#Time Stands Still

[suave1foru]

In your grasp

[blueeyedvirgo89]

It’s not the amount of time you spend with someone that makes you open up, it’s the connection you share.

You can be around someone for years,

and still never feel safe enough to be vulnerable with them.

But then, you meet that one person and suddenly,

it feels easy to share your deepest thoughts and emotions.

It’s not about the clock ticking, it’s about how your hearts align.

That soul-to-soul connection is rare and when it happens,

it feels like you’ve known each other forever.

True openness doesn’t need years, it just needs the right person

who makes you feel seen, heard, and understood.

When you find that connection, it changes everything. 🌹

[depressedraisin]

eric bogosian and alicia silverstone in 'time stands still' on broadway circa 2010 are so important to me

[claresedwards]

20 Years Of Time Stand Still (Pt 2)

[mersu-chan]

Rick is kinda like Carrie but if Carrie were a boy and instead of telekinetic powers, she had anger issues and a gun

[teathattast]

Cause time stands still now and we're the last ones

Cause everybody's changing, oh but we're remaining

I can't believe I haven't told you so

I see your face and everything it shines on you

[lairesta]

"As soon as [Frodo] set foot upon the far bank of Silverlode a strange feeling had come upon him, and it deepened as he walked on into the Naith: it seemed to him that he had stepped over a bridge of time and into a corner of the Elder Days, and was now walking in a world that was no more. In Rivendell there was the memory of ancient things; in Lórien the ancient things still lived on in the waking world"

"Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth, [Aragorn] said, and here my heart dwells ever..."

-- J.R.R. Tokien, The Lord of The Rings, The Fellowship of The Ring --

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[myimaginaryradio]

Time Stands Still - Rush

[unsavory-melon]

I Have Made a Slightly Fucked up Hypothetical Involving Time Stopping

trigger warning: non consensual, rape under the cut

(i apologise for the topic, i needed a serious crime for a part of this post {they are utilised towards the end underneath the cut.} )

@pixieskie

I have highlighted the questions in purple while the context for them is in white. If you like, please reblog with your thoughts and answers

NOW, to get started, lets assume you have the power to stop time and move about freely while time is stopped. In other words time is stopped for everything except you

now, if someone shoots a bullet and you stop time, then you walk up to the floating bullet and turn it towards the person who shot it, when time restarts the bullet will fly in the direction of the shooter (because you moved it)

so whats to say this doesnt work for photons? (i promise its not all physics but its a bit of it)

if you move through a space, then the photons you collide with would be sent in a new direction and could meet eyes or cameras allowing them to see you right?? so would you be able to see someone who is moving through stopped time?

and if the human eye isn't enough, what about a slow motion camera? If you could slow down the footage enough, would you be able to get a watchable video?

if you went up to your friend when time has stopped and stood in front of their face for a VEERRRY long time, would they then be able to perceive you?

okay moving on from the physics,

lets say that if , while time is stopped, you can make time work for an object as it works for you if you touch it and have the will to do so

so if you want to make a car work, and you touch it would only the part or the car that you touch experience time or the whole car?

in other words, Do you think that this aspect of your ability depends on what you perceive as an object or is there some definition of what counts for this (i assume object can refer to a living thing)

now going forward, i will be referring to the possibly triggering topics mentioned above

now, lets say this power lies with a certain sick fuck, lets call them 'A'

lets take into consideration the following senario:

A has stopped time and walks out into the street and does those nasty things to a woman (lets call her B )while time is stopped. Would B be able to perceive it? perhaps this is similar to the question above

now, lets say A has stopped time and once again finds B in the street. However this time he allows her to experience time as he does. Now that he has done this he goes on to harass her as any other sick fuck would, only time is stopped.

If he has left suitable DNA evidence like hair or semen which can be used to identify him, but he has an alibi that "holds up" as this is done when time is stopped can A be convicted of his crimes? (an example of an alibi can be: he went to store and stood in front of a security cam, stopped time and did all of this and came back to the same spot and restarts time )

What if A lives in a different city, travels to B's city while time is stopped, does the same thing and uses the same alibi? Could he be convicted then? (to clarify, A would not be seen on security cams while time is stopped )

so B has DNA evidence of what A has done but A has a seemingly airtight alibi, How would a court rule in this case?

if you put yourself in the shoes of a fair judge who has no knowledge of this time stopping business, and also wants to avoid a false accusation and put a rapist where they belong in jail, How would you rule

[catherine-corelli]

TIME STANDS STILL

This is an old room in an old house somewhere in Kentucky. Nothing happens and nothing moves here, as if time itself stands still

Series: Daily Americana 10¾” x 10¾” oil on canvas

[suave1foru]

Leap of faith

[aro-pancake]

Since @fangbangerghoul tagged, let's do this.

challenge -> you’re starring in a movie with the last person you saved in your camera roll and the last song you listened to is the title

Time Stands Still (but if this showed up a half hour ago, it would have been something from Epic.)

And the person? I'm also doing fictional, because.

But, here, have Bigby Wolf and Beast. It's the first image I have with non-irl people. The rest is, like, critters (as, yk, me!)

I shall tag: @hockeydemon42 @eridanidreams @aislingdmdt @malwa1216 @atonalginger @silurisanguine @therealgchu @toxiclizardwrites @lisa-and-shadow @bearlytolerant and whoever else wants in.

Have fun, guys!

[yakool-foolio]

i present to you: vivikou food

yakou waiting for vivia to arrive, but jolting upon seeing vivia's violet eyes (hmm, i wonder.) as time and yuma's chaos go on, yakou and vivia slowly bond and heal each other. yakou opens up to vivia about the anonymous letter, and vivia just *yoink* takes it out of his hand with an "ah-ah-ah".

yakou just feels at home in the calm, familiar coolness of vivia's eyes, and over time his new love saves him. eventually yakou starts to quit smoking, vivia stops drawing a tear in his makeup, etc. soft old gay people stuff. yakou is AROUND this time to discover he is a homunculus, but has a cute boyfriend to help process that info <3

(imagine yakou helping investigate the blank week!!)

I'm melting over the imagery of Vivia sneakily slipping the letter out of Yakou's grasp. The action initially startles Yakou, but before he can exclaim anything, Vivia refuses to read it and tosses it over his shoulder like dismissing a bad omen. The ghostly detective softly tells Yakou that he shouldn't let that letter dictate how he feels. If he's going to say anything, it should come from the heart, not puppeteered by an outside force. Yakou's oceanic eyes shine with tears of relief.

These two are already so domestic with their time spent in the agency, but they should be even more domestic! Let them have their tranquility without murder mysteries interrupting them! They should be able to rest their heads against each other's shoulders as they read books together for hours on end until they fall asleep. Allow Vivia to play the piano for Yakou while he starts studying music theory in hopes to learn and pick up guitar. If mysteries ever do get in the way, they have each other's undivided company to get through it. Yakou expects Vivia to be frightened by the revelation that he's a homunculus, but the tired ghost's monologues about the bliss of immortality puts him at ease. All the more time for them to thrive in their small happy moments, like twinkling stars in an infinite night sky.

[readmarkclippastecollage]

Her soul dancing with her body

[mersu-chan]

i'm not alone (yet)

[spinelli-gemelli]

A Degrassi Essay About Rick Murray

(Part 3b.)

"...One kid who you've personally spoken to twice in the last two days...did you listen?"

In the last installment, we looked at Raditch's role in the tragedy and asked whether or not he could have intervened in Rick's predicament to potentially stop tragedy from befalling Degrassi. There were two questions that we were set to explore: could Raditch have prevented this from happening? Could he have prevented Rick from returning to school in the first place? If this is your first time visiting my essay series, please start with part one. If you're only interested in the topic of Daniel Raditch, start with part 3a, the first installment where we look at the principal's part in Rick's story.

Let's start with the second part of the answer to the first question: could Mr. Raditch have prevented tragedy from happening? In part 3a, I mention there were two instances in the show where we learn that Rick went to the principal numerous times for help, and we already looked at the scene from part one of the famous two-parter "Time Stands Still." The second time this is mentioned in the show is in part two of this episode, aka, episode 4x08. My original plan was to include both of these moments in part 3a, but since I wound up saying a lot about the scene in 4x07, the scene from 4x08 had to be pushed back into this post. I don't want to overwhelm you all with too much content in one post, especially since this is turning out to be a lengthy essay series, so, without further Ado, let's get back into it.

This scene occurs after the tragic events take place. We see that the school is on lockdown. We see our beloved Degrassi, a place that the viewers grew to love for the past three seasons, swarmed with police cars, ambulance trucks and the S.W.A.T. team. Students are forced to stay in the classrooms, and parents are barred from entering the school until the lockdown is over. In one scene, we cut to the M.I. lab where we see Christine Nelson, aka Spike, consoling her teenage daughter, Emma, who is traumatized by what happened. Snake is pacing around the room, awaiting further instructions from law enforcement, his superior, etc. We watch as he sits at the table with his wife and stepdaughter, and a second later, a police officer opens the door for the principal to walk in. Snake is already on the defense after Daniel addresses him by his first name, "Archie?" When the principal calls a teacher by his first name, you know it's serious business.

"No, I am busy here if you haven't noticed." Snake retorts. Raditch apologizes but goes on to ask him if he could get into Rick's email and look for any possible warning signs that could have stopped what he did, a request forwarded by him from law enforcement. This visibly upsets Snake, and he makes a snarky remark about how "the groundbreaking 20/20 hindsight policy" only comes into play after it's too late. He then concedes and stands from his chair to do what he was asked to do, but Daniel refuses to let Snake's comment slide. Biting his bottom lip, he follows Archie to remind him how he has "seven-hundred students and a teaching staff that [he's] responsible for everyday." He then tells Snake not to "get on [his] case because one kid overreacted to some...spilled paint." Snake yells back at him that Raditch personally spoke to Rick twice in the past two days, asking him if he listened to the kid. Raditch insists that he did, but Snake doesn't believe him, doubting that he remembered a word that Rick said to him. Snake, raising his voice, then goes on to say "This tragedy, Dan it could have been prevented if YOU hadn't--" but Spike cuts him off before he can finish. Of all of the conversations that get interrupted, this one felt like the biggest crime of them all. Come on, Emma's mom, let them hash this one out!

Let's address what Snake said to Raditch. According to him, Rick came to the principal twice in the past two days. That's on average once a day, which are pretty frequent trips to the principal's office to make as a student. I mention in part 3a how it can be difficult for kids to come forward and open up about being victims of bullying. For Rick to have spoken to the principal on average once a day meant that he was in some serious trouble and was looking for outside help. Compare that to what Raditch said to Rick in 4x07: "Richard, I've told you time and time again. It takes two to tango." In this one instance where Rick seeks out help, and Snake's reference of how the principal spoke to him twice in the past couple of days, the audience can infer that Rick has visited Mr. Raditch way more than twice, as "time and time again" implies Rick spoke to Raditch at least two other times before we finally see him make his third trip at least. For the principal of the school to dismiss Rick three times at minimum is appalling. After this scene, the audience can safely conclude that the school staff was neglectful when it came to handling Rick's situation, especially the head of the school.

Let's now explore the second question: could Raditch have prevented Rick from returning in the first place? This one is a tougher question to answer, as this one will call for us to explore Rick's history in detail. In my last installment, I mention a deleted scene in which we see Marco and Alex, student council's president and vice president respectfully, confront Mr. Raditch about allowing Rick to continue his education at Degrassi. Alex insists that "he's a danger...especially to girls", and she's not wrong here. Raditch replies, "...until a student is actually charged [for any crime], he or she will continue to study at my school. Like it or not." Before this exchange, Marco reminds Raditch that Rick put Terri in a coma, to which the principal replies, "To my knowledge, no student has been charged with putting another student in a coma." It's unfortunate that this scene gets cut from the series because, judging by the characters' outfits and the dialogue, this was originally meant to be in the episode "Mercy Street" (4x04). We learn a couple of key details here. For one, we learn that Terri transferred to a private school presumably to get away from Rick. We furthermore can confirm that Rick and his family were never charged for the coma incident that he caused. That whole ordeal is still a mystery to the fan base. After seeing how shocked and angry Terri's dad was in the season three's "Don't Dream it's Over", it's easy to assume that he would take action immediately against the Murrays, yet filing a lawsuit isn't cheap. I don't know all of the odds and ends of Canadian law, but maybe it was hard to make a solid case against Rick due to lack of evidence, though I can't understand why. If Terri had died from hitting her head against that cinder block, officials would surely be forced to open an investigation surrounding the details of her death. Then again, her body would belong to the coroner's office, and they would be able to pick up traces of evidence that Rick was responsible for her condition by conducting an autopsy on her body. Of course, I'm speaking on hypotheticals at this point, which will do us no good here. Terri lived from the incident, so what little evidence that pointed to Rick would have disappeared. There were also no witnesses to Terri's fall except for Rick himself; remember Paige and Spinner showed up after the fact and found Terri already lying on the ground unconscious. At the end of the day, Degrassi focuses on teen drama: it's not a police show, a hospital or a courtroom drama as YouTuber "You'veGotKat" points out in her video essay. The show's focus is on the teens and how they deal with the issues around them. Rick getting in trouble with the law was just another barrier to keep the writers from exploring the shooting plotline. After the actor, Ephraim Ellis, was featured in three episodes in season three, the writers decided that he had the chops to pull off such a serious storyline about a troubled teen resorting to gun violence, so they wrote his character back into season four, who originally appeared to have been "run out of town on a rail" after he hurt Terri, as Ellis would state in multiple interviews and podcasts.

So we looked into how Rick Murray escaped the law, thus giving him the ability to return to Degrassi, but let's get down to the question: could Raditch have stopped him from returning? As unfortunate as this may be, the principal had no jurisdiction to keep Rick Murray away. It's true that the principal was receptive to the students' animosity towards him and was aware of the fact that Rick put Terri in a coma, but this is only based on the words of a student. For all he knew, this could have been a vicious rumor or a misunderstanding on the matter, and, as he states in the deleted scene, since Rick wasn't charged with anything, he had no criminal record. Marco and Alex probably wouldn't have had to talk to Raditch if Rick had gotten into legal trouble, but unfortunately, he didn't. In order to understand why this is the case, we will have to look back at season three during the multiple instances when Rick inflicted abuse onto Terri. There's plenty to go over, so I will save that for the next chapter. Watch out for 3c!