#institutional neglect

[alwaysbewoke]

On March 5th, 1959, 69 African American boys, ages 13 to 17, were padlocked in their dormitory for the night at the Negro Boys Industrial School in Wrightsville. Around 4 a.m., a fire mysteriously ignited, forcing the boys to fight and claw their way out of the burning building. The old, run-down, & low-funded facility, just 15 minutes south of Little Rock, housed 69 teens from ages 13-17. Most were either homeless or incarcerated for petty crimes such as doing pranks. 48 boys managed to escape the fire. The doors were locked from the outside and fire mysteriously ignited on a cold, wet morning, following earlier thunderstorms in the same area of rural Pulaski County. The horrific event brought attention to the deplorable conditions in which the boys lived. The boys all slept in a space barely big enough for them to move around & theyre one foot apart from one another & their bathroom was a bucket at the corner where they had to defecate in. In an ironic twist, the land in which the school stood is now the Arkansas Department of Correction Facility Wrightsville Unit. In 2019 a plaque was finally placed after 60 years.

PURE EVIL!!! MY GOD!!

[caniisfeliidae]

Last RB for context of posting this

I found more related material now I'm home and going through my records for a new assessment (since I'm super quirky and can't remember my childhood, or personal things like the way I act and feel)

Maybe I'll redo this someday

[thoughtlessarse]

The recent European Elections have been hailed as a successful exercise in democracy with a record voter turnout but for the Roma, Europe's largest and most discriminated ethnic minority, the election results were a disappointment. Population figures are uncertain but according to the most quoted estimates, 10-12 million Roma are living in the EU and the candidate countries. They continue to face high levels of discrimination in their daily lives and serious challenges in accessing equal rights and services in housing, education, employment and health care. They are also far from being empowered in their home countries and in the EU. The outgoing European Parliament included four members (out of 705 members) of Roma origin, from Spain, Germany, Hungary and Slovakia, i.e. about 0,5 % of the total. The incoming Parliament, with 720 members, will not include any Roma MEP, according to the Brussels based Roma Foundation for Europe. According to their information, there were three Roma candidates from the Czech Republic, two from Slovakia, three from Hungary and one from Bulgaria but none of them were elected. All of these countries have relatively large Roma minorities. Romania, the country with the largest Roma minority, did apparently not include any Roma candidate in the election lists. Thorsten Schröder, lead communications advisor for the Roma Foundation, cautioned that it is important to note that it is difficult to make assumptions about a candidate's ethnic background if it is not publicly declared. Asked how many Roma MEPs could theoretically have been elected, in proportion to the size of the Roma minority, he replied that there is no straightforward answer to the question because of their fragmented number across EU member states. A cautious estimate, comparing their number with the population in a small country like Denmark (ca 6 million inhabitants) would result in up to 15 MEPs.

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[heir-less]

I think what a lot of people don't understand is that the cultural and societal aspects of religion can still exist in a society that is 100% secular. Most atheists aren't anti-theists, in fact, most of them still take part in many religious customs and celebrations in a secular form. Anti-theism doesn't even mean the eradication of religion, it's typically used to describe the intellectual opposition to belief in a deity,

So, I'm honestly perplexed whenever I see people arguing that the "end goal" of atheism is to eradicate religion, this is something both religious people and ill-informed atheists believe, for some reason. I guess this is what happens when Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris are your go-to atheists and you're measuring atheism against the most extreme religious zealots because that's what most people are reactive towards.

What should be completely removed are almost all forms of institutionalized religion and religious power structures. These are the exactual oppressive structures that have used religion as a tool to justify every form of bigotry and crime against humanity. They are also not essential to the practice of the religion or the survival of the religious culture. Your right to practice your religion ends if you're using said religion to advocate for the oppression of Muslims (assuming you're not practicing Islam), atheists, LGBT+ people, and other minorities. You can be a church-going Catholic without advocating for state-sanctioned religion or the rights of others being removed. This evangelical breed of religious extremism has no place in society and is what actually leads to real genocides happening today.

[falinscloaca]

[roomofretirement]

time for sharpuary!! happy feb 1st!

going to try and post every day, but we shall see :,)

[magiefish]

I've written like 7000 words for a short-story in six days. What the fuck is wrong with me.

[sparky-is-spiders]

Y’know the whole “Peter and Elias are constantly marrying and divorcing” thing well consider: Jonpeter on-again off-again toxic affair.

[quirkthieves]

ibara; origin,

[yes, I'm entirely overhauling her backstory. don't look at me]

Ibara Shiozaki was born to Maria and Kanabo Shiozaki on September 8th, 2198. Her father was a retired hero, and her mother was a doctor who specialized in mitigating negative quirk impacts on the body of their users. This was born from her own quirk-- Manchineel, which, similar to Ibara's, replaced her hair with foliage-- but this foliage excreted a painful sap she had no natural defense to and required constant medical care and dosages of an herbicide that rendered the plant underdeveloped.

At the point in the pregnancy when they realized Ibara was going to share a similar mutation, Maria made the decision to stop taking the medication in order to avoid it spreading to the developing fetus. Ibara was born with a healthy seed coat, but Maria would die about six months later due to health complications from both her quirk and the lingering impact of a difficult pregnancy and birth.

Kanabo came out of retirement to support his new child. However, the reason for his early retirement (age 30) had been damage to his heart and lungs, which would lead to a more severe cardiac failure when Ibara was around five years old, rendering him unable to work and, as time would reveal, unable to take care of a young child, due to long-lasting neurological and functional issues. He would be placed in long-term hospital care, and Ibara would be placed with another relative-- her mother's sister, Mei Fujita, a quirk specialist doctor similar to her sister, although with a focus on clinical practice. They would live together for about three years before Mei realized she was in no position to take care of a child, emotionally or career-wise, often resulting in Ibara being left alone for long periods of time, a schedule too inconsistent to keep up with school, and undue stress on both of them.

At age 8, Ibara would be placed in a religious child care institution, in line with the wishes of her father, who wanted her to grow up with the faith. Her aunt, from then on, would remain as a frequent visitor (as frequent as she could be, anyways) and as a personal physician for Ibara, due to the nature of her quirk and worry that it may develop into something similar to Manchineel. Her father writes often, but the two rarely get to visit, due to the strict rules around leaving institution grounds for the both of them. That being said, Ibara loves them both very much.

The institution itself housed around 40 children at any given time, of varying ages, maintained by a convent of nuns and other clergy, and with an associated school. Staffing was stretched thin most of the time, and physical discipline was actively utilized in response to what was seen as poor behavior. Ibara threw herself into the faith intensely, which only made her the target of her peers.

Ibara loves her father and aunt very much. She knows, too, that they love her, and that she is very lucky to still have contact with them. But for most of her life, she has wondered if things would be different if she were a less difficult child, and if one day, she would be able to reunite with them if she just behaved well enough. Even her work to get into U.A. and become a hero is, in part, motivated by wanting to make them proud, and to prove that she is, in fact, a good person, to both them and herself.

[ywldujyr6b]

[althaeaofficinalis]

just got blocked by a european person bc they reblogged a post with bad opinions about voting in the us and then I said I live in a voter suppression state and I'm a queer mexican woman... the moral of the story is that you can't trust white people 💕

[psqqa]

god i have never been more aligned with edgeworth than i am right now. the man has fucking tested my patience at times, but he’s Correct here.

[crash-bump-bring-the-whump]

More of modern au Mariano's prison arc!! He sure is normal and okay. This one is VERY heavy so no shame in needing to skip it!

TWs: Suicidal thoughts/ideation, starvation, institutional abuse, abuse of power, dehumanization, exposure to low temperatures, neglect, captivity (of the prison variety)

The moonlight streamed in, turned crisp and sharp by the winter air. The blanket he was issued wasn't enough to keep it off of Mariano's skin, or out of his bones. It crawled in under the blanket with him and curled in close.

It sighed across his shoulders and neck. Its kisses made his nose numb. He couldn't feel his toes or fingers anymore.

Mariano could see his breath every time he exhaled.

It didn't matter. No one would do anything if he mentioned it, and this was normal anyway. February was always the worst in isolation.

Vaguely, Mariano wondered if he'd die in his sleep. It wasn't really cold enough for it, but for all he knew it was just a particularly dry night. The mattress pad rustled as he curled onto his side, tucking his fingers between his sides and his biceps.

His shoulders and hip ached, the cushion almost nonexistent between Mariano's body and the concrete. The persistent shivering wasn't helping much either, but that was just how one spent winters in solitary confinement.

Dying didn't sound so terrible.

His parents wouldn't have to worry about him anymore. They wouldn't have to keep sending him money for commissary. They wouldn't be blamed for raising a monster anymore, because the evil would've died behind bars. He wouldn't be able to hurt anyone ever again.

Maybe dying would be warm.

Mariano could make it warm. His hands gripped his sides tighter. It would be so easy. He wasn't warded. It was too dangerous to ward him permanently, would make him too sick. The guards didn't want to deal with it, and it wasn't like the charges he'd catch for using his magic would matter if he was dead. All he had to do was wrap his hand around his own throat and cast. He wouldn't feel it for more than a second.

He swallowed against his own icy palm. He didn't realize he'd put his hand to his throat. It trembled in the cold air.

He wouldn't be hungry anymore if he died.

Mariano's stomach ached, chewing on itself. They'd forgotten to bring him lunch and dinner. Sometimes that happened on shift changes. It was probably why he felt colder than usual. It was fine.

He wouldn't be thirsty, either.

No food meant no water. Solitary confinement meant that he couldn't just go get water, because his cell was never unlocked and left unsupervised. He could drink from the sink, technically, but that had made him violently ill the last time he'd tried. The pipes were too old, the nurse had said. The guards had laughed. Mariano didn't blame them.

It would be so easy.

It would be as easy as breathing.

Mariano exhaled, and only a plume of condensation from his breath met the air.

It didn't help. There was no sense of peace. No comfort. Mariano dying wouldn't make a difference. It would just make his parents sad. It would just annoy the guards. It would make strangers happy. It didn't help.

Mariano's hand slid to his chest, over his heart. It wouldn't make things better. It wouldn't even really make anything worse. It would just happen. He brought his hand to his hair and started slowly sliding his fingers through his own hair like his mother used to do. Like Luis used to do.

It didn't help.

It didn't hurt.

Mariano slept.

It was fine.

[whumpshaped]

so you're hate gonna hate me for this 😭 but I just recently read Dollhouse (absolutely amazing btw 🫶🏽🫶🏽) but is it still ongoing? and do you still make like little drabbles and whatnot about it? obviously it's absolute if you don't, just wondering!!

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why would i hate u for liking smth i work super hard on,, it Is ongoing !! i can add u to the taglist if u dont wanna miss it !!

[misophoria]

societal structures don't rlly make space for abuse to be addressed, it's like they uphold this false version of reality where abuse doesn't happen or doesn't matter and where people who are openly abusive are largely treated as edgy jokers who need to be humoured and people who talk about being abused are largely treated as making a big deal out of something that never happened. there people who would care and who do help sure. but structurally? can u count on a cop to protect u when something heinous happens to u? can u count on the legal system to protect u? can u count on HR? on family? on institutions? on ur religious communities/authorities? u'd be lucky if u could. u'd be lucky. this world is full of traps and full of people who fall into them because they have no safety nets and guess what they become. they become the social other class who fulfill the societal role of keeping everyone else in line through fear. the designated losers who are there to make everyone else think "i can't be/become that" so they maintain the status quo thinking they can be winners in it. the designated people to be thrown under the bus. society as we know it is a butcher's shop where every part is commodified, where being seen as the prime cut is a point of pride but even the less desirable meat serves a purpose and can be sold, can be used.

[druidgroves]

i dont have much if anything planned in the reverse au where georgia’s dead & nate comes out of the vault instead but. perhaps one day i will do a playthrough with him. see how badly he can fuck up the commonwealth