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thatdeadaquarius · 2 months

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Imagine a horribly clumsy creator in the sagau... like trips over their own feet, starts coughing due to choking on air randomly, knocking a vase off a table that was in the middle of the table somehow???? Silly goofy stuff like that (I pull these silly goofs often personally)

(obv goes w/o saying sorry for being so late to reply /gen) ;-;

clumsy reader is so me core idk why i didnt think of this lmao

(this gif is liek the modern equivalent of Charlotte posting ur embarrassing clumsy moments on insta Steambird acc lmao)

(so sometimes im lazy and dont include the ask stuff esp if its shorter like this, so here's at least the characters in this one: Fontaine ppl <3 along with a G for general audience, barring cuss words)

Navia would politely ask you to go the edge or whatever area ur in whenever she pulls out her cannons/guns LMAO

every time you and either Clorinde or Neuvillette are walking next to you, or doing rlly anything, its like night and day

ur out here finding all the cracks in the sidewalk, bumping everything that could even possibly have a liquid in it, and have constant bruises from hip checking/stubbing toes on mechas walking around

Clorinde is impressed at that point bc mechas are actively programmed to get out of your way, so how u managed to put them back into ur way rlly fascinates her 😭😭

Neuvillette would like to wrap u in fabric/bubble wrap equivalent for his old ass, in an attempt to desperately stop u from hurting urself lol

u get a new coat or new pants from him all the time, u just thought at first he was rlly into giving u Fontaine fashion until Furina pointed out that it was spring/summer and you wouldn't wear thick woolen pants and fur-lined coats everyday 💀

(poor dragon guy doesn't rlly get the practical side of clothes, he likes fashion, but he inadvertently subscribes to the "hoes don't get cold" philosophy by being an ancient dragon lord)

Wriothesley is unfortunately nice enough to constantly try and catch his poor god, which ends well for neither of you 50% of the time

its not even ur weight takes him down, he's buff as hell after all, and he's dealt with rowdy inmates, its just.. ur clumsiness spreads.

if ur tripping, and the poor Duke reaches out to catch you, ur reaching out at the same time to steady urself on a side table w/a vase full of water, which u then knock off, drenching ur back and his face at the same time LMAO

he doesn't learn, despite u literally begging him to stop trying to help u, then u try and compromise to just let u fall and help u afterward asdfghkl-

Wrio's too chivalrous tho, the most u can get him to do is always grab ur arm instead of trying to bodily catch you

if u think after the first like, ✌️ TWO times Lynette is willing to help you, u r so wrong lmao

she's seen her brothers clumsiness, she knows theres no saving u

she does comfort u after slipping (not even falling but just flailing dramatically) for the 5th time in the puddles around water fountains tho

Lyney and Freminet are lowkey legit convinced someones cursed their god atp 😰

Freminet always had bandaids for u, and Lyney keeps a supply of ur fav candy to cheer u up after embarrassing urself by falling ass backwards right into the Fountain of Lucine right in front of Opera house lmao

...

...Charlotte thinks this is all vv hilarious, no she has no respect for ur godliness, her archon was Furina like LMAO- IM SORRYYY

(she has started a small section in the steambird of a near daily- DAILY picture of u being clumsy 😭)

(u, not srsly, threaten to smite her and she just giggles)

(its ok they take it all in a cute/endearing trait type of way)

☆

again, sorry for lateness, when i reopen askbox (soon, FINALLY-)

ill try and stay more on top of it and try and sort whatre just chats/non-requests better too 😭😭

hope u guys are having a good week!! tysm for being patient and nice to me :')

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cuubism · 3 months

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I'd love something about Dream who's very aware that he's way too intense romantically while also being not intense enough sexually because he's ace. His partners usually prefer it the other way around. If that's something you'd be willing to write (if not that's okay too)

hmm yes, we can always do ace dream. though we didn't quite reach 'aware' 😂 human uni au is what popped to my mind

When Hob gets back from class, Dream is lying facedown on the couch, one long arm trailing morosely down to the floor, face smashed so deeply into a pillow that Hob can only see the tufts of his hair. He seems to have been there for some time, and doesn't move when Hob comes in.

"Horrors insurmountable today?" Hob asks as he puts down his bag and heads to the adjoining kitchen to grab a snack. He'll probably need to grab one for Dream, too, now that he thinks about it. Doubtful he's eaten.

Dream just makes an mmph sound against his pillow. Then, once Hob's returned to the living room with a plate of apple slices, Dream pops his head up, lines all over his cheek from the pillow, fluffy hair going every which way, and says, "How much do you care about sex?"

Hob nearly trips and flings his apple slices everywhere. "What?"

"In general," Dream persists, heedless of Hob's shock. "Do you subscribe to the belief that individuals past puberty, particularly men, think about sex constantly, or is that an exaggeration? Which do you think is more important in a partnership: compatible personalities, or compatible sex drives? And why?"

"What is this, a sociology assignment?"

"Answer, please," Dream insists.

Hob sighs and gives in to the mad questioning. Joke's on him for having an insane roommate. "I thought about sex all the time when I was thirteen, maybe. Right now I'm just thinking about how I haven't eaten since breakfast and I'm fucking starving but we're playing Twenty Questions instead of eating. And as to the second one, I don't know, Dream, I think both are probably important."

"So you think about sex an amount you would consider 'frequent'," Dream presses.

Hob's cheeks heat. Sex is not really a topic he wants to discuss with Dream of all people. Those two thoughts don't meld together into anything good for polite company. "I don't know, I guess!? Doesn't everyone?"

Dream lets out a despairing wail and thumps his head back into his pillow. "I am outnumbered."

Hob still has no idea what the hell he's on about. He finally gives up and just starts eating the apple slices. He offers one to Dream, holding it by the corner of his eye until he finally sees it and takes it, turns his head to the side just enough to start nibbling on it.

"You'll choke if you eat that lying down," Hob warns.

Dream begrudgingly pushes himself up, collapsing against the back of the couch, and goes back to nibbling on his apple slice.

"So," Hob continues, awkwardly, when Dream doesn't say anything else, "sex life not going so well, then?"

Dream glares at him, though it's not very intimidating considering the apple halfway into his mouth. "Too well, by most standards," he finally sniffs, and eats the rest of the slice.

"Oh, yeah?" Dream having sex is another thing Hob doesn't really like to think about. Why'd he bring that up again?

"Indeed. I have suitors falling over each other to bed me," Dream says.

Do all classic literature students talk the way Dream does? Hob doesn't know. It's been two years that they've lived together and he's still yet to definitively figure out if it's an affectation or just the way Dream is. He's leaning towards the latter.

Unfortunately, he can believe Dream's statement. Dream is a snitty little prick most of the time, but he's also unbearably beautiful.

"So what's the problem, then?" he asks.

"I don't want them to bed me," Dream says.

Hob's not following. "Say no, then?"

Dream rolls his eyes. "I don't want them to bed me, I want them to want me." His voice loses some of its determination halfway through the sentence, and he looks away.

Ouch. "Sounds like they do want you?"

Dream snorts. "Only so long as it suits them. Only so long as I fit their parameters. Today I spoke to Cori--"

Ah, yes, Cori, Dream's most recent ex-boyfriend. Dream's had a lot of ex-boyfriends, but Cori really tops the list, and not in a good way.

Now that Hob thinks about it, all of Dream's relationships kind of go the same way. Dream comes home after the first date bouncing off the walls with stars in his eyes insisting this person's the one, and within two months the thing's somehow torpedoed into the Underworld and Hob's scraping Dream up off the bathroom floor.

He's starting to see where the initial line of questioning might have come from.

"--and he, at last, was straightforward with me when no one else has bothered to be all this time. I demanded to know, truthfully, why he ended things, and he told me that I 'care too much, but won't put out'--"

Hob winces.

"--which does not make sense, as we had sex frequently? I do not know what else I am meant to be 'putting' and where. I said as much, and he laughed, and said--" he imitates Cori's voice with a surprisingly passable American accent-- "'It only counts if you at least pretend you want to be there, doll. Next time try initiating occasionally.' He left before I could question him further."

Hob doesn't like the picture this is painting. And Dream is looking at him beseechingly, like Hob might be able to explain the bizarre encounter. "So... now you're trying to figure out if your understanding of sex is wrong or something?"

"I felt that, as a neutral observer to the situation, you would be appropriate to survey," Dream says.

(Neutral is a stretch, Hob thinks.)

"So I ask you, Hob Gadling, as a man demonstrably unbothered by 'hookup culture'--"

"Are you calling me a slut?"

"--what do you think is the correct amount that one should care about sex? Because I--" he breaks off, twisting his fingers in his hair, suddenly anxious-- "I do not know what I am doing wrong."

Hob moves to sit beside him, lays a hand lightly on his arm. He's about to say, you're not doing anything wrong, except... that may not precisely be true. At least in terms of how Dream is actually handling it with his partners.

"How much do you care about sex?" he asks.

"Not as much as I am supposed to, evidently," Dream says. Hob just waits for him to elaborate. "Not very much. I prefer not to think about it." He looks at Hob, weary. "Now you will tell me that this is abnormal."

"I don't know what's 'normal'," Hob says. "But it does sound different from how Cori felt about it."

"I suppose," Dream says, sadly.

Hob doesn't particularly like where the intersection of 'I don't care about sex' and 'we had sex all the time' lands him. "If you don't care that much, why keep doing it?"

"It is what is done, is it not?" says Dream. "Besides. I do not mind so much. But even when I do participate, it is still not good enough. Or so it seems."

It's because they're picking up on the fact that you're not really enjoying it, Hob thinks. No one wants a partner who's not engaging. Least not anyone decent. But not saying anything and then just dipping out suddenly is kind of a dickish move, in his opinion.

"Do you want to participate?" he asks.

This seems to give Dream pause. "Mostly I would prefer to do other things. Like. Dates. Only that does not seem much appreciated either." He twists his hands together. "Perhaps Cori is right. I. Care too much."

"No." Hob takes Dream's hands and untwists them. "Cori's a dickhead. You just need to find someone who's on the same page as you, that's all."

"But it seems that book is rather empty," Dream says. He hasn't taken his hands back from Hob.

"Well, was there anyone that you did like having sex with? Or has it always just been--" he can't help but cringe-- "you just putting up with it because you thought you were supposed to?"

"Calliope," Dream says instantly, and Hob lets out a relieved breath. At least it's not all bad. "Because, no matter that it ended poorly... I felt that she truly liked me. And not. Just sex."

"Okay, see?" he says. "You just have to find someone like that."

It... hurts, to try to push Dream into someone else's path. But Hob's long accepted that Dream doesn't feel that way about him. Dream rarely seems hesitant about trying to date anyone he is interested in. Surely if he felt that way about Hob, he would have made it clear by now.

"Someone," Dream echoes, looking down at their joined hands.

"Just because what you want isn't common doesn't mean it's not out there," Hob says, trying to be encouraging. "And hey, if you know now, you can avoid the whole 'not on the same page' rigamarole, hm?"

"Yes," Dream says. "I suppose so." Finally he takes back his hands, instead taking another apple slice from the plate Hob's left on the coffee table and chewing on it slowly.

I would love you right, Hob thinks, unwanted, unbidden. It's not a productive thought, and it's a painful one, too.

"Perhaps I will take a break," Dream decides, though doesn't sound entirely happy about it.

"Could be good," Hob says. "Get your head on right."

"Yes," Dream agrees. "This has been. Illuminating. I thank you for your counsel. I suppose I will have to also thank Cori, 'dickhead' though he may be."

And with that he retreats to his room, still seeming a little off-kilter. And Hob can't help but feel like he's gone wrong somewhere, said something wrong, though he doesn't know where, or what.

#i don't actually know if you specifically wanted dreamling or what whoops #dreamling #dream of the endless #hob gadling #my writing #ask #anonymous #ace dream #left it on a cliffhanger goddammit but they just didn't seem emotionally aware enough to confess their feelings then XD

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bijoumikhawal · 10 months

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I was whining and bitching to my friends recently about book vs TV aziraphale and how the latter doesn't have the same bite- book Aziraphale is a bitch and that's why I like him- and bringing up that I think Aziraphale and Garak are similar characters (and that I have a similar problem with how McCormack writes Garak) is making me. Think about Aziraphale and violence again and the weird specific read I have of his character

I had these thoughts the first go around with Good Omens but I wasn't very good at dealing with them, but Aziraphale is really interesting because there's a good deal of like. Implied violence to his character. We joke sometimes about how down he was with child murder as a backup plan, but it's not just that.

Aziraphale was the Guardian of the Eastern Gate, which naturally has a lot of fanon about him having originally been a Cherub demoted to Principality. Cherubim are like... g-d there's so much about them. They draw the chariot of G-d, they carry G-d into battle, they are protectors- the same type of creature as lamassu (anthropologically speaking), they are divine monsters (and I say this as a religious bitch with love, they're incomprehensible and have distinctly inhuman, awe-some manifestations, but let's not get too carried away with my esoteric bullshit). To be blunt, they are associated with fighting.

The act which is thought to demote Aziraphale is giving away his sword. This creates War at the same time as Crowley... not creates Death, I suppose, but draws its attention. Aziraphale is, on a metaphysical level, the father of War.

Both Heaven and Hell are violent systems, though the book partially obscures the violence of Heaven by having it be literally quieter, in the narrative. Aziraphale is still part of a violent system and still serves it. Giving away his sword did not abdicate him from having to serve. He had certainly carried out violence in Heaven's name before. Aziraphale also has more faith in his 'side' than Crowley- he thinks if only he can explain to a superior, get them on the line and talk, they'll see destroying Earth is a bad idea! And if you do subscribe to the cherubim interpretation, part of this is probably because he views a level of relation between him and them as someone formerly high ranked.

Given that its also really notable that in the book, Aziraphale is incredibly indirect about violence. When they're at their last resort option with Adam, he directs Shadwell to take care of it. It's strongly implied he might've killed several mafia members for trying to bully him into selling his shop, but never actually stated. Things like that. Aziraphale is not comfortable getting his hands dirty- maybe he did it in the past, and can't bear it now, maybe he never was comfortable with it. Who knows.

And that makes me think it's also really notable that when Aziraphale makes his last stand, he picks up his sword again. I don't know what it is that's notable, but...

Anyway TL;DR book Aziraphale has strong veteran/ex military vibes for me

#cipher talk #book omens #And you could read themes of assimilation into violent systems into his character especially if you do like. POCOmens stuff #Actually you can do that anyway just with the veteran reading #Belief in the system of power and that you'll be treated well even while you're basically actively fucking ignored

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xplrsquad7137 · 4 years

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"This was a terrible idea, I'm an idiot!"

Summary~Colby films a video with Mike and Kevin where they put face masks all over their bodies, and you have to help him.

Gif creds to @taradummy

Colby's Pov

"What's up guys welcome back to my channel, today i am joined with Mike and Kevin, and we are gonna be putting Face Masks all over our bodies"

Mike "how did you think that this was gonna be a good idea?"

"i have no idea"

Its been a few minutes and we were all covered in face masks.

Mike "oh my god, Colby is like covered!"

Kevin "that's what i said!!"

....

"it feels like when you put like ductape over a hairy part of your body and just rip it off."

Kevin "oh my god you like...put too much on! How are you gonna get it all off?"

"i don't know! Guys don't do this, this was a terrible idea, I'm an idiot!"

Mike "you literally might have to call y/n to help you get it all off brother."

"yeah i know, I'll go call her"

I go out to my balcony to call her. I feel really bad for calling her cause i know she is out with tara, having a girls trip to the mall.

Y/n "Hey baby what's up?"

"hey babe, uh do you mind coming home early?"

Y/n "No not all, we are in line anyway. Why what's wrong, are you okay?" She said with concern in her voice.

"oh yeah everything is fine. You'll find out when you get home. I love you"

Y/n "Okay colbs i love you too"

I come back into my apartment and grab my camera, and make my way back to my friends.

"okay, she's on her way home"

Mike "dude she's gonna be like, what the fuck!"

Kevin interrupted Mike and i's conversation by screaming "FFFUUUUUUUUCCCCKKKKKKK" because he was ripping off a huge chunck of face mask on his chest.

Mike "oh my god this is brutal. It's so bad on the hair! So bad..i should've shaved!"

I was regretting putting so much on at this point. 'I hope y/n can help me get all of this off' i thought.

...

Your Pov

I am why kinda worried why Colby called me asking you to come home early. He never does that.

Tara "hey is everything okay? You look.. worried?"

"Uh yeah, colbs wants me to come home all of a sudden and i don't know why"

Tara "knowing Colby it's probably for a video, so i wouldn't be too worried about it okay?" Shs said giving you a nudge.

"Yeah. Yeah you're right. Lets go"

The drive home is fun. Me and Tara are jamming out to old Avril Lavigne songs, singing at the top of our lungs with the windows down. I love hanging out with tara, she is truly my bestfriend. You love her so much. Thankfully, Tara and Jake live in the same apartment complex as me and colby, so i get to see her all the time.

"Today was so much fun!"

Tara "i know, it feels like we haven't done a girls trip in forever!"

"I love you babe, I'll see you around" giving her a hug before she walked into her boyfriend's apartment.

Tara "i love you more, keep me updated with Colby!!!"

"I will!"

I opened up the door to see Kevin pulling what looks like face mask off of my boyfriends arm while he screams.

"What in the hell is going on here!?"

Colby "oh hey baby, welcome home"

...

Colby's Pov

Kevin was ripping off a huge piece of face mask off my arm when she came home.

"Oh hey baby, welcome home" i managed to say through my pain.

Y/n "is that.....face mask?"

Kevin "yeah" he says laughing his ass off.

Mike "your pretty boyfriend here thought it was a good idea to put face mask all over his body"

Y/n "oh babe, what am i gonna do with you" she said in the sweetest voice and kneeling down infront of me.

"Help me i hope!"

Y/n "of course im gonna help you"

She starts tearing off little pieces, not hurting me too much.

Y/n "holy shit colby, you are only supposed to put on a THIN layer of this shit, not a THICK layer!"

"Yeah i know that now OOOOOOOWWWW"

Y/n "sorry sorry sorry!"

It took another 15 minutes before we got it all off.

"Well you guys that does it for today's video, we are all gonna go take a shower together at the same time ya know, to save water-"

Mike "save the earth"

Y/n laughs hard at that which makes me look at her. She has the most beautiful laugh and smile i have ever seen.

"Thank you guy's for filming this with me and thank you baby for coming home early and helping me get this shit off" i kiss her cheek.

Y/n "of course! Im glad to help. Im sorry if i hurt you" she said with a giggle which made all the pain go away.

"You didn't baby....Kevin did"

Kevin "HEYY!!"

"Alright guy's, if you liked this video, please give this a like and subscribe if you haven't already and i will see you next week, peace"

After i did the outro, the boys got their stuff ready and left. Leaving me with my girl.

"Thanks again babe"

Y/n "really colbs it's no problem. Im just glad it wasnt anything serious! When you called me i thought something happened to you or Sam!"

I could tell she was worried from her eyes. I don't know how i got so lucky with her. She's my entire world.

"Im sorry y/n, i didn't mean to make you worry. But im okay, you know that now"

Y/n "i love you"

I grabbed her then, pulling her in my arms, where she belongs.

"I love you. More than i could ever put into words" and i kissed her lips.

...

Your Pov

Colby kissed me before he headed to the shower. And i immediately remembered that i had to call Tara and tell her what was up. So i dialed her number.

"Tara? Yeah..you were right. It was for a video"

Tara "oh yeah? What kind of video?"

"Mike, Kevin and Colby put face mask all over their bodies, and i had to help Colby take it all off! He put it on sooo thickkk!" I couldn't help but laugh thinking back on what just happened a few minutes ago.

Tara "oh my god, what are we gonna do with our boys?"

"I don't know. They're crazy, but we love them"

Tara "yeah we do"

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foursproutwealth-blog · 6 years

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In The UK... You're Not Allowed To Talk About It. About What? Don't Ask!

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In The UK... You're Not Allowed To Talk About It. About What? Don't Ask!

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Authored by Bruce Bawer via The Gatestone Institute,

“I am in a country that is not free… I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America. You don’t know how lucky you are.” — Carl Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), YouTuber with around a million subscribers.

“I am trying to recall a legal case where someone was convicted of a ‘crime’ which cannot be reported on.” — Gerald Batten, UKIP member of the European Parliament.

“UKIP Peer Malcolm Lord Pearson has written to Home Secretary Sajid Javid today saying: if Tommy is murdered or injured in prison he and others will mount a private prosecution against Mr Javid as an accessory, or for misconduct in public office.” — Gerald Batten.

Good on Lord Pearson.

On Friday, British free-speech activist and Islam critic Tommy Robinson was acting as a responsible citizen journalist — reporting live on camera from outside a Leeds courtroom where several Muslims were being tried for child rape — when he was set upon by several police officers. In the space of the next few hours, a judge tried, convicted, and sentenced him to 13 months in jail — and also issued a gag order, demanding a total news blackout on the case in the British news media. Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was immediately taken to Hull Prison.

Hull Prison, in Kingston upon Hull, England, where Tommy Robinson was taken to serve a 13-month prison sentence just hours after his arrest on Friday, May 25.

Most media outlets were remarkably compliant. News stories that had already been posted online after Robinson’s arrest at the Scottish Daily Record,Birmingham Live, The Mirror, RT, and Breitbart News were promptly pulled down, although, curiously, a report remained up at the Independent, a left-wing broadsheet that can be counted on to view Robinson as a hooligan. Indeed, the Independent‘s article described Robinson as “far-right” and, in explaining what he was doing outside the courthouse, used scare quotes around the word “reporting”; it then summed up the least appealing episodes in his career and blamed him for an attack on the Finsbury Park Mosque last January. Somehow, the Independentalso got away with publishing a report on London’s Saturday rally in support of Robinson.

Also on Saturday, Breitbart UK posted a copy of the gag order, but redacted it as required. The resulting document proved to be a perfect illustration of Western Europe’s encroaching tyranny.

Were all the articles in the British media pulled down “voluntarily”? There is no way to know for sure. On Sunday, at about noon Central European Time, one of my Facebook friends posted a link to what was apparently a new story at Breitbart UK, about Robinson’s imprisonment in Hull. Three hours later, however, the story was no longer there. Shortly afterward, I clicked on a link to an article at the Hull Daily Mail that Google summed up as follows: “Supporters of former EDL leader Tommy Robinson are urging people to write to him in Hull Prison — where they say he is in ‘grave danger.'” When I clicked on the link, however, the story had been pulled.

Carl Benjamin, who produces video commentary under the name “Sargon of Akkad,” is a popular British YouTuber who has somewhere around a million subscribers, and who routinely criticizes Islam, identity politics, and political correctness with wit and panache. He is generally a lively, free-wheeling, sardonic fellow, but in the two-hour-plus video he posted on Saturday about the Robinson case, he was uncharacteristically sober, exceedingly cautious, and at times even sounded mournful.

“I did tell you that Britain isn’t a free country, didn’t I?” he said a minute or so into his video. “I’ve been saying it for ages… and nobody listens.” He made it clear he was not about to violate the gag order — not, as he put it, about to “blunder into the jaws of the beast, in much the same way as I guess Tommy has,” and thus “deliberately put myself in the line of fire with the UK government, giving them just cause to arrest me.”

Benjamin is a gutsy guy, so it was unsettling to hear him speak this way. The look on his face somehow brought home the dark reality underlying Robinson’s fast-track arrest, trial, conviction and incarceration. Benjamin emphasized that the most “sensible” thing for someone like himself [Benjamin] to do right now — he used that word, “sensible,” repeatedly — is to do his best to stay out of jail so that he can continue to speak up. “I am in a country that is not free,” he repeated gravely. “My options are limited… I feel jealous as hell of you guys in America. You don’t know how lucky you are.”

The upside — and the irony — of this case is that the gag order, while silencing the British news media, has caused people around the world to take notice. To be sure, a quick tour of major mainstream newspaper websites in Western Europe, North America and around the Anglosphere turned up nothing. But on alternative news sites around Europe, the story was front and center. The Fox News website reported on Robinson’s arrest — but even Fox, frustratingly, insisted on calling him a “right-wing activist.”

Judi McLeod, editor of the Canada Free Press, began her article:

“Where is Tommy Robinson? A question whose answer should be demanded rather than merely asked…. Modern day Merry England has become far more nightmare than fairytale, as it steadily works its way toward ugly police state status.”

McLeod also challenged Fox’s label for Robinson: “‘Right wing activist’? How about civil rights activist or humanitarian activist?”

Yesterday, my article asked when anyone in a position of power in Britain would speak up against Robinson’s arrest. Since then, Gerald Batten, a UKIP member of the European Parliament, has done so:

“I am trying to recall a legal case where someone was convicted of a ‘crime’ which cannot be reported on,” he tweeted. “Where he can be cast into prison without it being possible to report his name, offence, or place of imprisonment for fear of contempt of court. Can anyone remember such a case”

Shortly after noon on Sunday, London time, Batten tweeted:

Good on Lord Pearson. We can only hope his efforts make a difference — and that, in the end, a prosecution of Javid will not be necessary.

#Wealth

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