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sugrstars · 21 days

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THE SWEETEST SOUND ... THE DISCOGRAPHY OF SUG★R

debuting in 2016 with the album GIRL TO GIRL under Infinite Stage Entertainment, SUG★R is the group credited with the revival of the company, as they are the first ISE group that managed to break through and become a true success.

closely after this successful debut, SUG★R released their first mini album, SELFISH, in early 2017. this album continued their central concept of confidence and girl power, but added a bit more edge to their sound. title track As If It's Your Last topped international charts for nearly four weeks, and helped to make the group become known to western audiences. they released mini album ACT UP only four months later, with title track Go Hard helping the girls win their first ever music show award only a year after their debut.

ISE seemed determined to keep the girls busy, as only a few weeks after the release of this ep the group began the asia leg of what would later become their international SO SWEET tour. two months and ten tour dates later, the group began working on mini album Sixth Sense, which released at the end of 2018. the title track of this mini album received four music show awards, and the album sold over 200,000 copies in the pre-order phase alone. Sixth Sense was remarkably different from the group's prior releases, having a lighter pop sound. while fans clearly enjoyed the tracks, many netizens expressed a hope that SUG★R would return to their original sound in their next comeback.

with the completion of the Sixth Sense promotional period came the start of the north american leg of the SO SWEET tour, marking SUG★R as the first group under ISE to tour internationally. during this tour, during this tour in north america, the group also released their first ep, Lovesick Girls. the album was the first under ISE to be produced by american producers, and received mixed reviews from korean fans. though it sold nearly two thousand albums within the first week of sales, and became a fan-favorite.

in mid-2019 the group returned to korea to work on their second full album, UNAPOLOGETIC. around this time, fans became worried that the girls were being exploited by the company, seemingly not having had any downtime between their debut and the release of the album. still, it became one of SUG★Rs best-selling releases, with the album currently having over 3 million sales internationally. UNAPOLOGETIC was seen as being perfect for SUG★Rs concept, with strong messages of female empowerment in title tracks Iconic and My Satisfaction. during this era, a SO SWEET tour movie was released, as well as a series of unplugged recordings of SUG★Rs biggest hits that were posted to youtube.

in 2020 the group released an ep and a mini album back to back, with ep BAD/GOOD releasing four months after UNAPOLOGETIC, and mini album i TO i being released in the fall of that same year. both comebacks had a remarkably darker sound, and the promotional periods were criticized for the fact that the girls looked noticeably exhausted and irritable. after a seven-week promotional period for BAD/GOOD, the company announced that SUG★R would go on a hiatus for an indeterminate amount of time.

in 2023, after many fans had already accepted that SUG★R was likely to disband, the group had a comeback with album (DON'T) CALL ME. title track HIP became the most successful song of the year, winning 15 music show awards, making it the most popular song ever released under the company. the album has several memorable tracks, with Karma and Paint The Town especially becoming fan favorites. the album sold close to 4 million copies, and is SUG★Rs most popular release to date.

later that same year, the company underwent some major changes, with SUG★R again entering a minor hiatus as leader Hyejin became involved in a lawsuit against former ISE ceo Cho Hosung. during the spring of 2024, SUG★R finally had another comeback. Better Things is much more stripped down and sweet, and even the members themselves acknowledged that this was a deviation from their normal sound. the group did a promotional period for title track Better Things, and soon after also did a shorter promotional period for Life's Too Short. during the promotion for the album, the group had several pop-up cafes around korea in collaboration with angel-in-us coffee, releasing their own limited drinks to be sold at all angel-in-us coffee houses. this contributed to album sales, selling over 700,000 copies just within the first three weeks of release.

(ib. @venusvity)

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pertinax--loculos · 4 months

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And now, because I'm feeling miserable chaotic as fuck, after just posting some banners for Vibes WIP earlier this arvo, I'm going to post a rewritten version of the first scene of Absent That Night.

Note that this is just a first pass, so even those it's technically ~draft two~ there still may be typos, etc etc.

But regardless! I hope you enjoy. ^_^ Any feedback is welcome -- particularly things like would you like to read on, does this make sense, do you have any questions that aren't plot related? (I'm super close to and familiar with this WIP, so I sometimes forget what the reader would and wouldn't know, and I'm not sure if foreshadowing etc would come across correctly.)

Anyway, it's approximately 2.5k words, so really if you read it at all I love you for it. <3

Latrell stared at the blank space on the wall, incensed. It used to host a painting. Much like the sections of wall to his left and right, in fact. Though those paintings were still there. Of course. Voices drifted down the long featureless corridor from his right. “I just don’t understand.” Shrill, piercing, unbelievably loud. A woman accustomed to getting her own way. “We pay all this money, and that is supposed to protect us from situations like these, and now you’re telling me that it doesn’t?” Latrell narrowed his eyes until the wall in front of him almost disappeared. “I understand your frustration, ma’am.” Albie’s voice was low, soothing, a stark contrast. Ever the professional. “And you are correct, your contract with LEAH does guarantee swift retrieval of all listed items. However, the item in question was not on the list. Surely you understand how that might change the situation.” Latrell smiled to himself and moved down the corridor, away from the woman’s increasingly hysterical objections.

Habitually, he dipped mental fingers into the Orn, the waterlike texture of his flow shimmering in his mind’s eye. A few signatures jumped out at him, the paintings lining the corridor. Not the one that was missing. He’d never touched that one before, never even seen it, hadn’t had a chance to familiarise himself. Absolutely no chance of tracking its location.

He blinked, moving away from the Orn and back into the physical world.

The corridor was lined on both sides, no rhyme or reason to the order of the artwork, no overarching theme. The only thing the pieces had in common was their price. The corridor was an exhibition of wealth, not of passion.

At this end it opened up into a large, airy living space, made to seem even larger by the wall of windows directly opposite. They looked out over the centre of the city, all steel and glass and whitewashed concrete. Far off in the distance, the dark line of the waterfront, the ocean stretching to the horizon.

“Nice view,” Albie said from his elbow.

Latrell glanced at her. “You manage to calm Mrs. Bishop down?”

“Calm might be too strong a word.” Albie rolled her eyes. “I think I’ve talked her down from a lawsuit. And she’s going to let us actually do our jobs, so that’s something.”

“It sure is.”

“Oh, c’mon, you know you love me.”

She patted his shoulder, the bad one, and Latrell had to hide his flinch. Albie probably wouldn’t have noticed anyway; she stepped further into the living area, spinning in a slow circle as she took it in. “Got anything yet?”

“Besides the obvious? No.” Latrell rubbed at an eye under his glasses, a headache beginning to tug at his temples. “Honestly I don’t even think there’s any point searching.”

“Naw, don’t be like that. It’s not our job. Besides, he’s gotta make a mistake eventually. Today might be our lucky day.”

Latrell seriously doubted it, but he moved next to her to examine the table.

It was an ostentatious piece of furniture if he’d ever seen one. Swirling patterns from the original tree paired with spaces of black and clear resin, sitting on legs that seemed to Latrell at best impractical and at worst dangerous for the tens of thousands of dollars he was sure the tabletop cost.

Not that it would be worth that now.

Etched directly into the resin — deep enough that it hit the centuries-old wood in some places, small shavings dusting the surface around the gouges — was a series of lines, swirling around each other. An artwork in itself, really, evocative of water, or perhaps a representation of wind. Latrell couldn’t look at it without thinking of his flow. And in the centre, a single word.

Nox

Latrell brushed his gloved fingers over the edge of the carvings. They were deep yet smooth, nothing rushed or crude about them. Each line a separate groove. Not made with anything as pedestrian as a knife. Perhaps a hammer and chisel. A specialised instrument, at the very least.

“He’s getting bolder.” Albie stalked around the table as if to view the signature from every angle. “This is bigger than anything else we’ve seen.”

“More space to work with, maybe. Not often the most expensive item in a room is a table.” Latrell traced the sharp angles of the ‘N’. “Did the Bishops tell you where they were last night?”

“Dinner at the Station House, then apparently they went to a friend’s house to kick on. No plan to stay the night, but that’s what ended up happened. Got home about three hours ago, took them an hour to discover the theft.”

Surprising it was that fast. The apartment was big enough they could’ve spent days inside without visiting every room.

“Do they often stay out all night after a dinner?”

Albie was at the head of the table, arms crossed. “Took a bit of finagling, but I reckon so, yeah. Mrs. Bishop wouldn’t admit it but the way she talked gives me the impression it’s not an uncommon occurrence.”

“So no way to be certain they wouldn’t return, but the odds were pretty good.” Latrell massaged his temple with two fingers. “Still, he wouldn’t leave anything to chance. Would’ve gotten in early. Security cameras?”

The hopeful uptick in his voice made Albie smile. “Nothing.”

“I fucking hate this guy.”

“Oh, I know.” Albie’s voice was teasing, but there was a note of censure behind it. Latrell kept his eyes on the table so she wouldn’t see his wince.

Fucking Nox. The man had been a thorn in Latrell’s side for nearly three years, and that thorn was quickly turning into an entire branch.

LEAH’s Artefact Recovery Division served the clients who could afford to have their most valuable pieces insured with something more than money. Every Agent assigned to the unit had an affinity for object tracking; a location on the Orn that allowed them to see, touch, familiarise themselves with a certain item, and then use the Orn to find it. Latrell had been assigned to the ARD eight years ago, a consolation prize after an on-the-job injury had caused the police to fire him. He’d met Albie about twelve months later, and they’d been partnered six months after that.

Most of the time an ARD Agent’s job was fairly simple. If a thief managed to bypass the comprehensive security systems a LEAH client could afford, they tended to know which piece would get them the most on the black market. Unfortunately for them, so did the Agents, so the pieces were already listed and a part of an Agent’s repertoire. A brief look at what item was missing and the relevant Agent briefly checking out the Orn would usually locate the piece.

Usually. Nox was a different story.

He had an uncanny ability to target only those items that Agents hadn’t yet had a chance to itemise. Generally new acquisitions, often those on the books to be added to a client’s list within the next few days. It was specific enough that there’d been talk of Nox having some inside source.

Latrell wasn’t sure that was true. But it was getting to the point that he’d have to agree or figure out a more compelling theory soon.

Because the last six pieces that Nox had stolen — the last six households where he’d taken something and then destroyed something else, picking a room and defacing the most expensive item to leave his signature and no doubt of who it was that had committed the theft — had all been on Latrell’s register.

Once was an anomaly. Twice was coincidence. Three times was a pattern. Six times got people asking questions.

The sharp trill of Latrell’s phone cut through his musing. He answered it without looking at the screen. “Latrell.”

“Good morning, Agent,” a voice purred in his ear. Male. Smooth. Smug. “Enjoying yourself, I trust?”

“Who is this?” Latrell snapped. Albie raised an eyebrow, and he held up a hand. The voice was utterly unfamiliar, which raised a host of problems, chief among which was— “How did you get this number?”

“I have resources.” The man managed to convey the wave of his hand with the tone of his voice. “I should think you would know this by now.”

“Look, whoever you think I am, you’re mistaken. You’ve clearly got the wrong number, and I’m busy right now, so—”

“Forgive me. I thought you’d pardon the intrusion, given that it’s my handiwork you’re currently admiring.”

“What?” Latrell spun. Pointless. There was no one else in the room. “Fuck off. You think I’m going to fall for that?”

A chuckle in his ear, silky and deep. Whoever it was, they had a hell of a voice for radio. “Is it really that improbable that I would contact you, Agent Latrell?”

Latrell stopped.

Forced his mind back into its box. There was any number of reason the caller would know his name. No need to get ahead of himself. No reason to let his thoughts careen out of control down paths that made no sense—

“Have you seen the Michelson, by the way? It truly is a stunning piece. They say his use of colour is unrivalled.”

Latrell’s heart tripped. Stumbled. Caught its balance at a speed that felt unhealthy. They hadn’t known which piece had been stolen until they arrived. That information hadn’t been publicised. It hadn’t even been passed along to LEAH yet.

“Latrell,” Albie said quietly.

He waved in her direction again. Turned away. “Okay, so you’ve managed to find out some information. Congrats. Doesn’t mean I’m gonna believe—”

“Agent,” the man cut in again, “If you examine the table from the end closest to the couch, I believe that will be proof enough.”

The reference to the table, the knowledge of the signature, was proof enough. Nothing that had ever been released to the press. And it was unusual, moreso than any other scene. Not a coffee machine. Not a couch. Not, perhaps most memorably, an entire sound system. Never the artworks themselves, but always an item of incredible value — generally more than Latrell’s annual paycheck — marked, dismantled, defaced. Ruined.

Latrell stepped around the table. Stared down at it for a few long seconds. Saw only swirls and whisps and curving, branching lines.

He squinted a little, tilted his head, and it jumped out at him like an optical illusion snapping into focus. Seamlessly integrated into the pattern, a series of letters, distinct and separate from the larger, blocky moniker.

Hello, Latrell

“The hell…” The words were faint.

The man on the phone chuckled again. “You’re welcome. I am quite sure your boss will be very curious as to the meaning of that.”

“What the—”

“Apologies, Agent, but I really must be going. Places to go, paintings to fence. You know how it is. Though if I may offer some advice?”

He paused. Not long enough for Latrell to formulate a response.

“You really should make an effort to leave work earlier. Eight pm every night this week? It’s a recipe for burnout.”

Latrell dropped the phone from his ear, staring at the screen. The unknown number stared back at him, stark black numbers on a too-white screen.

Implausible. Impractical. Impossible. Beyond that, beyond the logistics and the motivation and the feasibilityof it all, it was just fucking insane. If he was right, if the man on the phone was who he thought it was, then he’d done all that, found Latrell’s number, tracked his movements, knew that he’d be at this crime scene, knew enough about his life to know when he was leaving work every night, all with the ultimate goal of calling him to— what? Gloat? Provide a clue? Hear the sound of his own fucking voice?

Each possibly theory was more insane than the last. Latrell swept off his glasses and pinched at his eyes with a thumb and forefinger.

“Brishan!” Albie all but shoved him, and Latrell realised it wasn’t the first time she’d tried to get his attention.

“Sorry,” he said, too distracted to bother with sincerity, mind racing, whirling, unmoored. He shoved his glasses back on, tried to school his expression back into neutrality. “I was just—”

“Who was that?” she demanded.

“I don’t know. It was nothing. Nobody. A prank call.” Yeah, right.

“Who’d they say it was?”

“They didn’t, actually.” He realised the truth of the statement even as it left his mouth. Not that it mattered. The content of the conversation left very little doubt just who he’d been speaking to. As much as his brain was trying to find ways to deny it. “Never actually identified themselves. They just implied— but it wasn’t really— I mean, I’m not sure—”

He exhaled, rubbed at his eye again. Spoke without lowering his hand. “I actually— I think it was Nox.”

Beat. Then: “What?”

Latrell kept rubbing at his eye. Didn’t really think that question deserved an answer.

Albie took a few moments to realise that was his conclusion, then added, “Are you sure?”

“Fuck, no, I’m not sure!” Latrell dropped his hand in time to catch the hurt look flicker over Albie’s face, shoulders tense, spine straight. He sucked in a deep breath, tried to modulate his tone. “No, I’m not sure. But… well, he was certainly pretty convincing.”

Albie chewed her lower lip for a moment. “We’re gonna have to report this.”

Irritation flickered hot and fluid in Latrell’s chest. He loosened his jaw, endeavoured to keep his voice entirely level when he said, “Of course I’m going to report it.”

It still came out sharp. Too sharp, if the slight lift to Albie’s eyebrows was anything to go by.

Latrell closed his eyes for a beat. Shoved down the slow boil of annoyance licking at his insides, forced himself to inhale, exhale. Slowly. Repeated, “I’m going to report it.”

Some of her scepticism faded, though an element of obstinance remained in the jut of her chin, the wrinkle between her brows. “Good.”

Latrell’s jaw locked. He turned away from her, back towards the table. Let his eyes skip over those two horrifying words, embedded in the centre of a criminal’s signature. Abruptly wished he’d chosen something else to look at.

“It’s… weird, right?” Albie’s voice had softened. “After the last few months…”

“Yeah it fucking is.” He sucked in a deep breath, gestured towards the table. “And this doesn’t help.”

Albie stepped up next to him. He didn’t really want to show her this. Didn’t really have a choice. It wasn’t exactly something he could hide, couldn’t change the signature so those two words were no longer a part of it.

But it was okay. Most people so far believed what he thought, that he was just a random target. Believed that he had no idea why Nox was fixated on him. Believed that he was just as in the dark as the rest of them.

But things kept piling up. Coincidence upon coincidence. As a cop Latrell had been trained to believe coincidences didn’t exist. But coming up with any other theory now seemed even harder.

He knew the instant Albie saw it. Felt her tension lurch like a physical presence in the room.

“Oh,” she said, quiet, loaded.

“I know.”

Albie turned to him, her face as earnest as her voice. “You’re fucked.”

Latrell removed his glasses to pinch his eyes again. “I know.”

#pockets muses IWL #WIP: ATN #original writing #writeblr #excerpt #enjoy you guys ^_^

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batbeato · 15 days

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How rich do you think the Ushiromiya Family is (at least, as a front)? From what I can tell by the power of the internet, one of the wealthiest men to exist in the 1980's (to '87) was Yoshiaki Tsutsumi with a net worth around $20 billion.

Considering Kinzo was renowned for both wealth and business acumen, it could be somewhere around there - not including the ten tons of gold, since that's a mere rumor for the public. I think at some point Eva mentioned several ten billion yen (so 20 billion or upwards) in assets, even if said money wasn't actually liquidized and just on hand to draw out of a bank (a.k.a Krauss probably hadn't gotten the chance to spend it all away yet). Not sure exactly how that converts to dollars, but Kinzo would be at the very least a millionaire?

I read somewhere that he made a lot of his money via investments in post-war industry and ferrying supplies to...someone(pretty sure it was the US, since Japan was still under occupation?) in preparation for the Korean War.

On wikipedia, this time period (1940's to the early 1990's when Japan's economic bubble popped) is known as the Japanese economic miracle. Wikipedia isn't the best source to look at, but it's a start on researching it and pondering the growth of Kinzo's wealth.

Likewise, how wealthy do you think the branches of the family (Eva, Rudolf, and Rosa) are, even in the face of their financial struggles?

Since, I don't think we ever get numbers on the money Rudolf needs for the lawsuit, or the amount Rosa needs to pay the loan and possible interest - I'm not sure about the other aspects of her business, since she did have the money to have vacations with various boyfriends, so it may have been doing well? Just not well enought to handle the loan?

And Eva + Hideyoshi really only need to worry about buying stocks back, not their finances. Similarly to Krauss and the embezzlement of Kinzo's money but not all the assets, they don't have the liquid cash / assets on hand to pay off the various issues they're dealing with.

Hm... To be honest, I've just never really thought about it much. Trying to fathom the level of wealth they have is tough. I feel like Kinzo's kids come off as millionaires, where they're very wealthy but not about to commission private jets for what would be 3 hour drives - that sort of super excessive expenditure you get when you're so wealthy money no longer has meaning. They're wealthy, but not so much that they can do whatever they want (as evidenced by all of them Needing Money Right Now).

Rosa in particular feels like someone who... doesn't have that much money on hand. Her business also isn't doing that well. She does spend a lot on Maria sometimes, and also spends for her getaways with boyfriends, but she's in debt. Also, she... doesn't hire someone to just, look after Maria? It could be a pride or secrecy thing more than a financial thing, though... But considering that Jessica probably had private tutoring, George had tons of tutoring and special programs, and Ange is also mentioned to be in cram school (she knows division. she is SIX.) and Maria seems to have none of that... It could reflect on Rosa trying to raise Maria as a "normal child" with less of the pressures that her siblings put on their children, but could, again, be financial hardship preventing her from doing that.

I guess when you add a bunch of millionaires together, plus the incredible amount of money and assets that Kinzo has put together over the years, you end up with billions. At the very least, post-1986 Eva comes off like a billionaire, especially with how she recklessly does the same stuff Kinzo did to put together vast amounts of money and wastes it on pretty much whatever she thinks will make her feel better (it's mentioned that she got into sketchy new religions/cults/whatever). I wouldn't know nearly enough about the Japanese economy to be able to put together any sort of ballpark estimate, though.

#umineko #umineko no naku koro ni #umineko spoilers #i tag that a lot but #a lot of even mundane details can count as spoilers #the fact that rosa is dating people and leaving maria home alone is a spoiler #it doesn't get revealed until the end of ep2 in implication and then explicitly in ep4 #and eva surviving post 1986 is an ep3 end spoiler too

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themichaelvan · 2 years

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why nearly every character in all of the fnaf musicals are insane in distinctly different but still very much insane ways: an essay

(this is like 80% from memory and its. checks time 2:15am as of writing this so excuse inaccuracies.)

mark: oh my god starting off with a bang, are we? okay okay. he was there for ONE NIGHT. one. one night. he spent like basically all of it crying in the corner because of puppets. theyre puppets. freddy is literally punted across the room on multiple occasions YOU ARE A FULL GROWN ADULT MARK. "in all my dreams i see / a maze of halls with bloody walls / and countless scrawls reminding me "it's me!"" YOU WERE THERE FOR ONE NIGHT. he IMMEDIATELY decides that the solution to this is not 1) taking it up with his manager 2) just fucking quitting bUT INSTEAD THAT ITS 3) BRING A DUFFEL BAG FULL OF WEAPONS, INCLUDING SEVERAL KNIVES AND GUNS TO HIS WORKPLACE INTENDING TO KILL THE ANIMATRONICS YOU WERE HIRED TO PROTECT. AND THEN THE ONLY THING HE DID TO CHANGE HIS IDENTITY AFTER NEARLY KILLING A MAN AND GETTING CAUGHT WAS TO DYE HIS HAIR. he didnt even change his ADDRESS. dipshit. he acts all tough and crap afterward too like he spent 40 years in prison. he was reduced to literal actual tears by puppets. god i love him so much.

nate: sassed the man holding a knife to one of the animatroniocs he, AGAIN, was HIRED to PROTECT. drove the animatronics to a man they KNOW is willing to use guns to protect himself in the FIRST PLACE. also he just ??? fuckign Had bb on hand like. did they give him bb when he quit the first time?? like. okay. say you have to distract an easily distracted but immensely murderous animatronic and your first thought is "hmm what if i use that rc car that looks like a child from my old workplace". bitch if its been 7 years since i worked there and witnessed a traumatizing event im gonna bury that fucker at the bottom of my closet not just have it with me. also his first concern when he was faced with a very much "i am going to die" situation is that he hasnt caught up on a tv show yet???? nate buddy please i appreciate you but get some self-worth and some therapy while youre at it

aj: he was nearly killed by an animatronic as big as he was, stopped only by like a foot or smth, and then IMMEDIATELY accepted the transfer to ANOTHER place with animatronics in it like. why would you actively choose to keep working with fazbear entertainment. im sure literally any other company ever would look at aj "nearly killed two men because he wanted to work more hours" purple guy and hire him in a millisecond. SPEAKING OF WHICH, HE NEARLY KILLED TWO MEN BECAUSE HE WANTED TO WORK MORE HOURS. DO YOU NEED THE MONEY THAT BADLY OR DO YOU JUST REALLY FUCKING. WANT TO WORK AT FAZBEARS THAT MUCH. i honeslty cant decide which is worse. he also mocked the guy with a chainsaw who burst through the wall not ten minutes before??? who was also like 2 feet away from him???? what were you EXPECTING him to do??????????????????? give you more hours????????????????????????

phone guy: yeah.

mike: looked at the absolute flaming dumpster fire that was the lawsuits, filthy animatronics, extremely low budget, and EXTREMELY sketchy boss that was the new fazbears and said "yeah i can work with this." also i think he got killed by pan stan which is such a sad way to go my god. i dont have quite as much to say about him but i DO love him very much and he REALLY SHOULD HAVE gotten a better job.

lizzy: other than the fact she hasnt quit fazent yet (which is excusable considering it looks like shes looking into the sketchy stuff and is probably mostly there for mikes death), actually not that bad. props to her tbh if i had to deal with a boss like phone guy id go considerably more feral.

those police officers who showed up for like 2 scenes in the og fnaf musical: just fucking, like. let an actual murder perp ESCAPE because they Forgot To Lock The Car And Went To Go Get Food and then just. DIDNT REPORT IT. because this, apparently, is NOT the first time theyve let someone escape, and because theyd LOSE THEIR JOBS IF THEY REPORTED IT. if the police is THAT bad in this town no fucking wonder phone guy's gotten away with everything so far.

#long post #90% of the time i am moderately normal and just have reactions to consuming Media #but 10% of the time two of my braincells connect and you get an essay #fnaf the musical #fnaf musical #fnaftm

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qqueenofhades · 2 years

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About the power of the SC to overrule a law, I have a somewhat naive question: say that a Sentae + Congress manage to pass a law allowing abortion until a certain date. Isn't it more difficult for the SC to say that it is against the US Constitution rather than what they did rn, which is to say that the constitution doesn't guarantee it? I feel that the "burden of proof" is not in the same direction in these two cases. Or could they just say that it's not within the purview of (1/2)

(2/2) the federal level to impose this to the states? I have to admit that I'm still a bit baffled by the SC powers (I'm the French anon from last time), which combine the powers of 3 different courts in France. Not to say our Vth Republic is all well and good, mind you, far from it. In our case, if the president has the majority in parliament, they can do whatever they want (within constitutionally possible things). Wish you all the best and hope you'll feel better in spite of the circumstances

Unfortunately, no. First of all, a large number of people are still assuming that the current SCOTUS is acting according to a moral and coherent legal theory, and that there's some rationalization behind their decisions other than "find every way we possibly can to remove rights from groups of people that we don't like and/or ideologically disagree with." They've recently handed down a raft of decisions dismantling the Establishment Clause -- separation of church and state, which one might well cite as one of the founding principles of America -- including the opinion written by Gorsuch on how public school sports coaches forcing their team to pray with them is totally okay, constitutionally speaking! They also struck down the law in Maine that barred private religious schools from receiving public state funding. And yet, if a Muslim or Jewish person tried to do this exact same thing, i.e. force non-members of their religion to pray with them in public, or demand that the state fund their private madrassa or yeshiva, and there was a lawsuit about it, I guarantee that someone on SCOTUS would find a way to ensure the law only applies to freedom of religion for Christians. (Ten bucks on Alito, anyone?)

This is the same SCOTUS that, ONE DAY before they handed down Dobbs, argued that states have no individual right to regulate handguns; the Second Amendment supposedly guarantees that any individual has a right to carry one for self-defense. That's the argument they used in striking down key portions of New York state's law requiring permits for concealed carry. You might recognize this as just flat-out MAKING SHIT UP for what they want the Constitution to say, by coming up with the decision first and backfilling the rationale post facto. So if you're following, this SCOTUS says that states can't regulate handguns, and the Constitution requires them to be freely available at the federal level, but they can regulate abortions, and the Constitution does not require that they be freely available at the federal level. This is what people mean when they say that guns in America literally have more rights than women right now.

So if Congress had passed a law formalizing the right to an abortion (which is extremely unlikely, for all the reasons previously discussed), it doesn't necessarily have any more protection from judicial review than just a long-standing Supreme Court precedent (which is what Roe and Casey were). Some asshole Republican Attorney General or whackadoodle Christofascist advocacy group can still file suit against that law in court, it can still go up the food chain, and if SCOTUS decides that the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion, they can still overrule that law on those exact same grounds. That's what their job is. The idea that Democrats need to "restrain judicial review," or stop judges from performing their constitutionally appointed function, is, uh, an obvious distraction from the fact that those judges are terrible and were appointed by a terrible president. So the Democrats basically needed to develop superpowers and mythical foresight and prevent Republican crimes before they even happened! Like Minority Report! That sounds like a real plan to me!

As I have pointed out before, they didn't need to take Dobbs; they can just reject cases that reach SCOTUS without even having to explain why, and in fact that's what happens to most of them. The fact that they deliberately took it, and then tailored the ruling to be as maximalist as possible, was a clear-cut case of supposedly impartial judges acting exactly like partisan operatives, because that is precisely why the Republican-appointed justices were picked. Not only that, but they lied in their confirmation hearings to keep secret their true intentions about Roe and ensure that they squeaked through even a Republican-controlled Senate. And yet, now, what can anyone do about that? Try to charge them with perjury (as it is obviously a federal crime to lie under oath) after the fact? We don't even know how that would work, because they've made such a deliberate mess of all the customary rules and institutions on which American democracy runs. When that's the case, we might have all the blatant evidence of lawbreaking imaginable, but they still get away with it.

As I explained in one of my previous posts, the actual question at issue in Dobbs was whether the state of Mississippi could make a law forbidding abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. If SCOTUS was acting in good faith, they would have produced a ruling that addressed that state law and context specifically. The fact that they used it as a blanket opportunity to unilaterally overrule the right to an abortion in all states that had not explicitly formalized the right otherwise is proof that they were acting to fulfill the Republican party's long-term and clearly and constantly stated goal of overturning Roe. The fact that some people simply cannot accept this, and are desperate to find ways to blame the Democrats instead, is.... not heartening. To say the least.

#anonymous #ask #politics for ts

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paging-doctor-who · 11 months

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This is an EXO-CBX appreciation post.

A brief break from our usual programming to shoutout EXO-CBX for standing up to unjust treatment. I can’t imagine how terrifying it must have been and must still be in their shoes, publicly going up against such a massive corporation that has heretofore controlled their careers…but I know their members have their backs on this, and hopefully this will set a precedent to help others in the industry.

I became a fan of EXO in the summer of 2014, which was, to put it simply, a very uncertain and strange time to become a fan of the group. Seeing the information about the lawsuit has caused me to think back to my initial impressions of them, and what a journey it has been with them over the years. This is an EXO-CBX appreciation post.

Xiumin was one of the first members I remember noticing during different performances and shows. Sure, he was uniquely adorable (protect the hamster), but I was more surprised by the kind of understated maturity he radiated within his cuteness; he would be playful and mess around with the others, but there was always this quiet calm he had in the midst of EXO chaos. It’s a tough job, being the eldest, needing to balance different roles. He’s always been a bit more in the background—happy to support and add on, rather than take center stage, and you can tell how his members appreciate him.

What a rock Jongdae has been. It’s amazing how consistent he is, how loyal and supportive he has continued to be in tough times. It’s telling when every member of a group agrees that this is the kindest person around, a vocal powerhouse who’s gotten such rough treatment over the years for falling in love and having kids. Through it all, Jongdae has stayed gentle and steady. Every member brings something so necessary to the group, but I think of Jongdae as being, in some respects, the soul of the group.

And then there's Baekhyun—a clever mischief-maker, the apotheosis of beagle-line chaos, our sweet songbird. From the start, I’ve been torn between fond exasperation and bewilderment watching his variety show antics, because it’s impossible not to smile at this funny little brother’s actions. As someone whose personality probably more closely resembles Suho’s, I deeply appreciate friends who don’t let me take myself too seriously or get stuck in ideas of perfectionism, and I see lightening everyone up as part of Baekhyun's charm. No matter how much Baekhyun (and squad) tease their leader, there’s such love that runs underneath in the inside jokes and affectionate roasts. Baekhyun is known as a prankster and joker, but within that he looks after his people. Even after all he’s gone through for having a personal life, he really maintains that joy and warmth.

I know it's important not to put celebrities on a pedestal--everyone is human. This post isn't saying these men are perfect angelic robots, just that from everything I've seen in following this group for nearly ten years, I have faith in them to stick together and overcome whatever faces them; and I know from the outpouring of support that EXO-L will cheer them on the whole way.

We are one, and always OT9. Let's love<3

#exo #exo-cbx #alwaysot9

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I don't think I've talked about OOTD, since that same day my dad passed away and my brother called me like ten minutes after I finished to watch the video, so I couldn't enjoy the song for too long, but that may be a post for later, to vent a little.

SO, I was talking with my friend that introduced me to them a year ago, and I want to share my impression on them in this MV (because I don't know how to analyse the video itself =P). My friend said it was a nice summary XD

"Everyone was exceptionally hot, the juxtaposition “Sua-sport's bike” AMAZING;

Jiu wants to be called our Goddess? That’s fitting, let us officially start a religion in her name;

Dami… Dami is Amazing, she always delivers in her raps/parts, I've got no words;

Handong- I don’t know what to say, the homunculus in my mind screams everytime I see/hear her and runs in circles;

Gahyeon, the apple of my eye… I don’t know why they had her film in a Lidl, but she’s gorgeous nonetheless;

And I love Yoohyeon’s parts, then when she sings “don’t you wanna feel it, come and ride!”... I’ll ride anywhere with you, Yoohyeon-ssi;

It makes me laugh though that they chose Siyeon to film some scenes with a car, am I mistaken, or does she not have a license, yet? XD I love her red hair, but I’m not particularly convinced of the hairstyle, I personally love her with straight/wavy hair, but I’ll live"

[the italian version:

All in all, I really enjoyed both song and video, I've read some interesting analisys that said the song is a criticism about people being too superficial these days, wanting too show their best side at all cost, or something like that (I apologise, I can't think because I'm sick these days) and it's something I agree with and I particularly appreciate that they made this song, since the k-pop industry is still deeply rooted in the belief to show a life of success by (badly) hiding the many restrictions idols have to live with, the need to always appear perfect and never go against their companies (or risk having the netizens against them, together with a lawsuit) and always try to mantain an unsustainable beauty standard, lifestyle. or at least, that's how I interpreted what I've read.

I'm sad we couldn't give them a win for this comeback too, and I hope they don't regret anything they've done for it. For sure I'll still love them even without their wins <3

#dreamcatcher #jiu #sua #siyeon #handong #yoohyeon #dami #gahyeon #gay panic at its finest #plus a little piece of mind of mine

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canonicallyobserving911 · 2 years

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Buck & Eddie: There’s no I in US or TEAM-Parallels

In 3x6 “Monsters”, Eddie explained the importance of the way Buck needs to consider “US” or the TEAM [THEM] whenever he makes a decision, after Buck told him “I” needed my job back and “I” missed being here when he made Eddie talk to him. Buck filed a lawsuit against the LAFD which prevented them from being able to talk to each other and Eddie ignored Buck or was short with him after Buck had been allowed to return to work. Eddie told him there were a lot of “I”s in his explanation and Eddie’s comment parallels with all the conversations Buck had with his ex-girlfriends during their breakups or during their non-apologies to him after they returned to L.A. for a visit. Each of Buck’s ex-girlfriends said the word “I” a lot during their conversations with him which means their idea of a relationship had never been about Buck or them as a TEAM; it had been solely about them as individuals along with what they could get from him; hence their constant use of the word “I”. The difference between Eddie and Buck’s conversation when compared against theirs is Eddie explained the importance of being a part of a TEAM with him so that Buck would realize how his actions not only affected Buck but how they also affected Eddie and Christopher too since the three of them are an US or a TEAM/FAMILY. Eddie described the way relationships are supposed to work during his conversation with Buck and Buck understood him.

GIF #1 3x6 “Monsters” After Buck told him that he just wanted Eddie to talk to him, Eddie asked him, “When you decided to sue the department, to make Cap the bad guy, did you ever stop for a minute and think of what that could do to us?” Buck replied, “Look I just…I needed my job back. I missed…I missed being here. Being part of the team. I never meant for anyone to get hurt” and then Eddie said, “There are a lot of Is in there”. He was telling Buck how all his focus during the lawsuit had been on himself instead of him considering how it would hurt Eddie and everyone else too.

GIF #2 3x6 “Monsters” Eddie said, “There are a lot of Is in there”. In 2x18 “This Life We Choose” When ex-girlfriend #2 broke up with Buck, she used the word “I” a lot when she said, “When I met you, ten stories up over a collapsing high rise” and Buck said, “Exactly!” she continued with “I’m just starting to really understand what that means”. He asked her if she wanted him to quit his job and she said, “No, I would never…I would never ask you to do that because I know it’s who you are. I’m just not sure…” and Buck replied, “If it’s who you are” and she said, “I don’t know yet”. She said the word I so much and never considered how her interpretation of their relationship would affect Buck when she broke up with him right after his leg had been crushed by a ladder truck.

GIF #3 3x6 “Monsters” Eddie said, “There are a lot of Is in there”. In 3x18 “What’s Next?” When ex-girlfriend #1 returned and never apologized for the way she treated Buck she said, “I was a person whose life revolved around everybody else’s problems. I had no identity other than the people that I was helping. I had to leave everything that I knew so that I could remember who I actually am”. Not once during her long speech to Buck of what she wanted did she apologize to him for abandoning him and not telling him she hadn’t planned to come back. He told her she deserved to be happy even though she hurt him.

GIF #4 3x6 “Monsters” Eddie said, “There are a lot of Is in there”. In 5x18 “Starting Over” ex-girlfriend #3 said, “I’m sorry you’re still upset about the story. If I hadn’t of broken it... I wasn’t trying to hurt you… I was just trying to get the truth out there…You knew who I was when we started dating”. Buck responded, “I thought I could learn to live with it”. Not once during their conversation did she take responsibility for her actions and she didn’t apologize to him. The good thing was he realized that he could be the one to end it instead of waiting for her to do it like the others had done when they broke up with him.

GIF #5 3x6 “Monsters” Eddie continued, “Your actions, your choices, they impact the rest of us. That’s what it means to be a part of a team”. He defined the attributes of being a part of a good TEAM/RELATIONSHIP for Buck and he understood.

GIF #6 3x6 “Monsters” Buck said, “You’re right. I didn’t think about what could happen”. After he told Eddie the real reason behind him filing the lawsuit was because he was mad at Bobby for not letting him go back to work; that he was also upset that they were moving on without him and there wasn’t anything he could do about it, Eddie understood Buck’s side of it too when he recognized the anger and understood how hurt Buck had been for filing the lawsuit. Buck then said “But I get it and I really am sorry. So whatever it takes for you to forgive me…” Eddie responded, “I forgive you”. They made up but that was Buck’s first apology and he apologized again for hurting US, the TEAM or THEM after a few weeks passed.

GIF #7 3x9“Fallout” Buck apologized for the second time after he realized his actions hurt both Eddie and Christopher. He said, “I’m sorry I wasn’t there Eddie. You and Chris needed me and I had my head so far up my own behind with that stupid lawsuit” but Eddie said, “We’re way past that Buck” and Buck said, “I’m not! I should have been there”. Buck used a lot of “I”s during his second apology too but those “I”s were different from the ones he mentioned during his first apology because he admitted that him not being there for Eddie and Chris or US and THEM had affected all three of them. Eddie said “We’re” which means he was already considering the three of them as a TEAM/FAMILY/US.

#buddie #eddie diaz #evan buckley #christopher diaz #the buckley diaz family #buckley diaz family #911 fox #911onfox #911 on fox #911 meta #911 s6 #911

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lostonehero · 2 years

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There is writing before the new list of rules.

Note please stop trying to remove Emmet's uniform. Yes he has tattoos all over his body including hands and feet. Yes he did fall asleep while getting the tattoos. Yes it was two months after Ingo vanished. Yes there was a lawsuit and he did win. No you cannot see them. Yes he did win a very large sum, and Yes he still wishes to work here.

It's been 3 years leave him be.

43. Volo don't yell at the passengers. They might like your offers but don't tempt fate.

44. If the doors open midride grab on the handrail and don't let go.

45. If any tattoo starts glowing you must knave the train no exceptions.

46. Vacations must be approved by passengers, unless you have handprints then vacation is mandatory.

47.written safety checks should be handed to the morning staff at the end of your shift no exceptions.

48. If you see former employees, and you know they moved put of the region, please don't approach. (In scratched in letters "we are mocking you")

49. Volo don't scream when you see passengers. The Sinnoh champion is not amused by your actions nor are her guests.

50. If your food has developed a mysterious ooze or film, do not eat it. We will compensate you on the food loss.

51. If you get mysterious stains on your uniform, please inform management and we will replace it no cost to you.

52. We don't want you here. (Covers the rule about new employees)

53. Please disregard 52. Passengers have written over the rule.

54. New employees are encouraged to befriend passengers. (In the margins "its better if we like you)

55. Emmet if you are training new employees, do not take them out on unscheduled stops. You know why.

56. Of you are a new employee and have been with us 6 months, you are no longer new.

57. Sick day call outs must happen two hours before your shift or you will be reprimanded.

58. Again employees are not allowed to use the vending machines.

59. If the lights go out during your pokemon battle don't panic and finish the battle. You must finish the battle.

60. Please do not bring any child under the age of ten on the train after 10pm. (In a black running font "please bring more snacks)

#pokemon #volo legends arceus #pokemon volo #submas #subway boss ingo #subway boss emmet #night shift au

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haunthouse · 1 year

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I posted 4,047 times in 2022

That's 1,914 more posts than 2021!

371 posts created (9%)

3,676 posts reblogged (91%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 3,775 of my posts in 2022

Only 7% of my posts had no tags

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#art - 353 posts

#kaylee.txt - 335 posts

#mcr - 118 posts

#answered - 82 posts

#black sails - 81 posts

#poetry - 71 posts

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#kim kitsuragi - 65 posts

#harry du bois - 63 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#i’m thinking of swapping the buttons on this dress for strawberry shaped buttons ive had for a while 👀 maybe also doing some embroidery on (this is inaccurate bc i hit the tag character limit daily so i have so many longest tags lmao)

My Top Posts in 2022:

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516 notes - Posted January 17, 2022

i've ported my spatial horror reclist to notion to make it easier to sort and filter! everything is arranged by type, subtype, and a key describing what kind of hauntings are present in the work, and you can filter by any of those things.

check out the list here, and feel free to send me more recs for it!

edit 10/20/2022: if you've sent me a recommendation and i haven't replied to it, don't worry! i like to wait until i have time to check out whatever media's been recommended myself to respond/add it to the list, and i've been swamped with deadlines lately, but i prommy i'm not ignoring y'all <3

1,101 notes - Posted August 24, 2022

absolutely wild how explicitly leftist leverage is. i just hit s3 on my rewatch and every single episode is like “hey have you thought lately about how fucked the prison system in america is? how about how easy it is for rich men to buy political offices? and also labor rights and how bosses keep dangerous jobs from unionizing so they don’t have to put in protections for workers? the fact that insurance companies can choose who lives and dies? companies in general being allowed to weigh actual people’s deaths against the cost of settling a couple lawsuits and choosing the latter? thought about all that recently?” and they just let that be on television in two thousand and ten

1,211 notes - Posted June 3, 2022

also, because i'm still thinking about the disco elysium kids:

i think the difference in how people react to cuno vs cunoesse is really so indicative of peoples' reactions in general to trauma survivors. (...)

1,348 notes - Posted October 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

redistributing wealth (searchable pdf of horror in architecture by joshua comaroff & ong ker-shing) to the masses (tumblr users obsessed with haunted houses)

enjoy! <3 xoxo

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr wrapped #kaylee.txt #unsurprising results tbh #kaz being number 1 on blogs i rb from is the most unsurprising. hi bestie thanks for making good posts

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chaoticproductivity · 1 year

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Love in 3 A.U. - Middle

[5/6]

Y al final (ya se van) Ya se van Aunque las primeras veces se nos van

Itachi went to visit Sasuke in Konoha three months later.

'He doesn't live here...'

The eldest of the Uchiha repeated Naruto's words slowly as if they had been spoken in a foreign language he had little knowledge of.

He had sent Sasuke to Konoha to stay with Naruto and Gaara, because he knew it would do him good, as Naruto was a solid constant for his little brother. And since Sasuke now refused to use a cell phone, the news he received from the village mayor was the only way for Itachi to keep track of what the other was doing.

But the Uzumaki had failed to tell him that his brother hadn't been living under the same roof as him and his husband for at least two months.

'And where else could he live?'

'Hum…' Naruto scratched his cheek with his index finger. Gaara, next to him, was very amused, though his expression didn't reveal anything of the sort.

'He's living in your house, Itachi-san', replied the redhead.

'My house?'

Itachi noticed that he was holding the teacup loosely as he processed the information and pressed his fingers more firmly against the ceramic.

Sasuke was living in the Uchiha house.

The one in the middle of the woods that held the old family business, timber harvest.

The one that hadn't been inhabited for at least fifteen years.

The one that was in the process of changing owners by adverse possession.

The one that would be given to the new owner, because the lawsuit had been favorable to her.

The one that already had a person living there, since that person had won the lawsuit by adverse possession.

Itachi was surprised. Not surprised as he had been to receive Sasuke's call from the police station requesting his presence and services as a lawyer because he had been arrested in an anti-corruption police operation accused of tax evasion and fraud. Still, quite surprised.

'My house... The house where Hinata-san lives?'

Gaara sipped tea from his own cup not understanding exactly why the older Uchiha was having such a hard time understanding what he was being told and why Naruto looked like he wanted to disappear in smoke: Sasuke was living with Hinata in the forest house. What was the problem?

'Huh, Itachi grumbled, raising his eyebrows for a second and smiling slightly against the rim of his cup. 'It's a bit...'

'Crazy?' Naruto offered.

'Unexpected.'

Itachi returned the empty cup to the saucer on the coffee table next to the papers from the lawsuit of handing over the house to its new owner. He had come to visit Sasuke, first, and also hand over the new scripture. The house was an inheritance, yes, but the case was simple and solid: Hinata had lived in the house for more than ten years, Itachi didn't want it, Sasuke even less, having sold his part to Itachi years before when he tried to start a business, so giving it up for a token amount was all very simple.

The things revolving around Hyuuga Hinata all seemed to be very simple and easy indeed.

'Are you sure you don't want me to go with you, Itachi-san?' Naruto asked for the third time.

'No, it's okay, Naruto-kun', Itachi replied with a small smile. The day was cloudy and chilly, ideal for a walk. 'I would like to walk alone for a while.'

Naruto nodded and watched Itachi's back disappear.

The path to the old house had been paved and signposted, which was very helpful for pedestrians, and was still familiar enough for Itachi. The trees were the same, the markings on the fences, the crops, even the small altars to the spirits of the forest. Only, of course, older.

'Nii-san!'

The call, familiar and strange, made him stop in his tracks.

Sasuke hadn't called him that in years.

When he turned around, he almost didn't recognize his younger brother in the man coming towards him on an old bicycle. Physically, there was nothing different about Sasuke; he hadn't changed his haircut, he hadn't gained or lost weight, he hadn't grown a beard, he hadn't tattooed his face. He didn't even change his expression when he saw Itachi on the road, he just pedaled a few more meters, stopped the bike next to his brother and dismounted with one leg on either side of the center barrel. He didn't smile on the outside, but his eyes and his entire being vibrated with something Itachi couldn't name.

'What are you doing here, nii-san?'

'Came to see how you are doing', replied the eldest. 'Among other things.'

Sasuke dismounted the bike completely. The basket at the front was filled with returnable shopping bags. Behind, tied to the croup, a box of fruits and vegetables.

'Back from shopping?'

'Hn.'

They started walking together the rest of the way. At the top of the hill they could see the two pillars that flanked the entrance, now without a gate. They crossed in solemn silence as if they were entering a high court in a fantasy world for the first time.

'I was with Naruto and Gaara earlier. That's when they told me you weren't living with them.'

'Hn', Sasuke agreed. 'That's why you were on your way to the house.'

'That, and because I need to deliver the deed to the new owner.'

'Will Hinata be able to keep the house?'

'Hinata, is it?'

They both stopped walking at the mention of the woman's name. Sasuke was staring at Itachi and Itachi was staring back, both trying to read the feelings behind the mask of indifference they were trying to maintain.

Giving up, not because he felt he had lost something, but because it made no sense and there was no reason to hide anything from Itachi, the younger shrugged his shoulders, nodded and started walking again, pushing the old bike that went on creaking.

Itachi smiled and followed him.

'We're together', Sasuke explained as his brother placed himself beside him on the trail again. 'Hinata and me.'

'I think I got that part, little brother.'

'Why didn't you tell me that the house was occupied and almost being rendered over?'

'You had already sold your share to me and you didn't want to hear about Konoha, I didn't think you would mind.'

'You're right', Sasuke conceded and Itachi smiled a little.

'What have you been doing around here?'

'Whatever there is to do', Sasuke sounded satisfied, which was better than resigned. 'I help Hinata with the house and Naruto with city affairs. Old Sarutobi needed someone to help with the chicken coop, Ino needed help with the florist's accounting system, and there are many parents who need someone to help their kids with their homework.'

'You, taking care of children?'

'They are not my children, which makes it easier.'

The house loomed before them, decrepit on the outside, looking like a witch's house in a children's movie. Itachi stopped, but Sasuke kept walking until he noticed that the older man's footsteps had stopped.

'Nostalgic?', asked Sasuke.

'It would be impossible not to be.'

The youngest of the Uchiha nodded in agreement. He left Itachi there for a few minutes while he went to the cabin next to the house to put away his bike. He slung the bag handles over his shoulders and took the box with both hands, heading for the main entrance of the house.

'Nii-san?'

Itachi looked away from the house to focus on his brother who almost didn't look like his brother. No. He did, yes. He looked like the imaginative boy playing make-believe with Naruto in the woods; he looked like the ambitious young man who wanted more for his life; he looked like the enterprising man who wanted to be on top of the world. He looked like the brother Itachi forgot still existed inside.

'Sasuke-kun, did you remember to buy potatoes for the curry?'

The front door opened and Hinata walked out, already talking to Sasuke. The man didn't smile, but his posture relaxed. He handed one of the bags for her to inspect and Hinata smiled brightly when she spotted the potatoes. Then Itachi.

'Who is it?'

'My brother.'

'Are you not going to invite him in?'

'It's his house', Sasuke replied, but it was obvious he was teasing her. 'Or rather, it's yours now.'

'Hinata-san', Itachi took a few steps forward, greeting her with a brief bow, to which Hinata responded in kind. 'I came to deliver the new deed to you personally.'

Hinata nodded and smiled, taking a few steps to meet Itachi. He lifted the folder as if to give her the papers immediately, but the woman interrupted him.

'Stay for dinner', she invited.

'It's getting late...'

'The more reason to stay, no use going back now.'

Hinata's smile, her calm and sincere manner, was refreshing. Itachi felt relaxed and was able to understand a little better what was different about Sasuke. He knew and understood that women had no duty or responsibility to be "safe havens" and "therapists" to men, but he knew at that moment how a person like Hinata could do someone like Sasuke good.

Itachi nodded, needing no further encouragement.

'Have you eaten the curry that Sasuke-kun makes, Itachi-san?'

'Not in a long time.'

Sasuke was no longer waiting for them at the door, having gone inside to put away the groceries. Being winter, night falls fast, although there was still some time left before dinner.

'I'm glad you took the trouble to come personally, Itachi-san.' Hinata bent down to pick up the shopping bag with the potatoes she had left on the porch. 'And that you're still taking care of him.'

'You too.'

Hinata didn't answer, but shook her head once to indicate that she had heard. He entered the house and went straight to the kitchen, leaving the eldest at the entrance to look at the changes she had made to the house that had once been his childhood home. Hinata smiled to herself, because Sasuke used to do the same thing, with the same hazy look.

Itachi took a deep breath. It no longer had the oppressive smell from his memories. He heard Sasuke and Hinata's muffled voices in the kitchen talking about the dish and the ingredients, about putting away the groceries, about something they had to do the next day. Sasuke chuckled and the sound of a cork being removed from a bottle of wine brought the older man out of the trance he had been in.

Uchiha Itachi didn't live there – had not been in twenty-five years – everything was different, nothing reminded him of his childhood except the general architecture and surroundings, because inside there wasn't a single remnant of furniture or wallpaper from the past. He walked in, looking around, feeling like it was the first time.

He walked to the kitchen entrance and a warm feeling hit him as he saw Sasuke roll up his sweater sleeves to wash the potatoes and carrots and Hinata welcoming him with a glass of red wine. Uchiha Itachi didn't live there and he felt at home.

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soft-pink-wilfy · 2 years

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PLEASE HELP US AVOID EVICTION AND HOMELESSNESS!

As many of my followers are aware, I'm Randy, and my fiancée, Saina, and I have gotten into a hell of a bind. We made the decision (upon urging from my grandparents, who we were staying with beforehand) to rent an apartment in late December based on the assumption that our jobs were stable. Unfortunately this turned out to not be the case. My job fired me for a disability in a way that means I have no recourse, and Saina's Walmart job ended up transferring them to a store where their sexual assaulter, whom they have a protective order against, works and then took their sweet time finding and successfully transferring them to another store. Overall we went about 60-90 days without "proper" income due to this, and we've gotten extremely behind on rent because of it. We had applied for Rent Relief in January, but they took until mid-late April to approve our claim, and according to Virginia law after 45 days the apartment complex is allowed to seek litigation. Which they did. We had a court date on 5/3/2022, and they gave us ten days for the money they're suing us for to be gotten to them or else we'll have a formal eviction date set. We have nowhere else to go, and despite the slumlord state of this apartment's management we need to stay here until we're able to move to Texas in mid-summer for a massive job opportunity. The RRP money should cover what they want from that lawsuit, but even after that we're still well over $3000 in the hole for rent, and RRP is closing and as of early May no longer accepting new applications.

We've been eating off of the excess EBT funds from a friend in another state simply out of the good of that friend's heart, because I'm underemployed (I work at Walmart, enough said) and Saina now does DoorDash after their recent store ignored them going into anaphylaxis and instead discouraged them from going home because "you should really worry about your attendance points," at which point they walked out (nobody we've told this to has faulted Saina for it either).

Any money from this fundraiser is going to go towards the remainder of the back rent debt we owe, and some towards food and medical care (including medications) for the both of us. Any and all help is greatly appreciated, and any updates will be put here, my twitter, and the GoFundMe page.

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Lord Holland recounts his meeting with Caroline Murat in Rome in 1830. Even at this point—fifteen years after the execution of her husband, and nine years after the death of her brother Napoleon—she is still being hounded by the Allies, and her movements heavily surveilled and restricted. She is about to be driven from Rome prematurely, while visiting her sick mother. Lord Holland worries that he might even be denied entry into Naples simply for having visited her.

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From The Journal of the Hon. Henry Edward Fox (afterwards fourth and last Lord Holland) 1818-1830; London, 1923. Pages 374-6.

June 21 [1830]. Rome. In the morning I wrote to Mme Murat expressing my hopes that I might be permitted to call upon her before she went, and begging her to appoint a time. The reply I received was a wish to see me at 3 o’clock. Of course I was punctual. Hortense’s apartment in the Palazzo Ruspoli, which she has lent her during her visit to Rome, I found all sossopra [upside-down]. The dinner was just over and the faquini [porters] were taking away the dinner things from a room full of half-packed trunks, boxes, waste paper, and in fact in perfect disorder. I was kept waiting a short time talking to the black, skinny, grinning dame-de-compagnie, before Mme Murat appeared. I was much struck with the great remains of beauty she still possesses. She is stout, and her figure is not good, but rather thick and stumpy; however, notwithstanding that, she is very graceful and dignified in her motions. Her complexion, which I had heard was blotched and bad, was very clear and her features are regular and small. Her mouth has a very peculiar expression of firmness and decision, which when it relaxes into a smile is uncommonly pretty and playful. She reminded me of the Dme of Bedford, tho’ her person is smaller and more delicate. Her voice is very sweet. She speaks French with a very strong Italian accent, but with great fluency.

When I first saw her she was extremely agitated, having received an intimation that the ten days first accorded her were to be limited to eight, and that she must depart to-morrow. She had sent to appeal, and had protested that having come to Rome to fulfil a sacred duty towards her mother, probably on her death-bed, that she would yield to force alone and not go into her carriage till the military came to order her to do so. Since she has been at Rome there have been no less than twelve meetings of the Corps Diplomatique, and several reams of paper have been filled. She told me, what I own I did not credit till afterwards it was confirmed by Gargarin, that Lord Stuart de Rothesay (who the other day refused to interfere in her behalf about some new lawsuit, because he said he was not authorized to do so by his employers) took upon his own responsibility, without having time to communicate with London, to sign a protest against her being permitted to remain at Rome. How completely we are become the instruments of these rotten old dynasties!!! She was expecting a reply to her last application, and had given her son-in-law, Rasponi, and Vannutelli rendezvous at the Coliseum, whither she begged me to accompany her, if I did not fear being seen in her carriage. Of course I went with her, tho’ I had some apprehension that I might, in consequence, be refused a passport to Naples. She had never seen any of the many interesting sights here, as in all the journies she made thro’ Rome, “ceux qui m’accompagnaient” [those who accompanied me] travelled so fast that she scarcely ever remained more than two or three hours in the town.

She speaks with much agitation at the persecution of the Allies towards her, and said she almost regrets having come, as now when she is torn away from her mother she must make up her mind to never meeting again on this side of the grave. However her vanity is considerably flattered by all the importance the foreign courts seem to attach to her movements, and the persecuting distinction they shew her in contrast to the other members of the Bonaparte family. All ideas of being still an object of admiration to men she has not relinquished, and she owned to me that had it not been for her love for Christine, “elle aura volontiers fait tourner la tête �� ce cher Dudley.” [she will gladly have turned dear Dudley’s head.] She has much dignity, and yet nothing repulsive in her manner or the least etiquettical. We walked about the Coliseum for half an hour, while her black skeleton dame-de-compagnie struggled to the summit. At length Vannutelli and Rasponi returned with the ultimate reply of the Cardinal’s Secretary, that they would grant to-morrow, but that on the following day she must leave Rome. She turned very pale, her voice quivered from agitation. “Eh bien, je partirai quand on viendra me chasser. Une insulte de plus ou une insulte de moins ne leur coutera rien.” [Well, I’ll leave when they come to hunt me. One insult more or less will cost them nothing.] We drove by the Temple of Vesta to her mother’s. She was too absorbed to look much about her. I left her at her mother’s door, and went home where I tried to remain very quiet to undo the harm walking about and coming to Rome has done me.

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themichaelvan · 1 year

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I posted 5,387 times in 2022

That's 5,387 more posts than 2021!

268 posts created (5%)

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I tagged 3,060 of my posts in 2022

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My Top Posts in 2022:

why nearly every character in all of the fnaf musicals are insane in distinctly different but still very much insane ways: an essay

(this is like 80% from memory and its. checks time 2:15am as of writing this so excuse inaccuracies.)

phone guy: yeah.

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drops dead on the floor

43 notes - Posted October 7, 2022

buddy.... are you..... sweeping..... the evil rune circle............

45 notes - Posted October 20, 2022

SIGHS. okay whatever. 10k notes and i finish reading homestuck

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My #1 post of 2022

i hope the admiral knows i love him

(original image under cut, id in alt)

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#y'know i never did get those 10k notes to read homestuck #also ?!?!?!!? WHAT do you mean my 4th blog was fazbear-ent-official i don't even follow them that closely #i could have sworn i did tags with the max amount of characters (139 or smth) too but ...???

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shadowkat678 · 1 year

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I posted 26,487 times in 2022

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I tagged 634 of my posts in 2022

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44 notes - Posted October 1, 2022

So apparently people really like my Dragon Heist remix!

It has been suggested I put all my documents in actual PDFs and sell them on DMS Guild but I have no idea how to do that. Maybe eventually.

But in the meantime y'all can check it all out here!

Anyway tell me what you think. This was a lot of work and yes I do seek validation. Any ideas on areas I could expand upon more? What I should tackle next? Let me know!

45 notes - Posted July 30, 2022

I want to see my writing be psychoanalyzed like I see with media on Tumblr. That’s how I’ll know I made it. I don’t care if I sell like 100 copies of something one day someone can send me a letter digging into the details and writing a ten page essay and I’ll be like “Okay I’m content now.”

46 notes - Posted April 30, 2022

Well I was blocked so let me just put this here.

Asexual cisgender people are, by default, not hetrosexual cisgender. It doesn't matter if they're romantically attracted to the opposite sex or not. They are not cishets, and in places where any queerness is punished by law and by social norms, being a queer identity is enough to put you in danger.

Even if you're operating under the assumption that in places like the USA ace and aro people don't face as much structural impression, that absolutely IS NOT TRUE everywhere. When gay people are thrown off buildings, and someone hears you say you're Xsexual instead of cishet, they are not going to pause to ask the nuances. They will hate and harm you for the sole reason of existing as a queer person.

I've seen aces and aros have to run away from their home countries right alongside trans and gay people who had to.

It's 2022. Can we please stop the discourse over this and realize any queer person, in a good very sizable chunk of the world, will not get you ANY amount of privilege akin to being a cishet.

Thank you for coming to my TedTalk and that is the end of my thoughts on the matter.

51 notes - Posted April 30, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

So I got this new ad:

And got ~vibes~, so I looked it up and when I dug into it this school is a Catholic organization that's widely been blasted for pushing native cultural assimilation in their past. Supposedly they're currently trying to right wrongs and pushing classes that teach native languages and crafts.

But I know there's been talk about stuff still occuring and being swept under the rug as well as avoiding responsibility for past actions by shutting down lawsuits and supporting laws that protect them from legal action.

I'm not native, but I wanted to draw attention to this new ad and see if there's any native users who know more that can chime in on this.

I'm going to blaze this post in hopes of getting seen by someone with more knowledge on this. On the surface my first impression was it was a school run by native cultural activists pushing to teach kids more about their culture, as I've heard of them popping up more to fight back against historical assimilation. But it's a Catholic school and, uh, they obviously have a HISTORY behind them that's not great, to put it mildly.

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