#and because they were already outcasted for the conspiracy theories they DID believe in

[gudaho]

^^^^^^^think about the number of medical professionals who went 'anti-vax' and 'anti-science' during covid. Whats partially to blame for that is in some of their social circles, pushing back and citing their professional and academic training earned them social repercussions. In social media conspiracy groups like Qanon, you cannot be half-in. If you dont believe in everything that the group proposes then you are "the enemy". Then, with no community to turn to because you have already pushed away everyone in your interpersonal life, you have no choice but to go all in. The cult is all thats left and that is by design

I'm proud of the people who continue to reach out to their QAnon relatives and try to find avenues of connection with them, it is grueling work

wordle and bts may seem like they have nothing in common but both have been cited by redditors as the reason why their elderly relative quit watching fox news and started acting normal again

[liketwoswansinbalance]

Childhood Headcanons

These particular, sort of apocryphal headcanons (depends on who believes what after all) provide further context for the brothers' childhood under the constraints of my canon-divergent fic, "When Lightning Falls," that was proved wrong by canon after the release of Fall.

There's also an accompanying Creation Theory I made up, to provide context for the fic, which becomes especially relevant here.

And, if anyone's wondering, this post has been around for far too long—I just never posted it some while after the fic itself was done. I have a lot of stuff on backlog anyway, and figured I may as well edit and post this.

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Note:

Most of these thoughts focus on Rafal, and there is a slightly dark undercurrent that runs throughout this post.

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First, the brothers were originally foundlings, like in the fairy tales of yore.

Fittingly, they have been the youngest and the oldest beings ever to live at the School, at different points in time.

At first, they led a deathly existence, an insecure, unstable one, with potential death at every turn.

Rafal became used to death threats, and being called "demon spawn." He hardened in response. Ever townspeople tried to ward him off, but their feeble sigils did no good, did no true harm against him and his latent sorcery, even whilst he was still learning magic.

They were found, possibly, doddering around in the Woods, on the outskirts of the School, at somewhere from three to five years old? So, they conveniently have little to no memory of their existence beforehand, as vagrants, outcasts, rejects, waifs, who knows—they were alone in the world.

The twins crashed through the brambles, clothes torn, faces scratched, scrapes on their limbs, drenched by the rain, just... waiting to be taken in like strays, as if they simply... appeared.

Rhian trailed after Rafal who forged a path ahead, until they emerged in the light of a clearing, as if guided by the hand of fate, to the School for Good and Evil.

Shortly after their discovery, they became the youngest students to ever attend the school.

Of course, taking them in was the Good thing to do, but perhaps, if we let conspiracy run rampant, the Storian had a hand in the proceedings.

Oddly enough, the Pen just might have brainwashed all the faculty to come to the unanimous agreement of raising the brothers as their own, among the lot of them. How odd that they agreed for once, the one time in decades that Good and Evil have agreed on any matter.

It was probably done for the greater fate of the Woods, the way they were all swayed by the Storian, nearly unconsciously.

And so, they came to terms with the new status quo because there seemed to be something behind this decision of the Pen's, that was greater than they could ever know, or so they believed.

They accepted it. They didn't question it because it was so obviously the Storian's doing. Controlling their minds that had already been made for them. No chance to decide for themselves.

But, they let the Storian handle it, handed over all control to the Storian. Because, no one, not even the highest ranking sorcerer or fairy godmother of either School, or lord or lady could have taken issue with what the Storian did. No one went against it. No one could. Contradicting it would have been a death wish just waiting to happen.

And they all knew that. They knew that very well, considering the nature of the tales they taught.

Eventually, they came to the common conclusion that these children must have been their future School Masters.

Thus, they took the Storian's apparent decision to heart because it wasn't their place to step in.

No one could overrule the Pen, so they lived with it, and continued to train the mysterious, foundling brothers—while they worried for their lives and all that was to come.

That particular set of faculty became a little like the brothers' parents, until they died off, one by one, each from old age or the occupational hazards of working at such a School.

Their professional lives were demanding and they didn't pay as much attention to the brothers as they should have.

All they could do was follow through and hope the Pen had charted the right course, that it chose well in the end.

Even if they would never live to see the future, they were aware they had played a monumental role in securing safety and balance for the Woods, by acting as these children's first, human influences.

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"When Lightning Falls" takes place around three years after the brothers' arrival, when they're about seven, so they've had time to have grown used to the schools.

Everything has become a bit mundane to them. There's nothing new because it's all they've ever known and grown up with, unlike the incoming students' experience of the manor every four years.

So, they've never been around peers their own age, which led to Rhian feeling special and becoming fragile with no challengers and to Rafal gaining a massive superiority complex.

During those years is when Rafal starts on his skepticism, early in life.

Rafal starts to question the Pen, and ask why of everything and everyone that can possibly answer him, or that would answer him if he persisted and probed enough, and didn't relent. And he threatens his way to the answers, to get his way, to figure out what makes everything in this world of theirs tick.

It's the only way he knows, to bribe or exchange, even unethically, or to beat and to hassle information out of others, to trap them in their own bedchambers or offices and not release them until they answered him or fulfilled his demands.

He learned the word "leverage" early on, and the Evil faculty thought he was a prodigy.

He doesn't know any other way because the Never faculty took him in first, claimed him as one of their own. They took a liking to him and his silence, over his crybaby brother.

Predictably, the Never faculty were rough around the edges and they never showed displays of pleading and begging, so Rafal never did that, even as a child.

He never learned the art of apologizing either. Everyone was remiss to let that pass by... but it was too late.

He refused to resort to such means as begging, to lower himself in that way, like Rhian would, even at such a young age, because he wasn't taught mercy. He was told kindness was a weakness and that justice was right. And so, even as a young child, he maintained an adult-like level of dignity in how he conducted himself, always.

Meanwhile, he'd look on at his brother, and wonder: why is he acting so childishly? Having Evil imposed on him forced Rafal to grow up sooner, before his time.

Evil taught him never to whine and whinge, to never cry to get his way. He could already get his way, by other, more sinister means. Cleverer, more artful, more guileful means besides, and in doing so, he could still feel superior, boosting his ego, inflating it and inflating it as a result.

So, that was what he'd grown up around. It was the natural way of things, to him.

At least, this is how children ought to be treated in his eyes, simple as that. And he turned out fine, didn't he? Of course he did. No question about it. He's him, and he's great. The best. Superior to all others, everyone else in his school.

He probably considered himself the smartest little boy alive, not necessarily the most knowledgeable, but the most clever or capable of outwitting others, of negotiating deals, and plotting schemes and doing other, crooked deeds. He thought himself smart in that artful sense, skilled to the point that he could outfox adults over twice his age, outdoing the teenage students in everything he did.

Oh, and if certain knowledge were established as forbidden? Rafal would still try all the more diligently to go after it. That's how he contended with all things.

And what of Rhian? To Rafal, Rhian was naive. Secretly, Rafal never considered Rhian his match. No way, no how. That brother of his couldn't tell Good from Evil in the simplest of challenges.

The Evil faculty were decently well-meaning, thinking Rafal would be good villain material, but again, they weren't exactly attentive or warm or caring like Good's faculty was in "parenting" Rhian.

They weren't neglectful either, but still, Rafal was left to his own devices outside of lessons, and he grew accustomed to being alone when Rhian wasn't around to play with him. Not that he really played that frequently.

Thus, time passed, and the staff believed the twins to be foundlings. That they were adopted, taken in under their wings. Children of the School.

In reality, the twins were children of the Storian.

Everyone knowingly buys into the lie because they didn't want to think beyond the present. They wanted to believe the brothers were of woman-born, abandoned, and insignificant. But, the truth could only be delayed, not buried.

The brothers are foundlings, they all said, persistently. That's what most of the faculty believed, and that's what the brothers were led to think.

Yet, a select few knew their actual purpose of existence: the brothers were not being trained up to follow the Rules of fairy tales themselves—they were being trained up to rule. (Or rather, "rule" as figureheads for the greater Pen.)

They were bound to the School grounds, and only a few people, none in living memory, knew they belonged to the Storian...

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Any thoughts anyone?

[crepes-suzette-373]

After seeing wavytam's theory, it occurred to me something. Judge said he wanted revenge on the other North Blue kings, with the implication that it had something to do with the former Germa Empire.

From the sound of it, this implies that the other kings somehow conspired together, and... I don't know, set the WG on Germa, perhaps?

See, when they talked about the Vinsmoke family having "conquered the North Blue". This seems to be talking about a ridiculously old period of time, since Yonji (or Reiju?) said that "at one time" (it says "during a certain era" ある時代の in the raw).

I'm guessing this must be talking about the Germa Empire from the past. It's probably not Judge's conquest of the 4 kings, or they'd have said "in my father's time". Even if the translation is wrong and it's someone else talking (in the anime, the one who was talking is Pekoms), ある時代の still implies something that happens ages ago, not just a few years or decades or so ago.

Brook said they "conquered the North Blue with military might", so I'm assuming this is why the other kingdoms don't like them for it.

Sure, if we believe the story at face value, what Germa did sounds terrible. Conquering territories sounds like tyranny.

Still, we now know from Kuma's backstory that the whole story of "Tyrant Kuma" is nonsense told to WG by the former king that he toppled. So did the other kings also went running to WG, told them a bunch of nonsense, and got Germa wiped?

Also, you know. This is not helping the conspiracy I had involving, ah, a certain historical figure. That certain someone was naturally disliked for "conquering the neighbouring lords by military might" *ahem*, but for the time? It was necessary. The nation is basically chaos, and so his conquest was intended to bring peace and stabilise the nation.

If the North Blue countries was also similarly in utter chaos, and Germa empire was what brought the wars to stop, I would sit here and laugh.

It's phrased differently but that certain someone's "slogan" was commonly interpreted in Japan to mean "unite/conquer the nation by military might".

I'm probably the only person who sees nonsense samurai connections here, so I'm most likely wrong, because by all the visible markers, Germa is based on the German Empire.

And since I'm already blathering absurdity here, I'll go ahead and mention it. The aforementioned historical person was infamous for setting things on fire, but arguably, what he set fire on was an establishment mired with corruption. A "purifying flame" so to speak.

Which brings to mind the "Garuda", the divine being who carries purifying flames. Is "Garuda" supposed to be Sanji's "final form"? That would be a slap in the face to Judge, if that were true.

I once alluded on Twitter that Sanji is very reminiscent of this trope of "the chosen one was thought to be a nobody, and becomes an outcast" that's increasingly becoming rather popular in manga and light novels (especially in isekai).

Basically the protagonist is actually the "chosen one", but due to various circumstances, their power didn't manifest correctly, or their power got stolen by someone else. As the result of this, the protagonist gets bullied, or gets chased away and suffers a hard life. Time passes, the protagonist eventually was able to come into their true powers, and well, the people who treated the protag poorly gets their asses handed to them.

You know.

It's just a shitpost, but suppose "Garuda" was some mantle/title that was inherited from that ancient era... the plot twist could be that Sanji is the "true Garuda" of Germa, whatever that ends up meaning.

Also even more plot twist would be if Sanji's powers were natural. Like, I once suggested that this was part of his modifications based on Lunarian template, but how crazy would it be if he was just naturally born with it?

[chaotic-history]

I can't tell if this is serious or not, but just in case, that is absolutely not why they were killed lmfao.

There's a bunch of different theories as to why people were killed and why so many were killed in Salem at that time in particular, and I can't really speak to any of those since I don't know much about them, but the most likely case is simply that panic and distrust fueled more panic and distrust. If your neighbor's been convicted of witchcraft, and you believe that witchcraft is real (which they did), you're going to start suspecting your other neighbor as well. And the witch trials weren't unique to Salem; there had been plenty of witch trials beforehand in England, and in the other British-American colonies as well.

Some of the specific cases I know of, one man who was executed was charged with causing mental disturbances in some young girls, and he had a daughter who displayed symptoms of mental illness; what we now think was possibly a brain tumor. One woman who was executed originally had suspiscion cast on her for wearing very brightly colored clothes, with was out of line with her social standing and was likely viewed as her trying to subvert her place in society. Another man was accused by the same people suing him for unpaid debts. Another woman had previously had her family cast into distrust because the colony believed they had started the spread of an illness among the town, and so when she was accused of witchcraft two years later, she had already been an outcast in the community.

I know there's the theory about weird mold, and the theory I've seen on tumblr that it was just so the lands of the people executed could be confiscated (that one applies to certain cases, but nowhere near the majority), but there doesn't really 'need' to be some overarching explanation to explain the paranoia. This was a community where everyone was either likeminded or was cast out and where they were largely cut off from the rest of the world. Imo it's not so much some freak occurence or conspiracy theory as much as it's just.. what happens in an echo chamber. Hysteria feeds on hysteria and takes precedence over rationality. It's the exact same pattern as the Japanese internment camps in WW2, or anti-Asian racism that surged during Covid, or even the panic now over drag queens.

All the above explanations (pastors wanted land, they were high on mushrooms, they were scared of women who were literate*, etc.) make the Salem Witch Trials into something that could never happen today in the modern US, and they all blatantly ignore the fact that the Salem Witch Trials are not an outlier. The same shit still happens, just without black cats and witches.

*wouldn't make much sense considering they taught girls to read

The fact the women killed in the Salem witch trials weren’t even witches and were just accused of it so the pastor could effortlessly kill them so his wife wouldn’t find out he was fuckin other bitches-

Why am I from here

[sagebodisattva]

The Conspiracy Brain Syndrome

I’ve already made this point a few times in the past, in a couple of different videos, but I think the time has finally come, to where, it needs to be more significantly emphasized, and finally be made absolutely positively unmistakably clear. Laid bare in such a way, so as to leave no question, dispelling any lingering doubts, and, hopefully, finally lay the whole issue to rest in it’s entirety. And the issue in question today is, conspiracy theory. The ideology, of which, we’ll refer to as “conspiracism”, and the adherents, of whom, we’ll classify as “conspiracists.”

Right now, these particular terms are strictly Meta Sage neologisms; as, the field of interest concerned with conspiracy theory is not generally called “conspiracism”, and the people who gravitate towards this field of interest are not commonly referred to as “conspiracists.” So the purpose of using these labels is just for the ease of discussion, even though, overall, these kinds of titles are probably ill advised, as they imply a sense of acknowledged legitimacy, which isn’t warranted, and ends up only providing them undue platform. And that’s the issue I’d like to address today. This type of allowance is the whole reason this dubious ideology has ballooned so far out of proportion. This pervasive degeneration is no longer restricted to a peripheral fringe element. No, unfortunately, the malignancy has now entered into the blood of the mainstream. So, it’s too late to nip it in the bud, as flagrant inattentiveness has allowed this disinformation to permeate into the psyche of the collective subconscious; and, at this point, only a direct vigorous attack will suffice to remedy the situation. This is no longer just a minor concern. I know that it wasn’t too long ago, when this whole issue was the equivalent of a little unassuming hapless baby lizard, but that time has passed, and we are now dealing with a full grown acid spitting nine headed hydra. We’re not looking to cut off just one of the heads of the nine headed hydra, no. We are looking to accomplish more efficient long term solutions; like hobbling the hydra, right at his fucking ankles. Kill the body, and the heads will die. This is no time for the mere treatment of symptoms. That’s wasted energy; effort that could be much better spent re-directed to more worthy applications. No, for this type of affliction, you have to go directly to the core of the disease, then root it out, systematically.

So, I’m here today to educate you as to the exact reasons why conspiracism is a crock of horse shit. But first, before we go any further, there’s a few things you need to understand, up front. Conspiracism is not a philosophy. Conspiracism is not raised awareness. Conspiracism is not righteous trutherism. Rather, conspiracism is a huge dirty lie; and, point blank, a symptom of a particularly nasty underlying mental illness. That’s gonna be the main thrust of this video. To get locked up in this kind of mind-trap is a mental disorder; even though “conspiracism”, isn’t yet listed in the DSM-5, the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; but it should be. And this needs to be seen to, immediately. And we could call this particular mental disorder:

“The Conspiracy Brain Syndrome.”

It needs a stigmatizing title, because the idea is to try and actively discourage it, and, ultimately, smother it out of existence. So anchoring it down with a heavy stigma will really help to put things in the proper perspective; because not all that much has been done to denounce or condemn this type of mental sickness thus far. Obviously, most people must have been dismissing this sickness as merely benign, as it’s been left alone to wreak havoc on people’s minds, unchecked and unchallenged. But the time has come to take the matter way more seriously, and begin to majorly disincentivize any path that will lead to a conspiracy mindset. People that espouse conspiracy theory are a major issue, and I’m not sure the general populace is even aware that it’s such a grievous problem. Unaware to such an extent, that conspiracism has now begun to infect the minds of an unprecedented amount of everyday people. To such a degree, that now, even the government of the United States is perpetuating this sickness, making implications that’s there’s some fight going on behind the scenes against “a deep state”, attempting to lend credence to the idea that a hidden government lurks behind the legitimate government, pulling the puppet strings, even though that’s all just a flat out deception, designed to scare you into continuing to assign power and responsibility elsewhere. That’s right. So actually, if you think about it, conspiracy theory is really a part of the conspiracy. Conspiracism is just another method of fear and control, designed specifically to weaken and oppress your mind.

So, I’m just so deeply sorry to all the conspiracists out there, who have just so much invested in this, but, just so you know, you have invested in a major turkey. A jive turkey, at that. Are you surprised? What, you thought you were doing something constructive for the people? Where do you get these outlandish ideas in your head that your conspiracy theory mongering is somehow a form of activism? You ain’t activating shit. At least not activating anything positive. You are only sowing anger, distrust, paranoia, and divisiveness; which, if anything, makes you an agent of disservice. So get it straight. You are not blazing a path of honor and truth, you are suffering from an acute delusional syndrome; a mental disability, that has blighted the minds of it’s fanatical adherents, and rendered their functional value down to almost completely useless. The only thing these types of warped zealots are good for, are straightjackets, rubber rooms, court ordered prescriptions of medication, and many many years of deep intensive therapy. Simply put, people who are obsessed with conspiracy theories, are mentally ill, period. There’s no reason to make any bones about it. There’s no caveats to consider, nor the slightest concern that there may be some possible hidden value to be found, veiled underneath it’s plainly unavailing utility. No, it’s quite safe to toss this one in the garbage can, without a second thought.

And people really need to step it up, when it comes to condemning these types of delusions, and step it up when it comes to shaming and ostracizing those that herald this type of message. These people deserve to be relentlessly shunned and outcast by society; so you really have to go out of your way to make their lives a living hell, otherwise they won’t find any motivation to upkeep their mental health. They will actually neglect their own mental health, to your detriment, so you shouldn’t wait too long to denounce and repudiate it, otherwise it will become too late, and soon, the disease will have spread throughout the whole community, and before long, you will quickly become overrun. You need to do whatever you can do to combat it, right now; by any and all means necessary. And much of this starts out by understanding that, you owe absolutely no allegiance, nor respect, to conspiracism. Why would you? It doesn’t have any value in the construction and maintenance of a civilization, and doesn’t have any value in the ideas, wisdom and philosophy of a civilization. So what is it, other then a cavity in the mouth of society?

And if your answer to anything I’m saying right now has anything to do with yet more conspiracy, you can put a sock in it, and save your breath, even though you are a huge waste of oxygen. Sorry, but conspiracy theories are not valid as arguments. If anything, they are indications of a deeply troubled psychology; but little else. Perhaps they serve as coping mechanisms for the malcontent, but if so, it’s a festering malignancy that’s doing more harm then good. At best, maybe this type of thinking helps you to feel better about yourself, as you fancy that the wool has been pulled down over the eyes of everyone in the world, except you, but, in reality, much of this grandiose delusion is just due to simple intellectual immaturity, and hence, it’s way past the time for you to grow up, and stop fervently clinging to juvenile belief systems.

If you can ever finally manage to emerge out from underneath this oppressive mental scourge, then you’ll eventually come to see that, all this time, you were just being an ignorant narrow-minded belligerent jackass. So you really need to get over yourself. Understand: in the wide spectrum of philosophical milestones, “conspiracy theory”, is nearly at the bottom of the barrel on the philosophical totem pole. This is the domain for beginners, not contenders. Conspiracism is barely only a notch or two above superstition and religion. Let’s put it this way: if we were to consider religion as kindergarten, then accordingly, conspiracy theory can be regarded as the 1st grade.

And speaking of conspiracy theory and religion, did you know that these two positions share a little more in common, other then both being adjacent to each other at the bottom of the spectrum of wisdom and intelligence? Indeed, these positions might even be said to be ideological cousins of sorts. Sometimes the conceptual playing field can present conditions that make for some very strange ideological bedfellows. Case in point, conspiracy theory and religion. They are more similar then most people would like to believe. They both distrust mankind and society, they both despise science and technology, and they both enjoy demonizing anyone or anything that dares to disagree with their dogma. And if you have any doubts, conduct your own survey. I would say probably upwards to 80% of people who subscribe to conspiracy theories, also subscribe to god theories. Fact is, over time, these two positions have become allies; and it’s not all that surprising to see why. If you are already of a mind that thinks mankind and civilization are inherently untrustworthy and evil, then how far can you be from a mind that declares it all to be the work of Satan? Not that far at all, I say.

If you look more closely at the association between these two positions, you will discover that, the type of mind you find gravitating towards something like conspiracy theory, is cut from the exact same cloth as the type of mind you find gravitating towards something like religion. In other words, stupid superstitious people. Deluded people, who want to desperately avoid the truth at all costs, by embracing some alternate false version of reality. An alternate false version of reality that, conveniently, assigns them more importance, and helps enable them to think that they are part of some great divine order; which they then use as the justification for their self important assumed sense of entitlement, and their aggressively invasive need to impose, oppress and demonize others. And yet, ironically, in truth, these people are of extremely low moral fiber, and have broken characters, completely bereft of any existential quality. Yet, these people feel they are in some position to tell other people how to think and what to believe, and which way they should live their lives. It’s a complete joke. It’s like a homeless crack-head trying to criticize you and give you advice on how to properly conduct your life. Gimme a break.

So bare this in mind, before you start to go too crazy, patting yourself on the back, telling yourself how much of a big fucking hero you are, for doing us all such a great favor by educating us with your fear porn, and, spew-projecting onto everyone, all of your depraved paranoid insecurities, with vomit projectile accuracy. Thanks, but you are not a hero, by any stretch of the imagination. You are not thinking outside of the box. You are not a “critical thinker.” And you are not distinguishing yourself as some great knowledgeable shepherd, who stands apart from the masses, ready, able and willing to lead the sheeple away from the darkness with some great liberating truth. No, in reality, meaning outside your fantasy, you are still a mainstream sheeple; you are just a disgruntled mainstream sheeple, who thinks that they’re somehow being less of a patsy simply by suspiciously distrusting everything. Wow! (Sarcastic clapping sound.) Great fucking job, malcontent sheep! You’ve achieved distrusting everything! Wow! You’ve accomplished a great feat of cynicism! Woot! Hurray! Sorry, but you are not some tough maverick rebel, you are just a plain ole mainstream malcontented sheep. I bet if we shove a million dollars down your blowhole, you’ll shut the hell up and go away real fast, because, in truth you are just a big lying disgruntled fake, blowing lots of hot air.

Yeah. So in case you were a little confused, now you can be unconfused. And I don’t care how much research you’ve fixated into this unbending obsession, your research means diddly-squat, and doesn’t change a damn thing. I know that you believe this self-deceptive fallacy that, the more and more research you do, the more and more crazy you start sounding to all the ignorant people around you, right? Uh huh. Well, newsflash: Your research means jack shit. You haven’t even figured out yet that sensory perception is an illusion, and yet you think that, somehow, by deeply researching the illusion, that you are actually accomplishing something useful? Shit. You may sound crazy to the ignorant lemmings, but so what; that’s like having misgivings from a donkey. Who cares. What should worry you a bit more, is that you sound like a complete and total blockhead dumbass to anyone with any degree of higher wisdom. You come across no better then a ravenous junky, struggling with an addiction, desperately seeking some way to find that next fix. So, no, you are not uncovering a truth with your “research”, you are only wallowing in a delusion: and yet you think you’ve discovered something earth shattering by noticing some sort of interconnectivity in reality. Wow! You’ve made interpretations of symbols, codes, and anagrams! Well, congratulations. Only problem is, you’re taking the whole thing way too damn literally; so it’s no surprise that you think it’s all just a matter of rooting out some secret group of dark ominous “others”, who are plotting to control or destroy a so called “world.” Your underlying intentions may be good, but your mission is utterly misdirected and futile; as, your remedy to the problem is ultimately ineffectual, because it’s an approach that addresses the wrong area of concern.

This is why you will never be given any true legitimacy, because, after all, if what you are promoting is not the truth, then, really, what the hell are you really doing? Obsessive compulsive rituals. Thoughts and actions of attachment and addiction. In other words, masturbation. So why should anyone take anything coming out of your mouth seriously, when it’s so abundantly and redundantly obvious that you have a seriously perverse hang up? It would be one thing if, every once in a while, you took note of a possible conspiracy theory, considered it briefly, and then moved on, but no. You get STUCK; and that’s how you know this obsessive fixation is really just a mental dysfunction. Where now, everything in life becomes a component of some dark nefarious plot, and there’s no conspiracy theory in existence that could possibly be too far fetched a consideration to be believed and accepted as an ironclad truth. It’s like looking at the world through murky colored glasses: everything considered must now be skewed to fit the narrative of the conspiracy theory worldview. It’s an, “When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”, kind of situation. A one trick pony, who’s time has come to be put out to pasture. Because, after awhile, the whole thing just becomes so incredibly tiresome, and BORING; and, notably, a position that seems to mostly be gravitated towards by the intellectually infantile; which, of course, means a whole lotta people. And these douche-bags are annoying as hell. They’d rather scapegoat a boogeyman, then lay down on the ground and wait for rescue. And that’s what’s so seriously infuriating about these conspiracy brains: they don’t actually do anything; other then pissing in the punch bowl. Or maybe an occasional mass shooting. But other then that, very little else. And this madness needs to change.

You claim that you want to confront some kind of evil in this world? Then stop searching ‘out there’, for secret societies of elite plasma drinking pedophile reptilians to blame. You want to confront evil? Then you need not look any further then at your own damn ugly face looking back at you in the mirror. Or, how does the adage go? Sweep around your own front door before you start looking to sweep around everyone else’s. You distrust society? It’s you who can’t be trusted. You think mankind is rotten? It’s you who’s really rotten. Stop playing the victim, and stop playing the blame game. Your entire perceptual reality is sourced from the pure mind, so if there’s something out here you think is evil and an injustice, then the source of that evil and injustice, is within yourself. If you don’t like it, then do something about it, within yourself. Otherwise, just shut up about it; lest I punch a cloth gag so far down your fucking throat, it’ll come out your asshole.

Thank you.

[thetenthdoctorscompanion]

This was long. So these are some of the featured characters. The rest is under the read more. 

ALL RIGHT LET’S DO THIS.

1) Your first OC ever?

Crystal Potter. I used to pretend that I was Harry’s sister when I played pretend with my mom. I’d go to all of my classes and do my Potions homework. She was my first OC before I knew what fanfiction was. I just kept developing her into what she is today.

3) Have you ever adopted a character or gotten a character from someone else?

Nope! Just borrowing for prompts and whatnot. I know some people do pass on their stories when they don’t have the ambition anymore, but my OCs are a huge part of me. I can’t imagine passing them on, or taking up the responsibility of doing right by someone else. (But I love crossover prompts on the real.)

5) If you could make only one of your OCs popular/known, who would it be?

God, I hate choosing children. I mean, I guess my original original characters - my Faust children. Cause if they were popular, it would probably mean I’d actually gotten my ass to finish the series and been published. So if more people knew about Ana Vasquez, that’d be great.

7) Are your OCs part of any story or stories?

Well hypothetically they’re all part of stories. But if I tried to write the story for every character I’d ever thought of, I’d be writing until I died. Which would probably be pretty early on because I wouldn’t have time to work and I’d probably starve to death. *finger guns*

9) Would you ever be willing to give any of your OCs to someone else?

No. My characters are my children, and in all seriousness, a part of my soul. I never mind people writing about them, for crossover purposes and so on, but they will always be my babies. (Though in future I’d love to see people writing fanfiction for my original published work someday. In that case, write on, my man.)

11) Is there any OCs of yours you could describe as a “sunshine”?

Hm, this is a tough one. I usually say Nylah Parker. She’s not sunshine in a bubbly-sense. She’s certainly not outgoing, but she’s probably one of my most sweet and well-meaning OCs. She’s a gentle soul.

13) Do you have any troublemaker OCs?

Emily Terrell is always the first to come to mind. She’s my rip-roaring party girl, even if she’s doing it to cover herself. She’s the kind of character who starts shit just so she doesn’t have to think. She’d rather deal with problems she created than the problems in her head she can’t control.

15) Do you like to talk about your OCs with other people?

Please talk to me about my OCs, oh my God please talk to me about them all the time, please, please, please…

17) Any OC OTPs?

I love all of my OCs and the characters I’ve paired them with, obviously. I think I usually get the most emotional about Derek and Isabelle, because they’re really the only pairing I have I think of as love at first sight. I know they will be together until the end of days, no weird break up problems, no breaks.

19) Introduce an OC that means a lot to you, and explain why.

I guess I’ll use this time to talk about Sadie. She’ll always be the first person I think of when I say “OC” because I’ve devoted the most of my soul to her. She’s the first character that ever really took off, the first character I ever actually finished a story for, the first character that ever came alive on the page and started doing her thing without regard for her author. I’ll never forget the first time Sadie acted out and just got herself knocked-out and I didn’t have it planned. I just sat back and went, “Um, okay Sadie. If that’s what you want. Guess I’ll end the chapter here. Nice cliffhanger.” She does that a lot, because she knows what she wants more than I do at this point. She’s changed my life so much and made me so many friends. Sadie’s truly changed my life.

21) Your most artistic OC.

Well it’s probably Sadie, but seeing as I just ranted for a year. My other artistic OC is Marcia Edgar, my Captain America OC. I really wanted someone who embraced the feminine side of the 1940′s. So often in stories you see the girl who is ahead of her time, and more progressive than everyone else around her. I wanted to step away from that. So Marcia is a very in the box thinker. She lets everyone take care of her, and helps paint propaganda posters as a “job” while she looks for a husband. Art is something that she pours herself into, and she’s incredibly good at. It isn’t until later that finds that it isn’t enough to help out, and becomes a nurse.

23) Introduce an OC that has changed from the first idea concerning what that character would be like.

Oh GOD if that title doesn’t go to Crystal. Obviously, I’ve had her the longest, so she’s changed the most. I can’t remember all of the details about her I had as a kid. When I was in high school, I went with this whole Little Princess vibe, where she was Harry’s twin but since they were separated after their parents died, she didn’t know anything about him. So no one believed her when she got to school and she became this tormented outcast. I realized later that it didn’t make a lot of sense, as far as what the general public would have known. When I revisited the story last year, I decided to keep in the part about being separated, but Crystal keeps herself mostly out of fear and expectations. She’s terrified of meeting Harry because she’s never known family, and because she’s not exceptional like he is. She’s a lot more self-conscious than she is bullied.

25) The OC that resembles you the most (same hobby, height, shared like/dislikes for something etc?)

Sadie, Sadie, Sadie. She was a 100% self insert folks. So here’s a big hello to everyone who says that self-inserts don’t work, or are dumb, or immature. Obviously Sadie’s grown over time. She’s not entirely me, but she’s pretty damn close.

27) Any OCs that were inspired by a certain song?

I don’t think I have any characters that were song inspired, but stories absolutely are. I was listening to “Die Young” by Ke$ha when I thought of the climactic formal scene of The Wild Side. I sort of filled in the backstory later, but I knew I wanted Stiles and my girl dancing and thinking about how it was now or never, how they really could die because of all the supernatural stuff going on. And then I wanted to take that moment away from them before they could really confess how they felt about each other.

29) Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going?

Okay, I thought about this one a lot. Sadie is a good contender, obviously, but I want to try and showcase other people too. So I’m going to go with Charlotte Emery, (Sherlock Holmes). Charlotte is absolutely I-can-take-care-of-myself-and-don’t-need-to-rely-on-anyone material. If she sensed something was wrong, she would absolutely get up in the middle of the night to investigate on her own. Now, more than likely she would run into everyone else there, because Irene and Sherlock are also the investigate-an-abandoned-house-at-night-without-telling-anyone kind of people, but that’s what makes them all work so well together.

31) Pick one OC of yours and explain what their tumblr blog would be like (what they reblog, layout, anything really)

Penny McKittrick (Daredevil) would have like, a Real Blog™. She’d write her own pieces up about current events and politics and conspiracy theories, and definitely rage discourse all over the place. It’s relentless, and for some people it’s too much. But people still follow her because she has a very intricate tagging system that allows people to block what they don’t want to see. Also, she reblogs pretty pictures, and has the craziest personal stories.

33) Your shyest OC?

Again, probably Nylah, but also Emmeline Marsh. Emmeline is cripplingly shy when she first gets to Hogwarts. She grew up as an only child in the middle of the country, with so many security restrictions that she’s hardly ever seen another person her age. She’s grown up like Rapunzel, only with a loving guardian instead of a shitty one. It’s very hard for her to make friends because it’s very hard for her to know how to talk to people. But she’s kind at heart, and fiercely loyal. It will take her a few years to grow out of her shell.

35) Any sibling characters?

Crystal is my only character who is an established character’s sibling. But for a while, I did toy around with the idea of the Bennet twins - Sadie and Samuel. Looking back, I sort of wish I had done that, because Sam’s fun to play around with. He’s the older twin, and very protective of Sadie. He’s not fully involved in all the running around she does with the pack, but I think he’d figure everything out on his own. He gets dragged along to some of the big battles, just to make sure Sadie doesn’t get herself killed, but he also knows that she’s good at taking care of herself. A lot of the work he does with the pack is maintaining their lies and cover stories. He’s a pro-league liar.

37) Introduce an OC who is not quite human.

Oh, how much do I want to give away about Rosa Alvarez? Not much, I’m afraid. I’m still working on her mythology, but Rosa is most definitely not human. It’s something that’s hereditary, passed from mother to daughter, and it gives her a lot of grief. She keeps to herself mostly, because it’s easier than dealing with people. But when her name shows up on a deadpool of supernatural creatures, the McCall pack moves in and starts asking too many questions. She’s never really had friends, but she’s also never found anyone who understood what she was. She’s slow to warm up to everyone, but there’s something about Scott McCall that makes it hard for her to stay away.

39) Introduce any character you want.

Oh, who haven’t I already talked about? (Goddamn I have a lot of OCs….) Okay, because I’m a terrible person, let’s talk about Tessa Maguire. Her father was a pilot in WWI, though he left the military to care for Tessa when her mother died. Tessa grew up as much of a lady as she could be, but with a deep love for flying and mechanics, and a bad habit of sneaking onto Mitchell Field after dark to look at the planes. Eventually she joins Navy as a nurse just so she has a real reason to go on base and visit her friends. (I know but please ask me about my girl because I am trash)

41) Has anyone drawn fan art of your OCs?

Yes! Yes, Yes, Yes! My prized possession will always be the trailer I was given for Right Beside You. I believe on two different occasions I have been lucky enough to receive fan art, and on more occasions than I can count have been included in beautiful edits from my friends. Most of these are in my “Beautiful People Make Brittney Things” tag.

43) Do you have a certain type when you create OCs? Do you tend to favor some certain traits or looks? It’s time to confess.

Almost all of my OCs are brunette and witty. I know this, and I am sorry, and I am trying to be aware and move away from it. But I also suck, so I apologize.

45) A character you no longer use.

Oh, Stephanie Engel. What plans I had for you. In my defense, everyone was doing it at the time, and I’ve stopped because I want to do the story right. At this point, I think I’ll wait for the next movie(s) to come out before deciding what to do with the rest of the story. It might be a stand alone that ignores the rest of the Jurassic World movies. But I always take prompts!

47) Has anyone ever (friendly) claimed one of your OCs as their child?

I’m honestly not sure. Has Ashlea done this? Probably. I’ve probably done this to other people, but at this point, I’m honestly not sure.

49) Which one of your OCs would most likely enjoy memes?

Hm, I think Isabelle. But she doesn’t use them correctly. She’s like nearly there, but even when she does say something correctly, she’s so excited that it’s cringeworthy. She’d definitely be the “did you see what I did there?” kind of person. The pack hates it.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

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Senator Daines’ niece, Maria Piacesi, says Biden pinched her nipple

Article by Shawna Masiello

Steven Daines’ niece, Maria Piacesi, reveals that Joe Biden pinched her nipple when she was only 8-years young during shocking TikTok video.

Maria Piacesi, niece of Republican senator Steve Daines, revealed that US president Joe Biden pinched her nipple during a Swearing-In Ceremony in 2015. She’s scared of speaking out, her friends don’t believe her even though it was caught on video.

Joe Biden, 78, has — again — been accused of inappropriately touching a woman, but in this case there might actually be video evidence that the sitting president sexual assaulted a minor during his tenure as Vice President in 2015.

In a shocking TikTok video a 14-year-old Maria Piacesi, niece of the Montana senator Steve Daines, claims that Joe Biden pinched her nipple when she was only 8-years-old during a Ceremonial Swearing-In session. The ordeal was caught on camera but the mainstream media has largely discounted the theories that Biden sexually assaulted the underage girl as a ‘right-wing conspiracy theory’.

Maria Piacesi is the only child of Rob and Christie Piacesi. She describes herself as “very social” and has a very upbeat demeanor.

“I play the flute and piano and always like to keep busy one way or another. I am also very adventurous when it comes to activities,” Piacesi stated in her profile.

“Did Joe Biden pinch you?” A user by the name of Jonathan Pasetti asked, to which Piacesi responded, “Yes.” However, soon after, she deleted her comment.

“Why did you delete the comment?” Pasetti asked. “I have friends that would no longer be friends with me if they knew that,” Maria Piacesi replied.

Mr Pasetti then added: “Those ‘friends’ are not true friends then. You were abused by a pervert and deserve justice, but only you can exact that justice by telling others.”

Maria Piacesi then sent the user a direct message via the TikTok app and said that she’s wanted to speak out about her assault but that she fears that she won’t be believed and will be seen as an outcast.

“I would do something about it — to be honest — if I thought it would help, but it would only make more people angry and I’ve already had people calling me out saying I’m lying and this is BS [bullsh*t], even though it is not. I just don’t think it would help with anything right now,” Maria Piacesi said.

Mr Pasetti reassured the scared 14-year-old, “I understand your apprehension. The first thing, though, is not letting him get away with it because then he can do it to others. I just want you to know that there are millions of people who are on your side and they believe you. There is video evidence of what happened and I believe you. We all believe you.”

A video of the January 3rd, 2015, ceremonial swearing-in of Steve Daines shows an 8-year-old Maria Piacesi recoil back in fear after the then 72-year-old Vice President Joe Biden appears to pinch her nipple.

Conservatives often refer to the president as “Creepy Joe” due to his very bizarre and often inappropriate behaviour around children.

In May, 2021, the commander-in-chief went off-script to point out the ‘elementary school- aged’ girl as he delivered an address at Joint Base Langley-Eustis ahead of Memorial Day, saying “I tell you what, look at her, she looks like she’s 19 years old, sitting there like a little lady with her legs crossed.”

At a May 2019 campaign event, Biden even told a 10-year-old girl, “I bet you’re as bright as you are good-looking.”

Joe Biden has been accused of inappropriate touching by many women. One of the main accusers is his former aide Tara Reade who accused Joseph Robinette Biden Jr of sexually assaulting her in 1993 at a Capitol Hill office. Sadly for Tara Reade, her story was largely ignored in the US and she had to travel all the way to Australia to give an interview with 60 Minutes to get her story out there.

UPDATE: Maria’s social media accounts deleted.

We’ve received a lot of emails regarding this article. A lot of people believe that the screenshots are fake and no such account exist. However, upon doing some digging we can, in fact confirm, that the senator’s niece did own this account. Shortly after the news went viral she deactivated her Instagram and TikTok account.

Prior to deleting her TikTok account Maria only had 179 followers. Many of which were her actual friends. A simple TikTok search for that username will show girls her age, around her area, tagging her in their videos. Google has also cached her now deleted TikTok account.

Her deleted Instagram page even mentions her TikTok account as well as softball team Tsunami Fastpitch. The featured image, as well as the close of photo, show Maria Piacesi in her sport uniform.

Furthermore, the website Urlebird (a website that caches TikTok videos) showed that the last time Maria uploaded a video to TikTok was only two days ago.

With this information when can conclusively state that Maria Piacesi did accuse Joe Biden of assaulting her when she was only 8-years-old. Since the news broke the young aspiring softball player has opened up a new private Instagram account which she only shares with close friends and family.

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Everybody Hates the Berkeley College Republicans

Anonymous Contributor | February 12, 2017

It’s been just over a week since a successful demonstration outside of UC Berkeley’s Pauley Ballroom shut down Milo Yiannopoulos and the alt-right on February 1st. In the aftermath of the Berkeley College Republicans’ defeat, we’ve seen an increase of interest in radical anti-fascist politics taking hold throughout the campus. Students saw a stark contrast between the out of touch administration at UC Berkeley, which sought to protect Milo as he planned to out undocumented students, and the black bloc that helped shut the event down and kick far-Right scum off the streets. We think it is important to discuss what else has happened in the week following that demo because it is relevant to discussions about the role and efficacy of militant anti-fascism in the context of a growing far-Right movement that is itching to get off the internet and into the real world.

An Increasingly Toxic Group

On the morning of February 1st, the Berkeley College Republicans must have been feeling extra good about themselves. Confident that opponents would fail to significantly disrupt their event planned for later that evening and not content to let Milo have all the fun, members of BCR planned to troll protesters by giving plastic snowflakes to them outside the Pauley Ballroom. However, by all accounts it was BCR who really couldn’t take the heat that night. Although BCR paid several thousand dollars for event security, their event was shut down and their associates were sent packing. Guess you don’t always get what you pay for!

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Mike Wright , Strategic Director for BCR, about to piss his pants on live TV

On February 2nd, not even twenty-four hours after the riotous actions of the night before, Jack Palkovic of BCR was confronted by two men and punched in the face as he was giving an interview to media. In video that captured the incident, one of the men yells out “fuck you, fascist!” as he waves Jack’s stolen MAGA hat in his hand. This isn’t the first time Jack’s politics have been accurately assessed, and it was at least the second time he’s been punched in the face because of it. That evening campus police were stationed outside in the hallway to protect BCR’s general meeting. University police have since offered to have a cop posted nearby when BCR is tabling and are currently working together with BCR on safety protocols.

UCPD outside BCR meeting

Before February 1st, the students in BCR were able to infiltrate an anti-Milo meeting nearly undetected. Now they are so recognizable and hated that the community is punching them in the face on sight. Club leadership has begun advising members to put away their MAGA hats and attempt to be more conspicuous. As the student body and Bay Area community become increasingly aware of the connections BCR is making to fascist and white nationalist organizations, it’s getting harder and harder for BCR to operate and recruit without a bit of trouble coming their way.

Troy Worden (left) and Naweed Tahmas (right) of BCR attempt to crash an anti-Milo meeting on January 24. Naweed claimed at the time that he wasn’t involved in organizing the Milo event and was indifferent about the whole thing. On January 20th, Naweed was also featured in a livestream interview with Nathan Damigo, a neo-Nazi organizer with Identity Evropa.

For instance, the incompetent Republican group allowed the security of new members’ information to be compromised last week. Their new recruits are also getting called out now as a result. It’s still unclear exactly how this happened. The journalist that published the names and email addresses from BCR’s sign-up sheet claims that the Republicans left the sheet unattended at their Milo event while a fellow journalist was able to grab a photo and forward it. The students of BCR claim a man on a bicycle rode by their table and stole the list on February 2, taking a photo before the club could retrieve it. In any case, it’s clear that BCR is incapable of protecting themselves or those peripherally interested in the club’s politics, physically or digitally. This is the second time that members’ information was left open for the public to see, and no doubt the public is watching. New recruits beware!

Outcasts on Campus

The mainstream media has wasted no time weighing in on the protests that shut down BCR and Yiannopoulos, choosing to focus (of course) on free speech over white supremacy and fascism. The school administration and police department continue to assume that it’s impossible for Berkeley students to have shown up to a protest wearing black clothes. UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich took things a step further by peddling a conspiracy theory that claims the protestors in black were paid by Milo and Breitbart. But what really matters the most is what the students on campus are saying, and they’re saying a lot!

By Tuesday February 7 the UC Berkeley student newspaper, The Daily Californian, published several op-eds from students supporting the protest against BCR and Yiannopoulos. Under the heading “Violence as self-defense,” the op-eds from undergrads, grad students, and alumni understood the destruction of property as a justified use of force by the community. Students with similar views also had op-eds published in other local papers. This prompted UC Berkeley Chancellor Dirks to respond, stating that he’s “horrified by the call to embrace the use of violence to contest views with which we may disagree.”

The Berkeley College Republicans have themselves made numerous media appearances over the past week. Still, BCR has been unable to influence popular opinion where it counts. On February 2nd, a Facebook page called “UCB Free Speech” was created. The page immediately set up an event for what it called “UC Berkeley Free Speech Rally 2/8/17” that was scheduled to happen in Sproul Plaza on February 8th. This was a desperate attempt to reach out to anyone on campus that “believes in free speech and is appalled at what happened last week.”

UCB Free Speech never took off, plateauing at around 25 likes. From the beginning, it was questioned relentlessly by fellow UC Berkeley students as being a front for the Republicans. Whether or not this claim is true (it most likely is), just the possibility that this page could be associated with BCR was enough to limit the amount of attention it got. The backlash was overwhelming. The Facebook page UCB Free Speech and it’s event “UC Berkeley Free Speech Rally 2/8/17” were both deleted on February 8th because virtually nobody was sincerely interested in them.

BCR’s Friends are Using Them

Yiannopoulos appeared on Fox News recently to discuss the events of February 1st, including Trump’s tweet about cutting federal funding to UC Berkeley as punishment for not protecting free speech. Milo agreed and defended this stance on the cuts, even going as far as to say that “all of this goes into liberal arts studies that don’t produce real jobs.” Well, maybe he should have warned Troy Worden, member of BCR and organizer of BCR’s Milo event. Troy studies English and Philosophy at UC Berkeley, two liberal arts studies that could be severely impacted if Milo is being honest and gets what he wants. At the same time that Milo is cashing in on his college tour and signing book deals, he proposes the destruction of his fan’s education and dismisses it as worthless.

Milo having a horrible time with Naweed Tahmas

Milo isn’t the only friend of BCR threatening their future, however. The Republicans at Berkeley have recently been getting cozy with Nathan Damigo and his organization Identity Evropa, which recruits college students into white supremacist “activism.” Damigo was spotted standing next to Troy Worden at BCR’s table at Sproul Plaza on January 20th and at some point that day Damigo interviewed Naweed Tahmas of BCR for neo-Nazi media outlet Red Ice TV. Nathan Damigo has already spent time in prison for being a violent racist, and a member of his organization was just revealed as a long-time Bay Area neo-Nazi once arrested for assault and possession of bomb-making materials.

Good luck getting jobs with company like this, BCR! 

Round 2?

There are many lessons to draw from this for others wishing to stop the far-Right looking to do more than make memes. Anti-fascist activism is winning in the Bay Area. The fascist Berkeley College Republicans have been shut down and are consistently finding it hard to get support in the community.

On February 8th, Milo Yiannopoulos appeared on the Alex Jones radio show and mentioned plans to return. Yiannopoulos claims to be coming back to UC Berkeley a week after he gives a speech in Washington DC at the end of February. Some have suspected the date could be March 8, International Women’s Day. Activists should begin discussing now how they will respond when Milo comes back around, and how to take down BCR and stop their activities and relationships with neo-Nazi organizations.

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