like clockwork someone who's been openly a sex pest for decades gets named as a rapist and sexual predator and we all get to play the hit parade with such classics as:
oh my god oh my god did you know this industry full of rich people who are rewarded for exploitative and abusive behaviour...has an issue with rape and abuse??? CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE'S ABUSE IN THIS INDUSTRY???? (yeah man we know. we've known for quite a while actually. for longer than I've been alive for sure.)
oh my god I can't believe there are rapists among us (1 in 3 women have experienced rape, who do you think is doing it?)
but he seemed so nice! (not really tbh)
well I met him and he never raped me and like, I'm really hot so if he was really a rapist he would have (Jesus fuck get help)
is it really rape to fuck 16 year old girls when you're in your 30s? (yeah it is if you fucking rape them mate)
can't believe everyone knew but never said!!! (they literally did say and also hey imagine if you will what reasons there might be too not say anything, such as, say, it's not your story to tell and the victim had expressed a wish to not be at the centre of a whole shitstorm)
Real Victims wouldn't go to journalists they'd go to the cops!!! (hey guys I have some upsetting news about the experience of reporting rape to the cops)
This is a conspiracy to make this irrelevant celebrity look bad! (please touch grass)
it's all just a bit of fun innit (no)
and every time we all over again have to go to this place where rape is simultaneously a significant threat and common experience (agreed) but also everyone who's ever talked about being raped is lying, and nobody's ever done a rape even if there's 20 years of documented evidence and on camera confessions and also their whole public persona is 'cheeky sex pest' (fucking. what?)
and then that guy hopefully gets cancelled and people feel a bit more guilty about watching him. and then they'll go HOORAY THE EVIL IS DEFEATED WE HAVE GOT RID OF THAT GUY THAT DID THE RAPES. OUR WORK HERE IS DONE. COMEDY/FILM/MUSIC/TV IS FREE OF PREDATORS NOW
and then 6.5 seconds later allegations will come out about someone else and we will start the whole thing again from scratch OH MY GOD CAN YOU BELIEVE THERE'S ABUSE IN THIS INDUSTRY???
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Have more villain Dia stuff bc I just remembered that one scene in the Guardians of Gahoole movie and it would low-key fit this au
Anyways
Yeah so Hau was w Dia now, and yeah Diantha was teaching him abt Mega evolution stuff, and yknow just some soft mother son moments w Dia showing him around Kalos, wearing diguises bc ofc they are, and yeah, heading home they saw Hala, looking for Hau
And just bcmxnx Hala seeing them and he just fucking knows it's Hau, he approaches them, and tried to calmly ask abt Hau, and Dia just smiles at him telling him to follow her, she knows where her grandson is, so he follows them until they're near the Carnet Manor, somewhere secluded, somewhere people don't even know abt, and Dia just turns to him and goes "my, ever so persistent, aren't you? The drive of an Island Kahuna never fails to impress me."
"quiet. I'm here to take Hau back home with me."
"really? Hau, darling, do you wanna go with your grandfather?"
And Hau's just standing there, unsure what to do, and Diantha places a hand on his shoulder, "my boy, you know how it is," and she takes off her own Key Stone, handing it to him, "don't disappoint me now, darling. Let's see how much you improved."
And Hala was feeling confident yknow, his Crabominable's pokeball in hand, and Hau's reaching out for his own Decidueye maybe, and Hala knew he has the type advantage over his Decidueye, one Ice Hammer and that owl is as good as fainted. But.. Hau didn't call out Decidueye.
Hau calls out Alakazam, glaring at Hala, smth he never thought he could ever feel.
"Hau, enough of this. Let's go home."
But Hau just stood there, clutching the Key Stone tight, and breathes out, voice tight and it sounded more mature, unlike the Hau he knew.
"I am home.. I'm not going with you." Then he mega evolves his Alakazam, and Hala calls out his Crabominable, and the two clashed. And ofc, manga typical violence, Hau knocking out three of Hala's Mons w just Alakazam, and it shows how powerful both Mega Evolution is and Hau has become since he last saw him.
And Hau just beating Hala, got him to his knees and he's there looking down on him, the same look Diantha had when she and Leon battled. Snapping his fingers, his Alakazam teleported besides him, then Hau smiled at him, the same carefree smile that Hala always remembered he had. He calls Alakazam back to her pokeball, and he says, "it would be unfair to not let Decidueye have a lil fun too, don't you think?"
And before Hala could react, he heard Decidueye's screech from behind him, and his own Spirit Shackle aimed straight to his chest, killing him, falling down face first to Hau's feet, blood pooling beneath him. And god he looked at Hala's body and he felt nothing. He slowly kicked Hala's hands away, he really was dead, and he felt nothing.
Then he felt Diantha's arm around him, pulling him close to her, "very good, my darling," she whispered, and watched as her own Gengar drag Hala's cold dead body to the afterlife, or to whatever hell like dimension he's in. Looking at Hau, she gave him a smile, "truly befitting for the role of a true Champion."
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