#film school tomfoolery

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

The other script supervisor in my editing class randomly offered me some cheese and asked me if I ever saw "Harold and Maude".

This is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

[82mitsu]

{18Trip} <PROLOGUE SIDE-A: Still blank> 000-A06 An eccentric youth

A translation of 18TRIP's PROLOGUE SIDE-A by 82mitsu. ENG proofreading by sasaranurude.

Man selling flowers: And we’re here… Is this okay?

Kaede: It’s more than enough! You genuinely were a big help. Thank yo—

Kaede: Ah, right. Sorry, I still haven’t asked for your name.

Man selling flowers: Aaah, uh… Then, here.

Kaede: And this is?

Man selling flowers: My shop. Drop by once everything’s settled.

Man selling flowers: When you want flowers, or want to have your laundry done.

Kaede: Laundry? And, flowers…? What kind of business …?

Man selling flowers: ‘Kay, I’m off.

Kaede: T-thanks again!

Kaede: ….HAMA nice trip!

Man selling flowers: ….HAMA nice trip, too.

Kaede: (...What an interesting guy.)

Kaede: Okay… gotta search for Kafka!

Kaede: Hmmm… He isn’t here either, huh.

Kaede: (Where did you run off to, Kafka….)

Kaede: That day, where did we go next based on that sightseeing guide I made…

Headband boy: Hey hey, you over there!

Kaede: Eh… me?

Headband boy: Yeah! Y’see, I got this once in a lifetime favor here~....

Headband boy: Use this camera and film the whole shebang of what I’m ‘bout to do!

Kaede: Eh, eh… eeeh!?

Headband boy: Okay, I’m blastin’ off…

Headband boy: “NO, WAIT!!”

Kaede: Eh, what is he doing…!?

Headband boy: “These stairs still aren’t safe! You caaaaaaaan’t!!”

Security guard A: You over there! Stop where you are!

Headband boy: “Damn it…The Space Dimension Over Journeyer isn’t fully charged yet…!”

Security guard B: What are you mumbling about…Either way, remove yourself from the premise! Entry is forbidden to those who do not follow the dress code!

Headband boy: “I know! But this machine isn’t able to endure an incomplete Over Journey…!”

Headband boy: Get it all on camera! Properly!

Kaede: Eh… is he saying that to me…?

Headband boy: “Let me through! Why are you letting him go on his own!”

Security guard A: Dangit…! You sure can put up a fight…!

Security guard B: Enough of this tomfoolery!

Headband boy: Uh-oh…!?

Kaede: (Ah… looks like they let him go…?)

Headband boy: Phew… so a cut here, huh.

Headband boy: Hey! Didja catch that!? Did you!?

Kaede: Ah… sorry. I was taken so aback I didn’t do anything…

Headband boy: No freakin’ way! Then one more take… 

Kaede: Wait, wait! The guards will just stop you again if you do that!

Headband boy: Dummy, that’s what I need! In scene 87, I shake off the organization restraining me and go travel across the multiverse to save my buddy!

Kaede: I… I don’t know what kind of filming is going on here, but I think you better stop causing problems… All the guards are on high alert too. 

Headband boy: Booo! Even though I was sure you filmed that explosion of emotions earlier!

Kaede: …Huh?

Kaede: Hey, what’s that in your hand?

Headband boy: This? Just some papers I rolled up, but… no shoot is complete without it! It being a megaphone!

Kaede: Ah, no. That’s not what I meant… That paper on the outside. May I have a look at it?

Headband boy: Yea, sure! It’s just one I snagged up after it came down fluttering through the air from above earlier. 

(Guide page)

Landmark Tower is a symbol of HAMA! You can see all of HAMA from the observation deck Sky Garden.

When I went to do extra activities for school, I searched for the hospital where Kafka was staying. As you’d expect, I wasn’t able to tell where his room was located.

Kaede: I knew it… another page from the guide I made…

Headband boy: Huuuh.. extracurricular activities for school, eh. Hard to imagine that nowadays.

Kaede: Eh, why?

Headband boy: ‘Cuz y’know… that. Look over there.

Renga: “—On the second floor of the landmark plaza, you can partake in Burger Emperor’s speciality, diamond french fries for 34,000 yen!”

Renga: “Potatoes of the finest quality from Île de Noirmoutier, worth 40,000 yen for one kilogram, rinsed with water stemming from an aquifer roughly 450 meters deep beneath the Andes Mountains for exactly 38.8 seconds and then fried crisply by an out of this world cuisinier!”   

Kaede: (That’s the Ward Mayor Nishizono Renga I ran into at the airport yesterday…! Actually, like 30,000 yen for fries…!? Is this some ad for a five star hamburger joint!?)

Renga: “—This is the place to be for high class service at any given time. Urben and lugsurious, gorgeous facilities perfectly reserved for someone of your steetus, I bid you a warm welcome to Landmark.”

Headband boy: See? Ain’t no way a buncha elementary schoolers would waltz into such a hoity-toity place. 

Kaede: That can’t be…!

Kaede: (Is because of that Ward Mayor’s policies that the Landmark changed like this…!?)

<<previous chapter / next chapter>>

prologue directory: A01 / A02 / A03 / A04 / A05 / A06 (x) / A07 / A08

[poraphia]

˚₊· ͟͟͞͞➳❥ Poraphia's Wilbur Soot Masterlist

all of my 'x readers' are gender-neutral unless specified otherwise :)

oneshots ~!

"i see you standing on the sidelines." Wilbur hints to his stubborn rival that there's more to his lyrics than they expect. "a heart-shaped necklace" He was going to give you a heart-shaped necklace after a gig in Paris, but you met your future husband, and it wasn't him. "PDA: public displays of affection." Just because we're keeping this relationship a secret doesn't mean I don't want my good luck kiss before filming. "lead singers love the attention." "clingy wilbur on tour with reader." He can't get enough of you! Even on stage.. "the biggest smile for my biggest fan." "reader is a horror-film actor." He loves your smile! Your big, bloody, and scary smile! "ill hold your hand." "reader anxious picks at hands and nails." It doesn't matter how the first date goes, as long as you feel happy. "don't tell my boyfriend." "reader going through depressive episode." you just couldn't tell the rockstar you haven't been feeling well. instead, he figures it out himself. "one good movie kiss." "Actor!Reader has to kiss someone in front of Wilbur." You haven't kissed him in so long, what's the harm in one stolen movie kiss? "a man of many talents." "reader comforts wil after some slander he saw." He does his best to there for you always, but sometimes he feels like its never enough. "a capricorn? oh, fuck that!" "wilbur finds out reader is a capricorn." after some time flirting with each other, wilbur realized he indirectly gave you a shout out about your star sign! "you're being too loud." "wilbur yells at reader during argument." you're tired and stressed, and the last thing you want is wilbur taking out his stress out on you too. "a dancing rockstar." you spot the rockstar across the bar, and tubbo takes a notice. you've never talked to the man before, so why not dance with him tonight? "cooking stream!" after meeting each other in person after years, you and wilbur finally do a cooking stream together! though.. something tells you that this isn't the last time you cook together.

drabbles ~!

"post-concert approval." After another successful concert, Wilbur relishes in his partner's embrace. "stupid student things." Who likes back to school season? Wilbur knows you don't! "the battle of his teal hoodie." What better way to endure the college life than to steal your boyfriend's merch?

headcanons ~!

"Twitter HCs: Status: Dating!" You and Wilbur do a little tomfoolery on the bird app. "Sleepy Wilbur, Stressed Me" Wilbur is tired from work, but you're stressed and hating yourself. "Morning routines with wilbur." you two can get a bit busy throughout the day, so it's always important to make the mornings count.

mini series ~!

➺ Here's Your Coffee! Love, your concert manager!

"four medium sized coffees, one big fat work crush." "reader is lovejoy's tour manager." You've memorized his coffee order! And maybe the shape of his lips..

"one tall coffee with cream and sugar." It's his last day touring the States. I just want the world to be quiet so I can kiss him, just once.

[itshype]

Triple Threat (DC x DP)

So, this is based slightly on this prompt I wrote! Here is the link to my DC x DP masterpost, and one of my last notfics I posted here was Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss, Godhood where Danny and Vlad try to manipulate and mansplain their way out of trouble with the JLA. So, Danny and Billy are brothers. Maybe they're twins separated at birth, but I prefer that they bonded at some other point, maybe they adopted each other after meeting on the street. Danny's parents said they didn't care he was a halfa, but their behaviour changed so much because they were utterly incapable of hiding their fear of him. He ran away. Billy was at this time, already living on the streets.

They 'come out' to each other on the same day revealing their powers out of brotherly love and unconditional trust - not as an accident. And you know what? Trans Rights! They can come out that way too. At this point, Billy is working with the justice league and Danny is spending a lot of his time in the Zone. He is the king, but mostly his job is to be a key judicial figure as the 'only dude who can pretty much beat anyone up' and has a lot of friends there. Hey, the sovereign ruler of the ghost zone was locked up for thousands of years and nothing really seemed to happen so I can't imagine he'd have a lot to do day-to-day. Actually, instead of sleeping on the streets they both spend most nights in the Zone in Danny's Haunt (though I'd imagine Billy also sleeps frequently at the watchtower because the pair of them are quasi-immortal homeless children who also somehow have fulltime jobs that pay nothing. And the watchtower has a kitchen). When I think of Danny's personality displayed as a physical location, I think it looks like a little suburban street lined with weird ghostly trees growing sentient flowers. There's a nasty burger though it's empty of employees and food; they still use it as a dining room. His actual house (ghosts don't need one but I still think Danny would have one) is moderate in size and charming. But it has defences built in, to the same absurd level as home alone or that live action scooby doo film https://youtu.be/2x7W225iC88?t=62 where there's a trapdoor under the doormat. There's a park across the road (which is always empty of cars but has a pedestrian crossing anyways) with purple grass and some plants that are only vaguely carnivorous. Every now and then, Billy helps out Danny with some magic tomfoolery in the Zone (you cannot tell me Aragon's amulets or Desiree aren't magic over and above normal ghost shenanigans). In one of Billy's first ever team missions he calls Danny as backup. He barely knows these people and he knows he won't be able to do his best hero-ing when he can't fully trust them to watch his back. Phantom doesn't end up having to do much because the JLA members are nice and trustworthy, but he is physically and visibly there. At the conclusion of the mission, following a nice orderly debriefing, Wulf comes to pick up Danny to get Walker back in line. This is a point where there are only a few JLA members, but Batman carefully adds "Brother/Twin??: King of Ghosts - The Phantom" to Shazam's file and begins investigating ecto-activity. A few years pass. Enough that Billy’s and Danny’s lives get a lot busier. Billy is doing some non-traditional school shit (I refuse to google the laws around out-of-school younger-age education in a foreign country for a city that doesn’t exist) and Danny is now working in a space agency. He obviously can’t be an astronaut because of the required physical -which he would not be able to pass - and he is busy with king stuff often enough that going into space for half a year isn’t really do-able. I think his Jack Fenton genes might kick in and he bulks out just a tad. It took him a year to be able to look at his ghost self in the mirror because he looked like Dan’s scarier big brother.

The justice league stop some evil invasion but in the process disable a giant spaceship that is now floating, untethered through their solar system. The aliens had been prepared for superman so there is artificial kryptonite meaning he cannot just punt it into the sun. They contact some space scientists to help them figure out how much of a problem this floating object will be; if it will affect future space travel attempts, if it could crash into the moon or Earth itself, if benevolent alien visitors in the future could think Earth was full of deranged murderers if they came to visit and encountered it.

Every agency they contact recommends one guy.

So, Shazam has need of his cool older twin Danny to come and help out with this problem! He is visibly thrilled and eventually admits that Daniel Nightingale (he wasn’t going to add to the prestige of his parents name or risk dragging his career down with their shenanigans) is his brother.

Only a couple of the original members remember all those years ago that Marvel has a brother they’ve met and that’s who they’re expecting when Danny arrives with his team. Of course, the magic ghost is a good option for a dicey mission. But no, it’s Danny. He does a great job and there’s a lot of content here. But after Danny and Billy leave, Batman holds a meeting to update JLA members that have only been around a few years. Apparently, Captain “the champion of magic” Marvel, and Phantom – the king of ghosts are triplets with Danny “Just A Guy” Fenton.

[smizzy]

Jenna dating hcs

YOU BURNT MY HOUSE TO THE GROUND MY FAMILY'S DEAD WHAT DO I DO

She'd very much like to take you with her to set everyday

She misses you more often she stays sending photos and texts of what she's doin, what she's eating, who she's with

you too

She's made many playlists for you two for different occasions

she believes you are the funniest person and people should know that

even her cast mates love seeing you knowing you always have them laughing over anything

She'd try and cook your favorite dish and 1-up you because you made hers a 5-star Michelin dish

pictures pictures picturessss

shares her earphones with you because she likes you too much

younger and taller than her? you came to the right place

the height difference is so cute

dancing around the house at 2 AM

would 100% learn how to braid your hair if you got sum thick thick ifykyk

you are the finest mf she ever laid her eyes on

i know dasss rightttt

now that im high lets get to the real stuff

definitely has a little part of her room that belongs to you and your stuff

she's learned about the .5 photos from you

she won't stop doing them on you and her sister

disagreements only cus you take things to heart a lil too much

me fr

"dont talk to me" almost every time she (someone) hurts your (my) feelings

she likes that about us twinnn

tiktok drafts pile like bodies

going to the beach til nighttime w those bonfires

back to disagreements *more like hurt feelings*

serious ones don't happen often

and when they do, u puttin air pods in and listening loud

either way you're always in the right

surprisingly deep conversations you start bc of high rambling

cue the end loop of 'not allowed' by tv girl

when you text her she always responds faster than you can even swipe out of the conversation

unless filming

you send her photos of what you eat in a day

likes hugging u very much thanku

also eye contact

anywhere you wanna go she'd book a flight for you

hate to c u cry baby :(

rubbing your back, kissin your cheek, getting you what you wanna eat purr

school or if ur busy she'd she see on the weekends

and i mean every weekend

with new food to try with her

thinks of you as her whole heart, soul, mind, veins,and blood

definitely a deeper connection this aint no tomfoolery

never fails to blush at flowers you get her no matter what they are she's thankful and loves them no less

always up after 12 sending her tiktoks but its the comments that got you covering your mouth from laughing

"why are u up stop sending me tiktoks gts"

showing each other how the sky looks for both of you if you two are away from one another

she hates shopping apparently

cus when she with you its like ts flew out the window

any photo on good with you two on google has both of you two staring at each other with love

[hadesoftheladies]

FEMALE MOVIE/TV RECS (PART 1 / FANTASY)

got inspired from a recommendation post so decided to make a list of movies and shows with female-centric stories/female protagonists. since i can't post all of the genres in one post, i'll split it into multiple posts and y'all can save or add to the list as you wish. (disclaimer: i have watched most of these, but i only know about the existence of others. not every movie/show on these lists will be my recommendation. my recommendations will be beneath the list with reasons. also some of these are way better than others in terms of storytelling/performance--which is why i'll list my faves separately):

#1. FANTASY/ADVENTURE (LIVE ACTION)

Common Themes of Media In the List:

-Strong female friendships

-Romance critical (or anti-romantic centrism)

-Emphasis on female-female relationships

-Warrior girls and women

-Revenge against awful men

-Distrust of male love interests

Ones I Haven't Watched:

His Dark Materials

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Paradise Hills

Crimson Peak

Outlander

The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

House of the Dragon

The Nevers

Cursed

NOT LISTED BUT QUALIFIES

Pan's Labyrinth

Mary Poppins

Twilight

The Craft

The BFG

PERSONAL NOTES FOR THE ONES I'VE WATCHED

The School for Good and Evil

5/10

There were many things about it that were good. The chemistry between the two leading actresses, the primacy of friendship over romance, the effects, the costume and set design, the insane cast (Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, Michelle Yeoh, Kerry Washington?!) and the score. Some of the performances were good, too. The pitfalls of the film had more to do with the writing and directing. Some scenes were rushed, some dialogue was embarrassingly bad, some plot points were just nonsensical and childish. The magic system was also not well executed (though I've seen worse).

It's mostly mid, but the ending is refreshing for the fairytale genre and if you like fairytale fluff, you'll probably be more willing to forgive the film's transgressions. If you can, there'll be a lot of fun left to have with it.

2. Damsel

6.5/10

More action than fantasy and with a much smaller cast. Most of the movie focuses on Millie's character. The performances in this were pretty good, though. If you like heroines getting revenge, non-cliche fantasy stories involving princesses, and dragons, this movie is right up your alley! Also the costuming is delightful! It's predictable, but it is also entertaining.

3. Willow

7/10

This show was just fun. Fantastic effects, female heroics, tomfoolery, lesbians, action, evil forces, cool costuming, lesbians, sword-play, riddle-solving, dumbass princes, sarcastic mentors, and lesbians! This show knew exactly what it was trying to be. Aside from some poor performances, my overall impressions is positive.

4. Wednesday

7/10

I personally enjoy Wednesday Addams' character wherever I see her. Having a whole show of her was just a treat. I didn't care for the typical highschool-shenanigans (like the cliques) as much, but there were many enjoyable elements in this for me. Particularly, the effects, the crime, the other female characters, and the ending. It's entertaining and pretty to look at. Also I'm always on my wenclair propaganda.

5. Shadow & Bone

6/10

I've read the Six of Crows duology and the first book of the Shadow & Bone trilogy, so for me this show was a let down. For new watchers, however, you'll find interesting female characters, cool effects, and an entertaining (though sometimes choppy) plot. Inej Ghafa is my queen forever, regardless.

6. Renegade Nell

7/10

This is puts the fantasy in revenge fantasy. I love all the actresses from Derry Girls, and Louisa Harland is still charming in this. It's basically if Gentleman Jack (same director, I think) and Tinkerbell teamed up. Or if Little Women was also Pirates of the Caribbean but instead of taking to the sea it was highway robbery! The action sequences are so fun, the villains are nuanced (particularly the villainess) the comedy isn't overbearing (like I forgot I was watching a Disney show tbh) and the silly towel boy from Ted Lasso is here! I personally had fun. I hope it's renewed.

7. Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

7/10 (i love these so much so it's 8/10 for me)

It sucks that Depp is in this, but I can never ever forsake my girl Mia Wasikowska. I just love these movies. I love the design, the music, the costumes, the irreverence toward marriage and romance, Alice's personality and relationship with her mother, how it tackles the pathologisation of female autonomy, the performances, etc. The books are one of my favorite books of all time so there's that.

8. Maleficent

7/10

I really loved the performances in this, the metaphor for rape, the satisfying revenge. I don't mind that it was cliché. I love Maleficent movies. AND the Lana Del Ray cover for "Once Upon A Dream." Also, the first one makes me tear up every time. The mother-daughter love is just so touching to me.

9. Warrior Nun

(?/10)

I love the premise of this show and I can get behind the characters. The protagonist just annoyed me so much so often I have taken multiple breaks and can't remember the story. I am all for imperfect, asshole girl characters. But this protagonist was just whiny and careless beyond reason. And it was taking too long for her to get with the nuns. Like I was not invested enough in her running away arc. Like sis get your ass to the coven you are not that main of a character!

She took up so much screentime when literally every other character in the show was more interesting than she was.

At least there's lesbians.

10. Snow White & The Huntsman

(8/10)

What can I say? Kristen Stewart was hot in this, as was stepmother. Effects? Stellar. Direction? Stellar. Performance? Mostly stellar. Drama? Action? Magic? All there. Thoroughly entertaining. Refreshingly anti-Disney. Unfortunately there are some annoying men involved (I'm talking about the dwarves of course) but it never gets too overbearing. This is, however, the least feminist of the entire list and scores lowest on the above common themes.

[treasureplanetsheep]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice thoughts (spoiler alert!):

pretty solid sequel

the last half/third was fantastic (basically when things really started to go bonkers/it turned into a rescue mission)

the soundtrack was great

everyone seemed to be having fun (especially Willem Dafoe)

found wynona ryder to be a little...stiff? idk my mom wasn't really impressed with her either. could be bc of how different lydia was compared to the first film? idk i'll talk a little more about that at the end of this post

delores was an interesting concept of a character (more on that later)

Bob was MVP of the movie

was surprised at how prominent the presence of Charles was in the movie due to all the real life ick involving the original actor. i think they cleverly worked around his character at least i guess.

i recognize the priest from that one show Turn AMC solely from the fact that gifsets of him (usually shipping posts) would regularly show up on my dash thanks to some tumblr mutuals lololol

personally could have done without the beetlebaby (twice!) but fits with the beetlejuice zaniness i suppose

Beetlejuice has kept his part of the bargain TWICE now and Lydia keeps managing to worm her way out of her end of the deal tsk tsk lol

So now for more detailed thoughts:

Lydia:

so i never pictured her to turn out like...this? anxious, getting walked over by her creepy smarmy boyfriend. she lost her spine. :( idk how i feel about bc she's in such a vastly different headspace than when we last saw her.

Delores and Wolf Jackson:

these two kind of go hand in hand in a way? So I LIKED the concept of her character (soul-sucking (ex)wife lol get it?)...but we get so little of her???? she's such a flat character! She could be completely removed from the movie and nothing would change (except Bob would be alive 😭)! You build towards some sort of confrontation with her and Beetlejuice and then nothing happens! she finally finds him, is immediately shoved at rory and then eaten by a sandsnake!!!! curious about her total screentime bc i'm pretty sure nearly half of it is just the stayin' alive stapler gun montage)

Wolf Jackson:

you could tell Willem Dafoe was having fun lol. i really liked him ngl BUT the character schtick of him getting a little too lost in acting out bits almost made it feel like he was in a whole separate movie at times if that makes sense? like it felt like he was just doing his own thing the whole time. in his own world.

personally i think the movie should have only included one of the characters. either delores or Wolf and his police/detective tomfoolery. Then *that* character's screentime could have been dedicated to the other character.

and once again i'll reiterate that the last chunk (busting into the underworld and beyond) of the movie was just so fun. Definitely the best part.

nitpicking:

how i would have worked the beginning:

personally i wish we could have gotten the paranormal show gig stuff with lydia, had her receive a phone call and then just cut to everyone arriving at the house with the "who or what or where are they now" stuff worked in after the fact instead of going to the school and the art exhibition. *Nearly* starting off at the house would have helped move things along a little more in the beginning (i thought it dragged just a tad).

[fisherpiers]

PRANKING MY BEST FRIEND GONE WRONG (NOT CLICKBAIT)

a/n: ahskdhs them being in magic college now gives me so many ideas for shenanigans. so here’s one in the first bit of something i’ll eventually move to ao3. sneak peak

***

This prank was gonna be hilarious. Gus couldn’t wait to get to the dorm room he shared with Hunter. With near-silent magic doors, they could manage to sneak in without disturbing the grimwalker. Willow giggled behind him as they crept.

The whole thing had been Willow’s idea in the first place. It didn’t take much convincing to get Gus on board as well. The two of them had been pulling an all-nighter at Willow & Luz’s to prepare for their exams in the morning, and they needed a little fun and adrenaline to wake themselves up again before school started. Why not engage in a little tomfoolery?

It wasn’t too big a prank. They could go all out if they had Luz with them too, but she had been out of her and Willow’s dorm that night. Like she had been frequently.

Willow had assumed at first that Luz was just going home to her mother or Eda, but as she ran into both Eda and Camila in a bar one night and they had no clue what she was talking about, that had proved not to be the case.

She had no idea where Luz was going, and Luz was always able to successfully dodge the question when she brought it up. Whatever. Gave her an excuse to spend more time hanging with Gus, just the two of them. Which wasn’t something they got to do too often ever since the rest of the Hexsqaud came into their lives.

The target for their little prank had originally been Amity, however. Gus shot that down. Amity might actually kill them if they get in between her and the few hours she actually sleeps. Especially in the wee hours of a Friday morning. He did Not need to try and get abomination goo out of his hair only hours before school, ultimately fail, and have to go anyway, all gooped up. Matty wouldn’t be able to shut up about it and would tease him all day.

Willow was happy enough to change her victim to Hunter. She had been a bit frustrated with him lately. And in typical Willow fashion, had been bottling that frustration right up.

He’s a sweet guy, really, and he’d never do something to hurt her on purpose. It’s just that he wouldn’t man-up and ask her out already. It’s been years. She’s made it abundantly clear that she likes him and he keeps dragging his feet.

She’s tried asking him out herself, but every time he seems to just not get that it’s a date. Inviting people along, telling people he’s “just hanging out with Willow” when they ask him what he’s doing, introducing her as His Friend Willow. No awareness whatsoever. So fucking oblivious.

She’s used to think it was just his self-esteem issues, back when they were kids. Lately, however, he’s been just as confident in himself and his skills as he was (or at least pretended he was) back in his Golden Guard days.

There really wasn’t a good reason Willow could find for why he was refusing to own up to their relationship. Well. If she was going to lose sleep over him, he was going to lose sleep over her.

And Gus.

Speaking of, she pulled out her scroll to start filming as she followed him down the hall, soon arriving at Gus’s dorm. Gus unlocked the door with a spell, and they began to sneak in.

Hunter was asleep up on the top bunk, his hand dangling over the edge through the railing. Just a big lump of blankets sleeping peacefully. Perfect.

He was snoring just as loudly as ever. Usually, Gus liked the drone of Hunter’s snoring. It was comforting. But now’s the time.

Gus summoned an illusionary megaphone, and after nodding to Willow making sure she had the camera on and the livestream up, started his show in a flourish.

Their old Hexside buddies were going to crack up. Hunter would too, once he was fully awake.

“GOOD MORNING BONESBORO!~” Gus’s illusion megaphone blared in his iconic showman voice.

“GUS SHUT THE FUCK UP OR IM GOING TO FEED YOU TO HOOTY!” Luz raged as she bolted upright beside hunter.

Holy Titan.

[pondslime]

Jack and David for the Headcanons PLEASSEEEE

oh u have UNLOCKED the evil demented pandora's box of my brain. I'm about to be FULLY annoying. TYSM

below are 3 pros and cons of dating my Favorite Boys Ever™

sidenote: if we're talking canon CANON, the fact that both of them are VERY dead is the MAIN and only VALID con. IMO. but I digress!!! for the sake of this list, they are very alive and very smoochable

(under the cut bc DAMN can a bitch talk. and I do not want u all to have to scroll thru a WALL of text of me bein humina humina awooooooga abt my current hyperfixation 💀 ur welcome)

anyways!! this was incredibly fun and I have tmrrw off!! so feel free to send me a character of ur choice for headcanons and I'll give u 3 pros and 3 cons of dating them. if ur so inclined!!!!

jack

3 PROS

man is goofy. GOOFY. he is so intensely unserious. the banter (both flirty or otherise) will be IMMACULATE.

SOLID movie buddy energy. since he's the first one to bring up lon chaney jr./the pentangle on the wall, I like to think he's a hammer horror movie enthusiast. and since we know that the two of them have been friends at least since the 8th grade, I find the idea of these two little dorks staying up late and catching reruns of the movies...........SO cute. so v v cute. jack's little 12-year-old ass insisting that they CAN'T MISS frankenstein meets the wolfman. no, david!! u can't go tf to sleep!! we need the LORE!!!! so anyway. he'd show u a bunch of old horror movies and point out all the weird lil details to u. get ready 2 be mst3k-ing every film. man has cable tv and chill written ALL over him.

knows his way around nyc and WILL take u to a funky lil hole-in-the-wall restaurant that serves the best sandwich u have ever had. he might forget his wallet @ his apartment and end up paying for it w/loose change he has stuffed in his jacket pockets, but goddamn was that hot pastrami incredible.

3 CONS

he's 5'7'' (this is also a pro)

a little bit of a whiny bitch. will make a mountain out of a molehill. thrives on melodrama and hyperbole. but he's right 90% of the time, so as annoying as it might be. u can't fault him too much for that

used to being the comic relief friend. chronically friendzoned. probably going 2 be a bit annoying about that. it's kinda difficult to get him to snap out of sarcastic showboat-mode. sometimes that can make him seem a bit ingenuine and detached. mild to severe performance anxiety vibes. once u crest over that. he'll trade any nervousness for comical overconfidence and it'll be off to the races. but in the interim................................lmao

david

3 PROS

SWEET himbo boy. v affectionate and complimentary dude. clear w/his intentions and fairly emotionally open. v much so gives the vibes of a guy who claims to want to have 74873848 flings before settling down........but will immediately fall head-over-heels and want to introduce u to his family. golden retriever boy

canonically!! gives good head. need I say more

has a sense of adventure. likes challenging himself and breaking up the routine. outdoorsy. he probably likes hiking. did track or soccer or smthn in high school. his sheer enthusiasm for GOING OUTSIDE will force u to get ur ass off the damn couch. u love to see it.

3 CONS

v much BIG "first person to die in a traditional horror movie"-vibes. not the best at reading situations. will bamboozle himself into a bad scenario purely bc his street-smarts are sometimes lacking. kinda clueless. it's v hot but also v dumb of him. u would think that growing up in nyc would've tempered some of that. occasionally it does. occasionally. not enough tho.

possible mama's boy/golden child. even if this is NOT true, he still lives at home. which means there WILL be tomfoolery afoot if u stay over @ that house. and VERY little privacy!! get ready for his younger siblings to find the most inconvenient ways to interrupt ur time together. ur patience and mental fortitude will be tested. u will be living in a crash course parent trap/home alone-simulator. have fun!!

u know when u were a kid and ur mom would see someone she knew @ the grocery store and talk w/them for an eternity. and u would just be standing there and waiting for her to END her conversation so that u could LEAVE. yeah. david gives me big "endless conversations in grocery store"-energy. u run into a bodega @ 9 PM to grab some chips and soda w/him. but this is his stomping ground and he somehow manages to run into 3797432989 different ppl who know AND adore him. and they've all got to ask him about how school is going. what's he majoring in again? how's the family? do u still know blah blah blah from blah blah blah? and ur just standin there sipping ur coke. which is rapidly becoming more and more room temperature w/every sip. when will it end. he's been talking about his sixth grade biology class for the last ten minutes

BONUS AND MOST OBVIOUS PROS FOR BOTH OF 'EM:

fluffy hair (x2)

there's two of them. u can and SHOULD date both of them simultaneously. IDEAL throuple situation.

[patriciavetinari]

☕️theatre? You've had interesting opinions on the couple of plays you've mentioned...

Big topic!!

Btw, I signed up for another round of drama 'classes', so very relevant.

I love theater, been introduced to it as a child and I think it really should be a bigger part of children's education, way more widespread. I want drama clubs to be as essential for any schools libraries (arts general to be funded better as well). Schools should cooperate with local theaters and get children to see plays several times a year etc, starting from puppetry and up to weird, experimental stuff.

Community theaters should also be funded and where there aren't any comrades should come together and start one. Honestly, this is not me trying to elevate theater as the most important art form or something, it's not better or worse than others, but it is essentially an opportunity for all ages to play pretend and involve their whole body in silliness and healthy tomfoolery. That's aside from the power of storytelling and outreach and shakespeare in prisons and all of that highly important yada yada, we all know and love that. We should do more of it. To be honest, I don't really get the snarky comments about theater kids (though people who focus heavily on european theatre and DO try to elevate it as supreme art form etc of course are at risk of letting their discrimination sully their art, you know).

And I firmly believe that there should be theaters for all occasions and all expectations of what genre of even it is – like with restaurants, sometimes you want a fancy meal and sometimes you want street food. Theater should 100% be versatile and accessible, it should include much more ethnic and body diversity and I think age/gender/race-blind castings are a great idea as long as everyone involved is not making 'guy in a dress' type of joke underneath.

The plays I've seen recently were Translations – a very popular play in Ireland, and a Ukrainian production was an interesting twist on it. I think I have a post on it somewhere in this attic of my blog.

The more recent one I saw just last month was And Then There None – I wrote a post but it was a rambling mess and I deleted it. I like the story (am aware of the racist original name and Christie's general issues with racism and orientalism) but also Christie truly killed the story when she rewrote it as a play with a happy ending. It becomes a vaguely thiller-esque comedy basically, and early films based on it treat it exactly this way. They play I saw didn't do that, but I feel like the play is still not the best medium for this particular story, it was rushed and the descent into paranoid madness feels very artificial. Actors were okay, it was the packed itinerary of deaths that was rushing them along. They made a couple of characters gay, and idk, it was fine, but also comedied them down. I don't know how I feel about this. It could have been better. Stage design was good. Also I'm heavily biased about this piece because the best production so far that I've seen has been a ussr 2-part movie that hits every point and is evisceratingly good, so it's hard to top. I have more feelings about the book itself but I should get a separate ask to ramble about that.

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

Everyone: film school is difficult and unrelenting.

Film school:

[bllsbailey]

Donald Trump's Pledge to Rid Our Military of the 'Woke' Virus Causes Consternation in the Right Places

Former President Donald Trump's use of a mashup of scenes from the 1987 Stanley Kubrick film, "Full Metal Jacket," interspersed with clips of today's military, has caused some outrage on the left, but mostly, it has caused consternation among some of the right people.

 I think it is inarguable that the military created by Joe Biden and Kamala is only fractionally as effective as the military under Trump. And even in Trump's first term, the rot of DEI and "gender equality" had already taken root. The failure of Biden and Harris is made clear every day as the only way the services make their manpower goals is by cutting end strength. We've seen the US Navy in the Western Pacific on the cusp of being unable to operate because of a lack of fleet oilers.

RELATED:

DEI Strikes Again? U.S. Military Facing 'Worst-Ever' Recruiting Crisis, Notably Among White Recruits – RedState

U.S. Navy Drops High School Diploma, GED Requirement for Recruits — What Could Possibly Go Wrong? – RedState

The United States Will Start 2024 With Its Smallest Military Since Before World War II – RedState

Fed. Govt. Spent Millions on Diversity Training in 2023 - Here Is Some of the Tomfoolery You Paid For – RedState

BUZZ CUT: The U.S. Military's Pronouns Are 'We're/Screwed' – RedState

The official and institutional embrace of sexual fetishes as a normal part of the military has been shocking. The clips Trump shows are nowhere near as bad as the situation really is.

RELATED:

Rum, Buggery, and the Lash Makes a Comeback as the US Navy Fights Recruiting Woes; Well, Better Hold the Rum – RedState

Navy Recruitment: From Heroes to 'Harpy' the Drag-Queen – RedState

Nevada Air Force Base Hosts Drag Show, and It's Part of a Softer, Gentler Military – RedState

Army Starts Sham Investigation Into Bondage Fetish Colonel and His Friends Because They Think You're Stupid – RedState

Trump's promise to fire the generals behind this insanity is viewed by Kamala's flailing and undirected campaign as a campaign issue.

FOX NEWS: Are you going to fire those generals? The woke generals at the top? TRUMP: Yes, I would get rid of them. Yeah. But see, now I know them. I didn’t know them before. But, you know, I came in, what do I know? I was a New York real estate person. But no, I’d fire. I would fire them. You can’t have woke military.

Most of the commentary on the video is by room-temperature IQ intellectuals trying to explain that the video shows that Trump doesn't understand "Full Metal Jacket." This guy is real. He's not an AI parody, though he's exactly what an AI parody of a clueless leftist would look and sound like.

The point is less that Trump doesn't understand a movie, than Trump's critics don't understand where R. Lee Ermey fits into popular culture.

A guy who produces Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show says (see Why Trump’s vow to fire ‘woke’ U.S. generals matters (msnbc.com)):

Now, however, the Republican apparently has more expansive plans for a second term, planning to fire U.S. military leaders who fail to meet his ideological standards. At first blush, this might not seem especially surprising, but let’s not forget that a bedrock principle of the American experience is that we have an apolitical armed forces, filled with servicemembers who are loyal, not to an elected leader, but the U.S. Constitution. If Trump intends to politicize the military, filling the ranks with loyalists, it sets the stage for a dramatic and fundamental change in how the United States is supposed to operate.

I'd encourage this guy to review how Thomas Jefferson dealt with known Federalist Army officers or ponder the fact that the military is not the civil service. The military is not an independent power center that has "equities." The president is the commander-in-chief. Every commissioned officer is appointed at each step of his career by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. I have a copy of the Congressional Record when the Senate voted to make me a second lieutenant. No one is advocating a partisan military, but Trump and many of us would like to return to the days when active-duty general officers, or even retired general officers, stayed out of partisan politics and basic standards of civilized behavior adhered to; see General Mark Milley Reportedly Stocking Up on Brown Trousers in Case Trump Is Reelected – RedState. The president has the right, and I would argue the duty, to ensure that senior officers faithfully execute his will and not sandbag him behind his back.

The former president has lashed out at generals before, but this was new. Trump apparently envisions a system in which U.S. military leaders will be subjected to some kind of ideological review, in which members of a task force — whose members will presumably be appointed by Trump — will go about assessing the generals’ and admirals’ personal attitudes. Those deemed “woke” will apparently see their military careers curtailed. What could possibly go wrong?

There is nothing wrong with Trump doing just that, and the worst results of that process would not be as bad as what we've seen with the military being suborned on a wholesale level by the left.

[angiehomes83]

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[bucklemonster2]

Times have changed and p*dophilia is bad

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE BENEDEN)

First of all: I do not promote or approve of p*dophilia, of course.

I'm 30 years old and not attracted to people under 20. Adults attracted to minors need psychological help and need to be separated from minors, in my honest opinion. Many would say people like that need to be shot and tortured. Everyone has a right to their opinion.

So, even though I'm no longer young, I'm not old either. I already notice times have changed a lot.

Like, VHS became replaced by DVD's and then by streaming. My town is still recognisable

if you send someone from 1990 of 2000 to today, 2024, they would still find their way, I think. But many buildings have been destroyed and rebuild. Small shops disappeared and gave way for a larger shopping centre.

I think its important to think about our changing world and document those changes. So, that's why I'm writing this. Even dark and uncomfortable topics must be discussed.

I realize, we have changed a lot culturally as well. I went to high-school from around 2007 to 2013. I remember things, that if teachers would do today, those teachers would have a visit from the police or even get send to prison. Like, we had a cool teacher that would show us films like American Beauty, Eyes Wide Shut

and even Christiane F! Imagine a teacher doing that today! This wasn't even an art school. I heard other people from other schools, art schools, also saw risqué and shocking movies involving children and SA. You know, artistic movies that shock people, telling them child ab*se is terrible and vile, but also showing (half)n*ked kids to push the envelope.

(By the way the teacher wasn't cool because he showed bizarre movies, but because he had good life advice and also apologised when he or the school messed up.)

During my school years, around 2009, the black board often was replaced by powerpoint slides shown to us through a projector. There was teacher, a woman, and her computer background were pictures of her children, toddlers. One of the pictures was these toddlers n*ked in a bath. Even though we were all edgy teens, it all weirded us out and filled the class with cringe-laughter. One day the teacher told us about

how one of her toddlers got an enema, and then she asked us if we knew what it was. You can see, it was such a weird moment I still remember it today. I'm not sure if teachers can do such acts today.

There were also events that where nice. Some teachers, women, were attractive. I mean having crushes on teachers is an experience many people have. Being a teenager is a lonely experience filled with boredom after all, and if it wasn't boring it was filled with teen drama.

At least that was my experience, everyone's life is different.

So, there were attractive teachers, women, that would rustle our hair, playfully. Or, when we had french fries

they would pick a fry and eat it in front of us. One time a student, a boy, was talking about his new deodorant, and the teacher asked if she could smell his armpits to see if the deodorant worked.

One of my best memories was a stunning teacher, a woman, that would pull students ears, as a joke, when they misbehaved. I would even fool around on purpose, so she would pull my ear and "drag" me outside that way. It was an interesting experience of pain and excitement.

Can teachers still pull stunts like that? If not, I feel a bit sad for the lonely students, and the playful loving actions they will miss out on. The sad lack of harmless tomfoolery by teachers. Perhaps, it is for the best. Maybe it's better we are more vigilant, and protect our children more. A few light-hearted affectionate touches, and some fooling around is a small thing to lose, to prevent ab*se.

When I was a teenager, p*dophiles were of course seen as the worst of the worst, but we also made a lot of jokes about them. They were like internet memes, it was seen as edgy.

Like, there was this internet meme called p*dobear, about a cartoon bear that was a p*dophile.

People would photoshop this bear in harmless pictures of children. One person made a "p*dobear seal of approval". I remember one meme somebody showed me, of an old ad for bananas. Two kids were eating bananas, and someone put a p*dobear on that picture.

Now that I think about it, it was indeed a weird meme.

There was another term that became a meme around this time. It was called "ja*lbait". These were children that were deemed attractive, as a joke. However, I don't think its a good idea to google this term now a days. I just remember my classmates showing memes about it. One of them was a fully clothed 9 or 13 year old, with pigtails on a tricycle. I hate to say this, but well, she had certain adult features, hence she was called "ja*lbait". There was also a "funny" caption about how it she would put you in jail.

These memes are something people would freak out over, if someone showed it to others today.

Yet, we would see these pictures on school monitors and laugh about it, while teachers saw it all.

Of course, there were never memes with pictures of n*ked children. And we were around 14, 16 years old. We were minors, children as well.

There was also a weird moment were we made jokes about "l*licon". Some kid discovered what it meant

and told the whole school: "There is a genre of hentai about making drawings of n*ked children and

child ab*se!"

Many people have been traumatised as a child or teenager. By an adult or fellow classmates. We live in a twisted world after all. I'm one of the few lucky people, to grow up unab*sed. Weirdly enough I never got contacted by a p*dophile online, or at least I never was aware of it, and I was never traumatized, for which I am very thankful.

When I was a young child, from the ages of 7 to 12, I was afraid of p*dophiles, however.

Dutroux, an infamous criminal, p*dophile was in the news all the time, because it was his trial. During this time a lot of priests also got exposed as offending p*dophiles. The news ran stories about the increase of child ab*se material online. As a child, this deeply scared me. In my mind, every adult could be a monster. Every car could stop and grab me.

As a teenager the idea of a p*dophile became a joke. We imagined it as a 50 year old balding man wandering the suburbs with a stupid smile, staring at kids on public playgrounds. p*do was just another word for creepy back then. And we would call each other p*do as a joke when someone did something stupid.

In 2024, p*dophilia is no joke, it never was. In the past, people said p*dophiles were creepy old men. Now a lot of charismatic youtubers in their 30's turn out to be offending p*dophiles, that forced their 12 year old fans to send explicit photos of themselves. These vile youtubers then end up in jail, rightfuly so.

Other internet personalities are shamed publicly for making an edgy joke 10 years ago.

People are often called a p*dophile, sometimes this is valid, and people need to be locked up or get at least psychological help. Other times its just absurd, like sometimes people are called p*dophile because they watch anime or are trans (this both happened to me).

Indeed, times have changed. In the 1930's if a 30 year old man married a 14 year old "woman". It was deemed normal. Now, it is illegal, and that's good. So it makes sense older people often say

things that upset younger people. For example; older people would call their children or grandchildren hot.

Of course they wont ab*se their children or grandchildren. It is just their way of saying their children or grandchildren are beautiful. Yet, the newer generation has been raised to be aware of all dangers, like p*dophiles, so when a boomer says something like that, the younger generation panics.

We are also living in a weird time where trolls spam g0re and child ab*se material online. Sometimes bots are programmed to do this. So, in the past people would never see vile stuff like that, unless you would look for it. Now, a lot of people have accidentally seen children ab*sed online. A lot of people have accidentally seen pictures of c0rpses and animals getting t0rtured. I wonder how that messes with the global population. Even I had to report some stuff, I wish I had never seen in my life.

So yeah. Times have changed. 14 years ago people loved making edgy jokes about p*dophiles,

now people would freak out if you made a joke like that.

Are we in another mass hysteria? Or is it better we are more vigilant?

Perhaps, that is for you to decide. ------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------

De tijden zijn veranderd en p*dofilie is slecht Allereerst: ik promoot geen p*dofilie, en ik keur p*dofilie nooit goed.

Ik ben 30 jaar oud en voel me niet aangetrokken tot mensen onder de 20. Volwassenen die zich aangetrokken voelen tot minderjarigen hebben psychologische hulp nodig en moeten van minderjarigen worden gescheiden, naar mijn mening. Velen zouden zeggen dat zulke mensen neergeschoten en gemarteld moeten worden. Iedereen heeft recht op zijn mening. Dus ook al ben ik niet meer jong, ik ben ook niet oud. Ik merk al dat de tijd veel veranderd is.

Zo werd VHS vervangen door DVD's en daarna door streaming. Mijn stad is nog steeds herkenbaar als je iemand van 1990 of 2000 naar vandaag, 2024, zou sturen. Dan zouden ze nog steeds hun weg vinden, denk ik. Maar veel gebouwen zijn verwoest en herbouwd. Kleine winkels verdwenen en maakten plaats voor een groter winkelcentrum. Ik denk dat het belangrijk is om na te denken over onze veranderende wereld en die veranderingen vast te leggen. Daarom schrijf ik dit. Zelfs duistere en ongemakkelijke onderwerpen moeten besproken worden. Ik besef dat we cultureel gezien ook veel veranderd zijn. Ik heb van ongeveer 2007 tot 2013 op de middelbare school gezeten. Ik herinner me dingen, dat als leerkrachten dit vandaag zouden doen,

ze de politie over de vloer zouden krijgen of zelfs naar de gevangenis zouden worden gestuurd.

We hadden bijvoorbeeld een toffe leraar die ons films liet zien als American Beauty, Eyes Wide Shut en zelfs Christiane F! Stel je voor dat een leraar dat vandaag de dag zou doen! Dit was niet eens een kunstacademie. Ik hoorde dat andere mensen van andere scholen, kunstacademies,

ook gewaagde en schokkende films te zien kregen met kinderen en s**uele mishandeling. Je weet wel, artistieke films die mensen shockeren, die hen vertellen dat kinderm!sbruik vreselijk en fout is, maar ook (half)na'akte kinderen laten zien om de grenzen te verleggen. (Overigens was de leraar niet tof omdat hij bizarre films liet zien, hij was tof omdat hij goede levensadviezen had en ook zijn excuses aanbood als hij of de school een fout maakte.) Tijdens mijn schooljaren, rond 2009, werd het schoolbord vaak vervangen door PowerPoint-dia's die via een projector aan ons werden getoond. Er was daar juf en haar computerachtergrond bestond uit foto's van haar kinderen, peuters. Één van de foto's was van deze peuters naakt in bad. Hoewel we allemaal edgy tieners waren, vonden we het allemaal vreemd en we moesten luidop lachen uit plaatsvervangende schaamte.

Op een dag vertelde ze ons hoe één van haar peuters een klysma (lavement/enema) kreeg, en toen vroeg ze ons of we wisten wat het was. Je ziet, het was zo'n raar moment dat ik het me vandaag de dag nog kan herinneren. Ik weet niet zeker of leraren tegenwoordig zulke zaken nog kunnen doen. Er waren ook gebeurtenissen die leuk waren. Sommige juffen waren aantrekkelijk. Ik bedoel, verliefd zijn op leerkrachten is een ervaring die velen hadden in het middelbaar.

Tiener zijn is tenslotte een eenzame ervaring vol verveling, en als het niet saai was, was het vol tienerdrama. Dat was in ieder geval mijn ervaring, ieder leven is anders. Dus waren er aantrekkelijke juffen, die speels door ons haar streelden. Of, als we frietjes aten pakten ze een frietje en aten ze het voor onze ogen op. Één keer had een student, een jongen, het over zijn nieuwe deodorant, en de juf vroeg of ze aan zijn oksels mocht ruiken om te zien of de deodorant werkte. Één van mijn beste herinneringen was een beeldschone juf die als grap aan de oren van studenten trok, als ze zich misdroegen. Ik deed zelfs expres irritant zodat ze aan mijn oor zou trekken om mij naar buiten te "slepen". Het was een interessante ervaring van pijn en plezier. Kunnen juffen nog steeds zulke stunts uithalen? Zo niet, dan voel ik me een beetje verdrietig voor de eenzame studenten, en de speelse, liefdevolle acties die ze zullen missen. Het trieste gebrek aan het onschuldig stoeien van de juffen.

Misschien is het maar goed ook. Misschien is het beter dat we waakzamer zijn en kinderen beter beschermen. Een paar ludieke, liefdevolle aanrakingen en wat onnozel doen kunnen we verliezen als dit betekend dat we veel m!sbruik voorkomen.

Toen ik een tiener was, werden p*dofielen natuurlijk gezien als het ergste van het ergste, maar we maakten ook veel grappen over hun. Het waren net internetmemes, het werd gezien als edgy. Zo was er deze internetmeme genaamd p*dobear, over een cartoonbeer die een p*dofiel was. Mensen zouden deze beer photoshoppen in onschuldige foto's van kinderen. Iemand maakte een "p*dobear seal of approval". Ik herinner me een meme die iemand me liet zien, van een oude advertentie voor bananen. Twee kinderen aten bananen en iemand zette een p*dobear op die foto. Nu ik erover nadenk, was het inderdaad een vreemde meme. Er was nog een andere term die rond deze tijd een meme werd. Het heette "ja*lbait". Dit waren kinderen die aantrekkelijk werden geacht, als grap. Ik denk echter niet dat het tegenwoordig een goed idee is om deze term te googlen. Ik herinner me alleen dat mijn klasgenoten memes erover lieten zien. Een van hen was een volledig geklede 9- of 13-jarige, met staartjes op een driewieler. Ik zeg dit niet graag, maar ze had bepaalde volwassen "vormen", daarom werd ze "ja*lbait" genoemd. Er was ook een "grappig" onderschrift over hoe ze mannen in de gevangenis zou steken. Deze memes zijn iets waar mensen over zouden flippen, als iemand ze vandaag de dag aan anderen zou laten zien. Toch zagen we deze foto's op schoolmonitoren en moesten we erom lachen, terwijl leraren het allemaal zagen. Natuurlijk waren er nooit memes met foto's van naakte kinderen. En wij waren rond de 14, 16 jaar oud. We waren minderjarigen, dus ook kinderen. Er was ook een vreemd moment waarop we grappen maakten over "l*licon". Een kind ontdekte wat het betekende en vertelde het aan de hele school: "Er is een genre hentai waarbij mensen tekeningen maken van mensen met naakte kinderen en kinderm!sbruik!"

Veel mensen zijn getraumatiseerd als kind of tiener door een volwassene of klasgenoten. We leven tenslotte in een gebroken wereld. Ik ben één van de weinige gelukkigen die is kunnen opgroeien zonder trauma. Vreemd genoeg ben ik nooit online benaderd door een p*dofiel, of in ieder geval was ik me er nooit van bewust, waar ik dankbaar voor ben. Toen ik een jong kind was, van 7 tot 12 jaar, was ik wel bang voor p*dofielen. Dutroux, een beruchte criminele p*dofiel was de hele tijd in het nieuws, omdat het zijn proces was. In die tijd werden ook veel priesters ontmaskerd als overtredende p*dofielen. Het nieuws bracht verhalen over de toename van kinderm!sbruikmateriaal online. Als kind schrok ik me rot. In mijn gedachten kon elke volwassene een monster zijn. Elke auto kon stoppen en mij ontvoeren. Als tiener werd het idee van "de p*dofiel" een grap. We stelden ons voor dat het een 50-jarige half-kale man was die met een domme grijns door de gezellige suburbs zwierf en naar kinderen op openbare speelplaatsen staarde. p*do was toen gewoon een ander woord voor griezelig. En we noemden elkaar p*do voor de grap als iemand iets doms deed. In 2024 is p*dofilie geen grap meer, dat is het nooit geweest. Vroeger zeiden mensen dat p*dofielen griezelige oude mannen waren. Nu blijken veel charismatische youtubers van in de dertig p*dofielen te zijn die hun 12-jarige fans dwingen expliciete foto's van zichzelf te sturen. Deze walgelijke youtubers belanden dan terecht in de gevangenis. Andere internetpersoonlijkheden worden aan de schandpaal genageld omdat ze 10 jaar geleden een edgy grap maakten. Mensen worden vaak p*dofiel genoemd, soms is dat terecht en moeten ze worden opgesloten of op zijn minst psychologische hulp krijgen. Andere keren is het gewoon absurd. Mensen worden al p*dofiel genoemd omdat ze trans zijn of naar anime kijken. (die laatste twee zijn mij beide overkomen)

Inderdaad, de tijden zijn veranderd. In de jaren 1930 werd het als normaal beschouwd als een 30-jarige man met een 14-jarige "vrouw" trouwde. Nu is het illegaal en maar goed ook. Het is dus logisch dat oudere mensen vaak dingen zeggen die jongere mensen van streek maken. Bijvoorbeeld: oudere mensen zouden hun kinderen of kleinkinderen s'exy noemen. Natuurlijk zullen ze hun kinderen of kleinkinderen nooit mishandelen. Het is gewoon hun manier om te zeggen dat hun kinderen of kleinkinderen mooi zijn. Toch is de jongere generatie opgevoed met de gedachte dat er overal gevaar is, en er overal p*dofielen rondkruipen. Dus als een boomer zoiets zegt, raakt de jongere generatie in paniek.

We leven ook in een vreemde tijd waarin trolls online g0re en kinderm!sbruikmateriaal spammen.

Soms worden bots geprogrammeerd om dit te doen. Dus in het verleden zouden mensen nooit zulke smerige dingen zien, tenzij je ernaar op zoek ging. Nu hebben veel mensen per ongeluk online kinderm!sbruik gezien.

Veel mensen hebben per ongeluk foto's van lijken en gemartelde dieren gezien. Ik vraag me af hoe dit de wereldbevolking beïnvloedt. Zelfs ik moest sommige dingen melden, die ik nooit in mijn leven had willen zien. Dus ja. De tijden zijn veranderd. 14 jaar geleden maakten mensen graag edgy grappen over p*dofielen, nu zouden mensen flippen als je zo'n grap zou maken. Zitten we weer in een massahysterie? Of is het beter dat we waakzamer zijn? U beslist.

[lgcgyuri]

₊ ˚ ⊹ 𝐃𝐎𝐍'𝐓 𝐁𝐄 𝐒𝐔𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐎𝐔𝐒 , a solo.

gyuri, for the most part, has always done her best to follow the rules.

hardly one for baseless tomfoolery, her pension for professionalism, dignity, and notability were often times at the forefront of her mind when it came to the actions she took— as someone whose ultimate goal was to take center stage, illuminated under countless stage lights as she carved a space for herself amongst the stars, gyuri firmly believed that not all press was good press. buzzworthy stunts that only garnered a measly fifteen minutes were nothing compared to a spaced-out timeline of proper triumphs and accomplishments, slow and steady being the clear winner every time.

cheating was a short-lived benefit while honesty was the best policy.

it was simply too bad that, in this case, gyuri found herself giving into temptation.

the premise for week four was easy enough, far more tame in comparison to the more cutthroat games she and her fellow actors had been made to take part in thus far— sit back, relax, and don't listen. let others speak of you freely without being able to hear them, sharing whatever tidbits, stories, and experiences they felt so inclined to give. easy enough, really, and once gyuris turn rolls around, she believes she'll be able to make it through without her curiosities peaking. that much rings true as filming for her segment begins, body relaxed where she's sat beyond a partition, head bobbing gently as she tries to let the music being blasted in her ears keep her distracted.

it works . . . until it doesn't, gyuris gaze inevitably picks up on actions made by the few staff members she can still see. laughter, muffled but also still booming enough to know something funny must have been said about her. looks of understanding ( understanding towards what, she'll never know now that the moment has already passed ). raising brows, surprise on people's faces, and suddenly gyuri can't stand sabrina carpenters espresso currently echoing in her brain.

nose scrunched, gyuri prepares herself for what she knows will be a rather dreadful experience, one hand lifting a cup of bitter tea to her lips as she uses the other to pinch her nose. while she's able to keep her body in check, only a slight shiver running down her spine, she's unable to school her expression as she normally is. she frowns ( pouts, really ) almost immediately, thick brows furrowing together violently in a public display of displeasure, gaze darting around, and gyuri can only hope the few bouts of laughter she garners from the staff in eyesight don't tip the other actors off as to what she's done.

she'll not be doing that again, lesson learned, but at least she isn't in the dark completely.

[aslamat]

The Zodiac Executioner: Exposing Northern California's Most Tricky Hunter

In the archives of American wrongdoing, hardly any names summon as much interest and fear as the Zodiac Executioner. Dynamic in Northern California during the last part of the 1960s and mid 1970s, this unidentified chronic executioner's rule of fear made a permanent imprint on the aggregate mind of the country. The Zodiac Executioner's enigmatic messages, spooky codes, and heartless killings have confused examiners and beginner detectives for quite a long time, making it perhaps of the most scandalous strange case in criminal history.

A Vile Introduction

The Zodiac Executioner's realized homicide binge started on December 20, 1968, when secondary school understudies Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday were shot and killed close to Vallejo, California. This severe twofold murder was only the start. Throughout the following two years, the Zodiac would guarantee liability regarding no less than five additional homicides, however he bragged having killed upwards of 37 individuals.

The Homicides

*Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday: On that critical December night, the youthful couple was stopped in a detached spot when they were trapped and killed. Jensen was shot multiple times in the back as she attempted to escape, while Faraday was shot once in the head at point-clear reach.

*Darlene Ferrin and Michael Mageau: On July 4, 1969, the Zodiac struck again in Vallejo. Ferrin and Mageau were stopped in a comparable darlings' path when they were gone after. Ferrin was killed, and Mageau made due regardless of being shot on numerous occasions, later giving police a portrayal of their assailant.

*Bryan Hartnell and Cecelia Shepard: On September 27, 1969, the Zodiac designated one more couple at Lake Berryessa. This time, he wore a killer style hood and displayed a blade, cutting the two casualties more than once. Hartnell endured the assault, however Shepard surrendered to her wounds.

*Paul Stine: The Zodiac's last affirmed casualty was Paul Stine, a San Francisco taxi driver. On October 11, 1969, Stine was shot in the head at point-clear reach. The executioner took Stine's wallet and keys, and tore a piece of his bloodied shirt to ship off to the police.

The Enigmatic Correspondence

What put the Zodiac Executioner aside from other chronic executioners was his propensity for insulting the specialists and the media. He sent a progression of obscure letters to nearby papers, loaded up with chilling brags, dangers, and puzzling codes. The most renowned of these, the 408-image figure, was broken by a secondary teacher and his significant other, uncovering an upsetting message that started with, "I like killing individuals since it is such a lot of tomfoolery."

Nonetheless, the Zodiac's most notorious code, the 340-character figure, stayed perplexing for more than 50 years until it was at long last broken in December 2020. The message, while frightful, didn't uncover the executioner's personality, keeping the secret alive.

The Examination and Suspects

Notwithstanding the broad examination, the Zodiac Executioner's character stays obscure. The case has produced various suspects, with Arthur Leigh Allen being the most unmistakable. Allen, a sentenced kid molester, was over and over addressed by police and was the subject of a court order in 1991. Be that as it may, no indisputable proof at any point connected him to the Zodiac violations.

Different suspects have included Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, and, surprisingly, a French man named Fellow Ward Hendrickson, whose little girl guaranteed he was the Zodiac. By the by, no suspect has at any point been authoritatively shown to be the scandalous executioner.

The Tradition of Dread

The Zodiac Executioner's rule of fear has left an enduring inheritance on American culture. His capacity to dodge catch, his enigmatic correspondences, and the sheer ruthlessness of his wrongdoings have motivated endless books, films, and narratives. The case stays persevering through interest for genuine wrongdoing fans and has prodded continuous examinations by both policing novice criminal investigators.

The Zodiac Executioner case fills in as a terrible sign of the hazier side of human instinct and the intricacies of criminal examination. As innovation and measurable science advance, there remains trust that one day the genuine character of the Zodiac will be uncovered, giving conclusion to the casualties' families and addressing perhaps of the most persevering through secret in American criminal history.

By digging into the Zodiac Executioner's evil adventure, we defy the chilling truth of a slippery hunter who has figured out how to get away from the grip of equity for quite a long time. The narrative of the Zodiac isn't simply a story of ghastliness yet additionally a demonstration of the persevering through journey for truth despite incomprehensible insidiousness.