#it’s written like a report

[hetweridnoe]

The most infamous and interesting “Harry Jones”

by Elodie Carlton

Godfrey Giuseppe Fernsby, more commonly known as Harry Jones, was born in Copenhagen in Denmark in 1837. Grace Holm, my closest friend who is currently visiting her grandparents in Copenhagen managed to find birth records and a marriage certificate for his parents. Birla and Giuseppe Fernsby had nine children in total, only four survived to adulthood, Godfrey, Tilda, Malena and Hildegard. Godfrey was their youngest and only surviving son. They emigrated along with 6 children in 1843 to The USA. Birla died in childbirth on the journey to America along with an unnamed baby girl.

The letters between the siblings were a fantastic starting point for my overall timeline of the gang. The oldest was dated 1856 making Godfrey nineteen; these letters were graciously translated by Grace Holm.

"Happy Birthday, Tilda my dear.

I was pleasently surprised by your last letter, many congratulations to you and Arthur. I pray every day for your health given our family’s past circumstances surrounding child bearing. I mentioned my worry for you to Hildegard who replied "Ma had nine children in total, it was only the location that killed her on the nineth." Which I do not agree with.

I commend you for your strength, it takes great courage to be a parent. I suppose you're much younger than Ma was which should work in your favour.

Hildegard is getting married. I know she is too stubborn to write to you since your spat but I thought it important you found out. Malena is courting as well, Riley Addams seems sweet enough on her but as a brother should, I am keeping the closest of eyes on them.

Malena sends her regards and expresses desire to visit, she is looking at moving from New York to settle on a ranch and I suggested New Jersey

As usual my life remains largely unchanged. I have begun work as a carriage driver but I doubt it will last much like all other jobs I take up.

I cannot help but miss you, Tilda dear.

Your favourite brother

Godfrey Giuseppe Fernsby Jr.”

“October 3rd, 1856

Gio, brother dearest.

I await your letters with excitement every month.

I am doing very well, I do confess I also felt fear going into this pregnancy given what happened to my ma. I have a doctor who lives only a few yards down the road who is surely sick of me asking questions. Everything is normal thus far, I believe I am 3 months along which means you will be meeting your first Niece/Nephew in early spring.

New Jersey is beautiful and quiet, the perfect place for Arthur and I to raise our family but there’s nothing quite like the hustle and bustle of New York City.

I am very happy for Hilde and her Fiance, whomever he may be. I do hope an invite is extended to Arthur and I. I miss you all dearly and would love an excuse to visit. I wouldn’t worry much about Malena, she is just as stubborn as you and twice as intelligent. She will see corruption before Riley Addams even acts on it. As for you, I hardly doubt a handsome young man like you has experienced no change in your love life. I see in your future a happy work life, three beautiful American children and a gorgeous wife. But you’re too young for all that yet.

Signed with Love

Tilda Birdie Dankworthe”

The second letter is dated march 1857

“March 18th 1857

Dearest brother

I write to you with the most spectacular news, I have given birth to a baby girl. Her name is Deborah Birla Fernsby Dankworthe in honour of her grandmother. She has jet black curls that remind me of yours and our dearly departed baby brothers. She has a birthmark just like Hilde’s and mine that matched mother’s. She is a reminder of my past and a beacon for my future and I have never been more enamoured with a living thing in my entire 20 years.

Arthur is overjoyed, many of his family have been to visit and stayed in the guest bedrooms for over a week upon me writing this. I must have you all over now so he can know how it feels.

I jest. Arthur's mother has been a great help. And his sisters love their niece just as I know you all will.

I’m so glad I chose to attend Hilde’s wedding, since we have made up, she is also writing to me. She is pregnant too, due sometime in fall. Our family is ever growing after so many tragedies. It just shows how fast moving time can be. Please come visit, Hilde and Malena have both agreed to come in April and I’d love for you to be there too to meet your baby niece.

Lots and lots of love

Tilda Birdie Dankworthe”

I do believe that Godfrey did visit and stay for a while or at least lived in the vicinity as his first recorded “act of indecency” happened in Delaware just at a town on the border.

“1863, June 11th

Godfrey.

I read the most distressing newspaper article in the New York Times. I know its you who it was written about. I understand you are a troubled youth but this is just horrific to read.

I cannot believe you could do such a vile act. It detailed 3 other crimes. I am so distraught I hardly know what to say. I knew you were troubled but I never thought you to be a sodomist.

I do hope you get the help you need for your mind to be normal. For a boy with God in his name you are racking up some amount of sins. I am so sorry you feel this is the way you must live.

Arthur doesn’t yet know, his aversion to reading The Times is in your favour. He would surely welcome you to the farm with open arms if you leave out the details of what happened.

Please consider God’s opinion. You have read the bible, I know you have, so why would you blatantly ignore its teachings.

Your concerned sister

Tilda Birdie Dankworthe”

Godfrey did not reply to this letter, the two never exchanged letters again to my knowledge

Tilda died in childbirth to her 9th child, a son who survived. He was named Godwin. All of Tilda’s children survived to adulthood.

Godfrey started the gang the following year (1864). He was 26 years old. I managed to gain access to crime tecords of Godfrey’s and found a list of known crimes of Godfrey/“Harry Jones”: Sodomy (twenty four separate accounts); Racketeering; Tax evasion; manslaughter (At least ten accounts); Prostitution (male and female? at least thirty three accounts); sexual assault; Child endangerment; Perjury (fifty five accounts!); kidnapping; extortion; forgery; burglary; criminal damage; trafficking; attempted murder; murder; drunk; public indecency; indecency with a man (two accounts); trespassing (one hundred and ninety three accounts.)

From this list of crimes I’ve deduced many things. Namely that Mr Jones and Mr Afram had a sexual relationship at one point in time, and they were caught in “indecent acts” on July 7th 1868 and again in 1879.

Godfrey/Harry was a deeply intriguing man. It’s clear that some sort of shift happened to make him want to pursue a life of crime. Perhaps the conflict between his homosexuality and his faith had something to do with it.

hiiiieyyyy professór. Soz this is in sooo late my computer has been updating for 3 weeks and I had all my research onit. thaaynksss xxx -3-

written like a report from a girl who does not care about her grade she just likes researching.

[ariadne-mouse]

If Fearne gets to meet Caleb and/or Beau and successfully picks their pockets (please!), I desperately want Matt to let Liam and Marisha decide what little character tidbits they might be carrying

[albaricomics]

I had a revelation 🪄

[ahalliance]

the dread i feel knowing that qbaghera is a ‘federation experiment’ and that qantoine is involved in ‘federation experiments’ will never fade btw 👍

[idk-bruh-20]

rip ultron Tony Stark would've loved to call you ChatGPT

[yourstrullyme]

not to be weird or anything (I will proceed to be extremely weird) but uh I saw some random tags on on a post that you reblogged and now I really need you to write a fic where Cait goes looking for Jinx and finds her and yells at her to go talk to her sister okay bye

LMAO no need to apologize we embrace weird in this house

ooh man i need that fic too lol but rn i dont think i can do much im a bit busy with life but i can offer an idea of what it would look like under the cut maybe?

so like i picture it being like a few years maybe, and maybe vi's okay with it, but Cait isn't, because Cait is sure Jinx didn't die. she gets the fish guy (i think his name was steb?) to help and at first its a pretty intense search, but then it dwindles and eventually they just keep an eye out for weird stuff like maybe there's a new mechanic in some far away city that's just praised for their genius, or maybe there's a new weapon that's making some other nation's army the winner of every battle, y'know? just stuff that screams jinx was here.

and to be honest she's sort of lost hope too? like she's had her moments of rage against jinx because how could you do this to her? how could you leave her? how could you do all this and then leave? why did you survive but not stay? but also she's had time to think, to understand.

She talks to ekko about it. not that she thinks jinx is alive, no. just like vi, ekko's had enough. he tried mourning her, going through the steps, trying to find some closure, but the pain just wont leave. so he works on keeping her memory alive and in doing so deals with his regrets and mistakes in his own way. but she talks to him about her, too. just, jinx. who she was, how wrong cait was about some things, how right she was about others. her regrets, too. ekko can empathize. he also gave up on her.

so one morning when steb tells her there's been a sighting cait's just eating breakfast with vi and they're laughing about the toast vi likes to make - a mixture of butter, marmalade and avocados (idk what kind of shit they eat for breakfast in piltover sue me) - so she doesn't really register steb's interruption until vi asks about it and steb looks worried between the two. cait doesn't lie, vi would be able to tell anyways and then she'd just be hurt. no, she simply says its work and leaves. it technically is. jinx is still a wanted person in piltover, technically.

she takes an airship to a city she's never visited before. it looks like the perfect mixture between piltover and zaun. there are no great buildings or statues, no grand bridges over polluted waters; but also no trash-infested streets, no beggars in corners, no policemen abusing children.

steb's 'sighting' was actually a news outlet informing its readers that a new form of long-range transportation was being worked on after a woman had invented a seemingly 'totally efficient' battery - no loss of energy of any kind. steb was sure it had to be her. caitlyn not so much. not because it didn't match - it did. more so because of a loss of hope but rather a fantasy she'd been having for a while now. jinx, out and about, maybe on a market or just strolling through a city, happy.

she reaches the address steb gave her and finds a small bar and, immediately, she knows she's found the right place.

'the last drop' reads the sign over the door. caitlyn clenches her jaw, suddenly alert. the fantasy that had become jinx over the years is suddenly overcome by the memories of her. what if all cait'd thought was just a way for her to cope? what if jinx is still...jinx? what if she still hates her? caitlyn vaguely wishes she'd brought her gun, but it's no use. she's here now and, whoever jinx has turned into, she hopes is willing to, at least, talk.

it's the middle of the day so, rightfully so, the place is empty when she goes in. only a singular lonely figure stands there, at the bar, drying glassware as she hums along to the song on the jukebox.

"Jinx,"

[magistius]

they did nothing wrong [said with understanding that they are a nuianced character but that theyre villainized to hell and back and you stand in support]

[criticalmonstah]

cw; domestic violence, abuse

Regarding everything happening with Ashley right now, I don’t really want to talk about it as Ashley herself hasn’t said anything and all we know is what was reported on by a third-party media outlet that got a hold of the police report. Ashley has been going through it for the past two years and I think it’s important that we as fans who love her parasocially do what we as fans can do best: Leave her alone and protect her peace.

i.e, Fuck Mike Walters for writing this article. I don’t care if restraining orders are public record in the state of CA, he outed an abuse victim and potentially put her and her family more at risk all for the sake of getting traction for his shitty celebrity gossip site.

[Image Description] Photo of “Mike Walters” depicting a head shot of a heavy set looking man with a single tuft of hair beneath his bottom lip and nearly buzzed cut hair. The caption reads: “The Blast launched in September 2017 by renowned celebrity reporter Mike Walters (was a co-founder of TMZ.com, producer of the Emmy-nominated TMZ syndicate TV show and an executive producer of the TMZ Live syndicated series). The Blast provides 24/7, up-to-the-minute news about the world’s biggest celebrities, all optimized for mobile consumption and social media engagement. The site is comprised of a staff that has been instrumental in breaking the biggest stories about some of the most talked about celebrities in the world.”

[unionizedwizard]

still thinking about the time i asked the Transcription Company i work for, as a Professional Scribe, to change my pronouns & accords in their mailing and filing system, only to be met with "i don't understand... what's a "pronoun"?". girl what the fuck do you mean what do i mean. YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL PROOFREADER????

[fideidefenswhore]

more tudor historians need to make the distinction between ‘recorded’ and ‘reported’…

[lesbianralzarek]

why does every article reporting on idf war crimes go "hamas, who started the war on october 7th with their brutal terrorist attack slaughtering innocent israeli civilians, has condemned the idf's use of-"? like, nearly verbatim every single time. we know about october 7th. we know by now. half the time, hamas isnt even relevant but they gotta find some way to sow doubt and numb any potential compassion responses. will you get fired if you show sympathy for murdered palestinian civilians without first adding a disclaimer saying its all their fault for being born in gaza? if you call "palestinians under 18" children? if you use the words "murdered" or "brutal" or "massacre" for acts that didnt occur on october 7th? if you call a spade a spade? why are israeli reports front page news without proper fact-checking but palestinian reporting is always "allegedly" even when theres video evidence? why does the idf not get the hamas treatment of reminding everyone that theyre biased before treating their words as law, like they havent been caught bold-faced lying again and again?

[m00ngbin]

Hey I finished it :] (EXPLODES)

It's October 14th, 2004, and Shou is watching a solar eclipse with his mother

[the-way-astray]

பொத்தான்களை அழுத்துவதை நிறுத்திவிட்டேன் என்று சொன்னால் என்ன செய்வாய்?

[musette22]

Aaahhh guyssss, I wanna answer some asks (and maybe, you know, make myself some tea or take a bathroom break lol) but I'm on a writing ROLL and I'm scared that if I do anything else right now, I'll lose it again. So I'm just going to focus for a little bit longer and then hopefully be back to answer some messages and stuff a bit later tonight or otherwise tomorrow! 💓

[subcultureblues]

I have a. Weird hobby. I buy old magazines on EBay. Mostly to read about bands I like whose articles and interviews haven’t been well archived on the internet. An unintended side effect is getting a glimpse of subconscious cultural narratives from 20, 30, 40 yrs ago.

You can tell so much about the state of a society and how they view people like me, from the most random innocuous magazine articles. Their callous disregard for queer people, the mischaracterization and mythologizing of woman, the blasé absence of POC artists and creatives.

It should be disheartening but it isn’t. Society was sick. And in a few short decades we’ve managed to flip the script almost entirely. The society that wrote these words is almost unrecognizable to me now. We’ve come so so far, from such a dark place. And we’ll do it again. And again if we have to. We’ll come back from this dark place too, not through the natural forces of entropy, but by biting and clawing and fighting anyone who dares treat us as less than

[mountmortar]

do you know something i just realized that's really funny to me. my undergrad advisor referring to me as "they" after one (1) video call months before i even started mainly going by they/them