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Hi Zoey. Asking from a place of ignorance, could you please explain why Threads is dogshit?
Threads is the Hot New Garbagedump by Certified Scum Of The Earth and Facebook/Meta owner Zuckerburg. It is like if twitter was even worse.
There is ONLY a For You page, meaning you can never just see the posts from your followed accounts who, yknow, you followed for the purpose of seeing their posts.You can't see those. you have to see the algorithm's posts ONLY.
You also require an instagram to get full access to all the features like Posting Images. You need a separate social media account to properly access this new social media. And once you've done so, the only way to delete your Threads account, is to delete you instagram account. The Whole Thing. For Some Fucking Reason.
Not to mention, obviously since it's zuckerburg, the thing syphons your personal information like crazy, worse still than twitter.
Like ALL your data. as much as it can get. (Love that it says "Other Data" btw. Nice subtle way of saying "whatever else we want")
ALSO wouldn't you know it? It's fucking banned in the EU because it violates a bunch of fucking privacy laws!! So it's DEFINITELY not safe to use!
It is as predatory and exploitative as can be, created by someone that we collectively agreed Sucks Shit and Has No Empathy For Human Life and Individuality, and nobody should be touching it with a ten foot pole let alone sign up for it. Not even to test the waters or because it's where everyone is heading, or to see how bad it is for yourself. It doesn't matter if you're joining to get an account ready in case the platform ends up the new big thing. You're feeding the statistics.
Even if you're not using that account, Zuckerburg can show the number of signups to shareholders and investors to prove to them that it's viable. Instead of jumping on the bandwagon in case it succeeds, inform people why they shouldn't join, to reduce its chance of success! It's like strikes and protests; The more of us get the word out, the more effective it'll be!
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best! friend sukuna headcanons
yall, ngl, he's just a red flag. he has his 'nice' moments but he's still an asshole! uh this is bound to be at least a little ooc bc lets bffr being his bff is unrealistic. anyway, pls enjoy! :3
best friend! sukuna who kicks the backs of your legs when you're standing, and then snicker when you crumple to the ground.
best friend! sukuna who skips the line and drags you along with him. he ignores the pathetic bitching and whining from the people who were in front of him. if they wanted their spot so bad, they should've got back in front of him.
best friend! sukuna who takes your phone off of the charger to charge his. and once his is on a hundred, he won't put yours back. you don't need your phone when you're with him anyway.
best friend! sukuna who insists on walking with you to the convenience store. it could be late at night or he could be in the middle of ripping someone's throat out for not giving him his damn money, and he'll still go.
best friend! sukuna who always makes sure you eat. post-sleepover and you're hungry? he's up, getting you something luxurious to eat at ten in the morning, and back at his apartment in a flash. he may have violated several traffic laws to do it, but at least you aren't starving.
best friend! sukuna who, ironically, cannot cook for shit. he always uses too much seasoning or disregards the given temperature from the recipe or doesn't bother with a crucial ingredient because he finds it nasty.
best friend! sukuna who enjoys poetry. it's something calming, peaceful, a stark contrast to all the blood he sheds daily. if you ask him for recommendations, he'll have an entire list engraved in his mind, tailored just to suit your tastes.
best friend! sukuna who eats up all of your snacks. oh, you have a bag of hot chips? he's eating them. the second he hears the rustling of a wrapper from your direction, he's holding his hand out. he knows you'll share. you always do.
best friend! sukuna who claims he only went to college because he was bored. while that does have some truth to it, isn't it convenient he's attending the same college as you? especially when he's never mentioned going or even caring about it, and the waitlist was so long.
best friend! sukuna who only cares for the things that directly interest and benefit him. he lives for him and him alone. you're lucky you've entertained for him as long as you have with that pretty smile, that annoyingly joyous, pure laugh and those endless rambles about the shows you've rewatched more times than he can count on one hand.
best friend! sukuna who hates how his breath catches when you show off a new outfit, how heat creeps up the back of his neck and warms his cheeks when you genuinely thank him, how he wants to cup your face in his massive, rough hands and press a kiss to your forehead.
best friend! sukuna who has never cared to love or be loved, not until he met you.
note: at some point i'll quit changing the way i format these posts... maybe idk. ALSOO i wanna write sumn abt yuuta to combat this post bc hes just a corny romantic n i love him ><
if u saw this w/o the cut... no u didn't.
#jjk#jjk sukuna#ryomen sukuna#sukuna headcanons#ryomen sukuna headcanons#sukuna x reader#sukuna x you#sukuna fluff#????????#maybe...#if him being a posessive asshole counts as fluff then here ig
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Sheriff situation
Levi x fem!reader
Modern AU, fluff, romance, being a couple, silly situation, supportive Levi, funny situation.
Levi gets a noise complaint from your neighbour. Suspecting it's about the noises Levi's get you making in the bedroom, he goes to have an awkward conversation but is shocked to find it's about your two cute wind chimes, one of which he got you. Levi has to stop you from getting too sassy.
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"Sheriff?"
Levi lifted his head and gazed at a lady in his contact department. "Afternoon, Angela. Everything okay?"
She smiled at him. "Got an interesting call."
"Oh yeah?"
She read out an address before smiling a little. "Ring a bell?"
It did, it was your neighbour's address. "What's wrong?" Worry and fear surged through him as he rose to his feet. He called your name with love. "Is she okay?"
"I don't know if she will be. The call is a noise complaint."
A deep blush went over his cheeks. "Noise..."
"You been making noise at your girlfriend's place?"
"I'll go and see what's happening." He grabbed his jacket and yanked it on. "I probably won't come back as it is near the end of my shift."
"Have fun."
He gulped hard and ignored the giggles from the ladies who took the calls. The only thing Levi could think about with noise had to be how much he made you moan when you were intimate in the bedroom. It's not like you both were screaming the house down or breaking the bed, but he was sure last night the window was open because it was hot and he was doing so many things to you for so long.
The drive over to your home wasn't long, but Levi's mind was racing with what could possibly be going on. Your safety was his concern. Levi knew how much of an ass your old neighbour was. It all started with his lewd comments about your body when you moved in, along with watching you in your home and complaining that you put up blinds to stop him.
Once you protected yourself from his views, you next had to protect yourself in the garden. It became easy for you when Levi and you dated because you were always over Levi's. As a result of rarely being home, the old man was complaining about every single thing you did.
Levi pulled up and expected to see the old man waiting for him and you hiding in your house, but instead, he saw the two of you at the fence shouting at each other. He was now very concerned for your safety.
Levi jogged over as you shouted at the old man that he was a dirty pervert. "Tch, oi! You two, stop with the shouting. Reduce the anger and talk to me. I need to know what's going on."
The old man pointed at you with his bony finger. "I'm sick of you. You accuse me of terrible things and all you've been doing is torturing me!"
Levi sighed. "How does she torture you."
He pointed. "Those wind chimes! They are too loud! They go on all day and night! Surely there is a law against it!"
Levi pinched the bridge of his nose. "So, you demanded for the sheriff to come because of wind chimes?"
"They're too loud! I know there is a law about excessive noise! She is violating that law!"
Levi groaned. "Sir, no laws are being violated here. Wind chimes don't make excessive noise."
"They do for me!" He huffed. "You're the sheriff! You should support me! I'm an OAP you know! I built this country."
You laughed. "Oh really? What part did you build, huh?"
Levi said your name sternly. "Don't."
You pouted. "Why am I being told off when he's the asshole!"
The old man shook his head. "See what I have to put up with? I was always so nice to her. She's been pushing my buttons and now she has those damn wind chimes. I'm an old sick lonely man."
"Go to the hospital then if you're that sick and maybe call some friends over if you're lonely."
He glared at you. "I have no one!"
You smirked. "Wonder why. Not like your attitude and spying on young women is the issue."
"I want her arrested!"
Levi let out a long sigh. "For what?"
You showed Levi your wrists. "I wouldn't mind you arresting me, sugar."
"Behave."
The old man shook his head. "She should be arrested and locked up! Someone like her should not be in society."
You laughed. "Then who would you try and perv on huh?"
"I am no pervert! You always pick on me and lie. Kids these days are all the same!"
You rolled your eyes. "I'm not a kid! I'm an adult. Plus, you calling a kid makes you perving on me far worse!"
"You just hate old people! You pick on me! Us old people are forgotten about!"
You growled. "Oh please, you get so much shit handed to you. You just like being the victim all the time!"
He pointed at the wind chime. "I want this gone! Both of them."
Levi stepped over and put his arm out. "Sir, don't grab that. Those wind chimes are her property."
"They're terrible things! They're ugly! They need to go!"
"Sir, touch them and you will get into trouble."
The old man poked Levi's chest. "You're taking her side because she's probably polishing your gun! You're sleeping with criminals."
You leaned around Levi and smirked. "You're just jealous that he can get some of this and you never will."
The old man glared. "You'll be begging me to give it to you! When I was younger."
"Yeah, when you were younger, you're not now."
"I will shove those chimes."
You grabbed one and shook it in his face. "Oh no so much noise!"
Levi tried not to laugh at your actions. He softly called your name. "Stop shaking your chimes."
You stopped and mumbled. "Thought you liked it."
"I do." He winked at you making you smile. "How about you put those cute chimes at my place?"
Your eyes sparkled. "Really?"
He nodded. "Yeah. I mean, we've been a couple for two months and I can't get enough of you. So, move in with me and you'll be far away from this man. You can have wind chimes and you can sunbathe in my garden because my home is on the edge of town."
You nodded as tears filled your eyes. "Yes, yes I'd love to."
"Perfect. Now, no more shaking your chimes at other men." He nodded to your home. "Get pack as much of your stuff as you can and I'll drive you home. We'll pack the rest this weekend to move you in."
You kissed Levi's cheek. "Okay!"
Levi turned to the old man. "I know what you've been doing with her. I've been staying over often, so I've seen what you've been up to."
The old man went pale. "Sheriff, I was just...I...uh..."
"I want to drag your ass to a cell, but I lack evidence." He gave the man a look of murder. "Hurt her, touch her, pester her or do anything against her or any woman again and I will be forced to take action. Do not test me."
He nodded. "Y-Yes sheriff!"
"Now, go inside and be a well-behaved citizen of this town. Myself and others in this town of sick of your shit. Now go." Levi watched the man race inside. "Tch, damn pervert." He turned and walked all the way to your side of the fence and into your home. "Darling?"
You pushed your full suitcase down the stairs. "I'm here! I packed clothes and some cuddly toys."
Levi eyed the bag. "You don't need cuddly toys."
You frowned. "Why not? I love them."
"I'm your cuddly toy." He pouted. "You're supposed to hug me, not them."
You giggled as you wrapped your arms around Levi's neck. "You jealous of my cuddly toys?"
"I am." He hugged you tightly. "You're mine." He kissed you and hummed in happiness. "Can't believe you shook your wind chime at him."
You laughed. "Just wanted to make things exciting for you."
He smiled softly. "You're incredible. I love you."
"Love you too."
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Deplorably Devoted to You
HEARTBREAKING: You’re the Worst Person You Know
You're an accomplished event planner- weddings, baby showers, moon abductions- you do it all. In fact, you're so good that your smoking hot eldritch boss Balthazar Grivus just made you his partner at your firm. It’s finally your chance to change the future of evil event planning. The late nights alone perfecting confetti-spewing bear traps as Barry’s apprentice are over, and now your schedule and heart are wide open.
Nefarious plots abound, and you have a bevy of romantic and professional interests to pursue: plan a wedding anniversary, push a rebrand of a struggling majority, prepare a getaway ship, and promote the fortress-warming party of the millennia.
The Sorceress
The sorceress is a proud, luxury-loving lady of the ‘eye for an eye’ persuasion. Will you help her achieve vengeance and social satisfaction? Or will you disappoint her and doom yourself to eternal sleep?
The Gunslinger
Gene is a creation of his time- to be specific, the 1800s. In and out of jail for various ill-conceived crimes, he is now more comfortable in a prison cell than out of it. Will his zest for life and the finer points of dynamite light up your life, or blow your career out of the water?
The Florist
Your florist is a gentle, caring person with a heart of gold and a devastating fear of dogs. Their plant expertise, professionalism, contacts dedicated to violating the laws of nature, and tendency to not ask questions make them indispensable to you. But will you bloom together, or will they be uprooted?
The Orc
She is a union president, a go-getter, and forklift certified. She’s also built like a brick house. Can you help her with the image rebrand that her people desperately need in the face of a global morality shift, or will you get eaten alive?
The Space Pirate
They’re fun. They’re spontaneous. And they’re not a felon in this galaxy yet. Their new ship is almost ready for takeoff- is their ship’s maiden voyage destined to shine brightly, or doomed to crumble into stardust?
The Super Hero
He’s big. He’s strong. He’s probably late for his next client at the gym. He’s as rough as the stones he loves to hunt for in his free time, and tougher than most of the criminals he brings in on late nights.
Your world and career are on the brink- but of success, or failure?
Can you have it all while throwing the best worst events of the season and getting the dark lord to notice you?
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#twine#twine games#choice of games#interactive fiction#twine game#twine interactive fiction#interactive novel#deplorably devoted to you#deplorably devoted#text based game
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tw: human rights violations, injuries, death
In early August 2021, asylum seekers started showing up in unusually large numbers in Poland near the border with Belarus. The border area is mostly covered with forests and bogs with farming villages past the woods. It's chock full of gorgeous landscapes, including Europe's largest remaining stretch of primeval forest west of Russia - the Białowieża Forest, a largely pristine ecosystem with so damn much biodiversity. Bison, lynx, three species of shrew, the last remaining European populations of various insects, tons of birds, fungi, mosses, you name it. Scientists and environmentalists love it [and forestry officials want to manage it, but that's a story for another day].
So: asylum seekers. Hungry, filthy, exhausted people from places like Afghanistan or Syria, which incidentally do not share a border with Poland. The locals, being decent folk, started feeding and helping these new arrivals, because that's just what you do when a tattered wraith shows up on your doorstep speaking some weirdass language and making the universal gesture for "I'm hungry". The Border Guard, being in violation of national laws as well as international conventions Poland had ratified, started trucking these asylum seekers back to the border and forcing them to cross back to Belarus, which is called a pushback. The Polish government, elected in part due to vicious anti-refugee propaganda, stated that the border must be reinforced to prevent the entry of "waves of unauthorized persons" participating in "hybrid warfare" and declared a state of emergency along the entire border. These migrants, they said, were extremely dangerous. Culturally foreign.
Why would seeking asylum be considered hybrid warfare? This links back to Europe's last remaining dictator west of Russia: Alaksandr Lukashenka, Supreme Ruler and Deathless Emperor of Belarus. His people allegedly came up with a clever racket: they started selling Belarusian visas in various poorer countries many people want to emigrate from and transporting migrants to the Polish border, claiming that this would be their gateway to a better life in the European Union.
So: asylum seekers. According to Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. [Incidentally, Poland is a signatory of the UDHR.] Regardless of their country of origin, people crossing over from Belarus have the right to request asylum in Poland. And they do. Every time they get caught. In English, in Polish, in their native languages… Upon hearing a request for asylum the Border Guards are supposed to transport the migrants to a processing center where they would then wait for their application to be reviewed. But because these migrants are extremely dangerous, the Border Guards trash their belongings and dump them on the Belarusian side without shoes, without meds, phones, jackets, in any kind of weather, regardless of any injuries. And there are many. The terrain can be tricky to cross if you're not used to this type of boggy temperate forest. Or if you haven't had your meds in a while. Or if you're six. It won't be easy even if you're a - just like the current government's fearmongering election ads warned a few years ago - healthy young male with a cell phone.
When Belarusian Border Guards come across these ejected migrants, they force them back toward the Polish border. People keep ping-ponging between two walls of armed, uniformed enforcers who are getting more violent with every passing week. Some manage to get through and make it to Germany to request asylum in a law-abiding country. Others don't. 48 bodies were recovered along the border so far. NGO workers creep through the woods handing out hot soup and donated shoes to migrants; according to them, this is a fraction of the real number of casualties and some bodies will simply never be found. Volunteer medics get their tires slashed, aid workers get harassed, detained and charged. But the Border Guards don't kill, yet. Not directly. We're Europeans, after all! We're civilized!
It's a humanitarian crisis and an international shame. And the [abridged] wall of text above provides the necessary context to why I can't schadenfreudenly cackle over the latest government scandal, even though I love to point and laugh when that bunch steps on a rake.
See, earlier this month a Deputy Foreign Minister got fired for helping with a work visa racket. When the border crisis began to unfold, he'd already been ~facilitating procedures~ for like a year. This country needs workers; a significant chunk of the workforce up and emigrated, including many healthy young males, and the national birth rate is still failing even though the government did everything like the Catholic Church said. The deputy minister wouldn't even come up with a list of in-demand jobs; diplomatic missions are slammed with work after other changes he did implement, so he'd personally order consulates in some Asian and African countries to expedite certain applications. And all that time his party has been openly approving of unconstitutional pushback procedures targeting people from similarly "culturally foreign" [read: Muslim] countries. Incidentally, this far-right party is called Law and Justice. Hypocrisy is a virtue and cruelty is the point.
I wanted to end this with a punchy, quotable call for action, but my words ran out. The border crisis is still happening, even though it's clear by now that Poles and Poland can handle an influx of refugees far larger than the groups coming through Belarus. Summer is almost over and the coming months are likely to be cold and rainy. All I can do is signal boost and donate to aid groups.
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Sparatus? 🙂
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Sexuality Headcanon: painfully bisexual. somebody please stop surrounding this old man with hot people his heart can't take it. also very much not xeno in the slightest
Gender Headcanon: turian gender stuff is complicated and doesn't fit into human binaries, so while he's generally understood to be and is fine with being perceived as a cis man because he's perfectly happy with the body he was born with, a closer approximation is masculine nonbinary, just... not the way humans understand nb to be
A ship I have with said character: i mean. [gestures vaguely to entire internet presence] do i even have to specify teia at this point.
aside from the obvious, sparatus/quentius is also a fave, i do so love boss and loyal dragon dynamics, and the two of them are that plus a flip side out of work where they're just best mean girl friends hanging out being catty old men together. plus for bad end it makes it so much juicier that not only was sparatus quentius's friend but also a sometimes-lover, bad end hurts but it's so so deliciously messy
plus also @thetrashbagswasteland put sparatus/desolas in my head and it bops around from time to time, just like, suave but chaotic military man with the personality of a mob boss "you wanna fuck me so bad it makes you stupid" vs prickly by-the-book law boy "i hate that you're actually as charming as you think you are you charismatic asshole" i think it would be fun okay someday ill write it teia and abrudas can also get in on it for fun or they can bang on the side it's fine
A BROTP I have with said character: sparatus & quentius, for reasons listed above. the more i dabble around the more sparkyteia and quentilea are becoming just a platonic polypile, oopsie, they're all good friends. also quite fond of sparatus & saren, because saren is very well-trusted and the council's golden boy and not every spectre is going to have shepard's experience with the council so it only makes sense for saren to have that sort of loyal right hand kinda dynamic with sparky. sparatus & valern is also fun for my usual political intrigue reasons but we don't have time to get into the complicated bullshit fueling the turian-salarian alliance rn
A NOTP I have with said character: sparatus/shepard, for reasons i should hope are obvious by now. guys idk how to explain this but sometimes characters just hate you without secretly wanting to fuck you. he has legitimate criticisms of shepard and ill die on this hill, there's no ust he isn't into you and mad about it he just doesn't like your fucking attitude. and you can't convince me your shepard somehow turns it around into genuine love, i don't fucking believe you, it's ooc some characters will simply never grow to truly Like you more than respecting your ability and that's fucking okay and normal
also sparatus/saren, because while i adjust saren's age in my work to bring him up to 70 in me1 (and closer to sparky, 76) the main works i know of for that ship have sparatus more than twice his age (in his 60s while saren was EIGHTEEN) and taking advantage of the age gap and saren's emotional turmoil after his brother's death to groom him into the perfect partner, which... oh my god no. and it was presented as romantic! as saren's first real love before nihlus!! i am calling the police!! and pretty much everyone ive seen who talks about that ship got it from that fic so. yeah that author is my parasocial enemy
A random headcanon: despite how closely they have to work together, and sparky being a prosecutor pre-politics (thus allegedly on the side of the cops), he and pallin have a rather... antagonistic relationship, mostly because of how sparky responds to pallin's complaints about spectres ("i'll let them know" which usually means nothing will be done and the spectres will continue treating civil misdemeanors and traffic violations like a game) but also because sparky himself has personal beef with like 7 different prominent cops, is from a "fuck the cops they're imperial shills we can police ourselves" background, and is so so good at being pedantic and annoying when he's feeling petty which is any time pallin isn't talking about an actual serious issue. he wants pallin to stop bothering him about traffic stops. pallin wants to fuck the smug look off his face. they're not allowed to have face-to-face meetings without quentius present because they WILL go straight to childish squabbling.
General Opinion over said character: he's my grandpa. he's Me. nobody in this fandom deserves him y'all need to remove the main character pov blinders and think about shit from his perspective and stop just assuming he's racist and stupid because he tells you no. the man has his position for a reason, and if you listen to what he's actually saying he's DEEPLY empathetic and concerned with how the public at large will be affected, he fucking cares about people it's canon it's canon it's CANON he literally goes behind his colleagues' backs to try to help you save palaven and stop the war right away that's not what a selfish heartless bureaucrat who only cares about his own small circle does i have ESSAYS dammit
.... oops i care about this old man So Much
send me a character
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Writers, if you're going to write a courtroom scene...attend a courtroom session. Most trials, you can actually do that. In fact, a lot of lawyers do that, and law students are encouraged to do so as well.
Be RESPECTFUL of the court, don't talk loudly, don't chew gum & pop bubbles, slurp a drink, etc. Wear nice office-acceptable clothes, make sure you bathe, don't play music, and turn off your phone ringer, all the usual courtesies plus a few more. (If you disrupt a courtroom, you can be fined or even imprisoned depending on the severity of the situation--also be mindful of what you bring to a courthouse; leave the pocket knives at home!)
Also: NEVER RECORD A TRIAL IN PROGRESS.
You don't have permission to do so, and in many cases, such recordings are prohibited by the judge...and violating that prohibition can land you in seriously hot water.
But you can actually attend many trials. Just BE MINDFUL that the other people in attendance may be witnesses, or there to provide expert testimony, etc, and this means you aren't supposed to talk with them. DO NOT MESS WITH THE CASE.
If anyone questions you as to why you are there before the trial begins (and you will have to check with the courtroom staff to get inside in the first place), you can tell them that you are a writer trying to get a better idea of how courtroom proceedings work, and that you understand you are not to talk with anyone about what you heard or saw while the trial is underway, nor will you talk to any of the jurors, or anyone of defense or prosecution, etc. (Seriously, just don't. You'll be far more likely to be allowed in to watch if you agree to these rules.)
If you are turned away? ACCEPT IT POLITELY AND GO AWAY.
You can try again another day. You might get turned away because it's a Sensitive Subject. You might get turned away due to lack of room from all the witnesses, experts, and/or others expected to be inside. You might get turned away because the place is going to be packed with news reporters...and if that's the case, you really don't want to record (audio or video) anything going on in that trial. There Are Rules About Recording Court Cases, and you don't have the "protection of the 4th Estate (journalism)", and even they don't have a LOT of protection.
This, by the way, is why you see so many sketches of a courtroom proceeding, and not photographs, let alone video or audio recordings. It is seriously A Big Deal, and you don't want to wind up in court because of something you did while merely attending a court case.
...Alternatively, if you can afford the hourly wages, you can request to pay for some time with a courtroom lawyer (barrister as opposed to solicitor, in British terms) to ask them questions about what they'd like to see done right in a story you'll be writing about a courtroom situation. Be mindful that they might end up telling you your original story ideas are Very Wrong, Sorry, That Won't Work...and if this happens, ACCEPT IT POLITELY.
You can also just hire and tell them what you would like to see happen in your story in terms of going into the initial situation that winds up in the courtroom and what you want to have as the fallout or consequences / results of said lawsuit, and ask THEM if they can tell you how such a case could be handled, etc.
But again, if you are told It Doesn't Work That Way, you might need to shelve that idea...or save it for a story set in a created world with a created culture and its own created legal system where it could work that way.
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Redirection
Thursday - April 4, 2024
Venus is a planet that helps you redirect aggression aimed at you. Because Venus is assigned the qualities of creativity and artistry (though the planet itself is a hot mess!) you may assume that Venus redirects via kindness and accommodation. Sometimes she does, but many times she does not.
Venus isn't afraid to use the sword of plain (but kind) talk, strategic placement of energy (without violating the laws of energy), and putting in place a hard "NO" if necessary. When Librans (who are ruled by Venus) finally tire of always giving away their needs in favor of others, they can be staunchly protective of their world. They redirect energy just by the sheer force of their NO.
At midnight (eastern time) Venus moves into Aries, its opposing sign, and the sign of power, action and movement. And it does so on a day in which the Sun conjuncts the North Node in Aries at 15°, a degree which Venus rules.
Some may use that Aries power in ways that will cross your internal fire, and that's a NO-NO. And you're going to have to redirect that unwanted energy, and for the 49 days you'll have the power of Venus helping you. And in ways you haven't utilized before.
Be smart about how you wield such power (says Saturn moving to 14° Pisces) because with great power comes great responsibility.
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least favorite recent trend is people calling exclusively-smut (or just romance period) readers p0rn addicts. like no, smut will never ever ever ever ever even come close to be on the same level as p0rn. worse yet it's coming from supposed left-leaning people. like way to agree with right wingers on this issue goddd
Hmm, I get where you're coming from, and I totally agree that the conservatives have weaponized, essentially, good intentions to flip young progressives/libs into spouting conservative talking points. But I will say:
A) Some romance novels? Are kinda really close to porn, lol. And I'm not talking erotica--I'm talking books wherein the sex is not necessarily the point of the story or the crux, but it is kinda why you read. Either to be turned on, or to gawk at something utterly absurd (and sometimes funny). Which is why people watch porn, mostly; to be aroused and/or shocked or amused or grossed out.
Like, I'm thinking of books like Vera Valentine's Squeak. It's about a woman who falls in love with two balloon animal shifters, and they fall in love with her right back. Are you reading that because it's good literature? Not really. Or like, the shorty KU books where the plot is kinda thin but the sex is bomb. I mean, people absolutely read books to masturbate, just as they do with porn ("one-handed reads"); and those books are often romance novels. I mean, I have watched porn that legitimately has better emotional plotting than some of the sillier romances I read. And that's not knocking those romances--just as I don't think a "my first massage with the hot masseur lady" porno is meant to give you this deep story. Nor are those books; and they both accomplish their goals.
To compare, I'd say that Tiffany Reisz's Original Sinners books, which are somewhere between erotic romance and erotica depending on the installment... Are nowhere near being porn. The plots revolve around sex. The sex is explicit and very adventurous--CNC, blood play, pegging, bondage, group sex, daddy kink, priest kink, extreme sadism and masochism, needles, and it goes on and on. But the sex is the framework for serious character development and growth and confronting some heavy issues. It's not anywhere close to the kind of content porn typically offers.
The biggest differentiator between sexually explicit, sex-heavy books and porn is the ways in which the products are crafted and the risk components. Both can create unrealistic expectations surrounding sex and relationships (we talk a lot about boys having porn brain, but if you see some of the shit teen girls think is normal after reading certain romance novels--well). Both can do the opposite. And for both, it's seriously not their problem; content is not responsible for educating the kids. The kids' support systems (parents, guardians, teachers) are. Or should be.
B) Porn is not bad; and therefore, it's not bad to compare those books to porn. It is true that porn can be exploitative and harmful to performers. However, that is the sex industry in general--any industry in general. Companies across the world violate child labor laws every day. American employees regularly work themselves to the point of exhaustion, go to work sick and get sicker/infect their coworkers, and have nervous breakdowns due to overwork--and don't make ends' meet. We culturally focus more on how sex workers can be harmed because 1) it's more shocking because sex 2) it's more direct, at times, because sex workers deal with very intimate services that can involve physical risk 3) the harm that occurs is used by politicians and the media to justify why sex work should be outlawed. When in reality, if sex work was decriminalized we'd be able to offer sex workers safe harbors and resources without fear of legal consequences.
But anyway--porn is not bad inherently. If porn is made ethically, which it absolutely can be, there is nothing wrong with people consenting to sexual acts performed on camera... and as long as nobody is getting hurt, everyone is of age and consenting, and there aren't any animals (because animals cannot consent ever lol) involved, theoretically that's fine. Do a lot of people abuse this system? Absolutely, but I'd say that they're more able to abuse it because of the stigma surrounding porn. Though it's legal and theoretically regulated, the regulations aren't often meant to work for performers, they're meant to "protect" the people who might stumble across porn online.
And because we shame people for watching porn and shame porn as a concept, nobody talks about what ethically made porn is, and how different types of porn affect people differently as they grow up. Because most of them? Will watch porn either way. But perhaps if teens felt free enough to discuss the things they saw in porn with sex educators... they would learn more about what is real and what isn't.
I also think that porn can be interesting and artistic (it often isn't, but erotic cinema used to be more common--would recommend the documentary "Skin" to explore more about it), and like I said above, romance novels can be--and like porn, sometimes they aren't. And romance novels, while they may not be as directly harmful as bad porn can be to performers, can be harmful on a broader level. For example, there is som racist porn out there; and there are some racist romance novels out there.
So I guess my thing is--as someone who reads a lot of romances of many degrees of quality, and had also watched my fair share of porn... I don't see a huge difference between some books and porn, lol. And that's not a bad thing. If the worst romances or erotica novels are just as bad as porn on a whole, that's fine, because porn on its own isn't a bad thing. The argument really shouldn't be "romance novels/erotica are better than porn", imo, because the people coming after one are going to come after the other either way. Sex negativity usually takes a universal approach. Nothing is spared; nothing is "good enough". When Spoutible banned sex workers from sharing content, they also banned romance novelists from sharing content, as one example. Romance novelists were no different from people literally having sex for money in that sense, and I honestly think that as the conservative movement becomes more extreme, their personal perception of what is and isn't sex work will also become more extreme. And tbh? The line is blurry. A phone sex operator is not actually selling sex--they're selling a fantasy, woven from their own minds. They just have a more direct connection to the person enjoying the product than authors and other artists do.
It's complicated, and we're all affected, so we've kinda gotta work together here, imo.
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Donbrothers, Episode 35!
Ohhhhh boy! Just got off the train from Oishi-Na Town! Time to visit my friend Tsubasa in Donbura County Jail. And uh... well, my good buddy Jirou is in immense pain so, I wanna check on him too. Going all over the place today, huh? Please stand behind the white line! We're departing on a train ride towards pain!
Spoilers, I guess...
-Well, at least you're not having a massive rampage, right Tsuyoshi?
-It's OUR power, boys!
-"Kijino, you're really making an annoying racket stirring your coffee like that."
-"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO YOU SON OF A BITCH, I PAID FOR THIS DRINK!"
-"Hey man, chill, you don't gotta yell at him like that-"
-"SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU INSUFFERABLE LITTLE OTAKU BRAT I DIDN'T WORK FOR 10 YEARS TO BE BOSSED AROUND BY A LITTLE ONI PUNK!"
-"Jesus Christ, what's gotten into you"
-"OHHHHHH LOOK AT ME, I'M A FREELOADER, I'M GONNA WRITE A HAIKU TO PAY MY BILLS!
Lies high as the palms
Bananas within reach
Monkey gets free lunch!"
EAT MY ENTIRE ASS YOU APE!"
-How many takes do you think it took to get that rant right?
-Ohhhhhh, Shinichi jbk;hjg
-Hello Auntie Yuriko.
-"He's hot" OH MY GOD how does Haruka rein you in?
-Ohhhhh, there's something with Auntie Yuriko isn't there
-"Ah fuck, he has a girlfriend already"
-...I get really bad vibes off of auntie Yuriko.
-Miho Spotted.
-Oh no
-Aaaand, we're in jail!
-Jail time with the homie.
-"So like... do you want 500000 yen?"
-"Nah, you... you can keep it, I don't really need that kinda money."
-"Ah... so this means... YOU'RE REFUSING A RANSOM! C'MERE YOU SON OF A BITCH"
-Free doggy!
-Kito, please stop that, I'm pretty sure fraternizing with suspects under interrogation is a violation of the law.
-Ah, who am I kidding, that's not gonna stop her.
-Ohhhhhhhhh, she hit you with the whammy.
-"Go investigate your girlfriend! If you get us results, we'll let you go free!"
-Murasame's just sitting there, huh?
-Yeah just seal him up a little, he'll be fine
-Oh hey, Rumi-chan, right? You're Jirou's ladyfriend.
-Alright, my boy's getting focus!
-JIROU HJKHK
-Natsumi rehearsal!
-Very solid delivery
-Proposal!
-Wan-derful!
-Oh... hello Sononi! There's a really funny case of some poor kid unable to confess his love happening in Oishi-Na Town if you wanna come with me next time!
-"Oh, that boy's gonna die. Old Yeller's got nothing on this dog tragedy. I'll be sure to hand his friends a posthumous Newberry medal."
-Having a midlife crisis so soon?
-Hmm... what is that thing... he seems to be a physics major, so... perhaps he's one of the more science-y sentai. That's a red bird of prey for his face. Yellow beast with tusks... or fangs? And those blue... rubbery shoulders he's got... Ohhhhh, I get it now! This guy must be our Liveman rep.
-A toast~! For the most~!
-Naptime!
-Hello Jin!
-Just send him away like that, huh?
-"Ahhhhh, so you're the guy who made him a psycho. Good job, dingus."
-Hmm... found a new form of dimensional travel, huh? Do you think perhaps they cut through the CooKingdom?
-"Menkai wa wata."
-Natsumi? Ohhhhhhh, a crane.
-Fuck
-Y'know Momoi, I think whenever somebody acts even slightly weird around you, you should assume
-"Are you okay, Pheasant Guy?"
"FUCK YOU HARUKA YOU'RE NOT MY REAL MOM"
-Sloooooow motion!
-Party Time!
-Too fast, too strong!
-Ohhhh, Avatar Change!
-Now transforming! Get your ass on the dance floor behind the white line!
-Aaaaaaaaalll aboard!
-Hyper ToQ Momo-gou! Hyper ToQ Momo-gou!
-Gotta admit, I'm actually kind of a fan of this idea that Momoi's so up in his own hype that he just... slaps his own super form onto another Sentai's Red.
-Alright, Jirou!
-Stop sniffing your girlfriend and lie down!
-...yeah, like that, thank you for listening.
-Got a ToQ Blaster and the Rail Slasher, badass.
-Awww, I wanted to see more.
-Darkness of youth!
-Kimochiiiii!
-Ore koso only one da.
-Youth stuff!
-Let's fly!
-Take that power!
-Matsuri da matsuri da!
-Donbros Utopia!
-Yeah, good luck with that, Mister! Have fun!
-BRUH
-Juto Suck
-"Nooooo :("
-And he just got eaten!
-Fuck!
-Oh God, where is this
-That poor Anoni lady :(
-Oh...
-Ohhhhhh this is the lion's den.
-Jesus fucking Christ, what on earth is happening
-Why is this so horrifying
-Inoue? Tasaki? Shirakura-P? Anybody?
-What the fuck guys, what is happening?
-Ohhhhhhhh that's not good.
-That's not good at all.
-Ramen! Deliciousmile~!
-Oh, that poor chef, he's going through this again.
-That's not our dog, that's a really fucked up cat!
-Uh... hang tight, Tsubasa! We'll save you!
-Next episode that is, Happy Halloween buddy!
#don! don! it's a full force peachy festival!#donbrothers spoilers#avataro sentai donbrothers#donbrothers#momo monday
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for the FIC ask Game C, F, & N please and thank!
C: What character do you identify with most?
It's cliche at this point, but: Lucy Muir from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Have a tendency towards isolation and a monochrome wardrobe, will travel.
F: Share a snippet from one of your favourite dialogue scenes you've written and explain why you're proud of it.
James Norrington pinched the bridge of his nose, and sighed, and followed – claiming the weather-side and banishing Lieutenant Hardy to the quarterdeck with a glance. He paced for a few moments, scraping his conversation together. “I will entertain the outlandish possibility,” he started, “that your compass somehow violates every natural law I have learned. How – why does it point to the Black Pearl?”
“ ‘Cause I want it to, Commodore.”
Norrington scoffed.
“It’s what it does. Sold five years’ worth of dreams and a piece of Ponce de León’s map of the road to Bimini to a powerful witch for the damn thing,” Sparrow said, “A bargain, really; dreamless sleep’s a blessing when you get where I’ve got.”
“Your broken compass is – you expect me to believe your compass is enchanted?"
“I don’t expect it. Curious if you will believe it, though.”
“I don’t,” said Norrington, who was starting to feel ridiculous for even having this conversation out loud.
“Ah. How dull. And I suppose you believe Charleton, that the Morgana of the Messina Strait is just the crystal bits and bobs of the sand and antimony in the Sicilian hills and that hot sun of the Med making the sky a mirror?”
“A more likely explanation than a fairy queen of England conjuring Palladian cities off Sicily,” Norrington shot back.
Sparrow, irksome as ever, merely shrugged. “The compass points to the Pearl because I want it to, Commodore. Simple as that.”
From Suffer A Sea Change - & I love it because:
1. writing Jack Sparrow terrifies me on an atomic level, because there's infinite ways to make him seem like an actual idiot or the theme park version of himself (ironic for a theme-park-ride-movie character but there you are), and I'm not too upset with how his voice turner out;
2. Love it when Jack Sparrow goes from lying outrageously about something (the origins of the compass) to proving he is perhaps the most intelligent person in any given room (the current-to-the-early-18th-c explanation for the Fata Morgana).
3. James Norrington having a bad time is like. a solid 75% of my fic output.
N: Is there a fic you wish someone else would write (or finish) for you?
Quite salty I cannot just beam the rest of Customs down onto the page, fully realized, without me fiddling with the details and secure in the knowledge that all of Nellie's choices from here on out make sense.
Fic Ask Game!
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I have listened to this video a few times. It's the credits theme to Akira (1988). I just now scrolled to the comments and read the fucking description. This is the best, most aggressive thing I've ever read.
(Long, angry description below the cut.)
I bought the DVD back in 2018 and got the idea to edit some of the OST in the film a short Music Video.
Copied the file and edited it on my FREE Da Vinci Resolve 16 Editing Software.
I really don't fucking care if I got demonetized, really, I'm not even here to make money,
This is my second channel anyway so go ahead claim my fucking video, Make money off of this or whatever the fuck you usually do to even ORIGINAL content creators, Just don't fucking remove this video from your half-asses copyright detector bullshit.
Like it's a 1988 Film it's just ridiculous,
Even the Romeo and Juliet copycats play that was initially made in the 1500s could get their own copyright.
How the fuck can't I get a Fair-Use excuse?
Anyway, personally, I don't believe this shit really gets brought up in the US Courts I mean come on, I'm halfway across the fucking continent.
What the fuck are you going to do if it were somehow proven to violate the copyright law? Delete my channel? I could get another one. Send US Marines across the ocean just to imprison a fucking boy who just uploaded a fucking video on youtube?
Get a grip on yourselves you fucking clowns.
I REALLY, don't need to provide my "Rationale" excuses for your bitch-ass conglomerate sissies, In fact, it should be you whom I should question your rationality.
Are you really going to remove this fucking video? Less than 5 minutes Music Video with no bloody fucking view made by yet another insignificant person in your whole fucking Scamming Empire? Think about it will you?
and uhh, while you're at it I must go to take care of some BUSINESS,
Because unlike YOU what so-called HUMAN who claimed to have a full-time JOB,
My profession actually provides a REAL impact on the society of which you live in,
Of which people that served you on the McDonald Drive Thru,
Of which people that sent your package you bought online,
And of which of those people that working their asses off during this Global-Fucking-Pandemic.
So here's my conclusion in case you have a short attention span, (Assuming you have one to begin with.[which is very fucking unlikely.])
FUCK YOU, Yeah? FUCK YOU. And your fucking Copyright System, Policies, your MONEY-MAKER PUPPETS those called themselves "CREATORS" With their Perfectly-Crafted-Informative-Totally-Not-A-Clickbait Videos that YOU COUSIN-FUCKERS put your AD on. (So you can make money off of that Hell-Hot Fucking GARBAGE, ain't you sneaky BASTARDS.) FUCK YOU. Your whole, FUCKING, Empire. Fuck. you.
#Tetsuo uploaded this video I stg#This guy is DONE.#Youtube#Youtube video#Video#Music#Akira#Akira 1988#kaneda#kaneda's theme#anger#pure fucking anger#What do I tag this
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Deplorably Devoted To You: DEMO RELEASE
Valentine’s Day Release! Demo now up here !~
HEARTBREAKING: You’re the Worst Person You Know
You're an accomplished event planner- weddings, baby showers, moon abductions- you do it all. In fact, you're so good that your smoking hot eldritch boss Balthazar Grivus just made you his partner at your firm. It’s finally your chance to change the future of evil event planning. The late nights alone perfecting confetti-spewing bear traps as Barry’s apprentice are over, and now your schedule and heart are wide open.
Nefarious plots abound, and you have a bevy of romantic and professional interests to pursue: plan a wedding anniversary, push a rebrand of a struggling majority, prepare a getaway ship, and promote the fortress-warming party of the millennia.
The Sorceress
The sorceress is a proud, luxury-loving lady of the ‘eye for an eye’ persuasion. Will you help her achieve vengeance and social satisfaction? Or will you disappoint her and doom yourself to eternal sleep?
The Gunslinger
Gene is a creation of his time- to be specific, the 1800s. In and out of jail for various ill-conceived crimes, he is now more comfortable in a prison cell than out of it. Will his zest for life and the finer points of dynamite light up your life, or blow your career out of the water?
The Florist
Your florist is a gentle, caring person with a heart of gold and a devastating fear of dogs. Their plant expertise, professionalism, contacts dedicated to violating the laws of nature, and tendency to not ask questions make them indispensable to you. But will you bloom together, or will they be uprooted?
The Orc
She is a union president, a go-getter, and forklift certified. She’s also built like a brick house. Can you help her with the image rebrand that her people desperately need in the face of a global morality shift, or will you get eaten alive?
The Space Pirate
They’re fun. They’re spontaneous. And they’re not a felon in this galaxy yet. Their new ship is almost ready for takeoff- is their ship’s maiden voyage destined to shine brightly, or doomed to crumble into stardust?
The Super Hero
He’s big. He’s strong. He’s probably late for his next client at the gym. He’s as rough as the stones he loves to hunt for in his free time, and tougher than most of the criminals he brings in on late nights.
Your world and career are on the brink- but of success, or failure?
Can you have it all while throwing the best worst events of the season and getting the dark lord to notice you?
#twine#twine games#choice of games#interactive fiction#interactive fictions#dating sim#twine game#twine interactive fiction#interactive novel#deplorably devoted to you#deplorably devoted
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I might get arrested as a pervert if I wore shorts like you're describing, mate, and I'd definitely be socially branded as such even if the law decided it did't violate decency standards. Like I didn't forget how short shorts can be. I certainly don't want the extra fabric in hot summer months, either. I just prefer not to get a baseball bat to the head bc my way to work passes too close to a school for someone's comfort.
ive never gotten in trouble for wearing short shorts even when visibly male presenting
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The Tragedy
Reactionary: "What a CATASTROPHE!! This thing that happened! There should have been LAWS in place to prevent this!"
Resistor: "Okay. Before you try and pass something while you're hot blooded, ask yourself: Is what I'm trying to pass guaranteed to stop the bad guys as much as it's going to inconvenience the normal, good guys?" Because unless the law you pass actually sets out to do it, then we get the worst scenario of a world where it's illegal to do something that gets done, but illegally, anyway.
Reactionary: "OMG. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING."
Resistor: "Okay yes I get it you're assessing if there could've been anything at any point in this scenario and interbalance of rights to security that would've stopped this from happening. But apply what you are suggesting as a change to our laws, to this exact tragedy in this scenario. Would the person intent on causing tremendous harm have been stopped by these laws? Would it have been guaranteed to prevent this tragedy? Or, does it just clamp down on law abiding people's rights to something, for the illusion of going after criminals and homicidal psychos?"
Reactionary: "OH MY FUCKING GOD YOU THING-NUTS, WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!"
Resistor: "Yes I get that, but what I'm saying is: Would what you're proposing as restrictions on objects and rights to them for normal people, have prevented this tragedy from happening? Because if not, you're needlessly making it more treacherous and difficult to operate and sucking the liberalism out of a thing for the hope of security and preservation of life."
Reactionary: "BUT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!! ANYTHING!!! WE SHOULD TRY ANYTHING!!!"
Resistor: "Okay but is what you propose something that would've prevented this specific tragedy, in total, though? Or just postponed it as the would-be shooter circumvents it and gets around it?"
Reactionary: "WE CAN'T JUST DO NOTHING!"
Resistor: "Is that justification to violate other forms of civil rights and liberties in the name of 'doing something'? Or does it just apply to that thing you don't like and want gone?"
Reactionary: "THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS AND SOUND BITES AREN'T GOING TO STOP THIS CATASTROPHE!"
Resistor: "Neither are shitty laws that neither stop crime nor death in the name of protecting the peace and people."
Reactionary: "BUT WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!ONEONEONE."
Resistor: "Prove that what you are proposing would have prevented this tragedy. If you can't do that, then this reaction serves to do nothing but crush law abiding peoples civil rights and ease of access in society for a token of submission and imaginary safety."
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