#reporters curse

[gothamnewsnetwork-official]

The CIA vs Clark Kent; the mark of a journalist

Our story tonight takes us out of Gotham City and lands us in Metropolis (see related articles), nicknamed the Gilded City by many of its residents and Gothamites alike.

Recently concerns have been raised surrounding a well known reporter, Clark Kent, and the potential threats posed to his life by our own government. There have been several notable articles of his critiquing the US government as well as two notable anonymous attempts on his life as of late, this combination has led to many netizens speculating that he may be falling victim to the reporters curse (see related articles).

The reporters curse is the nickname for a well known conspiracy stating that the CIA has a tendency to eliminate investigative journalists that get to close to the ‘truth’ and/or are gaining to much sway when criticizing governmental agencies and decisions.

There have been many a case of this happening, many of which are simply speculative but the CIA has admitted to committing a fair swath of these assassinations as well (see related articles). Many of these unconfirmed incidents have enough evidence that many people believe this theory to be fact.

Mr. Kent is an investigative journalist for The Daily Planet (see related articles), a newspaper based in Metropolis and a subsidiary of Wayne Enterprises. His career spans nearly two decades and his history of finding the truth regardless of danger fits the profile of those fallen to the reporters curse to a T.

Mr. Kent was the inspiration for many modern journalists, though the man not even 50. Most journalists have to live and die by their work before reaching a fraction of the influence Mr. Kent has had over the world of journalism.

Whatever the case may be for whoever is behind the two recent attacks on Mr. Kent’s life, we urge the journalist to take precautions and want to thank him for his service.

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[honeypleasejustkillme]

date idea: take me to the closest lake and drown me

[team7-headquarter]

HE WAS SO MAD

[swampthingking]

andrew’s definitely gotten in trouble with his pr manager for tweeting things along the lines of:

“no mania inducing medication will compare to the euphoria i will feel the day donald trump drops dead”

[temeyes]

just 'gumi carrying his babes + gojo (pose ref!)

[wings-of-ink]

Just wrapped up another moment from chapter 5. Where an interesting conversation takes place with one Oswin Twinflower....

This brings the word count up by nearly 15k. You may learn a different pieces of information depending on your past and present feelings about our swordsman. Depending on those feelings, you may get a pretty big choice too...

A couple little teasers:

Parts of this one were rough. I may have cried just a bit, but I cry at like everything so take that with a grain of salt.

There are scenes left yet for Rune, Zahn, and Duri to do. These are outlined already. There's another scene already written which I won't spoil for you. ^_^

[shanastoryteller]

see something say something ch 2 progress report: 10k

[yourcrazygirlokris]

Fun Animal Facts

Japanese Spider Crabs exist and they are after your left index finger

[cementcornfield]

Did you see the clip of Joe yesterday?

Is it a clip now? Oh lord....was it funny at least?

It was the first time he ever used the F word in a conference.

He cursed? Y'all lying...I be trying to get him to curse, he don't curse when I'm talking to him...

[writterings]

me with my 18 year old students that i teach at a college

[discordiansamba]

thinking about zuko's first transformation in the traditional werewolf au because like. okay. it's this big dramatic moment. iroh has been dreading its approach for days, knowing what he knows about the exact curse that his nephew has found himself with. he's genuinely afraid that he will lose him, so the least he can do is minimize the damage zuko can do.

he has the helmsman take their ship out to deep waters, and has the crew board their steamship and put considerable distance between them. zuko enters the brig, the sturdiest place on the ship and is locked in. iroh watches as the full moon rises over the horizon and braces himself for the worst. he hears the howl of a wolf tear through the air-

-and then... it's quiet?

iroh frowns. he presses his ear against the brig door. he can sort of hear zuko moving around in there. he peeks through the hole in the door, and can just barely make out his nephew, his body twisted into wolf-shape. he's just... investigating the brig? his ears twitch and he looks up in iroh's direction.

...is he wagging his tail?

cautiously, iroh opens the door and finds that zuko... seems fine, actually. maybe a little cranky. iroh is very confused. the legends speak of a violent anger that comes upon the werewolf in their first transformation, driving them to madness. but all zuko is doing is investigating the ship with his new senses.

the night passes, and his nephew becomes human again. he's tired and hungry, with a bit of a headache. but he seems... completely fine. iroh asks him about it and zuko frowns. yeah. he guesses he felt a little angrier than usual, but...

iroh pinches the bridge of his nose. of course. his nephew is always angry. he has been angry since the agni kai. anger is his new constant. iroh has been troubled by this very turn in his nephew, but of all things, for that anger to wind up protecting him?

...well. he's just glad zuko is alright.

[statementlou]

hello :) could you maybe explain a little bit how dan wootton blackmailed louis?

ugh sorry for taking a while to get to this. The problem is I feel like the only two ways to answer this are by spending a week and a half of full time labor sifting through old posts and evidence to get every detail right and lay out an airtight case, or to halfass something very serious, and so I felt a little stuck. So since I can't seem to find a good halfway point, apologies but here is the half assed version, if you want to get into it more I invite you to do your own deep dive or talk to other people, but here's how I remember things. Louis has almost never on video explicitly said things about Larry not being real and/or anything negative about fans and their theories (mostly the opposite), up until the last couple years when he obviously decided to make a major change he didn't talk about Freddie much at all let alone saying he was his kid, honestly not that much about Eleanor even; except for in two major interviews with Dan Wootton, each of which lined up with a serious traumatic Tomlinson family event that they managed to keep out of the tabloids until the very end (Jay's illness and Fizzy's struggles with substance abuse). After the fact of those events a lot of small things that didn't make sense at the time came together to look very much like Louis traded those interviews (and those answers) for having his family's private matters kept private. Story trading of this kind is a publicly known real thing that happens, and there were various clues that suggested he was being leaned on about those stories to lend legitimacy to the idea that it was something that happened in these cases. Given what we know about Dan Wootton and how he operates even before the recent flood of information and even more now, I think it's more than likely that he has been holding the threat of outing Louis (as he has done to many other public figures) over his head for over a decade, and has used his family's tragic struggles to get Louis to dance like a fucking puppet for him and I will REJOICE at his downfall when it comes whether it is now or 20 years from now... because someday it will, he has made too many enemies to stay above it forever

[how-to-be-a-tree]

EP 1->3->5

I think this is the first time he "FACES" Do hoe.

EP 2->4->6

He leaves. Only after adding all that fuel to the fire!!

@benkaben how are we doing!!!!!!!

[puck-heaven-now]

SIIIDDDD

[wings-of-ink]

Just some quick notes!

I'm in the editing and putting-it-all-together phase of Chapter 5! Once again, I thought incorrectly that the conclusion would be so quick to write. It was fun, don't get me wrong, lol. But I underestimated just how much would need to go into it.

Considering that I've had some personal life things come up in the last few days (that aren't bad just time-consuming), I'm pleased with the progress and content.

I may make a post later today about the special little extra I want to do (and if it's not too long, I may just do it lol)...going to drink my coffee first though.

Also...

This has escalated quickly. Once we hit 2k, I may run a poll on what little celebratory extra you'd like to see. ^_^

Whenever we hit 2k, I hope everyone hears trumpets and their favorite candy rains from the sky.

[shanastoryteller]

see something say something ch 12 progress report: 12k