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guinevere-beck-fanboy · 3 years

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Listing all of Regina Mills’s bad deeds - Attempt 2

So once I tried to list every single one of Regina’s villainous acts throughout the show. However it was pointed out to me that I missed a few. So I’m now going to have another attempt, and I will keep attempting until I have made a complete list without any failure.

So here we go in order of what happened chronologically first, not what was shown earlier in the show:

1. Murdered Rumple’s student who he pretended to replace her with

2. Tried to kill Snow

3. Tried to kill Emma and Marian when Emma came to the past

4. Tried to kill Snow via FIRE (that’s just sadistic, death by fire is hands down one of the worst ways to go!)

5. Incriminated Snow of many horrific crimes and made her a notorious outlaw across the land

6. Killed everyone in a village for liking Snow

7. Prevented Ariel and Eric being together and took Ariel’s voice

8. Sent multiple children to the Blind Witch and got them killed and eaten

9. Separated Hansel and Gretel from their father

10. Abducted, imprisoned, enslaved and controlled Graham by taking his heart and raped him seemingly multiple times

11. Imprisoned Belle in a single room for 28 years (ooo this one is bad *shivers*)

12. Abducted, imprisoned and tormented Charming by revealing her plans for Snow to eat the poisoned apple

13. Tried to put Snow under a lifelong nightmare (not a metaphorical nightmare, a literal life lasting bad dream, listen to what she says before trying to get Snow to eat the apple, that’s what it does, and I think this is a fate worse than death, and overall her second most evil act on the show because of that)

14. Choked a woman in a crowd Snow was talking to

15. Choked Grumpy in the second crowd Snow was talking to

16. Trapped her father in a box

17. Killed her horse

18. Turned a man to stone for laughing at her failed attempt to cast the Dark Curse

19. Killed her father

20. Cast the Dark Curse

21. Tried to kill Emma when she was a baby

22. Scared the Storybrooke residents into never running against her in elections (this is explained by Mary Margaret in a very early episode. Storybrooke is practically a dictatorship)

23. Endangered Archie and Pongo’s lives to test if Snow was awake or not in Storybrooke

24. Spied on Storybrooke residents (yeah this is some utopia man)

25. Tried to incriminate Owen’s father of drunk driving

26. Manipulated Sydney’s feelings for her to get him to do her dirty work

27. Tried to separate Owen and his father

28. Murdered Owen’s father

29. Tried to prevent Emma and Henry, a birth mother and son having a relationship

30. Gaslighted Henry and tried to make him think he was insane for knowing the truth going as far as getting him therapy appointments

31. Kept Snowing apart in Storybrooke, and presumably Kathryn and her husband too

32. Threatened Emma to leave Storybrooke

33. Forced the Storybrooke hotel to not accept Emma as a guest

34. Got Sydney to dig up dirt on Emma

35. Incriminated Emma of stealing Henry’s files from Archie

36. Murdered Graham

37. Tried to install a puppet as the sheriff of Storybrooke’s police department, breaking protocol to install the deputy in case of the sheriff’s passing

38. Tried to send Hansel and Gretel across the town line

39. Used her authority to shorten Mr Gold’s sentence for assault and battery, and assisted him in what she thought was an attempt on Kathryn’s life

40. Tried to incriminate Mary Margaret of Kathryn Nolan’s apparent murder

41. Set up Sydney to take the fall for Kathryn’s abduction

42. Tried to seduce David

43. Tried to make Emma eat the poisoned apple and put her under a lifelong literal nightmare (hands down the worst thing she did, a fate worse than death inflicted on the biological mother of her adoptive son...... no words for this evil)

44. Turned a man who wanted to kill Charming into a giant to help him do so

45. Helped Cora try and become the Dark One and kill Emma, Snow, Charming and Neal so she could have Henry to herself

46. Tried to kill Snow for daring to desperately prevent Cora taking her and her family’s lives by killing her in self defence

47. Tried to kill everyone in Storybrooke and take Henry to the Enchanted Forest to have him to herself

48. Tried to kill Marian again

49. Trapped Sydney in the mirror

50. Blamed Emma for saving Marian’s life (how dare you rescue the person I was trying to kill >:()

What I have chosen not to include and why:

1. Killing Leopold

I’m pretty torn on this one. She was trapped by Leopold in a life she didn’t want, trapped as his wife, as a queen. Leopold didn’t ask for her consent in marriage, he just accepted Cora’s approval as a yes. He also proposed to her upon first sight, always a red flag.

Then again in medieval times it could be argued that this is how society worked. Leopold wasn’t being malicious, just that’s what society had led him to believe is proper behavior. And maybe everyone else is doing it too. So is killing someone for doing something that anyone else would also do really acceptable?

2. Trapping Jefferson in Wonderland

While it was her own fault, her father was imprisoned in a box and that was the only way to free him. So I think having one person be freed at the cost of another person’s imprisonment is a kind of lose something and gain something of equal value kind of thing.

#once upon a time #ouat #anti regina mills #anti regina

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roswelldetails · 4 years

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RNM 2x05 - I'll Stand By You

So just a little note from me, the person behind the season 2 detailing. I am trying really really hard to keep emotion out of these posts...which is really really hard for me because I'm an inherently emotional person. I'm a glass case of emotion, ready to shatter at any given moment. (#dramatic) But I want to be true to the intent of this blog and keep my feelings, biases, and, you know, shipping out of this blog.

It was really really hard to do with this episode. Because I straight up ugly cried for like, 45 of the 60 minutes. 😂

So I guess, the point is, I'm proud of myself and sticking to the details here. My regular blog is where I'm doing the emotional flip out thing! 😂

EPISODE SUMMARY:

ACCEPTING REALITY — The discovery of some complications with Max’s (Nathan Dean) pod forces Liz (Jeanine Mason), Michael (Michael Vlamis) and Isobel (Lily Cowles) to confront the possibility that they may not be able to save him. Elsewhere, Maria (Heather Hemmens) and Alex (Tyler Blackburn) make amends. Kimberly McCullough directed the episode written by Alanna Bennett & Jason Gavin (#205). Original airdate 4/13/2020.

DETAILS:

Max/Isobel/Michael reunite at age 11 according to what Michael tells Alex in 1x10. So that would make the opening of this episode set in 2002ish.

Michael tells Max and Isobel, "I remember you. I don't know you."

"After nobody adopted me for a year they just stuck me with the name of that trucker who found us."

"I didn't ask you for anything."

This is like the thesis statement of Michael's whole history with Max in the flashbacks.

"Don't pay more than you collect, kid. Passing credit back and forth is a good way to get stuck with somebody forever."

Rosa's art.

What I can see says: "...what they all told me, but I didn't listen" and "Stand the shelter".

Rosa on her dreams

"I have not had any freaky dreams in weeks. Okay, Max is probably off haunting Isobel now that they're strong enough for their psychic twincest weirdness."

"How long has that been happening?"

"Um, I don't know. It's an old boom box."

"Rosa, have electrical appliances been malfunctioning around you?"

"I really thought it was just a side effect of the handprint."

"If being in the pod introduced a new protein into your system it could have altered your DNA too. You could be developing abilities."

"Liz, look. The handprint is changing. It's smaller."

"It's fading."

"Tell me this is a good thing."

"I don't think so."

Michael and Liz theorizing on why the pod shorted out:

"The pod's got a charge. It's like a battery powering the preservation process. This one's gone dead."

"Did the generator blow the electromagnetic threshold?"

"I think a surge came from the pod itself. But that pod has lasted almost a century. It shouldn't glitch out."

"Okay, well, then, this one did."

"All right, stop. It doesn't matter why the pod is broken. It just is. So how long does Max have?"

"My theory is that being tethered to Rosa through the mark is what kept Max from going brain-dead, and in turn the stasis process is what kept the mark from fading. So he could be gone by tonight."

"Okay, well, we have three more pods. So let's just put him into another pod."

"No. He's just gonna do it again. I haven't told you everything. I didn't want to scare you. I didn't want to be the one that took the hope away."

"Talk now, Rosa. Right now."

"I was seeing Max in my nightmares months before I told you about it, and he was begging me to stop you. He said that he was in a lot of pain in there."

"That's Noah's pod. Noah told us it was broken. It wasn't keeping him in stasis. He could feel time passing. None of us thought of that."

"We've been doing everything we can to make Max stronger. He pulled his own plug."

Note...as far as we know Isobel was the only one who knew about Noah's pod being broken. In 1x12 it was before Liz arrived at the house that he told them about the broken pod, so only Max and Isobel heard that part of the story.

Alex on his training. "NSA intelligence cryptology training".

Monitor screen in the secret lab:

Noah's heart is still too weak to transplant. Kyle says it needs at least eight more weeks

"I wrote a paper for a bioethics class on patients in vegetative states who feel pain. Sometimes it's all they feel."

As a non sciencey person, I was wondering if bioethics class was a real thing. Tonight I saw an interview on the news with a UC Berkeley bioethics professor on COVID. So yes, it's a thing.

Alex on Michael that summer post-Rosa's death:

Starting fights with jocks

Broke into the drugstore

Not going to UNM

Hasn't hung out with Max all summer

Got busted for stealing hubcaps (Kyle's hubcaps, we learn later)

Became a walking bar fight

Was in jail when Alex left to enlist

Michael on Max in 2008:

"It's more than that. And it's less than that. We were friends when we were kids, but now Max reminds me of a bunch of stuff that I'd rather forget. The only thing that we have in common anymore is Isobel."

Max's yearbook had a pencil stuck in the page with Liz and Max's photo in it. (The one we first saw in 1x03).

"Biology Club. Max hated science. He was in that club for four years just to watch your sister chew on the end of her pencil."

Max's mindscape:

First just desert, clouds, and then lightning strikes (destructive energy?)

Liz's antennae -- they disappear from Isobel's hands

Rosa describes it as broken

Crashdown special is Max's favorite "Little Green Man milkshake".

The Crashdown counter is kind of merged with biology lab equipment.

The juke box is there

The Crashdown booths

Jeep

Neon Crashdown sign

One of those claw drop game machines (from the Crashdown) but it's filled with baked good displays.

The yearbook

Later, everything else is gone except the one Crashdown booth, the Jeep, and the neon sign.

The distorted music they follow to find Max is the Cactus Groove song in the music list...just, messed around with. See @angsty-nerd's post here:

"I'm the hothead. You are the hero. It's always been that way."

"You stole the hubcaps off Kyle Valenti's graduation present. Both his parents are cops. Do you want to end up in jail tonight?".

👀 Tonight, specifically.

Michael seemed excited about the job at Foster's Ranch until he found out that Max set it up for him. Max found out about it from his dad (only like the 2nd or 3rd mention of his dad in the series so far).

"When I got back in town I asked Max why you and your brilliant mind hadn't changed the world yet. He said you didn't care about the world enough to bother changing it. He believed you could."

Max and Isobel in the mindscape:

"You're okay. I could feel something was wrong with you. Everything felt…"

"Cold. I know."

"You can't be here. It's finally ending. I can feel it. But I don't know what happens if you're in my head when I die."

"So it's true? You want this?"

"I could feel my connection to the outside world getting stronger, so I snapped. I couldn't take it anymore. I released a surge. You have to let me go, Iz."

"I can't take it anymore."

"Okay."

"I am so sorry."

"I just want to memorize this."

"Okay. Okay. I need you to tell Liz something."

"You can tell her yourself. She and Kyle are prepping for surgery. They're going to use the faulty heart. She just wants to talk to you before you die."

"No. No."

"You won't be suffering. They're just gonna bring you back and then let you go."

"No you have to stop this. You cannot bring me back under any circumstances."

"Max? What is really going on?"

"I am dangerous. Whatever Liz is bringing back is not me. It's just some broken shell."

Maria on her mom's computer

"Her nurse said that for the two weeks before she went missing, when she wasn't trying to escape, she was talking to someone online."

The 21st birthday flashback

Isobel gets Michael to help move Max after getting drunk on tequila. He passed out in front of the tattoo parlor. It's the same tattoo parlor Michael goes to at the end of the episode.

Max's weird drunken statement.

"The thing is, there has to be there. Okay? There's always three. Until the very end. I'll show you...What it means is you should be here…'cause it's all broken without three. So we'll figure it out. You'll find your way back."

👀 Until the very end. Interesting.

On Max becoming a deputy:

"You know he did the whole police academy thing because of you, right? He thinks you're gonna get into the kind of trouble you can't get out of if you don't know someone."

Back in the mindscape:

"I figured it all out. She, there's an energy to suffering, there's an energy to death, and when I heal people, I absorb that energy. So when I resurrected Rosa, I took in ten years of emptiness. So if you resurrect me, you will be bringing back an infection. Don't want… I don't want to come back as a monster. I don't want to hurt anyone that I care about."

"That's what this is about? We've been hurting, Max. We don't work without you."

"You will! You will. You are stronger now than when I died. All of you are. You, Michael, Liz, you will survive this. The three of you. No, you need to stop them, Iz. Now."

"Okay. I love you."

"You too." Isobel disappears.

Max is using pretty similar wording to his drunken rambles in the 21st birthday flashback

We don't see that Max is chained down until this next exchange with Rosa. Isobel didn't see that detail as far as we know. Didn't hear the chains clanking when they stood and hugged. Only after Isobel left.

"I'm sorry this is happening."

"Isobel is lying. She is buying time. You know she'll never let me go. But you can feel the darkness too, right? That's why you don't like being in my head. Because you know it's real."

"I didn't want that to be true, but yes."

"I know my sister and I know your sister and they'll never give up. So you have to be the one to stop this surgery, okay? Or I will destroy everything that we love. You have to stop them to save them. Now go. Please, Rosa. Go."

Isobel explaining to Liz

"When he saved Rosa he absorbed all of that dark energy. He's gonna have to expel it."

"And he's afraid he's gonna kill someone when he does."

"Yeah. So we just need someone stronger than Max to take that hit...if he thinks he needs to protect us he obviously doesn't know how capable we are. Bring him back, Liz. I'll handle the rest."

"I get it now. It's gotta be the three of us."

"He would never pull his plug to end his own suffering. Unless he thought he was saving us from something. And I'm a little sick of his heroic martyr crap."

In case you missed it, Michael did not know that. At the beginning of the hospital sequence Isobel is telling Liz what she learned in Max's mindscape and says that she hasn't been able to get ahold of Michael. Michael figured it out on his own. He finally "got it".

The pacemaker:

Isobel with Max at the end… everything is gone except the Jeep. And Bright Eyes playing (the song he and Liz danced to on their first date back in 2008). And then his eyes close and Bright Eyes fades away.

“First thing I remember is the three of us. We woke up terrified and lost. But together. And then all of the sudden I was alone. I got real good at being alone. I had given up on people entirely. And then you found me again. Hell of hero move. You showed up just in time. When you are a kid who nobody loves, kindness is a currency. Friendship doesn’t means jack. Family just lies, and hurts, and leaves. I’ve only ever known love to be temporary. So yeah, I push people away. Every time someone threatens to care about me I test their love until they have to leave. Connection is conditional. Everybody eventually gives up on the guy who refuses to be rescued. But you were the only one who I couldn’t run off. You never believed me when I tried to be something I wasn’t. So this thing in your chest, it might give your heart a pretty solid kick every once in a while. Consider it payback. It’s my hero move, Max. If you wake up, you consider us even, okay? If you wake up, we can be a family.”

Good visual parallels during Michael's speech. Alex and Kyle drinking together during the "and then you found me again". Maria walking up on "the guy who refuses to be rescued"

Max is in the coma for three weeks. Wakes up at the secret lab (instead of his house, which is where he was previously. I'm guessing it was a planned wake up because he's no longer plugged into all of the IVs and whatnot.

"I begged you to understand."

"Max, it's gonna be fine."

"No… I told you to let me go. I can feel it inside me."

"It's...it's symmetry, okay? It's just energy for energy. We can deal with that. Fight it, Max. This isn't you."

"I don't want to hurt you. I need to get out. I need to get away from you, from everyone."

"I can't let you do that."

Max shoves Isobel and runs. When he shoves her there's a slight ringing like the sound they use when the aliens use their powers. Isobel follows and stops him with her powers.

"I made a promise that if you came back and you weren't Max, and you were actually going to hurt people that I would kill you. I figure, hey, you got to play God. Make life and death decisions all on your own. Well it's my turn now."

MUSIC:

1. Letters To Cleo "Here and Now"

2. Lady Antebellum "Love Don't Live Here"

3. Cactus Groove "Fallin"

4. James Talley "Big Thunder"

8. Ross Copperman "Stars Are On Your Side"

5. Lindsey Ray "Keep You Safe"

6. Tommee Profitt feat. Sam Tinnesz "With you Til The End"

7. Bright Eyes "First Day Of My Life"

The Cactus Groove song is the first song this season that I haven’t been able to find on Spotify… let me know if any of y’all had any luck with it!

#roswell new mexico #rnm season 2 #episode details #long post #rnm 205 #i'll stand by you

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let-love-run-red · 5 years

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Purple

AN: Hey guess who’s back, I’m sorry I left you all hanging for so long but here it is! Finally, the newest chapter of Daffodils!

Tags: @keithseabrook27 @imaginecrushes @but-kairis-not-that-smart @zeuniel @bittersweetbooke (I’m sorry if the tags didn’t work)

warnings: fluff, some mildly sexual themes towards the end, no smut yet loves

Luke shuffled around the little office tucked into the back of the club. After looking around the club, you'd decided it wasn't the type of club that raves and parties took place at, it was more like a bar where people who just wanted a drink or two would hang out with and didn't necessarily cater to the rowdy crowd.

"You're worried I can tell." Luke said, looking up from his desk where he'd pulled out a stack of pictures. You swallowed meekly. You remembered clearly how often Luke was around after Han left, helping Leia raise Ben during the shaky months afterward, the days Ben almost ran away, the days he'd climb through your window into your bed to cry on your shoulder with fresh scars on his arms and bruises on his knuckles from punching the wall.

"Of course I'm worried, aren't you?" You questioned Luke. He took another drink from his water bottle and shook his head with a grunt.

"Your nephew just started a fight in your club, beat somebody, and then got arrested, and you're not worried?" you asked incredulously. Luke looked at you with a quirked eyebrow as if begging you to continue your rant.

Instead, you sighed and put your head in your hands. This was all your fault, if you hadn't agreed to come to the show with Ben then Hux never would have showed up and Ben wouldn't be sitting in jail.

"He's been arrested before." Luke said, very matter of fact, while looking through the stack of pictures. He plucked one out and handed it to you. The picture showed a 13-year-old Ben, dressed in a black hoodie and jeans sitting in a holding cell in the police station pouting while someone took the picture of him.

"Took that the last time he got arrested for picking a fight. He beat them up too, had a good reason though." Luke said. You tilted your head, why had he taken a picture of Ben instead of helping him?

"Don't worry, he just got fined, Leia and I paid it, then grounded him for a month and made him work off the fine. And he didn't kill anybody this time so worst case he gets a fine, maybe a night in jail, and he's done." Luke explained. That did make sense, it was in self-defense, Ben hadn't thrown the first punch. You looked up to see Luke fiddling with his computer and a USB stick, when you realized what he was doing. Luke had hidden cameras all around the club, and he was pulling the footage from them.

"C'mon, you'll need to tell them what happened down at the police station." Luke said, heading out of the office and walking through the now empty club.

"Ms. (y/l/n), what happened to provoke the fight?" The deputy asked as she sat down across from you. She was petite, with curly black hair that stopped just above her shoulder.

"Well, Armi-, Hux, he climbed onto the stage and started getting in Ben's face. Calling me names, threatening me, so Ben got between me and Hux and he put his hands up, then Hux charged him and someone pulled me out of the way and then everything is just," you paused and put your hand over your mouth as you remembered the thwack sound Ben's head made as it snapped back against the ground.

"Ok, hey, it's ok. You're not in trouble. Now, did Ben do anything to start the fight? Did he say anything?" The deputy asked. You thought back and shook your head, Ben hadn't said a word in response to Hux's taunts.

"No, he just put his hands up when Hux wouldn't back down. He was just trying to defend me." You responded.

"Ok, now why was Armitage upset?"

"I um, we broke up last week. He didn't take it well, he kept coming to my house, I've been staying with Ben and his mom the past few days." You explained. The deputy wrote down a few notes on her notepad as she nodded along, then looked up at you with a smile.

"Well, with what you've told us and the footage from Mr. Skywalker to corroborate, the assault and battery charges against Ben will be dropped. He was defending you and did nothing to instigate the fight." You felt the weight lifted off your shoulders.

"However, he will still be charged with resisting arrest. Since there was no harm to an officer it will be a misdemeanor charge and he'll only be charged with probation for three years and a fine of $400." She explained. You furrowed your eyebrows.

"Probation, in this case, just means that he can't get picked up for the same crime in the next two years or he'll be punished with jail time." The deputy explained. You nodded, pursing your lips.

"Well, that's all we needed you for, thank you Ms. (y/l/n), you can wait here, and we'll have Ben out in a minute." The deputy said, standing and offering her hand for you to shake. You took it and stood, turning when you heard a commotion coming from the back of the station where they had the holding cell.

"Hey, hey! you said the charges were dropped why are you still walking me out in cuffs?" You heard Ben snap. You heard the jangling of the chain on Ben's jeans as the cops bustled him from the back towards the doors of the station. You felt overwhelmed upon seeing him and rushed towards him.

"Ben!" You cried as you ran towards him and threw your arms around his neck, standing on your toes. He lowered his head and tucked it against your neck, letting out a deep sigh and relaxing himself against you. The officers finally let go of his arms and uncuffed him, allowing him to wrap his arms around your waist.

"god (y/n) you're ok, they dragged me away and I didn't know what happened to you and-" You cut Ben's rambling off by pushing your face against his neck. Ben sighed and pulled away from you, looking up to see Luke walking out of a separate office.

"No no, thank you chief. I promise you won't see him in here again, don't worry about him." Luke shut the door behind him and walked swiftly towards you and Ben, his cloak billowing behind him.

"Benjamin Lando Solo, I cannot believe you'd be involved in a fight in my place of business." Luke hissed as he reached up and grabbed Ben's ear, dragging him out the door. You could hear snickering from the officers behind you. You followed close behind as Ben winced and grimaced. He tripped over his feet as Luke dragged him out of the building and towards his old beat up car.

"I understand, that boy was a, a kriffing idiot, but getting in a fight? I thought your mother had raised you better." Luke said. Ben pulled himself away and straightened his shirt, stomping his foot against the ground.

"Luke, I get it I was stupid. But, if you knew, if you knew what he did, then you'd have done the same thing." Ben said, running his fingers over the purple bruises forming on his knuckles. Luke's stance softened as he watched how Ben shuffled his feet against the blacktop.

"(y/n) what's wrong?" Ben asked when he saw you sitting by yourself tucked in a corner of the hallway while everybody else was at lunch.

"Nothing." You said, wiping your face with the sleeve of Ben's blue jacket you'd stolen a few days ago. You sniffled and pulled your knees up closer as Ben sat down on the ground and shuffled towards you.

"(y/n) somethings wrong, please tell me what it is?" Ben asked. You shoved your face against the purple sleeve and sniffled again.

Ben sighed and said nothing, just held his arms out to you. You leaned against him and shoved your face against his chest as you continued sniffling and more tears leaked from your eyes. Ben held you and rubbed your back as you reached up and ran your hands through his jaw length curly hair.

"(y/n) I'm your best friend, please tell me what's wrong because I want to help you." Ben said softly. You lifted your head and rested your chin on his shoulder. His black curly hair tickling your nose.

"Y'know Jason? The um, the kid in our math class?" Ben nodded along and rubbed your back, turning his head to look at you.

"You mean Jabba the Hutt?" Ben said. He was a little cruel with his nicknames, but it fit, Jason was easily the biggest kid in the 7th grade and was about 150 pounds overweight. Which is why it made it so easy for him to pick on you.

"He's just being an ass to me. Like stealing my stuff, pushing me in the hall, yeah." You muttered in his ears. He rested his nose against your forehead and hummed.

"And?"

"He called me a slut." You whispered, hoping he couldn't hear you.

"He what?" Ben snapped, lifting his head and looking at you with fury burning behind his whiskey-gold eyes.

"He called me a slut for hanging out with you so often." You said, quieter than before. Ben growled, low in his throat.

"I'll be right back." Ben said, pulling away from you and standing up.

True enough to his words, Ben came back a few minutes later with dried blood around his nose and a purple bruise forming under his left eye as he sat down next to you and flashed you a grin.

"Something tells me Jabba the Hutt won't be bothering you anymore." Ben said.

"Really? What tells you that."

"the three missing teeth I just knocked out of his head." Ben said with a sparkling crooked smile. You smiled back and wrapped your arms around his neck, pressing yourself against his chest.

"Hey, I just wanted to say thank you. For, dealing with Hux." You said as you climbed into Ben's bed watching him get ready.

Ben shrugged and pulled his shirt off, stretching his shoulders and bending down to pick up the shirt he just dropped on the floor.

"No big deal. You're my best friend, aaand Hux is an ass." Ben said, undoing his belt and dropping his jeans and kicking them away from him, bending down once again to pick up the jeans before dropping them in his hamper and climbing into the bed. You pulled the blankets back as Ben climbed into the bed and switched the lamp off. You tossed the blankets back over Ben, making sure you still had enough for yourself. Ben rolled onto his side and pushed the blankets down to his hips.

"You really didn't have to fight him though." You said, scooting closer to Ben and running your hand down his bare back, gently scratching his back the way you knew he liked. He hummed and shuffled back towards you.

"Yeah I did. Payback for every bruise he left on you and every time he pushed you to your knees trying to get you to suck his dick." Ben growled. You gently pushed his shoulder to get him to roll onto his stomach. He complied, and you pushed yourself up, swinging one leg over his back and straddling him while you dug the heels of your hands into his shoulders. He let out a groan as you started rubbing his back. Ben sighed happily, and you looked down at his smiling face as you rubbed his shoulders.

Ben let out a deep breath and suddenly rolled over so he was facing you and you were straddling his hips. You looked down at him as he rested his hands on your hips, rubbing his thumbs over your skin. He took a breath, his lips slightly parted as he looked at your face.

"(y/n), I-" He paused, and you leaned down, resting your hands on his chest, looking into his eyes as you brushed your nose against his. He slid his hands from your hips to your back, one on your lower back and one between your shoulders and pulled you closer so your chests were pressed together. You moved your hands to tangle in his fluffy black hair, brushing your nose against his cheek.

"Ben, are we?" You muttered, your lips inches from his. He lowered his hand from your back down to the waistband of your panties, snapping it gently as he brushed his lips against yours. You shuffled your hips slightly, hearing Ben gasp and felt him harden against you.

You leaned forward and pressed your lips together and grinding your hips against Ben's. He hummed against your lips, pressing his hands against you and sliding one hand down to your butt, squeezing it softly. You moaned slightly and Ben took that opportunity to slide his tongue into your mouth. You felt his stubble scratching lightly at your face and you gently tugged at his hair, feeling a moan rumble through his chest. You slid your hand down between your bodies, resting it against his hardening dick, giving an experimental squeeze. Ben groaned and dropped his head back onto the pillow.

"(y/n), I need y-" Ben's words were interrupted by Leia knocking gently on the door. You felt your face flush as you pushed yourself off Ben and rolled on your side facing away from him to avoid the growing blush on your cheeks.

"Yeah mom, what is it?" Ben called. Leia pushed the door open.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to wake her, is she asleep?" Leia asked. Ben looked over to you and you stayed still, signaling for him to say you were sleeping. You couldn't face Leia after what she just almost walked in on. Thank god that woman believed in knocking.

"Angel and BB-8 were scratching at your door, I figured Angel wanted to sleep with (y/n), he's always slept with her anyway." Leia said. The two dogs trotted in the door and Angel bounded onto the bed, laying on top of you and huffing in your face. BB-8 settled himself at the foot of the bed as Leia shut the door quietly.

You couldn't believe you just almost had sex with your best friend.

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Team REIN

-Going to just write down stuff about each individual member, because I really need to solidify things.

Ray Day:

-Ray Day, the leader of team REIN. Ray’s from a royal family back in Atlas, the Day family is a group of incredibly powerful hunters. He has some big shoes to fill in, but his family isn’t exactly the most willing to let him try.

-Ray often struggles with leading, but has Gale as his ‘deputy’ for hard decisions.

-He’s 6′5 ft tall.

-His freckles glow at night. It’s a common Day physical feature.

-His fairy-tale is the Lindworm, but he takes obvious parallels to Apollo and Helios.

-His weapon, Gilded Hyacinth, is a reference to Apollo’s flowers.

-The team will often use Ray as a battery for electronics.

-Ray has woken up a few times covered in peoples’ scrolls.

-The Day family is a set of famous hunters back in Atlas. They have sun-based semblances typically, and are highly regarded as efficient hunters throughout history. The newest heirs to the title are Ray and his twin.

-While Ray is technically the older twin, everyone regards him as the younger ‘bastard’ twin that they didn’t want.

-Ray’s sigil was altered by the family, after discovering his terrible semblance, so he wasn’t allowed to have the ‘true’ family sigil.

-Ray’s twin brother, Voski, is the younger twin. He remains in Atlas with the rest of the family.

-Ray was banished from the family when he wished to attend Beacon instead of Atlas.

-Ray upon becoming a successful hunter, has been called by the family to return. He has yet to reply. He doesn’t want to deal with them.

-Ray’s semblance has serious backlash if not expended properly. It results in a burn-to-touch monstrosity, Ray’s little secret, as he has trouble controlling the more powerful side of his semblance. It’s a horrible transformation he avoids.

-This also leads to intense fatigue if not monitored.

-Emi’s helped him learn to love and accept that side of himself, starting to use it more in battle as he isn’t ashamed of using it.

-To avoid issues, Ray typically carries around extra batteries to charge when he needs to relieve energy.

-Ray treasures Gale’s advice.

-Ray is in a romantic relationship with Gale.

-Ray is bisexual, panromantic.

-Ray sometimes wishes Gale got the leadership role, but forgets he proves himself in dangerous situations time and time again.

-Ray will die for anyone who’s just nice to him. The man invests so much in people who believe in him.

-Iris is responsible for his clothes, as he arrived in less fancy clothing. She thought it was rude his family didn’t properly dress a prince.

-Ray wants to be a teacher one day maybe, he really enjoys inspiring little hunters/huntresses.

-Ray has a one track mind with getting the job done, but once you get him to laugh he’s immediately distracted. It’s why he loves Gale so much. He gets him to calm down when he’s stressed out.

-Ray desperately wanted to be the best leader he possibly could, but has mellowed out and accepted mistakes will happen.

-Ray is the medic of the crew. He has the most medical knowledge and will personally attend his own teammates.

-Ray lives with Gale, the two are inseparable. They wander Remnant, and often take tasks to eradicate Grimm.

-They have like several huts they’ve bought across Remnant, scattered all over the place.

-Other members of Team REIN often crash there, it’s not uncommon for them to cross paths at one of the ‘vacation’ homes.

-Ray has encountered his brother while travelling with Gale, and proceeded to conquer him in a duel of honor.

-Despite Voski’s suggestion, Ray decided not to slay him, and left him.

-”Tell your parents I’m never coming back.”

-Ray prefers to fight up close with his pole arm, and often will aim it at an enemy’s face to fire a few potshots at a target.

-Ray sings like a Baritone with Gale, when asked. He’s not very good at it, but he likes to humor Gale with singsong responses.

-Ray likes to collect things he just ‘likes’ when they travel. All the houses they own are covered in rocks, weird trinkets, stuffed animals, and numerous other ‘random’ collections that Ray likes to bring home.

-He really has a passion for collecting stuffed animals, as he never was allowed toys as a child. Gale enables him even at this age.

-Ray is used to his friends climbing all over him. He often carries Iris on his shoulders.

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Eminence Gagnon:

-Emi’s fairytale is Bluebeard.

-Emi is 5′8 ft tall.

-Lost child from Mistral who arrived at Vale.

-Doesn’t really know where her mother is, but is quite sure her dad is ‘gone’.

-That’s just the story she tells. She knows damn well where her family is.

-Emi was raised by a thieving family in Mistral that was selling her younger sister off to some noble to pay a debt.

-Because of this, Emi’s relationship to her parents immediately strained.

-Emi trained with the local kids of Mistral’s Academy who were willing to teach her a few tricks.

-Emi noticed her sister was distressed and discovered that the noble had a history of wives disappearing from the public eye.

-Emi gave simple instructions to her sister, ordering she stand by her nightstand as soon as they are getting ready for bed.

-The night her younger sister was stuck with the noble for their first time together, Emi shot and killed him over a seven thousand yards away with her sniper rifle.

-It was discovered the noble was using is semblance to hypnotize his wives and force them into the basement into ‘horrifically graphic circumstances’ in the news.

-Emi’s sister, Carmine, inherited his fortune and estate because she was the last wife.

-Emi left.

-Emi is capable of a unique ‘Lock On/Targeting System’ that makes it impossible for her to miss.

-Because of this, that’s the reason her primary weapon is a sniper rifle.

-She misses only if her attention is diverted to some other target. She can only target one thing at a time.

-Her melee weapon is in the backpack her sniper rifle transforms from, attached to the rifle. She’s not so good up close, but does carry a few daggers attached to the rifle.

-She prefers to throw them, but her giant sword also works.

-Emi is an asexual grayromantic.

-Emi likes to collect a few of Gale’s feathers to decorate herself, since he doesn’t mind.

-Emi really dislikes visiting Mistral, even if she enjoys the culture, she just doesn’t want to run into her parents.

-Emi writes to her sister sometimes.

-Emi takes on the persona of the playful, cheerful member, but is down with murder at any point and second.

-It is very quick and almost worrying how rapid she can switch between these moods.

-Emi personally helped Gale win Ray’s affections.

-Emi is a fantastic aunt to all of Gale’s kids.

-Emi enjoys travelling and seeing the sights of the world, but always wonder if she’ll get bored eventually.

-Emi has a weird fascination for daggers from different kingdoms.

-Emi often cuddles up to Ray because he’s a literal heater.

-This also includes cuddling up to the other team members of REIN, but Gale’s feathers are a second best to Ray.

-Emi often has a hard time telling if people are joking or not, because she views her entire life as a joke.

-Ray’s good at grounding her.

-Emi will often immediately lose focus if anyone is mortally injured.

-Emi doesn’t know the meaning of self preservation.

-Despite being the sniper, Emi is the member to get the most injured.

-Emi thinks its a good idea to try to snipe someone in close quarters if someone’s in danger.

-Emi really enjoys the food from Beacon, but prefers the fashion from Haven.

-It’s been tested that Emi can still never miss even if drunk.

-Emi has a plan to inevitably go to Atlas and assassinate Ray’s family.

-Also Iris’s parents.

-She has not told them.

-Iris designed her clothes rather often, but Emi only started to wear them after Iris asked if she was okay. Iris was the first to find out about Emi’s family.

-During initiation, Ray was her partner until they were team REIN with the other two.

-She is considering accepting an offer at a polyamorous relationship with Gale and Ray.

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Iris Bowe:

-Dust princess supreme. Her family owned a tiny dust shop in Beacon, and has led to her being well versed in using dust.

-5′4 ft of fury, she will slash your ankles.

-A famous seamstress and fashionista, runs a fashion company for hunters/huntresses. It’s just simply called ‘Bowe.’

-She’s originally from Vale.

-Semblance is capable of numerous things, such as copies of herself, ‘armor’, elevation, etc. Incredibly flexible.

-She struggled with her semblance a lot as a child.

-Changes her appearance so fucking often.

-Her fairytale/mythos is the Goddess of Rainbows, Iris.

-Will often craft clothes to others as a gift.

-Other titles: ‘Wandering Seamstress’, ‘Bowestring’, ‘Scissor Sister’.

-Iris’s eyes reflect color drastically! Her eyes typically change color to her surroundings, or whatever she’s looking at. It can be very spooky if someone’s wearing white, she appears to have no pupils with that color.

-This is always hilarious when she visits Atlas.

-Iris’s weapon is a reference to her favorite flower.

-Iris had a much older sister, Archer Bowe, who died in a hunting accident.

-Iris’s family proceeded to forget she existed as they grieved for their lost daughter.

-Iris raised herself after the incident, providing her own food, clothes, and general well being.

-Iris very vividly can still remember the long walks to school by herself.

-Iris removed her family sigil from herself and adapted her own after these events.

-It’s stitched into all her clothes as well.

-Iris would steal from her family to get her own money, and started selling dust to Faunus her father refused to serve.

-She did all of this at an incredibly young age.

-Started researching stocks and investments really early in her life.

-Iris was a wallflower at school. Unnoticeable, none too brilliant, and generally just average and not spectacular.

-Iris had a small fortune for herself about the time she was accepted into Beacon.

-Iris redid her entire appearance upon joining Beacon, becoming deeply invested in her looks and her skills.

-Iris graduated Beacon with high test scores and generally spectacular performance.

-She was never satisfied. Having seen Archer’s grades, Iris wept bitterly every time she was less than Archer.

-Iris is heavily invested in clothing, and is constantly creating outfits.

-She wears something new everyday.

-Iris carries around a huge sketchbook in her satchel with new outfit ideas.

-She loves gifting clothes to others.

-She dressed her entire team.

-Iris is known as a talented seamstress, but she is also well versed in building weapons. Specialty: Swords.

-Iris is a powerful huntress with her hard-light manipulation. Her semblance is incredibly powerful and flexible, but she herself cannot take many hits before falling.

-Iris is most famous for using her semblance to guillotine Grimm.

-Iris has a problem of running away when she’s threatened by intense emotions that upset her.

-Iris worked as a messenger for the headmasters. While scrolls exist, Iris in her mastery of her semblance upon her adulthood, and won the trust of Ozpin, being gifted a small token of magic to enhance her abilities to ‘travel at the speed of light.’ She can teleport to the four major cities, but at the cost of incredible exhaustion.

-Iris bought her own house a little outside of Beacon, but also has a headquarters at Atlas.

-Because Iris has learned many secrets of Vale this way, Iris has a bitter attitude towards the headmasters.

-Iris often just wanders from city to city, enjoying fashion and helping mend broken clothes.

-Iris is pansexual and panromantic..

-Iris has no chill. Zero.

-Struggles to keep emotions in check, which can be problematic when fighting.

-Iris will visibly ‘signal’ while using her semblance, but doesn’t need too. She likes to ‘preform’ when using her semblance, and if actually threatened, she’ll stop playing around.

-Iris is incredibly petty to those who wrong her, and will personally make sure they suffer every second she has the chance.

-Iris is team mom towards team REIN, and often is the one making sure everyone eats/sleeps/etc.

-Iris herself, skips all of these things.

-Gale often drags her to bed to sleep, because this woman really sucks at taking care of herself.

-”What took you so long?” “What’s the point of living if I can’t have eyeliner that’s perfect?”

-Iris is very extra.

-Iris, despite her semblance being mostly used for ranged combat, enjoys being up close with her weapon.

-Iris scolds young hunters/huntresses wearing complicated clothes that could cause problems when fighting. Those who graduate she leaves alone.

-A real glass cannon woman in fighting, she doesn’t really care.

-Despite her incredible accomplishments, her company, her everything, Iris is incredibly lonely and thinks herself worthless if she can’t compare to Archer.

-Iris does not talk to her parents. She heard her father died recently, but didn’t attend the funeral.

-Iris and Gale are incredibly close.

-Iris’s favorite color is red.

-Iris is capable of firing her bow with her feet, but she hates doing it.

-Iris has attended numerous balls and fundraisers, and often gets bored within the first ten minutes. She’ll be found sketching in her book with new designs she’ll be inspired with from others’ outfits.

-Iris is often curious about others ideas for fashion.

-She’s also incredibly cynical about the future, but tries to hide this from her teammates.

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Navy Gale:

-’Deputy’ of the crew.

-He comes from Mistral, but his family moved to Vale when he was young. He doesn’t remember Mistral.

-Mother is an incredible inventor and has made a handful of famous advancements in technology to help disabled and faunus alike.

-Father is a famous hunter who often visits and supports his son in his endeavors.

-Has three little triplet sisters who are close to graduating soon.

--He’s a transboy.

-6′8 ft tall!

-Iris makes his clothes, because he doesn’t have any fucking hands.

-His semblance involves silencing others, screaming, and fucking with sound.

-Despite having manipulation of sound, he can’t have his semblance up all the time, and has trouble training his voice to sound how he likes.

-He sort of just lives in the woods with his husband and kids and does Grimm hunting with his crew when he’s called upon.

-Upon adulthood and long past graduation, with his sound manipulation, Gale is capable of phasing through things in his way. Inanimate. He doesn’t trust himself to phase through a person.

-Gale is married to Ray.

-Gale’s a romantic at heart and loves serenading his husband.

-Gale is panromantic and pansexual.

-Gale’s feathers fall out a lot, but he doesn’t mind that people collect them.

-His wingspan is absolutely ridiculous and makes it difficult to go anywhere.

-He gets sick pretty often, but doesn’t let it bother him.

-Gale has several children he’s adopted, living a little outside Beacon. None of them are old enough to train yet, but he intends to train them soon. They’re all abandoned Faunus kids.

-Gale doesn’t really like travelling like everyone else, but really enjoys flying long distances.

-Gale is capable of carrying someone with his feet, but not very far. It’s uncomfortable for everyone involved.

-Getting hugged by Gale will lead to getting feathers in your mouth.

-Gale loves his teammates so much and gets emotional thinking about how supportive they are.

-Gale hates when he squeaks.

-Iris was Gale’s partner during initiation at Beacon.

-Gale loves spending time with his visiting father, and letting him be a jolly grandpa.

-Gale is incredibly obsessive about shiny objects he collects from adventures.

-With Iris’s help, Gale has learned basic knitting with his feet.

-Gale enjoys music immensely, and listens to it quietly where ever he goes.

-Gale also collects feathers he finds on his trips.

-Gale likes to surprise his husband with gifts whenever he can.

-Gale uses his semblance more than he uses his anklet, since it’s a pain.

-Ray and Gale are very close lovers, but also understand each other and what decisions they’ll make during combat. They’re a scary combo.

-Gale often is the one to carry his teammates to safety.

-Gale is the only one to get Iris to stop thinking about being better than Archer for two seconds.

-Gale loves singing. He has an incredible range due to his semblance, and loves singing songs with his crew.

-Iris is the only one who can really keep up with him, but is nowhere near his skill level.

-Gale has trouble putting his binder on in the morning, and often has to have a friend/his husband help him take it off/on.

-Gale likes coming to schools to talk to kids with Ray about being a hunter. He enjoys just being around children and talking about his adventures.

-He can and will pick up one of his teammates who are being grumpy and fly them around till they either scream for mercy or finally tell him what’s wrong.

-Iris is 90% of the time the one he has to pick up.

-Loves every set of clothes Iris has made him.

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As WNBA faces domestic violence problem, new commissioner stresses ‘protecting the brand’ – ThinkProgress

The WNBA doesn’t have a domestic violence policy. But, as this season has shown, it needs one. Desperately.

Last week, Los Angeles Sparks guard Riquana Williams was suspended 10 games for an alleged domestic violence incident with her ex-girlfriend during the offseason. Two weeks ago, the wife of Seattle Storm forward Natasha Howard accused Howard of domestic violence in Twitter posts that included graphic photos, videos, and text message conversations. Howard is still playing. This week, she was named the WNBA’s Player of the Week. On Saturday, she will start in the WNBA All-Star game in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The WNBA usually revels in being at the forefront of social justice causes. However, they’ve been rudderless when dealing with the Williams and Howard cases. Unlike sports leagues such as the NFL, NBA, and MLB, the WNBA’s current collective bargaining agreement does not address domestic violence specifically. Further complicating matters, both of these cases occurred while the WNBA was without a commissioner. Cathy Engelbert, the former CEO of Deloitte, was named the new WNBA commissioner in May, and just stepped into the role on July 17.

On Sunday afternoon, Engelbert met with ThinkProgress and two other reporters for an intimate conversation in Washington, D.C., ahead of a game between the Washington Mystics and Atlanta Dream, and addressed the steps the league needs to take when it comes to domestic violence.

“First, we take these all very serious, and obviously, I’ll jump right in,” Engelbert said.

She said that the current CBA negotiations — the players opted out of their current CBA last October, and the current one will expire this fall — provide a great opportunity to get all parties at the same table and “make sure that everybody understands this is a league where brand is really important.”

Engelbert’s concern over branding evokes NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s often amoral edict to “protect the shield.” Mere days into her tenure, it’s worth extending her the benefit of the doubt. Nevertheless, the league is under a spotlight, and needs to show it is willing and able to appropriately address the severity of the allegations its players are facing, handle the nuances that come with situations where women are the abusive partner, and show transparency and sincerity along the way.

Concern about “the brand”

Engelbert is very proud of her corporate background, and it’s a huge reason why she got the job. She is supposed to bring the business savvy that the WNBA craves as it attempts to stop merely sustaining, and start thriving — in the financial sense, of course. But her corporate career is very evident in the vocabulary she uses when discussing domestic violence.

“We need to make sure that we’re protecting the brand and enhancing the brand and that we’re doing the right thing around discipline and training and resources,” she said on Sunday. “[We need to make] sure everybody understands their obligations around that, because the brand is so important. Our brand here at the W is that important.”

Engelbert added that she wants to come up with a comprehensive way to address domestic violence, one that involves preventative and support resources, not just discipline.

“The league has to do its role in investigating them and getting all the facts. So that’s important,” Engelbert said. “But I do think we have an opportunity, because we’re in collective bargaining negotiations now, together with the players, to develop training, discipline, and resources for the players and their families, and make sure that we’re supporting them in these tough situations.”

Overall, she described this as an “opportunity” for the league to make a positive change, and said that because of her experience working in the corporate world, this was “something that I know how to tackle.”

The WNBA has dealt with domestic violence issues in the past. In 2015, when the then-married Brittney Griner of the Phoenix Mercury and Glory Johnson of the Dallas Wings were both arrested for domestic violence, the league suspended them both for seven games. Griner pleaded guilty, while Johnson pleaded not guilty. But even after that high-profile incident, the league failed to take steps towards developing a comprehensive policy.

In conversation with ThinkProgress, Engelbert could not immediately offer concrete recommendations on how to accomplish this goal — again, an understandable situation given the fact that it was only her fourth day on the job. Unfortunately, her predecessors’ lack of response will force her to act quickly. Fans are frustrated because domestic abuse — and the WNBA’s subsequent inaction — has cast a shadow over the season. And these allegations are far more than an exercise in bad branding.

The severity of the allegations

Williams was arrested in January on two felony charges stemming from a domestic violence investigation into a dispute with her ex-girlfriend. She faces one count of burglary with assault or battery, and one count of aggravated assault with a firearm. She has pleaded “not guilty” to both charges, but the videos and police reports from the night in question paint a disturbing picture.

Even given this information, the Sparks re-signed her in May, and played her in every game this season until the suspension was handed down last week. She was frequently promoted on social media channels for the Sparks and WNBA during this time, and her teammates and head coach Derek Fisher have stood by her.

The WNBA Players Union is currently appealing the suspension, saying that the league should have waited until her court case was complete to hand down discipline.

“We are disappointed with the league’s actions. There is an ongoing criminal proceeding and in fairness to the player, the league could have and should have awaited its completion before taking any action,” said WNBPA executive director Terri Jackson. If the league had a specific policy in place for these matters, such grey area could be avoided.

And now, just as the league was finally dealing with Williams, the allegations against Howard surfaced. Howard’s wife has not pressed criminal charges — she said she wants Howard to get help, not be put behind bars — and Howard has denied the allegations, filed for divorce, requested a restraining order, and accused her wife of stabbing her and stealing $600,000. But the photographs, videos, and text messages her wife shared on twitter, which have not yet been verified, are incredibly damning.

If the WNBA had a policy that allowed it to put players on a paid suspension while investigations into this matter were pending — similar to what the NFL and NBA do — then this wouldn’t be quite as big of a problem. The league wouldn’t have to put Howard front and center during its All-Star week celebrations. But, five years ago, when pro sports leagues across the country were revamping their domestic violence policies in the wake of the Ray Rice case, the WNBA wasn’t proactive.

“It’s sad to think about, but it’s almost like fixing something once it’s broken instead of taking the precautions to prevent situations like this from happening,” Los Angeles Sparks forward and WNBA Players’ Union president Nneka Ogwumike told High Post Hoops.

The question is, why didn’t a league which considers itself to be so progressive, not lead the way on this front? There’s no way to know for sure, but the answer might be right there in the name.

Same-sex intimate partner violence

Domestic violence is typically associated with with straight relationships where the male is the abuser and the female is the victim. But, of course, women can abuse their male partners, nonbinary individuals can abuse and be abused, and women can abuse their same-sex partner. This is why Aditi Bhattacharya, the the deputy director of client services at the New York City Anti-Violence Project — a group that specifically works to reduce violence against LGBTQ individuals — told ThinkProgress that she prefers to use the phrase “intimate partner violence (IPV).”

“There is a lot of sexism that has been engendered in domestic violence research over many, many years. So we are very explicit about naming intimate partner violence, over domestic violence,” she said.

It’s likely that the WNBA has been behind the times when it comes to addressing intimate partner violence because it’s a women’s league, and policies around IPV typically frame women as the victims, not the abusers. But in some cases, they’re both. Compounding the problem is the fact that until very recently, the league did not publicly embrace the reality that many of its players are members of the LGBTQ community.

Bhattacharya says that while there is very little research on the intersection of intimate partner violence and same-sex relationships, she knows that it is a “very prevalent problem.”

“We do know that [intimate partner violence in] same-sex relationships are notoriously underreported, even more so than heterosexual relationships,” she said.

Because society views domestic violence through a gendered lens, women in same-sex relationships who suffer IPV deal with unique challenges when they seek assistance, be it from law enforcement, courts, doctors, or therapists.

“[Survivors share] their suffering from having been silenced by systems,” Bhattacharya said. “Because their orientation was not understood, or was indeed misunderstood. And so a survivor was not given the necessary support, because they didn’t seem like a survivor, or the person who was harming them was not shown adequate justice, because they didn’t seem to be what a typical ‘abuser’ needs to look like, behave like, sound like, etc. And that’s the problem.”

Recently, Bhattacharya has noticed a growing number of women who identify as lesbians reaching out to APV looking for help. And while that could indicate an uptick in violence, it likely has more to do with the fact that they are becoming more comfortable opening up to APV about their sexual orientation. That’s progress. Ultimately, as awful as it is to see cases like Howard’s and Williams’ in the news, Bhattacharya is hopeful that this will bring awareness a problem that doesn’t get nearly enough attention.

“I want to really emphasize that one good thing that is coming out of all of this discourse is that it is beginning to tell our community that speaking about survivorship is okay,” she said. “And the only way that we can get change to happen is when we are able to engage with the community, and were able to rally more voices and more volume.”

On Sunday, Engelbert talked about how excited she was to work with an organization that promoted women, and led the way when it comes to women’s empowerment. While the league has dropped the ball on domestic violence in the past, it’s not too late to start leading the way on this issue, too.

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As WNBA faces domestic violence problem, new commissioner stresses ‘protecting the brand’ – ThinkProgress

The WNBA doesn’t have a domestic violence policy. But, as this season has shown, it needs one. Desperately.

“First, we take these all very serious, and obviously, I’ll jump right in,” Engelbert said.

Concern about “the brand”

Engelbert added that she wants to come up with a comprehensive way to address domestic violence, one that involves preventative and support resources, not just discipline.

The severity of the allegations

The WNBA Players Union is currently appealing the suspension, saying that the league should have waited until her court case was complete to hand down discipline.

The question is, why didn’t a league which considers itself to be so progressive, not lead the way on this front? There’s no way to know for sure, but the answer might be right there in the name.

Same-sex intimate partner violence

Bhattacharya says that while there is very little research on the intersection of intimate partner violence and same-sex relationships, she knows that it is a “very prevalent problem.”

“We do know that [intimate partner violence in] same-sex relationships are notoriously underreported, even more so than heterosexual relationships,” she said.

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As WNBA faces domestic violence problem, new commissioner stresses ‘protecting the brand’ – ThinkProgress

The WNBA doesn’t have a domestic violence policy. But, as this season has shown, it needs one. Desperately.

“First, we take these all very serious, and obviously, I’ll jump right in,” Engelbert said.

Concern about “the brand”

Engelbert added that she wants to come up with a comprehensive way to address domestic violence, one that involves preventative and support resources, not just discipline.

The severity of the allegations

The WNBA Players Union is currently appealing the suspension, saying that the league should have waited until her court case was complete to hand down discipline.

The question is, why didn’t a league which considers itself to be so progressive, not lead the way on this front? There’s no way to know for sure, but the answer might be right there in the name.

Same-sex intimate partner violence

Bhattacharya says that while there is very little research on the intersection of intimate partner violence and same-sex relationships, she knows that it is a “very prevalent problem.”

“We do know that [intimate partner violence in] same-sex relationships are notoriously underreported, even more so than heterosexual relationships,” she said.

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News of the Weird: America’s least competent criminal and a cool new way to find love

In Mumbai, India, 27-year-old Raphael Samuel, an apparent follower of antinatalism, is suing his parents (both attorneys) for giving him life. Samuel says he was conceived without his consent, so his parents should pay him for his life. “I love my parents, and we have a great relationship, but they had me for their joy and their pleasure,” Samuel explained to The Print. “My life has been amazing, but I don’t see why I should put another life through the rigmarole of school and finding a career, especially when they didn’t ask to exist. … Other Indian people must know that it is an option not to have children, and to ask your parents for an explanation as to why they gave birth to you.” [The Print, 1/30/2019]

Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em

Pavlos Polakis, Greece’s deputy health minister, did not take kindly to a recent reprimand from European Union Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, who admonished Polakis for smoking in public. Andriukaitis was in Athens Feb. 4 to mark World Cancer Day, reported Reuters. He also complained that the health ministry smelled of cigarette smoke and that nobody wears ties. Polakis replied in a Facebook post about the casual dress: “That’s a lie … the security guard at the entrance wore one. I don’t. It’s the suits which passed through here who bankrupted our country.” As for the scold about smoking, Polakis retorted: “I’ll decide when to stop smoking, on my terms.” Greece has the highest rate of smoking in the EU. [Reuters, 2/6/2019]

Lost at Sea(l)

When researchers at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand thawed out some frozen leopard seal excrement in January, which they use to study the animals’ health, they discovered “deep inside the scat” a USB stick containing vacation photos from Porpoise Bay. Reuters reported the defrosted poo had been placed in the freezer in November 2017, and the USB stick was left to dry for a few weeks before volunteers tried it out. The only clue to its owner is the nose of a blue kayak shown in one of the photos. Should the owner want it back, NIWA has a request: more leopard seal poo, please. [Reuters, 2/5/2019]

Awesome!

Exterminators were called to the Rogers County (Oklahoma) courthouse on Feb. 4 after an attorney appeared in a third-floor courtroom with bed bugs falling out of his clothing. “Hard to imagine someone doesn’t know … bed bugs are crawling all over them, certainly in abundance,” remarked Sheriff Scott Walton to KJRH TV. Courthouse officials met and decided to close the building at noon until exterminators could eliminate the pests. “I was told the individual that had them also shook his jacket over the prosecutor’s files,” Walton said. The buggy attorney, however, seemed unfazed by his parasitic companions, and it was not clear who would pay for the extermination. [KJRH, 2/5/2019]

People With Issues

The Harlem Romantic Depot lingerie store in New York City was the target of a vandal’s political rage on Jan. 26. In surveillance video, the man can be seen pacing up and down in front of the store window, where two mannequins were on display: one of President Barack Obama dressed as a prince, and one of President Donald Trump, dressed as a princess and wearing a MAGA hat. Taking a brick or stone from a nearby construction site, the man used it to smash through the window, store owner Glen Buzzetti told the New York Daily News. Next, he yanked the Obama mannequin out of the window and threw it on the ground. A member of the store’s security team was able to chase the man down the block and catch him, Buzzetti said. But Obama fans in the street weren’t happy with him, either. “We had to protect him from the crowd,” Buzzetti said. “He could have been killed. We had women trying to kick him in the head.” He said the man kept repeating that “he hated Obama” and that “the (Obama) mannequin was looking at him bad.” [Daily News, 2/5/2019]

Police Blotter

— When firefighters responded to a house fire Feb. 5 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, resident Holly Williams, 37, was happy to tell them how it started. She and Michael Miller, 38, keep their car fuel in a container in the house, and they were arguing (about his drinking), and he was trying to take their car, so she flushed the gasoline down the toilet, reported the Altoona Mirror. Miller threw a lit cigarette in the toilet and as flames spread, Williams ran out of the house and called 911. Miller was arrested for arson, risking catastrophe and recklessly endangering another person; later Williams was charged, as well. [Altoona Mirror, 2/14/2019]

— Phillip Lee, 27, was arrested Feb. 4 on charges of simple robbery and simple battery after his attempt to take cash from a New Orleans Popeyes restaurant went south. The Times-Picayune reported that Lee arrived at the restaurant around noon and tried to steal money, but he couldn’t get the cash register open. So instead, he took some fried chicken and fled. Police caught up with him later, and the judge set his bond at $13,500. Popeyes is good, but wow. [New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2/6/2019]

Least Competent Criminal

Richard J. Betters Jr., 44, of Schenectady, New York, has encountered police detectives in nearby Rotterdam before, which explains why he had one officer’s phone number in his contacts list. So on Feb. 6, The Daily Gazette reported, when a detective mistakenly received a text from Betters offering drugs, it was a law enforcement slam dunk. The detective played along with Betters, offering to meet him at the Taco Bell in Rotterdam, where he arrested Betters for criminal possession of a controlled substance (Oxycodone pills). He was held on $20,000 bail. [Daily Gazette, 2/6/2019]

Recurring Theme

It’s happened again. In Fairhope, Alabama, 2-year-old Ezra Ingersoll visited Rotolo’s Pizzeria with his family for dinner and game-room fun on Jan. 4. Soon, his sister alerted mom Kelsey that Ezra was in the claw machine. Ezra, hoping to get a toy, had crawled through the opening, but the flap inside wouldn’t swing the other direction, so he was stuck. AL.com reported that police and firefighters responding took the machine apart to free the tyke, who received a free toy for his trouble. [AL.com, 2/5/2019]

Technology Update

And you thought smartphones were cutting edge! Samsung’s Family Hub smart refrigerator offers a new app, Refrigerdating, that works something like Tinder. Instead of uploading a profile pic of yourself, according to United Press International, you lure mates with a photo of the inside of your fridge. “Let the world know what kind of person you are,” the app’s website suggests. “Refrigerdating will then hook you up with a variation of fridges, of different tastes, to pick and choose from.” It even offers a little philosophical advice: “Remember, it’s the unexpected mixes that make the three star restaurants.” [United Press International, 2/6/2019]

Cabin Fever

As the polar vortex unleashed its cold fury on the middle of North America in early February, doctors switched from warning people about the cold to warning them about the dangers of flinging boiling water into the air to watch it freeze. The Chicago Sun-Times reported on Feb. 6 that eight people trying the boiling water challenge, ranging in age from 3 to 53, ended up at Loyola Medicine’s Burn Center. “We strongly warn people not to perform the boiling water challenge,” said Loyola burn surgeon Arthur Sanford. “There is no safe way to do it.” [Chicago Sun-Times, 2/6/2019]

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♫ Raindrops on roses … And whiskers on kittens … Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ … Brown paper packages tied up with strings … ♫ These are a few of my favorite … OH! … heh heh … Hi! Don’t mind me … just singing a bit of a tune while I whip up some goodies. You’re early!

So … did you guys have a great weekend? Mine? Oh, you know … quiet. I found time to do a bit of reading, a bit of writing, and Miss Goose and I dined on fish sticks and leftover crudités, and then had popcorn … the old-fashioned kind that you pop in a pan atop the stove, not the stuff you put in a machine and press a button. So, we’re back to the beginning of a new week, are we? If it’s anything like the last two, just shoot me now! But anyway, we will start it out with a smile and maybe even a laugh or two. I cannot guarantee what happens with the rest of the week, but for a short while we will forget the world outside and have fun. So grab a cuppa and a bit of something sweet and let’s go in search of fun!

A sand castle where???

From the annals of ‘Okay, but WHY???’ comes news that a 16-foot sand castle has been built in the middle of New York’s Rockefeller Center. The sand sculptor Ted Siebert and his team designed and assembled the structure between July 29th and August 3rd, and it is expected to be on display through September 7th. The name of the exhibit is, predictably, Sand and Surf. Perhaps Mother Nature has other plans, though, for I cannot imagine the castle surviving a major rainstorm!

A dummy has been arrested!

Police in Lone Peak, Utah, have arrested a dummy named Fred. No, not a Trump supporter … well, come to think of it, I don’t know if he is or isn’t … but a Charlie McCarthy sort of dummy. See for yourself …Turns out a group of juveniles dressed the dummy, placed it in the middle of Alpine road, then hid in some nearby bushes waiting to have a bit of fun watching the expressions of motorists who came across the ‘body’. One officer posted on Facebook …I was surprised by how many readers commented that they had done the same or similar pranks when they were teens. And I thought I was bad as a teen!

Another slow-speed chase …

You remember a couple of weeks ago when I told you of the slow-speed chase of a turtle by a sheriff’s deputy in Florida? Well today I have another for you!

An unidentified man was trying to abscond with a motorized shopping cart from a Wal-Mart in Summerville, South Carolina. Unfortunately for the man, the battery began going dead on the shopping cart, so he was using his feet to push it as the police car followed behind. Take a look …

Police returned the scooter to the Wal-Mart store, where management declined to press charges.

A shocking encounter …

Imagine Jake Collier’s surprise when he was visiting his in-laws in Melbourne Beach, Florida, last week and out of the clear blue, a snake dropped from a banana tree onto his arm! Now, I don’t mind snakes, but to have one drop out of the blue onto any part of my body would likely result in permenant heart failure for me, and maybe for the snake too!

Ol’ Jake is fine, though he says he didn’t know whether the snake had bitten him, so he called paramedics just to be sure. Um … hello, Jake? You would have known if it had bitten you, for there would have been puncture marks? Wimp. It’s sad, though, that the property owners, Jake’s in-laws, decided to cut down the banana tree.

“If it’s going to become a hazard where a snake can jump out at you, I think it’s a good idea to take it down. My arm hasn’t turned black or blue or fallen off yet, so it’s OK.” Sheesh.

They stole a what???

Last week, it was some damn fools trying to steal an aquarium and get away with it on the back of a motorcycle. This week it’s two men trying to steal a shark from an aquarium! I wonder if there’s a connection?

It happened in San Antonio, Texas, when two not-very-bright men were captured on surveillance video stealing a shark and hiding it in a baby stroller. The footage shows one of the men standing over an open-top aquarium and grabbing the 1.5-foot-long horn shark out of the water with his hands. He then appears to nod to the other, who’s holding a bag, and the two leave.

Leon Valley Police Chief Joseph Salvaggio said the pair put the shark into the bag and then a bucket hidden inside a baby stroller. An employee of the aquarium saw what was happening and immediately reported to management, who followed the men to their truck and asked to search the vehicle, but the men refused and left. Still not too bright, they didn’t realize that their license plate would lead police to them almost immediately, fortunately for the shark.The shark was recovered in good health, as police said the suspects had experience with marine animals and placed the shark in a proper environment. The shark was returned to the aquarium. The suspects face felony charges for theft.

We really, really need to work on upgrading our education system, for people seem to be getting dumber by the day!

Full of hot air …

On Saturday, 28 July, was the 36th annual QuickChek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning in association with PNC Bank at Solberg Airport in Readington, N.J. The event is the largest summertime hot air balloon and music festival in North America, and I thought you might like to see just a few pictures of the more interesting entries.

And on that note, I hope you are leaving with a smile that you can share with co-workers, friends, or just a stranger you pass by who looks like they need one. Have a safe and wonderful week, my dear friends! Love ‘n hugs from Filosofa!

Sorry — couldn’t resist

Jolly Monday — Dummies and Balloons ♫ Raindrops on roses … And whiskers on kittens … Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ … Brown paper packages tied up with strings … ♫ These are a few of my favorite…

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