#the gang runs for office

[charliework16]

real

[iasipwardrobe]

[a-nice-egg-offering]

Favourite episodes edit series

02x08 ~ the gang runs for office

[gaydennisreynolds]

be hot do crime: season 2 episode 8 - the gang runs for office

Total Number of Shirts Worn By Dennis: 4

Total Number of Crimes Committed: 3

MAC - 2 - third degree felony for bribery, second degree misdemeanor for simple assault (he tries to snatch a baby for dennis to kiss for political gain)

FRANK - 1 - third degree felony for bribery

Best Shirt: This is a dismal Dennis outfit episode. Begrudgingly, I nominate this suit:

Episode Rating (on hot/crime metrics ONLY): good episode for crimes, as the entire premise is illegal, but my boy is NOT looking good, fine, or even passable. 4/10.

TOTAL SERIES CRIME TALLY: MAC (19), DENNIS (18), CHARLIE (16), DEE (14), FRANK (7)

All outfits worn by Dennis under the cut, in order of cuteness, with commentary.

basic blue sweater over a grey undershirt. you've seen it once, you've seen it a million times. but he won me over with his babygirl smile :)

i don't usually love the brown. and this is no exception. but i appreciate the effort he put in to match the undershirt with the pinstripes. fashion forward primadonna dennis i know what u are

a gold tie? why? and why is the collar so high up your neck? are you a giraffe? terrible. i would vote for your opponent in retaliation

[weeddennis]

[r0b1ee]

[indigovortex]

ok the lore we have so far on the Infinity organisation and Frank is like really cool but like I feel like a lot of people forget about Ted (the security guy) having seen the whole shit happening in that creepy abandoned station

like you can't tell me that after the day he dropped Jake off at his mom that he wasn't like this for a solid week or two

seriously he's such an underrated character in terms of plot and if no one is going to do something with him than by god I might have to

[sadlynotthevoid]

There's a lot of missing comical potential on the fact that, generally speaking, the most common uniform for fictional evil organizations is dark clothes with something covering the face.

Like, it's so common that, if you're an evil minion, you either wear that, your organization doesn't have a dress code, or you're part of the one with the flashy clothes who actually spent money on their clothes.

And what about it?

Well, imagine that there's an inter-organization meeting for evil guys. And John, your typical low level minion, is running late. All his colleagues are already there, so he arrives and immediately goes to the closest person dressed in black he sees.

"That was close. Hey, has Boss already arrived?"

And the guy turns around and—

"Madam is always on time, her time."

"Ah."

"Oh."

It's Jeron, from the rival organization.

They both stand there in awkward silence. Their bosses don't get along, but this is a business meeting. Starting a fight would be unprofessional. Unless the bosses did it, that's it.

And then, a long minute later—

"Huff... Almost didn't make it. Hey guys! Has Sir arrived yet?"

"Uh—"

"Ah."

"Oh, dear Gaia, please no."

This keeps happening during the whole meeting.

At some point, even Boss themself confuses the Dark Paladin's right hand, Lancelot, with their own assistant. Boss was so embarrased that they delayed the weapon robbery to have an uniform design contest as soon as possible.

At least it was someone from the Obscure Order and not from the Obsidian Mages. Otherwise a fight would had really have started.

[dennisboobs]

can i ask how anyone failed to recognize glennis in these promos. with those knees.

hands

legs

and.

tits.

[charliework16]

do you think he applies the same tenacity when it comes to bashing rats

[number-one-hog-hater]

Just kinda saying shit

[cullen-cannons]

Currently obssesed with Law & Order! Who wants to see a Law & Order Twilight AU?

I don’t know enough about the law to write a full story (also super busy with other writings and things) but I would probably make some headcannons if anyone likes this idea.

[todayisafridaynight]

‘i may not be built like a truck like you---’ no daigo you’re built like an emaciated street cat when was the last time you had a good meal fuckhead

[appleonjust-ice]

bank holiday mondays are great. but better when its not half term break

[r0b1ee]

Finally made some progress with the Dee doll so I put her in her outfit front the beginning of s1e1

[iamthedukeofurl]

Discworld is an interesting beast in the age of ACAB. Like, the city watch books are a story about police and the way in which a good police force can help and protect people. Which would make it copoganda. And I'm not going to say that the City Watch books are completely free of copoganda, but they also do something interesting that fairly few stories about heroic police officers do, and I think it has a lot to do with Samuel Vimes. A lot of copoganda stories like, say, Brooklyn 99, are perfectly capable of portraying cops as cruel, bigoted, and greedy, but our central cast of characters are portrayed as good people who want to help their communities. The result is that the bad cops are portrayed as an aberration, while most cops can be assumed to be good people doing a tough job because they want to help protect people from the nebulous evil forces of "Crime". The police are considered to be naturally heroic. Pratchett does something very interesting, which is provide us with Vimes' perspective, and present us with an Unnaturally heroic police force. In Ahnk-Morpork, the natural state of the watch is a gang with extra paperwork. It's the place for people who, at best, just want a steady paycheck and at worst want an excuse to hit people with a truncheon. Rather than be an army defending people from the forces of Crime, the Watch is described as a sort of sleight-of-hand, big burly watchmen in shiny uniforms don't stand around in-case a Crime happens in their vicinity, they stand around to remind people that The Law exists and has teeth. The Watchmen are people, when danger rears it's head, their instinct is to hide and get out of the way. When faced with authority, their instinct is to bow to it out of fear of what it might do to them if they don't. Carrot is a genuine Hero, but his natural heroism is presented as an aberration. Normal Cops don't act like Carrot does. The fact that the Watch ends up acting like a Heroic Police Force is largely due to the leadership of Sam Vimes, but Vimes himself is a microcosm of the Watch. The base state of Sam Vimes would be an alchoholic bully of an officer, one who beats people until they confess to anything because that makes his job easier. Vimes The Hero is a homunculous, an artificial being created by Sam Vimes fighting back all those instincts and FORCING himself to behave as his conscience dictates. Vimes doesn't take bribes or let his officers do the same because, damnit, that sort of thing shouldn't happen, even if doing so would make things a lot easier. Vimes doesn't run towards sounds of screaming because he WANTS to, he forces himself to do so because somebody needs to. It's best summed up in Thud “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Your Grace.” “I know that one,” said Vimes. “Who watches the watchmen? Me, Mr. Pessimal.” “Ah, but who watches you, Your Grace?” said the inspector with a brief little smile. “I do that, too. All the time,” said Vimes. “Believe me.”

In the hands of another writer, or another series, this exchange would be weirdly dismissive. To whom should the police be accountable to? Themselves, shut up and trust us. But from Vimes, it's a different story. Vimes DOES constantly watch himself, and he doesn't trust that bastard, he's known him his entire life. The Heroic Police are not a natural state, they're an ideal, and ahnk-morpork only gets anywhere close. Vimes is constantly struggling against his own instincts to take shortcuts, to let things slide, but he forces himself to live up to that ideal and the Watch follows his example. Discworld doesn't propose any solutions to the problems with policing in the real world. We don't have a Sam Vimes to run the NYPD and force them to behave. We don't have a Carrot Ironfounderson. But it's at least a story about detectives and police that I can read without feeling like I'm being sold propaganda about the Thin Blue Line.