#deposing nathan

[melanchovy]

and while we're on the subject of luigi mangione, FREE NATHAN MAHONEY (who alledgedly* stabbed his company's ceo during a meeting)! the reason you may not have heard this name is because the police clearly do not want to make the same mistake they did with Mangione by allowing him to become a symbol. let's show our support for Nathan Mahoney, who looks exactly how he should in his mugshot— proud of himself

edit: the stabbed was the company’s president* not ceo, and the company (Anderson Express) manufactures vehicles for the US military

edit 2: to add on, the US military at this time sends much of its supplies to apartheid Israel in the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their country. this company was indirectly but most certainly harming and killing Palestinians.

[brnabunny]

I'm having a divine premonition that we should all start keeping physical diaries about what's going on right now. Not saying plan anything or rant if you Are, but for when the government inevitably decide how this history will be written. We need multiple sources available telling what we are actually witnessing and the peoples actually feelings about it.

Not just easily scrubbed digital musings.

[iluvheroes]

Nathan Mahoney will undergo a competency exam

"The man accused of attacking the leader of a manufacturing company in Muskegon has been ordered to undergo a mental competency exam. 

Nathan Mahoney, 32, is charged with assault with intent to commit murder and fourth-degree fleeing/eluding a police officer after allegedly stabbing  Anderson Express president Erik Denslow and running from police..."

Anyone know if/where we can donate money to his legal defense?

[a-rogue-tiddy-bot]

Damn, so close.

[warriorprincesstramp]

all the women in gay male media are always extremely cool and fun and slay like sorry to gay guys but hooray feminism!!!!

[hazbmymhotel]

Yea, I'm gonna say that peaceful protesting has done nothing

But your 2nd amendment right to fight against a tyrannical government? I think that'd go a long way pretty fucking quickly.

i feel like we as a country should organize mass protests in front of major health insurance companies AND congress where we just yell DENY DEFEND DEPOSE over and over. no actual violence. just ominous yelling. i think that would do a lot of good for this country.

[peachy-panic]

What are your top ten whumpy book recommendations?

Top 10, you say? How about a comprehensive list of every half decent whumpy book I've read in the last 3 years? (I tried to balance the order between my overall love for the book and the whumpiness level)

BLANKET TW FOR THESE BOOKS: noncon, abuse, domestic violence, med whump, lab whump religious trauma, institutionalized abuse

WHUMPY BOOK RECS

TOP 10

The Tarot Sequence - K.D. Edwards (series, ongoing)

Winter’s Orbit - Everina Maxwell

How To Bang A Billionaire - Alexis Hall (trilogy, complete)

The Darkness Outside Us - Eliot Schrefer (will rip your heart out)

All For The Game - Nora Sakavic (trilogy, complete)

Dark Room Etiquette - Robin Roe

HappyHead - Josh Silver (sequel in progress)

All That’s Left in the World - Erik J. Brown

The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice & Virtue - Mackenzi Lee

Stars in Your Eyes - Kacen Callender (releases in October 2023)

OTHER RECS:

- We Are The Ants - Shaun David Hutchinson

- Tonight We Rule the World - Zack Smedley

- The Lookback Window - Kyle Dillon Hertz (just finished!)

- Dark Space - Lisa Henry (trilogy, currently reading)

- First, Become Ashes - K.M. Sparza

- Parker - Jack Harbon

- A Strange and Stubborn Endurance - Foz Meadows

- Docile - K.M. Sparza (BBU vibes)

- Into the Light - Mark Oshiro

- Young Mungo - Douglas Stuart

- A List of Cages - Robin Roe (minor main character)

- Deposing Nathan - Zack Smedley (minor main character)

- How to Bite Your Neighbor and Win a Wager - D.N. Bryn

- Mysterious Skin - Scott Heim

- Surrender Your Sons - Adam Sass

- Yes, Daddy - Jonathan Parks-Ramage

- Not Quite Out - Louise Willingham

- Runner - Parker Williams

- Fraternity - Andy Mientus

- A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara (honestly… maybe don't read this)

LADY WHUMP:

- They Never Learn - Layne Fargo

- The Girls I’ve Been - Tess Sharpe

- I’m The Girl - Courtney Summers

- Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan

- We Set the Dark on Fire - Tehlor Kay Mejia (there’s a sequel)

[possumcollege]

Tumblr just fed me a repost thread where someone responded to a meme that said "The Right gave us the Klan and the Left gave us weekends" with this extremely broken nugget of US history. 👇

🌈 This is horseshit.

1: In the 1860s, under what US historians call the Third Party System Republicans were what we would call "progressive" and Democrats were the "conservative" party.

Lincoln was a Republican, as were many Americans who called for the abolition of slavery. Lincoln stated that he was not personally in favor of total abolition and emancipation but he did believe regulation of slavery was a power of the federal government as opposed to state governments. Democrats of the Reconstruction Era favored strict moral legislation against race mixing, opposed citizenship and voting rights for African Americans, and largely opposed the expansion of Federal powers over the individual states.

It's honest-to-god not that hard to understand that American political parties haven't always been the exact same parties they are today. I can't help it if no one ever taught them this but it isn't an obscure or contested piece of information. Anybody trotting this shit out as a dunk on contemporary Democrats is either wrong or lying.

2: The Klan was never a "Leftist Anarchist alternative to law enforcement"

The concept of organized State law enforcement was barely a thing in the South at that time. Most southern law enforcemement consisted of slave patrols mustered from state militias, tasked with finding and capturing runaways, and preventing large-scale slave rebellions like the French experienced in the Caribbean. Slave patrols were abolished after the Civil War and officers were instead charged with enforcing "Jim Crow" laws under Reconstruction. Many of the Klan's tactics were literally the unofficial, vigilante continuation of practices that were legal for slave patrols. At no point were organized "law enforcement" and the Klan working at cross purposes. They both sought to maintain the social order through violent enforcement of a system where black people had no rights, the klan just wasn't an official agent of the State.

Anarchists may seek to operate without centralized state authority, but vigilantes are not inherently "Anarchists" just because they're ungoverned. By that reasoning, children fighting on the playground are Anarchists.

White Supremacy is itself antithetical to central Anarchist principles, which call for a society based on voluntary participation, free of social heirarchy, or rule-by-force.

3: Whether they know it or not, when someone says that the Klan formed as any kind of peacekeeping force, they are parroting Pro-Klan propaganda.

There are 3 distinct, widely accepted eras of organizations calling themselves the KKK. The first is the most relevant as it formed during Reconstruction in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War. It began when a number of young Southern men and Confederate veterans took it upon themselves to terrorize and intimidate newly-free African Americans by raiding homes and businesses, destroying property, harassing black communities, and murdering black leaders, organizers, and their allies.

The first iterations of the Klan were heavily influenced by a growing fascination with fraternal orders and secret societies in America during that era. They cribbed heavily from another secret society, the Knights of the Golden Circle, (the Klan's name came from the Greek word for "circle") who hoped to establish a new county around the legality of slavery. This country would've included the states of the CSA, Mexico, Cuba, the islands of the Caribbean, and parts of Central/ South America.

Claims that the Klan existed to oust Scalawags, Carpetbaggers and other Northern opportunists (often said to be Jews and Catholics) who rushed in to fill the vacuum of deposed Southern leadership doesn't emerge until 1868-69 when Nathan Bedford Forrest was formally elected as their first (holy fucking shit 🤦‍♂️) "Grand Wizard."

(this absolute dipshit)

These retroactive narratives were further amplified in the 1880s-90s as Lost Cause rhetoric began to gain momentum among those sympathetic to the confederacy, white supremacists, and those seeking to profit off the continued disenfranchisement of African Americans as cheap prison labor.

These tales of masked men protecting downtrodden southern whites from the grasping, predatory Yankee Carpetbaggers were further enshrined as founding myths of the second Klan, in Georgia in 1915. It remains a popular Whitewashing narrative to this day.

I do not give half a proud southern shit what the guys who were scamming their buddies into buying official Klan dishes in the 20s said the Klan was about. Those actually existed btw. I don't have to give Forrest's claims any more weight than I give Spencer's claims on the motivation of neo-nazis.

Spencer got exactly what both of them deserved when he got socked in the head on TV.

[sorasan000]

I've been imagining Turning and AkaYona characters meeting and interacting, and it's as follows:

Keilusa and Suwon: K: You're a royal who has divine blood that eats away at your body until it kills you too, huh? S: Yes, except I have *actual* divine blood, and I still hate my god's guts. K: Well, I know someone like that, too. S: your nation is undergoing a lot of positive leadership upheavals, despite you being out of the public sphere for so long as the ruler. K: Indeed, I have no answer for my previous absence of influence except to move forward now that my illness can be managed. Anyway, want to watch me bring down the Duke who killed my child? S: Let me get out the good tea.

Nathan and Yun: N: This is a recipe quite useful for sick patients. It's easy to digest without sacrificing flavors. Y: What about this juice you made? N: It's a mix of pear, peach, and lemon. Y: What about that medicine that was used to knock that patient out cold? N: restricted. Next.

Yuder and the four dragons: Y: you were born with these powers? I want to see how you fair against the Cavalry, just so I can see your baseline and then write up a training regimen based on that. Kija: I like the sound of that! Shinah: *nods* Jaeha: Training? Zeno: I don't need it. Y: You're just going to let yourself get cut up? That's your strategy? Get up, I don't even have to watch you. I have one written up right now, and the first thing we're doing it getting you to run. Z: Aw-- Y: Start running

Yuder and Hak: H: In the end, he didn't disclose a single thing about any of his plans. Just left us to pick up the pieces. Y: At least he didn't plan on having you kill him. H: .....You know, I think he at least had some expectations. Y: ok, enough, time to show me how strong you are so I can nail a training regimen to the wall for you, too.

Kishiar and Yona: K: Being deposed and chased out of your home like that must have been truly devastating. I remember the feeling of hopelessness I had, and it wasn't nearly as violent as that. Y: but we still live on, helping the people with the power we still have. We're not perfectly okay compared to before it happened, but I'm working alongside the people who did it. K: That's hard. I'm not sure I could do it. My beautiful assistant could, but I couldn't. Anyway, are you truly an incarnation of a god? That's a big thing to live up to, as bothersome as it is. Y: Oh, you understand that, too? K: *sigh*

Bonus:

Kiolle and Taejun (*Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man scene)

Emperor Katchian and Il: K: *does anything* Il: You are single-handedly killing the pacifist within me.

Myra and Lili: M: A princess of the south determined to tackle the rampant drug ring in your territory? We have so much to exchange! L: Yea, though it was difficult to do because my father wouldn't move and then he'd restrict me if I tried. M: Ugh, fathers. L: he exiled me when I defied him, but it was to allow me to move around more freely, so it wasn't so bad. M: *sigh*

[mavrustheunskooled]

books to read if you like Kristen Applebees

or: books to read if you are gay and have religious trauma

(courtesy of @chungledownresponsibly’s encouragement)

note: these books are often heavy! books about queerness and religion often are! I’ve organized this post roughly from lightest to heaviest, with a short addendum at the end for non-queer books that I still recommend if the topic interests you :) I really respect and love every title on this list and I hope you do too!

- Say a Little Prayer by Jenna Voris: a young adult novel about a young woman who is sent to a Christian camp over spring break as penance for punching the girl who was bullying her sister for having an abortion. relevant themes of cult leader-like pastors, the struggles of deprogramming even when you think you’ve escaped, girl kissing

- Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable: a young adult graphic novel about Catholic guilt, hidden queerness, and going to baseball games. relevant themes of religious homophobia

- The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M Danforth: a young adult queer coming-of-age story. relevant themes of religious homophobia

- Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick: a young adult novel about two young women who plan to run away from their tiny conservative town together, only for one of them to get into an accident that causes her to forget their entire relationship— and all of the growth she’s done to accept her sexuality. relevant themes of being queer and surrounded by conservatives

- Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley: a young adult novel about two young men dealing with internalized homophobia in a deeply Christian town. this book is insanely good. relevant themes of homophobia and religious trauma

- Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White: a young adult horror novel about a trans boy who is the unwilling harbinger of the apocalypse for a doomsday cult. you see why this is relevant

- Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin: a horror novel set in a conversion therapy camp. relevant themes of religious homophobia.

- Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H: not Christian so not entirely relevant to this post but still worth a read. this memoir weaves together religion and queerness in a way that I think should be required reading

- Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon: a young person on the run from a cult must raise her twin children in the woods by herself while also dealing with her supernaturally changing body. relevant themes of escaping a cult and queerness. also very much about racism in America

not about queerness but worth a read

- Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison: adult horror novel about a woman returning to the cult where she grew up. relevant themes of cults and family

- Forager by Michelle Dowd: a memoir about growing up in a doomsday cult. relevant themes of cults, family, and deprogramming

- Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez: in particular season 1 of FH gets into that masculine tough guy Christianity, and this book looks at where that outlook came from

because I’m an indie bookseller I have to say: shop local! if you go to indiebound.org and put in your zip code, you can find your nearest indie bookstore! for audiobooks, you can go to libro.fm and link your account to your local indie bookstore, and for digital books, go to kobo!

[lgbtqreads]

hi do you know of any mlm books where theres focus on them questioning their sexuality?

Sure! I particularly love Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley and find it highly underrated, and also check out Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz, We Are Totally Normal by Naomi Kanakia, Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg, and Whatever by SJ Goslee.

[busterballsblog]

Nathan Wade admitted to multiple White House meetings during Trump Georgia probe, transcript suggests | Fox News

[iluvheroes]

Can't believe Nathan Mahoney tried to wack that ceo company president after two weeks. Two weeks! Procrastinate much?

[richmond-rex]

Hi there

So I follow the Tudor Trio and Nicola Tallis, Matthew Lewis and Nathan Amin were doing a debate today on the Princes in the Tower with the quote on quote new evidence that has been revealed from Philippa Langley.

I still firmly believe Richard III killed the Princes and find many of Matthew Lewis' arguments bizarre. I'm not sure why he thinks the Princes weren't a threat to Richard but were to Henry VII. If the Princes weren't a threat to Richard then why would they have been a threat to Henry VII? I can't understand why Richard would ever let them escape England of his own free Will. There is almost no chance they could have escaped without him knowing about it.

Also he claimed that Henry VII sent Elizabeth Woodville to Bermondsey Abbey and that she was supporting the Lambert Simnel Rebellion. Is there any truth to that? Thanks!

Hi, sorry for taking so long to reply! Lewis' arguments are so incredibly ridiculous — they largely rest on accepting at face value people's signatures and on the claim that Maximilian and Margaret of York were too blue-blooded to ever lie for political ends: essentially, he claims lying was for peasants. And yes, the princes would absolutely be a threat to Richard III as he found out as soon as he left London after his coronation — there happened a rebellion made by former Edwardian servants that aimed to free the princes from the Tower, very possibly to restore them to the throne. The princes had been raised all their lives to regard the English throne as their birthright — you're telling me they would grow up abroad and would neve try a restoration aided by one of England's political enemies such as France?

The ricardian claim that Richard III sent them to Burgundy is incredibly ridiculous to me as well: even if they stayed with Richard's sister, she wasn't the one ruling Burgundy — Maximilian of Austria, the husband of Margaret's deceased daughter-in-law, was. How could Richard be sure Maximilian wouldn't take the princes the minute Richard did something that went against Maximilian's interests and use them to either blackmail him or depose him so Maximilian could have his own English king? Burgundy had displayed lancastrian loyalties not so long ago in the past and the political game in Europe changed constantly.

It would have been absolutely STUPID of Richard III to deliver the strongest weapon anyone could use against him to a foreign power. Let's also mention that Maximilian at the time was struggling with controlling his own children, the actual Burgundian heirs, because some Flemish cities had rebelled against him and had his heir (Philip of Burgundy) in their power and were up in arms against his regency. From June 1483 to July 1485 Maximilian couldn't have control of his own son. You're telling me Richard would have sent the biggest assets anyone could use against him to that unstable scenario?

The truth is that Ricardians like Matthew Lewis benefit from the fact that people study/know about the Wars of the Roses from an impossibly anglocentric lens, ignoring that the conflict was also the outcome of the multiple iterations of power play between Western European powers: 'the Wars of the Roses were an extended episode in a European conflict, not just a murderous private dispute'. It really is inconceivable, when it comes down to logic, how Richard was one step ahead of everyone during the mounting off to his takeover of the throne (bamboozling and imprisoning the Woodvilles, executing and imprisoning Edward V's strongest supporters such as Hastings) but would commit such a basic political error as sending other claimants to his own crown to a foreign power.

As to Elizabeth Woodville going to Bermondsey Abbey as a way of punishment for her supporting a rebellion against Henry VII, it makes little sense as well. Henry VII carried on with the marriage negotiations with Scotland that involved Elizabeth and two of her daughters until James III's death in 1488. Again, it would make little sense for Henry VII to have found out Elizabeth was conspiring against him but keep wanting to send her north as an ally to Scotland, a country that could easily make war on him and create problems. Why would he deliver an enemy into the hands of another possible enemy, if Elizabeth truly conspired against him? Again, it's the lack of perspective into Europe and international politics that jump out in Lewis' logic.

Do my words make sense to you? I truly cannot comprehend how Lewis can say the stuff he says and no one really contradicts him in his logic.

[akocomyk]

5th Place – Top 5 Books of My 2024

Deposing Nathan by Zak Smedley

Living in a country where Christianity is the dominant religion—with a majority being Catholics—simply being part of the LGBT community means that a part of your life is a struggle to find acceptance from the people you love. This journey is intertwined with finding yourself and accepting who you are along the way.

This debut novel by Zak Smedley hits the right notes in portraying the abuse inflicted by prejudice from religious zealots who make young people believe that you’d go to hell simply for being who you are and loving the person you wish to love.

I read this book without knowing much about it, other than its 4.23 rating on Goodreads and its themes surrounding teen bisexuality. You see, while I may have moved past my YA era, but when I do miss reading those kinds of books, I make sure what I pick up is worth my time.

At first glance, this might seem like a typical YA story, but no. At times, it’s quite difficult to read, as you’re confronted with harsh realities often faced by children—the abuse and all that.

And that ending. It’s… well, all I can say is it’s the ending the novel deserves. It made me wanna shed a tear or two—it hit me hard in the gut—but I guess it was just the perfect way to wrap up the story.

[aledethanlast]

Okay but like if you think about it, Neil's surviving Baltimore isn't all pure luck. That is to say, it's only 30% luck. The other 70% is everyone else involved in that catastrophe royally fucking up, jumping the gun, or being generally bad at their jobs.

Like, Nathan gets out of prison, and priority 1 is to reestablish his presence as fast as possible. He needs to prove to Kengo that he's still in the game and doesn't need to be replaced with someone who doesn't get caught.

Except Kengo is dying. Hiding it, but definitely dying. Meaning his comeback has a VERY short deadline.

And then Riko, who has been running around using yakuza resources for personal grudges unchecked, hands him his son on a silver platter. Christmas come late.

And then...he waits? I can only assume Nathan spends two months tormenting Neil with that countdown because that was the earliest he could orchestrate a meeting with both Kengo and Ichirou, where he intended to present Nathaniel's severed head on a literal silver platter, and thus prove his worth to his old boss, and secure his favor with the incoming.

Except knowing that the feds were watching the house apparently didn't extend to knowing that they HIRED HIS BROTHER IN LAW TO KILL HIM CIA STYLE.

(Which also??? Hello???)

Well they do that, and don't even realize that Nathan didn't put up a fight because he was busy trying to kill the best witness against him until the guy physically walks up to them and says so. And then the gjy starts being contrarian and they guy huffy but whatever. That's a minor problem for them. Their big concern is closing this case in a nice bow without the DoJ ever finding out what they did. Or worse, the press.

Meanwhile...the Moriyamas. We have only the tiniest glimpse of what was happening inside that family, but I am sure of one thing: Ichirou's ascension to the throne was NOT a peaceful transition of power. Kengo refusing to step away gracefully, covering up hospitalizations, he likely held on to power until the very last second, denying his son the time and space to secure the loyalty of their generals in advance.

So now Kengo is dead, right-hand man not only gone but his network ripped apart by carrion, and he needs to cauterize every bleeding limb before he's caught, challenged, or deposed. He is PANICKING.

By the time he gets to Palmetto, and Neil says "Don't look at me, I'm the one person in this fiasco who knows their place", Ichirous internal response is little more than "Oh thank God."