#it says boston

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[gyudons]

what if we were an elite goalie tandem who gave each other hugs after winning games. and what if i sat half-naked in the locker room as cameras filmed me before the game. and i grabbed you by your hip pad and dragged you close. and you had a little happy giggle about it. and we were both boys.

[uncanny-tranny]

Once you stop thinking about queer people's labels as strict indications of what's in their pants and who they do/don't bed and instead view queer people's labels as how they interact with the world, you'll find that you'll get along with queer people better and treat them better, I think.

[minhieu-art]

please say hello to jing yuan my beautiful wife

[marzipanandminutiae]

WAIT WAIT GUYS SHUT UP

HAVE I ACTUALLY FOUND MLLE. FROU-FROU???

okay so Mlle. Frou-Frou was a doll raffled off in Boston in 1871 to benefit widows and orphans of the Franco-Prussian War. she had an elegant wardrobe and moral guardians lost their minds over her. or at least one did. writing for the New York Tribune- which is rich considering that NYC prided itself on being a free-thinking and cosmopolitan city, and Boston had a freaking official censorship board -the unknown journalist said:

Men and women surround the doll, three deep, and gloat upon the exhibition as they would gloat upon a fashionable “opening.” “Stunning!” exclaim the men. “Perfectly splendid!” exclaim the women; while the discontented few transfer their disgust of Frou-Frou to disgust of human beings who can countenance so flagrant an immorality; for anything that debases youth is immoral, and the child who falls heir to that doll cannot fail to learn more lessons in frivolity than can be unlearned in years. As the twig is bent the tree is inclined. Will the little miss be content to wear calico when her doll wears silk? Will she be satisfied with two or three dresses and one hat and one pair of boots when her doll has dozens? Will she wear cotton gloves when her doll scorns everything but Paris kid? Will she retain the simplicity of childhood when her doll is perpetually poisoning her eyes with a complete picture of the girl of the period? Children are so like monkeys in their imitative propensities as almost to lead one to believe in Darwin’s theory regarding the origin of species, and whoever would bring them up in the way they should go will as quickly open the front door to small-pox as to that breeder of moral disease, Mlle. Frou-Frou.

um. wow. over a charity raffle. earlier in the article they said that the doll would "do more harm to Boston than the money from it can ever do good to France."

cut to: Paris, which is literally under military siege and full of starving people

right

anyway, a doll came up for auction at Theriault's a few years ago with a trunk and clothes labeled "Mlle. Frou-Frou Boston" and "Frou-Frou Boston 1871." the doll in the article is described as made of wax (meaning the head) with a stuffed kid-leather body, and this one has a porcelain head. but it's possible that the writer wasn't well-informed as to the nature of dolls and didn't understand the difference

the article mentions twelve outfits where this doll has five, and more accessories are referenced in 1871 than she currently possesses. however...a lot happens over the centuries. a dress of pink moire with elaborate lace is mentioned, and while the skirt that the doll wears in the photo is a bronzy color, it IS adorned with lace and could potentially have faded from pink (I'd have to look at the seams to know for certain)

now, the other possibility is that the pieces in question belonged to Mlle Frou-Frou and were parted from her at some point, and this is a different doll to whose trousseau they came. it's difficult to imagine anyone breaking up the collection of such a fine doll, but children aren't as uncharitable as we imagine sometimes- things get traded and given away in the course of play

but most of the doll's undergarments are labeled with "Frou-Frou Boston 1871," and since it sounds like they fit this specific doll pretty well...

we may have found her at last

[bellcentreghost]

behind these (crazy) hazel eyes

Jeremy Swayman - Faceoff: Inside the NHL (2024- )

[jerswayman]

LOVE THY GOALIE. GIVE THY GOOD BOY HEAD PATS.

[falloutnewnobody]

i love fallout 4 with my whole heart but it's so fucking funny to me that the only fallout game with romancable companions is the one where your character not only has a cannonical spouse, but said cannonical dead spouse was murdered right in front of them like (form their perspective) extremely recently.

[emergingghost]

okay every time i watch this i actually feel insane and giddy like someone please pick me up off the floor

[technofinch]

Who wants to fund my remake of National Treasure where they have to steal the Constitution but instead of that stupid old paper in DC it's Old Ironsides, the USS Constitution

[juvinadelgreko]

piper and colin greenmantle are so fucking funny because what do you mean the death of niall lynch, a living god, and the subsequent torment of his son, was orchestrated by a fucking soccer mom and her harangued husband posing as said son’s latin teacher?

[inkskinned]

this is just my opinion but i think any good media needs obsession behind it. it needs passion, the kind of passion that's no longer "gentle scented candle" and is now "oh shit the house caught on fire". it needs a creator that's biting the floorboards and gnawing the story off their skin. creators are supposed to be wild animals. they are supposed to want to tell a story with the ferocity of eating a good stone fruit while standing over the sink. the same protective, strange instinct as being 7 and making mud potions in pink teacups: you gotta get weird with it.

good media needs unhinged, googling-at-midnight kind of energy. it needs "what kind of seams are invented on this planet" energy and "im just gonna trust the audience to roll with me about this" energy. it needs one person (at least) screaming into the void with so much drive and energy that it forces the story to be real.

sometimes people are baffled when fanfic has some stunning jaw-dropping tattoo-it-on-you lines. and i'm like - well, i don't go here, but that makes sense to me. of fucking course people who have this amount of passion are going to create something good. they moved from a place of genuine love and enjoyment.

so yeah, duh! saturday cartoons have banger lines. random street art is sometimes the most precious heart-wrenching shit you've ever seen. someone singing on tiktok ends up creating your next favorite song. youtubers are giving us 5 hours of carefully researched content. all of this is the impossible equation to latestage capitalism. like, you can't force something to be good. AI cannot make it good. no amount of focus-group testing or market research. what makes a story worth listening to is that someone cares so much about telling it - through dance, art, music, whatever it takes - that they are just a little unhinged about it.

one time my friend told me he stayed up all night researching how many ways there are to peel an orange. he wrote me a poem that made me cry on public transportation. the love came through it like pith, you know? the words all came apart in my hands. it tasted like breakfast.

[eddiediazdefensesquad]

like i know that buck is a central figure in eddie figuring out his sexuality, but I hope... I beg.... that the build up is all eddie. let eddie do the work. let eddie think and digest and figure it out on his own after he realizes how much his upbringing has impacted his self worth. how much his parents' teachings have caused him to feel so much shame. he needs to realize it's okay to share the burden with someone else instead of feeling like the world is on his shoulders. let him blow open the doors of that repressed mind. and only once eddie figures out there is more to life than how he has been living, once he is ready to share the most vulnerable pieces of himself, fold buck in. like a baked good... gently without overmixing... but please let eddie be the star of his own story.

[lifemod17]

The 8th wonder of the world: Andrew during sunset

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Boston Calling Festival || 05/24/2024

[flimsy-spine]

my favorite madney scenes: [43/?] ⇢ Survivors, 4.14

[homicidalbrunette]

Here's 3 minutes of Katya and Trixie acting like an old married couple