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luveline · 2 years

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bribery and a movie | steve harrington x mayfield!reader

summary Steve wants a date with Max’s older sibling. You want Max to be happy. It doesn’t hurt that he’s good looking. [3k]

warnings fluff, first date, steve is a pining mess, mutual pining, max is a baby angel sweetheart that deserves the world, gn!reader, mayfield!reader, mentions of domestic violence not graphic, pre-s4, some s4 spoilers, requested here

“Bribery is a felony,” Max says, looking up at Steve with her solemn eyes.

Steve leans against the store window behind him. Family Video glows red, painting the young girl in neon crimson, her auburn hair aflame. He knows she’s playing hardball — there has to be something a sixteen year old girl wants enough to accept a bribe, even if that bribe is to secure a date with Max’s hot older sibling.

Steve tries to be very patient. If he gets hysterical Max will react with sarcasm and ridicule, and Steve will lose.

“There has to be something you want.”

“Enough to serve up my sibling like a piece of meat? Classy.”

“Not serving up! I just want a date. One date. Or a phone number, I’m not picky.”

“Y/N isn’t interested in boys.”

“At all, or just me?”

Max, sitting on the hood of Steve’s car with her skateboard across her knees, grins. “Just you.”

“And they said this to you?” he asks incredulously.

“In a way,” Max says.

He’s quickly at the end of his rope, tipping his head back, mouth open in indignation. “You’re hurting my feelings.” He scrubs a hand over his face and then presses his hands together pleadingly. “I would be a perfect gentleman. Dinner, a movie, that’s it.”

“And then a quick soiree at Skull Rock.”

“No!” Steve shouts. After smiling at a startled customer on their way out of the store, he says, “No, of course not.”

Max looks unconvinced. She hops down off of the hood and sets her board on the ground with more kindness than she’s ever shown him, one foot on like she’s about to push off. Steve feels it for what it is.

A vague threat to up his bribe.

“There has to be something you want, Mayfield.”

“For you to stop propositioning my sibling via me? I’m not their pimp.”

“I’m not propositioning. Just asking you to ask them if they may or may not be interested in me.”

He’d do it himself if he could talk to you without pissing his pants.

Max sighs, kicking the skateboard up into her waiting hands. She’s wearing her new jacket, blue with yellow accents, and it turns purple in the store's light. It’s getting late. She shouldn’t be skating around in the dark.

“Look, get in. I’ll drive you home,” he says, feeling dejected at being nowhere closer to a date.

Max hesitates and tilts her head, messy red braids falling to one side. “Shit,” she says under her breath. “Fine, I’ll ask them for you. I know you’re a good guy deep down, Steve. Deep, deep down.” Her voice is smooth as silk, her mouth open in a sympathetic smile. “And who knows, maybe they’ll find you inexplicably attractive. A beat up 733i, a steady job at Family Video, no college degree, no opportunities-“

“What the hell, Max?” he asks, scowling. He can’t believe he almost fell for her sarcasm. Again. A year ago he would’ve ruffled her hair. Instead, he pushes up off the window with a groan. “You're a little shit, you know that?”

Max smiles saccharine sweet and nods.

He rubs his forehead with the back of his hand and fishes for his keys in his pocket. “Alright, get in the car before I change my mind.”

“Y/N’s coming to get me.”

Steve thinks he might have gone a bit deaf for a second or five. “Here? Y/N’s coming here? To Family Video?”

“That’s what I said.”

Sure enough, what can’t have been ten seconds later your car turns a corner and there you are through the window, beautiful and radiant and so out of Steve’s league he forgets to breathe, even from the side. You roll down the window and turn. He chokes.

“Hey, Maxie,” you call brightly, arm crossed over the open window.

Steve sees the way Max’s face lights up even though she tries to hide it.

“Hey, Steve,” you add. “Family Video? Nice.”

“H-hey, Y/N.”

Max looks between the two of you, disgusted, walking to the trunk to throw in her board. She drags her feet like listening to your interaction is torturing her.

“How’s it going?” you ask pleasantly.

Steve feels like he’s shrinking under your gaze, obsessed with your hair and your skin and the way your eyes are basically sparkling in the evening dark.

“It’s going,” he says, voice high. He coughs. “Yeah, definitely going. How are you doing?”

“Oh, you know. We’re okay. I got a new job with my mom at the diner. I look killer in the uniform,” you tell him with a cheeky smile.

“I bet you do,” he says.

You laugh quietly. “Yeah, I’m the bell of the ball in that place.”

Max opens the passenger door. You give Steve an intoxicating smile. “Nice to see you!” you call, rolling up the window.

It’s firmly closed by the time he’s managed to reply. “Nice to- oh.”

He blinks, ashamed and embarrassed, looking down at his wrecked shoes with something close to pleading. God, he thinks, if you’re real, let the ground swallow me up. Please.

“Steve!” Max calls.

He flinches, his attention drawn back up. Max stands with the door open and resting on her hip, leaning over the roof of the car with a begrudging expression. He tries not to look at you, your hands fiddling with something hanging off of your rear view mirror.

“Kate Bush, Hounds of Love on cassette. The day it comes out. The day it comes out,” she emphasises.

“Whatever you want!” he promises, tripping over his words in a rush to get them out.

Max glares at him. “Don’t make me regret this.”

You smile at your little sister in the passenger seat. Her braids are a mess, loose and windblown from skating. You slow at a red and take the opportunity to reach out, running one through your fingers gently.

“They’re a mess, Maxie.”

Max pretends to be mad. “You weren’t there.”

“Sorry, baby.”

She shrugs. It’s been hard on her — everything. Losing Billy, your step dad leaving (though he was an asshole), moving into the trailer home, a summer alone; she'd broken up with her boyfriend and was spending less time with her friends. She’s been having bad headaches and nightmares.

Max doesn’t tell you much besides the bare minimum. Good thing your baby sister hasn’t ever needed to say her feelings aloud before you clocked them.

“You know my shifts are early now. With the overtime, and mom’s, we should be real comfortable.”

“Comfortable,” she scoffs.

You chew your bottom lip and take a long turn. “Don’t be like that. Overtime got you your new jacket. Which looks great, by the way.”

“Thank you.”

You frown even more at her serious, grateful tone, reaching out for your little sister's hand blindly. Max is kind enough to save you the effort and you give her smaller fingers a brilliant squeeze.

“You don’t have to say thanks to me. You deserve everything you want, Max. You know that.”

There’s a long silence then. You steal your hand back and flick on your indicator.

“Are you happy?” she asks.

You giggle, startled peels, and can’t help but look at her.

“Am I happy?”

“Are you happy?” she repeats resolutely.

“Of course I am. I have you. I have mom. Every night we go to bed with full bellies, and we don’t ever have to worry about someone laying their hands on us.”

“But are you happy? Are you…lonely?”

“Max, baby, is this about Lucas? You know, it’s okay to miss people, especially when you’re struggling-”

“No, it’s not about Lucas.” She slouches down in her seat, the seatbelt almost strangling her. You hold in the urge to scold her and wait for her to explain. “Do you like Steve?”

“Sure I do.”

“Enough to go out with him?”

You give her a tight smile. “I don’t have time for boys.”

Max looks out the window. You’re on the road outside the trailer now. You pull your car up onto the grass though you’re not supposed to and put it in park. Neither of you move to get out.

“He’s very handsome. And sweet. I think if I had a little bit more time and he asked me, then yes. I’d go out with him,” you tell her honestly.

Max doesn’t just admire honesty, she thrives on it. It’s good for her to feel trusted, and right now all you want is for her to be happy when she so clearly hasn’t been.

She looks at you seriously. “I don’t think you and mom both need to work overtime.”

“Come on. We have to take what we can get. You start high school in a few weeks, you need new clothes, a new bag. One of those fancy calculators,” you say, going for an airy lightness.

“I don’t need new clothes,” Max says, almost angry as she tears off her belt.

“We just want you to feel good about-”

“I would be happier if I thought you were happy,” Max says, quick and firm, pushing open the passenger door with her leg. She scrambles out, stands up tall, and then ducks her head back inside the car. “If you go, Steve said he’ll get me the new Kate Bush cassette.”

You pull the keys out of the ignition and give your scheming sister a reluctantly impressed chagrin.

“He really is handsome,” you say, sighing. Max’s smile is worth it, even if he turns out to be a real freak.

Steve doesn’t look like a freak outside Enzo’s. He looks tall. Casual enough, a button down and a pair of dark trousers, fancy shoes but not too fancy. He stands with his back to you but you’d know that hair anywhere. You call out his name as you approach.

It seems natural to give him a kiss on the cheek. He’s pretty and he’d been really, really nice over the phone when you’d called. Funny, slightly doting. And he’d said a bucketful of nice things about Max.

You were sold.

“Hi,” you say happily as you set back on your shoes.

“Hi,” he says, equally enthused.

“I’m sorry if I’m a bit late,” you say quickly.

You don’t have a watch. Steve doesn’t look at his own as he says, “No, you’re not late. I was early.”

He opens the door for you and gives his name for the reservation and soon you’re sitting down just close enough to the kitchen to smell a little bit of everything they’re making. Being asked on a date is nice in that you know Steve likes you, at least enough to ask, if not more, so all the real pressure is on him.

He’s feeling it, you think, his eyes everywhere but your face as he takes off his jacket.

“I’ve never been on a real date,” he says.

“Me neither,” you smile, “‘Less you count, like, prom.”

He raises his eyebrows, pushing up his sleeves as he slides forward, his full attention on you. You melt under his warm, brown gaze. “Who did you go with?”

“Randy.”

Steve wrinkles his nose. You grin, ready to lay into him.

“You have a problem with Randy?”

“What? No, no problem with Randy. Randy’s a nice guy. Really… tolerable.”

You snort. A waiter puts down two menus and asks if you’re ready for a round of drinks. Steve asks for a soda and you hold up two fingers with a smile.

“I’ve always wanted to do that,” you confide, hedging forward on your elbows to be closer to him. “Randy was tolerable. He was a bad kisser, though.”

“I’ve heard that about him,” Steve says.

“Yeah?”

“No.”

A small silence, then you’re bursting into laughter, hand thrown up to cover your mouth.

“Have you had dinner here before?” you ask once the giggles have faded.

“No, but Dustin said we should try the Ziti.”

“Dustin…” you squint, eyes looking up to your lashes quizzically. “Max’s friend?”

Steve pales but saves himself quickly. “Yeah, Dustin Henderson. He’s like,” his lips part but nothing comes out. He wets his lips. “He comes to me for advice. And I look out for him, drive him places. He’s a good kid. Funny.”

“So he’s like your little brother.”

“Yeah.”

“That’s why Max likes you so much,” you say, nodding.

“I wouldn’t go that far.”

“I would. Max is very particular, you know.”

“Trust me, I do.”

Your soda arrives and Steve orders the baked ziti. You ask for the same, this time aloud, and then spend the time waiting looking over Steve appreciatively. He’s very handsome, as you’ve said, with a nice body and a nice smile, but what you really like about him is his kindness. He asks questions, seems more than intrigued by your answers. His chin rises as he answers yours, humble and funny.

He’s also a bumbling idiot, visually smitten and easy to get a rise out of. You’re obsessed.

“The uniform,” he’s saying, a fork held loosely in his hand, “you have an apron?”

“And why does that matter, Harrington?”

“You know, just in case you get messy.”

You put down your drink. “That’s disgusting,” you say seriously, knowing perfectly well he wasn’t insinuating anything.

He blushes mad scarlet. “No, I didn’t-”

You can’t contain a smile, laughing as it dawns on him.

“Oh, you’re mean,” Steve says. He doesn’t sound like he minds.

You finish up, running late for the ‘movie’ part of dinner and a movie. He insists on paying. You insist on going halves. It’s brisk outside and he’s quick to offer you his jacket. It smells like him, amber buried beneath bergamot, sandalwood, a handful of rich smells. A cologne you could get used to, you think, his jacket over your shoulders as you walk to his car.

You’re about two feet from his car, dizzy with how well you’re getting on and excited to see a new blockbuster with him when he puts a hand out between you. You slow.

“You have…” he says, hand raised slowly to your face.

You close your eyes and he draws near, careful where he touches your face. His fingertips brush against the well of your eye and pinch, his warmth disappearing. You blink open your eyes and see he’s holding an eyelash in front of your face.

He’s looking at the eyelash. You look at him, his brown eyes hedged in long, dark lashes, his thick eyebrows. He has a darling crop of freckles smattered over his nose and cheeks.

It’s dark out now. The ebbing light of the restaurant kisses his face, throws a shadow across his cheek as it hits his straight nose. His lips form words and you’re enchanted.

“Make a wish,” he says easily.

You close your eyes to think. For Max to be happy, you decide. And then, a voice that sounds suspiciously of your aforementioned sister, for me to be happy.

You blow the eyelash away and open your eyes. Steve’s hand hovers in front of your chest for a moment. You can’t explain why, only that the light and his company and the fullness of a great meal has made you slap dap happy, but you step forward, closing the gap until there’s less than a half foot of space between your rising chests. His hand bumps into your shoulder.

He has a split second to decide whether he should take it back or play it off. He makes the right decision, you think, or at least the one that makes you happy, when his palm sweeps up your neck, his fingers brushing the hair at the back of your head. Your chest burns with pleasure at his touch.

“You look really nice, tonight,” he says.

“Thank you,” you murmur, watching your own hand as you wrap your fingers around his elbow. You slide your hand up the warm plane of his forearm until you're clutching his wrist. “You look really nice, too.”

He rubs the curve that makes up the juncture of your neck. His hand is so warm you think it must be filled with nothing but hot, hot blood, rubbing your shoulder, his fingers spreading as they chase down the fall of your arm and then pull away.

“I’m glad you think so. Lucas vetoed the majority of my wardrobe this morning. Shithead said I dress like I’m trying too hard.”

He pulls open the passenger door. You’re busy feeling fond, your stomach awash with a thousand dancing butterflies.

“Are you getting in?” he asks.

You nod and smile and brush past him, lingering at his side for a half-second too long. You climb in. He shuts the door behind you.

He rounds the hood and jumps in next to you. You turn to him as he’s checking his rear view mirror, curious.

He sees your curiosity and is quick to grin, albeit nervously.

“What?” he asks.

“Do you always let 15 year olds dress you?” you ask.

Steve sighs morosely. “Not always.”

“Ah,” you say. You decide then and there that you’ll be sorely put out if he doesn’t kiss you goodnight after the movie.

He does.

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y-rhywbeth2 · 2 months

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The most important thing I've learnt recently is that I'm now pretty sure that Bane canonically thinks pissing Bhaal off is funny, is 100% willing to seduce his own followers (I mean, he does canonically have at least one child with one), as well as use flirting (with a side of threats and bribery) to sway people to convert to his faith.

Which means that I believe he would be willing to seduce (or at least flirt with) the Dark Urge, Kelemvor style, purely because it would piss Bhaal off and also piss Myrkul off because he's the one who has to mediate whenever Bane starts pulling this shit.

I only wonder whether he would do it via dream, manifest an avatar (which considering Bane's favouring of demonic looking avatars when he's not possessing people, kinda counts as monsterfucking?) or if he uses Gortash as an avatar to do it (or possess one of his other Banites as a "fuck you" to Gortash if his Chosen has displeased him recently, maybe? Watch your god make out with your not-partner Enver: that's what you get for developing "feelings". Or maybe he'd be into that idk)

If it works, on any level, then Durge is probably going to be incapacitated by religious guilt for the remainder of forever.

#I'm slightly delirious and still don't understand why I've chosen Durge x Bane for a crackship but here we are #Durge is a mess; Bhaal is having an apoplexy; Bane is the ultimate trash fire #It compels me #...I will look back at this tomorrow and wonder what possessed me to post it #Bane perhaps #edgelord hours #villainous nonsense #/durgetash #for the filtering #the idiot three #/durge #babbling

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dusty-daydreams · 1 year

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Beyond the setting of elite school and working class town in Young Royals, education is also a great setting to examine the implications of class.

On the surface, Simon and Sara have this great opportunity to study at this Elite school, it should in theory set them up for life. Except class is not as a simple as getting into the right classes (if you'll excuse the pun).

Sara is clearly talented with horses and attending Hillerska gives her opportunities to develop this talent - BUT horses are an expensive hobby/field. Sara cannot get as far in horse related fields, as say Felice, despite Felice having zero talent with horses, because where Felice can afford to buy and upkeep a horse, Sara can't. Sara's family can't even afford to keep her in long-lasting jodhpurs.

Simon is extremely talented with music and singing, and attending Hillerska gives him opportunities to develop this talent - BUT he has not had formal music lessons, and can't read music, or fully play piano, beyond what he has been able to figure out himself (or potentially with his dad's help). Wille, with no interest in music (beyond getting starry eyed at his boyfriend's voice) can play piano and read music as a result of a royal upbringing.

The working-class kids with the passion and talent, are starting behind the upper-class kids with the resources (but no genuine interest in the areas)

The resource gap is even more overt in the straight academic classes. It is implied that math at least, but possibly all the academic classes are subjects that Simon and Sara excelled at, but Simon's math mark drops, not because his work ethic has but because he does not the resources to pay for the corrupt bribery marking system at Hillerska. He also doesn't have the same time resources as the other students who board and have weekend access to the teachers. Attending an elitist school serves no purpose if you 'fail' at the school.

Which brings back the drug issue in season 1 - Simon is caught in a catch 22. He sells drugs to afford to bribe the teachers. BUT his position is precarious - if he as a working-class second generation immigrant is caught selling drugs he risks prison and criminal charges. Whereas the upper class kids he is selling too (via August!) get caught, they depending on their degree of privilege will be expelled and sent to a different elite school (lower-upper class), be suspended and need to make a 'donation to return' (middle-upper class like Alexander, or potentially be on the receiving end of in-school punishment (upper-upper class). The consequences for Wille at the pinnacle of the hierarchy depends on who finds out - if it is kept under wraps, he is unlikely to receive any direct punishment - as that would expose the secret (which isn't to say that he would be mistreated by his emotionally abusive family), if the public finds out, he is likely to quietly withdrawn and put into a rehab to 'correct his ways'.

Being poor is expensive.

The consequences for what happens to Simon and Sara, may not be worse than the consequences for their upper-class counterparts, but they are more expensive.

Let's take the example of the sex tape -

There are three people involved: Wille, Simon and August

The consequences for August for perpetrating a sexual crime, recording and publishing revenge child porn: the crime is covered up in order to protect him, and the royal family by his association with them. Ultimately he is prepared to promoted to the ready-made job of 'working royal' a career that we know he desires.

The consequences for Wille: He is potentially outed, this poses a threat to the royal family's stability, he denies the video and immediately frees himself from the public consequences of the video, loses his relationship with his lover as a result. This is all very sad, and the undeniable tragedy of season 1 but it is not expensive.

The consequences for Simon (notably the only one that cannot deny any connection to the video): Simon is outed to the entire public, interested world. His undeniable visage is publicly blasted, attached to his name. We are shown that 'Sweden Crown Prince Boyfriend' is a top search. Any potential employer that does a cursory google of Simon (if they didn't already know who he was) would stumble across his scandalous underage sex tape (that most people think was with the Crown Prince, but pre-season 2 finale would be politely pretending it wasn't). Revenge Porn, is in part 'revenge' because it demonstrably limits it's victims ability to be employed.

If Simon were to take August to court, August would have the support of lawyers from the royal court (as we are told in Season 2). Simon with fewer resources, would possibly end up in a long, expensive war of attrition that August would win, and that would even more publicly tie Simon, his name, his face to the video.

I also think that it is significant that Simon and his mother consider withdrawing him from Hillerska in the immediate aftermath of the tape. Something that Wille and August don't need to think about. August's actions could have cost Simon's education as well as his future employment prospects.

TLDR: Class is about more than money, it's about the resources that give people opportunities that others don't have and disproportionately punishes people at the bottom of the hierarchy. It's a system that holds Simon and Sara back even when they get into class with their "class betters". It's a system that makes any mistake made by or against the working class, expensive as well as traumatic.

#young royals #young royals meta #the show is about the class system #i am back with extremely wordy takes on the class system in young royals #being poor is expensive #simon eriksson #sara eriksson #felice ehrencrona #wilhelm #august

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gaslightgatekeepgirlbosscombat · 7 months

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Group D, Round 1, Poll 1:

Propaganda under the cut

Morgana Pendragon

yes

Linda Monroe

Alright. So. Linda Monroe, President of the Hatchetfield Boating Society, mother of four beautiful blond boys, wife of Dr Gerald Monroe, daughter of Roman Murray. How does one begin to describe Linda Monroe? In Black Friday, she gaslights, gatekeeps and girlbosses her way into becoming a cult leader. Now, to be fair, that hadn't been her initial goal. The only reason she was headed to ToyZone that Black Friday was to buy four of these new Wiggly dolls for her sons. She didn't know, of course, that 'Wiggly' was really Wiggog Y'Wrath, an eldritch being from between universes who was planning to enter and destroy our world via the dolls. But after the queue leading into ToyZone escalates into a brawl over the doll, Linda fights harder and more viciously than anyone else. After the mob scatters and Linda is left doll-less, she is of course approached by one of Wiggly's loyal servants, who offers her the choice position of being Wiggly's prophet and forming the cult that will construct the portal for the dark god to travel into our world through. She's such a girlboss that she gets TWO villain songs - her power ballad, Adore Me, about how epic it is that she has all these people mindlessly obeying your will, and the eleventh-hour villain song, Wiggle, about how glorious it'll be when Wiggly rises to reshape the universe. She's such a girlboss that she escapes being physically restrained by our heroes by just screaming really loudly at them and breaking someone's wrist. (deep breath) And that's just Black Friday. Let me tell you about what went down at the Honey Queen Pageant. Linda REALLY wanted to win this pageant. And to win it, she'd to anything - blackmail, bribery, fabricating an entire fake Broadway audition to cause her opponent to lose her voice the day before the pageant, targeting all other opponents she considered a threat and taking them out one by one, in various ways including but not limited to: trapping them on a fake cruise that crashed on purpose in order to delay them, digging up old dirt on them to force them to drop out due to the controversy, and full-on murder them backstage (to be fair, though, that one was playing just as dirty). She wins by bloodthirstiness alone, then executes an incredible Queen B-style rap ballad to cement her victory. Too bad the whole thing turned out to be a front for determining the next sacrifice for Nibblenephim, or 'Nibbly', a dark eldritch being and one of Wiggly's brothers. Linda Monroe gaslit, gatekept and girlbossed her way into becoming a prophet for a Lord In Black - twice. And that's why she deserves to sweep this tournament. Hopefully the prize for winning this one WON'T be 'being eaten alive by a giant mouth'.

#round 1 #group d #Morgana Pendragon #Merlin #black friday #starkid #hatchetfield #linda monroe

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five-rivers · 1 year

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To Plan (To Succeed)

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Danny wasn’t much of a planning guy. Oh, sure, if he had to, he could do it. If lives were at stake, or things like that, yeah, he could do it. But in everyday life? Not so much. The level of thought he had put into this endeavor was out of character. But, again, life or death.

Which was why Danny was ninety percent sure that whatever was going wrong was his fault. Edging towards one hundred.

He’d thought he’d done well. He’d made sure to talk to Sam, so that although the timing of the proposal would be a surprise, that it was coming at some point wouldn’t be. He’d cleared his ghost fight docket by means of bribery and threats. He’d preemptively uncovered and dealt with Vlad’s plan of the month. He’d put Sam’s favorite romantic playlist on the radio. He’d taken them on a walk through the new botanical gardens. He’d made a reservation at her favorite restaurant. He’d arranged ahead of time for the waiters to bring out a small and horrifyingly rare potted plant he’d gotten via unauthorized Infi-Map usage. The ring hidden on one of the tiny shrub’s branches was sourced from ethical materials, including lab-grown moissanite and ghost ice. He had even written a little speech.

And that last one might have been a little lame, but he wanted this to be perfect, darn it.

It wasn’t. Perfect, that is. Sure, nothing really bad, like, say, Pariah Dark busting out of the Sarcophagus of Forever Sleep, or Vlad showing up and revealing that he’d stolen Danny’s DNA to make another half a dozen test tube babies but this time they were really babies and Vlad had bribed a judge to make sure Danny would be solely responsible for their needs and oh, ancients why did that sound so plausible?

He’d gotten off track. The point was, they were more than halfway through the botanical garden and Sam didn’t look like she was having a good time. At all. She was distracted, barely responding to Danny’s increasingly anemic attempts to start conversation, and she kept rubbing her arms, like she was cold.

“Would you like my jacket?” Danny asked again, slightly desperate. “You know I don’t actually need it, and–”

“I’m fine,” snapped Sam.

“Right, right,” said Danny. He rubbed the back of his neck. “You know, if your skin is itchy, I’ve got some of that hydrocortisone cream…” Becoming a half ghost did weird things to a person’s immune system, but even if it didn’t, his dad’s side of the family had a history of overly-sensitive skin. There was a reason Jack wore the jumpsuit all the time, and it was that the patented fabric was extremely hypoallergenic and chafe-free. Two qualities that Danny longed for increasingly as he got older. But Sam wasn’t listening. “Sam?”

“What?”

“Oh, uh,” said Danny, hunching his shoulders. “Nothing.” Maybe he should call things off. Try again later… Even if this had eaten into his budget of ghost favors, he could try again. “Just… are you feeling okay?”

“I’m fine.”

“Because if you’re not, we don’t have to–”

“I said I’m fine. I’m not sick. I’m just.” She huffed. “I don’t want to talk about it, okay?”

“Yeah, sure,” said Danny. He tucked his hands into his pockets. “We can talk about something else. Maybe…” He cast around for the topic. “Do you like this place? It’s pretty cool that they did something like this, isn’t it?”

“It’s fine. The roots are all shallow.”

That was a little bit of a non sequitur, but Danny could roll with it. “Because they’ve all been transplanted from somewhere else, right?”

“Yeah,” said Sam, and then the conversation died. Dead in the water. Kaput. Going nowhere. Not even a ghost of a conversation, because ghosts do things.

Danny was suffering.

That didn’t mean he gave up. He persisted, picking out this interesting plant, or that pretty flower, or even commenting on the little placards.

He couldn’t believe he was commenting on the little placards.

They reached the end of the walk through the garden.

“So… Do you want to drive, or shall we walk?”

“Let’s drive,” said Sam.

Something was really wrong. That was supposed to be a courtesy question. Eternally environmentally aware Sam did not drive when she could walk. Ever. Unless it was a scooter. She liked her scooter. That was an exception. But still.

She hadn’t been overshadowed, had she? No, Danny would have noticed that. Mind control? If Danny had missed mind control, he didn’t deserve to be a fiance. But, no. He didn’t think it was mind control.

Oh, Ancients, was she breaking up with him? Was she nervous because she was breaking up with him, and she was afraid he’d take it badly?

He would take it badly, but that was beside the point. Part of being a good boyfriend was gracefully accepting being dumped. So, he’d just have to suck it up.

His core felt like it was melting.

He should have planned something other than romantic music for the car. He had for the walk. Scoped it out and everything. Picked a route with one of those funny caricature artists on it. The guy had the literal worst sketch of Phantom Danny had ever seen. It was so randomly muscly and his suit looked like it was morphing into a piano. And the hair. It sucked so much. Sam would love it. Maybe. If she wasn’t breaking up with him. Or maybe she’d like a horrible ugly sketch of her ex on the wall. She could throw darts at it.

He was getting ahead of himself. Surely. Surely Sam wasn’t breaking up with him. She was just having a bad day. It happened. Usually she’d say why it was a bad day, but it wasn’t like that was a requirement.

The restaurant parking lot was tiny, and parking his admittedly large (Fenton modified) van proved to be challenging enough to take up all of his focus for the next few minutes. But they did get parked, and they did go in, and the restaurant had not lost his reservation. Part of Danny wished they had, but the rest of him was more wary of Desiree and beat that part of him into submission. No. Wishing.

The waiter winked at him. Danny smiled back, weakly.

Sam looked around the room, nervously.

“We’re not being followed or something, are we?” joked Danny.

“What?”

“You keep looking around,” said Danny. “Like, I don’t know, like you’d seen someone following us.”

Sam made a face at him. “No. I was just– I think they remodeled, since the last time I came here.”

They hadn’t.

“They… might have more plants?” offered Danny. He was pretty sure they didn’t, but it was possible.

“That’s it,” said Sam, almost… relieved? “They have more plants. That’s it. That has to be it.”

“Um… what has to be it?”

“Nothing,” said Sam, quickly.

That was suspicious. “Are you sure?”

“I’m sure. It was just… more plants.”

“Right,” said Danny, deciding not to press.

The song playing over the restaurant’s speakers switched. A procession of waitstaff began to pour out of the kitchen. Oh. Oh, no. They were early.

The first waiter, the one who had seated them, approached the table, beaming, holding the little shrub proudly in front of himself. He put it down in front of Sam, who was pushed back from the table as if she expected it to bite her.

Danny attempted a smile. “Ribes echinellum,” he offered.

“Miccosukee gooseberry,” said Sam. She reached for a leaf. “They’re nearly extin–”

The plant exploded.

Not in the ‘fire and huge noises’ sense but in the ‘expanded suddenly, rapidly, and unexpectedly’ sense. Huge, knotted branches punched up into the ceiling and walls. Roots spilled over the table and onto the floor, drilling into the tile. Other customers dodged woody death, years of running from ghost fights serving them well. Fat berries as big as a human head plopped and splattered on the ground. Danny, for his part, deeply regretted getting a plant that had thorns on it.

“Sam?” he called, subtly phasing through inconveniently placed branches. “Are you okay? I swear I didn’t know it was going to do that.” Although it was probably still his fault for bringing it through the Ghost Zone. And time. Maybe these plants used to just do this in the distant past? No, that was stupid. “Sam?” At least it didn’t look like anyone else was hurt, but she’d been touching the thing.

Someone sniffled. Danny reoriented himself to the sound and knelt down.

“Sam, are you okay? Are you hurt?”

“It’s my fault,” whispered Sam into her knees.

“What do you mean?” aske Danny. He forced a laugh. “I was the one who got the plant…”

Sam shook her head. “No, it’s… Ever since Undergrowth, I… He left something in me, and it’s only getting worse. It was just little things at first, but now it’s this and I can’t even be in my greenhouse anymore.”

“It’s okay,” said Danny, trying not to think too hard about Sam dealing with this by herself since they were high school sophomores, “it’s okay, we’ll just–”

“It’s not okay. I just destroyed a restaurant. What part of that is okay?”

“Well,” said Danny, “maybe it’s not okay. But we can figure it out, right? Like we did with all of my powers.”

“I’ve been trying,” said Sam.

“Yeah, but this time, we’ll do it together, alright?” He held out his hand.

“Alright,” said Sam, lifting her hand.

There was a sharp crack from above, and something silvery and flashing fell from the branches above, right into Danny’s palm. Both Sam and Danny stared at it for a while.

“Is that a wedding ring?” asked Sam.

“Yep,” said Danny, sweating more than he had since he’d fought a wannabe interdimensional dictator to a standstill for the first time.

“Is that ghost ice?”

“Yep,” repeated Danny, still sweating.

“You are such a nerd. You’re lucky I am, too.” She took Danny’s hand. “Were you really going to–”

The sound of sirens cut off whatever she was going to say.

“Maybe we should finish this later,” suggested Danny.

“Yeah, that sounds like a plan.”

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The Tennessee Three: Whataboutism as Fascism Apologia

You've no doubt heard at this point about "the Tennessee Three", three Democratic members of the Tennessee State House facing an expulsion vote for their role in a protest against gun violence that occurred on the state legislative floor. Expulsion is a rarely-invoked procedure in Tennessee, typically reserved for obvious cases of criminality of misconduct (e.g., a bribery scandal) in cases that garner bipartisan support. To use it to kick out minority party members for a raucous protest the majority found embarrassing is a huge overreach, an exploitation of the GOP's supermajority status to further undermine basic democratic principles.

I wanted to flag a particular comparison Tennessee Republicans are using to justify their conduct -- comparing the protest to the attempted insurrection on January 6:

House Speaker Cameron Sexton compared the incident to Jan. 6: "What they did today was equivalent, at least equivalent, maybe worse depending on how you look at it, to doing an insurrection in the State Capitol," he said.

Sexton also noted that Jones and Johnson had previously been "very vocal about Jan. 6 and Washington, D.C., about what that was."

There was, of course, no insurrection here: the protest had no ambitions of overthrowing the government. But there's something revealing about this rhetorical move that I think typifies the way conservatives are normalizing and justifying fascist behavior.

Even now, many Republicans are kind of willing to concede that there was something ... untoward about January 6, and the broader campaign of election denial that spawned it. "Kind of" because they face tremendous pressure to outright endorse it, as Sexton's "maybe worse" aside makes clear. But to the extent they to recognize that there's something wrong with what happened on January 6, what they want to do is present things like January 6 as an ordinary sort of ugliness, the sort of foul or misconduct one can see from all parts of the political spectrum. Yes, maybe the January 6 thing went a bit too far. But it's not distinctive; this is a problem one can see across the aisle too. Look at Black Lives Matter protests -- why aren't they being treated like the insurrectionists? Maybe Trump shouldn't have denied the election, but is it really any different from Al Gore demanding a recount in 2000? Trump stole classified documents; well, what about her emails? Whatabout, whatabout, whatabout.

By transferring these egregious examples of anti-democratic thuggery into the realm of "normal" politics, Republicans justify treating them via the "normal" (partisan) political process. Sure it might be a bit distasteful, and more than a little opportunistic, but hey, that's politics. There's nothing exceptional here that demands standing on a broader principle. Everything blurs into an indistinguishable mush of "sometimes politics gets ugly." And in that universe, well, it's just realistic that Republicans probably won't pay much attention to their "normal" nips that might cross the line. Cynicism styles itself as realism, but it's really just cowardice.

None of this is to say that straightforward political thuggery isn't sufficient explanation for why Tennessee Republicans are acting the way they are. But there is a broader justificatory narrative being crafted here. The Tennessee Three isn't just about state and national Republicans being contemptuous of democratic norms (though it's certainly about that too). It's yet another effort to pull the extreme conservative threats to basic rule of law principles out of the realm of "extreme" and blur them into the normal hurly-burly of every day politics. Exploiting the media's instinct to "both sides" everything, the GOP will just troll all the way down

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The Biden influence peddling operation has been exposed. If we had a serious Department of Justice, there would be a full investigation into whether felonious activities were committed. Instead, we’ve had independent and conservative media reporters flesh out the details, whereas the establishment press report on Hunter Biden’s antics, for the most part, but thread Russian disinformation nonsense into the mix. There isn’t any Russian disinformation; Hunter’s laptop was authenticated. The media is salivating over the indictment of Alexander Smirnov, the source of the Biden Burisma bribery allegations since it can rehash Russian disinformation and blow up the impeachment push from congressional Republicans. That is not the case.

As Michael Shellenberger wrote, there’s another Biden associate, Jason Galanis, whose testimony matches what has been publicly reported on the influence operation. Galanis is a convicted criminal who is serving 15 years for securities fraud. But his testimony from jail also revealed the main prize of the Biden peddling operation and a national security threat.

In August 2023, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm held a secret meeting with Chinese officials regarding releasing our petroleum reserves. Beijing's interest in our oil and gas reserves isn't new, but we’ve had multiple revelations about this Biden influence scheme thanks to the laptop. The multiple shell companies were created and run by Biden family members to filter the money from Romania. You already know about the Burisma connections, the trips to Kazakhstan, and other meetings with unsavory businesspeople and oligarchs. Joe Biden was involved in at least 20 such discussions with his son Hunter to show prospects that this “relationship capital” venture had teeth in the form of connections through the then-vice president and his last name. This brings us back to the Tony Bobulinski allegations that date back to October 2020 and CEFC China Energy. Shellenberger noted that the main financial prize for the Biden family in this operation was to allow China to dominate American energy sources. One of the ways they planned on doing that while getting rich was by partnering with CEFC on a liquified natural gas (LNG) deal on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast (via Public):

They were understandably paranoid as they left evidence of what they were doing. It was the email chain about the LNG deal in which Hunter famously said, about shares in the business venture, that there would be “10 [percent] held by H for the big guy.” And, according to Bobulinski, “the big guy—100 percent—is Joe Biden.”

Bobulinski told Congressional investigators that he once asked Joe’s brother, James Biden, “Aren’t you guys concerned that if Joe does run for President of the United States in the future that you guys are doing business directly with the Chinese?”

Bobulinski says James Biden laughed and said, “Plausible deniability.” But, he notes, there are “stacks of evidence that Joe Biden showed up at meetings, shook hands, participated in” over 20 calls related to Hunter’s business “to demonstrate the Biden brand to whoever was in that meeting, whether it was the Ukrainians, the Romanians, the Russians, Colombians, Chinese, whoever it was.”

Congressional investigators have documented $20 million in payments from foreign entities to Biden family members and associates. That number could have been significantly higher had the Biden influence-peddling operation not fallen apart shortly before the 2020 elections, when the New York Post first published evidence of influence-peddling found in emails, text messages, and voicemails on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

China, desperate for cheaper oil and gas, showed in myriad ways how much it wanted access through the Bidens. At one point, the CEO of CEFC gave to Hunter, as a gift, a 2.8-carat diamond worth roughly $80,000.

Wait, isn’t the Biden administration’s policy aimed at restricting this energy sector? Yes, but there’s also a way to make a buck out of it:

The Biden family appeared to be seeking to profit from a policy regime of expanded LNG production, while today, President Biden is restricting it. Climate change policy seeks to reduce oil and gas supply. While that is bad for the US and the environment since it results in the burning of dirtier coal that would otherwise be burned, it has the benefit of driving up the value of existing reserves, which may benefit some powerful financial interests. Some have suggested that Biden’s LNG restrictions were done in response to the demands and interests of John Podesta, who controls much of the Biden White House energy policy. Whether or not that’s the case, it’s clear Biden and his family have, perhaps for many more decades than just one, been trading influence over energy policy to large financial interests, including even rival foreign ones, like China. Environmental considerations aside, the Biden family’s attempt to manipulate energy policy for China, Kazakhstan, and Mexico should trouble Democrats and Republicans alike. They should additionally be concerned by evidence of political corruption by the FBI and Justice Department to cover up for the Biden family. And it’s not just the Biden family. Shellenberger noted the energy games have been plated by other prominent politicians as well, like former California Gov. Jerry Brown who established new air pollution standards to benefit his family’s stake in imported Indonesian oil. With the evidence of potential illegality stacked as high as the Eiffel Tower against the Biden family, the timing of the Smirnov indictment reeks of ‘look, squirrel’ from the Justice Department that has consistently intervened to protect Biden’s family. Hunter Biden might have issued the deal of the century, virtual blanket immunity on tax evasion and gun charges if it weren’t for Joseph Zeigler and Gary Shapley coming forward last year, alleging pervasive DOJ intrusion into their investigations.

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Reporter: 'Chinese Control Over US Oil and Gas at Heart of Biden Family Influence Peddling'

Shellenberger noted that the main financial prize for the Biden family in this operation was to allow China to dominate American energy sources. One of the ways they planned on doing that while getting rich was by partnering with CEFC on a liquified natural gas (LNG) deal on Louisiana’s Gulf Coast (via Public):

The Bidens were careful not to over-involve the then Vice President, Bobulinski says. Before he met Joe Biden, Bobulinski says he was told that, “this is going to be a high-level meeting. We’re not going to go into a lot of detail” about CEFC. Another Hunter business associate told Bobulinski in a text message, “Don’t mention Joe being involved, it’s only when u are face to face, I know u know that but they are paranoid.” They were understandably paranoid as they left evidence of what they were doing. It was the email chain about the LNG deal in which Hunter famously said, about shares in the business venture, that there would be “10 [percent] held by H for the big guy.” And, according to Bobulinski, “the big guy—100 percent—is Joe Biden.” Bobulinski told Congressional investigators that he once asked Joe’s brother, James Biden, “Aren’t you guys concerned that if Joe does run for President of the United States in the future that you guys are doing business directly with the Chinese?” Bobulinski says James Biden laughed and said, “Plausible deniability.” But, he notes, there are “stacks of evidence that Joe Biden showed up at meetings, shook hands, participated in” over 20 calls related to Hunter’s business “to demonstrate the Biden brand to whoever was in that meeting, whether it was the Ukrainians, the Romanians, the Russians, Colombians, Chinese, whoever it was.” Congressional investigators have documented $20 million in payments from foreign entities to Biden family members and associates. That number could have been significantly higher had the Biden influence-peddling operation not fallen apart shortly before the 2020 elections, when the New York Post first published evidence of influence-peddling found in emails, text messages, and voicemails on Hunter Biden’s laptop. China, desperate for cheaper oil and gas, showed in myriad ways how much it wanted access through the Bidens. At one point, the CEO of CEFC gave to Hunter, as a gift, a 2.8-carat diamond worth roughly $80,000.

Wait, isn’t the Biden administration’s policy aimed at restricting this energy sector? Yes, but there’s also a way to make a buck out of it:

And it’s not just the Biden family. Shellenberger noted the energy games have been plated by other prominent politicians as well, like former California Gov. Jerry Brown who established new air pollution standards to benefit his family’s stake in imported Indonesian oil. With the evidence of potential illegality stacked as high as the Eiffel Tower against the Biden family, the timing of the Smirnov indictment reeks of ‘look, squirrel’ from the Justice Department that has consistently intervened to protect Biden’s family. Hunter Biden might have issued the deal of the century, virtual blanket immunity on tax evasion and gun charges if it weren’t for Joseph Zeigler and Gary Shapley coming forward last year, alleging pervasive DOJ intrusion into their investigations.

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By • Olalekan Fagbade Alleged Bribery: APC Chairman threatens lawsuit against Kano State Attorney General Chairman of the All Progressives Congress APC in Kano state, Hon. Abdullahi Abbas has threatened a lawsuit against the state’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Haruna Isa Dederi for accusing APC leaders of influencing the Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal and the Justices of the Court of Appeal to sack the state Governor, Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP. Abbas in a letter dated November 23 and sent to Dederi, also gave him 48 hours to withdraw the defamatory statements or risk being dragged before the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee LPDC. He said Dederi had gone on national television to “maliciously and falsely allege that the decision of the Tribunal to deliver judgment via zoom was because of interference”. Abbas said not done with the tribunal, the Attorney General also went on to malign justices of the appellate court by saying; “According to information available us there was interference by forces that be. There are people who have interest in this country and can go to any extent to jeopardize things because of their political interest and that was what played out in the judgment”. He said Dederi later made a voice recording as the Attorney General of Kano State countering the statement issued by the Chief Registrar of the Court of Appeal in respect of the clerical error in the judgment. “In the said voice note, you made innuendos suggesting that the Justices of the Court of Appeal were indeed compromised. “From the above statements, it is clear for any discerning mind to infer that you were suggesting influence on the judges by our party leaders, which you know is far from the truth”, the APC chairman said in the letter copied President of the Nigerian Bar Association NBA and the Kano state chairman of the association. Consequently, he said since Dederi’s statements, he has received countless phone calls and text messages from family, friends, colleagues and associates demanding explanation from him as to whether it was indeed true that the APC influenced the judgment of the Court of Appeal and the Tribunal. “I also received various threats including attempts to attack my house in Kano. Your careless words have created so much tension casting aspersion on my person by demeaning my reputation in the society. “Consequent upon the above, I therefore demand that you come forward and mention the names of those who had hands in interfering with the judgment of the two courts. This will go a long way in cleansing the society of corruption. It will also clear my name and be protected against unnecessary attacks your comments have subjected me to. But if you have no proof of the serious allegations you made, I demand that you publicly apologize to me and my party for the embarrassment you caused us. Related News Gov Eno dedicates Appeal Court victory to God, citizens NAF Air strikes kill Boko Haram commander, Abu Asad, 100 others Adeleke urges medical doctors to tackle system’s quackery “As a lawyer, I need not remind you of the provisions of your professional code with respect to courts and judges. Your allegations against the judges and justices are very grievous more so if they turn out to be false. “I, therefore, by this letter, give you an ultimatum of 48 hours to back your allegations against the Judges and Justices that they were influenced to give judgment contrary to the law as you claimed. “Please note that if you fail to meet with my demands as stated above, I shall not hesitate to file a petition against you at the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee as well as institute an action for defamation against you in court, and this we shall do without further recourse to you.

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The more I know about Christian the more I am confused with how could this crap replace polytheism in Europe via /r/atheism

The more I know about Christian, the more I am confused with how could this crap replace polytheism in Europe

I am an Asian atheist heavily impacted by polytheism culture. I am not really suggesting which one is more correct, but kind of thinking it is more logical and profitable to believe polytheism if one of those existing religions has to be true. Here are the differences in polytheism and monotheism believes I noticed:

Polytheists believe that there are evil spirits and gods that may have the power to rival the good gods, but monotheists tell you that it is the singular god who allowed devil to mess with you to test your faith.

Based upon this logic, your life is really more valuable to polytheism gods because you are still a part of the greater multiverse, but monotheism such as Christian and Islam believe that your life is a freak show to amuse god. Although monotheists won't agree with this interpretation, but that's really their religions are about. All the enemies making their lives miserable aren't even a threat to their god, but only exist to amuse god, and god somehow still loves human.

Polytheists don't have the habit of appreciating good gods if it is not their prayer came true, but they also don't consider their misfortune as the arrangement of a specific evil gods. When Christians tried to preach their religion to me, I seriously couldn't understand why would I appreciate that psychopathic voyeur who flooded the whole world, and kept butting into his prophets' family affairs and even manages when women's womb should open whenever something good happens to me, without blaming him for the bad stuffs.

Polytheists believe there are gods as weak as Conor McGregor, and ones powerful enough to lift mountain or even shatter a planet, but none of them are all-capable. If god knows everything, and is capable of everything, then there is really no point for him to do anything in my opinion. The irony is that comparing different religion myths, this Yahweh is even more unhinged and less intelligent than pagan gods. Although Sumerian gods also drowned humans because they found humans annoying, they accepted criticism and showed remorse in The Epic of Gilgamesh. If you insist god is singular and omniscience, then you will have a hard time to explain why this psychopath voyeur Yahweh messed up so frequently.

Polytheists also believe that even good gods aren't always right and may also take bribery from evil people out of selfishness. In the story of Esau and Jacob, the only evil thing that Esau had committed is forgiving Jacob because of his soft heart and allowed this monster to plague other people. Jacob had not done a single good deed in his life, but New Testament Hebrew provided you tones of laughable explanations that he is the good guy. BTW, whenever Mormons preach their religion to you, you can tell them that you are not a criminal who needs supernatural assistance like Jacob, and you are not paying 10% of your income like him.

Here are some examples that contradict that god is not omniscience:

He predicted Esau will serve Jacob, but Jacob ended up bowing to Esau, and Yahweh himself couldn't even win wrestle against Jacob.

Before the ending, Jesus was a narcissistic racist who despised gentile races all the time, threatened people with the end of world which was supposed to be coming very soon, and shouted that people should crown him as their king. After he got himself into trouble by offending too many Jewish authorities, he then decided to suffer for the sins of all human being in the past and future to save the world. After reading that part, it really sounds like the way cultists defend their leader's prophecy when it fails to happen.

Submitted July 01, 2023 at 09:20PM by TitaniumShin (From Reddit https://ift.tt/b1s5zK6)

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