#According to the records

[thechairanon]

I've tried posting this THREE TIMES THUS FAR and it keeps reloading and deleting everything on my gay ass. Anyway-

Anon lore? On my dash? It's more likely than you think.

Heavy warnings for this one, I think I got all the tags correct? Lmk just in case I need to edit/add tags to help filter it better.

ENTIRE FAMILY FOUND DEAD, SUSPECT ON THE LOOSE

This weekend, police were alerted to a murder taking place by a young woman staying at her boyfriend’s sister’s house for a family reunion. When police arrived at the home, Martha Banker directed them to the scene of the crime.

Bodies belonging to Mary Carpenter, John Carpenter, Susan Carpenter and Hazel Carpenter were found all around the house, massacred. One officer even found the body of Jacob Carpenter in the woods, partially hidden in the creek.

“We found stab wounds in most of them,” Officer Whittaker said. “We had to call in one of those guys who finds the causes of deaths for people, and not even he knew what happened to some of ‘em. One of them- a man, believe it or not, had been strangled to death. We found a poor chap in the woods with an ax in his neck, his body dumped in the creek nearby. His eyes had been closed, so at least the murderer had some respect for the dead.”

After the police searched the property, they brought Martha Banker, George Carpenter and Jerry Carpenter in for questioning. George and Jerry Carpenter, the youngest of the Carpenter family, were oblivious to the horrible thing that had transpired in their cousin’s home that day. Martha Banker was not as fortunate.

“I saw it happen,” Martha told the police. “Through the window. She had just gone mad, turning on her own family like that. She’d been acting odd all week, always tired, always forgetting what she’d just done. Sometimes she’d ramble on and on about movies or actors that don’t exist, but Jacob and I always gave her the benefit of the doubt.”

[Redacted] Carpenter, the youngest adult of the family, was a self-made woman who crafted chairs for a living. She had exceptional grades in school, never talked back to her teachers, never spoke poorly of her fellow students, and never got into trouble. So why now? Why would [Redacted], the perfect model student, child, citizen, lash out now?

“She’d always been angry,” one of [Redacted]’s friends said in an interview. “At her dad for leaving her mom, at her uncle and brother poking fun at her fear of puppets, at her grandma for trying to push her into finding a boyfriend… [Redacted] was angry at a lot of people all the time. I guess it finally, y’know… burst.”

Where is [Redacted] Carpenter now? How will this state-wide manhunt affect you and your family? (Cont. on page 4)

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#tw death #tw murder #implied murder #chair's drabbles #Chair wandered off into the woods with the tapes after this #The police gave up looking for her after a week or two #According to the records #(We know what actually happened to them though)

[captain-price-unofficially]

#stolen from discord #for the record Lara Croft is the most iconic video game character #according to BAFTA #no bias there I’m sure

[sunderwight]

Thinking about the weird camaraderie that exists between demons but not angels in GO.

Have we ever seen two angels who are actually friends? Or even friendly to one another? We have met angels with a capacity to be friendly in general, but I think the closest we've come to two angels actually getting along would be Gabriel making a point to laugh at Sandalphon's terrible "can't have a war without War" line in S1.

Most scenes between the angels actually seem to have an undercurrent of absolute hostility. Teeth-clenched teamwork. No wonder it took them so long to notice that Aziraphale wasn't on the same page as the rest of them! The rest of them are barely on the same page as one another, either! When Gabriel goes against the majority vote, no one bats an eye at demoting him and wiping his memory. Michael and Uriel immediately begin vying for his job. The only times we've seen angels team up is when they're working together to bully someone else, like when they're trying to intimidate Aziraphale in S1 or going to the aftermath of the bookshop raid in S2.

Saraqael's overall neutrality towards Muriel is the closest we get to two angels in Heaven getting along, and it's more a lack of hostility than any kind of friendliness. At least until Gabriel loses his memories and Muriel shows up to spy on Aziraphale, and Aziraphale decides to be kind to both of them.

Demons, on the other hand, actually seem to form alliances and even friendships among one another. Hastur and Ligur are awful, but Hastur seems genuinely distraught over Ligur's death, not just fearful of suffering the same fate. Shax and Furfur conspire together and even though the 1940's investigation into Crowley's fraternizing doesn't work out for Furfur, it's not due to any double-crossing on Shax's part. Unlike the angels, who stick almost exclusively to making threats until the Metatron decides to try dangling a carrot at the end of the season, demons actually offer rewards to other demons when trying to work together. Beelzebub offers Crowley a promotion if he can bring them Gabriel, Furfur offers to back Shax up politically if she goes for the Duke position opening, and Crowley successfully stalls Hastur in S1 by pretending everything was a test and he's going to be put in charge of a legion as a reward for passing. They're still not great at socializing, but they're significantly ahead of the angels.

Of course, it's a fact that demons are awful to one another (Eric's treatment is really bad, they throw that random demon into holy water just to test it, "it'd be a funny world if demons went around trusting one another", etc) but they still seem more capable of forming friendships than the angels do.

I think that's because Hell cramps and crowds everyone together to try and increase their suffering and hostility, whereas Heaven isolates angels to decrease the odds of questioning or rebellion. Hell's methods are unpleasant, but it still ends up putting demons together, and some of those demons inevitably forge alliances and make friendships. Because as Crowley and Beelzebub demonstrate, demons are still social creatures with the capacity for love and affection, even if it's strongly discouraged and buried under nine million layers of trauma and a cultural mandate against kindness.

Angels are the same, but isolation makes is harder to form connections than overcrowding. Muriel and Jimbriel are both so eager to make friends, but Muriel's spent the past millennia shut in an empty office, and Gabriel has been distanced from his peers both through his position and also through Heaven's culture of fear and surveillance. He only breaks away from it when he finds something that's stronger than "choosing sides" (stronger than the fear of being rejected by Heaven and Falling, in fact strong enough that Falling seems worth it if he gets to be with someone he loves). Both Muriel and Gabriel are only able to start forming connections when they're away from Heaven.

I just think it's interesting that demons, despite being supposedly devoid of love, have an advantage in forming relationships compared to angels. Angels are supposed to love, but have far fewer opportunities to actually do so. Demons aren't supposed to love, but they make connections anyway.

#good omens #ineffable bureaucracy #both angels and demons are suckers for a bit of kindness too #even if they pretend otherwise and even if there are exceptions to the rule #like yeah you're probably not gonna win over the likes of hastur or michael with a nicety #but according to word of god furfur would be highly susceptible to a kind word #and well we see how it is with muriel and jim #i think this is why shax also weirdly toes the line between getting crowley destroyed and being almost-friends with him #that's just how it works in hell when you don't actually despise somebody #you can't be nice to them but you're still also kind of helpful and non-hostile a lot #don't let it interfere with your goals but sure deliver their mail and get their help with your boiler issues why not #maggie took the wrong approach to confronting the demons #if she'd been nice instead of telling them off they wouldn't have known how to handle it i bet #they're USED to being mocked and yelled at #should have given them jim's tray of canapes and offered them tea and stuff #not that I expect anyone to intuit that under the circumstances just that it might have actually held them off a lot longer #bunch of demons sitting outside of a bookshop passing around a tray of tiny little dinners and listening to records playing from inside

[can-of-slorgs]

caw 🦅

#neopets #neotag #neoart #eyrie #mutant #vin doods #I can't beat the allegations that i doodle dnd creatures on a daily with this one huh #god i love mutants eyries so much i'm sorry i gavehim more draconic features but uGH; #what great colours lmao #I also gave inverted knees to the hooves cause i aint doing whatever neos doing #can you tell i have a thing for dnd and dragons in general im so sorry JAKLSDF #also in topic i've been so wanting to make a neo player's manual for so stupidly long its insane #might actually do it at one point #i had species and proficiencies and everything at one point i think its all gone lol #also for a fact that i'd be a me-thing for the most part #like i'd be the only one wanting it or playing according to it #my other friends none like neopets so yeah #god do i want to dm a neopian adventure i have tons planned lmao #but oh well #i'm super greatful for all positive commenta ad every like and reblog you guys ave given meeeee #i sound like a broken record but i swear i try to not leave this blog for long but i always read your tags and crack up to them sajhas #i know i've left a couple of you on read that actually wanted to know about my characters BUT IM SO SORRYYYY #my master's taking so long and everytime there's something new and have to rewrite and replan everthing everyday i hate it here #but i will do it #i know i will #both the lore writting and my thesis HASJKHASJS #anyways if you're still reading dont be afraid to shoot up a couple of messages! It might make this blog less dead

[solradguy]

Do you think one could attain decent-ish ability to read Japanese just by studying kanji? Specifically asking because the kanji learnin' service "wanikani" is the single Japanese resource that works best with my brain, but then there are separate resources for grammar and vocab and and and.....

You will get REAAAALLLLLYYY far knowing only the kanji but you're going to have to know hiragana and katakana at some point too. Tofugu, the company that did Wanikani, has two mnemonics-based guides for the kana that are basically Wanikani Lite. They're how I learned the kana and I swear by them.

Here's hiragana: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/

And katakana: https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/

Hiragana are especially vital to learning kanji; you won't be able to use 99% of Japanese-English dictionaries without them. BUT they're pretty easy and the rules for using them are consistent. You won't have to remember any irregular exceptions for any of them.

I haven't tried it yet, but I've heard really good things about the Crystal Hunters manga series as a fun/low stress way to learning Japanese vocab and grammar. It eases the reader into new concepts and then repeats them throughout the chapter so you remember them. There are free vocab and study guides/lists for each chapter too. Might be worth checking out once you get some kanji and the kana under your belt? The first book is also free.

Official site: https://crystalhuntersmanga.com/

Good luck!!

#asks #Japanese takes like a bajillion hours forever to learn because of the 2200+ kanji lol........... #But it's sooooo consistent grammatically and with the spelling. I love it #Kinda spoiled me tbh. I look at English now and I'm like #'Why can't you be more like this. Why are you such a mess. Get your act together' #And then there's Korean's hangul writing system. It's SO BEAUTIFUL. Actual marvel of linguist engineering #The Japanese lexicon is also a lot smaller than English's too. Which is both a blessing and a curse #Less words = quicker to learn. BUUUUUTTTT less words that mesh well with English. Translation is hard!!! #Holy fuck. Ok so Wikipedia says that the English language has 755`865 words as recorded by Wiktionary #and Japanese has 500`000 according to Nihon Kokugo Daijiten #BUT THEN KOREAN. ACCORDING TO ONLINE DICTIONARY URIMALSAEM (open source dictionary) HAS 1`149`538 WORDS #The biggest lexicon is Tamil's with 1`516`952 unique headwords as recorded by online dictionary Sorkuvai #That's absolutely nuts #I got massively distracted. Enjoy my word vomit tags

[letmesleepy]

Happy birthday Mr. Data, only 312 more yrs till yer made!

#com. shepart #star trek #data #commander data #data soong #data st #data star trek #Technically his activation is 31*4* yrs from now according to starfleet but he had 2 extra yrs with his family that he doesn't remember #so im counting his true activation and not the one you see in his records #i dont draw him that often and i really should 😭. i have plans #food

[sanguith]

Paleoanthropology is slowly becoming my new special interest and I have concluded that one major defining trait of our species is the urge to collect cool rocks

#i will die on this hill #new special interest to any neurodivergent: ''it is futile to resist'' #not only for toolmaking either #but rather just... idk let me explain #think about it. hominids started making art all of a sudden and it evolved with homo sapiens according to prehistoric records #and this was probably because humans started finding things beautiful??? started experiencing pretty complex emotions??? #and the precursor to any artistic talent (of course) is to look at a rock and go ''oo pretty'' and then keep it on your home forever

[cherry-pop-soda]

okay but does anyone listen to bronski beat and does anyone GET IT. they released an album, completely unashamedly gay, in the 80s, during the AIDS crisis, during a time of insanely rampant homophobia and over the top conservatism. they released an album with the age of consent for homosexual activity in every european country listed on the sleeve and the phone number for a legal advice hotline for queer people etched into the grooves of the vinyl. they released an album with the opening track dedicated to a hate crime victim, featuring vocals from an openly gay choir. they released an album with songs about homophobic violence, the dangers of following the bible too closely, about leaving behind everything you know and starting over, about homophobic family and homophobic bullying. they wrote about being gay and being proud of it and knowing that there is nothing wrong with who you are. in the face of all the hatred going on in the 80s they released an album that was in-your-face gay and fuck-you queer, and i love them for it.

(see original tags for a lot more commentary)

#bronski beat #for reference : the album is The Age Of Consent #the man the opening track “Why ?” was dedicated to was Drew Griffiths (who according to wikipedia was a #playwright who was victim to a homophobic murder in 1984) #and the choir was The Pink Singers (an openly gay men’s choir in London) #and like yeah. i know this very much centers gay men HOWEVER . considering everything like the time period and #how songs that would’ve been lesbian (see: Voices Carry by Til Tuesday) being basically straight-washed. and also how rampant homophobia wa #(so getting anything even a little gay released was hard bc it was likely to get smashed down by record stores and companies and #radio stations and music reviewers. and us ones particularly ) #in this case i don’t care whatsoever and besides they did something absolutely monumental for the whole community if you ask me #as a lesbian i am literally so grateful that this exists and i wasn’t even alive at the time. even now it makes me feel seen. #i cant even imagine what it would’ve been like for a queer kid in the 80s to hear that and maybe know they weren’t alone #so in conclusion: bronski beat i love you forever and jimmy somerville i love you forever

[vonlipvig]

conspiracy theories tend to be silly as a best case scenario and downright harmful and bigoted as a worst case scenario, so i try my best to stay away from all of them altogether. after all, i don't tend to believe in them in the first place.

that said, the kate middleton conspiracy theories on twitter are kinda funny. why was that picture so badly photoshopped. lmao i hope the monarchy crumbles.

#for the record i dont think anything serious is happening nor do i endorse anyone ACTUALLY going down harmful paths with this #but clowning onnthe royals? yeah so down for that. someone said what if she cut herself some bangs and now she doesnt like them djdjdjdj #according to jules

[doll-elvis]

Was elvis allergic to chocolate? I remember readin'it somewhere but I ain't sure it's true.

tbh I’m unsure about this myself because I’ve read some contradicting stories 😩

for example in Peter Guralnick’s book “Careless Love” he tells the story of when Elvis had abruptly left Graceland for Washington D.C (where he holed up with Joyce Bova) after Priscilla and Vernon cornered him about money and finances. After Elvis had flown to the L.A airport from D.C, to meet up with Jerry Schilling, Jerry recalled Elvis’ face being “alarmingly swollen” as he exited the plane. According to Jerry, Elvis said “it was just an allergic reaction to some medication he was taking for an eye infection, aggravated by his eating chocolate on the plane”

Jerry says Elvis continued to eat more chocolate on the plane back to Washington D.C, where his face swelled up even more, however I’m not sure if chocolate is the culprit based on Elvis’ history of eating it

For example in 1959, Elvis begged Arlene Cogan to send Reese’s candy (chocolate + peanut butter) over to Germany, as they were his favorite, because they weren’t for sale over there. And according to Nancy Rooks, Elvis’ maid, Elvis kept a small refrigerator near his room that was filled with Eskimo pies (chocolate + vanilla icecream)⬇️

Linda Thompson also confirmed Elvis’ love for Eskimo pies in her book and she even said he would sometimes finish a whole box at once… so if he really was allergic to chocolate I feel like a whole box of these ice creams would definitely cause a reaction 🤧

#thank you for the ask!! #I’m not doctor but I think chocolate is innocent in this situation 💀 #I now feel the urge to eat an eskimo pie #are they still a thing?😩 #also I do know that he was allergic to codeine according to his army records #perhaps he had taken some along with his eye medication and had a reaction?? #elvis presley #elvisaaronpresley #elvis #elvis history #elvis asks #elvis fans

[stirdrawsandreblaws]

screaming crying coughing up blood every time i have to fucking defend genocide joe bc ppl wanna lie and say he isn't responsible for most of the best domestic policy we've seen in decades

his foreign policy is dogshit, yes, and he should rightly be called on it and primaried out, but we can criticize the shit he's actually done wrong instead of making shit up about him ~not doing anything good~

#thinking about the keystone pipeline shutdown and how fully 2/3 of the people he appointed to legislative systems were women and poc #thinking about student debt forgiveness and rejoining the paris climate accord and unfucking some of the extreme gerrymandering #and improving COVID protections (that were roundly thrown out by corporate america which is its own concern yes but like. he's not a king) #'biden didn't fix' blah blah blah he's not a fucking dictator he can't actually do whatever he wants. the only thing the GOP lets slide #is the aforementioned dogshit foreign policy bc fuck knows every last republican loves bombing the middle east and supporting israel #(remember that the evangelical xtian death cult requires israel for the apocalypse!! that is a very real fucking thing these ppl strive for #(and evangelicals support the GOP for this very fucking reason. you cannot forget this. we are all fighting for all our goddamn lives rn) #stirring up trouble #i hate biden i hate his foreign policy i hate how ok he is with fascism i hate most of his pre-presidential voting record BUT #i will not let that hate blind me to the reality that he is Objectively Miles Ahead Of Any Fucking Republican Alternative #i still want his ass primaried out of the presidential race so hard he physically blacks out upon seeing the polling results tho #and fuck. at least the dem side seems to have a lot of good progressive downballot candidates this time around already.

[bioswear]

had a normal one last night when I got home from the NieR concert 🤪🥰

#I vaguely remember writing these notes down #personal txt #as above so below and all that. why did this story focus on an underground bunker #and rein is focusing on the moon base server #also if we remember the lore that was shoved onto the NieR official desktop PCs #accord mentions that files are backed up to quantum servers around the world #in 4298 AD: humanity’s extinction is confirmed. all records are moved to #maximum priority folders and backups are sent to regional quantum servers for safekeeping #in 5012 AD an attack from aliens damaged servers #in 5155 AD machine life forms launch an Ark into space. resulting in a new divergence. an attempt is made #to sync with servers from the past #2021 AD - synchronization with past servers is successful. - Accord

[sweet-beezus]

Oh shit there's a pest on your dash!! Lemme get that for you

#sham's art #shamsbabs #igni #master igni #according to the canvas it took about 15 recorded hours #but in reality after months of putting off finishing this she's done!!! #i started her around the time i was making lugh and loki's sprites but ended up passing away lol #i am so proud of her lol i made other variations for fun but this is the one i wanted to post so!!! #i used an ava sprite as a ref since she matches closest in proportions #but maybe i'll stick with just editing sprites from here on out #making this from scratch is HARD #anyway enough rambling i'm queuing this at 230 am and need to take a victory sleep lol #khux oc #kingdom hearts oc #kh oc #style emulation

[incorrectgarashir]

Garak: Merry Christmas Julian!

Julian: Merry Christmas Garak!

Garak: I know that this is one of the most important events in the human calendar, a religious festival that billions of humans across many belief systems celebrate

Julian: Yes, well the celebration has its routes in-

Garak: But I've heard that these days many humans celebrate it for all manner of reasons, religious or otherwise

Julian: Very true, Chrismas has had a secular element to it since our 20th Century

Garak: So what does Christmas mean to you then dear doctor?

Julian, smiling: It's a day dedicated to my favourite food!

Garak: Oh? Please do elaborate. Is it turkey?

Julian: Well I do like turkey, but no

Garak: Christmas cookies?

Julian: That's not really a British thing. In Britain we have mince pies, I like them with a dusting of sugar and a dollop of whipped cream

Garak, not impressed: With minced what? Turkey? Cow?

Julian: Mincemeat, which doesn't actually have any meat in it, rather it's a mixture of dried fruit and berries with a hint of spice, they're really rather nice

Garak: So is that your favourite then?

Julian: Oh no, it's Brussels Sprouts, I just love them.

Later that evening Garak's in his quarters

Garak: Computer, Brussels Sprouts

The sprouts appear

Garak digs in apprehensively, is almost sick.

Garak, to himself: This was a trick Julian, wasn't it. Well played.

#garashir #garak #elim garak #julian bashir #star trek #ds9 #deep space nine #julian's favourite food is brussels sprouts #according to memory alpha anyway #sorta #so Merry Christmas to all of you #but especially to our sprout king and his plain simple friend! #for the record sprouts rule so long as you only buy fresh ones and cook them properly #yum

[technicalthinker]

CONSPIRACY THEORY TIME FOR SONIC PRIME S3'S PACING ISSUES+ MISSING 8TH EPISODE

Maybe they had another final act planned for s3, taking place after the big fight against Nine in the Grim (for example fighting the council), but they ended up cutting/rewriting it. So instead they expanded on the battle to pad out the season but still had to cut a whole episode. Thats why we only got 7 episodes.

Alternatively they had to cut an episode bc of outside forces - couldnt do the ending they wanted, fluffed up the middle instead. Maybe it happened late enough in the production so they couldn't do massive rewrites.

#amanda rambles #sonic prime spoilers #sonic prime #sonic blogging #IM HALF JOKING BTW. PLS TAKE THIS LIGHTLY. #and dont wanna sound like a 'secret episode' conspiracy theorist FOR REAL take this very lightly #but from my experience with weird media is that more often that not production is messy and things dont go according to plan #so it can be fun to lightheartedly theorize #BUT #FOR THE RECORD: #i think it's very likely they just wanted the biggest battle + bad writing #like this is not the most flawless best paced show of all time even before s3. #like sometimes it is just bad writing (sherlock s4) and it is what it is #but this would MAKE SENSE TO ME. LIKE IF THIS IS THE STORY EVERYTHING CHECKS OUT 100%. #if the battle was like 1 ep shorter and it ended with nine and sonic reconciling #the council steals the finished prism and they have to fight them in new yoke maybe at the same time as Sonic is partially fading away or s #like i cAN SEE THAT BEING AN EARLY DRAFT and then they ended up squeezing it all together for some reason #maybe it was some characterization they didnt like or whatever and so they had to rearrange stuff a.k.a domino effect

[sailorstarr-chan4]

a conversation I shared on Discord months ago:

Me, watching a random Inuyasha episode: "You know..... sometimes when I watch this series, I just think.... 'I've written porn of this guy.'"

My fiancé: "Instead of slaying demons, he's slaying Dat Ass."

#I think he summed up InuKag smut pretty succinctly lol #Starling ramblings #Inuyasha #Inuyasha fandom #InuKag #InuxKag #Inu x Kag #Inuyasha x Kagome #watching Inuyasha with my love #writer issues #according to my records it was episode 89: 'Nursing Battle of the Rival Lovers' #which is one of THE best filler episodes and one of the BEST InuKag moments #however..... I can see where that train of thought came from #because homeboy puts his foot in his mouth in the beginning of the episode soooo much lmao #fanon Inu: cocky sexy Adonis ready to rock Kagome's world #canon Inu: can't even string together more than 2 sentences without some sort of foot-in-his-mouth moment #(and yes..... guilty as charged lmao)