#mentions of school shootings

[violetsixx1981]

Kevin, we need to talk!! Part 2

Word count 809

WARNING ⚠️ READER FINDS KEVINS PLANS TO SHOOT UP THEIR SCHOOL!!!

“SHIT, babe, wake up,” Kevin yelled, jumping out of the bed. You yawned and opened your eyes. “What’s going on,” you asked? “My mom is home, I just heard her car door,” Kevin said as he threw his clothes back on.”Oh fuck,” you said jumping up and scrambling to find your clothes. “You get dressed, I’m going to go distract my mom. I’ll text you when it’s okay to come downstairs,” Kevin said as he shut the door behind him.

You got dressed and sat down at Kevin’s desk. Leaning all the way back you knocked the back of the chair into the dresser that was next to it. You heard something hit the floor. Swiveling the chair around you noticed that a notebook had been knocked free from between the desk and his dresser. Shimmying your hand into the gap, you grabbed it. You were just going to put it back, but the cover said KEEP OUT, and let’s be honest you’d never been good at following instructions.

You opened the notebook and found a list of your classmates, noting that they were all the super popular, and super smart kids. You flipped to the next page and found a sketched diagram of the school with all the exits marked. You were starting to get a sinking feeling in your stomach. The next page was a drawing of metal bike locks and a bow and arrow. You knew that Kevin loved archery, and he was very good at it. It was actually the reason you’d noticed him.

He’d been on the archery field at school, his face had been in such a state of concentration. The way his shirt rode up his stomach when he pulled the bowstring. He was gorgeous.

You flipped to the next page and your entire world came crashing down. There in black and white was a full laid out plan to shoot up the school with his bow and arrows. There was even a part about using the metal bike locks to lock the students in. You sat there staring at the notebook in your lap, you couldn’t breathe.

“Babe? I texted you. My mom is bringing in groceries. So if we head down now we can just pretend we were in the living room the whole time,” Kevin said as he walked into the room. You jumped up and the notebook went flying across the room. Kevin walked over and picked it up. “Where did you get this,” Kevin asked, as if he didn’t know exactly where you’d gotten it from. “I knocked the chair into your desk and it fell,” you said. Kevin looked pissed, more pissed than you’d ever seen him. Even more pissed than when Nathan Mercer had grabbed your ass in the hallway. He slowly walked over to the desk and put it back where it came from. All the while you stayed against the far wall, unsure of what to do. "Kevin? P-please tell me that’s not what I think it is,” you said, stuttering. Kevin sighed. “I think you should go,” he said sitting down on his bed. “What? No! Kevin, please talk to me,” you said. “No please go,” he said. “I’m not going anywhere,” you said crossing your arms. “Y/N, GET OUT,” he yelled causing you to jump. “Why,” you asked biting back tears. “BECAUSE IF YOU DON’T GO I’M GOING TO HURT YOU, AND FOR SOME FUCKING REASON I DON’T WANT TO DO THAT ANYMORE!! SO DO US BOTH A FAVOR AND GET THE FUCK OUT,” Kevin roared. You quickly grabbed all your stuff and ran out of his room and down the stairs. Tears were clouding your vision and you nearly collided with his mom bringing in groceries. You muttered an apology and ran out the door. “Y/N? Are you okay, sweetheart,” she yelled after you. But you didn’t turn around, you just kept running until you got to your car. You jumped in throwing your things into the passenger seat. Starting the car you pealed out of his drive way, not even bothering to put on your seat belt.

“What did he mean by he doesn’t want to hurt me, anymore,” you said aloud. Then it suddenly made sense. When you had first started trying to talk to Kevin he was very cold towards you. Almost like he hated you. Every time you tried to talk to him he always seemed angry even if he’d been smiling or laughing just before. You’d almost given up trying to ask him out entirely when out of nowhere he had asked you out. “Was he planning on hurting me,” you asked yourself out loud? It was then you realized that the rumors were true, Kevin Khatchadourian was in fact a sociopath. You were in love with a sociopath. You had just lost your virginity to a sociopath.

[destielmemenews]

"The Onion’s bid was backed by the families of eight victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and one first responder. It also will have an exclusive advertising deal with the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety."

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[incorrectbatfam]

Imagine Damian writing Tim's resumé the same way he complimented him in this week's WFA

Timothy J. Drake-Wayne | 555-555-0719 | redrobin3@oracle.edu | 1007 Mountain Drive, Gotham City NJ 60035

Education

Brentwood Academy (1990–1996)

Gotham High School (1996–1999)

Miscellaneous practical learning (1999–present)

Duolingo Klingon (1/1/2009 – 1/2.5/2009)

Skills

Bisexuality

Standing on leg(s)

Occasionally drinking liquids

Etc.

Experience

Stalker | self-employed (1996–2004)

Routinely snuck out of house

Photographed local vigilantes

Matched the butts

Robin | Batman Operations (2004–2007)

Prevented Batman's self-destruction

Intercepted school shooting

Wore pants

Team Leader | Young Justice (2005–present)

Managed Superboy and Impulse

Embezzled a Batmobile

Donned a mask under a mask

Red Robin | Batman Operations (2007–present)

Rescued Batman from timestream

Involuntarily donated spleen

Faked own assassination attempt

CEO | Wayne Enterprises (2007–present)

Drank a coffee

Worked with breathing humans

Signed name with a stamp

Older Brother | Wayne Family (2008–always)

Allowed younger brother to steal clothes

Gave younger brother bite of snack

Taught younger brother curse words

Helped younger brother with improv beekeeping

Provided younger brother with The Talk

Picked younger brother up from school

Showed younger brother how to photoshop

Sprayed younger brother with garden hose

Assisted younger brother with science project

Drove younger brother to petting zoo

Made younger brother at least six smoothies

Found younger brother a trash panda

Took younger brother for Batburgers

Consoled younger brother after bad day

Bought younger brother new backpack

Forgave younger brother for past

(cover letter below the cut)

Dear Hiring Manager,

Employ me.

Sincerely, Timothy

[theresamouseinmyhouse]

tbh i do get a little bothered by the notion that tim took the first shot he had to drop out of school because he hated school and didnt wanna do it and all of that bc i feel like it ignores the probably very important context that he dropped out after his dad (as well as steph-or at least, he was led to believe, in the same week) died, also he was in a school shooting. He did attempt to go to a school in bludhaven but the kids there were so wildly insensitive about the shooting that tim dropped out under the pretense of his "uncle" homeschooling him. In his oyl era, he /did/ go back to school, and it provided him some form of normalcy. Tim was a normal kid, he wasnt crazy about school but he still went to school and it helped him feel like a normal kid, something he desperately clung to. He only dropped out again to do his Brucequest, in an era where he was notably Not Doing Well (which. Yeah. he wasnt doing well bc he was like 17 and almost everyone in his support system was dead, he recently had hits put out on him, got blown up, and backstabbed by his not-dead-ex, he couldnt support his theory that bruce was alive and was extremely stressed about that, and he didnt know wtf he was doing. I love him btw.) Basically tim dropping out of school was a signifier that he wasnt doing well and he was giving up on the normality that he tried to cling to and im a bit of a nitpicky person who gets irked by minor things

[miiilowo]

deeply funny to see people complain about people being edgy in the postal fandom. Especially in regards to the first game. Like. Postal fans? Edgy? The 'guy who's either possessed by a demon or schizophrenic or both going on a genocidal rampage using exclusively guns, explosives and fire' game? The 'guy who tries and fails to shoot up a school' game? That game? The THE EARTH IS HUNGRY. IT'S HEART THROBS AND DEMANDS A CLEANSING game has edgy fans? You're irritated that the fandom for the attempted school shooting game is edgy? Postal? Postal 1997?

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Look, my local news stations have been running stories about school shootings pretty much 24/7 lately. The simple fact of the matter is that I am so, so tired of kids being murdered and the US is the only country in the world where this is the norm. I can't take it anymore. Things need to change.

[pseudocyance]

This is not a joke. We have to change.

We have to fix this. This can't keep happening.

This is the closest I've ever been to a shooting. I live in Wisconsin. I was in school when this happened. I don't know any of the victims, and I send all of my best wishes to their families.

Fix this. Fix this, America.

[hotvintagepoll]

Oh no I missed coffee night!!!!

I wanted to ask you about Hitchcock 😔 If you're willing to answer, which movies of his do you think are overrated and which do you think are actually good? He's my most watched director (because film school) but I only genuinely like a few of his films and always disagreed with my classmates about which ones were the best

I feel like I'm holding up a Daffy Duck style sign that says "shoot me" because Hitchcock is so well thought of by cinephiles versus me, the basic horny mod who watches movies with hot people in them. With that said, I remember Rope, Dial M for Murder, North by Northwest, and To Catch a Thief all left me a bit flat, because I felt like he was prioritizing pushing technical limits or creating extravagant images over deeper characters and relationships. I love a good technical limit-pushing, but it needs to serve the story! And sometimes I feel like he has an idea he wants to try or an image he wants to show and puts so much focus on developing it that characters' reality and interest kind of falls by the wayside—they become pawns navigating his situations, instead of interesting characters in their own right.

To be fair, this is more a characteristic of his later work than his early work—The Lady Vanishes is one of my favorite movies, and I remember Notorious and Spellbound both being enjoyable when I watched them a few years ago. Again, basic film watcher here. Don't show this post to the Criterion collection.

[rhys-ravenfeather]

I know everyone and their dog has already talked about the Luigi Mangione and Briana Boston thing at this point...and I will admit upfront that this is based somewhat off a post I saw earlier, but you know what? I feel like putting in my own two cents.

There's an online article I've read a couple times now about the father of one of the little boys who was killed in the Sandy Hook shooting. If anyone is really curious, I can DM you the article, but just a heads-up...it's not a fun read. Just...the bile that this man, this grieving father, who has had to walk by his six-year-old son's empty bedroom, knowing that he's never going to see his child again had to face, just for choosing to go public with his story--so many people accused him and his family of lying, of being actors paid by the government, one person even said that they 'knew' his wife was an actor because, and literally only because, she wore lipstick to her son's funeral. I really, really, wish I was joking about that.

The dad founded a non-profit organization that I now feel obligated to post the link for, in the hopes that this man and his family can find the justice and peace they so rightly deserve after someone came to their child's school with a gun to make literal children pay for his problems: https://honrnetwork.org/

I hate guns.

And I really hate when people use the 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people!' argument after every new school shooting, or other tragedy involving innocent people being gunned down, so they can hold onto their precious, precious guns.

But I'm not shedding any tears over a CEO who killed many more people, be it indirectly or even directly, through his greed, apathy, and selfishness.

I don't feel any sympathy for his family, whose wealth was built on the suffering of common people.

And the fact that for once, someone went directly to the source of his problems instead of misdirecting his anger towards innocents, and the only ones grieving are other billionaires, and not one person has brought up that tired old argument, speaks volumes.

[just-antithings]

This just in, antis using a school shooting to say how "fiction affects reality" when the DUMBASS ACKNOWLEDGES THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT EDITS OF REAL PEOPLE THAT IS NOT FICTION

like not only was this fucking tasteless and insensitive but they HONEST TO GOD don't even get it right

[weirdo-from-bonesborough]

The fact that people feel the need to invent trauma for Tim when canonically this dude has two parents die and another parent go insane and maybe also die when the city fucking blew up and then the fourth parent went missing and was assumed to be dead and Tim ALSO watched his friend die in a school shooting and then his girlfriend died in a gang war and then two of his best friends also died and these are just the big things like remember when he caught the plague? I’m just saying this guy has in fact seen some shit we don’t need to completely ruin Bruce and Jack and Janet to give him some whump

[salparadiselost]

Very very interesting! So what’s Jason’s godling-good based off of?

Jason was a godling created in 1212 during the Children's Crusade. He has always represented children dying for unworthy causes. Children failed by their parents, their governments, the people that were supposed to protect them. He's a god based in a tragedy, though modernity did make it so that was rarer and he was rather happy being small and unpowerful.

But godhoods can shift. Gods can find themselves overseeing something they had no intention to be a part of the new thing is closely related enough. Jason, rather unwilling, adopts school shootings into his godhood and he hates it. He doesn't want the power that comes from being a god of something that is relatively common. He doesn't want his power to be increasing. He doesn't want any of this, and yet, he's the most powerful of Bruce's godlings at the moment.

[anxiouslowercase]

sas rh: let eoin survive the fall au » a tale of two lieutenants

[reallemonmeat]

wanna make a post abt this too real quick:

i already dont post much! but i kind of dont like interacting w the postal fandom,,,

dont worry if you arent like. a weirdo school shooter liker or whatever ur fine . it's just. that on top of that it's just generally kind of been influencing(?) my delusion shit or whatever,, like i love postal and im makes me go crazy in a good way but like. i miss never being into a fandom!! i wasnt into the fandom when i was 10-16 (for obvious reason when it comes to the under 13 stuff but yk 😭) and i Kind Of Miss That (nostalgia!!! + previous reasons stated)

erm yeah.

also wanna state i dont always really fully check the people i follow sometimes, and i especially dont when i reblog honestly. but gonna have to start doing that if i wanna reblog postal stuff. bc it turns out a lot of people end up being. fans of tcc/school shooters n shit. and i can be completely unaware of that. people shouldnt have to skim every single blog just to reblog one little image!!!!!!!!

i might still post art for like... ocs (ive started making my own characters!) or horror movies i like or whatever. i just dont really like the postal fandom.. but thid post probably doesnt matter since ive been kind of lacking in posting art here generally since i havent drawn any postal art im proud of.

oh yeah forgot to add that weird. explosion of proshippers that tried to.. turn postal dude into an offending pedo??? whaht

tldr; me like postal. me no like postal fandom. me still post stuff but might not be postal related as much anymore. womp womp?