#trafficking cw

[colorisbyshe]

I actually need to say this in a separate post but I am absolutely concerned by how removed from humanity some people are. Like, beyond the calling other people NPCs or whatever, it seems like people will watch actual, real human tragedy unfold and will treat it like a tv show moment. Cheering on people fighting for their lives with fucking asinine shit like “Yas queen” or “Wow, she was so fierce when she acted in self defense against the  man who KILLED HER FRIENDS and tried to kill her.”

This was absolutely on show for the most recent anti-LGBT murders at Club Q but I’ve also seen it for like... court cases where teenage girls killed their traffickers. Or cases like Lorena Bobbitt.

Where you’re treating this like a cathartic character moment in a book where like ~finally they got revenge, now they can move on. Instead of like a fucking traumatic moment that will linger with these people for the rest of their lives, even if maybe there was some satisfaction or freedom or whatever else gained in that moment.

Richard Fierro, the man who initially took down the Club Q shooter, has already spoken about the trauma and guilt for what he had to do--

“I don’t want to ever do this,” Fierro said of using his combat skills. “It lives in you. If you actually do this stuff, it’s in you … I’m not a GI Joe; I’m just a normal guy.”   

Like... I know on some level, when you are seeing nonsensical, extreme violence, there is a relief in knowing that that there are people capable of fighting back. And maybe it finally feels like a ~win.

But you cannot forget the cost of it.

This isn’t like when you mash some buttons and defeat the final boss of a video game and then go leave to make yourself a snack.

This is longlasting trauma. These people need support and empathy (and likely lots of fucking privacy), not weird cheers you’d just as likely unleash on a RPDR contestant or your MurderWife From the TV Show.

#i'm focusing this on the trans woman and other women who act in self defense #because a lot of the people being weird abotu the heel stomping #did nOT act weird about richard #WONDER WHY #club q cw #shooting cw #abuse cw #trafficking cw

[borderline-culture-is]

tw// trafficking

BPD culture is being trafficked as a child and wanting the same to happen to us now, because at least we'd be wanted

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#borderline culture is #borderline personality disorder #bpd #bpd culture is #bpd culture #bpd safe #actually borderline #actually bpd #tw trafficking #cw trafficking #trafficking tw #trafficking cw

[therealvinelle]

Do you think police/ FBI have ever been close to tracking a missing persons case to Volterra?

Relevant post.

It depends entirely on how much care Heidi takes to cover her tracks. The Guide says her victims don't know where they're going, so we know they can't give anyone any indication of where they went, and Heidi uses private means of transportation so the flight records are bound to be forged (as you don't write the names of all the people you're taking to be murdered down on the passenger list).

To backtrack a bit, we'll do case studies.

John Doe wins a competition

John Doe won a competition, and delightedly told his sister he'd be going for an all included vacation in Alsace for two weeks. When she asked what sort of competition this had been, if this could really be legit, he assured her he'd spoken to a lady about it and she seemed completely reliable, this was all very above board.

He leaves for the airport, and she never hears from him again. Not a phone call, no post cards, and when she tries to get in touch with him there's nothing.

At first she thinks he probably just forgot to call her, or else he's having phone trouble. Europe is far away, after all. Jane decides not to worry about it.

Then the two weeks are up, and John doesn't return.

At this point, Jane goes to the police and tells them her brother is missing. You see, he won a competition and went to France, and that's the last anyone has seen of him.

The police look into his credit card records, no withdrawals have been made. No calls from his phone, no logins at any of his accounts. They go to his house, and (provided Jane can provide a list of items she knew he owned. If not, they might not realize anything is gone at all) find he packed some of his clothes and the suitcase is gone. Everything else is there, though, electronics, family heirlooms, photographs, memorabilia, and so on.

They check the flight records, and find John Doe never caught a flight, not to Francen or to anywhere else. (And if Heidi is very diligent, she tells people to commute to the airport so the police won't wonder why John Doe bothered to drive to the airport (or the dock, or wherever. The woman does have a yacht) and abandoned his car there when he wasn't getting on a flight. Better, and more suggestive, to leave it at home.

... As it is, given that she's using a private jet, Heidi just needs a landing strip. John Doe never went to the airport at all, and the police never find his car.)

John Doe is ruled a suicide, and it's assumed he lied to spare his sister's feelings. The case is closed.

Jane Doe gets a job offer

Two days after his girlfriend Jane went to her exciting job opportunity in Cairo, John can't take her radio silence any longer. He goes to the police, and explains to them how his girlfriend received a job offer out of the blue, she'd never applied to it but it paid really well, would be great for her career, and she couldn't really afford to say no. So, she left to at the very least do the job interview. The company was paying her travel bills, and worst case scenario, she doesn't take the job and spends a weekend in Cairo on the company's expense. There are worse fates.

John hadn't been thrilled about it, but the woman who'd approached Jane had apparently been very proper, very put together and professional, so he trusted Jane's judgement.

Well, it's been two days now, and Jane isn't answering any of her calls.

The police look into this, and I think Heidi might just let there be flight records for this one. Jane did get to Cairo (and was taken to Volterra from there).

And no one has heard from her since.

The police start sweating, and alert Interpol that there's a young woman lured to an airport in a foreign country by someone willing to pay for her plane ticket.

Jane is never found, and it is assumed she's been trafficked.

In conclusion

"What was the point of these case studies, Vinelle" you may ask, and it's that people will always search for the easiest explanation available.

Depending on what information Heidi leaves people with (did person A get to the airport, did person B actually leave the country, did person C get asked to keep their job interview a secret and just slip out for a weekend), it'll either seem obvious what happened to a person, or it'll be a mystery where the police can't quite figure out what happened.

If the police think they know what happened, no further investigation is held. It's only if it's the latter, if the pieces of the puzzle don't quite satisfy them, that they decide to look closer. Going from there, if they don't realize the missing person was taken out of the country they never track them to Volterra. If they do, then you're looking at the case being transferred to Interpol who have already have a metric ton of missing people to track down.

More worryingly, some time may have passed from our missing person being taken to Volterra to Interpol starting their search. First, someone had to report them missing. Could have happened immediately after, but given the thing all of Heidi's victims have in common is that they're leaving their homes voluntarily, the people around them will need a day or two, if not weeks, before reporting them missing.

Then you have the local/domestic police investigation, which could take anything from days to months (I don't know how police process their cases), until finally the case is transferred to Interpol.

In the best case scenario, John Doe was reported missing right away and the police immediately realized this was a case for Interpol. Interpol is on the ball and on the look after only a few days.

They are, however, going to search in whichever part of the world John Doe went missing in. John Doe said he was going trekking in Machu Picchu, that means they're searching in Peru, not in Italy.

Assuming that John Doe was going to Europe, though, Interpol's one chance at getting any intel on what happened to him is if anybody who saw him sees that he's missing. Which I'll caveat is... not likely, considering Heidi likely shuttles her victims straight to the Volturi palace. John Doe doesn't get the chance to chat with the locals or do any shopping (god forbid, that way his bank records show he was in Tuscany), anybody seeing him would have to spot him passing and then remember his face well enough to feel confident it's the guy they saw when they see his missing person poster. That in turn makes any identifications of John Doe unreliable in the eyes of Interpol, and they conclude it's a false tip.

Tracking a missing person's case to Volterra would require a lot of contrived circumstances, bad luck, and oversight on Heidi's part. I don't think it's impossible, nothing ever is, but I think it's highly unlikely to happen.

#heidi #volturi #the volturi #twilight #twilight renaissance #trafficking #suicide mention cw #suicide mention #trafficking cw #twilight meta

[ambrozians]

tw : human trafficking mention

something i would like to explore whether it be within the realm of the (slowly developing) the cat and the coyote verse or in a fic entirely separate from the series is jade learning that lian was abducted by traffickers and having to contend with that. jade has never dealt with any of her trauma and so that discovery would evoke an incredibly visceral reaction. lian was nearly swept up in the same cycle that still plagues her mother today, and jade knows what would have happened to her had she not been rescued because she experienced it herself. quite literally, had she never been enslaved then cheshire would never have been born. so, while lian’s experience was (thankfully) brief, it wouldn’t do much to quell any of jade’s anger that would arise from hearing about it, nor stop her from reliving her own trauma. jade would also be burdened by immense guilt simply because she wasn’t there and was unaware, the latter of which isn’t necessarily her fault as nobody told her (which, to me, is more of a canon plot-hole rather than an action done deliberately by roy or any other characters).

#📝 #💭 #jade nguyen #trafficking cw #in my humble opinion #i believe that if she learned about that that would be enough for her to go home #and become more present and active in lian’s life #tbh i could talk about why she stays away all day #but that’s for another post #i hope i can explore this in structural integrity at some point #so long as it fits within the story #but even if it doesn’t i’ll just write a one shot or something about it

[goldshadows]

brief info on thg verses

JAMI: was only 12 when she got reaped. mari did not care to intervene at all in any way whatsoever. won with two kills on her conscience (one indirect & accidental, one in self-defense fighting for her life) ended up winning because out of the last three, the other two ended up killing each other.

HARLEY: reaped when he was 16. district 3 or 5, to be decided. lost a hand during the games. forever bitter about the whole thing.

DAISY: similar fate as finnick after the games, being s*x trafficked by snow with her family threatened if she didn't comply

SAV: capitol / district one baby. absolutely hates the whole system and secretly working against it, using her parents' connections against them.

JESS: tba

JILL: tba

#trafficking cw #the beastie boys died for my right to party. / munchie‚ general.

[phisaya]

She thought he changed, but he really does still see her as a commodity. She looks helplessly at Mari, asleep in her bassinet. Will Asmodeus see their daughter as something to be owned, too? Is it right for Phisaya to raise her in this environment?

mentioned @lust-sinner​

#(ic) #trafficking cw

[deepspacevivarium]

The first lead they have is the park that Angel mentioned, so Hollow has gone to the park with their siblings. Hallownest, compared to Hell, is uniform in its scents. Hell is full of so many different creatures, plus the reek of pollution that just doesn’t exist in their own world. Valentino boasted that they and their siblings were the best bugs he had, but they feel like they’re on a scavenger hunt without instructions.

“Hey, look. I found somebody’s tooth.”

...And an added responsibility. When the siblings were headed out, they were intercepted by Valentino’s assistant’s sister. The little imp asked where they were going, Hornet told her it was a picnic, and then Stormi asked to join them. They wouldn’t have been able to refuse her without blowing their cover, so here they are, and here she is.

Hollow is caught between looking for clues, trying to pick up any suspicious scents, and keeping an eye on the rest of their siblings. Ghost is sitting at the picnic blanket with beetle jelly to maintain an air of normalcy, while Hornet has gone full spy mode and hid herself in a tree. They catch glimpses of her red cloak among the greenery as she observes the surrounding area.

mentioned @hannah-the-small​ , @arachn0philia​

#(ic) #(hollow) #(ghost) #(hornet) #(stormi) #hannah the small #arachn0philia #trafficking cw #(it hasn't shown up here but whatever) #(that's the point of their mission)

[southernwizards]

eugh something about the fandomization of a story about trafficking sits weird to me

#trafficking cw #niko speaks #sa cw #especially a victim...ya

[antiporn-activist]

i've had these graphics in my files at least 15 years.

i don't remember the names of the groups that created them.

use them at your discretion.

#cw trafficking #going thru the files

[ayeforscotland]

A bunch of losers who don’t think women are people are outraged at this news.

#ayeforscotland #cw rape #cw trafficking

[txttletale]

Okay so I agree calling cops on people doing drugs is extremely fucked but what should we do about domestic abuse or human trafficking or people doing generally fucked highly illegal shit like, obligatory cops probably won't help but genuinely what should I or anyone else do in these situations because I'm not like batman

And while obviously obligatory communism fixes most of my concerns here but like, what can I do as an individual seeing these individual problems ? Not to say society wide analysis wouldn't be helpful here but again the point of the question is what can I do if I see people doing fucked up shit

Thank you and I hope I didn't sound aggressive!!!!!! Ur rlly bright!

i mean the answer is that if you witness domestic abuse or 'human trafficking' (a term i dislike because it is mostly used to position illegal immigration as equivalent to sexual slavery)--calling the cops will make things worse in 99% of cases.

if you involve law enforcement in a case where someone is being "trafficked" the most likely option (after, nothing happens because law enforcement are fundamentally incompetent at their alleged role)--is that the person who was forced into this circumstance by desperation will get deported back to the country they were desperate to leave in the first place. people who are forced into overseas slavery (sexual or otherwise) are in fact often kept in line by the people coercing them using the threat of immigration police.

similarly, calling law enforcement on a domestic abuse situation is basically unilaterally a bad idea unless the victim has specifically asked you to. the police will often harass victims and side with abusers. i cannot emphasize enough do not call the cops on a domestic violence situation. even in the best case scenario where the cops are theoretically willing to help--abuse victims very often, for various reasons, will lie to protect their abuser & then be the victim of retaliation from that abusers.

in either of those situations the best thing you as an individual can do is directly offer (offer, and do not expect that this offer will be taken up!) financial assistance, a place to crash overnight, or just (as is more likely within most people's capabilities) make it clear that you're a person who can be confided in who can keep their mouth shut.

but yes, obviously, more broadly the answer is--as you have in fact identified--that these are problems that you need to let go of the idea that you as an individual need to be intervening in or solving. like. the real best thing you can do is go start or join a mutual aid or community action group working to protect abuse/trafficking victims. another pair of hands at a women's shelter is infinitely more useful than anything you could do for anyone on your own.

#ask #importantangeldefendor #human trafficking #domestic abuse cw

[lhachia]

Spoilers for Wriothesley story quest, archon quest 4.1

Cw: child trafficking, abuse

I see a lot of people talking about Wriothesley triggering Lyney's PTSD but I haven't seen any talking about vice versa and I'm a bit surprised? We learn in Wriothesley's story quest that his adoptive parents were child traffickers and that he had multiple siblings sold or killed before he ran away/took his revenge. In his "About Lyney" dialogue, Wriothesley says, "I'll admit that when I removed the House of the Hearth's spies in the underworld, that was kind of an intentional provocation to the Fatui. But their only response was to send down a bunch of children..was it because they truly saw those kids as disposable?" And that remark really stood out to me since we know the HotH is an orphanage, which creates some very interesting parallels to how Wriothesley grew up. He and Lyney both describe their parents/Father as loving despite the fact that in one case, they're trafficking and killing children, and in the other, they're sending children to a literal prison isolated from any help where previous adult operatives have already died. If anything, I think the situation with Lyney & Co is a wretched reminder to Wriothesley of his own past and inability to protect his siblings, and he's doing what he can now to protect these children because their parental figures clearly have no qualms about potential harm coming to their charges, even if he has to be an asshole to do it.

#wriothesley #genshin impact spoilers #archon quest 4.1 spoilers #wriothesley story quest spoilers #cw: child abuse #cw: child trafficking #character analysis

[stheresya]

Daenerys' storyline in ADWD is a good way to complexify heroic narratives without invalidating the idealism of the savior. What is in question isn't the morality of freeing slaves (because that's already indisputable), but how to integrate them in society in a effective way when that goes against ancient traditions of subjugation. It offers an honest portrayal of power struggle, how the oppressing class does not give up their power easily, and in order to make a revolution stick you must give the oppressed the necessary tools to keep themselves empowered, the oppressed must be able and willing to reign fire on those who seek to put them in chains again. With heroic narratives there's always an extraordinary someone saving people from certain doom and everyone is happy. the end. But with Dany there's an exploration of the aftermath. Her storyline explores her struggle of wanting to do good, on trying to keep her people safe while dealing with powerful people who seek to maintain their hierarchies. It's an exploration of what power can mean to different groups. Power can be about subjugation but it can also be a way to prevent yourself from being subjugated. The great masters would not have behaved differently if Dany had proposed gradual and peaceful reforms on slavery, because they cared first and foremost about their status as a ruling class, and that status was only possible through the exploitation of other people, because for a group to be above requires all others to be below, stepped on by those above.

#last semester i studied about the process of slavery abolishment in my country during the 19th century #which was a process done mostly through gradual and peaceful reforms #and yet the slave owners still did ALL they could (increasing violence against enslaved ppl + human trafficking) to maintain the system #people who truly believe in slaving others are vile in any scenario. because slavery is vile. there's no way around it. #daenerys targaryen #a dance with dragons #asoiaf #valyrianscrolls #cw slavery