#❝ — visuals 》 the recruiter ; silas

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Jukebox reviews part 44! For context, see my post “A Project” under  this same tag. If you want to see a full list of his EMCSA stories,  they can be found here, sorted alphabetically.And if you want to see some of his drabbles, check out his blog at @jukeboxemcsa

Messy

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1/19/2019                                     mc ff

This is a fun bit of consensual brainwashing, even if the tone isn't quite the way I tend to lean with brainwashing. The particular flavor of brainwashing in play leans just a little into what strikes me as humiliation (though obviously that's subjective), and I prefer to avoid that, personally. But even with that, it's just a hot story. If you like stories that lean into brainwashing and control and behavior modification, this is a good one for you. 9/10 spirals 

 Lazy Boy

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1/26/2019                                     mc mf fd

Awww, romantic mind control is always so much fun. And this is so very romantic. Also plenty of heat, though it's a little too much "sex is the point" for my personal preferences. But seeing how our narrator melts into hypnosis, how aware of it he is and how well it works despite (or because of) that? it's right up my alley. There is a bit where a paragraph is mostly repeated a couple paragraphs later, and there's a reason that makes sense, but also it made me do a doubletake, and if you're the sort of person who's sensitive to stuff like that (and I know some folk are), be aware it does happen. 8/10 spirals 

 Art Appreciation (Jukebox)

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2/2/2019                                       mc md ma

This one is interesting, but not quite ... it doesn't get me invested enough to suspend my disbelief. Maybe it's just 'cause art isn't my thing either - I agree with Michelle, a musical would have been better than this. But all the same, seeing the mental effects on Michelle as she examines the different paintings is good! I just can't see still visuals being *that* engaging, at least not to me. 7/10 spirals 

 Girls Are Always Right

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2/9/2019                                       mc mf fd rb

I feel like a world in which Girls(tm) existed would be a world where the APA would have standards on using Girls(tm) in therapy. Unless the folk running the show at the APA (and other associations) got Girls(tm) pretty early... regardless. This is an interesting use of the Girls(tm) hypnosis skill, though ethically it's more than a little ... questionable. But hey, I assume the Girls(tm) do understand how pharmaceuticals work on humans, otherwise she wouldn't be talking about a prescription, I think? Even if it's the human psychologist who's officially writing the script.  It's a good story, just I get very distracted by the logistical concerns. 7/10 spirals 

 Of Course We’ve All Seen the Sun

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2/23/2019                                     mc mf md

I recognize the story she was dreaming about! Even if she doesn't. And there's a fair bit to love in this story, though the serial recruitment twist at the end isn't my favourite. But if I ignore the last couple of paragraphs, it's a story I really can enjoy. Seeing someone so happy in their slavery that they can't imagine the end of The Silver Chair as a happy ending ... well, there's a number of hypnokinksters who I'm sure understand that approach. 9/10 spirals 

 Zzzonked

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2/23/2019                                     mc mf md cb

I love Jukebox's superhero stories, and this one is no exception. Even if I'm over here being *extremely* ace and baffled by a sex dream being all that compelling, actually. Still, it's a lovely story, and I love how Madame Macabre manages to break out of Silas's power and save the day. 9/10 spirals 

 Brain Freeze

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3/2/2019                                       mc ff

Well, that's one use for a botany degree, I suppose! I do wonder what the ice cream would taste like (ideally without the mind control effects, as I'm quite happy with my life as it stands :P ) but mostly this story just doesn't hit any of the things I look for in an MC story. Still, if you like science-as-magic, give it a read? 5/10 spirals 

 4 U 2 B Free

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3/9/2019                                       mc mf ff md fd

Huh. This is going ... somewhere. And I can't imagine it being a happy somewhere, either, but I suppose I just have to wait and see. Poor 4U, dealing with so many conflicting impulses, though. I do hope she gets some time to let her Master smooth those conflicting impulses and thoughts and believes out later - she sure needs it! Still, the plot remains the main draw of this series, and the sex portion is just kinda ... there. 7/10 spirals 

 Keep Looking Where Your Eyes Are Looking Now

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3/16/2019                                     mc mf fd

This is a really cute scene that could be real - and folk new to the kink should absolutely read it for a sense of how it can go, even if both folk involved are inexperienced with hypnosis. Seriously, this is just good, solid hypnokink and absolutely adorable. 10/10 spirals 

 No Time for Boys

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3/23/2019                                     mc mf md rb

Ick, ick ick ick ick ick. I know we're actively supposed to dislike the Boys when compared to the Girls(tm), but this is *waaaay* too close to corrective rape for this ace gal, thanks. I'm not even going to try giving it a fair rating, because of that.

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Queer Star Wars Characters (Round 1): General Bracket Match 33

Smeemarm | Identity: wlw | Media: The High Republic Midnight Horizon

Smeemarm was an employee of Crash Ongwa’s security company. Her job was to watch the tunnels under Coronet City during missions. During the entrapment mission against singer Crueefla as part of a wider scheme to discover Nihil operatives in Coronet City, she instructed Jedi Reath Silas through an earpiece. At the end of that mission, she flirted with Deemus Abrus, an inspector for the Galactic Society of Creature Enthusiasts. She played a role in the rest of Crash’s operations in Midnight Horizon and fought in the battle of Corellia. 

Caysin Bog/Tam Polsa | Identity: mlm couple | Media: Doctor Aphra comics

Caysin Bog and Tam Polsa are two background characters on Jedha in Rogue One (the latter not even making it into the final cut, but he was also in the background of Solo), but have been given a full story through the Visual Dictionary for the movie and the Doctor Aphra comic series. Tam Polsa was a member of the Milvayne Authority who went rogue to continue to pursue Corenlius Evazan and Ponda Boba, who were kidnapping people to turn into lobotomized cyborgs called decrainiated. Caysin Bog was one such victim, although the lobotomy didn’t take as much as most decrainiated. As Polsa pursued Evazan, he met Bog and the two fell in love, further motivating the former lawman. The two became bounty hunters to fund their search. They were both very legalist as bounty hunters, refusing to kill those who were neither criminals or someone they were being paid to kill. Polsa had a strong sense of justice, albeit restrained by the legal system. Although the lengths he had to go to tracking Evazan and the jobs he had to take recruited constant moral compromise and was sending him down the ‘self destructive noir detective’ path. Polsa was extremely dramatic in his speech, while Caysin showed no outward indications of his decraination effecting him cognitively.

They were hired anonymously by 0-0-0 and placed under the command of Doctor Aphra as part of a mercenary crew to retrieve a copy of his personality matrix. Said mission involved all the twists and schemes of a typical Doctor Aphra arc. Aphra reprogramed Caysin’s cybernetics with an override, which she used to make him walk into the fire of messed up Tarkin Initiative prototypes Polsa had previously refused to kill. Consumed by rage, Polsa slaughtered the prototypes. After the mission, he figured out that Aphra was the cause of his lover’s death, and swore vengeance on her as well. 

Imprisoned in Accresker Jail with Doctor Evazan, Aphra called Polsa to break her out of jail in exchange for being able to kill Evazan. He helped save her from some fungus that thought it was a Jedi (long story), before taking a frozen Evazan- not killing Aphra but not bringing her with him anyway. When Evazan was unfrozen, he used a shapeshifting squid thing (long story) to convince Polsa he was a changeling Aphra used to trick him. He returned to Accresker Jail, where 0-0-0 killed him. However, he was intact enough for the fungi that thought it was a Jedi to revive him and create a force-sensitive organism that believed itself to be a manifestation of the Force’s desire for justice. He tracked Aphra back to his home planet, where 0-0-0 killed him for real.

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DGHDA Leo Awards 2018 Nominations

Ahoy y’all! The Leo Awards (television & film awards for British Columbia) just announced the nominees for 2018 and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency was nominated 7 times!

The categories the show was nominated in are:

BEST PICTURE EDITING - DRAMATIC SERIES Darren Tucker, Allan Lee - Little Guy, Black Hair

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS - DRAMATIC SERIES Lawren Bancroft-Wilson, Kerrington Harper, Chris Van Dyck, Craig Vandenbiggelaar, Justin Reimer - Nice Jacket

BEST MAKE-UP - DRAMATIC SERIES Joyce Tu, Amanda Imeson, Alannah Bilodeau, Ciara Lynch - This Is Not Miami

BEST HAIRSTYLING - DRAMATIC SERIES Connie Agawin, Amy Bell, Heather Tillson - This Is Not Miami BEST GUEST PERFORMANCE BY A MALE - DRAMATIC SERIES Lee Majdoub (Silas Dengdamor) - This Is Not Miami BEST GUEST PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE - DRAMATIC SERIES Agam Darshi (Wakti Wapnasi) - Shapes and Colors

BEST SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE BY A FEMALE - DRAMATIC SERIES Emily Tennant (Beast) - This Is Not Miami

There’s also a couple of cast members that were nominated for their work outside of DGHDA:

Amitai Mars in BEST PERFORMANCE IN A YOUTH OR CHILDREN’S PROGRAM OR SERIES for his role in Rufus 2 and(!) for SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE BY A MALE IN A TV MOVIE for his role in Cop and a Half: New Recruit Zak Santiago for LEAD PERFORMANCE BY A MALE IN A TV MOVIE for his role in Christmas Princess

Aleks Paunovic for LEAD PERFORMANCE BY A MALE IN A DRAMATIC SERIES for Van Helsing

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Tagalog News: Mga opisyal ng barangay sa Calapan, dumalo sa anti-illegal recruitment seminar

#PHinfo: Tagalog News: Mga opisyal ng barangay sa Calapan, dumalo sa anti-illegal recruitment seminar

Ang mga opisyales ng barangay ng lungsod ng Calapan na nagtapos sa isinagawang Anti-Illegal Recruitment and Trafficking-In-Persons Campaign Seminar kasama ang mga keynote speakers mula sa POEA at mga kawani ng City PESO. (Dennis Nebrejo/PIA-OrMin)

LUNGSOD NG CALAPAN, Oriental Mindoro, Okt 3 (PIA) -- Dumalo ang nasa mahigit 30 opisyales ng barangay ng lungsod ng Calapan sa kalahating araw na pag-aaral na inorganisa ng City PESO at ng Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) hinggil sa Anti-Illegal Recruitment and Trafficking-In-Persons Campaign Seminar na isinagawa sa DWCC Audio-Visual Room noong Oktubre 1.

Ipinaliwanag ng POEA ang mga gawain ng mga illegal recruiters pati ang kanilang modus operandi kung paano ang kanilang istilo sa panloloko ng tao.

Sinimulan ni Atty. Romelson E. Abbang ang pagtalakay tungkol sa overview ng Anti-illegal Recruitment Campaign na sinundan ni Atty. Hobart H. Chan na ipinaliwanag naman ang mga batas laban sa illegal recruitment. Dito ay nagkaroon ng tanong ang mga partisipante na nilinaw naman agad ni Chan ang mga solusyon sa mga problemang maaaring kaharapin.

Samantala, ipinagpatuloy pa ni Antonio P. Dela Cruz ang usapin tungkol sa ilang mga pamamaraan o modus operandi ng mga kawatan upang maging babala sa ating mga kababayan at ipinaliwanag din ni Atty. Kristina Marie Joy Andal ang lunas hinggil sa mga remedyong legal at serbisyo hatid sa mga OFWs.

Sa huli ng talakayan, pinaalalahanan ng mga dalubhasa sa batas na maging matalino at huwag magpaloko. Dahil dito nag iwan sila ng sampung paalala upang maiwasan ang illegal recruitment; una, tanging nasa 23 taong gulang lamang at pataas ang maaring mag-apply bilang OFW. Lumapit lamang sa mga lisensiyadong POEA recruitment agencies at mag-apply lamang sa mga otorisadong kinatawan ng ahensiya at sa tanggapan lamang nito maaring gawin ang transaksyon.

Magtungo sa mga recruitment agencies na may job orders na aprubado ng POEA. Tanggapin lamang ang alok na trabaho sa ibang bansa na may kaukulang employment/working visa o permit. Huwag tanggapin ang trabaho kung ang visa na gagamitin ay tourist o visit visa lamang. Magbayad ng pinahintulutang Placement Fee na dapat katumbas ng isang buwan na sahod.

Maging maingat sa pakikipag-transakyon sa mga training centers at travel agencies dahil hindi pinapahintulutan na mangalap ng aplikanteng nais mag trabaho sa ibang bansa. Dapat din maging mapanuri sa mga kaakit-akit na trabaho na makikita sa internet lalo na kapag humingi ng ilang mga bayarin at ang huli, huwag makipag transaksyon sa mga fixers. Makipag usap lamang sa mga kawani at tanggapan ng pamahalaan.

Ayon naman sa mga taga barangay, marami silang natutunan at maaari nila itong ibahagi sa kanilang mga taga barangay upang magbigay babala sa mga mapag samantalang kawatan ng hindi na mabiktima ng mga ito. (DN/PIA-OrMin)

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References:

* Philippine Information Agency. "Tagalog News: Mga opisyal ng barangay sa Calapan, dumalo sa anti-illegal recruitment seminar." Philippine Information Agency. https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1028131 (accessed October 03, 2019 at 09:37AM UTC+08).

* Philippine Infornation Agency. "Tagalog News: Mga opisyal ng barangay sa Calapan, dumalo sa anti-illegal recruitment seminar." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1028131 (archived).

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From Warner Bros. Pictures comes the first-ever “Justice League” big screen epic action adventure, directed by Zack Snyder and starring as the famed lineup of DC Super Heroes: Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill as Superman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, and Ray Fisher as Cyborg.

Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman’s selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists the help of his newfound ally, Diana Prince, to face an even greater enemy. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to find and recruit a team of metahumans to stand against this newly awakened threat. But despite the formation of this unprecedented league of heroes—Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and The Flash—it may already be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.

The film also brings back Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Jeremy Irons as Alfred, Diane Lane as Martha Kent, Connie Nielsen as Hippolyta and Joe Morton as Silas Stone, and expands the universe by introducing J.K. Simmons as Commissioner Gordon, Ciarán Hinds as Steppenwolf, and Amber Heard as Mera.

The “Justice League” screenplay is by Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon, story by Chris Terrio & Zack Snyder, based on characters from DC, Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The film’s producers are Charles Roven, Deborah Snyder, Jon Berg and Geoff Johns, with executive producers Jim Rowe, Ben Affleck, Wesley Coller, Curtis Kanemoto, Daniel S. Kaminsky and Chris Terrio.

The behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography Fabian Wagner (“Game of Thrones”); production designer Patrick Tatopoulos (“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”); editor David Brenner (“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”); Oscar-nominated editor Richard Pearson (“Kong: Skull Island,” “United 93”); Oscar-winning editor Martin Walsh (“Wonder Woman,” “Chicago”); Oscar-nominated costume designer Michael Wilkinson (“American Hustle”); and visual effects supervisor John “DJ” DesJardin (“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”). The music is by Oscar-nominated composer Danny Elfman (“Milk,” “Men in Black”).

“Justice League” has been rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action.

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Justice League: Another Look From Warner Bros. Pictures comes the first-ever “Justice League” big screen epic action adventure, directed by Zack Snyder and starring as the famed lineup of DC Super Heroes: Ben Affleck as Batman, Henry Cavill as Superman, Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Ezra Miller as The Flash, Jason Momoa as Aquaman, and Ray Fisher as Cyborg.