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all-lars-bars · 6 months

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Notes for Submas in Rapture so I can empty my brain

Ingo and Emmet with their passion for trains went down to Rapture with their employer Prentice Mill. They both helped blueprint, engineer, and manage the Atlantic Express trains and railways.

When the Express was sold off, the twins went with it, and despite their attempts at contacting their now former employer to convince him otherwise, they never hear from Mill again.

Around the same time Johnny Topside was hoppin around Rapture, the twins, namely Ingo are put under some scrutiny and allegations, I don't really know what but something bad enough that Ingo got sent to Persephone. Because someone's gotta suffer, right.

Anyway, in his brother's absence, Emmet does his damndest to keep the Atlantic Express running in spite of all the splicers and the literal Civil War going on. But eventually he's chased away

Maybe he joins Atlas's revolution bc hey, what does he have to lose at this point, but eh, it doesn't sit right with me. Then again, that could be how Emmet feels about it too. It just generally doesn't settle well with him, but if there's a way to stick it to Andrew Ryam he'll take it.

Back to Ingo, I imagine he meets a similar fate to Topside, Plasmid Test Dummy turned Alpha Series and bonded to a single Little Sister

And that Little Sister is Akari in my mind. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I am a sucker for Pokemon Legends Arceus. And also a sucker for Uncle/Papa Ingo dynamics

I have this scene in my mind where Ingo and Akari are out harvesting ADAM when Emmet sees them and watches them for a bit before realizing this Big Daddy has his brother's mannerisms. It even sounds like a train instead of a whale like the rest (which is also 'cause Ingo's too loud for the BD voicebox so he fucked that up).

Anyways, Emmet immediately makes an assumption and tries to go to Ingo. However, he's still a Big Daddy, one bonded to this little girl.

In my mind, Akari is a special case as a Little Sis, as she's full of curiousity which in the ADAM tainted state of mind means she doesn't see a threat until it hits her and Ingo doesn't hurt anything unless Akari tells him to. Neither of them like it when people get too close though, even if they don't see it as a threat

That is to say Emmet gets pretty damn close before he's pulled away by some of his braver allies. All the while begging for his brother.

Neither Akari or Ingo really hear him, not in their states of mind. But they can see his emotion.

"Who was that, Papa?" Ingo lets out a low whistle. "He looked lonely." Another, higher whistle in agreement. "Maybe the next time we see him, we should say hi! I think he'd like that!" He sighs so softly.

I'd like that too

Back to the storyline, I like to think that Ingo and Akari find Jack after he fell through the vents in an escape from Fontaine, helping Tenenbaum and the other little girls bring him to the Sanctuary

Ingo, seeing all the little girls just being little girls has a moment of clarity, some light through the fog of his mind.

He doesn't want Akari to spend the rest of her life in Rapture.

So he leaves her with Tenenbaum and leaves, both the cure and separation causing him to go into a coma.

The last thing he gives Akari is a hat they had found on their travels that she had him try on. It's a bit big on her head, but she'll grow into it.

Then his little girl is cured and rescued.

Until more little girls go missing around the world and Tenenbaum goes back down to rapture.

Over the eight years of surface life, Akari has been raised by her Uncle Jack and Aunt Brigid, always remembering her dear Papa. She shows interest in the scientific field, so when she's old enough she begins working as an apprentice under her Aunt, learning everything the good doctor does and doesn't teach her

Thanks to her "pursuit of science" mindset she can handle large amounts of grotesque scenery and gore. She has even thought about specializing in Forensic Sciences when she gets the chance

Back to the return, although Tenenbaum insists Akari stays behind, the young girl manages to sneak onto the submersible and didn't get caught until they both had to flee from Splicers

After some reprimanding, Akari stayed with Tenenbaum and their rescued little sisters until Eleanor and Delta come along

Watching her Aunt bring an Alpha Series back to life, it gave the girl hope for her dad

So through more mischief and stubborness, she ends up tagging along with Delta and Sinclair (she calls him Gus, much to his disdain) to head to Persephone. Or in her case, simply to Fontaine Futuristics. If there's anywhere a comatose Alpha Series could be, it's there

At some point, they find Emmet, tug him along, ya know. 'Course, Akari hasn't told him who she is, but she doesn't think that's the best thing to share at the moment

Soon enough they get abducted by Lamb, escape, rescue Ingo and Gus, get outta Rapture via lifeboat and dozens of children, and all live happy on the surface

#submas #bioshock #opening my skull and dumping all of these out from it #i also have another idea where Emmet just really wants to see if you can splice a spider or tarantula #eels and crabs too #but mainly various arachnids #'Emmet I don't thing there are needles small enough to safely administer ADAM into a spider'#'I am Emmet! They should get to working on that then!'#anyways that's nighty night for me #gnight

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littledreamling · 1 year

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i WISH i could ask about all of these. but hmm... i want to know about the professor hope series! this is a copout bc im Basically asking you about 4 things. (other ppl im relying on you to ask about all the other ones!!!!)

Oh my god, I'm so excited for this series!

It's a combination of three different ideas: Hope!Hob, Professor!Hob, and Delight!Rose. It's an AU where Hob stopped Dream from leaving in 1889, causing a domino effect that results in them getting married, Hob ascending to Hope Eternal, Hob rescuing Dream from the fishbowl before he's even put into it, Dream never claiming Daniel or going to find Destruction with Delirium (and thus avoiding all of the repercussions of that), and Rose never becoming the vortex (though she's still Desire's great granddaughter).

Delight in the Midst of Despair is a fic that centers around Hob (as Hope Eternal) teaching a class about the importance of being able to find hope and joy in everyday life. It's a little angsty but, as always, has a happy ending!

Dr. Gadling, PhD is from Rose's perspective as a student in Hob's class. She's not yet Delight of the Endless, though she's pretty close with her Endless family and has seen Hope Eternal in the Dreaming on multiple occasions. She has no idea, however, that Hope Eternal, her uncle Dream's husband, is also Hob Gadling, history professor. It's going to be a multi-chapter fic about Hob being a damn good professor, mostly told from Rose's POV but also some outsider POVs.

Snitches Get Stitches is about Rose and her friends having a conversation about their professor's alleged immortal status. Rose is fully aware that Hob is sitting just a few tables down and can overhear the entire conversation, so she decides to have a little fun at both his and Dream's expense. It started as a crakfic idea that got a little serious (oops)

Crowning Delight is the culmination (for now) of the series and is about Rose ascending to Delight of the Endless. Just before the ceremony, she's understandably very nervous and Hob sits down and talks to her about the responsibility that the Endless carry and how nervous he was to become Hope. It's a very sweet conversation, especially because Hob sees Rose as something of an adopted daughter, the Unity of Dreams and Hopes and Desires (get it...? yeah, I know that was bad lmao). And then the ceremony happens and it's mind-numbing and tedious. And then, the real party starts and we get to see the Endless really let loose and have fun

All in all, this series is one of the biggest projects I've ever attempted and it's been pretty difficult piecing things together, but I'm super excited for it!

#thanks for the ask!#don't hold your breath for any of this to be released anytime soon though #it's all a long way off #there's so much planning that needs to go into it before I start writing #I've already started on some of them but I'm trying to go chronologically so I don't trip myself up with details #I definitely should be working on it right now... oh well #my wips #my writing wips #wip ask game

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vinayv224 · 4 years

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Hunter Biden, the black sheep who got Trump impeached, explained

Hunter Biden, then the chair of the World Food Program USA, speaking at an organization event on April 12, 2016, in Washington, DC. | Teresa Kroeger/Getty Images for World Food Program USA

A troubled guy at the center of the fake scandal that became a real scandal.

Hunter is the younger of Joe Biden’s two sons. He never showed as much promise as his brother Beau, stumbling through life and often trading on his dad’s name and position for financial gain. He’s more or less operated in the background as something of a black sheep in the family, but he’s emerged to the forefront of American politics in recent weeks over work he did in Ukraine that fueled a bogus conspiracy theory at the heart of Trump’s decision to strong-arm the country’s president.

It’s not unusual for the children of successful politicians to trade on their family’s famous name and connections to get ahead in life. And when that happens, most political parents hope for a trajectory like the one enjoyed by Beau Biden until his life was cut short by cancer in 2015.

Beau followed in his father’s footsteps to Syracuse University for law school and then clerked for a US District Court judge. He got a job at the Justice Department and then became a federal prosecutor. He then dipped into the private sector briefly. But when Delaware’s attorney general, Jane Brady, resigned to take up a judicial post, the state’s governor appointed Carl Danberg to serve as a placeholder attorney general who wouldn’t run for reelection. Beau won the seat in the 2006 midterms, Danberg got appointed to serve as the head of Delaware’s Corrections Department, and all eyes were on Beau to run for governor in 2016 when Jack Markell’s term would be expiring.

Only an extremely naive person would see this as a career free of nepotism. But Beau, like a successful politician’s kid, had to actually do his work adequately each step of the way. As a candidate for attorney general, he clearly got a boost from his dad’s name, and it seems like the Delaware political establishment was working to open up an office for him to run for. But as a former federal prosecutor and Army JAG, he was qualified for the job and he won the election fair and square. And there’s nothing unusual at all about a two-term attorney general campaigning to win an open gubernatorial election in his home state.

This is more or less how the system is supposed to work for children of privilege — you get a consistent favorable tailwind at your back, but you still need to steer the plane. Hunter, by contrast, has been the guy who even into his 40s keeps needing dad to send the search—and-rescue party. And yet in a strange way, Hunter ended up being one of the most politically accomplished figures of our time since Trump’s efforts to smear Joe Biden over Hunter’s work in Ukraine ended up leading to his impeachment.

Hunter Biden’s whole career is being Joe Biden’s son

According to Adam Entous’s profile in the New Yorker, “it was clear to family and friends that Beau would follow his father into politics,” while Hunter was initially interested in more artistic pursuits “but, with a baby on the way, he decided to go straight to law school.”

The basic desire to make money is pretty commonplace. Hunter, after a year at Georgetown Law, was able to transfer to Yale and finish out at the country’s most prestigious law school. Yale Law grads don’t normally hurt for opportunities to earn a decent salary, but Hunter interestingly went to work right away for MBNA, a major Delaware-based bank (later purchased by Bank of America) that was also a big contributor to Biden’s campaigns.

This was part of a much larger coziness between Biden and the bank that the then-senator took flak for from conservatives like Byron York, who dubbed him “the senator from MBNA” in a 1998 American Spectator article. The nickname stuck in years to come as Biden became the leading Democratic advocate of a bankruptcy reform bill that most Democrats opposed but that major credit card issuers like MBNA strongly favored.

There’s no reason to think that Biden backed MBNA’s position because his son worked there — senators normally line up with their home state’s major employers’ policy priorities — it’s more like Hunter got the job due to his dad’s overall cozy relationship with the company.

Hunter’s career, however, never really seems to have quite launched as an independent entity. In 1998, he went to work for the US Department of Commerce and then left after the Clinton administration ended. He formed a lobbying firm with an old associate of his dad’s. By mutual agreement, Hunter avoided lobbying his father but did continue to collect consulting fees from MBNA through the 2005 passage of the bankruptcy bill the bank had long sought.

In 2006, President George W. Bush appointed him to the Amtrak board of directors as a gesture of bipartisanship. Here’s how Tom Carper, Delaware’s other senator, described his qualifications for the job (emphasis added):

Hunter Biden is a native Delawarian and I would go on to say that he’s also been nominated to serve on the Amtrak Board of Directors. When Hunter was unable to get into the University of Delaware, he instead went on to Georgetown and then to Yale Law School and managed to get through those OK. He’s ended up being Senior Vice President at MBNA one of the largest financial institutions in the country. He served as Executive Director of Economy Policy Coordination at the U.S. Department of Commerce. About 5 years ago he went off and formed a law firm here in Washington, D.C., and now they represent over 100 clients including a bunch of non-profit organizations and educational institutions.

More specifically, though, and for our purposes and for the purpose of this nomination, Hunter Biden has spent a lot of time on Amtrak trains. Like his father, like our Congressman, Mike Castle and myself, Hunter Biden has lived in Delaware while using Amtrak to commute to his job as we commute to our job in Washington almost every day of the week. You know, you learn a lot about what could work and what would work better at Amtrak by riding trains and talking to the passengers, the commuters, the passengers, the folks who work on the trains and make them work every day. You also have a chance to see the huge economic benefit the region receives from having a strong passenger rail corridor, something that should be available in a lot of other parts of our country.

It would obviously be a stretch to attribute any specific shortcoming of passenger rail in the United States to Hunter Biden’s service on the board. But the fact that the job is treated as a kind of patronage position to hand out to random senators’ kids who have no relevant knowledge beyond riding the train a lot helps explain why American passenger rail is low quality and exhibits little understanding of international best practices.

When his dad became vice president, Hunter left the Amtrak board and instead got involved with a series of investment companies. As detailed by Ben Schreckinger in Politico, a lot of this work seems to have hinged on Hunter and his uncle James Biden sort of hinting around that the family connection to the vice president could help get things done and then not delivering. The Obama administration generally regarded Hunter as a kind of embarrassing family black sheep rather than a real scandal.

Hunter Biden had a lot of problems in life

Stepping back from politics, the Hunter Biden story is basically sympathetic. His mom died in a car accident when he was a little kid, his dad was a loving but busy US senator, and his older brother was accomplished in ways he couldn’t quite match.

And the history of American presidential politics is littered with similar characters like Billy Carter, Tony Rodham, and Neil Bush, who try to capitalize financially on relatives in the White House and thereby succeed in embracing their family without really accomplishing much of anything.

In May 2013, Hunter joined the US Naval Reserve for which he required two waivers — one because at 42 years old he was above the normal age for a military recruit and the other due to a previous drug use incident. In August, his brother Beau received the initial diagnosis of the brain cancer that would eventually kill him.

By February of 2014, Hunter was discharged from the Navy for testing positive for cocaine. The next spring, Beau died. In October 2015, Hunter separated from his wife Kathleen. She filed for divorce in 2016, and in paperwork complained that Hunter had been “spending extravagantly on his own interests including drugs, alcohol, prostitutes, strip clubs, and gifts for women with whom he has sexual relations.”

Sometime in 2016, Hunter began dating Beau’s widow, which family members claimed to be supportive of, but that relationship unraveled by early 2019.

Hunter’s personal troubles were severe enough that he was for whatever reason unable to attend Joe Biden’s presidential campaign kickoff — an event that featured Hunter’s three daughters, the boyfriend of one of the daughters, Beau’s two kids, Hunter’s half-sister Ashley, and Ashley’s husband Howard Krein, along with an empty seat in the row with a piece of paper on it that said “reserved.”

And during the bulk of this troubled period in Hunter’s life, he was fortuitously on the board of a Ukrainian energy company — a stroke of good fortune that’s become the centerpiece of a bogus corruption allegation leveled at his dad.

Joe Biden didn’t do anything to help Hunter in Ukraine

Back in 2014 after a change of regime in Ukraine, Hunter Biden joined the board of a scandal-plagued Ukrainian natural gas company named Burisma. Hunter had no apparent qualifications for the job except that his father was the vice president and involved in the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.

He got paid up to $50,000 per month for the job and the situation constituted the kind of conflict of interest that was normally considered inappropriate in Washington until the Trump era. These days, of course, the president of the United States regularly accepts payments from foreign sources to his company while in office, and so do the Trump children. The Obama administration probably should have done something about this at the time, but the White House couldn’t literally force Hunter not to accept the job. And given the larger family context, you can see why Joe might have been reluctant to confront his son about it.

This would all be a small footnote in history except that by 2016, officials throughout the Obama administration and in Western Europe had come to a consensus that Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, wasn’t doing enough to crack down on corruption. Biden, as he later colorfully recounted, delivered the message that the West wanted Shokin gone or else loan guarantees would be held up, and Shokin was, in turn, fired.

There was nothing remotely controversial about this at the time. No congressional Republicans complained about it, and the European Union hailed the decision to fire Shokin. The reason there is video footage of Biden touting his personal role in this is it was considered a foreign policy triumph that Biden wanted to claim credit for, not anything sordid or embarrassing.

But Shokin, of course, didn’t want to go down on the theory that he was corrupt or incompetent. So he started offering another theory: he was fired for going after Burisma by Joe Biden operating on behalf of Hunter Biden.

The question of whether Shokin was actually investigating Burisma at all is a matter of dispute (the relevant Ukrainian players have told inconsistent stories), but this is clearly not the reason he was fired. The desire to push him out was fully bipartisan in the United States and reflected a consensus across European governments, not than anything idiosyncratic to Biden.

The notion that firing Shokin was somehow problematic was not in the air until the New York Times ran a story co-bylined by Ken Vogel and a Ukrainian journalist named Iuliia Mendel (who a few weeks later would become Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s official spokesperson) highlighting Rudy Giuliani’s efforts at muckraking.

NEW: The BIDENS are entangled in a Ukrainian corruption scandal:@JoeBiden pushed Ukraine to fire a prosecutor seen as corrupt. BUT the prosecutor had opened a case into a company that was paying HUNTER BIDEN. The Bidens say they never discussed it. https://t.co/tblUPYPJMG

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 2, 2019

The worst you can say about any of this, however, was that Hunter’s position on the board was a standing conflict of interest that should have been avoided. There’s no evidence that Joe did anything wrong, specifically. But an examination of the life and times of Hunter Biden does provide a reminder that most Americans thought politics as usual was corrupt long before Trump arrived on the scene to make it more corrupt.

Hunter Biden is a product of an unloved system

While progressives find Trump’s promises to “drain the swamp” to be galling and hypocritical in light of his family’s massive financial conflicts of interest, the real direction of causation likely goes in the other direction. People who identify with Trump’s racial and cultural politics find progressive complaints about corruption to be hypocritical and unpersuasive because the whole system is corrupt.

As of 2014, Gallup found that 75 percent of voters felt corruption was “widespread” in American government.

And if you think about Biden’s role on the Obama ticket back in 2008, the whole point was that he was the reassuring insider to balance out the fresh-faced outsider reformer who was running for president. That’s a common formula in American politics, with an outsider (often a governor) promising to “fix the mess in Washington” with the assistance of a more seasoned vice president. That’s Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, and George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. The other formula — the political veteran balanced by a younger and more energetic vice president — is much rarer (H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle come to mind), even though in theory vice president is the junior job.

That’s no coincidence. Some aspects of Hunter Biden’s career and life story are a bit extreme (the Amtrak gig, dating his brother’s widow), but the kid who trades on family connections to make money is much more a case of business as usual than an extraordinary scandal. “Business as usual in Washington,” however, is normally the subject of scorn in American politics. Any focus on Joe Biden’s son is likely to remind people of at least some of what they don’t like about it.

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Remember, Remember - Chapter 3

I have updated it on AO3, but I realized I did not post it here. So here it goes! Chapter 4 is almost ready.

Thank you @peacenik0 for coming to the rescue with some vocabulary doubt I had way back when I started writing this chapter.

Previously: Chapter 1, Chapter 2

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Chapter 3

Someone is banging at the door.

And calling my name.

I try to say that I’m coming, but my tongue feels like sandpaper inside my mouth. Soft sunlight invades my living room window, announcing that Monday morning has arrived. I cringe. I had fallen asleep on my couch yet one more time. As I rise to my feet, everything spins around. My head hurts, my lips are cracked, and my knees feel like they are going to buckle at any moment. Still, I manage to stagger to the front door and unlock it. I don’t even bother to open it or to see who was on the other side; I just drag myself to the kitchen, fill a cup with water and then gulp the liquid down.

I sense someone following me and hear Byers’ voice asking where I've been. Apparently, the Gunmen had been trying to check in on me. I just refill my cup and chug the water down. He asks if I'm alright and, as I turn to look at him, he informs me that I look like hell. Not with those words, but I know that's what he meant. I just wave to dismiss his concern.

He extends a manila envelope towards me to which I just mumble a curt ‘whatisit?'.

“The report on that bee. We managed to find an entomolog…”

“I told you dorks to stop and focus on finding Scully!” I scream.

Byers' eyes bulge and his mouth falls open for a beat. “I-I can assure you that Langly and Frohike have been working on it since then, even though there are no new leads. But they are in front of those computers trying everything they can tirelessly."

“A van can't just disappear into thin air, Byers!”

“No, it can't. But people haven't gone fully Big Brother yet, so there are many blind spots around the city.” He sighs “I know she means a lot to you… she means a lot to us as well, but this is very important too.” He wavers the envelope. “By the way, you were right about that bee. It's all there on the report.”

“I must find Scully!” I bark.

“Have you found any new leads?”

I just shake my head as I stare at the floor. My eyes sting as if I am going to cry, but no tears make an appearance. I refill my glass and drink more water.

“You can not give up on this one; you can not let them shut you out after all these years. You and the X Files are the only ones that can expose this conspiracy. And you have the chance to do so today at your OPR meeting. You said it yourself: there is a real threat to people out there and now you finally have in your hands concrete proof of that. Let us handle Scully’s investigation for the moment and try to find new leads. You focus on trying to save what's left of the X Files… and maybe the world.”

I arrive at the Hoover Building a little late for my meeting, clutching the envelope and the bee as close to my body as I can without damaging anything. I run through the busy hallways and climb up the stairs because waiting for the elevator seems futile. The sooner I start this, the sooner I'm free to get back to finding Scully.

I don't need to look for the right place because Skinner is pacing the hallway and approaches one of the doors as he makes eye contact with me. He disappears, getting inside the room and I follow suit.

The place is spacious. Too spacious actually. It reminds me of old temples' architecture, which helps you feel the grandiose presence of God as opposed to your mere insignificance. Big windows with vertical drapes dim the place and soft shadows fall on the small table at the center meant for me; a lonely chair against them all: Skinner and four other people, sitting at the board in front of it and behind them, two people writing minutes. Indirect lights from the ceiling bring an almost glow of sanctity to all their silhouettes.

“Nice of you to finally join us, Agent Mulder.” Says AD Jana Cassidy as I ensconce myself in the chair. “In light of what has happened in Dallas, we are here today to hear your side of the story. We are aware of the delicate circumstances regarding Agent Scully’s disappearance, but the DA is adamant that we conclude this investigation as soon as possible to place responsibility for the catastrophic destruction of public property and loss of five lives due to terrorist activities.”

I shake my head and scoff at her last words.

"Have I said something amusing to you, Agent Mulder?"

"Oh, yes! I find everything very amusing! If this was an act of terrorism, like you said it yourself, the terrorists are the ones that should be hunted down and get the blame. Not those who managed to evacuate the building and save hundreds of lives."

"The fact, Agent Mulder, was that you and Agent Scully disobeyed the orders that you had received from your superior and you neglected to follow protocol at the attempt to disarm the bomb."

"The Special Agent in Charge, Darius Michaud, ordered us to leave him alone with the bomb."

"So this order you follow?"

“I just followed my gut, just like when I went to the wrong building. Thankfully, otherwise I would have been swept under the rug by Uncle Sam as well."

"What exactly are you implying, Agent Mulder?"

"I’m pretty sure that Agent Scully has covered everything regarding this.

“As I mentioned previously, we would like to hear your side of the story.”

What a waste of time, I think to myself. I let an audible sigh and roll my eyes. "The bomb was no act of terrorism. They were trying to bury evidence, to cover up a massive conspiracy against the public. The firemen and the kid were already dead before the bomb exploded. They were infected with an alien pathogen that turned their skin and organs into jello. I'm sure Agent Scully must have covered this part in her testimony, as she had the chance to examine one of the bodies that were hidden in the Bethesda Naval Hospital. According to an agent at the Dallas Field Office, the bodies were brought from an alleged archeological excavation that produced human fossils with traces of the same kind of infection. Maybe that's what infected the kid and the firemen; they must have come into contact with this alien virus."

"Yes, we've already heard it all from Agent Scully. And I'm going to tell you what I told her: these are very serious allegations, that are based solely on the personal experiences of two insubordinate agents, without concrete evidence or proof."

I walk over to the board and place the vial containing the bee on the desk, right under A.D. Cassidy’s nose. "Here is your proof."

I tell the board how Scully and I managed to follow phantom tanker trucks in the middle of the desert and how they led us to corn crops and white domes filled with bees.

“This bee was found dead in my apartment. It probably got stuck… somewhere in my clothes maybe... and thankfully did not sting anybody because this is a genetically altered bee. It carries a virus that according to…” I fumble with the report in my hands. “...Professor Amar Khan, has never been observed on this planet.”

“Who is Professor Amar Khan?”

“The entomologist I asked to take a look at that bee.” I continue “Agent Scully and I got really close to these people's stratagems. That's why she is missing right now!”

“These are very serious allegations, Agent Mulder. You seem to have proof to some points; that I can not deny. But others are just speculation. We can’t…”

A cell phone rings. My cell phone. Scully! I stand up and fumble with my pockets.

“Agent Mulder, you can not answer your phone right now. Sit down!”

But I'm already out the door, and hearing Langly's voice “We found her! She was admitted to the Northeast Georgetown Medical Center. They have contacted Mrs. Scully already.”

“I’m on my way.”

And I'm out of the Hoover Building as fast as lightning.

About 20 minutes later, I arrive at the Hospital, flash my badge at the reception and demand to be directed to where Scully is.

As I hush through the white hallways, her words from that night haunt me and I slow down. Maybe the distance will be a good thing for us, she had said as she was leaving my bedroom, with eyes downcast.

Distance.

I stop in my tracks, pulse racing and out of breath. I even turn around to leave, but the necessity to see her wins me over. Thankfully, there's a glass window on the door to her hospital room, so I peep.

She's awake. Her mother is there as well and they are hugging each other. Everything is fine with the world and I can breathe again. I can turn around and move on with my life.

I still don't understand why she decided to be away from me, in Salt Lake City, especially after that night. It hurts. But one thing I know for certain: she'll be better off without me.

Back in my car, my cell phone, left on the passenger's seat, rings insistently.

“What the hell is wrong with you?”

“Who is this?” I ask.

“You just walked away from your OPR session!” Yeah, Skinner. “AD Cassidy is furious and I had to spend the last half hour trying to save your ass. Why I do not know! I should have let them kick your ass out of the Bureau…”

“Scully has been found, sir.”

That stops him on his track for a moment and I give him more details of what I know. He informs me that he will send agents to interview Scully and give continuity to the investigation of her disappearance. A matter of formality, just to act by the book, because deep down we both know that the people responsible for her disappearance will never be found and brought to justice. As always. He also orders me to come back to the Hoover Building and finish my OPR session.

“I’ve got nothing else to add." I tell Skinner. "I’ve rested my case.”

“Be there if you’re still interested in the X Files or in your career in the FBI, that’s all I have to say to you right now.” and hangs up the phone.

I start the car and head back to the Hoover Building because I wouldn’t know what to do with myself without the X Files as well. Scully is lost to me already. And if, apparently, I still have some chance with the X Files that’s what I’m going to grab a hold onto.

As expected I have the greatest ass chewing on the Hoover Building. But what's new about that? It is certainly not the first time it's happened nor the second. And I'm sure it will not be the last.

The board was unanimous in believing that the evidence presented required further investigation and because of the nature of the accusations, the X Files should be reopened and have its documents restored. Skinner will be in charge of that process while they appoint somebody to work down in the basement. Yep, somebody else will be in charge of the X Files. And I… well, they don't know what to do with me and my insubordination, so I get a slap on the wrist until they decide if I'll ever get back to the X Files: 6 weeks on leave without pay.

I guess that's what leads me here, knocking at her door.

A strange woman dressed in scrubs answers it and, for a moment, I think I might have come to the wrong door.

“You've got the right place" the woman assures me. "I'm Keysha Jones, the nurse appointed to aid in Ms. Fowley's recovery. Come in and have a seat, she'll be here soon.”

A couple of steps lead me to a green couch, where I sit at and have a privileged view from the whole living room. I don’t know what I expected from her place to exude, but it was certainly not this stern feeling that comes from the dark wooden furniture, dark green walls, and white casing everywhere. There are many pieces of art on the walls, but no picture frames with photos of vacation or family. Everything is as personal as a catalogue from Pottery Barn. On my left there’s a double french door with curtains, probably her bedroom, and right next to it a desk with books on top. I scan through the stack. Among several parapsychology books some call my attention: Native American Beliefs and Practices, Western Europe Travel Guide, Tunisia Travel Guide. It’s the latter that most intrigues me. I reach to pick it up for further inspection, but the chance is gone when I see a silhouette through the glass and curtains on the door.

“Fox! I’m so glad you called and stopped by. You're a sight for sore eyes.” She motions for me to sit down on the couch, while she sits on an armchair across from me.

“How are you doing, Diana? You look great for somebody who almost died.”

“It's been over a month, so I'm recovering. I have to do some breathing exercises every hour or so, but it seems to make my doctor happy. I'll be able to go back to work next week. Desk duty, for a month or so.”

“Ouch!”

“Yeah! Never get shot in the lungs, Fox.”

“Duly noted! Listen, has the FBI offered something to you already?”

“Not yet.”

“How do you feel about some desk work on the X Files?”

“I thought there was no vacancy in the basement.”

I bring her up to speed on the latest developments.

"I really need somebody I trust to oversee the restoration of the documents. And maybe take over the unit in case I'm not sent down there after those 6 weeks.”

“I'm certainly interested in it. That's one of the reasons why I came back. Let's hope I'll get the chance to advocate for it in my meeting on Thursday. And I do hope you'll be back as well. It will be a pleasure to work with you again… just like old times.” she adds with a sultry tone.

I swallow hard as I feel blood starting to run South

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West Week Ever: Pop Culture In Review - 6/9/17

In an interesting shake-up over at CBS, Erinn Hayes has been let go from her role as wife to Kevin James in Kevin Can Wait. They say that the show is going in a new direction, which necessitated the firing. But here’s where it gets interesting. Leah Remini, who played James’s wife on King of Queens, popped up in the season finale as James’ former cop partner. Well, just before announcing Hayes’s departure, CBS announced that Remini would be joining the show next season as a series regular. Now, if you’ve never seen Kevin Can Wait, Kevin James plays a former NYC cop who tries to figure out how to adjust to his recent retirement. Based on the season finale, though, it seems like James’s character might be coming out of retirement. It’s just a strange move, seeing as how the show ended the season as the #1 new comedy on network TV – hardly a situation that necessitated a retooling of the show. Part of what critics praised was Hayes’s portrayal of James’s wife of 20 years. How do you just gloss over that relationship? I mean, they’ve gotta kill her off, but unless you do a time jump, you’ve gotta slog through all the grief stuff, which doesn’t lend itself well to a multicam comedy. And if they’re gonna fast track a relationship between James and Remini, will the audience accept it? It really feels like they blew a sure thing and, if they wanted to recreate The King of Queens, thy should’ve just revived The King of Queens! I’ve said that online since Kevin was announced!

Speaking of Remini, I’m starting to think she’s a Scientology double agent. Bear with me here: Scientology is a well-connected organization in Hollywood that allegedly has the power to ruin your career with the information that they have on their members. If you ever leave the church, you’re pretty much done. Just look at the list of former Scientologists. On that list, Remini and Jeffrey Tambor are the one ones who even have a semblance of a steady career right now, and Tambor kinda skirted the issue by saying he never really joined the church. Remini, however, joined up as a child, and was a HUGE booster of the church. Then, in 2013, she turned on the church – not for its negative views on homosexuality (which is why Crash director Paul Haggis left) or its alleged illegal activities. No, she left because she got her feelings hurt after leadership clapped back at her. At Tom Cruise’s wedding to Katie Holmes, Remini asked why church leader David Miscavige’s wife wasn’t in attendance, and they basically told her she didn’t have clearance for that info (formal speak for “Nunyo Biznazz”). She didn’t trust that answer, and went further to file a missing persons report on Mrs. Miscavige. Then, she made it her mission to publicly discredit Miscavige, criticizing his leadership, citing reports of abuse in the Sea Org, and more. She went straight to the TOP with her blame game, yet NOTHING has happened to her. In fact, it’s probably rejuvenated her career. She got a successful show on A&E called Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, where she’s basically telling all their secrets. When the show debuted, the church issued a statement attacking her. Yet, she’s working more now than she was before. So, there’s two things happening here: either Scientology isn’t as powerful and litigious as we’ve been led to believe OR they’re in on it. It’s yin and yang. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. While Scientology has its critics, it never really had an enemy before. Why not create one where they could control the narrative? It’s like learning that Captain America has secretly been Hydra the whole time. Long story short, I’m not entirely convinced she’s left the church, especially over something as trivial as what’s reported to have started the whole thing. And she’s laughing all the way to the bank.

In other TV news, Tia and Tamera Mowry (yeah, they got married and have new hyphenated last names, but I ain’t got time for all that) are trying to get a Sister, Sister revival off the ground. And I don’t know anyone who wants this. If you were cool back in the 90s you probably never watched Sister, Sister, where a set of adopted twins didn’t realize they were twins until a chance meeting in a department store, a la The Parent Trap. Then they all move in together. It was the definition of “mediocre”, yet once ABC canceled it, it gained a new life over on The WB. The most memorable thing about it was that Marques “Batman” Houston, of the R&B group Immature/IMx, played their annoying neighbor Roger (kinda like a watered down Steve Urkel), and they’d constantly yell “Go home, Roger!” at him. Other than that, it was just a bunch of zany, mistaken identity twin shit – stuff that I’d hope adult Tia and Tamera had outgrown by now. What’s the story to tell? They both get divorced, and move in together with their kids? Sorry, Kate & Allie, Getting By, and the upcoming Raven’s Home have already covered that old chestnut. Are they single in the city, doing the same twin shit? Not interested. I don’t have a lot of faith in this one getting picked up, though, because they’re far behind where they need to be. Right now, they say they’re looking for a show runner to guide the project, but then they’d have to find a network. Sister, Sister was NO Full House, so I doubt Netflix would be interested. If anything, the only place I’d put it right now would probably be Freeform, even though the twins are slightly older than the target demo of that channel. Let this just be a lesson that not everything needs to be revived.

In other television news, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow has cast Tala Ashe as Muslim “hacktivist” Zari Adrianna Tomaz for season 3. She’s a computer whiz from 2030, so basically the team’s got their own Oracle/Felicity now – not that they really need it, with Gideon and all. Anyway, in comics Tomaz is actually an Egyptian who uses the Amulet of Isis to transform into the hero Isis. Before the New 52 reboot of the DC Universe, Isis was an important character in the weekly series 52, as she was in a relationship with Black Adam, and her brother, Osiris, was eaten by Sobek. Oh, and she had a cheesy TV show in the 70s. None of that’s gonna be in the Legends, I’m sure. Given the current political climate, and how loaded the name “Isis” is right now, I doubt they’ll actually ever call her that onscreen, either.

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Today I give you “Vampires”, by The Midnight. My pal and thrifting partner, “Special Forces”, and I decided that this is the official theme song for Thrift Justice should it ever become a real show. Synthwave AND saxophone?! I wanna direct Skinemax movies just so I can score them with this entire album. So sexy. Right now, Thrift Justice is a USA drama circa 1990, and I ain’t got no problems with that!

Things You Might Have Missed This Week

Modern Family‘s Sarah Hyland will guest star on Freeform’s Shadowhunters, which kinda sounds like a step back…

Speaking of Freeform, they’ve ordered a pilot for an American adaptation of UK hit Misfits. The network is a good home for something like this, but I’m still pissed over the American adaptation of Skins, so…

Rudy Huxtable herself, Keshia Knight Pulliam, escorted TV dad Bill Cosby to the first day of his rape trial. Whatever. Call me when Lisa Bonet shows up.

In next level pettiness, Taylor Swift put her entire catalog back on Spotify at midnight – at the very moment Katy Perry released her album “Witness”

According to Dan Aykroyd, Paul Feig blew his chance at a Ghostbusters sequel because he overran his budget on unnecessary reshoots. Sony refuted the figures Aykroyd presented, saying the estimates were off by about NINETY percent. Woo!

Jennifer Connelly will join Daveed Diggs in TNT’s Snowpiercer pilot, playing the person who makes the daily announcements on the train. Exciting!

Tom Cruise revealed that the title of the Top Gun sequel will be Top Gun: Maverick. I wonder if John McCain has any feelings about that. Coherent feelings, not ramblings about the Diamondbacks…

Speaking of Cruise, his The Mummy reboot opens today, and reviewers have called it “the worst Tom Cruise movie ever”. Wow.

Singer/actress/sister of Ray J Brandy was found unconscious on a Delta flight, and the doctor who came to her rescue was reportedly Kim Kardashian’s uncle! Considering Ray J put that family on the map, I figure it’s time the Kardashians did something to return the favor.

Gotham stars Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie got married. Knowing that show, it’ll probably revealed that they’re Bruce’s real parents or some shit. It’s not like it pays attention to any of the rest of the lore, so why not?

Fox canceled 24 Legacy after a low-rated single season, but they’re still committed to the 24 brand. They’re reportedly developing an anthology series to take the show back to its real-time roots

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Like Peter denied Jesus, Jerry Seinfeld denied THREE requests for a hug from Kesha. I don’t blame him!

In one of the strangest deals I’ve ever heard of, Epix has inked a deal to stream its content directly to 2018 Honda Odyssey minivans

Sony will begin selling clean versions of some of their hit movies. If you’ve ever accidentally bought a clean version of an album from Walmart, you can see why this decision might anger some folks

Hank Williams Jr is back singing the opening to Monday Night Football for the first time since 2011. I guess all his rowdy friends will be over after they finish burning a few more crosses…

George and Amal Clooney welcomed twins Ella and Alexander

Former Power Rangers director/producer/fight coordinator Koichi Sakamoto will direct the upcoming Ultraman Geed series, focusing on the son of the evil Ultraman Belial. Yeah, those words mean something to someone out there.

Newcomer Blu Hunt has been cast as Danielle Moonstar in the upcoming New Mutants spinoff of the X-Men films.

A live action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop is being developed, and my heart weeps. As one of the few anime series I’ve watched, and loved, I kinda hope this dies in development hell

Hackers released 8 stolen episodes of ABC’s upcoming game show, Funderdome, and nobody cared.

Donald Glover will be retiring her Childish Gambino hip hop persona after his next album.

We got our first poster for the Black Panther film.

Last week I gave my opinions and feelings on the movie. This week, I’m just gonna stick to the facts:

92% on Rotten Tomatoes

$103 million opening weekend domestic box office

$220 million opening weekend global box office

Third highest opening for a DC film

Most successful female-directed film

Mot expensive female-directed film, with a budget of $150 million

Most tweeted about movie of 2017, with 2.19 million tweets

Won Best In Show and Best Fantasy/Adventure at the Golden Trailer Awards

Last Saturday, Wonder Woman Day was celebrated at comic shops around the world

You’ve seen it by now, right? RIGHT?! Then, what are you waiting for? For these reasons, and more, Wonder Woman once again had the West Week Ever.

#Comics #DC #Marvel #Movies #Music #Politics #Pop #Power Rangers #Race #Religion #Television #Thrift #Thrift Justice #West Week Ever #X-Men

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From that one hour at the 1981 Salt Lake City AutoRama when I was told I was on the right path, as well as the love and friendship of everyone on the production staff, the directors , and of course the cast, from Jimmy Best, to Ben Jones, as well as the Knytes, Hazzard County and all of it, has been a guiding light in some of my darkest hours. It’s not just the jumping General, its not just Daisy in her shorts and nylons, its the fact, that, that cast , came to the funeral, of my Mom in 1983. As well as a call from John, that day that engrained that life style into my deepest soul. This is something I had forgotten here as of late. When I posted that bit, about the LDS Church this morning giving me the boot. I got a call from Gy, who reminded me of sworn oaths to 4 deceased cast members that I would never forget or disguard, those oaths of allegence to things Hazzard County. Face it, Its been HazzardAyre Radio, that’s the heart of of KTOW, it was the shop being the only and original Hazzard Garage, that is now Cooter’s Toewing, as well as Cooter’s Kustmz. It’s been Hazzard County Choppers, that has been the corner stone of my life since 1987, so I said poop on it. Its time to put Highway Hooker Toewing, Heavy Rescue Toewing, on the shelf and go full throttle Cooter’s Toewing. For me its time to raise our flag: and jump the canyon. It’s Hazzard Fever. And I’m embracing it.

So its time to put this op on the map. So we are in planning stages of a special, Hazzard County Nationals in March 2020. Where, PoohBearand I will be hitched. Hazzard County and all that means is dear to me. Uncle Jessie’s spirit is beside me all the time. I feel not just lucky, but blessed that it is and will always be a place I was and in my heart I still am. Sure, my Gen.Lee is gone now. It got stolen, Period it got stolen. But I do have my Gen. JaXson,>, and of course Lil Dixie > < and of course Southern Thunder aka LexiBelle > < which soon will look somewhat like this > < . Now I still will continue, the Wolf preesona, and all , however; I feel its time for me to glue my feet to the dirt, and lift this thing we do up, to things Hazzard County.

Okkie Dokie: Haven’t heard from TJ for a few days. Glad Chip will refund the money I laid out for the wheels of Ice Queen. That’s one thing, that is the foundation of things Hazzard County. You mean what you say and say what you mean. If you say your into doing something for someone, do it. If for some odd reason, contact the person you made the deal with, and say, hey I just can’t do it. It’s common courtesy. In our ways of Hazzard County, its called a spit and shake. Which is sacred. There’s a simple line in Ole Waylon’s song, ” I’ve always been crazy” That goes, be careful of someone or something that is exactly what you want it to be. In science, it’s the Atom theory, that says, atoms of equal or like polarity repel each other. Maybe that’s what it was with TJ. Who knows. What ever it is, it cost, the Knytes and Me the chance to air ads on the Mayans coming up on Tuesday night at 23:00 on FX. I booked that time, had the script pretty much written, just needed the lady eye candy. Thought TJ along with Ice Queen would lend a great ad. Nope, she left us at the podium. So now need to find a honey for money to be Miss Hazzard County > < to be our pitch gal on our ads. As far as on air’s once we get there again, we have Alex > < booked for that. This is going to be a 80 degree grade highway hill we have to climb, but hey I’m a Confederate Marine, and I have a inbreeded Hazzard County tenacity, and a fight the system attitude. If you don’t like it tough. I had a experience this evening and I’ll leave you this for tonight. But I went down to Smith’s. There was this really skinny chik, who really has a chip on her shoulders. Now true there might be something at home that is her problem, but her hello, was one of those that you know was forced. Here’s my response to that and many others. You may not like me much, you may never have shaken my hand, but try to be happy and courties to me; for it will be most likely be me showing up to pull your butt and ride back on the highway, out of a snow bank, or after you wreck your ride this winter. In short always be nice to your toew truck driver.

It’s truly a Love Affair, not just a one nights stand. From that one hour at the 1981 Salt Lake City AutoRama when I was told I was on the right path, as well as the love and friendship of everyone on the production staff, the directors , and of course the cast, from Jimmy Best, to Ben Jones, as well as the Knytes, Hazzard County and all of it, has been a guiding light in some of my darkest hours.

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A troubled guy at the center of the fake scandal that became a real scandal.

Hunter Biden’s whole career is being Joe Biden’s son

Hunter Biden had a lot of problems in life

Sometime in 2016, Hunter began dating Beau’s widow, which family members claimed to be supportive of, but that relationship unraveled by early 2019.

Joe Biden didn’t do anything to help Hunter in Ukraine

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) May 2, 2019

Hunter Biden is a product of an unloved system

As of 2014, Gallup found that 75 percent of voters felt corruption was “widespread” in American government.

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