#she/they/he agent 4 supremacy

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You’ve met Agent 4?

“She’s nice, though! Always has some funny story about the Captain or Eight to tell.”

#she/they/he agent 4 supremacy #splatoon #splatoon 2 #splatoon 3 #new agent 3 #three junior #neo three #agent 4 #agent 2 #marie cuttlefish #little buddy #answering #the new squidbeak splatoon

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The constitutional standoff between Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Biden administration over the Texas-Mexico border will "very likely" be decided by the Supreme Court, according to prominent legal experts, with one predicting it could "side with the state in its quest to usurp the federal government's authority."

On January 22 the Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 verdict to overturn an injunction from the Fifth Circuit court that blocked the Biden administration from ordering federal agents to remove razor wire from the Texas-Mexico border, which was placed there to discourage migrants from crossing on the orders of Governor Abbott.

At Abbott's instruction the Texas National Guard also took control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, a frequently used migrant arrival point, and refused to allow federal Customs Border and Protection officials access to the site.

Abbott reacted with fury to the Supreme Court judgment, saying he was invoking "Texas's constitutional authority to defend and protect itself." He argued that, under the Constitution, this is "the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary." He received a joint statement from 25 other Republican governors offering "solidarity."

In an article published by politics site Public Notice, which describes its purpose as "explaining what's happening on the American right for a largely progressive audience," attorney Lisa Needham said it is "almost inevitable" that the dispute will come back to the Supreme Court where based on the January 22 ruling "at least four justices already agree with Texas."

Despite the January 22 ruling going against Abbott, she suggested if the Supreme Court decides to examine the case in full it could allow the governor's border controls to remain, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett likely to be the key swing voters.

Needham wrote: "The Supreme Court has already weighed in, but that was only on Texas's request that the federal government be enjoined, on an emergency basis, from cutting the razor wire. No court has yet ruled on the substance of the matter, meaning there has been no complete review of all the facts and law in the case.

"The full case still needs to make its way through the lower courts, and it is almost inevitable that it will then be back up at the Supreme Court again, where it seems that at least four justices already agree with Texas."

She added: "Simply because the Supreme Court vote to vacate the injunction was a 5-4 split in favor of the federal government doesn't mean an ultimate ruling on the case would come out the same.

"Roberts and Barrett may have only believed that Texas was wrong to ask for an emergency injunction, but they could eventually side with the state in its quest to usurp the federal government's authority."

Speaking to Newsweek Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, agreed the issue will "very likely end up before the Supreme Court" as it is "exactly the type of case the justices are meant to resolve."

He argued the justices could end up supporting Texas, despite the Constitution's supremacy clause that gives primacy to federal over state laws, saying: "The previous ruling was limited to whether Texas can prevent Border Patrol agents from removing or cutting the barbed wire. There are potentially bigger issues at play here though, and the conservative justices haven't been shy to craft broad rulings to reverse years of precedent.

"Immigration has historically been exclusively a federal issue, but I wouldn't be surprised if the Supreme Court finds a creative way to allow for state action to enforce our nation's immigration laws notwithstanding the supremacy clause and pre-emption doctrine. Justices Roberts or Barrett are far from locks to support the Biden administration, so all eyes will be on them."

V. James DeSimone, a Los Angeles-based civil rights attorney, accused Texan authorities of "causing death and injury to vulnerable families in the name of protecting property rights" in an interview with Newsweek, adding: "If this isn't a case for the United States Supreme Court to resolve then nothing is."

If this does happen DeSimone said the Biden administration has a "solid legal basis for its position" due to the supremacy clause, adding: "A justice who would change his or her vote to side with Texas in this dispute would be on shaky ground."

If the case reaches the Supreme Court, DeSimone said judges "should side with the Biden administration in this dispute, even if it's a narrow majority of justices." He added: "The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave short shrift to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution when it sided with Texas. Instead, the appeals court said the principle of sovereign immunity provided no justification for the Border Patrol to cut down razor wire that had been installed by the Texas National Guard."

DeSimone argued Supreme Court justices likely considered the supremacy clause in their judgment of January 22, suggesting it would be a big call for them to reverse course if they end up ruling on the case again.

Needham concluded her article by arguing the dispute is now a win-win for Abbott, commenting: "Either way, Abbott gets what he wants.

"He now has the full-throated support of conservative elected officials who don't believe the federal government should have any authority if Democrats are in power, and he has private citizens willing to show the same eager violence as those who supported Trump's insurrection. There's just no way in which this ends well."

Newsweek contacted Abbott's office by telephone, voicemail and online contact form at 5:50 a.m. ET on Wednesday. This article will be updated if they wish to provide a comment.

#nunyas news #it's not usurping federal authority #it's asserting state authority

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12.02. READINGS WEEK 4

Born green we were

to this flawed garden, 

but in speckled thickets, warted as a toad,

spitefully skulks our warden;

fixing his snare

which hauls down buck, cock, trout, till all most fair

is tricked to faulter in split blood.

Now our whole task’s to hack 

some angel-shape worth wearing

from his crabbed midden where all’s wrought so awry

that no straight inquiring

could unlock

shrewd catch silting our reach bright act back

to unmade mud cloked by sour sky

FIRESONG, SYLVIA PLATH

SOMETIMES, TO - HACK SOME ANGEL SHAPE WORTH WEARING - DOES NOT COME EASY.

THE DIFFICULTIES ARISES WHEN WE ANALYZE WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATION OF OUR WARDEN BEING SKULKED IN VISION CULTURE, SPITEFULLY SHAPING HISTORY’S NARRATIVE.

FOR OUR WARDEN BEING THE POWER, BUT IN SOME CASES, FOR OUR WARDEN BEING OUR ANCESTORS.

OUR PEERS. THEREFORE, US TOO.

IN DISCUSSING THE MOTIVATIONS BEHIND THE U.S. LOYALTY TO THE SECOND AMENDMENT, MEANING THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, ELSA DORLIN CONJUNCTS IT TO JOHN LOCKE’S PRINCIPLE OF SELF-PRESERVATION, BY WHICH WE ARE ALL ENTITLED TO PRESERVE OUR EXISTENCE.

IN THIS, LOCKE POSES 4 IMMUTABLE PRINCIPLES, EQUAL TO US ALL:

LIFE, SECURITY, FREEDOM, PROPERTY.

THESE WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO SELF-PRESERVATION, MEANING FULFILLMENT.

BUT FOR AS MUCH AS THIS CONCEPTION PLACES ITSELF IN CONTRADICTION WITH THE 17TH-CENTURY NOTION OF A KING’S DIVINE RIGHT, BY READING DORLIN WE UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT IT CREATES IS IN FACT INEQUALITY.

WHAT IF I FEEL MORE FREE AND SECURE IN CONTRAPOSING MY LIFE TO SOMEBODY ELSE’S?

ELSA DORLIN RIGHTLY POINTS OUT, ALSO, HOW THE PRINCIPLE OF SELF-PRESERVATION, MERGED WITH THE INSEPARABILITY OF HUMAN AND THEIR PROPERTY, HAS RESONATED IN THE CREATION OF VIGILANTISM.

BY LOOKING AT 19TH-CENTURY SELF-ORGANIZED GROUPS OF VIGILANTES, COMMONLY UNITED IN THE DEFENSE OF PROPERTY THROUGH THE USE OF GUNS, AND BY THINKING AT CHARLES LYNCH’S VIGILANTES GROUP EXAMPLE, GRANTED BY LEGISLATORS, WE THEN UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS THAT NOWADAYS MAKE POSSIBLE THE ABSOLUTION OF BLACK PEOPLE'S KILLERS.

IN THIS, IT IS IMPORTANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE HOW THIS WAS ALL MADE POSSIBLE BOTH THROUGH THE HELP OF POWER, BUT IN THIS, BY AN ENTIRE SOCIETY THAT AGREES WITH IT.

FOR IF THE NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF’S IDEA OF POWER IS HERE REPRESENTED BOTH BY VIGILANTISMS GROUPS AND GOVERNMENTS WHO ALLOWED THEM TO WORK AT THEIR PLACE, WE PEOPLE ARE TO BLAME TOO.

THIS IS PROMINENTLY AFFIRMED BY ELSA DORLIN, WHEN SHE BLAMES 20TH-CENTURY WOMEN FEMINISTS, WHO ARE GUILTY OF GRASPING A SOCIAL STATUS IN A SANCTIMONIOUS MANNER. WHICH IS, TO DENOUNCE RAPE AS A CHALLENGE TO THEIR WHITE PURENESS. AND BY DOING SO, THEY FORGOT ABOUT THEIR BLACK SISTERS, WHO WERE THE ONES MORE AFFECTED BY SUCH HORRORS.

AND, MORE SO, THIS IS RIGHTLY REPRESENTED BY THE 1916’S JESSE WASHINGTON EXAMPLE; THE LYNCHING OF A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY WHOSE BODY PIECES WERE SOLD TO THE PUBLIC AS SOUVENIRS.

THEREFORE, WHEN WE TRY TO RECONNECT ALL AS THE BASE FOR THE JUSTIFICATION OF OUR DAYS’ RACIAL ACTS, THIS ADMISSION MUST COME FORWARD.

THAT FOR AS MUCH AS THE POWER DID SEE REALITY VIA THE HOLES OF A KKK'S MASKS, BY PUTTING FORWARD A MIRZOEFF’ SIGHT-WAY OF SEEING, INSTEAD OF PSYCHOLOGICALLY VISIONING IT, WE ALL ARE THE ONES WHO WERE SEWING KKK’S COSTUMES. 

BY READING DORLIN’S OVERVIEW OF WHITE SUPREMACY’S DEVELOPMENT, WE THEN UNDERSTAND JUDITH BUTLER’S CLAIMS ON RODNEY KING’S CASE.

IN PARTICULAR, SHE BUILDS ON THE CAUSES OF THE ABSOLUTION OF THOSE AGENTS WHO, AS A VIDEO RECORDED BY A CITIZEN CLEARLY SHOWS, HAVE BEATEN KING ALMOST TO DEATH, AFTER HE WAS TRYING TO ESCAPE THEM.

BUTLER POINTS OUT HOW THE ENTIRE CASE HAS BEEN SEEN VIA A RACIAL LENS. SHE BRINGS UP, THEN, INSTANCES LIKE THE USAGE OF VIDEO’ STILLS TO CLAIM THAT KING WAS TRYING TO ASSAULT THE GUARDS.

IN THIS, AN HISTORICAL PERCEPTION OF THE BLACK BODY AS DANGEROUS AND POSSESSING VIOLENT CHARACTERISTICS IS WHAT ADVOCATES VIOLENCE AGAINST HIM.

SINCE EVERY VIOLENCE IS JUSTIFIABLE WHEN IT COMES FROM US ENACTING OUR PRINCIPLE OF SELF-PRESERVATION.

IN KING'S ISSUE, ONE ELEMENT THAT JUMPS OUT IS THE CITIZEN VIDEOTAPING POLICE BRUTALITY.

MIGHT THE CAMERA DEPICTING THE EVENT BE THAT ANGEL-SHAPED SYLVIA PLATH WANTS US TO HACK?

WE KNOW THIS IS OUR TASK, TO CONTINUE THE STEPS TOWARDS UNSEATING THE WARDEN. 

BUT SOMETIMES, WHEN WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT OUR BRIGHT ACTS ARE CONCEALED UNDER A SOUR SKY,

WE END UP UNDERSTANDING PLATH,

AND INSTEAD OF HACKING, WE JUST WANT TO REPAIR OURSELVES FROM ALL THIS CRABBED MIDDEN.

SYLVIA PLATH

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Branch Davidians

The Branch Davidians (or the General Association of Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists) are an apocalyptic new religious movement founded in 1955 by Benjamin Roden.

When Benjamin Roden died in 1978, he was succeeded by his wife Lois Roden. Members of the Branch Davidians were torn between allegiance to Ben's wife or to his son, George. After Lois died, George assumed the right to the Presidency. However, less than a year later, Vernon Howell rose to power and became the leader over those in the group who sympathized with him.

Howell's arrival at Mount Carmel in 1981 was well received by nearly everyone at the Davidian commune. He had engaged in an affair with Lois Roden while he was in his late 20s and she was in her late 60s. Howell wanted to father a child with her, who, according to his understanding, would be the Chosen One. When she died, George Roden inherited the positions of prophet and leader of the sect. A power struggle ensued between Roden and Howell, who soon gained the loyalty of the majority of the Davidians. In 1984, Howell and his followers left Mount Carmel (Roden accused Howell of starting a fire that consumed a $500,000 administration building and press), which Roden subsequently renamed "Rodenville". Another splinter group, led by Charlie Pace, also left, and settled in Alabama.

As an attempt to regain support, Roden challenged Howell to raise the dead, going so far as to exhume the corpse of a two-decades deceased Davidian in order to demonstrate his spiritual supremacy (Roden denied this, saying he had only been moving the community cemetery). This illegal act gave Howell an opportunity to attempt to file charges against Roden, but he was told that he needed evidence in order to substantiate the charges. On November 3, 1987, Howell and seven of his followers raided Mount Carmel, equipped with five .223 caliber semi-automatic rifles, two .22 caliber rifles, two 12-gauge shotguns and nearly 400 rounds of ammunition, in an apparent attempt to retake the compound. Although Howell's group claimed that it was trying to obtain evidence of Roden's illegal activities, its members did not take a camera with them.

The trial ended with the jury finding Howell's followers not guilty, but the jury members were unable to agree on a verdict for Howell himself. After his followers were acquitted, Howell invited the prosecutors to Mount Carmel for ice cream.

On February 28, 1993, at 4:20 am, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms attempted to execute a search warrant relating to alleged sexual abuse charges and illegal weapons violations. The ATF attempted to breach the compound for approximately two hours until their ammunition ran low. Four ATF agents (Steve Willis, Robert Williams, Todd McKeehan, and Conway Charles LeBleu) were killed and another 16 agents were wounded during the raid. The five Branch Davidians killed in the 9:45 am raid were Winston Blake (British), Peter Gent (Australian), Peter Hipsman, Perry Jones, and Jaydean Wendell; two were killed by the Branch Davidians. Almost six hours after the ceasefire, Michael Schroeder was shot dead by ATF agents who alleged he fired a pistol at agents as he attempted to re-enter the compound with Woodrow Kendrick and Norman Allison. His wife said he was merely returning from work and had not participated in the day's earlier altercation. Schroeder had been shot once in the eye, once in the heart, and five times in the back.

After the raid, ATF agents established contact with Koresh and others inside of the compound. The FBI took command after the deaths of federal agents, and managed to facilitate the release of 19 children (without their parents) relatively early into the negotiations. The children were then interviewed by the FBI and the Texas Rangers. Allegedly, the children had been physically and sexually abused long before the raid, though no evidence of abuse was ever produced.

On April 19, 1993, the FBI moved for a final siege of the compound using large weaponry such as .50 caliber (12.7 mm) rifles and armored Combat Engineering Vehicles (CEV) to combat the heavily armed Branch Davidians. The FBI attempted to use tear gas to flush out the Branch Davidians. Officially, FBI agents were only permitted to return any incoming fire, not to actively assault the Branch Davidians. When several Branch Davidians opened fire, the FBI's response was to increase the amount of gas being used. Around noon, three fires broke out simultaneously in different parts of the building. The government maintains that the fires were deliberately started by Branch Davidians. Some Branch Davidian survivors maintain that the fires were started either accidentally or deliberately by the assault. Of the 85 Branch Davidians in the compound when the final siege began, 76 died on April 19 in various ways, from falling rubble to suffocating effects of the fire, or by gunshot from fellow Branch Davidians. The siege had lasted 51 days.

#Branch Davidians #cults #cult #true crime #crime

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early seasons supremacy solidarity 🤝

early seasons supremacyyyyyy like i love criminal minds but there is something so so special about the first couple seasons

everything from the writing to the music to the editing is all just so special. the episode plots felt less formulaic and they were more focused on writing a good story than coming up with something unique, so they felt more natural.

but it's not just that.. its the overall dynamic of the bau evolving. it could've ended 3x05 and i wouldn've been mad about it. rossi's arrival.. well if the emily elle thing didnt already make it clear that they were looking for specific tropes to fill certain roles to meet a quota, it certainly is now. even though emily was definitely elle's replacement, she still had her own arc. she was more than just filling in for an empty spot. and a big part of that was how blatantly they addressed her sudden arrival after elle's departure: they worry that she's just replacing elle too

emily is more than that. all the shit that the team deals with season two shakes them up. between morgan's private history exposed against his will, reid's addiction, jj's doubts, gideon's exhaustion, and strauss breathing down hotch's neck, they have a lot to worry about. their suspicion of emily falls to the wayside and she gets the chance to prove herself and establish herself as a valuable member of the team as they go through some of the hardest challenges they've ever had to face. it's a family. they're getting tested. they're dragged through the thick of it and it's clear not everyone's gonna make it out of this.

so in the beginning of season three when hotch gideon and emily leave, their absence is a gaping wound that the others cant even begin to handle. gideon's been pushed to the absolute limits: he's been doing this job for years and it's chipped away at his soul until there's hardly anything left. hotch is getting heat from above and strauss is using everything she can to bring him down. emily's pressured into helping her destroy hotch's career. it's easier for them all to just leave.

but they get pulled right back in. they know where they're needed and they realize that as long as they have each other, they can push through it all.

the team has been close since season one: their long hours and shared life-or-death experiences bring them closer than normal coworkers. but the fisher king is a startling wake up call: they're not infallible. they're vulnerable. after elle leaves they cling to each other harder than before, but they're more guarded at the same time. they've seen what's happened when a team member's compromised: they don't want to show any signs of weakness.

profiler profiled tests them. revelations tests them. not just as agents, but as a group. there's more at stake and everyone is carrying their burdens silently, not wanting to risk the consequences of vulnerability. there's trust but it's tentative. conditional. they may trust each other with their lives, but they don't trust each other with their pasts. with their mistakes or insecurities. its not until they're separated from each other that they realize how much they need one another.

thats where the story climaxes: hotch and emily returning to the team and accepting that they're a family. it's always been a vague implication, but its explicit now. "why would i ever want to leave the bau?" "you mean it? you're not gonna leave us?" "i want you on that plane with me." they come together and push forward, surviving the loss of gideon and solving cases fine with the family that remains. and their bonds are cemented--thicker than blood and water.

the trials they go through and the progress that they make between each other is something exclusive to the early seasons. by the time season 4 hits, they're already bound to one another. there's no question. and as much as i love the family dynamic, watching the dynamic develop is just soooo special. watching their love for each other grow until, without even noticing, it's all-encompassing and there isn't anything they wouldn't do to protect each other.

#this got long!!! and this may not even be why you like the early seasons aksjhdlas but i was just thinking about this today #the way their family grows... oof #asks #i also love the shitty camera quality. it makes them all more attractive when i cant see every single fucking pore #or their shitty foundation/concealer that doesnt match their fucking skin tones #and tbh <3 (other than jj) they all look their best in the early seasons #theyre not innocent by any means but theyre all so young and havent been bogged down by the tragedies they encounter #morgan and emily are bright and full of life #with each passing season hotch's smiles grow more infrequent #and the WRITING like just the power that the early episodes have lmao #charm and harm.. the perfect storm.. seven seconds.. compulsion... i could go on #there are still some unwatchable eps (inevitable with a cop show) but like 95% of the episodes are fucking amazing

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Concept for an Avatar Studios series: “Avatar: The Legend of Minato”

General plot:

Years after the death of Avatar Korra, the world is in a strange place. The Air Nation has been taken over by a revolutionary group promising to militarize the nation in order to prevent any future genocide attempts by invaders. Inspired by the Air Nation Revolution and the Southern Water Tribe successfully achieving independence from the Northern Water Tribe, both the Fire Nation and Earth Kingdom are dealing with radical political movements aimed at changing the current political system.

In the midst of all this political turmoil, rumors of the Dark Avatar and Vaatu returning are being spread from nation to nation. And to top it all off, the current United Republic of Nations administration has declared that it will stay out of the affairs of the other four nations, believing it is not their place to act as the world’s police. 

This is the world of Avatar Minato. 

Plot points:

1) The Air Nation has been changed into a militarized state similar to the Fire Nation, directly going against the pacifist ways of the original Air Nomad order. 

2) The Earth Kingdom is dealing with revolutionaries trying to replace the current monarchy with a system of democracy. A big point of the series is Avatar Minato being torn between which side to support since, even though the revolutionaries are waging war against the Earth Kingdom, he supports what they’re trying to achieve.

3) The Fire Nation is dealing with a civil war on multiple fronts. Instead of trying to achieve democracy, several nobles have declared themselves “Fire Lord” and are fighting each other for supremacy. For a comparison, the Fire Nation is having its own “War of the Five Kings” from Game of Thrones. 

4) The two Water Tribes are trying to stay neutral in the midst of all this chaos. However, they too are struggling since the conflicts in the other three nations are impacting trade, resulting in economic struggles for both nations. 

5) Korra died at age 45. A big part of the series is Minato and his Team Avatar trying to figure out why Korra died so young. In a later season, it’s revealed that Korra died while protecting an Air Nation city from a hurricane. She could’ve been saved but the Air Nation revolutionaries left her to die so that she wouldn’t interfere in their revolution (yes, this is supposed to be a direct parallel to what happened to Avatar Roku).

Main Cast: 

1) Daisuke Tsuji (Jin Sakai from “Ghost of Tsushima”) as Avatar Minato. In comparison to Aang and Korra, Minato is calm, level-headed, and down-to-earth. His backstory is that he was born into an Earth Kingdom crime family, resulting in him being an extremely unpopular Avatar. So a central component of his character arc is convincing the world that he is a worthy Avatar, despite his heritage.

2) Chloe Bennet (Daisy Johnson from “Agents of SHIELD”) as Mei, the deuteragonist of the series and member of Team Avatar. She is an Air Nation refugee who fled the country after the revolutionaries took over.

3) Dante Basco as Jeong-ho, the tritagonist of the series and member of Team Avatar. He is a Fire Nation refugee who fled his nation when civil war broke out. Side note, a major subplot with this character is that he’s later revealed to be Zuko’s illegitimate great-grandson (meaning that General Iroh II had an affair at some point).

4) Alexis Tipton (Kaguya Shinomiya from “Kaguya-Sama” - English dub) as Ai, the “Dark Avatar”. She is a member of Team Avatar, but only because Avatar Minato wants to keep an eye on her in case she becomes overwhelmed by Vaatu’s influence. A central component of Ai’s character arc is learning to control Vaatu in order to fight alongside Minato. 

#avatar the last airbender #avatar the legend of korra #aang #korra #daisuke tsuji #chloe bennet #dante basco #alexis tipton #ATLA #atlok #avatar aang #avatar korra #zuko #prince zuko #vaatu #general iroh #avatar roku #atla aang #the legend of korra #fire nation #water tribe #air nomads #earth kingdom

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Just finished all of Bones, and although I don't hate the ending, I do have some issues. 1. Angela and Hodgins should have had the opportunity to go to Paris and live there, it would have been the perfect ending, especially since Jack himself had a major freakout about his pregnant wife getting flung into a wall, which would happen way less in France (But props for making him King of the Lab officially), 2. Zach being freed is honestly yes. I approve. But also, the fact that they do make clear that at some point Sweets was his only visitor every week till the day he died, and his death affected him so much that he then permanently scarred his head, I mean, Zach and Sweets had some friendship supremacy, especially since Hodgins appears to go from not caring he was a murderer, to being all I hate him arghh, and then proving his innocence as if OG Jack would have even cared if he was a psycho cus they were best friends, which they then try to hint at again with them being besties when they're doing the montage at the end, 3. Bones should have quit. She wanted to. We all know it. She was even aware of it. She quit once before and honestly her and Booths relationship seemed to have improved whilst they were both vibing with their kids. And you're not telling me after she lost her father, and her and Booth both nearly die twice in the last episode that she wouldn't re-evaluate everything and want her children to grow up with both parents, and not want them to be abandoned like hers did to her, and also not want her kids to be in danger anymore. The amount of times her and her kids have been targeted for either her or Booths job is insane and she is much too smart to just allow that to continue. She would quit so fast, and Booth would too, with Aubrey there to take over his place, and they would go live in LA or wherever it was that Booth wanted to go to get the higher paying security job. Or they could just both quit and live off of Bone's book money, because let's face it she's loaded, and they have no need to work. They could pursue all of their hobbies and actually be present in their kids life, which as we are well aware is not all that much at this point because they just appear to leave their kids with random FBI agents. 4 Aubrey makes sense, although Jessica breaking up with him :(( I liked them together but hey, I can understand this. 5. Cam and Aristoo would 500% not return to the Jeffersonian after their 6 month leave, because they'll realise that they like not being blown up, and that it would actually be really stupid to both work in the same place, at a dangerous job, when they now have 4 kids to look after. That'd be dumb, and nobody would be expected to go back to work if the risk is that their kids grow up parentless and in foster care, that'd just be dumb *cough Bones and Booth cough Angela and Jack cough*.

Anyways, the finale gets 4/10, overall, and mostly because I liked how it tied up all their loose ends, Bones gets 7/10.

#tv review #bones #booth #angela #jack hodgins #seeley booth #zack addy #sweets #cam saroyan #aristoo vaziri

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The 12: Work Culture, Death Cult, & Endgame

The 12 is a crime organization and shadow government. They are named after the 12 hidden figures at the top and have many working under them. They have an agenda requiring the destabilization of all governments, select businesses, and societal resources with their main focus and central hub being Europe and Russia. This is aimed to create chaos, but this is not the endgame.

There is only one race of people in history who have managed to have world domination, before that many others have made an attempt: the Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, etc. and many other groups, nations and people who have been inspired to seek power and control have succeeded in some part of the world at one point or another. The 12 is just another one looking for their own power grab, which some would say they already have, but they are aiming for the jackpot.

The 12 have been around for decades, they at least have existed since the late 80s, so let’s say since the later half of the cold war. But what makes the 12 so different from any other mob/mafia, crime ring, secret society, etc. One thing is clear they have been planning for a long time, and their domino's are falling clean and precise, but since the season 2 finale (and season 3 finale), their cleanly laid out plan is going sideways. This is my attempt to piece together the 12, and analyze its nucleus. Let’s get into it!:

Work Culture:

The 12 is strictly hierarchical, it’s a secret organization that infiltrates any and every sector deemed important. It acts also as a political or religious operation, there is a shared belief and reward system. Keep in mind that the 12 is decentralized, meaning there is no one way of attack that brings them down. They are a 12 headed dragon.

There are 3 main hierarchy’s within the 12; the Masterminds, the Puppeteers, and the Puppets:

The Masterminds:

They are IT. They are the multi organ of this organization. The 12 is run by a group of people who have deep, old connections and old money. They are an exclusive, elitist, an almost ‘aryan-esque’ type deal. They are the privilege, the uber wealthy, the entitled, they are not in touch with the rest of humanity. They have a shared vision, a grand delusion, and the resources and plans to get it. There is a question on whether they get their hands dirty and how anonymous they are, but fortunately they have the Puppeteers for that.

The Puppeteers (keepers,etc):

These ‘managers’ are fairly high up in government and business sectors. They also have the same characteristics and backgrounds of their Masterminds. They are many questions about them as well, their job description is rather vague.

We can summarize that a Keepers job is to help make their bosses dream become a reality, of course with rewards. I believe they also know the 12’s identity and keep them safe and hidden. When all destabilizes they’ll be there to make sure the power flows where it should. Raymond and Paul could have been keepers, but we don’t know for sure do we.

The Puppets (Handler, Informants, Assassins, etc.):

This is straight forward. They do the dirty work, run the lower operation, get the dirt, and kill the targets and so it goes. Many are the readily disposable and replaceable. Notice that many among the 12 are apart of government offices. This lower tier has many government agents, like Konstantin, Dasha, Colonel Zhang Wu and of course Frank (though there’s evidence he may have been in deeper). This group also has a sub hierarchy, as handlers and informants are above assassins.

Death Cult:

What mentality does the 12 function, it’s almost occult, hence the use of ‘the 12, the all powerful number’. A cult is not just strictly defined as religious or spiritual group of beliefs but be defined as philosophical belief, a shared common interest in a personality, objects, or goal. Will like to say that the 12 is not a typical cult, but crime organizations, mafias, and secret societies etc. all have characteristics that are considered cultish. Heck fandom is considered to have cult mentality characteristics.

But what are the 12 specifically ‘worshiping’? What is their shared goal, their shared vision? The cult of capitalism, elitism and white supremacy; so basically money and power and perverse utopia. The 12 is what I call a Death Cult, now this is not used in the traditional sense where a religious cult that worships death and partakes in mass homicides and suicides.

A death cult is a perfectly distinguishes of the 12, as this is an organization you can’t get out of alive. In a death cult, no lives matter just the belief just the goal. They are willing to sacrifice everything around them except themselves to achieve their agenda, and if they go down they’ll take everyone down with them. Not all in the 12 are into the agenda, but are there for the money, the rewards, and the power. Example, Villanelle has no stake in what they believe, she just wants the money, benefits, and for a brief period the power.

The 12 infiltrate, recruit, and divide and conquer - sound familiar? They are everywhere in business and government with their hand in different honey jars strategizing their plans. They have a deadline though, and their plan is (was) going very well.

This culture and cult of wealth, power, and white supremacy, what do they want?

Endgame:

What really is the endgame, it’s not just chaos, that’s just the tool. When there are times of chaos and turmoil it’s easier to seize power. As history has recounted time and time again of political factions rising to power during economic lows, disease, and unrest, that’s where the power is a free for all. Coup’s happen all the time, during the past 2 years at least 4 attempts and successes have happened around the world.

If you want to build a new world, chaos is where it’s at.

Really it’s a grand delusion, and not rooted in reality, but with enough power, money, and of course “destabilizing from the ground up”. This vision can become a sick reality. What do all rich elitists, power hungry, white supremacists want; they want the world at their fingertips. They want perfection (eugenics), they want ‘law and order”, they want their version of utopia that they can rule, control, and exploit.

This may be a fictional universe but we are actually living in a world where a certain race and class of people actually succeeded in world domination *cough*

Final Thoughts:

So yes the 12 are the mustache twirling villain, the Dr. Evil seeking world domination. The 12 is a dream shadow organization and terrorist group that conspiracy theorists would jerk off to. But they are dumbasses who let two lesbians go buck wild. The 12 in my eyes are sorely lacking, supposedly this all powerful shadow government with all their resources and what not to take over the world and their just a looming shadow with no bite just a blah subplot to the actual story line which is Villaneve. And I’m not complaining but the 12 plot drives me up the wall with questions, hopefully season 4 let’s the Villaneve plot and the 12 subplot converge more and not leave it unsatisfactory.

#Killing eve #villaneve #meta #analysis #earth electric #my post #obsidiana writes

[omegas-spaghettios]

Ranking MCU Captain America figures

Before I begin, I want to clarify this is about my enjoyment of these characters and NOT who i think are the best morality or power wise. I specify because I think my first two entries will upset some people and I want to say, this list is NOT in order of how much I agree with these characters' values. I have a heavy favoritism towards theme and character interaction and that is where a lot of my enjoyment from media comes from. So, let's begin.

6. Captain America: CW, IW, and Endgame

I'm separating Steve into two because around CW he starts making decisions that really frustrate me.

Now I do think there is a lot to like still! His conviction to his morals during the Accords and continuing arc about government distrust is great, his stand against Thanos in IW is amazing, he is a lot of fun to watch during the New York part of the time heist, and lifting Mjolnir was legit my best theater moment ever and i will NEVER forget it.

However, in CW he starts making some awful decisions. In CW, he kisses Sharon like, days after Peggy's funeral. While on it's own it's already kinda creepy, Endgame retroactively makes this even worse. It goes on to also have grave consequence because he and Sam asked Sharon to break the law for them and never followed through to help her, which was pretty awful of them. At least Sam tries to make it right in TFATWS, but since Steve left that wrong on Sharon never gets reconciled from him.

I also think that his decision to keep Bucky and Howard's history a secret from Tony was really, really stupid. While I side with him during the fight, the fact that Steve "doesn't like when his teammates withhold information" Rogers didn't tell Tony this then walked into a Winter Soldier facility with Bucky and Tony during the most strained time of their relationship was just begging for that conflict.

He is barely in IW and while his stand against Thanos is a great moment, his decision to not let Vision kill himself is very frustrating. "We don't trade lives" then he goes to Wakanda to let thousands of soldiers die while they try and get the stone out, really dude?

I don't think going back in time in Endgame was inherently a bad ending but things he does to make it happen really frustrates me. He shows no signs of mourning Bucky or Sam at all. And then for the sake of surprise for the audience, he never tells Sam what he's doing and that is so awful. Sam dedicates 4 years of his life helping Steve with a good portion of it being on the run. Sam was with Steve more during the present than ANYONE else. Then Steve just leaves without telling him and shows back up to drop a ton of responsibility on Sam that he didn't ask for. Now Sam is an amazing Cap but it's frustrating to see that a lot of TFATWS is fallout of Steve's bad decisions in these three movies.

5. Captain America: John Walker

Now hold on, I hate this man. I think he does some awful things, so why is he above anyone else? Just because he isn't frustrating to me, he fits thematically and has good interactions with others in TFATWS.

His character really adds to the themes and discussions of white privilege, Supremacy, as well as how the US military treats their soldiers like shit, and I think he is an interesting character to watch as he starts out edging the line of evil and by the end of episode 4 crosses it. While I think Bucky was overall a bit too chummy with him in 6, I think it was all mostly in character for them. Sam and Bucky were up against 6 super soldiers and Batroc in a highly crowded city with lots of important people, it makes sense to me that they take his help in this scenario. They also never leave him alone which indicates distrust.

I also really like the moment where he drops the shield to help the truck. He is a shitty person but he is shown as a person who at least wants to do good, even though any challenge to that he goes off the rails. It is such a black and white scenario, help the truck of innocents, and I like that he does it. It also adds to the hatred of him as a person because it shows he clearly knows better but chooses to ignore it, which makes him even more despicable.

I think it is very important that a man like him bore the title of Captain America because it reminds us all that yes, it is very easy that a man like him represents America as it is and that we need to do better than him.

I like watching him and that's why he's above CW on Steve because he isn't making aggravatingly out of character decisions all of the time and he works very well within the themes of the show.

With me loving him in the context of TFATWS, in later appearances he does have a lot of potential to drop to last pretty easily, but as of now when he just is in that show, I appreciate his character a lot.

4. Red Guardian

I kinda like this character and idk how to feel about it

He doesn't fit Black Widow very much so he is kinda low but I mean, he's just kinda fun. His story about Captain America and the USSR is pretty non-related to the others and rather undeveloped which is frustrating, and he does very little plot significant things. He leads Nat and Yelena to Melina and that's about it. He distracts Taskmaster for a while but he kinda is just getting tossed around until Melina shows up. He isn't very important.

But I do like what I see and do hope we see more of him. They never pretend he's a great person and I do appreciate that he gets called on it constantly. His knuckles having Karl Marx on them kills me and overall he's pretty humorous and fun to watch. He also has a few great moments thematically that I love. When he comforts Yelena after the dinner scene and sings her favorite song as a kid? So heartwarming. When he took Taskmaster's shield when fleeing the Red Room I laughed at his ridiculousness but it lead to a pretty great moment, when he throws the shield through the windshield without hesitation to save Melina. It's a great moment to show how he's letting go of his past and obsessions to be there for his family.

I hope we see more of him, his overall lack of importance and stereotypical behavior kinda holds him back but I see so much potential in him.

3. Agent Carter

As of today she has been in exactly one 30 minute episode, but what I see I really like. Her laughter of surprise when she takes the tesseract is really endearing, her sword and muscles and height make my wlw heart patter, and I do like the difference in her relationship with Steve in this universe, where they both are of incredible capabilities but neither are given any respect for how they were born. We get that in TFA too but I really like that it is a constant theme in this iteration while in TFA it gets dropped a bit after Steve receives the serum.

There is very little of her so I can't really put her higher yet, but given more time she very well may rise up on this list but she had an excellent first showing.

2. Pre-CW Captain America: Steve Rogers

This man is a joy.

He is such an endearing scrappy little guy in the beginning of TFA and I love his commitment to doing the right thing. He still very much acts like a guy who just gained 120 pounds of muscle during that movie and it's endearing. The way he grows into his own skin in TWS is amazing as we see him really step in to what he can accomplish physically as well as his authority and leadership.

His Whedonisms in the first two Avengers films kinda bug me, they treat him like an old man when he isn't. Biologically he's like, early 30's at most here. He grew up as a fighter in Brooklyn then served in the military, he wouldn't care if his teammates swear, but overall it's tolerable.

I LOVE this man's commitment to transparency. He struggles when allies are not transparent and he shows nothing but transparency and I love that that is a constant for him (which is why I separate him from CW on)

Everyone loves this guy and over 90% of criticisms I see for him come after AoU, and that's for good reason, this guy is so loveable.

1. Captain America: Sam Wilson

He's so good, guys

I want to talk about Sam before the suit because he is amazing before it. He runs counseling for veterans, a profession very becoming of a superhero and it speaks to his incredible empathy and compassion that is on full display. I also think the fact that he dedicated 2 years to finding Bucky is not appreciated enough. Sure he was following Steve but he still spent 2 years trying to find Bucky, a person who tried to murder him. Yet he understands it isn't Bucky's fault and tries to help him anyway. I also really like that he is the first to speak out against the Accords. He doesn't wait for Steve or anyone else, he sees red flags and he is out and I really, really love that about him.

Then I love how long it takes for him to choose to become Cap and how much he contemplates it. He has to contemplate the legacy of Steve, if he wants to wear the symbol of this country, the pressures of being a black man as Cap, the legacy that John added to it, the pressures from Bucky and the pressures from Isaiah, and also his own legacy he carved for himself as the Falcon. It's a huge decision with a lot of weight and so many people pressuring him but he takes his time and chooses what is right for him, and I really love that about him. These other characters are all Caps from near the start but he transitions into one after years of knowing him as the Falcon and I love that he doesn't take this decision lightly.

Also as Cap he's just really cool. His decisions to not take the serum as well as try like hell to get Karli to step down speak to his humility and compassion. And while many describe his speech as bland it's still uniquely him. Yes the speech doesn't solve any problems but that isn't what he's doing, he's asking America and the world to get to actually solving them and that is an aspect of him we don't see much since Steve's propaganda days, his direct relation to the public.

Also his suit and wings are just awesome, I argue his action is the most fun to watch out of any of these characters.

Anyway yeah that's the list, I know people won't agree with me so let's try and keep discussion civil, alright?

#mcu #captain america the first avenger #the avengers #captain america the winter soldier #tfa #tws #avengers age of ultron #aou #captain america civil war #cw #avengers infinity war #iw #avengers endgame #the falcon and the winter soldier #captain america and the winter soldier #tfatws #caatws #what if...? #captain america #red guardian #falcon #captain carter #steve rogers #alexei shostakov #john walker #us agent #sam wilson #peggy carter

[alpacaparkaseok]

since I’m procrastinating some work by analyzing this chapter, I’ll tell you how my thoughts about it

1. OC’s selling point to everyone she recruited was independence. Hoseok, who was a free agent, had that. What could she have offered him? (I want him to have asked for a family LOLLL)

2. Love that sope supremacy prevails here 🥰

3. Where is their money coming from? Yadiel sucking her father dry reminded me of how they came up from nothing, but how? Especially when no one knew they existed they couldn’t have made any big money moved without coming up on the map?? Is it tae’s money?

4. Still dyingggg for a JK/OC backstory

5. I wanna see more serious/action hobi! I reread the gala scene so many times just to feel something

6. I’m SO curious about yadiel and namjoon. He seems more traumatized than her by it all, just more controlled w his emotions

7. Outside of trying to dodge Yadiel, their whole plan to come in guns blazing by overtaking her dad has gone to shit now. I cant think of how they’ll exert their dominance without doing something crazy now

8. Did Yadiel plant that book in the library? I can’t imagine why anyone would leave tracks behind that part confused me

9. Namjoon saying he heard OC seduced hobi brought me back to the police station scene where he asked her about it and she got mad LOL

Drop chapter 12 soon pls 😩

lol thanks for dropping in! haha I hope you got your work done and it went well!

1. ooh so true! freedom in varying degrees. *insert Jin in chp. 7 chatting with Yoongi because I'm so proud of how this all connected so nicely*

“What’d she offer you?”

The low din of the radio permeates the SUV, filling in the gaps in the silence. Yoongi waits patiently for Seokjin to answer his question.

Seokjin keeps his eyes on the road as he taps the steering wheel. “What do you mean?”

“You know what I mean.”

“Well, what’d she offer you?”

Yoongi frowns at his reflection in the side-view mirror. “Something I never thought I’d get.”

Snorting even as he turns onto a dark back road, Seokjin leans back against the driver’s seat. “Ambiguous. I like it.”

“So…”

He shrugs in that nonchalant way that Yoongi finds himself wanting to mimic. There’s something about the arsonist – some sort of easy arrogance – that he’s never been able to pin down.

“She offered me my sanity, I think.”

“You think?” Yoongi’s low voice is filled with ire.

“Yes. I think. Do you?”

“Do I what?”

“Think.”

Yoongi stares at Seokjin, who stares right back before breaking into a wide grin. “Gotcha.”

Rolling his eyes, Yoongi decides to refrain from asking any further questions. “Perhaps it’s a good thing she offered you your sanity. You need it.”

Seokjin’s laugh is alarmingly light-hearted. “Oh, you have no idea.”

2. Sope is my lifeblood.

3. Great question! Tae definitely helped to get them up and running with his funds (he comes from old money, honestly what he's spent is hardly a scrape off the top), and oc was granted access to her inheritance money upon leaving her father. it was part of their agreement, kinda like a "you don't bother me and I won't mess with you" kind of situation. we'll see the other ways they pilfer money in upcoming chapters.

4. ach jk & oc. they have a wonderful backstory. it's great. 10/10/

5. he's coming, don't you worry :))

6. ugh. poor namjoon. he's been through so much, that guy. :(

7. touché. they've really got to go big or go home. hmmm I wonder what they'll do. hmmmmm

8. no, Yadiel didn't. that's as much as I can answer to that lol

9. oh my gosh yes I love that chapter so much - that feels like it was so long ago sksksk

chapter 12 will come my dear!

#anon asks #htss:asks #b:asks

[mewtonian-physics]

my ranking of the alex rider original series (stormbreaker through scorpia rising) from ‘book i least enjoy rereading’ to ‘book i most enjoy rereading’ let’s goooo

spoilers for all 9 books under the cut

9. Ark Angel

...He went to space. He went to space. Also the entire plot could have been avoided if Drevin had actually bothered to provide a photograph of his son. I’m sure he had one. I still like this book but it’s literally so insane that I just don’t know what to do with it. 

It is however really funny that Webber just goes and gives a speech insulting this super high-profile ecoterrorist group and acts like it’s no big deal and then they kill him. Shock of shocks.

8. Skeleton Key

Okay, points to this book for terrifying the shit out of me. God damn it does that shark scene scare me. Also, points for making me feel a little bit bad for a man who wants to nuke his own country because he thinks it will fix the place up. I’m still not entirely sure how that’s supposed to work, but that’s probably a good thing. I feel like understanding his thought process would say bad things about me. Still, I actually did feel sorry for him, if only a little. Dude was clearly mentally unstable and I doubt his son’s death helped at all. I also got sad about what happened to Carver and Troy. (Yeah, yeah, I’m a cringe fail American who has the American release. So sue me.) What a nightmare that must’ve been to endure... Otherwise, though, I’m not super into this book. The opening is just kind of meh and the way it leads into the rest of the plot seems a little bit unbelievable. Also, this might be an unpopular opinion, but Sabina annoys me. I would not get along with her at all and I can’t imagine her as a girlfriend. Skeleton Key does, however, absolutely excel at the emotional scenes. 

Also, why are all the spy agencies so comfortable with sending in a 14-year-old? Especially when they outright admit that the other attempts have all died horribly? Bureaucracy’s a bitch.

7. Point Blank

Boo, Dr. Grief! Boo! We hate your white supremacy! I’m so glad you got a snowmobile to the face, you deserved it. (Perks of books written by Jewish people--we aren’t afraid to give the neo-Nazis an unpleasant death.) Anyway, this book definitely isn’t bad, but I wouldn’t really say it stands out in the series. It definitely does hammer home the point of just how trapped Alex is, since MI6 isn’t going to just let him go after one mission, and let’s face it, the plot with the clones is creepy as hell, if highly improbable. But I’m largely just here to see the neo-Nazi get snowmobiled. That’s right, I just completely changed the definition of a pre-established word. I’m a rebel.

Also, I hate Fiona Friend so much and overall think she just didn’t need to be in the book, but the line about ‘I’d rather kiss the horse’ made me laugh so hard. Alex, you sass.

6. Snakehead

Okay, let’s talk about how genius the plan in this book is. I love it! I love how Yu wants to kill the people involved in the peace conference without making them into martyrs, so he comes up with this whole elaborate plan to stage a natural disaster. It’s incredible. This dude was thinking so far ahead. And he would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for that meddling kid... But anyway, I don’t see a lot of books where the villain really acknowledges that killing their enemies could just cause more problems for them via turning them into martyrs for a cause. Also, the way he’s so polite and soft-spoken while also being a complete monster... This book genuinely gives me chills. Extra bonus points for the part in the hospital, the absolute nightmare of having all your organs slowly removed and sold off and everyone around you is being so nice about it? ‘Oh, don’t worry, Alex, it won’t be so bad. Here, take your medicine. Do you need anything?’ Literally just. What the fuck. 

Also Ash can fucking fight me. You put your own godson in horrible danger on purpose! You killed your best friend! Bastard. 

...And just in case the book wasn’t disturbing enough, Yu’s fate at the end lives in my mind rent-free and I think about it on a concerningly regular basis considering that the chances of that happening to me are so low they’re practically in the negatives. Damn you, Horowitz.

I would also be remiss if I did not mention just how much I love the tagline ‘once bitten, twice spy’.

5. Crocodile Tears

Ah yes, the book that kickstarted my drift away from the church... I kid, of course. I drifted away from the church for completely separate reasons. But Desmond McCain is always going to scare the shit out of me. The ability to kill countless innocent people while blissfully quoting Bible verses (that he takes wildly out of context and uses for his own self-serving means) is... well, I could actually say a lot about what that reminds me of, but I’m here to rate books, not religion. Moving on. This book has some really stellar antagonists, and the plot is chilling in a way that feels a lot more realistic than most of the other books. Even if some of it is a bit farfetched (sabotaging a nuclear power plant? Really?), the idea of using disasters for your own profit... well. I’m sure I don’t need to elaborate on why that is so believable. The Poison Dome is also a really cool and chilling scene--even Alex, who has the luck of the devil, can’t get out of that one unscathed. Further scares come in with the fate of Harold Bulman--imagine having your entire existence wiped and your identity changed while you were asleep! The breakdown he has over it is almost enough to make me feel sorry for him, even though he was ready to exploit a teenager and make his life a living hell just to turn a profit. Note the word almost.

Also. The opening makes me cry. Specifically the line talking about how Ravi’s kids would ‘never meet Mickey Mouse’. I lose my goddamn mind every single time I read it. That little personal touch turns the scene from a statistic to a tragedy. Once again: Damn you, Horowitz.

4. Stormbreaker

Yeah, this one gets the special cover shot. And why not? What we are looking at here is the birth of a legend. Move the fuck over, James Bond, Alex Rider is on the scene now. Anyway, yeah, this book is pretty damn spectacular. It has its stumbles, but as the first book in a series, that’s to be expected. Still, it pulls you in from quite literally the first line and keeps you going right up until the end. (If you came here from my post of memes, you know how much the line ‘Killing is for grownups, and you’re still a child’ destroys me.) It has the debut of much-beloved characters such as, of course, Alex--but also Jack Starbright, and of course, the best MI6 agent of them all, which is to say Smithers. Hell, even Yassen Gregorovich, especially once you get through Russian Roulette... Man, that was a rough one. 

Seriously, though. This is a really good book. The scene with the Portuguese man-o’-war still gives me the chills to think about. (Have you ever looked up pictures of those things? They’re beautiful, but holy shit will they make you regret being born. Nature is funny like that.) 

We also get the introduction of, of course, Alex’s patented sass (his response to Sayle saying he relates to the man-o’-war is HILARIOUS) and we get the inherent humor of Alex screwing up an alias one time and then just going by Alex for the rest of the series so he doesn’t do that again. Really, kid, I know you’re not a trained spy or anything but did you never play pretend growing up? Ever? You can’t pretend your name is Felix for a little while? That sounds like a you problem.

3. Scorpia Rising

I distinctly remember when this book came out, actually. I was on vacation at the time, and I remember my brother annoying the hell out of the poor workers at a bookstore we frequented there to see if/when they were going to get it in. They did, finally, and we bought it immediately, and I was of course absolutely desperate to read it. He got to read it first, though. -_-

This is a great book, an absolute emotional rollercoaster all the way through. The way Blunt tricks Alex back into service by staging a shooting was exactly the kind of cold, brutal behavior I’d expect from him. Seeing Julius come back was shocking, but very exciting, too. And Razim makes an incredibly chilling villain, with his absolute disregard for human life and his desire to measure pain. Also, seeing Smithers’s house was so much fun. Smithers in this book was just really fun in general, but he’s really fun in every book, so... nothing unusual there. But also, I want an unwelcome mat. Please?

2. Eagle Strike

‘But Penny,’ you might ask, ‘why is this book so high on your list? It has so much of Sabina in it, and you said she annoys you.’ That is true. What does not annoy me, however, is basically the entire rest of the book. I love the tense opening, and then reading through Alex’s real-life ‘playthrough’ of Feathered Serpent is still one of my favorite scenes. Cray is absolutely incredible as a villain, with the way that he truly believes in his cause--which is undoubtedly a good one! Yet the extremes to which he will go for that cause, and the fact that he very nearly succeeds, are what elevate him to one of the most dangerous villains in the series. That scene with Charlie Roper and the nickels is something I can never seem to stop thinking about. Actually, I think about it basically whenever I think about large amounts of money paid in small increments... 

Also, I really enjoy how he gets into the whole plot in the first place, and I really enjoy Smithers saying ‘ah, fuck it’ and helping him out anyway. Go, Smithers. You once again prove me right in saying that you’re the coolest adult in MI6.

The revelation that Yassen knew Alex’s father is one that absolutely blew my mind first time around. The way his life was threaded into the lives of the Rider family--he worked with John Rider, was saved by him, killed Ian Rider, and then died for refusing to kill Alex Rider--wow. Wow. It gets to me. It really gets to me. This book is a masterpiece. I heard that it’s going to be what the second season of the TV series is based off of, and I’m so hyped for that. We love to see it, we really do.

1. Scorpia

I don’t believe anyone who says this book didn’t get to them at all. I just think they are lying. I don’t think it’s humanly possible to not be affected by this book. God. Just thinking about it reminds me of why I don’t think it’s possible. I mean, come on. We get all this backstory about Alex’s parents, we get tricked along with him into thinking MI6 killed his father, then bam, that was a lie, and Alex may have just fucked himself over big time. Also, that plot is terrifying! (And I bet anti-vaxxers had a field day with it, huh.) Julia Rothman is a really great antagonist, one of the only ones who didn’t go and explain her plan in great detail to Alex--the fact that she didn’t actually being a plot point was something I personally found pretty clever. In general, this book is... I tend to hate when people say they ‘can’t put it down’ because it’s usually an obvious exaggeration, but that really is how I feel reading it.

And again. If that ending didn’t get to you... Well, I just think you are lying.

#alex rider #spoilers

[kindofwriter]

1, 6, 10, 12, 15 for the rqg asks?

Anon, I would die for you.

1. RQG characters are now the characters in another podcast you love. Whose places do they take, and how does this change the narrative?

I don’t know how well it works, but it has to be Penumbra, true love of my life.

Zolf would already make the perfect grizzled detective. I also think Juno’s s2 arc would be quite an accurate depiction of Zolf during the 18 month time gap, if we’d ever got to hear any of that.

I’d love love love to see Zolf and Sasha relationship transposed onto Juno and Rita. Rita and Sasha obviously couldn’t be more different, but I think they have a lot in common on paper: dangerous, hidden past, utter delight at new things, cares deeply and endless about the people they consider family, rejects any authority until it’s an authority they’ve chosen, then they have nothing but respect for them.

It would make sense for the crew of the Vengeance to be the crew of Carte Blanche, but we don’t really know them that well other than Earhart. So maybe Eldarion and Curie as Buddy and Vespa? That does rob Sasha of her opportunity to be knife wife 2.0, but I love her as Rita. Einstein and Earhart will collectively make up the sheer powerhouse that is Jet.

Wilde actually makes for a pretty great Nureyev. Smooth talking master of illusion? Hell yes! Plus, he’s never he focus of the story, which works well for an NPC.

I can’t remember his name right now, but Grizzop as that one guy in the HCPD that was actually trying to do a good job and implement change and, basically, abolish the HCPD!

Now Sasha and Mick are where characters may have to bend a little more. Desperately wants to stay friends with [Zolf] despite him constantly putting down his ideas, plus addiction issues? Kinda Hamid! But sweet, well meaning, and strong? That’s Azu! Social climbing + used to work with [Zolf]? Hamid! Hyper confident, wants to be in charge? Azu! 

But, due to the rivalry, and the fact that Hamid would probably work with Bertie in this AU, I’m going to say Hamid as Agent W and Azu as Mick. Azu is too good for this world, and I love some Hamid/Zolf friendship angst.

A similar plot would even still work - expect Zolf’s angst would come from killing his own brother, rather than his family doing it. And instead of medical debtors the meritocracy would be spreading The Blight in order to control their citizens, and The Carte Blanche would be looking for a cure.

6. What’s a location you can picture perfectly each time it’s brought up? Describe it.

Ngl, all of them,,, But I have a really specific image of the Apophis Office that is nothing like what Alex described. I imagine, from the outside, it looks like one of those optical illusion buildings; all stairs and corridors that don’t quite add up, made of aged limestone.

(Side note: since the Tahan bank definitely shouldn’t be a pyramid, I always pictured it as being like an hour glass. All windows that can be tinted when an important meeting is going on. Elevator straight up the middle.)

10. Invent a plot for a Harrison Campbell novel; fictional or from canon.

I really love the idea of Zolf finding and reading a Campbell about asexuality, never really saying anything aloud, but just going ‘ooooh, everything makes sense now.’

The MC is nothing at all like Zolf. She’s a high society socialite who likes parties and flirting and attention (hm, sound like anyone Zolf knows?). But the second she’s alone with anyone, and anything remotely sexual could possibly happen, she immediately doesn’t know how to act.

The story is about her trying to find a connection that feels right. In the end she realises she’s asexual, but decides that her bond with her best friend is the most important thing in her life, and although she might find someone one day who she has a romantic connection with she’s content for now.

It’s not Zolf’s favourite book by far, but it feels special to him in a way the others don’t quite.

12. If RQG were to be a TV show, which one NPC would you want Alex to voice and why?

I want to say Wilde. I really, really want to say Wilde; he’s the most consistent NPC, and the most important, and Alex has had a lot of practise doing his voice, and I love how he does it.

But I kind of think Wilde should be voiced by an Irish actor. They’d have to do/have a reeeally soft accent, but a lot of people seem to forget/not know that Wilde was Irish, and I don’t want to steal that literary history, y’know?

So probably Barret. He’s around at the beginning and the end and even shows up for a bit in the middle; he’s important! Plus, I feel like he’d enjoy getting to play The Big Villain, and it is a good, creepy voice.

(Carter is also up there, but I think Carter should be voiced by Bryn, for reasons.)

15. What’s a headcanon you think about all the time but feel you’ve never had an opportunity to share?

I share all my headcanons, lol. But here are some quickfire ones I don’t merit putting into fics/posts: 1. he/she/they Eren Fairhands supremacy 2. aroace Sasha who confuses admiration for having a crush 3. Cel’s hair falls over their eyes when they drink their beast serum, making them look like an anime monster 4. the reason ‘go go boots, go’ is the activation phrase for Zolf’s boots is because when he got them Wilde explained that he’d have to create an activation phrase and he was like ‘lol, what, like go go boots, go’ before realising his mistake, and he’s been stuck with it ever since 5. even fictional Oscar Wilde is not allowed to be a twink, it is Wrong.

Thank you so much for the ask!

#rqg #the rusty quill gaming podcast #author’s note

[jinxquickfoot]

4,16,26 for marvel asks!

4. Favorite villain and why?

John Walker. Or what John Walker could have been. The idea of a white, privileged, entitled Captain America as a foil for Sam Wilson was such a clever choice (until they totally screwed the pooch in episode 6, but let's ignore that for now.) And on top of that, the fact that Walker wasn't outwardly terrible, and his racism came out in form of microaggressions as opposed to outright hate, and the serum taking that and turning it into the exact supremacy Zemo was warning about? That he was a product of a corrupt and biased system? That he murdered a man in broad daylight and went just to get another job as US agent instead of facing jail time? *chef's kiss*

How the same people who made those choices also thought it was a good idea for John to get a 'redemption arc' and be all buddy-buddy with Bucky at the end after he tried to murder Sam with the shield (watch that fight - there is a clear moment when Walker is about to bring the shield down on Sam's throat before Bucky tackles him away) is...why. Why did they do this.

16. Favorite actress?

I was once Scarlett Johansson's waitress and she was the nicest customer ever and yes, she tips very well.

26. Least favorite character and why?

Ooooh ok don't hate me Tumblr but...I've never really liked Loki. The weird Sylvie x Loki stuff aside, I am enjoying the show, and I think Tom and Chris are so fun to watch in Ragnorok, but on all the whole I could never get past what Loki did to Clint. There is the argument that Thanos was controlling Loki in turn, but that was never very well articulated in the movies, and Avengers does establish that Loki really did want to take over Earth and didn't care who died in that goal and "I was never Daddy's favorite child and that made me sad" didn't justify murder and mind control for me.

I do think there was an opportunity for a more nuanced ending to Avengers that leaned more into the idea that Thanos was forcing Loki to do this. This version would have had Natasha break through to Clint through emotional connection rather than a blow to the head, and then passing that information onto Thor so he could break through to Loki in the same way, and then Loki helps them stop the invasion - maybe by giving them the information that taking out the mothership would destroy the whole army rather than that just being a convenient side effect of Tony's sacrifice.

#loki spoilers #thanks for the ask!

[victoriareyloficlists]

08/01/2021 Additions to Reylo Work Environment

These fics have been added to the Work Environment list located here.

Boss Relationship

Weighted Warmth by Fayth_Delarosa (AO3 2020  Rated E Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: This was a mistake, a huge one. Maybe she could turn back now. But something keeps her rooted in place, and she hugs the precious parcel closer to her body, dreading the moment ahead of her. Secret. Fucking. Santa.) Car Trouble by dawninthemtn (AO3 2018  Rated T Complete, 18 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: In which Ben is forced to work undercover at one of his dad's shops and meets a lovely mechanic named Rey.) Holy Knot, Batman! by Eskayrobot, Poaxath (AO3 2018  Rated E Complete, 5 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey goes to her coworker's Halloween party as part of a Batman villains group. Ben goes to his cowoker/childhood friend's Halloween party as part of a Justice League group. Rey is Ben's secretary. And Ben and Rey obviously do not like each other. They DON'T! ) keep calm and let HR handle it by hi_raeth (AO3 2019  Rated T Complete, 6 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey managed to go a full year without ever directly interacting with her new CEO, but now it seems like he’s dropping by her office every single week.) The Life You Always Dreamt Of by KyloTrashForever (AO3 2018  Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Victorian AU, Quick Synopsis: In 19th century London, Rey is a poor street rat desperate for someone to see her as something more. Little does she know that the mysterious and powerful Skywalker heir has set his sights on on her to become his wife, and will do everything in that power to make her his.) The Golden Rule by JJJJ12 (AO3 2019  Rated E Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Never fight with girls. It was Han's golden rule. The only piece of his father's advice that Ben followed. It had been difficult, but not impossible. Until he met Rey.) Say it With Sugar by fettuccine_alfreylo (AO3 2016  Rated E Complete, 20 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben Solo is the owner of his family’s small chocolate shop. Rey Kenobi is a talented chocolate maker he hires. They both share the same passion for chocolate. Unfortunately, they share the same kind of anxiety, too.) Bad Publicity by Azuwrite, Cecilia1204, Frog_heart_00, GreyForceUser (ReyandKyloforever), Littlemistake, LostInQueue, MyJediLife, Ohlittlelovely, ReyloBrit, SavingWhatILove, Shestoolazytologin, thoseindarkness (AO3 2019  Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey Niima is the Social Media manager for the actor Ben Solo. She also may be insanely in love with him, and when the size of his assets are challenged, Rey does what she must to defend him.)

Coworkers

Your Pretty Little Heart by Ever-so-reylo (Ever_So_Reylo) (AO3 2018  Rated E Complete, 15 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Modern day AU in which Ben is an Alpha, Rey is an Omega, and they are way better at having sex than at communicating with each othe) She's My (Work) Wife! by Darth_Malfoy (AO3 2020  Rated M Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben and Rey are platonic coworkers as far as she knows. When Ben introduces himself and Rey to new hire Poe, Ben has a Freudian Slip and refers to Rey as his wife.) Want and Need (I will ruin you and set the stars on fire) by miaxxx (AO3 2018  Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey Kenobi didn’t want an alpha. She was perfectly fine with suppressants and seeing herself through her heats every few months. Until Ben Solo started at the cubical next to her and everything changed.) And a Partridge in a Pear Tree by hearts_0f_kyber (rw_eaden) (AO3 2020  Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey has been getting presents on her desk every day of December. They're wonderful, thoughtful little gifts but there's only one problem: she has no idea who they're from.) Trust Falls by TazWren (AO3 2019  Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey Jackson is a hot-shot sales rep who has no time for processes or for IT. Ben Solo is the head of IT who has no time for Rey's carelessness. Can two people who never see eye-to-eye find common ground? Or, how getting an armful of Ben Solo turns Rey's world on its head. A gift fic for the Thirst Order Gifting Season) Employee Engagement by Celia_and (AO3 2020  Rated T Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: The HR survey that Rey takes actually seems more like a list of first date questions. Ben Solo works in HR. Coincidence? ...Maybe.) it's a date by hipgrab (merrymegtargaryen) (AO3 2018  Rated G Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: It takes Rey approximately half an hour to realize that they’re on a date.) Misprint by JenfysNest (AO3 2019  Rated E Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: In which Rey prints the elaborate erotic fiction she writes about her quiet co-worker Ben Solo at work, but he gets to the printer first.) 169 Days by JenfysNest (AO3 2019  Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: It’s been almost a month since Rey Johnson started as the coordinator for company events at Supremacy Realty. Ben Solo knew she had heard things about him. His reputation always preceded him. Everyone knew to “stay away from Solo.” Rey hasn’t stayed away, though.)

Client Relationship

America's Asshole by monsterleadmehome (AO3 2018  Rated E Complete, 3 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben Solo is a critically acclaimed (but widely despised) movie star. Dubbed "America's Asshole" by the press, he has recently finished a stint in an anger management facility after punching his last agent in the face. Rey Niima is a top talent agent and is outraged to find out she has been assigned to be Ben Solo's newest victim. ) Getting Handy by andabatae (AO3 2019  Rated E Complete, 4 Chapters, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben’s not sure how to flirt with the woman who performs repairs at his apartment complex, so he keeps breaking things in order to see her again. Unfortunately, Rey now thinks he has an anger management problem...) Talk Taxes To Me by here4thereylo (AO3 2020  Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Modern AU, Quick Synopsis: Ben has been Rey’s tax accountant for the last four years. Maybe this is the year they grow a little closer... Rey is finally no longer Ben's client. Whatever could happen???) Love Makes Fools Of Us All by Darkcat18 (AO3 2020  Rated E Complete, 5 Chapters, Victorian AU, Quick Synopsis: Poe Dameron and Armitage Hux take their friend Ben Solo to Madam Natal's high end brothel so that he can be rid of his virginity. Ben, though nearly thirty, has no desire to lose his virginity to a whore. When he sees Rey, laundress and cook, he strikes a deal with Madam Natal to spend the night with her. Rey agrees after he offers her a very large sum of money, to be paid directly to her. What neither realize is that this deal will change the course of their lives.) Lightning Strikes Twice by vuas (AO3 2020  Rated E Complete, One-Shot, Fantasy AU, Quick Synopsis: Rey gives up her First-Born to the Demon, Kylo Ren, in return for her Grandfather’s life. The thing is—she doesn’t have one to give. Yet.)

#reylo #reylo fanfic

[narrowtriangle33-blog]

Dear White people part 4 another article for you.

"I’m talking to a hundred law students. The room is racially diverse and full of people who have gotten into top law schools. They’re committed to making racial equity a cornerstone of their work. They tend to think about race in their daily lives. They’ve chosen to attend this evening lecture about the problematic ways race is baked into American law and legal pedagogy. But not a single hand goes up to answer my question—and this matters."

"I often start these talks by asking several volunteers to tell me what race they are. I then ask them how they know. Invariably, students of color say things like, “I know I’m black because the world tells me every single day.” Or, “I know I’m Latinx because my family is, it’s my blood, it’s my language.”"

"But when I ask white students how they know they’re white, the answer is almost always the same: silence. White students often stop short, unable to identify and articulate the cultural, political, economic and historic clues that tell them they are part of whiteness, let alone what being part of whiteness truly means. I let the silence grow. It gets uncomfortable. Then I step in to suggest that this phenomenon—not the individual student—is a significant part of America’s problem with race. It’s a major part of how we arrive at moments like this one, where dozens of cities are convulsing with racial pain, state violence, and the shell-shocked gaze of many white Americans asking themselves how this can be happening again. (It is not a mystery to black people of color.)"

"Remember Amy Cooper? She’s the white woman who, a few days ago, called police on a bird-watching black man in Central Park and repeatedly emphasized that he was “African-American” to the dispatcher. She may feel like old news now. But her actions are deeply instructive for this new, more convulsive moment: I bet if I asked her the same question—how does she know she’s white—she’d respond with the same blank silence as many of my (progressive, unusually aware) students. How do I know? Her apology, which indicated that she doesn’t truly understand what it means to be a part of whiteness. Critically, she said, “[I] would never have imagined that I would be involved in the type of incident that occured.”"

"And that’s just it. In this country, we have thousands of white people who consider themselves aware of the pain racism can cause, and who could never imagine themselves inflicting it—but then do. There are countless white people who consider themselves progressive and “good” on race issues, who scoff at and are offended by actions like Ms. Cooper’s—but who, to their surprise, are capable of similar actions. Any person of color who knows “good white people” can tell you this is true. It’s how we get, for example, progressive colleagues who nevertheless call us by the name of the other black woman we work with, repeatedly, or comment on how pretty our hair looks when we wear it straight, saying “It’s usually just so puffy!” On the more extreme end of the spectrum, it is also how we get cops—people who presumably have dedicated themselves to a life of service—literally suffocating black people like George Floyd as they beg for their lives. It is also how we get these moments repeatedly."

"One cause of this recurring confusion—and the ensuing harm—is white people’s general lack of fluency around race, especially their own. White people often don’t understand that they are as “raced” as any person of color. They can see that a black person, for example, is deeply embedded in what we call “race,” and lives a life impacted at nearly all levels by race. Indeed, this idea is almost axiomatic. But they often can’t draw the same conclusion about themselves, or white supremacy, which is how they come to be raced in the first place. And they generally don’t know what to do with this new knowledge if and when they have an aha moment, except feel guilty and let that guilt push them deeper into silence. Will Ms. Cooper have a true and deep aha moment now, or no? If she does, what will she do with it? As a person of color, I’m pessimistic on all counts.

There is a grotesqueness and a horror to our racialized world right now. Things have never been great. But the deluge of pain, the torrent of willful blindness amid violence—from the brutally racialized impact of COVID-19 to the fates of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and others, from the actions of Ms. Cooper to the inaction of so many white people—is both deeply chronic and freshly acute.

Maybe I see signs of hope amid the horror—I see more white people publicly mourning the recent losses of black and brown life, and some progressive white people I know have committed to explore their role in white supremacy through tools like the exercises in this extraordinary book. (Whether they will do it remains to be seen.) I myself feel brave enough to speak, here and now, despite how speaking out has hurt me in the past (losing relationships, hearing racial slurs, etc.). I fear, though, that the outcome is predictable: white silence, and black pain, perhaps forever, often rooted in good white people’s blindness to how they are (unwitting) agents of white supremacy, too. Until a critical mass of white people begin and continue the work of anti-racism with their own lives, then uprisings and protests will function more as expressions of black and brown pain than as inflection points in the culture. After all, black and brown people have been resisting, uprising, and protesting in this country for centuries. If that were enough, it would have worked already. The missing link is white people doing deep, honest, and ongoing inventories (and clean-up) of their own relationship to white supremacy."

#truth #spread this #spread the message #speak now #speak up #take a stand #take action #take a minute #spread awareness #raiseawareness #help please #pls rb this #okay 2 rb #reblog #share

[waritawrites]

Tales from the Hood: Rhodie (black elitists) or Duke Metger (Biden) - Who was the Bigger Threat to Black People?

https://followerofthewayforever.wordpress.com/2021/05/05/tales-from-the-hood-rhodie-black-elitists-or-duke-metger-biden-who-was-the-bigger-threat-to-black-people/

#Prolife #LABlackAdvocatesforLife #LouisianaBlackAdvocatesforLife #BlackGenocide #AbortionIsEugenics #PlannedParenthoodIsElitist #Elitism

#ElitismIsHomicidal #LouisianaRightToLife #PlannedParenthoodPredators #PlannedParenthoodOwesReparations #Reparations

In Rusty Condieff's 1995 horror movie Tales from the Hood, there is a story called KKK Comeuppance which starred Corbin Bersen as senator and former KKK member Duke Metger and Roger Guenver Smith as his Public Relations consultant Rhodie (a black elitist) who are working to get Duke elected as governor. Duke faces great opposition because of his past membership with the Ku Klux Klan and AND his choice of the location of his campaign headquarters - his grandfather's old plantation. His grandfather murdered his slaves were upon finding out slavery in the south had been legally ended. There is an old legend that says that a former slave woman used witchcraft to capture their souls and place them in the bodies of dolls. The dolls would periodically come to life and their leader was the woman's husband who had been killed. A mural of the woman and her dolls was located Duke's office.

Alone, Duke was an unlikeable, arrogant, person. Yet, with the help of Rhodie, his appeal grew which made him a serious contender in the governor's race. When looking at today's political scene, one would easily say that Trump was like Duke Metger - when looking from a superficial perspective. A SUPERFICIAL PERSPECTIVE. He wasn't the most tactful. He was blunt. Some, DEFINITELY NOT ALL, of Trump's were white supremacists (some were also white "liberals" pretending to be stereotypical white conservative Trump supporters) and those who weren't white were anti-black, some of which were black. Yes, there are anti-black black people. One such character in Tales from The Hood was Rhodie. Rhodie seemed to represent a stereotypical black republican. He seems like the type of anti-black, self-hating black person who would pretend to "help" the black people improve their community by getting rid of as many Black people as possible using:

- Forget GOD and uphold multicultural, pagan ideals instead

- Abortion

- Euthanasia (gotta maintain that quality of life)

- Normalization of promiscuity

- Normalization of destructive alternative lifestyles

- The stigmatizing of traditional marriage and family

-The normalization of addiction and substance abuse, such as recreationally smoking heroin

Columbia professor: I do heroin regularly for ‘work-life balance’

https://nypost.com/2021/02/19/columbia-prof-i-snort-heroin-regularly-for-work-life-balance/

https://twitter.com/Joy_Villa/status/1363557914351403016?s=20

People who promote such self-destructive behaviors as normal or even inherently black are an enemy! They are an enemy of mankind, no matter how progressive that they think such behaviors are. Indeed, progressivism, like evolution, is an oxymoron because you don't gain anything biologically nor socially. Things regress to its most basic form. Though, a progressive such as a eugenicist might would tell you, "progressive for the purpose of efficiency - less means more." More for them, more resources for them in their quest to reign supreme in the survival of the fittest, or their horrible misinterpretation of term. Yet, we don't see the promotion of such self-destructive behavior coming from Black Republicans, Conservatives, and Independents. We see the encouragement of black self-destruction coming from Black Democrats

Most Democrat Legislators Champion Margaret Sanger’s Racist Genocide Mission – Are They Counter-representing You?

https://followerofthewayforever.wordpress.com/2019/05/16/most-democrat-legislators-champion-margaret-sangers-racist-genocide-mission-are-they-counter-representing-you/

Liberals, and some (especially paid) Social Justice activists as well as your various dose-of-distraction-from-news-and-entertainment-attractions.

Black Agents of White Supremacy in the Media endorse racist Joe Biden

https://followerofthewayforever.wordpress.com/2020/03/04/black-agents-of-white-supremacy-in-the-media-endorse-racist-joe-biden/

Support of the Super Predators: White Supremacists in Liberal Disguise and the Mainstream Media that promotes them

https://followerofthewayforever.wordpress.com/2020/02/17/support-of-the-super-predators-white-supremacists-in-liberal-disguise-and-the-mainstream-media-that-promotes-them/

Joe Biden & his supporters on Joe's racist association with the klansmen sound a lot like Duke Metger & Rhodie in Tales from the

Hood @ 0:56:22 mins

"We all have a past, now don't we?"

"We all, have a past. Its a better man who can learn from his failures. I know that I have learned from mine and I'm better for it."

Duke Metger & Rhodie in Tales from the Hood, https://youtu.be/5vxHfr3DLKg

Margaret Sanger also used black elitists to carry out her plan for eugenics by way of birth control.

Planned Parenthood has stalked and misinformed Black people, particularly Black people experiencing poverty as well as uneducated Black people about the personhood of an unborn child. However, Black Democrats, Liberals, and some (especially paid) Social Justice activists such as Black Lives Matter:

BLM to Biden & Harris: We want something for our vote

https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-lives-matter-leader-to-biden-and-harris-we-want-something-for-our-vote

- BLM got in the way with their grifting and clout-seeking.

Michael Brown’s father, Ferguson activists demand $20M from BLM

By Kenneth Garger

https://nypost.com/2021/03/03/michael-browns-father-ferguson-activists-demand-20m-from-blm/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Where is the $90 million dollars collected by BLM? Michael Brown’s father, Ferguson activists demand $20M from BLM

https://twitter.com/TheFabulousRee/status/1371965130578268160?s=20

Shaun King attempted to discredit Samaria Rice when she spoke against the political exploitation of racism and police brutality done by pseudo-social activists, celebrities, and politicians. Shaun King stated that she was not thinking the way that liberal white "woke" supremacy wants her to think. She isn't sticking with their destructive narrative and agenda for Black people. They're redlining us into feeling that we can't be self-reliant! Meanwhile, Closet Capitalist Anarchists ease into the neighbohoods they help to destroy to start businesses, buy real estate for commercial and residential purposes;etc. #UnfollowShaunKing

"I read Shaun King’s piece about Samaria Rice’s critical social media comments and this is some of the most patronizing ugly sh-t I’ve ever seen"

https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi/status/1371882450763329536?s=20

BLM destroyed a beautiful,civilized movement as well as communities. It could have been a beautiful,civilized movement yet they ruined it w/buffoonery such as twerking for Martin Luther King, Jr Day and WAP stupidity

Joe Biden's non-response reminds me of this scene from Tales from The Hood:

Duke Metger in Tales from the Hood, "No Reparations!" https://youtu.be/7vjwA1IkIRk

and Black ministers

Apostate False Preachers for Feticide and Infanticide: Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton

https://followerofthewayforever.wordpress.com/2020/03/11/apostate-false-preachers-for-feticide-and-infanticide-jesse-jackson-and-al-sharpton/

have been its main proponents and propagandists since the early 1900's when it was known as the American Birth Control League. To appeal to Black people, Sanger said:

The Use of Ministers for The Negro Project in a 1939 letter to Dr. C.J. Gamble:

"The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

In Birth Control and the Negro, Sanger talked about the value of the influence of black ministers:

“The project would hire three or four ‘colored Ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities’ to travel throughout the South and propagandize for birth control, since ‘the most successful educational approach to the Negro is through religious appeal” (as cited in Gordon, 2007, p. 235).

Dr. Albert Lasker, Sanger (1939) stated, "If we could get the Negro Universities and the Negro medical groups behind this project it will go over really big I think, especially if there is a little money to give to those for time spent and for supplies in their clinics."(para. 3)

One of her biggest propagandists was W.E.B. DuBois (See: Negroes and Birth Control, https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/16e5b6a56c2c4aedb3274e7124f3006e.jpg)

W.E.B. DuBois (1939) stated:

“Among the more intelligent class, was a postponement of marriage, which greatly decreased the number of children. Today, among this class of Negroes few men marry before thirty, and numbers of them after forty. The marriage of women of this class has similarly been postponed.

In addition to this, the low incomes which Negroes receive make bachelorhood and spinsterhood widespread, with the naturally resultant lowering, in some cases, of sex standards. On the other hand, the mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than whites, is from that part of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly.” (para. 4 and para.5).

Joe Biden has more in common with Duke over the course of his career than does Trump. Here are the facts listed in my article, Joe Biden has built his career by FIGHTING AGAINST EQUITY and EQUALITY, https://followerofthewayforever.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/joe-biden-has-built-his-career-by-fighting-against-equity-and-equality/ :

"Joe used the drug epidemic to target Blacks and poor people to serve longer sentences for trafficking by promoting proganda that crack is more lethal than cocaine. Blacks and poor people could afford crack for distribution and sell because it was less expensive than cocaine which Biden gave lesser sentencing. This occurred during the time the number privatized prisons began to increase. These were for-profit prisons. This first company to take over a prison was Core Civic in 1984. Civic Core took over a Shelby County, Tennessee prison.

Vox.com's German Lopez https://www.vox.com/2015/8/26/9208983/joe-biden-black-lives-matter shares Jamelle Bouie's list at Slate.com https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/08/joe-biden-presidential-run-why-its-a-bad-idea.html:

"Comprehensive Control Act: This 1984 law, spearheaded by Biden and Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC), expanded drug trafficking penalties and federal "civil asset forfeiture," which allows police to seize and absorb someone's property — whether cash, cars, guns, or something else — without proving the person is guilty of a crime. Under the federal Equitable Sharing program, local and state police get up to 80 percent of the value of what they seize as funds for their departments, which critics say creates a for-profit incentive to take people's stuff.

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986: This law, sponsored and partly written by Biden, ratcheted up penalties for drug crimes. It also created a big sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine — even though both drugs are pharmacologically similar, the law made it so someone would need to possess 100 times the amount of powder cocaine to be eligible for the same mandatory minimum sentence for crack. Since crack is more commonly used by black Americans, this sentencing disparity helped fuel the disproportionate rates of imprisonment among black communities.

Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988: This law, co-sponsored by Biden, strengthened prison sentences for drug possession, enhanced penalties for transporting drugs, and established the Office of National Drug Control Policy, which coordinates and leads federal anti-drug efforts.

Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act: This 1994 law, partly written by Biden and signed by President Bill Clinton, imposed tougher sentences (including some mandatory minimums) and increased funding for prisons, fostering the explosive growth of the US prison population from the 1990s through the 2000s — a trend that's only begun to reverse in the past few years. Since black Americans are disproportionately likely to be incarcerated, the law helped contribute to the mass incarceration of black Americans in particular. But the law also included all sorts of other measures, including the Violence Against Women Act that helped crack down on domestic violence and rape, a 10-year ban on assault weapons, funding for firearm background checks, and grant programs for local and state police.

The RAVE Act: This 2003 law built on the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 to impose civil penalties on businesses that knowingly lease, rent, use, or profit from a space where illicit drugs are being stored, manufactured, distributed, or used. The idea was to go after raves in which drugs are widely used. But the law has been widely criticized for making rave organizers so paranoid about anti-drug crackdowns that they stopped doing anything that would implicate them in drug use, including providing medical or educational services for drug users."

Interesting that Joe and Strom Thurmond partnered to write the 1984 Comprehensive Control Act during the same time period that Core Civic took over a facility in Tennessee. The increase in the number of privatized coincided with Biden's focus on creating crime bill's. To sell his 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act #1994CrimeBill, Biden's rhetoric was "Lock the S.O.B.'s Up" to further vilify the poor and other disenfranchised people to justify mass incarceration.

-'Lock the S.O.B.s Up’: Joe Biden and the Era of Mass Incarceration

He now plays down his role overhauling crime laws with segregationist senators in the ’80s and ’90s. That portrayal today is at odds with his actions and rhetoric back then.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/us/joe-biden-crime-laws.html#click=https://t.co/7ck1J9966W

His magnum opus was his 1993 Predators Beyond the Pale Speech

-Joe Biden Warns Of "Predators On Our Streets" Who Were "Beyond The Pale" In 1993 Crime Speech

https://youtu.be/7oDHSt-CKtc

- Joe Biden wrote the Clinton approved Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act:

Bill Clinton's crime bill destroyed lives, and there's no point denying it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/15/bill-clinton-crime-bill-hillary-black-lives-thomas-frank "

In addition to creating legislation that racially profiles minorities into a system of for-profit mass incarceration, he has also been a loyal supporter of planned parenthood.

Current Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson says:

"Margaret Sanger’s beliefs caused irreparable damage to the lives and health of generations of Black people, Latino people, Indigenous people, immigrants, people with disabilities, people with low incomes, and many others." Read more from

@alexismcgill

: https://p.ppfa.org/3x3N29f

https://twitter.com/PPFA/status/1383827872628953094?s=20

I’m the Head of Planned Parenthood. We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/opinion/planned-parenthood-margaret-sanger.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=healthtwitter&utm_content=nyt2-april21

Despite McGill-Johnson's statement of the racist activities of planned parenthood as well as Kamala Harris' expression of fear of Joe Biden's praise of the known white supremacists of whom he has shown reverence:

What bothered Kamala about Joe? Interview with Kamala Harris on the campaign trail - Face the Nation

11:35 mins: “Praising and coddling individuals who made it their life work and built their reputation off of segregation of the races in the United States........I would not be a member of the United States senate if those men he praised had their way."

What bothered Kamala about Joe?

https://youtu.be/xMqp7A-O0HE?t=695

Let's talk about Joe Biden - 10:53 mins

https://youtu.be/xMqp7A-O0HE?t=653

this year he has still allowed the government to give over 400 million dollars to continue to decimate the Black community.

Joe Biden Gives Abortion Industry $467.8 Billion, 19 Times More Tax Money Than Obama

https://www.lifenews.com/2021/04/29/joe-biden-gives-abortion-industry-467-8-billion-19-times-more-money-than-obama/

https://twitter.com/StevenErtelt/status/1388694739512348674?s=20

Black people make up 13% of the population and Black women only represent 6% of the total population yet account for 36.9% of the nation’s abortions whereas white women account for 36% of the nation’s abortions however white people are 76% of the nation’s population. (Jatlaoui TC, Boutot ME, Mandel MG, et al, 2015).

Jatlaoui TC, Boutot ME, Mandel MG, et al. Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2015. MMWR Surveill Summ 2018;67(No. SS-13):1–45. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.ss6713a1

Regarding the near extinction of the Black population in America due to abortion, Nyhiem Way El stated to reparations group American Descendants of Slaves,

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ados101/permalink/296772141208488/?sfnsn=mo,:

"- Based on the January 2018 estimate that there have been 60 million abortions in the United States since 1973,20 we can deduce that well over 18 million of them were performed on black babies.

- As of July 2017, the black population in the U.S. stood somewhere around 40 million, which means that abortion has reduced the size of the black community by more than 30%—and that doesn't include the children and grandchildren that would have been born to those aborted more than a generation ago.'

Abort73.(n.d.). Abortion and Race. Retrieved from https://abort73.com/abortion/abortion_and_race/

Essentially, this is a 50% halt in population growth if you look at the children and grandchildren who would've been born since 1973 of the aborted. (Way El, 2019)

**As of July 2017, the black population in the U.S. stood somewhere around 40 million, meaning abortion has reduced the size of the black community over 30% and doesn't including potential children and grandchildren born to those aborted a generation ago

https://abort73.com/abortion/abortion_and_race/"

Planned Parenthood owes reparations to Black people, Hispanics, those living in poverty, women, AND fathers who wanted their children that were aborted.

GOD hates the Oppression of the Disenfranchised: Proverbs 30:14 & Jeremiah 34:8 - 22

https://followerofthewayforever.wordpress.com/2021/04/17/god-hates-the-oppression-of-the-disenfranchised-proverbs-3014-jeremiah-348-22/

Proverbs 30:14

“There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.”

Hypocrisy of Joe Biden: A Legacy of Self-Entitlement and Oppression against the Disenfranchised

https://followerofthewayforever.wordpress.com/2020/01/08/hypocrisy-of-joe-biden-a-legacy-of-self-entitlement-and-oppression-against-the-disenfranchised/

Biden's overall opinion of Black people continues to be low,especially of those who would vote for him. In August 2020, Biden stated at a meeting with Latino voters:

"By the way, what you all know, but most people don’t, unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

—#JoeBiden 8/6/2020 https://youtu.be/f4lXYR0su-8

I'm glad that I'm a notable exception - I didn't vote for him.

I will never support the removal of GOD being THE GUIDE of America, abortion

Scriptures Against Abortion and Child Abuse

https://followerofthewayforever.wordpress.com/2020/03/12/scriptures-against-abortion-and-child-abuse/

HURTING CHILDREN BRINGS ON THE WRATH OF GOD

Matthew 18:5-6,10

5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea

10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven

the destruction of traditional marriage and family, the destruction of traditional gender roles,eugenics, population control,euthanasia, and government and corporate hoarding rationing for totalitarian purposes disguised as environmentalism and sustainability.

Reference

Way El, N.(2019,May 16).Predatory Abortion Industry causes 50% halt in black population growth

https://www.facebook.com/groups/ados101/permalink/296772141208488/?sfnsn=mo

Du Bois, W.E.B.(1939, April). Negroes and Birth Control. Smith

https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/16e5b6a56c2c4aedb3274e7124f3006e.jpg

Sanger,M.(1939).Letter from Margaret Sanger to Dr. C.J. Gamble December 10,1939. Smith Libraries Exhibit, Accessed January 10, 2019, Retrieved from https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/d6358bc3053c93183295bf2df1c0c931.pdf

Gordon,L.(2007). Birth Control and the Negro. In The Moral Property of Women, p.235. Urbana; Chicago: University of Illiniois Press.

Sanger,M.(1939).Letter from Margaret Sanger to Dr. Albert Lasker November 12,1939. Smith Libraries Exhibit, Accessed January 11, 2019, Retrieved from https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/087da25e33426c0e81b01eebcdcc079d.jpg

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