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bengiyo · 7 months

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Love in Translation Ep 8 (Finale) Stray Thoughts

Last week, we went off the deep end with Yang being kidnapped and being forced to work on a packaging warehouse in his skinny jeans to pay back his debts. He was able to smuggle messages out by changing delivery addresses and using the language learning code he taught Phumjai. The rest of the cast rallied around to support Phumjai when they didn't know what had happened to Yang, and also Phojai and Tag reconciled beautifully. Phumjai went rogue to try and rescue Yang alone, and now both have been captured.

1:09:32 finale!!

Phumjai really had no plan and got hurt.

Now Phojai and Tag have showed up with no plan. What the hell is this?

All these boys trying to sacrifice themselves only works because these characters have cared so much for each other consistently.

We're doing PPL in the middle of the crisis. I love it. We need 5 million baht. Perhaps if the audience buys this camera we'll save the boys?

What is Bojji up to?

We took of Ngern's shirt and made him sweat, but at what cost?

The PPL is driving me insane this week. You're too injured to lift things. Good thing we have this app to our local wholesaler.

Oh no, Bojji is having issues as well.

I like that Phumjai is stepping up and putting the money he has on the line in a way that asks Yang to trust him more.

Okay, I like this show ending the debt collection on a comedic note.

Curious what Yang does long term if he's given his shares to the employees.

Phojai and Tag are moving in together!!

Obsessed with these two playing baseball as a quality time exercise.

What is it with these dramas and showing a scene from even further back as a beginning of romance event? This is specific to Asian dramas.

Final episode brotherly context and emotional reconciliation. I'm okay with it.

More PPL. I'm losing my mind, but glad this little show must have succeeded.

This episode is so weird, but I'm having fun.

Qi'er and Bojji are so valid for the screaming and falling out.

The parents look so pleased about Yang and Tag.

Little Sun is going franchise, baby!

DID TAMMY TURN THEM INTO A NOVEL?? SHE SAID I'M GETTING PAID BACK FOR Y'ALL USING MY LIKENESS IN YOUR STORE AND PLAYING WITH MY FEELINGS!

They said the name of the show. Finish your drinks.

And now they're proposing? This show has everything.

Okay. Drawing the ring on Yang"s finger was so goddamn cute.

Of course they met as kids. These dramas love the notion of destiny.

Final Verdict: 8.5, This Show Was So Much Fun. Phumjai and Yang are one of my favorite pairs of the year. I liked the way they fell for each other and the way this show used its workplace. The plot wobbled massively throughout the final two episodes, and we lost the thread on a few things along the way for product placement, but I really loved these characters so much and I loved the way they treated each other. I'm going to miss having this show in the balance. Offroad and Daou and friends did a great job here.

#love in translation #thai bl #bl series #Ben watches

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imakemywings · 7 months

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Hey, were you the one who posted how Maglor himself thought the oath and kinslayings were such evil acts? If so, how come there are those who still believe the second and third kinslaying is justified when Maglor himself thought it to be such an evil deed? I really need like a solid reasoning cause I was talking to someone who still believes the kinslayings were justified/needed and doesn't take my "murder is wrong" thing as a reason lol

That was indeed my post! If we're thinking of the same one. I've definitely made a post like that.

I mean I don't really know what to say besides "murder is wrong" lol If we can't agree on that um. I don't really know where we go.

The argument in favor of the kinslayings that I've seen usually boils down to property rights. Because the Silmarils are the rightful (and that's honestly debatable) property of the Feanorians, anyone who keeps the Silmarils from them deserves what they get, basically.

Which is. Kind of bonkers as a moral philosophy, even if you DO buy that the Feanorians have an uncontested right to the Silmarils. #1: We're punishing theft or conversion with DEATH now? That's acceptable to us? #2: The harm the Feanorians caused went far beyond the individual who possessed the Silmaril (Dior in the Second Kinslaying and Elwing in the Third). Even if Dior had taken that Silmaril right out of Maedhros' hand and spit in his eye on the way out it wouldn't justify the wholesale slaughter of an entire kingdom. They literally murdered children over things. Items. Stuff. Magical cool stuff yeah--but they valued it over lives. Does anyone honestly think Tolkien would have written a story agreeing with that as a moral view?

"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." (Thorin's final words, The Hobbit)

I don't know how you look at Maedhros and Maglor--the ONLY two of SEVEN sons to survive through the Third Kinslaying--and think THEY think they did the right thing. Five of their brothers have now died in assaults on other Elves which they began. Maglor argues for breaking the oath there, he resists Maedhros' drive to the Fourth Kinslaying (until he doesn't), and at the end of it all, he throws his precious Silmaril into the sea. Maedhros kills himself over it. These are not the actions of people who feel GOOD about where their lives have gone and the actions they've taken. Tolkien is so blatantly obvious about the Feanorians being in the wrong it's always a little wild to me that the KINSLAYINGS get defended.

On the note of the Fourth Kinslaying, let's not forget that: That after everything, after the War of Wrath is over and everyone is ready to go home and see their families and be at peace, a whole group of Elves get murdered by Maglor and Maedhros again over the Silmarils. A group--Eonwe's guard--of people who had survived a war with MORGOTH die because Maedhros and Maglor weren't willing to break their oath.

An oath which Tolkien casts as wicked from the very start--something that was always likely to bring them to evil acts.

"Then Feanor swore a terrible oath. His seven sons leapt straightway to his side and took the selfsame vow together, and red as blood shone their drawn swords...and many quailed to hear the dread words." ("Of the Flight of the Noldor," The Silmarillion)

Furthermore, as Dior points out in some versions outside Silm proper, at the time the Second Kinslaying is committed, Melkor still has two of the Silmarils. Even if Dior had handed over Luthien's Silmaril--to the people who had kidnapped and attempted to forcibly marry and presumably rape his mom; and also tried to murder her and his father later on--the oath is still not fulfilled, because Melkor has two.

The fact that the Feanorians choose to pursue Luthien's Silmaril with violence and bloodshed rather than make a go at the two that Melkor has has always revealed their hypocrisy to me. They chose Luthien's Silmaril because they knew it would be easier to get than the ones that Melkor has. Easier to kill other Elves if they don't give you what you want, than to attack or infiltrate Angband. Even now, when they know it's possible--because Beren and Luthien did it, and they had FAR fewer resources at hand than the Feanorians (and for the record, Fingon also successfully infiltrated Angband; Gwindor and others have successfully escaped from Angband)--they choose to slay other Elves instead. Say again the Second Kinslaying was "necessary"?

This is how Tolkien describes the attack on the Havens:

"And so there came to pass the last and cruelest of the slayings of Elf by Elf; and that was the third of the great wrongs achieved by the accursed oath. For the sons of Feanor that yet lived came down suddenly upon the exiles of Gondolin and the remnant of Doriath, and destroyed them." ("Of the Voyage of Earendil," The Silmarillion)

Does this description sound like people taking justified action? And let's not forget, in this battle, the Feanorians' own troops are so horrified by their actions that they turn against them.

"In that battle some of their [the Feanorians'] people stood aside, and some few rebelled and were slain upon the other part aiding Elwing against their own lords...Too late the ships of Cirdan and Gil-galad the High King came hasting to the aid of the Elves of Sirion; and Elwing was gone, and her sons." ("Of the Voyage of Earendil," The Silmarillion)

Members of the Feanorians' own people find their actions so terrible they cannot simply join those who stand by and refuse to attack the Havens, but they actively join the fight on the side of the Havens. Moreover, the heroic Gil-galad arrives intending to stop the Feanorians and aid the Havens. Sure, he arrives too late--but his intent is made clear: the Feanorians are the villains here, who need to be stopped.

And I don't think it is uncontested that the Silmarils belong to the Feanorians. For one, they were created entirely and only by Feanor; none of his sons had anything to do with it. And for two, the universe itself has deemed by the end that the Feanorians no longer have a property right in them, when the Silmarils burn the hands of Maedhros and Maglor because of all the evil they've committed. The jewels themselves will not be touched by these people who have done so much wrong. Eonwe tries to warn them about this before they even commit the Fourth Kinslaying.

"And they [Maedhros and Maglor] sent a message therefore to Eonwe, bidding him yield up those jewels...But Eonwe answered that the right to the work of their father, which the sons of Feanor had formerly possessed, had now perished, because of their many and merciless deeds, being blinded by their oath, and most of all because of their slaying of Dior and the assault upon the Havens." ("Of the Voyage of Earendil," The Silmarillion [emphasis added])

Like...I don't know how the book could be more clear that the Kinslayings were wrong and that Maedhros and Maglor were in the wrong.

I think fans are so invested in the Feanorians they're willing to bend over backwards to find some view where they didn't actually commit horrific war crimes and were in fact in the right. But that's just not the story Tolkien wrote. Also, you can like them and still admit they did horrible things. You are allowed to like characters who are in the wrong!

#asks #anonymous #mine #Hope this helps you in your quest Anon

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zstargalaxy · 1 year

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I like the Toriko x Pokemon AU, how about Toriko's interactions and reactions to us and our pokemon? Does he meet us during the Gararagator event?

TORIKO X POKEMON

Meeting Toriko

You will meet Toriko after the Garagator events that he and Komatsu had been through, like the Rainbow Fruit Arc or the Puffer Fish Arc.

I will make a separate fic/headcanon that is similar question to this but with all the Heavenly Kings and with specific pokemon for them to meet, like/are similar to but for now, lets focus on Toriko.

I always like to imagine your meeting with him during the two arcs that I had mentioned, specifically one about the adventures they have in getting the Rainbow Fruit.

The hot sun shine warmly upon your outing with your in all but blood brother, Komatsu at the Central Gourmet Wholesale Market where you had decided to give him a suprise visit two days ago and have a fun time together just like old times with your Pokémon. It was the battle for the fittest when you had announce to your hundreds of companions that you are going to visit Komatsu and are bringing some of them along for the trip.

Many are eagered to jump to the chance to meet their short chef friend again!

Which lead with you trying to evade a stampede of pokémon running all over the place to get a spot on the trip.

In the end, you had decided to bring one of your little Milceries along that had gotten very close to Komatsu, Appletun, Meganium, and Mimikyu, since it was left in the dust and you wanted to give it a little more attention.

Komatsu was bewildered two days ago at the news he got from one of the waiters about a someone waiting for them at the dining hall during minutes before closing, with two beasts that they cant recognized. One being a floating cream and the other a turtle-like beast with a crust as a shell.

Those descriptions were familiar to him as he went out to see who was waiting for him, in which it turned out to be you!

You two had chatted from evening until morning, yesterday 'till today, where you had catch up of what you two were doing so far in life as your pokémon enjoyed the food that you had both made for them all. If you two were outing in a outdoor eating establishment with your partners eating away the food in joy, people will stare and be shock at such strange Gourmet beasts. They have never seen something like them before.

One of them even teases about you two buying food for a doll until they realize it is actually alive!

The last day of your staying kinda took a turn when Komatsu was called for work to go to the Gourmet Market with an IGO Chief named Johannes, who came for something involving an ingredient.

Now, you have heard of the IGO, and their work, but you dont exactly put them in the lime light or any sort of light whatsoever. The organization kinda reminded you of some that are similar, but the name alone being spoken through your mouth made you feel like a pit is in your stomach, making you uncomfortable and uneasy. Yet, nonetheless, you just view them neutrally.

The same feeling came back when you look around the market. The place made you quasi whenever you see so many Gourmet beasts being sold and displayed out in the open. Back in your home world of pokemon, it never was like this Gourmet market place since majority of everyone in the planet is vegetarian with very little meat eaten. Even when meat is eaten, it never was sold like...this. Even after years of being here in this strange and unique of the Gourmet age, you will never understand some of it's customs.

"She's spunky" as you and Komatsu watch Tina, a news reporter for the "Gourmet News", switch personalities between on and off camera and being dragged away to prevent any toruble from intervening IGO business, you finally meet the man your brother has been talking about, Toriko.

Toriko didnt exactly felt any different to any of the Gourmet hunters you meet prior today, but his aura...it didnt take a genius to knew that this man is strong, and its not because of how he carried that Underbite Dragon . The Milcery, who was floating beside Komatsu had let out a cry and hid behind his head from the aura she had felt. Appletun, on the other hand, took a few steps back away from Toriko, feeling wary from what he felt in the man. Meganium and Mimikyu, who are in their pokeballs, shook abit.

It seems your Pokémon, too, had felt the aura...

There wasnt much interaction between you and Toriko. Komatsu had introduced the Heavenly King to once he had realize you are there.

Toriko was very curious about the creatures you have. He had never seem them before or recognise them from any data or encounter he had. The smell of Appletun quickly invaded his nose. It smells so good! The Heavenly King already had taken a swipe of pie skin from Appletun and ate it with a delighted moan from the taste, much to you and Komatsu's shock! He later on apologises but...

HE EVEN HAVE THE ODESCITY TO ASK TO HAVE A TASTE OF THEM!!!

It took all you could to stop yourself from growling and running away from the man as possible and preventing Appletun from using Dragon Rage on the man upon hearing the comment!

He may be an Apple Pie, and he may let it slide of Toriko taking a bite, but this dragon is one where you should earn it's respect!

This action kinda increase your thoughts subconsciously about Gourmet hunters being nothing but killers and eaters. Yes, we have to kill to eat food and to survive but the amount of animals at the market and how many times Gourmet hunters had come and try to hunt your pokemon back home....

It wasnt pretty.

Gourmet Tamers (atleast, he thinks you are one) are rare. And they dont just come off as genuine or great as they come but Toriko was definetly impressed and interested in hearing and meeting you and these so called "Pokémon" in person.

There were rumours from other Gourmet Hunters that he had heard from have told the same thing over and over again : how bloodthirsty and ruthless you are with your unimaginable beasts that could rivaled the 8 kings of the Gourmet World.

They werent entirely wrong. The way you have strategically ordered your pokemon through the Troll Kongs with Meganium's sun bean and vines, Milcery's attract, and Appletun's bullet seeds. Toriko raised a brow when he saw you releasing Mimikyu, a small rugged clotheds...thing, in front of the Kongs that were shaking and even slightly backing away...

You soon later on, after Toriko decided to use Knocking instead of killing one of the Troll Kongs, had learned that he may not be exactly like those Gourmet hunters you meet. He may eat alot like when he had eaten a thousand dishes at the Gourmet Hotel, is a glutton, loves big juicy beasts but he has his morals in hunting, and that is to kill what he wents to eat, not for the thrill.

You may have gotten a new shine in the Gourmet Hunters....for now.

OMG...this is so long! I might gonna redo this but man, this was long so I hope I have answered tou questions! And sorry for the long wait...i have gotten lazy and busy at the same time due to me being tired from school. But I am back! 😀

#crossover #pokemon #toriko x pokemon #toriko #meeting #ask #anime #reader #Tina #tina #mimikyu #appletun #meganium #milcery #komatsu

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yourdyingwish · 2 years

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like rock vs Other things has always been a site for people to vent their bigotry and anxieties through the lens of being "hardcore" or whatever, it was transparent in the 2000s and it's transparent now.

it was interesting actually to watch frank avoid a question about that in what I think was a tactful but imperfect way during his two minutes to late night interview; when asked about other people working right now by the interviewer who cited Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish as people who blend rock with other genres, he paused and said "well, but none of those people are playing guitars." And he's right, like I understand his point–rock music is not ruling the radio right now, and maybe it could be more. but the unsaid thing there is of course that the type of performer who is "not playing a guitar" is, if they’re not a pop artist, usually a rap artist, and that line of thought gets extremely racist extremely fast and leads right to the "modern music is shit these days, rock is dying, never let it die" line, which has basically become replacement theory but for rock dudes. and I don't think frank buys into that wholesale but I guarantee some of MCR's peer group and tbh some of their actual friend group probably does, in some capacity.

so it's interesting to see how that plays out in combination with the fact that they're this band which was on the outs of the OTHER big conflict that the average rock n roll dude of the 2000s projected onto contemporary music ("whiny eyeliner boys are destroying real music")... it's one reason why I don't like characterizing MCR as a universal underdog, especially now. it also of course gets complicated when you add the layer of reality that pop music these days really IS, despite good artists occasionally surfacing, overwhelmingly creatively bleak in a maybe unprecedented way. so to navigate all those things is difficult, and I don't think MCR is like heavily involved in shaping those narratives--but the narratives are shaping AROUND them in really interesting ways. anyways it's one reason I like them so much. lots of cross-sections that show the state of things, like good art is supposed to.

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miraculosus · 1 year

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Fandom Response to Miraculous Ladybug 514 “Derision”

Reception of the episode “Derision” upon airing appears mostly positive. That means it won’t create a dramatic rift as some of those who saw the leaks had feared, and the status quo of the fandom seems more or less undisturbed on the surface. Perhaps it pumps a bit more gas into the righteousness tanks of some and sours opinions of Kim (but those who really cared about him were few to begin with). Most are integrating the new information into their understanding of the characters, which may be a bad thing if you don’t like this new information and prefer to stick to “earlier versions” of them.

My own personal feelings on the matter are neither here nor there because the discourse is the main course. I’ve written three mock-reviews based on all the posts I’ve seen: positive, negative, and mixed. Let’s go!

Positive

What an enlightening look into Marinette’s past. My poor baby girl! I love her so much, and it hurt my heart to see how much she suffered in the past. This was a deeply moving and impactful depiction of the horrors and effects of school bullying, and even the systemic inadequacy of the adults response was realistic. Some parts hit a little too close to home, haha! It recontextualizes so many of Marinette’s past behaviors big and small all the way back to Origins in an amazing way. Her view of Chat Noir in season 1! Her reaction to Adrien in Puppeteer 2?! So many dots are connecting I’m going crazy! How can people say these writers aren’t good at long complex plots and foreshadowing? I’m eating this up!

Adrien’s responses really blew me away. I’ve always wanted to see him stand up and fight like that, and for it to be out of protectiveness for Marinette? So romantic! I love when a character is so devoted that they’ll go murder-mode instantly on anyone who tries to hurt their beloved. This dark side of Adrien is awesome! Seeing him finally cut off Chloe once and for all was super satisfying too. And in the end, he was just so patient and understanding of Marinette. That’s true love! Who could ask for a better boyfriend?

Socqueline was super cool, and it’s adorable how Marinette got her pigtails from her. That makes Socqueline dressing up as Ladybug such a sweet full circle moment!

This episode added a lot of depth to both Marinette and Adrien, and showed great development for Adrinette. They are so cute, and things are only getting better for them!

Negative

It’s glaringly obvious that this episode was a late-stage retcon created predominantly out of spite, and boy is it ugly. Somehow, they managed to ruin every character.

With Marinette, they try to prove her haters wrong and make us feel bad for her by showing her past actions were due to trauma, but all this does is tell us those things we laughed about as comedic cartoon exaggeration like her Adrien calendar, obsessive celebrity research, keeping his hair as a souvenir, sneaking into his house and sniffing his pillow, stuff like that… was actually genuinely problematic, creepy, and bad. Then they say don’t blame her for it, blame Chloe!

Could they leave Chloe out of it for once? I’m so sick and tired of the weird vendetta the writers seem to have against Chloe and her fans. They made her sympathetic by giving her that backstory and those genuine moments, now they punish us for not buying wholesale that this 14-year-old abused child who was never equipped to learn to be a decent person, is the root of all evil? We get it! Shes fucking sociopathic and malicious from womb to tomb! She’s worse than Gabriel ShadowHawkMothNarc Righteously-Enslaves-His-Son Agreste! I can accept the show will never give her a redemption arc, but this is exhausting. Love or hate Chloe, wouldn’t we all be better off if they just left her alone and wrote her out already? Every Chloe focus episode gets worse and worse.

Moving on, now they’ll make everyone hate Kim which was completely unwarranted. He already had his background arc from being a bumbling insensitive twat to a lovable goofy himbo. He may have been worse last year, but he denounced Chloe already after Dark Cupid. Plus, Kim and Marinette always got along just fine! Don’t try and tell me her trauma with him was just repressed until now? Kim was a great and fun side character that subverted the bully jock trope, and they had to go and ruin that for cheap points.

Adrien already had realistic and compelling character flaws they now refuse to address, instead going with the edgy murderous rage angle that completely goes against his whole established character and should have been left behind in bad OOC gender-roley fanfiction. Of course the Adrien Salters will never let this go, and then there are the Stans who think this glaring red flag is romantic. I get that some like the violently overprotective boyfriend trope, the guy who abandons principles of human decency out of passion and love, and takes care of all the girl’s emotional needs so she never needs to worry about anything, but it came out of nowhere. That’s not the kind of character or romance that made me like this show.

Finally, we have to mention how horrifically incompetent literally every adult looks here. Tom and Sabine didn’t do anything about Marinette’s suffering at school for years. Neither did any of the teachers or the Principal. They’re all rotten!

An utterly unnecessary and trash episode that proves the writers completely lost the plot and devolved into petty vengeance against insatiable fans they never should have paid any mind.

Mixed

School bullying can absolutely be traumatic and its effects should be taken seriously, and this backstory for Marinette does flesh out her character in some interesting ways. However, this episode or any involving Marinette’s past would work better earlier in the series. When placed this late, it can seem more like a response to a certain sect of Marinette critics in the fandom, which diminishes its value as part of the story. With all the other high-stakes plot left hanging, another one about the mean girl doesn’t feel like the most effective use of airtime. Moreover, a different one-off character (Gorgeous Nathan from the Gym Club, anyone? Or maybe one of the others shown in last year’s picture from Reflekta) would have worked fine in Kim’s role in the episode, and wouldn’t create the continuity issues that using Kim here does. But the contrast between his apology and promise to change and Chloe’s refusal and doubling down worked for the lesson.

There wasn’t buildup to Socqueline having such a major role in Marinette’s past, so that makes it feel shoehorned in as well.

Many apparent inconsistencies can be explained though. Marinette’s hang up is not about falling in love but about confessing and saying “I love you”. Luka never asked that of her. At first, Chat Noir was not a viable option because she could never know him the way she told herself she had to, but later, she realized she truly knew him through all the trials they endured together. But Adrien is a uniquely difficult target because he was friends with Chloe. The circumstances of their meeting was enough to sow seeds of doubt that were difficult to shake deep down. Marinette gave her all, but things kept going wrong. Now that she finally knows why, she and Adrien can work through it together. He already knows she loves him and will patiently accept whatever affection she’s able to express, so it’s not the end of the world.

As for Adrien’s violent outburst, as far as he knows, Monarch is still in ok condition. So he may believe on some level that cataclysm is not an instant kill but something rather less severe than that. He did lose control of his emotions for a moment, but it’s good for a character to have such flaws, especially one like Adrien who has repressed his negative emotions to be a “perfect son” in the past. His anger management issue and impulsivity could be building to something truly dramatic. It could be something that gets addressed in his character arc.

So there are things that bothered me about this episode, and it does seem to have been inserted fairly late, but overall it was alright and not nearly as awful as the reactions to the leaks made it seem.

#ml derision #ml spoilers #ml meta #ml meta meta #lol

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thenon-fictiondays · 2 years

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Hirano to Kagiura light novel translation 2-2

Chapter 2: Summer preparations.

Part 2

Prev || Next

“About 1-A’s Culture Festival Program”

The bold, sloping letters were written on the blackboard by a class committee member.

The proposals, which were presented in one third of their long homeroom, continued to resemble a festival, with a haunted house, yakisoba, and target shooting. When crepes, buttered potatoes, and shaved ice were brought up, someone cried out “what is this, a date?” in a voice tinged with jealousy.

At that, jeers of “I want a girlfriend” and “must be nice to be able to bring a girl” flew around the room one after the other.

Kagiura thought that the suggestions for a program aimed at women were all off the mark. The images that single guys have of women can sometimes be out of touch with reality.

Due to the nature of all boy’s schools, the number of boys who are able to get girlfriends within one semester is very slim. This is even more so the case when one lives in a dorm and has no way to interact with girls, as is the case with Kagiura.

At the moment, he doesn’t actually want a girlfriend. In middle school, he’d dated someone for just a few months, but he couldn’t get past his nervousness, and the relationship ended on awkward terms.

They had been set up by their peers and became a couple somewhat hastily; she was cute, and Kagiura thought kindly of her, but he’d been too conscious of their relationship to really be able to open up to her.

It was probably around that time. Rather than wishing for someone he wants to spend his future with, Kagiura realized he wanted a relationship like what his parents had.

The relationship Kagiura’s parents have seems more like they’re amicable best friends than a married couple. There are no overt instances of them brimming with devoted consideration for each other, or being lovey-dovey all the time. Given that they have four kids, they’re obviously intimate, but they give one the impression that even if they’d been born the same gender, they would have naturally gotten along.

The dependability that pushes you forward if there’s a path you want to take, and the depths of your heart that make you look forward to the day you return home. A person with whom you can naturally live a gentle, bright life, without you having to try too hard or overexert yourself.

Once Kagiura had become aware that that is his ideal relationship, he’d reconsidered, and decided he didn’t want to date someone if his heart wasn’t in it.

He hadn’t been trying to carelessly date around from the beginning, but having seen that a relationship won’t necessarily go well even if he puts all his energy into it, now he’s just casually waiting around for someone to hold close.

Like his mother, who when drinking tea asks his father ‘do you want some, too?’, or his father, who on an ordinary weekday will stop on the way home and buy his mother’s favorite food.

“So then, does anybody else have anything they want to do? If not, we’ll take a majority vote on the ideas suggested just now.”

The moment the voting begins, an idea flashes through Kagiura’s mind.

“I have one! What about yakitori?”

He wasn’t sure when, but Hirano had said he liked it. He’d probably be happy if he got to eat it at the cultural festival, right?

Kagiura’s cheerful suggestion is met with assenting murmurs of ‘yakitori would be nice’.

“But wouldn’t we have to do food prep?”

“The wholesale supermarket probably sells coolers or something.”

“What should we do about a storage location?”

“It’ll be fine if we divide it up between a bunch of people, right? If they bring it in the morning it’ll defrost on its own.”

“Saucy? Salty? Or should we do both?”

“I wanna eat both…..”

Just like that, the mood has pivoted, appetites for female companionship replaced by appetites for food. High school boys are perpetually hungry. Even after eating breakfast, eating their bentos early, and going out after school to buy food, they still take extra large portions of rice at dinner.

Especially as a member of an athletic club, Kagiura is no exception to the rule, and most of his monthly allowance is eaten up by snacking.

As soon as the majority vote settled on yakitori, the teacher in charge of overseeing the decision suddenly stood up.

“The competition for food items is high to begin with, and for a yakitori stall you would have to set it up outdoors, so there will be mad grab for materials. If you don’t hash out the details, it’ll be quite the struggle. You guys should come up with a back-up plan in case your first isn’t chosen—either way, Kagiura, will you try auditioning for the cultural festival executive committee?”

He hesitates for merely a second. Regardless of whether or not he’s suited for the job, all Kagiura can think about now is Hirano’s joyful expression.

“.....I’ll do it.”

“Kagiura is busy with club activities, so it’d be best if a few more people cooperate with him,” the teacher thinks aloud upon Kagiura’s firm nod.

The one who Kagiura stares at in reaction to those words is Niibashi, who sits in the seat next to him.

Contrary to his twisted phraseology, he is brilliant and meticulous, so if they work together, they’ll be able to prevent careless mistakes and inaccuracies in communications and the documents to be submitted. Given his self-confidence, he’ll probably be good at event planning.

As far as Kagiura knows, he is a capable person, well-suited for negotiations.

“What’s that? You want me to do it? …..I guess it can’t be helped; Kagiura isn’t very good at clerical work, after all.”

Despite his mock-exasperation, Kagiura can tell from spending time with him for the past few months that he’s already looking forward to it.

In a flash, a hand shoots up from the back of the classroom.

“Sensei, how many people can be on the executive committee? If I can hold multiple positions at once I can join.”

“I’ve got some free time,” someone else says as he raises his hand.

In the end, the executive committee of four people—Kagiura as the original proposer, Niibashi as his assistant, and the others—were chosen.

Tomorrow after school is the first convocation date, which seems to be when they will explain the materials and how to fill out the application forms. All four bit their lips when they heard there would also be inspections of facilities and tools, but they are past the point of no return.

The topic of discussion moves on to the next item on the agenda. Because it was explanations of the summer break’s supplementary lessons and practice tests, Kagiura becomes more and more dispirited. Try as he might, he can’t run away from exams.

When he returns to the dorm, he’ll try consulting Hirano about it. Both about the cultural festival, and the practice tests.

Because Hirano’s such a good student, he always gives useful advice rather than just empty platitudes when Kagiura confides in him about his worries involving his club.

Speaking of which—

I wonder what Hirano-san’s class is doing, Kagiura thinks as he closes his eyes.

The image of his smiling face hovers faintly behind Kagiura’s eyelids. He wants to walk around the stalls together, delicious yakitori in hand.

In part because of the too-strong sunlight pouring in from outside, and in part due to imagining a summer festival scene, he pictures him in a yukata.

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Sorry for the long wait, but I'm making up for it with a double update this time~

kono bangumi wa goran no suponsaa- jk jk, this update was brought to you by @jujupanic and @jeizet - thank you both so so much for your support, I appreciate it so much 🥺💖

#let's see if i can post this time without accidentally deleting the whole draft #hirano and kagiura #hirano to kagiura translation #kagihira #sasaki to miyano #harusono shou #hirano taiga #kagiura akira #hirano to kagiura #hirano to kagiura ln

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1,5,7,11,12,34,41,49, 50 for the fic writer ask game? :)

hello!! 💖 okay very long post incoming so i'm putting most of it under a cut!

What fic of yours would you recommend to someone who had never read any of your work? (In other words, what do you think is the best introduction to your fics?)

i’d recommend either my latest fic buy back the secrets (especially for dc/batfam) because it’s a longfic with a lot of my fav tropes! my second rec would be my first mdzs/cql fic this river runs to you, because it’s a complete longfic that also has a lot of my fav tropes to write (misunderstandings! slow burn! self-sacrificing lonely characters!) in a self-contained story.

5. What do you wish someone would ask you about [insert fic]? Answer it now!

i wish someone would ask “is there actually something going on with superbat in the background of buy back the secrets” to which i would respond: yes, something’s Going On and has been for years and will be for eternity, yes, lois is there, yes, everyone’s currently happy with whatever arrangement they’ve arranged, and yes ghost-maker is an on-again-off-again presence in bruce’s life too. bruce has many hands. tim is aware of all of this and does NOT think about it unless he needs to use it against bruce to make a point.

7. Any worldbuilding you’re particularly proud of?

in the second chapter of fey and my wangxian star trek au there’s a scene where wei ying and lan zhan chat at the academy as the lead-in to one of the flashbacks. “procyon crystals” are something i wholesale pulled out of my ass but i was really proud of this little exchange—its purpose was to get the characters from point a to point b (the chem lab ➡️ the bus stop, and also from not chatting ➡️ chatting about something), and not only did i ultimately like how this dialogue about rocks quickly illustrated both of their fields of study/interests in the academy days, it also ended up being a wink to the larger plot (misunderstanding via rock).

“Lan Zhan!” Wei Ying had called down the hall, delighted, and pretty much expected Lan Zhan to nod and keep walking. Instead Lan Zhan actually slowed to let Wei Ying catch up, tugging on a pair of soft-looking gloves as he waited. “It’s pretty late for you, isn’t it? Everything okay?” Lan Zhan glanced up at him for a moment, expression placid. “Procyon crystals,” he said by way of explanation. “Ahh,” We Ying said. “And they only grow at night, is that why? I’ve always wondered about that! Well, I’ve wondered since I read an article about them in one of those kiddie science journals Jiang Cheng used to get. How they know it’s night, no matter what planet they’re on. I remember the article said even if it’s pitch black, the crystals can’t be tricked.” “They cannot,” Lan Zhan confirmed with what sounded like the tiniest edge of irritation, like the crystals’ refusal to be tricked was personally offensive. Wei Ying’s delight only grew, and he told himself not to laugh. “Everyone thinks space is the greatest mystery in the universe, but clearly it’s rocks,” Wei Ying said, pushing through the door and into a blast of cold. He paused, holding the door open behind him so Lan Zhan could finish putting on his gloves. “But if you figure out their secret you have to tell me, okay? You have to promise.”

11. Are you partial to a certain character/pairing or are you more equal-opportunity? If you are partial to any character/pairing, why do you think that is?

for most fandoms i tend to have pairings i like and stick with reading. dc has actually been fun for me in that regard because i’m much more open to multiple pairings with the same character. like, i’m partial to timkon, but could totally be compelled by timber (timbern…?) and timsteph at the same time. i’m partial to superbat but also extremely here for ghostbat, which is fun because it’s a whole different flavor. i like dick/babs and dick/kory and dick/blue the OC bf. i think it’s because for the most part what compels me in the dc/batfam space are the found family dynamics so shipping is often secondary, or in conjunction with other relationships i care about, so i end up happy as long as the characters and their dynamics are written in a way i like.

12. Are there any tropes you used to dislike but have grown on you?

i used to dislike established relationship fics, because i always want to read the getting together part—but now i find myself more compelled by the idea than i used to be! i’ll totally read established relationship fics, especially when they’re silly.

34. What aspects of your writing are inspired by/taken from your real life?

not a whole a lot, really! i have occasionally used bits of knowledge/insight from my current or past jobs to fill out some modern au scenes, but nothing that couldn’t be researched anyway. otherwise beyond some minor details i don’t tend to draw from my own life/relationships for fic. and considering what i sometimes put characters through, thank goodness for that.

41. Link a fic that made you think, “Wow, I want to write like that.”

i’m gonna cheat and link three

📧 send to all by @kerosceene

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Please fill out this form You cannot have Diana on your list. Bruce From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Please fill out this form you're going to regret inviting me to dinner so bad

—invented humor, cee makes me wish i could come up with these kind of laugh-out-loud lines across various mediums. they’re so good at finding the funniest most in-character way to achieve something.

📸 surveillance by @smilebackwards

"And who are you?" Luthor asks, voice dripping condescension.

"My name is Timothy Jackson Drake," Tim says bloodlessly, "and nobody's buying my company."

—i think about this scene all the time!! the way this is such a succinct, mic-drop moment that made me go “oh shit” out loud and fit perfectly in the scene even while tim’s pov has been doing the mental equivalent of spinning a dozen plates—it’s so good.

🌕 if they caught you by @feyburner

“Sorry, sorry,” says Xie Lian. “I’ll shut up, I promise. I just have one more question.” “What,” spits White Dragon Devouring Moon. “Why are you pretending to be a Wrath?” Silence, except for the cicadas. Then White Dragon Devouring Moon rears back, hissing sharply through his teeth. “I—I don’t know what you’re talking about! Shut your mouth!”

—obviously this is one of my Fics Of All Time but the thing that blows me away every time i read it is the setup and payoff of it all. how what seems like a little kidnap-and-rescue plot is actually slowly laying the detailwork foundation that will absolutely devastate you. how, when you reach the end and look back, a certain verb in the exchange above takes on extra meaning. how this isn’t the only instance like that and every single sentence is so intentionally crafted that it’s almost twice as good on the reread, and the initial read is already incredible. it’s a short fic that leaves you breathless both for the plot and for the craft of it. man. anyway. if they caught you by feyburner huh

49. What are you currently working on? Share a few lines if you’re up for it!

now answered here!

50. Answer any question of your choice, or talk about anything you want to talk about!

i’ve been thinking about my friends’ OCBFEU (OC boyfriend extended universe) where dick has a tall gentle deadly ex-talon from another universe (blue) quietly following him around and jason is engaged in identity shenanigans with the schoolteacher-in-training (santi) who lives in jason’s apartment building and also keeps having run-ins with red hood. we have a whole general timeline/continuity in our heads and at one point jason and santi are out at a club and jason is trying to have a night off for fucking once and then they run into? tim?? who is definitely not old enough to be there, and jason is pissed thinking tim’s following him around (which, fair, tbh) until he and santi realize tim is in fact having a miserable time and there for miserable reasons. so jason and santi end up taking tim back to santi’s place and making tim drink water and santi gets tim to half-explain what he was doing and then jason gets to go beat someone up about it. this will get way too long if i keep going but i’ve been pondering this particular sequence in a continuity that only like six people are aware of soooooo much and i love it

fic writer ask meme

#SORRY THIS IS SO LONG #this is was so fun though i especially loved the 'i want to write like that' question it made me Think #asks #fic rec

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"INNES HAS A HABIT OF LOSING MONEY," Toronto Star. October 1, 1912. Page 3. --- Second Offence of Dropping Employer's Cash Leads to a Long Term. --- CASES IN POLICE COURT --- Two Men With Two Bags of Potatoes, Which They Say Were Given to Them. --- Though there was little force behind the blow which Thomas Petrie directed at Constable Young's face, Magistrate Denison chose to fine the intent rather than the act when the man came up in the Police Court.

"Was taking his name," Young stated, "when he struck me."

Petrie's two fines, for drunkenness and assault, were a dollar and costs. each, or thirty days, with time to pay.

The Sentences Grow. The sentences of Edward Innes have been somewhat disproportionate. This morning before Magistrate Denison, he admitted that while working as a collector for Joseph McQuilian's liquor store in Queen street west he retained $11.80 from the returns, and offered the defence that if he was given time he would refund the money and have it taken out of his wages.

"I lost it," he suggested.

"It's not the first time he's lost money," Crown Attorney Corley. commented. "A year ago when he was given $400 to buy Exhibition tickets he lost that. His term then was sixty days." Now, for the theft of of the much smaller amount, Innes will go to Central for a much longer term, four months.

Two Bags of Potatoes. Once more Charles Beamish, an aged character well known to the police, is charged with theft. Last night he was taken by Constable Ox-land, who saw him walking away with a bag of potatoes on his shoulder. A few paces behind was Lou Parsons, with a like load. The constable, knowing Beamish, went after the stranger first.

"Parsons dropped his load and ran," Oxland stated, "but I caught them both."

The charge is that the potatoes were stolen from a G.T.R. box car.

"Given to me," declared Beamish, confidently.

"Whom by?"

"Don't know his name."

"Where does he live?" "Don't know."

"Who is the kind man, anyway?" Magistrate Denison demanded, a bit impatiently.

Finally Beamish decided it was either the carmen or an officer of the M.O.H. Department. The couple remain in jail a week until they can give more definite information.

After arresting Mrs. Louisa Fifield as she came out of Eaton's. Detective Wickett want to her home at Prescott avenue, West Toronto, and a large quantity of goods, which the woman is charged with stealing.

When arrested with her 12-year-old daughter Queenie, Mrs. Fifield had an umbrella and six shirt waists which could not be accounted for by sales checks which could not be accounted for.

Ivy, another daughter. aged 15. working at Gillies' factory. 121 Prescott avenue, the police say, has admitted the theft of 11 neck scarfs, 197 neckties, 4 spools of silk, and a spool of brass wire.

The bundle of goods that the police recovered includes ribbons of all recovered in sizes, fancy lace bags, six umbrellas, lace, shirt waists, collars, hat plumes, and numerous small decorative articles. More were recovered this morning but none of the articles have yet been identified as coming from the Eaton Store.

When Mrs. Fifield appeared in Police Court, T. C. Robinette, reserved election and did not obtaining a week's adjournment.

Detective Wickett was with woman most of the morning, but she denies stealing the goods. She came to this country about nine months and ago.

Accused of Burglary Wm. J. Bell is being held in connection with the shopbreaking at 280 Church street on the night of September 14, when the warehouse of the John Sloan Company, wholesale grocers, was broken into and burglarized. Entrance was forced through a rear window, several desks were broken open, and the burglar, whether Bell or another, proved so clever that he found the combination of the be vault. About 260 postage stamps, $28.07 in cash, medals, and a quantity of jewelry was stolen.

Bell was placed under arrest on King street by Detective Mitchell in pawnshop, where it is alleged he was attempting to dispose of jewelry which, the police say, corresponded to the stolen articles.

Bell was remanded a week without bail.

A Real Estate Deal. "If you can't do business better than that you had better not do it at all. You've been here before. If you come again I'll know better how to deal with you." Those were the comments of Magistrate Denison to William Campbell, a real estate dealer, charged with the theft of $320 from Adam McMillan. There was a conviction, with a remand till called upon.

McMillan said that he bought a lot in Brandon for $320, and that when was fully paid for Campbell kept putting him off for several weeks and never furnished the deed.

Campbell's defence was that he had purchased a group of lots and that he hadn't fully paid for them to obtain the deeds himself.

"Carrying them on McMillan's money," the magistrate commented. "That is no way to do business. But you'll be remanded till called on." Campbell will now furnish the deed.

Back to Blue Grass Land. Hyde Nelson, colored, declares he will go back to his Kentucky home, and Robert Beatty is short $5. Beatty said that ten days ago he handed the colored man the amount at the Woodbine, to put on a "sure thing" which really won.

"And I never got my winnings," was the complaint.

As Nelson was positive he passed the money along to a third person who misplaced it, the ten days already spent in jail seemed enough, that is, if he keeps nis promise to get town.

Chinese Liquor. "Ing Kopy" was the plain English lettering on a carafe of Chinese wine which was seized upon the the premises of Ing Ding at 192 York street by the police when Inspector Dickson led a search party through the Chinese quarter two weeks ago..The charge was illegal sales and keeping.

"'Ing Kopy' means medicinal wine," explained J. W. Carry, defence counsel. "The proper analysis is printed on the side. That complies with the law."

Not when written in Chinese," Magistrate Denison replied.

Some of the police contended that the while the liquid was labelled "Ing Kopy," it was in reality only whisky colored red. As a test, the magistrate had whiffed a little from a glass, thought it was stronger than rose wise, and demanded an analysis. Ding was accordingly allowed a week's remand.

Lee Dun of 184 York street, was to have sold whitish stuff rice wine, for which his fine was $100 and costs or 3 months.

A Real Estate Deal After several remands, John Hanley, real estate agent, was convicted of false pretences. The complainant was John Bain, who stated he placed Welland and Port McNicol lots in Hanley hands for sale.

"He told me he had a buyer," Bain explained, "so I gave him $35 commission. Then he turned in a $100 check from a bogus buyer, and I couldn't get the money."

The court allowed Hanley three weeks remand to produce this buyer, but when he still failed to do so this morning, he was sent to to jail for 20 days.

John A. Brooker, of 54 Margueretta street, was fined $100 and costs for illegal liquor sales. The case has been on the books since July 20.

#toronto #police court #assaulting a police officer #drunk and disorderly #real estate scam #swindlers #illegal possession of alcohol #chinese canadians #vagrancy #shoplifters #women in the toils #fines and costs #fines or jail #sentenced to prison #central prison #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

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Exploring Con O'Neill's Filmography Day #?- Murder City S01.EP4- Mr. Right (2004)

Murder City S01.EP4- Mr. Right

Warnings: Depiction of a murder, gunshots/gun violence, stalking, obsession over an adult woman(the fucking victim) from both a police officer and multiple victims, minor of the time period transphobic comments. This is Copoganda. It's not even hiding it.

This is one of Con's one-off performances for a TV show. It's a cop procedural and it runs at just about an hour. Watch his scenes, you don't really need to care about the plot. He's a side character that barely matters once the mystery is all tied together. If you're craving a cop show, just watch the Pie in the Sky episode he's in. You will have a better time.

Due to the weird pacing of this episode and scene changes, unless you've seen it you probably won't get what's going on. I've edited to add context the best I can, but you can skip to the end to see my overall thoughts.

As always, I love chatting in the comments. If you've already seen this, don't be afraid to rant!

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What the fuck is this intro? Why does it feel like a HGTV show.

Okay, lets play the game of, is Con the victim or the murderer?

HE'S THE CORPSE?

OH SHIT THAT'S NOT CON.

I'm calling it now, three-way. Guy was let in, and shot him.

I'm guessing right now Con killed them, jealous of the guy for getting the girl. Or Con's character was jealous of the woman.

Definitely Man hands holding that gun, is it Con? If so, #6 of Con's character improperly using guns. (Spoilers, supprisingly, I don't think Con's character touches a gun)

CON APPEARS

'Spencer Grieves. A catholic, a family man. A vicious bastard.' HELL YEAH! HANG ON. He's a vicious flower wholesale person, and if you don't buy from him, he fucking attacks you?!??!!? Flower better be code for drugs, or I fucking swear.

God, I love criminal/competent Con characters, he's having so much fun.

They wouldn't need literally every person in her family to come in and identify the body, this just seems cruel.

This whole purity angle for the victim is just gross. She's a fully grown adult, why the fuck are they so shocked she's fucking people.

This is why you don't let yourself be defined by a certain animal. She's stuck with ducks, and I'll forever be stuck with owls. I wonder if owls will be relevant to my murder.

(Going to the all mens prision to interogate a suspect, our female detective goes in basically alone, with the prisoners walking around their residential area) They would have put everyone in lockdown for her to come on. What the fuck?

CON. That hat is fun. From now on, he's Spencer.

WHY THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT LOVE SO MUCH IN HIS FIRST SCENE? I know for the 20 years post Blood Brothers he was cast in these types of roles. Sad and wrecked people wanting acceptance. Look at any of his work from the 90s/00s. BUT GOD. Someone needs to rip all of these 'I'm a sad, lonely, blank looking for love, etc. ' speeches into a Izzy edit.

HE ALSO HAS SHIPS ON HIS MEMORY BOARD, HELL YEAH

HE'S GAY(OR BI!!!!! Depending on if he loves his wife, yet to be seen. But given she hasn't visited him...eh)!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HE'S FUCKING IN LOVE WITH SCOVI (the male victim)! I love the 'wow I didn't think this guy was gay' subversion always being Con's thing. He inadvertently makes the subversion a typecast for himself. Funny as shit.

Oh wow. A Queer Con character who devoted his life to someone, only for his lover to suddenly make a total life change, and leave him behind for a blonde. Shocker.

Okay. SPENCER IS SO MUCH FUN. He's bringing Cliff(BBC Uncle)/Angel(3 Steps to Heaven) energy here, and I'm kind of loving it.

"And my wife? She wouldn't approve." OHHH. God, he's funny as shit. Awful and morally dubious, but fun as shit.

Why would you have code names to hide the identities of the men you'd want to fuck in a personal diary.

Also, I don't like that the blonde detective seems like he'd want to fuck the dead woman.

Spencer's wife seems fun. The cop calling Spencer 'A small Alpha of a man who protects his family' is rude. I am one inch taller than he is.

Okay, obviously ACAB. Don't trust cops. But if Spencer's work is endangering her children then, yeah, probably best to gtfo.

They're all kinda sexist as shit to the blonde detective lady.

God I hate this blonde guy detective. He's such a confident idiot. In an American show, he would have been shot and learned not to be an idiot like this. Going in somewhere alone with a suspect of a murder case? Dumbass.

Also, if he got any evidence from that conversation how would he even use it in court?

EY Back at the prison. Nice. Smiling Con is the best Con.

Why would Spencer not hide contraband well?

HAHAHA I am routing for Spencer, this plan the cops had was stupid as fuck.

If I was as paranoid as this character likely is, I'd just throw out my phone.

Idiots. He clearly knows you snooped.

The editing in this is a choice.

This love triangle/circle/fucking hexagon feels like high school gossip.

Transphobic joke is not needed, and neither is the sexist comment jackasses.

I am pretty sure this isn't how phones work?

Good for him, knowing not to say shit regardless if he thinks something could be tracked. Also, Bi-con.

NVM, let's just admit guilt and a few other crimes over the phone.

Why are these innocent people just talking to cops? Giving them free information as they stalk you out of your workplace. I hate this blonde jackass.

WHAT THE FUCK. What is this editing? WHY DOES BLONDE DOUCHE WANT TO FUCK THE DEAD CHICK.

Yeah, it's a fucking diary jackass. It's going to be biased as fuck, why are you taking at as gospel. Does he have a Sherlock Holmes thing going on here? Seeing how things 'really' happened.

DON'T THEY NEED A FUCKING WARRANT TO SEE CCTV! "Enhance it" It's a fucking bald guy. You have one bald suspect. Also, enhancing things doesn't work like that.

Well, now you've probably endangered Spencer's entire family.

We are 40 minutes into this, can you fucks not argue about who gets credit for the case.

God I hate cop shows. Stop being smug bastards, someone's been killed.

YEY! Back to the prison!

Also, as a person who has done tours in my local prison (US) for our government class, it's weird to see how this prison is semi-accurate.

WHY ARE YOU GIVING A PEP TALK TO GROSS BLONDE DETECTIVE ABOUT DATING SURROUNDED BY FELONS. Spencer was a violent offender, all the people surrounding him likely have similar sentences. But no, lets openly chat about how his standards are too high? He's a fucking unlikeable worm of a man.

Just let him be single. Jesus Christ.

DID SPENCER GET A GUN TO KILL THE GUY WHO SOLD HIM OUT! (Or used bought loyalty to get the guy killed)If so, badass. And he got away with it cause he had help. Perfect.

How about we just assume anyone who was involved will be killed.

God, Spencer shouldn't be hot...What am I kidding myself, of course he's hot.

Spencer is also cheating on her. If he's catholic enough to care, he already thinks he's going to hell. Both for cheating and fucking men.

Also, cops are paid to lie to you. We as the audience know the cop is just lying, but Spencer should have assumed. How he doesn't know this as an experienced felon is bullshit.

ALSO WHY WASN'T SPENCER TIED DOWN OR HANDCUFFED! I swear to god, does having a violent record mean nothing in England? WHAT DID YOU EXPECT! The cop was riling him up.

Oh, finally someone guilty has a lawyer

That blood looked like paint. Nice red apple. How the fuck is there 20 minutes left.

Yeah, maybe if you think Spencer is guilty wait until he's out. Set something up to watch him after he leaves prison, and wait. Jesus Christ.

Why the fuck does an older blonde woman care about the younger blonde detective's sex life? This is the third scene that's like this. Like, it's sweet that she cares about work-life balance, but being a cop is one of those jobs where that shit goes out the window.

Nope. I hate this. When Sherlock does it, it works cause Sherlock isn't trying to picture sad desperate women looking for love. He treats them with respect. This jackass is just lonely and pictures victims being his friend. Weird as shit.

(He tries to kiss his imaginary ghost victim) WHAT THE FUCK. Is this supposed to be charming?

CON! THANK GOD! Rescue me, please. Look at that summer drip. I think I own that shirt. At least he's being nice about handing the phone over for evidence.

ENHANCING IMAGES DOESN'T WORK LIKE THAT

A shrine? Weird. Also, I know this person is obsessed, but seriously? Who decorates like that.

Eh, that pun was awful.

Yeah, having both men be obsessed with her just points out how gross the detective guy is.

So a gross man thinking he knew what was right for a woman, wow, shocker.

Yeah, bullets go through people. Idiot.

THE DIARY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN EVIDENCE THE ENTIRE TIME JESUS CHRIST

So what was Spencer whole deal, just gay and knew a guy at the wrong place at the wrong time?

HOT CON ALERT. Shirt half unbuttoned, chest hair exposed, sunglasses on. This is the mental wash I need after remembering how god-awful and scary it can be to date.

Why is he talking to the cop? I thought he hated him.

SHE LEFT WITH THE KIDS OH SHIT. AWWWW. Jackass cop.

Is he going to get shot? Well, now he's left with a dead lover, no wife, and no kids. Likely no place to work. He'll probably go right back into crime.

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THIS BLOND DETECTIVE. Oh, he can see her? It's a ghost thing? Ah well. If this was actually her consciousness, it doesn't make his obsession with her any less creepy.

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Story: 4/10. Spencer's thing was the only part I enjoyed.

The entire cop crew pissed me off, I didn't like a single character. The victim was guilty of being young and pretty. A bunch of men felt like they were owed her attention, and she gets accidentally killed out of possessive jealousy. So what do the writers do? Make our main protagonist fall for her. Dumb and gross. Even in death, she's just eye candy. Not a person. Her parents knew her as innocent, which is the first thing that interests the detective. Just gross. The other detectives were either just assholes, or uninteresting.

Con: Loved it. Honestly, I love when Con gets to play competent people. He felt lived in, and like what Angel should have been in 3 Steps to Heaven. All of this comes from Con's performance as a cautious criminal, not through the writing. More about his character and the way he holds himself. Gender and confidence envy.

Spencer Grieves: The sarcastic maybe Bisexual Catholic with a history of violence. He wasn't even directly tied into the main murder, he just fucked the wrong guy. Love destroys you, indeed. Again, the mother probably made the best choice getting the kids out of there. But I felt like Spencer genuinely cared, and loved his family. So in all likely hood, after all this good behavior and growth, he's probably going right back to jail.

It kind of feels like the writers threw in his queerness as a 'look at how awful of a parent/spouse he is'. Or maybe in a 'wow, a gay 'immoral' criminal, no one is shocked' copoganda way.

Which isn't great, but of the time period. Spencer is a fun and compelling character that doesn't deserve to be in this copaganda bullshit. Speaking of copaganda.

Bias that almost made me skip scene by scene through this: It's fucking propaganda. We're supposed to be sympathizing with the wisecracking asshole cops. Be happy when they lie, or mislead, or abuse their power. But no. Everything they said made me hate them, and want the criminals to get away with fucking murder. In Pie in the Sky, yeah they were cops, but they were still people. Solving stupid no stakes crimes, the assholes in the show were other cops and we as the audience were supposed to hate them. This show felt like every bad part of CSI, but British. No fault to Con here.

Overall: If anyone has clipped Con's scenes, then that's the best way to watch it. Even without context, Con's performance is fun. The way thay handled the victims part just felt gross. She was never a person, just an item, to everyone in her life. A victim who was taken advantage of by their want to love and be loved. Kind of like Spencer when you think about it, passionate about his family, and how he freaked out about his wife cheating on him. His world fell apart because he loved the male victim and his wife. Now both are left with nothing...No, im not giving the writers that much credit here.

Just rewatch Pie in The Sky. This is weird for me, cause Con plays a confirmed queer character here but it feels more hateful.

B-tier for Con's performance/character. The show around him ties him down sadly, fucking D for the story. I don't know how I'd scale this on a /10 scale. Just know, not high. While his other stuff was fun to watch, as soon as Con was off-screen I was uncomfortable.

As always, love to @ivegotnonameidea for the suggestions ;)

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You know that you have found a huge portion of success when the government starts hounding you because you have become larger than life. It’s something that happens to very few, but when it does, it makes headlines everywhere. Such is the problem facing Amazon these days, a company that was incorporated only 29 years ago.

Back in 1994, Jeff Bezos and his now-ex-wife MacKenzie Scott loaded up their belongings in Boston and headed west to Seattle, an idea in hand. The internet was still a little puppy dog, but Bezos had caught a glimpse of the future: he wanted to sell books online. He was a financier by trade, not a marketer, but he would learn. In fact, he nearly made a fatal error right out of the gate: He named his little company Cadabra, which sounded a lot like Cadaver.

Wisely, he changed it to something that would be a lot more magical by naming it for a mighty river. The metaphor was golden, and the rest is history. His website went live in July 1995.

It’s just that in those nearly three decades, Amazon has grown considerably, now accounting for 37.8% of all e-commerce sales. It is predicted to surpass Walmart as the biggest retailer next year, with a forecast 14.9% share of everything sold to consumers in the US.

And now it is being sued by the FTC and 17 states amid charges that it abuses its monopoly power, inflating prices and overcharging third-party sellers. That’s a mouthful, and those charges are very distinct and even somewhat orthogonal.

Whether Amazon inflates prices could easily be proven simply by doing an item-by-item comparison across competitors. What is overlooked in the charges is whether Amazon uses dynamic pricing, which they have most certainly done. But that is not illegal. It may be frustrating to customers, but as we have previously discussed, it happens in many venues.

Furthermore, Amazon can and does use its buying power to secure favorable pricing for itself. That too is fine; Walmart and all large chains enjoy advantages because of bulk purchasing. If they are able to enjoy higher margins on the items they sell, that is to their benefit, especially if they sell at or near the manufacturer’s suggested list price. It’s no different from places that sell gasoline; the wholesale price they pay is a function of quantity and distance from the refinery. The bigger chains purchase much more, and either pass on those savings to customers, or make more money per gallon.

But they are not obligated to pass on savings.

As for over-charging third-party sellers, that’s the beauty of the Amazon model. No one is forcing those vendors to sell through Amazon. They do so of their own volition. Yes, the arrangement plays to Amazon’s advantage, but it is their website and fulfillment operations. Don’t like it? Don’t do it.

What the charges all boil down to is whether Amazon is a monopoly, or, more broadly, has monopoly power. There is no doubt in my mind that Amazon enjoys immense power in the channel, thanks to its size but also its overall prominence in the marketplace. It can extract bargains and other concessions simply based on who they are and the value of a manufacturer’s products being available there.

Now consider how many of your shopping experiences had an Amazon search early in the process, just to gather information about what is available. The fact that Amazon is a popular search engine makes it all that easier to buy from them as well. Your local hardware store doesn’t have that advantage.

Which brings us to market share. How do you define monopoly or monopoly power? Is it in relation only to e-commerce, or total retail? Given that e-commerce is, at best, 15% of total retail, the discussion becomes murky very fast. Yes, Amazon dominates the e-commerce space, but even with the predicted hurdling of Walmart next year, it will still account for only one in seven dollars spent. And let’s not forget Walmart, which will still be right behind Amazon. Why isn’t the FTC suing Walmart for monopoly in the BAM space?

Considering e-commerce alone, Amazon’s roughly 38% share is still not enough to prove a monopoly. Compared to Google’s 90% share of online search, the charges are laughable at best. I smell a rat. The FTC is also poking at Google, and while I doubt it will prevail, it has a much better chance—at least on paper—of proving their charges. At least the numbers in Google’s case look and smell like a monopoly at the surface.

Such is the price of success. The FTC is looking for battles if only to make a statement or two about its purpose in government. As for the 17 states, I am betting there are 17 governors and attorneys general who are coat-tailing in hopes of bolstering their own image as a tough guy or gal as they consider their political aspirations.

If I were a betting man, I wouldn’t put any money on this case. It’s high-profile for sure, but that’s what happens when you have an agency tasked with ostensibly protecting the public good. It’s just that they’re fishing in the wrong river this time.

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#marketing #FTC #Amazon #antitrust #monopoly

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My Issue with the Term "Plus Size"

(when used to describe a person who is fat)

Hi, this is my first post! I've been thinking on this for a few days now and so I wanted to share. I figured Tumblr was the place to do it.

Til the mid to late 1800's, everyone's clothes would be correctly tailored to those who are wearing them, as they were made at home or by a seamstress. There weren't any mainstream clothing stores to buy premade clothes from yet, although the first clothing store was recorded to be in 1831, and so the issue of sizing was something that wasn't prevalent.

The late 1800's is when people really started to consider buying from clothing stores more often than they would make their own clothes or have them tailored. This also coincides with the birth of sweat shops in the textile and sewing industries, til regulations were put in place to help *better* but not good working conditions. Anyways, with these new factories, clothes were able to come out cheaper and faster than ever before, so the industry grew. Though, these companies discovered that they were losing money because they did not sell clothes with a standard sizing. The NBS (National Bureau of Standards) took measurements of 15,000 women to decide average sizing. These women were in the Great Depression, and therefore were slimmer than average in the years prior or years to come. Women who worked in the war were added to these measurements later, adding about 6,300 women.

The sizing has continued to shift and change to become bigger than the decades before. In 2008, a size 8 was equivalent to a size 14 or 16 in the 1950's. Because the "plus size" range is supposed to be above the average sizing, the term is relative and holds very little standalone meaning. But what brands consider to be plus sized isn't stable either. The measurements for the clothes are similar, but some brands even think that a size 12+ is plus sized, while others believe that 18+ is plus sized.

So, what *does* plus sized mean?

When most women are wearing what is considered to be plus size by one brand, and considered to be standard sizing by another, what does it mean to be plus sized?

I don't think it means anything. In fact, when that term is used to describe someone's body instead of the clothes someone wears, people often use "fat" and "plus sized" interchangeably. But that's not the only people who wear plus size clothing.

He is very much considered to be under the plus size category.

Same with The Rock.

Using plus sized and fat interchangeably not only diminishes the meaning of a body to what they are able to fit in, includes an entirely separate group of people when describing the experiences and problems that fat people go through, and (in my opinion) is just a lazy way to get out of saying the word "fat."

Fat isn't a bad word!!! When you are talking about the experiences of fat people, using the term "plus size" is not accurate and both excludes people who fit into standard sizing and are fat, and includes people who do not face those issues and misrepresents the issues of being fat. It also continues the narrative that "fat" is a word that needs to be softened in order to be said, like "chubby."

Just say fat.

with love,

-kat

If you disagree with me or have anything to say on the subject, please do so civilly. I love conversations and the exchange of information and opinion, as long as we're not sitting there insulting each other like toddlers.

here are the sources i used to educate myself on the subjects in this little rant :

How ‘Plus Size’ Came To Be and the Fluctuation of the Ideal Body - Viva Glam Magazine

WHAT IS CONSIDERED PLUS SIZE? - Bloom Wholesale

The troubling history of the plus-size section — and where it has to go from here - mic

Clothing Industry - encyclopedia . com

Why America Stopped Making Its Own Clothes - KQED

#fat #body positive #rant #informative #curvy body #body neutrality #plus size #fat activism #fat acceptance

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earaercircular · 6 months

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Against excessive use of new equipment

3000 euros for ski equipment? No thanks. More and more people are stocking up on used equipment because they don't want to take part in the consumer frenzy.

A weekend dedicated to mountain and ski sports. While in Sölden, Austria the Ski World Cup starts the season with grotesque expenditure, hundreds of interested flock in Munich on Sunday to the grounds of the Flower Wholesale Market Hall[1] in Sendling - and pay homage to mountain sports sustainability. The Alpine Flea Market of the Munich and Oberland Alpine Club section[2], as a huge used goods market for ski and mountain equipment, experiences a huge rush first thing in the morning.

“The material has become so expensive,” say student Natascha Muth and her friend Jonas De Lorenzo. She is 28 and was a ski instructor; he is 31, and both are critical of buying "brand new ski touring equipment for 3,000 euros" in the store. They find new, good backpacks for 60 euros instead of 300 euros new, and Natascha Muth soon found some fantastically beautiful touring skis with skins for 320 euros and strapped them to the right and left of the new old backpack. They find the flea market “extremely friendly” and praise the experienced, fair sellers, “the good atmosphere and the honest prices”. They only returned from climbing in Berchtesgaden on Saturday and are now beaming happily in the Munich sun after their shopping.

Jonas De Lorenzo also sees a worrying development in mountain sports. He thinks it's "really wild that people go to a sports store, buy maximum equipment, go to the mountains once - and then sell it again." This is also a development as a result of social media, where “extremes are made appetising” on all possible channels. This actually leads to more accidents in the mountains because some people overestimate themselves, even when relying on the expensive maximum equipment. That is deceptive: "The equipment does not compensate for your own performance level."

This danger does not exist for Tobias Pannemann from Grafing[3]. The young adult looks satisfied at his used white and green Carver, which he just bought for 80 euros. “New skis from the store with which one maybe goes skiing once, just costs a little too much,” he laughs. Sabine Pannemann, his mom from Munich, even got some for 65 euros and is now giving up her retro status: her old skis, which she says are 40 years old, are now on retirement. She no longer trusts the old ties.

The Pannemanns were arrived half an hour before opening on Sunday morning and were able to rush through as soon as the barrier tape went up at 9 a.m. They were by no means the only ones, the Alpine flea market with its 86 registered stalls is a hit for everyone who watches the price increases for equipment and lift tickets in horror, but still wants to practice their sport. A quick look at the price table in Sölden, just 200 kilometres away: adults pay 69.50 to 74 euros at the "lift cash desk", depending on the low, high or "top season", young people 55.50 to 59.50 euros and Children 38 to 41 euros.

One can understand why Daniela Kowitz from Munich got up early this Sunday with her school-age sons Theo and Hannes. You find what you are looking for at a huge dealer stand from a ski rental company in Jenbach[4] in Tyrol and go home satisfied with a pair of skis, two pairs of ski boots and a sports luge. "When the weather is nice, we like to go skiing from Munich into the mountains - it's worth it!" What you save on equipment is available for lift tickets, clear calculation. And probably also a success within the family for the mother, because the sons even got out of bed early. Well, the winter time change made it milder by an hour.

While the saleswoman at the Jenbacher ski rental shop is constantly feeding her belly bag with new fifty-euro notes because business is obviously doing particularly well in the wonderful weather, Hannah Trowal is also happy at the Alpine Club stand. She is press spokesperson for the Munich-Oberland section and helped organise the Alpine flea market. Trowal reports that there have been many more inquiries from sellers - so word is getting around among sellers about the success of this used stuff trade fair.

The Alpine Club (DAV) has been proposing this flea market since the early 1990s. Margot Lapp knows exactly what it was like at the very beginning. She is also at the DAV stand, sporty type with the same tan, 76 years young, still active in cycling, skiing, cross-country skiing and climbing. She came up with the idea of the Alpine flea market back then and organised it for the first time, “in the Augustiner Hall on Hirtenstrasse”[5]. That was an immediate huge success.

When Margot Lapp looks around in front of the flower wholesale market hall today, she is happy at how much it has developed. She also advertises an analogue altimeter to a young prospective buyer, "150 euros, from an older gentleman who no longer needs it." She has been at the DAV for 55 years, comes every year and helps out, and is also an experienced saleswoman: "People just want to keep bargaining down, but then I'm tough; I'd rather take it home with me." There is a next alpine flea market.

How much the mountain friends care about sustainability with this flea market is also demonstrated by a stand where master tailor Barbara Heinze mends, sews and repairs equipment for free. The Alpine Club booked her for the flea market. The queue at her stand is getting longer and longer, at some point she has to stop accepting items and direct people to her shop at Oberländerstraße 20 in Sendlinger[6]. There it is expensive, but at least everything is in experienced hands.

Heinze has worked and designed for large outdoor equipment companies and has now specialised not only in custom-made outdoor items but also in the maintenance of often expensive equipment. Theresa Möhrle from the Munich mountain rescue service is just passing her merino wool shirt across the table to be mended - she once bought it at a DAV alpine flea market. Circular economy in the best sense. And somehow the pleasant opposite of the high-speed commercialism that the World Cup opener on the glacier 200 kilometres away represents.

Source

Tom Soyer, Wider die Materialschlacht, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 29/10/2023; https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/wintersport-flohmarkt-alpenverein-1.6295625

[1] The Blumengroßmarkt (wholesale flower market) in Munich-Sendling is well known due to its large selection, especially in the regional summer cut flower sector. The customer base extends as far as South Tyrol and from Bad Wörishofen to Regensburg. The flowers are sold by around 32 suppliers, from regional gardeners to cut flower dealers who offer flowers from all over the world, as well as perennial gardeners, potted plant dealers, fir dealers, Ribbon printing, decoration and consumer goods retailers have a wide range of products in all their diversity.

[2] Mountain athletes from Munich and the surrounding area can buy used equipment again on Saturday, March 26, 2022. Then the traditional spring alpine flea market of the Munich & Oberland Alpine Club sections (in German: Alpinflohmarkt der Alpenvereins-Sektion München und Oberland) takes place - in the Sugar Mountain cultural centre in Munich.

[3] Grafing near Munich is a town and the third largest municipality in the Upper Bavarian district of Ebersberg and is located in one of the economically strongest districts in the Munich area.

[4] Jenbach is a municipality in the district of Schwaz in the Austrian state of Tyrol.

[5] https://www.augustinerkeller.de/de

[6] https://barbaraheinze.com/kontakt/

#second hand clothes #second hand ski equipment

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