#not cr

[shadowgasp]

I need to buy a gun

[amarantheia]

Today's a personal Black Sails Anniversary for me, so posting this drawing of my faves from my fave show as a tiny celebration

[sparring-spirals]

what kind of show is gamechanger? what's the point? well-

[stickandthorn]

The way Terry Pratchett handled police in the Discworld continues to be one of the many, many things I love about his works. I certainly don’t have time to describe all the details of why he wrote such good policing, but I think the best summation of it is the arc that Sam Vimes had in many of the books.

I haven’t read all the watch books, but in the ones I have, there’s often a similar plot structure. We meet a truly detestable criminal Vimes is chasing down (think the Deep Downers in Thud, or Carcer in Night Watch). They show themselves to be truly awful people who do awful things, and they’re also just plain jackasses. They’re characters you hate to read about, the grind the audience’s gears. They also grind Sam Vimes’s gears. 

Throughout the story, they commit more and more crimes. Horrible crimes, like torturing and killing innocent people, or practicing violent religious extremism. They do things that personally target our protagonist, like go after his wife and son, or relentlessly taunt him and try to kill him and his past self. They consistently do bad things, and even as Vimes is chasing them, they do more bad things. You want them to be punished.  Finally, at the climax, we get some sort of final confrontation between the villain(s) and Vimes. In a different book, Vimes might kill the people who sent people to hurt his infant son, or tortured and killed innocent people, and the audience would probably cheer. In fact, Vimes wants to kill them. 

But he doesn’t. Every time, he suppresses the urge to enact his own justice, and he doesn’t kill them. He arrests them. Because, as he says many times, if you’ll do something for a good reason, you’ll do it for a bad. Even when there’s every excuse as to why this particular villain doesn’t deserve to live, he just arrests them. It’s not his job to decide how they should be punished for their crimes.

I think this is a masterful takedown of police brutality and Punisher style characters. Vimes isn’t a perfect person, it’s not that he could never dream of killing the bad guy. He can, and he does, often. But he never follows through, he understands why he can’t do that, so no matter how tempting it is, he doesn’t.

Because in this story, the hard boiled cynical cop truly believes in following the law. The message is always that law enforcement killing a criminal is never ok, even if they’re undeniably guilty of something truly dreadful. Hell, police brutality is personified as a millennia old demonic quasi-deity possessing Vimes, one that’s never been beaten before, but he beats it and doesn’t give in. I think that’s a really unique message in cop stories, and another reason as to why Pratchett was such a good author. 

[professorthaddeus]

ok but HYPERFIXATION ON BREATHING TRANSLATING INTO A MEDITATIVE LOWERING OF PRESSURE BRENNAN YOU FUCKING GENIUS—

[bravest-notts]

i spotted vax peering over the edge of my ottoman while we were playing dnd, so my DM made this (while still running a fight no less)--

"Meow do you want to do this?"

[shitcomscriptwriter]

FCKITKGMGMGMLG

[fjorests-of-wildemount]

Queer joy ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🩷🤍🩵

[aestheti-kitty]

Y’all,,, I miss her so much:(

[your-turn-to-role]

dnd shopping sessions are always, so fun

(credit to @salamanderapocalypse and @error-marigenous for this)

[aeoris4lovers]

so i just watched the first four episodes of sagas of sundry madness and i am having some very homosexual feelings about this man

[shadowgasp]

EARTH 1610 MILES (our miles) WAS SUPPOSED TO BECOME THE PROWLER.

in Into The Spiderverse we see Miles meet Peter

his colors originally look like this. green and purple. which are his “canon” colors and are supposed to represent him

but then they change. they turn red and blue signifying the change of canon and therefore his fate.

so instead of him becoming an enemy to Spiderman, he becomes a friend to spiderman.

and instead of Earth 42 Miles becoming spiderman, he becomes the prowler in a world where spiderman can no longer exist.

[sparring-spirals]

aabria, having just described that the parasitically-piloted actively-collapsing dead bear body the party is CURRENTLY STANDING INSIDE OF as a "deflated basketball", dismayed her party does not seem thrilled by this analogy: Ball is life!! >:(

[xombigirl]

I don't normally do things like this but my cousin's 7 year old was just diagnosed with Liver cancer and it's very expensive. Insurance is covering some but not all and they have three other kids they're trying to provide for as well. Any help would be good.

[professorthaddeus]

one thing i love about how alex song-xia played conrad this episode is the way we got to see how long the conscience has been around. yes, he’s a scared little kid, and yes, he has a stunted sense of logic and self-worth, but he’s also so weary. that scene between him and fight/ivana popov really felt like a meeting between two old acquaintances, two tired spirits carrying the burden of a trauma almost everyone else has forgotten—and it’s so good aah, i’m so glad ivana is joining them for the next leg of their mission

(also, i know it was played for comedy, but the moment when conrad was driving like a maniac and said something along the lines of “this is the only place i really feel calm” with complete sincerity?? peak ben affleck with a cigarette vibes, someone get this kid a healthier outlet skfhks)

[bravest-notts]

Help a Trans Person Move to a Safer State

Hey folks, as some of you know I currently live in a red state (Iowa) that's trending even further right and I need out. While I have been saving up to move since the 2022 election, the rapid escalation of transphobic legislation here has left me unable to save up quite enough to cover my full move if I want to get out of here before the legislative session reopens in January. I have a job lined up in Minnesota already, I just need help to get there.

A longer explanation and cost breakdown is in the link, but the short version is that I need $1580 to cover moving costs and a pet and security deposit.

If you can't afford to donate anything, I entirely understand. Even just a reblog helps.

Thank you so much! <3

Here's a photo of my cat in gratitude.