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Look, as much as I love celebrating Caesar’s death as the next Tumblrina, there’s an element to this that I think we need to address. About Caesar, about his assassination, about our reaction to it.
It didn’t work.
Killing Julius Caesar didn’t stop Rome from becoming an Empire. If anything it expedited the process. Because all the assassination did was turn Caesar into a martyr for his family and followers to turn into a standard to rally behind. The Republic fell, the Empire rose, and Caesar’s Assassination was the tipping point of it all.
In fact, there’s evidence Caesar had knowledge of the planned Assassination and went anyway, knowing what his death would turn him into. But why?
Fascists don’t get turned on by their followers when they die. They get turned on when they look weak.
By the time of his death, Caesar was sick. There’s evidence that he was incontinent and beginning to have mental problems. All in all, things that made him look weak.
I can’t say what would have happened in Brutus and the Senate had stayed their hand, but history would not have turned out the same way. Certainly, Caesar would not have been turned into a martyr with his assassination. If his followers had seen Caesar as he was, a shambling, dying, sick old man, would that have turned them on him? I can’t say.
The assassination of Julius Caesar isn’t a happy event, it’s a cautionary tale. I’m not saying this to ruin our Ides of March celebration, but I feel it needs to be said. Make Dictators look weak, and then stab them.
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matan4il · 13 days
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Daily update post:
I have to start this one with the sad news that the hero who saved others by stopping the terrorist yesterday, despite being stabbed in several places (including in the neck), has passed away. His name was Uri Moyal, he was 51 years old, he leaves behind a wife and three kids. Yesterday, the number of wounded was still not fully clear, today it's confirmed that in addition to Uri, the terrorist managed to injure 2 more people. In the pic below you can see Uri holding up a lifetime achievement award. At his funeral today, his daughter Sapir mourned him: "Thank you for being a dad, who was also a teacher for life. There is no one who knew you and didn't fall in love with you."
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The German press has reported (so far I've only managed to find this English source) that this week, the antisemitic, genocidal slogan "From the river to the sea" has been found painted in Arabic on the site of the 1972 kidnapping and massacre of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists. I'll point out that recently, the grandson of one of the murdered athletes was attacked (he had several bones in his face broken) in Berlin by an Arab anti-Israel activist.
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A terrorist attack was prevented from happening, when two Palestinians, carrying a big knife and a sword, were arrested on their way to a Jewish community in the middle of the night. They're currently being questioned.
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After Canada and Sweden, now Australia has also announced that it will renew its funding of UNRWA. I may sound like a broken record, but this is morally broken. They KNOW that UN agency is complicit in countless crimes of helping anti-Jewish hate and violence, the IDF evidence uncovered thanks to the war are just the tip of the iceberg when we're actually talking about decades of complicity, and resuming the funding without any changes, without even an investigation into this being completed, means these countries don't even care about looking as if they care about Jewish and Israeli lives. It's beyond ccontemptible. So. Canada, Sweden and now Australia, whenever these countries' heads tell you that they care about human rights, know that this includes, "but not for Jews."
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And because I mentioned the long, long complicity of UNRWA (and many in charge of or dealing with it), here's the CEO of the NGO UN Watch explaining it better than most can, because they have been working for years on calling attention to the wrongdoing of UNRWA:
There's this common lie spread by the anti-Israel crowd, that everything was just peachy between Jews and Muslim in the Middle East, until Zionism came along. This is a blatant erasure of repeated discrimination, persecution, forced conversions, expulsions and massacres perpetrated against Jews living in Muslim majority countries for centuries. The ethnic cleansing of the entire Middle East of Jews (other than in Israel) is only the climax of that long history of antisemitism under Muslim rule, exactly like the Holocaust is just the climax of the long history of antisemitism under Christian European rule. And yesterday, I came across another reminder.
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I was listening to an interview with Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an American rabbi, about the discrimination he had recently suffered during a trip to Saudi Arabia. I'd read the headlines, but hearing him tell it in his own words (in amazing Hebrew, might I add) really drove it home. He was heading a US delegation meant to inspect the state of religious freedom in Saudi Arabia, when he gets a phone call from the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, telling him that the Saudis have laws which must be respected, and which dictate that no one but "the members of our religion" (meaning, Muslims) can walk around publicly displaying signs of their religious identity. In other words, Rabbi Cooper was told to remove his kippah (the head cover religious Jews wear). Rabbi Cooper asked the official on the phone, whether he was sure, and tried arguing against this decision. When the demand was reaffirmed, Rabbi Cooper responded that he wouldn't take off his kippah for the Soviets decades ago, and he wouldn't be taking it off for the Saudis, either. That meant he had to leave, and so the delegation had to end its visit. This isn't a small incident of anti-Jewish discrimination in the 1930's, in an Arab country where no one would even bat an eye at that. This is a Saudi official, speaking to an American Jew, in 2024, during an official visit, meant to check the state of religious freedom in that country, while Saudi Arabia is doing its best to present a more tolerant, modern and progressive image for the world. And this still happened. There is a long tradition of antisemitism in the Middle East, it doesn't simply disappear even when Jews were forced to, and the attempts to deny it with the excuse of "But Zionism!" are antisemitic, too.
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This is Hadar Gadol.
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He's an Israeli author, a practitioner of alternative medicine, and as a reservist, he serves as a casualty officer (an army official who lets a family know that their loved one was killed in combat, in Israel a casualty officer also continues to work with and support the family after the initial notification, kind of like a social worker appointed by the army). In January, IDF soldier Mark Kononovich was killed. A few weeks ago, as party of taking care of the family, Hadar took Mark's dad Alex on a tour of the last army post where Mark and the friends who died with him had slept. In the middle of that, Hadar got a heart attack. Alex happens to be a doctor, he recognized the signs, administered some first aid, and made sure Hadar would be taken to the hospital to receive the treatment he needed. This is Hadar after being released from the hospital, visiting Alex to thank him (you can also see Mark's younger brother in the pic):
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During this visit, Alex told Hadar, "You took our case as very close to you, you felt it like we do, very close to the heart." I have no doubt their bond is gonna be there for years to come. Hadar is actually not the first Israeli casualty officer I've heard of, who collapsed and was in need of hospitalization since Oct 7, just the latest. I think that in a way says something about how acutely Israelis feel the pain of the massacre, whether we personally lost someone or not.
(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)
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sapphic-agent · 1 month
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I'll rank these from least to greatest. The Snowball/Hairpiece moment: Disqualified for being an attempt at "humor." We can't really take the universe seriously if literally no one cares about the main character getting stabbed in the brain. WTF even is Bakugo's character if he's actually the one to have injured Izuku the worst in his life? It's not AFO or Tomura who put Izuku closest to death, it's apparently Bakugo for no reason other than jealousy. Apparently we're supposed to see this as Tsundere slapstick humor. Confronting The LOV: This is a continuation of the finals against All Might and another reason this guy isn't smart. He learned nothing since then. Bakugo is simply a moron who, despite being able to fly under his own power, couldn't be bothered to use this to save himself even when he knew they were after him. They were aware at this point what Nomu were and how they were made from people. While AFO didn't do this, he could have given one of Tomura's minions an ability that specifically countered Bakugo's and made it impossible for him to fight back. This wasn't required at all since Bakugo let himself get yoinked by Compress, but it's another reason he's a bonehead. Way to put everyone in danger saving your useless ass, you liability. I like the irony of Bakugo being exactly what Aizawa called Izuku on the first day of school. Battle Trials: This is the first moment of the universe bending over backwards to shield this guy from consequences and also twist the characters present to talk about how awesome he is. The writing was on the wall here that you can do everything he did and not get in trouble or reprimanded at all. That the number 1 hero can watch you nearly manslaughter someone and he doesn't give a shit. Witch Hunt And Apology: This one is also bad, but again because of the Bakugo aura that needs to bend other characters to make him look good. Hawks, All Might and Endeavor were aware Izuku was their last hope. Which is why Hawks and Endeavor are not constantly at Izuku's side and instead have time to be at UA while he's running on no sleep. Despite also being targets of the League who certain members will never rest until they've killed them, they let the savior child wander around by himself until he eventually loses to Dictator. Yes, Izuku was beaten. He lost. The story needed to make everyone involved an idiot so Class A can show up and rescue him. Actually, I'd say everything about this was the huge failure of the writing in general. The author doesn't give a shit about most of these worthless fodder children. So he needs a fight scene to show them doing SOMETHING while also attempting to call back to a bond he hadn't built. And then Bakugo gives a ridiculously half assed, victim blaming apology that wasn't needed at all, which Izuku doesn't respond to.
It doesn't matter if Bakugo apologizes to Izuku because we KNOW he's already forgiven him. We've known that since the summer camp arc. Izuku would not have screamed like that for someone he resented at all. He wouldn't have gone to save him if he still harbored negative feelings for him. Izuku has saint like patience (and the author doesn't allow him to be mad at Bakugo) so his only interest is them being friends again. Their entire relationship is Izuku trying his hardest to connect to this empty, spoiled brat and getting punished for it. This "apology" is another box checked on the list. An event that had to happen because the story built up to it, but the animosity between them is completely one sided. I rank this higher than the battle trials for how it degrades everyone's characters that this had to happen. Izuku became pants on the head stupid specifically so he could be saved by these fodder kids, because he's so powerful that he could casually clown them all if he wasn't exhausted to the point of passing out. Literally all of his support evaporates because we need him to be isolated. God, imagine if AFO wasn't equally stupid and he bothered to send some buddies with Dictator so he wasn't acting alone. Imagine if he bothered to recruit Muscular and had them working as a team. RIP Class A. But AFO is allergic to victory. Swan Dive: This moment escalated him from a typical high school bully to a vile little brat. The story could have gone some interesting places with this. A problem MHA has is that the author doesn't want the heroes to be bad people. So we have Endeavor pointed at as being the one bad hero. Bakugo is the one bad hero student. Endeavor doesn't have an entire building of side kicks who are just as bad as he is. Bakugo's friends at UA aren't also entitled, ruthless brats who accept him as one of their own. None of the UA kids are bitchy, catty, backstabbing, conniving, or really have any negative traits. Even if Mineta and Kaminari are perverts, they step up when the chips are down and their bad traits aren't treated with any real seriousness. They're all infinitely forgiving, positive people who are super nice. So if we looked at this as part of seeing how privileged kids in this world behave and there were more of them once Izuku got into UA, but he doesn't get bullied because he's powerful, then it works as a part of the world building. Instead, we see now that this is a Bakugo problem. He was a rotten little brat who bullied and hurt kids for years for....no reason. We see LOADS of other kids with powerful quirks who would have had legions of dick riders hyping them up, and yet it's only Bakugo who acts like this. So it's one of the worst things he's done, in retrospect, because he's apparently always been what the author calls an "Abusive Egotist" and only stopped because Izuku got a power.
Deku Vs Kacchan 2: This is another example of Bakugo's incredible self centered nature. His "friend" is riding a high and of course Bakugo has to make everything about himself. Fuck Izuku for saving this little bitch boy's life, am I right? Fuck him for never telling anyone about his previous abuse and ruining his career before it started. Honestly, Izuku had All Might in his corner and could have dropped the hammer on Bakugo any time he felt like it, but he instead decided to show mercy. His reward is this horse shit. Now he has to emotionally validate this narcissist. Sure, you did end All Might. In retrospect, you should be thankful the League had such piss poor operational security and AFO decided to stay and fight. You should also be thankful AFO didn't chain you to his body as meat armor while he fought All Might, guaranteeing you and All Might would die. In all the permutations of ways this could have turned out if the villains didn't act like they huff glue every day, this is the best outcome. But of course, the fact that he and his friends got out of that with no one dead is irrelevant to him. It's all about his feelings. I'd hate this kid even if he never bullied anyone a day in his life. He's fucking disgusting to me. We're wasting screen time on this flat, empty character who doesn't even get his own villains. So much of this series has been spent on this dickhead and his garbage "redemption." Fuck. The payoff isn't worth it! He's intolerable even when he's trying to be nice! Bakugo pisses all over All Might and the OFA users: Fuck All Might, am I right? Fuck the people who fought for justice and freedom from the ancient Japanese Boogeyman. Fuck the only reason we don't live in a mafia state where he controls all resources. I can guarantee in such a world, Bakugo would be one of AFO's enforcers, not a resistance fighter. Because he only joins the winning teams.
If Bakugo was Yoichi, he'd have never complained about his brother killing people and would have raised both middle fingers to the air when he became co-emperor of the world.
I rank this the highest because this completes All Might's humiliation, and he's not even allowed to slap this little bitch across the face for mocking people who died to ensure everyone else could survive.
Interesting ranking. I didn't think anyone would actually put insulting the past OFA users at first. But it makes sense considering how he bitched and whined and threw a fit over not being chosen, then insulted the predecessors. All Might should have told him to stfu about his mother figure
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freelanceexorcist · 25 days
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FFVII Remake spoilers under the cut.
So I’m probably as caught up as I’m going to be at this time, so here are some hot takes all in one place.
*So “the you know I killed her” line seems to have been spoken by a version of Sephiroth that Cloud is hallucinating, at least that’s what I get from how he just appears and disappears and no one else seems to acknowledge that he’s there. Yeah, Cloud's head is a dumpster fire.
*Seems like the dev team took a big, fat shit on Team Ore Sephiroth, hyping up what a great guy he used to be and making us hope he might have a chance only to make him even more cartoonishly evil than he was in the original game. Fuck you for that. I'm sure the purists are squealing with glee right now, though. Fuck them, too.
*The Glenn impersonation though? *chef’s kiss* Now that was awesome. Sephiroth dipping his toe in the political intrigue waters, declaring war on Shinra and verbally wailing on Rufus was a pleasure to behold. Poignant, too, that he’s taking the form of the first friend he ever had, a friend that Rufus cold-bloodedly shot in the back. You really are a little bitch, Rufus, and Sephiroth wants to make sure you know that.
*Yeah, there's bad blood between those two that goes way back. The way Sephiroth just seethed at Rufus and the way Rufus pumped bullet after bullet into the black cloak that was his meat suit, still pulling the trigger after the gun was empty. Yeah, Rufus doesn't have some noble goal when it comes to Sephiroth, he's just fucking pissed at him. It's personal on both ends of that one.
*Maybe the old man paid more attention to Sephiroth than he ever did to his actual kid and Rufus is mighty sore (and jealous) over that. Maybe he's pissed that the glory he craved went to Sephiroth instead, who didn't even want it (yeah, Rufus, we know why dictators throw massive military parades for themselves). Maybe Sephiroth is resentful of Rufus because, all things considered, he got a relatively normal childhood while Sephiroth had to suffer under Hojo and was chucked onto a battlefield when he was just 15.
*And I'm gonna need to know more about how the trooper that Sephiroth couldn't save in the river turned into Zack from Cloud's point of view.
*So why did Sephiroth save Cloud from the Midgar Zolom? Wouldn’t it have been in his best interests to let him die, then he could get on with his dastardly plan relatively unhindered?
*Tseng gets stabbed right through and just walks it off. Damn, son.
*Yeah, I'm disappointed that they just made Sephiroth a generic villain to be defeated so you can save the day. But whatever version of him is trolling the shit out of Rufus? I'd follow that one to Hell and back.
*Man, I’m really gonna need those Japanese-speaking folks to chime in on what pronoun he’s using at any given time. *lights up the Bat Signal*
*This confusing-ass story is giving me a headache. I’m gonna stop now and just say
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discount-limeade · 1 year
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Slipknot: A Review
This is a JOKE. That being Said.....
Conrad's Ratings On How much "Pull Game" The Knot Members Had. (And if they use Spray or Stick Deodorant)
This is 100 Percent Biased. This isn't a News source, welcome to My Hyperfixation.
Pull Game: We're gonna Loosely Define this as, If they could Hypothetically get bitches.
0. Sid Wilson
9/10
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Starting Strong, Sid's got it on Lock. Docking One Point Because The Hyperfixations can Be DETRIMENTAL to getting bitches and Some people might not think Transformers are Cool.
Spray: Old Spice
1. Joey Jordison
8/10
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Joey was For SURE getting Hoes in the Book. No questions. But this Specific picture (because I chose it), What in the 'Just Crawled out from under the Sink' is he doing.
-1 For Posture, tighten up man. Your neck is about to be at a Permanent Right angle. -1 for, idk I feel like he'd Say some strange shit.
Stick: He puts it on by going through the bottom of his shirt.
2. Paul Gray
7/10
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Personally, LARGE fan of Paul. But we gotta think about this Logically alright. It's 2000, you're approached by this Man, he offers you a Cigarette. You take it OBVIOUSLY, he's just a being Nice.
-1 for possible Off puttingness. -1 Approachability (??). -1 When he lets you hit the bong he tells you it's not that bad and you end up coughing your eye out.
Stick: He looks like he has a Cool Sock Collection.
3. Chris Fehn
9/10
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In our Hearts we all Know this man was a Ten. The eyebrows on His Mask Here are Very Good, which May Cancel out this lost Point.
-1 For Public Masturbation.
Stick: There's a Bite Missing
4. James Root
7/10
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Now, if this was Blonde Jim, 10. I'd Find no reason to criticize, but it's not and this One picture will dictate his Entire Rating.
-1 Gay. Self Explanatory. -1 touched his balls and Wiped his hand on your neck. -1 pissed and didn't wash hands.
Does NOT wear deodorant and if he does it's that Paste organic kind.
5. 133
6/10
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Once Again We All know he's Ten. Love a Strong Silent Guy. You know how this goes though, the picture selected Has Sealed his Fate.
-1 for, is this a school photo??. Update your portfolio. -1 I don't have my shots and those definitely have something. -1 he looks like a Train Guy. -1 beer cooler says 'for the boys'.
Stick. Looks like he tried to finger it.
6. Clown
5/10
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Yo look how Whimsical he is. We got Elderman Shawn here. Physically, jumping this man's bones. Personality wise, he makes me MAD AS FUCK.
-1 if you pulled his hair it would come out in CLUMPS. -1 smells like fish. -1 definitely has a Foot Fetish. But I'm not talking NORMAL foot fetish I mean this man wants to put HIS feet on YOU. -1 says 'Honk Honk' when he grabs your Tits. Fucking YIKES. -1 keeps Muttering to Himself about The Circus, You should probably go...
Stick? It's Somewhere amongst his Things.
7. Mick Thomson
10/10
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Any Day of the Week. He's just Got everything Going Right. Possible only downfall would be How strange his Wrist is Bent up in this pic but I will not Dock him for that.
Stick. He gets the Twin Packs to Share With Crew.
8. Corey Taylor
4/10.
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Before you Say it, Yes, I would. But this isn't about That. This is about the fact that He gets NO BITCHES. And I'm not Talking about the Occasional, I mean this guy has never doesn't even know what Sex IS.
-2 he's COMING UP THE STAIRS FROM HIS DWELLING. -1 eats His own Ear wax. -1 how do you have lice and you only have Maybe 13 Pieces of Hair. -1 there Are Juice Stains around his mouth. -1 ate a mouse.
Spray. He likes to Stab The Cans So they Explode.
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In conclusion, I started Writing this at 4 am. It is now almost Seven. Have a Wonderful rest of your day.
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happy ides of march do you want to stab a roman dictator who's been dead for 2000 years with me today?
Of course!
I don't know about you, but I'd like to start with Caligula 😈
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omniglitch-au · 9 months
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To the og 10: how watchfull of Kevin you were when he clain to change sides during the Highbreed war? I bet it took a while for Wildmutt to stop growling at him
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"...It took some time to get used to his presence, yes."
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"To be honest, I was againts him joining. Logic and past experiences dictated that he'd stab us in the back at the earliest opportunity."
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"But he didn't, right? And now we're all pals! Win-win!"
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"Anyone ever tell you you're way too forgiving, Hot-head?"
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"I mean, I guess it worked out in the end."
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"You have to take risks sometimes."
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"Yep! Sometimes you just gotta.. take the dive!"
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"Ripjaws, that one was forced, even for you."
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"I'd like to go diving!"
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"((protesting whine))"
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momentsofamber · 2 days
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cw: stoned trauma dump; mentions of past suicidal thoughts, religious trauma, physical abuse of an autistic child, dehumanization.
I refuse to bring children into this world with my own reproductive parts because every moment of my own childhood was a living nightmare.
I was not allowed to think, feel, act, or speak for myself. Everything was always someone else's programming, dictated by the "adults" around me; "family", teachers, counselors - someone else's idea of what Right and Wrong were.
Some else's idea of what I could and could not do. How I should feel if I do the thing that I was told not to do even if no one got hurt in the process. How I should feel if I ever even thought for two seconds about the thing I was told not to do as a theoretical because "God is always watching you."
I was taught to feel guilt for my own thoughts and I spent hours laying in bed at night hating myself, wishing I could just go to sleep and never wake up because I was an awful burden that my family didn't deserve to be putting up with.
Pediatricians who wouldn't listen to my mom who swore up and down that her child was autistic but the doctors just kept saying 'no, she expresses herself too well, she CAN'T be autistic' as I literally just had a screaming and crying and clawing and biting at people meltdown and four different doctors had to physically restrain me together to give me a fucking hep-b shot or whatever because all I knew was that I was a fucking terrified child and they wanted to STAB me against my will.
And then at 18 after I'd spent all of those 18 years being molded like a robot to become a cog in the capitalism machine, all of those adults suddenly said, you're no longer a child, you're an adult and now you're expected to act just like we do but also we're not going to tell you how to do it, you just watch what we do and copy it because we already taught you the rest.
Why in any version of reality would I ever want to be responsible for putting another living being through my own trauma? I'm still only just now learning how to let my own inner-child exist as a child in my 30's.
No wonder I've always identified with robots and clones and other non-organic humanoid lifeforms in fictional media.
I was dehumanized by my own caregivers, who also allowed other adults around me to continue the dehumanization, from the moment I was born.
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ofpd · 1 year
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i decided to rewatch emo the musical and compile a list of my favorite quotes in it (these quotes include such amazing qualities as cringyness, iconicness, idiocy, etc)
will you be giving me your lunch money by cash or card
you have real, actual emos here?
it will occur to you that the deformity that jesus gave to you is your security against sex out of wedlock
i just read the bit where cain stabs abel and i'm about to get to the part where god drowns all the sodomites
i'm a science-addicted, sex-educated atheist
theyre only emos
sport is a tool for dictators and fascists
this song doesn't have a name, cause i'm not into labels
you're gonna impregnate everyone, men and women too
i once saw him kiss a man for 7 hours straight, while crying
okay wise guy, do you have any idea how much interest you're accruing? you're about to meet inflation head-on.
do you tongue kiss?
you've got wonderful legs, they're just what legs should be
when we talk it's completely understandable, when we touch it's completely consensual, nothing about our relationship is illegal
your manic depression could just be a bad day
if you're not feeling 100%, you should probably be on medication
back out now, or i'll go antichrist on you
stop bouncing that ball or i'll kill you and your parents
it would be suicide, and not the good kind
i didn't realize jesus had such a big peni—
i use the net for wikipedia and watch porn for the acting parts
how could i inflict you with my burgeoning perversion without putting my body through some physical exertion; you're safe with me
getting laid is probably too mainstream anyway
"do you tongue kiss?" "i'm 12"
no drugs, and no orgies before we play
[a bouncer asking people to see their wrists before entering a party says] scars?
hey, you're suicide guy!
do you think there might have been a chance [jesus] liked my chemical romance
he felt the pain of all mankind but emos do that all the time, was jesus an emo
no girl would've dated him because who wants their boyfriend crucified at the formal
"you have sinful thoughts too. who made jamali pregnant, isaac." "it was immaculate!"
we don't vote for conformists
i'd happily be castrated like alan turing thought he oughta
we're having a happy new financial year party
is it cool or gross to have sex with a 40-year-old
sally i'm sorry i'll stop sleeping with your friends if you forgive me
"isaac tested the chapel for fingerprints and dna" "he doesn't even believe in dna!!"
i felt depressed, and it felt amazing
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mangoeatseyes · 3 months
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i don't get why there's so many stories about aliens kidnapping humans and keeping them as pets or zoo animals, because, as a rule, humans would do terrible in captivity, like, sure, put us in a zoo, we'll bite your fingers through the bars, nom nom bitch, someone would sneak a gun into there and shoot every alien child that passes until they get caught, and there would be a mob of people trying to get into the neighbouring enclosure containing the alien equivalent of cats.
like, aliens can *try* to keep humans as exotic pets but we will tear up all your furniture in revenge, we'll break a window with the aliens most expensive item and escape like that.
but i, for one, wouldn't do any of that, i would try to learn the alien language, to befriend the alien, to make the alien fall in love with me, and then i would collect its shed skins (if it doesn't shed its skin i'll just kill it and skin it) and sew them into a suit so i look exactly like the alien and then i would run for alien president and win but by then i would have lost sight of my original mission to free the humans and would have become drunk with power and then i'd kill anyone who opposes me and i'd become the most brutal dictator the alien world has ever known and then the protagonist, a human who escaped a zoo, would go on a quest to overthrow me and learn about the power of friendship and this gun they found and when they reach my they shoot me with their last bullet but my suit stops it, i take it off to reveal that i'm human! and i stab them but i didn't notice the cominc relief sneaking up on me! the comic relief slits my throat with the knife i used to kill my opposition in the election, i fall over dead, while the comic relief comforts the protagonist as they die, the comic relief becomes the next president of the alien planet and completes the mission i started all those years ago, to free the humans.
yeah i just don't get why people write stories about that
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tracle0 · 1 year
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hi hi Trade, I am here because I simply Must know more about Elan immediately please and thank you (also do you have any tunes for him? just by the look of him n his vibe I feel like he'd have some bangers) mwah ok bye
:D HELLO
I'm tagging @khufiya-khaufnak-antariksh here as well cause you both asked about Elan and I figured I'd just babble a lil about them to both of you here, hello, thank you for your interest!!!
Okay okay okay Elan issssss yeah! A fucking mess, basically! They, they, they. Hmm. HMMM!
They're basically the result of a fun kidnapping and testing that was executed on a wide number of colour mages. Elan semi-volunteered for it, with zero intention of actually taking part, and then took part anyway. Sucks to be them.
I don't know an awful lot about the actual process, but the general aim of it was to see how much colour could be taken from a mage before they. Yknow. Fucking died. Which for most people was alarmingly far! Strip magic away and see how deep this colourlessness can go.
Alas, most of the people fucking died before anything truly interesting could happen. But but but! Elan did! Not! For various reasons I'm keeping disclosed, they were full of spite and rage and Vengence and decided actually, you know, I'm not gonna die, I'm gonna take this white you're pumping me full of and just. Harness that, thank you very much. Reject the magic you were born with and embrace this synthetic model instead.
Basically, edge 14-year-old brain went 'teehee evil science experiment character :)))?' and I went oh HELL yeah!
Elan is the kinda guy who likes gardening :)! Lil gardener fella! They've got a section of BigBad's base wardened off for Just Them, where they have a little living area and a big garden, where they spend most of their time, chilling out, feeling At Peace, crushing any sliver of green that starts to edge into any stalks or leaves. It is a petrified garden. It could not survive without them. They love it dearly. Sometimes, when they get overwhelmed or frustrated, they smash it and sob in its remains until it's replaced and they start the cycle over again.
They also stand as one of the first characters of mine where I looked at them and decided they wanted to be in a lil relationship, which is nice and good for them! Less good for them that it's, uh, with the. BigBad. The woman who funded and dictated the research that made them Like This.
The relationship is very much a. Toxic one. Power struggles between the two, knowing full well they've hurt each other badly and still coming back for more. By the end of the first book, they quite literally stab her in the back and ease her into her death, all romantic style.
Mmmm despite how things have been phrased, I think Elan does quite like being a White. They want more people to be White so they can understand how things are, how they should be. Very obsessed with perfection and cleanliness and purity. Bleached as many pigments out of themselves as they possibly could, and still finds the red of their blood to be grating.
I have exactly one (2) songs that vibes for them at the moment which I think you know both of, Monday? Tis 'The Quittin' Kind' by Eleisha Eagle and 'Pretty Little Head' by Eliza Rickman. Both vibe with the more toxic part of their relationship with the BigBad. Who has no name. Pretend she does.
Okay that's it! Bye! Thank you!
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By: Isabel Wolff
Published: Nov 28, 1992
Isabel Wolff talks to men who have been beaten, battered and bruised by their wives.
`ONE NIGHT I was sitting up in bed when my wife suddenly wheeled round and pulled her fingernails, hard, right down my face. She tore my skin to ribbons. Luckily she just missed my right eye, but my face was an absolute bloody mess. My mother was so horrified when she saw me three days later that I pretended I'd walked into the Christmas tree.'
That was just one of many ferocious assaults on Douglas, a 38-year-old copy-writer, by the wife who tormented and attacked him for most of the three years that they were married. Verbal and mental abuse of the 'God-I-wish-you-were-dead' variety turned into full-scale, full-frontal physical attacks after the birth of their baby son, Tom. 'She went for me once when I was changing Tom's nappy,' he told me in his small office in Kensington. 'She put the most enormous, black bruises on my arm, and she was shouting at me and screaming hysterically. All of her attacks were like that — vehement, violent and sudden. It was terrifying; you never knew when she was going to strike or how, and afterwards there was never ever any remorse.'
`Why do you think your wife attacked you?' I enquired.
`At first I put it down to drink,' he replied; 'then I thought it must be post-natal depression; but now I think — in fact I know — that she's got a personality disorder. She could be perfectly charming and quite normal a lot of the time; but when she didn't get exactly what she wanted she'd attack me physically. It was like living in a prison.'
Over the past 20 years, volumes have been written about wife-battering, but almost nothing has been published about domestic violence done to men. What little data there is shows that men can be beaten, bitten, scratched, slashed, punched and even stabbed by their wives or female partners. They are attacked with carving knives, hit with hammers and scalded with cups of boiling coffee. In one well publicised case last year, a woman, Mrs Doreeth Currithers, ripped off one of her husband's testicles. Surgeons failed to save it and the judge ordered the woman to pay £480 in costs. A judge ordered Mrs Currithers to pay court costs of £480, but did not make a compensation order. On the whole, it is true, men do more damage to women than women do to men — a glance at the murder statistics provides proof of that. Of the 700 or so murders committed in England and Wales every year, 18 per cent of the victims are women killed by their husbands, while only 2 per cent are men who have been murdered by their wives. And when it comes to non-fatal domestic violence, received wisdom and political correctness dictate that the man is always, ipso facto, the abuser. The very phrase 'domestic violence' is tacitly assumed to refer to the abuse of women by men. This is something that men are now beginning to challenge, and some are showing that domestic violence cuts, so to speak, both ways. In order to do that, men have to stand up and admit that they have been victims of female violence themselves.
`A lot of men just can't admit that they're being battered,' says Douglas, who is six foot tall and weighs 13 stone. 'It's the old rolling-pin syndrome, I suppose — they think it's wet and weedy. My ex-wife is very slim and feminine, and I found it very hard to own up to anyone that she could physically terrorise me in this way. I also didn't think that anyone would believe me.'
`A lot of men who pluck up the courage to take their injuries to the doctor have it thrown back at them that they must have attacked their wife first,' says Dr Malcolm George, a neuro-physiologist at London University. Dr George is conducting a research project in which he is collecting data from the testimony of 38 battered men. `We're told that women only lash out in self-defence,' he says, 'but I have several examples of men in the survey who were hit, who had done nothing to provoke such action. They were attacked when they were watching television; they were attacked when they were in the bath; they were attacked when they were asleep in bed. Quite a few of them would lock themselves in a room at night so that they could sleep; one man's wife smashed down the door to get at him.'
According to Dr George, the majority of men who are abused are not seven-stone weaklings with Amazonian partners. The seaside-postcard image of the little, hen-pecked man with the gigantic wife doesn't relate to the facts. 'The men taking part in the survey tend to be well-built, but not aggressive,' he says. 'They're the sort who don't want to hit a man, let alone a woman. So when the violence starts they know they are just going to have to stand there and take it, and that tension produces its own kind of terror.'
Dr George doesn't deny that men do unspeakable, violent things to women and that, in general, they do far more damage, in terms of the injuries they inflict. If a man hits a woman's face hard with his open hand, he will probably smash her jaw. But, he says, women tend to compensate for their lack of physical strength by using weapons and kitchen implements knives, forks, hammers, ash-trays, wine bottles —anything that comes easily to hand. 'With weapons like these you can get some pretty terrible injuries,' he says. `Many of the men in my survey had had broken noses, cracked ribs and crushed fingers. Some had stab wounds.' On the whole, he says, these men made light to him of their physical injuries, but stressed how traumatised they had been by the mixture of fear and humiliation.
Most of the research data about female violence to men has been compiled in the United States by Professor Murray Strauss of New Hampshire University. His studies, carried out between 1975 and 1991, reveal that, although women are seven times more likely than men to sustain injuries in domestic violence, men and women initiate the violence equally. To George Gilliland of the Domestic Rights Coalition in St Pauls, Minnesota, this comes as no surprise. 'There are guys I know here who have been slashed with scissors; there's a police chief whose wife cut his face right open with a hem-ripper, and one woman who killed her husband with a baseball bat because, she said, he "insulted" her!' In Minnesota alone, Gilliland points out, an average of ten men a year are killed by their female partner. 'There are thousands of men out there who are slapped around, kicked and punched by abusive, violent women,' he says. 'But far from protecting them, society just laughs about it. You see guys getting whacked across the face in films, in cartoons — it's acceptable. You see a woman slap a guy in a restaurant you think he must be an s.o.b. who'd got it coming. If a man slaps a woman, everyone's on the phone to the cops getting him arrested and thrown in jail.'
George Gilliland speaks with feeling and with authority, since he has himself been a victim not just of one, but of two violent women. His first wife, he alleges, was violent because of menopausal problems, while the second one was semi-alcoholic. In his time, he's been punched, kicked, belaboured about the head with bits of wood and burnt with boiling coffee. He is about to open the world's first refuge for battered men but, he says, newspaper editors seem reluctant to give it much coverage, such is the power of the feminist lobby in America.
`Battered women's advocates do not want it known that there are thousands and thousands of men out there who are abused,' he said, his voice rising with emotion. 'They're afraid that some of the state tax dollars that pay for battered women's refuges might go to men's shelters instead. They only care about their own self-serving interests and that is battered women only.'
Sandra Horley, director of the world's first shelter for women, the Chiswick Family Refuge, admits that it would worry her if man-abuse became a pressing social issue. `There are resource implications,' she says candidly. 'Refuges for battered women are struggling to survive, and if we put across this idea that the abuse of men is as great as the abuse of women, then it could seriously affect our funding.'
Sandra Horley believes that stories about husband-abuse are just part of a backlash against the advances of feminism, a cynical attempt to redress the balance by portraying men as victims too. 'For some reason, people seem to think that if they can show that men are also abused then violence against women is not a problem they have to think about, and they should think about it. I'm not saying all women are angels, but it's clear that the home is a much less safe place for the woman.'
`At least women have protection under the law from violent men,' says Douglas ruefully. 'But battered men have nothing, not even the recognition that we exist.' In fact, battered men have less than nothing, because of the institutionalised legal discrimination that operates against them. If a man is attacked by his wife and decides to call the police, he is the one who is likely to be arrested. The police loathe being called out on `domestics'; they find them difficult and embarrassing, and their over-whelming priority is simply to keep the peace. They are reluctant to arrest the woman in these situations, especially if there are children, so the chances are it is the man who will find himself spending a night in jail.
`It is not widely accepted that men are battered,' says family solicitor Anthony Lawson, who has acted for several abused men. 'So the law takes a completely pragmatic approach and tries to protect the stability of the household, regardless of who is to blame.'
There's a double penalty for men, according to Bruce Liddington, director of Families Need Fathers, an organisation that helps men negotiate access to their children during a family breakdown. 'Even if he is clearly, demonstrably, the victim, a man is treated exactly the same as if he were the aggressor,' he says. 'He is ousted from the family home; he is ruined financially; he is cut off from daily contact with his children, and subsequent contact with the children is dependent upon his wife, who may be unbalanced. No wonder so many men keep quiet, because they're terrified of losing everything. Did you know that quite a lot of homeless men are men who have been assaulted by their wives?'
Battered men also point to the fact that divorce cases are not heard in open court and therefore, they say, women can make counter-allegations of physical or psychological abuse which are not properly tested by cross-examination. The House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, chaired by the Conservative MP Sir Ivan Lawrence QC, is currently conducting an inquiry into domestic violence, and written evidence from several battered men is being taken. But many of the men I spoke to were not optimistic that any recommendations would be made that would assist them.
'I hope that it will at least bring the recognition that domestic violence against men does exist,' says Douglas. 'Men do get hurt, they bruise like women, and they should have the right to be protected too.
[ Via: https://archive.vn/RHaNj ]
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https://home.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/htdocs/assaults_bib343_201307.doc
Abstract: This bibliography examines 343 scholarly investigations; 270 empirical studies and 73 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners.  The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 440,850.     
Thirty years later, what progress has been made?
P.S. Sandra Horley sounds like a fucking sociopath.
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3. @ another user n start some beef
I don't like starting anything, so I'm just going to refuse, rather than do this halfheartedly, as I've seen others do. And if I'm angry enough to respond to what someone else has done, I'm not going to let an ask game dictate the schedule of my response. Some people on this site are already on borrowed time with me.
7. whos yr best friend n how much money would it take for u to stab em (knife is complementary)
Eva, and after the nickname she has chosen to immortalize, it would take no money whatsoever. I'd just make sure to do it somewhere that wouldn't cripple or kill her.
14. dumbest hill ur willin to die on
People who wish that they were tall have no idea of the sheer level of inconvenience involved. I'd much rather be shorter and occasionally use a ladder.
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{{ I'm intrigued by your take on Steven Universe! I don't mean to start drama, so feel free to answer privately if you like, and I also don't want to judge you, but I'm curious. How did you come to the conclusion SU's message was "killing people is bad no matter what"? Because I personally interpreted a great big chunk of it to have been justifying Rose shattering Pink Diamond. Like it was necessary for life on Earth to survive, particularly in that she was so often held up as a hero in the early seasons.
I will concur that STEVEN thought it was bad, and whew, Bismuth's first episode is... contentious. And certainly the narrative framing lauded empathy and compassion as ways to solve problems. But where did you gather the "no matter what" part?
You are under no obligation to answer of course, you just seem like someone who always lands on a conclusion For a Reason and I'd like to understand your perspective, if possible!
Its no problem I’d love to share my thoughts!
I’m not really saying I think that is the moral although I don’t think pacifism is a bad thing to teach kids, and if you’ve watched the later seasons you know they didn’t really kill pink diamond they just faked her death, but that’s besides the point.
My point was that a good 75% of the discourse was over the perceived idea that no matter what you don’t kill people because how things turned out with Andy (which was a little tone deaf for the time it came out (it was right after the election) but saying bigoted family can change their minds is a nice day dream that isn’t problematic in of itself) and with the diamonds getting redeemed instead of dead.
Maybe they would’ve tried to kill them after exhausting all other options and showing why they had to do it (can’t go from we were doing this bad thing bc we thought you were dead but you’re not and then five episodes later kill them off, but you could with a whole season of tries to explain what they’re doing is bad-> they don’t listen -> Steven gets hurt for trying to explain this -> repeats -> Stevens friends get hurt -> ok these guys are going down but they simply didn’t have time for that after being canceled and the show that’s entire thing is people are messy and complicated, rose and pearl and the cluster and all the reformed homeworld gems like peridot and lapis who took time to make that heel turn, and can usually become better if given the chance, would’ve been going against their morals to justify killing these people a few episodes after unlocking their tragic backstory
And a lot of the issues was that people were getting redeemed that they didn’t like. The diamonds were genocidal dictators! Rose was born into that family and didn’t stop it! She owned other gems as a high up member of society!
She left her entire family though and fought against that and pushed pearl toward freedom several times and hadn’t hit her growth at the time of spinell and hundreds of years passed between those times. She was messed up and hurt people and changed which was the point, but since she’s dead when the story ends and we only see her as flashbacks we don’t get to see all of it, and she chose her death to make Steven, she wasn’t punished.
I don’t know if Steven universe is rehabilitation is the preferred method to change things and killing is always wrong but that doesn’t mean you can’t fight still (they do still beat the shit out of people and stab them and bubble them) or killing is sometimes needed to protect the oppressed but rehabilitation is the preferred method to change things and they just didn’t have time to express that, but the discourse primarily comes from people who are mad that characters didn’t get what they feel they deserved, and this applies outside killing too. All of the gems suck sometimes bc the moral of the story is people are complicated and kindness can help with a lot of that, but if you’re too mad at what they did then you don’t WANT to redeem or forgive them, you want them to be punished, so everyone who felt like that took the end of the show being “don’t worry we’re good now!” The same as telling people not to punch assholes bc if you’re nice enough they’ll change.
So yeah. I don’t know if Steven universe was anti killing but the main thing that people calling it problematic were mad about was the fact that they thought a childrens show was trying to tell them killing people is wrong and revenge isn’t the way dkdkdkdk. That’s my personal take on it anyway.
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oh 29 for the fic wip please please please
Send me an ask about one of my WIPs to learn more!
So remember in the notes of Chapter 45 of leaves when I said I'd struggled with the chapter because I'd suddenly got the idea for a plot twist that would 100% break the pacing of the plot?
This was that plot twist. (Putting the rest under a Read More because it spoils the ending of leaves.)
Basically, when Melanie stabbed Jonah after JonMartin Prime went back in time, the plan was for the Keeper to throw her a door and get her out of the Institute safely. Unfortunately, she timed it exactly right - or exactly wrong, depending on how you look at it - and got caught in the tangle of the tethers as they snapped around Jonah and were dragged through the crack beneath Hill Top Road. Ironically, she managed the one thing Jon and Martin hadn't - to get the timing down so that she was still alive when the Fears went through - which means that, unlike with the Primes, there wasn't an extra copy of Melanie King wandering about. She went back into her life, her body, exactly as she was the day she went to the Institute for the second time in S2.
So yeah, in this AU (I can't believe I have an AU of my own fic, but here we are), the Melanie who turns up in Chapter 31 is the one from the future.
As a bonus, have her first interaction with Past Jon from her POV:
There’s nobody else in there. Two of the desks have laptops on them, both closed, and stacks of paperwork beside them. The trapdoor is exposed but not open. It’s all perfectly mundane and normal and Melanie hates all of it.
She strides over to the Archivist’s office. The door is firmly shut; politeness dictates that she ought to knock, but Jon hates people knocking on his door for reasons she’s never cared enough to learn, so instead, she just pulls open the door.
“Excuse me, do you have a moment?” she asks.
Jon jumps backwards, obviously startled. He’s seated at his desk, recorder clutched in one hand. Evidently he was in the middle of recording a statement…or something…and she’s caught him off guard. He’s wearing the sweater she remembers him wearing more or less from the moment he came back from his coma to, well, the moment she quit, and she remembers, too, that it’s one of Martin’s that he accidentally left in the office when he took the job with Peter Lukas.
That’s a good sign. Maybe.
“Miss King—uh—how did you get in here?” Jon is trying to sound professional, but he actually sounds like he’s trying to get his heart rate under control.
“Sasha let me in.” Melanie steps all the way into the office and closes the door, just in case Elias is about, and studies Jon. She wants to ask if he’s from the future, if he remembers, but instead she asks, “Are you all right?”
“Hmm? Sorry?” Jon oh-so-casually closes the folder in front of him and slides it under the stack next to him. Like she’s not going to notice. She may not be tied to the Eye…yet…but whatever that statement is, it’s something he doesn’t want her to see.
There may be hope yet.
“You look like hell,” Melanie says. It’s how this conversation went the first time, but also, it’s true. Jon looks stressed, worry in his eyes he’s only barely concealing, and there’s a tension about him like a spring ready to snap. He’s gripping the tape recorder so hard his hand is trembling faintly. About the only good thing that can be said for him is that he looks like he’s got a few good meals in him, and he doesn’t have the extensive scarring she remembers from the last time she sat across of him in this office.
Something about that nags at the back of her mind, but it’s quickly drowned in the wave of emotion that hits her as she remembers the genuine compassion and devastation in Jon’s eyes when she asked him to call an ambulance for me in about five minutes, the way he’d actually hugged her tightly and almost made her reconsider her actions. How annoyed she’d been when he was the one to scream in agony when she did it, the way he’d cradled her and whispered I’m sorry over and over until she passed out from her own pain. Memories she’d apparently repressed, because goddammit, she still doesn’t like him.
“It’s been a rough few months,” Jon says, recalling her to the present, and she looks up at him, desperately searching for some sign that that’s a hint, that he’s signaling to her that he’s spent the last few months slogging through a post-apocalyptic hellscape. His eyes flick over her for a moment. “And if I look like hell, you must be in a far lower circle than I am. Are you all right?”
That’s not something she ever expected to hear from Jon, and she blinks at him, even as hope flares up again. It’s him, it’s him, he made it, they made it…“Fine. I—um—” She considers for a minute, then decides, best to be cautious. Maybe she can convince him to duck down to the tunnels. “I actually need your help.”
Jon’s eyes narrow, just slightly, and his voice goes flat and cynical. “Interesting.”
She still can’t read him. Time to try an experiment. Melanie snaps, and she isn’t entirely faking being annoyed. “All right, can you not be an arsehole about it? I just need access to your library.”
Her Jon, the Jon from her timeline, will refuse. If he thinks she’s the Melanie King from the past, then he’s aware of where this path will take her, aware of what will happen if he lets her look at those books, if he lets her go to India. He’ll tell her no, he’ll look like it hurts him, but he’ll do it, because even if it means Past Melanie will hate him, it’ll at least keep her safe, and then—
“So talk to Diana,” Jon says, sounding a bit clipped. “She runs the place.”
And just like that, the little flicker of hope in her chest dies. He doesn’t remember her, only knows her as the irritating, argumentative woman who came in with a story and shouted at him the whole time. It’s not her Jon. Something’s gone terribly, terribly wrong and they didn’t make it back. Or at least he didn’t make it back. Maybe there’s still hope for Martin. Maybe.
Melanie should storm out at this point, but…she can’t. If there’s any hope of changing things, she’ll have to do it herself. Jon may be an arse, but that doesn’t mean he deserves what happens—happened—to him. Nobody does.
“Yeah, I don’t exactly have the academic credentials you guys demand, so apparently I need someone to vouch for me,” she says. Jon sighs heavily, sounding annoyed, but she plunges on regardless. “And you’re basically the closest thing I have to a friend here.”
It hurts, saying it like that. Because they weren’t friends, they weren’t, she absolutely hates his guts and he never really liked her either (he tried to find another way out for you, he knew you wanted to quit, he promised you he would find something, he let you quit even though he knew it would likely hurt him…). But the man standing before her is the closest thing she has to the man she knew, and that’s…supremely unfair.
Jon gives a short, disbelieving laugh. “We’ve spoken once, and we ended up screaming at each other—”
“Yes! And that’s more than I have with anyone else here.” Melanie feels as though she’s following the lines of a well-worn script, words put down on paper and given her to memorize. She does it anyway, though, invoking Georgie’s name, startling Jon into admitting that he and Georgie hadn’t parted on the best of terms, avoiding mentioning the details of why nobody in the business will talk to her anymore, describing people in the industry as skeptics pretending to be believers pretending to be skeptics.
And that’s where the first twist comes in, because instead of sneering I think the word you’re looking for is “charlatans”, Jon looks at her for a moment and then says, “And none of them are helpful.”
She starts to bristle automatically, then looks at him again. He’s not…dismissing her. She doesn’t know how to take that, so she just tries to go back on script, telling him the group split up, responding to his small noise of distress (not a go on this time, which is odd) by describing the bare bones of what led to her arrest. “After that…”
“Your reputation went with it,” Jon says.
He doesn’t say all-important. He’s taking her seriously. Melanie looks away, clenching her jaw tightly, trying her hardest to stay angry. It’s important that she be angry here, it’s important that nobody suspect…and damn it all, she does. Not. Like. Jonathan. Sims. He’s everything about herself she hates, which is…basically everything, if she’s being honest, and they’ve never done anything but rub one another the wrong way.
I’m so sorry, Melanie, I should never have put you in harm’s way like this, this is all my fault…
“Yes,” she grits out, forcing back the memories (and oh, God, why are they coming out now, why couldn’t they have just stayed decently buried). “Look, I have leads that I really need to follow up on, and as far as my colleagues are concerned these days, I’m the ghost.”
She’s aware of the dark irony in her voice at that. She’s practically the fucking Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. And nobody but her will ever know that. She just needs Jon to talk with Diana, get her that pass, and then—
“All right,” Jon says. “Come on, then.”
Melanie’s head jerks up. That’s not in the script. “What?” she asks, a bit stupidly.
“Come on,” Jon repeats, and he actually gets to his feet as he does so. “I’ll take you up to the library and vouch for you. If all else fails, I can claim we’re borrowing you as an adjunct for a few weeks or something.” He must see something in her face, because he suddenly falters. “U-unless you’d rather wait?”
“Oh.” Melanie isn’t sure whether to hug him or hit him. This…isn’t right. This isn’t what she expected. Maybe he is…no, no, he wouldn’t let her go up there if he was.
But Sasha’s alive, and Jon’s being helpful, and something has clearly changed. Maybe Martin’s making a difference.
“No, the sooner the better,” she says. “I—just expected a bit more of a fight, to be honest.” She also expected him to say something about losing the respect of his peers, but…
“Yes, well, I know what it’s like to be itching to follow up on a lead and have your every effort frustrated,” Jon says dryly. “And I believe I owe you for being…dismissive of you before.” While Melanie is still trying to cope with that, he seems to suddenly notice the recorder in his hand and adds, “Uh, end supplemental.”
She should be pissed about being recorded, but…she’s not. Maybe she can steal that tape later and listen back to it to prove to herself she didn’t imagine this. Acceding to Jon’s gesture, she heads back out into the Archives proper.
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Finished reading Ray Fawkes' run on CONSTANTINE, it's the first run I've ever read of Constantine. Overall, I'd say it was great with some confusingly "off" moments at worst.
It was really cool whenever John pulled the rug out from under someone and the heavier moments really dig into the character.
The biggest issue I have with it probably isn't the writer's fault. Even though Constantine is a solo character, the nature of comics dictates he has to get involved with some big, bullshit event occasionally.
The main storyline for the run is about John fighting a cult of mages trying to obtain god-levels of power. This gets put on hold for a Justice League Dark run and only the later parts of that are in the volume.
John gets sent straight to hell after stabbing Nick Necro (who looks like Constantine Player 2) and we don't see how he gets out. The event is just over and John is back to plotting against the cult.
The story got sidetracked again by the Future's End storyline it seems and then we just don't get a real resolution to the original main plot.
Anyway it's alright, cool covers.
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