Chapter 13.1: In the Cellar
Maelle, Lucien and Catherine are on borrowing duty, but nothing goes according to plan ! The Borrowers are once again in peril !
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Chapter 13.1: In the Cellar
Maelle, Lucien and Catherine are on borrowing duty, but nothing goes according to plan ! The Borrowers are once again in peril !
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Minuscule- Gustave POV
So, I have reread the Verso comic that belongs to @cathianemelian about a gazillion times now. And I realized that there were many instances of the reader getting Verso's inner thoughts on the situation and thought, "I wonder what Gustave is thinking at this moment?"
I may have spiraled after that. Good news is, I had a fun afternoon and have something cool to share to the Arietty!AU. Hope it gives a good idea on what Gustave may have been feeling :)
Chapter 9 of "Minuscule" ! The long awaited moment is finally here ! Gustave and Verso finally meet in person. What will happen now ? How are they going to react ? This chapter is the biggest to date, I hope you'll like it !
Borrowers/Expedition 33 part 1 !
Because of Giku's Mini Gustave AU on X, I decided to listen to the voices in my head and make a Borrowers/Expedition 33 AU. So yeah, it exists, do what you want with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ok like. yes. i understand perfectly that escalating political violence and assassination are the hallmarks of a democracy death spiral. however.
*Taps the sign*
When extremists who actively dismiss empathy to enable the groups abusing power to push towards fascism & authoritarianism start to have to experience the natural consequence of that type of provocation… it's also a healthy society making it clear that the type of revolution necessary to overthrow those sorts of regimes is still possible because at the end of the day… they're just disproportionately loud, feckless sacks of meat who are just as vulnerable to being stopped by simple force as much anyone else.
It's always important to remember that the people who openly advocate callously allowing people to die to have what they want are not adhering to the social contract that considers those they disagree with as an equal. They see the "other" as an expendable resource that's a means to an end for their own gain. They're not sharing a society that gives grounds for negotiation, they're trying to ensure that those they disagree with die off from it while they survive, and claim they weren't responsible. (This is why the middle class across party lines had no empathy for a CEO getting shot dead, but why there's a huge attempt to make this different when at it's core it's EXACTLY the same thing).
That's why the cathartic schadenfreude of exploitive healthcare CEOs or gun violence dismissive Right Wing extremists getting to reap the consequences of what they've sown doesn't HAVE to be something that you condone for society — because you don't condone EITHER of those things. You merely understand that there is a natural breaking point where the only way to effectively cease tolerating the type of intolerance when it wields disproportionate power and refuses to have respect or empathy and is more than willing to let you die for its own benefit is to ensure that it has its own intolerance reciprocated upon it.
Peaceful protests are a dress rehearsal for violent revolution. It's society saying, “We are approaching you in the form that the social contract of society tolerates, because what you're doing is no longer acceptable… with the understanding that we can show up exercising our right to bear arms to stop you by force if you make that necessary.”
As a reminder, this happened in a conservative county of Utah where he was intentionally pushing to spark as much divisiveness as possible within the areas where that sort of thing was made clear it was unwelcome, and there were other places where he could have gone instead had he not wanted to continually catalyze provocation and engage in repetitive disingenuous facades of discussion.
And just to underscore more of the context that preceded this happening:
When people who openly, vocally, and actively let others know that their deaths are the cost of doing business for the nice things that they want, and actively ignore and downplay any way in which those harms can be regulated — be it the medical insurance industry, healthcare, gun control, or any of the myriad of ways that the current administration of the United States has been actively widening the divide and hurting the most vulnerable — there is a breaking point where subjecting them to the consequences of what they preach for others is the only justice that remains.
Intolerance of intolerance is being damned to use the tools of your enemy in order to defeat them, and it's why it's ALWAYS important to emphasize that people like this are simply utilizing political extremism as a tool for their own ends, because it's an easy way to create the divisiveness that prevents the group from unifying against it, and democracy is fundamentally impossible without a foundation of equality where one side isn't calling for the other's death while expecting never to be under threat of death in return.
There is an omnipresent double standard to how that violence is regarded when it happens to the "other" and how they expect respect when it happens to "them" instead. They want THEIR intolerance of others to be acceptable and any intolerance turned against them to be decried and seen as persecution (see Zionism utilizing anti-Semitism as a shield to conduct genocide in Palestine with the current administration reinforcing that rather than intervening). This same societal model is utilized politically already:
This is why it's important to point to this as a reminder that this is where things WILL end up… if they have to, but not because those being oppressed WANT that, but because that's what it will eventually create when they actually get the reciprocation of equality that they offer through the intolerance that they preach.
No one wants that — but especially not those in power when they still have a chance to lose.
They want fear & violence to be THEIR tool to use, but never to experience. Reminders are necessary not just for them, but for everyone else so that you don't forget that if there comes a point when those individuals seem untouchable and unstoppable…
They literally never are, and its not wrong to experience catharsis when injustice reaches the point where it's forced to face its own dark reflection.
Take a moment to feel relief, just don't revel in that, because the point is always that violence provides an opportunity for de-escalation and a return to a social contract of equality… but that only happens if the double standard of intolerance has been snuffed out as a result.
That's why it's either the death spiral of democracy slipping into authoritarianism & fascism, or the feedback loop necessary for democratic revolution to extricate itself from under the boot heel of intolerance & oppression.
Either way, hopefully having an informed understanding of the underlying mechanisms of the sociopolitical climate helps to make processing however you're experiencing this news in a helpful way.
Update! Luigi's Attorney Dickey confirms that his "outburst" where he tells the cameras that this is unjust, was because he was never read his miranda rights and was under the impression at that time that he was being denied the right to a fair trial, an attorney, or any legal representation.
He is angry and terrified in that footage because they have failed to follow basic procedure to inform him that he has any rights at all. This is a major red flag of police corruption. This is UNACCEPTABLE and further means any interrogation they did of him is unlawful, and inadmissible in court.
God I hope this is true because that alone can get this entire case thrown out. I hope the judge laughs the entire prosecution out of the court.
Judge: let me get this straight. You didn't DNA test him because New York sidewalk is too contaminated, didn't fingerprint him because you don't have usable fingerprints at the scene, you have no way of knowing he's even the right guy, no one can identify that it's him in the footage, even fbi facial recognition software can't recognize him as the cctv suspect, AND you interrogated him under duress, and that's the ONLY thing you have on him? The thing that's defacto null and void because none of you can follow even basic procedure?
Like to charge, reblog to cast.
Get that innocent man out of prison.
i hope whoever actually shot that CEO is having a good day.
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They’re scared because they know that the public is with Luigi.
They’re violating his rights because they need to maintain capitalism.
Keep talking about Luigi.
The document from a state fusion center cites high health care costs as a key source of instability in the country.
“The dossier adds that the public ‘may view the ensuing manhunt and subsequent arrest of Mangione as NYPD, and largely policing as a whole, as a tool that is willing to expend massive resources to protect the wealthy, while the average citizen is left to their own means for personal security.’”
The pettiness is just 👌😂
Sound on! Sound on!
He has since begun getting past the defensiveness and actually talking to people on the left to learn their perspective, and is openly admitting that no, if this hadn't happened to him, he wouldn't have considered our side of things, and that's wrong.
Love me some schadenfreude as much as the next guy, but we actually WANT these people to finally blink and go "oh shit wait, maybe I should move LEFT".
Bc the more we have on our side (esp ppl who can say they left MAGA and finally understand how culty it was, how bigotry is wrong, etc), the more resources we have with which to apply pressure and intimidation to these fucking fascists.
That's a big boy right here. Vent post I did a while ago, finally felt the courage to post it I hope it'll reach the people who needed to read this.
Here’s the opposite story, though. With apologies because I don’t have the book in front of me, so I may get some details wrong, but I read this “Irena’s Children“ by Tilar J. Mazzeo.
Irena lived in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation, and dedicated her life to rescuing Jewish children from the Ghetto, and her story is complicated in a lot of ways but - well, this story isn’t actually about Irena, per se.
It’s about a bus driver.
It’s about a day when she’s traveling across town by bus with a very young Jewish child, and partway to their destination the child looks up and asks a question - in Yiddish. and the whole bus goes quiet, because everyone knows what that means. And Irena thinks, okay, we’re going to die here today.
And she’s running through her options - all of them bad - and suddenly the bus stops, and the bus driver announces that there’s been a mechanical failure and the bus needs to return to the depot immediately. Everyone off, please.
And she stands and goes to get off the bus and the driver says - not you two. Sit down. So she sits down as everyone else leaves, because, well, what else is she going to do? the options are all still bad, at this point.
and when the bus is empty the bus driver says,
“Where do you need to go?”
And then he drives them as close to their destination as he can, and lets them off, and drives away. And Irena lives, and the kid lives, and they never cross paths again.
So a janitor got three people killed, and a bus driver saved two lives - not to mention all the other lives indirectly saved because Irena was able to continue her work.
I think about that almost every day now, to be honest.
We can’t all be Irena. I couldn’t be Irena. She was in a unique place with very specific skills and connections that let her do what she did. I am just one mentally ill librarian. I can’t be her. But - I can be the bus driver. Or I could be the janitor. Because it doesn’t matter what your job is. It doesn’t matter who you are. In a world like this, every single one of us has the opportunity to do massive harm or massive good. We can save lives or end them.
And that’s scary. but it’s also very comforting? at least for me. Because at the end of the day it means this: no matter of how small and helpless and unimportant you feel, you’re never powerless in the face of great evil.
You can choose to be the bus driver.
I have another story from the Holocaust.
Two, actually.
One is long, and one is brief.
The first story is about my grandfather.
He was a slave in a Krups munitions factory in a Nazi concentration camp in Częstochowa, Poland.
He was also a smuggler. If I did not have multiple corroborating witnesses to the sheer ludicrious balls that he had, I would dismiss the stories as exaggeration. But he was a food smuggler–he would buy some kind of sugar from the Polish day workers coming into the factory, make candy out of them, sell the candy back to the workers at a profit, and buy food with the proceeds–which he then proceeded to share with the other slaves, free of charge. Without him, they would have starved to death, but an extra hundred calories a day made a difference enough to keep them alive.
But that’s not the story.
The story is what happened in Spring of 1945.
My grandfather could hear the guns of the Russian Army off in the distance, and he and the other captives in the camp figured that they would be liberated any day now.
And then a truck packed full with preteen Jewish children who had just been captured comes into the work camp instead of the extermination camp up the road. Because the Nazis were so fixated on their hatred of Jews that they diverted war resources to hunting us down even as they were losing.
So it’s pandemonium. They’re unloading the truck of the kids, the guards are yelling at the driver, the kids are milling about not knowing what’s going on…
And my grandfather sees one boy who looked a little older, a little more mature, and figured that this one he can save. It’s just a few days until the Russians arrive, after all.
So he tells the boy to come with him.
And the rest… got loaded back onto the truck and off they went to the gas chambers.
But it wasn’t a couple of days.
It was six weeks.
Stalin personally ordered the Army to slow their advance and told the Polish Resistance to rise up, and that the Russians would support them with food and weapons.
So they rose up… and were slaughtered. Because they got nothing from the Russians. Stalin knew that anyone who would be resisting the Nazis would be resisting him next, and it was an elegant way to weaken Poland before he took it.
Meanwhile, my grandfather is hiding a fourteen year old boy in a NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP.
The risks they took to hide him… they would hold him up over empty shoes sewn to long pants at the evening roll call so that he would look taller. They smuggled food to him… If they had been caught… I have nightmares of what would have been done to them.
Finally, one night, they are all locked in their barracks as the Nazis evacuated the camp and the Russians were coming in, with the Nazis using the camp for cover for their escape.
And in the chaos…
My grandfather lost track of the boy.
Twenty-two years later, he tells this story to my father when my father is 12, and has demanded to know something, be told something concrete.
So he doesn’t know what happened to the boy. Did he live? Did he die? Did he find his mother and sisters?
He doesn’t know.
Six months later, my grandmother is planning my father’s bar mitzvah. Not as a religious obligation, but as a 200 foot tall flaming middle finger to the Third Reich. You are gone, and WE ARE STILL HERE.
So she plugs into what my father called the “Camp Network”–the trombonist in the band was on a death march with an uncle, the florist was in a work camp with a friend, etc. And she’s asking, “I need a photographer, who is good?”
“You want Joe Brown, up in Queens,” she’s told.
So she invites him down to talk terms at their house in Brooklyn, which is quite a haul in NYC.
And the first question one Holocaust survivor asks another is, “Where were you?” Because maybe you know someone, maybe you can tell what happened.
“I was in Częstochowa,” he says.
“You were in Częstochowa? My husband Teddy was in Częstochowa!”
“I didn’t know a Teddy Baum.”
“Oh, everyone knew Teddy.”
“I didn’t know a Teddy Baum!”
“When he gets home, you’ll see. Everyone there knew Teddy.” Because he was smuggling in the food that kept them all alive.
So the thing is, you live in the US for 20 years, you forget that your name was not “Teddy Baum” but “Tuvyas Bumps.”
And when my grandfather got home from work…
…sitting there at his kitchen table…
…was the boy he had saved.
…
(I’m not crying…)
That’s the first story.
The second story is that of my grandfather’s brother.
It is short.
He collaborated with the Nazis to save his own skin. He let my grandfather’s first wife and son starve to death in the ghetto and informed on people who tried to escape or resist. My grandfather said that “Good people went up the chimney and he stayed behind.”
Two brothers.
One saved over a hundred lives.
The other betrayed his own flesh and blood to save his own skin.
Your choices define you.
Whoever destroys a single life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed the whole world, and whoever saves a single life is considered by Scripture to have saved the whole world.– Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5
id: a tweet from pop tingz. "max announces the release of the 'luigi mangione: the ceo killer' documentary on february 17th."
hey! just a reminder this alleged "ceo killer" hasn't been convicted of anything, hasn't even gone to trial, was taken into custody without being dna tested or fingerprinted (what fingerprints they did find near the scene were entirely circumstantial), didn't have any contact with legal rep before his extradition hearing, and wasn't identified as a facial match by the fbi's top notch ai software. just don't watch this doc, it's bound to be full of bullshit just like tmz.
Someone throw the no hate watching meme on here.
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These men just stole the personal information of everyone in America AND control the Treasury. Link to article.
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Spread their names!
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elon is really mad about this so it would be a shame if people kept spreading the names around