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Okay, I just had a thought about more shenanigans that some other characters would get into, but I realized that some of these characters would be a tippy toe from bursting into song if given the chance. I know this isn’t agere related, but I felt like sharing anyway because why not

Characters that would burst into song at the drop of a hat:

Jigglypuff - Everybody run before you fall asleep and she puts marker all over you if she starts singing! Either that or pretend to sleep because she won’t stop singing to breathe

Mitsuri - Never give her a music playlist unless you want to sit for hours while she rambles on about each of the songs in a musical, ESPECIALLY HAMILTON, THERE IS TOO MANY SONGS TO MAKE IT A SHORT CONVERSATION!

Maya Fae (Ace Attorney) - Abby Trott voices her, I’m not gonna be surprised if she starts repeating Baby Shark out of nowhere

Tanjiro Kamado - Give him 10 minutes and he will not shut up, much to Zenitsu’s chagrin

Tengen Uzui - The last person to ask for music suggestions unless you’re okay with him being super critical about any song you bring him if he doesn’t like it

Clefairy - IDK, they just seem like it

Kyojuro Rengoku - Look up a video of Jonah Platt & Mark Whitten (first person not someone I’m familiar with) singing “The Riddle Song” from Floyd Collins, and you’ll see why I put the flame flavored Kirby on here

Side note: Mark Whitten is Kyojuro’s English VA for all his appearances in Demon Slayer

Sanemi Shinazugawa - Not in public, but he probably would

Shinobu Kocho - Her English VA has done a cover of “Soldier, Poet, King” and did a hand puppet short musical about why she loves Kingdom Hearts, there’s a chance Kocho would at least hum

Hu Tao - She will do it for free

Mona - Will do it to get money

Venti - He already does it for apples. See Shinobu above.

Paimon - She will get bored, she will find some way to make it a scene, do not test her, SHE WILL DO IT

Beidou - Give her whatever alcohol you have that she likes and the whole crew is doing it

Childe - You can thank Griffin Burns for this, he’s already made meme song covers

Kagome - She probably had an iPod in her time period, it’s not like she wouldn’t do it

Klee - FOR THE LOVE OF BARBATOS, DO NOT LET HER WATCH COCOMELON, IT WILL BE THE END OF JEAN ;W;

Kaeya - He will be like “This is the song that doesn’t end, and it goes on and on, my friends, some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they will keep on singing it no matter what because this is the song that never ends and it goes on and on, my friends, some people started singing it not knowing what it was, and they’ll keep on singing it forever just because-” just to annoy Diluc, and poor Diluc will lose his mind within the hour because the song will keep going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and eventually he will freak out and then Albedo losing control is gonna be the least of their worries with the way Diluc will start causing problems over not wanting to hear singing from anyone IN THE MIDDLE OF TOWN

Kazuha (I know he’s from Inazuma, but he has to frequent Liyue often with Beidou and the Alcor, he’s getting that exception) - While it won’t be often, he’d most likely hum a bit if the mood strikes him; DO NOT INTERRUPT HIM WHILE HE DOES IT

Itto - The most obvious pick because he already does it XD

Yoimiya - Not sure if this is a character you know much about, but I’m willing to bet that if she got a chance, and convinced to do so, she’d probably do it

Cyno - I know he’s from Sumeru and that’s not a region you’re familiar with, but hear me out: search for We.B song covers, and then get back to if you think he’d be singing or not (PS: Same VA as Kaigaku from Demon Slayer)

I have a lot more than just the ones listed that I think would be singing at any point, but they were part of stuff that weren’t in your fandom list, so I avoided mentioning them in case to avoid confusion. It was kind of a slow day for me at the time of writing this, so this was super long. I hope this ramble is something fun for you to read, Mayliz!

Hello again friend!

~I used to be like Mitsuri lol. Not in way of Hamilton music but just over explaining the meanings to the song lyrics that I liked.

~The audible gasp at finding out you know ace attorney. Maya my beloved. Best girl >:3 She would annoy Phoenix to no end. Just finds the one song that he hates and will not stop singing it.

~Tengen would be so judgmental. And I feel like even when he’s trying not to be, he just raises an eyebrow like “oh, this is what you listen to? No clearly you need flashier taste)

~I couldn’t find the song with Shinobu’s va that you mentioned sadly :<

~Hu Tao is another one who will do it just to annoy Zhongli

~Assuming you mean Kagome from Inuyasha, can’t think of any other characters I know with her name lol- her and Miroku would be music buddies. Sharing earbuds to listen to the same songs together. Annoying everyone else. Idk it’s just a cute idea.

~Bdjsjjdbsk oh my gosh. Kaeya would be the one to show Klee cocomelon.

~All I am imagining is the hero of Mondstadt getting called in, over the threat Diluc poses from the sheer rage of hearing that song one more time. And Paimon would start in singing too until she’s met with Diluc’s weapon swinging just a tad bit too close for comfort.

(Also go look up the annoying pigeon meme. I can imagine Kaeya, Venti and possibly Rosaria doing that to Diluc)

~Kazuha and Beidou- look up the song ‘my mother told me, gingertail cover’ and tell me they wouldn’t be singing that together. Or at least I could see Beidou doing it.

~Since we are talking crossovers anyways, thought I would being up the random fact that Yoimiya reminds me so much of Kohaku from dr stone. Just in character design at least haha

~Random side note, the characters I know from genshin are all over the place as I don’t actually play the game. (I tried too but my ipad can’t handle the storage needed to play it and that’s the only device I have that even had the possibility of running it, so yeah >\\\< hyperfixations are weird sometimes)

But I do know Cyno or of him, anyways yeah I could see it >:3

This was super fun to read through! I always look forward to all your headcanons they are always so fun. Thank you for sharing! <3 If you want to share more I would be more than happy to hear, even if I don’t know the characters :3

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A British Nurse Was Found Guilty of Killing Seven Babies. Did She Do It?

Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker

“Last August, Lucy Letby, a thirty-three-year-old British nurse, was convicted of killing seven newborn babies and attempting to kill six others. Her murder trial, one of the longest in English history, lasted more than ten months and captivated the United Kingdom. The Guardian, which published more than a hundred stories about the case, called her “one of the most notorious female murderers of the last century.” The collective acceptance of her guilt was absolute. “She has thrown open the door to Hell,” the Daily Mail wrote, “and the stench of evil overwhelms us all.”

…The public conversation rushed forward without much curiosity about an incongruous aspect of the story: Letby appeared to have been a psychologically healthy and happy person. She had many close friends. Her nursing colleagues spoke highly of her care and dedication. A detective with the Cheshire police, which led the investigation, said, “This is completely unprecedented in that there doesn’t seem to be anything to say” about why Letby would kill babies. “There isn’t really anything we have found in her background that’s anything other than normal.”

The judge in her case, James Goss, acknowledged that Letby appeared to have been a “very conscientious, hard working, knowledgeable, confident and professional nurse.” But he also said that she had embarked on a “calculated and cynical campaign of child murder,” and he sentenced her to life, making her only the fourth woman in U.K. history condemned to die in prison. Although her punishment can’t be increased, she will face a second trial, this June, on an attempted-murder charge for which the jury could not reach a verdict.

Letby had worked on a struggling neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, run by the National Health Service, in the West of England, near Wales. The case centered on a cluster of seven deaths, between June, 2015, and June, 2016. All but one of the babies were premature; three of them weighed less than three pounds. No one ever saw Letby harming a child, and the coroner did not find foul play in any of the deaths. (Since her arrest, Letby has not made any public comments, and a court order has prohibited most reporting on her case. To describe her experiences, I drew from more than seven thousand pages of court transcripts, which included police interviews and text messages, and from internal hospital records that were leaked to me.)

The case against her gathered force on the basis of a single diagram shared by the police, which circulated widely in the media. On the vertical axis were twenty-four “suspicious events,” which included the deaths of the seven newborns and seventeen other instances of babies suddenly deteriorating. On the horizontal axis were the names of thirty-eight nurses who had worked on the unit during that time, with X’s next to each suspicious event that occurred when they were on shift. Letby was the only nurse with an uninterrupted line of X’s below her name. She was the “one common denominator,” the “constant malevolent presence when things took a turn for the worse,” one of the prosecutors, Nick Johnson, told the jury in his opening statement. “If you look at the table overall the picture is, we suggest, self-evidently obvious. It’s a process of elimination.”

But the chart didn’t account for any other factors influencing the mortality rate on the unit. Letby had become the country’s most reviled woman—“the unexpected face of evil,” as the British magazine Prospect put it—largely because of that unbroken line. It gave an impression of mathematical clarity and coherence, distracting from another possibility: that there had never been any crimes at all.

Since Letby was a teen-ager, she had wanted to be a nurse. “She’d had a difficult birth herself, and she was very grateful for being alive to the nurses that would have helped save her life,” her friend Dawn Howe told the BBC. An only child, Letby grew up in Hereford, a city north of Bristol. In high school, she had a group of close friends who called themselves the “miss-match family”: they were dorky and liked to play games such as Cranium and Twister. Howe described Letby as the “most kind, gentle, soft friend.” Another friend said that she was “joyful and peaceful.”

Letby was the first person in her family to go to college. She got a nursing degree from the University of Chester, in 2011, and began working on the neonatal unit at the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she had trained as a student nurse. Chester was a hundred miles from Hereford, and her parents didn’t like her being so far away. “I feel very guilty for staying here sometimes but it’s what I want,” she told a colleague in a text message. She described the nursing team at the Countess as “like a little family.” She spent her free time with other nurses from the unit, often appearing in pictures on Facebook in flowery outfits and lip gloss, with sparkling wine in her hand and a guileless smile. She had straight blond hair, the color washing out as she aged, and she was unassumingly pretty.

The N.H.S. has a totemic status in the British psyche—it’s the “closest thing the English have to a religion,” as one politician has put it. One of the last remnants of the postwar social contract, it inspires loyalty and awe even as it has increasingly broken down, partly as a result of years of underfunding. In 2015, the infant-mortality rate in England and Wales rose for the first time in a century. A survey found that two-thirds of the country’s neonatal units did not have enough medical and nursing staff. That year, the Countess treated more babies than it had in previous years, and they had, on average, lower birth weights and more complex medical needs.

Letby, who lived in staff housing on the hospital grounds, was twenty-five years old and had just finished a six-month course to become qualified in neonatal intensive care. She was one of only two junior nurses on the unit with that training. “We had massive staffing issues, where people were coming in and doing extra shifts,” a senior nurse on the unit said. “It was mainly Lucy that did a lot.” She was young, single, and saving to buy a house. That year, when a friend suggested that she take some time off, Letby texted her, “Work is always my priority.”

In June, 2015, three babies died at the Countess. First, a woman with antiphospholipid syndrome, a rare disorder that can cause blood clotting, was admitted to the hospital. She was thirty-one weeks pregnant with twins, and had planned to give birth in London, so that a specialist could monitor her and the babies, but her blood pressure had quickly risen, and she had to have an emergency C-section at the Countess. The next day, Letby was asked to cover a colleague’s night shift. She was assigned one of the twins, a boy, who has been called Child A. (The court order forbade identifying the children, their parents, and some nurses and doctors.)

A nursing note from the day shift said that the baby had had “no fluids running for a couple of hours,” because his umbilical catheter, a tube that delivers fluids through the abdomen, had twice been placed in the wrong position, and “doctors busy.” A junior doctor eventually put in a longline, a thin tube threaded through a vein, and Letby and another nurse gave the child fluid. Twenty minutes later, Letby and a third nurse, a few feet away, noticed that his oxygen levels were dropping and that his skin was mottled. The doctor who had inserted the longline worried that he had placed it too close to the child’s heart, and he immediately took it out. But, less than ninety minutes after Letby started her shift, the baby was dead. “It was awful,” she wrote to a colleague afterward. “He died very suddenly and unexpectedly just after handover.”

A pathologist observed that the baby had “crossed pulmonary arteries,” a structural anomaly, and there was also a “strong temporal relationship” between the insertion of the longline and the collapse. The pathologist described the cause of death as “unascertained.”

Letby was on duty again the night after Child A’s death. At around midnight, she helped the nurse who had been assigned to the surviving twin, a girl, set up her I.V. bag. About twenty-five minutes later, the baby’s skin became purple and blotchy, and her heart rate dropped. She was resuscitated and recovered. Brearey, the unit’s leader, told me that at the time he wondered if the twins had been more vulnerable because of the mother’s disorder; antibodies for it can pass through the placenta.

The next day, a mother who had been diagnosed as having a dangerous placenta condition gave birth to a baby boy who weighed one pound, twelve ounces, which was on the edge of the weight threshold that the unit was certified to treat. Within four days, the baby developed acute pneumonia. Letby was not working in the intensive-care nursery, where the baby was treated, but after the child’s oxygen alarm went off she came into the room to help. Yet the staff on the unit couldn’t save the baby. A pathologist determined that he had died of natural causes.

Several days later, a woman came to the hospital after her water broke. She was sent home and told to wait. More than twenty-four hours later, she noticed that the baby was making fewer movements inside her. “I was concerned for infection because I hadn’t been given any antibiotics,” she said later. She returned to the hospital, but she still wasn’t given antibiotics. She felt “forgotten by the staff, really,” she said. Sixty hours after her water broke, she had a C-section.

The baby, a girl who was dusky and limp when she was born, should have been treated with antibiotics immediately, doctors later acknowledged, but nearly four hours passed before she was given the medication. The next night, the baby’s oxygen alarm went off. “Called Staff Nurse Letby to help,” a nurse wrote. The baby continued to deteriorate throughout the night and could not be revived. A pathologist found pneumonia in the baby’s lungs and wrote that the infection was likely present at birth.

The senior pediatricians met to review the deaths, to see if there were any patterns or mistakes. “One of the problems with neonatal deaths is that preterm babies can die suddenly and you don’t always get the answer immediately,” Brearey told me. A study of about a thousand infant deaths in southeast London, published in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine, found that the cause of mortality was unexplained for about half the newborns who had died unexpectedly, even after an autopsy. Brearey observed that Letby was involved in each of the deaths at the Countess, but “it didn’t sound to me like the odds were that extreme of having a nurse present for three of those cases,” he said. “Nobody had any concerns about her practice.”

…At the end of January, 2016, the senior pediatricians met with a neonatologist at a nearby hospital, to review the ward’s mortality data. In 2013 and 2014, the unit had had two and three deaths, respectively. In 2015, there had been eight. At the meeting, “there were a few learning points, nothing particularly exciting,” Brearey recalled. Near the end, he asked the neonatologist what he thought about the fact that Letby was present for each death. “I can’t remember him suggesting anything, really,” Brearey said.

But Jayaram and Brearey were increasingly troubled by the link. “It was like staring at a Magic Eye picture,” Jayaram told me. “At first, it’s just a load of dots,” and the dots are incoherent. “But you stare at them, and all of a sudden the picture appears. And then, once you can see that picture, you see it every time you look, and you think, How the hell did I miss that?” By the spring of 2016, he said, he could not “unsee it.”

Many of the deaths had occurred at night, so Powell, the unit manager, shifted Letby primarily to day shifts, because there would be “more people about to be able to support her,” she said.

A week later, a mother gave birth to identical triplet boys, born at thirty-three weeks. When she was pregnant, the mother said, she had been told that each baby would have his own nurse, but Letby, who had just returned from a short trip to Spain with friends, was assigned two of the triplets, as well as a third baby from a different family. She was also training a student nurse who was “glued to me,” she complained to Taylor. Seven hours into Letby’s shift, one of the triplet’s oxygen levels dropped precipitously, and he developed a rash on his chest. Letby called for help. After two rounds of CPR, the baby died.

The next day, Letby was the designated nurse for the two surviving triplets. The abdomen of one of them appeared distended, a possible sign of infection. When she told Taylor, he messaged her, “I wonder if they’ve all been exposed to a bug that benzylpenicillin and gentamicin didn’t account for? Are you okay?”

“I’m okay, just don’t want to be here really,” Letby replied. The student nurse was still with her, and Letby told Taylor, “I don’t feel I’m in the frame of mind to support her properly.”

A doctor came to check on the triplet with the distended abdomen, and, while he was in the room, the child’s oxygen levels dropped. The baby was put on a ventilator, and the hospital asked for a transport team to take him to Liverpool Women’s Hospital. As they were waiting, it was discovered that the baby had a collapsed lung, possibly a result of pressure from the ventilation, which was set unusually high. “There was an increasing sense of anxiety on the unit,” Letby said later. “Nobody seemed to know what was happening and very much just wanted the transport team to come and offer their expertise.”

The triplets’ mother said that she was alarmed when she saw a doctor sitting at a computer “Googling how to do what looked like a relatively simple medical procedure: inserting a line into the chest.” She was also upset that one of the doctors who was resuscitating her son was “coughing and spluttering into her hands” without washing them. Shortly after the transport team arrived, the second triplet died. His mother recalled that Letby was “in pieces and almost as upset as we were.”

…Brearey, Jayaram, and a few other pediatric consultants met to discuss the unexpected deaths. “We were trying to rack our brains,” Brearey said. A postmortem X-ray of one of the babies had shown gas near the skull, a finding that the pathologist did not consider particularly meaningful, since gas is often present after death. Jayaram remembered learning in medical school about air embolisms—a rare, potentially catastrophic complication that can occur when air bubbles enter a person’s veins or arteries, blocking blood supply. That night, he searched for literature about the phenomenon.

He did not see any cases of murder by air embolism, but he forwarded his colleagues a four-page paper, from 1989, in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, about accidental air embolism. The authors of the paper could find only fifty-three cases in the world. All but four of the infants had died immediately. In five cases, their skin became discolored. “I remember the physical chill that went down my spine,” Jayaram said. “It fitted with what we were seeing.”

…After Letby returned from vacation, she was called in for a meeting. The deputy director of nursing told her that she was the common element in the cluster of deaths, and that her clinical competence would need to be reassessed. “She was distraught,” Powell, the unit manager, who was also at the meeting, said. “We were both quite upset.” They walked straight from the meeting to human resources. “We were trying to get Lucy back on the unit, so we had to try and prove that the competency issue wasn’t the problem,” Powell said.

But Letby never returned to clinical duties. She was eventually moved to an administrative role in the hospital’s risk-and-safety office. Jayaram described the office as “almost an island of lost souls. If there was a nurse who wasn’t very good clinically, or a manager who they wanted to get out of the way, they’d move them to the risk-and-safety office.”

…The Royal College team interviewed Letby and described her as “an enthusiastic, capable and committed nurse” who was “passionate about her career and keen to progress.” The redacted section concluded that the senior pediatricians had made allegations based on “simple correlation” and “gut feeling,” and that they had a “subjective view with no other evidence.” The Royal College could find no obvious factors linking the deaths; the report noted that the circumstances on the unit were “not materially different from those which might be found in many other neonatal units within the UK.” In a public statement, the hospital acknowledged that the review had revealed problems with “staffing, competencies, leadership, team working and culture.”

…In May, the police launched what they called Operation Hummingbird. A detective later said that Brearey and Jayaram provided the “golden thread of our investigation.” That month, Dewi Evans, a retired pediatrician from Wales, who had been the clinical director of the neonatal and children’s department at his hospital, saw a newspaper article describing, in vague terms, a criminal investigation into the spike in deaths at the Countess. “If the Chester police had no-one in mind I’d be interested to help,” he wrote in an e-mail to the National Crime Agency, which helps connect law enforcement with scientific experts. “Sounds like my kind of case.”

That summer, Evans, who was sixty-seven and had worked as a paid court expert for more than twenty-five years, drove three and a half hours to Cheshire, to meet with the police. After reviewing records that the police gave him, he wrote a report proposing that Child A’s death was “consistent with his receiving either a noxious substance such as potassium chloride or more probably that he suffered his collapse as a result of an air embolus.” Later, when it became clear that there was no basis for suspecting a noxious chemical, Evans concluded that the cause of death was air embolism. “These are cases where your diagnosis is made by ruling out other factors,” he said.

…Evans relied heavily on the paper in other reports that he wrote about the Countess deaths, many of which he attributed to air embolism. Other babies, he said, had been harmed through another method: the intentional injection of too much air or fluid, or both, into their nasogastric tubes. “This naturally ‘blows up’ the stomach,” he wrote to me. The stomach becomes so large, he said, that the lungs can’t inflate normally, and the baby can’t get enough oxygen. When I asked him if he could point me to any medical literature about this process, he responded, “There are no published papers regarding a phenomenon of this nature that I know of.” (Several doctors I interviewed were baffled by this proposed method of murder and struggled to understand how it could be physiologically or logistically possible.)

…Nearly a year after Operation Hummingbird began, a new method of harm was added to the list. In the last paragraph of a baby’s discharge letter, Brearey, who had been helping the police by reviewing clinical records, noticed a mention of an abnormally high level of insulin. When insulin is produced naturally by the body, the level of C-peptide, a substance secreted by the pancreas, should also be high, but in this baby the C-peptide was undetectable, which suggested that insulin may have been administered to the child.

The insulin test had been done at a Royal Liverpool University Hospital lab, and a biochemist there had called the Countess to recommend that the sample be verified by a more specialized lab. Guidelines on the Web site for the Royal Liverpool lab explicitly warn that its insulin test is “not suitable for the investigation” of whether synthetic insulin has been administered. Alan Wayne Jones, a forensic toxicologist at Linköping University, in Sweden, who has written about the use of insulin as a means of murder, told me that the test used at the Royal Liverpool lab is “not sufficient for use as evidence in a criminal prosecution.” He said, “Insulin is not an easy substance to analyze, and you would need to analyze this at a forensic laboratory, where the routines are much more stringent regarding chain of custody, using modern forensic technology.” But the Countess never ordered a second test, because the child had already recovered.

…The police consulted with an endocrinologist, who said that the babies theoretically could have received insulin through their I.V. bags. Evans said that, with the insulin cases, “at last one could find some kind of smoking gun.” But there was a problem: the blood sample for the first baby had been taken ten hours after Letby had left the hospital; any insulin delivered by her would no longer be detectable, especially since the tube for the first I.V. bag had fallen out of place, which meant that the baby had to be given a new one. To connect Letby to the insulin, one would have to believe that she had managed to inject insulin into a bag that a different nurse had randomly chosen from the unit’s refrigerator. If Letby had been successful at causing immediate death by air embolism, it seems odd that she would try this much less effective method.

In July, 2018, five months after the insulin discovery, a Cheshire police detective knocked on Letby’s door. …Inside, she was told that she was under arrest for multiple counts of murder and attempted murder. She emerged from the house handcuffed, her face appearing almost gray.

The police spent the day searching her house. Inside, they found a note with the heading “NOT GOOD ENOUGH.” There were several phrases scrawled across the page at random angles and without punctuation: “There are no words”; “I can’t breathe”; “Slander Discrimination”; “I’ll never have children or marry I’ll never know what it’s like to have a family”; “WHY ME?”; “I haven’t done anything wrong”; “I killed them on purpose because I’m not good enough to care for them”; “I AM EVIL I DID THIS.”

On another scrap of paper, she had written, three times, “Everything is manageable,” a phrase that a colleague had said to her. At the bottom of the page, she had written, “I just want life to be as it was. I want to be happy in the job that I loved with a team who I felt a part of. Really, I don’t belong anywhere. I’m a problem to those who do know me.” On another piece of paper, found in her handbag, she had written, “I can’t do this any more. I want someone to help me but they can’t.” She also wrote, “We tried our best and it wasn’t enough.”

After spending all day in jail, Letby was asked why she had written the “not good enough” note. A police video shows her in the interrogation room with her hands in her lap, her shoulders hunched forward. She spoke quietly and deferentially, like a student facing an unexpectedly harsh exam. “It was just a way of me getting my feelings out onto paper,” she said. “It just helps me process.”

“In your own mind, had you done anything wrong at all?” an officer asked.

“No, not intentionally, but I was worried that they would find that my practice hadn’t been good,” she said, adding, “I thought maybe I had missed something, maybe I hadn’t acted quickly enough.”

…After more than nine hours of interviews, Letby was released on bail, without being charged. She moved back to Hereford, to live with her parents. News of her arrest was published in papers throughout the U.K. “All I can say is my experience is that she was a great nurse,” a mother whose baby was treated at the Countess told the Times of London. Another mother told the Guardian that Letby had advocated for her and had told her “every step of the way what was happening.” She said, “I can’t say anything negative about her.” The Guardian also interviewed a mother who described the experience of giving birth at the Countess. “They had no staff and the care was just terrible,” she said. She’d developed “an infection which was due to negligence by a member of staff,” she explained. “We made a complaint at the time but it was brushed under the carpet.”

In September, 2022, a month before Letby’s trial began, the Royal Statistical Society published a report titled “Healthcare Serial Killer or Coincidence?” The report had been prompted in part by concerns about two recent cases, one in Italy and one in the Netherlands, in which nurses had been wrongly convicted of murder largely because of a striking association between their shift patterns and the deaths on their wards. The society sent the report to both the Letby prosecution and the defense team. It detailed the dangers of drawing causal conclusions from improbable clusters of events. In the trial of the Dutch nurse, Lucia de Berk, a criminologist had calculated that there was a one-in-three-hundred-and-forty-two-million chance that the deaths were coincidental.

But his methodology was faulty; when statisticians looked at the data, they found that the chances were closer to one in fifty. According to Ton Derksen, a Dutch philosopher of science who wrote a book about the case, the belief that “such a coincidence cannot be a coincidence” became the driving force in the process of collecting evidence against de Berk. She was exonerated in 2010, and her case is now considered one of the worst miscarriages of justice in Dutch history. The Italian nurse, Daniela Poggiali, was exonerated in 2021, after statisticians reanalyzed her hospital’s mortality data and discovered several confounding factors that had been overlooked.

Burkhard Schafer, a law professor at the University of Edinburgh who studies the intersection of law and science, said that it appeared as if the Letby prosecution had “learned the wrong lessons from previous miscarriages of justice.” Instead of making sure that its statistical figures were accurate, the prosecution seems to have ignored statistics. “Looking for a responsible human—this is what the police are good at,” Schafer told me. “What is not in the police’s remit is finding a systemic problem in an organization like the National Health Service, after decades of underfunding, where you have overworked people cutting little corners with very vulnerable babies who are already in a risk category. It is much more satisfying to say there was a bad person, there was a criminal, than to deal with the outcome of government policy.”

…For one baby, the diagram showed Letby working a night shift, but this was an error: she was working day shifts at the time, so there should not have been an X by her name. At trial, the prosecution argued that, though the baby had deteriorated overnight, the suspicious episode actually began three minutes after Letby arrived for her day shift. Nonetheless, the inaccurate diagram continued to be published, even by the Cheshire police.

Dewi Evans, the retired pediatrician, told me that he had picked which medical episodes rose to the level of “suspicious events.” When I asked what his criteria were, he said, “Unexpected, precipitous, anything that is out of the usual—something with which you are not familiar.” For one baby, the distinction between suspicious and not suspicious largely came down to how to define projectile vomiting.

…Toward the end of the trial, the court received an e-mail from someone who claimed to have overheard one of the jurors at a café saying that jurors had “already made up their minds about her case from the start.” Goss reviewed the complaint but ultimately allowed the juror to continue serving.

He instructed the twelve members of the jury that they could find Letby guilty even if they weren’t “sure of the precise harmful act” she’d committed. In one case, for instance, Evans had proposed that a baby had died of excessive air in her stomach from her nasogastric tube, and then, when it emerged that she might not have had a nasogastric tube, he proposed that she may have been smothered.

The jury deliberated for thirteen days but could not reach a unanimous decision. In early August, one juror dropped out. A few days later, Goss told the jury that he would accept a 10–1 majority verdict. Ten days later, it was announced that the jury had found Letby guilty of fourteen charges. The two insulin cases and one of the triplet charges were unanimous; the rest were majority verdicts. When the first set of verdicts was read, Letby sobbed. After the second set, her mother cried out, “You can’t be serious!” Letby was acquitted of two of the attempted-murder charges. There were also six attempted-murder charges in which the jury could not decide on a verdict.

…The public conversation about the case seemed to treat details about poor care on the unit as if they were irrelevant. In his closing statement, Johnson had accused the defense of “gaslighting” the jury by suggesting that the problem was the hospital, not Letby. Defending himself against the accusation, Myers told the jury, “It’s important I make it plain that in no way is this case about the N.H.S. in general.” He assured the jury, “We all feel strongly about the N.H.S. and we are protective of it.” It seemed easier to accept the idea of a sadistic “angel of death” than to look squarely at the fact that families who had trusted the N.H.S. had been betrayed, their faith misplaced.”

#medicine #word to the wise

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tteokokki · 1 year

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Spooky Skeletons!

- Day 9 of ageretober! (Agere/KidFic)

Little & autistic Tzuyu (4yrs) with Mummy!Jihyo & Mama!Sana

| TW: HURT AND CONFORT |

Enjoy! 🩵

Sana and Jihyo were planning this trip for years and it's finally happening in a month of work. One of Tzuyu's dreams was going to Disney World on Halloween particularly because it wasn't scary like going to neighbourhoods and asking trick or treat and hearing people screaming during the whole afternoon and evening.

They packed every single thing they would need costumes, baby/toddler/little gears, some pull-ups, Tzuyu's snacks, etc...They are staying at the Disney resort, doing activities everyday.

" Tzu come here to Mama! " Sana said waiting for the little girl to get her dressed so they could go to Magic Kingdom. The little girl came almost running on her toes to Sana.

" Mama 'Ook! Mummy made bwaids! " The girl said in a exited whisper, she showed to Sana the two little braids Jihyo just did on her hair.

" They are beautiful Sweetheart! And you look so good with them! " Sana chuckled and got up from the bed starting to dress Tzuyu up.

They were all wearing matching outfits, just with diferent colored Dismey hoodies, Jihyo begged for them to used. Tzuyu wasn't the one to complain she genuinely loved matching with her Mommys, she was wearing sweatpants and felt confortable to be on them the whole day. It's autumn so naturally it is cold and for a Baby like Tzu who feels cold easily it was the perfect outfit for the day.

" Let's go My Loves? " Jihyo asking picking her and Sana's backpack and Tzuyu's to put on the Little one's back.

They went to the big car on the garage and started their way to the park, it was still morning so they would be having a day full of attractions meeting with some characters eating delicious things, more for Sana and Jihyo.

They day went by fast, and the three of them were getting ready in their costumes to go back to the park for the Not So Scary Halloween Party! They were all dressed up as the Teletubbies, Tzuyu was Po, Jihyo was Laa Laa and Sana was Tinky Winky.

As now at night it was more calm then in the morning Tzuyu choose not to were her sound muffler headphones. They party was great and trick or treating was so fun to all of them. The last thing was the Boo To You parade as soon as it started Tzuyu asked for her headphones, she was a little sick of sleepiness, so she was clinging on Jihyo while looking to the parade.

One thing no one was expecting was that th parade had little jump scares, nothing too much h because there were a lot of kids, but Tzuyu was falling to a younger space every minute. The second last parade car was full of dancing skeletons that would get off the car and try scaring some families.

As much as Sana prayed for them to pass by, one stopped right in front of them, Tzuyu looked away rapidly but got scared the same with triggered a panic cry from the little one. Jihyo started bouncing her and tried to calm her down, but it wasn't quite working out, lucky them because Tzuyu did not cried loud but she was shaking, it was a sign to go home...

As much as it hurts a little to go to the Hotel now , they have to sleep and calm a baby down.

Soon when they enter the room, Tzuyu is visibly calmer, just some sniffles and weak sobs.

" Tzu! Come bath with Mama and I baby! " Jihyo picked the girl up going to the bathroom to take a relaxing bath before sleeping time.

Soon they went to sleep, tomorrow would be just as exhausting as today!

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- Not my best one yet but it is something diferent, I think

#sfw #little space #sfw agere #sfw caregiver #sfw little stuff #sfw littlespace #age regression #agere little #age regression twice #little!tzuyu #cg!jihyo #cg!sana #ageretober

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avastar-thelastfirebender · 9 months

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Pinned Post!!

My name is Mimic, and this is a sideblog for writing! (My main is @sparky-kasane)

Requests are currently: [Open!!!]

About me!

-I'm 18 years old and currently a college freshie! ^^

-I'm FTM Trans, Asexual, and polyromantic.

-Literally do not know what else to put here lol.

DNI

Homophobic/Transphobic

Really any type of phobic that's more hatred based than fear based (Xenophobic, Aphobic, etc etc)

TERF/SWERF

Anti-mogai

Discourse/Drama

Blank blog (I'll automatically assume you're a bot)

Pro-ana/Thinspo

DDLG/Ageplay/Sexualize Age Regression

BYF

-Writers block hit me like a fucking train so apologies if requests take a while to get done.

-IDK if tumblr still likes to eat asks, so feel free to send an ask if you wanna be sure it went through!

WHAT I WILL/WON'T WRITE UNDER THE CUT

Fandoms I WILL write for!

-Love Live (Only Muse, Aqours, and Nijigasaki as of now. I'm not familiar enough with Liella or Hasunosora to feel comfortable writing them)

-Cookie Run (Ovenbreak and Kingdom!)

-BanG Dream!

-Pokémon! (The gen 7 games are my forte)

-Danger Rangers (this niche ass show has exactly 4 fics on ao3 and two of them are mine)

-Pretty Cure

-Rainbow Magic

-Winx Club

-My Hero Academia

-SMG4

-Project Sekai

-Avatar: The Last Airbender

-Super Mario/Warioware/Rhythm Heaven

-Danganronpa

-Hetalia

Fandoms I WON'T write for

-Owl House/Amphibia (Not familiar enough with either of them to feel comfortable writing them)

-SCP Foundation

-DSMP/Minecraft Youtubers

-Trolls

-Seth McFarlane Shows (Family Guy, Cleaveland Show, etc etc)

What I WILL Write

-Fluff/Sleepyfics

-Family fics

-X Reader hcs

-Agere fics

-Oneshots

-Joke/Crackfics

-Light Angst (Hurt/Comfort and the like)

What I WON'T Write

-Smut/Fetishes

-Heavy Angst

-Rape/SA

-Eating Disorders (I'm okay with a character being implied to have one but I won't write it as the entire focus)

-Self-Harm (Same deal as Eating Disorders)

-Drowning

-Songfics (I'm okay with having a character sing a song, but I refuse to base my fic around the song)

(Lists are subject to change)

Characters I absolutely love writing for*

-Roguefort Cookie (Cookie Run)

-Earl Grey Cookie (Cookie Run)

-Mango Cookie (Cookie Run)

-Cinnamon Cookie (Cookie Run)

-Tsukasa Tenma (Project Sekai)

-Rui Kamishiro (Project Sekai)

-Musa (Winx Club)

-Aisha/Layla (Winx Club)

-Young Cricket (Warioware)

-Ashley (Warioware)

-Sabrina the Sweet Dreams Fairy (Rainbow Magic)

-Yasmin/Nia the Night Owl Fairy (Rainbow Magic)

-Kasumi Nakasu (Love Live)

-Yoshiko YOHANE! Tsushima (Love Love)

-Kanata Konoe (Love Live)

-Rin Hoshizora (Love Live)

*That's not to say I won't write ither characters, these are just my favorite blorbos.

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monokub-twice-removed · 3 months

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Heyo! Long overdue “welcome” post.

My name is Everett, my pronouns are they/them and this is my main blog! I’m a minor and still in high school, so please be aware of that. I mostly post a lot of art stuff and ramblings, plus reblogs. I’m in marching band(I play synth) and I dream about becoming a fashion designer one day.

While you’re here, why not get to know me?

My fandoms:

Garfield

Ninjago

Creepypasta

Cookie Run(OvenBreak and Kingdom)

Our Flag Means Death

Studio Ghibli

Monster High

Warriors

Adventure Time

Danganronpa

My faves:

Song: Happiness is a Butterfly by Lana Del Rey

Movie: Tales from Earthsea

Book: Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

Game: Minecraft

Show: Fionna and Cake

Food: Spaghetti

Color: Pink

Animal: Manatees

Anywho, here’s my DNI. I won’t hesitate to block anyone on this list:

LGBTphobic

NSFW/Kink

Zionists

anti agere

anti furry

anti therian

My side blog for fanfics

Bye, have a good one 🫶

#my post #welcome to my blog #cookie run kingdom #cookie run ovenbreak #studio ghibli #monster high #our flag means death #danganronpa #adventure time #garfield #lego ninjago #creepypasta #warriors #monokub-twice-removed #welcome post

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hoperays-song · 2 years

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Revamped Plot of Out of This World

This is a version of the musical that I think would fit the qualifications for an original Broadway style musical. There are 17 original songs.

Here's the base plot of the revamped version of Out of This World in my fic (might change a bit but the main ideas should stay the same). It's focused on duality in the stories and the planets themselves (war=love, joy=war, love=despair, despair=joy):

In order to stop the new idealist Captain Lucia from sniffing around their organization, higher ups at Central Union Space Exploration and Research Center send her and her second in command Sten on a suicide mission: to recover a long thought dead explorer from a solar system that is being pulled into a black hole. Since the exact coordinates were scrambled, the two set out to search every planet for the Surveyor. However, they stumble across people who need their help escaping certain death.

On the planet of Ager, two kingdoms are locked in a fierce struggle to insure that only their people survive after centuries of civil war. The two princes of the kingdoms have other plans however, as they have started to fall in love with the other from afar after all these years of fighting. When they are promoted to king with the deaths of the current rulers, Fallon and Achlys declare the war over and promise to unite their kingdoms in peace, finally allowing Lucia and Sten to help their people to safety. Fallon and Achlys join Lucia and Sten on their mission for the good of their people and to repay the duo for their kindness.

On the planet of Hyapp, the only surviving member of a single species remains behind, terrified and depressed at being the last one standing after the deaths of their people. The survivor, Nova, blames herself for her peoples death and has set to living in misery, running from their enemies for the rest of their life. It takes Lucia and Sten talking with her as Fallon and Achlys protect them to convince her to live her life for herself and that it’s okay to be happy again. Nova decides to go with the group on their mission.

On the planet Levo, the people have all escaped already except for one. The young lover Thana mourns the death of her partner Duane and refuses to leave the planet in fear of leaving them. The spirit of Duane however is begging their love to leave so that one of them can live to see the next day. Eventually, Duane manages to get through to Thana enough for the group to convince her to leave, with the lovers sharing one final goodbye. Thana decides to stick close to the group out of missing her partner.

The final planet Ispedar is a cold and desolate wasteland when the group arrives. However, finally the sprite Lux (who’s been appearing in the background for quite a while, almost seeming to lead Lucia and Sten to the others) makes herself known to the group and leads them to where the Surveyor Akuji is hiding out. To the group’s surprise however, Akuji doesn’t want to be saved and says he’ll be killed if he goes back to the center. When Lucia potests this however, Akuji askes her why she was sent on a obvious suicide mission if she was right about the center caring about them. He then casts them out into the wasteland, stopping Lux from helping them.

The group fights about whether or not they should try to rescue Akuji and Lux if they seemed to not want to and whether or not the center was actually evil, leading to internal conflict between the survivors. It’s only when the group faces essentially certain death does Akuji turn up to save them, having been convinced by Lux to help them and to be the kind of mentor he wished he had. Finally, the group, now accompanied by Akuji and Lux, leave, headed towards somewhere where the refugees will be safe.

List of Characters + Actors

Captain Lucia - Rosita Perez-Harrison

Second-In-Command Sten - Gunter Hoffman

Prince Fallon of Cahir - Ryan Willis

Prince Achlys of Deianira - Johnny Taylor

Nova of Sol 2 - Porsha Crystal

Ghost of Duane - Finnley Marks (OC)

Thana the Mourner - Meena Amari

Surveyor Akuji - Clay Calloway

Lux the Spirit - Ash Batalla

Narrator - Buster Moon

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fable-stims · 2 years

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Welcome, friends!

My name is Fable and my pronouns are she/they.

I'll be making a lot of stimboards for myself and you can ask for your own if requests are open! Please respect my askbox if it says "Requests are closed".

I reserve the right to deny requests, not include stims that are personal squicks, and block people I am not comfortable with.

My schedule is determined at my own discretion.

Tags you may want to block: hands, trypo, sharp, weapons, fire, food

Ask tag: fable's asks

Please let me know if I mistagged a trigger or did not credit the proper owner of a gif. I do my best and I will gladly fix my mistakes if you ask nicely.

If a gif source does not lead to an actual gif, it's my gif! Please credit me if you use my gifs.

Reblogs are a huge help!

Request rules:

Please keep your requests within the boundaries of my favorites list. I can point you to other stim blogs who will take your request, but any unlisted fandom requests will be deleted from my ask box.

You can ask for an aesthetic, animal, character, video game element/location, or stim type. Those are just a few examples; if you ask for it, I can probably do it!

Since I own Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, I can easily collect in-game footage such as my header. Any other Zelda game footage may have to come from you or the internet. I can also try to collect Splatoon 3 footage but I am not sure how easy it will be.

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If I post a stimboard that you requested, please reblog it! It helps more people see it and shows that you like it. It's very disheartening to create content for an audience who does not interact.

Please do not ask for names or ships.

My favorite media:

Linked Universe, That Broken Promise, all Legend of Zelda games, all Splatoon games, The Dark Crystal (movie + Age of Resistance), the sport of ice hockey, Webkinz, Zack and Wiki, Mariokart, The Dragon Prince, Super Paper Mario, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (early characters only for now), Animusic, Storks movie

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Witch Hat Atelier, Star Wars, The Owl House, Avatar: the Last Airbender, Disney

Please keep me spoiler-free for WHA, Side Order DLC, and ROTTMNT until I say otherwise!

Identity flags (gender and sexuality) are also available!

I love cleancore, babycore, and kidcore! This includes agere boards.

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dailytomlinson · 2 years

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One Direction does not leave the collective imagination of the teen agers who lived them in the 10s of this millennium and if the triumph of Harry Styles is in everyone’s eyes, Louis Tomlinson’s new single “Bigger than me” has been released since September 1st and is the first taken from his second studio album, “Faith in the Future”, expected on November 11.

The album comes two years later from "Walls," the solo debut of the former One Direction that sold millions of copies worldwide. Written by Louis, Rob Harvey and Red Triangle himself and produced by Mike Crossey (The 1975 and Wolf Alice), "Bigger Than Me" is already doing very well in the charts but, as written, the fever for the former 1Ds is always high.

"While working on this record I realized that what was going on had magic. It looked like we were creating something capable of honoring the live show - says Louis -. I have always tried to be a humble person in this life, but there is a limit and a responsibility that comes from being in my position. I understood, by doing those shows what they mean to my fans and how everything I do is actually bigger than me. It's almost an achievement of the age of majority, putting aside the opinions I can have of myself, to think about what it could mean for other people."

For the new album, in addition to Crossey, Tomlinson collaborated big as Rob Harvey, Dan Grech (The Killers, The Vaccines, Halsey), Nico Rebscher (Alice Merton), Joe Cross (Courteeners) and Hurts frontman Theo Hutchcraft. Around the world with his World Tour, which has crossed the UK, Europe, the United States and South America, with 19 sold out concerts in Latin American palaces, a sold out at London’s Wembley Arena and a show at The Dome in Doncaster (his hometown) in front of his family who saw him cry for happiness.

The tour also arrived in Asia and Australia, with 9 other concerts all sold out. But Louis' journey is one step away from the end and tonight in Milan the curtain will come down. The show will be at the Snai San Siro Racecourse as part of the Milan Summer Festival but the debut for the return to Italy was lived on Wednesday at the Cavea of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome at the top of the capacity, and on September 1st at the Teatro Antico in Taormina with a show of 10 and praise. "Since last February's debut in Dallas - says Louis - I have crossed the United States and Canada, Latin America, Europe and the United Kingdom, Asia and Australia, for a total of 70 shows, and I haven't forgotten the live at the Assago Forum last April that excited me as I was at my first show. Playing live is the best part of my job.

These months around singing and playing flew in a moment and having your affection and such support in places even very far from home is something I never took for granted. Music is nothing without you and Italy has always welcomed me like few other states in the world. This is like going home.'

#la stampa #louis tomlinson #030922 #fitfpromo

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lovesanmotion · 4 years

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The Masterlist

[ ♥ ] yandere [ ♦ ] fluff [ ♣ ] smut [ ♠ ] angst [✶] mafia

Last Updated: 100421

ATEEZ:

MTL:

kill their S/O in blind rage

want to have kids

s/o who does and doesn’t curse

long hair, short hair

date a noona but with a youthful aura

say “i love you” to escape doing chores

to steal your food

date and marry a foreigner

get married first

Scenarios:

yandere!ateez as fanboys ♥

three non-yandere things you do together ♥ ♦

ateez as yanderes ♥

kidnapping you ♥

getting possessive of you, their 9th member ♥ ♦

as produce 101 contestants

yandere!ateez vs skz fighting over you ♥

mafia!ateez public sex ♣

finding somebody else ♠

joining we got married ♦

as sugar daddies ♣

as dilfs ♣

as brat tamers ♣

sundays with dad!ateez ♦

as love languages ♦

giving you oral ♣

joining return of superman with their child ♦

night routine ♥

Reactions:

running away ♥

s/o writing a song about them ♥

singing to their S/O to sleep ♥ ♦

s/o working with a male idol ♥ ♠

s/o getting into a dating scandal ♥ ♠

s/o working with another idol for a couple stage ♥

you as their 9th member getting hate comments online ♦ ♠

another member confesses their love for you ♦ ♠

having a clumsy yet affection s/o ♥ ♦

s/o with agere ♥ ♦

dispatch revealing your relationship ♦ ♠

seeing his s/o kill for the first time part 1 ♥

seeing his s/o kill for the first time part 2 ♥

calling them “bro” ♦

cutting your bangs and failing miserably ♦

outing his relationship with s/o ♦

being sweet with s/o unknown to a hidden camera ♦

s/o getting hate ♠

idol!s/o goes to their concert ♦

s/o has degradation kink ♣

s/o being filmed upskirt ♥

seeing s’o’s standee ♥

their daughter has a crush on his member ♦

their children joining his meeting part 1 ♦

another member initiates skinship with his crush ♠

breaking into your house ♥

their child is a daddy’s boy/girl ♦

getting to his s/o’s fan call event ♥

sending their baby to daycare ♦

foreign s/o wears a hanbok ♦

being distant and getting close to another member ♠

you wanting a baby ♥ ♣

in a serious arguement with s/o ♠ part 1

senior idol mentioning you as their idol type ♥

locking you up in a cage and liking it ♥

making up with their s/o ♦ ♠ part 2

s/o still talking to their ex ♥

sending them nudes during a live / shoot ♣

falling in love with fubu!s/o ♠

braiding your hair ♦

seeing s/o do aegyo for the first time ♥ ♦

taking care of their pregnant s/o ♦

seeing s/o after a break up with a new guy ♠

s/o finally loving them back ♥ ♦

s/o being the most loved and popular cheerleader ♥

filming a rated scene with you, their 9th member ♥ ♣

s/o helping them wash up ✶♦

s/o taking care of them ♥

being in love with a popular foreign girl ♥

their crush having their sixth sense open

yandere!reader kills their s/o part 1♥ ♠

yandere!reader kidnaps them part 2 ♥ ♠

s/o dying in their dreams ✶

s/o flinching ♥

s/o wearing a lola bunny costume

drunk confessing to s/o

spying on s/o ✶

s/o bailing them out ♥

s/o giving birth to their first born child ✶

cat and mouse with s/o ♥

idol!s/o’s members not in favor with him

s/o protecting them ✶

proposing to s/o ✶

agere!s/o being a brat ♠

comforting s/o

comforting s/o with ptsd ✶

private session with s/o ♣

their crush is a police officer

having a crush on shy!s/o

( 98 liner ) being the photographer for s/o’s boudoir photoshoot ♥

( innocent line ) kiss cam with bff!s/o ♦

waiting for you after marriage ♣

a risque song playing in innocent!s/o’s playlist ♣

s/o hitting them ♥

getting into a car accident and coma ♠

s/o committing suicide ♥

you, their 9th member, getting a special performance in kingdom ♥

( demon line) r&j!au being chased by the cops ♠

( rentalbf!2Ho ) renting him for a day ♦

idol!s/o joins lipstick prince

join running man with idol!s/o

the morning after a one night stand

seeing your baby pictures

calling them by their first name

( 99 liner ) texting them “he’s leaving now, you can come over”

s/o has praise kink ♣

s/o’s group on the verge of disbanding ♥

breaking up while you carry his child ♠

s/o dying to protect them ♠

witnessing s/o be intimate with another member

meeting their favorite foreign artist (you)

idol!s/o doing well as a soloist and interacting more ♥

idol!s/o giving too much attention to a different fansite ♥

s/o has adhd ♥

you, their 9th member gets kidnapped ♠

s/o is a dj

Oneshots:

desire - kim hongjoong ♥ ♣

take me home - choi san ♣

if without you - choi san ♣

stay - kim hongjoong ♣

treasure - jung yunho ♦

one day at a time - park seonghwa ♣

sunrise - kang yeosang ♣

illusion - song mingi ♦ ♠

part 1

part 2

better - 2Ho (yunho & jongho) ♣

still here - jung wooyoung ♣ ♠

inception - choi san ♠

my way - jeong yunho ♠

thank u - jung wooyoung ♠ ♦

precious - song mingi ♦ ♠

part 1

part 2

part 3

part 4

part 5

wave - choi san

light - jeong yunho ✶

part 1

part 2

crescent - jung wooyoung ♦

good lil boy - park seonghwa ♦

answer - jeong yunho ♠

hearts awakened, live alive - jeong yunho ♥

wonderland - kim hongjoong

part 1

part 2

fever - choi jongho ♥

long journey - park seonghwa ♦

celebrate - ot8

time to love - choi san

horizon - kim hongjoong

to the beat - park seonghwa

dancing like butterfly wings - choi jongho ♣

i’m the one - jung wooyoung ♥

dear diary - song mingi

blue summer - jung wooyoung

dazzling light - park seonghwa ♥

leave the door open - kim hongjoong ♣

promise - kang yeosang ♥

be my lover - kim hongjoong

right now - jung wooyoung ♥

it’s raining - kim hongjoong ♣

anyhow - kim hongjoong ♦ ♠

not too late - kim hongjoong, jeong yunho & jung wooyoung ♠

white love - jung wooyoung & kang yeosang ♠

Yandere Fanboy Series:

A day in the life... yandere mini series:

hongjoong | seonghwa

LOONA:

MTL:

violent yandere, soft yandere ♥

not like their s/o cursing ♥

adopt a pet with their s/o ♥ ♦

flip a sasaeng

punish their s/o ♥

Reactions:

finding out s/o still sleeps with a teddy bear

meeting their s/o for the first time ♥

( jinsoul ) first date

Oneshots:

Not Friends (Yandere!Heejin, Kim Lip, Jinsoul & Yves) ♥

Act 1: ViViD

Act 2: Eclipse

Act 3: Singing in the Rain

Act 4: New

Act 5: The Final Act

NCT:

Scenarios:

nct 127 as Produce 101 Contestants ♦

nct dream as types of dates

Yandere Profiles:

kun

Reactions:

( wayv ) foreign s/o making their favorite dish ♦

( wayv ) having sex with an inexperienced s/o ♣

( wayv ) roughhousing / playfighting with s/o ♦

( brother!00 liner ) asking them how do you look

( wayv ) s/o not saying “i love you” back when he leaves ♦

( dream ) playing 7 minutes in heaven with s/o

( brother!00 liner ) tying your hair into a ponytail

MTL:

date a foreigner

date a tomboy

date an older s/o

survive in a zombie apocalypse

Oneshots:

nectar - qian kun ♥

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* Ace Attorney (All Games)

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* Arcane

* Bandori (Bang Dream)

* Bee and Puppycat

* Bluey

* Card Captor Sakura

* Catherine: Full Body

* Chainsaw Man

* Cookie Run Ovenbreak/Kingdom

* D4DJ

* Danganronpa (All Games)

* Date A Live

* Dead By Daylight

* Deltarune

* Dislyte

* Doki Doki Literature Club

* Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (YT Series + TV Show)

* ENA

* Faith: The Unholy Trinity

* Five Nights at Freddy’s (All Games)

* Genshin Impact

* Gravity Falls

* Guilty Gear

* Haikyuu!!

* Helltaker

* Higurashi No Naku Koro ni (Higurashi: When They Cry)

* Honkai: Star Rail

* HuniePop

* I Love Amy

* Kakegurui/Kakegurui Twin

* Komi-San Wa Komyushou Desu (Komi Can’t Communicate)

* Life Is Strange (All Games)

* Little Witch Academia

* Love & Deepspace

* Metal Family

* Monster High/Rainbow High/OMG Dolls/Lalaloopsy/Ever After High

* Monster Prom/Camp

* Moomins/Moominvalley

* My Singing Monsters

* NANA

* Needy Streamer Overload

* Obey Me!

* Oshi No Ko

* Overwatch

* Pretty Cure (Precure)

* Project Sekai

* Puella Magi Madoka Magica

* Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

* Regular Show

* Resident Evil (All Games)

* Revue Starlight

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* Sailor Moon

* Silent Hill (1-4)

* Sk8: The Infinity

* Sonic The Hedgehog Franchise

* Soul Eater

* Splatoon (All Games)

* Spooky Month

* Spy X Family

* Strawberry Shortcake Series

* Sucker for Love: First Date

* Talentless Nana

* The Amazing Digital Circus

* The Bad Guys

* The Last Of Us (Game + TV Show)

* The Quintessential Quintuplets

* Turning Red

* Twisted Wonderland

* Vanitas No Carte (The Case Study of Vanitas)

* Vocaloid/Utauloid

* Welcome Home Puppet Show

* Wonder Egg Priority

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startledstars · 2 years

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We are exiles

(Wanders in a strange, hostile land)

New Agers believe that a few people are alien souls reincarnated to earth. The ways of this world are strange enough to justify this thought. After all, most people instinctively find their place and seem to be accepted whereever they go. These are the people of this world.

The rest feel like outcasts. There’s something different about you, something that makes others push you to the perimeter. You spent your life on the other side of an invisible wall, always outside looking in. The people who reject you sense that you’re different and decide -almost subconsciously, like a hive or mob- that you don’t belong. You don’t have to say or do anything. It’s like they see something you can’t find in the mirror no matter how hard you look.

This leads to a search for answers. You might stumble across the truth or lead astray by a lie that comes dangerously close to the real thing, as I once was.

The people of Earth reject you because you do belong somewhere else; that part is true.

The lie is that you come from another planet or lived any life before this one.

The truth is that you are fully human, body, mind and soul. This is your first, last, and only life in here. Your kingdom, your family, and your home isn’t in a past life on a distant planet; it’s in the future, a place that doesn’t exist yet.

#new age #spiritual awakening #spiritual awareness #truth #God #Jesus

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bondsmagii · 3 years

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so a while back I was talking about extensive blacklists and somebody messaged to see if I wanted screenshots of a very impressive blacklist from an old Discord server they were in. of course, I did. here are the aforementioned screenshots as promised -- naturally the person wishes to remain anonymous, but here’s what they said:

hello, t'was i who was your Long Blacklist anon. here's what i have, or at least what i have scraped from the sides of my massive screenshots folder

to note: in the first image, in the section "TSS specific", the Remus mentioned is one of the characters in the show that the server is about, whether he's secondary or main is up for debate. like. a WHOLE CHARACTER

some of these are understandable honestly, i don't mind a lot of this, but i had forgotten "y'all" was on here and. i'm sure that was probably said about 500 times in there because. how do you. IT'S Y'ALL

I gotta admit that I was not expecting this to be so wild. I had no idea an entire regional accent would be on here; nor could I have anticipated the fact that the whole of Ohio State University would be a banned topic, but there you go.

full transcription under the cut, for which you owe me, because this is long.

USER SPECIFIC

Recording <@!412026064970186753>’s voice without permission

Pet names directed at @‘beat drop’ A Jumbo Jellyfish

Referring to @rrationality in the feminine, “kiddo” directed at by anyone but Patton

“Tinker bell” or the phrase “I just want you to succeed” directed at @Groundhog badger

Deleting messages from @JEYKSHK without informing first

“Kitten” directed at @jelly

“Know-it-all” directed at @The Rat God Summons Thee, asking to roleplay, people fighting in earshot, interacting while under the influence of any substances

Patronising and/or directing “cute” nicknames (smol, baby, dear, etc.) at @arson, overly aggressive conpliments (heart spamming, etc.)

“Princess”/“Champ”/“Sweetheart”/“Buddy” directed at @Silverquill (She/Her)

“Sweetie”/“honey”/“babe” and other pet names directed at @let airam see fuck without permission

“Hun”/“love” directed at @Ren

“you’re acting like ___” and “very nice” directed at @probably activism, venting privately without warning/asking

“Dumb”/“stupid”/“idiot”, etc. directed at @blurryeyesinbewilderment

“Selfish”/“worthless” directed at @Safira

Calling attention to/making fun of the typos of @one of the best ppl here tbh

Referring to @It ya boy idk in the feminine, mocking

Referring to @I’m gonna shine like the sun as a hypochondriac

Referring to @Currently Committing Tax Fraud as argumentative

TSS SPECIFIC [translator’s note: this is an abbreviation for The S*nders Sides-- the fandom the server is about. I censor this because I do not care for him and do not wish to type his accursed name.]

Any discussion (including mentions), images, gifs and links involving Remus, and ships where he is included

The phrase “have you ever thought about killing your brother?” [translator’s note: this entire phrase was blacked out behind censor bars.]

Unsympathetic portrayals of the Sides (being villainous, abusive, (passive) aggressive, restrictive, etc.)

Ships involving the Sides and Sleep

Romantic Prinxiety

Intruality

Romantic logicality

Snitties (tumblr post)

CenThomas (tumblr post)

TOPICS

Tangerines

Depersonalisation and depersonification

Divorce

Being controlled/your actions not being your own (including mind control)

Bullying (in a non-joking context)

Burning buildings and house fires

Belittling serious issues

Zombies

Existential issues (such as questioning reality)

Claustrophobic (small) spaces

Being patronised

Puppets

Bad parental relationships

Narcissistic people

Ohio State University

Annesia/mind-wiping

Bernie Sanders (US Politician)

Hell (discussion of)

Anesthesia

Fasting (for religious reasons or otherwise)

Unhappy endings

Power outages

Directing “stupid” at another person

Southern or Texan accents

Cringe culture

Spiders

Heights

The concept of pure nothingness

POC being stereotypes as promiscuous

Conflating age regression with age play [translator’s note: ‘age play’ was blacked out behind censor bars.]

Condiments (ketchup, mustard, etc.)

Malevolent of morbid supernatural entities

Food dicourse

Roanoke (the historical colony)

Self-depreciation

Heated discussions

Major character death

Hanahaki disease

Ants (the insect)

Eye lip eye (sequence of emojis)

Realistic-looking teeth on non-human things

Teeth in any place but a mouth

Human trafficking

Worms

OTHER MEDIA

The son “Sing me to sleep” by Alan Walker

Creepypasta (all forms)

The song “Hide and seek” by SeeU

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared (webseries)

The song “Last christmas” by Wham!

Heathers (movie and musical)

The song “Empty” by boyinaband

The song “You should see me in a Crown” by Billie Eilish

The Momo challenge

Stephen King’s It (book and movies)

The song “Bury a friend” by Billie Eilish

Undertale and Delta Rune (video games)

The song “Wish you were gay” by Billie Eilish

The song “Ocean eyes” by Billie Eilish

Sora from Kingdom Hearts (video games)

Scooby Doo on Zombie Island (movie)

Onward (movie)

WORDS/NAMES/PHRASES

The word “senpai”

The name “Cryptid”

“I see the light”/“I’m going into the light”/“Light at the end of the tunnel”

“A beautiful mind”

“Babe” in a romantic context

“Baby” and “sweetiepie” as pet names

The name “Tristan”

The name “Ana”

The name “Jamie”

The name “William/Will”

“Make yourself useful”

“Y’all”

“Agere” (as a shortform of age regression)

SOUNDS AND VISUALS

Fife music (fife and drum corps)

Loud noises

Spiders and insects

Trypophobic images

“Distant shore” and “It’s all over isn’t it” from Steven Universe

Homestuck (all forms)

Crying while laughing

High saturation/bright images/eyes strain

#long post #submission #anon

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logical-little-lies · 4 years

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Towers and Kingdoms-Agere!Sides AU (pt.28)

A/N: MORE WORLD BUILDING AND THAT’S ON Being Obsessed With Creating Universes.

"Why did we just skip so many floors?" Roman asked, as they walked up another set of stairs as the other three ignored them.

"Unknown sides, ones that have never revealed themselves to anyone, we only know some of them," Deceit muttered. They had went into Deceit's room, and right above it, Remus's room. And then, they just kept walking up the stairs.

"You walked up all these stairs every single day?" Roman questioned, taking a moment to breathe.

"I usually didn't leave my room, or I went one floor up and ate the food in the top commons and used the bathroom and showers there," Virgil shrugged.

"Y-you guys don't get private bathrooms connected to your rooms?" Roman questioned.

"We're not privileged, like you are over in your mind palace," Deceit scoffed. Virgil gave him a look and he went silent. "whatever," he mumbled, stopping in front of a door that was painted black, with purple letters spelling out the words 'vee the emo'. Roman started laughing.

"I forgot about that. Uh, I let Deceit paint my door, and he promised he was just gonna write my name. Surprise, he lied and then never fixed it," Virgil didn't seem mad about it, he just laughed and twisted the door knob.

"This looks a lot like your room at home,but less..mature?" Roman commented.

"I would've thought you guys would've done something to my room, I've been gone for a while," Virgil sat on the bed and looked around him. The floor was clean, and the room was actually quite empty, there was a shelf with notebooks and books, and tons of band posters. It really did look like the room of a teenager.

"This room still looks like a teen emo boy going through puberty robbed a hot topic," Remus insulted.

"I represent one of the main things Thomas had when he was going through puberty, so like, out of all of us I'm the most angsty and immature," Virgil rolled his eyes.

"That's the truth, you still get mood swings," Roman teased. Virgil glared at him playfully.

"There isn't much stuff here though, you grabbed the things you really cared about when you ran away," Deceit spoke with a shrug, standing by the door.

"I said that I'm sorry about that, Deceit!" Virgil groaned, and Deceit softened his face.

"Sorry, it's just-"

"Whatever, lets go to the last floor," Virgil got up quickly , walking past the others and rushingly starting up the stairs.

Roman looked at Deceit, "He's not actually that upset, he's just dramatic sometimes. In like ten minutes he'll probably make a joke or hug you," Roman assured. That seemed to lift Deceit's spirits a bit, and he nodded. The three followed Virgil up the stairs.

There was no door, it just opened up onto the top floor. There was a group bathroom to the side, and bean bags of different colors everywhere. On the ledge of the huge window, there was a telescope, probably to look out into the imagination. "This isn't to bad," Roman commented, looking around and noticing the microwave, pantry, and refrigerator. Like a little mini-kitchen.

"It's not, just really boring. We can't summon things here, as if we are good at magic anyways, there really isn't much to do," Remus admitted. Roman frowned at this.

"Where to next?" Deceit questioned, standing at the ledge of the window and looking through the telescope.

"Can we just hang here for a bit?" Virgil questioned, sitting in a black bean bag next to the window. Deceit nodded, moving to pull a wooden chair painted yellow up to the window, sitting in front of it so that he was facing away from the large window. Remus and Roman found their spots on the other side of Deceit.

"So, how have you been during my absence?" Virgil jokes.

"Alright I guess. It's not the same without you though," Remus admitted. Virgil nodded.

"I've learned a lot of magic. I can now summon things, and do basically everything the other core sides can..not here though, obviously," Virgil said.

Deceit smiled, "That's good. The core sides are treating you well, right?" Deceit gave Roman a side glance.

"Of course," Roman defended, and Virgil nodded in agreeance.

"I'm glad everything is going well. There isn't much to catch you up on though, on our end," Deceit said. Roman noticed how everything he said seemed to be the truth, and how he wasn't lying at all, really.

"There's a lot on my end. I don't know where to start," Virgil sighed.

"Tell me how you started dating my brother, that's a story I've never heard," Remus said, nudging Roman on the shoulder. Virgil rolled his eyes, sighing and beginning the story.

And that's how they started catching up. They told story after story, of things that happened while they hadn't seen each other, old things that happened when they were together.

To Virgil, this felt right. Better than before he was a core side and he lived in the tower, but also better than living with the core sides and cutting them off completely. "Can I hang out with my brother somewhere in the imagination? You guys could do something here," Remus offered.

Virgil glanced at Roman, who nodded hesitantly. "I don't have a problem with it," he smiled. He got up and hugged Roman, and the twins were quick to leave. Deceit and Virgil sat in silence for a few moments.

"I didn't expect you to ever come back. Like want to be our friend again, I didn't expect it," Deceit bit at his lip, and Virgil nodded.

"I-i'm sorry that I just up and left. And I know it'll take time for us to build our friendship again..but I'm glad we're willing the start that process," Virgil downcasted his eyes.

"You're a dork. Like the biggest fucking dork to walk the mindscape," Deceit got up from his chair, quickly pulling Virgil out of his beanbag.

"Rude," Virgil playfully scoffed. He knew they showed love through insults half the time, Roman was somewhat the same way.

"I missed you," Deceit admitted, pulling him into a hug. Virgil rested his head on his chest, just where he used to. They stood there for a while, before silently pulling away and walking down the stairs together. "So, could you explain the situation with all the little gear in the mind palace, and also how you're so open about it?"

Virgil groaned. "I still haven't told Roman you saw all that."

"It's not like I'm unsupportive," Deceit rolled his eyes, breathing for a second on the platform in front of a door. They were heading down to Deceit's bedroom.

"Well, a month or two ago, I decided it would be best to tell Roman about my littlespace. I didn't really know when, or how I was gonna do it..but he walked in on me in littlespace, and the three year old mind of mine tried my very best to explain it," Virgil explained, Deceit chuckling.

"So he went and asked Logan, after playing along and putting me to a nap. And once they like figured it out, and I was big, I talked to both of them and explained it. They were totally supportive, and I ended up telling Patton."

"But that doesn't explain the other stuff," Deceit waited for Virgil to continue.

"No, it doesn't. One day a little while later, Patton regresses, deeply. I'm talking small-as-you-are babyspace," Deceit eyes widened and Virgil nodded.

"That's when I had this theory, that we're all regressors. Because we are a part of Thomas's mind, and he mentally holds onto the childlike part of himself, and that could sprout into us regressing. And eventually, Roman and Logan regressed too. We all sort of have a large dynamic and it just works," Virgil said, reaching the next platform, lingering outside of Remus's bedroom as he waited for Deceit to catch up.

"So even Logan is a little?"

Virgil nodded. "Logan and Patton's are each others main carers, same for Roman and I. But we all sort of take care of each other, oh..and Thomas knows about the four of us," Deceit kept walking the last stairs to his door.

"Wait, wait, wait. If your theory is true, does it apply to us? Because as far as I know, Remus doesn't regress. He knows about me, he found one of my pacifiers a few months ago, and he was supportive. We don't talk about it though, and he's never seen me little before," Deceit opened his door once reaching the platform, letting Virgil in.

"I don't quite know yet, we'll see," Virgil shrugged, slowly entering his room. He was quick to jump on his bed. Deceit chuckled, climbing up and leaning against the pillows next to Virgil. "What'cha wanna do?" Virgil spoke softly.

"Dunno,m' bored," Deceit shrugged, mumbling slightly.

"It's not fair that you have to live without much little gear, you go so small sometimes," Virgil commented suddenly, and Deceit nodded silently. "I don't know how I did it back then. I'm sorry you still have to do that. Maybe not soon, though. You might not be able to do magic, but I can."

Deceit giggled lightly, "really?" he seemed excited. Virgil nodded, noticing his small antics and smiling.

"How long had it been since you've last regressed? And don't lie to me, snake," he spoke sternly, and Deceit bit at his lip.

"Easter! for like a lil tiny bit," he admitted. Virgil sighed, pulling Deceit closer.

"If you want to be little now, you can. I'm here for you, baby snake," Deceit whined and shook his head.

"Y-you just got here and I don't wanna make you uncomfy. Sorry," he mumbled, pulling away from Virgil and shaking his head.

"Hey, no, it's okay. I promise, you took care of me the other day, it's only fair," Virgil assured, sitting up and pulling Deceit back. Deceit leaned into him, nodding.

"Out of curiosity, what were you doing before I got here?" Virgil leaned back, allowing Deceit to cuddle against him.

"Taking a tiny nap, very sleepy," he shyly admitted.

"Hmm, well, you can take that tiny nap now. How does that sound?" Virgil played with his hair a bit, and he nodded with a small giggle.

Roman and Remus laughed, running through the castle, from the imaginary characters within it. It really was fun, create a plot, and location, and let your imagination run wild in an interactive setting. You had the control, but at the same time, anything could happen. "Aha!" remus ran up to a knight statue, pulling the sword from the figure and throwing it to Roman, taking the shield.

"Fight the guards or run?" Roman asked,pulling Remus behind a little wall. The guards and princess ran by. Roman was the prince of this kingdom, and Remus was a criminal who had stolen something. Roman was supposed to get him out of the castle without him getting captured, and now he was being chased himself for "the aiding of a criminal'.

"Run, and then exit the scene," Remus took a deep breath,"I'm tired."

Roman nodded, "Let's go the way they came, and we can exit this scene of the imagination," they ducked out, running with glee and pure happiness. They exited the castle, and ran to the gates. The guards stepped aside for the prince, and they were allowed through the gates. They turned around, watching the castle evaporate and disappear.

"We need to continue the adventure sometime," Remus said, and Roman nodded. They still held the sword and the shield. "I'll keep these," he spoke, taking the sword. "Memories of our first adventure together after years."

Roman smiled, nodding. The two set off towards the tower. Remus was able to use his imagination for good with the aid of his brother. For the first time in years, they had went on an amazing adventure together. It was definitely one they’d remember.

Roman and Remus were reforming their brotherly bond, and Deceit and Virgil were rebuilding their friendship. Hopefully Patton and Logan would be able to build new relationships with the dark sides, and accept them once and for all.

#ts deceit #ts roman #ts virgil #ts remus #little deceit #deceit agere #lil deceit #cgvirgil #cg virgil

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