Gin and Bitterness

A thirty-something writer from an island in the north Atlantic. A playwright, autumn person, academic, and all-around odd bird with a taste for theatre, history, literature, and all things slightly uncanny. Feel free to snoop around and drop me a line if you like – I’m quiet but I don’t bite. My Ko-fi Page I've gone by several other urls - see my 'About the Writer' for the most frequently used ones.

[personalmephistopheles]

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[alexanderwales]

Here's a legal PSA:

If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

Know your rights. Don't let eccentric detectives put you away.

[endiness]

Armand is watching.

[jessepinwheel]

I love it when people use "shrimp" to mean "beyond the human range". like "shrimp colors" but applied to other things. "shrimp emotions" "shrimp sounds" "shrimp morality", as if shrimp are living some kind of transcendent existence that humans can never comprehend

[deinonychian]

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the noble quetzalcoatlus

[theonion]

Experts Agree Giant, Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat

[acervorevolucionario]

Che Guevara tomando um mate em seu quarto na fortaleza La Cabaña, 1959, Havana, Cuba. Fotos por Andrew St. George.

[allvvegot]

Che Guevara thirst traps

[mona-ex-machina]

If you were really my friend you’d do this highly unethical experimental surgery on me

[reticent-vampire]

Assad and Luke via Assad IG

[bhramarii]

no mondays in the cambrian era

[xaoca]

Hunger by Nightjar art of Adam Burke

[imifos]

stab scene intimacy coordinator

[gallusgalluss]

put some legs on that beast

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: When you walk the Jianghu, be fast (cr 兜里有糖)

[teaboot]

ARE THESE BIRDS❔❔❔

[thetwinsinlaw]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT EXTENDED LOOK: Armand and his boyfriends exes

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[sashayed]

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

[userarmand]

The Vampire Lestat: After Dark ✕ Preview Special