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Happy New Year, I guess.

The Cincinnati Enquirer, Ohio, February 21, 1947

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So close! American voters, you had one job, and you put the Orange Felon back in power. Epic fail. Will our democracy survive the next four years?

P.S. The price of eggs isn't going down.

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I would watch this.

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GUILTY, UR HONOR

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Daredevil Born Again Cast talk about no acting required moments

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New photo of Matt Murdock looking fine af (and brooding as usual) from Daredevil: Born Again!

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Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Daredevil (TV), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Series: Part 4 of The Owl Summary: The search for information on Owlsley’s activities is not going well, and Matt “lets the devil out.” Later, he makes an unexpected and unwelcome suggestion. Foggy has to intervene.

The sixth and final chapter has been posted.

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Chapters: 5/7 Fandom: Daredevil (TV), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Series: Part 4 of The Owl Summary: Jennifer and Matt find out what Owlsley has planned for them. Matt has a plan of his own. So does Jennifer.

Chapter 5 has been posted.

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Chapters: 4/7 Fandom: Daredevil (TV), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Series: Part 4 of The Owl Summary: Jennifer returns to New York. Someone unexpected shows up at the first court hearing in the case.

Chapter 4, “See You in Court,” has been posted.

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Chapters: 3/7 Fandom: Daredevil (TV), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV) Series: Part 4 of The Owl Summary: Jennifer meets Turk Barrett, and the press notices She-Hulk’s presence in New York. Jennifer finds a link between Owlson and Owlsley – and where the client’s money went. Later, she seizes an opportunity to look for the answer to a question.

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WAIT!

Behind Fisk and Vanessa having dinner in the new trailer!!!!!

It's "Rabbit in a Snowstorm"! Post-S3!!!

Dinner with "their" painting, covered in Fisk's blood. They're so metal. I love them.

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Chapters: 2/7 Fandom: Daredevil (TV), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Series: Part 4 of The Owl Chapter Summary: Matt discovers the true identity of the opposing party in the case, and we meet the client. Jessica Jones and Luke Cage have a cameo.

Chapter Two, “The Owl Is Back,” is now available.

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I'm sure many people have already shared this here, but I think it's important that people here on Tumblr need to see this.

"I disagree with Kamala's position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?" by US Senator Bernie Sanders

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Chapters: 1/7 Fandom: Daredevil (TV), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Matt Murdock/Jennifer Walters, Matt Murdock & Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Matt Murdock/Karen page (past) Characters: Matt Murdock, Jennifer Walters, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Leland Owlsley, Turk Barrett, Brett Mahoney, Jessica Jones (Marvel), Luke Cage, Karen Page (mentioned), Original Characters Additional Tags: Developing Relationship, Relationship Issues, Legal issues, lawyer talk, Avocados at Law (Marvel), Nelson & Murdock lawfirm, Matt Murdock & Foggy Nelson Friendship, Human Disaster Matt Murdock, Protective She-Hulk, The Owl - Freeform, mob boss, Blindness, Blind Character, Canon Disabled Character, Ableism, Canon-Typical Violence, Drug Dealing, Human Trafficking, Vigilantism, No Smut, Some Fluff, Some angst

Series: Part 4 of The Owl

Summary: Jennifer Walters has a case in New York and associates Nelson & Murdock as her co-counsel. The opposing party is an old adversary of Matt’s – with a score to settle. Along the way, Jennifer gets to know Matt better and realizes she didn’t know him as well as she thought she did.

This story takes place a few months after She-Hulk: Attorney at Law but before Daredevil: Born Again. I have not tried to figure out where it fits, or even if it does fit, in the Marvel/Disney+ timeline. The tone is a little darker than She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and a little lighter than Netflix Daredevil. I hope you will enjoy the story for what it is, an exploration of how Jennifer and Matt’s relationship might have developed after they met in L.A.

Chapter One of my new fic has been posted. More to come soon!

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Exactly. The Orange Felon never wanted to be President, as in actually doing the job. He just wanted to play the President on TV.

“Trump donning an apron in a closed-to-the-public McDonald’s and handing out fries is cosplay. In no way does he gain any further true understanding of what real fast food workers’ lives are like. Taking off the apron ends Trump’s cosplay; in reality, taking off the apron doesn’t end challenges for minimum-wage workers. They don’t shed rent, health care, and transportation costs they can’t afford on part-time minimum wages. They don’t lose the challenges of scheduling child and elder care, education, household needs when they walk out the restaurant’s door. Trump donning a suit and tie, then touting economic policy he doesn’t fully understand is both cosplay and kayfabe. Like a wrestler we never see without their trademark hair cut and attire, we don’t see Trump outside his blue suit and red tie or his white polo shirt and khaki golf pants. These are the element of both his cosplay as business person and president and golfer. They are signs of his engagement in kayfabe – when he’s wearing them, he’s on. But you never see him outside these costumes, you might note. That’s because there’s nothing there behind the suit and tie, behind the de rigueur golf apparel, and now behind the fast food apron. Trump is an empty husk of a man. His narcissism underlies his fear others will discover this, that he is nothing but a propped-up costume used like a puppet by his sponsors whether Putin or billionaire oligarchic fascists. He’s compelled to cosplay because he dare not do otherwise. Whatever costume he was wearing would crumple to the floor as he decompensated.”

— Donald J. Trump, Cosplayer - emptywheel

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This is adulthood.

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Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Daredevil (TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Matt Murdock & Franklin "Foggy Nelson" & Karen Page & Claire Temple Characters: Matt Murdock, Franklin "Foggy" Nelson, Karen Page, Claire Temple Additional Tags: Future Fic, Dystopia, not an au, Something like this could really happen if we don't stop it, Human rights violations, Fascism, Religious Fanaticism, Reproductive Rights, Women's Rights, Implied/Referenced Rape/Non-con, Medical Procedures, Miscarriage, Hysterectomy, Forced Birth, Legal issues, Resistance, Blindness, Canon Disabled Character, Canon-Typical Violence, Cautionary Tale, Medical Inaccuracies Summary: A snapshot of what a post-Roe, post-democracy United States might look like. Some people are resisting the new order. Matt, Foggy, Karen, and Claire are among them.

I received my ballot in the mail yesterday!

With 30 days to go before the election, I am re-posting the link to a fic I wrote two years ago, in which I imagine what a post-Dobbs, post-democracy country might look like. It saddens me to say that some of the things I imagined then are actually happening now.

I don’t want to live in that country. Do you? If you don’t want to live there either, sitting out this election is not an option. Not voting will hand the election and the country to the Orange Felon and his weird running mate, not to mention the folks who came up with Project 2025. If you want to know what they will do if elected, it’s all there on paper, and it ain’t pretty, especially for anyone who isn’t white, male, straight, Christian (or claims to be), and wealthy. Last time I checked, that’s most of us.

Please make sure you’re registered to vote, make a plan on how to vote (especially if you live in a state that makes voting difficult), and get off the couch and vote! We can’t fuck this up. The stakes are too high.