#torture and organisations

[straight-to-the-pain]

I didn’t get the maths autism or the science autism or even the fandom autism. I got the ‘reads up on the legal frameworks for prosecuting torture at 3am then resolves to make a letterboxd list of films containing torture according to the UN definition’ autism

[worstloki]

HYDRA kidnaps Loki but all the goons look up to him and think he’s the coolest guy and keep kissing up to him because they really really want him to join their ranks

[nostalgia-tblr]

i feel like the possibility of mobius and b-15 BURNING IT DOWN!!!! died completely the moment someone realised that the one obviously marketable thing about the loki series was the tva :|

[https-furina]

i think it needs to be said that heia and i spent a good like five minutes of our first time cooping together trying to burn each other with lyney and yoimiya

[nikkoliferous]

An urgent international investigation must be opened into horrific crimes committed by the Israeli army during its land incursions into the Gaza Strip, including field executions, torture, and rape threats, said Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, citing testimonies collected from newly-released civilians.

Euro-Med Monitor said that Israeli army forces are reenacting the same crimes committed by Zionist gangs during the 1948 Nakba, which resulted in the collective displacement of Palestinians. These crimes include premeditated murder, setting fire to Palestinian homes and properties, torture, and insulting and humiliating detained civilians.

The human rights organisation highlighted the Israeli forces’ brutal storming of civilian homes in crowded residential neighbourhoods during the ongoing genocide. Members of Israel’s military terrorised and beat residents, plus arrested hundreds of them, including women, children, and sick people.

According to testimonies gathered by Euro-Med Monitor from several detainees who were newly released, the Israeli forces took the detainees from their homes, stripped them naked, and attacked them with machine guns, electric cables, and cold water.

Sixteen-year-old Muhammad Mahmoud Aslim told the Euro-Med team that the Israeli forces stormed his family’s home in Al-Shuja’iya neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, after they were trapped for an entire week without food and water. He stated that over the past few days, Israeli forces killed everyone in his neighbourhood who tried to leave their home, including Aslim’s brother.

Israeli forces later stormed his family’s house, said Aslim, and destroyed its contents with heavy gunfire. His family members were gathered naked and handcuffed before being violently assaulted and beaten. Aslim still does not know what happened to his mother and sisters, who were captured and kidnapped by the Israeli army.

The Euro-Med Monitor team has gathered statements and testimonies about Israeli special forces raiding refugee centres in Gaza City and its northern areas, which housed thousands of displaced Palestinians. These raids have involved the execution of young men who were shot with live ammunition at point-blank range.

Displaced people at the Cairo School, which houses hundreds of displaced people west of Gaza City, told Euro-Med Monitor’s team that several civilian cars carrying Israeli special forces stormed the school yard the day before yesterday (Friday), killing and wounding a number of unarmed young men. According to the testimonies, the Israeli special forces ordered all of the men in the school to quickly gather and line up opposite them. Four of the men were executed, and the others were arrested after a brief interrogation.

Muhammad Abu Mustafa said that three individuals—two from the Abdul Ghafour and Abu Zaid families and one from his own family—were shot and killed by Israeli snipers after they went to assist a neighbour in Al-Shuja’iya neighbourhood. The victims were left bleeding to death.

Similar violations were reported on Saturday by other internally displaced people at the UNRWA-run Khalifa Bin Zayed School, in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia. They reported that the Israeli forces arrested dozens of men and minors in the school. The detainees were stripped of their clothes, bound, and taken to another location, where they were interrogated and tortured. Some of them were released, while the rest were kept in custody.

One of the released men, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation, said that they were ordered to take off their clothes after being handcuffed and blindfolded. They were then put in trucks and taken to the seashore, where they were kept shackled for about 19 hours. According to the young man, they were subjected to insults, severe beatings, threats of being shot in the head, and had numbers written on their hands. They were also deprived of drinking water for many hours.

Upon their release, they were transferred naked to Salah al-Din Street, south of Gaza City, where the soldiers ordered them to walk on foot towards the central areas of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli random arrests also targeted a young disabled man who suffers from hemiplegia. The young man had been displaced from Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood in Gaza City to a relative’s apartment in the city centre before he and his brother were arrested; their fate remains unknown.

Ms. M.Z., a resident of Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood who was displaced to Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, in the southern part of the Strip, said that an Israeli soldier pointed his gun at her head and threatened to kill her even though she had told him she was five months pregnant. The soldier ordered her to take off her clothes and threatened to rape her.

As it continues to document testimonies from victims of the Israeli army’s crimes and random arrests, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor renewed its call for an urgent international investigation into Israel’s violations and crimes against civilians, and called on the United Nations to assume its responsibilities and provide a safe passage for the displaced to use to evacuate.

Israel is required by international humanitarian law to take all reasonable steps to prevent harm civilians and to guarantee their safe shelter. The Geneva-based rights organisation emphasised, however, that civilians who choose to stay in areas designated for evacuation do not forfeit their protection, and cannot be singled out or targeted for any reason.

[oc-tournaments]

ROUND TWO - MATCH 11

ELLIOTT C. SAMUELS vs PROFESSOR MAXWELL

ELLIOTT C. SAMUELS: Mod OC!

OC2: @antlerontwitch

VOTE BASED ON THE INFORMATION BELOW CUT!!

Propaganda Content Warnings: Organised crime, maiming for ELLIOTT. Torture for PROFESSOR MAXWELL.

ELLIOTT C. SAMUELS:

PROPAGANDA: Elliott was born into a very notorious crime family, on par with the mafia in his home city. He was raised being taught how to defend himself, then how to kill, then how to get away with it. As he grew up, he saw his only friends being killed for not being good enough, and he started to hate how he was raised. He tried to flee his family when he was 18 and change his identity, but a dirty cop brought him back to his family. His family decided the only acceptable punishment was that of a snitch; his tongue was cut out, and he was rendered mute for the rest of his life. He ended up running away again and, a bit wiser this time, he managed to fully escape his family. He ended up starting a band with some friends, who he trusted to keep him safe, but he ended up being roped into covering up a murder with his band. Yeesh. He just cannot catch a break!

THEME SONG:

PROFESSOR MAXWELL:

PROPAGANDA: Aroace but too twinkified (he's been shipped with his best friend and a prisoner smh), literally meets God (scp-343) and calls him a bitch to his face, covered in scars (recent and old), feels like he's 80 when he's in his 40s, constant and deep eyebags, was shown the universe's worst horrors by God (Canon God), has been sliced in half, torn apart, beheaded, tortured by God (not Canon, me) - he goes fishing but only in the ocean on his own rowboat, the only person he can talk to confidently is his life long best friend, long, messy hair, tall but not taller than his best friend

THEME SONG:

[random-kazakh-stuff]

There is a common play on words in Russian about a town in Kazakhstan. It goes like this:

A: Где ты шлялся, пес? ("Where were you, dog?")

B: Где, где? В Караганде!("Where, where? In Karaganda!")

The play here is that Where and Karaganda(declenised, it's when you change the ending of a word, because grammar) have the same ending -de.

There is however many interesting things happening at the same time with this saying.

First of all, it's origin.

It can't be said when or where exactly this phrase appeared, but some argue that it could have been a common answer from people who had been released from Karlag(Karaganda Corrective Labour Camp) which around a million people went through from 1930 to 1959. It is suggested that people wouldn't want to say that they went to Karlag so they just dismissively answered that they were in Karaganda.

Secondly, there is the way the phrase traveled through the years.

Russian is spoken less and less in most countries that were once part of USSR. At the same time, there are young people today who have never learned the geography of other countries(in comparison to times in USSR when they would apparently learn about the entire USSR).

So there is an group of young people who might learn Russian and hear the phrase but never find out that Karaganda is a real plase, in Kazakhstan, and not a imaginary or a funny word.

There is also a monument for the phrase! where? guess.

The animal is marmot btw which is the symbol animal of Karaganda.

[ID: A photo of the monument on a sunny day. All of the figures are of a dirty coppery orange colour. From left to right: a man standing with a suitcase at his feet looking confused, and holding a hand close to his face as if looking out for the horizon; a signpost with arrows pointing to different directions, top to down: "Karaganda 0km", "Astana", "Moscow"; a sizeable marmot with a smug face leaning on the sign; a man in a cap spreading his arms, as if trying to explain something]

[hellothere-generalangsty]

Okay so remember in like episode 4 when Mon Mothma has a talk with Luthen in the back of the museum-shop and she told him "Don't lecture me on vulnerability. No one is more at risk than I am. You think I haven't thought this through? I'd be the first one to fall."

And remember how in episode 5, Mon Mothma was planning and trying to reorganise a party while Cassian and the team were planning and trying to reorganise a heist against the Empire?

And remember how in episode 6, Taramyn and Gorn and Nemik died, and Cassian had to run away again, and everything was heavy and painful for these people who fought first line?

And remember how in episode 7, Luthen sent Vel to kill Cassian but Cassian was assaulted by a sandtrooper then a protocol droid then arrested and incarcerated without trial, while Mon Mothma was at a party in the comfort of her house, whispering about money and secret rebellions to her friend with a smile on her face and an expensive dress on her back?

And how in episode 8, while Cassian was imprisoned, physically tortured by an electrifying/ paralysing device, working 12h shifts day after day, eating liquid tasteless food through a tube and forced to take a "shower" at the same time as all the other naked prisoners; and while Paak was being brutally arrested and tortured for information; and while Bix was also being arrested and about to be tortured for information; Mon Mothma was at a party in the comfort of her home, an expensive dress on her back, her hair neatly brushed, sharing a drink and smiles with Empire enthousiasts and political enemies? People she seemed to despise a few episodes prior?

Remember?

[whumpsmith]

DILF in Distress

The gloves came off. He usually wore them for protection, and secrecy. His knuckles still bruised from the last guy he beat up. It would hurt, but this captive deserved skin-to-skin contact, the authenticity of a real punch. He grabbed at his hair, yanking his head back and forcing him to look up, slapping his cheek with his other hand.

“It’s time to wake up, Fetcher. I brought you something special, just for you.”

Excerpt of my piece for the @zineofgid, link to full piece below the cut!

Shoutout to @salomeslashes for proofreading and making awesome suggestions for improvements, your help was very much appreciated!

The digital zine will be up for grabs until the end of the year, and you might be able to grab some leftover merch too! Find the store here!

CW: personal vendetta | revenge | alcohol abuse | intubation | forcefeeding | jennings gag | blood | strappado | organised crime | open ending | smartly dressed villain | manhandling | torture basement | older victim

Unbothered or intrigued? Then by all means come read the full piece~

And let me know what you think, pretty please

[fortjester]

if anyone for any reason notices the sudden influx of homestuck bookmarks on my ao3 page that's just because i remembered to take them out of my marked for later and give them pride of place okay goood night

[protocolseben]

love posts on reddit which are like 'haha nando as TP?' 'oh seb as advisor?' brother the drivers are going to be psychologically tortured and split in half in between fernando's mind games and seb's mechanical talktalk

[blackwldcw]

BA at the start of Earthspark episode 13:

"Hiding in a graveyard like a creep. How on point for Tarantulas. Let's see what sort of abomination they have cooking up in their lab now."

BA at the end of Earthspark episode 13:

"No no no no no NO! Don't you dare make me catch feelings for my ex. Don't you DARE remind me of how things were."

[asryr]

thinking about how ash is one of the last sources of knowledge for so many kinds of magic. like. her birth mothers coven....they're all gone. they took their spells and creations with them. except ash. she's spent a millennia studying magic, originating entire branches of it, leaving her mark on various covens around the world. and for some of that, she's the only one left alive that knows it. which is largely why she's never gonna be as powerful as a firstborn mikaelson witch like dahlia / freya / hope. but she can sure as hell stand on equal footing with them when it comes to casting.

[fictional-worlds-are-exquisite]

i hate games with a carry capacity

you don’t understand i need to collect and keep absolutely everything just in case

[terpia]

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[askthechaoticwitch]

Forgive me if this question is out of line, but...what was your time with HYDRA like, for you?

"... What do you think? Honestly. I'm certain the general public has a pretty good image of what could have possibly happened to me, or would you rather me be descriptive? Would you rather me explain what was inflicted upon me, and do so thoroughly?... It was dehumanising, that's what it was. And I do not wish for anyone to have to find out firsthand."