#via death penalty of course!!!!!!

[codenamesazanka]

I love your spinaraki fankid! I hope you don't mind receiving asks about him, if so, then please ignore.

In your AU, would Masanori be inclined to meeting mr. compress, if he's still around? Like, if compress was able to get out of jail, would he try to find Masanori (maybe not try to interact but just out of curiosity to know what happened to the kid)? Or Masanori could get Deku to let him speak to compress if he's still in jail? Does compress even know about Masanori's existence?

Ahhhhhhhh I'm so glad you like Masanori and thank you so much for the ask! Please, send all the asks you want. I'm just really happy people like him. 🤗🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏼

In this AU, Mr. Compress is still around - though still in jail, on death row.* Execution could happen any day now.

(*As part of a terrorist group that was involved in kidnapping, insurrection, multiple murders, etc., he's definitely getting the death penalty. All prison/legal aspects here is based on irl modern-day Japan.)

Compress does know about Masanori's existence! The League (+ the PLF leadership + two or three PLF medical workers) all knew that Spinner laid an egg. And just like Spinner, none of them knew what became of the egg - if it ever hatched, if the kid is doing okay, if they're even alive. Having guessed correctly that Spinner never told the Heroes anything, and with the subject never brought up in interrogations, they all intend to take the secret to the grave.

(Tho you're right: if Compress had ever broken out of jail because he totally should, he definitely would have tracked down the kid! And watched him from afar, to make sure he's okay. As much as Compress might want to make contact, he probably won't, to give the kid a chance at a non-villain, non-fugitive, non-League-bleak-end life. Though he may meddle with some things behind-the-scenes to make sure the kid stays on the straight path.

However, in an AU of this AU—if, like, fate ever puts Masanori in life-threatening danger, Compress would def rush there to save and protect him.)

Masanori - at first - actually has no interest in speaking to Mr. Compress. He knows about the guy, via reading Spinner's memoir and research, but since Masanori decided not to get sentimental about his parentage, he doesn't care to get in touch with Mr. Compress.

Not that Masanori can in the first place - by himself, he's got no way to establish communication with a death row prisoner, no good reason for it should he have to give one, and no one other than family and lawyers can contact Sako Atsuhiro anyway. That also lowered any incentive to act on any curiosity he might have had.

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It's actually this lack of desire that gives off a red flag to Deku, as part of a series of red flags regarding Masanori. See, Masanori has closed his heart off - doesn't want to know more about his parents or lineage, doesn't want to bond with anyone, doesn't even want friends. (Even Shigaraki had friends and held the League close to his heart!)

It just seems very sad and lonely to Deku. Masanori is not a villain and has firmly declared that he won't be one, so everyone can rest easy, but Masanori sure acts like a Villain, clearly broken and rejecting a world that had rejected him and "too far gone" for any of Deku's (or anyone's) attempts to Make Him Smile. (Metaphorically.) (Also literally - not a smiler, Masanori. Or emotes much.)

So of course obviously, for the story development, for Masanori's character growth, and Deku to for-real save Masanori, kid does eventually have to open up and develop connections. Deku actually takes the first step in facilitating this - getting a stay of execution for Mr. Compress so the kid can still have the only connection left in the world to Shigaraki and Spinner.

Plus for Deku - Compress will also probably be the first person to really take Deku to task about caring for Masanori, for Masanori's sake - if Deku's serious about helping this kid, without forcing his shallow and egotistical heroic ideals on him, and to continue helping him no matter what, no resorting to punching even if the kid fucks up, even if people finds out about Masanori and Deku'll have to defend Masanori's very existence against the world.

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Anddddddddd I've also toyed with the extremely terribly too-sappy idea that Masanori thinks of himself as a mistake, someone who shouldn't exist. Not only because of his villain lineage, but because clearly he's the result of some awkward situationship between Spinner and Shigaraki, two loser 20-somethings who were each other first friends because they were both gamers. While being boss and underling. Kinda cringe, you know? If they were sensible, they wouldn't/shouldn't have had him. Of course a pair of criminals would end up with a mess of an egg.

But it's Mr. Compress who'll be able to back up everything Spinner says in his letter to Masanori, and more. He'll tell Masanori that Spinner and Shigaraki really did care about each other very much. Masanori is a child born of... maybe not love, but definitely affection. And while he was indeed a complete surprise and accident, that wouldn't have mattered to his parents. Once he was in the world, once he existed, that would've been reason enough for Shigaraki and Spinner to fully accept him and fight to create a world that he can be free in. They surely would've done that. Wanted to do that. That's something Compress can say with 100% certainty. And it'll soothe such an important part of Masanori.

Also once Masanori does open up his heart and he and Compress do bond, I think they can have a good time chatting about stuff. Not just League stories, but also like, history details that Masanori can't learn from books, tips on thievery, the terrible name Shigaraki and Spinner would've came up for Masanori, how to survive having notable bloodlines weighting on you, expensive foods Masanori should try on that Deku Hero's budget.

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Thanks again for the ask!!! For allowing me to ramble on about this!!!! 🙇🏻‍♀️🙏🏼😭

[sami-guinea-arts]

I've been wanting to ask you something about your ocs for a while but I always chickened out out of embarrassment lol

How do witches and covens work? Witches are born into them or a person can join later in their life? What would be the requirements to join in that case?

Sorry if it's too specific.

Oh sure, I love to share lore! In fact, I did want to make a post about them in book style to talk about (my version) of witches in the series.

LONG post below! Took a while to answer :D

How do witches and covens work? I based my witches mainly on the ones from the Soul Eater series, meaning souls are involved. But also from irl tales. Witches look like humans. Male (amab) witches exist too, tho they are rarer. They differ from the females (afab) in some of their powers. Obviously, nonbinary and such exist too. "Witch" is actually a gender neutral term, tho I call the males Warlocks. With magic souls, they are stronger and more enduring than normal humans and have a FAR longer lifespan. The coven leader which I yet have to design is over 800 years old, lol. One might consider them immortal, but they can still die to weapons and such. Of course, they can still suffer injuries from guns and poison, but it takes more than that to kill one. Witches' biggest weakness is fire, hence witch burning. Only exception is Calida (she's Mtf, meaning born male), who has fire powers. They also can't step on church blessed ground and take major damage from holy water, crosses, etc.

A coven is a group of usually 13 witches, one of them the "leader". My coven, despite focusing on dark magic, still cares about balance (in their way obviously) and the cult/the eyes has been their enemy since centuries. It has 7 members so far. The leader, Azura, Wendy, Louhi, Lucy, Natalie and Calida. Covens irl gather for rituals and practices, while mine is sorta also a group of closure, as all members are outsiders of society with rather tragic backgrounds. I try to make them all different in bodytypes and personality, but it gets harder the more I'd add. Also, while all can do magic (black magic, blood magic), they all have themes. Such as Louhi's being shapeshifting, Wendy is a wendigo (animal), Lucy is poison, etc. The coven leader can do all sorts of spartial magic. Witches have personal brooms, but can use all brooms to fly! Their magic is the strongest under full moon, while they get very destructive under a blood moon. Witches can sense each other's magic sorta telepathically and keep their identity hidden for obvious reasons. Mine look kinda down on other witch OCs who openly express being witches, such as wearing witch clothing etc. as humans would probably hunt them down. ----- Witches are born into them or a person can join later in their life? In my universe, both! All my OCs that are witches are naturally born witches. However, you can also be a human becoming a witch by pacts with certain beings, such as the deity my coven worships. It changes a human soul to that of a witch, giving it magic abilites. It is how in my AUs, Carmen and Lila get turned into witches. Turned witches are not as powerful as naturally born ones tho. Obviously higher chances to be born a witch is if both parents are witches, because usually the result of human x witch is a hybrid. You can also be born as a full witch via recessive genes, like if one of your ancestor was one, but it is rare. You can also create hybrids with other species, such as vampires, werewolves, demons, etc. ----- What would be the requirements to join in that case? While normally, one can just find a higher magical being and do a deal with them of some sort. Being part of the coven means you are loyal to them, it is death penalty if you are also working for the cult in secret. Unlike the cult tho, they will not force someone in front of their deity to be turned. My coven is "old school", the leader only allowes members that identify as women. Meaning that, MtF folks are allowed too obviously. For example, one member is Calida, an OC from my friend, who is Natalie's sister. She's MtF. Basically you must "feel like a woman with your soul." The reason is that...the deity this coven worships requests it for some reason. So far all members are naturally born witches, but new members are welcomed, as long as they are not part of the cult yet and their soul can handle a "transformation". Coven members can't be converted by the eyes and are immune to it, while cult members who are converted by the eyes are immune to the coven deity.

Irl covens from my knowledge don't care about gender! Also please do not confuse dark magic mainly used in media such as movies with "Wicca", Wicca is peaceful and has nothing to do with any dark practices. While cult members have the amulet (some people also give them a spider or diamond shaped tattoo, we don't know if they have any), Coven members all have a pentagram (pentacle) tattoo on their back and a tatoo of the "goddess" on their stomach. Also rune tattoos that wrap around arms and legs. Only the tattoos on the arms/legs can be hidden. Meaning joining will also get you these.

[after-the-ellipsis]

If your (amazing perfect) versions of Hannibal gets the death penalty, how do you think Will and Hannibal would react and do?

I really prefer your version of Hannibal and Will, I love that he holds on to good, and found your portrayal most accurate

Oh my goodness, Hannibal would have the greatest time on death row. He quickly works out which of his inmates are innocent and rubs that knowledge in Jack Crawford's face via an impassioned, sneering speech about the evils of capital punishment - "The good old U. S. of A. is the greatest serial killer of our time, a mechanized for-profit death machine. Makes my little operation look positively quaint." Hannibal spends an ungodly amount of hours planning his last meal, drafting and tearing up potential menus, scandalizing the prison kitchen by requesting "chateaubriand" but the tenderloin and bone marrow can only be "locally sourced." All this breathlessly covered by Freddie Lounds, of course.

There would be a 'Free Hannibal Lecter' movement, naturally. Beverly skirts the edges of a protest, wondering who all these people are, and whether they'd change their tune if they spent ten seconds talking to him through bars.

Meanwhile Will hates the thought of the killing of Hannibal Lecter being delegated to the bureaucratic state. This is an excruciating punishment for Will, for reasons he can't look at too closely, which is exactly why Hannibal is able to cope with his fate so magnanimously.

Hannibal, of course, needs to see Will before he dies and would do everything in his power to make this happen. He does the only thing guaranteed to bring Will back, which is create a killer only Will can catch. He slowly manipulates one of his 'Free Hannibal Lecter' stans until they assume this mantle, a killer in the mold of Francis Dolarhyde but even more of a Hannibal puppet. (You'll notice Hannibal hasn't attempted this obvious course of action in Greatest Show, which might make you wonder whether Hannibal is actually ready to see Will again...)

Anyway, he'd get Will back. He'd even get his Zero Doors scenario, because of course he would. Hannibal always gets what he wants. A death sentence wouldn't stop him, it only speeds him up!

[haggishlyhagging]

The second heaviest concentration of European witch trials was in the French-speaking lands, especially on their margins. Where royal control was firm, the panics were kept in hand, but the outlying provinces, resistant in every way to central control, at first hunted down witches with little restraint.

The northern province of Flanders (Département du Nord), under Spanish control during much of the witch hunt era, persecuted four women for every man, plus numbers of young children. Robert Muchembled concludes that women were targeted because of both theological and societal biases against them. The Catholic Reformation's drive to control the sexuality of its members fell heaviest, of course, on the female sex. Heavy penalties for illegitimate births and irregular marriages, and the death penalty for abortion and infanticide, placed new limits on women's control over their bodies and their lives. It required a century or more after the Council of Trent for French society to fall into line, but by the end of the seventeenth century French women were producing only one-third as many illegitimate births as their English (Protestant) sisters.

The church also cut deeply into women's traditional roles at this time. By ruling (in France) that baptisms must take place within twenty-four hours of birth, it prevented women from gathering their extended families to celebrate the arrival of the new child; by forbidding wakes to be held in churches, it cut women out from their chief quasi-liturgical role, that of public mourner. Along with this went a major attack on midwives and female healers. The church thus undermined women's mastery of folk healing, adding to the parish priest's control over the laity's lives at every point possible. Add to this ecclesiastical attack the traditional societal disgust for old women and envy of the power of folk healers, and one finds a potent wave of antifeminism growing in rural sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France. Muchembled believes that basic to these customs was "une méfiance fondamentale" (a fundamental distrust) of women. To this summary must be added the deterioration in women's economic possibilities.

As for what triggered witch hunting in this area, belief in demonism seems not to have been the cause, such matters appearing in trial records only on the prompting of the judges. Here it was a case of prolonged disruption of daily life, the almost continuous wars and frequent plagues and increasing poverty. Because of this long period of turmoil, the economic conditions of the peasants steadily worsened throughout the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The number of paupers increased as rural taxes became heavier; wealth became concentrated in the hands of a few rich peasant families, those eligible to attend the communal assembly, those few who had recently learned to read and write and could thus cooperate with the new religious reformers. As the gap between rich and poor increased, social tensions rose and were dealt with by the powerful families via witchcraft charges against the indigent. Always the accusers were better off, even if only slightly, than the persons whom they accused.

-Anne Barstow Llewelyn, Witchcraze

[stephensmithuk]

Shoscombe Old Place

The final Holmes story published by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1927, this forms part of Case-Book. Doyle would write a number of other works, including two Professor Challenger stories, before his death in July 1930.

This was originally trailed as "The Adventure of the Black Spaniel".

Newmarket Heath is the sight of Newmarket Racecourse, one of the most prominent horse racing venues in the UK. Therefore, this was a rather public horsewhipping. I am pretty sure that the Jockey Club, which regulated the sport until 2006, would have a thing or two to say about actual bodily harm.

The Grand National takes place at Aintree every year and is the most famous steeplechase race in Europe; even those don't normally bet will take part, either directly or via a sweepstake.

The race has become controversial due to many horses being fatally injured when falling, frequently at the steep drop of Becher's Brook, and then euthanised over the years; various changes have been made to try to make things safer. There have been five horse deaths since the 2012 changes from 595 runners; you are fully entitled to think five is five too many. 2023 saw Animal Rising protestors attempt to stop the race and cause a delay; Hill Sixteen ended up dying, with his trainer blaming the protestors for spooking the horses.

"The Derby" refers to the Epsom Derby, held every year on the first Saturday of June. It is the flat race with the highest prize in British horse racing, with a first prize of £885,781.84 in 2023, when Ryan Moore won it riding Auguste Rodin.

"The Jews" refers to moneylenders, the stereotypical profession that Jewish people practiced. Most Jews by 1902 did not of course.

"Halt-on-demand" stations are those where passengers have to request the train stops there either via informing the guard in advance if getting off, or by other methods if getting on, like holding your arm out for a bus, although electronic methods are in increasing use. Great Britain has around 135 of them.

Historically fishing was a major source of food for poorer rural families. From 1865, you needed a licence for salmon and trout fishing, although not for other fish. The rod licence's provisions were expanded over time to prevent overfishing and you now need a licence, as well as permission of the property owner, for most fishing in England and Wales. Not in most of Scotland and Northern Ireland though. There will also be restrictions on what you can keep (which has caused issues with foreign anglers who generally don't operate on the 'put it back' principle) and the whole angling business is now pretty heavily regulated. Fish without a licence and you can be on the hook for a fine of up to £2,500.

It is a legal requirement to register a death within five days in England and Wales. There is also a separate offence of preventing a lawful and decent burial, which has a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, but it is fairly rare for someone to be charged with it unless as part of a homicide case.

[contentment-of-cats]

F*ck anons

Hate, Harassment, and Threats: Coping and Handling

It happens and it's happened since the rise of LJ. I remember getting my first hatepost and how much it upset me, but I was never a target in the way that many were. LJ was truly the wild and wooly west - Dodge City or Deadwood, when people thought it would be a utopia. We had greyfaces, anons, sock puppets, and meat puppets. For people transitioning from controlled environments like e-Groups, Listserv, and forums it was not the mod-free utopia that they might have wished for. Real fandom scandals and legitimate harm to fans have been built on anons, sockpuppets, and greyfaces.

Terminology

Anon: Anonymous account either from outside the service or from an established account that has been anonymized.

Greyface: LJ term for an account with no identifiers, created explicitly to harass.

Sock Puppet: Account created by one person with the intent of being perceived as a separate individual.

Meat Puppet: Also used to be called a fanpoodle. A person whose actions are directed by another. Also called a muppet for having the controller's hand shoved so far up their ass that it can work their mouth.

Defining Hateposting/Cyberstalking/Harassment/Threats

First, there is a federal law -18 U.S. Code § 2261A Stalking - that defines stalking and harassment. Full text is here, with excerpt below:

(2) (Whoever) with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, or place under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate another person, uses the mail, any interactive computer service or electronic communication service or electronic communication system of interstate commerce, or any other facility of interstate or foreign commerce to engage in a course of conduct that— (A)places that person in reasonable fear of the death of or serious bodily injury to a person, a pet, a service animal, an emotional support animal, or a horse described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of paragraph (1)(A); or (B)causes, attempts to cause, or would be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to a person described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of paragraph (1)(A),

Laws can vary from state to state. 48 states have some laws on the books, with 44 having criminal penalties. You'll need to contact local law enforcement or look them up on your state legislature's website.

All forms of online harassment can be grouped under the label of cyberbullying. How do you know what is or isn't cyberbullying? There is a comprehensive list. Even some things that you didn't think might be bullying are, in fact, bullying. Unfortunately, the FBI seems to focus on financial crimes and scams, and have changed their reporting pages to reflect that. In all cases using the internet to convey threats as defined under 18 U.S. Code § 2261A need to be documented and reported to the FBI.

Documenting: Keep the Reciepts

Documenting online abuse is key to stopping online abuse. To be Tumblr specific, screenshots of DMs, replies to your posts, posts harassing you, reblogs of your posts with abuse in the comments and tagjacking or abusive hashtags, screenshots of anons/sockpuppets and harassing asks need to be kept. You need your receipts.

Fuck Anons

Anons are not worth your mental health or the pleasure and community you derive from fandom.

"But some of my followers are shy!"

They can create an account that they can use just for doing asks. Exposing you to abuse and bullying should not be the price of someone being shy. I have also turned on anons when someone has asked me to via DM, in a post comment, or via an anon comment on my Ao3 so that they could send me an ask without unmasking themselves. This protects me and protects them.

Tumblr recently started requiring a valid email address to send an anon without being signed in. This could be seen a couple of different ways - Tumblr wants some sort tabs on people using their site anonymously, or that they want people sending anons to create an account. There is nothing to stop an anon from creating a burner email account in order to harass, so that only goes so far.

Block anons. I am serious. Just go into your account settings and do it. You can even turn off asks entirely.

Per Tumblr: "Anonymous asks are not associated with a specific account, and blocking those will block the IP address of the sender."

So, if you block an anon and someone suddenly disappears from your followers, or you get a follower asking why they can't see or interact with your blog, then you have your answer as to where your anon bullying might well be coming from.

However, isn't it easier to just turn off anons?

Yes. It is. My anons are kept off 99.9 percent of the time and I sleep just fine.

Other Tips and Tricks

You can control who reblogs your posts. The default is that anyone on Tumblr can reblog. You can also block anyone from reblogging. The new feature offers middle ground by allowing you to add users allowed to reblog by mentioning them. I don't know if this extends to other parties reblogging from the people you allowed to reblog, however. Click on the little gear to access the dropdown.

From the Settings Menu

In addition to the default, you have two other options under the dropdown.

Tumblrs you follow and that have been mutuals with you for a week can reply

Only Tumblrs you follow can reply.

Keep the people you follow private by toggling this off.

Toggle off to stop DMs from people you don't follow.

Hide your Tumblr from people without a Tumblr, or from people who are signed out. Remove your blog from Tumblr search results or from search engine crawlers.

Finally, you can block DMs on a case by case basis, too.

Finally, it can be hard to start over, but when the bullying is too much and too persistent, you can back up your blog or take it private and start a new Tumblr with people you trust.

Other Resources

Online Harassment Field Guide - a really comprehensive source

[360degreesasthecrowflies]

Many of JKR's approaches to social class seem to me to reflect precisely the same mind-set that she so loudly and shrilly denounces in her depiction of the Dursleys. People like the Dursleys, JKR tells us, are wickedly regressive -- brutish, even. They and their ilk should be scorned, as should the things that they tend to believe in. Things like corporal punishment. Things like the death penalty. Things like disdain for the lower classes. Things like suspicion of the aristocracy. Things like jingoism, and law-and-orderism, and political paranoia, and the belief that foreigners are intrinsically dubious, not to be trusted. Things like "blood will tell." We are treated to this at the beginning of each novel, almost as if JKR wants to establish her progressive credentials from the very outset. Once we move on to the meat of the text, however, it can sometimes become a bit difficult to avoid the suspicion that in some indefinable way, the spirit of Aunt Marge is pushing the hand that holds the pen. Blood really does seem to tell in the Potterverse, and foreign names do often serve as a marker of dark allegiance. The lower classes are stupid and beneath notice; the aristocracy is sinister, and very likely sexually perverse as well. Corporal punishment is precisely what children like Draco Malfoy deserve, and although Hogwarts does not itself permit this, the narrative voice positively exults whenever the little brat gets physically smacked down. The political approach of Crouch Sr. was regrettable, of course -- but all the same, you know, his son really was guilty...and besides, Fudge is ever so much worse. And Sirius Black, whom Vernon Dursley so brutishly classifies as gallows-bait, was innocent all along. Pettigrew was the real culprit -- and the narrative voice rather gives us the impression that the author believes that he really does "deserve to die." It is troubling, this, and it casts the Dursley sequences which open each novel in a strange and somewhat disturbing light. The broad slapstick viciousness of these passages—often strikingly stylistically out of kilter with the more subtle shadings of the rest of the text—almost begin to read like expressions of authorial self-hatred, or perhaps even as failed authorial attempts at self-exorcism. JKR rings her little bell and lights her single candle: she sneers at Vernon; she blows up Aunt Marge. But the values that these characters represent cannot be so easily dismissed. Their personifications may receive all manner of public thrashing in the first chapter or two of each novel, but it would seem that their spirits are lodged somewhere deep within the author's very soul. When it comes to the Dursleys, the closet conservative doth protest too much. The result—much like the homophobic rantings of those trapped in a somewhat different closet—is strangely unconvincing. On some fundamental level, we simply do not believe in the Dursleys in at all the same way that we believe in the rest of the fictive world. The explicit condemnation of their values doesn't carry the same weight as the implicit approval that these same values are granted by the rest of the text -- in very much the same way that JKR's use of stereotypes as a form of humor so often fails to quite convince readers that she really doesn't, deep down in her heart of hearts, genuinely believe the things that she passes off as "nothing but a joke." JKR wants to be a progressive. But there's a rock-solid streak of conservatism in her writing, and even though she herself seems to dislike it, she nonetheless seems incapable of banishing it even from her very own text.

via Elkins's essay on Class in Harry Potter. Notably, this was written before the last two books were released and is very insightful on things that would later be revealed both about the authorship, Rowling's views as a writer, and her general social views in the following 15 years.

[sillygooseun]

tw-destiel confession meme (i’m sorry you have to see this on your dash again)

someone probably already did this but thought i oughta contribute to the destiel meme :)

(more about the news under the cut cuz it’s actually super interesting and it’s all i can talk about because i’ve been reading articles on it since tuesday)

basically, if you don’t know, Van Houten, who is now like 70 something, was 19 when she met Manson and joined the cult which ended up being called the “Manson family.” before she was released on tuesday she was serving sentences of 7 years to life after being convicted in 1971 for the murder of a husband and wife.

“More than 50 years after the Manson cult committed these brutal offenses, the victims’ families still feel the impact, as do all Californians. Governor Newsom reversed Ms. Van Houten’s parole grant three times since taking office and defended against her challenges of those decisions in court,” Erin Mellon, a spokesperson for the governor, said Friday (directly quoted). A family member of the hair stylist Jay Sebring, who was killed by the Manson cult in 1969, said he doesnt agree with the decision to not challenge Van Houten’s parole. he pretty much said (and this isn’t a direct quote like the other one, im paraphrasing it) that he has respect for the governor and such but the families think it’s a bad decision not to file an appeal.

DiMaria called Van Houten a “cold-blooded killer in one of the most notorious murder rampages in United States history,” and said her release sets a “dangerous, pernicious precedent.” (thats a direct quote from CNN)

after 50 something years in prison, she’s gonna take classes to learn how to get a job, support herself, etc. i mean she’s never used an atm, a cellphone, so she needs to be adjusted similarly to how captain america was adjusted after he was in the ice (COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SITUATIONS THOUGH, I AM NOT COMPARING HER TO CAP.) anyway, she was originally sentenced to death, but the death penalty was overturned after California abolished capital punishment, so she was just sentenced to life. she was eligible for parole back in 1977 and the parole board thingy recommended release in 2016 after 22 appearances for the board. in 1994 this is how she described her part in the killings; “I went in and Mrs. LaBianca was laying on the floor and I stabbed her,” said Van Houten, who was 19 at the time of the murders. “In the lower back, around 16 times.”

so anyway yeah this is a pretty cool story that i’ve been reading up on and i thought i would share it (via the best news source there is, of course)

[writer59january13]

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, hence prose poiētḗs of mine ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”) the purported line Brutus uttered after assassinating Julius Caesar.

Alternatively titled:

The prose and consequential arguments for the death penalty. An attempt to resuscitate the following rambling missive written quite some years ago (being declared dead on arrival if yours truly took emergency measures to recruit editorial assistance), but after re-reading loopy thought process, I decided to submit to rebukes and suffer withering criticism from any anonymous reader. Ever since the early forerunners of twenty first century mankind (sprinted across the trackless expanse extant upon planet Earth), modern Homo Sapiens essentially won out as coterie precursors sans predominant present day team of rivals. The zigzag line, whence our arboreal ancestors skedaddled their way toward a capitalone delineation of die hard grateful deadheads dogging disaster, and acquiring dubious distinction decreeing domain of oblate spheroid as prime real estate, (when Prometheus fire made privy to proto humans, while an anonymous forerunner of Flintstones squatted squeezing with utmost effort, when nothing more than an ear deafening blast of flatulence issued forth unwittingly kindled sparks of tinder), the imperceptible figurative ink did not dry before these hairy hooligans edged out other prehensile primates. Enfant Terrible employed as an analogy for punctuated equilibrium (postulated by Stephen Jay Gould heterochrony and similar evolutionary changes would not be directed by the genes that actually build various body parts) witnessing a boom rang amidst feral creatures unpredictably crowing with foo fighting fecundity (inadvertently in sync with Feng Shui) to launch a scrappy posse of measly mensch kin’s into the realm. This phenomena countless thousands (more like millions) of years since the inception of brutal, nasty and short tempered present day troglodytes.

With the aid of an imaginary crystal ball, the seeds of White Lily got borne via Aery windy gusts jet setting most “advanced” pygmy beastie boys as the animalistic bellwether per future adventure, whence many anthropological opposable thumbed volumes yet written till the present deadly crossroads announced ruthless Reichstag. Credos, codas, diktats governing infantile Messerschmitt Sol Invictus yet unnamed role as most dangerous living beings known to exist unwittingly usurped grandiose nom de plume as Master baiters predicating their survival on brawn and brains to public enemy number one to all other life forms. As the fittest (at least when accidents of circumstances found tendency to crowd source, the mob mentality already evident as hyena cackles quickly garnered rubric of might equals right), thus grabbing by force of strong arms (fingers clutching deadly lances), the top prize as sovereign dictators of the Proletariat).

Over the course of millennia (presently without Melania, who cares), they became the de facto dominant species. The proto humans ancestors of Donald Trump, essentially won the race millenniums ago. The evolutionary descendents metamophasizing into bipedal hominids of recent mankind did not monkey around when competing in the Human Race. They elbowed, jostled, and ousted competitors eventually to ascend inexorably their way to the top tier of totalitarianism.

Great indomitable naked apes of early simian evolution, would not settle for any role except top banana in the hierarchical schema of biota extant throughout the nascent dawn of civilization and age of Aquarius. Violence with whatever materiel at hand vanquished any threat to world wide webbed domination sans existence at dawn of civilization.

Closer to late morning and high noon the tall tale ushered vanity videre licet venal, vicious, vocal frankly zapped Tarzans, 10,000 Maniacs, and voodoo worshippers blitzed like banshees. Literal face saving each manikin for himself (gnome hatter whether blood pact swore), the bludgeoned, hoodwinked, and whipped warriors wary warlocks fought tooth nail to the death. One instant found a bald (ah that explains my receding heir line) bandied legged bestial macho tree swinging sportsman (my monkey's uncle) brazenly boasting bona fide. Well guess what ma friend? That sure-footed geico hunter met a bloody death on an empty stomach. His purported blood brothers abandoned him (at the drop of a clump of offal) as not dependent and unreliable brethren. No such thing as a gentlemen’s agreement ruled the virgin terra firmae. Amidst the warren of primates, a promise quickly broached instantaneously after pledging allegiance to a pseudo fraternity. Swift lee tailored and harried styled obeisance adhered to a flip flop (dip thong) pattern that guaranteed staying alive. This included bopping strapping "jocks" on their beanies with rotten tangerines of bystander’s whereat even babies innocently caught in the culture club thwacks between one competing claque and another. Pity clobbered indiscriminately friend and de foe alike exacerbating ruination of bucolic beauty. Contra bands (very loosely applied) associated with village people as the most powerful brigands, which shifting fidelity took place without the presence of border crossing guards or border collies. The open frontier presented Avast earthlinked heaven, where danger lurked in most every field camouflaged by delusively diminutive sized cretins, that punched a wallop with a crack on the noggin before indigenous faux peoples swooped down amidst the war whoop emitted by a madding crowd marauding where angels feared to tread. Oft times (no doubt), thee ah bridged brotherly bond broke brooked ranks (once upon unfamiliar terrain of an alien nation) plying figurative cards to benefit bristling brood. Deoxyribonucleic Acid played a key role as genetics probably parlayed traits to the ace of spades, where the wild impractical joker abetted physical heft to hoist with her/his own petard heavy objects, and mandates employed and obeyed by snatching strapping twisted sisters, thence sacking sacred cistern, when bands of ruffians within the melee wrought regal restitution.

Where nature fell short weeding out the weak, sickly, elderly, frail, deformed, et cetera, the Flint Stone Age paradigm evinced population control linkedin to Netzero tolerance for even minor infractions. Interwoven with the whack upon the mole hole atop noggin with cracked skull (and broken weapon of destruction) throve the depredations of rival rebellious ravenous stealthy, quick of pluck (prestidigitatious like) orchestrated nature made ideology. Highlight of Goofus and Gallant bred within the survival instinct of hungry hordes of prey, when Earth in the balance against an uncomfortable truth smug smurf like scavengers.

Punishment meted out and limited by the poison yielded courtesy iron maiden of hand-to-hand mortal kombat.

Only when the codification, edification, glorification… of sedentary versus nomadic lifestyle did considerations turn to protection of self and others. This shift in consciousness occurred over great swaths of time. At some juncture in the history, an alteration from superstitious, querulous, and portentous outlook, some anonymous hotmail awakened with a momentous, judicious, and industrious insight to counter act and oppose hellacious and supplant said pathos with a healthy generous dose of fortuitousness reckoned by invention formulating calculus, audaciousness and picking up some helpful tips from bad company. Difficult to pinpoint the precise instance or prodigy who advanced contemplation, federation, intuition… the process most likely happened in fits and starts.

As aggregates of close affiliates with out genus and species recognized benefits of law and order, a coordinated effort seemed to blossom forth promulgating civility, every good boy does fine mentality and seeking methodologies to offer greater guarantee for longevity.

Creedence clearwater revival delivered the gospel according to Matthew, which soon indoctrinated the merry brigands of pagans actuating obloquy against contrary beliefs.

Long story short of course forcibly pronounced decree imposing religious strictures to be obeyed lest one be sentenced to death.

Many a decent creature, who found solace from spirits that inhabited the natural environment got sucker punched (or worse tortured till he and/or she recanted supposed primitive beliefs), and at some instance relinquished spiritual heritage harkening back generations.

Though freedom of religion an inalienable right, a twisted sister logic (my opinion) seems to destroy innocent lives while a terroristic perpetrator becomes a martyr.

If the realm of each cerebral individual aggressively usurped by indomitable fanatics hell bent on proselytizing at a very tender age, (when the mind most malleable), and hashtagging those whose willpower greater than any sword, the latter labeled heretics with the price of their life to pay for staunchly held vision quest.

Here doth stare me a long entrenched hypocrisy at the expense of no threat to another. How (warning cause mumbo jumbo ahead) in the name of tarnation (with or without feathers would be incidental to this Unitarian based atheist) can there be a more severe implication of self sovereignty than the deprivation for personal willfulness as a natural curiosity to cogitate, educate, genuflect…et cetera on the ramifications of humanism if forced to recant such individualistic projections?

Unbeknownst to this wordsmith his meandering reflections would follow an arc unpredictable at the start of this self-imposed literary exercise. His er rather my intent aspired to dwell on near black and white principles of so-called right and wrong.

Funny (and/or maybe ironic), that most if not all organized edicts disparage against every single premise (particularly taking the life of another without just cause), yet pronounce severe screeds with a bounty hunter put upon the head of he/she who professes such antithetical intimations.

Further objection toward adherents to this, that or some other accepted codex, when the sanctity of embryonic/fetal entity sets mad men going off on a rampage of ranting, and raving, and even killing in the name of pro life. This introspective, live, oddly ruminating uber xman wags as a sagacious thinker, and does assent that a capital offense (such as murder – minus self defense) ought to be dealt with a blow (both figurative and literal) against the killer, though outright execution disallows the hardened criminal to become sensitized to such a deadly deed. Earlier chapters of mein kampf would elicit an immediate declaration that what he/she who kills another ought to get (I scream) their just desserts. As the decades passed, a realization that exact retribution can bring reduction regarding the departed heartfelt, lost past quirky specialness, whether that person constitutes an outlier whose notions, thoughts, whims, et cetera, could upend the entire complex edifice what tomb me on par with an ennobled, established, and accepted myth greater than Sisyphus.

Whatsapp penning to me (a punning logophile with acute perception can be briefly explained by the role of fatherhood. As the papa of two dearly beloved daughters (both soon on the cusp of taking wing and flying the coop at the electronic date/time stamp), many controversial stances underwent augmentation within the breastworks of mine bosom.

How many emotionally laden issues posit one or both of said prized progeny as a hypothetical/speculative victim courtesy growing up in a dysfunctional upbringing.

Anger against the avenger would be mirrored by innumerable questions. I would be keen to share how pained this papa felt/feels, and beckon to explain what provoked such unforgivable vengeful wrath against himself. Damage would haunt thine prized precious offspring, and this dada cannot imagine how a mother and father endure the never-ending permanent harm dealt their son or daughter no matter the perpetrator penalized.

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Half of motorists pulled over on suspicion of drug-driving fail roadside drug tests, an investigation has found, sparking calls for a fresh approach to tackle the “growing epidemic”.

Police figures obtained by road safety charity IAM RoadSmart indicate 51% of tests were positive in 2023, and 49% were positive in the first seven months of last year.

This is based on data provided by 17 out of 45 police forces across the UK in response to Freedom of Information requests.

Drug-driving rules consist of very low limits for eight illegal drugs such as cocaine and cannabis, risk-based limits for eight drugs that have a medical use, and a separate approach to amphetamines that aims to balance legitimate medical use with abuse.

Roadside swab tests identify whether a motorist has used cannabis or cocaine.

The presence of other drugs is identified via blood and urine tests at police stations.

Police officers must have a reasonable suspicion that a driver is under the influence of drugs before asking them to take a test.

The PA news agency reported last month that 3,431 people were caught drug-driving on four or more occasions in the 11 years to July 20 2024.

Department for Transport (DfT) figures show the number of people killed in crashes on Britain’s roads when a driver was impaired by drugs rose from 55 in 2014 to a record 134 in 2023.

In October 2024, Shaun Mulligan, then 48, of Seaside in Eastbourne, East Sussex, was given a five-year prison sentence and disqualified from driving for seven-and-a-half years after admitting causing death by careless driving while over the limit for drugs and alcohol.

He crashed a scaffolding van into a car travelling in the opposite direction on the A281 near Henfield, West Sussex, in November 2022, killing its 71-year-old driver, Jennifer Allen.

Mulligan tested positive for benzoylecgonine – the chemical breakdown of cocaine – and was nearly double the drink-drive alcohol limit.

IAM RoadSmart policy manager William Porter said: “The fact that one in two motorists are failing roadside drugs tests shows that the message about the dangers of drug-driving is not getting through.

“Separate research by IAM RoadSmart indicates that one in seven drivers aged 17-34 admitted to getting behind the wheel after taking Class A drugs, indicating how vital it is to tackle this growing epidemic.

“We urgently need a new approach to combat drug-driving which focuses on both greater enforcement and establishing rehabilitation courses to reduce reoffending.

“The evidence shows that those taking equivalent drink-drive courses are almost three times less likely to reoffend than those who don’t.

“Ministers must consider expanding similar courses to those with drug-driving convictions.”

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander recently hinted that drug-driving rules could be toughened as part of a road safety strategy being developed by the Government.

A DfT spokesperson said: “We take road safety extremely seriously and there are already strict penalties in place for those who are caught drug-driving.

“Our roads are among the safest in the world, but we are committed to improving road safety and reducing the number of those killed and injured on our roads.”

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Texas: Democrat DA Will Seek Death Penalty For Venezuelan Illegals In Rape, Death Of 12-Year-Old Jocelyn Nungaray

(L) Jocelyn Nungaray, 12. (Photo via: Houston Police Department) / (R) Donald Trump listens as Alexis Nungaray speaks at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on October 25, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Nungaray is the mother of 12 year old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was killed by illegal immigrants (Aliens) in June, 2024.

Kim Ogg, the outgoing Democrat district attorney for Harris County, announced that her office will pursue death sentences against the two illegal aliens charged with raping and killing 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray.

“We’ll be filing notice by the state of Texas that we intend to seek the death penalty against Jocelyn’s murderers, Peña and Rangel. Both were Venezuelan nationals, they had been captured while committing a crime, coming into this country illegally, and then within days of murdering and raping Jocelyn Nungaray,” Ogg said on Fox News on Friday. “So we are seeking death because we want the message out there that regardless of who you are, but especially if you are illegally in this country, that you will face the same consequences as anyone else for murdering a child during the course of raping and kidnapping her,” she added.

Nungaray was reportedly tortured, raped, strangled, and her body was then thrown in a shallow creek nearby to her home. Her body was found at 6:49 a.m. on June 17th. Police also noted that her “wrists and feet were bound.”

26-year-old Franklin Peña and 22-year-old Johan Martinez Rangel, who police say are members of the violent gang “Tren de Aragua,” were charged with capital murder in June. Peña was wearing an ankle monitor when ICE finally apprehended him, according to the prosecution, and they believe that he cut it or broke it off either before or after the crime.

— Abigail Dye (@AbigailDyeNews) December 13, 2024

According to the DA’s office, she will notify Judge Josh Hill’s 232nd District Court on Friday, informing the judge that her office intends to pursue death penalties in this case. Additionally, Peña, Martinez Rangel, and their legal representatives will receive the notice as well.

“Jocelyn’s murder was as vile, brutal and senseless as any case in my tenure as district attorney,” Ogg said in a statement. “And it was made worse by knowing that these two men were here illegally and, had they been held after being captured at the border, they would never have had the opportunity to murder Jocelyn and destroy her family’s future.”

Detectives with the Houston Police Department have stated that they believe Nungaray left her family’s apartment at around 10 p.m. the night before her body was discovered in the creek.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) verified that the two men had entered the country illegally near El Paso without being inspected. The two were then “granted parole or admitted by immigration officials.”

Since her 12-year-old daughter’s tragic murder, Jocelyn Nungaray’s mother, Alexis Nungaray, has been a staunch supporter of a closed border, frequently siding with Republican leaders like President-elect Donald Trump and U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas). The young mother also expressed anger and disbelief that neither Biden nor Kamala Harris ever reached out to her after the murder made national news headlines.

“Kamala Harris has never reached out to me, just even as a human, to give her condolences as a humane person running this country,” Nungaray said. “I think it’s very sad that she can’t even just give me an open apology, sincere apology,” the mother continued. “She [Jocelyn] was a preteen, months away from becoming a teenager, out doing what teenagers do. Going to the corner store to get a soda, she was being preyed on by two illegal Venezuelan immigrants. They saw an innocent young girl and made her a target for their horrendous actions,” the mother wrote on September 10th in a testimony to the House of Representatives Committee.

Nungaray also told the press that Trump reached out to her the day after her daughter’s funeral, expressing his deepest sympathy.

“Alexis, it’s Donald Trump, and I’m just calling to give my warmest regards to you and your family, it’s so horrible what happened and I’ll call you later,” Trump said in his voicemail. “But, you just do the best you can. It’s a horrible thing. This should have never happened. The whole world loves you and they love that beautiful beautiful daughter of yours so… I can’t express what’s going on in this country, so you just take care of yourself and I’ll speak to you later, and all of Jocelyn’s friends and family, give them my warmest regards. Just take care. Thank you.”

By the end of this year, DA Ogg will have served her second and last term as district attorney. One of her former prosecutors, Sean Teare, who defeated Ogg in the Democrat primary in March and defeated Republican Dan Simons in the general election in November, will succeed her.

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 22, 2024

— @Chicago1Ray (@Chicago1Ray) December 13, 2024

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[dasmuggler]

An Appointment in Samarra• for a Ninja.

In the wake of double failed raid and attempted escape from Cobra Island II•, Storm-Shadow learns and pays the penalty for betraying Cobra Command- with the Baroness to collect in the penultimate page to Marvel Comics’ G. I. Joe: A Real American Hero #47, “Sea Duel”.

With action filled scenes and the introduction of then new Joes Beach-Head & Wetsuit and the one time only use of the G. I. Joe Devilfish fast attack boats and Cobra Hydro-Sleds, odds are Nobody was expecting THIS scene to happen. Hopefully, Larry Hama never received hate mail from the more... emotionally invested Joe fans when they got to this point of the story.•

(To be fair, this issue came soon after Marvel Age Magazine #34 came out where, in an interview, Larry revealed that Four popular characters would die’, adding that they were characters fans ‘really liked’, and, the kicker, that there would be ‘no resurrections or come backs’ for these characters.•)

For the older fans, they would’ve been more pragmatic about Storm-Shadow’s fate, but given that Hasbro perceived that kids watched the cartoon and bought the action figures, odds are the younger fans were shocked at Storm-Shadow’s fate and most likely hated the Baroness.

Still, for the period Tomasiburo Arashikage was in the afterlife, the reason for his fate would be hammered home in the very next issue•. Oh, joy. Lets really twist the knife into the fandom.

Still, it was a reminder that war is Not a game and the Grim Reaper can come at any point for any person, regardless how high a fan following he may have.

• An Appointment in Samarra is a 1934 short story/folk tale by John O’Hara of a tale narrated by the Grim Reaper, with the moral being that nobody escapes death.

As Thanos of Titan would say, “I am inevitable.”

• The objective of Storm-Shadow’s and Snake-Eyes’ raid was to secure payback on Zartan for killing the Hard Master of the Arashikage Ninja Clan- that was a washout, as was the pair’s plans to escape Cobra Island via air or sea.

Thankfully for Snake-Eyes, Hawk subscribed to the James Tiberius Kirk doctrine, regardless what a Coastie like Cutter may think or say about it.

(Like Dr. Venom and Firefly, I’ve a long memory.)

• No Joke- its said Chris Claremont and John Byrne got flak from X-Men fans for killing off Jean Grey back in X-Men #137; Frank Miller caught fire from overzealous Daredevil fans when he had Elektra killed by Bullseye in Daredevil #181 (with the greenlight of then DD Editor Denny O’Neil; the death of Jean Grey was asked by then Marvel EIC Jim Shooter, citing that Jean Grey be made to face the consequences of her actions as Dark Phoenix; see Marvel Comics: The Untold Story by Sean Howe, 2012 Harper Perennial.)

• Those characters apparently meant Storm-Shadow, Billy & Candy (taken out by Scrap Iron with Firefly’s implicit approval in G. I. Joe #43) and the Cobra Commander later on in G. I. Joe #61; Storm-Shadow & Cobra Commander as popular characters I understand, maybe Billy, but Candy?!? Doubt that.

• Of course, Storm Shadow would return, but at the time, nobody was 💯% sure- and back then, the return of a supposedly dead character was done with an explanation how it came to be (see G. I. Joe #s 52, 55, & 98), and neither was a character blatantly killed off just to have a handy stand in on hand to conveniently reverse the scenario instead of dealing with the consequences.

• “Storm-Shadow made vengeance the sole reason of his existence and that’s what killed him in the end. You can’t base a life on hate. You have to leave room for love...”

- Scarlett to Snake-Eyes, G. I. Joe #48.

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I, myself JB & my children VB or VB are innocent, not guilty of any charges. Saying otherwise is a mistake. U.S. Gov persons ignorantly make mistakes which will cost them their lives being unsound or solicited retort applying fee to engagement. One says dues & other due not forgets time seated rhetorical, enough fees expands fines, on extort anti up fee applicable backed up by deadline saying so, overtime tyrannical turnover is superseded by accountability with integrity to frustrate lawful display an intentional liability. Misconduct or act of War beseech lone persons capacity unto full volume of proscribed personhood entirely. Audacity poring in illiterate tongue-in-cheek is not anyone’s business, at least not to naive or presumptuous minds to a vanity void of audience, claiming otherwise needs not proof, as its niche behavior leads only to solicit nature unruly or corrupt into planned of obsoletion.

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My family excommunicated me via /r/atheism

My family excommunicated me So basically I moved out really quickly because of an argument, was only planning on staying there for a couple of days, and then I get a text from my father saying that I can never move back in. I was fine with it and since I was away from their extreme religous beliefs, I decided to come out as trans. This set them off and they told me things like “your soul is in danger” and “this isn’t the right way and you know it”. I asked them to name their god and they couldn’t, I asked my mom “if your head was between an axe and a log, and you had to take an oath that the Bible is the true literal word of god with the penalty of death, would you?” And of course she said no. She then ignored me and went and on about how my soul is in danger, there was no logic behind it. I got excommunicated because of a mythology book that my mom takes too seriously….. I hate religion. Submitted September 27, 2023 at 03:05PM by Medicine-Abuser669 (From Reddit https://ift.tt/of912FJ)

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Hate, Harassment, and Threats: Coping and Handling

It happens and it's happened since the rise of LJ. I remember getting my first hatepost and how much it upset me, but I was never a target in the way that many were. LJ was truly the wild and wooly west - Dodge City or Deadwood, when people thought it would be a utopia. We had greyfaces, anons, sock puppets, and meat puppets. For people transitioning from controlled environments like e-Groups, Listserv, and forums it was not the mod-free utopia that they might have wished for. Real fandom scandals and legitimate harm to fans have been built on anons, sockpuppets, and greyfaces.

Terminology

Anon: Anonymous account either from outside the service or from an established account that has been anonymized.

Greyface: LJ term for an account with no identifiers, created explicitly to harass.

Sock Puppet: Account created by one person with the intent of being perceived as a separate individual.

Meat Puppet: Also used to be called a fanpoodle. A person whose actions are directed by another. Also called a muppet for having the controller's hand shoved so far up their ass that it can work their mouth.

Defining Hateposting/Cyberstalking/Harassment/Threats

First, there is a federal law -18 U.S. Code § 2261A Stalking - that defines stalking and harassment. Full text is here, with excerpt below:

(2) (Whoever) with the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, or place under surveillance with intent to kill, injure, harass, or intimidate another person, uses the mail, any interactive computer service or electronic communication service or electronic communication system of interstate commerce, or any other facility of interstate or foreign commerce to engage in a course of conduct that— (A)places that person in reasonable fear of the death of or serious bodily injury to a person, a pet, a service animal, an emotional support animal, or a horse described in clause (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) of paragraph (1)(A); or (B)causes, attempts to cause, or would be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to a person described in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) of paragraph (1)(A),

Laws can vary from state to state. 48 states have some laws on the books, with 44 having criminal penalties. You'll need to contact local law enforcement or look them up on your state legislature's website.

All forms of online harassment can be grouped under the label of cyberbullying. How do you know what is or isn't cyberbullying? There is a comprehensive list. Even some things that you didn't think might be bullying are, in fact, bullying. Unfortunately, the FBI seems to focus on financial crimes and scams, and have changed their reporting pages to reflect that. In all cases using the internet to convey threats as defined under 18 U.S. Code § 2261A need to be documented and reported to the FBI.

Documenting: Keep the Reciepts

Documenting online abuse is key to stopping online abuse. To be Tumblr specific, screenshots of DMs, replies to your posts, posts harassing you, reblogs of your posts with abuse in the comments and tagjacking or abusive hashtags, screenshots of anons/sockpuppets and harassing asks need to be kept. You need your receipts.

Fuck Anons

Anons are not worth your mental health or the pleasure and community you derive from fandom.

"But some of my followers are shy!"

They can create an account that they can use just for doing asks. Exposing you to abuse and bullying should not be the price of someone being shy. I have also turned on anons when someone has asked me to via DM, in a post comment, or via an anon comment on my Ao3 so that they could send me an ask without unmasking themselves. This protects me and protects them.

Tumblr recently started requiring a valid email address to send an anon without being signed in. This could be seen a couple of different ways - Tumblr wants some sort tabs on people using their site anonymously, or that they want people sending anons to create an account. There is nothing to stop an anon from creating a burner email account in order to harass, so that only goes so far.

Block anons. I am serious. Just go into your account settings and do it. You can even turn off asks entirely.

Per Tumblr: "Anonymous asks are not associated with a specific account, and blocking those will block the IP address of the sender."

So, if you block an anon and someone suddenly disappears from your followers, or you get a follower asking why they can't see or interact with your blog, then you have your answer as to where your anon bullying might well be coming from.

However, isn't it easier to just turn off anons?

Yes. It is. My anons are kept off 99.9 percent of the time and I sleep just fine.

Other Tips and Tricks

You can control who reblogs your posts. The default is that anyone on Tumblr can reblog. You can also block anyone from reblogging. The new feature offers middle ground by allowing you to add users allowed to reblog by mentioning them. I don't know if this extends to other parties reblogging from the people you allowed to reblog, however. Click on the little gear to access the dropdown.

From the Settings Menu

In addition to the default, you have two other options under the dropdown.

Tumblrs you follow and that have been mutuals with you for a week can reply

Only Tumblrs you follow can reply.

Keep the people you follow private by toggling this off.

Toggle off to stop DMs from people you don't follow.

Hide your Tumblr from people without a Tumblr, or from people who are signed out. Remove your blog from Tumblr search results or from search engine crawlers.

Finally, you can block DMs on a case by case basis, too.

Finally, it can be hard to start over, but when the bullying is too much and too persistent, you can back up your blog or take it private and start a new Tumblr with people you trust.

Other Resources

Online Harassment Field Guide - a really comprehensive source

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I cannot stand Miles (for the most part), and I’m so surprised by how well I write him. Because again, I do not care for this man.