King of the Forest

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I believe his name is Mistranslated and this is my post for why and what it may actually be

EXTREMELY Long explanation about Arabic and our new characters name under the cut (disclaimer the Arabic dialects I’m familiar with is the Quranic one, the Levantine one, and the Egyptian one, as those are the dialects I’ve learned growing up)

A brief summary of events, from someone who pays attention and also lives here, best taken with a grain of salt and some fact checking:

2020: George Floyd is murdered by Minneapolis police. There are weeks of protests about it. It makes national news. Protests happen in DC. The infamous Trump and his bible photo shoot happens.

2024: Gov. Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate in the presidential election. He starts the "they're just weird" thing. Is folksy, Trump personally hates him.

November 2025: ICE starts showing up to "crack down" on "illegal immigrants" in our Somali community. I may remember the numbers wrong, but something like 90% of our Somali neighbors are either naturalized or were born here. People distribute ICE whistles and are on high alert. Localized to the twin cities.

December 2025: Nick Shirley is paid by a bunch of MN Republicans to do an exposé on daycare fraud. I didn't hear much about this. All I really know is this was an ongoing investigation that MN officials were already taking care of and some of the guilty parties have already gone to court from a COVID era food assistance program. Mostly, if not all, legal US citizens. He did a really bad job at doing journalism and just showed up to day cares with a camera crew and went "YUP nobody's here" as if they weren't in lock-down procedure because some fuck ass white men showed up with camera equipment that could easily be mistaken for guns. I believe. I will fact check all of this and will correct myself in a reblog if necessary. (source but not all the details that I remember hearing about but they said there was no recorded evidence of fraud)

Conservative internet explodes. Kristi Noem sends a mess of agents. I know it's more than a thousand more. They call it Operation Metro Surge. They are going everywhere. There are protests. People try to interrupt the arrests. It's a lot.

1/7/2026: Renee Nicole Good is shot by an ICE agent in the middle of a protest. A few blocks away from where George Floyd was killed. Broad daylight. In front of a crowd. While she was following instructions to turn her vehicle around. Jonathan Ross, the piece of shit Nazi who did it, was recording on his phone the whole time, switched his phone to his non dominant hand so he could more effectively shoot her in the face from 2 feet away. Claims self defense, several angles immediately disprove him. He releases his video, he calls her a "fucking bitch" as her corpse drives away. Does not help him at all. (source) He has not been seen since. Some photos/reports exist of a bunch of agents showing up to his house and taking some tubs and art away. His wife is an immigrant. (source but it's the daily mail so grain of salt.)

Not hours later they go raid a school and tear gas a bunch of kids. (source). Minneapolis has switched to distance learning. I'm not sure about St. Paul.

The last week: There are up to 3,000 ICE agents here. Keep in mind Minneapolis and St. Paul only have 600 or fewer police officers each. So these dudes are roaming in packs. It's 2-4 dudes to a car and 2-5 cars per pack. People are "commuting with" ICE agents to honk and alert people that they're there. People are going on patrols with their neighbors.

ICE is no longer asking "are you a citizen." They are simply walking up to you and taking you into custody. They are going door to door. They have started just breaking the door down if you don't comply. They are driving recklessly to just grab pedestrians and drivers alike (source). People are afraid to go get groceries. It's all over the state. I am learning names of cities in places I thought were just factory farm land and I've lived here my whole life because they're doing raids there. I had to text my family in the suburbs because I saw reports of my small little hometown an hour away getting door knocks today.

It's insane and I am not doing it justice. There are thousands of masked federal agents roaming around all of Minnesota with no warrant or specific goal. They are just trolling around looking for people. They are detaining anyone and everyone. They are beating people. They are pepper spraying people. They are kidnapping people. They are acting unconstitutionally, aggressively, and unpredictably. They are creating situations that are dangerous so that they can try to justify beating or shooting their way out. I will run an errand and then get fed a tiktok that was shot from the Cub Foods that I just left and there's 20+ ICE vehicles parked there now. They're taking people from work, from day care, from schools, from shopping centers.

Iceout.org tracks ice sightings. This is a screen shot with the date set to 12/1/2025.

And from today.

They have cut off SNAP and WIC benefits. Just for us. Not any other state, just Minnesota. They're saying it's because of fraud but I think it's because they hate that we use federal funds to give free breakfast and lunch to every public school student.

And this is breaking just now, 1/13/2026: the DOJ is trying to investigate Renee Good's widow. 4 people have resigned about it. (source). I don't even want to read the article to see what they're saying.

So that's a brief history.

Unicorn Riot is doing a lot of good reporting and they don't seem to have the spin that a lot of local news stations will have where they downplay everything. This article specifically goes into a lot of the specific instances of brutality.

It's also a rumor on TikTok that all of the videos of ICE and protests and the such and the like are being geo locked. So my feed is all footage of people being detained and talking about the "commuting" they're doing and what they're seeing but people outside of the state are not seeing it. So if you're also on that infernal app, try searching for Minneapolis or Minnesota and see what you see. I'm kind of curious if this is true. Because I've been living and breathing ICE and doomsday prepping content for a week. I'm sure those two topics aren't connected.

I don't really know what my goal with this post is. I'm tired. I'm in the first ring of suburbs, so it's been pretty quiet. But I have friends in south Minneapolis. And I'm worried for them. And I know it's a matter of time before my quiet pocket is affected. Because they're coming door to door.

St Paul has gone to partial virtual learning for anyone who doesn't feel safe sending their kids to school.

Every school I know now has safety patrols.

The school districts are not mincing words about the clear and present threat. Everyone in the area is completely clear that we are under violent occupation.

Most of the white people ICE grab, are released within days, because ICE can't even keep track of who was grabbed by who over what. However, they are still subjected to beatings, gassing, having their home and car windows smashes, etc.

Local police are advising compliance with the blatant human rights violations and total lack of due process, because they are cowards.

Even conservative Minnesotans are balking at the total lack of due process and open violence against unresisting people for doing things like taking videos. I know a guy who was in his house recording ICE, and they smashed his home window, dragged him out over the broken glass, beat him while screaming slurs, smashed his phone, and detained for three days.

We need your help to spread the truth about what is going on. Find the videos and share them on any platform you have. Make noise about what's happening. Get your "don't tread on me" relatives whipped up about it if you can.

We need republicans to be afraid, otherwise ICE plans to be here for half a year attacking us.

spent the last few days making a twst login tracker for fun and thought i'd share! feel free to use it as long as you credit me! (stickers are for tracker use only, please do not use them anywhere else)

Download here: [Link]

Update 2025.12.01: Items added! Now you can track what they brought & put a hat on the birthday boy if it's their month too (inspired by one of my followers who doodled items on their tracker)

Update 2025.12.02: Now with shrimp

Update 2025.12.05: More shrimp variants added

Update 2025.12.11: Added missing items honey (s) and keys (10)

🦈~Bind The Heart~🦈

Over the moon (and under the sea) to be the EN voice of Floyd Leech in Twisted Wonderland The Animation! 💙

I adore this eel boy to bits, and I cannot thank NYAV Post and Aniplex of USA enough for having me!

I want to make clear this could not have happened without Brittany Lauda. There is no one who knows TWST like Britt. Ball is life. So when I say she BUILT the Floyd/Kellen train... She supported me pursuing him long before thr opportunity came. She's got the crown there.

And she's been there encouraging me every step of the way. Britt helped me craft my take on Floyd before we knew there was going to even be an audition. She's been there for me through self consciousness. She directed the first dang session.

And I feel so much calmer when Britt is directing me. She knows me WAY too well, and that gets the best stuff out of me. Recording Floyd was SASAKI-level fun, and I accredit that to her. And I'm not the only one. To many of us, Britt is the heart and soul of this project.

Britt, thank you so much for pouring your being into TWST, and sharing that with us. For all the dissertations, the gushing. If we loved it before, we love it even more now because of you. I dedicate every performance I have as Floyd from now on to you. Love you, sis. 💙

I really wanted to do my due diligence for Floyd, because I recognize how special these shoes are to fill. I've read the fan posts, scoured the web, and made sure to do my best to incorporate what you love most about the skrunkly, while honoring Okomoto-san's iconic performance!!

I truly hope what we’ve come up with captures the chaos, and squeezes a smile out of all shrimpies in the Floyd and TWST fandoms! 💙 Can’t wait to see where we get to take him next! Ehehehe~

please do not bash or send hate to anyone who got newly introduced to the fandom because of the anime just because they "interpretated a character wrong" or "couldn't read past the surface level characterizations" or "haven't known the character for as long as other fans have".

everyone has to go through their own journey to develop their opinions and interpretations of the characters' stories. just because they're only starting now doesn't make them any less of a fan. that's part of the fun of twst! give them the chance to learn about the characters naturally or, better yet, encourage their excitement by sharing cool tidbits about the characters they like or the worldbuilding!

and if you don't feel like or get uncomfortable seeing people interpreting a character differently from you? that's also perfectly fine and normal!

but please, for the love of god, do NOT harrass or put anyone down for "mischaracterizing" your faves. noone is (or should be) forcing you to enjoy your media the way you don't want. you are not entitled to anyone's opinions or headcanons. block, mute and move on.

is it probably upsetting to see someone misunderstand a character? yes! is it wrong to hate a popular headcanon/common misconception/stereotype? absolutely not! but that does not warrant a hate campaign, nor is it a reason to make a post hating on that opinion. being told "how to interact with media" is a one-way stop to making the fandom (and possibly, the media itself) not fun to interact with anymore.

it discourages new fans from participating in fandom activity. and that's fun for nobody! we're depriving ourselves from the works that new artists/fanfic writers/creatives can contribute to fuel our love for our favourite game! and new fans won't be able to enjoy twst and its lovable characters to the fullest! if someone's take isn't for you, that's fine. but let's not yuck anyone's yum, alright? let's make the twst community a fun place for everyone!

talking excitedly and discussing different viewpoints with other fans that have opinions opposite to yours is MUCH more fun than fighting and dissing people about it because you both think a character "SHOULD" be this way.