#Maple Ridge

[existentialterror]

watch Maple Ridge (youtube series)

DID YOU KNOW that people are still making slenderman youtube series in this day and age?! Love it. This particular “new generation” series, Maple Ridge, looks really fun so far. It’s just starting up, only a few short episodes so far. I’m gonna be following this one.

I feel like SCP and Slenderman grew up next to each other, low-barrier-to-entry crowdsourced horror out of the pits of the internet. I watched Marble Hornets as it was coming out and even wrote an SCP with multiple references to it many years ago. I’ve recently rewatched Marble Hornets and a few others too; EveryManHYBRID and The Record of Stan Frederick are absolutely fantastic.

Maple Ridge has the DNA but feels new too. I'm glad the tradition is carrying on and am looking forward to seeing where Maple Ridge goes.

[coochiequeens]

The Canadian government wasn't confused about the term Woman before 1918. (That’s when Canadian women won their fight for the vote)

By Anna Slatz March 13, 2024

The Supreme Court of Canada has asserted that a lower court judge should not have referred to a sexual assault victim as “a woman,” a term which they claim was “unfortunate and engendered confusion.” The ruling, published on March 8, goes on to imply that the more effective term would be “person with a vagina.”

The case being discussed was that of Christopher James Kruk, a man from Maple Ridge, British Columbia who had been convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in 2020. According to past news coverage of the initial charges, the incident occurred the night of May 26, 2017, after Kruk encountered a heavily intoxicated woman in the city’s urban center. Kruk reportedly offered to ensure the woman got home safely, and then brought her to his residence via the SkyTrain and a taxi.

At some point during the journey, he called the woman’s mother on his cellphone to let her know that he was going to bring her daughter home. But instead, the woman reportedly passed out or fell asleep at Kruk’s home. Meanwhile, her mother was frantically calling Kruk, ringing him more than 20 times over an almost two-hour period without any response from the man.

The victim testified at the first trial that she woke up to find Kruk penetrating her, and that she tried and failed to push him off through her disorientation.

At around 4 a.m., many hours after Kruk had initially called her mother and told her she would be brought home, the woman’s father and brother managed to track down Kruk’s address using information from taxi cab drivers, and arrived in his neighborhood. When the woman heard her father’s voice calling out for her from the street, the woman rushed out the door wearing only her sweatshirt and underwear. She told her brother she had been raped, and filed a police complaint.

In his defense, Kruk claimed he never penetrated the woman, and that she had simply become startled when he had tried to wake her up, misinterpreting the sudden sensation as rape. He also claimed her pants were off because she had spilled water on them and that she had removed them herself while intoxicated earlier that evening.

Finding Kruk’s defense “fanciful,” Justice Michael Tammen found Kruk guilty of sexual assault in 2020, in part because he asserted that it would have been “extremely unlikely that a woman would be mistaken” about the feeling of penile penetration.

But a 2022 appeals court overruled Kruk’s conviction and ordered a new trial, arguing that Tammen had “engaged in speculative reasoning” and “made an assumption on a matter that was not so well known as to be notorious, that was not capable of immediate and accurate proof by resort to a readily accessible source of indisputable accuracy, or that was a matter of common sense.”

The Supreme Court of Canada has now found the appeals court erred in overturning Tammen’s conviction of Kruk, determining that Tammen had acted appropriately in the case. But despite upholding Tammen’s initial arguments, Justice Sheilah Martin took issue with Tammen’s description of the victim as “a woman.”

While she disagreed with the appeals court’s argument that Tammen’s ruling relied on “speculation” as to whether the sensation of penile penetration was readily identifiable, Martin did imply that the terminology needed to be changed.

“Where a person with a vagina testifies credibly and with certainty that they felt penile‑vaginal penetration, a trial judge must be entitled to conclude that they are unlikely to be mistaken,” Martin wrote.

“While the choice of the trial judge to use the words ‘a woman’ may have been unfortunate and engendered confusion, in context, it is clear the judge was reasoning that it was extremely unlikely that the complainant would be mistaken about the feeling of penile‑vaginal penetration because people generally, even if intoxicated, are not mistaken about that sensation.”

Martin does not specify what about the word “woman” could have “engendered confusion.”

The ruling, first highlighted by Canadian journalist Tristin Hopper, comes on the heels of recent controversy surrounding an updated guidebook on general practice issued by the Federal Court of Canada which references pronoun use.

According to the guidebook, “the Court invites counsel, parties and witnesses to provide information about the correct pronunciation of their names (phonetic or syllabic spelling), titles (Dr., Mrs., Mr., Ms., Miss, Mx., etc.) and pronouns (she, he, they, etc.) prior to and at the outset of proceedings.”

While amended in late December of 2023, screenshots from the guidebook began circulating on social media in February of this year, prompting backlash from those concerned with gender ideology’s impact on Canada’s judicial system. While some feared the process may be mandatory, Reduxx reached out to the Federal Court and was informed that was not the case.

“It is important to note that this is simply an invitation. Participants before the Court remain free to proceed in the manner that they prefer,” the Office of the Chief Justice of the Federal Court stated.

[loislaina]

Introducing Erganê, a queer, witchy and pagan Discord based in Maple Ridge, B.C. 🇨🇦 (but open to all!)

We're focused on the Greater Vancouver area, but we accept people from anywhere in the world! We will be doing both in-person events and online events, so don't worry if you're not in Vancouver - there's still plenty of things for you!

We're accepting of open-minded people of all beliefs and all walks of life, including godspouses and spiritspouses. This isn't a monolithic community! We do not seek to control others or impose any beliefs on them, instead seeking to foster understanding and acceptance of all.

We recognize that the current capitalist, authoritarian dystopia has failed, and so we seek to build a loving community for mutual aid and support (emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual) of one another, whether that be in-person or online.

Allies are welcome, but we remain a queer-focused coven.

Also, we're very open to suggestions and improvements to the coven, as well people offering to step up as hosts and facilitators for events both online and in-person. I'm trying to makes us as collectively led as possible!

If this sounds appealing to you, please feel free to ask for a link to the server, either via leaving a comment on this post, or through a DM to me. Hope to see you there!

[simsually]

Vergil's wife of 40 years, Annabelle, died. But Vergil still had a cracking week.

[eldritchplutoartedition]

It’s time for Maple Ridge propaganda again!!! GO WATCH IT!!!!! I promise you it’s a great time <3 (go find some info out about it at @cryptidmelody ‘s blog!!)

[hiking-thoughts]

Golden Ears Park, Maple Ridge, B.C

[copepods]

hello im helping my friends make a super cool project based on the slenderverse and we have a discord server :D Join. <- command

[i-maybe-exist]

rowan :devious:

The phone rang, jarring Rowan out of their spiral. They looked at the name, expecting a mess of numbers with the label “Spam Call”, only to see “amiyah” written neatly across the top. 

Two more rings rang out, as the phone was clutched in Rowan’s hands. Finally, they pressed a finger to the glass and swept, raising their phone up to their ear. 

[copepods]

@cryptidmelody​

these pictures of slenderman at dashcon will forever be like my favorite thing ever

[greenvalleypest]

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[goldenmaplephysiotherapy]

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[mindofasnail]

snippets from june 14th, 2024

Shadowjam! at Caitlin & Skiffs garage in Maple Ridge

grilled papaya!

basket of puppets!

so many snacks!

EAT THE DIAMOND

Diamond Crown

Dentistry underground

fridge goes buzz

musical undertones

harmonizing

Big Unicorn Presence

The storm will pass for the unicorn

farting rainbows

Self Conscious Dragon

I tickled the eye

The Devil's Trumpet

the devil's horn

Shadow of the Demon

random eyes

piping hot tea

sun moon finger point

dissonant birthday hand waving

random hauntings

Uni-Centaur

Centacorn had mad six-pack

hot centaur washboard wizard pegasus fight

WIZARD BATTLES

Something going on in wizard's horn

drunk wizard

too much booze

(social anxiety)

VALIDATION DRAGON

Sassy Cat

FAT AND SASSY

cat likes to eat onion rings

likes whoppers

that was a banger

alien landing

when you eat the diamond

"I am totally not an alien!"

I'm totally human

Mythical Fish Tales

thera-fish

offish-ally

one fish was hot

Botched Fish Wedding

runaway fish groom

slicey glinty movement

butterflies having a hard time

kept getting knocked out

laughter

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[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"WRESTLER CHARGED," Vancouver Sun. May 31, 1934. Page 1. --- PORT HANEY, May 31. - Arthur English, professional wrestler, appeared in Police Court here today before Magistrate W. J. Sparling, on a charge of common assault. The magistrate reserved judgment until June 6.

The charge was that English threw a water bottle into a crowd of onlookers at the end of the fifth round of his bout with Carl Martin here about three weeks ago, striking a young girl on the ankle.

Chief Constable McDonald, who arrested English, stated that the wrestler became angry at the jeers of the crowd and after taking a drink from the bottle threw it among the spectators.

[simsually]

Love these kids.

[eldritchplutoartedition]

GO WATCH MAPLE RIDGE (created by @cryptidmelody and a ton of other amazing folks <3)