#delta 10 g

[myrem-mind]

What would I not give to be a 90s/early 2000s-esque animated character apart of a nonchalantly cooler than yours friend group ?

N O T H I N G , there is literally

N O T H I N G I would not give or do, take it all and beam me up !!

1 - JSR 2 - PARIS BLUES ADV. 3 - GOTILLAZ 4 - DOWNTOWN 5 - SILVERTAB ADV. 6 - DELTA STATE 7 - DARIA 8/9 - @BRUJO_ARI_ ON INSTA. 10 - DELTA STATE

[miminmimikyu]

Prodigy episodes 11-12: Jankom you hero! You know that those anger management classes were good if Jankom managed to de-escalate a conflict between a tactless angry Dal and an absolutely livid Chakotay in a room with no Janeway

Jesus episode 11 got really dark really quickly.

Gosh that opening sequence of Chakotay’s life on Ysida was so beautiful. The gentle piano and strings music accompanying this montage was so understated and pretty. The soundtrack on this show...

ngl when Chakotay carved that third chess piece I thought it represented a child

TEN years! That’s longer than Voyager was stranded in the Delta Quadrant! If anyone of the ex-Voyager crew can survive 10 years on an isolated planet, it’s Chakotay, but oooff. I guess 10 years of solitude and the deaths of your entire crew weighing on your mind constantly will do that to a guy. I think that the closest he’s ever been portrayed as this.. callous(?) was in Timeless, where he also lost all but one of his (& Janeway’s) crew. It was so satisfying to see Chakotay get so many emotional moments this episode (still, quite shocking to see him try to attack defenceless kids).

The scene in the cave was so perfect, everything came together— the moody blue of the cavern, Dal’s initial shocked expression and inability to speak, Adreek’s skeleton just sitting there and protecting the antimatter for god knows how long.. and then to top it off the two-hit KO of the incredible animation conveying Chakotay’s horror and grief and guilt, and Robert Beltan’s voice acting!. (I’m so used to his clocked-out performance for a large part of Voyager, I was taken so off guard by the emotions he conveyed in this episode (and the next).…. God that was beautiful

Please.. I’m already dead π_π

I love how it’s not a sense of sudden responsibility for some children but the kids just earnestly working away that gradually drags Chakotay out of his shell. Worn down by their work ethic (and them finding the corpse of his first officer for him 💀).

Yet again: what a cool planet!! A lot of the planets the kids have visited this season have been devoid of humanoid life but each of them is so unique and interesting. Not the worst place to be marooned, if not for the beasts.

I really like the reversal of the Janeway-Chakotay dynamic here. On Voyager, Chakotay kept Janeway in check, now holo Janeway does that for Chakotay. It’s cute how he looks back at her for input from time to time.

Dal and Chakotay actually make a great duo. I really liked their heart-to-heart. Also the way they clash, definitely a different dynamic compared to Dal and Janeway. I didn’t expect Dal to confess his insecurity re:the peek at his future so soon. I don’t think that this solved it but I’m glad that he was given a bit of a confidence boost.

These two episodes sure reminded me of Resolution… stranded on a planet, the planet is plagued by ion storms, Chakotay/Janeway infected vs. the Protostar infected. Chakotay is resigned to his fate while Janeway/Adreek is set on fixing the situation (Janeway didn’t manage but Adreek did).... and then in episode 12 Chakotay tells Dal about how he always felt lost (as a child on his homeworld, in the maquis as an adult..), until he met Janeway and became her number one… that’s almost exactly the same thing that he told Janeway in Resolutions (minus the metaphor + heavy romantic overtones). Hell, episode 12 even starts with Vice Admiral Janeway getting her shoulder massaged (/manhandled. by the doctor. and she hates it. unlike when Chakotay did it on New Earth ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ). Only Janeway isn’t actually stranded with him on Ysida…

Chakotay and Holo Janeway… do you think they explored each other’s bo-

Beverly Crusher is k i l l i n g me being all “Jean-Luc? Dunno, you know him, always working!! Hahaha, let’s talk about motherhood” while hiding her now 4-year old secret lovechild.

Anyway. So if Voyager is nearby (ish), that means that this is present-day and Chakotay crashed 10 years in the past? So besides fixing the protostar back up, they need to wipe holo Janeway’s memories, crash the Protostar in the past and I guess Chakotay just loses 10 years of his life now?

[ausetkmt]

Knights of Liberty - Wikipedia

Pictured here is Moses Dickson, from the frontispiece illustration of the 1879 book A Manual of the Knights of Tabor and Daughters of the Tabernacle. In 1872, the Rev. Moses Dickson founded the International Order of Twelve of Knights and Daughters of Tabor, an African-American fraternal order focused on benevolence and financial programs. Dickson was born a free man in Cincinnati in 1824, was a Union soldier during the Civil War, and afterwards became a prominent clergyman in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Dickson showed an interest in progressive fraternal organizations early on – in 1846 Dickson, with others, founded a society known as the Knights of Liberty, whose objective was to overthrow slavery; the group did not get beyond the organizing stages. Dickson was also involved in Freemasonry – he was the second Grand Master of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Missouri.

Dickson’s International Order of Twelve of Knights and Daughters of Tabor – or Order of Twelve, as it’s more commonly know – accepted men and women on equal terms. Men and women met together in higher level groups and in the governance of the organization, although at the local level they met separately – the men in “temples” and the women in “tabernacles” (akin to “lodges” in Freemasonry). The Order of Twelve was most prominent in the South and the lower Midwest. The major benefits to members – similar to many fraternal orders of the time – was a burial policy and weekly cash payments for the sick.

What many people today remember about the Order of Twelve is an institution founded in Mound Bayou, Misssissippi in 1942 – the Taborian Hospital. Michael Premo, a Story Corps facilitator, posted his appreciation for the impact that the Taborian Hospital had on the lives of African-Americans living in the Mississippi Delta from the 1940s-1960s. The Taborian Hospital was on the Mississippi Heritage Trust’s 10 Most Endangered List of 2000, and an update to that list indicates that the hospital still stands vacant and seeks funding for renovation. Here are some photos of the Taborian Hospital today.

Want to learn more about the Order of Twelve? Here are a few primary and secondary sources that we have here in our collection (with primary sources listed first):

Dickson, Moses. A Manual of the Knights of Tabor and Daughters of the Tabernacle, including the Ceremonies of the Order, Constitutions, Installations, Dedications, and Funerals, with Forms, and the Taborian Drill and Tactics. St. Louis, Mo. : G. I. Jones [printer], 1879. Call number: RARE HS 2259 .T3 D5 1879

—-. Ritual of Taborian Knighthood, including : the Uniform Rank. St. Louis, Mo. : A. R. Fleming & Co., printers, 1889. Call number: RARE HS 2230 .T3 D5 1889

Beito, David. From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social services, 1890-1967. Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Call number: 44 .B423 2000

Skocpol, Theda, Ariane Liazos, Marshall Ganz. What a Mighty Power We Can Be : African American Fraternal Groups and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006. Call number: 90 .S616 2006 (1)

(1)  From The National Heritage Museum -   http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2008/05/moses-dickson-a.html

SOME ADDITIONAL INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT MOSES DICKSON

Moses Dickson, prior to the Civil War was a traveling barber.  Later he became an AME minister and was known as Father Dickson.

He was one of the Founders of the Lincoln Institute, now Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Misouri.

In 1879 along with others such as James Milton Turner, John Wheeler and John Turner he helped create the Committee of Twenty Five, organized to set up temporary housing for the more than 10,000 travelers who passed through St. Louis each year.

He was President of the Refugee Relief Board in St. Louis which helped to shelter and feed 16,000 former slaves who relocated to Kansas.

Moses Dickson was the first Grand Lecturer of the Most Worhipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Missouri upon its foundation in 1865.  He was the second Grand Master of this Grand Lodge and the Grand Secretary in 1869.

In 1876 Companion Moses dickson was elected Deputy Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Holy Royal Arch Masons of Missouri and Jurisdiction.

Moses Dickson wrote the Ritual of Heroines of Jericho penning the “Master Mason’s Daughter,” the “True Kinsman,” and “Heroines of Jericho” degrees. It was sold and distributed by the Moses Dickson Regalia and Supply Co., Kansas City, Missouri and entered into the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. in the year 1895.

The Knights of Liberty was organized by 12 Black Men in secret in August, 1846 in St. Louis, Missouri.  They were also known as the Knights of Tabor or the International Order of Twelve. Tabor is a Biblical mountain in Israel where the Israelites won a big victory over the Canaanites.

Moses Dickson was a leader of the Underground Railroad.  He and 47,000 other Knights enlisted in the Union Army as soon as Linclon authorized Black men to sign up.

Disbanded by the Civil War many of the Knights of Liberty reformed after the War was over into a benevolent fraternal society named the International Order of the Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Moses Dickson authored “International Order of Twelve 333 of Knights and Daughters of Tabor,” a book outlining the Constitution, Rules and Regulations of the Temples of the Uniform Rank of Tabor and Taborian Division.

Moses Dickson died on November 28, 1901. A truly remarkable man!

Originally published at the National Heritage Museum’s blog. The National Heritage Museum is an American history museum founded and supported by 32° Scottish Rite Freemasons in the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States of America.

[curator-on-ao3]

20 questions for fic writers

Thank you so much for tagging me, @divinemissem13! ❤️

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 127

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 660,997

3. What fandoms do you write for? Star Treks, mostly Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, Picard, and Voyager.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Tuvok’s Secret (G): Tuvok has a secret — and he trusts only one person onboard to keep it. (Kathryn Janeway & Tuvok)

Feet on the Ground (G): Something solid slams into Kathryn’s back. She stumbles forward, bumping Mark, who in turn careens into someone else. Kathryn turns to glare at the probably inebriated party-goer who didn’t watch where they were going. But, instead, she looks up to achingly familiar dark eyes and the curves and lines of a tattoo that Kathryn spent the last eighteen months telling herself she didn’t miss. (Chakotay/Kathryn Janeway)

The Halo Effect (M): Tom Paris and Kathryn Janeway didn’t intend to fall in love. (Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris)

Fly Me to the Moon (E): Kathryn Janeway and Tom Paris never met each other years before Voyager. Never served on a covert mission together. Never fell in love. Never planned a future together. Nope, never happened. Because a secret like that could lead to some … complex dichotomies. (Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris)

Bad Ensign (T): Harry Kim finds out he missed out on an important part of the Starfleet Academy experience. Hilarity and dirty jokes ensue. (ensemble, friendship fic)

5. Do you respond to comments? Yes. If someone was kind enough to leave a comment, I’m going to thank them.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? I used to not know how to answer this question, but I recently got a kudos on Honey, I’m Home and while that story definitely isn’t “sit down crying” angst, I feel like maybe it qualifies? (Though In the Doorway might also fit under that criteria? Both stories are Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris, but they only get together in one of them.)

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Either Feet on the Ground or Youthful Exuberance (Some Kind of Love). Feet on the Ground has Janeway and Chakotay finding their way together after their Delta Quadrant trauma (note: Chakotay is afraid to leave the Sol system for fear of getting pulled into the Delta Quadrant again — Prodigy!Chakotay didn’t exist yet when I wrote that but, from what I’ve heard, he could possibly relate). Youthful Exuberance lets our heroes, Christopher Pike and Una Chin-Riley, have all manner of ups and downs, but the tags promise a 100 percent happy ending and I was determined to deliver.

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not that I’m aware of, usually.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes. Vanilla because I find that interesting to write. (I’ll read all sorts of stuff.)

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? I write crossovers within the Trekverse. The two craziest allowed Tuvok and Geordi LaForge to have tea together (Asunder [T] Kathryn Janeway/Tom Paris) and Shannon O’Donnell Janeway to tell Benny Russell how much his writing has meant to her (Meeting of the Minds [G] Shannon O’Donnell Janeway & Benny Russell, Kathryn Janeway & Benjamin Sisko).

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Other than by ChatGPT, not to my knowledge.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Yes, In the Doorway was translated into Russian.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes, and am doing so again.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? NCC 1701

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? There’s one I technically finished about Tom Paris and Owen Paris in the aftermath of Owen’s beta canon torture by the Cardassians. But it’s really dark and I don’t know if I’ll ever edit or post it.

16. What are your writing strengths? Adaptability (to prompts), brevity, details.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I’m having trouble lately with voice and lack of vocabulary variety.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? If necessary, a beta fluent in the language can be very helpful.

19. First fandom you wrote for? I consider that to be Voyager, but recently reflected on an even earlier fandom for me.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? My most recent fic always holds a place in my heart, so Disarmed (Mirror Una Chin-Riley/Mirror Christopher Pike) is special to me, and also was an interesting mental stretch because I’d never before written sex that the characters think is good but I think isn’t good. But my all-time favorite? Youthful Exuberance (Some Kind of Love). It’s my novel length love letter to Chris and Una, and it means a lot to me.

Tagging: Tumblr has been doing this fun thing lately where I don’t see posts from people I follow. So, if you actually see this, please consider yourself tagged with no pressure. Also, in addition to the wonderful people tagged by @divinemissem13, I’m tagging @grissomesque @fiadorable @emilie786 @genius2mania @lorcaswhisky @enterprise-come-in @marymoss1971 @sun-lit-roses @kejsarinna @iamstartraveller776 @isagrimorie @emonydeborah and the fantastic folks I’m not thinking of right now because I have tag anxiety.

[tr3x33]

w a s t e d n i g h t

film: Ilford Delta 3200 gear: Olympus OM-10 w/ F.Zuiko 1:1.8 f=50mm Moscow, September 2021

[jade-kyo]

RvB 20th rewatch: s9

This isn’t one of my favorite seasons but alas I still have a good time with it

Church dramatically monologuing to himself and restarting when he gets interrupted is so real bro just like me fr

NORTH AND SOUTH!!!!!

Honestly I know this is quite literally the point but the leaderboard is INSANE like you’re fighting a war and trying to come up with any means to win and you take your god damn super soldiers and make them fight each other for approval. Absolutely DERANGED.

CAROLINA!!!!! MY BABYGIRL!!!!

Also love how she’s introduced as camouflaged and in black armor to parallel Tex

“Sorry about the mess fellas” I LOVE HER I LOVER HER I LOVE HER SO FUCKING MUCH SHES SO SILLY LET HER BE SILLY!!!!!

Man the game has these little flashy lights on the armor and once you notice it it’s so distracting lol

NORTH YOU BADASS!!!!!!! AND THE FACE REVEAL ALSHKAHSKDHKSJSK

G o d this music is so good

GOD THE LEADERBOARD IS DERANGED

Man Carolina cares about her team- she immediately offers to talk to South…

So the freelancers are just the reverse of the reds and blues. They start out as allies and friends and slowly become enemies and backstab each other all in the name of becoming the best

Meanwhile the reds and blues start out as enemies and try to kill each other regularly and end up coming together over time both because they genuinely come to care about each and because they’re losers who need each other to survive cause they’re not capable of doing so on their own

CT!!!!!!

CT really was the only one smart enough to see through the leaderboard bullshit

OMG TUCKER TEACHING ABOUT GIRLS AKHSKAJS THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE BITS IN THE SHOW ITS SO FUNNY

I think Caboose is the only person here that actually gets bitches

“I have been preparing for this role my whole life”

Feminist Caboose

“I think the working class should uprise against the rich people” Church you are a treasure

GOD THIS ENTIRE BIT HAS SO MANY GOOD MOMENTS

Wait…. Is Grif yellow?? It may just be the lighting or something but he looks really yellow this season… IS GRIF YELLOW BECAUSE CHURCH REMEMBERS HIM WRONG OMG AKSHKAHSKDJ

Tucker really the one to call out Church for constantly bringing Tex back and how absolutely wild that is

TEX!!!!!!! GOD SHES SO PERFECT AND HOT AND SEXY

Carolina cares so much I’m gonna vomit

I wonder what drunk Caboose would be like

Not even a minute and Chex already has the divorced vibes

The andersmith bit is also one of my favorites

AND THE COW BIT

Alpha…auogagahh

“Andersmith, I kept my promise… you have been avenged…” Caboose you are a treasure

Yorkalina you will always be famous to me

“Probably the sound of you being an idiot” // “oh yeah… dick biscuit” quoted line

JINKIES ITS SHARKFACE

“Shut up counselor” that was a very Church moment…

FALLIIIING TOWAAAARDS THE SKYYYYY

Wash is so silly

Tex is so fucking sexy

CAROLINA IS SO FREAKING PRETTY ALSHLAHSLSHKD

ANDY!!!!!

“Yeah I know how to lift jackass I’ve been carrying this entire team since I got here”

DELTA!!!!!

Agony

I am in agony

Chex my beloved

“I forget you”

Kill me

Church fr better than me I would not be able to let go of a hottie like Tex

CABOOSE IS GOD

I do wonder how if Church knew that it was a rescue and not the end of the world if he would’ve made a different decision

“You’ve given me everything, I would do anything for you” agony

CAROLINA AND CHURCH MY BELOVED

I enjoyed this season way more than I remember enjoying it in the past- but now onto season 10… god I love season 10

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

May 14, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

MAY 15, 2024

Today the White House announced tariffs on certain products imported from China, including steel and aluminum products, semiconductors, electric vehicles, batteries and battery components, solar cells, ship-to-shore cranes, syringes and needles, and certain personal protective equipment (or PPE). According to the White House, these higher tariffs are designed “to protect American workers and businesses from China’s unfair trade practices.” Tariffs are essentially taxes on imported goods, and altogether the tariff hikes cover about $18 billion in imported goods.

In 2018, Trump abruptly ended the economic era based on the idea that free trade benefited the global economy by putting tariffs of 25% on a wide range of foreign made goods. This was a cap to a set of ideas that had been sputtering for a while as industries moved to countries with cheaper labor, feeding the popular discontent Trump tapped into. Trump claimed that other countries would pay his tariffs, but tariffs are actually paid by Americans, not foreign countries, and his have cost Americans more than $230 billion. Half of that has come in under the Biden administration. 

Trump’s tariffs also actually cost jobs, but they were very popular politically. A January 2024 National Bureau of Economic Research working paper by David Autor, Anne Beck, David Dorn, and Gordon H. Hanson established that the trade war of 2018–2019 hurt the U.S. heartland but actually helped Trump’s reelection campaign. “Residents of regions more exposed to import tariffs became less likely to identify as Democrats, more likely to vote to reelect Donald Trump in 2020, and more likely to elect Republicans to Congress,” they discovered.

Now Trump is saying, that if elected, he will impose a 10% tariff on everything imported into the United States, with a 60% tariff on anything from China and a 100% tariff on any cars made outside the U.S. 

In contrast, the administration’s new tariffs are aimed only at China, and only at industries already growing in the U.S., especially semiconductors. Tariffs will rise to 50% on semiconductors and solar cells, 100% on electric vehicles, and 25% on batteries, a hike that will help the Big Three automakers who agreed to union demands in newly opened battery factories, as well as their United Auto Workers workforce. “I’m determined that the future of electric vehicles be made in America by union workers. Period,” Biden said.

The administration says the tariffs are a response to China’s unfair trade practices, and such tariffs are popular in the manufacturing belt of Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Democratic senators from that region have asked Biden to maintain or increase tariffs on Chinese imports after “[g]enerations of free trade agreements that prioritize multinational corporations have devasted our communities, harmed our economy, and crippled our job market.” 

In other economic news, a new rule capping credit card late fees at $8, about a quarter of what they are now, was supposed to go into effect today, but on Friday a federal judge in Texas blocked the rule. The new cap was set by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the brainchild of Massachusetts Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren, and was part of the Biden administration’s crackdown on “junk fees.” 

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Bankers Association sued to stop the rule from taking effect, and U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, appointed by Trump, issued a preliminary injunction against it. His reasoning draws from an argument advanced by the far-right Fifth Circuit, which oversees Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, arguing that the CFPB itself is unconstitutional because of its funding structure. "Consequently, any regulations promulgated under that regime are likely unconstitutional as well," Pittman wrote. 

On Friday, major airlines, including American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Hawaiian Airlines, and Alaska Airlines—but not Southwest Airlines—sued the U.S. Department of Transportation over its new rule that requires the airlines disclose their fees, such as for checking bags, upfront to consumers. The department says consumers are overpaying by $543 million a year in unexpected fees. 

The airlines say that the rule will confuse consumers and that its “attempt to regulate private business operations in a thriving marketplace is beyond its authority.”

The other big story of the day is the continuing attempt of the MAGA Republicans to overturn our democratic system. 

This morning, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), second in line for the presidency and sworn to uphold the Constitution, left his post in Washington, D.C., to appear with former president Trump at his trial for falsifying business records to deceive voters before the 2016 election. The House was due to consider the final passage of the crucially important Federal Aviation Authority Reauthorization Act, but Johnson chose instead to show up to do the work the judge’s gag order means Trump cannot do himself, attacking key witness Michael Cohen, Trump’s former fixer. Johnson described Cohen as “clearly on a mission for personal revenge” and, citing his “history of perjury,” said that “[n]o one should believe a word he says in there.” 

“I do have a lot of surrogates,” Trump boasted this morning, “and they are speaking very beautifully.” Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who was also at the trial this morning, later said on Newsmax that they had indeed gone to “overcome this gag order.” 

Johnson went on to call the trial “corrupt” and say “this ridiculous prosecution…is not about justice. It’s all about politics.” He left without taking questions. Meg Kinnard of the Associated Press called out the moment as “a remarkable moment in modern American politics: The House speaker turning his Republican Party against the federal and state legal systems that are foundational to the U.S. government and a cornerstone of democracy.”

Peter Eisler, Ned Parker, and Joseph Tanfani of Reuters explained today how those attacks on our judiciary are sparking widespread calls for violence against judges, with social media posters in echo chambers goading each other into ever more extreme statements. According to her lawyer, Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, wore a bullet-proof vest as she came and went from court, an uncanny echo of the precautions necessary in mob trials.   

In a different attack on our constitutional system, House Republicans are trying to replace the administration’s foreign policy with their own. Over the weekend, they introduced a bill to force President Biden to send offensive weapons to Israel for its invasion of Rafah, overruling the administration’s decision to withhold a shipment of 2,000-pound and 500-pound bombs after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his government would invade Rafah despite strong opposition from the Biden administration. 

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters: “We strongly, strongly oppose attempts to constrain the president’s ability to deploy a U.S. security assistance consistent with U.S. foreign policy and national security objectives.”

The Constitution establishes that the executive branch manages foreign affairs, and until 2015 it was an established practice that politics stopped at the water’s edge, meaning that Congress quarreled with the administration at home but the two presented a united front in foreign affairs. That practice ended in March 2015, when 47 Republican senators, led by freshman Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, wrote a letter to Iran’s leaders warning that they would not honor any agreement Iran reached with the Obama administration over its development of nuclear weapons. 

The Obama administration did end up negotiating the July 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran and several world powers, under which Iran agreed to restrict its nuclear development and allow inspections in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. In 2018 the extremist Republicans got their way when Trump withdrew the U.S. from the deal, largely collapsing it, after which Iran resumed its expansion of the nuclear enrichment  program it had stopped under the agreement.  

Now extremists in the House are trying to run foreign policy on their own. The costs of that usurpation of power are clear in Niger, formerly a key U.S. ally in the counterterrorism effort in West Africa. The new prime minister of Niger, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, whose party took power after a coup d’état threw out Niger’s democratically elected president, defended his country’s turn away from the U.S. and toward Russia in an interview with Rachel Chason of the Washington Post. Recalling the House’s six month delay in passing the national security supplemental bill, he said: “We have seen what the United States will do to defend its allies,” he said, “because we have seen Ukraine and Israel.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[very-best-vivosaur]

Very Best Vivosaur Bracket: Matchup Masterlist

Please tap on the images above to see the complete bracket

Polls use the following tags:

#fossil fighters

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#fossil fighters frontier

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Reminders are posted 2 days before a group of polls expires and are strictly tagged as using the “#very best vivosaur bracket” tag

Text-Based Masterlist below!

Note: For completed polls, winners will be bolded

*Bracket ended with a tie

Round 1.

Group A

1-A: T-Rex vs Tarbo | 2-A: Allo vs Carno

3-A: Siamo vs Cryo | 4-A: Alectro vs Venator

*5-A: Giganto vs Cerato | 6-A: Desplato vs Gorgo

7-A: Metria vs Neo | 8-A: Alio vs Megalo

9-A: Guan vs Aopteryx | 10-A: Shanshan vs Proto

11-A: Hypsi vs Nasaur | 12-A: Tro vs Coelo

13-A: Aeros vs Mapo | 14-A: Raja vs Krypto

15-A: Berto vs Archaeo | 16-A: Oloro vs Nippono

Group B

1-B: Giganto (Frontier) vs Tarbo (Frontier)

2-B: T-Rex Sue (Frontier) vs T-Rex Stan (Frontier)

3-B: Big Allo (Frontier) vs Allo PT (Frontier)

4-B: Lythro vs Gorgo (Frontier)

5-B: Mapo (Frontier) vs Beckles

6-B: Carchar (Frontier) vs Raja (Frontier)

7-B: Cryo (Frontier) vs F-Raptor (Frontier)

8-B: Cerato (Frontier) vs Cerato TZ (Frontier)

9-B: S-Raptor vs F-Raptor | 10-B: Carchar vs Acro

11-B: Spino vs Sucho | 12-B: Angato vs Onyx

13-B: Spino (Frontier) vs Spino ST (Frontier)

14-B: Angato (Frontier) vs Sucho (Frontier)

15-B: Diplo vs Amargo (Frontier)

16-B: Edapho (Frontier) vs Dimentro (Frontier)

Group C

1-C: Nychus vs V-Raptor

2-C: M-Raptor vs U-Raptor

3-C: Breme vs O-Raptor | 4-C: Igua vs Ouarno

5-C: Nychus (Frontier) vs V-Raptor (Frontier)

6-C: U-Raptor (Frontier) vs Zino (Frontier)

7-C: Diplo (Frontier) vs Diplo US (Frontier)

8-C: Alaxis vs Sengo | 9-C: Compso vs Dilopho

10-C: Sopteryx vs Delta

11-C: Lambeo vs Paraloph | 12-C: Maia vs Anato

13-C: Orno vs Cheirus

14-C: E-Raptor vs Darcerus

15-C: Chasmo vs Berta

16-C: Dimetro vs Edapho

Group D

1-D: Yango vs Jiango | 2-D: Kentro vs Lexo

3-D: Nodo vs Goyle | 4-D: Ankylo vs Siachan

5-D: Styraco vs Eino | 6-D: Pachrino vs Mihu

7-D: Centro vs Penta | 8-D: Stego vs Pelto

9-D: Stego (Frontier) vs Saichan (Frontier)

10-D: Jiango (Frontier) vs Lexo (Frontier)

11-D: Ankylo (Frontier) vs Ankylo BO (Frontier)

12-D: Goyle (Frontier) vs Peltas (Frontier)

13-D: Sinocera vs Mihu (Frontier)

14-D: Proto (Frontier) vs Ajka

15-D: Pachy (Frontier) vs Tricera (Frontier)

16-D: Penta (Frontier) vs Styraco (Frontier)

Group E

1-E: Apato vs Shuno | 2-E: Seismo vs Perso

3-E: Salto vs Amargo | 4-E: Tricera vs Spinax

5-E: Menchi vs Nigo | 6-E: Seidon vs Argento

7-E: Toba vs Tsintao | 8-E: Camara vs Pacro

9-E: Brachio (Frontier) vs Brachio TZ (Frontier)

10-E: Titano vs Titano AR

11-E: Seidon (Frontier) vs Toba (Frontier)

12-E: Argento (Frontier) vs Ampelo

13-E: Igua (Frontier) vs Igua US (Frontier)

14-E: Lophus vs Lophus MN

15-E: Stygi (Frontier) vs Goyo (Frontier)

16-E: Oloro (Frontier) vs Paraloph (Frontier)

Group F

1-F: Hypsi AU (Frontier) vs Hypsi US (Frontier)

2-F: Ptera EU (Frontier) vs Ptera JP (Frontier)

3-F: Sungari (Frontier) vs Hopter (Frontier)

4-F: Thalasso (Frontier) vs Coatlus (Frontier)

5-F: Nycto vs Thalasso | 6-F: Sungari vs Hopter

7-F: Ptera (Frontier) vs Hypsi (Frontier)

8-F: Dimorph vs Zino | 9-F: Andrarch vs Paki

10-F: Hopolo vs Smilio

11-F: Megath vs Mammoth | 12-F: Gomp vs Anan

13-F: Epidex vs Lagia | 14-F: Tryma vs Titanis

15-F: Jara vs Guan | 16-F: Ptera vs Coatlus

Group G

1-G: Krona vs Shoni | 2-G: Futabi vs Elasmo

3-G: Plesio vs Chelon | 4-G: Coelanth vs Dunkle

5-G: Radix vs Terata | 6-G: Dikelo vs Anomalo

7-G: Peloro vs Penden | 8-G: Pachy vs Brachio

9-G: Machi vs Metri | 10-G: Stygi vs Goyo

11-G: Elasmoth vs Parium | 12-G: Ceros vs Synthos

13-G: Arsith vs Brontonth |14-G: Tophis vs Tanstro

15-G: Parapu vs Desmo vs Gaudry

Round 2.

Group A

1-A: T-Rex vs Allo | 2-A: Cryo vs Alectro

3-A.1: Cerato vs Gorgo | 3-A.2: Giganto vs Gorgo

4-A: Neo vs Megalo

5-A: Aeopteryx vs Shanshan | 6-A: Nasaur vs Tro

7-A: Aeros vs Krypto | 8-A: Berto vs Oloro

Group B

1-B: Tarbo (Frontier) vs T-Rex Sue (Frontier)

2-B: Big Allo (Frontier) vs Lythro

3-B: Beckles vs Raja (Frontier)

4-B: F-Raptor (Frontier) vs Cerato TZ (Frontier)

5-B: S-Raptor vs Carchar | 6-B: Spino vs Onyx

7-B: Spino ST (Frontier) vs Sucho (Frontier)

8-B: Diplo vs Dimentro (Frontier)

Group C

1-C: V-Raptor vs M-Raptor

2-C: Breme vs Ourano

3-C: Nychus (Frontier) vs Zino (Frontier)

4-C: Dilopho US (Frontier) vs Alaxis

5-C: Dilopho vs Delta | 6-C: Lambeo vs Maia

7-C: Cheirus vs E-Raptor | 8-C: Berta vs Dimetro

Group D

1-D: Jiango vs Lexo | 2-D: Goyle vs Saichan

3-D: Styraco vs Mihu | 4-D: Penta vs Stego

5-D: Stego (Frontier) vs Lexo (Frontier)

6-D: Ankylo (Frontier) vs Peltas (Frontier)

7-D: Mihu (Frontier) vs Ajka

8-D: Tricera (Frontier) vs Penta (Frontier)

Group E

1-E: Shuno vs Perso | 2-E: Amargo vs Spinax

3-E: Menchi vs Seidon | 4-E: Toba vs Camara

5-E: Brachio (Frontier) vs Titano AR

6-E: Seidon (Frontier) vs Argento (Frontier)

7-E: Igua (Frontier) vs Lophus MN

8-E: Goyo (Frontier) vs Paraloph (Frontier)

Group F

1-F: Hypsi US (Frontier) vs Ptera EU (Frontier)

2-F: Sungari (Frontier) vs Coatlus (Frontier)

3-F: Thalasso vs Hopter

4-F: Ptera (Frontier) vs Zino

5-F: Andrarch vs Hopolo | 6-F: Megath vs Gomp

7-F: Epidex vs Tryma | 8-F: Jara vs Coatlus

Group G

1-G: Shoni vs Elasmo | 2-G: Plesio vs Dunkle

3-G: Radox vs Anomalo | 4-G: Peloro vs Pachy

5-G: Machi vs Stygi | 6-G: Parium vs Ceros

7-G: Brontoth vs Tophis | 8-G: Desmo vs Parapu

Round 3.

Group A

1-A: T-Rex vs Alectro

2-A.1: Cerato vs Megalo

2-A.2: Giganto vs Megalo

3-A: Shanshan vs Tro

4-A: Aeros vs Berto

Group B

1-B: T-Rex Sue (Frontier) vs Lythro

2-B: Beckles vs F-Raptor (Frontier)

3-B: S-Raptor vs Spino

4-B: Spino ST (Frontier) vs Diplo

Group C

1-C: V-Raptor vs Breme

2-C: Zino (Frontier) vs Dilopho (Frontier)

3-C: Dilopho vs Lambeo

4-C: Cheirus vs Dimetro

Group D

1-D: Jiango vs Saichan | 2-D: Mihu vs Stego

3-D: Lexo (Frontier) vs Ankylo (Frontier)

4-D: Mihu (Frontier) vs Tricera (Frontier)

Group E

1-E: Perso vs Spinax | 2-E: Seidon vs Toba

3-E: Brachio (Frontier) vs Seidon (Frontier)

4-E: Lophus MN vs Goyo (Frontier)

Group F

1-F: Ptera EU (Frontier) vs Coatlus (Frontier)

2-F: Thalasso vs Zino | 3-F: Andrarch vs Gomp

4-F: Epidex vs Coatlus

Group G

1-G: Shoni vs Plesio | 2-G: Anomalo vs Pachy

3-G: Stygi vs Ceros | 4-G: Tophis vs Parapu

Round 4.

Group A

1-A: T-Rex vs Megalo

2-A: Shanshan vs Aeros

Group B

1-B: Lythro vs F-Raptor (Frontier)

2-B: Spino vs Diplo

Group C

1-C: V-Raptor vs Zino (Frontier)

2-C: Dilopho vs Dimetro

Group D

1-D: Siachan vs Stego

2-D: Lexo (Frontier) vs Mihu (Frontier)

Group E

1-E: Spinax vs Seidon

2-E: Seidon (Frontier) vs Goyo (Frontier)

Group F

1-F: Coatlus (Frontier) vs Gomp

2-F: Coatlus vs Zino

Group G

1-G: Plesio vs Anomalo | 2-G: Stygi vs Tophis

Round 5.

Group A | Megalo vs Shanshan

Group B | Lythro vs Spino

Group C | V-Raptor vs Dimetro

Group D | Siachan vs Mihu (Frontier)

Group E | Spinax vs Seidon (Frontier)

Group F | Gomp vs Coatlus

Group G | Anomalo vs Tophis

Round 6.

6-1: Shanshan vs Spino | 6-2: V-Raptor vs Siachan

6-3: Spinax vs Coatlus | 6-4: Tophis

Round 7.

7-1: Shanshan vs V-Raptor | 7-2: Spinax vs Tophis

Round 8. Spinax vs V-Raptor

Final Winner

Spinax

[fiadorable]

20 questions for fic writers

Thanks for the tag, @curator-on-ao3 🫶

1. How many works do you have on Ao3? 46 works, but if you parse the three drabble collections and a ficlet collection it jumps up to 96.

2. What's your total Ao3 word count? 142,888

3. What fandoms do you write for? Star Trek Strange New Worlds, The Librarians, Once Upon a Tme, Star Trek Voyager, The X-Files (none on ao3), Harry Potter, and King & Maxwell

4. What are your top five fics by kudos? Where Flowers Bloom: The F*ck You Bouquet Once Upon a Time, SwanQueen, Rated T, 2.8k words Prom season is keeping Regina Mills, proprietor of Fairytale Flowers, busy, but when Emma Swan storms into her store one day with a unique request and a hidden connection, her day shifts from busy to odd to (dare she say it) hopeful.

revelation in the light of gray Star Trek Strange New Worlds, PikeUna, Rated G, 2.8k words Ensign Uhura stumbles into sickbay late one night and discovers something new about Captain Pike and Number One.

love is a ghost you can't control Star Trek Strange New Worlds, PikeUna, Rated T, 4.3k words One or two times Christopher Pike, uh, asked Una Chin-Riley about romance while they were both serving on the Antares. (This fic was inspired by and based on a scenario referenced in @curator-on-ao3's fic The Haze!)

Of Paperwork, Knots, and Warm Glowy Things, or, Roland Registers for Kindergarten Once Upon a Time, OutlawQueen, Rated G, 10.5k words Sometimes, Henry lets him sit on his bed with his old textbooks splayed open on his lap, the large tomes covering his legs as he runs his hands across the shiny paper, drinking in the bright pictures breaking up the dark columns of text. The older boy warned him he might not have hardbacked books like that until first grade, but Roland doesn't care. He's going to carry his own backpack and learn how to write and memorize all the names of all the bugs in this realm.

Trekalicious Drabbles Star Trek Strange New Worlds, PikeUna + La'an & Chapel + La'an & Una + Sir Adya/Z'ymria, Rated T, 2.1k words A collection of 100 word drabbles for the #Wednesday100 challenge

5. Do you respond to comments? I'm trying to! I'm very bad about doing it in a timely manner 🙈

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Oh, definitely the scorch. That piece is pure, distilled angst.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Of Paperwork, Knots, and Warm Glowy Things is pretty saccharine

8. Do you get hate on fics? Yeah, I attracted a few trolls with So Are We Alright Then?. Luckily they were no match for the almighty "delete comment" function. Most people are nice.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Eh? Kind of? Most of my stuff stays M or below.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? I've done one: an ending unforseen, which is a crossover between Strange New Worlds and Voyager. I threw Christopher Pike into the Delta Quadrant on Voyager so he could have a chat with Kathryn Janeway.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Nope

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yep!

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? I can't pick a favorite, but I will say that Mulder/Scully, fanon Janeway/Chakotay, OutlawQueen, and Pike/Una have all been formative ships that I've enjoyed watching/reading/writing for over the years.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? First Day (Once Upon a Time OQ). 1 chapter published as a one shot that was received so well I turned it into a novel-length fic that was never published (19 chapters, 8 alternate universes visited, 40k words written with barely the surface scratched). I love it. It's my white whale. I open it up and marvel at the audacity and ambition of my younger self every now and then.

16. What are your writing strengths? Characterization, dialogue. Sometimes I concentrate hard and pull off some nifty minimalist prose.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Details and self doubt.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I'm not bilingual, so if I did, I would 100% run it by a native speaker if someone was available to spot check.

19. First fandom you wrote for? Either Voyager or X-Files, I can't remember which

20. Favorite fic you’ve written? I love writing the drabbles, they're little puzzleboxes of happy.

tagging: @enterprise-come-in and @meddow with apologies if y'all've been there done that

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Tagged by; @fadegray

Rules: shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist & post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

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[jaelijn]

Whumptober 2022 Masterpost

All Blake’s 7, primarily Avon&/Vila, but a significant amount of Gen, too.

Below the cut are links to all individual fics. They are listed with the rating, which part of the day’s prompt I used primarily (sometimes I used several or all parts as inspiration for the fic) and the main warning(s) beyond the prompt itself. More comprehensive warnings can be found in the AO3 tags of each fic.

None of these fics contains explicit on-screen sexual content, but there is violence, several heavy themes and major character death. For individual warnings, please see below and on AO3.

I also have a series that collects all of my Whumptober fics, here. This also contains fics from previous years as well as all 31 from this year. All are Blake’s 7. You can find the masterpost for just last year’s on tumblr, here.

♥ The little heart indicates the ones that were my own personal top 7 to write, though again I had to force myself to the limit. Turns out, I really liked a lot of these, so even my shortlist had... 15-ish?

#01 “unconventional restraints”: Miner’s Delight | PG | Restraints

#02 full prompt: Cat’s Tale | PG | Animal Abuse, Torture

#03 ”Say goodbye.”: Viper’s Hold | PG | Imprisonment, Angst 

#04 “hidden injury”: Survivor’s Fate | G | Angst, past/referenced MCD

#05 “running out of air”: Thief’s Trap | PG | Fear of Death, Air Running Out ♥

#06 “ransom video”: Leader’s Choice | PG | Torture, Pain, Blackmail

#07 “silent panic attack”: Childhood’s Shadow | PG | Prison, Panic Attacks

#08 “everything hurts...”: Adventure’s Aftermath | G | Radiation Sickness

#09 “caught in a storm”: Harbour’s Ghost | PG | (Psychological) Horror ♥

#10 “whipping”: Gentleman’s Memory  | PG | Emotional H/C, Past Violence 

#11 “self-done first aid”: Forest’s Guardian | G | Wilderness Survival

#12 “cave in”:  Friendship’s Proof | G | H/C

#13 “Are you here...?”: Hope’s Goodbye | PG | MCD, Dark ♥

#14 “die a hero or...”: Agent’s Truth | PG | untagged for spoilers ♥

#15 full prompt: Delta’s Hope | M | Dark, Past Underage Rape/Pregnancy

#16 “paralytic drugs”: Commissioner’s Revenge | PG | Medical Neglect ♥

#17 “breaking point”: Student’s Strain | G | none

#18 “let’s break the ice”: Life’s Protector | G | H/C, Trapped 

#19 “knees buckling”: Prisoner’s Lament | PG | Imprisonment ♥

#20 “prisoner trade”: Devil’s Bargain | G | Humour

#21 “Take me instead.”: Choice’s Sacrifice | PG | Eldritch Horror/Sacrifice

#22 “withdrawal”: Friend’s Decision | G | AU: Canon-Divergent

#23 full prompt: Lovers’ Despair | M | Ref. Starvation, Public Humiliation

#24 “blood covered hands”: Madman’s Defence | PG | Wrongfully Accused

#25 “lost voice”: Tech’s Voice | G | Neurodivergent & Semi-Verbal

#26 “rope burns”: Climber’s Regret | G | H/C, Minor Injury

#27 “magical exhaustion”: Sleep’s Curse | G | Exhaustion

#28 ALT#06 “sensory overload”: Planet’s Noise | G | Neurod. Sen. Overload

#29 “Better me than you.”: Death’s Kiss | PG | MCD, Heavy Angst ♥

#30 “note to self: don’t get kidnapped”: Alpha’s Bounty | PG | Abduction

#31 “bedside vigil”: Love’s Price | PG | Major Illness

[unwelcome-ozian]

Hey so I am suspecting that we might be a victim of RAMCOA or TBMC. But I’m not sure because a lot of people are saying “oh it can create memories even by looking at the word RAMCOA”, that’s a joke for reference. But you know people are saying that any looking into like that can cause pseudo-memories and make you think you have trauma when you don’t. What do you think, was I just a messed up child or like is this kind of symptoms of programming.

Pretext

I was was definitely abused, at least that’s what people say. A lot of screaming, a lot of derogatory names, a lot of gaslighting, forced overstimulation (we have autism). A lot of emotional maltreatment from both my parents. A few years ago we were diagnosed C-PTSD and DID. But then Covid hit so I haven’t really got treatment, also really expensive and I don’t have money.

As a kid (like 10-11) we would use daydreaming to cope. One of them was vary violent (experimentation, r*pe, torture all around, isolation, generally gory, g*ns) things that a kid that young really shouldn’t be daydreaming about in such vivid detail. I’m not sure if it is, I seemingly don’t understand what’s normal for people. Also I was just informed that we had lots of these kinds of daydream, not just that one. Loads of symbols and representations of thing cats and dogs, colours, I don’t even fully remember because it technically was the old Hostess daydream. We have things that are associated solely with this kind of abuse Sidesystem (at least I’ve been told this is only associated with this kind of abuse) , layers a lot of them, weird hierarchical structure, lots of weird stuff. For a long time I had suspected we had been sexually abused by our old School (Episcopalian if that helps with anything) when we where like in kindergarten. Other things they’re kindly interesting I’m super highly suggestive, hyper focussed on the number 707 (was was also important in that day dream alongside the numbers 606 and 505), hyper focussed on the flowers forget me Nots and lilies-of-the-valley. Also there’s a lot of things with eyes I don’t know what that’s about.

Now jumping to another part that’s sidesystem, that thing freaks me out. To explain, we have a system member that’s constantly watching me that runs a computer. Even he did not know about it, nor The guy who created him (which is scarier). Basically it’s a subsystem of 6 (I think). Only they can go to their inerworld, and it’s weird down there at least from what I was told. Sissel I don’t know how old he is basically covered with eyes(little), Void this dissociated thing, Delta this water creature that’s constantly happy (little), Manx (who i’m not sure if he’s a goat or a human) is like a Persecutor leader who I’m kind of thinking is into the Occult it’s kinda hard to explain, and Gilter Who always reports to manx (little).

There is probably more but this is all I’m gonna put for now. Is there any programming really associated with this kind of concept, are these early signs of this kind of abuse.

I think looking up information regarding past trauma can give people insight, a feeling of not being alone, and perhaps a direction to go in their recovery. That direction can be, “No, that isn’t what occurred.” or “I need to look into this more.”

Everyone has false memories. There is a mistaken belief that memories of trauma are more likely to be "false memories" than are memories of daily life. There is also the mistaken belief that repressed / recovered memories are more likely to be false than are continuous memories, particularly regarding memories of trauma.

Daydreaming (maladaptive) can overlap with certain mental health conditions. One them being dissociative disorders. A lot of people who have maladaptive daydreaming have lived through abuse or trauma, especially as a child.

Ritual abuse has some of the things you mentioned. I can't say if you were ritually abused or not. That is something you and your system will need to sort out.

Ritual abuse-usually involves repeated abuse over an extended period of time. The physical abuse is severe, sometimes including torture and killing. The sexual abuse is usually painful, sadistic and humiliating, intended as a means of gaining dominance over the victim. The psychological abuse is devastating and involves the use of ritual indoctrination. It includes mind control techniques which convey to the victim a profound terror of the cult members and of evil spirits they believe cult members can command. Both during and after the abuse most victims are in a state of terror mind control and dissociation. (ASCA, 2002).

There is also ritualistic abuse –abuse which is perpetrated in a habitualised manner, such as the sexual abuse of a child perpetrated on a daily basis.

Spiritual abuse-sometimes called religious abuse, results when individuals are deceived and or otherwise manipulated in ways that cause detrimental changes to core elements of the self, including one's relationship to God, religious/philosophical beliefs, self-determination, and the capacity to think independently. Though often associated with cultic groups, spiritual abuse may also occur in mainstream denominations when pastors or others misuse their authority or when individuals violate the ethical boundaries of proselytising or other kinds of influence situations.

Mind control-an extreme form of social influence used to indoctrinate an individual in the attitudes and beliefs of a group, usually one that is religious or political in nature.

And lastly the definition of TBMC (programming)-Torture-based mind control programming can be defined as systematic torture that blocks the victim’s capacity for conscious processing (through pain, terror, drugs, illusion, sensory deprivation, sensory over-stimulation, oxygen deprivation, cold, heat, spinning, brain stimulation, and often, near-death), and then employs suggestion and/or conditioning to implant thoughts, directives, and perceptions in the unconscious mind, often in newly-formed trauma-induced dissociated identities, that force the victim to do, feel, think, or perceive things for the purposes of the programmer. The objective is for the victim to follow directives with no conscious awareness, including execution of acts in clear violation of the victim’s volition, moral principles, and spiritual convictions.

Oz

[turnips-creates]

10 Songs, 10 Tags [x2]

-> from @legiomiam :

1. 'Kiss Me More' [Doja Cat, feat. SZA]

2. 'Break the Wall' [Dreamcatcher]

3. 'Wrinkle' [Thank You Scientist]

4. 'Soldiers' [FJØRA, Neoni]

5. 'Maria' [Hwa Sa]

6. 'Hands Up' [Cherry Bullet]

7. 'I Don't Care' [Fall Out Boy]

8. '9 to 5' [Dolly Parton]

9. 'My Bag' [(G)I-DLE]

10. 'Bottom of the River' [Delta Rae]

-> from @awritingcaitlin

1. 'Mirror Mirror' [Juniper Vale]

2. 'Howl' [The Family Crest]

3. 'Human' [Rag'n'Bone Man]

4. 'Sweet Hibiscus Tea' [Penelope Scott]

5. 'Someone New' [Hozier]

6. 'My Son John' [Smokey Bastards]

7. 'Crazy Cat' [11 Acorn Lane]

8. 'labour' [Paris Paloma]

9. 'Before He Cheats - Cover' [Amigo the Devil]

10. 'Deal Maker' [TytoCat]

I think shuffle decided on a theme for that 2nd set... huh.

Aaaannyyyyywaaaaayyyyyy,

Enjoy!

Tagging -> @juls-writes @sentfromwolves @awritingcaitlin (uno-reverse) @pinespittinink @wellofhavoc @bebewrites @diseonfire @aceofdivinechlorophyll @clockworkgalaxies @botanistweak and anyone else who wants to spam me with music!

I've started an entire folder of music from all yall

[mach-speed-spin]

Rating Burst Rise drip

1) Long ass post

2) 2/10 here is equal to a 6/10 irl

3) Original season 1 here, V-Force here, G-Rev here, Fusion here, Masters here, Fury here, Shogun Steel here, Beywheelz here, Beyraiderz here, Burst s1 here, Evolution here, Turbo here

Valt: 4/10. What the hell are you wearing Valt?

Dante: 5/10. There’s a lot going on but it all works

Resonance Dante: 7/10. Flaming horns are epic

Kaio: 3/10. Almost a background character

Rogia: 4/10. I like her hair

Arman: 6/10. I have no idea what I’m looking at but I like it

Headband Arman: 7/10. The headband is a nice improvement

Glasses Arman: 4/10. Those glasses just don’t work

Taka: 3/10. Too unique to have a background character look, but not that good either

Ichika: 4/10. I like the pin

Tango. 4/10. I like the goggles but not much else

Ken Urame: 3/10. Almost a background character look

Fumiya: 7/10. Ronald McDonald swag

Joe: 7/10. He’s a clown with a painted scar

Lodin: 8/10. I like everything here

Delta: 6/10. I like it, but the translucent hair is weird

Resonance Delta: 8/10. The flaming eye makes the hair work so well

Pheng: 5/10. It’s full of stuff, but I wish there was some more cohesion

Blindt: 7/10. I like the hat and I like the cape

Aiger: 6/10. This would look so good irl

Resonance Aiger: 7/10. I like the hair

Arthur: 9/10. Face paint + tight shirt + skirt + colorful + buff as hell

Another: 7/10. Funny evil commentator

Gwyn: 9/10. I love everything about his look

Resonance Gwyn: 10/10. Gwyn with gravity-defying hair

[jade-kyo]

RvB 20th rewatch: s8

Here it is… honestly might be the best season.. idk 13 and 10 are up there too but g o d there is something special about 8. Fucking peak cinema.

DOC!!!!!!!!

Love how this opening scene parallels season 2

The thing you have to remember about this season is during the entirety of it Donut is just bleeding out in Valhalla… the entire time. And bro still survives. Fucking cockroach.

GRIF TUCKER FRIENDSHIP!!!!

“It’s not fair! I worship Church way before it was cool to worship him!”

I love that not being able to wear pants is the one thing that actually gets to Church

I AM THE BEST-

SARGE IS SO SMART!!!! Seriously his character is SO GOOD in the recollection I go FERAL

Shotgun

GOD the way my jaw still drops every time that warthog busts through the wall

Doc in the wall

WASHINGTON!!!!!!!

“Don’t do it you fuckeeeeeerrr”

They call Grif yellow so frequently how did I never notice it before 😂

DELTA!!!!!

LOVE this show letting its characters make bad jokes

I love how even as a villain Wash is still hilarious and fun to watch

DOC SAYS FUCK

Bad jokes my beloved

“Wash you can’t kill everyone you meet” // “why not?” Bro is so real for that

My beauty

My beloved

My queen

My goddess

AGENT TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fun fact: Tex vs the reds and blues was the first thing I ever saw from Red vs Blue. My brother showed it to me when I was nine. I thought it was hilarious

“Buttons! Oh man I love buttons!” Quoted line

PROTECT ME CONE

“I feel defeated yet inexplicably rejuvenated!”

“Knock the black right off ya” // “that’s racist”

G O D

She so fucking sexy

Honestly I get Church. If I bagged a girl like Tex I too would commit war crimes

THE ICONIC CHEX MOMENT I LOVE THEMMMMMMM

DIVORCED VIBES MY BELOVED

Wash is so fed up… don’t worry babygirl you will rediscover your inner silly soon

“It not god dude, it’s church, he just thinks he’s god”

LOVE META AND WASH BEING A LITTLE SILLY

D I V O R C E D V I B E S

The whole scene between Church, Tex, and Tucker. It’s just so silly. I love them.

I feel like Wash still being a likable character is a big part of why him just switching sides at the end works so well

Washington used to wet the bed

Tucker getting frustrated with Tex and Church constantly getting themselves killed… taking notes…

Meta is just beating the shit out of a dead alien akdhkahsk

I love Sheila

I think we should rename the Chex ship name to divorced vibes

“I didn’t want to come back” damn Tex…

Here it comes… THE quintessential red team moment

MAYBE YOURE ALL HERE BECAUSE DEEP DOWN YOU WANT TO BE HERE

THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION THAT STARTED IT ALL IS THAT THEY ACTIVELY CHOOSE TO BE HERE BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE HERE I AM FUCKING FERAL SEASON 8 MY BELOVED

RED TEAM HAS SUCH GOOD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT ITS SO SUBTLE YOU DONT EVEN REALIZE ITS HAPPENING AND THEN IT HITS YOU AND YOU REALIZE JUST HOW FAR THEYVE ALL COME AND I AKSHKAHSKSBAKHSKSBS

ICE FIGHT AISHKAHSK POSSIBLY MY FAVORITE FIGHT IN THE ENTIRE FUCKING SHOW F E R A L

Also love that despite everything Doc still helps Wash

HERE COMES THE CALVARY

God this moment between Church and Wash has so many layers I am frothing at the mouth

And here it comes… the moment they went from red vs blue to the reds and blues… one team with complete and total faith in one another

THE FACT THAT SARGE GRABS THE MEMORY UNIT OFF META SO IT WONT BE PULLED OFF THE CLIFF WITH HIM AHSKHAKSBAKHSKS FUCKING FERAL

Me when Church calls Caboose buddy and trusts him to remember him HAKSHAKSHSKSJJS F E R A L

AND THUS WASH IS FORCED INTO HIS REDEMPTION BY THIS GROUP OF MULTICOLORED IDIOTS AAAAHHHHH I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

“We always seem to find each other for better or for worse” usually worse

“If you’ve gotta live the rest of your life in a memory… you might as well make it a good one” screaming crying throwing up

Foaming at the mouth over here bro I go so feral over this season HOLY SHIT THE HYPE IS SO REAL THROUGH THE ENTIRE THING god I fucking love this show so much. Also I think this might be the longest one of these posts has gotten