#deception abc

[incorrectprodigalsonquotes]

If I had a nickel for every time the same show creator created a series with loveable characters, a fun ship (or two), great writing, and a fresh concept with its own twist only for the series to be canceled and left on an evil cliffhanger where the main character is betrayed by a family member who spent the majority of the show in prison, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice, right?

#prodigal son #deception #deception abc #malcolm bright #martin whitly #cameron black #jonathan black #source: phineas and ferb #yes I'm still bitter about both #both Kaymeron and Brightwell deserved better

[disappearinginq]

2, 5, and 7 for WIP ask?

2: Decriscribe your wip/one of your wips in the format of “___ + ___ =___”   Aphasia + Dyslexia = Will Trent's No Good Very Bad Day

5. Which wip your most likely to finish or update next? Would you believe me if I said Consequences for the Deception fandom? I rewatched the series recently (now I'm mad all over again), and suddenly I had 3000 words written (not in order, mind you, but whatever) and a vague notion of where I was going next.

7. Post Any sentence from your wip: “What the media didn’t say, but that our father was only too happy to tell me in the hospital while we were waiting to see if my brother was going to be a vegetable for the rest of his life due to an anoxic brain injury because they weren’t actually sure when he stopped breathing or when he started again, was that it was my fault, because I left.”

#games we play #asks answered #deception abc #oh how I miss the Black twins #sorry for the delay #puppy has been taking up most of my time #and I've been working downstairs to be with him versus upstairs with my desktop where all my work is #will trent fic in the works? MAYBE?

[incorrectdeceptionquotes]

Okay very random thought but you know how Cameron and Jonathan were legacies of that super secret society?

Means they probably come from old money of sorts (why their dad was a thief, we'll never know) but I don't know why but imagine if their grandmother was still alive, found out she had grandsons... and that grandmother was played by Julie Andrews.

I don't know how to explain it, but that feels like perfect casting for some reason 😆

#deception #cameron black #jonathan black #deception abc

[perthshirecottage]

Been doing another rewatch of this amazing show. I have said before that I don't understand the way the FBI treats Jonathan.

While yes, Jonathan has been convicted of a crime, it was for INVOUNTARY manslaughter. It was something that happened, and that something was very serious and needs to be punished. But the average sentence for involuntary manslaughter is 10-16 MONTHS! This is because the jury understands that it was not premeditated. That it wasn’t even a crime of passion where someone could get so upset that they lose complete control of themselves and can become a danger to those around them. It was making a dumb choice, like drinking alcohol in this case, where another person loses their life. Honestly, by the time the show started, Jonathan should have already been out or close to it at this point. And yet Jonathan was convicted for 10 YEARS! This is not justice, this is retribution. The sentence doesn’t fit the crime. The most likely reason is because he ran, but still, that is an insane amount of time just for panicked running from the scene. I’m sure the prosecutor made Jonathan out to be a horrible person because he hid from the world for 30 years. That he was hiding because it gave him time to torture animals or something equally ridiculous. But Jonathan was not the only one hiding. Cameron, Dina, Gunter, and Jordan were all complicit in that. They just hadn’t broken any laws and therefore no one could punish them. No one wonders if they’re trustworthy because of the lying that they did. Cameron was a part of the secret for as long as Jonathan was.

Once Cameron started working with the FBI, so did Jonathan. Cam often went and asked for Jonathan’s help on making deceptions work. He helps to put away bad guys who are actual criminals who are purposefully going out and murdering multiple people and selling drugs and just doing truly awful things. The FBI even gave Jonathan special privileges to work in one of the visitor’s rooms to solve Bishop’s codes. And when Cameron went missing, the FBI gave a special allowance for Jonathan to get out and help. All of this clued the other prisoners into the fact that Jonathan worked for the Feds. It’s why they hung a rat in his cell and someone tried to shank him. And the guards don't even care. They're against him because he's a criminal. The criminals are against him because he's helping the Feds. He literally has no one on his side in a very dangerous situation. I have heard that there are special areas in prisons where they put high target prisoners, like ex-cops or criminal informants who are more likely to be targets because they fall a bit on both sides of the law. Yet Jonathan isn't given any kind of extra security. Gunter isn't wrong when he talks about how the entire team, including Jonathan, have done so much to help the FBI and yet they haven't gotten anything in return. During the short time he was out after Cam was kidnapped, they act like he is some master level criminal on par with MW. Like he is just waiting for any opportunity to escape so he can go on some kind of crime spree.

Even if Jonathan was guilty of the crime he was convicted, then it’s still not the worst kind of murder out there. I’m sure there could have been a plea for compassion and safety granted to allow Jonathan to be put on house arrest where no one would actively be trying to kill him for his help. And that for every actual criminal that he helps put away that he gets something like a month off his sentence. But no one ever offers him anything. He just keeps putting his life on the line and gets absolutely nothing in return. I’m sure this is why he snaps at the end of the season. Maybe there’s some underlying resentment against Cameron, but I have a feeling most of it came from the FBI doing nothing and Cameron being the face that always had to convince Jonathan to keep hanging in there. To not escape and go find the evidence for his innocence. Now the FBI has left Jonathan out to dry despite everything he has done and all the horrible things that have been done while in prison. Jonathan just took it out on the only person who represented the people who screwed him over, even though it wasn’t Cameron’s fault.

And something to add is that at the end of the season after MW gets arrested she reveals information regarding Danic, the foreign diplomat. The team comes up with a deception and manages to save Danic and his wife. MW just reveals that Danic was in trouble and then yes she does meet with the bad guy (can’t remember his name) while surrounded by armed FBI agents. She didn’t contribute THAT much. Jonathan did a bunch to help with this particular deception and was treated with a lot of trust, especially after how he was treated last time. (I’m sure because there’s someone even more untrustworthy there and that person is MW!) And yet she managed to make herself useful enough to get into Witness Protection and not even get charged with anything because she proved her usefulness exactly 1 time! While the team still doesn’t have the proof of Johnny’s innocence, Cameron is a witness to multiple counts of illegal activities that far outweigh Jonathan’s INVOLUNTARY manslaughter conviction. Cameron has been held at gunpoint by this woman multiple times. She attempted to steal a $7 million diamond. Cameron was abducted by her. He watched her purposefully kill a man. Any single one of these is far far worse than Jonathan’s entire conviction because she did them all on purpose. And yet she just gets to walk. They still don’t even know her name or what else she actually knows beyond this one tip and yet they just decided to drop all her charges and give her a cushy life for free.

While the team was doing the deception, MW was obviously setting things up for herself. And because she was a prisoner, she had to have an agent reach out to the DA. It could have even been Deakins who did it. Deakins was the one who had to explain to the team why MW was just leaving with absolutely no consequences. Because MW could help put people who were much worse away. Which is what Jonathan has been doing but no one ever offered him a get out of jail free card. Or offered him anything at ALL!

I understand that the Doylist answer is because it kept Cameron and Jonathan sperate so that they weren’t having to constantly have Jack do a split screen. And so that at the end of the season they could have Jonathan off with MW. Also, if Jonathan had been released or was about to be release, then there wouldn’t be this drive for Cameron and the FBI to put everything into finding MW. Of course they would want to clear Jonathan’s name, but if he was free or on house arrest then it wouldn’t be something that was so urgent. When Cameron was kidnapped, yes he would want to get the evidence to free Jonathan, but he wouldn’t feel so desperate to break the law if Jonathan was on house arrest and at least had a modicum of freedom and had already taken a year off his sentence by working with the FBI. But Jonathan still got the short end of the stick.

It would be interesting to think about how the show would differ if someone were to decide that Jonathan deserved something for al of his help.

#deception #deception abc #jonathan black #cameron black #mw #mystery woman #perthshirecottage posts

[unhinjed]

"seeing you almost suffocate in that vault, it really scared me. i'm not so good at being scared."

"but you're scary all the time"

"this was different"

SCREAMING CRYING SHAKING THROWING UP PUNCHING THE AIR EATING GLASS

#deception abc

[bell-gryffin]

I just rewatched most* of Deception. I’m still as upset as I was years ago when I was cancelled. This was such a fun show. And Kay and Cameron would have been so good together.

*I skipped the last episode. I can’t bring myself to watch it knowing the cliffhanger it ends on.

#deception #abc deception #deception abc #i miss deception #Cameron black #I need to pick another show to rewatch

[dramas-watcher]

US watchers, please download the CW app, ASAP! Old watchers share with your friends or someone you know will enjoy the show! Deception is on the CW app! New watchers your definitely in for a treat! It’s free!

#deception abc #deception show #the cw network

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Mass shootings in the United States have become a painfully common occurrence, yet gun makers are protected by federal law.

In 2005, Congress passed a shield law that prevents manufacturers from being held liable. Despite this, Highland Park Fourth of July victims are suing the industry.

"I think it's very important for victims to take on the gun industry because we are not going to get change on the federal level," said victims' attorney Antonio Romanucci.

On behalf of the victims, attorney Romanucci is taking on the industry as a way to circumvent the federal law. Victims are using an Illinois consumer protection law to sue Smith & Wesson over deceptive marketing practices. The gun manufacturer is the maker of the AR-15 assault rifle used in the Highland Park mass shooting.

"We are claiming the killer, the shooter here, in this instance, was groomed by Smith & Wesson as a boy, a child, as a teenager," Romanucci said.

Romanucci said gun-makers directly market and advertise to kids, especially through video games. Sandy Hook victims used a similar tactic against gun-maker Remington. Earlier this year, Remington agreed to pay victims $73 million in a settlement, but, the firearms industry said the Highland Park case is an uphill battle.

"The bottom line is the responsibility of those crimes and horrendous effects of those crimes lie with the individual who criminally misused that firearm," said Mark Oliva with the Firearm Industry Trade Association.

Romanucci acknowledged it will be a difficult case, since advertising is protected under free speech.

"When you take a case on in this magnitude, it's like taking on the tobacco industry 50-60 years ago," Romanucci said.

Also rare is suing the shooter's father. Shooting suspect Robert Crimo III was 19, and Robert Crimo Jr. sponsored his son's firearm application shortly after a suicide attempt and death threats to his family.

"This is somebody who basically gave these weapons of mass destruction to his son, knowing there was a mental health-type history with this child, who became an adult," Romanucci said.

Besides the civil suit against him, Robert Crimo Jr. faces criminal charges. He is charged seven counts of felony reckless conduct.

#us politics #news #abc 7 chicago #mass shooters #mass shootings #gun manufacturers #smith and wesson #2023 #highland park shooting #Antonio Romanucci #deceptive marketing practices #Mark Oliva #Firearm Industry Trade Association #gun rights #gun control #gun violence #Robert Crimo III #Robert Crimo Jr.

[abcdeception]

One take I’ve seen which sort of annoys me is this idea that if Jonathan really wanted to leave the show after Sebastian died, he could’ve just told Cam so & then he would’ve been free to live his life as he saw fit. Beyond the fact that we know he did tell Cameron he wanted to stop performing, or at least that he voiced some kind of protest about performing certain shows (from the final episode, Transposition), there’s the point that it’s really fucking difficult to say no to the people you care about.

(^ from Transposition, ~38:54)

From this scene alone we know that Cam had to talk Johnny into continuing to perform after their father passed; it’s obvious that Johnny values his freedom, though, so why did he ever agree to it? Primarily, because his brother asked him to, and he loves Cameron more than he wants to be free (this is true, at least, at the beginning of the show). It’s not as simple as just saying “No”. If that’s the line of logic we’re following, then Jonathan can’t carry any blame for asking Dina to retrieve the files that the FBI were hiding — she simply could’ve refused, right? Cameron, at the very least (and I do mean very least, because their father treated him like shit), got to go out and connect with people as himself. Johnny only ever had Cameron, so to deny his brother anything must’ve seemed impossible. I don’t want to start speculating about how that conversation must’ve gone because it’s counterintuitive to the point I’m trying to make, but I just think this idea (that all Jonathan had to do is tell Cameron he didn’t want to perform) is reductive, and also does a massive disservice to the really complex character dynamics at play in the show

#to be clear: Jonathan was wrong for putting Dina in that position. and Cameron was wrong for putting Johnny in THAT position #I’ve only recently joined the fandom but I feel like some of you guys are scared of Cameron being at fault for certain things #it’s ok if a character has flaws! and I mean flaws that hurt other people and not just themselves #characters are so much more interesting to me when they do shitty stuff sometimes #that’s why I loved cam when I was watching the show. he’s inherently a good person but I think he’s a bit naive when it comes to Johnny’s #relationship with their father & Johnny’s version of their childhood and that is !!!! so!!!!!!!! fascinating!!!!!! #I love cam all the more for it!!! but then I got into the fandom and everyone’s so intent on villifying the SHIT out of Johnny 😭 #not to say that they’re absolutely and completely wrong but like. context matters. please analyze his side of things as deeply as Cameron’s #jonathan black #cameron black #sorry for the ramble. I’m not trying to call anyone in specific out it’s just kind of a general observation #but if anyone wants to discuss please feel free to engage:) I love this show soso much and I’d love to talk more #deception #abc deception #my stuff #really living up to my header here lmao

[kesarijournal]

Twitter Free Speech Regulation Down Under

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[mybeingthere]

Tom Seidmann Freud (1892-1930)

Tom Seidmann Freud, nee Martha Freud, a children's book illustrator and author celebrated for her deceptively simple yet modern style. An eccentric niece of Sigmund Freud, she was born in Vienna in 1892 and moved with her family nine years later to Berlin. She was an artistically gifted child, at fifteen changed her name to Tom (allegedly to avoid sexism she might encounter as a female artist). She eventually studied art, first in London and then in Berlin and in Munich, where she focused on Art Nouveau illustration.

From 1914 to her death at thirty-eight in 1930, she published nearly a dozen books of her own and contributed illustrations to others. Today, nearly one hundred years late, her artwork looks surprisingly contemporary with its simple, folk art aesthetic and fantastical story lines about rabbit words, talking fish, and magic boats. Her illustrations are childish but not babyish, and surreal while also being thoughtful and narrative.

Strikingly fresh in its day, Seidmann-Freud's work was an example of how seriously people took children's literature as an art form. While Seidmann-Freud wrote, and illustrated her own stories, she also illustrated classical fairy tales, such as those by Brothers Rimm and Hanns Christian Andersen, in her Ten Tales for Children. She released her most well-known children's book, Die Fishreise (The Fish's Journey), in 1923.

Seidmann-Freud created her illustrations using the ancient pochoir technique that was experiencing a revival. She drew the figures, foreground, and background with ink and then overlaid watercolors using stencils. Seidmann-Freud experimented with several different kinds of children's books, including ABC books, songbooks, game books, and movable books such as Das Wunderhaus (The House of Wonders, 1927) and Das Zauberboot (The Magic Boat, 1929), subtitled "a book to Turn and Move." She also produced a series of counting books known for their typographical innovation, one of which was chosen for the Museum of Modern art's 2012 exhibition Century of the child: Growing by Design, 19000-2000, in New York.

In the early 1920s, she and her husband, writer and journalist Jakob Seidmann, founded publishing house Perergrin Verlag in Berlin. It was named after the main character in The Fish's Journey, who seeks to overcome his outsider status by escaping to a dreamlike utopia. Tragically, the demise of their publishing venture in the wake of 1929 global financial collapse led to her husband's suicide, and in 1930, to her own. (Their seven-year-old daughter, Angela, went to live with Tom's sister, the actress Lily Freud, and her husband in Hamburg, before they all moved to Prague in 1939. Angela, (Aviva) emigrated to Israel just before the outbreak if Word War II).

Seidmann-Freud died the same year that the liberal democracy in Germany, the Weimar Republic, started its frenzied downward descent. Until Hitler took dictatorial control in 1933, her work continued to receive accolades from her peers, including the legendary literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Because she was Jewish, however, by 1933 her books began to disappear.

Despite the Nazis destruction of "suspect" literature, and her untimely death, copies of her innovative children's books have survived as an important part of the history of avant-garde book-making in twentieth century Europe.

[incorrectprodigalsonquotes]

I think what's so interesting to me about the parallels between Brightwell and Kaymeron are that no matter how different their storylines may get, they have the same basis: they actually like each other's company no matter how much the other might frustrate them at times because news flash, it's okay to have differences.

The relationship doesn't suddenly become toxic if you have a disagreement.

Plus a side note, even though we never got to see either of them as an official couple, I feel like they would have two very different vibes with Kay and Cameron being like a modern Disney couple (think Rapunzel and Eugene, Tiana and Naveen... a genderbent Anna and Kristoff) whereas Malcolm and Dani would be like Morticia and Gomez (Malcolm’s got Gomez's eccentricities while Dani has Morticia's calm, cool yet warm demeanor).

#also it's funny to think about because Cameron and Kay are taller than both Malcolm and Dani yet Brightwell would be 'the gothic couple' #prodigal son #brightwell #deception abc #kaymeron #malcolm bright #dani powell #cameron black #kay daniels #everyone else gets to ramble... I wanted to give it a go too

[thatstormygeek]

What this pattern of behavior shows is the existence of what I call the “club.” What that ultimately means in our society is a class of people in the press and in politics who consider themselves to collectively be above and beyond all criticism. The people in the club freely associate with each other, jointly attending events like the White House Correspondent’s Association dinner and other D.C.-centric events, and you are not on the guest list. Like a country club of yore that excluded Blacks, Latinos, Jews, and usually women, you’re not supposed to speak ill of the club, and certainly club members rarely offer up public criticism. If anything, the club is more likely to circle the wagons, with figures like Jake Tapper (then at ABC News) rushing to defend Fox News against Obama White House criticism. It is just not done. Hiring Ronna McDaniel is perfectly in line with club operation, just like the decision to hire Megyn Kelly was. They don’t care how bad it makes them look to any objective observer. They hired one of their friends, they like Ronna, they believe that her lies and deceptions are merely a part of the game and that liberals are being scolds to point out the effect this has on the public and the public discourse.

#ronna mcdaniel #oliver willis

[incorrectdeceptionquotes]

I think I have one more idea for a short-ish Kaymeron fic but at this point, I don't even know if anyone will read it 😭😭😭😭

#it would also be a fix-it fic because five years later and I'm still not over that gosh dang ending #deception #deception abc #cameron black #kay daniels #kaymeron #if anyone else is feeling the same and they have ideas for kaymeron fics #what if we all came togather and did like a kaymeron week at some point? #me asking into the void lol

[pears-trinkets]

I watched a tiktok some days ago where OP was talking about their art variating in quality according to what they were drawing. Like for example when they were doing commissions quality plummeted and they'd ragequit because it was so frustrating even if they wanted to make it work but when they were drawing fanart for a series they loved it would be on a completely different professional level

And then they explained how they talked to a friend about it and the friend asked them

"Well are you passionate about art or are you passionate about the media you're drawing?"

Which sounds so simple and obvious but I literally needed it to be spelled out like that for it to click??

I feel like some kind of spell has been lifted a bit since then? I dont know

But all my life I was passionate about art itself and was only drawing TO DRAW but then with the internet and fandoms (that bring community and more engagement thats passionate in itself) but also art school and pressure to make a living out of it and to not get lost in the algorithm I was actually mad at myself why I couldn't draw fanart and capture that fanart vibe etc as others could but it was literally just not my main thing and wouldnt be sustainable longtime on its own

And I've literally burned myself out doing that and ever since I thought I'd use series and fanart like a crutch to get myself going again because I couldn't even imagine doing it on my own without any help but I've been actually doing myself a disservice with that?

I was trying to mend my problem with anime and movies and books and games but that's not what was broken to begin with

Its just such a different approach to everything to think "I'm getting my passion, love and joy for art back" and "I'm getting my passion for the media I love back through fandom and their passion I can piggyback off of" and how it makes things work from within and I feel stupid for thinking like that

Because at the end of the day it comes down to you and having to sit with yourself while drawing and how that's making you feel

And now it absolutely makes sense how so many people I knew were doing art but actually hated it and talked negatively about it and had no fun in art itself because they just wanted to contribute or show their love to a fandom but didnt enjoy doing it through drawing

And why we couldn't really connect because of these different approaches because while I was like DRAWING DRAWING DRAWING they were CHARACTER ABC CHARACTER ABC CHATACTER ABC

I dont know

It has been such an impactful thing I thought I might as well share it for anyone who needs it

The creator on tiktok is @ almostzander and they also concluded that it was an audhd hyperfixation problem and I'm still letting that simmer a bit in my head because I think that everyone experiences this on some level like just doing something for the wrong reasons to put it simple but I also think we are definitely more deceptive to that!

(this is me letting it simmer)

#audhd #drawing

[unhinjed]

I FINISHED MY DECEPTION REWATCH NOBODY TALK TO ME

#deception abc