#criminal clownery

[sillysymbol]

FINALLY POSTING THESE AFTER 4 MONTHS UHM. new year new criminal clownery (it is april)

learn more about them here!

read about boundaries here!

[lobster-lover]

a hoot and a holler

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fanart for @sillysymbol because his ocs are so so silly and so so yease :)

bonus:

[webito9]

i know how we can get rid of him (happy birthday @sillysymbol !)

[paranormeow7]

@sillysymbol hi

[frank-bennedetto]

Fanart of @sillysymbol 's Character Carni Valentine

[hash-mashh]

tiny fanart i did of @sillysymbol ‘s pirplexa cause i just love his design

I WAS going to make it an attack but i’m not doing art fight this year ;-;

sooooooo

[cricketbus]

drawing of @sillysymbol ‘s miles russo. I squished him

[glassedplanets]

i am still soooo charmed by that one set of eyecatchers

[bitch-exe]

woke up thinking that eddie munson on the screen of metallica’s lollapalooza set was a dream but no it was real and i did actually shed a real life cinematic single tear last night over this very weird and real moment

[sillysymbol]

i havent drawn these losers in a while

[transmechanicus]

Literally nothing worse than having a song slap but the lyrics don’t, like yes this is stuck in my head, yes i am in agony, what the fuck.

[cuppajj]

your doodles remind me of just how tiny shadow milk cookie is and yet this blue zestfest can still probably destroy the universe ans this is why i love him. i am glad we can agree thay hhe is just a silly guy (ignore his criminal record)

I literally forget often that these cookies are COOKIES like they are the size of your hand at most. They are that small. Shadow Milk is that small. He could destroy the universe?? ahuh yeah like no nah I’d win. I could and would take him in a fight 💪💪 no act of clownery will save his ass anymore no matter how silly. let me at em

[deusvervewrites]

Ask Game: Mr.Compress and Midoriya meet before canon, Mr. Compress takes them under his wing to complete the heist of 2 centuries, stealing All for One. (Interaction with Midoriya also stops most of Compress' clownery) (Also, Midoriya's "stage" identity is "Miss Direction". It definitely does not become a gender thing. (it does).

The news breaks about a massive security leak that outed a bunch of the faculty at Aldera as being sympathetic to Destro's movement, earning the interest of Mr. Compress. After all, the leak wasn't some digital hack, but the physical theft of various files. He has to see who's living up to his ancestor's legacy.

It is, of course, Midoriya. And unfortunately, his first caper was not exactly the cleanest. Luckily, Compress got there first and disposed of the incriminating evidence pointing to Midoriya and then introduced himself properly, offering to mentor him. While most people would be alarmed at a strange criminal tracking you down to teach you to crime better, Midoriya is rather short on positive relationships and accepts easily.

Compress is approached by Giran about being part of the League of Villain's upcoming raid on UA (Note: this is still a few years before the USJ attack would happen; AFO was recruiting in advance). Compress turns this down to focus on Midoriya's growth. While discussing this with Midoriya and the possibility of AFO's involvement, Midoriya suddenly realizes there is in fact a guy out there who has Quirks that Midoriya can take for himself so he won't be Quirkless anymore. Compress likes his audacity.

Over the next year, the two of them get into so many Villain/Vigilante hijinks while preparing for the AFO Heist. This is when Midoriya debuts his Miss Direction persona, which is definitely solely to protect his secret identity and not at all because he's always wanted to wear a dress and be pretty. It is during this time that the two of them start forming those connections with the various future UA students.

All this work pays off and earns them the attention of All For One and Garaki, who offer Miss Direction to undergo the All For One Copy implanting procedure instead of Nine, who will presumably die of clowning too hard but who cares. Unlike Nine, Midoriya's previously Quirkless body handles the copied Quirk perfectly, resulting in him not having the same Quirk limit that Nine canonically had.

+1. Thanks to Miss Direction being a secret identity, nobody in UA knows that she and Midoriya are the same person, leaving Midoriya extremely embarrassed whenever their classmates gush about her. Especially because Toga is openly crushing on Miss Direction.

+2. Midoriya doesn't figure out why she likes being Miss Direction so much for a long time, misunderstanding the euphoria as coming from basically being in a Hero Costume with a Hero Persona. Yes, even after she starts using a shapeshifting Quirk to really 'get into character.'

+3. Midoriya's attempts to cover for their secret identity leaves everyone convinced that Miss Direction has a crush on them.

For Fem!Midoriya, I'm going with the name Kumiko (久美子). That first kanji, 久, is the same as the one in Izuku (出久), which wasn't strictly necessary, but that's the kanji that happens to be the pun on the Japanese word for Nine and if Horikoshi is going all in on these shitty puns then so am I. Of course, since this pun is a homophone, any Ku sound would work.

[sherryx12]

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Your local Law PhD is going through the draft SCOTUS ruling overturning Roe / Casey and here are a few thoughts, if you want a quick overview of the thing as I get angrier with each new point, culminating in me loosing my absolute shit :

The main argument is basically "yeah, we are bound by Casey, but Casey relies on Roe, and Roe was wrong, so we can overturn all that"

This is not a drill, this is the actual, proper, end of Roe and federal protection of abortion, if this passes.

"this was not protected in the XIIIth century England, and there fore should not be protected now" is an actual legal argument that I had to read with my own two eyes

Quick reminder : overturning Roe/Casey does not ban abortion, but it says that there is no constitutional right to abortion at federal level, and therefore this is for each individual US state to decide

The draft basically says that this is State business, specifically, the legislative power of each states should decide.

but what worries me is that if a State wanted to actually criminalize abortion, the same reasoning could hold. Meaning that SCOTUS would not give any costitutional protection to the one being prosecuted, because historically the tradition is to criminalize rather than protect their right. Basically while this does not make abortion a crime, it lets the States decide up to an including criminalizing it

This would still be under the control of each State's own Supreme Court though.

I am pretty sure SCOTUS writing 100-pages long rulings is a self-defense mechanism where if you ever want to litigate to overturn a ruling, it is a dantesque effort

(more under the cut bc this got long oops)

The sheer clownery of assessing a scholarly article as not acceptable argument because it "advances ideological goal", as your entire reasoning is based on the originalist doctrine ????

SO MUCH OF THIS REASONING IS BASICALLY HISTORICAL DISCUSSION OF WHETHER, HOW MUCH AND HOW WOMEN HAD ABORTION IN THE XVIII CENTURY WHYYYYYY

"Looking into the legislative motives of legislator who are still alive and can give explanation to why they pass laws supporting abortion rights is too dodgy, let's stick to old XVIIIth century manuscript written by men telling us how women handled their preganancies"

I started sweating buckets when the draft also got into other precedents on the decriminalization of homosexuality, interracial marriage, other reproductive rights... but so far the draft says that "yeah, but abortion involved a potential life of another person, so it's different". Even though the draft goes "yeah, they also have no basis in history though". YERK.

The audacity of saying "oh and we treat pregnant women real well now !!" and supporting this by giving statistics on UNPAID FAMILY LEAVE ???

"Also the foster care system is doing great" BITCH SAY THAT AGAIN TO MY FACE

The audacity of invoking Brown v Board of Education, which ended the separate-but-equal doctrine, to support overturning Roe/Casey sent me to Hell to prep a cozy room for a few people there

( Alito discussing why Stare Decisis has the same energy as that GIF of BArbossa going "“The code is more what you'd call 'guidelines' than actual rules.”" )

One argument is that the test of "undue burden" is too vague to be workable, but it follows the part where the draft whines about SCOTUS being way too specific on Roe and overtstepping its role by doing so ??!? Please make up your mind ??

Also, Alito, you are a jurist. A lawyer. You KNOW that legal standards are vague. That's what they are for. They are legal standards. They are MEANT to be vague while still giving sufficient visibility in the future. You are not convincing any single lawyer, here.

Even "necessary" abortion are not protected, because, really what does "necessary" even mean ? Who can say ? Would it include protecting a someone whose pregnancy places her life in danger ? Would it include a sexually assulted teenager who does not want the pregnancy resulting from this ? Who is to say ? Certain not Alito, according to him.

"Casey is bad because it gave people ideas and made it potentially easier for them to get their right constitutionnaly protected " is not the hot take I expected in the year of our lord 2022 yet here we are.

Who can say if abortion really helped women be trly equal citizen and facilitated their involvement in society as equal to men ? Who can ? that's a really tough empirical question, according to Alito. But that fine !! And like, they have the right to vote !!! So it's fine. If they are really mad about that, they can just vote at State level.

Quick question : have you talked to a woman who is NOT an upper class straight cis white woman, recently ?

"How dare you say that the ruling of the sCOTUS could be influenced by the public's reaction ?? I am a JUDGE. Appointed by a President elected based on political preferences, confirmed by a legislative body whose members are elected based on their political preferences, but the Court is TOTALLY ABOVE THAT" Bro I am from a Civil law country and even I will not defend my Supreme Court like that.

"We must now decide which standard will govern abortion" hold up I am going to need alcohol for that

Wait what

There is no standard

You mentioned a new standard where is the new standard

THERE IS NO STANDARD

WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN WE NEED TO DECIDE ON THE STANDARD ??? YOU SPENT 30 PAGES PONTIFICATING ON THE SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE ABORTION IN XIVTH CENTURY ENGLAND AND YOU ARE GOING TO GIVE THE ACTUAL ANSWER TO THE QUESTION AT HAND IN 3 PARAGRAPHS ?????

DON'T SAY TOY ARE GOING TO SET A STANDARD IF YOU ARE NOT GOING TO SET A STANDARD

"RATIONAL-BASIS REVIEW" IS BARELY A STANDARD IT'S BASICALLY JUST GOING "YEAH STATES CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT AS LONG AS THEY GIVE A REASON"

YOU DID NOT EVEN HAVE TO GO THAT FAR

BUT YOU DID ?!???!?!

YOU BASICALLY OPENED THE DOOR TO A TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE BAN ON ABORTION AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF ABORTION WHEN EVEN THE LAW YOU WERE ASKED TO REVIEW DID NOT GO THAT FAR

BUT YEAH SURE WE WOULD N E V E R WANT THE SCOTUS TO OVERSTEP ITS POWER TO IMPLEMENT POLICY PREFERENCES

[feral feminine legal screeching]