#acab all day

[hijinxinprogress]

Billy definitely thinks about random things during fights and decides the internet needs to know immediately

[kropotkindersurprise]

13 December , 2023 - Happy 13/12! All Cops Are Bastards! [video]

[jaubaius]

I can't catch them so I'm taking it out on you. 

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[nando161mando]

[feyres-divorce-lawyer]

yo imagine comparing rhys to an undercover cop like they don’t have actual reasons to go undercover meanwhile rhys sided with amarantha to protect the secret city absolutely no one knew abt💀

[genekies]

tag vent

[mothmans-cumrag]

As I got dragged away by the cops:

"Do you have ID?"

"Yes."

"You are female?"

"No."

"Male, then?"

"No."

"What are you? Female or male?"

"No."

"What does your ID say?"

*gets out my ID. Under gender, it says "no."

[morwynlefay]

trans day of visibility 31/03/2024, Medborgarplatsen Stockholm. a lot happened, let me explain

several weeks ago i sent in a request for a permit for a TDoV demonstration on the 31st of march on behalf of trans hälsoplattformen , initially at Mynttorget but due to construction on site it had to be changed and so i chose Medborgarplatsen. weeks go by and it’s exactly one week left until the protest and i learn that a big football match is taking place right before the protest and that a lot of fans plan on being there afterwards. i try to get the times changed but my request is denied and we did not have the time to request a fully new permit and we reassured that there will be security on sight that is aware of our presence so we let it.

the day of the protest rolls around and i get there and start setting up our stuff, but there is no security in sight…

after being interviewed by the socialist paper Offensiv i notice a man aggressively talking at one of our volunteers so i walk over to check on the situation and so does my father snd mother. the man who was drunk gets increasingly more aggressive and so i ask him to leave at which he decides to get up and stand a cm away from my face asking if i want to fight, i push him away and he launches his hand hard towards my throat

fully intent on grabbing onto me, he is then pushed away by my father and he kicks our table and speaker into our volunteer that i mentioned before, he continues fighting my father until eventually he is thrown on the ground at which point his friends arrive and start pulling him away, he then throws his food at us before getting fully dragged away. no security in sight…

my mother then sees a police car on the street and walks over and tells them to come over to us. here it is revealed that they had no idea that there was even going to be a protest there.

at this point two christian fundamentalist 14 year olds come over and start arguing with us about brainwashing and sin and all kinds of stuff for one snd a half hours!

some men walk by and take some pictures and call us faggots, and as they approach us the police who are here at this point comes and leads them away.

eventually the cops drove away and we hold some little speeches and we continued cautiously, dancing to the music.

some drunk people walked by and through our trans flag at which they yell at us to get our “faggot flag” away from them and then they spit towards us.

my mom walks back to the cops and tells them to fucking come back, which they do.

it is now the dnd of the protest and we pack up to the sound of Solidarity forever and we go home

the pride flag i was carrying throughout was one that was burned last year by people who entered our yard while we where out of the country, tore it down, ripped it and then burned it.

whenever you think this type of stuff doesn’t happen in sweden, remember this story. the public was violently transphobic towards us and the police fully neglected us.

[weepylucifer]

but seriously now, what's with all the coruscant guard woobie fandom? you know that's the cops, right?

[whoviandoodler]

Issues I've had with MFMM S3 in the most recent rewatch, or: an incomplete and incoherent rambling about some of the things that really annoyed me about it

I've recently finished rewatching miss fisher's murder mysteries for some 5th-10th time since I originally saw it years and years ago on FOX Crime or wherever and it's been a completely different experiences to previous rewatches. I have to assume because I grew up quite a lot so things that used to rub me the wrong way until I was raw no longer hold the same sway over me, but I found scenes previously unbearable perfectly fine to watch (annoying, but nothing especially enraging), and characters that I despised merely unlikable. In short, it was as immensely entertaining as before without certain hindrances, and the main attractions (jack and phryne's relationship, the found family, amazing acting and fun mysteries) were no less attractive.

However, I also developed an issue with the third season. Prior to rewatching the show (while I was still trying to convince myself i totally wouldn't go back in the 30+ hrs runtime trenches), I rewatched an analysis I'd seen years ago (possibly around my previous rewatch, knowing covid time) made by a creator whose work I like, and she dedicated a section of the video to some of the things that bothered her about the last season. I was a bit confused, to be perfectly honest, because I didn't remember being at all bothered with it the last time I watched it, and certainly not with the things she mentioned (and more importantly, I had no issues with the writing).

And then, uh, I got to the third season on the rewatch. And at first I was like, ok, this is perfectly fine. A little bit odd in certain moments, but not all that bad. And then the problems kept piling and piling through the seasons, and I kept pacing and pacing and noticing more and more things about it that bothered me.

The main problem, and I imagine the reason my then-self didn't really notice anything (apart from my all-encompassing rage at hugh collins that blinded me to anything else), is that the character writing isn't outright Bad. Like, it's not the kind of bad where you throw your TV out the window because how dare they do that to your blorbos, but it is the kind of bad that festers in your show loving heart until it forms 'It's plausible that they might do that kind of... I guess?' It's the kind of bad that takes a bit of thinking to figure out why your brow furrowed in this or that scene until it smoothed out.

So let's talk about that scene in s3e1 where jack does his 'i'm not part of the parade' monologue, the thing that bothered the analyst but that I distinctly remembered being silly and entertaining. I mean, he gets drunk and goes on a tirade over a misunderstanding while phryne stands there baffled, unsure whether she should laugh or not. This is where the 'i guess?' starts, because like, absolutely, it's not the first time in the show he's been jealous, nor the first time he's been incredulous or eye-rolly when he finds out phryne's had a dalliance with this or that man. It's plausible that all those sentiments would come out the way they did with alcohol involved and after being stood up twice, first for what was possibly supposed to be their first foray into more serious territory, and then again that night. It's not a scene that paints him in a favourable light, but that's not in and of itself an issue, he's got his faults and that's one of the things that make him interesting to watch. But arriving on the heels of the caustic remarks and biting sarcasm and refusing to listen to phryne at all to the point that she got borderline upset hours before, it felt less silly and in character and more like a nail hammered one time too many.

It set a trend too for the rest of the season, and not a nice one. All those jealousy scenes created two situations- the first, where phryne would respond indignantly and in character to how she'd been in previous seasons, on the rare occasion he'd actively made a remark (was it even more than once? i can't remember); and the second, where phryne would run after him, explaining that 'it wasn't like that', like she was cheating on him. The second option was especially hard to watch because their reactions genuinely read like she'd done something wrong when that wasn't the case at all, and like the analyst said the narrative went so far as to shame her with that moment at the air base fence (for the first time in the show! previously jack's reactions had been light-hearted and phryne had responded in kind, usually saying something witty or teasing him; the second they became that of the betrayed partner, it got a sour note).

For the sake of adding drama and an unnecessary explanation as to why they haven't railed each other yet, the show killed the wonderful dynamic they'd rocked thus far, that of very close friends who are attracted to each other and probably in love but who haven't quite decided what to do about it yet.

It was like the show lost all faith in it's audience to imagine the reasons behind their reluctance, to understand their characters, to believe this truly outrageous (/s) situation of two friends in love who don't get together (yet). Like it's not a tale as old as time for people to be afraid romantic involvement with their friends might ruin that friendship, and choosing not to take the risk. Like we don't know that phryne has never had a serious relationship, and that jack has never had anything but; that her dalliances with other men are all about sating her curiosity about different people's lives and minds and pleasure, that she firmly embodies the rich aristocrat and keeps the little collingwood girl firmly on the other side of the door; that he stayed in a failed marriage for ten years because he's always serious about the people he loves, that he nearly married concetta because he cared about her and didn't want her to be married off again to somebody cruel.

And speaking of lack of faith, did they think we needed to be reminded every five minutes in various clear-cut and glaringly obvious ways that they love each other? Like we know! We're watching the show! We don't need guido and concetta and the greek chorus to slap the note in our face. This isn't a children cartoon and they didn't suddenly fall in love in s3e1 for the entire cast to lay on the horns, we've been watching them fall in love through every touch and look. Honestly, there was more subtlety in sanderson's 'you do indeed keep close company these days' than the entire italian episode.

The entire thing felt like they were insinuating that the second phryne and jack try for something serious the entire thing falls apart, and they go from dear friends to a reddit post. Despite all their surface differences, the reason they're in love is their deep-seated belief in truth and justice, and the reason they're as close as they are is that they don't keep things from each other and they communicate. I don't think it's in character, or even worse, I feel like it's a very sad choice of character path for them to lose their whimsy and trust the second they delve into the romantic, like it's a whole different thing and not just a different lens through which to experience the intimacy they already share. I would've much preferred that they'd either continued their whimsical friendship until the last episode, or even that they'd gone down the vulnerable road of talking more about their respective issues; frankly, i would've settled for a long term friendship over the mess that they ended up creating (I'm queer, I can sustain myself on subtext).

That area of jack writing aside, what the hell did they do to my boy's murder solving skills? I swear, there were at least a couple episodes where he didn't contribute anything to the investigation, or he did so little it was imperceptible.

In s2e9 (the cinema one, i think that was the number) I distinctly remember phryne laying out what she thought happened (at the very beginning when they found the body) and jack staying silent and giving her a besotted look, and afterwards hugh saying it matched what jack had surmised earlier. This was amazingly done, because it very economically established 1. that jack had already done the clever bit 2. that they agreed fully so there was no need for their usual back and forth, and most importantly after their huge, sad rift had just been surmounted, 3. that he was incredibly happy to be working with her again because he loves listening to the cogs turning in her head and watching her be clever.

There was none of that attention to detail in those s3 episodes, he was just... not involved. Phryne would lay everything out and then they'd leave, and that was it. It felt wild to witness because in different scenes he acted as he always did, like their dynamic was the same as always. I didn't get the impression that he was having a bad day, or not in the mood, because in writing those things need to have some significance or note, and here it was just there. Not noticed, not significant, not anything; fully like they'd forgotten that they put him in the shot and thus gave him no lines.

I really can't explain how much it irked me because the main appeal of the show isn't the murder investigations, as fun and clever as they are, it's the relationships between characters. The point of the narrative shouldn't be solving the crime, it should be all the things that happen while it's being solved.

In short- how dare they rob me of the sparks of phryne and jack exchanging theories and opinions?! That's what I'm here for! The sexual tension isn't just the looks and touches, it's what preceded them and keeps them so fresh and electric- it's them standing over a body or in the morgue or in her parlour and being clever at each other and with each other, the push of sharing an opinion and the pull of daring the other person to catch up with you by giving them only the raw information, the resonance of interacting with someone who's on even footing with you.

It's like 3 am and I've tired myself out so I'll stop here. Obvious disclaimer for anyone who might see this is that this is based on my impression of the show and i won't go back to watch just the bad parts solely to write a coherent, sourced analysis (aka I'm going off the things that left an impact on me, they might not be given the most screentime or note), and that this is still a favourite show and not meant to be an indictment of the whole thing (I only get so annoyed bcs i like it otherwise).

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

There's something so tumblr about those massive "best of" brackets that start with like 150 match ups and then the blog never quite catches on so there are only like 200 votes on each with Weird skewed results.

It's like, OK, 200 people on the Sexy Sans Undertale Website decided that Miss Congeniality (2000) is better than The Concept of Agriculture and now it's going to face off against a Cessna 206 Stationair.

Then you check back six months later to find that in the final poll Richard Siken lost to the pink Starburst.

[hellyeahheroes]

Fuck the Police by F. D. Signifier

[nando161mando]

[s1eutharchive]

bi-annual reminder (i'm bi and i'm annually reminding you) that nancy drew hates cops. nancy drew doesn't work with cops. cops piss nancy off nearly every time she comes into contact with them.

[harrowharkwife]

PSA to new people who followed me recently from my locked-tomb-books posting: weewoo season is beginning again soon (new season of my firefighters soap opera starts in march) so i will be firefighter-paramedic-show posting again soon... they are NOT cops i promise! it's just firefighters. peace and love on planet earth 💚

[isimchi]

Finally! Let's go officer Thistle, you're moving way too slow for someone whose paycheck is funded by our taxes.

OFFICER THISTLE!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING??