#judge danforth

[hrjafael]

What do you think is the cringiest bit of dialogue from the games?

I’ll start: Judge Danforth from MID:

“What in the Sam Heck is a bitcoin?”

[drewlyyours]

(All ao3 screenshots are from @ao3-crack)

[caelestis-cherie]

Wow my crucible hyperfixation is back 😭

yknow, when we were doing this unit last year in my english class, I had always assumed that Hale and Parris were a little bit zesty, but rewatching the movie has me absolutely sure that these two sassy old men were rawdogging it after every court session

Parris you’re such a bitch boy

[nancydrewpcpolls]

Aside from Nancy

[incorrectnancydrewquotes]

Judge Danforth: No doubt you’ll find something that tickles your fancy. Mei: The last person who tickled me lost a finger.

[freak-accident419]

i love exploring new kinks with derek on j.ai!!

[lil-oreo-crumbles]

I know I talk about Abigail Williams all the time (she’s my biggest kin I’m sorry) but let it be known to the masses that I LOVE ELIZABETH PROCTOR. She has never done anything wrong in her entire life and is so badass (in her own way) throughout the whole play. Her love for her husband despite his horrendous mistakes and bad decisions, protecting him until the end (and even feeling the need to APOLOGIZE at the end when she NEVER needed to??) and then forgiving him. Going through so much postpartum sickness, dealing with her husband’s affair, being accused of witchcraft and put in jail for months WHILE pregnant, and still being a strong, loving, woman who tells it how it is in the most gentle way possible?? God, I love her.

This is an Elizabeth Proctor appreciation post. Easily my second favorite character. She deserves so much better.

[spiralstatic29]

chyan screenshot redraw featuring a random theatre background i found online :3

[september172013]

The fact that the guy who voiced Marcelo Jimenez in the first Evil Within also voiced Judge Danforth in Midnight in Salem is still kinda jarring to me…

[unproduciblesmackdown]

when you're looking for that info about "is there a possible phil/orville romance" and get "though there isn't a, quote, romance between the two men...it's a marvelous pairing and i'm totally happy with there being homosexual overtones between the two"

[xcherryerim]

Josh hutcherson character multi verse would go something like this:

TW: Mentions of vaping.

pt.2 | pt.3 | pt.4

Josh Futturman: “You know scamming people is wrong, right?”

Derek Danforth: “Yes, but I get a fuck ton of money and, in a few years i might become the most rich man in the USA.” Derek passes his vape to Billy after he smokes a fat one.

Billy: “damn… I should join that crypto shit too.” He grabs the vape and hits it before he does a disgusted look. He prefers real cigarettes to whatever artificial shit Derek smokes.

Mike Schmidt: Maybe i should too… I really need the money.

Billy: Bikers too?

Mike: No… what are you—

Josh: Am I the only normal one here?!

Billy, Derek, and Mike look at josh up and down as they raise their eyebrows, judging his geeky appearance.

Josh: Assholes.

[stop-talking]

I love your work so much! While I wait for your updates (take your time), what other fics do you like and recommend?

Fanfic Recommendations

Okay, so, you didn't specify if you're looking for fluff or smut... or what character... So I'm just going to share All of my favorites. I'm being vulnerable here. Don't judge me.

Mike Schmidt

Cherries & Cream (18+)

"It's a modest holiday. Spent indoors, soft music on the cassette player... oh, and a collection of bad ideas snowballed into a day of sticky situations." - @sameschmidtdiffname

What's One More? (18+)

"The house is all to you and Mike, which is a strange feeling to Mike as he begins to realize how things are changing. But change isn't always a bad thing, is it?" - @sameschmidtdiffname

Josh Futturman

Spilled Drinks (18+)

(Josh is undercover as a slutty ass waiter for a mission, he eventually loses sight of the goal and begs you to fuck him while he's still wearing the lingerie.) - @xcherryerim

Solo Round (18+)

"Josh is sick of meaningless charging, but instead of asking out the pretty, new game store cashier, he decides to take matters into his own hands. again." - @futureman

Could I Pay You... Another Way? ;) (18+)

"You guys know those memes where it's like the delivery driver aggressively shutting down someone's attempt to turn the pizza delivery into some porno? Like "looks like I don't have any money..." "Why the hell did you order a pizza then?" Anyways that's so Josh but he doesn't even realize that the person is trying to fuck him he's just genuinely confused." - @ronniehutch

Good Boy (18+)

"inexperienced virgin failure josh futturman asks the reader over for some 'video games'." @joshfutturman

Derek Danforth

Tangled

"The holidays are a miserable time of year, especially when ones mother won't even talk to them to let them know she's not coming, sending Derek into a breakdown and wrapping you up in the process." - @sameschmidtdiffname

Old Money, New Money (18+)

"Her stepfather, Bruce, who only married her grieving mother so he could swindle them of their money, works with Derek Danforth, billionaire son of the President and grade-A asshole. Bruce roped her into going to a company party, where she ends up running into the man himself, Derek. She decides to just hit it, convince him to fire Bruce, and quit it. However, her plan doesn't go as intended when she finds out that Derek isn't all that he seems." - @ronniehutch

Clapton Davis

Movement of A Major (Cool Guy)

Who would've known that breaking your arm is the best thing that could've happened to you? - @ronniehutch

Billy

Smoking while you ride him (18+)

(exactly what it sounds like) - @joshhutchersonsgf

Peeta Mellark

those eyes, that mouth (slightly suggestive)

"Peeta bakes you cinnamon rolls but can’t fight the urge to feed you…" - @sleepyhutcherson

For the record I only started actually using tumblr and reading fanfics a few weeks ago. I read like every jhutch fanfic available in just a few days, so it's all kind of a blur. I might have forgotten a few I really liked... sorry!! Also I didn't include anything with an unfinished story.

P.S if a summary is in "quotations" I ripped it directly from the author, and if it's in (parenthesis) I wrote it myself because they didn't have one.

[nancydrewpcpolls]

These are some of the notable dads I could think of. Whether biological, adoptive, or a guardian all father figures count!

Happy early Father's Day to all the great dads!

[lboogie1906]

Justice Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is a judge who serves as an Associate Justice of the SCOTUS. Following the retirement of Anthony Kennedy, he became the most senior member of the Supreme Court. He succeeded Thurgood Marshall and was the second African American to serve on the Court. Among the current members of the Court, he is the longest-serving justice.

He grew up in a poor, Gullah community in Savannah and was educated at the College of the Holy Cross and Yale Law School. He was appointed an Assistant Attorney General in Missouri in 1974 and entered private practice there. He became a legislative assistant to Senator John Danforth in 1979, and he was appointed Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the Department of Education in 1981. President Ronald Reagan appointed him Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1982.

President George H. W. Bush nominated him to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 1990. He served in that role for 16 months before filling Marshall’s seat on the Supreme Court. His confirmation hearings were bitter and intensely fought, centering on an accusation that he had sexually harassed attorney Anita Hill, a subordinate at the Department of Education and the EEOC. He and his supporters asserted that Hill, as well as the witnesses on her behalf and supporters, had fabricated the allegations to prevent the appointment of another African American conservative to the Court. The Senate confirmed him by a vote of 52–48.

Supreme Court experts describe his jurisprudence as an originalist, stressing the original meaning of the US Constitution and statutes. He supported ideas of natural law before becoming a judge. He is held to be the Court’s most conservative member. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[chaotic-theatrical-weaver]

Why John Proctor is not the villain (sponsored by Kimberly Belflower, English Teacher KP, and your local Enneagram 1):

Yes, you read that correctly. I don't appreciate readings like this, even though I understand the place from which they come, because they miss the point of his arc and the play as a whole.

Now, John absolutely hurt many people, and that was inexcusable. I am not in the camp of audience members who sympathize with him without question and downplay his actions. In fact, if you read my staging posts, you'll see that some of my decisions for a production would actually make it harder to give him your sympathy. However, that is not the point of this post; the point of this post is to argue that he is not the villain.

Readings like this tend to come from a place of reaction to the audience members who sympathize with John unquestioningly, often villainizing Abigail in the process. On some level, I understand the urge to react in such a manner when Abigail's storyline reflects the harsh reality of many people in real life. Being asked to sympathize with John sits uncomfortably with them, and that makes perfect sense. You absolutely should feel uncomfortable with how he betrayed his wife and took advantage of a developing, isolated girl in the process.

What, then, makes it so that he is not the villain? Simply put, it's his arc that counteracts this. John is troubled, believes himself to be the villain, and plays into this repeatedly by continuing to hurt people. At the same time, he desires justice for the people close to him, and this desire for truth to prevail is what prompts him to confess his affair in spite of his conflicting desire to keep his reputation intact. This is a brave thing to do, not only in and of itself, but also as something he now has to prove to himself that he is not fully lost when he has it in him to tell the truth. We see this happen again when he refuses to falsely confess an allegiance with the devil, an effective refusal to live the lie that he is beyond saving.

"So what?" you're probably thinking. "Being sorry doesn't erase what he did and I don't see why he should be forgiven."

Maybe you don't think John should be forgiven, but he absolutely needs to be forgiven because he's not innocent. Does that forgiveness have to come from the people around him? Now, it's not their obligation, but he needs to at least forgive himself. John's arc is about finding the maturity and bravery to acknowledge his wrongs without letting them be defining--about recognizing that true justice and fairness allow oneself and others to possess this kind of nuance. Those aren't traits that a villain would have (and are in fact traits in which the greater-scope antagonist Danforth is lacking). Miller uses this to impart to his audience that a person's failings should not be defining and that we need to grant grace to ourselves and others instead of being so quick to judge and ruin. Thus, as much as John is his own worst enemy, he is not the villain, and it disservices everyone to read him as such.