#getting harassed in the wild is literally terrifying

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

can i get a scarlet/violet gang x ghost trainer reader who lets their ghost types possess them for pranks ?

This took a minute to think about until mochi mayhem dropped--then I got ideas haha

...........

During the events of Mochi Mayhem...you seemed remarkably unfazed by Pecharunt's "curse" spreading throughout the village, finding it more amusing than frightening.

And it's because you were no stranger to being possessed yourself.

Your first experience occurred after a Spiritomb's soul got separated and found you as a temporary host while you were exploring some ruins in Paldea (with your poor Fuecoco at the time being terrified for you).

Fortunately it wasn't an aggressive one, just a scared lonely spirit that was piloting your body around until it was reunited with the other 107 souls of that Spiritomb....which turned out to be a shiny!

In a show of gratitude, it decided to join your team--and soon you found your true calling as a ghost type trainer.

So you've picked up other ghosts throughout your journeys in Paldea, Kitakami, and BB Academy.

At some point you trusted your main team enough to allow them to possess your body.

Initially, they only did if they believed it was necessary (ie saving you from a fall or sudden Pokémon attack).

But then you decide to let them do so for pranks and such--mainly reserving those for whoever bothered your friends, while other times your friends are the hapless victims.

Exhibit A: When a BB Academy student is harassing Kieran over how he used to act, you see him getting upset and have one of your Shiny Spiritomb's souls possess you, enabling you to creep up and stare at the bully--all behind his back without him ever noticing you.

He's confused when they suddenly look terrified and run away....and then he slowly turns around, screaming a bit upon seeing your face in the likeness of a Spiritomb (like in that one episode of Journeys where Ash gets possessed by one).

You feel bad, especially after the soul leaves your body, and you promise that you'll never do that again.

Although he is grateful you saved him from that intense moment.

Exhibit B: You're hanging out with Penny at your house, watching her play some horror game on your console.

Your Gengar gets the mischievous idea to turn the lights off and possess you, creating a creepy atmosphere all around the house, making your friend paranoid of whether the sounds were coming from the game or elsewhere.

In hindsight, it sounds hilarious..but you forgot Penny doesn't fw horror movie tropes like that.

As she commands Umbreon to attack you out of pure instinct-

Only to see you and Gengar get forcibly separated and hit the ground hard.

Knock Off was no joke.

She apologizes but is a bit annoyed bc she couldn't save her progress thanks to your "prank".

Exhibit C: While Arven is giving Nemona, Penny, Kieran, and Carmine lessons on the art of sandwich crafting, you stroll over with some purple mochi, offering it as a dessert.

Obviously they decline, seeing Pecharunt literally hovering beside you and wondering if you already forgot what happened.....and are horrified when you shrug and eat one, your eyes turning purple.

Yet before anyone can fully freak out, you just laugh and start talking normally.

To make a long story short, you and the mythical 'mon came to an agreement that you'll eat the mochi it provides as long as it doesn't make you do anything harmful (like battling) or anything ridiculous (like dancing and saying "mochi" nonstop) while possessing you.

It's still mischievous at heart, of course. You'll allow it to have a little bit of fun considering its troubling past.

Exhibit D: Your Skeledirge was the first 'mon you used the Synchro Machine on after arriving to BB Academy, walking around and battling wild Pokémon in the terarium for a few good hours.

This "reverse possession", however, left some adverse effects on you even after desynchronizing...as for several days you developed a habit for singing, could taste smoke in your breath, and even your partner's little fire bird companion decided that it wanted to nestle atop your head.

You realize what a funny prank this could be.

So you pull up to the cafeteria to the "date" Drayton invited you to and freak out the rest of the Elite Four (except for Crispin who immediately realizes you own a Skeledirge and thinks you're awesome).

That also makes for a rather...awkward reunion with Kieran who thinks you've seriously gone off the deep end, and you drop the act right away.

But he's too caught up in the idea of battling you and winning to care about why tf you're possessed rn.

[padawan-snack-packer]

can i get headcanons for what the clones would say if teen!reader heard someone misgender them or a friend and wanted to fight them? Rest assured i am not taking this as actual advice for whether to get in a fight lmao so feel free to get silly with it.

Also, could I claim ✨anon?

Hey there ✨anon!! Sure sure there you go!!!

🛑 TRIGGER WARNING: Misgendering (discussed, not depicted in detail), references to potential fights 🛑

These are meant to be humorous and emotionally supportive, not actual advice.

I do not condone real-life violence as a solution to conflict (says the 5'2” Mando-coded Aries girl with rage issues and a knife in her literal platform reinforced boot), but I do condone standing up against bigotry, fascism, and the galaxy’s worst vibes in whatever safe, respectful, and empowering way you can.

The clones are anti-bullying, pro-respect, and deeply allergic to transphobia, sexism, racism, and general kriffhead behavior.

Now, onto the headcanons!!!

🔸Captain Rex

Rex is 1000% the responsible dad-friend of the group, so his first instinct is not to let you fight… but also? He is two seconds away from snapping someone's wrist if they come for you like that.

“We’re not throwing hands. You’re not getting court-martialed at fifteen. I’ll handle it.”

Handles it by walking up to the offender and smiling like an apex predator while casually listing Republic codes on discrimination.

“Oh, you thought that was funny? That’s wild, because my whole battalion thinks it’s hilarious when bigots get publicly embarrassed.”

Will not raise his voice. Will not break eye contact. Will end the entire person’s confidence in under 30 seconds STATS.

Afterward: “You good, kid? We can go commit light treason if that’d help. I’ll file the paperwork.”

🔸Echo

Echo is usually calm, but when someone misgenders you or your friend? He goes full slicer-mode rage.

“I have access to every record in the GAR. I could make it so this guy never receives another paycheck again.”

Will absolutely teach you how to clap back with legalese. “Technically, if they persist, it’s harassment under Republic Law 21-B.”

“No, we’re not throwing punches. We’re throwing facts, footnotes, and moral superiority.”

If you DO try to fight: “You’re like 5' something and angry. I love the energy, but let me do the intimidating. I’ve got the arms and the data drive.”

🔸Commander Cody

Cody is calm. Dead calm. Too calm. That’s bad for the offender.

He’s the one who silently steps between you and the jerk, stares them down with quiet menace, and says:

“They said their name. You gonna need me to translate basic for you?”

Then follows up with a scary-calm threat like: “That was your one warning. Next time, we have a conversation about consequences.”

If you try to fight them: “No. Absolutely not. What, you think I want to explain to General Kenobi why you’re banned from another formal function?”

Immediately takes you for a snack after like a good older brother. “You okay? You want caf or do I need to go throw someone into traffic?”

🔸Fives

FIVES IS READY TO FIGHT WITH YOU. No hesitation.

“You wanna throw hands? I already took my gloves off.”

Not just hyping you up, he’s already removing his jacket and stretching his neck like he’s preparing for a duel.

“Who we slappin’, cyar’ika? Is it the shiny with the bad haircut? I’ve got insults ready.”

But also very genuinely goes:

“Hey. Don’t ever let someone make you feel small. You’re perfect exactly as you are. You don’t owe anyone an explanation — but I will ruin their day for free.”

Later when you’re calm: “No fights today, mesh’la. But if you ever need backup, you know where to find me.”

🔸Commander Wolffe

Oh this man is a WALL of protective rage.

Doesn’t even let the insult finish leaving the offender’s mouth before stepping in like a literal freight train.

��Wanna say that again, chakaar? Slower this time, so I can record it for your disciplinary hearing.”

If you try to jump in: “Stand down, cadet. I’ve got this.” Then proceeds to terrify a grown adult using only eye contact.

Will absolutely chew out a superior officer for disrespecting you, title be damned. “You think rank means you get to disrespect my cadet? Think again.”

Later: “You alright? Come walk with me. Let’s breathe. Then we’ll scream into a void or something.”

🔸Commander Fox

Fox is already on edge 24/7. This? This tips him into clenched-jaw, death-stare, already writing the incident report mode.

“You wanna fight them? Kid, you think I don’t wanna fight someone right now?”

But he’s also very practical. He’s not gonna let you throw hands, because he will do it for you.

“You sit down and drink water. I’ll go ruin this guy’s entire employment history.”

He uses bureaucratic vengeance. Fox files 37 complaints in 12 minutes and gets the offender reassigned to the worst station in the galaxy.

“I may be a disaster, but I’m your disaster. No one gets to mess with my people. Ever.”

🔸 Hardcase

You blink, and Hardcase has already vaulted over a table and is halfway into an overly dramatic WWE-style entrance.

“WHO MISGENDERED MY NERFHERDER??”

You didn’t even open your mouth yet. He just sensed the injustice like some kind of chaos gremlin Jedi.

The second someone uses the wrong pronouns for you or a friend, Hardcase is physically vibrating, gripping his blaster like, “It’s on stun. But my fists are set to kill.”

He doesn’t actually hit anyone (Cody warned him very seriously about consequences), but he will loudly ask them to repeat themselves in front of a crowd so everyone knows what a jackass they are.

“Speak up! No? That’s what I thought, coward.”

Will call you the right pronouns like every third word afterward to make a point.

“Anyway, they were telling me this super cool story — you know, they’re just the best, right? They—”

He gives you a proud thumbs up and whispers loudly, “You’re my favorite gremlin.”

🔸Jesse

Offended on ten different levels. Immediate BDE mode activated.

“That’s funny, I thought we left that kind of ignorance back on Kamino with the wet socks and fascism.”

He says it with that Jesse smirk™ but you know he’s one bad word away from turning into a very attractive force of nature.

Will walk up beside you, throw an arm over your shoulder, and absolutely ruin the perpetrator’s week with charm-laced savagery.

“See, this one? This one right here? Knows exactly who they are. Can’t say the same for you if you think misgendering people is a flex.”

If you look even a little bit rattled, Jesse gets serious fast. You get a quiet hand on your shoulder and a: “Hey. Look at me. That’s not about you. You’re valid. You’re loved. And you are never, ever alone, alright?”

(Then he makes you laugh with a terrible pun because emotions are hard.)

🔸 Kix

Surprisingly feral for a medic. Like, "I took a Hippocratic Oath, but I also took Krav Maga" feral.

“Sorry, I’m just checking—did you hit your head on the way in, or are you always this disrespectful?”

He’s usually level-headed but when it comes to his kid (yes, you are his kid now), there’s no chill.

Whips around like, “What did you just say about them?” in that medic-who-has-pulled-bullets-out-of-bros-and-will-now-pull-you voice.

Lowers his voice and talks straight to you after: “Hey, cyare. That’s not on you. That’s them showing their whole shebs in public. We’ve got bacta for bruises but there’s no cure for being a di’kut.”

Then he offers to help you write a very passive-aggressive, over-medicalized complaint letter about the incident.

“Would you like to refer to them as a 'sentient malfunction' in your report?”

🔸 Waxer

Has zero patience for anyone messing with you or his ghost-child Numa. Y’all are a package deal.

If someone misgenders you or a friend in front of him, he goes instantly Dad Mode.

“You wanna try that again? With respect this time?”

If it’s someone older? Oh, he’s got his arms crossed and the eyebrow of judgment™ is fully deployed.

“Interesting how you’re a grown adult and still don’t know how to address people properly.”

Gives you a reassuring nudge and checks in with a soft, “You good, kiddo?”

He’s not loud, but he’s firm. And that hits harder.

May start referring to you with every correct term possible just to reinforce it. Like, “Our kid is the coolest them/young man/lady/handsome devil/boss I’ve ever met.”

🔸 Boil

Is ready to square up yesterday.

“I’m sorry, did your brain short-circuit? Or are you just rude?”

He’s gruff, but that’s just because he doesn’t know how to express feelings without sounding like he wants to deck someone (because he usually does).

Misgendering someone around Boil guarantees you’re going to get called “sleemo” in four different languages and possibly have your shoelaces mysteriously vanish.

He’s not great with soft feelings, but he’ll throw an arm around your shoulder and grumble, “I’ll knock some sense into ‘em next time. You’re perfect. Screw ‘em.”

Then he makes sure you have your favorite snack. He remembered your favorite snack. He always does.

Will also ask Waxer ten times later if he said the right thing. “I didn’t… mess it up, did I? I just— I was pissed. That kid’s got guts.”

[austajunk]

Okay, on a second playthrough of Rain Code and I really got a better look at Martina's mindset in general.

I honestly forgot how genuinely power hungry and downright diabolical she is. It's honestly mesmerizing how into her power trip she is during Chapter Two's case. She's so confident, she even licks an open jar of poison just to make a point that it's expired.

Now the reason why I don't recall her power trip and destructive, cruel nature was because it was all wiped away as soon as Yomi ordered her executed for making him look bad. In a second, Martina's terrified and pathetic and in the same way as Seth Burroughs, her fate left unknown to the viewer until Chapter Four.

It makes me think about how police forces are pretty much conditioned and told to go buck wild, to show no mercy, to enact cruelty and subjugation on civilians until they get their way. They get off on it. It's a power trip. Anyone who tries to show restraint on the force is routinely harassed until they quit or find themselves in trouble.

And this is what I really like about Martina as a character. There just isn't any excuse for her. She wanted power and control. She enjoyed it. Being an Amaterasu Peacekeeper gave her a way to enact power over others. Kissing up to Yomi, who I'm pretty sure her "love" and "adoration" for was quite shallow, gave her power and control. And it's addicting. It feels good.

Until she realizes that it's an illusion and someone like Yomi is just using her till he's done with her. She thought she endeared herself to him so much that she wasn't disposable like everyone else in Kanai Ward. But it isn't true and Yomi can just quite literally smash her up into a cube without a problem.

The next time we see Martina, she has undergone a lot of change. A near-death painful execution scare definitely pry your eyes open with a wrench and make you take a look at just how cruel you have been as well as the system you propped up.

She's self-reflective enough to the point that she tells Makoto she will resign from the Peacekeepers even though he says she doesn't have to (which is great in itself because it's powerful that Makoto stepping aside to let her make that choice *herself*). Martina orders the arrest on Yomi, but it's more than just sweet payback. She puts forward the example that criminals are human beings and meant to be treated with equality, fairness and respect. And it makes Yomi scream and lose his goddamn mind.

But more than that, Martina knows she isn't done with atoning, quits the Peacekeepers, and is aiding in rebuilding Kanai Ward. She gains autonomy and lets power go to become a better person.

And I loved every second of this arc. My only wish is that there were more moments of it... like maybe we could have seen her when Makoto stopped her execution because that would have been at her lowest. But as it stands, I knew there was always a reason why I adored and LOVED Martina Electro as a character. I've always been attracted to stories of attack dog type characters growing past what they were and becoming something new.

Martina is wonderful because she was an honest-to-god shitty cop who got an earth-shattering awakening that reshaped her entire morality until she became someone who renounced her need for power and actually aided the society around her. Love to see it.

Not strictly important: I would also let her fucking kill me.

[dark-elf-writes]

So I vaguely feel like Present Mic gets the wrong idea about Izumi and and soon as Aizawa comes back wanting to bleach his brain and immediately starts trying to hand Izumi condoms at every available moment. Midnight twigs on and is like oh honey noooo that's a whole ass lesbian.

Izumi being party girl paladin is so righhhttt, she has thighs that could kill and ox and hubris that could kill a God when she's drunk and will take no shit from anyone. I feel like Dabi has to reign her in (mainly so she can get laid) while Shiggy is just happy to watch the chaos unfold (she really likes to lick blood off Izumis knuckles). I feel like the day after Izumi would feel very conflicted because on the one hand the guys were being a piece of shit, but just the lingering guilt of resorting to violence as a girl (despite to cognitive dissonance of this is literally what she is going to school to do, solve problems with violence).

Also pleassseee your comment on AFO being to obsessed just is so much creepier in this verse. I just am going feral with ideas here. Also this and Izumi reminding All Might of Nana, this I feel like would super traumatise him when AFO resurfaces because he is just waiting to watch Nana die all over again. And maaaannn what would Torino think of Izumi??? Especially after the Stain encounter and Izumis weed smoking girlfriends showing up.

Both Dabi and Shiggy are fully there for a not insignificant amount of Izumi Brand Chaos which fully includes watching her beat the shit out of assholes in the skimpiest little outfits (and the sex afterwards while Izumi tries to work through the still lingering anger in the only way she knows how) but Dabi is the one that is… marginally more responsible. Sometimes. Kinda. She is at least the one that makes sure none of them get arrested though she dances dangerously close to the line… particularly when it comes to public indecency charges.

Definitely at the start Izumi is conflicted about it. She keeps staring at her busted knuckles and wondering if she’s no better than a villain (than Bakugou) but reminds herself over and over that All Might wouldn’t have let some guy harass girls at the club either… even if he didn’t break a table with one of them. It’s harder to shake the voice in her head that sounds a lot like her mother’s hissing at her for not being a proper lady.

Oh there’s some wild possibilities with AfO for both Shiggy and Izumi and absolutely none of them are good.

That’s a big part of All Might’s side of their weird relationship. He’s so terrified of failing her, of losing another Nana, that he can’t help but try to get too close and distance himself at the same time.

Torino… I’m torn between him also having the weird “Nana all over again” vibes or being an older hero knowing that “heroics” isn’t all black and white and understanding Izumi a lot more than anyone else ever could. Maybe both tbh.

[justeasing]

The fact I've been the victim of targeted harassment and stalking because of my ships in the Genshin fandom is actually wild to me and says A LOT about the general mentality of its fans.

Or – MOST specifically – the Antishipper epidemic in Genshin. It's actually insane.

I once discovered there was an entire Discord server of Hoyo fans that was dedicated to finding targets, harassing them and slandering them, and then posting and sharing it back and forth with one another, only to go ahead and make it worse by recruiting new people to do it again. They'd present each other's chat threads to one another like hunters or fishermen do a kill. It was... honestly vile. And jarring.

I actually tried to talk to Customer Service about it and see if they could do anything to help, like remove the offenders from HoyoLab so that they couldn't do this anymore. Like, they would actually coax their victims onto Discord and screencap private conversations about these people's lives and giggle over it.

I used to have up to 30 different images as evidence of this. I honestly probably still do in an email to CS, and could recover it all if absolutely necessary, but I ended up deleting all my evidence because I tried for MONTHS to get someone to help, and no one did. CS legit ghosted me on those emails, but responded the MOMENT I had a problem with one of my ten pulls not going through. 🙄😮‍💨😔

I literally deleted it out of frustration and a need to let the fuck go, but nothing ever happened. This was months ago, now.

I even got stalked onto my YouTube at one point, and they left (childish, but) harassing comments all over every single thing I'd uploaded. In the end, all I could do was weaponize the very toxicity I'd been a victim of to protect myself against it and made a post calling out the profiles. It actually sort of worked – they all ended up blocking me, I blocked them, and these extremist fans basically shut down their accounts. Idk how, but one of them had been a really well-known user, and then – suddenly – they were dust!

No. I didn't really like the method, but someone had to do something, and – in the end – I'm glad everyone else was notified of the ongoing harassment. Still...

The Genshin fandom is actually terrifying sometimes, and it's mostly because of this weird Antishipper cult. They've got a chokehold everywhere else... I REALLY hope they don't here, too. 🤞🤞

[nerdyenby]

Green time :D I’m watching Ranboo

“I can take myself seriously, I can do it” mmm I don’t think you can

TINKERBOO MY BELOVED <3333

THATS TERRIFYING HOLY CRAP

I got timed out for saying this will haunt my nightmares????

Welp, he was a fairy for all of five minutes before getting possessed

“If I have the opportunity to get rid of my eyes, I’m going to” yeah ok

This team is going to be so freaking chaotic

Them all yelling swears as soon as they establish no one’s pg 😂

Them just straight up missing the ready up 😂😂😂

Rocket Spleef

Relentlessly unhinged already, I’m losing it

“She green on my gecko til I’m insured” MICHELA 😭😭😭

*grandpa voice* “What the hell is a they/them??”

PHIL MVP!!!!!!

WHAT IS HAPPENINGGGG

I’m not even processing the event what game are we even playing??????

Hole in the Wall

Send help

“It’s called hole in the wall, not hole in the ground” so true Krinios

I go get a sandwich and come back to them adding an age requirement???

Skybattle

Omg people are dying so fast what

They popped off!!!

Phil is so good at surviving in Minecraft you guys

This is a great pov to watch live because I have no idea what’s actually happening, it’s like I get to experience it for the first time twice lol

“They got the slight cognitive abilities” I zone out for ten seconds lol

Someone help Sniff 😭😭😭

Meltdown

“Time to have a meltdown on stream” so true Philza Minecraft

I’m losing my mind

Michela hit the “girl dinner” note perfectly holy crap

Npc team fr, Krin didn’t get the memo

“To be fair… it was funny” - MCC33 Green Geckos motto

Pink popping off!!

“Icy take: let’s not die”

Michela needs to be a voice actor fr

Manifesting Aimsey back to back wins <333

Battle Box

“I’m about to run this team like it’s the navy” as they should!! Krinios igl arc

Michela 😭😭😭

Sapnap crit is so based

Omg teamwork <333

“New strat: the same thing we’ve already been doing” BASED

THAT LAST ROUND 😂😂😂

“I have no boys in my yard ;-;” lmao

Ran and Phil are holding hands this MCC

“I’m really good at acting like I’m dead, it’s my speciality” RANBOO GENERATION LOSS LIVE I STG

“Oh shi-oot” ran whatchu doin, you can swear now, it’s okay

Ace Race

Noooooo Michela 😭😭😭

Jojo calling the tie sexist is so

“The m in MCC stands for misogyny” so true aimseytv!!!!!

Literally no one wants pkt, so true

Grid Runners

Do we think they’ll try or nah?

You know what? No, I’m gonna stop holding back, Sapnap can stfu, I’m so serious

THEYRE CRAZY WITH IT!!!!!!

NEW ROOM NEW ROOM NEW ROOM :D

That was so clutch!!!

“She run on my grid til I ers” thank you Krinios

“I’m in Texas” “Oh. Sorry” 😂😂😂😂

NOOOOO

YESSSSSSSSSS

Sands of Time

WHY IS RAN GIVING PHIL A KISS AAAAAAAAAAAA

*Slow pan* “You’re homophobic”

I hate that so much, thanks noxcrew <333 /lh

This is so painful

The belated “hi HBomb” my beloved

OH MY GOSH

This red path is wild

NOOOOOO Phil :((

“At the end of the day, we are the silly team” so true Michela!!!

Movies don’t exist, we love writers and actors

Krin’s reaction to “cream crew” killed me

Yellow supremacy!!!!!

Dodgebolt

Unanimous yellow support my beloved <33

They’re gonna ambush Scott and harass him into getting this team every event from here on out, so true

MY streamers stan Oli Orionsound, as they should!!

“No one’s rooting for red” hmm that’s so weird and quirky, I wonder why /s

JORDAN SUPREMACY!!!!!!!

Welp that’s what I get for sharing a negative opinion on the internet, not apologizing tho

“Not this time, anime protagonist, now the villains win” PHILZAAAAAAAAAAAA /pos

[wat3rm370n]

Public health officials, advocates, and health workers need to be on guard.

The threats are real. We all need to demand from representatives in government and law enforcement officials that violence based on this wild anti-health campaign be prevented.

We all need to demand from representatives in government and law enforcement officials that violence based on this wild anti-health campaign be prevented.

I have been warning about this, and I've been called alarmist, and had many people throughout 2024 tell me that they had assumed, or insisted still, that Project 2025 was just some "liberal conspiracy theory" so you can imagine how far I've gotten with trying to point out the people planning on thousands of anti-vaxxers getting deputized at the county level to go on "live stream swatting raids" off enemy lists.

But now people are worried, and they should be, because people high up in the MAGAsphere have absolutely been making these plans very publicly. They just don't get covered in the mainstream press, because the mainstream press buys into elite panic.

NBC News - Federal health workers terrified after 'DEI' website publishes list of 'targets' The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black. Feb. 4, 2025, 8:35 PM EST / Updated Feb. 4, 2025, 10:51 PM EST By Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Erika Edwards On Tuesday evening, the site listed photos of employees and linked to further information about them under the headline “Targets.” Later Tuesday night, the headline on each page had been changed to “Dossiers.” The site lists workers’ salaries along with what it describes as “DEI offenses,” including political donations, screenshots of social media posts, snippets from websites describing their work, or being a part of a DEI initiative that has been scrubbed from a federal website. Benjamin suggested the acts of online harassment are criminal. “Law enforcement should look into them.”

I looked at these "dossiers" and the supposedly damning deets on some of the people on their shitlist of public health workers. An executive director in a significant department of a major federal agency and their listed annual salary was listed and it's basically the average regular doctor salary in northeastern Pennsylvania if she was a practicing physician employed by a health system.

They highlighted donating to political campaigns as "partisan political activities", except that even civil servants are allowed to make political campaign donations and put political signs in their yards. Civil servants can't do much else that's partisan besides that and vote. I don't know what else anybody wants from these people. It's not like she had an extremist flag in her front yard while she's deciding cases in court. There’s a thing about it being a free country. I thought these people liked freedoms.

They note that most people never give to a political campaign. That's true, and it's because conservative economic policy has dominated in the U.S. for decades, and the financial situation for the working class is so bad in America that generally, people don't have enough money for a surprise emergency and not a lot of spare cash to donate to political causes. But this is a doctor they’re highlighting, so the fact that this person has, over the course of more than a decade, given a grand total of $1,400 altogether makes it clear that the people behind this website (which says it's a project of the American Accountability Foundation) – they seem pretty pathetic when it comes to presenting oppo research frankly. That amount works out to about $10 a month. A doctor spent $10 per month on political donations and they think that's a big deal? I know low level civil servants who donate at around that amount to political causes. When you can't do anything else, you're more inclined to donate.

They say this public health worker donated to "the radical left". The most left politician in the entire list is literally Joe Biden. But hey, around where I live a church posted a political endorsement for Joe Biden as a Marxist — so people have some odd ideas I guess.

These left donations reported included a donation to Warnock in Georgia who GovTrack ranks as "most politically right" compared to other Senate Democrats, and a donation to Tom Wolf's first campaign over a decade ago — that's the businessman who became governor of Pennsylvania with a lot of votes of conservatives. But ok on another dossier they mention that donations were made to a "radical left-wing group" and by that they mean one single one time donation of $20 to MoveOn.org. (lol)

The whole DEI target list website seems like it was written by some tycoon's flunkie high school intern who spends too much time on reddit and 4chan and not enough time hitting the books. The dossier author(s) have a preoccupation for buzzwords and also mention enough about genetics to reveal themselves as super cringe and having a weird interest in eugenics pseudoscience where they don’t seem to know that they sound science illiterate.

This is all very sad.

But on the whole of course having a target shitlist with mostly women, and most of them Black women, is very disturbing and highly inappropriate to say the least, considering Ivan Raiklin specifically said that there are thousands of angry anti-vaxxers just waiting to do live streamed swatting raids on public health workers. And if some constitutional sheriff doesn't deputize them soon to do state sanctioned atrocities to their neighbors and maybe even kill their own families because some sheriff is on board with that shit — these radicalized mobs may go looking for lists on their own — laboring under the assumption they will be protected by the administration and pardoned, no matter what heinous act they do.

It's egregiously damning that there are not Republicans in positions of leadership condemning this type of behaviour. At a minimum, local public officials ought to be out there condemning violence and violent threats — but they only ever seem to publicly condemn people peacefully protesting war. Targeting public officials, hospitals, and one’s neighbors, for violence because of whacko conspiracy theories goes unmentioned as a problem by most community leaders. I don’t know if it’s because they’re on board with it leading to atrocities, or if they just don’t want to offend the people who will do the atrocities. Whatever the case is — it’s socially dangerous.

Are they really planning an anti-vax military retiree interahamwe in America? If the far right wrests power, the best case scenario is that possibly medical technology gets shelved and masks and vaccines are maybe banned. The worst case scenario is... worse. Chloe Humbert May 28, 2024 

Hinting atrocities. I just keep racking up instances where I see things going on in the US that are eerily familiar to things I’ve read about Rwanda. Seems problematic. Chloe Humbert Jan 02, 2025 

Thoughts on the Scranton Times-Tribune newspaper. Oh yes I have thoughts. Chloe Humbert Oct 17, 2024 

Dear Public Officials: Stop falling for the myth of an irrational panicked public. Ridiculously wrong elite panic: The only people panicking are the people in charge. Chloe Humbert Aug 25, 2023 

[lunarsilkscreen]

Sexy Talk and Consent and some weird things

Old Codgers should really be holding smokey room filled podcasts explaining all the jokes slowly being lost to time, instead of making jokes to themselves about how "Nobody today understands!"

This little bit is the "Sensitive Content" warning before I say the things that *might* get me arrested.

There are two Jokes that everybody has that nobody really understands because crass jokes make the world go round.

And while most are silently packing away all their Fart Jokes, there are three Jokes that are crass; cross the line in certain situations; But only one May actually get you arrested.

(two times counter, let's see how far I get before actually explaining)

There are Three Jokes in the world.

The first Joke is "Go Fuck Yourself".

The second Joke is "Ahh Fuck Me."

But the one thing you should never. Ever. Under. any. Circumstances. Ever. Not even a little bit..never ever even say a little bit.

And that sounds strange considering that it's a core feature of that "Alpha Mindset" Lots of people idolize today.

That third joke is "Hold still, I'm going to Fuck you now."

Jesus Christ, at least tell me you have a PhD.

It's quite surprising just how many "Male Identifying" people exist in the world; that so many are absolutely terrified of the "third joke".

It's not a small thing. If you've never had a Sexual Repressed Christian Choir Boy [freak the fuck out] in your general vicinity, because somebody! somebody decided to even remember that Voldemort exists and he should be summoned upon the most unsuspecting hapless victim at literally every turn.

And ALWAYS when we're very busy with some other shit going on.

Got that [Repressed Choir Boy] to [Terrified Trans Woman] pipeline in your mind now? Yea... Opportunists love to take their opportunities.

Ye... We have legitimate reasons to stay away from religious institutions. And legitimate reasons to have a trans-blacklist. Just BECAUSE you're trans; doesn't mean you're not also an opportunist.

The third Joke is one of those greasy oneliner type things that only a certain type of person can say and get away with; or there's only a specific person you can say that too and not be arrested for harassment.

Even if we take a similar Joke out of context; it doesn't have the same damage potential.

You know with the Tropey "Daddy's girl" [baby talk] step-[something] "Could you please Fuck me Daddy."

Doesn't hold a CANDLE. To any person; of human origin or not; coming up to you specifically and saying "Ah, yes, Hold Still; Daddy's coming to do the Peenatration now."

There are very many Female Content creators who notice this about a lot of Trans Content Creators. But instead of bringing it up... Well; You've read the Gossip; Trans Women act like abused Choir Boys for a reason.

Because if you Got a Woman on your hands that doesn't have the same social restrictions that "Real Women Do" it is real easy to become a victim...

Real Fast.

They tend to harp on the fear though; some are stereotypical boymoder devil's desensitizer types.

The others just typically don't understand why a Woman, who wants to be a Woman would be a afraid of certain things being a Woman entails...

While in the same breath complaining about how much easier it is to victimize women than men.

The differences between the two Jokes I'm trying Explain; includes a prerequisite status of consent, authority, and implicit trust.

You can't just say the third Joke to anybody. That's why you can do all sorts of wild things like asking women to make you a sandwich or the baby girl begging to get fucked.

Because the Onus of Control and consent are right there in the open.

With the third Joke however; there is no request; no request for consent; no validation. For many; you only ever say that to somebody you have a rapport with.

It's obscene to ever say that to somebody you do not already have that trust built up that you would take their consent against their will exists.

And in Fiction; it's tedious and annoying to set the stage for ALL of THAT SUBTEXT when the audience stopped actively participating in entertainment due to perceived lack of Professionalism in highschool sometime.

Which leads to an interesting media landscape where some media personalities are making fun of others for "Recently Inventing the Concept of Consent" And the rest of the media landscape is trying to figure out exactly why they're acting so edgy if they have nothing to hide? 🫥

But seriously... If one has a long-term relationship partner they can trust to behave in particular ways. And you're just too tired and horny and hungry to movie or get out of the Tub because it's warm and humid in there and you haven't slept in a few days.

Obviously. It's feasible to know somebody well enough that you've been in the situation where they just needed a good Fuck and a good nap and what that looked like the last time, and asked ahead of time if they should act in such a fashion in the future.

But we all know, we're not trying to bring more kids into the world; while the opportunists are just chomping at the bit to start space slavery, because rich people just love themselves a good slavery....

[postmoderntongues]

im in a lil bit of a spiral rn because some bad shit happened to her like as soon as i left town and wasnt there to watch her back and like i kept that girl alive and with an in tact hymen for 5 years of dementedly hard partying so im kind of bugging that it took that short after i stopped being around to look after her and now she has horrible ptsd and can barely communicate and is terrified of people and she was getting her doctorate but dropped out because the guy who hurt her started a harassment campaign about her and shes literally the smartest person i know all the time when i was super fucked up id watch her do her math homework and she would unfold these wild numerical kaleidoscopes but now shes completely nonfunctioning and im just like so fucking sick of bad things happening to my friends i literally hate being female this is ass i feel like a fucking prey animal all the time like im just so fucking done with it

[madraleen]

Bungo Stray Dogs - Kafka Asagiri/Sango Harukawa Vol. 16-17: A "THEY ARE SO PRETTY!" Commentary (*anime spoilers and manga spoilers up to ch.114.5)

-OKAY BUT the image of fyodor and dazai playing chess and looking pretty, and dazai's extended arm sort of towering over and sheltering atsushi and the non-atsushis ASDSDF

-oh, francis wants mitchell revived because she can kill hawthorne, i didn't remember that

-okay but now i feel bad for nominating tanizaki for the mafia so strongly, he's so sweet telling yosano "i'll do it for you" when he sees her reluctance

-it's so wild that "the great war" of this 'verse ended only fourteen years ago

-oh elise was docile at some point, i see

-going back and forth reading the volumes and catching up with the latest chapters, i think bsd is excellent at setting the tone and atmosphere. there's energy and pace in the composition of the panels, AND there's really no panel wasted.

-idk idk, little yosano's arc is so smart. it's so twisted and thought-out and poignant. if i didn't already applaud asagiri-sensei, i would just based on this. it's another arc that's so hard to read - in a good way.

-hot take but you know how some people feel there's too much dazai focus etc etc... there isn't though. like, at all, not in the main manga. i feel like they might get that sense because of the spin-offs etc, or maybe because such a vast majority of bsd fans loves dazai and constantly talks about dazai, but dazai himself is not featured particularly much in the manga, he's there just as much as any of the main-main cast, maybe even less. i think it's that he has such a presence, he makes such an impression and is so memorable that it FEELS like he's featured a lot because he's the one that sticks in your mind at the end of the day, but i wouldn't say he's stealing any spotlights or anything.

-mori's greatest crime is the immortal regime

-as entertaining as bsd is, there's some parts that i find genuinely difficult to read. they're too much. (in a good way)

-"to take down a mafia boss this strong we need an undead regiment" and then he goes and kills the boss himself. WHICH IS IT, MORI-SAN!

-aw yosano grew up alongside ranpo and under fukuzawa's care <3

-"our agency reveals its true power when we all gather together" O RLY nOW ATSuSHi, does that mean we're gonna get a reunion to beat the tripolar singularity, does it DOES IT?!

-WHAT DID KENJI-KUN EVER DO TO YOU, ASAGIRI-SENSEI, WHY DOES HE HAVE TO GET BOTH BLOWN UP AND STABBED

-GIN IN A SUIT

-"in this fight, the agency will emerge victorious" I BELIEVE YOU, FRANCIS, BUT AT WHAT COST

-dude, look at tanizaki with kenji, he's terrified

-man, now i feel bad again, tanizaki cares so much for the agency and i'm giving him up to the mafia like lamb for slaughter

-i love how atsushi isn't dumbed down. he uses his brain, he's perceptive.

-ooh right, mitchell's been treated but we haven't actually seen her conscious yet!

-tachihara be multitasking, like... playing both protag and antag in the same damn panels :'D

-dazai is so pretty, he's so pretty, i can't.

-KYOUKA LANDS SO GRACEFULLY AND ATSUSHI JUST FALLS FACE-DOWN IN MUSHITAROU'S CELL

-oh yeah, did we ever learn what the deal with "the seventh agency" was?

-"intelligence can cloud your senses" true true

-behold ango, the man who hasn't slept since this entire arc started

-yes okay, but why does ango look so soft when he tells us he's been working with dazai from the beginning, aw. well, and a little harassed maybe. but let's go with soft

-oh! oh!!! ango looks genuinely appreciative of dazai's heart rate trick!! in the anime he was more dismissive, calling it just a party trick for dazai!

-the fact that ango used the seventh agency only once to erase dazai's crimes so that he could live outside of the mafia.

-oh ango was the mind-reader of the government? i thought the skill-user they mentioned literally read minds. not objects.

-narrative consistency my ass, book-san has no concept of narrative consistency.

-THERE'S A "SEVENTEEN WORLD VILLAINS" LIST?!

-what wife, fukuchi. fukuzawa is too busy dealing with his adopted children and his two ex male-wives. what wife.

-OH? OH?! YOU PICTURE DAZAI AMONG THE AGENCY MEMBERS NOW, FUKUZAWA?! WHAT HAPPENED LATER, FUKUZAWA? WHAT HAPPENED AND YOU FORGOT YOUR BLACK SHEEP SON, FUKUZAWA?!

-okay, but jouno and tecchou tho. just. them. together.

-honestly, the most implausible thing in the entirety of bsd is lucy serving clients with THAT smile. i'd sooner believe it's a deep fake

-my god, tecchou is such a beautiful princess. he has very untainted eyes too

-SIGMAAAAA <3. he's so pretty. like extra super pretty vs the anime.

-"it's exactly how dazai-san planned it!" yes, atsushi, you summed up (most of) bsd pretty well, thank you.

-are they... are dazai and fyodor playing imaginary chess

-WTF DAZAI HOW SO PRETTY OH MY GOD YOU'RE JUST SITTING THERE

-OKAY BUT SIGMA ALSO SO PRETTY, LOOK AT THAT FACE, YOU JUST WANNA SQUISH IT

-on sigma: "he was practically born to run a casino..." AHAHAHAHA WAY TO SPOIL THE PLOT, MR GUARD! but sigma is so good at what he does though. he's such a good manager and leader.

-the panel composition is so excellent, man. so excellent.

-it's a pity tachihara can't truly join the mafia fam even if he wants to, 'cause he literally needs the hunting dogs' monthly surgery

-oh come OOOOON, sigma is SUCH A KITTEN, can we keep him in the agency, come ooooon, he's so kitten, and dazai would love to pester him

-shuuut uuuup, dazai used ango to send a "bet you're nervous, atsushi-kun? deep breaths, boy, deep breaths!" message to atsushi? SHUT UP THAT'S ADORABLE

-awww, this conversation calmed atsushi down and reminded him of the good old days at the office :""")))

[ezratheunready]

Being a confusing looking gender freak trans person has resulted in me being called both a dyke and a fag by random people on the street

Gotta keep ‘em on their toes I guess

[ewizaah]

alright. call me insane real quick. but guys listen. i have been hit with a realization. i know how we love suction cup man being a villain and all that, "ohh he trespassed on some old man's property" ok but like HE ISN'T THE VILLAIN, HE HAS EVERY RIGHT TO DO THAT BC LISTEN TO ME

notice how people respond to him FIRST about his passions, and then he responds angrily bc you attacked his entire way of living. like business dummy going "hey what the fuck are you doing climbing my towers get off" and, because scm was just minding his own business and is getting harassed out of nowhere, WOULD RESPOND APPROPRIATELY!! SAME THING GOES FOR PAUL!! HE ASKS HIM TO GET DOWN RUDELY, THEN SCM RESPONDS BACK IN THE SAME WAY!! THINK BOUT IT WITH ME. YOU BE LIVING LIFE. THEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU TO STOP YOUR PASSIONS. OF COURSE YOU WOULD BE ANGRY!! AND IT'S THE FACT THAT HIS NAME IS LITERALLY SCM! HIS ENTIRE BEING IS CLIMBING SO JUST TELLING HIM TO STOP IS JUST TELLING HIM TO KILL HIMSELF. IT'S GOOFY BUT IT MAKES SENSE

and this isn't just dialogue nono it applies to actions as well. he got kidnapped by these 2 guards which KINDA LIMITS HIS CLIMBING ABILITIES, SO HE WOULD BE PRETTY ANGRY ABOUT IT. JUSTIFIED. then TRUMP COMES IN. and y'know trump is a authority figure, a person who ordered the 2 guards to kidnap him, SO THAT APPLIES AS WELL!! so then they talk for a bit, SCM'S STILL SALTY Y'KNOW. "i'm listening but still fuck you"

SO WE CUT TO KIM JONG UN. HE SEES A PERSON CLIMBING HIS ROCKET. HE YELLS AT HIM, AND VICE VERSA. THAT'S HOW EVERYTHING GOES IN THIS SERIES. AND KEEP IN MIND, FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE IMPORTANT SO IF SCM HATES YOU, HE'S HATING YOU. THAT'S HOW THIS WHOLE BUSINESS DUMMY AND SCM ARGUMENT IN THE SERIES IS DRAGGED OUT.

scm 3. he meets satan. at first, HE'S TERRIFIED AT FIRST! because he's TALL. in one of bluesy's (the va for scm) vrchat livestreams, it may be not canon, it may canon, it may be implied, WHO KNOWS. but the fact that scm's terrified of tall people. cartoon cat, endermans, ANY SORT OF ELDRICH CREATURES, HE WILL LIKELY BE FREAKING OUT. put on heels and he will be cowering!! anyways satan eventually mentions scm's speech, saying "we don't do that here" because he's saying these things about "oh god!!" "oh jesus!!" which. DIRECTLY ATTACKS HIS SPEECH. SO LIL BABY MAN WITH A TEMPER, IS OBVIOUSLY GONNA TAKE OFFENSE TO THAT. then once he gets out of hell and meets with paul, paul disagrees with what he says calmly saying about "we know who you are and we're not doing that" AND SCM UNDERSTANDS THAT. IT DOESN'T GO AGAINST ANYTHING HE STANDS FOR, HE JUST AGREES. "fair enough!!"

then scm 4 comes along and he's playin around on the ceiling! having a blast with his suction cups! then judge carter tells him to get down. sure, he's a bit annoyed at that, just going "NO!" but compared to all of his other interactions in the series? that was KINDA MELLOW!! because the judge responded in a different way than everyone else in this entire series!! so y'know things happen, he lost the case, he gets his suction cups taken away. and to the people who's carrying away his suction cups away in boxes, he's just yelling at them!! because like. i'm sure you know already!! it's a common theme!! and y'know he tried everything to find some way to climb, but no use. so he grows a bit sad!! sitting on the bench at sunset!! then this guy comes in, and at first he seems a bit nice, like he's about to provide some life-changing advice! and he does! but in a different way! you can see a glimpse of hope in that man and then it gets SHATTERED UPON IMPACT. so y'know he's vulnerable and he can't really do anything at this point because what is he defending now?? he got no passion!! so he falls into a depression because he has nothing, then he meets this person named Gina. THIS RIGHT HERE IS LIKE. A HUGE THING BECAUSE GINA PROVIDED SOLUTIONS LIKE "hey you can still climb with these dildos, and they're not climbing grade suction cups! go wild", supporting his passions even though SURE, HIS PASSION MAY BE ILLEGAL. BUT THAT MEANS A LOT TO HIM!! IT LETS HIM LIVE ANOTHER DAY!! IT SAVED HIM FROM SUICIDE!! AND SHE WASN'T ALL HISSY AT HIM!! THAT'S HOW HE RESPONDS NICELY!! SO IN CONCLUSION. SCM? ISN'T REALLY ALL THAT OF A BAD GUY. sure i mean on the other hand, i won't defend him. it's nice having a villain protagonist, it's hilarious!! but i'm providing my theories on the topic

[hallowdeaths]

Barnes Bakery, Part Six.

summary : bucky will burn the world down to ashes for you.

trigger warnings : violence, unwanted sexual attention towards reader (low-key sexual harassment), mentions of abusive parent and dead mother, mentions of cheating, suicidal ideas.

Bucky was shaking. Not the sort of shaking that was mild and controlled— but instead the sort that demanded for his mother to hold his hands. It was the kind of shaking that was wild, reckless— unkept in its violence.

He'd found Steve and the rest of his team at your school. Apparently, Sharon had mislead them to believe that you were in trouble, and without a second thought went to get you because you were family. You were, though quietly and slowly, had become an essential part of Steve and Bucky's lives.

Bucky wasn't able to breathe, and he was shaking as if he was in the hospital again, trying to regain feeling in his hand.

"Bucky." It's his friend's voice that dismisses the thought of you for a second, before it comes barreling back down on his focus.

He needs to get to you.

"She took her." He says. His throat is dry, and he thinks that it may be coated with rage that would terrify so many. He isn't able to tell because he can't hear anything but his thoughts.

"Peter is tracking her phone." Natasha announces from the desk, leaning against a green chair he remembers you sat in merely days ago, swinging happily when Steve brought you your daily muffin.

He remembers you telling him about your theory on how muffins are just the grandma versions of cupcakes, and he also recalls himself ignoring it, thinking it didn't make sense.

"It may be shut down, but I can still access it if-"

"If?" Bucky growls.

"If she has a find my phone app in it."

"Does she?" He glances at Steve, laughing hysterically. "I don't even know."

The blond nods at him, and anger rises within him twofolds. How was it that his best friend knew, and not him? How was it that he'd always pushed you away when he knew that there was no avoiding how incredibly quickly and foolishly he'd fallen for you?

Silence hung about like a looming threat, and suddenly, Peter screeched with delight that filled Bucky with a small, precious spark of hope. Perhaps he'd get to feel you just one more time.

"I GOT IT!"

Bucky was dragging his team out the door before anything else could be said.

.

Youre not sure when it is that you were knocked out. You remember realizing you would have to face your father. You remember Sharon laughing at you, but you don't remember getting hit so strongly on the head that you were still seeing stars.

"Come on, what is she going to do? Say no? I'd like to see her try." A voice you don't recognize laughs with a cruel tone that makes your fingers clench tighter around your binds.

You can't open your eyes, it still hurts too badly, but you can listen.

"You're fucking nasty. She's just sloppy seconds."

"You know what they say. The sloppier the better." The same voice that holds so much tenor grumbles.

"Literally no one says that." Sharon— you recognize the fakeness within her tone.

"Urgh, stop busting my balls, blondie. Leave and don't come back."

"The boss says no one should touch her." You hear the girl say, and you beg inwardly, chanting at her to stay, even if right now you hate her, you know that if she leaves your fate will quickly become much worse.

"And the boss also never told us he had a daughter before."

"He thought she was dead." Sharon hisses quietly, seemingly trying to distract him from his disgusting, perverse intentions.

"Do I have to put a bullet between your eyeballs?"

"Fuck you." You hear her grumble, before her footsteps retreat and an heavy door is slammed shut.

No. No. No.

Come back.

A hand touches the top of your head, and you wait patiently as Steve had taught you for the person to get just close enough for your swing to make enough damage.

His breath travels to your forehead, to your nose, and just when it finally connects with your lips, you swing your head forward, hard enough to break his teeth and your nose.

He let's out a colorful string of curses as he stumbles away, landing into a table you can only guess is filled with guns and weapons of torture.

The door opens again, thanks to the commotion, but you're too winded to realize that you're falling into oblivion again.

.

When you wake up, you're completely stripped bare. You're in a comfortable bed, sunshine draping itself across your lived-in skin. You're not sure this is real at all, because Bucky is sitting next to you and he's looking at you as if everything is alright.

You yawn uncomfortably, twisting until your body is flush against his thighs. He says nothing, and you can't feel him as he lays a hand onto your head— which confirms your belief that this is not real. You didn't even know if he was alive.

"I wish you were real." You muttered, your voice harsh.

"Im here."

"But you're not."

"Even if it is a dream, why couldn't it be real?"

You glance up at him and take in the edges of his face, the beautiful blue of his eyes, the sharp slope of his nose. The jaw that clenches too often.

Even if it is a dream, you're also aware that you appreciate him, and all that he's done for you even if he used you. Because of him, you were able to have a normal life, at least for a bit. If only it hadn't all gone to shit. If only you had acknowledged the signs you refused to look at straight in the eyes because of your father.

You reach up, gently caressing the ghostly edge of his cheek. "Thank you."

He smiles, and then pushes you back into darkness.

.

You awaken to bright red walls, mixed to dark brick that sticks horribly together. You want to fall back asleep and get back to Bucky, but.. he's gone. And instead of him, youre faced with your father.

"Ah, darling,"

You open your mouth to say something— anything, but your mouth is so dry no sounds can get out except a pathetic whine. You'd lost your voice screaming for Bucky.

"Welcome home." He glances down at his torture toys, smiling grimly. "I wondered how long it would take for me to find you."

You rolled your eyes, moving your wrists against your restrains. Sure, your father had given you everything you'd ever wanted, but being homeless had still be your prime days. He had given you everything but love or trust, and that scars a child, especially when you suddenly find out he had been the one to kill your mother.

"I'll give you that, the Winter Soldier was almost successful at making Sharon believe you weren't important to him. It's sad that you and your mother look so much alike."

"How did you find me?" You manage through your raw throat, wincing at the pain.

"Those two friends of yours— Maximoff, isn't it? Very nice people. She really likes to post on social media."

You frown — the only sign you let him see that you're panicking — and fight harder against your restrains. "if you hurt them-"

"Oh, but darling, I don't know what you could have told them about me. Have to be careful, don't I?"

"I haven't told them anything!" You spit, your neck tightening. "Let them go!"

"Like I can trust you." He scoffs, and than sends his hand down on your cheek to shut you up. "You're just like your mother. Foolish and drunk on liberty."

"She was drowning," You murmured, your head tilted how he'd left you after hitting you. You were seeing stars, but you blinked few times and managed to subdue the effect of his slap. "She was dying, in that estate. Never let out, used for breeding and being a pretty thing on your arm."

Your father screamed at you to shut up, but you were too far gone, tears rolling down your face, rage pulling at your guts. "She hated her life. You trapped her in that house, when you knew every spot in that place terrified her, that she knew of every each of your victims, but you— you locked her up."

Another hit. Blood pooled on your tongue. "And I was drowning too," so please kill me. Please kill me before I become like my mother. "She hated you."

Your dad picks up the gun from his table when your words finally hit him and points it just in between your brows. "Shut the fuck up. I will fucking blow your brains out, you fucking brat."

You smile despite yourself, leaning forward into the gun's barrel. "Wanna know a secret?"

"No." He pushed harder, and you unraveled yourself finally, ready to put an end to your miserable, endless life. "I said shut-"

"I'm not even your daughter."

The revelation is followed by the sound of the door bursting open, his guards falling flat on the floor, and Steve walking in with Sharon at gunpoint who's held by the throat.

Your father— or at least the person who raised you, doesn't lower his gun, but instead smiles at Steve.

If Steve is here, is Bucky too? Is Bucky alright?

"Let the girl go, Alex." Steve growls, his face completely calm and deadly.

"Go ahead and shoot, Steven. I don't care much for her."

"Good, because she was going to die anyways." A voice you don't see sounds through the room, causing your father to finally lower the gun and your inner struggle to fall apart. That voice.

"Winter Soldier." Your father croaked. "Here I thought you sent Captain Blondie to do your dirty work."

"Dirty work, you're right," a door made of bricks you hadn't seen before rises and turns, and Bucky comes out with Natasha, Clint and Thor.

Your father must have finally figured he was out powered, and so he slowly put down the gun at the prospect of being killed.

"You're nothing but dirty work," James hums, his eyes glossed over with a ferality that has you blinking through your tears and swallowing your blood. "But my girl? She's far from fucking dirty."

You father falters, but still keeps a little knowing smile on his face when he glances down at you. "You're nothing but a little whore, uh? Crying about drowning after you've decided to be the big bad mafia boss' play thing."

"Nat." Bucky snaps, and the Russian girl steps up before him to go to you, while Clint busies himself with tugging his bow string further. Alex doesn't try to stop her, and you suspect it's because he knows she's deadly enough that challenging her is a bad idea.

"You can't kill me." Your father says when Bucky twirls a knife out of his pocket and glances at Steve who's still holding Sharon.

"Oh I think we'll do as we like. You did betray the contract." Steve says, which earns a whimper from Sharon who's caught along to why, while you remain confused.

"I might have, seeing as she's not my daughter and she belongs to the Avengers, but.." Your father peers down at you, and points in your general direction, which quickly elicits a warning groan from Bucky. "But without me, you will never find the Maximoff twins."

You exchange a panicked glance with Natasha, who understands immediately and shakes her head at Bucky.

Alex, the person who killed your mother and raised you, points a gun at his own head and smiles darkly one last time.

"I hope you drown." He tells you, and before you can be covered from the sight or your eyes can close, his head splits in two from the bullet in his gun that was reserved for you and you're being drawn with blood all over.

You hear curses, hear Bucky calling your name as he rushes to you, but youre— you can't even think. You can't even cry or talk or breathe.

He'd killed himself, and in the process had taken your two best friends along with him.

You are drowning.

━━━

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[aftonfamilyvalues]

IDK why men end up abusive if they don't get laid. I would lay down my life without question for pussy. They call me a SIMP, but how is it an insult when I am objectively happier than they are?

incels are just so wild like we have all seen osa women and they will literally give everything to the ugliest men in existence and think the world of their hideous guys. guess its just easier to blame women being shallow bitches than look inward to understand the issues that led them to becoming incels are the things that drive women away.

back when i used reddit, there was an incel in a subreddit who edited this screenshot and pasted a picture of a handsome guy over the profile picture.

i got posted to an incel subreddit for my comment saying that thinking the man is handsome doesnt change the fact that this is beyond creepy and terrifying for any woman because this man just used his job as a way to access my personal information for his own use. got harassed after that and deleted my account soon after. fucking hate reddit.

[featherfur]

I do think it's good that Jingyi gets to be free to be himself, but learning to rein it in is important. It's never mentioned either way but I've wondered if he is fairly high up in the Lan hierarchy and combined with HGJ's favor is important enough smaller sects would think twice about striking back at him(I've seen ppl write him as LQR's kid which is funny). JC is a lot chiller than his rep would indicate and NHS isn't about to cause problems. There's no war so he doesn't have to worry as much

The thing is, is that there’s many Lan juniors according to the text. There’s nothing special about Jingyi except that he’s so loud that Wei Wuxian remembers him. The text literally says he can’t remember the others’ names. If he was high up then Sizhui wouldn’t be telling him to hush, and he probably would have know Jin Ling as the next heir or next in line after Wangji in one of the great sects. Or he would have been introduced as such.

He can be as free as he wants but that does mean sometimes you have to respect others. Especially when others can be business partner’s, your boss’ coworkers, someone who kills monsters for a living, or someone who really really doesn’t need to be seen letting some unknown brat harass him publicly and ruining his reputation of being able to be a sect leader (that’s Jin Ling btw)

Jingyi always seemed to me to be the character put in to show how the Lan sect has changed and how the next generation can be free-er. How they aren’t terrified of who’s going to kill then next. That even a servant of the Lan Sect can mouth off without their family being annihilated (i.e. WWX to Wen Chao) However. He’s no closer to being heir than Sizhui is, which is to say: nowhere at all, it’s not going to happen anything short of a mass murder

I love that he’s a wild feral brat under the Lan name, but he is still a representative of his sect by being a disciple,,, he could do with knocking it down a few pegs atleast in public,,, could you imagine if he tried to sass Madam Yu? 💀💀

for all we like to talk about JC being an absolute dick, he really just rolls his eyes at Jingyi and wonders where Lan Xichen went wrong with the kid instead of like, bringing him to Xichen for punishment or similar.

(Side note I always laugh so hard at the idea that LQR fucks one (1) time and he gets Jingyi of all Lan’s out of it, and I do enjoy a good fic about Jingyi getting to be sect leader but it’s not really a good idea, could you imagine him and Yao on the same level? Pls, the meetings,,)

[brightlotusmoon]

wanna know the worst part about the recent bomb terrorist anti? i looked more into that. their name was zer0 iirc (can't remember their pronouns atm) and they literally lied about being a minor. all so they could claim it was predatory for adults who were upset with them for threatening atsu to report them for their behavior. then their spouse defended them...who was noticeably much much older than zer0 was claiming to be. and after more people began questioning the spouse because of the potential underlying actual pedophilia situation people thought was going on there at first. it turned out that zer0 started claiming they were 15 and then 16 within the same span of the month this discourse took place. after originally claiming to be 14. (cuz for some reason they thought saying they were 15 and 16 made their spouse in their thirties dating them look better??) and then it turned out finally that zer0 was also thirty and had three kids irl. and as far as i can tell they have not addressed the weird age faking they did nor apologized for it. and they also won't apologize for the bomb threat. i think theassholeantiarchive-2 is where i found out about some of that. it was fucking wild to read and makes me wonder now how many other antis that claim to be minors are lying. and only lying about that so they can keep claiming its child abuse for adults online to block/report them for harassing others. it's mind boggling to me the kinda behavior that antis will tell people is okay to do so they can avoid responsibility when they go too far. idk if you knew this or not but i thought you might be interested to have this extra context about the situation with the anti threatening to bomb a proshipper.

I... Wh- th- bu-

Wh-

WHAT THE FUCK.

I need to lie down.

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I've been writing since the 1990s. Do you know what happened when we started putting fanfiction online? We were so busy hiding from Anne Rice and George RR Martin that there was barely much time for infighting especially bullying. Then again, Geocities webrings and LiveJournal fic communities were highly monitored and curated. And, okay, the internet was a baby. So, uh, I guess I have no reference? I didn't get on the internet until I was nearly 18. In the late 90s. A very different temporal critter.

This is. This is. I don't. Are we living in a horror anthology? Oh fuck, this is the Twilight Zone. But worse. Worse than Black Mirror.

This is fucking terrifying.