#2018/3018

[kennak]

MLBロサンゼルス・ドジャースの大谷翔平の元通訳で、違法スポーツ賭博に関係した銀行詐欺罪などに問われている水原一平被告が、減刑を求めて裁判所に宛てた申立書などのいくつかの主張について、連邦検察官はそれらを証明する証拠は無いとの文書を裁判所に提出したことが現地１月30日、米大手スポーツ局『ESPN』で報じられた。 　まず水原被告自身が今回の罪を犯した原因として説明している「長年にわたり週に4、5回はカジノに通う」ようなギャンブル依存症について、検察はアメリカ中の30以上のカジノを調べたものの、唯一見つかった証拠は、2008年に200ドル（約３万1000円）を使った一度だけであり、「同被告は2018年にFanDuelに登録したが、賭けをしたことはなかった。『大谷から数百万ドルを盗んだ」後、2023年にDraftKingsで賭け始めた」と主張した。 　また、検察はアメリカと日本両方の自宅の家賃を払っていたとの水原被告の記述についても虚偽であると主張。「大谷のデビットカードを使って家賃を支払っていた」ことを示す銀行取引明細書が確認されており、「ローンも車や家賃の支払いも無かった」という。 　そのため、大谷から金銭を盗むことを強いるような「巨額の借金」は無く、「口座には常に多額の残高があった」と主張を続け、大谷の口座から初めて４万ドル（約620万円）を引き出した際には自身の口座にも３万4000ドル（約526万円）が入っていたことも明らかに。2024年３月には19万5000ドル（約3018万円）以上残っていたという。「（水原被告は）自分のお金を使ってブックメーカーに支払うこともできたが、代わりに大谷から盗むことを選んだ」と指摘。賞金を得た際にも自身の口座に入金しており、「大谷に返済するつもりはなかった」とした。 　そして検察は、水原被告が大谷からCMなどの話を勧められたにもかかわらず、CMや書籍の取引を断ったと明かし、資料によれば水原被告は少なくとも１冊、大谷についての児童書を作成していたと報告した。 　検察は水原被告に対して求刑通りの、禁錮４年９か月と釈放後３年間の保護観察処分、大谷への1600万ドル（約25億円）超の賠償金などを希望。「水原被告が国際的な注目に恥ずかしさを感じていることは間違いない」としたものの、「真の後悔を示す代わりに、水原は『大谷から数百万ドルを盗むことを正当化』しようとしている」と結論付けた。 構成●THE DIGEST編集部

水原被告の〝ギャンブル依存＆巨額の借金〟は「証拠なし」と検察　「家賃の支払いも無かった」「大谷から620万円盗んだ時、526万円持っていた」（THE DIGEST） - Yahoo!ニュース

[paradympixels]

“...sweeter the juice.” - 2018

[spookgeist]

Inktober day 4!

I imagine buggies would comfort faeries like our animal friends do!

[zaprowsdower27]

point of order, Olorin may be eternal but Gandalf is about 2018 years old - the Istari were embodied in forms far more fleshy and 'real' than the usual maiar manifestation (ref. Saruman not switching to something more imperious than Old Man after his corruption and Gandalf needing to die and be resurrected to manifest more of his power instead of just modifying the body on the fly).

(the Istari arrived about 1000 T.A. and the War of the Ring was 3018 T.A., hence "about 2018")

The Fellowship gets on the topic of their ages one night and Boromir comes to the dawning realization that he has absolutely no idea how old any of his companions are supposed to be at all

[freckles-arelife]

[darriness]

Fic A Day 2018 - Day 254

Title: Threshold

Author: darriness

Word Count: 404

Summary: Tradition

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Kurt and Blaine beam at each other as they stand in front of their apartment door. It’s a spot they’ve stood an innumerable amount of times but this one feels different.

Blaine feels himself shiver, “Are you as excited as I am?” He asks.

Kurt tries to purse his lips to hid his smile but it’s fruitless and they both know it, “I very much am.” He says.

They both put their bags down simultaneously and turn to each other. They smile and then both go to hold their arms out.

At the gestures, their smiles turn confused, “I thought…” Blaine says, gesturing to the door.

Kurt chuckles, “Yeah, I thought too.” He answers.

They both laugh and roll their eyes at each other before Blaine shrugs, “I guess we should have talked about this.” He says.

Kurt nods, “Well I think I win because I’m taller.”

Blaine’s eyebrows raise, “Why?” He asks.

Kurt shrugs, “Taller means stronger.” He smirks when Blaine guffaws, “To be perfectly honest, love, I’m not sure you could handle this.” He gestures to himself with another shrug.

Blaine narrows his eyes at Kurt but he’s smiling before he shrugs as well, “Fine.” He acquiesces.

Kurt’s eyebrows raise at how easy Blaine backed down but decides not to comment as he moves to scoop Blaine up into his arms bridal style, “Will you let me at least TRY after?” Blaine asks.

Kurt smiles, “Sure.” He says, figuring it can’t hurt.

Blaine smiles too and then grabs the doorknob to their apartment, turning it and swinging open the door before gesturing with a flourish, “Shall we?” He asks.

Kurt doesn’t say anything, just walks over the threshold to their apartment with his new husband in his arms.

When they’re inside, Blaine kicks his feet excitedly, “That was amazing!” He shrieks and kisses Kurt, who hums and kisses back, “Now it’s my turn.” He says when they break the kiss.

Kurt chuckles and lets Blaine down before they reset themselves outside the apartment. Blaine opens his arms and Kurt only hesitates for a second before stepping in and allowing himself to be picked up.

Blaine does so with seeming ease and the two of them are inside the apartment, safely, a moment later, “Welcome home, husband.” Blaine says, with a smirk at Kurt’s shocked expression.

“Bedroom. Now.” Kurt says in answer and Blaine is more than willing to comply with the request.

[leidensygdom]

@ssapdra ‘s Asherah! Yet another portrait more for this series I’m doing!! And a LOT of hair to work on <3

[x-exol]

me losing like 200 followers

me realising it’s staff deleting bots 

[nerdeas]

We're living in 2018, he's living in 3018

[terrifiesthem]

in tumblr rp, it’s call out or be called out

[paradympixels]

“Kama ubemuhle” / “Clarity+un-blackness” / “Double vision downer.” - 2018

[trainfanz]

One of my favorite little (unintentional) Starlight details is the costume builders taking John Napier’s design drawings just a LITTLE too literally.

So starting with OLC Electra here, you can see ‘AIL’ prominently displayed on one of their shoulder pads. Is this an abbreviation or something? Nope, not at all.

[More after the cut!]

When creating the costumes, John Napier seemingly cut up images of trains and placed pieces on the human silhouette as seen with Electra below. 

The ‘AIL’ actually comes from an image of Canadian Pacific diesel locomotive (3018) with the old CP Rail branding along it’s side. The number and the remainder of the loco can be seen incorporated into his legs.

Evidently the costume builders assumed these were part of the design rather than Napier simple trying to add additional train details.

This is the same reason Espresso (the Italian train) ended up with the logo for Via Rail Canada prominently on his chest - an aspect of his design that was there in 1984 and is still there in the 2018 rewrites!

Napier used an image of a Via Rail LRC locomotive for the chest region, and you can see the colors were even put onto the original costume. Also note the Baltimore and Ohio diesel engine worked into his arms which did not end up on the costume.

Now you know!

[chaekkung]

it's wild how some of us are literally still living in 2017 and the rest of yall in 2018 wow :/

[socialinkompatibel]

Die ersten Tage meines Jahres.

Die ersten vier Tage liefen gut, aber was ist gut?

Ist gut ,besser als okeii und schlechter als perfekt?

Oder heißt gut, das ich froh bin das ich nicht zusammen breche. Trotz das ich Antidepressiva nehme und das seit ca 2 Monaten. Bin ich trotzdem oft genug an der Grenze meiner geistigen starke angekommen. Die Grenze die dazu für das ich Weine wie ein kleines Kind und in mich zusammen falle.

Ich bin ehrlich, ich fühle mich wertlos, so als würden Leute nur aus Mitleid mit mir etwas zutun haben.

Ist das Einbindung, Realität, oder wieder mal ein Moment wo ich die Kontrolle verliere?

Ich bin ständig darüber am nachdenken, wer da ist wenn es darauf ankommt? Auf wenn ich mich blind verlassen kann? Bei wem ich das Gefühl verlieren kann von Zeit und Ort? Wer kann mir das zeigen und das für mich sein.

Das sind fragen die mir im Jahr 2018 durch den Kopf gehen, dabei ist das Jahr gerade mal 4 Tage alt...

[catboyrights]

in two hrs it's gonna be 3018 and just like fuck

[toxoplasmajuice]

to be f--

wait did tumblr just automatically turn my “tm” in parentheses into an actual trademark symbol