#and he does have the hyenas should be rotten and mean thing in going

[handfulofmuses]

I said before that Janja is taking out his insecurities on Cheezi and Chungu. I think it doesn’t help that the two of them have a slight obsession with him. While they do question him, they would never go fully against him unlike Nne and Tano. They admire him far too much for that.

In the same episode, they cannot stop thinking about him to a point where they even start dreaming about Janja.

Cheezi and Chungu are easy to use for Janja. They do what he says, they compliment him, they don’t challenge his leadership. They make him feel important so with Janja pretending to be better and smarter than the rest, I think Cheezi and Chungu also started to feel a bit more dumber than they actually are around him and with Janja constantly insulting them too they eventually just started to believe it - to a point where they feel they are dependent on him because at least Janja knows what to do.

[the-firebird69]

So Dave AKA Dan and Terry cheesman are attempting to kidnap our son at the intersection with the parts store where he usually goes in the parking lot because people want to zoom by him on the corner and almost run into him and they're mad because he avoids it all the time and they're constantly pointed out everyday okay every time he goes there there's these stupid a****** smiling hyena getting their ass beat in and they keep doing it so there they are with some sort of front car already damaged on the front right front and intent to run into him and say that didn't happen and they had a car truck behind with Dave with the push bar coated with rubber and it's supposed to and they were going to run into our sun and they said to go after Trump and we're saying we're going to go after you and other people are too and we don't need that kind of help but no one does and you're dead meat and we send it on the radio sort of. Dead mean so we know that we're going after them but bja pulled them over both of them are under arrest and nobody can stand these idiots they're going after yourself so what that's stupid and we are going to hit there facilities for it and take them down here and he wants us to rip tons of stuff out so we're going to go ahead and do that personal houses he wants houses ripped apart of theirs to pieces and we know which ones and their pieces of s*** anyways and this junk and all of it and they're corroded and what is rotten so he wants people to go and tear their houses apart by hand cuz there's such insulin swine give them a message they should leave and BJ is probably going to blowing up a little but he's got a lot of people and he's going to get rid of this idiot and he likes the idea no draw them out and they're going to get pummeled to death and taking the prison and mac daddy says no but they always say no it's such a pain we're going to publish it's a good idea

Thor Freya

Olympus

Zues Hera

Some trumpster showed up and was parked in the library with a broken down camper and it's very old looking for a pity and stuff for my son and helped to get the thing going with her husband and it's not John remillard but it's close and on Sunday had no interest at all just wanted to know if the animals are safe and told her she should plug the electricity in did she tried it and it works and really these people are sick and it is a safe haven and it's meant for that but they're going around and abusing it and being a burden on purpose when there's a lot of people who need the service and they have a lot of money so he said you can get a camper for $88,000 it's really like $245,000 it's a significant number and she's thinking about it later and she's going he's telling us off all the time but it's just so stupid and crass and mean and she got mad and said we have to do this s*** somewhere else and just saying it's too late and I said yes it's too late everybody in town is going to beat you up people are

**so you talk to me like a big wise ass all the time little s*** next door. So I got to tell you African Americans don't like you Trump but they like your money and they like bling and you've got plenty of bling I don't know what the hell they're doing just drive by and shoot you and take your stuff and he's saying that he's also saying that he would have like this 2-in thick fro like the Rock and I guess he'd be in the car too not much different but our son would be black like a black guy he said boy that guy went down and he shoots some more he looks at them again says he is down.. and The Rock would say get down so they all get down and say just kidding and his poke up and it starts shooting and he said what are you just kidding about he says who are you Martin I said no bang bang he's down again the amount of time you said the joke he's back up again is that he keeps doing that but as a black guy he said that last part and that was The Rock he keep doin dat!!!! And that's how they say it like that and it's hilarious it's like 10 ft away from him and he's p Diddy out in front of his house and he owes our son money for the zit formula he's trying to still have him buy it so where can I sue him for that we are going to sue him for that because people are putting it on documents LOL and we'll take the money they make and get it to our son and yeah black guy that's not black that's perfect so we get the gig and The Rock and our son ken was along and Garth they're not really black

Thor Freya

I've had enough of this s*** why do you have to be black oh I see he's saying he's a black guy and screwing around with us saying we're breaking the law you're not bad but it's kind of like a drive-by he's saying we're kind of feds now so we can sign up and get away with that s***I've heard enough this isn't Africa for crying out loud

Eddie Murphy

Okay buckwheat you know what to do about that

Trump

We're going to shoot you you wigger you don't say that s*** to us and pipe down you over there you're only part black it's really pretty rich though and fun he's 10 ft away you're shooting a point blank keeps getting up with a scrawny ass down here announcing he's off and I'll see he's down Jesus Christ I'm not black either I sort of get something that's stupid it is stupid

Jason

Now this is horrible but still we should sue p Diddy so you getting a group lawsuit together and they don't know about it but the guy took the took a whole bunch of ideas and he's saying it's all these Max and the max are doing worse stuff but this guy is more annoying so go figure we need all the stuff he has I'll tell you what we have to go after him and right now again and a son almost wasn't an accident because of them and we have to go after them and we we have to take them down and Dave was going to drive over him and we're sick of that guy we need to shoot him in the head until he's out

Thor Freya

Olympus

[secretblog1212]

All in Good Humor

BLEASE can I get “You think you’re funny?” with Geralt & Jaskier? -Amazingmsme

Of freaking COURSE! this turned out way longer than I expected it to but like y’know oops. Hope you like it!!!

Okay, so Jaskier should have known that going after Roach would be taking things a bit too far, but he didn’t happen to be thinking of that at the time. No, instead his only thought process was ‘this will get Geralt back for even thinking of touching my lute.’ Roach seemed perfectly content with it as well, so jaskier didn’t quite see what all the problem was, but by the time Geralt had gotten back from fighting some monster on their way to the next town over he had been put in a mood.

Jaskier was tuning his money maker when Geralt walked up to where he had left the two of his companions together less than an hour ago. The crunching of sticks and leaves as he made his way closer had Jaskier barely keeping his grin off his face. He couldn’t wait to see what his Witcher would do. 

The snapping stopped all at once and the air was silent waiting for some response to be had. Geralt walked towards his beautiful steed, patting her nose and bringing his hands up towards her hair which had been braided with forest wildflowers. He hummed at her and she snorted back, pushing herself against his shoulder. 

Now, this is where Jaskier started to think he might have gotten away with it. Geralt seemed to appreciate that Roach approved. At least, that was what he thought until Geralt turned away from his horse and the Witcher and his Bard were face to face. 

Geralt took slow, strong steps to where Jaskier was sitting against a tree. Panic began to boil in Jaskiers belly. Surely Geralt wouldn’t do anything horrible, maybe tell him off for putting Roach in the cross hairs of their games, but no harm no foul right? Those thoughts began to turn more fearful and questioning with every rustle of the leaves beneath Geralt's feet. Perhaps using Roach was a no no he hadn’t thought of before, but he had thought it was a cute idea. She was truly a beautiful horse and deserved to be pampered from time to time. 

Jaskier looked his doom face on as Geralt stood towering over top of him. He’d allow Geralt to make the first move, caution would be needed until he knew how deep he had gotten himself. 

Geralt's voice was gravely, raspy like he got after fighting a good fight. The adrenaline was still pumping its way through his veins. 

“You think you’re funny?” He asked. The question itself showed that although he may not be angry at Jaskier, he wouldn’t let him get away with any of his actions. 

If Jaskier had any sense of self preservation he would have made the smart choice of either apologizing, or switching the conversation to how beautiful Roach looked. But sadly, Jaskier did not have a single cautionary bone in his body. 

“I think I’m quite hilarious actually.”

“Hmm.” 

Jaskier, as he always did, kept going. “Honestly surprised I haven’t started to take up being a comedian yet, perhaps a jester or something if i were to ever settle down?”

“More like a town foul to me.”

With a gasp of shock, more for dramatic effect now than anything, “Why I am offended Geralt! Wh- How dare you call me a foul. A *foul*!”

Geralt just hummed at him again, not even dignifying him with a response, honestly the nerve of some people. 

Jaskier carefully set his lute on the ground, he would need his arms for this performance. “Just because you have a bad sense of humor,” he began as he got himself to his feet, ignoring how Geralt still towered over him. “Does not mean that others would not find my jokes funny. And if you believe so, oh, you are sadly mistaken! You couldn’t make a hyena laugh if you tried you-you always serious big Mr.Tough guy!”

Geralt just tilted his head as if contemplating something. “I have my own methods.”

Jaskier had to laugh at that. “Methods? How, boring people to death till they give you pity laughs?”

That was the wrong thing to say. Geralt wasn’t angry, of course not over some playful dispute, but Jaskier had seen how his eyes shifted from bored and slightly annoyed to playful and observant. He had started a competition he wasn’t ready to handle. 

Geralt set his shoulders back. “Alright. How about we make a deal then Jaskier, if I can make you laugh before we sleep for the day then you will have to complete a request of mine.”

A double edged sword if Jaskier had ever seen one, a deal that he knew he would lose, but what was pride if it didn’t make you make poor decisions in order to prove a point. 

He narrowed his eyes, he was curious as to what Geralt would do anyway so why not.

“Deal.”

Geralt smirked, and then backed away without saying another word. 

“Uhh, hello there?” Jaskier grumpily asked as he followed the taller man. “Are you going to do anything or just give up?”

Geralt looked over his shoulder, then up at the beaming sun in the sky. “Well, since I have all day and night before I need to complete my task I figured I could take my time. I am going to head down to the lake about half a mile to the east to wash up now.”

Jaskier was dumbfounded, although he should have expected Geralt to drag this out as long as he could. Instead he scoffed and crossed his arms as Geralt gathered a set of new clothes to change into. 

He didn’t notice when the Witcher had walked up behind him until he was leaning down with a hand on his waist to whisper in his ear causing goose bumps to crawl across his whole body. 

“Don’t worry, I will put my full focus on you here soon my love.”

To say that Jaskier was on edge was an understatement. After Geralt had left it had taken him almost the full hour he was washing to get the blush to leave his face. What exactly Geralt was playing at Jaskier didn’t know, but it hadn’t made him want to laugh. All it made him want to do was find the nearest hotel. 

When Geralt came back, hair damp and skin washed of the dirt and grime of the past week Jaskier was sure he was trying to seduce him rather than make him laugh. But instead of making a move Geralt just went to go fetch some firewood for the night.

Things continued on in a similar fashion for hours, the taunting actions Geralt showed, well aware that Jaskier couldn’t take his eyes off of him, began to be more than just visually distracting. By the time he was getting ready for bed he had forgotten entirely about their whole little competition. 

    Jaskier was pulled close to Geralt, sitting sideways across his lap by the end of the night. Geralt held him with one hand on his back and the other across Jaskier’s legs, watching as the younger bard began to blush light pink across his cheeks. 

‘Get yourself together,’ Jaskier told himself, ‘He shouldn’t be able to fluster you so easily.’

But the bard's face only gained more color as Geralt began to hum in his ear, teasing him about how perfectly the two seemed to fit together. “My hand fits in your hand, and on your head like ale in a tumbler. And even now you sit in my lap as if it were a chair made specifically for you.” Geralt pulled him in closer.

“Any my hand right here, fits perfectly against your side,” he said, but something was different about his voice. It was lower, but not in the way he spoke to the things he fought. No, it was more like he was imitating a monster himself. 

His voice was a growl, sending shivers from his neck to his toes once his next words finally hit him with the force of a mountain troll.

“Just perfect to make you like, like music to my ears.”

In his defense, Jaskier was much too taken aback to properly respond in time. It was a rude trick, a dirty rotten cheating trick. Although the realization had hit him it was too late to try to escape the Witchers hands and wiggling fingers. 

With a squawk of betrayal he tried to push himself further into Geralt, away from the hand that had snuck around his side to squeeze and poke the squishy meat of his body. 

He was able to bite down the giggles that tried to jump out of his chest, and focus on squirming away from the feeling. Memories of earlier that day came rushing back, of fuck why did he make a bet against a Witcher, Geralt none the less. Was he a fucking idiot, no just a town foul. 

He in his squirming he brought himself to have his back against Geralt's chest, best for rolling over to escape right? Well not so much. Instead it just so happened to give Geralt his whole chest to explore, and freed his other hand up from where it had been holding him from flopping backwards out of reach. He tossed his head back onto Geralt's shoulder as he valiantly fought the losing end of his internal war, laughter was sitting right behind his teeth trying to desperately pry his lips apart. 

“Come on Jask, you know you won’t be able to hold out much longer. If you break now maybe I’ll take it easy on you for insulting my humor.”

Jaskier knew he was asking for it, really, but again his pride decided now would be a good time to take the map out of his hands and go off road. He shook his head, ending with his face pressed firmly into Geralt's neck to hide the fact that he was smiling, although Geralt could have figured that one out himself, and blushing more than a maiden at a bar. 

His hands began to wander away from just his sides, one heading toward his center, poking around at the squishy section of his stomach while the other went off on its own down past his hip and to the top of his thigh. 

The sudden shift was enough to break the seal of his lips with a yell. 

“FUHuhucKIHING Gerahahlt!”

Jaskier felt himself losing control, his leg kicked out and he did his best to curl up in an attempt to get away from the devilish fingers, but Geralt easily just held him back against himself. 

Geralt could have stopped there, he had already won so what was the point in continuing. Oh, right, Geralt liked to watch Jaskier suffer. How could he have forgotten. 

Geralt just held him there, occasionally switching spots to test which ones got different reactions. He made little comments too, just little “Oh your ribs must be a bad place if you tried to fling yourself away that hard.” or “Remind me to go for your knees when you start to act up on Roach next time, that should get you acting right.”. The little things like that, or how he analyzed Jaskiers different laughs that he had depending on where he was being tickled. 

Geralt learned that when he dug into Jaskier’s legs he would cackle and kick out a lot, but if he went for a softer spot like his stomach he would giggle and melt almost immediately. He loved to see how they made him blush too, even without the little comments areas that were softer tended to make the man much more red in the face than just laughing could explain. With one hand tilting his head up, too weak to try to really fight him off, Geralt was able to see how Jaskiers eyes squinted shut, and his face was dusted with a light pink which disappeared below the collar of his undershirt. He looked almost graceful, like a Nymph from some of the older stories Geralt had heard. Innocent and playful as he seemed Jaskier began to peek an eye open through his laughter.

Now that wouldn't do, Geralt didn’t like to be caught looking as hypocritical as that sounded. As quickly as he could recover, which was much too quick for Jaskier to even notice what was going on in the first place, Geralt had found his escape plan. 

“I know I’ve already won, but I know you love a big finish.”

He wedged both of his hands underneath Jaskiers arms and began to press against the top most rib with vigor. The rapid switch caused Jaskier to let out an honest to god snort which Geralt would have to come back to later seeing how Jaskier moved to cover his mouth at the sound rather than to get the hands away from him. 

It only lasted a few seconds, but it was enough to get Jaskier cackling like some witch in a wooden cabin. 

His fingers stilled and Geralt held his huffing Bard against his chest while he caught his breath. Jaskier didn’t try to move away, even after the same person had just attacked him, he knew the threat was over now. Geralt put a hand in his hair and gently rubbed at his scalp, occasionally pulling at the tangles that had found a way into his precious locks. His other hand held onto Jaskiers own, the fingers intertwined. 

Geralt leaned them both back together, Jaskier malleable like dough in his hands. Geralt was preparing to sleep now, Jaskier almost fully dead to the world himself when he heard the faint whispers of his bards voice. “Your humor still sucks though.”

He chuckled deeply from inside his chest. Jaskier might never learn his lesson, but they could always try again tomorrow if he wished to be stubborn.

[oisinwrites]

Aggretsuko Book3 Review

In book three of the series, we are introduced to new character; A flamboyant duck named Karen from ‘’our sister office in Canada’’, who is very into positive energy and adding feng-shui to the office.  She has a big beak and honks a lot.  It is an amusing front cover, with Karen standing on the desk, Retsuko hiding underneath it, and a shower of sticky notes (though this is not exactly what happens in the story).  

Her job is to help the Japanese office improve morale, because the Canadian office is reported to have great morale.  She leaves sticky notes around the office saying what there is not enough of, or what there is too much of.  One particular label, stuck onto a completely blank wall, says ‘’cat poster’’, because there should be something inspirational to decorate the wall, or something funny to brighten up the office.  When Fenneco the fennec fox says ’’It should just be a picture of your face right now, that should keep the office laughing, ha-ha-ha-ha-ha’’ this was itself the funniest line (her face was a freaked-out anime face).  In the Netflix series, she’s always making fun of Retsuko and laughing in a strange, monotonous way, like a robot.  It turns out the Japanese office is like a minefield with red flags all over the place.  It soon becomes full of yellow slips everywhere.

There is quite a culture clash between Japan and Canada.  Karen had first greeted Retsuko by shaking hands (a very vigorous handshake with lots of honking) instead of bowing.  The boss pig, Mr. Ton, also acts differently when Karen is around. He calls Retsuko by her proper name, instead of ‘’Calender’’ ( In the Netflix series, ‘’Calender’’ or ‘’Calender girl’’ becomes her nickname, because 'her days are numbered'!).  He makes her bring the tea to his desk, which she does passive-aggressively, with outward submission while inwardly hating her chauvinistic pig of a boss.  In the Netflix series, he yells ‘’Hey Calender, get the tea, because that’s woman’s work, haw-haw-haw!’’.  This is a more modern version of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony, which is adapted to the modern Japanese workplace, but it still tends to be designated to women. Originally, it would have been a geisha.

With Karen, he puts on what Retsuko calls his ‘’fake smile’’ which he sometimes does in the Netflix series. This is when the boss who’s usually a bully has a massive smile, rosy cheeks, shiny eyes and says corny things like ‘’great job, teamwork makes a dream work’’. The workers are always so freaked out by him being nice that they just can’t deal with it. In this comic, Retsuko has her own look that is a reaction to the bosses ‘’fake smile’’ look, and that is the typical anime tear-floods with open-hanging mouth. After that, they go out to lunch at a ramen-bar, where they open up about the different workplace cultures.

It seems there are a lot of things Japanese workers put up with that workers in western cultures take action against. They have the same problems,  but different solutions. Karen does  say it to them there that the stoical attitude that office life is what it is will be very unhelpful. Retsuko thinks (not out loud) that Karen is a bit stupid and doesn’t get how the world works because making change happen won’t be ‘’that simple’’. Haida the hyena does say out loud ‘’ we just don’t see the point of making a fuss out of nothing’’. Here, it is interesting to see in a Japanese cartoon how japan is criticising itself. It is also interesting to see how well it represents what in japan would be called a ‘’gaijin’’ or ‘’outsider’’. for a country known to be very isolated, they have quite an impressive understanding of western cultures.

The whole Aggretsuko anime was revealing much of the oppressive Japanese work culture and how a society where being reserved is important means there is unhealthy pent-up hate. There is one, even if only one, reference to KAROSHI (death from over-working, so common it has a name) in the Netflix series. Apart from the karoshi, you don’t necessarily  have to be Japanese to relate, and it’s a bit like the western DILBERT cartoons. This is the first time, though, that it’s gone this in-depth. Later, Karen and Retsuko go down to the karaoke bar where they open up even more about workplace tyranny, especially towards women. Karen is more used to the kind of karaoke that is in pubs and bars where ‘’everyone can see you humiliate yourself’’. This is a downtown karaoke bar where it’s a more private sort place. It’s more like a hotel where you book a room and are tended to by staff.

Karen was also in a death metal rock band that did public gigs. She tells her story of a bad boss just like Mr. Ton who, after a long battle, they finally got him fired. When Karen asks Retsuko a deep and personal question about whether she’s ‘’angry with’’ her, she says to ‘’please be direct’’. Understanding that she’s meant to be honest, Retsuko explains that she’s not exactly angry parse, but she’s not used to Karen’s approach. This new approach that Retsuko’s not used to is what she finds tiring. Karen apologises and promises that now on she will think twice before ‘’jumping in’’ where she ‘’doesn’t belong’’. Karen also says that it makes her angry to see another worker suffering a ‘’similar kind of tyranny’’. So the two of them select a piece of death metal and sing together, both completely changing their faces. ‘’rotten bosses keep talking down to and belittling me’’ ‘’your fake smile is just a deadly trap’’ ‘’free us from this unending torment’’.

The next day, as Karen and Retsuko bow  to each other, it is time for Karen to leave, but not without leaving an impact, especially on Retsuko. She has been given new hope and hope has given her strength. She will be a ‘’good girl’’ for the time being and put up with corporate bullying, but wait for the day of justice. The yellow slip on her computer says ‘’believe you can do it’’.

[askauradonprep]

Do you have any headcanons for Isle culture? Like food and music and dance and clothing and stuff

You have made me SO HAPPY with this ask because yes, always.

- Okay, so I’ve already talked about how you stay as far away from sick people as you can. Getting sick SUCKS and there’s never a guarantee of survival. People generally stay out of arm’s length from sick people unless the person is dying and they still have business to settle (or you’re giving a mercy kill). 

- EVERYBODY stays inside or finds shelter during full moons, especially during Witches’ Sabbaths. On full moons, Barbossa and his crew like to ransack the Isle - they’ll harass children, beat older teen and adult men and force women to eat with them. They’re creepy as heck. And on Witches’ Sabbaths, Chernabog sends his ghouls away from Bald Mountain where they dance to torment people. 

- Related to point one - when someone is pregnant, you don’t say ‘congratulations’. You say ‘good luck’, typically sarcastically. And babies don’t ‘count’ unless they survive a year. 

- Fashion wise, as with everything else, you take what you can get. But admittedly, people tend to emulate the more influential people in their area - a sort of ‘top down’ type trend (which, I’m told, is typically how fashion works - people tend to emulate influential people and so their looks trickle down to street trends eventually). In this case, the influential people are powerful villains like Maleficent, Cruella, Mother Gothel, Ursula, Hook, Gaston, Facilier, Jafar, etc.

- It’s really really hard to throw away food. Almost all food is rotten or mouldy or will soon expire and turn that way. For that reason, very few things get thrown out. If you can choke it down and keep it down, you can eat it. Also, while several restaurants might claim a cuisine (like Hades claims his restaurant serves Greek and Shan-Yu says his is ‘pan-Asian’) everyone knows it’s the same slop as everyone else. It’s the closest they have to cuisines though, so they just go with it. One popular food that isn’t common in Auradon is bone soup. Basically you take the bones from whatever meat or seafood are around and boil them until they’re soup stock. Pretty much everybody on the Isle can make this. I imagine occasionally the VKs just want bone soup in Auradon. 

- Related note: It’s not uncommon for their to be riots when supplies run out or run low, especially after a disaster. Food riots and water riots aren’t uncommon.

- Clean water is very very rare and typically only in leftover, unsold water bottles (which is unhealthy because of leeching). So, because of that, pretty much nobody uses baby formula. Anything in the dirty water can contaminate formula and make infants sick and kill them. They don’t have the immune systems teens and adults have when they drink coffee or tea. So, formula is pretty much the one food item that always automatically goes in the garbage.

- There’s really no such concept as a drinking age. Alcohol is typically cleaner than water. So if you can find it, you can drink it. 

- There are some people you just don’t mess with. Chernabog, the God of the Night and Evil, for one. The Firebird for another because you will DIE if you wake it up and it burns down the town. And outsiders should always steer clear of the Hun compound. As a security measure, outsiders are only allowed in if A) They’re invited inside or B) A member of the Hun compound will vouch for them that they aren’t there to mess everything up. Because that’s rarely a promise they can keep, most of the time a Hun will NOT vouch for an outsider. You also really shouldn’t mess with Sykes because he’s mob. He knows how to take advantage on the Isle. Another place typically avoided is the Queen of Hearts’ castle. It’s surrounded by a ‘forest’ of pikes decorated with severed heads. And if she finds you in her forest without a valid reason or you anger her at her salon, you might just join them after a brief stint as a mannequin. 

- They don’t have a radio station, so any music played over the radio is from Auradon. As is most of their media tbh. Local acts like The Bad Apples and the Sea Witches are pretty much the only non-Auradon music.

- There’s very very little money. Most people will steal or dine and dash (or the equivalent). You have to force people to pay. And usually a lot of the money they have is kicked up to whoever owns the territory as part of a protection racket. If you can’t steal something, you can try paying in goods or services. You could also just break it. If I can’t have it, nobody can is a perfectly valid principle. 

- Most art forms like drawing, dancing, etc. are very unstructured and ‘go with what you want’. People usually do what they want anyways, so why should arts be different?

- People don’t say things like ‘thank you’, ‘excuse me’ or ‘please’ and especially not ‘sorry’ unless they’re either being sarcastic or they’re someone’s henchperson. They’ll say or do things like nod in acknowledgement, ‘I’m glad you did that’, ‘I like that’ instead of thank you, ‘Move’, ‘back off’ instead of excuse me, or instead of please they’ll say ‘now’ or try to cajole someone into it. The best you can hope for instead of an apology is an admission that the other person shouldn’t have done something. ALSO nobody ever ever ever says ‘I owe you one’. They say, for example, ‘I owe you one meal’ or something like that. They’ll be very specific about WHAT they owe. If they just say ‘one’ then the other person can and probably will exploit that for an unpleasant favour later like cleaning muck out. Sykes told Uma once that ‘he owed her one’ and immediately realized his mistake - not quickly enough to stop Uma from demanding he stop harassing one of her crew. 

- Typically, you don’t stand up for someone on your crew or your family because you love them. You stand up for them because by not doing so, people get the idea they can mess with you by messing with your people. Doing so because they’re your people and you don’t want them to be messed with is less of a gang thing and more of a ‘crew’ thing. Most crews, like pirate crews, have learned to work together or die (or suffer serious pain). So they work together because crew is crew. It’s a little liberating. 

- Most people will fight with swords, knives, shivs, clubs, whatever they can get their hands on. There’s very few guns and the ones that are around are DANGEROUS. Nobody messes with Captain Hook because he’s a crack shot and he WILL fire at you.

- People like Maleficent, Hans, Grimhilde, Lord Beckett, Scar, etc. who insist on using their titles are usually listened to while they’re around to avoid a hassle, but as soon as they leave, pretty much everyone ignores those titles and rolls their eyes. Nobody is royalty anymore, you lost, get over it and suck it up, everyone else has to.

- There aren’t really many holidays everyone celebrates - everyone kinda does their own thing if they want. Honestly, I don’t think many of the villains are very religious. Frollo constantly holds services and tries to get people to come but few, if any, ever do. A couple stand outs though are Halloween (without the candy), Friday the 13th, and birthdays.

- If ‘dating’ is typically in gang activity, marriage is certainly very rare. Sure, a bunch of people who came to the Isle were already married like some of the pirates, but there’s only a handful of people who got married on the Isle. Gaston is one of them. You can go to whatever royal or noble or even Frollo and get them to sign a piece of paper if you want to, but most people who get married just hole up in their shelter together and start calling the other their spouse.

- The original villains have alliances, rivalries and such too. And yes, sometimes they’ll have ‘friends’ for lack of a better word, over for drinks or an anniversary or just to complain about Auradon. Hey, villains get bored too, you know. 

- Nobody on the Isle ever asks how someone got hurt. Odds are you won’t like the answer. Especially if they’re a kid. Most people have scars. 

- EVERYBODY born on the Isle has nightmares. They’re on a death trap surrounded by people who would love to kill them, don’t tell me they don’t. The originals probably do too but they tend to be better at hiding it and comfort themselves by knowing they also CAUSE nightmares. 

- There are, in fact, cars on the Isle. Not many, but they exist. Cruella has her’s and I’m gonna say so does Sykes.

- Avoid the animals. It doesn’t matter which animal. Animals that aren’t dangerous don’t get sent to the Isle. Killer sharks, crocodiles, that octopus that ripped apart Hook’s ship, angry dogs, mean cats, lions, a tiger, a jaguar, hyenas, etc. It’s a wonder more people aren’t killed by rabies.

- There’s only one settlement and it’s a shanty town. At this point, it’s pretty hard not to know everybody (especially since people keep coming from Auradon to see who among the people sent there are still alive). Word travels quickly. Again, even villains get bored. Gossip and rumour mongering are a popular way to pass the time, especially among some of the moms. 

[pigeonacademic]

So because I got blocked:

@rooby-the-rapscallion @diaroon @saiyanhero 

yall sound so embarassing like ur fucking twelve bye

That's ironic..I'm not the one threatening to beat up people because of cosplay :) That is something bratty entitled children would say, you know, people like you.   You're not much, you know, in terms of maturity. I mean from the moment you opened your mouth (figuratively of course since we type on keyboards) I actually thought you were actually twelve or thirteen, you know, 'just out of elementary school'.

if you took maybe ten fucking seconds to google, you would get multiple articles about the subject of hiw disney has coded their villains to sound and act stereotypically gay: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-number-of-gay-animated-villains-will-surprise-you-456 http://colorwebmag.com/2015/05/21/queer-coding-scar-the-lion-king/

You do realize FAN THEORIES do not mean canon, right? Being dramatic does NOT equal LGBT, even if people like you love to drum up that stereotype.  I mean, you're pretty dramatic for a fifteen year old, even you dear beloved Scar would tell you to tone it down. I read the articles, and honestly, they're just pure bullshittery. I mean, I love to theorize about other characters and all, but talk about reaching for the stars.

For starters, the first part is all about how Scar LOOKS.

HOW HE LOOKS. I mean, Scar is a VILLAIN. What do the majority of Disney's villains look like? Tall, angular, sharp and exaggerated features and a certain 'evil' color scheme, you know, purples, greens, darker colors.

You know what else Disney Villains are known for? EXAGGERATION and being overly dramatic. I mean, its the main reason why everyone loves Disney Villains, because which would you rather prefer, cookie-cutter 'play-it-safe' princes and princesses, or "I'M READY TO SHAKE THINGS UP SO WATCH OUT' villains? Which holds your attention longer? Who's songs do you remember better if they get any? That's right, the villains.

Villains are supposed to be striking characters you won't forget about, so yes they're pretty dramatic assholes, and what the hell does this person mean by 'campy performance'? I mean, if its because Scar was SO DRAMATIC in his musical number (and the fact that he has a British accent, because the Brits make good villains) then I guess that damn near every other character song from ANY Disney movie can be considered so, because a lot of them are also dramatic in terms of how the character sings or if they're dancing or doing weird shit, like Quasimodo practically risking life and limb for a dramatic sequence of sliding down that gargoyle spout for "Out There", and in the same movie, Clopin's "Court of Miracles" song, the scene and his way of singing makes that perfectly clear. If you want any sort of 'queer coding' in the Lion King, then yes, Timon is a good example (AND NOT BECAUSE OF HIS VOICE ACTOR. Honestly, that would ALSO mean that gay characters played by straight actors would make those characters straight when they're obviously not) You want to know what makes Timon queer-coded? He's raising a kid (cub) with another male, they're a family. As for the dressed-in-drag, that doesn't make any sense. I mean, if people are going to use that as a queer-coded stereotype, then I guess that the three guys from Mulan (Who expressed interest in women through song and the sequel has them happily marrying three girls) are also queer-coded. I mean, they were more done up than Timon was, makeup and all, as well as flirty behavior with the guards. (Timon just sang and danced, it was nothing more than a distraction tactic-just like how he "proposed" to the female hyena to buy his friends more time. Distraction techniques.)

@saiyanhero​

oh no yeah its okay, irs not like minorites have been treated like fucking shit all their lives and are reduced to terrible characters thatre evil in media

I never said they were never treated badly. In fact I specifically said that yes, they were treated like shit in the past, BUT YOU should NOT deny that there hasn't been a slew of LGBT POSITIVE shows that are popping up everywhere, and I do mean everywhere. Speaking of minorites, yeah, I understand the feel because guess who's also one? Me. -Mother is Native American, Dad's half, so wouldn't that make me mixed? I'm pretty sure we're a minority (even the ones who are 'too pale' to pass. We exist you know) -I have ASD, a mental condition. -Consider this my offical coming out: I'm bisexual. You know, LGBT? A minority?

So yes, I am well aware how we're treated in the media :) But lucky for us, there's more and more LGBT-positive shows, as well as racially diverse and even inclusion of people with conditions! Also, in case you've forgotten, most shows who have even the slightest hint of any phobic behavior immediately gets called out for it. You're acting as if we're in the 90s with majorly homophobic/racist/abliest media all around us, and you're purposely ignoring all the shows that are LGBT positive.

Face it,we're not getting reduced to 'terrible characters' in media JUST for our sexuality/race/condition anymore. You need to face the fact that we're not special unicorns who get a free-pass from everything, and just because we're not a majority doesn't mean we don't get treated like EVERYONE ELSE. You want equality, right? Then guess what, LGBT and other minorities being treated as EQUALS in media (yes, including the 'bad' roles) counts and should not be criticized upon, because we got what we've been fighting for.

. have you not watched movies? or anything before?

That's funny because its obvious that you're watching whatever is in your grandparents' VCR collection. You see, Tumblr ALWAYS posts about new shit coming up, and yes, I'll check them out because I'm a junkie for media-related things. I'm getting into animation (pretty sure I'm better than what you can do) and also live-action things, because hey, why not? I have watched so many things that treat LGBT like normal that I'm genuinely surprised when a show DOESN'T have it. I mean, even KID TV CHANNELS are incorporating LGBT into their shows. And its not like any of these shows are off the grid and only discovered via Tumblr, these shows are super popular offline too! Example: Steven Universe. You have to be shitting my nonexistent dick to tell me that's not a LGBT positive show. The question is, HAVE YOU been watching anything?

because people who arent white are constantly giving the ‘thug’ role or evil dude or shifty thief role, because we all know those dirty minorites steal!

Okay, since you started with Disney, let's also start with Disney:

-The Shadow Man from Princess and the Frog: 

He is a villain yes-a African American villain who was up against African American protagonists.

-Shan Yu from Mulan is undoubtly of Asian descent (even though WHICH Asian ethnicity he is, I don't know) 

Also fights Mulan and Shang-you know, Chinese and not white-

I don’t think there are any other nonwhite villains in Disney, but you bet your kaboodle that the ones we have so far have not been pitted against white people.

(Unless you’re the kind of person who does the whole ‘race coding’ thing with animals, in that case just look at where their species originate from.)

Moving on to live-action wise: My goodness, you clearly have never ever watched anything in your life, at least not things that are from the past ten years. Here you go:

-Moonlight

-K.C Undercover (TV show)

-Fresh Prince of Bel Air (TV Show) -Brokeback Mountain -Malcom X -Remember the Titans

-Get Out (Surprised this one isn’t your favorite) -The Men In Black series

-The Ringer -The new Power Rangers movie (This one has LGBT, nonwhite AND mental condition representation as part of the main cast!) -Degrassey (TV show)

-Orange is the new Black (TV show)

-the new Ghostbusters -The Danish Girl -Grandma (2015) -Tangerine -Bessie -I am Michael -Boy meets Girl (Before you judge the title, there's a transgender woman.) -Girlhood

I could go on and on about this.

Newsflash: Every damn race, white included has played those roles, being a crook and bad person is NOT race exclusive, and goodness, especially the ‘evil guy’ part, I haven’t seen a movie that had a nonwhite villain against white protagonists in a loooong time. Do you honestly think people would risk it, considering how people like you throw the term ‘racist’ around casually at anything that displeases you?

like…id rather have legit every non white character be perfect and pure than to have yet again characters thatll be demonized by white fans lel

Nah, you just want special treatment, that's all. First of all, perfect and pure characters are not only boring (which means forced conflict with another person, especially in those 2000s high school movies where the protagonist, no matter the race is so utterly PERFECT that there's forced conflict between them and the School's Bitch) but have you considered that OTHER nonwhite fans LOVE these characters??

"demonized by white fans" LMAO bitch where?! I have actually never seen a white person on here demonize a nonwhite villain or anyone of the like. Ever. (Unless by 'demonize' you mean criticizing their CHARACTER and their BEHAVIOR, which is NOT race related. What, are you pissed Rotten Tomatoes' gave a bad score for your favorite movies?) You're forgetting there's a shit ton of nonwhite fans who are just as hungry for diverse characters (and by diverse I mean their roles and their personalities, aka them being HUMAN) and don't want perfect nonwhite characters.

Oh, and let's not forget practically every other animated show-ranging from Steven Universe to Samurai Jack, you can't deny that those are growing more popular too and are abundant. Also, (and this should be good news for you, but apparently you hate this sort of news) since a lot of these shows are also watched by kids, they're being shown not only LGBT is normal (Steven Universe, and if I think its heading to where I think its heading, Star vs. The Forces of Evil) its also very racially diverse. Then again, you wouldn't have anything to bitch about would you?

mmkay you fucking cunt i took kickboxing for six fucking years of my life yoi really wanna say im a pussy?

Since you've taken the liberty to start awful, awful namecalling, I guess now its free game! WOOHOO! Also, yes, you're a damn pussy. Kickboxing? Really?

Yeah, you may have spent six years doing that, but guess who grew up with family who was in the military? You don't think they'd let their poor little darling Piper venture out into the world without a few tricks up her sleeve, hm?

You have no idea how many times I got suspended for getting in fights and winning. Also, you're FIFTEEN, I bet you're smaller than me, so even then I can take you down just by sitting on you.

Anyways, I've been taught self defense and don't think I'll go easy on you for being younger. I also fight differently-I'm not sure what to call it, but its more or less a mix-mash of Beat Em Up style.

Let me tell you a little story: -Ninth and Tenth grade, I was the fucking Queen of gym class. Even the people who liked to fuck with me didn't dare do anything there, because you know why?

Our gym teacher was SUPER lenient with violence, as long as it was happening where he could monitor us. You know what that means? That's right, as long as we didn't knock out any teeth or put someone in the hospital, it was a free-for-all during sports. Our gym uniform shirts came in two colors: white-grey and yellow, and because I went absolutely ham on these fuckers, I ended up getting my yellow shirt bloodstained. Some of it was my blood, some of it was theirs, and I was almost always the victor. The funny part was since I couldn't afford to buy a new gym shirt, I had to go both years with a bloodied up shirt, and may whatever higher power have mercy on them if we were doing a sport that had equipment with it. I LOVED gym class, for the sole reason I could beat the shit out of the people who bullied me (and anyone who tried to) and not get in trouble. Sadly it wasn't like that outside of class (Where even shouting at someone can get you a detention) so I almost never skipped gym.

So yeah, I'm still sure I can beat your dinkey-donkey ass.

you fucking come to me and we will see who the fucking pussy is. i beat someone up once and ill certainly do it again lmao

Pretty sure you're still the pussy, lmao, and who did you beat up, your four-year-old baby sister? I mean, its the only way you'll ever win a fight-

. im an east coaster, name the time and place and ill fucking be there

I seriously doubt YOU will, lmao because you blocked me. (And because you're a pussy who won't be able to make it there because your parents will have to drive you) If by some chance you see this and really want to prove you're not a pussy, I'm actually interested. You clearly want to make this bloody and I've been itching for a fight! In fact, why not message me? We're obviously going to have some rules of course: -No friends, no parents, no anyone except us. (Considering you're fifteen I seriously doubt you'll be able to go anywhere on your own) -Obviously no going to the police once I beat your donkey-whomping ass. Otherwise, I'll just have to show them that YOU wanted this! -No sending anyone else in your place, it has to be you.

Seriously, if you truly want to fight me and you're not a pussy, then let's fight.

why the fuck are you even giving me ur life story i dont need to know you dumbass made up story lel

Only a true animal-fucking cunt would call another person's actual life 'made up'. You know what, that just gave me even more reason to pound your face into the concrete ^u^ Also, I'm telling you this because at least I have some proof that I'm not a pussy. What about you? You got nothing to say. ALSO BY YOUR OWN DUMBASS LOGIC- -That means you haven't taken kickboxing at all, have you? I actually think you don't even know how to kickbox. -You haven't been sexually abused at all. You made it up for pity. -You go by he/him /she/her pronouns, not them/they. -You're an actual anti-SJW. -That means that whatever you deny yourself as, THEN YOU ARE IT. Because after all if you think I'm making this shit up, then hey, that means you are too! (Even better if you actually ARE making shit up because you're the kind of person to pull that, lmao)

I can’t wait to fight. I’m going to bring this whole debacle down on your head, and it’s going to be biblical.

yes! i will beat up people who like media that fetishizes rape and fucking assault against gay people lmao.

Then I guess everyone should beat your fucking ass into goo for liking media that promotes violence and murder :))))))

Seriously though, KS does NOT fetishize that. Even the damn author made it clear that it wasn't a 'yaoi' or anything close to that. ITS A HORROR MANWA, its not gonna be sunshine and rainbows. "Assault against gay people" As if. How does it do so?? Because Yoonbum and that one man are Sangwoo's victims? Sangwoo's obviously LGBT too, so I guess he's promoting assaulting people like him?? Or are you pretending in that little fantasy world of yours that it will encourage people to beat up LGBTs, and you know damn well it doesn't and it won't??

FICTION IS NOT REALITY, you dung beetle.

sorry all us sexual assault survivors arent the same person lmao?

Get that through your skull. Damn, your head's thicker than a Kardashian's ass.

dont care if you can seperate it from fiction, because 1. there are people that cant seperate it at all and 2. ITS ABOUT RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT.

IT GLORIFIES SEXAUL ASSAULT AND RAPE AND MAKES IT OUT LIKE ITS HOT. THATS NOT FUCKING OKAY.

Among the people that don't separate fiction from reality, is you. (Seriously, you like a violent dude who beats people up AND NOW YOU WANT TO BEAT PEOPLE UP :)))) ) Also, YOU CAN'T BE A FAN OF DEADPOOL THEN AND YOU DESERVE AN ASS BEATING FOR LIKING IT BECAUSE IT INSPIRES PEOPLE TO KILL OTHERS AND BEAT THEM UP AND ALL THAT SHIT!! See how fucking loony you sound? if you scream "NUUUUU" because of the Deadpool thing, and still wholeheartedly agree with hurting others for liking KS, then you're not only a damn dirty mother-banging father-sucking uncle-fondling cousin-molesting hypocrite, but you actually do deserve to have your nose broken for exhibiting fascist behavior. In short, you're a goddamn Nazi.

Also, KS does NOT glorify sexual assault and rape, it clearly shows it as an awful traumatizing thing that fucks people up mentally, and believe it or not, as far as showing how abusive relationships work, its pretty damn accurate according to the MAJORITY of people who've experienced it. Hm, the majority against the minority..now does that only matter when it applies to something you like? Because realistically, it doesn't. I guess Deadpool glorifies murder and other shit then :))))) which means you can't be a fan of it and you deserve to be hurt for liking it :):):):):):)

Also, as someone who has a mental condition and has had this thrown at me, I shall call you retarded. KOOGI has already said that KS is NOT a yaoi, ITS NOT MEANT TO BE HOT. Just because YOU get aroused when looking at the images doesn't make it a BL. If you BOTHERED to actually read it through, you'll see its a damn horror/thriller type.

Also you wanting to beat the shit out of people DOES NOT MAKE IT OKAY EITHER. ITS NOT OKAY!!

like are you fucking proud of being a fan? god, i wonder how those conversations go ‘oh hey, whats ur fav thing right now?’ 'oh, killing stalking!’ 'really? whats it about?’ 'oh! this dude kidnaps another man and then rapes him and assaults him whenever! its so cool!’ ’…dont fucking talk to me ever again’

Yes: I'M PROUD TO BE A KILLING STALKING FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also are you proud of being a fan of something that is just as fucking violent and shows an LGBT character as a murderous loony, and he does it because he LOVES his job which makes him out to be even worse because it shows that *gasp* LGBT can make their own choice to be evil if they want to?

And actually, THOSE conversations go like THIS:

"Oh hey, what's your favorite thing right now?""Killing Stalking.""Really? What's it about?" "It's a horror manhwa that deals with a murderer and a stalker. The stalker is infatuated with the murderer and breaks into his house, in which the murderer keeps him kidnapped after smashing his ankles, and there's this detective guy trying to figure things out and he has a hunch it has something to do with the murderer. I won't spoil too much of it for you, but the series can be triggering for people and it's features rape, and obviously violence. Oh, and uncensored tits. A lot of people think its a yaoi, but the author of it confirmed it wasn't, and it's more or less a horror/thriller. If you want to read it I can show you the website."And then it goes either two ways from there: "Sure, what's the website?" or "No thanks, but it sounds okay."Not everyone turns down KS like how they turn down your offers to show them animal porn.

so yeah killing stalking is shit and ill happily beat the shit out of anyone who likes it theyre free to come to the east coast for their free ass kicking 😊

Deadpool is shit, and I'll happily beat the shit out of people like you who are wimpy ass pussy motherfuckers who think its okay to beat up people for liking fiction and since you're so willing to actually harm real living people over pixels, then I'll happily meet up with you and rerrange your face via a rough concrete and fist massage. ^U^

BONUS FROM YOUR PAL: “Who am I?I am motherfucking Piper “The Viper” Mmccloud” Pull the trigger piglet jfc. If this doesn’t become a new meme I’ll be soo disappointed.

Killing Stalking is fucking nasty, I’ve never met a fan of it who wasn’t some creepy yaoi fan.

Says the marshmallow machine gun.  What, is it so wrong for me to use a nickname that a friend of mine gave me because this isn't the first time I blew fuckers like you out of the water? Also, Marshmallow, I AM a meme. (Seriously, just ask anyone who's been here with me since 2015) I ran afoul of two very popular blogs, and I'm now known as a meme on the both of their pages. Hilariously, they're even still circulating those three year old posts to where I still see them from time to time AND I get anons about them. You know what else is nasty?

How you and your sticky little friend can't sepparate fiction from reality at all and then assume other people are just as loony and unhinged as you are, and how you're so willing to beat the shit out of people for enjoying fiction, you're actually acting like Nazis, and since you so willingly advocate harm against people who like FICTION then your ass  is grass and guess who's gonna mow it? (Spoiler: Damn near everyone with common sense) Don't act like you're not a fan of some sick shit too, lmao.

Oh, which website have you been hanging out on? The Desperate Housewives of Facebook? Ten-Year-Olds -With-Internet-Access on Q? I surf the tags frequently, so unless these so-called 'Yaoi fangirls' tag their posts with "fetish", then I am very surprised I haven't seen a lot of these. The only "Yaoi fangirl" post I came across that absolutely fetishized their relationship (and no, calling a character cute or my baby isn't fetishizing since its not about their sexuality or relationship :) ) was-surprise surprise, a fifteen year old, who immediately got her ass derailed by other KS fans. We get rid of our weak, it's easy and simple. Most of them don't have the brainpower to realize that fetishizing relationships is a bad thing, let alone one where its an abusive one.

OR are YOU a Yaoi fangirl who is just covering her own ass? I mean, looking at your blog you seem the type to fetishize gay male relationships.

Go ahead and claim that neither of you will be embarrassed once you get older, go ahead and say it as many times as you'd like but you best believe I'm getting the last laugh.

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Chapter 5 - Ludbeck to Phinora

Siggy hates sand, Quan miscalculates and some people are worried after seeing their lord part with his son, so they talk to their friends. TFW you die because of game mechanics, RIP Quan!

the barbarian gang is here! And he isn’t in the way Jamke, it’s not because you can mop up the arena reliably that everyone can do the same. Ask Midir.

Maybe he matured or grew up seeing so many people die ? no, of course not.

Everyone’s feeling dreadful. The BGM isn’t helping.

because you saw the kids run away, like idk, birds run away from a danger when they can?

Daw! Verdanite solidarity

i know it wasn’t meant like that but the comparison with animals sensing danger isn’t that far off, maybe the devs wanted to make us believe Dew was more in touch with “nature” because he is special, or because he is a verdanite? not cool.

he got hit at 19% and a lot of people reblogged and laughed at his misfortune how can he be happy?

oh i nearly forgot him it’s not like we were close anyways - but i still tried to kill him

Oh at least you have some feelings. Unlike some sisters who murdered their douche bro i suppose

Yep, he deserved it. I bet Lex’d really get along with Bridget. Why are so afraid of your brother Azel?

again Arvis is called “decent”. Compared to the ones of Langbalt and Dannan he sure is, or pretends to be! I think the old translation was weird on this point and implied Azel might have known Viccy when it’s impossible.

Arvis is bipolar? Or sometimes he stops pretending being a decent fellow?

bleh, actually he wasn’t at home, he was in Barhara. But yeah, the thing is here. Funny how Lex can finish Azel’s sentences, they are really close!

you know that short convo is better than some supports i’ve read recently

It’s QUAN!!! Rumours sure are circulating quickly in this Jugdral continent or, again, between Quan and Ludbeck castle being seized, some months happened.

gentlemen - i understand there are no mounted archers like Selfina and i’m sure it won’t bite you in the rear right

more later than sooner, because lol!sand

Ethlyn! Again you’re having some meaningul, dreadful convo. Yes you were dragged into this and dragged your husband too, but your dad never thought about you.

Damn that Calf again a king is ill and he sends a lot of soldiers away - but he’s a badass so he is forgiven, unlike our good pal Azmur.

Well... Granvalle would have extended its Raj to Manster anyways, and the Freeges will actually sit on your throne for some decades.

Well it actually is. They have the best strategist ever on their side after all!

Fighting abroad for a just cause... It has merits, but Quan also has some duty of assisstance to Chalphy because his wife was a Chalphy. Marriage means alliances.

want to take a bet?

Yes, any help. Especially a mounted healer like you and since the Axe crusader died Quan can fight now.

ETHLYN NO

Hey - what about our mounted healer?? Siggy needs her, Raquie’s the only one otherwise (because i forgot to give a staff to Erin)

So Altena’s 3! And how can she be sleeping while Ethlyn’s riding? It’s uncomfortable!

What indeed?

second bet?

you had some sense at one point, but you lost it. Why?

oh. a child crying is a very irritating sound indeed. it totally justifies - wait no.

Oh, Leif exists! Who wants to play WTF is a timeline? or maybe he was 15 and 11 months in FE5′s first chapter!

Finn is such a reliable soldier, he can defend the capital and the Lady Ethlyn on his own!

the last person who said something like that is suddenly married to her brother you don’t want that do you Ethlyn?

Quan just can’t say no to Ethlyn’s puppy eyes!

at this point, even if Ethlyn listened to Quan and backtracked, she’d be killed by Travant so it was a die-die situation. Is it a mistake to take a woman with you on the battlefield? There are no women fighting in Thracia? And what is Eda then, a bench warmer? Or maybe Travant decided to allow women to become soldiers when Altena enrolled.

OH NO HE IS USING TERRAIN ADVANTAGE TRAVANT YOU DASTARD - it’s like killing someone who’s sitting in the privy!

YOU WISH - Finn and Glade and Leif’s ragtag army are the Lanzenritter 2.0!

Your plan would have worked, if Arvis didn’t backstab you. Dastard vs Dastard.

yes we are serious what you expect a game with pies and peeping toms?

dismount you’ll be faster! “how do i dismount we don’t know this technology as of yet!” “crap”

wild hyenas? Even if your last moments you’re racist Quan! Never change.

and you’re only saying this NOW???

i thought they’d attack my castle and die like the usual monday night!

this was actually quite clever from Travant&co, attacking Quan means destroying the guy who wields the Gae Bolg, and since Calf is old (?) Travant could have waited 5 years to attack the now defenseless Leonster. But sadly, Travant’s master plan will be later revealed to have been a part of the Sect.

GRAVE MISCALCULATION YOU MEAN

don’t forget the power of love crits - but dual gard doesn’t exist :’(

meanwhile - Reptor is shiting in his pants. If he had Langbalt’s leash, then Arvis has his?

the true mastermind is revealed!

haha, you think Velthomers respect their promises? BIG MISTAKE REPTOR

baseless - well one of your Crusader died to a peon, so i wouldn’t call that baseless.

what, they’re like those modern SWAT/commandos units, hiding under sand coloured blanket ready to Meteor randoms from afar?

and here Travant’s master idea is actually revealed to have been Arvis’ master idea. I doubt Arvis told him to attack Quan&co precisely, but he hired them to cross that stupid desert, so Quan or no Quan they’d have been here anyways. Was it just a coincidence that Quan happened to cross the desert at that time? Only FE5 will tell.

so long as they cooperate^^ Reptor doesn’t want to become the king anymore, Arvis beat him at his own game. GG Arvis.

oh he won’t forget them don’t worry about that

HAHA - you won’t have Agustria but Manster and hm, A FORMER MERCHANT REPUBLIC

you honoured the Dozel’s rights to these territories but shat on the Freeges. Freege-Velthomer relations are always kind of complicated.

hey it’s manfroy! I haven’t seen you in a long time!

Pissed but still arrogant!Arvis is the best Arvis. What, Manfroy should wear a mask?

This is wonderful - especially compared to the 2ng gen. How the mighty will fall!

Roh. if he does that he dies (or at least he thinks so) and you’re not the only guys he’s hiding.

HEY DON’T CALL THEM BUFFONS BUFFON YOURSELF AT LEAST THEY TRIED TO GET RID OF THE BROKEN WEAPON WHEN YOU WILL FAIL TO KILL JULIA OKAY?

Arvis’ discourse. Hear him well.

sadly your opinion doesn’t matter.

he will remember - when you’ll be dead he’ll tell Julius not to be sad because you’d have turned on them at one point or another.

There’s the blood of my esteemed Father, Victor?

poor Maira, he fought for a just cause but is still remembered as a dirty Loptyrian by the masses.

one true heir - Saias who? - I don’t think it was explained in side materials but why is Vala Loptyr’s sworn enemy? 

But to create this world you’ll oppress randoms and be a tyrant?

Manfroy sees right through his bullshit. Arvis wants to create his perfect world, but if can kill two birds with a stone, he’ll use that damn stone.

Arvis is aware - or has doubts - about Deedee’s past life. Or past husband at least.

it’s not like using capslock makes you more convincing your know? If you need to shout it then maybe it’s not truly the case? at least from Deedee’s pov, which is, per side materials, the reason why she’ll come just before the fireworks.

EVEN MANFROY SUPPORTS THE IDEA OF JULIA BECOMING A KING

is it some sort of foreshadowing who wants to be welcomed with meteors??

“gladly”

how has that guy managed to be here? The Rotten Ritter’s training regimen includes a climbing module? no wonder why Azel ran away

no you didn’t i didn’t screencap it. Ayra won’t abandon people at such a crucial hour because Isaachian repays their debts.

you remember this Siggy? and why should shanan be protected, no one wants to kill him in Isaach, right? 

he is 15 he is old enough to fight. I talked about this with that Leonster knight and he said 15 is a good age to fight.

“oh come on, Dew’s pretty young too!” Yeah you’ll return Ayra. in your dreams!

Ayra isn’t a soldier but she became Siggy’s friend. she’s changed from Verdane!

But what about Siggy’s BFF?

OH NO he has the plot hax band! You can’t win this one Quan! Unless you proc a lover crit!

NOOO LEONSTER’S BANE - that’s it everyone’s dead.

Even if they have horselayers!

well it failed. RIP Ethlyn! (note how she doesn’t mention Leif in her dying breath and that’s mean - Leif’s true mom is Eyvel)

by the way you keep on calling her “woman” I think you didn’t know she was his wife.

OH NO! He took a bet, he won’t die with the Gae Bolg in hand but if he doesn’t have it then...

are you playing a wicked game of chess?

worry not quan, your sacrifice will make Leif a hero!

so he won’t lose the bet, at least.

“stupid sand i hate sand”

WELP - the dastard leaves him with 1HP

At least you mention your son unlike some mom i knew - is this Quan’s way to say “avenge me Leif” like Langbalt and André did?

Siggy’s already grieving.

even on Dew’s ???

“you see my dragon is kind of hungry and i thought...”

“oh i know you want her to feed YOUR dragon!”

“stop trying to think and just go against Siggy”. Magorn apologises a lot, poor guy :’(

Meanwhile Noish destroys vaha out of spite. Forgive her failure Arvis! “nah, she was expected to fail anyways”

he has purple dragon! Is Dagda living in the mountains where those dragons have their nests? I don’t take this personaly Magorn, i played FE5.

you mean “we finally crossed half of this blaster desert”.

Seliph’s most likely crying and Oifey has to change him, but otherwise they should be okay!

Well it was most likely a Velthomer outpost to begin with so... I bet they used the city when they went on the Isaach campaign.

Quan sent a last carrier pigeon

Yep, wars are everywhere but worry not elder, they’ll stop soon!

that’s quite the detailed message you received, elder!

of course you add “it seems”. Sneaky old man, did the message said Altena was captured?

Is Ethlyn the young girl? Since everyone has been calling Altena a kid or a babe, I suppose Ethlyn’s mentioned here.

And Siggy just lost his remaining family! Be safe Seliph (and Oifey)!

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Kidnapping as a tool of imperial statecraft?

[This column was written for the Unz Review]

There is nothing new about empires taking hostages and using them to put pressure on whatever rebel group needs to reminded “who is boss”. The recent arrest in Italy of Alexander Korshunov, the director for business development at Russia’s United Engine Corporation (UEC), is really nothing new but just the latest in a long string of kidnappings. And, as I already mentioned in distant 2017, that kind of thuggery is not a sign of strength but, in fact, a sign of weakness. Remember Michael Ledeen’s immortal words about how “”Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business“? Well, you could say that this latest spat of kidnappings is indicative of the same mindset and goal, just on a much smaller, individual, scale. And, finally, it ain’t just Russia, we all know about the kidnapping of Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou by the Canadian authorities.

By the way, you might wonder how can I speak of “kidnapping” when, in reality, these were legal arrests made by the legitimate authorities of the countries in which these arrests were made? Simple! As I mentioned last week, words matter and to speak of an “arrest” in this case wrongly suggest that 1) some crime was committed (when in reality there is ZERO evidence of that, hence the talk of “conspiracy” to do something illegal) 2) that this crime was investigated and that the authorities have gathered enough evidence to justify an arrest and 3) that the accused will have a fair trial. None of that applies to the cases of Viktor Bout, Konstantin Iaroshenko, Marina Butina or, for that matter, Meng Wanzhou or Wang Weijing. The truth is that these so-called “arrests” are simple kidnappings, the goal is hostage taking with the goal to either 1) try to force Russia (and China) to yield to US demands or 2) try to “get back” at Russia (and China) following some humiliating climb down by the US Administration (this was also the real reason behind the uncivilized seizure of Russian diplomatic buildings in the USA).

This is not unlike what the Gestapo and the SS liked to do during WWII and their kidnapping of hostages was also called “arrest” by the then state propaganda machine. By the way, the Bolsheviks also did a lot of that during the civil war, but on a much larger scale. In reality, both in the case of the Nazi authorities and in the case of the imperial USA, as soon as a person is arrested he/she is subjected to solitary confinement and other forms of psychological torture (Manning or Assange anybody?!) in order to either make them break or to at least show Russia and China that the US, being the World Hegemon gets to seize anybody worldwide, be it by a CIA kidnapping team or by using local colonial law enforcement authorities (aka local police forces).

US politicians love to “send messages” and this metaphor is used on a daily basis by US officials in all sorts of circumstances. Here the message is simple: we can do whatever the hell we want, and there ain’t nothing you can do about it!

But is that last statement really true?

Well, in order to reply to this we should look at the basic options available to Russia (this also applies to China, but here I want to focus on the Russian side of the issue). I guess the basic list of options is pretty straightforward:

Use official and confidential diplomatic channels to protest and demand a release

Publicly protest and denounce these kidnappings as completely illegal (and immoral to boot!)

Retaliate by using legal means (sanctions, cancellation of agreements, etc.)

Retaliate by using extra-legal means (counter-kidnappings, not unlike what China allegedly decided to do in the case of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor)

Frankly, in the case of the USA, options one and two are useless: the AngloZionist leaders have long given up any hope of not being hated and despised by 99% of mankind and they have long dropped any pretense of legality, nevermind morality: they don’t give a damn what anybody thinks. Their main concern is to conceal their immense weakness, but they fail to do so time and time again. Truly, when wannabe “empires” can’t even bring an extremely weakened country such as Venezuela to heel, there ain’t much they can do to boot their credibility. If anything, this thuggery is nothing more than the evidence of a mind-blowing weakness of the Empire.

But that weakness in no way implies that Russia and China have good options. Sadly, they don’t.

Russia can engage in various types of sanctions, ranging from the petty bureaucratic harassment of US representations, diplomats, businessmen and the like to economic and political retaliations. But let’s not kid ourselves, there is very little Russia can do to seriously hurt the USA with such retaliations. Many would advocate retaliation in kind, but that poses a double problem for the Kremlin:

Once a country has gone down the road of illegal brute force, there is no way back. The examples of the US, Israel or, for that matter, the Ukraine show that once primitive thuggery becomes part of your political arsenal you will forever remain a thug and everybody will see this (whether everybody will have the courage to openly state this is a different issue altogether).

The reality is that double and triple standards have long become the essential key feature of all western ideological systems, from the Papacy to modern capitalism. The Kremlin fully understands that in the AngloZionist Empire “some are more equal than others” and that that which is “allowed” to the World Hegemon is categorically forbidden to everybody else. Thus if Russia retaliates in kind, there will be an explosion of hysterical protests not only by the western legacy corporate and state ziomedia, but also from the 5th columnist in the Russian “liberal” press.

And yes, unlike the USA, Russia does have a vibrant, diverse and pluralistic media and each time when Putin agrees to a press conference (especially one several hours long) he knows that he will be asked the tough, unpleasant, questions. But since he, unlike most western leaders, can intelligently answer them he does not fear them. As for Dmitrii Peskov and Maria Zakharova, they have heard it all a gazillion during the past years, including often the most ridiculously biased, mis-informed and outright ridiculous “questions” (accusations, really) from the western presstitute corps in Russia.

So yes, Russia could, in theory, retaliate by arresting US citizens in Russia (or by staging Cold War type provocations) or by kidnapping them abroad (Russia does have special forces trained for this kind of operation). But this is most unlikely to yield any meaningful results and it would create a PR nightmare for the Kremlin.

The truth is that in most of these cases we always come down to the fundamental dichotomy: on one hand we have a rogue state gone bonkers with imperial hubris, arrogance and crass ignorance (say, the USA and/or Israel) while on the other we have states which try to uphold a civilized international order (Russia, China, Iran, etc.). This is by logical necessity a lop-sided struggle in which the thugs will almost always have the advantage.

[Sidebar: here I want to address a logical fallacy which I regularly hear in the West: when one political system proves stronger, or more capable of survival, than another one, this supposedly proves that the stronger state is also somehow “superior”. This is the argument used by those who claim that the Soviet Union “lost the Cold War” and that “Capitalism has proven much more sustainable/efficient than Communism”. This is utter nonsense for at least two reasons: first, the USSR did not “lose” the Cold War – the CPSU and the Soviet ruling Nomenklatura decided to break-up the USSR (against the will of the people!) and, second, the fact is that the Soviet Union was squandering its wealth all over the planet while the USA was robbing the entire planet blind. How can we compare the two? Finally, allow me this metaphor to make my point: if we would lock up a human being and a hyena in a small empty cell to see who will survive we can be pretty darn sure that the hyena will immediately and very “effectively” kill the human and eat him. Does that “victory” somehow prove the hyena’s “superiority”? Of course not! For one thing, capitalism implies infinite growth in a finite environment, which is exactly what a malignant tumor does for a living and which is self-evidently non-sustainable. So are we going to compare one political system – Communism – which does not rely on growth and which is therefore sustainable, and which spread its wealth all over the planet with one based on (international) “highway robbery” (don’t take my word for it, take it from Paul Craig Roberts himself who unambiguously stated recently that “American Capitalism is Based on Plunder”). Yes, the Soviet system was fundamentally rotten, profoundly dysfunctional and ineffective (only imbeciles or ignoramuses would deny that!), but it was not in any way “defeated” by the West nor is Capitalism any “better” or “superior” (whatever you want that to mean) than Communism (more on this here if you are interested).]

For all these reasons, there is really nothing much Russia (or China) can do about this situation besides publishing an official warning to the Russian people saying that if they travel abroad they should realize that “US intelligence agencies continue their current hunt for Russians around the world”. They also made public the list of countries which have extradition treaties with the USA: Australia, Austria, Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Brazil, United Kingdom, Hungary, Canada, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Dominica, Greece, Guyana, Haiti, Guatemala, Germany, Honduras, Greece, Israel, India, Jordan, Iraq, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Monaco, Myanmar, Nauru, Nigeria, Netherlands, Nicaragua, new Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, El Salvador, San Marino, Swaziland, Seychelles, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Suriname, Sierra Leone, Thailand, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Turkey, Uruguay, Philippines, Finland, France, Czech Republic, Chile, Switzerland, Sweden, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Estonia, South Africa, South Korea, Jamaica and Japan.

The MoFA concluded by warning that “The Russian foreign Ministry strongly urges all Russian citizens planning trips abroad to carefully weigh all the risks, especially if there is reason to assume the possibility of claims against them by American law enforcement agencies”.

Some caveat emptor before buying your airline ticket, right?!

Conclusion: it will get a lot worse before it gets better

First, we need to always remember that kidnappings are just the latest manifestation of an overall pattern of thuggery by the USA. The attitude is pervasive, and US citizens are not free of this climate of thuggery. Another good example are the outright bribes offered to the ships captains of Iran, to sail their crude carriers to somewhere were the US can literally pirate the carrier. Remember the amazing confession by Pompeo himself: “We lied, we cheated, we stole…. it reminds you of the glory of the American experiment”?

You don’t?

Then here is a quick refresher:

It can almost be rewritten and expanded like this: We lie, we cheat, we steal, we kidnap, we bribe, we extort, we pirate, then we threaten, and then we tell everyone how exceptionally morally superior we are.

Yet a certain limit has been crossed. It is as if their own belief in their own moral superiority has inverted to the extent that their own moral superiority is so big, and so certain, that any small actions of thuggery is allowed to them. This will not change any time soon and even the most innocent traveler must have awareness of this. This is why the Chinese are now openly wondering if sending Chinese students to the USA is such a good idea after all.

So the first thing we have to accept is that this pattern of thuggery will not stop, if anything – it will expand.

Second, we have to also realize that there are no good options for the Russians or the Chinese. In fact, this is normal: civilized actors often find themselves “out-gunned”, so to speak, by thugs, sociopaths and criminals. Over time, however, thuggery is always self-defeating because it is inevitably linked to a delusion of impunity. As for civilized states, while it is true that they are at a fundamental disadvantage when faced by uncivilized thugs but, again, over time they eventually prevail if only because everybody always ends up fed up and disgusted with the thugs. Finally, while thuggery can seem attractive to people with sociopathic inclinations, most human beings need a higher ideal than just unbridled consumption to inspire them. Communism had (and I would argue, still has) this ability. Capitalism does not.

For the foreseeable future, however, we can only expect more of the same. Thanks to the ceaseless efforts of Obama and Trump the Empire is collapsing even faster than it normally would and we can expect that the current sequence of humiliating defeats for the USA (and, of course, Israel which has its own humiliating wounds to lick!) will continue and that the USA (and, of course, Israel!) will have to find more small targets (be it kidnapped Russian nationals or empty buildings in Syria) to kidnap or destroy and feel powerful again.

This will be revolting, disgusting and simply plain stupid.

But there is nothing Russia (or China) can do to stop it, at least not for the foreseeable future.

The Saker

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Rosa’s Campaign Journal, Session 0

((Why yes, I still exist. I’ve recently gotten into a new DnD campaign playing a Knowledge Cleric who keeps a journal in character. This is a new character so I’ve decided I’m going to actually write that journal as a campaign journal here. The following is the record of my solo introduction session.))

<The journal is written in a tight, efficient script. The handwriting prioritizes efficiency and legibility over all else, void of any flourishes.>

Month of the Tempest 27, 23 P.C.

This morning I intended to go to Swift Solutions to get a task ticket immediately, but I was delayed by the priests posted here full time. The locals perform a fairly elaborate graveyard ritual in Passing and “requested” I assist in weaving a tapestry for the occasion. The ritual is less than a month away and apparently they are dreadfully behind on preparations.

I learned today that I am a terrible weaver. Valuable information, but not to the liking of the, let's diplomatically call them “conservative” local priestesses. After a few hours struggling with the thread they realized they'd move faster without me. One of the older nuns gave me an asinine dressing down about how a proper woman should know how to weave before I was dismissed. I considered pointing out that I can mend tears with a cantrip but I chose to let her expel her hot air. There is little hope for many of these bumpkins. I will save my effort for those who merit it.

The tapestry itself was a very pretty piece of work. I genuinely hope the damage I did to it is hidden. That said, they burn it as part of the ritual. With any luck I’ll be able to move on from here before that happens; watching that work go up in flames for the sake of tradition and superstition would be difficult.

I finally freed myself to get to Swift Solutions. Apparently several tickets were posted today, but by the time I got there all that remained were dregs. One ticket to test an inventor's combat machine, one to deal with a pair of hyenas getting into a farmer's livestock. All the possibilities afforded by mechanics and magic, and an inventor chooses to make another weapon. The lack of imagination depresses me. I decided to deal with the hyenas instead--if the creatures were invading farmland, they were losing their fear of humanoids. Chickens now, but how long until they take people’s pets? Their children? This was clearly the more pressing matter. (It helped that it payed better, truth told.) I was initially in a foul mood about the ticket, as I do not count combat as my greatest strength. Fortunately, that initial concern was misguided.

I met with the farmer who posted the ticket, an old human named Willson Ash. Meeting the man, I immediately admired his fortitude; he looked to be in his seventies, yet there he was in his field, still working hard. He described the situation, that a pair of hyenas separated from their pack had emerged from a thicket and killed many of his chickens. He remarked how odd it was that he was targeted first when there was another farm next door, also with a coop, much closer to the thicket. I was immediately suspicious. He said one of the farmhands from that nearby farm had seen the hyenas wandering in and out.

Inspecting the coop provided little information to work with; it seemed a perfectly normal animal attack to me. There were tracks, but I couldn't follow them far. I chose instead to focus on the witness. Next door I met a gnome man named Wren Fizzleplenty--I do appreciate a good, whimsical gnomish name. He told me that his son Glim saw the beasts and that I should talk to them. He warned me that his two sons were troublemakers though. Apparently the older son, Dimble, was the dominant one, and the two were likely at the tavern wasting their time. Worth noting, at the time it wasn't even noon. Apparently these two start drowning their senses very early.

I headed to the The Chatty Leopard Tavern, stopping at the general store to purchase a cheap bit of smoking weed to use as a bribe for the duo on the way. I found them deep in their cups, and noted that the pair were smoking tobacco outside of the designated smoking area--assholes. I enlisted the assistance of the barkeep--Westfield-- and a waitress, I think her name is Luna. I hoped to separate them while they were shuffling out of their seats. I didn't hear the full conversation but eventually the waitress ended up slapping Dimble and expelling the duo from the tavern entirely. Not the plan, but sufficient. I must remember to give Luna a generous tip as thanks next time I see her.

As the pair were exiting, I got Glim's attention, saying it would only take a moment. Thankfully Dimble either didn't notice or didn't care, exiting the tavern and allowing me to talk to the younger sibling alone. His first story fell apart immediately; I had been to his home and observed that he would not have been able to see the beasts entering the thicket under cover of darkness unless he were actually out in the fields at the time. After some prodding, intimidation, and eventually promising the joint in return, he relented and told the truth; that he and his brother had killed and skinned a pair of starving hyenas months before and used their skins as cover to kill Ash's chickens themselves. As far as I could tell their motive was pure spite; Dimble apparently saw them as competition for his family farm and--pointedly, instead of actually working himself--decided to attack them.

Glim struck me as a complete pushover. I rather doubt he'd had an independent thought for a long time, he was so utterly dominated by his elder brother. I saw hope for redemption in the pathetic gnome, so I decided to usher him to confess the crime himself. It would have been much easier to go into the woods and find the hyena skins out there after Glim told me where they were hidden, but I wanted to make sure he admitted the crime so his punishment would be less harsh--as well as get him away from Dimble.

As we exited the tavern, Dimble confronted me, demanding to know what took so long. I told him forthright that I knew what they'd done, and that I was taking Glim to explain what had happened to the farmers. Dimble moved to pull Glim away from me, but I stood between the two and wouldn't pass. He started making threats, which I answered with proof that I am an able spellcaster and could defend myself. There was a moment where I was expecting him to strike at me, but it passed. The little fool was a coward, all talk. After I told him as much, I walked away with Glim while he deflated like a pricked balloon.

I spoke to the pair's father first. I question how he'd let them get so out of hand without intervention, but I don't know the full details of this family's dealings. Perhaps this was a marked escalation in their delinquency. Regardless, Wren was suitably aghast at his son's behavior. The three of us went to Ash and explained. After getting my ticket signed they asked what I thought should happen. I recommended that Glim be put to work on Ash's farm to repay him for the slain livestock, while Dimble be shut in the town jail for as long as they could possibly keep him there. The two agreed immediately.

I do not think jail will actually move Dimble to change his ways. I worry that, if he meets the wrong people in the jail, he may only escalate to actual criminal behavior. Hopefully that worry is ill-founded; how many people does a small town like this actually incarcerate? Still, I don't know how to actually handle Dimble; he seems rotten to the core. Hopefully the time they are separated will be long enough for Glim to develop a backbone.

Overall, I'm pleased with the result. A successful task grants the credibility I need to move to bigger things; healers are in high demand so with this success behind me I expect I can find my way into a troupe quickly. Perhaps as soon as tomorrow; the secretary at Swift Solutions mentioned a larger job on the horizon and that a group of other adventurers would be gathering there tomorrow to discuss it. I intend to take this opportunity.

The temptation to use a few coins from the reward money on some pipeweed for myself is significant, but I need to save coins for now. I intend to purchase a focus for the Identify spell soon, so I can offer that service to any troupe I end up with. That is normally a wizard's work, but if I can offer both healing and identification I suspect I will be in quite high demand. I will save up, and after I've purchased that I will seek out something with a higher quality and vacate my body for a time.

<The writing here is a bit less neat and compact than the previous entry.>

Month of the Tempest 28, 23 P.C.

Had a strange dream, felt need to record it. Was on an old ship at sea, observing a woman in an elaborate red hood cradling a baby. She walked on deck, which was shrouded in fog. Even through this fog I could see a large city nearby. I heard a man indicate they were landing in Dawnroad soon.

<The writing has righted itself, tightened up to look like the script of the previous entry at this point.>

This dream felt… foreign, almost, like it wasn’t supposed to be mine. I don’t remember anything like this happening, and I was in third person so I couldn’t have been the baby. Presuming dreams make sense, which, point taken. Still, I don’t normally remember my dreams with this sort of clarity. Very strange. It probably means nothing, but I felt the need to record it immediately all the same.

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Yoo Ah In gets criticized for not mourning Kim Joo Hyuk properly and attending Song-Song couple wedding instead, posts a message on SNS

Yoo Ah In has been receiving criticisms from netizens for attending Song Joongki and Song Hye Kyo’s wedding instead of mourning for fellow actor Kim Joo Hyuk. 

The Song-Song couple’s wedding was held last October 31, the day after the tragedy took place. Netizens are asking whether or not he sincerely mourned for the deceased.

Following the criticisms, the actor posted a message on Facebook:

Translation:

“Voicing my concern during these times-

I have been asserting. Through the way I can contribute, I have voiced my opinions of our world. The reason I had to assert myself for being myself was the fact that the world is oppressive and I was forced to uphold the world and suppress myself. If you have a firm faith, hypnotized under capitalism and illusionary order, believing that it give us freedom and equality, it's best not to read my detailed confession any further. You have the right to choose. If you would use up your precious passion by raising the knife's edge of an honest blame, you've already won. It's not my energy but yours. I've already been burned at the stake countless times and I do not have the willpower to resist you.

The sure thing is that as long as I live, I still love and need you and the world. The lashing of the online community is not me but always you who are anonymous. I may be stripped bare but I am still breathing and you are welcome to end me. Thus, this is not a confession but more of a last desperate effort to win you over.

My uncomfortable outcry is a resistance to my weakness and discomfort of the world. I have resisted how I knelt myself to the world, rather than the world itself. Everyone wears a mask like a safety cap and thinks the same way and makes the same expressions and wears the same things and says the same things and wants the same things and instead, I wanted to do whatever I wanted in this boring world. Knowing that there will be criticism but I believed a little bit that my truthful and deviant existence and actions would change the world. I didn't expect validations nor consolations. Going against and feeling the limits of something that can't be done within my efforts and fumbling in the unknown world laced with landmines and being chased by slave hunters felt an acceptable and tolerable pain than living a stable life as a slave.

The bad boy who loudly crosses lines for self-preservation is dead. Now I do not deal with the public as a figure of resistance, but as a comrade who discovers a new world with the public. With my acting, my writing, feeling the effects of fame from a young age, with attention that I so desperately craved for, all the methods I am capable of exist, how throw myself into the world, I want to comfort and communicate with others and unite with the outer world. That is why I declare to the world.

Are not your posts, your 'likes,' and your silence declarations to the world as well.

I could only get loneliness, not narcissism from constantly ridiculing my good will and honesty. What was overflowing  was others' flawed perception that was unable to see good from bad, not what I'm made of.

I wanted to have a 'true self' as opposed to self-awareness, not self-confidence but 'existence.' I did not want to be a ghost that wanders this hellish plane, but a human that moves forward.

This country persistently hunts down people as if we are North Korean defectors crossing Tumen River. People sit huddled together looking at a single point, never allowing their backs to be vulnerable, out of fear that an arrow might pierce them. I wanted to cross the limits of orderliness and awareness as an actor and a celebrity who deals with the public despite how we scream how these times are excruciatingly suffocating. Not the limits of manners and laws but the all the unjust and weak limits.

I wanted to break as many prejudices as possible. Before the tyrannical order of the old world, I am most definitely a criminal. It's more enjoyable to head towards a wasteland full of dangers beyond the limits although I had stayed within the confines of an unreasonable greenhouse created through desperate efforts of my success. Beyond the limits, I believe there lies maybe not a utopia but a Chosun (Korea) that is not a 'hell' (Korea is sometimes referred to as hell-Chosun because it's hellish). I believe that a new world, not a mirage, will take physical form.

I wanted to defy the times where people shout outdated pro-North ideology over and over, putting red labels on those who think differently, where weak and contradictory people pretend to be communists, judge others, kill the individual, coerce a uniformness of the whole, and holding village feasts with witch hunts. I wanted to rip it apart to shreds.

Life goes on and I do not stop. Like how you must go forward with time.

Time does not go higher but forward. I believe that humans who sense time in a world that horrifically goes backwards yet craves for more, must go forward.

I hope that my nephews, nieces, and the next generation welcome a world that is not as suffocating. I hope they live in a world that actually makes sense. Not to live like others but as themselves, like what they like instead of what others like, go where they go and not where others go, respect others while growing as individuals. I dream of a beautiful and humanistic world that is made colorful by everyone. I want the people to be saved from being suffocated by the epitome of unjust order and the excrements produced by ugly self-preservation.

I want to see a true tomorrow and be outside of the pretentious confines of this world. I want to take a deep sigh thinking about our country. I want to lament the times yet not be stuck within. I want to tear down the walls of the world and between you and me. With more of you if possible.

You have a duty to fulfill with your life and your time. I am not trying to instigate you to follow me. I just hope that each person lives their life to the fullest.

This post probably won't be focused upon as much as pointless scandals or paparazzi photos, but I know that it will be reproduced and written into articles in various ways. Anonymous confessions and accusations without the accused, all in an attempt for self-preservation, are over. It's cowardly and inadequate to try to protect ourselves from them.

I believe in the highest function of the media even though journalism is disappearing and only inflammatory gossip rules the pages. Internet news portals are dictators in South Korea, where the number of comments are valued over the content, where the number of clicks feed the media companies. I hope that journalism doesn't turn into something that exacerbates conflicts and gossip. Journalism is journalism and gossip is gossip. I hope it lights the way to a better world for people, delivering the truth and revealing the lies.

Do we have the power to execute corrupt people with a guillotine when we abetted with disregard and agreed with silence to unjust power?

It is not the truth or trial under constitution but a false media that must be purged because it encourages witch hunts and stoning of the people. We are all victims of the system. We are not rotten because of who we are, but anyone can become rotten. We live in a world where it's more natural to decay than to preserve. Money, power, and the faith in them are what rules these times, this place.

Don't say 'why should you,' but rather 'can you' do something. I want to be with you with a flexible and pure heart rather than be an inflexible fuddy duddy. I am spilling my heart out on social media because it's convenient, with the belief that it will outweigh the uncomfortable silence, criticism, and disregard. Because what does it mean to squander away life. - I know that there is more calm love and pity rather than loud hatred among you. Thank you to those who sent me love and support watching me take each step.

I have a favor to ask all the netizens and everyone else.

Please do not feed the media hyenas who are looking for scandals as if they are taunting Kim Ju-Hyuk's death and the marriage of my longtime work friends. This is a delicate time that requires both condolences and blessings.

Please close your eyes and ears to the noise that purposefully ignores the truth and manipulates others' honesty and criticizes for the sake of criticism. Let us purify this world through only seeing the truth and true honesty.

Please wake up so that the evil certain few cannot disturb and bring down the level of consciousness of South Korea as a whole. Our rage toward the world should not be taken out on others and must be channeled into creating a better world.

I won't try to avoid controversies just to save my own neck. I will continue to act in pieces that portray the times and its people by loving and cautiously expressing myself and proactively protecting myself from injustice.

My hope is that talking with my determination and honesty about unnecessary controversies of the dead creates a better world. I hope that these words reach actor Kim Ju-Hyuk.

Rest In Peace-

Let us mourn these times and his death. I love you all.”

TRANSLATION BY: STEPHANIE HWANG

Source: HuffingtonPost Korea