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diordeer · 3 months

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౨ৎ SOMEONE LIKE YOU

“i've been searchin' a long time for someone exactly like you, i’ve been travelin' all around the world waitin' for you to come through” - van morrison (smau)

contains: charlie bushnell x fem!reader, where they play in a movie adaptation of ‘better than the movies’ also pls ignore how i spelt ‘preparation’ wrong

description: i cant lie, before i saw this request i hadnt read the book but my friend had and she loved it so i was like ok lets impulse buy it… let me tell u i finished it so quick im OBSESSED

requested by: @taysbeauty

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yn.ln in the winter in the icy outdoor pool when u jumped in first i went in too!!

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user1 THE DREAM CASTING OMG

user2 “I WANTED WES” 😖😖😖

↳ user3 she gets it

user4 only one more week until this god sent movie comes out 🫡

↳ user5 i think it should be a law to watch every romcom mentioned before watching this in the cinema

↳ yn.ln how can i make this an actual law

iamcharliebushnell im with u even if it makes me blue 🥶🥶

user7 we all know the soundtrack for this movie is gonna HIT

↳ user8 imagine if taylor swift released new years day (taylors version) for it!

↳ user9 i honestly doubt it but i WISH

momonatamada ahhh i cant wait!!

user6 me patiently waiting for the scene when wes reads over livs shoulder ☺️

↳ user11 the tension 😫

user10 i will now never watch a romcom if it doesnt have charlie and yn as the love interests

yn.ln just posted on their story

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iamcharliebushnell how you swoon me like no other!

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user1 can we talk ab how charlie probs took that photo of yn 🩷

user2 IS THAT MR FITZ PERVERT

↳ yn.ln no its michael

user3 them captioning their posts with lyrics from liz and wes’ playlist is KILLING ME

user4 guys i just saw the film wtf it was everything i imagined and MORE

↳ user5 any scene with yn and charlie made me physically kick my legs and giggle in the cinema

yn.ln ooomg do iiii 🤭🤭

↳ iamcharliebushnell i wouldnt say swoon

↳ yn.ln yet u did 🤨

user6 can we talk about their on AND off chemistry pls

↳ user7 THEY ARE LITERALLY IRL WES AND LIZ

dior.n.goodjohn charlie in a romcom?!

↳ iamcharliebushnell u got something against that? 😧🤨

↳ dior.n.goodjohn never!!

user8 dream man playing a dream man

walker.scobell finally he plays a good guy 🙄

↳ iamcharliebushnell i betrayed everyone ONE TIME, get over it

user9 the way better than the movies has almost every trope in the books is insane

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yn.ln hold on to the memories, they will hold onto you!!!!!!

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iamcharliebushnell did u actually just mug me off in the first pic while u look gorgeous in the last one?! absolute bias

↳ yn.ln u look great wdym 😃 plus! i think i got a pretty good photo of u in my last post

↳ iamcharliebushnell mhmm

user1 casually flicking past may jailer?!

↳ yn.ln im posing so cool in the photo, the second charlie took the photo i SCRAMBLED to the till to buy it

↳ iamcharliebushnell can confirm!!

user2 omg their latest interview together i cant 😣🩷

↳ user3 the way charlie looks at yn!!!!!!!

↳ user5 the things i would do for a relationship like theirs

↳ user4 lets be real if anyone played a relationship like liz and wes’ in a movie… you would 100% fall in love

↳ user6 guys they havent even said anything about being together!! and even if they are let them be

↳ user5 OH MY GOD its not that big of a deal get over it user6

kiernanshipka just saw the film, you were incredible!!

↳ yn.ln OH MY GOD I LOVE YOU

taglist: @lostinhisworld @lizziesfirstwife @auttumnsayshi @silkenthusiasts @taygrls @kidkrowk @kanojous @niktwazny303 @m00ng4z3r @highfidelities

#charlie bushnell x reader #luke castellan x reader #percy jackon and the olympians #smau #social media au #aesthetic #charlie bushnell #in the know #x reader #better than the movies #wes bennett

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yukoyoga4 · 2 years

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#ALOFREETOBEME Day4 I played with chair pose today.😆 Today I saw a terrible car accident right in front of my car. 😱and guess what? The spring of suspension from crushed car made a big hole on my new car’s hood! 😱see the pics…I was lucky 🍀to be alive…😅 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. JFK In these 8 days yoga challenge, we will experience the Freedom of expression. We will set a daily theme and you will have the opportunity to express yourself, your emotions and your thoughts without boundaries and judgment. Just be your fabulous self. Join #ALOFREETOBEME yoga challenge from August 22nd to the 29th Your hosts: @elenamissyoga @lightfulyogini2.0 @seonia @yuko_yoga Sponsored by @aloyoga @alomoves Poses line up ✅1 In my head (inversion) ✅2 In my heart (backbend) ✅3 In my hands (arm balance) ✅4 In my limbs (arms and legs) 5 this is me (your favourite pose) 6 On my back (lying down) 7 On my belly 8 On my foot (balance pose) https://www.instagram.com/p/Chq-nxwuRr5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#alofreetobeme

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darkdevasofdestruction · 4 years

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BakuSquad In Jail

I saw these pics randomly and talking with my friend, @thatweirdfrenchcanadian , we came up with some funny HCs for the BakuSquad and the reason they got in jail.

I have no idea who the artists are, I’ve been having the pics in my phone for a while, but if anyone knows the artist, please let me know so I can tag them appropriately!

Beginning:

They were at a party, just the 5 of them, and they were happy for getting into Pro-Hero agencies, and now they weren’t side kicks anymore, so of course, they had to celebrate accordingly!

A huge party where they all let loose and have fun without anyone judging!

What none of them were expecting was to get shit faced drunk and do lots of weird shit, enough to somehow get into jail for whatever reason.

Kaminari Denki:

Baby Pikachu got so drunk that he made Momo make a Pikachu onesie for him, on the spot, along with a Naruto headband, and made Mina do some lines on his face, to resemble Naruto, then went out to the nearest monument and threw paint at it.

If they were human statues, he’d draw lightnings on their foreheads and write “VOLDEMORT WAS HERE” on their torsos.

If they were animals, he will paint them in weird colours.

And if they were some new art, he’d just throw random paint and say “IT’S MODERN ART, YOU’LL NEVER UNDERSTAND, NORMIE!”

If that wasn’t enough, he stole a shopping cart and made Kirishima push him in it down the street.

Street that was actually a slope made by Todoroki in an attempt to ice skate and show off.

Unfortunately, Kirishima got distracted by a pigeon and started running after it to become the new Snow White, and Denki kept going down the ice slope, shrieking in the cart, thinking he was in a roller coaster.

When the policeman got him, he started giggling, saying he’s not drunk, just super LIT, FAM, and started doing a super fast triple dab.

Triple dab that he ended up slamming his arm into his head so hard that he knocked himself out and he was out like a light.

Bakugou Katsuki:

You can’t blame a guy who goes to sleep earlier than 9pm and barely drinks alcohol, so he can have a perfect hero-training schedule that he got drunk from very few shots of vodka and now he was feeling light like a feather and wants to entertain people...

More or less because their awes and gasps of wonder boost his ego so much that he wants to show off his explosions.

Katsuki starts doing random explosions around the house, then, when people tell him to do flashier tricks, he goes out and pulls lots of different typed of explosions, flashier, with more light, with more heat, with more colour, with more sound and whatever else the audience wanted.

When the cops came, they wanted to charge him for illegal use of fireworks, which sent Bakugou into a blind frenzy since NOBODY CALLS HIS EXPLOSIONS MERE, LAME FIREWORKS, OKAY?!

He started roaring and growling at the policeman, showing him that he can do EXPLOSIONS not some stupidly lame fireworks, which only ends up with lots of curses, fighting, and it takes a lot of new policeman to get him an elephant tranquillizer to make him stop.

Of course, they needed special restraints for him, since he’s so violent, but that wasn’t a problem, and Bakugou was used to these restraints, since he was forced to wear them twice before.

SERO HANTA

Poor Sero was mostly innocent, and he is pretty used to light drinking and these types of parties, but he really wanted to let loose this time around, so he started playing beer pong, never have I ever with vodka and tequila shots, and many other drinking games that made him SO happy in his drunken state.

As well as that, he had some weed joints that he really wanted to smoke...

And some LSD, because what could be better than trippin’ at a party when you’re so happy?

Always time for first times!

He used his tape to get into a spiderman position, hanging down from the ceiling after getting the LSD and started smoking some joints, letting the euphoria take effect on him.

Hanta started grinning and giggling, swaying back and forth with that tape, until someone, that he still has no idea, even to this moment (Definitely Denki) dared him to play Tarzan out in the city, so he started jumping from building to building, yelling incoherently that he is the KING OF THE URBAN JUNGLE...Or something like that, it was mostly unintelligible.

When he got arrested, he got into a spiderman position again and winked at the policeman, asking if he wanted to be his Mary Jane.

Then passed out and fell on the ground...For some reason, giggling in that unconscious state.

Ashido Mina

Mina was drinking cocktails, martinis and tequilas with each costume she would do for the catwalk she created in the house, each time, flashier and more ridiculous outfits, but hey, they were fun, and for some reason, most of them had holes...From accidental acid drips.

She MAY also be on acid anyway, who knows...Mina says her name is symbolic for more than her Quirk...

She got dared to recreate some iconic make ups from James Charles and mid-way to her look, she realised she didn’t have everything she needed, so she went to the closest shop and raided the make up isle, trying out each and every one of the products there, using her selfie camera as a mirror and trying to do her best.

The shop assistants were horrified at the girls behaviour, but her only answer was “Hi, I’m the Alien Queen, wanna be my Predator?”

When the cop car came over, and the lights started going red and blue, she thought she was being photographer by the paparazzi, so she brought a random pair of sunglasses, with the tag in the middle of her face, and put her fluffy boa around her shoulders.

And started posing.

She didn’t have perfect balance for most of the posings, but she tried her best to mimic all those cool fashion pics she saw in magazines.

At the end, she asked the cop if he wanted an autograph, and when he refused, she giggled, took out her eyeliner and wrote on his forehead ALIEN QUEEN XOXO

Kirishima Eijirou

Kiri was the most innocent in all of this, and he shouldn’t have been arrested in the first place, but he wanted to be where he best friends are, so that’s just that.

Well, he was convinced by the rest of the BakuSquad that it’s MANLY to drink, so he had a drinking contest with TetsuTetsu, that ended up with both of them under the table pretty fast.

The bet of this contest was that whoever was the first to wake up would win, and since TetsuTetsu won, Kiri had to take the water gun that Tsuyu brought and pretend to play CS:Go in the nearest store.

Of course, he did just that, but he was completely oblivious to the fact that Tokoyami wrapped his bandana to his face, instead of his forehead, to look like a funny western cowboy or whatever, and when he got in the store, all not-so-stealthily, the shop assistants hit the alarm and called the cops for having a robber.

With all that loud noise, he started squirting water everywhere, shrieking and saying WATER IN THE HOLE, THROW THE GRENADE, TAKE COVER, HIT SPACE, AHHHHHH!

Needless to say, the assistants and customers were more confused than scared.

When the cop came over, he blinked at him confused, saying that he can’t get in jail, since he’s a shark, and then shoot water in the cop’s face.

Oops?

The end:

When they all woke up, Mina was the first to realise what happened, due to her phone buzzing like crazy to her Snapchat stories, and only then she realised what happened...At least to her.

Then, her jailer told her how she got there, and she could only laugh at how bad she was in only a few hours of the night.

Of course, Yaomomo was graceful enough to bail them out of there, was the caution was nothing more than a breeze and they didn’t actually do anything too bad to actually keep them there anyway.

All that, while Midoriya was bawling his eyes out like a waterfall to some random jailer, telling them how amazingly kind hearted and nice heroes they are, and that they did a mistake, and it won’t happen again...

Blah Blah Blah.

He didn’t even realise how Mina walked out of her cell and sprinted to the boys’ cell, where she stood on the ground, telling them what Jirou, Tsuyu and Tokoyami told them happened that night and how they all ended up there.

Of course, it was all in good fun, despite the fact that they were sure Aizawa was going to hunt them down and kill them for the idiocy they did...

But they aren’t called the 1-Braincell Squad for no reason, right?!

To commemorate such a weirdass experience, Mina took the picture with her phone, telling them all to look natural, so they did as told.

Except Bakugou, who was beyond pissed off at what happened and kept grumbling something about stupid fireworks.

They were SO doing this shit again.

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sparkliingdust · 4 years

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Most of the drama isn’t centered on him being in a relationship, everyone in this fandom is not dreaming of fucking him or marrying him. Many people are pissed about the lack of responsibility of not having a mask and traveling during a pandemic, to a country most common folk have been banned to travel to. On top of that the pics scream messy pr. So if they are indeed dating or screwing, it’s a stupid way to introduce your new relationship to the world.

Actually, a lot of outrage on social media last night was fans making it seem like she’s just a one-night stand or “he’s her jailer and she wants to escape.” They’re just pap photos, and I don’t think they have any true intention of revealing anything. Then again, I don’t analyze everything as whether or not it’s good PR. Also, the Chris Evans tag is always overwhelmed with fanfics that make him our husband, boyfriend, father of our kids, etc. Maybe not everyone fantasizes about him, but a big portion does. (I’m not judging, to each their own). So I wouldn’t have been compelled to make my original post if there wasn’t fervor online.

I understand outrage of them not wearing a mask, but at the same time, I see people do the same thing in the parking lot at grocery stores where I live. When people are walking to and from their car, or unloading groceries in the trunk, they’re more than 6 ft from other people and have their masks down around their neck or take it off. And then once they’re inside Wal-Mart or whatever, they wear their mask. Maybe I’m naive but that was my assumption of seeing them go to and from their cars, and maybe they they wore one inside? They also apparently attended a private members club at 1am(?). And no one else was around except the car handler (who wasn’t wearing a mask either) and the hotel manager (who was wearing a mask). Also, maybe they tested negative and he felt it was okay to travel. Everyone thought it was adorable when Chris was helping Scott move across the country and a tenant took a picture of Chris in his truck without a mask. But now with Lily, it’s a huge deal? I don’t think a few pap photos constitutes us assuming that he didn’t take necessary precautions while actually traveling. At the end of the day, we don’t know. It sucks, but there’s nothing else we can really do about it. Just make sure we do our part and wear a mask?

#answered #chris evans #someone explain to me why i opened my anon askbox again

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huxianposts · 4 years

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sae?

YEAH BABEYYY

favorite thing about them

i honestly liked her ruthlessness. she wasn’t messing around, she was always to the point, and like, i know the thieves thought her messed up for being so cutthroat, but like... as an older sibling that was foisted with duties that no one should’ve handled but had to do it anyway at a young age... i get it. add in the fact that she’s in an extremely competitive and sexist industry, and i’m just... yeah. understandable. i mean i def do not condone her rigging justice to uphold a shit system while condemning innocent people. but her obsession, her competitiveness and her stubbornness in making her own way-- that’s admirable, even if it’s pretty flawed. idk, i just. really liked her anger. which is odd because i usually don’t care for that. but in a game where a lot of the female characters portray anger in only small portions, or in cutesy attractive ways instead of pure fury that’s ugly-- Sae’s is something i find refreshing.

least favorite thing about them

did not like how she was suddenly “uwu i guess i was wrong and y’all were justified.” i mean, i get it, it’s just atlus’ misogyny rising once again-- but GOD. i like that she realized that she was going too far in her corrupt justice, that’s fair. her helping protag escape-- that’s her doing the right thing, and again, good. but her anger and frustration and resentment at the system, her family, and her job was all very real and tangible grievances seen irl japanese culture today-- but hey, let’s just. sweep that under the rug. despite this game being about rebellion and a (i’ll admit, piss-poor) critique about how society operates.

favorite line

i can’t find the line atm, but her line where she tells the protag how she’s a defense attorney now, and that he shouldn’t be influenced by terrible/corrupt adults-- that’s a good line. it was really indicative to her new resolution in changing the system a step at a time, this time pursuing true justice instead of her rigged cheats. it was really hopeful, and while yeah, the game’s message fluctuated and messed up at times, i think her line... cinched it in a way that was good. it really hammered home that the phantom thieves were done-- but now for sure for serious, it was the time for adults to actually step up to fix shit-- as it should’ve been, instead of justice being in the hands of teenagers that were forced to grow too soon.

brOTP

Sae/Goro is my insta-fave. idk, it’s really endearing to see goro try to bond with her, asking for sushi and kinda pouting about it-- and Sae’s just, even though she’s a cold workaholic, she’s still kinda looking out for him, keeping up with the bond-- more so than her bond with Makoto, which, ouch. were it not for the manipulated double-spy working for an evil megalomaniac kinda deal, i honestly think their bond would’ve flourished really well (adopt goro into the Niijima household PLEASE)

in my sojiro post, i also mentioned liking the possibility of a sojiro/sae/haru friendship, since all three have similar motivations/backgrounds that led to their circumstances. i think it’d just be neat to see them interacting with each other lol

OTP

me/sae jk i honestly am digging the Sae/Ohya pairing. i know Sae/Tae is the fandom favorite and i GET it, but....c’mon....two disillusioned women that were screwed over by the system, life circumstances, and jobs, taking opposite paths in dealing with it? Ohya with her drinking and lackadaisical attitude hiding what really plagues her underneath (her grief about not knowing the secret government conspiracy that took out her friend thriller story), and Sae’s fixation in throwing herself into work, becoming ruthless and cold as she thinks victory will mean everything, despite her own barely addressed grief right underneath (her having to handle her father’s death and the arrangements, and being forced into a necessary parental role for Makoto).... hoooo boy. i think they’d detest one another at first. Ohya’s too irresponsible, Sae’s too uptight, they’d grate at each other... but their similar cores... is what will... bring them to the middle... Ohya’s relaxed atmosphere softening up Sae while Sae’s strict discipline will have Ohya standing up to do shit, like. ok this has gotten too long lmaoooo i’m trying to sell this ship and i do so gleefully

nOTP

i don’t think i necessarily have any nOTPs for Sae? i dont see much content of her so....

random headcanon

because makoto was really into homestuck as a tween, that’s the only fandom Sae knows. whenever makoto talks about anything, sae is just, “oh, like homestuck?” sees Naruto, “is that homestuck-kun?” sees featherman series on tv and just shakes her head sighing, “trolls and their colors.” Makoto and Goro are just. horrified and offended.

unpopular opinion

i don’t like her being in the ‘mom’ role, or whatever atlus (and fandom) is trying to promote. like. she barely grew up, was forced into the role (WHICH, YEAH, UNDERSTANDABLE), so i can’t see her willingly want to take that role-- i only see it out of obligation and responsibility. LET HER BE A YOUNG ADULT, let sojiro be this dad-like figure to her, however grudging she allows it, let her rest, let her relax from being so strict, like c’mon. i want more goofy sae, smiling relaxed sae, aaaaa

song i associate with them

emo: “Draw your Swords” by Angus and Julia Stone

happy: “The Jailer” by Erin McKeown

favorite picture of them

i don’t have a pic, but anytime she looks surprised, i die. i keep thinking about that one meme of her, “A palace? In my me? it’s more likely than you think!” and it has that surprised expression and i just lose it, i mcfreaking LOSE IT. i love her so much

#thank you for the ask!#asks #anon #p5 #persona #sae niijima #long post #i actually adore sae so much hhhhh

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scotianostra · 5 years

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Canongate Tolbooth and Mercat Cross

The Canongate Tolbooth is a highly distinctive building, and its clock if often photographed by passing tourists and locals like myself. As well as being an interesting and important building, the Tolbooth is a reminder that at one time the Canongate was separate from the Royal Burgh of Edinburgh.

The Tolbooth was built in 1591 and would have formed the local hub for the Canongate burgh, along with the nearby Mercat Cross, where merchants met and conducted their business, as seen in my other pic, but the cross was initially outside the Kirkyard, rather than it's place now, The Tolbooth would have had many functions, serving as courthouse, burgh jail and meeting place of the town council. The building was constructed for Sir Lewis Bellenden, the justice-clerk for the burgh, and his initials can still be seen over the archway to Tolbooth Wynd.

As the Canongate’s main public building it was designed to look impressive and express the burgh’s pride in its long history. The tower over Tolbooth Wynd has small turrets added, known as ‘bartizans’, as well as gun loops to give a sense of ancient battlements. Next to it is the courthouse block, with a staircase, or ‘forestairs’, leading up to its main entrance on the first floor. Look out for the plaque celebrating King James VI as well, complete with latin inscription and a large thistle.

The ground floor was used as a prison, mainly for those unable to pay fines or for minor misdemeanours, but on occasion it was used to hold people on behalf of the government. Certainly during the 17th century many captured Covenanters were held in the Canongate Tolbooth, accused of treason.

However there were several escapes, leading to the jailer James Park and his assistant being sent to prison themselves in 1681. This did not stop the breakouts though, and in 1684 around ten prisoners escaped by breaking into the lofts of the house next door. The following year five more prisoners escaped, and the new jailer Walter Young was brought before the Privy Council and sentenced to a spell in prison himself. By the 18th century the Tolbooth’s jail seems to have been mainly used for debtors, and it was said that: “…the better sort are commonly taken to this prison, which is well aired, has some decent rooms, and is kept tolerably clean.”

As the city grew in the 19th century so the importance of the Canongate as a separate burgh declined, and the Tolbooth became less and less important, and in 1856 the burgh was finally incorporated into the city of Edinburgh. In 1875 the city architect Robert Morham started renovations of the Tolbooth, attempting to bring it back to its original appearance, while adding touches of his own. The most obvious change came in 1884 when the clock was added, sticking out into the street on brackets and enhancing the building’s characteristic silhouette.

Today the Tolbooth is open as a museum, the ‘People’s Story’, telling the history of ordinary Edinburgh folk over hundreds of years. It comes complete with a reconstructed jail cell, enabling visitors to perhaps imagine how they themselves could have escaped.

Originally the mercat cross stood in the middle of the street, but in 1737 it was moved to beside the Canongate Tolbooth as seen in the pics here.

In 1953 it was again moved into the Kirkyard. The Mercat Cross denotes the right for the Burgh to hold its own markets. Unusually, Canongate craftsmen were also initially allowed to trade in Edinburgh, a privilege that often brought tensions to neighbourly relations. The date 1128 on the cross, as seen in my pics, pertains to the establishment of Holyrood Abbey in that year. King David I, who established the Abbey, gave the surrounding area to the Augustinian canons then resident at Edinburgh Castle in the form of a regality. The walk between the Abbey and the walled town of Edinburgh became known as “Canons’ Gait” or Canongate. King David granted a charter to the burgh of Canongate and its arms included a stag’s head surmounted by a cross.

The stag’s head, as seen in yesterdays pics of the Kirk itself come from the story that King David went hunting in what is now Holyrood Park which then would have been wild and heavily wooded countryside. He became separated from his companions and was confronted by a large white stag which unhorsed him and seemed likely to kill him. The King seized the stag’s antlers and miraculously they turned into a cross, which he was left holding as the stag ran off. That night he dreamt that a great religious house would be established on the site of his escape.We do not know how much truth there is in this story. It is suspiciously similar to the legend of St Eustace who was said to have been converted to Christianity after a similar encounter with a stag!

#scotland #Edinburgh #Canongate #History

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endless-season · 6 years

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mor part 1 summary

Gonna try mostly use pics from the trailers and merch cause I don’t think ppl should post too much stuff openly while the movie is still showing and having screenings :|

Pls dont repost pics thanks!!!

Mor started with Kagutsu crater so for a moment I thought i accidentally bought Side Blue again lmao.

This time Kagutsu Crater scene had a close up of Habari, Hisui on the building, Neko with her parents, Ootori as well as bby Mikoto.

Slate kid does the random talking for one line thing.

Mikoto wakes up from the nightmare. Anna was lying on his lap and sharing the nightmare and also wakes up. Anna also asks, Mikoto, do you want to be free?

Cage imagery: SO IT WASNT S4 OR ANYTHING. IT WAS. METAPHORICAL!!!! It’s BRUTAL AF and I love it. Looks like we’re having plenty of Mikoto reflection in this movie :D

First up. Mikoto. Alone. In this small cramped world aka cage. But then Totsuka, Kusanagi, Yata, Anna and all the Homura folk show up inside. Totsuka also mentions “But you don’t dislike it like this, right?” (in a dark evil jailer voice) im (not) kidding. (but really . the music didnt help hahah. blackmail voice i swear)

To which Mikoto thinks: Yeah, I don’t dislike it, but that’s exactly why it’s hard to breathe.

Cut to Homura preparing for Anna’s birthday as per MoR chapter.

Alphaboy moments: Chitose pushes Akagi into Bandou. Dewa shoves his hat onto Chitose. Fujishima /RELEASES THE (eric’s) HAIR/

ON A SIDE NOTE: Some of the animation in this scene looked very season 1 :o I think maybe the originally planned to include parts of it (ilu dramatic totsuka) in the anime but ended up cutting it out so now they made new parts using it!

CAKE WAS CUTE. ANNA WAS CUTE. Anna pic 10/10 best animated scene.

Anyway Homura trio head to that bar/restaurant where they reminsce about Anna growing... how homura’s grown... Reminscing include that one pic of side red anna btw. Which was literally... just the line she says :’D And the one pic of KoR induction. Which again, was just that one scene.

Mikoto suddenly mentions Kurayama out of the blue. (Tsurumi’s character looked nice in KoR manga but... RIP his and Kurayama’s anime design...) To which Kusanagi’s like, ‘its rare for you to think back on stuff, are you drunk’ (yes, hes totally drunk from that one sip of strawberry fizz yall bought him) and mikoto mentions the dream about Kagutsu incident he had with Anna. If Kurayama was red king... theyd prob already have another crater. Kusanagi mentions its nice a peaceful like this.

Cage imagery: Suoh alone in the cage. Kagutsu burning and laughing at Mikoto from outside the cage.

Anyway, they leave as per MoR chapter again. Totsuka passes shiro and WTF the TotuKa Tatara OST track was playing.... atmsosphere where ==. Wtf. Why. It was so random?!?!?!?!

As per the MoR Trailer: Alphaboys buying anna presents scene. Chitose: “These flowers are for a special lady, by the way, would you like to be my special lad-” *Dewa shoves his hat on him*

RIBBONTSUKA. WHAT A POSER.

Anyway so now we move onto Mikoto.

INTENSE MIKOTO VS BEAR SCENE. HE FEELS LIKE HE SHOULD BUY IT.

And then Munakata appears and they banter a bit about buying presents. Suddenly cage imagery happens. Mikoto: You’re a King that lives inside the cage, huh. Munakata: Suoh, what you refer to as outside the cage... isn’t somewhere people can live. Suoh: *walks off* I know that...

Yata and Kamamoto walk along the streets talking about cooking. They see someone using candle. And Yata mentions how he once tried to board that airship too. *insert lsw bicycle chasing blimp scene*

As per MoR chapter, Totsuka leaves to take photos, Mikoto follows along since he was gonna go buy cigarettes, they have the whole candle and listening to peoples stories and blimp conversation. ;-; Dramatic Totsuka doing crazy gestures was so cute i love him ;-;

“There’s the types of people who are like “MUAHAAHAH LETS DESTROY THE WORLD” which is very interesting.jpg

Anyway we get to Totsuka’s “There you and everyone else here. I’m not interested in other things” line. And Mikoto thinks of: Kagutsu SB scene Anna: Do you want to be free? Totsuka: But King, doesn’t dislike it here, right? Kusanagi: It’s so peaceful. Munakata: What you refer to as outside the cage... isn’t somewhere people can live.

Meanwhile Colorless is downstairs, talking to Hisui via kotosaka about info and their plans. Btw Colorless looked so civilised and borderline adorable and then suddenly went back to their crazy self and we end this with

"FIRST, I'LL START BY KILLING TOTSUKA TATARA"

#k stuff #k mor

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thoseflashinggreeneyes · 6 years

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Tracking gendered language in Reputation

Any queer person who’s ever spoken carefully about a relationship has played the pronoun game -- you know, the one where you talk about the person you’re seeing while dutifully avoiding revealing their gender. (For prime examples, check out the way Taylor talks about the relationships that inspired “Treacherous” and “Out of the Woods.”)

If you’ve played this game, you know it’s DIFFICULT to talk about a person without using gendered language -- that’s a result of a highly cis-normative culture, shout to trans+ and non-binary folks who have to deal with this bullshit every day. Yet on Reputation, an album widely agreed to be a love album about Taylor’s current relationship, she almost never uses gendered pronouns to discuss her current love. Let’s take a look at the songs and how Taylor extremely deliberately uses (and avoids) gendered pronouns:

...Ready For It?: This song sets up the theme of duality that permeates the album. Taylor uses male pronouns in the verses, which describe her public relationships, in which men are her jailers. The choruses (which feel dreamy, light, and intimate compared with the dark, heavily produced verses) use no gendered pronouns. The video makes this even more clear by aligning the verses with a fake Taylor, whereas the choruses represent authentic Taylor, trapped behind glass, using her voice to break free.

End Game: The only gendered language in the song is, “I don’t wanna miss you like the other girls do.” This could refer to a person of any gender with female ex-lovers.

I Did Something Bad: Here we’re continuing the theme established in the verses of “Ready For It,” where Taylor uses dark sounds and language to explore her public relationships with men.

Don’t Blame Me: Same theme of duality here! She talks about the “older guys” who are “just playthings for me to use,” but when it comes to the lover who drives her to obsession, no gendered language in sight.

Delicate: This is the first song on the record which is widely believed to be about her current relationship, and there’s no gendered language whatsoever to describe that person. The closest we get here is “handsome.” It interests me how often Taylor uses gendered adjectives without pointing to actual genders -- this feels like a reference to a butch/femme dynamic within a same-sex relationship, which we see throughout the album, but especially on later tracks.

Look What You Made Me Do: I think we can all agree this song doesn’t have a lot to do with who Taylor is or isn’t dating!

So It Goes...: A very sexy song with nary a gendered word to be found. This song makes plentiful references to duality and secrecy, hiding in plain sight, etc. I’m interested in the line, “Come here, dressed in black now,” which has a feminine bent. How often do you see men in all black?Seeing women dressed in black is much more common.

Gorgeous: We’ve all seen the widespread analysis on this one -- “gorgeous” is a feminine descriptor, and the only explicitly gendered language refers to Taylor’s current “boyfriend” (original lyric: “I haven’t seen him in a couple of months”) as well as her crush’s potential “girlfriend” (again, this could refer to a straight man or a queer woman).

Getaway Car: Another song where Taylor uses male pronouns to discuss her public relationships in specific detail. No one thinks this song is about the person she’s currently seeing (and, interestingly, the only person she genders here is her ex: “I wanted to leave him, I needed a reason”).

King of My Heart: This is where we see the careful set up of the butch/femme dynamic while also explicitly avoiding gendered language to describe her current relationship. “King” is Taylor’s codeword for her partner (King/Karlie/Klossy, got it), who she compares with “boys” who “never took me quite where you do.” The entire song fits a narrative of two women falling in love, and is peppered with details specific to Taylor’s current relationship.

Dancing With Our Hands Tied: A heartbreaking song about being forced to keep your love secret, with no explicitly gendered language. One interesting point of comparison here: as opposed to the very public “J” necklace referenced later, this song talks about Taylor keeping a picture of her partner’s face in “an invisible locket.” The duality from “Ready For It” is here in spades.

Dress: Another song with a lot of public scrutiny for sounding pretty explicitly feminine with “I don’t want you like a best friend,” no gendered pronouns, etc. The trickiest line here is “your buzz cut and my hair bleached,” which seems to point to the Met gala, but which others have posited could reference Karlie’s buzzed-about new hair cut at 2013 VSFS (edit: @whaler13bg also pointed out the lyric could reference this pic from 2016, thank you!). For me, this is more of a continuation of the butch/femme dynamic, and fits with her partner being “handsome” and a “king.”

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Interestingly, there’s exactly one gendered pronoun on Reputation that doesn’t fit with my overall theory of the album, and it’s in this (totally unromantic) song! The casual reference of Taylor’s baby as “he” is, in my opinion, the most annoying use of a gendered pronoun on the album. So why does she do it instead of writing, for example, “Here’s to my baby, isn’t hearing what they call me lately”? I think the reason is sonic: the sounds in bay-bee are reversed in he-ain’t, and the rhyme structure sounds really good. It’s such a throwaway moment in such a joke-y song that I feel comfortable writing it off, but it does stick in my craw.

Call It What You Want: Here it is, the love song that couldn’t be any more explicitly about a man, right? Wellllllll, not quite!! For one, many have noted that some of the lines (“trust him like a brother,” for example) just don’t sound like the way you would write about a straight relationship. More tellingly, though, the song explicitly tells you to ignore the way it uses language. The title, “Call it what you want,” is repeated throughout the song, giving the listener direct instructions to disregard the different words used to describe this relationship, because they don’t reveal the truth of these two people in love. (Side note: so romantic.) The fact that “call it” is aurally indistinguishable from “Karlie” for much of the song and a female background singer singing “I’m the one she’s walking to” (emphasis mine) serve to reinforce the narrative that there’s much more to this seemingly hetero song than meets the eye.

New Year’s Day: The final track of the album is also the most romantic, intimate, and stripped-bare sonically -- and there’s nothing male about it. The only gendered language we get here is “girls carrying their shoes down in the lobby,” which could refer to party guests departing -- or to two women coming home.

In doing a close reading of these songs, it’s actually shocking to me how little “no homo” there is on this entire album. Besides the one throwaway reference on TIWWCHNT, the only song that explicitly names Taylor’s current partner as male also explicitly tells us to disregard that language. Otherwise, the only men referenced on Reputation are jailers, narcissists, playthings for her to use, and boys who don’t compare to her current partner. Taken as a whole, it’s actually amazing how far out of its way this album goes not to gender anyone about whom Taylor has positive/romantic feelings. This round of the pronoun game is complete, and we definitely have a winner.

#gaylor swift #Kaylor

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diggorypuff · 7 years

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Best Lyrics of Reputation and my commentary

Ready for It:

He can be my jailer, Burton to this Taylor - My 1950s loving ass is just here for this Burton to this Taylor shit, cause their an OTP

Every love I’ve known in comparison is a faliure - Also a reference in my mind to Burton-Taylor love.

End Game:

I wanna be your A-Team - Just here for the early Ed Sheeran reference ;)

I’ve got some big enemies - idk i like the drama what the hell

Ooo you and me would be a big conversation - Media

I got a reputation that don’t precede me - opposite of the line that taylor cut from gorgeous

I don’t wanna just be another ex love that you don’t wanna see - <3

I don’t wanna miss you like the other girls do - hmmm... i really don’t feel joe vibes listening to this?

I just wanna be drinking on the beach with you all over me - This makes me think of the pics of Tom & Taylor on the beach

I got issues and chips on both of my shoulders - Ed’s singing always gets me and I like the chip on the shoulder trope

The truth is it’s easier to ignore it believe me - Love it

Even when we argue we don’t do it for long - Sounds like me with my friends <3

You understand the good and bad end up in the song - now that sounds like Joe

(Side note if it is all about Joe like she ‘claims’, seems odd but whatever, betcha that Calvin & Tom are so fucking thankful that Joe’s got her so loved up that she can’t even give a shit about their asses and how she thinks they may have wronged her)

All my flaws, paranoias, and insecurities - reference to the image built of Taylor

After the storm something was born - <3

Four words on the tip of my tongue - ???? Four words?

You and me we got big reputations - ... can’t be joe cause when they started dating everyone was legit like Joe who????

And I bury hatchets, but I keep maps of where I put them - i’d rather it be like about putting them in peoples backs, but i like this too, like she keeps maps of where she puts them after their buried, cause she’ll happily dig them up again if your wrong her, ie Kanye drama

My reputation precedes me - there it is again

I swear I don’t love the drama, it loves me - Love this line <3

Your handprints in my soul - <3

I Did Something Bad

I never trust a narcissist but they love me, so I play them like a violin, and I make it look oh so easy - I love it idk

Cause for every lie I tell them they tell me three - wtf love it

This is how the world works, now all he thinks about is me - LOVE

If a man talks shit then I owe him nothing - reference to kanye’s i made that bitch famous lyrics? and i love it

I don’t regret it one bit cause he had it coming - this song has drilled into the vindictive, slice your throat open side of me??? pls stop

They say I did something bad - <3

And i love the techno sound of it like tear it up

I never trust a playboy but they love me - ;)

So I fly them all around the world and let them think they saved me - ? Taylor who this about?

They never see it coming - ;) devilish

You gotta leave before you get left - heart ripping feel the power

He says don’t throw away a good thing - idk im torn whether I like this line or not???

If he drops my name then I owe him nothing - Kanye, Calvin, a ton of ppl?

And if he spends me change then he had it coming - I love the had it coming line makes me think of Cellblock Tango

They’re burning all the witches even if you aren’t one - Strong line

They got their pitchfork and proof, their receipts and reasons - Receipts -_-

Light me up - I love whenever that term is used

The little bubblier tune change towards the end is magic too

Don’t Blame Me -

How this is not a Jack Antoff produced tune is beyond me it sounds so much like Waiting Game, whatever the tune is magic

Don’t blame me love made me crazy, and if it doesn’t you ain’t doing it right - I love the passion filled love story goes back to my love of Burton-Taylor, also reminds me of that thread of That’s the Way I Loved You

I’ve been breaking hearts a long time - Love it

They say she’s gone too far this time - this is powerful

And I’m just gonna call you mine, I’m insane but I’m your baby - Playing on the medias stereotype, getting a bit old

Echoes, love you name inside my mind, halo, hiding my obsession - It’s a good lyric especially the name inside my mind

And baby, for you, I would fall from grace, just to touch your face - I wrote a similar line in a song earlier today before I heard this similar feeling runs deep

If you walk away, I'd beg you on my knees to stay - playing on the damsel in distress vibe again, also getting a bit old

Delicate

This ain’t for the best, my reputations never been worse - I love the my reputations never been worse line <3

Oh damn, never seen that color blue - Love it

Is it cool that I said all that, Is it chill that you're in my head? 'Cause I know that it's delicate - Fresh love, and I like it cause I get

Is it too soon to do this yet? 'Cause I know that it's delicate - I feel like this is about writing a song about someone, like is it too soon to write a song about this yet, not in a bad way!!!

Do the girls back home touch you like I do? - Sexy line, hot

Echoes of your footsteps on the stairs - Line reminds me of ‘ Sounded like footsteps on my stairs’ from If This Was a Movie. Also reminds me of All Too Well and the ‘down the stairs you were there I remember it all too well’ cause you know I’ll look for any reason to mention the power song

Stay here, honey, I don't wanna share - ??? what’s this about

Sometimes I wonder when you sleep, are you ever dreaming of me? - <3

Sometimes when I look into your eyes, I pretend you're mine, all the damn time - LOVE IT

Look What You Made Me Do

I’ve fallen out of love with the beat but it is still lit

But I got smarter I got harder in the nick of time - It’s strong and give me power

Honey I rose up from the dead I do it all time - See above

I got a list of names and yours is in red underlined, I check it once, then I check it twice - See above, also it’s vicious and I live for it

Maybe I got mine, but you'll all get yours - Kitty got claws

I don't trust nobody and nobody trusts me - Makes me grin with evil intentions

I’m sorry, the old Taylor can't come to the phone right now" "Why?" "Oh, 'cause she's dead!" - Maniacal laughter like Yzma as the cat in Emperorers New Groove

Below the lines that I’m not here for anymore

You ask me for a place to sleep,locked me out and threw a feast - idk? just eye roll?

The world moves on, another day, another drama, drama, but not for me, not for me, all I think about is karma - again just done with it

So it Goes...

I'm yours to keep and I'm yours to lose - Cool

You know I'm not a bad girl, but I do bad things with you - ;)

Met you in a bar, All eyes on me, your illusion is, All eyes on us - Makes me think of This is What You Came For, so I’m thinking this is a Calvin dig, for him being a intimidated by her success

I make all your grey days clear and wear you like a necklace - This whole song I’m like idek if this is good or not, this is my least fav song on the album

I'm so chill, but you make me jealous - Girl we’re cool, but when have you ever been chill, and you’ve always been jelly?

Come here, dressed in black now - Oooh reputation era, bad ass taylor coming in, having her emo dressing in all black phase coming in XD

Scratches down your back now - Rawr sexy

Gorgeous

You should take it as a compliment that I got drunk and made fun of the way you talk - Making fun of Joe’s British accent ;)

And I got a boyfriend he’s older than us he’s in the club doing I don’t know what - Tom? Calvin??? Who knows.

Whiskey on ice, sunset and vine, you’ve ruined my life by not being mine - I get it

You’re so gorgeous, I can’t say anything to your face, cause look at your face - Again I feel it

You should take it as a compliment that I’m talking to everyone here but you - Agreed

If you got a girlfriend, I’m jealous of her, but if you’re single it’s actually worse - Honestly yes, cause if you got a girlfriend, Ima be good cause I’m a Jackie not a Marilyn, but if you don’t omg I’m sorry I can’t stop it

You’re so gorgeous it actually hurts - Yep

Ocean blue eyes looking in mine, I feel like I might sink and drown and die - I’m sinking drowning and dying all at once

Like Joe isn’t really attractive to me but I’m glad she’s happy and wrote this bop cause I feel it in my soul

Getaway Car

The robo voice can go thank you

It was the best of times the worst of crimes - Love it already

I struck a match and blew your mind, but I didn’t mean it, and you didn’t see it - <3

The tires were black, the lies were white, and shades of gray in candle light - WHY DO I ENJOY THIS?

I wanted to leave him, but I needed a reason - IS JOE THE REASON? Okay love, but also come on if you wanna leave him, leave him for you!

X marks the spot where we fell apart, he poisoned the well, I was lying to myself - I love it so much and the beat??!?

I knew from the first old fashioned we were cursed, we never had a shot, shot, shot in the dark - Honestly can’t tell if this is her being like been on Joe for the longest time wanted to kick all the boys to curb moment I saw him shit, or whether it’s just her telling one of her made up love stories tied to the truth??? Like this is just about Bonnie and Clyde sorta and she’s just tying it to this.

You were driving the get away car, we were flying but we never get far - BOP BOP BOP

Don't pretend it's such a mystery think about the place where you first met me-And where exactly is that Taylor we’d all like to know, WHERE, WHEN, AND HOW DID YOU REALLY MEET JOE EXPLAIN

We're ridin' in a getaway car there were sirens in the beat of your heart - <3

Shoulda know I'd be the first to leave - Love

While he was runnin' after us, I was screamin', "go, go, go!" - LOVE LOVE LOVE

But with three of us, honey, it's a side show and a circus ain't a love story and now we're both sorry - Getting all kinds of era refs here

It hit you like a shotgun shot in the heart - Dead

I'm in a getaway car,I left you in a motel bar, put the money in the bag and I stole the keys that was the last time you ever saw me - This whole line is killer and I love it

King of My Heart

I'm perfectly fine, I live on my own,I made up my mind, I'm better off bein' alone - Love it

We met a few weeks ago - Idk but I like this single line

So prove to me I'm your American Queen and you move to me like I'm a Motown beat - I get American Boy vibes from this

Cause all the boys and their expensive cars, with their Range Rovers and their Jaguars, never took me quite where you do - All I can think about is Harry’s Range Rover, and Tom in the Jaguar commercials, and lol jaggywires

Late in the night, the city's asleep your love is a secret I’m hoping, dreaming, dying to keep - sound of my heart beat

Change my priorities - sweet

Overall song is just eh - second least av

Dancing with Our Hands Tied

That beginning piano is magic

I, I loved you in secret first sight, yeah, we love without reason - <3

Oh, 25 years old, Oh, how were you to know and my, my love had been frozen - </3

Deep blue, but you painted me golden - powerful

You said there was nothing in the world that could stop it, I had a bad feeling - Strong, and heartbreaking

People started talking, putting us through our paces,I knew there was no one in the world who could take it - SEE ABOVE

I hate the chourus

I, I loved you in spite of, deep fears that the world would divide us - Beautiful

I'm a mess, but I'm the mess that you wanted - Darling

Swaying as the room burned down, I'd hold you as the water rushes in - All about the idc, and lets keep going even as havoc wreaks

Third least fav maybe?

Dress

Golden Tattoo - ????

All of this silence and patience, panic, and anticipation, my hands are shaking from holding back from you - Darling and sexy at the same time also come on Taylor just jump his bones!

I don't want you like a best friend - Did anyone not know this?

Only bought this dress on you could take it off, take it off, carve your name into my bedpost - Sexy, also still hear carve you name into my nipples XD

And if I get burned, at least we were electrified - Cool, but if you get burned you’re gonna be pissed

Nights back when you met me your buzzcut, and my hair bleed - Hair bleeds??

Even in my worst times, you could see the best of me - <3

Flash back to my mistakes,my rebounds, my earthquakes - Pain

Even in my worst nights, you saw the truth of me - <3

Don’t like the high pitch of the song, everyone built it up so it fell flat

Fourth least fav maybe???

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Feeling so Gatsby for that whole year - BOP

So why'd you have to rain on my parade? - BOP

This is why we can’t have nice things, cause you break them, I have to take them away - !!!!!

It was so nice being friends again, there I was, giving you a second chance, but then you stabbed my back - KANYE KANYE KANYE

And therein lies the issue, friends don't try to trick you, get you on the phone and mind-twist you, and so I took an axe to a mended fence - HOT HOT HOT, I really want an axe to swing

But I'm not the only friend you've lost lately, if only you weren't so shady - grinning cuz Jay-Z

Here's a toast to my real friends,they don't care about that he-said-she-said - POWERFUL, makes me think of Taylor’s You Belong With Me Shirt in LWYMMD

And here's to my baby he ain't reading what they call me lately - Getting a lil tired of this her BABY, all songs are about Joe, JOE, JOE, JOE okay we get it, glad you happy, calm down

And here's to my momma had to listen to all this drama - My favorite part idk why

And here's to you cause forgiveness is a nice thing to do haha, I can't even say it with a straight face - ;) I it’s funny, idek how to feel cuz im like oh god but also HYSTARICAL??

Not for the siren sounds, but also it’s lit and a secret fav?

Call it What You Want

THIS SONG IS MY BABY!!

My castle crumbled overnight, I brought a knife to a gunfight - <3

They took the crown but it’s alright - </3

All the liars are calling me one, nobodies heard from me for months - 0.0

I’m doing better than I ever was - Happy for her

My babies fit like a daydream, walking with his head down, I’m the one he’s walking to - <3 :) love it, and she used the British term fit XD

My babies fly like a jetstream, high above the whole scene, loves me like I’m brand new - Beautiful

All my flowers grew back as thorns, windows boarded up after the storm - The afterward to Clean

He built a fire just to keep me warm - Bonfire imagery gets me

They fade to nothing when I look at him - <3

And I know I make the same mistakes everytime, bridges burn, I never learn - POWERFUL ADMITTING IT

At least I did one thing right - <3

I’m laughing with my lover making forts under covers - <3 :)

Trust him like a brother - TRUST TRUST TRUST GETS ME

I want to wear his initial on chain round my neck, not because he owns me, but cause he really knows me - UGH I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT

Which is more than they can say - <3

I recall late November, holding my breath slowly I said, you don’t need to save me, but would you runaway with me, yes - <3 LOVE LIKE THIS IS KILLING ME

New Years Day

Her voice is so sweet and dewey here and I love it, but everyone hyped it up and so it fell a lil flat on me imagery is great tho

Don’t read the last page, but I stay when you’re lost and I’m scared and you’re turning away - <3 <3 <3

I want your midnights - <3

You squeeze my hand three times in the back of the taxi - Eh it’s okay, sweet???

I can tell it’s gonna be a long road - LONG GOOD ROAD

If you strike out and you’re crawling home - Strong supportive

When it’s hard or it’s wrong or we’re making mistakes - AGAIN SUPPORTIVE LOVE

Hold on to the memories, they will hold onto you - Strong strong strong anything with the word memories gets me everytime

Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere - CRYING HERE

You and me forevermore - I hope <3

#reputation #taylor swift #reputation spoilers

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zapiarty · 7 years

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Oh, that pic is lovely and now I want to know everything about this Once Upon a Tailor verse that you have. I adore the idea of garashir in rumbelle-like situations. Especially the reunion at the end of s1, yes please? Or Emma's reactions to an alt-version of Skin Deep? Perhaps where Garak goes after Julian's father, furious for the way he never truly appreciated him while he had him in the EF. I love the parallel's you've already drawn between the pairings and eagerly wait for more...

Why thank you! It’s being modified a bit as I think of new things, but for right now, Skin Deep goes a tad differently. My dear Cat touched on it a little in this snippet in that it’s revealed Prince Al-Rahim (Julian Bashir as the curse dubs him) was being held underground in the hospital. Garak lets his rage over that take over his good planning sense for a moment (day) and enacts painful vengeance on his jailer- Doctor Whale. The two never did get along well, and this does nothing for that.

The after effects of this; Regina realizing he’s probably awake, being imprisoned for six months (supposedly, he talks the judge into letting him go home on ‘house arrest’ that isn’t especially monitored), do not fit well into his plan. But Rahim is alive and frankly that’s almost all that matters. The sad part is, the curse has its hooks in Rahim/Julian and Julian wants almost nothing to do with Garak. Garak’s rather...frustrated that it seems every true love couple is fighting the curse but his. He wonders if it’s because he’s awake and stopped being “Mr. Liem Garrick” the moment Emma said her name.

Julian’s father the Sultan isn’t in Storybrooke, but I bet he wishes he were because I’m giving the role to the Sultan from Once Upon a Time: In Wonderland. Yup, Julian’s the second third son of the Sultan, with two older brothers; Mirza and Jafar.

As for Emma, she always thought Garak was creepy, but he was more of a Devil You Know sorta deal, until he beat Whale half to death with his bare hands. She thought he was shifty but not actually threatening until this point. When she discovers he did it on Julian’s “behalf”, she’s concerned about the amnesiac’s safety, and at that point even lets Regina near him if it means “protection” from the Town Monster. This does not endear her to Garak, as he’s tired of people between him and his dear prince.

To add to this, Julian has no idea who to trust, but he bonds with David over their loss of memories and waking up in this fucked up town. Julian doesn’t understand why, but whenever the Mayor is around, he get’s this cold feeling. Otherwise, he doesn’t feel much of anything actually... Except when Garak touches him, that almost makes him feel something, but he’s not sure if it’s a good something or not.

(As for the TLK, you’ll have to wait just a bit, as Cat is writing a snippet for it as I speak. The reunion itself at the end of s1 I’ll get to later.)

#once upon a tailor au #garashir #my writing #glad you asked!#I'll spoil it a bit #Julian's heartless #ifeltyourheartbeat

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oh god i loved that platonic relationship scenario you did so much itwas so cuteee. do you think you could do a similar one but with terushima and akaashi? it doesn't have to be about a boy but just similar to the original scenario in the sense that the girl is emotionally down and feeling quite insecure about herself whether it's like her body or whatever ?

This might be a bit (read: lots) different from the original style- can you tell I’m losing my marbles. I just needed to let loose a little in this one. Still, I’m sorry this is super late, but thanks for enjoying my original scenario. :) This is the ‘or whatever’ part of your request, but I hope you find it helpful in some way.

The original post here.

It’s animpossible habit to break when you’ve been paraded in front of various forms ofyourself since you can remember. Your mother and relatives had always actedlike the mirror was something you should be happy about- look at how adorable she is!- and would make you twirl in half-step circles,like a concubine in front of her jailers. They’d talk cheerily at each other,making cooing sounds that should have been for girls at least half your age,and you’d pull at the pigtails that pinched at your scalp in an awkward act ofself-consciousness.

The feeling doesn’t last.

The tricky thing about mirrors is that theyonly reflect, and each mirror is different, and so are your days. The one thingthat never, ever changes, no matter how much you plead, pray, or attemptthrough your paltry meals is you. The person in them.

It’s a solitary stand against yourself eachmorning, when you’re past your childhood and nobody parades you around anymore.Nobody takes you by the shoulders and pinches your cheeks to tell you you’recute. Men tell you you’re beautiful and hot all the time, usually in poorgrammar and after that comes wolf whistles, or unsolicited dick pics, and youhave to think: really? In Japantoo? This day and age?

You don’t take advice from the transferstudents anymore, and the rush of relief when you press the cross icon todelete the dating app on your phone is the best you’ve felt about yourself inseveral days. You take extra care not to accidentally face the mirror, just incase your mood gets ruined.

But they’re everywhere, and youcan’t run. You’ve gotten used to it by now, and some days when you think you’vematched an outfit particularly skillfully, you even sneak a peek at a passingwindow, or the strange, twisted reflection in the elevator doors. Most days,you can convince yourself to think: hey,maybe I don’t look so bad, andkeep walking.

People, however, enjoy spending their timetelling you otherwise. Whether they mean it, or they don’t, you can always seethe pleasure on their faces as they run their hands down their shirts as theymention that you’re not looking as shabby as usual that day, or that shirtdoesn’t make you look as odd as usual. The doctor asks you for your BMI whenyou get your scheduled check in, and you don’t need the numbers on a sheet ofpaper. When Terushima asks you how it went, you tell him that you werelucky that you didn’t get a doctor who’d leer at you.

Truth be told, there’s nothing worth lookingat, yet Terushima nods, looking satisfied.

“I know you wanted a new jacket,” he says outof the blue, “wanna go get one?”

“Right now?” You ask, confused. He’s right,you’d said that, but today is- today is not such a good day. Terushima’swatching every emotion flash across your face with a practiced focus, but hesimply takes your hand and pulls you closer.

“Yeah. Let’s go. Leather, right?”

“I- yeah, a leather one would be nice.”

He grins, and a corner of a sharp canine pokesout from under his upper lip. “Good. I know exactly where to go.”

His motorcycle fits his character like a glove,and although you’re wearing decidedly not cool looking clothes, the confidentglance he shoots you before he revs up lets you believe for a second thatyou’re right where you should be. Your arms squeeze his waist, as usual, anyless would be dangerous for this breakneck speed, and you don’t mention a wordabout how his jacket is tailored. It’ll probably cost you an arm- and it does, whenthe very proper looking man takes your measurements for a slightly impropergarment- but there’s yet to be a moment where Terushima’s stopped touching you.The soft imprints of his fingers chase away whatever fastidiousness youmight’ve had at the little numbers of the worn measuring tape, and the ticklesof touch keep you on your toes- glancing here and there, and Terushima dancesaround you like a ghost, ready to haunt your fears better than they haunt you.

If you’d been asked what the attendant lookedlike, you would be hard pressed for an answer that isn’t a guess. Blonde hair-that’s Terushima’s, long fingers? That’s also Terushima’s. A warm smile, andwithout a doubt you know that’s Terushima’s. You’re left alone by the sofas fora rare moment, and you dare to flutter your eyes shut for a second and imaginea world without shape; you’re nothing, you’ve no boundaries except for whereTerushima’s mapping them with his fingers. A hand on your shoulder, around yourarm, over your shoulders, against the small of your back- he’s there right now,a chin resting on your head and he reaches out to stop you from pulling yourwallet out when you’re welcomed back to reality with a smart, handwrittenreceipt.

It almost throws him off you when you tiltbackwards to stare at him in surprise.

He cuts in before you can- “I’m doing this,” heinsists, pushing your knuckles back into your pocket. “I’m taller and strongerthan you, I’d like to see you try and stop me.”

“I’m not going to fightyou,” you say exasperatedly, “but Shuuji, you can’t be ridiculous about this.”

Out of the corner of your eye, you see theattendant quietly slide out of view. Then Terushima’s back, filling up yourvision and seeking out your eyes with a worrying fervour. “This isn’t beingridiculous, okay? I got this, and it’s for you.”

“It… it’s a lot.” You start to feel a littledizzy just from thinking about the numbers. “You should save up your money, foryou stuff.”

“Like what, retirement at thirty? C’mon.” Hepushes himself into your space and smiles his crooked smile at you with thosewicked teeth. “I just want to get you something. It’s time I reminded you thatI’m here for you, even if you don’t wanna talk about it or you forget sometimeswhen you spend too much time in your head. Yeah?”

A lot of answers try their lot in your mind.You know perfectly well what he’s trying to do, and even if you didn’t, youcan’t deny warmth that’s streaming so solidly through your body as if theelixir of life. There’s a small possibility that it’s a spur of the momentdecision, a result of a poor day, but never in your life have you seen yourfriend, or any man for that matter, seem so sure about anything before.Although Terushima’s never been one for regret, this is something different.

This is inevitability. As if a mere mortal likeyourself could push aside the goodwill of something with the brightness of eightand a half suns. You pull out both your hands in surrender and frown at himwith a frown you don’t mean at all.

“Fine, you win. But don’t think this is thelast you’ll hear about this.”

“Alright, alright.” Like sorcery, theshopkeeper’s back at his station and Terushima’s holding out a card you mostcertainly didn’t catch him take out. The sound of the receipt getting printedmasks his reach for your hand with his, and you watch enthusiastically asTerushima attempts to replicate his signature with his left hand.

He looks like an idiot, that much you can tellfrom the owner’s expression, and you daresay that your linked hands look kindadumb too. Terushima walks out the shop looking like he’s just won a war, andyou’re probably smiling like a lunatic, and the two of you most likely looklike idiots to everyone else.

That’s okay. Terushima doesn’t lead you back tohis bike, but keeps on walking. He doesn’t even turn to look or ask if you’reokay with what he’s just done, simply: “feel like frozen yogurt?”

“Always,” you tell him, in the middle ofNovember. Terushima grins, the tilt in his head betraying the fact that heknows exactly what you’re thinking, but says nothing.

There isn’t a single step where he isn’t stuckto you, apologizing wordlessly for getting a frozen dessert on a chilly day.Yet, pressed up against you, you can’t possibly catch a glimpse at your ownreflection with him blocking the way of endless window panes, and all you endup seeing is how silly the two of you appear- his huge frame and most of youobstructed by it. He swings around so you’re facing the open street instead,and cars are too fast to catch yourself in.

You’re okay with that, and so is he.

Now that you’re, well, older, you’d think thatyou’d be able to, if not everything, control some things in yourlife. Like your daily routine, for example, or how long you use your phone forat night, or whether or not you’re finally going to send that email that you’vebeen avoiding for weeks now. Okay, those are slightly more important things.But matters like whether or not you have a good enough facebook profile pic, orwhether you should cave in and get a snapchat account- surely,peer pressure’s kinda hard when it’s literally just you in a studio apartment,right?

That’s what makes the taste in your mouth thatextra side of bitter, like you vomited in your mouth three days ago and hadn’tdeigned to brush your teeth. You don’t even have an instagram, sowhy the fuck are you on it?

Plus, honestly right now, you can’t give lessof a shit how you got onto this hell-site, because that’s not important. Yourprofile picture isn’t important. Validating yourself in the eyes of your peergroup has never been very important- as least, you try to keep it that way.

It’s hard, sometimes. When it’s three in themorning and you’re alone with blankets just slightly too thick and you’reeither sweating or freezing, and when the only light that’s emitting is fromthe stupid photo app on your phone and the huge, pale green shadow you makeagainst your modern, unpainted walls. Paradise from someone else’s camera andsomeone else’s ocean villa is less enchanting than it’s instagram filter.Scroll down two or three, and you see your friends looking ravishing in theirgraduate gowns, their postgraduate diplomas fluttering in the gentleCalifornian breeze, or perhaps, if that’s not pleasing enough, there’s alwaysthe lovely ‘first day of work’ photos in swanky high rises. One look at their pencilskirts and heels and you can almost hear the sound of stilettos cracklingagainst polished marble in the late evenings.

Oho. Success has a sound, alright. It soundslike that stupid voice in your head telling you to look while you can, becauseyou aren’t going to see the Bahamas in a bikini (so small it makes you looklike a whale, by the way) any fucking time soon.

Blip. Wearily,like you’ve looked away in the first place, you sort of, fold into your phonelike someone does a meringue and click on the notification.

You’re still up. [Akaashi Keiji03:32]

Yeah, well, so is he. What a night owl. ‘Owl’,heh.

You’ve recently cut your nails, so no matterhow hard you tap your unrealistic, online keyboard, it makes next to no sound.Stripped even of your figurative, finger stiletto heels, and you watch as thepads of your fingers make soft, squishy noises against the oiled glass.

I’m going to call you. You have read receiptsturned on, by the way. [Akaashi Keiji 03:35]

Exiting your text messages altogether, you giveup on your half-assed reply and wonder why you even bothered in the firstplace. Plus, even with the pretty well stated warning that you’re about to geta phone call, you still flinch into your pillow pile when your phone screamsbloody murder, too loud for the empty room and your thoughts.

“Hey,” you say into the receiver. Veryoriginal, much eloquent.

Akaashi, of course, doesn’t beat around thebush.

“Three AM is not so good a time to be lookingat pictures of the beach.”

“It’s not just anybeach.”

“Sorry,” Keiji says, sounding possibly theleast sorry he’s ever been in his twenty plus years of existence, “is it theBahamas or Koh Samui?”

“Maldives. I think it’s one of those ‘I workedhard!’ getaways. Doesn’t seem like a honeymoon, to be honest.”

“Too many pink drinks, too few rose petals. Youcan always tell.”

You pull a pillow out from under your mountainand shove it underneath your knees. Time to sit back, relax, and enjoy the shitshow that is your life on the phone, and one can’t do that without proper backsupport. Maybe you’d start saving for a memory foam mattress instead of thischeap IKEA shit. Oh right, the catch being that if you probably don’t haveenough money for a vacation, you probably don’t have the money for a SealyPosturpedic. Who the fuck needs income, anyway.

“You’re taking too long to think.” Keiji knows.Keiji always knows. He should start a business, only that youcan’t pay the bills. “Where did you go off to?”

The odd thing is, it’s never occurred to youthat not talking to Akaashi at odd bits of the night is a way to live. It’snever occurred to you that the two of you would be anything else, either.

“How inept I am. At pretty much everything.”

“Oh,” he half sighs, half says, “you’re more thandiplomas, more than jobs. You know that.”

“Yeah, I’ve promised you that I’ll do my best,and I have, but there’s gotta be a cutoff point, you know?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, maybe I’m not a special snowflake. I’mnot some untapped talent that I’ve never bothered to exploit- I’m just what Iam.”

“You believe that where you’re at right now isthe best you can do.”

“I-” your sentence starts to unravel right whenyou’re about to say it, and you unleash a torrid wail into your cushions whereit’ll never see the light of day. Akaashi stays silent on the other end andwaits patiently for you. “Yeah. Like, even if I worked my fucking ass off, I’dnever finish two degrees at Oxford in five years. I can’t beat genius!”

“And sometimes it’s not just academia, right?Sometimes it’s anything you choose to do.”

Keiji alwaysknows.

“So what’s the point?”

“I don’t know,” you say miserably. “I can’teven look away from the stupid instagram photos because I’m a masochist,apparently.”

“I can’t say that I’m the expert at any ofthis,” Keiji answers you quietly, “but we talked about this before, and do youremember what we came up with? That there’s more to life than being the best?There’s more to life than being better, you can be okay with just being happy. And thatisn’t failing to live.”

“So, being okay with mediocrity.”

Akaashi huffs a laugh out, turning into staticwhen it reaches you. “Don’t twist my words, moron. You know exactly what Imean.”

Akaashi’s always been different. The one andonly different in your life, where all you can see are rivalries, and he’s justtranscended that. He’s parallel, on his own path, at his own speed, andalthough this guy is somehow first in his goddamn medical internship, there’snot a speck in you that can possibly revolt. Akaashi isn’t the type to postpictures of his certificates on instagram. He’s the type to go home at 1am,after an eighteen hour workday and call you at three in the morning because youneed to be called, and manage to say exactly the things you need to hear.

These people shouldn’t exist, seriously. Andeven if they did- and they do- you don’t deserve them. Not your miserable, dulllittle ass moping around in bedsheets you can’t really afford, thinking youhave it so bad.

“We agreed it wouldn’t be easy,” Keiji’s voicegently shakes you out from your quicksand, “so I’m reminding you. Everyone’sgot their limits, but after knowing you for so long, I think this isn’t yourlimit. This isn’t all you can do. You have to remember that.”

“Is this a professional diagnosis?”

“Yeah,” he’s giggling (chuckling? You likegiggling more) and it makes you giggle too, “as a bullshit specialist. I’mmaking you laugh now, so I’m doing alright.”

“Well,” you say as you finally start to leanback and stare at the ceiling, “I was sitting here being super mopey andmiserable earlier. So miserable that I couldn’t even cry. An actual pile ofshit.”

“It’s part of the medication. You get to bemiserable, and each time you’re a pile of shit, you get closer to being better.”

“Be my family doctor, Keiji.”

He’s laughing too hard to sound tired now, butyou’ve been counting the minutes in your head this whole time, and he’s givingyou all these happy, tingly feelings so you’re gonna pay him back. A bit of it,at least.

“It’s almost four,” you tell him, “you shouldgo to sleep.”

“Will you?”

“Yeah,” you grin wanly even though he can’t seeyou, “I’ll sleep and you sleep. Deal?”

“Deal,” and the exhaustion leaks back into him.You made a good call. “Goodnight, and get off that damn site.”

Akaashi doesn’t wait for your goodnight (henever does, because it’s always a chain that lasts another half hour), andhangs up. You let the phone fall loosely from your hands that misses your facenarrowly, and close your eyes.

Too tired for misery,and too tired for instagram, you say fuck it to charging your phone and beginto count your sheep.

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Fake news in Turkey: Hunting for truth in land of conspiracy

Picture caption The BBC’s Mark Lowen has himself been the topic of absurd allegations in Turkish media

A headscarved lady whose child was kicked whereas she was urinated on by anti-government demonstrators.

Veteran political activist Noam Chomsky championing President Erdogan in a newspaper interview.

Images of bloated corpses of Muslims in a river in Myanmar. A video displaying Turkish jets blowing up Kurdish fighters in Syria.

All had been compelling and widely-shared tales in Turkey. All had been fully false.

Turkey is a rustic the place reality and fiction are more and more exhausting to differentiate, and the place data is weaponised to additional divide a profoundly polarised society.

Why Turks are besieged by ‘pretend information’

It’s little surprise that Turkey ranks first in an inventory of nations the place folks complain about fully made-up tales, in response to this 12 months’s Reuters Digital Information Report.

Nearly half its folks – 49% – say they confronted “pretend information” within the week earlier than the survey was taken. In Germany, it’s simply 9%.

Day by day brings new outlandish and unverified claims within the media.

That is fodder for a nation hooked on conspiracy theories – the place a senior adviser to Mr Erdogan claimed the president’s enemies had been making an attempt to kill him with telekinesis and that overseas TV cooks had been spies.

Picture caption This Turkish story known as the BBC’s correspondent a “provocateur” despatched to cowl a march involving Turkish opposition chief Kemal Kilicdaroglu

Inflammatory rhetoric pervades the media, 90% of which is estimated to be pro-government. That’s as a result of opposition retailers have been steadily shut down, branded “terrorist propaganda”, or financially crippled.

Newspapers that survive serve not as fashions of journalism however as authorities mouthpieces, which had been not too long ago handed the leaks from the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. That led the world to swallow what they printed, slightly than treating them with the standard warning.

Turkey is the world’s largest jailer of journalists, rating 157 of 180 international locations within the press freedom index of the watchdog Reporters With out Borders.

Simply 38% right here belief the information, the Reuters research exhibits.

How a web site debunked 500 pretend tales

Fertile floor, then, for Turkey’s first unbiased web site dedicated to fact-checking on-line materials. Teyit.org takes its identify from the Turkish phrase for affirmation.

Based in 2016 by a younger journalist, Mehmet Atakan Foca, its staff probes the authenticity of pictures and tales that flow into on-line.

Foca, who did an internship on the BBC Turkish service, says they now get greater than 30 tip-offs a day about suspicious-looking materials, and use a wide range of core journalistic abilities and digital know-how to test them.

Picture caption The Teyit staff have debunked a whole lot of tales of their first two years

“To sort out the issue of pretend information, it is not sufficient to publish articles about misinformation,” he says. “We need to educate folks and provides them the instruments to strengthen their capability for verification.”

Over the previous two years, Teyit has debunked 526 false tales. Many are political, utilizing doctored pictures or false social media claims about politicians.

Others have much more critical penalties.

This story is a part of a sequence by the BBC on disinformation and pretend information – a worldwide downside difficult the way in which we share data and understand the world round us.

For extra go to www.bbc.co.uk/beyondfakenews

When photographs of three males had been printed on-line and labelled as those that killed 39 folks in an assault on Istanbul’s Reina nightclub, Teyit traced the boys and disproved the allegations.

One of many wrongly accused, Metehan Alim, advised us a defamation case in opposition to six media retailers is ongoing.

Picture copyright Teyit

Picture caption A lot of Teyit’s debunked tales are political, or take care of social points

“Turks are fundamentalists with our beliefs,” he advised the BBC. “We need to learn what we already imagine. We resist science or information. We imagine in myths as a substitute.”

A number of the tales debunked by Teyit are worldwide.

On the peak of the violence in Myanmar in opposition to Rohingya Muslims, the Turkish finance minister tweeted photographs that allegedly confirmed victims. Teyit found they had been from elsewhere.

The Myanmar authorities formally complained and the minister was compelled to delete the tweet.

Even former Ankara mayor Melih Gokcek, infamous for conspiracy theories, retracted a tweet displaying purportedly of flood injury to a street. It had been debunked by Teyit, and he even credited the fact-checking web site.

How I grew to become a goal for pretend information

However I’m nonetheless ready for Mr Gokcek to retract his unfounded declare that the BBC rented a resort room overlooking Besiktas soccer stadium simply earlier than it was attacked by suicide bombers in 2016.

Blasts kill many close to Istanbul stadium

Supposedly, that allowed me to broadcast reside inside minutes – and advised that we had been complicit or knew of it prematurely.

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Media captionMark Lowen reported on the Besiktas bombing some 90 minutes after the assault

The absurd allegation was disproved by Teyit, displaying my first reside broadcast from our BBC workplace 90 minutes after the assault and debunking a video that falsely translated my phrases.

Picture caption Teyit debunked the Besiktas allegations, displaying that the reside report got here from the BBC workplace

After 4 years in Turkey, I am getting used to such baseless claims.

Professional-government dailies regularly allege I have been despatched from London as a provocateur to fire up social unrest.

One wants a thick pores and skin on this nation.

Rise of the ‘pretend fact-checkers’

“Information literacy may be very low in Turkey,” says Mehmet Atakan Foca. “It is extra about propaganda. Folks reside in an echo chamber, accusing others of being terrorists or pro-government, creating false tales to strengthen their opinions.”

Even fact-checking itself is used as a instrument in a rustic riven by distrust and division.

One web site claims to be an unbiased verifier of reports, however is definitely run by a distinguished columnist for Sabah, the primary pro-government day by day, and her husband. As a substitute of authenticating sources or pictures, it pushes the federal government line, discrediting perceived criticism of President Erdogan.

“There isn’t a freedom of data in Turkey”, Mr Foca says, “so pretend fact-checking web sites are used as propaganda.”

“They’re one other weapon of presidency”, he provides.

Controlling data, peddling false tales, fuelling the “us and them” narrative: these are all techniques of authoritarian governments.

They’re all main challenges for the fact-checkers aiming to transcend pretend information.

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In addition to the punitive use of solitary confinement, recent investigative reporting into the administrative immigrant detention system has revealed disturbing accounts of deaths and suicides in detention, the incarceration of children, and children lost to adoption or foster care due to the prolonged detention and deportation of their parents. Detained in Obscurity: The U.S. Immigrant Detention Regime. In March 2013 the New York Times reported that hundreds of immigrants detained throughout the United States were being held in solitary confinement, some for several months at a time. This raises some obvious questions: Why would immigrants in civil—that is, noncriminal—deportation proceedings be held in such a punitive form of detention? Under what authority or rationale would immigration authorities justify such a dangerous and excessive form of imprisonment and punishment? And more important, why does the general public know so little about such abuses within the immigrant detention system? The use of solitary confinement has a long history of abuse and resistance. It recently led to a series of inmate hunger strikes throughout the California prison system, for example, growing to 30,000 participants in summer 2013. Of course, the scale (4,500 California inmates in solitary confinement) and length of time (lasting decades) in remote, solitary cells in the prison and jail system dwarfs its use in immigrant detention centers, which add up to 1.4% the size of the nation’s prison industrial complex (PIC). The enormity of the PIC, which incarcerates 2.4 million inmates, casts a long shadow over dangerous and deadly conditions for immigrant detainees and is one of the many factors obscuring the immigrant detention system from public view. This obscurity presents distinct challenges for immigrant advocates and detainees. Prison inmates are generally placed in solitary confinement for allegedly endangering other inmates or for suspected, often unproven, gang affiliations. In immigrant detention centers, however, solitary is used for a far more arbitrary set of reasons by federal, local, and private jailers, including when detainees break rules, talk back, refuse meals, or for the “protection” of LGBTQ or mentally ill immigrants. Abuses in detention are not the collateral or unintended consequences often invoked in immigration debates, but are the products of a deliberately obscure and flexible enforcement power meant to control migration. Essentially, the United States manages a labyrinthine imprisonment system for immigrants that few people understand, much less witness. Annually, about 400,000 immigrants—90% originating from and being deported to Latin America—pass through the patchwork of 34,000 detainee beds spread across 250 federal detention centers, county and municipal jails, and private for-profit prisons. Detention is defined legally as an administrative stage in the deportation process, preventing flight and ensuring that noncitizens attend hearings, as well as imprisoning the immigrant if he or she is deemed to be a danger to society.... View more ...

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About 80 staff take part in protest at Norwich Prison over and health and safety

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About 80 jail officers at Norwich Prison have walked out as part of a “protest” at fears around the well being and protection of staff.

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Jailers at the Knox Highway jail have walked out this morning alongside one another with other Prison Officers Association (POA) users at other jails through the region.

The motion at Norwich Jail, which jail officers insist is not a strike, comes soon after attacks on team at the jail have risen considerably around the past pair of yrs.

Steve Searby, chairman of the Jail Officers Association (POA) at Norwich Jail, who previous thirty day period explained how there experienced been 17 attacks on workers in just 6 months, stated: “We’ve bought 80 of us at the gate.

“We’ve just experienced the governor arrive out and give us a direct buy to go again to get the job done which we’re ignoring.”

Mr Searby insisted it was “not a strike” but a “protest on health and fitness and security grounds” by members of the POA only with people who ended up not users nonetheless at operate in the jail.

He said these having part in the motion had been awaiting further instruction from the nationwide executive of the POA who had organised the action.

Mr Searby claimed employees had their radios on them and would go again into the jail if there was an unexpected emergency.

Steve Gillan, typical secretary of the POA, has referred to as for all customers to just take protest action exterior their workplaces from 7am.

It follow the Main Inspector of Prisons Peter Clarke’s letter to the Secretary of State issuing an Urgent Notification Detect at HMP Bedford adhering to a catalogue of failure.

Mr Gillan stated, “Earlier this yr the POA commenced authorized proceedings because of to the government’s failure to give secure prisons. Bedford with other prisons was positioned into Particular Actions and commitments manufactured to this union from Government and HMPPS. These commitments ended up not achieved and we have issued a further Pre-Motion Protocol Letter as part of the Judicial Assessment procedure for the reason that of their failings to deliver secure prisons.”

“We will now be demanding that the Authorities give harmless prisons, fulfill our demands to improve Private Protective Devices, cut down amounts of violence and overcrowding as set out by Lord Justice Woolf in his report into the riots of 1990.”

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Back in Edinburgh tonight, I could probably have done a different ghost tale every night from the city, they have more than their fair share of hauntings.

This is a wee bit longer than the others as a lot of the story is based around true historical facts.

The Palace of Holyroodhouse as you see it today dates from the late 17th and was built for James V, but it is his grandson James VI that this tale centres around and his cruel witch hunts.

The North Berwick Witch Trials uncovered a massive plot against the king, whereby a coven of some two hundred witches traveled to St Andrews Auld Kirkin in North Berwick, to meet by night. Their meetings were presided over by none other than the Devil himself, for apparently James VI was the Devil’s greatest enemy in all the world.

Those who follow my post might recall that James became obsessed with witches during his "courtship" with his wife to be Anne of Denmark, wild storms stopped her voyage to Scotland and by all accounts the fleet was luck not to have been wrecked and those aboard lost at sea, the Danish Admiral commanding the fleet said later he felt it must have been summoned by witchcraft, an off the cuff remark perhaps, but a witch hunt began in the country. Anyway James ended up taking the Scottish fleet to Denmark to collect her himself, and of hearing the about the hearings where "witches" had confessed their sins, decided on a course of action in Scotland that would cost countless women mainly, their lives.

As soon as he reached Scottish shores, James ordered a witch-hunt of his own, on a scale never seen before. No fewer than 70 suspects were rounded up in the coastal Scottish town of North Berwick on suspicion of raising a storm to destroy James and his new bride.

The witches allegedly began their plot with the use of weather magic, first to stall Anne’s departure and then to disrupt James’ return. One woman "confessed" to meeting a Danish witch to concoct their plot. I say confessed but these poor women were horribly tortured for weeks.

I won't go into all the names and trials as it's only the one that is said to haunt Holyroodhouse, the ghost of Agnes Sampson.

James attended some of the trials himself and on occasion the women were brought before him at the Palace, as was the case with Agnes it is said that although the witch hunts were instigated by him, he still had doubts about the veracity of the confessions and may have been sceptical about whether they were witches, all that would soon change.

Agnes initially had denied any of the charges brought against her, but then came her time in the dungeons.

Remarkably she was able to endure her ordeal for days without confessing. After having all hair shaved from her body, she was forced to stand naked, fixed against a wall by a witch’s bridle. This device was an iron muzzle in an iron framework which enclosed the head. Four sharp prongs were forced into the mouth, so two prongs pressed against the tongue and the other two against the cheeks. She stood like this for days without sleep or food. Agnes would not be easily broken.

Frustrated by Agnes’ resilience, her jailers increased the level of torture and deployed the use of a garrott. Within an hour of having the noose placed around her neck and tightened, Agnes had confessed to the fifty-three indictments against her, the chief of which were treason, consorting with the devil and witchcraft.

She was brought before the King and a council of nobles and beckoned the James to come close, so she could whisper in his ear. She revealed private details about James and Anne’s wedding night, details which should have been impossible for her to know. The King was convinced. Only a witch through her Satanic associations could come by this knowledge. From this point onward, James was an avid believer in witchcraft.

Then again, it should be noted that during this time, royal wedding nights were not private affairs. The consummation of the royal marriage bed was a public event, witnessed by important personages at court. Witnesses were seen as a necessity, because so much hinged on royal marriages. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that some royal courtier had a loose tongue and that the salacious gossip had spread throughout the local peasantry. But why would Agnes use this information against herself? Perhaps simply to end the ordeal once and for all.

On the 16th of January 1891, Agnes was taken to the scaffold on Castlehill, where she was garrotted then burnt at the stake.

Edinburgh Burgh Treasurer's accounts itemise the cost of Sampson's execution, as £6 8s 10d.

The tormented ghost of Agnes Sampson is said to roam the hallways and corridors of Holyrood Palace, tortured, naked and bald to this day.

Sightings of Bald Agnes date from the time of her execution through to the modern day. In 2014, a maintenance man was working late, trying to repair a faulty lock. He is said to have seen the spirit of Bald Agnes appear at the end of a well-lit corridor. She proceeded to limp in his direction with slow, agonised movements. Startled, the worker let out a scream of terror at which point the ghost disappeared.

Another sighting of Agnes is said to have taken place in the 1990s during a visit by the Chancellor of Germany. The unfortunate witness was a young German diplomat, who was seen running out of an office in fear. When he was questioned, he responded that he had seen a naked and transparent apparition floating mid-air with outstretched arms.

I cannot help but wonder if Agnes’ apparition ever appeared to King James in his Holyrood home. It certainly would be poetic justice for the role he played in the North Berwick Witch Trials. Perhaps it explains why he so readily left Holyrood and took up residence in London when he succeeded to the English throne, only to return to Scotland once.

You can read up about poor Agnes on a site I look in on quite regularly, Executed Today! The second pic is in the Scottish archives and is a depiction made for Sampsons Trial depicting the devil and some witches.

http://www.executedtoday.com/…/1591-agnes-sampson-north-be…/

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