What’s the Catch?: Mind Controlling Worm Balls and Prison Abolition

I had to look at so many creepy pics of worms to find this and it literally didn’t occur to me that this would happen until I had already hit Image Search.

Mind controlling worm balls and prison abolition.

Something I think about often is the episode of Angel (“Jasmine” Season 4) where they kill Zoe from firefly.

Angel! What a terrible show with interesting (but unpacked) themes! The originator of the Supernatural Corporation, with ideas about what it means to sell out! Tina from the L Word is in it! Don’t rewatch it though.

Jasmine — Mind Control, Ethics, Worms.

Anyway, Jasmine is a mind controlling god, who brings intense joy to everyone who sees her, creating instant world peace.

But… it turns out she’s eating people, like 4 or 5 a day (and her face, without an illusion, is just a bunch of crawling worms).

Twice this week, people have mentioned this episode to me, and Daniel+Grave Lavery, two amazing trans writers in the midst of addressing harm/violence in their family’s evangelical church, mentioned this narrative to describe their feelings on realizing the harm their family had caused.

The resurgence of “Jasmine” is weirdly reassuring to me.

1. It means this is a real episode of television that aired at some point (which I was unsure of…