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(It pulls the strings and makes them ring.)

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Imagine Hollow in an art class.

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;w; always love that kind of thing

they'd be afraid of trying it, but do so anyway if requested, of course. most of their work would be drawing things in their line of sight, even if given free rein. it's not creating, they're not intended to create, it's copying, it's not the same.

branch out a little. very slowly. maybe end up getting more or less tricked into choosing different colors, when given different ones than the objects surrounding them. they need to decide what's closest. or what they might even like.

i think they'd eventually--and it would take a very, very long time--like to sculpt clay. maybe not even make anything coherent with it. molding and poking and prodding with their bare claws, getting them messy, making shapes in a physical way that's impossible for the vessel they were intended to be to deny. (perhaps a way to feel closer to their father, in a way. vessel masks weren't sculpted or carved in the traditional sense, but. but. but. despite it all, the shapes are so easy and soothing to make.)

Excellent Point

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“Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now.

Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of what if the bad thing just DIDN'T happen?

We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologised for before the next bad idea comes down the pike.

OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality.

All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end user eat the cost.

I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made.

I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people.”

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