#because cartel

[trkstrnd]

abolish cartel plots. they perpetuate racist stereotypes that go against nearly everything these shows claim to stand for and i'm so fucking sick of it. you can find drama literally anywhere else

[mikichko]

The thing about Fuerzas Especiales (Mexican Special Forces) is that you know not to be wary of the masked men. It's the ones whose faces are bare and out for the world to see that have you cautious. The ones who truly have no tether and absolutely nothing holding them back.

So when you meet the 141 you’re not worried about Ghost. You’ve handled men like him before. Maybe not to this degree or stature, but close enough.

It’s Gaz who makes you pause. Stopping mid-step before you regain your composure and properly out-stretch your hand to shake his.

You've seen that look in his eyes before. Not on him, but your comrades. The few men who teeter on the edge, desperately trying to figure out if they'll be rule breakers or enforcers. If they'll be a blind executioner or if they'll learn to judge too. All while the battle rages on, chipping at their resolve. Soon enough, they'll show if they're truly as morally righteous as they think themselves to be. Those men, they're the ones that worry you.

You know how masked men will act. Understand that they'll carry themselves differently and act differently because of the anonymity and detachment that their masks provide. Especially from the unspeakable acts they carry out.

But people like him? Who show themselves bare? Owning the savage actions they commit, regardless of the way they teeter? Yeah, men like Kyle Garrick terrify you.

[geepranks]

I journey through the desert Of the mind with no hope I follow I drift along the ocean Dead lifeboats in the sun And come undone Pleasantly caving in I come undone (x)

[nefkyo]

//HB S2 EP3 spoilers

I LOVED the parallel of Crimson's power over people. Despite them not seeing eachother for at least a year, he still retains control over Moxxie: he had no issue using him for business as a kid, much less now that he tries to stand up for himself and just makes it all worse.

But then there's how powerless he was against Millie. She holds no ties with Crimson and isn't even scared of him, she just charges in like a bull and makes a mockery (massacre) of his crooks. In less than five minutes.

That's also why Crimson screaming "She's a dame! She's a broad! Just kill her!" during the fight stuck with me. You said IMP has a reputation, why are you surprised?

[cloudster-clown]

Going to be selling them on etsy and big cartel!

big cartel is for us orders while etsy is for international orders!(if you are from the us, you can still order from etsy big catel is there as another option if you want)

[lesbian-thesbian]

yet another little parallel that wrecks me

🎥 @medium-observation

[sadlynotthevoid]

I caught up with the manga. Now I have to wait almost a week for the next chapter to be released. And for the translation.

(⁠ノ⁠ಥ⁠,⁠_⁠｣⁠ಥ⁠)⁠ノ⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

I don't hate Endo as I thought I would do. He's silly tho.

Tsubaki wanting to keep Sakura away from Endo is funny as fuck.

Like, I feel there must be a missing scene like this:

Hiragi: Sakura has gotten stronger.

Umemiya: Yep. He did.

Tsubaki: But... I feel like we're forgetting something.

Umemiya: It must be nothing important. And if it is, then he'll probably figure out himself.

After the fight,

Tsubaki: Oh, shit! I know what we forgot!

Hiragi: What?

Tsubaki: Stranger danger! We didn't taught him about the stranger danger!

Hiragi: ... I mean, he's sixteen, he probably knows it. Someone must had told him about, right?

Suo, thinking about his empty flat and how naïve Sakura can be : No, probably not.

Hiragi: Oh shit.

[dead-girl-tells-stories]

DP x DC Prompt

This, but it's because their flight home was canceled due to Gotham's airport being destroyed. And they didn't want to drive all the way back.

The reason it all started was because Tucker was really bored and was getting a bit frustrated when he couldn't get past one of WE's many firewalls. He had already skimmed through everything else and concluded that Gotham's Brucie Wayne was a literal angel sent from heaven to one the worst cities in the world because he committed a crime so horrific that not even God could look him in his pretty little face anymore and that firewall proved it!

So to cool his head off, he decided to hack into a bank. Banks were pretty easy, right? Almost anyone could do it with just enough knowledge and the proper equipment. What he DIDN'T expect was just how EASY it was to do so. Laughably so, to the point it made him cry.

Did Gotham's rouges or Gothamites in general not like money? Not even the small-time rouges? Because he KNEW those operations that they try to pull off cost money. Shit tons!

So when his laughter became so disturbing that his friends and even his frenemies got concerned, all he had to do was show them what he found out. Which sent them spiraling into laughter as well. Like, c'mon, even Amity Park's bank was more secure than that and they only had fucking GHOST CRIME!

As the tears began to dry, and the laughter turned to giggles, one of the girls suggested something.

Star: Why don't we, like, rob it or something?

The hotel room went silent and Star started to fidget. Then she started to ramble.

Star: I mean like, we don't have to. It was kind of a joke anyway, since their security's so bad ya know, and I'm pretty sure we're gonna be here for a while and-

Dani: Star, baby, sweetie, honey. Why are you justifying yourself when we were all probably thinking the same thing, right?

Nod and hums of agreement filled the girl with relief.

Wes: Besides it's not a class trip unless we cause some trouble right?

They all then pilled into the bed and around Tucker as his finger flew across the keyboard.

Tucker: So, where are we hitting up first?

[24601orwhatever]

STEVE CZARNECKI AS JAVERT

MASTERED BY @medium-observation

[canadian-pug-cartel]

These magicians and their found family have got me in a chokehold

[invye]

So @kacievvbbbb asking about modern AU headcanons had me revisiting my 'modernised' MiShanks AU I thought up a couple months ago.

I call it 'modernised' because it is more of a medium modern AU, where I keep much of the base OP lore and history, but shrink the 'active' world down to just a few islands. The overall tech level and societal developments are much closer to what we have now and I do away with most of the political plot. I haven't yet decided if Devil Fruits still exist, but if they do, they are much more rare and are kind of a thing of legend most people don't believe in. Only very select few people would know about them and the curse associated with them.

So lets get into it, I've got plenty of thoughts on Mihawk, Shanks and how their relationship plays together in a more modern world. (And because Rosinante is also one of my favourites, and I can't seem to not smush them all together, there is a CoraMiShanks bit at the end too.)

- Mihawk -

Basic weaponry is a bit more in line with modern expectations in this AU, but that will never ever stop Mihawk from being a swords guy. Mihawk is the authority on fencing, especially in historical context. He's basically got a PHD in swords, identifying them, maintaining them, using them. He's filthy rich, not just because he won every fencing tournament there is, but also because he straight up inherited that half maintained castle outside of town along with stupid amounts of money from an uncle everyone thought already died decades before Mihawk received his testament.

These days Mihawk only competes in the highest level tournament once a year to defend the title (his 'rivalry' with Shanks makes the news every time) and otherwise spends his time at home, reading, drinking, occasionally taking small sailing trips with his beloved Hitsugibune, and of course training his swordsmanship. Everyone thinks he's just living it up big in Kuraigana castle, but the people in town know that he just wants to raise his kids in peace.

Where did the kids come from? No one knows. They're definitely not his though. Anyway, turns out that Mihawk is really good with kids, so it takes barely a couple years for the whole town to load off their kids with him during holidays and days off school. (Look, Zeff runs a busy kitchen, and as much as Sanji tries to help, he's still too young for the holiday rush. Garp has to leave on Marine assignments at the most random times, and his bum of a son has vanished to who knows where years ago, and the grandkids are friends with Zoro and Sanji anyway and can do with burning out their energy running around the woods behind the castle. Bellemère has to leave on those assignments with Garp most of the time, so Nami joins the fray while Nojiko mostly plays with Perona. Mihawk usually leaves the teen girls be on their own, especially since Robin showed up a while ago to join them [she seems to stay on her own, and Mihawk keeps an eye on her in case she needs additional help, but Crocodile seems to have that sorted already]. Usopp's mom is still sick, and she's grateful to know her son is out there having fun with his friends while she tries the next medicine with horrible side effects.)

The kids love Mihawk. Mihawk loves the kids too and to much of his dismay, the kids know it. He is a figure of authority to them, but also a person of trust, who they can approach with problems and worries when their usual parental figure is unavailable or out of reach. Given that Mihawk is pretty much always around, he begrudgingly accepts his new job as free childcare provider for the town (Garp tried to pay once. They all realised very quickly they get much farther by paying in favours, food, or doing little odd jobs because that old castle always needs something done).

Mihawk promised to teach Ace and Sabo to sail this summer, and with Luffy insisting to bounce around them, he already plans on doing more swimming and child fishing than actual sailing.

- Shanks -

Shanks is still a pirate, but it's all on a much smaller scale. He's still got the 'Red Emperor' epithet, but his reputation is much more Robin Hood of the seas. The Red Force gets into small tussles with other pirates more often than the Marines, and really, as long as they have food and alcohol on board they are all perfectly fine just sailing and enjoying their freedom. No one ever knows where the Red Force is at any given time, but they are known to show up when natural disasters strike, not to plunder the remains, but to help the people rebuild long before the Marines get around to offer their help (once the Marines show up on the horizon the Red Force clears out, a couple shots are exchanged, none of them ever hit). Garp tried to yell them into joining the Marines more than once, really Shanks could even stay captain and keep his ship and crew, he just needs to fly the Marine flag, but they all simply laugh and wave as they go off again to who knows where.

However, there is one week every year, where everyone knows exactly where the Red Force will be. Shanks won't ever miss his chance to duel Mihawk in the grand fencing tournament a couple islands over from Mihawk's home. As opposed to Mihawk, who has his fixed position as defending champion, Shanks fights his way through the other contenders every year. He leans into the pirate reputation, taunting opponents, refusing protective gear, tiptoe-ing the line to breaking the rules. The people love to hate him, it's a spectacle every time. The grand finale inevitably is a duel between Mihawk and Shanks, even after Shanks lost his arm (he sat out for a year and people thought that was the end. They were very relieved when Shanks made his over the top entrance again the year after).

They have long abandoned the actual fencing rules and equipment during the finale. People clap and scream when Mihawk steps on stage carrying Yoru, the black blade just as legendary as his own reputation. Shanks never fails to grin and deliver a witty one liner (the people's boo is part of the performance) and then they lunge. Watching that fight is exhilarating. No protective gear, real blades, and two absolute masters going at each other with a force that would leave less competent fighters with the gravest of wounds. It's every bit as real as it is a performance. Everyone knows Mihawk will win before they even start, and the people can recognise a small collection of moves that they build in every time, the more flashy and wide swipes that could easily be punished but never are. It's not simply about Mihawk winning and Shanks losing, it's about witnessing a piece of history being brought back to life right in front of their eyes.

The fencing tournament has always been held within the context of the summer solstice, and with Mihawk and Shanks putting on their show its become a part of a bigger festival that focusses on celebrating history and old rites, the origins of which aren't always known anymore. Every year after the finale they throw a huge feast, traditional food all over, as historically accurate to a long past pirate era as it can get (Mihawk makes sure of it, that history PHD has to be good for something), dressing up accordingly is very much encouraged. Shanks and Mihawk keep carrying their blades and play up their daring villain and chivalrous hero act and no one thinks twice about drinking with the Red Hair Pirates (they have amazing stories to tell). Usually Mihawk ends up in the middle of a group of kids and answers all kinds of history questions, all professor like, but in his full on historical get up. Shanks catches a glimpse of him and sighs dreamily and all the people he's jokingly been flirting with and threatening to kidnap as part of his role know that they're talking to a very much taken man. They enjoy his company anyway and talk to him about what it is like to raise a kid out at sea as they watch Perona and Uta tease Zoro in the distance.

What people don't know, is that the Red Force winters. Pretty much everyone aside from a volunteer skeleton crew leaves the ship for home during the winter months.

No one in town mentions to outsiders that the Red Emperor stays with the Strongest Swordsman up in Kuraigana castle. Why would they? They're great with the kids. And Uta singing with Brook during the Baratie winter solstice celebration sells out the house every time (the townsfolk get a cheeky 50% off that day, it's a community event after all [except for Mihawk. His filthy rich ass can pay double and wouldn't notice {he does pay double. He does notice. He does not care}]).

- Rosinante & Law -

Because I can't help myself and I love thinking about Rosinante together with MiShanks, this story's active events that would make up a proper fic make it a CoraMiShanks story, which starts with Cora-san and Law arriving in town. (Rosinante is genuinely a situational mute in this one, and Law's illness is a bit less horrifying, and potentially cured/managed with medicine.) They're on assignment from Doflamingo who heard that there's a spot that has gone unfilled in the island's underworld and wants to take full advantage of the opportunity to weasel into Crocodile's operations.

Little does Doffy know that: a) Corazón accepted the assignment so he could get away from him; b) Corazón insisted on taking Law because he's still working on getting Law's illness cured; [c) {depending on if Devil Fruits exist} Corazón may have secretly taken the Ope Ope no Mi on his way out;] d) Dracule Mihawk personally checks out every newcomer in town and seems to know much more than he reasonably should; e) Dracule Mihawk loves kids and bonds with Rosinante in a single meeting that included him pulling Law out of a lake; f) gods damned Dracule Mihawk directly protects Crocodile's operations in a infuriating 'someone will do it so I pick the smallest evil' mindset and Crocodile is so damn smug about it; g) fucking Dracule Mihawk decides to keep Rosinante and Law under his protection; h) and WHERE DID THE FUCKING RED EMPEROR COME FROM???

Doffy is seething at his plans foiled. Crocodile laughs at him, tells him to go pound sand and uses the opportunity to poach a couple of Doffy's operatives. Doffy has no choice but to retreat and plot his vengeance for later.

[tintinology]

Modern AU where Tintin's editor begs him to please stay out of trouble for a little while after his latest adventure lands him in the hospital (again) and people take to Twitter to accuse the newspaper of endangering its employees for the sake of profit

[eddiegettingshot]

another complaint: WHERE IS CHRIS' POV!!!!!!! TELL US MORE AT LEAST????? he literally has NO problems with eddie all season, we don't get any of his pov about seeing kim beyond him saying that he thought that was his mother, and we have no sense of what his relationships are like with his grandparents or the rest of his family back in texas. oh, but i guess he likes that fucking lake, so this must be great for him!! they acknowledged how chris is 13, a teenager now, but don't acknowledge that he was 7 when he last lived there and that in a rash moment, while he's upset with his father, he's asking to leave everything he's known for the past six years behind and return somewhere he hasn't lived in almost half his life!! it bothers me so much bc they could've given us *any* insight into chris's relationship to texas - any of the times that chris has been "out of town", maybe he's just in texas, visiting his family, something to actually indicate that closeness to his family and the location. maybe he's brought up moving to texas before, maybe he's acting out as a teen more beyond talking to more than one girl. but no, let's half-ass it! ok! great! i am also now re-remembering that BOBBY'S HOUSE BURNED DOWN BECAUSE OF THE CARTEL and i want to bite something. what a night!

suchhhhh a good point. all of it. lmfao

[gioiaalbanoart]

🦐🦐 MIXED FRIED time 🦐🦐 aka WRITING share 🦐🦐

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Thank you : @the-golden-comet for THIS (kiss 💗) @willtheweaver HERE and @orphanheirs HERE

AS usual wip TSA/The scarred angel

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Ashley's smile getting more pronounced has the power of triggering ominous prickles on Amy's skin.

"Uh...So....I'm Jonas by the way" he waves his hand in a small gesture towards Amy as an attempt to include her in the conversation.

Sounds relatively out of order to Amy's ears but she mechanically responds all the same to the implied invitation and moves next to Ashley.

In a delayed realization that makes her frown Amy suspects that after the perimeter inspection Ashley has take position specifically have Amy behind her in order to be ready if something was to lash out and shield her if needed.

Can't say it for sure, it's not like she can read her as an open book, say that's even a real thing.

Many people think so, Amy would swear that's not true, she made that experience, everybody just assume that shit for peace of mind's sake.

Yet she feels in her guts that something is off.

Jonas makes a sharp intakes of breath as if he were trying to pull himself together before actually take a step closer.

Meanwhile Ashley shows not sign of wanting to do any move whatsoever, she seems keen to keep still.

It's just because Amy stands so close to her that she anticipates the shift in her body before actually seeing her straightening, a sign of tension like she's getting ready for action.

The Jonas guy keeps that smile of his plastered on his face, it could probably pass as a friendly one but Amy's too busy at determine the reason for that sense of urgency she's feeling, like something is going to explode any second.

"So, what have you been at?" Jonas carries on with his monologue since Ashley didn't let out a word yet.

Neither she gets closer, doesn't greet the guy or make any gesture as a sign of salute.

Amy would describe the scene as if they're busy studying each other in a very different style.

He doesn't seem to be in capacity of hiding a certain nervousness despite showing off his cool side while Ashley displays without effort the inner peace of a cat waiting for the mouse to come out, knowing perfectly well who's gonna win in the end.

So that it does sound strange to Amy's ears when she finally lets out a banality : "Oh you know...Same old, same old"

Jonas doesn't seem to mind, he rather jumps on the prompt : "I didn't see you around for a while now, how long has it been ?"

It's like the air around them crackle, too challenged with a tension of which Amy can just observe the outcome, completely ignoring from where it comes from.

Same as she doesn't get Ashley's following ask : "How's your cousin?"

So out of the blue and Amy might not know her well but she would swear that they're not here for the chit chat, the little she saw of her, when she knocked off the drunken guy two days before, Ashley doesn't give into small talk so it must be something else.

Jonas snorts, chews on the words : "Oh, you know, the asshole wanted to take school back, you know? He's in Austin now, not time to fuck around anymore...." 

He keeps rattling on , holding to the friendly acting while Ashley narrows eyes, her lips curling even more upward in a sugary cheshire cat smile that sends Amy's hair stand on end at her neck.

It's at the very moment comprehension hits her, Amy witnesses Ashley's determined stride closing the distance between them and backhanding Jonas really hard.

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[dostoyevsky-official]

with turkish backing, a whitewashed and rebranded al qaeda entered aleppo, a city full of religious and ethnic minorities. these people weren't kind to kurds, yazidis, druze, armenians, assyrians etc back before the conflict froze, and there's nothing other than promises that they'll act differently now

[siilvan]

i am once again disappointed but not surprised at the COD fandom only caring about “sensitivity” when it’s convenient for them