#bella porter

[thegothamscoop]

The Gotham Scoop, Missing evidence.

Ten years ago, a fire tore through the heart of my neighborhood in Crime Alley. The city called it “an accidental electrical blaze.”

You know what I’ve learned in the past week? Accidents don’t usually come with this many missing documents. I'll try to post digital copies of the documents and files I'm legally allowed to share.

Bella Porter

[batgirlspain]

@thegothamscoop , I’ve been pulling threads on the financial side of the Crime Alley fire, the kind of material that doesn’t show up in the public record unless you know which closed ledgers to dig through. There’s one name that keeps resurfacing, but you must know it by now: Ashbridge Development Corp.

On paper, they’re clean. If you look at the official timeline, they didn’t touch Crime Alley until months after the fire. But that timeline only holds up if you accept the surface-level version of events.

Here’s what I found under it:

1. Two months before the fire, Ashbridge quietly filed three preliminary zoning inquiries with the Town Planning Board, the same board Batman suspected of involvement back then. All three inquiries targeted streets that were later damaged beyond repair in the fire. All three were marked “denied”. And all three were then retroactively sealed, which is not normal procedure.

2. Forty-eight hours after the fire, Ashbridge made a private offer to the city for a “revitalization corridor”. The proposal covered exactly the same blocks that burned. The offer never hit the public hearing stage. Someone pushed it through an expedited route that shouldn’t exist.

3. The shell companies that bought the damaged properties? Three of them tie back to Ashbridge through a law firm in Bristol. The ownership trail is thin, but the signatures match. Someone got sloppy.

4. And this is the part you’ll want for your notes: the same city official who shepherded the fast-track approvals for Ashbridge is the same one whose name shows up in two of the suicide case files you flagged, as the administrative sign-off on the final report. No investigative authority. No reason to sign. Just… there. That’s either a coincidence with very bad timing or a pattern that’s bigger than you originally thought.

I’m still confirming the procurement logs. Those will tell us what Ashbridge gained and when, but I wanted you to have this now, because the footprints they left around Crime Alley aren’t subtle once you start looking in the right places.

When you’re ready to talk privately, I’ll walk you through the rest. This part needs to be handled carefully.

For both of us.

@drisleythorn , if you have anything to contribute to this line of investigation, please feel free to do so, even privately.

[the-sinking-garden]

Hanzo Shimada x Cole Cassidy

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[julienbakersideblog]

Poster for boygenius’s reunion headline at the Bread & Roses benefit concert (11/19/21), designed by Bella Porter

[doradorapuff]

i was the more deceived. - an ophelia playlist

what kind of man - florence + the machine • hoax - taylor swift • my tears ricochet - taylor swift • moth to a light - betty and the boy • a drowning - how to destroy angels • rosyln - bon iver ft st. vincent • cynism - bella porter • eventually, darling - declan mckenna • savior complex - pheobe bridgers • runaway - aurora • under the water - aurora • skin - marika hackman • i'm a fool to want you - mitski • beautiful, but bleak - wilted flower • django - samia.

{LISTEN}

[nottheonlyfruit]

“ i don't wanna kiss you

i just wanna hold a breathing body that could feel

the same way i might feel someday soon”

[nottheonlyfruit]

“so i took the high road

and you took the low one

and I'm never going that way again”

[randiverich]

Here be some fanart of Bella Porter from Revolution Island. Trying to get the hang of FireAlpaca's new update as an art program as I try out the brushes, while also trying to get the hang of drawing rendered pieces from my new computer.