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Cold case files, police evidence rooms, historical societies, not-so-hidden clues, and murder in "Velma"
Velma Dinkley finds (and tells Daphne Rogers about) a clue from her mom’s cold case file at the end of the second episode When I wrote my review of the mature animated series, Velma, back in February 2023, I described it as a series which not only is based on Scooby-Doo franchise characters, mixed the genres of comedy horror, thriller, and mystery, but is an origin story for Velma Dinkley (voiced…
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#absence of evidence#Ace Attorney#archives stereotypes#backlogs#Be gay do crime#best practices#case files#confidentality#criminals#diaries#doctors#evidence rooms#fires#idols#kissing#laboratories#lawyers#LGBTQ+#Love Live!#No Archivist Present#patrons#police#Pop Archives#redaction#right to privacy#Samantha Cross#serial killers#sexism#shootings#staffing
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Broke: vampires are vulnerable to the trappings of Christianity only, particularly Catholicism, no matter how dubiously applied. (See: Van Helsing's Communion wafer grouting).
Woke: vampires are vulnerable to sincere faith of all kinds, and atheist vampire-hunters need to believe very strongly in the Power of Friendship or their love of Star Trek to get by.
Bespoke: vampires are vulnerable to the faith that they followed when they were alive, and hunters tracking down an ancient vampire are obliged to learn about Neo-Babylonian theology or Middle Palaeolithic bear cults.
#this is why ancient vampires are so powerful#in the absence of any other historical or archaeological evidence you have to cart around a full stone circle to defeat them#dracula daily adjacent posting
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I feel like a lot of people mistake comic relief or goofiness for lack of effort or caring by the creator, and that belies a real lack of understanding of like, writing and humor and art in general.
#i'm thinking about how on 4sd travis and sam talked about the work they put into chet and fcg and veth#all of whom have been treated really dismissively in weird ways#and the people who are like haha they're a dumb joke character invariably stan characters with WAY less effort put in#which is fine! you should like what you like!#but you're not grading on effort clearly so stop pretending you are! it's fine!#this is actually this blog's mission statement. like what you like but stop justifying it with blatant lies#hell for all braius is by necessity not the deepest of characters sam clearly cared enough to rewrite his spoiled backstory!#like i find it just. really...suspicious isn't quite the right word but i'm not landing on the correct one#how people jump to equate their personal preferences with thought and care and effort and quality in the absence of evidence#like man it's ok if you did a wine tasting and your fave was the three buck chuck. drink that and live your truth
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The opposite of conspiracy theories isn't "rational thinking" its just "coincidence theories"
#sometimes things are coincidences! but making that argument isnt intrinsically any more rationalistic than a conspiracy#point being 'its not a conspiracy' isnt just absence of a truth claim it is a truth claim itself with comparable standard of evidence
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#now before y'all get onto me#i know bryan fuller didn't come up with the names and shit#but look#its symbolic#i just give the evidence#it's all there for you#hannibal web weaving#web weaving#hannibal nbc#hannibal#nbc hannibal#hannigram#hannibal lecter#will graham#abigail hobbs#mads mikkelsen#hugh dancy#kacey rohl#abigail being the respective tie between hannibal and will because her wish is family#her absence influencing will's decision to choose hannibal#hannibal parallels#kuroshika.txt
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i really love the 'it came to me in a dream' moments when writing.. i had just made the main human knight character for this story and named him but had no appearance in mind until i woke up this morning already 100% certain that he looks EXACTLY like george harrison
#he's the next in line for the throne but he is NOT the eldest son. the eldest son is a bastard#who is trying to be legitimised by killing a dragon that killed the king's brother#so our guy mr harrison is like aw fuck i cannot let my older brother be recognised as legitimate. i need to kill that dragon first#but holly was a witness to the king's brother's death and knows that no dragon killed him. kingbrother killed himself thus rendering him#unable to go to heaven by christian* doctrine and a sinner. meaning that avenging him shouldn't be rewarded at all#*sorry the concept of knights is completely inextricable from religion & the absence of xtianity in medieval european fantasy is a shame#anyway when bastard son kills the dragon and gets the evidence of kingbrother's body out of the cave this forces sir harrison#(a complete jerk btw)#to work towards making this tiny little pest kobold thing someone whose eyewitness testimony would be trusted in court. no easy ask.#dog knight story
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holy blocking batman. on the nose? sure. a shot that seems to have been composed specifically so a dropout former film student like me can exclaim ‘wow this is cinematic’ and probably talk circles about the symbolism… jack with his back turned to the camera, a statuesque silhouette towering over the cowering gwen — on her knees before something of a an idol, a demigod, an impossible hero, some christ figure risen from the dead but at the cost of the corpse lying prostrate like a sacrifice beside him. somebody to take her by the hand and lead her to a transfigured world in which nothing will ever be the same.
arriving like an angel of death after defying it — come with me and leave of the land of the living behind. come with me too, gwen cooper, your turn
#it’s quite self evident that in the void the doctor’s conspicuous absence leaves behind jack comes to fill it#immortal in a long dramatic coat; coolest man in the universe; cursed to lose everybody he cares about#but still. rtd stays rtding. i missed it . suffering the chibnall era watchthrough eking out TRACES of cinematic imagery#sorryfor writing a half sort of meta after seeingONE EPISODE i can’t help it can i#torchwood lb#doctor who meta#torchwood meta#doctor who#dw#torchwood#jack harkness#gwen cooper#suzie costello#jamie catches up#jamie.txt
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#i never really thought about a person being a finite thing. you can see the effects of a person after they die. in the unfinished projects.#in the rooms of clutter. in abandoned closets. in pictures and in mermered phrases. and you can see time#chipping away at those things. eroding away the evidance that a person existed. clothes move into other people's closets. projects are boxed#away. and a person becomes confined to photos and memories. and thats existentially terrifying but its not a bad thing. time erodes away all#things. that's how life works. matter and energy transforms.#we arent made to last forever. i dunno. i guess im still just rattled from being home even tho ive been back a week and a half.#and my brain tends to fixate on the wrong things. nearly 27 years of knowing someone eclipsed by a visual sequence lasting less than a day.#bc i just cant get over how scary it would be to die like that. to start losing control of your body. to not be able to feed yourself or get#to the bathroom. to have your mind be overcome by the toxins building up in your mangled and broken body.#and it could have been worse. it could have been a lot worse. but its still not fair. theres no good way to die. i dunno. i guess i just#miss my mom in some abstract way but i find it more viscerally upsetting to think about the people that have to deal with her absence.#it makes me sad that my dad is alone now. i dunno. grief doesnt feel like i thought it would. most of the time i dont even know what im#crying about. its undirected. it doesnt feel like: i miss you. it feels like: youre gone. how can you be gone? why does everything feel the#same? and its not that it doesnt make sense. its that nothings changed. the terror of that.#and im walking around in an acumulation of my dead mother's clothes. and no one knows. theyll never know.#and there's nothing to be done about it. so it goes.#i guess im just sad. and its hard to breathe at the thought of returning to school at the end of August.#unrelated
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machine oil
#burning shores#hfwbs#burning shores spoilers#(character... or... absence of character? uh... evidence of character?)#horizon forbidden west#hfw#aloy#we were ROBBED#this was not enough of brin guerrilla#the datapoint tease with the oseram and all we get is this?#i mean cool but...#*grump*#anyway the mural is v cool and the machine oil is actually iridescent#as you move the camera around i mean#altho the whole thing strangely disappears if you get too close in photomode lololol
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#ignore me folks I am just. Feeling very asexual tonight for Reasons#It’s late so I cannot physically shake and shout it off so I must do so as text#Idk if other queer folks have had this experience where you know obv I hat you’re some flavour of queer#But sometimes it hits you so Obviously in practice and you’re like ‘how could I ever have thought I wasn’t queer#when the evidence is right here and is so actually physical that it would be foolish to deny#Well it turns out us ace folks also have that. You know how people will say ‘how do you know if you don’t try’ etc.?#There may be absence of attraction but brother the reaction to being assumed not-queer is Still There#And it’s strong#Naw; surely you have. Surely other queer folks have too. Anyway I’ll be fine I just need to sweat it out of my system
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He seems to be a bit held up at the moment
#brave universe sworgrader#sworg#brave exkaiser#brave series#doodle#it has been 2 months.. there was news on the website yesterday but for a GGG figure and event thingy#disclaimer still throwin in that im majorly bummed this books human characters were designed by a creep that they publically promote#and is evident in the design of these children. here's hoping they reworked some things in their absence
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Re-examining "Love Live! Superstar!!": Emotions, diaries, and school idols
Ren Hazuki (left) and her maid (right) look for evidence of her mother’s school idol activities but can’t find anything Back in April 2022, I wrote about how Love Live! Superstar!!, the second installment in the Love Live! franchise has an episode where “a records room is…a big part of the plot.” Having rewatched the episode, entitled “Connecting Feelings,” in preparation for the release of the…
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#absence of evidence#Bloom Into You#diaries#emotional truth#evidence of absence#idols#Japanese women#Love Live!#memory#records#records are not the truth#school#school idols#truth seeking
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Friendly reminder that Francesco Coppino and Prospero di Camulio, contemporaries who were literally getting their information from predominantly Yorkist circles, were both explicitly clear that it was Henry VI who decided to surrender Berwick to Scotland.
Camulio: "King Henry has given away a castle [town] called Berwick, which is one of the keys of the frontier between England and Scotland." Coppino: "[Scotland has] received from the same Henry the town of Berwick, on the frontiers of Scotland, which the Scots have long claimed as their right from the English, as the excellently well furnished guardian of their frontiers, and the place to which King Henry repaired as an asylum after the battle."
The idea that Margaret of Anjou was principally involved in the surrender, or that she was the one who actually made the decision, is based on nothing but assumption. Two direct contemporaries, both speaking of ongoing events as they unfolded, who were both getting information from Yorkist-held England, both clearly believed it was Henry who was responsible for this course of action. Neither of them mention Margaret. Sure, you can argue that it was merely rhetorical, and that they were simply automatically attributing such an important decision to the King rather than the queen - but rhetoric is nonetheless extremely important and helps us understand how historical figures were perceived at the time. Margaret's enemies would surely not have hesitated to broadcast her involvement had it actually been true, and Coppino in particular had shown no qualms about criticizing her in favor of the Yorkists before. If she was genuinely believed to have been responsible, and if the Yorkists were actually claiming that she was at the time, I see no reason why Coppino or Camulio would not have emphasized her role in their letters. What these samples instead indicate is literally the opposite: that their contemporaries - probably including the Yorkists who were putting out the information that Coppino and Camulio reported - actually believed that Henry was the one making the decision. I think it's a very large and very unnecessary stretch to go against actual evidence and claim otherwise by placing the responsibility on Margaret instead.
Additionally, these small samples may also reveal what people at the time - once again including the Yorkists - actually thought of Henry's role in the war on a broader level, away from direct Yorkist propaganda which would obviously and perhaps understandably seek to de-emphasize it: namely, that Henry was perceived as the one making decisions and deciding the courses of action for his own side.
Source: Excerpts from the Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts, Existing in the Archives and Collections of Milan
#henry vi#margaret of anjou#english history#my post#I want to make a longer post detailing the clear indications we have that Henry *was* perceived as the active decision maker of his side#which indicates that contemporaries did not really think that there was some kind of giant 'role-reversal' between him and MoA#but until then the gist is:#after Henry was rescued in 1461 contemporary letters clearly emphasize his own actions; they mostly did not attribute decisions to Margaret#we also know he and Margaret separated when she headed off to the continent;#that he seems to have been involved in border-raids against Yorkist England;#*and* that he avoided capture until 1465#if Henry was entirely passive throughout it all and entirely dependent on Margaret to make decisions#I do not understand how any of this would have been possible#Instead Henry & Margaret seemed to have had more of a partnership with Margaret focusing on gaining international support#which she was very well-suited for given her powerful foreign connections#& with her taking on leadership in his absence (mainly due to imprisonment/incapacity) rather than all the time/when they were together#and like I said when it comes to Berwick contemporaries clearly believed it was Henry's decision#but also like. let's hypothetically assume that Margaret was the driving force behind it. please think of this situation logically.#whoever's idea it was Scotland was very obviously going to want a proper confirmation from the *king*#who was. yk. the actual authority of the country#even if Margaret was the one encouraging this surrender Henry's approval and agreement would have still been required#if not by the Lancastrian party then by Scotland#and again this is assuming that Margaret was actually the driving force behind it. there's no indication that she was#but ultimately contemporaries very clearly believed *Henry* was responsible#we don't know what MoA actually thought of it or what her actual involvement was (she could may encouraged it; she may have misliked it;#she may have simply been told after the decision had already been made)#but ultimately even in the most extreme case - which is contradicted by actual evidence - the final say would have been Henry's#it would be nice if this was reflected by historians?
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i got curious about mary's role post-resurrection so i looked at a list of all her appearances in season 12 only to discover that she's only in about half of the episodes. which is surprising because like, where the fuck is she going? where is her character arc going to take her such that she's separated from her children for entire episodes, 33 years in the future with everyone else she's ever known or loved dead?
i'm just eternally fascinated that supernatural is a show about sam and dean, and literally no other character including their own mother is allowed to impede on that. every other character has to be removed at some point from the brotherly unit so as not to infringe on their domination of the narrative. every other character is expendable, unnecessary for the show to function continuously. every other character can go off on their own for several episodes at a time and live a life separate from them. there's no limit to this and no one is allowed to get close enough to sam and dean to negate this reality.
#liveblogging: supernatural#i wouldn't say they commit to this very well because the presence of the recurring cast expands their world and does a disservice to the#themes of isolation and the idea that they only have each other established by early seasons#but the bunker also does a disservice to the premise of it being a road show so like there are plenty of criticisms to make about how#spn has changed over the years#anyway i have critiqued spn on its inability to commit to either a small isolated cast OR a large recurring cast#which is where a lot of the issues i have with many characters stem from#since they're not well developed for the roles the show is trying to force them into#and potential is routinely wasted#anyway. that's just tangential. at the end of the day the show does always bring it back to sam and dean. one unit.#and no one not even other main characters are allowed into that inner circle#made real and evident by their mere presence or absence across episodes#it's just an interesting thing#.txt#spn posting
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still in disbelief over this post i saw cuz how do u play 4 whole games of ace attorney maybe more and not see the problem with the concept of "decisive evidence"........
#the reason why every trial is a turnabout is bc we only get our acquittals by the skin of our teeth#with every 'decisive' evidence being a miracle if not an outright bluff#like every trial is this 🤏 close to letting a criminal go free and falsely convicting an innocent person#all bc of a lack of 'decisive evidence'#so yes aa's gung ho reliance on evidence. is not great#im just in shock how out of everything This would be an issue you'd hv with turnabout serenade#what is the most solid/most critical aspect of the entire case if not ajaa as a whole#and im just babbling tangentially now but i rly rly love how ajaa examines the function of evidence#in veras trial its abt legality of obtaining evidence; there is decisive evidence to incriminate kristoph (the yellow envelope)#but it cannot be legally obtained#and also how theres not enough evidence to discern the cause of magnifis death#like fandom has taken it at face value tht it was a suicide#but i find it very neat how theres an absence of evidence to indicate that#all we hv to go off from is valants account of events#something something how aa's court would never accept such ruling where both valant and zak could be innocent#also circling back to kristoph; he never does admit to the poisoning of the mishams#and when u compare that to 2-4 where adrian andrews didnt confess to killing juan and that made phoenix doubt his accusations towards her#its all very neat. I LOVE YOU AJAA
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