#that led to the trials

[marisatomay]

Been listening to books about the Salem witch trials and it’s so weird to me that there’s this prevailing narrative where people think of Salem as “oh they were deluded primitive folk who believed in witchcraft lol” when there are contemporary documents where prominent people said the accusers and the court (which hadn’t followed standard legal procedures even for that time) were committing crimes so grievous it would forever be a stain on New England

[yourdustonourhorizon]

If Lester was wearing these shirts instead of Led Zeppelin shirt , TOA would be over very quickly, because in the early days when Lester was in trouble and he needed someone's help, when anyone saw him in this shirt, he might be ignored and got more troubles. (Lester may grumble about his look , but he actually looks good.)

[barbig1rl]

🛌💤💭... Zzzzz... Zzzz........

YOU. 🫵

[honkygay]

rrrhhh getting a new TOA box set for my birthday in a week and im so pumped ^^ its the real pretty covers but i just had a burst of affection for TOA and apollo/lester so i drew him how i saw him reading the first two books (ive only read the first two so far but i know the spoilers from book three ://)

[skrunksthatwunk]

aurghhh ok still rewatching '97 and the way guts and casca only have the room to breathe and really come to understand and care for each other in griffith's absence because he has such a strong hold over them both.... and the way their mutual dedication to him is what causes them to bicker for years (casca thinks he's not serving him well enough, guts thinks she doesn't get that he cares/how much he cares, casca's jealousy over griffith's feelings for guts, how he won his heart without even trying or being aware of it or doing anything with it) and is also a big part of what brings them together (earlier when guts deviates from the plan to save griffith and she commends him, in the cave casca opening up about griffith and her's past, showing that vulnerability, while it's mostly confrontational, leads to guts kinda getting her better, and his efforts to save and protect her (falling off the cliff with her, taking on the 100 men so she can escape, encouraging her to return to griffith so she can help him because it's what she feels she's meant to do (her dream, the direction in life guts shares and yet is questioning because of griffith's speech at the fountain, whether or not it's enough to serve him if it means he'll never be a true friend in griffith's eyes because he's not an equal), supporting the idea of her being with griffith/being his most important person like he won't because he doesn't view it as a competition like she has been since day one) leading to her realizing that he's kind of not that bad a guy and they have a lot more in common that she thought. and how the bonfire of dreams conversation is guts opening up to her in kind, the answer to her talking about how griffith saved her, how she feels. how neither of them ever call it love but it's something they know they both have for griffith. how it's something they're beginning to have for each other, different in ways they couldn't put a word to. because they're equals this time. the way griffith kind of becomes less and less important as they find other reasons to live and fight, as they become less singularly obsessed with him. how griffith is unable to stand it, guts' personhood, that agency and peer-to-peer equality he claimed to want (and perhaps truly did) that disappeared guts from his life, his plans, his side. how it barely even matters to griffith how casca changes because he never wanted her like she wanted him. god i can't fucking stand their shakespearean nonsense drama (<- hopelessly in love with their interpersonal dynamics)

[mejomonster]

On a serious note, I do feel mysterious case lotusbook has a lot of sincere themes about getting older, realities of responsibility and dreams realized, how it's difficult to succeed and not always the direct path one expects, how there's value in little aspects of life. Almost every li lianhua scene seems to be about that to some degree. The murder cases aren't particularly deep as far as super complicated to figure out or Able to be predicted super well (since they don't always give all the details in the initial setup), but the themes about who was killed and why do connect to li lianhuas situation.

[skullkxd]

man tho. Ree’s suppressed their trauma from Jax pretty well but I’d love to go exploring it a bit more deeply.

[unluckyxse7en]

This was. An awkwardly juxtaposed time for a peppa pig ad to pop up, of all things...

[crowshoots]

man. sometimes i think about the end of soc and about the possibility of jesper leaving. but because he wanted to see this through, because he wanted to right things, because he wanted to see inej again and know she was safe, because he wanted to show his father that perhaps he wasn’t entirely a failure who only did reckless things, because he wanted something more for his friends. he went on

[caffeinatedopossum]

I feel like I have an unacceptably low level of control over my body. Like obviously there are some things that no one can control but I have like actual big problems because of it. I'm not really sure how to describe it but it's not just me being really clumsy (although that is an effect of it) or even the tics I have.

It's like I can feel my body moving wrong constantly but I can't correct it and it hurts and it sucks and I'm tired. I'm tired of hurting myself, making mistakes, breaking things, acting like it's fine when in reality I'm constantly afraid of how much any movement I make next could hurt me. I need to move to stay sane, I want to workout and get stronger and go on walks with my friends. I wanna get better. I can't even roll over in bed without pain and I'm just so tired.

[evergardenwall]

hey. just saw this very good documentary about the depp v. heard trial and the anti-feminist backlash that flooded social media. it's ~1:40 hour long, followed by a discussion between different feminist journalists, and if you can understand french, i highly recommend giving it a watch!

(content warnings for discussions of extreme misogyny, violent online harassment, and sexual and sexist violence)

[overelegantstranger]

in the notes on the true crime post there's lot of people going "true crime shows call out the police". and it's like. yeah, but the vast majority don't. This isn't me bullshitting, this is me having grown up with this media everywhere.

The mainstream stuff doesn't, by and large, call out the police, and their failings are framed in a very particular pro-police way. There are so many that I've seen where it's abundantly clear that the police arrested the wrong person because they were black, or disabled, or neurodivergent, or poor, or gay, or all of the above - that the police manufactured or planted evidence or otherwise screwed the fuck up. But you have to read between the lines to see that, and if most viewers Did do that, then the landscape of true crime media would be wholly different.

[gothmods]

Do you ever identify like, patterns of thinking or behaviour in yourself that seem like the sort of response someone would develop due to trauma or repeated negative experiences but you cant really pinpoint why/when/where you developed those patterns?

Hmm...

[violentlydefending]

oh damn i completely forgot riz ahmed was in nightcrawler LMAO it's been a hot second !!

[lordiavolo22]

feminine ppl will try to talk about how cishet guys actively harm and undermine us on a daily basis and everybody in a 1 gazillion mile radius will start talking about how victimized cishet guys are and how bad they have it and how we just need to give them more sympathy!!!

[jean-denim]

Sorry for the rant in the tags, got a little... whelmed

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