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willow-salix · 4 years

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Isolation update.

Day 71 of Isolation on Tracy Island.

“Hey, Grandma, you OK?” I asked as I walked into the kitchen, finding her slumped at the table, her chin propped up on her hand, miserably swiping through pages on her tablet.

“Yes,” she sighed.

“That didn’t sound convincing,” I said gently, sitting down opposite her. “What’s wrong?”

“Oh, it’s nothing, not really. I’m just getting a little tired of all of this lockdown business.”

“I think we all are,” I sighed in agreement.

“I know I should be grateful that we have such a nice place to spend it, but I just want a chance to see more than these four walls, to go out somewhere with the family, maybe for dinner, you know? Somewhere nice where I don’t have to cook and can relax a bit.”

I didn't mention that it would be nice for all of us if she didn't feel the need to cook.

“I know, I just need to stop complaining and get on with it,” she huffed, clearly annoyed with herself as she got up to fetch another cup of coffee.

"Don't be silly, you're allowed to have a little moan now and then, it makes you human. The boys have been complaining non stop since this started. We're all restless and moody."

"There are people a lot worse off than us," she sniffed. "We aren't struggling, we live on a paradise island that many would kill to even spend a day on. We should count our blessings."

"Yeah, we should," I agreed softly, but my mind was whirling. There had to be something we could do to make her feel better, she did so much for us all and I didnt like to see her this way. It wasn't like I could conjure up a restaurant right here… or could I? Not a full restaurant, but maybe a nice meal for her, a chance to dress up and have a good night? That I could do. I pulled out my phone and sent a group text to everyone but Grandma, invoking the summoning that no one was allowed to ignore. “Council of war!”

***

We all assembled in the lounge, leaving Grandma to bang around in the kitchen in a foul mood.

“Guys, I have a plan,” I announced.

They all groaned.

“No! Be nice! Seriously, this is a good plan, it’s important. Grandma is having a bad day, she’s feeling a bit restless and down right now. She said that what she really wants is to be able to go out somewhere for a nice family meal.”

“She’s always loved going to nice places,” Jeff agreed.

“That’ll be a little hard right now unless she wants to sit in a street somewhere with a burger,” Scott said, scratching his chin vigorously. Yes, the beard beginnings were still there and apparently still annoying them.

“ I don’t think that's quite what she had in mind,” Virgil laughed.

“So, here’s my plan," I continued before they could go off on one of their tangents. "I think we should make her favourite dishes and then all dress up nicely, I’m talking suited and booted, eat in the dining room and be all fancy. But keep it a secret for her.”

They didn't look too convinced at first, but slowly they saw the merit of my brilliant idea.

“If we handle the cooking and the table, can you and Kayo distract Grandma for the afternoon?” Virgil asked.

“Sure, I’m sure we can think of something, but are you sure we can trust you all to cook?”

John rolled his eyes. “We are perfectly capable of cooking for ourselves, you know, we are grown men.”

Now it was my turn to not believe what I was hearing.

“Seriously, you can trust us,” Alan promised me.

“Really? Usually you all need wrangling just to get through the day. You honestly think you can do this without arguing?”

“It’s for Grandma,” Gordon shrugged. “We’ll do it for her.”

That was a statement I couldn't argue, they would do anything for her.

“OK. Kay, this is going to be tough on both of us, but we’re gonna have to be brave.”

“Why?” she asked, immediately suspicious.

“Because we’re going to let her dress us up.”

***

Leaving the boys with recipes and strict instructions to behave and follow the plan to the letter, we tracked down Grandma.

“Grandma, wanna join us? We’re having a girly pampering day,” I asked.

“Both of you?” she clearly didn't believe that Kayo had been involved with the planning of said day. Time for plan B.

“Kayo lost a bet to me, and I said that, in payment, she has to allow me to put makeup on her and make her wear a pretty dress.” There, that sounded more believable, the glare Kayo was throwing in my direction certainly went a long way towards making it look more convincing.

“To make it fairer I said I’d dress up to, want to help?”

“I get to dress you two up?”

Kayo and I glanced at each other, in my case for moral support and strength, in hers to shoot me another death glare that promised retribution.

“Sure, as long as you dress up too, we’ll make an afternoon of it and have fun.” I nudged Kayo.

“Yeah, great fun,” she agreed. “So, are you in?”

“Heck yeah I’m in. When do we start?”

I spotted Scott peeking around the door and making shooing gestures at me.

“How about now?”

“Now? But I’m not done cooking yet.”

“Don’t worry about that now, there’s stuff in the freezer, I’m sure we can throw something in later,” I soothed.

“Alright, that sounds like a solid plan, let's do it!”

***

“Kay, hold still!”

“You just poked me in the eye with a tiny spindly brush covered in black gunk and you’re telling me to hold still? What, so you can blind me a second time?”

“It’s mascara, you sarcastic moo, and it’s your own fault you got poked. If you kept still and only blinked when I told you to it wouldn't have happened.”

“You can’t tell me how to blink.”

I gave her a look that said I’d smack her the second her back was turned. She, as always, was unphased.

“I saw what you did to Scott, you’re not making me look like a clown are you?”

“Lies!” I hissed. “I did no such thing! He looked beautiful, his eyes were blended to perfection and his cheekbones could have cut glass. It was Gordon that looked like he’d been drinking while playing with paint and that was down to Virgil, not me.”

“You both look beautiful,” Grandma smiled. “This is what I missed out on having only boys to look after, doing girls hair.” She continued to manhandle Kayo’s hair, brushing out her perpetual pony tail and attempting to twist it up at the back of her head into some kind of chignon that honestly was looking more like a deflated balloon had mated with a dead squirrel. “Why won’t this thing stay put?”

“I’ll fix it in a minute,” I promised as I brushed a little bronzer over the apples of Kayo’s cheeks, giving her already gorgeous tawny skin a little more depth. She had the nicest skin to work on, seeming to be unhindered by even the slightest of pores or blemishes, just perfect, the cow. Here’s me, I look at sugar or fat and I put on six pounds and have a breakout.

We had started by letting her do her own makeup while following my instructions as I did mine but Kayo is not the most delicate of creatures and when I spotted her stabbing a brush into the eyeshadow pallet, swirling it around like she was casting a Wingardium Leviosa and proceeding to scrub the colour (a startling shade of neon green) over her eyelid I’d called time. I ordered her to wash it all off and had taken over.

She didn't actually need much makeup, a little sweep of a dusky rose and darker brown over her eyelids, mascara to make her already long eyelashes stand out, a subtle dusting of bronzer, some loose powder to set it all and some burgundy lipstick and she was done. I took a lot more work to look that good.

Grandma had taken my makeup kit and helped herself, going for the classic blue eyeshadow, bright pink cheeks and vibrant red lips that had last been popular in the 1980’s. It didn't flatter her in the slightest but she was having a great time telling us all about how she had pictures of her mother with that look and she had thought that she looked so beautiful that she hadn't been able to resist trying it out. I couldn't talk, my habitual mashup of goth punk rocker with a side of geek wasn't exactly in keeping with the rest of the world either.

We dug through our wardrobes and selected possible outfits that we thought would do and held a mini fashion parade, allowing Grandma to make the final choices for what we would wear. Kayo’s evening wear selections seemed to mostly be made up of jumpsuits and Grandma eventually settled on one in black that had a sari style drape going over one shoulder that was accented in gold. I immediately made Kayo sit back down so I could accent her eyes with a little gold glitter eyeshadow powder to match.

Grandma seemed to be incapable of purchasing anything that wasn't purple, not that I could talk, it was one of my favorite colours too. She had chosen a nice, if slightly boxy looking, dress that stopped below the knee, with a rounded neck and no sleeves. She borrowed a black lace wrap from me and called it good.

Her hair had been growing out too and was a little too long to stay in its trademark flicked up end curls, so she allowed me to whip out the curling wand and give her a few waves that bounced happily around her face.

I fixed Kayo’s hair disaster at the same time, twisting it up from the nape of her neck, pinning it in place and then curling the ends which I’d left loose.

“You both look amazing, now wasn’t this fun?”

Kayo mumbled something that didn't sound quite like a yes but wasn't entirely negative either.

“Just for fun, shall we keep this on for dinner and surprise the boys?” I asked innocently.

Grandma grinned. “Oh yes, that would be great. You girls have really cheered me up today. We might not be going out for a nice meal, but this has been a close second.”

“When all this is over we’ll have a night out in London, we’ll drag the boys along, it’ll be great,” I promised as we made our way down to the kitchen.

“I thought you said the boys were handling dinner tonight?” she accused, looking at the table, currently bare of its usually after dinner debris of dirty plates and charred cooking dishes.

“Maybe they haven't started yet?” Kayo suggested.

“You have so little faith in us,” Scott announced from the doorway where he, Jeff and John stood. They had actually scrubbed up well, each foregoing their usual casual wear for a nice shirt -Scott and Jeff's were both white while John had chosen a midnight blue one- ties and smart trousers (we live on an island, it’s far too hot for jackets unless they wanted to sweat all night). they had even made an effort to try to neaten up their unruly hair. Their chins were still a disaster, the scruffy buggers, but at least they tried, it seemed that even a posh dinner wasn't a good enough reason to give up on an active competition.

“What are you boys up to?” Grandma asked suspiciously.

“We came to escort our guest of honour,” Jeff answered, offering her his arm and leading the way to the dining room.

The other boys looked just as well turned out, even Brains with his tufty regrowth on his head had dressed for the occasion, although his suit was a complete eyesore, a powder blue monstrosity with a ruffled shirt that looked as up to date as Grandma’s makeup, but bless him he tried.

Gordon was still wearing a hawaian print top, but it was a full shirt, with a real collar, and was tucked in to his trousers, which actually reached his ankles so I’d call that a win.

Alan was wearing a shirt that was just a little too large for him, obviously borrowed from one of the others but his trousers fit well. He had a properly knotted tie and looked so much older than he usually did, so smartly turned out, although he still managed to look adorable.

Virgil had on a mint green silk shirt and black suit trousers combo that should have made him look like a cheesy Vegas magician but he somehow managed to pull it off.

They had made the dining room look amazing, laying out the fancy china and real wine glasses, even lighting candles and piped through some soft classical music (I’m pretty sure I know who was responsible for that). The table held covered dishes that actually smelt edible and they had even hunted out some cloth napkins instead of the usual paper towel we used on a daily basis.

“You boys did all this?” Grandma gasped, seeing everything for the first time.

“We thought you could do with a night off from taking care of us,” Jeff told her, helping her into her chair.

“This all looks so nice and you boys look so handsome, although you'd look better without the face fuzz.”

“Small victories, Grandma, we got them to dress nice, we can’t ask for miracles,” I smiled.

She nodded, her eyes looking a little moist in the candle light but none of us dared to comment on it.

“We all thought you deserved some special treatment for looking after us all so well,” Virgil told her as he poured her a glass of wine and we took our seats.

Dinner was actually quite nice, it appeared that the boys had managed to cook without killing each other and follow the recipes, maybe finally realising that following instructions isn't always a bad thing had stuck with them.

They had stuck to simple but delicious dishes, a simple soup to start, followed by a nice italian style carbonara, garlic bread and crisp green salad, and apple pie with ice cream for dessert. Yeah, it probably wasn't something we’d have in a posh restaurant, but it had been made with love and I knew that that would mean more to her than anything.

Grandma was treated like the queen she was all night, being served first, her glass kept topped up and not allowed to lift a finger.

We refused to let her help clean up, insisting that she retire outside with Jeff to enjoy the beautiful night. We joined them after we finished taking everything to the kitchen, loading the dishwashers and hand washing a few delicate items.

We finished the evening with some of Virgil’s fancy coffee while they all reminisced and told stories of other family dinners.

She made sure to hug each and every one of us extra tight as she said goodnight, leaving us to finish the coffee and put ourselves to bed.

It had been a lot of work, but the smile on her face and the joy in her laughter had made it all worth it. That's what you have to do in times like these, make a special effort to look after those that look after you so selflessly, to show you care and that you appreciate them. These unusual times are hard on everyone, but we all know that if we stick together and do our best to think of others before we think of ourselves (something the International Rescue boys do everyday of their lives) then we can get through anything.

#thunderbirds are go #thunderbirds 2015 #thunderbirds #thunderbirds fanfiction #isolation island #isolation #self isolating #social isolation

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People, April 22

Cover: Prince William and Prince Harry -- A Royal Rift

Page 1: Chatter -- Thandie Newton on her daughter Nico acting, Mark Ruffalo on how to get through Avengers: Endgame, Charlize Theron on being single, Michelle Williams on her daughter Matilda turning 13, Jennifer Lopez on Alex Rodriguez, Colin Farrell on why he’s having his tattoos removed

Page 2: 5 Things We’re Talking About This Week -- There’s a new Joker in Gotham, Heinz releases Kranch dressing, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend get matching tattoos, Will.i.am made music with the royal Fergie, Andy Cohen’s baby rocks $400 Fendi pants

Page 4: Contents

Page 6: Star Tracks -- 54th Academy of Country Music Awards -- Carrie Underwood

Page 7: Keith Urban, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, Miranda Lambert and husband Brendan McLoughlin, Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson

Page 8: Gwendoline Christie, Marc Jacobs and Charly “Char” Defrancesco, Miley Cyrus, Justin Theroux and rescue pup Kuma

Page 10: Sister Act -- Cardi B and Hennessy Carolina, Dakota Fanning and Elle Fanning, Bella Hadid and Gigi Hadid, The Jsisters -- Priyanka Chopra and Sophie Turner and Danielle Jonas, Mercedes “MJ” Javid pregnancy

Page 12: Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor with son Quinlin and daughter Ella and Andy Karl and wife Orfeh, Katie Holmes, Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart, Remembering Kristoff St. John -- The Young and the Restless stars Bryton James and Christel Khalil and Shemar Moore

Page 17: Ryan and Kayla Rae Lochte get ready for baby no. 2, Style Tracks -- royal blue -- Gina Rodriguez, Eva Longoria, Rebecca Romijn, Taraji P. Henson, Jessica Chastain

Page 19: Britney Spears seeks treatment amid dad’s health crisis

Page 20: Jeff Bezos’ $36 billion divorce settlement

Page 23: College Admissions Scandal Update -- Felicity Huffman to plead guilty, Lori Loughlin’s family drama

Page 24: Heart Monitor -- Shia LaBeouf and FKA Twiggs stepping out, Rami Malek and Lucy Boynton going strong, Brian Austin Green and Megan Fox date night, Tamar Braxton and David Adefeso new couple

Page 27: Khloe Kardashian on motherhood and moving on, how Marsai Martin became Hollywood’s new teen queen

Page 29: Bruce Willis and wife Emma Heming are unloading their homes in Turks & Caicos and Idaho and New York as they move to the West Coast to raise their daughters

Page 30: Stories to make you smile

Page 32: Passages, Why I Care -- Matt Damon helps people worldwide gain access to safe drinking water

Page 35: People Picks -- Les Miserables

Page 36: Missing Link, The Debut from Jackie Evancho, The Mustang, Q&A with Natalie Morales

Page 38: Teen Spirit, Little, The Perfect Date, Zachary Levi

Page 40: Bless This Mess, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? from Billie Eilish, Q&A with Molly Shannon

Page 42: Books, Star Picks: What We’re Reading -- Susan Lucci, Scott Foley, Vanessa Hudgens

Page 44: Prince William and Prince Harry -- separate lives

Page 50: Where is Timmothy Pitzen?

Page 54: Bachelorettes Unite

Page 58: Hugh Jackman -- Life is more fun than ever

Page 60: John Smith had no pulse for nearly an hour after drowning

Page 65: Game of Thrones stars look back on how their lives have changed

Page 70: Kim Kardashian West on her bold style

Page 72: Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee on her father’s legacy

Page 74: Al Roker’s climate crusade

Page 77: Style -- Kate Hudson

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Page 85: Food -- Please try a Vegan diet

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La note «fuitée» de l'ambassadeur de France à Budapest, qui nuance le jugement à porter sur le premier ministre hongrois, régulièrement tancé par Bruxelles pour son penchant illibéral, a mis au jour une ligne de fracture au sein de la diplomatie française.

Drapeau français flottant à l'avant de sa jeep, l'ambassadeur de France en Géorgie Éric Fournier naviguait ce jour-là entre les colonnes de chars russes qui avançaient sur la route de Gori. En pleine guerre russo-géorgienne, son but était d'aller porter «un secours symbolique» à une base militaire située à Satchkere dans les montagnes du pays, base qui avait été équipée par la France. En ce mois d'août 2008, l'atmosphère était plus que volatile sur le front de la diplomatie française, en première ligne pour veiller au respect du cessez-le-feu que le président Sarkozy avait arraché à la Russie. L'ambassadeur Fournier avait eu vent de l'intention d'un bataillon tchétchène intégré aux forces russes d'aller détruire ladite base. «Nous n'allons pas rester les bras ballants», avait-il déclaré… À la nuit tombée, nous avions atteint Satchkere. Fournier fit hisser le drapeau français sur la base. «Ce soutien moral est capital», commenta, ému, le commandant Tarel Tarakadzé à propos du geste «d'artagnanesque» de l'ambassadeur.

Éric Fournier, alors ambassadeur de France en Géorgie, en mai 2008. - Crédits photo : Stringer Russia/REUTERS

Dix ans plus tard, l'ambassadeur Éric Fournier - qui est passé par la direction de l'Europe continentale, où il a géré le dossier russe avec un «réalisme» que ses anciens amis géorgiens ont jugé trop complaisant - est de retour sous les feux médiatiques.

Mais cette fois, il ne s'y attend pas. Alors qu'il prépare son départ de Budapest, où il est ambassadeur depuis trois ans, un article sort dans Mediapart le 29 juin, reprenant une dépêche diplomatique confidentielle qu'il a rédigée et qui a visiblement fuité via un collègue mal intentionné. «L'ambassadeur de France en Hongrie soutient Viktor Orban», titre le site en ligne Mediapart, citant des extraits de cette note confidentielle qui vise à s'interroger sur la «magyarophobie» qui colorerait la couverture médiatique des évènements en Hongrie. Fournier y balaie les accusations «d'antisémitisme» et de «populisme» qui pèse sur le gouvernement Orban, affirmant que la Hongrie est «comme le Real Madrid de l'Europe», parce qu'elle a été la première à construire une frontière étanche, et «passe», de ce point de vue, «pour un modèle», aux yeux d'un nombre croissant de pays.

Soutien à la culture juive

Le texte, que Le Figaro a pu consulter, fait la part belle au gouvernement Orban et ne se penche pas sur la question des attaques contre les contre-pouvoirs, ce qui l'affaiblit. Mais il est moins caricatural que ce que Mediapart en retient. Fournier apporte des éléments de réflexion intéressants sur la nature et la réalité de «l'antisémitisme hongrois», qui permettent de nuancer la doxa dominante sur la Hongrie, à savoir celle d'un pays dérivant inexorablement vers une dictature fascistoïde digne des années 1930. Le fond de l'air n'est pas brun, affirme-t-il, estimant que la campagne hongroise anti-Soros (magnat américain d'origine hongroise dont l'ONG vient de déménager à Berlin après l'adoption d'une loi la visant en Hongrie) est liée à son plaidoyer en faveur des frontières ouvertes et non au fait qu'il soit juif. Il cite à l'appui de sa démonstration la «tolérance zéro» proclamée par Orban envers l'antisémitisme, et son soutien à la culture juive. Il évoque le point de vue du Nobel Imre Kertesz, rescapé d'Auschwitz qui affirmait se sentir tout à fait libre d'être juif en Hongrie. Fournier remet aussi la décision hongroise d'insérer une référence chrétienne dans la constitution dans son contexte historique, notant que cela n'empêche pas la Hongrie d'être laïque.

» LIRE AUSSI - En Hongrie, au cœur des passions identitaires d'Europe centrale

Mais Mediapart, qui n'a pas du tout la même indulgence «pour l'obsession chrétienne» d'Orban, a beau jeu de mettre en exergue la conclusion peu diplomatique et déplacée de Fournier, sur le fait que «le nouvel antisémitisme moderne» ne se situe pas en terre hongroise mais chez «les musulmans de France ». «Ce qui choque c'est la stigmatisation d'une communauté dans son ensemble», juge Agnès von der Mühll, porte-parole du Quai d'Orsay.

«Méthode d'intimidation»

Du coup, le 29 juin au matin, quand la journaliste de Mediapart demande à Emmanuel Macron de commenter les propos de son ambassadeur à Budapest, le président, qui vient de négocier toute la nuit un accord sur la migration à 27 pays, est coupant: «Je ne partage pas les propos que vous venez de rapporter», répond-il à propos du télégramme de Fournier, et notamment de la phrase relative aux musulmans, notant que si elle avait été prononcée publiquement, l'ambassadeur aurait «été immédiatement révoqué». «Le jeu non coopératif nationaliste n'est pas digne de ce qui a fait l'Europe, née des errements des derniers conflits mondiaux. Mais il est en plus profondément inefficace», ajoute-t-il, notant toutefois que la dépêche de Fournier n'avait pas vocation à être publiée et qu'il n'a donc pas à être sanctionné.

Au Quai d'Orsay, on ajoute que «les propos auxquels fait référence l'article de Mediapart relèvent d'un commentaire non sollicité et malvenu de son auteur auquel il a été fermement rappelé la nécessité d'une expression précise et mesurée». L'ambassadeur, dont le retour se fait dans le cadre d'une rotation normale, est finalement sommé de rallier Paris, avant la fête du 14 juillet, qu'il devait organiser à Budapest. Une manière de le punir, déplore le ministre de la Justice hongrois Laszlo Trocsanyi, précisant qu'il a, du coup, décidé de ne pas être présent.

» LIRE AUSSI - Éric Zemmour: «À l'est, du nouveau»

Quand on essaie de sonder les diplomates français sur l'épisode Fournier, plusieurs éléments ressortent. Le premier est que l'ambassadeur s'est égaré et s'est livré à un panégyrique dangereux d'Orban. «Il ne comprend rien, déclare un spécialiste de la région qui le juge “peu fiable”, un jour prêt à manger du russe, et le lendemain le contraire.» «Ne pas voir qu'Orban instrumentalise l'antisémitisme hongrois dans l'affaire Soros, c'est nier l'évidence!» À l'inverse, un autre ambassadeur qui «l'apprécie», n'a «pas de critique à formuler», «si ce n'est la conclusion sur les musulmans français, qui a un côté suicidaire». «Le fait de fuiter un télégramme est une méthode d'intimidation», précise-t-il, regrettant «la liberté de ton du passé et la montée en puissance d'une ligne néoconservatrice sur les “valeurs libérales”, qui nuit à “l'école réaliste”».

«Le fait de fuiter un télégramme est une méthode d'intimidation»

Un ambassadeur français

Un troisième poids lourd de la diplomatie juge «justifiée la volonté d'expliciter les ressorts du succès d'Orban», mais met en garde contre «le syndrome de Stockholm» qui pousse parfois les diplomates à devenir les apologues des pays qu'ils décrivent. L'évolution de la Hongrie exige «une vigilance extrême» sur la question des écarts démocratiques qui «vont croissant», dit-il, préoccupé par le «rétrécissement des libertés civiques, notamment la loi sur les ONG, qui dessine une dérive à la russe». Il s'inquiète aussi de la virulence des critiques adressées à l'UE par Orban. «On finit par se demander pourquoi il reste!»

Derrière ces réactions, un vrai «sujet» émerge. Celui de la perplexité et des désaccords qui déchirent la France et l'Europe sur la manière dont il faut gérer le phénomène Orban, et au-delà, la rébellion populiste qui défie l'UE. De manière peut être un peu maladroite, le texte de Fournier s'efforce de faire passer l'idée que la lecture de la réalité hongroise doit être moins binaire, note la journaliste Françoise Pons, auteur d'un livre sur la Hongrie qui veut prendre en compte le temps long pour éclairer le présent politique. Pons s'insurge contre une couverture médiatique à charge, qui s'informe exclusivement auprès des milieux libéraux de gauche. «On s'émeut aujourd'hui que les pouvoirs conservateurs veuillent mettre sous contrôle les institutions, mais c'était la même chose avec les anciennes équipes libérales de gauche», dit-elle, estimant que «les critiques systématiques formulées sont aussi le résultat d'un grand déficit de connaissance». Pons raconte s'être rendue à la Commission de Venise de l'UE, chargée de vérifier le caractère démocratique des lois, à l'occasion d'une session sur la loi hongroise sur la liberté religieuse, de 2012, alors très critiquée. Elle fut sidérée de voir le rapporteur énumérer une longue liste d'objections avant de conclure que la loi restait «très généreuse», puis de concéder, en aparté, qu'elle «figurait parmi les deux ou trois lois les plus libérales d'Europe».

«Examen de conscience du PPE»

Lors d'une récente conférence organisée à Berlin la semaine dernière par le German Marshall Fund sur l'avenir du conservatisme en Europe, nombre d'orateurs ont eux mis en garde contre la confusion des critiques qui pleuvent sur la Pologne et la Hongrie. Confondre les atteintes à la démocratie, qu'il faut combattre pied à pied, et la défense des valeurs traditionnelles ou de la souveraineté nationale en matière d'immigration - choix idéologiques qui appartiennent en dernier recours au peuple - est un piège à éviter, a noté l'Américain Jeff Gedmin. La conférence a passé beaucoup de temps à réfléchir sur les thèmes qui devraient être «interdits», et ceux dont les partis de droite devaient se saisir pour voler l'initiative aux populistes. «C'est exactement l'examen de conscience auquel va devoir faire face le PPE, à l'approche des élections européennes», a noté un diplomate, soulignant que le maintien ou non d'Orban au sein de ce groupe parlementaire, était LA question du moment. A priori, une expulsion paraît plus qu'improbable car l'Europe «s'orbanise», a-t-il noté.

#viktor orbán #eric fournier #europe #hongrie #diplomatie

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I don't think these stans realise that these characters are not -actually- real?Cause if they realised that they would be absolutely pissed at Jeff and co. 😂 or they think you're only supposed to like a show for the main char which is obnoxious and plays right into Poseys ego,he is the originator of "watching the show for the right reasons" after all. Their selective memory and unnecessary vitriol for an imaginary character is tiring and sad

Right? God forbid anyone has a different opinion or an alternate reading of scene or a character or a dynamic.

If Scott’s as wise as they say and can do no wrong in their eyes, then why is Stiles his best friend? Given that according to them Stiles is clearly evil? Could it be they’re missing the fact that every fictional Apollo needs a snarky Dionysus, and vice versa?

I mean shit, if sarcasm, bad judgement, snark and making human mistakes are so bad, I guess we’re all evil. Except the anti-Stiles brigade who are, naturally, morally pure, just, and not at all biased.

#DWvsTW

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New Captain America meme wants to talk to you about your questionable life decisions

Captain America is a stand-up type of guy, always motivated to do the right thing. It only makes sense that he is the spokesperson for morality, sitting you down to question bad decisions you've made.

SEE ALSO: Jeff Goldblum picks his Avengers champion (and it's not Thor)

Just look at his detention PSA in Spiderman: Homecoming. You bet that it made Peter Parker second-guess his decisions.

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Though this scene first appeared almost a year ago, it's just starting to be memed, possibly to heal the heartbreak that was the last Marvel meme.

Why the despair of Infinity memes, when you can have friendly but firm Captain America sitting you down for an intervention? Honestly, he is the role model we all need.

If we're going to be called out for questionable behavior, it's best done by someone as kind and well-meaning (and also totally chiseled) as good ol' Cap.

So. You read the comments section. pic.twitter.com/chuWIGXNup

— NormalBoots (@NormalBoots) May 15, 2018

so, you're in love with fictional characters and depend on them to vicariously feel all positive emotions and fill the void in your heart with love instead of facing and forming connections with real people because you don't know how to pic.twitter.com/OJvpB9Yu3D

— f thot fitzgerald (@dracomallfoys) May 16, 2018

"So, you decided to play this mediocre game for the 4000th time instead of finally starting on a good game" pic.twitter.com/0Gs2rLOPMp

— Pιnk Girl Boss (@Pepper9801) May 16, 2018

so you're going to be alone forever because the men you like are either fictional or twice your age pic.twitter.com/M3EMeVvZCf

— jerry (@stylestruIy) May 16, 2018

So. You stayed up til 4am again. pic.twitter.com/6FoMhb4YbP

— juliet (@queerschtein) May 15, 2018

So, You merged your lineart with your sketch layer, pic.twitter.com/5H6rtxU3Hi

— 🔥Char @ Michigan!🆑️🔥 (@charizartluver) May 16, 2018

So. You commented on your mutual's post and now you think you're annoying. pic.twitter.com/jTykOqbn4u

— BlackOutCosplay🔜Fanime (@BlackOutCos) May 16, 2018

so. someone you supported turned out to be a terrible person again. pic.twitter.com/Tz6tcDoCmp

— chunky fred (@TailsTheFaux) May 15, 2018

so you use humor to distract from the fact that you’re depressed pic.twitter.com/y6omNXEMP3

— bell ✩⋆ meeting my sunshine ☀️ (@SpiderlingTom) May 16, 2018

so. you thought you were straight. pic.twitter.com/EKrXitY54T

— lesbian thor lover (@thatsafakelaugh) May 15, 2018

And, of course, what is a meme if it doesn't meme old memes?

so you know i had to do it to em pic.twitter.com/ijU04Fue6f

— DitzyFlama ❁ (@DitzyFlama) May 16, 2018

so you found a new meme format. you think someone can make a loss edit out of this? well just look behind me, kid pic.twitter.com/voiMwiQCZz

— Loyal Space Marine (@AGhostlerer) May 15, 2018

So, You call them Steamed Hams, despite the fact that they are obviously grilled. pic.twitter.com/uEVJgdxRTf

— MasterTP10 (@MasterTP1) May 16, 2018

And for those of you reading this on the clock, planning one of your own Cap memes, there's one for you.

So. You've decided to contribute to the Captain America Detention Meme trend instead of getting important work done. pic.twitter.com/lWwz6XLEqK

— Susana Polo (@NerdGerhl) May 16, 2018

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Texas is shedding its lock-’em-up image thanks to a 37-year-old tattooed lawyer and an unlikely political alliance

Mark Gonzalez had never prosecuted a single case before he was elected district attorney of Nueces County, Texas, last November.

The 37-year-old self-described “Mexican biker defense lawyer” spent his first decade in law poking holes through bad cases and defending low-level offenders from what he viewed as unnecessary prosecutions and unduly harsh penalties. So when the 2016 election season approached, Gonzalez thought the Nueces County district attorney’s office was ripe for an overhaul.

To say Gonzalez isn’t the archetype for the chief criminal prosecutor for the southern Texas county is an understatement. He’s covered in tattoos — the words “Not Guilty” stretch from shoulder to shoulder in jagged type, and his left forearm is inked with a portrait of Moses because, as his clients say, “he sets people free.” He spends his free time riding one of his three Harley-Davidson motorcycles along the barren Texas highways with the Calaveras Motorcycle Club, a group some of his critics called a “biker gang.” And at 19, he was arrested for a misdemeanor, driving while intoxicated. He keeps his mugshot framed in his office.

But there he was on January 5, in a tiny courthouse in his hometown of Agua Dulce, sworn in while wearing a Dallas Cowboys jersey in a private ceremony in front of his family.

Gonzalez’s inexperience and tattoos didn’t matter to Texans — they liked what he had to say.

Gonzalez beat a tough-on-crime 29-year Democratic incumbent and an experienced Republican prosecutor by calling for reform. He said he planned to eliminate a notorious court backlog by choosing cases more thoughtfully and making better and fairer deals with defendants. He spoke of offering treatment, education, and job training to low-level offenders rather than jail time, and refocusing police officers on serious crimes.

In short, he wanted to get “smart on crime.” And he’s far from alone in Texas, where the political conditions have allowed for a Republican-controlled legislature to push through a series of criminal-justice reforms.

Over the past decade, Texas, a state once infamous for its ruthless, lock-’em-up justice system — it had the country’s fastest-growing prison population throughout the 1990s — has staked out a hard-earned, bipartisan consensus: The state’s bursting prison population has been expensive, counterproductive in reducing crime, unsatisfying for victims, and devastating for the families and communities of the incarcerated.

“It was perfect timing,” Gonzalez told Business Insider of his surprise election win. “People realized what we were doing wasn’t working, so what do we have to lose by trying something different?”

‘This is not a Republican or Democratic issue’

Doug Smith, a policy analyst at the left-leaning nonprofit Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, has dedicated his career to crafting reforms to help the incarcerated.

The Austin native has a personal stake in the battle. He would likely still be in prison if it weren’t for recent reforms implemented in Texas.

Smith, a former social worker and University of Texas at Austin professor, was imprisoned in 2009 on a 15-year sentence for a string of robberies that he says were the result of a crack-cocaine addiction and mental illness.

Three of those robberies had been committed while Smith was on probation, and although he hadn’t used a deadly weapon, he was sentenced harshly.

“I was about the worst risk you could think of, someone with a substance abuse disorder who has a relapse history and a revocation history,” Smith told Business Insider. “Not a great candidate for parole.”

But people like Smith — an educated, rehabilitated ex-offender with meaningful employment, dedication to treatment, and bright prospects — were exactly the reason legislators like Democratic state senator John Whitmire and Republican representative Jerry Madden introduced a bill in 2005 that launched Texas’ landmark attempt to overhaul its criminal-justice system.

In the mid-2000s, the Texas prison population was skyrocketing. Texas prisons filled to 97% capacity by 2005, with estimates suggesting the state would need room for 17,000 more inmates within a decade. By 2010, the population reached an all-time high of more than 170,000 state and federal inmates.

Madden and Whitmire argued that the situation was neither effective nor cost-efficient, and that expanding prisons wasn’t the answer. Their bill called for allocating millions to treatment programs and specialized supervision for probation, while also calling for a reduction in prison terms for certain probationers.

“This is not a Republican or Democratic issue,” Madden would later say of the legislation. “It’s about what’s smart for Texas.”

The bill, an adjusted version of which became law in 2007, kick-started a series of legislative efforts over the next decade that have dropped the prison population by about 10,000 inmates in five years and helped put people like Smith back on their feet.

Smith was released years early, in 2014, thanks to reforms that allowed for certain prisoners to be released, so long as they were placed under intensive supervision.

“While I was incarcerated, the idea that parole was a given, or that you would be given an opportunity for rehabilitation was unheard of. And I was in prison when this began to shift,” Smith said. “I was a beneficiary of that.”

Forging bipartisan consensus

Until 2005, criminal-justice reform had been nearly impossible to pass in Texas, as was the case in many conservative states.

Reformers were derided as “soft on crime” while even popular bills ran into vetoes from Republicans like Gov. Rick Perry, budget crises, and tough-on-crime district attorneys, many of whom view securing harsh sentences as a metric of success.

But with Texas’s prisons bursting at the seams, legislators were faced with a choice: reduce incarceration with reforms or funnel billions into new prisons.

At the same time, a new movement emerged among conservatives, led by Marc Levin, the director of the Right on Crime campaign created by the right-leaning Texas Public Policy Foundation. Levin, an Austin-based attorney and public-policy expert, and other conservatives like him understood ideas such as addressing substance abuse with treatment rather than incarceration, and promoting parole, probation, and reentry programs, as inherent to conservative ideology, not antithetical to it.

Meanwhile, fiscal conservatives in the state had grown appalled by the taxpayer burden of funding and maintaining new prisons, while libertarians were cynical of the broad government power required to funnel vast numbers of Texans through prisons each year.

Social conservatives like Prison Fellowship, an evangelical Christian organization founded by Chuck Colson, a former Watergate-era felon, approached reform after witnessing through their prison-ministry programs how rarely inmates were given opportunities for redemption.

“You really had a point where the only thing that was standing against reform from the conservative perspective … would just be the muscle memory of being ‘tough on crime’ for decades,” Derek Cohen, the deputy director of Right on Crime, told Business Insider.

What propelled reform forward, however, was that those groups were able to join with liberals long clamoring for change in the Republican-controlled state. The movement formed the Texas Smart On Crime Coalition to push their agenda in the statehouse and, while the coalition is bipartisan, that doesn’t mean they agree on everything.

The movement can be thought of as a sort of Venn diagram. Liberals, conservatives, and religious groups each have their own reform plans, and they work together on issues where there is broad agreement, while still vehemently opposing one another where values diverge.

“This shows that just because it’s bipartisan doesn’t mean that it’s compromise,” Cohen said. “We’re retaining our perfect circles and just in the few places that they overlap, that’s where we’re working together.”

Common issues like bail reform, rehabilitation and treatment programs, and prosecuting youths through juvenile rather than adult courts are all fair game for collaboration. But issues like “mens rea reform,” or requiring more proof of a defendant’s culpable mental state, are more polarized. Similarly, en masse sentence reductions for drug crimes and “ban the box” initiatives — some of which impose civil or criminal penalties on employers that ask about applicants’ criminal histories — remain partisan battlefields.

Cohen said the key to unlocking reforms in Texas has been that most Americans, whether conservative or liberal, just want a system that works.

“They want a system that shows that that behavior is morally blameworthy … but also that which rehabilitates,” Cohen said. “There isn’t this monolithic, punitive impulse in Texas or in conservatives or liberals or anywhere in the country.”

Smith, the policy analyst for the left-leaning TCJC, recalled being incarcerated in Texas’ Huntsville Unit as the Texas reform movement turned bipartisan. When groups like Right on Crime began talking about how over-incarceration represses human potential and fails the communities it’s supposed to protect, Smith said he knew progress was coming.

“I’m reading about these things from the inside, and I can’t tell you how moved I was that this was the message that I was hearing from the conservative community,” Smith said.

Reform in the age of Trump

Texas’ smart-on-crime crusade has come to be viewed as a model for conservative states like Louisiana, Georgia, and Kentucky, which all recently passed major reform packages.

Those efforts come even as President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have embraced a tough-on-crime agenda that has alarmed progressives and conservatives alike.

In May, Sessions directed US attorneys to seek the harshest charges and sentences against defendants and, last week, he rolled back Obama-era reforms to the policing practice known as civil-asset forfeiture — a way for the federal government to seize the assets of citizens suspected of criminal activity, even if they are not formally charged with a crime.

In many ways, the Trump administration is alone on criminal justice. Multiple Democrats and Republicans decried the civil forfeiture changes as unconstitutional and the sentencing directive as regressive.

The vast majority of conservatives and liberals agree that incarceration in the US has spun out of control. The country has, by far, the largest incarcerated population in the world at 2.3 million people.

Cohen, of Right on Crime, says he is “very optimistic” that federal reform could still happen soon. Last year, Congress came close to passing bipartisan reforms to mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Many reformers criticize the laws, which require prison terms of certain lengths for certain crimes, as cruel and counterproductive.

The effort stalled as Trump turned to tough-on-crime rhetoric in the election, scaring many Republicans into thinking they’d be painted as soft. It’s not hard to see a rare bipartisan effort gaining momentum, particularly given the criminal-justice system’s ties to the opioid crisis, which has seen an unprecedented spike in heroin and prescription painkiller abuse in recent years.

Lawmakers and the public alike have begun to recognize that the country cannot punish its way out of drug epidemics, Cohen said, adding that there has been “a very marked shift” toward seeing illicit drug use as an offense fueled by addiction, rather than a moral failing.

Whether or not federal reform is successful, many advocates think the more important arena for reforms lies in the states. Only about 200,000 of the more than 2 million people incarcerated in the US are locked up in federal prisons.

Kate Trammell, the senior state campaign manager for Prison Fellowship, said that the Christian group is focusing its efforts on the state side, even as it pushes Washington for reform.

“States have been and will continue to be the laboratory of democracy, and Texas has really embraced that,” Trammell told Business Insider, adding that Texas has become the success story that reformers show to those wary of change.

Louisiana, for instance, recently brought together conservative groups, liberal social-justice activists, business leaders, and religious organizations to win support for sentencing and parole reforms that sailed through the state’s Republican-controlled legislature and were signed by Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in June. Louisiana anticipates a 10% jail-population reduction over the next decade as a result.

Reform has filtered to the local level too. Newly elected reformers like Gonzalez, the Nueces County district attorney, are beginning to make the day-to-day decisions of what charges to press, what cases to pursue, and who gets a second chance. The stakes are high — even a modest crime spike could torpedo the public’s appetite for leniency to offenders — but Gonzalez is confident he knows the way forward.

“If you make a mistake and they’re misdemeanor offenses, we hope you learn your lesson,” Gonzalez said. “My standpoint is — the bad guys? We slam them … You need to make sure you don’t mess up. Not in my county.”

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[Video Game Deep Cuts is a weekly newsletter from curator/video game industry veteran Simon Carless, rounding up the best longread & standout articles & videos about games, every weekend. This week's highlights include Julian Gollop on Phoenix Point, the making of Typeshift & the SteamProphet contest.

Lots of interesting links this week - am particularly taken by the article on the tumultous community of Elite: Dangerous, which I thought was far less tumultuous than Star Citizen. (Well, it probably still is.) But it reminded me that when you make a game that's in a state of constant change, you'll get all kinds of views on its artistic direction - especially on the polarized Internet. Which can be tiring, and rough, but isn't a lot of the Internet? 'Til next time...

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Giant Sparrow creative director talks about the freaky beautiful haunting of Edith Finch (David Nieves / ComicsBeat) "What Remains of Edith Finch is developer Giant Sparrow’s (published by Annapurna Interactive) follow up to their critically acclaimed debut The Unfinished Swan. While the first game was a unique tale of an orphan boy who navigates a literal blank world by throwing paint everywhere. What Remains of Edith Finch is an eerie beautiful collection of stories about a cursed family house in the Pacific Northwest."

The Occupation and the perils of politics in games (Chris Priestman / Eurogamer) "At 11.36am on March 22nd 2017, White Paper Games announced The Occupation with a trailer and a press release. Set in 1980s north-west England, it's a first-person narrative adventure that follows a journalist caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist attack that left 23 people dead."

Milwaukee's War on 'Pokémon GO' Could Change Tech Forever (Jordan Zakarin / Inverse) "Even now, almost a year later, Sheldon Wasserman sounds surprised when he describes what went down in Milwaukee’s Lake Park last summer. “People are beginning to run across the streets, parking is absolutely overloaded, the police are now ticketing, food trucks are showing up,” the Milwaukee County Supervisor remembers."

Picture in a Frame (Amr Al-Aaser / Medium) "I think a lot about how we frame things... It’s something that feels repeatedly relevant in games, a space where the practice of describing games as “x meets y” or “game x with twist y” is a common format for arriving at an explanation of a title."

Still Logged In: What AR and VR Can Learn from MMOs (Raph Koster / GDC / YouTube) "In this 2017 GDC session, MMO designer Raph Koster talks about the social and ethical implications of turning the real world into a virtual world, and how the lessons of massively multiplayer virtual worlds are more relevant than ever."

Meet the superfans still playing Populous: The Beginning (Oliver Milne / RockPaperShotgun) "So how come there’s still an active group of Populous players keeping the flame alive nearly twenty years later? I got in touch with some of the community’s longest-standing members to find out. [SIMON'S NOTE: this one's a bit old, but had no idea third parties got unofficial matchmaking running for the game.]"

RPG Codex Interview: Julian Gollop on Phoenix Point (Infinitron / RPG Codex) "Phoenix Point uses willpower as a key stat. A character's willpower rating determines initial and maximum will points for a battle. Will points are spent on most special actions and abilities. Will points can be lost through injury, morale effects (such as comrades dying or facing a horrifying monster) and special enemy attacks."

The future is in interactive storytelling (Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Michael Mateas / The Conversation) "Marvel’s new blockbuster, “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2,” carries audiences through a narrative carefully curated by the film’s creators. That’s also what Telltale’s Guardians-themed game did when it was released in April."

How Zach Gage fine-tuned the difficulty curve of TypeShift (Rollin Bishop / Gamasutra) "TypeShift, the latest game from acclaimed mobile developer Zach Gage, is part crossword, part anagram, and all puzzle. Rather than simply ask a player to solve a single jumbled word, or even several, TypeShift — which is available on iOS and Android — instead asks players to create any number of words out of several tiers of letters until they’ve used every single one."

How Final Fantasy 7 Revolutionized Videogame Marketing and Helped Sony Tackle Nintendo (David L Craddock / Paste) "In late July 1997, Sony Computer Entertainment America buzzed with excitement. SCEA was in possession of Final Fantasy 7’s gold master discs, media containing finalized code. Over the next few weeks, they would undergo mass production—pressed to millions of CD-ROMs, packaged inside jewel cases, and shipped to stores in time for the game’s summer launch across Europe and North America."

The state of Elite Dangerous (Wesley Yin-Poole / Eurogamer) "On 25th April 2017, Cambridge-based developer Frontier released patch notes for its two-and-a-half year-old space game Elite Dangerous. Buried within those patch notes, under the section "General Fixes & Tweaks", was a line that set the game's vociferous community alight: Farmed salt from the community for usage later."

Spaceplan - Based on a Misunderstanding Of Stephen Hawking (Scott Manley / YouTube) "It's a 'make numbers go up' game with a bit of a space theme and potatoes, lots of potatoes, solar masses of tubers."

Classic Game Postmortem: Seaman (Yoot Saito / GDC / YouTube) "In this GDC 2017 Classic Game Postmortem, Yutaka "Yoot" Saito speaks at length about his work creating 'Seaman', a game that left an indelible mark on the fabric of both the game industry and pop culture at large."

What I learned playing "SteamProphet" (Lars Doucet / Gamasutra) "At least 249 indie games have launched on Steam in the past 13 weeks not including VR or F2P games. That's more than 30 games every week, on average. In their first month... 75% made at least $0, 10% made at least $1K-9K, 7.5% made at least $10K-49K, 2% made at least $50K-99K, 5% made at least $100K-999K, Exactly one made > $1M."

Knack 2 is an atonement (Colin Campbell / Polygon) "Knack 2 director Mark Cerny is one of the most accomplished game developers of the last three decades, most especially in platform adventures featuring likable characters. From Marble Madness to Sonic the Hedgehog 2, from Crash Bandicoot to Ratchet & Clank, he's made his mark on a multitude of verdant, primary-hued worlds, where colorful critters boing and bounce."

Game Dev Insight: A Chat with BioWare Cinematics Lead Tal Peleg (Shinobi602 / Shinobi Speaks) "I’m super happy to be able to share a nice chat I had with Tal Peleg, a Cinematics Lead at BioWare. His previous animation work includes a bevy of notable titles such as Mass Effect: Andromeda, Uncharted 4, The Last of Us and Dead Space 2 among others. "

Why is motherhood so poorly portrayed in video games? (Kate Smith / The Guardian) "And games, you may be startled to discover, are not too great at portraying motherhood – though they seem to have fatherhood all figured out. Did you know that once you have a daughter you suddenly become aware that women are people, too? Who could have seen that coming?"

Ten Years Ago, Dead Or Alive Launched The Careers Of The Highest-Paid Women Pro Gamers (Maddy Myers / Kotaku Compete) "Vanessa Arteaga had been playing fighting games since she was a child, long before she became one of the highest-paid women in competitive gaming history—but her tens of thousands in winnings still pale in comparison to the millions that her male peers have made in competitive gaming in the years since."

'Civilization' Creator Sid Meier: "I Didn't Really Expect to be a Game Designer"(Chris Suellentrop / Glixel) "At GDC, Meier talked to Glixel for almost an hour with boyish enthusiasm about what makes Civilization work, why Firaxis turns to a new lead designer with almost every sequel, and that whole thing with having his name on the box."

Jeff Kaplan reveals the Overwatch Balance Triangle (Here's A Thing / Eurogamer / YouTube) "On this week's episode of Here's A Thing, Chris Bratt talks to Overwatch game director, Jeff Kaplan about the 'balance triangle' his team uses when thinking about hero design."

How Inside’s levels were designed (Alex Wiltshire / RockPaperShotgun) "Playdead don’t design games in the same way that other studios do. They’re the result of a process where nothing is written down. There’s no script and no design document. No member of the team owns any aspect of what they make and what will go into the final game. Everything is up for change."

Why This Very Queer Strategy Game Downplayed Its Queerness While Crowdfunding (Patrick Klepek / Waypoint) ""Essentially the game comes out to the player—if they notice, and not everybody does," said All Walls Must Fall programmer Isaac Ashdown, who lives in Berlin with his husband. "The fact is that the game isn't really 'about' being queer, but it's set in Berlin nightclubs, and those can be pretty queer spaces.""

These are the developers creating new games for old consoles (Andrew Webster / The Verge) "If you want to play Dustin Long’s most recent game, you’ll need a console that was first released more than 30 years ago. As a young musician in New York, Long found himself drawn to the chiptune scene, where artists craft sounds using classic gaming hardware."

Burn The Bikini Armour: Actionable Tips For Better Character Design (Victoria Smith / Play By Play) " By taking a look at the worst and best of costume design in games - as well as primary sources and the basics of visual design - you can elevate your character designs and create something truly unique. Nobody wants to appear on the Worst Dressed list, so why should your game characters be any different?"

I Paid Women To Play Overwatch With Me, And It Was Fantastic (Cecilia D'Anastasio / Kotaku) "Earlier this week, on Fiverr.com, I selected Biu’s “Basic” package which, in exchange for $5, granted me her company for five Overwatch games. In her profile’s image, a helicopter selfie, Biu is wearing a t-shirt with Zelda’s Link and sticking out her tongue."

Designer Interview: Crafting Flinthook's hookshot wasn't easy (Alex Wiltshire / Gamasutra) "There are many ways to express the concept of throwing out a line from a player character that attaches to a surface, something that’s familiar to many first- and third person 3D games, from Ocarina of Time to Spider-Man 2. But the hookshot is curiously underused in 2D platformers. Tribute Games’ new action platformer, Flinthook, might give some pointers as to why. Not because Flinthook isn’t good. Quite the opposite, in fact."

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Rio and Jeff both have different and unique relationships with all of the arachkids that Miles brings home (or that just seem to spawn in their living room periodically lmao).

They both love Pav (who doesn’t?). Rio loves his more outgoing/goofy personality and how it brings it out in everyone around him (Jeff especially gets a bit goofy and it reminds her of when Miles was young and how they used to play and interact — it makes her heart melt). Jeff likes good vibes and the kid is full of them lol, easy banter, perfect ‘yes, and’ energy all around. They constantly ask how his girlfriend and family are doing. He brings them authentic chai (they’ve all dropped the ‘chai tea’ phrase) and brings Rio gifts almost every time he’s over as a thanks for letting him impose on their space (flowers, fabrics, jewelry, you name it. she loves and appreciates every thing he brings and is very touched at the thought despite telling him every time that it’s not necessary).

Neither had a great impression of Gwen at first, and it’s still a bit tentative but they can see how happy she makes Miles and how much she means to everyone in the group. Rio immediately notices how she shows her care and affection differently than anyone else — it’s in the details that she leaves behind. A sweater here, a drumstick there, as if to say ‘I know I’m universes away but I’m also still here and I’ll be back’. Jeff notices how the girl is always teasing but never too far, just enough to poke fun and more often put people at ease. She wants everyone to be comfortable and happy. She flits in and out sporadically but is always there when she’s needed. She is the biggest supporter of Miles’ creativity and somehow always knows when he’s close to burning himself out with schoolwork and makes a point to drag him out and let off some steam to get his mind to a better place. She’s getting better at the respect part, only slipping up on their names a few times and learning the etiquette rules. They both appreciate her efforts.

Margo is their favorite, hands down. She’s the perfect mix of respectful and witty. She keeps them all honest. She’s always the first to offer to help cook or set the table anytime she’s over for dinner. She helps Jeff with his tech problems and has long conversations with Rio in spanish (they have slightly different accents and dialect but they make it work). She is literally their ideal daughter in law (but would never push Miles away from who he wants, so they leave the matter be and just appreciate her as Miles’ friend).

Hobie is the most complicated out of the bunch. Rio sees him as someone in need of her mothering and is constantly trying to force food and comfort onto him. Every time he’s over she offers their house for the night so she can have peace of mind knowing that he’s safe (she had heard that he doesn’t have a stable living situation and has been Worried since). She knows he comes from a complicated world and wants to help the kid her son is so fond of. He is respectful and considerate, if a little bit tense whenever Jeff is around. Rio doesn’t mind his punk look or attitude, after all, she herself was a bit of an anarchist once upon a time and she just wants the best for him. Jeff likes Hobie. He really does. Even if they butt heads and have very different (and sometimes loud) opinions on certain topics. But at the end of the day he feels for the kid and wishes things were different in both of their worlds so Hobie wouldn’t have to feel so on edge around him. He knows they’re never going to be best buds or maybe even anything better than ‘slightly tense and awkward’ but he vows to at least do anything in his power to show the kid that there’s still good in the world(s).

Rio and Jeff are just glad that Miles has so many people in his life that love and support him <3

#i’m backkkk lol #thinking about the gang a lot lately #atsv #spiderverse #char: jeff morales #char: rio morales #char: miles morales #char: hobie brown #char: gwen stacy #char: pavitr prabhakar #char: margo kess #vee’s soapbox #ship: punkflower #… kinda lol it’s more implied #love love love thinking about all their dynamics

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Hot take but I don’t think Hobie is ever gonna be comfortable around Jeff. He’s gonna force himself to be polite for Miles’ sake, but they’re never gonna have an easy-go-lucky relationship.

And the thing is, Jeff gets it. He’s a black cop. Of course he fucking gets it. He can just be glad that the kid calls him ‘Mr. Morales’ even if he doesn’t even pretend to respect his title as ‘Captain’ like Miles’ other friends do.

He wishes things were different and that this kid didn’t have to be so wary and defensive around him, but he chooses to put on the badge every day and be part of the force that he has first hand seen the corruption in. He has his reasons for doing what he does. He believes in being the change he wants to see and making sure that he can at least be one less corrupt asshole walking the beat, but he gets it.

He’s not so prideful that he expects every person to give him the respect he wishes he can someday claim. He hopes he can gain some level of trust from the punk (and oh boy, of all the people he imagined his son bringing home, an anarchic pierced up rebel was not on the list) eventually, but for now he settles for the forced politeness and let’s the clear mutual respect and adoration that Miles and Hobie share soothe him. He’s happy for his son. He’s glad he has someone who gets everything he goes through as a vigilante (and oh boy, again, that’s still something he’s getting used to).

He notices the way Hobie is constantly hanging off of Miles and the feigned casualty of his touches, but Jeff recognizes the way the young man scans the area for threats and the subtle but deliberate way he angles his body in front of Miles to protect him. Jeff feels the bone-deep weariness and guilt that the actions inflict in him — the thought that this teenager is so on guard around a cop that he feels the need to protect the people he loves even against their own damned father (and the added responsibility on both Hobie and Miles’ shoulders that comes from being superheroes of course. Always on guard, scanning for danger and ready to jump in at a moments notice to protect innocents. The same familiar urgency that Jeff feels every moment he’s on duty). He wishes it was different. but he gets it. One day, he vows, things will be different. He just has to keep working it until that day comes.

And yeah, they give each other a hard time about their life choices and sometimes things get tense and awkward, but at the end of the day, Jeff is a father and a damned good one and all he wants is to protect his family (even if it now includes a punk like Hobie).

#i have Many Thoughts about jeff and hobie #i love the ‘meet the parents’ trope but i’ve seen so many that are just… too light or just to the left of what i would think is realistic #anyways #sorry for the cop talk: acab and fuck the system #it’s just such an interesting dynamic and i want to see more analysis of jeff and his mindset bc damn it’s rough #char: hobie brown #char: jeff morales #spiderverse #atsv #vee’s soapbox #vee’s drabbles #mayhaps i’ll try writing my own version of the ‘meet the parents’ trope but we’ll see #much nuance to be found #and so hard to get just right #vee’s rambles

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