#dpos

I would like to point out the massive amount of effort and work from disabled people, including those of us with massive energy limitations due to our health, that have already gone into this.

Imagine a government who was actually willing to engage with this intense willingness to design a less cruel system?

It wouldn't be the point, but I can only imagine it would likely cost less than the huge amount they currently spend on torturing disabled people via the benefits system. It might actually mean more of us being in a position to pay income taxes, even, were they willing to incentivise employers to employ disabled people, penalise those who don't, and/or create flexible wfh jobs as multiple DPOs have suggested.

Labour's issue, like that of other right-wing parties, is not with spending money. It is with spending money to fulfil the needs of poor and marginalised people rather than the interests, including corporate interests, of the wealthy.

His Toyhouse: (Will be updated) https://toyhou.se/12785488.spencer

So here is Spencer, I updated his design a bit so it suits him a little bit more. I never talked about him that much? I kinda had this whole lore for him established already but never got to post about it since I was insecure at the time.

So let me talk about him as a character in my AU. Spencer is the son of Silver king and would count as a silver A4 but when he was born he was stripped of those powers as Silver king never thought that Spencer would make it through those experiments.

But in a faithful night, Silver king proceeded to those experiments and would inject Spencer with the ancient ability of shapeshifting which was frowned upon in the Andromeda as it belonged to the dainty of deception, who used these powers to bring pain and sorrow over the Andromeda in it's first few decades.

However Silver king was obsessed with the idea of this power and he wanted to see what it would bring the A4's but little did he know that no weak soul can carry those powers and in the end he had Spencer obtain them...But Spencer was very unstable and at the time too young to understand what these were so he ended up shifting into different shapes and he couldn't help it.

CW // Mentions of Trauma?

Only with time, Spencer understood them, but how did he end up at the DPOS if he was the son of Silver king? Well, Silver king brought him there and told Gordon that Spencer was very special and that he needed a good place to stay at, despite never coming back for a long time as Silver king was ashamed of his actions!

Spencer as unstable he was already, had to endure the entrance trial that every new member had to do and it all went quite horrible as Spencer at the time was scared of being submerged into any liquid as it reminded him of this experiment over and over again. He couldn't also sleep properly as he always wanted to be with his father back on earth.

// CW End //

Spencer was scared of the new engines around him, however, with time he got the wrong people around him who would validate and reassure him that everyone else was the problem and that he was very special, he should never be afraid of becoming egotistic when anyone else is trying to exploit him.

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The meeting is long and boring. This can be seen from the fact that by the time Eleanora is elaborating on her 3rd point on her newest policy, even Lemony, who normally has lots of objections to voice, is not mustering up energy for that and instead focused on reading the script of Beatrice's upcoming play instead. Geraldine is doodling a picture of Esme on her notebook, Jacques notices, which is - surprisingly good, he thinks. Good as in accurate, that is. He finds the portrayal of the outlandish dress that makes Esme look ridiculously very accurately portrayed by the fact that the drawing-Esme looks ridiculous. It couldn't have been more accurate.

R is reading the same script as Lemony, and the two have been passing notes to each other back and forth. Jacques himself spent some time finishing up his latest VFD report, but now he hasn't brought a second thing to do, which he thinks is really a mistake. Bored, he starts flipping through the text messages on his phone.

Pausing on the name Hottest Hotel Manager, he hesitates only for a brief moment.

J: want to eat you out like a midnight snack

the reply comes very fast

F: not before you get rid of that horrendous mustache

Jacques Snicket stares at his phone for a few moments in utter disbelief.

"You look appalled," R murmurs, beside him. "What's wrong?"

All the News in Fits of Print [geraldine & moxie]

In which Moxie reads an article she finds suspicious, learns unexpected and upsetting things about Geraldine Julienne, and dines-and-dashes at a very In restaurant.

every cloud [jacques & lemony]

the snicket brothers (supposedly) at work.

puppeteer [esme/geraldine] (rating: M)

geraldine isn't really the kind of woman who would lock her editor in the basement. or, at least, not without some convincing.

Foolish Girl [geraldine/eleanora] (rating: M)

After a night meeting with Geraldine Julienne and some bottles of wine, Eleanora Poe finds herself in an unfamiliar place.

Off the Record [esme/geraldine] (rating: E)

"Cheap champagne," muses Esmé as Geraldine babbles. "She's like cheap champagne with a fancy-looking label, and it’s much too sweet and much too bubbly, but it gets you just drunk enough to forget how much you’re going to hate yourself in the morning."

bonus:

lemony vs geraldine

geraldine vs snicket brothers are truly so funny. J and G will write articles that are just stating opposite things. meanwhile L will say "despite geraldine's article saying this thing i have reason to believe that the opposite is true".

but actually it would be inaccurate to say what G says is the exact opposite of what the snicket brothers are saying. in fact when snicket brothers say something like 'XXXX', geraldine doesn't say 'XXXX is not true'. what she actually says is 'XXXX is not true, says the official fire department'. in both such cases she was quoting the official fire department. which means that it's actually the official fire department whose statement is the opposite of the snicket brothers. that is, if geraldine julienne is to be believed. which admittedly could be a big if.

is geraldine ofd's mouthpiece, is she on their payroll in some way? is she just dutifully reporting what she heard? did ofd actually say that? or is her job instruction simply to write article saying ofd said something if her colleague jacques snicket just wrote something that's the exact opposite?