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#showing this as evidence as to why i committed violent crime#and the judge lets me off because they ''completely understand. just look at him. violent crime is a normal response after seeing that.''#like i see will graham and go huh. yeah. i get hannibal. i get why he did all that. because will graham looked at him *like that*#will graham#hannibal#hannibal nbc#nbc hannibal#the speaking clown
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every once in a while, i have an urge to sit down and write an entire essay about The Purge franchise, specifically through the frame of reactions from people who either have not watched the movies or watched them while pissing on the poor.
because oh my fucking god do those reactions send me into a violent tailspin of irrational anger.
"the purge doesn't make logistical sense"
okay so have you ever heard of fiction? the train in snowpiercer doesnt make logistical sense either. it doesnt have to because its a vehicle in which to tell a story.
"people wouldnt just commit violent crimes because its legal now."
no they wouldnt. do you know that the first movie takes place on the 6th purge? do you know that story about frogs and boiling water?
"no one would ever agree to this. politicians couldnt implement this."
yeah so the fourth movie - The First Purge - is actually a prequel that explains how and why it got implemented.
see as a result of a general economic crisis, a new political party called the NFFA (new founding fathers of america) came to power, and two years into their political term, they ran "an experiment" and that experiment was the purge. the first purge took place on staten island; residents were offered $5000 to participate which comprised staying on staten island and letting the government put a tracking chip in your arm. there was also the opportunity of making more money if they "participated further."
people didnt all agree with this. thats a whole ass thing in the movie and the protagonist literally leads protests against it. it is a controversial thing. the NFFA literally have a sociologist as the face of it, one who talks to news reporters and assures people she and the experiment are apolitical.
the experiment is also fucking rigged. the government really send in roves of neo-nazis to kill citizens as a way of showing how "successful" the experiment is. it was never an experiment.
"but why would people believe that the purge is a good policy?
have you ever heard of propaganda?
throughout the films, there are constant displays of the propaganda the NFFA use to keep the citizens believing in the purge.
the NFFA are constantly lying to the citizens about the actual truth about the country. they often talk about how the stock market is doing great as evidence of a stable economy. there are fake experts in white lab coats lying to you about the purge being a good idea.
these movies are not subtle. they tell you outright that the government is lying to the people.
jesus fucking christ, in the third movie, part of the plot is the fact that in response to corruption being revealed, people are turning against the purge and protesting. dante bishop is a goddamn anti-purge activist.
"crime rate year round wouldnt go down because of the purge, that doesnt make sense "
yeah no shit sherlock. thats literally a defining theme in the entireass franchise. the government is lying. they actually use the purge as population control because theyre fascists.
in the first movie, the NFFA claim the country is basically crime-free and that the unemployment rate is 1%. do you think james demonaco wrote that with the intention of you believing it to be true? have you considered that maybe you were meant to be like huh, thats suspicious?
the first movie is the least overtly political, but one of the defining themes is in regards to the performative nature of the purge and the way it is mythologised.
"all crime is legal. so what, can i commit tax fraud?"
the rules of the purge are made up of. the entire idea is performative. the NFFA are not beholden to these rules; if it benefits them (or if not doing so poses risk to them), they will arrest you for "crimes" you committed during the purge.
in the third movie, The Purge: Election Year, they change the rules because of the risk charlie roan poses to them. roan is a senator running for president on an explicitly anti-purge platform and there is a very good chance that she will win the election, so they revoke the immunity (its still illegal to murder them) granted to government officials during the purge because they plan to kill her.
the NFFA do not care what citizens do during the purge, as long as it is not threatening to them.
"how would they even know if you killed someone an hour after the purge ended?"
they wouldnt. they also wouldnt care.
see above.
"the purge is stupid. people arent inherently violent."
no. no theyre not. thats the fucking point of these films.
they are not subtle films. they come with a free portable toilet so you can watch them without pissing on the poor.
what did you think the plots of these movies were? if the movies were not directly engaging with the concept of the purge and what it actually means, what the fuck do you think the movies are about? do you think the movies are just 90 minutes of indiscriminate violence?
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keystone you should talk about something in regards to kirby fighters 2 community edition
Oh you're right I haven't done that yet! Regarding Kirby Fighters 2: Community Edition, there is a metric TON of stuff to talk about here. The dev team is some of the closest friends I've ever had. Smash Tactics is a thing because I was able to test the game over and over again with the members of the dev team. We've spent many hours sharing progressively crazier character ideas. We have created some warcrime moves. (or, well, more warcrime moves. KF2 already has plenty of those) I think, however, the best place to start for CE on the KF2 lore account is probably just a development history.
So it's late September, the year is 2020. Kirby Fighters 2 was leaked, got a trailer, and released all within the span of 24 hours. Soon after that, firubii (you might have seen her before) shows her findings from a Twitter datamine, that being evidence of a 3D Kirby game. "Wow! Awesome! I sure hope it's nothing like Battle Royale!" I say at the time. But I digress.
A few months pass and eventually fish gets in touch with Firubii for I believe checking hitboxes and frame data? We get a few things for some of the weirder moves from characters like Ninja, but the fact that a modder was among us got people excited. The prospect of a balance patch mod was an undeniably appealing one and could breathe new life (and a time) into the game. And one that Firubii was interested in.
March 16th, 2021 rolls around and Fish pings everyone saying that they had set up a poll for balance suggested for Firubii to implement. They also got an all star cast of top players and fighting game expects and colgate and me. because I "have lots of opinions." We're all put into a dev chat and poll responses start flowing in.
This poll was crazy. You had Ninja downplaying Mag like crazy. You had Celica Trying His Best. You had nonsense adjustment suggestions like "Not really that effective." But my favourite would have to be probably Qwertz saying to EVERY balance suggestion box "The game needs no balance changes, only quality of life changes."
So we all in the chat start throwing around ideas while not really getting anything done. This will be a running theme. About a month later I was like enough is enough and starting pinging people for proper balance discussions and locking in changes. There's a few notable things we did for v0.1, including making Sword a LOT faster, giving Hammer Palutena's Lightweight, (the s4 custom move) making Bandana Dee's spears stick into the ground for a few seconds, and making Cutter's boomerangs bounce off walls. That last one was our first real criminal change, as Cutter could effortlessly lock down the entire screen. I spent hours labbing counterplay only to find none and grew to despise the character and suggested massive overcorrections for v0.2. Oops.
Overall v0.1 was pretty good! It had some iffy stuff and launched with a Whip desync in game but other than that it was a success I think. It came out during July of 2021, a little under 4 months from the initial announcement. There's a few public tourneys with good turnouts but run via Parsec and Parsec makes me want to commit violent crimes. Progress on 0.2 also goes fairly well. There's some bad ideas in there like making MK not very fun but overall it's not so bad.
Until development just HALTS. To my understanding, I believe it was something personal Firubii was going through but I don't have all the info. Then again, I didn't ask. Like sure, I'd like to have the new CE versions as soon as possible, but ultimately the well being of the people actually making the mod is the top priority, it's why it's so irritating when people are jerks about CE's slow development. Obviously I want the new versions out. But we all have lives outside of this and sometimes other things need doing.
Eventually 0.2 gets out, at the start of Febuary 2022. It's solid but still has some things that irk me. After a few months, we ask for player feedback on overall balance and specific changes and get not many results. Granted, CE doesn't have much players so balance discussion is somewhat meaningless for a game this unexplored. I think 1.0 fixes all of the glaring flaws though.
At some point, once again, development freezes, and this one was rough. No communication from Firubii led to a lot of dooming, especially with how close we got to actually launching 1.0. We DO actually know why she vanished for so long this time, it's because her house caught fire. It didn't burn down don't worry! But this still caught us all SUPER off guard.
Anyway, CE resumed development and went for a little while, but hit a brick wall when trying to add training mode. I'm not an expert on the inner workings of KF2 but I know Firubii talked to Ryn (yes, the goku in strive Ryn) about it a little bit. I actually posted about this to my Threads account but who gives a shit about threads. That's more or less where we are now. It's been a while since the last tester build but what can you do.
There's also a few other things but there wasn't really a good place for them. Colgate thought it was a good idea to make a tierlist video for a game no one could play. It wasn't. I had to spend the days after that video doing damage control. There was a playlist where people could suggest songs to add to CE, but tbh it was more just an excuse to listen to music in VC while we could still do that. We were gonna move off Gamebanana because the site is run by N*zis but this was during the fire arc so didn't happen. AV also thought it'd be a good idea to shittalk CE and ask to join the dev team in the same day. There was also the time we had to rush out a trailer for Savi's Dream Display but I have a few criticisms about that which I'll share with him one day.
I think that's it? If you wanna download the mod I'll link it right here: https://gamebanana.com/mods/303920
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What do you think about the commercialized sexualization of women and girls (esp. under capitalism)? How do you explain the disproportionate percentage of violent/sex crime committed by men, especially on women? Or things like BDSM and in general the lack of empathy men display for women, how they get off to women being hurt?
Genuine questions
There's a bunch of assumptions here that I don't know that you're aware of, stemming from the ideologically-created false-reality tunnels (specifically, Marxism/Feminism) you are looking at human relationships through. It would take a very long time to go into all of them deeply so I'll just try be brief.
"the commercialized sexualization of women and girls (esp. under capitalism)"
Prostitution is often called "the world's oldest profession": women have been exchanging sex for favors, goods and services tens of thousands of years before what Marx termed "Capitalism" came along. I would say the advent of various forms of mass communication, from the printing press to the cinema and television and then especially the internet, has caused that to explode and enter all parts of life more than any political explanation. The decline of religion probably plays a large part too.
I really don't like seeing adolescent girls dressing up like hookers, but I dont have kids so there's not much more I can do about that than express my distaste and disapproval: it's up to the parents of those children to watch over them and monitor what they're watching and how they dress. And you have to ask yourself what side of the political spectrum is pushing for these things: is it religious conservative types who are pushing for taking 5-year-olds along to watch adults simulate sex at drag shows? What political agenda does Hollywood openly promote? What political parties do "sex-positive" feminists vote for?
"the disproportionate percentage of violent/sex crime committed by men, especially on women?"
In intimate partner violence, the reality is both sexes lash out at each other at about equal rates, with women self-reporting hitting their partners more than men. The question you need to ask yourself here is who repeatedly told you to believe something different to that, and why.
When it comes the R word, it's not surprising that more women are counted as victims of that crime than men, when in most of the first world, women simply cannot be charged with that crime when they coerce a male to have sex with them, or initiate sex with a boy under the age of consent.
"Or things like BDSM and in general the lack of empathy men display for women, how they get off to women being hurt?"
Women like and fetishize BDSM as much or more than men. That's pretty self-evident if you look at who wrote and bought the millions of Fifty Shades of Grey books, or even at girls' blogs on Tumblr showing the things they find erotic, their fantasies, etc. The last time I went into the subject of women's self-reported sexual fantasies in detail, my blog was terminated, so I'll avoid going further, if that's ok with you.
But generally, I think it's obviously the case that men are far more empathetic and caring for women than women are for men. Again, it's likely you don't see that because of the ideological bubble you are in, but if you really make an effort to objectively note men and women's behaviour, words and actions in your day-to-day life, making a concerted effort to treat both sexes equally and tallying up their scores, I think you will find what I say to be true.
Hope that helps.
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Well, I was only talking about Billy, so of course I only labeled something he did as a hate crime. A little baby hate crime. Honestly I think the stuff at the roller rink in S4 should count, since they clearly are fucking with her cause they think she's mentally deficient.
Breaking up homophobia into little bits and pieces and implying it's only homophobia if he called the other boy a f*ggot sounds like cope, but from you I fully believe it's sincere. Like how you keep calling Steve queerphobic cause he specifically called Jonathan a queer. You can say it's homophobic even if it's not the big daddy f slur.
My point is that he did do something homophobic, in a flashback, parroting his dad. And it's clearly something he does not remember fondly since it's in that big dark mental hurricane space. I don't think Billy is canonically homophobic, but he did do a homophobia.
With the race stuff, "Billy isn't racist" is definitely a valid interpretation but imo it deserves to be a minority opinion (same for "Billy is homophobic" btw). The clear, obvious interpretation of his behavior towards Lucas is that it was racist. I choose to ignore that shit cause it's not fun to write about and fandom isn't activism. Though if I did I'd prolly go the "Billy's smart enough to figure out racism is stupid and he'll get better about it as soon as he's out of his abusive home and has the mental space to work on himself" route.
Anyway, I'll stop clogging up your inbox. Obviously we disagree on stuff, but I really like your blog and I hope you have a nice day :)
I'm very specific in my language because these things, while related, represent different facets of bigotry. I also don't like using "baby hate crime" to describe most bullying behavior committed by children, for similar reasons why we don't diagnose children with ASPD. I don't like setting children on a course for incarceration for their behavior when they are children and hate crime is explicitly a crime. Bullying is dealt with very differently and as a person who works with children, I do think this distinction is important.
I use queerphobia because it encompasses more than homophobia. I use hegemonic masculinity and effemiphobia to talk about how boys use the word "pussy" to bully other boys into masculine behavior. It's important to be precise, especially when bigotry can take on many forms. I don't consider this as a clearcut example of Billy being homophobic. He was a child beating up another child who we assume was a boy repeating the same words his dad said, but also probably something he hears quite often. The fear that men show and teach young boys to feel towards femininity is not just a matter of homophobia.
I also think it's silly, personally, to downplay Billy's racist behavior while harping on Billy - as a child - bullying another child using the word "pussy," which he was also told and/or may not have fully understood at the time. To me, his racism is much more evident and it's something we should be more critical about. Still, he doesn't go around hate-criming people. A lot of his violent outbursts are incidental and not exactly targeted. Using that word continually to describe his violent behavior ignores context and assumes Billy just does these things regularly.
I'm glad you enjoy my blog, but I say what I say for a reason. His bullying behavior as a child is still wrong, but I don't agree that it's clearcut evidence that Billy is/was homophobic. As I've said, people accuse him of saying and doing things he never actually said and did and that includes the "Billy is homophobic" bs.
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"Davis now remains in custody at TGK after being charged with armed robbery, attempted first-degree murder with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery on a pregnant victim with a deadly weapon, domestic battery, resisting officer without violence, criminal mischief and battery on a corrections officer.
Arrest records show he's being held on $18,500 bond." (3,700.00 and this turd walks.)
I want you to take a real good look at those charges and that bail and now compare that to the no bail of Julian Khater and George Tanios "Assault on Federal Officer with Dangerous Weapon and Conspiracy to Injure an Officer" charges. The deadly weapon was pepper spray by the way, not a gun or a knife or a cooking pan.
This is why at some point the citizenry will be forced to deal with these vermin, the courts are perfectly ok with arraigning people for very violent crimes and then putting them right back on the streets with little to no inconvenience to the criminal.
Before one of you bleeding hearts say "Vigilantism isn't the answer!", You are right, it's not, I am not encouraging that in any way. Everyone should have their day in court, face their accuser and present evidence in their defense, EVERYONE.
What I am saying is the citizens don't have to accept being victimized by people who SHOULD still be locked up or at the very least on a very short electronic leash. When there is no real penalty for criminal activity, the law is worthless. When the law is only apply to those trying to defend their homes, their families, their livelihoods and their possessions then "The law is an ass".
I wish we lived in a world where people could leave their doors open at night, cars unlocked, not worry about being robbed at gun point at the ATM, followed home from the store and robbed for taking out 100.00 at the register or sexually assaulted on a train platform just waiting to go home, but we don't live in that pipe dream. We live in a world where criminals are given more and more leeway to do the worst possible things to the population. We live in a world where people get so mad driving they shoot other drivers. A world where criminals commit violent crime and are let go on low bail or no bail to continue attacking the citizens before the victims are even out of the hospital.
We will be forced to reckon this at some point, or it will be total criminal rule with the protection of the political body supporting them over the citizen.
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Episode 1: A Police Story.
I had a friend of mine who was just here last weekend who's a retired police officer that worked in various capacities in some of the rougher areas of Chicago, as well as an undercover officer in the motorcycle gangs, and different things throughout the years. He was involved in an undercover operation one time downtown Chicago not that long ago and they were waiting for their informant to show up at this particular location. And they heard gunshots just a block away, multiple gunshots.
So there's a gun battle going on. My friend looked at the other officers he was with and he's like, "Hey, if you guys want to run and jump on that, you know, I can wait here for the guy and you guys can go take care of that." They looked at him and said, "Why? If we go there and we catch him and we shoot him, and we wind up in a conflict, we're going to wind up on CNN and we're going to wind up prosecuted. And if we go there and we don't catch him in the act, but we arrest him, the district attorney is going to let them go. They'll be out on the street no matter what, before we even finished doing our paperwork."
There's the reality of police officers, day after day, going into the worst, most violent areas any city has, putting their life on the line, literally, to arrest people who are hurting innocent people, and then watching those people walk completely free because the district attorney refuses to press charges—not because there's not evidence, but because they're pursuing some form of social justice.
How many times does an officer have to do that before he just says, “There's no point. He's going to be back on the street before I even finish doing my paperwork. He's going to be back out there."
For the justice system to work, everybody has to be involved. The district attorney has to be willing to prosecute. The police officers have to know that the city council and the mayor have their back and will protect them if they're actually doing their job well in the way they should be, if they're doing it correctly. And they have to know that the district attorney is going to press charges and prosecute these people. When that happens, you can very quickly clean up a city and make it safer. We have evidence of this. You can see what happened in New York.
New York in the seventies looked a lot like New York is starting to look now. They did a complete turnaround. And for a while, New York was one of the safest big cities on planet Earth. And I was there during that time. I was walking around at 3 a.m. with my wife and I felt perfectly safe. It's not like that anymore. And for it to be like that again, we'll have to do what they did, which is prosecute, put lots more officers on the street, stop the bad guys, prosecute the bad guys, get them locked away because it's the same violent people committing the same crimes over and over again. And that's what has to happen. That's not happening now. Everybody has to be involved. The police officers can't do that part by themselves.
#Matt Thornton#Peter Boghossian#crime#violent crime#social justice#police#policing#defund the police#justice system#religion is a mental illness
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TRUMP PREYS
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AI image posted this morning on Trump’s Truth (anti)Social account:
Reasons to know that the photo above is AI generated:
As always, the big tell is the hands. Trump appears to be missing his right ring finger. And his thumbs are mashed together in a way that defies human anatomy.
The biggest clue it's a fake image might be his right knee. It's directly behind his left foot, showing a super-human flexibility the former president is not known for.
Then there are countless context clues that don't add up. Trump is the center of attention in every room he enters. Yet the four people we can see behind him don't bother to look at Trump taking a knee to pray.
Of course the biggest tell of all that this is fake is the fact if Trump tried doing this, he would be struck by a bolt of lightning.
While the rest of us have been going up and down all week - Will he be arrested? Will he not? Is the grand jury meeting today? - people on Twitter have been having fun showing what GPT4 can do to create a visual image with a word prompt.
But in the meantime, El Jefe Del Merde A Loco is actually diving deeper into the Merde A Loco, which is dangerous for everyone.
The former president posted this ominous message on Truth (anti)Social shortly after 1 a.m. Friday morning:
“What kind of person can charge another person, in this case a former president of the United States, who got more votes than any sitting president in history, and leading candidate (by far!) for the Republican Party nomination, with a crime, when it is known by all that NO crime has been committed & also that potential death & destruction in such a false charge could be catastrophic for our Country? Why & who would do such a thing? Only a degenerate psychopath that truely hates the USA!”
He’s been building to this all week.
This is what he posted Monday:
“Just Out: District Attorney Alvin Bragg received in EXCESS OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS from Radical Left Enemy of ‘TRUMP,’ George Soros. Bragg is also very close to the Clinton Campaign.”
And this on Wednesday:
“HOW DO YOU INDICT A PERSON WHO HAS’NT DONE ANYTHING WRONG, AND
YOU KNOW THAT PERSON HAS’NT DONE ANYTHING WRONG???”
And this on Thursday. (It is fairly certain that the all-caps posts are definitely written by Trump - but just remember that ungrammatical death threats are still death threats.):
WHY WON’T BRAGG DROP THIS CASE? EVERYBODY SAYS THERE IS NO CRIME HERE. I DID NOTHING WRONG! IT WAS ALL MADE UP BY A CONVICTED NUT JOB WITH ZERO CREDIBILITY, WHO HAS BEEN DISPUTED BY HIGHLY RESPECTED PROFESSIONALS AT EVERY TURN. BRAGG REFUSES TO STOP DESPITE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY. HE IS A SOROS BACKED ANIMAL WHO JUST DOESN’T CARE ABOUT RIGHT OR WRONG NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE HURT. THIS IS NO LEGAL SYSTEM, THIS IS THE GESTAPO, THIS IS RUSSIA AND CHINA, BUT WORSE. DISGRACEFUL!
He followed that with this.
“District Attorney Bragg is a danger to our Country and should be removed immediately, along with Radical Lunatic Bombthrower Jack Smith, who is harassing and intimidating innocent people at levels not seen before, “Get Trump” Letitia James, the worst Attorney General in the United States, and Atlanta D.A. Fani Willis, who is trying to make PERFECT phone calls into a plot to destroy America, but reigns over the most violent Crime Scene in America, and does nothing about it!”
It is obvious that Trump is terrified of being arrested, of finally - after a lifetime spent getting away with anything he did - being held to account.
This is the kid who should have been locked in a seabag and thrown off the George Washington Bridge when he was caught at age 10 throwing rocks at the toddler in a playpen next door to the family mansion.
This is what he posts to let the Goobers know what he wants them to do, since as a physical coward he would never be able to do this on his own:
Tomorrow night, Trump will hold his first major rally of his reelection tour: Waco, Texas, where religious cult leader and anti-government extremist David Koresh led an infamous clash with federal law enforcement in 1993. This is during the 30th anniversary of the deadly standoff, an event that looms large in the Far Right Calendar of Grievances. This isn’t a “dog whistle” - it’s the fog horn on the old Queen Mary.
When asked about the timing and the location of the rally, a spokesman for the campaign issued a statement that they chose the city because voters there firmly supported the former president in the past. “It is undisputed that Texas is Trump Country after electing 37 Trump Endorsed Candidates and recent polling among Texas primary voters.”
Yes, Trump did win McLennan County, of which Waco is the county seat, by 23 points in the 2020 election.
But Waco has also long been an important landmark for anti-government extremists. There is no other place in the U.S. that could have been picked that would tap into such a deep pool of anti-government hatred, of Christian nationalist skepticism of the government.
It’s impossible to believe Trump doesn’t know what Waco represents. It’s one of the Stations of the Swastika for the Goober Right.
The rally was announced last Friday, then early on Saturday morning, he posted that he expected to “BE ARRESTED ON TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK” by the Manhattan district attorney. He ended the post by calling on his supporters to protest his impending arrest and “TAKE OUR NATION BACK!”
There’s been a lot of discussion as to whether or not his supporters would listen. Would they consider his arrest for paying off a porn star to be in the same category with The Big Lie, that the election was stolen from him, and them? The media has pointed to the fact that when members of the New York Young Republican club showed up in front of Trump Tower on Tuesday there were more reporters covering the event than there were demonstrators. There was the additional report that fewer than a dozen supporters showed up at Mar-A-Largo to protest his arrest.
According to these reports, Trump is the big bad wolf who has huffed and puffed and failed to blow the house down.
Sorry media, it doesn’t matter if he's playing a role or trying to play everyone for fools.
Inside that lizard brain, he knows that when his more dangerous cult members hear him raving like this, they hear The Master’s Voice.
He may be terrified, he may be quaking on his golden throne when he writes this crap, but he is willing to bring the temple down on his own head. A demented, malignant, psychopathic narcissist like Trump cannot imagine a world where this happens to him, and he is willing to destroy that world in the same way Hitler was willing to let Germany be smashed to ruin - to bring on Gotterdammerung - to avoid facing the truth of what he is and has been since the day he was born: a worthless piece of shit; a lifetime loser.
And he is especially willing to continue down this path while the entire Republican Party gives him support for anything he does. The Republican “leadershit” (typo intentional) who are actually afraid of their “base, but who continue to seek the support of these voters. These “leaders” do nothing to reason with them, to persuade them to abandon their violent tendencies, beyond empty pieties about how “we should not allow violence.” Doing anything to actually take responsibility would take a lot of work and actual honesty - things none of them are capable of.
[Thats Another Fine Mess]
#TCinLA#Thats Another Fine Mess#incitement to violence#words and writing#Gotterdammerung#smashed to ruin#everything he touches dies#Tr***#TFG#CGI#AI#robots
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At some point in the comics Matt's identity becomes the world's worst kept open secret. I'm pretty sure he sues the press for this.
Would he still be able to get away with this in Jumble Sale Chic's universe considering the territory thing?
Was claiming territories that large ever outlawed or is it just taboo?
So, yes and no.
He would probably be able to get away with it in the sense that he’d probably be able to dodge a legal finding that he’s Daredevil. Like, Matt in the comics and Matt in JSC are both breaking laws as daredevil. If I remember correctly comics Matt sued the press for libel, and they weren’t able to prove he was daredevil, so they had to print a retraction. which means the evidence people had on him had to have been super fucking weak, because he beat them on a preponderance of the evidence standard and a criminal finding would be on the much higher beyond a reasonable doubt standard, so a criminal case would have next to no luck. So everyone knowing he's daredevil isn't the same as having a legal finding that he's daredevil--namely, it lessens the risk of him getting prosecuted or disbarred.
Matt in JSC has an extra hurdle to jump in the sense that he also can be identified by the scent thing, which he’s obscuring using blockers right now, and like. If he gets dragged in, they’re gonna be able to withhold blockers. He’d be clocked as the guy who smells like daredevil. I think he’d probably just rely on his fake twin brother and point the finger at Mike Murdock, identical in everything. So, Matt would probably get away with it like he did in the comics.
The problem is that claiming massive territories like Matt did is incredibly illegal in the JSC universe. So I can see them coming after Matt in JSC even harder than they did in the comics--maybe he doesn't get away with it. Like, comic Matt is committing a lot of violent crimes. But JSC Matt is committing a lot of violent crimes and is a serious threat to public safety.
And it’s basically for like, the exact reasons why hand-spun silk happened. The problem at the start of hand-spun silk isn’t that Matt didn’t have a partner; the problem is that Matt didn’t have a partner and he had a massive fucking territory filled with enemies to be possessive over. Like, the hierarchy of concerns during rut goes: 1) mate 2) territory 3) literally nothing else. If Matt had a partner, that’d be sort of where his entire attention span would stop, the way it happened with Peter. He’d just get really intense and obsessive about one specific person and his territory would only rank as important enough to break through that focus if like, fucking Fisk showed up and started being an active threat to his terf and his partner. But if there isn’t a person, then all of his attention goes to being intense and obsessive about his territory.
And taking care of a partner consists of very different things than taking care of all of Hell’s Kitchen. Like, he just wanted to be schmoopy and clingy with Peter. He will want to brutally murder Fisk and leave his body as a warning to everyone else. Claiming this big of a territory is not just the sort of thing that’s taboo to do—it’s a big ol’ sign saying “i may lose it and kill people one day”
If someone with as big of a territory as Matt doesn’t have a partner occupying their attention, there’s a huge risk of the person in question either killing or raping someone while in rut. There’s like, other considerations involved in the creation of that law—the idea of territory is pretty primitive, people have like, mortgages and leases now, also it sort of invites a turf war that’s extremely frowned upon in civilized society, so there’s a lot of incentives for society to socially and legally confine claiming territory to “property you actually own and nothing else”—but the number one consideration behind it is “hey, what if this fucking asshole loses their partner and goes off their nut and starts killing people once they rut.”
Which Matt was fully aware of at the start of hand-spun silk. He knows that he may go insane and actually kill someone. He knows these laws exist, why they exist, and what they’re trying to stop. He knew that from the start, but was borderline suicidal when he made this particular life decision and wasn’t exactly planning to make it to his next birthday party, so he thought it’d be a non-issue. This was the first time rut actually came around and he didn’t have a partner to keep him calm. So he decided his options were to 1) find someone to help him out as his partner or 2) leave Hell’s Kitchen entirely so he wouldn’t hurt anyone.
If he was just leaving like, his office unguarded, it wouldn’t be such a big deal—that’s a very small space and isn’t under big threat, it’ll be fine for a week. He won’t be super distressed over it. But Hell’s Kitchen is literally always under attack to some degree. There’s always danger going on and Matt’s going to know that in rut. He’s got a very high risk of stroke or heart attack or other stress-related complication. Option 2 is either going to kill him or leave him on his ass for a very long time after.
Comparatively, Option 1 would probably be better in every possible respect. There’s huge health benefits to spending a heat or rut with a member of the opposite sex—which like, the man could use after how many concussions he’s had. Hell’s Kitchen would be fully safe from him, and he wouldn’t have to leave it. He’d also have a negligible recovery period after a rut with a partner, so he could get back to work and Daredevil pretty much immediately after.
Except Option 1 required Matt to effectively ask someone else to have a lot of intimate, unprotected sex with him to bail him out of his own bad decision. He wasn’t willing to do that. People offered to bail him out, but, for a lot of reasons, Peter was probably the only person on the planet he’d actually be okay accepting from.
Effectively, claiming hell's kitchen was a bad enough life decision that the best possible choice matt could make as a result was to just. Take on very serious risk of death and just hope that he beats the odds and doesn't have a stroke. It's such a bad decision that it’s an extremely illegal one and--hey, it may be illegal enough that the law comes down harder on matt than it would in the comics. whether he actually gets in prison for it is gonna come down to how good he is at gaslighting the world into thinking he's not him. he'll probably ask peter for a consult.
#jumble sale chic#there are other asks but that's all for tonight folks#this is not abandoned by the way i just have zero fucking time right now#i'll be back with more on chewing coffee when i'm averaging more than four hours of sleep per night
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Apollo
As Detective Arabella, I have solved countless cases with ease. My intuition, determination, and sharp senses have always led me to the truth. Yet, there was one case that still haunts me to this day - the case of Apollo.
It all began when I received a call from the local police station about a series of mysterious deaths. The victims were all young women, each found with a single red rose clutched in their hand before they took their last breath. The autopsy reports showed no signs of struggle or any lethal substances in their system. They simply died in their sleep, as if their hearts had stopped beating.
The circumstances were bizarre, and the police were at a loss. That's when they called me, Detective Arabella, to solve this case. As soon as I laid eyes on the victims, I knew I was dealing with something beyond my usual cases. I could feel a dark presence surrounding them, and my gut told me it was no coincidence.
After days of investigation, I came across a man named Apollo. He was a handsome and charming young man, who lived in a grand mansion just outside of town. His wealth and good looks made him the prime suspect, and I couldn't shake off the feeling that he was involved somehow. However, I had to gather concrete evidence before I could confront him.
To get closer to Apollo, I decided to go undercover as a visitor to his mansion. As soon as I arrived, I was greeted by his butler, who showed me to my room. I couldn't help but notice the lavishness of the mansion, and it seemed like a perfect place for a romantic getaway. Little did I know, this stay would turn into a nightmare.
That night, while I was sound asleep, I felt a presence in my room. My instincts told me to open my eyes, and when I did, I saw Apollo standing by the window, staring at me. I was about to reach for my gun when he spoke in a sultry voice, 'I've been waiting for you, Arabella.'
His words sent shivers down my spine, and I immediately knew I was locked onto something more dangerous than I had imagined. He walked towards me, his touch sending electric shocks through my body. He whispered my name once again before placing a rose on my bedside table.
I knew I should have resisted, but I couldn't. Apollo had locked onto me, and I was entranced by his charm. As we spent more time together, I started to see a different side of him. He was kind, caring, and sincere. I couldn't believe that such a gentle soul could be capable of committing such heinous crimes.
However, my duty as a detective kicked in, and I couldn't let my feelings cloud my judgment. I continued to gather evidence and soon found out that Apollo was a victim of a curse. His family had been cursed by a witch, and every generation, the firstborn son was obligated to sacrifice the love of their life to break the curse. That's why every woman he loved met a tragic end, and he was forced to live with the guilt.
Without a second thought, I knew what I had to do. I couldn't let another innocent life be taken because of an ancient curse. I confronted Apollo and together, we found a way to break it without any sacrifices. As the curse was lifted, the mansion shook violently before disappearing into thin air, along with the curse.
With the case solved, Apollo and I became inseparable. We both knew that our love was real, and nothing could ever come between us. From that day on, Detective Arabella was no longer just a detective, but also the love of Apollo's life. We became a team, solving cases together and living a life filled with adventure and love.
Even though it all started with a locked onto me case, it ended with us locking onto each other's hearts for eternity.
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weird dream. guy steps on me.
Last night I had a weird dream.
I was probably walking through home depot and this big burly guy started stepping on me. I kept trying to move away under his nasty shoe, but he kept stepping on me to the point where there were footprints stamped onto my dress.
I felt degraded. He kept making footprints on me. I suddenly snapped. Wielded a large textbook and smacked him on the head. I shouted, “don’t step on me!” His large body flopped to the ground. Panicked, I fled like Moses.
Fear proceeded. People are chasing me. I committed a crime. Even though the man stepped on me, I was the one who assaulted him first (in my mind). What will happen to me? It’s a matter of time the authorities will go after me. Will this ruin me?
Hurriedly, I searched the surveillance cameras for the evidence. It replayed. But all I saw was the point where the man flopped to the ground. There was no footage before that point. But what I didn’t realize was how fast he got up. My back was turned. He was ready to retaliate to strike me. Lightning fast, another slender, but toned man blocked his way. Rapid-fire and violent thrashing ensued. Their bodies, fist and legs moved so fast, it looked as if a mob was fighting. I had no idea that someone had defended me. Was this some supernatural thing that occurred or was this real and I had not seen the full picture because my back was turned?
Then I felt a rush of relief. With a friend, we went to a building to search for the man who had saved me. We wanted to give him a meal to show our appreciation. When we identified the person from a distance, we asked, what was his name? Then he answered, his name is “Good Lord”.
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Insights
Some thoughts when reflecting, it reminded me of how victims of abusers can often have this irrational fear of defending themselves. But sometimes they are provoked to the point of rage and anger, then retaliate. Then abusers can use this against them and use that as an excuse to return the blow by striking back.
Another thought was, how often do we not realize that God is fighting for us behind our backs, but we just don’t see it?
This dream however, resembles some personal feelings that have swelled in the back of my mind. I have been praying about quitting a position in order to stop being abused and manipulated psychologically by a fellow Christian. I don’t yet know the answer. A part of me doesn’t want to let a manipulator win by forcing me to be a quitter, but at the same time, I just want to quit. I just want to retrieve my sanity back even if it makes it look like i’m weak. I don’t want to give power to those who take pleasure in stepping on me because they know the system and how to make themselves look like humble good people, while I still haven’t quite healed from the things that trigger me. I am tired of being provoked to the point I hurt so much I react out of anger. Which makes me look like the crazy insane person.
However, the dream made me realize that God is behind me. I think he’s telling me I don’t need to worry about fighting back. But if I do retaliate, he’ll protect my dignity. It’s all in his hands so it’s okay. It’s okay that i’m not perfect. I don’t have to fight back, I don’t need to. But if I do, he’s saying he’ll personally use his body as a shield against any recoil and retribution and then fight back on my behalf. And if I continue to lead in my position, God has a plan for me. God is a good God.
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I can’t help, but to wonder though, what is God doing while I was being stepped on? Why didn’t He just appear then? Perhaps the big bury man represent trials that people go through. Maybe at times, they’re necessary for us to become better people. It’s Satan that attacks us, not God. God doesn’t take away our trials, but is personally facing it through and through with us and in us. A good reminder, that He is in the midst of our challenges.
I also realize that when facing trials, God gives us the decision on how to respond to our trials – we can strike and flail around (like I tend to do), we can pray, we can ask God to help, we can cry out to God, we can call God for comfort. If God didn’t allow us to face these trials and make our own decision on how to face them, we’d become no more than a formless clump of clay that never gets refined into something more beautiful.
And what could I have done instead of smacking the abuser with my textbook? What if I had used the bible instead? It would be more effective because it’s thicker than my algebra book, but then it might be disrespectful using it as a beating device. But what if it was not a literal weapon, but a figurative weapon? Reacting often leads us into bigger consequences, but you can trust in the word, trusting God is good and that He is sovereign in the end. Before we take action in our own hands, wait for God. God endures for us.
Although harder said than done. It’s very aggravating to be stepped on. But knowing someone’s got your back, is empowering because you feel stronger to face those tough situations.
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I'd love to hear your take on the whole "fiction affects reality" debate. Because from where I stand, it's evident that fiction affects reality: otherwise, we wouldn't say that representation matters. If I may be so bold to consider religious texts like the Bible a piece of fiction: people are still using it to justify real-life actions.
The most prominent example in news media is the relationship between violent games and real life violence, I think. I checked Google Scholar and a recent (2021) meta analysis on the causal relationship between violent video games and violent behavior showed "a significant and positive effect" which was reduced but maintained when controlled for already existing aggression levels, with a peak in early adolescence (age of 14). According to the research, earlier meta analyses showed similar results.
Now, there's a lot to say about publication bias etc, but even these examples don't make me believe that we should censor "problematic media", because a) there's always more than one influence on people's behavior, and b) it's a slippery slope because who decides what's "good" and what's "bad"?
At the same time, people who claim that fiction doesn't affect reality don't make sense to me and I'd much rather see a strong analysis presented for why "fiction affects reality" is a bad reason to want to censor certain types of media, than the false dichotomy that either you believe that fiction affects reality == censorship is good OR fiction doesn't affect reality.
Would love to hear your thoughts!
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Your tone sounds genuine. Your content sounds like bait.
First of all, "fiction is not reality" is a rallying cry of people who think fandom karens should mind their own business.
It never meant that fiction has no effect on reality. It meant that fiction does not mind control people and does not have a 1:1 effect where readers do the bad action from a book they just read. It means that depiction of murder or pedophilia or whatever is not the same thing as literally committing a crime. Thought crimes are not real. Fantasies aren't inherently bad. Yadda yadda.
The only people arguing about "fiction does not affect reality" are shitty antis making a strawman of their opponents' arguments because their own intellectually flaccid scare tactics don't stand up to scrutiny.
Second of all, cite your sources.
Ten seconds on google scholar found me this:
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: A Meta-analytic Review of Positive and Negative Effects of Violent Video Games by Christopher John Ferguson; Psychiatric Quarterly volume 78, pages 309–316 (2007)
The abstract includes the following:
Results indicated that publication bias was a problem for studies of both aggressive behavior and visuospatial cognition. Once corrected for publication bias, studies of video game violence provided no support for the hypothesis that violent video game playing is associated with higher aggression. However playing violent video games remained related to higher visuospatial cognition (r x = 0.36).
Publication bias isn't just a small factor here. It's a key factor.
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Here's the thing, I can give you a very good argument of the type you asked for. It's as simple as alcohol.
Alcohol is physically bad for us. Some people drive drunk.
Do most people think all alcohol drinking should be banned as a consequence? No. Because the fact that some people overindulge or drink while pregnant or drunk drive like a fucking idiot is not the fault of the people who can drink responsibly.
However...
What's the point of such an argument when your starting premise is garbage? Video games don't cause violence. Fictional sex crimes don't cause actual sex crimes. Even bothering to explain why "responsible" consumption of Bad Media is okay like my alcohol example is opening the door to these idiotic starting premises.
I find it telling that you don't specify which google scholar results you were looking at.
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Representation matters because that actually is an area where we've seen some demonstrable effects from fiction. When fiction reinforces stereotypes and conventional wisdom, it tends to strengthen how people already see the world. This is quite different from fiction depicting something taboo.
Fiction is plenty capable of reinforcing the idea that minorities are gang members or that women are hysterical and make false accusations. It is not capable of making people think bestiality is socially normal.
Representation also matters in proportion to how many eyeballs are on that media. We should hold big Disney movies to a high standard and Disney overall to a higher one still. We don't need to worry about each and every individual work having a specific type of rep, especially if those individual works are more niche.
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Leaked NYPD "goon squad" manual
In New York City, the summer 2020 #BLM uprising became a grotesque spectacle, as legions of ultraviolent cops committed mass-scale, criminal human rights violations, spawning a new subgenre of viral video: the NYPD BLM violence video.
During and after this period, public attention focused on the systemic nature of the NYPD's lawlessness, like the fact that the cops' disciplinary records were held secret, obscuring the repeat offenders.
Indeed, Propublica's brave publication of these records demonstrated that the force is riddled with violent, habitual sadists.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/27/ip/#nypd-who
Propublica did incredible work, showing that cops who commits a strings of violent human rights abuses and cost the taxpayer vast fortunes in legal settlements aren't disqualified from promotions - these monsters constitute the NYPD's top brass.
https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/10/booksellers-vs-big-tech/#50a
Propublica also delved deep into the NYPD's sham of a disciplinary process, for example, documenting the continued use of illegal choke-holds by officers, primarily against Black men, and how police officials did nothing to enforce their own policies.
https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/21/i-cant-breathe/#chokeholds
All of this leads up to impunity. As Propublica went on to report, out of the hundreds the NYPD officers caught on video committing crimes against protesters, only *two* were brought up for discipline, despite video evidence and eyewitness reports.
https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/18/news-worthy/#nypd-black-and-blue
The cherry on the cake: last month, Propublica revealed the existence of a secretive, tax-funded slushfund that pays out millions to hire white-shoe lawyers to defend the cops who are so dirty the city refuses to defend them:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/03/26/overfitness-factor/#heads-you-lose-tails-they-win
Latent in all of this discussion is the assumption - on the part of NYPD critics *and* apologists - that the cops who commit these crimes are breaking their own rules. But as it turns out, that's not true.
Today, The Intercept published the leaked, secret, destroy-after-reading procedural manuals for the NYPD's Strategic Response Group, an ultra-secretive good squad formed by former chief Bill Bratton in 2015.
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/07/nypd-strategic-response-unit-george-floyd-protests/
We don't know how big the SRG is - it's a secret - but we know that its inaugural budget was $13m in 2015 and today, it's nearly $90m. As Alice Speri and John Bolger write, the crimes we witnessed last summer are literally straight out of the SRG's playbook.
That thing where bike cops kettle a group of protesters, hoist their bikes up to their chest, forming a moving fence, and then beat the shit out of protesters as they advance? That's not the result of undertraining - it's a maneuver they regularly drill.
When the BLM uprising began, the NYPD's chief and commissioner both pledged that the SRG - theoretically designed to maintain order during mass riots, not political protests - wouldn't be involved.
They lied.
"Investigators found a disproportionate number of SRG officers accused of wrongdoing to have exceeded their legal authority, when compared with the wider department."
Despite its $90m budget and estimated 700 cops, it's not clear why SRG exists at all. The NY AG's office said SRG shouldn't be used on protesters because they're supposed to fight terrorism, but the NYPD already has an expensive, heavily resourced Counterterrorism Bureau.
One thing we do know about the SRG: they have a huge intelligence wing. Before deployments, SRG officers are briefed on "group size, planned arrests, key members of the protest group, and the group’s hierarchy," and other intel. They go in with a plan.
That's the point: the violence isn't the result of rogue cops ignoring their training. It's the result of cops doing *exactly* what they're trained to do.
If you doubt it, read the manuals.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20584527-strategic_response_group_guide
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20584526-srg_field_force_modules
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20584525-srg_bike_squad_modules
Learn about the Bike Line Arrest Manuever, or BLAM, in which officers "shout 'BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!' as they advance," and "[take] control of subjects head by clinching your hands and arms behind the head of subject and bringing head against your chest."
This is exactly what Human Rights Watch documented in their report on a Jun 4, 2020 "planned assault" in the Bronx. NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea called the chaotic violence of that assault as "a plan which was executed nearly flawlessly." He wasn't lying.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/30/us-new-york-police-planned-assault-bronx-protesters
The authors warn that any reform that results in disbanding the SRG won't be enough: the NYPD has a long history of dissolving its most criminal units and then reforming them with a new name, new insignia and even bigger budgets.
They give the final word to Joo-Hyun Kang of Communities United for Police Reform, who says that the real problem isn't the SRG, it's "the hyper-militarization, the hyper-aggressive policing tactics. That’s not an SRG problem only, that’s an NYPD problem"
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Ok, I’ve tried and tried and tried to write this fic because I see it so clearly in my mind but it’s just not going no matter what I do. But I don’t want the idea to die with me. The closest this came to being written was exile which was an attempt to bleed out some of the energy of this au.
Anyway, so it starts off vaguely similar to canon only more aggressive. There had been underlying tension between ghosts and humans for a while, the dead jealous/angry at the living for disrespecting them. The successful creation of the Fenton ghost portal (and another halfa) was considered an act of war and so the ghosts responded in kind. So basically all of S1 occurs fairly close to canon except ghost attacks are more violent and have increasingly more consequences as time passes. Also the attacks aren’t just in Amity Park with ghosts becoming a worldwide issue but Amity is a focal point. Regular people know the ghosts hate them though they don’t know why. Phantom is very much a controversial figure as he is a ghost but also clearly is fighting off the more violent ghosts.
One day, not long after the events of Control Freaks, Amity Park wakes up to find three of their own are gone. Danny Fenton, Sam Manson and Tucker Foley are nowhere to be found. There’s a massive manhunt, the parents go on TV and beg for information but they cannot be found. Curiously enough, town hero Phantom was also missing. There’s some evidence they left of their own volition so the Mansons and Foleys eventually relent that the kids fled on their own. The Fentons are 100% certain the kids were stolen/killed by ghosts as a statement. And the fact that Phantom went missing around the same time means he was the one who killed them. Jazz knows Danny was Phantom but had no idea what was going on and knew her parents wouldn’t listen she just, kept quiet and privately tried to piece together what happened.
Three years pass and finally it looks like the Ecto War is coming to a close. Young, naive ghosts attempted to raise Pariah Dark in a bid to win. It went disastrously but Phantom (who was periodically spotted around the world, deep in the worst battles of the war) and group of loyal allies subdued the king. By the law of ghosts, Phantom was named heir apparent and he declared that the fighting would stop. Humans and ghosts would have to negotiate and co-exist in peace. But he’s not king yet, no he needs to be crowned at the place where it began, Amity Park’s Fenton portal (”where it all began” has a double meaning of the beginning of the war but also symbolically where Phantom began as Kings assume the crown where their living life ended to show their abandonment of their first life and the commitment to their second). Amity is NOT happy to hear that their former hero is coming home.
Amity has been through the wringer, ghost attacks got pretty bad. The Fenton’s throw themselves into their work to cancel out the grief, they create a group of ghost hunters nicknamed the Reds (for their red blood, ghosts are nicknamed Greens) to control the threat. Valerie heads the young adult division and is considered one of the best, she drops out of school to devote herself to it full time. Oh also her dad is now the Mayor as most have died or didn’t want the job. There are still people who like Phantom and see him as a hero (a lot of Casper Kids) but it’s generally an unpopular opinion in town. Maddie and Jack are ready to obliterate the ghost that took their son’s life the moment he’s within city limits. It’s a powder keg ready to blow. It all comes to a head when Phantom and his entourage arrive.
First off, Phantom looks very different, much less human looking than when he left. He’s clearly aged like a normal teen but his eyes look much, much older. His skin is dead white with a blue tinge to it from his ice core and his aura is super cold. His hair is longer and is very misty that kind of swirls around him and his has fangs and claws. When he’s deep in battle or his obsession, his sclera turn black and he looks scary af. His entourage is ghosts who have sworn loyalty to him, who he picked up along the way after battling beside them for 3 years. Fright Knight, Skulker and Frostbite are recognizable allies. They are not happy that their future King is back in Amity (secretly fearing they’ll lose him once more to his human life). J&M have a shot and are going for the kill when they see something that shocks them; Sam and Tucker are in Phantom’s entourage.
There had been whispers that Phantom interacted with humans, that humans were in his inner circle but this is something else together. And so are Sam and Tucker. Sam is Phantom’s General, she is talented and collected and half feral. She used to be a pacifist but the trials of war and understanding that peace sometimes needs to be fought for made her compromise. She’s covered in scars and an extremely talented fighter. She’s missing her right hand up to her forearm, she can form a ‘phantom limb’ (basically borrowing ectoplasm from her future ghost) to do some things with some powers. Tucker is the support, he uses human and ghost tech to organize, weaponize and generally keep things running. He’s covered in homemade tech (shields and weapons and computers) and he rarely removes. Both he and Sam have kinda forgotten how to interact with and really BE human after so long among the dead. They had attempted to conceal themselves but they had forgotten how strong parental love and recognition is. J&M want to know about Danny, the teens don’t know how to respond but assure them he’s alive. Phantom can’t bring himself to look at them.
This is where I start to lose track of things but there will be parallels of Valerie/Maddie vs Sam as female warriors on opposite sides who are willing to go behind, possibly compromising the things important to them, for victory. Tucker will be contrasted against Jack/Jazz as the one making weapons but also generally keeping the human parts of the team mentally/physically afloat. *Severe* PTSD for all three of them. They’re also unnaturally codependent on each other, get super anxious when one of the trio is out of sight and sleep in a big cuddle pile. They will fucking Kill You if you look at one of them wrong. Vlad will be involved, he had been jailed for war crimes but convinced Walker to stage a coup to overthrow Danny and take the crown before he’s actually declared King and is too powerful. Vlad is more unhinged here, more ghost than human (a hint on what could happen to Danny if he’s not careful). He is eventually defeated but he sacrifices his life for ghost power which, in the end, is what makes him able to be beaten.
There’s lots of ideas on what it means to be live or dead and where the divide really is, is it a heartbeat or it is how you choose to use your existence. On how duty shouldn’t mean you need to give up everything. Because Jack and Maddie believe that Phantom killed their son and, in a way, they’re right. Before they left, the ghost war had gotten so bad and the rumors of Dark being resurrected were going around. Amity attacks were at an all time high, people in their school were being killed just because Danny went there. He realized he had to choose between Fenton or Phantom and he chose to protect the world. He abandoned his human identity and went off to fight in war. Tried to convince Sam and Tucker to stay but they followed him through hell and back. Because Danny spends so much time as Phantom, Fenton is severely neglected. His long hair is cool and floaty as Phantom but is unkempt and stringy, hanging in his face as Fenton. He’s wan and underweight and looks like a walking corpse. He knows his human half will give out soon if he doesn’t give it more attention but he just can’t there’s too much to do, too many people to save.
It would end with Danny being outed to the town, not the world, just the town. Jack and Maddie need to recon with the fact that their boy DID leave of his own choice but only because their failure to protect him (from both the portal and ghosts) made him feel he had to take all this responsibility on his shoulders. Danny also has to recognize that he (and Sam/Tuck) can’t do all this on their own and they can trust and rely on the people around him. Phantom is crowned King but he decides Amity will be his base. The trio eat more, sleep some, catches up on school all the while continuing their duties as King and court. The ghosts also see that Phantom’s humanity isn’t a weakness but a strength and will bring peace to the Earth/Zone so they also take some of the burdens off his shoulder.
Basically I load up heavily with angst at the beginning and end with all the love and comfort imaginable. I just can’t fucking figure out the middle and my motivation will not let me write this shit out. But I can’t let this AU die bc it fucking keeps me up at night.
#behind me dips eternity#god I want to write this but its just not going#Ive been trying for over a month#I cant finish the outline#I've only gotten a paragraph into actually typing#but there are so many vivid images from this fic that live rent free in my head#was lowkey thinking of comissioning an artist to depict Danny bc I've tried and its not coming out right and it drives me INSANE#bc this world is very vivid to me#i love it even if it hurts me#anyway here's wonderwall
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here’s how a krasner critic reported dressed up one of his prosecutions to smear him:
Krasner’s pro-criminal and anti-victim biases were most graphically on display during the most notorious murder case of his reign, the 2018 murder of Sean Schellenger. The 37-year-old real estate developer was stabbed to death near Rittenhouse Square, one of Philadelphia’s wealthiest neighborhoods.
Police arrested Michael White, a 20-year-old Uber Eats driver who, in a crime recorded on a cell phone video, plunged a black, foot-long serrated knife with a seven-inch blade into the back of the unarmed Schellenger. The victim bled out in minutes while White fled on foot.
In the weeks prior to trial, Linda Schellenger, the victim’s mother, called Krasner’s office for five straight days, seeking a meeting with Krasner, but he never called her back.
On the first day of jury selection, however, Krasner’s staff hastily arranged a phone call between Krasner and the victim’s mother so the D.A. could tell the mother he was dropping a third-degree murder charge against White.
When the victim’s mother protested that Krasner should let the jury decide whether White committed murder or not, “He literally yelled at me on the phone,” Linda Schellenger said. And then he admonished her for “questioning his authority and his intellect.”
But Krasner had plenty of time and sympathy for the accused killer. Before the case went to trial, Krasner huddled behind closed doors with White and his legal defense team for more than three hours. During the meeting, Krasner collaborated with White and his lawyers to help him beat the rap. A jury subsequently found White not guilty of voluntary manslaughter.
here’s what actually happened:
What actually happened, though, is that Krasner’s office downgraded the charges against White as they learned more about the case. White was in the middle of making a delivery when he encountered an argument between Schellenger and another driver. White intervened and says he told Schellenger “there’s really no reason to act like a tough guy” because Schellenger “looked like he was intent on hurting someone.” White says Schellenger then approached White with balled fists, “gritting his teeth and [saying] he was going to beat the Black off [me],” at which point White pulled out a knife (which he carried for protection) to try to scare Schellenger away. Eyewitnesses confirm that Schellenger, a former football player who was far bigger than White and was drunk (his autopsy showed a blood-alcohol level of .199 in addition to cocaine in his system), charged at White and then lifted him into the air, at which point White stuck his knife in Schellenger’s back. White did flee the scene and ditch the knife but then turned himself in less than a day later and helped police recover the weapon.
Cipriano’s failures to mention both Schellenger’s attack and the fact that White turned himself in are glaring omissions of facts that obviously speak to White’s intent. Cipriano also omits that White had no violent priors, whereas Schellenger had previously been arrested on separate occasions for resisting arrest, battery, and disorderly conduct. That information is clearly relevant if you’re trying to understand why Krasner’s office would have determined that a voluntary manslaughter charge was more appropriate than a murder charge in this case. As Krasner has explained, “I saw video footage of the confrontation between White and Schellenger over 20 times…Although the clip was silent, a great deal of White’s account when we questioned him corroborated what he described that night as an act of self-defense. My office eventually charged him with manslaughter because we felt that White’s actions were those of imperfect self-defense, based on his use of the knife and other factors.” Krasner’s office also charged White with tampering with evidence for initially discarding the knife along with his bloodied shirt and backpack; the jury found White guilty of that charge and White was eventually sentenced to two years of probation.
any time i read some lurid tale of crime that goes unpunished under a reform DA, i immediately know the writer is a liar through omission because it’s all they ever seem to do
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The Volturi are the good guys and Bella is the up-and-coming villain
I’m on my computer for this as I know it might be long, but bear with me (insert Emmett pun here) 🐻
So wait - the Volturi are the good guys? But didn’t SM write them as the bad guys?
Well, yes, SM did write Aro and co in as the antagonists of the series, but bear in mind that originally she didn’t write most of New Moon to happen, or the entirety of Eclipse. There was Twilight and Forever Dawn, which we’ll sadly never read. Her vision of the Volturi and their role as the evil villains who wanted to separate Edward and Bella became distorted as she had to flesh them out more and show their role as the governing body.
Then she wrote the Illustrated Guide and revealed their history and the horrors of the world without their authority; with the Romanians being as brutal as they were, the constant terror humans lived with and the fracturing of the world into many unstable and violent vampire-ruled empires (plus with way more children of the moon running about, probably as far west as - at least - central Europe).
When the Volturi were coming to power they were laughed at with the idea of their law, a significant reason the Romanians didn’t take them seriously. But now they are extremely popular.
This isn’t just because Aro created vampires to go out and sing his praises. Volturi rule has been a blessing for both humans and vampires.
For humans it’s the obvious: they are not living their lives in fear, they are not subject to massacres (except if caught in newborn warzones), their population has been able to grow and expand, modern medicine and technology have been able to flourish, society is much more stable, people need to flee areas much less (if ever) so they can stay put and complete research/live to meet their grandkids/etc, and not have to serve a vampire in the local castle.
For vampires it’s actually quite similar: with the human population growing to as large as it is today when at the time the Volturi came to power it was (estimated to be) only 210 million globally, vampires have been able to grow to even greater numbers also, and feed more often than before. If a vampire 2000 years ago killed 5 people in a town it would be an outrage the humans would certainly have noticed, however kill 5 people in a place as big as London, LA, Paris, Singapore, Bucharest... it would likely not be noticed very much, if at all (depending on who you kill).
Humans like to measure things in percentages. Those 5 people is a huge number to a town of 2000 - that’s 0.25% of the whole town’s population. It would be talked about, and relatives of the dead/missing would all know each other. Yet kill those 5 in a city of 12 million (as is London), that’s only 0.00004167% of the population. And chances are, the dead humans’ families don’t even live in the area (or could be in another country entirely) never mind know each other to realise there was a mass murder.
So vampires, as long as they hide from humans, as is the only law (besides no immortal children or consorting with werewolves), they have a lot more freedom nowadays than they did before the times of the Volturi. There are so many people that they can easily get lost in a crowd, move internationally, and not be pressured for allegiance by a local vampire warlord (before meeting Aro, Caius ran afoul of the Romanians, and he barely escaped with his life).
With there only being one authority, and one that does not interfere with your day-to-day life, is a dream come true. As long as they don’t break this law that is very easy to abide by, they can do whatever the f*** they want.
Carlisle would have never been able to get a job as a doctor if he was known to be a vampire, nor could any of the Cullens have entered education of any form. They’d be stuck sneaking into libraries after closing, and googling. Edward would have never met Bella (neither would Edward’s ancestors have immigrated to America - in fact, Europeans may have never discovered America in the first place. The whole Cullen coven aside from Carlisle might never have been born).
So what the Volturi have done (despite many of them having not-so-savoury personalities corrupted by hunger for power or violence) is bring peace to the world, get rid of tyrants, increase the food supply, allow a greater amount of freedom, and the first kind of trials and justice ever seen in their world. Sure, Aro uses trials to find new talent, but it’s still a world away from before.
Which leads me on to the events of Breaking Dawn, and Bella.
So. Maybe controversial, but: the Volturi did absolutely nothing wrong in Breaking Dawn.
They turned up thinking a serious crime had been committed. They stopped to talk (which Vladimir certainly never would have done!), considered the evidence and processed new discoveries and discussed their legality, decided there was no crime to punish, and left with only the informant dead. Yes, Irina had been innocent in the way that she strongly had believed she had been telling the truth and her memories must have presented good enough evidence to Aro initially, but their witnesses had come to see justice being served, and in the vampire world that is execution. Aro could have continued with prosecuting the Cullens for something he now knew was false, or execute Irina instead.
(Side note: she did kind of deserve it too. She didn’t bother to check her evidence, she wanted revenge for Laurent’s death so her accusation wasn’t coming from a place of good intentions but instead she was willing to have her friends and family killed for Laurent. She was also forcing Aro into a position where he had to prepare himself to kill Carlisle, whom we know he cherishes. Remember also that Aro turned down Laurent’s application to the Guard because he’d followed the Romanians for a while, so he won’t have been entirely trusting of Irina anyway, her having been Laurent’s mate).
Anyway. Onto Bella.
So Aro’s impression of Bella after New Moon seems to be positive. Why? Well, through Edward’s thoughts he saw that Bella was able to keep The Secret. He had heard how much she wanted to be a vampire. In addition, Marcus showed him how strong Edward and Bella’s bond is. Both of them knew, that if E & B’s love was almost as strong as Marcus and Didyme’s, that no matter what Edward currently said or thought about Bella being turned it was invalid. If Bella were dying, he would turn her for sure, which happened. Then the obvious, that Edward had already proven he could not live without her.
Bella was trustworthy and probably going to be turned. Alice showing proof was just a formality so Aro could say he had evidence rather than admit he’d just made assumptions (and Alice having had that vision may act as proof that his assumption was correct).
Therefore, from Aro’s perspective, Bella was a human who wanted to become immortal so much that she would rather die than not, and she was already following his law. She was no issue.
Yet.
Bella, knowing the law, should have been very grateful that she was left alive. Edward not being executed and she not being killed or forcibly turned on the spot... Aro had been very nice to them.
And again, in BD, he was very nice to them. Some people will inevitably say that he was weak in not killing them all. I mean, they stood beside Vladimir and Stefan! They have an army of wolves fundamentally opposed to vampires! Aro has lost Good Reputation Points by sparing the Cullens. He held as close to a trial as vampire society has ever had, and rightfully pronounced the Cullens innocent.
So shouldn’t Bella like him? He has spared her life and the lives of her loved ones more than one, and proven that he can be spoken to and conversed with properly and is willing to admit he was wrong. With Aro, we know it’s important to look more at what he does than what he says, and what he has done is be very kind to the Cullens (though who knows about the future?).
Yet Bella was creeped out by him when they met and interpreted him as a threat to Edward’s life. As she loves Edward, she’s always going to be of this mind, and first impressions are important.
Vampires are stuck with the mindsets they had when turned. An example of this is Esme, who was turned after her baby died and she tried to die too. She is permanently feeling maternal. She was turned only days after giving birth. Before knowing this, Bella even describes her as maternal and the mother of the family. Huilen also has a lot of care for Nahuel, being his aunt, because of her love for Pire, and while she was dying, Pire begged Huilen to raise him. Joham does not seem to have this parental love for his son and daughters; he never really knew Pire and was never affected by her love for Nahuel, and did not meet him until years after he was born. He’s only genetically a parent. He doesn’t have the protective mindset. When he was turned, he was a curious scientist (in fact, it was even why his creator turned him). He sees the world and people as things to study.
Anyway.
When Bella was turned, all she was thinking about was Renesmee. She begged Edward to get the baby out and didn’t care for her own life.
And she will be forever stuck in this high alert, must-protect-my-baby mode. Then for weeks as a newborn vampire, she was thinking of Aro as a threat and preparing to fight him. Compounding that, he was a threat to her daughter.
Both of these things will have had a significant effect on who she will have become after her newborn phase ended. It is impossible for Bella to ever like Aro now, even if she tried.
Her dislike of him, and willingness to fight against him, will be forever engrained in her brain.
This is dangerous.
Bella found the Romanians weird, but she didn’t dislike them per se. She would probably be willing to stand with them against the Volturi again.
We can take an educated guess and assume that sometime they will rise up again - and Bella might stand with them (though I highly doubt any of the other Cullens would).
Bella was not a problem for Aro until she stood beside Vladimir and Stefan.
Here is this vampire who can block most of his coven’s gifts, stuck with an intense dislike of him, who he has seen with his own eyes stand with his enemies. He has every right to be nervous now. Her love for her mate is almost as strong as Marcus’s bond to Didyme - how strong is her bond to Renesmee? Likely more. Aro knows the threat in that. He knows that Bella may be viewing him in the way Marcus feels when he thinks of taking revenge on whoever killed Didyme.
Nobody wants the Romanians back in power. Those who lived under their reign and those who have heard first hand stories told to them all know very well that life under Vladimir would be horrible, brutal, awful for all beside his close coven members (though considering he had a very large coven that was often squabbling amongst itself, it was probably miserable for a lot of them too).
But Bella is young. She has no memory of the world before the Volturi, and knows no one with first hand experience of that world other than the Volturi. She will have heard that it was horrible, but she has no emotional or personal connection to the near-ancient past, and vampires who lived during that time are disappearing. No one lives forever.
Then, she is American. Like Garrett, she values freedom, and the Volturi are the only oppressive vampire force either of them has ever known. Despite them being the least oppressive in vampire history, Bella and Garrett haven’t experienced the alternative. They are a government that is at times harsh, is corrupt, and executes people. They go to war and they obliterate their enemies. Bella doesn’t see that the Volturi is the least bad government her world is ever going to get, and that they’ve granted her so much freedom. She is unable to see that because, in her youth, she has nothing to compare them against.
By standing against the Volturi, Bella isn’t just standing against Aro, Caius, and Marcus. She is standing against the peace they have brought between vampires, against humans living without fear, against modern civilisation itself. She stands a representative of the next world order, and Aro can sense it.
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