#abc deception

[abcdeception]

something that’s fascinating to me in Deception is this idea that Jonathan is so good at reading people, and at reading Cameron specifically (look at all the psychoanalytical phone calls; recognizing Cam is jealous before Cam does, already come to terms with the fact that they have daddy issues) while Cameron seriously struggles to tell when Johnny is lying or not. And I think that fits very well with the premise introduced by the show: if Johnny has been practicing at stepping into Cameron’s shoes his whole life, then it makes sense he’d be more sensitive to the minute details that make people stand out from one another. It makes sense that he would be intimately familiar with Cameron’s mannerisms, reactions, expressions, etc. while Cameron, who never had to… well, do that, is probably less aware of it.

[bell-gryffin]

I just rewatched most* of Deception. I’m still as upset as I was years ago when I was cancelled. This was such a fun show. And Kay and Cameron would have been so good together.

*I skipped the last episode. I can’t bring myself to watch it knowing the cliffhanger it ends on.

[melancholyghoul]

Nothing like starting your day sketching shirtless eddies 😌

[incorrectdeceptionquotes]

Cameron and Kay at any point, really:

[fist-of-vengeance]

i just heard on the radio that people apparently blink less when they're lying and wait a minute. is THAT why ben linus is Like That??? here i thought he was just autistic and overcompensating

[disappearinginq]

Vigil + Deception?

This is 100% tied into the final chapter of Consequences that I planned out but never finished.

Cameron would wake up, Johnny told himself. Wake up, crack a smile, a joke about why look so serious, and be fine.

It’d been two days. Two days and the only difference was the shift change of the attending nurses. Nobody paid much attention to Johnny, but he still kept the glasses on and the hoodie up around his face, playing the truculent teenager with a bad attitude like he was gunning for an Emmy.

He made a promise – to God, the universe, to Cam – that if Cameron would wake up, he’d never leave again. He could promise that now.

[perthshirecottage]

Been doing another rewatch of this amazing show. I have said before that I don't understand the way the FBI treats Jonathan.

While yes, Jonathan has been convicted of a crime, it was for INVOUNTARY manslaughter. It was something that happened, and that something was very serious and needs to be punished. But the average sentence for involuntary manslaughter is 10-16 MONTHS! This is because the jury understands that it was not premeditated. That it wasn’t even a crime of passion where someone could get so upset that they lose complete control of themselves and can become a danger to those around them. It was making a dumb choice, like drinking alcohol in this case, where another person loses their life. Honestly, by the time the show started, Jonathan should have already been out or close to it at this point. And yet Jonathan was convicted for 10 YEARS! This is not justice, this is retribution. The sentence doesn’t fit the crime. The most likely reason is because he ran, but still, that is an insane amount of time just for panicked running from the scene. I’m sure the prosecutor made Jonathan out to be a horrible person because he hid from the world for 30 years. That he was hiding because it gave him time to torture animals or something equally ridiculous. But Jonathan was not the only one hiding. Cameron, Dina, Gunter, and Jordan were all complicit in that. They just hadn’t broken any laws and therefore no one could punish them. No one wonders if they’re trustworthy because of the lying that they did. Cameron was a part of the secret for as long as Jonathan was.

Once Cameron started working with the FBI, so did Jonathan. Cam often went and asked for Jonathan’s help on making deceptions work. He helps to put away bad guys who are actual criminals who are purposefully going out and murdering multiple people and selling drugs and just doing truly awful things. The FBI even gave Jonathan special privileges to work in one of the visitor’s rooms to solve Bishop’s codes. And when Cameron went missing, the FBI gave a special allowance for Jonathan to get out and help. All of this clued the other prisoners into the fact that Jonathan worked for the Feds. It’s why they hung a rat in his cell and someone tried to shank him. And the guards don't even care. They're against him because he's a criminal. The criminals are against him because he's helping the Feds. He literally has no one on his side in a very dangerous situation. I have heard that there are special areas in prisons where they put high target prisoners, like ex-cops or criminal informants who are more likely to be targets because they fall a bit on both sides of the law. Yet Jonathan isn't given any kind of extra security. Gunter isn't wrong when he talks about how the entire team, including Jonathan, have done so much to help the FBI and yet they haven't gotten anything in return. During the short time he was out after Cam was kidnapped, they act like he is some master level criminal on par with MW. Like he is just waiting for any opportunity to escape so he can go on some kind of crime spree.

Even if Jonathan was guilty of the crime he was convicted, then it’s still not the worst kind of murder out there. I’m sure there could have been a plea for compassion and safety granted to allow Jonathan to be put on house arrest where no one would actively be trying to kill him for his help. And that for every actual criminal that he helps put away that he gets something like a month off his sentence. But no one ever offers him anything. He just keeps putting his life on the line and gets absolutely nothing in return. I’m sure this is why he snaps at the end of the season. Maybe there’s some underlying resentment against Cameron, but I have a feeling most of it came from the FBI doing nothing and Cameron being the face that always had to convince Jonathan to keep hanging in there. To not escape and go find the evidence for his innocence. Now the FBI has left Jonathan out to dry despite everything he has done and all the horrible things that have been done while in prison. Jonathan just took it out on the only person who represented the people who screwed him over, even though it wasn’t Cameron’s fault.

And something to add is that at the end of the season after MW gets arrested she reveals information regarding Danic, the foreign diplomat. The team comes up with a deception and manages to save Danic and his wife. MW just reveals that Danic was in trouble and then yes she does meet with the bad guy (can’t remember his name) while surrounded by armed FBI agents. She didn’t contribute THAT much. Jonathan did a bunch to help with this particular deception and was treated with a lot of trust, especially after how he was treated last time. (I’m sure because there’s someone even more untrustworthy there and that person is MW!) And yet she managed to make herself useful enough to get into Witness Protection and not even get charged with anything because she proved her usefulness exactly 1 time! While the team still doesn’t have the proof of Johnny’s innocence, Cameron is a witness to multiple counts of illegal activities that far outweigh Jonathan’s INVOLUNTARY manslaughter conviction. Cameron has been held at gunpoint by this woman multiple times. She attempted to steal a $7 million diamond. Cameron was abducted by her. He watched her purposefully kill a man. Any single one of these is far far worse than Jonathan’s entire conviction because she did them all on purpose. And yet she just gets to walk. They still don’t even know her name or what else she actually knows beyond this one tip and yet they just decided to drop all her charges and give her a cushy life for free.

While the team was doing the deception, MW was obviously setting things up for herself. And because she was a prisoner, she had to have an agent reach out to the DA. It could have even been Deakins who did it. Deakins was the one who had to explain to the team why MW was just leaving with absolutely no consequences. Because MW could help put people who were much worse away. Which is what Jonathan has been doing but no one ever offered him a get out of jail free card. Or offered him anything at ALL!

I understand that the Doylist answer is because it kept Cameron and Jonathan sperate so that they weren’t having to constantly have Jack do a split screen. And so that at the end of the season they could have Jonathan off with MW. Also, if Jonathan had been released or was about to be release, then there wouldn’t be this drive for Cameron and the FBI to put everything into finding MW. Of course they would want to clear Jonathan’s name, but if he was free or on house arrest then it wouldn’t be something that was so urgent. When Cameron was kidnapped, yes he would want to get the evidence to free Jonathan, but he wouldn’t feel so desperate to break the law if Jonathan was on house arrest and at least had a modicum of freedom and had already taken a year off his sentence by working with the FBI. But Jonathan still got the short end of the stick.

It would be interesting to think about how the show would differ if someone were to decide that Jonathan deserved something for al of his help.

[new-bitch-who-dis]

Oh they're absolutely banning chinese gacha games lmao

[caprisunr]

Walk with me.

I just saw someone post about red herring on twitter and I could only think about how much of a plot twist it'd be if bobby's fake-death was used as a distraction from the new tsunami alarm that's about to hit the west coast during 8x17.

My only concern is I am not sure they're that smart to pull this off.

It's 7am. I went over some things and the inconsistency is so clear since the beggining of the emergency that everything tim is saying must be a joke only to underwrite that the audience thinks bobby is actually dead and create a sense of urgency for the next episode (otherwise known as promo.) Because for him [bobby] to be dead, it implies the already shaking fate of the characters, thrown in unknown territory. And that is exactly what makes people tune in, in wonder of where is going to take them. —Such as the initial narrative of a big emergency bringing eddie back no longer meaning permanency, or hen vs buck vs gerard and the captain chair ordeal, such as chimney's major break down, such as athena back on the job so quick...

I also think the big emergency he talked about is a timeline crossover with Doctor Odyssey about the tsunami alarm, whether it may be a real or fake one. That's why 'mass casualty' is used to descrive it in the interview. It would link with 8x17 title 'Don't Drink The Water' which could refer to the nature of the emergency.

[kesarijournal]

Twitter Free Speech Regulation Down Under

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[mybeingthere]

Tom Seidmann Freud (1892-1930)

Tom Seidmann Freud, nee Martha Freud, a children's book illustrator and author celebrated for her deceptively simple yet modern style. An eccentric niece of Sigmund Freud, she was born in Vienna in 1892 and moved with her family nine years later to Berlin. She was an artistically gifted child, at fifteen changed her name to Tom (allegedly to avoid sexism she might encounter as a female artist). She eventually studied art, first in London and then in Berlin and in Munich, where she focused on Art Nouveau illustration.

From 1914 to her death at thirty-eight in 1930, she published nearly a dozen books of her own and contributed illustrations to others. Today, nearly one hundred years late, her artwork looks surprisingly contemporary with its simple, folk art aesthetic and fantastical story lines about rabbit words, talking fish, and magic boats. Her illustrations are childish but not babyish, and surreal while also being thoughtful and narrative.

Strikingly fresh in its day, Seidmann-Freud's work was an example of how seriously people took children's literature as an art form. While Seidmann-Freud wrote, and illustrated her own stories, she also illustrated classical fairy tales, such as those by Brothers Rimm and Hanns Christian Andersen, in her Ten Tales for Children. She released her most well-known children's book, Die Fishreise (The Fish's Journey), in 1923.

Seidmann-Freud created her illustrations using the ancient pochoir technique that was experiencing a revival. She drew the figures, foreground, and background with ink and then overlaid watercolors using stencils. Seidmann-Freud experimented with several different kinds of children's books, including ABC books, songbooks, game books, and movable books such as Das Wunderhaus (The House of Wonders, 1927) and Das Zauberboot (The Magic Boat, 1929), subtitled "a book to Turn and Move." She also produced a series of counting books known for their typographical innovation, one of which was chosen for the Museum of Modern art's 2012 exhibition Century of the child: Growing by Design, 19000-2000, in New York.

In the early 1920s, she and her husband, writer and journalist Jakob Seidmann, founded publishing house Perergrin Verlag in Berlin. It was named after the main character in The Fish's Journey, who seeks to overcome his outsider status by escaping to a dreamlike utopia. Tragically, the demise of their publishing venture in the wake of 1929 global financial collapse led to her husband's suicide, and in 1930, to her own. (Their seven-year-old daughter, Angela, went to live with Tom's sister, the actress Lily Freud, and her husband in Hamburg, before they all moved to Prague in 1939. Angela, (Aviva) emigrated to Israel just before the outbreak if Word War II).

Seidmann-Freud died the same year that the liberal democracy in Germany, the Weimar Republic, started its frenzied downward descent. Until Hitler took dictatorial control in 1933, her work continued to receive accolades from her peers, including the legendary literary critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. Because she was Jewish, however, by 1933 her books began to disappear.

Despite the Nazis destruction of "suspect" literature, and her untimely death, copies of her innovative children's books have survived as an important part of the history of avant-garde book-making in twentieth century Europe.

[incorrectdeceptionquotes]

Jonathan: [To Cameron and Kay] I do not wish to unburden myself to you two, with your perfect marriage

Kay: Oh. You think our marriage is perfect?

Cameron: [Slightly panicked] Is it not?

[comeonamericawakeup]

President Trump is "reshaping the media landscape" to punish independent journalism and promote pro-MAGA propaganda, said Jill Abramson in The Boston Globe.

His wide-ranging assault on "legacy news media" includes several "frivolous" lawsuits alleging bias. Trump sued CBS for $10 billion, arguing that a 60 Minutes campaign interview with Kamala Harris was edited to make her sound more coherent. CBS released the interview transcript last week, proving there was no deceptive editing. But CBS's owner, Paramount, is worried Trump could block a corporate merger and reportedly may settle the suit - a "peace offering" to a vengeful president, who said last week 60 Minutes "should be immediately ter-minated." Earlier, ABC and Meta/Facebook settled Trump lawsuits for $15 million and $25 million, respectively. Meanwhile, his administration is demoting news organizations such as The New York Times, NBC News, NPR, and Politico from front-row seats and access at the White House and Pentagon and replacing them with far-right, pro-Trump staffers from Breitbart News, The Daily Caller, and the New York Post. In the Trump era, "reliable news and information” are under assault, while overtly partisan new media have favored status.

THE WEEK February 21, 2025

FASCISM

[disappearinginq]

8 + Deception?

Counting it also for #11 in Whumpuary :-D - and alas, Johnny and Cameron, my beloveds....gone too soon.

“How long were you planning on hiding this?”

“I didn’t ask for this,” Cameron protested, wincing as Jonathan prodded at the bruising around his eye.

“Are you sure about that?”

Cameron scowled at his brother, despite how much it hurt. It was getting puffier by the minute, and he could barely see out of that eye. “You mean did I ask ‘please punch me in the face’? No.”

Jonathan stuck an icepack in Cameron’s hand, and moved them both towards Cameron’s face, pressing them both there with a gentleness that belied his irritation.

“Maybe it was subtext.”

Cameron paused. “No?”

[alex-truly]

(Welcome to Escrea.) "The balance among it all." (PART 1: The Fundamentals)

Three Main factions:

*REMINDER: Not all "Virtues"/bulletpoints/direct (asexual) children will be completely related to the "associated" faction!!!* *( abc = VIRTUE DEAD/MISSING)*

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(Each mini faction/virtues has it's each respectable deity, while each faction is assigned to each kingdom based on what deity they praise/pray to the most)

EX: Kingdom of ______ (praises "virtue of light") b/c light is of Lumen's faction = Kingdom ______ is under Lumen's faction (and so on)

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(Emotion) Tenebris:

Death

Yang

Contracts

Darkness

Moon

Nighttime (& Sleep)

Instinct

Honesty

Song & Harmony

Charity

Truth

Elation

Chastity

Religion

Diligence

Humility

Kindness

Patience

Temperance

Beauty

Loyalty

Underworld & Death

Humanity

Memories & Fate

Shadow

Astronomy

Reality

Creation

Wisdom

Wealth

Manhood/Masculinity

Peace/Tranquility

Abundance/"The hunt"

Time

Knowledge

(ETC)

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(The Elements) Lumen:

Life

Yin

Secrecy

Holiness

Light

Sun

Daytime

Healing

Love/Marriage/Desire

Friendship/Family

Wind

Clouds

Sky

Ascension

Thunder

Lightning

Heavens

Divinity

Aether

Arts (all forms, minus song)

Good luck

Strength

Astral/Celestial/Stars

Exploration

Nature

Animals

Freedom

Sea/Ocean

Magic

Fire

Womanhood/Fertility

Feminism

Law & Justice

(ETC)

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(Chaos) Eclipsis:

Purgatory

Chaos/Destruction

Violence/Bloodlust

Eclipse(s)

War

Brutality

Noon time

Trauma

Arcane (no not the show)

Pain

Trickery

Grief/Sorrow/Misery

Abandonment

Sin

Delusion

Impulse

Malice

Bad luck

Greed

Gluttony

Sloth

Envy

Pride

Lust

Wrath

Descension

Fear

Deception

Forbidden Love

Secrecy

Addiction

Gambling

(ETC)

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(Places/Times to receive) Blessings

Lumen:

Prayer

Rituals

Shrines

Churches

Cathedrals

Travelling

Daytime

Tenebris:

Prayer

Rituals

Shrines

Temples

Meditation

Nighttime

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More loreee :D! (PART 1)

BLESSINGSSS (short section :>):

When someone/something is given a blessing from Lumen, they are considered "A blessed one" within the community. Since Lumen is considered one of the younger first pillars of reality, they often give out more blessings to people unlike Tenebris (though getting a direct blessing from Tenebris or Lumen is almost very uncommon *exceptions are to be discussed in another post*).

Usually blessings from "virtues" from each respectable umbrella faction (Tenebris & Lux) are more commonly known (mainly among the royal/heirs/etc (if gov then usually common among the ones who are related to priests and etc of the virtue)) since the "virtues" are more active, considerably younger than Tenebris and Lumen combined. Because of this, getting a blessing from a "virtue" is easier to obtain usually through showing what resonates with the "virtue" the most and is thus given a mark or some other kind of way of showing that "Hey, I'm a blessed one of (virtue here)." which can be taken in either good or bad regard depending on what virtue's blessing you get. The public usually believes that the messengers of Lumen come in the form of birds & angel-like animals, while the messengers of Tenebris are monsters & mythical creatures, while direct messengers are the "chosen ones" (explanation in part 2!). The public claims the messengers of Eclipsis being any other "ugly" or "evil" creature, while the direct messengers being the "cursed ones".

When it comes to Eclipsis people usually don't ask/want blessings (or rather curses seen in the eyes of the community) from any of the "virtues" from them, yet all the same stuff still applies of getting marks (or other) from one of the "virtues" or from Eclipsis themselves (usually Eclipsis gives out direct blessings to those they see as "worthy", abandoned, etc from the other virtues and/or Tenebris & Lumen thus being "thrown away to them as a result. Those who do get a curse directly from them do often see them as a parental figure or etc since most that get the "curse" are seen as outcasts and rejected from almost every society/kingdom/gov.). Those who do get claimed by the "virtues" of Eclipsis or Eclipsis themselves are seen as "A blessed one" but rather "A cursed/forsaken one" since Eclipsis is seen and portrayed as a negative in general, thus no need to ask for a "blessing"/"curse" from any of Eclipsis's "virtues" and etc. Those who usually get "claimed" by the "virtues" of Eclipsis & Eclipsis usually 9 times out of 10 disappear from society/go in hiding for their own safety, or in some cases join underground factions/societies that are ran by those who did get claimed by them (sometimes become a (big-ish) found family situation depending on size of faction). Since these factions are underground, they usually don't reach out to society/come out of hiding unless to secretly offer any newly "claimed" people/etc to join their local (sometimes nomad) factions for their safety. Some criminal organizations are conspiracized by the public for where their members are "a cursed one" and the leader (sometimes are theorized) to be one of the virtues running the organization in effect.

[mariacallous]

Media advocacy group Freedom of the Press Foundation has sent a warning letter to Paramount mogul Shari Redstone, outlining plans to file a lawsuit if the media company settles a suit brought by President Donald Trump against its subsidiary, CBS.

“Corporations that own news outlets should not be in the business of settling baseless lawsuits that clearly violate the First Amendment,” Freedom of the Press Foundation director of advocacy Seth Stern said in a statement.

Stern issued the warning by asking for a litigation hold on Friday afternoon, demanding that Paramount preserve any documents relating to a potential Trump deal and urging the company not to settle. The nonprofit is able to seek damages because it owns shares of Paramount. It plans to act on behalf of itself and other shareholders, alleging that the settlement would amount to the company’s executives “breaching their fiduciary duties and wasting corporate assets by engaging in conduct that US senators and others believe could amount to unlawful bribery that falls outside the scope of the business judgment rule.” The White House and Paramount did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Last October, President Trump sued Paramount subsidiaries CBS Broadcasting and CBS Interactive, alleging that an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that aired on longstanding CBS News program 60 Minutes was deceptively edited, in a manner that constituted election interference. Initially seeking $10 billion in damages, Trump amended the lawsuit in February to ask for $20 billion. Paramount Global has a market cap of roughly $8.5 billion.

Although Paramount previously called the lawsuit “an affront to the First Amendment” in legal filings to dismiss this March, it has reportedly sought to settle; the company has a potentially lucrative merger pending with Hollywood studio Skydance that would require the Trump administration’s signoff.

Last week, Democratic senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Ron Wyden sent a letter to Redstone seeking information about any potential settlement, raising concerns that it would amount to bribery. “If Paramount officials make these concessions in a quid pro quo arrangement to influence President Trump or other Administration officials,” they wrote, “they may be breaking the law.”

Talks of a potential settlement had roiled CBS for months. Longtime 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens abruptly resigned in April, and CBS News president and CEO Wendy McMahon resigned earlier this month. “It’s become clear the company and I do not agree on a path forward,” she wrote in a memo to staff at the time.

Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount isn’t an isolated attack on the media. He sued ABC News, owned by the Walt Disney Company, for defamation in March 2024 over comments from anchor George Stephanopoulos portraying the president as “liable for rape.” (A federal jury found President Trump liable for sexual assault in a 2023 civil case, but not rape.) The company settled the case in December. In late April, Trump posted comments on his social platform Truth Social that appeared to threaten The New York Times with the possibility of legal action in the future.

The type of lawsuit the Freedom of the Press Foundation plans to file, known as a shareholder derivative lawsuit, allows people and organizations who own shares of a publicly traded company to recover damages when executives harm the company. This is the same type of legal action that Tesla shareholders took to successfully fight CEO Elon Musk’s hefty $56 million compensation package, which Musk is now appealing. (Tesla also changed its corporate bylaws this month to make it harder for investors to pursue this type of lawsuit.)

Best known for its free speech advocacy for media organizations, the Freedom of the Press Foundation sees this action—which is unlike any legal challenge it’s mounted before—as an extension of that mission, even though it targets a media organization. (Disclosure: WIRED global editorial director Katie Drummond serves on the Freedom of the Press foundation board.)

If the Freedom of the Press Foundation does seek legal action and successfully sues Paramount over a proposed settlement, the damages would go to Paramount rather than the nonprofit itself. “You don't expect, as advocates for press freedom, to have to file lawsuits against executives of media publishers,” says Stern. “We're a press freedom organization trying to recover money for a media outlet from rogue executives.”