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Well, my first idea was transplanting Persephone as a Southern (Modern) Belle, with a My Beloved Smother, and she meets Hades, a rogueish, goodhearted doctor with Doctors Without Borders, and he talks her into spending a summer in The Democratic Republic of the Congo as a volunteer with his outpost, and she grows up and finds love etc. And Demeter goes apeshit.
It wasn’t until later that I realized it was cultural appropriation, as well as using Congo to represent The Dark Continent and turning actual tragedy into a back-drop for a love story, which I hate, and so I discarded the idea, because that is really fucking problematic.
I do like the idea of people pairing together for the cause of public health, and maybe finding love along the way, (public health SO SEXY my god), but I don’t want to turn an actual tragedy into a back-drop. Goddamnit, I’m better than that, so until I find the right way to do it, using public health and public health in that way will remain firmly at the back of my mind.
I’m also a little afraid that I’m going to write and rewrite their story in various genres until I’m satisfied, and while I’m playing with the Orpheus/Eurydice myth in my monstrous fic of doom part deux (SPOILERS), I don’t want to rely on the same plot over and over again.
So yeah.
If I’m going to do it, I’m going to do it properly.
It will be written (eventually), and then published.
Because I have a weakness for Hades/Persephone, and you know who my fancasts for them are, and I want that Modern AU.
More and more children being arrested for trivial things…
#1 At one public school down in Texas, a 12-year-old girl named Sarah Bustamantes was recently arrested for spraying herself with perfume.
#2 A 13-year-old student at a school in Albuquerque, New Mexico was recently arrested by police for burping in class.
#3 Another student down in Albuquerque was forced to strip down to his underwear while five adults watched because he had $200 in his pocket. The student was never formally charged with doing anything wrong.
#4 A security guard at one school in California broke the arm of a 16-year-old girl because she left some crumbs on the floor after cleaning up some cake that she had spilled.
#5 One teenage couple down in Houston poured milk on each other during a squabble while they were breaking up. Instead of being sent to see the principal, they were arrested and sent to court.
#6 In early 2010, a 12-year-old girl at a school in Forest Hills, New York was arrested by police and marched out of her school in handcuffs just because she doodled on her desk. “I love my friends Abby and Faith” was what she reportedly scribbled on her desk.
#7 A 6-year-old girl down in Florida was handcuffed and sent to a mental facility after throwing temper tantrums at her elementary school.
#8 One student down in Texas was reportedly arrested by police for throwing paper airplanes in class.
#9 A 17-year-old honor student in North Carolina named Ashley Smithwick accidentally took her father’s lunch with her to school. It contained a small paring knife which he would use to slice up apples. So what happened to this standout student when the school discovered this? The school suspended her for the rest of the year and the police charged her with a misdemeanor.
#10 In Allentown, Pennsylvania a 14-year-old girl was tasered in the groin area by a school security officer even though she had put up her hands in the air to surrender.
#11 Down in Florida, an 11-year-old student was arrested, thrown in jail and charged with a third-degree felony for bringing a plastic butter knife to school.
#12 Back in 2009, an 8-year-old boy in Massachusetts was sent home from school and was forced to undergo a psychological evaluation because he drew a picture of Jesus on the cross.
#13 A police officer in San Mateo, California blasted a 7-year-old special education student in the face with pepper spray because he would not quit climbing on the furniture.
#14 In America today, even 5-year-old children are treated brutally by police. The following is from a recent article that described what happened to one very young student in Stockton, California a while back….
“Earlier this year, a Stockton student was handcuffed with zip ties on his hands and feet, forced to go to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation and was charged with battery on a police officer. That student was 5 years old”.
#15 At one school in Connecticut, a 17-year-old boy was thrown to the floor and tasered five times because he was yelling at a cafeteria worker.
#16 A teenager in suburban Dallas was forced to take on a part-time job after being ticketed for using foul language in one high school classroom. The original ticket was for $340, but additional fees have raised the total bill to $637.
#17 A few months ago, police were called out when a little girl kissed a little boy during a physical education class at an elementary school down in Florida.
#18 A 6-year-old boy was recently charged with sexual battery for some “inappropriate touching” during a game of tag at one elementary school in the San Francisco area.
#19 In Massachusetts, police were recently sent out to collect an overdue library book from a 5-year-old girl.
HERE ARE THE LINKS FOR THOSE WHO FEEL THIS PAGE MADE ALL THIS UP:
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/texas-student-sarah-bustamantes-12-arrested-for-spraying-perfume/13250/
http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=15077292
Check out this video on YouTube:http://youtu.be/wk2b_twCCdw
http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world& type=article
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/new.york.doodle.arrest/index.html?hpt=C1
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/feb/11/port-st-lucie-schools-confines-6-year-old-with/
http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/jan/09/texas-police-schools?cat=world& type=article
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/12/29/nc-high-school-senior-suspended-charged-possesion-small-knife-lunchbox/#
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance-states.html
http://m.tauntongazette.com/wkdTGazette/pm_/contentdetail.htm?contentguid
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/San-Mateo-pays-family-of-boy-pepper-sprayed-by-cop-2384518.php
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/cops-called-for-school-kiss-657831
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2012/01/27/hercules-family-battles-playground-sex-assault-claim-against-6-year-old/
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/02/charlton-library-sends-police-to-collect-overdue-books-from-5-year-old/
Kids are fucked up these days…
All of the adults allowing this should be slapped and then relieved of any authority that they have
Important to note that these type of incidents dispropritionately affect black children and childen of color. The picture up there should probably feature a child who isn’t white considering this.
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this is half in tribute, half in sourness to bittermeggirl, because she gave me a prompt and i had feelings.
Persephone had been walking through life, not experiencing it (thank you mommy dearest) when she literally ran into the most gorgeous man she’s ever met, and while he may be at least twenty (it’s only twenty, she swears) years old than she is, they have that spark, and though her mother and father and some aunts disagree, she’s going to have him by hook or by crook. a wedding, three catahoula leopard dogs, and some major mishaps later, they may actually survive to have a happy ending.
This is JASON FYLES and he goes to my university (Newcastle University, North East of England) He is 19 years old, 5’8, ginger hair and slim. He was last seen in the Sandyford area at 2:45am on Thursday morning and has not been seen since. He was wearing a blue shirt, grey cardigan, beige chinos and brown ankle boots. Everyone in uni is so worried about him along with his family and friends. We are coming together as a university to appeal for his safe return. It is thought that he lost his friends on the night out and tried to make his way back by himself. Please, I am begging for you to REBLOG THIS, even if you don’t live in Newcastle, or England. Every REBLOG means that someone else will see his face, they will know who we are looking for, and your followers could be the one to know his whereabouts. Stay safe Jason, we’re looking for you.
THIS WILL NOT RUIN YOUR BLOG!PLEASE. Nobody reblogged my own post on this which I posted an hour or so ago so I’m wondering if nobody will now. This guy is my friend. If I have ever sent you a nice ask or reblogged something of yours and it made you happy for a second (or even if I haven’t; this is about helping him, not doing me a favour) for God’s sake just help now, help to find my friend Jason. You want me to make him human to you?
- Once we all grew beans in pots as part of a Biology experiment- the experiment failed miserably and made the whole lab stink, but his was the only bean that grew and he was actually pretty proud about it
- He learned to knit as part of a school project where he had to learn a creative skill, and when a couple of people teased him about it he said “gender is a social construct” and carried on knitting like a badass
- He loves the scene in The Great Gatsby where Gatsby throws all his silk shirts around and he and I used to giggle over it together
- Once I asked him if he had a string of tinsel I could use in a photoshoot and he brought me a big cardboard box full of tinsel and fairy lights because he’s a helpful and lovely guy
He’s HUMAN and he needs our HELP and just PLEASE PLEASE FUCKING REBLOG THIS??? He’s been missing for four days now- when he went missing he would have been wearing his contact lenses and he won’t have had his (very thick) glasses with him so by now he’ll have had to take his contacts out and throw them away and he won’t be able to see well and oh God just please signal boost this
Why people should not even think of using the word “tribe”.
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I’ve always hated this word.
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ya the word tribe is a no
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sherly-sherry Asks:
inkteller Said:
I mean, if we’re talking about canon, I honestly think it’s one-sided (on his part), but my otp name for them is only at the end of the world, because I have this post-apocoplytic fic barely sketched out in that Rodrigo tells Ascanio to keep Lucrezia safe as they escape something, and Ascanio’s family name would keep her safe where ‘Borgia’ would not, but I don’t like post-apocolyplse fic, and I’m up to my eyeballs in an AU for a different fandom, but I’m hoping to write it eventually.
“I Support The Troops” is by far one of the most ingenuine idioms used by Americans on all sides of the political spectrum. When the troops are invading countries for oil, mercilessly bombing innocents with predator drones and forcefully establishing a ‘democracy’, you ‘support’ the troops. But when they are taking their own lives, complaining about the culture of rape in the military and/or asking for quarters on the street corner, you turn a blind eye.
Those who claim they support the troops say so with such spurious sincerity it makes me flinch. You support imperialism, the exploitation and enslavement of brown people and you could give a damn about the people who willfully and ignorantly risk their lives to fight unjust wars.
When was the last time you actually supported the troops? And I don’t mean dedicating a post on your Facebook wall. I mean helping veterans resist a home foreclosure, or helped a suicidal marine with PTSD, or sacrificed some change to a homeless vet, or volunteer at a VA hospital, or support one of the 19,000 troops who are raped annually by their fellow soldiers? I thought so.
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. (via riverran)
#mary shelley #this quote though #it’s all kinds of wonderful #hey remember that time one asswipe was like you have 30 seconds to name something invented by a woman… #…and Mary was like SCIENCE FICTION MOTHERFUCKERS #that was awesome #thanks Mary Shelley (via snappily)
And the next time someone starts claiming that teenage girls have ruined the horror genre with romance or whatever you can be like, hey dicksmack, teenage girls and romance built your genre so sit the fuck down. (via sharpestrose)
Mary Shelley fucking invented your favourite genre motherfuckers. You owe her Kirk and Vader and every goddamned thing Joss has ever done that’s made you cream your pants. Created when she was a teenager cause, hey, that’s how she rolled. She took love and showed it as the powerful, terrifying, all-encompassing, ruthless, wrathful thing it is. (via piinboots)
And I would like to add:
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(thanks to ashley for the gif)
This is right after Emma offers Hook a chance to be a part of something.
To be a part of her family.And then he tilts his head and it looks to Emma like he’s trying to read her. He thinks that she can’t possibly mean that she wants him to be a part of her life. He thinks that no one would ever want him, so why should he believe what she’s saying?
Which is why, later, he asks, “Why are you really doing this?” Hook wants to know Emma’s real reasoning for trying to convince him to side with her family because he doesn’t believe that she would bother otherwise. After losing Milah and being rejected by Baelfire, he doesn’t have very high self esteem. Not really. So why should he believe what Emma is saying? She couldn’t want him. In his eyes, he is worthless, and dried up, and dead, and useless, and alone. His only purpose was to kill the Crocodile, and he recently came to find out that even thatdidn’t give him any satisfaction.
Hook is lost. He doesn’t know what to think anymore. But he can’t help hearing that voice in the back of his head screaming at him, “She’s telling you the TRUTH! She wants you in her life. Damn it Killian, just trust her!”
Hook has to make a decision after this conversation. Will he stick with the Charming’s plan and risk his own life to help save the town? He has a chance at having a family again and part of him wants to snatch it up. Or, will he decide to take the bean in his possession and use it to start a new life somewhere else? This route is tempting because it offers freedom and it will kill the Crocodile in the process. But, if Hook sails off into the sunset to start a new life, he will be doing so alone.
Initially, Hook chose the second route - the more familiar path. He’s been alone most of his life, so why change that now? So what if the woman who has caught his attention over the past few months just offered him a chance at a family? He would be able to get over her eventually, right?
But then he saw the “P” and the “S” on the railing next to him and he remembered how he felt after he lost his family before. First, his father abandoned him, then Milah unwillingly abandoned him, then Bealfire didn’t choose him. He had loved the boy, but his efforts ended, again, in heartbreak.
It was at this moment that Hook knew he had to go back. He was longing for a family - to be part of something - and Emma had offered it to him. He had been such an idiot. Yes, this route that he had chosen would offer him freedom, but it wasn’t worth being alone for the rest of his godforsaken life.
So Hook sailed back into the harbor that he had just left. He decided to risk his life and limb (he didn’t know the town had been saved already) for a chance at family.
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i just made myself cry
this is perfect
also
Oh gosh Jesse Williams.
And to think he should have played Finnick in Catching Fire.
Lawd have mercy….
“Batman” is written on England in like three places. Dreamworks surfacing team, you win at life.
“I GOT MARRIED ON MAY NINETEENTH FOUR THOUSAND MILES FROM HERE”
HOLD UP.
HOLD UP.
YOU’RE TELLING ME IT’S ALMOST NORTH’S WEDDING ANNIVERSARY?!?!?
headcanon acceptedHAPPY WEDDING ANNIVERSARY, NORTH.
First time discovering his powers. Just look at how delighted he looks.
#and for that one moment everything was perfect #and then that moment ended
