#garrett ashcroft

[nightingaletrash]

Garrett: *remains silent because he's autistic af, also because annoying certain people is funny*

Venaya: *remains silent for dramatic effect*

Aerrun: *remains silent because a bloody axe speaks a thousand words*

Lazahk: *remains silent because a bloody pulp of a head speaks a thousand words*

Daenethys: *is physically incapable of remaining silent because she's autistic af*

[phoenixlionme]

My Favorite Fictional Couples Part 25

NOTE: Be respectful of my choices; the OTPs are not ranked, just of who I thought when making this list.

1. Disney’s Garoyles: Fox + David Xanatos = Foxatos

2. Disney’s Gargoyles: Broadway + Angela = Broangela

3. W.I.T.C.H.: Will Vandom + Matt Olsen = Willmatt

4. W.I.T.C.H.: Taranee Cook + Nigel Ashcroft = Taranigel

5. W.I.T.C.H.: Hay Lin + Eric Lyndon = Hayeric

6. W.I.T.C.H.: Caleb + Cornelia Hale = Rebelguardian

7. Quest for Camelot: Kayley + Garrett = Kayrett

8. Thumbelina 1994: Princess Thumbelina + Prince Cornelius = Thumbelius

9. Klaus 2019:  Jesper Johanssen + Alva = Jesva

10. Pixar’s Up: Carl Fredrickson + Ellie Fredrickson = Carlellie

[illicitreadings]

Books Read in August 2022

The roughest Draft by Emily Wibberley, Austin Siegemund-Broka ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Stranger Things - Worlds Turned Upside Down by Gina McIntyre ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Ice Planet Barbarians (Ice Planet Barbarians #1) by Ruby Dixon ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Barbarian Alien (Ice Planet Barbarians #2) by Ruby Dixon ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians #3) by Ruby Dixon ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Hired: Hadley (The Foster Brothers #2) by Nora Phoenix ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Barbarian Mine (Ice Planet Barbarians #4) by Ruby Dixon ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Ice Planet Holiday (Ice Planet Barbarians #5) by Ruby Dixon ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Barbarian Prize (Ice Planet Barbarians #6) by Ruby Dixon ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

Master of Mayhem (Frat Wars #2) by Saxon James ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Friends with Benefits (Never Just Friends #3.5) by Saxon James ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Miss Memory Lane by Colton Haynes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries #1) by Meg Cabot ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Princesa in the Spotlight (The Princes Diaries #2) by Meg Cabot ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Pride and Prejudice (Graphic Novel) by Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

The Sex Coach by Garrett Leigh ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Cocky by Sean Ashcroft ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Princess in Love (Princess Diaries #3) by Meg Cabot ★★☆☆☆

Princess in Waiting (Princess Diaries #4) by Meg Cabot ★★☆☆☆

Princess in Pink (Princess Diaries #5) by Meg Cabot ★★☆☆☆

Princess in Training (Princess Diaries #6) by Meg Cabot ★★☆☆☆

Princess Party (Princess Diaries #7) by Meg Cabot ★★☆☆☆

Princess on the Brink (Princess Diaries #8) by Meg Cabot ★★☆☆☆

Princess Mia (Princess Diaries #9) by Meg Cabot ★★☆☆☆

Princess Forever (Princess Diaries #10) by Meg Cabot ★★☆☆☆

Royal Wedding (Princess Diaries #11) by Meg Cabot ★★☆☆☆

Will Byers: Scret Archives by ★★★☆☆

You Deserve Valetine's Brunch by Sarah Hogle ★★★★★

Kiss me, Liar by ★★☆☆☆

[redemptivexheroics]

Reminder of who my muse, Garrett, is. His primary verse is Mercenary Verse. He’s a former problem child who learned control and self discipline while living in Japan, a rival and friend of Kyle’s and good friends with Camellia Ashcroft a training partner of his and Kyle’s. He’s more reserved than his friend. He wields an enchanted sword called Shadow Slayer which channels one’s darkness and anger and transforms it into power. He’s a more traditional sword wielder preferring to use his sword over guns, plus with his inhuman ability to transform into a spirit animal, a wolf in his case he makes being a vigilante look easy. He’s one to rather avoid conflict, and only steps in if he has no choice or if being forced to act. 

[96thdayofrage]

His name is Kris Kobach, and the Day-Glo douche nozzle we now call Mr. President recently signed an executive order empowering Kobach to lead a presidential commission to advise him on voter fraud.

Kris Kobach is no ordinary racist politician. While he nominally serves as Kansas’ secretary of state, Kobach has traveled around the country as what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “the lawyer for America’s nativist movement.” He hopscotched from state to state writing photocopied versions of his anti-immigrant “Papers please” law before numerous courts rejected them as too racist. After 9/11, he created a program to register and fingerprint Muslims. He believed that President Barack Obama was keeping black people out of jail. He works for a hate group (no, not the Republican Party).

On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order establishing a “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.” Basically, the president created a Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated ghost-hunting team to back up his baseless claims that millions of people illegally voted in the 2016 presidential election. To lead the commission, Trump named Kobach as the commission’s vice chairman (Vice President Mike Pence is the actual chairman, but if there’s another woman eating in the room, you know he has to leave).

Who Is Kris Kobach?

Imagine meeting Satan at a party. Now imagine that—after a few drinks— the devil told you how he graduated as valedictorian from a Kansas high school, went to Harvard and graduated first in his class, then got a master’s degree and doctorate from Oxford before completing Yale Law School. Then, when you were congratulating Beelzebub on his unprecedented academic achievements, just before returning back into the fiery depths of hell, the devil turned and said, “Oh, I know another guy who achieved the exact-same things, but he’s waaaay more racist than I am.”

That other guy is Kris Kobach.

Why Do You Think Kris Kobach Is a Racist?

Wait ... for legal reasons, I want to make this clear: No one here has ever called Kris Kobach a racist. Kris Kobach might have love for all mankind buried deep in his heart (and I mean very, very, very deep). While it is impossible to ascertain what he believes, one fact of Kobach’s professional history is unshakable:

Kris Kobach does racist things. In fact, many of the racist proposals put forth by Trump didn’t originate from the gargoyle bobblehead of Steve Bannon. They were the brainchild of Kris Kobach.

Like What?

Like the idea of a Muslim registry. After the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, Kobach worked as Then-Attorney General John Ashcroft’s chief adviser on immigration and border security. According to the SPLC, Kobach helped “create a program that required tens of thousands of Muslim and Middle Eastern visa holders and visitors to register with the government and be fingerprinted.” Called the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, it made immigrants from 25 Muslim countries submit to interrogation and fingerprints annually.

While at the White House, Kobach wrote a memo that would eventually become known as the “Papers please” law. Although the law became famous in Arizona as S.B. 1070, Kobach tailored the law for different state legislatures, including Alabama’s, Mississippi’s and Georgia’s. The law cost taxpayers millions of dollars in legal fees and was dismantled by appeals courts across the country. The proposal not only gave authorities the right to arrest anyone who couldn’t prove they were a U.S. citizen but also forced undocumented immigrants to prove their citizenship before signing leases; kicked their children out of school; and invalidated any contract they signed.

Before Trump complained about elections being “rigged,” Kobach helped create Interstate Crosscheck—a database that sought to purge voter rolls in 28 states. If judges had allowed states to use Crosscheck, it would have disenfranchised 1 out of every 7 black voters.

In September, a federal appeals court slapped him down again after he convinced Kansas, Alabama and Georgia to pass laws forcing people to show proof of citizenship when filling out federal voter forms.

OK, He Sounds Like a Racist to Me

I told you not to call him a racist. Maybe he’s just pioneering a new area of legal practice. Inventors need patent attorneys. Athletes need agents. Well, racists need lawyers, too.

Kobach works for the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, which was founded by anti-immigrant, white supremacist John Tanton, who wrote in a Dec. 10, 1993, letter to eugenicist and ecology professor Garrett Hardin (now deceased):

I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

Not only is Kobach employed by an organization categorized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center and a “radical ... fringe organization” by others, but in 2015 he spoke at a “writers workshop” for the white nationalist publishers the Social Contract Press.

So Why Did Trump Choose Kobach?

Trump choosing Kobach to lead a commission looking into voter fraud is like someone asking Rachel Dolezal to stop people from wearing blackface. Kobach has been working to reduce minority voting for his entire professional career.

Trump selected Kobach because despite all the voter-suppression efforts you read about during the 2016 election, most were unsuccessful. Judges struck down voter-ID laws. Courts issued injunctions against purging voter rolls. But Kobach used a Trump-like technique so bold that the Donald was forced to take notice:

Kris Kobach simply tossed voters’ ballots into the trash.

Kansas’ voter-registration computers at the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles offices curiously stopped working in October, so when people brought their registration to the polls, as secretary of state in Kansas, Kobach threw thousands of provisional ballots into the garbage, even though some belonged to people who had proof they were registered voters. It was a move as bold as firing the director of the FBI while he is investigating a crime you committed ...

But, of course, no one is crazy enough to do that.

So, What Now?

We know what happens next. We’ve seen it a million times in every phase of American history. Kris Kobach will do with voter fraud what his predecessors did with terrorism, crime, white unemployment, drugs, the economic downturn, the education decline, rising health costs and every other blight on American society:

He will find a way to blame it on brown people.

Even Satan knows that.

[nightingaletrash]

I was debating what to do about Garrett and Lyra now that Venaya is my defacto DBH character. I like Garrett enough not to scrap him altogether, so I imagine that if he's not sent to Knightsgrave with Ven and Green Venom Tongue then he tags along anyway because he wants to try and prevent Lyra's death. He helps to fight Lyra, but once she's disarmed and unable to fight, he asks Ven to spare her because she's fucked up actually and maybe their brothers and sisters deserve vengeance, but doesn't she deserve peace?

Ven is not particularly devoted to the Tenets and knows how hard it is to be so deeply fucked up, so she agrees to let Lyra live, tells Garrett to get her out of Cyrodiil, and she'll tell Astara and Terenus that he was killed in the fight and that she finished Lyra off herself.

The Night Mother could tell the Listener about this, but will she? Nah.

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Svana: would you be able to confront your parents? Would you be prepared to kill them?

Maggie: I dunno, mine are dead

Garrett: also dead

Venaya: without hesitation

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I forget just how much the basegame doesn’t account for the player being a vampire... 

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Do you have any regrets? About your part in all of this? About the things you’ve done, the lives you’ve taken?

I. Don’t know. No one’s ever asked me that before. I’ve… never thought about it.

That's okay. You can start now.

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tfw the quest bugs and the boss doesn’t spawn in so you’re just dicking around with a bunch of other folks

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a rare view of Garrett without his hood and cowl. ofc its only when his sire gives him a form which really does not cooperate with hoods... 

[nightingaletrash]

Garrett has a soft spot for the younger folk he ends up sharing elbow space with. Hildegard was his favourite member of the Dark Brotherhood and one of the few that could get actual conversation out of him. In turn he kept an eye out for her and didn't hesitate to help Kor when she went missing, even if Astara didn't necessarily give the order.

So when he's still relatively new to House Ravenwatch and struggling to adapt, Fennorian is brought into the fold, and yet they hit it off pretty quickly, mostly thank to their shared skill in alchemy. It's the first time that Gwendis and Adusa realise that Garrett can actually talk because he's been so anxious in their presence that he's been pretty much mute since arriving. Lyra (and occasionally Verandis) were the only people be felt comfortable speaking to.

Then along comes Fennorian who starts tentatively asking him questions about his methods and experiences, and trying to make conversation about alchemy and Garrett feels surprisingly comfortable around him. He's never 'chatty' but he makes an effort to engage and pay attention when Fennorian gets started on talking about his research or his experiments, and he occasionally interjects with his own observations.

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um... Istah...?

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Garrett: I'm a vampire

Skordo: I thought you were a breton?

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I’d heard stories about the Wrath of Sithis. Venom liked using them to scare the new Initiates. Never bothered me much back then. Now? Now it scares me more than anything.

Venom says its hunting Lyra. That I have to help it. But.

I don’t know if I want to.

Does she deserve to die? Maybe. She’s certainly prepared to kill me once I reach her. She’s made that perfectly clear. But if there’s even a chance that I can get through to her. Should I take it?

Nothing seems to fit anymore. The world made sense until it didn’t. Now I’ve got a head full of far more questions than the Matron would ever approve of, and I don’t think Lyra has the answers that she thought she had. The answers I thought she had.

Regret. Remorse. Redemption. I’ve managed the first two so far. I guess I’ll have to find out if that last one is even possible. For either of us.

[nightingaletrash]

Playing Rivenspire as a vampire is... interesting.