#DON'T COMMIT IDENTITY THEFT

[allpathsleadtosuffering]

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That consists of mostly Rudy stuff . . .uh . . .yay?

Anyways this counts as a Rudy post bc I totally haven't run out of Rudy images. But let's take some time to talk about sm which is Rudy changing his name to Rex. Which first of all I'm not calling hin that no matter what unless Invincible manages to change my mind. But for sure that's what's going to happen next ep. (Conquest fight, Rex funeral, and then some kind thing to lead into the 4th season.)

I know its gonna to happen and it's sm that I absolutely dread. (Remeber don't commit identity theft)

[lloydfrontera]

Are you like- The official author of 'Greatest Civil engineer' series? Or did I miss something-? Cause I've been thinking you were this whole time yet one of my friends stated you were nothing more than a fan account. And I kinda wanna say their wrong- but I have no proof of confirmation.

Don't answer if you're not comfortable though- I won't mind being unanswered ngl, just giving me and my friend something to debate about.

there is nothing i can say to make this funnier you won this one nonnie

no as far as i know i am not korean author bk moon official writer of The Greatest Estate Developer

i am so confused as to how you ever arrived to the conclusion that i could possibly be. i literally have over two hundred posts about how lloyd and javier should kiss each other with tongue. i posted llojavi yuri two weeks ago. i'm obsessed with a minor character of the sequel that appears for less than 1% of the novel. i don't even speak korean.

i'm not shaming you i swear i am just so confused as what could i have possibly done to give you the idea that i was the author please i need to know

[fireflowersims]

Sissysims' sins against the scenegraph

This is a small follow-up to my initial post covering the code theft commited by @sissysims. In that post, I presented my proof in the form of a YT video. While that video started off private, I decided to make it public for various reasons, which I will not outline in this post.

I first want to express my gratitude to all those who left comments, reblogged and liked my post. Your support means the world to us. I'm so happy that you as a community are so supportive in this. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you to all of you. ♥️

Now, this post is going to focus on just one thing: her incompetence at object creation, because honestly, it's bad. It's really bad. It would feel immoral not to discuss it.

This is just a glimpse and for all you object creators out there: I'm warning you, it's graphic.

How to create an object for dummies.

So, this is the simplest explanation I can give on making a new object. This is the basic process you follow for basically most things you will make: open up SimPE, open up the Object workshop and press open. Select your file and choose "clone". Leave the settings alone, defaults are fine. Give your new object a nice name and description. Be sure to give it a unique object name. Now do all your visual modifications by modifying the existing scenegraph resources (GMDC, TXTR, etc) and give your object a new GUID (making sure to update MMAT's). Now fix integrity, save your file and done. You can test and preferably you'd also compressorize.

So what did sissysims do wrong?

Simply said: everything. I have reasons to believe she has never followed a basic object creation tutorial. The mistakes she makes are mistakes that can be avoided by actually learning how to clone an object. Here is a small summary:

Not cloning anything, instead copying the file she wants to modify and opening that in SimPE

Not changing the object name. I have never seen her touch the fix integrity button

Using other people's meshes and textures. How? By way of opening up their files, noting down the 3D Object Name, extracting the scenegraph resources (GMDC, GMND, CRES, SHPE, TXTR, TXMT, MMAT) and putting them inside the package she's modifying (and modifying the 3D Object Name in the original package). I have not seen her open up a GMDC file or import or export a mesh or texture. She does not modify any of these scenegraph files afterwards.

Not updating the MMAT's with new GUID

Not cleaning out unused resources (see: the scenegraph fuckery above)

Never fixing integrity.

Sadly, this is not just the case with my vendor. It is all her projects. This is how she creates objects: she has never learned the proper way to create objects and thus she steals other people's hard work instead.

Pictured: the instructions provided for messing up my vendor. Note how she specifically instructs to extract resources from your mesh source. Not export. No: extract.

Pictured: the results of said messed up procedure on another creation of hers. Note how the gmdc of her object is literally identical to the gmcd of Michelle's original mesh (only credited in a readme, not in the post itself)

Why is this an issue?

This is not just an issue of someone being bad at creating objects. This is someone teaching others this messed up method that comes down to stealing other people's work. I believe that this is actively damaging to our community and newcomers' skill development. Her video teaches people bad modding habits. Her video ENCOURAGES people to use this method to make fundamentally flawed, fundamentally dysfunctional objects.

She claims to be wanting to make modding more accessible, but this video of hers is not helping with that in any shape or form. You need to know what you're doing in order to teach someone and her object creation skills are below the level of someone who followed a tutorial ONCE.

Ya know, I could make a video teaching people Serbian. I don't know anything about that language. It's Slavic I guess. I don't even know how it's pronounced, but I sure as hell could tell people that whatever sequence of sounds is coming out of my mouth is Serbian. And that using my tutorial you can have nice conversations with Serbians! Doesn't mean I should though. It would be misrepresentative, offensive and actually damaging to anyone who is serious about wanting to learn Serbian. The same principle applies to sissysims teaching modding.

I want to learn how to make objects and mods tho!

Good news, there are a lot of great tutorials out there by people who do know what they're doing (unlike sissysims). For basic object creation I would highly recommend this tutorial by Azaya/ @skulldilocks at Garden of Shadows. It's the tutorial that got me started with objects and it has plenty of pictures. If you follow this tutorial, you will be ten times better at object creation than sissysims is

For BHAV modding there is no better place to start than Echo's tutorial. I can also highly recommend @midgethetree's resources page as well as all the useful information @picknmixsims has on his site.

What now?

I will keep working on even better vendor code, which I hope to get to a testable state very soon. It's clear that there's interest in this sort of object, and the new vendor base will allow for a lot of flexibility in gameplay. Once I get it to a good working state, I will make a tutorial on how to make your own: a tutorial that'll actually tell you the why. If you can clone objects (the proper way), you will be able to make a vendor.

Also, please don't engage with sissysims in her youtube comments, not even to "defend our honour" or to say something about the theft. She knows what she did and has presumably received a tumblr notification that I mentioned her (again).

I am sissysims and I don't like this

Well, you have a lot of nerve "teaching" people to mod when you clearly don't know what you're doing. I encourage you to stop stealing other people's work and educate yourself (see resources above).

[howlingday]

Huntsman VS Huntress

Jaune: Well, well... If it isn't the most spineless... sweat-smelling... responsibility dodging... identity theft committing criminal in Vale! The Red [Bleep]!

Pyrrha: Okay. Come on, Jaune. It's the Red Huntress!

Jaune: You've got a bounty on your head, you know. THREE LIEN.

Pyrrha: Wait, that's it?

Jaune: What?

Pyrrha: Three lien?!

Jaune: Yeah?

Pyrrha: That's bullshit! I've done at LEAST 50 Lien worth of property damage!

Jaune: Look, I don't make the damn bounties; I claim 'em! Now get ready to draw on the count of three! VILLAIN...

Pyrrha: ...

Jaune: ...

Pyrrha: ...

Jaune: One-

Pyrrha: (BANG!)

Jaune: ACK! Hey! That's cheating!

Pyrrha: I mean, is it really cheating if I miss?

Jaune: (Bullet continues to bounce around) So... What's happening?

Pyrrha: It's called ricochet, my dear~.

Taiyang: (Pulls up in Zippy)

Jaune: Should we... worry about this?

Pyrrha: I'm... not sure. I've never seen it go on this long.

Taiyang: (Zippy's shot in the tank)

Jaune: Nice shot, [Bleep].

Pyrrha: ...OH MY GOD! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DO SUCH A THING, JAUNE!

Jaune: OH, YOU ARE NOT PINNING THIS ON ME, YOU [Bleep]!

Pyrrha: OH MY G- HOW COULD YOU DO SUCH A VILE THING?!

Jaune: I! DID! NO SUCH THING!

Pyrrha: OH MY GOD! THE INNOCENTS!

Jaune: YOU RED! [Bleep]!

Pyrrha: JUNIOR DETECTIVES!

Jaune: STOP THAT!

Pyrrha: JUNIOR DETECTIVES!

Jaune: I'M INNOCENT!

Pyrrha: JUNIOR DETECTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES~!

Jaune: I'M INNOCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENT~!

[qweerhet]

i think there's some communication issues in scam literacy communication that's contributing to a lot of slapfights on this website; i think there's very little distinction made in most people's minds between "someone lying about why they need money" and "someone attempting to commit identity theft/get payment information," and that leads to a lot of circular arguments that go nowhere.

"someone lying about why they need money" is, at worst, a dick move, but it doesn't pose any threat that needs to be "called out;" if they're just raising money through a kickstarter or gofundme or similar, the most you can argue is that, if it's in exchange for a product, you deserve a refund if you don't receive that product (and there is a degree to which "hey, this person keeps running campaigns to launch different products, but those products are never actually made" is a legitimate warning with a lot of value to putting out there). but at the end of the day, lying about your personal life on the internet is a time-honored tradition, and "this person lied about having a sick cat when ACTUALLY they used a thousand dollars for a LAPTOP" is, frankly, a waste of energy to tie yourself in knots over or "expose."

but scam literacy education is important, and you need to be able to recognize scams online, because the majority of them are trying to skim your payment details, and a lot of those intentionally prey on elderly and disabled people with low tech literacy. apart from the standard impersonating-an-organization-or-the-government scams, there are a lot of popular identity theft scams online at the moment that give the impression of being run by individuals who need funds, and those are legitimately important to recognize. (for the record: my rule of thumb is that i only give money through websites i have already vetted, that i have a pre-existing account on, and i never access those websites through a link a stranger gives, i go to the website myself and look up their account manually. this is to avoid link spoofing.)

anyway, i just think conflating the two concepts is a big source of pointless circular arguments on this site, that's all. they're two extremely different situations with extremely different material effects and should be treated differently.

[toastytrusty]

ok so. class/imperial dynamics between hickey and crozier. they each represent a different side of imperialism and a different way it affects people. very important to note that the major messaging of the show emphasizes how there are no "good ones" or "bad ones" within imperialism; the WHOLE SYSTEM is rotten and destroys everything it touches. the men on the expedition don't just damage and destroy the people and world they meet, the men are damaged and destroyed by the expedition itself. the whole ordeal was wretched and made everything worse for everyone. Which leads to the fundamental difference between hickey and crozier: hickey recognizes this, and crozier doesn't. Kind of. They both have similar lower class backgrounds, and looked to the navy for social mobility. Crozier played by the rules and achieved power and status through it, and he believes in the sanctity of naval bureaucracy and hospitality, if only they go about things the right way. Hickey, however, was so far removed from the prospects of this social mobility that he had to lie and commit identity theft to gain access to it. He has suffered at the hands of the british empire, and never held any illusions about the nature of it; he recognizes the class system as oppressive and the imperial system as violent. He tries to use this to his advantage and to gain power over others, but he still recognizes it and hates it. While crozier is certainly Doing His Best and has Good Intentions and all that, all of his decisions still end up being harmful or disregarding, and all the harm done by anyone else on the expedition (including hickey) is done in his name, because he brought them here and he is their leader. When hickey kidnaps silna and brings her to the ships, crozier is disgusted at the way hickey makes the violent nature of their presence so apparent, and yet he Does Keep silna on the ships afterwards. hickey is punished for insolence and dereliction of duty moreso than the actual harm he caused. Crozier’s issue was with the way he went about his actions, rather than the actions themselves. It still serviced crozier, even if he was, on the surface, put off by it. And hickey did it because he expected crozier to appreciate it. He thought crozier recognized the same things he did. But he didn’t, and that’s where the break between them happens, moreso than during the lashing. Hickey realizes that crozier Doesn’t understand the same things he does, or see things the same way he does. He has assimilated into the naval structure far too much and, in hickey’s view, lost touch. Which is ironic, given that hickey’s whole identity theft was quite indicative of him abandoning his lower class background and any perspective it gave him. There’s a very interesting dichotomy there, of crozier always being honest about his lower class background, and yet achieving status regardless, and becoming fully entrenched in the imperial machine because of it, and hickey never being honest about his lower class background, never achieving status regardless, and still resenting the imperial machine the entire time.

Hickey views crozier as the embodiment of the british empire, and the ups and downs of his respect for him are indicative of the ups and downs of his feelings towards his own potential for betterment through the imperial system. I might be stretching here but to meeee hickey’s mutiny is representative of something like a bourgeois revolution. He views crozier’s command, and the larger system, as oppressive, and he views himself as entirely separate from it in some way, when really he just wants to take crozier’s place and implement a near identical system within his own camp. Hickey’s delusions of personal exceptionalism are quite significant all the way to the end, when he tries to fully sever himself from his britishness and sacrifice crozier to the tuunbaq. He thinks he is different, and that him recognizing the empire’s brutality makes him any less implicated in it. Of course, it doesn’t; he is still british and cannot separate himself from that, so the tuunbaq kills him. However, crozier kills the tuunbaq. He is still concluding the devastation the british cause here. Also crozier’s “you could have just joined up” is really interesting because it shows that even then he still believed in the accessibility and positive potential of the navy. He thinks hickey is foolish for his reservations and ill will, and is almost denying the idea that there would be anything preventing that.

[chasing-posts]

People who deserve redemption, according to Thomas Astruc, written from least to worst of a bad character.

Kim Lê Chiến

Dumbass teenage boy who could have killed Marinette with a dumb prank he was completely concious of, and willing to commit. The boy was also a brat/ bully throughout season 1, but after Dark Cupid had apparently decided to be nicer off screen. Became friends with Max and got a girlfriend... BUT still refers to Chloe as the funniest and prettiest girl, IN FRONT of said girlfriend. Sees nothing wtong with what he did to the point of getting upset enough to become akumatized over the issue. He was allowed to be a super hero without even apologizing to Marinette dor over a year, and did a lot of dumb stuff tht was also forgiven just because. Is also one of the most inconsistently written characters in tbe story.

Jagged Stone

Possibly the most likable man on the list. However this man abandoned his twins and didn't contact them for 14 years. He kept his identity a secret and it's not even known if he paid child support before coming back into their lives, and constantly having fights with their mother.

That said he's put low on the list because we don't know if he did or did not pay child support. He's not mean to his children or kids in general, he is legit trying to make up for his absence and he originally left because his life was too chaotic to have custody. There's a lot of ambiguity and behind the scenes drama that is not explored (*cough thought out cough cough*) in this family, and it's even possible the mom fought for full custody to keep him away after a big break up. The situation is too ambiguous to judge.

Sabrina Raincomprix

Sabrina has been Chloe's number 1 supporter and follower for almost a decade. They were childhood friends and wherever Chloe went, she went. She has been supporting Chloe bad deeds and even happily participating throughout most of them. There were two incidents in season 1 where they almost stopped being friends and Marinette made an attempt to leave the friendship once, but for the most part has stuck throigh and done everything Chloe has wanted her to do and loved doing it. This includes stealing, faking notes, doing her homework, coming up with schemes to bully, laughing at all the chaos, making grown women and other teens cry and so much more. She was even given the dog Miraculous in season 4, by Marinette, despite doing nothing to earn it and only being good at soccer and wanting to SAVE Chloe, so they could bully another day.

In the end she's given a redemption arc because she feels bad for stealing (all of a sudden), and because Chloe was becoming friends with Lilah. The fact she's an active participant in bullying who gets off on the power trip of putting others drown, is not brought up again

Alec Cataldi

Alec's career is based on putting other people down, and is responsible for the first akumatized victim in the show back in episode 1. For four seasons, his entire personality was finding people, mocking them, on television or in person, and getting views off it. He's a spiteful man who makes his living off the suffering of others.

However in season 4 we find out that his biggest dream was to become a drag queen when he was little, and he was mocked for it. After that happened he shaved his hair off and started putting down other people's passions, in the same way his had dreams had been squashed. After his first and only akumatization, he has a break down and epithany, decides to live his true self and raise people up instead instead. On paper, he has the best redemption arc so far.

Félix Fathom

Fèlix was introduced in season 3, and his first on-screen acts include destroying Adrien's things, trying to ruin his cousin's reputation and leave him friendless, sexually assaulting Ladybug, and stealing from the Agreste family. He continues his bad deeds in season four with identity theft, and stealing all the Miraculous' from Ladybug and giving them to Gabriel/ AKA Hawkmoth, in return for the Peacock Miraculous.

We learn in season 5 he's a sentimonster who's been acting out due to an abusive father and his fragile existence in the world. He uses his power to remove everyone in the world in a misplaced effort to make him and his cousin happy, before eventually being talked down by Kagami and Adrian.

He eventually starts stalking Kagami and after revealing himself, they start a relationship together. He seems socially inept and yet despite all his knowledge on his, Adrien's and Kagami's situation, he decides to never tell Adrian aboht what's happening and only Marinette in the most awkward dance number ever.

All in all Fèlix had every opportunity and all the power to reveal Hawkmoth's true identy from the start, but never took the steps to reveal his identity and work towards true redemption. And if he decided to tell Chat Noir/ Ladybug the whole story, the three of them could have defeated monarch. And Adrien and Kagami would nit have been forced to goto London.

André Bourgeois

Andrè is a corrupt mayor, who uses his elected title and money to regularly take advantage of the people of Paris. He has fired people without just cause (even his own "friends"), tried to steal things he was denied, abused funds, and enable his daughters worst decisions. He raised Chloe alone since she was 4-6, and has both neglected her emotional needs, refused to parent his child, rewarded her bad behavior with material possessions, and allowed her to idolize her mother, and even encouraged her to model her behavior after her mother she abandoned them, and then abandons her and hands her over to her abusive mother at the end of the series, while taking in her half sibling, who he has not raised and has no legal claim over.

Andrè blames the women in his life for how he's turned out. Claiming he only wanted to be a film director, and only left to be a successful business tirant and corrupt political figure, for his wife Audrey. Who he still stays married to after she cheats on him, and moves away for half a decade, abandoning hik and their own daughter. He chooses to stay married. Chose to stay in that career and chose to constantly rip off and screw over the people of paris. Often being the cause of akumatization, and ruinging big events for his daughter's whims. Keep in mind, the only reason Chloe is like this now, is because of Aundrè's parenting, yet he never takes responsibility for that, and instead decides to abdocate his position, illigally allow his daughter to take control of the city, let her take all the fall for HIS crimes, and then abandon her to live with his step daughter instead.

All this to say that Andrè may be the second worst on the list, but I hate him the most.

Gabriel Agreste

What can't you say about this man. This man loves being evil. He dances through the halls when a scheme looks like it's about to work. His entire power is taking advantage of people at thier worst, enslaving them and then making them do his bidding. His list of victims includes literal babies, children of all ages, the mentally ill, the elderly, and even his own son. The son which he claims to love but whom he actively manipulates, abuses and mistreats throughout the ENTIRE series. He literally controls him to make him do whatever he wants, and when he acts out or says something he does not like, he belittles him and will actively punish him if he gets less than perfect.

Gabriel also disrespects and will backstab all his allies. Has enslaved 2 kwami's and claims everything he does is for his dead wife, whose corpse he keeps locked away in his basement. He is actively going against her wishes to stay dead and manipulates the love of the women around him, like Natalie, to move forward with his evil plans.

Lastly when he says he does it all for his wife, he's lying. Because the when he has the opportunity to go back in time and save his wife, or fight Ladybug, he actively chooses the latter.

He constantly terrorizes Paris, actively makes situations worst for people to make more akumatized victims, destroys property, all while he hides away in the shadows. Then finally in season 5, when he is confronted by Ladybug, he is given the opportunity to reform and really think about what he did. To reflect on all he's done. He uses a moment of vulnerability and weakness to manipulate Marinette and treats her like the puppet she's named after. His last act of the show is stealing the Miraculous, using the cat and Ladybug to destroy and recreate the world how he wills, where he's the hero and no one knows he's the villain, and his son who he abused for 5 seasons and now has left parentless, now sees him as a hero.

[presidentdisastraofgallifrey]

Gallifrey Relisten Lists: Series 1

Romana, Destroyer of Worlds

Her backup plan if negotiating fails is to blow up the entire planet of Gryben and everyone (the Time Lords trapped) on it. Initially she wanted to lower the barrier and give some people a chance to run, but she doesn't argue when Brax vetoes this (Weapon of Choice)

Insists that they stop the theft of the timeonic fusion device from its testing despite knowing what will happen, allowing Minyos to be destroyed without even trying to find a way to save it (The Inquiry)

Romana is Suicidal

Plan A involves waltzing into a charged situation and offering herself to the terrorists in exchange for diffusing the timeonic fusion device. And, yes, this is a trick, but it's a very risky one and still counts because the first idea that came into her head involved her own potential death (Weapon of Choice)

Plan B involves having Brax blow up the entire planet to prevent the device going off, with her on it to prevent a war starting about it (Weapon of Choice)

Plan C involves sitting there and waiting for said device to detonate a few feet away without trying to diffuse it, betting that it's actually a bluff and will never go off (Weapon of Choice)

Says "all of us are willing to die to defend our beliefs" as if it's a pure truth of the universe (Weapon of Choice)

Casually refers to both herself and Napenthe as martyrs (Weapon of Choice)

Is faced with a "robot" attempting to kill her and just completely forgets to run away in favor of asking it questions about its anomalous behavior (Square One)

Runs off completely alone to confront Brax about his alleged dangerous criminal behavior, refusing to allow someone to come along and protect her (The Inquiry)

Later that same day, demands to accompany Brax to fight servitors (though they didn't then know who they'd have to fight then) and stop the theft, again risking her life (The Inquiry)

Parks her tardis in front of a speeding train to frighten Andred-Torvald into telling her the truth, and I truly don't think she knew if she would go through with it if this plan failed (A Blind Eye)

Leela is Smarter than the Time Lords

She's the only one paying enough attention to notice the Monan spy in the Free Time movement (Weapon of Choice)

Memorizes door codes after being told by K9 once (Square One)

Workes out the logical person to be in the robot costume very quickly (Square One)

Annoys and needles Narvin into very nearly giving away information he doesn't want to (The Inquiry)

Honorable mention: despite drowning in grief and betrayal, is the only one to walk away from that train in a dignified and adult manner in a story where Romana nearly kills a bunch of people and meets with a known criminal, Torvald tries to break the timeline on purpose, Andred commits identity fraud, and every just generally behaves badly (A Blind Eye)

Everyone is Autistic

Romana relies on her emotional support Braxiatel to help her regulate her emotions and initial reactions. I don't think she realizes they're doing this, but he clearly does and has clearly done it often enough before to be unconcerned about whether she'll listen (Weapon of Choice)

I'm not going to record every instance of this because it's (far too) constant, but Leela processes complex concepts through familiar metaphor, which is why Romana automatically explains things to her like that (Weapon of Choice)

Despite knowing the plan and understanding subterfuge, it takes Leela a moment to process that K-9 has shifted from his usual self to the evil persona he's playing (Weapon of Choice)

Leela assumes a new situation will work the same as it has in the past and she doesn't need to think through the logistics, thus assuming that Torvald will pay for the meat she grabs (Weapon of Choice)

None of them can lie worth a damn when put on the spot (Weapon of Choice, but also just...all of it)

Leela takes a long time to understand space sex work euphemisms despite understanding the concept of space sex work (Square One)

Leela struggles (again) to get in character despite understanding why she should lie (Square One)

Narvin...uh...*gestures vaguely to Narvin's entire deal and all attempts at diplomacy* (Square One, but also always)

Leela doesn't understand why she should follow inquiry protocols when they're redundant, such as introducing herself (The Inquiry)

Narvin decides never to trust Brax because "he disagreed with me once"

Even when openly contemptuous of a person, Narvin is awkward and uncomfortable when dealing with emotions, his or theirs (The Inquiry)

Romana, Leela, and Narvin all stick very strictly to their own moral codes and get very upset when something or someone doesn't match up (The Inquiry, but also always)

Romana telling the conductor that she's President of Gallifrey is such an autistic mannerism. My guess is it's a holdover from when she didn't understand that aliens wouldn't get it that became an inside joke with herself (A Blind Eye)

Narvin is so incredibly proud that Andred found no conspiracy, that he runs a squeaky clean...black ops spy agency. Do you think he understands that he is literally the only CIA agent this determined to follow the rules? (A Blind Eye)

Leela's "we must protect even those who disgust us" is along the same lines (A Blind Eye)

[seilnakyle]

heeyyy, I know you're busy, so feel free to answer this whenever you want/can. why don't you like gcs? i don't read their comics so I'm curious

Hiii thank you for asking 💗

There is so much, “Gotham City Sirens” has ruined the complexity of their relationships with Selina, prior to the New 52, and is pretty much an industry plant friendship/team that made everything less interesting and usually mischaracterizes or abuses Selina for it. The name and playboy esq covers are the only iconic thing about it, and for some unfortunate reason it’s created the false perception that Harley, Ivy and Selina were friends and had always been, when in reality, before the New 52, they were NEVER friends.

Catwoman's first interaction with Harley involved her slicing Selina’s throat, drugging her, and trying to get her to kill Jim Gordon. For no particular reason.

Catwoman (1993) #82

Catwoman (1993) #83

Of course during the original Hush, Poison Ivy brainwashes Catwoman and forces her to commit crimes for her which leads to Selina almost getting killed by Killer Croc, then Harley Quinn shoots her 😭

Hush #3

THIS is toxic yuri.

I don’t hate the concept of Catwoman occasionally teaming up with rouges, or being friendly with them, but Ivy and Selina had real moral conflict too. No matter how far back we go in Selina’s history, even as a villain, she isn’t down with hurting innocent people. Harley and Ivy have different morals.

One of the more interesting Poison Ivy/Catwoman stories is from Catwoman (1993) #57, set during No Man’s Land. Where we see that theres a lot about Ivy that Selina admires, but she still wont let her hurt Gotham.

I mean Is this not already far more interesting than the “bestie” dynamic??

Following this and Hush, their relationship was shown to be on bad terms in the beginning of GCS. The “partnership” between the sirens was always meant to be temporary because Poison Ivy and Catwoman didn’t trust each other and Selina had ulterior motives for teaming up in the first place. Not to mention this whole book is just “Catwoman gets tortured, drugged, brainwashed and betrayed” 😭

But for some reason people think it’s a peak concept and want them all to be bestie weed smoking girlfriends bc they don’t have any context except the name and sexy covers. Who needs complexity?

The abuse is non stop in Sirens. Harley and Ivy torture Selina over Batman’s identity

Gotham City Sirens (2009) #2

Then she get’s kidnapped and mentally abused AGAIN for Bruce’s identity by Shrike and an old student of Ra’s Al Ghul. Because of this, Talia manages to convince an extremely gullible Zatanna, who was already in trouble for messing with memories, that the CATWOMAN the greatest thief in the world, is too easy to capture and needs to have the identity of the only man she loves (who VOLUNTARILY told her mind u) forcibly taken from her.

No, Talia doesn’t actually gaf abt “protecting Bruce’s identity” all of a sudden. This is specifically about eliminating a romantic rival and using a member of the JL to do it. Stupid.

Hating Gotham Sirens truly isn’t enough I need Selina get a gun and kill all the bitches in this book 😭

It wasn’t enough that they already tried to destroy ALL of Selina’s decades of character development by saying she was only a good person because Zatanna “fixed” her, they have to go ahead and rip away her memories of Bruce. Even the retcon of the spell only working because of Selina’s already existing good potential makes me FURIOUS bc what do you MEAN “She just couldn’t?” Without the mind theft???

CATWOMAN STOLE THINGS! And was NEVER on an evil team. WHY is she in the same conversation as villains like DR LIGHT my god why the fuck would the justice league want to mind wipe a young thief from Gotham this shit is so stupid

Anyway Zatanna, goes through with it again….

Zatanna then finds a memory of Selina and Talia that leads her to discovering she’s been played. About time.

They scrap for a second and Zatanna zaps her like a bug, Talia breaks her nose, Zatanna punches her in the face, and then Talia randomly fires missiles at Selina 😭 I hate this book man

It exploded and we see Ivy and Harley pretend to care for a second before it’s revealed she’s alive.

Zatanna returns Selina’s memories. But also offers to wipe her mind of Bruce with her consent this time. Selina rejects the offer, and things end rough between the two of them. Selina should have at least been allowed to curse everyone out tbh

Near the end of the series, we get to a point of what I think a good representation of the Sirens relationships should be like. Harley and Selina bond briefly over betrayal and love and are friendly enough. Selina and Ivy have a contentious alliance that ultimately breaks down.

After everything she’s been through, Selina “betrays” her “friends” and has them put in Arkham. Ivy is pissed and breaks herself and Harley out to kill Selina for revenge. All of this culminates into Selina explaining that She is the only reason the Bat hasn’t dealt with them himself and shes done nothing but try to help them, and we get this moment where Selina herself explains why “Gotham sirens” never made sense and was NEVER gonna work.

It ends with Selina once again dying on the cross for them as she lets them get away after attacking her and distracts Batman. If these two are supposed to be Selina’s “weed smoking girlfriends” as fanon says, then she is in an abusive ass relationship 😭

And modern Sirens content? Poison Ivy has been so defanged, Harley is Harley, and god help any character written around her, and Selina get’s mischaracterized as a selfish woman only out for herself (hq show Selina) While dc tries to give the anti-hero “villain with a heart” treatment to Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn.

Now apparently they’re going on space adventures in the new siren book. We’ve already known Dc has lost the plot when writing for Harley, but what are Ivy and Selina doing in space?! Why do we have to pause Catwoman’s already struggling solo for this slop that absolutely no one will be reading for the story 😭 It benefits none of these characters and only serves to regress Ivy and Catwoman once actually compelling relationship more.

Gotham City Sirens, they can never make me like you.

[starrclown]

Something I will never u derstand about Macaque is the one sense of hypocrisy that I will not forget.

Okay so we all remember that line that Macaque said in season 4, he said something along the lines of Wukongs a obsessive demon that runs away from his problems.

You know what my favorite part of that sense is?

MACAQUE THEN RUNS AWAY AFTER THAT

Look I get it. They had a fight, emotions are running high and you need to take a breather. But WHY would you not come back??? If you think Wukong has problems communicating his problems and opening up (which he does) then why the hell would you not stay there!

This isn't even me saying that Macaque should just chill with him under the mountain for the 500 years, that's stupid. But like, if you think Wukong won't want to talk to you, why wouldn't you stay in the place he can't leave?

Like that's the perfect place to talk about your issues. He can't go anywhere! Even in the beginning if he doesn't want to open up, I'm willing to be he would! Macaque was his best friend and his warrior, if we're made to believe that Macaque knew Wukong better than anyone then I'm willing to bet Macaque would be the one he would talk to.

Like do you have no questions? Hey, why do you feel the need to gain so much power? Hey, why were you so prominent to go for Azures idea? Was it because you admired Azure or were you just adamant on taking The Jade Emperor down?

Like you think Macaque would want to stick by Wukong right now in a time of need. (Like a Warrior would. How can you suck this hard at a job YOU gave yourself.)

Again I'm not saying Macaque should just chill with Wukong under the mountain for 509 years. But like, periodically pop in. See if he's willing to talk, maybe bring him a peach so he doesn't have to eat the iron and hot metal stuff. I don't know, if you have feelings get them out now.

Like I understand why Macaque is upset but I find it weird he doesn't ask what happened on WUKONG'S side. Like are you not curious? About anything?

I'm totally willing to exept that I'm forgetting details because I don't even remember that scene all that well but I just find it so funny that Macaque prides himself on being the warrior that stood by Sun Wukong's side but then the one major time Wukong just needed him beside him he dips. Like never comes back.

Ya know until he eats one of Wukong's children, passes it out to the other monkies, then proceeded to commit identity theft and almost get Wukongs family killed. Silly guy.

- ⭐️StarClown⭐️

[lilolilyr]

Parker's POV of Leverage season 4 episode 15, <1k, G, for the May Trope Mayhem prompt 'Bachelor Auction'! I have a bit more planned for this fic and once it's all posted I'll compile it into one work on Ao3, for now have a little scene here on tumblr! The event is run by @duckprintspress, thanks for organizing :)

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Parker doesn't know why Sophie corners her before the Bachelor auction to ask her whether she 'is alright with it'. Hardison has already asked her permission, but that's normal, that's because he's always asking her things like that even though it's usually fine anyway. Sophie though, that's a bit weird.

"Why wouldn't I be fine?"

Parker hides another knife in the sash of her dress. It's a bit impractical, only one shoulder strap, and she has to rearrange some of her usual formalwear hiding spots, but she makes it work. At least she can always work more hairpins into her half-up-do, and the little lockpicks are so useful for so many things...

"I know you and Hardison have been... going out for a while now," Sophie starts again. Huh, Parker had almost forgotten that she was there.

"We don't go out, usually. Unless it's with the team. We just stay in and Hardison builds stuff for me to take apart or we watch TV. Or both... Usually both, actually. Did you know there's a bird that commits identity theft murders?" That had been in a documentary on hummingbirds last night. Parker had felt kind of proud of the 'murderius little floofballs', as Hardison had called them.

"I - no, I didn't know that. Thank you for telling me, Parker."

Parker nods, twists around to look at her back in the mirror, making sure none of the things at her waist show through the fabric.

"I just wanted to make sure... Well. Hardison will have to flirt with the women in the auction, and then with whoever bids on him," Sophie continues.

Parker nods. "Yes. Good thing it's men being auctioned off. I wouldn't want to do that." She frowns a bit. "I'm not good at flirting with strangers."

"There are other things you're good at, Parker. And you have been getting better at grifting."

Smiling, Parker twirls a little in front of the mirror. Sophie is right. She hasn't even stabbed any marks for a while, well, unless they actually needed to be stabbed a bit.

"And you're alright with Hardison flirting with women that aren't you?" Sophie finally asks.

Ah, this is what this is about. "That's for finding the mark. If Hardison flirts with people except for me and Eliot when it's not for a job, I might stab him a bit though."

"That's..." Sophie trails off.

Parker kind of wonders about what part of what she said has confused Sophie so much, but she gets distracted by the shiny dress Sophie has put on. It's not real gold, she can tell, but it looks pretty good for just being fabric. Almost worth stealing.

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[girltakovic]

rae i'm so sorry but i do mean actual legal ssn :(

i'll explain how, but first i should explain how SSNs are structured: every american's social security number is formatted as "AAA-GG-SSSS," where each set of numbers corresponds, respectively, to the location (or "area" in office parlance) of the social security office that issued your SSN, the batch ("group") in which your SSN was processed at that office in a given period of time, and finally the serial number of your SSN within that group.

so, for example, if someone was born in an area of the US that uses the (unused!) "666" area number, their SSN was processed in the fifth batch of the cycle, and was the 891st application processed within the fifth group, their SSN would be 666-09-0891.

[the "09" in the group number comes from the fact that application groups aren't processed in numerical order. i won't explain how or why because this is already getting long-winded, but here's the social security admin's explanation. all this to say, "09" is the fifth group in the sequence.]

from there, if someone knew the location, date, and time at which you were born, they could, theoretically, figure out your SSN. if they know the city you were born in, they can get the area number. if they know the date and time, they can figure out the group and serial numbers as well, if they do a bit of digging.

and birth charts, of course, contain all of this information! astrological hooey aside, a birth chart is essentially just a map of the position of the stars at a given place and time. for example, let's say paul allen posts his birth chart online, and it looks like this:

to start, we know paul is a virgo. maybe that explains why he was so preoccupied with the copies of the style section all over patrick's floor! the dates corresponding to the sun in virgo are august 23 - september 22, so we know paul's birthday falls somewhere in this range. but we can get much more specific!

paul's "first house" or "rising" sign (listed as "I ASC" on this chart) is also in virgo. i will admit that i have no idea what a rising sign is supposed to mean or imply from an astrological perspective, but from a practical perspective it indicates which constellation is crossing the eastward horizon at the time of your birth. so if someone standing at the exact location and time at which paul was born would have seen virgo crossing the eastern horizon, we can do some math to figure out that he was born just after 7 in the morning on september 11, 1974 in new york city. this, of course, requires the ability and wherewithal to deduce times and locations based on the positions of the stars, but it is doable with as little as a calculator, an almanac, and a little motivation. people have been making maps out of star charts for a really long time! just ask my good friend tuunbaq!

with all this info in mind, we can determine the area number of paul's SSN based on the fact that he was born in NYC, and we can also determine his SSN's group and serial numbers based on the fact that we know he was born around 7am on september 11. now instead of forcing him to listen to hip to be square before cutting him to ribbons, we can open a credit card in his name and ruin him financially!

all this to say, even if something seems as innocuous as a star chart or a silly nickname based on the street you grew up on combined with your mom's maiden name, it's always a good idea to think about what you could deduce from this information before you put it online. identity theft happens to a lot of people, and making stuff like this available on your social media profiles makes it a hell of a lot easier for someone to create a pretty good facsimile of you. after all, they know things that banks assume only you would know, like your SSN and the answers to your security questions.

but of course all of that is kind of moot now, since a background check company just got hacked and exposed over 3 million discrete SSNs. sorry if this is how you found out :(

i hate astrology for a whole host of personal reasons but i do love reciting people's social security numbers back to them when they show me their birth charts

[cupcraft]

Ppl who don't watch house pick the false fact

[kittenshift-17]

hey I have a request if you still do them. Could you write a short dramione fic where Hermione sneaks into the Slytherin house pretending to be someone else (maybe w polyjuicd?) and Draco uncovers hee true identity?

It's the books that give her away.

Draco's attentttion snags on the figure sequestered in the corner of the common room, trying to blend in, and he immediately knows that despite the face she wears, that figure is not Flora Shafiq.

His money is on Granger.

No one else in their right mind would build a veritable book tower to hide behind in the corner of the Slytherin Common Room, especially not Flora, whom Draco happens to know is dyslexic and so hates reading on principle (she's still young enough to bluster and pretend reading is easy and beneath her rather than admitting to the disorder and actively working on her reading comprehension skills) and thus, would never be caught surrounded by that many books if you paid her. Draco's also fairly certain Granger has been spying on them all for weeks now, though he's not sure why, but the way "Flora" is eavesdropping reminds him a bit too much of the curly haired muggleborn to buy the performance.

It's easy to convince the few rowdy remaining occupants of the common room that bed would be preferable to remaining down here - perks of having rich parents feared by most, he thinks sarcastically. When Goyle lumbers down the stairs toward the dormitories, Draco gets to his feet and saunters over.

"Learn anything interesting, Granger?" He drawls in her direction.

"Flora" knocks over one of the precarious book stacks with a squeak.

"What?" She asks nervously. "Oh, it's you, Malfoy. Was there something I can help you with?"

Flora would never say that.

Draco pounces the second she gets to her feet, his hand gripping her shoulder tight while his wand tip finds her throat menacingly, and he forces her around and up against the nearest wall. She squeals in surprise, batting at his arm to try and knock him away to no avail.

"Tell me why you're impersonating a dyslexic third year, Granger," he hisses in her face.

She blinks up at him, well over a foot shorter than him given the age of the girl she's pretending to be.

"Granger!?" She huffs indignantly. "I'll have you know..."

She trails off when Draco digs his wand into her neck a little harder.

"Don't play dumb with me, Witch," he hisses. "We both know it doesn't suit you."

She blinks again before huffing and seeming to shrink in on herself a little bit.

"How did you know it was me?" She sighs, pushing his wand away. Draco allows it only because she's admitted her deception.

"Flora can't read," Draco informs her. "What are you doing here, Granger? Do you have a death wish?"

"She... oh, that's why the words were all wonky," Granger says in realisation, eyes widening like they do when she knows the answer to a problem in class. "I thought I'd bungled the potion for a bit there."

"Tell me why you're here before I hex you, Granger."

"It's none of your business."

"Except that you're spying on me."

"Not everything that happens around here is about you, Malfoy."

Draco highly doubts that. He glares at her meaningfully and she lifts her chin, stubborn as ever.

"I'm throwing you out of here," Draco decides, hauling on her stolen robes and dragging the slight girl over to the common room entrance. "As prefect, it's my duty to protect my house from unwanted interlopers. And I'm giving you detention with Snape for the misuse of prohibited potions, impersonating a fellow student, endangering a fellow student, theft..."

"Theft?!" She squawks indignantly. "I committed now such crime."

"No?" He asks. "So you just happened to possess an outfit that perfectly fits Flora Shafiq, adorned with the Slytherin house crest? And I suppose you make a habit of trading in expensive and highly volatile potion ingredients that cannot be purchased by under-age wizards without parental consent or sponsorship from a Master?"

She glares at him and holds her tongue.

"As I was saying, detention, Granger," Draco sneers triumphantly as he expels her from the common room none too gently, watching her flail when he gives her a hearty shove out the door.

"You're awful," she informs him rulde when she rights herself.

"Said the pot to the kettle," he retorts childishly. "I'd better not catch you sneaking in here again, Granger. You won't like what happens if I do."

She fluffs her robes and stomps her foot furiously before she spins away, stamping off down the corridor, muttering extremely unkind things about him and his lineage the entire way. Draco sends a stinging jinx after her, but she rounds the corner before it can collide and he huffs, annoyed, as he returns to the common room and makes his way to bed, wondering all the while what Granger could possibly be trying to accuse him and his friends of this time.

[hybridothello]

Meows.

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[rabbitsonthemoon]

Reasons Mephiles is The Villain of Villains:

Deep and deranged evil laugh

Bibbety hoppity your shadow is now my property

Walks on in-built stilettos and owns it

Shh, don't point out how convoluted his evil schemes are. He doesn't take kindly to criticism.

Could fit in your pocket

Blue fire = portable marshmallow roasting

Murdered Sonic once

Comes with atmospheric sound effects

Infinite cloning glitch

if you bop his quills you can play him like a triangle (musical instrument)

Easily entertained (suffering)

Too old for time out (Scepter of Darkness)

Committed identity theft

Nobody knows what the fuck he is. He doesn't know what the fuck he is, he's just here to ruin everyone's day, forever. /eldritch abomination