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esotericpluto · 8 months

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the ideal career for you

from left to right; intuitively choose the pile you feel more connected to. To make it easier, you can take a deep breathe, close your eyes and ask for guidance to your deities or guides. These are all general messages, so just take what resonates and leave what doesn't. This reading is timeless. If it resonates, feedback is always appreciated and motivates to keep doing pick a card readings. You can donate here.

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pile 1

the moon, 7 of wands, ten of cups

this pile includes 18+ themes, so please skip over it if you are under 18. You can pick other pile.

with this pile, I'm getting a lot of possible careers coming through. I feel like many of you might end up working in careers that require you to work at night or until night. However, I do also see that some type of fame and recognition is very possible here and that you will keep this air of mystery, regardless of how famous and known you are. Some people reading this pile might even have more than one career from these options throughout their lives or even change it up a bit later on in life when you are more stable, looking forward to the field that truly makes you happy and fulfilled.

Now, some of you this indicates jobs in public eye. Some of you will be entertainers and bring joy to others. This can mean being an actor, singer, artist, musician, a comedian, a dancer or even could mean being an illusionist, working at the circus or at the entertainment part of hotels and touristic areas.

This might be especially true if you have leo and 9th house placements, if you love to sing, if you like to dye your hair or paint your nails. It might also resonate if your initials are C, K or M. Some of you who like to wear bold eyeliners can also resonate with this.

For some of you, I feel like you might end up becoming strippers (and yes this includes some men reading this) and get even some popularity from this. While this is sex work, keep in mind it still is counted as entertainment by many. Alternatively, you could go into burlesque/cabaret or similar things. Later on, for some of you, I do see a career change into something new you'll fall in love with but this will keep you afloat for a long time and many of you will enjoy it, especially due to the money. Others will make enough money to retire early or even leave early and just invest and live life. Now please, keep in mind that for those of you in this field, it is important for you to keep yourself safe and work in regulated spaces.

This could especially resonate for you if you have a couple tattoos, that know how to belly dance, that like smoothies, that have curly hair, that wear glasses/contacts, that love working out or go on shopping sprees. If you have a tongue piercing, it could also be a sign it resonates. Extra confirmation of any of you are aquarius, leo or virgo, especially with moon in scorpio or moon in capricorn.

Alternatively, some of you could end up working as dj's at clubs, bartenders or even bodyguards. This seems like it will actually help you meet a lot of people, make connections and network. I see some people even managing or owning nightclubs/bars later in life. The same could go for motels/hotels, although the sexual theme is being compelled here, so I think a motel seems somewhat likely for those of you this resonates with.

I feel like for some of you, you might become teachers/professors who give night lectures at universities or even to bigger audiences in important conferences. I feel like your input in your field will be extremely important. For those who will follow this teaching path, I feel like you will either be a political science, sociology, sexology or arts/entertainment teacher. And some of you could even end up having some minor career in politicians (like being a deputy/congress person in a parliament).

I feel like this one can apply for everyone in this group, so there is a chance any of you do end up doing this later in life out of passion.

For those of you thinking of going into investing into property or in general, I feel like this will go extremely well for you. Again you might invest in nightclubs/motels like i mentioned or even in rehabilitating older houses in usually less appealing neighborhoods, giving it a new life and appreciation and increasing thr value and safety of the area. If you want to invest in stocks instead, definitely invest in things related to the topics above. For some of you, I heard "invest in HIV research" so pick medicine companies that are working on researching it and creating cures/treatments. I'm also getting a special warning to not invest into crypto/nfts if you pick this pile.

pile 2

7 of pentacles; Tower; 3 of wands; Queen of Cups

I'm getting that some of you might get a career that has a long path to go through and that might include having a lot of patience. I feel like this could indicate some of you will have to study a lot and spend years and thousands on education to get this career, which leads me to think some of you are becoming doctors or medical practitioners. Alternatively, you could be in a career that will require you to start with low paying entry level jobs, but that will take you to the top positions that will be extremely well paid. I see that for some, this could also indicate having to go through an unpaid or lowly paid internship in order to make your way into the field or being in a job that doesn't pay you well and overworks you before switching to a better one.

For some of you, this wait in order to collect the seeds of your labour can be literal as in becoming a gardener, a farmer or even similar jobs in agricultural management or even owning a flower shop. This could, in a few cases, also involve baking and cooking and all the time that can go into it.

There are a group of you that this wait refers to working on your psychic and intuitive abilities as well as on your spiritual knowledge to the point of mastery and make a career out of it.

Like I mentioned before, I do see many healers, doctors and medics coming out of this pile, psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists are also coming in strong. Some might also go into traditional medicine and hollistic practices, maybe even reiki, energy work or medical astrology. I see that checking your 12th house or pisces placements either on your solar chart or on your midheaven persona chart can help you confirm this information.

Those of you that are thinking about going into therapy and psychology are being recommended to look into specializing in anger management and conflict resolution, so possibly something like family and couple therapy.

There could also be some of you that create youtube channels/instagram pages to help others with your knowledge and tips.

A small percentage of you might end up becoming a military medic/doctor/nurse as well, specializing in helping wounded soldiers. On the same note, a military cook is also possible.

It is also very important to note for everyone who picked this pile that your career might cause you emotional overwhelm or pressure, so always be sure to protect your energy and not allow yourself to be too drained.

This strong energy also takes me to believe some of you will be writers or artists, which also makes sense for the time aspect of this reading, as making art or writing can be time consuming. Some of you could even become freelancers or start creative industry enterprises/businesses.

These are just extra confirmations, so if nothing of these signs match you, it doesn't mean the pile is wrong for you.

This could resonate especially if you've recently watched a documentary or movie touching on the subjects of oppression, if you're in university or if you have been to university and if you have ever worked a waiter/public service job. If you enjoy stuff like Silent Hill and Red Dead Redemption, this could also resonate with you. Same if you like purple and blue or are wearing either. Extra confirmation if you're a taurus, gemini, aries or capricorn. Also if you specifically have a libra venus in either tropical or vedic.

pile 3

Lovers, Death, Star, Tower, Four of Pentacles

This pile has a brief mention of de*th and s**cide, so if you're very sensitive to those topics, please avoid this pile.

With the number of major arcanas here, I feel like whatever career you end up picking, you will have an important role in the area and maybe do something very groundbreaking in it. You'll be essential in your job/career and could even change the world in a way with it. No matter how small of a change it is, it will still be impactful.

The career will involve other people or at least one more person to some degree, this could be either a business/work partner or work involving clients or the public.

I'm getting two main groups here. One group will be focusing on healing and some type of therapy, especifically involving death. So this could be councilling focused on helping disaster survivors or grief therapy to help people who lost their loved ones or witnessed traumatic deaths. You will essentially be very important to help them move on and find themselves again. Because the Star can be related to peace, being true to one self and healing, you will definitely help people heal and find their peace and meaning in life again. For some of you, you could also help people who attempted suicide or have suicidal tendencies, helping them to work through this. You will help people who have lost everything and you'll help them rebuild their lives back up with healthier and better foundations, allowing them to feel more secure and in control of themselves and their lives.

For the other group, I feel like your work will be focusing more on creative industries. This could be publishing and marketing for some, however I feel like many of you will embark on music and acting careers, which will help many people also heal and have healthy coping mechanisms.

I feel like your music or your acting (mainly acting) will allow you to become separate from yourself for a moment by wearing another persona and putting yourself in someone else's shoes, but also will allow you to explore different aspects of yourself, giving you a deeper understanding of yourself and others. For some, this could be a musical theatre career. If not, you could become a music composer for movies and shows or even a music producer.

I'm also seeing some of you will be a play writer or a movie writer/director. I feel like there might be moments of your career you won't feel as valued, but rest assured there will be millions loving your work. You might also have extremely innovative ideas for the field and do things, create storylines no one has ever really seen before. You could even create a new genre of cinema or a new wave/style of film.

For a smaller percentage of you, I'm also seeing that you might be doing something money/management related, so an investor or establishing a new business/company that might help people around the world.

Extra confirmation if you like rock n' roll or watched an Elvis Presley movie/documentary or read a tweet about him recently. If you consume true crime, especially from the 80's, if you enjoy the aesthetic of the circus. It might also resonate if you listen to Britney and/or Mariah or if your favorite color is red. If you like high heels, especially louboutins, or enjoy using red/dark lipsticks, or shaved your legs in the previous 3 days, this is also extra confirmation for you. Could also apply if you're a scorpio, sagittarius or pisces.

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bonefall · 6 months

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what is the crow/night/breeze family dynamic like in this au? you've mentioned crowfeather being the one still emotional over leafpool so that would definitely affect breezepelt, but im curious of the wider scale of it. love this au btw!

I'm trying to infuse more nuance into all three of them like they're a cold brew tea.

HOLD UP THOUGH; let me be CLEAR!! I don't think Nightcloud has done anything wrong in canon (besides the rebellion which they forgor about anyway). I do not like how the narrative put a lot of blame on her in Po3/OotS/field guides when her greatest sin was... loving her child.

So in BB she is going to do bad things because we support women's wrongs <3

NIGHTCLOUD

I keep going back and forth on when she was born, if she was nabbed as a kit after the WindClan Massacre or if she was a young warrior during the BloodClan battle.

In either case, she is the sister of a cat named Tawnyfur, and their Mi is Hillrunner. They were born to Hillrunner's identical twin Downwind, but she was killed during TPB.

Hillrunner was incredibly traumatized by the horrors. She was obsessed with strength and phobic of ShadowClan for her entire life.

If you met Hillrunner, you'd think Nightcloud was a sweetheart in comparison (and she will be)

Tawnyfur was killed in the BloodClan battle.

Nightcloud hated Tallstar agreeing to trade with them, and she was easily recruited by Mudclaw based on her fury at Leo, Snapper, and Spagbol joining WindClan.

When they got to the Lake, Nightcloud joined Mudclaw's Rebellion. She spoke out against involving cats of other Clans in the cause, but fell in line quick.

The rebellion sabotauged a muirburn. The controlled burn became uncontrolled FAST.

I think she wanted to blame the cats like Hawkfrost for how far it went, but after the rain doused the flames and WindClan had to keep putting out smouldering peat fires, she realized it didn't look good to keep blaming others.

Plus how Mudclaw got smote. THAT put fear of StarClan into her

So it wasn't neccesarily out of regret that she apologized for her role and begged forgiveness, but a mix of guilt, fear, and genuine desire to fix the collateral damage.

I think she did take Crowfeather as a mate for reputation purposes, but she did also like him and want a mate. It wasn't an Honor Siring, for her it was more of an "arrangement" which she hoped would strengthen

She wanted to prove her loyalty, but also that she is a good and loving cat.

When Breezekit came around, she tried her hardest to be a good mom. She really didn't want to be like Hillrunner.

But she hadn't worked through anything else. Still had a distaste for Brushblaze, Snapstorm, and Cranberrysplash. Strongly valued strength and aggression. Only approved of Onestar when he pushed for violence and rejected the notion that you can trust cats of other Clans.

Breezepelt struggles with it for most of Po3, because he gets very close to the Three and considers them friends. But when the reveal drops, he believes she was right all along

I don't know how to preserve it yet but I do want Nightcloud to keep the housecat friend she makes in CT. Eventually.

Basically... she's dealing with a lot of anger of her own, not really knowing how to sort it, following along with what she was taught.

And Breeze inherits many of those problems.

CROWFEATHER

Significantly different from canon. Not aloof; dramatic

He's also a REALLY good cook. He was Mudclaw's apprentice and it shows.

I'm actually going to wrap him up in the rebellion. He endorsed Mudclaw's claim over Onestar-- and over the word of Brambleclaw.

But he snitched and fetched help on the night of the sabotauge.

After that and then Leafpool, he was also looking for a way to boost his reputation. Having kits was a way to do that, and he's a cat who was chosen by StarClan to go on a great journey, son of an old deputy and a new deputy, with an honor title, who ran to fetch help and thwart the assassination attempt.

He knows he is a bit controversial but also that he is undeniably a big shot. And he's not going to pretend like he's not proud of that. He's not even 5 and hasn't even had an apprentice but he's the most significant cat in WindClan

So when Breezekit comes along? He should be grateful. But he's not, he's a snot nosed little brat (child) who backtalks (child) to his own father (adult)

And he sure doesn't appreciate Nightcloud always trying to fight him. How dare she tell him how to be a Ba?

She won't let him BE involved in the way he wants, turning his kit against him, this is all her fault.

"If it wasn't for her, Breezepaw would know discipline!"

The whole world is out to get Crowfeather and anything bad that happens around him is someone else's fault.

So obviously the mateship falls apart fast.

He doesn't respect anything about Breezepelt, and blames all of his kid's problems on Nightcloud.

In a furious fight, he likes to compare Nightcloud to his other lovers. He says Feathertail, even if he IS talking secretly about Leafpool, because she is dead and can't confirm it, and it always hurts Nightcloud to be compared to an outsider.

This is an exhausting person to be around, and the boost in status and resulting ego makes him insufferable in contrast to the young warrior he was on the Sundrown Patrol.

After the Secret Reveal though, when Leafpool is stripped of her Cleric status and Crowfeather starts talking openly about his love, it is the LAST straw with Onestar. He rips his warrior name off and exiles him for a month-- begone CROW, NO SUFFIX. No you're not going back to CrowFOOT either. Not even an entire Dishonor Title. Just Crow.

He does start improving after that, but he needed a drastic punishment

BREEZEPELT

The kid was only born as a status symbol. Do you blame him for being a special kind of messed up?

He really cannot remember a time where his parents weren't fighting. Never liked it when Crowfeather did parental duties either. Kids are really sensitive to bad vibes.

Was, and still is, really close to his mom. But he always spent a lot of time with his buddies.

Harepaw, Kestrelpaw, Breezepaw, and Heatherpaw were the oldest apprentices in WindClan, the first ones born in the new territory. They all hung out together, except Kestrelpaw who was in Cleric training as soon as possible. Not even 6 moons.

When he's in a good environment, Breezepelt really shines. He isn't like Crowfeather says he is, he's actually fine at making friends and getting along.

When Crow or Night are around, he will often noticeably get more rude and xenophobic, eyes darting back at them like he's looking for approval. Night is always approving of this and giving light chuckles, Crow will engage in it too, but snap if he feels like Breeze embarassed him somehow.

When they go away it's like it drains out of him.

His worst choices in BB always go back to him being pretty desperate for approval, snapping between idealizing people or thinking they're the absolute worst.

So yeah. It's a screwey little dynamic. They hate Crowf, Crowf hates them, the arrangement was massively based on status, Breezekit was always in an unstable environment from the get-go, Nightcloud did contribute to Breezepelt's mindset especially post-reveal.

#better bones au #BB!Crowfeather #BB!Breezepelt #BB!Nightcloud #Tw abuse #Cw Child abuse #Cw toxic family #Cw xenophobia

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southofeerie · 1 year

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modern west wing social media hcs

i feel like charlie would have the most normal social media acct and following, like maybe an instagram where he posts pictures of himself (mostly for family), and like a twitter where he occasionally retweets his friends or bartlet. he likes making fun of other people (especially senior staff) for being too stuck to their devices, and a large online presence would take away that ability

CJ’s twitter is less incendiary than she’d like, since she’s the face of the bartlet administration, and so a lot of it is discussing policy or clarifying briefings. she does retweet a lot of good edu sites or interesting articles she finds. she herself trends a lot, she’s pretty famous online as a political icon ala AOC or bernie sanders, and she gets a lot of edits made online from press conferences (which she enjoys bragging abt to the other staff, while making fun of them for being out-of-touch). CJ also has a private instagram that hogan had her make, but she only posts extremely blurry pictures of coffee and her goldfish with captions like “hogan said to post to remind people that im alive”. toby always replies with “sending the pictures to MOMA. breathtaking” and danny replies with “breaking news. press secretary reveals she is still alive. more at 7”.

leo does not have social media because he still has a flip phone and a brick laptop. he says he prefers hearing bad news out loud or reading it on physical paper, but really, he just can’t figure out how to work it. im talking types “google” into google, then types “hello find me a map of the united states of america” in the search bar. margaret tried to help but seeing him type google into google physically pained her

josh is banned from twitter (after he pissed off three midwestern states, basket weavers, and most hollywood producers in the first week in office). cj regularly checks to make sure he hasn’t made a new account. he has a public instagram, but cj looks over captions before he posts (he once tried to ask the president for permission to get a new account but the president sided with cj). most of his posts are about encouraging people to vote or be more politically active. he is also not allowed to reply to comments on the instagram, so he reads them out loud in a mocking voice to donna. unbeknownst to him, there is a white house deputy chief of staff twitter page run by donna (with cj’s permission) that discusses white house initiatives and shares fun anecdotes abt day to day work. anytime someone tells josh they love his twitter account he assumes they mean instagram, and nobody tells him until bartlet is two years out of office

donna, like charlie, has an instagram mostly for her family back home, but also has a twitter where she talks about tv shows she likes and her hobbies, that has a decent following. she might have a tumblr but again it would be abt tv shows and hobbies she has

toby is on goodreads and instagram (but only to leave sarcastic comments on his friends’ posts). he hates twitter’s word count limit and how it’s owned by elon musk, and rants abt it often. he leaves lengthy reviews on any political commentary article in the comments section. this has been brought up in the briefing room, to the point where cj has a recording of herself saying “toby ziegler’s online rants are not indicative of president bartlet’s views. if you have any questions please direct them to ziegler himself”

president bartlet has facebook </3. there’s a white house twitter page run by an intern, but he’s not involved with that. he posts fun facts about national parks or ancient latin novels, but each fact starts with something like “joshua lyman, 🧍‍♂️deputy chief of staff, 🇺🇸doesn’t understand the true beauty of yellowstone national park 🙄🏞🏜🤦‍♂️”. most people think it’s a parody account and cj doesn’t want to correct them

abbey does not have facebook, despite her husbands insistence that it’s better than twitter. on the rare occasions she uses her account it’s mostly to discuss important medical breakthroughs and her daughter’s work

sam has a really popular instagram, where he posts selfies and pretty pictures of the white house and captions like “having a great day at work today!” or “white house at sunset.. gorgeous”. he posts on his story a lot, and comes off as very relatable to the public. he’s cj’s dream social media user

will bailey runs campaign social medias pretty well but his own twitter account is mostly for promoting the campaigns. occasionally he retweets stuff his friends post, or tweets out funny jokes he hears.

margaret is tumblr famous, but never posts abt her job. her posts regularly wind up on other sites. she hasn’t told anybody and doesn’t plan to

#the west wing #west wing #tww #cj cregg #charlie young #josh lyman #sam seaborn #toby ziegler #margaret hooper #jed bartlet #abbey bartlet #social media au #donna moss #will bailey #leo mcgarry

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freetheshit-outofyou · 10 months

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It is currently 2339 in Texas right now. My little brother who lives North of Austin was just visited by the BATF, at 2300hrs, on a freaking after work Friday. Why would the BATF be showing up at someone's house at such an hour? To fucking intimated my brother over his possible purchase of one or more Rare Breed FRT-15 trigger (Forced Reset Trigger). The odd thing is, this government overreach, unlike others I know that have been approached about FRT's because of "alleged" debit/credit card buys, my brother is accused of buying them with cash. Hummmm, if such a buy was done, and I'm not saying one was, with cash how would the BATF be able to follow a cash buy? I can only think of a few ways that could happen, this is the former LEO in me speaking. 1. Someone you know dropped a dime on you for whatever underhanded Blue Falcon bullshit reason. 2. The location you bought the item from rolled over on you for buying an item that was a legal commodity in the open market when it was bought. 3. Big Brother's nose is tracking your shit, this covers everything else. My little brother said he could not help them in their search and tried to close the door. An agent put his foot in the door and asked if they could search the house. He said, If you don't have a warrant, you should get your foot out of my door before I take this as an act of aggression and I am forced to defend myself. At this the BATF drew their weapons but removed there foot from the door while backing away. My SIL had already called the Williamson Co Sheriff and apparently after my brothers words the BATF called in the whole planet in. The Williamson Sherriff came to his door and was allowed in and told my brother that the BATF was saying he threatened to kill them if they did not leave. My brother said he laughed out loud and a lot. He explained To the Sheriff what he said and why, he also added that the entire exchange was recorded not once but twice from two different home security camera. He showed the Deputy the footage from both and was visibly angered, he got up and said he'd be back. By this time more BATF folks had gathered just this time better armed. The Deputy was out there about 20 minuets with the BATF yelling about threats and fear of being shot. Apparently someone with actual power on the ground told the agents to leaved. The Sheriff came back and said there would be no more trouble from the BATF and that an agent would be contacting him by phone in the morning to discuss what transpired. Folks, the police, all of them, have to follow the law by not following the law they put themselves in danger and endanger the public through their criminal actions. Police CANNOT stop you from closing YOUR DOOR even if they reasonably suspect a crime is being committed on the other side of the door. Further they cannot conduct a warrantless entry into a dwelling without "exigent circumstances" or permission from someone residing in the dwelling. That is case law set in Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980) and supported by Steagald v. United States, 451 U.S. 204 (1981). The Fourth amendment was written to stop these very things from happening. The BATF is out of control. They cannot make a rule, then make that rule punishable by both imprisonment and or fines and removing ones RIGHTS forever. THE BATF CANNOT MAKE ANY LAWS!

#me

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viatrix-glow · 11 days

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new di x warrior cats

name explanations and more info below :3

basic stuff

-each agency is a clan, not each unit. 14-15 clans would be silly and then we would have some clans with 5 cats and some with 2.

-starpro -> lightclan. i couldn’t call them “starclan” for obvious reasons. light is somewhat synonymous with star, so i’m going with that.

-cospro -> nightclan. i don’t think the cats in warriors know the word “cosmic”, but cosmic implies cosmos implies night sky, so we’re going with night

-rhyth lin -> rippleclan. ripple is sort of a synonym to rhythm….? this one was hard

-new di -> fortuneclan. this one is a stretch but neither “new” or “dimension” have synonyms that really fit a clan name. fortune is something that relates to multiple characters in new di though

-starclan still sort of exists, but the cats do not believe in them the way they do in warriors. they are more of a nursery tale than anything, and select cats (ex: tatsumi) believe in them, but it is not written into their code. medicine cats can still interpret signs, but they do not necessarily think of them as coming from starclan.

-medicine cat forbidden romance is not a thing here

-intermingling of clans is ok and common

-there’s like. other cats in their clans besides just the enstars cast i assume

cat names/why i chose them

fortuneclan:

knights

-tsukasa -> scarletstar (scarletblossom) . he is the leader of fortuneclan because he is one of the new di reps for the summits. both scarlet and blossom were chosen bc of his last name (scarlet is a red color… kinda similar to cherry…. and blossom for the cherry blossom).

-leo -> lionheart. ok this one is kind of cheating because lionheart is already an existing warrior, but…come on….

-izumi -> silverspring. sora describes his color as silver, and spring is in his first name

-ritsu -> frostmoon. his first name means cold moon according to the wiki so i just rehashed it

-naru -> goldenroar. since she doesn’t like her first name i didn’t want to use “storm”, and her last name can be read as “thunder” but that’s a little too close to storm? so golden for her hair and roar for her last name

switch

-natsume -> sageeye. a sage is similar to a wizard, and eye is in his first name . also the “dovesong” mentioned is wataru :)

-tsumugi -> bluewing. he is a bluebird. warrior cats probably wouldn’t straight up call a cat “bluebird” so i put wing there instead. deputy cause he’s the vp

-sora -> skyspring . sora means sky. spring is in his last name. i could have used “stream” instead to differentiate him from sena but i think spring is cuter

mam/df

-madara -> tawnystripe . tawny bc it’s like kind of close to calico if you squint. stripe(s) is in his last name

#my art #enstars #ok so maybe we WOULD have 5 clans bc guess what was announced today #a new agency. and a new unit (or fucking 5? idk)#BUTWHATEVER #um i don’t know why i did this it was a joke at first but #then i started getting really into choosing names….#like originally it was just gonna be switch but then i was like hmmm… what if the agency is the clan #i’ve been reading so so much warrior cats i’m about to finish avos and then i’ll be caught back up to where i was #when i started this rereading journey last year #so like i have to apply it to my other interests #i’m proud of the names i chose i think they’re fun #yes leo’s is a cheat but idc #i hope someone else will appreciate this it’s mostly just me doing stuff for fun #i want to do the other units/agencies too but that might be a while cause yall this took #like a week . granted i’m busy rn but god damn picking designs for cats is hard!!#that’s why so many ended up being tabbies i just can’t resist they’re my favorites i’m definitely not biased #but also realistically tabby is a pretty common pattern so it’s fine #my fave design is naru’s btw i wanted to make her really pretty and i think i did ok #ok i’m going to bed bye #also forgot to mention i wanted to keep the names as close to canon warriors as i could so i had to find words similar to things that #the cats in warriors would know #sage is pushing it i don’t think they use sage in medicine . they def don’t know what a fortune is either but i don’t care

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jxstacey · 2 months

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Fuck it, new AU time

Fargo Au

THIS IS A TRUE STORY

The events depicted in this AU took place in New York throughout many years

At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed.

Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.

In this anthology fanfic based on TV series Fargo, each Part follows a different iteration of the TMNT cast who get involved with the murders investigations of important characters throughout New York City that drastically change the events of the shows or comics, with characters even having different roles. Along with seemingly unrelated crimes sometimes being connected in some way.

Basically each iteration has something different about them whether being a character from an iteration that wasn’t in said iteration appearing, a new criminal group(03) or a character’s role changing

Season 1(03)- In 2003, John Bishop passes through Manhattan and influences the community, including Scientist Baxter Stockman into a path of malice and violence to protect themselves at whatever the cost. Meanwhile, Deputy April O’Neil and vigilante Casey Jones team up to solve a series of murders they believe may be linked to Stockman and Bishop.

Season 2(IDW; City At War) - Season 2(IDW; City At War) - In 2019, Mutanimal members Sally Pride and Man Ray cover up Ray’s hit and run of the son of a crime family boss based out of Hell’s Kitchen. While brothers Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo become entangled with the Hell’s Kitchen Mob, The Mutanimals and Foot Clan when the brothers are forced to investigate a triple homicide connected to the Hell’s Kitchen Mob and Foot Clan at a diner in Lower Manhattan when a Newscaster threatens to expose them to the public. Along with that, New York state trooper Lou Solverson and Richmond County officer Chris Bradford also investigates the diner murders and also find themselves getting dragged into and investigating plot involving the Foot Clan, The Turtles, Mutanimals, EPF and Baxter Stockman as it all grow into a City Wide massacre.

Season 3(2012) - After recent shortcomings and realization, Tiger Claw finds himself hunted down by the Foot Clan after quitting. Causing two members of the Foot, Fishface and Rahzar to come up with a plan to try and kill Tiger Claw with the help of couple Ray Stussy, a parole officer/foot member who was forced to join after witnessing a fight with the turtles and the Foot, and his new girlfriend Nikki Swango(Both returning characters from Fargo), an ex convict. However the plan backfires causing the deaths of a police chief and gang member, triggering a chain recent of events between the Foot, NYPD and the SoHo Yakuza. Along with that, a low ranking police officer in the NYPD, Lindsay Barker, and crime scene photographer Warren Stone try to figure everything out to prevent further bloodshed.

Season 4(Mutant Mayhem)- Mutant crook Hypno-Potamus(Formerly known as Mezmer Ron) accidentally stumbles upon a talent show set and finds himself skyrocketing into the entertainment industry. However he soons finds himself entangled in a gang war when he witnesses gang leader Superfly kill a distributor of his. Now a member of the Mutanimals against his will and also for the Liberty Mafia after being blackmailing by their boss, Ethan DeLuca, Hypno goes back and forth between the groups as he tries to find a way out, then deciding to con both sides of the war. Surely deceiving a psychopath(Superfly) and a narcissist(Ethan) can’t be too hard right?

Season 5(Rise) - In 2018, Baron Draxum kidnaps Leonardo Hamato to hopefully get him to join him. However the turtle makes it impossible, to where brainwashing him won’t work either. Draxum then tries to drag out Leo’s father Splinter, formerly known as Lou Jitsu, which fails as well. While Leo’s brothers deal with idiotic villains going after them, April hires John Bishop, a mysterious Special Agent with ties to the TBI(Texas Bureau of Investigation) and CIA and a person who escaped from Draxum’s lab years prior without trouble and temporarily dated the Battle Nexus Host, Big Mama, before she could get the chance to use him as a Battle Nexus Fighter. However, Bishop isn’t exactly who he appears to be, maybe not human at all, and he plans to rescue Leo while at the same time plotting to take Draxum out of the picture, permanently.

More on each of the seasons and changes soon

Season 1 Current Overview

The Characters of Season 1

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Season 1 Chapter List

Ch 1: The Scientist’s Dillema https://archiveofourown.org/works/53552530/chapters/135553690

Ch 2: The Mantis King https://archiveofourown.org/works/53552530/chapters/138648616

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt au #fargo fx #tmnt anthology #tmnt 03 #tmnt idw #tmnt 2012 #mutant mayhem #tmnt mm #rise of the tmnt #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt fargo au #tmnt crossover

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solo-by-choice · 2 months

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alright, so would my fave survive castle Dracula? For the sake of @canyourfavesurvivecastledracula I'm doing Josh Lyman from The West Wing myself. Although I've only seen the show once and am not super... sure of my ability to remember enough minutiae to do this but I'm trying anywayyy

uh, no. He'd die. lol.

He wouldn't take the crucifix. He's not a superstitious person for the most part so I think he'd just find everyone freaking out about him going to the castle to be ridiculous. He's also Jewish. If he did take the crucifix, it would be to get the lady to stop bothering him and then he certainly wouldn't wear it.

He is technically a lawyer. I guess. He doesn't practice law, though, and I don't think he ever has. I suppose he could, but you know what let's not get into this because then I'll start questioning what an American from the late 90s/early naughts is doing in this story... (If Josh were from 1897 I suppose he'd be from Europe in the first place, but not England, and I'm having trouble imagining Dracula going to all this trouble to move to idk Poland or whatever.)

anyway

So maybe Josh doesn't make it past the shaving scene.

If he does, I think he might be able to keep alive for a while. He's good at talking; he could keep Dracula entertained as a conversation partner. The biggest issue might be his documented inability to be civil with people he doesn't like. He might be better at faking it with someone who has a (metaphorical) gun to his head, but we have no data on that kind of situation.

I doubt he'd put up with Dracula's weird touchy-feely habits. I'm not sure what he'd do about it, but I just don't think he'd be as fun to toy with as poor Jonathan because he wouldn't have Victorian manners preventing him from calling Dracula's behavior out. Which of course means Dracula won't put up with him as long.

If anyone's expecting him home on time, it's Donna. And presumably his boss is either Leo or Bartlett. (Sorry I'm thinking too much about transposing the cast of west wing into Dracula rather than assuming everything is the same in Josh's life which I think is how you're supposed to do this. So whyy is the deputy white house chief of staff bringing real estate paperwork to a count in Romania? oh nvm) Unfortunately I'm betting none of these people know shorthand, so Josh can't try and send them secret messages.

I do think Donna would recognize any letter that wasn't written in Josh's voice, but what good would that do them?

Does Josh get eaten by the Girlies? I guess the real question is whether Dracula saves him. I don't think Dracula would find Josh as fun a plaything as he did Jonathan. By this point Josh has probably started loudly demanding to be allowed to leave, is climbing the walls in boredom in every way but literally and has read every English book Dracula owns and taught himself basic Romanian. Josh's no genius, but he's smart and has the energy level of a working dog. He needs enrichment! Anyway Dracula probably thinks he's really annoying and maybe he lets his roommates bite him.

Unfortunately for him, Vampire!Josh is also annoying. But if they could get past that, Josh could do a great job running Dracula's take-over of his new country. Wants to be the guy the guy relies on, after all. America won't know what's hit it.

#tww #dracula #goofyness #i tried my best!#i think josh would be fun as a vampire and not just bc of my gay crush on him #getting this finished before you disappear for lent!

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Toby Ziegler is so underrated as a character. Josh might’ve been Leo’s deputy, and Leo might’ve been Jed’s right hand man. It was Toby, who really ran the White House.

#the west wing #toby ziegler #jed bartlet #sam seaborn #josh lyman #cj cregg #leo mcgarry #charlie young

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toxic-ship-tournament · 1 year

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We have our contenders for round 1! Time to see your first nemesis.

1. Artekai x Fross ( @artekai ) vs Elliot Kane x Yuri Gallagher ( @cocainecowgrrl )

2. Dorian x Beau ( @monoma-neitoblog-blog ) vs Deputy Dean Sinclair x Jacob Seed ( @derelictheretic )

3. Jesminder Dhawan x Imogen Grant ( @ruecrown ) vs CJ x Jack ( @sai-nt )

4. Rose Cortez x Joseph Seed ( @jinfromyarikawa ) vs Iraraziel x Cassiel x Mai ( @cyclicalaberration )

5. Li Minshan x Ji Shenchi x Dai Raoyi ( @rosencrantzsguildenstern ) vs Crowcaw x Leora ( @honeydoe12 )

6. Rose x Andrei ( @manganese-heptoxide ) vs Ariel Herrera x Edward Nashton ( @baldurrs )

7. Moth x Bugsy ( @scentedtyrantwitch ) vs Charlie Berger x John Seed ( @detectivelokis )

8. Lucille x Jo ( @radioactive-dragonlover ) vs Valor x Ghost ( @velcrooooo )

9. Ve’Qren x Lohl ( @zillastar13 ) vs Res x Leo ( @adanaac )

10. Esmeralda Poofenplotz x Alice Luoja ( @cantdanceflynn ) vs Pash x Illoma ( @floralprintshirts )

11. Vincent x Jynx ( @bonetrix-arts ) vs Harbinger “Harry” x Dr. Vincent ( @certifiedwerewolf )

12. Wren Blake x John Seed ( @nightwingshero ) vs Ludovica Rossi x Pier Lombardi ( @raybotonline )

13. Theodore Antonov x Cito Putnum ( @pixelpancake246 / @pixelsdoodles ) vs CEO x Arowana ( @owo-whats-bliss )

14. Kotone "Katie" Hoshino x Ellis Lockwood ( @wren-writes-random-things ) vs Matejka x Nikki Darling ( @outpost-31 & @rhaaclaws )

15. Wayne x MC Scarlet ( @hellhoundmaggie ) vs Anita Gil x The Joker ( @sstewyhosseini )

16. Amaro x Calamari ( @hottopicabbacchio & @corpsoir ) vs Iphi, the goddess of sacrifice x Jack Sinclair ( @kira-the-whump-enthusiast )

JUST A QUICK HEADS UP! I had to switch around a couple pairings, but all is well. Side A will start being posted in a few hours. One poll every hour. Tomorrow Side B will drop around the same time, same posting schedule 💗

#yes we have two john seed ships because yes this man is just that toxic

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yourbelgianthings · 6 months

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costume hcs for halloween in kepler! 🎃

aubrey and dani: coraline (dani) and wybie (aubrey)

jake: sheet and sunglasses ghost

duck: spaceman spiff from calvin and hobbes (idc if anybody else gets this reference it makes me happy)

minerva: once she gets the concept after much explanation from duck, she decides to be a forest ranger (she’s a little confused but she’s got the spirit)

ned: whatever lets him show off the most cool special effects makeup and fake blood

kirby: werewolf

barclay: cowboy

mama: she says she’s too busy to get out of dressing up but actually spends a lot of time decorating the lodge for a big party they have there

juno devine: poison ivy (the dc villain)

hollis: 70s/80s rockstar

keith: something matching with the rest of the hornets

pigeon: a duck (she thinks this is hilarious, duck does not so much)

sheriff owens: he absolutely does not dress up

deputy dewey: a doughnut

detective megan: her regular work clothes but a name tag that says “hi i’m zeke owens”

muffy and winthrop: just a bunch of fur and obnoxious jewelry

agent stern: psych nobody invites him to anything

leo: knight

sarah: mad scientist, so her regular lab coat plus goggles and a beaker full of gatorade

arlo: wizard

indrid: just goes in mothman form

#message from mirph #the adventure zone #taz amnesty #halloween tw #halloween #halloween costumes #kepler wv #the mcelroys

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Mathiez: Robespierre and the Law of Prairial

Albert Mathiez often comes across as Robespierre's biggest cheerleader. In 1924 at the request of Leo Poldes he delivered a speech designed to defend him. This speech is obviously biased in favour of Robespierre, but Mathiez does make some interesting points that have been echoed by subsequent historians.

Before reading this fragment of the speech, please remember that Mathiez delivered it 100 years ago, in the aftermath of the First World War. It goes without saying that some perspectives might not fully necessarily align with those of modern audience.

Warning: Lots of text

English Translation

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These are, if I am not mistaken, the three fundamental grievances that allow some republicans to condemn Robespierre(1). As none of these republicans would dare claim that the Terror, that is the set of exceptional measures imposed on the Convention by foreign and internal war, was the personal creation of Robespierre – as they well know that the responsibility lies with the entire revolutionary party, or rather with the circumstances – I can be quite brief in my response to this first reproach. Reserving for later the cases of Danton and Hébert, I simply ask Robespierre's censors if they think that his participation in the establishment and functioning of the revolutionary dictatorship was inspired by personal rancor, by unspeakable ambitions, by a taste for blood? In a word, did he use the Terror for selfish ends? Now, I ask them to first consider that Robespierre was the personification of disinterest, dying penniless, leaving only the value of 800 livres in assignats as his legacy. I ask them to reflect on the fact that the men of blood, those who wanted to cut through all difficulties with the guillotine – and I mean by this not only the Hébertists but also the Enragés who preceded them – had no more constant adversary than Robespierre, who denounced them to the Convention and to the Jacobins with courage and perseverance beyond all praise, for he could have lost his popularity, since the Enragés and Hébertists had behind them the starving and wretched masses. The truth is that Robespierre, whose heart was humane and even tender, and whose faith in liberty was deep and sincere, only accepted the Terror gradually and with regret as a temporary and deplorable regime, unfortunately necessary. He intervened whenever he could to snatch victims from the knife who he judged innocent or merely misled. I can only cite a few examples here. When Amar, on October 3, 1793, had the Girondin deputies who had stirred up the departments indicted, a friend of Danton, Osselin, proposed adding to the list the names of the 73 deputies who had protested against the Parisian day of June 2. The prohibited Assembly was about to vote for the death motion, when Robespierre stood up to fight it. He had been the enemy of the Girondins, who had horribly slandered him. He saved the 73, but not without difficulty, for he had to fight against the murmurs of the Mountain at the outset. Robespierre's calumniators indeed excel at turning against him the acts of humanity that do him the most honor. If he saved the 73, they say, it was not out of humanity, but out of ambition. He wanted to win their gratitude and rely on them to achieve dictatorship. To this charitable reasoning, there is a simple and decisive answer. When Robespierre courageously opposed, on October 3, the indictment of the 73, they were already in prison, no longer participating in any voting. They were all replaced by their substitutes and did not return to the Convention until several months after the fall of the man who had saved them. Having no vote, how could they have been of any assistance to the ambition of their protector?

Numerous and significant facts prove that while Robespierre was inexorable in striking the enemies of revolutionary France, he at least strove to minimize repression to the bare necessity. He attempted, in vain, to save Louis XVI's sister, Mme Elisabeth, contesting against Hebert at the Jacobins on 1st Frimaire. He tried to save Constituent Thouret, compromised in the prison conspiracy, with only his signature missing from Thouret's arrest warrant. He saved the signatories of the royalist petitions of the 8,000 and 20,000 at the Jacobins' session on the 29th Ventôse. His brother, Robespierre the Younger, during his mission in Franche-Comté in the month of Pluviôse, year II, freed hundreds of suspects from overcrowded prisons. Napoleon at Saint Helena told Las Cases that he had seen long letters from Robespierre the Elder to Robespierre the Younger, then on mission in Toulon and the Italian army, where the former wrote to the latter that the excesses of the proconsuls "dishonored the Revolution and would kill it." An agent of the Committee of Public Safety, Eve Demaillot, recounts that the abbé Le Duc, the natural son of Louis XV, about to go to the scaffold, owed his life to Robespierre. It is an undeniable fact that Robespierre, informed by Julien of Paris about the excesses committed by Carrier in Nantes and by Tallien in Bordeaux, had them both recalled immediately. He likewise recalled Barras and Fréron, who had sullied themselves with blood and plunder during their mission in the South, Rovere and Poultier, who in the Vaucluse directed the black bands organized for the plundering of national assets; the sinister Fouché, who, after having the Lyon aristocrats mass-fired for months, found it more convenient in the end to sell them freedom and incarcerate in their place the Lyon patriots, friends of Chalier, their victim.

These recalled proconsuls, upon returning to Paris, prepared the intrigue of the 9th Thermidor.

But I hear the major objection. If Robespierre wanted to moderate the Terror, then to abolish it, how is it that he voted with Couthon for the atrocious law of Prairial? I have no intention, of course, of defending this law which eliminated defenders and allowed jurors to be satisfied with moral evidence in the absence of material evidence. But it is important to specify the exact part of responsibility of Robespierre and Couthon and to understand their reasons.

After Thermidor, when Collot, Billaud, and Barère were persecuted by the reaction they had unleashed, they claimed that the law of Prairial was the sole work of Robespierre and Couthon, who had allegedly presented it to the Convention without consulting the Committee of Public Safety. This claim is inadmissible. The law of Prairial only extended to the Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris provisions already decided by the Committee of Public Safety for the Commission of Orange, which was to punish counter-revolutionaries of Vaucluse. The decree creating the Commission of Orange, dated 21st Floréal, bears the signatures of Collot, Barère, Billaud, alongside those of Robespierre and Couthon. The instruction, the regulation that completed the decree, is signed only by Carnot, Billaud, and Couthon. According to Lecointre, Courtois, and Saladin, this instruction served as a model for the law of Prairial. The same provisions and expressions appear in both. When reproached by Lecointre on the 13th Fructidor for signing documents related to the Commission of Orange, Billaud-Varenne firmly claimed his responsibility, saying it was Couthon who authored the decree establishing the Commission of Orange; he wasn't sure if he had signed it but declared he would do so immediately if he hadn't. Furthermore, Billaud and Barère both defended the law of Prairial in sessions on the 22nd and 24th of Prairial. It is thus beyond doubt that this infamous law was not the particular work of Couthon and Robespierre, but the result of deliberations by the entire Committee.

But what necessities did the exceptional measures prescribed by the law respond to in the minds of its authors? To understand their mindset, one must not be unaware of the nature of the jurisdiction of the Revolutionary Tribunal. It was an exceptional jurisdiction, a political jurisdiction, similar to our High Court or military tribunals. It could only fulfill its purpose, which was to prevent plots by terrifying the enemies of the regime, by striking them with speed and severity. The task of the Revolutionary Tribunal was particularly burdened since the law of the 27th Germinal, voted on Saint-Just's report, had abolished all the revolutionary tribunals in the provinces to transfer all the accused to Paris. Saint-Just and Robespierre, with this measure, wanted to reduce the arbitrariness that had prevailed in the provinces even more than in Paris. The accused from the provinces were thus flooding into the capital. One of the objectives of the law of Prairial was to allow the tribunal to function more rapidly.

Couthon supported the abolition of defenders with two reasons, one political and the other sentimental. Allowing defense speeches, he said, was to provide a platform for royalism and the enemy. "The tribunal set up to punish conspirators resounded with blasphemy against the Revolution and deceitful declamations aimed at prosecuting it in the presence of the people." And here is the sentimental reason: "Defenders extorted the accused in a scandalous manner; one had demanded 1,500 livres for a plea - the poor were not defended."

As for Robespierre, he reminded that for two years the Convention had been under the knife of assassins, thus referring to the assassination of Le Peletier and Marat, and the recent attempts against Collot d'Herbois and himself. "We expose ourselves," he said, "to individual assassins to pursue the public assassins. We are willing to die', but let the Convention and the patriots be saved." In other words, Robespierre presented the new law as a law of retaliation, and it seems undoubted to me that the successive attempts by Admiral and Cécile Renault at the beginning of Prairial did indeed provoke in Robespierre, who was recovering from illness, a sort of feverish exaltation.

To judge this terrible law, one must put oneself back in the atmosphere of the time. It may be easier for us since we have seen, after Charleroi, courts-martial organized without recourse to grace, revision, appeal, without jurors! by a simple decree signed by Millerand. Anatole France, who effortlessly transports himself into the revolutionary past that is so familiar to him, has pleaded for indulgence for Robespierre in these remarkable terms: "One cannot hold him responsible for everything that was done then, any more than for public spirit and customs. The law of Prairial, we are told, behold his crime! Come on, let's not be hypocrites. We would revolt today against a law that would eliminate defenders and witnesses before the tribunal, it is understood; evidence, defense, those are sacred guarantees for the accused, agreed; but we all know well that in the full Terror, these guarantees were only apparent and that the defender was then the scourge of the accused and that the witnesses could never serve him. The law of Prairial, - it eliminates phantoms!" The word of Saint-Just testifies to a deep conviction: "The law gives as defenders to slandered patriots, patriotic jurors; it grants none to conspirators." What is needed at that time, what is suitable, is not the ordinary, formalist and slow justice, but an expeditious, yet sentimental justice, a patriarchal justice. It becomes increasingly difficult to attribute to one or another man of the Revolution more natural cruelty or more deliberate malice than to any other; whether Girondist or Dantonist, the only means of action known then was proscription or death. Re-read André Chénier, this constitutional royalist:

O virtue! This dagger, the only hope of the earth, Is my sacred weapon! ...

Chénier, Marat, Hébertists or Feuillants, they are all for violence; all advocate the same means and the author of Jeune Captive appears comparatively to have been among the most fierce. Robespierre was not known to be crueller than the others, and he was not." Do you not think, citizens, that Anatole France often has more historical insight than many historians?

One would be greatly mistaken to believe that the indignation shown by some deputies during the deliberation of the law was inspired by a horror of arbitrariness. These deputies were primarily concerned with themselves. Of all the articles of the law, they only took issue with the one that seemed to allow the Committee of Public Safety to directly transfer them to the Revolutionary Tribunal without a preliminary vote from the Convention, and they obtained an interpretation from the Convention that protected them.

From then on, the political objective that Robespierre undoubtedly had in mind with the law of Prairial escaped him. It seems hardly doubtful to me that after the Festival of the Supreme Being, he was resolved to stop the Terror. Even on the eve of the festival, the 20th Prairial, the deputy Faure had written to him to propose a general amnesty. Faure would not have given this advice if he had not been sure that his suggestion would be welcomed. Another deputy, the Girondin Girault, one of the 73 imprisoned at La Force, also wrote to him on the 26th Prairial, inviting him to "finish his work," that is, to hasten his and his colleagues' release. Robespierre declared to the Jacobins on the 23rd Messidor that his principles were "to stop the effusion of human blood shed by crime." Many other signs prove that he had resolved to stop the sinister work of the guillotine at the very moment when he was having the law of Prairial voted, which, however, accelerated it! How to resolve this apparent contradiction? Robespierre "had suffered, as Jaurès has well said, both in his dignity and in his self-esteem, and in his pure love of the Revolution, from the atrocious violence that had dishonored here and there the revolutionary government. He could not forget them, he hated them all the more because, having been unable to prevent them, he might appear to be complicit." With a high sense of justice and equality, he wanted to end the Terror with a grand example by striking down the five or six corrupt and bloodthirsty proconsuls who had abused their functions. He thought thus to reconcile the people with the Revolution by showing them that those who had turned the dictatorship to their personal profit were not below the common law since they would atone for their crimes like the multitude of simple convicts. The law of Prairial was supposed to allow him to reach these five or six rogues, who were protected by parliamentary immunity. The Convention's interpretation having thwarted his plan, Robespierre stopped attending the Committee of Public Safety, he lost interest in his law, perhaps he regretted having voted for it. In any case, he remained totally estranged from the batches of the great Terror. His action was then null on the government. He was in the minority in the Committee of Public Safety, and he had almost the unanimous opposition of the Committee of General Security. The public accuser Fouquier-Tinville, who was the main operative of the Revolutionary Tribunal, was very hostile to him. In vain had he tried to obtain his replacement on the 8th Messidor; he had not succeeded. The Committee had kept Fouquier in office, and by doing so, it bears the responsibility for the great Terror. Even M. Aulard had to recognize this. The 9th Thermidor was not made by men who wanted to stop the Terror, but on the contrary by men who had abused the Terror and who wanted to prolong it for their benefit, to protect themselves. What do they reproach him for, in fact, in the session of the 9th Thermidor? Is it for having dragged innocent victims to the scaffold? Billaud-Varenne accuses him on the contrary of indulgence, notably for having initially opposed the arrest of Danton. He is also reproached for having protected former nobles and for having dismissed the most impetuous of the revolutionary committees of Paris. The obscure Louchet, who proposed the decree of accusation, would claim, three weeks later, as the only means of public salvation, the implementation of the Terror.

The royalist Beaulieu, who was in prison on the 9th Thermidor, tells us that his first impression and that of the other detainees upon learning of Robespierre's death was the fear of an escalation of the Terror. "Occupied in our prisons with looking for hope in the speeches made, either at the Jacobins or in the Convention, we saw that everything that was said was disheartening, but that Robespierre still seemed the least extreme."

Because the Terrorists were outdone after the event, because they failed to stop the reaction they had involuntarily unleashed, and because they cleverly later projected the responsibility for their own crimes onto their victim, the odious legend formed that Robespierre was the incarnation of the Terror and the supplier of the guillotine.

"The name of the vanquished," said Louis Blanc, "is exposed to the stain of many lies when the victors reign, who speak or hold the pen. Woe to him who succumbs after having made everything tremble! Hatred descends with him into the tomb, settles there, and long after the worms of the sepulcher have finished gnawing at his body, calumny is there, continuing to besmirch his memory."

French Source:

Défense de Robespierre Author(s): Albert Mathiez Source: Annales historiques de la Révolution française, 1ère Année, No. 2 (Mars-Avril 1924), pp.97-114

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41924280

Extra notes

(1) Mathiez’s premise for the defence is that there are 3 things people accuse Robespierre of: 1- the terror, 3- the death of the indulgents and herberists , and 3- the dechristianization.

#albert mathiez #frev #robespierre #prairial #law of prairial #secondary sources #translation #couthon

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You mentioned that each Clan's dogwhistles sound and look a little different-- would you be willing to elaborate/give some examples?

WindClan

NEVER talks openly about their beliefs and is the best example of Thistle Law doublespeak. Tigerstar and Brokenstar are unpopular for obvious reasons, and the Clan as a whole leans towards Soft Traditionalism. On one side of their mouth, they'll talk about how they won Heatherstar's Campaign and how they rightfully conquered that land, but then turn around and frame the turn of the war as ShadowClan's underhanded snakery (in Clanmew it's literally "adderness").

"Fear" is a lot more common in their rhetoric. Fear of outsiders diluting their Clan, fear of wasting time and prey, fear of having things taken and stolen. The WindClan Massacre is invoked a LOT, because it's useful for making cats too emotional to think straight.

Here, we'll walk through BB!Mudclaw as an example. I'm going to mark every weasel word with an asterisk, let's see if you can figure out what's weird with it before the end.

Mudclaw speaks to Tallstar, claiming that the trading with BloodClan is opening up WindClan to being betrayed. "Scourge turned* on Tigerstar in the end, how can he be trusted now*? There was bounty for a while, but leafbare is coming* and we already* have so many mouths to feed. Snapper and Leo* arrived and now we're having troubles with the humans*. I'm just worried, I never want to lose so many Clanmates ever again*."

Scourge was acting in self defense

The trading is part of filling the deal that Tigerstar did not intend to honor

Starvation rhetoric

Sudden pivot to exclusionary language, Us vs Them

Refusal to use new names

Implying it's their fault

Massacre allusion

ShadowClan

Much more openly violent. A LOT of talk of glory, you could use these guys as a social case study. Crusades, winning the war with WindClan, the beauty of TigerClan, re-framing Ripplestar not as someone who wanted to help SkyClan but as a simple conqueror. They have lots of moments to invoke from their Great History.

The cost of that violence is downplayed. Like the Snowtuft example, they won't bring up the mother and children he slaughtered, just boast about their glorious ancestors fighting in the Crusades. They won't mention how they ripped kittens out of their nests, just how they bolstered ShadowClan's numbers. They'll frame the WindClan massacre as a final battle they triumphed over, leaving out how they ambushed and poisoned elders and apprentices.

RiverClan

"Glory talk" is downplayed in RiverClan, probably because they didn't actually take part in the Crusades. Instead, they focus on negative traits of mixed-blood cats (which they made up), accuse other Clans of being underhanded, and demand to be "heard."

And what THAT means is that they want to be able to derail any conversation they want. Interruptions of clanwide discussions, dismissing critique of Tigerstar and co, intentionally saying things that are divisive to cause fighting. They will prevent ANYTHING from being done unless it's the thing THEY want to happen.

I actually write Thistle Law supporters in RiverClan to be like... incredibly annoying. They don't say what they mean, they bring the Clan to a screeching halt, they literally dismiss the lesson of TigerClan. You cannot pin them down, they never admit to anything, you will only waste your time talking to them.

They also act on their bigotry in ways that are 'deniable'. Reedwhisker fell into the water? Must have been his thick ThunderClan blood pooling in his paws. A RiverClan cat should be able to pull themselves out. Of course you're listened to, Mistyfoot, you're deputy after all, what more do you want? Gaslighting. Making you doubt your own senses towards your unfair treatment.

ThunderClan

A sort of 'mix' of ShadowClan and WindClan tactics. ThunderClan is THE Fire Alone Clan, you could count the Thistle Law supporters and the Hard Traditionalists on one hand, but has a battle-centric history they tend to tap into.

Listen for "glory," talk about 'avoiding humiliation,' starvation rhetoric. ThunderClan has an absolute bounty with their forested territory, that last one is almost always code for wanting to exclude or eliminate people like Daisy and Purdy.

When Thornclaw became deputy under Bramblestar, he was very, very careful about his escalations, and mostly focused on manipulating Bramble himself. He was VERY aware that the Clan wouldn't take another Mixed Clan Meeting like the stunt he pulled in TNP.

Even the impostor in TBC overplayed his hand, the rebellion was born out of ThunderClan itself.

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