#detective di Seattle.

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Non ho paura del buio di Robert Dugoni: Una detective alla ricerca della verità. Recensione di Alessandria today

Un thriller intenso e mozzafiato con Tracy Crosswhite come protagonista. Il primo volume della serie dedicata alla detective Tracy Crosswhite, “Non ho paura del buio”, firmato da Robert Dugoni, trascina il lettore in una spirale di misteri, segreti e colpi di scena. La trama ruota attorno al tormento personale di Tracy, che per vent’anni ha cercato la verità sull’omicidio della sorella minore…

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if you keep asking | s.r

pairing: spencer reid x fem!bau!reader

a/n: this was requested with “if you keep asking me i’m not gonna be okay” or smth along the lines 😭 i am a glutton for hurt/comfort fics so if yall have any more requests send em in :)

summary: in which you’re trying to keep it together when you hear some detectives talking ill of you, and spencer isn’t gonna have it

cw: hurt/comfort, self deprecation, insecure!reader, bitch ass detectives, protective bau my heart, use of she/her pronouns

wc: 2.2k

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the bau team was filing into the bullpen after landing from their last case in seattle, everyone making a beeline for their desks to get a head start on their reports so they could go home faster. everyone, except you. it felt like you were on autopilot, remembering your last known movements and just repeating them for as long as you could.

the case in seattle was rough to say the least. the unsub’s mo seemed to change every minute, making any progress the team made obsolete. the only thing that seemed to be somewhat consistent was where the unsub was taking his victims, which meant the geographical profile was the most important part to solving the case, a task you and reid were assigned to.

it started off fine, you both had found the comfort zone of where the unsub would strike next to figure out how to catch him in the act. except the next time he struck it was completely out of the predicted range, and this time a kid had died. no one could have anticipated that happening. it didn’t make the loss hurt any less.

the team knew it wasn’t anyone’s fault, humans are unpredictable, and that includes serial killers. spencer made sure to tell you specifically that it wasn’t your fault, he knew how you’d get if someone didn’t tell you.

his efforts went to utter waste when you walked by a room at the precinct with detectives whispering about how “you fucked up the whole profile, that’s why that kid died” and “it’s clear you make the team stupider, how did you even get into the fbi in the first place?”

it wasn’t the first time your abilities were in question. you were the newest member of the team, having only transferred six months ago from cold cases. you may be new to the field, but there was a reason hotch chose you personally for the bau.

you tried hard to prove yourself, despite pretty much everyone saying your skillset was enough proof. you’d stay late to finish reports, do extra research on cases to help garcia narrow her searches faster, and you spent countless hours at the training range.

you were a worthy agent, anyone who knew you or read your resume knew that. but right now, you felt like the smallest person on earth, an imposter. what the hell were you even doing here if you couldn’t save him.

you shouldn’t be allowed to feel relief that the team caught the unsub, not when there’s blood on your hands.

the bad thoughts swirling in your head causes you to stall your motions when you’re putting files away, gaining the attention of morgan, “you alright, sweet cheeks?”

“i’m good morgan, don’t worry.” you lie effortlessly. if he can tell you’re lying, he doesn’t mention it and turns back to his work.

taking a deep breath, you stand up to go to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee, when you run into jj finishing up making her own, “i was just thinking about you, i got this new creamer i think you’d rea-, hey, are you okay?” jj starts but ends concerned.

you try to focus on metronomic tick of the clock so you dont escalate, “i’m fine j,” you laugh unconvincingly, “what creamer did you get?”

she ignores your question, “because i know that was a tough case, and if you need to talk about it with someo-“

“jj, drop it, please.”

the blonde’s face drops a little at your sternness, but respects your space and offers you to try the creamer before returning to her desk. you feel bad for snapping at her, but the growing guilt within you is giving you apathy, and you can’t bring yourself to care at this moment.

you linger in the kitchen so as to avoid any more concerned faces, and you’re left to your own devices that are slowly overtaking you.

unbeknownst to you, spencer had been watching you since you all landed back in quantico. he kept his distance, mostly because he knew how overwhelmed you get at confrontation, especially about your emotions. he was the same way, a man of logic getting befuddled by emotion was enough cognitive dissonance to last a long time.

he knew it was different with you. you had a way of internalizing everything in your surrounding, a downfall to your endless empathy for others even if they never deserve it. he could explain the logic behind your beliefs, and hopefully use facts to help you relax, but that was the other thing he knew about you; you were stubborn. asking for help is something you hated doing, and if it wasn’t on your accord to be asking, it was even more detrimental to your mood.

so when he watched you duck out from the kitchen and push past the glass doors of the bullpen, he knew you were reaching the head of your doom spiral quickly.

spencer got up from his desk, “i’m gonna go check on her.”

jj nodded, “just be mindful spence, something feels different.”

they’d all been on cases that hit a little too close to home, how could they not when all they do is rid the world of the evilest of evildoers. but after a good cry, a rant to a teammate, or even an emergency therapy session, even the worst of the scum could be washed away.

something about the way you’ve been acting since they landed seemed like those fixits aren’t going to work this time.

he let out a sigh in response and walked out of the bullpen, realizing he didn’t actually know which direction you went in. assuming you’d want to be alone, he thinks the bathroom might’ve been a viable option for you and heads towards it.

the nice thing about the seventh floor is that it’s only for the bau, the bullpen was where the team spent most of their time but outside the doors there were so many empty rooms being used for storage.

so as spencer walked towards the bathroom in the hopes of finding you, his ears pick up on a tiny sniffle a little ways before it. he stops in his tracks, hoping he was just hearing things. but another pained sob rang through the door on his left, and he knew he’d found you.

he rapps the door a few times, softly calling your name, “hey, it’s spencer…can i come in please?”

you were on the other side sitting at one of the abandoned desks with your head down, but shot up at hearing spencer’s voice, “i- i’m fine i just needed a minute. i’ll be back in like two minutes, i promise.” you angrily wipe at the tears pooling on your face, grateful that you took your makeup off in the plane.

“honey, that’s not what i asked,” he starts, “is it okay if i come in?

your heart clenches at the term of endearment as you stare at the door knowing he was waiting for your okay to come in, and you start to internally weigh your options. you could let him in, and let him in to do whatever comforting you know logically would help. or you could lie, and feign ignorance to the end.

don’t they say ignorance is bliss?

you make sure to wipe the last of your tears and your runny nose before practicing a few fake smiles so it didn’t look like your face was frozen in sadness for the last thirty minutes. turning the knob you swing the door open, borderline creepy smile on your face as you greet the man, “hi dr. reid! was there something you were looking for?”

he furrows his brows at your complete (fake) shift in mood, but he comes in and shuts the door behind him, and moves to stand a few feet from you, “what’s going on?”

“nothing spence, i’m fine.” you insist.

spencer thinks if you could be more see through you’d be a windexed window. you’re avoiding eye contact with him, picking at the skin of your thumb, he can see your nose is red most likely from all the tissue blowing, and your eyes are still puffy and lined with some unshed tears still. you are so clearly breaking at the seams, like an old childhood teddy bear with stuffing falling out the sides yet hoping you can offer some semblance of stability despite your state.

“you don’t look fine, honey. why won’t you tell me what’s bothering you?”

his words almost make you falter, and you think the walls you built so high are starting to chip down. “it’s not a big deal spence, i-,” a hiccuped breath gives you away, “i can deal with it on my own.”

spencer instinctively shortens the gap between you two, “you shouldn’t have to. i just wanna help you.”

“but i’m oka-“

“no you’re not.”

there is only one tiny thin thread left holding you together. “well,” you take a deep inhale and your voice gets impossibly small, “if you keep saying things like to me i’m not gonna be okay.”

“that’s why i’m here.” he says softly.

you look up at him with the biggest glassy doe eyed look he’s ever seen, and it’s like spencer can hear the snap of the thread in real time when he watches your face absolutely crumble. he doesn’t hesitate to pull you into his embrace, allowing him to hold your head down in the middle of his chest while his other hand smooths up and down your back in comfort.

“i know, shh, hey it’s okay, i got you.” he comforts.

your hands wrap around his waist beneath his suit jacket and you keep your face buried in his chest, inhaling the musky vanilla scent of his cologne mixed with the fresh laundry detergent smell letting it ground you back to him.

“i’m sorry.” you cry.

“don’t say that,” he hushes, “is it about the case?” you nod in his embrace, “we talked about it remember? there was nothing we could have done. we did everything right, sometimes it just doesn’t work out, you know that.” he moves his hand to tangle in your hair and rub your head.

“i- i know,” you say through labored breaths. you take a big breath before admitting the true reason for your anguish, “when we were about to leave, i walked by a room with some detectives talking about how i ruined the case and that…i’m the reason the kid died.”

“what?” he pulls back to look you in the eyes hoping to find any indication that you didn’t believe those poisoned words, “we both worked on that geographical profile together, the whole team agreed it was accurate and acted accordingly. what happened was not your fault. at all.” he emphasizes the last two words.

“yeah but…i don’t know maybe i could ha-“

“stop. you can’t do that to yourself. we did what we could with what we had, the burden of that child’s passing does not fall on you. we were only able to find the unsub’s hiding spot when you figured out he’d been going to the same gas station since the murders started.” he reinforced to you.

“they said that they didn’t know how i even got into the academy in the first place, and that i make the team stupider.” you quietly added.

spencer felt the rage consume his body, already planning the ways he was going to obliterate seattle pd. he cradled your head to look at him in the eyes, “listen to me. you are an important asset to this team. you make this team better at what they do, you make me better at what i do. you mean so much to me and the team okay? please don’t forget that.”

he swipes at a fallen tear on your cheek as you tell him between sniffles, “thanks spence…” you hope he understands the sentiment and love you’re trying to exude to him, even thought you’re unable to vocalize it.

“you gotta tell me if something like that happens,” he softly scolds you, “i’ll make sure they lose their fucking jobs.”

you’re about to speak when he cuts you off, “and don’t tell me that we should be the bigger people, because once the rest of the team hears about this, they’re all gonna be fighting over who’s gonna kick the shit out of them.”

you let out a tearful giggle, “you sound really funny when you curse.”

he scoffs, “what the hell, i do not!”

“you sound like a baby duckling that just learned how to say fuck.”

he starts to guide you out of the room and towards hotch’s office so you can recount what happened, “ouch, i’m hurt. i’d like to think the pistol and fbi badge i carry makes me intimidating.”

you giggle again, and spencer puts aside his rage to revel in the fact that you’re feeling better.

when hotch learned of what happened he immediately called seattle pd to file a motion to get those detectives fired, and the rest of the team were secretly praying for a case in seattle again so they could, as spencer predicted, kick the shit out of them.

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Twilight ocs: The Delcroix coven

Ketsia Delacroix

Age: 20

Personality: protective, confident, level-headed, cautious, courageous, caring, loyal, determined, passionate, compassionate, cunning, intelligent, clever, stubborn, logical, crafty, resourceful, independent

Appearance:

Species: Witch

Family/coven members: lilah (niece), Dominique (coven sister), Nairobi (niece), Alora (niece)

Love interest: Benjamin

Powers: spell casting, channeling, spiritual senses, summoning, rune magic, reality warping, hexes, binding magic, card magic, illusion magic, shadow magic, teleportation, aura magic, clairvoyance, magic detection

Items/jewelry: black crystal necklace w/ a pentagram pendant, tarot cards, amethyst ring, snake earrings

Extra: When Ketsia was a teenager, she was the younger sister of her niece Lilah's mother, who was coven leader. She was also in a relationship and love with a vampire and believed that their two worlds could unite in peace and live together. But one night, her sister called in a family coven meeting. During this meeting, they were locked inside their home with all the doors blocked against them and their magic. Then Ketsia's home was set ablaze with everyone inside of it, but Ketsia managed to take Lilah, and they both escaped the burning house. When Ketsia escaped, she saw her vampire lover in the distance with his clan laughing at her now burnt house. After her ex and his clan left, she then soon hunted them down and made them suffer painfully and slowly, then killed them. After that, all she had was her niece Lilah and made a promise to love and protect her. After a while, it was just Ketsia and Lilah, that was until she found Dominique while she was traveling to find somewhere for both her and Lilah. After that, both Dominique and Ketsia became each other's family, forming their new coven together and promising to protect their coven and each other no matter what.

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Dominique Delacroix

Age: 17 (when she had the twins), 21 (now)

Personality: caring, loyal, protective, motherly, sarcastic, independent, cunning, protective, playful, selfless, cautious, brave, strong-willed, fierce, stubborn, passionate

Appearance:

Species: witch

Family/coven members: Nairobi (daughter), Alora (daughter/twin to Nairobi), Ketsia (coven sister), Lilah (niece figure)

Powers: potion making, spell casting, alchemy, healing magic, herbalism, nature magic, elemental magic, spell casting

Items/jewelry: mood ring, crescent moon dream catcher, green leather journal, leather bracelet w/ a silver feather, butterfly brooch, satchel bag filled w/ essential oils and potions

Extra: Dominique had Nairobi and Alora when she was in high school in San Francisco, California. When Dominique refused to get rid of her daughters, Dom's parents kicked her out, and she went to live with her grandmother, who was a businesswoman in Seattle. After Nairobi and Alora were born, Dominique did consider putting them up for adoption but, in the end, decided to keep her and raise her with her grandmother's help, of course. During her time living with her grandma, she got her GED, and she was soon revealed that she was a witch and started training her abilities. During that time, her grandma passed away due to a heart attack. After her grandma died, she ran her store for a little bit until she couldn't afford it anymore. She then sold it and used the money to support her family. That was until she met Ketsia who she knew was a witch almost immediately. They both got to know each other and decided to stick together. They then moved to Forks Washington where they both work together in a small shop selling candles, jewelry, oils and lotion

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Reporters tantalized their readers with stories about the “plutocratic Osage” and the “red millionaires,” with their brick-and-terra-cotta mansions and chandeliers, with their diamond rings and fur coats and chauffeured cars. One writer marveled at Osage girls who attended the best boarding schools and wore sumptuous French clothing, as if “une très jolie demoiselle of the Paris boulevards had inadvertently strayed into this little reservation town.”

Many of the Osage would rush to see a gusher when it erupted, scrambling for the best view, making sure not to cause a spark, their eyes following the oil as it shot fifty, sixty, sometimes a hundred feet in the air. With its great black wings of spray, arcing above the rigging, it rose before them like an angel of death. The spray coated the fields and the flowers and smeared the faces of the workers and the spectators. Still, people hugged and tossed their hats in celebration. Bigheart, who had died not long after the imposition of allotment, was hailed as the “Osage Moses.” And the dark, slimy, smelly mineral substance seemed like the most beautiful thing in the world.

A short, stout man, with a luxuriant mustache and a shock of red hair, Burns had once aspired to be an actor, and he cultivated a mystique, in part by writing pulp detective stories about his cases. In one such book, he declared, “My name is William J. Burns, and my address is New York, London, Paris, Montreal, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New Orleans, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and wherever else a law-abiding citizen may find need of men who know how to go quietly about throwing out of ambush a hidden assassin or drawing from cover criminals who prey upon those who walk straight.”

Meanwhile, Ernest’s aunt was muttering, loud enough for all to hear, about how mortified she was that her nephew had married a redskin. It was easy for Mollie to subtly strike back because one of the servants attending to the aunt was white—a blunt reminder of the town’s social order.

Hoover demanded that his staff wear dark suits and sober neckties and black shoes polished to a gloss. He wanted his agents to be a specific American type: Caucasian, lawyerly, professional. Every day, he seemed to issue a new directive—a new Thou Shall Not—and White put on his big cowboy hat with an air of defiance.

Blackie, evidently enjoying himself, looked squarely at Burkhart and said, “Ernest, I have told them everything.”

The judge advised the jury members that they must set aside sympathies or prejudices for either side. He warned, “There never has been a country on this earth that has fallen except when that point was reached…where the citizens would say, ‘We cannot get justice in our courts.’ ”

In 1932, the bureau began working with the radio program The Lucky Strike Hour to dramatize its cases. One of the first episodes was based on the murders of the Osage...The broadcasted radio program concluded, “So another story ends and the moral is identical with that set forth in all the others of this series….[The criminal] was no match for the Federal Agent of Washington in a battle of wits.”

The historian Burns once wrote, “To believe that the Osages survived intact from their ordeal is a delusion of the mind. What has been possible to salvage has been saved and is dearer to our hearts because it survived. What is gone is treasured because it was what we once were. We gather our past and present into the depths of our being and face tomorrow. We are still Osage. We live and we reach old age for our forefathers.”

Killers of the Flower Moon, dir. Martin Scorsese // Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann (3/3)

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LIVE or DIE ?

you have seven days to make your choice!

welcome to DEATH'S DESIGN, a universe of my own creation, loosely inspired by multiple sources, including: death note, saw, final destination, and the ring.

death's design takes place in SEATTLE, washington and follows casimir anderson's time of taking the powers of death into their own hands in order to enact justice on a society they viewed as corrupt. as they gain a reputation, basil leroux, a renowned detective and security consultant begins working on the case to solve the mystery behind the true identity of the killer known as THANATOS. little does he know he's working in close proximity of the mastermind behind thanatos' crimes – casimir "call me cas" anderson inserts themself into the case, offering assistance in order to obscure their own connection to the deaths.

with what little evidence they have to go off of, basil tirelessly searches for answers. he spends hours watching and rewatching the videos that surviving targets received telling them to confess their crimes and beg their new god for forgiveness. he analyzes every bit of information that can find on thanatos and still, despite his skill, he finds no answers. only leads that go nowhere and a prime suspect innocently helping him organize papers and offering their own theories on the case.

the questions he most desperately wants answered are: WHO is THANATOS? and HOW do THEY KILL?

the events of death's design occur after casimir has a chance encounter with the personification of death itself. during this encounter they manage to acquire the book of the dead; inside it they find pages upon pages of names and dates and causes of death. at first they think that perhaps they have the diary of a murderer, a list of all their victims and the manner in which they killed them. but it quickly becomes clear that that is not the case as the flip through an impossible number of pages, finding entries dated for the future and entries from far further back than there would be any record of.

any theory behind the book's existence that they can come up with is impossible, yet they keep circling back to these outlandish thoughts, wondering what they might do if this book truly was a ledger of the dead. so, after some consideration, they found their first potential target — a man who's reckless driving caused an accident, taking the lives of six people. he was going to go unpunished, all because he had the money to afford a lawyer capable of twisting his crimes so that he escapes blameless.

it was irrelevant that the lawyer he was paying to get him off was casimir's estranged mother, that had very little to do with their choice. at least that's what they tell themself.

they found his name easily, the book opened to the page they needed, as if it knew what cas wished to do. they scratch out the day the man was supposed to die – a time many, many years into the future – and they write in the next day's date instead. they assume nothing will come of it, it was merely a silly experiment that would bring no results. when they woke up the next day and saw a report of the man's death on the news, it felt like the world stood still.

they had done that. a man had died because they willed it so. the power of death was their's to control. they alone have the POWER to RID the world of those who's crimes go UNPUNISHED.

this was the beginning of THANATOS, the dawn of a new age where casimir anderson was j u d g e, jury, and executioner.

additional links: carrd, pinterest, basil introduction, casimir introduction, thana introduction, & main account.

template credit: @jessource

psd credit: @kaijucatrph

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Part 2: Who is D.B. Cooper? The Bombshell Discovery That Could Solve Infamous Hijacking

Part 2 of a series. For 53 years, the only unsolved hijacking in the nation's history has remained one of world's greatest mysteries. The bombshell discovery of the parachute likely used by D.B. Cooper in his infamous hijacking may finally close the case.

This is the second of a two-part series. Part one detailed how new evidence has been unveiled that may crack the D.B. Cooper case, America’s most notorious and only unsolved hijacking 53 years later.

For 53 years, the only unsolved hijacking in the nation's history has remained one of world's greatest mysteries. 

On Nov. 24, 1971, a passenger who checked in as "Dan Cooper" parachuted out of a Northwest flight somewhere between Portland, Oregon, and Seattle with $200,000 in ransom he'd received in exchange for sparing the lives of the passengers and crew.

The man, who was later misidentified by the media as D.B. Cooper, a name that stuck, was never seen or heard from again. 

For decades, the FBI and hundreds of amateur detectives have been clamoring to solve the mystery with little success. 

Some believe he didn't survive the jump, while others speculate the infamous hijacker was a titanium research engineer from Pittsburgh who died in 2002, among many other theories. 

One theory that remains the strongest was that D.B Cooper wasactually a man named Richard McCoy II. 

McCoy remains one of the FBI's strongest suspects based on a near copycat hijacking McCoy pulled off over Utah five months after D.B. Cooper jumped out of the plane. 

Now, however, pilot and YouTuber Dan Gryder, who has been investigating the case for 20 years, said he has discovered bombshell evidence that has led to a breakthrough in the case. 

Two years ago, Gryder found what he believes is the uniquely modified parachute used in the D.B. Cooper heist belonging to McCoy that he found on the family's property in North Carolina. 

PART TWO HERE

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The Killing: un viaggio oscuro tra delitto e redenzione.

Introduzione alla serie

The Killing è una serie televisiva crime disponibile su Disney+, remake di un prodotto danese tratto dalle opere dello scrittore David Hewson. La serie statunitense è divisa in quattro stagioni. Le prime due narrano il caso dell’omicidio di una diciannovenne Rosie Larson. Mentre la terza e la quarta trattano altri due casi diversi. Le prime tre stagioni sono composte da 13 episodi mentre l’ultima da sole 6 puntate.

I protagonisti sono una coppia di detective della squadra omicidi: Sarah Linden e Stephen Holder. Insieme dovranno affrontare il crimine nella città di Seattle e affrontare i drammi delle loro vite.

La serie è stata accolta molto positivamente dal pubblico e dalla critica. Personalmente è stata una tra le serie televisive più interessanti e coinvolgenti che io abbia mai visto.

L’ambientazione e l’atmosfera noir di Seattle

I protagonisti sicuramente sono i detective e le famiglie delle vittime, specialmente nella prima e nella seconda stagione. Ma da padrona la fa Seattle. I suoi angoli nascosti, la pioggia costante che infradicia i vestiti di Holder e i capelli di Linden.

Il clima rafforza ancora di più l’atmosfera cupa e asfissiante della trama. Come se la pioggia simboleggiasse il mistero e gli ostacoli che circondano i due detective. Il peso dei vestiti grondanti di pioggia è lo stesso peso che grava su Sarah e su Stephen.

Il tutto è immerso in una fotografia quasi grigia e tonalità che ricordano la tradizione noir. L’inquietudine e la tensione che viene costruita una puntata dietro l’altra.

I personaggi principali e la loro evoluzione

Sarah Linden: il ritratto di una detective tormentata

Sarah Linden è impersonata da Mireille Enos. Il personaggio della detective è scritto meravigliosamente. La tenacia e il coraggio di Sarah vanno pari passo con la sua testardaggine e ostinatezza. Le sue difficoltà familiari e il suo passato travagliato hanno profondamente segnato il suo modo di essere. Quello che ha passato durante la sua infanzia ha segnato in modo radicale le sue relazioni. Tuttavia le sue capacità investigative e il rapporto che instaura con le vittime la rende una detective molto determinata.

Procedendo nelle stagioni le sue difficoltà con il figlio aumentano. Il suo lavoro la travolge e il legame che sente con le vittime diventa sempre più opprimente. Troverà nel suo nuovo collega un punto saldo e un amico su cui contare.

Stephen Holder: il partner con un passato oscuro

Linden nella prima puntata ha in programma di lasciare la centrale di Seattle, partire per la California con il suo fidanzato e suo figlio. Il suo sostituto, Stephen Holder, arriva alla omicidi dalla squadra narcotici e dovrebbe ricevere i casi della sua collega. Tuttavia, le cose non vanno così. Linden rimane a Seattle, troppo presa dal caso della giovane Rosie.

Anche se si capisce che Holder ha dei segreti sembra essere volenteroso di imparare e mettersi in gioco, anche se i suoi colleghi non lo lasciano esprimere il suo potenziale.

Nel corso delle puntate il rapporto tra i due detective si rafforza. Entrambi hanno dei fantasmi del loro passato che stanno provando ad affrontare. Holder è un ex drogato che cerca di rimanere sobrio e risanare il rapporto con la sua famiglia. Holder e Linden saranno l’uno la spalla dell’altro.

La chimica tra i due protagonisti e come influenza la narrazione di The Killing

Sicuramente uno dei punti di forza della serie è proprio il rapporto tra i due poliziotti. Le difficoltà che devono affrontare, l’intensità dei casi e la loro complessa vita privata li legano e li avvicinano sempre di più.

Da fan della serie ovviamente la loro relazione diventa uno dei traini della storia. L’affetto che si vede negli occhi di Holder quando guarda Linden e il modo in cui la fa ridere. Nel corso degli episodi, tuttavia, possiamo vedere Linden irrigidirsi sempre di più, faticare gradualmente a lasciarsi voler bene da Holder. Le difficoltà di lui si aggravano quando sente il loro rapporto vacillare. Insieme allo svolgimento delle indagini, l’evoluzione della loro relazione è uno dei focus più intriganti.

L’indagine al centro della narrazione

Ogni episodio introduce nuove scoperte, ma anche nuovi dubbi, alimentando un senso di incertezza che cresce progressivamente. La serie non è mai affrettata nel rivelare dettagli cruciali, anzi, gioca con la pazienza degli spettatori, mantenendo alta la tensione fino alla fine. Questo è uno degli elementi distintivi di The Killing: non ha paura di rallentare il ritmo per esplorare a fondo i personaggi e i loro segreti.

Fin dal primo episodio, ci troviamo immersi in un mondo cupo e malinconico, con la pioggia incessante che cade su Seattle come una metafora del dolore e del mistero che permea la storia. Questo clima si riflette non solo nell’atmosfera generale, ma anche nel ritmo stesso della serie, che rifiuta di svelare la verità in fretta. Al contrario, dilata il tempo, costruendo un senso di attesa prolungata che si traduce in un’esperienza di visione intensamente immersiva.

Ogni episodio introduce nuove scoperte, ma anche nuovi dubbi, alimentando un senso di incertezza che cresce progressivamente. La serie non è mai affrettata nel rivelare dettagli cruciali, anzi, gioca con la pazienza degli spettatori, mantenendo alta la tensione fino alla fine. Questo è uno degli elementi distintivi di The Killing: non ha paura di rallentare il ritmo per esplorare a fondo i personaggi e i loro segreti.

Il gioco del sospetto: chi è il colpevole?

Uno degli aspetti più avvincenti di The Killing è il modo in cui riesce a far sospettare di chiunque. Ogni personaggio, dal più marginale al più centrale, sembra avere qualcosa da nascondere. La protagonista, la detective Sarah Linden, interpretata in modo magistrale da Mireille Enos, è spinta a seguire una serie di false piste che portano lo spettatore a sospettare di diversi potenziali colpevoli. Ogni episodio offre nuovi indizi che, anziché avvicinare alla verità, complicano ulteriormente la trama.

Le dinamiche familiari, politiche e personali di ciascun individuo vengono lentamente rivelate, creando una rete intricata di relazioni e motivi che potrebbero portare chiunque a essere il responsabile dell’omicidio al centro della storia.

The Killing gioca con le aspettative del pubblico, mettendo in evidenza come nessuno sia completamente innocente. Questa costruzione del sospetto diventa quasi una danza: ogni volta che si è convinti di aver individuato il colpevole, la serie introduce un nuovo dettaglio che sconvolge tutto. È proprio questa continua oscillazione tra certezza e dubbio che mantiene alta la tensione emotiva.

Temi principali: colpa, redenzione e il lato oscuro della società

Uno degli aspetti più potenti di The Killing è la profondità con cui esplora la vulnerabilità dei suoi personaggi. Sarah Linden è una detective straordinariamente competente, ma anche una donna fragile, costantemente in bilico tra il suo dovere e i suoi demoni personali. La sua ossessione per il caso e la sua difficoltà a separare il lavoro dalla vita privata sono temi ricorrenti che rendono il suo personaggio incredibilmente umano.

Anche Stephen Holder, con il suo passato segnato dalla droga e dalla corruzione, è un personaggio profondamente sfaccettato. La sua lotta per mantenere la sua integrità e guadagnare la fiducia di Sarah è una delle dinamiche più interessanti della serie, che riflette la complessità delle relazioni umane in un contesto di estrema pressione.

La serie non si limita a rappresentare un'indagine poliziesca, ma esplora il lato oscuro della società: la disuguaglianza, la corruzione e il dolore della perdita. Ogni personaggio, anche quelli secondari, è tratteggiato con attenzione, e tutti hanno un ruolo nel complicare il puzzle che Linden e Holder cercano di risolvere.

Conclusioni: perché The Killing è un must-watch per gli amanti del crime

The Killing non è una serie per chi cerca una risoluzione rapida o facile. La sua struttura dilatata e la capacità di mantenere costante il sospetto su tutti i personaggi la rendono un’esperienza unica nel panorama delle serie crime. Con il suo ritmo lento ma intenso, riesce a coinvolgere lo spettatore non solo nella ricerca del colpevole, ma anche nelle vite complesse e vulnerabili di chi cerca giustizia.

Se sei un amante del crime, apprezzerai l’attenzione ai dettagli e la profondità emotiva che questa serie offre. È un viaggio oscuro e complesso, che richiede pazienza, ma che alla fine ripaga con una narrazione avvincente e personaggi indimenticabili.

Vuoi leggere altri contenuti su serie TV da vedere e amare? Guarda gli ultimi post e le EasyTears List.

La vostra Easy Tears.

[seattle-wa-first]

Yesler Towers in Seattle, WA

When it comes to 2-bedroom residences in Seattle, you should be mindful about Yesler Towers. Aside from its interesting features, there is the opportunity to live in a safe, accessible, and well-designed place. Moreover, their apartments in Seattle are buzz-worthy. Why is that so? First, it is positioned strategically along Interstate 5. Then, you are immediately greeted by the towers. In addition, you are led into a hub of activity, with its central location providing easy access to Seattle's cultural, educational and social offerings. Besides, being the first ever high-rise in the area, the tower's prominence is not just a view. It's a legacy. It’s amazing, right?

Seattle, WA

These days, talking about the educational background of Seattle, WA area is inspiring. For those who are planning to move there soon, you can also familiarize yourselves with the educational institutions in the city. Basically, Seattle Public Schools is the school district for the vast majority of the city. Moreover, that school district desegregated without a court order but continue to struggle to achieve racial balance in a somewhat ethnically divided city, the south part of town having more ethnic minorities than the north. Furthermore, Seattle is home to the University of Washington, as well as the institution's professional and continuing education unit, the University of Washington Educational Outreach.

Seattle Art Museum

Have you visited the Seattle Art Museum in the past? Well, many people visit the beautiful tourist spot. Besides, the said place that is commonly known as SAM is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. Apart from that, it operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum or SAAM in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill, and Olympic Sculpture Park on the central Seattle waterfront that opened in January 2007. In addition, parts of the museum's notable exhibitions are a 1954 exhibition of 25 European paintings and sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

Seattle police investigating deadly shooting early Sunday morning

Let’s talk about the shocking news reports in Seattle, WA area. One of the stories is about a shooting incident. Based on the news, Seattle police are investigating a deadly shooting in the city's Mount Baker neighborhood early Sunday morning. Based on the report by Seattle Police Department, officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 3600 block of 34th Avenue South just after 2:00 at dawn. Besides, arriving officers reportedly found a 22-year-old man with a gunshot wound in the stairwell of a building. Then, the victim was transported to the hospital where he died from his injuries. Lastly, Seattle police homicide detectives are investigating the shooting.

Link to Map Driving Direction

Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98101, United States

Head southeast on 2nd Ave toward University St 0.5 mi

Turn left onto Yesler Wy 0.4 mi

Turn right onto S Washington St Destination will be on the right 112 ft

Yesler Towers 809 S Washington St, Seattle, WA 98104, United States

[anarchotahdigism]

Here in Seattle, only one city councilor voted to stop sending SPD to train with the IOF or having the IOF come here to train This after the council refused to defund SPD despite massive protests 2020-2021 during the BLM Uprising This was also after SPD officer Kevin Dave, rushing to an overdose scene in the hopes of arresting the victim to gain info on dealers (per SPD policy), struck and killed Jaahnavi Kalandula with his vehicle without stopping. It took 20 minutes for an ambulance to arrive by which time she'd died. SPD then lied and said that Dave had stopped to perform CPR on her. In truth, people nearby attempted to render aid. Then Detective Daniel Auderer, Vice President of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, was caught on camera laughing about the killing and saying that SPD should just officer $11,000 to her family since she was young and that that was what he estimated her life was worth. He was reassigned to desk duty and that was it. There's been very little support outside the Asian community for protests & riots because this city is fucking racist as hell. Seattle City Council promised to defund SPD, didn't, and their lies didn't harm their re-election efforts at all. This is the same police department that had at least six officers involved in the 1/06 Capitol insurrection coup attempt and has gone out of its way to protect those involved. This is the same PD that assaulted hundreds of thousands of BLM protesters for months, denied medical aid to the injured (likely resulting in multiple deaths), directly targeted press (including international press), repeatedly defied the federal oversight placed upon it for years of violence, wore Proud Boy colors during the protests, and has executed people all without consequence. All cops are bastards. All cops are white supremacists. All cops are violent protectors of capitalism. All cops are enemies of humanity.

I appreciate the sentiment with the "the cops are trained by the idf" people keep pointing out which don't get me wrong is pretty bad and you should point it out but also the cops in the US would still be bad even if they weren't trained by the idf like please don't forget that.

[cleoenfaserum]

THE HIDDEN CITY OF SEATLE, and the destruction of its NIRVANA

Washington State has always been a mystery to me. In my imagination, it was something so foreign as someone lost in the forest before freezing to death. It conjured up in my psychic absurdity. It was how I felt about the place in my teenage years in Canada. But Seattle was only a name in a State with lots of crazy gringos running around with no distinct character I could sum up, like a faceless person you only heard about.

814-1 https://youtu.be/OgeR2oqZGTs

Marcus Sakey somehow grounded out a spark. However, it was a TV detective series, THE KILLING, that gave me a sense of Seattle. It was an excellent series, sometimes a little bit dragged out, but good and tense which kept you wondering all the time with an unsuspecting denouement. You can see the series at: The Killing Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot Full HD online MyFlixer (myflixerz.to)

814-2 https://ok.ru/video/4400405744175

It is difficult to sumareis stories in such a way that you seem to get the whole picture in the briefest of time. Sakey does this second to none.

814-3 https://youtu.be/tAGnKpE4NCI

Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American musician who was the co-founder, lead vocalist, guitarist and primary songwriter of the rock band Nirvana. Through his angst-fueled songwriting and anti-establishment persona, Cobain's compositions widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock. He was heralded as a spokesman of Generation X and is highly recognized as one of the most influential alternative rock musicians.

814-4 https://youtu.be/PbgKEjNBHqM

Cobain formed Nirvana with Krist Novoselic and Aaron Burckhard in 1987 and established it as part of the Seattle music scene that later became known as grunge. After signing with DGC Records, Nirvana found commercial success with the single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from their critically acclaimed second album Nevermind (1991). Although Cobain was hailed as the voice of his generation following Nirvana's sudden success, he resented this, believing his message and artistic vision had been misinterpreted by the public. In addition to "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Cobain wrote many other hit songs for Nirvana, including "Come as You Are", "Lithium", "In Bloom", "Something in the Way", "Heart-Shaped Box", "All Apologies", "About a Girl", "Aneurysm",[1] and "You Know You're Right".

814-5 https://youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg

During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with a heroin addiction and chronic health problems such as depression. He also struggled with the personal and professional pressures of fame, and he had a tumultuous relationship with his wife, fellow musician Courtney Love. In March 1994, Cobain overdosed on a combination of champagne and Rohypnol, and he subsequently entered an intervention and underwent a detox program. On April 8, 1994, Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home at the age of 27; police concluded he had died on April 5 from a self-inflicted shotgun wound to the head.

814-6 https://youtu.be/3_5mTTEF0qQ SOME BACKGROUND: https://youtu.be/zeH7gqoSUOQ

Cobain was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, alongside Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl, in their first year of eligibility in 2014. Rolling Stone included Cobain in its lists of the 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, 100 Greatest Guitarists, and 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. He was ranked 7th by MTV in the "22 Greatest Voices in Music". In 2006, he was placed 20th by Hit Parader on their list of the "100 Greatest Metal Singers of All Time".

814-7 https://youtu.be/pkcJEvMcnEg

REF: 814 NOTES

I don't usually include other themes with the central topic I deal with, though I have done on several occasions. The series "THE KILLING" is, as far as I am concerned, worth the mention. I have included the following review of the show and the link to the pilot episode of season 1 episode 1. I thought the acting was great.

814-8 https://youtu.be/e5Lz4_VB5Tw

The Killing Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot Full HD online MyFlixer (myflixerz.to)

[pier-carlo-universe]

Verità Sgradite di Robert Dugoni: Un’indagine intensa tra corruzione e segreti per Tracy Crosswhite

Robert Dugoni esplora il lato oscuro della giustizia e della politica con un thriller avvincente

Robert Dugoni esplora il lato oscuro della giustizia e della politica con un thriller avvincente “Verità Sgradite”, pubblicato il 14 dicembre 2023, è l’ultimo capitolo delle avventure della detective Tracy Crosswhite, creata dall’autore di bestseller Robert Dugoni. In questo thriller pieno di tensione, Dugoni porta il lettore nelle profondità di un’indagine che svela corruzione, scandali e…

[cleoenfaserum]

Seattle Police Officer Investigated for Saying Graduate Student Killed Had ‘Limited Value’ Taken Off Patrol Duty

SOURCE: Seattle Police Officer Taken Off Patrol Duty After Insensitive Comments (people.com)

Detective Daniel Audrerer was caught on bodycam footage saying 23-year-old Jaahnavi Kandula had "limited value" after an officer struck and killed her

By Julia Moore Published on September 29, 2023

Eight months after Jaahnavi Kandula was hit and killed by a Seattle Police Department (SPD) patrol car, a different police officer has been taken off patrol duty.

Earlier this month, the Seattle Times reported that officer Kevin Dane was driving and responding to a report of an overdose when he hit Kandula, 23, who was crossing the street at a crosswalk. She later died at the hospital from her injuries.

The original SPD report did not identify the officer involved and only shared that they were en route to a “priority one call.”

Following Kandula’s death, another police officer, detective Daniel Auderer, was caught on body-camera footage released by the department joking about the incident. 

“She is dead,” Auderer said in the video, before laughing. He could also be heard referring to Kandula as just “a regular person” before saying, “Yeah, just write a check.”

He continued, “$11,000. She was 26 anyway. She had limited value,” he said in the released footage.

During a press conference on Wednesday, Seattle Police Department Chief Adrian Diaz revealed that Auderer has been “administratively assigned to a non operational position, so he’s not on the streets at this time.”

Auderer was identified as the vice president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG), and the Community Police Commission (CPC), an oversight committee, said in a statement to the Seattle Times and KIRO-TV that Auderer’s comments were “heartbreaking and shockingly insensitive.”

They also noted that the incident “speaks to the concerns that the [CPC] has repeatedly raised about elements of Seattle Police Department culture and SPOG resistance to officer accountability measures.”

“The people of Seattle deserve better from a police department that is charged with fostering trust with the community and ensuring public safety,” the CPC added.

In a statement obtained by NBC News, Kandula’s family said of the footage, “It is truly disturbing and saddening to hear insensible comments on the bodycam video from an SPD officer regarding Jaahnavi’s death.”

Per the SPD, the bodycam video was discovered by a department employee during a routine course of business and flagged to the Chief’s office before being referred to the Office of Police Accountability for investigation.

“Recognizing the public concern around this video, SPD is putting out this video in the interest of transparency, but consistent with City law, SPD reserves any comment on the substance pending the completion of OPA’s investigation,” the department said in its statement alongside the video.

Their statement went on to say that the SPD “has been in touch with the family of the victim” and that they “extend our deepest sympathy for this tragic collision.”

They added, “Jaahnavi is a beloved daughter and beyond any dollar value for her mother and family. We firmly believe that every human life is invaluable and not be belittled, especially during a tragic loss.”

JAMES ANDERSON/ALAMY

During the press conference, Diaz said that there’s an “ongoing conversation” between his department and the community in response to the incident.

“It’s important that we have those dialogues,” he said of the conversations.

Following her death, the Northeastern University graduate’s family described her as “brilliant student with a bright future,” per NBC affiliate KING-TV.

The daughter of a single mother, Kandula was obtaining a degree to help improve her family's life back in India, where her mother works as an elementary school teacher and earns less than $200 a month.

"We are truly heartbroken,” the family said.

SEATTLE POLICE DEPARTMENT/YOUTUBE

As for the actual collision, Diaz said during the press conference, “Even from the very beginning of the officer-involved collision, I actually had conversations with the family, the uncles, the brothers, the mother,” referring to Kandula’s relatives. 

He said the department has “continued to keep them informed and keep them engaged in the process” as they investigate the incident. 

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Auderer was the drug-recognition officer assigned to determine whether Dave had been under the influence when he hit Kandula, a graduate of Northeastern University. Auderer determined that Dave was “going 50 [miles an hour],” which was “not out of control” for a driver, which he said on the call to POG President Mike Solan that was caught on bodycam footage.

However, a report released several months later revealed that Dave had actually been driving 74 mph in a 25 mph zone when he hit Kandula while heading to the emergency call, per KIRO-TV.

The report said Dave’s speed “did not allow him sufficient time to detect, address and avoid a hazard that presented itself.”

REF: 766

[toyourheartyoureyesarecallingme]

Christopher George Latore Wallace

Born on May 21st, 1972

Died on March 9th, 1997

Rooted in East Coast hip hop. Let's not forget the war between East Coast and West Coast.

West Coast king long live legend Tupac Amaru Shakur.

Born on June 16th, 1971

Died on September 13th, 1996. Less a year ago before Biggie's death.

Tupac's muder case ain't solved after 30 years which mean I'll have to do it after solving Biggie's. Good news Tupac's murder case has been opened just a few days ago. (I swear I didin't knew before "opening" Biggie's by myself yesterday)

Biggie was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Brooklyn streets (Saint James Place and Fulton Stree-Christopher Wallace Way), was killed in West Coast. His parents was from Jamaica. So I would put in the first place a killer to be from West Coast.

Los Angeles West Coast:

Los Angeles

San Diego

San Jose

San Francisco

Sacramento

Portland

Seattle

Anchorage

Honolulu

Biggie was shot drive-by at the intersection of Fairfax Ave and Wilshire Blvd, after leaving a Vibe Magazine party in Los Angeles with his entourage.

FIRST THOUGHTS: Thug Nigga/Coast 2 Coast by TUPAC:

Okay let's go back. They were able to drive to nearby Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.

Personally at first I thought u know it has to be Puffy that dude, but now as listening music I think we all know it has to be some Tupac fan, related to Tupac, w West Coast.

Crime scene investigation:

The Peterson Automotive Museum as it appeared in 1997.

The vehicle Christopher Wallace was in when he was shot 4 times by an unidentified suspect.

Detectives worked on the car but were never able to arrest a suspect in the case.

[manvindrachaudhary-blog]

A Florida Man Died Of Brain-Eating Amoeba And Residents Are Being Warned To Use Caution With Tap Water

Florida health officials are warning residents of Charlotte County to use caution when swimming and washing their faces and to avoid using unsterilized tap water for nasal irrigation after a local man died of a brain-eating amoeba infection.They asked residents to avoid getting water in their noses when showering or swimming and to not allow children to play unsupervised with hoses, sprinklers,  or during any other activity that would allow water to squirt up their noses.The Florida Department of Health stressed that you cannot be infected with the organism, called Naegleria fowleri, by drinking tap water. The amoeba causes an infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), which is almost always fatal.The health officials issued the warning on Feb. 23 and haven’t released more details about the patient who died. News outlets have reported that the patient was a man who rinsed his sinuses daily with unboiled tap water.While infections and deaths are dramatic, fortunately they are rare. “Anybody can get it in the right setting but the risk is low,” Dr. Adarsh Bhimraj, an infectious diseases physician at Houston Methodist, said.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recorded 154 cases of PAM from Naegleria fowleri in the US between 1962 and 2021. All but four were fatal.

Not the first time

This isn’t the first time that someone has been infected with the amoeba from rinsing their nasal passages with unsterilized tap water. The Louisiana Department of Health recorded two deaths in 2011, both blamed on tap water delivered through a Neti pot, a type of sinus irrigation system that uses salt and water. Naegleria fowleri can also enter your nose when swimming or diving. In 2021, a 10-year-old girl in Texas became infected and died, likely after swimming at a splash pad near Dallas where the organism was detected.Naegleria fowleri isn’t the only amoeba that can cause illness or even death. A 69-year-old woman in Seattle died after apparently coming into contact with the amoeba Balamuthia mandrillaris, again via tap water in a Neti pot, although the water had been run through a Brita purifier. Balamuthia mandrillaris causes a much slower infection than Naegleria fowleri.A third type of amoeba, Acanthamoeba, can also infect humans, according to a study in ID Cases. All are free living, which means they don’t need a host to survive, Bhimraj explained. “It’s not uncommon to find them in the environment.” 

A perfect storm

The reason brain-eating infections are fairly uncommon is because “everything has to line up perfectly,” said Juan Dumois, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, who has seen one case in his career.You have to first start with a water source that contains amoeba. Even then, not everyone exposed to the same infected water will get sick. The water has to enter your nose and stick. “If you just wash it out or it goes down the esophagus, it won’t cause any problem,” Dumois explained.Even then, the infectious organisms still have a long way to go, a path that involves finding their way to one of the olfactory nerves. These nerves give you the ability to detect scents and are the same ones that are damaged in some people with COVID. The germs can crawl up the nerve into the brain and cause an infection. “If the amoeba never finds that nerve, that’s it,” Dumois said. “Otherwise, it’s bad luck from a specific series of events.”Once lodged in your brain, Naegleria fowleri will burrow into brain tissue and consume brain cells. This then triggers the immune system to try to fight it off. “A lot of white blood cells go in there and try to destroy the amoeba and, in the process, the white blood cells cause damage as well,” Dumois said. “You actually have areas in the brain that start to be destroyed and liquefied by the inflammatory reaction of fighting off the amoeba.”

The right environment

Typically, Naegleria fowleri occur in warmer climates, which is where the organisms thrive. Most of the recorded infections occurred in 15 southern states, with Texas and Florida counting for almost half. Infections that occur further north, like in Michigan or Minnesota, tend to happen in the summer. The amoeba live only in freshwater like lakes and rivers and sometimes brackish water, but not saltwater.In general, infections peak in July and August. But experts do predict that the infections will become more common in northern areas as a result of climate change. “With climate change, the temperatures even in Wisconsin and Minnesota have been warm enough,” said Bhimraj said.It can also be found in swimming pools that aren’t adequately chlorinated and in municipal water supplies under certain conditions. With tap water, “the problem occurs in how the water is disseminated,” Dumois explained. “The water is treated in the water plant then pumped into pipes. Then it has to go to different distances before it gets to the faucet. The longer it has to go and the longer the water sits in the pipes, the lower the chlorine level drops.” If the pipes aren’t used for a while, chlorine levels go down.

Symptoms and treatment of brain infection

Patients with PAM, the brain infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, typically start with symptoms of meningitis, which is to say fever, a stiff neck, and “the worst headache you’ve ever had,” Dumois said. Later on, they may develop seizures, hallucinate, and even fall into a coma.According to Dumois, survival depends largely on whether the infection is correctly diagnosed and treated early on. Doctors may take a spinal tap and test for different bacteria that cause meningitis but not amoeba. “You’re only going to suspect Naegleria fowleri if they were told or asked if the patient has been in a situation where freshwater has gone up their nose,” Dumois said.Physicians usually treat PAM with a combination of drugs including some antibiotics.

Avoiding infection

First and foremost, never use water straight from the tap to irrigate your sinuses. Water that’s been boiled for one to five minutes then cooled should be safe, as is store-bought distilled water. “That’s the kind of water you want to use,” Bhimraj said. “Why take the risk?”Washing your face can be a risk as well. “If you can wash your face without getting water up your nose, it should be fine to wash your face with regular tap water,” Dumois said. “If you have a tendency to get water up your nose when you wash your face, you are probably doing it too vigorously anyway.”There’s no danger if you go swimming in saltwater.  You’re also safe if you swim in freshwater but don’t put your head under the surface, Dumois said. Swimming underwater, diving, splashing, water skiing, or using a water slide could lead to an unfortunate chance encounter with Naegleria fowleri. Holding your nose will help, as will wearing a well-fitting dive mask that covers your eyes and nose. “That will keep most of the water out of your nose as long as it has a good fit,” Dumois said. Source link Read the full article

[th3houseofleaves]

is DEATH the only CONCLUSION to this game?

must my blood be shed to save the masses?

INTRODUCING basil leroux an original character for the death's design universe. he is loosely inspired by l lawliet from death note. basil is played by xu kai.

basil leroux is a twenty-seven year old freelance detective and frequent consultant of private security firms, as well as the police department. typically, he only takes cases as they interest him, he has no interest in being compensated for his time. money is pointless to him as he's always had an abundance of it. he only "works" because he can't walk away from a puzzle once it has his attention.

by the time thanatos' mysterious body count has reached the double digits and surviving victims are coming forward, confessing to crimes that they'd long since buried and pleading for a fitting punishment in order to save their life. they all described receiving a video (it didn't matter how it got to them, whether it came in an email or, in some cases played on every screen in the room, seemingly possessing the devices) that explained the killer's terms.

turn yourself in or in seven days you will die. reminders came each day to those targeted. some reported a call with a ticking clock in the background, a robotic voice counting down the minutes until their deadline. some described computer screens glitching, showing the image of a cross with a timer at the bottom of the page, the words LIVE or DIE? in big letters across the top.

it's these videos and the strange circumstances behind the deaths that intrigues basil enough for him to make the journey to seattle. thanatos is a mystery he can't even begin to unravel.

HOW do they MANIPULATE technology the way they do? HOW do they KILL? WHY do they SPARE some and not others?

his choice to join the investigation unknowingly puts him on the path to his death. each step closer he gets to unmasking THANATOS is another fistful of dirt on his grave. and he knows, he knows with his entire being, that the person burying him alive is casimir anderson. the boy who's presence beside him becomes to commonplace he almost forgets that they're a suspect, that they're the murderer he is trying to find. cas is another mystery he needs to solve.

prior to flying to seattle and working beside the team of professionals behind the investigation, basil view interpersonal relationships as frivolous and unnecessary. he had friends, of course he did, but not entirely by choice. it was more a matter of proximity than it was him seeking out companionship.

he will never admit that he cared about any of them. he would never admit that he felt their absence like a gaping void in his chest that left him gasping for air whenever he thought about them for too long. he was as human as the rest of them, no matter how much he prided himself on being above feelings and desire for connection.

he comes so close to proving that casimir (not thana, much like cas he underestimates her and doesn't think she's capable of being involved in so many deaths) is thanatos. if only he'd had a little more time. if casimir hadn't panicked, worried that their empire would crumble if they kept him alive, then maybe he could've convinced the world that they were guilty. that somehow, despite how impossible it sounded, they had control over death and could kill without ever seeing their victim.

but cas panics. they find him and take matters into their own hands – they kiss him for the first and last time as they watch him bleed out, regret so obvious on their face. baz dies without knowing that he was right, his death would be the necessary catalyst needed to end thanatos' judgement.

[dapperbasil]

Adding a bit of Tammy sided context to some of this there's not enough to go month by month, but I'll just go in chronological order

Tammy came to Portland as part of her Agoge, she's in her final test before going before the board and becoming a full member of the clan. Her test? Obtain a domain. Deceptively simple, because there's more to it that her sire wanted her to figure out on her own. (At this point it is clear to say things have gone too far, but Zacharias would never admit this.)

Tammy's main goal is to finish her test, but that is only part of it. She has been in love with her sire for eight years, and has decided that once she becomes a member of the clan properly and can consider herself fit to stand by his side she will confess. Clearly there's been... a few issues with this.

The member of the Tremere who is trying to kill Tammy is Sister Mary, an enemy of her sire. Mechanically their feud is from the rival sires flaw, but the bad blood goes further than this. Mary was also apparently in love with Zacharias at one point before things turned sour.

During the fight with the Sidhe, the fledglings had aid from a hidden marksman who is later revealed to be the Malkavian Primogen.

Upon impressing Barbarossa, she is given a gift from him. A favor from a rather influential Ventrue in Seattle, which to the time writing this Tammy has not yet used.

Tammy does get kidnapped a lot. I can't argue against this she has the personal awareness of a houseplant and I have the braincells of one.

Rowan glossed over the Ventrue run security firm, but they are rather important to Tammy's side of things. Namely, the owner Emmanuel Roche turns out to be the traitor who tries to sell Tammy out to the Sabbat in order to get back his childe later on. His childe, Sigrun also happens to be a woman Tammy has been romantically involved with. Sigrun is still missing and presumed dead (at least by Tammy).

We do not know the extent in game, but we are aware that Zacharias hates his own sire, Tammy's grandsire. To the point where he has threatened her if she ever meddles with his childe, so the Malkavian detective meddling with Tammy is playing with fire by doing so.

We still have no idea what is up with Vinyl. She was seen with Miss Bell (HOW DID WE NOT REALIZE THAT ONE) on multiple occasions, as well as being a mystery to both the setites in the city and the sheriff.

The Prophecy given to Tammy has haunted her ever since, and the only person she told has not believed her. She was warned to be careful who she tells, so she has kept silent after telling Reid.

The events wrapping up the plotline with the Hunters is the first real push away from Camarilla thinking that Tammy has, after the sheriff putting her through so much in mortal danger and her getting nothing but a "wow that sucks kid" and a pat on the back.

Mary and Tammy's interactions have been mixed throughout the chronicle, with Mary often causing issues for or even trying to kill Tammy. Even still, Tammy doesn't hate her. She's wary of her, but has tried to stay out of this one sided feud the entire time. Saving Mary from Sonelle didn't even take a second thought.

When Isabella emerged from her disguise of Miss Bell, Tammy had realized the younger kindred with the unsteady support systems were directly feeding Isabella information. She has since kept this to herself.

The Toreador Primogen also died in the attack against the city, he perished in the symphonium fire.

When Tammy gained the Daughter of Cacophony curse, it manifested as the finished version of a violin concerto her sire had been working on for years that at this point is still unfinished. She doesn't realize where she recognizes the piece from, and he does not know about her fugue.

Speaking of to clear up some clarification, in our chronicle the bloodline Daughters of Cacophony died out long ago, and only those who learn Melpominee from others are considered Sirens after they manifest the clan curse.

During the outing with Zacharias, Tammy does gift him the scarf she had made for him but its more than just a gift. It's a thank you gift, as her way of showing her appreciation for everything he had done for her over the years. He confided that he thought she might have hated him, and this is where their distant relationship begins to mend.

Tammy's second level blood bond to Zacharias was not by choice, as he intended to feed her while she was still recovering from losing her eye but she failed the hunger roll and frenzied. In full contrast, her third drink (and full bond) was fully her choice. Drinking from him blood offered to aid her in the final fight against Sonelle, Tammy willingly chose to become fully bound to the man she loves.

With the gain of a temporary domain that has been promised to become hers eventually, Tammy now works on the task of bringing life to the nightclub that was ran by the Prince's childe before his death.

sometimes I have to remember that our Camarilla chronicle has been going on for 19 months irl but in-game we've only gone through about 4 months.