#ernesto’s island

[everythingmaxriemelt]

Films I like in 2023 (some weren’t released in 2023 and I haven’t seen most of the newer films in other Best of 2023 lists)

So, in no particular order:

1. Anatomy of a Fall (dir. Justine Triet, 2023)

2. Past Lives (dir. Celine Song, 2023)

3. Close (dir. Lukas Dhont, 2022)

4. Afire / Roter Himmel (dir. Christian Petzold, 2023)

5. The Watcher (dir. Chloe Okuno, 2022)

6. The Eight Mountains (dir. Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch, 2022)

7. Tár (dir. Todd Field, 2022)

8. Passages (dir. Ira Sachs, 2023)

9. One Fine Morning (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve, 2022)

10. Talk to Me (dir. Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou, 2022)

Other films I like in 2023:

Saltburn (dir. Emerald Fennell, 2023)

Ernesto’s Island (dir. Ronald Vietz, 2022)

Barbarian (dir. Zach Cregger, 2022)

The Quiet Girl (dir. Colm Bairéad, 2022)

Bottoms (dir. Emma Seligman, 2023)

Emily The Criminal (dir. John Patton Ford, 2022)

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A marine iguana on the beach at Tortuga Bay, Santa Cruz island, part of the Galápagos archipelago in Ecuador. The Pacific waters are unusually warm for this time of year: El Niño has already begun and could be the most intense in decades, threatening the black marine iguanas

Photograph: Ernesto Benavides/AFP/Getty Images

[gear65]

Max Riemelt as Matthias in Ernesto's Island (2022).

[polkadotmotmot]

Ernesto Gutiérrez Moya - I Found the Island I, 2021

[gacougnol]

Ernesto Esquer

Red Hibiscus

Treasure Island, Florida 2015

[ultraericthered]

One Villainous Scene: A Childhood Wound Repaid

Unlike later Disney/Pixar villains like Lotso and Ernesto de la Cruz, Buddy Pine AKA Syndrome of The Incredibles was promoted as the film's villain from the moment the character was revealed, as you can just tell by looking at him that he's a dastardly supervillain. But they still sort of pulled a trick on us with what they showed us of him versus what they did not show. Voiced by comedic actor Jason Lee, Syndrome was characterized as a geeky superhero fanboy gone bad after having been soured on his hero, Mr. Incredible, and now he's not only an enemy to Incredible and his family, but a threat to the world at large with the super weapons he plans on making and selling. While it figures he'd be credible as that threat, the geeky personality and hammy characteristics of Syndrome painted him as a goofball cartoon baddie, one who'd evoke more humor than hatred.

And then we all actually saw the movie, and got to see exactly what Syndrome did in it and what effects those actions had on others. Syndrome was a viler, crueler, far more personally nasty villain than we'd been led to believe he'd be, and this scene best exemplifies it.

Before this scene, we were told that Syndrome was an arms dealer and that he'd brought about the deaths of other Supers. We saw Gazerbeam's skull and saw heroes classified as "terminated" on a big computer screen. Dark stuff, but Syndrome's comedically douchey manchild character didn't quite match the darkness of his deeds. Syndrome enters this scene just as comically, fanboying over Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) all over again even as he holds him captive, then disparaging him sending out a call for help as "Lame, lame, lame, LAME!" And then not two seconds have passed before Syndrome orders the electro shock torture to be turned on, as Bob is painfully zapped by the volts that suspend him, and he writhes in agony but refuses to give Syndrome the info he's demanding. After Bob sent out his request for help, which included a honing signal that gives his location, a government plane has requested to fly and land on the island Syndrome owns. Syndrome wants to know who's on board, as they'd almost assuredly be allies of Bob's. He even plays the transmission from Helen, Bob's wife, but Bob still denies that it's anyone he knows. So Syndrome says he'll send them a greeting.

Not shown in the video is that the "greeting" in question turns out to be an array of missiles to shoot down the plane. And because he knows Bob is lying about not knowing the pilot and wants to fuck with him, Syndrome keeps the live transmission on as the missiles seek to destroy. At one point Helen confirms that her children, her and Bob's son and daughter, are on board, which gets Bob panicked and pleading with Syndrome to call off the strike. Syndrome's response is a cheerful "Too late!", followed by a snarling, disdainful "15 years too late." Because he remains embittered towards Bob about how he'd spurred his help all those years ago, back when Buddy was a young, overzealous Super fanboy wanting to be his kid sidekick "Incrediboy". Bob doing this, and his cold, insensitive attitude about it, cut Buddy so deeply that it set him on course to becoming the villain he is today, and the grudge he carries over it drives him in his vendetta against Supers, Mr. Incredible himself in particular. Really think about that for a second: Buddy remains so sore about having had his feelings hurt as a child - in part due to Bob trying to stop him from recklessly jeopradizing his own life and the lives of others - that he now as an adult is A-OK with harming and ending the lives of children so long as doing so can hit the idol who'd rejected him where it really hurts.

When the last missile hits the target and it seems that Helen and the kids have perished in the explosion, Bob is mortified. Syndrome takes his speechless anguish as yet another opportunity to rub in some petty payback for the incident 15 years ago, throwing Bob's words to him back at him "You'll get over it. I seem to recall you prefer to work alone?" Cackling maliciously, Syndrome turns to walk away not noticing a now furious Bob about to grab him from behind. His assistant Mirage rushes in the way and Bob grabs her in a chokehold instead. Bob demands he be released or he will crush Mirage to death right there and then. Syndrome displays zero empathy or understanding that Bob is doing this out of the pain of having just lost his beloved wife and offsprings, remarking that killing a hostage would "be a little dark for him" before nonchalantly going "Aaah, go ahead." Bob, even in this emotional state, doesn't actually want to take Mirage's life, so he verbally reinforces how easy it'd be for him to do it. Syndrome just chuckles and calls his bluff again. "Show me!", he says, daring Bob to go through with the murder, a despicably evil smirk on his face as he looks his ex-idol in the eyes.

Bob cannot do it. His human decency is too great. But Syndrome sees it differently. "I knew you couldn't do it." he sneers "Even when you have nothing left to lose! You're weak...and I've outgrown you." Completely cold, dead serious, and detached from any semblence of human feelings, Syndrome doesn't even give Bob a second glance as he walks out of the room, believing his revenge to have at last been fulfilled, as now Bob can only suffer and drown in his despair until the time comes where Syndrome makes him the last Super to perish. But Mirage does give a glance back and a sad look as Bob, the mighty and once revered Mr. Incredibly, has broken down in anguished sobs, believing he's just had everything taken from him.

Beneath the geekiness, blase humor and superficial affability, Buddy Pine is not only absolutely a true menace not to be taken lightly, but a malignant, sociopathic monster who relishes any and all ways he can build himself up at the expense of others who are either enemies for him to topple or collateral damage he gives not one single shit about. And with his own self-elevation to greatness, he feels it fine to bring about both the end of Supers and the downfall of human civilization once all of his weapons would be put up for grabs. Nothing matters to Syndrome except Syndrome, and in such a self-aggrandizing soul there exists endless room for cruelties and exactly none for shame.

[zvaigzdelasas]

[RFA is US State Media]

The Philippines will no longer seek financial aid from China for a package of ambitious railway projects, the transportation secretary said, adding that officials were confident the projects could move ahead with funding from interested sources.

China had been slated to build two of the rail lines on the main Philippine island of Luzon and the third on southern Mindanao island, officials said. 

The Marcos administration announced the decision to drop the Chinese loans amid tensions between Manila and Beijing in the South China Sea and days after a pair of minor collisions in disputed waters between ships and boats from both nations. 

Philippine Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said the territorial tensions were not tied to this decision.[...]

["]our government is looking for other sources of funding.”[...]

Less than a month after Duterte left office in mid-2022, Ernesto Pernia, who had served as his socioeconomic planning secretary, said the Philippines would be wise to drop the three Chinese-backed projects.

“Much better to deal with ODA with Japan, South Korea, Australia, the U.S. and the E.U.,” Pernia told BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated news outlet, at the time while using an acronym for official development assistance. [...]

Rates through the China-based lending agency Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), were “significantly higher” compared to funding from Japan or South Korean ODAs, Gatchalian said. [...]

Biden criticized Chinese ships for acting “dangerously and unlawfully as our Philippine friends conducted a routine resupply mission within … their own exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea,” according to a transcript from the White House. 

“I want to be very clear: The United States’ defense commitment to the Philippines is ironclad,” Biden said. “Any attack on the Filipino aircraft, vessels, or armed forces will invoke our Mutual Defense Treaty with the Philippines.” 

In an apparent response to Biden, the Chinese Embassy in Manila on Thursday said that the “escalation of activities has been inflated by the U.S. actions.” 

“Since the beginning of this year, the U.S. has been blatantly emboldening the Philippines’ acts of infringing upon China’s sovereignty and inciting and supporting the Philippines’ attempts to repair and reinforce its warship that was deliberately grounded on Ren’ai Jiao,” it said, using the Chinese name for the shoal. 

26 Oct 23

[thepixarau]

So I keep talking about that Pixar Super Smash bros idea and I’m going to continue because I think it would be cool

So the character roster would be: Woody, Buzz, Sulley, Mike, Jessie, Flik, Mr. Incredible, WALL-E, Dory, Ember, Ian, Atta, Joy, Barley, Wade, Merida, Elastigirl, Imelda, EVE, McQueen, Joe, Syndrome, Remy, Mater, Bo Peep, Dash, Violet, Jack-Jack, Sadness, Bing-Bong, Hopper, Doc Hudson, Linguini, 22, Luca, Alberto, Giulia, Meilin, Latso, Arlo, Spot, Anger, Disgust, Fear, Harris Hubert & Hamish, Marlin, Nemo, Crush, Randal, Carl, Dug, Héctor, Miguel, Ernesto, Evelyn/Screenslaver, Ming Lee, and probably even more! Or maybe some of these would just be spirit fighters/bosses

Arena ideas: Andy’s Bedroom, Sunnyside daycare, Monsters Inc. factory, 4*Town concert arena, Ant Island, Radiator Springs, Gusteau’s restaurant/city of Paris, Portorosso, DunBroch castle, Element City, East Australian Current, Carl’s house (as it floats around buildings and clouds and eventually ends in Paradise Falls), Riley’s mind (switches between Honesty Island, Goofball Island, etc), Land of the Dead, Monsters University campus, The Great Before, a Cars’ themed racing arena, Clawtooth Mountain, Bug City, the Axiom, Pizza Planet, P Sherman’s dentist office, and many more!

Special items: the Pixar ball that you can throw at opponents, a plate of ratatouille (and other dishes from the movie) that can heal damage, an Incredibles mask that temporarily gives you one of the families’ powers, a Zurg arm-cannon that shoots tennis balls, and of course the Assist Trophy that calls another character to aid you in battle! I imagine characters from this item would be like Pepita, Rex, Kevin, Sox, Massimo, AUTO, Gale, the circus bugs, Jackson Storm, Fergus, Bruce, etc. Basically characters that had some importance in the movies’ but that I don’t think would be in the official playable roster

[shinmiyovvi]

「Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies Oc Information: Main Ocs (Primis)」

NAME: Valena Villanueva

FULL NAME: Meliciana Valena B. Villanueva

AGE: 31

HEIGHT: 5'11"

DATE OF BIRTH: November 21, XXXX

PLACE OF BIRTH: Tondo, Manila, Philippines

NATIONALITY: Filipino

LANGUAGES:

English

Filipino

Spanish

German

Japanese

Russian

ALIASES:

Valena

Val

Lena

Hija

Anela (By Ernesto, Lumina, Felipe, and Agoncilia)

Mrs. Nightingale

Malishka/Rodnaya/Lyubov (By Nikolai)

Kwaehwal/쾌활 (By Ji eun)

OCCUPATION:

Nurse (Formerly)

Army Nurse Corps Member

AFFILIATIONS:

Us Army, Army Nurse Corps, Insular Government of the Philippine Islands, Primis, Ultimis

RELATIONSHIPS:

(Note: The names that are crossed out are considered as deceased)

VILLANUEVA-BUENAVISTA FAMILY

Ernesto Villanueva (Father)

Lumina Villanueva (Mother)

Col. Felipe Buenavista (Uncle, second father)

Rosalina Buenavista (Aunt, second mother)

Marcelo Buenavista (Cousin)

Dolores Buenavista (Cousin)

FRIENDS AND OTHERS:

Tulio Diaz (Childhood friend)

Alfonso de Guzman (Childhood friend)

Faye Hernandez (Childhood friend)

Luis Villamor (Friend, brother figure)

Sgt. George Huxley (Lover)

PRIMIS:

Edward Richtofen (Ally)

Tank Dempsey (Ally)

Nikolai Belinski (Ally, love interest)

Takeo Masaki (Ally)

Gong Ji Eun (Ally)

Arthur Frensby (Ally)

Dragomir Ostrowski (Ally)

PERSONALITY:

Lena is a caring and loving person, she is rather a mother friend to the crew due to her kind-hearted personality. She mostly smiles and brings everyone's hopes up throughout the journey. Just like her Ultimis counterpart, she is intelligent and serious. Although she is quite innocent to look at, she seems to hide something from her crew, something she never talks about much. Lena always hides her real emotions, that being sadness and guilt. She tends to imagine seeing her late parents whenever she experiences a near-death situation or even remembering the pain she felt when she lost her lover during the war. There are time she experiences nightmares about the incident or any episodes of not being herself in front of the others. She is stuck in a limbo of her own sadness, feeling that she couldn't save anyone she holds dear to her heart. That is why she always throw her life at risk to save her crew from any harm.

BACKGROUND:

Lena was born in Tondo, Manila to a loving family. Being the only child, she tends to dream about having a little sister to play with. Whenever she and her parents were in Ermita, she would go to the National Library of the Philippines to read books while waiting for her parents in Ermita. Due to reading a lot, she became interested in Literature and History as it also made her intelligent. She also begins to learn Spanish with the help of her father and Japanese from her mother. All is well for Lena as something will change her life with a disaster. She found out that her father was helping the Katipuneros as she also overheard him and a Katipunero having a conversation about the organization being found out by the curate of Tondo as they were being hunted down by the Spanish troops. When the time happened, her mother hid her in a closet as Lena kept quiet. All she could hear were the cries of her mother begging the Spanish troops about her father being innocent and not having any relations with the Katipunan. She heard gunshots, screams of both parties and suspected Katipunan members being captured. The closet was ajar and saw a glimpse of her mother, lying on the ground lifelessly with a pool of blood coming out from her body. Her father tried to fight back as he saw Lena in the closet, she ran out of the closet as she got a graze on her neck by a stray bullet. She couldn't react to her wound as her uncle Felipe quickly saved her together with his lieutenant Luis Villamor who became Lena's friend and a brother figure. The last time she saw her parents were now dead as their house was being burned down. She cries as Felipe tries to treat her wound and leaves Tondo on horseback. After the incident, Lena was taken care of by her uncle and aunt Rosalina and met her cousins Dolores and Marcelo in San Nicholas. While trying to cope with the death of her parents, Felipe taught her how to shoot, and wield a bolo knife while Rosalina taught her how to speak English, German, and Russian, and told her stories about how her father and mother met. Felipe also fears that she would get involved in any conflicts for the country's freedom and him being part of the Philippine Revolutionary Army with the rank of Captain. On her birthday, Felipe gifted her 2 novels, The Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, and Rosalina gave her a teddy bear which she named Nick. During her time in San Nicholas, she met Tulio Diaz, Alfonso de Guzman, and Faye Hernandez which she befriended with. Rosalina enrolled her in a religious school during her youth. in college, Lena then went to study at the University of Santo Tomas to study medicine and finished her degree. After graduating from college, she became a nurse and worked for 3 years before moving to the US to continue working there and build a future in a foreign country. When the US was involved in WW1, she joined the Army Nurse Corps and met her soon-to-be lover Sgt. George Huxley. After the war, she found out her lover died during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive and kept his dog tag with her while arriving in Northern France to spy and collect details about the technology Group 935 has to offer. She met Richtofen and the others and joined them in their journey to collect their counterparts' souls.

[tangledbea]

What are your thoughts on the surprise twist Disney and Pizar villains, and do you have a favorite and least favorite?

Generally speaking, I'm extremely tired of Disney and Pixars's twist villains. The good news is that they seem to be tired of them, too (or, at least, are aware that the audience has grown weary and have slowed down on doing them, for the most part).

Disney started out strong, but then just kept going for the shock value. I remember watching Big Hero 6 and saying to myself, "Alistair Krei is too obvious to be the villain of this story. Kabuki is either Callaghan or Tadashi with a grudge." I really didn't want it to be Tadashi. Glad it wasn't. And, of course, there's the whole Prince Hans debacle, where they deliberately hid his true intentions and feelings from the audience, even at times where him having the reaction he had made no sense, in order to pull off the twist.

Pixar's twist villains have usually felt pretty organic to the story. Charles Muntz going from brilliant adventurer and explorer to eccentric, obsessed old man isn't a stretch. It was clear that something was wrong with Sunnyside from the start, so finding out Lotsa ruled with an iron fist wasn't a bit surprising. And for goodness sakes, her name was Evelyn Deavor (evil endeavor), and it was a superhero movie. Her villainy was broadcast long in advance using her name, alone, and wasn't much of a twist. Obviously, this isn't all of them, and I'm still rather tired of them, though.

That being said, King Candy/Turbo was far and away the best twist villain, and it was because the set up was so flawless. We already knew KC was the villain of the story, but when it turned out he was also the villain whose actions had coined the very phrase that they kept using to describe Ralph's actions, it was just *chef's kiss* perfection. It wasn't "this seemingly good guy is actually a villain," it was, "this villain is actually a different, much worse villain." A+ storytelling.

I also have zero issues with Te Kā/Te Fiti because the dual nature of gods is something that has existed in just about every ancient mythology known to man. Especially in cases where the culture is keenly aware of active volcanoes/the gods are the anthropomorphic personifications of natural occurrences/disasters. In Hawai'i, Pele is the goddess of volcanoes and fire, but she's also a fertility goddess, because she created the Hawaiian islands and because volcanic soil is rich and fertile. She was less of a twist villain and more of a twist non-villain.

Ernesto de La Cruz is also high-ranking on my, "What a twist!"-o-meter. You can pretty much tell early on that Héctor is actually Miguel's great-great-grandfather, but finding out that Ernesto was a murderer and a thief was like, "Oh shit! I saw something coming, but not this!" I enjoyed that twist.

Least favorite has to be Zurg in Lightyear. I've never seen the movie, but I know what the twist is, and it kind of enrages me. lol

All in all, I agree with a lot of people that I miss bombastic Disney villains. I do like this new trend of the stories being about generational trauma and healing, but I'll be glad to have good vs evil in a clear-cut fairytale way again.

[everythingmaxriemelt]

Be my Valentine ❤️ Max Riemelt cinematic version, Part 2

[gideonthefirst]

January Books

bolded is favorites, [x] is least favorites

fiction

Caribou Island by David Vann

Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

A Ballet of Lepers: A Novel and Stories by Leonard Cohen

The Deep by Rivers Solomon

Harrow by Joy Williams

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

nonfiction

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Megan O'Rourke

Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman by Greg Grandin

I Embrace You With All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 by Ernesto Che Guevara

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel [x]

Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse

Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 by Richard Thompson

Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba & Then Lost it to the Revolution by T.J. English [x]

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues by Jonathan Kennedy [x]

other

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie by Maya Angelou

The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib

[shuttershocky]

Excuse me for being late to the party but I saw the CC video with Ernesto and it reminded me of a question I had concerning him. Specifically the scene in which he asks to be killed and then said he expected Ch'en's answer. I admit I'm kinda stuck there when it comes to its purpose in the story. It feels like it influences her decision to recomend him in some ways but I cant quite tell which. If you dont mind, could you enlighten me on that point as the arknights scholar?

Basically, Ernesto expected Ch'en and Yushia to kill him after he was supposed to be their guide and bodyguard but turned out to be part of the terrorist group attacking the city instead. Since their family was beaten and disgraced, Ernesto felt like it was only proper to ask for death at their hands for breaking sacred rules of hospitality (do not fucking attack your guests) but already expected Ch'en to refuse, knowing the kind of person she is.

This influenced Ch'en to recommend Ernesto and Rafaela to Rhodes Island, because she could see herself in them: they were idealistic, subversive, and very lost in a world where believing you're doing good doesn't mean you will win.

It's important to remember that the Salas family's attempt at revolution came from wanting to replace Candela Sanchez as the sole representative of a Bolivar made by Bolivarians. Bolivar is ruled by three colonial masters to the point where Bolivarians can barely tell the existence of their original culture, but to have the one Bolivarian able to carve out her own territory be a rich girl who studied abroad and used the ways of the colonial masters against them AND her own people is another level of disgusting. For the Salas family, destroying this insult to their people was the only morally right thing to do. But being right doesn't really mean anything in Terra.

At least, it doesn't when you're on your own. That's why Ch'en recommended them for Rhodes Island. It's for a different cause, but Rhodes is all about idealists who go against the system. Because even if together they can't do everything, together they can do /something/.

If you've lived your whole life without affecting any change, even something is good enough to keep you going.

[givemearmstopraywith]

It is impossible to know all that was being discussed in the thousands of CEBs throughout Latin America. There are, however, sufficient reports to be able to gather a general view of such discussions. Particularly enlightening are the conversations recounted in Ernesto Cardenal The Gospel in Solentiname. Cardenal (1925–) is a priest, a poet, and a monk. He founded a CEB on the island of Solentiname, in Lake Managua. There he promoted discussions of the Gospel readings for each Sunday. Impressed by what people were discovering in the Bible, he began recording these conversations, which were eventually published as The Gospel in Solentiname. Reading these reports, one is struck by both the newness with which people It is impossible to know all that was being discussed in the thousands of CEBs throughout Latin America. There are, however, sufficient reports to be able to gather a general view of such discussions. Particularly enlightening are the conversations recounted in Ernesto Cardenal The Gospel in Solentiname. Cardenal (1925–) is a priest, a poet, and a monk. He founded a CEB on the island of Solentiname, in Lake Managua. There he promoted discussions of the Gospel readings for each Sunday. Impressed by what people were discovering in the Bible, he began recording these conversations, which were eventually published as The Gospel in Solentiname. Reading these reports, one is struck by both the newness with which people read well-known stories and the degree to which they expressed a revolutionary ethos that clearly reflected Cardenal’s own views. The revolutionary bias may be seen, for instance, in the declaration of some in the group that when Mary urged Jesus to perform a miracle at the wedding in Cana, even though his “time has not come,” she was like a revolutionary mother urging a son to join the revolution. The ability to see in Scripture what most others missed is evident in the same discussion about the wedding at Cana. One of the participants expressed concern that Jesus turned the water for the rites of purification into wine, thus making it impossible for religious folk to purify themselves. What would happen then, if someone came seeking water for the religious rite? With a freshness that borders on the disrespectful, another participant responded that Jesus would simply say, “It is time for a party. Here, have a drink.” On another occasion, while the group was discussing the story of the “wise men” in Matthew, one of the participants commented that they were not so wise after all, for they went to Jerusalem, Herod’s capital, asking where was this new king who had been born. This would be like someone going to Dictator Somoza’s palace in Managua and asking where was the new revolutionary leader who was emerging!read well-known stories and the degree to which they expressed a revolutionary ethos that clearly reflected Cardenal’s own views. The revolutionary bias may be seen, for instance, in the declaration of some in the group that when Mary urged Jesus to perform a miracle at the wedding in Cana, even though his “time has not come,” she was like a revolutionary mother urging a son to join the revolution. The ability to see in Scripture what most others missed is evident in the same discussion about the wedding at Cana. One of the participants expressed concern that Jesus turned the water for the rites of purification into wine, thus making it impossible for religious folk to purify themselves. What would happen then, if someone came seeking water for the religious rite? With a freshness that borders on the disrespectful, another participant responded that Jesus would simply say, “It is time for a party. Here, have a drink.” On another occasion, while the group was discussing the story of the “wise men” in Matthew, one of the participants commented that they were not so wise after all, for they went to Jerusalem, Herod’s capital, asking where was this new king who had been born. This would be like someone going to Dictator Somoza’s palace in Managua and asking where was the new revolutionary leader who was emerging!

Ondina E. González and Justo L. González, Christianity in Latin America: A History

[201xs]

also thinking about eating burgers and watching pokemon orange islands on dvd with the boxbots. ernesto doesnt want his curly fries so he gives them to me.

[despair-to-future-arcs]

Does this mean we split up into different groups?

Now the first rule; no one is allow to go to Jabberwock Island unless you inform Nagi Nanami, myself, Kyoko Kirigiri and Ernesto Gomez or Nagi Nanami request something from a Division.

Seeing as they are getting therapy, no one must disturbs them but the same is for the Remnants of Despairs as well as they need Nagi Nanami's along with my permission as well.

So meaning we can't do shit to them and they won't do anything to us, well next rule?

Right the next rule; Any and all information related to Hope's Peak Academy or the investigation must be given to myself or Kyoko Kirigiri.

Meaning if you find anything of note then I would request to be given to me or Kyoko and if not then you'll be place under house arrest for not cooperating with the investigation.

Bu-But we are Future Foundation Heads! People need our help, who is going to do our work if we are under house arrest?!

Then you'll have someone temporarily taking your place until we get that evidence from you so if you want to work on your talent, you better cooperate with the investigation.

And will have another member of Future Foundation watch you so don't try to run away or do anything if you can't be trusted.

Another rule to follow; No Future Foundation Heads are allow to leave Japan until the investigation and trial is over.

As say, if we are to investigate Hope's Peak Academy, Junko Enoshima and the Remnants of Despairs - will need cooperation and working toward to find out what happen.

Now if you all have any rules to add or are against these rules, speak now.