#taken into consideration

[manorpunk]

[forensicated]

04x48 - Taken Into Consideration

June brings a prisoners belongings through so he can be bailed. He says he doesn't know what he had on him when he was arrested. Tom tells him he signed to say that that was what he had at the time and to take the items and go. He does, as Tom and June exchange knowing glances. "Go home, Kevin!" Tom sighs wearily after Kevin asks what happens if there's things there that don't belong to him because they might be trying to fit him up.

In CID, Jim arrives and is clearly hungover and very tired. "Are you Brahms?" Burnside pauses, leaning in to peer at Jim. "No." In that case, Frank signs Mike and Jim up for an overnight obbo to watch for potential burglars. Jim protests that is a job for uniform but Frank counters by saying that they're easily picked out and so they're going to watch for the night. All night.

Jim goes to 'investigate the back of the houses' aka: take a leak. In doing so he spots a man climbing down a drainpipe with a bright orange carrier. He zips up and they chase him. It's Kevin! "Oh hello!" He says to Jim. In the bag is only pyjamas so Mike snaps at Jim to search him. In his pocket is a large amount of 50ps. Kevin claims he's going to his girlfriends house and the pyjamas are because he's bashful. He's taking the 50ps - from his plastic bottle of whiskey filled with change that he has made into a lamp - to feed his girlfriends electric meter. He climbed out the window because he didn't want to wake his landlord. Mike sends June and Viv to go and check up to see if Kevin does live in that house - he does! The landlord doesn't like him though because he owes money.

Kevin asks him to take him to his girlfriends house so he can prove what he's told them. Daphne welcomes him in, telling him it's eggs for breakfast. "... Is she your mother?" "No!" Kevin glares. He thanks them for the lift and tries to go in but Jim stops him and heads inside himself, shouting for Mike when he finds lots of electricals.

Kevin is due to be moving in with Daphne and claims that's why they have 2 of everything. Kevin tries to do a runner as they call for a van but doesn't get further than the corridor.

"Oh hello Sergeant Penny!" Kevin greets Tom as he's brought in with Daphne. He's utterly unphased about being in Custody again, Daphne tells Tom she has no pockets, only her handkerchief which she keeps up a sleeve. Tom tells her she can keep it and leads Mike and Jim outside to talk. He wants something more than suspicion to have to keep Kevin in again. Mike tells him he's tried to do a runner twice after being caught coming out of a window of a property with his pockets filled with 50ps.

Tom asks June to sit in with Dashers whilst he interviews Kevin to make sure he doesn't swing for him as Tom doesn't think he's had the pleasure of Kevin before. Jim and Mike are adamant that they caught him in the act and that he must have been fiddling meters.

Frank tells the boys there's been too many of the burglaries in the surrounding area and that he's getting pressure from up high on it so he wants it wrapping up tightly.

"We having some sounds are we?" Kevin asks as Mike unwraps a new tape to record his interview. Mike does the formalities and reads the caution to Kevin. "What have you got to say for yourself?" Kevin leads towards the mike on the wall. "'Ello mum!" he says, laughing after.

Daphne looks around CID. "It's all a bit of an adventure this isn't it!" Jim snaps at her to concentrate and asks her what Kevin does. She says she doesn't know and then asks about Frank's office. Daphne claims what men do is a mystery to her and then she leans in. "... You look really tired."

Mike asks Kevin where he was the day before. Kevin says that's easy, he was there at the station. Mike asks about that night and Kevin says that no, he wasn't at the station then. Mike asks where he was that night and Kevin says he was packing and counting the money from the piggybank lamp he made in night school. Mike asks about the day before yesterday and Kevin looks thoughtful. "I could have been at me mums." he suggests, asking them to phone her and find out. If he wasn't there he was at Daphne's so suggests he ask Daphne. Mike loses his temper and slams his fist on the floor. "You made me jump!" Kevin pouts.

Daphne tells Jim that Kevin likes to play the game of being a master criminal but he confesses to keep up appearances. She tells him that he disappeared mysteriously the day before but that he won't believe her when she says where he was. Jim promises her he will. Daphne tells him that he said he was there at Sun Hill.

Mike tells Kevin that everyone who lives around him has been broken into in the last few months.

Kevin: "I wouldn't mess on my own doorstep. I am a professional!"

Mike: "No, you are a one man crimewave!"

Kevin: [genuinely proud] "Thank you, Mr Dashwood!"

Mike: [breaks for refreshments] "I'm going to go away and get refreshed. I'm going to reflect on this situation and get so mean and nasty that if I were you I'd be very careful to be as cooperative as possible otherwise I might not be held responsible for my actions."

Kevin: [calm and oblivious] Must be very stressful being a policeman."

Jim tells Mike that he doesn't think Daphne knows anything about anything - including who she is or where she is. Reg comes to try and talk to them and without listening Mike snaps at him to sod off. Jim wonders if Christine will allow them to keep Kevin for a further 6 hours but Mike says no without a statement or evidence so they'll have to nail him now in interview. June reminds them that Kevin's story checked out so he shouldn't even be there. "Oh? And when are you applying for CID then?"

June goes to find Frank.

Frank: [on the phone to the canteen] "I want a bacon sandwich. A proper bacon sandwich. Not a rind and a promise!"

June: "It's Mike Dashwood."

Frank: "He's mine, you can't have him!."

June: "He's-"

Frank: "He's a swine and he's put you in the club and run off with another woman?"

June tells Frank that Mike is pressuring Kevin into making a statement and he's innocent. If he doesn't sort it out she'll go to Derek. Frank tells her to leave it with him because he'll take care of it.

Jim and Tony bring in Kevin's 'booty'. Tony tells Jim that the trouble with Kevin is that he'll by stolen property at retail price. Jim reckons they'll be able to nail him via his fingerprints. Tom tells Jim that the last man who dealt with Kevin is still in the psych ward.

Mike recommences the interview. Kevin tells him he's been thinking and he could help him as a snout because he knows heavy people. Jim enters and says the boxed VCR is definitely nicked. "Oh come on, I bought that from Dixon's!" Jim tells him it matches a serial number on an insurance document. Jim then asks Mike to follow him outside. Kevin tells June that he's being fit up and they've swapped it for a stolen one. "I don't stand a chance." he says before pausing. "... Am I really this important?"

Outside Mike and Jim are discussing exactly that. It's a stunt. June comes out to ask if it's by the book and Mike insists it's all done by the codes of practice. June thinks Kevin has a low IQ and that the case will be thrown out by court unless a solicitor is present. Mike says he hasn't confessed to anything and that he thinks Kevin knows what he's doing. "Yes, but do you?" Mike sighs as June returns to Kevin. "What is it with these girls?"

Mike tells Jim to wait a minute and then come into the room - without saying anything - holding a file with some papers in it. Mike tells Kevin that they're checking prints.

Kevin: "I never had any of this yesterday."

Mike: "Yes, but today we've decided you're going down."

Kevin: "No!" [looks to June] "Can they do that?"

Mike: "I can do anything I like. We're professionals. You help us, we'll help you. That's the professional way."

Jim enters with the file and Mike looks through it. He tells Kevin they have him on the stolen property and now his fingerprints match on one of the break ins. He pretends he's going to charge him. Kevin is distressed and Mike says Daphne can visit but wonders with Jim if she's the type to actually wait for him but in his experience it's rare. "So Kevin would do well to cooperate." "I don't have any choice do I."

Tom leads Kevin back to his cell and tells him it's a pity because he likes him. He's one of the genuinely stupidest people he's ever met. "You'll be sorely missed." Kevin tells him he didn't do any of it and he's being fitted up. "What chance did I have?" When he's sent into his cell he asks for a solicitor.

Frank looks through the case file and calls Mike in. He protests about a scrawny bacon sandwich before asking him to sit down. Noone has identified any of Kevin's 'stolen' property. They only have his statement and no other evidence and Mike insists they're working on it and will search his flat for tools. Frank says his statement doesn't tie him in to anything and he's clearly had pressure applied as he has confessed to everything but stealing the crown jewels. Frank knows the game Mike is playing but there's a limit and you don't overstep it, especially when June is around. He asks if Kevin is thick and Mike insists he's devious. Frank warns him that he's very close to being investigated if June takes her concerns further. He warns him to be nice to June and get some evidence for Kevin - today!

Mike and Jim head to look at Kevin's room in the landlords house. Mike has a growl at June that what happened in the interview room with Kevin is nothing that hasn't happened before and if she can't handle it then she's in the wrong job.

June: "I can handle anything you've got."

Viv: [pointedly] "Do you think you've got anything worth handling though?"

June asks Jim to have a word and he tells her that Burnside's given Mike a hard time about it already. Outside, Jim keeps telling Mike that it's a no hope case and to let him go so they can go home.

Mike refuses and drives to the landlords house to look around. Jim collapses on the bed and lays down, closing his eyes. In the wardrobe is the whiskey bottle that Kevin told him about with the slit in it for coins. "Oh no... Jim?" Mike calls, but Jim is already fast asleep, snoring.

[robo-milky]

“I’ll do just as the Housewarden says… for now.”

[Rollo]

Gave his hair more floof!! The joints weren’t as hard as I expected, but the blink was a nightmare- For the next dolls, I think the process will be a little smoother 🫡

[Process] (behind the scenes)

Would anyone be interested to see these made step-by-step? (Actually taking pics as I go along)

[reminiscingtonight]

Nah give me fluff, I’m in the biggest fluff mood ever

🫡

[idontmindifuforgetme]

used to daydream about fairytale reconciliations after pretty much every platonic or romantic fallout i ever had, but sometimes it’s healthier to just accept that someone will never own up bc they don’t think you’re worth the trouble. anyone who truly cares would move mountains just to make sure that they communicate w you if they truly want to rectify the situation. but sometimes it’s their ego getting in the way, sometimes they have a narrative of you in their head they’re determined not to break, and sometimes they just don’t care enough about you to even consider it. they don’t have respect for the friendship or relationship in its posthumous state bc it was nothing to them, or at the very least it doesn’t eclipse their pride or their desire to appear correct in a situation or just outright the need to be done w the situation rather than be a good person. still guilty of this but i’ve been getting better at just nipping the delusion in the bud and just being okay w accepting that someone truly does not care. until they prove they do that is the assumption i go w every time. and it is saving me a lot of heartache

[manorpunk]

https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/s/R8XNHBIUx4

wanted to share this post by u/Rock_Roll_Brett about the flag for their Great Lakes nation because I like it

[manorpunk]

mall fort horse lords

mall fort horse lords

mall fort horse lords

BREAKING: after the failure of the San Diego Padres political marriage gambit, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have annexed Kern County on horseback and established a cannon-equipped fortified base in the outlet malls north of the Grapevine.

[vyeoh]

Vyesnail or something

[COMMISSIONS OPEN]

[cheesenchalk]

im ignoring any and all news of potential casting in favor of lucid fever-dream-hallucinating my own pitch for a beatles biopic that follows ringo as the main perspective character as he meets the other's in hamburg, when he's with rory storm, and older and more experienced and the beatles are all intimidated by him and trying to impress him so he's introduced to them at their Most ThemTM -- paul at his most McCharmly, John at his toughest of teddy boys, george trying harder than ever to play at the grown up who belongs there

So both ringo and the audience start off getting to know these people as the most one-dimensional, performative versions of themselves, almost the caricatures that stories usually end up painting them as anyways because that's what theyre acting like at first, but again both ringo and the audience slowly peel away the layers of persona as they watch things fall apart, and build back up, because this eclectic little band of boys is a complete mess with a rhythm section that should probably be in jail for crimes against music but there's something sparking under the surface, just waiting for that last cog in the machine to click into place to become something

and as time goes on and they all have their ups and downs, the more they spend time around each other as two bands of familiar faces from home while living in a foreign place and get to know each other bit by bit, it uncovers the little glimmers of who these people actually are. the john that's only tough because he's still running from grief, and chasing the relationships in his life he thinks he can hold onto. The paul that isn't as charming when hes lonely and furious because hes ready to fight tooth and nail -- and eventually just fists -- for the promise of this band he dropped everything for and nobody seems to be taking as seriously as he is. The george who wants to be more than the spare part to the duo who have already decided that theyre it and dont have room for anything else

he sits in for a few performances while their drummer is who-knows-where. and not only does everything start to fit into place musically, but he brings both a levity and a steadiness that they'd been missing, the reliable heartbeat in the background that keeps it all going

and theres something compelling and electric about them that drags you along and won't stop that just isnt entirely there in the more polished band he belongs to now, so a few years later when hes offered a little higher salary and a place with them, he takes it

etc etc continue that same process of breaking down barriers and finding your way into already long-established dynamics and getting more complete pictures of who they are as a unit and individuals through the creative process, through public scrutiny, through the chaos and euphoria and horrors of success, through the incomparable connection and intimacy of becoming one head of the monster, and the exhaustion and turmoil of what its like to be one thing just to eventually tear itself apart

in my head the ideal version is a show or even a miniseries so theres more room to spread the story out compared to a movie. but a large part of the purpose of creating a biopic in the first place is outsiders wanting to know what the reality of being in the belly of the beast is like, and learning about the people within, so why no one has ever utilized the framing of the one member of the band whose experience of joining was exactly that....

[auncyen]

courage stats are hilarious in both persona and metaphor because like. my first playthrough of p5 especially it took me forever to get that courage stat up. meanwhile protagonist is willingly risking his life on an at least weekly basis

meanwhile Metaphor protagonist right off the bat is like "oh yeah guess I'm signing up for the army. guess I'm going to throw my hat in the ring to become king and put a target on myself. guess I'll"

[manorpunk]

ah yes, the Disney Wars

[properiguana]

People who are 100% sure there’s NO way for Dean to have feelings for Cas, solely because he never explicitly said so, are a lil funny to me.

Because have they never been to an English (or whatever your mother tongue is) literature class? You know, the subject where you learn to analyze subtext and symbolism, to read between the lines in order to see the meaning behind a piece of artwork? Things don’t have to be explicitly stated in order to be true. 

If one decided that Dean has no feelings after analyzing the work, that’s fine, that’s their interpretation, but claiming there is no room for another interpretation is simply stupid.

[cator99]

out of curiosity, would you consider yourself butch?

used to be a blonde underweight twink and now I'm a based jock still got the chanel bag and the sick albeit matured mind of a suckpig to prove it so I'm gonna let you decide whether you wanna call me that word just cuz I got a pussy and short hair. I promise you that there have been enough advancements made in the art of lesbian sexual dynamics in the past 50 years to broaden the vocabulary used to describe the plethora of types of masculine females.

[thoumpingground]

So when Darcy went to fix the Lydia/Wickham situation, he first tried to get Lydia to return home, only bribing Wickham into marrying her when she wouldn't. This is sensible by modern standards, but we know from everyone else's reactions Lydia *failing* marrying Wickham would bring the Bennet family shame. Darcy knows this, and doubt he planned to leave the situation as is. So how did he originally plan to fix it?

I think Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy was gonna channel his inner Emma Woodhouse (didn't have to dig far, they're very similar people) and play matchmaker. In my headcannon Darcy checked his "Possible Husbands for Georgie" list against his "People who owe me Gargantuan favours" list and offer whoever came up money to marry Lydia.

Now, he would want to spare the Bennets of as much of the scandal as possible, and wouldn't want to take the merit in front of Lizzie, so all would most likely happen discreetly through Mr. Gardiner, while Lydia was in London, and she would move to her husbands immediatly after.

However, I wanna propose a different scenario: Lydia returns to Meryton. Scandal ensues, the Bennets are disgraced. Then, within two weeks, a random well-off man shows up intent on courting Lydia and *only* Lydia. He heeds nobodys warnings and gives no explanations. Lydia loves it. Every other mum in Meryton is furious. The Bennets are confused and paranoid. Imagine the drama. The intrige. The million questions still unawnsered long after Lydia eventually gets married and leaves. Bingley marries Jane (cause of course Darcy still told him he'd been wrong to pull them apart, and Bingley would) and Darcy's still somewhat around. Maybe him and Lizzie get together, maybe not, but every time the topic comes up he gets all sheepish and awkward and she gets suspicious and it's a thing. It's their new dynamic.

[apricops]

well now it does

@apricops does Manorpunk have future finance cultists who prophesy a righting of the global order through a cleansing upheaval of the world financial system? feels like they would be at home there