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hakureiryuu · 6 hours
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The biggest annoyance in studying criminals is that the only criminals you can study are the ones that get caught. So you mostly learn about the mistakes they make, and eventually you learn how a person can commit a crime and NOT get caught. And what do you do with that knowledge? Commit crimes? I don't WANT to commit crimes. Catch criminals? If these loopholes were possible to close, they'd BE closed. You could write really convincing crime novels, but what if someone learned from them to commit crimes? There's just no winning
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they are sharing five dozen liquor jugs between them.
MASSIVE NEWS FOR LINGUISTS: the sphinx of black quartz has just befriended the quick brown fox and the lazy dog.
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hakureiryuu · 6 hours
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I can’t state enough how beneficial it was to work at the sex shop as my first retail job. We were encouraged to practice shutting down inappropriate behavior and it became a well practiced skill set. I had a flat stare, icy tones of disapproval, and a demeanor of untouchable scorn to back it all up. I could get the most hardened of perverts to back off or leave in a matter of sentences if they harassed staff or other customers.
When I moved on to selling mattresses I came prepared to handle pretty much any situation with the unruffled calm of someone who has asked Santa to stop touching himself and leave. To my vast surprise it was a skill I needed on the regular at the mattress store. For whatever reason men thought it was the height of entertainment to sexually harass me because I was young and cheerful.
They would always quickly learn they’d picked the wrong target.
One day a man strolled in, sizing me up as he came. He saw a young, tiny, afab person alone in the store and came to a stop way too close. He used his height to leer down at me and said, “I’m looking for a new headboard. Which ones are the best for sex?”
It was so stupid. He looked down at me with half lidded eyes and the grin of a man who owns an unmarked white van. He probably expected me to laugh uncomfortably or act flustered. He wanted to feel tall and powerful or maybe even sexy.
He was not expecting what he got. My face stretched into what could technically be described as a smile but was more accurately a threat display. The temperature in the room plummeted as I dropped all warmth in my demeanor. He took a half step back, suddenly aware that he was alone in a room with me.
“Well, sir, that depends on what kind of sex you’re having. If you are looking for a headboard that is grippeable, I suggest this model. The metal is rounded and wouldn’t hurt a hand gripping it tightly. However if you want something that you can secure with restraints, I recommend this wooden one as the slats are wide and quite sturdy.”
He looked liked I’d hit him over the head with a board and stared down at me blankly, taken aback by the authoritative way that I discussed the merits of his lackluster sex life. I met his eyes, a veiled threat in mine, and said, “Which one will you be purchasing?”
He tucked his tail between his legs and bought the metal one. I pulled up a thin layer of friendliness as I rang him up but he had the chastened air of a man who just ran straight into an iron pole.
Another time a man crawled up onto a tempurpedic and thrusted into an invisible partner. He gave a cocky look over his shoulder, sure that he was going to discomfit me as he asked, “How are these babies for fucking?”
I gave him a deadpan look and and said, “That depends on if you’re someone who has to rely on the bounce of springs for your thrusts. Memory foam beds are nicer on knees and joints for positions like doggy style but they absorb a lot of kinetic energy.”
He visibly deflated and got down off the bed with a vaguely ashamed air.
He bought a spring mattress.
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hakureiryuu · 6 hours
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Realized I never posted the rest of the girlies here ,unacceptable
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hakureiryuu · 2 days
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I’m wondering if references to TMA in TMAGP Red Herrings or a distraction?
Sorry its a bit of a long ramble (hence under the cut)
We know that there are going to be multiple series of Protocol, and that it will follow a similar narrative format to Archives, with a long overarching mystery plot.
We also know that Archives is not required listening for Protocol, and thus you don’t need to have listened or know much about Archives to enjoy or understand protocol. Therefore, for me at least, if that’s the case, then if the crux of the narrative is serving as a direct follow on from Archives, it feels almost too early in both the long run and the series to have literally gone to the ruins of the Institute, and meeting characters from Archives directly.
Don’t get me wrong, Archives is definitely going to play a large role in the world, at the very least we know this via Chester and Norris, But I’m wondering if they’re getting the more direct references out the way earlier on, so that Protocol can then develop the itself almost a bit more free of the Shadow of Archives?
Given how popular archives was they knew people are going to be drawing All Of The Links, so maybe this was a way of almost drawing the line in the sand to keep them separate early on? And given we know Alex and Jonny enjoy a bit of Mild Emotional Torment I wouldn’t be surprised if they made sure to build up the hype regarding Archives based elements in protocol just before the Hiatus cause they know it’d drive us a lil insane.
Also listening back to particularly series One and Two of Archives, there are a frankly surprising amount of references to the Powers and foreshadowing of later events, all of which fly under the radar unless you know what happens later on, and I’m wondering if the references to Gerry, Gurtrude and going to the Institute etc might also be being used as a sort of smokescreen? Knowing that Archives fans are going to be super hyped about the return of fan favourite characters maybe being used as a wee bit of a distraction as the groundwork for later events/world building is being laid? Then whilst we are all focused on [ERROR] having crawled out of the ruins of the institutes we don’t notice as Needles and Mr Bonzo come up behind us and Do a Bit Of A Murder (as a treat on their date night).
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hakureiryuu · 2 days
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Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.
We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.
Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker
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hakureiryuu · 2 days
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TDL about touch, a short comic
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i thought about what does touch mean to Dark and remembered that the few times we've seen dark being touches are both by TCO The first time to make the truce in ava3, the second time in ava5 as a betrayal.
Imagine how painful it must be? Maybe my thought wandered too far away, but what if touch means the world to Dark? Because of Chosen and the touch of alliance. Imagine Dark being actually very touchy and expressive, skin-to-skin contact meaning comfort and safety? Care? Through Dark of this perspective, imagine those seven years. I'm not even implying romantic/sexual chodarks. Just, chodarks. Platonic of friends, doesn't matter.
The comic features my special designs for AVA3:
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White is suppressing Dark's crimson to show Alan's dominance over them, wristbands and the choker are to show control//coercion. Also, white is sterile and clean, stripped of any personality. They both are tools in here. Purple is generally Alan's color. TDL's eye - code influence. White crown - the Lord but of Alan. Another design of Dark has a crown too, but a different one.
Also a textless version:
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how are we feeling about first tmagp hiatus?
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hakureiryuu · 2 days
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i may have actually cried when I saw this 😭
again, thank you so much.
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for @hakureiryuu :) that chapter has my heart
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and that's the tea
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i think my favorite part about the tma liveshow with the Dog Incident is the fact that it's canon. like the fluff episodes are cute and fun but they also aren't canon and weren't written to be considered potentially canon, they're just fun lil fan things. the liveshow tho is meant to be considered canon. which means that yes, jon did in fact canonically go "like, in general?" to being asked if he'd seen a dog (which let's be real that's a mood i would also do that if caught off guard)
but also essentially jon was like "okay so you work for me, cool, and i could Fire You If Don't Fix This Immediately" and martin literally Looked This Man In The Eyes and said "i mean yeah, probably heh :) oH-" with the gayest processing delay i've ever heard in my LIFE. i honestly don't think that was any of his little manipulations of getting people to underestimate him or whatever i really think he was just that gay about Handsome Man With Nice Voice Speaking Authoritatively At Him that it took him a minute to process. and that's CANON. that's REAL. he DID THAT. i can't get over that.
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