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justinspoliticalcorner · 18 days

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Matt Gertz at MMFA:

Over a handful of hours on Tuesday, the right’s conspiracy theory ecosystem concocted a sinister plot by President Joe Biden to assassinate his predecessor out of the banal fact that FBI agents received standard instructions on the use of force before conducting a court-ordered search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022. Hundreds of pages of filings were unsealed on Tuesday in Trump’s classified documents case, revealing that the former president — who is charged with 40 federal criminal counts related to his alleged willful retention of documents after leaving the White House — had multiple documents marked “classified” in his bedroom that were discovered months after the 2022 search. Credible outlets reviewed the documents and produced a wave of news stories detailing what a judge described as “strong evidence” of Trump’s allegedly criminal acts. Meanwhile, Trump’s MAGA media supporters ginned up a counternarrative based on a credulous reading of a deceptive argument from Trump’s lawyers that was included in the unsealed documents.

The story that emerged from the right-wing media echo chamber posits that pro forma language provided to FBI agents before the 2022 search which stated that “law enforcement officers of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary” was actually part of a Biden scheme to assassinate Trump. This is both a horrific accusation to make without evidence and facially absurd for any number of reasons. (Why would the Biden administration issue assassination orders in writing and then conduct the Mar-a-Lago search on a date specifically selected because Trump would be in New York instead?) But it spread quickly from its initiation by a key figure in the right’s January 6 disinformation community, through the ranks of MAGA influencers, to Trump himself, and then to the Fox News airwaves.

By Tuesday night, Trump’s campaign had issued a fundraising email in which the presumptive Republican presidential nominee alleged of the Biden administration, “You know they’re just itching to do the unthinkable … Joe Biden was locked & loaded ready to take me out & put my family in danger.” The startlingly quick adoption of an unhinged conspiracy theory shows how the right-wing media apparatus operates, dreaming up convoluted but inflammatory nonsense and bombarding their audience with it. Here’s how it happened.

[...] In reality — and as more credible journalists pointed out — those instructions are standard for FBI searches. “These are the rules that apply to FBI agents whenever they do anything,” Reuters reporter Brad Heath wrote in response to Kelly’s initial claim on X. He added, “Agents - like all cops - can use deadly force when met with a sufficiently serious threat. The policy the FBI followed here applies all the time; they are the same rules agents follow when walking down a sidewalk.” “One clue that this is the generic DOJ use of force policy — not something cooked up for Mar-a-Lago, let alone ordered by the president — is that it talks about the use of warning shots in prison,” Heath noted in response to Kelly’s post with the “Policy Statement.” The FBI would later issue a statement confirming that the bureau had “followed standard protocol in this search as we do for all search warrants, which includes a standard policy statement limiting the use of deadly force.”

Donald Trump and right-wing media propagandists such as Julie Kelly pushed an unhinged lie that President Joe Biden would order the assassination of Donald Trump when conducting a search of Mar-A-Lago for classified document theft. In reality, the FBI agents received standard instructions on the use of force before conducting their search warrant at Mar-A-Lago.

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HuffPost: Donald Trump Wildly Suggests Joe Biden Was Ready To Kill Him In Mar-A-Lago Search

#Joe Biden #Donald Trump #Trump FBI Search Warrant #Mar-A-Lago #Julie Kelly #US Department of Justice #FBI #Charlie Kirk #Liz Wheeler #Laura Loomer #Sean Davis #FoxNews.com #Jesse Watters #Sean Hannity #Jeanine Pirro #Bret Baier #Byron York #Maria Bartiromo #Conservative Media Apparatus

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brokehorrorfan · 1 year

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The Assassination Bureau will be released on Blu-ray on April 25 via Arrow Video. The 1969 British black comedy adventure is also known as The Assassination Bureau Limited.

Basil Dearden (Dead of Night) directs from a script by Michael Relph, based on Jack London's unfinished novel. Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, and Telly Savalas star with Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret, and Warren Mitchell.

The Assassination Bureau is presented in high definition with original lossless mono audio. It features reversible artwork. Special features are detailed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historians Sean Hogan and Kim Newman (new)

Right Film, Wrong Time - Appreciation by film historian Matthew Sweet (new)

Original trailer

Image gallery

Booklet featuring new writing Katherine McLaughlin (first pressing only)

6 lobby card reproductions (first pressing only)

London, 1908. When feisty journalist and women’s rights campaigner Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) uncovers the headquarters of the Assassination Bureau Limited, a clandestine enterprise that has existed for decades by bumping off the rich and powerful – but only if there’s a good moral reason for it – she sets on a path of putting an end to its activities. Bankrolled by her press baron boss, Lord Bostwick (Telly Savalas), she commissions the organisation to undertake the assassination of its very own chairman, Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed). Being the gentleman that he is, Dragomiloff responds to the assignment with glee, challenging his fellow board members to complete the contract. Only they’ll have to catch him first…

#the assassination bureau #oliver reed #diana rigg #telly savalas #basil dearden #arrow video #dvd #gift #kim newman #black comedy #60s movies #1960s movies #curd jürgens #philippe noiret #jack london

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teyvatiantraveler · 9 months

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Name: Erika Riess

Height: 6ft

Age: 32

Pronouns: she/her, he/him (when it's convenient)

Allegiance: Independent

Backstory:

Erika Riess was born in Heidelberg, Germany to two ghouls. She doesn't remember much of her childhood before the age of 12, when she was taken in by a human woman called Iva as a favour to her parents.

Iva did her best to take care of Erika but her need for human flesh proved difficult to satiate. This lead to Iva both ingratiating herself to the local ghoul community and experimenting to find the limited range of human foods she can eat. Iva loved Erika as her own daughter, even going as far as to catch her up on her education so she could get into school.

Eventually, Erika was discovered due to killing high-ranking CCG officers, but not by the CCG. Marcus Kennedy, a former CIA handler looking to assemble a team to pull off high-profile, high-stakes assassination contracts, was looking to replace a former employee who had turned coat.

Erika joined Marcus on the promise that he help mask her identity and facilitate her move to Berlin. Marcus initially gave her a trial contract: Sneak into the French Bureau's national convention and kill their top officer. This was to see how she worked with the team of Marcus, Arctus, and Jonty. Marcus acts as her handler, Arctus is the hacker and analyst and Jonty is a smuggler and weapons procurer.

The contract went off with a few hitches (unintentional kills, people getting suspicious of her) but it overall showed her potential. Erika got her wish of moving to Berlin, and gradually became untraceable. She now operates on a schedule of one week off, then two weeks travelling around the world and completing contracts with the aid of the team.

Erika is known as a shadow among both her colleagues and her contractors, and only works through her handler. Each member of the team has veto rights on any contract, though they don't usually use them unless they go against the existing blacklist.

Rumours are currently saying that Marcus and the team are currently looking at expansion into Tokyo, offering their services against the heart of the CCG.

#tokyo ghoul #oc #tokyo ghoul re #I'm sorry but I need to spread the brainrot #also feel free to ask any questions about Erika #There's a bunch of stuff I haven't really mentioned here to save this post being any longer than it already is #Erika Riess

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sirenalpha · 2 years

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the missions in ac1 are good actually

yes I get that there's only like 4 types of missions, and yes the eavesdropping ones are really nothing to write home about and I do kinda wish they dropped out even more than they do in the game

but they're maybe my favorite part of the game which is good because they're the majority of the game

I just think making you check in at the bureau to get suggestions of where to go and then having to go to viewpoints to then find the missions and then pick which ones and in which order you want to do them in is an extremely good set up and it's just never used again

it's not perfect like the missions are pretty much anywhere and not right where the rafiq/dai at the bureau says they are creating some but not much narrative dissonance and it doesn't help that nothing on the map ever gets labeled so you can't really find your way around based on what you're told

but it gives a lot of autonomy to the player without creating any narrative dissonance and really encourages you to explore and become familiar with your surroundings and it does so with the gameplay unlike later in the series where it feels like it relies on graphics and set dressing to encourage exploration which is a much more shallow and superficial motivation

mostly because it's not really as important to explore and familiarize yourself with your surroundings for game play or narrative in the later games even in ones that take place in only one city as it is in ac1, just for side quests and collecting things

ac1, however, doesn't show buildings on its minimap and having missions and viewpoints and citizens to save spread throughout the city is a good way to make sure the player learns the city, so they know where ladders and hiding spots are when they need them while being chased after assassinations whereas all the later games show buildings on the minimap making escaping and free running easier

maybe the lack of buildings on the minimap is a technological limitation of the time but between it and the spread out missions, it gives a purpose to the open world and exploring it within the cities rather than the open world being a mere spectacle or tedious ground to cover it feels like in some of the later games which is why they give you horses and fast travel and so on

like you don't need or miss fast travel within the cities of ac1 because they're not overly large (in fact their size is controlled so the focus is on the mission and narrative at hand) and you need to learn them to play the game better which is definitely not how it is in later games

and beyond teaching you the city, the missions actually do have good level design

the missions do scale up in difficulty aside from the eavesdropping ones, but with the informers you start with tasks like please capture all these flags which isn’t hard at all to please kill these three templars without raising the alarm and with a time limit, if you choose to go through and do them you actually do get better at the game as you continue which helps with assassinations (tho not the boss battles which is a different issue)

the missions also give you information for the narrative and/or for game play, this part is less perfect, sometimes the information you get is a map that shows where archers are positioned and you never see the map which isn't helpful, but other times it actually tells you very useful information that makes the assassination easier, or it gets you information on the Templars or how Altaïr is seen and treated by the other Assassins

the more effort you put into the missions as in doing more than the minimum number required and the more difficult ones, the more you get out of them, you as the player get better at the game and have an easier time with assassinations, and you get more bits and pieces of the narrative to put together

this is how you want your games to work and in ac1 it's done without making you search around for papers or logs to get additional scraps of information on the narrative

that said, I think the reason the game has as many eavesdropping missions as it does and only ever gets up to 3 out 6 required missions is because it wants to give an easier alternative since it doesn't have an easy mode

and I think that's part of what makes the missions as good as they are, there are ways to make the game easier for yourself or brute force it if you're not good at stealth without compromising the game play or narrative (you just get a little less detail)

I get why people criticize them as repetitive but like they're still good game design and I'm still kinda annoyed the series left them behind

#assassin's creed #ac1 #video game design

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reddus-sideblog · 2 years

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M.E.R.C.s - 6 Guns

8-12-890 AR

Sever soaked in the view of Newland City’s night time skyline. Her cybernetic eye let her see in the darkest of night, and the light-saturated sky of New Yark was easy enough to see in without it, but seeing it from the top of the Bischel Megastructure in the capital sector-cluster was a special treat. The assassin stopped herself from getting too caught up in the magnificent view, though she did take some pictures with her cyber-eye for later. The heavy wind whipped the light silt on the wind all across the rooftop, and sent Sever’s unbuttoned coat aflutter. After spending the last three days climbing the elevator shafts and ductworks of the building it was only natural for her to need to soak in the fresh air at the top of the two hundredth story.

The dark-haired lady felt like she was on top of the world, and that the tower in front of her must have surely been scratching the bottom layer of Heaven. She checked the hook and line that were anchored to the building’s radio tower for a third time. It paid to be paranoid about these sorts of things. She was glad that her contact had left the enormous rope in the radio tower’s service station, hauling it up with her would have been a ridiculous task. Sever ensured that her Sable Foundation ribbon was in place on her shoulder before grabbing the zip-line handlebar with a cybernetic death grip; the last thing an S-Rank assassin like her needed was to end up as a smear on the New Yark pavement a kilometer downwards.

Carried by the wind, the cyborg woman ran and threw herself off the building’s edge, into the glimmering skyline of Newland’s capital.

***

None of it added up. In all his years as an investigator for the Bureau of Internal Security Director Brooks had yet to see a case this messy go unsolved. He had been at the Bureau for over two decades now, and this Cedar Center Massacre was taxing the limits of his patience and problem solving. The previous case dealing with the last Holiday bombing at the New Sky Incorporated tower in the LASC had been an open and shut case by comparison, even if it had taken weeks to pick through the rubble of the megastructure’s one hundred and twentieth floor.

He had been staying late after work hours for almost two months now to try to get to the heart of the case, but every time Brooks thought he had reached the bottom a new, yet more baffling piece of evidence would present itself. The Master Director of the Bureau had told Director Brooks to file away the case until useful evidence emerged. While he had publicly complied, Brooks kept working at the Cedar Center Massacre case file in private. Something about it had tantalized him this whole while. There had to be a missing keystone fact to the whole thing, but he couldn’t quite guess as to what in Heaven’s name it could be.

The basic facts of the case were simple enough, really. On 05-13-889 in the Cedar Center corporate sector, on the Condora Management Complex property, at approximately twenty past five in the evening on a Friday, gunshots were first reported. No direct footage of the assailants was recovered, but a number of different security cameras did show the Calhoun Security Services officers engaging in a firefight with the unknown assailants.

The assailants were a tight group who never broke formation, and covered one another for the entirety of their ingress and egress. They made their way to the managerial wing of the complex, murdered one Ashton Palmers, the head development officer of the Lake Newland branch of North City Manufacturing Conglomerate. Along the way the assailants also murdered twenty-seven CSS officers, sixteen members of various companies that had offices in the complex, and three janitors that were employed by the Condora Management Complex. After this massacre the assailants left via the building’s garbage chute, and fled into Newland’s subterranean canals before disappearing entirely, with each gunman presumably going a separate way.

Brooks lit another cigarette and sucked it back. Every time a new fact emerged it just skewed the case further into the territory of urban myth.

The lack of direct footage was because of a conspicuously inconvenient server malfunction that happened half an hour after the attack, and the complex’s server administrator had left one week before the incident on leave and never came back. The director hadn’t been surprised by this, really, something this large had to be premeditated. Of course, all investigations into that administrator’s identity were unable to determine if that person ever really existed, and nothing of value could be gained from scrubbing the physical server units. What footage that did exist showed each CSS member fighting and dying to gunshots by unknown assailants, as a number of Calhouns were slain simultaneously, by gunfire going in separate directions from the unseen attackers.

Then there was the matter of the murdered security officers themselves. The clones of the Calhoun Security Service were dogged protectors, and they had been joined by a number of the employees in the complex as well. Though not every dead employee had fought alongside the Calhouns, all of those that did fight back were ruthlessly slain.

The marksmanship of the attackers was alarmingly high, with each of their victims receiving no more than two or three shots to their vital locations. While a professional hitman could definitely be so accurate, the wide-scale precision murder was daunting, especially considering the breakneck pace that the squad of killers bowled through the building at. Brooks didn’t know of anyone outside of the United Zones Machine Corps that was that capable, but none of the shooters exhibited typical android giveaways so it was possible that they could have been heavily modified cyborgs. The Holy Mercenary Brigades were suspected at one point, but a number of the slain were devout Divinists, and the indiscriminate slaughter of non-Infernalites wasn’t something Holy Mercenaries regularly engaged in.

The number of victims was quite staggering, but the fact that all of them were utterly slain was even more troubling. Not a single eye-witness remained, with anyone who could have provided a firsthand account being dead when the Federal Police arrived on the scene. A number of other employees who had survived the firefight had only heard the raging storm of gunfire and hidden from sight until it had ended. Every single person who had seen the criminals was shot fatally, and the whole of the bloody path to the NCMC development officer was littered with .44 magnum shells.

While somewhat odd, each one of the assassins using something chambered in the same caliber wasn’t unreasonable. It would make supplying ammunition for their weapons easier, and also make it harder to track their ammunition if they had bought it in bulk. No reasonable paper trail had emerged for the sale of large amounts of .44 caliber rounds, and strangest of all, the cases recovered on the scene bore no maker’s mark or stamp, they were simply blank. Either they had been made that way in a secret mass order, or they had all been handloaded.

Director Brooks sighed and ashed his cigarette in the already filled tray. The apparent target of the hit, Ashton Palmers, was a man guaranteed to have all manner of enemies in life. Someone had to have a lot of enemies for their corpse to end up perforated by forty-something bullets. His competitive business strategies that had seen him rise to his position in North City’s ranks had also knocked down a lot of co-workers. Along with that his development projects had high turnover rates from “unappreciative conditions”, and the NCMC’s business practices under his leadership had garnered attention from both the CETF and the Department of Businesses. It seemed unlikely to Brooks that the Newland government would stoop to such bloody depths, but it wouldn’t be the first time the Self Defense Force’s elite operators or a Special Police Force had been used to advance someone’s agenda.

The modus operandi didn’t match any known military or policing force in Newland, and Brooks doubted that the affairs of a domestic company like NCMC would really rile up tensions abroad. The manufacturer was only known for civilian market vehicle production, and mostly exported to Souther Bay. While the intelligence agencies of both the Evernyy Union and the Shogaian Empire could certainly pull off something like this, that still left no real motive.

Finally, and perhaps most dauntingly, little if any of the attackers’ blood was recovered from the scene. The forensics lab had gained a number of samples from the complex, but all of them belonged to only one member of the gunmen’s team, and it matched no registered blood of any known criminal or blood donor. All that could really be determined was that it had belonged to a young, human woman. It seemed that this single member of the team had been injured, and that they’d stopped bleeding quite rapidly, perhaps due to some quick medical attention.

It was, altogether, a baffling puzzle. Brooks sat down heavily in his office chair and finished off his smoke before nestling it in with the crowd of other cigarette butts in the ashtray. He ran a hand over his bald head as he looked over the assembled evidence before him. The director had had all of the casefiles and data-disks on the Massacre brought to his office before it got sent to the archives, and it was still occupying most of the free space in the room. The case had six boxes of physical files and a number of supplementary digital ones on the Bureau’s database. The sheer amount of folders, reports, printouts, and other miscellaneous data had made the director’s room appear more like a filing cabinet than a BIS official’s corner office on the one hundred and second floor.

The organized chaos of the office was just how Director Brooks liked it. The corkboard and strings connecting his different trains of thought certainly looked like something a paranoid headcase with too much time on his hands would create, but Brooks knew it was leading to a breakthrough. He could feel that he was close to something, that he had brushed up on the form of the assailants in some manner, as though he were forming an outline of his target.

This outline only framed further, more mystifying questions. Why had all of the attackers exclusively used .44 caliber pistols? How had they covered their trail so expertly, in both a material and digital sense? Had each one of them lined up to take a turn shooting Palmers? Where had all of the ammunition come from and why was it all unmarked? How had only one member of the team suffered injuries? How had every single eye-witness been slain without exception?

There was some factor that he was missing, that much was certain. The director slid his chair over to the opposite side of his desk to use his phone. The night was still young, and he wanted some tea to keep him going while he made up a list of suspects and businesses to investigate on the next long weekend. As he picked up the receiver the dull tone of a down line came to his ear. It was late at night so repairs and refits were probably underway somewhere in the building. Director Brooks stood up and stretched, these late nights were going to be the death of him one of these days.

A dozen rounds sliced through the director’s broad, corner office window from the New Yark night, before the answer to all of his burning questions came crashing through the reinforced pane of glass. The explosion of shards littered the office with jagged, broken glass, in the middle of which stood a singular assassin. Director Brooks wheeled around, as the sudden gunfire, crash, and now the howling of the wind overwhelmed him, making him nearly lose his footing. He fell back against his desk, knocking down a small tower of evidence that scattered in the high-altitude wind. The director was at a loss for words, as in that moment everything about the Cedar Center Massacre made sense.

Silhouetted by the shimmering night skyline of the Capital Sector the cyborg killer was a distinct figure. Her messy black hair was tied back in a long braid, and her red and black jacket whipped in the wind alongside it. The cyborg’s round face may as well have been a mask, as she portrayed no emotion, and the stare from her biological eye was as blank as the one from her crimson, cybernetic sensor. The left arm sleeve of her coat bore a unique symbol that transfixed him, it was a circular glyph on a red ribbon. It was a symbol that had appeared throughout a number of other cases that involved high-profile murders, either on slain assailants, bullet casings, or even branded onto the assassination targets. It had to belong to some sort of organization or cabal, this would be the revelation he needed!

The crunch of glass crushed into the carpeted ground broke the director’s focus, as the cyborg repositioned herself from the landing. A number of glass shards had pierced her body, but the bleeding she was subject to was ending already, as her enhanced body cut off the blood flow from the injured parts. A sextet of large, highbore pistols were raised by the assassin’s six arms, and with each one being trained on the director’s center of mass.

The cyborg’s aim switched for a second and two pairs of shots rang out. The attacks were aimed behind the director, and though he was nearly frozen in terror Brooks tore his eyes away from the spectacle of the cyborg assassin to look over his shoulder. Two BIS security agents who had come to investigate the crash were already dead by the time he had turned his head, with each one having taken a round to the head and chest. The director began reaching for his pistol as he whipped back around, but his human speed was simply no match for the enhanced reflexes of a cyborg.

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A fusillade of shots rang out as six black Heaven’s Dragons unleashed on the BIS director. Each individual shot certainly would have sufficed to end the man’s life, but this attack was about sending a message, rather than being efficient. When all six of Sever’s guns were empty the middle-aged man looked more akin to ground beef than a human being. One half of the office was coated with sprayed blood and a gentle snow of obliterated files that had been caught in the crossfire.

Sever holstered a few of her weapons and lit a match as the director’s shredded remains hit the floor. She touched the lit match to a few different files as her other arms reloaded her pistols. Before the match went out she stole a cigarette from the bloodied pack on the ex-director’s desk and lit it. The office was starting to go up, as the bundles of paper lit other stacks of files on fire, and all of them were fed by the whipping wind.

Crossing to the window the assassin grabbed a hold of her zip-line handlebar once more. It was time to leave, and she didn’t have enough bullets to fight her way down through a hundred floors of BIS agents. Sever looked to the skyscraper across the street from the Bischel Megastructure. She could easily clear the dozen or so meters between the massive buildings, and descending the neighboring Tostel Tower would be simple. She’d be in the New Yark underground before anyone even bothered checking the tower next door.

Sever charged out the shattered window, leaping once more into the neon night.

#Ashlands RPG #M.E.R.C.s #I hope you're all starting to see some intertwined story threads

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festivids · 1 year

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We are looking for three pinch hitters!

Interested in pinch hitting? Comment at the linked post! You don’t need to be participating in Festivids to claim a pinch hit.

Pinch hit #2:

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV)

Condorman (1981) [SAFETY]

The Medusa Touch (1978) [SAFETY]

The Assassination Bureau Limited (1969) [SAFETY]

Hoffman (1970) [SAFETY]

Claim pinch hit #2. Claimed

Pinch hit #3:

We Are Lady Parts (TV) [SAFETY]

A League of Their Own (TV 2022)

The Wheel of Time (TV)

The Adventures of Tintin (1991)

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (movies)

Hocus Pocus (Movies)

The Chronicles of Narnia (BBC TV 1988)

Claim pinch hit #3. Claimed!

Pinch hit #4:

You're The Worst (TV)

Moulin Rouge! (2001) [SAFETY]

The Last Unicorn (1982) [SAFETY]

Bunheads (TV 2012)

Only Murders in the Building (TV)

Claim pinch hit #4. Claimed!

#festivids #pinch hits

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Before being recruited during the crusades, was Ky and the other soldiers were physically or magically enhanced in some ways? I'm asking becase I feel like, even if Ky was holding back and not trying to kill Sol in the past and before he obtain dragon install, it would take a tremendous amount of power of any kind to stop Gears

To get in to that you have to understand a bit of the history of Magic itself.

Magic (the knowledge and study of it) was actually being regulated by the Conclave at the time… that's exactly what the 666 Arcanum was… and that's also why Forbidden Magic (and by extension Information Flares) were considered "forbidden" in the first place.

That's not to say that Magic users didn't have Outliers and people who did forbidden research (hence what the Postwar Administration Bureau was actually tasked with doing, inhumane or otherwise). Their experiments on Humans and Gear conversion (among other black projects) further advanced knowledge of what Magic was capable of.

Even Faust's research on Resurrection was a major upset on its own.

Dizzy (at one point) makes a comment to Eddie about the Dark history between Gears and Forbidden Beasts… the latter of which were literally "programmed" to fight the former and sacrifice their tenuous lives as necessary.

This is a side of the war we don't see as often, but did occur… a battle between Gears and the advancement of the research on them.

It's this same research that created Zato, Testament, Judgement, Gig, and even Millia. Even Robo-Ky and A.B.A. to an extent.

If you compared the 666 Arcanum with the Tome of Origin, the difference would be like a Light Novel versus a Phone Book.

The Conclave had "some" knowledge of Magic, but they kept most of that knowledge to themselves… trying instead to stop Humanity's advancements as if they themselves were the enemies of Humans during the War.

Even the research on the Japanese, Ki Tuning, and other esoteric concepts were investigated, though how much of it became something of use is not fully clear.

Bedman himself is the result of such research as well, but he's still very much a mystery too.

It should be made clear that Ethics were not in their consideration at this point… so yes… "modified humans" were being used (like Leon Mining's God Series), and even the Assassins and Child Orphans were being used as test subjects for various research.

Solaria and Marina were also victims of this cruel experimentation. Tyr was the result of experiments that even shared a connection with the OutRage Sacred Treasures… though even he is still a big mystery as well.

As far as the Sacred Order is concerned, much of what they were capable of and the resources they were given was limited despite their "Holy Mission" of protecting Humanity from the Gears as a threat.

Even Ky was kept in the dark about the existence of the Bureau… though rumor had it that Kliff Undersn tried to disband the organization… usually such tasks are not so easy.

Not even Sol Badguy fully knew what his Gear powers were capable of… much less the full nature of whom was involved in Gear Research, try as he might to destroy any vestiges of it.

Still… it should be said that Kliff had the foresight to consider his resources well enough to task Sol and Ky with ending the War for good, even if it meant "stealing" the OutRage that the Conclave had been safeguarding for themselves.

It's likely that the Conclave didn't even WANT Ky to have the Thundersealed Sword in his possession, much less giving Sol the Fireseal. That was probably Kliff's influence at work.

Still, if one looks at the broad view of the War between Humanity and Gears… it was still something of a stalemate… Many of the Gears that existed were either too unstable to serve as an active effective force for Justice to utilize, or, assuming they were… Humans were still a capable fighting force, even without Magic.

Justice even went so far as to comment on the idea that Humans didn't NEED Gears to do their fighting for them, so in that sense, despite her Ego and Hatred, she was impressed.

Had Ky gone through on his Killing Intent to kill Sol as a Gear… it is more than likely Ky would have still lost, as Sol's power was still growing at that time, and Ky was also STILL very inexperienced as a Warrior both physically and emotionally (he was very hot-headed). In later duels with Sol, Ky even had his sword taken from him… that's how strong Sol was overall.

All the more reason why Kliff Undersn insisted on speaking with Sol directly instead of letting Ky handle the situation when Sol stole the OutRage Jinki.

Anyway… from a history perspective, the Knights did use different kinds of Magic to get a leg up in their battles against Gears… but in most cases it was never enough to win until much later.

#Crusades #Magic #666 Arcanum #Magic Regulation #GG Expanded Timeline #The Crusades #The Great War

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lboogie1906 · 4 months

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COINTELPRO was a counterintelligence program run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1956-76). It combined the efforts of the Bureau and local police forces to track, harass, discredit, infiltrate, destroy, and destabilize dissident groups in the US. COINTELPRO targeted the Communist Party, the Socialist Workers Party, the American Indian Movement, those considered part of the “New Left,” the KKK, and most acutely, Black civil rights and militant Black nationalist groups.

The director of the FBI, considered militant Black nationalist groups to be the most dangerous threat facing the US at that time due to their perceived potential to cause civil unrest and violence. COINTELPRO focused on the Black Panther Party, Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam, and others. COINTELPRO sought to undermine, intimidate, and slander avowedly nonviolent Black leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.

COINTELPRO is suspected to have contributed to the divide that formed between Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam that resulted in his assassination. It is estimated that COINTELPRO and the police officers working as part of the program killed 28 Black Panther Party members and imprisoned another 750 in their effort to destroy the group.

Complete information on the origins and activities of COINTELPRO remains elusive, as participating agents are legally bound to secrecy, and the FBI retains control over most of the COINTELPRO files that do exist. Due to the highly sensitive nature of COINTELPRO’s actions, many details of the program were intentionally never put into writing so that they could never be exposed. Some COINTELPRO files came to light in March of 1971 after a leftist group called the Citizens’ Committee to Investigate the FBI broke into a small Pennsylvania FBI office, seized documents, and disseminated them to news outlets. In 1975, the U.S. Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations concerning Intelligence Activities helped bring other COINTELPRO activities to light, but because the committee only required the FBI to provide heavily redacted documents, its impact in exposing the truth was limited. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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analog principle.

closed starter ft. @agtbishop

setting: washington, district of columbia / temporal bureau headquarters

timeframe: november 28, 1999 / april 17, 1996

summary: “Barreling through time, the two agents from the current — the past — take aim at the future through the cold barrel of the gun.”

content warnings: descriptions and depictions of criminal activity, including but not limited to attempted assassination, gun violence, and domestic terrorism. may contain mild body harm.

Two dark-suited agents stand on the rooftop of an apartment building in the heart of K Street, Downtown Washington, D.C., overlooking the bleak November slush that has carpeted the road, which has yet to deter the growing crowd. One of the agents, a tall man, crouches. He opens a large deployment case, and a matte-gray rifle emerges in his hands.

Following is a case of bullets, a standard issue for NATO-allied countries, a 7.62 by 51mm. Barrel rifling of 5 radials, with a turn in 11.2 inches, 6-shot repeating; muzzle velocity reaching up to approximately 2,600 feet per second for a maximum effective range of 800 meters. The agent immediately gets to work, setting up the bipod stand and assembling the M24 SWS bolt-action sniper rifle.

Before starting any inspection, the agent performs a routine checkup to clear the rifle and examine for damages. After field stripping the rifle, he adjusts the rifle’s stock, attaches the optic sights, and checks for its zero. He screws on the suppressor. After completing the clean-up, the weapon is ready for service. The agent concludes by engaging the safety in the rifle’s S position.

(This agent cannot see the irony of his beloved typewriter and his bloody sniper rifle originating from the same manufacturer, E. Remington and Sons.)

A slight wind gathers, breezing in from the southeast. It’ll pick up in about thirty minutes, at fourteen hundred and twenty-two minutes, when a lone gunman will come out onto the roof of the Cartwright Building. He will assassinate the senatorial candidate Vernon F. MacMillan, a Republican, courting the lobbyists on K Street, satirically in guns and automobiles. In the wake of MacMillan’s death, someone else will run as his replacement.

In a future far from now, hours and hours away, the forthcoming Temporal Bureau in [redacted year] will send a missive back in time. The current Temporal Bureau in ‘96 will be asked to put their agents with significant military history to the task. Specifically, the quiet and undetectable to dispose of the gunman. Lethal force is allowed, but the agents are encouraged to be creative if they so wish. Just avoid a SNAFU.

Agent Faulkner returns to his full height of six feet and a half and picks up his binoculars hung around his neck. “How is the crowd, Agent Bishop?” He asks his mission partner — correction, primary mission partner as of six months. It has been a month into their cooperation, and operations have never gone through any bumps. Not that Agent Faulkner has expected anything less from a veteran of the Bureau. Agent Bishop is an operative like Stein, one who has had a hand in the science behind time manipulation. Faulkner doesn’t consider himself any bit of an intellectual, so those with genius leadership will forever have his service.

(Weapons are only useful in talented hands, aren't they?)

“According to my watch, we have T-minus twenty-seven minutes before H-hour,” Faulkner states, “would you like to set up your system? In case our proposed plan requires a backup.”

In the United States military, these specialized marksmen are crew-served with a sniper cell of two. The primary weapon operator, the shooter has a support personnel or protective force, known as a spotter or a flanker. As expressed in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps Table of Organization and Equipment, the shooter does not operate alone. A qualified backup shooter is deployed to ensure mission success.

However, what Agents Bishop and Faulkner have in mind do not follow anti-personnel tactics or policy. Instead of assassinating the lone gunman, they are attempting to indirectly apprehend him. In Faulkner’s pre-mission research, he has dug through the gunman’s biography and has given Agent Bishop his report before their launch.

Malcolm Seward, thirty-three, a member of the extremist group the Brothers of Civic Freedom, properly established in late ‘98.

(All groups of terror would never appropriately call themselves as such. The fear they cause is a part of the cause. For justice, when boiled down to it, is to enact the fear of retribution.)

Seward is a poor and uneducated man let go at an Ohio automobile factory in the spring of ‘97 and radicalized through the scapegoating of immigrant workers. He and other disgruntled, disaffected, and deeply disturbed men will take to arms. He will kill senatorial candidate Vernon F. MacMillan and then cause mass havoc while he tries to escape.

In Faulkner’s report, he also notes MacMillan’s opponents, his replacements. Although the Republican nominee does not win the upcoming election in D.C., there must be a reason as to why the Bureau has chosen to spare MacMillan’s life. Further detailed within the pages of the report are all the locations of U.S. Secret Service members dispatched during the incident. The major players are highlighted. The obstacles delineated. All for an optimized run of events.

Agent Faulkner’s standard is nothing less than perfection in execution. However, what he is suggesting means no wriggle room for error. He and Agent Bishop will wound the gunman before he takes his shot, disorient and non-lethally incapacitate him, purposefully misfire Seward’s modified Armalite AR-50 to trigger a response from Secret Service who will triangulate the location of the bullet, and dissemble and depart before detection.

By setting up Seward and implicating he was betrayed by his group, Faulkner hopes that he will cooperate with the Secret Service, give up the names involved with the Brothers of Civic Freedom, and disintegrate the group without the loss of future lives.

He and Agent Bishop will be able to pull it off.

There is a tickle in his throat again, similar to the tiniest twinge of something dragging his words when he had first declared his plan to her in the privacy of his office. He doesn’t understand why he doesn’t feel quite right. He cannot commend Agent Bishop enough; they work smoothly, having gotten to the point of wordless communication during a mission.

(This Agent does not compute his pain toward silence and will suffer in silence.)

Therefore, Agent Faulkner clears his throat and says, “Would you like the shot or the spot? My system has been adjusted to a comfortable median between our MOA, and the scope is good to go.”

Faulkner lifts the binoculars and gazes at the other building. In less than nineteen minutes, their target will bust through the door, dressed in garish camouflage garb despite the environment. He will hastily set up his gun. And, fueled with rage, he will immediately fire when MacMillan stops in front of a stock exchange building just across their section of K Street.

“We will only have a small window of ten minutes to fire and detain Seward, enact the false assassination attempt, and then a smaller window of two minutes while we both dissemble our sniper rifles and evade Secret Services. This is to say, whoever is the primary shooter will have to communicate with the flanker during dismantling. Throat mics are on as we commence operations. I understand these are high-pressure conditions, so as mentioned, I am volunteering the flank position.” Faulkner explains, binoculars down and resting over his protective vest.

Barreling through time, the two agents from the current — the past — take aim at the future through the cold barrel of the gun.

#event; ch0 #post; thread #thread; bishop #thread; analog #( thank you so much for waiting 🙇💕 )#( i just love doing research lmao )#( that being said all names of persons and groups ARE FICTIONAL )#( any coincidence is fr a coincidence )#( also i checked the triggers page and didn't see these listed )#( but if anyone would like for me to tag pls lmk! )#( and of course please do not feel obliged to match length haha )

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Diana Rigg / production still from Basil Dearden's The Assassination Bureau Limited (1969)

#Diana Rigg #The Assassination Bureau Limited #Basil Dearden #1969 #film #1960s

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69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire. 533 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy. 1492 – Reconquista: The Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders. 1680 – Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkurat II of Mataram and his bodyguards execute the rebel leader Trunajaya. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey. 1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. 1818 – The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six engineers; Thomas Telford would later become its first president. 1865 – Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay. 1900 – American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. 1900 – Chicago Canal opens. 1920 – The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial. 1921 – World premiere of the science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek R.U.R. in theater in Hradec Králové. 1941 – World War II: The Cardiff Blitz severely damages the cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history; Also known as the Duquesne Spy Ring. 1942 – World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines. 1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. 1954 – India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan. 1955 – Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered. 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union. 1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac. 1967 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California. 1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match. 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. 1975 – At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. 1975 – The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage. 1978 – On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills. 1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. 1988 – Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people. 1991 – Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia. 1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon. 2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.

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The Blacklist Season 9 Ending Explained : What's Happened ?

The Blacklist Season 9's finale gave viewers a glimpse of what season 10 might look like. The man responsible for Liz Keen's death is now dead. This will allow the show to move beyond Raymond Reddington's pursuit of revenge. Red will be dealing with serious consequences after Marvin Gerard's actions. This is everything you need to know about The Blacklist season 9 ending. Wujing returns in the Season 9 Finale of The Blacklist In The Blacklist Season 9 finale, a familiar face returns. Marvin Gerard was being held in prison when he ran into Wujing, the No. The blacklist is number 84. Red was a member of the task force that took Wujing, an extremely dangerous assassin into FBI custody, in season 1. Marvin is confronted by Wujing at prison during the season 9 finale. Wujing states that he is currently serving life without parole. Wujing has an escape plan. Wujing has a problem. He needs to get to court, but he can't find an acceptable reason to have a judge grant him a hearing. Marvin provides Wujing the reason he requires. Recap of The Blacklist Season 9 Finale Cooper questions Marvin in interrogation, but the attorney tells him he will only talk with Panabaker. Cooper asks for his Task Force. He argues that he has the same resources and is just as reliable as Red and his team. They come to an agreement, which results in Cooper's charges being dropped. As long as Marvin is still alive. Red must be kept away from Marvin by the Task Force. Marvin is waiting at the Calvin Coolidge Corrections Center. This facility houses other prominent villains like No. Assassin Wujing (Chin Han), 84 on Blacklist Wujing has a plan for escape but needs legal advice about how to get to the courthouse. Marvin gives Wujing the support he needs. Wujing believes that Marvin is working to help Red. He asks Red for his assistance. Marvin tells Wujing that Red is the one who had put him behind bars. Wujing is given a list of Blacklisters Red helped to put away by the FBI. Park (Laura Sohn), and Dembe (Hisham Takfiq), are on Red surveillance duty. Red is seen giving money to a correction center security guard. Red is brought in by the guards and he tells them that he wants to enter the correction center via a contraband passageway. Red is to be met by the guard at the passageway. Ressler (Diego Klattenhoff), takes Marvin to courthouse to sign his agreement. The Task Force quickly disassembles jail's secret entranceway. Marvin knows that he has a limited time before Red can reach him. Red calls Judge Carolyn Marquez (Lana Young) to ask for a favor. His father owes him an enormous blood debt. He asks her to distract the judge, who is dealing with Marvin's case. Marvin and Ressler arrive at the office. Marvin goes alone into the chambers of the judge to find Red waiting. Red reiterates his belief that Marvin was his subordinate, and that he will never be in charge. Red says Marvin will not be freed from him. Marvin is released, but Red haunts him and he takes his own life. Cooper hears from Red about Marvin's visit. Panabaker informs them about Marvin's passing and tells them that Red is back as an FBI informant. Red will take a few more weeks to go with Mierce (Karina Arroyave), and Weecha, (Diany Rodrigues) home. On the third anniversary of Liz's death, the Task Force gathers at Liz’s grave and has a nostalgic time. Cooper reminisces about Liz's first visit to the bureau. Ressler admits that he didn’t like Liz at first, but she eventually accepted him. Park arrives and informs them about her medical condition. It's not a neurological issue after all. She's pregnant! Park and Aram (Amir Arison), announce that they are taking some time off. Dembe recalls a young Liz having so much fun playing soccer and sharing that memory with the group. The group embraces one another in an emotional hug. You will find Wujing on his way to the courthouse. He is informed by his contact that he has a plane ready for him to return to Beijing. Wujing informs him that they are not returning home. With the support of the other Blacklisters on the Marvin-provided list, he is going to kill Red. Marvin Gerard's legacy is alive and well as he seeks revenge on Red from the beyond. This will be the main plot for next season. Red will have to face the consequences of his actions again. This reminds me of the death of Mr. Kaplan, which led to a literal skeleton in Red's past being revealed. This makes me reflect on how Red treats his employees. There have been many who have turned against him in one way or another. The Blacklist was renewed for season 10. However, there is no word on whether it will be its last season. We'll just have to wait and see how Red handles the multiple Blacklisters. Explanation of the Season 9 Finale of The Blacklist Red finally has an audience with Marvin in The Blacklist Season 9 final. Red could have killed Marvin at that point, but he decides to wait and let Marvin go on his terms. Marvin is released shortly after, and he kills himself in the car. Marvin still has one last task before he ends his life. Before leaving prison, he addresses Wujing and reveals that Red was a CI who worked with the FBI for many years. Wujing is in prison with many blacklisters because of Red. Marvin gives Wujing then a list with blacklisters that Red has taken away. The final scene of The BlacklistSeason 9 concludes with Wujing making his escape from prison. He reveals, however, that he doesn't plan to return home. Wujing instead wants Raymond Reddington to die. Wujing is aware he cannot do it all alone but he doesn’t have to. Red has wronged many criminals, including Wujing. ENDING tHE bLACK lIST with season 10 The Blacklist showrunner John Eisendrath stated that season 9 would be the "final chapter of the Liz Keen story," in an interview with TV Insider. Liz is now dead, and the man who caused her death is also dead. Fans were left wondering about season 10, even though the show appears ready to move on without Liz. Things are much clearer after the season 9 finale. TV Insider teased season 9 would end with "a revelation that places Reddington in greater danger than ever before." It's now clear that season 10 will follow Wujing’s plan to gather criminals Red has betrayed to bring down Red. It's reasonable to assume that season 10 will feature a few new series regulars, given the departures of Laura Sohn and Amir Arison. Read the full article

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#art #painting #drawing #gouache #illustration #The Assassination Bureau #The Assassination Bureau Limited #fan art #Character Design #feminist character #Diana Rigg #british movies #Basil Dearden #Jack London #punching

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Hi can you provide the link to read manhuas you prefer?

Hello Anon! OMG Manhua/Manhwa Rec! Here we go! I’ve only been reading for 2-3 months (consistently), so this will be pretty limited. I will link to the legit sites. A google search will direct you to others.

Most of these are WIPs and some, sadly, are discontinued. I won’t add TGCF or MDZS here cause those are already a given. 👇🏼

• Body Electric by Dong Ye ( completed, supernatural, lots of trigger warnings and plotty )

Ba Song is the hotshot cop who’s been handed an open-and-shut case: the suicide of a young woman. Except… who commits suicide by stabbing their own body and strangling themself? There's only one man who can help him with this mystery — Bo Shan, the renowned forensic pathologist with a severe and cold personality. What's more, his body produces bioelectricity, allowing him to acutely sense bodily injury with his touch. There's an electric current between them, and each touch sizzles with energy

If you like crime dramas and stories where they solve mysterious cases then this is for you. The romance is subtle, and their relationship is not insta-love. strangers to colleagues to friends to lovers trope. This also discusses alot of issues the society has that will make you stop and think. Ba Song is really the honorable MC in here who always wants to help people and do good. While Bo Shan is the reluctant one but deep inside, he wants to make a difference too. I wish they would make a donghua or live action out of this.

• 30 year old by S-Monkey - ( ongoing, age difference, blind dates, slice of life)

Charlie Wei is a single and handsome executive. He’s also a closeted gay guy who’s been on way too many bad blind dates with women. Charlie’s still hung up on his ex-boyfriend James and is… gasp, 30! Charlie’s family thinks he’s straight and too old to be without a wife! During another bad blind date, Charlie meets the flirty Ethan, who both annoys and intrigues him. Can Charlie finally come out and find true love with Ethan or will he continue on his streak of bad blind dates?

The cover looks melodramatic but it’s really not. This is so funny! I read this because people were saying it reminded them of BoXiao. And yes, there are moments here that remind me of them, but it’s more like an AU of BoXiao. I stayed up late trying to get caught up in the chapters and you won’t realize it cause it’s just that good. I love seeing the older MC loosening up and being more of himself. and the younger one being more responsible in his career. They just become better versions of themselves because of each other. It’s so sweet!

• I ship me and my Rival - by Pepa ( ongoing, comedy, reads like a meta )

This follows the adventures of Wei Yanzi, a third-rate actor in the Chinese entertainment industry, stumbles onto a shipping fandom for himself and another actor (Gu Yiliang) while trying to escape from the flame wars and negativity. He's so taken with this group of fans who actually see him as a good guy instead of an enemy/rival of Gu Yiliang that he falls head-first into fandom and becomes actively involved in trying to provide shipping fuel and the fans' daily dose of fluff.

IF THERE IS ONE thing you will read here, let it be this. It is hilarious. If you are a CP fan you will relate so much and it’s a good time. It just shows how people who think are rivals can actually be really good friends in real life. What we see is not always what it seems. and people will interpret things based on their bias. The MC here is so dramatic! how his inner feelings/reactions were drawn will make you laugh.

• Path to You - by Sinran (completed, slice of life, age gap fluff and comedy )

When almost college dropout Jensen attempts to drink away his problems, unemployed Nathaniel suddenly pukes on him and ruins his night. As an apology, Nathaniel offers to help Jensen with his studies. Despite Jensen's difficulties in getting along with people, the two become friends and something deeper begins to grow between them

The story is so soft. If you want something with mild angst/misunderstandings— then pick this. I love the progression of their relationship and how they take care of each other. There are other themes showed here other than the romance.

• Red Candy - by Hanse (completed season one with a cliffhanger, explicit scenes, assassins )

Shihyeon, aka “Red Candy,” is a secret agent whose code name comes from bathing in the blood of his marks on dangerous missions. Shihyeon’s tasked with seducing and obtaining intel from Hajun, a hot college professor. Shihyeon can disarm enemies, but didn’t expect to be disarmed himself by Hajun’s own tight body. Now Shihyeon’s caught between loyalty to his spy agency and Hajun. Can Red Candy survive the incoming wave of enemies and still indulge in the sweet ecstasy of Hajun’s embrace?

THIS STRESSED ME OUT MAAAN. Wow. I loved this. That season one cliffhanger. It’s definitely up there as my favorite. If you think about it, the tropes are really not original. An assassin is sent to shadow a person and they develop a relationship. That simple. But NOOOOO! There are so many things going on. The Main mystery plot, Their relationship, their shared past plus you have other sketchy secondary characters. And did i mention explicit scenes? Lots of them. I want this two to have a happy ending!!!

• Lone Swan - by Chu Man (discontinued, cultivation, star crossed lovers)

After losing his memory, Yiqiu Shen, a disciple from the decent sect meets a very special man named Luofeng Yan, who is the leader of the evil Divine Wind Cult. When escaping and conflicting with Yan, Shen gradually finds his original self as well as his previous love back. Together they rip off the facade of the martial world and reveal the hidden true

I didn’t want to add a discontinued story here, with no novel as a source material but this one made an impact on me. so. yeah. THE ART. breathtaking. The plot = layered. There are times I don’t even know who is telling the truth. It had so much potential and i hope it will get picked up again at some point. People rec this to those who enjoyed TGCF and MDZS, and they are right. 👍🏼

• Dragon in Distress by Si Wang Wen Hua - ( ongoing, dragons, past life, lost power, fantasy )

This is a story about a little Eastern green dragon and a little Western black dragon playing together.

The synopsis is pretty simple if you look at it but this one is pretty interesting. and surprisingly funny. tinie AoAo is so cute! 🤍 the other MC has tsundere tendencies tho. Lots of lore and more truths to uncover as the story progresses. I’m not giving it enough justice with how i’m reccing it, but if you like dragons and fantasy — give this a go.

• Breaking through the clouds 2: Swallow the Sea - Huaishang (ongoing, based on a novel, crime, drama, cases)

Wu Yu, a newcomer of the Public Security Bureau, is gentle and frail. He doesn’t care about the difficulties posed by Bu ZhongHua, his strict boss, and only wants to stay in the background to be paid on time with enough for food. However, no one knows that this young man’s head is targeted by top drug traffickers for a large bounty or that this courageous young man has once slaughtered the dragon of the abyss. With a chain of interlocking cases, a series of troubles come one after another. Can the two people work together to survive through the difficulties?

Do you see a pattern with me? lol. I like crime themes. This one is the same and by the looks of it, the cases they solve will take longer to unravel. I haven’t read the novel it’s based on yet so i’m just going with how the manhua is progressing. I like it when Wu Yu turns full on action-mode and when ZH takes care of him. Plus it helps that they are both gorgeous. I’ll get back this with a proper link.

• Where the Wind Stays - by Yusa (completed season one, curses, demons, possession, timeskip, explicit scenes)

To break an ancient curse that plagues the royal bloodline, young Prince Tasara is destined to be sacrificed in death. Nara is enlisted as a palace servant to carry out the prince’s execution when the time comes. But he develops a soft spot for the cursed prince, and after committing an atrocious and unforgivable act against Tasara, Nara is desperate to right his wrongs. Soon, their lascivious relationship that had been kept under wraps tests his resolve. Will Nara be tempted away from his original mission? There’s no telling how far he would go to earn Tasara’s forgiveness.

This story broke my brain, in a good way. I don’t wanna say much cause it will spoil the story. It’s the type that you gave to see and suffer through yourself. I am excited for what happens in season II!!!

Honorable Mentions:

I’m placing these here cause I have only read a few chapters and tho I liked them, I wanna read more before reccing it in full. 👍🏼

• I accidentally saved the Jinghu’s enemy

• Global Examination

• Monster entertainment

• Demon Apartment

And that’s it! Hope enjoy Anon! 😊

#ask response #rec #manhua rec #manhwa rec

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