#he probably wont be making an official announcement on bubble

[stayxsomnia]

Bang Chan will not be going live anymore. S. Korea is in a national state of mourning until January 4th in respect to those lost in the Jeju Air plane crash. Everything (entertainment-wise) is in the process of being canceled or postponed.

[jinmukangwrites]

Crutches

Batfam week 2020 / Injury / @official-batfam-week

Summary: immobilized and incredibly bored, Dick wonders how he’s going to survive the night alone in his Blüdhaven apartment. Thankfully, he doesn’t have to be alone.

AO3

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Dick sighs and leans further back into his couch, lazily flipping the channel as he does so. He tries to keep his elevated foot out of his line of vision and the pain pulsing from it. The pain killers aren’t helping much, and it’s not like he can ask for more at the moment because people will wonder why he has such a high tolerance to pain meds. 

Of course he broke his ankle, and of course it was in the line of duty where other officers saw his foot fall in a random dip in some grass and twist unnaturally in some sort of freak accident. They’re never going to let him live this down, and Amy is never going to let him back onto the force until she’s sure he’s at one hundred percent. If he had just broken his foot during patrol he could have just taken a couple weeks off and then smiled through the pain and no one would have noticed a thing.

He sighs again, louder this time as the TV quickly becomes boring. There’s nothing on besides reruns of Big Bang Theory and some random college football game and his mouth is dry and his stomach is growling but he really doesn’t want to get up because getting up means crutches and crutches means grinding his teeth and mentally screaming about how he could have easily just launched himself over the couch and into the kitchen within seconds just a couple days ago.

He glares at his offending foot and closes his eyes, ignoring the thirst, ignoring the hunger, ignoring the pulsing in his limb, and tries to just fade away into the noise of the TV.

But, in true Dick Grayson fashion, he quickly gets bored.

“Ugh.” He tosses the remote across the couch and opens his eyes slightly so he can glare at his crutches. He needs to do something. Never in his life has he ever felt the need to just do something. Cook. Shop. Hell, he wants to clean his entire apartment and that’s saying something.

Instead, he grabs his stupid crutches and gently rises himself with a simple destination in mind because doing much more will have his leg hurting more than it already is, and call him as irresponsible with his injuries as you want he does know how to take care of himself.

Most of the time...

He begins to hobble over to the kitchen with his eyes on the cupboard where he knows he has a small stash of coco-puffs. He thinks he has a little bit of milk left in the fridge but honestly water works just fine if he’s in a pinch. Yes, he knows that’s sacrilegious, but he needs to get his hands doing something, even if that’s tainting the holy ways of cereal just to get his hands moving.

‘Cause if his hands are moving, then his eyes aren’t trailing to the window where the sun is starting to set and crime is starting to rise. Nightwing can’t go out tonight. Blüdhaven can last a night or two before Dick whiddles down his pride enough to ask for help, right?

Man. He hates injuries. 

He’s halfway to the kitchen when something catches his attention: a knock at the door. Normally, he’s all for company, but right now his foot is pulsing and he wants a tainted bowl of cereal but now he has to turn and try not to trip over the random assortment of crap he has on the floor to get to his door. It’s probably nothing important. A solicitor who’s risking working a little later in the day. Do solicitors work evenings? He grew up in a mansion and before that a circus trailer, how should he know?

He should probably get one of those “No Solicitors” signs, he thinks when the knocking on the door repeats.

He sighs and slowly maneuvers his crutches around a discarded pair of boxers—how did that even get there?!—and makes his way over to the door. He leans on his good foot and painfully positions himself on the other side of the door so when he opens it it wont hit his crutch and trip him.

He opens the door a crack.

“Yeah?” He asks before he actually looks at his visitors. But when he does get a look at them, his eyes widen in shock.

“Good evening, Master Dick, I hope we are not a bother?” Alfred smiles and behind him, Cass waves and Tim shoves his phone in his pocket to smile while Bruce folds his arms across his chest and Damian matches his father and glares down at Dick’s foot.

Dick blinks stupidly. “I uh. What?” 

“Are you going to invite us in, dickhead?” Jason voice calls from the back and Dick finds himself releasing a shocked bubble of laughter. He didn’t notice Jason back there. 

What a strange sight this is to see, his entire family standing in the hallway of his cramped apartment complex. He swings the door open wider and Damian instantly ducks under his arm to claim his normal spot on the sofa. 

“What are all of you doing here?” Dick asks as Cass walks up to him and carefully wraps her hands around his shoulders to give him a quick hug.

Bruce pats his shoulder as he walks inside and Cass follows him and Alfred into his kitchen. Jason shrugs before he walks in.

“I’m only here for the free food- ouch!” Jason glares down at Tim who has just punched his arm. 

“We’re all just visiting,” Tim says nonchalantly before he and Jason—who’s angrily rubbing his arm—walk into the apartment.

Dick laughs and closes the door, hobbling to turn around and see his apartment full of some of the most important people in the world to him. This little apartment can hardly hold all of them. Tim is fighting with Damian about taking up the whole sofa while Jason perches on the windowsill and pulls out his phone. Cassandra is helping Alfred scavenge the kitchen for any kind of usable ingredients for Dick suspects dinner and Bruce opening a bag he had brought with him onto the table and carefully taking out various cans and produce that they must have already known Dick had no chance of having himself.

“Honestly, Master Dick, you need to go shopping,” Alfred tuts. 

“And you need to elevate that foot,” Bruce says, not looking up from his task. “Tim, get Dick to sit down.”

Tim stops his mini-wrestling contest with Damian and they both jump to their feet and rush over to him even though Damian wasn’t even asked to.

Dick soon finds himself being reluctantly lead to the center of the couch and sat down. Damian grabs his crutches and places them near the arms of the sofa and then effectively pins Dick down by curling up under his arm. Tim kicks some mess out of the way and then shoves the coffee table forward and places a throw pillow down onto the edge closes Tto Dick and points at it, lifting an eyebrow.

Dick rolls his eyes, but complies. Next thing he knows, Tim is inserting himself under Dick’s other arm and Dick ruffles his hair, extremely content despite still being extremely confused.

“How’d you guys find out I was hurt? Did Amy call you?”

“Your captain rang, yes,” Alfred affirmed as he gave the ingredients he had managed to scavenge a critical eye. “She worried you wouldn’t take care of yourself.”

Bruce steps back from the kitchen as Cass begins to shoo him out, smartly deciding that Bruce shouldn’t be anywhere in the kitchen while cooking is going on. “But we’re here because we want to be, chum.”

“What about Gotham?” Dick asks and behind him Jason snorts.

“There’s more heroes in Gotham besides us, stupid.”

Bruce hums and settles down on a chair he dragged with him from the kitchen. “Stephanie and Kate are taking up patrol tonight. Your friends Roy and Wally have agreed to make a round through the Haven. They’ll call us if anything happens. Don’t worry about it right now.”

Suddenly, Jason’s had is entering his field of vision and the pressure of a chest leaning against the back of his head appears as Jason reaches over three heads to snatch the remote before anyone else could. Tim squawks in protest and Damian jostles Dick’s side to try and make a mad grab for the device, but Jason effectively retreats a safe distance away and begins to open options on his tv he didn’t even know he had.

Dick’s TV has Netflix?

He hates technology.

“We’re not watching your stupid show, Todd!” Damian hisses, reluctantly sliding back onto Dick’s side. The action of Dami choosing to remain cuddled up to his eldest brother instead of hurtleling over the couch to duel for the remote to avoid some mystery show is apparently more important and it makes Dick’s heart swell. He leans over and gives Damian a sneaky kiss at the top of his head and Damian reacts predictably by crying out and swatting at Dick’s face.

“Shut up, short-stack. It’s a classic.”

“We should just watch Brooklyn Nine-Nine, we all like that,” Tim argues back and Jason snaps back that Dick’s TV does not, in fact, have Hulu. Which Dick supposes is a cause for sadness? He’s never heard of Hulu or Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Though, he’s sure whatever his brothers’ want to watch he’ll like it regardless.

Turns out, Jason’s “stupid” show is The Office. As the cold-open begins to play, Dick sighs in content, breathing in as the smell of sizzling bell peppers and meat reaches the living room. Another weight joins the couch as Cass lays herself down across Damian, Tim, and Dick, carefully avoiding jostling his leg in the process. Alfred announces that dinner will be ready in a little more than half an hour and Bruce begins to annoyingly critique the plot line of the show.

Dick sighs in content and closes his eyes.

“Do you want to watch something different, Dick?” Tim’s voice pipes up, mistaking his closed eyes as meaning he’s not enjoying the show. 

“Nah, I’m just enjoying Netflix-and-chill-ing with my family.”

“First of all,” Damian snarls from besides him, “cease using the phrase if you’re not going to learn what it means. Second of all, no one says that anymore.”

“Yeah, cuz it’s Disney+ and Chill now,” Jason adds helpfully as Tim cries out in distress. 

Cass begins to draw patterns on Dick’s knee with her finger and Bruce begins to demand what that phrase means while Alfred tut-tuts that Damian is too young to know what that means because of course Alfred knew it. The show falls to the background and Dick doesn’t close his eyes, just smiles and watches as his family begins to bicker and banter.

His cure for his boredom found. Everything will be fine, because he has his family to watch his back without him even having to ask.

[minblush]

k-armys are spreading a tweet namjoon made in 2013 about korean independence where he says 'There is no future for people who have forgotten history' which shows he probably won't agree with working with a japanese imperialist, hopefully he still has this attitude in 2018 twitter(.)com/BTS_twt/status/367906282012831744

yeah i have seen them doing that ;; and fancafe and all the official tweets since then have been flooded with people talking about these things too, but bighit is playing dead fish so far :(

microwavehater said:Am i the only one who never believed that bts has ~creative freedom~ (anymore) ? If they (still) had, they’d use their influence to spread msgs like baepsae, not just love urself uwu (considering yoongi made political pre-debut releases &interview stuff) Also, their newer releases (LY her onwards) are v much lacking in the hiphop department which (i assume) was a marketing choice. Hiphop just doesn’t sell as well to a female audience (along w the fact that vocalists are the face of BTS).

i think they still have creative input but creative freedom definitely not, but it’s debatable if they ever had it anyway? idk.. and them moving on from hip-hop was definitely both trying to change things up as well as appeal to a broader audience, love yourself era overall was an attempt to basically touch as many people as possible, i don’t mind them changing their musical direction but what has bothered me was the loss of their involvement (because it is less)

Anonymous said:I totally agree with you about BTS losing their originality. I’m almost starting to get annoyed of them. Now bc they know people love their music for its topics such as mental health, etc I almost feel like they’re thinking that they’re obliged to constantly write music that only has a “social” message. I did not like Idol at all. It was pretty tacky and the idea of loving yourself seemed so forced in the lyrics. I want them to make songs about whatever they want at that moment. (1/?)

Anonymous said:Also every fan keeps saying the same thing about them being unfiltered when actually they’ve become SO filtered now. They’ve almost created this illusion of being super open with us when actually we barely know anything about them. I don’t mind that but I hate how they’re touting that as something that applies to them. Honestly most fans now are the bandwagon type and the fandom is starting to feel more like a cult versus a community like it used to. (2/2)

i don’t know if i ever talked about them losing their originality? because originality is debatable in this case too, if you mean their original intention then yes i agree with that, and i agree they definitely created the illusion, once i got out of the bts bubble a bit and also thought back to the old days, i realized how closed off and filtered everything is comparison to the past and even to other kpop groups nowadays that are way more direct, i feel like even exo is more outspoken these days and direct with their fans which i thought could never happen??? i used to stan them and it was hell hah.. and these days.. wowza..

Anonymous said:Fuck yesss we need new yoongi mixtape and i agree abt what you said i wish bts could read that and be like okay guys i think they are right we have done some questionable things and shit has to be addressed whether we like it or not and just fucking do so. Some fans will drop but some would drop anyway bc it is getting out of hand i would never want to call bts problematic bc shit i cannot imagine that being true but them supporting problematic people is kind of making them ones

i just feel like nothing will change because bang pd is too greedy.. he really is eyeing like building a global empire with all the business deals he has been making.. also bts have done plenty “problematic” things themselves, though not to that extent, but some of their actions have hurt a lot of people too, but it depends on what bothers you, i find colorism and things like that a problem, but ofc definitely different thing than pedophilia and such, i just meant to say that nobody is perfect

Anonymous said:Do you ever just wanna randomly bump into bts and be like “hey lets talk!” And then tell them about all these issues and fandom drama and just tell them to wake the hell up? Cos I do haha

well even if we bumped into them, most of them wouldn’t talk to you so dkajsdka

Anonymous said:i agree with everything you have said but what bothers me is he is a co produce of produce 48 and nobody really complained about it even though he is know for sexualizing minors... or did i miss something?? also i feel sorry for you getting hate you were just saying your opinion and people should start to accept some facts! it's not the first time bighit did something questionable ://

oh but actually when that was announced there was backlash? i remember seeing complaints about the producer as well as some of the trainees due to their supposed right wing associations, there were also complaints about women’s rights cause of the oversexualization of some of the girls back in japan and the producer’s lyrics, i think this backlash seems bigger or more visible to you because it’s happening in your fandom ;; that season of produce even ended up having the lowest rankings and voting participation so :/

Anonymous said:I have three words to describe the part of the fandom that blindly accepts all the things, even the problematic ones, BTS do. 'Situationally woke cult'.

that fits perfectly

Anonymous said:i rly appreciate sou voicing your thoughts even if they r not in essay form or refined for days. I agree with you on many things but at the same time it's not as disappointing to me bc I guess I never held them to high standards. like in the beginning I could kinda imagine that they were somewhat sincere (but still remained sceptical) but the more they got famous the more I accepted that that sincerity and authenticity would stop bc that's just the kind of business that kpop is... (♤)

Anonymous said:like it's an inherently dishonest industry. they sell an image just like everyone else, and at best(!!) they were as real as possible with us in the beginning. no doubt they wanted to be different from everyone else and it was easier as long as not that many people gave a fuck about them. but as soon as they started to this chance was over. so i guess what I'm saying is that my view didn't change and I'm not surprised, because I never really bought what they were trying to sell...(♤)

Anonymous said:I still love them, theyre likeable & adorable boys. but theyre not changing the world. they're not in the right kind of industry for that. they love their luxury expensive stuff & the glamour of it all & that's okay. I just take every concept the whip out w/ a grain of salt & a knowing smile & enjoy the entertainment. that's just my own two cents that nobody in the fandom wants to hear so I'm bothering u. & its not an analysis or anything just what is on top of my mind while watching TV lol (♤)

Anonymous said:(♤) oh ps. except for that whole controversial stuff with that misogynist jpn songwriter and supreme boy and what not. I take that seriously , I wont act as if that's just a cute quirk. but they're men so I didn't expect much lmaoo. I knew that those kind of disappointments are just part of the deal ever since I learned that jimin (a whole cutie pie and my ultimate bias) stans chris brown. definitely would kick jm in the shin for that if I ever got to meet him. at least keep it to yourself lol.

haha i wish you didn’t start this with a backhanded compliment but dkajsd yeah overall i see your point and agree... i understand like if you didn’t buy into that whole spiel, then of course you can just keep on going and stanning them as idols and all that comes with that, but many people and me included sincerely thought that they were different, i have stopped stanning kpop groups for a while and got drawn back in with bts because i felt they were so fresh and unique, genuine and open with fans in comparison to other groups i have stanned.. but ofc that image crumbled as time went on.. things have changed as well... and i agree, it’s fine to enjoy it for just the entertainment and like the boys as people, accepting they are just as any other idol.. and maybe i will continue with that perspective myself!! but i honestly find it difficult having believed in it and also bighit continually selling this image to their fans despite evidence of the contrary, i can deal with idol business but like continually being blatantly lied to and then being in a fandom where most of the rhetoric is build around blindly believing it and eating anything the boys and bighit sells? it’s honestly emotionally exhausting sometimes.. but yeah.. you’re honestly right.. even with the last point lol... they are men, and korean men at that sigh.. that’s why i’m burying myself in girl groups nowadays adkjsd to heal my soul

Anonymous said:Hope you have a wonderful day filled with only good things ❤ - the cutest person in the world

thank you so so so so much! you have a wonderful day too ♥ cutie

Anonymous said:simple question, not loaded at all, no wrong answer, the honest answer is the right answer- yaddah yaddah you get it -what do you think bangtan is lying about and what exactly are you saying overall? i just need the language simplified for my 3 braincells :) if i do get what you're saying - whether the actual members of bts are real or not, their message is. "dont let anyone tell you what to do" "live your own life and not a borrowed dream" "life is a marathon, not a race - go your own pace"etc

you can read this post as well as the tags to it to see some of the examples, i mean i have been saying lots of things so i don’t know what exactly you want me to clarify? i think their message is compromised when their actions contradict it, whether it’s their actions or bighit’s is up to debate, like i was talking about in the post though, you can’t have things both ways, can’t hail the boys as woke independent kings while propagating the idea that they are just the company’s pawns at the same time, if you accept their authenticity isn’t there then ofc it’s a different argument, and the things you have listed there may be true, but isn’t is soured knowing they are just things that are said in order to sell bangtan as a product to you? to me they are

Anonymous said:I'm not gonna disagree but I like to see all the sides of a story. Bang pd is their boss, bts made a contract with him, he will ALWAYS have the last word on, well, everything they put out. We like to think that bc bts has creative freedom they can do whatever they want, well obviously they can't. Even if bts wanted to talk more about issues and not work w bad ppl, bang pd wants them to succeed, he wants to make money bc it's his business and bts is the only thing bringing money to it.

i get this argument a lot and to that i will answer again this and this, i don’t understand what your point is exactly though, so you are saying bts are pawns that have to do as they ceo says, yes and? i am criticizing the decision he has made? i’m criticizing that what he cares about the most is money? that he will stop at nothing to widen his wealth and influence? i will not support bts cooperating with vile people just because it wasn’t -completely their decision-, i’m sorry i’m really struggling to see what your point is about the other side of the story, it’s a shitty situation and if they all go through with it, it be greatly disappointing

[nickyschneiderus]

Just say no to viral ‘copaganda’ videos

If you are Facebook friends with conservative family members or co-workers, you’ve probably seen it in your feeds: Videos, photos, and news clips of police officers dancing, praying, or handing out free food. Just last week, a video of cops lip-syncing to “Uptown Funk,” while grooving through their station, went viral. While this all might seem like harmless fun, the internet has a word for this kind of media: copaganda.

Not that it doesn’t make sense for police to film and promote videos like this. In the era of Black Lives Matter and body cameras, law enforcement is understandably looking for a PR bump. What is less understandable is why every one of these videos is picked up by news outlets large and small, then spread across social media like wildfire.

In recent days, police officers, like the ones in Norfolk jamming to Bruno Mars, have been making videos and releasing them online as part of a nationwide “lip-sync challenge.” As challenges are wont to do, this one made the Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube rounds. Some garnered so many views that the New York Times felt the need to run an article about the contest. The “Uptown Funk” video, with hundreds of thousands of views, is so popular, it has been shared by numerous major media companies.

While the challenge was going viral, another headline was being made: Chicago officers had shot a Black man, Harith Augustus, in the back, sparking a wave of protests in the city. While the timing of the two stories was a coincidence, the making of these videos was not unintentional. They are carefully planned propaganda made to get at least as much media coverage as the bad stuff does.

Police officers have admitted as much. To quote the Times: “‘It is allowing the country to see us in another way,’ said Corporal William Pickering, a public information officer with the Norfolk Police Department, which created the ‘Uptown Funk’ video. ‘We aren’t all robots.’”

And it worked. Again, from the Times:

“The video from the Norfolk Police took off online after it was released on July 9. More than 191,000 people commented on the department’s Facebook page, most of the remarks supportive. The actress Sharon Stone gave the department a shoutout on Twitter. Fans sent the officers cheesecake. And the stars of the video held a meet-and-greet, giving the first 100 people to arrive a signed photograph.”

Lip-sync challenges aside, national news outlets run copaganda all the time. BuzzFeed has pushed out “This abandoned dog was adopted by an entire police association.” At CBS, you can find “Police officers and K9s join boy with tumor to pray before his brain surgery.” And over at Fox News, there’s the hard-hitting journalism “Police officers help out 9-year-old’s lemonade stand after he was robbed.”

It’s hard to understand why national outlets find content like this to be newsworthy. People, even businesses, adopt rescue dogs every day; lemonade stands unfortunately get robbed. These acts, while kind, are not remarkable. Meanwhile, local papers are folding incessantly and big city papers announce new billionaire owners who then announce massive layoffs with enough regularity to make any professional writer suspicious of an Illuminati conspiracy. And yet it seems that outlets of every size have the bandwidth to do PR for the police.

Why do media companies do it?

Working in digital media, we understand that feel-good stories get clicks. The Daily Dot covers our fair share of “actor in Marvel movie visits hospital” stories. And to a certain aging (white, conservative) segment of the Facebook population, police and the military are a version of movie stars and superheroes. The clicks are there. While an outlet like Fox News has an ideological motivation, BuzzFeed is likely just covering these videos because they know they drive traffic.

However, while an article about Robert Downey Jr. visiting a child dying of leukemia doesn’t have an impact on the public perception of criminal justice, copaganda does. If a disproportionate number of articles about the police engaging in “random” acts of kindness pop up in your feed, while stories about police corruption or abuse are suppressed or go uncovered completely, the public perception of the police eventually looks far different than the reality.

If the only image you ever see of cops is them lip-syncing to Bruno Mars, that’s going to affect the way you view the next story you see about police shooting an unarmed Black person.

The police are winning this PR battle and they are using it to fight against the gains of activist groups. Blue Lives Matter bumper stickers and flags are adorning cars and hanging from houses across the country. The energy behind this ill-named movement has led to the introduction of “Blue Lives Matter bills” on a local and national level. These bills criminalize protest and exacerbate the very racial inequalities that the Movement for Black Lives is trying to fight in the first place.

The Protect and Serve Act, which made it to the floor of the House of Representatives in May, is a perfect example of just how pernicious these bills can be. The legislation would functionally make police officers a protected class, rendering charges like “assaulting an officer” hate crimes. As we’ve seen across the country, protesters are often saddled with trumped-up charges; many fear a bill like this would functionally criminalize protest.

In a piece about these laws—which have already been passed by several states—the Intercept’s Natasha Lennard explains its larger implications:

“By explicitly modeling their bill on existing hate crimes statutes, the Senate has denigrated the very notion of persecution. Treating cops as a persecuted minority equates a uniform—which you can take off—with skin color, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. And as the Blue Lives Matter bills’ sobriquet suggests, this legislation is a direct a response to anger over the actual—if not quite legally defined—hate crimes against black people, perpetrated by those in blue.”

At first glance, it might feel like a stretch to argue that videos of police officers breakdancing lead to legislation like this, but proposed bills are made and broken in the court of public opinion. If law enforcement officials are presented to the public as the smiling faces behind viral memes and lip-sync battles while their victims are described as “thugs,” “demons,” and monsters, then the media is doing the work of right-wing reactionaries for them.

The police officer said it to the New York Times: These videos are meant to encourage the public to see law enforcement in “another way.” This means that they are meant to shift the conversation away from police brutality and deny the grievances of its victims.

Copaganda is by no means a new phenomenon. In 2016, media critic Adam Johnson outlined the eight most popular types of copaganda in media. While he discussed issues like “pinkwashing” (playing up the LGBTQ friendliness of the police force) and the smearing of victims of police violence, two of the items he mentioned, “saving kittens” stories and “Christmas gift surprise” stunts, are age-old versions of what we’re seeing today.

Copaganda is so old, you can find it in Nick at Night reruns. The media has been regurgitating police PR since the days of Andy Griffith, and now in the era of Brooklyn 99, it is just being used more often and more effectively.

What are we going to do about copaganda? It’s not necessarily practical to burst the bubble of your Blue Lives-loving grandmother the next time she shares a video of “Cop Pool Karaoke” (we regret to inform you we didn’t make that up), but one step we can take is actively recognizing that these videos don’t exist in a vacuum.

These videos are part of a carefully orchestrated PR campaign, and like any branded content, you can choose not to click on it or hide it from your feed.

from Ricky Schneiderus Curation https://www.dailydot.com/irl/cop-viral-videos/