#Scandal Facts

[whothehellisrosee]

I absolutely LOOOVE Irene Adler in the books

The way that she just declined a marriage to a KING cuz she didn’t like the vibe of him and then married some lawyer in a church as quickly as she could with Sherlock Holmes as the only witness (dressed as an old man)

And that she says that she often uses male clothing and takes advantage of the freedom it gives her

An icon for everything honestly

#and not to mention the fact that she was really clever #like REEAALLYY clever #Irene Adler #irene #sherlock holmes #acd canon #acd holmes #acd sherlock holmes #sherlock fandom #a scandal in bohemia #a scandal in belgravia #bbc sherlock #the king of Bohemia

[fairy-verse]

What kind of fairy do you think Epic would be in this au?? And are him and Cross friends in it??

Epic would be a winter fairy and the one who made it bearable for Cross to live within Error’s Mountain halls. They became friends when they were both faerlings, and they’ve been close ever since. Epic is the one Cross would go to when he felt depressed and down after being with his father, and in a way, Epic’s parents would oftentimes care for him whenever he visited. There were even some nights when Cross and Epic would lay beneath the furs of Epic’s faerling nest, and they’d giggle and tell funny stories about how they’d messed up something at the forge; as they both enjoyed practicing from a very young age. They would – and still will – compete against each other in both forging and fighting, and they’ll always be up for a good sparring session of both fists and wits.

Epic feels lucky that he’s grown to be a knight/guard fairy thanks to his physical strength because then he’s able to spend more time with Cross, as fairies like him oftentimes must practice and patrol together. He’s quite fond of the black-and-white fairy, and he’s happy that Cross trusts him enough to allow him the opportunity to clean and trim his wings. He’s one of the two fairies in the world who’s allowed to do that, and he sees it as a great honour. And even though Cross has fallen in love with Dream, Epic can still cherish the fact that he’s the one who got Cross’ first kiss. It’s a memory he’ll hold near and dear until the day he turns to Stardust.

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Edit: I have spoken with Dii and it’s a great possibility that Epic will be changed from being a winter fairy to a spring fairy. Since his design hasn’t been created yet nothing is truly set in stone, but I’ve begun to lean more towards the idea of him being a spring fairy.

#aufairyverse #utmv #ask for the fairy #fairy!epic #epic sans #whoops I made this a bit loving #oh nooo how could I #anyways I love the idea of Epic and Cross being faerling sweethearts #they explored scandalous things such as kissing cuddling and holding hands #Epic never plucked up the courage to confess to Cross #but he's okay with just being “dude” and Cross being “bro” #as long as Cross is happy and Epic is allowed to be in his life then he doesn't mind the fact that they didn't end up together... #... at least not too much

[rahabs]

the fact that you would defend the israeli government after they’ve murdered 30,000 innocents in the largest bombing campaign in modern history is literally despicable and borderline evil. if a genocide documented ad nauseam cannot make you cognizant of israel’s colonial and deeply racist regime, then literally nothing can and you are beyond reasoning with. actually incredible how multiple history degrees have clearly taught you nothing about how a genocide works — or perhaps more concerningly, they have, and you simply don’t care because the victims are palestinian. the fact that you would use those very history degrees to excuse israel’s genocide of palestinians is deeply disturbing and indicative of the rancid hypocrisy within western academia. history will exonerate the indigenous palestinians, and it will be unkind to those like you who defended and cheered on their annihilation.

It‘s so amazing to me that you actually believe this, and that you‘ve so wholeheartedly swallowed the propaganda Hamas (known for using their own civilians as human shields, known for paying their citizens extra for killing Jews) has been peddling. So I am going to paste here some points others have already made that I‘ve saved over the course of information-gathering, though I doubt you‘ll bother to read or learn, judging from your asinine little comments here.

1) Palestine Gaza is a genocidal nation. The goal of the Palestinian government in Gaza is literally to destroy and commit genocide against Israel and kill every Jew by every means possible. This is literally written in their founding charter. "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews." There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with.

2) Palestine is an apartheid nation that has ethnically cleansed 100% of their Jews and stole their territory after 1948. There used to be tens of thousands of Jews living in the areas of Judea and Samaria, which was renamed to the West Bank by Jordan. However they've all been ethnically after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war and 0 Jews are allowed to live in Palestine today. 3) Palestine is an authoritarian dictatorship both in Gaza and the West Bank. Hamas won majority of the votes during an election in 2006, but the Palestinian president simply refused to recognize the results of the election and refused to hand power over to them. This resulted in Hamas siezing power in Gaza, executing hundreds of their political rivals, and they never held another election. Likewise, the leadership in the West Bank also refused to hold any elections and still continue to illegitimately cling to power. Abbas, the president of Palestine had a 4 year term which was supposed to end in 2009. He's still the leader today and has continued to postpone election after election. 4) Palestine supports the outright open murder of innocent civilians. I've already mentioned the charter of the Palestinian government in Gaza above where their goal is to eradicate Israel and genocide Israelis, but the Palestinian government in West Bank is just as horrible. There's the Palestinian Authority Matry Fund where they literally pay a salary / pension to any Palestinians who commmit terrorist attacks against Israelis, be it through stabbings, shootings or suicide bombings, and they've paid out billions so far. The Foundation for the Care of the Families of Martyrs pays monthly cash stipends to the families of Palestinians killed, injured, or imprisoned while carrying out violence against Israel.

5) Palestine is horribly corrupt oligarchy. Palestine receives billions from the USA and Europe in aid every single year. Whatever money isn't spent on paying literal terrorists, or on rockets to shoot at Israel ends up going to corrupt Palestinian leaders. Yasser Arafat, the first Palestinian leader, died a billionaire. Abbas the current President is worth $100 million. The Palestinian leaders in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzuk and Khaled Mashal have an estimated combined wealth of over $10 billion. Meanwhile the combined GDP of Gaza is only about $2.5 billion, meaning these 3 leaders wealth is equal to 4 years of Gaza's GDP. 6) Palestinians have caused wars and instability in every country that they've sought refuge in. In Jordan, Palestinains assasinated the Jordanian king in 1951, then attempted a coup of a the country in 1970. After they failed, they were expelled to Lebanon where they started a civil war with the Christian Maronites. This war lasted 15 years and killed several times more people than the entire Israel-Palestine war (150k died in Lebanon civil war vs 25k in Palestinian-Israeli wars). In Kuwait, the Palestinians supported Saddam as Iraq invaded Kuwait. In Egypt, they've been hit by several bombings by Palestinians. 7) There is no freedom of speech or equality in Palestine Gaza. No equality of sexes, no equality of races, and definitely no queer rights in the entirety of Palestine where you could be killed for the crime of being openly queer. [If you identify as a liberal, there is literally] no reason to support a country where majority of [your] friends would either have severely restricted rights, be treated like objects, or be thrown off a building just for existing.

Let me reiterate: Jews are indigenous to Israel. Jews have existed and lived in what we now call the Israel-Palestine region for thousands of years before the foundation of Islam, and even before the foundation of Christianity. In the game of “which Abrahamic religion came first?” Islam ranks dead last.

Israel as an identity as a people has existed for thousands of years and has been recorded as far back as the Iron Age on:

i) The Mesha Stele;

ii) The Tel Dan Stele;

iii) The Kurkh Monoliths; and (potentially)

iv) The Merneptah Stele.

While scholars have argued over the translations on the Merneptah Stele, the general consensus among historians, classicists, archaeologist, etc, is that it refers to the existence of Israel at the very least as a collective identity that existed at the time, and was called Israel.

They were eventually repeatedly forced out by other powers such as the Romans and many others, but that doesn’t change the fact that Jews had a continuous existence in Israel before being forced out by what people like you would normally call “colonising powers” were it not so contrary to your own ill-supported arguments. It also doesn’t change the fact that Jews, and Israel, existed before both Christianity and Islam, and long, long before Palestine.

So if your entire argument boils down to "who was here first" and the ideas of "colonialism" and "anti-colonialism" and "decolonisation", then I am telling you, Jews were there first. You could argue Canaanite groups like Moabites and Ammonites were there too, but Moabites and Ammonites don't exist as a continuous group anymore. No matter how you look at it, you are wrong, so let me parrot your horrible argument right back at you:

The fact that you would defend Hamas, a known organisation whose founding Charter literally calls for the annihilation of Jews, who have systematically purged Jews for years, who launched multiple attacks against innocent Jewish people (the music festival, the babies and the woman and the children slaughtered), the fact that there's a Palestinian Authority Matry Fund where they literally pay a salary / pension to any Palestinians who commit terrorist attacks against Israelis, be it through stabbings, shootings or suicide bombings, and they've paid out billions so far; the fact that you defend the existence of the Foundation for the Care of the Families of Martyrs which pays monthly cash stipends to the families of Palestinians killed, injured, or imprisoned while carrying out violence against Israel, etc... that you would defend this is "literally despicable" and not only outright evil, but ignorant to the nth degree.

If the continuous genocidal nature of Hamas against Israel cannot make you cognizant of Hamas' deeply racist, violence, and terrorist regime (to the point where none of the Muslim countries around them will take Palestinians in; even their fellow Muslim countries want nothing to do with them), then I'm not sure what to tell you. You say I am beyond reasoning, but from where I'm standing, your head is so far up your own ass that I don't even know if you're aware of anything that isn't the smell of your own shit.

It's actually incredible to me how you can ignore what multiple historians and scholars are saying because you want to cling to your idea that Hamas are just a bunch of "poor innocent brown people" who need help from the "evil white Israeli regime". Or perhaps, more "concerningly," that is just it: you hate Israel because you erroneously perceive them as white, and so therefore they must be evil. I don't know, but that is what a lot of anti-Israel sentiment seems to boil down to in the world of people like you.

The fact that you would excuse and ignore Hamas' outright horrific acts and ignore history is deeply disturbing and indicative of the rancid hypocrisy within the west, but particularly within western circles that claim to be "progressive", "liberal", and "leftist."

Hamas has said no to every ceasefire. Hamas has said no to every compromise Israel has offered even before October. If Hamas stops fighting, the war ends. If Israel stops, then Israel is annihilated.

History has already shown that Palestinians are not indigenous if we are playing the "who was there first" game with Israel and Palestine, you're just so ignorant that you will refuse to see the evidence right in front of you. You are the one cheering for the annihilation of an indigenous group, and the one history will frown upon is you.

#antisemitism #Sorry for everyone on my dash who had to read this long reply. #I have sat on this for a month wondering whether to release it. Seriously grappling with everything. But. #Here we go. Will I delete it later? I am not sure. But. #There are too few people willing to speak up on this because they're scared of militant Palestinian supporters. #And truthfully I am scared of them! Militant Palestinian supporters are terrifying and my country has MANY #But this is my line in the sand. I so rarely draw them with political conflicts but this is it for me. #If you support Hamas you are DISGUSTING. #And you cannot divorce the fact that the vast majority of Palestinians have supported and do support Hamas. #People literally cheer for Hamas in the streets here and call for the annihilation of Israel. #Universities defend this shit too (see: the scandal with Penn State and Harvard) #I am so open politically I neither identify as right or left I so rarely truly put my foot down and say #'if you believe this you are disgusting' #But? Yeah. #And maybe I will have a mas exodus of followers now but whatever. #ancient Israel

[1jemmagirl22]

I will always look after you, Penelope

Top 22 ships I loved(Or more accurately became obsessed/re obsessed with) in 2022, ranked:

7; Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton, Bridgerton

#bridgerton #polin #penelope x colin #colin x penelope #penelope and colin #colin and penelope #penelope featherington #colin bridgerton #top tv ships #seriously my gods i will never be over them #season 2 was everything #and my fucking gods the fact that i called season 3 being their season #i called it and i will stand by the excitement until my bitter dying breath #i don't even need the smut i want to losing glances dialed up to every scene #i want the tension culminating in a scandalous kiss #I want the bloody fucking chaos of their love for each other on the ton

[sillygoofyqueer]

ALL I WANT IS FOR SOMEONE, ANYONE, TO ASK ME ABOUT WHICH GODS I HEADCANON SOME OF THE WELL-KNOWN SANSES TO BE

#four being a dumbass #it's loosely tied to the greek gods #but just the 12 olympians #mostly #and hades #bro #the fact that Hades isn't classed as one of the twelve olympians is scandalous #just because he's a bit gloomy and reeks of death #it's not his fault

[bloomfish]

personally I find regency kind of a boring era for historical fiction idk why

#i think its all the rules and frippery and everyones just a square LOL #where's the grit. the hedonism #i'm sure it existed don't get me wrong #but historical fiction set in regency era never seems to be about that #its always like ooh we're holding hands how scandalous how romantic #i also think there's inevitably too much focus on aristocracy #im still annoyed by the fact that there's no servant characters in bridgerton lol. like poor people are just part of the backdrop #say what u want about downton but at least the servants are treated as equally worthy of interest #and i think regency was a miserable time for the masses which makes it kind of lol that its always portrayed as beautiful and refined etc

[moriemur]

this is absolutely insane. how does this story keep getting worse

#oceangate #(also the fact that they named their company to sound like a political scandal??)

[falderaletcetera]

feeling inordinately soft at the realisation that at the end of the Father Brown cult ep (really not my favourite), when sid and susie say they've heard that mrs mccarthy stole her strawberry scone recipe and mrs m (quite fairly) takes their scones back and has to chase sid off-screen for his, father brown quietly offers his one to susie.

context is that susie is officially hired by them to clean the presbytery and she has a rough time in this ep, and father brown generally takes any and every opportunity to have sweet things (good for him dot png.)

inordinately soft about it

#this is in fact a necessary moment of loving playfulness after a rather grim ep so I appreciate it #father brown #iroh-coded he's iroh-coded. I'm so normal about this #I was about to say he's less dippy than iroh #but given the ''oops I just took drugs via a cake left out for scandalous guests in a scandalous house. for the second time'' incident #well. bless him. #going from s11 to s1 is weird because I actually have no clue if s11 brenda is hired by them or not #and while I'm Very glad we're not constantly reminded she's a servant it's jarring going back to this #where we are in fact frequently reminded that s1 susie is a servant #mrs mccarthy be nicer challenge #I get that she fulfills a specific role in the story and sort of balances out father brown so it doesn't feel totally improbable but still #anyway. yes I am in fact fine (no I am not) just pausing to have feelings about tiny acts of kindness by fictional characters. #falderal speaks

[crownedwille]

I have to say - Wilhelm going from disowning August, saying he will never forgive him or let him take over, to him actually being okay with that and basically giving it over to August was not the character growth and development I wanted to see

#yrtalk #if you like that part then please look away now and don't interact #i'm not even an august hater i can appreciate him as a complex complicated character that he is #but i still absolutely don't want him as k*ng and get away with releasing that video #he barely received a punishment for that and I want the public to know about it #being king is not the 'punishment' i want for him and someone who did what he did should never even get the chance to have that #the fact that they're presenting it that in the future august would be king who has violated the former crown prince's privacy and #is responsible for that 'scandal' destroying two people's lives #one of them being the fucking prince!! - it just irks me so much i hate it #and i can't be okay with wille being okay with it #i refuse #and i really don't need people trying to tell me why this was actually important and needed. idc i don't want it #i like where wille and august ended up in the end and that august actually apologised but i still don't think wille should forgive him #wilhelm #august #s3 #young royals

[katiek101]

my most specific favorite trope is when the daughter of a Clan leader, a seemingly perfect warrior, goes and makes a mistake that defines her character.

Silverstream starting a forbidden relationship with Graystripe, eventually dying while giving birth to his kits.

Dawnpelt standing up in the middle of a Gathering and accusing a medicine cat of murdering her brother.

Leafpool running away with a WindClan warrior and returning pregnant, lying about it, and giving the kits to her sister.

Squirrelflight agreeing to help Leafpool with her lie and raising the kits as if they're her own.

Heathertail falling in love with a traitor and standing by him as he reintegrates into the Clan, when she could have had anyone she wanted.

#Hollyleaf is sooo close to making this list but in my head it applies to her as well #ironically enough none of this applies the Tawnypelt ; the daughter of Tigerstar lol #Heathertail's is more scandalous than anything but #the fact that she could have taken ANYONE as a mate and she chose Breezepelt??? cracks me UP #I love these girls and I'll die for any of them rn #Dawnpelt #Silverstream #Leafpool #Squirrelflight #Heathertail

[ohanthonytomallamadingdong]

when u have a panik attacc about going to the hair stylist so u reread RedWhiteandRoyalBlue and rewatch YoungRoyals for the sevenhundredth time:

(eyeing the CaPri trilogy like- ur next)

#john mulaney in my head like #BOOM #orange juice #THATS LIFE #im allergic to orange juice #fun fact about me #no mom i don’t need more therapy I have The Royal Gays #put captive prince in here and i have the trifecta #in the name of the father the son and the holy Gay Crisis #hi im here for the conflicted blond second son princess who fall in love with curly-haired brunette foreigners and cause lasting scandal #young royals #red white and royal blue #captive prince #wilhelm x simon #henry x alex #damen x laurent #holla

[saetoru]

what is it about smut that makes me literally talk for ages bc like. now this drabble is turning into a whole fic too what the heck do i do now 🧍🏽‍♀️

#like when it’s just a fluff drabble #i can keep it short #but #every time i try to write something remotely scandalous #i’m like ok i gotta give this backstory #and oh we gotta have this scene to establish this detail #oh but i can’t forget that 12 years ago this happened so now that’s why that happened which led to this #and of course there’s the fact that they both have this and that and #boom #now i’m 4k words in #not remotely close to the sex scene i had in mind #and now i’m not even in the mood to write smut anymore and i have like #18273 scenes left to work out and #WHY #why do i do this to myself

[markantonys]

so funny when people say "well, obviously min is the only one rand can have a long-term relationship with post-canon since she doesn't have any other obligations" as if they cannot even conceive of the idea of rand being the househusband to his breadwinner wife/wives rather than the reverse. like there is literally nothing stopping him from just moving into the caemlyn palace and being elayne and aviendha's sugar baby. and as far as i can remember there was never any indication within the books that elayne would be expected to make a political marriage, that's just an assumption some readers make based on their own preconceptions of royal characters. (morgase's marriage to taringail was to smooth the throne's transition from mantear to trakand, but elayne already has 2 thrones and 2 heirs secure - and, on the latter subject, the books never hinted that her having kids while unmarried would in any way make them not be considered legitimate heirs, so there's really no reason at all why she would NEED to get married.)

"but rand wants to get away from it all, he can't have a relationship with a high-profile public figure who's obligated to stay in caemlyn" okay then they can keep their relationship discreet! and rand can travel by himself in his free time! and bring back nice presents to his family! and lest this be thought a Min Hate Post, min can move into the palace and be their sugar baby too! they can all be together, it's fine! there's really no reason why all 4 lifestyles can't ultimately be compatible long term! i mean, assuming min is able to get out of the seanchan's clutches.........which, somehow, people never seem to think is as big of an obstacle to Being Rand's Endgame as the fact that elayne and aviendha have jobs.

#yeah i am currently having to erase the 0 off of my 'days since last incident of unwisely visiting reddit for the answer to a WOT question #and subsequently getting mad about unrelated bad takes found there' sign #how could you tell! lmao #wot #wot book spoilers #now that i think about it: man the fact that no one ever cares about elayne being pregnant ~out of wedlock~ #is an underrated aspect of the books that i really love! #ofc nynaeve and egwene's small-town worldviews are Scandalized but iirc exactly 0 other people give a shit in any way #and it makes sense! this is a matrilineal monarchy so why would it matter who the heir's father is #as long as the queen gave birth to them they're legitimate

[nacvamp]

Unfortunately, Misha Collins is incredibly intelligent, funny, deep, charming, humble, egregious, fearless, and kind, and he restores my faith in humankind. Unfortunately, participating in spn fandom and letting myself be absolutely cringe-silly over pairings and fanworks has diminished my long-fought mental illness, given me access to joy and ease again, and I have hope for the future. Unfortunately, I am happy!!

#spn cast #misha Collins #I could be upset about things that suck #but the fact remains that Misha Collins is a person who exists #and gives to charity #and makes scandalous jokes #and smiles with his entire being #so I guess everything is okay #anyways #destiel out here easing mental illness #spn #mental health #who knew a little cringe silly would go such a long way? #I mean #not that I’m saying shit’s all good and life isn’t like #fuck #but god the handsome hunter and the beautiful angel were in love #and the actors that played them have a friendship that pushes back the darkness #okay? okay

[randomhumanbeing2311]

"most of the band members themselves hated this song" and? lol if anything that makes me love it more, it doesn't get enough love from its own writers so I gotta love it extra to make up for it

#queen band #the beatles #hot space #back chat #scandal (the queen song) #maxwell's silver hammer #seriously the fact that that ONE song ALONE took THREE TIMES as long to record as THEIR ENTIRE FIRST ALBUM will never not be funny #music #classic rock

[1jemmagirl22]

Look Netflix all, all you got to do is just not give me any ships that fit into women’s rights fighting bad ass and cute nerdy boy who adores her with his entire soul against all odds. 

But no, no, you had to give me multiple!!!! 

First there was Eloise and Theo which was bloody bad enough!

Then! Oh then! There was bloody Agatha and Tedros, and those two stretch this but still fit so damn you Netflix!

But to drive the nail in deeper you had to go and make Enola and Tewkesbury, like fuck you Netflix for giving me these precious darlings of ships. 

And you had better ensure they all end happily or else! That Includes Stancy too!

#netflix #bridgerton #school for good and evil #enola holmes #stranger things #theloise #eloise x theo #agatha x tedros #tagatha #enola x tewkesbury #holmesbury #stancy #the fact that at this point i may have more ships from netflix properties than cw properties #i'm not sure if that makes me more happy or scandalized #either way it will likely end in torment