#politics! corruption! yippee!

[freezethebeez]

What’s the public perception of humans and vampires and half vampires? How does this vary by region? Are there any diseases specific to vampires?

The public perception that humans have of vampires tends to vary from person to person.

Vampires, both half and full, are generally more accepted in modern society, although there's still a bit of discrimination against half-vampires due to the fact that some humans don't know how to perceive them (half-vampires can survive off both fully human diets, or fully vampire diets, although it is advised to have a mix of both to maintain good health).

Back in the day (medieval times and whatnot) vampires were both hunted and attacked if exposed. A human would never win a fight one-on-one with a vampire, so small human communities were formed to take down vampires. This continued into the late 1970s until it became illegal to attack vampires without a warrant (because the government saw a profit in blood banks and knew that vampires had longer lifespans than humans so they could milk more money out of them for longer! Yay corruption!).

Conservative areas are more likely to have a distaste towards vampires, whereas more liberal/democratic areas don't really mind them.

Politics aside, vampires in Catalyst are essentially an allegory for the existence of queer people, and human beliefs on them are formed as such.

As for diseases: yes, vampires can carry disease.

The disease itself does not affect them greatly. It may make their skin peel a little bit, but other than that they don't tend to feel any serious pain or other side effects.

A corpse cannot be affected by disease, it can only carry it. Vampires are technically just a bunch of walking corpses.

This makes for an interesting experience when it's pandemic season (which is every hundred years. Crazy for humans, not so crazy for vampires). Vampires are usually put under stricter regulations by the government, being forbidden from leaving their places of residence out of fear of spreading whatever disease was affecting humans at the time.

[mildarka]

I'm interested in ur reversed au, I saw ur concept art and I thought it was really cool, consider this a free yapping card to info dump about the au,

:]/-< ( < that's me sitting politely on your front porch)

YIPPEE I LOVE YAPPING :DDD

So basically the Stars + Cross (the traitorous traitor) found a way to “reset” everyone in the bad sanses to what they were like before the events of their own AUs. (Or before the story of their AU?? Like Killer and Dust are normal sans again and Horror is still how he was during the famine (so like pre-Horrortale comic but post neutral end ig??)). Nightmare on the other hand was physically separated from the apples that gave him power (the corruption is with the apples, not with lil Night) so he’s pretty much defenceless. He doesn’t remember the apple incident or anything past that.

Originally the plan was for Dream to take Nightmare in and care for him but Nightmare was very briefly left with the gang once he was reverted and he got enough information to know something was very wrong. He kinda watches the others start to revert as well before Dream whisks him away. He doesn’t spend a super long time with Dream - mostly because the weird monochrome guy with them feels so guilty every time he looks at Night - and runs once the vibes are bad enough.

He finds Killer eventually - now a pretty regular sans - and tries to make him remember when they met before or take his jacket back but Killer doesn’t have any idea what he’s talking about or who Dust and Horror are. Nightmare ends up living with Killer and his Papyrus and occasionally ends up visiting Horrortale and Dusttale to try the same thing with them.

There’s other stuff too about how the AUs work with the reverted gang and what being separated from his soul means for Nightmare but that’s less worked out lol :)

[cyanogen-miasma]

Tell me about Conifer and Peridot, they look the most interesting and seem pretty regal! ^^

Yippee! It worked!

Yes, Conifer and Peridot...where do I begin...

You're bang on with 'regal' because Peridot is a Queen! I'm not sure how familiar you are with the setting for these characters but essentially they live in a world divided into six colour groups, and Peridot used to be a Queen of the Green Sector of this planet. When she came to the throne, she was the inheritor of a world war which had been going on since before she was born - she was brought up to be incredibly ruthless and unforgiving to keep the enemy side (Red, Orange, Yellow - ie the warm side) from winning. Among her allies was the Purple Queen, Violet, who was the one to start the war in the first place. Violet had a secret goal to control her ally Sectors a lot more tightly, and Peridot was aware of this. She executed a lot of possibly corrupt officers in secret and only trusted a select few people. One of these was Conifer. A well-educated diplomat from a wealthy background, Conifer was seen as very respectable, and it was known she could not be bought. The two became friends, coming up with battle plans and keeping control of the Green Sector together. Then, Peridot was suddenly and tragically killed in battle, leaving her infant son Malachite as the new King. It had been agreed beforehand that should anything happen to Peridot, Conifer would serve as Regent until Malachite became of age to rule on his own. Conifer was a good Regent and taught Malachite about politics, but tried not to foster any parental bonds with him. As a result, Malachite would look for comfort wherever he could find it, including with Violet, who made him feel special. Over the course of his childhood, Violet moulded Malachite into a weak-willed people pleaser who would do anything she said. Conifer saw this and was worried but anything she did just seemed to push him further away. When Malachite turned 18, Conifer refused to give up her Regency as she didn't think Malachite was fit to rule. Violet framed this to Malachite as Conifer being unable to let go of power. Malachite used his sovereignty to detain Conifer, and have her publicly executed for treason.

Thanks, for the ask, I really enjoyed writing this out!

[xaytheloser]

i did the thing

i made the blog for holly and snappy

YIPPEE!!! YAY YIPPEE!!!

*politely waits for you to make the corrupted Elder Faerie blog* /silly /nf ofc

[perpetually-sad-but-its-fine]

chicago fire 11x11

11x11

make a wish babbyyyyy

i wish for the people in this episode to be happy

i wish for my babies to live

and just

not be traumatized

that's all

oh goodie

this recap

we already love it

so much trauma

and pain

there are only two things in this recap

and im already scared

aw

the herrmann household

we love this start

they're great

i love them

herrman is grumpy dad

cindy and christopher are truly my otp

ik shes just sick

but my mind automatically goes to the worst case scenario

‘i got the kids’

*crash*

‘do you though?’

‘i'll just drop them all of at juvie on the way to work’

cue grumpy!dad!herrmann

we love it

comedy gold

cindy and herrmann are actually my faves

truly

they deserve the best

that's apart of my 11x11 wish

who is this visitor

ohhhh

evan’s cousin

yippee

so much pain

so so much pain

im not prepared at all for this

violet cleaning out evan’s stuff???

absolutely not

no

im not ready

kellyyyyyyy

stellaaaaa

oh god

immediately

i don't like this

waIT

IT SAID JIMMY NICHOLAS IN THE GUEST STARS THING

IS VIOLET GONNA HAVE SOME SORT OF FLASHBACK THING????

I DONT WANNA LOOK ANYTHING UP

IM TOO SCARED

wait

is the guy that plays hawkins jimmy nicholas or nichols?

idk

but

idk

im not ready is all i know

‘two for the price of one’

how humorous gallo

lovely time to make a joke

‘thank you ma’am, step aside’

his polite way of saying ‘shut the fuck up and get out of the way’

thE LIEUTENANTS BEING AMAZING LEADERS

THEYRE SO POWERFUL

I LOVE IT

‘this car might be the only holding this up’

of course

why not

lets just have the most unrealistically dangerous scenario ever

lovely

so lovely

so much danger

kidd and carver

actually working together without being at each other’s necks

i love it

god im too nervous

someone’s gonna get hurt

or something

oh wait

they all got out???

excuse me???

that's the most unrealistic part of this

brO?

STELLA AND CARVER BROMANCE

WE LOVE TO SEE IT

‘hey, we’re all in this together, right?’

sound like high school musical

‘i owe you one carver’

CARVER AND KELLY BROMANCE

‘oh god this is a disaster’

‘but the job is exciting and we really help people’

*stern sylvie looking*

violet my love

thank you

you are amazing

of course her paramedicine program thing is in danger

oH WAIT

THIS IS EMMA ISNT IT

WHY DO I GEEL LIKE ITS EMMA

fireboots under the pillow

gallo and ritter

we love it

‘you know that's a one-man job, right?’

*judgmental look*

‘we're multitasking’

‘mhm’

*disappointed carver look*

peak comedy

oh love the conversation of the squad table

poor carver

its going to be a different person that Schafer isn't it

its gonna be someone that boden hates

‘close the door’

‘good to see you too’

what's the point of this???

what is this conversation

pearce

i dont like you

huH????

VAN METER????

CORRUPT???

THE. FUCK. 

i don't like where this is going

i really don't

why van meter?

man’s chill

like really chill

thank you kelly

god i hate this

why do I feel like this isn't gonna end well

kelly playing fire cop

lovely

pearce i fucking hate you

suck a dick

CINDYYYYY

awww

i hate this

i want them to be happy

but i know that somethings gonna happen to cindy

STELLARIDE

mY LOVES

stella being supportive and trying to find the positive of everything

we love it

violet

what're you doing

good god jacobs

fuck off

i despise you

‘thanks vi’

you call her that one more time

ill gouge your eyes out bitch

I FUCKIN KNEW IT

SHES BEHIND IT ISNT SHE

dodging the question huh jacobs???

ill murder you

ill fucking gut you

god everyone looks really fucking good in their uniform

oh mygod

wait

is this the first time we’re seeing herrmann in his uniform???

EEEKKKK

we love

I FUCKIN KNEW IT

ITS SOMEONE DIFFERENT

kylieeeee

my love

who is this guy

good god

i already hate you

i hate him

did i mention that i don't like him

BRO DIDNT EVEN GO INSIDE

‘its always been dc shafer, what happened?’

‘i don't know’

emma happened

i can feel it

she's the reason for this

fire cop!kelly severide

we love to see it

its great

sylvie and violet

my loves

this'll be fun

OH

paramedicine coming in hot

we love to see it

sylvie takin charge

i love her

she's amazing

SHES SO SWEET

THE LOVE OF MY LIFE

SHES AMAZING

‘this isn't even my style’

we love it

THAT SCENE WAS SO HEARTFELT

power couple of the entire one chicago franchise

‘looks like we both got our work cut out for us’

‘mhm’

we love

OH MY GOD

THE APPOINTMENT

WHATS HAPPENING WITH CINDY

oh god

im so nervous

im not handling this well

doc

answer the goddamn question

comE ON

I DONT WANT ANYTHING TO HURT HER

‘doctors drive me crazy, have I told you that before?’

‘only like a gabillion times’

sweethearts

my mother and father who raised me

‘but if she calls me mrs. herrmann one more, she’s getting a knuckle sandwich.’

*proud look from christopher*

oh yippee

the writers didn’t forget about mouch and sylvie working paramedicine together

wow

that's a first

sylvie looKS SO GOOD

VIOLET LOOKS SO G O O D

STELLA LOOKS SO G O O D

gallo’s gonna forget, isn't he

pLEASE

RITTER AND VIOLET MAKING FUN OF HIM

my chaotic besties

i love y'all so much

the looks shared b/w violet and ritter are amazing

oh yippee

severide playing fire cop!!!

van meter???

bro that lowkey scared me

whaT IS THIS CONVERSATION

YOURE NOT SUPPOSED TO TELL HIM

ok but van meter has a point

ms. lawyer saw one picture of the two of them together and thought

‘yes, he is corrupt’

and then moved on

OH MY GOD WAIT

VAN METER’S BEING SET UP

bro

come on

jusT ANSWER THE QUESTION

also

this conversation could have gone a lot better

that's for sure

DOMESTIC STELLARIDE

but crappy conversation

we can't ever see them happy, can we???

AW THEY KISSED

im so fuckin giddy

OH MY GOD

SHES GONNA CLEAN OUT HIS APARTMENT

FUCK

im gonna cry

chicago fire writers take a break from hurting me challenge

S T O P

im begging you

please stop

painnnnnn

oh my goD HIS LAPTOP

its gonna have evidence against emma

i can feel it

poor poor violet

im not strong enough

this lawyer lady is probably dirty

or something

lady

do you want his help or not

i don't like you

no wait

is it peerage who’s dirty????

cleaning time

yay

god, my room is so dirty

I FUCKIN KNEW IT

HE MESSED IT UP

mouch is bailing

loving it

‘last man out, remember?’

‘and im the suck up’

yes gallo

you are

because carver and kidd went through something traumatic together

and you

well youre not great at saying no to people

ritter looking out for gallo

lovely

lady

please keep your comments to a minimum

i don't like you

fuck off

leave

I. DO. NOT. LIKE. YOU.

aw violet

my poor child

AWWWW

STOP

HIS DESKTOP SCREEN

OH MY GOD

i knew it

there would be evidence against emma

I FUCKIN KNEW IT 

please get rid of her

HAWKINGS

my baby

that's why jimmy nicholas was in the guest starts thing

PLEASE GET RID OF JACOBS

KILL HER

PLEASE

oh yay

inspection

boden looks like a proud father

we love it

its not dc watts is it??

I FUCKIN KNEW IT

stella’s face after kylie admits to throwing away the liquor

lovely

arE YOU TELLING ME THAT HE ONLY GIVES GOOD REVIEWS IF HE GETS ALCOHOL?????

bodes questioning look

fantastic

boden looks like he wants to punch something

‘are you stealing liquor from molly’s?’

‘sh’

peak comedy

oh goodie

this is gonna be great

‘how goes the witch hunt’

this'll be fun

LADY SHUT THE FUCK UP

NOBODY LIKES YOU

keep your comments to ZE R O

aw

kelly and vanmeter 

the duo we never knew we needed

VIOLET AND BODEN

THE FATHER DAUGHTER DUO WE LOVE

SUCK IT JACOBS

THEYRE GONNA GET RID OF YOU

fucK YEA

YES

geT R I D OF HE R

VIOLET

i love you

youre amazing

FUCKING HELL YESS

YESSSS

YES

no dammit

i wanted to hear her get fired

oh ew

pearce

i hate you

see

van meter and kelly

they are the ultimate father-son duo

fuck off pearce

i despise you

benny was a shit father

and i hate him too

fuck off pearce

don't do this

you don't know the damage that was caused

oh god

WILL WE FIND OUT WHATS WRONG WITH CINDY????

‘what's that rash that i saw on his neck this morning?’

‘those are hickeys, christopher’

‘what?’

‘he was out with Lana last night.’

‘th-that is horrifying’

*cute cindy snort*

‘wait so they’re just out there mauling each other?’

‘you might be overreacting a bit’

well

herrmann is nothing if not dramatic

clueless herrmann is a national treasure

OH MY GOD

the look on the doctors face

stop

im not ready

oh no

oh noooo

nonononono

shit

what's happening

LUNG CANCER

WHAT????

god fucking dammit

no

‘im the one who’s supposed to get lung cancer’

why must you hurt me like this

goddammit

no

no

herrmann

trying to find a way out

stop

this

cindy’s gentle nodding

STOP HURTING ME

THE TEARS IN HERRMANNS EYES

COME ON

STOP THIS

WHY CANT THEY JUST BE HAPPY

WHY

WHY

WH YYYYYYYY

im hurt

[minutemancapital]

What is short-selling

Remember the subprime crisis? If you never saw the movie The Big Short (or, like, read the book) take a minute to google a guy named Dr. Michael Burry. In a nutshell, Dr. Burry did his own research and came to the conclusion that the housing bubble was unsustainable. He correctly predicted the real estate crash years before it happened. And he took out “short sale” positions on that bet-- meaning his hedge fund would make money if the stocks of Goldman Sachs and other large banks went down. 

Short selling is basically the opposite of what we’re normally told-- buy a stock and own it for the long haul in the hopes it goes up and you can then sell it for a profit. Short-selling is the exact opposite-- you make money if the stock goes down (by borrowing the stock from the brokerage, then forcing the brokerage to buy it back at the new lower price). 

Short selling is an age-old practice in marketplaces. The challenge is it is very difficult to time correctly, and just like regular stocks, you can lose a lot of money if your timing is wrong. So many retail consumers don’t bother trying to figure out how to short sell a stock or company.

That’s where we come in. We’re here to change the game.

We aren’t going to sit around and post some crap on Facebook after the next mass-murder gun shooting happens. We’re not going to fire off an angry tweet after soft-money sources cause our politicians on both sides of the aisle to be corrupted. Those placating options change absolutely nothing. 

We’re not even going to be the nice little boy scouts who motivate to start a cute boycott movement against Trump’s bankruptcy fraud and money laundering. Nope. Cause boycotts take a shit-ton of energy and offer almost no tangible benefit to the people who participate.

We’re going to short the shit out these assholes. And that’s not a partisan statement. Think AIG and the big banks got bailout funds from Obama that screwed the taxpayer? Short ‘em. Think Russia is avoiding sanctions that were signed into law but yet to be enacted by Trump? Short the Ruble.

Yes, folks. Short selling is the way to go. It may not work. It may not end up panning out. But we’ve got patented technology that tells us who is benefiting disproportionately by corrupting our politicians. And we’re not known to sit back and do nothing when we see a problem in our country. Nope. We are Die Hards like John McClane. If you’re a “two comma” donor in politics looking down on us pions, there’s something you should hear: yippee-kay-yay muthafuckah.