#DARE program

[imthefailedartist]

This show dumb as hell, but I love every second of it.

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

Pt I wash it down but i've never watched it... and neither have you.

Well, hello there, remember when you guys tried to explain Goncharov to me and I said I wanted to create a fake movie/show? Have it, beautiful maggots. Wash It Down the TV show, mostly accurately explained. Kind of. You know me by now.

Everything is a metaphor, except for the things that are subtext.

The rich blonde girl Carla turns into a deranged psychopath, but in a way that is vaguely inspiring. In the year of our lord and damner 2024, any kind of character development is vaguely inspiring. Especially when it's done by Saoirse Ronan.

Purple hearts this RWRB that, you guys are SLEEPING on Nicholas Galitzine's role in Wash It Down. Which is mostly being disappointingly straight, until he isn't, and inspiringly revolutionary, until he isn't. Dan is honestly just a whole neurotic mess, and we at tumblr do love us a good neurotic mess.

It's a tale as old as time, really. Girl meets boy, girl falls for boy, girl meets girl, boy betrays girl, girl falls for girl, boy falls for girl. Just your average love story.

American cops being shits, just another day on planet earth. The DARE program failing miserably, just another day on planet earth.

Yasmin Finney the gorgeous as Talitha, who is very gay, very angry, and disturbingly obsessed with making paper dolls. Which I'm sure will not come into play later in the s--nvm it's another metaphor for the paper-thin veneer of civilised society in a world on fire with rage.

There is a lot of alcohol. Mostly wine. White wine. Which isn't significant, until it is because it is now also a metaphor.

Inappropriately timed renditions of the Mary Poppins 1964 soundtrack, that are guaranteed to slowly ruin your childhood until the word sugar inspires the inner arsonist in all of us.

First-Twilight-movie-levels of intense blue saturation of, well, everything. It's for the metaphor, guys, I'm sure the filmmakers knew what they were doing.

Carla and Dan are absolute OTP, until they aren't, and Carla and Talitha are absolute OTP, until Carla pulls a gun on Talitha and sings a lullaby to her. I am no longer sure the filmmakers knew what they were doing.

The world is Bad Bad Very Bad. Which I'm sure none of us can relate to.

Love is complicated and unstable, but like, in a shippy way. Mostly.

An oddly specific ring of imagery that becomes so convoluted that it starts to parody itself until the show is a metaphor for the show itself and even Christopher Nolan is raising his glass in reluctant admiration.

Senseless cliffhangers that are an interesting directing choice for sure. Bold, but interesting.

More Mary Poppins. Your childhood is entirely ruined. You become an arsonist.

The paper dolls catch fire. You are now part of the metaphor.

Very cute romance with a lot of attempted murder and societal rebellion thrown in. Hallmark is shaking.

Accurate? Who knows. Not you. Not me. Not anyone... yet.

@queermarzipan @madfangirlontheloose tagged for no suspicious reason.

[melinoelabs]

Public Service Announcement: If the Goo's Alight, It's Not Alright!

Since this continues to be an ongoing problem, we did what all reputable scientists do: we glanced at our WWHD* bracelets, looked back at how we staved off handled this issue in the 1980s, then broke for lunch.

So get ready for your sense-memory of that weird pea-and-salisbury-steak aroma to come flooding back, because we found an old copy of our PSA from the S.W.E.L.L. program! So get your puffy vest, don your giant hair, and remember...

If the Goo's alight, it's not alright!

Lyrics under the fold

*What Would Hasbro Do? **Scientific Waste Evasion Literacy Lessons

Stay away from the glow it's a wicked sight, Kids and teens Listen up Be smart and stay clear Glowing ooze ain't a drink It's something to fear Don't let curiosity bring you near

Don't want that goo in a drink, it's something to fear Don't let curiosity bring you near

Don't drink the goo It's not that cool 9 outta ten it'll make a monster outta you gettin' powers isn't realistic don't be another mutation statistic If the goo's alight It's not alright, If the goo's alight It's not alright,

9 out of 10 (it's not alright)

If the goo's alight, it's not alright (it's not alright)

It's not alright. It's not alright. It's not alright. It's not alright.

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Song made with Suno.AI, lyrics by S. Trent Troop.

[betterbooktitles]

The moment I got to work Tuesday — 7 minutes late clocking in. Thank you, app that alerts me every time — I saw an email from my father asking cryptically to call him about “medications.” When my parents ask me to call them via email or text at my earliest convenience, it either means it’s a holiday or someone died. Otherwise, they’d call outright or text. It’s the preamble that scares me.

My body tensed up, less like an adrenal surge and more a mild dread. Like when you check your work email after a long vacation and see your day get more arduous with the appearance of each bold subject line. My day was about to get a little more stressful. I stood in the box-cluttered backroom of the bookstore and stared at the wall where an event poster featuring Ginger Spice smiled back offering me warm consolation. The ringer buzzed a few times through my AirPods, and I heard my dad’s voice, sounding a little drained himself. He was on his last round of radiation for now. I thought of his most recent visit to New York with my mom. I drove them to see my stand-up show, and my dad had brought the wrong dosage of morphine for the car ride into the city. To ease the discomfort, he paced up and down the block in Brooklyn, taking deep breaths. I thought of the times I had seen him after chemo when he could only stay awake in the living room with us for 45 minutes at a time. I thought of my mom’s emails, packed with details about treatments and doctor’s appointments, updates that included the disclaimer you don’t have to read this right now.

“Hey, I just got to work, what’s up?” I said, watching my friend Claire wave a hand to let me know I could take my time with a personal call three minutes into my shift. As our mutual friend Hannah told us, there’s no such thing as a book emergency. This call was more important.

“Oh, I don’t mean to bother you at work.” He said.

“It’s fine, nothing’s happening at the moment.”

“I was calling because I did not want to write ‘marijuana’ over text.”

My dad was calling me to get edibles.

Read the rest here

[doomsday-apparatus]

Fanfiction is better than drugs

[blujaishah]

I think PINK out might be specific to my school but it's basically a huge fair/football game where everyone wears pink and all the guys wear skirts and bows and it's all a fundraiser for breast cancer aid

And DARE i'm pretty sure all American high schools have but if you aren't in America it stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education and they make super silly plays that are supposed to teach kids not to do drugs

[spongepost-squareblog]

Shameless self-promo. Check out if you’re interested. Thanks! A video essay for any of you DARE graduates out there.

[nothisisalexvr]

The War on DRUGS and the DARE program.

[bonedaddi3]

get high on horror AND drugs

[puzzled-pegasus]

the D.A.R.E. program didn't keep us away from drugs but man it sure made us into furries

[imthefailedartist]

We're 30 years old, why are you trying to peer pressure or bully me with drinking and smoking?

I get it. You're cool, I'm not. There, I said it now will you please leave me the fuck alone!

The joke was funny one time when we were all minors. Now it's just making me think y'all have dependency issues and mad I don't.

It's like they watched those Anti-substance abuse videos and seminars in D.A.R.E class and thought that guy asking little Bobby to drink repeatedly was the hero.

[lasvegastrillgod]

Friendly reminder

[thebiballerina]

That is not even "lying hypocrite" territory; that is just the average effectiveness of the DARE program.

(Are people unironically using "DARE" as an antonym for stoner? I don't have any stake in this particular debate, but I have to ask, because your DARE Robin could do drugs gleefully and I wouldn't even register that as odd. I'd find it weirder if he was regularly drinking alcohol.)

Also, the other things DARE addressed besides (illicit) substance use were gang membership, violent behavior, and other "associated" petty crimes among teens. Maybe you've already failed DARE if your main extracurricular is partaking in an underground operation that engages in extralegal violence in response to your city's problems. Just saying.

tim: sweet dog you got there. gordon: yes, this is our new drug-sniffing dog. tim: still training huh? gordon: red robin.. what do you mean? tim: ... tim: nevermind...

[binarybitex]

"D.A.R.E. is an education program that tries to prevent use of controlled drugs, membership in gangs, and violent behavior."

[zsaaaaszhoney]

It's crazy how something that actually has nothing to do with you can still affect you so much.

In 5th grade when I was 11 years old our D.A.R.E. officer made us watch a documentary about Columbine and I legit had nightmares over it.

I am now 28 years old working in an office and my coworker casually mentioned it on the phone and now I'm in the bathroom sick to my stomach and shaking because of how fucking traumatizing that documentary was.