#suppressing evidence

[noelledeltarune]

oh my god wait i said i would talk about this WELL i do not really have that much to say but like. ok. luigi is supposed to be the deciding factor in both prophecies right. the guy who's supposed to decide which one happens. and stuff. so the reason i think dimentio's plan is entirely ENTIREEELLYYYY flawed is like..... he decided that if he took luigi's body and used him as a flesh puppet then HE would be able to decide the fate of all worlds. which is just not true. and didn't work. luigi is not just a hot piece of meat as far as the chaos heart is concerned LMFAO that's why super dimentio is such a freaky mesh of luigi and dimentio BEFORE dimentio actually takes control of the body and why when luigi is left behind as the "shadow of dimentio's power" keeping the chaos heart active he looks completely normal

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[creativity-deficient]

“Tweek can’t be chubby he’s on meth nnghh!!!”

Shhh don’t care. Didnt ask. <3

[askblueandviolet]

if you ever took macaque on say, a date, where would you take him lmao

DF: Ask Box is now open again! The absolute maximum amount of asks I can answer is 4 more now (unless one of the asks is a big one like this one or the previous one. Then those asks count as 2. Simply because they take much more effort XDDD). So if I hit that number then I have to close the box again lmao. But hey, it won't be closed forever. The next time it opens it will be when the next chapter of Colours is out!

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[heartofstanding]

I have a theory about Isabella of France's reputation/representation" 👀👀?

I love Isabella theories!

OK, so.

Isabella is an incredibly transgressive figure in terms of gender roles and expectations. Women were (and largely still are) expected to be good wives and good mothers. Isabella... isn't. She betrays her husband multiple times in multiple ways: she leaves him, she has an affair with his enemy, she conspires against him to the point of his deposition and murder. She isn't a good mother: her rule during Edward III's minority is disastrous, she's corrupt and greedy, filling her own coffers while bankrupting the kingdom her son will inherit, and she forces her daughter into a loveless marriage in an alliance with Scotland that drives her son to tears.

(n.b. I am aware about the debates around whether Isabella and Roger Mortimer had n affair and the debates around Edward II's death and Isabella's role in it. I'm not concerned with what was "historically likely" or the real, historical Isabella here but in how she's been represented.)

I think Isabella's transgressiveness is confronting. She isn't a good wife, she isn't a good mother, she isn't a good queen. The fall back or ultimate "good woman" - the virgin/nun, dedicated to God, isn't an option given the adultery and violence in her story. I think that, basically, in efforts to confront and contain Isabella's transgressiveness, historians, historical fiction novelists, commentators et al have basically either presented her as monstrous or as a romantic heroine.

The revisionist, pro-Isabella narrative is that she was an incredibly capable, intelligent and very, very, very beautiful queen who was left neglected and unfulfilled by her horrible gay husband who treated her as a broodmare and allowed his boyfriend to abuse her (that's... a lot of homophobia), who also tears her children from her adoring arms. Isabella eventually escapes to find freedom and lover in the arms of a "real" man, Roger Mortimer. Isabella's discovery of love at long last means she simply cannot be held responsible for the disasters of her son's minority, if they're even discussed. In short, these revisionist, redemptive narratives soften Isabella by depicting her as a romantic heroine in search of love and further present her as a victim of life and unscrupulous men. The story usually drops off before her rule and behaviour towards her children can be seriously questioned. Her transgressiveness is thus the result of her womanly needs being unfulfilled.

In contrast, the "standard", anti-Isabella narrative is that she was Bad. Faithless, unnatural, evil, perverse, vain, selfish, treacherous, manipulative, cruel, sexually aggressive or sexually unfulfilled, femme fatale, monstrous... the list goes on, Isabella is really That Bitch (or That She-Wolf). Edward and Despenser are her hapless victims and Mortimer is her villainous partner-in-crime. Her children are collateral damage. Here, her transgressiveness comes from her monstrosity.* But a lot of the time, her villainy is linked to the domestic or private sphere: she's not a political figure but a woman ruled by her passions and excess who intrudes by accident.

Basically, what I'm saying is this: Isabella doesn't easily fit into the roles of good wife or good mother or virgin/nun. She is a transgressive figure that must be suppressed. The redemptive takes de-emphasise her transgressive nature by focusing on her as a romantic heroine in search of true love while the standard narrative emphasise her monstrosity or villainy, making her an aberration in nature, a one-off. Both takes attempt to keep her within the private sphere: she intrudes into politics out of necessity and love or out of frustrated searches for fulfilment.

* I could not resist a swift turn into monster theory. Isabella's infamous and much-debated sobriquet, "she-wolf" links her to the monstrous and inhuman, implying she is a wolf-woman hybrid (a werewolf, if you will - I think this description of a female werewolf is very interesting, touching it does on some of the themes in Isabella's representation I've talked about here, though almost all depictions - positive and negative, depict her as sensuous and conventionally beautiful). But I'm also interested in the way Maurice Druon describes Isabella's teeth as "sharp, carnivorous", even writing that "her little carnivore's teeth opened to bite". I haven't read Druon's work though I suspect the intention was to link Isabella with the "she-wolf" label. However, to invoke Barbara Creed's The Monstrous Feminine, it also links her with the vampire and the vagina dentata (especially since it is Mortimer she is "biting" in this line). The villainous/monstrous Isabella, of course, can be said to represent a form of the femme castractice - her enemy, Hugh Despenser, was castrated during his execution but Isabella's rebellion against Edward unmans and unkings him.

[queenboimler]

honest to god though, i hate how nobody addresses the fact that athena is a fully corrupt cop who breaks criminal procedural law, literally all.the.time

[peppergoji]

Hi, I don't want Trump to win as much as the next guy, but you have no right to be a bastard to someone who didn't want to vote for the party who are funding and arming a genocide. If the dems want to win so bad they should consider not contributing to crimes against humanity

[some-stars]

also, all posts about voting aside, i think i'm at a point where i'm ready to talk to my activist friend about how i can help a lot more without being on the front lines because. it's just. i think this is the worst thing i've ever seen in my life.

[worldweary-walker]

my lesbian has been arrested by the police for letting her leg dog break into the evidence locker 😔

[nerdynikki94]

I've kind of been in limbo on this fic I've been tossing around, but I wanted to hold off and see where canon will be by the end of S16 with the emotions brewing between Mac & Dennis. And boy.... I'm glad I did.

Yes.... the 'Johnny' of it all. I have too many fucking thoughts (all wickedly delighted at this shameless development) but even just at a surface human level: Dennis catfished Mac. That's a really fucked up thing to do to your friend.

He falsified a relationship with him. That's an intimate betrayal, and I don’t think it's just a joke that Mac was in denial. He's given up at Dennis' insistence of being straight. Only for the lie detector test to determine: THAT WAS A LIE! Followed by the confession that he has been intentionally yanking Mac back, outright pursuing and establishing a written, sexual and consuming relationship because he's no longer getting Mac's attention and devotion. He tells Mac to move on, but he's secretly working against any possible progress Mac could make.

I know it's a sitcom, and reveals are played for laughs, but Rob first put on that heartbroken and wounded puppy dog expression when Dennis admitted that he was Johnny. If Mac really didn't understand what Dennis was saying, then why did he try to stop him from talking about, proving it? Why did he lie and say it was buzzing before Dennis could press it?

'Then, who is you?' Is Dennis, Dennis? Is Dennis, Johnny? Is there any hope that Mac could ever fall in love with anyone other than Dennis? After everything it took for them to become friends again; Mac doesn't want to believe it. Even if the remaining episodes do little to show it, deep down, he knows, and he's hurting over it.

Still, the point stands that according to S16E4, Dennis had devoted weeks to secretly wooing Mac. Like, they had to start somewhere before the anal beads. There's a reason Mac thinks Johnny is special, a reason Mac is certain he's in love with someone he's never met. I wonder what's in those texts.

Can't wait for the smut fics to come out on this. We all know that Mac wasn’t the only one getting off during those exchanges.

I cannot even get into the Charlie and Uncle Jack trauma they've been bitch-slapping us with this season. Like, Jesus Christ, they won't let up. I'm cringing the whole time. I started getting the neck thing.

This one was a fucking doozy, just like.... damn. Hey, at least RCG are not catering to the sunny dudebros so much, because they pretty much just finally gave us our rightful, canonically queer Dennis Reynolds!

[quietwingsinthesky]

I think the timeless child theory you have makes sense yea! :)

Yayyyyy :3

[miss-assembled]

Just thought you guys should know I just watched a reel/tiktok where the words Asian, Indian and Colour were censored. Like, Asi@n, !ndian and c0lour. And when he spoke the words the audio would cut off by a split second. This is getting so out of hand.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

The [top two] photographs above show Habib Jalib, a poet known for his revolutionary zeal, being attacked by policemen during a demonstration organised by the Women’s Action Forum against the Law of Evidence that was promulgated by General Ziaul Haq. The photographs were taken on February 12, 1983, by Dawn photographer, the late Azhar Jafri, and symbolise the tyranny and repression that characterised Zia’s reign over Pakistan.

The bottom photograph shows: BUSHRA Aitzaz, a human rights activist, was one of the women who were arrested during a protest organised by the Women’s Action Forum in Lahore in February 1983. The protestors were subjected to brutal violence at the hands of policemen armed with batons and teargas.| Photo: Aitzaz Ahsan Archives.

- both from Dawn’s Special Report: Darkness Descends 1977-1988. October 17, 2017.

[giantkillerjack]

Chemistry isn't real because I don't understand it.

And don't you DARE presume to explain it to me -- I took chemistry in high school, so I can speak authoritatively on it!

And apparently screaming in class gets you in trouble, so why are they trying so hard to suppress debate? I am truly being burned at the stake like Galileo was for inventing science

I am well and truly lost, my dude. 🤣 I am pretty sure chemistry is real?? Like, prove-ably real? Also Galileo was not burned at the stake?

Gods, this anonymous message has everything. Utterly inscrutable. 10/10!

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CRIMINALS CLAIMING THAT THEY ARE ON A LOW TECH WORLD AND NEED RESCUE

CRIMINALS ON A VACATION FROM EXPERIENCING HIGH TECHNOLOGY SUPPRESSING EVIDENCE OF TECHNOLOGY'S SOPHISTICATION

CRIMINALS DEGRADING THE APPARENT FUNCTIONALITY OF TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE IT APPEAR TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES ARE LESS DEVELOPED

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TIME TRAVELING CRIMINALS SUPPRESSING EVIDENCE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY