#stolen objects

[archivist-crow]

On this day:

IRELAND'S CROWN JEWELS STOLEN

On July 6, 1907, the cleaning woman at Dublin Castle's Bedford Tower discovered the first evidence that a daring theft had taken place practically in front of four guards. She found that the door to the strong room where the crown jewels of Ireland were kept had been left open overnight. That afternoon a porter, returning a gold and enamel collar to the safe, gave the alarm that the safe was already open. The jewels were gone. The robber would have had to obtain keys to the tower's main door, the strong room, and finally the safe. Police reported it would have required at least ten minutes to remove the rubies, emeralds, and diamonds from their casings. The thief and jewels were never found.

It was the time of the Irish International Exhibition in Dublin. A policeman and a soldier had been on guard outside the castle day and night. Within fifty yards of the castle were the headquarters of the metropolitan police, the Royal Irish Constabulary, the Dublin detective force, and the military garrison.

The four men specifically responsible for protecting the jewels were dismissed. Over time, they all died tragically. One died in a car accident. Another was killed while out shooting alone. A third, jailed for fraud, was on his release from prison when he vanished. The body of the fourth was found in the garden of his home, riddled with bullets.

Two weeks earlier in Ascot, England, on a table on the lawn in back of the grandstand, the prestigious Ascot Cup, a twenty-carat gold trophy thirteen inches high and six inches in diameter, weighing just over four pounds, disappeared in front of a policeman and another official guarding it, as well as a crowd of gawking admirers. The thief and cup were never found.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

[del-stars]

one of my favorite little details is the unending hatred between walburga and james. SWORN enemies. that’s james’ nemesis fr but how are you a grown woman and you have beef with a 15 year old

[frot-vember]

preparing for Fat They/Them Fall by acquiring cashmere sweaters that will make my partner unable to resist grabbing my tumy 😏

[gentrychild]

in the volume 40 extra (which just released) it says AFO kept Yoichi's hand until he lost it getting chased by All Might day after day.

... Do you think that All Might saw something falling out of AFO's pocket, grabbed it and then realized that it was a severed hand? Has All Might wondered for decades why AFO was carrying a severed hand around?

[blujaydoodles]

in all ways except physical I am a six inch tall fuzzy little creature living in a mossy stump (which I've filled with a bunch of random shiny bullshit)

[lemondemonpickuplines]

compilation

[kinnbig]

I just think Big should have been allowed a knife. or two. as a treat.

[jinxedshapeshifter]

godot stop flirting with the defendant

[amee-racle-ofmyown]

'Five for silver, six for gold, seven for secrets to never be told.'

[crazy-valley]

Well hello there, I see you're the elusive Agent Phoenix. I must say, you're much... Smaller, than I previously thought. Nevermind that, what would you say is your favorite way to mess with Zoraxis?

- @agent--shadow

"Oh hello! My favorite way to mess with Zoraxis? Officially, besting their schemes"

"Unofficially, setting their documents on fire...or their buildings... And stealing stuff! I like taking at least one thing from every operation. Doesn't really matter what it is, usually something cool or that's going to minorly inconvenience someone"

[reel-fear]

Wow, so umm... This looks bad, not only is it inaccurate due to using the wrong ink demon design [unless this is confirmation BATIM Ink Demon has been outright retconned... Which would make me pissed enough to make a new post just about THAT] but from an art standpoint this is just... Confusing and poorly done.

I wouldn't care if this was fanart, of course you should support young, indie artists... But for a Graphic Novel making sure your cover doesn't look like something Butch Hartman shat out in an afternoon is kind of important. Remember they're going to be asking us to give money to them to read this. The artist likely won't see any of that money and neither do the authors most of the time, not to mention this art screams of the artist being underpaid and overworked.

Like they Had to get something on someone's desk and their boss said 'good enough'. A concept Joey Drew Studios is very familiar with considering the allegations of poor working environments that Kindly Beast. Not to mention Mike Mood admitting in a Reddit AMA that they did in fact rush projects like Showdown Bandit. [Which they sold at full price]

He also says they can in fact say no or yes to designs involving their IP. Either Mike or Meatly had to say yes to this cover, according to his own damn words.

And do you really think this company in particular would care enough about its fanbase to not sell them garbage? They have done exactly that on several occasions. It's not like they care particularly about art either, considering their previous use of AI Art. There was no apology or even posts addressing it... Instead, they just rushed out an archives update to their game to get people to stop talking about it... Even forgetting an entire character in it. Again

This company is [or at least SHOULD BE] on thin ice when it comes to being suspected of misleading their fans or rushing out crappy products to them.

So with all that context in mind, I'm gonna talk about why this cover sucks ass.

The light sources are all over the place? Why does it look like someone put maces or knight armor on his shoulders but it's just flesh?? It looks both gross and weird [not in a good way either]

To explain more I'm going on a rant below but sadly this seems to have been confirmed to not just be a rough pass but the final cover and man... I am not excited about this graphic novel just at all. This felt like it really drained any possibility of it turning out good for me and I already had expectations low.

Okay first point, the light sources?? And there is no consistency here with the shadows or lighting, it looks like there's a hundred light sources all at once but none of them are even consistent!

the arrows here represent all the different light sources I can make out and yet the the shadow clearly implies there's only one. I understand wanting to use highlights to give the character a more clear shape but then just give him one or two lights behind him or in front of him? No matter how u follow the light sources, the highlights make no sense and the shadows make even less sense.

Why are the shoulders like that? Like on the legs it's a little understandable, at least those are clearly very heavily affected by perspective, for me I think they are so exaggerated it makes it look like one of the legs is either huge or one is small but that's maybe subjective.

However, the shoulders are unjustifiable, what happened there, what did they do??

I could pick on so much more honestly, how the color choices of piss yellow with no other colors being used, and the harsh pitch black being used for every part of his body is weird. How it looks straight out of Butch Hartman's recent crappy art. But to put bluntly bad start! Also what the HELL is going on with this background??

Seems once again the Bendy team is fine with sending out stuff thinking it's "Good Enough" for Bendy fans and honestly the people trying to tell me to "Be Grateful" for this are just proving that no matter how many times you betray your audience some of em will defend you!

Which is sad tbh. If anything we should be putting MORE pressure on the Bendy team to do better. Cause we deserve better than this, honestly we do. There are amazing artists in the bendy community who could do so much better for a cover. They've employed their fan artists before... Wouldn't it be great to do that for such a lore important book? The book that gives us the identity of one of the main characters in BATIM? The character you spend the entirety of Chapter 4 fighting to save? Not to mention will give several major characters their human designs?

But I guess this is... Good enough...

[epistolaryfairy]

CW: CSA

“Spouse” here! So the election sucks but we all have our little ‘lights in the dark’ to cling to, and this devoted fan of mine has given me such a lovely gift to help me through. There hasn’t been a moment that has been so dark, or so hopeless, that i haven’t been able to think of this passage in particular and get a smile.

I love bringing new people into the McLennon fandom, and somebody so eager to slog through my 10,000 word essay about What Happened In Rishikesh, and then admit that publicly, is a man after my own heart! (Wanna join our Dangerous Tranny Superfan Polycule? 😏 Lol kidding. Or am i?) Just want to remind our new friend here that if he likes this sexy sexy material so much he can find wayyy more under the mclennon tag, and he’s not alone in loving these stories that are ‘sick’ and ‘deviant’. Remember bro, you ain’t gotta limit your deviant obsessions to my writings! The internet is vast and you’ll find your people somewhere :)

You might even be able to hone your reading skills a little! For example, as i’m sure you don’t mind a bit of Gentle Education*: The passage that says

1) I don’t like the SA label to describe what i think might have happened between John and Paul, and

2) the one where i say i don’t believe John and Paul were together romantically and

3) actually doubt that Paul returned John’s exact feelings, and

4) where i explicitly say i have a lot of doubts that this is what happened in reality—

—when you write these things into your little book report, it’s probably best not to interpret them as the literal complete opposite of what those words mean. It can make it seem jussst a bit like you’re deliberately lying. 😬 But don’t worry, i have trouble with reading comprehension too! And it’s not like you have an agenda here, after all, or you might have tried to hide who you were. I can tell by all the times you say ‘sick’ and ‘twisted’ and ‘sinister’ and ‘deviant’ and ‘deranged’ and ‘unhinged’ that you’re actually Anita Bryant (don’t worry, i won’t tell anyone—we all gotta start on the path to Moral Degeneracy somewhere).

*a reminder that if you do mind the gentle education, The Tranny Council will find you guilty of transphobia. Everything i don’t like is transphobia actually, because as we all know, trans people are just super super sensitive crybabies who don’t know as well as you do what transphobia looks like. For example, it definitely does not look like willfully refusing, for thousands of words, to call people by their primary preferred pronouns. Hope this helps!

PS: Golly gee i sure wish i was a real writer, because then i might be the kind of person who makes lots of words about stuff like this. Yes i will probably be making more soon, so stay tuned! Boy i hope i don’t accidentally “steal” somebody’s audience by being cooler than they are. That would be so mean of me, since obviously a Very Fancy Person like a confessed child groomer is entitled to unconditional adulation forever for doing literally nothing, and I, A Loser, have no right to speak about my own life.

[wishmaster]

Wasted Youth

16 year old Ryan was dared by his best friend Roger to try on his uncle's new leather jacket. Never one to back down Ryan placed in on not ready for what would happen once he did. Once the leather touched his skin he could feel a change in him nd around him.

Bored s he waited for his boy to return from the bathroom, 32 year old Ryan read one of his favorite comic books. until Roger returned.

Once he returned the dom lit his cigar and began to play with his sub Roger, neither would be aware of the changes to their bodies or lives until they had their fun. Forever trapped and aged having lost their youth to pure desire.

Standing at the back of the room was Ryan's young uncle, John who stood there in his new young body, wearing his favorite outfit, a look of satisfaction that his nephew and his dumb friend had taken the bait and gave him back his youth and beauty. S second chance to be the leather bad ass he had always dreamed of.

[annamatix]

“he’s the kind of beautiful that makes people want to smash things” by smash things, do you mean smash objects or smash oak? this is misleading wren please be specific

[becomingabeing]

Day 10: They bring me flowers

@desi-lgbt-fest 12th Century Apsara sculpture ft flowers from our garden

[franstastic-ideas]

She has definitely accidentally whacked people while trying to capture Pokémon.

One of her countless victims was or probably will be Arven.