Killjoys: The Seven Deadly Sins

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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). But when we did finally find out that we had the 20 [episodes to end Killjoys], it was sort of a terrifying grace. You are used to a certain metric, you're used to a certain rhythm. And 10 [episodes] always felt a little bit small for our show, because we were trying to incorporate episodic adventures and world-building and serialization. It was this really interesting melting pot of all these forms of story. So it's a lot to jam in, and 20 is certainly more ground than we're used to. Ahmed, S. 2010. Feminist Killjoys and other Willful Subjects. The Scholar and Feminist Online 8: 3.

My Chemical Romance Gerard Way Talk Comic Con 2012 Announcement For Killjoys". Artisan News Service . Retrieved 19 October 2012.

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The patient may not even lose consciousness, but walk to his home and apparently not be the worse for the experience, until later—sometimes weeks and even months later—he begins to show a very noticeable change in his psychic total. His entire mental make-up changes, he becomes easily tired, is incapable of any prolonged mental effort, is forgetful, irritable and distractible. He complains of vertigo, pressure sensations in his head, migraine, noises in the ears; he experiences a sort of general benumbed feeling and shows a marked tendency to outbreaks of violent temper on the least provocation (Gluek quoted in Harrison 2014, p. 828). This article is an STS-inflected history of the making of CTE as both a matter of fact and a matter of concern (Latour 2004). It is also an intervention in well-established narratives Footnote 1 that figure CTE in a linear neuroreductive framework where mechanical blows to the head cause brain damage, which then produces memory loss, erratic behaviour, depression, aggression and violent behaviours. This view is ubiquitous in CTE discourse, sometimes explicitly and sometimes more tacitly. Terry Long is a former NFL player who committed suicide, and whose brain was found to have the tell-tale pattern of tau staining. In the film Concussion, Smith-as-Omalu states the uncomplicated linear formula: “Football gave him CTE and CTE told his brain to drink antifreeze” (Landesman 2015). Dynamic and distributed models of the brain and nervous system are all but absent from CTE discourse and practice, which is instead dominated by the ancient method and epistemology of anatomy. Bringing CTE into conversation with newer strains of neuroscientific and biosocial thinking about violence yields a worrisome picture of the socio-material realities of becoming in the context of hypermasculinity and collision sports. This picture encompasses, but is not limited to, brains colliding with the insides of skulls. 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. ML: Yeah. That was great, but we had to fight to get that damn party into the production schedule [laughs]. Everyone was like, "We're going to make it happen because we have to, but holy shit, we don't know how.” By the way, the very last frame that you see — [the trio going on one last mission] — was the very last thing we shot, which was a wonderful way to end it on the production end. Everybody was celebrating, everybody was so grateful that we landed the ship, so to speak. It was a really moving experience for everybody that was there, as it should be. Against the sun we raise our broken fists and give thanks to the dead, for we may never get another chance to say goodbye."

IGN: She was kind of a loner, to some degree, at the start, and at the end, you see that giant party with her found family on the prison ship.Sean Baek as Fancy Lee, a RAC agent and previously a Hullen who served as Khlyen's right-hand man before he was cleansed Luke Macfarlane as D'avin Jaqobis, Johnny's older brother, a former soldier and indentured fighter who becomes a RAC bounty hunter to join and help his brother and Dutch. Petski, Denise (September 1, 2017). " 'Killjoys' To End Run With Two-Season Final Renewal By Syfy". Deadline Hollywood . Retrieved September 1, 2017.

ML: It's probably my goal always going forward. I think it serves me as much as it serves the audience. It’s something that I always wanted more of when I was younger, and to be a part of rectifying that and putting more of these nuanced characters on screen — characters we haven’t always seen at the center — has been important to me. the book is really good, the artstyle perfectly captures the moments characters are put in, alongside colours being accurate to the mood and emotions felt by characters. the lore feels complicated and all over the place at times, but that's also typical for gerard way's comics. timeline goes both to current and past, which makes it harder to read if you're not paying enough attention. Stephanie Leonidas and Tommie-Amber Pirie as Clara/Olli, a human with extensive cybernetic modifications (seasons 2–3) 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.

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Vaillancourt et al. ( 2013) look specifically at physical manifestations of peer victimization (bullying). They confirm the earlier findings regarding HPA axis dysregulation—specifically a pattern to under-produce the hormone cortisol—in adults who were bullied as children. They conclude that “the experience of being bullied by peers becomes biologically embedded in the physiology of the developing person, which in turn modifies his or her health and, perhaps, learning trajectory.” A review article by R. J. Blair ( 2019), published in the journal Aggression and Violent Behaviour, gathers up current thinking about the cognitive neuroscience that underpins violent actions. Again, violence committed within sport is given a free pass by omission. Blair reports that there is significant evidence that “at least some violent individuals show impairment in processing the emotional expressions of others generally and perhaps distress cues in particular” (p. 159). Furthermore, “amygdala and or insula responses to the distress of other individuals, particularly their fear, is reduced in some violent individuals” (p. 159). It is easy to imagine that decreased sensitivity to the fear or pain of others is an asset in competition, as in war, and that it might garner the attention of a talent scout, and be actively cultivated in the brains and bodies of players. When anti-social behaviour (hurting someone) is applauded in some contexts (the field), and ostensibly abhorred in others (the bar or the bedroom), it may be asking too much of fleshy, material, embodied processes to distinguish the difference, in some athletes, at least.It stands to mention I knew nothing about this book going in. I didn’t know it was a redux, spun off the original, which was a comic that went along with the author’s band concept album. I don’t even know that much about the author outside of Umbrella Academy, which is notably one of the few books extant that fared infinitely nicer as a tv adaptation. I know he was in My Chemical Romance, but that knowledge is academical, not fan based.