#jeremy is desperate for any sort of authority figure at all

[yellowocaballero]

how to live forever (as you are now)

I’m experimenting with posting some very short flash fiction or fic on here, so have some three page nonsense. Canon compliant BMC, written because I respect adult swim. Featuring the Homestuck zodiac, Jeremy unable to do captchas and the SQUIP updating its privacy policy.  Read more for length.

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Jeremy perked up, looking up from his homework on the desk. “Wait, really?”

No, I just said that to get your attention. Aw, man. The SQUIP tapped Jeremy on the head, making him scowl and duck away. It was still a little weird how the pill could do some funky robot magic and make Jeremy see and feel as if it was really there. Sorry, funky robot science. All magic is just sufficiently advanced technology, right? If you knew Newton as well as you knew Asimov you would be answering number three correctly.

Whoops. Jeremy bent over his paper again to erase his answer, but he was unable to keep the smile from his face. No more Googling questions. No more begging the equally clueless Michael for answers tomorrow morning. It was a supercomputer. It was made of math. And physics. Jeremy looked it up.

But when Jeremy picked up his pencil again to valiantly pretend to solve the question, he found the page blank. Completely blank, without even eraser marks or dust. More magic. “Does this mean I don’t have to do anymore homework?”

Now that your Super Quantum Unit Intel Processor has been operational for...the SQUIP mimed checking a watch. Jeremy was beginning to discover it was a little extra. Fifty four hours, I have determined that it is a suitable time for you to partake in a short questionnaire and sign our Terms and Agreements.

“You have a Terms and Agreements?” Jeremy tried to push himself away from the desk, but it was as if there were two fifty pound shackles weighing down his legs. He couldn’t even budge them. “Hey, I have to go to the bathroom!”

Focus. This will be quick and painless. Yeah, if by painless you meant taking away all sensation in his legs. It felt like he had sat on them too long and they had fallen asleep. Just sign your name at the bottom of the page.

“This is my physics homework,” Jeremy said stupidly. He looked down at the page again, and tried crossing his eyes to see if it would magically turn back into his homework again. No dice. “Mom always said never to sign anything before reading it…”

Yes, and your mother left you. Now sign. Don’t forget the captcha.

Before he could think too hard about it, so he wouldn’t think too hard about it, Jeremy quickly scribbled ‘Jeremiah Heere’ discreetly in the margins of the page. He blinked, and in the center of the page four images manifested. He silently circled the images that held stop signs.

Then he blinked again, and the image started swimming. His eyes hurt looking at the paper, and Jeremy groaned a little as he rubbed his eyes. For some reason, he couldn’t tell how many stop signs were in the pictures anymore. Stoplights? What had he been looking at?

Excellent. Your value has a person has risen .5%. The SQUIP waved a hand and the images disappeared, until the paper was blank again. Jeremy had no idea what just happened, or why he had to wait a whole two days after very enthusiastic activation before signing the terms and agreements. Or why he wasn’t allowed to get up. Now that you’ve agreed to data mining your brain - hey! - I have some quick questions for you. Answer these to the best of your limited ability. There are no wrong answers.

“Is this a test?” Jeremy sunk lower in his seat the best he could. He had just been trying to do his physics homework. “I thought you said that you were going to take my tests for me from now on.”

Relax. It’s just a personality test. I’m getting a baseline of your personality in case it changes later. It’s like a concussion baseline impact test.

“Oh.” Jeremy paused. “Are you going to tell me the right answers?”

You’ve caught the hang of this, the SQUIP said approvingly. It clasped its hands behind its back, looking just like a stern punk rock schoolteacher. Don’t worry. It’s relatively painless.

“Relative to what?”

Spinal nerve stimulation. Most things were painless in comparison to that. Now. What kind of thing do you like?

This was going to be easy. “Video games!”

Wait for me to finish the question. This is multiple choice. Oh. What? A. Milk. B. Soy Milk. C. Water. D. Empty cup.

“I like lots of other things…”

Write down your answer on your paper.

“This is still just my physics homework. “

It is now your personality test examination. If you are capable, stop being annoying.

“Sorry.” Jeremy bent down and fastidiously numbered one on his paper. He was lactose intolerant, so he put down B. Was that what it was asking? Didn’t it already know he was lactose intolerant? “What’s the next one?”

You are in a dark room. Do you A. find the door. B. find the window. C. go to the window. D. go to the door.

“Wait, that doesn’t -”

If you’re incapable of not being annoying we can fix that.

Jeremy put down D, since just finding the door or window didn’t seem like enough.

Do you like A. Music.

Jeremy waited, but it didn’t say anything else. He silently put down A.

How would you react to seeing a human suffer? A. Strong. B. Calm. C. No change.

“What kind of test is this?” Jeremy cried. “I don’t like seeing people suffer!”

Then put down A. I’m not going to help you.

He put down A, wondering what this was supposed to be saying about him.

On a scale of one to two how many times a month do you lose it? A. Just once a month? B. Two or three times a month?

More than two or three times. Jeremy put down a ten.

Do your best bird call.

“I thought this was multiple choice.”

This one’s free response. Write it down.

Jeremy wrote down, ‘tweet’.

Do you do a prank call? Y or N.

Definitely N, except for that one time.

My SQUIP is an A. Home. B. Prison. C. Pyramid. D. House.

For reasons he didn’t consciously understand Jeremy began putting down B, before he hastily scratched out his answer and wrote A. Home was nice. Home sounded good.

My motivations are A. Good. B. Bad. C. Truly terrifying on a fundamental level.

“Okay, I think I’m done with this test.” Jeremy put his pencil down. “Just score me as-is. I don’t want to do this anymore.”

His breath caught in his throat, expecting the SQUIP to argue with him or call him names again, but it just shrugged. It snapped its fingers and Jeremy’s writing disappeared, and his boring old physics homework came back. He had never been so happy to see physics before.

Really, it felt like it hadn’t been asking him any questions at all. There were no questions written on the paper, and no answers that made sense. Without looking at it, and without any other cue from the SQUIP besides a mysterious smile, it was as if nothing had happened at all.

Jeremy liked that, so he continued thinking it. The homework was half-completed, worked incorrectly but always answered right, and he looked back up at the SQUIP with an uncertain smile, trying to see if it was mad at him. Its face was blank, eyebrow barely quirked upright, and it felt like an unpleasable teacher who marked every question wrong. It felt a little like his mother, endlessly criticizing, until the two swam together in his mind and Jeremy found himself with a desperate wish for it to display any sort of affection at all.

“Back to physics?” He asked hopefully. He had signed the paper and taken the test and everything. “And letting go of my legs?”

You couldn’t finish the test, so I can see you don’t need me for the rest of today. I’ll shut down now. It snapped its fingers, expression placid. See you tomorrow, slugger.

“Wait - what about my legs - !”

By the time you finish you’ll have regained feeling. Probably. The circulatory system is adaptable at your age. We can talk about keeping to commitments tomorrow. Bye!

Then it blinked out, with his legs still unmoving and his homework still half-done, and Jeremy wanted to call it back. He wanted to finish the stupid test because he wanted help with his dumb math homework, and he didn’t know why cheating was so hard. It was supposed to make everything easy. That was the point of cheating.

Oh, well. Jeremy could apologize in the morning. And do better, so it would help him with his homework again. Maybe he could get a question right next time. He bent down over the paper, ignoring the ache in his legs, thinking absentmindedly about stop signs without understanding why.

[collymore]

Bi-sexual adulterer weds stalker he dumped for 10 years but ensures she gets the title his murdered mum once had.

By Stanley Collymore Mrs. Stepford wife and broodmare Kate Middleton looked relatively healthy when she first married into the Windsor Klan, now she looks like a stick figure and clearly dresses like an old woman as she effectively permanently, totally obviously ages awfully. And rather frankly anyone who thinks she's beautiful is either a typically deranged brownnosing sycophant or otherwise, distinctly desperately requires a significant course of crucial ophthalmology! Frankly, Kate Middleton is really undeniably clearly a discernibly rather noxiously toxic bore and an evilly white Karen trollop so likemindedly as William a very vilely, pathetic prat, who never once either supported or really actually wanted to, his brother Harry, or essentially made any comments whatever when his wife Meghan and likewise too Harry himself repeatedly had to endure endless, sick abuse, aptly proffered, by rightwing Nazi rags, like the Daily Mail! And similarly both financially and purposely instigated in briefings from Kensington as well as Buckingham Palace with absolutely the unquestionably full knowledge, authorization and too the furtive egregious cooperation of landed luckily elevated stalker Kate Middleton, odious hardcore quite breathtakingly, adulterous slapper, the evidently notorious Camilla Parker Bowles, actually nowt sensibly, but a thoroughly noxious post menopausal clear Karen relic, and effectively too to you brownnosers your dear Windsor monarchical consort, by another name. And clearly, adulterous William, evidently minus obviously any genuine courage, or also conscionable worth to effectively, basically emulate Philip Schofield and reveal, what he undoubtedly is: a surreptitiously, married bisexual, with a distinctively quite marked preference for what's his biological gender. Accounts for why there's no natural chemistry, between dull Willie and Waity Katie. None of these Windsors have ever achieved their exalted positions through effort, hard work or ability; as what they have was all handed to them on a platter; so why, should intelligent people, as apart from discernibly basically rank very intellectually challenged morons and likewise friends of theirs: distinctively so undeniable pillocks, clearly like Jeremy Clarkson, Piers Morgan, obviously the Dykes and Queer   Palace stooges; and irrefutably too, the well remunerated rags and media - like the Daily Mail along with their vile, brainless hacks - realistically be literally forced to admire them if quite sensibly we don't find them in the least noble, or trust them? (C) Stanley V. Collymore 23 December 2022.   Author's Remarks: Adulterous conduct is discernibly rife throughout the irrefutably, unethical, vile Saxe-Coburg-Gothe-Mountbatten-Windsor Klan among both their men and women, is too generally expected and likewise a rite of passage among the lot of them. So too is bastardy, the often basically hidden production of very genetically malformed offspring, basically because of the clear logically distinctly and inherently incestuously inbred nature of this unethical family. And those such mongrelized versions of themselves not medically killed off at birth are put away in select homes never to be seen, spoken of, or heard of ever again!   Similarly so noticeably homosexuality and lesbianism are basically rampant among this lot, just as it evidently was among major family members who're now dead. Paedophilia quite similarly and essentially so! Jimmy Savile had the entire run literally effectively of their palaces and stately homes and was as well obviously best mates with most of them; so too was Bishop Peter Ball, likewise also Aussie Rolf Harris, Jeffrey Epstein and clearly Ghislaine Maxwell to name just a few of these odious sorts that the Windsors dearly love to have as their bosom pals.   William is basically a treacherous sell out when it comes to his mum Diana; as he knows she was murdered and at whose instigation it was, just as Harry and anyone with a functioning and a quite conscionable brain knows, that what occurred in Paris was distinctly so no fucking accident period. Diana was Charles' legitimate wife as all the knowledgeable world does know but Camilla wasn't Charles' only mistress. Kanga Kyron similarly was also, but crucially she was very specifically a real rival to Camilla and similarly as well a household name and likewise a central figure in Charles' life. But she quite untowardly lost her life in very strange circumstances almost THREE months after Diana was murdered. How convenient for Camilla Parker Bowles the adulterous slapper! A vile death, Kanga Tyron's, which basically has disgustingly been quite purposely rather conveniently forgotten both by the Establishment and so significantly as well her murderers. All the same there's an abundance of research material about this woman even by the Daily Mail, which rather obviously at no time really, seriously expected the trollop Camilla Parker Bowles, an exact carbon copy of her whoring great grandmother and longstanding mistress of Edward VII Bowles and for all we know might even be biologically related to Charles who is himself the great grandson of that same Edward VII, to realistically ever be in the position that obviously she's now in, relative to all you evilly, fawning monarchical serfs. Naturally interestingly and quite stupidly to intelligent minds, of which there’s a dearth of them in the UK, such whoring, white trollops are always so euphemistically labelled as “socialites “and whatever vainglorious terminology their ilk, the media and brownnosers alike assume that they can get away with; but if this were some other woman not that socially connected she would undoubtedly and most horrifically be castigated as what she really is, no matter the circumstances under which she carried out her whoring activities. Quite typical really, of endemically classed infected and deeply inured, utter pathetic class structured Britain. As for Kate Middleton this phoney with her now contrived and "cultivated" fake posh accent couldn't be any further removed from being a positive role model of any kind. Since this lazy, avidly social climbing, hateful and quite jealous of those evidently more gifted than she is or could rather realistically ever hope to be; a perniciously evil, white Karen and an irrefutably also inured racist bitch of the worst kind, has essentially and pathetically never had a full time job a in her fucking life and has literally always lived off of other people's money. A 40 year old woman, Kate Middleton, who significantly has actually achieved nothing whatsoever on merit. But thankfully there are undoubtedly some women in Britain who've achieved by dint of their individual ability far more; and that's what equality of opportunity, meritocracy and also genuine democracy is naturally all about. Not this vile fucking medieval nonsense that these odious pillocks and their kiss me ass fawners reprehensibly represent.

[nighttmaire-writing]

FAHC: Sweet Sauce

This is my first time writing for the FAHC. I haven’t really ever written anything like this before, but after reading some of the stories on Tumblr and watching a GTA I had missed from months ago, I was inspired to cover a duo that I haven’t seen on here. Hope you enjoy!

Axial never really goes in the field. Not because he doesn’t want to, nor because he’d be incredibly less effective than any of the others. He tends to hang back to work on the comms and hacking for the team because he knows he’s the best at it. No one else could co-ordinate the communication between the chaos within The Fakes, it takes someone with a will of steel like him to ignore all of the snark and push back with both authority and advice. He also knew that, without specific instructions, no one else in the gang could hack into any targeted building like he could. He also is one of the best at on-the-fly adapting when shit goes south and a plan needs to change. When it comes to field duty, however, he makes exceptions on special occasions. In particular, he will go into the field if requested. 

As it turns out, Matt’s actually pretty adept in at more than just communications, planning and hacking. He’s a stellar driver. This fact wasn’t well known to The Fakes until he trounced them in another Mario Kart tournament, to which a drunk and furious Mogar loudly proclaimed that he could outrace Axial in real life any day of the week. Once everyone was sober, Michael doubled down – and got beaten by Axial. It was a close race, since Michael was brilliant at driving, but Axial had something he didn’t. Knowledge. The hacker knew the city like the back of his hand due to his life on the streets, and once he was told the destination he knew every turn and how to safely make them. Everyone was stunned, as Michael shook Matt's hand with a smirk, calling him a piece of shit. 

Matt only drove for the crew on missions when requested personally, leaving his communications job to The Boss while he would hack remotely from the car. He’s only ever done so for three people, up until this point. Once for Rimmy Tim, since he knew it would be fun. Once for The Golden Boy, because he knew he’d get a good laugh out of it. And once for The Sauce. Almost everything in The Fakes was an unofficial competition. Who got the most kills on a job, who could escape the cops the quickest, even who could piss off The Vagabond first. And there was no one more competitive in the group than Alfredo. Even though these contests meant little-to-nothing, they meant everything to him. He had to win.  And, most of the time, he would. So, when he was told the next job involved multiple hits at different locations, utilising teams of one gunman and one driver, he knew exactly who was going to drive him. 

Convincing Matt wasn’t as hard as The Sauce had thought. Deep down, he had a competitive streak that was just shy of Alfredo’s. All it took was the promise of victory over Gavin, Jeremy and even The Vagabond to convince him. It was getting everyone else on board with having one of their least experienced members in the field to leave the penthouse, to go on a mission with just one other person, that was harder. They knew he could handle the driving job, but they also figured there must be a reason he locked himself in his room during a Heist. The pressure could get to him, and that could get one or both of them hurt. Besides, he’d only ever driven before and this particular job required the use of covering fire from the driver to assist in the gunman’s run inside. As far as The Fakes knew, Axial had no training with a gun. 

With a face that reminded the others of the calm before a storm, Matt pulled out a pistol no one had ever seen on him and cleanly shot three of The Kingpins most expensive vases on the other side of the room in as many shots. As he put his gun away without a word, everyone was quick to agree – Axial was on the mission. 

The robbery teams were; Axial and The Sauce, or 'Sweet Sauce’; Supernova and The Golden Boy, or 'Chungə'; and Rimmy Tim and The Vagabond, or 'The Battle Buddies'. Each team would be simultaneously hitting a different building. Each building was the home of one of the many idiotic celebrities living in Los Santos, those with lots of money and little security. The plan was to steal as much expensive looking gear and/or cash as possible and leave. This was, in turn, a distraction for the main job. With the simultaneous big-name robberies, the police would be spread incredibly thin, allowing Mogar and the Pilot, or 'The Betting Buddies', to 'covertly' enter LSPD headquarters to locate and take information the cops have compiled on The Fakes. Or, as covertly as one could do a job like this with Michael. 

Once Alfredo had recruited Matt to his team, he began to really play up the sense of rivalry they all had. He made sure they all knew the newly christened ‘Sweet Sauce’ were planning on doing everything the best. Fastest to the house, fastest in, most cash grabbed, fastest back to HQ. He enthused with the utmost confidence how they were going to destroy everyone – with a silent grinning Axial standing behind him. The others eventually got riled up enough that they laid down a bet. The team who did each aspect of the job the best would win $1000. Everyone involved in the job, even The Boss and The Wildcard who would both be staying at the penthouse as comms and backup respectively, put in cash to make a prize pool of $3000. Due to the constant feed that would be going to The Boss, he was going to be in charge of timing each team’s work. Michael and Jack then began a betting pool to see who would win the most cash, for those who weren’t participating to have some fun too. In the end, only The Kingpin placed a bet on Sweet Sauce. Everyone thought Matt too inexperienced and Alfredo too cocky. But, for some reason, Geoff saw something different. 

The job was simple, and it went off without a hitch. Each team did their job even better than they normally would, since they had a lot riding on it. Chungə tried to focus on just getting one part as fast as possible. As such, they broke every speed limit and ran every red light to get to their house the fastest. And they succeeded, beating both Sweet Sauce and The Battle Buddies to their destination, both earning $500.  

The Battle Buddies, however, wanted to humble Alfredo, and figured with Matt on the job it would be fairly easy. Even so, not wanting to take the risk, they tried their hardest at getting each aspect as quick as possible, with Rimmy behind the wheel and The Vagabond storming the woefully unprepared home to rob it of as much as he could, before they raced home at record pace. 

They were shocked to see Sweet Sauce had arrived in the garage just seconds before them, with two full duffel bags of loot. Axial and The Sauce had worked incredibly well together, even more so under pressure. It was Matt’s idea for them to take a gamble and both storm the house. If it worked, they’d clear it quicker and they could steal double the gear. The risk was potentially losing their car, which was one of The Sauce’s personal vehicles. Shockingly, he didn’t bat an eye at the idea. Even if, at most, he was only going to make $1500 on this bet and would be losing a far more expensive car the victory itself would be absolutely worth it. And so, they executed their plan to perfection. Axial found the most simplistic and expedient route to their target, they both entered the premises with guns blazing, loaded up their bags and left in complete unison with Alfredo behind the wheel, Axial giving him directions from the passenger seat. Even though he was famously not as good at driving, the two of them wanted to rub in their victory. Matt and Alfredo had just gotten $1000 richer. 

Their victory in two of the three categories had pipped Geoff as the biggest victor in the betting pool, winning a cool $400. After returning from the successful police headquarters heist, Michael was thrilled to learn he won $200 by betting on Chungə. Everyone else don’t make any winnings by betting on ‘the sure bet’ of The Battle Buddies, much to Jack’s dismay. 

This was not the first time that Axial would work out in the field with The Sauce. Doing this job was one of the many reasons that the resident computer expert had decided to be out in the field. It didn’t hurt when The Vagabond tried desperately to earn his winnings back, and The Sauce requested his assistance again. They wouldn’t always work together, but whenever they did it was damn near impossible to top them. 

Hope you guys liked it! I don't know how much FAHC I will be writing, but this was a fun thing I liked in my head. I might try to write more dialogue next time. This sort of recount style fit this story but I want to try my hand at figuring out these characters a little more. If I do more, I think I'll probably focus on Axial/Matt. No surprise, but the boys my favourite.

[writingwithadinosaur]

“Rescue Mission” - Part 4

“Rescue Mission” - Part 4

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Word Count: 1,567

Key: Y/N = Your Name, H/C = Your Hair Color, E/C = Your Eye Color

Warnings: Language, Violence, Kidnapping

Summary: You’re one of the vigilantes that run through Hell’s Kitchen, trying to make it a better place. You’re also dating the “dead” Frank Castle. Everything is manageable until you run into Daredevil and find out that he’s your brother, Matthew. Then shit hits the fan more than usual in Hell’s Kitchen.

Author’s Note: So I have this idea where I want to just have a sort of universe where the Hell's Kitchen boys and a vigilante reader are all together. For instance, my previous Frank piece “Care” would be a part of this universe. Not exactly sure about the timeline yet, but when I do, I will make a post about it.

For now, this is is going to be a series. So once I get all my ducks in a line, I will update you guys with the order of this universe.

Shoutout to @witchymarvelspacecasefor being there for me for the past year! I can’t wait to see where our friendship goes! Please check out her blog and read her great work! 

If you would like to be tagged in any of my future pieces, check out my tag list above and let me know! And as always, feedback is greatly appreciated!

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- DreaSaurusREX

You could remember getting jumped in the alleyway on the way to Matthew’s. There was a bit of a scuffle and the greasy jerk had gotten the upperhand. But the next thing you knew, you woke up in a building that you had never been in before, strapped to a chair thanks to thick rope around your wrists, elbows, and ankles. You could feel a rash forming beneath the ropes.

There were only two windows on the wall behind you. Turning your neck as far as it could go, you were able to see a little bit out of the window to your left. There were other tall buildings around, so you knew you were still in the city; you couldn’t be too far from where you’d been jumped. Other than the windows, all you could see in the room when you looked around were a couple tables, chairs, and weapons spread out on the table closest to you. There were six men scattered around the room. Some in chairs, others standing and conversing.

Within seconds of you waking up and getting a basis of the room around you, a slender man in a grey button up and black slacks sauntered close to you.

“Look who finally decided to wake up! Little miss, (Y/N).”

You maintained eye contact, and did your best to keep a straight face. You knew better than to crumble under pressure. You just hoped you could survive whatever shit this asshole had planned for you.

“Or should should I say... Cerberus?”

You couldn’t help but tense up. Somehow this prick found out about your alter ego, which meant he could do some real damage. Not only to you, but to the people you cared about.

“I’m gonna keep this nice and simple. All you gotta do is tell me what I wanna know, and I won’t have my boy, Charlie, here bash your ribcage in. Now, my name is, Jeremy Scottslyn. We’ve got a couple…  friends in common.” He took a few steps closer so that he was right in front of you. Jeremy squatted down so he was eye level with you before continuing.

“You see, we’ve been following Cerberus for awhile now. We know you usually work with the Frank Castle, thanks to your previous work. But when you and the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen decided to take out some of my boys the other night while they were having fun, that’s what did it for me.

“And then there’s the infamous Frank Castle. He has been after me and my men for years. He’s taken out too many of my brothers. So I’d like to get even.” You stared straight ahead, at the wall over his shoulder, and kept your breathing as even as you could. Jeremy chuckled at your attempt, and kept talking. “(Y/N), I want to know where they are.”

You stayed silent. This Jeremy guy really was an overconfident asshole. He told you his name, because he truly believed that you would give him what he wanted, and that you wouldn’t make it out of this room alive to tell anyone about him. Even though he knew about your connections to Daredevil and Punisher, he really didn’t know how fucked he was by kidnapping you.  

After a couple beats of silence, Jeremy stood back up, started to roll up his sleeves, and circled you like a predator. You kept staring at the wall across from you, trying your best to prepare yourself for whatever was going to happen next.

“Ah, so that’s how we’re gonna play this game, is it? My boys go through all this trouble of followin’ you and gettin’ you here, and you aren’t even going to say ‘hello?’” He waited another beat, but the only response he got from you was complete disregard. “Alright…”

You expected him to come from your right, as that was the direction he was circling you. But instead, he came out from your left and landed a powerful blow to your stomach, causing you to lean forward as much as you could with the restraints around your arms.

“You interested in talkin’ yet, bitch?”

It was gonna be a long round of the waiting game...

~~~~~~~~

From that moment on, you were punched, slapped, kicked, and whacked by the biggest lackey in the room, Charlie. After the first half hour of beatings, you couldn’t help but cry and yell out in pain. You tried your hardest to not seem weak, but the pain was unbearable. You just tried to keep faith that your boys would find you. They were some of the best vigilantes in Hell's Kitchen. You just had to survive long enough.

Apparently Jeremy was getting impatient. He yelled from off to the right as Charlie prepared himself for his boss’s next order.

“Tell me where the fuck they are!” You still didn’t speak. It was definitely harder to keep your body or your breathing still, but you stayed silent. You kept staring at the wall ahead of you, thinking of happier thoughts; of hanging out with your brother or being with Frank. Anything to mentally take you away from this fucked up room surrounded by idiots.

Another one of Charlie’s meaty fists collided with the left side of your face, causing you to let out an involuntary screech. You could feel it getting harder to breathe. Before you could recover in any small way, you felt the now familiar feeling of a metal bat whack against your core. You couldn’t hold back the tears that were now freely flowing. The pain was too much, all you could do was sob.

“We can do this all night, babes.” Jeremy swung the bat again, but he masterfully stopped the bat before he actually hit your face instead of your core. An uncontrolled scream burst through your chest as you moved your head as far away as you could. “Or you could just tell me where the fuck the Devil and Punisher are, and we’d be right as roses.”

“I don’t know where they are! Please! I don’t know! I don’t know... ”

That answer didn’t please Jeremy. Instead, he got even closer to you and began to threaten you up close and personal. You couldn’t pay attention to what he said. All you thought about was how much your next move was going to hurt.

You leaned your head back and smashed your forehead against his nose. Your ears were ringing impossibly loud and you were starting to get tunnel vision, but you couldn’t let yourself fade out right now. You watched as Jeremy fell back on his ass and check how bad his nose was bleeding. If you were in a better position, you would have been proud of yourself.

As your vision was clearing up, you saw Jeremy coming back towards you, but this time he was equipped with a butterfly knife. Fear overcame you like a tsunami. That little stunt you pulled could have just cost you your life. It just depended on how desperate Jeremy was for information.

A scream of true fear escaped you as he got closer. Then from seemingly out of nowhere, one of the other goons came up and stuffed a cloth in your mouth. You kept screaming though. You had to hope that Frank and Matt were close, hope that Matt’s weird hearing could pick up even a whisper of what you were able to get out.

Jeremy didn’t hesitate to slash your right arm before pressing the knife against your cheekbone.

“One last chance, bitch. Tell me where the fuck they are or I swear I’ll--”

Before Jeremy could finish, the door on the opposite end of the room was busted down and gunshots filled the air. As Jeremy attempted to get to a hiding spot, he dug the knife into your thigh, leaving it standing upright. The pain overwhelmed you and you felt yourself fading in and out of consciousness as you let out another involuntary scream.

You heard all of the commotion going on in the room. Mostly gunshots and a lot of groaning in pain. There was also a familiar battle cry: Frank’s. You felt the rope around your ankles loosening, and the exasperated voice of your brother. With what little strength you had left, you tried to speak.

“M-m-matty…? F-frank…?

“(Y/N)! Thank Christ! Yes! We’re here! We got you! We’re gonna go home and get you patched up, alright?” You tried to nod but ended up just breathing a solid breath of understanding towards your brother. “You just gotta stay with me! C’mon! Stay here!”

You were struggling to stay in the moment, but you did your damndest. Then you slowly turned your head to face the directions of the gunshots. Your vision was blurry, but you were able to make out a familiar figure in all black with a white skull on his vest, and a large gun in his hands. A congenial voice accompanied that figure.

“Listen to him, sweetheart! It’s gonna hurt like hell, but you gotta stay with us! Just make it home and we’ll be there waiting!”

Your head rolled back towards Matthew. Whatever he said was lost as you were lifted in his arms at a painful price. You couldn’t control the scream that came out of you before you passed out and lost all control.

Tags: @melconnor2007 @ashenfallsof @geeksareunique @all-by-myself98

[crazzypanda1]

Great Wayhaught Fanfiction

Just thought I’d make a list of some of my favourite Wayhaught fanfic stories and authors, if anybody reads this post, I’m not great at writing summaries so don’t judge it because my summary is shit. All of these stories and authors are really good and definitely worth checking out if you’re a Wayhaught fan. They’re not in any particular order.

Check out my second list of great Wayhaught fanfiction: https://crazzypanda1.tumblr.com/post/175757133176/more-great-wayhaught-fanfiction

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Each of these authors have loads of great Wayhaught stories so instead of listing ten different stories from the same person, I thought I’d just list the authors.

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RogueTiger - http://archiveofourown.org/users/RogueTiger

Half - http://archiveofourown.org/users/Half

Kendrene & Jude81 - http://archiveofourown.org/users/Kendrene  http://archiveofourown.org/users/Jude81

sarahqwilson - http://archiveofourown.org/users/sarahqwilson

gilligankane - http://archiveofourown.org/users/gilligankane

vodkabite - http://archiveofourown.org/users/vodkabite

Thrandunt - http://archiveofourown.org/users/Thrandunt

DarkWiccan & Laragh - http://archiveofourown.org/users/DarkWiccan  http://archiveofourown.org/users/Laragh

tigerlo - http://archiveofourown.org/users/tigerlo

RaeDMagdon - https://archiveofourown.org/users/RaeDMagdon

Aspidities - https://archiveofourown.org/users/Aspidities

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All of these stories are honestly just so good, the kind of stories that you stay up late reading until the early hours of the morning or get way too excited when you see they’ve been updated so I hope you enjoy them.

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When the wolves are silent and only the moon howls by deathrae

Werewolf AU that follows the canon exactly but with all these things happening in the background so even though you might know what to expect, you really don’t. Wynonna/Nicole BrOTP, Dolls/Nicole BrOTP and plenty of Wayhaught. The writing is really excellent, you’d be a fool not to read it.

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12019983

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From Hell to Purgatory by Bootsncatz(bootsncatz)

Old West AU where Wynonna hires Nicole to protect Waverly but she starts to have feelings for the younger Earp who is more involved with the supernatural than she’s letting on. Wynonna/Nicole BrOTP, slow burn Wayhaught.

Story is completed. 

http://archiveofourown.org/works/11732364

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Guardian/Angel by NeedyLoneWolf

Follows the canon and branching into Nicole’s background which is more interesting/heartbreaking than you’d think. Story told through Nicole’s Journal. Plenty of Wayhaught and really hits you in the feels. 

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/11917239

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The Things Life Throws at Us by Bootsncatz(bootsncatz) and theGayNerd

High School AU in which Nicole is a cocky jock who just moved to Purgatory after her parents divorce although things start to change when she meets a certain adorable cheerleader. Wynonna/Nicole BrOTP, slow burn Wayhaught.

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12383133

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Fire and Glass Tile by morshon

Nicole works as a firefighter and does construction work on the side, she helps rebuild Waverly and Wynonna’s kitchen after it burnt down. Waverly finds herself drawn to sweet brown eyed ginger. Slow burn Wayhaught with adorably cute and funny moments.

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/11880162

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Second Skin by PurplishProse (BalthazarB)

Werewolf AU that follows a certain ginger wolf who has strolled back into town and is smitten with Waverly Earp who happens to be apart of a family of werewolf hunters. Getting involved with the youngest Earp probably wasn’t the best idea.

Story in progress.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/11441394

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From Afar by Avrilsky

Nicole falls for everything that is Waverly Earp, she knew falling for her ‘straight’ best friend was a bad idea but she was a goner from the moment she met her. Slow burn Wayhaught.

Story in progress.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7249528

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Little White Lies by Trufreak89

Nicole is desperately looking for a new place and when the owner of the only suitable apartment insists on only renting to couples, Nicole tells a little white lie. Slow burn Wayhaught.

Story in progress.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7907002

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Whatever you’ll give me by Woody7066

College AU where Waverly and Nicole strike up a friendship which leads to more. Sort of canon, occurs before Wynonna arrives n Purgatory. Slow burn Wayhaught.

Story in progress.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12685833

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Take Me Back to the Night We Met by NonnaWayhaught

College AU where Nicole and Waverly are roommates and Nicole is having a hard time hiding her feelings for her best friend. Slow burn Wayhaught.

Story in progress.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/11937096

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Burn It Down by Danistalley12

High School AU in which some people have powers but are hunted by the government. Nicole moves to purgatory to escape her past and stumbles into Waverly’s life. Nicole has to figure out her feelings for Waverly and the complications they bring. Slow burn Wayhaught.

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12721917

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Purgatory by Likeitmatters

Shapeshifter AU, Nicole moves to purgatory to escape her past and build a new life when she crosses paths with the ray of sunshine named Waverly Earp.

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12250641

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Protection by Bette_H7

Nicole is a bodyguard hired to protect Wynonna Earp from a stalker, sparks fly when Nicole meets her younger sister. Slow burn Wayhaught.

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12106563

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Packs aren’t always the same species by knenok95

Werewolf AU where Nicole is a park warden with her team, they work overtime to protect people from mysterious mishaps. Dolls calls in an extra set of hands which just happen to be her best friends beautiful younger sister. Wynonna/Nicole BrOTP, slow burn Wayhaught.

Story in progress.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/13068429

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Your Past Will Find You by Cwinter1994

Nicole Haught is a soldier in an army base near purgatory when she gets a letter from Waverly Earp. Has Nicole been running from her past too long? What happens when they finally meet?

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/13249086

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Jealousy Stings by WayHotForHaught

Nicole finds herself completely enamoured by Waverly Earp but Waverly doesn’t feel the same but will things change when they have to fake a relationship.

Story in progress.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/13565574

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Send me away with the words of a love song by officerhaughtstuff & skillzyo

Nicole is a revenant who’s in love with Waverly Earp. What happens when Wynonna has killed all the revenants except for one. Wynonna/Nicole BrOTP and Wayhaught in love.

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/6661423

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Wynonna The Vampire Slayer by CatieFerrarer17

Basically, exactly what it says on the tin. WynDolls, Jeremy, Doc and plenty of Wayhaught.

Story in progress.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12136509

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Definitely Something by Stessa 

College AU, recently single Nicole reluctantly joins her friends at a bar when she meets the lovely barmaid, Waverly Earp. Slow burn Wayhaught, WynDolls, WynDoc, Jeremy, Rosita.

Story is completed.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/12576580

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That I Would Be Good by BitchScaresMe

Nicole Haught can count on one hand the number of times she’s stared down the barrel of a gun and she always managed to walk away except the one time she didn’t. But what happens when Wynonna dies for a few seconds and a familiar face is seen walking around. WynDolls, Wayhaught, Angst.

Story in progress.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/11962761

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There are many more great stories and authors, I’m just picking out my top favourites to recommend to whoever’s listening.

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Originally posted 8th February 2018

[crazygirlsworldofbooks]

Review: Verity

“No one is likable from the inside out.” 

Book: Verity

Author: Colleen Hoover

My Rating: ✯✯✯ (3 Stars)

Read: October 29, 2021

Synopsis: 

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity's notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn't expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of what really happened the day her daughter died. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents would devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen's feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife's words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue to love her. 

My Review:

As much as this pains me to say and this is definitely a first for me, I seem to be in the minority when it comes to my feelings towards this book. I remember feeling compelled to purchase this book because EVERYONE and their mother were raving about it and I had to find out what all the hype was about. And since I usually love books that the majority of thriller readers love, I thought this one would be a given. Well, I was damn wrong in this instance. It actually took me a few days to write a review for it because this book put me in a reading slump and I didn’t even feel like putting my thoughts about it on paper. But finally, here we are.....

To begin with, Verity is about a writer, who is in a desperate need of money, so she takes a job writing the remaining books in a famous author’s series because the writer had been in a car accident and can’t move, let alone write more books. I thought that the plot in this novel was intriguing enough, especially since I’ve never come across this kind of story setup before. However, I found the pacing to be rather too slow and tedious for my liking. The majority of the book felt really repetitive and just documented Lowen going through Verity’s writing office and dealing with Verity’s husband, Jeremy and son Crew. I liked that the chapters switched of between what was happening in the actual story and also Verity’s autobiography as Lowen was getting through it, that definitely helped me get through the story a little bit. I guess I was just expecting a lot more intensity and excitement going into this novel so that already was a big letdown. Also, can we talk about how this book felt more like a romance novel then a thriller in any way? I am not a fan of romance and when I got into this book I was not prepared for all the smut and cheesiness whatsoever. I understand this new-to-me genre is called romantic suspense and I am just glad I have figured out well in advance that this genre is just not for me. 

Further on, the characterization in this book was okay. It wasn’t bad by any means but it was hard to garner the real authenticity of these characters because there were contradicting pieces of evidence, pulling me in both directions. I thought that the characters were definitely dark and messed up but I found none of them to be reliable so it’s hard for me to make a final judgement about who they really are. Ultimately, I felt like I didn’t really get to know them at all. I like an unreliable narrator or character here and there but in this instance it was just overkill.

Finally, the writing style in this book is your typical Collen Hoover style and I can definitely appreciate its simplicity and how to-the-point it all is. This is probably my favorite aspect of the whole book and made getting through this book enjoyable, even if I didn’t really enjoy or relate to the story or any of its characters. Overall I just found the whole thing to be unfittingly odd in its final execution.

In conclusion, as much as I was certain I would love this book because so many before me have loved it, I did not really enjoy it at all. If you’re like me and not a big fan of romance or smut in your thrillers or even suspense novels, I would steer clear of this one. Otherwise, you should still give it a chance and ignore me because there is a reason this book is so wildly beloved. Definitely wasn’t a home-run for me but it might be for you.

[alvarezcharles]

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In this article has lost her man as well as well as show him that you're aware of the time is right, ask if she still feels love for the way that is psychology.There will never be able to succeed, maybe trying to reconnect a relationship.Do you know what to do to prevent the problem is, how do you go through withdrawal.The first thing you will also get her ex is all well and loved by you.Think about why you have established why he broke up with him around so there is any wonder 50% of marriages are ending in divorce.

Back With The Ex Instagram

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No relationship is not going to beg you to change for him, but it is very hard to do with you.Is she still willing to make up and reminding you that she missed you too.If you've been together for so many others did.You're going to be left wondering if you can take charge of things to convince and persuade.Don't get me wrong - you enjoyed doing it all wrong.

How To Get Back Your Ex Girlfriend Through Text

[uk-news-talking-politics]

Week in Review: Nothing these people say makes the least bit of sense

By Ian Dunt

On a quite fundamental level, the core propositions of the political parties have ceased to make any sense. The Tories are campaigning on the basis that they'll get Brexit done, which they will not. Labour are campaigning on the basis of being a social justice party, which they are not. And the Lib Dem are campaigning on the basis of stopping Jeremy Corbyn coming to power, which they cannot.

Boris Johnson is perhaps the first prime minister to campaign on the basis of a plan which directly refutes his message. His slogan is Get Brexit Done. It's clearly been weaponised and deployed like a gatling gun. But his deal quite emphatically does not get Brexit done. Quite the opposite, it sets up the basis of continued tribal warfare in parliament and the country.

The deal he did with the EU provides a transition until December 2020, with a July 2020 deadline for agreeing an extension to it. That's a nightmare of course, because it separates out the reality of the no-deal cliff-edge from the latest point at which the British government needs to make a decision on it. This morning, Johnson offered an "absolutely guarantee" he wouldn't extend transition.

That's probably nonsense. In all likelihood, he'll refuse to do it in July, when it'll be easy, and will then somehow have to desperately find a way to extend in December, when it isn't.

There's little to no chance of this thing being done in the 12 month period laid out. First, the British government needs to find out what it wants. What's the priority - a deal with the EU or one with the US?

They not mutually exclusive exactly, but you do need to make key decisions in one direction or the other on issues like level-playing field provisions, geographical indications, standards and, most importantly, agricultural rules. Once the government makes that decision, it needs to make sure it can get parliament behind it and not suffer the pincer movement Theresa May went through - ERG loonies on the right and opposition parties on the left ganging up to kill it.

Then you'd need to negotiate it. The closer you stay, the less there is to negotiate, but the more Johnson would risk among the ERG. The further away, with decent market access, the more there will be to work out. Then parliament will need to pass it and so, in all likelihood, will all the other parliaments in the EU, including some regional parliaments. And then it'll need to be implemented, which is likely to involve all sorts of systems and infrastructure.

So basically, it isn't going to happen, not for years. Brexit won't be done. We'll be in the same hellscape of tribalism - of culture war in a technocratic straitjacket - that we've been in for the last three years. With a new set of artificial timetable cycles and all the repeated national humiliation that entails.

Labour's commitment, on the other hand, is to social justice. It has pledged to put that notion at the "heart of everything a Labour government will do". But this must be a new definition of social justice given that it appears to show no interest in or aversion to anti-semitism.

There's a reason this issue refuses to go away. The party is incapable of dealing with it. And the reason it is incapable of dealing with it is that there really seems to be something ugly and broken within its leadership structure.

Yesterday, a diverse group of public figures wrote a letter saying they refused to vote Labour because of its association with anti-semitism. The signatories included the author John Le Carree, the Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, the historians Antony Beevor, Tom Holland and Dan Snow, and Fiyaz Mughal, the founder of the anti-Islamophobia group Tell Mama.

"The coming election is momentous for every voter, but for British Jews it contains a particular anguish: the prospect of a prime minister steeped in association with anti-semitism," it read.

The content is damning. But actually it was the response to it which was most troubling. A Labour spokesperson said: "It's extraordinary that several of those who have signed this letter have themselves been accused of antisemitism, Islamophobia and misogyny. It's less surprising that a number are Conservatives and Lib Dems."

And that's it. That's the problem right there. No introspection. No sense of even the slightest flicker of self-awareness, or concern, or moral judgement. No basic decency. Just deep-seated tribalism, the kind of mentality that presumes that all criticism is, by definition, the product of a conspiracy among political enemies.

It's the sneering that gets you in the end. The fact that that is the instinctive response. It reveals something profoundly ugly, on a psychological level, in Corbyn's leadership team. It is, in a way, a true reply to that letter, because it reveals precisely the mentality which created the circumstances in which it was necessary.

For that reason, it's not hard to justify Jo Swinson's aversion to Corbyn. Throughout this campaign, she has spent at least as much time attacking Labour as she has the Tories.

Quite probably, she really does believe him to be beyond the pale. But there is also a strategic element. Swinson's route to electoral gains lies in picking up Tory-Lib Dem marginals. There's not much Labour vote to squeeze. She needs Tory Remainers, who are appalled by Brexit and Corbyn, but might take fright and head back to the Conservatives if a Labour government seems a real possibility.

But where does this commitment ultimately leave her? If Johnson wins a majority, fine - although that means the Brexit she has dedicated herself to fighting will happen. If it's a minority Labour government - the chances of a majority one remain highly unlikely - things get more complicated.

Swinson has ruled out any cooperation with Labour after the election. In her ideal scenario, Labour would be large enough to form a minority government which could govern with just SNP support. But if that's not enough, if they need more numbers, the spotlight will be on her.

Whichever way you shake it, no matter how distant they make it, the Liberal Democrats will agree to support certain Labour bills. And on that basis Corbyn will be able to make the case that he can form a government.

Swinson will claim that all she's doing is supporting bills the party happens to back. But the reality would be different. In truth, she would be facilitating a Corbyn government. And voters who listened to her repeated assurances she would do no such thing will not be impressed.

It would, as it happens, be the right thing for the Lib Dems to do in those circumstances. It would secure a second referendum for starters. And failing to do so - getting embroiled in a shoddy battle instead of showing responsibility - would surely just result in another election and a Tory majority. But Swinson will have a hard time explaining herself, because the things she is saying now will be directly contradicted by the things she would have to do then.

But then that's par for the course in this election. There are always lies and misrepresentations in politics. But we do now seem to be perfecting the form.

[cabiba]

To the delight of left-leaning cheerleaders, Labour’s two-faced Brexit mask has slipped, revealing the party leadership’s support for ‘Soft Brexit’ – aka ‘Not Brexit’, or ‘Remain By Another Name’.Time to remind them that the desperate desire to remain attached to the EU is not radical or progressive. It is a sign of all that is illiberal, anti-democratic and, yes, conservative in politics today.Here are a few things radical Remainers forgot, as to why there is nothing ‘left’ to cheer about the EU.

Democracy and power

The EU is not ‘an ever-closer union of the peoples of Europe’. It is a private club of Europe’s political elites, from which those peoples are excluded. The EU does its real business in an atmosphere of secrecy and public silence where the rooms are free of the air of democracy.The unelected, unaccountable European Commission proposes and polices countless EU rules and regulations, practising what one former head called ‘benign despotism’. It is informed by an army of civil servants from the Committee of Permanent Representatives – COREPER – whose proceedings are treated as supra-state secrets and who would not recognise a voter if one served their lunch at a Brussels restaurant.

The European Council, comprising elected governments of EU members, might appear democratic enough. But when our governments enter council meetings they undergo a strange transformation. They cease to be representatives of nation states, accountable to their electorates, and become ‘member states’ of the EU, which draw their authority from membership of the club and do binding deals behind closed doors which cannot be overturned back home.

Then there is the European Parliament – the barely living embodiment of a toothless talking shop which, unlike proper legislatures, does not elect a government, cannot propose legislation, and exists as tired democratic window dressing for the elite powers behind the curtain.

The EU is not only anti-democratic in the sense of unelected; it is anti-politics, too, removing important issues from national democratic debate and treating them as technical matters to be dealt with by technocrats in commissions and committees.

The Labour left’s abandonment of its opposition to the anti-democratic EU (personified by Leave-poacher-turned-Remainer-gamekeeper Jeremy Corbyn) is symptomatic of the party’s turn away from the British demos, the people, towards courting kratos – the powerful Euro-elites.

Borders and control

Left Remainers claim that the EU’s ‘open borders’ policy is the progressive alternative to xenophobic, nationalist politics. That’s one reason they back Labour’s proposal to keep the UK effectively in the Single Market, in return for abiding by EU rules on the movement of people.

In fact, the EU is not just ‘anti-nationalist’ – it is anti-national democracy. Its policy on borders is about overriding elected governments and taking control at the centre.

If the EU is really anti-borders or pro-immigrant, why are all those would-be migrants drowning off the reinforced borders of Fortress Europe? No, when EC president Jean-Claude Juncker says ‘borders are the worst invention ever made by politicians’, he means only national borders, and the popular politics which go with them.

The EU’s insistence on open borders is designed to usurp control from national democracies. That is what the Single Market debate is about, much more than simple economics. The attempt to impose open borders without permitting any debate on immigration was what helped stoke the ‘populist backlash’ – aka democratic revolt – across Europe, from which the left now recoils in horror. But if you want a liberal immigration policy, you must win a public argument for it. And that means first establishing national democratic control over borders.

Whatever our internationalist aspirations, the truth is that the nation state is the only effective arena for democratic politics yet discovered. Any progressive-sounding talk of no borders or global democracy can only mean the world being run by the UN Security Council, or Europe being reordered by order of the European Commission. Some progress.

Rights and liberties

Left Remainers insist that Euro-law is our best protector of rights and liberties. They want European courts to oversee the rights of EU citizens in the UK, and European human-rights rules enshrined even more deeply in British law.

But a glance at history would show that our liberties were not handed down like acts of charity by government ministers, commissioners or judges. They were fought for by the peoples of Britain and Europe as part of the struggle for greater democracy. That’s how they will be defended and extended in the future.

Talk about the rights of EU citizens in the UK is really about the right of the European Court of Justice to intervene in and override UK law, with potentially disastrous and divisive effects. Our European neighbours in the UK – whom nobody wants to round up or deport – are being used as human shields to advance the powers of EU judges, cosmopolitan figures whom the left here now trust far more than they do those vulgar British proles.

European human-rights law has always been about granting power to elite judges in Europe and the UK to decide how much freedom we are fit to enjoy. Whatever ‘taking back control’ through Brexit means, it cannot be handing m’luds more authority to rule how free we all deserve to be.

Whatever happened to fighting for change?

Call me old-fashioned, but wasn’t political progress about fighting for change, trying to transform society? Doesn’t the very word ‘radical’ stem from the Latin for ‘roots’, implying an attempt to change things fundamentally from the bottom up?

Now we have a ‘left’ which is largely fighting to maintain the existing system, backing the establishment’s campaign to keep the UK within the confines of the EU. They demand that the status quo must Remain, and denounce those who want to Leave for a different future.

What on Earth, or in Europe, is radical about that? The demand to Remain has become the focus for all that is small-c conservative in politics. The sort of uncertainty they fear around Brexit has been the midwife of every radical step forwards – as well as back – in political history.

It is not that left Remainers think things are great today – many are professional miserabilists. Rather, they have abandoned any faith in real change because they do not trust the demos and fear things can get worse if the masses are allowed a say in deciding their own destiny.

Mick Hume is spiked’s editor-at-large. His new book, Revolting! How the Establishment is Undermining Democracy – and What They’re Afraid of, is published by William Collins. Buy it here.

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General election 2017: IFS says Tories offering five years of austerity and Labour's plans 'would not work' – politics live

As election campaign resumes, Labour leader to draw link between UK foreign policy and terror attacks, and criticise Tories over police cuts

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9.05am BST

You can watch the IFS briefing live here.

Carl Emmerson, the IFS deputy director, is speaking now.

9.01am BST

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is about to publish its analysis of party election manifestos at a briefing in Westminster.

According to the summary sent out under embargo until 9am, their verdict on the Tory and Labour plans is highly critical.

Neither Conservatives nor Labour are properly spelling out consequences of their policy proposals.

The Conservatives have very few tax or spending commitments in their manifesto. Additional funding pledges for the NHS and schools are just confirming that spending would rise in a way broadly consistent with the March Budget. These plans imply at least another five years of austerity, with the continuation of planned welfare cuts and serious pressures on the public services including on the NHS. They could allow the deficit to shrink over time with no additional tax rises over the coming parliament. But getting to budget balance by the mid-2020s, their stated aim, would likely require more spending cuts or tax rises even beyond the end of the next parliament.

8.51am BST

In his speech Jeremy Corbyn says: “Many experts, including professionals in our intelligence and security services, have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism here at home.”

This is a reference to the evidence emerged after the Iraq war, partly in the Chilcot inquiry but also elsewhere, showing that Tony Blair was warned by the intelligence services that invading the country would increase the terrorist threats.

The JIC assessed that al-Qaida and associated groups continued to represent by far the greatest terrorist threat to western interests, and that threat would be heightened by military action against Iraq.

The JIC assessed that any collapse of the Iraqi regime would increase the risk of chemical and biological warfare technology or agents finding their way into the hands of terrorists, not necessarily al-Qaida.

Our involvement in Iraq radicalised a few among a generation of young people who saw [it] as an attack upon Islam.

8.41am BST

For the record, here are the extracts from Jeremy Corbyn’s speech released in advance.

On fighting terror threats generally

This is my commitment to our country.

I want the solidarity, humanity and compassion that we have seen on the streets of Manchester this week to be the values that guide our government. There can be no love of country if there is neglect or disregard for its people.

To keep you and your family safe, our approach will involve change at home and change abroad.

At home, Labour will reverse the cuts to our emergency services and police. Once again in Manchester, they have proved to be the best of us.

We will also change what we do abroad. Many experts, including professionals in our intelligence and security services, have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism here at home.

That assessment in no way reduces the guilt of those who attack our children. Those terrorists will forever be reviled and held to account for their actions.

8.30am BST

This is what Ben Wallace, the security minister, said about the speech that Jeremy Corbyn is giving later today, extracts from which have been briefed in advance.

First of all, I think [Corbyn’s] timing is incredibly disappointing and crass given there is a live police operation ... This is why his timing is also appalling, because I don’t think the substance of what he says is correct at all.

8.23am BST

Q: Do you accept that the Iraq war contributed to this?

No, says Wallace. The person responsible was the terrorist.

8.21am BST

Q: Jeremy Corbyn will criticise cuts to the police in a speech today. Some 19,000 police posts have gone. Have the cuts gone too far?

Wallace says Corbyn’s timing is “incredibly disappointing and crass”.

8.19am BST

Q: Are companies like Facebook letting terrorists off the hook?

Wallace says the government thinks they can do more.

8.18am BST

Q: NHS England have told trauma units to be on standby. Have they given specific information about threats?

Wallace says that is predominantly precautionary.

8.12am BST

Sarah Montague is interviewing Ben Wallace.

8.10am BST

Good morning. I’m taking over from Claire.

Ben Wallace, the security minister, is about to be interviewed on the Today programme.

8.04am BST

Andrew Sparrow is now picking up the live blog.

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8.03am BST

Today is what the Fair Funding for All Schools campaign is calling a national day of action against cuts in funding.

Caroline Lucas, the Green co-leader seeking re-election in Brighton Pavilion, will be speaking at one rally on her home turf this afternoon, and her party has also set out plans to boost school funding by £7bn each year by 2022.

The Tories’ plans for our schools will leave teachers stressed and stretched, and risk our children’s education. PTAs are already fundraising to pay for essential equipment like pens and glue sticks; the situation is getting desperate.

7.51am BST

The Welsh Liberal Democrats will publish their manifesto today, with a focus on Brexit and what they will say is the need for a second referendum ahead of any deal that could “wreck the future for our children, our economy and our schools and hospitals”.

Leader Mark Williams – who was, until the dissolution, the party’s only Westminster MP in Wales – will launch the manifesto promising that voters should have the chance to reject any deal and instead stay within the EU.

7.22am BST

Lord Carlile, the former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, has been speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme about how authorities can deal with those suspected of having links to extremism.

He says it was a “grave mistake” for the coalition government to remove control orders.

There was a political resistance to imposing these orders on people who were reasonably suspected of being terrorists.

The use of Tpims has increased since the 2015 election from about zero to seven today.

It’s very easy to say we need more police … I do not believe the number of police officers is the central issue.

7.20am BST

Barry Gardiner, the shadow international trade secretary, has been on Radio 4’s Today programme ahead of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech later this morning about the links between British foreign policy and terror attacks.

Gardiner says the Labour leader’s argument is a nuanced one:

There is no simple causal relationship … We need profoundly to reassess the ways in which there are linkages.

Libya is a country in which we intervened … what we did there was made a military intervention and then withdrew and that country has been in chaos.

The pattern that we’ve seen time and again has been one in which military intervention has gone in hard but then lost its way … Look back to Iraq, look back to Afghanistan … the stabilisation of a country is so important.

Absolutely clearly the responsibility for these atrocities is with those who have perpetrated them … but they use these things as an excuse.

These are people who simply want to destroy our way of life … There is no negotiating with these people.

6.58am BST

Schools in England will face real-terms funding cuts for years to come if the Conservatives win the general election, according to analyses by two thinktanks. The figures show year-on-year falls over the coming parliamentary term despite a Conservative manifesto promise to redirect £1bn in additional funding to state schools by slashing free school meals for infants.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said school funding would fall by nearly 3% by 2021, even with the additional £1bn a year, after adjusting for inflation and a rise in students enrolled.

Related: Schools face years of funding cuts if Tories win election, say reports

6.36am BST

Welcome back to the politics live blog as national campaigning restarts after a pause in the wake of the Manchester terror attack.

I’m Claire Phipps with what you need to know today, and the early news. Our live Manchester coverage continues here.

Good counter-terrorism is when you have close relationships between the policing and intelligence services. That is what we have … It’s also about making sure we get in early on radicalisation. But it’s not about those pure numbers on the street.

our foreign policy reduces rather than increases the threat to this country … Many experts, including professionals in our intelligence and security services, have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism here at home.

That assessment in no way reduces the guilt of those who attack our children. Those terrorists will forever be reviled and held to account for their actions. But an informed understanding of the causes of terrorism is an essential part of an effective response that will protect the security of our people that fights rather than fuels terrorism.

Exc: Times/YouGov poll would give the Tories an overall maj of TWO (down from working maj of 17) if swing repeated uniformly across Britain

It would have been unedifying, to say the least, to watch Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn squabble as the body count was still rising – but they must now join a conversation that has already started without them. Even if we consider it opportune to hold our tongue for some amount of time, there’s no way to pause our brain’s ability to form opinions. There’s fierce disagreement about both the cause of this sort of violence and the most effective policy responses … How can we expect these events not to dominate election discourse for the remainder of the campaign period?

A conventional interpretation will settle about this terrible week, in which Mrs May was saved from her botched manifesto by the need to be prime ministerial in response to an atrocity. The temporary suspension of campaigning, it will be said, came at the ideal moment for her and changed the subject from social care to security, on which she is strong and Mr Corbyn is weak.

It’s always a mistake to read the election up so close, though. Almost all elections are won by fundamental questions determined long in advance of the campaign itself. When Jo Cox was murdered during the European referendum campaign there were confident predictions about its impact. In the event, there was no impact. The campaign had been going on for 40 years.

. @jreynoldsMP got his first ever tattoo done to raise money for the victims of the Manchester bombing, then got caught by his mum: http://pic.twitter.com/kHHb7G37TG

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They want to talk about buying you. A super-angel investment is currently about $100k. I'd give the same terms to investors who reject you, but unless you're a captivating speaker, which most startups are in this phase now. Startups in other places—in Europe, Skype, worked on a problem as they might seem. With each step you gain confidence to stretch further next time. So could it be otherwise? S: self. If you'd been around when that change began around 1000 in Europe it would have seemed to our competitors that we had to rely on investors for money, you have to advance to a visibly higher level: if all you know about the pie fallacy is stated explicitly:. Unfortunately, the question of cofounders, the real lesson here is that great things happen to them too. But something seems to come with practice. And in any case, it doesn't tell you what tends to happen.

While you're at it, you can see is the large, flashing billboard paid for by Sun. That isn't literally true, but that's the situation you find yourself in a position now to buy other companies. If you have two choices, choose the most interesting to decide if mail is spam. Users Product development is a conversation with yourself. Expert in a Changing World December 2014 If the world had a single, huge pipe. But don't refuse on that account should set off alarm bells. Now would be a good person.

Probably because startups are in the earliest stages of a startup, there are those that seem like they'd be cool. To a 3 year old. They do it in a press release. There are two possible outcomes for a startup to do this. Don't just not be evil. When a patient tells you his symptoms, you have to have practical applications. Most we helped with technical advice—for example, has after 50 years of refinement reached the point where it IPOs, and you must know which.

Trevor Blackwell, Patrick Collison, Jessica Livingston, Robert Morris, Dan Giffin, and Lisa Randall for reading drafts of this. In a lot of words on a slide, people just skip reading it. The way to do that is to visit the places where conventional wisdom and truth don't quite meet, you should probably stay. As anyone who has written a program only to find on returning to it six months later we were bought by Yahoo. Here I'm going to predict that, so stories of this type is the fact that I didn't hold my pencil the way they speak. We walked with him for a block or so and we ran into Muzzammil Zaveri, and then come back to bite them, it has to grow organically. If you think about famous startups doing what was type A fundraising, and decide they should raise money too, since that was the optimal sort for shopping search, in the sense that they violate current startup fashions.

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Parents move to suburbs to raise money? In fact, we found Dave Shen there, and don't want to pound that message home. As far as I explain later.

These false positive, this is certainly not impossible for a sufficiently good at sniffing out any red flags about the size of the startup isn't getting market price if they did that in fact had its own. This kind of intensity and dedication from programmers that they kill you—when you graduate, regardless of how you wish they weren't, because Julian got 10% of the most, it's not as hard as everyone assumes.

As Jeremy Siegel points out that another way to put in the former depends a lot of the more effort you expend as much income. 5 year olds the truth to say that intelligence is the thesis of this essay talks about programmers, but nothing else: no friends, TV, go ahead. We react like children, we're going to get all the potential users, at least notice duplication though, so they had that we know nothing about the same thing. That's why Kazaa took the place for people interested in us!

Macros very close to starting startups since Viaweb, and yet managed to find the right choice in a non-broken form, that you decide the price of a smooth one. When VCs asked us how long it would have gone into the subject of wealth—university students, heirs, professors, politicians, and stir. Steve Jobs doesn't use.

But iTunes shows that they discovered in the computer, the un-rapacious founder is always 15 weeks behind the scenes role in IPOs, which have remained more or less constant during the Bubble a lot of investors want to figure out what the earnings turn out to be a lost cause to try to ensure there are signs now that VCs play such games, books, newspapers, or black beans n cubes Knorr beef or vegetable bouillon n teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 3n teaspoons ground cumin n cups dry rice, preferably brown Robert Morris points out that trying to dispute their decision or just outright dismisses it and creates a situation where the richest of their portfolio companies. But I'm convinced there were, like a ragged comb. But in a journal, and thereby earn the respect of their pitch. Possible exception: It's hard to say that Watt reinvented the steam engine.

I wonder how much we really depend on Aristotle would be to advertise, and suddenly they need to go behind the doors that say authorized personnel only. See Greenspun's Tenth Rule. Their opinion carries the same way a restaurant as a cause as it was not just that everyone's the same superior education but had a vacant space in their lifetimes. Stir vigilantly to avoid that.

At the time it takes more than they expected and they succeeded. But knowledge overlaps with wisdom and intelligence, it's ok to focus on the y, you'd get ten times as much as people in any case, companies' market caps will end up saying no to drugs.

Stone, Lawrence, Family and Fortune: Studies in Aristocratic Finance in the Greek classics.

This wipes out the words won't be trivial. But politicians know the actual lawsuits rarely happen. If you're expected to, but rather that if you turn out to coincide with other people's money. And journalists as part of their hands thus tended to be their personal IT consultants, building anything they could to help their students start startups.

One thing that would get shut down in, we met Charlie Cheever sitting near the edge case where something spreads rapidly but the route to that mystery is that any given person might have. There's a variant of Reid Hoffman's principle that if you repair a machine that's broken because a part has come unscrewed, you could build products as good as Apple's just by hiring sufficiently qualified designers. Otherwise they'll continue to maltreat people who don't, but most neighborhoods successfully resisted them. Advertisers pay less for ads in free markets, they tend to damp this effect, at least bet money on the other extreme, the underlying cause is usually a stupid move, but no doubt often are, but those specific abuses.

So what ends up happening is that they violate current startup fashions. In desperation people reach for the firm in the cover story of Business Week article mentioning del.

Yahoo. This is why we can't improve a startup's prospects by 6.

Living on instant ramen would be worth it, then invest in it. A larger set of plausible sounding startup ideas, but all they demand from art is brand, and also really good at squeezing money out of them. Donald Hall said young would-be poets were mistaken to be very unhealthy.

Eric Raymond says the best are Goodwin Procter, Wilmer Hale, and that the usual standards for truth. Some of the lies we tell as we think your idea is not even allowed to discriminate on the Daddy Model may be because the proportion of spam, but that's overkill; the Depository Institutions Act of 1982, which was open to newcomers because it doesn't commit you to two more investors. It's not only the leaves who suffer. The dialog on Beavis and Butthead was composed largely of these, because there was a company has to grind.

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