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He might be a murderer, but I have no idea how they’re charging the UHC shooter with terrorism.

Who precisely is being terrorized here?

I don’t think the government recognizes “CEOs of 4 specific health insurance for-profits” as a class of people that one can inflict terror on.

That’s not a race, ethnicity, religion, creed, nationality, sex, sexuality, etc.

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You’re an ancient Greek man coming home from 4 months of war to find your wife 3 months pregnant. Now you’ve embarked on a solemn quest: to punch Zeus in the face.

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in like 5-8 years when gen alpha starts really making fun of gen z no one is allowed to complain because like 99% of people do nothing but treat those kids like shit

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So there's this idea I've had for a little bit, just got a few hundred words of prologue but want someone else to think about it a little.

Namely, a trans Agatha AU.

(Full explanation under cut.)

Now, it wouldn't change everything, because not everything about Agatha is related to her gender.

But a lot of things are. She's a spark girl, she's a Heterodyne girl, she's her mother's daughter.

So, now I've convinced you, have some plot.

Barry, being somewhat paranoid and aware that Lucrezia's followers are looking for her daughter, starts introducing them as his nephew in particularly suspect towns.

Little (well let's call them Aggie) asks Barry why he keeps introducing him as Barry's niece.

Barry has a Choice. He chooses Safety.

By the time little Aggie starts breaking through and gets to Beetleburg, he Knows he's a boy.

The Clays get The Explanation, and they've honestly Seen Weirder.

All Is Well. (except for the migraines after all Strong Emotions) (and Barry's missing)

Hel-lo puberty! Who wants to bet that gender dysphoria is a Strong Emotion?

The Clays end up sending Aggie to Mechanicsburg's Great Hospital with a few sick neighbors. Not a Good Option, but constant dehabilitating headaches aren't an option at all.

Aggie likes Mechanicsburg, gets prescribed a treatment for hormonal imbalances, and goes home.

Meanwhile, in Mechanicsburg. The Jagers smelt A Heterodyne, checked over all the tourists, and didn't think to look at the Great Hospital's patients until Aggie was leaving. All that comes of that spectacular failure, is that the Detached gain Hope and Determination.

(To tie up loose ends, Dr Sun realises something is really very wrong, but doesn't figure out the cause of Aggie's headaches before he has to leave. He gets the hormone treatments by asking Klaus, who sends back notes on one of his spark's side projects. This is normal.)

All Is Well. (Again)

Aggie has much the same pre-canon character progression as Agatha.

Inspections! Hive engines! Explosions! Breakthrough! ... Wait, what?

The Wulfenbaches still follow the clank back to the Forge, but instead of coming to the completely unhinged conclusion of canon come to the conclusion of Spark+Minon.

This changes... Honestly, not much.

Gil gets to be upset that all the sparks he likes are men.

Aggie gets to be worried about missing doses of his HRT while his stuff is getting lost.

The Jagergenerals get to connect dots, mostly accurately.

Rovainen still gets yelled at, but probably because of something else. (The power of plot compels you! To be a dick.)

Aggie escapes in the chaos, without his parents. (Not sure if they die. Von Pinn's not freaking out about a Heterodyne Girl.)

So, it turns out that "faking your death" is best achieved by using a corpse of the same gender. Shocking.

The Baron Figures Stuff Out well before Sturmhalten. (Not all the stuff, but some stuff.)

Encounters of the Baronic kind, feat. actually talki- no wait, DIVERSION! (Zur baken Skiff?)

Actually talking? Actually talking.

Honestly, that as far as I've got. Could be everything.

Just give me a shitton of people mistaking Aggie for KB!!

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"I want to live in a world in which teenagers can fulfil their natural purpose of being annoying" and "I do not always want to be annoyed by the teenagers" are compatible sentiments

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klapollo soul eater au from twitter

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"You sent me out there to kill a baby and open those doors. Whose baby didn’t matter on my end. Do you know, I gave that thing a nickname, my whole pregnancy? I used to call it Bomb.”

Wake: me!

Photo: @wyyrdplayy w/ fog machine assist by @cassylvan

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siren

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Love that after all the Ravens being institutionalized and dying Jeremy checks in on Kevin with very valid concern and Kevin’s like,,, I’m playing Exy five hours a night, we have three out of the five perfect court here, and Neil and Andrew finally fucking nasty and leaving me alone, things are great 👍

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I’ve got my tumblr inbox turned off so I really have to commend the person who actually emailed me to let me know they don’t like the things I’ve posted about the UnitedHealth CEO being murdered on their commitment to their beliefs.

But seen as how you emailed me from a dud email that appears to be bouncing back replies and I really wanted to address something you said to me about violence begetting violence:

My migraine medication, the medication I was given for my debilitating neurological disease that has gotten so bad I spent most of this year actively suicidal, costs $1300 a month.

My insurance covered it. But only because my doctors office went to fucking war for me because I’m a high anaphylaxis risk for the drugs the insurance wanted me to try.

Because that’s the thing.

My doctors knew, based on my documented medical history, I likely wouldn’t be a good fit for the “first line” of preventative migraine drugs, but because of insurance, I had to be given drugs that were contradictory to my other life threatening conditions, because otherwise insurance wouldn’t cover anything else.

I failed them. Spectacularly and with an anaphylactic reaction to one of them. And I was still warned insurance would fight me because I hadn’t tried the remaining drug they wanted me to try.

A drug which I would have to take in an ER waiting room because my mast cell disease is unpredictable but insurance wouldn’t cover in-patient treatment to let me try it safely under medical supervision.

Is that not violence?

Were all the times I was denied coverage for vital and necessary procedures that could have prevented my disabilities from worsening not violence?

Maybe not in the sense you mean. But I assure you it felt very much like violence to me.

Do I condone murder? No, obviously. But I’m also sick and tired of people pretending that what is happening to the American people every day isn’t eugenics through class warfare.

Violence begets violence.

It sure fucking does.

Maybe these insurance companies should have thought of that first.

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Ryan Yip explains what a fabulous resource for sewers of all kinds the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank is.

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Bangladesh Dupree+The Wulfenbachs Meta

I always headcanoned her to be close in age to Gil mostly because this adds a really interesting element to Klaus’ tolerance of her specifically being overly familiar and insubordinate while talking to him.

Just the idea that Klaus looked at this young woman who is about his son’s age, absolutely terrifying and way too enthusiastic about a challenging fight and he can’t help but imagine (not all that incorrectly from the interactions we see between her and Zeetha) that his daughter might have grown up to be a bit like her.

And maybe on a subconscious level that’s part of why he has a tendency to pair them off together, in Paris for example. In the novels they’re described as being noted as a particularly good, if reluctant, team so they must work together a decent amount.

She’s a loose canon that he’s preparing his heir to learn to work with, an incredibly dangerous warrior that he thinks could help Gil become stronger and a little part of him can’t help but enjoy watching the way they bicker and tease and thinking about what could have been.

Bang’s relationship with Klaus is also interesting from her perspective because the first novel says that she depends on him to be a constant which, though this may be reaching, could be something considering her father left. It’s a theme with all of Klaus’ subordinates and many others to be horrified at the prospect of him not being untouchable anymore because they recognise how needed he is but Bangladesh doesn’t really seem likely to care about the stability of Europa like the rest of them.

She’s a homicidal maniac, war is not going to worry her but she, not an especially soft and emotional person I would say, is the only person we see actually shed tears at Klaus’ supposed death and how she couldn’t save him.

And it’s definitely something that Gil is the one to hold her as she cries for his father because everyone who’s affected by the news is worried about the empire and what comes next while the two of them might well be the only people in Europa who are personally grieving his death.

And it’s also something that no matter how much she accidentally ended up caring about Klaus the moment she suspected he’d done something to Gil she’s absolutely furious and tries to convince Gil that he should be too.

She’s so unquestionably on Gil’s side above everything else whether she actually still serves the empire or not and their interactions are absolutely giving sibling energy.

So yeah, it could just be a coincidence, but I’m hung up on the theory that Klaus looked at Bang, saw the daughter he hasn’t seen since infancy in her and immediately decided that he’s ordering her to stay with Gil for the foreseeable future.

Because that it is exactly the flavour of denial and unresolved issues made everyone else’s problem that I would expect from him.

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immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

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America be like "you cant have free healthcare or easy access to disability but you can have a gun"