maybe hundreds of  adoptions. Kill shelters are dealing in thousands of successful adoptions, and they still have to euthanize because it just isn’t enough. There are just so many animals to take in.

And then, after all this, the No-Kill Shelters get to claim the moral high ground somehow, and self-righteous types will refuse to adopt from the only shelter that takes absolutely everyone. It’s infuriating. 

nevershootamockingbird

[ Begin ID: Three screenshots of a twitter thread by @/hannahschramm4. The tweets read:

The difference between a “kill” and “no-kill” shelter is so misunderstood and prompts me to write a 7 tweet rant on why you need to know the difference and give equal support to both

Municipal shelters are more often tagged as “kill shelters” because they are contractually obligated to serve the community they reside in. If Cleveland City Kennel, Lorain County Kennel, and others alike get a call for an animal they HAVE to bring it in regardless of their

current volume of dogs. So if they have 20 kennels and all are full they must bring it in regardless. Contrasting, private shelters (more often “no kill” shelters) have the ability to pick and choose when and what to accept into their shelter. They do not have to exceed their

max amount of animals. So going back, people often boast that they’d never support a “kill shelter”, never volunteer for one, never adopt from one, never even visit one. And essentially, that’s the problem. Since they are contractually obligated to take in an every animal in their

municipality and they get no adoptions, inadequate staff, no support from the community, no adoptions animals are senselessly euthanized because of the stigma that they are creating themselves. If we all showered municipal shelters with the same love “no kill” private shelters

got, euthanasia wouldn’t even be considered because kennels would open because the community supports them and adopts/fosters/etc. “Kill shelters” aren’t full of monsters who hate animals, they’re typically minimally staffed with volunteers that work so hard to save every single

animal with little to not supports from their community. thanks for coming to my TEDTalk, support your local shelters. All of em :)

This thread is excluding situations where animals have no other option but euthanasia, for example: overly aggressive animals or incurably sick animals. No shelter is exempt from those heart breaking cases! / End ID ]

midnightmelinda
lostcybertronian

I have a lot of thoughts on Officer K wanting to be loved. He bought an AI girlfriend. He tracked down the orphanage. He tracked down who he thought was his father. He might’ve been human. He might’ve had a soul. Might’ve been born and because he might’ve been born he might’ve been loved.

But he wasn’t human. To die for a cause is the most human thing you can do. Die for our cause like the thing you are. Die on the steps like you might’ve been human as the man you thought was your father leaves you behind to meet his real daughter that was really born and because she was born she really was loved.

He was just a thing in the end. Nothing changed, everything was different.

gottabegreyhound

One of the most selfless characters I’ve ever fucking seen, Jesus.

lostcybertronian

You know, I think it’s more than being selfless. I think it’s the hard-wired compulsion to obey.

I think it’s the rebellion taking advantage of him when he’s been kicked from the LAPD, he’s learned he’s not human, he’s lost Joi. He is at his lowest point.

I think it’s an instinctual kindness (like with the kids touching him at the orphanage, like apologizing to Sapper for having to kill him).

I think it’s the bone-deep need to be loved, wanted, like if he just does this thing, does it right, then that will happen. He’ll be more than just a tool. I don’t think he actually cares about whether or not he was born, but he does care about the implications. If he was born he is worth something.

If he was made then he’s still just an object.

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