#Turncoats

[starr-angelofnarnia]

It's also like. People complain about Russia right? They're complicit as long as it's not them. That's why the USSR was so massive and why the regime fell after a nuclear disaster.

So. You frown on Russians who let their "president" do whatever the f he wants, but then turn around and vote for an American candidate who admires the leadership in Russia? What is wrong with you?

(I know these things aren't entirely related, but it's something I keep thinking about. Because people don't care what happens to others until suddenly they are the one facing the firing squad).

[verosvault]

🚨SPOILERS FOR FANTASY HIGH JUNIOR YEAR EPISODE 7🚨

Dimension20 "Fantasy High Junior Year"

Episode 7 "Stress Tested"

Timestamp: 00:01:22

Video Length: 2min. & 12sec.

THE TURNCOAT HOTTIES! 😂

The recap with the shrimp jump! 😂

Ally doing the iconic hand-wave, the iconic glad-handing move and the iconic point and laugh! 😂🤣💀

Brennan: "It's always happy hour when you're at Applebee's." 😂

They met turncoats! 😂

Murph: "We did meet some turncoats." 😂🤣💀

Brennan: "Now, when you say turncoats, against whom? Like, what cause are they betraying?"

Ally: "Just like her" 😂🤣💀

Brennan: "Remember the mirror that Fabian was in love with at the beginning of the season?"

Ally: "She was a turncoat!"

Lou: "Ecaf!"

Emily: "She died."

Lou: "She's dead."

Brennan: "She died."

Lou: "We should have a funeral."

The awesome caption team: (overlapping dialogue)

Lou: "Oh, she betrayed us, yes."

Brennan: "There's so many lies Fig is living right now.

1. Gorgug defeated the Night Yorb.

2. Kristen jumped the ramp.

and 3. Ecaf died." 😭✋

Siobhan: "No, she didn't die, she ran away 'cause she's a freakin' turncoat, and we saw her running away into the distance. She's definitely not living a full life inside my jacket."

Brennan: "Exactly."

Ally: "I would say, like, we thought these new people were on our side, so they did technically turn their coat on us."

Emily: "Wait, which new people are you talking about?"

Murph: "The people at the party- that were trying to get us- to do drugs"

Ally: "All the hotties." 😭✋

Siobhan: "The hotties."

Lou: "All these absolute hotties."

Brennan: "We met two hotties. We met Oisin."

Ally: "We met many hotties." 😭💀

Brennan: "We met many hotties." 😭✋

Siobhan: "There were so many hotties." 😭✋

Brennan: "Max Durden? Yeah, I guess Max Durden-" 😭✋ (Max Durden is HOT, Brennan! What do you mean you guess! 😭✋)

Emily to Ally: "You just like the last name Durden."

Ally: "Like, that's a hot last name, sorry. Scumbag mole behavior." 😭✋

Siobhan: "Yeah."

Emily: "That's good."

Siobhan: "He had real line cook energy."

Brennan: "We met Oisin and Ivy, as well as Buddy Dawn, the last three members of the Rat Grinders who were present at the party."

Ally: "Honestly, also hot."

Siobhan & Brennan: "Buddy?"

Brennan: "Buddy Dawn?"

Siobhan: "Get it together."

Emily: "Seriously, do you need a cold shower?" 😭✋

Siobhan: "You're too horny."

Ally: *laughs* "no, no, no. I just mean you introduced us to all these kinda A-Lister, the ones in the nice, new black jerseys that are like, well-funded and have a German coach." 😭✋

Brennan: "I will say-"

Ally: "You know what I mean?"

Brennan: "I will say-"

Zac & Murph in unison: 'The Mighty Ducks 2 Reference.'"

Lou: "Yes."

Ally: "Name a hotter movie. I'll wait..." 😭✋

Siobhan: "I instantly was like, are you talking about 'Pitch Perfect 2'?"

[reddish-ash]

Blaze and Hope are characters from the story "Turncoats" by @octoberink

THEY'RE SO GOOD😭✨

[ultraweathercoremax]

JELLYFISH INVASION: do you think they somehow found out about my blog? Which of y’all told them?

[verysharpfish]

BLUE SWEEP BABY THE BLUMBACK IS REAL

[mumblelard]

i got my second shingles vaccination today. my treat for being so brave and not even crying was a two spicy fried chicken thigh snack from popeye's

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Steve Brodner

[originalleftist]

What these people are doing is proving that all the marginalized people they claim to stand with, they will throw under the bus the moment it becomes popular or convenient and they can tell themselves that these targets of the mob "deserve it" too.

Or maybe they're just making aa special exception for Jews, God knows Jews have been a particular target throughout much of history, but I honestly don't think that they are, at least not all of them. Those who will happily join one lynch mob will join another. They aren't against mobs, or genocide, or dictatorship. They just want to be able to tell themselves that they're doing it to the "right" people.

It’s truly amazing the sort of doublethink it takes for leftists claiming to be countercultural or revolutionary turning around and saying “well Jews throughout history have been persecuted by pretty much everyone, so maybe there’s a valid reason for that 🤔🤔🤔” like ooh so clever now do gay people. Now do trans people. Now do disabled people. Now do mixed race couples. Now do gender nonconforming people. Now do

[sirenthestone]

The weekly cycle of get new idea, go to wips site to start it, Turncoats update stares me down, adds two sentences to Turncoats update, get stuck, close wips site, forget new idea

[brutermonger]

I think it's time to put my own advice about people into practice. "When people finally reveal their True Colors.. BELIEVE Them."

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Damage to Richelieu Clearly Shown; Canadian Honored; Hun Sub Crew Questioned," Windsor Star. February 22, 1943. Page 16. --- Left to right: A GUN missing from the second turret, the result of the British naval action at Dakar, the French battleship, Richelieu, is shown as she was guided by tugs at New York harbor, where is to be refitted and repaired.

LT.-COL J. K. HJALMARSON, Canadian recently awarded the M.B.E. Medal, with Miss Peggy Gough, Alabama.

CREWMEN of a German submarine, damaged and beached by British depth charges, are questioned at Oran.

[originalleftist]

"Gregor Strasser...was a German politician and early leader of the Nazi Party. Along with his younger brother Otto, he was a leading member of the party's left-wing faction, which brought them into conflict with the dominant faction led by Adolf Hitler, resulting in his murder in 1934. The brothers' strand of the Nazi ideology is known as Strasserism."

Very fitting.

I've seen a number of people referring to the post-October7th surge of explicit Leftwing Antisemites as "Tankies." While not unreasonable per-se, I would still like to quibble with this terminology; while most Tankies indeed seem to be happily part of this wave of Judenhass sentiment, they are not, I feel, a sufficient proportion to reasonably categorize the whole movement to be a subset of the Tankies.

Rather, I contend, these Leftwing Antisemites are more aptly described as Strasserites.

[theturncoattournament]

Who is the best turncoat character? (Round 3)

A tournament for characters who change allegiances and/or have a redemption or corruption arc during their stories

PROPAGANDA:

Theon- Theon Greyjoy- Child lives ten years of his life with his blood family and then becomes a hostage and spends ten more years growing up with his captor's family. He wants to be loved he wants to be praised he wants to belong SOMEWHERE... he's kind of an ass. Ends up betraying his friend/"foster brother" Robb because he went back to his birth family and they mocked him for integrating himself with his captors. Steals Robb's castle... and then things just get more fucked up than he meant them to. Theon's conflict of being a "Greyjoy" who grew up "Stark" and his descent to rock bottom in the second book is only made more compelling when we pick back up with him in book 5, where he's gone through horrors beyond our imagination and crawls his way back up. He's also literally called "Theon Turncloak" by the side he betrayed, and one of his POV chapters is titled as such.

Zuko- Zuko's redemption arc is the peak redemption arc that all redemption arcs are compared to

-*slaps prince of the fire nation* this guy can fit so much trauma in him -one of the best redemption arcs of all time -this dude spent the better part of 3 seasons flip-flopping between good and evil -can be so funny in the driest way possible lol -had to fight his own sister, who is insane

he literally has the best redemption arc ever written

Zuko spends like the entirety of season 2 slowly realizing that the Fire Nation were the Bad Guys™, had a whole moral crisis towards the end of the season, ended up choosing to side with his sister so he could go back home even though he knew it was the wrong moral choice, spent the first half of season 3 angsting over having made the wrong choice, then finally joins the good guys for good halfway through the season

[cybertronian-reader-imagines]

Your description says any continuity so I hope Earthspark is ok. Can we please get Megatron watching s/o be very soft and letting their guard down around the Terrans. Or maybe an after interaction maybe if you don’t wanna do a Megatron pov. Just some fluff really. I love soft autobot Megs.

SOFT MEGS SOFT MEGS!!!!! so yeah this ended up being a straight up fic welp

"Soft" wasn't a disposition that came easily for Megatron. 'After so many years of commanding respect by being made of stone', one might think, but truly warmth and kindness wasn't something he'd ever been taught to lose. Of course, Optimus was far more practiced at being kind than he was, but more often than not he also kept a certain distance as a leader, a representative of Cybertron for the people of Earth, a palpable beating spark but nevertheless one behind armor.

So how did you manage it?

He'd watch you play with the terrans like you were one of their own siblings... albeit with a little more common sense under your belt. Laughing and hugging and finding little moments to weave lessons into your words without ever seeming like you were talking down to them. Another bot might mistake it for naivete, but Megatron had known you - loved you - for aeons. He knew you'd seen almost as much darkness as he had (some by his own hand - he'd finally began to not let the guilt push you away, but he'd never fully forget that, never take your grace for granted) so how could you now be... like this?

"I'm relaxing because I never got to," you tell him when he finally finds the words to ask you outright. "The war is over. Yes, we're still picking up a few pieces, but I want this next generation to have peace. I...want to finally have peace."

And before he can overthink that, you gently take his hand in both of yours and lead him towards the others. "Peace with you, if you'll let me."

[wintercalamity]

just to be clear, I have entered the MW2 space for the cute ghoap content, not the pro military pro imperialism propaganda. If I had my way, ghost, soap and the rest of the 141 would turn their backs towards the imperial powers and destroy them from the inside and live happily ever after with soap going on to retire with ghost in rural Scotland. I hate the military and American imperialism 👍

[scullyillume]

Brennan when his friends use the spell he homebrewed for them

vs.

Brennan when his friends use the spell he homebrewed for them