#Witness Statements

[agentfascinateur]

Every country should submit legal cases documenting Israeli atrocities in Gaza

This can help end undeserved exceptionalism and therefore impunity.

[dawninsightexplorer]

Imran Khan and Shah Mahmood Qureshi's Legal Battle

[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.

[psychiatricmentalhealthfacility]

Search for Psychiatry Psychiatrist Psychiatric Mental Health Facility on the Planet Earth - Time Travel Crime - Violent Crime - Witness Intimidation and Evidence Tampering or Concealment - Non-Voters Labelled as Artificial or Proven Criminals

[porcelana-r0ta]

I know the respective fandoms of DC and Miraculous Ladybug have a certain disdain for MLxDC fics but I think there's a potential for fics where Luka leaves Paris and just keeps traveling to different US cities because he keeps figuring out secret identities and he's just this 15 year old kid growing increasingly frustrated and exasperated at how badly everyone hides their identities and he just has to pretend to be oblivious even tho it's Their Fault for being Bad At Secrets and shouldn't adults be better at this??????

[hapalopus]

There's something incredibly poignant about the Witness for the Emperor being a witness vel ama. Maia holds all the power, as the emperor, and yet it leaves him voiceless. The emperor is an object, as incapable of speaking for himself as a river or a corpse. The emperor is a symbol, not a person.

[swan2swan]

I do hope that future episodes address the fact that Sammy 100% has a warrant issued for her arrest.

[petit-papillion]

[gray-doestheart]

Excuse that this is lettered badly and sketchy but I was thinking of Jancy and her potential feelings about ghosts

[astraystayyh]

i hope some zionists on this app and in general realize that it is a privilege to be "afraid". to be able to type out these words on their phone, in their home where they're safe, where they have access to water, food, fuel and where they know that they won't wake up to their entire family murdered the following day.

to be able to sit comfortably, to start a statement with "i sympathize with Palestinians but-" there are no buts. Majority of Palestinians don't even have access to internet to be able to reassure their relatives that they're still alive. this is their reality, this isn't some farfetched scenario that will never happen. SIX pages of murdered newborns that are below the age of 1 is a reality. bombed hospitals is a reality. no food, no water, no fuel is their reality. instead of debating the 'probability' of a scenario to unfold, how about we tackle the GENOCIDE happening RIGHT NOW?

it must feel nice to ignore the atrocities that are happening right now and direct your energy towards a hypothetical situation. what a load of bullshit honestly.

[polaroid-angel]

"Reveal all the trauma I suffered,

I'll relive it all to be

born much stronger

then there's no way someone else can repeat…

What you did to me."

— Memory Merge ◆ YonKaGor

You've been through enough in life, you struggle through hardships and all you want to do is forget what pain made you this way.

Well, there is always a solution to your problem…

Forcas, unknown age, a human with angel powers. That's what he knows he is, at least, that's what an 'angel' from his dream told him so.

What he doesn't know is that the power he holds has a large payoff—a memory for a memory.

With a past that he doesn't remember, he sets off to investigate further.

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[huxianposts]

I know what you are...

ATTACHED

[carltonlassie]

So I'm on a Greyhound (already a bad start) and I had to give my witness statement to COPS in the middle of the journey and I was a bit shaken about the whole thing but now I feel more normal and I'm more occupied with directing my energy towards not peeing my pants, so there's a good thing

[twcfaces]

Since we're on the subject of Harvey being biracial, I think his pops really hated that.

Actual mentions of real-world prejudice, abuse, etc below! Please do not trip over this line if these things are triggering for you.

I feel like the elephant in the room is

>'but his wife was black'

Racism doesn't actually preclude a person from pursuing a relationship outside their race. But that is dissertation paper material and not fictional character blog material. Do not @ me for a dissertation or I will literally find one for you.

>But Halekulani why discuss real life nastiness when you're writing fiction?

Because I motherfucking w a n t to.

Anyway, Harv's dad would use any and all excuses to smack his son across the floor and then make an effort to 'make it up' to him before doing it again the next night and he would definitely dip into the 'you're [insert offensive hateful stereotypical shit here] because you have your mother's blood in you, etc.'

so, literally punishing him for something not under his control and something that isn't in any way a bad thing - but Harvey can never be 'normal' or acceptable to pops because he's not, y'know - white.

Harvey's father made him feel like he was split all the way down to his DNA, like there was something inherently wrong with who he was that he continuously had to make up for.

And there isn't. There is nothing - absolutely NOTHING - inherently wrong with him, or his mother, or his identity.

He gets that now, as an adult, that his father was just a fucking nasty, horrible, alcoholic, abusive, prejudiced, controlling asshole that needed to lord his authority over anyone that trusted him and anyone he thought he could bully.

But damn, sometimes it still hits. He wonders if he's speaking 'right' or if it's 'too much'. He wonders if his clothes are too reserved or too 'try-hard'.

And it sucks.

Yes, I just read GCPD : The Blue Wall. Why do you ask? [shaking, crying]

[defeateddetectives]

like eight whole years later about it: hold on a second [face in hands] just hold on a sec--

[mwagneto]

I saw a girl with green hair today on the street and I immediately thought about your policeman because I don't think I've MET 15 people with green hair* let alone have 15 green-haired people as friends, so I'm gonna start counting, from now on

*and like... I'm fairly young. I live in Bp. One would think I'd have the advantage in this

NO COZ LITERALLY after we left the courthouse we couldn't fucking stop laughing about it and we started to count how many green haired ppl we saw (2) 😭😭😭😭 and I've been on the lookout for anyone w green hair since then and haven't seen ANY. average cop with 15 green haired friends