#if it doesn't get renewed i will commit so many crimes

[poignardeparlebeau]

i was fully expecting [redacted] to hit me with brainworms, i wasn't expecting lupin s3 to come in with a steel chair and completely engulf me

[rynnthefangirl]

Alicent is the one who, despite his protests, made aegon king. If anyone commited treason it's her. Aemond has only done what she had been teaching him - to make war because Rhaenyra will kill them to take the throne (she literally says this in s1).

But great to excuse her because she is a woManH and woHmen can do no crime. Her sons are what she made them, if anyone deserves the guillotine it's alicent. But that doesn't fit the bullsjit Rhaenicent they are trying to paddle.

You are right, Alicent bears a huge responsibility for raising her sons to be monsters, and she does deserve to be executed for her role in starting this war as much as anyone. I am not excusing Alicent, my blog has been an Alicent hate blog for like 3 months. I have called her out many many many times for her endless failures and awful choices. She has failed her children in the most egregious and unforgivable way.

But Aegon and Aemond are what they are, and they made the choices that they made. They were grown men, not children. They knew damn well they were committing treason and that their actions would start a war. I will not baby then bc “oh my daddy didn’t pay enough attention to me and my mommy told me my sister was a big bad monster.” People are dead because of them. Alicent being guilty does not make them innocent. Particularly not when they had the power to the end the war and chose not to. If they were concerned for their lives if Rhaenyra took the throne, there were options. The citadel, marriage pacts, renewing their oaths to Rhaenyra and seeking to form friendship and familial bonds, sending the twins to be squires and cupbearers at Dragonstone as hostages to vouch for their loyalty. Serving the traitor Green council and their own mother and grandfather up to Rhaenyra on a silver platter and laying the conquerors crown at her feet as a gesture of loyalty and fealty.

The situation is what it is. Alicent can either double down, let Daeron and Helaena get pulled further into this mess until their lives are also forfeit. Or she can do what every single Green should have done from the very start— bend the knee to the rightful queen, and let Rhaenrya enact her justice and pray for her mercy. I am not going to condemn Alicent for doing the very thing I have repeatedly said that TG should do. This is best for the realm.

I am sorry for Aegon that his own family screwed him over and betrayed him so catastrophically. I shall not feel bad when Aemond and Alicent die. But none of that was Rhaenyra’s fault, who would have gladly given Aegon mercy and a position of honor in her court had he kept faith with her. Rhaenyra and her children should not pay the price for Alicents lies and mistakes. It is now Aegon or Rhaenyra, and I will choose Nyra every time and support each and every character who does as well.

[youreobsessedwithtoomanyfandoms]

putting this one here because i wanna put it here instead of my oc account:

but the way that so many of my oc's would be so fucking pissed at the state of the US right now and the fact that once again, people fucking voted for a rapist instead of a woman. as well as the fact that we are literally in a fucking obvious as shit oligarchy and this shit is fucking stupid because why the fuck did some of the fucking people in america decide this was what we needed?

why the fuck was my first fucking election against the motherfucker that even at age 11 in 2016, i knew was a fucking rapist and terrible guy who NEVER should have been president in the first fucking place?

anyways, here's a list of my oc's that would very much be possibly committing a crime over this and why (only for my american oc's that would be alive if they were real):

Elizabeth "Lizzy" Rogers: literally was living during WW2, dealt with actual fucking n@zi's, is literally the fucking older sister to Steven fucking Rogers aka Captain America and was one of biggest people in support of Sam becoming Cap because "who else makes sense?"

Anora: is, to an extent, an illegal alien herself if we wanna get into it (i will if wanted), lived with Natasha and Steve during those five years (Nat for more), while she is over 300 years old, she also really is a (currently in 2025) 19 year old in college and is tired of the way everything is

Annabeth Nelson: is a lawyer from Hells Kitchen and was a DA in LA, specifically dealing with crimes and saw how badly people with less were treated (hence why she does so many pro-bono cases)

Maria Peterson: she's a mutant, her father-in-law is literally a survivor of the holocaust

Rebecca "Bex" Evans: grew up in DOWNTOWN Gotham, knows how shittily people with less are treated, knows EXACTLY what its like to have less, raised by a single mother, knows EXACTLY what people with money can do, forces Bruce to spend even more money on help programs, also underlying health issues that made her be denied insurance as a fucking baby

Lydia Swan: she literally hires anyone who needs a job, doesn't look at background (just makes sure they are not CURRENTLY an active henchman), pays everyone a living wage starting out with anything else they need (insurance and housing), opens her manor up to the homeless during the winter and summer so they don't freeze to death or overheat

Ashlea Moore: a journalist and (to quote Clark in Smallville) is married to an illegal alien, plus her entire family is military

Doctor Abigail "Abby" Brown: FBI agent

Tiffany Miller: government agent, underlying health issues and used to be denied insurance because of it, daughter had underlying health issues, knows just what the government could do because her husband was in Racoon City

Evelyn Allen: former member of the US Army, government agent, underlying health issues that led to insurance being denied, daughter also has health issues and was denied insurance at one month because of it after insurance needed to be renewed so was on state insurance until the affordable care act, was raised by a VERY VERY democratic father that was literally known by democrats so much that the election after he died, she would be asked abt him (not that important but thought it would be nice to add), husband basically raised his younger sister by himself as a teen after the death of their parents, literally knows EXACTLY what the government can do because she was IN Racoon City (and the fucking Arklay Mountains) (there's more but ima stop here)

Charlotte "CJ" Redfield: father is literally Chris Redfield, a journalist (well, studying), is gay, underlying health problems, perpetual anger issues

[noonmutter]

sigh

y'know

I get annoyed with customers, just like everybody else, when customers do annoying customer shit

but nothing makes me actively angry at a customer

quite like being a bad scammer

not just a scammer, whatever, rip off the system, long as you don't actually cause harm I don't fucking care

but a bad scammer. a stupid one. one that is so asshattedly inept that I can't help but want to smack you with a rolled-up newspaper until you stop dodging it

So I work for the DMV, and that means I deal with car titles a lot

In my state, the DMV rule is that there is a legal distinction between "AND" and "OR" when it's between names on a car title (if this sounds familiar to you, that's fair; a lot of states do it, just as many don't or do wierd shit)

In my state, if the car is titled under Bob AND Steve, that means both Bob and Steve have to sign that title before they can change who owns it, whether that's to make it solely owned by one of them, or to sell it to somebody else, or whatever

If it's titled under Bob OR Steve, then either Bob or Steve can sign that title and do whatever the hell they want without the need for the other's signature, consent, or even knowledge

I bet you can guess why I'm describing this right now

Steve calls about the title on a vehicle they owned together with their boyfriend, Bob. They broke up! Very sad. And Bob said he renewed the plates on it already. Which is confusing for Steve, because Steve got the renewal notice for the plates

The thing about this is, I looked up the vehicle, because I'm supposed to when getting calls about it, to check its current status and make sure I'm not giving out info to somebody who doesn't have a legal right to it

And Steve is not listed as an owner on the vehicle anymore. Only Bob is.

Can you guess what about this scenario made me really angry

If you guessed "Bob forged Steve's signature to put the vehicle entirely in Bob's possession, even though he could've completely legally signed it with his own name and been fine," congratulations, you now know why I spent 20 minutes making phone calls and fuming that Steve is gonna need a lawyer now

if you're gonna be a shithead to your ex, at least check and see if you even need to commit a fucking crime beforehand, god dammit Bob

[the-firebird69]

What he did is gigantic there are so many people that are getting their stuff together and they're trying to figure out who's blocking it it's not even funny and there's tons of people sending money to charities and we have to be there to make sure they use it right and then there's a few people who are trying to take the money they're getting hit and hit a lot and believe it or not they're getting taken out of the facilities and we're helping to build large charities that are effective massive factories are going up and the charities are just down the street most of the time huge numbers of people being hired all over the world this car is going ballistic it's the Day tripper and it is a massive company already there are probably 50 car companies of size in the LA area making it and they're making probably like 10 million cars each so the real car makers and pretty soon it's going to be a lot more but globally it's probably two trillion and someone's saying 20 trillion a day and that's a lot and pretty soon it's going to be more and factories are opening all over the world today huge ones and it's only been two days it's a world record and Brad is holding his breath he's pissed off and he's going to be a problem and probably die from him his trying to help his people it's really shows he's not really into it no it's just mentally retarded and demented and he can't handle it thinks it's a conspiracy and all the stuff we're moving out and we're going to get the job done but that's what's going on too

Hera

Olympus

Zues

Wow and there is more in Charlotte county that go back to court they're getting sued for the rest of their stuff and they'll probably take another half and be down to 4% by the end of the day or five and John Riva Lord has got to go to court for crime that he was doing here and Dave AKA Dan it's going to get an eviction notice because he doesn't have a rental agreement and hers has not expired no it's expired as of the first of this month and he's there illegally so he's been putting things in there saying that he's building an arsenal and you can't come in and threatening our son and thinks he's going to get away with it they're going to evict him it looks like that a lot of people think the contract is January and our son is thinking that and he doesn't know when he would have the contract and we just need to walk it around and could have been one but he didn't think it was this month or next month so he doesn't know what to say what we know is and something like that that he's trying to get renewed later and the same thing with the first of the month. That's coming up too

-a giant number of people are looking at what's going on they don't like it these people are complete assholes they're on camera breaking the law everywhere and trying to tell people too and they're getting their asses handed to them and it's going on today then all over the world they're getting arrested hauled in and questioned and it's not good news

-after today our son will be exhausted again and just going for groceries and it's not right we have to go after people and we shall we have a list and it's going to start soon

-for sending in troops but we need a lot more

-there are a few things happening here too not just a couple they are going after people for crimes to commit during the day and not missing people and the pseudo empire is trying to take over the police and sheriff departments and they're contemplating pulling out of the tunnels and letting these people dissolve and I noticing that they'd be fighting Max we have some word in that several tunnels the pseudo empire has pulled out and fully and the molar flowing in thinking that it's a holiday and they're going to run into max and figure out it's true finally. So he said the stand last night pull up Stan and pull out of there you don't want to have an abomination up your ass and just metaphorically so he said that's a good idea you started pulling his troops out of the tunnels and they said where they're going to go they're going to go face the max or the clones to do and we'll take it from behind and this is this we've had enough of this and they pulled out and others are doing it now

-is a huge amount of loss no but they lost a pretty good number and they went from the bunkers now they were told that they have to stop them or no but they pulled out and the molex thing that they're junk they've got nothing in their way and they're moving out fast and the dog like a hundred miles they're in concert the robots so they call you in Trump's people and going on right now. There's a lot of people who think that the robots are trumps and they're going after him and the computer program is similar and they are taking their people in right now huge numbers of them he's going to be a piece of s*** today and he still said in tons down into the tunnels and they'll find out it's Max after Time and they're going to go ape s*** and they'll be out we think maybe even today

So we're going to publish

Thor Freya

Olympus

Zues

What is the sky going to shut up pretty soon maybe

Hera

[organic-guacamole]

second chances song (leak) analysis

we already knew the finale was gonna be really sad but this 1 minute long clip really had me bawling ✋

ok let's do this

I see this song as the full circle ending to the core four's storylines. Which is pretty obvious from the clip.

The way it shows where they were at the start of the series to make you realize just how far they've all come from then. We can't really make out much of the lyrics but what we can pull out from it just shows exactly what each character's plot was and maybe still is/will be in (the potential) season 3.

Nini:

"I'm finding who I want to be"

Ever since season 1, Nini's been trying to find her place in the world. Starting with "putting herself out there" after the initial breakup with Ricky, and being inspired to audition for the lead of the musical. She's always wanted to stand out and be someone rather than just someone to someone. After each of her breakups she's eventually gotten stronger in some way, but still she feels lost and sometimes forgotten. Her going to YAC at the beginning of this season and immediately trying to make a name for herself in a place where no one knew her shows us how badly she wants to feel known and loved.

Whatever happens in this episode, whether it be the music producing opportunity from Jamie or not, is giving her a second chance to find herself.

EJ:

"I thought I knew what I wanted"

This one is easy. Since season 1 we saw EJ being extremely sure of himself and confident on his future, everything went his way all the time and he felt he was set for life. Then he learned something, he's not always going to be number 1. Sometimes stepping back and making a re-evaluation of your life and choices is necessary to move forward, he discovers this during the musical, "I'm not the Troy you want" and "Some wonderstudies we are". In season 2 he finally realised that it's ok to not have extreme certainty for his future. For years it's been embedded in his mind that, no matter what, he's going to Duke and he is going to be just as successful as his dad. There was no question about it and he didn't know he could. With some help he found that things can change because people change. Maybe his dad accepted that he's not going to Duke, but is pressuring him to make a new decision immediately.

His second chance could be him finally accepting that it's okay to not know at any given point, and finally break free from his family's expectations and do what he wants to do.

Gina:

"I'm sick of when I'm on the run"

As we know, Gina is accustomed to her mom's job uprooting whatever life they've settled into, to start a new one elsewhere. This line could mean that she's moving again but this time doesn't have a choice to stay. She said at the beginning of the season that her mom is letting her stay with Ashlyn until the end of the semester. I'm not 100% sure how American schools work but I'm pretty sure the semester is ending very soon. East High was the first place Gina was fully accepted. The East High kids saw the best in her, even when she just came in planning on taking over and making her mark before the inevitable move. She's sick of having to move all the time but this one really matters because this is where she's found her home. She doesn't know what's coming in the future but she doubts that she may ever find another place like this.

Her second chance may be deeper than the others, maybe she wishes she had a second chance in another life where her mom doesn't have to move her around. That she can have a new start to her life where she is right now.

Ricky:

I don't think he had any unique lyrics in that clip so I'll just go over what I think the song in general means for him.

We all know that Ricky's been going through a lot. At the start of season 1 he made a big step in auditioning for the musical, except it wasn't for himself, but to show the girl he loved that he's willing to do anything for her. We've consistently seen where Ricky puts others' opinions, feelings, wants and desires ahead of his own because he doesn't think he deserves to to great things on his own. He wants the people around him to be their best, but stay with him. He's always been content to let the people have their thing and just watch from the sidelines. He doesn't see himself worthy of whatever his dreams were, maybe because everytime he's put himself out there, it's backfired on him. He hates change and just when he gets settled into a new rhythm, accepting new people close to him. Someone leaves. When he was finally getting into the musical in season 1, his parents announce their divorce. When he gets into the musical in season 2, he and Nini break up. When he makes a choice to put himself out there, it blows up in his face and pushes him further into himself.

He needs a second chance to get it all right this time. Start over. Learn to understand his self worth but understand that the people he loves can have their own issues, problems and moments that don't concern him. Understand that sometimes, things happen when you aren't expecting it and they may seem bad but at some point, you'll learn from it.

[fantastic-nonsense]

Reeves' interpretation of Bruce Wayne is a fairly radical departure from Comics!Bruce, but it clearly understands and is in active conversation with him. In my opinion, the movie is trying to move Bruce to a place where he understands what Comics!Bruce understands from the beginning because it feels the need to move the general public to that place as well.

Personally, while I'm not hugely enamored of Pattinson's portrayal of Bruce Wayne, I think the change from "involved but airheaded playboy" to "recluse who really doesn't do much as Bruce Wayne" actually works really well in this movie because it's a change that is ultimately in conversation with the past few decades of non-comics Batman media rather than the comics themselves. It's a characterization choice that is designed to explicitly address and ultimately subvert the tired Twitter hottake that Bruce should be "using his money to help clean up Gotham" instead of dressing up in a Bat suit and "beating up poor people."

Comic readers know Bruce is known for his philanthropy and unending fight against corruption as Bruce Wayne; we understand that he's committed himself to fighting crime both by day and by night, both as Bruce Wayne and Batman. But for people who only know Batman through the big-budget movie space (aka, the 'general movie-going public'), the explicit conversation of "Bruce is rich, what's he doing for Gotham outside of Batman?" hasn't ever really been had outside of some charity galas and throwaway lines about community improvement initiatives.

So the movie asks the same question: "Why aren't you fighting crime as Bruce Wayne, too? Why aren't you helping?"

Reeves' Bruce is a Bruce that is so wholly committed to Batman being the best way to live his life and achieve his goals that he's deliberately neglecting everything else: his father's philanthropic work, his status as Head of Wayne Enterprises, active oversight of the Gotham Renewal Fund, the derelict Wayne Manor-turned-Orphanage, etc. He initially sees no use for the many mechanisms available to him to tackle the sources of crime rather than the symptoms of it, and it's a viewpoint that is directly challenged by the events of the film (first by Selina, then Alfred, then Falcone, and finally by The Riddler).

By the end of the movie, and especially after Bruce's realization that Falcone has only been able to use the Wayne Renewal Fund to fuel Gotham's corruption because of his refusal to oversee it and actively engage with the public, he's clearly changed his mind and realized that it's the wrong way to approach things. He can't just take his anger and trauma out on those around him and call it "saving the city"; he has to be a protector, not just a boogeyman. And part of being Gotham's protector is realizing the power he has as Bruce Wayne that he's been refusing to leverage.

So the answer that Reeves' Bruce ultimately has to the question asked of him is: "I should fight crime as Bruce Wayne too, and I was wrong to think Batman is the only way to improve Gotham."

The Batman successfully moves the general public's narrative of who Bruce is and why he's Batman by explicitly working with the issue of "Bruce neglecting Gotham as Bruce hurts his mission as Batman." And by explicitly addressing it, the movie gets Bruce to the perspective on crime that Comics!Bruce traditionally has from the very beginning, but a perspective we rarely see explicitly showcased in Batman movies (and thus, a perspective casual viewers don't see):

"It's not about fear for me. It's about taking everything I have...all my resources, my abilities, my dedication...and using them to protect those who are most vulnerable."

So now general audiences are able to see (and will hopefully be shown in the sequels) the same Bruce that comic readers have seen and loved for decades: the man who fights for the vulnerable, in whatever form that fight takes.

[ms-demeanor]

Just because capitalism is bad doesn't make rioting a good or effective means of change.

As much as I hate cops I feel like it pretty much proves my point to START with the article in the cop magazine about how the Rodney King riots changed policing in LA:

Shortly after the riot, Chief Willie Williams was sworn in as the first outside police chief in 45 years. The voters created a new system where the chief could serve only a five-year term, renewable once at the city's option. On two occasions so far, the city has sent the chief packing after five years.

(Police Mag April 2012)

Here’s Anaheim City Councilman Stephen Fassell talking about changes after riots in Anaheim due to police shooting people:

We now have a representative government that we did not have before. We now have a city government that listens more. We’re only six or seven months into this, so we still have to learn our way around. Overall, the city is taking a renewed interest in that neighborhood (Anna Drive) and others. Neighborhoods, in general, have higher visibility in the eyes of the city government from one end to another.

(OC Register, July 2017)

Here’s some historians talking to Vox about rioting:

The 1960s unrest, for example, led to the Kerner Commission, which reviewed the cause of the uprisings and pushed reforms in local police departments. The changes to police ended up taking various forms: more active hiring of minority police officers, civilian review boards of cases in which police use force, and residency requirements that force officers to live in the communities they police."

This is one of the greatest ironies. People would say that this kind of level of upheaval in the streets and this kind of chaos in the streets is counterproductive," Thompson said. "The fact of the matter is that it was after every major city in the urban north exploded in the 1960s that we get the first massive probe into what was going on — known as the Kerner Commission."

(Vox, September 2016)

This is from an abstract of a study done on the 1992 LA riots

Contrary to some expectations from the academic literature and the popular press, we find that the riot caused a marked liberal shift in policy support at the polls. Investigating the sources of this shift, we find that it was likely the result of increased mobilization of both African American and white voters. Remarkably, this mobilization endures over a decade later.

(American Political Science Review, 2019)

There’s a whole-ass article about this in Jacobin this week

Even the case of the 1960s is more complicated than the liberal story about scared white Nixon voters suggests. For one thing, there is substantial evidence that the riots led to higher government expenditures in the deprived cities where they erupted. James W. Button’s pathbreaking 1978 book Black Violence documented the ways the riots forced policymakers to pay attention to the effects of their policies on the urban poor, a group they had been happy to neglect previously. At a time when many social scientists viewed even protest movements as a kind of mass psychosis, Button showed that riots were a rational response to being ignored. Later research showed that riots could increase welfare expenditures, even in areas where white racism was strongest. In other words, even if riots pushed white public opinion in a conservative direction, they also brought important benefits to the areas where they occurred.

(Jacobin, June 2020)

And here is the full 17-page PDF of an article published by the American Political Science Association in their journal, I’m linking to the whole thing but I’m only going to reproduce the conclusion here:

We focus on violent protest as a political tool for a low-status group in the United States. While other scholarship has examined other forms of political action and asked if it is efficacious for racial minorities and other low-status groups, the scholarly literature has largely failed to ask whether rioting is a useful tool for building policy support, even though, from the perspective of the rioters, this question is paramount. Here we show that violent political protest can spur political participation among people who share an identity with the rioters.

Although it often seems extreme from the American perspective, political violence is not isolated to particular regions or eras and is still common in many parts of the world. Moreover, the implicit threat of violence underlies the relationship between governments and citizens in many places. As the use of violence continues to be an active feature of our political system, our findings and approach may help future scholars better understand this important topic.

(American Political Science Review, June 2019)

And also just because riots may or may not be politically expedient doesn’t prevent them.

I want to talk for a second about the concept of a state monopoly on violence.

The deal is that in most states (here meaning countries or governments, not US States) the State (or government) is the only entity that is allowed to be violent. You’re not allowed to break down your neighbor’s door, your partner isn’t allowed to hit you, you’re not allowed to smash your boss’s windshield. The state and its agents are the only things allowed to be violent and their violence is supposed to be used to curtail societal violence. The cops outnumber your partner and have the legal power to lock them in a cage if your partner hits you, this is in theory supposed to prevent your partner from hitting you. Fear of state violence is supposed to act as a deterrent to crime and interpersonal violence.

BUT there are supposed to be rules. The state is the only one allowed to be violent but they’re not allowed to be wantonly, willfully violent. The state doesn’t get to hit you with no evidence of a crime, the cops aren’t supposed to smash in your windshield, sheriffs aren’t supposed to break down your door if you haven’t committed a crime that warrants a violent response from the state.

The state isn’t holding up its end of the bargain.

The state has lost its right to a monopoly on violence.

Yes, the violence is unfortunate. Yes, the violence is not ideal. No, I’m not applauding when people set fire to local businesses.

I am maybe applauding a little when they set fire to a massive corporation that has utilized the violence of the state against citizens while working hard to protect itself against workers (Target) and I’m applauding the destruction of symbols of inequality and institutionalized racism (Rodeo Drive in LA and the Market House in NC and all the statues of racists on this list) and I’ma be real here, I kind of always think police stations should be torn down brick by brick or forcibly converted into libraries or low income housing.

So while the violence is not ideal I don’t think that it’s illegitimate. The state has lost its right to a monopoly on violence and a violent response is certainly one way to make that point.

But here’s the other thing:

All these riots started with peaceful protests against state violence. There are thousands of photos and videos of peaceful protestors peacefully protesting and having speeches and asking for change.

And there are hundreds of videos and photos of cops launching tear gas and rubber bullets at these peaceful protestors. There is a staggering amount of evidence that in city after city police escalated tensions and introduced violence to peaceful protests.

(and please let’s remember: all of this started in response to an act of police violence. These riots didn’t fall out of a clear blue sky, they are a direct reaction to four police officers killing a man by kneeling on his neck for eight minutes while he begged for his mother and his life. That is, in my opinion, something completely worth burning down a police station over even if that act never accomplishes anything further than burning down that police station)

[loisfreakinglane]

tell me about your favorite films and tv shows of the year!

oh gosh there was so much this year....... i'll try to be brief and offer up some of my favest content that was released this year!

FILMS!

raya and the last dragon...... i'm weak. its a gorgeous found family heist movie with distinct nations and one of my fav girlies playing a disney princess and theres a water themed dragon, I was always gonna be weak for this

the green knight!!!!!! i do have issues with this movie but on the whole it really sticks out to me as absolutely stunning and emotional, and honestly what i wish more mythological/fairy tale content was like? where its a super strange kind of magical and a lil episodic and doesn't need clearcut explanations or endings?

venom 2: carnage boogaloo- lmao i'm sorry i just. i love. FUN. it was so much fun. and it gave me a top tier evil villains in love otp!!!!!! THEY HAD AN EVIL WEDDING! NO BODY NO CRIME!

werewolves within- I love horror comedies, I love murder mysteries, I love soft sweet positive male leads, I love harvey guillen, I LOVE THIS MOVIE

gunpowder milkshake....... *jo march voice*: WOMEN!!!!!!!! I want to live in this world forever.

tick tick boom- much as I love andrew garfield I didn't expect all too much from this movie bc I was never big on rent, but I loooooved this. egot andrew garfield hours I demand it. also I got so fucking emotional during their rendition of sunday????? SO MANY ICONS

extra special additions: the eyes of tammy faye had me SOBBING, passing stuck with me for literal days, and the escape room movies are my new favorite horror franchise.

TV!

the five juanas----- you saw me flailing over this show. I fucking loved it. still praying for a season 2 renewal!!!!! but I'm gonna need them to listen to my complaints first off bc I DEMAND manuela get back together with isabel!!!

starstruck!!!!! this show was pure fucking romance, and so stunningly well done I adored it and I can't waaaaait for the next season. rose matafeo should lead every romcom ever made, she and nikesh patel have outrageously good chemistry, i really love this ship a lottttttt

cruel summer. I really really really love how this show was made and structured, it added so much to the story to be going back and forth between three distinct timeframes. also kate wallis is my daughter and CERTAIN PEOPLE SHOULD BURN IN HELL FOR WHAT THEY DID TO HER. i hope they turn this show into an anthology type thing, i'd love more stories told in this way.

clickbait!!!!!!!! I didn't think I'd wind up being into this show but it was so good????? I was obsessed with it, to the point I watched the last few episodes in the middle of the night while liveblogging the whole thing in @saint-cecilias dms. like i really really love shows that center every episode on a different character and their pov and this show utilized that SO WELL. (also something something been in love with adrian grenier since drive me crazy in 99 etc)

surreal estate--- I'm not caught up on this show!!!!! BUT I LOVED IT! SOMEONE SOMEWHERE PLZ PICK IT UP!!!!

shoutout to maid which emotionally wrecked me, but also a special shoutout to dollface and love victor which were not released this year but which I finally actually committed to watching for reals and completely fell in love with

so for me it was a pretty good year for content :)

[justkindaoverhereobsessing]

Tiva: "That doesn't seem very safe to me."

“That doesn’t seem very safe to me,” Tony says dubiously under his breath, eyeing Ziva’s soft movements and feeling his heart rate increase a little; his brain keeps flashing through the many ways in which this could go so very wrong. “It just doesn’t. What if—”

“It is perfectly safe, Tony,” Ziva interrupts, warm and reassuring but not unamused. There’s something in her expression that makes Tony smile despite his trepidation, and he can’t deny how much he wants to do the very thing she’s suggesting. 

Still, the slight fear lingers.

“See, you say that now,” he disagrees, stalling, “but you doing it and me doing it are two totally different things. I don’t have your ninja reflexes, alright? I’m out of practice.”

Ziva isn’t quite openly laughing at him—not yet, anyway—but the exhausted affection on her face is very clearly tempered with old, familiar teasing. 

“Sh. I will be right here next to you, reflexes ready if needed,” she reminds him in amusement. “People have been doing this since the down of time—otherwise, the human race would not have survived, yes? You will be fine.”

“Dawn—and hey! There’s no need to patronize me, sweet cheeks,” Tony protests, but it’s just for show. He has always cherished the banter that colors nearly every interaction they have ever had. 

There’s a mild self-deprecating smile drifting across his lips that belies his words, anyway.

Ziva, seeing this, finally loses her fight against laughter. “You do not fool me, Tony DiNozzo.” She shifts her weight and gently frees one arm while Tony watches nervously—if this feels unsafe to do with two arms, it feels doubly risky to do with only one!

Careful.

Still, some of the tension leaves his body as Ziva soothingly pats his arm. “Now, no more wasting time,” she decides. “You must do it eventually, and you will see—it will come naturally to you. As soon as you begin, you will stop being afraid.”

“I’m not afraid,” Tony argues reflexively, but Ziva doesn’t dignify that with a response. They both know that he is, irrational as his fear may be. “It’s just—what if I—”

“You will not.” Ziva kisses his cheek. “Are you ready?”

Tony takes a deep breath and lets it out before nodding resolutely. “Yeah. Yeah, I’m ready.”

He really isn’t, but now is the time... he has been anticipating this for months and has, in an abstract way, dreamed of it for even longer.

“Good,” Ziva says firmly. “Alright, here—”

She gently passes over their newborn son. 

Tony makes a quiet sound as he accepts the baby, but he’s hardly aware of it. Instead, he’s entirely wrapped up in the nerve-wracking but powerful feeling of holding someone so heartbreakingly small and so absolutely perfect in his arms for the first time. 

Their son, beautiful and infinitely precious. 

Careful.

It quickly becomes clear, though, that Ziva was right—of course she was. After only the briefest moment of shifting, instinct takes over. Tony finds that without needing any instruction at all, he’s able to settle the baby into a naturally protective position in the cradle of his arms. Suddenly, this feels like the most intuitive thing in the world... yes, their new son is so very light, so small, so fragile, but the fear of messing up gives way easily to a calming, determined kind of innate knowledge; messing up just isn’t an option on this one, so it won’t happen. He and Ziva are responsible for this young life now, and they’ll get it all figured out.

They have Tali to keep them in line if they don’t, at any rate.

All of this now is such a different experience than Tony had in his first interaction with their daughter. On that day, there had been shock and grief and plenty of fear of a different type, but one notable detail had been easier—Tali was never this small for Tony! She never looked so terrifyingly breakable... Meeting her in toddlerhood presented its own challenges, but the frank fear of fumbling a six pound baby like a football just didn’t apply. 

Now, that fear is already starting to feel silly, and as it fades away, a deep contentment settles in. This is their son. 

“He’s so little,” Tony murmurs after a moment, his voice a little tight with emotion.

“Yes, he is, but he will not be for long. And you could never drop him.”

“No,” Tony agrees, “I’ve got him.” The words hold weight, and an otherwise unspoken commitment—it won’t be long before this little boy will be growing like a weed, learning about the world around him, playing with his sister and exploring the limits of his parents’ patience and generally wreaking havoc underfoot... but Tony will always be ready to hold him, protect him, have his back. No matter what.

Just the way he is with Tali, just like he has been for so long now with Ziva, regardless of time, of distance, of painful history. 

No matter what.

Ziva must hear that renewed promise in Tony’s voice, because she beams at both him and their tiny baby. “I never once doubted that you would.”

“Ah, what would I do without you?” Tony means to say it teasingly, but it comes out as utterly sincere. 

They’re both full to bursting with joy, maybe even a little giddy. They’re grinning at each other as is their lives have never been touched by pain or fear or loss, like this happiness is all they’ve ever known.  

This is a happiness that brings with it something nearly unrecognizable... peace. 

There are certainly plenty of new challenges ahead, and the fear of dropping a fragile baby will not be Tony’s last brush with parental anxiety. For now, though, that doesn’t matter. 

What matters is that in a few minutes, Tali will be here to meet her brother. Their girl will have a new role to embrace—big sister!—and, fear forgotten, they’ll jump straight into the chaotic bliss of being a four-person family. 

In between diaper changes and feedings and ballet rehearsals and field trips, this will eventually become a fond, dusty memory... but Ziva will always be there to remind Tony that he was once afraid to hold a baby, should his head ever get too big.

(And really, that only happens once a week or so.)

Between solving crimes, mounting daring rescues, taking down terrorists once and for all, and—scariest of all—raising fragile, headstrong little humans? Well, there’s not much that Ziva and Tony can’t do with a little bickering and a little teamwork... and getting to look forward with no fear or uncertainty to the challenges of the future has become the sweetest reward of all.

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'Privilege doesn't protect you': family seeks answers after father's Taser death | US news

‘Privilege doesn’t protect you’: family seeks answers after father’s Taser death | US news

The first news of his death came as a traffic update. El Camino Real, a busy road south of San Francisco , had been closed for hours on 3 October as law enforcement investigated what local news called a “deadly encounter”. A man was dead after being Tasered by sheriff’s deputies. He was described, in the early reports, only as a “36-year-old black man”, who the sheriff’s department said in a statement had been “running in and out of traffic” early that afternoon and had “assaulted” a sheriff’s deputy who approached him. An investigation was taking place. Sign up for the new US morning briefing Amaka Okobi, 72, saw the news and remembered thinking: “Oh God, I feel so bad for his mother.” That evening, Amaka, who lives in Pacifica, south of San Francisco, received a visit from the San Mateo coroner’s office. The man on the news was her son. Chinedu Valentine Okobi was a poet, a devoted father to his 12-year-old daughter, Christina, and a 2003 graduate of Morehouse, the historically black college in Atlanta. His death has caused agony and a quest for answers as to exactly how and why Chinedu died – answers that, they feel, are not being provided by the police. It has also renewed debate over the deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement, especially those with mental illness. In 2015, more than one in five cases of Americans killed by the police reportedly involved mental health issues, according to The Counted , the Guardian’s investigation into every police killing in the United States in 2015 and 2016. Black males aged 15-34 were nine times more likely than other Americans to be killed by law enforcement officers in 2016, according to data collected for the project . While the majority of America’s more than 1,000 police killings each year are shootings, dozens of Americans die each year after being tased by the police. In 2015, at least 50 Americans died after being tased by the police, and victims were disproportionately black. Chinedu had grown up in San Francisco as the youngest son of a Nigerian American family. He had spent the last decade managing serious mental illness, and in the past year, his older sister Ebele Okobi said, his family had grown worried as he seemed to grow more unstable, dropping in and out of contact with them. Chinedu had been unarmed during his encounter with San Mateo county sheriff’s deputies, the San Mateo district attorney, Steve Wagstaffe, who was investigating his death, told reporters. The public statement from the sheriff’s department suggested deputies had intervened to protect Chinedu from getting injured by traffic, Ebele said. So why is her brother dead? Ebele, 44, is a Columbia-trained lawyer who currently works as Facebook’s public policy director for Africa. Her role has included accompanying the Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, on African visits, including a meeting with Nigeria’s president. But her high-profile job and elite connections had not given her the power to keep her younger brother safe. “That’s the crazy thing: privilege does not protect you in any way,” she said. “I’ve been struck by the responses from people I know: ‘I don’t believe this happened to you .’” As a black American woman, Ebele said she had lived in fear for years that she would lose someone she loved to police violence. After the birth of her twins, a son and daughter, she had decided to move her family to London. They moved in 2014. “I don’t have the mental or emotional fortitude to raise a son in America,” she said she had decided. “I don’t have it.” Chinedu Okobi at his Morehouse graduation. Photograph: Courtesy Okobi family Wagstaffe, the district attorney investigating the incident, had told reporters that Chinedu was 6ft3in tall, and he weighed 330 pounds. Chinedu had used to joke about his height with his oldest sister, calling her “Little Big Sis”, because she was only 5ft4in. Now, her brother’s height had become a piece of evidence. In an interview on Monday, the day before a Tuesday morning memorial service for Chinedu in San Francisco, Ebele said that she and had her family had tried to piece together information about Chinedu’s last days, hours and minutes. What they had found so far were only fragments, she said, and some of the details were conflicting. “All we know is what we’re piecing together from news reports and from video that people are sending us,” Ebele said. Right now, the family does not even know when and where Chinedu died. San Francisco police targeted only black residents in drug arrests, lawsuit claims Read more Local law enforcement officials have made no attempt to reach out and are not talking to them, Ebele said. The only contact her family has had with any officials is with the coroner’s office, on the day of her brother’s death, she said. “Chasing him down and tasing him – there’s a protocol for dealing with people in crisis, and that’s not it,” Ebele said. Basic facts of Chinedu’s death remain unclear, said John Burris, an Oakland-based civil rights attorney who is representing his family. “The question is: what was he doing that caused the police to confront him in the first place? There’s no evidence that he was committing any type of crime,” said Burris, who has served as an attorney in multiple high-profile police abuse cases. “How many times was he tased? How many officers tased him?” A witness video obtained by the family provides a “partial” documentation of Chinedu’s encounter with the sheriff’s deputies, Burris said. “You can see on it that the officers were beating Chinedu, tasing him. We can see that he’s on the ground … he’s shouting ‘What have I done?’ and he finally breaks loose and he starts to run and they catch him,” he said. But then the video breaks off, Burris said. The video has not yet been released to the public and has not reviewed by the Guardian. Burris said his team was continuing to review the footage and wanted to make sure they understood its full context before releasing it. Burris is calling on officials to release any videos of the incident. While there are several witnesses to what happened, “no one saw beginning to end,” Burris said, and they have not identified any witnesses who saw how Chinedu’s encounter with the police began. The San Mateo county district attorney’s office investigation of Chinedu’s death will take eight to 10 weeks, and “we do not expect to give any information out until that time”, Karen Guidotti, San Mateo county’s chief deputy district attorney, told The Guardian. Guidotti said prosectors would interview the deputies involved, but she could not comment on whether those interviews had taken place. The San Mateo county district attorney’s office has named five deputies involved in the incident, all of whom are reportedly on paid leave during the investigation. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Chinedu Okobi with his mother. Photograph: Courtesy Okobi family “Staff members in critical incidents where a death occurs are routinely placed on paid administrative leave, pending investigation,” Detective Rosemary Blankswade, a spokesperson for the office, said in a statement. Once a district attorney’s investigation is complete, she said, the sheriff’s office “will often conduct a separate administrative investigation” looking at “compliance with our policies”. “Additional and updated details surrounding the incident are not available at this time in light of the ongoing investigation,” she wrote. Burris told the Guardian that the lack of information from law enforcement officials was “pretty typical” and that, as always, the lack of basic information about a loved one’s death only added to the family’s pain. Ebele described her younger brother as someone who had been gregarious, personable, kind, and deeply devoted to his young daughter. He had been passionate about music and slam poetry, and was featured in a 2001 documentary about teenage slam poets, Poetic License, she said. How 20 years of stop and search has widened America’s racial divide Read more It was as he was preparing for life after college that Chinedu experienced the onset of serious mental illness, she said. He had been studying for graduate placement exams when he had what Ebele described as a psychotic break. The family brought Chinedu back to California , but struggled to get him a diagnosis and appropriate care. For the past decade, since 2009, he had been on medication and had built himself “a regular life.” He worked a series of jobs, including at Home Depot, “he took care of his daughter, he paid child support, he went to church”. At different times, he had lived at a halfway house, on his own, with his brother, and with a girlfriend. Ebele wrote in a tribute to her brother: “We were so proud of him for creating a good and kind life.” Around December 2017, his family noticed a change in his behavior. Chinedu did not show up to the family’s Christmas, even to see her children visiting from London. “He just wasn’t himself,” she said. He wouldn’t return calls, she said. He would send a text, but then not respond back. Family members thought he had either stopped taking his medication, Ebele said, or that his current medication was no longer working. Even as he struggled, his daughter, who lived in Tennessee, had remained a priority. He went to see her in May, Ebele said. And one of the final things that he did, the last day before he was killed, was to pay child support. Another last fragment: “He texted my mother and said, ‘Hello, sunshine,’” Ebele said. Topics San Francisco US policing California news

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