#is called Patriot’s Day
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For the fake fic titles: "Tort Law and Other Aphrodisiacs"
for this ask game! - send me a title and I’ll write a fake fic summary to go with it! 🍓
In the span of six months, Don learns much more than he ever wanted to about what you can reasonably sue someone over in the surprisingly lawless American legal system. In the same six months, he also learns which places have the best breakfast by Sloan’s apartment and the weird trick it takes to get the water in her shower to come out at a normal, habitable temperature. So, it’s not all bad…
[ AKA - Don and Sloan, from Election Night to Patriot’s Day, roughly]
#alternate title: AARON WHAT HAPPENED TO THAT LAWSUIT FROM S2??? WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT???#as someone who tried to write the aftermath of the s2 finale in an AU fic…this would be impossible for me to actually write#thank god for fake fic summaries#had to do my little AKAs because this is my summary style and I like it#for those who don’t know because I’m not sure if this is common knowledge or not#the holiday that coincides with the Boston marathon and allows the whole city to shut down#is called Patriot’s Day#I’ve never lived anywhere else where it was a recognized or observed holiday so it’s possible just a Boston thing???#but like that’s the holiday that the marathon happens on every year in april#which means that’s the day s3 of the newsroom starts!#In case you didn’t know!#wait apparently it’s a recognized holiday in six states???#I don’t know about that bc no one in ct does anything for it#to me it’s a Massachusetts thing exclusively idk#ANYWAY#prompt game#fake fic summary game#ask#firstelevens#the newsroom#don x sloan#sloan sabbith#don keefer#otp: you get me#I did literally nothing with my day but I managed to get this done congratulations to me
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I have wrathful cerulean flame brainworms again so now I'm thinking about how Amiya's confrontation with Kaschey subverted how Amiya's destiny as the Lord of Fiends is treated by the story.
It's established very early on in Arknights that Amiya's powers are abnormal even within Terra's fantasy setting, and that the rings she wears that restrain her are for her own good. We were not quite sure yet what her powers really meant at that point, but it certainly looked like more of a curse than an ability.
Later on, we found out just what Amiya really is. The Lord of Fiends is the title of the Sarkaz king, which she inherited from her adoptive mother Theresa, the deposed leader of Kazdel and founder of Rhodes Island.
The Lord of Fiends is known by some as the mythological enemy of humanity, a harbinger of death who will bring about total annihilation. One of Silverash's lines to the Doctor has him saying to put Amiya in chains before they end up crowning her. Kal'tsit has Amiya's body sealed under ten rings at all times, demanding that Doctor must prevent Amiya from unsealing the rings at all costs lest she fulfill this destiny. Even a Sarkaz like Buldrokkas'tee sees a vision that the surface of the world will be blanketed with bones should Amiya be allowed to live and grow up.
These moments are meant to be sad and foreboding (obviously), not just acting as grim reminders of Amiya's place in the world being set even when she's still just a child, but as the alternative to the fact that Amiya and Rhodes Island might not even have a future at all, with Amiya being infected and Rhodes Island being an infected organization created and still partly run by the Sarkaz, the most oppressed group of peoples in Terra.
But this gets turned on its head during the confrontation with Kaschey.
Kaschey believes he lives an existence beyond that of humans. He is an impossibly ancient being of innumerable faces and names, wearing people as masks and their lives as clothes. They are nothing but cattle (uh, burdenbeasts,) to him, lower beings that, in his own words, were born to be ruled. He is not a person, because people die, and he is The Deathless, he is the one who loves Ursus, the very meaning of Empire itself. In his own words, "people were born to be ruled."
No one can touch Kaschey when they can only fight the face he currently wears, hate the name he hides behind. His invisibility is the source of his invincibility, and in turn it is the root of his ego and self-belief as a higher power.
Yet, just like the humans he believes to be above, Kaschey feels fear — fear of the Sarkaz kings. Unlike those who fear the Lord of Fiends through reputation or prophesy alone, Kaschey fears them from something they've actually done.
The reigning king of the Sarkaz has the ability to look into the hearts of people. The kings of old could /see/ him, hiding inside the shells of his victims. They could fight /him/, and not just the people he uses as puppets. The Sarkaz Kings destroyed the idea that the Deathless Black Snake was untouchable.
For Amiya, who is so young, whose lungs were on fire and who was so scared she could burst into tears, Kaschey's fear of the Lord of Fiends was Amiya's moment of courage—a reminder about whose legacy she was upholding by taking this fight, and who chose her to do it. A reminder that part of Theresa is still with her, and can still make the great and terrible shrink back from her name alone.
Amiya may have pulled a magic sword, but it was Kaschey's fear that truly legitimized her as Theresa's heir. If she's just a stupid kid and illegitimate heir by a lunatic king like Kaschey claimed
then why be scared at all?
If Amiya must live her life caught in a vicious cycle of oppression and discrimination as an infected and as someone adopted by a Sarkaz, then why not own it and do exactly as her adoptive ancestors did centuries ago, and what Theresa would do if she were here now?
Call for the Snake by name. Challenge his mastery over the world. Let him know you can see him.
Let him know you can beat him.
#arknights#Also I have this theory that the fear of the lord of fiends is created by Originium itself#Patriot gets the vision about Amiya only when he meets her#and there is hints that the Sarkaz's prophesies are actually born from the originium's intelligence#Originium calls the Lord of Fiends the world destroyer because they will one day defeat Oripathy#but that's a whole other post for another time
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my old prehistory professor promised me earlier that he would soon take me on a trip to the Beskid Mountains, where he wants to fix one of sins from his youth.... but then he went silent. so i reminded him about it, and he just sent me an email that he is planning to leave on tuesday morning and that i have to decide quicklu if i want to go bc it's "high time we bough tickets and booked a place in the mountain shelter" xD we will climb the highest peak there to verify a potential archaeological site :3
i love that despite being over 70yo he still has a very youthful spirit <3 and all his plans look like this, made in the very last minute
#idk if my friends will go with us bc they currently work on a ????? uhm construction site. as ??? archaeological supervision???? no idea how#is it called in english#but they stand in front of an excavator to see if it uncovers any features and artefacts#and whenever wooden constructions appaer they have to stop the work and document these finds#so they're afraid that if they decide to go with me after they come back there will be nothing there#they reached medieval layers now#and polish law is fucked up so it gives too much power to the developers#they can fire their archaeologists without any good reasons#for example if the archaeologist decides to stop work to rescue all uncovered artefacts :)#they work for 12 h a day just to save as much as they can#bc they're local patriots and this project is very important for them#bc after it's done they will have documentation of a 700 m long profile.... the whole historical town that they love so much#they won't earn a penny lol they gave the lowest price just to get the chance to be there#either way i'm excited#it would be better to go together bc i really like them but it will be okay either way#moje
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a flag adopted in 1993 on a building thats supposed to be in 1916 never change doctor who
#they really just found some stock footage of the winter palace and called it a day#unfortunately they underestimated this idiotic country and its inane 'patriotic' desire to stick modern flags everywhere#its me talking#dw
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the thing is. you can't let anger overtake your heart. it will turn you bitter and helpless, chewing your own tongue till it bleeds while nothing gets done. you have to let your love for the indigenous peoples of turtle island, of aotearoa, of australia, of palestine, to guide you to action, to ignite your heart in hope. justice is possible. many hands make the burden light
#these past few days have been a definite turning point for me#i was never particularly patriotic. i was critical of ''canada'' before#but now i have nothing but disgust and anger towards the nation calling itself ''canada''#i watched a woman cry for her stolen children. her rage and grief were so visceral as she sang to us (the colonizers! the settlers!)#and begged us to fight for her#and i watched the major news outlets' gross miscoverage of the event. focusing on one mention of hamas' hostages instead the numbers#of palestinians dead. the airstrikes on the hospitals. the descendants of holocaust survivors calling it a genocide#(the news called them ''''self identified''' jews. what a slap in the face to someone who lost their father in the holocaust!)#I have to try and turn that disgust and anger for ''canada'' into love and hope for the first peoples of turtle island#and all colonized people#i have to try and fight for them#a.txt
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look if you're going to make your muse Australian and give them a huge "i am core australian" identity with heavy Indigenous Australian contributions to their background, which you have used to make them an animal living in secret in 'normal' society, the very very very bare minimum you could do is not make them born in sydney and their birthday literally january the 26th, i don't know what to tell you i keep coming back to this on the regular. the very bare minimum is Not Doing That and that's even lower than the bare minimum of not using Indigenous Australian principles to create an abused fantasy race of sentient animals
#drama cw#i keep coming back to this every single time i'm like 'maybe i was being unreasonab-' no#i was giving them a Heads Up bc jan 26th on surface level if you look for something like independence day in australia#(independence day does NOT translate to australian culture at all. america is weird and patriotic. it is not a thing anywhere else#in the world besides like. north korea. y'all are weird)#on surface level if you are thinking 'oh yes what is the equivalent' then yeah you find australia day and you think#surely that's a reasonable date#but it's also celebrated on The Day of the first fleet's arrival / the conquering of australia#ft. the short and long-term attempted genocides (plural) (multiple attempts) of Indigenous australians#it's Invasion Day it is called australia day by bogans who thought it was a good idea to make it something to celebrate in the first place#i just think. even on a surface level - i can understand that is the thought behind it#i just think 'hey just a heads up that is probably a little iffy for a couple of reasons would you like to talk about it'#not even something to. i just........#yes people want to just make ocs and like their ocs and not have to think about the outside world and fun is fun#also there are very real stereotypes and harms in the present tense which those factors combined are contributing to#and it wouldn't be hard at all to make. the smallest of adjustments
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happy belated Independence Day 💚 🇫🇮🌨️🖤
eeee thank you friend!! 🤍💙🤍💙🤍
#it was a lovely day off. we watched this very patriotic movie called howls moving castle.#magneto-manifesto#ask
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To my beautiful motherland, to my India and her people, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY.
Most of us here, I know, are disillusioned by this country, the petty politics and fights, by poverty and illiteracy, by the unemployment and overpopulation. Many of us are weary of her sorrows, and of people who cannot uphold the values we stand for.
Today is the day we remind ourselves that this is our home. India is our mother. She is not a goddess. She is not a Queen. She is the oppressed peasant woman standing in the fields with her child in her arms. She is the soldier in the lonely borders, and she is their family clinging onto hope. She is the tribal, fighting against injustice.
She lives in the cold of the Himalayas and the long coast by the sea. She is the summer sun and monsoon wind, autumn leaves and winter rain, the shopkeeper by the street, the officers in their cars.
She is, in the end, what we will come back to, time and again, the wet scent of earth, the rousing tune of the National Anthem, the proud Tricolour fluttering in the breeze, the three lions of the Ashok Stambh, the chants of "Jay Hind."
She is what we will love, no matter what, because she is our mother. Her lands are wet with the blood of our noble ancestors, of our freedom fighters, and when we stand barefoot, we will hear the distant echo of Netaji and Bapu rallying our people towards glory.
Today, this we shall remember.
🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳JAI HIND 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
#happy independence day#india#indians#patriotism#independence day#to my country#and#to my people#to what is great#and what shall be great#to our duties#and our rights#this beautiful land we call our home#Jai Hind#jai jawan#Jai kisaan
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Seem to accidentally be having a Sherlock themed birthday this year. This was not planned I'll have you know
#I bought the books cause I started reading the first sherlock book a few days ago and decided I wanted to read the others when I finished#and it only came in collections so I bought a cool looking collection of hardcover ones#I started playing the game cause I couldn't stop thinking about that puzzle game professor layton or whatever it was called#Used to play on the DS and was looking for similar games ans sherlock came up as a suggested adult kinda thinking game#Then the sherlock pub just happened to come to mind when discussing things we could do together#Lmao no idea why this is happening but oh well#Love me some sherlock so aint complaining but i do so find it funny#Ya know this all started cause i watched moriaty the patriot anime and so started reading my sherlock book#Domino affect bro#AceofDragons
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>you watch news
>you get depressed because your country is killing itself
#i mean it's thw government#but people can't really do anything about it#so#the inflation is said to soon to be 20%#there's no system of justice#system of education is a fucking nightmare#we got new school subject called history and current days#and the book are full of racist anf sexisy ajd homophobic shit#like damn#im so dissapointment with this counteu because I'm trying ti be a patriot
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Yeah I’m patriotic in the sense that my country is several layers of fucked up but I still keep a little shred of hope and want to fix it because I see so many amazing people still fighting the good fight and I think these younger generations may finally be the ones to save us.
So happy 4th of July or whatever, I’m not giving up, let’s vote these fuckers out.
#4th of july#Independence Day#USA is a dumpster fire#but it’s my dumpster fire so ima try to put it out#you can’t be a patriot if you cannot be critical of your country#and I’m basically calling it a pos so I’m patriotic af
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not to beat a dead horse but im watching todd in the shadows' debunking james somerton video and for some reason the one that really got to me was him disproving the 'detective chinatown 3's box office numbers were faked' claim with just .... no? it was just a really popular movie?
#asto speaks#like honestly i laughed like i think i watched that video with that claim in it before i watched the detective chinatown movies but like#its SUPER plausible for that movie to do absurdly well like a. the detective chinatown series is INCREDIBLY famous and popular in china#like the first two movies were MASSIVE smash hits#b. the lead actors are all super famous? like liu haoran is one of the big rising movie stars in chinese cinema#and this is the franchise that more or less made liu haoran#and wang baoqiang is also a *super* famous movie actor#also as far as i can tell dc3 being the japan one and therefore tsumabuki satoshi was gna be it also probably helped#oh thats another funny detail bc a LOT of people were there for the gay ship of liu haoran and tsumabuki satoshis characters#like dc2 set up their r/s but hiroshi noda (tsumabuki's character) wasnt that big in it but he was supposed to be a much bigger role in dc3#like yknow. ironic in context#also 'holiday weekend' doesnt quite capture the impact that is 'released on lunar new year weekend'#like that is THE blockbuster time slot of the YEAR#especially since detective chinatown is such a. idk whats the word. patriotic sort of series#i mean its called detective chinatown. its about two chinese dudes going around the word solving crimes#also dc3 is riding the high of dc2 which was 70% shitting on america by volume#(also the movie that ruined welcome to new york by taylor swift for me wonder how much they paid for the rights to that)#i mean i dont *like* dc2 but i have to acknowledge that it was probably the most popular detective chinatown movie#like the detective chinatown movies are perfect lunar new year movies like day after the family gathering dinner and you got like#all these people and nothing to do like ok lets go watch a movie thats 30% cool people doing cool things 70% bullshit slapstick comedy#so yknow. this is really obviously a movie that was primed to do super well in every possible way of course its numbers are gonna be good
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a little weird that today is "patriot day" when the patriots literally lost last night... they should've called it eagle day... i don't know who thought it was a good idea to name the day after the losers...
#rambles#this is so stupid im sorry#i just think it's funny that 9/11 is apparentlyt also called patriot day and the patriots lost to the eagles last night
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tags (part 2).
sometimes we don't have a choice but to keep going. ⟹ verse; early days.
there will always be somewhere to call home. ⟹ verse; entrance into the guild.
in defense of wanting. ⟹ verse; fractures.
the best path is the path you never asked for. ⟹ verse; steadfast endings.
to those who were once wanderers. ⟹ verse; roadside.
every world at your fingertips; we carry on and on. ⟹ verse; inheritor of the archives.
a neverending ruckus. ⟹ verse; baccano!
hapless and hosted. ⟹ verse; baldur's gate 3.
studies on ineptitude. ⟹ verse; the case study of vanitas.
like and subscribe! ⟹ verse; log horizon.
the past's clutches. ⟹ verse; moriarty the patriot.
a literary nightmare. ⟹ verse; the owl house.
skating your story. ⟹ verse; yuri!!! on ice.
the immutable second. ⟹ verse; the witcher.
#sometimes we don't have a choice but to keep going. ⟹ verse; early days.#there will always be somewhere to call home. ⟹ verse; entrance into the guild.#in defense of wanting. ⟹ verse; fractures.#the best path is the path you never asked for. ⟹ verse; steadfast endings.#to those who were once wanderers. ⟹ verse; roadside.#every world at your fingertips; we carry on and on. ⟹ verse; inheritor of the archives.#a neverending ruckus. ⟹ verse; baccano!#hapless and hosted. ⟹ verse; baldur's gate 3.#studies on ineptitude. ⟹ verse; the case study of vanitas.#like and subscribe! ⟹ verse; log horizon.#the past's clutches. ⟹ verse; moriarty the patriot.#a literary nightmare. ⟹ verse; the owl house.#skating your story. ⟹ verse; yuri!!! on ice.#the immutable second. ⟹ verse; the witcher.#tag dump
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You know how... world leaders can't just? SAY stuff? Because when they DO it's the Offical Stance(tm) of their Country?
That makes their Fuck Ups(tm) all the more serious. It's WHY they have press teams.
But!!!
WHAT IF?
They said something, PUBLICLY, on LIVE TELEVISION, that? Can not be taken back? Full on "masks off, behold the horrors you have payed for" moment?
Sure, they could SAY "that wasn't me" and "I was brainwashed" etc etc. But? If it's BIG enough? UGLY enough? TRUE??? People WILL find it. Dig and dig and dig like termites in the walls. Hunt like bloodhounds.
Riot in the streets.
Because? All it would TAKE? Is ONE half ghost, a few too many long nights trying to balance college classes and his internship, a bigotry filled call from back home, and staring down that empty fridge with just one box of moldering take out, because he's been too busy and stressed to remember to get GROCERIES AND-
Ah.
So this is what "so stressed you feel calm, I have run out of Fucks too give" feels like. Neat. *picks up phone* Hey, Sam? You still at that protest? Outside the presidential speech? Neat. Don't move.
One Phone Line Express later. SAM is telling him to breathe. Maybe... maybe calm down. Think about this. Others around her can see the same "spark of madness" glint in his almost zen like smile.
It Fiiiiine, Sam.
He's just here to Talk.
He disappears. Sam's freaking out. President stumbles but catches himself on the way to the mike. Up in the watch tower, various Magic users choke on their lunches, because a ghost just possessed the United States President.
ON LIVE TELEVISION.
He taps the Mike, smile, leans in real close like he's gonna Tell You Folks A Secret.... Aaaaand~
"The second you Die, you no longer have human rights. Doesn't matter how brief. Heart stops? You're sub-human scum! Non-sentient by American law. We here in the United Stares PROUDLY desecrate the bodies and graves of the dead. Tear apart the immortal souls of the innocent. And condemn you to oblivion crying, begging, and screaming for mercy! Why, obviously, is an act. Because souls don't have the RIGHT to feel fear or pain!
And YES. We do mean EVERYONE'S. Atlantian, Kryptonian, Martian. Canadian, Mexican, Russian, AND Chinese! I could keep going! Once you die? You belong to the United States to experiment on as we see fit! You're PROPERT now! So turn your nonrights having, nonsentient self in to the nearest GIW! For the good of AMERICA. Ectoplasmic Scum!"
*drops mic*
Jaws are on the floor. This was VETERANS DAY. Dead military Heros and smile for the cameras. A cake walk. Do a patriotism, rah rah. There.... there are DIPLOMATS in the crowd. Sure as SHIT, were more then a few foreign nationals WATCHING. Religious leaders looking on in fury, grief, and horror.
Reporters. Oh sweet Jesus the reporters.
The press secretary faints.
PANDEMONIUM. The president, still dazed and confused from being possessed, gets PUNCHED on live television be his VP, a deeply religious if moderately shady man. Take bribes? VP is cool with that. Bootstraps, peasants, and all that. But how DARE you fuck with the Souls of the dead. How DARE you!
Phones are blowing up, questions are being shouted, the JLA Dark FEEL like they should tell somebody about the ghost kid... but also this feels VERY "Call for help-y" so they might throw their weight around instead and pretend they know nothing. World leader are meaningfully staring at their Dear Beloved Dead Grandmother's photos as they send LIVID assistants to hound the American into answering the DAMN PHONE-!
And Danny?
Danny feels calmer now. He has stolen like....700 bucks from secret security's various wallets. He's going to buy himself BOUGIE groceries. Some...some NICE take out. Maybe a little cake. Yeah~ Cake for Danny~
If anyone needs him? No you don't. He needs to go do some shopping, eat, lie on the floor of his shower and just... vibe for a bit under the spray. In the dark maybe. Sleep for a week. Have his food. Yummy little treats.
Or he's gonna fuckin LOSE IT, man.
(Tucker is actively hacking his college schedule as they speak. He KNEW it. Called it! Too many classes! But does Mr "I can handle it" listen? Noooooooo! Now look what happened! Holy SHIT, Danny!)
@hypewinter @hdgnj @ailithnight @nerdpoe @the-witchhunter
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Someone really looked at the dumpster fire that is America and said good god I love her *wipes a tear*
#I’m only patriotic on 1 day and that’s the 4th of July#and can it really be called patriotic if I’m only there for the fireworks#and the hotdogs
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