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The feminine urge to give Lee Joon gi a delicate kiss on the cheek
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What I absolutely love about some of my favorite kdramas:
Goblin (2016): the bromance
Shopaholic Louie (2016): the fluff
Witch At Court (2017): the protagonist's character development
Lawless Lawyer (2018): how deliciously villainous the main villain was
Beauty Inside (2018): the second couple
Touch Your Heart (2019): sunny x grim reaper AU lol
Hotel del Luna (2019): IU's acting skills
It's Okay Not To Be Okay (2020): the creativity of the storyline
Do You Like Brahms? (2020): the realistic & mature romance + slowburn friends-to-lovers
The Penthouse (2020-2021): the rollercoaster ride and the absurdity of it all
Run On (2020): the life lessons & meaningful dialogues
Flower of Evil (2020): the endless plot twists
Hospital Playlist (2020-2021): the cohesiveness of the characterizations, even with the supporting & minor characters
Law School (2021): the mystery pervading the show's entirety
Tomorrow (2022): the deep, angsty love story with a happy ending
Extraordinary Attorney Woo (2022): our beloved Woo Young-woo
Cafe Minamdang (2022): how everyone's a crackhead. in their own way. lmao
#goblin kdrama#shopaholic louis#lawless lawyer#beauty inside#touch your heart#hotel del luna#it's okay not to be okay#do you like brahms#the penthouse#penthouse#penthouse kdrama#run on kdrama#run on#flower of evil#hospital playlist#law school#law school kdrama#tomorrow kdrama#mbc tomorrow#extraordinary attorney woo#eaw#cafe minamdang#kdrama#kdrama thoughts#korean drama
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That the Editorial Board of the premier U.S. newspaper of record is finally warning about Donald Trump is significant. As such, this is a gift 🎁 link so that those who want to read the entire editorial can do so, even if they don't subscribe to The New York Times. Below are some excerpts:
As president, [Trump] wielded power carelessly and often cruelly and put his ego and his personal needs above the interests of his country. Now, as he campaigns again, his worst impulses remain as strong as ever — encouraging violence and lawlessness, exploiting fear and hate for political gain, undermining the rule of law and the Constitution, applauding dictators — and are escalating as he tries to regain power. He plots retribution, intent on eluding the institutional, legal and bureaucratic restraints that put limits on him in his first term.
Our purpose at the start of the new year, therefore, is to sound a warning.
Mr. Trump does not offer voters anything resembling a normal option of Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, big government or small. He confronts America with a far more fateful choice: between the continuance of the United States as a nation dedicated to “the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity” and a man who has proudly shown open disdain for the law and the protections and ideals of the Constitution.
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It is instructive in the aftermath of that administration to listen to the judgments of some of these officials on the president they served. John Kelly, a chief of staff to Mr. Trump, called him the “most flawed person I’ve ever met,” someone who could not understand why Americans admired those who sacrificed their lives in combat. Bill Barr, who served as attorney general, and Mark Esper, a former defense secretary, both said Mr. Trump repeatedly put his own interests over those of the country. Even the most loyal and conservative of them all, Vice President Mike Pence, who made the stand that helped provoke Mr. Trump and his followers to insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, saw through the man: “On that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution,” he said.
[See more under the cut.]
There will not be people like these in the White House should Mr. Trump be re-elected. The former president has no interest in being restrained, and he has surrounded himself with people who want to institutionalize the MAGA doctrine. According to reporting by the Times reporters Maggie Haberman, Charlie Savage and Jonathan Swan, Mr. Trump and his ideological allies have been planning for a second Trump term for many months already. Under the name Project 2025, one coalition of right-wing organizations has produced a thick handbook and recruited thousands of potential appointees in preparation for an all-out assault on the structures of American government and the democratic institutions that acted as checks on Mr. Trump’s power.
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Mr. Trump has made clear his conviction that only “losers” accept legal, institutional or even constitutional constraints. He has promised vengeance against his political opponents, whom he has called “vermin” and threatened with execution. This is particularly disturbing at a time of heightened concern about political violence, with threats increasing against elected officials of both parties.
He has repeatedly demonstrated a deep disdain for the First Amendment and the basic principles of democracy, chief among them the right to freely express peaceful dissent from those in power without fear of retaliation, and he has made no secret of his readiness to expand the powers of the presidency, including the deployment of the military and the Justice Department, to have his way.
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Re-electing Mr. Trump would present serious dangers to our Republic and to the world. This is a time not to sit out but instead to re-engage. We appeal to Americans to set aside their political differences, grievances and party affiliations and to contemplate — as families, as parishes, as councils and clubs and as individuals — the real magnitude of the choice they will make in November.
I encourage people to use the above gift link and read the entire article.
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President Trump used his Constitutional right to Free Speech on Friday to go off on the crooked Judge Arthur Engoron, New York State Attorney General Letitia James for continuing this lawfare suit against President Trump and his family after the star witness testified this week that there is zero evidence that President Trump misrepresented the value of his assets to gain business loans for his company.
There is no victim in this lawsuit. President Trump paid off each loan and the banks admitted they would readily loan him money for future projects.
Engoron is the same bizarre and unhinged judge who opened the garbage trial against Donald Trump and his business empire by giggling to the cameras.
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Why The Window To Prosecute Trump Is Closing
Donald Trump is not above the law. He must be prosecuted — to preserve what’s left of our democracy.
Trump spent years evading the consequences of his actions thanks to the wealth he accumulated from his empire of scams.
Now, he’s counting on his political power to shield himself from far more serious crimes.
Every day we wait to hold Trump accountable only emboldens him — and others like him — to wreak havoc on our Constitution and the rule of law.
Take for instance Trump’s recent threat, that if he is indicted for stealing classified documents, there will be:
“…problems in this country the likes of which perhaps we’ve never seen before…I don’t think the people of the United States would stand for it.”
These are the threats of a bully and a fraud who knows he’s been cornered.
As the window for accountability closes, three things need to happen:
First, the Department of Justice must prosecute Trump.
Trump incited an assault on the Capitol, stole top secret documents, and illegally schemed to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice must stand firm in the face of Trump’s efforts to intimidate them.
They must hold him accountable.
Second, the media should set the record straight.
This is not a matter of left versus right, liberal versus conservative, Democrat versus Republican. It is a question of the Constitution and the rule of law versus authoritarianism and tyranny.
If Trump succeeds — if he intimidates his way out of being held accountable — we're giving up on our democracy and asking for this kind of lawlessness to prevail.
The media must stop covering this as if there are two sides to this story. The obsession with “balanced coverage” in the face of Trump’s crimes is misleading.
Finally, Republicans must condemn Trump.
The time has come for Republican lawmakers, candidates, and the right-wing media to show some backbone and vigorously repudiate Trump. Their failure to do so before now has created a monster that threatens to consume this country. It is up to them to tell their constituents, followers, readers and viewers that there is no place in America for Trump’s threats to the rule of law or his incitements to violence.
And for all those who claim that a former president should not face criminal prosecution because it would set a “dangerous precedent" — isn’t it more dangerous to allow a former president to avoid accountability for actions that violate the law and the Constitution?
If Trump walks away unscathed, insurrectionists will think they can attack our democracy and get away with it. And they will be right.
For the moment, Americans who favor democracy and the rule of law control the levers of power.
But for how long?
Holding Trump accountable is not an act of partisanship. It’s a defense of our democracy.
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Beaten - Whump Lists
A list of whump lists I've made where the whumpee is beaten. (May also include when the whumpee is shown after a beating)
DRAMAS
🇰🇷Korea
Duel >> {x}
He Is Psychometric >> {x}
Just Between Lovers >>> {x}
W: Two Worlds >>> {x}
I Hear Your Voice/I Can Hear Your Voice >>> {x}
Memorist >>> {x}
Sweet Home >>> {x}
Sweet Home Season 2 >>> {x}
Two Weeks >>> {x}
The Uncanny Counter >>> {x}
Lawless Lawyer >>> {x}
Flower of Evil >>> {x}
School 2013 >>> {x}
The Arthdal Chronicles >>> {x}
Move to Heaven >>> {x}
Sell Your Haunted House >>> {x}
At A Distance, Spring Is Green >>> {x}
The K2 >>> {x}
One Ordinary Day >>> {x}
All Of Us Are Dead >>> {x}
The King’s Affection >>> {x}
Come and Hug Me >>> {x}
The Smile Has Left Your Eyes >>> {x}
Children of Nobody >>> {x}
Snowdrop >>> {x}
Alice, The Final Weapon >>> {x}
Bad Guys >>> {x}
Big Mouth >>> {x}
Blind >>> {x}
Connect >>> {x}
Revenge of Others >>> {x}
The Tale of Nokdu >>> {x}
Iljimae >>> {x}
Island >>> {x}
Doubtful Victory >>> {x}
Black Knight >>> {x}
Joseon Attorney: A Morality >>> {x}
Bloodhounds >>> {x}
D.P. Season 2 >>> {x}
🇨🇳China
The Untamed >> {x}
Reunion: The Sound of The Providence >> {x}
Prodigy Healer >>> {x}
Sand Sea >>> {x}
Broker >>> {x}
Fall In Love With Him >>> {x}
Back From the Brink >>> {x}
🇯🇵Japan
Siren >>> {x}
Bitter Blood >>> {x}
Ouroboros >>> {x}
Aozora No Tamago >>> {x}
Hiru (Season 1) >>> {x}
Smoking >>> {x}
The Killer Inside >>> {x}
King’s Game >>> {anime}
Chainsaw Man >>> {anime}
🇹🇭Thailand
Not Me >>> {x}
Bad Guys >>> {x}
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MOVIES
🇰🇷Korea
Psychometry >>> {x}
Blind >>> {x}
Pipeline >>> {x}
Fabricated City >>> {x}
Time to Hunt >>> {x}
Project Wolf Hunting >>> {x}
Christmas Carol >>> {x}
Remember >>> {x}
Shark: The Beginning >>> {x}
🇨🇳China
The Witness >>> {x}
🇯🇵Japan
Blind Witness >>> {x}
Bleach >>> {x}
🇺🇸USA
Shattered >>> {x}
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
🇰🇷Korea
Abyss >>> {x}
Melancholia >>> {x}
Youth of May >>> {x}
The Great Seducer >>> {x}
The Good Detective >>> {x}
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speaking as someone who watches way too much law & order (which itself plays fast and loose with legal proceedings), playing ace attorney for the first time it is absolutely hilarious how straight up lawless and unethical this courtroom drama is
i'm only halfway through game 1 and there is already so much perjury and witness tampering. every trial by law has to be concluded within three days of the arrest and every murder seems to carry the death penalty. countless innocent people have been convicted under this system and everyone just seems to roll with it. phoenix has been physically assaulted no fewer than 3 times by witnesses and prosecutors alike and there are no repercussions for any of this. i love it
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Republicans attorneys have to pay a consequence at some point. It's pathetic.
The Federalist Society mentality is destroying America. The brazen lawlessness and refusal to accept responsibility is making society much worse.
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OC MASTERLIST
last update: 01 february 2024
divider credit
INTERACTIVE FICTION
ANGEL PAVON
alias: operative vesper
age: 28
identity: he/him, bisexual
appearance: 6’2
specialization: infiltration
romance: nash, evie thierry (ex, au), seb ariti (au) [belongs to consulaaris]
verse: project hadea + original
BENJAMIN “BENJI” FINCH
alias: sunset bird resident
age: 23
identity: he/him, bisexual
appearance: 5’10
occupation: guitarist + freelance artist
romance: cove holden, rowan hill (au) [belongs to consulaaris]
verse: our life + original
DAVINA VIRAC
alias: the painted phoenix
age: 25
identity: she/her, lesbian
appearance: 6’, phoenix mythosi
weapon: double-bladed scythe
romance: syfyn javall (ex), amilia von clamile
verse: the exile
LEOVIC “VIC” RANE
alias: omen, commander-legate
age: 29
identity: he/him, gay
appearance: 6’4, hunter-raised mage
specialization: circle-trained diviner
romance: red antiqua (ex), trouble alder
verse: shepherds of haven
LINDEN “LUX” KENNEDY
alias: lead vocalist of saint reverie
age: 26
identity: they/them, bisexual
appearance: 5’11
occupation: alternative rock singer
romance: seven lawless (ex), orion quinn
verse: infamous
RIVER LOVELL
alias: rivlaughluv
age: 27
identity: they/them, bisexual
appearance: 5’10
occupation: private lab technician
romance: olivia santos (au)
verse: blooming panic + original
TABITHA ABRAMS
alias: the preacher
age: 26
identity: she/they, lesbian
appearance: 5’7
occupation: vampire-hunting swindler
romance: celina sokolova
verse: larkin
VERONICA SCARLET
alias: the wayward scarlet
age: 25
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’8
occupation: biology grad student
romance: avery belle
verse: scarlet hollow
YANA ROMANUS SEVILLA
alias: white company mercenary
age: 29
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’4
occupation: mercenary + latin translator
romance: hadrian
verse: the golden rose
TTRPGS
ELAITH NATHAIR
alias: the druid
age: 32
identity: she/her, lesbian
appearance: 5’7, half sun elf
class: circle of spores druid
romance: none
verse: dungeons & dragons
LON LAURIER
alias: the investigator
age: 33
identity: he/him, gay
appearance: 6’3
occupation: wwi veteran + museum curator
romance: ethan ripley
verse: call of cthulhu
DC COMICS
OLIVIA SANTOS
alias: the lawyer
age: 27
identity: she/her, demiromantic bi
appearance: 5’5
occupation: defense attorney
romance: dick grayson, river lovell (au)
DRAGON AGE
GABRIEL COUSLAND
alias: hound of highever
age: 23 in 9:30 dragon
identity: he/him, bisexual
appearance: 6’
class: duelist + shadow rogue
romance: nathaniel howe, leliana (au)
NALAH MAHARIEL
alias: hero of ferelden
age: 24 in 9:30 dragon
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’4
class: berserker + spirit warrior
romance: tamlen (ex), zevran arainai
THE ELDER SCROLLS
ARISE VALEN
alias: the vestige
age: 33 in 2E 583
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’9, dunmer
class: dragonknight
romance: fennorian
TORA THE DOVAHKIIN
alias: the last dragonborn
age: 29 in 4E 201
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’8, nord
class: conjuration warrior
romance: farkas
FALLOUT
MARISOL REYES
alias: courier six
age: 29 in 2281
identity: she/her, lesbian
appearance: 5’6
skills: speech, guns, repair
romance: none
FINAL FANTASY XIV
D’ALIA LIVEQ
alias: warrior of light
age: 28 in ARR
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’4, seeker miqo’te
job: summoner, dark knight, dancer
romance: minfilia warde (ex), sidurgu orl
MASS EFFECT
MALENA SHEPARD
alias: the commander
age: 29 in 2183
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’10
class: vanguard
romance: kaidan alenko
SONORA “SONI” RYDER
alias: the pathfinder
age: 22 in 2819
identity: she/her, lesbian
appearance: 5’8
class: sentinel
romance: vetra nyx
PATHFINDER
MERITHIA DE CHARON
alias: queen of the stolen lands
age: 29
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’7, aasimar
class: celestial line sorcerer
romance: tristian
RESIDENT EVIL
EVELINE “EVIE” THIERRY
alias: the detective
age: 28
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’1
occupation: private investigator
romance: jill valentine, angel pavon (ex, au)
STAR WARS - KOTOR
SHIVA AMHI
alias: the jedi exile
age: 31 in 298 BTC
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’5, mirialan
class: consular + master
romance: atton rand
VANNA PHY
alias: revan
age: 33 in 303 BTC
identity: they/she, bisexual
appearance: 5’9, human
class: scout + sentinel
romance: malak (ex), canderous ordo
STAR WARS - SWTOR
ANA MAITE VICARI
alias: the wrath
age: 21 in 10 ATC
identity: she/her, lesbian
appearance: 5’3, human
class: marauder + shadow
romance: jaesa willsaam
ANDAN VICARI
alias: cipher six, sith intelligence commander
age: 24 in 10 ATC
identity: he/him, demiromantic bi
appearance: 5’11, human
class: operative + gunslinger
romance: rysandor riel [belongs to consulaaris]
CADRIEN TIRAI
alias: lord tirai, claw of the empire
age: 19 in 12 ATC
identity: he/him, gay
appearance: 6’1, miraluka
class: juggernaut + sage
romance: minaiph tirai [belongs to hythlodaes]
EDELIE LOK CADERA
alias: champion of the great hunt
age: 18 in 10 ATC
identity: she/her, bi demisexual
appearance: 5’2, human
class: mercenary + powertech
romance: torian cadera
JORANI RHA
alias: captain of the fortune’s favour
age: 24 in 10 ATC
identity: she/her, lesbian
appearance: 5’7, twi’lek
class: scoundrel + mercenary
romance: blaire myrrho [belongs to consulaaris]
KAIZEN “KAI” AMHI
alias: jedi battlemaster, the outlander
age: 20 in 10 ATC
identity: he/him, gay
appearance: 6’2, mirialan
class: guardian + sage
romance: theron shan
MITTH’ALIA’MIURANI “THALIA”
alias: CEDF infiltrator/biochemist
age: 25 in 10 ATC
identity: she/her, bi demisexual
appearance: 5’9, chiss
class: sniper + operative
romance: saganu
MITTH’ASTON “THASTON”
alias: cipher nine
age: 23 in 10 ATC
identity: they/them, bisexual
appearance: 6’1, chiss
class: sniper + powertech
romance: kaliyo djannis (ex), hunter (ex)
SARAJAH RIZAS
alias: jedi barsen’thor
age: 23 in 10 ATC
identity: she/her, bi demisexual
appearance: 6’, cathar
class: shadow
romance: felix iresso
VIN KHARU
alias: havoc squad commander
age: 25 in 10 ATC
identity: he/him, bisexual
appearance: 5’8, nautolan
class: vanguard + mercenary
romance: elara dorne
WYLAN ORIAS
alias: ex-padawan mechanic
age: 20 in 20 ATC
identity: he/him, bi asexual
appearance: 6’4, echani
class: shadow + guardian
romance: jase bralor
ZOYAH KALLIG
alias: darth occlus
age: 26 in 10 ATC
identity: she/they, poly bisexual
appearance: 5’, rattataki
class: assassin + sorcerer
romance: andronikos revel
VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE
INES DELAROSA
alias: the fledgling
age: 25 at embrace in 2004
identity: she/her, bisexual
appearance: 5’2
clan: toreador
occupation: metal singer
romance: ash rivers
THOMAS REAUX
alias: the sire
age: 28 at embrace in 1919, final death in 2004
identity: he/him, bisexual
appearance: 6’2
clan: toreador
occupation: jazz pianist
romance: none
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Spider-Man: Menace or Misunderstood?
by J. Jonah Jameson, editor-in-chief
Photo by Olivia Chen
NEW YORK CITY - Once again, the city finds itself in the grip of chaos, and once again, Spider-Man is at the center of it all. But is our friendly neighborhood web-slinger truly a hero, or is he just another masked menace wreaking havoc on our streets?
"It's absurd," said Harriett McCain, resident of Queens. "Every time Spider-Man shows up, it's like a tornado hitting the city. Sure, he might stop a bad guy or two, but at what cost? The damage he causes is unreal."
Indeed, let's review the facts, shall we? Spider-Man, with his reckless disregard for public safety and property, has left a trail of destruction in his wake that rivals that of the villains he claims to fight. From toppling buildings to causing traffic accidents, Spider-Man's so-called heroics often do more harm than good.
"I was just walking down the street when Spider-Man came swinging through, knocking over lampposts and sending debris flying everywhere," said Isaiah London, witness to one of Spider-Man's recent escapades. "I barely escaped with my life. That guy's a menace."
And let's not forget the collateral damage left in his wake. How many innocent bystanders have been injured or killed as a result of Spider-Man's reckless actions? How many livelihoods have been destroyed, how many families left grieving, all in the name of his self-appointed crusade?
"He's a danger to society," said Detective Douglas Williams of the NYPD. "Sure, he might catch a few criminals here and there, but at what cost? We can't have someone running around playing superhero without any oversight or accountability."
But perhaps most concerning of all is Spider-Man's blatant disregard for authority and the rule of law. He operates outside the jurisdiction of law enforcement, answering only to his own skewed sense of justice. Who gave him the right to play judge, jury and executioner?
"It's vigilante justice, plain and simple," said District Attorney Mya López. "Spider-Man may think he's above the law, but no one is. We will not tolerate this kind of lawlessness in our city."
It's time for the citizens of New York to wake up and see Spider-Man for what he truly is: a dangerous vigilante who poses a threat to public safety and the rule of law. The time has come for us to demand accountability from this masked menace and put an end to his reign of terror once and for all.
#daily bugle#the daily bugle#jjj#j jonah jameson#jj jameson#marvel#marvel spider man#marvel spiderman#marvel comics#mcu#marvel mcu#spiderman#spider man#peter parker
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@uncleasriel said in response to this post, this is way too long for me to reblog again with even longer comments on it:
I was so annoyed that this was the choice for the series second episode. The Lawless Punk Wasteland of New York was a major subject of media fascination, to be sure. To go from Catherine's violent crime to a broader examination of violent crime overall seems like a natural direction to take the series. So why does this feel so bad?
I think it's the way the episode's inciting crime is portrayed - Young Kids Bullying Elderly Folks Because They Have No Morals - feels weird given 2020's sensibilities. it's hard to imagine young folks acting this badly without some justification or provocation. (This is definitely a relic of the 1980s where Inner City Urban Decay was as palpable as Terrorism or Fentanyl Crisis is today). Still, it feels uncomfortable to then see that the vigilante's solution to the hoodlums is to slit them up with claws seems excessive. I get that retributive violence was a common vibe for media of the 80s, but I feel that kicking the crap out of these kids would be sufficient - no need to murder them, except to start the episode with High Stakes.
Jace is such a disappointing character, because ethically he seems like the kind of character in the post George Floyd world we'd celebrate - a black man with a focus on community building, physical fitness, and a desire to help the people around him be able to deal with the problems in their community without having to turn to cumbersome institutions. But Catherine - a monied young woman who went from corporate lawyering to working for the District Attourney to "make a difference" - embodies more faith in the intitution of law and policing than a 2024 audience is willing to grant.
Especially when said attourney is a wealthy white woman at odds with a working class black man!
But Catherine's role as an investigator District Attorney still makes her entrenched in a system unwilling and unable to address the issues safely and effectively. It's quite disgusting here - the black man is using tough-on-crime rhetoric to argue copaganda points about how 'the laws are too lax' while also arguing that murderous vigilantism is the preferred response. Catherine's 'the system works' rhetoric feels very liberal - trust in the Powers That Be, even though we've seen them clearly fail her in the previous episode.
The nihilism of the 'color of our hats' almost seems palatable by comparison - at least there's an admission that the reality is broken, and those with a vested interest in their "team's" well-being will respond well towards their respective community. It's ugly but honest, which is more than Catherine's mealy-mouthed faith in a system that' obviously not working.
It's a cynicism which is at odds with the show's romantic aspirations, however. Vincent's world underground is free of these kinds of evil, and the already strong hints of a close-knit communitarian society in the tunnels would be at odds with such a cynical take. It seems there is a possibility for healthy communites with good information networks to get the word out about malefactors quickly - alas, they are a fantasy underground never-never land world! Definitely nothing the wicked bad surface world could hope to know abut or understand.
This show had won me over me in the pilot, with it's obvious sympathies towards the victims of violence. The suggestion that the Tunnel world was a place free of these evils due to a loving community was intriguing, and Catherine's brush with it forces her to reconsider her life, and use the healing she found there to propel her into helping others in her world. But already pivoting to such a loaded (and racialized) plot, with such aggressively falsely dichitomous take on the solution to the problem of violent crime... I really wish George r.r Martin chose some other plot for ep2!
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this comment is from Febrauary and I only just noticed it now by chance, probably because as the tags say it was written at 2AM lol.
Anyways. My laptop wants to overheat so
First of all this part
Young Kids Bullying Elderly Folks Because They Have No Morals - feels weird given 2020's sensibilities. it's hard to imagine young folks acting this badly without some justification or provocation.
There was very clear reasoning behind the assault on Mrs. Dalby: She's a poor Black woman, and the people who attacked her were racist white people and looking to cause problems and knew they could get away with assaulting a poor Black woman because no one would bother protecting her.
I would not in any sense of the word describe them as 'young kids'. Just because they're white, and because Catherine refers to them as such, doesn't mean they're kids.
They're not bullying her for no reason, it's because they're racist and she's defenseless. She's on a run down filthy train by herself at night just trying to get home. They assault her and try to rob her because they know no one is going to protect her. The only other person who was in the train car already left, leaving her completely at their mercy.
the black man is using tough-on-crime rhetoric to argue copaganda points about how 'the laws are too lax'
That is absolutely not what is happening. He is talking about the systemic injustice that allows privileged people, like white men, to get away with violent crimes against minorities without any consequences, and how the law fails to actually protect the people who are the most vulnerable.
This episode is bad because it's hypocritical and racist. It's okay for Vincent to go around mauling people to protect Catherine, a white woman, but when a Black man does it to protect people who don't have the privilege of being absurdly rich with all the best lawyers and doctors money can buy, including Black women who are getting beaten on the ground and white girls who are about to become the victims of rape, and then suddenly it's bad.
Because it's a Black man using violence to protect the most vulnerable people in his community instead of Vincent, the lion man who only ever seem to protect Catherine, the rich white woman whose father is a powerful lawyer, who has no qualms about casually ripping a hundred dollar bill in half. Which she was casually just carrying around with her without apparently intending to buy anything.
It's a bad episode because it sets a blatant double standard that says using violence to defend people is only okay if you're doing it to protect rich white women.
K. Laptop is throwing a fit so bye
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At the nexus of most of America’s current crises, the diversity/equity/inclusion dogma can be found.
The southern border has been destroyed because the Democratic Party wanted the poor of the southern hemisphere to be counted in the census, to vote if possible in poorly audited mail-in elections, and to build upon constituencies that demand government help. Opposition to such cynicism and the de facto destruction of enforcement of U.S. immigration law is written off as “racism,” “nativism,” and “xenophobia.”
The military is short more than 40,000 soldiers. The Pentagon may fault youth gangs, drug use, or a tight labor market. But the real shortfall is mostly due inordinately to reluctant white males who have been smeared by some of the military elite as suspected “white supremacists,” despite dying at twice their demographics in Iraq and Afghanistan. And they are now passing on joining up despite their families’ often multigenerational combat service.
The nexus between critical race theory and critical legal theory has been, inter alia, defunding the police, Soros-funded district attorneys exempting criminals from punishment, the legitimization of mass looting, squatters’ rights, and general lawlessness across big-city America.
The recent epidemic of anti-Semitism was in part birthed by woke/DEI faculty and students on elite campuses, who declared Hamas a victim of “white settler” victimizing Israel and thus contextualized their Jewish hatred by claiming that as “victims,” they cannot be bigots.
There is a historic, malevolent role of states adjudicating political purity, substituting racial, sex, class, and tribal criteria for meritocracy. They define success or failure not based on actual outcomes but on the degree of orthodox zealotry. Once governments enter that realm of the surreal, the result is always an utter disaster.
After a series of disastrous military catastrophes in 1941 and 1942, Soviet strongman and arch-communist Joseph Stalin ended the Soviet commissar system in October 1942. He reversed course to give absolute tactical authority to his ground commanders rather than to the communist overseers, as was customary.
Stalin really had no choice since Marxist-Leninist ideology overriding military logic and efficacy had ensured that the Soviet Union was surprised by a massive Nazi invasion in June 1941. The Russians in the first 12 months of war subsequently lost nearly 5 million in vast encirclements—largely because foolhardy, ideologically driven directives curtailed the generals’ operational control of the army. After the commissars were disbanded and commanders given greater autonomy, the landmark victory at Stalingrad followed, and with it, the rebound of the Red Army.
One reason why the dictator Napoleon ran wild in Europe for nearly 18 years was that his marshals of France were neither selected only by the old Bourbon standards of aristocratic birth and wealth nor by new ideological revolutionary criteria, but by more meritocratic means than those of his rival nations.
Mao’s decade-long cultural revolution (1966–76) ruined China. It was predicated on Maoist revolutionary dogma overruling economic, social, cultural, and military realities. An entire meritocracy was deemed corrupted by the West and reactionary—and thus either liquidated or rendered inert.
In their place, incompetent zealots competed to destroy all prior standards as “bourgeois” and “counter-revolutionary.” It is no surprise that the current “people’s liberation army,” for all its talk of communist dogma, does not function entirely on Mao’s principles.
Muammar Gaddafi wrecked Libya by reordering an once oil-rich nation on Gaddafi’s crackpot rules of his “Green Book.” At times, the unhinged ideologue, in lunatic fashion, required all Libyans to raise chickens or to destroy all the violins in the nation. I once asked a Libyan why the oil-rich country appeared to me utterly wrecked, and he answered, “We first hire our first cousins—and usually the worst.”
There were many reasons why the King-Cotton, slave-owning Old South lagged far behind the North in population, productivity, and infrastructure. But the chief factor was the capital and effort invested in the amoral as well as uneconomic institution of slavery.
After the Civil War, persistent segregationist ideology demanded vast amounts of time, labor, and money in defining race down to the “one drop” rule—while establishing a labyrinth of segregation laws and refusing to draw on the talents of millions of black citizens.
Yet here we are in 2024, ignoring the baleful past as the woke diversity/equity/inclusion commissars war on merit. Institutions from United Airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration to the Pentagon and elite universities have been reformulated in the post-George Floyd woke hysteria. And to the delight of competitors and enemies abroad, they are now using criteria other than merit to hire, promote, evaluate, and retain.
The greatest problem historically with hiring and promoting based on DEI-like dogma is that anti-meritocratic criteria mark the beginning, not the end, of eroding vital standards. If one does not qualify for a position or slot by accepted standards, then a series of further remedial interventions are needed to sustain the woke project, from providing exceptions and exemptions, changing rules and requirements, and misleading the nation that a more “diverse” math, or more “inclusive” engineering, or more “equity” in chemistry can supplant mastery of critical knowledge that transcends gender, race, or ideology.
But planes either fly or crash due to proper operation, not the appearance or politics of the operator. All soldiers either hit or miss targets, and engineers either make bridges that stand or collapse on the basis of mastering ancient scientific canons and acquired skills, training, and aptitude that have nothing to do with superficial appearance, or tribal affinities, or religion, or doctrine.
The common denominator of critical theories, from critical legal theory to critical social theory, is toxic nihilism, which claims there are no absolute standards, only arbitrary rules and regulations set up by a privileged, powerful class to exploit “the other.” Yet, not punishing looting has nothing to do with race or class, but everything with corroding timeless deterrence that always has and always will prevent the bullying strong from preying on the weak and vulnerable.
Defunding the police sent a message to any criminally minded that in a cost-to-benefit risk assessment, the odds were now on the side of the criminal not being caught for his crimes—and so crime soared and the vulnerable of the inner city became easy prey.
Another danger of DEI is the subordination of the individual to the collective. We are currently witnessing an epidemic of DEI racism in which commissars talk nonstop of white supremacy/rage/privilege without any notion of enormous differences among 230 million individual Polish-, Greek-, Dutch-, Basque-, or Armenian-Americans, or the class, political, and cultural abyss that separates those in Martha’s Vineyard from their antitheses in East Palestine, Ohio.
Moreover, what is “whiteness” in an increasingly intermarried and multiracial society? Oddly, something akin to the old one-drop rules of the South is now updated to determine victims and victimizers—to the point of absurdity. Who is white—someone one half-Irish, one half Mexican—who is black—someone one quarter Jamaican, three-quarters German? To find answers, DEI czars must look to paradigms of the racist past for answers.
Moreover, once any group is exempted and not held to collective standards by virtue of its superficial appearance, then the nation naturally witnesses an increase in racism and bigotry—on the theory that it is not racist to racially stigmatize a supposedly “racist” collective. And we are already seeing an uptake in racially motivated interracial violence as criminals interpret the trickle-down theory of reparatory justice as providing exemption for opportunistic violence.
Throughout history, it has always been the most mediocre and opportunistic would-be commissars that appear to come forth when meritocracy vanishes. If there was not a Harvard President and plagiarist like Claudine Gay to trumpet and leverage her DEI credentials, she would have to be invented. If there was not a brilliant, non-DEI economist like Roland Fryer to be hounded and punished by her, he would have to be invented.
The DEI conglomerate has little idea of the landmines it is planting daily by reducing differences in talent, character, and morality into a boring blueprint of racial stereotypes. Punctuality is now “white time” and supposedly pernicious. The SAT, designed to give the less privileged a meritocratic pathway to college admissions, is deemed racist and either discarded or warped.
In its absence, universities are quietly now “reimaging” their curriculum to make it more “relevant to today’s students” and, of course, “more inclusive and more diverse.” Translated from the language of Oceania, that means after admitting tens of thousands to the nation’s elite schools who did not meet the universities’ own prior standards that they themselves once established and apprehensive about terminating such students, higher education is now euphemistically lowering the work load in classes, introducing new less rigorous classes, and inflating grades. In their virtue-signaling, they have little clue that inevitably their once prized and supposedly prestigious degrees will be rendered less valued as employers discover a Harvard, Stanford, or Princeton BA or BS is not a guarantee of academic excellence or mastery of vital skill sets.
Toxic tribalism is also, unfortunately, like nuclear proliferation. Once one group goes full tribal, others may as well, if for no reason than their own self-survival in a balkanized, Hobbesian world of bellum omnium contra omnes. If our popular culture is to be defined by the racist hosts of The View, or the racist anchorwoman Joy Reid, or members of the Congressman “Squad,” or entire studies departments in our universities that constantly bleat out the racialist mantra, then logically one of two developments will follow.
One, so-called whites in minority-majority states like California will copy the tribal affinities of others that transcend their class and cultural differences, again in response to other blocs that do the same for careerist advantage and perceived survival. Or two, racism will be redefined empirically so that any careerist elites who espouse ad nauseam racial chauvinism—on the assurance they cannot be deemed racists—will be discredited and exposed for what they’ve become, and thus the content of our character will triumph over the color of our skin.
Finally, do we ever ask how a country of immigrants like the United States—vastly smaller than India and China, less materially rich than the vast expanse of Russia, without the strategic geography of the Middle East, or without the long investment and infrastructure of Europe—emerged out of nowhere to dominate the world economically, financially, militarily, and educationally for nearly two centuries?
The answer is easy: it was the most meritocratic land of opportunity in the world, where millions emigrated (legally) on the assurance that their class, politics, religion, ethnicity, and yes, race, would be far less a drawback than anywhere else in the world.
The degree to which the U.S. survives DEI depends on either how quickly it is discarded or whether America’s existential enemies in the Middle East, China, Russia, and Iran have even worse DEI-anti-meritocratic criteria of their own in hiring, promotion, and admissions—whether defined by institutionalized hatred of the West, or loyalty oaths to the communist party, or demonstrable obsequiousness to the Putin regime, or lethal religious intolerance.
Unfortunately, our illiberal enemies, China especially, at least in matters of money and arms, are now emulating the meritocracy of the old America. Meanwhile, we are hellbent on following their former destructive habits of using politics instead of merit to staff our universities, government, corporations, and military.
Our future hinges on how quickly we discard DEI orthodoxy and simply make empirical decisions to stop printing money, deter enemies abroad, enforce our laws, punish criminals, secure the border, reboot the military, regain energy independence, and judge citizens on their character and talent and not their appearance and politics—at least if it is not already too late.
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Even liberal San Francisco voters are getting tough on crime and public disorder.
Residents of the City by the Bay approved ballot measures Tuesday to set minimum police staffing levels, allow officers to chase suspects under reasonable suspicion they have committed or will commit a felony or nonviolent misdemeanor — with the help of drones — and set up public safety cameras that could use facial recognition technology to apprehend perps.
Another proposition that passed requires anyone who receives employment assistance, housing, shelter, utilities or food from city coffers to submit to drug screenings — and denies them those benefits unless they enter a treatment program.
The San Francisco Police Department had prohibited officers from pursuing nonviolent offenders unless there was an imminent risk to public safety.
Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, backed the ballot measures as she eyes re-election to a second full term in November — while facing challenges from Daniel Lurie, a nonprofit executive, and current and former city officials including ex-interim mayor Mark Farrell.
“We want San Francisco to be exactly what the people who live here want to see,” Breed said at a cocktail bar surrounded by supporters as the results rolled in Tuesday night, according to Politico. “And that is a safe, affordable place to call home.”
Voters also overwhelmingly approved tighter ethics rules for city employees regarding the receipt of gifts and mandating the teaching of Algebra I in schools by eighth grade.
Ballot measures allow voters to directly change laws during elections without the help of their elected officials.
Following a spate of state and local changes to crime policies in recent, San Francisco has been dogged by retail crime sprees, burglaries, rampant open-air drug use and public defecation.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, during a high-profile TV debate this past November against former San Francisco Mayor and current California Gov. Gavin Newsom, pointed to the city’s downfall as proof of failed liberal policies.
Dozens of big-name businesses have departed the city’s formerly bustling downtown area since 2020, the year after Breed was elected. Drug overdose deaths also hit a record high last year, with 806 recorded.
The descent into lawlessness was turbocharged by the COVID-19 pandemic and widespread rioting following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police in summer 2020, as San Francisco and other cities embraced calls to defund law enforcement.
Breed supported a $120 million cut from the city’s police budget in 2020 — but reversed course the following year and pleaded with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to restore funding.
“I’m proud this city believes in giving people second chances,” she said in December 2021. “Nevertheless, we also need there to be accountability when someone does break the law … Our compassion cannot be mistaken for weakness or indifference … I was raised by my grandmother to believe in ‘tough love,’ in keeping your house in order, and we need that, now more than ever.”
The pivot to the center came just in time, as disgruntled San Francisco voters went on the following year to recall District Attorney Chesa Boudin, a progressive prosecutor and former public defender.
Before that, parents had ousted three members of the city’s school board for pushing a progressive political agenda and keeping classrooms closed during the coronavirus pandemic.
A former city supervisor, Breed was elected mayor in 2018 to finish out the term of the late Ed Lee, who died in office. She was later elected to a five-year term in November 2019.
She is still working to regain the trust of law enforcement officials, however, with the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs’ Association saying in November that her “commitment to dismantling the criminal justice system has remained a focal point.”
Breed is battling a high disapproval rating, with 71% of likely general election voters taking exception to her job performance, according to a San Francisco Chronicle poll last month.
The city’s ranked-choice voting system could also throw a wrench into Breed’s re-election bid if she does not receive at least 50% support in the initial round, as second- and third-place candidates often receive more votes than those at the top of the ticket.
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Wound Reveal - Whump Lists
A list of whump lists I've made where there's a wound reveal. (Will also include scars, emotional wounds like traumatic backstories, loved ones finding out they're sick or dying, etc.)
DRAMAS
🇰🇷Korea
Duel >>> {x}
Just Between Lovers >>> {x}
Confession >>> {x}
The Golden Eyes >>> {x}
W: Two Worlds >>> {x}
I Hear Your Voice/I Can Hear Your Voice >>> {x}
Sweet Home >>> {x}
Sweet Home Season 2 >>> {x}
Two Weeks >>> {x}
Radiant >>> {x}
Healer >>> {x}
The Uncanny Counter >>> {x}
Love In The Moonlight >>> {x}
Lawless Lawyer >>> {x}
Flower of Evil >>> {x}
Royal Secret Agent >>> {x}
Memories of the Alhambra >>> {x}
Where Stars Land >>> {x}
Move to Heaven >>> {x}
Kill Me, Heal Me >>> {x}
Please Feel At Ease Mr. Ling >>> {x}
Doctor John >>> {x}
At A Distance, Spring Is Green >>> {x}
Happiness >>> {x}
Love & Wish >>> {x}
One Ordinary Day >>> {x}
The King’s Affection >>> {x}
The Red Sleeve >>> {x}
Lovers of the Red Sky >>> {x}
Descendants of the Sun >>> {x}
Come and Hug Me >>> {x}
Angel’s Last Mission: Love >>> {x}
The Smile Has Left Your Eyes >>> {x}
Children of Nobody >>> {x}
Uncontrollably Fond >>> {x}
Mirror of the Witch >>> {x}
Snowdrop >>> {x}
Money Heist: Korea: Joint Economic Area >>> {x}
Alice, The Final Weapon >>> {x}
Bad Guys >>> {x}
Big Mouth >>> {x}
If You Wish Upon Me >>> {x}
Blind >>> {x}
The Sweet Blood >>> {x}
The Tale of Nokdu >>> {x}
Iljimae >>> {x}
Island >>> {x}
Black Knight >>> {x}
A Shoulder to Cry On >>> {x}
Joseon Attorney: A Morality >>> {x}
Bloodhounds >>> {x}
The Good Bad Mother >>> {x}
Numbers >>> {x}
A Time Called You >>> {x}
🇨🇳China
The Untamed >> {x}
Ultimate Note >>> {x}
The Lost Tomb 2: Explore The Note >>> {x}
Love Me If You Dare >>> {x}
Sand Sea >>> {x}
Love and Redemption >>> {x}
Broker >>> {x}
My Amazing Boyfriend >>> {x}
My Strange Friend >>> {x}
Legend of Fei >>> {x}
Hello Dear Ancestors >>> {x}
Back From the Brink >>> {x}
🇯🇵Japan
Ouroboros >>> {x}
Fuujinshi >>> {x}
Under The Skin >>> {x}
Smoking >>> {x}
Avalanche >>> {x}
Junkyouju Takatsuki Akira no Suisatsu>>> {x}
🇹🇭Thailand
Not Me >>> {x}
Bad Guys >>> {x}
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MOVIES
🇰🇷Korea
Secretly, Greatly >>> {x}
Werewolf Boy >>> {x}
Fabricated City >>> {x}
Christmas Carol >>> {x}00
🇨🇳China
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🇯🇵Japan
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🇹🇭Thailand
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🇺🇸USA
A Mother’s Nightmare >>> {x}
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
🇰🇷Korea
Why Her? >>> {x}
🇨🇳China
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🇯🇵Japan
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🇹🇭Thailand
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