#Brennan Lee mulligan

[dylantidprssnt]

“Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?” --Brennan Lee Mulligan as Bud Cubby in Dimension 20 Fantasy High.

This quote lives rent-free in my head because it is true; Luigi Mangione's charges and "perp walk" clearly prove this.

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[starkju0]

Happy Holidays everyone! 👹🩸🎅

[rrat-king]

it's happened before it can happen again

[performing-personhood]

My therapist literally watched all of MisMag because of me.

I just kept going on about how crushingly fucking Perceived™️ I feel by Evan Kelmp and how this line specifically was a sniper shot through decades of trauma from an unseen upper-floor Parasocial Relationship window directly into my soft core self. (Sam's breakdown about how she interfaces with others and what her value is in the world deserves its own post, because that discussion about people pleasing was absolutely the dark horse existential crisis i didn't expect - another one of those careful "oh shit wtf i've been shot" type of soul-exposing mackerel-to-the-face moments.) She was like "I get it. It was incredible obviously but I'm so glad I did this because yeah, I get it" and then told me she wonders if it's ethical for her to require some of her clients to watch it too.

So thank you, Brennan, for Seeing me and the innumerated silent army of traumatized people like me. Thank you, Danielle, for your vulnerability about the personal horrors and tragedies of people-pleasing. And endless thank you to Aabriya for so lovingly crafting and nurturing the world in which these people could exist for us.

My therapist is also almost certainly on tumblr too and is in the fandom so there's a real chance imma out myself with this post, but she's the realest I know she'll be cool to pretend she didn't (hi girl sorry love ya, ill take this down if u want hmu)

why would you do this to me

[cottoncandybitchfuck]

Have I ever mentioned how important Brennan game changer episodes are to me?

[emiko-matsui]

ive said this before but if arthur aguefort isn't in your top 5 fantasy high characters i think you're watching the show wrong

[dylantidprssnt]

This scene literally made me cry because I have felt what Evan went through.

NO, because you don't get it!

Sam said "You are always welcome in my home," and Evan responded that he has a hard time understanding the subtext of those statements and when always actually means sometimes and that it's safer for him to assume it means never, and so Sam gave him a key and his own side of the bed and cooked a meal and told him she loved him and she kept him. For the first time in his life he really is always welcome.

[youarealwaysontime]

alert the misfits

[jadeinretrogrde]

when your dad is also the rich

[chungledown-bimothy]

so many of y'all have called me bimothy, and brennan's never referred to chungledown bim as just bimothy, so i genuinely thought for a second that he somehow meant me and had a full mcnulty "the fuck did i do?" moment.

i am Struggling this evening lol

[fandomfuhhhckery]

Finally finished MisMag 2 and....respectfully? Yall got me fucked up if you say this isn't a flawless season (and honestly setting etc. whatever we can the different iterations of d20).

Zero notes, fucking flawless, bye.

[crustacean-crush]

from d20’s fantasy high junior year 💜

[dropoutconfessions]

I have more of like a question/confession? I loved freshman year and sophomore year but im really struggling to get into junior year because it feels much more like high school stress stuff that ive just put behind myself personally and it was stressing me out again lol, does it get like less high school stressy?

later in the season yes, some of them make moves that drastically reduce their stressors

[rrat-king]

king of the quangle <333

[constantly-overthinking-it]

Bad food Zodiac puns for Brennan Lee Mulligan:

Taurus: Tandoor-ous

Gemini: Jelly-mini

Cancer: Can-Cereal

Leo: OrLeos

Virgo: Vanill-irgo

Libra: Li-Bratwurst

Scorpio: Scor-Pie

Sagittarius: Sago-ttarius

Capricorn: Capri-Sun-Corn

Aquarius: A-Quail eggs

Pisces: Spisces

Aries: A-Reeses