#dr class 79

[spontaneousglitterbees]

I've been meaning to ask, is Kokichi's black ring meant to be an ace ring? I only ask because it's black and on the finger one would typically wear an ace ring.

This is probably funnier if Kaito doesn't know about Alter Ego yet

TL;DR: yes!! Very happy you noticed~

[hibiscuswolverine]

Pov: You chose to fly out of the scariest airport in Japan.

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Ngl this was abit hard because some these characters were hard to put into like a single category (cause some could do either or like mahiru for example could be a flight attendant or a desk attendant) or their personality just didn’t fit so I tried to go with what they might do if I wasn’t too sure (and yes alters are separate people or well just twins).

Also jin would be an airport owner but he wasn’t listed in the tier list🤧

[kibo-no-akademi]

🤜Roughhousing🤛

Hanno just having a good ol' sparring session with Kazuya (@class-of-79)

[three--rings]

Most people don't have any understanding of what has been lost in Lahaina Town. Not just lives and property, but an entire town.

Most people hear "a city/town in Hawaii" and they picture probably resorts. And there are plenty of resorts nearby. But those are all fine.

Lahaina was an old whaling town dating back to the original colonization by white settlers. Before white people arrived, it was the capital of the island, where the high chief ruled, including Kamehameha the Great. The buildings are old, wooden, and crowded together. Obviously that was a problem in the face of the insanely fast wildfire.

But these weren't mansions, Mc or otherwise. It was a tourist town, a destination for cute, spendy shopping and dining, full of art galleries. (OMG THE GALLERIES. There was so much ART lost. There was original Dr. Seuss art in one gallery when I was there in January. That's gone now. Etc.)

But the people who lived and worked in Lahaina were mostly working class, working retail and restaurant jobs, living in old apartments and small houses. Lots of elderly, lots of non-white in a wide range of ethnicities, old hippies who have been there since the 60s and 70s. Yeah they were probably a little better off than people who drive in from other places to work in West Maui, at least because their property was high value, if they owned. But they lived without A/C, hung their laundry on lines, biked to work, called in sick to go surfing when the waves were up. There was a Chinese cultural center and a Buddhist temple, two different structures, if that tells you anything. Multiple museums housing historic items and cultural centers.

And the town will be rebuilt, in some form, I imagine. Or re-developed, more likely. People who are now homeless, who can't afford to rebuild or pay for two residences while the recovery happens will be bought out by deep pocketed developers. If they rebuild Lahaina Town I'm afraid it will be Lahaina Town tm by Disney.

Another fake paradise for tourists with lava rock from the Big Island. Another bit of Hawaii swallowed by capitalism and climate change.

I'm not painting everything about Lahaina as it was as perfect. Front Street was an often gaudy display of brand names and hucksters out to shovel in the tourist dollars. And of course the politics of Hawaii are incredibly complex and fraught in so many ways. I'm just a mainlander haole. I will never live on the islands, despite my family there constantly asking me to move. But I've spent more time there than anywhere I haven't lived, almost all of that time in West Maui.

My mom works in a building that is not there anymore. She just described that job to me as "the last job she'll ever have" as she's 79 and very happy with working two days a week selling t-shirts to cruise ship people. My brother has worked in a gallery on front street for the last ten years.

I don't know. A city of almost 15,000 permanent residents is just gone. 50 or so are confirmed dead, in some horrific circumstances from what I hear.

My mom says people are just walking around with thousand-yard-stares, aimless, clutching cell phones trying to get signal (there isn't any, but you can get lucky and get a call through. Some texts are going in but not out.)

So I don't know folks. Keep those people in your thoughts. If you can donate, I think this may be a good place because it's going to lots of local orgs on the ground: https://www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org/maui-strong

I keep thinking of new sad things.

Anyway I'm going to leave you with a picture I took while strolling down Front Street one evening.

[funishment-time]

UTDP/Summer Camp: Kirumi Tojo

in-game info from v3's UTDP Mode and Danganronpa S: Summer Camp AU, for fanart/fanfic inspiration etc. note that this is a "nice" universe where v3 goes to Hope's Peak and Junko never Junko'd.

this post details Kirumi Tojo's scenes with others, as well as insights about her that these bits provide. there's a Lot, so jump on down under the cut.

(i hope to do all characters over time, so Hang Tight for your fave!)

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NOTE: As stated, in the UTDP/Summer Camp universe, the v3 kids go to Hope's Peak, likely as Class 79. Regardless of their backstories in v3, they are "played straight" in this universe, e.g. Shuichi and Kyoko are both the Ultimate Detectives, etc.

KIRUMI INSIGHTS:

[Mahiru, on a photo of Kirumi by herself:] "...your expression is much different when you're alone...You may look distant, but you also look dignified and beautiful, soft and lovely." (Summer Camp, Kirumi & Mahiru)

"...being served by someone else just doesn't feel right to me." (Summer Camp, Kirumi & Leon & Kyoko)

Has experience with most video game genres, as a past employer once requested that she play games with them (Summer Camp, Kirumi & Hajime & Chiaki)

Considers starting her own maid business a command from the "future of many" (Summer Camp, Potential of Talent 1)

Prefers her curry "moderately spicy," and how she likes her eggs "depends on the meal" (Summer Camp, Campfire 3)

"A life spent in support of others is a life of immeasurable value." (Summer Camp, My Future)

"People often think of me as "helpful" because I am on the front lines, serving you directly. But the truth is, it takes the work of countless people I'll never know to allow me to do my job." (Summer Camp, Kazuichi's Potential of Talent 2)

Experienced at juggling, as she once taught an elite troupe of entertainers for a master who loved circuses (Summer Camp, Tsumugi's Summer Festival 3)

KIRUMI & OTHERS:

Often serves Byakuya, something that makes Toko very jealous (UTDP, w/ Byakuya Togami and Toko Fukawa)

Offers to refer Celeste to a "superior butler agency" (UTDP, w/ Celestia Ludenberg and Teruteru Hanamura)

Offers to help Toko take care of her hygiene (UTDP, w/ Toko Fukawa)

Happily reminds Rantaro of his own maid as a child (UTDP, w/ Rantaro Amami)

Mediates conflicts between Mondo and Taka (UTDP, Winter 1)

Helps Leon think of a gift for Kanon (UTDP, Winter 3)

Kazuichi is, unsurprisingly, turned on by Kirumi, but his heart belongs to MISS SONIA (UTDP, Kazuichi's Spring Festival 3)

Unfazed, however, Kirumi encourages Kazuichi about his talent (Summer Camp, Kazuichi's Potential of Talent 2)

Offers to refer Teruteru to good waitstaff when he opens his restaurant (UTDP, Teruteru's Winter 3)

"Delighted" by Shuichi's compassion when he asks her to relax before graduation (Summer Camp, Shuichi & Kirumi)

Helps Sakura train and shares her concerns about the Warriors of Hope (Summer Camp, Kirumi & Sakura)

Serves Sonia, which makes Sonia both very comfortable and very uncomfortable (Summer Camp, Kirumi & Sonia)

Sonia does, however, want to hire Kirumi as her personal maid (Summer Camp, Sonia's Potential of Talent 2)

Sayaka commands Kirumi not to serve anyone for a whole day, and in DR's greatest paradox, Kirumi accepts...not without discomfort (Summer Camp, Kirumi & Leon & Kyoko)

Recruited by Chiaki to help her farm loot in a video game, as long as Kirumi has fun doing it (Summer Camp, Kirumi & Hajime & Chiaki)

Byakuya agrees to act as Kirumi's business advisor when she leaves the school (Summer Camp, Potential of Talent 1)

Gundham's nicknames for Kirumi: "Omnipotent Servant" and "Avatar of Servitude" (Summer Camp, Potential of Talent 2) + (Summer Camp, Summer Festival 1)

Discusses a potential robotic copy of herself with Monaca (Summer Camp, Potential of Talent 3)

Teaches Sonia a folk dance, and happily dances at the campfire with her at her request (Summer Camp, Campfire 1)

Byakuya is aware of Kirumi's "other job" and offers her an investment deal in a maid business (Summer Camp, Campfire 2)

Chiaki really wants to get to know Kirumi (Summer Camp, Campfire 3)

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#5

hiii

do you know about any looong slowburn sterek fics preferably with smut? optional magic stiles👀

hehe thank you❤️

Hi anon. @kevaaronday made this list for you.

Actions Speak Louder Than Words by isthatbloodonhisshirt (25/25 | 434,625 | Explicit | Sterek) “I apologize.” The cop finally looked back up at his face, seeming thrilled. “It’s just—it’s been so long. And we finally have you.” 

That was a bad word. Not found. 

Have. 

Stiles wrenched his hand free and took a step back, but before he could even think up a gameplan, he felt a prick in his neck and jerked away, reaching up to slap one hand against it and twisting in the same moment. 

One of the others had come up behind him while he hadn’t been paying attention, and his vision began to swim even as his eyes caught sight of the half-empty syringe the guy was holding.

Put Down in Words by paintedrecs (31/31 | 203,776 | Mature | Sterek) “Oh,” Stiles said, his voice coming out low and breathy, “fuck me.”

“I don’t think that’s on the syllabus, but we can check to see if there’s a spot open in any of his classes,” Scott said, grinning.

“This isn’t an actual professor, though,” Stiles insisted, unable to resist brushing his thumb over the sharp line of the man’s bearded jaw. He was laughing at something off-camera, the shot taken in three-quarters view, his coat collar casually rumpled and opened to reveal a sliver of a simple grey t-shirt. The whole thing was deliberately calculated to lend him a more accessible feel, and god help him, Stiles was falling for it.

*

When Stiles signed up for Dr. Hale’s intro to history class, he had two goals: knock out the credits his advisor was bugging him to complete before he graduated, and spend a few hours a week daydreaming about his sexy professor’s salt and pepper beard.

Derek, a few months away from turning forty and not sure when his life had started feeling so damn lonely, had never encountered someone like Stiles before. Bright-eyed, sharp-tongued, determined to throw Derek’s carefully cultivated world into disarray…and absolutely the last person Derek should be falling in love with.

Most (Im)Proper Proposal by Welsh_Woman (72/72 | 200,136 | Explicit | Sterek) Stiles Stilinski has not seen his childhood friend for going on ten years when Derek Hale insists on meeting him in a barely reputable inn to make a rather startling proposal…

The Hollow Moon by thepsychicclam (10/10 | 180,079 | Explicit | Sterek) It's the summer after Stiles' first year of college, and he's working a crappy job and dealing with nightmares and anxiety - but he's okay, he swears. He makes it through most days without too much trouble. Then, a certain werewolf comes back into town. Which Stiles doesn't care about, nope, not at all. 

After two and a half years, Derek returns to Beacon Hills with his small Pack. Though he tried to move on, something just kept drawing him back to Beacon Hills, he's just not sure what. Now, he figures he can start building something like a life - but he keeps getting distracted by Stiles Stilinski of all people.

Teenage Love Song by HaleHathNoFury (26/26 | 155,834 | Explicit | Sterek) Stiles is sick and tired of how much he fucks up. His dad is disappointed, his step-mom judges and his step-brother can do no wrong. It's not that he doesn't love them, he just gets so tired of being different. Now he's being moved lock, stock and barrel to Beacon Hills aka the town his mom grew up in so they can go live in his grandma's house and his father can get him back on the straight and narrow. 

It's going to suck.

B.E.A.C.O.N. by Mythological_Compendium (43/43 | 140,691 | Explicit | Sterek) "What better situation could there possibly be? We'll be pretty much stuck together, we can talk, drink and maybe later even…”

A scoff. “What? Have reunion sex?”

He shrugs. “It's been four years.”

Same Old Song and Dance by Halevetica (91/91 | 125,721 | Explicit | Sterek) Raised in the hunter life after his father was killed, Stiles hates werewolves. So when he lands a contract to kill the alpha of the pack that killed his father, he's elated. Until he runs into complications. The alpha is smart and strong and playing a game Stiles can't figure out. When secrets are revealed and new enemies made, Stiles must decide for himself what side he's on and who he can trust.

Bruises and Bitemarks by orphan_account (27/27 | 121,566 | Explicit | Sterek) Biologically, Stiles is weak. When he presented as an omega, he knew that to be the truth but that never stopped him from running his mouth as a defense mechanism. However, it could only save him so many times before he ended up pissing off the wrong person. After he's attacked in the parking lot outside of school, Stiles realizes he can no longer protect himself with just pure wit and sarcasm. When the attack lands him in the hospital, his dad forces him to pick between two options, report the alphas who attacked him or join a kickboxing gym run by omega rights activist and alpha, Derek Hale, a man Stiles has been in love with for many years.

Strip by Fessst (23/23 | 117,194 | Explicit | Sterek) "Singletail whip. Your favorite, isn't it?"

Red. Stiles felt nauseated as he bent over the bench. Red. The tremble only increased when his wrists and ankles were secured with leather straps. Red. He heard the Dom behind him give a sample crack of the whip in the air. Red. This would likely pierce his skin. So fucking Red.

"What's your safeword?"

Red.

"Stiles?"

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364 notes - Posted October 23, 2022

#4

I’m in awe of this blog and the amazing people that run it!! Do you know of any Sterek fics where Scott is a bad friend to Stiles and so he spends more time with the Hale pack/Derek? I read one a long time ago on AO3 where Scott walks in on Sterek and he gets mad but I can’t remember what it was called

I sure do!

The only thing I know, came from dreaming. by gunsknivesandplaid

(1/? I 4,660 I Mature I Lydia/Jackson/Stiles)

Stiles just wants to Leave the city where ghosts of his past follow him, He walks right into his soul mate. Problem is he doesn't think he deserves this literal magical phenomenon. Wants to just ignore it, because he's not ever going to get a real break from the chaos. Will He be proven wrong? Will he let himself fall, with the chance of being hurt again?

Stop Crossing Oceans by greenleaf

(1/1 I 11,654 I Mature I Sterek)

“There are no absolutes, Scott! No hard rights or hard wrongs! The world doesn’t fucking work that way and we can’t afford to think like that, because people are going to die! We signed up for that the moment we got involved with all this!”

“We? We?” Scott hisses. “Don’t you think you? Don’t forget that you’re the one who dragged us into that forest the night it all started, Stiles. So if it’s anyone’s fault, it’s yours.”

Something inside Stiles cracks, so strong and so deep that he practically hears it.

(Actually) Magic Bullet by orphan_account

(1/1 I 2,020 I Teen I Sterek)

It wasn't like Stiles was about to saw off his own mate's arm, Jesus...

He used magic instead; of course, magic required a slightly more...hands-on approach. If Derek wanted to include a little makeout session, well. Stiles wasn't complaining.

How Derek’s Brain Works by Warlock_Nerd

(15/18 I 25,934 I Teen I Sterek)

After looking at Derek’s childhood medical file, Stiles finds out that Derek was diagnosed with Autism at the age of eight. So in Stiles Stilinski fashion, he dives into research on how to help understand Derek’s condition and also help Derek understand it himself.

Glowing eyes by 0809m

(16/? I 37,852 I Teen I Sterek)

"If you accept it, the bite will take. Someone so loyal like you, with so much will, you're born to be like this Stiles." Derek says.

Stiles stays in silence a big amount of time. He really wants this, as much as he would like to think, he can't protect himself and he can't count with Scott, not anymore. He wants this.

"Do it." He says, no trace of doubt in his voice.

stuck in reverse by crazyassmurdererwall (smartalli)

(1/1 I 65,656 I Explicit I Sterek)

Look, Derek is the worst. Everyone knows that. Their fearless leader is a total and complete failwolf.

Which means the rest of them? Are kind of the worst too. They’re a ramshackle, slap dashed, sorry excuse for a pack that’s about a half second away from getting one of them killed. And this is a problem, because Stiles would really like to survive high school. Thanks.

Still, nobody deserves what Derek has gone through. Nobody.

And it’s about time somebody told him that.

The Overlooked by HarleyJQuin

(32/32 I 108,266 I Mature I Stackson)

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386 notes - Posted March 19, 2022

#3

hii do you know any fics wgere the sheriff calls derek son or treats him like one??

Yeah!

Denial by thejoyfulfox for CurlzAbound

(1/1 I 4,924 I General I Sterek)

Scott thinks they're flirting. Isaac's betting on Derek sniffing him. The Sheriff thinks they're dating. Erica and Boyd are rooting for them. Derek's waiting for him to figure it out.

Stiles is the only one in denial.

light returning by lilysaid

(1/1 I 32,993 I Explicit I Sterek)

Derek skips town just after the Nogitsune. When he realizes his mistake, he sets off to find Stiles, make amends, and keep his feelings for Stiles hidden. Two out of three isn't bad.

Pining, bed sharing, highly-suspect platonic touching, and shameless adoration of Derek's beard.

Love Don't Die by Finduilas

(1/1 I 33,459 I Explicit I Sterek)

Derek is nine years old when he discovers the gift that he's been given. A gift that he didn't necessarily ask for. Derek can touch dead things and bring them back to life. But not without consequences and conditions, many of which are heartbreaking.

Many years later, his path crosses that of his childhood sweetheart, Stiles, in very unfortunate circumstances. But now, Derek's gift gives him the power to save Stiles. And damned be the consequences.

The New Normal by midnightcas

(27/27 I 63,392 I Teen I Sterek)

After Stiles gets hurt...again, Derek puts him on the metaphorical supernatural bench. Meanwhile, Stiles tries to have a normal life and make normal friends. But when a new pack comes to town and the Hales start getting threats, things start to get a little....not normal.

AND

@npgirardog and @hokee101 suggested this one!

Sharing Food by aussiebee

(2/2 I 9,564 I Explicit I Sterek)

"Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly." ― M.F.K. Fisher

Or

Derek is pretty much absorbed into the Stilinski family, one meal at a time.

404 notes - Posted March 21, 2022

#2

Do you guys have any stories where Derek is the alpha of the pack, but stiles is really the one in charge, like he's the alpha mate, or the emissary and every one listens to him.

Yeah.

To Find Your Home by adara

(1/1 I 14,905 I Teen)

The wind shifts just as he is is about to lay into the trespassers for disturbing this place, this private property, the place where Laura took her last breaths. Alone. The place he had come to look for his own clues in the daylight, to say goodbye to the only family he really had left. His breath catches for an altogether different reason when the shifted breeze reaches him. He stops thinking about Laura for a moment as his brain simply shuts down, taking in the sight of his mate before him.

The More That I Know You (the more I want to) by LadySlytherin 

(1/1 I 43,656 I Mature)

When death, in the form of hunters, comes for a family of Kelpies seeking refuge in the Preserve - in Hale territory - the Hale Pack is too late to save them. Before he dies, the male Kelpie presses a precious bundle into Stiles’ arms and begs the Emissary to take responsibility for it, which an initially reluctant Stiles does. When he agreed, Stiles had no idea what the sight of him with a baby would do to his esteemed Alpha, Derek. If he’d known, he might not have been so reluctant to agree.

Came For The Spark, Stayed For The Flame by orphan_account

(15/15 I 54,091 I Mature)

Derek felt the panic build up in his chest as Jezebel held out a hand. He smelled it before he saw it, because who could forget the scent of what destroyed your life? Fire and spark and smoke curled from Jezebel's hands, and the wood stacked at Stiles' feet flared up.

When Stiles and Derek get bonded as Emissary-and-Alpha, hidden attractions become a lot harder to hide, secrets are kept and secrets are surfaced, and an evil teenage girl is planning even more ritualistic sacrifice.

558 notes - Posted October 8, 2022

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Must Read Fics

I asked, ya'll answered. Here's the list. More under the cut cause it's long. Enjoy.

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Play Crack the Sky by WeAreTheCyclones

(23/23 I 122,787 I Mature I Sterek)

Excerpt from “Hale Pulls the Plug on the Future of Rock,” Rolling Stone, Issue 1203 – Oct. 2014 “Fans and music industry vets alike are left reeling in the wake of bassist Derek Hale’s sudden departure from Smokes for Harris. At a time when the foursome from Beacon Hills, California seems to be on the cusp of rock superstardom after just one double platinum record, Smokes has everything to lose.”

Excerpt from “Smokes for Harris: Gladiator,” SPIN.com – Feb. 2015 “Smokes for Harris gives in a little to the pop punk of yesteryear in their sophomore effort, but rather than pandering to fans of a lost era they elevate the genre in a way that hasn’t been seen in quite some time. Frontman Stiles Stilinski works double duty as singer and primary songwriter and proves that he can handle the task even without former bassist Derek Hale."

@dereles

Safety in Silence by Survivah

(5/5 I 66,901 I Mature I Sterek)

It's perfectly understandable. Even Derek wouldn't want to be Derek's soulmate.

@ceriat

The Moon's Gonna Follow Me Home by turningterrific

(2/2 I 82,866 I Explicit I Sterek)

Derek doesn’t want to call the window repair guy. He doesn’t want to sweep up the glass. He’ll inevitably miss a few shards and pull them out of the bottom of his bare feet for weeks.

He doesn’t want to try to make this place feel like home when it isn’t.

Derek stayed in Beacon Hills and tried to make it work because he wanted pack, wanted purpose. He gave his best effort and found himself back where he started: alone, with a few begrudging allies. He’s tired, and even though his werewolf body heals quickly, he feels the weary ache down to his center.

He packs his car with the few things he cares about enough to drag them from place to place. He locks the loft and calls a realtor about listing the building he’d bought in a misguided attempt to secure a future.

And then he leaves.

@kitchenisking

A Desperate Arrangement by mikkimouse

(29/29 I 115,506 I Explicit I Sterek)

"I'm sorry, I believe there's something wrong with my hearing," Stiles said. "Because I could have sworn you just told me you set up a betrothal agreement with the Hales. A betrothal agreement involving me. Me."

Scott smiled his easygoing smile and nodded, which told Stiles no, he hadn't misheard a damn thing.

After seven years of lengthy negotiations, the treaty between the Hales and the Argents has fallen apart and the two countries fell into war.

Months later, there's an uneasy truce, thanks to the intervention of King Scott McCall, but it won't last. In a desperate attempt to maintain the peace, the Hales sign a treaty with the McCalls to marry Prince Derek to Prince Stiles Stilinski, King Scott's brother.

In the history of the world, there have been many better ideas.

@minmu

It's Insanity, but... by rosepetals42

(12/12 I 79,678 I Mature I Sterek)

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[dragon-in-the-watery-bowl]

Hello! Do you think, had Akane and/or Utsuro survived, if they would ever find a way back from despair and forgiveness from the other survivors? How would having them around change the dynamic of the group?

Thank you for asking me this question, because I have a lot to talk about it:

First, I truly believe that they could be brought back from the Ultimate Despair's claws and be better people (Because 1: Akane is seen having doubts about finishing the killing game and ends up betraying Utsuro to save the others, and 2: LINUJ mentioned in a Q&A that Utsuro died in both the True Ending and Chapter EX because Fake Yuki's memories affected him enough to feel guilt about the killing game), and that they would take a lot of time to get the others' forgiveness (If they get it in first place).

I believe that, while Akane would jump immediately into "Redemption Mode", Utsuro would take a while longer, both thanks to his "Everything is boring and I want stimulation" personality (And self-loathing) and, this being an headcanon of mine, that unlike Izuru (Who was caught in the same way as him by Junko), Utsuro was more influenced by Junko's ideology (Because, unlike Izuru, he's a normal-ass boy that has been unwillingly cheat-coding his way to success, so he would be more easy to manipulate), so he would have to untangle that out of his mind too.

This also means that the both of them would need a lot of therapy. They both have to have both childhood trauma and Despair conversion trauma, for sure.

Meanwhile, their relation with the rest of class 79 would vary depending on the AU. In a Chapter EX-based AU, I can see the class being divided based on the belief that they can really redeem themselves or not, but in a more Canon Compliant AU, I believe that that would try to stay as away possible for the survivors, logically fearing being killed on sight if they try to get close to them.

But, no matter the AU, Tsurugi would hate them the same.

I'm already exploring an "Akane Survives" AU in the form of the "She Was Saved" AU, but in a "Utsuro survives and Akane dies" AU, I feel like he could get more unhinged at her death, probably in a "Now that I needed you more than ever, you fail me and let her die while I live, Divine Luck?!" way, and he could end up failing into a Mikado-esque rabbit hole in a attempt to resurrect her.

TL;DR: I have a lot of thoughts about these two bastards (affectionate), and I can't stop thinking about what could have happened if they hadn't been doomed to death by the narrative.

[quill-of-thoth]

Letters from Watson, catching up

The Speckled Band: Crimes in Context Inheritance The Speckled Band is the first example we’re getting in this reading order of a sub-genre of Holmes’ cases: inheritance crimes against women, so to understand it we’re going to have to take a look at the structure of Victorian inheritance. Thankfully, it is usually spelled out what each woman in canon is entitled to - unfortunately this is because the law could not be relied upon to guarantee her anything.  Modernly, inheritance is something that someone might get when a relative dies: It was a more common concern in the victorian era, where the life expectancy for anyone who survived to the age of five is cited by papers I was able to find as anything from 60 to 75, (Compared to pre-covid numbers of early 80′s - 79 for males, 83 for females - in the UK, according to the ONS [Office of National Statistics], and 79 in the US according to the CDC.) Infectious disease prior to antibiotics, the number of wars that the British empire was waging at any given time, and a maternal mortality rate of around five percent meant that adults dying young, or suddenly, was more common than today. It was also not expected that middle and upper class women would work outside the home: if they did it was usually a sign that the family was not doing well, and in danger of no longer being middle class. A number of Holmes’ clients are women in this specific economic position: with less economic security or control over their finances because they were unmarried, often working as a governess, one of the jobs considered appropriate for unmarried middle class women. The majority of them have some sort of inheritance or trust that they have extremely limited access to until they marry - at which point the money is legally theirs, and they can set up trusts for their children as they see fit.  The structure of these trusts and inheritances makes them ripe for abuse by male guardians: while a parent might leave their daughters a hefty sum, they might also leave the money somewhat accessible by other male relatives to provide for the daughters’ schooling, social opportunities, etc. Since the daughters would have no means of securing more money of their own (due to not working) this custodial arrangement could last indefinitely.  Helen Stoner’s mother had, either via a trust or inheritance, a thousand pounds (92,000 pounds / 113,000 USD) per year. She was married to an officer, and widowed when her twins were less than a year old (inferring from the two year mourning period.) Likely she didn’t know Dr. Roylott very well at the time of their marriage, but a marriage would mean that she and her children didn’t have to find their own way back from India. Dr. Roylott had an estate but not the money to support it - a thousand pounds a year plus whatever he made while in India,  would definitely help in that regard. 

About ten years ago Dr. Roylott murdered a member of their household staff in India, and only barely escaped execution for it. Possibly because the man he murdered was Indian rather than British, possibly because the Roylotts were pretty rich by the standards of where they were residing and the murdered man was a servant. Either way, the family returned to England legally and financially in the power of a very violent man, and although the Stoner twins were in their late teens or early twenties at the time they were as powerless to leave the household as their mother, who had signed over her entire fortune to the man until her daughters’ marriage. Mrs. Roylott died in an accident shortly after their return. I can only infer that her husband having sole control of six figures (four figures at the time) except for a post-marriage portion for each daughter was only in effect until her death. Therefore, Dr. Roylott decides to return to his hereditary estates and isolate his stepdaughters there - much less chance of their getting married if they’re removed from London society and all the neighbors are terrified of him.  Family Abuse Helen doesn’t go into a lot of detail about Dr. Roylott’s behavior to herself, her sister, and their mother, but based on what we know modernly about men who are constantly committing violent acts in their community, and the evidence that he abused Helen, it is very likely that Dr. Roylott abused his wife. While Watson records Helen as saying that her mother died in a train accident while the family lived in London, he would have had a motive to fictionalize that - if Mrs. Roylott was killed, likely beaten to death like his previous victim, by her husband it would be more scandalous than him beating a servant to death in India, more traceable by acquaintances of the family, and less suitable material for a family magazine. A man murdering his stepdaughters via snake may have felt more appropriate to the Victorian audience than spousal abuse.  Murder, and Milk-Drinking Snakes Dr. Roylott definitely murdered Julia Stoner, is attempting to murder Helen, and for the purposes of Watson’s story, the murder weapon is a venomous snake. There are a lot of inconsistencies surrounding the snake. Julia’s autopsy found no trace of poison, but it’s always possible that faced with a venomous snake from India, the coroner didn’t know what to look for. There are no obvious snakebite marks, but it’s also possible to miss those. The snake is apparently trained to respond to whistles and rewarded by drinking milk. Snakes, are, however, reptiles: while you can train them to be accustomed to human handling, training them to enter a vent and return is very implausible. They also don’t digest lactose, and don’t even need to drink very often. There’s also the fact that you can’t just throw a snake in a room with a sleeping person and be sure that it will bite them, and that it will deliver a fatal dose of venom if it does. This is a lot of implausibilities, bordering on impossibilities. It makes a person wonder if one of the alleged “impossibilities” that were previously examined is possible after all. Particularly if one has coincidentally been reading how locks work. The modern door lock is not infallible, but it is significantly more complex than the late victorian door lock: we have better precision machining, so on average there are more springs and pins inside the lock, and more and smaller teeth on the key. Meaning that it takes longer to pick a lock using little tools to press each pin into the correct position, and also that you have to be more precise about the position. Because Stoke Moran is an old manor that was uninhabited for approximately twenty years while the Roylott-Stoner family lived in India, and the family fortunes were low since the regency, it’s unlikely to have modern (for the era) locks. At a guess, the latest the locks could have been updated is the 1810′s.  It is extremely possible for a doctor, who presumably has some skill with surgical tools, and who has plotted for several months to murder his stepdaughter to prevent her marriage, to spend that time learning to pick a by then obsolete lock, instead of importing and training a snake. It’s equally possible for him to have access to a variety of poisons, whether they were thought to have any medical use or not, since the Victorian household used a lot of poisons as pesticides. Then too, he receives goods from India regularly - it doesn’t have to be a common poison. It could even actually be snake venom: though the first process of milking snakes for venom in order to test antidotes was published in 1891, it’s possible that there were significantly earlier, unrecorded attempts. Especially considering how many people throughout history have wanted to poison each other.  A more plausible scenario is that Julia was murdered in the following way: Dr. Roylott looked through the vent, which must be large enough to try to see through if a decently sized snake can squeeze through it, to check that she was asleep, making a slight noise and shedding just enough light that he could see if she was lying awake in the dark or not, and on the nights that it did not wake her, he opened the door, possibly by picking the lock, possibly because the doors to his stepdaughters’ bedrooms were never actually secure, administered some kind of poison, possibly by injection, and left her there to die. Julia woke up as the poison ran its course, tried to light a candle, screamed, and was found by her sister. Dr. Roylott gave her brandy, knowing that it would do nothing, and waited.  When the time came to murder Helen, he first attempted to intimidate her. “Livid” bruises, or bluish black ones, are two days to around a week old. Dr. Roylott, if the housekeeper leaves once Helen is gone, cannot maintain the family home on his own - as a landed gentleman he would not know how, and when he attempted to hire servants they left immediately. Helen is doing some, possibly still a full half, of the work of the house that keeps him comfortable.  She also worked her hardest to keep the family name in acceptable shape whenever he attacked another person in their community, it’s possible that made life much easier for him. And a coroner faced with two mysterious deaths in the same household in two years is going to be suspicious, even if the official cause of Julia’s death is basically listed as fright.  Maybe he tried a similar tactic on Julia, maybe he didn’t: both twins were slightly old for a first marriage, with Julia dead at thirty and Helen now thirty two. If he could scare either into calling it off, the chances of their marrying would decrease every year. 

 The intimidation of Helen failed - he had her moved into the bedroom he could most easily access. He checked whether she was asleep. She wasn’t: she lit the lamp immediately, but he had plenty of time. He was already going to london on business in the morning, possibly even to make sure he would have no trouble accessing her inheritance (though likely under the pretense of checking in on it so it would properly be distributed to her upon her marriage). If he’d managed to administer the poison that night, an early morning trip to the city might even give him an alibi - of course he hadn’t seen her since a decent hour the night before, he was up early to do business in town! He assumed the dear girl was still asleep. She works so hard, you know, and with her wedding coming up - and remembering her sister’s tragic demise only two years ago - she must be exhausted.  Either the housekeeper would discover her death at some point in the day while he was gone, or he could “discover” her death quite late upon his return, leaving even less for the coroner to conclude, but that won’t stop him from trying again tomorrow night, since he can always adjust his story, with only the elderly housekeeper able to deny it.  Imagine his surprise when he finds that she’s gone to London - to see a detective, no less! She has no evidence, and even if Holmes sees her bruises it’s not like he has any standing to intervene, but Roylott rages and threatens him anyway. And when Roylott finds Holmes and Watson on his estate at night, investigating, with his stepdaughter missing, he attacks them: one of them shoots him in self defense. It’s also possible that he did meet his end because of one of his exotic pets, loose in the night, while pursuing them.  Nearly a decade later, perhaps immediately after successfully publishing a dramatic tale regarding he and Holmes coming to the aid of a young woman connected with exotic crimes in India, Watson recalls the adventure, begins to write it up, and realizes halfway through that it’s a simple tale of greed and cruelty. Eventually, he inserts the snake for a dash of the fantastic, obscures Helen’s identity further, and publishes it anyway, because although Helen is dead, he’s still proud of the work he and Holmes did saving her life, freeing her from her abusive stepfather, and allowing her to spend her too-brief married life in relative peace. If he had to, he’d do it again.

[omgkalyppso]

from This Template art by @crxwes

Even's another character whose only been in dnd campaigns that lasted 3-4 sessions Tops. In her original iteration, her family was responsible for watching the tomb of a prophet to a homebrew god, and once when adventurers tried to break in for gold, she peeked inside and her eye that saw the contents turned red. The events also led to her closest sister being turned to stone, and she was adventuring to collect illicit materials for a mage who promised he would restore her sister in exchange. Meanwhile there was a prophecy of a coming plague to worry about. She had a pi/ntrest board and a playlist.

Content ID: On the left there is art of a hill dwarf. She has brown skin, brown hair that is lighter at the base as if it was dyed which is tied in at least three non-exhaustive braids, and one blue and one red eye. She has a neutral expression. She is wearing white, beige and brown clothing.

On the right there is a character profile which reads:

PROFILE

full name  —  Aoibhinn Deepholme social name  —  Even age  —  79, born 1413 DR gender/pronouns  —  nonbinary, she/they orientation  —  bisexual

birthplace  —  Eartheart residence  —  Eartheart languages spoken  —  Common, Dwarvish, Celestial, Undercommon

height  —  122 cm / 4’00” weight  —  63 kg  /  139 lbs hair color  —  brown eye color  —  blue and red

subrace, race  —  Hill Dwarf subclass, class  —  Assassin Rogue background  —  Acolyte alignment  —  Chaotic Neutral deity  —  Moradin

party  —  Karlach, Shadowheart, Gale (?), Lae’zel (?) romance(s)  —  Karlach pet/summon —  N/A

At the base of the image there is a final line which reads:

NOTHING COMES FROM VIOLENCE, AND NOTHING EVER COULD

Which is part of a lyric from Fragile by Sting. /End ID

[spontaneousglitterbees]

wonder who they're talking to... 🤔

[AU Masterpost]

[we-are-inevitable]

Your ask box is my kingdom, I am taking it over

But anyway I so badly want your thoughts on Jack and Davey in my college prof au please please please I know I haven't spoken about it on tumblr yet except from a little bit but I love your Javid so yeah

-has watched high school musical thank you very much

ok ok @roideny obvi this is your au but here are my Very Important thoughts bc i love them Very Much ugh. in love w them

David Jacobs-Kelly:

44 years old, born in ‘79

Undergrad: majored in English, minored in Creative Writing

Masters: Poetics and Theory AdvC- NYU

Doctorate: English and American Literature, thesis is over gender and sexuality in Shakespeare

he’s been Dr. Jacobs-Kelly for about seventeen years by the time the story takes place!

as a prof, he teaches a comp class, an honors comp (Critical Analysis and Writing), and some creative writing/poetry courses! he’s a very busy man.

he meets Race, Albert, and Finch because they’re students in his comp class!

when he’s not teaching, he’s really involved in the local queer scene. i feel like he’s a staple at drag brunches and pride celebrations; he’s not a huge club fan anymore but he still loves being Involved. growing up during the aids crisis is traumatizing at the least, and im sure he lost a few friends, so he stays up to date in the queer stuff to sort of honor them.

he marries jack in 2011 when gay marriage is legalized in new york!

he’s a huge shakespeare fan, as seen by his phd studies. he has a hamlet-inspired tattoo because he’s gay

tbh he probably has a cat named after shakespeare (they have two cats im calling it now. shakespeare and bryan, name courtesy of jack)

he and jack don’t have any kids, but he’s a loving fun uncle for Les and Sarah’s respective kids!

Jack Jacobs-Kelly:

45 years old, born in ‘78

Undergrad: Studio Art! but he dropped out after a semester <33

he just decided that college wasn’t for him. why pay money for something he doesn’t need?

he goes straight into a set design apprenticeship that medda helps him get! medda is his adoptive mom, so he’s been around queer spaces and theatre since he was around 15. he loves it, it’s his home

that being said he probably sells his own paintings and maybe does mural work on the side, he likes to keep busy and is invested in the art scene, and he meets davey when davey moves to New York for his masters! he’s the reason davey stays in NYC <33

he’s very eccentric, and very much doesn’t give a fuck. he’s a black queer man- the universe already nerfed him, so why worry about anything else? i can see him being the really go-with-the-flow husband to davey’s more tight-strung academic vibe. they really balance each other out

again, they don’t have kids, but i feel like this jack is very much For The Youths? i can see him volunteering a lot, working for organizations that help troubled kids get into the arts— i feel like it’s his passion project that makes him feel better when davey is busy at the university all day. in another life he’s a foster parent, but he and davey just don’t have the lifestyle to foster, so he focuses his energy elsewhere!

whenever davey “adopts” some freshmen he’s always on board. he really hits it off with Albert!

not as involved in the queer scene as davey, but his career is literally in musical theatre set design, so even if he’s not in the queer scene he’s In The Queer Scene

i don’t wanna talk about him losing medda but i can see him eventually inheriting the theater!

he loves his nieces and nephews! he’s a big family guy

Extra Thoughts:

jack and davey are a pair. they rarely go anywhere outside of work without each other, and they’re so, SO in love.

jack pretty regularly comes to see Davey while he’s at work; he’ll bring him lunch to office hours and pop in to watch him lecture from time to time.

davey attends the opening night of every show jack works on <33

their apartment is always a mess LMAO. davey has papers and books everywhere, there’s paint on the floor, brushes all over the place— it’s what happens when you cross a tired academic and an adhd creative. shit happens.

they actually stay pretty hip and on-trend? idk how it happens but jack is rlly good with youth culture and davey is on top of gay culture so like. yeah they work.

over summers and breaks, they travel a lot! not anything crazy expensive— they love international travel, but they’re also a big fan of road trips and rental cars!

they are my FAVORITES and i love them so much

[more-than-a-princess]

Happy Valentine's Day! In previous years I'd request asks for chocolate exchanges, but I went for the dating application instead as I'm going out tonight to one of my favorite local cafes. Sonia would approve: their chocolate desserts are heavenly!

But in the meantime, now that I've responded to all of the dating application asks, I'll try to share some aesthetics and art, as well as this: my updated ship tier/preference list for the DR 1, 2, and V3 casts for Sonia.

tl;dr - I'm a little picky about ships (and tend to write more crossover and OC ships with her for this reason)!

For the Hajime and Nagito tier: This is a combination of "usually not my thing" and "there's one mun's portrayal I really like for this romantic ship but that mun/blog isn't currently active in the RPC"

And for the kouhai tier: I know Class 78 is also considered kouhais to Sonia, but this tier list is more exemplary of Non-Despair, high school interactions. By the time Class 79 begins, she's in her final year at Hope's Peak and more focused on graduating with high marks, university applications, and the next steps in her life, so she isn't really considering romance with peers two years younger than she is: it is, quite literally, expiration dating!

With that in mind, Sonia's Non-Despair adult verse would likely have some different answers for the V3 cast, and I can add those if there's interest. But I made the tier list primary with a Non-Despair high school verse in mind.

[dice-nagito-ace]

🎲 DICE!Antag AU: Word Vomit 🎲

okay this is going to be just me putting all in my notes about this AU, it's gonna be a long long one, feel free to ask questions about stuff

the basic premise is that the main antags of the three DR games actually met in childhood so there's obv gonna be some heavy canon divergence here, in any case–

if you're interested in art of this AU, i've linked them here, some made by @/luckyashesdraws when i flooded ash's dms with this au and they made the funniest art that i still love

pipe bomb

stop

lady checkers

some general info:

ages are just a year apart so komaeda's in class 77, byakuya's in 78, kokichi should be in 79

each pair actually met separately before having a whole spiderman pointing at each other when all three gathered

byakuya met kokichi when he was off running around the streets doing things

kokichi met komaeda when he had to be placed in an orphanage for a short time till things were handled

komaeda met byakuya when the other met up with him to forge connections to help settle his status as a contestant for the spot of togami heir

their trio started out as a business deal, set in komaeda's mansion, which later becomes one of DICE's main bases

because of this, they end up making nicknames, mostly because of byakuya's family, can't expose the two at the wrong time and get sabotaged

byakuya is King, kokichi is Joker, komaeda is Ace

MORE HCS n DICE in general below

the DICE crew still exists here actually, they're mostly made up of the "troubled" cases of orphans, the ones that get sent back, mostly the ones who were heading on their teens, least likely to be adopted

kokichi's little group sort of became the seniors of course, helping around the orphanage while they can, teaching the younger kids and helping them get adopted

it's only when some of them get into concerning households does kokichi start expanding to get a better info network to make his own background checks on invididuals

the volunteers at the orphanage as well as the owner kind of turn a side eye or aren't aware of the extent of kokichi's happenings, his deals with the street kids, his sneaking off to scout through the city

For the most part, these are their main names to go by

1 & 3 are twins (they just have the same birthday n dubbed each other twins), 2 is someone they took under their wing, together they're the Jack of all Trades

1 is Jack, 2 is Jackie, 3 is JJ

Their roles in DICE are too mainly be the legwork, the main info brokers that handle the network kokichi's made, keeping the connections fresh and everyone informed

everyone in DICE is basically in the deck, (King, Queen, Jack, 10 & The Suits)

one of these very connections is komaeda and byakuya, which kokichi met through different periods of time

Spade and Clover are ahem, they're the "Janitors" you could say of the team, they help "Clean Up" the city, the ones that spend the most time out the orphanage patrolling through the streets at night

Diamond and Hearts are the ones used for infiltration, when things need to be done in places inside where being a bit average helps.

Diamond handles the distractions more, keeping attention on her but it's Hearts who charms his way into lots of places they shouldn't be.

gosh, 10 is the one who keeps base operations stable and holds the fort gloriously

Queenie is actually the youngest and newest member of DICE, she has a darker backstory and is involved in DICE's first major operations after allying with a detective who asked for their help

kokichi, byakuya and komaeda basically helped her choose a new name, that being Queenie because she deserves to be up on a comfy throne after what i put her through ^^;;

Queenie joins 10 in base operations as well, learning from her on how DICE works but mainly hangs around with Checkers, DICE's mascot and emotional support cat.

[a-student-out-of-time]

//I wish sdra2 had cultural clashes between it's character seing how their real world ages vary from young adults to over 50, it would have been a good way to foreshadow that twist too. Like having Shinji not know who Emma is despite being told she is a famous actresses, since he was a teen during the 80s and by that time she might not even have been born, and someone without the prior knowledge would assume Shinji is just being a liltle stupid and not caught up with media. Yet these kinds of interactions never happened in story ever, kinda disappointing imo//

//That's the issue about the age plot twist in SDRA2: how much it didn't really seem to contribute to the story and how convoluted it really is.

//It made sense in SDR2, with Hiyoko being taller and that being a sign that everyone in the NWP was older than they initially believed. That was proof that more time had passed than they realize, and that time- their missing memories- were about them all being the Remnants of Despair. They were missing those memories for a reason.

//Mikado's plan, meanwhile, required them to essentially recreate a lot of the same events as DRA's killing game to push Yuki into becoming Utsuro, pushing his memories out via trauma and inserting the data about Utsuro they extracted from Mikako's memories.

//On that level, Kokoro and Mikado being older at least makes sense. Her being Mikako's mother and putting that chip in her head, while it effectively demolishes everything likable about her character, at least works from a story standpoint and explains why they have information about Utsuro.

//However, they achieved this goal by taking people who were tangentially related to members of Class 79, even with the barest possible connections like Yoruko and the Twins, and shoved them into a killing game of their own, de-aging and altering their memories to make them think they were all part of the same class.

//It feels like that should be setting up for something, but that's just it: Yuri, Kokoro, Shinji, the Twins and Yoruko are there because of their bare minimum connections; Setsuka is there because she was hired by the Kisaragi Foundation to investigate Mikado and got captured, and Sora is there to protect Yuki. That's really it.

//The memory aspect is also very confusing because Class 77-B were de-aged and their memories wiped up to the day of their admission to Hope's Peak. It made sense why they all thought they were freshmen.

//Even if we assumed that Mikado and the Voids did the same thing, these people either never were Ultimates in the first place or they'd remember the year of their admission. The only thing that makes sense is he made them all think they were Ultimates, made them forget what year it was and that they were all attending Class 80. We're supposed to believe he can do all that on a bootleg version of the NWP?

//The easiest thing to do would've been to have one of the older ones ask "What year is it?" and everyone gives conflicting answers. But because we don't have established years in DR, that wouldn't be an option.

//And ultimately, this feels like it's just a twist for the sake of having a twist, making an already convoluted Chapter 6 even more convoluted ^^;

[opedguy]

Democrats Get Nothing From Trump’s Tax Returns

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Dec. 30, 3033.--Democrats finally got the dirt on 76-year-old former President Donald Trump with the Supreme Court and House Ways and Means Committee releasing five years of the former president’s tax returns.  Since Trump announced for president at Trump Tower in Manhattan June 17, 2015, Democrats and the press hounded him to release his tax returns.  Seven years later, Democrats and the press finally get what they want in the most anti-climactic news event imaginable.  What do middle class reporters know about any billionaire’s tax returns, other than feeling green with envy over the incredible wealth of certain lucky individuals.  Democrats and the press got what they wanted Nov. 8, 2020 when Trump was bounced out of office.  But releasing his tax returns did nothing to discredit the former president, or, for that matter, preventing him from running for president again in 2024;

Trump’s tax returns show his fantastic wealth but, more importantly, he uses IRS tax laws to his advantage as real estate investor.  Trump fought releasing his tax returns over the last seven years thinking that ordinary people would hold his clever tax strategies against him in any future election.  While Democrats and the press salivate, the public yawns about the release of Trump’s tax returns.  “The Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people,” Trump said on his Truth Social network.  Whether it leads to any consequences to ordinary citizens is anyone’s guess.  Trump refers to the invasion of privacy, something that goes with the territory for politicians and celebrities.  But with Democrats releasing Trump’s tax returns, they’ve accomplished nothing, most voters could care less.

Trump’s political problems in the 2020 campaign stemmed from Democrats and the media’s relentless demonization, blaming him for everything wrong with America.  In 2020, Covid-19 was ravaging communities around the country, with hospitals and clinics slammed, with ordinary citizens dropping like flies.  No one knew what to expect other than death-and-disease with no end in sight.  Democrats and press made sure that Trump was blamed for the Covid-19 global pandemic, at least the U.S. response to the health crisis.  Washington Post’s 79-year-old journalist Bob Woodward of Watergate fame and 82-year-old Dr. Anthony Fauci, heading Trump Covid-19 task force, teamed up to blame Trump for mishandling the crisis.  Woodward joined the Democrat Party effort to blame Trump for the Covid-19 crisis, with Fauci giving nonstop interviews to the anti-Trump press.

Adding to the perfect storm against Trump, the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd and months of race riots that followed was also blamed on Trump. Added together, Trump was so demonized by the time the election rolled around, 80-year-old President Joe Biden benefited from confluence of events.  Trump didn’t know what hit him until Election Day, handing him a crushing defeat.  Trump was in such disbelief that he lost to Biden, he thought the election was rigged or some type of massive fraud took place.  No matter how much anyone looked for voter irregularities, nothing was ever found by  election officials or courts of law. Trump insisted he was robbed of his second term, prompting Democrats to call his claims of voter fraud the “Big Lie.”  But the “Big Lie” was not, as Democrats and the press said, a crime, only Trump’s expression his own eccentric opinion.

House Democrat spent 18 months and millions of dollars on the Jan. 6 House Select Committee hearings, in the most partisan and biased government hearings in U.S. history.  House Democrats interviewed one thousand witnesses all with intent of blaming Trump from the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.  Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) failed to convict Trump in the U.S. Senate of “incitement of insurrection” Feb. 13, 2021, following up with the Jan. 6 House Select Committee.  Democrats tried to prove Trump planned, orchestrated and colluded with right wing groups, the Oathkeepers and Proud Boys, to overturn the 2020 election results.  All the Committee showed was that certain groups and individuals broke the law Jan. 6, 2021, vandalized the Capitol and paid a draconic price with long jail sentences.  Democrats and the press conflate Jan. 6 rabble-rousers with Trump.

Democrats and the press have spent years trying to frame Trump on a variety of spurious charges.  For his 2016 presidential campaign, the FBI, under Obama White House approval, tried to frame his as Russian asset, claiming he colluded wit the Kremlin to win the 2016 election.  Former FBI Director James Comey, 62, spent years trying to frame Trump using former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s fake Steele dossier, totally fabricated paid opposition research.  New York Times and Washington Post won Pulitzer Prizes for fake reporting on Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.  Trump’s team exposed a monstrous conspiracy at the DOJ, FBI, CIA and National Security Agency [NSA] to frame Trump as a Russian asset.  Not one Democrat or media organization ever admitted apologized to Trump for their fabricated Russian conspiracy stories.  Trump is left shaking his head with what happened to him.

About the Author  

John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.

[putaindeplagieur]

Danganronpa: Characterization and Evolution across Perceptions and Interpretation.

Okay, so basically, this was supposed to be a reblog of a discussion of characters, but I felt the need to give my piece of mind. For context, view this one, 

https://www.tumblr.com/vergilsama922/704831097102598144/if-you-want-a-more-analytical-take-on-queen-of

Since I’m in a talking, since everyone is giving their opinions on everything, why not join?

Fair warning though... this is gonna be long. Hope you have some pop-corn.

I’m not going to add anything about the ambiguous characters because everything was said... except for Junko and Mukuro.

I think I need to remind everyone that while all of those points about Junko and Mukuro are valid... every character is supposed to be a parody of certain stereotypes of characters. The average goody-two shoes protagonist, the violent brute with a moral code, the honorable warrior, the arrogant rich boy, the mysterious girl, the fat otaku, the manipulaitve lolita, ect.

And for Junko and Mukuro? Those are supposed to be the Ultimate Bad Guy and Lackey, respectively. People who parodies evil bad lords in fiction and those who mindlessly support them.

Now, that doersn’t mean that excuse what they’ve done, quite the opposite. Just knowing that those you hate parodies of stereotypes doesn’t mean you have to like or dislike them. Those who hate Junko and Mukuro has very good reasons to do so.  You can find a person entertaining (Celes), interesting (Monaca), have soft spot for them (Hiyoko and her backstory), BUT! Ultimately, the choice of liking or disliking them is up to you.

I’m simply saying that, all characters have various level of depthsdepths, depending of the support they appeared in as. For instance, in my opinion, Toko Fukawa is not that great of a character in Trigger Happy Havoc, despite her having the niche of a double personality and being a survivor. But her time in Ultra Despair Girls (her bonding with Komaru and her evolution alongside Syo) really managed to elevate her as one of the best characters. (And God knows she needed it).

The thing is, there’s a lot of factors that needs to be taken account. A visual novel game and a novel has a lot more time to developp some characters than an anime or a manga. Which is why the formers are overall considered as better than the latters. But it also depends of the context same support has. Hope vs Despair, Truth vs Lies, Present vs Future, Killing vs Saving, Talk vs Action, ect.

Aaaand it also depends on the author, who might like or dislike some characters and thus decides to either not give them that much material or backstory compared to others, or get rid of them first. Looking at Sayaka and Leon who were the first one that Kodaka designed, and were among the first victims because he was sick of seeing them.

Ouch. Way to please those who liked them.

An author is not perfect, as you can see. An author is, last time I checked, human. And every decision they make impacts their support no matter what they do. As a result, some characters ends up having the short end of the stick... or no stick at all. Looking at Bandai who barely got any character at all.

And let’s not forget that Koda isn’t the only scenarist in the DR Team. Just look at DR3, Killer Killer, the novel Togami, the visual novel Kirigiri Sou... yeah, sometimes, they make very, VERY questionnable tropes No spoilers, but look at the official wikias... you’re in for a doozy.

But nonetheless, it inspires others to make their own stories with their own goals in mind... and thus, they are bound not just to make the same mistakes, but to make their own.

FINALLY, we’re talking about LINUJ and his storytelling skills.

Now, I will say, LINUJ was able to use canon and make his story fit very well with the lore. Class 79 escaping the school, showing the Tragedy and its effects. The Ultimate Despair’s influence, who aren’t brainwashed this time around (even though in a realistic way, I do think that the brainwashing could have been good if it wasn’t the ONLY reason Junko gained her lackeys). The Divine Luck theme, which I believe is an interesting take considering luck has always been a stample of the story. Not to mention, the murders. Jesus, say whatever you want, but at least LINUJ knows how to surpass DR when it comes to gore.

Now, for the negative traits. To me, some characters are just... level DR3 when it comes to development. not kidding, Kizuna could have been interesting to work with despite her attitude. She could have been a Ruruka better developped. But no, that didn’t happen. Same thing for Nikei, who turns ourt to be just a manipulative bastard with an inferiority complex.

And the whole thing about Kanade. @a-student-out-of-time already explained why her being who she ended up was shitty, so let’s not beat what would be, at this point, a dead horse.

As well as some murders not being necessary. Poor Kanata deserved better, MUCH better than what she got. All because LINUJ wanted to copy the formula.

See what I mean? Everyone has a different approach with a different cast of characters. For me, I would never be able to write a killing game, because it would mean I would never make anyone suffer death by murder, even though I dislike some.

Like Haiji, Mitch, Kyosuke, Juzo, Ruruka, Kanade, Hiyoko, Byakuya, Kaito (the Japanese version), Kokichi (the American version), and so many others.

The one who can choose whatever you think of someone is yourself And if you’re an artist like a writer or on koihatsu... well, you can use your skills to show the portrait you’ve made of this character.

Whenever this portrait is good or bad is another debate entirely,.

Now, I know I’ve been on a long-ass tangent now, but let’s talk about my personal opinion on certain characters.

Makoto Naegi, for instance, is my favorite protagonist, if not my favorite character. Because he’s kind, understanding, and most of all, he didn’t give up in adversity. He’s someone I can relate to because of those traits and more. Not to mention, he can be shipped with many, MANY people because of his traits. That’s why people like myself or my good friend wesst1 on fanfiction, @vergilsama922 and @pyropsychiccollector works on either fanfictions, or in the latters case, an entire AU, with him paired with a MASSIVE amount of girls.

Yeah, I should probably go back to writing by now. Not just my fics, but this is for another time

Right. But with all of this said, I have to admit... he’s not the best protagonist in the franchise.

That title would belong to Hajime Hinata. Because he, in my opinion, is much more developped that Makoto. A talentless guy who craved to have something to be proud of, and being pressured by his inferiority complex to join a project dehumanizing him to make him represent something toxic... only to be used to represent the opposite. This, and many other factors, help him rise to the top.

At the opposite side of the spectrum... Kyosuke Munakata and Juzo Sakakura.

Those two were preszented as people who wanted to get rid of the corruption at HPA... and decided to kill all despairs during the Tragedy. In itself, Kyosuke especially, pose a potential good foil to Makoto, as he seems more realistic, and thinks that sometimes, in order to save people, you need to take another life. Which in itself is pretty messed up, but in a world when the people have no problem killing anyone, is not that morally grey and sometimes necessary in this context. Legitimate defense and such, even with brainwashing in play.

My problem with those is that, for the latter... well, he chose to save his own secret over the lives of billions. Even though he swore to help Kyosuke... and he lashes out at anyone because of it, specifically, the one who stopped Junko in the first place. Not to mention, what he did with Hajime.

And Kyosuke, well... we don’t see him kill Despairs because it was necessary. We see him killing his comrades. Yes, he was manipulated into hating the Despairs, and Chisa’s death set him ablaze... but his disregard of Makoto and co’s trauma due to the killing game and his inability to understand hope and despair (who are at the core human emotions), makes me question: what did he really want for Hope’s Peak Academy? Did he really wanted the good for everyone, or did he just wanted to sit on the headmaster’s chair, like he said in DR3 Despair?

"For the sin of laying a hand on my school, you will pay the price."

That... that is pretty arrogant in my opinion. And with all of that, wesst1 and I took it into account, and decided to make those two bad guys.

Those two can be good allies, like @a-student-out-of-time is most likely gonna do. It’s a matter of approach.

Everyone has their likes and dislikes, and everyone is going to use a character differently from another writer.

The most important thing, for me... is to manage to use those traits, to help build up a good story.

...I think I said everything I needed to say for now. But perhaps you want to hear my opinion on other matters regarding Danganronpa?

I’ll most likely do it anyway, but your opinion is welcome.