#calling the cops

[joulex]

Why are people shipping luke with percy and/or annabeth in the year of our lord and savior 2024.

ESPECIALLY after the tv show, HOW THE FUCK DO YOU SEE A 12 YEAR OLD AND A 18/19 INTERACT AND GO LIKE "yeah i want them to end up together" JAIL INMEDIATLY

THAT IS A SEVEN GRADER AND A COLLEGE FRESHMAN, FIND A NEW SHIP, MAKE UP AN OC, I DONT KNOW, JUST NOT THE FUCKING MINORS

[queersatanic]

Can I ask a question about cop stuff? I'm all for acab, but sometimes I'm put in a position where I would call the cops, but don't and then feel bad? For example, a few days ago a woman was violently crying in my apartment complex while a man (her partner I assume) was yelling. I couldn't hear what was being said, but I was worried and didn't know what I could do to make sure she was safe. My first instinct was 'call the cops' but well. Yeah. Are there alternatives to just calling the cops? I would have gone out to so if she needed help myself, but I'm 5' and not strong at all if things turned ugly so I was worried for my wellbeing as well :/

Imagine a world where in order to get a plumber certification, a person also had to be a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

In that world, in the moment when you had an emergency with your pipes, you might still need to call a KKK plumber. That might be true even if you're one of the groups the KKK despises; you'd just hope this particular person coming to fix the problem wasn't particularly bigoted or wasn't otherwise having a bad day and looking to take it out on you.

But knowing that, what you'd want to do before there was an emergency is make it so that you had better options than "water leak destroying my home and the homes of the people around me" versus "bigots are invited into my home and can do whatever they want with near impunity".

There are alternatives to calling the cops, but that requires work ahead of time. In your situation, do you know those people? Can you talk to the woman ahead of time about what she needs in situations like that, such as contacting other family members of hers? Are there other people in the apartment complex who are larger who could go with you? Etc.

This is hard work and takes time, just like forming a parallel network of non-certified, non-KKK plumbers would be. But the point is to give yourself better options than "do nothing and hope for the best" or "call the gang of racists to show up and do whatever they feel like in the moment".

[naughtynanzhu]

[deadpoolsmom]

as far as one piece antagonists go Crocodile truly gets absolutely scooby-doo’d at unmatched levels

He immediately falls for a phone scam and from basically little garden to rainbase he doesn’t even know the strawhats are alive (and clowning towards him at incredible speed). As soon as he does, they’re in his house tearing at his walls and bringing marines into his villain lair.

He uses a literal floor trap door over a gator pit to catch them, gets phone scammed again, full scooby-doo chase scenes after Chopper through the streets while still missing him, and suddenly his prisoners have escaped his impossible cage, and his giant bananagators are dead. and Nico Robin saw it all happen.

He then spends rest of the arc complaining about those meddling kids and their dog “strawhat pirates and their weird pet” and at no point does he even know how many strawhats there are.

Like yeah he keeps having plans on top of plans to stop everything Vivi can do but also she keeps coming up with a new thing to do (Tom and Jerry ass dynamic).

Part of it is that he’s underestimating them and keeps grandstanding villain monologuing but also teens keep killing hundreds of his grand line bounty hunters and he straight up does not know what is happening.

Cause he IS trying to kill them he’s sending top assassins after them and ripping out luffy’s organs, the whole time he’s yelling HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?? DIE. as whack-a-mole Luffy keeps inventing new ways to hit him.

[theabigailthorn]

people sometimes ask if I'd ever consider becoming a university professor and I'm like yeah sure I'd love to do a shit-tonne of unpaid busywork in the sexual harassment factory just so some cis guy can plagiarise my work while my debt-crushed students get arrested for daring to question why their fees are being invested in weapons companies

[sexhaver]

calling the cops on someone else in america for drug use is the most comically evil action i can think of that you can still admit to in public and (unfortunately) not be shunned/exiled/physically attacked for. you're very explicitly saying that your sheltered discomfort with seeing someone do drugs is worth ruining that person's entire life over (even though you could get the same effect by just continuing to walk past the drug user until you never see them again). 18th century dauphin mindset. "papá! papá! i espied that peasant over yonder partaking of a snuffbox! throw him in the dungeon, lest my delicate morals be corrupted any further!" kill yourself perhaps

[lurukifennecfox]

Paulina was walking home from her little self-care date~ when she noticed a familiar figure, she slowed, double checked to make sure it wasn't some random civilian, grinned and-

threw her knife!

Wes caught it, because of course he did cautious bastard. And yes she realises this now that fighting on the street was not the smartest move but it was a long time since she saw her friends from Amity and they got along fairly well with Weston.

So they had a good time, she managed to nip him on the cheek with her knife (after taking it back) he left her with a new bruise (it will be gone by tomorrow noon) and then they were both taken in by the police...

And now she has to explain why she did what she did to the GCPD and Ancients help probably Batman as soon as she gets back to her apartment. Who could've guessed that having a friendly brawl would be so taboo in Gotham? (who is she kidding of course it's suspicious it looked like they were trying to kill each other to any normal person!)

and she's not sure how much she should say!

[papanowo]

i think dan should get to be a little weird too. as a treat

[teaboot]

will you go to dashcon two next year in toronto?

I wouldn't go to dashcon if it was hosted in my apartment's only bathroom

[helloilikepurple]

DC X DP - Mirrors

Did Danny want to live in Gotham? No, of course not. Did he have a choice? Nope. When does he ever?

Now, he may be technically homeless, but he's also technically dead, so human laws technically don't apply to him. So, naturally, he pics out an empty mansion so big even if the owners were to come home, the chances they'd run into each other would be really low, and settles in.

This 'mansion' happens to be Drake Manor. Look, Danny lived in nowhere Illinois and kinda had his hands full dealing with ghosts, a double life, bullies, and being actively hunted. He doesn’t know much about celebrities. If you tell him the name of someone super famous, it might sound vaguely familiar, but that's about it. What he knew was superheroes and vigilantes (some of them, okay, give him a break). That's about it.

So the name Drake in connection with Gotham didn't ring any alarm bells. He did some surface level research: the Drakes are dead, survived by their only child, Timothy Drake-Wayne, who now owns their house but was adopted by some other super rich guy called Bruce Wayne and doesn't live in it, leaving it empty for the foreseeable future.

It was the perfect place!

Danny didn't explore much, partly because he didn't care to and partly because he was too tired to from healing. He cleaned up after himself, used only his bedroom (chosen for being tucked way back and out of the way), the attached bathroom, and the theatre occasionally as a treat. He lived off of the provisions packed for him, ectoplasm and water from the sink.

Cut to, few weeks in.

Danny's got a new routine, he's taken his stitches out, and is still super fucked up, but a lot better than when he arrived. He hasn't been outside since he arrived, but ghosts don't need Vitamin D anyway. Is he slightly depressed? Maybe. But he's also dead, so, bigger priorities.

Tim is looking through his stuff for something or other, and it occurs to him he probably left it next door. He hasn't been to Drake Manor in months, but he sort of really needs this thing, so he sucks it up and borrows a car because like hell is he walking the several miles from this front door to that one.

He goes to his old bedroom, opens the door, and comes face-to-face with himself.

And Danny doesn't know what he's supposed to do in this situation.

Listen, Danny doesn't always make the best decision in the moment. It's a very normal flaw to have! So he tells who can only be Timothy Drake-Wayne himself when asked, that his name is Timothy Drake, and this is his house, and, actually, who are you and how did you get in?

This causes Tim to assume Danny is himself from another dimension who he accidentally dragged to his dimension by messing with the Time Stream to get Bruce back. Danny continues to accidently fuel this misunderstanding without meaning to.

(This is not helped by the fact that a DNA test doesn't disprove this. Danny's DNA is corrupted, but what Tim does get is identical to himself. This is how Danny finds out he was adopted, and how Tim, much later when misunderstandings are cleared, meets the identical twin brother he never knew he had.)

[anim-ttrpgs]

(Exerpt from Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy.)

[despazito]

israelis will call palestinians animals but have more empathy for the literal dogs

[konigofmyheart]

könig is your personal hand warmer…

・❥・yelps when you put your freezing hands against his neck, catching him off guard as he doesn’t wear his mask around you

・❥・yet instead of pushing you away, he grabs your hands and stuffs them down the top of his thick sweater, pressing them against his chest <3

・❥・give it a couple of seconds and your hands are practically burning up (how is he so warm all the time?!)

・❥・now, if you trail your hands just a tad further down and squeeze, that’s the full body warm up activation sequence, schätzchen…

[boccher]

the difference between cheating to get through compulsory education and cheating to get a profession in a position of power is that the cheating part is literally irrelevant you should kill yourself if you're trying to gain societal power over the marginalized regardless of if you're getting your qualifications legit or not

[hellenhighwater]

Oh goddammit I just walked home, remembered that I actually drove to work for once, and now I've got to walk back and get my car.

These heels are getting some mileage today.

[andy-clutterbuck]

The Ones Who Live - 1x01 - Years