#under gunpoint

[whumpslist]

Tracker episode 1.1 “Klamath Falls”

Character: Colter Shaw, performed by Justin Hartley.

Type of whumps: under gunpoint and on his knees, shot at his arm and collapsed on the ground, groaning in pain, grunting getting up, furious chase through the woods by foot, jumped on a running truck and almost fallen off, grunting in effort pulling himself up, hanging over a waterfall from a falling truck by only one arm and bleeding by the other, jumped into the waterfall from a great height, arm sling, shown bicep bandaged.

[dark-elf-writes]

Trooper whose been theorizing for years that once the science Department finally runs out of willing experiments, the Turks will start disappearing the troopers next: hmm, can’t say I have heard from him. Sorry I couldn’t help ya.

Reno: *stomps away in pure frustration*

Trooper: *slowly pulls tinfoil hat from uniform and places it on top of his helmet*

Trooper: I knew they were coming for us 0-0

Trooper who was convinced that Cloud was an escaped lab experiment one wrong move away from being hauled back to the science floors: I always knew this day would come though I thought there would be more screaming and explosions.

Their Sargent tipping the contents of his flask into his coffee: Don’t. Give. Him. Ideas.

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

Misery AU where Yoichi is the author of the Captain Hero comics and AFO throws him into the vault when he discovers that Yoichi is planning to kill off the Demon Lord

[secretmellowblog]

I’ve mentioned this before, but I love how insincere Jean Valjean is whenever he interacts with Javert in Montreuil-sur-Mer. Whenever Jean Valjean compliments Javert, it’s never reflective of his true feelings; it’s always just empty insincere polite flattery he’s using in an effort to get Javert to behave the way he wants (usually to get Javert to stop talking, stop being suspicious of him, and go away.)

When Jean Valjean is actually alone and thinking honestly about how he feels about Javert, during Tempest in a Skull, he refers to him as “that Javert, who has been annoying me so long (…) that frightful hunting dog!” And enthusiastically hopes he will leave town. Jean Valjean is described as “glacial” to him, resenting his cruelty towards Fantine.

When Jean Valjean insists at the police station that Javert is an honest man and proper police wouldn’t arrest Fantine, he doesn’t actually believe that— Jean Valjean knows, from experience, what proper policework means. He has been on the receiving end of “proper policework” all of his life. Fantine is legally “in the wrong” and proper police would arrest her, it’s just that the laws are vile. Jean Valjean is just lying and saying whatever thing he thinks will manipulate Javert into letting Fantine go; he knows Javert wants to do policework properly, so he pretends that a proper police officer would let Fantine go. It doesn’t work, because both he and Javert understand that this is not the truth, and a proper police officer *would* arrest a sex worker who violently assaulted a wealthy man. As a result, when his polite conciliatory bootlicking fails, Jean Valjean eventually needs to fall back on using his Authority as mayor to force Javert to leave Fantine alone.

But again, the funniest way this manifests is during the scene where Javert attempts to have himself fired.

Because Jean Valjean spends most of the scene dissociating, panicking over the revelation about Champmathieu, wrapped up in his own head, not really thinking about Javert at all and barely listening to him. Then he attempts to say whatever empty polite nothings will end the conversation without raising Javert’s suspicions. This is something we’re later told is something he’s doing solely out of terror of “the great danger” of Javert’s presence.

Jean Valjean doesn’t really think Javert is a “good man” who he “esteems.” He just wants the conversation to be over without arousing any suspicion, so he treats Javert with empty bootlicking deferential (unsuspicious) politeness.

…but sadly, this is the wrong Dialogue Option. Jean Valjean then becomes helplessly trapped in a series of Unskippable Javert Cutscenes.

Jean Valjean is trying to treat Javert with this bland indifferent (unsuspicious) politeness in order to end the conversation quickly and unsuspiciously, and Javert responds by going on a series of longed passionate Deranged tangents where he pulls out a Pepe Silvia conspiracy board and explains why the concept of kindness enrages him.

It’s very powerful.

[anastasiamaru]

Elections at gunpoint

How the propaganda show "russian presidential elections" took place in the occupied territories

As reported by the National Resistance Center, for three days, russians stopped Ukrainians at checkpoints and demanded they "vote", all under the watchful eye of armed guards who indicated where to mark the ballot.

Occupiers also conducted raids on homes, trying to obtain information about local residents who ignored the "elections". russians attempted to enter houses multiple times if the doors were not opened to them.

The patrol groups consisted of two civilians and a military member. They primarily targeted those who had voted in the pseudo-referendum and "local elections".

Collaborators from the "election commissions" recorded who exactly voted and compiled a separate list of "disloyal residents" who avoided "voting".

This is an inaccurate translation; it cannot convey all the despair and anger in the words of a person who is under occupation. It's just an inaccurate conversation context:

Womаn:"Quietly, please...

Man:"What do you want ?"

Collaborators:"Hello"

Man:"Who even allowed you kurva to come here?What the fuckin voting?Who allowed you to come into the yard?"

Collaborators:"We saw in your car your"...

Man:"What? Your?Our?.Crimea is ours,damn it!Why did you come here?WHY DiD you come here?What?"

Collaborators:"Put a signature"(on the vote for the dictator putin)

Man:"What a fuckin signature?...You came to me with a fuckin ballot, damn it... If I don't want to vote, I won't go vote."

Collaborators:"Do you have a problem with it?(the dictator and the voting)

Man:"Im against that shit.I didn't invite you here. This is my yard, my home. And I absolutely don't need you here,you fuckin sluts.Do you understand?"

Collaborators:"The Signature"

Man:"Go fuck yourself.You with your fags"

"I must remind you that many people disappeared without a trace due to their resistance to the occupiers, many people were tortured. Many Ukrainians were shot."

Abroad,russians eagerly went to vote for the dictator putin.This is exactly how one can love russia - from far away abroad.

Caricature by Oleksij Kustovski

[yaboirezzy]

FELLAS

what is going on?

[catzgam3rz]

Still feelin Hermitcraft-y so take the local Scrungly Bdubs and an Etho!

(Idk how tall Bdubs actually is but he's got short energy)

[effervescent-fool]

he looks like his mom is forcing him to smile for the camera

[its-zaina]

Al-Shifa Hospital is besieged by the Israeli occupation army... again!

جيش الاحتلال النازي يُحاصر مستشفى الشفاء في مدينة غزة مرَّة أخرى!

The world's silence about what Israel did to Al-Shifa Hospital the first time, including siege, storming, and arresting doctors, patients, and displaced persons, bombing its buildings, and putting it out of service. Then the silence regarding the siege of the hospital for the second and third time..

All of this allowed Israel to do whatever it wanted, to kill everyone it wanted... to arrest everyone it wanted... and to put international laws under its feet.

مَـنٔ لِـعزةَ وأهلِها في هذا العَـالَـم؟..

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[groan-taire]

oh the situations you find yourself in when you're a troublemaker and a villain in over his head

(Don't worry I'm sure he'll be fine)

And the situations you find yourself in when you're a biter (😏)

[pillowprincessvarric]

I mean "choice" is kind of a complicated word here. Like "marry this guy right now or else risk social death & disownment from your family" is kind of a... there's a word I'm looking for but I can't find it, I mean its just not much of a choice now is it? BUT I still think the fact that even the #1 Bianca Davri Apologist Two Decades Running's take on the situation is "yeah she chose to do that" is.... something. Like it implies that she at least had some flexibility in that situation, and that she wasn't idk, physically kidnapped and married at gunpoint, as some people like to weirdly insist is canon (its not)

[geoarchons]

When a restaurant does not have a paper menu I look at the waiter. I stare her straight in the eyes. I stand up. I walk away, still keeping eye contact. I walk into the door. I break the glass. I keep walking.

[microfeelings]

Just wanted to share this sketch bc I was looking through my sketchbook and holy shit I've gotten better at drawing people 🥺

[acridtongue]

CLOSED FOR: @gh9ul: goro! STARTER INSPO: ❛ you’re lucky you’re cute. ❜, goro says.

it's a rare occurrence for barom to be interrupted during a tangent. tires screech to a halt leaving them to realize their mouth is a little dry. a quick fix with the whiskey in his hand, a bit warmer from the distraction of expelling his own thoughts. their eyes flit away [ this is not a bashful inclination. a tongue that moves in tandem with the mind needs to reset. press restart, center again. ] but soon rest to meet goro's. he's never had soulful eyes, barom notes quietly to themselves. always an abyss, or maybe a spiral. always meant to consume. they like to think they're lucky the stare is mirrored in their own, but with a certain maddening mirth. the hand holding the glass tilts forward, finally acknowledging what he'd said. " that work on everybody ? could've at least let me finish since you asked for my ' latest obsession '. " it's spoken with a lofty sharpness — a smile, but with too many teeth. barom's always had a slight irritation for being interrupted, but he finds this context particularly amusing. " or is age catching up to you, goro? " the smile in his voice appears on their face with their head tilting to the side. to barom he's providing a push and pull scenario ; not playing into the intent, but knowing it's existence. he knows goro far too well to falter. " impulsivity seems harder to ignore in the later years — and the best you could say was cute? "

[marzipanandminutiae]

15?

15. rank the methods of death: freezing, burning, drowning

Freezing (eventually you start to feel warm again, or so I'm told- sometimes so warm you start taking clothes off, even -and then you pass out and don't wake up. my current hoped-for death method is "in my sleep at like age 100, surrounded by loved ones, content and comfortable," but if it had to be something unpleasant, I'd immediately go hypothermia)

Drowning (yes, I know it's not peaceful like people used to say, but it's still better than...)

Burning (yeah, there's a reason this used to be the execution method of choice for people they wanted to really punish. yikes. count me out, if at all avoidable)

[hermetichermethermes]

I fucking hate Netflix. Every time I get invested in a really good show, often made by small studios; I Google to see if there's further series planned , ya know , to actually un hang that cliffhanger.. and every fucking time it's always the same.. Netflix didn't make enough money from the first season and/or get enough views to warrant it so they just fucking axe it.

I fucking hate that media is seen only for it's bottom line to generate profit and not for it's creative abilities. Even the studios behind the IP's want to do more but fucking can't because the industry balances in the jaws of the streaming conglomerates and everything else good gets swallowed up never to be seen again