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2024.05.21 02:43 Ur_Anemone Will people finally start taking female sexual predators seriously?
 | If Rebecca Joynes had been male, no-one would have felt a “shred of sympathy”. Such was the contention of the prosecutor in the case of a teacher convicted on Friday of having sex with two male pupils. Joynes, 30, groomed both schoolboys from the age of 15, a jury at Manchester Crown Court heard. submitted by Ur_Anemone to afterAWDTSG [link] [comments] Making the case against her, barrister Joe Allman sought to illuminate how differently society tends to view female teacher predators compared to their male counterparts. Had Rebecca been “Robert” instead, and the complainants girls not boys, the response would surely not have been the same, the prosecutor argued. This thought experiment was more than a courtroom flourish. There is evidence to support the idea that society does indeed view female teachers who prey on male school pupils in an alternative light to how male teachers preying on girls are seen. In a 2019 academic article, entitled Sexual Abuse by Educators, researchers suggested institutions may be less likely to grasp the potential for female teachers to abuse. “That over one-third of the male teachers [in a sample of 40 perpetrators] had received prior warnings due to their behaviour towards students but none of the female teachers had, was a notable finding potentially indicating a ‘gender blindness’ to inappropriate behaviour by women,” wrote Dr Andrea Darling from Durham University and Dr Larissa S Christensen from Australia’s University of the Sunshine Coast. Yet the statistics make clear that the phenomenon of female teachers who abuse male pupils is both real and serious. In a 2014 study of abuse by teachers in south-eastern US states between 2007 and 2011, more than a quarter (26 per cent) of perpetrators were female – complicating the popular idea of the “pervy teacher” as a man. “Contrary to earlier beliefs and prior depictions of romanticism in the media, females can inflict persistent psychological and physical impacts on victims,” wrote Darling and Christensen. In the case of Joynes, senior prosecutor Jane Wilson was unflinching in her characterisation of what had occurred. “Rebecca Joynes is a sexual predator,” she said. “[She] was entrusted with the responsibility of teaching and safeguarding children. She abused her position to groom and ultimately sexually exploit schoolboys. Her behaviour has had a lasting impact on them.” Joynes, from Salford, had been on bail for sexual activity with the first boy when she began having sex with the second boy, by whom she would become pregnant. After going through a messy break-up, she had been “flattered” by the teenagers’ attention, the court heard. Jurors heard how she groomed one of them by taking him to the Trafford Centre and buying him a £345 Gucci belt before having sex with him in her flat. She was convicted of six sexual offences against the two pupils. Two of these offences were carried out when she was in a position of trust. “Joynes decided to abuse her position,” said Detective Constable Beth Alexander of Greater Manchester Police’s child protection investigation unit, again making clear the seriousness of the offending. Yet the cultural approach to such abuse of power by female teachers has tended towards the humorous nudge-and-a-wink response. In 2015, a Saturday Night Live sketch called Teacher Trial was criticised for making light of the idea of a female teacher raping her teenage male student. The fictional student (played in the American comedy show by Pete Davidson) refers to the attack as “the best day of my life”. It’s hard to imagine a similar sketch with reversed gender roles making it onto the airwaves. But the attitudes it spoke to weren’t without some basis. When a former “Miss Kentucky”, Ramsey BethAnn Bearse, was sentenced to prison in 2020 after admitting exchanging sexual photos with a teenage student while working as a teacher, some of the responses to the story on USA Today’s Facebook page were telling. “What a lucky kid” wrote one reader.” “Best teacher of all time,” said another. A third correctly pointed out that “the comments… would be totally different if it was a male teacher and female student.” The more gleeful responses to liaisons between female teachers and male pupils seem informed by the idea of schoolboy fantasy fulfilled. Less so by the idea that this constitutes actual abuse. Old pop songs, such as Rod Stewart’s Maggie May (about a teen “used” by an older woman), have arguably helped romanticise inappropriate relationships between schoolboys and women. While the words “paedophile teacher” do appear in headlines about female perpetrators, the notion of a lascivious but essentially harmless Mrs Robinson figure endures. This is despite findings that “the characteristics, motivations and modus operandi [are] broadly similar across the genders” when it comes to teachers who abuse pupils. Analysis by Darling and others has indicated female perpetrators are “neither inexperienced naïve teachers nor fit the stereotype of females coerced by men to offend against young children”; that their motivations to abuse were to meet emotional needs, and for sexual gratification where these needs were not being met in other adult relationships. Female teachers who abuse their charges do appear to differ in some ways from male equivalents. The 2014 American study found female teachers were more likely to commit offences against older students (aged 13 or over) than male teachers (who were more likely to abuse students aged 12 or under). A 2015 study of cases in Ontario, Canada, found female teachers were on average younger than offending male teachers (32 compared to 37 years old). Darling and Christensen’s study of 20 women and 20 men who had sexually abused students while working as teachers in England between 2006 and 2016 found that while male teachers were more likely to engage in more severe abuse, female perpetrators were more likely to continue the abuse after it had been discovered. “The importance of recognising the potential for female perpetration of such abuse in the same way as male perpetration has been identified,” the researchers argued. So why is a blind eye more likely to be turned to the former? “Professionals who sexually abuse the children with whom they work will often say that their employers and colleagues were easy to manipulate as they generally trust that people who chose to work with children had their best interest at heart,” says Dr Joe Sullivan, a forensic psychologist. “This is particularly the case for female teachers, social workers and childcare workers who sexually exploit and abuse children.” These are not irrational assumptions. The overwhelming majority of people prosecuted for sexual offences in general are men, and the overwhelming majority of survivors of sexual violence are girls and women. According to the charity Rape Crisis England & Wales, 91 per cent of those prosecuted for sexual offences are male over-18s. The Crime Survey for England and Wales ending March 2022 found the victim was female in 86 per cent of sexual offences. But other data paints a more complex picture. Although the vast majority of paedophiles continued to be men, the number of female paedophiles almost doubled between 2015 and 2019, according to figures obtained under Freedom of Information laws by Radio 4’s File on 4 programme. Campaigners attributed the increase to victims having more confidence to come forward. “Most people have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that some women want to and do sexually harm children, and this societal denial is understood and exploited by female perpetrators,” says Sullivan, who has worked with police officers and educationalists to provide insights into the motivations and behaviours of child sex offenders. “Female teachers who target adolescent boys will often minimise and justify their intentions and actions by telling themselves that the child is nearly old enough to give consent. If a child responds to the teacher’s sexualisation of the relationship with curiosity or interest they will use this to further legitimise their conduct to themselves.” Most professionals who work with children are not routinely given training about how sexual abusers behave, he says. “Hence, they do not generally know what to look for and consequently shy away from calling out unusual or concerning behaviour.” Police and charities have warned that female-perpetrated abuse of boys remains a taboo subject, with victims suffering an extra stigma in such cases. It is thought this can inhibit some victims from coming forward. It could also lead to an underestimation of cases. The conviction of Joynes – which follows the jailing of a number of other female school staff for sexual activity with pupils in recent years – may signal that things are changing. Darling and Christensen have called for further discussion of female teachers abusing pupils, “to prevent such gender blindness and make victims of female-perpetrated sexual abuse more comfortable disclosing the abuse to a trusted adult.” Sullivan, too, sees a need for greater understanding and education. He warns: “People who are seeking to sexualise their relationships with children thrive in organisations where staff are ill-informed.” |
2024.05.21 00:26 Federico216 Revisiting Battlestar Galactica (2003)
With it's recent return to streaming, I wanted to do a little write up in honor of the show. For those who haven't seen the series: Battlestar Galactica (BSG) was a 4 part Syfy (Sci Fi at the time) miniseries based on the 1978 Glen A. Larson series with the same title. The miniseries was quickly picked up as a full series that ran for four seasons in 2004-2009. The Emmy, Hugo and Peabody award winning remake starred Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Tricia Helfer, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Grace Park and Michael Hogan with Ronald D. Moore (For All Mankind, Star Trek: TNG/DS9, Outlander) as showrunner. The series tells the story of artificial intelligence (named Cylons) turning against their creators resulting in a nuclear holocaust. With Cylons hot on their tails, the last remnants of humanity escape in a battleship capable of interstellar travel. Their purpose: finding the "home of the lost 13th tribe", Earth.
I'm not going to specifically discuss plot points, but there's gonna be spoilers by implication, so close this thread right now and go watch the show, starting from the miniseries.
So, 20 years later it's a good time to ask, does Battlestar Galactica hold up? Given the massive rise in TV-series budgets in recent 20 years, it shouldn't come as a surprise that in terms of visuals, BSG shows its age. Still, CGI was very good for its time (two Emmy awards for VFX to show for it) and it doesn't become a distraction unless you're looking for Avatar level VFX. In the last season, I would go as far as consider some CG shots quite good looking (battle of Ionian Nebula comes to mind). The show tries to hide the low budget with reusing CG shots and frantic camera movements, which some might find grating, but the latter also gives the show a very distinct look. The choice of shooting "documentary style" might suffer from Seinfeld effect, but at the time quick zooms/shaky cam/out of focus shots were a bold choice in a genre known for static shots and little camera movement.
In very early 00's fashion there are times when the show tries to stick to episodic nature. Streaming has pretty much killed procedural television, so for people used to consuming modern series, this will come off very jarring. Occasionally there are a few hammy acting choices and scenes of clunky exposition that you rarely see in modern prestige dramas, but in terms of political themes it's almost depressing how some of the issues seem even more relevant now (e.g. class society, abortion, freedom vs. security, AI/consciousness, religion). BSG is very obviously a child of Bush administration politics and occasionally lacks subtlety, but the political issues are handled with just enough care to feel universal and timeless.
The cast of characters is deep and rich, and could easily go toe to toe with most series you see today. Not to even mention the soundtrack by Bear McCreary, which without hyperbole, remains as one of the best of all time (I could write a whole another post this size about the soundtrack alone, so I'm just going to leave it there). Yes BSG shows its age at times, and there are many ways in which it cannot compare to modern television series, so for the most casual viewers it might be too much of a deep cut. Still, it was also very influential piece of scifi television and especially genre enthusiasts and newer viewers with interest in the era when television series turned from background noise to respected entertainment, should absolutely give it a watch.
So what is Battlestar Galacticas legacy and sphere of influence? In the early 00's, television sci-fi was still defined by a certain aura of campiness despite tackling complex and serious themes from the get go with titles like Star Trek or The Prisoner. Scifi was still very much kept in its own box in the early 2000's, often (very unfairly) associated with cheap sets and aliens in rubber masks. While there were scifi series that enjoyed mainstream success far before BSG, a gross oversimplification of 2000's scifi television landscape might go something like "BSG walked so Expanse could run". BSG probably wasn't the first scifi series to show people having sex, doing drugs, committing suicide, battling alcoholism/PTSD/depression on spaceships, but doing it with seriousness and conviction, brought a new level of grit to the genre that helped later shows break out of the old mold. The series is very good at muddling morality and pitting two characters you love with understandable motives on opposite sides of an issue, which I feel like is still quite rare to see done convincingly.
Saying BSG revolutionized scifi would be a bit too generous of course. While one of the pioneers of the genre, it owes a lot to its predecessors too. Babylon 5 and Star Trek: TNG/DS9 are the obvious names to drop, but perhaps even more relevant was a criminally overlooked and short lived Fox series Space: Above and Beyond (which hit most of the same themes as BSG with similar sense of seriousness almost 10 years prior).
One of the big BSG headlines during its run, was gender swapping the character of Starbuck. In 2024 of course this seems like an absurd controversy, but at the time it was a serious issue. Original Starbuck (played by Dirk Benedict, who vehemently opposed and trashed the decision to make Starbuck a woman) was a mix of roguish womanizing attitude and toxic masculinity typical for 70's media. Making the cigar smoking hotshot a woman (and adding a frak of a lot of layers to her) was of course the right call and Katee Sackhoffs Starbuck ended up being perhaps more iconic than the show itself. It should be ridiculous to laud a television show for doing what should be the expectation: writing a complex female character, but quite frankly in the early 2000's sci-fi landscape (or just TV in general) there just hadn't been a character like Starbuck before. She's sex positive and tomboyish, but not defined by either one of these traits. She's really good at what she does, but makes mistakes and is constantly battling her demons, so all her successes feel very earned. Objectively she's an asshole, but seeing her story from her point of view makes you sympathize with her. While there are moments where BSG doesn't handle female characters with quite such finesse, Starbuck definitely left a lasting mark.
This being Reddit, I couldn't help but discuss the inevitable talking point that always comes up, did Battlestar Galactica really get that bad in the latter half? Well, the short answer is no. Objectively speaking, the last season of the show still holds a respectable 92% Rotten Tomatoes score, from both critics and audience. In fact the final episodes remain some of the highest rated in almost any review site. Perhaps it's also been helped in retrospect by shows like Lost, Dexter, Game of Thrones etc. upstaging it in the "bad endings department". Saying it "wasn't that bad" is not a glowing endorsement however. There are some valid reasons to why the show lost viewers along the way and why the ending sparked such controversy.
Let's start with the very end of the show. It's very clear rewatching the show that a lot of the time Ron Moore had no idea where it would all end up. Some aspects of the ending were planned, (in fact on this rewatch, I was surprised how early some things are foreshadowed and established) but some arcs were thrown out and forgotten and some just improvised on the go and tied together very hastily. The show will spend a couple of seasons foreshadowing something, only for it to be abandoned for something completely different (very noticeable, especially if you're aware of some of the changes made during production and the writers strike). Ron Moores character work remains fantastic throughout the show, but he seems to be one of those writers who needs to be occasionally reined in to keep the story cohesive. While saying the ending was just "God did it", is an oversimplification, the fatalistic implications of the cyclical nature of the story is understandably frustrating and retroactively devalues the stakes felt in the earlier seasons. Too many things are left for chance or fate and as a result, the ending feels kind of unearned. And while most individual character arcs come to a beautiful conclusion, fumbling Karas ending is probably the biggest sin of the three part finale. /somewhat ironic sidenote, this is what GRRM had to say about the shows ending "Sometimes the journey is its own reward and I certainly enjoyed a lot of the journey with BSG. But damn it, doesn't anyone know how to write endings anymore?"
Now, a lot of viewers abandoned the show after two seasons and it's understandable. There's a massive tonal shift in the series after the New Caprica arc. The show got intensely dark and brooding in the last two seasons. I always thought of BSG as a serious show, but I had forgotten how there's a lot of comedic moments, even physical comedy in the first couple of seasons. There was also that wholesome sense of optimism typical for scifi of late 90's and early 00's. Even when things got dark, usually by the end of the episode the gang was together, toasting another day of living. Come season 3 that's all gone. Even Galactica looks different, as if the fleet lost half the light bulbs during the occupation. Every character is suffering from depression, PTSD and exhaustion and the show feels like it too. You no longer get "Action stations, action stations! Set condition 1 throughout the ship!". instead you have Colonel Tigh saying "Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that" while planning a suicide bombing. I personally thought the shift was narratively justified. If anything I found it refreshing how seriously BSG takes itself, when these days a lot of sci-fi seems to have a need for comic relief and a self aware tone. But I can't blame people from abandoning the show either. The last two seasons are a different show.
Well this turned out to be ten times longer than it was supposed to. I doubt many if any made it this far, so I'll reward you with a BSG-story I personally find hilarious for some reason, but never get a chance to tell: When filming the movie "The Plan" that shows the events from Cylons perspective, director Edward James Olson was elated to find out they weren't under the usual censorship rules. One time while shooting a scene in the pilots washroom Katee Sackhoff heard Olmos yell from the directors chair "Zoom in on the cock! Zoom in on the cock!". It's been a while since I've The Plan, but I believe it made it into the final cut.
TL;DR: BSG is brilliant at its best, but deeply flawed at its worst. Either way, it remains relevant, deserves its place in TV Hall of Fame and especially if you're into scifi, you should watch it.
submitted by Federico216 to television [link] [comments]
I'm not going to specifically discuss plot points, but there's gonna be spoilers by implication, so close this thread right now and go watch the show, starting from the miniseries.
So, 20 years later it's a good time to ask, does Battlestar Galactica hold up? Given the massive rise in TV-series budgets in recent 20 years, it shouldn't come as a surprise that in terms of visuals, BSG shows its age. Still, CGI was very good for its time (two Emmy awards for VFX to show for it) and it doesn't become a distraction unless you're looking for Avatar level VFX. In the last season, I would go as far as consider some CG shots quite good looking (battle of Ionian Nebula comes to mind). The show tries to hide the low budget with reusing CG shots and frantic camera movements, which some might find grating, but the latter also gives the show a very distinct look. The choice of shooting "documentary style" might suffer from Seinfeld effect, but at the time quick zooms/shaky cam/out of focus shots were a bold choice in a genre known for static shots and little camera movement.
In very early 00's fashion there are times when the show tries to stick to episodic nature. Streaming has pretty much killed procedural television, so for people used to consuming modern series, this will come off very jarring. Occasionally there are a few hammy acting choices and scenes of clunky exposition that you rarely see in modern prestige dramas, but in terms of political themes it's almost depressing how some of the issues seem even more relevant now (e.g. class society, abortion, freedom vs. security, AI/consciousness, religion). BSG is very obviously a child of Bush administration politics and occasionally lacks subtlety, but the political issues are handled with just enough care to feel universal and timeless.
The cast of characters is deep and rich, and could easily go toe to toe with most series you see today. Not to even mention the soundtrack by Bear McCreary, which without hyperbole, remains as one of the best of all time (I could write a whole another post this size about the soundtrack alone, so I'm just going to leave it there). Yes BSG shows its age at times, and there are many ways in which it cannot compare to modern television series, so for the most casual viewers it might be too much of a deep cut. Still, it was also very influential piece of scifi television and especially genre enthusiasts and newer viewers with interest in the era when television series turned from background noise to respected entertainment, should absolutely give it a watch.
So what is Battlestar Galacticas legacy and sphere of influence? In the early 00's, television sci-fi was still defined by a certain aura of campiness despite tackling complex and serious themes from the get go with titles like Star Trek or The Prisoner. Scifi was still very much kept in its own box in the early 2000's, often (very unfairly) associated with cheap sets and aliens in rubber masks. While there were scifi series that enjoyed mainstream success far before BSG, a gross oversimplification of 2000's scifi television landscape might go something like "BSG walked so Expanse could run". BSG probably wasn't the first scifi series to show people having sex, doing drugs, committing suicide, battling alcoholism/PTSD/depression on spaceships, but doing it with seriousness and conviction, brought a new level of grit to the genre that helped later shows break out of the old mold. The series is very good at muddling morality and pitting two characters you love with understandable motives on opposite sides of an issue, which I feel like is still quite rare to see done convincingly.
Saying BSG revolutionized scifi would be a bit too generous of course. While one of the pioneers of the genre, it owes a lot to its predecessors too. Babylon 5 and Star Trek: TNG/DS9 are the obvious names to drop, but perhaps even more relevant was a criminally overlooked and short lived Fox series Space: Above and Beyond (which hit most of the same themes as BSG with similar sense of seriousness almost 10 years prior).
One of the big BSG headlines during its run, was gender swapping the character of Starbuck. In 2024 of course this seems like an absurd controversy, but at the time it was a serious issue. Original Starbuck (played by Dirk Benedict, who vehemently opposed and trashed the decision to make Starbuck a woman) was a mix of roguish womanizing attitude and toxic masculinity typical for 70's media. Making the cigar smoking hotshot a woman (and adding a frak of a lot of layers to her) was of course the right call and Katee Sackhoffs Starbuck ended up being perhaps more iconic than the show itself. It should be ridiculous to laud a television show for doing what should be the expectation: writing a complex female character, but quite frankly in the early 2000's sci-fi landscape (or just TV in general) there just hadn't been a character like Starbuck before. She's sex positive and tomboyish, but not defined by either one of these traits. She's really good at what she does, but makes mistakes and is constantly battling her demons, so all her successes feel very earned. Objectively she's an asshole, but seeing her story from her point of view makes you sympathize with her. While there are moments where BSG doesn't handle female characters with quite such finesse, Starbuck definitely left a lasting mark.
This being Reddit, I couldn't help but discuss the inevitable talking point that always comes up, did Battlestar Galactica really get that bad in the latter half? Well, the short answer is no. Objectively speaking, the last season of the show still holds a respectable 92% Rotten Tomatoes score, from both critics and audience. In fact the final episodes remain some of the highest rated in almost any review site. Perhaps it's also been helped in retrospect by shows like Lost, Dexter, Game of Thrones etc. upstaging it in the "bad endings department". Saying it "wasn't that bad" is not a glowing endorsement however. There are some valid reasons to why the show lost viewers along the way and why the ending sparked such controversy.
Let's start with the very end of the show. It's very clear rewatching the show that a lot of the time Ron Moore had no idea where it would all end up. Some aspects of the ending were planned, (in fact on this rewatch, I was surprised how early some things are foreshadowed and established) but some arcs were thrown out and forgotten and some just improvised on the go and tied together very hastily. The show will spend a couple of seasons foreshadowing something, only for it to be abandoned for something completely different (very noticeable, especially if you're aware of some of the changes made during production and the writers strike). Ron Moores character work remains fantastic throughout the show, but he seems to be one of those writers who needs to be occasionally reined in to keep the story cohesive. While saying the ending was just "God did it", is an oversimplification, the fatalistic implications of the cyclical nature of the story is understandably frustrating and retroactively devalues the stakes felt in the earlier seasons. Too many things are left for chance or fate and as a result, the ending feels kind of unearned. And while most individual character arcs come to a beautiful conclusion, fumbling Karas ending is probably the biggest sin of the three part finale. /somewhat ironic sidenote, this is what GRRM had to say about the shows ending "Sometimes the journey is its own reward and I certainly enjoyed a lot of the journey with BSG. But damn it, doesn't anyone know how to write endings anymore?"
Now, a lot of viewers abandoned the show after two seasons and it's understandable. There's a massive tonal shift in the series after the New Caprica arc. The show got intensely dark and brooding in the last two seasons. I always thought of BSG as a serious show, but I had forgotten how there's a lot of comedic moments, even physical comedy in the first couple of seasons. There was also that wholesome sense of optimism typical for scifi of late 90's and early 00's. Even when things got dark, usually by the end of the episode the gang was together, toasting another day of living. Come season 3 that's all gone. Even Galactica looks different, as if the fleet lost half the light bulbs during the occupation. Every character is suffering from depression, PTSD and exhaustion and the show feels like it too. You no longer get "Action stations, action stations! Set condition 1 throughout the ship!". instead you have Colonel Tigh saying "Which side are we on? We're on the side of the demons, Chief. We're evil men in the gardens of paradise, sent by the forces of death to spread devastation and destruction wherever we go. I'm surprised you didn't know that" while planning a suicide bombing. I personally thought the shift was narratively justified. If anything I found it refreshing how seriously BSG takes itself, when these days a lot of sci-fi seems to have a need for comic relief and a self aware tone. But I can't blame people from abandoning the show either. The last two seasons are a different show.
Well this turned out to be ten times longer than it was supposed to. I doubt many if any made it this far, so I'll reward you with a BSG-story I personally find hilarious for some reason, but never get a chance to tell: When filming the movie "The Plan" that shows the events from Cylons perspective, director Edward James Olson was elated to find out they weren't under the usual censorship rules. One time while shooting a scene in the pilots washroom Katee Sackhoff heard Olmos yell from the directors chair "Zoom in on the cock! Zoom in on the cock!". It's been a while since I've The Plan, but I believe it made it into the final cut.
TL;DR: BSG is brilliant at its best, but deeply flawed at its worst. Either way, it remains relevant, deserves its place in TV Hall of Fame and especially if you're into scifi, you should watch it.
2024.05.21 00:13 InverseNexarus 60+ Year Old DM does not charge his friends in Pay-to-Play campaign, insults the party for his amusement, and is probably a misogynist. Spoilers for Curse of Strahd.
 | Last Monday I posted a quick and dirty RPG horror story about a pay-to-play campaign. This will be a proper attempt at telling the whole story, from the alluring start to my bitter resignation. Spoilers ahead for the beginning portions of Curse of Strahd. Trigger Warning for bullying and mentions of self-harm. submitted by InverseNexarus to rpghorrorstories [link] [comments] Mondays and Tuesdays are my guaranteed days off, so that is when I am available to enjoy my TTRPG hobby. Typically I am involved in three or four campaigns a week as either a DM or a player. A year-long campaign I was running reached its finale in the middle of March. When that ended and the time slot opened up, I wanted to be a player for a while. So I started looking in all the usual places; Discord servers I am a part of, StartPlaying ads, LFG threads, and the Roll20 boards. I indiscriminately applied for free-to-play and pay-to-play games at 1 PM on Mondays and ultimately got invited to join a Curse of Strahd campaign. I’ve experienced good and bad games in both camps, so this story is not about bashing pay-to-play games. Being a DM requires time, effort, and availability; and I am willing to pay since free games are not typically hosted during that time slot. The DM hosting this Curse of Strahd campaign presented himself as a knowledgeable Grognard from the Gygaxian era. A retired man who ran D&D games to have fun and get a bit of spending money as a side hustle. He made promises that this campaign was going to be more than just an out-of-the-box 5th edition game. It would run the gambit of Ravenloft’s rich history taking elements from older editions and novels like ‘I Strahd: The Memoirs of a Vampire’. The game would be going from level 1 to 20, as defeating Strahd and escaping Barovia was just the beginning. He planned on the party visiting other domains of dread and dark places within the shadowfel. During a voice call interview, we spoke about table conduct, civility, respect, lines and veils, and all the things that sold me the idea he was a professional DM and cared about the integrity of his campaign. At no point did this grown-ass old man proclaim anything along the lines of, “This will be like playing D&D with two friends in a basement, and you’re the third wheel who buys our snacks”. If he had, I would not have signed up. We shall call him the Bantering DM for the rest of the story. Two weeks go by and the game fills with four players: My half-goblin moon druid named Olivia; an elf bladesinger wizard named Cayden; a purple tiefling lore bard named Eternal Cake; lastly the problem player Jormungandr the fallen-aasimar giant barbarian. We have session zero with everyone in the Discord voice channel. The Bantering DM goes over the same points from the interview and has us go around the table so that we can introduce ourselves, our characters, and the lines/veils we’d like to avoid. I don’t like witnessing instances of child abuse, Cayden does not like descriptions of spiders, Eternal Cake does not want the party to torture NPCs, and Jormungandr asks that we be patient with him as he has ADHD. I go above and beyond by making high-resolution character tokens for everyone. As we are chatting and filling out our character sheets, it is revealed that Eternal Cake and Jormungandr are longtime friends of the Bantering DM and are not paying for the sessions like Cayden and myself. Personally, I’d feel more comfortable if all the players either paid a fee or played for free, but I let it slide because everyone seemed nice at the time. https://preview.redd.it/er4ul1kgmn1d1.png?width=1129&format=png&auto=webp&s=e9a8df11e4c27d1a3f89f7fab8de05985bae6667 In session one, unfortunately, Eternal Cake was not able to join us so we had to puppet his purple tiefling. The Bantering DM uses the Creeping Mists introduction. Each of our characters was spirited to Barovia with whatever equipment we had on our person. Cayden and Jormungandr sounded mildly inconvenienced upon discovering that they were kidnapped by magical mist and then plopped into a dark forest. Meanwhile, Olivia was scared out of her mind and avoided the three strange men. She decided to climb a tree to find a road or landmarks. Survival checks were made, she discovered a road not too far away and heard the howling of wolves in the distance. Even though she did not trust these men, she motioned for them to follow her, hopefully, they’d be safe together. We were ambushed by three wolves on the road. During the surprise round, both Cayden and Eternal Cake were rendered unconscious. Pack tactics caused a critical hit on Cayden, the wolf’s bite attack damage was 13, meaning his wizard with 7 hit points was a single point away from instantly dying. Thankfully, I prepared healing spells for just such an occasion. It was at this point that I got to experience the Bantering DM and Jormungandr’s dynamic. DM: “At advantage from pack tactics, that is a 17 to hit.” Barb: “No that does not hit me.” DM: “Your token is linked to your sheet. You have 15 AC, my guy.” Barb: “What about with a shield? Ever think about that?” DM: “Even if you had a shield, that's 17, it meets it beats. But you're using a maul.” Barb: “Does Cake have silvery barbs? I demand a reroll.” DM: “Cake is unconscious.” Me: “Um, I will get him up when it is my turn. Can you drop it?” Barb: “Fine.” DM: “That is 7 piercing damage.” Barb: “7 bullshit damage! I have not even had a turn. I’m not raging so it is FULL!” Olivia played cautiously, healing the downed party members and using ranged cantrips. Jormungandr did big damage with his maul but complained and argued with the Bantering DM, extending each of his turns longer than they needed to be. Injured, but grateful to be alive, we travel down the muddy road. The party makes it to the village of Barovia. We wander the streets and eventually find the Blood of the Vine tavern. Cayden and Jormungandr do the majority of the talking, as Olivia is unsure if the villagers will be hostile or welcoming to a goblin like her. The Bantering DM laced the expositional dialog with a lot of profanity, personal attacks, and spitting on the floor. The barkeep explained that spitting was a Barovian custom, that if an evil thing is expressed one must spit quickly otherwise demons will possess the soul. The insults were primarily based on our characters' appearances. Cayden was called a knife-ear, short, girly man, hairless, and physically weak. Jormungandr was mocked for being stupid, a savage brute, and likely to get struck by lightning as he had a metal pauldron. Eternal Cake was spared as he was not at the session, though I imagine the Bantering DM had plenty to say about a purple devil man. The barkeep called Olivia an ugly greenskin, asked where the rest of her clothes were, if she was like goblins in fairytales that hide under children's beds to eat their toes, and that I may as well “get it over with as it will happen sooner or later”, implying that I should kill myself. When he said that, Olivia spat and glared at the man. Through that abuse, we learned the leader of the town recently died. His son Ismark was now in charge, but no one liked him. There was a cursed child with red hair named Ireena, taken in by the prior burgomaster. The ruler of this valley is called The Devil and he’s been sending monsters to torment the village recently. The priest of the local church had gone mad when his son died in a recent attack. Finally, there is a town further down the road called Vallaki. We rent a room and end the session with a milestone level up. After the game wrapped up, we were still in the voice call and I expressed a couple of concerns I had about the banter during combat. Saying that it made the fight drag on for longer. I also said that I could handle rude or unlikeable NPCs and that I understand Barovia is a bleak atmosphere, but I felt the barkeep overstepped into abusive language with his comments. The Bantering DM apologized, said that it was all just in character, and excused the innkeeper by saying he is scared, small-minded, and considered us a bad omen on top of recent terrible events. I chalked it up to adjusting to a new group. This will be the only time that the Bantering DM will apologize or engage with my concerns and criticisms. After this, he would ignore what I had to say. For session two Eternal Cake is unable to play again. The party woke up and left the inn. Immediately we are confronted by Ismark, he puffs himself up and banishes us from the town. Yelling for us to get out, that we were harming his people, we were unwelcome, and no merchant was legally allowed to trade with us. Then he stomped off unwilling to talk about whether or not we could help his people. Now, I’ve run Curse of Strahd before, I have meta-knowledge about things we can do in this village. There is content to explore, stuff to do, and ways to better the village. Some of which was hinted at by the barkeep last session. However, in character, Olivia was told to kill herself and a few hours later got banished. She does not belong here, she is not wanted, so the true neutral thing to do is leave. But in-character and out-of-character are very different beasts because I know that leaving would mean abandoning the story's most pivotal character Ireena. Jormungandr and Cayden both agree, well screw this town if everyone is going to be a jerk. I’m panicking, internally screaming, trying to come up with an in-character reason to force us to meet Ireena, but drawing a blank. Then as we are about one hundred paces outside of town, we hear a young woman calling out after us. It is Ireena. She is running after us, short of breath and begging us to stop for a second. She explains that we are the heroes of prophecy. Asking if she could travel with us to Vallaki. The way that Bantering DM is playing Ireena, makes me mad, as he is putting on a stereotypical airhead voice and making her sound dumb. Cayden and Jormungandr pick up on this and ask a few questions. Ireena explains that she was never allowed out of the house and that this is the furthest she’s been outside of the village. She found her dad's old breastplate and rapier, but she’d never used them before. That she’s never been in a fight. Later on, the Bantering DM would show this by having her routinely make dexterity saving throws in combat to not trip and fall prone. Describing her as swinging wildly and whenever she did hit an enemy made it sound like an accident. Nor does she seem to have any bonds with her village, or care to say goodbye to her brother. The biggest problem is never mentioned out loud, but through meta-knowledge I know that her father has not been buried yet. This means that the Bantering DM chose to cut the funeral from the module, or that it still needs to be done but Ireena does not care about laying her father to rest. We travel down the road and come to the gallows at the crossroads. It just so happens that Olivia sees the apparition of her own body dangling from the noose. She expresses sorrow and I hint at backstory trauma, calling the event “probably a bad memory of the last time I had a rope around my neck”. Then the Bantering DM performs the final part of Ireena’s character assassination. Ireena kneels down, looks Olivia in the eye, and says, “You must have gone mad”, then laughs at her. This is not Ireena, this is a careless fool with no empathy. I don’t know why the Bantering DM made these changes. Because he is sexist? To be funny? Is it because he considers the village portion of Barovia boring? Is he ignorant or malicious? I cannot answer these questions, nor will I pretend to be a mind reader. I am just laying out what he did. We continued to travel down the road, eventually meeting an old woman with a cart headed toward the village. Ireena seemed to know this woman, calling her Granny, and spoke louder to imply the older woman was hard of hearing. She greeted us and offered pies for sale. With meta-knowledge I know that this is Morgantha, a night hag who kills people and grinds their bones at her windmill aptly named Bonegrinder. But I would never act on this knowledge nor spoil the surprise for anyone else. Jormungandr then asked, “Are the pies made of people?”, without any suspicious behavior or provocation. Granny said ‘no, of course not’. But then Jormungandr started to question the old lady intensely. Why are you traveling all by yourself? Are you not scared of wolves? How big is this woman DM? Does she look like she has an arcane focus? Is there anything weird about her cart? Can I do an insight check to sense her motivations? He hardly even let the DM answer the damn question before firing off another one. So I break character and say. “Stop meta-gaming! Knock it off!” Confronting Jormungandr seemed to get him to stop, but this should be the job of the DM, especially one who laid out a list of table etiquette during session zero. Once we resumed, in character I ran defense for the hag. Saying that as a druid I could talk to animals and giving them food often lets them know you are friendly. Just because she is an old woman, does not mean she was incapable of taking care of herself. To which the hag agreed and gave me a free pie. After that, we got to the Vistani camp and Madame Eva’s fortune-telling. The cards we got were the best pulls I’ve ever seen, super thematic, and a great fated ally. The Sunsword would be at the beacon of Agronvostholt after we light it. The Tome is hidden in Baba Lysaga’s hut, makes sense that she’d keep her darling son's diary safe. The Holy Symbol is behind the sun at St. Markovia, so we have to confront a fallen angel to retrieve an amulet of faith. And we got the G.O.A.T. - Ezmerelda d'Avenir, we could run into her at a bunch of different places. All of this was meta-knowledge, of course, and unlike Jormungandr I did not intend to start demanding we go to these places to speedrun win D&D. We ended the session at that point, and once again we got a milestone level up. I left the voice call, took a few days to cool off, and then carefully wrote out a respectful message detailing my frustrations to the Bantering DM. Both about Jormungandr’s meta-gaming outburst during the hag interaction and how he chose to portray Ireena Kolyana. I explained that she was coming across as an unempathetic ditz. The way she was acting made it difficult for my character to like or trust her. Hammering on the points about the funeral as well as her mocking Olivia at the gallows. I wrote that I understand there are many ways the community around Curse of Strahd has characterized Ireena. Ranging from Palidoozy’s disney princess version to Dragnacarta’s complete rework of her character into an arc to recover her memories. Sometimes she is a damsel in distress, other times the light that Barovia desperately needs. I never got a response to my criticisms. Perhaps I was out of line? I did not want my comments to come across as backseat DMing. I never interrupted the flow of the session, waiting until afterward to try and communicate my concerns. I felt like my issues were tangible and explainable. I did consider leaving the game if things did not improve. In hindsight, I think that it was the insane fortune pulls that got me to stay. In the third session, Eternal Cake could play with us, but Cayden could not. Also, we got a new player added to the roster. A paladin named Paul. The party travels down the road until they come across a kidnapping in progress. Several men were tying up a young woman and stuffing her into a burlap sack. We charged in, and the DM puppeted Cayden. Paul was introduced in this fight. He emerged from the bushes and went after the bandits, ready to smite evil and save a damsel. Eternal Cake passed out inspiration like candy and used spells like bless and command. Jormungandr became a big angry boy and smashed his way through the bandits. Olivia got to show off her higher AC from taking a level dip into monk. Blowing everyone’s mind when I explained how these features stacked with wildshape. However, once again this combat brought out the worst in Bantering DM and Jormungandr. DM: “The bandit disengages and runs over here. Then he fires a crossbow at George-Munger.” Barb: “Jormungandr.” DM: “That is what I said, Gorge-Gander.” Barb: “Say my name right. Jormungandr.” DM: “Your Muh Ganger.” Barb: “George is my cat. He is a milk puddle. But I am not George.” Me: “Can we please keep combat going?” Barb: “No one asked you.” Me: “Whatever…” DM: “Anyway, a 13 misses your AC. Then it is this bandit’s turn. And he kills Jormungandr instantly.” Barb: “You haven't even rolled yet.” We manage to win the fight and have one enemy restrained in my entangle spell. During combat, we decided as a group to spare one of the kidnappers so that we could question him. Untying the young woman and pulling her from the sack. Then the girl casts produce flame and murders the bandit. Everyone is miffed, as it felt like the Bantering DM took away our opportunity to gain information. The girl explained that she was a Vistana named Arabella. Asking for us to guide her back to her camp, it is not far from Vallaki. We do so, and I don’t remember much of what happened during this session. I was upset about the bantering and that our group agency was taken away. I disassociated from the conversations but got the gist of it Like with Ismark and the barkeep, the Vistani people insulted us. They gave the party a cloak of protection as a reward for saving Arabella. The Bantering DM said that we should argue over who gets to wear it. The Vistani name-dropped Strahd and called themselves his allies. Telling us that we may as well give up any hope of escaping. He briefly mentions dusk elves also being in the camp. At one point, the Bantering DM realized I was not contributing to the conversation. So Arrigal asked if Olivia was for sale. I flatly said, “I am free, don’t ever say something like that to me again!” The lines between in and out-of-character blurred. When it was about ten minutes till, I wanted to do something else. I said that I would be interested in speaking with the dusk elves. The Bantering DM said, “They are prisoners and the Vistani told you to not bother them”. I asked if I could make a stealth check. He said, “There are like 300 Vistani in this camp and someone will spot you.” On the one hand, he did not make me roll for something I could not succeed in, but it still felt shitty to be told no it is impossible. We ended the session with a milestone level-up. I did not write the Bantering DM between sessions. I should not have returned for another game. Fourth session, Eternal Cake is once again missing in action. I had hoped that in this session everyone would be able to play and we could finally all get on the same page. We were also supposed to go into the town of Vallaki. However, once we started walking down the path a dusk elf appeared. She, yes a female dusk elf named Kassy-Mira no less, asked us to go to a haunted fort to find one of her sisters named Savida. My meta-knowledge goes into overload wondering what in the hell did this Bantering DM do. For those of you in the know, I am looking forward to responses and speculations in the comments section. Kassy-Mira explains that Savida is the keeper of their lore and history, an elven leader who must be recovered. I ask a couple of clarifying questions because at this point I have no idea what is going on. The elves are prisoners of the Vistani, yet a leader was able to escape? Why did no one else escape? Where is this fort? If the fort is haunted why would they flee there? Why are the dusk elves prisoners anyway? Did you escape Miss Kassy-Mira? Do the elves want to revolt against the Vistani? But I only got answers that the fort was to the west and that returning their leader was paramount. Then she rushed back to voluntarily go back into dusk elf prison, I guess. So instead of going to Vallaki like I was hoping, I guess we are going to the house of the silver dragon. My only theory is that the Bantering DM wanted us to get started on the questline to retrieve the skull, so he shoe-horned in a way for us to redirect to Argonvostholt. But in doing so he also revealed whatever he did to the dusk elf lore. I’m guessing he reversed the gender of the events before the campaign started. Which makes me wonder, did he gender-bend Rahadin too? We wander down the road and find the haunted mansion atop the muddy hill. Seeing the statue and for whatever reason we decide to check out the collapsed stables first. The rest of the session was a combat encounter against a dozen giant spiders. Two of the three hours were dedicated to this, mostly because the Bantering DM and Jormungandr took forever to keep the turns moving along. And they were particularly toxic during this combat because Jormungandr hated that his rage did not resist poison. I knew that once the session was over, I’d be writing up my farewell message. Every time it was my turn, I simply stated what actions I took and quickly did it. Elaborating if questioned on my abilities. DM: "Make a Con save against poison". Barb: "No, make me." DM: "Do it bitch." Barb: "Fine. 21." DM: "You failed." Barb: "It says DC 11 for spider DM." DM: "Yeah, well, fuck you." Me: “I use multiattack, bite, claw, bonus action unarmed strike. 21 to hit, for 7 piercing damage. 18 to hit, for 15 slashing damage. 24 to hit, for 5 bludgeoning damage.” Barb: “You can do three attacks? That is bullshit.” Me: “Brown Bear has multiattack, monk grants martial arts.” After the fight, we had just enough time to enter the mansion and find Savida. Olivia still had some spell slots, so I tended to her injuries. The Bantering DM said that the party would question her at the start of the next session. Once we ended the call, I wrote up a few things. First I left a message in the general chat thanking the players and wishing them well. I learned from Cayden later on that my farewell message was deleted by the DM. Then I wrote my final criticisms and sent them to the Bantering DM privately, letting him know I would not be returning. https://preview.redd.it/q3vodfhvln1d1.png?width=823&format=png&auto=webp&s=d9518097a06761bceec649228aa34b8d8b786165 https://preview.redd.it/kvj7l4u3mn1d1.png?width=1225&format=png&auto=webp&s=865388fc0d5c65ff64776196f6725de01c228049 The punchline to this joke of a campaign. A week later, today, Cayden tells me that the Bantering DM canceled the session because neither of his buddies showed up to play. Eternal Flake, Geogreinanger, and the Bantering DM, despite all my complaints I hope they continue to have fun. Maybe next time though, don’t play favorites and charge people for a “fun time in Grandpa’s basement”. https://preview.redd.it/vycv0uqsln1d1.png?width=1229&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c241b09728ebc29653e384dea90a24d770e7a0b |
2024.05.20 23:27 ocean_lover2018 17F looking for a penpal
17 years old Female looking for a kind penpal:))
hii there! I’ve tried posting before and got a few really kind penpals but we the contact have faded so I’ll will try commenting on here again.
I would love to have a kind penpal I can write to. I’m from Denmark and at the age of 17 almost 18 years old. Here’s a bit about me. Right now I’m studying at college and I’m still not sure what major I want to do. I looove animals (got 2 border collies) being creative, poems and stories, I love hanging out with friends, I also love the nature so much- I like hiking, camping, swimming in the ocean, but one of my biggest passions is travelling I LOVE it :)) When I’m graduating I’m planning on travelling the world. If you think I sound cool enough then let’s be penpals! So if you want to become penpals then send me a DM! anyways- bye:)
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hii there! I’ve tried posting before and got a few really kind penpals but we the contact have faded so I’ll will try commenting on here again.
I would love to have a kind penpal I can write to. I’m from Denmark and at the age of 17 almost 18 years old. Here’s a bit about me. Right now I’m studying at college and I’m still not sure what major I want to do. I looove animals (got 2 border collies) being creative, poems and stories, I love hanging out with friends, I also love the nature so much- I like hiking, camping, swimming in the ocean, but one of my biggest passions is travelling I LOVE it :)) When I’m graduating I’m planning on travelling the world. If you think I sound cool enough then let’s be penpals! So if you want to become penpals then send me a DM! anyways- bye:)
2024.05.20 22:15 HannoPicardVI "Prison Warden Simulator" Upcoming game set on a 120 sqkm map. You play Asher Kinney, a prison warden of a fictional prison in a fictional location in North America. Whilst the ultimate goal is to manage the prison, you can sometimes venture out, making the game double up as a lifesim
"Prison Warden Simulator"
You play Asher Kinney, a prison warden of a fictional prison in a fictional location in North America. The prison has two main sections: a male-only prison and a female-only prison.
The game can be played in third person and you can also make use of in-game prison management software - which can be accessed via the game menu - to manage your prison, the prisoners and guards.
If a riot breaks out, you can contain the mayhem and even partake in herding the prisoners along with your guards - so, it's not just a simple strategy game.
As Warden, you hold the "Master Key" and "Master Code", meaning you can go anywhere and see anyone.
You can monitor "problem prisoners" and keep track of prison spending and budgets (so if food and supplies are running out, you can order in more supplies).
Prison Warden Simulator also doubles up as a life sim.
Whilst the prison is enormous and takes up a large chunk of the map, the rest of the playable area is pretty much farmland, mountains...and maybe some small towns here and there...and even a small North American-style "little big town", with an impressive number of accessible interiors (with no loading screens) and NPCs going about their daily business.
So, when you're not working or if you decide to take the day off, you can drive out of the prison, explore, go to the bank, go to a diner or something or just cruise the in-game highway - which appears to be a state highway, rather than an interstate. But beware, the simulation will still run whilst you are out and about exploring, so if a riot breaks out, you will have to drop everything and race back to the prison.
You can also choose to start a family or not (what the hell is this - a remix of The Sims?!) and as the time goes by, you can see your baby or babies grow up.
Even though it is a simulator, the devs have put in work to create a strong and cinematic campaign story with cinematics and cutscenes.
So, expect to see missions, storylines and cinematics involving visits from representatives of the Federal and state governments and meetings with agents from The Marshals Service (in-game fictional entity) regarding escaped convicts, visits from attorneys and visits and meetings with families (of the, um, convicts...)
One dramatic mission also sees a "furious family member" of a rape and murder victim attempt to smash through The North Gate of the prison, still fuming that a convict "got off easy" and try to "shoot his way to the convict", sparking a gun battle with your guards and a hostage situation.
If convicts escape, this lowers your standing, lowers the morale of your guards and boosts the morale of the 8,600 or so prisoners in your prison. If too many prisoners escape within a short period of time, your fitness for the role will be questioned and you can expect to lose XP, prison funding and wages.
As Warden, you also have the power to allow prisoners rewards or permit activities, but beware, your actions will affect morale, attitude and emotions. For instance, requests can sometimes come in from some prisoners (or their attorneys) - and you will see this via the in-game management software and in-game email account - to have permission to attend a funeral. Although in real life, this may usually be dealt with by the courts, this is a game and as Warden, you have the final say. Rejecting a request could cause destabilization or lower morale or do nothing, so it depends on the prisoner.
In the game, as Warden, you also have the final say on conjugal visits and can order searches of cells or go out and carry out searches yourself.
Finally, although Prison Warden Simulator is set sometime in the 2030s or 2040s, prisoners are still used up and down North America for certain jobs. So, at times, a group or groups of prisoners will be reqested for manual labor tasks outside of the prison walls e.g. mundane tasks involving the construction or expansion of a highway or other. Because prison labor is cheap, you may sometimes be sent a request for prisoners and you can even go out with them as well. This may be a 5-20 minute drive, depending on where the location is on the game map.
There is also a main police station in the "little big town" on the map and playing as Asher, you can enter the police station at any time and meet cops, especially if there is an ongoing situation up at the prison.
Worrying how Prison Warden Simulator has a larger playable area, huh?
(The game was built using Unreal Engine 4 and mechanics, style, driving mechanics and "atmosphere" is similar to that of State of Decay 2. Because there is violence, offensive language, sexual themes, suicide, overt drug use, reference to drug use and other adult themes, it is rated "M" for Mature/PEGI 18, so similar to a NC-17 rated movie or TV show)
NOTE: The developers used UE4 instead of UE5 because it was concluded that UE5 "degraded the look and feel of game graphics and made everything look like cheap plastic and repelled the player". "If UE5 was used instead of UE4, there would be hundreds - if not thousands - of refund requests when the game is released, because UE5 is a downgrade from UE4 in the gaming industry." An example of how awful UE5 makes games look is Immortals of Aveum, which instantly repels players because of its cheap plastic look. Developers and studios are urged not to use UE5.
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You play Asher Kinney, a prison warden of a fictional prison in a fictional location in North America. The prison has two main sections: a male-only prison and a female-only prison.
The game can be played in third person and you can also make use of in-game prison management software - which can be accessed via the game menu - to manage your prison, the prisoners and guards.
If a riot breaks out, you can contain the mayhem and even partake in herding the prisoners along with your guards - so, it's not just a simple strategy game.
As Warden, you hold the "Master Key" and "Master Code", meaning you can go anywhere and see anyone.
You can monitor "problem prisoners" and keep track of prison spending and budgets (so if food and supplies are running out, you can order in more supplies).
Prison Warden Simulator also doubles up as a life sim.
Whilst the prison is enormous and takes up a large chunk of the map, the rest of the playable area is pretty much farmland, mountains...and maybe some small towns here and there...and even a small North American-style "little big town", with an impressive number of accessible interiors (with no loading screens) and NPCs going about their daily business.
So, when you're not working or if you decide to take the day off, you can drive out of the prison, explore, go to the bank, go to a diner or something or just cruise the in-game highway - which appears to be a state highway, rather than an interstate. But beware, the simulation will still run whilst you are out and about exploring, so if a riot breaks out, you will have to drop everything and race back to the prison.
You can also choose to start a family or not (what the hell is this - a remix of The Sims?!) and as the time goes by, you can see your baby or babies grow up.
Even though it is a simulator, the devs have put in work to create a strong and cinematic campaign story with cinematics and cutscenes.
So, expect to see missions, storylines and cinematics involving visits from representatives of the Federal and state governments and meetings with agents from The Marshals Service (in-game fictional entity) regarding escaped convicts, visits from attorneys and visits and meetings with families (of the, um, convicts...)
One dramatic mission also sees a "furious family member" of a rape and murder victim attempt to smash through The North Gate of the prison, still fuming that a convict "got off easy" and try to "shoot his way to the convict", sparking a gun battle with your guards and a hostage situation.
If convicts escape, this lowers your standing, lowers the morale of your guards and boosts the morale of the 8,600 or so prisoners in your prison. If too many prisoners escape within a short period of time, your fitness for the role will be questioned and you can expect to lose XP, prison funding and wages.
As Warden, you also have the power to allow prisoners rewards or permit activities, but beware, your actions will affect morale, attitude and emotions. For instance, requests can sometimes come in from some prisoners (or their attorneys) - and you will see this via the in-game management software and in-game email account - to have permission to attend a funeral. Although in real life, this may usually be dealt with by the courts, this is a game and as Warden, you have the final say. Rejecting a request could cause destabilization or lower morale or do nothing, so it depends on the prisoner.
In the game, as Warden, you also have the final say on conjugal visits and can order searches of cells or go out and carry out searches yourself.
Finally, although Prison Warden Simulator is set sometime in the 2030s or 2040s, prisoners are still used up and down North America for certain jobs. So, at times, a group or groups of prisoners will be reqested for manual labor tasks outside of the prison walls e.g. mundane tasks involving the construction or expansion of a highway or other. Because prison labor is cheap, you may sometimes be sent a request for prisoners and you can even go out with them as well. This may be a 5-20 minute drive, depending on where the location is on the game map.
There is also a main police station in the "little big town" on the map and playing as Asher, you can enter the police station at any time and meet cops, especially if there is an ongoing situation up at the prison.
Worrying how Prison Warden Simulator has a larger playable area, huh?
(The game was built using Unreal Engine 4 and mechanics, style, driving mechanics and "atmosphere" is similar to that of State of Decay 2. Because there is violence, offensive language, sexual themes, suicide, overt drug use, reference to drug use and other adult themes, it is rated "M" for Mature/PEGI 18, so similar to a NC-17 rated movie or TV show)
NOTE: The developers used UE4 instead of UE5 because it was concluded that UE5 "degraded the look and feel of game graphics and made everything look like cheap plastic and repelled the player". "If UE5 was used instead of UE4, there would be hundreds - if not thousands - of refund requests when the game is released, because UE5 is a downgrade from UE4 in the gaming industry." An example of how awful UE5 makes games look is Immortals of Aveum, which instantly repels players because of its cheap plastic look. Developers and studios are urged not to use UE5.
2024.05.20 22:13 Depraved_Libs Patriarchy Paradise
BACKGROUND INFORMATIONThe Patriarchy Paradise is a series of short smut stories that focus on concepts & kinks like Free Use & The Patriarchy. I was inspired to create this series thanks to the Tales from the Oedipal Zone series, which was created by Squelchapron in his "freeusecaptions" Tumblr. That later got expanded on by crazydorian, my other inspiration came from the reddit user u/IntendantTradwife who created subreddits such as the now banned FuckingEvil & FuckingFascists. As well as other similar subreddit like Churchofmen, MisognynistLife, 1950sHouseholdWives, PoliticsPlay among many others similar subreddit. Thanks to the nature of some of my inspiration, I feel like I should probably take this time to confirm that there is a limit to my depravity. Some of my inspirations like FuckingEvil are infamous for having content that some might consider to be extreme, distasteful if not straight up illegal.
Admittedly while my content may be more on the extreme side, there are certain sexual acts & content that make me uncomfortable if not just repulse me. While my goal is to be as depraved as I can be, I still have my limits. So if you were under the impression that you would stumble across any illegal content on my page, then you can breathe a sigh of relief. If you're disappointed by that, then respectfully leave my page & seek therapy, I have been on reddit long enough to know a lot of us need it. Since my content will be more on the extreme side, I will post a list of all the kinks that you can expect to see when reading my content. If any of the kinks I list below upset or trigger you then it’s probably in your best interest to avoid my page. YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!
⚠️KINKS & TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️
- Breeding
- Free Use
- Misogyny
- Political Play
- Rape
- Revenge
PATRIARCHY PARADISEPatriarchy Paradise is a spin off to my BNWO Revolutionary stories. Set in the year 2025, in the state of Texas. The events of the stories you are about to read follow the adventures of Cain. A year after moving to Texas from his hometown in Virginia. Cain would start a political party that focused on practicing patriarchy with a modern liberal twist. After winning his election by a landslide, Cain would go on to implement several new changes in the state of Texas.
The first of which was making both Gender-Affirming & Plastic Surgery easier to access & afford. The negative stigma around transgender & plastic surgery is dying, now it’s becoming common for people to have the body they always wanted. Another change was the reformation of capital punishment which would end up causing a butterfly effect that ended up changing the whole prison system. Now In the state of Texas when an individual is caught breaking the law & is given a sentence, instead of going to jail or prison they will be given the option of community service as an alternative punishment. Where they will have to spend hours using their body to milk any cock that appears to them.
Of course prison has also had some changes as well, for a start it is now completely legal for the guards to fuck any prisoner they fancy. Women that chose prison can expect to spend most of their day being use as fuck dolls & cum dumpster, getting their holes stuffed & blasted with the Guards cums. As for the men, for the most part prison stayed the same for them, some of the more weaker feminine males tend to end up as the prison cum rag. Spending most of their time in prison being used to drain both the guards & fellow prisoner balls dry, jerking off their cocks until they are covered in the semen of their more dominant peers. Male prisoner might be given the chance to fuck a pre chosen female prisoner as a reward for good behavior, however for the most part, those instances are a case by case bases.
Now some of the biggest reforms to the legal system have been the changing of capital punishment & the introduction of the repentment camps. Previously any individual that was given capital punishment, otherwise known as the death penalty would have been put to death. Now anyone who is given capital punishment will be stripped of all their human rights, becoming property of the government & sent to a repentance camp to repent for their crimes.n Where the individual will reside until they are brought by another, the same punishment would also apply to any individual who is convicted of a crime & is given a life sentence. As well for any individual who is convicted of being an illegal alien, however, since the latter two crimes are deemed as severe enough to be sentenced with capital punishment. Repentance camp will be presented to the individual as an alternative punishment to life in prison or deportation.
For the most part life in the camp isn’t much different then life outside, despite the fact that they are called camps. In reality the state of texas have been using old abandoned towns to house these individuals, which for the most part the residents have free rein. They are forbidden from leaving the camps of course, unless the individual in question is either brought or their paperwork is finalized & they become a legal citizen in the case of the illegal aliens. For the most part when the adults residents are not partaking in their required special education, or in the camp hospital getting surgery done on them. They just spend their days restoring the old buildings so the camp is more of a suitable place for them to live. It is illegal for residents to have sex among each other & the male residents are locked in chastity cages to prevent such acts from occurring. Even though the males have their cock locked up, cocks are still getting drained. It just so happened to be the cocks of the guards & average civilians, since it’s perfectly legal for an outsider to come into the camp & use any of the adult residents to drain their balls.
All these changes that I have listed so far are just small minor changes, that are the end result of the biggest & most important change that was implemented. The Introduction to the Free Use System along with the several new laws & regulations that came with it. Under this Free Use system, sexual acts that was highly frown upon like cat calling, Groping, public sex, etc etc. Are now not only socially acceptable but is basically becoming normalized, it is becoming quite common to see a men go up to a women that he like, bend her over & fuck her, until his balls are empty & her pussy is dripping with his seeds. Thanks to the Free Use System it is completely legal for a man that has been deemed to be worthy to take ownership of any women that he wants. Of course everything I mentioned previously is under the assumption that the women in question are both unowned & have been registered in the system.
STORIES
2024.05.20 21:40 mango_novelle In a search for partner for MxM, MxF friendship/family saving fantasy world
I was thinking of trying my luck here to find some roleplaying partner(possibly only one) so yeah first few things about me; I am 20y old woman and I have roleplayed several years so I am looking for some woman too with a little experience HOWEVER most importantly English is not my first language and I haven't written fully in english before, dialogs sometimes so if you are okay with that by any means continue reading.
(Immediatly as I started to write this post I feel like all my thoughts disappeared...how typical..)
Okay few things before to the actual plots:
Discord only (I would wanna create a channel in there for this)
18+ and you are able to handle a brutal topics
I write on 3rd person and in past tense which I prefer from you but am flexible with. I play male characters only(aside from side characters ofc) but depending on the plot I don't really mind is yours a male or female
My writing length varies quite much also mirroring how my partner writes but right now I feel like it would be nice to write in chat type so like somewhere <100 to 200 words as I feel like work and overall life keeps me quite busy and writing little shorter would lower the verge to answer if don't have much time. Still even tho I want quite relaxed tempo I aim to answer daily at least once, hoping from you the same, and in every aswer I hope there is something to react and it still moves the moment forward. Also with the shortness I sometimes feel like I can cling to the moment at hand more, because some players sometimes move the game forward whit such a fast tempo that I feel like I can't quite get all the things out of some moment as it would be possible. I am highly capable to write from 5-8k words and more and is possible that it happens if I get carried away with the plot and all so I would not mind if you bend to that aswell.
Also something which can affect our playing pace is time zone. Mine is currently UTC +3/EEST so even tho overlapping time zones would be nice I don't have any requirements for this.
I obviously hope that you are interested in plotting the game and contributing to it by also playing side characters. I am not much of a drawer so I mainly use pics for example from pinterest to my characters and also to their outfits or locations as sometimes the picture of some place is different in our minds so a pic can clear that. Communication is key and recommended to get us through any problems.
Just bare with me this one moment more...
So as the title says our characters would be friends (depends on the plot enemies to friends too) or family members (siblings) and it would be nice to be set somewhere in the historical times (castles, empires, kingdoms) but as the world might be our own creation I am not gonna nitpick in the terms of accuracy as I want to hand pick the nice features what to have and especially when there will be twist of fantasy(so they are not realistic anyway). This is few plots (very shapeless ones tho) I have in mind but I will be flexible and open for suggestions as these have also been just some thoughts in my head and possible partner has not been in my mind so they may seem unfair:
Two brothers which older one is gifted with good magic and yonger one (played by me) with badBecause they are born in the royal family the older one gets the crown and yonger one is send to be advisor to neighbouring kingdom. But after a unofrtunate event he rises to be king of that kingdom and at the same time there is impending doom (not sure what that would be yet) of the whole world knocking the door which lead the rivalring siblings having to work together to stop it. I also thought that people with the gift of magic are born very rarely and that there would be only enough that all the kingdoms would have one or two as advisors and that all of them would get a vision of that doom as protectors of the world and humanity so they would also have some gifted counsel where they could have meetings and all. I have few details left out from this still but this whole post is already getting so long...XD
Other plot would be powerfull and immortal wizard(played by me) and hunter trying to save the world or more like wizard trying to save all the witches and hunter the rest. Roughly I thought that long ago some witch ancestors would in order to save the witches because they are being hunted make sure that in the future there would be born an all powerfull leader who would lead all the covens. So then he was born but people terrified of witches overpowering them started searching for that leader, found him and trapped him so he would not learn any magic as killing him was not possible. But obv that would not stop him. He learned everthing he needed to know through sleep and visions, broke free of his prison and started his reign as the leader of all covens. So as he is immortal and powerfull to make the plot interesting I was thinking that there would be ways he can be weakened with various techniques like magic preventing bracelets, weapons and places and all of those to make him dependent to the human hunter character which I would prefer to be male but okay whit woman too.
Then there is also lot of other plots of some sort which I would like, for example some assasinXsome law person (I love AC games) in some medieval times with fantasy twist and possible revolutions agains current crown and I like in those to play the one in the other side of law, also some wild west type of plot would be interesting.
Huh maybe that was all so if you are interested in one of those plots or something similar to them with the friendship/family setting message me and lets see if we click together and are able to create something we can both enjoy!
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(Immediatly as I started to write this post I feel like all my thoughts disappeared...how typical..)
Okay few things before to the actual plots:
Discord only (I would wanna create a channel in there for this)
18+ and you are able to handle a brutal topics
I write on 3rd person and in past tense which I prefer from you but am flexible with. I play male characters only(aside from side characters ofc) but depending on the plot I don't really mind is yours a male or female
My writing length varies quite much also mirroring how my partner writes but right now I feel like it would be nice to write in chat type so like somewhere <100 to 200 words as I feel like work and overall life keeps me quite busy and writing little shorter would lower the verge to answer if don't have much time. Still even tho I want quite relaxed tempo I aim to answer daily at least once, hoping from you the same, and in every aswer I hope there is something to react and it still moves the moment forward. Also with the shortness I sometimes feel like I can cling to the moment at hand more, because some players sometimes move the game forward whit such a fast tempo that I feel like I can't quite get all the things out of some moment as it would be possible. I am highly capable to write from 5-8k words and more and is possible that it happens if I get carried away with the plot and all so I would not mind if you bend to that aswell.
Also something which can affect our playing pace is time zone. Mine is currently UTC +3/EEST so even tho overlapping time zones would be nice I don't have any requirements for this.
I obviously hope that you are interested in plotting the game and contributing to it by also playing side characters. I am not much of a drawer so I mainly use pics for example from pinterest to my characters and also to their outfits or locations as sometimes the picture of some place is different in our minds so a pic can clear that. Communication is key and recommended to get us through any problems.
Just bare with me this one moment more...
So as the title says our characters would be friends (depends on the plot enemies to friends too) or family members (siblings) and it would be nice to be set somewhere in the historical times (castles, empires, kingdoms) but as the world might be our own creation I am not gonna nitpick in the terms of accuracy as I want to hand pick the nice features what to have and especially when there will be twist of fantasy(so they are not realistic anyway). This is few plots (very shapeless ones tho) I have in mind but I will be flexible and open for suggestions as these have also been just some thoughts in my head and possible partner has not been in my mind so they may seem unfair:
Two brothers which older one is gifted with good magic and yonger one (played by me) with badBecause they are born in the royal family the older one gets the crown and yonger one is send to be advisor to neighbouring kingdom. But after a unofrtunate event he rises to be king of that kingdom and at the same time there is impending doom (not sure what that would be yet) of the whole world knocking the door which lead the rivalring siblings having to work together to stop it. I also thought that people with the gift of magic are born very rarely and that there would be only enough that all the kingdoms would have one or two as advisors and that all of them would get a vision of that doom as protectors of the world and humanity so they would also have some gifted counsel where they could have meetings and all. I have few details left out from this still but this whole post is already getting so long...XD
Other plot would be powerfull and immortal wizard(played by me) and hunter trying to save the world or more like wizard trying to save all the witches and hunter the rest. Roughly I thought that long ago some witch ancestors would in order to save the witches because they are being hunted make sure that in the future there would be born an all powerfull leader who would lead all the covens. So then he was born but people terrified of witches overpowering them started searching for that leader, found him and trapped him so he would not learn any magic as killing him was not possible. But obv that would not stop him. He learned everthing he needed to know through sleep and visions, broke free of his prison and started his reign as the leader of all covens. So as he is immortal and powerfull to make the plot interesting I was thinking that there would be ways he can be weakened with various techniques like magic preventing bracelets, weapons and places and all of those to make him dependent to the human hunter character which I would prefer to be male but okay whit woman too.
Then there is also lot of other plots of some sort which I would like, for example some assasinXsome law person (I love AC games) in some medieval times with fantasy twist and possible revolutions agains current crown and I like in those to play the one in the other side of law, also some wild west type of plot would be interesting.
Huh maybe that was all so if you are interested in one of those plots or something similar to them with the friendship/family setting message me and lets see if we click together and are able to create something we can both enjoy!
2024.05.20 21:02 Every-Photograph5578 My new blood bank deciding to leave as if it was her choice
submitted by Every-Photograph5578 to RimWorld [link] [comments]2024.05.20 20:46 Mkasantebuckfannn Where to meet better Muslim men that are traditional and masculine but moderately religious outside of a Muslim dating app?
Hey I have had really bad experiences with Muslim dating apps lately to the point it is affecting my mental health. I cant find someone who is a "Moderate" or "progressive" Muslim but still has a good deen and believes in God and follows the 5 pillars.
Everyone is on extreme ends of the spectrum where they are extremely religious or are straight up fbois who have modern values and views on women and open marriages.
To elaborate, I still embrace traditional family structures and husband wife dynamic and want to submit to my husband. I want a provider husband.
But right now that I am single I dont wear a hijab or feel uncomfortable wearing hijab considering i live and work in a very white neighborhood and got bullied just for being a muslim and got called a sand n word. I dont wanna get physically assaulted or shot. I feel a lot of pressure everyday that Im not a good Muslim for not wearing a hijab even tho I follow the 5 pillars.
I don't have a "wali" I can rely on to go on a halal date with me, my dad is a bit sick right now, hence my rush for marriage. I would prefer going to a halal date (no physical intimacy) but meeting in person at a public place where I will be safe.
I've been on Salams and Hinge and Muzzmatch like over 2 years on and off. i deleted and reinstalled it more time than I can count. I used it in the USA and Europe when I traveled. (I am based in NY). I want to get married soon because I have a sick dad rn and I feel like I am ready for this stage in my life.
I already have a lot going on for me for someone at my age and being a woman, but I cant meet someone who is like above me or even close to my level.
I have to say the quality of men I've been coming across has worsened since when I first had Salams. I went out to dinner and had real dates with people when I was first on salams, had good convos. It didn't work out with those people but at least I can hope and wish the best for them, and I or they made it known respectfully, "like hey i think you are a great person but I want different things." Now, no one knows how to plan a date, schedule a meeting in person, or effectively communicate.
All I really want is a traditional, provider, and ambitious man but it seems like it's too much to ask for now in the modern day. I see so many guys who had their fun in their 20s or are divorced and now looking for a younger wife on here and so many fbois or people without a basic level of education or knowledge.
Honestly this app has been lately affecting my mental health. I get ghosted for NO reason and I am a pretty attractive female too and I am pretty modest for the most part other than the fact that I don't cover my hair and wear athleisure or leotards. I video chatted with someone who I thought I had a lot in common with and a connection only to get ghosted and unmatched (the effort they went through to unmatch me without explanation)? What in the world is going on with the Muslim dating pool... I even had the paid version of the app and I still had no luck.
I am praying and having sabr but honestly I've lost hope. I keep wondering why people wont reciprocate. I text people for days and nights for weeks on end only for the guy to never take the lead or initiate a plan to meet in nyc. I hate being penpals and spending so much screen time outside the work day. And I have like dreams, aspirations of being a mom and making a difference in this world, but all I see are men who are lazy, unamibitious, aloof, or flat out ghosting me.
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Everyone is on extreme ends of the spectrum where they are extremely religious or are straight up fbois who have modern values and views on women and open marriages.
To elaborate, I still embrace traditional family structures and husband wife dynamic and want to submit to my husband. I want a provider husband.
But right now that I am single I dont wear a hijab or feel uncomfortable wearing hijab considering i live and work in a very white neighborhood and got bullied just for being a muslim and got called a sand n word. I dont wanna get physically assaulted or shot. I feel a lot of pressure everyday that Im not a good Muslim for not wearing a hijab even tho I follow the 5 pillars.
I don't have a "wali" I can rely on to go on a halal date with me, my dad is a bit sick right now, hence my rush for marriage. I would prefer going to a halal date (no physical intimacy) but meeting in person at a public place where I will be safe.
I've been on Salams and Hinge and Muzzmatch like over 2 years on and off. i deleted and reinstalled it more time than I can count. I used it in the USA and Europe when I traveled. (I am based in NY). I want to get married soon because I have a sick dad rn and I feel like I am ready for this stage in my life.
I already have a lot going on for me for someone at my age and being a woman, but I cant meet someone who is like above me or even close to my level.
I have to say the quality of men I've been coming across has worsened since when I first had Salams. I went out to dinner and had real dates with people when I was first on salams, had good convos. It didn't work out with those people but at least I can hope and wish the best for them, and I or they made it known respectfully, "like hey i think you are a great person but I want different things." Now, no one knows how to plan a date, schedule a meeting in person, or effectively communicate.
All I really want is a traditional, provider, and ambitious man but it seems like it's too much to ask for now in the modern day. I see so many guys who had their fun in their 20s or are divorced and now looking for a younger wife on here and so many fbois or people without a basic level of education or knowledge.
Honestly this app has been lately affecting my mental health. I get ghosted for NO reason and I am a pretty attractive female too and I am pretty modest for the most part other than the fact that I don't cover my hair and wear athleisure or leotards. I video chatted with someone who I thought I had a lot in common with and a connection only to get ghosted and unmatched (the effort they went through to unmatch me without explanation)? What in the world is going on with the Muslim dating pool... I even had the paid version of the app and I still had no luck.
I am praying and having sabr but honestly I've lost hope. I keep wondering why people wont reciprocate. I text people for days and nights for weeks on end only for the guy to never take the lead or initiate a plan to meet in nyc. I hate being penpals and spending so much screen time outside the work day. And I have like dreams, aspirations of being a mom and making a difference in this world, but all I see are men who are lazy, unamibitious, aloof, or flat out ghosting me.
2024.05.20 20:07 BrieflyEndless The actual This Is Fine meme. I panicked, forgetting she's immune to fire. (Real Ruins mod)
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2024.05.20 17:55 Mkasantebuckfannn How to meet traditional Muslim men for marriage outside of online dating?
Have to get it off my chest as i had lost sleep over this last night. I've been on Salams and Hinge and Muzzmatch like over 2 years on and off. i deleted and reinstalled it more time than I can count. I used it in the USA and Europe when I traveled. (I am based in NY). I want to get married soon because I have a sick dad rn and I feel like I am ready for this stage in my life.
I already have a lot going on for me for someone at my age and being a woman, but I cant meet someone who is like above me or even close to my level.
I have to say the quality of men I've been coming across has worsened since when I first had Salams. I went out to dinner and had real dates with people when I was first on salams, had good convos. It didn't work out with those people but at least I can hope and wish the best for them, and I or they made it known respectfully, "like hey i think you are a great person but I want different things." Now, no one knows how to plan a date, schedule a meeting in person, or effectively communicate.
All I really want is a traditional, provider, and ambitious man but it seems like it's too much to ask for now in the modern day. I see so many guys who had their fun in their 20s or are divorced and now looking for a younger wife on here and so many fbois or people without a basic level of education or knowledge.
Honestly this app has been lately affecting my mental health. I get ghosted for NO reason and I am a pretty attractive female too and I am pretty modest for the most part other than the fact that I don't cover my hair and wear athleisure or leotards. I video chatted with someone who I thought I had a lot in common with and a connection only to get ghosted and unmatched (the effort they went through to unmatch me without explanation)? What in the world is going on with the Muslim dating pool... I even had the paid version of the app and I still had no luck.
I am praying and having sabr but honestly I've lost hope. I keep wondering why people wont reciprocate. I text people for days and nights for weeks on end only for the guy to never take the lead or initiate a plan to meet in nyc. I hate being penpals and spending so much screen time outside the work day. And I have like dreams, aspirations of being a mom and making a difference in this world, but all I see are men who are lazy, unamibitious, aloof, or flat out ghosting me.
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I already have a lot going on for me for someone at my age and being a woman, but I cant meet someone who is like above me or even close to my level.
I have to say the quality of men I've been coming across has worsened since when I first had Salams. I went out to dinner and had real dates with people when I was first on salams, had good convos. It didn't work out with those people but at least I can hope and wish the best for them, and I or they made it known respectfully, "like hey i think you are a great person but I want different things." Now, no one knows how to plan a date, schedule a meeting in person, or effectively communicate.
All I really want is a traditional, provider, and ambitious man but it seems like it's too much to ask for now in the modern day. I see so many guys who had their fun in their 20s or are divorced and now looking for a younger wife on here and so many fbois or people without a basic level of education or knowledge.
Honestly this app has been lately affecting my mental health. I get ghosted for NO reason and I am a pretty attractive female too and I am pretty modest for the most part other than the fact that I don't cover my hair and wear athleisure or leotards. I video chatted with someone who I thought I had a lot in common with and a connection only to get ghosted and unmatched (the effort they went through to unmatch me without explanation)? What in the world is going on with the Muslim dating pool... I even had the paid version of the app and I still had no luck.
I am praying and having sabr but honestly I've lost hope. I keep wondering why people wont reciprocate. I text people for days and nights for weeks on end only for the guy to never take the lead or initiate a plan to meet in nyc. I hate being penpals and spending so much screen time outside the work day. And I have like dreams, aspirations of being a mom and making a difference in this world, but all I see are men who are lazy, unamibitious, aloof, or flat out ghosting me.
2024.05.20 17:08 Gaze1112 Palestinian resistance getting charged for rape is so ridiculous. It's so infuriating that despite 'Israel' openly admitting to having no evidence of any of it still gets to make up this nonsense due to western backing. Meanwhile it blatantly commits both these crimes and doesn't get charged with it
Literally on what bases has ICC even charged it on? Apart from refusing to provide any evidence, 'Israel' has repeatedly rejected UN's calls for investigation in this claim by calling them antisemitic. Literally based on what did they charge them this with? And the UN has literally confirmed 'Israel' committing rapes, sexual violence, child trafficking against Palestinians now. how are they not charged for actually committing it?
'Israel' blatantly commits genocide and rape and gets away with it but gets to make this nonsense a thing due to western backing. If this doesn't gets you charged with genocide then literally what will?
They just see it as a PR attack on themselves. This is such public discourse appeasement PR oriented nonsense, but in the matter of genocide. International humanitarian law is all such a PR fraud.
This baseless piece of atrocity propaganda against Palestine has long been shredded and debunked—not that these were ever even substantiated—along with the Zionists' other endless lies that have been shredded in real time, again without even being substantiated. This nonsense, where 'Israel' refuses to provide any evidence, puts out fabricated 'testimonies', and repeatedly rejects independent calls for investigation for its claims while not allowing its doctors to speak to the UN — this nonsense would be thrown in the bin anywhere else and not even be considered for a second, especially considering that they're now in ICJ court for the crimes of committing genocide on the backs of these unproven claims. This is only forced to even be a thing because of the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has decided to support rape by 'Israel', by suppressing these actual cases of violent rape and categorically refusing to report on them, and instead push 'Israel's nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
This is the old-school fascist mirror politics of accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing. Palestinians have zero history of ever committing sexual violence against 'Israelis', and it's 'Israel' that has a massive history of committing rape and sexual violence against Palestinians since their "independence day," i.e the Nakba, Deir Yassin Massacre, and has committed it ever since. Zionist terrorist group Irgun committed rampant rapes of many Palestinian schoolgirls and molested old women so much so that even the British police in Palestine testified to it. Their old veterans still talk about it on zionist media laughing while talking about committing rapes. What were the consequences they faced for it? A former member of Irgun, Menachem Begin, was elected as the prime minister of 'Israel', he'd win the Nobel peace prize and is now remembered as a transformer of 'Israel'. 'Israel' is quite literally built upon the rape of the native Palestinians.
Palestinians have no history of ever committing it or even approaching anything like this. What this is the West and zionists trying to distort, while snatching and trying to appropriate the upright and noble character, ideology, endeavours of the resistance and putting on them the blame of the nature, ideology, history of the usurping occupiers. This such fascist upside-down mirror worldview has been constructed by the western powers who laud the rapists as enlightened, valorizing them, promoting them, making heroes out of them and giving them "enlightenment awards" while blaming the victims and accusing them of what their oppressors are doing. They're the continuation of Nazi Fascism dragging everyone back to the dark ages.
It's in Israel where Stalag pornography about raping, torturing, and murdering their female Nazi guards was popular, breaking records for its era, and went away only after being banned. Its they who have such a long and well-documented history of raping Palestinians in their captivity—women, men, and children—way before October 7—in prisons, after barging into their homes with dogs, after arbitrarily arresting little boys and subjecting them to sexual abuse—all YEARS before October 7th, the documentation is endless. It's they who do it so proudly. It's 'Israel' where men lure in displaced Ukrainian women, traffic them, and rape them with the support of the 'Israeli' state authorities, who show no interest in stopping it as they consider it a "waste" of public sources for a foreign non-Jewish woman.. This isn't shocking in the least because 'Israel' does it to their own women with state support. 'Israel' consistently ranks the highest in West Asia for documented cases of rape and SA. 1 in 5 Israeli women was raped during her lifetime, and 92% of civil rape investigations are closed without charges**. It's 'Israel' that's an international safe haven for pedophiles, sex offenders, and rapists, especially for Jewish pedophiles who use the 'right of return' to flee prosecution in their own country. It's 'Israel' where tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel with no restrictions, with ~100,000 victims annually, with the support of the state. The courts show disproportionate bias towards the criminals, throwing out tons of evidence and saying that it'll hurt his career.. It's the 'Israeli' army, IDF's, Chief Rabbis that support raping non-Jewish women to "boost the morale" of the 'Israeli' soldiers.. It's 'Israel' and Mossad that had deep connections with Jeffery Epstein, with their former PM Ehud Barak visiting him personally over 30 times, way after he was caught. They also rape the women in their army at an astonishingly high rate, with one in three women being sexually harassed in their army in just 2021 alone, with the support of the army, who often don't even bother when sexual violence is reported.
These are just since October 7th:
It's credibly reported that 'Israeli' soldiers raped two Palestinian women, committed sexual violence upon others, kept women in cages in degrading conditions while bragging posting it online. They also trafficked a Palestinian female infant into Israel with the help of the army, and there are many cases of 'Israel' separating Palestinian children from their parents whose whereabouts remain unknown. This is especially concerning considering the rampant organized pedophilia in 'Israel'. And this is reported by someone as biased as the UN.
So many Palestinians have come forward just since the last few months:
“I was explicitly threatened with rape” — Freed Palestinian prisoner
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1759234293388202476?t=gSR7x9x_H9Z0rUu75yYQrg&s=09
A Palestinian who was just released from Israeli prisons told how the Zionists are subjecting Palestinian political prisoners to brutal treatment, including sexual assault and rape.
A freed Palestinian prisoner says, 'Israel' made us sleep on the floor, no mattresses, barely any food, and sometimes they wouldn’t even bring it; no toilets; women were beaten naked; searched naked; no medical assistance; we would be eight sleeping in tiny cells."
Canadian doctor volunteering in Gaza told how the Israeli army raped and humiliated Palestinian women in front of their families, one woman was raped for 2 days until she wasn't able to speak
Israeli women themselves directly participate in such sexual violence, where dozens of Palestinian women reported them severely hitting them, slapping, spitting, recording them being tortured, and making remarks at them while being forced stripped, at times in public in front of male 'Israeli' soldiers. This is among rape threats for not obeying them: being robbed by them, being strip-searched by 'Israeli' men after they handcuffed and blindfolded a woman, being taken to a military base in a jeep by them, including 'Israeli' women, who then put her on a sidewalk and mocked her in Hebrew, being put in animal cages in freezing conditions, being denied food and water, medicine, basic sanitary care, and a lot more
A husband in Al Shifa reports that the army stripped his wife, who begged them to not beat her as she was 5 months pregnant. After hours they took out all the women except the pregnant woman and raped her in front of her relatives, and told them to not close their eyes or else they'll kill them.
These cases are so blood-boiling. And the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has deliberately decided to support rape by 'Israel', suppress these actual cases of violent rape and not categorically report on them, and instead push 'Israel''s nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, parroting the same debunked nonsense and embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
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'Israel' blatantly commits genocide and rape and gets away with it but gets to make this nonsense a thing due to western backing. If this doesn't gets you charged with genocide then literally what will?
They just see it as a PR attack on themselves. This is such public discourse appeasement PR oriented nonsense, but in the matter of genocide. International humanitarian law is all such a PR fraud.
This baseless piece of atrocity propaganda against Palestine has long been shredded and debunked—not that these were ever even substantiated—along with the Zionists' other endless lies that have been shredded in real time, again without even being substantiated. This nonsense, where 'Israel' refuses to provide any evidence, puts out fabricated 'testimonies', and repeatedly rejects independent calls for investigation for its claims while not allowing its doctors to speak to the UN — this nonsense would be thrown in the bin anywhere else and not even be considered for a second, especially considering that they're now in ICJ court for the crimes of committing genocide on the backs of these unproven claims. This is only forced to even be a thing because of the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has decided to support rape by 'Israel', by suppressing these actual cases of violent rape and categorically refusing to report on them, and instead push 'Israel's nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
This is the old-school fascist mirror politics of accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing. Palestinians have zero history of ever committing sexual violence against 'Israelis', and it's 'Israel' that has a massive history of committing rape and sexual violence against Palestinians since their "independence day," i.e the Nakba, Deir Yassin Massacre, and has committed it ever since. Zionist terrorist group Irgun committed rampant rapes of many Palestinian schoolgirls and molested old women so much so that even the British police in Palestine testified to it. Their old veterans still talk about it on zionist media laughing while talking about committing rapes. What were the consequences they faced for it? A former member of Irgun, Menachem Begin, was elected as the prime minister of 'Israel', he'd win the Nobel peace prize and is now remembered as a transformer of 'Israel'. 'Israel' is quite literally built upon the rape of the native Palestinians.
Palestinians have no history of ever committing it or even approaching anything like this. What this is the West and zionists trying to distort, while snatching and trying to appropriate the upright and noble character, ideology, endeavours of the resistance and putting on them the blame of the nature, ideology, history of the usurping occupiers. This such fascist upside-down mirror worldview has been constructed by the western powers who laud the rapists as enlightened, valorizing them, promoting them, making heroes out of them and giving them "enlightenment awards" while blaming the victims and accusing them of what their oppressors are doing. They're the continuation of Nazi Fascism dragging everyone back to the dark ages.
It's in Israel where Stalag pornography about raping, torturing, and murdering their female Nazi guards was popular, breaking records for its era, and went away only after being banned. Its they who have such a long and well-documented history of raping Palestinians in their captivity—women, men, and children—way before October 7—in prisons, after barging into their homes with dogs, after arbitrarily arresting little boys and subjecting them to sexual abuse—all YEARS before October 7th, the documentation is endless. It's they who do it so proudly. It's 'Israel' where men lure in displaced Ukrainian women, traffic them, and rape them with the support of the 'Israeli' state authorities, who show no interest in stopping it as they consider it a "waste" of public sources for a foreign non-Jewish woman.. This isn't shocking in the least because 'Israel' does it to their own women with state support. 'Israel' consistently ranks the highest in West Asia for documented cases of rape and SA. 1 in 5 Israeli women was raped during her lifetime, and 92% of civil rape investigations are closed without charges**. It's 'Israel' that's an international safe haven for pedophiles, sex offenders, and rapists, especially for Jewish pedophiles who use the 'right of return' to flee prosecution in their own country. It's 'Israel' where tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel with no restrictions, with ~100,000 victims annually, with the support of the state. The courts show disproportionate bias towards the criminals, throwing out tons of evidence and saying that it'll hurt his career.. It's the 'Israeli' army, IDF's, Chief Rabbis that support raping non-Jewish women to "boost the morale" of the 'Israeli' soldiers.. It's 'Israel' and Mossad that had deep connections with Jeffery Epstein, with their former PM Ehud Barak visiting him personally over 30 times, way after he was caught. They also rape the women in their army at an astonishingly high rate, with one in three women being sexually harassed in their army in just 2021 alone, with the support of the army, who often don't even bother when sexual violence is reported.
These are just since October 7th:
It's credibly reported that 'Israeli' soldiers raped two Palestinian women, committed sexual violence upon others, kept women in cages in degrading conditions while bragging posting it online. They also trafficked a Palestinian female infant into Israel with the help of the army, and there are many cases of 'Israel' separating Palestinian children from their parents whose whereabouts remain unknown. This is especially concerning considering the rampant organized pedophilia in 'Israel'. And this is reported by someone as biased as the UN.
So many Palestinians have come forward just since the last few months:
“I was explicitly threatened with rape” — Freed Palestinian prisoner
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1759234293388202476?t=gSR7x9x_H9Z0rUu75yYQrg&s=09
A Palestinian who was just released from Israeli prisons told how the Zionists are subjecting Palestinian political prisoners to brutal treatment, including sexual assault and rape.
A freed Palestinian prisoner says, 'Israel' made us sleep on the floor, no mattresses, barely any food, and sometimes they wouldn’t even bring it; no toilets; women were beaten naked; searched naked; no medical assistance; we would be eight sleeping in tiny cells."
Canadian doctor volunteering in Gaza told how the Israeli army raped and humiliated Palestinian women in front of their families, one woman was raped for 2 days until she wasn't able to speak
Israeli women themselves directly participate in such sexual violence, where dozens of Palestinian women reported them severely hitting them, slapping, spitting, recording them being tortured, and making remarks at them while being forced stripped, at times in public in front of male 'Israeli' soldiers. This is among rape threats for not obeying them: being robbed by them, being strip-searched by 'Israeli' men after they handcuffed and blindfolded a woman, being taken to a military base in a jeep by them, including 'Israeli' women, who then put her on a sidewalk and mocked her in Hebrew, being put in animal cages in freezing conditions, being denied food and water, medicine, basic sanitary care, and a lot more
A husband in Al Shifa reports that the army stripped his wife, who begged them to not beat her as she was 5 months pregnant. After hours they took out all the women except the pregnant woman and raped her in front of her relatives, and told them to not close their eyes or else they'll kill them.
These cases are so blood-boiling. And the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has deliberately decided to support rape by 'Israel', suppress these actual cases of violent rape and not categorically report on them, and instead push 'Israel''s nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, parroting the same debunked nonsense and embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
2024.05.20 16:07 Gaze1112 Palestinian resistance getting charged for rape is so ridiculous. It's so infuriating that despite 'Israel' openly admitting to having no evidence of any of it still gets to make up this nonsense due to western backing. Meanwhile it blatantly commits both these crimes and doesn't get charged with it
Literally on what bases has ICC even charged it on? Apart from refusing to provide any evidence, 'Israel' has repeatedly rejected UN's calls for investigation in this claim by calling them antisemitic. Literally based on what did they charge them this with? And the UN has literally confirmed 'Israel' committing rapes, sexual violence, child trafficking against Palestinians now. how are they not charged for actually committing it?
'Israel' blatantly commits genocide and rape and gets away with it but gets to make this nonsense a thing due to western backing. If this doesn't gets you charged with genocide then literally what will?
They just see it as a PR attack on themselves. This is such public discourse appeasement PR oriented nonsense, but in the matter of genocide. International humanitarian law is all such a PR fraud.
This baseless piece of atrocity propaganda against Palestine has long been shredded and debunked—not that these were ever even substantiated—along with the Zionists' other endless lies that have been shredded in real time, again without even being substantiated. This nonsense, where 'Israel' refuses to provide any evidence, puts out fabricated 'testimonies', and repeatedly rejects independent calls for investigation for its claims while not allowing its doctors to speak to the UN — this nonsense would be thrown in the bin anywhere else and not even be considered for a second, especially considering that they're now in ICJ court for the crimes of committing genocide on the backs of these unproven claims. This is only forced to even be a thing because of the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has decided to support rape by 'Israel', by suppressing these actual cases of violent rape and categorically refusing to report on them, and instead push 'Israel's nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
This is the old-school fascist mirror politics of accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing. Palestinians have zero history of ever committing sexual violence against 'Israelis', and it's 'Israel' that has a massive history of committing rape and sexual violence against Palestinians since their "independence day," i.e the Nakba, Deir Yassin Massacre, and has committed it ever since. Zionist terrorist group Irgun committed rampant rapes of many Palestinian schoolgirls and molested old women so much so that even the British police in Palestine testified to it. Their old veterans still talk about it on zionist media laughing while talking about committing rapes. What were the consequences they faced for it? A former member of Irgun, Menachem Begin, was elected as the prime minister of 'Israel', he'd win the Nobel peace prize and is now remembered as a transformer of 'Israel'. 'Israel' is quite literally built upon the rape of the native Palestinians.
Palestinians have no history of ever committing it or even approaching anything like this. What this is the West and zionists trying to distort, while snatching and trying to appropriate the upright and noble character, ideology, endeavours of the resistance and putting on them the blame of the nature, ideology, history of the usurping occupiers. This such fascist upside-down mirror worldview has been constructed by the western powers who laud the rapists as enlightened, valorizing them, promoting them, making heroes out of them and giving them "enlightenment awards" while blaming the victims and accusing them of what their oppressors are doing. They're the continuation of Nazi Fascism dragging everyone back to the dark ages.
It's in Israel where Stalag pornography about raping, torturing, and murdering their female Nazi guards was popular, breaking records for its era, and went away only after being banned. Its they who have such a long and well-documented history of raping Palestinians in their captivity—women, men, and children—way before October 7—in prisons, after barging into their homes with dogs, after arbitrarily arresting little boys and subjecting them to sexual abuse—all YEARS before October 7th, the documentation is endless. It's they who do it so proudly. It's 'Israel' where men lure in displaced Ukrainian women, traffic them, and rape them with the support of the 'Israeli' state authorities, who show no interest in stopping it as they consider it a "waste" of public sources for a foreign non-Jewish woman.. This isn't shocking in the least because 'Israel' does it to their own women with state support. 'Israel' consistently ranks the highest in West Asia for documented cases of rape and SA. 1 in 5 Israeli women was raped during her lifetime, and 92% of civil rape investigations are closed without charges**. It's 'Israel' that's an international safe haven for pedophiles, sex offenders, and rapists, especially for Jewish pedophiles who use the 'right of return' to flee prosecution in their own country. It's 'Israel' where tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel with no restrictions, with ~100,000 victims annually, with the support of the state. The courts show disproportionate bias towards the criminals, throwing out tons of evidence and saying that it'll hurt his career.. It's the 'Israeli' army, IDF's, Chief Rabbis that support raping non-Jewish women to "boost the morale" of the 'Israeli' soldiers.. It's 'Israel' and Mossad that had deep connections with Jeffery Epstein, with their former PM Ehud Barak visiting him personally over 30 times, way after he was caught. They also rape the women in their army at an astonishingly high rate, with one in three women being sexually harassed in their army in just 2021 alone, with the support of the army, who often don't even bother when sexual violence is reported.
These are just since October 7th:
It's credibly reported that 'Israeli' soldiers raped two Palestinian women, committed sexual violence upon others, kept women in cages in degrading conditions while bragging posting it online. They also trafficked a Palestinian female infant into Israel with the help of the army, and there are many cases of 'Israel' separating Palestinian children from their parents whose whereabouts remain unknown. This is especially concerning considering the rampant organized pedophilia in 'Israel'. And this is reported by someone as biased as the UN.
So many Palestinians have come forward just since the last few months:
“I was explicitly threatened with rape” — Freed Palestinian prisoner
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1759234293388202476?t=gSR7x9x_H9Z0rUu75yYQrg&s=09
A Palestinian who was just released from Israeli prisons told how the Zionists are subjecting Palestinian political prisoners to brutal treatment, including sexual assault and rape.
A freed Palestinian prisoner says, 'Israel' made us sleep on the floor, no mattresses, barely any food, and sometimes they wouldn’t even bring it; no toilets; women were beaten naked; searched naked; no medical assistance; we would be eight sleeping in tiny cells."
Canadian doctor volunteering in Gaza told how the Israeli army raped and humiliated Palestinian women in front of their families, one woman was raped for 2 days until she wasn't able to speak
Israeli women themselves directly participate in such sexual violence, where dozens of Palestinian women reported them severely hitting them, slapping, spitting, recording them being tortured, and making remarks at them while being forced stripped, at times in public in front of male 'Israeli' soldiers. This is among rape threats for not obeying them: being robbed by them, being strip-searched by 'Israeli' men after they handcuffed and blindfolded a woman, being taken to a military base in a jeep by them, including 'Israeli' women, who then put her on a sidewalk and mocked her in Hebrew, being put in animal cages in freezing conditions, being denied food and water, medicine, basic sanitary care, and a lot more
A husband in Al Shifa reports that the army stripped his wife, who begged them to not beat her as she was 5 months pregnant. After hours they took out all the women except the pregnant woman and raped her in front of her relatives, and told them to not close their eyes or else they'll kill them.
These cases are so blood-boiling. And the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has deliberately decided to support rape by 'Israel', suppress these actual cases of violent rape and not categorically report on them, and instead push 'Israel''s nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, parroting the same debunked nonsense and embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
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'Israel' blatantly commits genocide and rape and gets away with it but gets to make this nonsense a thing due to western backing. If this doesn't gets you charged with genocide then literally what will?
They just see it as a PR attack on themselves. This is such public discourse appeasement PR oriented nonsense, but in the matter of genocide. International humanitarian law is all such a PR fraud.
This baseless piece of atrocity propaganda against Palestine has long been shredded and debunked—not that these were ever even substantiated—along with the Zionists' other endless lies that have been shredded in real time, again without even being substantiated. This nonsense, where 'Israel' refuses to provide any evidence, puts out fabricated 'testimonies', and repeatedly rejects independent calls for investigation for its claims while not allowing its doctors to speak to the UN — this nonsense would be thrown in the bin anywhere else and not even be considered for a second, especially considering that they're now in ICJ court for the crimes of committing genocide on the backs of these unproven claims. This is only forced to even be a thing because of the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has decided to support rape by 'Israel', by suppressing these actual cases of violent rape and categorically refusing to report on them, and instead push 'Israel's nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
This is the old-school fascist mirror politics of accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing. Palestinians have zero history of ever committing sexual violence against 'Israelis', and it's 'Israel' that has a massive history of committing rape and sexual violence against Palestinians since their "independence day," i.e the Nakba, Deir Yassin Massacre, and has committed it ever since. Zionist terrorist group Irgun committed rampant rapes of many Palestinian schoolgirls and molested old women so much so that even the British police in Palestine testified to it. Their old veterans still talk about it on zionist media laughing while talking about committing rapes. What were the consequences they faced for it? A former member of Irgun, Menachem Begin, was elected as the prime minister of 'Israel', he'd win the Nobel peace prize and is now remembered as a transformer of 'Israel'. 'Israel' is quite literally built upon the rape of the native Palestinians.
Palestinians have no history of ever committing it or even approaching anything like this. What this is the West and zionists trying to distort, while snatching and trying to appropriate the upright and noble character, ideology, endeavours of the resistance and putting on them the blame of the nature, ideology, history of the usurping occupiers. This such fascist upside-down mirror worldview has been constructed by the western powers who laud the rapists as enlightened, valorizing them, promoting them, making heroes out of them and giving them "enlightenment awards" while blaming the victims and accusing them of what their oppressors are doing. They're the continuation of Nazi Fascism dragging everyone back to the dark ages.
It's in Israel where Stalag pornography about raping, torturing, and murdering their female Nazi guards was popular, breaking records for its era, and went away only after being banned. Its they who have such a long and well-documented history of raping Palestinians in their captivity—women, men, and children—way before October 7—in prisons, after barging into their homes with dogs, after arbitrarily arresting little boys and subjecting them to sexual abuse—all YEARS before October 7th, the documentation is endless. It's they who do it so proudly. It's 'Israel' where men lure in displaced Ukrainian women, traffic them, and rape them with the support of the 'Israeli' state authorities, who show no interest in stopping it as they consider it a "waste" of public sources for a foreign non-Jewish woman.. This isn't shocking in the least because 'Israel' does it to their own women with state support. 'Israel' consistently ranks the highest in West Asia for documented cases of rape and SA. 1 in 5 Israeli women was raped during her lifetime, and 92% of civil rape investigations are closed without charges**. It's 'Israel' that's an international safe haven for pedophiles, sex offenders, and rapists, especially for Jewish pedophiles who use the 'right of return' to flee prosecution in their own country. It's 'Israel' where tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel with no restrictions, with ~100,000 victims annually, with the support of the state. The courts show disproportionate bias towards the criminals, throwing out tons of evidence and saying that it'll hurt his career.. It's the 'Israeli' army, IDF's, Chief Rabbis that support raping non-Jewish women to "boost the morale" of the 'Israeli' soldiers.. It's 'Israel' and Mossad that had deep connections with Jeffery Epstein, with their former PM Ehud Barak visiting him personally over 30 times, way after he was caught. They also rape the women in their army at an astonishingly high rate, with one in three women being sexually harassed in their army in just 2021 alone, with the support of the army, who often don't even bother when sexual violence is reported.
These are just since October 7th:
It's credibly reported that 'Israeli' soldiers raped two Palestinian women, committed sexual violence upon others, kept women in cages in degrading conditions while bragging posting it online. They also trafficked a Palestinian female infant into Israel with the help of the army, and there are many cases of 'Israel' separating Palestinian children from their parents whose whereabouts remain unknown. This is especially concerning considering the rampant organized pedophilia in 'Israel'. And this is reported by someone as biased as the UN.
So many Palestinians have come forward just since the last few months:
“I was explicitly threatened with rape” — Freed Palestinian prisoner
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1759234293388202476?t=gSR7x9x_H9Z0rUu75yYQrg&s=09
A Palestinian who was just released from Israeli prisons told how the Zionists are subjecting Palestinian political prisoners to brutal treatment, including sexual assault and rape.
A freed Palestinian prisoner says, 'Israel' made us sleep on the floor, no mattresses, barely any food, and sometimes they wouldn’t even bring it; no toilets; women were beaten naked; searched naked; no medical assistance; we would be eight sleeping in tiny cells."
Canadian doctor volunteering in Gaza told how the Israeli army raped and humiliated Palestinian women in front of their families, one woman was raped for 2 days until she wasn't able to speak
Israeli women themselves directly participate in such sexual violence, where dozens of Palestinian women reported them severely hitting them, slapping, spitting, recording them being tortured, and making remarks at them while being forced stripped, at times in public in front of male 'Israeli' soldiers. This is among rape threats for not obeying them: being robbed by them, being strip-searched by 'Israeli' men after they handcuffed and blindfolded a woman, being taken to a military base in a jeep by them, including 'Israeli' women, who then put her on a sidewalk and mocked her in Hebrew, being put in animal cages in freezing conditions, being denied food and water, medicine, basic sanitary care, and a lot more
A husband in Al Shifa reports that the army stripped his wife, who begged them to not beat her as she was 5 months pregnant. After hours they took out all the women except the pregnant woman and raped her in front of her relatives, and told them to not close their eyes or else they'll kill them.
These cases are so blood-boiling. And the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has deliberately decided to support rape by 'Israel', suppress these actual cases of violent rape and not categorically report on them, and instead push 'Israel''s nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, parroting the same debunked nonsense and embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
2024.05.20 16:06 Gaze1112 Palestinian resistance getting charged for rape is so ridiculous. It's so infuriating that despite 'Israel' openly admitting to having no evidence of any of it still gets to make up this nonsense due to western backing. Meanwhile it blatantly commits both these crimes and doesn't get charged with it
Literally on what bases has ICC even charged it on? Apart from refusing to provide any evidence, 'Israel' has repeatedly rejected UN's calls for investigation in this claim by calling them antisemitic. Literally based on what did they charge them this with? And the UN has literally confirmed 'Israel' committing rapes, sexual violence, child trafficking against Palestinians now. how are they not charged for actually committing it?
'Israel' blatantly commits genocide and rape and gets away with it but gets to make this nonsense a thing due to western backing. If this doesn't gets you charged with genocide then literally what will?
They just see it as a PR attack on themselves. This is such public discourse appeasement PR oriented nonsense, but in the matter of genocide. International humanitarian law is all such a PR fraud.
This baseless piece of atrocity propaganda against Palestine has long been shredded and debunked—not that these were ever even substantiated—along with the Zionists' other endless lies that have been shredded in real time, again without even being substantiated. This nonsense, where 'Israel' refuses to provide any evidence, puts out fabricated 'testimonies', and repeatedly rejects independent calls for investigation for its claims while not allowing its doctors to speak to the UN — this nonsense would be thrown in the bin anywhere else and not even be considered for a second, especially considering that they're now in ICJ court for the crimes of committing genocide on the backs of these unproven claims. This is only forced to even be a thing because of the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has decided to support rape by 'Israel', by suppressing these actual cases of violent rape and categorically refusing to report on them, and instead push 'Israel's nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
This is the old-school fascist mirror politics of accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing. Palestinians have zero history of ever committing sexual violence against 'Israelis', and it's 'Israel' that has a massive history of committing rape and sexual violence against Palestinians since their "independence day," i.e the Nakba, Deir Yassin Massacre, and has committed it ever since. Zionist terrorist group Irgun committed rampant rapes of many Palestinian schoolgirls and molested old women so much so that even the British police in Palestine testified to it. Their old veterans still talk about it on zionist media laughing while talking about committing rapes. What were the consequences they faced for it? A former member of Irgun, Menachem Begin, was elected as the prime minister of 'Israel', he'd win the Nobel peace prize and is now remembered as a transformer of 'Israel'. 'Israel' is quite literally built upon the rape of the native Palestinians.
Palestinians have no history of ever committing it or even approaching anything like this. What this is the West and zionists trying to distort, while snatching and trying to appropriate the upright and noble character, ideology, endeavours of the resistance and putting on them the blame of the nature, ideology, history of the usurping occupiers. This such fascist upside-down mirror worldview has been constructed by the western powers who laud the rapists as enlightened, valorizing them, promoting them, making heroes out of them and giving them "enlightenment awards" while blaming the victims and accusing them of what their oppressors are doing. They're the continuation of Nazi Fascism dragging everyone back to the dark ages.
It's in Israel where Stalag pornography about raping, torturing, and murdering their female Nazi guards was popular, breaking records for its era, and went away only after being banned. Its they who have such a long and well-documented history of raping Palestinians in their captivity—women, men, and children—way before October 7—in prisons, after barging into their homes with dogs, after arbitrarily arresting little boys and subjecting them to sexual abuse—all YEARS before October 7th, the documentation is endless. It's they who do it so proudly. It's 'Israel' where men lure in displaced Ukrainian women, traffic them, and rape them with the support of the 'Israeli' state authorities, who show no interest in stopping it as they consider it a "waste" of public sources for a foreign non-Jewish woman.. This isn't shocking in the least because 'Israel' does it to their own women with state support. 'Israel' consistently ranks the highest in West Asia for documented cases of rape and SA. 1 in 5 Israeli women was raped during her lifetime, and 92% of civil rape investigations are closed without charges**. It's 'Israel' that's an international safe haven for pedophiles, sex offenders, and rapists, especially for Jewish pedophiles who use the 'right of return' to flee prosecution in their own country. It's 'Israel' where tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel with no restrictions, with ~100,000 victims annually, with the support of the state. The courts show disproportionate bias towards the criminals, throwing out tons of evidence and saying that it'll hurt his career.. It's the 'Israeli' army, IDF's, Chief Rabbis that support raping non-Jewish women to "boost the morale" of the 'Israeli' soldiers.. It's 'Israel' and Mossad that had deep connections with Jeffery Epstein, with their former PM Ehud Barak visiting him personally over 30 times, way after he was caught. They also rape the women in their army at an astonishingly high rate, with one in three women being sexually harassed in their army in just 2021 alone, with the support of the army, who often don't even bother when sexual violence is reported.
These are just since October 7th:
It's credibly reported that 'Israeli' soldiers raped two Palestinian women, committed sexual violence upon others, kept women in cages in degrading conditions while bragging posting it online. They also trafficked a Palestinian female infant into Israel with the help of the army, and there are many cases of 'Israel' separating Palestinian children from their parents whose whereabouts remain unknown. This is especially concerning considering the rampant organized pedophilia in 'Israel'. And this is reported by someone as biased as the UN.
So many Palestinians have come forward just since the last few months:
“I was explicitly threatened with rape” — Freed Palestinian prisoner
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1759234293388202476?t=gSR7x9x_H9Z0rUu75yYQrg&s=09
A Palestinian who was just released from Israeli prisons told how the Zionists are subjecting Palestinian political prisoners to brutal treatment, including sexual assault and rape.
A freed Palestinian prisoner says, 'Israel' made us sleep on the floor, no mattresses, barely any food, and sometimes they wouldn’t even bring it; no toilets; women were beaten naked; searched naked; no medical assistance; we would be eight sleeping in tiny cells."
Canadian doctor volunteering in Gaza told how the Israeli army raped and humiliated Palestinian women in front of their families, one woman was raped for 2 days until she wasn't able to speak
Israeli women themselves directly participate in such sexual violence, where dozens of Palestinian women reported them severely hitting them, slapping, spitting, recording them being tortured, and making remarks at them while being forced stripped, at times in public in front of male 'Israeli' soldiers. This is among rape threats for not obeying them: being robbed by them, being strip-searched by 'Israeli' men after they handcuffed and blindfolded a woman, being taken to a military base in a jeep by them, including 'Israeli' women, who then put her on a sidewalk and mocked her in Hebrew, being put in animal cages in freezing conditions, being denied food and water, medicine, basic sanitary care, and a lot more
A husband in Al Shifa reports that the army stripped his wife, who begged them to not beat her as she was 5 months pregnant. After hours they took out all the women except the pregnant woman and raped her in front of her relatives, and told them to not close their eyes or else they'll kill them.
These cases are so blood-boiling. And the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has deliberately decided to support rape by 'Israel', suppress these actual cases of violent rape and not categorically report on them, and instead push 'Israel''s nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, parroting the same debunked nonsense and embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
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'Israel' blatantly commits genocide and rape and gets away with it but gets to make this nonsense a thing due to western backing. If this doesn't gets you charged with genocide then literally what will?
They just see it as a PR attack on themselves. This is such public discourse appeasement PR oriented nonsense, but in the matter of genocide. International humanitarian law is all such a PR fraud.
This baseless piece of atrocity propaganda against Palestine has long been shredded and debunked—not that these were ever even substantiated—along with the Zionists' other endless lies that have been shredded in real time, again without even being substantiated. This nonsense, where 'Israel' refuses to provide any evidence, puts out fabricated 'testimonies', and repeatedly rejects independent calls for investigation for its claims while not allowing its doctors to speak to the UN — this nonsense would be thrown in the bin anywhere else and not even be considered for a second, especially considering that they're now in ICJ court for the crimes of committing genocide on the backs of these unproven claims. This is only forced to even be a thing because of the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has decided to support rape by 'Israel', by suppressing these actual cases of violent rape and categorically refusing to report on them, and instead push 'Israel's nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
This is the old-school fascist mirror politics of accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing. Palestinians have zero history of ever committing sexual violence against 'Israelis', and it's 'Israel' that has a massive history of committing rape and sexual violence against Palestinians since their "independence day," i.e the Nakba, Deir Yassin Massacre, and has committed it ever since. Zionist terrorist group Irgun committed rampant rapes of many Palestinian schoolgirls and molested old women so much so that even the British police in Palestine testified to it. Their old veterans still talk about it on zionist media laughing while talking about committing rapes. What were the consequences they faced for it? A former member of Irgun, Menachem Begin, was elected as the prime minister of 'Israel', he'd win the Nobel peace prize and is now remembered as a transformer of 'Israel'. 'Israel' is quite literally built upon the rape of the native Palestinians.
Palestinians have no history of ever committing it or even approaching anything like this. What this is the West and zionists trying to distort, while snatching and trying to appropriate the upright and noble character, ideology, endeavours of the resistance and putting on them the blame of the nature, ideology, history of the usurping occupiers. This such fascist upside-down mirror worldview has been constructed by the western powers who laud the rapists as enlightened, valorizing them, promoting them, making heroes out of them and giving them "enlightenment awards" while blaming the victims and accusing them of what their oppressors are doing. They're the continuation of Nazi Fascism dragging everyone back to the dark ages.
It's in Israel where Stalag pornography about raping, torturing, and murdering their female Nazi guards was popular, breaking records for its era, and went away only after being banned. Its they who have such a long and well-documented history of raping Palestinians in their captivity—women, men, and children—way before October 7—in prisons, after barging into their homes with dogs, after arbitrarily arresting little boys and subjecting them to sexual abuse—all YEARS before October 7th, the documentation is endless. It's they who do it so proudly. It's 'Israel' where men lure in displaced Ukrainian women, traffic them, and rape them with the support of the 'Israeli' state authorities, who show no interest in stopping it as they consider it a "waste" of public sources for a foreign non-Jewish woman.. This isn't shocking in the least because 'Israel' does it to their own women with state support. 'Israel' consistently ranks the highest in West Asia for documented cases of rape and SA. 1 in 5 Israeli women was raped during her lifetime, and 92% of civil rape investigations are closed without charges**. It's 'Israel' that's an international safe haven for pedophiles, sex offenders, and rapists, especially for Jewish pedophiles who use the 'right of return' to flee prosecution in their own country. It's 'Israel' where tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel with no restrictions, with ~100,000 victims annually, with the support of the state. The courts show disproportionate bias towards the criminals, throwing out tons of evidence and saying that it'll hurt his career.. It's the 'Israeli' army, IDF's, Chief Rabbis that support raping non-Jewish women to "boost the morale" of the 'Israeli' soldiers.. It's 'Israel' and Mossad that had deep connections with Jeffery Epstein, with their former PM Ehud Barak visiting him personally over 30 times, way after he was caught. They also rape the women in their army at an astonishingly high rate, with one in three women being sexually harassed in their army in just 2021 alone, with the support of the army, who often don't even bother when sexual violence is reported.
These are just since October 7th:
It's credibly reported that 'Israeli' soldiers raped two Palestinian women, committed sexual violence upon others, kept women in cages in degrading conditions while bragging posting it online. They also trafficked a Palestinian female infant into Israel with the help of the army, and there are many cases of 'Israel' separating Palestinian children from their parents whose whereabouts remain unknown. This is especially concerning considering the rampant organized pedophilia in 'Israel'. And this is reported by someone as biased as the UN.
So many Palestinians have come forward just since the last few months:
“I was explicitly threatened with rape” — Freed Palestinian prisoner
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1759234293388202476?t=gSR7x9x_H9Z0rUu75yYQrg&s=09
A Palestinian who was just released from Israeli prisons told how the Zionists are subjecting Palestinian political prisoners to brutal treatment, including sexual assault and rape.
A freed Palestinian prisoner says, 'Israel' made us sleep on the floor, no mattresses, barely any food, and sometimes they wouldn’t even bring it; no toilets; women were beaten naked; searched naked; no medical assistance; we would be eight sleeping in tiny cells."
Canadian doctor volunteering in Gaza told how the Israeli army raped and humiliated Palestinian women in front of their families, one woman was raped for 2 days until she wasn't able to speak
Israeli women themselves directly participate in such sexual violence, where dozens of Palestinian women reported them severely hitting them, slapping, spitting, recording them being tortured, and making remarks at them while being forced stripped, at times in public in front of male 'Israeli' soldiers. This is among rape threats for not obeying them: being robbed by them, being strip-searched by 'Israeli' men after they handcuffed and blindfolded a woman, being taken to a military base in a jeep by them, including 'Israeli' women, who then put her on a sidewalk and mocked her in Hebrew, being put in animal cages in freezing conditions, being denied food and water, medicine, basic sanitary care, and a lot more
A husband in Al Shifa reports that the army stripped his wife, who begged them to not beat her as she was 5 months pregnant. After hours they took out all the women except the pregnant woman and raped her in front of her relatives, and told them to not close their eyes or else they'll kill them.
These cases are so blood-boiling. And the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has deliberately decided to support rape by 'Israel', suppress these actual cases of violent rape and not categorically report on them, and instead push 'Israel''s nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, parroting the same debunked nonsense and embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
2024.05.20 14:26 Gaze1112 It really so ridiculous that Hamas is getting charged for rape. It's so infuriating that despite 'Israel' openly admitting to having no evidence of any rape it still gets to make up this nonsense due to western backing. Meanwhile it blatantly commits rape and genocide and doesn't get charged with it
Literally on what bases has ICC even charged it on? Apart from refusing to provide any evidence, 'Israel' has repeatedly rejected UN's calls for investigation in this claim by calling them antisemitic. Literally based on what did they charge them this with? And the UN has literally confirmed 'Israel' committing rapes, sexual violence, child trafficking against Palestinians now. how are they not charged for actually committing it?
'Israel' blatantly commits genocide and rape and gets away with it but gets to make this nonsense a thing due to western backing. It's an absolute disgrace that the ICC's warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant don't include charges of genocide. They literally couldn't have done anything more to get charged for it. Since day one they yelled out their intentions and carried it out right in front of everyone
If this doesn't gets you charged with genocide then literally what will?
They just see it as a PR attack on themselves. This is such public discourse appeasement PR oriented nonsense, but in the matter of genocide. International humanitarian law is all such a PR fraud.
This baseless piece of atrocity propaganda against Palestine has long been shredded and debunked—not that these were ever even substantiated—along with the Zionists' other endless lies that have been shredded in real time, again without even being substantiated. This nonsense, where 'Israel' refuses to provide any evidence, puts out fabricated 'testimonies', and repeatedly rejects independent calls for investigation for its claims while not allowing its doctors to speak to the UN — this nonsense would be thrown in the bin anywhere else and not even be considered for a second, especially considering that they're now in ICJ court for the crimes of committing genocide on the backs of these unproven claims. This is only forced to even be a thing because of the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has decided to support rape by 'Israel', by suppressing these actual cases of violent rape and categorically refusing to report on them, and instead push 'Israel's nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
This is the old-school fascist mirror politics of accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing. Palestinians have zero history of ever committing sexual violence against 'Israelis', and it's 'Israel' that has a massive history of committing rape and sexual violence against Palestinians since their "independence day," i.e the Nakba, Deir Yassin Massacre, and has committed it ever since. Zionist terrorist group Irgun committed rampant rapes of many Palestinian schoolgirls and molested old women so much so that even the British police in Palestine testified to it. Their old veterans still talk about it on zionist media laughing while talking about committing rapes. What were the consequences they faced for it? A former member of Irgun, Menachem Begin, was elected as the prime minister of 'Israel', he'd win the Nobel peace prize and is now remembered as a transformer of 'Israel'. 'Israel' is quite literally built upon the rape of the native Palestinians.
Palestinians have no history of ever committing it or even approaching anything like this. What this is the West and zionists trying to distort, while snatching and trying to appropriate the upright and noble character, ideology, endeavours of the resistance and putting on them the blame of the nature, ideology, history of the usurping occupiers. This such fascist upside-down mirror worldview has been constructed by the western powers who laud the rapists as enlightened, valorizing them, promoting them, making heroes out of them and giving them "enlightenment awards" while blaming the victims and accusing them of what their oppressors are doing. They're the continuation of Nazi Fascism dragging everyone back to the dark ages.
It's in Israel where Stalag pornography about raping, torturing, and murdering their female Nazi guards was popular, breaking records for its era, and went away only after being banned. Its they who have such a long and well-documented history of raping Palestinians in their captivity—women, men, and children—way before October 7—in prisons, after barging into their homes with dogs, after arbitrarily arresting little boys and subjecting them to sexual abuse—all YEARS before October 7th, the documentation is endless. It's they who do it so proudly. It's 'Israel' where men lure in displaced Ukrainian women, traffic them, and rape them with the support of the 'Israeli' state authorities, who show no interest in stopping it as they consider it a "waste" of public sources for a foreign non-Jewish woman.. This isn't shocking in the least because 'Israel' does it to their own women with state support. 'Israel' consistently ranks the highest in West Asia for documented cases of rape and SA. 1 in 5 Israeli women was raped during her lifetime, and 92% of civil rape investigations are closed without charges**. It's 'Israel' that's an international safe haven for pedophiles, sex offenders, and rapists, especially for Jewish pedophiles who use the 'right of return' to flee prosecution in their own country. It's 'Israel' where tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel with no restrictions, with ~100,000 victims annually, with the support of the state. The courts show disproportionate bias towards the criminals, throwing out tons of evidence and saying that it'll hurt his career.. It's the 'Israeli' army, IDF's, Chief Rabbis that support raping non-Jewish women to "boost the morale" of the 'Israeli' soldiers.. It's 'Israel' and Mossad that had deep connections with Jeffery Epstein, with their former PM Ehud Barak visiting him personally over 30 times, way after he was caught. They also rape the women in their army at an astonishingly high rate, with one in three women being sexually harassed in their army in just 2021 alone, with the support of the army, who often don't even bother when sexual violence is reported.
These are just since October 7th:
It's credibly reported that 'Israeli' soldiers raped two Palestinian women, committed sexual violence upon others, kept women in cages in degrading conditions while bragging posting it online. They also trafficked a Palestinian female infant into Israel with the help of the army, and there are many cases of 'Israel' separating Palestinian children from their parents whose whereabouts remain unknown. This is especially concerning considering the rampant organized pedophilia in 'Israel'. And this is reported by someone as biased as the UN.
So many Palestinians have come forward just since the last few months:
“I was explicitly threatened with rape” — Freed Palestinian prisoner
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1759234293388202476?t=gSR7x9x_H9Z0rUu75yYQrg&s=09
A Palestinian who was just released from Israeli prisons told how the Zionists are subjecting Palestinian political prisoners to brutal treatment, including sexual assault and rape.
A freed Palestinian prisoner says, 'Israel' made us sleep on the floor, no mattresses, barely any food, and sometimes they wouldn’t even bring it; no toilets; women were beaten naked; searched naked; no medical assistance; we would be eight sleeping in tiny cells."
Canadian doctor volunteering in Gaza told how the Israeli army raped and humiliated Palestinian women in front of their families, one woman was raped for 2 days until she wasn't able to speak
Israeli women themselves directly participate in such sexual violence, where dozens of Palestinian women reported them severely hitting them, slapping, spitting, recording them being tortured, and making remarks at them while being forced stripped, at times in public in front of male 'Israeli' soldiers. This is among rape threats for not obeying them: being robbed by them, being strip-searched by 'Israeli' men after they handcuffed and blindfolded a woman, being taken to a military base in a jeep by them, including 'Israeli' women, who then put her on a sidewalk and mocked her in Hebrew, being put in animal cages in freezing conditions, being denied food and water, medicine, basic sanitary care, and a lot more
A husband in Al Shifa reports that the army stripped his wife, who begged them to not beat her as she was 5 months pregnant. After hours they took out all the women except the pregnant woman and raped her in front of her relatives, and told them to not close their eyes or else they'll kill them.
These cases are so blood-boiling. And the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has deliberately decided to support rape by 'Israel', suppress these actual cases of violent rape and not categorically report on them, and instead push 'Israel''s nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, parroting the same debunked nonsense and embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
submitted by Gaze1112 to TheDeprogram [link] [comments]
'Israel' blatantly commits genocide and rape and gets away with it but gets to make this nonsense a thing due to western backing. It's an absolute disgrace that the ICC's warrant for Netanyahu and Gallant don't include charges of genocide. They literally couldn't have done anything more to get charged for it. Since day one they yelled out their intentions and carried it out right in front of everyone
If this doesn't gets you charged with genocide then literally what will?
They just see it as a PR attack on themselves. This is such public discourse appeasement PR oriented nonsense, but in the matter of genocide. International humanitarian law is all such a PR fraud.
This baseless piece of atrocity propaganda against Palestine has long been shredded and debunked—not that these were ever even substantiated—along with the Zionists' other endless lies that have been shredded in real time, again without even being substantiated. This nonsense, where 'Israel' refuses to provide any evidence, puts out fabricated 'testimonies', and repeatedly rejects independent calls for investigation for its claims while not allowing its doctors to speak to the UN — this nonsense would be thrown in the bin anywhere else and not even be considered for a second, especially considering that they're now in ICJ court for the crimes of committing genocide on the backs of these unproven claims. This is only forced to even be a thing because of the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has decided to support rape by 'Israel', by suppressing these actual cases of violent rape and categorically refusing to report on them, and instead push 'Israel's nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
This is the old-school fascist mirror politics of accusing your opponent of what you yourself are doing. Palestinians have zero history of ever committing sexual violence against 'Israelis', and it's 'Israel' that has a massive history of committing rape and sexual violence against Palestinians since their "independence day," i.e the Nakba, Deir Yassin Massacre, and has committed it ever since. Zionist terrorist group Irgun committed rampant rapes of many Palestinian schoolgirls and molested old women so much so that even the British police in Palestine testified to it. Their old veterans still talk about it on zionist media laughing while talking about committing rapes. What were the consequences they faced for it? A former member of Irgun, Menachem Begin, was elected as the prime minister of 'Israel', he'd win the Nobel peace prize and is now remembered as a transformer of 'Israel'. 'Israel' is quite literally built upon the rape of the native Palestinians.
Palestinians have no history of ever committing it or even approaching anything like this. What this is the West and zionists trying to distort, while snatching and trying to appropriate the upright and noble character, ideology, endeavours of the resistance and putting on them the blame of the nature, ideology, history of the usurping occupiers. This such fascist upside-down mirror worldview has been constructed by the western powers who laud the rapists as enlightened, valorizing them, promoting them, making heroes out of them and giving them "enlightenment awards" while blaming the victims and accusing them of what their oppressors are doing. They're the continuation of Nazi Fascism dragging everyone back to the dark ages.
It's in Israel where Stalag pornography about raping, torturing, and murdering their female Nazi guards was popular, breaking records for its era, and went away only after being banned. Its they who have such a long and well-documented history of raping Palestinians in their captivity—women, men, and children—way before October 7—in prisons, after barging into their homes with dogs, after arbitrarily arresting little boys and subjecting them to sexual abuse—all YEARS before October 7th, the documentation is endless. It's they who do it so proudly. It's 'Israel' where men lure in displaced Ukrainian women, traffic them, and rape them with the support of the 'Israeli' state authorities, who show no interest in stopping it as they consider it a "waste" of public sources for a foreign non-Jewish woman.. This isn't shocking in the least because 'Israel' does it to their own women with state support. 'Israel' consistently ranks the highest in West Asia for documented cases of rape and SA. 1 in 5 Israeli women was raped during her lifetime, and 92% of civil rape investigations are closed without charges**. It's 'Israel' that's an international safe haven for pedophiles, sex offenders, and rapists, especially for Jewish pedophiles who use the 'right of return' to flee prosecution in their own country. It's 'Israel' where tens of thousands of pedophiles operate in Israel with no restrictions, with ~100,000 victims annually, with the support of the state. The courts show disproportionate bias towards the criminals, throwing out tons of evidence and saying that it'll hurt his career.. It's the 'Israeli' army, IDF's, Chief Rabbis that support raping non-Jewish women to "boost the morale" of the 'Israeli' soldiers.. It's 'Israel' and Mossad that had deep connections with Jeffery Epstein, with their former PM Ehud Barak visiting him personally over 30 times, way after he was caught. They also rape the women in their army at an astonishingly high rate, with one in three women being sexually harassed in their army in just 2021 alone, with the support of the army, who often don't even bother when sexual violence is reported.
These are just since October 7th:
It's credibly reported that 'Israeli' soldiers raped two Palestinian women, committed sexual violence upon others, kept women in cages in degrading conditions while bragging posting it online. They also trafficked a Palestinian female infant into Israel with the help of the army, and there are many cases of 'Israel' separating Palestinian children from their parents whose whereabouts remain unknown. This is especially concerning considering the rampant organized pedophilia in 'Israel'. And this is reported by someone as biased as the UN.
So many Palestinians have come forward just since the last few months:
“I was explicitly threatened with rape” — Freed Palestinian prisoner
https://x.com/QudsNen/status/1759234293388202476?t=gSR7x9x_H9Z0rUu75yYQrg&s=09
A Palestinian who was just released from Israeli prisons told how the Zionists are subjecting Palestinian political prisoners to brutal treatment, including sexual assault and rape.
A freed Palestinian prisoner says, 'Israel' made us sleep on the floor, no mattresses, barely any food, and sometimes they wouldn’t even bring it; no toilets; women were beaten naked; searched naked; no medical assistance; we would be eight sleeping in tiny cells."
Canadian doctor volunteering in Gaza told how the Israeli army raped and humiliated Palestinian women in front of their families, one woman was raped for 2 days until she wasn't able to speak
Israeli women themselves directly participate in such sexual violence, where dozens of Palestinian women reported them severely hitting them, slapping, spitting, recording them being tortured, and making remarks at them while being forced stripped, at times in public in front of male 'Israeli' soldiers. This is among rape threats for not obeying them: being robbed by them, being strip-searched by 'Israeli' men after they handcuffed and blindfolded a woman, being taken to a military base in a jeep by them, including 'Israeli' women, who then put her on a sidewalk and mocked her in Hebrew, being put in animal cages in freezing conditions, being denied food and water, medicine, basic sanitary care, and a lot more
A husband in Al Shifa reports that the army stripped his wife, who begged them to not beat her as she was 5 months pregnant. After hours they took out all the women except the pregnant woman and raped her in front of her relatives, and told them to not close their eyes or else they'll kill them.
These cases are so blood-boiling. And the genocidal regressive Western media apparatus has deliberately decided to support rape by 'Israel', suppress these actual cases of violent rape and not categorically report on them, and instead push 'Israel''s nonsensical mass rape lies along with its other mad ramblings, parroting the same debunked nonsense and embarrassing themselves. They aren't journalists; they're medieval-era village slanderers, but with an apparatus dragging everyone back to the dark ages with their fascism that should've been done away with the demise of Hitler.
2024.05.20 12:04 M00n_Slippers The Wisdom of Stone: Crystallians, the Crystal Cadre, The Primeval Current and Japanese practice of "Suiseki"
 | I was looking into the ‘Wisdom of Stone’ because someone else’s Lore Question was tangentially related and I made a ‘real life’ connection to the Crystalians with Suiseki/Gongshi, AKA Chinese Scholar Stones. It’s nothing real ground-breaking, but I believe it could be convenient for some people to just have this information in one place to reference, and I do think the suiseki connection may be 'new' to the greater community. So I figured I would do a little write-up for ya’ll. submitted by M00n_Slippers to EldenRingLoreTalk [link] [comments] Crystalian's Aesthetic InspirationSo there have been a couple sources noted to be likely inspirations for the Crystalians at least aesthetically.Zullie the Witch notes that they may have been directly pulled from the game Magic the Gathering, which is a notable inspiration of Miyazaki's. From Zullie the Witch's video \"Elden Ring - It's Probably Fine\" They bare an extremely close resemblance to the "Crystal Warriors" of the choose-your-own-adventure style Fighting Fantasy books, right down to their game mechanics and origins: "A crystal warrior was hewn from pure crystal, mostly in the shape of a human warrior with a helmet...Crystal warriors were usually created by powerful sorcerers or warlocks as guardians for their lairs...The structure of Crystal Warriors made them very tough opponents. Next to their durability, their crystal bodies were virtually immune to edged weapons, such as swords and axes. Only blunt weapons with strong heads, for example maces or war hammers, had any chance of damaging them."Fighting Fantasy novel \"Heir of Skull Crag\" There have been other notable inspirations which may have been part of their initial conception by those first creators, or tied in later by Miyazaki or Martin. Such as the titular Golem from the German horror film "Der Golem" (1915) released in the US as "the Monster of Fate". inspired by the jewish folktale of the Golem creature, a sorcery created being with a frankenstein-like story. You can actually watch the whole thing in 4k on Youtube for free. The trailer itself is ripe with what may have been inspiration for Raya Lucaria. Left: Film Still from \"Der Golem\". Notice the windows and ceiling shapes? Another is the Stained Glass Knight from the film Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), notable for being the first fully polygonal CGI character in film and may also have inspired an enemy in the Castlevania series. The clip itself I linked shows a priest encountering this 'bring' in a church which itself looks like heavy inspiration for the cathedrals of Raya Lucaria. These two inspirations added together may have been key themes for the Carians and Sorcerers themselves. Left: Stained Glass Knight scene from Young Sherlock. Are we sure this isn't the same room? What are the Crystalians and where did they come from?We actually have a lot of information about the Crystalians and their creation, strung between all of the various crystal items and other related sorceries and flavor text.The Crystallians are inorganic beings created by sorcery, and carved from crystal glintstone\1]). As Sellen tells you, glintstone is residual life--the enduring essence of the dead that rejoined the cosmic cycle of the heavens\2])--these beings have faint cognition and deep knowledge of the life-death-rebirth cycle of the heavens that is the primeval current\1]). Sorcerers call this knowledge the "Wisdom of Stone"\3]). [1] Shattering Crystal: The Crystalians are inorganic beings, yet they live. They cleave close to the ideals of the primeval current, and as such, they are revered guests of the sorcerers." [2] Sellen: "Our art draws upon the powers embedded in glintstone. But what is the nature of such power? Glintstone is the amber of the cosmos. Golden amber contains the remnants of ancient life, and houses its vitality, while glintstone contains residual life, and thus the vitality of the stars. It should not be forgotten, that glintstone sorcery is the study of the stars, and the life therein. A fact lost on most sorcerers, these days..." [3] Crystal Staff: Staff fashioned from pure crystal; a deed impossible for a human. Enhances Crystalian sorceries. The Crystalian's faint cogitation is known as the "wisdom of stone." This staff can only be wielded by those of intellect high enough to grasp such wisdom. [4] Crystal Sword: Sword fashioned from pure crystal; a deed impossible for a human. Enwreathed with powerful magic, its attack scales with intelligence. The inscrutable Crystalians have but one clear purpose; to safeguard their crystals unto the end. One theory posits that they yearn for the return of their creator who will carve for them new brethren. [5] Crystal Barrage: One of the glintstone sorceries of the Academy of Raya Lucaria…A sorcery of the Crystal Cadre, a group of sorcerers who pursue the wisdom of stone—the secrets locked in the faint cogitation of the Crystalians.Who exactly created these beings is somewhat ambiguous, but we may be able to piece it together with the various hints given by the game. The Crystal Sword and Staff\3]), say they are weapons "fashioned from pure crystal; a deed impossible for a human." This could suggest that the Crystalians themselves made the weapons, or it may be a hint that the Crystallians themselves were not made by humans. However in Elden Ring, there is some implication that anyone who can create life or give birth may be dubbed a ‘god’ (such as Marika), so perhaps they simply view their creators as gods and not human solely for this reason. Primary suspects for the creators of the Crystalians include the ‘Crystal Cadre’. The Crystal Barrage sorcery says the crystal cadre are “a group of sorcerors who pursue the wisdom of stone.’” But who are among this Crystal Cadre? Well, perhaps they are the Sorcerors Azur and Lusat. The staves of these two masters\6]) explicitly mention ‘the wisdom of stone’, a phrase that keeps recurring in relation to the Crystalians, saying “only those who have glimpsed beyond the wisdom of stone may wield it [their staves]”. Azur is the founder of the Karolos Conspectus \7]) while Lusat is the founder of the Olivinus Conspectus\8]), but it seems the Twinsage Conspectus may be representative of either the two together or of those who followed both of their ideas, as the Twinsage Sorceror Ashes***\**\9])* says, “Those who study the Twinsage Conspectus are the academy's elite, capable of mastering the Glintstone Cometshard and Crystal Burst sorceries,” and it is from the text of the Crystal Burst \11]) sorcery that we are told the Crystal Cadre are “a group of sorcerers who pursued the wisdom of stone—the secrets locked in the faint cogitation of the Crystalians.” [6] Azur's Glintstone Staff and Lusat's Glintstone Staff: Staff of the primeval glintstone sorcerer Azur. Only those who have glimpsed what lies beyond the wisdom of stone may wield it. [7] Karolos Glintstone Crown: One of the glintstone crowns bestowed upon Raya Lucaria scholars whose pursuits were deemed worthy. The Karolos Conspectus is the oldest of the academy's lineages of study, begat by the sorcerer Azur. Scholars who follow in his footsteps pursue the mysteries of comets. [8] Olivinus Glintstone Crown: One of the glintstone crowns bestowed upon Raya Lucaria scholars whose pursuits were deemed worthy. The lineage of the Olivinus Conspectus began with the sorcerer Lusat, and its adherents continue his study of meteors. [9] Twinsage Sorcerer Ashes: Ashen remains in which spirits yet dwell…Those who study the Twinsage Conspectus are the academy's elite, capable of mastering the Glintstone Cometshard and Crystal Burst sorceries. [10] Glintstone Cometshard: One of the glintstone sorceries of the Academy of Raya Lucaria…A sorcery of the Karolos Conspectus, the most venerable of the academy. [11] Crystal Burst: One of the glintstone sorceries of the Academy of Raya Lucaria. A sorcery of the Crystal Cadre, a group of sorcerers who pursued the wisdom of stone—the secrets locked in the faint cogitation of the Crystalians.So Azur, Lusat and their followers may be the creators of the Crystalians. But are their more possibilities? Well their students who also revere the Primeval Current which the Crystalians represent may be contenders as well and a quite notable one is Sellen, the Graven Witch. Witch-Hunter Jerren says, “You didn't...know Sellen, did you? Well, whatever the case, she's dead now. Just put it behind you. She was known as the Graven Witch. Obsessed by the primeval current, countless sorcerers fell to her hand. The most dangerous mage in the entire history of Raya Lucaria's Academy.” Sellen herself affirms that she studies the Primeval Current and notes that her first master was Master Azur: “What's this sorcery, my apprentice? Ah, then you have seen Master Azur. Master Azur was a founding glintstone sorcerer, and my first teacher. A stern judge of men, but he must see something in you. You make us both proud.” After finding Master Azur’s body, Sellen tells you, “Master Lusat is another founding glintstone sorcerer. And like Master Azur, he was banished from the academy. Now he languishes, imprisoned somewhere. My apprentice, can you find Master Lusat? With this glintstone key, you should be able to cross the boundary that encloses him. I need him to restore the primeval current of glintstone sorcery. He's nigh a child of the stars, such is his body now…” It’s hard to say how much interaction that Sellen personally had with Master Lusat, but given that she is a Primeval Current fanatic and you need both schools of the founding sorcerers to fulfill her objectives, it seems likely that she may have studied with him as well. At the very least she has some knowledge of Master Lusat, enough to know where he came from and where he may have returned after his expulsion. But she isn’t the only possibility, another strong contender is Rennala. Rennela was able to birth Empyreans (Ranni) which suggests she may herself be a god akin to Marika in her own way, which would fulfill the characteristic of the Crystalian's creators not being ‘human’. And the Full and Dark Moon sorceries themselves seem to reflect the dual nature of the primeval current. Despite the Moon being stronger as a motif with her, Rennala also has a big connection to the current and crystal. One of the crystalian spells, the Crystal Release says it resembles a "Crystal Sun", which could be a reference to the Moon. \12]) And the Magic Downpour spell, one of the Carian royal family sorceries, was taught to the Carian family by the Crystalian’s themselves.\13]) [12] Crystal Release: Sorcery of the mysterious Crystalians. This sorcery is used by high-ranking adepts among the Crystalians. Some also call this sorcery "the Crystal Sun." [13] Magic Downpour: One of the sorceries of the Carian royal family. Said to have been taught by the Crystalians to mark the swearing of the old concord.Similarly there is strong evidence in my opinion, that Sellen may be Rennala's sister and may act as a dark twin and character foil, which gives Rennala another connection to Azur and Lusat. In Japanese, her name is ‘Seren’ セレン, a name which means "star" in Welsh, and is pronounced the same as the ‘Ren’ of Rennala. Sellen may also be a reference to the Greek Goddess of the Moon, ‘Selene’. After you defeat Radahn, Iji also tells you this: “The fate of the Carian royal family is guided by the stars*. As is the fate of Lady Ranni, first heir in the Carian royal line. But General Radahn is the conqueror of the stars. Who stood up to the swirling constellations, halting their movement in a smashing victory. And so, if General Radahn were defeated, the stars would once again resume their movement. As would Lady Ranni's destiny… Now the time has come to remind him [Jerren] of an* old promise made. With the stars of fate set into motion, a certain sorceress is dispossessed of her immortality... Finally, we can be rid of a longstanding Carian weed*..."* And as you find out, this old promise appears to be to kill, Sellen the Graven Witch. Jerren after defeating Sellen: “My thanks, for the aid given. I heard from Iji that Lady Ranni might have found herself a champion. But I didn't know he was talking about you. You've helped me fulfill an old promise*. This is the least I can do for you. Please, take it.”* So like the Carian Royal family, Sellen’s fate is guided by the stars, and the halting of the stars gave her a form of immortality similar to Ranni's. Sellen and Ranni also both use the same method of maintaining their life beyond the death of their body--using Primal Glintstones within dolls. Iji also calls Sellen a ‘Carian Weed’ strongly suggesting that Sellen may be a member of the Carian family herself, acting as a blemish within their line. This is further supported by the fact that there actually is ‘missing’ Carian Princess. As the Carian Filigreed Crest Talisman says, the Talisman was awarded to *“direct retainers to the kingdom's princesses. Now there is only one princess: Ranni, daughter of Rennala."*\14]) So there used to be more than one Princess, but now there is only one, who is Ranni. And yet Rennala is the founder of the Carian house, the first Queen of Raya Lucaria\15]) and a former Astrologer who was not always a Queen \16]). and Ranni being her only female child, suggests the existence of either a sister, daughter or grandaughter as the second, missing princess. [14] Carian Filigreed Crest Talisman: A talisman adorned with the royal crest. An honor said to have once been awarded to Carian knights who served as direct retainers to the kingdom's princesses. Now there is only one princess: Ranni, daughter of Rennala. [15] Remembrance of Rennala, Queen of the Full Moon: In her youth, Rennala was a prominent champion who charmed the academy with her lunar magic, becoming its master. She also led the Glintstone Knights and established the house of Caria as royalty. [16] Stargazer Heirloom: A talisman engraved with the legend of a queen...The young astrologer gazed at the night sky as she walked. She had always chased the stars every step of her journey. Then she met the full moon — and, in time, the astrologer became a queen.Another notable mystery related to the Carian Royalty are three towers behind the Carian Manor, The Three Sisters, which has independently given rise to speculation that aside from Rennala and Ranni there was a missing Carian Sorceress of the Carian house. If Renna’s Tower belongs to Rennala, and Ranni’s Tower belongs to her, Seluvis’s tower may be Sellen’s which makes a lot of sense given that Seluvis was the one who helped her escape the Academy and is still in communication with her, not to mention they both share ‘Sel’ in their names. Seluvis, asking about Nokron: “Well, well. You're asking me about that [Nokron], are you?...There's a glintstone sorcerer by the name of Sellen in Limgrave. She owes me for the help I gave her when she was expelled from the academy. I asked her to look into the matter some time ago. I'll write you a letter of introduction. Go ask her.” There are also strong implications that Rennala may have a twin, echoed within the Jellyfish Ashes quest. In this quest, you unite the Jellyfish ashes with their ‘sister’. This sister just so happens to be located at the Stargazer Ruins, an area that shares a name with the Stargazer Heirloom which tells you about Rennala's study of the stars and moon \16]). As you enter the main building of the ruins, you will hear a girl's voice -- it's the Jellyfish's sister, and you can summon it to reunite them. Jelly Fish sister Dialogue: "Sister... Where did you go? You promised me when we turned fourteen we'd go to see the stars. I've been waiting so long, forever and ever it seems." After reuniting the sisters: "Ahh, Dear Sister, you're finally here. No time to waste. Let's go see the stars." This quest unlocks a chest bearing the Primal Glintstone Blade***\**\20])*, the very same type of heretical blade which Sellen uses to transfer her soul to a new body\21]) after her original one is captured and imprisoned within the Witchbane Ruins by Jerren. [20] Primal Glintstone Blade: An old glintstone blade that has been stained with blood. The old sorcerers would slice open their hearts with these blades to imbue a primal glintstone with their soul, and thus did they die. [21] Sellen’s Primal Glintstone: Glintstone from within the sorceress Sellen's body. Seemingly half-alive, blood vessels are visible within. In essence, a primal glintstone is a sorcerer's soul. If transplanted into a compatible new body after their original body dies, the sorcerer will rise again. "My apprentice, do you think it distasteful?"So we know that Sellen was a student of Lusat, and possibly Azur. If Sellen and Rennala were indeed sisters, both may have studied under them. This especially makes sense as what appears to be the master’s old tower is located in the Mountaintops of the Giants not far from where Rennala encountered the Full Moon, being watched by Academy dolls and inaccessible except by magic. Top: Stargazers Ruins, Middle: Mountain Tops of the Giants Map marking both areas, Bottom: Heretical Rise. But there is one more potential member of the Crystal Cadre, that is Ranni herself. Ranni is the product of two schools of Magic: The Full Moon and the Dark Moon. She seems to have learned both the cold and dark heretical sorceries of the dark moon as well as the bright, charming full moon sorceries which made her mother a Queen. While her mother is an obvious source for the Full Moon sorceries, the source of her cold, Dark Moon magic is somewhat more ambiguous. The Snow Witch Set, which is the very same armor which is worn by Ranni herself, says it is worn by practitioners of heretical sorcery, and that the doll that Ranni uses is modeled after this secret mentor of hers\22]). Despite the fact that we never see Sellen wearing this armor, this may suggest that Sellen could be Ranni’s ‘secret mentor’, as she is a heretical sorceress, and is known to use Primal Glintstones to transfer bodies just as Ranni did. We also know that Sellen studied under Azur, the founder of the Academy who created the first Glintstone sorcery\23]), Founding Rain of Stars, whose tower may be the Heretical Rise in the Mountaintops of the Giants, a very cold area. And if it’s true that Sellen is a Carian Royal, then she could be an obvious source of the cold sorceries which are associated with the Carian Royal family. As the Moons ‘guide the fates’ of the Carian Royalty[24], if Sellen was a royal then at one time she may have focused on these dark, cold graven sorceries before they became taboo. It could be that Ranni learned Dark Moon sorcery from Sellen at the Heretical Rise. Then after she was expelled for her research into the Graven School of Witches, Sellen may have turned her back on her family and Dark Moon sorceries, becoming an enemy of the Carian Royal family. [22] Snow Witch Set: Witch's pointed hat, frigid and frozen through. Of a style associated with practitioners of heretical sorcery. Strengthens cold sorcery. Once worn by the snowy crone who the young Ranni encountered deep in the woods. She was a witch, and well-versed in cold sorceries. It is said that the doll that houses Ranni's soul was modeled after her. That old witch was Ranni's secret mentor. [23] Founding Rain of Stars: The eldest primeval sorcery, said to have been discovered by an ancient astrologer. A sorcery of legendary status…Thought to be the founding glintstone sorcery. The glimpse of the primeval current that the astrologer saw became real, and the stars' amber rained down on this land. [24] Drawstring Freezing Grease: Solidified grease made using Rani's furtive arts. The women of the Carian royal family look to the moon to guide their fates. Ranni's is a moon dark and blanketed with rime. [25] Crystal Spear: Spear fashioned from pure crystal; a deed impossible for a human…The inscrutable Crystalians have but one clear purpose; to safeguard their crystals unto the end. One theory posits that they yearn for the return of their creator who will carve for them new brethren.Alternatively, Rennala herself may be the source of both forms of moon sorcery. Ranni's Dark Moon spell says the Dark Moon, “was encountered by a young Ranni, led by the hand of her mother, Rennala. What she beheld was cold, dark and veiled in occult mystery.” If Rennala introduced Ranni to the Dark Moon, it suggests that Rennala herself may be the snow witch, with the nickname “Renna” referring to a time before Rennala was a queen, back on the Mountaintops of the Giants in the Heretical Rise, when she studied the Primeval Current as an astrologer with her sister and their Masters, when her Dark Moon sorceries were merely one side of her guiding Moon. https://preview.redd.it/t4irpvti4k1d1.jpg?width=1374&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=66b9c16fb1ce560e7cc8de9c4636013097af7fe8 Whoever created them, perhaps in order to study the Primeval Current in a way that was much safer than looking directly at them (as evidenced by the horrible fate of Lusat and Azur) the Crystalians came to strike an accord or contract with the Sorcerers and the Carian family\14]). The Sorcerors would revere and create more of the Crystalians and in return the Crystalians would aid in their protection and allow themselves to be studied or otherwise gift their wisdom \22]). Those who studied the Crystalians closely became "The Crystal Cadre" and indeed this might apply to all five of the possible creators, maybe suggesting it was a joint venture and not actually the creation of one person in particular. This would also hold up with the current state of Raya Lucaria, with Rennala broken down and out of her mind in grief, Azur and Lusat both Crystallized and lost, and Sellen expelled and in hiding, as well as Ranni who is missing to everyone but the player and possibly presumed dead by the Academy. Regardless of which member created the Crystalians, all are currently lost and fled, leaving the Crystalians guarding their crystals \25]) waiting for their return so more of their kind may come into being. The Crystalians and "Suiseki"Given all of this information about the Crystalians, I think I've found an additional inspiration which gives new insight into the "Wisdom of Stone", that being "Suiseki". It is similar to another practice called Gongshi from China, as well as Suesok from Korea, and in english are sometimes called "Scholar’s Rocks".Suiseki ( 水石, made up of the Kanji for Water and the Kanji for stone) is a japanese practice of appreciating rocks for their aesthetic and decorative value, somewhat akin to Bonzai in their shared appreciation for the elements of nature. However where Bonzai embraces the ‘hyper real’ and allows the plant to be altered to better resemble natural, full-sized trees found in nature, Suiseki allows no alteration. These stones were of completely natural origin usually found in oceans, rivers and karst areas--all places where water has eroded stone, hence the name suiseki or 'water stone'. Suiseki were chosen for their artistic and decorative value and used for viewing on multiple scales, such as desks, viewing alcoves for votives or even large scale gardens. They were popular among Confusian and Buddhist scholars, as well as those of the upper class, hence the name "Scholar's stones." This practice was common in Japan during the reign of Suiko-Tenno, the first of 8 Empress Regnants and the 33rd Monarch of Japan. Her Regnal name Suiko 推古 uses the Kanji for "Conjecture, theory, supposition," and "old". This sui is a homophone with the sui from suiseki, and ko is also a homophone with child (子), the dead or deceased (故) and daughter (娘). Empress Suiko seems to have been linked with water in her lifetime as some artistic renderings show her wearing blue and green with artistic ruffles to imitate water. Given Suiko's connection with water and her status as an Empress and mother, she may be an inspiration for Rennala herself. Left: Empress Suiko (592-698 CE). Is there a resemblance maybe? Suiseki itself is a reflection of the japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, or beauty in natural imperfection, which gives rise to many other aesthetic practices such as Kintsugi, or golden repair. Bi (美 ) means beauty, thus wabi-sabi is the beauty of wa 侘 and sa 寂, both meaning loneliness, silence and grief. Essentially wabi-sabi is finding in the cycle of life and death, the appreciation of the natural order which includes both the sweetness of nature as well as the bittersweetness and grief of passing things. Finding the beauty in things which are not perfect or everlasting, and which show the wear and passage of time, is the key to the Buddhist Nirvana, or the transcendence of suffering. It also makes suiseki and other artistic forms which use this practice physical representations of the Dao, or The Way of Heaven in Daoism. Wabi-Sabi arts: Kintsugi \"Golden Repair\", Suiseki stone, Karesansui \"Zen Rock gardens\", Haiku poetry, Rikka Flower arrangement So here we can see the similarities that suiseki has with the Crystalians. They are both stones formed of water (in the Crystalians case, Glintstone), which are kept by scholars (sorcerers) and may be a tribute to the Empress, or Queen of their time. They are both treasured for what they represent, the cycle of nature or the Primeval Current, and it is believed that meditating upon their meaning can impart knowledge or nirvana, that being ‘the wisdom of stone.’ Neither can be made by human hands, with suiseki only qualifying as such when it is completely a product of nature, while the Crystalians may be have been made someone who was greater than human, a god–or with the knowledge of this new connection, perhaps Crystalians can only be naturally created through the natural cycle of life and death, which has been halted in the lands between for some time. Their reasons for guarding crystals maybe to facilitate the creation of more Crystalians, by keeping humans from harvesting their crystal. Perhaps the accord they made with the Carians was to guarantee the protection of certain patches for the Crystalians alone, only harvesting glintstone from areas which the Crystalian’s allowed. Crystalian's guarding what may perhaps become their future brethren. The Wisdom of StoneSo after everything, what is the Wisdom of Stone? It is knowledge of the natural order, of the inevitable cycle of life and death, and the bittersweet ephemerality of existence.We are told the Crystalians, “cleave close to the ideals of the Primeval Current”\1]). ‘Cleave’ is an extremely interesting word because it can mean both ‘marriage’ or 'to adhere', as well as ‘cleavage’ as in the splitting of rocks and stone. So it is a word which is its own opposite. In this way it well describes the Primeval Current as well as the Crystalians themselves, as being directly connected to the Primeval Current and yet being disconnected fragments created from it. This perfectly illustrates the divine paradox and dichotomy of what the Primeval Current actually is. After Sellen asks you to find her Masters Lusat and Azur, she says, “It warms my heart. That you still think of me. Yet I still yearn for you to find Master Lusat. His body is needed. At the academy, to hone the primeval current…” This may be an echo to the Law of Regression, “Regression is the pull of meaning; that all things yearn eternally to converge.” And the Karolos Glintstone Crown says, “The Karolos Conspectus is the oldest of the academy's lineages of study, begat by the sorcerer Azur. Scholars who follow in his footsteps pursue the mysteries of comets.” ‘Begat’ is a word typically used to describe the relationship of child to sire–the sire begat the child. It is perhaps most well known as the word used within the long lists of lineages within the Bible to signify family descent. This may be an echo of the Law of Causality, which says, “Causality is the pull between meanings; it is the connections that form the relationships of all things.” Nature creates and nature destroys. Azur’s Founding Rain of Stars\23]) marks the founding of the Academy of Raya Lucaria. While Lusat’s Stars of Ruin, marked it’s creators end\26]). [26] Stars of Ruin: Legendary sorcery devised by Lusat, primeval sorcerers.Fires twelve dark shooting stars that pursue the target. When Lusat glimpsed into the primeval current, he beheld the final moments of a great star cluster, and upon seeing it, he too was broken.Rennala who had her time in the limelight as Champion of Raya Lucaria and Queen of Liurnia, as wife of Radagon and mother of Ranni, Rykard and Radahn–found her end mourning her dead and incomplete creations, her children dead or broken, her husband wed to another, her strength in the past, her grand academy becoming her prison and her kingdom in shambles. All things have their rise and fall, just as the tides follow the cycles of the moon, all things follow the cycle of nature. The Two Laws which govern the cosmos, which govern the golden order, which govern the Primeval Current, are thus: the inevitability of both birth and death, an eternal cycle of ephemeral existence. This is the Wisdom of Stone. |
2024.05.20 09:14 modzer0 Ever take a dogman to the vet?
I should not be writing this. I know they will be looking for me as soon as this goes live. I had to get the word out despite all the secrecy surrounding the project. I don't know what they'll do to me when they find me, but this has to get out.
I was unemployed vet tech looking for work when I came across a job listing offering a strangely large amount of money. What did I have to loose? I called the number and they gave me a website to go to that took me through an application process and a security clearance form that I had to fill out the last seven years of my life. They said it would be months until the clearance would come through but to my surprise a month later I got a phone call telling me I had been granted Interm Secret clearance and the job would proceed.
I had to go to a building without any name on it downtown and they took my photo for an ID card and a packet of information about where I was to go to the next day.
The next morning I drove to the address with a mix of excitement and apprehension. What about this job required a security clearance? Why had I gotten my interm secret so quickly? I figured I'd soon find out when I pulled up to a gate with a card reader. I swiped my ID and the razor wire topped gate slid open so I could pass. Yeah nothing ominous about that. I drove a mile or so down the road and parked in the parking lot in front of a building that looked like the set of a prison movie. The windows were narrow slits and I could tell from a distance that the door was very heavy duty. Thinking back a few minutes ago wasn't the top of that razor wire fence angled in as if to keep something in rather than people out?
I got out and approached the heavy door. I spotted the card reader and used my ID on it and it flashed green and there was a loud clunking sound from the door as it unlocked. I had to put some muscle behind it to get it to open and then it shut behind me followed by another loud clunk as the locks reengaged.
I turned to see a thick armored window with a guard staring me down.
"First day huh?" he asked me as he looked at his screen.
"Yeah," I said a bit nervously.
"Sit tight, your department head will be coming to pick you up and take you to your in-brief," he said.
"What uh, what is this place?" I asked.
"All that will be answered by the briefing so have a seat and relax. You're likely in the safest spot in the facility," he said.
I looked at the inner door and noticed it was just as thick and heavy as the outer one. I was essentially sitting in an armored booth so he was technically right about it being safe.
When my boss arrived he was wearing scrubs and had his ID card clipped to the bottom of the V of the top.
"So, you're my new tech?" he asked.
"Yes, Sir," I replied.
"Good, hopefully you follow instructions better than the last one," he said. "I'm Dr. Tanner. You can call me 'Sir' or 'Doctor'."
"Sir, can you tell me what I'll be doing here?" I asked.
"All in due time. First you need to complete the safety briefing. It is not a joke. Take a look at the windows and doors if you need convincing. The government doesn't spend this kind of money unless it's very necessary, and it is. You'll understand the need for it when I introduce you to our charges. I'm not going to tell you yet because I enjoy the look on people's faces when they get their first peak of what we're doing here," he said. "Now, for the safety briefing. Follow me."
He began to open the inner door when he stopped and looked back at me. "Do you have any electronic devices on you?"
"No Sir, the security documents instructed me to leave my phone and anything with a digital memory in the car," I said.
"Excellent, you're already demonstrating that you can follow directions," he said. Was that a hint of a smile I saw?
He lead me down the hallway to a room on the left and used his card to unlock and open the door. After I walked inside what appeared to be a conference room he followed me inside and let the door shut.
I immediately noticed the back of the door wasn't the usual thing one would expect to see. It had a big lever in the middle that looked like it operated bolts to secure the door shut. I started to wonder what the hell I had gotten myself into. I expected to be working with maybe the facility's guard dogs. This kind of security was on a level I hadn't experienced before.
"Good, you're observant, another plus," the doctor said.
He walked over to the table and picked up a recorder and pressed play. A trilling alarm sound came for it and he let it play for a few seconds before cutting it off.
"If you hear that sound along with flashing red lights you are to go to the nearest safe room, such as this one and use this lever to bolt the door," He walked over and pressed a button by the windows and the thick glass became opaque.
"And you are to opaque the windows with the control in the room so nothing can see in," he said and then pointed to a door on the other wall that had 'Emergency Supplies' written on it. "There you will find food, water, and other necessities if you happen to be locked down for an extended period of time. There is also a radio already set to the control room frequency. If the phone is not working pull the tab on the back of the radio so the battery makes contact and reports in with the information posted on the back of the door. That's basically who you are, where you are, and if there are any threats you know of near you. Otherwise sit tight unless told otherwise."
"Threats?" I asked.
"Our charges are out of containment or an external threat," the doctor replied.
"What's so dangerous that we need bunker rooms like this?" I asked.
"All in due time," he replied. "Have you ever used a tranquilizer gun?"
"No," I responded.
"No matter, you'd need to qualify on the two types we use anyway with the security team," he said.
"Why do we need tranquilizer guns?" I asked.
"The animals we work with are dangerous. They're sedated before they get to us and one of our tasks is to make sure they stay sedated until they're returned to the enclosure. If one wakes up and slips a restraint you are not going to want to go near it to give an injection. That's why we have tranq guns," The doctor said.
"That makes perfect sense to me," I said. My curiosity was burning wondering what we were working with. Had to be something like large predators to require this much security. A grizzly would be a plausible reason why the doors had the extra bars. The force they could produce could snap the usual latches.
"Good because it's time for my favorite part. Showing the new guy what we work with," the doctor said and led the way deeper into the facility and up a set of stars to a room labeled 'observation deck'.
"The windows are to remain frosted by the electronic controls there whenever the room is not in use. They cannot see in but they seem to know someone is watching them and it upsets them. It's best for everyone if they are not upset," He reached over and pressed the button and the electronic frosting cleared.
That's the moment where my brain completely derailed and I questioned my own sanity.
"W-Werewolves?" I asked.
"No, at least not at this facility. These are a lesser known cryptid called Dogmen, kind of like Bigfoot."
"Wait, is Bigfoot real?" I asked.
"Yes, but not nearly as widespread as 'sightings' would make you think," he said.
"If these exist, what else is real?" I asked him.
"That's beyond your need to know," he said sternly, but then his face softened. "I'll lend you a book later that contains everything we've confirmed and studied. After all, if you continue with this job you will have the opportunity to work with them in the future, and it's best you know what you're getting into," he said. "One benefit they probably haven't gotten around to telling you yet is that they will pay for your education. You can become a full veterinarian working with the most interesting creatures that exist," he said. "Not a bad gig, huh?"
"Except for the part where I'm working with large dangerous creatures," I said.
"Large, intelligent, dangerous creatures," he replied. "And that is why we have procedures and rules. Things like always having more sedative staged to inject if a patient starts to wake up, having them restrained at all times, and if they do wake up you have the tranq guns to put them back under without risking yourself," he said and tapped the control to frost over the glass again.
Our next stop was back in the conference room where there were now a couple of binders.
"Now for the boring part. Study these because you'll have to pass a test on them later. It's those procedures I mentioned. It covers everything from handling the animals, dosages we use, and why we can't leave after dark."
"Wait, we can't leave after dark?" I asked, a bit alarmed.
"There are dogmen in the woods surrounding this facility. The fence does a decent job of keeping them out but they do get in and they're not happy we have some of their kind captive. They're fairly shy during the day and become active at night so it's for your own safety that once the sun sets you stay here. We have secure rooms just for the occasion, and scrubs are not short in supply if you need a change of clothing. We have a mess hall staffed 24/7 by some excellent cooks. People who can do this job are rare so they take care of us. Now get to reading, you'll have to pass a test before you're allowed to work. I'll come pick you up for lunch."
I did as he said and spent the next few hours reading with a break for the promised lunch that was beef stroganoff and actually really good. I went for seconds. Then it was back to memorizing policy and procedures till I was finally done and managed a passing score on the test. That was followed by some time at an indoor range getting qualified on the tranq guns.
The doctor reviewed my test and nodded. "Excellent, you're a fast learner. We've rescheduled some things for tomorrow so we'll have the extra help. You head home and get a good night's rest. I'll see you in the morning in the veterinary section, just follow the signs it's easy to find," the doctor said.
I did as he said and drove home. I couldn't help but be a good deal more vigilant as I looked at the woods on the way out. Dogmen were out there and no one in the area except us knew. There were the cryptid hunters but they didn't know for sure like I did from seeing a pack close up.
Needless to say I didn't get a whole lot of sleep that night. My mind was racing with the possibilities of what was real from all of the stories.
In the morning I made breakfast and sat for a bit having to give myself a reality check that yesterday wasn't just a dream, so I finally picked up my keys and headed out. I drove down the lonely road and passed through the gate without incident. I parked my car and made my way through the security checkpoints and began following the signs to the Veterinarian department. As the doctor had said, it wasn't difficult to find.
There were three entrances all like airlocks that were long enough for a gurney. It didn't take long to figure out the purpose. If you had dangerous animals inside you wanted at least one door containment so they couldn't get past you and into the larger facility.
I went inside through the airlock like doors one at a time and found myself in a very familiar veterinary clinic though one that was very well stocked.
It was then that I met my other coworker, I'll call him Mike, who was sitting on a stool reading a magazine.
"Hey, you must be the new guy. I'm Mike," he said and I introduced myself.
"So, your first big day. You excited, or terrified?" Mike asked.
"A bit of both," I said honestly.
"Relax, by the time they get to us they've been pumped with enough drugs to drop an elephant. We take samples and the guards take them back out. Then we run the usual tests like any other animal. It's easy money," Mike said. "We're never in any danger."
"What about all of the procedures?" I asked.
"There's what's written down on paper and then there's what is practical and works. If we followed the checklist for every dogman that's brought in here it would just take us twice as long, and twice as long that it can wake up," Mike said. "So relax, I'll show you what you really have to do to streamline things."
What was I to say? He'd obviously been doing this for a long time and if his system worked who was I to question it?
Our first patient of the day made me the most nervous. The security team wheeled in a restrained female on a gurney right into the middle of our space then they backed out. Being the new guy I did the basics by checking heart rate, breathing, and looking into the eyes to make sure she was out cold. Everything was normal based on the numbers I had memorized.
Mike watched me, corrected my stethoscope placement a little and started drawing blood as soon as I was done. The moment he was done he buzzed the guards to take her back out while he labeled the samples.
"Less time they're in here the better so label your samples and fill out the papers once they're taken out," Mike said. "No need to have a dangerous animal laying around while we fill out forms."
"What about the extra sedative we're supposed to have ready?" I asked.
"The tranq guns are right there. Much safer to back off out of reach and just shoot them with another dose," Mike said. I couldn't fault his logic.
We had four more patients that day all went as smoothly as the first and I was beginning to relax. It was our last patient of the day when things went wrong.
It started normally with the guards rolling the male into our space and I took vitals and checked the eyes.
"Hey, I have some dilation here. I don't think he's under enough. Where's the sedative?" I asked.
"Don't worry about it. I'll be done before he realizes what happened," Mike said and undid one of the restraints a little so he could get to the vein. It was at that point things went horribly wrong. As soon as Mike inserted the needle the male woke up and jabbed it's hand upward catching Mike in the throat and spraying blood everywhere. I moved forward out of instinct to try and tighten the restraint when I felt a searing pain across my face and my right eye went red.
I stumbled back. Oh God had I lost my eye? I shook myself out of it long enough to badge through a door and throw the bolts before pressing the intercom button. "Creature out of containment in veterinary. I think Mike is dead. I'm hurt and need a medic!" I said before blacking out.
I don't know how long it was but when I woke up I was in a hospital room and the Veterinarian was sitting beside my bed.
"You're safe, you're in a hospital and just out of cosmetic surgery. You'll have some scars but it'll look like the result of a big cat. Your eye is fine."
"Mike?" I asked.
"Dead before any help would get to him. We have video of the whole thing including you questioning him multiple times on matters of procedure. Don't let someone senior intimidate you into not being safe. You have a month's paid leave to recuperate." he said.
So here I am. I need some advice. Should I go back to work after my leave is done or turn in my resignation? It won't take them much to figure out who I am if they find this post. I also don't know what they'll do to me if they do.
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I was unemployed vet tech looking for work when I came across a job listing offering a strangely large amount of money. What did I have to loose? I called the number and they gave me a website to go to that took me through an application process and a security clearance form that I had to fill out the last seven years of my life. They said it would be months until the clearance would come through but to my surprise a month later I got a phone call telling me I had been granted Interm Secret clearance and the job would proceed.
I had to go to a building without any name on it downtown and they took my photo for an ID card and a packet of information about where I was to go to the next day.
The next morning I drove to the address with a mix of excitement and apprehension. What about this job required a security clearance? Why had I gotten my interm secret so quickly? I figured I'd soon find out when I pulled up to a gate with a card reader. I swiped my ID and the razor wire topped gate slid open so I could pass. Yeah nothing ominous about that. I drove a mile or so down the road and parked in the parking lot in front of a building that looked like the set of a prison movie. The windows were narrow slits and I could tell from a distance that the door was very heavy duty. Thinking back a few minutes ago wasn't the top of that razor wire fence angled in as if to keep something in rather than people out?
I got out and approached the heavy door. I spotted the card reader and used my ID on it and it flashed green and there was a loud clunking sound from the door as it unlocked. I had to put some muscle behind it to get it to open and then it shut behind me followed by another loud clunk as the locks reengaged.
I turned to see a thick armored window with a guard staring me down.
"First day huh?" he asked me as he looked at his screen.
"Yeah," I said a bit nervously.
"Sit tight, your department head will be coming to pick you up and take you to your in-brief," he said.
"What uh, what is this place?" I asked.
"All that will be answered by the briefing so have a seat and relax. You're likely in the safest spot in the facility," he said.
I looked at the inner door and noticed it was just as thick and heavy as the outer one. I was essentially sitting in an armored booth so he was technically right about it being safe.
When my boss arrived he was wearing scrubs and had his ID card clipped to the bottom of the V of the top.
"So, you're my new tech?" he asked.
"Yes, Sir," I replied.
"Good, hopefully you follow instructions better than the last one," he said. "I'm Dr. Tanner. You can call me 'Sir' or 'Doctor'."
"Sir, can you tell me what I'll be doing here?" I asked.
"All in due time. First you need to complete the safety briefing. It is not a joke. Take a look at the windows and doors if you need convincing. The government doesn't spend this kind of money unless it's very necessary, and it is. You'll understand the need for it when I introduce you to our charges. I'm not going to tell you yet because I enjoy the look on people's faces when they get their first peak of what we're doing here," he said. "Now, for the safety briefing. Follow me."
He began to open the inner door when he stopped and looked back at me. "Do you have any electronic devices on you?"
"No Sir, the security documents instructed me to leave my phone and anything with a digital memory in the car," I said.
"Excellent, you're already demonstrating that you can follow directions," he said. Was that a hint of a smile I saw?
He lead me down the hallway to a room on the left and used his card to unlock and open the door. After I walked inside what appeared to be a conference room he followed me inside and let the door shut.
I immediately noticed the back of the door wasn't the usual thing one would expect to see. It had a big lever in the middle that looked like it operated bolts to secure the door shut. I started to wonder what the hell I had gotten myself into. I expected to be working with maybe the facility's guard dogs. This kind of security was on a level I hadn't experienced before.
"Good, you're observant, another plus," the doctor said.
He walked over to the table and picked up a recorder and pressed play. A trilling alarm sound came for it and he let it play for a few seconds before cutting it off.
"If you hear that sound along with flashing red lights you are to go to the nearest safe room, such as this one and use this lever to bolt the door," He walked over and pressed a button by the windows and the thick glass became opaque.
"And you are to opaque the windows with the control in the room so nothing can see in," he said and then pointed to a door on the other wall that had 'Emergency Supplies' written on it. "There you will find food, water, and other necessities if you happen to be locked down for an extended period of time. There is also a radio already set to the control room frequency. If the phone is not working pull the tab on the back of the radio so the battery makes contact and reports in with the information posted on the back of the door. That's basically who you are, where you are, and if there are any threats you know of near you. Otherwise sit tight unless told otherwise."
"Threats?" I asked.
"Our charges are out of containment or an external threat," the doctor replied.
"What's so dangerous that we need bunker rooms like this?" I asked.
"All in due time," he replied. "Have you ever used a tranquilizer gun?"
"No," I responded.
"No matter, you'd need to qualify on the two types we use anyway with the security team," he said.
"Why do we need tranquilizer guns?" I asked.
"The animals we work with are dangerous. They're sedated before they get to us and one of our tasks is to make sure they stay sedated until they're returned to the enclosure. If one wakes up and slips a restraint you are not going to want to go near it to give an injection. That's why we have tranq guns," The doctor said.
"That makes perfect sense to me," I said. My curiosity was burning wondering what we were working with. Had to be something like large predators to require this much security. A grizzly would be a plausible reason why the doors had the extra bars. The force they could produce could snap the usual latches.
"Good because it's time for my favorite part. Showing the new guy what we work with," the doctor said and led the way deeper into the facility and up a set of stars to a room labeled 'observation deck'.
"The windows are to remain frosted by the electronic controls there whenever the room is not in use. They cannot see in but they seem to know someone is watching them and it upsets them. It's best for everyone if they are not upset," He reached over and pressed the button and the electronic frosting cleared.
That's the moment where my brain completely derailed and I questioned my own sanity.
"W-Werewolves?" I asked.
"No, at least not at this facility. These are a lesser known cryptid called Dogmen, kind of like Bigfoot."
"Wait, is Bigfoot real?" I asked.
"Yes, but not nearly as widespread as 'sightings' would make you think," he said.
"If these exist, what else is real?" I asked him.
"That's beyond your need to know," he said sternly, but then his face softened. "I'll lend you a book later that contains everything we've confirmed and studied. After all, if you continue with this job you will have the opportunity to work with them in the future, and it's best you know what you're getting into," he said. "One benefit they probably haven't gotten around to telling you yet is that they will pay for your education. You can become a full veterinarian working with the most interesting creatures that exist," he said. "Not a bad gig, huh?"
"Except for the part where I'm working with large dangerous creatures," I said.
"Large, intelligent, dangerous creatures," he replied. "And that is why we have procedures and rules. Things like always having more sedative staged to inject if a patient starts to wake up, having them restrained at all times, and if they do wake up you have the tranq guns to put them back under without risking yourself," he said and tapped the control to frost over the glass again.
Our next stop was back in the conference room where there were now a couple of binders.
"Now for the boring part. Study these because you'll have to pass a test on them later. It's those procedures I mentioned. It covers everything from handling the animals, dosages we use, and why we can't leave after dark."
"Wait, we can't leave after dark?" I asked, a bit alarmed.
"There are dogmen in the woods surrounding this facility. The fence does a decent job of keeping them out but they do get in and they're not happy we have some of their kind captive. They're fairly shy during the day and become active at night so it's for your own safety that once the sun sets you stay here. We have secure rooms just for the occasion, and scrubs are not short in supply if you need a change of clothing. We have a mess hall staffed 24/7 by some excellent cooks. People who can do this job are rare so they take care of us. Now get to reading, you'll have to pass a test before you're allowed to work. I'll come pick you up for lunch."
I did as he said and spent the next few hours reading with a break for the promised lunch that was beef stroganoff and actually really good. I went for seconds. Then it was back to memorizing policy and procedures till I was finally done and managed a passing score on the test. That was followed by some time at an indoor range getting qualified on the tranq guns.
The doctor reviewed my test and nodded. "Excellent, you're a fast learner. We've rescheduled some things for tomorrow so we'll have the extra help. You head home and get a good night's rest. I'll see you in the morning in the veterinary section, just follow the signs it's easy to find," the doctor said.
I did as he said and drove home. I couldn't help but be a good deal more vigilant as I looked at the woods on the way out. Dogmen were out there and no one in the area except us knew. There were the cryptid hunters but they didn't know for sure like I did from seeing a pack close up.
Needless to say I didn't get a whole lot of sleep that night. My mind was racing with the possibilities of what was real from all of the stories.
In the morning I made breakfast and sat for a bit having to give myself a reality check that yesterday wasn't just a dream, so I finally picked up my keys and headed out. I drove down the lonely road and passed through the gate without incident. I parked my car and made my way through the security checkpoints and began following the signs to the Veterinarian department. As the doctor had said, it wasn't difficult to find.
There were three entrances all like airlocks that were long enough for a gurney. It didn't take long to figure out the purpose. If you had dangerous animals inside you wanted at least one door containment so they couldn't get past you and into the larger facility.
I went inside through the airlock like doors one at a time and found myself in a very familiar veterinary clinic though one that was very well stocked.
It was then that I met my other coworker, I'll call him Mike, who was sitting on a stool reading a magazine.
"Hey, you must be the new guy. I'm Mike," he said and I introduced myself.
"So, your first big day. You excited, or terrified?" Mike asked.
"A bit of both," I said honestly.
"Relax, by the time they get to us they've been pumped with enough drugs to drop an elephant. We take samples and the guards take them back out. Then we run the usual tests like any other animal. It's easy money," Mike said. "We're never in any danger."
"What about all of the procedures?" I asked.
"There's what's written down on paper and then there's what is practical and works. If we followed the checklist for every dogman that's brought in here it would just take us twice as long, and twice as long that it can wake up," Mike said. "So relax, I'll show you what you really have to do to streamline things."
What was I to say? He'd obviously been doing this for a long time and if his system worked who was I to question it?
Our first patient of the day made me the most nervous. The security team wheeled in a restrained female on a gurney right into the middle of our space then they backed out. Being the new guy I did the basics by checking heart rate, breathing, and looking into the eyes to make sure she was out cold. Everything was normal based on the numbers I had memorized.
Mike watched me, corrected my stethoscope placement a little and started drawing blood as soon as I was done. The moment he was done he buzzed the guards to take her back out while he labeled the samples.
"Less time they're in here the better so label your samples and fill out the papers once they're taken out," Mike said. "No need to have a dangerous animal laying around while we fill out forms."
"What about the extra sedative we're supposed to have ready?" I asked.
"The tranq guns are right there. Much safer to back off out of reach and just shoot them with another dose," Mike said. I couldn't fault his logic.
We had four more patients that day all went as smoothly as the first and I was beginning to relax. It was our last patient of the day when things went wrong.
It started normally with the guards rolling the male into our space and I took vitals and checked the eyes.
"Hey, I have some dilation here. I don't think he's under enough. Where's the sedative?" I asked.
"Don't worry about it. I'll be done before he realizes what happened," Mike said and undid one of the restraints a little so he could get to the vein. It was at that point things went horribly wrong. As soon as Mike inserted the needle the male woke up and jabbed it's hand upward catching Mike in the throat and spraying blood everywhere. I moved forward out of instinct to try and tighten the restraint when I felt a searing pain across my face and my right eye went red.
I stumbled back. Oh God had I lost my eye? I shook myself out of it long enough to badge through a door and throw the bolts before pressing the intercom button. "Creature out of containment in veterinary. I think Mike is dead. I'm hurt and need a medic!" I said before blacking out.
I don't know how long it was but when I woke up I was in a hospital room and the Veterinarian was sitting beside my bed.
"You're safe, you're in a hospital and just out of cosmetic surgery. You'll have some scars but it'll look like the result of a big cat. Your eye is fine."
"Mike?" I asked.
"Dead before any help would get to him. We have video of the whole thing including you questioning him multiple times on matters of procedure. Don't let someone senior intimidate you into not being safe. You have a month's paid leave to recuperate." he said.
So here I am. I need some advice. Should I go back to work after my leave is done or turn in my resignation? It won't take them much to figure out who I am if they find this post. I also don't know what they'll do to me if they do.
2024.05.20 08:52 PropRatActual The Black: Ep 118 Informed Decision
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Tense silence greeted Corellus Grarzia. Moments ago, he had stepped off the shuttle sent for him, and now he was standing in the entryway to the main conference room aboard USN Wisconsin. This meeting greatly reminded him of his first meeting after taking captainship of Olyvia. This time however, there were many more players. All but two of the Privateers were present, the latter being simply too deep into a mission, and too far away to make it in time. Both of the missing ships had completed their objectives, and were in transit, but waiting for them was simply not an option. Admiral Grarzia had arrived with Wisconsin and the rest of the Privateers inside of a week from Cory’s transmission, and Admiral stevens had arrived a week after that. Admiral fulmori had retained the USN Texas as his Flag, having grown fond of Captain Gleeson. Unity High Admiral Kawmarin was still currently flagged aboard USN Galveston and was currently using her superior speed to respond to race across unity space in an attempt to rally Unity forces.
Admiral Clint Stevens had arrived with a five-ship battle group. He was flagged aboard USN Tharsis and was escorted by USN Furlong, USN Iowa, a recently retrofitted and upgraded DDS Protectorate, and a newly commissioned Delmar Frigate. The DDS Stormhold was a hybrid vessel. She had been in the early stages of construction when Humanity and Delmar met for the first time, and she had been modified during construction to make use of the recent innovations born of the their budding alliance. She had but half the displacement of an Iowa Class, but she sported two thirds of the weight of fire by destructive potential. Stormhold had struck many human sailors as what a battleship class would have looked like if the Martians had decided to build the class during Humanity’s civil war. Stormhold carried but a pair of super firing Kinetic batteries in dorsal and ventral positions with a single pair of super firing batteries at her midships. Each turret in the battery only boasted a pair of barrels, and they fired the same 1005 projectile. Stormhold was armed to please however, and she carried twice the same number of PAC batteries as USN Tharsis, and she boasted a full-length central weapon that was very uniquely Delmar. The combined minds of the Brothers grem and their research counterparts in Sol had spent years researching and iterating on the Martian Particle Acceleration Cannon, and they had found something.
DDS Stormhold sported a single long low profile blister stretching the length of her ventral hull, set just to the left of centerline to make room for her kinetic batteries. No less than 6 PAC systems were arrayed in parallel, all feeding one focusing array of titanic size. Stormhold could fire up to all 6 at the array, varying the amount of destruction she wished to adjudicate upon her enemy. Bart had dubbed tis weapon the C-PAC, or “Compound Particle Acceleration Cannon”. The discovery however was not that combining Pac beams was doable. Mars had tried and failed to accomplish this. The discovery was how to make it efficient enough to create a viable weapon. This accomplished, something became abundantly clear from the initial testing…. A C-PAC did not scale linearly, but exponentially. A C-PAC could produce the same destructive energy as an Eros, but only within two hundred fifty thousand Kilometers. The rate of fire was still low, and firing all 6 feeder PACs at once was a cautious calculation, as the heat generated was still a problem, but early tests in a long dead system had seen the accidental cracking of the target planet’s crust. The reaction that followed destabilized the planet entirely and said star system was now one interstellar body lighter.
Stevens brought more than just a battle group, having appropriated four troop transports. Each transport carried a detachment of Marines, with the two MACE squads spread between them for heavy support. It was a small number, but they were to be on hand to evacuate any survivors they could. “Alright people, gather round. All of you have seen the brief by now, and I know all of you are ready for this to happen. Let’s not go in halfcocked” Several heads bobbed in acknowledgement and Stevens turned to spear Cory with a gaze, “For those who might not have met yet, this is Corellus Grarzia, Captain of the Privateer that uncovered this little honeypot of horrors. He’s been the closest to this thing the longest.” Stevens waves to Cory, “Captain?”
Cory stepped up and took a long breath, “The situation’s only gotten worse since my first transmission. The prison freighters and the frigates in orbit are just the beginning of the problem. We’ve since discovered camps on the surface of the planet, I’ve marked them in your updated files” Cory flicked his wrist over his data pad, propagating the information to everyone else’s pad and the table in the center of the room, “This is not just a torture camp, it is an indoctrination and training facility. The kissing of the hand is a surrender trigger of sorts. Kiss the hand, and the child is taken from hell, given food, and given a task. Usually something simple and innocuous, but it is rewarded. If a child accepts without instruction, and without question; they are sent to the surface where they are put into an intense indoctrination program.” Cory took a pause, watching the faces of the men and women in the room. Hard eyes and grim expressions waited for him to continue. “The children are eventually taken on hunts…. Hunts of other failed children and adults of their own species… and hunts of the locals… they are creating insurgents. We may and will encounter opposition made of child soldiers and operatives on the surface. We’ve also discovered a fast response system. Attacking one freighter at a time will trigger the destruction of the other freighters, and it appears that the Frigates in the system are in direct communication with someone outside the system every 20 minutes. That is all we know, at this time.”
Cory nodded to the admirals before stepping back from the table. Mac gave Cory a nod before taking a deep breath, “Thank you Captain. Alright people, no idea goes unspoken. No question goes unasked, we only have one shot at this. Let’s get to work.”
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Warren’s eyes slowly fluttered open, aroused from his slumber by soft lips working their way up from the nape of his neck, “Hmm, Good morning.” He whispered as Jezz pulled herself atop him with a smile of her own. She kissed her way up his chin to his ear before responding, “Morning.” She coo’d back at him, her sultry tone lighting his senses on fire. Warren pulled her the rest of the way to his lips, kissing her gently just as his communicator chirped, “UUgghhhh!!” he groaned, breaking their kiss to open the channel, “L.T. Patterson here.” He stated, trying to keep his voice professional as Jezzaria’s lips began to wander again.
*Lieutenant, We’ve received word. The cargo transports finished loading earlier than anticipated. We will be departing in twenty minutes. Captain Yasushi has asked for your presence on the bridge.*
“Understood, I’ll be there… uh…. Momentarily.” Warren responded closing the channel, looking down at a smugly amused Jezzaria, “Jezz! Now how am I supposed to show up on the bridge with that…”
“Hmm” She mused coyly. “Probably shouldn’t, I better take care of that.” Warren never had a chance to respond.
Twenty minutes later, an only slightly breathless Warren arrived on the bridge, receiving a raised eyebrow from Excelsior’s Captain. “Cutting it rather close, Lieutenant?” Yasushi asked as he scanned the last of the information before departure.
Warren kept his face carefully neutral, “Unavoidable, Sir.” He said formally. “You asked to see me?”
“Yes, Is the Elerian delegation settled in?” Yasushi asked first. “We’ve done what we can to give them ample spaces on the ship attuned to their gravity, and signage to prevent accidents, but I’ve heard rumblings.”
“It not… the gravity sir… May we?” Warren responded carefully, nodding to the captain’s ready room. The two of them stepped into the more private setting, and Warren sat heavily into the chair opposite the desk.
Yasushi regarded the young officer with a studious gaze, “Talk to me son. I need to know if something is brewing during this voyage.”
Warren sighed inwardly. The delegation made up about a quarter of the surviving Elerian race, the Oldest of the Children saved from their planet. They had finished catching up in their education and updating on changes wrought while they were asleep. These Oldest had requested, and obviously granted, permission to travel to their home planet to participate in its recolonization. There was only one real problem with the situation. “Jezz wishes to continue to Delmar, but she is the defacto leader of her species. It is, chafing in some area’s.” Warren finally answered.
“Ah, I see.” Yasushi leaned back into his chair. “Has she told them that She is not staying?”
Warren shook his head, “No sir. She knows she has to stay. It’s just…. It’s just obvious that she hates the reality of the situation, that I must continue to Delmar. It does not help that Many of her people see our relationship as hurtful. They see us as narrowing the genetic pool from which they can recover.”
Yasushi’s eyes softened slightly in understanding, “Atticus’ research?”
“Almost complete sir, it’s all but certain that the Corth placed Elerian DNA in the Human genome. He believes that We could be the key to the genetic diversity needed to jumpstart their species, but… They don’t know that.” Warren sighed, “It’s all still heavily classified pending the conclusion. Her people don’t know what she has put herself through to ensure accurate data. They just see me as stealing their future, and her as a love struck girl playing at leadership.”
Yasushi nodded, bringing up the progress synopsis on his consol, “It appears that Atticus requires only one further ‘experiment’ before his conclusions can be reached. Do you know what that is?”
Warren shook his head, “Sorry, Sir. I don’t. We are to meet him in his onboard lab after lunch. He’s fastidious about records, I’m sure you will know by the time we leave his office.”
“Hmm,” Yasushi mused, taking a moment to review the update before closing it, “I know this is hard for you. You two have been thrust into quite a bit above your stage in life. Let me know if there is anything I can do. Dismissed, Lieutenant.”
Warren saluted crisply, following Yasushi out to the bridge just in time to watch the small convoy leap into slip space. His feet slowly guided him back to the quarters he shared with Jezz, feeling the shift in gravity as he passed into the Eleri safe parts of the ship. It would be a two month sail to the Elerian homeworld, and Warren was not looking forward to its conclusion. His thoughts were interrupted by raised voices, one of which he was intimately familiar with, coming from around the corner, and Warren accelerated his gate.
“You know we barely have the numbers to survive! Instead of doing your duty, you’re bedding that heavy worlder!” It was the oldest Elerian male, Bregan, flanked by two other Elerians. They had ambushed Jezz against the door to the quarters Warren and her shared.
“Back up Breg, I don’t care that your father was pappa’s top general. This is not the play you want to make right now. I am Warren’s, and that is not changing.” Jezz’s voice was stern, and she noticed Warren arrive around the corner. The smallest shake of her head kept him from barging in. Elerian female leaders were a prickly thing, and because He was not Eleri, she needed to do this on her own. They had talked about it, expecting something like this once the first complaints had been whispered. Jezz was still kicking herself for not spending more time with her people, but she had also been instrumental in the Gate project that promised to bind the galaxy more tightly than ever before.
Breg openly scoffed at Jezz, “A woman, ordering me around? Maybe Your precious Human will have an accident.” He sneered, blatantly reaching for Jezz’s wingtips, “Then maybe You’s search for a proper m… UGH!” Warren winced as he heard the tale tale cracking of bone. Jez had slapped away Bren’s outstretched hand before driving her fist into his side. She had underestimated her power, having lived for over a year in various gravities that exceed that of her homeworld, and Bren doubled over with eyes wide as he fell to a knee. He clutched his side, glaring at Jezzaria, “Bitch! I’ll have you brought up on charges! Let’s see your precious human get you out of an assault charges, with witnesses.” Bren sputtered, and his two friends nodded angrily.
“Go ahead, but I do not think you will be successful.” Jezz pointed up to the corner of the corridor opposite Warren, “All hallways are rigged for video and audio. Every threat you have made was logged in the ships computer the moment you puked it out of your pathetic mouth.” Warren had to stifle the chuckle that threatened to escape his lips at the pure vitriol in Jezz’s ton. “As for witnesses, you can come on over, hun.”
Warren put on severe expression, locking eyes with Bregan even as the young mans eyes bugged out of his head. “My husband has been watching for quite a while and would make an excellent witness.” Jezz’s smug expression nearly broke Warrens facade as he crossed his arms in front of the three.
“Hmm, threatening the murder of a Naval officer.. Attempted assault on a reigning monarch… Getting recorded doing so, not a good look.” Warren rumbled, and Breg spat at his feet.
“Fuck you.” Bren spat, “If you believe that to be true, why did you wait for your woman to fight instead of protecting her, coward.”
Warren openly laughed in the boy’s face, “you assume my woman needed saving from you. She’s soared on Luna and Conquered the gravity on Ceres.” Warren paused as a profoundly contemplative expression washed over the three boy’s faces, “What makes you think you were anything close to a threat to MY mate.” Warren growled the last part, making the miscreants take an involuntary step back, “Now get out of here. And get that rib checked out, I heard it break from over there.”
The three Elerian boys scrambled down the hallway, unable to flee on wing because of the narrow space. Warren waited for them to round the corner, and felt Jezz collapse into him almost instantly after. Warren quickly opened their door and pulled her in with him, “Hey, hey, hey. Shhhh” He soothed rubbing her down patch between the base of her wings. She melted into him, but continued shaking for a moment. “Their gone, it’s ok now.”
Jezz took a long shakey breath, “I… I don’t know what to do…. My people are so scared… and I can’t tell them that we need Humans to recover our numbers. I… I don’t know what to do…”
Warren kept rubbing her back, “I’ll have lunch brought here. Breg doesn’t need to see that he shook you.” And Jezz nodded, and a few minutes later a pair of cold cut sandwiches arrived. The two of them ate, Jezz curled up in Warren’s lap. Violence was not a natural decision for her, and it had been the first time she had struck anyone outside her occasional sparring with Warren. Warren partially blamed himself for her not knowing her own strength. He always allowed her to strike at him as hard as she could, knowing that she was incapable of hurting him with her bare hands, and she had gained enough speed and technique to occasionally get through his admittedly average hand to hand skills. He had still not taught her to shoot Kinetics. He worried that she would be simply too fragile to shatter bones should she get behind one of his pistols, or even his rimfire rifle.
They were just beginning to leave when a knock at the door interrupted their clean up. And Warren opened the door, his face a serious mask as he prepared to deal with more of the… “Atticus?” He asked as the Androgenous Corth stepped into their quarters. “I thought we were meeting you in your lab?”
“You are correct Warren. However, after word of Jezzaria’s little incident spread across the ship, I thought it best to have this conversation somewhere more comfortable.” Atticus stated in his usual analytical tone, waving to the seating in the pair’s living quarters. Warren raised an eyebrow and the uncharacteristic catering to circumstances from Atticus and settled onto one side of the queen bed in the corner. Their compartment was spacious considering Excelsiors size, but still lacked any major furnishing outside of the bed, a place for clothes and a chair for the desk which held the computer console. Jezz sat down next to him, and Atticus pulled the desk chair to face them.
“What’s this about Att.” Warren asked, picking up on the small tells that told him that Atticus was stalling.
Atticus flashed a smile to Warren before responding, “I’ve completed my research, at least, as much of it I can without more direct observation, and I am unwilling to ask that with so few Elerians left.” He began, holding up a hand to Jezz who was already opening her mouth to protest, “I have already found some remarkable discoveries regarding you. As you are probably aware, being able to adapt to Luna, and even Ceres should not be possible for your species” he continued looking a Jezz as he spoke, “None of your people, who tried anything like that before have succeeded.”
“But Atticus,” Jezz asked in confusion, “I’m fine… I’m better than fine. Warren and I spent a weekend on Luna to say goodbye to his parents. I don’t have to be tossed to fly there anymore.” Atticus raised an eyebrow and Warren nodded in confirmation.
Atticus seemed to freeze for just a split second, as if adding the information to something before his eyes focused on the two of them again, “I’m impressed, but not entirely surprised, Jezz. You’re ability to adapt has an explanation, I simply needed to prove my original findings from Ceres.” Atticus leaned forward slightly, “My dear, you are an anomaly because of your relationship with Warren. I’ve been told that I am too direct, so I will attempt to be… less so” Atticus gave Warren a semi sharp look as he snorted, but continued, “Both of you already know this first part. My people, many many eons ago, used the fledgling Human species as a library of genetic markers meant to be able to save those species and cultures wiped out by the Cataclysm. What I have learned is that Humanity took many of those genetic markers and evolved with them as their own. Almost nothing of what we added to Humanity’s genetic code is how we left it, but some of our library is still capable of interacting with the origin species. That is what has happened with you Jezz.”
Jezz looked shocked for a moment, but then returned to her confused expression, “But, we haven’t done any of those experiments yet. You told me they were too dangerous.” Warren rubbed her shoulders but said nothing, simply waiting for Atticus to explain himself.
Atticus nodded, “I did, and they are; but I failed to account for something that was already happening naturally. To put it… delicately… Your body has been naturally been exposed those same Genetic markers, including the Elerian ones, in significant quantities since you and Warren chose to become life mates. Because those genetic markers include a hormonal component to them, and because of the extra strain your body had been put through on luna and ceres; your body has reacted to them, using them as a template for survival. Your bone mass has tripled since you travelled to Ceres, and your Muscle mass and composition has dramatically changed as well.”
“But how… Oh..” Warren’s face reddened as his mind finally put the pieces together, and Jezz’s cheeks flushed a bright blue upon her own realization. “But that would mean…”
Atticus shook his head, “No, luckily being able to monitor Jezzaria’s health has led me to a much safer way to help jumpstart the Elerian species, but there is a catch… I believe that this level of artificial genetic hybridization can only be done during the embryonic stages of Elerian life to be 100 percent safe, but I wont know until I study a….. natural hybrid.” Jezz’s breath caught in her chest as her eyes widened but Atticus raised his hands quickly, “I cannot ask this… but I know you would be angry with me if I hid this fact from you. I know the two of you desire children, and I will not lie. It is still a great risk. I’ve learned that the two of you prefer to make your own decisions, so I want you to do so with the most recent information. I’ll leave everything here for you to review.” Leaving a data stick on the desk, Atticus stood. He began stepping toward the door as the stunned couple stayed where they were, “I’ll give you some space. I am sorry for the heaviness of my findings.” Atticus opened the door and stepped out.
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Tense silence greeted Corellus Grarzia. Moments ago, he had stepped off the shuttle sent for him, and now he was standing in the entryway to the main conference room aboard USN Wisconsin. This meeting greatly reminded him of his first meeting after taking captainship of Olyvia. This time however, there were many more players. All but two of the Privateers were present, the latter being simply too deep into a mission, and too far away to make it in time. Both of the missing ships had completed their objectives, and were in transit, but waiting for them was simply not an option. Admiral Grarzia had arrived with Wisconsin and the rest of the Privateers inside of a week from Cory’s transmission, and Admiral stevens had arrived a week after that. Admiral fulmori had retained the USN Texas as his Flag, having grown fond of Captain Gleeson. Unity High Admiral Kawmarin was still currently flagged aboard USN Galveston and was currently using her superior speed to respond to race across unity space in an attempt to rally Unity forces.
Admiral Clint Stevens had arrived with a five-ship battle group. He was flagged aboard USN Tharsis and was escorted by USN Furlong, USN Iowa, a recently retrofitted and upgraded DDS Protectorate, and a newly commissioned Delmar Frigate. The DDS Stormhold was a hybrid vessel. She had been in the early stages of construction when Humanity and Delmar met for the first time, and she had been modified during construction to make use of the recent innovations born of the their budding alliance. She had but half the displacement of an Iowa Class, but she sported two thirds of the weight of fire by destructive potential. Stormhold had struck many human sailors as what a battleship class would have looked like if the Martians had decided to build the class during Humanity’s civil war. Stormhold carried but a pair of super firing Kinetic batteries in dorsal and ventral positions with a single pair of super firing batteries at her midships. Each turret in the battery only boasted a pair of barrels, and they fired the same 1005 projectile. Stormhold was armed to please however, and she carried twice the same number of PAC batteries as USN Tharsis, and she boasted a full-length central weapon that was very uniquely Delmar. The combined minds of the Brothers grem and their research counterparts in Sol had spent years researching and iterating on the Martian Particle Acceleration Cannon, and they had found something.
DDS Stormhold sported a single long low profile blister stretching the length of her ventral hull, set just to the left of centerline to make room for her kinetic batteries. No less than 6 PAC systems were arrayed in parallel, all feeding one focusing array of titanic size. Stormhold could fire up to all 6 at the array, varying the amount of destruction she wished to adjudicate upon her enemy. Bart had dubbed tis weapon the C-PAC, or “Compound Particle Acceleration Cannon”. The discovery however was not that combining Pac beams was doable. Mars had tried and failed to accomplish this. The discovery was how to make it efficient enough to create a viable weapon. This accomplished, something became abundantly clear from the initial testing…. A C-PAC did not scale linearly, but exponentially. A C-PAC could produce the same destructive energy as an Eros, but only within two hundred fifty thousand Kilometers. The rate of fire was still low, and firing all 6 feeder PACs at once was a cautious calculation, as the heat generated was still a problem, but early tests in a long dead system had seen the accidental cracking of the target planet’s crust. The reaction that followed destabilized the planet entirely and said star system was now one interstellar body lighter.
Stevens brought more than just a battle group, having appropriated four troop transports. Each transport carried a detachment of Marines, with the two MACE squads spread between them for heavy support. It was a small number, but they were to be on hand to evacuate any survivors they could. “Alright people, gather round. All of you have seen the brief by now, and I know all of you are ready for this to happen. Let’s not go in halfcocked” Several heads bobbed in acknowledgement and Stevens turned to spear Cory with a gaze, “For those who might not have met yet, this is Corellus Grarzia, Captain of the Privateer that uncovered this little honeypot of horrors. He’s been the closest to this thing the longest.” Stevens waves to Cory, “Captain?”
Cory stepped up and took a long breath, “The situation’s only gotten worse since my first transmission. The prison freighters and the frigates in orbit are just the beginning of the problem. We’ve since discovered camps on the surface of the planet, I’ve marked them in your updated files” Cory flicked his wrist over his data pad, propagating the information to everyone else’s pad and the table in the center of the room, “This is not just a torture camp, it is an indoctrination and training facility. The kissing of the hand is a surrender trigger of sorts. Kiss the hand, and the child is taken from hell, given food, and given a task. Usually something simple and innocuous, but it is rewarded. If a child accepts without instruction, and without question; they are sent to the surface where they are put into an intense indoctrination program.” Cory took a pause, watching the faces of the men and women in the room. Hard eyes and grim expressions waited for him to continue. “The children are eventually taken on hunts…. Hunts of other failed children and adults of their own species… and hunts of the locals… they are creating insurgents. We may and will encounter opposition made of child soldiers and operatives on the surface. We’ve also discovered a fast response system. Attacking one freighter at a time will trigger the destruction of the other freighters, and it appears that the Frigates in the system are in direct communication with someone outside the system every 20 minutes. That is all we know, at this time.”
Cory nodded to the admirals before stepping back from the table. Mac gave Cory a nod before taking a deep breath, “Thank you Captain. Alright people, no idea goes unspoken. No question goes unasked, we only have one shot at this. Let’s get to work.”
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Warren’s eyes slowly fluttered open, aroused from his slumber by soft lips working their way up from the nape of his neck, “Hmm, Good morning.” He whispered as Jezz pulled herself atop him with a smile of her own. She kissed her way up his chin to his ear before responding, “Morning.” She coo’d back at him, her sultry tone lighting his senses on fire. Warren pulled her the rest of the way to his lips, kissing her gently just as his communicator chirped, “UUgghhhh!!” he groaned, breaking their kiss to open the channel, “L.T. Patterson here.” He stated, trying to keep his voice professional as Jezzaria’s lips began to wander again.
*Lieutenant, We’ve received word. The cargo transports finished loading earlier than anticipated. We will be departing in twenty minutes. Captain Yasushi has asked for your presence on the bridge.*
“Understood, I’ll be there… uh…. Momentarily.” Warren responded closing the channel, looking down at a smugly amused Jezzaria, “Jezz! Now how am I supposed to show up on the bridge with that…”
“Hmm” She mused coyly. “Probably shouldn’t, I better take care of that.” Warren never had a chance to respond.
Twenty minutes later, an only slightly breathless Warren arrived on the bridge, receiving a raised eyebrow from Excelsior’s Captain. “Cutting it rather close, Lieutenant?” Yasushi asked as he scanned the last of the information before departure.
Warren kept his face carefully neutral, “Unavoidable, Sir.” He said formally. “You asked to see me?”
“Yes, Is the Elerian delegation settled in?” Yasushi asked first. “We’ve done what we can to give them ample spaces on the ship attuned to their gravity, and signage to prevent accidents, but I’ve heard rumblings.”
“It not… the gravity sir… May we?” Warren responded carefully, nodding to the captain’s ready room. The two of them stepped into the more private setting, and Warren sat heavily into the chair opposite the desk.
Yasushi regarded the young officer with a studious gaze, “Talk to me son. I need to know if something is brewing during this voyage.”
Warren sighed inwardly. The delegation made up about a quarter of the surviving Elerian race, the Oldest of the Children saved from their planet. They had finished catching up in their education and updating on changes wrought while they were asleep. These Oldest had requested, and obviously granted, permission to travel to their home planet to participate in its recolonization. There was only one real problem with the situation. “Jezz wishes to continue to Delmar, but she is the defacto leader of her species. It is, chafing in some area’s.” Warren finally answered.
“Ah, I see.” Yasushi leaned back into his chair. “Has she told them that She is not staying?”
Warren shook his head, “No sir. She knows she has to stay. It’s just…. It’s just obvious that she hates the reality of the situation, that I must continue to Delmar. It does not help that Many of her people see our relationship as hurtful. They see us as narrowing the genetic pool from which they can recover.”
Yasushi’s eyes softened slightly in understanding, “Atticus’ research?”
“Almost complete sir, it’s all but certain that the Corth placed Elerian DNA in the Human genome. He believes that We could be the key to the genetic diversity needed to jumpstart their species, but… They don’t know that.” Warren sighed, “It’s all still heavily classified pending the conclusion. Her people don’t know what she has put herself through to ensure accurate data. They just see me as stealing their future, and her as a love struck girl playing at leadership.”
Yasushi nodded, bringing up the progress synopsis on his consol, “It appears that Atticus requires only one further ‘experiment’ before his conclusions can be reached. Do you know what that is?”
Warren shook his head, “Sorry, Sir. I don’t. We are to meet him in his onboard lab after lunch. He’s fastidious about records, I’m sure you will know by the time we leave his office.”
“Hmm,” Yasushi mused, taking a moment to review the update before closing it, “I know this is hard for you. You two have been thrust into quite a bit above your stage in life. Let me know if there is anything I can do. Dismissed, Lieutenant.”
Warren saluted crisply, following Yasushi out to the bridge just in time to watch the small convoy leap into slip space. His feet slowly guided him back to the quarters he shared with Jezz, feeling the shift in gravity as he passed into the Eleri safe parts of the ship. It would be a two month sail to the Elerian homeworld, and Warren was not looking forward to its conclusion. His thoughts were interrupted by raised voices, one of which he was intimately familiar with, coming from around the corner, and Warren accelerated his gate.
“You know we barely have the numbers to survive! Instead of doing your duty, you’re bedding that heavy worlder!” It was the oldest Elerian male, Bregan, flanked by two other Elerians. They had ambushed Jezz against the door to the quarters Warren and her shared.
“Back up Breg, I don’t care that your father was pappa’s top general. This is not the play you want to make right now. I am Warren’s, and that is not changing.” Jezz’s voice was stern, and she noticed Warren arrive around the corner. The smallest shake of her head kept him from barging in. Elerian female leaders were a prickly thing, and because He was not Eleri, she needed to do this on her own. They had talked about it, expecting something like this once the first complaints had been whispered. Jezz was still kicking herself for not spending more time with her people, but she had also been instrumental in the Gate project that promised to bind the galaxy more tightly than ever before.
Breg openly scoffed at Jezz, “A woman, ordering me around? Maybe Your precious Human will have an accident.” He sneered, blatantly reaching for Jezz’s wingtips, “Then maybe You’s search for a proper m… UGH!” Warren winced as he heard the tale tale cracking of bone. Jez had slapped away Bren’s outstretched hand before driving her fist into his side. She had underestimated her power, having lived for over a year in various gravities that exceed that of her homeworld, and Bren doubled over with eyes wide as he fell to a knee. He clutched his side, glaring at Jezzaria, “Bitch! I’ll have you brought up on charges! Let’s see your precious human get you out of an assault charges, with witnesses.” Bren sputtered, and his two friends nodded angrily.
“Go ahead, but I do not think you will be successful.” Jezz pointed up to the corner of the corridor opposite Warren, “All hallways are rigged for video and audio. Every threat you have made was logged in the ships computer the moment you puked it out of your pathetic mouth.” Warren had to stifle the chuckle that threatened to escape his lips at the pure vitriol in Jezz’s ton. “As for witnesses, you can come on over, hun.”
Warren put on severe expression, locking eyes with Bregan even as the young mans eyes bugged out of his head. “My husband has been watching for quite a while and would make an excellent witness.” Jezz’s smug expression nearly broke Warrens facade as he crossed his arms in front of the three.
“Hmm, threatening the murder of a Naval officer.. Attempted assault on a reigning monarch… Getting recorded doing so, not a good look.” Warren rumbled, and Breg spat at his feet.
“Fuck you.” Bren spat, “If you believe that to be true, why did you wait for your woman to fight instead of protecting her, coward.”
Warren openly laughed in the boy’s face, “you assume my woman needed saving from you. She’s soared on Luna and Conquered the gravity on Ceres.” Warren paused as a profoundly contemplative expression washed over the three boy’s faces, “What makes you think you were anything close to a threat to MY mate.” Warren growled the last part, making the miscreants take an involuntary step back, “Now get out of here. And get that rib checked out, I heard it break from over there.”
The three Elerian boys scrambled down the hallway, unable to flee on wing because of the narrow space. Warren waited for them to round the corner, and felt Jezz collapse into him almost instantly after. Warren quickly opened their door and pulled her in with him, “Hey, hey, hey. Shhhh” He soothed rubbing her down patch between the base of her wings. She melted into him, but continued shaking for a moment. “Their gone, it’s ok now.”
Jezz took a long shakey breath, “I… I don’t know what to do…. My people are so scared… and I can’t tell them that we need Humans to recover our numbers. I… I don’t know what to do…”
Warren kept rubbing her back, “I’ll have lunch brought here. Breg doesn’t need to see that he shook you.” And Jezz nodded, and a few minutes later a pair of cold cut sandwiches arrived. The two of them ate, Jezz curled up in Warren’s lap. Violence was not a natural decision for her, and it had been the first time she had struck anyone outside her occasional sparring with Warren. Warren partially blamed himself for her not knowing her own strength. He always allowed her to strike at him as hard as she could, knowing that she was incapable of hurting him with her bare hands, and she had gained enough speed and technique to occasionally get through his admittedly average hand to hand skills. He had still not taught her to shoot Kinetics. He worried that she would be simply too fragile to shatter bones should she get behind one of his pistols, or even his rimfire rifle.
They were just beginning to leave when a knock at the door interrupted their clean up. And Warren opened the door, his face a serious mask as he prepared to deal with more of the… “Atticus?” He asked as the Androgenous Corth stepped into their quarters. “I thought we were meeting you in your lab?”
“You are correct Warren. However, after word of Jezzaria’s little incident spread across the ship, I thought it best to have this conversation somewhere more comfortable.” Atticus stated in his usual analytical tone, waving to the seating in the pair’s living quarters. Warren raised an eyebrow and the uncharacteristic catering to circumstances from Atticus and settled onto one side of the queen bed in the corner. Their compartment was spacious considering Excelsiors size, but still lacked any major furnishing outside of the bed, a place for clothes and a chair for the desk which held the computer console. Jezz sat down next to him, and Atticus pulled the desk chair to face them.
“What’s this about Att.” Warren asked, picking up on the small tells that told him that Atticus was stalling.
Atticus flashed a smile to Warren before responding, “I’ve completed my research, at least, as much of it I can without more direct observation, and I am unwilling to ask that with so few Elerians left.” He began, holding up a hand to Jezz who was already opening her mouth to protest, “I have already found some remarkable discoveries regarding you. As you are probably aware, being able to adapt to Luna, and even Ceres should not be possible for your species” he continued looking a Jezz as he spoke, “None of your people, who tried anything like that before have succeeded.”
“But Atticus,” Jezz asked in confusion, “I’m fine… I’m better than fine. Warren and I spent a weekend on Luna to say goodbye to his parents. I don’t have to be tossed to fly there anymore.” Atticus raised an eyebrow and Warren nodded in confirmation.
Atticus seemed to freeze for just a split second, as if adding the information to something before his eyes focused on the two of them again, “I’m impressed, but not entirely surprised, Jezz. You’re ability to adapt has an explanation, I simply needed to prove my original findings from Ceres.” Atticus leaned forward slightly, “My dear, you are an anomaly because of your relationship with Warren. I’ve been told that I am too direct, so I will attempt to be… less so” Atticus gave Warren a semi sharp look as he snorted, but continued, “Both of you already know this first part. My people, many many eons ago, used the fledgling Human species as a library of genetic markers meant to be able to save those species and cultures wiped out by the Cataclysm. What I have learned is that Humanity took many of those genetic markers and evolved with them as their own. Almost nothing of what we added to Humanity’s genetic code is how we left it, but some of our library is still capable of interacting with the origin species. That is what has happened with you Jezz.”
Jezz looked shocked for a moment, but then returned to her confused expression, “But, we haven’t done any of those experiments yet. You told me they were too dangerous.” Warren rubbed her shoulders but said nothing, simply waiting for Atticus to explain himself.
Atticus nodded, “I did, and they are; but I failed to account for something that was already happening naturally. To put it… delicately… Your body has been naturally been exposed those same Genetic markers, including the Elerian ones, in significant quantities since you and Warren chose to become life mates. Because those genetic markers include a hormonal component to them, and because of the extra strain your body had been put through on luna and ceres; your body has reacted to them, using them as a template for survival. Your bone mass has tripled since you travelled to Ceres, and your Muscle mass and composition has dramatically changed as well.”
“But how… Oh..” Warren’s face reddened as his mind finally put the pieces together, and Jezz’s cheeks flushed a bright blue upon her own realization. “But that would mean…”
Atticus shook his head, “No, luckily being able to monitor Jezzaria’s health has led me to a much safer way to help jumpstart the Elerian species, but there is a catch… I believe that this level of artificial genetic hybridization can only be done during the embryonic stages of Elerian life to be 100 percent safe, but I wont know until I study a….. natural hybrid.” Jezz’s breath caught in her chest as her eyes widened but Atticus raised his hands quickly, “I cannot ask this… but I know you would be angry with me if I hid this fact from you. I know the two of you desire children, and I will not lie. It is still a great risk. I’ve learned that the two of you prefer to make your own decisions, so I want you to do so with the most recent information. I’ll leave everything here for you to review.” Leaving a data stick on the desk, Atticus stood. He began stepping toward the door as the stunned couple stayed where they were, “I’ll give you some space. I am sorry for the heaviness of my findings.” Atticus opened the door and stepped out.
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2024.05.20 06:50 Whole-Vermicelli5850 AITA for cutting off my closest friend?
Over the past several months I have been having problems with an ex-friend (f15) let’s call her Rory. She and I used to be very close. We used to sit on the bus together and spend all of our time together, but a few months ago I started realizing that I don’t really get any happiness out of our friendship. Everything revolved around her. She would sit on her phone and ignore me for the majority of the time. One particular time I was at a church camp where the directors had specifically said to NOT BRING A PHONE but she both brought her phone and used it. I expressed to her that it didn’t make me feel valued to have her sit on her phone and completely ignore me, but she didn’t do anything about it. That was the start of it all going downhill. Fast forward to about a month ago. At this point I had stoped really talking to her. I would still interact with her for school assignments and such, but not really much interaction. A few other things had happened that just made me realize that she might not be as invested in our friendship as she said she was. This was when I learned that her brother (m18) was “dating“ a close friend of mine (f14), let’s call her Amy. Rory’s brother had a history of taking advantage of young females, so I warned Amy as soon as I found out. Amy thanked me for the warning but said that she was going to keep dating him. I told her that I just wanted to let her know and that it was entirely her choice, but that if something happened he could get sent to court or prison because he was dating a minor. Moving on to a week or so later, Amy came to me and asked to talk to me. She told me about how over the weekend he took her on a date. This “date” was a hike in the woods behind his house. Amy said that the whole time he was being very strange and kept talking about odd topics. The two eventually came across an ice cream stand and she wanted to buy herself some ice cream. Amy said that he said that she couldn’t get any because we can’t always get what we want, so she suggested that they walk back to his house so that she could meet his family(he’s a senior in HS and was still living with his parents). He informed her that he hadn’t told his parents about her and that they thought he was at his friends house. At this point she was totally weirded out, so she said that she was going to go home. (This hasn’t tied into Rory yet but I promise it will). On the way back to Amy’s house, his dad saw the two together and proceeded to tell his mom. When he got home he was in huge trouble, but his parents also put it into his head that AMY was a bad influence on him, and he apparently played along with this to his advantage and started blaming it on her. SO NOW THE 14 YO GIRLS A BAD INFLUENCE ON THE 18 YO SENIOR?!?!?! I DONT THINK SO. Here’s where Rory comes back into the picture. She was spreading around wild rumors about how Amy was a bad influence and a terrible person, so I finally said straight to her face that she was a bitch and that the only problem here in this case was her family. She proceeded to scream at me in front of my entire school. Did I overreact or was my response reasonable?
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2024.05.20 06:43 Excellent_Rip_6605 ISIS is practicing pure Sunni Islam as Mohammed did in 7th century Arabia
Yes. ISIS does exactly what Muhammad did in the 7th century. And it also adopts a lot of what the subsequent “rightly guided” caliphs did. Because after all, ISIS is a Salafi organization (Salaf- as in “Al-Salaf Al-Saleh” = the rightly guided predecessors - referring to the four “rightly guided” caliphs following Muhammad).
Long answer:
Let’s take a look first what ISIS is doing. If we can agree what these “atrocities” are, then we can look further and dig deeper whether we can find something similar in Islamic scripture and history.
So, here’s what ISIS does:
BEHEADING OF PRISONERS
Scriptural base:
Qur’an 8:12- “I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off.”
Qur’an 47:4- “Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), strike off their heads; at length; then when you have made wide Slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives”: thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens.”
What Muhammad did:
Then the Messenger of Allah commanded that ditches should be dug, so they were dug in the earth, and they were brought tied by their shoulders, and were beheaded. There were between seven hundred and eight hundred of them. The children who had not yet reached adolescence and the women were taken prisoner, and their wealth was seized.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir - The Campaign against Banu Qurayzah
Narrated Aisha . . . No woman of Banu [tribe] Qurayzah was killed except one. She was with me, talking and laughing on her back and belly (extremely), while the Apostle of Allah . . . was killing her people with the swords. Suddenly a man called her name: Where is so-and-so? . . . I asked: What is the matter with you? She said: I did a new act. [Aisha] said: The man took her and beheaded her. [Aisha] said: I will not forget that she was laughing extremely although she knew that she would be killed. (Abu Dawud)
TAKING FEMALE SEX-SLAVES
Scriptural base:
Qur’an - 4:24 - "And all married women are forbidden unto you save those captives whom your right hand possess. It is a decree of Allah for you.
What Muhammad did:
Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 2, # 2150:
Abu Said al-Khudri said: "The apostle of Allah sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the apostle of Allah were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Quranic verse, "And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess". That is to say, they are lawful for them when they complete their waiting period." (See Qur’an 4:24 above)
Sahih Bukhari Vol.3 #432
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri that while he was sitting with Allah's messenger we said, "Oh Allah's messenger, we got female captives as our booty, and we are interested in their prices, what is your opinion about coitus interruptus?" The prophet said, "Do you really do that? It is better for you not to do it. No soul that which Allah has destined to exist, but will surely come into existence."
Sahih Muslim, Vol.2, #3371
Abu Sirma said to Abu Said al Khudri: "O Abu Said, did you hear Allah's messenger mentioning about al-azl (coitus interruptus)?" He said, "Yes", and added: "We went out with Allah's messenger on the expedition to the Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing azl" (withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid conception). But we said: "We are doing an act whereas Allah's messenger is amongst us; why not ask him?" So we asked Allah's messenger and he said: "It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born".
Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, page 151
"He [the Lord of Alexandria] presented to the prophet Mariyah, her sister Sirin, a donkey and a mule which was white....The apostle of Allah liked Mariyah who was of white complexion and curly hair and pretty.... Then he cohabited with Mariyah as a handmaid and sent her to his property which he had acquired from Banu al-Nadir."
Tabari's History, volume 39, page 194
"He (Muhammad) used to visit her (Mariyam) there and ordered her to veil herself, [but] he had intercourse with her by virtue of her being his property."
THROWING DOWN HOMOSEXUALS FROM ROOFS AND STONING THEM AFTERWARDS
Scriptural base:
Qur'an 4:16 If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.
Sunan Abu Dawud 38:4447 Narated By Abdullah ibn Abbas : The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.
What Muhammad and companions did:
Mishkat, vol. 1, p. 765, Prescribed Punishments
Ibn Abbas and Abu Huraira reported God's messenger as saying, 'Accursed is he who does what Lot's people did.' In a version...on the authority of Ibn Abbas it says that Ali [Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law] had two people “burned” and that Abu Bakr [Muhammad's chief companion] had a wall thrown down on them.
Modern Exegesis:
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, Islam Q&A, Fatwa No. 5177
Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq judged in accordance with this, and he wrote instructions to this effect to Khaalid, after consulting with the Sahaabah. ‘Ali was the strictest of them with regard to that. Ibn al-Qasaar and our shaykh said: the Sahaabah agreed that [the person who does homosexual acts] should be killed, but they differed as to how he should be killed. Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq said that he should be thrown down from a cliff. ‘Ali (may Allaah be pleased with him) said that a wall should be made to collapse on him. Ibn ‘Abbaas said, they should be killed by stoning. This shows that there was consensus among them that [the person who does homosexual acts] should be killed, but they differed as to how he should be executed. This is similar to the ruling of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) concerning the person who has intercourse with a woman who is his mahram [incest], because in both cases intercourse is not permitted under any circumstances. Hence the connection was made in the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) who reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “Whoever you find doing the deed of the people of Loot, kill them.” And it was also reported that he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever has intercourse with a woman who is his mahram, kill him.” And according to another hadeeth with the same isnaad, “Whoever has intercourse with an animal, kill him and kill the animal with him.” (Narrated by Ahmad, 2420; Abu Dawood, 4464; al-Tirmidhi, 1454; al-Haakim, 4/355).
Imam Sirajudeen Bakrin, Nigerian Tribune, December 30, 2011
However, there is a divergence of opinions on the methodology to be used in executing the punishment. While some scholars such as Abu bakr [the first Rightly-Guided Caliph] and Ali [Muhammad's son-in-law and the fourth Rightly-Guided Caliph ] were of the view that such a person should be beheaded and set on fire thereafter, Umar [the second Rightly-Guided Caliph] and Uthman [the third Rightly-Guided Caliph] thought the wall should be fell on him. To Ibn Abbas [Muhammad's cousin], he should be taken to the tallest building in the town, thrown upside down while some men stand on the ground waiting to meet him with stone in replication of the destruction done to the people of Lut (Lot) by Allah.
STONING OF ADULTERERS
Scriptural base & what Muhammad did:
Sahih Bukhari (6:60:79) - Two people guilty of illegal intercourse are brought to Muhammad, who orders them both stoned to death.
Sahih Muslim (17:4192) - "in case of married (persons) there is (a punishment) of one hundred lashes and then stoning (to death). And in case of unmarried persons, (the punishment) is one hundred lashes and exile for one year"
Sahih Muslim (17:4196) - A married man confesses to adultery. Muhammad orders him planted in the ground and pelted with stones. According to the passage, the first several stones caused such pain that he tried to escape and had to be dragged back.
Sahih Muslim (17:4206) - A woman who became pregnant confesses to Muhammad that she is guilty of adultery. Muhammad allows her to have the child, then has her stoned.
The description is graphic: "Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her."
Ibn Ishaq (970)
What Muhammad did:
Bukhari vol.3 book 45 ch.3 no.687 p.415.
(687) Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: Allah's Apostle said, 'Who would kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf as he has harmed Allah and His Apostle? Muhammad bin Maslama (got up and) said, 'I will kill him.' So, Muhammad bin Maslama went to Ka'b and said, 'I want a loan of one or two Wasqs of foodgrains.'" After dickering over what to hold as mortgage, they agreed that Muhammad bin Maslama would mortgage his weapons. So he promised him that he would come with his weapons next time."
Source: Ibn Ishaq, pp. 675-76 / 995-96.
Asma was a poetess who belonged to a tribe of Medinan pagans, and whose husband was named Yazid b. Zayd. She composed a poem blaming the Medinan pagans for obeying a stranger (Muhammad) and for not taking the initiative to attack him by surprise. When the Allah-inspired prophet heard what she had said, he asked, "Who will rid me of Marwan’s daughter?" A member of her husband’s tribe volunteered and crept into her house that night. She had five children, and the youngest was sleeping at her breast. The assassin gently removed the child, drew his sword, and plunged it into her, killing her in her sleep.
The following morning, the assassin defied anyone to take revenge. No one took him up on his challenge, not even her husband. In fact, Islam became powerful among his tribe. Previously, some members who had kept their conversion secret now became Muslims openly, "because they saw the power of Islam," conjectures Ibn Ishaq.
Al-Tabari vol.9 p.167:
Al-Aswad was assassinated because he claimed that he was a prophet, after coming out of the Khubban cave. He was killed a day or two before Mohammed's death.
Al-Tabari vol.9 p.121
"The Messenger of God called me and said, 'It has reached me that Khalid b. Sufyan b. Nubayh al-Hudhali is gathering a force to attack me. He is either in Nakhlah or 'Uranah, so go to him and kill him.'"
Abu Dawud vol.1 no.1244 p.328
"He (the prophet) said, :Go and kill him. I saw him when the time of the afternoon prayer had come. I said : I am afraid if a fight takes place between me and him (Khalid b. Sufyan), that might delay the prayer. I proceeded walking towards him while I was praying by making a sign. When I reached near him, he said to me : Who are you? I replied : A man from the Arabs ; it came to me that you were gathering (any[sp] army) for this man (i.e. the Prophet). Hence I came to you in connection with this matter. ... I then walked along with him for a while; when it became convenient for me, I dominated him with my sword until he became cold (dead)."
Al-Tabari vol.8 p.122
According to Ibn Ishaq: Kinanah b. al-Rabi' b. Abi al-Huqayq who had the treasure of the Banu al-Nadir, was brought to the Messenger of God, who questioned him, but he denied knowing where it [the treasure] was. Then the Messenger of God was brought a Jew who said to him, "I have seen Kinanah walk around this ruin every morning." The Messenger of God said to Kinanah: "What do you say? If we find it in your possession, I will kill you. "All right he answered. The Messenger of God commanded that the ruin should be dug up, and some of the treasure was extracted from it. Then he asked him for the rest of it. Kinanah refused to surrender it, so the Messenger of God gave orders concerning him to al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwam, saying, "Torture him until you root out what he has." Al-Zubayr kept twirling his firestick in his breast until Kinanah almost expired [died]; then the Messenger of God gave him to Muhammad b. Maslamah, who beheaded him to avenge his brother Mahmud b. Maslamah."
The list goes on.
CONCLUSIONS:
All the included sources are Muslim sources. A lot of scholars are using this material to come up with Fatwas and also material for their sermons.
If you have read through my brief write-up, you can see that what ISIS is doing today is almost an exact carbon copy of what Muhammad and his warband were doing back then.
Therefore I urge you all to study all the facts about Muhammad and Islam first, before defending the narrative that ISIS is not Islamic.
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Long answer:
Let’s take a look first what ISIS is doing. If we can agree what these “atrocities” are, then we can look further and dig deeper whether we can find something similar in Islamic scripture and history.
So, here’s what ISIS does:
BEHEADING OF PRISONERS
Scriptural base:
Qur’an 8:12- “I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers: smite ye above their necks and smite all their finger-tips off.”
Qur’an 47:4- “Therefore, when ye meet the Unbelievers (in fight), strike off their heads; at length; then when you have made wide Slaughter among them, carefully tie up the remaining captives”: thereafter (is the time for) either generosity or ransom: Until the war lays down its burdens.”
What Muhammad did:
Then the Messenger of Allah commanded that ditches should be dug, so they were dug in the earth, and they were brought tied by their shoulders, and were beheaded. There were between seven hundred and eight hundred of them. The children who had not yet reached adolescence and the women were taken prisoner, and their wealth was seized.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir - The Campaign against Banu Qurayzah
Narrated Aisha . . . No woman of Banu [tribe] Qurayzah was killed except one. She was with me, talking and laughing on her back and belly (extremely), while the Apostle of Allah . . . was killing her people with the swords. Suddenly a man called her name: Where is so-and-so? . . . I asked: What is the matter with you? She said: I did a new act. [Aisha] said: The man took her and beheaded her. [Aisha] said: I will not forget that she was laughing extremely although she knew that she would be killed. (Abu Dawud)
TAKING FEMALE SEX-SLAVES
Scriptural base:
Qur’an - 4:24 - "And all married women are forbidden unto you save those captives whom your right hand possess. It is a decree of Allah for you.
What Muhammad did:
Sunan Abu Dawud, Vol. 2, # 2150:
Abu Said al-Khudri said: "The apostle of Allah sent a military expedition to Awtas on the occasion of the battle of Hunain. They met their enemy and fought with them. They defeated them and took them captives. Some of the Companions of the apostle of Allah were reluctant to have intercourse with the female captives in the presence of their husbands who were unbelievers. So Allah, the Exalted, sent down the Quranic verse, "And all married women (are forbidden) unto you save those (captives) whom your right hands possess". That is to say, they are lawful for them when they complete their waiting period." (See Qur’an 4:24 above)
Sahih Bukhari Vol.3 #432
Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri that while he was sitting with Allah's messenger we said, "Oh Allah's messenger, we got female captives as our booty, and we are interested in their prices, what is your opinion about coitus interruptus?" The prophet said, "Do you really do that? It is better for you not to do it. No soul that which Allah has destined to exist, but will surely come into existence."
Sahih Muslim, Vol.2, #3371
Abu Sirma said to Abu Said al Khudri: "O Abu Said, did you hear Allah's messenger mentioning about al-azl (coitus interruptus)?" He said, "Yes", and added: "We went out with Allah's messenger on the expedition to the Mustaliq and took captive some excellent Arab women; and we desired them for we were suffering from the absence of our wives, (but at the same time) we also desired ransom for them. So we decided to have sexual intercourse with them but by observing azl" (withdrawing the male sexual organ before emission of semen to avoid conception). But we said: "We are doing an act whereas Allah's messenger is amongst us; why not ask him?" So we asked Allah's messenger and he said: "It does not matter if you do not do it, for every soul that is to be born up to the Day of Resurrection will be born".
Kitab al-Tabaqat al-Kabir, page 151
"He [the Lord of Alexandria] presented to the prophet Mariyah, her sister Sirin, a donkey and a mule which was white....The apostle of Allah liked Mariyah who was of white complexion and curly hair and pretty.... Then he cohabited with Mariyah as a handmaid and sent her to his property which he had acquired from Banu al-Nadir."
Tabari's History, volume 39, page 194
"He (Muhammad) used to visit her (Mariyam) there and ordered her to veil herself, [but] he had intercourse with her by virtue of her being his property."
THROWING DOWN HOMOSEXUALS FROM ROOFS AND STONING THEM AFTERWARDS
Scriptural base:
Qur'an 4:16 If two men among you are guilty of lewdness, punish them both. If they repent and amend, Leave them alone; for Allah is Oft-returning, Most Merciful.
Sunan Abu Dawud 38:4447 Narated By Abdullah ibn Abbas : The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: If you find anyone doing as Lot's people did, kill the one who does it, and the one to whom it is done.
What Muhammad and companions did:
Mishkat, vol. 1, p. 765, Prescribed Punishments
Ibn Abbas and Abu Huraira reported God's messenger as saying, 'Accursed is he who does what Lot's people did.' In a version...on the authority of Ibn Abbas it says that Ali [Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law] had two people “burned” and that Abu Bakr [Muhammad's chief companion] had a wall thrown down on them.
Modern Exegesis:
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, Islam Q&A, Fatwa No. 5177
Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq judged in accordance with this, and he wrote instructions to this effect to Khaalid, after consulting with the Sahaabah. ‘Ali was the strictest of them with regard to that. Ibn al-Qasaar and our shaykh said: the Sahaabah agreed that [the person who does homosexual acts] should be killed, but they differed as to how he should be killed. Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq said that he should be thrown down from a cliff. ‘Ali (may Allaah be pleased with him) said that a wall should be made to collapse on him. Ibn ‘Abbaas said, they should be killed by stoning. This shows that there was consensus among them that [the person who does homosexual acts] should be killed, but they differed as to how he should be executed. This is similar to the ruling of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) concerning the person who has intercourse with a woman who is his mahram [incest], because in both cases intercourse is not permitted under any circumstances. Hence the connection was made in the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allaah be pleased with him) who reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said, “Whoever you find doing the deed of the people of Loot, kill them.” And it was also reported that he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever has intercourse with a woman who is his mahram, kill him.” And according to another hadeeth with the same isnaad, “Whoever has intercourse with an animal, kill him and kill the animal with him.” (Narrated by Ahmad, 2420; Abu Dawood, 4464; al-Tirmidhi, 1454; al-Haakim, 4/355).
Imam Sirajudeen Bakrin, Nigerian Tribune, December 30, 2011
However, there is a divergence of opinions on the methodology to be used in executing the punishment. While some scholars such as Abu bakr [the first Rightly-Guided Caliph] and Ali [Muhammad's son-in-law and the fourth Rightly-Guided Caliph ] were of the view that such a person should be beheaded and set on fire thereafter, Umar [the second Rightly-Guided Caliph] and Uthman [the third Rightly-Guided Caliph] thought the wall should be fell on him. To Ibn Abbas [Muhammad's cousin], he should be taken to the tallest building in the town, thrown upside down while some men stand on the ground waiting to meet him with stone in replication of the destruction done to the people of Lut (Lot) by Allah.
STONING OF ADULTERERS
Scriptural base & what Muhammad did:
Sahih Bukhari (6:60:79) - Two people guilty of illegal intercourse are brought to Muhammad, who orders them both stoned to death.
Sahih Muslim (17:4192) - "in case of married (persons) there is (a punishment) of one hundred lashes and then stoning (to death). And in case of unmarried persons, (the punishment) is one hundred lashes and exile for one year"
Sahih Muslim (17:4196) - A married man confesses to adultery. Muhammad orders him planted in the ground and pelted with stones. According to the passage, the first several stones caused such pain that he tried to escape and had to be dragged back.
Sahih Muslim (17:4206) - A woman who became pregnant confesses to Muhammad that she is guilty of adultery. Muhammad allows her to have the child, then has her stoned.
The description is graphic: "Khalid b Walid came forward with a stone which he flung at her head and there spurted blood on the face of Khalid and so he abused her."
Ibn Ishaq (970)
- "The adulterer must be stoned." These words were a part of Muhammad's farewell address to his people on the occasion of his final pilgrimage to Mecca.
What Muhammad did:
Bukhari vol.3 book 45 ch.3 no.687 p.415.
(687) Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah: Allah's Apostle said, 'Who would kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf as he has harmed Allah and His Apostle? Muhammad bin Maslama (got up and) said, 'I will kill him.' So, Muhammad bin Maslama went to Ka'b and said, 'I want a loan of one or two Wasqs of foodgrains.'" After dickering over what to hold as mortgage, they agreed that Muhammad bin Maslama would mortgage his weapons. So he promised him that he would come with his weapons next time."
Source: Ibn Ishaq, pp. 675-76 / 995-96.
Asma was a poetess who belonged to a tribe of Medinan pagans, and whose husband was named Yazid b. Zayd. She composed a poem blaming the Medinan pagans for obeying a stranger (Muhammad) and for not taking the initiative to attack him by surprise. When the Allah-inspired prophet heard what she had said, he asked, "Who will rid me of Marwan’s daughter?" A member of her husband’s tribe volunteered and crept into her house that night. She had five children, and the youngest was sleeping at her breast. The assassin gently removed the child, drew his sword, and plunged it into her, killing her in her sleep.
The following morning, the assassin defied anyone to take revenge. No one took him up on his challenge, not even her husband. In fact, Islam became powerful among his tribe. Previously, some members who had kept their conversion secret now became Muslims openly, "because they saw the power of Islam," conjectures Ibn Ishaq.
Al-Tabari vol.9 p.167:
Al-Aswad was assassinated because he claimed that he was a prophet, after coming out of the Khubban cave. He was killed a day or two before Mohammed's death.
Al-Tabari vol.9 p.121
"The Messenger of God called me and said, 'It has reached me that Khalid b. Sufyan b. Nubayh al-Hudhali is gathering a force to attack me. He is either in Nakhlah or 'Uranah, so go to him and kill him.'"
Abu Dawud vol.1 no.1244 p.328
"He (the prophet) said, :Go and kill him. I saw him when the time of the afternoon prayer had come. I said : I am afraid if a fight takes place between me and him (Khalid b. Sufyan), that might delay the prayer. I proceeded walking towards him while I was praying by making a sign. When I reached near him, he said to me : Who are you? I replied : A man from the Arabs ; it came to me that you were gathering (any[sp] army) for this man (i.e. the Prophet). Hence I came to you in connection with this matter. ... I then walked along with him for a while; when it became convenient for me, I dominated him with my sword until he became cold (dead)."
Al-Tabari vol.8 p.122
According to Ibn Ishaq: Kinanah b. al-Rabi' b. Abi al-Huqayq who had the treasure of the Banu al-Nadir, was brought to the Messenger of God, who questioned him, but he denied knowing where it [the treasure] was. Then the Messenger of God was brought a Jew who said to him, "I have seen Kinanah walk around this ruin every morning." The Messenger of God said to Kinanah: "What do you say? If we find it in your possession, I will kill you. "All right he answered. The Messenger of God commanded that the ruin should be dug up, and some of the treasure was extracted from it. Then he asked him for the rest of it. Kinanah refused to surrender it, so the Messenger of God gave orders concerning him to al-Zubayr b. al-'Awwam, saying, "Torture him until you root out what he has." Al-Zubayr kept twirling his firestick in his breast until Kinanah almost expired [died]; then the Messenger of God gave him to Muhammad b. Maslamah, who beheaded him to avenge his brother Mahmud b. Maslamah."
The list goes on.
CONCLUSIONS:
All the included sources are Muslim sources. A lot of scholars are using this material to come up with Fatwas and also material for their sermons.
If you have read through my brief write-up, you can see that what ISIS is doing today is almost an exact carbon copy of what Muhammad and his warband were doing back then.
Therefore I urge you all to study all the facts about Muhammad and Islam first, before defending the narrative that ISIS is not Islamic.
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