#I'm watching brooklyn 99

[prettyypenguin]

In the mood to ride the strap of someone with a dark personality and being called a pretty girl by them

[viivdle]

sleeping well tonight knowing there's a new girl x b99 crossover

[fallenangelsrollthedice]

If you're not reading multiple books and watching multiple TV shows at once are you even having a summer?

[hemipenal-system]

i was gonna make a post about like "i wish there was more representation for human/canine hybrid creatures and monsters who aren't based in either like golden retrievers or wolves" and was gonna use belgian malinois as an example, right?

so like standoffish, super aggressive to most people, really likes you but is subtle and also scary as shit about it, slender and insanely athletic, solves every problem with violence?

and then somewhere in there it hit me

that is just detective rosa diaz

[kiraxo]

I've seen Brooklyn 99 a total of 12 times, genuinely shocked at how fast I go through this show.

[dixidin]

I'm going to kill myself

[deprivedofbraincellsandsleep]

and loving you was easy, it was you leaving that scarred

[canpandaspvp]

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

[jckeperalta]

welcoming love, light and laughter back into my life (rewatching parks and recreation) (I have not stopped thinking about supernatural nor I ever will)

[moonmoonthecrabking]

i want to write many things. many many things. in all of them, i would like a minimum of two bi characters, and in one of them i want all characters to be bi.

neither is common in media, so i guess it means i have to make it myself, even if it's just for me.

[destinyandcoins]

oh hey, look what I found in my drafts in pursuit of some other idea of mine, I'd forgotten about this in the frenzy of experiencing every emotion known to mankind these last couple weeks courtesy of the most ruthless of emotional rollercoasters that was the good omens s2 finale and its fallout on tumblr.

Behold, an unedited compilation of my initial reactions to the entirety of good omens s2, ft a slowly less careful tracking of which episode any of these reactions originated from:

oh...my god....crowley and aziraphale before the beginning. they're so fucking adorable. AND CROWLEY'S HAIR.

making it look like azi was going to flip the sign to "open" LMAO BITCH U THOUGHT. and "i'm very good at forgiveness" p l s

aziraphale: ((b99 scene of that one lady jamming whilst Shit Goes Down)

jon hamm LMAO. "who told you I was naked?" and the arrows on the box pointing up

the expression on azi's face when someone mentions the naked man in front of crowley LMAO

"Does it calm you down" "not.really."

"Do we know a jim??"

FUCKING DRAMA QUEEN CROWLEY throwing a tantrum in the street lmaooooooo

they're so fucking married they're so fuckING MARRIED THEY'RE SO FUCKING MARRIED. the little "i didn't see you come in" "let me ring the bell to get your attention so you can't ignore me" THE APOLOGY DANCE

episode 2:

RAIN UNDER A CANOPY AND THEY'LL FALLIN LOVE. LIKE--THE FIRST RAINSTORM AND SHELTERING SOMEONE UNDER YOUR WING?? PERHAPS?

lmaooo like a game show announcer showing off the prizes

"i thought i would take the car. our car" RECORD SCRATCH. so....fucking married. like how much more obvious can you be....

THE GOOD OMENS BOOK.

muriel is precious, and crowley and aziraphale are so patient and gentle with them, they think so too.....adorable

episode 3:

THEY WORKED IN THE "YOU HAVE TO START THEM ALL OFF ON THE SAME LEVEL" and "that's lunacy" "that's ineffable" LINES!!!!

THE DANCE. AZIRAPHALE WAS SO EXCITED TO DANCE WITH CROWLEY. OH MY GODDDDDL HE'S WRITING HIS OWN A/C FANFIC

gabrie's FUCKING COAT. OH MY GODDDD

"I am, but rescuing me makes him so happy" FUCK. KO. THAT'S ALL SHE WROTE FOR ME, FOLKS. HELLO??? the self awareness but perfectly encapsulates their relationship....hold on a sec. man just hold on

....crowley is such a fucking bleeding heart omg. his little smirk through the window at azi taking charge

aziraphale's unending heart eyes as crowley just, like...exists.

crowley not knowing/"remembering" a single other angel or demon he's previously met but being the only one who recognizes the metatron....brilliant.

of course crowley is cleaning up the shop for aziraphale while he's gone.....of course he is.

WHAT IS THAT.

WAIT. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT. WHAT THE FUCK??? IT ENDS THERE?? NO???

[prettyypenguin]

I am actually in love with Rosa Diaz. She's growing on me so hard istg

[star-mum]

so I'm back on my weeb bullshit and by that I mean I'm studying japanese again and things !!! are !!! happening !! i can see progress !!!

[iamthedukeofurl]

Discworld is an interesting beast in the age of ACAB. Like, the city watch books are a story about police and the way in which a good police force can help and protect people. Which would make it copoganda. And I'm not going to say that the City Watch books are completely free of copoganda, but they also do something interesting that fairly few stories about heroic police officers do, and I think it has a lot to do with Samuel Vimes. A lot of copoganda stories like, say, Brooklyn 99, are perfectly capable of portraying cops as cruel, bigoted, and greedy, but our central cast of characters are portrayed as good people who want to help their communities. The result is that the bad cops are portrayed as an aberration, while most cops can be assumed to be good people doing a tough job because they want to help protect people from the nebulous evil forces of "Crime". The police are considered to be naturally heroic. Pratchett does something very interesting, which is provide us with Vimes' perspective, and present us with an Unnaturally heroic police force. In Ahnk-Morpork, the natural state of the watch is a gang with extra paperwork. It's the place for people who, at best, just want a steady paycheck and at worst want an excuse to hit people with a truncheon. Rather than be an army defending people from the forces of Crime, the Watch is described as a sort of sleight-of-hand, big burly watchmen in shiny uniforms don't stand around in-case a Crime happens in their vicinity, they stand around to remind people that The Law exists and has teeth. The Watchmen are people, when danger rears it's head, their instinct is to hide and get out of the way. When faced with authority, their instinct is to bow to it out of fear of what it might do to them if they don't. Carrot is a genuine Hero, but his natural heroism is presented as an aberration. Normal Cops don't act like Carrot does. The fact that the Watch ends up acting like a Heroic Police Force is largely due to the leadership of Sam Vimes, but Vimes himself is a microcosm of the Watch. The base state of Sam Vimes would be an alchoholic bully of an officer, one who beats people until they confess to anything because that makes his job easier. Vimes The Hero is a homunculous, an artificial being created by Sam Vimes fighting back all those instincts and FORCING himself to behave as his conscience dictates. Vimes doesn't take bribes or let his officers do the same because, damnit, that sort of thing shouldn't happen, even if doing so would make things a lot easier. Vimes doesn't run towards sounds of screaming because he WANTS to, he forces himself to do so because somebody needs to. It's best summed up in Thud “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Your Grace.” “I know that one,” said Vimes. “Who watches the watchmen? Me, Mr. Pessimal.” “Ah, but who watches you, Your Grace?” said the inspector with a brief little smile. “I do that, too. All the time,” said Vimes. “Believe me.”

In the hands of another writer, or another series, this exchange would be weirdly dismissive. To whom should the police be accountable to? Themselves, shut up and trust us. But from Vimes, it's a different story. Vimes DOES constantly watch himself, and he doesn't trust that bastard, he's known him his entire life. The Heroic Police are not a natural state, they're an ideal, and ahnk-morpork only gets anywhere close. Vimes is constantly struggling against his own instincts to take shortcuts, to let things slide, but he forces himself to live up to that ideal and the Watch follows his example. Discworld doesn't propose any solutions to the problems with policing in the real world. We don't have a Sam Vimes to run the NYPD and force them to behave. We don't have a Carrot Ironfounderson. But it's at least a story about detectives and police that I can read without feeling like I'm being sold propaganda about the Thin Blue Line.

[bentijon-trans-edition]

So I just started watchin Brooklyn 99

All I'm saying is, Super-Dan had better become a recurring character.

[weirdefilippis]

Andre Braugher is dead.

When I moved to LA to go to film school, the experience was (while not soul crushing) not the most encouraging. And I started to wonder if I really wanted to pursue writing.

And then came HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREET. And Andre Braugher's so-good-you-couldn't-believe-it-was-physically-possible performance as Frank Pembleton. It blew me away. Every week.

He was so good, I knew I had to write, just for the chance to one day put words in his mouth.

He was great in everything I saw him in after that, but when he turned up in BROOKLYN 99, it was another revelation.

His Raymond Holt was so funny, I was reduced to tears. Every week.

Two fictional policemen, two radically different tones, two performances that could be linked in their similarities and taught in acting classes for their differences.

There was NO ONE like Andre Braugher. He was, to my thinking, the finest actor I've ever seen.

I do not know if we will ever see his equal.

Funny thing is, when I watched Homicide in grad school, it was with two of my best friends, a married couple. And they watched Brooklyn 99 with their kids, decades later. So Andre Braugher has had a different importance to them - one primal and generational.

Sadly, I never did get to put words in his mouth. And I'm sad about that. But it is nothing compared to the loss the world has suffered, as he will never play another role again.

Rest in Peace, Andre Braugher. You gave me so much, and I wish I could have let you know that.

- Nunzio