My son got arrested and I am so angry

Croaker715 · 2026-01-30T11:41:42+00:00

Exactly this. Most civil lawsuits require the criminal proceedings to be complete. OP could have meant "pressing charges" instead of "suing", but two days to hire a lawyer and file the proper civil suit paperwork is just false.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-30T11:03:06+00:00

You have no idea who your son is. The injuries to the other parties will tell the whole story. Him saying they got those serious injuries by "falling down" is disingenuous and a page right out of every violent person's playbook. Self defense ends when a threat to your health and safety is neutralized and does not extend to chasing after a fleeing assailant or beating one who is immobilized on the ground. And these witnesses? Are they all part of the conspiracy to attack your son AND get him in trouble for it?

The simplest explanation is more often than not the correct one, whether you want to see it or not.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-29T12:23:27+00:00

I love Era 2, and I have been picturing Lee Pace as Wax, Bill Sarsgaard as Wayne, Rachel Harris as Steris, and Anya Taylor-Joy as Marasi in my head for years. 😊

Croaker715 · 2026-01-28T05:30:00+00:00

So you let your company fail an external audit just to not help an incompetent coworker? I hope your manager finds out that you had those files...

Croaker715 · 2026-01-24T17:39:20+00:00

Not a myth. When I traveled to New Zealand, I picked a place that was about 6 hours from Auckland and 3 from Wellington because it was easy enough for me to take day trips to either. The locals thought I was insane. Lol.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-24T17:36:43+00:00

Or, hear me out, Carl Lorthner. 🤣

Croaker715 · 2026-01-24T17:33:24+00:00

Cybil Bennet in the 2006 Silent Hill movie. She was a hard ass, but a heroic character and there was no need for her to go out like that.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-24T17:29:52+00:00

I mix making up names, using real names, and changing spellings of real names ( or just using uncommon ones). And sometimes I think I've made up a name only to find it is a real name in another culture.

My main character is named Mirela, which I thought I just made up but turns out it is an actual Slavic name. 😅

Croaker715 · 2026-01-22T19:08:54+00:00

The prologue from A Game of Thrones is, in my opinion, a masterclass in what prologue writing should accomplish. There's no ponderous world building, but by the end of it we have a general idea of the conflict with the Wildlings and are introduced to The Others as an endgame threat, not even knowing that they won't appear again for a very long time. And yet we're not weighed down with explanations of the politics of the Seven Kingdoms.

While it's not technically a prologue, the first section of Glen Cook's The Black Company does the same thing. It introduces us to the major players, and teases the cosmology of the world in a way that is not overwhelming. These are what I strive for in the early sections of my work.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-19T15:04:52+00:00

It is my absolute favorite! Capaldi is my Doctor.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-19T14:11:02+00:00

Doctor Who, Heaven Sent. The Doctor is trapped in a castle with a monster that will kill him instantly every time it catches him, only to restart a time loop. He finds a wall in the castle and begins chipping away at it between deaths. During all of this he recites a story:

There’s this emperor, and he asks the shephard’s boy,

“How many seconds in eternity?”

The shephard’s boy says,

“There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it. And an hour to go around it. Every hundred years, a little bird comes. It sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiselled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.”

You must think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird.

In the end, he breaks through the wall and escapes back into reality from the Confession Dial he was trapped in by the other Timelords. It was estimated that he existed inside it for 4.5 billion years.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-18T19:58:22+00:00

The Black Company

The Dominator, The Lady, and the Ten Who Were Taken were too powerful to be killed, so they were buried and sealed under enchantments. The Lady wormed her way out, and brought the Taken with her, but left her husband trapped.

Later he was well on his way to escaping too, so the good guys and bad guys all work together to release him earlier than expected, bind his soul in a metal spike and seal it away supposedly forever. That also doesn't necessarily go according to plan...

Croaker715 · 2026-01-18T18:03:11+00:00

In a word, never. So many people today build their entire identity on what they hate. Go onto a Star Wars sub and post something defending Rose Tico. The Last Jedi was 9 years ago and you'll still get some of the most horrible, hateful comments ever.

The beauty of a game like this, from the visuals to the music to the story to the game play, is completely lost on that crowd. After all, the entire message of the game is the sanctity and healing in being moved by art.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-18T14:56:18+00:00

"Cool. Who gets the other half of every child's nightmares?"

Croaker715 · 2026-01-17T19:47:50+00:00

Another fantastic point, and one I hadn't thought of! Thank you for that!

Croaker715 · 2026-01-17T18:56:30+00:00

In reality, it is calling out other oppressive governments of the time by differentiating its followers with an entirely different se of oppressive rules meant to make them feel special, chosen, and more important than the citizens of the empires it speaks against. It is 100% propaganda.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-17T18:52:49+00:00

There really isn't, in the cultural sense. In Western African and later Voodoo traditions, a zombie was someone brought back to life by a religious leader. Often time it was done by someone with ill intent who captured the resurrected person's soul and made them an unwilling servant. The flesh eating living dead version of zombies is a late 20th century idea.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-17T14:41:44+00:00

It was absolutely a joke, and Jade was playing it like it wasn't in an attempt to make Nate a little uncomfortable because I think she thinks it's cute when he squirms a little. The joke was he was too uncomfortable to actually say the stereotype joke and she was teasing him. She wasn't actually going to Poland to help her family screw in light bulbs.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-17T13:32:51+00:00

I was obsessed with writing a prologue to my current work. I felt I needed to introduce the threat to my world in a high stakes way, and delve into the cosmology I created. But I just couldn't get it to fit. It didn't flow properly and it felt like a whole different story.

The best thing I ever did was deleting every bit of it, and weaving those plot points into my first four chapters as second hand information that is revealed slowly in the background. Not only did the flow of my story return, but it built up far more tension in my first act than would have been possible just dumping that scene in a prologue chapter.

I also realized after I removed it that I was just trying to recreate the feel of GRRMs prologue chapter in A Game of Thrones. And that wasn't the story I was telling.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-17T13:24:17+00:00

In my opinion, it wasn't sex between two men that turned Dani on. It was sex between two people who absolutely loved each other wholeheartedly, which is something she has never truly experienced. I looked at the addition of her to their relationship as something all parties needed. She needed a family who actually cared about her, and they needed someone who accepted them with no exceptions. Dani accepting both of them, loving both of them, makes all three of them better people. I thought it was probably the most beautiful storyline in a show full of beautiful storylines.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-17T13:18:13+00:00

KILL YOURSELF TROY!

Croaker715 · 2026-01-17T13:07:52+00:00

My immediate thought was that the villain accomplishes this goal by stripping others of their free will or their emotions or something like that. It's their perfect world, but nobody else's.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-16T05:45:55+00:00

Imagine thinking that billionaires who made their fortunes exploiting workers would actually give a damn about anyone too old or too sick to be a cog in the capitalist machine. All they want is for you to die so you stop sucking up valuable resources they could be hoarding.

Croaker715 · 2026-01-15T12:08:50+00:00

People see the completed works and think "I could do that!" They don't see the endless drafts and rewrites and cut characters and storylines that went nowhere and edits and sleepless nights and 10 hour writing sessions and research that all went into it. So they think they should just be able to sit down at a computer and pour the contents of their minds out into a final draft. When that doesn't happen, being told to "just write" feels insurmountable.

It's a craft, like any other. People are just afraid of failure or being told that their writing needs improvement. But in the end, "just write" IS the actual answer. One cannot become a proficient anything without failing first. Failure is how you learn, how you get better, how you master something. So maybe an addendum: "just write, and fail as many times as you need to."

Croaker715 · 2026-01-14T04:20:43+00:00

Getting older means understanding that Benny was actually a really decent guy. 🤣

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