#David Eastman

[gryffindorloser]

y'know maureen keeps telling me that janelle is stevie's best friend but keeps showing me it's nate. don't get me wrong, i ADORE janelle and she's an absolutely incredible friend, but nate is stevie's bestie, hands DOWN

[steviebellgirl]

there is nothing so serious as a game ₊˚.⋆📜

[celestial-academia]

I will never forgive Maureen Johnson for calling David Stevie’s Watson. The same David who is missing for half of the Hand of the Wall and half of the Box in the Woods.

Nathaniel Fisher was not Stevie’s secret keeper, lookout, closest confidant, and did not get SHOT AT for David “Barely Present” Eastman to be Stephanie Bell’s Watson.

[viaviainternet]

i tried so hard not to make every mabel scene correlate with mabel

and i think this is the most niche post ive ever made

but enjoy!!

[alchemyenjoyer]

im currently reading nine liars by maureen johnson and uhgggg i hate when david appears i really wish i could just skip ALL the parts he is in without losing important things.

david and stevie are such a bad pairing i hate his personality so much and only continue to read the series because i love janelle, stevie and nate trio 😭

[imamirrorballlll]

This is a David Eastman hate club.

[thoughtportal]

Rep David Eastman

https://www.newsweek.com/alaska-republican-touts-benefits-children-being-abused-death-1782972

A legislature in Alaska caused outrage after questioning whether the death of child abuse victims could be "a cost savings," because it would mean they don't need "government services" later in life.

Republican David Eastman, who sits in the Alaska House of Representatives, made the comment on Monday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

The committee was meeting to discuss how children are impacted by physical or sexual abuse, as well as witnessing domestic violence within their family home.

Lawmakers were shown a study indicating each incident of fatal child abuse costs society $1.5 million, a figure reached by assessing the impact of trauma and the child's loss of earnings over a lifetime.

However, Eastman was unimpressed, and questioned whether fatal child abuse could be economically beneficial to wider society, an argument he claimed to have heard.

Eastman said: "It can be argued, periodically, that it's actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment."

The remark horrified Trevor Storrs, president of the Alaska Children's Trust (ACT), who hit back describing the loss of a child as "unmeasurable."

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Democratic Representative Cliff Groh, who used to work as a prosecutor covering child abuse allegations, said he was "disturbed" by Easterman's comment.

Representative Sarah Vance, the Republican who claims the House Judiciary Committee, said Easterman, who doesn't serve on any committees, had been at the hearing "at my invitation."

According to the Anchorage Daily News, she added: "I wished that he asked questions with a little bit more sensitivity to the listeners and how they're perceived, and I can have that conversation.

"But he's there on his own accord and only represents himself."

Vance later suggested Eastman had been trying to make an argument against abortion, which some consider to be "child abuse."

Speaking with the Anchorage Daily News via text message, Eastman said: "I was pleased to hear ACT advocating against child abuse, but a child's value comes not from future productivity, but from the fact that every child is made in the image of God."

Newsweek has contacted Eastman to ask if he stands by his original remarks.

Eastman, a former soldier, was reelected to the Alaska House of Representatives in November 2022.

A lawsuit was filed attempting unsuccessfully to bar Eastman from office due to his membership of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing paramilitary group.

A number of Oath Keepers have been convicted over their role in the storming of Congress on January 6 2021, it a bid to stop the 2020 presidential election result being certified.

Eastman was present in Washington, D.C. that day but there is no indication he took part in the disturbances, which he condemned. He later promoted a discredited conspiracy theory, suggesting the violence could have been committed by left-wing movement Antifa.

[coffeeinthebackpack]

David being subtly jealous is one of my favourite things in the Truly Devious books!

Homeboy came running as soon as he saw his girl dancing with someone else😭

[nineliars]

Im actually so freaking late bc I just finished mine liars BUT I’m so upset with David rn. I actually love him sm but I hate him. What is he? Im happy he and Stevie didn’t actually have sex bc if he broke up with her after that and just left ?? I would have been more sad for her. I understand he was overthinking but also kissing someone else? ?.!!./ outta pocket David 🙄

You’re so real for all of this. He is such a problem in this book. I love him but I’d also love to watch him slip on a banana peel into a dumpster or something.

Would it be crazy if I said that if they’d had sex, I don’t think David would have broken up with her? I’m not saying that because David is a horny scumbag who would’ve only stayed with her because they had sex, but I think from David’s POV, Stevie doesn’t love him as much as he loves her. (Whether that’s actually true is debatable, but unlikely imo given her reaction to being dumped.) Think about how Izzy first reacted to Stevie, like she was meeting a celebrity- because David had spent the last 3 months talking her up. In Stevie’s narration, she constantly frets about being perceived as intelligent, capable, and worthy. In David’s eyes, Stevie is all of those things already. I think David sees himself as a fuckup still, albeit one who managed to get his shit together long enough to spend a semester at Cambridge. He doesn’t know where he’s going next. (Neither does Stevie, but as she fails to realize, you get a little leeway when you solve the crime of the century twice.) David cuts off his nose to spite his dad, and even though it still shakes out alright for him, his future is even more uncertain than Stevie’s.

But Stevie isn’t perfect. She breaks down when she realizes she cannot solve the Nine Liars case in time to leave England. She can be utterly single-minded when it comes to solving the case, and the majority of the time, the breakdown in communication between her and David stems from her words/actions/missteps.

David clearly believes he is not worthy of Stevie and I don’t think he would’ve broken up with her unless he believed that she believed it too. Maybe if they had slept together, that aspect of their dynamic could have been a little more resolved– but maybe if she hadn’t been broken up with, Stevie wouldn’t have stayed behind in England in order to actually solve the case, which could’ve driven another wedge in between them. (Also, David snapping at Stevie before breaking up with her and saying “not everything is about you” makes me sooo sad because it’s another misread of what she’s feeling/thinking. I think Stevie felt really, genuinely guilty and upset when she thought she couldn’t solve Rosie & Noel’s OR Angela’s murders. The fact that Angela had disappeared immediately after talking to Stevie probably felt like Ellie all over again. David may have noticed this if he stopped being insecure for 5 minutes and thought about what was actually going on with Stevie. But I DIGRESS because this is getting way too long.)

As for kissing someone else I think his reasoning there was so simple actually: He feels as though he has fucked up all the things in his life worth trying for; Ergo, why not become a fuckup again? Drown your sorrows in tequila and kiss somebody you don’t know! All the kids are doing it!

I did not mean for this to turn into a dissertation on the dynamics of Steviedavid’s Nine Liars arc. I just can’t wait to see where they both go from here, because they are both kind of fucked up in the head, and they know that, and I think that will keep drawing them together as long as they’re in each others proximity. Good thing Stevie is returning home to America, where David won’t be…until, you know, his semester ends and he has to go home ;)

[murderofcrowsss]

the fact that the truly devious couple is stevie x david and schitt's creek's most iconic duo is also stevie x david is healing me right now

[steviebellgirl]

the fact is,” he said, “i liked you from the first moment I saw you, when you looked like you wanted to punch me in the face for just being alive. that probably says something dark about me. 

[ziggystrdust]

thoughts on the nine lairs ending…let me be delulu for a sec IT WAS HIS SISTER!!!

ITS ALL A MISUNDERSTANDING!!!!

it never clarified if he was kissing someone or not, just said his face was hidden bc it was pressed into someone else’s…could’ve just been a hug or some type of embrace. he’s drunk duhhhh.

and maureen probably wanted to end this one with a bang. for shock. also in one of the other books (i think it’s hand on the wall) it says that the sister had to COME to help david with the king bust thing…what if she lives in the uk and david didn’t know what to do and called her. or she found him or something.

LET ME BE DELULU PLS

[viaviainternet]

basically the second half of the vanishing stair summed up for you

[hangesextra]

Nate: you lying, cheating, piece of shit!

Stevie: Oh yeah? You're the idiot who thinks you can get away with everything you do. WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD

Nate: I'm leaving you, and I'M TAKING JANELLE WITH ME.

David, picking up the monopoly board: I think we're gonna stop playing now

[celestial-academia]

*vague spoilers for Good Girl’s Guide to Murder #3*

Stevie Bell Mystery #6 is actually just Stevie having her Pip Fitz-Amobi moment and killing David.

[annie-isnt-0k]

Truly Devious

“Where do you look for someone who's never really there?

Always on a staircase but never on a stair.”

― Maureen Johnson, Truly Devious