#h.h.holmes

[lacteaway]

anyways, group huuuuuuuuuuuuuug

[somewhereinthepines]

same energy. and they even look the same. wtf. 

[asthma-michael-myers]

The reason I am so reluctant about the idea that Du’met is possessed by Holmes/his incarnation , is that H.H. Holmeas wasn’t a serial killer. 

Holmes confessed the killing of 27 people. He was only convicted for one murder. But it was believed that he killed nine up to twelve people. Why? Well, Holmes was an unreliable narrator. He wanted to boast about what he did, he always lied to people and exaggereated stories to make himself look better and or/feel in control. And then he had control about how people would remember him and interpret his actions.

Additionally the police pinned other murders on him, because he was there and it was convenient to blame him, instead of finding the real murderer.

Holmes doesn’t even fit the definition of a serial killer. His murders always had a motive; not just killing someone for the fun of it or to satisfy an urge. He either wanted money, cover up a pregnancy/abortion gone wrong, get land, etc.. It was to cover up his scams.

It is true that Holmes’ Hotel (mostly the third floor) had hidden rooms and passages. However, this was because he didn’t want to pay for the construction material (or the workers). The third floor, which he built for the World’s Fair 1893, was uninhabitable. Holmes even set the hotel on fire, to get insurance money, not to cover up his murders.

What Holmnes really was, was a liar, a fraud, a murderer. But not to the extent depicted in the game.

I know it’s a game and all. And I also love to read about all the different theories. And people can headcanon whatever they want.

[kawaiijellymonster]

The biggest failing in my hero academia is the heroes inability to recognise a failing in its own practices. Aka, heroes are blind to the failings of hero society. Pro heroes and heroes in training alike cannot understand how having a society dependent on heroes inherently creates prejudices as well as inaction in the society. 

In chapter 281 Shigaraki said “heroes have been pretending to protect society, how many times in the past throughout multiple generations have they turned a blind eye to things they couldn’t protect? Or silently swept the filth of society under the rug. It’s been building up so frivolously” during this speech there is a flashback to him, a wreck on the streets, with someone passing by thinking “soon, someone, a police officer or hero or someone will come help you” he then continues by saying “The resulting rot emanates from within and decay ensues. It's the small accumulation of this rot, the trash being coddled by being protected all the time. The roleplayers who only serve to spoil a meek society. The destruction that will ensue, is merely a result of all the reckless grandstanding you’ve accumulated. That’s how the muck gets cast out, that's how they break and retaliate. That's how it loops back again. And again. And again. Simple right? You don’t need to understand, in fact you’re incapable of understanding, that's the dichotomy of ‘heroes’ and ‘villains’” and endeavor just replied “thanks for your monologue but you’re already dead” and deku says “I can’t forgive the likes of you”. 

They never stop to consider what he said, to them it's just the psychotic rambling of a villain, someone to be beaten and then forgotten, someone who never received an education per traditional standards and thus has no valid opinions on the world.

Heroes existing has given way to a mass application of the bystander effect where before it meant that if there are more people in a situation people are less likely to help because other people will probably help instead, this time the citizens stop helping other people because they assume a hero will come in and do the saving so they don’t need to do anything. This goes back to that cut in of Shigaraki’s speech when a lady left him in the streets saying “someone else will help you”. Hero society stripped the citizens of their individual drive to help others because now helping others has become a career and ceased being a moral and empathetic obligation

Hero society has also created the idea of “heroic” versus “villainous” quirks. This in turn created a whole system of bullying and shaming people who have stereotypically villainous quirks simply for being born regardless of how they act and behave. This distinction between heroic and villainous quirks is what allowed Bakugou to be praised for his quirk and put on a pedestal despite a god complex that caused him to bully and suicide bait other students while simultaneously causing Shinsou to be bullied, ridiculed, and ignored for having a villainous quirk even though he was a quiet dork who likes coffee, cats, and wants to be a hero. 

This is also the reason why I don’t agree with Shinsou being placed in the dekusquad, as previously mentioned, deku cannot see any failing in the hero society. He idolized everything that the hero society stands for and would take a “don’t let other people dictate how you live” approach to shinsou rather than addressing the fact that Shinsou was hurt because the hero society perpetuates stereotypes and the bystander effect it creates prevented anyone from stepping in to ever help Shinsou. 

Similarly Deku doesn’t seem to believe that hero society failed by allowing Endeavor to be the number one hero despite what he knows endeavor did to Shouto and the rest of his family. The story basically says “yeah he's a bad person but he's also a good hero so the fact he hurt his family shouldn’t matter” this is why the top three all go to endeavors agency to train, It falls into the category of how hawks killed twice and despite the fact that we all loved him as a character and he had a good personality he still hurt people and needed to be stopped. Endeavor should also be stopped but he won’t be because hero society doesn’t care that he did something bad as long as the good he does outweighs the bad. 

I’ve said it before and I'll say it again though, hero society is to blame for many villains including Shigaraki. Shigaraki could be a non issue if someone had stepped in to help, be it a random person on the street or a hero. If he had been helped, if this society had more kindness and less bystander, then many of the issues that shigaraki faced or prejudices that he gained, would never have happened to him, the same applies to the majority of the villains in the story. Many of them were not inherently bad, unlike H.H.Holmes who said "I was born with the very devil in me, I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to song, nor the ambition of an intellectual man to be great. The inclination to murder came to me as naturally as the inspiration to do right comes to the majority of persons.". The villains in My Hero Academia are products of their surroundings, hurt, ignored, ridiculed, shamed, and discarded. They were broken and in trying to put the pieces back together they realized they couldn’t quite do it right, society had stolen a couple of their most important pieces, and they wanted to take those pieces back from the ones who took it. So they banded together and they wanted things to change, they didn’t want to hurt people they merely wanted people to stop hurting them.

[not-so-mundane-after-all]

After watching the newest episode of “Timeless” I decided to catch up on history facts from the ep. While reading article about H.H. Holmes on Wikipedia, something caught my eye...

“ Holmes had a daughter with Myrta, Lucy Theodate Holmes, who was born on July 4, 1889, in Englewood, Illinois (as an adult, Lucy became a public schoolteacher).

......yeah...... did Lucy know about that one little detail?

[lacteaway]

I HAVE NO SELF CONTROL LET'S GO

made these brighter, cause they were way too dark. So, apparently he's holding the knife SHARP SIDE in his mouth.

The moments that made me go gulp and I MISSED THE QTES LIKE A DUMBASS... I want they have.................

And some Holmes cause........................................................................cause.......................................yeah......................

he looks so damn creepy.

[morbidblogmacabre]

See Good Mythical Morning’s Rhett and Link discuss the rise and fall of H.H. Holmes! I love this video. It’s short, sweet and to the point while being goofy. 

[sowingseedsandshootinghoops]

Living Together: Good and Evil in Chicago

Note on the text: I used Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City as published by Crown Publishers in 2003.

There is something slightly strange about the way in which everything and everyone lives together on this small planet of ours. The log cabin that is good for its “good” human inhabitants is also good for the “bad” termites that live in its walls. Good and evil, on this planet with limited space, live side by side. They have to. One of the more interesting aspects of this book is how well the city of Chicago stands in for the log cabin in the metaphor. Because while it was able to attract the best and most creative people of 1893, people who would help create “The World Fair of 1893″ (also called “The World’s Columbian Exposition”), it was also able to attract one of the worst: American serial killer H. H. Holmes. 

Before he was executed, H. H. Holmes famously said that he “was born with the devil in [him]. . . [and that he] could not help being a murderer [anymore] than a poet can help [having] the inspiration to sing” (109). There was something seedy about Chicago even amidst all the glitz and glamour. It wasn’t everyone’s first choice to host the World Fair, and even after it was chosen many people doubted that it would be a success. But somehow even those who were skeptical feel drawn to it, or at least to the challenge that it presented. Both the city and the Fair itself became the venue where artists and dreamers could come and share their hopes for the future with the world. It was at this Fair where America finally came up with a structure that they felt could rival the Eiffel Tower- the Ferris Wheel. The World’s Fair became a source of inspiration for people the world over. People like Nikola Tesla and Frank Hall, the man who invented the typewriter, were there debuting their new creations; writer L. Frank Baum and his illustrator modeled the land of Oz on what they saw there. One of the junior architects who helped design the venue later became an architect in his own right: Frank Lloyd Wright. Overall it can be said that “the fair had a powerful and lasting impact on the nation’s psyche” (373). However, while much of the impact it had was positive, not all of it was: 

That something magical had happened in that summer of the World’s Fair was beyond doubt, but darkness too had touched the fair. Scores of workers had been hurt or killed in [the process of] building [this] dream, their families consigned to poverty. Fire had killed fifteen more and an assassin had transformed the closing ceremony from what was supposed to have been the century’s greatest celebration into a vast funeral. . . . A murderer had moved among [all] the beautiful things [that everyone] had created (5-6).   

H. H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer, built the “Murder Hotel”, as it came to be known, right in the city itself, within walking distance of the fair. He was both amazed by the level of ingenuity that was on display there, and driven by the desire to “outsmart” all the people who were there, including the extra number of police that were there to help protect the people at the Fair. Underneath all their noses he was able to build a hotel with a series trap doors and fake hallways that sat above a crematorium where he would drop his victims and listen to them as they either suffocated or burned to death. All in all he killed nine people, including three children, before he was caught, over the course of three years. For comparison, Jack the Ripper, the first “modern” serial killer only killed five women over the course of one year. Even Ed Gein and the Zodiac Killer, two of America’s most infamous serial killers, only killed two and seven people respectively. Overall, Holmes’ level of success was such that afterwards everyone was “amazed at the failure of the municipal police department and the local prosecuting officers not only to prevent those awful crimes, but even to procure any knowledge of them” (370). Keep in mind that, according to the Fair’s own records, 27.5 million people came through the turnstiles. This accounted for almost 43% of the people living in America at the time. So the fact that no one noticed, that he was able to get away with it for so long, is pretty impressive. It’s also worth pointing out that the only reason Holmes was ever caught was because he committed fraud against the companies that insured his hotel (he had claimed initially that it was a commercial venture). It was not until after various investigations into his fraudulent behavior were well underway that the evidence of his murders came to light. 

Holmes has become something of a legendary figure. People still tell stories about him, and are weirdly inspired by him. Michael Swango, an American serial killer from the late 20th century, was inspired by Holmes who was a doctor himself. Yet, a lot of good things came out of that time period too. People the world over have enjoyed riding on Ferris wheels, have read the Wizard of Oz books, were inspired by the various types and levels of genius on display there. It goes back to the idea of good and evil living side by side; of the maggots and humans both being drawn towards the same house. It’s a small world we live in.