#suspicious circumstances

[urcatisacunt]

I am pleased to announce that The Testicular Torsion Wizard and I have settled our differences. I invited him to my property, and we had a civil discussion over tea and crumpets and finally managed to come to an understanding.

I am, however, not pleased to announce the absolutely tragic accident he suffered immediately after leaving my property. All his bones are broken, and his blood is full of sand. It is so sad. There was even a (very cool and handsome) stranger present during the accident that farted in the face of the broken, crumpled wizard. So sad. I heard someone even broke into the wizards tree trunk and destroyed his cauldron and burnt his frogs and poured all his potions into the drain. What a senseless event. Sad.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“'KICK' HAD GONE OUT OF DYNAMITE,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 24, 1933. Page 1. ---- Sticks Found at Welland Canal Likely Stolen and Buried in Rocks ---- ST. CATHARINES, Feb. 24 - Test at the laboratory at Queenston quarries of the dynamite discovered yesterday near the Welland Canal showed that most of the "kick" had gone out of the sticks through age and exposure to weather. Thirteen sticks unaccounted for are believed to have been found in granular condition by boys and scattered about the grass and rocks.

The box holding yesterday's find shows this dynamite was of a lot used many months ago. It had apparently been stolen from one or several contracting companies, left buried in the rocks and forgotten or left behind by thieves.

Chief Harold said today so far as he is concerned the case is closed.

[rightnewshindi]

महिला ने संदिग्ध परिस्थितियों में फंदा लगाकर की आत्महत्या, मायके पक्ष ने जिंदा फूंक डाले सास-ससुर

महिला ने संदिग्ध परिस्थितियों में फंदा लगाकर की आत्महत्या, मायके पक्ष ने जिंदा फूंक डाले सास-ससुर

Uttar Pradesh News: प्रयागराज से दिल दहला देने वाली वारदात सामने आई है. यहां बहू की संदिग्ध परिस्थितियों में मौत हो गई. जब इसकी जानकारी लड़की के मायके पक्ष को हुई तो बवाल हो गया. गुस्साए मायके पक्ष के लोगों ने लड़की की ससुराल में आग लगा दी. तीन मंजिला मकान में आग लगने से लड़की के सास-ससुर की जलकर मौत हो गई. मौके पर पहुंची पुलिस ने गुस्साए लोगों को वहां से हटाया. पुलिस ने मृतकों के शवों को…

[canyoureallycallthisablog]

Oh yes my favorite duo, 'AAWEHEHEGWGWV 🥺🥺' and 'I'm barely tolerating your ass'

[houseswife]

yeah your boyfriend peeled you an orange but would he fake his death to make you his afterlife? would black flowers blossom, fearless on his breath?

[tavina-writes]

I have been recently thinking about NHS and JGY's relationship, especially as it pertains to how much they understand each other, and I'm pretty sure the conclusion I'm coming to is that JGY doesn't actually understand NHS at all except like, in vague superficiality?

This is not an argument about whether or not JGY cared about NHS (though he seems to have some pretty big blind spots on what is actually good for NHS or what he actually desires, which, again come back to not really understanding what makes NHS tick) because I don't think you can spend well over a decade cleaning up someone else's problems without caring for the person in question. But more like, the events of the Temple and the Discussion Conference prior to the Temple and indeed anything leading up to the Temple at all would not have occurred if JGY actually understood? NHS? at all?

Like, obviously NHS was concealing the truth and acting while he proceeded with his revenge scheme, JGY (who presumably had some amount of time to think about who could possibly want him dead/disgraced/fleeing off to Dongyin) doesn't even begin to suspect that the person who wrote the letter and arranged all of this might be NHS until LXC's already stabbed him.

That's a pretty big fucking blind spot considering the whole thing is being unearthed because of NMJ's murder corpse put together shenanigans. Like he knows to hide Chifeng-zun's head but not to suspect Chifeng-zun's brother???

Like I think this might go beyond "doesn't understand anything about this other person besides on a very superficial level" to "might genuinely have some pretty big MISconceptions about who this person is or what they're like."

[jin-zixun]

Su She: you know you don't have to kill people who are mean to you or hold you back or talk shit about your mom

Meng Yao, thinking 'yeah that's about what I'd expect to hear from a lan--'

Su She: I can do that for you. I mean, it'd be easier for me. I can teleport. I can do it now. Be back by dinner.

Meng Yao: ...... o h 🥺

[ri-writes-if]

The swarm form is so appealing to me bc of the possibilities, also the idea of js seeing all these butterflies, maybe postioned on smth (on the floor of a room, on flowers, anything really) sound so cute, i imagine the murderous butterflies relaxing in a field, so pretty 😔😔

The ability to do unimaginable damage to anything or anyone while looking pretty makes the Swarm too powerful 😔

[brittlebutch]

actually it's kind of funny how people will say Alex's fatal flaw is that he 'doesn't ask for help' and that it's his determination to handle things on his own that leads to his deterioration and eventual death when his whole introduction to the present-day timeline was a very literal cry for help that simply went ignored

[consanguinitatum]

And Now For Something Completely Different: I look for an early 1993 Michael Sheen project!

As everyone who reads me regularly knows, I'm a David Tennant researcher/archivist (it's what I do!) and write A Tennantcy To Act, a Substack about his career. But last night at an ungodly hour, a question from a MS fan on Twitter got me amped to find a missing Michael Sheen project...so that's what I did. My body might be pissed I stayed up til 2 am (I'm an OLD!) but my soul and spirit are cleansed. I found it! So if you're a Sheen fan, buckle up. Let's take a ride on the Sheen side (and oh yeah, I just learned Michael's mum has retweeted all my research. So there's that!) The question was about a 1993 episode of a 1991-1996 ITV series, narrated by Edward Woodward, called In Suspicious Circumstances. Michael's Wiki had the series listed, but no further info on the title of the episode Michael appeared in, nor any date but 1993. Last night this fan asked Michael himself if he could remember the name of the episode (as apparently it's a bit of a mystery for his fans). Michael couldn't recall. So I went on the hunt. Luckily a tiny clip of the episode was featured on Twitter, so I could use it as a reference. And boy did it end up to be important!

The smart researcher analyzes what they've got. We see men in mustaches, bowl hats and sack coats using wagons instead of cars, so 1890s? Early 1900s? Michael plays "William Wright" and looks like he's fixing a wagon wheel. He reads his bible, and has an accent. Keep these details in mind. They'll be important. Okay - some background on the series: In Suspicious Circumstances was an anthology series which re-enacted historical crimes. Beginning on 16 March 1993, it broadcast three one-hour episodes, each of which contained two thirty-minute stories. Okay, so that means there are nine possible mini-episodes Michael could've been in. But which one? Let's narrow them down! The series' first episode aired 16 March 1993. It was called "Laugh Baby Laugh" and was about Elvira Barney, acquitted of murdering her lover in 1932. The second mini-episode was called "Shadows of Doubt" and was about Robert Hoolhouse, a laborer hanged for murdering a farmer's wife in 1938. Here are some newspaper articles about this broadcast:

I felt pretty comfortable ruling these two out immediately - mostly because both crimes were set in the 1930s, and our clip tells us Michael's episode was way before then. Moving on! Now let's talk about the third episode, which aired 30 March 1993. (I'm deliberately skipping over the second episode because I think that's the one Michael's in. Back to that in a second.) Anyway...the two mini-episodes from the third episode were called "Falling Starr" and "Good as Gold", and were about two very different women found dead on beaches...one in 1931, the other in 1900. Here are a few newspaper articles about these episodes:

The 1931 one we could rule out. But the 1900? Hmmm, it's a possibility, sure, though the clip we have sure doesn't look like it's anywhere near a beach town with sand dunes like Great Yarmouth, right? So that also seems improbable. Now let's examine that second episode, which was broadcast 23 March 1993. The first of the two mini- episodes was entitled "Dancing With Death" and was about the 1960s Glaswegian serial killer known only as Bible John.

Um, the 1960s certainly doesn't sound like it fits the clip Michael's in, right? So what's the second mini-episode, then?

Well, it's set in Suffolk in 1902 and is about a murder of a servant girl in "a scandalous affair in a Suffolk village which may have led to murder." Sounds promising! The time period certainly seems like it would fit. But what is it called? After all, no one was sure what the episode was entitled, because if they had, they would've known which episode Michael was in.

It's called "Candle In The Window!" So now we have to switch gears here to find the final proof. There are two possibilities, time period-wise, so we have to go to the source to find out if we can determine which one is the right episode. And by that, I mean newspapers of the period. After all, In Suspicious Circumstances was a historical series about real-life crimes. So I started with the Suffolk one, which I thought the most likely.

Remember we talked about Michael's character's name, and how he was working on a wagon wheel? Well, here are a few articles printed at the time about the scandal, the murder, and the resulting trial. From the Hull Morning Telegraph and the Nottingham Evening Post, both 6 November 1902:

This is a LOT of text - and newspapers at the time loved to print drama and florid language and up the scandal (they didn't have television to satisfy that urge, I guess?) But here are the relevant parts.

Notice the name of one of the witnesses: William George Wright. And gee.....he's a wheelwright! Ya know, a maker and repairer of wagon wheels!

Bingo! The circumstances of this case, Michael's character's name and occupation, and the descriptions in newspaper blurbs about the 23 March 1993 broadcast of In Suspicious Circumstances all line up.

"Candle In The Window" is the episode Michael was in. I published this earlier today on Twitter and within an hour, industrious Sheenies collated all my work (with my blessing and permission!) and updated Michael's Wikipedia entry to include this new information. I'm just out here doing what I do - for the fandoms. I wish David-bloody-Time-Lord Tennant was this easy to find *harumph*! Anywaaaaaay...... Peace out!

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Find Dynamite On Canal Bank,” Kingston Whig-Standard. February 23, 1933. Page 1. ---- May Have Been an Attempt to Dynamite the Welland Ship Canal --- ST. CATHARINES, Feb. 23 - What may have been an attempt to dynamite the Welland Ship Canal was foiled today, when Arthur Brady, foreman with the canal forestry department, discovered thirty-six sticks of dynamite laid along rocks on the canal bank between Allanburg and the time office of the Ontario Paper Company.

Brady was walking along the canal bank in the course of his duties when he made the discovery. 

The dynamite was collected and turned over to Chief Dennis Harold, Thorold South, who is conducting an investigation.

It was not immediately indicated whether the dynamite had ' been "planted" but police attached great importance to the discovery.

[harmonysanreads]

new fav yandere thing:

yandere character: *monologues about how mc doesnt have to suffer any more etc.*

mc: .......no work? *megamind meme face here* i'm in.

I laughed so hard at this because this is literally Vampire!Alhaitham and Darling 😂

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Ngl, reading the words "we'll continue to support workplace whistleblowers" is a buckwild thing to hear any political party say in a world where the current Dark Capitalism Joke is "well, I'm not a Boeing whistleblower, so my survival rates look great"

[br1ghtestlight]

out of all the main six characters i think amelia and charlotte are the only ones who were never eliminated/sent home right?? bcuz bryce and liam were both elimated and did the whole Human sacrifice death thing with the lightning and reconnected w/ liam's coworker who thought liam killed himself (bryce actually got his life back together when he came back so he was there for a few months before.... We lost him) so outside of taylor and charlie i think it would be assumed that they liam and bryce were having a severe mental health episode and that charlotte either ran away and died due to her disease or that she was killed. and amelia would most likely be considered a missing person presumed dead by murder

[fredoesque]

want you all to know there is a funhouse mirror version of my crozier dies fic in my mind which goes like. noir au. little is the overworked, constantly stressed pi trying to solve the mystery of francis crozier's untimely death, a man he himself had an unresolved past with. jopson is crozier's much younger, very guarded widower who everyone suspects but who is actually innocent and genuinely loved crozier. and most importantly prominent secondary character billy gibson is jopson's best friend who is one hundred percent convinved jopson did it and one hundred percent supports his decision to off his husband. again something jopson did not in fact do

[thestrongeststars]

Some Andor as John Mulaney quotes because how else do I cope with the finale