Killjoys: The Seven Deadly Sins

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I’ll always be attached to the Danger Days album and the 2013 Killjoys comic - not necessarily because the 2013 comic was *well written*, but because Killjoys’ worldbuilding is truly insane, has a bunch of potential, and i have spent a long time living up Gerard Way’s nostril following his work everywhere. Latour, B. 1993. The pasteurization of France. Trans. A. Sheridan and J. Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

It was nice to return to the Killjoys world, albeit from a different angle. I was excited to get to reading this ever since I found out that there was a different story to be told. To me this was special if not perfect, as a fan of MCR and as someone who grew up in the 90s/2000s. It's hard to find anything objectively wrong with it except maybe for the amount of violence and blood-I wouldn't recommend this for kids. The Feminist Killjoy Handbook is a fun read when you are the feminist killjoy. I enjoyed the act of naming so many of my experiences at family dinners, work, and in my childhood friend-group texts. I think other feminist killjoys will appreciate the survival notes given so generously. But most importantly, it names the violence that is known to happen behind closed doors and the bravery it takes to speak up in intimate relationships. I highly recommend this book to feminist killjoys and even those quiet feminists teetering on embracing the killjoy label. This book will serve as a guide I wish I’d had when I started this journey

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Before the My Chemical Romance album of the same name, Gerard Way and Shaun Simon had been developing a very similar (but not altogether the same) series together for years. After abandoning the Conventional Weapons project and restructuring a new album from the ground up, Way realized he was telling his own vision of the Killjoys story. The first series of The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys is a sequel to the album, that wraps up the story of the Girl and the legacy of the Killjoys. This series, however, isn’t a prequel or origin story. It’s the original concept that predated the album. And it’s so, so good. Meloni, M., et al., eds. 2018. The Palgrave handbook of biology and society. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

It was a nice and, I think, necessary moment to show myself, to show Dutch, to show to the audience that she really had come full circle. She felt very empowered. She felt strong, she felt unafraid of the Lady and the situation that she's in now. And she didn't feel that she had to be forced to make the kind of moves that she would have made as an assassin. The Dutch that [we see at the end] is as close as we can get to who Dutch would have been if she hadn't been manipulated so much all her life. And it was a pleasure to meet that Dutch by the end.

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Don’t have the appetite to fight that night? Move aside. There are plenty of others who would love your job (Branch 2015). Since CTE has become a matter of concern, brains of athletes in violent sports have come to matter, but they have done so in very circumscribed registers. The whittled-down one-way message, where tau is the chief agent in the story, lays the groundwork for an overbearing focus on mechanical causes of violent tendencies as though they appear only after sport-induced brain trauma. In some alarming cases, violence committed by athletes outside of sport—assaults and murders, often of women—is being read as a symptom of CTE in the perpetrator (Henne and Ventresca 2019). This is neuro-reductionism par excellence. It is also an abrogation of individual responsibility and blindness to the biosocial toll of immersion in violent sport cultures sustained by a larger economy and fan appetite for violence. We hope to have shown that dominant CTE discourse misleadingly renders the brain as a nearly-static thing, rather than a responsive node in an extremely complicated set of contexts inside and outside of bodies. Going on in this way threatens to miss the mark on deeply entrenched, repetitive, mundane ways that violence is inculcated into the bodies and brains of boys and men who engage in violent sporting cultures. Moffitt, T.E. 2013. Childhood exposure to violence and lifelong health: clinical intervention science and stress-biology research join forces. Development and Psychopathology 25 (4 Pt 2): 1619–1634. Heather M (July 13, 2018). "Showrunner Adam Barken Sets the Stage for Killjoys Season 4 [Exclusive]". TV Goodness . Retrieved September 17, 2018.the lore continues on to the lore from the album Danger Days: The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys by my chemical romance, so if you liked the book you may want to give it a listen :} Other metaphors describe the misfolded tau proteins more vividly: like “skeins of unraveling yarn” or “IEDs [Improvised Explosive Devices],” and with repeated trauma the tau proteins are said to become “like a guerrilla force, occupying and killing more and more of the brain” (Leavy 2012). What happens, the coverage uniformly implies, is an insurgency of misfolded, rogue proteins. The evidence does not speak for itself, but rather by way of images made persuasive through a complex series of transformations and juxtapositions. Exactly what happened that winter's night has been left to the rusty memories of the few dozen in attendance. This much is clear: Melfort [Boogaard’s team] was losing badly, and 15-year-old Derek Boogaard was suddenly inside the other team's bench, swinging away at opposing players. “It felt like I had a force feild [sic] on me,” Boogaard wrote. Players scattered like spooked cats, fleeing over the wall or through the open gates. “He had gone ballistic,” [Derek’s father] said. “It was something I hadn't seen before” (Branch, 2011a). ML: Yeah, it was an important moment to me. A lot of what I write ends up [being about] consent and agency. Those issues are really important to me and to my characters, so we would come at that from different vantage points throughout the season. But you have this one lead character that you're taking that journey with — Dutch. As you can see, there are broad similarities between the original comic and " National Anthem." While the original story was a sort of bright, dystopian sci-fi fantasy, " National Anthem" is a more gritty story, firmly rooted in the present day. Or, rather, a slightly alternate version of the present day. This largely works to " National Anthem"’s advantage. This comic is darker and focuses more on the psychological horror of having one’s reality reshaped before their eyes. This is firmly Mike’s story, and it’s rooted in his experiences, which gives the whole affair this kind of unreliable quality. At times, he seems crazy. Like he doesn’t know what’s real or what’s not. And so, we’re also in the same boat, unsure if what we’re seeing is actually happening.