#tw crimes against children

[taviamoth]

A little child suffers from serious burns all over his body after the bombing of his family’s home in Gaza.

[luminalunii97]

Some tankie bs detection

I saw this post on my dash. The user is blocked now. But just to educate people so that they won't fall for idiotic claims online, here are a couple of facts:

1. The Islamic Republic is not anti imperialist, they're anti USA. The regime is very much in love with Russian imperialism. At this point, Iran is an unofficial russian colony. And by the support of their imperialist father figure they have their small version of imperialism in middle east. Ask Iraq and Lebanon.

2. There's no "safety" when it comes to economy in Iran. The "national sovereignty" is called "those fvckin thieves in power" here. Iran's regime is one of the most corrupt regimes by international index. Rent, nepotism, embezzlement and money laundering are serious issues in Iran. Done only and only by the governors and people in power. Social class is not only a thing, there's a raging gap between rich people and those in poverty. And the gap is getting bigger and bigger by month. If you have connections in government or you are in the government, you'll get richer and richer. Other wise, soon enough you'll be in poverty too. Many families, including mine, who used to be considered middle class, have incomes lower than the poverty threshold now.

About 15% of Iran's economic failure including inflation is on the sanctions. The rest is on the corruption within the regime.

Iran's banking system is also a corrupted organ. The so called Islamic banking is anything but Islamic. The loan interest rate is one of the highest worldwide, 23%, so that often you have to pay back more than twice the money you've received. It's called Riba in Islam and it's Haram. According to the regime themselves, the banking system in European countries, even in the USA, is more Islamic than us. The fact that some of the biggest embezzlement in Iran has been done by bank managers should give you a picture of how they're drinking our blood.

None of this is on USA imperialism. It's all the Islamic Republic.

3. The Islamic Republic doesn't support Palestinians. The regime is extremely racist and anti Arab. I dare you talk about this with an actual Arab. IR don't give two shites about Palestinians lives. The regime is antisemitic. That's what they are. Palestine is just an excuse to attack Israel. In the past 20+ years of my life, living in Iran and dealing with these posers, not once we've been educated about Palestine and Palestinians lives. Everything I know, I've learned from online resources and documentaries make by Palestinians. The regime doesn't talk about Palestinians when they pose as supporters. I'm pretty sure they don't know or care to know anything noteworthy about Palestine, considering my knowledge of the human rights violations there is always more than basiji people of my country, and I don't even know that much. All the regime talks about is how Israel should be eliminated. IR supports a terrorist organization called Hamas, not Palestinians.

4. Let's forget about everything I said so far. I wonder if tankies like the op has any ounce of humanity in them! The regime has been oppressing women, violating every type of human rights and murdering lgbtq people and other-thinkers for the last 40 years. The spectacular environmental disaster in Iran is the direct result of regime's policies and neglect. This is a case of human rights violation since it's ruining people's lives, especially ethnic minorities, like Arab farmers in south.

No religious minority is safe in Iran, be it atheist, Baha'i, Jew, christian, or Sunni Muslim. They commit crime against children, through labor and through war. IRGC have little regards for human lives in general but it descent into no regards at all for ethnic minorities.

They have MASS EXECUTED 30,000 leftists (members of Marxist Communist parties and their supporters) within the first decade of their autocratic rule. It's unbelievably funny to me when foreign leftists support a regime that has executed many of their fellow thinkers and still arrest and torture any left activist in Iran.

To say the reason the 1979 revolution happened was to get rid of western influence and to establish a democratic free independent government is true. But the Islamic Republic is not that result. Don't be fooled.

[hiba91]

Meet the child Asem (11), he lost his parents from an Israeli air strike that bombed his family home, his brother is still in the ICU. He is currently living with his grandma and his aunts. 20.10.23 Via @wizard_bisan1

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⚠️Dead youth⚠️

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If watching true crime has taught me anything; it’s that the criminal justice system very often does jack shit about obvious cases of child abuse, and only takes it seriously after the parents kill the child.

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TW: Talking and Metion of SA

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Lawyers representing four Israeli reservists accused of raping a male prisoner, say they acted in 'self-defence. Meanwhile, groups of Israelis and lawmakers have defended their right to abuse prisoners.

Al Jazeera's Soraya Lennie breaks it down.

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[luminalunii97]

Some of my favorite slogans on the streets

There are many chants on the streets, some old, some new. Some you hear everyday, some are occasional. This revolution is the work of everyone. According to a hacked report from Fars news agency, a regime related newspapers, by Black Reward hactivists, based on a survey done by the ministry of the interior affairs, 56 percent of Iranian citizens believe this revolution will succeed, 84 percent believe demonstrations is the answer to our problems and 70 percent of people aren't interested in participating in regime related [circus] gatherings! To put it simply everyone except themselves and those who sold their souls for money, are against them. This everyone includes students, artists, athletes, physicians, nurses, workers, businessmen, rich, poor, children, teenagers, young adults, elders, PhD holders, illitrates, leftists, (iranian) republicans, monarchists, anti-monarchists, non-muslims, sunni muslims, shia muslims, people of every background are among protesters. Therefore the chants on the streets are various too. Some slogans are profanities, some poetry, some about human rights, some about women, some about unity, some about economy, some about IRGC and Basij, most about regime change. These chants I've chosen are both heard a lot and my personal favorits.

زن آزاده منم، هیز تویی هرزه تویی

I'm a free woman, you are the pervert, you are lewd

This is in response to the regime calling non hijabi women "whores". The regime agents including basijis, mullahs, and tv hosts in many tv programs have been promoting this belief that if a woman decides not to wear hijab she's "asking for it". There was a tv show made for young girls a couple of years ago where they invited hijabi basiji teenage girls to discuss the necessity of hijab and unashamedly they said if a woman decides to show her beauty, a man is allowed to persue his sexual desire. Because the only reason a woman might not want to wear hijab is because she wants sexual attention from men. This mindset has been promoted in iran by the regime for the past 40 years. At schools, in billboards all over the city, in television. The regime misogyny labels any woman who has body and sexual autonomy and any woman who gets sexually assaulted both as "whores".

Now in response to that, this chant is used. The interesting thing about it is that normally in a crowd of protesters women shout "I'm a free woman" and men follow with "you are the pervert, you are the lewd". It's interesting because I think our regime is one of the only governments in the world that's been trying to teach and spread r*pe culture. It's a tool to scare women into obedience. But many men have been fighting this shit alongside women, refusing to be the abusers the regime wants them to be. So men chanting the "you're the pervert" part is redeeming for them, as they tell the regime agents that you're lewd, not us.

(it's interesting how hate for this regime has pushed iranians into cultural growth. Sexism and queerphobia both exist in alarming rate in Iran. But despite living under a homophobic misogynist regime, people have been self educating themselves about human rights. Everytime the regime guided us one way, Iranians walked the opposite way. The growth in number of men and women fighting for women's rights and minority rights is hopeful. homophobia is the basis of this regime, but our new generation is very supportive of LGBTQ, even among cishet boys you can find many allies. Same for misogyny. The new generation is a huge deal less sexist that their parents and grandparents. All of the guys in my circle of friends follow and listen to feminists I've been following and listening to since highschool. Which is great. I'm hopeful about Iran's future. Gen zs will make a huge cultural difference when they take over the running of this country.)

قسم به خون یاران، ایستاده ایم تا پایان

We swear on the blood of our allies, we will stand until the end [of this regime]

This one says it all. We won't back down until the regime is changed. For our martyrs.

وقت عزا نیست که هنگامه خشم است

It's not the time for mourning, it's time for rage

This one reminds me of the funeral of one of Kurd children who were murdered in the protests. His mother started crying and everyone present started to say "don't cry mother, we'll take his revenge"

ما تماشاگر نمیخواهیم به ما ملحق شوید

We don't want audience, join us

This is a call for those who are oppositions but haven't joined the protests yet.

میجنگیم میمیریم ایران رو پس میگیریم

We fight, we die, we take Iran back

This one also says it all.

فکر نکنی یه روزه قرار ما هر روزه

Don't think it's just today, our call is everyday

To those who thought it'll settle in a few days or that they can suppress the protests, Nope. We're going to do this everyday until we win.

توپ تانک مسلسل دیگر اثر ندارد به مادرم بگویید دیگر دختر ندارد

Cannon, Tank, Machine gun, is no longer effective. Tell my mother she no longer has a daughter.

This chant was originally used in Iraq - Iran war against the invading force. The original form had "son" in it instead of "daughter" because the official soldiers were men. This time our enemy is our regime and our women were on the front line fighting. So the slogan was adjusted to fit the women revolution. It means the weapons won't hold us back because we are ready to die for our country. Therefore tell my mother your daughter is a martyr. This slogan is used in gender neutral way too. Tell my mother she no longer has a child.

مردم ما بیدارن از دیکتاتور بیزارن

Our people are wide awake, they hate the dictator

Obviously

کشته ندادیم که سازش کنیم رهبر قاتل رو ستایش کنیم

We haven't been getting killed to compromise, to praise the murderous [supreme] leader

To back down from our revolution now is a disrespect to the blood of our Martyrs. This slogan says that we have lost loved ones for a great purpose. We won't compromise with the regime, we won't accept surface reform, and we won't suck up to the supreme leader.

هر یه نفر کشته شه هزار نفر پشتشه

Each person who gets killed, thousands will rise in their place

This one comes from the fact that everytime they killed someone, more people joined the protests. Each person has friends and family. You kill them, more people take their place.

هرچه تبر زدی مرا زخم نشد جوانه شد

No matter how many times you hit me with an axe, it didn't leave a wound behind, a bud grew out of it

It's from a poem that in this context have the same meaning as the last slogan. Each time the regime hurts us, we grow more.

با خون ما نوشتین ما مهسا رو نکشتیم

You wrote with our blood "we didn't kill Mahsa"

Early on the protests, the regime tried to say Mahsa Amini wasn't killed by the morality police, as usual denying the truth. When in response people started to get killed by the regime forces, this chant was created.

آزادی حق ماست قدرت ما جمع ماست

Freedom is our right, our power is in unity

There's another version of this slogan that I like so much

آزادی حق ماست مهسا اسم رمز ماست

Freedom is our right, "Mahsa" is our code name

Mahsa Amini was the snapping point. She brought people together in avenging her blood and ending this human-rights-violating system. This revolution is called Mahsa/Jîna revolution. Her name is still used as the tag to post about the revolution in every platform.

تا حرف حق رو گفتیم صدای تیر شنفتیم

The moment we spoke the truth, we heard the gunshot

The regime response to people's rightful demands is to kill us

سپاه و داعش یکیه خوب میدونیم کار کیه

The IRGC is the ISIS, we know well who has done this

"This" refers to the "Shahcheraq attack". The first time there was a mass protest call, the regime staged a terrorist attack to a religious shrine in Shiraz province, called Shahcheraq. They said it was the ISIS. We believe IRGC was behind it. Here is why: (a) ISIS has only once done an operation in Iran which even that is believed to be staged. (b) ISIS has literally no reason to attach a random shrine in a random province when there are many important places to attack in Tehran. (c) the video they published of the attack was so stupid it was offending. The terrorist guy was carrying this huge gun case with himself where in reality you can't go near a religious place in Iran like that. You get checked from head to toe. There are security guards everywhere near religious places. (d) the date on the first declaration of ISIS read 30 Rabiʽ al-Awwal 1444. Iranians in twitter started to say that this Islamic lunar month doesn't have 30 days. Which is not true, it changes between 29-30 days. But since the lunar calendar is only used by muslim iranians to track the religious occasions and the official calendar is different, hijri solar calender, iranians weren't completely familiar with the month. Soon the twitter was filled with that misunderstanding and then ISIS gave a corrected version of the statement with a new date, 1 Rabi' al-Thani. My only question is, was ISIS active in persian side of twitter? And why? Shouldn't they know the first date wasn't wrong? (e) the other side of the Metropole building collapsed that day too. Too much accidents for just one day. (f) they've done it before. Before islamic revolution they burned down a famous movie theater in Abadan called Rex. The Pahlavi intelligence said it was the revolutionists who were trying to frame it on the monarchy to play with public opinion, but Khomeini said it's the king's hoax to make us look bad. Unironically that incident was the snapping point that won them the 1979 revolution. After the revolution turned out that it was in fact Khomeini supporters' doing. The Imam Reza shrine bombing too. No one took the blame in the end but it went from Mojahedin (one of the regime oppositions who are honestly worse than the regime but whatever) to sunni extremists (some Pakistani guy) to IRGC to some random Iranian guy (who turned out he was in prison at the time of bombing) back to IRGC. They never fully admitted it but I think it was them trying to frame it on their enemy to make them look bad.

It's safe to say Iranians didn't believe for a second that IRGC didn't write the plot for ISIS "Shahcheraq attack". The attack happened in a shia relating shrine to play with people's religious emotions. The supreme leader blamed the protesters for making the country unsafe for this attack to happen, which is stupid because the protests are a lot more widespread now than it was back then and no other attack has happened neither in the past 3 months nor in any protests before. Plus this regime is currently on because of a revolution. Weren't revolutionists making the country unsafe back then? You praise them but condemn us? Hypocrisy.

حسین حسین شعارتون جنایت افتخارتون

Hossein Hossein is your motto, [but] doing crimes is your glory

To understand this you should read Imam Hossein (Husayn ibn Ali) story (This is the version of the story we've been thought since childhood). The regime tried to monopolize the Imam Hossein martyrdom for themselves since they know of themselves as such good shia muslims which is absurd because they're obviously the Yazid of our time. So basically they pose as righteous people but they're brutal killers. Imam Hossein martyrdom is all about opposing tyranny and standing up for what is right even if it costs you life. Which honestly resonate more with protesters today.

این همه سال جنایت مرگ بر این ولایت

So many years of crimes, down with this leadership

A quick glance to those crimes: mass murder, genocide, rape and torture, taking hostages, etc.

حکومت بچه کش، نمیخوایم، نمیخوایم

A child killing regime, we don't want, we don't want

Also crimes against children

آهای آهای نشسته ها مهسای بعدی از شماست

Hey hey those who are still sitting, the next Mahsa will be one of you

This slogan is also inviting people on the sideline to join the protesters. This regime hasn't killed only the protesters but many many innocent lives have been "accidentally" taken by them. The flight PS752 was one example. Kian Pirfalak, the 10 year old boy, is another example. Mahsa Amini was one example. Therefore by not protesting your safety is not assured. As long as this regime exists, all Iranians are in danger even those who are no longer residents of Iran.

سپاهی داعشی پیوندتان مبارک

IRGC and ISIS, congratulations on your marriage!

IRGC and ISIS aren't that different in the eyes of Iranian. One islamic state or the next. Both misogynistic both anti human both terrorist

به من نگو فتنه گر فتنه تویی ستمگر

Don't call me seditionist, you're the sedition, tyrant

Because that's what they call us. Seditionists not protesters.

من اگر برخیزم تو اگر برخیزی همه برمیخیزند

If I rise, if you rise, everyone will rise [with us]

Again inviting people to be courageous and rise for their rights.

اگه با هم یکی نشیم یکی یکی کشته میشیم

If we won't become one, we will get killed one by one

Unity is how we'll win. If we're not united they'll kill us one by one.

TW swear words

Honorary mention: this is my favorite profanity slogan

نه این وری نه اون وری کیرم تو بیت رهبری

Not this way, not that way, fuck the House of Leadership

The slogan is a mocking form of a 1979 revolution slogan. The original was "not west not east only the Islamic Republic". 43 years later the regime has proven they're east slaves and IR sucks. Beit-e Rahbari or House of Leadership is the office and official residential house of the supreme leader. All institutions under direct order of the supreme leader are managed from there. It's sort of like the white house in US. Saying fuck you to the supreme leader house, a guy who literally thinks he's god's messenger on earth and kills anyone who objects him with "waging war against God" accusation, is really taboo breaking.

[hiba91]

365 days of war on Gaza

365 days of genocide

365 days of ethnic cleansing

365 days of hunger, fear, displacement and exodus

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TW: SA / Injury briefly mentioned

Simplified for censorship.

[swe3tte4rs]

" An unexpected meeting of a mother and son " - Batmom!Oc and Jason Todd/Red Hood

Summary : Dahlia (Oc) tries to forget about her second little baby and his death after the arrival of her third sweet son. But she didn't know that she would have a very nostalgic visit.

Author note: Hello!! Before you read this and find any spelling mistakes, tell me in a comment 🙏, my main language is not English 😓. Also, this is my first "Oneshot" (I think it's a Oneshot, but I don't know), so I didn't know whether to put Batmom as Y/N or as some OC, so I decided on the OC 💪. (This Batfamily is a mix of comics, Webtoon, series, movies and headcanons… so… you know, not everything will follow the canon 😇)

TW: angst????

"Oh... God... my sweet boy... my little angel... Please don't him..." The woman murmured between sobs as she leaned against her husband's strong body.

"I'm sorry, Dahlia..." Bruce apologized in a murmur as he wrapped his arms around his wife. He felt the same as his wife, although much more frustration and disappointment in himself for not being able to arrive in time to save his son.

On the other hand, her eldest son, Dick, also had tears in his eyes and felt desperate because he couldn't do anything to make his mother stop crying. He approached her mother and hugged her. strongly.

Dahlia had just received the devastating news that her sweet second baby had been brutally murdered. She felt a void in her heart, one where she was filled with the love of Jason, her sweet angel. Dahlia couldn't even feel anger or the feeling of wanting to kill whoever was guilty of the murder, she was too busy drowning in her own misery and pain, deep ones that won't heal for a long time.

Some time has passed since the devastating death in the Wayne family. But, another little one had joined the family as the new and third Robin.

Tim was a child genius, with amazing detective skills. He was also a very loving and cute son to his new mother.

Dahlia with the new arrival of Tim Drake as her third child, she did what she could to forget about Jason and fill that void in her heart with Tim's love.

Dahlia loved Tim as she loved her two other children. She made sure Tim felt loved and protected by a mother, doing everything any mother would do with her little baby, like spending a whole day with him going shopping.

She was happy with the new member of the family, she loved him. But even with Tim by her side, Dahlia couldn't forget her sweet little angel, Jason.

The woman went to the cemetery every day to leave flowers and clean her son's grave. "I'm sorry my sweet angel…" Dahlia said softly as she placed the flowers on the dirt covering Jason's coffin.

Tears began to run down her cheeks as she remembered those beautiful moments she had with Jason. Remembering when Jason used to tell her every detail of the missions she had as Robin and fought crime. Although it hurt her more not to be able to hug him and remind him that she loved him with all her soul. "My baby… I'm sorry…"

Dahlia sighed and wiped away her tears, stood up and walked away from the grave, thinking that a rest would be good for her and that she shouldn't come to the cemetery every day…

Another short time passed, Dahlia was in the kitchen preparing something to eat for herself, since she had already made sure that her husband and children had something to eat before going out on patrol. She was calm in the kitchen, with nothing on her mind, just taking care of what she had in her hands.

Until she heard heavy and slow footsteps approaching the kitchen, where she was. Dahlia thought it was Bruce, maybe he had arrived earlier than normal. When the footsteps finally finished echoing and they were already in the kitchen, Dahlia turned to look with a smile thinking it was Bruce.

"You came back early hon-…" Dahlia spoke but she interrupted herself upon seeing a stranger with a red helmet.

She tightened her grip on the knife she was holding. "Who are you…?" Dahlia asked with a hint of fear and distrust. "If you come closer I swear that-" Dahlia was interrupted when she saw how the stranger took off his helmet and revealed his face.

Dahlia couldn't believe it…she was seeing her dead son in person. Her expression changed to one of surprise mixed with sadness. She began to feel that her eyes were going to start crying at any moment, but for some reason she couldn't let go of the tears, first she wanted to know if she really was her son or just a hallucination in her head. "Jason…?" Dahlia said quietly as she dropped the knife and covered her mouth with her hand.

Jason placed his helmet on the ground and clenched his fists in anger… or perhaps, frustration. He looked at Dahlia and stared at her. "I thought you loved me, like you loved Grayson. Like your son." He spoke, trying not to let his anger and desperation show. "But I only see that you got a replacement." Jason added as he clenched his fists tighter.

Dahlia opened her mouth but not a single word came out, she was shocked, was it really her son who was in front of her? Or was it just one of her other hallucinations? Dahlia didn't know whether to really believe what she was seeing, what if this was all a dream? Her Jason should be dead. However, she was seeing him in front of her, with some scars on his arms and face.

Regardless of whether it was a dream or not, she was going to hug her son.

Dahlia rushed towards Jason and quickly wrapped her arms around him, giving him a hug with a tight grip as tears began to well up from her eyes and slide down her cheeks. "Oh Jason… Please forgive me my sweet angel… I'm sorry for not having been a good mother to you and not being able to go and protect you… I'm so sorry honey…" Dahlia said between tears and sobs, holding his son tightly with no intention of letting go.

Jason wanted to push her, but she just wouldn't let him; Dahlia was his mother, his support, and the most beloved woman in his life. He was just resentful, frustrated to see his mother with a new son. Frustrated to see how his mother was loving another child. Jason felt as if his mother had completely forgotten about him after his death.

But after hearing Dahlia call him by his old nickname, he saw those moments pass by when he was happy playing and talking with his mother. He couldn't deny it, he loved how her mother's laughter could be heard along with her smiles.

Jason pursed his lips and simply hugged his mother back, tighter. And his vision began to cloud with tears that he wanted to hide but he let them out, unburdening himself in Dahlia's arms. "Ma…"

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Little Palestinian girl Rawan from Deir El Balah asks a journalist to bring back her mom and dad as he attempts to interview her.

الطفلة الفلسطينية رو��ن من دير البلح تطلب من صحفي أن يعيد لها والدتها ووالدها أثناء محاولته إجراء مقابلة معها.

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Shared Adoption Habits

A/n: This is a past oneshot that was probably meant to be made into a full plot fanfic that I found while organizing my google drive. Don't expect anything from it, I'm not sure what my thought process was for this.

Summary: Bruce is married. He's married to a City Spirit. Specifically, Lady Gotham.

Tw: Fenton Parents are out of the picture, take it as you wish; technical kidnapping/surprise adoption

Danny is the Ghost King; Bruce Wayne is called The White Knight; Batman is called The Dark Knight; Bruce/Gotham; All Gothamites are Lady Gotham's children through technical kidnapping

People loved to tease and bully Bruce about his adoption habit. Especially when they noticed the trend and shielded away adoption baits until they were grown enough to refuse adoption.

You could also turn to Batman with those dang Robins and Batgirls that spread further to even outside cities (and outer space). Nobody really knows the true number of members in the Batclan because of that adoption habit. But nobody knew that there was more to that. Nobody but those who knew of the other realm. Or should they say: the space that housed an infinite amount of them?

Denizens of the Infinite Realms were special and dangerous. Their hierarchy was based on power level. Their bonding activities related to fighting. Just mentioning their deaths would result in mindless rage, which was an instinctual defense mechanism.

Not to mention their obsessions! They would go all out, attacking those who got in the way of it. And they’re possessive of those they call their own. Never mess with their babies, their children. It was unknown what could be considered a threat with how fighting was a bonding activity, making the line practically invisible and terrifying to approach. So nobody messed with them.

How did this relate to Bruce? Well it’s pretty simple. Denizens from the realms adopted any child they find. Commonly, the child has the same or a similar core element as them. This is just like how Bruce has black hair and blue eyes, taking in those that are the same/similar.

This is just a comparison. This doesn’t explain shit. Well, what if someone told you that Bruce was spiritually married and heavily influenced by a denizen from said realms?

What denizen? Who would he ever be committed to long enough for him to share/mimic habits from them? Well, it’s none other than Lady Gotham! Whaaaat??? Haven’t you heard of Bruce Wayne being the White Knight compared to Batman, The Dark Knight? How everyone assumed them to be boyfriends or something but really they aren’t?

Well, that title is actually real. He’s the Knight to his Lady. That Lady being the city spirit of Gotham. Lady Gotham. Poetic really. But now it makes sense. Due to Spiritual Marriage, there are benefits. Such benefits include: An official title, a Name, certain abilities, a guaranteed citizenship to the realms, resistance against associates of the dead, and many other things. And with this marriage, they share things. Lady Gotham shares his ability to effortlessly stay on the mortal Realm, Bruce gets her adoption habit.

Since when does Lady Gotham have an adoption habit? The Gothamites hate outsiders! The city is proof enough. All Gothamites are hers. In fact, she goes further to open her arms to those of the dead/undead, inviting them to her haunt for shelter.

Her haunt houses a multitude of other haunts. Many are small. Rooms, apartments, houses. There are a few bigger haunts. Manors, which only 3 are occupied, The Swamp (Grundy), The Sewer Empire (Killer Croc), Crime Alley (Red Hood), and Clocktower. The Clocktower, however, was simply part of Clockwork’s haunt. He always held beacons everywhere.

She never liked it, even if she gained power if she rested there after the curses planned a sudden ambush. However, her Knights and his children did like it, the height of the structure soothing somehow. She understood, so she was neutral about it now. It was hers anyway. Part of her city, so suck it Clockwork!

Lady Gotham, clearly, has the classic adoption problem, even if it’s just part of her biology as a realms denizen. Bruce got that by becoming her knight. And-

Oh?

The Ghost King is a child?

And orphaned by human terms child?

Well Clockwork, you’re gonna have to share now.

Don't be shy now.

GIVE HER THE CHILD.

[caesthoffe]

An Update on Brianna Ghey

tw // extreme transphobia, hate crime, violent death, death of a child

If you're unfamiliar with Brianna Ghey, you can read up on the story here or watch this overview. There's been multiple updates, and I wanted to let people know about the most important ones.

On February 4th 2024, the two originally unnamed teenagers— the 16-year-old boy now identified as Eddie Ratcliffe, and 16-year-old girl now identified as Scarlett Jenkinson —have been sentenced to life in prison for the fatal stabbing of Brianna (x).

On the day of her murder, February 11th 2023, Brianna took the No 28 bus at around 2pm to meet up with Jenkinson (who brought Ratcliffe along without Brianna's knowledge). The two led her to a path on Culcheth Linear Park, where she was stabbed to death with a hunting knife (x) that Ratcliffe provided. Although both parties would later blame the other in court, it's important to note that Ratcliffe was the only one with blood found on his clothes. Brianna was stabbed a total of 28 times in her head, neck, chest, and back (x). Not long after, Jenkinson posted this to her snapchat account.

Her murder was premeditated weeks in advance (x), with the pair plotting their attack against Brianna (x), who was anxious and rarely went out alone. They'd previously attempted to kill her before, although those plans ended up failing (x).

Prior to her murder, she'd sent a message to her mother saying "I'm on the bus by myself. I'm scared." To which her mother had replied that she was proud of her attempt at going out alone. Unfortunately, Brianna never got to read that text.

Thousands of text messages have leaked from the two killers, where Ratcliffe misgenders and demeans Brianna, and Jenkinson details her obsession with Brianna.

➡ When Jenkinson sent Ratcliffe some selfies of Brianna, he replied, "Is it a femboy or a tranny?"

➡ After Jenkinson expressed that she thought Brianna was prettier than her, Ratcliffe had said, "Prettier but it's a boy."

➡ Jenkinson had texted him on Whatsapp, "I'm obsessed over someone I know but don't have feelings for them... She's called Brianna... I don't know how to explain. She looks like a girl, she sounds like a girl, she's really pretty." To which Ratcliffe replied, "Tell me what you feel when you interact with it. I don't think you're necessarily in love but I think you're more curious and intrigued by its unnatural nature." (x)

➡ After their initial attempt to kill a different student failed, Jenkinson suggested that they stab Brianna instead. Ratcliffe agreed, saying "Yeah, it'll be easier and I want to see if it will scream like a man or girl."

➡ Jenkinson discussed wanting to take Brianna's "pretty" eyes as trophies, and Ratcliffe said "Really all I want to see is what size dick it had."

➡ During the trial, when asked by the prosecutor why he used the terms "it" instead of "she" for Brianna, he said that it was a "joke" and that he had picked it up from other people.

Despite all of this, Cheshire police are still adamant that Brianna's murder was not motivated by transphobia (x), because "...If it hadn't been Brianna, it would have been one of the other four children on that list." This is further corroborated by Detective Inspector Nigel Parr of Cheshire Constabulary, who led the investigation. Outside the court, he claimed that "this was a senseless murder committed by two teenagers who had an obsession with murder, whose only motivation in killing Brianna was to experience what this would be like." (x)

The headteacher of Birchwood Community High School has claimed that she spoke to Brianna's mom who "confirmed that Brianna was not bullied at Birchwood and always felt well supported by the school," and that Brianna's mother had given her permission to share that (x). This is despite multiple of Brianna's friends, and Brianna herself (x), saying the opposite (x).

The two killers are eligible for parole in 20 and 22 years. I can only hope they atone for the harm they've caused Brianna's family, the trans community, and everyone else affected.

I hope one day we can live in a world where being trans isn't a death sentence. Where major news outlets can report on trans victims with respect (x). Where anti-trans hatred spewed by TERFs and radfems, right wing politicians and conservative talk show hosts no longer hold such an influence in the world.

We will be able to live as ourselves one day. Without fear. I just wish Brianna could be here to see it.