#; v: dahlia

[baker-chan-senpai]

Based on this post by @cornertheculprit

[cosmic-spectre]

the fanciest girls on Copper-9 (they've killed so many people oh my god)

[the-banished-one]

Dahlia

[astrahannah]

Já, pár dní zpátky, čtoucí si popis Čarovného jablka v TV programu: "Čarodějnice Moriana se bude k získání moci snažit využít svou nemilovanou dceru Dahlii"

Moje mysl: "To jakože tohle?"

Zdravím české Ace Attorney fanoušky:-D

[soulless-angel25-art]

2024

[tomorrowusa]

« America is being led astray by a small handful of folks who are drunk-driving on originalism—and not in a funny Marx Brothers, spin-around-in-circles-and-all-fall-down sort of way. No, it’s in a children-murdered-in-their-classrooms, women-hemorrhaging-in-parking-lots, environmental-and-health-regulations-destroyed kind of way. And that’s because the whole nation is currently lashed to a small, stupid, perpetually changing theory of legal interpretation variously known as “originalism,” or “textualism,” or “original public meaning,” or “history and tradition.” A theory that is—unless you were born in the 1990s—younger than you are. »

—Dahlia Lithwick at Slate.

The Republican Supreme Court is only "originalist" when it furthers GOP aims to be originalist.

The US Constitution nowhere mentions presidential immunity. But because of some obscure comment by Benjamin Franklin, the Bush-Trump justices act as if it's written on top of the document in bigger print than the Preamble.

When you vote for president and US senator you are voting for the folks who appoint and confirm Supreme Court justices. Remind vote slackers and the third-party curious about this.

If Hillary Clinton had won in 2016, SCOTUS would currently be: 6 moderate progressives, 1 conservative, and 2 batshit crazy corrupt reactionaries. Of course Roe v. Wade would still be in effect.

[matri4rch]

Queen Consort Dahlia Wintersnow

I honestly don't remember if she is already the queen in the fic but idgaf. She's the queen in my heart.

Fanart for the stunning, lovely, gorgeous @thequeenofthewinter

[urmultideadfandomperson]

@mochalumii and Friends Love Terrence Slander

Ever since this was discovered, the Terrence Diaz Slander was birthed into existence...

Here, what I present are pictures that serve as evidence from a couple of people (mostly Luminous) that show resentment against Terrence's existence.

Because of the huge amount of passion and hate Luminous has towards her far cousin (I'd like to think is Terrence is once removed), I have made screenshots from Gacha Club in her honor.

Terrence: ... why do I hear boss music?..

Luminous: By the power of Arcturus, the First Sorcerer of Böötes invested in me, I SHALL OBLITERATE YOUR EXISTENCE WITH HIS MIGHTY WAND!!

Terrence: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA—

Meanwhile in the back...

Zachary: Oh dang, this is Ren's relative? She's so badass, it's actually terrifying...

Nikolai: I must say, she's quite the ferocious type of person. Overall, Diaz deserved that wrath.

Dahlia: She is mildly feral... It's entertaining yet fearsome in my eyes.

Nikolai, holding his wife tighter: Do not be afraid. I am here, Солнышко.

V, who is amused of the chaos: Heh, great job, Lumi.

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BONUS!!!

It's definitely not to best, but I did try! I hope you like it, Lumi! <333

(I had so much fun making this random slander for Terrence XDD)

[impurc-moved]

@multi-royalty plotted starter

The young girl had no idea how long she has been running for, all she knew was that her feet were aching and she was starting to get really tired and hungry. All she knew was that she had to go to place called the French Quarter, that's located in New Orleans because it seems that's where her family is, according to the locator spell she had used over a day ago.

Her aunt Dahlia had left alone yesterday morning in their home to run an errand and told her she would be back at lunchtime. Alyssa decided to use the opportunity to escape and didn't look back. Ally stops running, as she has finally made it to a city and starts walking around, being careful where she steps as she lost her shoes and was now barefoot.

The young hybrid spots a sign telling her that she has made it to the French Quarter somehow and decides to go down a quiet alley way in order to collect her bearings and then come up with a plan to find her family. When suddenly someone touches her shoulder, causing her to let out a scream and she turns to face the stranger. "Don't touch me!"

[mint-swirl]

i'm SO fucking out of practice with drawing, and i really don't have a lot of energy these days so it had to be lower effort, but when i got to this part of @snapscube's vod of bridge to the turnabout, i knew that i HAD to animate it. i simply had to. big spoilers for ace attorney: trials and tribulations fyi :)

[cosmic-spectre]

angry expression practice feat. V

bonus Lizzy:

"And you CAN'T sit with us, Rebecca!"

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

But the true shock of their piece lies in fact that none of it is shocking: Samuel Alito came to the court wishing to overturn Roe and lied about that fact at his confirmation hearings; Neil Gorsuch didn’t even bother to read the draft opinion authored by Alito before he agreed to put his name to it, or else secretly viewed a draft before it was circulated to other justices; Amy Coney Barrett has someone in her chambers who wants us to see her as a tormented and complicated woman, even as she refused to do anything but rubber-stamp an opinion that would confirm to the world that she was a token, partisan, politics-haired appointment. And Brett Kavanaugh? He is precisely as absurdly self-important, scheming, untrustworthy, and ineffectual as we all knew him to be.

One could add a note here about Clarence Thomas’ former clerk, who devised the whole case as a bait-and-switch to kill Roe at the same time he was palling around with Clarence and Ginni Thomas at a West Virginia resort. But really, why? The point is not that any part of this meticulously reported piece will surprise anyone who has watched the high court stagger deeper and deeper into disgrace and moral irrelevance. The point is that every single thing described by the New York Times is now deemed ordinary, lawful, acceptable, and accepted at the highest court of the land.

The gist of the report confirms what we all suspected: There was never any real doubt about the outcome of Dobbs. During their confirmation hearings, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett presented themselves as open-minded on abortion, and generally respectful of precedent protecting women’s reproductive autonomy. Once on the court, all three were eager to light that precedent on fire. The only question was one of pacing and optics: Just how quickly, the conservatives wondered, could they overturn Roe v. Wade without delegitimizing the court and cementing their own status as partisan hacks? We learn now that Kavanaugh successfully lobbied the conservatives to conceal their decision to take up Dobbs from the public, waiting until May of 2021 to announce a vote that took place in the preceeding January. The purpose of this delay was to put distance between the announcement and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. Kavanaugh did not want the public to think RBG’s passing was the sole reason why the court would now overturn Roe. But it absolutely was.

We learn, too, that Alito shared his draft of Dobbs with several fellow conservative justices without the knowledge of the others, locking in their votes behind closed doors. We learn that Kavanaugh pretended to waffle on his commitment to reversing Roe, when all signs indicate that he was gunning for abortion from day one. It is clear that Scott Stewart, the former Thomas clerk who defended Mississippi’s abortion ban, transformed the case from an incremental attack on Roe to a full-on assault, after attending a reunion with Thomas. We learn that every major aspect of Dobbs was preordained once Barrett replaced Ginsburg: Five Republican-appointed justices wanted to abolish the constitutional right to abortion; they disagreed exclusively over how it would look and how best to deceive and mollify the American public; they fretted about how fast they could rewrite the law without revealing the fundamentally partisan nature of their ruling.

It’s no accident that this week, too, that yet more blockbuster reporting from ProPublica revealed that the body built to police Supreme Court conduct, the Judicial Conference, has been the government equivalent of one of those inflatable air dancers that flops around outside a carwash. Faced with decades of evidence of ethics breaches by Thomas, the Judicial Conference has waved its inflatable arms around, flopped and flapped, accomplished nothing, and then covered it up. When billionaires and oligarchs seek to buy shares in a conservative justice, the only thing standing in their way is the same enterprise pointing you to the $4900 beige Ford Pinto.

So while there is a lot to say about the Times revelations, let’s be perfectly clear about this: Every aspect of Dobbs departed from the court’s norms and tradition. Granting certiorari because the composition of the court has changed; allowing a party to radically change its position after cert has been granted; pre-gaming opinion drafts so justices can sign off within minutes; refusing to change material errors in a leaked draft? It’s all legal! It’s all constitutional! It’s how the court rolls! And if any of this surprises or upsets you, be advised there’s nothing you can do about it.

We all read The Brethren. We aren’t children. We fully expect logrolling, horse-trading, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, and outcome-driven decision-making from justices, who attempt to hide from us the fact that they are mere politicians, they’re just poor. We are told by the Supreme Court’s defenders that no such thing as crass political maneuvering could ever happen at the sacred temple on One First Street. We are assured that the robed oracles merely read briefs, take votes, and render judgments in good-faith, largely as a result of the noise-canceling originalist headphones they wear once they are sworn into office. The New York Times piece is stunning and unsurprising: The only thing that is worth tracking is that this maneuvering is now so publicly known ,reported in the Times like the fundamentally political story that it so obviously is. The sources who leaked this information, possibly including a justice, evidently believed it was important for Americans to know what went down here.

With each new peek behind the curtain, this fantasy becomes more difficult to buy into, even for those desperate to believe. It turns out that the justices—at least five of them on the right—are functionally indistinguishable from cynical partisan lawmakers making deals in the Senate cloakroom. It turns out that abortion rights vanished in America because five conservatives barely tried to hide the fact that they could do that, simply because they could do that. And it turns out that they’re increasingly bad at covering their tracks.

[aletheialed]

Now, there's nothing about this woman that would strike most people as uncanny or off. Certainly, there's a kind of ethereal beauty to her that one could argue to be unnatural - but people like that do exist in the world, and there's usually nothing suspicious about them.

But while it's not inherently suspicious, the innocent, delicate aura that this lady's giving off frankly makes Simeon feel sick. Outside of that, there's not anything about her in particular that leaves him on edge - no, instead, the bitter, prickling feeling in his gut is the same feeling that he gets around everyone else, because nobody can be trusted in this world... and he himself is proof of that most of all.

With an awkward, lopsided kind of smile, Simeon looks at her, his gaze jittering around as if he's just a little nervous - the same familiar performance as always.

"Ooooh.... it's no trouble, really... I'm just glad you're okay, y'know?"

@bloodthirstyflower ( starter ! )

[woodcries]

' i used to work here actually. before the bombs fell. ' it was still strange to walk the streets and sidewalks of somewhere she used to know so closely. her old law office had mostly been caved in, but she could still make out the coffee shop across the street or the bus stop she'd wait at when nate had the car. nostalgia didn't seem to cover the breadth of emotions she felt looking up at the crumbling brick now.

' ... best to keep moving, i suppose. '

@arcanumsolitude / fallout starter call.

[ginkovskij]

34? :-)

34. Which film is the most visually beautiful?

Ohh I had to think hard about this one! Forgive me for cheating and naming three instead: Boris Godounov, 1989 dir. by A. Żuławski, The Color of Pomegranates, 1969 dir. by S. Parajanov, and Barry Lyndon, 1975 dir. dy S. Kubrick

[morphoxpeleides]

F Around Find Out || Dahlia & Eddie

Another party, another excuse to ACT OUT. At least, that was Dahlia's reasoning for going to most of these things. Most of the time she liked watching the boys PANIC and freak out when she drank more than them. She had been in the backyard, watching a few people chug their beers, a few others were daring each other to do stupid shit. It took everything in her not to light a guy's hair on fire, though it was obvious he had used more hairspray than her.

Instead, someone had an arm around her now, someone she didn't recognize immediately. She glanced up, head hazy from the alcohol. Maybe mixing beer and whiskey wasn't such a good thing. Dahlia furrowed her brows, shrugging them off of her when another boy tried. It was HABIT. Boys thought she liked this and kept pushing their luck because of rumors from freshman year. However, she wasn't expecting someone else to shove them off of her, her eyes wide as she turned and saw Eddie.

It felt surreal for a moment. "What the hell..." she finally managed out.

@tsukareta-tamashii