#ring doorbells

[toloveviceforitself]

Assuming for a second that this is a real person and not an ad for those security devices (silly assumption I know)...

I'm also kindof captivated by how much this sucks at what it sets out to do. Your security is only as strong as the least secure entry point, right? If you live in a castle and you reinforce your north wall until it's three times as strong as the other walls, all you're doing is making sure that any invader with half a brain will come from the south.

This woman is reinforcing the locks and setting all kinds of alarms on her doors... and her windows are literally right there. All of that door hardware is just making sure that any home invader will come through one of the many windows. This is exactly why homes that are in "high crime" areas and which are (rightly or wrongly) sincerely afraid of break-ins put BARS on their windows. Because all the door security in the world doesn't change anything if someone can easily enter your house by breaking a single pane of glass.

And I think that gets at a really fascinating piece of all this. Because so many of the solutions that would actually be effective at repelling a home invader (putting aside the question of whether its reasonable to worry about such an invader) (it isn't) are class-coded, right? Window bars and door chains are for poor people in "bad" neighborhoods, and so even though they're really the only solutions that make sense, they're off-limits.

White suburbanites have backed themselves into this weird little fear corner where they're absolutely petrified of "crime" but the aesthetics of being afraid of crime would diminish their status. The aesthetics of wealthy suburbanites are exactly those of someone who doesn't have to worry about crime. So they need all these weird ineffective gadgets to act as just a little bit of a safety blanket that none of their neighbors can see. You can't drill a chain into the door or get a heavier-than-usual lock, you need portable lock reinforcements and alarms that you can remove if one of the neighbors comes over. There's no aesthetically-compatible solution for the windows so you just try not to think about them. You're scared all the time but you can't admit it to your neighbor who, being a white suburbanite, is probably just as scared as you.

I dunno what this means exactly, but it's interesting, isn't it?

[ludwigplayingthetrombone]

on that gai week 2024 grind already

[pipedreame]

this post but it’s Tim and Danny

Tim came across a weird symbol during a case and he’s run into a dead end with it. He’s taken to doodling it as he thinks and one night it gets particularly bad and he’s probably drawn it like a hundred times as he mentally goes over all the details of whatever case he’s working and then BAM there’s a glowing green (Lazarus Pit green, oh shit) swirling vortex and someone, no, something, is crawling out of it and —

“Okay, enough! I’m here!! What the FUCK do you want?”

It’s a… teenager? With glowing green eyes and white hair and he’s… floating? and super hot What the fuck.

Tim: What the fuck.

Danny: No that’s my line. What the fuck. Do you want?

Tim: Uhhh —

Danny, looking around: Wait holy shit is this the Batcave!??

[thundersarts]

Hands slip up from Regulus' waist to his shoulders, to the back of his neck, diving in the grown curls at his nape before sliding to cup his cheeks. James does it so reverently. Not like he's holding something fragile, or fickle. Regulus always hated being perceived like that– like something that needs protection, needs to be saved, that needs care and to be coddled. He's never even said out loud, but, somehow, James knows.

James doesn't do any of that. No. James holds him like he's precious.

James likes to care for what and who he holds close to his heart. He likes to protect it, and surely likes to pamper, to help, to care. But none of that is out of necessity, nor responsibility. James holds him simply because he wants to.

He looked at Regulus and thought, I like that. I'll cherish it.

[murdrdocs]

i miss my stinka butt :(

[ms-scarletwings]

Do you think Horvitz did multiple takes of this and they carefully decided this was the best one or did they just give him one go and committed to whatever happened

[morganbritton132]

I think it’d be really funny if before he became Robin, Tim saw Batman doing some shit he didn’t like and was like, “Hmm, gotta fix that.”

Then went about it in the most-annoying-kid way possible.

Like, Tim sees Batman send Robin home even though Jason wasn’t sick (he would know) and didn’t have a test (he’d know this too). So the next morning, he skateboards up to Wayne Manor when he knows Jason is at school, Alfred is doing a grocery run, and Bruce is most likely trying to catch up on sleep.

He rings the doorbell seven times.

Bruce watches on a security monitor after being woken up as his neighbor’s kid ding dong ditches him and then takes off down the driveway on his skateboard. He’s so baffled by it that he doesn’t even ask himself why the kid isn’t in school.

This happens four more times before Bruce makes the connection and thinks, “This has something to do with Batman.”

[thatsbelievable]

[abundantbelly]

Pre-takeaway tummy c:

[tarn-ation]

OPEN THE NOOR-

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts - Halloween Town

[thundersarts]

When he feels himself being pulled forward, by gravity or James, it doesn't matter. Regulus goes willingly. James presses a kiss to his forehead, then the warmth of his lips are gone too soon. Regulus wants it back, he needs more of it, needs those very same lips on his instead, and his thoughts must be clear on his expression, because James smiles as soon as their eyes meet again and are filled with mirth. And, oh, that smile. It brings a three-worded confession to the tip of his tongue, a truth way too soon to be spilled. James keeps them so close their noses brush, then whispers, "Pick you up tomorrow?"

a short secret relationship fic for james' birthday that i (ashamedly) forgot to post on tumblr :3

porch light gleams and doorbell rings

[senselessalchemist]

Bow problems (+ other nonsense)

[whyyjakee]

POV: you get reeeally unlucky on extermination day

"knock knock! any sinner home?!

[alexotls]

[blueiscoool]

Meteorite Strike Captured by Doorbell Camera in Canada

A doorbell camera on a Canadian home captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth as it crashed into a couple’s walkway.

When Laura Kelly and her partner returned home after an evening walk in July, they were surprised to find their walkway littered with dust and strange debris, according to the Meteoritical Society.

They checked their security camera and saw something slamming against their entrance way, producing a cloud of smoke and a crackle.

The pair reported what they found to the University of Alberta's Meteorite Reporting System and the curator Chris Herd, who examined samples of the debris to confirm its interstellar origins.

Meteorites are bits of space rock that hit Earth after surviving a trip through its scorching atmosphere.

About 43,500 kilograms of similar debris strikes Earth every day, according to NASA, but is much more likely to plunge into an ocean than onto someone's front stoop.

While cameras have captured meteors streaking through the sky, it's rare to capture the sound of a complete meteorite strike on video and this footage is believed to be a first.

The space rock, officially registered Monday, was named Charlottetown after the city on Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada where it struck.