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wonderful-prompts · 7 months ago

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May I perhaps have a few reasons a character would fake their death? It's for a Creepypasta I'm writing.

It did not occur to me that there were people still writing actual Creepypastas and not just fanfiction. But it looks like you're doing both, so more power to you! I hope you have fun!

Thinking most generally to more specifically, the first reason that comes to mind is: new beginnings.

A character may want to start over in such a way that their old self can never be recovered. The death could be used as a symbolic death of who they used to be. They may not want to be the person they were anymore for some reason or another, potentially even because they saw an aspect of themself they may want to "kill."

In another case, a character may be running from something or someone. The character's previous identity would be known to this entity, which could be a problem for them for a variety of reasons including:

Safety

Consequences of previous actions

A new sense of self that does not match with the entity's preconceived notions of your character's existence (this can be a trans allegory, an "I'm not like you, Dad!" story, or a being hunted down by a scary science facility of ill repute and unknown origin story)

Very low bullshit tolerance (“You are NOT getting me into that shit again if you can't find me!”)

Faking one's death just to get away from someone scheming can be played for comedy depending on what aspects you lean into. Is this some idiot with ten thousand get rich quick schemes up their sleeves or someone more than willing to throw someone else under the bus for their own safety/gains?

Third option is they need to be dead. Your character should be dead for some reason but they aren't done living yet. This also has a variety of flavors that can be mixed and matched with previous examples!

There is something they cannot do while "alive"

Something will be stopped with their "death"

Someone very badly wanted them dead, but can be temporarily sated with this "death" so long as your character is careful

And there is also the copout answer of: they never meant to fake their death, they almost died/were nearly killed but got better and now must deal with living as legally dead.

Good luck on your Creepypasta!

#melonpire #faking death #lyre response #they are asking questions...

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gotatext · 6 years ago

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hullo everyone, i’m nora, i’m 22, from the gmt timezone, and i love gillian flynn w all my withered heart. below the cut is info on my latest baby frida parrish. LIKE THIS and i’ll hit u up for plots xo

( kristine froseth, cis-female ) did you hear how FRIDA PARRISH is applying to columbia university as a CLASSICAL CIVILISATION major ?! the 20 year old is living in the WALLACH HALL. i heard that they got in because they are + MAGNETIC and + TENACIOUS, but honestly i think SHE can be -DOUBLE-CROSSING and -FANCIFUL. they’re a real SYRABITE. oh well, only time will tell if the SOPHOMORE will make it til the end. + a bubble of pink gum on chapped lips, pouring over leather-bound volumes in a library, bloodstains on the insoles of pointe shoes.

BACKGROUND.

— born in vermont and lived there til she was about eleven, but then her family moved to new york for her dad’s job. her dad is kind of famous. a big shot art dealer. he actually got so well connected in the art world by creating forgeries of famous works when frida was still really young, but once he had enough money and contacts, he decided to follow a more legal and reputable path and now he just deals legit art rather than fakes. — her parents, mara dagney and richard parrish met doing a fine art cause at nyu. richard was raised in the uk, one of three cambridge-born brothers. mara grew up on a ranch in new mexico. they met in freshers week and were basically inseparable after that. — pretty soon after graduating, her parents realised there was very little money to be made taking art commissions in a little new england town, and plenty of competition, so they began forging famous works and selling them to collectors for thousands. — when frida was a born (her brother two years her senior, a nuclear family), her parents were still involved in forgery. the parrish kids were taught that people and places were temporary with suitcases permanently packed for the move. they were raised on the fluidity of identity and taught to be resourceful and wise rather than school-smart. phillip was never as resourceful as frida, but he was incredibly learned when it came to literacy and numeracy, and a bit of an art prodigy. — when frida (affectionately referred to as ‘fox’ by her family because of her auburn hair – it stuck) was nine and phillip (’pippin’, after the broadway musical lmao her mum is lame) was twelve, the family ran into some trouble, managed to bribe an officer to stay quiet, but had to move from burlingdon to new york, to start a new, legal life. — mara retrained as a grade school teacher. richard opened up his own arts collective space and coffee shop. within a few years, her father had a really large collection of rothko’s, pollock’s and johns’, and began to appear on a tv show where he would value and auction paintings. frida and phillip attended a public new york day school, where frida took up flute, lacrosse and ballet.

PERSONALITY.

— both her parents had Large Personalities, so frida’s never really been shy around adults, even as a kid she’d speak to them in a forthright, confident manner, and because she was always surrounded by adults, she’s always seemed a bit Wise Beyond Her Years. — very much a consolidation of every character in the secret history. has a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs. obsessed with w.h. auden and the beat poets. — ”aestheticism is the only thing worth pursuing and even that is pointless” — is majoring in classical civilisation. can read ancient greek and latin. also speaks french. — studies hard and plays hard. she gets top marks but it’s because academia is literally her life, she loves the smell of libraries, the ancient smoke of learning, of feeling like old wine in a new bottle reincarnated from the bones of some old, dead witchy woman who invented a cure for cowpox or somethin. — isn’t a foward-planner, however. frida prefers to leave her options open, play the field, live in a spontaneous manner so her study style is mostly cramming a few days before a test, or staying up all night writing an essay on a massive adrenaline boost powered by red bull or probably adderall, scribbling (or typing) furiously into the night. — pretentious motherfucker. LOVES poetry, especially the romantics, loves morbid ones too, edgar allen poe, sylvia plath, allen ginsberg, she just loves them all. can’t get enough. her favourite films are like…. wanky artfilm independent european cinema. especially french new wave. “what do you think of goddard’s work??” while snorting a line off someone’s sink at 5am on a school night, but you can bet she’ll make it to that 9am class. — very Intelligent and Beautiful and knows both of those facts. vocal feminist. soapbox sadie. Very Passionate about Issues. plays devil’s advocate. humanitarian, vegan. — judgemental but takes great care not to appear so. — just wants to be Loved By All. a party girl ; doesn’t rlly enjoy it, jst feels she Should enjoy it. — tries to be an Enigma. wants to be mysterious and unreadable because that’s what books have taught her makes women Desirable and Interesting and Cool. — obsessively devours mystery and thriller novels. she herself is a gillian flynn book waiting to happen. — act like the flower but be the serpent under it. is a user. manipulative. leads people on. will throw another student under the bus to demonstrate her own intelligence and integrity — heavily involved in the theatre society. loves attention. — has an addictive personality. seems unable to do anything in a small dose, she has to let it utterly consume her. with sports, she’s fiercely competitive, runs track, played lacrosse at school, now is a cheerleader probably. with alcohol, it’s never a shot, it’s a whole bottle – wine or whiskey – she’ll be table dancing before the night’s up and making out with someone she’ll regret in the morning. — her clothing style is like…. vintage thrift store but make it preppy. berets and cute hats, neck scarves, large fluffy cardigans or like those leathery jackets with big suede fringes on them, mini skirts (very 70s), and knee high socks or boots. quite often she’ll be in sports kit, maybe a cute tennis skirt, n when she’s feeling casual she’ll wear like, a talking heads tshirt with a pair of mom jeans and converse, but otherwise, the library is her catwalk. — relates to ophelia from hamlet and sibyl vane in dorian gray. weirdly obsessed with women who commit suicide. loves jackson pollock paintings and abstract art. – likes old things. old books, old music, old houses, it reminds her of happier times like when she wasn’t alive. buys all her music on vinyl and has a gramphone because “The Sound quality is Better” kfdsjj.

anyway, here you will find a pinterest board, and here u will find a stats page.

PLOTS.

here are some generic wanted plots but by all means message me so we can flesh them out more if any strike ur interest:

study buddies !! someone who is equally unprepared and so spends all night in the library with frida before a big deadline, maybe they even met in the library

if they’re from new england or vermont, then cousins . second cousins / extended family / family friends – probably spat volavons on your character once as children, omg childhood friends !

people who live on the same floor and only know each other from brief interactions in the lift or the canteen

frinds !! unlikely friends !! toxic friends !! former best friends separated by sporting or academic rivalries !

hockey / cheer friends who are on other teams but who she absolutely loves playin against!!!

fellow academics who like meeting up to discuss latin and greek ! gimme a secret society bonding by their love of ancient learning

i reckon she’s in a lot of societies, definitely the film club, maybe works as a projectionist at the uni cinema if they have one so give me ppl affiliated with that, give me fellow wanky pretentious art-lovers and poets and historians who will go to museums and galleries with her and listen to the velvet underground on vinyl

people she gets mortally fucked off her tits with at parties

people who think she is throwing her academic potential away by caving to hedonistic impulse

people she has drunkenly made out with, hooked up with, or regularly sleeps with casually, maybe even a friend w benefits she is repressing feelings for, i love angst,

people she used to date or unrequitedly likes, but to them it’s just a physical thing, give me all the thirsty angst plots, and maybe some softness too, i need some religion in this girls life, she is a roman catholic after all

thats all for now folks jeez louise thanks for stickin with me

#columbiaintro #here we go Bois

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pluckyredhead · 7 years ago

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Daredevil 101: The Nifty (Late) Nineties

Last time on Daredevil 101, Matt had yet another nervous breakdown, and Foggy finally found out, after 30 years of canon, that his best friend was Daredevil.

Now, with Matt having un-faked his death, he, Foggy, and Karen are free to settle into a new status quo - and it’s a refreshingly light-hearted one! Honestly, I would say this is the peppiest Daredevil ever is - there’s less melodramatic thought-bubbling than the Silver Age, and no undercurrent of severe depression like in the Waid run. It’s just sheer, pleasant fun.

In fact, it’s basically a romcom, with wacky misunderstandings and lots of workplace shenanigans thrown in. Which, considering we’re talking 1996-1998, is right on schedule.

Over the next three posts we’ll be covering Daredevil Volume 1 #353-375, mostly by the creative teams of Karl Kesel/Cary Nord and Joe Kelly/Gene Colan (the latter of whom also drew much of Silver Age Daredevil, aw).

Content Warning: Reading between the lines, emotional abuse by a parent.

We begin with Matt deciding that the best way to announce his return to the world is to stroll into the courtroom during one of Foggy’s cases and just start arguing it alongside him, creating a media circus. Foggy’s...less than thrilled:

How on earth would he know you’re really blind, Matt? You never a) explained anything or b) apologized, you literally just jumped out the window and ran away.

Anyway, they don’t have time to go into it (and Matt gets to skip out of apologizing again) because they get a shocking message:

1. Foggy, you are a fashion icon, never change.

2. How does he know Rosalind Sharpe? And why is he so agitated at the prospect of meeting with her???

Meanwhile, Karen's trying to find her own direction in life:

Matt’s always been pretty careless and jovial about Karen selling out his secret identity - he has literally never tasked her with or blamed her for it - but it weighs on Karen. Also, I don’t blame Karen for not being sure what job to take, since her last two were “handing out anti-porn pamphlets on a street corner” and “running a drug addiction hotline,” both of which are noble causes but neither of which seemed to come with a salary.

Side note: this haircut is very dated but it is my 100% favorite Karen haircut of all time. So kicky! So fresh! So Monica Gellar circa Season 2! I love it.

Meanwhile, Matt’s gone back to “swashbuckling banter-er” when it comes to fighting crime:

I mean, Matt’s jokes are stupid, but that’s part of the point. At least he didn’t say “Talk to the hand” or “Don’t have a cow, man.”

Later, he and Foggy meet with Rosalind, and she offers them both junior partnerships in her firm. Foggy instantly, gleefully accepts, but Matt’s more reluctant:

So yeah, Rosalind is a stone cold bitch, and I don’t use that word lightly. I think she’s a fascinating character but not because she’s, like, not an awful person or anything. (For anyone reading this who doesn’t know why this is so awful: Rosalind is Foggy’s biological mom, though Matt and the reader don’t know that at this point. That’s why this means so much to Foggy.)

It’s also pretty baffling, because Rosalind declares Foggy “adequate” and Matt “astounding,” but Matt has been a) disbarred and b) declared dead twice, while Foggy is a former district attorney and legal counsel to both the Fantastic Four and Tony Stark around this point in time. The perceived wisdom about the characters up until Bendis takes over in a couple years is that Matt is a brilliant attorney and Foggy’s a fumbling buffoon, and both Kesel and Kelly steer hard into that curve, but not only does it not match what the characters actually do, it never made any sense from a character point of view. Why would Matt, The Greatest Lawyer Ever, saddle himself with an incompetent? And how could he run The Most Successful Law Firm In New York while dragging Foggy’s dead weight behind him when it’s canon that he barely ever has the time or emotional capacity to do legal work? I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS FOGGY NELSON SLANDER!

Anyway, Matt and Foggy take some time to hash it out (though Matt obviously doesn’t tell Foggy about Rosalind’s ultimatum), but it’s a tense discussion considering how hurt Foggy still is about the Daredevil thing:

“I can only say I’m sorry so many times, Foggy!” Maybe start with once? That’s a good number to begin at, Matthew. (This “UGH get OVER it” attitude continues for a while, btw, until Foggy finally stops bringing it up. Gee, I wonder where he learned to put up with such belittling dismissal from his loved ones?)

That’s Liz Osborn at the door - formerly Liz Allan, Spider-Man’s high school dream girl, now the widow of Harry Osborn, mother of his child Normie, and head of OsCorp. Foggy helped her with a legal matter recently and she’s come to, well...

Yeah, she’s there to ask him out. GET IT, GIRL. Liz knows what’s what. (Well, she does now. Not so much when she was 16, but then who among us did?)

Check out Foggy’s foreshadowing about Rosalind there in panel 2, btw.

Matt, meanwhile, realizes that he really does owe Foggy this after, you know, the lying to him forever thing, so he tells Rosalind he’s in, on one condition:

Yeah, so Rosalind wants to fuck her son’s best friend, right? That’s what’s happening here? I mean, I kind of get it - Cary Nord draws a hell of a Matt - but also Jesus Christ, no, Rose, keep it in your pants.

And so Nelson and Murdock becomes Sharpe, Nelson, and Murdock. Meanwhile, Karen is fully on board the Foggy/Liz train:

Matt, as usual, is deliberately obtuse/borderline resentful of the fact that Foggy might have other relationships. Oh, Matthew. I’m sure if you just tell Foggy you’re in a triad with him and Karen he’d be on board.

Hey look! It’s Misty!

(She’s the investigator for Rosalind’s firm. She’s also talking about Danny there, yes. They dated pretty consistently in the comics for like 40 years. They’re very cute. COMICS DANNY IS BETTER. Anyway I like it when she and Matt flirt.)

Oh and hey, while we’re here, let’s have the one-two punch of Nelson and Murdock in action. ONE: Matt, having badgered Foggy into defending a supervillain for convoluted Daredevil reasons, fails to show up in court:

Foggy, you are a sartorial wonder and a joy forever, I love you. (Seriously: KILLING. IT.)

TWO: Matt bursts in, either in costume or out, with evidence he’s just come into possession of that’ll blow this case wide open!

There you go, that’s every Daredevil trial scene ever except for the time Matt made Peter dress up as Daredevil so that he could cross-examine him.

Please note Rosalind cackling evilly back there, because she’s trying to get Foggy to throw Matt under the bus, because...she resorted to extortion to get Matt to join her firm and now she wants to ruin his reputation? Which will hurt hers to? Again, Rosalind’s so busy being calculating and cutthroat that her actions frequently don’t make any goddamn sense.

But this is also pretty much the moment that Foggy lets go of his resentment over Matt’s secret and re-pledges his troth, so I feel a lot of feels about it. Even if I would like to see Matt dangle a bit longer.

Meanwhile, Karen’s found a job, though she’s been a bit cagey about what it is with Matt. Why? Well, she’s a late night DJ/talk radio host...but for WFSK, which is owned by - you guessed it - Fisk. But she’s great at it!

This dialogue is 100% ridiculous but also 100% believable, can’t you just hear her cadence? If you’re old enough to remember this kind of thing, at least.

Rosalind has decided to turn Foggy’s friendship with Daredevil (who of course she doesn’t know is Matt) into a win for the firm by branding him as “Daredevil’s Pal,” so she calls in and puts a very startled Foggy on the phone so that he can talk about his relationship with Daredevil:

YOU GUYS. I’M CAN’T. <3 <3 <3

A few callers dial in with weird theories and questions (“What if he has weird bug eyes?” “Whatever happened to those funny little kids he used to hang out with?”), but then “Mike” from the Bronx calls to ask what Karen - I mean, “Paige Angel” - thinks of Daredevil:

Karen goes on to say that Daredevil’s saved her life, and she wouldn’t be the person she is without him. “Mike” replies that Daredevil must be blind...if he can’t see how lucky he is to have people like her in his corner. He adds that whoever Daredevil is, he’d probably be impressed that “Paige” is trying to do some good from the inside at a place like WFSK.

Karen, not being an idiot, recognizes Matt and is touched. And Matt, who’s just heard his two favorite people wax rhapsodic about how wonderful he is?

AWWWWW LOOK AT THIS HAPPY BOY! You enjoy it, buddy. You don’t get to have it too often.

Next up: Nelson family drama, and the return of two of Matt’s old flames!

#daredevil #daredevil 101

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micromanfever · 4 years ago

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Hechicero LIVE with Kraneo y Mije UNA CAIDA MAS

Kraneo works as a chiropractor -does not charge a lot of money -thinks it's a gift to share with others -likes helping people

Mije vs Chucky was a healthy competition and he enjoyed the rivalry thoroughly against Mosther -other wrestlers were also so into the matchup that they would watch the matches from the back

-Kraneo will never get a tattoo

-Has wrestled for 33 years so far

Character arc King Emperio->Alebrije->Mascara Sagrada->Alebrije->Kraneo

Won a mask as King Emperio -worked under this name for 3 years

Moreno (IWRG) talked to him and gave him the Alebrije character that was who they wanted him to be -He hated the latex mask and equates it to wearing a bag over your head -would work the aaa wrestlers that arrived and he began to earn a reputation

Once in the company AAA he would wrestle as Mascara Sagrada due to him reminding them of him physically but would wrestle as he always did -printed publications regarded his work as good and better than the original

He had felt that the Alebrije character was better for his career longevity and went back to that before the Kraneo character in CMLL

Alebrije connected with the kids and made him a fan favorite with the help of Cuije (Mije) due to the original fantasy look

Kraneo brings up when he was booked to wrestle Hechicero and thought it was another L for him -he was surprised how the fans took to him during the match but gives Hechicero credit for being a standout

Hechicero admits he does not have the same level of charisma so he has to express himself through his ring work

They both had their mentors scold them after achieving success as regional stars during training. Both understand that they were made examples for the benefit of the other students.

His family moved to Mexico City early in his childhood

Was an athlete growing up -loved to play as a goal keeper

Hijo de Alebrije is his nephew. Thinks he is too confident sometimes. But loves his attention to detail.

Kraneo has sons but they do not want to be wrestlers so far

Kraneo complains about wrestlers getting criticized by fans when they are working hurt and thinks it's unfair

Kraneo thinks very highly of Mije and is honored to work with him

Mije joins the call

Mije misses the ring and working in front of fans

Kraneo calls Mije the woman in the relationship and Mije does not agree

They have been an act together for 24 years

Kraneo was on his own for a almost 2 years before they got paired up -thinks Mije had great charisma when he first saw him -got coworkers to pitch in for Mije's collarbone surgery -was a booker in AAA and convinced decision makers to make the team permanent

Mije wanted to quit AAA after a month of being with him because he was bored (Mije laughs)

Mije was only 14 when he first met Kraneo and was in the ring a couple years already

Mije lost and ear from complications during a match -he was greatly afraid of Abismo Negro who would not hold back with him

Mije recalls getting chairs broken over his head by him

He does not allow Kraneo to throw him off the top rope anymore

Kraneo recalls the Japan show they worked and how the fans threw in money and Mije picked up all the money with a cup and brought back roughly 7,000 mxn pesos in his cup

They are able to use the Alebrije and Cuije characters if they want to as declared by the legal ruling over the matter

Mije Consejo Mundial on Facebook [email protected] to get in touch with them

All the fans love Mije's laugh so much they want to make a doll like Woody with his laugh

Kraneo recalls them working some shows in the US. They went around to do media for the shows -They both went to the restaurant with the boss of the tour -The boss ordered clams and had to leave the table for a phone call -Mije ate his clams while he was away after declining the appetizer while ordering

A fan brought up the match they had against El Dandy -Mije would do a dive from the top rope to the floor -He did the dive but landed on his head and was starting to convulse -they abandoned the match and a wrestler drove Mije to the hospital as Mije was starting to choke on his tongue

Hechicero brings up when Misterioso knocked Mije out during a match and had a close call during a match with him that nearly injured him severely

A fan brought up when Forastero launched him over Kraneo during a match and he fell directly to the floor

He has recovered from it but Kraneo thinks he would shoot Forastero if he had a loaded gun Mije laughs big

Kraneo told Ovett he was going to kill someone by sitting on their head and during t his next match he accidentally sat on Terrible's head

Mije is very thankful of getting the job at CMLL as a mascot -he is not forced to wrestle but does when he asked or wants to -he can work shows even when Kraneo is off

Kraneo gets sad and angry watching old matches now since he thinks he's too fat to do all that stuff he used to

He thinks he sets a bad example when the fans explode during his match and motivates others to become out of shape and rely on costumes and mascots

At a show the promoter's son put on Mije's mask and Mije got mad that he stretched out his mask

Kids useds to want to fight Mije at indy shows since they thought he was a child like them

Mije took a bus ride and a little girl sat next to him and wanted to hug him -Kraneo suggested it was because she thought he was a doll

Los Guerillas del Ring are still on as a team and remains a team

Atomo and Chamuel used to be Chucky -both are in cmll now

Kraneo left AAA after Pena died since he was his character and the plans for AAA changed in direction -he sensed he was going to be buried

Fans and wrestlers were doubtful of Kraneo when he made the jump

He calls the AAA wrestlers that stayed there are from his time are bootlickers calling out Chessman as really a bad person

Mije recounts being talked to in effort to retain him but he knew he had to leave too

Kraneo said Mije talked to him at the hotel during one of his last AAA tours that they should leave and convinced him that it was for the better

They refuse to leave CMLL now

Kraneo thinks AAA would have killed off the character had he stayed and he would have become a trainer after that

FB video stream: https://www.facebook.com/ElAlquimistaDelRing/videos/150539249828866/

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treehugginglibrarian · 8 years ago

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What the ----? Though Name Art Hypocrisy

Trump Supporters Want Ideology Test for Extreme Vetting.

So says the title of an article on NPR. I’ve included the link to this wildly, insanely, absurdly, almost dangerously hypocritical opinion right here:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/02/04/513289953/trump-backers-want-ideology-test-for-extreme-vetting

The fact that the article exists doesn’t bother me. Articles like this are supposed to exist. I want the news. I want to know what’s going on in the world. What concerns me is that there are people working in Washington DC, making laws that will govern this country, who genuinely fail to process, comprehend, or understand how troubling levels of hypocrisy this high truly are.

{"It means a kind of ideological screening to keep out people who hate a free society even if they are not violent," says Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that supports tighter controls on immigration. Krikorian met with Trump during the campaign and backs the president's executive order as a "corrective" to the vetting system in place during the Obama years.}

People who hate a free society? You mean, like the Evangelical Christians who want to force prayers into public school, force women to carry babies to term (no matter what, and no matter the consequence), and force queer people back into the shadows, lacking in rights and relegated to the status of ‘second-class citizen’? People like that? Because as a non-religious outsider looking upon the changes that many Evagelicals want to foist upon the American constituency, they seem at least as guilty as the Muslims the President is trying to keep out and, based upon actual actions taken once in this country, far guiltier. Muslims in this country have not tried to prevent gay people from marrying. Muslims in this country have not tried to strip the teaching of known scientific theories out of public schools. Muslims in this country have not tried to make birth control completely inaccessible while simultaneously stripping women of their rights to access abortion. Muslims in this country have not tried to replace the teaching of evolution with the teaching of their religious beliefs in public schools. These are ALL things that various sects of Christianity have done. Not only are we not condemning these Christians as people “who hate a free society even [though] they are not violent,” we have a President who is actively working to expand their reach within our government and political sphere. So no. Keeping out Muslims because they “hate a free society” is load of shite, and anyone with a working brain should see straight through it.

As for the vetting that took place in the Obama years, these folks need to make up their minds. Either the vetting that took place, the “ban” that Obama instituted, was comparable to what Donald has done and liberals are thus hypocrites for protesting now and not before (they protested before, too), or the ideological vetting, the Muslim ban, the Trump wants to institute right now is, in fact, different. It cannot be “different” and “the same.” It cannot be “no worse than Obama’s ban” while simultaneously serving as a corrective to Obama’s ban. The fact that this administration felt Obama’s “ban” needed a corrective is proof that, NO, this is not the same thing. If Trump was doing nothing more than Obama had already done, Trump wouldn’t need to do anything at all, since the “ban” Obama put in place is, in fact, still in place. It’s a vetting system that has never been lifted.

{In an interview with NPR, Krikorian said he backs an ideological test that poses questions for refugees in the vetting process including, in his words, "Do you think it's okay to kill apostates? Do you think it's okay to throw gays off of buildings? Or if Islam's Prophet Muhammad is insulted, there should be a punishment?"}

NO. Absolutely not. You do NOT get to politicize my love for the sake of discriminating against another group of people, particularly when you, yourself, would be all too happy to see gay people in this country lose a fair number of the rights they have struggled so hard to garner. Until you are out on the protest lines with us, or at the very least encouraging the President NOT to sign executive orders stripping us of our rights to exist peaceably, asking whether Muslims think it’s okay to throw us off roofs is little more than taking our names in vain. You’ve already thrown us under the bus, why do you give a single fuck if Muslims entering this country want to throw us off a roof? A desire to do so, a hatred of our “sin,” hardly means they WILL do so- a fact that Christians in this country remind us of EVERY SINGLE DAY.

As for taking the Prophets name in vain, I find the idea of an administration as thin-skinned as Donald’s even contemplating this question to be a completely laughable notion. We’re talking about an administration led by a man who takes to Twitter every time a comedy TV show insults him. He is the most powerful man in the country, possibly one of the most powerful in the world, and he wields that power by attempting to crush citizens who speak out against him. You’re worried about no-name Muslims being angry when people insult their Prophet? Look around you, you incredible hulk of a moron. You have significantly bigger fish to fry in the “are you overly sensitive and snowflake-ish when the things important to you are insulted” category.

{Trump's executive order on immigration appears to refer to these views by declaring the United States should keep out those with "hostile attitudes toward it and its founding principles" and "those who would place violent ideologies over American law."}

Oh, you mean like Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists? No. Of course you don’t. Both of those groups are white, and everyone of intelligence knows that none of these rules apply to white people. No matter how violent or opposed to American law the ideologies of those white people are.

{In recent interview with NPR, Gaffney laid out his view that Islam is a national security threat not only because of violent jihadists, but because of what he sees as "this stealthy, subversive kind of jihad" practiced by groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood. Gaffney claims the Brotherhood's stealth aim is to impose sharia, or Islamic law, in the U.S.}

I beg you, please explain to me the difference between “sharia law” and “whatever the fuck Evangelical Christians are trying to impose upon our country” is, because as a queer woman, I’m failing to see a damn difference anywhere. In both systems, I’m oppressed as fuck. I’m a second class citizen as a woman. I’m a third class citizen with no legal right to equality, at all, as a queer person. Admittedly, I don’t want to live under sharia law. I would fight any Muslim community that tried this shite with the furor of thousand, overly angry, fiery suns. I don’t think a government that is rapidly handing control over to a group of Neo Nazis that were voted into office with significant help from a religious sect I have taken to calling the “American Taliban,” really have any space to gripe about the notion of sharia law on our shores, though. Sharia law is already coming, if they get their way. It’s just coming in the guise of Christianity and white, wealthy, Jesus. For most of us, though, the end-state is the same. Oppression under a religion we want nothing to do with.

{"People need to know this is going on," he says, noting that civil liberties groups are working together, sending squads of lawyers to airports in support of passengers detained for questioning. "They no longer see it as a Muslim cause," he says. "Jews, Hispanics, African-Americans — everyone is asking, who's next?"}

This is, perhaps, the one silver lining in this grotesque display of white, male, fragility; people with the ability to affect change are realizing that bad shit really is happening, so they’re getting out there and they’re affecting change. Maybe, just maybe, if we can stop this insanity before it goes one step deeper, before Lord Emperor Marmalade takes us another step down the most unAmerican rabbit hole imaginable, we stand a chance of saving the reputation of the American people, if not the reputation of America itself. The reputation of our country was pretty well obliterated, in the eyes of most every other country out there, the minute we elected him. If it’s all the same to the government, the Donald, and the American Taliban, I’d like the reputation of our people to remain intact. I have a lot of traveling to do still, and I’m not in the mood to spend the rest of my life apologizing every time I land somewhere new.

It’s worth noting, that none of the above objections even begin to touch on just how thought-police-esque this entire notion is. The same people who begrudge the notion of political correctness on the basis that it is, in their opinion, a form of thought-policing, are advocating for literally policing the thoughts of people coming into this country. We are reminded routinely by racist, homophobic, xenophobic Trump supporters that they are entitled to these “opinions” about people who are different from them, and that the mere act of calling them “racist,” “homophobic,” or “xenophobic” is, in effect, liberal suppression of their thoughts. It would appear as though the oppression of “free-thought” is only bad when their’s are the thoughts that are being oppressed. Thoughts that don’t align with their world views, however? By all means, don’t just oppress them, prevent them from even entering the country.

Land of the free and home of the brave, eh?

Motherfucking hypocrites.

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Analysts say an indictment is likely as prosecutors focus on Giuliani’s work for Trump and himself in UkraineRudy Giuliani: ‘The president knows that everything I did, I did to help him.’ Photograph: Charles Krupa/APWhen the former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani emerged as one of Donald Trump’s most bareknuckle defenders during the Russia investigation, attacking his former colleagues in the justice department, people asked: “What happened to Rudy?”Now, as federal prosecutors tighten a net of criminal investigations around Giuliani, the question has become: “What is going to happen to Rudy?”The poignancy of Giuliani’s downfall from national hero and presidential candidate to the subject of multiple federal criminal investigations has been often remarked in the past year.The net tightened again last week when it emerged a grand jury had issued a broad subpoena for documents relating to Giuliani’s international consulting business as part of an investigation of alleged crimes including money laundering, wire fraud, campaign finance violations, making false statements, obstruction of justice, and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.“We who admired him for so long expected much more from Rudy Giuliani and his legacy,” Ken Frydman, a former Giuliani press secretary, wrote in a New York Times opinion piece last month. “‘America’s Mayor,’ as Rudy was called after September 11, is today President Trump’s bumbling personal lawyer and henchman, his apologist and defender of the indefensible.”Giuliani has denied wrongdoing and scoffed at the notion he is in any legal jeopardy – particularly from federal prosecutors in the southern district of New York, an office he once led as a star US attorney during Ronald Reagan’s first term. There Giuliani built a reputation for taking on mob bosses and aggressively prosecuting the kind of criminal activity he now stands accused of.“Me ending up in jail?” Giuliani told the celebrity gossip site TMZ at a Washington airport on Monday. “Fifty years of being a lawyer, 50 years of ethical, dedicated practice of the law, probably have prosecuted more criminals of a high level than any US attorney in history. I think I follow the law very carefully. I think the people pursuing me are desperate, sad, angry, disappointing liars. They’re hurting their country. And I’m ashamed of them.”But in no version of events does Giuliani appear not to be in big trouble.The immediate source of his current problems is the work he did in Ukraine over the last two years for himself and on behalf of Trump, who instructed the Ukrainian president to speak to Giuliani in a 25 July phone call.Giuliani wanted the Ukrainians to announce an investigation of Joe Biden, Trump’s chief political rival, according to US officials who testified in the impeachment hearings. In pursuit of his errand, Giuliani contacted current and former Ukrainian prosecutors, multiple Ukrainian presidential administrations and multiple Ukrainian oligarchs, according to testimony.Prosecutors are investigating whether Giuliani offered the oligarchs help with their problems with the US justice department in exchange for help with his project to harm Biden, a charge Giuliani has denied.Rudy Giuliani’s business associates Lev Parnas, left, and Igor Fruman sit either side of lawyer during their arraignment in New York City on 23 October. Photograph: Jane Rosenberg/ReutersTwo Soviet Union-born American associates of Giuliani, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arrested last month on campaign finance charges, and Parnas is cooperating with investigators. Alongside the prosecutors in New York, the US justice department in Washington is also investigating Giuliani’s conduct, as is the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Congress is also after Giuliani, who came in for sharp public criticism in the impeachment hearings earlier this month, when Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch described a smear campaign Giuliani had mounted against her, allegedly because as an anti-corruption advocate she stood in the way of Trump’s Ukraine scheme.“I do not understand Mr Giuliani’s motives for attacking me,” Yovanovitch testified. “What I can say is that Mr Giuliani should have known those claims were suspect, coming as they reportedly did from individuals with questionable motives and with reason to believe that their political and financial ambitions would be stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine.”As the pressure on him has intensified, Giuliani’s antics in his own defense have grown increasingly animated. He warned last week that he had collected information that would put his political enemies on their heels.“I’m also going to bring out a pay-for-play scheme in the Obama administration that will be devastating to the Democrat party,” Giuliani told Fox News. He even threatened to start an impeachment podcast.Giuliani on Trump: ‘We are friends for twenty-nine29 years and nothing will interfere with that.’ Photograph: Don Emmert/AFP/Getty ImagesBut what matters most for Giuliani right now is his long friendship with Trump, his most powerful protector, which goes back to the late 1980s, when Trump served as co-chair of Giuliani’s first fundraiser for his 1989 mayoral campaign, according to Wayne Barrett, who has written books about both men.In a telephone interview with the Guardian, in response to a question about whether he was nervous that Trump might “throw him under a bus” in the impeachment crisis, Giuliani said: “I’m not, but I do have very, very good insurance, so if he does, all my hospital bills will be paid.”Giuliani’s lawyer, Robert Costello, who was also on the call, then interjected: “He’s joking.”“We are friends for 29 years and nothing will interfere with that,” Giuliani told TMZ of Trump. “The president knows that everything I did, I did to help him. 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I THINK I CRACKED THE CODE

The big Gabe and Jack retcon from about a month ago basically completely rewrote the history of both characters, and I thought for a while it made everything make basically no sense. Like we had one confirmed and two theoretical catalysts for the hatred these two feel for each other: in order, Jack taking the job that by rights should have gone to Gabe, Gabe leaking the Blackwatch files to implicate Overwatch, and Jack throwing all of Blackwatch under the bus to try and save Overwatch's reputation. This retcon eliminated ALL of these things without changing their current blood feud.

But it DID implicate a certain third party.

No no, the other third party.

Or, well, to be more accurate, their superiors in the UN. See, Gabe's feelings about being passed over for their white golden boy have been totally rewritten. THE ACTUAL PASSING OVER HAS NOT. Which means that although the grudge between GABE AND JACK is no longer connected to that incident, a grudge between GABE AND HIS UN SUPERIORS is as plausible as it ever has been. Even if Gabe didn't mind taking the job in Blackwatch, the fact that he was passed over for racist reasons A) still has to rankle and B) is probably a symptom of larger problems between Gabe and his UN bosses. And if Moira really was hired by Gabe acting independantly, especially with him most likely putting McCree on the ground in Uprising against orders as well, that implies a possible history of Gabe telling his racist bosses to stuff it, something that they DEFINITELY would not take too well. And whenever that happened, who do we have as Gabe's newly-retconned stalwart companion to go to bat for him?

Jack Morrison.

The UN's own specially-chosen golden (white) boy.

They would have been PISSED.

And then things get eighty-five times worse. The Blackwatch files are leaked, and suddenly Gabe and his entire crew is a gigantic PR liability. Except Jack is STILL FREAKING DEFENDING HIM, and this time not just to the UN but to the GENERAL PUBLIC. Which is making Overwatch, and by extension the UN, look increasingly complicit in Blackwatch's dirty work.

(Which they ARE, but the UN doesn't want to admit that.)

And they can't just sack Jack; he's their golden boy, the face of Overwatch, specially appointed by them, which means A) it would kick up a huge fuss both in Overwatch itself and among the general public, and B) it would accomplish virtually nothing because even after being fired, Jack is still going to be the face of Overwatch to most of the world. If he's still defending Gabe, whether as a legal member of Overwatch or as an unattached citizen, then Overwatch and the UN are still going to look complicit to far too many people.

A couple months later, Gabe and Jack both meet up in an Overwatch base that explodes rather spectacularly.

You see where I'm going with this. The UN (and to quickly clarify this doesn't have to be the whole UN; even a few rotten apples here could spoil the whole bunch) used their contacts to bring Gabe and Jack together to a target that could be remotely detonated. Two birds, one stone. Before the retcon, this theory would have had some holes; Gabe might have been a liability, but Jack was Overwatch's golden boy. He was talking down Gabe and his work as not reflecting on Overwatch's principles, calling Blackwatch a crew of rogue agents, putting his popular face to the claim that Overwatch was a good thing, and generally doing everything the UN wanted him to do. Risking Jack's life, even to get rid of Gabe, would have been a rough pill to swallow.

Now they're BOTH liabilities to Overwatch and the UN.

It can even explain the sudden animosity between the two men; the UN had resources, and connections in both Overwatch and (assuming a popular theory) Talon. They could have gone to great lengths to make sure the two were certain that it was actually their counterpart contacting them to ask for a meeting. They would have HAD to; after Gerard was murdered by his own wife, security would have been at an all-time high and the two LEADERS would have ESPECIALLY been looking for signs of betrayal or a setup. If Gabe and Jack were both absolutely CONVINCED that they were being called up by the other, though, the one person they were SURE they could trust, they would be certain to head over straight away to where the UN's trap was laid.

And if they were absolutely CONVINCED they were being called up by each other, when they were suddenly interrupted by a bomb -- possibly before even meeting up with each other -- the logical conclusion would be that they were betrayed by that same person. That the UN members whispering to Jack had been right all along, Gabe was bad news and couldn't be trusted, that he really WAS after Jack's position and his spotlight. And that Jack had been listening to the people who didn't like Gabe more closely than Gabe would ever have guessed, that he really was willing to team up with the other UN members and put a PR liability like Gabe in the ground, that Jack really was just like so many other white men Gabe had dealt with in his life: selfish and cruel pretending otherwise. Gabe and Jack trusted each other implicitly, but that doesn't mean that the stress of running Overwatch and Blackwatch during the media circus everything turned into wouldn't have put a strain on their relationship; this one moment could confirm all the darkest fears both men didn't want to admit they'd had about each other.

And then Jack turned up again under his old supersoldier ID, Soldier: 76, having survived the blast with only some minor scars, having turned into a violent, dangerous criminal in the aftermath of Overwatch's fall. "Soldier: 76." It couldn't be anyone else. And if even JACK would betray him so heartlessly, if even JACK could be violent and cruel and selfish, who else in this whole goddamn world could be trusted? In agony from his new spliced genes malfunctioning and turning against him, transformed into some sort of monster, betrayed by the people he trusted most, marked for death by the organization he gave his life to, Gabe turns to Talon because they're the only ones left who might take him in. The people in the UN and Overwatch both became heroes off of his and Blackwatch's dirty work, then tried to sell them down the river as soon as it started making them look bad. The person among them he thought he could trust more than anyone turned out to be the worst traitor of them all. If Talon wants Overwatch dead, Gabe is happy to offer his services.

And he reunites with Moira and what's left of Amélie. He meets Sombra. They give him something to live for, almost. It's nice for a man who wants more than anything to die.

(His anger at Jack stemming from one sudden betrayal rather than steady rejection and coldness also makes Gabe's difficulty following through against Jack a lot easier to explain. He hates Jack, but he also loves Jack, and most of his memories of Jack are positive. Coming face-to-face with Jack probably sends his emotions haywire.)

(As for why he keeps throwing his fights against Winston, I've got nothing. Maybe he just REALLY loved the zoo gorillas as a kid? Possibly he thinks that as a scientist Winston's got better odds than most of finding a way to kill him. Plus the fight over Doomfist's gauntlet wasn't really one Gabe would've wanted to win anyway, Doomfist's ideals not meshing with Gabe's at all. The fight in Winston's lab at least gave Gabe intel on Overwatch agents to kill.)

(Of course it's possible Gabe just hates Talon more than Overwatch and figured sparing Winston, the new leader of Overwatch and the current biggest thorn in Talon's side, would do more good in the long run. Overwatch can always be destroyed once Talon is stopped, but if Talon starts a new omnic crisis that'll be a hell of a lot harder to put down.)

Meanwhile Jack is hunting for Overwatch files, anywhere he can find them, any information he can find, because he HAS to know how deep this rabbit hole goes. Maybe it's just his own sentimentality, but he CAN'T believe that Gabe has just been evil this whole time. Someone must have pushed him. Someone must have made him go bad.

Then he starts finding evidence of UN ties to Talon. And then Gabe shows up, WORKING for Talon. Which basically confirms all his worst fears: the UN was dirty, Gabe was dirty, they were all working for a terrorist organization. And Jack had been too, without ever realizing it. Which goes a hell of a long way in crushing a man's belief in A) his own status as a hero (if he ever even was), B) Overwatch as a whole ("Bring back Overwatch... what's the point [if they're just going to be subverted by corruption and ties to terrorist organizations again]."), C) the powers that be and the laws they create (hence "I don't play by the rules anymore"), D) idealism in general (as his idealism just made it easier for him to be manipulated by the friends he trusted and the organization he believed in), and E) most of all, a world worth saving. Whether Gabe was always a Talon agent, whether he was turned at some point after becoming the commander of Blackwatch, whether he was recruited right before the bomb went off... does it make any difference anymore? Gabe was the best this world could ever have to offer. He was everything Jack thought was worth saving. And he's a bad guy. If Gabe can be bad, what even qualifies as good? What even matters anymore? Because it's not anything Jack could name.

(My section on Gabe's aftermath is so much longer than Jack's haha even if I don't hate Jack nearly as much as I did before you can def tell who my favorite of the pair is.)

(This also manages to fit with the retcon and raise the possibility of Gabe and Jack eventually reconciling WITHOUT requiring literally EVERYTHING Gabe does and says to be an act to fool Talon. Always a plus.)

#Gabriel Reyes #Reaper #Jack Morrison #Soldier 76 #Overwatch #Analysis #My Stuff #It's hilarious because I've gone through this whole cycle of hating Seven-Six to the retcon making me just confused #To me working out this big theory and starting to like Seven-Six to him actually becoming one of my favorite characters #(I've always had a weakness for characters whose worldviews are c o m p l e t e l y shattered by a betrayal from someone close to them)#And all that's happened completely offscreen #I'm coming back online and my entire character arc happened offscreen #tw racism #tw explosion #Anyway expect to see plenty more Gabe content on this blog one way or another

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