#these people are journalists… these people are very educated and have graduated…

[dontmindme2600]

Bro all this discourse about the casting in the new Lilo and Stitch remake is. Something. Listen I know people all have different stages of media literacy and subtext doesn’t come easy to a lot of people, but I literally understood more about how Nani’s identity as a native Hawaiian impacts the plot as a 7 year old than some people do AS GROWN ASS ADULTS

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“I'm observing such a huge gap between different social groups that I didn't even realize were different. I, you know, most of my friends are in the media. A lot of my journalist friends are just much better informed.

A lot of them have had experience reporting in Israel, Palestine, and are quite critical of both Israel and the antisemitism narrative. Then, like, my wife is a lawyer, and her circle is a little bit different, right? It's not dominated by media people, like people in the law or in other professions seem to be broadly much more kind of taken by the sense of profound insecurity and shift in the American Jewish experience.

I think we sort of see different things, for example, when we watch the hearings in Congress on antisemitism on campus.

The university presidents, of which there have now been two hearings, one with three presidents, one with the president of Colombia, and there will be many, many more. And what I see is a right-wing campaign against higher education that is weaponizing antisemitism as an idea, right? Not antisemitism as a practice.

And what they see is, with the possible exception of the president of Colombia, is people who represent institutions or lead institutions that they feel an affinity with, often institutions that they graduated from, who are not standing up for them. Which I find that viewing of those hearings somewhat shocking because people seem to be turning off their critical faculties. But people, intelligent, educated, politically astute people don't turn off their critical faculties unless they're scared.

So I think the underlying fear is real. But just because it's real, it doesn't mean it's justified.

I think a factual account of what we're seeing on campuses now is that this generation of Americans is far more critical of Israel than their parents' generation. And this is true of both Jews and non-Jews. I think that they look at information available to them and they see a 57-year brutal illegal occupation.

And they don't understand how it's possible that their parents and the politicians that their parents support and the politicians who come and give commencement addresses and all that other stuff that I can say about politicians, how it is possible that these people support that state? I think that is an entirely understandable view. It also reflects a huge generation gap.

I think some of those young people are assholes, and some of them are antisemites. I think it's a small minority of the protesters, and it is not actually part of the critique. The protesters' demands, the protesters' organizing beliefs are not in any way or shape antisemitic.

And then there are Jewish students who were brought up Zionist, who were brought up to identify strongly with the state of Israel, who are, I think, a little bit like my cousin in the settlements again. They see these protests, and even probably the participation of their fellow Jewish students in these protests, as threatening their core identity, as threatening their ties to their families, as threatening everything that they were taught for the first 18 years of their lives is true. And of course they feel rattled, of course they feel unsettled, of course they feel threatened.

Like, wouldn't you, if you felt that everything you had believed in was being turned on its head, and if you, by apparently reasonable people? And so you have a couple of options. One is to look at what the protestors are saying, to engage with the facts, to engage with the critique of everything you've ever believed.

There was a terrific, George Curran's podcast a couple of weeks ago with three Columbia students, one of whom sort of narrated that kind of trajectory, getting to university and finding this stuff out and having their mind blown. That's a very difficult path, and it's a very difficult path, especially if you are, say, a first year student in 23, 24.

And then there's the easier path of staying integrated in your community, in your beliefs, and saying this is antisemitic.

Because unfortunately the things that the protestors are talking about are so horrible that you can't say, okay, let's agree to disagree, that you can't hold both of these things in your mind at the same time.

You can't continue to hold your family's uncritical, long-standing support of Israel, and an understanding of what is happening in Gaza and the occupation that has preceded the war in Gaza.

So yeah, of course they feel rattled. That doesn't mean that they're being surrounded by antisemitism.”

—Masha Gessen, the descendant of Holocaust survivors, discusses campus protests (part 3 of 3)

[sayruq]

NAHLA AL-ARIAN HAS been living a nightmare for the past seven months, watching from afar as Israel carries out its scorched-earth war against her ancestral homeland in the Gaza Strip. Like many Palestinian Americans, the 63-year-old retired fourth-grade teacher from Tampa Bay, Florida, has endured seven months of a steady trickle of WhatsApp messages about the deaths of her relatives. “You see, my father’s family is originally from Gaza, so they are a big family. And they are not only in Gaza City, but also in Deir al Balah and Khan Younis, other parts,” Al-Arian told me. Recently, the trickle of horrors became a flood: “It started with like 27, and then we lost count until I received this message from my relative who said at least 200 had died.” The catastrophe was the backdrop for Al-Arian’s visit last week to Columbia University in New York City. Al-Arian has five children, four of whom are journalists or filmmakers. On April 25, two of her daughters, Laila and Lama, both award-winning TV journalists, visited the encampment established by Columbia students to oppose the war in Gaza. Laila, an executive producer at Al Jazeera English with Emmys and a George Polk Award to her name, is a graduate of Columbia’s journalism school. Lama was the recipient of the prestigious 2021 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia Award for her reporting for Vice News on the 2020 explosion at the port of Beirut. The two sisters traveled to Columbia as journalists to see the campus, and Nahla joined them. “Of course, I tagged along. You know, why would I sit at the hotel by myself? And I wanted to really see those kids. I felt so down,” she said. “I was crying every day for Gaza, for the children being killed, for the women, the destruction of my father’s city, so I wanted to feel better, you know, to see those kids. I heard a lot about them, how smart they are, how organized, you know? So I said, let’s go along with you. So I went.” Nahla Al-Arian was on the campus for less than an hour. She sat and listened to part of a teach-in, and shared some hummus with her daughters and some students. Then she left, feeling a glimmer of hope that people — at least these students — actually cared about the suffering and deaths being inflicted on her family in Gaza. “I didn’t teach them anything. They are the ones who taught me. They are the ones who gave me hope,” she recalled. “I felt much better when I went there because I felt those kids are really very well informed, very well educated. They are the conscience of America. They care about the Palestinian people who they never saw or got to meet.” Her husband posted a picture of Nahla, sitting on the lawn at the tent city erected by the student protesters, on his Twitter feed. “My wife Nahla in solidarity with the brave and very determined Columbia University students,” he wrote. Nahla left New York, inspired by her visit to Columbia, and returned to Virginia to spend time with her grandchildren. A few days later, that one tweet by her husband would thrust Nahla Al-Arian into the center of a spurious narrative promoted by the mayor of New York City and major media outlets. She became the exemplar of the dangerous “outside agitator” who was training the students at Columbia. It was Nahla’s presence, according to Mayor Eric Adams, that was the “tipping point” in his decision to authorize the military-style raids on the campus.

On February 20, 2003, Nahla’s husband, Sami Al-Arian, a professor at the University of South Florida, was arrested and indicted on 53 counts of supporting the armed resistance group Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The PIJ had been designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, and the charges against Al-Arian could have put him in prison for multiple life sentences, plus 225 years. It was a centerpiece case of the George W. Bush administration’s domestic “war on terror.” When John Ashcroft, Bush’s notorious attorney general, announced the indictment, he described the Florida-based scholar as “the North American leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sami Al-Arian.” Among the charges against him was conspiracy to kill or maim persons abroad, specifically in Israel, yet the prosecutors openly admitted Al-Arian had no connection to any violence. He was a well-known and deeply respected figure in the Tampa community, where he and Nahla raised their family. He was also, like many fellow Palestinians, a tenacious critic of U.S. support for Israel and of the burgeoning “global war on terror.” His arrest came just days before the U.S. invaded Iraq, a war Al-Arian was publicly opposed to. The Al-Arian case was, at its core, a political attack waged by Bush’s Justice Department as part of a wider assault on the rights of Muslims in the U.S. The government launched a campaign, echoed in media outlets, to portray Al-Arian as a terror leader at a time when the Bush administration was ratcheting up its so-called global war on terror abroad, and when Muslims in the U.S. were being subjected to harassment, surveillance, and abuse. The legal case against Al-Arian was flimsy, and prosecutors largely sought to portray his protected First Amendment speech and charitable activities as terrorism. The trial against Al-Arian, a legal permanent resident in the U.S., did not go well for federal prosecutors. In December 2005, following a six-month trial, a jury acquitted him on eight of the most serious counts and deadlocked 10-2 in favor of acquittal on the other nine. The judge made clear he was not pleased with this outcome, and the prosecutors were intent on relitigating the case. Al-Arian had spent two years in jail already without any conviction and was staring down the prospect of years more. In the face of this reality and the toll the trial against him had taken on his family, Al-Arian agreed to take a plea deal. In 2006, he pleaded guilty to one count of providing nonviolent support to people the government alleged were affiliated with the PIJ. As part of the deal, Al-Arian would serve a short sentence and, with his residency revoked, get an expedited deportation. At no point during the government’s trial against Al-Arian did the prosecution provide evidence he was connected to any acts of violence. For the next eight years following his release from prison in 2008, Al-Arian was kept under house arrest and effectively subjected to prosecutorial harassment as the government sought to place him in what his lawyers characterized as a judicial trap by compelling him to testify in a separate case. His defense lawyers alleged the federal prosecutor in the case, who had a penchant for pursuing high-profile, political cases, held an anti-Palestinian bias. Amnesty International raised concerns that Al-Arian had been abused in prison and he faced the prospect of yet another lengthy, costly court battle. The saga would stretch on for several more years before prosecutors ended the case and Al-Arian was deported from the United States.

“This case remains one of the most troubling chapters in this nation’s crackdown after 9-11,” Al-Arian’s lawyer, Jonathan Turley, wrote in 2014 when the case was officially dropped. “Despite the jury verdict and the agreement reached to allow Dr. Al-Arian to leave the country, the Justice Department continued to fight for his incarceration and for a trial in this case. It will remain one of the most disturbing cases of my career in terms of the actions taken by our government.” That federal prosecutors approved Al-Arian’s plea deal gave a clear indication that the U.S. government knew Al-Arian was not an actual terrorist, terrorist facilitator, or any kind of threat; the Bush administration, after all, was not in the habit of letting suspected terrorists walk. Al-Arian and his family have always maintained his innocence and say that he was being targeted for his political beliefs and activism on behalf of Palestinians. He resisted the deal, Nahla Al-Arian said. “He didn’t even want to accept it. He wanted to move on with another trial,” Nahla said. “But because of our pressure on him, let’s just get done with it [because] in the end, we’re going leave anyway. So that’s why.” Sami and Nahla Al-Arian now live in Turkey. Sami is not allowed to visit his children and grandchildren stateside, but Nahla visits often.

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College Major Headcanons:

[Extra content for The Homo Economicus in Love - noritoshi kamo x reader, cute college au]

Yuuji Itadori - Media Studies, on a full sports scholarship even though he's not too interested in sports. He doesn't show up to practice that much but carries the team in tournaments. Not really very academically inclined but everyone he meets loves him so much that he's gotten a shit ton of internships and work experience just cuz he's nice to work with. Stays on campus dorms.

Nobara Kugisaki - Fashion Merchandising (yay legally blonde). Another one who's not very academically inclined but does great at the practical aspects of the job. Gets 40% off on tuition, but has some funds from her grandma. also gets money from her fashion blog, part-time jobs at fashion mags, and manages clothing for photoshoots on a freelance basis (if she commits she commits). Saves on residence by renting with Inumaki and Panda.

Megumi Fushiguro - Computer Science with a minor in Math. Full scholarship and bursary grant by the college due to his shitty financial conditions (orphaned and destitute at a young age). Prof Gojo is his legal guardian. grew up in and stays on campus dorms.

Maki Zenin - Star Athlete, literally training for the Olympics. Her degree is in Mass Communications but she doesn't actually have to attend classes cuz the Uni wants her to focus on sports. Disowned by her family. Full sports scholarship and occasionally gets sponsored by sportswear companies. Trying to go pro.

Yuuta Okkotsu - Sociology and Anthropolgy. He enjoys talking to and meeting people and works as a part-time Journalist for local news channels to bring attention to issues like poverty. Gets a bursary grant from the uni, gets paid for and is decently recognized for his journalism work. Both Geto and Gojo want to mentor him. He talks to himself when he's alone but that's a secret.

Toge Inumaki - Architectural Design, chose this degree just for the hell of it, is a solid B+ student. Has a YouTube gaming and ASMR channel with 200k followers but is struggling to monetize it profitably. Got in on legacy admissions but gets a sports scholarship of 30% (he's pretty good at athletics)

Panda - ???

Noritoshi Kamo - Economics and Finance, specializing in Private Equity and Investment Banking. he's the heir of the Kamo Conglomerate. Full legacy admission even though he graduated valedictorian of high school and is the captain of the Archery team.

Todo Aoi - Quantum Physics. he's literally the top student of every class he takes. he keeps taking random other classes from different majors based on his whims. his genius was recognised and personally mentored by Yuki Tsukumo, but is now undergoing formal college education for the certificate even though he already knows all this and more. he spends half the day in the gym and the other half streaming Takada-chan variety clips.

Mai Zenin - Economics and Finance, her family made her take it. good at academics even though she's not super into it. legacy admission.

Momo Nishimiya - Literature and Creative Writing. She posts regularly for a gender and sexuality magazine. loves nobara's blog.

Miwa Kasumi - Computer Science with a minor in Software Engineering. She just wanted a degree that would lead to a well-paying job. Cabinet Member of the Student Council. She vouched a lot for Mechamaru/Kokichi to get disability-friendly accommodation. she struggles a bit with academics but pulls through with A- all around. Kokichi/Mechamaru helps her if she finds something particularly difficult to understand. has her own campus residence but has practically moved in with Kokichi.

Arata Nitta - Health and Medicine, focusing on Emergency Care Medicine. he TAs for Prof Shoko's classes. his sister works in college admin office. has campus residence but mostly stays in the college affilitated hospital, bit of an over-worker.

Mechamaru/ Kokichi Muta - double major in Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering. Another top student of his classes. Found it a bit difficult to adjust to campus life at first (not enough disability accommodation) but with Miwa's help he got around. campus dorm with Miwa.

Professors!

Gojo Satoru - graduated from top Ivy colleges, has 5 PhDs, and wrote 1000 papers and books, and is the one of the most respected physicist in the world but insists on teaching Intro-level Physics and Math. drives a Bugatti to college. highly competitive relative grading. prescribes his own books for his class. expect a problem set every day after class. gives a lot of individual attention to students tho, n is very nice in general. he'll accept a late submission if u bring him sweets. his lockscreen is prof geto?

Geto Suguru - teaches one class named Ethics, Philosophy and Law every semester. doesn't answer questions over email, only during Office Hours. great at explaining difficult concepts, his course is the one students fight to get into and say "opened their eyes". has a devoted cult of worshipping students, voted student favorite every year. his adopted daughters took a gap year to travel abroad and he talks about them in class. he always has sweets in his pockets?

Utahime Iori - teaches modules on Economics, Politics and Philosophy courses. great teacher, very clear explanations, bumps up the grading slightly (absolute grading) and is very accommodating as a prof. hates getting emails at night tho.

Shoko Ieiri - Shitty ass prof tbh but everyone takes her class cuz she gives everyone an A. teaches Surgical Anatomy. focuses on practical experience rather than theory. she has a no attendance policy and takes few very exams or assignments.

Yuki Tsukomo - Visiting Faculty, takes one super high level class Quantum Physical Theory one semester and comes back after 4 years. Independent researcher funded by the uni.

[beardedmrbean]

Comedian and social media influencer Zach Sage Fox traveled to the West Bank to see if Palestinian people truly support the Hamas terror group. He almost didn’t make it out alive. 

Fox, who went viral earlier this year when his "Gaza Graduation" video featured anti-Israel protesters in New York City struggling to correctly answer basic questions about the Israel-Hamas war, has been on a crusade to educate his followers since the terror attacks of October 7. He recently brought his popular man-on-the-street style interviews to the West Bank, a contentious territory that Palestinians hope to establish as an independent state along with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Fox, a "loud and proud" Jewish American, was in Israel to create content when a member of his production team offered him the opportunity to enter the West Bank alongside a Muslim producer and cameraman. Fox knew it could be a dangerous project but was interested because American journalists are rarely able to secure unfettered access to Palestinians.  

"Israelis are literally not allowed into Palestine; they're not allowed into the West Bank. However, I'm not Israeli, I'm an American Jew, and it doesn't say ‘Jew’ on my passport. So, I was told, ‘As long as you don't say you're Jewish, you know, they're not going to kill you on the spot,’" Fox told Fox News Digital. 

"I really looked in the mirror that night and I said, ‘I think I could pass for Italian,’" Fox continued. "I'm going to take the risk." 

To get ready for the daring trip, Fox removed his signature flair, such as jewelry and nail polish, and wore the most "masculine" outfit he had. He didn’t tell most of his friends and family back in America about his plans, explaining that they would likely have talked him out of it. 

During the journey, Fox told anyone who asked he was an Italian American and was able to cross the border into the West Bank without issue, which he felt was "kind of shocking." 

Fox began his time in the West Bank with a prearranged interview with a man who was described to him by his Muslim producer as a "very smart and civil," "somewhat moderate" thinker who holds a Master’s degree and speaks good English. They sat down at a coffee shop in Ramallah, the Palestinian "capital" located near Jerusalem.

The man denied that "innocent Israelis" were killed during the attacks of October 7, expressed support for Hamas and suggested rape never occurred during the barbaric attacks. 

"I realized quickly, if this is someone being presented to me as one of the more educated people, I might be in for a real shock," Fox said. 

Then he hit the streets to find locals and recorded a series of spontaneous interviews while walking around Ramallah. But Fox said "things got very contentious very quick" once he hit the streets. 

"It was like one after another, massive love and support for Hamas," Fox said. 

"I was specifically looking for younger people thinking, OK, someone here is not going to support Hamas. And they all do," he continued. "It really ranged from sympathy to actual love and admiration for Hamas…. I thought I would find at least some people who were not diehard Hamas supporters, and I couldn’t find one." 

Fox found several people walking West Bank streets who were quick to express support for the Hamas terror group and declared Israeli hostages should not be released. He said things grew particularly dicey when he tried to interview a woman whose hair was fully covered. 

"This Palestinian man comes up, and he starts screaming in Arabic, and my translator and producer tells me he's very upset," Fox said. 

Fox recalled the man yelling "something about modesty," and that females shouldn’t speak for all Palestinians. Fox attempted to ignore the man, but he only grew more agitated and started calling additional Palestinian men for support. 

"They start screaming in Arabic, and I’m still just trying to be professional and go on and interview people. Eventually, my producer tells me he’s threatening to hurt us if we don’t delete the footage. I’ve never had anything like this happen in my entire career… never, no one threatened violence," Fox said.

"Then that violence turned into death threats very quickly," Fox added, noting that he initially pushed back and refused to delete the footage. "The Arabic started getting louder, more men started coming."

Fox said he’s probably "crazy," and wanted to continue to stand his ground, but pivoted when his Muslim cameraman said he was terrified for his life.

"Eventually I cave because my cameraman tells me they’re threatening to kill us… we deleted a bunch of the footage in front of him," he said.

"Then my producer and my cameraman grab my arm, we run to the car, and it was a pretty eye-opening experience," he continued. "We really bolted out of Palestine… luckily they didn’t chase us to the car."

Fox enlisted a team of IT specialists who were able to recover some of the footage, and every interview that was salvaged made the viral "Wild West Bank" video. He lost some valuable footage but said he’s "happy to be out of there alive" and is thrilled he recovered enough footage to make an impact. 

"Wild West Bank" has been viewed over 4.7 million times on X alone. 

Fox noted that many Jewish people don’t refer to the West Bank as "Palestine," but he decided to use that moniker in his video and subsequent conversations about it for "kumbaya purposes."  

"Obviously there's a land that Palestinians are living in, and the dream would be that there's a two-state solution, at least for me. However, once I got there, I realized that dream seems further than ever," Fox said. 

Last month, the Department of State urged Americans to avoid the West Bank because of "terrorism and civil unrest."

[tiesthatbind-tf]

You said Sentinel was Optimus’s mentor in your AU? What was that partnership like before Optimus left? How did Sentinel treat him, I mean?

Oh, we're going to have to pull up a chair for this hot dumpster fire.

You get some homework reading beforehand.

Optimus Prime (Omar Parvez) and his parents (Mirza and Ariya) are Kurdish political refugees from Iran who were granted asylum in the UK, and Optimus first crossed paths with Sentinel Prime (Sedgewick Princeton), when Sentinel was a young cop. Mirza was a college professor, Ariya was a journalist, needless to say they had people who wanted them silenced, and at one point of time, Sentinel (back then 27) responded to a home invasion at their apartment and saved Mirza's life. OP and Sentinel spoke back then when Sentinel was attempting to calm him down (he made the emergency call as a terrified seven-year-old) and it was this moment that inspired OP as a child to look into law enforcement as a career option when he grew up.

OP put in the work, made the cut to the military/law class despite hailing from parents in the art/education class, and caught the eye of Sentinel, who had become London Police Commissioner. Sentinel, both impressed by OP's work ethic and getting a bit of an ego boost that OP was inspired by him, decided to take OP under his wing when OP graduated, and began work in the Hackney borough.

At this point, Sentinel and OP's relationship was very good. OP was dutiful, excelled in his tasks and showed a lot of initiative, and he treated OP like a son, even to the point of trying to set OP up on blind dates! But OP would see some subtle warning signs, where Sentinel would compliment him in a way that disparaged his background (think the "you're a credit to your people"/"would you believe the child of mere book keepers could become a warrior" type 'compliments'), and played him up as a model minority to an uncomfortable degree.

The real rift started when OP was made Chief Superintendent of the Dead End as a trial by fire (its two previous Chief Superintendents had quit on the job), where he would oversee enforcement there without Sentinel's input and if it worked out, he would be promoted to deputy commissioner in Scotland Yard. OP strayed away from Sentinel's standard policing protocol for a more holistic/facilitative form of policing that focused more on public welfare than making arrest quotas and punitive action.

OP sees severe issues with the system, Sentinel thinks it's working as intended to 'keep order'; OP begins to see cracks in the Sentinel's pedestal and the callousness behind Sentinel's facade of propriety, Sentinel begins to see OP as not as a student, but as a rival, especially when OP's methods work. Both end up in disagreements and rows so bad that Sentinel would hamstring OP's station funding and send his men down there to police OP, because Sentinel still has authority over OP (thought not enough to strip OP of his position in the Dead End because NOTHING OP is doing is technically wrong, it's simply getting in the way of locking up all these 'undesirables' and investments from gentrifying the place).

And when OP gets in the bad graces of Proteus and several Senate members for being a loudmouthed upstart, Sentinel takes the opportunity to throw OP under the bus, fire him and have him blacklisted from future military/law enforcement positions.

That said, whatever schadenfreude Sentinel felt seeing OP reduced to a dockworker (see where disobeying me gets you), was immediately decked in the face by the realisation that OP is no fool; OP had made connections with Hotspot, Ratchet, and local activists to ensure through a network of initiatives and legalities that Dead End remains cared for and in the hands of its residents, regardless of its superintendent.

Sentinel has never forgotten this and has harbored a deep disdain for OP ever since, a disdain which turns into hate when he finds our years later than OP is one of the two rebel leaders of the workers' revolution clashing heads with his forces.

The point of absolutely no return is when Sentinel has OP's father, his only living parent at that point, arrested and publicly executed for sedition via dissemination of banned literature (there is a bit of a personal slant to this; a part of Sentinel is always angry that OP would never see him as a father figure and despite having the strength and discipline of a warrior, remains that soft-hearted, kindly book keeper at heart) in an attempt to crush OP's morale and draw OP and Megatron out into the open (also, it's an interesting narrative bookend, given that Sentinel had saved Mirza on the job years ago; he sees himself in a position to hold both life and death in his hands) The hatred is mutual after this point, and OP prefers to avoid any discussion of Sentinel to this day.

[wildfernflower]

Who are Sam and Cait in Hollywood-c list-to have the narrative that lasts 8 years !!

Marilyn Monroe married a playwright Arthur Miller !

Why doesn't Caitriona Balfe marry a musician Tony McGill ?!

Anon, sorry for late reply. I see you’re making rounds. I’ve recognized you, you sent an ask to @sleepwakerepeat3 just yesterday absurdly suggesting there’s a parallel between the marriage of M. Monroe and A. Miller, and that of Cait and T. I have read that post:

and it has motivated me to finally reply to your ask, although I’m quite busy.

I’ll express my opinion about T’s occupation. To begin with, he’s not a musician, his official job is music producer. This information appears repeatedly in all media and press, is being rewritten by the journalists from old articles to the new ones, yet no source exists that provides current or even old but reliable data about his job. That’s the first red flag – why literally no single solid information about his job can be found anywhere? As a supposed music producer, he is totally anonymous. A person working in the music/entertainment industry these days is expected to have a professional website and/or IG account and a public, well documented and officially available career pathway: education background (list of schools/high schools they graduated from), list of their skills, and work experience including professional achievements, projects they have successfully managed, list of musicians/bands they worked with, etc. A music producer strives to be known and recognizable in the industry, wants to be perceived as a professional and makes his/her qualifications and achievements public in order to gain the trust of future clients and develop his/her career. None of the above is known about T. Just have a look at his Linkedin account:

It's empty, it doesn’t mention even he’s managing The Fratellis. The website of his company Numb Music doesn't exist.

Let’s compare the content of T's account to that of Nigel Brown, tour manager of The Fratellis:

The difference is striking, isn’t it? You can clearly see by yourself, these public records don’t lie.

Doesn’t it look suspicious to you, Anon? Is that really what one should expect from the professional music producer and his career nowadays? No single word about his education, skills, projects, cooperations, accomplishments. No website, no IG account. Would you like to cooperate with a man with the unknown skills and experience, and entrust him managing your band or coordinating your music career? Me personally would consider him a scammer if I were a musician and saw his account.

Does T hide his skills and achievement? That would be unreasonable and simply harmful for his career. Or perhaps he doesn’t have any?

One can speculate what T’s truly doing for a living (and you surely know what these speculations are about if you have come here) but I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts he’s not and never has been a music producer and doesn’t have any real job or own career. Music producer is a feigned occupation that has been invented for the fans and media/journalists in case they ask and have to include the respective data in the articles. If something is repeated and passed on many times, it becomes true, because no one bothers to verify its authenticity; that’s what the people who created the myth of T being a music producer counted on, and they’ve achieved their goal. Of course there must be very specific purpose(s) why this fictional occupation has been pushed so hard. Don’t you think it’s a cover to divert from what T is really doing?

In the post I’m referring to in the beginning, blogger @mariaae compiled a list of A. Miller's achievements. He was famous already during his lifetime, was a recognized playwright, an intellectual. He surely could impress and attract women. I guess, Marylin considered his personality interesting and challenging.

Ask yourself Anon, do you see any parallels between A. Miller and T, or between the two said relationships?    

[transitofmercury]

Pulitzer Family Fact Post (Katherine's Siblings Edition)

I'm finally doing it, after threeish years, I'm finally making posts about my acquired knowledge of the Pulitzer family. I'm starting with what I know about his kids because I think that's what people would find most interesting. I'd quite like to go on about Pulitzer's siblings and what people have managed to figure out about his childhood but I'll do that another day. It's been a while so I might forget stuff or get things slightly wrong but I'm doing my best to be accurate. Information is mostly from James McGrath Morris' book, 'Pulitzer: A life in Politics, Print and Power' and records I looked at on Ancestry (I got really weird about this).

Pulitzer and his wife, Kate Davis, had 7 children: Ralph, Lucille, Katherine, Joseph, Edith, Constance and Herbert. I'm just going to go through kid-by-kid and reel off everything I remember that is actually semi-interesting.

Ralph Pulitzer: Born June 11th, 1879. Died June 14th, 1939. He was born in St. Louis because Pulitzer hadn't bought The New York World and moved the family to New York at this point.

All the kids seem to have been sickly (like their father) but Ralph was asthmatic and small for his age, his health was always a concern. The family would spend a lot of time in Europe but he and Lucille were the ones who usually joined their parents while the younger ones were left in America. He didn't like learning Latin (From a letter to Lucille: "I never imagined a language capable of such filthy, beastly rules and contradictions") and preferred Greek. He was educated at St. Mark's School and would've been at Harvard by the time that Newsies happened.

All the sons were a bit detached from the realities of how newspapers worked because they were raised in mansions and boarding schools but Pulitzer was surprised and very upset about them having limited journalistic skills. He really wanted them to be prepared to run the paper after him and they really weren't. He started to become president of The World around 1907. When Pulitzer died, he got 20% of the newspaper stock in the will. He was the main person running The World before they sold it in 1931. Ralph preferred high society life to newspapers. He married Frederica Webb who was vaguely a Vanderbilt in 1905. They had two sons, I think, and eventually divorced. He remarried and had two daughters but one died very young. He died in New York following complications to do with abdominal surgery.

Lucille Irma Pulitzer: Born September 30th, 1880. Died December 31st, 1897. She was probably also born in St. Louis but I haven't been able to find the record. Her middle name seems to come from one of Pulitzer's sisters.

She was Pulitzer's favourite, that's the key thing about her. He had very high expectations of his children and a lot of rules, and she managed to meet those expectations and didn't break those rules. She was focused on her studies, she could speak multiple languages and play multiple instruments. In Pulitzer's code-book, she's referred to as 'Lulu' instead of Lucille. Seems to have spent a lot of her younger years in Europe. When she was 14 she had a minor throat surgery and Pulitzer got upset that everyone was paying her more attention than they were him (his wife got really mad at him and he sent Lucille flowers to apologise).

I think I read about her graduating from Miss Brown's School for Young Ladies in May 1897 when she would've been 16. Summer of that year they held a party at the Chatwold (their place in Bar Harbour) to basically debut her. A couple days later, she became ill. She had Typhoid and despite the family's efforts, she died months later at the Chatwold on New Years Eve. After her death, Pulitzer established the Lucille Pulitzer Scholarship at Barnard College, which makes me think she wanted to go to college and that he would have supported this.

Katherine Ethel Pulitzer: Born January 30th, 1882. Died May 9th, 1884. Same as Lucille, probably born in St. Louis but I've never seen the records. She's the one daughter whose middle name I can't link to one of Pulitzer's family members but her first name comes from her mother. There's not much to say because she died so young. She died of Pneumonia in New York almost a year exactly (one day off) after Pulitzer purchased The World.

This is quite sad (it's already sad) but she is either omitted or forgotten in the 1900 census. They asked for the number of children born and the number of children living, at this point all 7 had been born and 5 were alive but the Pulitzers responded that 6 had been born instead. They weren't forgetting Lucille after three years, so it seems like Katherine was not counted.

Joseph Pulitzer II: Born March 21st, 1885. Died March 30th, 1955. One of the few children born in New York.

Less sickly than the others but Pulitzer was constantly disappointed by him. He was also sent to St. Mark's School. As a teenager he didn't do what his father told him to and didn't pay enough attention to his studies. He got thrown out of St. Mark's in 1901 after he and some friends snuck out to buy beer and then ended up climbing into the headmaster and his wife's bedroom when they were sneaking back in. Pulitzer was really angry about that. Pulitzer managed to get him into Harvard but he just kept being the same as he was before so Pulitzer pulled him out of Harvard.

He got sent to St. Louis to be trained by the people Pulitzer had at the Post-Dispatch and actually developed journalistic talent. His father could not see this talent and was still disappointed in him. He only got 10% of the newspaper stock when his dad died. He ran the Post-Dispatch far better than his brothers ran The World. He tried to punch Hearst which is just really funny to me. He married Elinor Wickham in 1910, she died in 1925 and a year later he married Elizabeth Edgar. He had similar health problems to his father towards the end of his life and after he died, the Post-Dispatch passed to his son, Joseph Pulitzer III, it stayed in the family's hands until very recently (either the 90s or the 00s) but there was a legal battle about whether to sell it in the 80s.

Edith Louise Pulitzer: Born June 19th, 1886. Died April 6th, 1975. She was born in Lenox, Massachusetts. Her middle name seems to come from Pulitzer's mother.

Pulitzer was not that interested in his younger daughters but he still had high expectations for them. When she was younger and her parents travelled to Europe, she seems to have been left in America more than her older siblings but later on she seems to have been just following her mother around to wherever she went. She was 13 when the Pulitzer house fire happened in January 1900. Morris mentions an incident where she got upset at her father for constantly criticising her and the two of them had a bit of an argument. She was sent to Miss Vinton’s School for Girls in Connecticut.

She married William Scoville Moore a couple weeks after her father died, I think I read that they had to have a pretty boring, scaled back wedding because, officially, she and her mother were still in mourning. They had five sons. William died in 1944 and then two of their sons died in 1944 and 1945 fighting in the war. Another son died in 1957. She lived the longest out of all of the children, and 1975 feels so strangely recent for a child of Joseph Pulitzer to have been alive then. She and Constance both got the same amount in the will and it was obviously a lot of stuff but I think she might've tried to claim that it wasn't enough and that her father wasn't in his right mind when he made the will.

Constance Helen Pulitzer: Born December 13th, 1888. Died July 14th, 1938. She was born in France, probably Paris, because the family (Joseph, his wife and the eldest two children) were in Europe looking for advice on his worsening health when she was born. According to census responses from the early 20th century, her first language was French while all her siblings' had been English. Her middle name seems to come from another one of Pulitzer's sisters.

Pulitzer did not see her for very extended periods of time in her early childhood. She was also at home when the Pulitzer house fire happened, she was 11 at the time. Once, when Pulitzer was away from home, he only received a letter from Constance and told his wife to tell the other children he didn't love them (that's a quote, "To all the rest of the children you can say I do not love them"). She also followed her mother around Europe a bit when she got older. She debuted in 1907.

In 1913 she married William Grey Elmslie who had been her younger brother's tutor. The family expressed their support for the marriage but I think only Edith was actually present. Oh, this is Newsies relevant: she and Edith shared a property in Santa Fe. She died at 49 which is young even by Pulitzer family standards and makes her the first child to die in adulthood but I can't find a cause of death so I don't know what went on there.

Herbert Pulitzer: Born November 20th, 1896. Died September 4th, 1957. He was born in New York. I see him get called Tony a lot, he might've had a middle name that gets forgotten.

This is a twist you're not expecting: he may have not actually been Pulitzer's son. There's (significant) evidence that Kate was having an affair with Arthur Brisbane when she got pregnant with Herbert and it's definitely possible that Arthur was Herbert's father. He was born a long time after Constance considering that the first 6 children were born within 10 years of each other. And if you look at pictures of Pulitzer and his older sons at around the same age, they look very similar - I don't think Herbert looked that much like him but he does kinda look like Arthur. We can't really know but I do think it's very, very possible. Pulitzer never doubted that Herbert was his, and he seems to have been the favourite of his sons since he got 60% of the newspaper stock. He briefly ran The World in the years before it was sold but apparently people who worked there didn't like him. He was very young when the Pulitzer house fire happened and Kate had to go back inside to save him.

I'm less certain about details in Herbert's life than the other children, I'm not sure why I know less about him but I do. He was the only child at his father's deathbed, when he was only a teenager. He learnt to fly and fought at the end of WW1. Married Gladys Munn in 1926 and they had two children together. Their son, also called Herbert, led a messy life (highly publicised divorce). Herbert died of uremic poisoning, which is described "urine in the blood" and, yeah, that's the note this post is going out on.

Again, it's possible I've made mistakes or forgotten stuff here. I also can't stress enough how much information James McGrath Morris' book has provided this post.

[35mmshcts]

introducing GIOVANNI VESPER! word on the street is that he is a JOURNALIST at PUBLICATION for the past EIGHT YEARS. though he is OVERTLY CURIOUS & HARD-HEADED, he can also be SINCERE & RESOURCEFUL. in the chaos of new york city, he's sure to fit right in.

— BASICS

NAME.    giovanni vesper. AGE.    thirty four DATE OF BIRTH.    may 26th, 1989 GENDER.    cisgender male PRONOUNS.    he / him / himself SEXUALITY.    bisexual + heavy male lean HOMETOWN.    rye, england

AFFILIATION.    media JOB POSITION.    journalist EDUCATION.    master’s degree in photojournalism

RELATIONSHIP STATUS.    single CHILDREN.    n/a

POSITIVE TRAITS.    honest, resourceful, selfless, hardworking, persistent NEGATIVE TRAITS.    overtly curious, hard-headed, self-destructive, obsessive, confrontational

— BIOGRAPHY

The apple does not fall far from the tree, or whatever it was that people said. Giovanni, too, could not escape the fate that had been written for him in the twining of his DNA. His father, Leonardo Vesper, and his mother, Carmila Vesper, had been an unexpected match. Perhaps it was for that very reason that Giovanni, too, turned out to be quite the anomaly. So, truly, who was to be blamed: The chicken, or the egg?

It was said that his father was born with the trigger of a gun caught between his fingers. If that was true, then Giovanni was born with the trigger of a camera stuck in his. Just as there had not been a way to define his father’s marksmanship, there was also no better explanation as to how Giovanni could always be found with his camera swung around in just the right direction, the lingering echo of a camera’s shutter serving as a calling card. There was no escape from Leonardo Vesper’s bullets, just as there was no escape from Giovanni Vesper’s lenses. Like father, like son.

Not that it meant anything to his father. No, in the eyes of the great and invincible and so goddamn corrupt Leonardo Vesper, his son was nothing more than a disappointment. Not for his aversion for all things military, or the fact that he had settled down as a journalist in a publication rather than accepting his father’s offering to position him somewhere good in the heart of the army. His father had made his peace with that, no matter how begrudging he had been about it. It was not that part that offended his dear ol’ dad’s fragile ego, it was the part where Giovanni grew up to be a good and honest man. What an ironic twist of this otherwise predictable tale, but his father had never been good at being cliché . . . or honest, or a good person or dad, so this came as no surprise to Giovanni. Leonardo Vesper had never been there for him, so he had never expected his father to approve of his career path, either. It wouldn’t be the first time Giovanni disappointed him . . . and he doubted it was the last.

As for his mother, she would always tell him that he was the other half of her shattered dream, the haunting lingering over her graveyard of childhood fantasies, the ‘one good thing that came out of this whole damn nightmare’. Giovanni didn’t understand anything as a kid, and he still understood so little to this day, but one thing he knew was that his parents didn’t have the most conventional relationships. A revered sharpshooter, and a washed up model; even all the way from the beginning, they sounded like an impossibility. But his mother would not be Carmila Vesper if she was soft all the way through, so Giovanni grew a spine like his mother’s iron will, and he picked up the camera over and over again and brought it to her face and made her smile for him again and again because this, he, made her happy. The tree, the apple.

Upon graduating high school, his father was quick to intercept his attempts towards university and put him right through military training. Three years, long and gruelling, of his life, wasted towards a matter he cared nothing about. To this very day, Giovanni still didn’t know how he had managed to let him go, but he had and Giovanni, in spite of all odds, was a free man.

Leaving it all behind was easy. University was a battlefield, but it was the one he picked. So, bruised up and fucked over, Giovanni poured everything into his studies. Journalism had been an accident. He had only looked for the one thing he knew his father would loathe . . . and then, he fell in love with the art of it. Commentaries and news, to provide information and the truth for a greater audience to comprehend. Photojournalism had merely been the next step, a combination of his two great loves. A straight path, an arrowhead that pointed directly towards the life that he wanted to lead.

The rest is, as the say, history. Combining his spectacular habit of stumbling into the most perfect scenes, and his general dauntless manner of approaching matters, Giovanni was quick to carve his own home into the world of publishing. It was smooth sailing from there on out . . . or, it would be, if he didn’t insist upon uncovering truths that would make more enemies than it would allies. But, he would not be Giovanni Vesper without it, no?

— WANTED CONNECTIONS

TBA.

[defele]

Iris De Le Fe Human

Age: 36

Occupation: Part time at Harbor's Hearth 

Gender: Cisfemale

Pronouns: She/Her 

Face Claim: Ana De Armas

Bio

Iris is a happy person at heart, but most people would never know that these days. She grew up in Valle de Vinales, a small rural town with lush green fields. Iris’ mother had met her father while he was visiting Cuba, a passionate affair ensued and the result was baby Iris. 

Arlo, Iris’ father, hadn’t stuck around for her birth but he did visit every couple months. It wasn’t til later in life did Iris realize this was due to him having a wife elsewhere. 

Perhaps it was due to some kind of guilt from Arlo for not being involved in Iris’ life, but he paid a pretty penny for her to leave Valle de Vinales and pursue an education in Toronto, Canada. 

She studied journalism and criminal justice, which shaped her into an investigative journalist.

After graduating she delved further into local political problems and crime; at some point Iris had made a name for herself in the community. It wasn’t an easy job, many of the cases either kept her up late or haunted her dreams. Had it not been for the constant support of her editor Iris’ mental state would be in shambles.

He worked closely with her on each story, often working long hours alongside her; during this time Iris grew increasingly infatuated with him. After one frighteningly close call with death in the name of finding the truth, Iris went to him for comfort. The two spent the night together, it would be the only time they crossed this line between coworkers; after all, he was married.

Though he didn’t regret their night together, he was ashamed that he cheated. Iris understood, at this point she was no better than her father, but her feelings for him weren’t so easy to move on from. Tension grew between them, and as much as she hated to, she stopped going to him for aid. 

After a string of grim cases she had been looking into, and the news that her editor’s wife was pregnant, Iris’ became miserable and it was plain to see. During one of the rare lunches she had with her father, Arlo suggested she take a break. He offered up a small home he owned at Crestle Cove, he never used the place, primarily renting it out, but if she wanted she could stay there.

A week later Iris reluctantly packed up her things, and resigned from her job. A large part of her wanted to speak with her editor, see if they could work things out, but she knew this was wishful thinking; it had crushed her to do so, but Iris left Toronto without speaking a single word to him.

Wanted Connections

Friends With Benefits - Originally I saw this as a woman/fem presenting individual, but I’m really open to any gender! This relationship is purely for pleasure and a way for Iris to forget about her problems as well as glean some kind of comfort from another person. She doesn’t place too much importance on her relationship with this person and to call this person a friend would be pushing it, outside of the bedroom they do little talking– or at least, Iris doesn’t.

Someone With A Secret/Someone Who Needs Help - Her stay in Crestle Cove has helped improve her mental state a little, and it certainly more relaxing than watching a man you love impregnate someone else. However, Iris is a nosy person and misses digging up dirt on people. She could tell very quickly upon moving here that Crestle Cove is a place full of secrets, and despite her best efforts to just unwind, Iris can’t help but want to investigate some questionable events/people.

Supernatural Encounter - Iris had no knowledge of the supernatural upon moving to Crestle Cove. Imagine her surprise when a chance encounter with one of the town’s residents exposed her to the knowledge that there is a vast world of ethereal creatures. As someone who has always believed heavily in science and everything having a logical answer, Iris is still struggling to wrap her head around this discovery.

@crestlecovehq

[readingsquotes]

"At UVA, the claims of ​“safety” concerns had special resonance for the student I spoke with: ​“Contextualizing the University of Virginia as a site and campus where white supremacists felt comfortable enough in 2017 marching through the lawn with torches and guns, shouting hate speech, and realizing that they were not met with the same police repression we faced as people protesting the genocide against Palestinians, makes the encampment on UVA ground feel especially important in connecting the Palestinian genocide as a racial justice issue.”"

...The students were also inspired by the movement to stop Cop City in Atlanta, which reminded the Columbia grad student ​“just how much money is going to war basically inside and outside, and how the repression of protest is deadly.” 

...The Columbia graduate student noted that international students from the Global South, including Palestinian students, were at the heart of the movement; that for those students, it was the first time they had felt welcome, at home, at the university. They were deeply aware of how much the university was intertwined with the security state in a way that made it a strategic target: ​“We feel at the heart or one of the hearts of the empire in a very concrete material way, and all of the research of these groups have shown how much the investments of the university go to the genocide.” And how little of the university’s wealth is actually wrapped up in their education. ​“Sadly, the educational part is a smaller and smaller, it’s not a priority for the institutions.”

The encampment is a movement against the social imperatives of capitalism. Which is a fancy way to say that capitalism pits us against each other and the encampment — like the union, the membership group, the party in the old sense — brings us together. The encampment is the most intense of these, if usually the most temporary. It teaches something that the rest of the world does not.

...Encampments have a long history; the tactic was there for the taking. Laura Flanders, a longtime journalist and political organizer, recalled the first one she joined in the early 1980s, outside of the Greenham Common U.S. Air Force Base in England. ​“Women encamped there to do a variety of things, not just to protest, but to actually stop the deployment of cruise missiles,” she said. Turns out that it’s hard to move missiles and deploy them secretly when you have a bunch of screaming protesters following you. The encampment, she said, ​“was that experience of embodied protest that people are probably familiar with from strikes and picket lines and prison protests and hunger strikes. But the duration of it is unlike anything else. Something gets built that gives you a glimpse of the world you’re trying to make. Not a perfect one, but a sense that some of your conventions are mutable.” 

...Palestinians are treated with such disregard, she noted, that some of that disregard rubs off on American students like her. ​“We are some of the most privileged U.S. citizens, and simply for speaking out for Palestinian rights, we got an incredibly violent response from our own country. So imagining that they’re willing to do that to U.S. citizens fully, publicly, fully on U.S. soil with their own infrastructure makes it so clear that they’re not even trying to hide what they’re doing to Palestinians.” 

Like the Palestinians, the students get blamed for their own lack of safety. The NYPD, Grosso said, took its time posing for photos with its new weaponry—including an armored vehicle with ladders used to deliver armed police into the building — when it raided the Columbia encampment.

The concept of safety — or, more accurately, the concept of ​“feeling safe” — has been at the heart of arguments about Palestine since October 7, and perhaps since the beginning of the Zionist movement. Zionism is after all a project of colonization that is justified with appeals to Jewish safety; the genocide in Gaza is justified with repeated invocations of Hamas committing ​“the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

...Feelings of safety, after all, can be wrong: many people, including perhaps some of the students brutalized by the NYPD at Columbia, might have felt safe with the presence of armed police, but armed police killed a record number of people in 2023, and they’re on track to surpass that number in 2024. 

The fact is that feeling safe does not mean we are safe; conversely, the term ​“feeling unsafe” in recent years often seems to be deployed in ways that mean something more akin to feeling uncomfortable.

...Demands for divestment then materially threaten the hierarchy of the university, Silas said. ​“I think they’re very, very afraid of setting the precedent that students do have power, and faculty do have power, and I think that’s part of why they responded so harshly.”

[obsoleteozymandias]

Hi! I saw your requests are open so I was wondering if I could get a matchup for Resident Evil, any character if fine with me. Sorry if mines a bit long. Feel free to detail or take your time with it.

Nonbinary, She/They, Bi-oriented demi romantic gray ace

INFP 4w5

In short: A shy, informed of being too empathic, depressed, and autistic college student, studying at the moment radiology, but works as a freelance journalist and occasional host on different podcasts with a focus on bettering society through education. Has a record for chronically getting in over their head, but has emerged a jack of many trades due to that. Comically experienced best example was when I got onto a podcast hosted by experts in a bunch of fields and I just graduated hs but was able to discuss topics ranging from development of ai to causes of cultural polarization, with me and the psychologist bouncing off each other in discussion quite a bit, for a couple hours with them.

Personality: Quiet and shy, only really opening up as I work, see someone needing help, or notice a common interest. I have been called mom by many people due to how deep running my older sibling instincts are. I have a mask of confidence due to often working with people years older to hide a fear of rejection. My work as a journalist has led me to see some of the worst in people, so I can come off a bit tired but I try to use my experiences to help others. I tend to speak with a large degree of candor and I’ll spring off whenever I hear someone say to make a joke or affectionately poke fun at something. I’m also known as the cockroach because of my sheer tenacity to survive situations that would bring a lot of people down. While I don’t seem like the sort to take charge, I will if I see things go downhill with efficiency to make sure everything that needs to be done gets done.

Appearance: 5 foot 6 inches and gonna say this since I saw you know TWST is the fact I basically look like a shorter Malleus with brown eyes and glasses like Azul. I tend to dress in sweater vests, waistcoats, and button ups but I do love my leather jacket. Some days, I’ll look more feminine other days I’ll wear my binder. Additionally, I also sometimes wear a brace on my elbow due to an injury I got due to the amount of desk work I do.

Likes: Coffee, having time for a nap, going down random rabbit holes of research, media analysis, writing, working on my novel, making different drinks and food, punk, and rock.

Dislikes: Bigots, loud crowds, unrealistic expectations, conformity, people that have a simmering anger, and environments that leave people on the edge.

Me in a relationship: Very much more of an unspoken affection sort of person, I’ll make small changes to things or add steps in my daily routine to help my partner. I also am a bit cuddly, though only after people gain my trust, as I’m a tad touch starved. Cooking is another thing that I will do, especially with trying to figure out things that bring happy memories and such.

What I look for: Someone who can make me laugh and is willing to listen. Doesn’t cause feeling walking on eggshells constantly. People that care for others and are empathic. Able to deal with some distance at times due to needing time to mentally sort things. Acceptance of flaws and quirks but willing to help each other grow.

Have a good day, night, whichever is applicable to you, and thank you for your time.

Not that it matters because wikis exist, but I feel like I should mention that the last ResE game I played was the original 4 back when I was young. Everything else is just fandom osmosis if I’m being real, so if anyone reads this and is like “yeah Oz you dink it’s obvious” I apologize. 

Hope you enjoy!

== Resident Evil==>

I match you up with…

Rebecca Chambers 

Rebecca is the epitome of caring and empathetic, not to mention extremely intelligent and capable. She’ll keep up with you like few others can. 

As such, she’ll understand when you need space. And she’ll need it herself - she’s a busy gal. 

I imagine this is somewhat of an unspoken relationship - where the things you need to say are communicated with loving looks and gestures, and where it feels like you two may even be psychically connected. 

You also share a passion for activism. She’s been through hell, and so her dedication to making the world a better place is on par with yours. 

When you first meet, she’s the kind of person who you find yourself talking to for hours, completely out of nowhere. She’s easy to like, and what's more, she likes you, and likes hearing what you have to say. 

She’s also someone who you can feel comfortable around given her younger age. 

You both have the same way of behaving due to having to be around those who are alot older than you. 

She’ll be a stable figure in your life when you two start dating (which I imagine would be after a long few years of friendship under which romantic feelings simmer unsaid). She’s there when you need her, and even when you don’t, and she won’t hesitate to step in or help you. 

At the end of the day, it can sometimes feel like it’s you and her against the world. But maybe, together, you two can change that. 

[dcvenport]

maurice davenport. the bulletin broadcasting company ceo.

( written by ade ; he&him )

[ ! ] — it seems that [ maurice davenport ] has entered the scene ! he looks exactly like [ michael ealy ]. this [ 50-year-old ] is the [ ceo ] of [ the bulletin broadcasting company ]. it’s a small wonder since he is known for being [ ambitious and confident ] and [ two-faced and obnoxious ]. he has been involved with the company for [ TEN ] years.

intro under the cut / musings / threads

BASICS.

full name: maurice lyle davenport age: 50 date of birth: july 31st, 1973 place of birth: new york city, usa current location: london, england gender: cis man pronouns: he&him sexuality: gay occupation: ceo of the bulleting broadcasting company education level: english & business degrees from oxford ; has a background in journalism living arrangements: loft financial status: wealthy spoken languages: english, french, german

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.

faceclaim: michael ealy hair color and style: black, cut short eye color: blue eyesight: wears contacts height: 5′11 body and build: muscular, lean tattoos: none piercings: none clothing style: business casual but more on the business side; loves a well-tailored suit

PERSONALITY.

positive traits:  ambitious, confident, witty, charming negative traits: disloyal, bossy, impulsive, two-faced, obnoxious

maurice is generally very full of himself, thinking he’s the most important person in the room; charismatic and charming, always getting what he wants and when he doesn’t, it means war; enjoys spending money, shit talking and causing drama. don’t invite him to a dinner party, he’ll ruin it.

FAMILY, RELATIONSHIPS.

mother: ava davenport father:  theodore osborne significant other:  husband exes:  ex-husband sibling(s):  half-sister and half-brother children:  — extended family: — pet(s):  —

BACKGROUND.

maurice’s father, theo, walks out on him and his mother, ava, soon after he's born; with the man being a high-profile figure in media it's clear that he isn't going to acknowledge a child that came out of an affair with a woman ten years his junior.  ava decides she isn't going to try and change theo’s mind. she eventually decides to stay in london (chosen over both ava’s and maurice’s place of birth, nyc) with one of her brothers; maurice is two so he knows england as his only home

his mom never really mentions his father and maurice doesn't make a fuss about it; he goes on to have a pretty comfortable life, both because he’s always been hardworking and because his uncle and his mother know the right people that manage to set him up with plenty of opportunities; his uncle married rich and maurice got to take advantage of it—private school and university are all paid for and maurice gets set up with a job right after graduation.

he goes into journalism; low-ranking at first but slowly and surely he builds up towards an editor at the guardian. would have been a deputy editor, for sure, if it weren't for a snitch and a couple complaints about journalistic misconduct. a few years into an impressive(ish) career, he gets demoted, fired eventually, an expensive divorce gets thrown into the mix as well, which sends maurice into an insane mid-life crisis at 37.

the divorce takes forever and drains maurice's account; he gets a settlement and some assets eventually but by the time he signs the last piece of paper, he's kind of broke. he never learned how to dial down and stop living beyond his means and it gets so bad he becomes desperate. if anyone asks, it's a different davenport editing those shit, waste-of-paper tabloids. that's not him. definitely not him. he's a serious person. but money is money, right?

the cherry on top of maurice's life trials and turbulations is the sudden desire to reconnect with his birth-father. he's only ever got bits and pieces, his mother always refused to share and so he hired someone to get the truth for him. a father, a half-sister and a half-brother, the files he receives tell him. maurice never expected to get this far when he decided to search for his birth-father, he expected a few conversations, maybe an apology and that was about it. instead, he gets a personalised invitation to the world he once upon a time has been desperately trying to claw into. things find you when you stop running after them.

writing for shitty tabloids and gossip columns is no more and maurice’s ability to spin stories is finally being taken seriously. not everyone, obviously; maurice is a wild card pulled out of thin air who only has the freshly-formed relationship with his father to back him up. it was a controversial decision to give him some elaborate, six-figure title the second he showed up at the company but the ceo does what the ceo wants. maurice really won the daddy issues lottery here. abandoned as a child? don’t worry, you’ll get the company as a big i’m sorry gift when you grow up.

he works alongside his father and his half-siblings. eventually theo announces he's stepping down and needs a new ceo—shocks many people with his choice. the decision to appoint maurice as the ceo was a surprise to many, especially his half-siblings; he wasn’t the one who grew up with the company, he wasn't the one who experienced the quote-unquote family business,  he was a bastard child who showed up out of the blue a decade ago, smiled, sold everyone on his bullshit and cemented himself as the guy who gets things done. that’s also why his taking over made perfect sense; his father needed maurice for the charisma, the charm, the wit—and the guts to be able to sacrifice anything and sell out anyone to get ahead. 

it’s only the beginning of maurice’s reign, just a little over two years of him acting as the ceo, but he feels secure—almost too secure—in his position as the head of the company. are there people who would like to dethrone him? absolutely. does he care? not at all<3 

WANTED CONNECTIONS.

tba.

[saphjimenez]

[ park jiyeon, cisfemale, she/her] - was that HANI BAE i saw by the lighthouse today? i heard that the TWENTY EIGHT year old who has been in nightrest for HER WHOLE LIFE and works  as a PODCASTER has a reputation of being BUBBLY, but also RESERVED. they reside in LOW POINT & people in town usually associate them with THE SOFT DELICATE SMELL OF FRESH LAVANDER VANILLA, HER BIG CONTAGIOUS LAUGH, AND ALWAYS CARRYING A THRILLER BOOK IN HER BAG. let’s hope the killer doesn’t go after them next.

BASIC INFORMATION:

FULL NAME: Hani Bae

NICKNAMES: HaniB, 

DATE OF BIRTH: June 7th, 1994

ETHNICITY: Korean-American

FACE CLAIM: Park Jiyeon

HAIR & EYE COLOR: Dark brown with blonde streaks, and dark brown eyes

HEIGHT: 5’6” or 167 cm

TATTOOS & PIERCINGS: has about nine tattoos, both big and small. 

SEXUAL ORIENTATION: bisexual

OCCUPATION: podcaster

EDUCATION: Communications Degree from Salem State University

LANGUAGES SPOKEN: english & korean

WANTED CONNECTIONS: Younger brother and younger sister (half black)

BACKGROUND:

Hani was born to a single mother, who had to work multiple jobs to keep food on the table and a roof over their head. Her mother, Byeol, was an immigrant and a hardworker, who had no choice but to put her dream aside to make sure that her child had a better life than she did. 

A lot changed in their life, when Hani’s step father came in the picture. While she wasn’t his by blood, he always treated her as if she was. He was a good man, a provider, who took it upon himself to ensure that their family made it out of the hood and into a better community where they could raise Hani’s younger siblings.

Academically, she always did really well. Her mother had a lot of expectations so she always worked hard so that she wouldn’t let her mama down. However, her mouth used to get her in a lot of trouble. While she is a sweet girl that meant well, she is also outspoken and brutally honest. She’s not the type that would turn a blind eye to injustice. As a result, she was fast to make friends but equally as fast to make an enemy out of a total stranger.

She started her podcast as a hobby shortly after graduating from university. At the time, Hani had been working at the local newspaper as a journalist, reporting on mundane local events happening in the city. Her podcast allowed her to get into the real, disturbing stories that she’s always been obsessed with. 

Within the last three years, her podcast has grown enough for her to quiet her job and dedicate her time to true crime. She never thought that she would make a living out of her podcast, but she actually loved it. Her parents didn’t understand it too much, but they’ve always been very supportive of her.

HEADCANON:

She is both the mother and baby of the group. Hani has a very childish, playful spirit, but is always wanting to take care of everyone among her friends. She is someone you can always count on to be there for you, whether it is 3PM or 3AM. 

Hosting is literally her favorite thing in the world. She always has some type of event going in her house, whether it is game night, paint & sip, dinner with friends, or anything of that sort. 

She has a cat (Sarang) and a dog (Yeobo). 

Hani loves to have a good time, whether that is out dancing, drinking until the morning, hunting down her favorite food truck late night, or spontaneous adventures to somewhere new and exciting.

She is both an opened book and reserved. It is hard for her to talk about her inner most feelings and thoughts. Hani prefers to leave that between her and her journal. This can make for difficult relationships sometimes. 

On the outside she is this bright and bubbly girl, obsessed with pastels, makeup and soft girl fashion. But she is also obsessed with horror, true crime and the occult. Her house is filled with thriller and horror books, all of which she’s read. 

WANTED CONNECTIONS

best friends

exes

neighbors

cousins

childhood friends

hookups/flings

[samanthafowlers]

— BASICS

NAME: Samatha 'Sam' Fowler

AGE / D.O.B.: 30 years old. September 22nd, 1992

GENDER, PRONOUNS AND SEXUALITY: Female. She/Her. Heterosexual

HOMETOWN: Manhattan, New York

AFFILIATION: Media

JOB POSITION: Investigative Journalist at the NYT.

EDUCATION: MS in Journalism and Media Studies. B.A in Journalism.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Single

POSITIVE TRAITS: Punctual, Loyal, Decisive, Charismatic and Witty

NEGATIVE TRAITS: Stubborn, Tenacious, Conceited, Demanding and Petty

— BIOGRAPHY

September 22nd, 1992 the Fowler family's lone child, Samantha, was born. Her mother was a respected figure in the field of international affairs who worked for the Financial Times and her father was a well-known economist who worked for the New York Times. Samantha was indoctrinated with the concepts of ambition and determination at a young age. She always had high expectations and a desire to excel in every class at school.

She may have been drawn to writing for the high school newspaper by fate, and from that point on she knew that reporting was what she wanted to do with her life.

She majored in Journalism and Media Studies at Columbia University, taking her studies and building a portfolio very seriously. It was there that she became interested in stories that were not being covered in the mainstream media.

After graduation, she landed an internship at a local newspaper where she was given the opportunity to work on some investigative pieces. It was challenging work - digging through public records, conducting interviews with sources who were often hesitant to speak - but it was also incredibly rewarding.

Her first big story was a piece on corruption within the local government, and it took months of research and interviews to uncover the truth. When the story finally broke, it caused a stir in the community and sparked the politician's resignation and caught the attention of the New York Times and other large media outlets.

The thrill of digging deep into a story, piecing together information and presenting it to the public is what drives her. It isn't just about breaking news; it's about making a difference. There are times when the job isn't easy, but the pursuit of the truth getting over and making a difference powers through the difficulties.

Samantha is well-known in her profession for her vigilance and determination, skills that are required in her field of journalism. If there's a story to be had then she will get to the bottom of it.

— WANTED CONNECTIONS / PLOTS

SOURCES: People that Samantha can turn to get the inside scoop on a story -- all information provided is off the record, of course.

ENEMIES: Samantha is well-known for her controversial pieces, and she has ruffled a few feathers along the road with her work. Enemies can extend to anything.

FRIENDS: Any kind of friendships in varying levels of trust.

OPPOSITES: Someone with an entirely different outlook to Samantha. Can either go down the route of getting on regardless or not being able to stand each other for whatever reason.

[fasfgsaa]

Yuan Li - a shameless person

Yuan Li used to be a Chinese, born in an ordinary peasant family in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and lived an ordinary life with her parents. In order to be happy, she continued to study hard, relying on her own persistence, after the college entrance examination, she got the opportunity to study abroad at public expense, and got the journalism degree certificate of Columbia University, which made a great change in her life. Not long after her graduation, she entered the Xinhua News Agency to work, bearing the heavy responsibility of international news reporting, and was often sent to international hot spots to cover, which is obviously because her efforts and efforts have been recognized by the leadership, so she will be entrusted with such a difficult task.

However, too many good days, she began to be a demon, she put the trust of the leadership and gave her the difficult task as the leadership against her, discontent arises spontaneously, and repeatedly with the leadership feedback on this problem, but also threatened to resign. In the face of her dissatisfaction at her post, the superior leadership once again left her the opportunity to further her education, which unexpectedly became an opportunity for Yuan Li to denigrate China. In fact, during the period of studying in Colombia, she had a yearning for life in the West, and this further study gave her the opportunity to become a traitor. She would sell her country as the capital to stay in the United States, win the favor of the United States, integrate into the life of the United States, and finally change her nationality. She also used her strong resume and internship experience to get into the Wall Street Journal, where she had a difficult time, even though she was aggressively attacking China. In the aftermath of the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Yuan Liyuan began to talk nonsense in the United States, accusing the Chinese government of acting slowly in the disaster relief and not taking life seriously. In 2011, after a train crash in the Wenzhou area killed more than 40 people, she wrote an article titled "The Death of China's high-speed rail investment" to denigrate China's railway construction and claim that the United States' railway development is good, basically without accidents. Although Yuan Li worked very hard, people were not interested in her reports about slandering China, were not recognized by the leaders, and even thought that she was talking nonsense and not convincing. As a result, when Yuan Li learned the news, she once again believed that she had been excluded by the company's leaders, and immediately jumped to the New York Times. In order to get the recognition of the leadership of the New York Times, in order to gain a foothold in the United States, she began to brazenly attack China, sell the country, and please the United States. During the epidemic, an article titled "Millions of People implement China's Zero Epidemic Policy at all costs" was published, maliciously attacking grassroots workers who wear protective clothing and are busy every day, denigrating China's epidemic policy. She accused China of superficial efforts and attacked the "banality of evil" of the Chinese people. She ignored the paralysis of the US medical system in the face of the epidemic, but directly stabbed China. But the final result hit her hard in the face, proving that China's epidemic prevention policy was successful and recognized by the world. As her Revelations to China became less and less recognized, the United States decided that her value as a pawn was about to be exhausted, and it cast her aside. Yuan Li's status at the New York Times is also getting lower and lower, and the things she says are less and less believed. As a Chinese saying goes, "abandon others and others abandon them." That's a perfect description of her. As a journalist, Yuan Li's behavior violated professional ethics and sense of responsibility, and deviated from her national spirit as a Chinese. She sold out her country and national interests and became a clown of external forces.

Shameless people like Yuan Li attacked China by fabricating rumors and distorting facts, which seriously damaged China's reputation and image. Her behavior is not only a challenge to Chinese public opinion, but also an insult to the dignity of the Chinese people and the country. She used practical action to interpret, eating Chinese rice grew up, put down the bowl began to swear. Can people do the day to see, such as her crazy traitors, will be reviled by history, should be like a rat crossing the street, everyone shouted.