#tw: police mention

[lilac-read]

Flat Stanley is a weird book.

First off, Stanley is dead. He's literally just dead. Buddy got crushed in his sleep by a bulletin board. He is legit described as being half an inch thick. Mans is DEAD.

Secondly, THERES JUST SUBTLE POLICE COMMENTARY???? Mrs. Lambchop gets called cuckoo by the police, but when they realize that she wasn't lying about her son being at the bottom of a storm drain, she tells them to think before they speak, and they're just like, "hey! Yeah! We should start doing that" Am I reading too much into this, or is that just a genuine commentary???

Third, WHO JUST MAILS THEIR CHILD???? WHAT IS THIS? A CLICKBAIT YOUTUBE FAMILY CHANNEL VIDEO FROM 2016??? THAT'S HORRIBLY IRRESPONSIBLE!!!!

Fourth, why is no one in the story addressing how hard this has made things for Arthur? Arthur is jealous because his brother is flat, but like, he's a child! Arthur is trying his best here. Don't be a jerk to Arthur because he wants to be cool and have friends.

And another thing, Mr. Lambchop is a horrible husband. Mrs. Lambchop tells him that she's having a hard time with the boys, and that he has no idea because he's always at work, and he just DISMISSES HER FEELINGS! HE BASICALLY SAYS THAT BOYS WILL BE BOYS AND CALLS IT A NIGHT!

The whole museum plot came out of left field and didn't really make much sense tbh. Why is this child being used to catch most-likely dangerous art thieves? Like, I get that it was his idea, but DONT LET THE CHILD BE STOLEN TO CATCH THESE THIEVES!!!! THIS WHOLE BOOK IS CHILD ABUSE!!!! ALSO, THIS WOULD NEVER WORK! NO CHILD WOULD BE ABLE TO SIT STILL FOR THAT LONG WITHOUT MOVING HIS EYES AROUND OR BLINKING!!!

These are the least responseable parents ever. 'lets let our child stand on spikes all night in a museum that's been getting robbed lately' OH YEAH, GREAT IDEA, FANTASTIC PARENTING LAMBCHOPS!!!

Also, the noses in the pictures are weird, what's up with that? Like, get it I guess but they're just not a very aesthetic choice.

BUT ANYWAYS, THE FACT THAT THE THIEVES LITERALLY SAID THAY THEY WOULD KILL A PERSON IF THEY TRIED TO CATCH THEM!! WHAT THE HECK!!!!!

I feel like when my elementary school was into Flat Stanley, we kinda missed the anti-bullying point. We literally started calling one kid Flat Stanley lol. Also, Mrs. Lambchop spitting facts, don't make fun of people based on religion, race, or body shape.

Arthur is such a good brother, and I feel like he doesn't get enough credit. He's so supportive of Stanley, and I feel like nobody ever mentions Arthur Lambchop. I didn't even remember him until I read the book again. He really tries so hard to help Stanley get back to normal. But being on the internet for so long has made that scene unreadable (my brain hurts)

I feel like Stanley going back to normal isn't a great ending though. It just kind of invalidates everything that just happened in the book. The whole point is gone.

And one last thing. We need to address why the bulletin board fell on him in the first place. His parents are just the worst.

thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[thefvrious]

@lostintra sent -> [ ART ] — twelve paints thirteen's finger/toenails while both are stoned

it's a hot, late summer night and the window of their basement level apartment is open letting in whatever cool air is available. it's times like these that thirteen's grateful they both decided that being on the lower level was fine, actually, because heat travels up, right? it rises. the cool stays at the bottom.

stoned off of multiple bong rips, thirteen is blinking slowly as they watch their twin swipe delicate strokes over the bed of thirteen's nail changing the color from opaque flesh-toned to a blue so dark it might as well be black. they're stuck, they realize after a minute, and a low giggle starts to vibrate in them. the more they try to stifle it to save the polish! the aesthetic, the more it ripples up in them. "fuck, fuck, sorry... you just... never seen you this concentrated, tater, and i've watched you hotwire a car with a cop ten feet away."

[quasi-normalcy]

Just struck by the fact that, in 2018, climate scientists posted a dire warning that the Earth had just twelve years to cut greenhouse gas emissions to avoid catastrophic global heating. There were protests; demonstrations. We have now breezed through more than half of that time, with nothing to show for it but millions of more tonnes of CO2 wasted on crypto mining and AI scams. The world nears the sixth mass extinction in its entire geological history and oil production is near record highs.

Struck also by the fact that, in 2020, there were mass protests against police murders of Black people; like, mass mass protests. "Defund the police" they said. "Abolish the police." Police budgets are up. Black people still get murdered by the cops en masse.

And then, this past year, there were massive protests against the genocide in Gaza. There were occupations of university campuses, there were protests outside of the institutions that enabled the mass murder in Palestine. Macklemore did a song about it, a good one. And the genocide continues apace.

On issue after issue, you can see the same pattern. Surely the massacre of children at Sandy Hook would drive sensible gun laws! Nope. Surely outrage over the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh would drive changes in labour practices! Nope. Surely the #Occupy protests in 2011 would drive wealth redistribution! Nope. Surely the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico would drive better environmental regulations. Nope. Surely the 2008 financial crash would drive regulation of the stock market. Nope. Surely the record protests against the US Invasion of Iraq would move the needle, even a little bit. Nope. Over and over and over again, we see the capitalist elite (let us be frank) raping the world, over and over and over again, we see mass outpourings of rage and disgust in the streets, and over and over and over again, we see them shrug it off, fuck their mistresses, and go golfing.

And then, some guy who may or may not be named Luigi goes and shoots an insurance CEO to death. And suddenly they can't shrug this off. Some companies back down on their plans to make health insurance in the USA even worse; we're treated to panicked editorials in elite publications talking about how celebration of the murder showcases our culture of moral decay (as if this isn't a society that has been either denying or actively celebrating the most well documented genocide in history for the last 15 months; as if there aren't near daily shootings in American schools, occurring so often that they barely even make the news anymore; as if the dead CEO hadn't presided over a company that spread misery and death for the millions as a matter of business as usual); companies beef up security, hide the names of their CEOs. There is, in short, an actual response (though it remains to be seen how it will play out in the long run, but still an actual response). Decades of mass, peaceful protest, and they just ignore it. One guy with a gun, and suddenly it's the end of the fucking world.

What lesson are we supposed to draw from this?

[weirdo-from-bonesborough]

Dick when Duke brings up the whole “tricked him into getting arrested” thing during an argument:

[spop-romanticizes-abuse]

remember how in ATSV, Gwen's dad quits his job as a cop, because it required him to arrest innocent people, including his own daughter?

or how in Carmen Sandiego, Julia gives up her job as an investigator, after realizing that Carmen was a good person but the ACME still wanted to capture her?

i just wish we would have gotten something like this with Caitlyn. it's really disappointing to see a character with so much potential being completely assassinated like this.

at no point does Caitlyn realize that her job as an enforcer is only harming people.

at no point does she consider the fact that her own girlfriend was a victim of police brutality and classism, and that maybe she shouldn't continue to endorse and enable it.

there was an opportunity for growth, where Caitlyn realizes how much harm she has done, and thus decides to quit her job.

it's like the writers for s2 were completely different people, the way they entirely missed the point of the first season.

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

literally just saw another “call out” post in my fandom, “this person ships these characters together, they support fucked up things in fiction. moots, unfollow them, they’re disgusting for liking these fictional things 🤢” can we please just. not do this? especially with all that’s going on in the world recently, can we please not try to take away people’s source of comfort? who cares what fictional things a person enjoys? they’re ✨fiction✨. they’re ✨not real✨. you don’t know what battle a person is going through outside of social media. you don’t know if fandom is literally the last source of happiness they have left. you don’t know if fandom is the only thing keeping them alive right now.

ask yourself, is it really worth it? you claim to be “morally superior” by “exposing” people who find comfort in fictional things you deem morally unacceptable. but is it really worth it if your words drove a person into harming themself?

are you really being morally superior by being the reason someone hurts themself?

these characters are fiction. but the person you’re harassing in the name of being morally superior is a real person with real feelings.

if you find something that you don’t like, instead of going out of your way to harass someone, scroll past it, ignore it, mute it, block it. and focus on the things you do enjoy.

with everything that’s going on in the world right now, now is the time we need to keep fandoms safe. they’re the last source of happiness some people have left.

[danandfuckingjonlmao]

nothing, and i mean NOTHING, enrages me quite like this message:

like alright?? and i wanna do it again!!!!! i wanna do it on every fucking chapter!!!!! what are you, a cop!!!!!

and that fucking smiley face…

i wanna punch that fucker. and the period before it like ohhhhh myyyy gooooddddd fuck off shut up shut up shut up. i spend an exorbitant amount of energy feeling hatred for that passive agressive motherfucker.

[vague-humanoid]

@chrisdornerfanclub @startorrent02

The practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found. Based on thousands of pages of law enforcement and medical records and videos of dozens of incidents, the investigation shows how a strategy intended to reduce violence and save lives has resulted in some avoidable deaths.

At least 94 people died after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through 2021, according to findings by the AP in collaboration with FRONTLINE (PBS) and the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism. That’s nearly 10% of the more than 1,000 deaths identified during the investigation of people subdued by police in ways that are not supposed to be fatal. About half of the 94 who died were Black, including Jackson.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I made an illegal u-turn to get on some kind of exit ramp, kind of accidentally cut someone off but they just pulled around me and sped away. A little further down the road I come upon that same person pulled over by a traffic cop, see their hand sticking out their window pointing at me, then the cop gestures for me to pull over also. I thought I was gonna get a ticket but the cop just wanted to referee while we fought to the death.

[telekinetic-hedgehog]

"some cops are good people" factoid actualy just statistical error. commander samuel vimes of the anhk-morpork city watch, duke of anhk, blackboard monitor, who lives on the discworld & resists over 10,000 temptations each novel, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[flowergirlelliebarrett]

soulsuckrrs​:

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A frown creased his bloody brow and Ruth half sighed and half groaned, running his bloodied hand over his face subconsciously and wincing when it hurt. “That still doesn’t make it fucking something you deserve,” he said, tone a little softer than before, the anger still there but certainly dissipating from him entirely. Ruth shook his head and gave Ellie a side glance, his busted lips quirking up at one corner a little cocky. “– it’s fine, I mean, I’ve had worse.” It was a mirror of what she’d said but in a different font and that made Ruth slightly amused if only at himself. “It’s both, probably…” Ruth added with a mild shrug, eyes sweeping over her again in an inspecting manner before his shoulder brushed against hers to try and help her shake away what had just happened.

Ellie shook her head, "Don't get me wrong, I know I don't deserve any of that. Those randos, they mean nothing to me. They only know the online drama perpetuated by an immature adult. I don't care what they have to say. I stop hearing it. Completely." Ellie searched her purse for anything to help wipe off his face. Her tiny pack of kleenex was illequipped for the job but they would have to do. She almost missed his comeback entirely, but it struck the landing. "You just beat up random strangers in a park for a random stranger. I doubt this is the time for sass. Even if you did win." It was now that she realized someone had probably called the cops and they would have to deal with all that drama. "Fucking hell this going to be a long day. I hate the whole, 'what happened here,' bullshit."

"I've been told worse things, honestly." Ellie sighed. She had tuned out most of the taunting, she always had. A loud high pitched ear-ringing started whenever moments like that happened. Her ears just shut off. The taunts rolled off her back because she quite literally couldn't hear them. "I'm not the one bleeding, are you okay? Is that your blood or theirs?" Ellie could barely process the bruises but she knew the longer she looked at the man the worse his injuries were going to get. "I can take you the hospital."

[matchalovertrait]

Alfonso Alto, the man with an ego as tall as his surname suggests, is on the brink of a great downfall. This entire time, there was a more sinister plan behind Postres de Alegría's competition. Alfonso's Bakery has been a front for his illicit activities, which include money laundering.  Some of his employees at his business have always viewed Alfonso as a shady man, but they stayed because bills needed to be paid. One of those employees was a young 18-year-old named Lisa. However, upon watching Dulce's exposé video, she began to question everything about the business. Who were the strange people who would come in at odd times to see her boss? Why did her boss sometimes tell customers "cash only" when the card reader was operating just fine? Why were they always having sales? Then, something happened that she could not ignore. One night when Lisa was closing the store, she came across a hidden ledger. She noticed the bookkeeping entries of large sums of money did not correspond with the bakery's official records. She took a moment to connect all the dots and expressed her concerns to local authorities. The investigation took some time, but the police were confident that Alfonso was also partaking in drug trafficking. Once enough evidence was collected, the police obtained a search warrant and raided Alfonso's house. What they found was undeniable proof. There is no way for him to escape the consequences of his actions now. The Alto Empire is no longer. The Alegrías do not have to worry about the Altos ever again.

Transcript:

Police Officer: Alfonso Alto. You are under arrest for money laundering.

Police Officer: I’ll be taking you to the county detention center where you’ll see the judge.

[weirdo-from-bonesborough]

Officer Grayson: I’m sorry sir but it’s against the law to ride a motorcycle without a helmet. I’m gonna have to write you a ticket

Robin (Tim): No *I’m* sorry sir, I’m gonna have to write you out of my will

[gl1tchr]

I have opinions on Gotham too. Like how they made my boy Jervis a wierd little freak who is in love with his sister >:(

What the fuck did they do to him. The incest was completely unnecessary and disgusting.

I like that they were fine with that plotline but the Riddler and the Penguin couldn't be gay HGFKSDJFHG like yeah there can be a weird incest freak but if two men make out we're burning it down

[1h4v3th3m00n]

Have a interview with the police tomorrow about something I'm scared buts it's the only way for justice