#Clear The Area

[syms-things-5]

Alive & Well

Part Three of ‘Fractured’

A new Chris Evans AU / Sarah Bernette ‘thing’

If you like, you can catch up with Part One here and Part Two here, but you probably won’t need to.

Synopsis: Continuing on a few months after the move to Maine, and starting with fresh eyes, Sarah and Chris are certainly making the most of their newfound freedom. 

Warnings: Language, general angst, and NSFW/18+ in places. I will update each chapter individually depending on what is needed.

Tags: Just following on from Part Two - thank you for the support :) @ppal3​ @bookwormchick91 @redhairedfeistynerd​ @memoriesat30​ @patzammit @before-we-get-started​

Chapter One: Coming v. soon!

[moocowmoocow]

You find your way back down And I'll keep the area clear (Please clear the area) When you find your way back down in one piece Then I'll just be waiting here 

[blackkatdraws2]

These days are a bit boring and slow~ [Blank Scripts AU]

Mano or pagmamano is similar to hand-kissing. It's performed by a person giving the greeting by bowing down toward the person or the elder or taking his hand or her hand and pressing it on the forehead.

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Kingdom of Corona

[weekindecember]

the discourse around dan and phil refusing to discuss their relationship and interpreting it as them saying that they aren't together is soooo funny to me because you know they could just. say they're not together. like that would be a very easy thing for them to do and still maintain privacy. hmm i wonder why they won't

[victimized-martyr]

Rabbi look out! there’s a thirsty hoe behind you!!

Mr.Broflovski please… sir this is a public space… sir you’re scaring off fellow beach goers…

[a2zillustration]

(It's ok Yurgir will respawn in Avernus)

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[hedgehog-moss]

In other news, this week a French publisher on his way to the London Book Fair was arrested by British counter-terrorist police to be questioned about his participation in protests in France.

A French publisher has been arrested on terror charges in London after being questioned by UK police about participating in anti-government protests in France.

Moret arrived at St Pancras [...] with his colleague Stella Magliani-Belkacem, the editorial director at the Paris-based publishing house, to be confronted by the two officers. [...] He was questioned for six hours and then arrested for alleged obstruction in refusing to disclose the passcodes to his phone and computer. [...] He was transferred to a police station in Islington, north London, where he remained in custody on Tuesday. He was later released on bail.

Éditions la Fabrique is known for publishing radical left authors. Moret also represents the French science fiction novelist Alain Damasio and had arranged more than 40 appointments at the London book fair. [...]

[Quoting publishing house’s press release] “The police officers claimed that Ernest had participated in demonstrations in France as a justification for this act – a quite remarkably inappropriate statement for a British police officer to make, and which seems to clearly indicate complicity between French and British authorities on this matter.” [...] “There’s been an increasingly repressive approach by the French government to the demonstrations, both in terms of police violence, but also in terms of a security clampdown.”

(Guardian link - BBC link) (article in French)

The publishing house (here’s their latest statement in French) and the publisher’s lawyer mention that the British police asked him “Do you support Emmanuel Macron? Did you attend protests against the pension reform?” and he was also asked to name the authors with anti-government views that his employer has published. They add, “Asking the representative of a publishing house, in the framework of counter-terrorism, about the opinions of his authors, is pushing even further the logic of political censorship and repression of dissenting thought. In a context of social protests and authoritarian escalation on the part of the French government, this aspect [of the questioning] is chilling.”

Being an accomplice to thoughtcrime by publishing dissident authors gets you treated like an international terrorist now... The publisher’s lawyer suggests that French authorities asked the UK to help them get their hands on the publisher’s contacts in the radical left sphere. But on the face of it, we’ve got: Exercise your right to protest your government in France -> get arrested by counter-terrorist UK police in London. That’s literally the reason he was given for being greeted by police at the train station...

[magicicephoenix]

Draft - The Ink Demonth 2024 (Day 15)

A tiny crack hinting at freedom, whispering of things you’ll never get to see…

[genshin-impact-updates]

Version 4.8 "Summertide Scales and Tales" Events Overview | Genshin Impact

Genshin Impact Version 4.8 "Summertide Scales and Tales" will be released on July 17. Thank you for your support and companionship~

(*This is under development and is not indicative of the final product.)

[kermit-coded]

southern california miku!

[syms-things-5]

Somebody is reading Clear The Area on A03 and they're commenting at the end of every chapter and now I'm all like 🥰🥰🥰

[anghraine]

jenndoesnotcare replied to this post:

Every time LDS kids come to my neighborhood I am so so nice to them. I hope they remember the blue haired lady who was kind, when people try to convince them the outside world is bad and scary. (Also they are always so young! I want to feed them cookies and give them Diana Wynne Jones books or something)

Thank you! Honestly, this sort of kindness can go a really long way, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.

LDS children and missionaries (and the majority of the latter are barely of age) are often the people who interact the most with non-Mormons on a daily basis, and thus are kind of the "face" of the Church to non-Mormons a lot of the time. As a result, they're frequently the ones who actually experience the brunt of antagonism towards the Church, which only reinforces the distrust they've already been taught to feel towards the rest of the world.

It's not that the Church doesn't deserve this antagonism, but a lot of people seem to take this enormous pride in showing up Mormon teenagers who have spent most of their lives under intense social pressure, instruction, expectation, and close observation from both their peers and from older authorities in the Church (it largely operates on seniority, so young unmarried people in particular tend to have very little power within its hierarchies). Being "owned" for clout by non-Mormons doesn't prove anything to most of them except that their leaders and parents are right and they can't trust people outside the Church.

The fact that the Church usually does provide a tightly-knit community, a distinct and familiar culture, and a well-developed infrastructure for supporting its members' needs as long as they do [xyz] means that there can be very concrete benefits to staying in the Church, staying closeted, whatever. So if, additionally, a Mormon kid has every reason to think that nobody outside the Church is going to extend compassion or kindness towards them, that the rest of the world really is as hostile and dangerous as they've been told, the stakes for leaving are all the higher, despite the costs of staying.

So people from "outside" who disrupt this narrative of a hostile, threatening world that cannot conceivably understand their experiences or perspectives can be really important. It's important for them to know that there are communities and reliable support systems outside the Church, that leaving the Church does not have to mean being a pariah in every context, that there are concrete resources outside the Church, that compassion and decency in ordinary day-to-day life is not the province of any particular religion or sect and can be found anywhere. This kind of information can be really important evidence for people to have when they are deciding how much they're willing to risk losing.

So yeah, all of this is to say that you're doing a good thing that may well provide a lifeline for very vulnerable people, even if you don't personally see results at the time.

[fisheito]

"I'm a healer but--" duo

[princescar]

My printer can scan so heres a traditional piece of Junko

[cocteautwinsgirl]

can't wait for armand and daniel to make up and get back together so daniel can enter his spoiled baby fledgling era for the next hundred years