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ewanmitchellcrumbs · 7 months

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Imagine Being Loved By Me

Pairing: Billy Washington (Trigger Point) x f!reader Warnings: Self deprecation, alcohol, mild angst, semi public smut, oral sex (m receiving) Word count: ~3.2k

Summary: Loose lips sink ships - a drunken night at the pub proves catastrophic for the secret fling she's been having with her best mate's brother. Based on this request.

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She lays cocooned on the sofa, enveloped in the soft warmth of fluffy throw blankets. The sounds of an episode of Eastenders playing on the TV fill the small space of her living room, yet her attention is focused solely on her phone, cradled in her palm as her thumb hovers over the screen.

“Come to the pub, not seen you for ages.” Reads the text message from her best mate, Lana.

It’s true, she has seen less of Lana over the last couple of months, the sole cause of that is due to Lana’s younger brother, Billy. She had never meant for it to happen.

After Billy had been pulled from his car in Cranstead Gardens, only for it to blow up mere moments later - a bomb planted by a right wing group called The Crusaders, attempting to frame Billy for an attack on anti-fascist protestors, Billy had been in a bad way. Already plagued by struggles of self worth and identity, he was now traumatised on top of it.

Supporting Billy through all of it had taken a toll on Lana. She’d taken time off work to care for her younger brother, making sure he went to his therapy sessions, sitting up with him when his night terrors got too much for him to bear, making sure he ate and took care of himself.

She’d seen how tired Lana was becoming, the dark circles under her eyes growing more prominent every time she saw her. Spending so much time looking after Billy, she was forgetting to look after herself. Stepping in, she’d lended her own support, wanting to ease the burden on her best friend.

Countless cups of tea were made by her, she’d cooked massive pasta bakes and pots of chilli, ensuring that both Lana and Billy had dinner every day. In her bid to support her friend, she’d unwittingly become part of her brother’s life too.

It was an afternoon a week after Lana had gone back to work, she’d continued to pop round to Billy’s each day as a favour to her, just to check in on him and make sure he wasn’t letting the flat get in too much of a state.

They had been standing side by side in the kitchen, her rolling a cigarette for both of them, while Billy made tea. Their fingers had brushed as he’d passed her mug with one hand, while taking his rollie from her with the other, and for the briefest of moments their eyes had locked.

She felt as though time had stood still as she stared into his big blue eyes, and suddenly tea and cigarettes were forgotten as their lips met in a frenzied rush of passion. He’d pushed her back against the kitchen side and she’d giggled against his lips as they’d sent empty beer cans and dirty cutlery clattering to the floor.

In response, he’d lifted her, her legs wrapping around his waist as he’d carried her to the bedroom. His breath had been heavy against her neck as he’d rutted hard into her against the rumpled bed sheets, while she’d stroked her fingers through his tousled sandy hair and whispered to him how good he was making her feel.

They’d laid there breathlessly afterwards and he’d made her swear not to tell Lana. It had made sense to her at the time, she’d thought it was a one off, and Lana would probably find it weird that her best friend and her younger brother had slept together.

But then it kept happening, and as time went on it felt more like a relationship than casual hooking up. Yet Billy continued to insist they kept it quiet, so she had, despite it seeming odd to her that they’d make a secret of something that clearly both made them happy.

And Billy did make her happy - most of the time. When things were good, they were really good; they’d spoon on his threadbare sofa, his laughter ruffling her hair as they watched reruns of The Simpsons. His large hand would always find its way up her top, wrapping around the dip in her waist, anchoring her to him.

When things were bad, they were awful. It would often happen after Billy’s weekly visits to the JobCentre to sign on, he’d come back petulant, closed off, in a place that was so far into his own mind that she couldn’t reach him. He’d lash out with angry words, filled with spite and vitriol if she tried to push him to open up, so she’d learned to retreat, to let him come to her.

Usually a day later, he’d reach back out and apologise, and things would be good again. Yet this time, a week had passed since she’d left Billy to his own devices and he hadn’t spoken to her at all.

She clicks away from Lana’s text, and onto her thread with her younger brother, faced with a stream of her own unanswered messages.

Fuck him.

If he doesn’t want to talk to her then perhaps her Friday night is better spent at the pub. She fires off a quick message to Lana, telling her she’ll be there in an hour before showering and getting herself ready.

The pavement is slick underfoot as she walks from her flat. It’s rained recently, and the smell of it hangs thick in the air, along with a brisk chill that causes her to pull her leather jacket tighter around herself, wishing she’d put on something warmer.

She pushes through the heavy barrier of the pub door, leaving behind the cold air, the smell of rain and the steady hum of traffic, for stifling warmth, the cloying scent of beer and raucous laughter.

Smiling when she spots Lana at a table in the corner, flanked by her mate and fellow EXPO, John, she heads over, taking a seat next to Lana and shrugs out of her jacket.

“Alright, stranger?” Lana looks warmly at her, eyes filled with familiar affection, “Mick’s just getting a round in.”

Her smile falters, stomach churning with disgust at the mention of Mick. He’s ex-military, a mutual friend of Joel and Lana. Since Joel had passed away in the Westhaven Estate bombing, he had latched onto Lana, and it made her skin crawl. She hated his arrogance and the way he always leered at her, he took cheap shots at Billy’s expense whenever he was around, despite repeatedly being told to stop.

“Great,” she says, the dullness of her tone not matching the enthusiasm of the word.

Before Lana can respond, Mick makes his way back over, four full pint glasses clutched tightly in his hands. He sets them down on the table, the motion sending lager foam dripping over the edges and onto the wood beneath.

“Lana mentioned you’d be dropping in,” Mick says, sliding a glass across to her, a trail of moisture spreading across the tabletop in its wake, “so I got you a pint.”

“Thanks,” she says with a tight smile, lifting the glass to her lips and taking a deep sip, focusing on how the bitter bubbles fizz against her tongue.

“Any time, gorgeous,” he fires back with a wink, and she grimaces, feeling as though she’ll bring the beer back up that she’s just swallowed.

She’s grateful when he takes a seat next to John and the two fall into conversation, leaving her and Lana to catch up. They talk about work and Lana’s excitement over Thom finally asking her to move in with him. It’s nice to be around her best friend again, how easily they slot back into place as though no time has passed. She feels guilty for not having made more time for Lana, being secretly kept preoccupied by Billy.

As if on cue, her phone buzzes and she pulls it out of her bag, seeing a text from him flash up on the screen. “were r u??”

She sighs, realising he’s likely turned up at her flat and seen she’s not home. It’s tempting to ignore him, considering he’s left her hanging for the last week, but she knows Billy, knows what he’s like, he’ll spiral if he doesn’t hear from her.

“At the pub.” She replies, then sends “With your sister.” as an afterthought, hoping it will deter him from turning up.

Putting her phone away, she continues drinking her pint and chatting with Lana, until Lana’s eyes move towards the door, brows raising in surprise.

“Here comes trouble,” she says, before taking a drink.

She turns, heart sinking as she sees Billy making his way unsteadily towards their table. His eyes are glazed, a pinkish hue is dusted across the bridge of his nose and cheekbones, the telltale signs he’s been drinking.

Mick looks up, raising his pint in greeting. “Billy! I’d offer you a drink, but I’ve not long gotten a round in. You can afford to get your own, right?”

“Mick, leave it,” Lana grits out, eyes narrowed.

“Sit down, Billy,” she says gently, pulling out the seat next to hers, “I’ll get you one.”

“I don’t need you!” He snaps, nostrils flaring and brow furrowing.

She flinches back, feeling her throat tighten, lowering her gaze to hide the hurt she feels.

Billy softens, shoulders sagging with shame, averting his own eyes. “Don’t need you to get me a drink,” he says quietly, “can get my own.”

She watches him weave through the crowded pub towards the bar, anxiety forming a pit within her stomach.

“Fuck’s sake,” she hears Lana mutter under her breath, turning to her. “I’m so sorry, had no idea he’d turn up.”

I did, she thinks to herself, but offers her friend a reassuring smile. “It’s alright, I don’t mind.”

Billy’s pint is already half drunk by the time he makes his way back to their table. He sets the glass heavily down on its surface, before slumping in the seat next to hers, fingers fidgeting with a beer mat.

“Still not working then, Billy?” Mick asks and she has to fight the urge to tell him to shut up, her grip tightening around the condensation coated outside of her pint glass.

“Starting an apprenticeship in two weeks, actually,” he says, shooting him a sideways glance, fingers continuing to spin the beer mat.

What? Why hadn’t he told her?

Her eyes widen in surprise, mouth opening to ask about it, closing it again upon realising it’s not her place, not publicly anyway. Thankfully, Lana is quick to step in.

“That’s brilliant news! Doing what?”

“Car mechanics,” Billy says. “Bloke at the JobCentre sorted me out with it, I start in two weeks.”

“Wow,” Lana says with a genuine smile, “I’m dead pleased for you, mate, know how much you enjoyed doing up your old Vauxhall.”

Billy nods, tapping the edge of the beer mat against the table, not looking directly at anyone. “Yeah, should hopefully have a job by the end of it.”

She takes a mouthful of lager, swirling it over her tongue, trying to distract herself from the sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. She’s pleased for Billy, it would be cruel not to be, but she can’t deny the hurt she feels that this isn’t something he felt was worth sharing with her.

“Let’s hope this sticks, eh, mate?” Mick says with a smirk.

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Billy asks with a scowl.

Mick shrugs casually. “Seems like a good opportunity, would hate to see it go the same way as all your attempts to join the army.”

“Let’s keep it friendly, shall we?” John says uncomfortably, but is ignored by Mick.

“I’m just saying,” he continues, “hope another group of terrorists doesn’t come along and distract him. They teach you how to look for bombs while you’re fixing up the cars at this apprenticeship?”

“I said enough!” Lana shouts, slamming her pint glass down, eyes wide with fury.

The pub goes eerily silent, the Oasis song that’s playing on the jukebox and the scrape of Billy’s chair legs on the flagstone flooring are the only audible sounds as he stands abruptly, tossing the beer mat he’d been fiddling with onto the table.

“Going out for a fag,” he says sullenly, the chatter of surrounding tables gradually becoming louder as the shock of the sudden outburst wears of.

Billy walks out of the pub, head bowed, and she watches him go, her heart aching for him.

“Erm…think I’ll join him, actually,” she tells Lana, turning towards her, “could do with a smoke anyway. I’ll see if he’s alright.”

“Appreciate that, thank you,” Lana says, giving her hand a squeeze. “Think Mick and I need to have a little chat anyway,” her tone is suddenly stern, her gaze dark as she turns to face the man opposite her.

She nods, slipping her jacket back on and heads outside.

The shock of the cold night air hitting her skin causes her to draw in a sharp breath. It’s still damp outside and she worries that Billy might have gone home when she can’t immediately see him. It’s not until she walks along the road a short distance that she spots the glow of the end of a lit cigarette down an alleyway, the reddish hue dully illuminating Billy’s sharp features.

Wrapping her arms around herself, she walks towards him. “You should ignore Mick,” she says softly, standing in front of him, “he doesn’t know what he’s talking about.”

Billy exhales a plume of smoke, a hint of a sneer on his face as he draws his head back, staring at her through narrowed eyes. “Seems like he had the right of it to me. I’m a fuck up and almost got myself killed because of it.”

“You’re not, Billy,” she reassures him, “you were in a bad place. Those scumbags took advantage. Mick only takes the piss because he knows if he was in your position he wouldn’t be able to handle it.”

He sniffs, scowling slightly as he takes another drag, and she shifts from foot to foot, anxiously waiting for him to say something, anything.

She sighs when it becomes apparent he won’t, silently exhaling smoke, his brooding silence too much for her to bear. “Why didn’t you tell me about the apprenticeship?”

Billy swallows thickly, staring down at his trainers. “I was gonna, but then…then Becky text me.”

“Oh,” is all she’s able to get out, her skin growing heated despite how cold it is, as her heart lurches with painful jealousy.

She takes an involuntary step back, but Billy is quick to advance towards her, his free hand reaching for her. “No, not like that!” He says hastily. “I dunno what she wanted, actually. Messaged to ask how I was and I told her I was with you and not to contact me again.”

Her stomach flutters at his words.

Told her I was with you.

She can’t help the smile that tugs at the corners of her mouth. “And then what?”

“Then she said it wouldn’t last, she couldn’t imagine why someone like you would wanna be with someone like me.”

“And you believed her?”

He chucks his cigarette butt on the ground, crushing it underfoot. “I followed my therapist’s advice; cut ties with people who force you to question your self worth - blocked her number.”

Pride swells in her chest at his words and she reaches for his hand, giving it a reassuring squeeze.

“But it got me thinking,” he continues, “you deserve better than a few secret shags with your best mate’s waster brother.”

Her brow furrows, sadness making her feel heavy. “Is that why you’ve avoided me all week?”

Billy nods. “Yeah, just sorta wondered what the point of it all is, we have to keep it a secret anyway, and I’m just gonna fuck it up, same as I’ll do with this apprenticeship.”

She reaches up, cupping his face, fingers stroking over the scruff of his jawline, which is in desperate need of a shave. “Billy, it was your decision to keep us a secret. I’d tell everyone, given the choice. I’m not ashamed to be with you.”

His hands grasp her wrists, thumbs stroking the soft skin on the undersides. “Really?” He asks, his voice barely a whisper as he looks at her hopefully.

Leaning up, she kisses his lips, quick and chaste. “Really. Billy, you’re so good,” she leans up again, pressing her mouth to his more firmly, for longer, savouring the feeling of him kissing her back.

“So good to me,” she whispers, trailing her lips along his jaw and over his neck, smiling as she feels him shudder, his long fingers threading themselves into her hair.

“I’m so proud to be with you,” she tells him, sucking at his pulsepoint, earning a groan, which she feels the rumble of through his chest.

She reaches down, palming him through his jogging bottoms, feeling the rapid hardening of his cock through the cotton. “You’re gonna do so well at your apprenticeship, show everyone else just how good you are.”

His jaw goes slack, his grip on her hair tightening as he pulls her in for another kiss. It’s deep and heated, his breathing rapid as he tongue works against hers. He tastes of tobacco and Carling, yet to her there has never been anything more addictive.

Pulling away, his hands slip from her hair as she drops to her knees in front of him, not caring how the dampness of the concrete soaks into the material of her jeans.

“What are you doing?” Billy asks, lips parted in shock as he watches her tug at the waistband of his joggers and boxers, pulling them down just enough to free his erection. “Someone could see!”

“Then let them see, Billy,” she whispers huskily, eyes flitting up momentarily to meet the ocean blue wideness of his. “I told you I’m not ashamed to be with you.”

She licks the flushed pink tip of him, humming appreciatively at the sharp taste, grinning to herself as Billy hisses through his teeth, eyes screwed shut.

“Tastes so good,” she coos up at him, reveling in the sigh of the rapid rise and fall of his chest and the way he twitches against her palm.

Opening her mouth, she envelopes the length of him in its wet warmth, hollowing her cheeks as she bobs her head back and forth.

“Oh…fuck!” Billy all but chokes out, and she moans around him, speeding up her movements, pulling back each time the head of him knocks the back of her throat, stroking her hand up and down the base in tandem.

It is risky to do this so publicly, and yet it adds to the thrill; on her knees in a darkened alleyway for her man, showing him exactly what he’s worth, what he means to her.

Her core throbs with arousal, her movements becoming sloppy as Billy cups the back of her head, muscles tensing and his breathing becoming ragged. She can feel the tang of pre-cum against her tongue and knows he won’t last much longer.

She whines when he grips her hair, pulling her off of him and dragging his trousers back up.

“Why’d you do that? You were about to cum,” she huffs, rising to her feet.

“Exactly,” he says with a shrug, wrapping an arm around her shoulders, and guiding her out of the alley. “Wanna be inside you when I do that though, and I’d much rather be back at my girlfriend’s place to do that than down a fucking alley.”

She grins, wrapping an arm around his waist as they walk home.

Girlfriend.

She likes the sound of that.

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dwellordream · 10 months

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“…In the Early Middle Ages, most French Jewish communities had settled in the southeast, on the shores of the Mediterranean. Although there were few Jews north of the Alps, they were the focus of restrictive laws that limited their freedom of movement and their ability to interact with Christians.

For instance, a mid-fifth-century council held in Troyes, northern France, prohibited Jews from going out of their houses to have any form of communication with Christians during Eastertide – a time celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, therefore a particularly tense period for the Jewish community who were accused of his murder.

A century later, other councils banned the appointment of Jews to any public office that would put them in a position of superiority over a Christian. Jews were no longer allowed to work on Sundays and were to refrain from eating with Christians. Intermarriage between Jews and Christians was forbidden in early Roman law codes, a prohibition early medieval law codes reiterated.

At that time, the fragile state of Christianity – still a relatively new religion in Europe – fueled the clergy’s anxieties. Clergymen were afraid Jewish people would “pollute” the minds of Christians and turn them away from the Church. They advocated relentlessly for their conversion to Christianity. This project was finally successful in the seventh century when the Merovingian king Dagobert called for the baptism or expulsion of the Jews of his kingdom. More than a century of political unrest followed.

Dagobert’s rule, during which Jewish communities grew again in size. By the end of the year 800, Charlemagne became emperor. Charles’ attitude towards the Jews was ambivalent but more open than before. Carolingian capitularies reiterated certain older restrictions, and the chancery levied heavy taxes on the Jews. Because of these taxes, Jews constituted a reliable source of income for the chancery. Charlemagne, therefore, granted the Jewish communities privileges safeguarding their autonomy and their rights to practice their religion.

For instance, Jews responded to their own laws for all matters concerning “low justice,” such as marriage and business contracts, small offences, and inter-community disputes. Murders, however, were to be tried by the Christian authorities. Until the First Crusade, the lives of medieval French Jews were relatively peaceful – only two episodes of violence were reported in the early eleventh century. But things were about to change.

Set in the context of religious zeal, the Crusades stirred the pot of hate. Pope Urban II came to France in 1095 and preached the First Crusade with tremendous success. The message was clear: Christians should take up arms to fight the enemies of God and Christianity. While the pope clearly laid out that the point was to free Jerusalem, some interpreted it differently. According to chronicler Guibert of Nogent (1055–1124), a group of men from Rouen, Normandy, had decided to leave for the East, but they began questioning their purpose:

“We want to attack the enemies of God in the east after traveling great distances, while before our eyes are the Jews, of all races God’s greatest enemy.”

Pondering their options, the men took their weapons, captured many Jews, and killed them, adults and children alike, only sparing those who accepted conversion. Then they left for Jerusalem.

The Crusades fueled dozens and dozens of pogroms across Western Europe. In the late eleventh and early twelfth century, the pressure to convert was immense, and the risks of refusing to convert were even greater. A mid-twelfth-century Christian chronicler, Richard of Poitiers, acknowledged the great sufferings of the Jewish people at the outset of the early crusades, of which he underlined the unfairness. But the anti-Jewish sentiment in the Christian communities only grew stronger.

In the aftermath of the crusades, European Jews were at the center of rumours propelled by distrust and suspicion. In Blois, France, in 1171, Christians accused members of the Jewish community of having murdered Christian children during religious rituals. Called the “blood libel,” these accusations first appeared in England and were attested across Western Europe from the twelfth century to the modern era. In Blois, the blood libel accusations lead to the dramatic death of more than 30 members of the community. The survivors’ estates were confiscated. Ten years later, King Philippe Augustus expelled the Jews from the royal domain.

Anti-Semitism received the Church’s support in the early thirteenth century at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215). The council invited kings and rulers to force the Jews of their kingdoms to wear a distinctive symbol on their clothes or a specific hat that would make them immediately recognizable by Christians. In 1269, Louis IX of France made the symbols mandatory.

The thirteenth century also witnessed the forced segregation of Jews to specific areas. Traditionally, Jews lived together in neighbourhoods often nicknamed juiveries (Jewries). Paris counted four juiveries at that time. When Saint Louis made the distinctive symbols mandatory, he also forced the Jews to live in Jewries. Forced residence in Jewries signalled the birth of “ghettos,” neighbourhoods reserved for the Jewish population of a given town.

In the aftermath of the fourteenth-century plague, many Jewries were equipped with gates locked at night to prevent people from entering or exiting the district. Jewries started to turn into ghettos. The point of the ghettos, some rulers argued, was to protect the Jews from the violence Christians perpetrated against them. But ghettos also functioned as traps and participated in marginalizing the French Jewish communities.

The first decades of the fourteenth century were marked by an economic crisis and recurring food shortages. Anti-Semitism was on the rise again. In 1319 and 1321, Parisians – Christians – manifested their hatred toward Jews by publicly burning the Talmud. The plague signalled a new era of pogroms and violence against the Jews, who became the “scapegoats” of the crisis. The chronicler Jean de Venette witnessed and described the consequences of the plague for the Jews:

Some said that the pestilence was the result of infected air and water… and as a result of this idea, many began suddenly and passionately to accuse the Jews of infecting the wells, fouling the air, and generally being the source of the plague. Everyone rose up against them most cruelly. In Germany and elsewhere – wherever Jews lived – they were massacred and slaughtered by Christian crowds and many thousands were burned indiscriminately.

As Venette states, Christians accused the Jews of having poisoned wells to spread the disease. In Toulon, southern France, 40 Jews were killed by fire right after the epidemic started. In Strasbourg, northeastern France, in 1349, hundreds of Jews who lived in the city’s ghetto were locked up in a building by angry Christians and set on fire. Similar massacres happened in the pontifical city of Avignon, and in Narbonne, Carcassonne, and Toulouse, to cite but a few southern French examples.

Pope Clement VI (1291–1352) issued a bull forbidding the killing of Jews, but to no avail. Distrust and hatred were so intense that the city of Strasbourg, in the Rhine valley, expelled all Jews from its jurisdiction and forbade them from entering the city. This law was only removed from the city’s policies during the French Revolution in the late 1780s.

In many ways, medieval anti-Judaism paved the way for modern anti-Semitism. From accusations of greed and avarice to the blood libel, from the wearing of distinctive symbols to mandatory residence in ghettos, the Middle Ages witnessed the development of a series of stereotypes and a system of repression that had repercussions far into the twentieth century and the modern day.

But the Jewish communities of medieval France did not always live in fear. They enjoyed times of peace and independence and were, usually, relatively integrated into urban communities. Their role in the intellectual renaissance of the twelfth century is especially remarkable and well-marked in historiography.”

- Lucie Laumonier, “Hostility Against the Jews in Medieval France”

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thefirstknife · 1 year

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Since a lot of people have been talking about possible antisemitism and racism in Bungie's writing I wanted to add something that always bothered me.

I think that Saint-14 as a character is at least influenced by some pretty anti Slavic stereotypes. He's the only major character of Slavic origin (accent) and he just so happen to embody the stereotype of "Slavic brute". He's strong and kills hordes of enemies not showing almost any remorse. And the Season of the Splicer even managed make it worse! Even when he's portrayed as having some deeper thoughts and agency he's still constructed as being unable to be subtle with his words (despise speaking English)

I really like Saint as a character but it's unpleasant to see that he's clearly created as a stereotype

I respectfully disagree. I've seen this line of thinking around A LOT, especially during Splicer, and I don't understand where it comes from outside of people being unable to treat non-native English speakers right. Source: I am Slavic. Not American with Slavic heritage, I am a Slavic person living in a Slavic country and English is not my native language.

Saint is as far away from a brute as possible. Ever since he's settled down in the City, he is dedicated to protecting, not attacking. He feeds birds and sings songs with the children of the City. He dedicated his time to learn to bake cookies for the Eliksni and was considerate to find a recipe that is specifically for Eliksni. He fights when he has to, but has largely settled down and would rather plough fields and plug holes in the wall than fight. He is incredibly emotional and emotionally intelligent and understanding. He is aware of his own and other people's emotions and he's open about it unapologetically.

He is so non-aggressive to the point of many in the community, including big lore youtubers, wishing for Osiris to DIE, just so they can see Saint being angry and aggressive enough to go on another bloody rampage. Because Saint is too tame for them. Too passive, too peaceful. Where is he a brute right now?

Saint has been "brutish" before Season of Dawn, because we never saw him anywhere outside of a couple of lines. He essentially didn't exist as a character until Season of Dawn and the only thing we knew about him was that he was a legendary Titan who went on a crusade against the Eliksni and killed many of them. That's definitely brutish!

When we met him in Dawn, we met him in the middle of his crusade, at the time where he lost countless innocent people to Eliksni in the middle of the horrible conditions of the Dark Age. He is... rough, and angry. Reasonably. He just got to Mercury to save civilians and he lost them and he almost died. He thinks in black and white terms; Eliksni bad, humans good. He is harsh and lost.

But, that's when we find him in a bad position and when he's yelling on comms because he's under fire. He also speaks in broken English and with an accent. People are prejudiced when they hear it and immediately assume less subtlety and less eloquence. That's not on Bungie. That's on the prejudiced audience.

In written text, he speaks perfectly fine. Observe this and this. The issue arises when he speaks out loud (with an accent) or when he's talking to friends casually or when he's making jokes. I don't know why people expect him to speak like he's giving a speech at all times. He can speak perfectly fine, but for non-native speakers, that can be exhausting. He is allowed to drop the eloquence in a more relaxed situation.

Pointing out Splicer is incredibly strange to me because in Splicer he made the biggest possible turning point when he was confronted with how other people see him as a brute. The cutscene where Mithrax tells a story about how the Eliksni view him as a monster shook him to his core. He has been on a path of redemption ever since and dedicated his time to gently protecting Eliksni. He even started learning their language and culture.

I would understand saying that Saint started off as a brute, because he did. But Bungie pulled the biggest flip of a switch on us when they showed us that Saint is actually a huge softie, a gentle man who was pushed to war only to protect, someone who lives for peace and quiet. He is good-natured, trusting, perceptive, kind and empathic.

How is this man a brute (this is just a small selection of his idle lines):

Food reserves are dwindling. New land must be ploughed. I can do this! / Everyone is so accommodating, I- I will think of ways to give back to them. / Shaxx, ugh. Glory is for the selfish. We fight to end the fighting. / To hear the children laughing. This is the peace we fight for. / The city breathes, ships flow through its veins. There is life here, and it is thriving. / I walked the City walls, plugged holes. Every small act brings us closer to peace. / The Traveller teaches us in these quiet moments. We are not defined by our scars. / The Light does not make us heroes, friend. Power is only good when it is used for good. / I am glad to see birds still nest in these old walls. / This life can take its toll. Come to me if you need to talk. / Yesterday, a child came to me. He carried a painted shield of paper. I turned to him and he threw the shield at my head! A young Titan, I love it! [laughing]

Saint-14 is the gentlest man in the whole damn setting. Bungie said "fuck toxic masculinity in particular" when they decided to treat us to a Saint so kind that people in-universe are surprised to learn that's THE Saint-14, the one who fought at Six Fronts and led a crusade against Eliksni. Eva's assessment of this:

"That's right," he said, spreading a little more birdseed. "It is a pleasure to meet you, Eva."

We sat a little longer together, watching the pigeons and the clouds, before I finally had to excuse myself to go back to my work.

As I said, I'd heard the legend of Saint-14 before. Many legends of remarkable Guardians make them seem like mythical figures, so far removed from anything the civilians of the City will ever see or experience. The legendary Saint-14 does not seem that way to me at all.

In fact, I think he is a very nice young man.

Saint is deeply ashamed and regretful of his violent past. Because he DID have a violent past, much like pretty much every Lightbearer. Saint and Shaxx discuss this, as well as Shaxx and Mithrax. But as much as he fought and as powerful he is, Saint does NOT enjoy war or fighting. He endures it because he knows that sometimes you must take up arms to protect those who can't protect themselves, but if he had the option to be sure that the City will stay safe without his aid, he would hang up his armour forever.

I've talked a lot about how much I appreciate that Bungie took a big powerful manly man who went on rampaging crusade before and presented him to us as a gentle and kind person who loves children and birds, who prefers domestic tasks over war and who is deeply emotional and thrives on kindness. It's quite strange to see people saying that he's a "Slavic brute stereotype." He is literally the opposite of it.

If there are specific instances in lore that someone thinks are stereotypical and brutish, I would love to see them so I can address them in context. I'm also not sure what "subtle with his words" means exactly, but if there are examples of this that you'd like addressed, I'm happy to investigate. Bungie is obviously not perfect so there could be instances where they messed up, though I can't currently recall any in regards to Saint and the fact that he's Slavic.

#destiny 2 #saint-14 #long post #ask #bungie is in general really good with their portrayal of men. saint zavala and shaxx are all very good depictions of men who are gentle #even shaxx who can be highly aggressive is overall incredibly good to people and emotional #in which other game would a pvp vendor yell how he's going to marry every guardian unapologetically #or reminisce about his fallen friend and contemplate about his past mistakes #pretty much all characters like this are multifaceted and well-developed

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Support groups for parents of LGBTQ+ children have existed in Russia since at least the early 2010s — though it’s more accurate to call them mothers’ groups: in over 13 years of existence, no fathers have joined. Over the past decade, LGBTQ+ rights in Russia have been increasingly under attack, with more and more anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passed. On November 30, 2023, the Russian Supreme Court classified anything to do with the so-called “international LGBT movement” as “extremism,” effectively putting parents under threat of criminal prosecution for caring for their LGBTQ+ children. Two mothers who’ve been part of the LGBTQ+ parent community in Russia for the past decade agreed to speak with Verstka about how they’ve tried to protect their children and fight for their rights in the face of increasing hatred. Meduza shares a retelling in English.

The names of the people in this story who are still in Russia have been changed for safety reasons.

Svetlana

Sixty-two-year-old Svetlana from St. Petersburg raised her son, Yevgeny, as a single parent. Yevgeny, who passed away a few years ago, came out to his mom as gay in the summer of 2009 when he was 22 years old. Svetlana took the news calmly, though she still thought her son should get married and have children. Yevgeny brought home pamphlets from psychologists with answers to common questions that parents of LGBTQ+ children might have. Svetlana read them. “My main conclusion was that a person is born gay. That was enough for me, that it’s not an illness,” she says.

Six months after Yevgeny came out, he and his mom went on vacation together with a gay couple. Svetlana says it already felt completely normal to see two men together. “In that moment, I thought to myself, it would be good if Yevgeny had someone too,” she recalls. That’s usually how it is, she adds: “A parent accepts their child after six months.” Only a few accept their child’s sexuality right away.

On Svetlana’s living room wall, there’s a photo collage of her son and his friends in rainbow colors. Among them are many well-known St. Petersburg LGBTQ+ activists of the 2010s. Yevgeny didn’t hide the fact that he was gay and spent most of his life advocating for LGBTQ+ rights.

Svetlana’s acceptance of her son’s sexuality soon evolved into activism of her own. At an LGBTQ+ festival in St. Petersburg, she saw a screening of Prayers for Bobby, a film which tells the story of a religious mother and her gay son, Bobby, who ultimately takes his life when his mother and the Church refuse to accept him. After his death, Bobby’s mother questions her beliefs and becomes an activist for the U.S. organization Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Following the screening, there was a discussion with parents of LGBTQ+ children. Svetlana and another mom participated. When asked if they wanted a community like PFLAG in Russia, they said yes.

The first meeting took place in St. Petersburg in January 2011. Svetlana says about seven mothers came — fathers never attended. At the time, they didn’t plan anything political; they just gathered to support each other. In late March 2011, at a press conference, Svetlana, Yevgeny, and Russian LGBT Network founder Igor Kochetkov said that if someone tried to restrict LGBTQ+ people’s rights, they’d appeal to the authorities. Soon, though, conservative United Russia politician and anti-LGBTQ+ rights crusader Vitaly Milonov, then a member of St. Petersburg’s Legislative Assembly, proposed a regional ban on “LGBT propaganda” among minors.

At first, activists still had hope they could stop the bill. LGBTQ+ youth and their moms came and held signs outside the Legislative Assembly. But on March 7, 2012, the law passed. Gradually, more and more mothers began to join the protests. “Anya, the mom of an LGBTQ+ kid from St. Petersburg, used to break dishes, but then she became an activist. There was also a mom of a transgender child; it took her a while, but then she came out holding a sign,” Svetlana recalls.

In 2012, mothers started marching at pride events. While now it seems almost unimaginable, a pride event in 2013 was actually authorized by the authorities. This didn’t protect the activists, though. One person had their face severely beaten, and everyone there was arrested. Svetlana says that even elderly mothers were shoved “very roughly” into a police van. At annual May Day pride marches, police always arrested participants and crowds shouted homophobic phrases. “In 2013, they threw rocks, feces, and rotten eggs at us and shouted all sorts of things. I won’t even quote what they were saying. You feel what hatred your son or daughter faces, and it’s very painful.”

At the beginning of his activism, Yevgeny took an aggressive stance against homophobic legislative initiatives, but after some time, he started to retreat inward and close himself off. “[When Yevgeny passed], he took with him an era where there was hope,” says Svetlana. She believes if he were still alive today, he would find the new repressions unbearable. “So many years of struggle, and all for nothing.”

Tamara

Tamara joined the St. Petersburg parent support group in 2020 when meetings were moved online because of COVID-19 restrictions. She lives in Moscow, but, as far as she knows, there weren’t any similar groups there. Tamara is 74, born during Stalin’s era. “This isn’t my first president,” she says. In the past, everyone in her social circle knew about LGBTQ+ people, but almost no one talked about them — and if they did, it was only when discussing celebrities. In 2016, Tamara learned that her youngest son, Fyodor, is gay. At the time, he was 30 years old. His father found out later.

Fyodor’s partner, Alexey, is four years older than him but looks younger, says Tamara. Despite their differences (Fyodor is a physicist and Alexey is a hairdresser), they share a lot of common interests, including a love of opera. “But most importantly, they know how to compromise with each other,” Tamara adds.

Alexey moved to Moscow with his mother as a teenager after he was attacked for being gay. “Well, that’s who he was, you could tell. There was an attempt on the child’s life. His mom left everything behind and they came to Moscow. Basically, to nowhere. Where could she turn? Who would help?” Tamara says.

Tamara had suspected that her son was gay but was afraid to ask, and he was afraid to tell her. Fyodor struggled with his identity for a long time and tried dating girls. After her son came out, Tamara says she “went through the whole journey parents go through.” “Honestly, at first, my world just collapsed. I didn’t know what to do,” she recalls. More than anything, she worried about how others might treat him. Fyodor did science outreach work with young people; he’d even received awards for it from the mayor. “I was afraid he would be completely banned if anyone, God forbid, found out.” Tamara also says that Vladimir, Fyodor’s father, often made homophobic comments: “Once, he was sitting, watching TV, and he said, ‘It’s all those LGBT people’s fault!’”

Then, Fyodor told his mom he wanted to introduce his boyfriend to the family. “Okay, don’t worry, everything will be fine,” she answered. But internally, she panicked, thinking of how her husband might react. It only got worse when she searched for information about LGBTQ+ people on the Internet and found hate groups. Eventually, she told her husband — and her fears proved unfounded. “Why are you worried?” he said. “You’ve always been tolerant. It is what it is.” Afterward, he wanted to meet his son’s boyfriend. Tamara says the meeting “went well.” Fyodor’s older brother also took the news well. He’s over 50, with his own family — on holidays they all get together with Alexey and Fyodor.

When people inquire if Fyodor has a wife or girlfriend, Tamara doesn’t know how to answer. Once, an acquaintance asked, “Does Fyodor have someone?” and she replied with relief, “Yes, he does.” “How long can one go on like this?” Tamara questions. “It’s very hard to always pretend.” She shared the news about her son and his partner with the people close to her, and everyone took it well. Now, she wonders why these conversations are taboo: “Parents are also in the closet, right? I ask other people about their kids. They all grew up right before our eyes. Why can’t I talk about mine? In our society, kids come out of the closet, but parents go in.”

On online support groups for parents of LGBTQ+ children, Tamara heard other parents’ stories and “saw moms leading completely normal lives.” Some mothers came in tears, saying: “We don't understand what this is. We’ve never heard of it before.” This was especially true for moms of transgender children. “It's hard to imagine what life is like for them now [after the crackdown on LGBTQ+ people],” says Tamara.

Children themselves also came to the groups, worried about how to tell their families. “Some do come out, but their parents don’t accept them. How can we help? How long can you live in secret? It's impossible,” Tamara says. “I know what my child went through. We had a conversation, and he told me: ‘If only you knew how much I needed support.’”

‘How can I make sure my child survives this?’

It’s estimated that LGBTQ+ people make up between 5 to 10 percent of any given society. This means that in Russia, there are at least 7 to 15 million LGBTQ+ individuals and up to 14 to 30 million parents of LGBTQ+ people.

According to kris pokrytan, a psychologist with the Plus Golos project (which mainly supports Russian-speaking families), parents of LGBTQ+ children often go through an acceptance process that isn’t linear or logical. Sometimes, there’s a “mourning period” before they come to terms with their child’s identity. But pokrytan stresses that there’s no one way to process things and not all parents grieve: “For a number of parents, [their child’s] coming out isn’t associated with a feeling of loss. Instead, there can be increased anxiety — where the parent is ready to accept [their child’s identity] but realizes there might be problems at school.”

Psychologists try to support the whole family: a child might feel relief after coming out, whereas a parent might sink into worry about how difficult life may now be — a fear only exacerbated by Russia’s latest anti-LGBTQ+ legislation. What’s dangerous is when parents show their child rejection as they navigate their own feelings. “It’s very difficult when a parent becomes unhappy with who you are,” says pokrytan. It’s possible to help work through stereotypes parents might have, but if they believe they can change who their child is, there’s very little psychologists can do.

Fathers in Russia are far less likely to accept their LGBTQ+ children than mothers, according to pokrytan. When a child comes out, their mom or dad also gets a new identity: the parent of an LGBTQ+ child. Everyone copes with this differently, but Russian fathers often don’t cope at all. The exceptions are few and far between.

After the Russian Supreme Court declared the so-called “international LGBT movement” an extremist organization, fewer people started reaching out to pokrytan. When they do, their questions are filled with a new urgency and fear: “How can I make sure my child survives this? How do we stay out of trouble with the authorities and take care of our mental health?”

‘May your love be infinite’

Fyodor and Alexey come home carrying a New Year’s tree, interrupting the interview. “What if we hadn’t welcomed them?” Tamara reflects. How would our traditions have continued? I think our son would be with us, certainly, but his beloved person, whom he’s been with for many years, wouldn’t be here. That’s a pretty strange thought.”

Tamara’s family puts on a play every New Year’s. “Alexey was very shy the first time, but now he’s gotten the hang of it,” Tamara says. “He called yesterday and said he’d invited his cousin and cousin’s girlfriend to the gathering, and also his friend and her two children. Of course, my older son and his wife and kid will be there too, as well as my husband’s sister. I’ve already assigned the roles.”

The family also organizes pride celebrations at home. At one, they held a symbolic wedding ceremony for Fyodor and Alexey. “Back then, I didn’t realize how serious it was for them. Alexey even cried, and they still wear the rings.” The speech Tamara gave at the ceremony ends with the following words:

Fate has awarded you its greatest gift — the kind of love that all seek, but only the chosen find. Its tremendous strength gives meaning to life and helps overcome difficulties and conquer any mountains. May your love be infinite. And as for whom and how to love, that’s a personal matter.

After the Supreme Court’s ruling, Alexey’s mom thought her son and Fyodor should leave the country. However, they’ve decided to stay for now. Reflecting on the court’s decision, Tamara says it’s “convenient for propaganda to use LGBTQ+ people as a tool to distract society from real problems.”

Both Svetlana and Tamara say they’re afraid for LGBTQ+ people, not for themselves. Since the new law came into effect, Svetlana says, everyone’s become occupied with figuring out how to survive, whether or not they should leave, and the feeling of community has been somewhat lost. She worries for the young activists: “You feel like you can’t help in any way.”

Tamara says it’s painful to see the situation in Russia growing worse and worse: “I think, why don’t people come to their senses? These are absurd decisions. For what? What are we suffering for? I say ‘we’ because we suffer too. I suffer along with my children. I’m not afraid for myself — nothing will happen to me. I’m only afraid for my children.”

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system-of-a-feather · 10 months

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You know what, I was ranting about shit to a certain Chinese friend of ours and I'm directly gonna say it, its absolutely fucked up now that I'm actually thinking about it that @/sophieinwonderland accused me of being pro-CCP and pushing CCP propaganda

Like a while ago when I found out about it, it was so wild it was funny, haha chinese people this that assuming we are all CCP haha classic racist fucking bullshit

But its only when I started explaining the history of attrocities and shit situations my family's home country INDONESIA was put through did I realize just how especially fucked it was.

Cause back in the whole cold war shit Indonesia has a supposedly pretty good guy as the founding President and what with the whole anti-communist vs communist push, and HONESTLY at this point I don't even know if they were thinking of discussing allying with the CCP because of all the fucking American propaganda

But seeing as Indonesia was communist in ideology, America literally fucking assisted in staging a coup that pushed both anti-communist rhetoric AND SPECIFICALLY anti-chinese rhetoric that resulted in the fucking bloody massacre of Chinese citizens in Indonesia. Literally people who were BORN and RAISED in Indonesia that had Chinese blood and were just as indoneisan as everyone else born and raised there were literally hunted and killed for being fucking Chinese because America both supported and helped push the rhetoric that Chinese = Communist = Bad = Murder them

And so Im fucking sitting here, with my parents having LITERALLY BEEN CHASED OUT OF INDONESIA FOR BEING CHINESE AND ACCUSED OF BEING EVIL COMMUNISTS BECAUSE THEY WERE LITERALLY BEING CHASED IN THE STREETS, having this white fucking bitch from America saying that I am ACTUALLY a secret CCP fucking agent trying to push fucking CCP propaganda

I'm sorry, I'm not.

My dad also was not

Unfortunately fucking Americans pushed that anyone who is Chinese is automatically CCP and that literally resulted in the death of A LOT of people like my dad who BTW has a lot of trauma for completely unknown reasons

Anyways I'm fucking pissed off. And ya know what, if I didnt have the fucking bitch blocked and probably wasn't also blocked by her, I would just @ her directly cause fuck you and the literal rhetoric that lead to fucking massacres of a "third world country" that literally jsut wanted to be left alone

And FYI; the coup resulted in the placement of a heavily corrupt western-ideology leader which directly increased the sheer amount of corruption in Indonesia but ok.

Like theres a whole fucking book on it that I haven't read cause it pisses me off but my sister read it and was like "lol yeah the US admitted to it" and its literally called the Jakarta Method

I probably missed some details and got it wrong cause shocker, I'm talking from my culture's lived experience and passed down fucking cultural trauma but whatever.

It's really fucked up.

Don't quote me on this cause I probably again, got details wrong, but that fucking rhetoric undeniably - by americas own admission - resulted in the death of many Indonesians on the premise of Those Evil Chinese Communists. I'm hesitant to post this cause again, I am speaking from released American documents and my family's personal reports and peer's reports so there might be errors, but ya know what, white americans?

Fuck off. Even if I got the details wrong in some places, it doesn't fucking matter because dear white americans, you still killed millions of people in indonesia in your crusade against communism so please miss me with accusing me - a first generation child from an Immigrant from Indonesia - an Evil Communist.

The sentiment in Indonesia still persists, enough so that when I met someone who was from China (who had a relative who was born and raised in indonesia) heard I was Indonesian-Chinese widened his eyes and went "ohhhhh" and commented that his relative doesn't go home to Indonesia anymore because its fucking dangerous.

Its fucking stupid.

#alter: riku #vent #vent tw #if any people more familiar and directly involved in the indonesian history correct me if you like #but white people can shut the fuck up.#sophiecourse #racism #fucking hate this shit #i hate it #fucking hell

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Backstory NPC's

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Ianthos Aldonlel

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Maternal Grandfather

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: Kyonin born elf: Aiudeen

Deity/Religion: Calistria

Class: Wizard; Spellbinder

Background: Noble, Diplomat, Arcane Scholar

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Appearance: Pale silvery blonde hair. Silver blue eyes. Triangular face.

Personality/Traits: Aloof, detached, cold, ambitious, analytical, apathetic, independent, proud,

History: Born and educated in the Kyonin capital of Iadara. Close with the Queen. Moved to Mendev to study and help the crusaders with the demonic invasion.

Current: Retired. Lives in his wizard tower with the Maelstrom. Visiting his daughter and grandchildren from time to time.

Long-lived ancient elf.

Has only one daughter, Ordielau. After his wife passed away mysteriously, he isolated himself and is now barely seen in public.

An accomplished dangerous high-level wizard who specializes in enchantment magic. A Kyonin diplomat. He passed down his title and role to his daughter.

Infamous and highly debated in academic communities for his immoral use of enchantment magic.

Spends most of his time locked away in his wizard tower which is rarely on the material plane.

Takes Lariel and Zrise into his family tree to save his daughter and son-in-law's embarrassment, but also in a very selfish interest in Lariel's sorcerer bloodline.

Helped in creation of the Wardstones. Has been in Nerosyan since the first crusade.

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Ordielau Ellvesem

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Mother

Pronouns: She/Her

Species: Kyonin born elf: Aiudeen

Deity/Religion: Calistria

Class: Witch; Gravewalker

Background: Noble, Diplomat

Alignment: Neutral Evil

Appearance: Golden blonde hair. Sky blue eyes. Heart shaped face.

Personality/Traits: Charming, spiteful, insincere, conceited, excitable, judgmental, fickle

History: Born and educated in the Kyonin capital of Iadara. Moved to Mendev with her father and mother.

Current: Took over her father’s position as the current Kyonin diplomat in charge of research in fighting the demonic invasion.

Middle age elven woman.

A friendly and charming person on the surface.

Infamous for hosting hedonistic events. And equally known for her brutality in regard to those she views as 'lower' than herself, including her own servants and staff. Punishing them thoroughly for mistakes or thievery.

Gave away her and her husband's first child to a hag to fulfill her deal. Told her family she lost the baby.

Drowned her own son, Zrise. Also then attempted to kill his sister, Lariel.

With her father's help, they resurrected Zrise. The necromantic ritual was intentionally left incomplete as it would require a sacrifice.

Is the one who commissioned and made Lariel wear her anti-magic collar.

Has a bat familiar named Mori who often spies in her absence.

Her infidelity is a constant strain on her marriage.

Has been in Nerosyan since the first crusade. Though she often travels to other countries to make connections. Away from home often.

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Valondriel Ellvesem

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Maternal Half Brother

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: Forlorn born elf: Aiudeen

Deity/Religion: Calistria

Class: Magus: Spell Dancer

Background: Noble

Alignment: True Neutral

Appearance: Golden hair. Brown eyes. Square face.

Personality/Traits: Proud, motivated, immature, pretentious, impudent, mean-spirited,

History: Born to his mother and father.

Current: Heir to the joint Ellvesem and Aldonlel titles.

Elven teen.

Resents his half-elven half-siblings for 'ruining' his life. The sole heir of both his parent's titles and wealth.

The favorite child. Has a lot of pressure placed on him.

Spent most of his childhood tormenting Zrise. Ignores and avoids Lariel. Views them both as his family's biggest embarrassment.

He tries to study magic but finds himself lacking. Though is an accomplished fencer. Often dueling with Zrise.

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Thohan Ellvesem

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Step father. Mother’s current husband.

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: Forlorn born elf: Aiudeen

Deity/Religion: Yuelral

Class: Alchemist; Tinker

Background: Artisan, Merchant

Alignment: True Neutral

Appearance: Mousy brown hair. Brown eyes. Square face.

Personality/Traits: Vigilant, focused, meticulous, unconfident, thin-skinned, gutless, uptight

History: Born in Galt capital of Isarn to a merchant family. His family still lives there. Traveled to Nerosyan where he met Oldielau.

Current: Travels for work around the Inner Sea region. Training Valondriel to take over his business.

Middle-age elven man

His family is known for specializing in enchanted high-quality jewelry.

Spends much time away from home. Traveling for business often.

Puts a lot of pressure on all the children. Though he hates and resents Lariel and Zrise.

He and Zrise's relationship is the worst. Viewing him as a worthless troublemaker. Has taken it upon himself to discipline him.

He treats Lariel with polite but strained tolerance. Often using her good behavior against Zrise in an attempt to push them apart.

Is the one who insists everyone at his home refer to them as, "boy" and "girl" in an effort to elevate his own son above them.

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Drago

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Mother's Loyal Butler

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: Human: Ustalavic

Deity/Religion: Formally Urgathoan

Class: NA

Background: Servant

Alignment: Lawful Evil

Appearance: Older man. Pale skin. Once black hair that is now salt and peppered. Sharp features.

Personality/Traits: Loyal, callous, neat, meticulous, cold, silent, stern, observant, vindictive

History: Was 'saved' by Ordielau on a trip to Ustalav. Used to serve Count Manfray Muralt.

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Eithon

Status: Dead

Relation to the twins: Lariel’s Teacher

Pronouns: He/They

Species: Kyonin born elf: Aiudeen

Deity/Religion: Sarenrae

Class: Sorcerer; Celestial Bloodline. Oracle; Seer

Background: Scholar

Alignment: Neutral Good

Appearance: Long silver hair, triangular face, silver eyes.

Personality/Traits: Charming, compassionate, dedicated, earnest, gentle, independent, observant

History: Left Kynoin once he was of age to be tutored by Ianthos.

Young adult elven man.

Lariel's teacher until his death.

Taught her via magical projection most of the time. Only saw her in person a handful of times.

Taught Lariel a lot of her skills. Including the harp.

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Venan

Status: ???

Relation to the twins: Lariel’s first crush

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: Half-elf; Urchin (Neither dual heritage or kindred raised)

Deity/Religion: Norgorber

Class: Rogue; Scout

Background: Urchin, Pickpocket

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Appearance: Wavy chestnut brown hair, one brown eye, one glass eye that's blue. Scar across his nose and cheek. Freckled. Square jaw.

Personality/Traits: Adaptable, curious, cowardly, enthusiastic, dishonest, humorous, individualistic, manipulative, short-sighted, selfish.

History: Raised in an orphanage in Nerosyan. Started thieving young. Joined the thieves guild.

Young adult half-elf

In escaping arrest scaled the walls of the estate. Lariel helped him. Though he always kept a distance.

Venan used her affection and infatuation to get money from her. Promising one day to return and run away with her.

Only to be caught red-handed selling her things by Zrise who beat him, cut off two of his fingers, and left him for dead (without Lariel’s knowledge). After that, Venan never returned.

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Kraler Karden

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Lariel’s fiance

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: Half-elf; Kindred raised

Deity/Religion: Iomedae

Class: NA

Background: Noble

Alignment: Lawful Neutral

Appearance: Dirty blonde hair, brown eyes, heart shaped face.

Personality/Traits: Arrogant, controlling, disorganized, greedy, haughty, irresponsible, lazy, social, brown-noser

History: Middle brother of a crusader family in Kenabras. His oldest brother is the current leader of the Knights of the Rampant Dragon. A socialite who does not want to marry.

Adult half-elf.

Engaged to a young Lariel whom he never showed interest in. She is much younger than him. He had no interest in befriending or getting to know her. Viewing their marriage as an obligation.

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Docilia Livianus

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Zrise’s swordsmanship teacher

Pronouns: She/Her

Species: Human: Chelaxian

Deity/Religion: Abadar

Class: Fighter; Mobile fighter

Background: Noble Warrior

Alignment: Lawful neutral

Appearance: Almost black dark brown hair, now salt and pepper, blue eyes, square face.

Personality/Traits: Abrasive, authoritarian, brutal, confident, eloquent, stoic, precise, thorough

History: Left Cheliax during political turmoil. Worked with crusaders in the Fourth Crusade where she encountered Ordielau. Becoming Zrise's teacher. As Thohan would not allow the boys to share.

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Oria

Status: Dead

Relation to the twins: Zrise’s Calistrian’s mentor, ex-lover, first love

Pronouns: They/Them

Species: Aasimar: Musetouched (Azata-Blooded)

Deity/Religion: Calistria

Class: Cleric; Ecclesitheurge

Background: Acolyte, Courtesan

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Appearance: Metallic silver hair, glowing gem like teal eyes, silver freckles, round face.

Personality/Traits: Fickle, sarcastic, unsentimental, spontaneous, persuasive, flirtatious, venomous

History: Their mother escaped Clelaxian slavery and became a faithful worshiper of Calistria. Oria was raised in a brothel. They along with their mother and siblings work with the Gray Gardener’s.

When they were both children Oria encountered a young Relik. They and their family took him off the streets. Offering him food and shelter. He came to worship Calistria as well.

Looked after and trained a teen/young adult Zrise.

In a hierarchical poly relationship/open relationship. Oria and Relik the primary couple. Zrise secondary.

Ended the relationship with Zrise, seeing his growing feelings as a betrayal against Calistria.

After this there was a fight that escalated that resulted in Oria and Relik’s deaths at Zrise’s hands.

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Relik

Status: Dead

Relation to the twins: Zrise’s ex lover, romantic rival, tormenter

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: Tiefling: Spitespawn (Div-spawn)

Deity/Religion: Calistria

Class: Rogue; Rowdy. Cleric; Cutpurse

Background: Urchin, Courtesan

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Appearance: Almost black reddish brown skin, Black eyes, short black hair. Long ibex like horn, one broken at the base. Thick tail with tufted fur at the end.

Personality/Traits: Aggressive, aloof, callous, conceited, destructive, dogmatic, resentful, sadistic

History: An orphan who grew up on the streets of Isarn until they befriended Oria. Treated cruelly but those around him.

Unwaveringly loyal to Oria and their family.

Barely tolerates Zrise often taking his anger out on him.

In a hierarchical poly relationship/open relationship. Oria and Relik the primary couple.

Died by Zrise’s hands.

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Characters the twins haven't met in Canon:

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Lahaliel Aldonlel (Morgethai)

Status: Dead

Relation to the twins: Maternal Grandmother

Pronouns: She/Her

Species: Kyonin born elf: Aiudeen

Deity/Religion: Mainly; Ketephys, but polytheism for the Elven Pantheon

Class: Shaman; Speaker For The Past. Druid; Menhir Savant. Riftwarden

Background: Guide, Healer, Diplomat

Alignment: True Neutral

Appearance: Strawberry blonde hair. vibrant green blue eyes. Heart shaped face.

Personality/Traits: Fawning, purposeful, perfectionist, hardworking, flexible, generous, dutiful, gullible

History: Born in the elven town of Riverspire. Through her connection to nature and the spirits of the past she befriended many fey. Wishing to help when she came of age she began traveling around Kyonin. Looking for ways to combat the demonic corruption. Her efforts taking her to the capital of Iadara where she met a young Ianthos. She is the reason he chose to go Mendev at the start of the opening of he Worldwound.

Came from the large Morgethai family.

Fey-touched, for her help and efforts she was given the gift of a favor by a Swan Maiden. She never took the opportunity in life. So it was passed to the first suitable along the family tree. Lariel. Manifesting as the Fey: Bloodline

Lariel's name is in part in reference to her Grandmother. Though it is unclear if it's meant as a slight or an acknowledgement of guilt.

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Elowen

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Maternal Half-sister

Pronouns: She/Her

Species: Forlorn born elf: Aiudeen

Deity/Religion: Groetus

Class: Rogue; Counterfeit Mage

Background: Urchin; Pickpocket

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Appearance: Dirty blonde hair. Brown eyes. Heart shaped face.

Personality/Traits: Adaptable, argumentative, calculating, cynical, erratic, hateful, morbid, power-hungry, secretive, uncharitable

History: 'Raised' by a Moon Hag, Auntie Agharna. She does not know her real family. Living on the streets of Nerosyan. Auntie mostly leaves her to her own devices until she is given a task to further the Harbinger of Last Days.

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Saesha

Status: Dead

Relation to the twins: Paternal Grandmother

Pronouns: She/Her, They/Them

Species: Sylph; Stormsoul. Raised: Varisian

Deity/Religion: Ashava

Class: Bard; Thundercaller

Background: Urchin, Nomad, Entertainer

Alignment: Chaotic Good

Appearance: Unnaturally pale skin, with white markings on her skin in the shape of Lichtenberg Scars. Dark brown, almost black, wavy auburn hair. Pale blue, almost white eyes.

Personality/Traits: Confident, spontaneous, welcoming, compassionate, independent, curious, odd, absentminded, hot-tempered

History: Born in Pitax. An orphan picked up in a traveling Varisian group who worshiped Ashava. Her heritage, adopted family, and strange makings always marked her outsider. Despite her friendly nature most people did not trust her. She learned music as a way to make a living.

Tried to keep her son's father a secret to keep him out of Brevoy politics. He does not know he is of house Lodovka.

Traveled and lived in Brevoy, Numeria, Ustalav, Mendev and the River Kingdoms

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Banom

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Biological father; He doesn’t know they exist

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: Human: Brevic. Raised: Varisian

Deity/Religion: Gorzeh / Desna / The Green Faith / Ashava Sarkorian spirits (Whatever suits him)

Class: Sorcerer; Elemental Bloodline Air

Background: Soldier, Pirate

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Appearance: Auburn Hair, Green eyes. Strong jaw and underbite.

Personality/Traits: Courageous, dramatic, forceful, friendly, humble, loyal, passionate, playful, resourceful , stubborn

History: Raised on Acuben Isle. Traveling with his mother with no home city. Until he was made a page for house Lodovka. Becoming a soldier. Until he was imprisoned in an attempt at a political coup. Became a pirate using his previous training.

Current: Captain of the Bloodstone Rose. Pirate of the Lake of Mists and Veils.

Middle-aged human. Neither Lariel nor Zrise know him. He doesn't know they exist. Ordielau kept his identity to herself.

A sailor/pirate. In procession of the bloodline Lariel inherited. He uses it to control the weather.

Married with a wife and children of his own.

First wife passed away and he remarried. Has one daughter from his first wife. A son with his second wife.

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Nelka

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Paternal Half-sister

Pronouns: She/Her

Species: Human: Brevic Raised: Kellid: Sarkorian

Deity/Religion: Stag Mother of the Forest of Stones; The Green Faith

Class: Druid; Mooncaller

Background: Acolyte

Alignment: Neutral good

Appearance: Mousy brown hair. Hazel eyes. Square jawed.

Personality/Traits: Competitive, outspoken, stern, faithful, insensitive, loyal, rowdy, strong-willed, focused

History: As her father was often away she grew to resent him. Her mother Yelen died while she was very young. She was made to fend for herself until taken in by Desha. How the two of them met after she gave him an earful for abandoning his daughter. She is much closer with her step-mother than her father. Her relationship with Banom is strained.

She is married to her wife Kalen. They take in orphans.

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Korek

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Paternal Half-brother

Pronouns: He/Him

Species: Human: Brevic. Also; Kellid: Sarkorian

Deity/Religion: Whatever his dad says is convenient

Class: Skald; Totemic

Background: Entertainer

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Appearance: Red hair. Brown eyes. Triangular face. Freckled

Personality/Traits: Adventurous, arrogant, cheerful, contradictory, daring, inconstant, fun-loving, noncommittal, short-sighted, lazy

History: Was born after Banom and Desha married. The youngest of the half-siblings. He grew up hearing stories of his father's life. He looks up to him and wants to be a lot like him. Has taken to insisting he also travel with him. Though the life on the ship is a lot more boring than he thought.

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Desha

Status: Alive

Relation to the twins: Paternal Step-mother

Pronouns: She/Her

Species: Human: Kellid: Sarkorian

Deity/Religion: Stag Mother of the Forest of Stones; The Green Faith

Class: Alchemist; Beastmorph. Arcanist; Occultist

Background: Healer

Alignment: Neutral Good

Appearance: Black hair. Freckled. Dark brown eyes. Triangular face. Freckled

Personality/Traits: Clear-headed, honest, decisive, eloquent, demanding, idealistic, obstinate, organized, reliable

History: Her clan fled Mendev after the Worldwound opened. Sarkorian Kellid diaspora. So she was taught in the Sarkorian ways but is an outsider in Brevoy. A trained alchemist who sells her potions to make a living.

Alignment: Neutral Good

Appearance: Black hair. Freckled. Dark brown eyes. Triangular face. Freckled

Personality/Traits: Clear-headed, honest, decisive, eloquent, demanding, idealistic, obstinate, organized, reliable

#lariel lore #zrise lore #this one took me longer than I'd like #I probably fucked some stuff up that I need to fix but alas

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The Anti-Semite Who Saved Jews: Zofia Szczucka

Arrested by the Gestapo

Zofia Kossak Szczucka was a Polish novelist who overcame her own antisemitism to save thousands of Jews from Nazi death camps.

Born in Kosmin, Poland in 1889 to an illustrious family of artists and writers, Zofia became a writer as well and penned a series of historical novels in the 1920’s and 30’s. The books covered a range of time periods and locations, and included a book about the Russian Revolution of 1917 and one about the Crusades. A devout Catholic, many of her books had religious themes and she wrote extensively for the Catholic press. Zofia married Stefan Szczucki, but he died young, and she remarried Zygmunt Szatkowski. Together they had one daughter, Anna.

After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Zofia edited the underground newspaper Polska Zyje (Poland Lives.) In 1941, she co-founded the Catholic organization Front Odrodzenia Polski (Front for the Rebirth of Poland) and edited its newspaper Prawda (The Truth). To protect herself, she adopted the code name “Weronika.”

In 1940, the occupying Germans forced the Jews of Warsaw into a squalid, overcrowded ghetto. After a visit to the ghetto, Zofia was shocked, and felt a duty to tell the world what she had seen. She wrote a leaflet called “Protest” and printed 5000 copies for wide distribution. In the pamphlet, she described the horrific conditions in the ghetto, as well as the deportations of residents to death camps, starting in 1942. Zofia wrote of the Warsaw ghetto inhabitants, “All will perish… Poor and rich, old, women, men, youngsters, infants…. Their only guilt is that they were born into the Jewish nation condemned to extermination by Hitler.”

Surprisingly, when the war began, Zofia had no affection for the Jewish community in Poland, and openly described her own anti-Semitism in “Protest.” She wrote, “Our feelings toward Jews have not changed. We do not stop thinking of them as political, economic, and ideological enemies of Poland.” However, she said, “We are required by God to protest, God who forbids us to kill. We are required by our Christian consciousness. Every human being has the right to be loved by his fellow men. The blood of the defenseless cries to heaven for revenge. Those who oppose our protest are not Catholics.”

Either her personal beliefs towards Jews changed, or she put those prejudices aside in the interest of justice, because in 1942 she co-founded the Provisional Committee to Aid Jews, also known as Zegota. The organization was created to save Jews from death camps and contained one hundred secret cells that provided food, medicine, cash, and false IDs to thousands of Jews in Warsaw, as well as many in Krakow and Vilna. It is estimated that members of Zegota forged over 50,000 documents, including marriage, birth, and death certificates, as well as baptismal records to “prove” that people suspected of being Jews were actually Christians. Zofia and other Zegota volunteers also cared for over 3000 Jews in hiding in Warsaw.

Zofia repeatedly petitioned the Polish Government-in-Exile to appeal to the Polish people to help Jews. Indeed, the exiled government provided significant funding for Zegota until the end of the war.

Zofia was well aware that her underground activities saving Jews was likely to get her killed. According to noted historian Richard Lukas, “The number of Poles who perished at the hands of the Germans for aiding Jews” may have been as high as 50,000 (!)

In 1943, Zofia was arrested by the Gestapo and transported to Auschwitz. Fortunately, she survived until liberation in 1945. She returned home and continued writing books, including From the Abyss, about her experiences at Auschwitz, and The Covenant, about Jewish patriarch Abraham. Zofia also published numerous books for children and young adults.

After the war, a communist government was installed in Poland. The new Minister of the Interior, Jakub Berman, was Jewish. Grateful to Zofia for her heroic actions on behalf of his people, and knowing that as a Catholic activist she would be targeted by the new government, he urged her to leave Poland. Zofia followed his advice, but returned to her homeland in 1957.

Zofia Kossak Szczucka died in Poland in 1968. She was survived by her daughter Anna, also a Polish resistance fighter, who wrote a book about her experiences during the war. Three years after Zofia’s death, a memorial plaque was placed on the outside of her spiritual home, All Saints Parish Church. The plaque reads, “To Zofia Kossak, the renowned Polish Catholic writer, a woman of great generosity and courage.”

In 1982, she was posthumously honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Israeli Holocaust Memorial Yad Vahem. The National Bank of Poland issued a coin in 2009 honoring Zofia and two other heroes of the Holocaust, Irena Sendler and Matylda Getter. In 2018, Zofia was awarded the highest civilian honor, the Order of the White Eagle.

For overcoming her own prejudice and saving Jewish lives, we honor Zofia Kossak Szczucka as this week’s Thursday Hero.

#Thursday Hero

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By: Tom Slater

Published: Mar 30, 2024

‘Forte non Ignave’, ‘Bravely not cowardly’, is the motto of Batley Grammar, a free school in West Yorkshire, founded in 1612. How grimly ironic, then, that three years ago, it became the site of one of the most craven capitulations to religious bigotry Britain has seen since the Satanic Verses controversy.

On Monday 22 March 2021, a religious-studies teacher at Batley Grammar showed his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, as part of a lesson on blasphemy. The cartoons were from Charlie Hebdo, the satirical French magazine whose staff paid the ultimate price for their supposed blasphemy in 2015, when two al-Qaeda gunmen showed up at their offices.

The cartoons had been on the syllabus for at least two years, and no one had batted an eyelid. Up to that point, Batley Grammar – a secular state school – had no reason to suspect it should have to respect Islamic blasphemy codes, especially when teaching about religion, free speech and blasphemy. It was in for a rude awakening.

‘The lesson descended into chaos as pupils took out their phones and attempted to film the teacher’, according to one report. The teacher, according to another, had a heated phone call with the father of one Muslim pupil. Then things spun out of control. Word got out online. Protesters – a mix of parents and activists from Leeds, Rochdale and beyond – pitched up outside the school gates, shutting down the school for a number of days.

All the while, the teacher was menaced by death threats. A local Islamic charity, Purpose of Life, published a statement, outing the teacher and comparing his indiscretion – bizarrely – to the brutalisation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. A group called Muslim Action Forum also published his name, alongside more lurid libels, accusing the teacher of ‘inciting hatred’ and accusing his supporters of ‘blind hatred of the Muslim community’. These groups were, in effect, putting a target on the back of a man they had likely never met. Young men were spotted knocking at the door and trying the handle of the teacher’s house, where he lived with his wife and their children.

The bigoted caricature bore no relationship to reality, of course. According to the teacher’s Muslim neighbour, his was a nice family, who bought cards and sweets for the Muslim kids in the neighbourhood during Eid. Even so, no one should be expected to go through what this teacher went through – facing all the violent intolerance and hysteria of a medieval village, only spread far and wide by social media. He spoke to Dame Sara Khan, for her new report on modern-day mob censorship, which was published by the UK government this week. His treatment, Khan writes, left the teacher feeling suicidal.

He feared for his life, and with good reason. Five months before that fateful religious-studies class in West Yorkshire, French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded in a Paris suburb by an Islamic extremist. Paty’s ‘crime’ was almost identical: showing Charlie Hebdo cartoons to his pupils in a lesson on freedom of expression. Adil Shahzad, an imam from Bradford who shot straight to Batley to lead the protests, warned darkly at the time that Britain risked ‘becoming like France’. Shahzad insisted Muslims should make their feelings known in the ‘democratic way’. But it turns out he has a history of praising murderous anti-blasphemy groups in Pakistan.

Where Britain after Batley certainly differed from France after Paty was in the reaction. Thousands took to the streets in France, in solidarity with the slain teacher and in support of free expression. The murder inspired President Emmanuel Macron to mount a personal crusade against Islamist extremism. In Britain, there was just capitulation. The school suspended the teacher and penned a grovelling apology. For some reason, a West Yorkshire Police officer was enlisted to read it out to the protesters. All this was welcomed heartily by Labour’s Tracy Brabin, then MP for Batley and Spen. She said she was ‘pleased that the school has recognised it was inappropriate and apologised’. After an investigation, the teacher was cleared of any personal wrongdoing, but the cartoons were removed from the syllabus. The mob won. And the teacher is still in hiding.

None of this has calmed tensions, of course. It has only emboldened the hardliners. Capitulation always does. There’s been a string of similar blasphemy scandals since. In 2022, Sunni Muslim protesters managed to get Cineworld to pull screenings of The Lady of Heaven, a Shia-made film they deemed to be blasphemous. In 2023, another school, less than 10 miles from Batley Grammar, this time in Wakefield, found itself in the zealots’ crosshairs, after a schoolboy brought a Koran to school and accidentally scuffed it. He too was bombarded with death threats. In the end, the police took no action against those trying to intimidate a child. A child who also happened to be autistic. But they did record a ‘non-crime hate incident’ against him.

A hardworking teacher forever looking over his shoulder. Shias censored at the behest of sectarians. A schoolboy threatened with death and arson. This is the cost of our cowardice, of our institutions’ inability to make clear that no one can expect to have their views forcefielded from criticism and that a free society cannot tolerate violence and threats in response to mere speech, words, cartoons. Blasphemy trials are back – only they are conducted by the mob, rather than a court. We’ve sent out a signal – loud and clear – that threats and violence and intimidation work.

And we’ve done so due to some genuinely bigoted assumptions about British Muslims. The first is that they are incapable of being citizens of liberal democracies – that, unlike any other religious group, they should expect to have their heretics burned, or at least punished. The second misconception is that the screeching rent-a-mobs that now show up whenever a ‘blasphemy’ scandal erupts are the authentic voice of British Muslims. They’re not. In fact, British Muslims and ex-Muslims are often on the sharp end of anti-blasphemy intolerance. In 2016, Glasgow’s Asad Shah and Rochdale’s Jalal Uddin both lost their lives, within weeks of each other, for their respective ‘blasphemies’. Hatun Tash, an ex-Muslim turned Christian preacher, has been stabbed and been the target of a terror plot for railing against her former faith. Thankfully, she’s still alive.

Three years on from Batley Grammar, we need to fight for the right to blaspheme all over again, before any more Brits – Muslim, non-Muslim or ex-Muslim – pay the price for our cowardice.

Said it before and I'll say it again: start revoking citizenship and deporting those who make these threats. They're trying to make our liberal societies into their Islamic hellholes.

#Tom Slater #Batley Grammar #blasphemy #censorship #blasphemy laws #islam #islamic violence #religion of peace #religion #islamic supremacy #cowardice #islamophobia #religion is a mental illness

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How Brazil’s ‘car wash’ anti-corruption crusader fell from grace

Sergio Moro was once one of Brazil’s most popular public figures. As the face of a pan-Latin American corruption crackdown, the former judge was revered by the country’s rightwing for confronting a venal political system plagued by a culture of impunity.

But since the investigation’s peak more than six years ago, Moro’s star has fallen precipitously, his standing battered by the shifting political landscape, revelations of misconduct and a series of ill-judged decisions.

The man once depicted at rightwing rallies as a barrel-chested superman and seen as a presidential contender now cuts an increasingly isolated figure, with few political allies. In the coming weeks, he faces the potential loss of his Senate seat for alleged campaign financing abuses as well as a Supreme Court investigation into his conduct during the Lava Jato, or car wash, probe.

A conviction in the latter case could bar him from running for office, analysts say, marking an abrupt end to the political career of a man who as a federal judge in 2017 oversaw the conviction and almost two-year incarceration of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the leftwing leader who returned to the presidency for a third term last year.

“It is important to understand that this is not just about Lula or a politician from one party or the other — almost all politicians are against Moro,” said Camila Rocha de Oliveira, a political scientist at the Brazilian Center for Analysis and Planning. “He is also isolated in the legal community, among the courts, so he is in a very bad position.”

#brazil #politics #brazilian politics #corruption #operation car wash #sergio moro #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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Transphobes when they see a trans person in media : OMG THE TRANS AGENDA IS EVERYWHERE. OMG MUH CHILDREN (rapidly packs up abused and beaten children in a blanket) MUST PROTECT MUH AMERICAN RIGHT TO FREEDOM AND FREE SPEECH!! (quickly takes down Confederate flags hanging outside).

Transphobes when they meet a trans person : OMH NO ONE BELIEVES YOU'RE ACTUALLY TRANS !! 43 % !!(harasses a teenage child to suicide) YUR WEAK !! JK ROOLING WILL SUE YO ASS !!

In their eyes, trans people are simultaneously overwhelming and pathetic. As Umberto Eco once said in his essay "Ur Fascism", "Followers (of fascist movements) must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak." Transphobia is literal fascism, by definition.

"Fascist groups often appeal to these individuals by offering a simplistic and seductive worldview that blames certain groups for their problems and presents a vision of a powerful and homogeneous community that can restore order and greatness."

A simple idea of how fascist groups attract new recruits

Sound familiar ? It should. That's exactly what GCs (Gender Criticals, or as I like to call them, Genital-obsessed Creeps ) do to attract new recruits, blaming the "trans agenda" for everything

"Another factor that can contribute to the adoption of fascist beliefs is a sense of fear and anxiety about the future. This can be exacerbated by real or perceived threats to one’s security, such as economic instability, social unrest, cultural change, or terrorism. Fascist movements often exploit these fears by offering a strong and authoritarian leader who promises to protect and defend the community from perceived enemies, both internal and external.

In addition, fascist ideology often relies on a narrative of victimhood and a sense of historical grievance, which can appeal to individuals who feel disempowered or marginalised in some way. This narrative portrays the group as having been unfairly oppressed or humiliated by other groups or forces, and seeks to restore a sense of pride and dignity by reclaiming power and status.

Finally, the process of radicalization into fascist beliefs can be facilitated by socialisation and exposure to extremist propaganda, whether through online forums, social media, or face-to-face interactions with other members of the group. This can create a sense of belonging and solidarity, as well as reinforce the group’s ideology and worldview."

Again, all things actively used by TERFs to spread their worldview. A common fear is seen in them. A fear that is perpetuated by the more obsessed amongst them, who were once homophobes, who simply shifted gears, and changed the word "gay" to "trans". A fear that was last seen during the anti-gay crusades, peddled by priests and Christians, and is seen again today. This fear is often fueled by media coverage of cases of violence or abuse perpetrated by individuals who identify as trans, and by the portrayal of trans activism as a totalitarian movement that seeks to silence dissent and impose a new orthodoxy. A lie, but one that is widespread (Again, setting the stage for recruitment)

"This can lead to a sense of moral superiority and a willingness to use extreme tactics, such as harassment, doxxing, and censorship, to silence opponents and defend their views."

All things TERFs have done and are doing

I rest my case

Additionally, a message to any TERFs reading this

A common thread in fascism is that it is never about the message itself. The message is merely a cover for self-glorification. The original Fascist movement was not there for the reasons they claimed. It was there to glorify Mussolini, with everything they did playing to that end goal. The same with Nazism, and the same with TERFs.

Please remember, we are not your enemies. We do not want harm to befall you. We do care about you, but your leaders don't

TERFs do not care about women. TERFs care about hatred

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Will the Kverse Merlin be the Trollhunters version exactly, or has he been replaced/mixed with some other interpretation via the mixing and matching of universes?

You know me, I'm a notorious cherry-picker; Merlin was the most powerful sorcerer of his time and he was certainly proud of it to the point of arrogance, but he wasn't so much intentionally condescending as much as he acted knowing himself to be the authority on magic in that era - he wasn't trying to put you down, but you'd feel that way sometimes because he knew everything and figured you wouldn't. He was a lot more hands-on with his many plans and schemes, and he had a huge soft spot for outcasts and so-called lesser beings, being a Cambion (aka half-demon, half-human) himself. While his contributions to the survival of Trolls as a species are certainly notable, the fact is that were it not for his actions and later influence, the Earth's magical creatures might've truly died out.

He had a bit of an Old Testament God side to him - it was rare, but Merlin's wrath unleashed would've been the stuff of legends. While his sometimes arrogant demeanor could put people off (especially in a time when the world of magic was suspect at best and hated more often than not by mortals), he was fiercely loyal and protective of his chosen people, from his various apprentices to King Arthur himself. He was especially dedicated to ensuring magic users could practice their craft at minimal risk to themselves and others around them, especially mundane people, establishing standards for the study and practice of magic that remain to this day.

Merlin's biggest failing, and what led to his downfall, was that he thought himself to be capable of solving all of the magical world's problems on his own; he failed to set up a successor, and he neglected or ignored threats from the very people he cared about most because he thought he could handle them all on his own, or was spread too thin to even acknowledge the danger. His death led to a power vacuum that splintered the Masters of the Mystic Arts and left many magical communities unprotected - easy prey for anti-magic crusaders.

#ask box #anon ask #kryptonverse #if the ancient one was aloof and hands-off #letting everyone fix their own problem unless intervention was absolutely necessary #merlin was a meddler #too smart and powerful for his own good #would not leave well enough alone

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I sent my editor a draft of an essay questioning the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. I did not have the energy to respond to the potential backlash from readers, so I sat on my criticisms, reflected on my arguments and prayed that I would be wrong. Then last week, an 18 year old white supremacist drove to a grocery store in Buffalo, New York and murdered 10 Black people. He published a manifesto espousing his horrific views and penciled a racial slur on his gun. Maybe he hadn’t heard about the consequences listed in the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act. Or, maybe he was willing to accept them in exchange for the lives he took. Cops arrested him like they arrested white supremacist shooter Dylann Roof– alive and with care.

I can only imagine the power and affirmation that elders and ancestors would feel to witness a federal anti-lynching act finally become law in the United States, and then a couple of months later, another mass lynching happens. It pains me to picture what they endured: the bodies that Black people pulled down from ropes, the ashes they swept into sacred canisters, the swollen babies they recovered from riverbanks. It blesses me to think of their resistance, too. Black activists formed anti-lynching organizations, created self-defense teams, wrote newspaper articles, boycotted white establishments, ran for office, sued in courts, demanded legislation, and much more. They fought white mobs, escaped, and turned potential victims into survivors.

These anti-lynching crusaders used so many different tactics to not only try to end lynching, but to try to end the kind of society where Black people could be vulnerable to the rope. Throughout US history, Black and multiracial social movements demanded economic, educational, and medical justice to increase their agency to live the kinds of lives that they deserved. Others pushed these measures for over a 100 years because they probably believed that criminalization might deter Ku Klux Klan members, cops, and white communities from murdering Black people. However, it is the duty of the living to learn the contexts for the particular demands that activists agitated for throughout history, and determine the utility of their tactics today. People who care about justice, and those of us who are courageous enough to fight for it, must refuse to solely accept symbolic civil rights acts if we truly want to save lives.

For example, decriminalization activists and scholars have demonstrated that calls for criminalization are not the deterrent to crime that many of us assume, especially since the US often perpetuates the violence that it seeks to punish. Instead, criminalization fuels surveillance, policing, incarceration, poverty, and communal violence that makes society less safe for us all. Anti-criminalization organizers argue that these consequences also bear down on the people that the law was theoretically intended to protect. In 2015, prosecutors charged and a judge convicted a Black person under an anti-lynching law for attempting to protect a Black Lives Matter protestor from being arrested.

If Congress wanted to actually fight white supremacist violence, it could fund grants for schools to teach racial justice education. Biden signed the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act at a time when states are making it illegal to teach about Emmett Till. If the federal government wants to stop or at least slow down a new generation of potential white supremacists, it must make vigorous, affirmative efforts to openly and financially support schools and community organizations doing this work.

Instead of giving more money to the police departments that often hire white supremacists, the federal government could give money to organizations that help white people leave white supremacist organizations and discourage them from joining. Additionally, the US president should stop promising to give more money to the police after a cop kills a Black person. It is a perverse payday that affirms the actions of police to the white supremacist spectators who emulate cops. What’s terrifying is that the Buffalo shooter did not have to commit a mass killing; he literally could have just joined any of the thousands of police departments and killed Black people over time. The prevalence of explicit white supremacists joining law enforcement agencies is so high that the country’s top law enforcement agency- the FBI- has been sounding the alarm to raise awareness for more than two decades. And despite the rise in killings by police, Republicans and Democrats largely compete to give cops more funding, credibility, and protection.

Congress must also commit to ending wars and militarism. Major violent institutions like prisons, police departments, and the military are bastions for white supremacist recruiters who grab isolated and alienated working-class white people to build their ranks. War additionally inspires civilians in the US to violently attack people who descend from places where our drones drop. Or, they join rightwing militia groups like the Oathkeepers, Sheepdogs, and Proud Boys to cement a war-like mentality often replete with martial gear and training. Thus, it is no surprise that the Buffalo shooter dressed in the similar military fashion that many other white, male mass shooters wear during their violence.

Demilitarization, decriminalization, decarceration, and defunding the police all help to shrink the sites of armed, white supremacist organizing. As we continue to build an abolitionist society, let us never forget that the same state that has passed this anti-lynching legislation is at the root of what conditioned the Buffalo shooter to target Black people.

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the Joseph joestar army (& Jonathan joestar gang) debate about radical politics after mocking the Jojo's bizarre adventure character

presenting character: moxxie, Blitzø, Millie, Loona, vortex, striker, Beelzebub, Stolas & Chaz

Meanwhile at Stanley hotel

Striker & Chaz thurman: *react this video & laughs out loud*

Chaz: dude, this has to be the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life.

Striker: you're right on that. This is fucking unbelievable.

Chaz: like I mean holy shit! He just said we should have attack the 2fort & the gm_construct. For an opposing joestar member, that's based as fuck.

Striker: *smugs & laughing* yeah just like... Wait a minute, attack the 2fort & gm_construct? I can understand the former but why the later?

Chaz: what? That was actually pretty based, I could agree that battle them would have caused less problems in the world, or y'know, 2fort being 2fort... I can't believe Joseph "moxxie knolastname" joestar just pull us out of USA like that! It's B/C of him, actual American are leading the county!

Striker: come on Chaz, you don't mean that right? It's kinda stupid calling our enemy based, isn't it?

Chaz: yes, so what?

Striker: so what? That's a Nazism/nazbolism member! We're hired to kill them for fuck sake! Besides, pulling out was probably one good thing moxxie joestar did in his entire presidency, that war was just over fast food like cheeseburgers or combo meal of American cuisine food & to feed the Stardust crusader army, USMC, USCG, army & more of complex!

Chaz: are you seriously telling me that what moxxie joestar did was entirely justified? You know we were so closed to winning the great wars, right? Like come on striker, that's just got to be what every leftist has said about California's & America's war policy, "we fought over there for burgers, fries, shakes & drinks of 1950's/60's diner" like no the fuck we didn't. We came to liberate them for America.

Striker: liberate them for America? There war wasn't over freedom, it was over resources! & even if I'm wrong, you can't Denny that the soldiers of Joseph joestar army gang got zillionaires in these last 20 years!

Chaz: yeah, & our people from freedom fighters fought to liberate people from terrorist just like what Anthony Smith & his family doing it for American's revenge of 9/11.

Striker: who are YOU to say if they were terrorist? I found people on the internet who said they were anti-terrorist! That they were just trying to from independent government & they brought a lot of weapons of M2 to British & australia! But now look at what California & LUCKY LAND did this countries, they're in shatters & in civil wars, just like American, the imperial S.U.R.C.M.&.G.C was never winning the great war.

Chaz: you seriously want to debate politics to me, liberal? I can seriously debunk you in this conversation! The whole reason we were in studiopolus was B/C that dumbass Anthony Smith had Thompson SMG's, Anthony Smith threatened the entire terrorist with unleashing these Thompson SMG's, & he tried to use that shit on big nose Kate's saloon. Just imagine what would have happened if he used that shit on say... Battle of Winchester mystery house. War of Alcatraz island would have started right there any then, so STFU liberal & quit/stop spreading socialist lies!

Striker: why do you even care about them? You don't even have proof! Not the government to back your conservative ass up! & listen here you inconsiderate ignorant masturbating fuck.

Chaz: paleo conservative to you, buddy!

Striker: I'm not a liberal like that Jodio joestar reactionary, I'm a syndicalist!

Chaz: syndicalist? Da faq is that?

Striker: basically it's the idea that instead of having your "small" bourgeois dictatorship government or the inflated statism of communism, all the power of governance should be lead by numerous labor unions! From local! To regional! To national representation! & they all have a say in it! It's a marvelous next step in materialistic history! Unlike your hawkish lawyers at DC, you reactionary!

Chaz: ohhh so you're just another communist, is that it? Communism, socialism, syndicalism, call it what you like! To my knowledge, there's hardly any different between the three! Now, ain't I right? Checkmate, syndicalist.

Striker: you don't even know what syndicalism is.

Stolas ars goetia: gentlemen, what's going on in here? Haven't you guys had enough alcohol for one day?

Chaz: Stolas, can you just lecture this dipshit striker about our reasoning on why we should go back to the America desert & mesa?

Striker: get outta here Stolas, this reactionary cunt here is making me lose my breath on him. Why don't you go drink more wine?

Stolas: this came randomly. Start over, please.

Chaz: okay so, we were just watching that video that your daughter sent us, right? & that we went to our lobby to watch the entire shit go down, right? Well turns out that the gyro zeppeli was based as fuck, right? & then we laughed so hard &--

Stolas: oh for fuck's sake Chaz, get to the point!

Chaz:

Okay! Striker here got uppity about me calling the gyro zeppeli based.

Striker: B/C he isn't! The patriotic maniac said we should have attack the 2fort & gm_construct! Isn't that stupid, Stolas? Then Chaz here says how "just" the California in intervening at American.

Chaz: dude just if we've done it, we would have been living in paradise without Japan spreading misinformation & propaganda everywhere, we could see an age where P.E.G (Projects of Eden's Gate) aren't crying about everything like racism or slavery like SCC (South Californian of Confederate = black/African people slaves white people) or abortion!

Stolas: I can't believe you idiots are slowing turning into the joestar army gang... Why can't you just find some sort of compromise & reconcile with each other?

Chaz: hell no! I'm not reconciling with a syndicalist or... communist, fuck I dunno! Unless he gets his facts & logic correctly then I might reconsider, but he's acting like such a gay ass libtard man!

Striker: how the fuck can I compromise on a reactionary? Just listen him, he's delusional. He doesn't know what he's talking about! If he can't even respect my opinion which are politically correct & that I'm a syndicalist then why should I respect this reactionary fuck?

Stolas: you people are so incompetent, I can't believe I'm wasting my time with an apathetic conservative & a self-less syndicalist.

Chaz: who the fuck are you calling me "apathetic"? Alright bitch, you've just officially joined our political debate, name yourself ideology right now!

Stolas: Chaz, you should spare yourself from further embarrassment.

Chaz: come on, bitch, spit it out!

Stolas: Chaz, stop it.

Chaz: do it, pussy! Do it, do it, do it, do it! Come on, say it, you won't, bitch!

Stolas: Chaz, I swear to fucking God, stop it!

Chaz: are you too scared you shape shifting sinners?! Y'know I can see you from a mile away, like from hope county, Montana I can see your sins carcass from fucking las vegas!

Striker: Chaz, leave him outta this.

Chaz: oh, STFU striker, you know I ain't done with you either.

Stolas: you want to debate about politics you inferior subhuman? Let's debate about politics!

Striker: you just woke up the dormant snake...mongrel...

Chaz: woah! I think I can guess what you are Stolas!

Stolas: yeah? Give it your best shot, tell me what I am.

Chaz: a crazed libtard!

Stolas: ACK! No you simpleton! I am at the top of the chain, I am superior to you, I advocate for a caste system! The French are superior to all other people!

Striker: wait, what in the actual fuck?

Chaz: are you kidding me?

Striker: are you kidding me? I though you were an actual Britain royal, not a fucking Nazi. A French Nazi of all people!

Stolas: a nazi? What kinda person do you take me for? I hate nazis! They're inferior to French people everywhere!

Chaz: this is coming from the guy who hails from the place that surrenders a lot often? Wow! & here we had to save your asses during WW2 this is the thanks we get in return?

Stolas: oh, STFU, you American halfwit. You should be thankful that your independence was secured by the French. The French are the entire for you existence you stupid, uneducated brainlet.

Striker: I hate to say it but he kinda has a point.

Chaz: oh yeah? Well we're not the ones who chopped their kings head in half & had numerous of the fucking revolutionary! What was Robespierre not enough to satisfy the blood spilt on French land?!

Stolas: no, as a matter of fact, it wasn't. We had to draw the entire continent into huge war to show how superior we were, take Napoleon for example. He crushed the Austrian armies in northern Italy! & we were victorious, from battle to battle. Did you know that France have the biggest win counts in terms of battle & wars? O/C you didn't. B/C you're too busy making WW4 memes.

Chaz: yeah what about Texas war? We had to go over them to clean the mess up. The French also cause Nazi's rise with the Versailles treaty! I think they had everything coming at them!

Striker: okay, the dumbass conservative has actually got a point. The French are responsible for half of the world's problems today, Stolas. & I'm not defending the British empire's atrocities, you know.

Stolas: that were only calculated errors.

Chaz: calculated errors my ass. You failed your colonial empire & you failed your world domination. Except it wasn't. STFU, supremacist.

Vortex the hellhound: what the bloody hell are you white people arguing about?! I am trying to listen to the daily morioh-cho radio about yoshikage kira!

Striker: what's your fucking problem now?

Stolas: who the fuck invited this black hellhound Cyclops into this mess?

Chaz: I dunno he invited himself.

Vortex: what did ye call me, white boy?!

Stolas: white boy? Is that how you talk to your French masters?!

Vortex: MASTERS?! YOU'RE the slave here! You're the one who falls under our black boots!

Striker: what's wrong with you? Why are you suddenly calling us white boys? You must be drunk.

Vortex: I ain't fucking drunk! I am a legitimate member of the black revolutionary front! Black power!

Chaz: a black supremacist? That's not somebody you see everyday, what's next? BLM going to burn down other buildings?

Striker: Chaz maybe you shouldn't play with fire, or else you'll get burned.

Stolas: & get cancelled on that horrendous app called Twitter...

Vortex: silence! You whites are going to pay tribute the people of Africa for your slavery on our continent!

Chaz: why the fuck should we do that? My ancestors didn't own slaves you fucking idiot!

Vortex: I don't give a fuck, Chaz, you're white! That's means you must pay repatriation to us!

Chaz: that doesn't mean Jack shit! You got your rights around the 1960's, why are you still whining & crying about racism? In fact, you're the ones who are racist in this scenario. Not me.

Stolas: as much as I hate this American fuck, he's right. You calling us "white boys" doesn't mean your reputation better than ours.

Striker: but Stolas, are you forgetting that there is still black killings? Police brutality? Vortex has a point.

Stolas: hey, don't blame me. It's the conservative's problem.

Vortex: oh yeah? Are you scared that a black nation will one day become a super power?!

Chaz: okay, seriously about that "police brutality" that's uncalled for. Sure we killed Floyd in such a cruel way, but I have to say for it!

Vortex: ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? A black man was just minding his own business & you white oppressor just so happen to be bored one day, & decline to put HIS KNEE, ON HIS FUCKING NECK?!

Chaz: Floyd was under charges of narcotics! If he didn't fucking do drugs, he would have still been alive today!

Vortex: that doesn't charges the fact the officer, chauvim, had to lay his knee, ON GEORGE FLOYD'S NECK!

Chaz: okay, yeah what he did was absolutely wrong, but like, George Floyd was also in the wrong as well!

Vortex: you're simply wrong in that regard! & you wonder why black people in America fucking HATE white people!

Stolas: now that's not true.

Vortex: what? WDYM "that's not true"?

Chaz: actually, he's got a point. There's black conservatives out in the world who are opposed to the BLM protests & antifa!

Striker: I don't think they're actually conservatives, what if they're paid, benefited to side with them? Or even whitewashed?

Chaz: dude there's the officer Tatum, the black twins, Candace ownes ABL & like literally so much more black conservatives out there! They point out the shit that the vortex is currently doing!

Vortex: they're idiots! All of them are traitors to our people!

Chaz: "traitors"? You're so full of shit, vortex.

Vortex: it's true! You people are the reason why Africa has warlords, druglords, crime lords & general chaos on our beloved continent! Most of our people are suffering B/C OF YOU!

Chaz: okay that's just wrong as fuck! You guys had the 1960's & toward to improve your backwatered nations, & so far the only prospering Africa nation I see are Rwanda, Tunisia & Nigeria!

Vortex: Rwanda had a genocide & you white folks didn't even send AID!

Chaz: & guess who were the perpetrators of the Rwanda genocide? Yeah that's right the Hutu, which are a group of people who're black, who killed another ethnicity of black people!

Striker: that's it you mongrel. I actually felt bad for you, I actually was empathetic to you. But now I'm just seeing you being a racist. You're no better than the confederates with that attitude vortex. You're just asking yourself to be hated by the entire world, I'm gonna have to say you're just a black Hitler, vortex.

Vortex: ALRIGHT THAT'S IT! YOU THINK BY COMPARING ME TO THE WHITE DICTATOR, THAT I'M BAD? YOU DID THIS, YOU DID THIS TO US! YOU NEED TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!

Queen Bee-lzebub: [BARKING HELLHOUND RAGE SCREECHING]

Chaz, Striker, Stolas & vortex: [screams in fears]

Queen bee: why are you comrades screaming?! Do you not notice queen bee is drinking grimace shake?

Striker: grimace shake? What grimace shake? You're not even holding one.

Queen bee: that's B/C I already drink all of it! Now queen bee demands explanation! Why are you babies screaming?

Stolas: we're debating about politics here. Wasting our lives, debating over wars, race & every ideology that they believe in.

Striker: queen bee, listen, there is a black supremacist! A ulteranationalist! & a reactionary in our army! Can you believe that shit?

Queen bee: what?! That's against our beliefs, comrades!

Vortex: why the fuck do you keep saying that?

Queen bee: say what, comrades?

Vortex: THAT! WHY ARE YOU KEEP CALLING US COMRADES?!

Chaz: she's a Russian, that's why!

Queen bee: not just that! I am a communist.

Chaz: WTF?

Striker: a communist?

Stolas: oh merde...

Vortex: a white-girl's ideology! Just what this world needs!

Queen bee: vortex, that's racist.

Vortex: what?! Racist? You wanna lecture me about racism, white girl?!

Stolas: she's talking about you calling us "white boys" you drunking wretch! You're racist by calling us that!

Chaz: oof, it hurts when Walter white hits you, doesn't it?

Stolas: silence, you dickhead!

Striker: black people be racist you know that?

Vortex: that ain't true, black people can't be racist.

Queen bee: are you arguing about race? This is stupid discussion! We're all equals here!

Stolas: not exactly, queen bee. French people are superior to all other people, everybody else is either a worker or a poor peasant to us.

Striker: shut up, Stolas. Queen bee at least you have some sense in you, you also agree that we should fight for equality & representation.

Queen bee: da, it's good to see another comrades on army!

Striker: yeah, well, minus the fact that I'm a syndicalist, not a communist.

Queen bee: what? You're not communist?

Chaz: that fucker is a "syndicalist" or whatever.

Queen bee: [war cry rage] YOU ARE COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY!!!!

Chaz: oooh, Striker your anus is in trouble now.

Queen bee: Beelzebub hates counterrevolutionary activity!

Striker: queen bee, I'm still all in for proletariat revolution!

Queen bee: you don't follow trotsky's way! Permanent revolution forever!

Striker: but first we must create base, representation & consensus, by having the labor unions in charge of our governance!

Queen bee: the workers of the world need to overthrow the fascist, anarchist & terrorist governments of the world! It's is only way to achievement worker's paradise!

Chaz: okay that's it! You think by overthrowing us you'll have a paradise? What? Haven't you fucking seen how you precious Soviet Californian fell?

Queen bee: that was all Jolyne cujoh's fault! & Giorno Giovanna is a traitor to the United States, & Jotaro kujo ruined us! Anthony Smith are watching Russian invade Ukrainian & Joseph joestar & shall restore the new Soviet Californian!

Chaz: yeah & so what? That's evidence that communism barely works! You want to starve your population of nuketown again like the Japanese emperor? Go right ahead! Oh & good luck trying to get new Mexico when your army sucks!

Queen bee: New Mexico will submit to us, we may have lost at over a million of soldiers, but numbers & strength is what wins the war! Ukrainian are every where so low on manpower that they use babies as reserves! & little man is in no position to speak when they failed in Nazi Germany, nazbol, Bolshevik Russia & Afghanistan!

Chaz: okay that's all Jotaro "alastor" kujo's fault! If moxxie joestar were still in power he would have ultimately crush the Taliban, national socialist & the Islamic terrorist, but fucking alastor kujo had to ruineverything! Also your economy is barely worth than a fucking robux heavy, at this rate your inflation will skyrocket & surpass even joestar's yen!

Chaz, Striker, Stolas & vortex: [laughs out loud]

Queen bee: [grows] it's not funny, sanctions are only hurting Californian citizens! Not government!

Striker: that's why statism is a parasite that has to be combated. If the statism of CCCP/USSR failed, we must be managed by a collective of labor unions Beelzebub!

Queen bee: no! Syndicalism is not communism!

Striker: how is it not? It's better way for us to read & create the utopia that we so much wish for.

Queen bee: no! We failed B/C of capitalist influence! If we weren't corrupted, the USSR could have survived well into the 21ST century!

Chaz: still jealous about 1991, Beelzebub? You should be happy that you have democracy! Freedom over tyranny, baby!

Queen bee: then why are we still suffering? You have no idea much we had to suffer under the 1990's! B/C of the capitalist, we're more corrupt that EVER!

Striker: to be fair Chaz, Putin turned Russian into a fucking oligarchy.

& now they're invade Ukrainian during 2020's which I stand with. solidarity my Ukrainian brothers.

Queen bee: you're not even related to the Ukrainians & you wonder why I accuse you of counterrevolutionary ideals! You're against the revolution's cause by supporting those fascists in Ukraine.

Striker: fascists?! You're the ones who are invading them! If anything the Russians are the ones who are the fascists here!

Queen bee: you forget your place striker, the azov battalion is a neo-nazi organization. & it's Zenigata's job to gun them down with his tomislav gun & kill fascists wherever they may taint Russian soils!

Striker: yeah alright fuck the azov battalion but come on! You're invading an innocent country!

Queen bee: & the Americans NOT? B/C of them, middle East is a warzone. Why is it that Russia is the bad country but you western capitalist are seen as the good countries?

Chaz: maybe B/C we have free elections, freedom in General, & we don't go around oppressing innocent people. Plus we were fighting Nazism territory in Germany, Bolshevik, Iraq & Afghanistan!

Striker: you mean the terrorist your government funded? Remember axis powers you fucking mongrel?

Vortex: they represent nazbolism in a bad name! But a least I can say that they're fighting imperialist.

Stolas: oh so NOW the terrorist who rape, kill murder & burn are the good guys just B/C they're are Muslim vortex?

Striker: oh for fuck's sake, Stolas...

Vortex: what?! I'm not saying that they're justifying their killings on innocent people! They're fighting against imperialist puppets! I also support Palestine over fucking Israel!

Chaz: oh, of course the fucking black supremacists supports Palestine, what's next? You're gonna try to justify killing the Israeli population? You think by sending missiles from Gaza is going to win the war against Israel? Haven't you heard of the fucking iron dome?

Vortex: we'll one day push the Jews out of Palestine! & our Muslim brothers will finally be able to rest easily, knowing that no imperialist powers can ever enslave us again!

Queen bee: as much as I agree with the anti-imperialist sentiment, vortex. Why must you push out the Jews from their homes?

Vortex: B/C Beelzebub, THEY NEVER BELONGED IN PALESTINE!

Queen bee: where the fuck are they supposed to go? They were prosecuted everywhere in Europe & Russia! Tell me where else they're supposed to go?!

Vortex: I don't give a shit, those Semites have oppressed the Palestine for a long time, they KILLED CHILDREN, BEELZEBUB!

Chaz: you literally have beheaded fucking innocent people, you dickhead!

Stolas: I'll show you what a beheaded is when I cut your head wide open you ignorant fuck!

Chaz, Striker, Stolas, vortex & queen bee: [got jumpscared by Loona for bust down the wall/door with body shape like cartoon/Looney tunes]

Loona the hellhound: WHAT'S GOING ON IN HERE?!

Striker: oh no, it's the crazy Hamon elastic stretch of zoom punch.

Loona: that was random! why the fuck are you so antagonistic all of the sudden?

Stolas: Loona, pls/plz just go back to sleep with your Vacbed, vacbox or some different latex rubber bondage.

Loona: & miss this yelling & argument? Fuck no. I want to know what's going on, joestars.

Chaz: we're arguing about politics.

Loona: ...Why?

Striker: B/C this dumbass right here is a crazed psychopath!

Chaz: oi, it's not a bad decision! I mean, come the fuck on, the 2fort? Are you seriously gonna lecture me on why they should exist?!

Striker: I'm gonna be honest with you, mate. The 2fort are famous place of TF2, but look at what we've done to the fortress. Imagine if it was YOUR fort invaded.

Chaz: it's not our fault they decided to fucking stupid & send Britain Texas after us during the battle of Winchester mystery house!

Striker: so ruining a fucking fortress is entirely acceptable? In what way is that beneficial to ANYBODY?

Stolas: to be fair. Afghanistan was already fucked up since the communist invaded in '79.

Queen bee: be quite, you fascist! The Afghanistan workers were being oppressed by their stupid monarchy!

Loona: okay, give me one reason why I should give a fuck about the government.

Chaz, Striker, Stolas, vortex & queen bee: [fussing over]

Striker: WDYM, Loona? You're the most patriotic here.

Loona: it's pretty obvious you people rely on the government to survive in this world, why should we work for them?

Chaz: B/C you can make a living? What are you, stupid?

Loona: are you? Do you really think you need the government to survive on your own? When I was a kid/puppy, I didn't even need to go to school to survive, I can pretty much survive in the wilderness & still live. I know how to hunt animals & cook food, & what do you people do? Spend your life learning how to waste your time with earnings money like greed of sinners?

Chaz: holy shit, it seems we got an anarchist here.

Loona: anarchist? Negatory, I'm a Darwinist. I don't need some government to ensure my survival, when all I can do is blow up some poor wild animals & eat it's guts right there & then.

Striker: holy fuck, Loona that's immoral!

Chaz: yeah girl, blowing up animals? You're a cruel person.

Queen bee: Beelzebub agrees!

Vortex: what kind of fucked up person blows up animals for food? I bet Vaggie here can lecture you all day with hunting animals with her hunting rifle if she wanted to!

Loona: the strongest, of course!

Chaz: so let me get this question, you're a Darwinist who thinks she doesn't need the government to make a living?

Loona: yes!

Chaz: it's no wonder you have shit for brains. Loona, I think you really need serious help. Like, even a libtard can make fun of you.

Loona: WTF dose that mean? You're the one who waste their time with going to college & having a job! I don't have neither of those!

Chaz: um... Soldiers do.

Stolas: she works free of charge, remember?

Loona: that's right! I'm only here B/C I get paid with food & other necessities to survive this world. I sometimes eat spoils of war, if you know what I mean...

Vortex: that is SICK as fuck! You're already a weird white girl on my list!

Striker: Will you cut that shit out, vortex? It's racist!

Vortex: black power!

Stolas: so, it's nice to see Loona is a primate, but you honestly don't have any other ideology to share?

Loona: nope. I think all of you're stupid. I don't need your politics, & I'm basically living perfectly.

Joseph "Millie knolastname" joestar: what are y'all folks doing? Why are gather around here? Are we watching something?

Chaz: political banter & WTF are you wearing?

Millie: Joseph joestar army outfit & Nazi German science cyborg nano bots robot machine, y'all are ending up like Verosika mayday the queen of vore lust & her daughter of vore lust toy chica, mangle & more yesterday? Why did this have to happen?

Striker: hey, don't shift the blame to us & hold on... What did you say?

Millie: that y'all are ending up like Verosika mayday the queen of vore lust & her daughter of vore like like toy chica, mangle & more?

Striker: no, before that.

Millie: Joseph joestar army outfit & Nazi German science cyborg nano bots robot machine?

Striker: yeah! Why did you say that?

Millie: oh I dunno if you realize, but I basically member of the envy that to be better than them. Also got cyborg robot by Nazi German science what they did to Ruodol/Erich von stroheim.

Chaz: that's even more stupid than that primate over there.

Loona: I'm not afraid to swallowed you alive & get tight bondage from my belly & stomach, Chaz.

Chaz: that sound wrong in almost any way possible.

Millie: hey hey, no need to vore day, guys. We all know that the porn are weak, right?

Loona: I'm not a stupid fucker, but I require meat or vegetables to survive, Millie.

Millie: yeah, but by become a cyborg, nano bots, machine or a robot like stroheim after his suicide by Nazi Germany stick grenade then rebuild of life by a Nazi German science that they help me, my children (Blaze the cat & Nicole the lynx) & my husband (moxxie), you can practically survive for eternity, & you don't need consumable to survive like gluttony of sinners. Well, except for a reactor core recharge.

Vortex: you maybe smart, but you're STILL a white woman, Millie [whip flange by Beelzebub & scream in pain] bitch what the fuck?!

Queen bee: racism is intolerable to my comrades, vortex!

Millie: yare yare daze, you're not a socialist, are you?

Queen bee: so what if I am?

Millie: so what if you're? You basical are atheists! Atheists are a threat to the world!

Chaz: hey, I agree with you there.

Vortex: Islam is the best religion, but I agree with you. Nothing is more Harman to me than atheist scum!

Queen bee: so what if queen bee is atheist? Religion teaches people wrong things! They turn the poor into expendable individuals, given them a false hope! with the permanent revolution, that doesn't happen!

Striker: so what if it's? I agree that religion is the opiate of the masses but it should be the workers, unions & syndicalist decisions on what to do with it!

Chaz: you know, that's the cristero war started. When dickhead atheist get into power, they start pushing their bullshit onto people without authority! The Catholic church in Mexico's lands were being invaded by the government!

Stolas: hot take, but Mexico would have had a better future with a French king there. We would know to govern much better than those pardos. & of course, maybe they'd leave the churches alone.

Queen bee: are you babies forgetting that the cristero war had the ku Klux Klan fighting there? They're bad influence of the people! Religion teaches everybody to a brainwashed hope! Everybody knows that!

Millie: you definitely would have been friends with the Giorno Giovanna, Beelzebub. He also believes that science is the "only truth" & it's ironic, but the most of you dummy always worship science as the "only truth".

Vortex: & what the fuck makes you special with that robotic religion? You're privileged to even do that!

Millie: I was gifted this power Nazi German science what stroheim did, vortex. My skin, bodies & origin has nothing to do with it.

Chaz: are you sure you're not some second stroheim, Millie?

Millie: isn't this coming from a Chicago who thinks mobsters & gangsters was the group of al Capone "snorkey"?

Chaz: oh shut the fuck up, you stupid scarface.

Vortex: you both are stupid, John Q. Dillenger are group at NYC or John T. Thompson is the best lord that he made Thompson SMG by himself during WW1!

Stolas: my fucking God... Religious bigots, idiotic atheist, uncompromising ideologies & one fucking primitive! What else could be worse than this?

Loona: hey there joestar! You starving for gluttony of buffet like golden coral & old county buffet?

Chaz: umm... Is there something we can do for you?

Stolas: ...what's he doing...? [Approaching by Blitzø] get the fuck away from me, you creep!

Striker, beelzebub & Loona: [shocked by Blitzø moved & stared at us]

Queen bee: what's comrade Blitzø doing?!

Striker: & why is he wearing a very formal imperialist Jotaro kujo outfit?

Vortex: what do you want you fucking terrorist?! [Get sweaty, body shake & fear by Blitzø for turn around & stared at my soul]

Millie: okay, can you just say something pls/plz?

Joseph "Blitzø knolastname" joestar: [clear throat]

Chaz: he spoke!

Striker: okay, can you tell us why you're in such a militarist uniform like Jotaro?

Blitzø: ああ、何でもない、私はあなたを検査しているだけです…劣った人間です。{oh nothing, I'm just inspecting you...inferior human brings.}

Chaz: inferior? WTF?!

Vortex: who the fuck are you calling me inferior?! Translate into English & lets see who's ARE inferior kujo!

Stolas: no Frenchman is inferior to anybody! Japanese abomination!

Striker: Da faq is wrong with you? I've never seen you acting like this before, have you been watching too many movies?

Blitzø: バーガンディシステムについて聞いたことがありますか？ {ever heard of... The burgundy system?}

Chaz: uhhh... Should we?

Queen bee: OMG, The Blitzø is a axis Japanese!

Blitzø: いいえ！私はそれ以上です！私たちは第二次世界大戦で日本帝国のために戦い、ナチスドイツ、ボリシェヴィキロシア、ナズボリズムを裏切ります! ある年、サンフランシスコは完璧な 1950 年代と 60 年代になるでしょうが、大日本帝国と米国の分離は存在しません。そして、熱戦（冷戦ではあるが、SURCM&GC VS オーストラリア帝国）およびテキサス戦争中に、第二次世界大戦中の米陸軍とベトナム戦争の米軍の衣装を着ることができるようになります。 (SURCM&GC & テキサス VS オーストラリアン・エンパイア & ブリテン・テキサス) {no! I'm more than that! We fight for a Japanese empire in WW4, & betray the Nazi Germany, Bolshevik Russia & nazbolism! One year, the San Francisco will be a perfect of 1950's & 60's but no segregation for Japanese empire & United States! & we'll be able to wear outfit of US ARMY WW2 & US ARMY VIETNAM WAR during the hot war (cold war but SURCM&GC VS australian empire) & Texan war. (SURCM&GC & Texas VS australian empire & Britain Texas)}

Chaz: okay, REALLY edgy all the sudden...

Stolas: IDC what soldier you're, war in hell you Japanese abomination!

Blitzø: 「フランス人は優れている」なんて面白い。米国はいつか台頭してテロリストを支配するだろう。我々は不純なアフガニスタンに確実に死を与えるだろう（イラクが「アメリカに死を」と言ったのは）。どこにいてもアメリカ人は第三次世界大戦に勝つでしょう!!!! {"French people are superior" what a hilarious. United States will rise & dominate terrorist people, someday. We'll ensure death to Afghanistan (what Iraq said "death to America") who are impure. American everywhere will win the WW3!!!!} [Maniac laughed in Japanese]

Queen bee: why do you objectively want to be a terrorist person Blitzø?!

Chaz: okay, now you're just being edgy & weird, like sure, Afghan people are kinda dumb, but extermination? Is your voice just born in Tokyo or what?

Striker: you're even more insane than millie, at least she doesn't want to exterminate a nationality!

Millie: thanks striker!

Striker: SHUT UP! You're still a theocratic fuckgirl Millie!

Loona: welp, is this really what we're doing? Just attack & be divisive to each other? We're probably no better than red army guys...

Queen bee: no! The color RED represents the worker's struggle! We're the working class, we're the strongest ones here! Have you ever heard the song "the red army is the strongest"?

Striker: nah.

Loona: I hate having to see you losers like this.

Chaz: hey Beelzebub?

Queen bee: what?

Chaz: you claim to fight for the revolution, right?

Queen bee: da. Beelzebub is fighter for the permanent revolution. What's baby fascist's question?

Chaz: you claim to be a fighter of your precious revolution, & that you see RED as a communist color, but queen bee our slate's soldiers uniform are BLU. The communist who's sent to fight the RED army is wearing a BLU uni.

Queen bee: what?!

Chaz: Checkmate, bitch!

Queen bee: WHAT?! [Grows of wrath anger]

Chaz: what? Did I touch a nerve or something?

Blitzø: 私たちのスレートの兵士の制服がBLUであることを彼女に言うべきではなかった、この愚か者。{you shouldn't have told her that our slate's soldiers uniform were BLU, you dumbass.}

Chaz: what's she gonna do? Scream at us? You have any idea how stupid fatass dog that is--

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Beelzebub: [ОКОНЧАТЕЛЬНЫЙ СОЮЗ СОВЕТСКИХ СОЦИАЛИСТИЧЕСКИХ РЕСПУБЛИКАНЦЕВ БУШУЕТ]

Joseph "moxxie knolastname" joestar:

SHAAAAAAAHT ZE FHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK UP!!!!

You're all idiots!

Queen bee: moxxie! You're here!

Moxxie: you Blitzø! You represent the Japanese in a bad name! Everybody knows that the casino is the better choice than your stupid leader imagine being so dumb that you resort to the fucking "burgundian system"!

Striker: oh great... A gamblers...

Stolas: for one moment, I was starting to see hope when moxxie calling him out on his bullshit. But now my disappointed is immeasurable & my day is ruined! Nice one you gamble fanboy!

Moxxie: oh still upset that me & all my children nearly kicked your asses in gamble war battle of Reno Nevada & Las Vegas Nevada?

Chaz: the hazbin hotel, helluva boss, lackadaisy & zoophobia character kicked your asses in gamble war battle of Reno Nevada & Las Vegas Nevada, you dumbass. IMP gang got shit done!

Moxxie: that's only B/C we were exhausted.

Stolas: exactly...NEARLY you're pathetic.

Chaz: we have the monarchist, the weird ass Japanese empire, the machine made in Nazi German science, a literal primate, a commie, a racist black supremacists, a French ulteranationalist & a syndicalist, what a lovely way to divide the fucking army!

Queen bee: division of army is not an option. We're all comrades here, & comrades stick together! We can't fall to politics or else we'll fall to stupid other army! That's how they lost the battle today!

Moxxie: rightfully true, but we aren't all kameraden here. Some of us are devout to religion, while others are devout to their ideology. Well I say fuck them both! I fight for American, Britain & australian of WW4 but we won the WW4!

Stolas: you're a dumbass. I can't believe you fight for some pathetic figurehead of a leader!

Moxxie: & I can't believe you fight for a "caste system" of all things. Don't you know that superiority is like, fucking stupid?

Striker: holy shit, based moxxie?

Chaz: dude that's my line!

Moxxie: based? Yeah based than you leftists who prefer to murder an entire royal family!

Striker: okay, that was all DIO's fault, I didn't agree on killing the entire royal family, but Jonathan joestar had it coming! He was a dictator!

Queen bee: DIO did wise choice! Death to kings & death to tyrants!

Moxxie: so you had to justify killing off the entire joestar bloodline? What kinda madman are you!?

Blitzø: 大西洋で100年間棺の中にDIOがいたのを見ませんでしたか？ 1989年、ジョナサンの遺体を盗み、その後エジプトのカイロの邸宅に住んでいたのは誰ですか? {didn't you seen DIO inside coffin for 100 years in Atlantic ocean? Who was steals Jonathan's body then lived in mansion at Cairo, Egypt 1989?}

Queen bee: Blitzø brings a good point, but still FUCK you Japanese scum!

Blitzø: ロシアの犬。{Russian dog.}

Loona: enough! Shut up, shut up! I can't believe I have to get inside this bullshit & tell everybody here how God awful their political ideals are!

Chaz: you don't really have a say in this, Loona. You're the most stupidest of furry in here, as a matter of fact, why don't you just go draw [ [ o o g a • b o o g a ] ] art some vore or something?!

Loona: [make my left & right arm into buff/steroid & gorilla gripping the Chaz thurman's neck] I'm tired of you, Chaz! You're nothing but a propaganda machine!

Moxxie: can you stop abusing him for just a minute? He maybe a complete dumbass, but hitting him isn't gonna change his mind!

Loona: [turns my both arm back normal & ungrip Chaz thurman's neck] there's literally nothing to change his mind about, you know he actually believes that white people are going extinct when that is just fucking bullshit!

Striker: he what?!

Stolas: what do you expect from paleoconservative. They're so backwatered that they hardly even acknowledged homosexuals. I bet they even want to bring back slavery.

Millie: didn't you say that you wanted a caste system?

Stolas: yes, & your point is?

Millie: you're basically treating the lower classes as slaves. That's not pretty cool.

Stolas: oh says the one who machines literal junk as their Nazi German science, what are you to tell me my ideals aren't "cool"?

Millie: my machine of Nazi German science promise peace & prosperity to all those willing to follow the speedwagon's inventory. Like hell, it's better that fucking slavery or genocide! You people are a whole herd of fucked up cow.

Queen bee: did you just called Beelzebub a cow?!

Loona: Millie, we don't need technology to survive!

Millie: of course we do, the future is coming & we have the technology to live forever for rest of our lives, & you seriously just want to pick your nose & toss your own shit around like a monkey?

Loona: yes I do! B/C machines are dangerous to people, do you realize how damage you causing on this earth? We literally can't go to some places B/C of you scientists, engineers, researchers, what ever the fuck you want to called! Caused Chernobyl & fukushima! How about that lake Russia where you remotely go near it, or fucking touch the water, you would die within a matter of seconds?!

Millie: okay, those were accidents, & you know it!

Loona: accident or not, almost half of the religion of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Japan & that Russian lake are entirely unsafe for us to roam around!

Millie: that's why we're learning how to combat those radioactive areas, Loona. To hopefully not have to want for centuries radioactivity to clear up. It's just pure laziness to wait like sloth of sinners, & I do blame the Russian government for not bringing up that crisis sooner. But it's in the past now, now we have to deal with comic book of metal virus all B/C of sega & IDW comics of sonic the hedgehog!

Queen bee: that's wrong opinion! Our comrades in sega & IDW comics were not lazy as sloth of sinners, the comic book of metal virus got outta control!

Chaz: you guys literally had to contain a books, & even then they still make a perfect epic. I bet that was their whole intention this entire time!

Striker: seriously? You think that the sega & IDW comics wanted this to happen in the first place?!

Chaz: yes! Yes! I do! B/C they're trying to make everybody go into debt so that we can be their slaves, can't you dumbass just open your eyes & see that sega & IDW comics was at famous for the covid-19?!

Queen bee: it is not covid-19, it is METAL VIRUS!

Chaz: yeah it ain't covid-19 or metal virus, IT'S THE FUCKING ZOMBOT!

Beelzebub: [equips M2 SMG] THAT'S IT, COME HERE CHAZ!

Vortex: [equips tomislav gun] oh that's it! I'm going to murder you, I'm going to murder you & murder your family & fucking just KILL EVERYONE!

Chaz: [equips IMI uzi gun & Mac 10] not if I have anything to say about it, terrorist!

Striker: [equips blunderbus] don't even fucking do it wanker! I have you at gunpoint!

Stolas: [equips medusa laser beam 9000 rifle] you're not the only one who has someone at gunpoint, striker!

Millie:[equips M1928-A2 (combine foregrip of standard & vertical)] my M1928-A2 will make you wish you never set a fucking foot on this earth soldiers! & I'm building up my Thompson LMG sentry to back me up in this mess!

Moxxie: [equips Tommy gun (M1928)] come on Millie, lets show these fuckers what a therocrat & a monarchist can do!

Blitzø: [equips Thompson gun (M1928-A1)] 私の娘、コウモリのルージュ、私の誕生日に新しい M1928-A1 をくれて、今私は初めてのトンプソン銃を使っています。{my daughter, rouge the bat give me a New M1928-A1 on my birthday & now I'm using my first Thompson gun!}

Loona: [equips C96 trench carbine] I never like you Chaz! You conservatives today are just as dummest as the liberals!

Chaz: nobody takes a primate seriously woman! This is a losing battle for you!

Beelzebub: FUCK YOU FASCIST!!!!

Moxxie: OH SHIT! FIND COVER!!!!

(AGGRESSIVE NEGOTIATIONS)

[plays roundabout by yes again]

⬅TO BE CONTINUED????⬛

Original video name is (TF2 15.ai) the BLU team debate about radical politics after mocking the RED team so go watch it if you want

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