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@ninjageko43

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I upload art, WIPs and finished work. Join me as I work my way through the complications of Larp and the shit ton of prop-making that I do.
They/them pronouns only plz
My art blog is @NinjArtGeko43
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the outlaw’s stolen food from the harvest, taken residence in your barn, and spooked all the farm animals from their pens. one harvest moon, you decide you’ve had enough. you catch him red handed.

…or does he catch you?

details under the cut

I your cold, he’ cold! BRING HIM INSIDE! @mail-me-a-snail The stranger had knocked my husband to the ground. Damn fool had wandered out there with his shot gun, fixin’ to take care of the stranger that had set up shop in our barn. He wasn’t from around these parts… Came from far away, I suppose. Still I wandered out in my night dress, bare foot like a young maiden in spring, and I went over hands on my hips. In the light of the deep October moon, I hollered just like my momma and said. “Hey boy you quit your screwing about.” I said. “If you leave my poor Husband be, I’ll let you come sleep in the house. No use being stuck in that stuffy barn. Plus your scaring our animals.” I stood and waited for the stranger to reply, with all his creepy red eyes. I’d seen worse in my day. “Oh come here.” I finally growled and took the man’s arm and led him toward the house, my husband hollering after me. Getting in I shut the screen door. “There see?” I said in a huff. “Much better. The guest room is just through there, now quit your silly devil madness and leave our animals be. I’ll be up to fix you breakfast in the morning.” I brought him inside.

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ninjageko43

Omg this is so cute.

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I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

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One of the most important things I learned in my Language and the Law class is that law enforcement will intentionally misinterpret every type of statement asking for a lawyer as not asking for a lawyer. Even directly saying it like this “I will not speak to you without a lawyer” can be taken as a simple statement of fact rather than a request for a lawyer. You literally have to state “I am now invoking my right to a lawyer” and every time they try to proceed with an interrogation you have to answer every question with “I am invoking my right to have a lawyer present”. You can’t just tell them you won’t talk without a lawyer or that you want a lawyer. You have to state that you are invoking your rights. Otherwise they could just say “well they just said they wouldn’t speak without a lawyer present. That’s not invoking their rights to a lawyer. It’s just stating a fact.” even just stating your right to a lawyer doesn’t count!

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PLEASE share this addition. I am a lawyer who works in criminal defense, and this is one of the most avoidable things that people consistently get wrong about the Miranda rights.

Here are some more “ambiguous” phrases which courts have found DO NOT invoke your right to a lawyer:

“Maybe I should speak to my lawyer first.”

“I might like a lawyer.”

“I think I should have a lawyer present for this.”

“Could I speak to my lawyer first?”

“How long until my lawyer gets here?”

And perhaps most egregiously – “Get me a lawyer, dawg – ‘cause this is not what’s up.”

Here are the magic phrases which you need to know if you want to invoke your Miranda rights:

1) “Am I free to leave?”

It’s worth asking this even if the answer is obvious. Even if the officer does not let you leave, by forcing them to admit that you are not free to leave, you are creating a record which your attorney can use to prove that you were in custody. Miranda rights only apply if the interrogation is custodial, meaning that police officers will frequently claim that their suspects were “not in custody” to get around their Miranda rights.

2) “I am invoking my right to remain silent.”

Simply staying silent will not invoke your right to remain silent. As absurd as this is, you must explicitly say that you are invoking your right to remain silent in order to invoke that right.

3) “I am invoking my right to an attorney.”

As stated above, you must be not only clear and unambiguous, but clear and legally unambiguous. Don’t get cute. Don’t get sassy. And on the flip side, don’t get intimidated and use verbal ticks to minimize your request. Say the line with those words exactly – say it clearly, and say it once, and then say nothing else.

Because even after you’ve done all this, the police can still try to get you to talk. They’re not supposed to interrogate you, but they’re allowed to make casual conversation, and if that conversation just happens to circle back around to the thing they wanted to question you about, well, that’s really your fault for talking after you said you wouldn’t, isn’t it? Can’t possibly fault the poor officers when you initiated – if you really wanted to have your rights respected, you wouldn’t have talked to them in the first place.

The police know this, and they will mercilessly exploit this loophole. So, once you’ve successfully invoked your Miranda rights, any and all conversation you have with police officers will put those rights back into jeopardy. 

Putting it all together:

Ask: “Am I free to leave?”

If they say no, say: “I am invoking my right to remain silent and I am invoking my right to an attorney.”

And then shut up and do not say a single thing to them for any reason whatsoever until you have actually spoken to an attorney. Yes, even if it takes hours. Yes, even if they start talking to you about something else.

Finally, a very important disclaimer:

I may be a lawyer, but I’m not your lawyer, and I cannot guarantee that what I’ve just laid out here will always work for every situation. We didn’t get to this bizarre and absurd place overnight – we built this ridiculous system piecemeal, by deciding on a case-by-case basis that certain phrases were “too ambiguous” or certain types of questioning weren’t actually questioning at all. The law is still in flux, and is still fundamentally out to get you, and willing to bend plain meaning beyond all recognition to do it. Even if you invoke your rights perfectly, exactly as I have specified above, there’s a chance that your invocation of rights will be disqualified on some new technicality that no one’s even thought of yet – and that’s precisely the problem.

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lemonsharks

Watch this video: “Don’t Talk To The Police”

I am begging my followers to please watch this video from start to finish. I know it’s long, but it is incredibly valuable information that everyone needs to know, especially if you’re involved in any form of activism.

Every single cop lies. Every single cop lies and manipulates and twists the situation around to get a confession. Even when they know that the person is innocent, even when they know that what they have isn’t enough to convict someone, even when they know that that confession has been made under duress or manipulation. All they care about is getting anything to put someone behind bars.

It doesn’t matter how eloquent or innocent or experienced you are. Do not talk to cops.

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pendejavibes

The video is a doozy. Aside from all the good advice, the racist dog whistling from the officer really jumps out. In fact, his whole segment was pretty effective to drive home the point that officers are literally trained to manipulate you and fuck you over. He does say he doesn’t “try” to put innocent people in prison, but he never says he tries to keep them out either. He also explicitly states that he destroys material that could be helpful to you.

In short, DO NOT TALK TO COPS.

hey y’all please please please read this and watch the video and do research if you can, this is really scary /srs

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ninjageko43

My work got featured in the advertisements for Oz Comic-Con 2022!!

I made the Oogie Boogie (Nightmare Befor Christmas) cosplay for a friend

It’s the first cosplay I’ve ever made (I usually stick to making larp gear) so I’m super stoked that it was picked out of the possible 100’s of options they had to choose from

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My work got featured in the advertisements for Oz Comic-Con 2022!!

I made the Oogie Boogie (Nightmare Befor Christmas) cosplay for a friend

It’s the first cosplay I’ve ever made (I usually stick to making larp gear) so I’m super stoked that it was picked out of the possible 100’s of options they had to choose from

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Forgive me.

only if you forgive me

His world now

HEY YOU

YOURE FINALLY AWAKE

Oh sweet Jesus.

i am so sorry for this

Where the FUCK is he?

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zombie-renji

If I had to see this, everyone who follows me has to too.

now THIS is why i refuse to leave tumblr. this horrible, beautiful, genius, fuckass shit

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dorianeinar

this....this is pure. fucking. gold. *applauds*

And this is why I love it here

thank u.........

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post-store

$103.99

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ninjageko43

Another DnD character from my current campaign. Zheir name is Nug but they also go by Delft or Arita. Ze uses any pronouns so long as the first letter is replaced with “z”

Zhey’re the child of an archfae and a tifling but I used the changling mechanics for their race. Zhey’re currently chilling in the underdark pretending to be someone else who our party rouge has ties to, personally I can’t wait to see what happens when zhey get found out.

Zhey have a pet mimic who usually pretends to be a hat or belt and I love the two of them both so much

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ninjageko43

Went through my sketch book to colour some things.

This is my DnD character for my next campaign. She’s a storm/cloud giant moose centaur, all up she’s about 13ft tall. She was raised in the hells (after her father traded his firstborn for power) and use to serve in the blood wars as a oath of conquest paladin/storm herald barbarian under Zariel’s guidance. Recently while defending a cult from an adventuring party whose cleric used their last words to try dissuade her from the path of darkness she became an oath breaker.

If you look closely you can see lightning in her hair

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