#blackmarkets

[zvaigzdelasas]

if the senate actually does go through with the tiktok bill and assuming bytedance says "no thanks" and goes for a ban instead, we'll see like an immediate meteoric rise in alternative app stores outside of US jurisdiction

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

I need sora and ronin as morally ambiguous metal arm buddies rn

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

fanart for the fav background character ;m; i give u knuckle duster weapons on a string and actual animal leggies bc you are a sheep (alpaca?) demon person and you deserve them

[valeffelees]

only bad thing about being in a fandom where one of the characters canonically has wings is the painful lack of classic wingfic. where is my everything's the same but people have bird wings watford au where one day baz notices simon hasn't been grooming his wings bc of an injury to his ribs so he sits on his bed and makes a whole fuss about how "i'm not doing this to be nice, snow, your wings are just a travesty to look at" and then proceeds to carefully and lovingly tidy his feathers in drawn out silence while they both pretend grooming someone else's wings isn't one of the most intimate things you can do for another person. will this heartbreak never end

[dnangelic]

daisuke tries but growing up in an insane multifloor mansion worth 2489349884 billion stolen yen means he's got a tiny bit of rich kid syndrome. boy who doesn't say it but is absolutely thinking 'a $10 banana and $1000 gift for my friend isn't that expensive. i can afford it'

[jokest3r]

hello!!! i don't know if you're open to OC interactions but I was wondering if your Matvey and my Jack would be friends. ʕ⁠·⁠ᴥ⁠·⁠ʔ

Hi sorry about not answering this for a bit ive been a bit busy (btw I love Jack, he gives off a very devious aura(￣︶￣) ) but to answer your question....

Yes? Matvey comes off very removed and silent compared to Jack's loud personality. Jack would bounce off of Matvey's silent nature repeatedly which would look odd to anyone else. Jack and Matvey are like polar opposites to most people but only because Matvey likes to hide away hoping to drive anyone away from him but once Jack doesn't leave him and is there to stay... well he gets very upfront in Jack's experience with traps, explosives, everything like a quiz and very in their face that would unsettle most people(he doesn't mean to come off as unsettling and doesn't really notice it himself. Kinda like the blue eyed people meme.) Before eventually telling him about his own traps, and explosives after a few days of one-sided silence. Matvey would initially be curious about Jack's inclination towards fire but doesn't bring it up since glass houses and all that, he has his own things too. Though, Matvey would try be helpful in his own way and that burning someone alive isn't the only way to kill someone and to think more towards a silent killer like smoke inhalation. Matvey would look for guidance on his own blueprints and chemical weapons, and traps, places to improve. He takes Jack's opinions very seriously.

Matvey would work in silence while Jack pointed out areas to improve and would like to do the same with Jack if she ever let him look at their own ideas.

They are bad influences to each other in a way, Jack just wants to just kill a hostile with fire for once while Matvey just wants to be allowed to use his chemical weapons, of similar opinions. Jack's very loud and talks back while Matvey just broods in the corner or storms off, they are both brats in their own ways.

Matvey ends up filing for a release of information on Jack's behalf as he feels guilty hiding his identity from Jack who he trusts and considers as a friend. He also just thinks Matthew is the worst fake name ever given. So yes, I do think they would be the best of friends.

I was hoping on doing something more detailed but I take breaks between detailed art due to probable burnout so here's the up to no good destructive blorbos ! I hope you find them just as cute ヽ(´▽`)/

[5mind]

(( watching this weeks ultra and jotting down 'illegal monster tissue trade' into my plot bunny list

[butlerbarrow]

god thomas thinks he's so much smarter than he actually is, and that is sometimes his downfall.

[mmishee-art]

Watch the new Silvagunner video I'm so serious it is AMAZING

[zvaigzdelasas]

They didn't respond :(

[meldritchhorror]

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[bugpysforge]

Galarian Linoone is confident but rude. He initiates conflicts recklessly, not thinking about the safety of others. He can be quite dexterous at evading blows because he easily loses his sense of balance when struck.

Race: Otterfolk Class: Ranger Subclass: Primal Shifter Conclave Location: Thrifty Mega Black Market Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

View the pokedex of all dungeon pokemon by following the link in the menu.

[hyrules-warrior]

Can openers must be worth more then just about anything else in this world. Like guns/knives, medical supplies, can openers in that order.

[dnangelic]

' ... '

' WHAT AM I TRYING ?! ' // @illjigoku

[mintbnny]

@ceelphones

requested by transandgaybutworse

[wainswright]

The trial of Socrates took place over a nine-to-ten hour period in the People's Court, located in the agora, the civic center of Athens. The jury consisted of 500 male citizens over the age of thirty, chosen by lot from among volunteers. Athens used very large numbers of jurors, from 500 to as many as 1501, in part as a protection against bribes: who could afford to bribe 500 people? All jurors were required to swear by the gods of Zeus, Apollo, and Demeter the Heliastic Oath:

"I will cast my vote in consonance with the laws and decrees passed by the Assembly and by the Council, but, if there is no law, in consonance with my sense of what is most just, without favor or enmity. I will vote only on the matters raised in the charge, and I will listen impartially to the accusers and defenders alike."

Most of the jurors were probably farmers, as that was the principal occupation of the day. For their jury service they received payment of three obols. The jurors sat on wooden benches separated from spectators by some sort of barrier or railing. Given Socrates's fame and the notoriousness of the charge against him, the crowd of spectators was most likely large--including, of course, the most famous pupil of Socrates, Plato.

The trial began in the morning with the reading of the formal charges against Socrates by a herald. Few, if any, formal rules of evidence existed. The prosecution presented its case first. Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon had three hours, measured by a waterclock, to make their argument for a finding of guilt. Each accuser spoke from an elevated stage. No record of the prosecution's argument against Socrates survives.

Following the prosecution's case, Socrates had three hours to answer the charges. Although many written versions of the defense--or apology--of Socrates at one time circulated, only two have survived: one by Plato and another by Xenophon.

Following the arguments, the herald of the court called on the jurors to consider their decision. In Athens, jurors did not retire to a juryroom to deliberate--they made their decisions without discussion among themselves, based in large part on their own interpretations of the law. The 500 jurors voted on his guilt or innocence by dropping bronze ballot disks of the sort pictured above into marked urns. Only a majority vote was necessary for conviction. Four jurors were assigned the task of counting votes. In the case of Socrates, the jury found Socrates guilty on a relatively close vote of 280 to 220. (Interestingly, if less than 100 jurors voted for guilt, the accusers had to pay a fine to cover trial costs.)

If a defendant is convicted, the trial enters a second phase to set punishment. The prosecution and the defendant each propose a punishment and the jury chooses between the two punishment options presented to it. The range of possible punishments included death, imprisonment, loss of civil rights (i.e., the right to vote, the right to serve as a juror, the right to speak in the Assembly), exile, and fines. In the trial of Socrates, the principal accusers proposed the punishment of death. Socrates, if Plato's account is to be believed, proposed first the punishment--or, rather, the non-punishment--of free meals in the center of the city, then later the extremely modest fine of one mina of silver. Apparently finding Socrates' proposed punishment insultingly light, the jury voted for the prosecution's proposal of death by a larger margin than for conviction, 360 to 140.

The execution of Socrates was accomplished through the drinking of a cup of poison hemlock.

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/socrates/greekcrimpro.html#:~:text=Only%20a%20majority%20vote%20was,fine%20to%20cover%20trial%20costs.)

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Checking later: “by what i think is just if no law exists” imply prosecution introduces the law, then the charge, then the facts, then the argument.

This implies defense only has ONE opportunity to rebut all of that. I’m guessing theres court procedure to settle question of law before trial, no discovery process, no witnesses, evidence like a circus sideshow and entertainment if opinions are published in town square.

The first vote is to decide the question of law, which I suppose is very vague if juries dont come back with their own chaotic decision. (a two option vote?? criminal trial emphasis even though it is called civil law? am i getting these mixed up or did athens?)

The second vote is punishment.

so: the first vote is actually “do you think this guy should get punished.”

and the system was so prone over the top comical brutality (just by how it looks set up) it was common for people to go “ope the 500 man jury went sideways lets rescue this little fella,” (i think) but socrates stubbornly took his death sentence despite everything.

also how come performance isnt an option for punishment. that doesn’t seem plausible.