#theft cw

[selfshippingquotes]

S/I: Have you seen my hat?

F/O, wearing S/I's hat: No. Why are you asking me? I haven't seen it. I haven't seen any hats anywhere. I would not steal a hat. Do not ask me any more questions.

S/I: Okay. Thank you anyway.

[flownintothesun]

⋆ ✰ ⋆ ─── ❝ 𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐭. ❞ 𝐌𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐚𝐭 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞 

              ⋆ ✰ ⋆ ─── a legacy post for @batteredoptimist dated 23 August 2022.

        𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄, 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊-𝐀𝐍𝐃-𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐌𝐄  allows them a breathless moment after the heist. And what’s that word mean, if not evident in the fact that when their bodies pull together like magnets, fingers lacing...that Westley lets Muriel pin him down, drag his hands over his head, kiss his neck and leave bruises that Dominik might find? Is that not the act of a lover? What are lovers if not things that leave scars on your heart, and an ache there that runs unquenchably deep?

        Muriel’s tried to save him once — hadn’t realized he can’t be saved, that time is good to them for allowing what she does. They wear different colors, come from the other side of the tracks to come together. But they steal and cheat and rob together, and somewhere along the lines, Muriel’d gotten Westley’s heart in the bargain. He hadn’t had to asked, hadn’t needed to call it anything at all for it to be what it is.

       So Muriel’d scared the life out of someone for Coco, and Westley’d raided the medicine cabinet for the others. It’s what they do, and it works. Gives them an excuse to be together — even if it is one that neither of their respective bosses would understand. And if Dominik found out that Westley was giving the girls medicine to help with the hangovers, the highs, the come-down... well, it’d be the end of him. “Is that a fact?” he teases. He’s eighteen, the world should be at his fingertips. He should be on some goddamned boat somewhere with the salty breeze billowing back unruly curls, with arms spread wide like he could fly. Instead, the flying is the running, always the running. And now, the want to run away with someone that he loves. That...yeah. That he loves.

       “Y’telling me you’ve been seeing other people? Cause...” he steps into Muriel’s space, and they’re both still heaving, out of breath and half out of their minds with adrenaline. “For me,” he murmurs, pulling his lover-apparent down by the sides of that gorgeous leather jacket, “It’s been you for a long time, liefje. So take me, I’m yours to keep.”

[katabay]

PERCEVAL THE UNHAPPY, THE MISERABLE, THE UNFORTUNATE, THE FISHER KING!

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

ALRIGHT alright. so previously I did an illustration that explained the premise of all this, that it's inspired by the narrative choices that Bresson made in his film Lancelot du Lac etc

to dive in more into it (because this is something like derivative fiction. I'm putting concepts into a blender and seeing what comes out of it): the setting is haunted by the previously existing narratives that started cannibalizing each other until it regurgitates itself into the more well known narrative beats, and something else about the invasive rot of christianity and empire mythmaking into settings. it's an intertextual haunting, if you will! and this scene takes place during the grail quest narrative, but the temptation of Perceval plays out differently.

in both Chretien (and Wolfram's) Perceval narratives, what 'wakes' Perceval up (in more ways than one. desire and self actualization in one go!) is seeing knights, something his mother tried hard to keep him from. so instead of the temptation of lust & etc in the Morte narrative taking the form of a lady, it takes the form of a knight. the temptation to renounce one's faith to serve something else remains.

so Perceval still stabs himself, but instead of continuing on the grail quest in the shadow of Galahad, he becomes the narrative's Fisher King because his earlier state of being as a the grail quest hero is creeping back into his marrow. it was waiting for an opening, and stabbing yourself in the thigh is one hell of a parallel!!!

that wound isn't going to heal buddy, and the state of the setting will now be reflected on your body. sure hope that Arthur hasn't like. corrupted the justice of the land or anything. that sure would suck for your overall health.

all the red in this sequence is because in de Troyes' Perceval, Perceval takes the armor of the Red Knight and becomes known as the Knight in Red.

and now for the citations, which I will try to order in a way that makes sense!

Seeing Knights For The First Time

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

The Temptation of Perceval

Le Morte Darthur, Mallory (modernized by Baines)

The Fisher King, and Perceval The Unfortunate

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Perceval and Gender, etc.

Clothes Make The Man: Parzival Dressed and Undressed, Michael D. Amey

On Wounds

Wounded Masculinity: Injury and Gender in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur, Kenneth Hodges

The Red Knight

Perceval, de Troyes (trans. Burton Raffel)

On Arthur and the Corruption of Justice

The Failure of Justice, the Failure of Arthur, L.K. Bedwell

[tanuki-kimono]

Irezumi kei (tattoo penalty) as depicted in the [徳鄰厳秘録 - Tokuringenbiroku], a kind of penalty instruction book compiled in 1814, digitalized by the National Archives of Japan.

CW for this post about Edo period judiciary => mentions of physical punishment, torture, death penalty (text only, no details, no graphic illustrations) . The irezumikei pages above are p.19 to 25.

I won't reproduced the illustrations here, but the Tokuringenbiroku book also presents other Edo period "punishments" and death penalties, like different types of goumon (torture), gokumon (decapitation and exposure of the head to public view), kakei (stake), haritsuke (crucifixion), or tameshigiri (sword cut testing, here on executed convict corpse). Please proceed to the full book according to your sensibilities!

Back to irezumi kei : the markings of character Akaza (from Kimetsu no Yaiba/Demon's Slayer) are directly inspired by those, same for Mugen in Samurai Champloo for example:

After Tokugawa Yoshimune's reforms abolished bloodier punishments (nose or ear cutting) for lesser crimes (like theft, gambling or fraud), irezumikei spread, inspired by Chinese bokkei practices.

Yet, zainin (lawbreakers) were also often beaten or whipped (tataki), which could be a "light" sentence or more far extreme one. Women tended to be imprisoned instead.

Punishment tattoos also often went alongside tokorobarai (banishment), which had several levels depending on the crime. You could be banished to a remote island, just away from your city, or forbidden to enter a certain perimeter.

Exile is why different areas had different marks, placed on the arms or faces, easily identifying the person as a criminal convicted in another region.

Number of lines or dots were often used to symbolize repeated offences (pic below source). Most of the times, getting 3+ irezumikei could grant you death penalty.

Irezumikei maybe be why criminals came to use extravagant tattoos, as to cover their infamous marks, leading to the yakuza association with body ink.

Yet, other strata of population also favored figurative tattoos, so the link between criminals and tattoing in Edo period is not self-evident.

Some shapes of -sode (sleeve part of a tattoo) for example left arm interior bare, maybe to prove then that no armband tattoo was hidden underneath a bigger design.

[phatkochi]

They have the greatest meeting like ever

(I was bound to draw them having a crossover at some point 😞🤙🏼)

[nocakesformissedith]

Sponison you will never be topped

[plaguemaskpatient]

this grown ass woman has no shame

you already know she didn't give any proper credit, and she traced the skirt and jabot thing AND this is what she said about where she got it, APPARENTLY

This is madam red

need I say more?

Here's another one she stole, and it's from an artist she watches on deviantart

bruh the life on that dress was just stripped away, she made it look mediocre AS FUCK.

God this is just disgusting

[magicalmysteryperson]

Adrienn Banai: The Rat Lover

I didn't want to post about any of this, but this person forced my hand.

I can't let this person run around on this hellsite anymore.

For those not in the know, this person harasses artists into drawing their husbando: a rat character named "Grey" from the children's series "Larva Island". Sometimes they also harass people into drawing Grey's grandpa, a female version of Grey named "Greyless", Grey wearing Roxanne's dress from "A Goofy Movie", and plenty of parodies of the opening scene of said movie. Like, they subjected one person to draw that same sequence with different characters like 6-7 times. And the "best" part? Sometimes they steal the poor victim's art to claim it as their own. And sometimes, they create edits of them WITHOUT CREDITING THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS. And when they do get caught, they apologize. A lot. But that's only a front to get respect again.

Her husbando

And I was one of their unfortunate victims. This person is weird as all hell; they ship this rat with Pibby (a character that is canonically from a preschool show), Meilin Lee (A hecking 13 year old girl), and Adrienn themselves.

The rat, according to the user, is 15 while the female version of the rest, his girlfriend, is 12.

Adrienn themselves are either 17 or 19.

The fandoms they follow are: -Courage the Cowardly Dog -Friday Night Funkin -Learning with Pibby -Little Nightmares -Turning Red -Anything Disney related (Goofy mostly) -Steven Universe -Made in Abyss -Road to El Dorado -Eddsworld -Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles -Super Mario series and, most importantly, Larva.

She stole my artwork just to make crappy edits

adrienn, flat out admitting that they steal art from people

It's already kind of weird enough, but then I did more digging on this person. They have a butt ton of accounts on a multitude of social media websites. They have a few on reddit, a few on wikia, one on vimeo, and a few on behance, of all places. They have a long history of harassing users, especially on reddit and wikia. They have the most accounts on Tumblr, with five (two of them are inactive.) The second biggest is wikia, with four. The earliest accounts were on DeviantArt, which makes a lot of sense. Oh, but it gets better. They have uncensored nsfw content on two tumblrs. This is from one of their accounts. I am not going to show you the image, but I'm going to show you the tags:

I mean, I'm glad that they tagged it as "rule 34", but I'm more surprised about how tumblr didn't purge those posts or ban the user entirely. So, if you see someone with any of these accounts ask you to draw this rat, dump the ask and block em. Hell, even report them if you need to : https://adrienn-banai-09.tumblr.com/ (WARNING, NSFW CONTENT AHEAD) https://adriennbanai09.tumblr.com/ (Not as nsfw as the one above, but still, nsfw) https://andreabanai.tumblr.com/ https://adriennsposts.tumblr.com/ (currently active) https://adriennbanai-09.tumblr.com/ (currently inactive) https://adriennbanai-2022.tumblr.com They may also go by "zoltanbanai", so keep your eyes out.

And Adrienn/Andrea, if you are reading this, I urge you to take a break from the internet and get some help. As I said multiple times, this behavior will not help you make friends. It will only make more enemies. I am an autistic just like you (probably. idk) and I really don't want to put you down like this, but you're already weirding a bunch of people out. Though you probably won't listen to me anyway, since apparently in your eyes the word "no" is just an unspoken "yes".

And please don't harass this person or send them death threats. Doing that just makes you a bad person.

I hope this is the last time I talk about this person, because I don't really have the time or the patience to deal with stupid bullcrap like this.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. The clorox brain bleach is on the right side of the exits.

[bonefall]

Clan Culture: Kitten Stealing

Content warning for reasons I hope are obvious! Girl they are taking the babies!

[Image ID: A cat is carrying a kitten by the scruff]

An ancient Clan tradition from before the Queen's Rights were established, abolished by Darkstar's Commandment that kittens were never to be put in danger ever again.

Before it became law to not ask a queen where her kittens came from, "Kitten Claiming" was how the clans maintained genetic diversity. Just like how a Clan incapable of defending its borders is not worthy of having them, the same used to apply to their kittens.

In spite of the Law of Honor which forbade the killing of combatant warriors, camp invasions were quite bloody. Parents willing to defend their kittens to the death were killed, citing the code's 'self-defense' exception... and yet, the practice continued.

Kittens were not announced at Gatherings for the simple reason that it would make the Clan an open target, instead, they would only be announced as apprentices when loyalty to their birth Clan was expected to have set in.

Clan culture's shockingly progressive view of adoption, in spite of their talk of "Forest Blood" and "Clanborn Cats," is rooted from this practice; the parents that raise kittens into apprenticeship are considered that cat's parents socially, even if they had been literally stolen.

Kittypet kittens were occasionally snatched as well; but would be subject to discrimination unlike Clan kittens "rightfully claimed."

In the modern era, this is called "Kit Stealing" and it's considered an outdated, barbaric practice.

[marmakar]

MHAHA, I just can't! Those two from the Chinatown Wars intro look so much like Toni Cipriani and Claude, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a real Easter Egg. AND NO ONE EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT IT, LOL (there are actually a lot of references there…) AND THIS IS REALLY THEM, but and isn't them at the same time, HAHA (don't talk about "it's different universes", it's -> 🤓🤡), because LCS/VCS/CTW have almost the same authors. I LOVE THESE GAMES, I WANT TO EAT THEM.

[gunsoffire]

Ending C <3

[scoliosisgoblin]

Jay gta au feat. Bennie

[rathologic]

ALSO I can't stop thinking about that random Kin woman in Aspity's hospice who only shows up to say "hey when we revenge murder all of the people in the Town incest will be okay right? they'll let us all do incest?" it's so out of pocket and callous of the writers in this sequence where they're introducing you to the common people of the Kin, and how they want to brutally kill all of the settlers in the Town, and are all enthusiastic participants in this plot, aspity included, and THEN they throw in the incest just to make sure you don't approve of any of these people. when patho1 WENT OUT OF ITS WAY to say incest was one of the most repulsive and unforgivable acts in the Kin's culture. I really don't enjoy this scene but it feels as though it's not talked about at all because it's not the one peter and grief can be in

[vuelode-irbis]

I woke up kinda mad at ai stolen art some weeks ago and finally took it out on the canvas.

ID: a digital drawing that features a brown wolf falling down while they bite a blue robotic dog. The wolf looks angrily at the viewer, there are tears coming down their face, and the dark, blue oil coming out of the robot is sprayed in their face; in its turn, the robot is stabbing the wolf in their belly with one of its hind legs, the blood sprays everywhere. One of the robot's legs has come off and falls separately. End ID.

[phatkochi]

Ik it's a little bit too early but!!! Art for @jesse-png 's #grandtheftspooks event!!!

Had so much fun drawing this 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🎃💗

[shibaraki]

"Give them back, Satoru".

Infuriatingly, he sinks further into the couch cushions and spreads himself without a care. "Hm?" he murmurs, head tilting to rest against his shoulder, "I don't know what you're talking about".

Despite being the one to confront him, you feel vulnerable standing before him like this. Heat pricks at the surface of your skin. Irritation, arousal and embarrassment intertwining in the pit of your stomach. You're all too aware that giving in to the compulsion to throttle him would only please him more.

"My underwear— the expensive ones. They're gone".

Pink and full, his lips purse into a pout. Had his blindfold been on you might've interpreted it as outright mocking, unable to see the fond amusement in his eyes. You are both fully aware of the truth, yet still he plays with you. "Another pair? Not good, baby. Maybe you're being haunted by a perverted ghost".

"He's perverted alright," you glare, arms lifting to cross over your chest as his gaze brazenly drags over your figure. He’d always said that your body was honest — you can't lie to me, baby. Look at you. You're so… — and whatever he was looking for now, you didn't want him to find it.

You knew he had taken them again. You knew what he did with them. Flimsy fabric held against his open mouth, breathing in your scent. Bunched up and wet in his fist, stroking up and down his cock. Deep down you liked it, but you sure as hell couldn't let him know that.

You'd never hear the end of it.

"Stop playing dumb and give them back," he purposefully shifts his hips, and you can see him chewing the inside of his cheek as he tries not to grin. "They were my favourite pair, Satoru".

"Yeah?" he breaks, exhaling a laugh. "They're mine too".