#once chicago

[marvelousgeeks]

Chicago Fire has been the heart of the operation for as long as it’s been on the air with all other shows in the One Chicago universe. It’s the series that centers around a legitimate found family, making even the darkest moments on the show worthwhile when it matters. Yet, that hasn’t been the case for most of Season 11, which is profoundly concerning when we examine the other shows in the universe.

Taylor Kinney has every right to announce a leave of absence in the same way that Jesse Lee Soffer could leave Chicago P.D. Yet, the problem here lies in the detail that One Chicago doesn’t know how to write off characters without destroying years of development. It begs the question of why female characters aren’t allowed to be happy, looking at Violet’s horrific grief in losing Evan Hawkins and everything that happens with Upstead. (Let’s not even mention Cindy’s trauma or everything that happened with Erin Lindsay and Kim Burgess.) Now, the same fate is dangled in front of viewers as Kelly Severide lies to Stella Kidd, undermining all the development he’s gone through never to do such a thing.

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[otter-love-asl]

Crossover Fics Master List

One Chicago Crossovers

Chicago PD & Chicago Med

Chicago PD & Chicago Fire

All Chicagos

WolfEnt Crossovers

TBA

9-1-1 Crossovers

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[parrythefloof]

✨Razzle Dazzle✨

you should go listen to the song fits this boy so much!!

[aceofwhump]

@whumpgifathon | Day 13: "Aesthetic" - Bruises

9-1-1 5x04, Chicago P.D. 3x01, The Mentalist 5x08 , Legends of Tomorrow 1x10, Superman & Lois 1x09, Once Upon a Time 2x12, Downton Abbey 3x09, Grimm 1x08, Wild Cards 1x09

[genshin-impact-updates]

GENSHIN CONCERT TOUR Details Announced

Dear Traveler, amidst the gentle breeze, a familiar melody reaches you. The tales of your journey will harmonize into notes, bringing us together in real life.

Please visit the official event website to learn more about the sessions and ticketing information for the GENSHIN CONCERT.

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[a-little-bit-of-tradition]

Goodbye Jay Halstead & Hailey Upton ❤️

[notbecauseofvictories]

My best friend and I had a call recently---she’s back with her family for a bit helping out with some hometown stuff. As part of the stuff, she’s been going through a (deceased) relative’s scrapbook, compiled in the American Midwest circa 1870-1900 and featuring mostly cut-out figures from the ads of the day.

She talked about how painstaking this relative’s work was. (Apparently the relative was careful to cut out every finger, every cowlick; this was by no means carelessly or hastily assembled.) But she also she talked about how---the baby on the baking soda ad is ugly, it is so ugly, why anyone would clip this heinously ugly illustrated baby and paste it into a scrapbook? Why would you save the (terribly told, boring) ghost story that came with your box of soap?

(Why include these things in the first place? we asked each other. ”There’s a kind of anti-capitalism to it,” she mused.)

And we discussed that for a bit---how most of the images, stories, artists, and ads were local, not national; they’re pulled from [Midwestern state] companies’ advertisements in [Midwestern state] papers, magazines, and products. As a consequence, you’re not looking at Leyendecker or Norman Rockwell illustrations, but Johann Spatz-Smith from down the road, who took a drawing class at college.

(College is the state college, and he came home on weekends and in the summer to help with the farm or earn some money at the plant.)

But it also inspired a really interesting conversation about how---we have access to so much more art, better and more professional art, than any time in history. As my bff said, all you have to do to find a great, technically proficient and lovely representational image of a baby, is to google the right keywords. But for a girl living in rural [Midwestern state] of the late 1800s, it was the baking soda ad, or literal actual babies. There was no in-between, no heading out to the nearby art museum to study oil paintings of mother and child, no studying photographs and film---such new technologies hadn’t diffused to local newspapers and circulars yet, and were far beyond the average person’s means. But cheap, semi-amateur artists? Those were definitely around, scattered between towns and nearby smallish cities.

It was a good conversation, and made me think about a couple things---the weird entitlement that “professional” and expensive art instills in viewers, how it artificially depresses the appetite for messy unprofessional art, including your own; the way that this makes your tastes narrower, less interesting, less open.

By that I mean---maybe the baby isn’t ugly! Maybe you’ve just seen too many photorealistic babies. Maybe you haven’t really stopped to contemplate that your drawing of a baby (however crude, ugly, or limited) is the best drawing of a baby you can make, and the act of drawing that lumpen, ugly baby is more sacred and profoundly human than even looking at a Mary Cassatt painting.

And even if that isn’t the case....there was this girl in [American Midwestern state] for whom it was very, very important that she capture every finger, curl, and bit of shading for that ugly soap ad baby. And some one hundred years later, her great-something-or-other took pains to preserve her work---because how terribly human it is, to seek out all the art we can find that resonates with us, preserve it, adore it.

It might be the most human impulse we have.

[capsfriendly]

girl help, they’re making the child do cinematic parallels

[princess-olaf]

Ok, enough time has passed - time for unpopular opinion

Baby talk in firehouse.

When I was watching the premier live I was writing down some notes - I sent them to my friends. Don’t ask 😂

But when I read them again I saw something - I’ll say more in a few paragraphs. Or I’ll show it to you.

And then I talked with my friend and she said the same thing.

That scene started so good. Stella was being honest, she made sure he knew how she was feeling. And then…

And I hadn’t said anything because it seemed like it was just me but apparently I’m not the only one who feels like that.

First of all, Stella shouldn’t apologise to Kelly for not being ready to have a baby. It’s the most important decision in life, she has every right to want to wait. It’s not a reason to apologise!

And Kelly? Come on, we’ve seen just few scenes before how well he knows her and that he knows what to do to help her feel better. Yeah he told her that she didn’t need to apologise but it’s the bare minimum he should do! Why he stood there like that?! What was with touching her shirt? He should hug her and tell her not to worry about it. It was sooo awkward and unnatural - we keep saying how they constantly touch each other and do it without hesitation. It looks natural every time. But here? @district447 said it perfectly - he stood there like a robot.

I really hope that their next conversation will be better - longer than 45 seconds and that Kelly will act like he does every time when he’s around his wife. Caring, loving and supportive.

Is it too much to ask?

[chicago-pigeons]

The Watcher

[sharkboy305]

I think I just need Brett Dalton in general

[cynfuldelights]

Wardens: Cops By Another Name

So, in writing my Dresden fanfic I've once again stumbled upon another interesting quandary in the Dresdenverse and that's just how remarkably pro-cop the series is. Not in like, its representation of the Chicago PD which someone tried to point out to me was not "copaganda" because there were "good cops AND bad cops" Okay. Let's talk about Wardens then. So, Wardens unequivocally are the police of the wizard world at least for human mages. They answer to the authority of the White Council and the Head Warden, they're allowed to use lethal force in order to enforce those laws, and members are generally pulled from the populace policed (e.g. other wizards). With maybe the exception of Morgan, they're all generally portrayed the same was as the CPD are. They're also about as easy to corrupt and abuse their power as normal police, are given extrajudicial power to murder pretty much whoever they want if given a good enough "reason", and are able to carry out that act using a means of force unavailable to the rest of the population they police. Warden Donald Morgan IN THE FIRST BOOK, deliberately tries to misinterpret the Laws of Magic in order to kill Harry, who Morgan sees as a dangerous liability to leave lying around. So he just like. Tries to lie to Harry about how the Law works. Either that or he just doesn't understand the Laws of Magic. Kinda fucked up don't you think? Isn't it even more fucked up that if Harry didn't know about the Laws of Magic, Morgan could've just killed him right there in that Chicago park and the series would've just ended? Like. There's not really a criminal justice system it seems in the White Council aside from the Doom of Damacles, a laughably terrible system, that puts people who want to help reform people instead of kill them in harm's way. The only other trial we see is when a poor kid is laughably fucked up from using mind control magic and we just had to kill the fifteen-year old don't you see??

Like, sure, the Doom of Damacles is obviously a terrible shitty system that you could say is a reflection of how old and backwards the White Council is but so little of the Wardens or even the Laws of Magic are shown in the same light. Like, Morgan, is our "quintessential" bad cop, but like NOTHING BAD HAPPENS TO HIM FOR ABUSING HIS POWER! If anything in the end he's given a heroic death despite the fact that he was a terrible Warden who most definitely killed innocent people. He almost killed Harry!

Not only could he have killed him, he could've killed him easily. All Wardens, after all, are given anti-magic swords, purpose-built to negate the magic of 'renegade' mages and warlocks that they're trying to murder bring to justice. Nobody else is given these. Only Wardens, using a method that only ONE WARDEN knows how to use.

All based on, not the letter of the law, but on Morgan's interpretation of it. Just like cops do. They don't have to actually understand the law. Just try to stomp on anyone they perceive as dangerous. I wonder how it would've gone if Harry wasn't a tall White guy. You think Morgan a guy raised in a different CENTURY doesn't have weird internalized views about people different than him? Y'know. LIKE HARRY?

Plus, like... what would've even happened if he did!? Who would investigate Morgan? Other Wardens?! You think a community as insular as The White Council would actually bother with doing something when a Law of Magic hasn't been broken? Do you think they're going to believe a warlock or Lawbreaker over a wizard and Warden of the White Council? After all, breaking the Law(s of Magic) is one of the most fundamentally evil things you can do. So in order to fix that, we need to use summary execution via military police, no matter if they're a child or an adult.

After all: KILLING SOMEONE WITH AN ANTI-MAGIC SWORD DOESN'T COUNT AS KILLING SOMEONE WITH MAGIC. SO THAT MAKES IT OKAY, DOESN'T IT? (And as an aside, uh, what do you mean killing someone with an anti-magic sword, doesn't count as killing them with magic.

Like, I understand that a certain level of semantic bullshit can be argued with a lot of things in any Fantasy setting but like... What? You're telling me a sword forged with magical properties does not count as killing people with magic, even if its magical properties are used to kill them? Like. If I stab someone with a flaming sword and they burn to death, does that count?)

[naggingatlas]

weird kids

[jongwoosbraceletofteeth]

The way I would sell my soul and my firstborn child for a silt verse edit with 'We Both Reached For The Gun' which switches to a different person drowning with each verse and ending with the finale.

[simplyscarlet]

“Swing your razor wide, Toga, see how well it flits - as it floats across the throats of hypocrites.”

I just think the ending could have done some things a little different.

[zootopiathingz]

Imagine when Alastor gets bored he randomly broadcasts EAS alarms just to scare the shit out of everyone