#lathi

[cloudrifto]

made this gmod render back in december 2020, and this was inspired by weird genius' song, "lathi", digital devil story megami tensei, persona 4 golden, and the mythology of izanagi & izanami.

[wally-b-feed]

Anthony Fineran (B 1981)

[nochoirliketheirsong]

Song #115

With some friends I'm doing a little 'song contest', where someone shares a playlist of 15 songs from 15 different countries. That's where I found this song, representing Indonesia. It was my '12 points' of the edition, I'm not sure what it is exactly but something in it is just very satisfying to me!

[eidolonlathi]

A Look at the Dynamics between the Sanguinarch and Lettou

I’ll never get over the irony how a Vampire who detests non-Sarkaz and is so obsessed with the purity of Sarkaz bIood is shown to have the most stable bond throughout the Londinium arc with a Liberi, excuse me, with an outbIood.

They’re witnessing from afar how Allerdale’s manor is burning down, it’s the first scene they share together, and it’s already setting the tone for all of their future interactions. Lettou makes a tentative attempt to talk to the Sanguinarch – about what we’ll never know – just to immediately get ordered to stop talking because the Sanguinarch wants to enjoy the view in silence. He is picking up though that Lettou isn’t agreeing fully with methods having become more drastic and does two things: First he suggests (orders) that Lettou stops worrying and learns to enjoy the destruction in front of him while calling Lettou his friend. And second he offers him the slightest bit of justification of his own actions by claiming that witnessing the evaporation of the traitor bIood in front of them is the Sanguinarch’s responsibility, implying that he is driven by more than pure bIoodIust in this moment. Lettou can’t do much more in this moment than to agree that they share a common goal, but at the same time he does a bit more than that: He states that cooperating with the Sanguinarch’s methods is his duty, hence repeating the sentiment that both of their actions are driven by circumstances that go beyond personal motivation.

Those two finding this point of agreement is no coincidence. At their core they both are people who have no higher priority than fulfilling the things they view as their duty. With Lettou no one notices because he immediately gets dismissed as a traitor, and with the Sanguinarch one doesn’t because he’s so cruel and abrasive that it’s hard to notice any nuance beyond that.

You keep reading and see that the state in Londinium has now declined to a degree that now even the nobility who was kept safe in their bubble have become targets. The artillery canons Manfred uses spread terror from afar, the destruction the Sanguinarch and Lettou cause tends to be one committed from up close. We see the Sanguinarch relying on Lettou’s help when disposing of a noble who has become a nuisance and like in the scene with Allerdale’s manor getting destroyed carnage and enjoyment blur together. Once the noble is dealt with, the Sanguinarch suggests (orders) that he and Lettou follow the invitation of the now disposed of noble to sample his private wine reserve. As much as the Sanguinarch claims to despise outbloods, Lettou’s presence clearly doesn’t ruin his appetite, interesting.

You’ll continue reading and see that a destruction that is already spreading is one difficult to contain and control. Lettou tentatively implies to the Sagnuinarch that it might have been a measure too drastic that he has fed a nobleman’s wife and child to his Vampires. Or at least he tries to address the point. The Sanguinarch doesn’t even let him finish his sentence and uses his bIood arts to cut off Lettou’s ability to breathe. Lettou orders his men to stand back when they are about to defend him in this moment – thus ensuring they won’t end up as a guaranteed collateral damage against a Vampire they have no chance against – rather accepting to face his end alone. But that never arrives. The Sanguinarch lets him live.

The moment makes you question why the Sanguinarch is still keeping Lettou around at this point, and he just answers that himself. He calls Lettou his pet Falcon and claims that when other people wonder why he’s keeping around and spoiling a pet that occasionally pecks his finger, that he’s doing it because the personality and intelligence of his pet bird makes the effort still worth it.

At this point it really becomes striking how fear and control have become a constant element of their interactions. But at the same time this appears to be driven more by purpose than mere malice. The Sanguinarch will physically hurt Lettou and compare him to a pet bird when feeling disappointed with him, but in the same moment he will admit that he keeps him around because he values his personality and intelligence. If you continue to look at their interactions you'll notice how there is an ongoing theme how the Sanguinarch won’t hesitate to be crueI to Lettou – usually to ‘teach’ him to do better – but at the same time it is Lettou who is the one person he cares to keep around himself. Keeping a non-Sarkaz close apparently doesn’t count as long as he calls him his pet. Endlessly fascinated by the cope he puts in place here.

Because, you know, the Falcon thing goes both ways. On the first look it just looks like yet another way to humiliate Lettou. On closer look, the Sanguinarch just implied that he had been confronted with people who were wondering why he keeps that outblood this close. Making a point how he only keeps him around as a ‘pet’ sort of solves his problem and also protects Lettou from other Sarkaz assuming that the Sanguinarch cares. And with the tense and distrustful atmosphere around the Sarkaz Royal Court you can see how that would be a point he would like to make.

Team Amiya targets the command tower of the Defense Forces and this multilayered dynamic only extends itself. By this point Lettou has lost almost all sense of self-preservation and doesn’t bother to dodge the attacks directed at him. Partially he refuses to leave the tower because he can’t bring it over himself to abandon his men who are still fighting, partially he feels an end by the hands of the Sarkaz has become unavoidable, so why resist? Given this insight it’s a sad irony that the very first the Sanguinarch does when arriving on the tower is to put a shield of bIood between Lettou and Ascalon, protecting him from her attack. He immediately reprimands Lettou for being foolish enough to not dodge an opponent he knows to be stronger than him and puts his ‘blessing’ on the soldiers Lettou feels responsible for, disposing of the one thing that prevented Lettou to think of his own wellbeing first. But you know… For all the tantrum the Sanguinarch is throwing and for all the threats he is making towards Lettou, it’s again one of those odd situations where the words spoken don’t quite reflect the actions that were taken. Like, buddy, if Lettou is really that disposable in your eyes then why go through the effort of shielding him from Team Amiya at all? Why instead not instantly go for the crown you’re so set on destroying when surprise still would have been on your side, hmm? I guess danger forcing one to make quick decisions reveals some of one’s priorities after all.

Episode twelve shows little of those two interacting but the one instance that does is the more interesting because the scene involves Damazti. He treats it as complete routine to tell Lettou that he’d better hurry back to the Sanguinarch because "he had just opened a new bottle of wine, waiting for you, and we have already grown tired of his stories of yesteryear. You are a much better listener than we are". Stranger domestic habits have developed, I guess. It’s sort of telling though how Damazti views Lettou as his instant ticket out of having to participate in a conversation he finds boring, viewing the Sanguinarch and Lettou as some sort of item.

If Damazti noticed this you can be certain that Theresis did as well. I always found the timing a bit too convenient that the Defense Forces got disarmed around the same time Theresis was about to send the Sanguinarch to perform the ritual at Brentwood. One has to ask if Theresis had kept the defense at Brentwood this suspiciously low because he had hoped to get rid of the Sanguinarch. It looks as if from Theresis view it was most convenient to get rid of both annoyances at the same time. I wonder if he had counted on the Sanguinarch disposing of Lettou earlier and got caught by surprise when that never happened.

With the Defense Forces disarmed at the end of Episode 13, Lettou sees little hope for anything. It gets implied that he never really believed Theresis would hand back the Gaulish platforms and only hoped that his actions would create an opening for his compatriots in the Gaulish restoration to act. Witnessing the escalating violence in Londinim, he decides to kiII the old Vieux Vanguard he had been looking after before any of the Sarkaz can get him into their hands. And then he goes to see the Sanguinarch one last time, kiIIing himself right before his eyes.

With what we witnessed so far it comes as little surprise to see the kind of breaking point Lettou has reached, but interestingly amongst his desperation there are still elements of determination. On his way to see the Vieux Vanguard Clovisia approaches Lettou, offering him to join her side and safe himself through it. Not only does he decline, he basically calls Clovisia a ruthless opportunist who is using the chaos for her own goals. It's clear he neither trusts her nor holds any respect for her. But also, given what will happen later… in rejecting her offer he’s staying loyal to the Sanguinarch even when he has already decided that he wants to leave him on his own terms. Lettou kiIIing himself in front of the Sanguinarch while calling him names was an act of spite and desperation, sure, but also one ingrained with a twisted sense of loyalty. Even when acknowledging the dismal conditions he had been in and when checking out on his own conditions, Lettou did so in a way that wouldn't inconvenience the Sanguinarch.

Clovisia’s offer had no chance to shake his decision. Lettou moved in the confinements he was in at the time, sure, but he did so while holding on to the last shred of principles and dignity he had. It was also an act that left the Sanguinarch baffled. He could imagine that Lettou would try and hurt him in the state he was in, but he hadn’t seen the possibility that Lettou would hurt himself. The Sanguinarch gets taken by surprise but can’t even admit that to himself. Instead he tells himself like ten times that Lettou was an insignificant existence and that there’s no reason to care that he died.

The Sanguinarch has been shown to have the most stable bond throughout the Londinium arc with a non-Sarkaz he called his pet, but he tells himself that he doesn’t care the Liberi just cut his own throat, even though not even five minutes ago he told Lettou he should feel honored that the Sanguinarch let him close in ways he doesn’t even with his fellow Vampires. He reminds himself that the insignificant man he wasted the last couple of years with was but a pathetic existence, so insignificant even that he will not waste a single thought more to think about this annoying person who didn’t matter. The Sanguinarch is going to stop thinking about Lettou for sure. Soon. Any moment now. Dude goes and claims he doesn’t care even though we have seen by now that this is not entirely true. Dude goes and claims he doesn’t care and sounds like the person he has to convince the most is he himself.

[vhstown]

recently found out MBE award stands for "member of the order of the british empire"

british EMPIRE...?????

[ta-matia-sou-einai-texni]

Είναι καιρός να κοιτάξω εμένα, θέλω να με βρω έχω να ζήσω δεν το ξεχνώ…

[mokio294]

I HAVE ART THAT I HAVE NOT POSTED FUCK

DRAWINGSTAR12 BELONGS TO RILEY AND THE MIXELS BRO BELONGS TO DRAWINGSTAR12 ON DEVIANTART

[theonyxranger]

checking my old ffnet alert box daily waiting for the ranma 1/2 sleeper agents to reactivate

[sodorsteam]

YOOOOO another teratoma?! This one is a twitcom! THANK YOU FRIEND, FOR BEING LIKE 'DRAW MY DUDE AS A TRAIN LIKE -YOUR- PURPLE TRAIN GUY'.

Lathy here is an eldritch beasty himself, so for him to slip into a monstrous TrainThing just made *sense*!

[nebulous-tundra]

that's right.....i guess you could say i'm literally bonkers

[rightnewshindi]

शिमला में संजौली मस्जिद को लेकर बवाल जारी, पुलिस ने हिंदू प्रदर्शनकारियों पर किया लाठी चार्ज

Shimla Sanjauli Mosque: शिमला में संजौली मस्जिद को लेकर विवाद थमने का नाम नहीं ले रहा है. धारा 163 लागू होने के बावजूद हिंदू संगठन के लोग भारी तादाद में इकट्ठा होकर प्रदर्शन कर रहे हैं. मामले की अगली सुनवाई 5 अक्टूबर को होनी है. मामले को बड़ा होता देख प्रशासन ने बुधवार सुबह से ही धारा 163 लागू कर दी. जिसके तहत पांच या उससे ज्यादा लोगों के एक साथ होने पर पाबंदी रहेगी. लेकिन हिंदू संगठनों की तरफ…

[seemabhatnagar]

Supreme Court Distinguishes Between Murder and Culpable Homicide in Man Bahadur Singh Case

The Supreme Court's judgment underscores the nuanced distinction between murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder. By applying Exception 4 of Section 300 IPC, the Court acknowledged the spontaneous and unpremeditated nature of the incident, thereby delivering a just and appropriate verdict.

Man Bahadur Singh & Ors v. The State of UP

Crl. Appeal 2209/2024

Before the Supreme Court of India

Heard by Hon'ble Mr. Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia J & Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah J

Facts of the Case:

On April 19, 1984, at around 2:00 pm, a fight broke out between children from two families over mangoes. This minor scuffle escalated when the adults got involved, leading to an altercation between the families.

During the fight, the appellants, armed with lathis (wooden sticks), attacked Vishwanath Singh, the father of one of the children involved. Vishwanath sustained severe injuries and was transported to a hospital in Gonda by bullock cart, where he was declared dead.

The postmortem report indicated five antemortem injuries on Vishwanath Singh's body, with injuries on the head being fatal:

Two lacerated wounds on the head caused skull fractures.

Additional abrasions on the forearm and leg.

Multiple eyewitnesses, including an injured witness, corroborated the sequence of events leading to Vishwanath Singh's death. Their testimony was consistent and reliable, establishing the appellants' involvement in causing the injuries that led to the death.

Legal Proceedings:

Trial Court: The III-Additional Sessions Judge, Gonda, convicted the appellants under Sections 302/147/149/323 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), sentencing them to life imprisonment.

High Court: On appeal, the High Court upheld the convictions and sentences for the surviving three appellants (Man Bahadur Singh, Bharat Singh, and Bhanu Pratap Singh).

Supreme Court's Analysis and Decision:

The Supreme Court focused on whether the case constituted murder or culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the provisions of the IPC. The key distinction lay in whether the act fell under Exception 4 of Section 300 IPC:

Exception 4 of Section 300 IPC:

"Culpable homicide is not murder if it is committed without premeditation in a sudden fight in the heat of passion upon a sudden quarrel and without the offender's having taken undue advantage or acted in a cruel or unusual manner."

Points Considered:

Lack of Premeditation: The Court noted that the incident was not pre-planned. It stemmed from a spontaneous quarrel over children fighting for mangoes.

Nature of the Fight: The altercation was a sudden fight in the heat of passion, not a calculated or deliberate act to commit murder.

Weapon Used: The weapon involved was a lathi, typically not considered inherently deadly.

Nature of Injuries: The fatal injuries were caused during the heat of the moment, without any undue advantage or cruelty on the part of the appellants.

Judgment: As such this is a case of Culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

By applying Exception 4 of Section 300 IPC, the Court acknowledged the spontaneous and unpremeditated nature of the incident, thereby delivering a just and appropriate verdict.

Seema Bhatnagar

[shearvideo]

গ্রামের মেলায় লাঠি বাড়ি খেলা 🇧🇩 গ্রাম বাংলার লাঠি বাড়ি খেলা খেলা 🇧🇩 Lath...

[doubtspirit]

George A. Romero's KNIGHTRIDERS

[newsvatika]

किसान संगठनों ने शाहाबाद में किसानों पर लाठीचार्ज की निंदा की Lathi charge on farmers

हरीश मदान,असन्ध: Lathi charge on farmers किसान संगठनों की बैठक गुरुद्वारा डेहरा साहिब में सम्पन्न हुई। किसान संगठनों ने शाहाबाद में सूरजमुखी की खरीद पर एमएसपी की मांग कर रहे किसानों पर लाठीचार्ज की कड़े शब्दों में निंदा की । बैठक में विशेष रूप से भारतीय किसान यूनियन अंबवाता के राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष बलविंदर सिंह बाजवा ने शिरकत की । राष्ट्रीय उपाध्यक्ष बलविंदर सिंह बाजवा व प्रदेश महासचिव दलविंदर सिंह…

[shehzadi]

so far, nearly 3 weeks on from the inauguration of ram mandir, indian authorities have demolished as many masjids and/or madrasas.

30.01.24 - akhoonji masjid & madrasa in delhi, also destroying a cemetery, shrine and all the students’ belongings in the process.

01.02.24 - a madrasa in maharashtra despite facing opposition from local muslims and one day before its scheduled court appeal.

08.02.24 - a masjid & madrasa in uttarakhand. this comes one day after uttarakhand became the first state to pass the uniform civil code (x, x) which aims to apply a ‘hindu code’ to all indians, infringing on the rights of dalits, adivasis, sikhs, christians, buddhists and muslims (i.e. anybody non-hindu) to practice their religion/lifestyle. muslim women protesting the demolition were lathi-charged (beaten with sticks) by police, a shoot-on-sight order was given resulting in 6 muslims killed and 300+ injured in the riots that followed, a curfew was put in place during which hindutva mobs burned down muslim homes and businesses while shouting abuse at muslims.

as always, no prior notice was given and bjp used it’s gold-standard excuse for each demolition, citing ‘illegal encroachment’.

in addition to these masjid demolitions, indian authorities bulldozed 2 neighbourhoods (ghettos, really) in the same timeframe and also without prior notice:

01.02.24 - jasola slum, which, having been around for at least 16 years, should not have been demolished without providing alternative housing, as the delhi slum policy states for slums which came up before 2015. obviously, housing hasn’t been provided.

06.02.24 - panchsheel nagar in mumbai which, having been around since 2011, entitled residents to paid rehabilitation, which has also not been given. this has left over 110 families homeless.

the demographic of both neighbourhoods, surprise surprise, is overwhelmingly muslim, buddhist and dalit.

bjp is enjoying the cover it is receiving from israel’s genocide in palestine to do whatever it wants and is getting bolder by the day. this ‘bulldozer justice’ has been happening for years, but not at such a rapid rate as it is now.