#and this is it :)

[beardedmrbean]

A British court ruled Wednesday that police can seize more than 2.6 million pounds ($3.3 million) to cover years of unpaid taxes from influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan.

The Devon and Cornwall Police force went to court to claim the money, held in seven frozen bank accounts, from the Tates and a woman identified only as J.

At Westminster Magistrates’ Court, Chief Magistrate Paul Goldspring ruled that financial transactions by the brothers, including transferring almost $12 million into an account in the name of J, were a “straightforward cheat” of the tax authorities.

A lawyer for the force said that the Tates were “serial” tax evaders who failed to pay any tax on 21 million pounds in revenue from their online businesses, including War Room, Hustlers’ University, Cobra Tate, and OnlyFans, between 2014 and 2022.

Andrew Tate, 38, accused the government of “outright theft” for freezing his accounts and seizing “everything they could.”

“This is not justice; it’s a coordinated attack on anyone who dares to challenge the system,” Tate said in a statement. “This raises serious questions about the lengths authorities will go to silence dissent.”

At a hearing in July, attorney Sarah Clarke quoted from a video posted online by Andrew Tate, in which he said: “When I lived in England I refused to pay tax.”

She said J — who can’t be named because of a court order — wasn’t involved with the brothers’ businesses.

A lawyer for the brothers, Martin Evans, argued that the bank transfers were “entirely orthodox” for people who run online businesses. He said the siblings spent money on a number of “exotic motor cars,” but did nothing illegal.

The proceedings are civil, which carries a lower standard of proof than criminal cases. Goldspring had to decide on the balance of probabilities whether the Tates had evaded tax.

Court documents show an estimated total of about $3.4 million is held in the seven accounts police can now seize.

Andrew Tate is a former kickboxer and dual British-U.S. citizen who has amassed more than 10 million followers on X.

He has been banned from TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook after the platforms accused him of posting hate speech and misogynistic comments.

He and Tristan Tate, 36, face criminal allegations in Romania, including human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to exploit women.

They are set to be extradited to the U.K. once those proceedings are over to face further allegations of rape and human trafficking.

The Tates deny all the allegations.

[ambrossart]

I'm Contemplating Taking Paper Men Off Tumblr

Update: the story has been removed. It’s still available on AO3.

By now, I think everybody knows what happened recently. I posted a harmless excerpt from Ch. 28, which was supposed to be funny, and it got twisted into something nasty. They can blame it on missing context all they want, but even without the context, the personal attack on me was completely unnecessary and unwarranted. I was basically told I shouldn’t be writing about teenagers because I’m too old and it’s creepy. And I know I made a lot of snarky jokes about it when it happened, but it honestly messed with my head a lot. I’ve spent the last 48 hours wondering, Am I doing something wrong? Is this story inappropriate? I’ve always tried to be very mindful about how I approach Paper Men because I know the characters are young and I don’t ever want to cross that line. So far, I think I’ve been very respectful, but now I don’t know… the whole situation just left a bad taste in my mouth.

I’ve loved Stephen King’s It ever since I was a little kid. It was one of the first horror novels I ever read. The 1990 miniseries scared the shit out of me, and yet I couldn’t get enough of it. I watched it so many times, I think I wore out my mom’s VHS tapes. (Yes, that’s right VHS tapes. Yes, I’m that old.). I’ve always found the Bowers Gang fascinating and all I wanted to do was explore another side of them, a side we don’t see in the novel, miniseries, or movies.

But now I don’t feel like I can.

I don’t feel welcome in this fandom anymore. I don’t feel comfortable engaging with it anymore. Now I feel like people are judging me every time I post something. I mean, if one person had the confidence to say it, then I’m sure others are thinking it, and I don’t want to subject myself to that. It’ll make me not want to write the story at all.

So I think I'm going to remove the story and keep it strictly on AO3. I don't want to provoke any further hostility. I don't want to cause anymore drama. I just want to write my story in peace.

[treasurehuntbuck]

it’s time i come out. as a hater of the dom buck agenda. i am so sorry, buck buckley is not out here calling eddie a good boy.

[exculis]

oh yes, jazz rap is definitely a genre for me

[katsranchmod]

fuck I'm $80 in the hole for bills and don't know what to do

[buttstrawberry]

I saw some very bad Arcane takes today and I just have this to say:

Some of you would have never survived Voltron: Legendary Defender

And if you did, do it again, you didn't learn anything the first time

[ruins-and-rewritez]

Wylan pretending that he's deaf instead of him being unable to read when he's around the Merch Council. Not because he's ashamed or anything, just mostly he doesn't want the Council to give him shit about it (because this baby has been through too much and he doesn't need to deal with taking crap from old white men who were friends with his dad). Plus, pretending to be deaf offers Wylan and Jesper so many chances to play shenanigans on the Council and they'd just have to go along with it cause it's not like they can prove that Wylan isn't deaf. And thus the following scenario could definitely happen

Council Member 1: and here's the new contract with the members of the Standwatch *slides papers over to Jesper*

Jesper: *reads papers*

Council Member 2: who are you? Why can't young Mr. Van Eck read that himself

Jesper: he's deaf *continues reading*

Council Members: ????

Jesper: *finishes reading* and now to share the information with Mr. Van Eck

Wesper: *begins aggressively making out in front of the Council*

Council Members: wtfffff

Jes: so babe, did you get that?

Wylan: 😉👍

Or

Wesper transfers knowledge through the scientific properties of Osmosis and the bigoted Merchant Council has no clue what the fuck is happening

[gobald]

"If you got style and you know how to please"

"And a smile that makes me weak in the knees"

"If you're a guy who is gentle and tough"

"You might be the man who's man enough"

[easypeasylindyvesey]

DO YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT I JUST REALIZED

WE GET TO LOOK FORWARD TO ONE DAY IN THE SUMMER WHERE WE FIND OUT THAT JIMMY HAS SHAVED HIS FACIAL HAIR

[lochnkey]

Fisherman Asuka, a tribute to my online avatar

[neutron-stars-collision]

The Disney Prince - ification of him is something that’s so special to me

[radskull]

I’m now realizing that last anon could be interpreted as a threat. Who wants to turn my bones into spaghetti? Please don’t, if American food has no nutritional value, then neither do I

Or, is the next time I eat spaghetti….will those be made of bones? Whose bones? This is gonna haunt me for the next 2 minutes

[dvrcos]

🎲-37 kevaaron?

Roll a dice for a kiss here (send asks!!)

37: a kiss to the back of the neck

Aarons mattress at the Columbia house is old. It’s lumpy and it’s uneven from never being rotated and it’s fucking uncomfortable. But it suffices and is the perfect oasis for Aaron when he’s tired and drunk and his feet hurt from being at Eden’s.

When Kevin starts abandoning his place on the couch to join Aaron in his bed, they run into another problem. The lumpy, old mattress is definitely too small for two grown men to be sharing. Even if one said grown man is only 5 foot.

What makes the mattress too small is the fact that Kevin sprawls his 6’2 body out over the entire bed like a starfish when he’s drunk. It pushes Aaron to the very edge of his own bed and it makes Aaron question how he ever slept on the couch. The worst part is, Kevin is all dead weight when he’s asleep and there’s no chance for Aaron to shove him aside.

He debates kicking Kevin out of his room every single night before he inevitably falls asleep on whatever sliver of bed is left for him, entirely too inebriated and exhausted to loose sleep over it.

One night, however, Kevin leaves him no sliver of mattress and Aaron is too tired to wake Kevin up to get him to move. Instead he climbs onto the bed and latches onto Kevin’s back like a koala.

Kevin is warm and his shoulder makes for a surprisingly comfortable pillow. He nuzzles himself closer to Kevin, soaking in all of the heat radiating off of him.

He presses soft, lazy kisses to the back of Kevin’s neck and over his shoulder blades as he dozes off. Kevin hums under him and the vibration affirms Aaron’s thoughts.

It doesn’t matter that his mattress is old and lumpy and entirely too small when this is the solution.

[yourhighness6]

"We were built to fall apart.... And fall back together"

- Out of the Woods, Taylor Swift