#pinkertons

[racefortheironthrone]

Can I ask why the Pinkerton agents get such a bad rap online? All I know from them comes from the Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear, where they help take down a gang of extorsionist coal miners.

So the Valley of Fear concerns a real-life incident that helped to shape the Pinkertons' reputation: their destruction of the Molly Maguires in the coalfields of Pennsylvania. An early trade union of miners of mostly Irish extraction, the leadership of the Molly Maguires were accused of murder, arson, kidnapping, and a whole host of other crimes by undercover Pinkerton agents who had infiltrated their ranks on behalf of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, who the Molly Maguires were fighting over wages, hours, and working conditions. Dozens were sent to jail for long stretches of time, and ten men were ultimately hanged as a result of Pinkerton testimony.

The fact that the evidence against the Maguires largely stemmed from undercover informants paid by management to disrupt and destroy their organization and other suspect sources of evidence like jaihouse snitches, and that the prosecutions against the Maguires were personally carried out by the CEO of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad in the midst of labor conflict over who ran the coalfields, has led a lot of labor historians to conclude that the Molly Maguires were stitched up in the courts and that the Pinkertons committed wholesale perjury, acted as agents provocateur to provoke the crimes they then testified to, and caused the judicial murder of ten men.

That was just the start of their long and inglorious history of being the favorite goons of anti-union robber barons: the gun thugs who were outfought at Homestead were Pinkertons, as were the private armies who fought for capital during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 who had to be once again bailed out by the National Guard. Likewise, their foray into bearing false witness continued with the manufactured confession that named UMW leader Big Bill Haywood as the man who arranged for the assassination of Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho.

So yeah, the Pinkertons have earned every last drop of their evil reputation. There is blood on their hands.

[tumblhurgoyf]

#NoMagicMay

I watched the Professor chatting with someone else about the Pinkerton thing.

One thing they expressed was that there was no way to act in an immediate way that influences sales number to send a message to Wizards. Like with the DnD stuff recently people could cancel DnDBeyond to send a message and that did something.

I think Magic players do have a medium to send a message. The medium is online play. We should blanket boycott all Magic apps, especially MODO and especially Arena for at least 30 days. They can't take back what has happened but we can send a message that they will feel. I think we should also throw FNM and all physical sales including the secondary market in as well, but digital play is big and more immediate.

This is unacceptable though I don't expect players to stay away forever. A month long boycott for the entirety of May would send a strong message and make them reconsider how they handle future leaks. Backed up with plenty of emails and public messages to say this is why it's happening.

#NoMagicMay

If you agree and want Wizards to know it then I humbly suggest you spread this. Encourage your friends. Encourage content creators. Reach out to big Magic influencer and let them know you're participating in #NoMagicMay and would like them to join.

[leidensygdom]

(From https://www.polygon.com/23695923/mtg-aftermath-pinkerton-raid-leaked-cards )

Love the corporate speak WOTC tried to pull up to reframe the whole "we send the literal Pinkertons (thugs-for-hire known for their violence) to some guy's home to intimidate him, his wife, and take several grand worth of goods without a warranty."

Don't let WOTC try to embellish what actually happened there. It's not just a private investigator (to start with, several people got sent to the guy's home), it is fucking Pinkertons, who are known strike-breakers with a very violent past, who have murdered people, which are so goddamn infamous there is literally a law that forbids the government from employing them.

Over fucking cardboard. Which the guy had got because the provider confused "March of the Machine" and "March of the Machine: Aftermath" when sending him the stuff.

There is currently a few people who are investigating what happened, and I'll try to keep updating as more information comes out.

[gremlin-boah]

DUTCH! MANGO AGENT MILTON AND ROSS

A very serious and most definitely professional

[cowboys-tshot]

if i see one more person go "🤓uh ackhtually micah was the good guy because he was reporting criminals to the authorities" im going to lose my mind

did yall just forget about how he shot up an entire goddamn town because he wanted his guns?? orphaned a child because some guy he used to know was going to let him hang?? how he was INCREDIBLY racist?? was overall creepy towards women??

micah may have been doing the right thing in the eyes of the law by snitching, but he was still an awful fucking person!!

and the same goes for agent milton, he may have been a detective/cop trying to bring justice to criminals but people seem to be forgetting that the pinkertons are literally known for how shitty they are in REAL LIFE—agent milton unloaded a goddamn GATLING GUN at a building that he fucking KNEW had a four year old boy in it, tortured a man to death (strauss), kidnapped a woman whose biggest crimes were petty theft and being in a gang (abigail)....how do people look at all of that and go 'well he was just trying to do his job'??? its insane to me

[spiderman-iamspiderman]

rdr2 oc giggles and flies away

i havent drawn in like.. .. . 3 or more months.. . i hope this is good.. .

lore below the cut

Mentions of racism n stuff like that, hes persian in 1887 - 1899 america

He first arrived at America with his mother, Alizeh Abbas, when he was 12. They were homeless for awhile, before his mother was taken away for stealing food so she could feed herself and him because no one was allowing a non-white woman to work for them.

They had to flee Persia due to the goverment talking about a war that was supposed to take place in all towns around them. His father, Iraj Abbas, was drafted and forced into training for the war. He died when he had stepped on a pre-maturely placed landmine in a field where the war was supposed to take place. Taken out by his own men.

The war had never happened, fortunately. But Unfortunately, Caspian's mother had been beaten to death after being brought to a prison for stealing, so he couldn't return to Persia on his own. Caspian doesn't know this.

Caspian lived on the street for another 2 years. During this time, he was attacked by a dog which caused the two scars on his jawline. And a racoon which had clawed his hand open, luckily, he didn't contract rabies. And grew a harsh bruising around his neck, when he was meant to be hanged for stealing -- though it soon healed and faded. The hanging was cut into by a white woman who said she'd "teach the boy some manners" by making him work on her ranch. Somehow, this worked.

Then, he was taken by the woman so he could work on her ranch. He worked there for year, being paid unequally and being repromanded and discriminated by the middle-aged, white ranch hands. He left when these became physical and he had gained that gash under his eye after someone booted him in the face with a steel-toed boot.

He took a dark-brown Turkoman whom he named Shirin, then left with the supplies and belongings he had taken in the night. No one really noticed, nor really cared. Infact, he began a running joke in the ranch.

He lived in the wild for a while, camping on a cliff that hung over a small forest which was close to the road that passed by, a field which herds of bison would pass by on -- or sometimes cut through the small forest below him as a shortcut, Caspian always enjoyed watching them pass by -- and a small lake down the hill behind him where he'd fish or hunt for drinking/swimming animals.

One day, that forest below him caught fire. It was going to spread up to the sides of the hill, close to his campsite, so he was in a rush to begin packing all of his stuff onto Shirin and taking off. Then he heard a small, pained bellow below him. He peeked over and saw a baby bison yelling next to it's deceased mother who had came to her burn wounds and left behind by the herd.

Caspian saw some of himself in that baby bison, so he went down with Shirin to run into the flames to escape with the babe. He had left Shirin abit away from the fire, incase she got hurt going in with him. He grabbed a rope and some food before covering his face with his scarf and running into the flames. He came out with a scared, panicked bison whom he quickly calmed down and left with.

He guided the bison to another field where other bison herds would pass by, he decided he was going to wait until another herd passed by to graze to see if they would accept this new babe. He named the baby Bijan, just so he wouldn't have to keep calling it 'baby' or 'bison'. He set up camp on the very edge of the field, letting Shirin and the baby Bijan roam throughout the field to graze and explore.

Soon, a herd came through to graze then continue. Bijan ran right up to them as they all began to sniff and explore the new babe. Everything was going well, until Bijan spun around and ran all the way back to Caspian. Who had unintentionally became Bijan's new mother.

Caspian was done as he had to wait for the herd to continue travelling across to see if Bijan would follow. And he didn't. So now Caspian was stuck with a baby bison, which he had no idea on how to take care of. This also gave him weird looks the next time he went into a nearby town for food and horse supplies -- maybe this would work on Bijan -- and had a small, growing bison run in behind him and sniff around everyone who was still enoughnto let it happen.

Due to Bijan not letting up on his 'mother', even if he had now grown up alot, a Pinkerton had noticed Caspian and saw a weapon within the bison. So he took Caspian aside to an abandoned warehouse turned agency lounge and offered a job.

The man in charge offered Caspian money if he were to train Bijan to become a weapon. And Caspian just couldn't do it. But he also didn't want to risk his and Bijan's life if he said no, and also leave Shirin with these dickheads. So he changed the deal, he would work for the Pinkertons if someone else would train Bijan. And they agreed on a short, firm handshake.

So now Caspian spent four years as a Pinkerton, chasing outlaws down or being bait to lure rather cruel outlaws to come and attempt to kidnap him. Four years of dealing with racist remarks as Bijan was turned into a weapon in a nearby barn.

During this time, when there were no outlaws to chase or be kidnapped by, he bought himself a tar. A Persian tar. He knew it was made in Persia, by a Persian, delievered by Persia. He had no conformation, but he knew it.

He wanted to teach himself how to sing and play, he remembers his dad trying to teach him but he just couldn't. It was too difficult for him. So as a side job, he'd perform and sing for some money. More money than any ranch or any Pinkerton could ever pay him. Apparently, bypassers liked a difference in music from time to time.

He then decided that this performing job was way better than constantly putting his life in danger for some poor, weasly money. So he quit. And of course it wasn't taken well, he was immediately ran out by being shot at by a multitude of different Pinkertons.

He had left Bijan behind, taken Shirin in the rush away from the warehouse. So he stuck close to break Bijan out of the stables he was being trained in. That bison didn't deserve to become a weapon, he wasn't young anymore, but he still had along life to grow. He was around 6, and still had around 15 years of life left. He just couldn't spend that time becoming a weapon for the knobheads known as the Pinkertons.

So, one night, the perfect night, he went back. Snuck past the guards and silently killing the stable hand. He never knew he had it in him. But once Bijan noticed him, and began to bellow and grunt for his father, he knew he had to get out of there with the bison as fast as possible. He could hear the nearby guards walking over in confusion on why the bison was being so god damn loud. He could hear as they began to slide open the barn door, which Caspian had closed to buy him some time to get the bison out to where he had left Shirin, near a closeby river to the right of the town.

He hopped on Bijan, which he had never done before, and ran off ontop of him. He bust through the now open stable door, immediately being shot at. One of the bullets had shot him in the shoulder, but in retaliation he pulled off his caliber rifle from his shoulder, turned around and shot two of the Pinkertons dead. This, would cost Caspian a wanted poster for murder and mount thievery on a poster board outside the town's sheriff office.

He rode and rode to where Shirin was, then to a different closeby town where he was allowed into a doctor's office. The doctor was black and during the time he was digging the bullet out of Caspian's shoulder, told the story of his own discrimination for simply being a black doctor. Once Caspian had been dealt with, he paid the doctor more than he should've. He knew the doctor needed it just like Caspian had needed all those days ago.

He left knowing others were living in the same life as he was, just with different shoes.

Caspian knew he was no longer safe in the east, so he ran west. Soon finding himself in New Hanover. He thrived abit in Valentine, the people there -- like the town people in the east -- enjoyed a difference in music from time to time, so he was paid handsomely for having a good few Persian songs up his sleeve, which he knows by heart in the sound of his older sister's and mother's voices, and a pet- son bison.

He then moved down the Lemoyne, setting up camp on the small islands under Saint Denis and right near to Caliga Hall. He went round Saint Denis and Rhodes, earning money by singing songs with a bison by his side -- and a mostly ignored by the people Turkoman, poor Shirin she thankfully gains lots of love by her father, Caspian.

He learnt of other outlaw gangs, like the Van Der Linde gang and the O'Driscolls. He's acouple sights of them, whether it be witnessing Arthur Morgan being robbed by abunch of Saint Denis kids or O'Driscolls guarding roads and bridges up near Valentine. But that's about it. Never anything more.

He's happy with this life, even if he had unintentionally became an outlaw.

He gained a small burn scar on his jawline when he had gotten kidnapped and had a torch held up to his face by scalp hunters. And he had gotten his throat slit by those same hunters, not enough to kill him but enough to temporarily damage his vocal chords ( think Allison from umbrella academy )

He escaped the scalp hunters barely conscious, killing one or two of them before running to the Saint Denis before his crimes where given to the lawmen. He was helped and sent back.

He deemed the small island he was staying dangerous but still hidden enough, but he went with his gut. It told him he wasn't only putting himself in danger, but also Bijan and Shirin. So he ran away and took camp on the shore, way under Braithwaite Manor.

This has been his home for awhile, he normally travels all the way past the manor to Rhodes. He thinks Saint Denis is too dangerous for him to return to for now. His bounty has been increased and he's had alot more run ins with the Van Der Lindes and O'Driscolls now, some being more interactive than others.

i love him and bijan and shirin and their little different species, found family dynamic

giggles and flies back

[zwoelffarben]

[shiversdownyourspleen]

Having just heard that WOTC sent the goddamn Pinkertons after someone for leaking some content, I'm very happy to announce that I'll probably be sticking with Pathfinder for the foreseeable future :D

Curse of Strahd in Pathfinder anyone?

[kittycatherder]

I got distracted but I wanted to write about the whole wotc hiring the fucking pinkertons to harass a guy for some mtg cards he accidently got weeks early.

like just wanted to highlight some things that only further rile me up about this with added bolding from me.

According to Cannon, the Pinkerton agents said that they “didn’t want to call me before showing up because they didn’t want me to have time to react and get rid of the cards.” Additionally, Cannon says he had no interaction with Wizards of the Coast before the incident on Saturday morning. Cannon was given a number to call, and he did so while the Pinkertons were in his home. When he reached a Wizards of the Coast employee they said that they had attempted to call him on Friday, but because it was via an unlisted number, Cannon did not pick up. Cannon says the Wizards of the Coast employee did not leave a voicemail or send an email, but when they finally talked on the phone, they asked which Magic: The Gathering cards he would like. Wizards said in a comment that “we are replacing all of the unreleased product with the product that he intended to purchase.”

Like they could've contacted him before harassing him and his wife but they choose not to. They called from an unlisted number to ask about this the day before without leaving a voicemail much less an email

I'm still reading thru this but they really decided to take the most potentially violent course of action as a show of force and probably to assure their investors that they're willing to do anything in the name of protecting their profits .

[fannishstuff]

(Not technically a law firm, but it's funnier this way)

Links to the rest under the cut.

Pt 1:

https://www.tumblr.com/ecruvianfancontent/747979077335531520/i-feel-like-theyd-have-differing-cultural

Pt 2:

https://www.tumblr.com/ecruvianfancontent/748033370738622464/fandoms-are-cool

Pt 3:

https://www.tumblr.com/ecruvianfancontent/748042407717797888/fandoms-are-cool

Pt 4:

https://www.tumblr.com/ecruvianfancontent/748054724742365184/part-4-links-to-the-rest-under-the-cut-pt

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[leidensygdom]

Also, seemingly the Pinkertons that went to the leaker's home actually had tried to reach them while they were out of home.

So, instead, these guys harassed their neighbours (we're talking elderly ladies) in an attempt to get information on where the leaker was. He also mentions that they didn't get any call or e-mail (despite WOTC claiming they did try).

You know, perhaps trying to intimidate elderly ladies over the location of a guy who got sent the wrong magic set is a bit too much, but hey. WOTC surely appreciates their customers.

[the-milf-wizard]

WHERE IS THE COAST

i want to FIGHT these wizards

the pinkertons cannot stop me

[headdunk]

minions lore fans @ me

[a-roguish-gambit]

So the FBI isn't really a thing quite yet or is barely a thing and is all together not very functioning, when mutants get outed and stuff I think one of the major groups that'll get contracted to mess with them is the pinkertons.

And the dumbest shit is that there's probably a handful of mutants among pinkertons cuz that's kind of how they function they just hired whoever was willing to stab their own kind of the back, cause those people made for the best spies.