#foreigner manipulation

[lainalit]

IC Stans: Feyre did warn tamlin that she would destroy his home

Me: you mean his mansion which honestly I definitely agree with it's very fugly with the black & white checkered flooring and all the old ass furniture that's in it

IC Stans: no I mean the innocent spring citiziens

Me:

[yandere-fetish]

Story Thought 💭

I've had this story idea since 2019 but I haven't had time. Here's a sneak peak. Should I continue or nah?

warnings: kidnap, yandere, possesive

Jacques is pronounced Jocks in French, but is pronounced in English as Jah-k-x.

"Where are we going?"

It was dark inside of his house as he led me down the stairs in the dark. I was slightly afraid since this was my first time over at his house. His hand was securely in mine as he grabbed a hold of my waist with his other.

"Jacques?"

"It's okay, baby. Trust me," his voice was smooth and soft as he whispered those words into my ear. Swallowing a giggle, I nod my head. "Good girl," his thick accent made me squeamish as he wrapped his arms around my waist and leaned his chin onto my shoulder blade.

His torso felt so nice on my back as he curled up to me from behind. I let a smile glide onto my face as he led me to the garage— from what I assumed. He had pulled me to a stopping point and I began to reach out for something. Before I knew what was happening, he was gliding me into the garage.

The coldness bit at my skin, making me shiver from the feeling. "Jacques, why is it so dark in—"

I was pushed onto a car. A gasp left my mouth as I felt the coldness of the car touch my naked skin. The clothes I had on were somewhat helpful with the cold. Before I had time to adjust to the temperature of the metal, I felt Jacques in front of me. His lips caught mine as he grabs my legs and hoisted me up onto the trunk of the car that I have yet to see.

I was so taken aback by the kiss that I had let Jacques' tongue into my mouth. I gasped at the feeling and let out a sound when he pulled me closer to his body, kissing me harder. When he pulled away, I barely knew how to react. Jacques had taken my first kiss.

What do you even do after having your first kiss?

"You're the one, (Y/N)." Jacques said in that perfect French accent. "And you're all mine," he kissed me once more before I felt him pull his hands behind my back.

Rope bound around my wrists and I pull away from Jacques. I was about to say something when he finished with the rope and gagged me. My eyes widened at his sudden act. I was soon blindfolded. I began kicking my feet as much as I could and tried to make as much noise as I could. However, I knew no one was going to hear me.

Jacques picked me off of the hood once he was able to tie my ankles together. I tried moving as much as I could, but as soon as I was placed in the backseat of the car, I started to cry. I felt his lips on my noise as he caressed my cheek with his slender fingers.

"Don't worry, mon amour," his accent was rich and made a shiver run down my spine, "I'm bringing you home."

Teenager (Y/N) has no idea what life has in store for her. She is a normal teenager with an attitude and worries. But for some reason, she can never land a date. And she doesn't really want to either.

On the first day back from winter break, there's a new kid in school and he's in her French class. But get this, he's French. He had the accent, the style, and the chivalry down to a T.

He's the perfect gentleman.

So when he suddenly takes interest in her, she doesn't know what to think. And the fact that she's failed on one test in French, doesn't help her at all.

And so the tutoring of French begins!

But when Jacques confesses that he likes her, he tutors her for free. It's all fun and games until she's kidnapped by him and shipped across the world.

Now (Y/N) must deal with his bitter ex-lover, the siblings, and the French culture.

Oh, and let's not forget the fact that his parents are the ones who want more grandchildren. Now.

[ceaselessims]

the song for viktor arcane by twenty-one pilots dropped and it's so s4-s5 jonathan sims coded

[kaurwreck]

I love kitsune dazai, but I'd go further: kitsune dazai AND kitsune chuuya.

(mori has to confiscate their hoshi no tama. not to be evil, but because they keep trying to punitively swallow the other's.)

[rawliverandgoronspice]

given that seems to be the new popular take in the fandom at large since totk got out: let the record show that I'll gladly let myself get repeatedly manipulated by the wind waker speech and be foolishly moved by its implications over rejecting space for humanity and vulnerability in the monstrous and the dispossessed, and then feeling weirdly smug about severing that fleeting attempt at connection and deem it obviously insincere

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Eileen Guo at MIT Technology Review:

A previously unreported document distributed by senior US State Department official Darren Beattie reveals a sweeping effort to uncover all communications between the staff of a small government office focused on online disinformation and a lengthy list of public and private figures—many of whom are longtime targets of the political right.  The document, originally shared in person with roughly a dozen State Department employees in early March, requested staff emails and other records with or about a host of individuals and organizations that track or write about foreign disinformation—including Atlantic journalist Anne Applebaum, former US cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs, and the Stanford Internet Observatory—or have criticized President Donald Trump and his allies, such as the conservative anti-Trump commentator Bill Kristol.  The document also seeks all staff communications that merely reference Trump or people in his orbit, like Alex Jones, Glenn Greenwald, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In addition, it directs a search of communications for a long list of keywords, including “Pepe the Frog,” “incel,” “q-anon,” “Black Lives Matter,” “great replacement theory,” “far-right,” and “infodemic.” For several people who received or saw the document, the broad requests for unredacted information felt like a “witch hunt,” one official says—one that could put the privacy and security of numerous individuals and organizations at risk.  Beattie, whom Trump appointed in February to be the acting undersecretary for public diplomacy, told State Department officials that his goal in seeking these records was a “Twitter files”-like release of internal State Department documents “to rebuild trust with the American public,” according to a State Department employee who heard the remarks. (Beattie was referring to the internal Twitter documents that were released after Elon Musk bought the platform, in an attempt to prove that the company had previously silenced conservatives. While the effort provided more detail on the challenges and mistakes Twitter had already admitted to, it failed to produce a smoking gun.)

[...]

Targeting the “censorship industrial complex”

Both GEC and R/FIMI, its pared-down successor office, focused on tracking and countering foreign disinformation efforts from Russia, China, and Iran, among others, but GEC was frequently accused—and was even sued—by conservative critics who claimed that it enabled censorship of conservative Americans’ views. A judge threw out one of those claims against GEC in 2022 (while finding that other parts of the Biden administration did exert undue pressure on tech platforms).  Beattie has also personally promoted these views. Before joining the State Department, he started Revolver News, a website that espouses far-right talking points that often gain traction in certain conservative circles. Among the ideas promoted in Revolver News is that GEC was part of a “censorship industrial complex” aimed at suppressing American conservative voices, even though GEC’s mission was foreign disinformation. This idea has taken hold more broadly; the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing titled the “Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Need for First Amendment Safeguards at the State Department,” on April 1 focused on GEC. 

Most people on the list appear to have focused at some point on tracking or challenging disinformation broadly, or on countering specific false claims, including those related to the 2020 election. A few of the individuals appear primarily to be critics of Trump, Beattie, or others in the right-wing media ecosystem. Many have been the subject of Trump’s public grievances for years. (Trump called Krebs, for instance, a “significant bad-faith actor” in an executive order targeting him earlier this month.)    Beattie specifically asked for “all documents, emails, correspondence, or other records of communications amongst/between employees, contractors, subcontractors or consultants at the GEC or R/FIMI” since 2017 with all the named individuals, as well as communications that merely referenced them. He sought communications that referenced any of the listed organizations.   Finally, he sought a list of additional unredacted agency records—including all GEC grants and contracts, as well as subgrants, which are particularly sensitive due to the risks of retaliation to subgrantees, who often work in local journalism, fact-checking, or pro-democracy organizations under repressive regimes. It also asked for “all documents mentioning” the Election Integrity Partnership, a research collaboration between academics and tech companies that has been a target of right-wing criticism.  Several State Department staffers call the records requests “unusual” and “improper” in their scope. MIT Technology Review spoke to three people who had personally seen the document, as well as two others who were aware of it; we agreed to allow them to speak anonymously due to their fears of retaliation.  While they acknowledge that previous political appointees have, on occasion, made information requests through the records management system, Beattie’s request was something wholly different.  Never had “an incoming political appointee” sought to “search through seven years’ worth of all staff emails to see whether anything negative had been said about his friends,” says one staffer.  Another staffer calls it a “pet project” for Beattie. 

[...]

Press-freedom advocates expressed alarm about the inclusion of journalists on the list, as well as the possibility of their communications being released to the public, which goes “considerably well beyond the scope of what … leak investigations in the past have typically focused on,” says Grayson Clary, a staff attorney at the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Rather, the effort seems like “a tactic designed to … make it much harder for journalists to strike up those source relationships in the first instance.” Beattie also requested a search for communications that mentioned Trump and more than a dozen other prominent right-leaning figures. In addition to Jones, Greenwald, and “RFK Jr.,” the list includes “Don Jr.,” Elon Musk, Joe Rogan, Charlie Kirk, Marine Le Pen, “Bolsonaro” (which could cover either Jair Bolsonaro, the former Brazilian president, or his son Eduardo, who is seeking political asylum in the US), and Beattie himself. It also asked for a search for 32 right-wing buzzwords related to abortion, immigration, election denial, and January 6, suggesting a determined effort to find State Department staff who even just discussed such matters. 

Darren Beattie, a far-right senior State Department apparatchik, sought a list of public and private figures who discuss foreign disinformation and are critical of the MAGA regime.

[tomorrowusa]

Trump was putty in Putin's hands. That's the assessment of Gen. H.R. McMaster – a former national security adviser to Trump.

Vladimir Putin exploited Donald Trump’s “ego and insecurities” to exert an almost mesmeric hold over the former US president, who refused to entertain any negative evaluation of the autocratic Russian leader from his own staff, and ultimately fired his national security adviser, HR McMaster, over it. The bold assessment of Trump’s fealty to Putin comes in McMaster’s book At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House, published by HarperCollins and arriving on 27 August. The Guardian obtained a copy. “After over a year in this job, I cannot understand Putin’s hold on Trump,” McMaster recalls saying in the memoir covering the turbulent 457 days the now retired general served as national security adviser from February 2017 until he was effectively fired by tweet in April 2018. The comment, to McMaster’s wife, Katie, came in the aftermath of the poisoning in the UK by Putin’s agents of Sergei Skripal, a Russian former intelligence officer, and his daughter, in March 2018. [ ... ] In reality, McMaster says, Putin’s apparent simpering over Trump was a calculated effort by the Russian leader to exploit the president and drive a wedge between him and hawkish advisers in Washington DC such as McMaster urging the US to take a harder line with the Kremlin. “Putin, a ruthless former KGB operator, played to Trump’s ego and insecurities with flattery,” McMaster writes. “Putin had described Trump as ‘a very outstanding person, talented, without any doubt’, and Trump had revealed his vulnerability to this approach, his affinity for strongmen, and his belief that he alone could forge a good relationship with Putin.

Weird Donald thinks he comes across as strong by hanging around with tyrants like Putin. In fact, he's just fawning for their approval because he's so personally insecure.

It's bad for American national security when a rogue Russian dictator finds it so easy to manipulate a US president. Vladimir Putin will pull out all the stops in manipulating the media to put his patsy back into the Oval Office.

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

struggling to pinpoint exactly what fate character phainon reminds me of so bad bc i actually never finished atlantis lmao . you’d think it’d be in there somewhere right ….. appearance wise he reminds me of charlie but personality wise richard is closer

[wormvermin]

The way Horatio and Elethar’s relationship works is Horatio is always running after him like a puppy to tell him everything that’s happening in his life, and Elethar finds great pleasure in responding with boredom and disdain. He gets a thrill out of seeing Horatio’s ego crumble every time they talk.

But like, any outside observers would notice Elethar isn’t exactly turning around to hang out with anyone else. He always drops everything when Horatio asks 🤔

[frost-eyed-autumn]

{--Found this by accident and I've been thinking about Hunting Dogs Chuuya ever since.

Like, Chuuya if he never joined the Sheep. Chuuya if he never ran across Dazai and the Port Mafia, never met Mori or the Flags. Chuuya who never went through the questions of whether or not he's human (having it instilled into him similar to Verlaine that he's not). Never having his "real" family in Yamaguchi tracked down for him to answer where he came from. Chuuya who never opened his Gate (because no Dazai) to protect anyone because doing so means he would die without anyone to save him, not to mention the death and destruction that he'd cause as a result. Raised only to be a government asset and a weapon and nothing else.

I wonder who that Chuuya would be... : ) --}

[1960z]

one thing I still don’t necessarily understand (idk maybe they’ll expand on it in the last 2 chapters) is the manipulator’s desire for revenge. I mean it seems like what happened actually ended up favouring him in the end. he’s “dead” but he can still perfectly communicate with the living world, he can manipulate objects and people whenever he likes… functionally he’s less “dead” and more immortal so… why is he bitter about that?? why does he wanna kill everyone involved?

[ruminate88]

Have I ever truly loved somebody? 07/31/24

I know I talk a lot about what happened in past relationships that I believe were emotionally abusive, and not just those relationships, but all my relationships and guys that I thought I had a huge crush on or that I thought was possibly my “soulmate” and I try to analyze my self and feelings because there is two people to every relationship so I can’t blame my exes for everything that went wrong…

yeah, I did believe I loved my ex Andrew very very much, I would beg to spend time with him and he seemingly was always so busy but when he would spend time with me, I was very happy. Also because he’s giving me so little and most likely I was filling in the rest. I was probably inserting my ideas and fantasies there, if I’m being honest.

The first major crush I had was on a guy named Jesse and I was a puppy dog chasing him around for 10 straight years . He was a songwriter and I wanted to be like him. I loved his style and his songwriting so I wanted to follow his footsteps and he inspired me and made me want to be a songwriter too. I compared myself to him so long thinking I’ll never be as good as him… was that love, was that infatuation or maybe idealization?

my first real boyfriend was when I was 18 years old. His name was Stewart and I met him on my space lol he was very nice and easy to talk to. I felt sorry for him because at one point he was homeless living in his mom‘s car now, did I love him or did I feel sorry for him? Did I feel responsible to help him? This is where things get interesting for me as I contemplate if I’ve ever known what love was.

Fast forward to meeting Cody and thinking he is the most special guy I’ve ever met . The reason I thought he was so special is because he actually listened to me. I was able to share my darkest secrets with him and he had zero judgment towards me. Plus he acted as if he understood me and related to me. I felt safe and comfortable at first, but also, I thought Cody was the most gorgeous guy ever saw and of course, I was completely shocked that he was even talking to me… As if someone so handsome as him would never see me as somebody beautiful. I was nervous thinking that Cody could have a much prettier girl than me, but at the same time, he also had a lot of trauma from childhood and I felt sorry for him…… So there again, do I really love him or do I feel sorry for him and feel like I have to help him?

then there is Andrew… the first selfie I ever received of Andrew I wasn’t sure I was attracted to him. Wow ha ha Andre had shared a picture of himself taken on his family farm in front of all his cows and I’m not an animal person and that kind of freaked me out lol Andrew was asking me to marry him and I thought it was so crazy how somebody who doesn’t even know me, is proposing to me like that!!! The thing is, the more we talked and flirted, the more I felt a vibe with Andrew and I even felt chemistry. The first time we ever FaceTime each other, I thought Andrew’s eyes were so gorgeous. I melted. I had never saw him in that light before but immediately I think he is the hottest guy I’ve ever seen. I don’t know exactly what it was about him. The conversation itself was a little awkward, but attraction for him grew for sure.

Over the summer, he would text me, “good morning cutie 😘” and after so many days of that, I began to feel a little special and wondered what it meant… not realizing possibly it was just because he wanted my nudes 😓 but he still made me feel special and seen. We continue to flirt all summer!! He worked a summer job and at the end of the night, he would always text me, “hey cutie I’m off work now. You should come cuddle me 😘” ugh!!!! he was driving me crazy at that point because he wasn’t asking me out AND he had stopped proposing to me, but he’s still flirting with me so much… it was sooooo freakin hot 🥵 I didn’t know what it meant!

Finally, he is starting his sophomore year and I started to think he wasn’t interested in me at all because I was trying to text him and he’s telling me that he’s busy packing for school and doesn’t really have much time to talk … I felt awkward and bad. I tried to leave him alone, but I was frustrated because at this point I feel like it’s possible I want to be in a relationship with him and I’m not sure if it’s going to work out. I could’ve walked away and that would’ve been smart, but I just didn’t know what to do!

About two days later though, he messages me and says, on “hey cutie! 😘 guess what? I finally moved into my apartment and I cannot wait for you to come check it out……” my first thought is that, he just wants to hook up with me and not have a relationship…. But when I confront him and tell him I want to be more than friends, I don’t want to just hook up, he says he also wants the same thing but was shy to ask me out and he’s so glad that I’m the one that asked him out because he was waiting for me to do it all summer 😳 but what about him proposing to me at the beginning? It made no sense!!!!!!! 😝😝😝😝

at this point though, I’m all in with Andrew and I can’t walk away. I am feeling stuck and I’m feeling that if I walk away, it’s going to break my heart and hurt me deep💔 I can tell he’s going to ruin my life and now I’m doing everything I can to make this relationship work. I even tried to make a way to go see him at school because he originally said he couldn’t wait for me to “check out his apartment” but yet when I try to come see him, he makes excuses for it… playing games and confusing me! 😢😢😢

I understand I was possibly in a trauma bond with Andrew so that makes me question, DID I ever love him or was I just somehow attached to him? it hurts me to think I’ve never probably loved somebody truly!!!! Maybe I have but it’s hard to tell!! my husband is the first guy I’ve ever been with that wasn’t broken in anyway, shape or form. he was completely put together. Has a good job and doesn’t even need a “wife” but wanted one anyway…. So this is a good healthy relationship, but do I love him? I do feel more stable with him. after all these toxic relationships!!! I still question do I really know what love is??!!!!

God help me to know because I fear that I’m only in relationships just to be in them, but all I’ve ever wanted was “love” and I still feel tied to Cody and Andrew! I have tried the exercises where you imagine cutting the cord between you and that toxic person but maybe I don’t believe in it enough or maybe there’s reasons I hold on to Andrew and Cody. I don’t know it’s crazy. ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 I feel bad for it 😞 it hurts too!

[dizzycloudzzz]

most of the time I have ideas that make sense in my head, they seem good but for some reason when I tell my friends it's like:

"okay, in the Deadwardian era, everyone's a witch and Hunter have a possessing spirit of a bard-oracle person in the cursed harmonica he found near a palistrom tree, every time he plays it he revives dead beings and when Belos discovers this he pressures Hunter playing the harmonica to revive Caleb, but in reality CALEB WAS THE SPIRIT ON THE HARMONICA, so when Belos didn't get what he wanted he broke Hunter's harmonica and enlisted him in the navy to give up on his dreams. I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT BELOS HAS A CAGE STORE AND THAT WHEN HE DIES HE'LL LEAVE THE STORE AS INHERITANCE TO EVELYN (he was the one who supported his sister-in-law and didn't want to leave her with nothing after death. oh and Hunter is Caleb and Evelyn's son) WHO HIRES HUNTER TO WORK THERE SO HE HAS A PLACE TO LIVE AFTER LEAVING NAVY, ALREADY AN ADULT, OH AND BELOS REINCARNATES INTO A VULTURE WHO CHASSES AND DISTURB HUNTER EVERY TIME HE TRYS TO GO OFF THE TRACKS BELOS DECIDED FOR HIS FUTURE"

then my bff called me ugly names and block me just 'cause I sent a 9 minute audio explaining the AU 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

DAMNIT I DRAWED THIS BUT THE FANFIC WILL NEVER EXIST BECAUSE????? HOW EXPLAIN

HUNTER ADMIRES BIRDS IN THIS AU CAUSE HE LIKES THEIR SINGING AND THE FOREST BIRDS WERE THE AUDIENCE HE HAD WHEN HE PLAYED HIS NEW HARMONICA FOR THE FIRST TIME

I don't think I've ever drawn Belos before lol, everything has a first time

help I love tumblr sm

[flower1622]

Once you enter, they never leave you alone!

Please, don't trust scientology.